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ARREST OF"PLINn WHITE.
WALL-sT. BROKER, FIFTH-AvE. SWELL AND
NOTORIOUS swINDLER AT LARGE.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIsgNRl

wALL-sT BROKER, FIFTH-AvE. SWELL AND
NOTORIOUS swINDLER AT LARGE.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrsgNR
Boston, June l5.-There was arrested at the
West End to-day whose name, though not recog
nzed in polite society, is familiar in many other
circles. Pin" White is at least sixty old, and
has passed good part OF his life in planning and carry
ing out schemes to defraud people. Gold bricks and
various other devices known and employed by sharpers
have brought him considerable money from time to me
and many man has lamented acquaintance with
the fellow, whose manner is such to inspire unlimited
confidence. The particular charge now brought
against Pin is the obtaining of 81 900 from Albert H.
Dolver of New-Y in December, by false repre-
sentations White claimed to have a large interestiin
mine requiring only 81 900 to develop 1t sufficiently to
bring O handsome profit, and D0lliver advanced the
money
White regarded by the police of this country and
Europe Of the ceveres of adventures. He was
born In Weathersfed, VT, and left there at early
age, going to Montpelier where he learned the printing
trade He went to New-York about 1850 and entered
into the manufacture OF Venetian blinds. Then he went
into the brokerage business bought patents contracted
for large accounts srea .estate dealt In dry goods
and made specially OF jewelry He founded the nrfn
81 e
some style In Fifth-aye. Aterward he began TO Dny
gold dust from returned Caifornans, and arrested
because queer actions but escaped and
to his Vermont home.
In that State he talked of his great wealth and bought
real estate all hands, paying for it in notes. He
mortgaged the property borrowed money, and finally
turning everything into cash returned to NewIOrk He
after paid this city short visit, and In two weeks
he made 10000 He was next heard of In Louisiana,
where he busy IN Politics. He was chosen super
visor Of two parishes and for manipulating the returns
which secured the election OF Governor packard was
maze State Printer He established chicken farm on
an island OF the Texan coast and had raised about
10000 fowls, when flood swept them away and White
himself narrowly escaped drowning. lie then went to
Kansas City and opened large dry goods store. buying
goods TO the amount OF $275,00O from New-England
and New York jObbers He shipped the stock In small
lots 10 various cities where he sold them at auction
White has then swndlei lersons in Bos ton, New
York Kansas city and other places, out OF large
His first wife he married at Saratoga In s5i
borrowed $4,000 her brother and sister When
the money gone the brother committed suicide.
While living In New-York with his first wife. the late
Spence Petis, the forger, frequent guest of his
Pets stole valuable set OF diamonds belonging TO
Whites wife, but her husband advised her not 70 say
anything about It and he bought her set.
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that Goethe's complete autograph diary from III 10
1882 has been discovered among his grandsons papers,
RAPID SPREAD OF CHOLERA.
GREAT EXODUS FROM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
NEW CASES AND DEATHS

NEW CASES AND DEATHS.
MADRID, June 15.-The cholera is spreading
westward along the Mediterranean There are severa
cases now In Ternel, Alicante and Cartagena. Twelve
thousand persons left Madrid last week in consequence
of the scare The exodusis increasing the people having
become greatly alarmed.
At Castelon yesterday there were ia new cases oi
cholera and 81 Deaths and at Cartagena 21i new cases
and 60 deaths
PHILADELPHIA, June 15.-At the meeting OF the Boaru
of Health to-day communication dated May 20 was
received from the United States Consulate at Masees,
France In which 1t is said that on May 26 clean o oi
health was issued by the Consulate to the l'aa paA
Orsola bound to Philadelphia with cargo OF WOOL Inc
Orsola had been duly inspected and her bili OF Ie1
was issued in accordance with his certncate; ~ was
discovered later that May IL and Is there haa cen
two deaths of aged women from sporadic cnoerai tno
facts OF the two deaths had been suppressed by thc
tary authorities The vessel has not been reported 10
the he alth officer Of Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON June 15.The following Is an extract rae,
from dispatch received at the state Department from
United states Consul Haughawon at Naples III resar @
TO the importation of old rags: 81 feel that sucn l
poratons not free from danger ana espeGi p o@ So
Naples even indirectly In that city rags are stoIc
just those quarters where the cholera was nos'
last year."
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SUITS AGAINST BANK STOCKHOLDERS
pann lima TX fSnecinU :

HUNTINGDON, Penn, June 10 tSpecidl Tho
important litigation growing out OF the collapse OF the
Bedford County Bank at Everett, which Ia various
shapes occupied the attention o. the courts of Bed
ford transferred to this county to-day by the enter
ing twenty suits By depositors of the bank against
persons who stockholders In tho bank at the time
of the failure The number Of suits to be ultimately
brought limited only by the number OF creditors the
bank may have had. The amount involved Is LARGE and
the facts and legal questions intricate Tie defend
ants are william p Orbson, William Doris, John Scott
George NJ Garretson David Gwyn, Horatio G. Fisher.
John H. Glazier and H. G. Fisher and John VI. Bailey,
executors Of Thomas Fisher who known as the Hunt
ingdon County stockholders; and Samuel L. Russell,
Jacob Williams, John NJ Barnedolar, simon Nycum,
John Dubois and Joseph Harris known the Bedford
County stockholders. These, with James M.sBen and
1870 There Withdrawals of Huntingdon County
at various times, among the earliest being
OF W. p Orbison aud John Scott In 1851 the rest
withdrew returning their capital 10 the First Natonal
Bank Huntington. OF which they were all stoeknoid-
ers notice. IL is alleged by the plaintiffs IN the SUITS
was given Of the withdrawal and although thS deposits
now sought to be recovered were since made u "
claimed that the Withdrawing stockholders are hape LOT
them The latter allege that their action was 50 wen
known TO the public that no deposit coulu nave Decn
upon credit OF their connection with
the hank No judgments be obtained here againsc
the Bedford County stockholders because, aitu9ugn
necessary ioined In the suits, no service OF legal
nrocess can DO made them account OF their non-
esidence Their interests really with the paintinss
S thev desire the Huntington County stockholders 70
share The liabilities OF the bank and It Is believed that
is at their instance that the suits are brought
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wnAr 10 DO WITH XAvAL oRADUATEsf

ANNAPOLIS, June 15.-Forty- of the
sxyear cadets that is. those who graduated two years
ago aud have I'm the meantime service now
under examination NJ the Naval Academy, and superin
tcudcnt Ramsay is at loss 10 know what to do with
them. The act OF Congress approved August 5. 1882
provides that the ten cadets OF the sxyear course who
stand highest the end Of that term, shall be retained
the Navy and the others shall each be given 81 900
and an honorable discharge Under Secretary Chanders
construction OF the about twenty have been retained
year and signed vacancies in the three branches
OF the Navylne. engineering and marine. Prior to the
act engineering officers had been especially instructed
and marine officers appointed from civil life. whether
Secretary Whitney Will follow his predecessors con-
structiOn OF the law Is not known Superintendent
Ramsay Is OF the opinion that the sending Of all the
graduates for two years and then bringing them
back here for examination Is useless expense as the
Government has TO pay each cadets expenses TO An-
napos from the stations at which he happen 70 be-
idea OF these expenses be formed from know
eleven from China five from Monteydeo. five from As
pnwall. one rom ConstaDtnopc, four from Gibraltar
four from Europe, from Vile Franche aud hvo from
the Pacific Coast Captain Ramsay thinks that some
change shOud bc made Ia the law 1t stanls aud
will consult Secretary whitney the subject under
tie mentioned promotions IN the Navy have pric
ticaiiy ceased, car 70 the reductions made In the
number Of officers IN each grade.
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DlyIEL CONE TO JUDGMENT.

PHILADELPHIA, June Is (Speoiat) John
Cooper charged with embezzlement while of
the Decatur Building Association, pleaded guilty this
morning. He has been treasurer for fifteen years. and
a. is usual In such cases. his reputation excellent
In five years he Sl70 900 short He surrendered all
his property his employers but still indebted to
them $4,000. Counsel asked that sentence be post
poned until Cooper might settle up his family affairs.
Judge Bldde objected Counsel pleaded for mercy say
ing that the defendant had not stolen the money, but
lost It In speculation The Judge Cooper five years
In the Eastern Penitentary.
There Is" he said In imposing the
sentence, "what regard as most un-
fortunate impression abroad that. because man has
had good reputation and has been surrounded by every
that education and association give, when he
commits crime all these circumstances should be taken
IN mitigation OF punishment. admit no such doctrine
When a poor ignorant who has never had these adj
yanages commits crime have great sympathy for him.
hayo great sympathy for man who steals q ham 10
supply the wants OF his family steals shoes put
upon his chdrens feet. Why should sympathy be
shown him who trades upon his good reputatl ON TO
enable him to defraud the peopeP
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TIE TRIAL OF MAXWELL.
IN POSSESSION OF ARTIcLEs WHICH BELONGED ~
THE MURDERED PRELLER


SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-The steamer
City of Sydney from Australia arrived TINS morhins
with Sydney dates to May 81, and Auckland, new
Zealand dates to May &c. The Auckland papers con'
tain an account Of the arrest on May o, OF water IL
Lennox Maxwell alias Theodore Cecil Dangier chrsou
with having murdered Charles A. Preler In St LOUIS o
April D. The arrest was made by tho United states
Consul Mr. Gamble. Two detectives boarded INC
steamer at Trtri, and the purser, in reply 10 inc
question, stated that there man among the
seeragc passengers answering the description Oh ~
we'll The man summoned on deck ana the ni''
question asked him whether he was phy ysicia'
He promptly replied In the negative saying that nc was
native of France and officer in the French Army
The detectives Informed him that they had warrant
for his arrest and would have to take him into Custody
Maxwell appeared TO be Disconnected but recovered HIS
composure while the officers were handcunhg hin' "nu
cooy remarked that the whole affair was mistake
which would be quickly explained On May D he was
brought into the Police Court and the charges against
him were read. The Crown Solicitor appeared Tor the
prosecution and Messrs Napier and Burton for the de-
fence The latter claimed that the court had no Jurs
dlction and after some argument, the case was re-
manded. On May IL the case war brought up. ,onsui
Gamble was the first witness called. lie tes,lneu h w
half of the prosecution as To the various stVcs io %
In MAXWELL trunk, wiiGm honScrcI,efs ac marked C. A.
T. " and shirt winch were two large spots OF D!U
In reply To the question rs to how articles n2t ,f
his initials came into his posscsson Maxwell san 1ns
they had been given TO him In san Francisco oS r ,rn
| named Robinson. Detective Tush one of the Two
officers who arrested him ON the steinier test,i ~
finding the following articles III Maxwcn vpei
| 10 A. pa memorandum book marked Danguier;a
pocLet medical dictionary in which was written "W.
H. LennOx Maxwell NJ. D.. +. A. r. c. =" aud dressing
case marked " W. II. 1ennOx MAXWELL All OF HIS H.
Robinson. in san Francisco. Counsel for the defence
90 this point again eontendrh that thc court hi1 ~
Tho case which was then remanled to May 16 Judge
smith, who heard the case, stated that ne Woiin , IT,
mand the case eight days = time until the officers
: 4.
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CARTER HARRISoy THIN AND WEARY.
DECLARING THAT He WILL O. OUT OF POLITICS
THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HIM.
ley rELrGRArII TO THE TnIBUM.


CHICAGO, June 15.-Mayor Harrison returned
20 the city on an early train this morning aud was at MS
e.k rather earlier than his usual hoir IL evident at
the first glance that his physical condition has altered
greatly since he went away His voice IS subdueL HIS
face Is thin his expression OF counenlnce weary ana
his clothes obviously large. IIe held long con-
suation with some OF his immediate followers re-
porter inquired:
"will You take the oath OF Office to-dayr
"why, OF eocrse, It is tho last day Oh which can
take IT,"
"Thon, when where and how are you going 10 take
uT
"why Just take the oath before the clerk and hlc
my bond. That's ali"
"Arc you going to follow up tho assault on the
gamblers r.
81 can't talk to you that subject"
Are you going to close thc sunday ll1uor-storesP
"Ihave nothing to say"
Are you golu, 20 stop Sunday rlclngW
lie also pcrcmporly declined TO talk ON that subject,
and exhibited q strong desire to he noncommittaL He
finally said "Thi, Mlyoraty contest Is painful 20 me
IL viii take of the ;imc and thought that should
otherwise devote the cys affairs. IL VIII have de-
ST9dzg snfsS o AZ me- Ill Se on sTs q c X ca Contest s %
concern them much closely than me, their bread
being stake IL will divert their attention from whcrc
II ought naturally this suit aud the public VIII
sncr NV it e- les no practical ends gained by
this contest for they can't oust mc from occ I'll star
I'm there two years anyway, and NJ am going out OF
polliics then good Will ~ do them to nght me In
Tncy can't got me out ~ oice before my time Is
up. that's They simply can't do H." -
the formal contest ous, sIr Harrison viii begin In
the County Court tomorrow.
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NEWS NOTES FROM LONDON.

AFFAIRS N PERsiA.-Teheran edyices state That the
son OF the Shah OF Persia has started military training
college, the education OF young men intended Tor th
army The staff OF college professors u composed OF
European officers semioiiicial French paper mas
been started at Teheran. II is called LEeho dc FeTse'
1t Is under the patronage OF the Shah
THE CASHMERE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. shochs
continue throug the vale Of Cashmere. There are
from eight to ten shocks daily.
DISTURBANCES BooTAS.-seTous public disturbances
have taken place In the Kingdom OF BOotn Inc causes
OF the outbreak are not known.
MARRYING AN AMERICAN WOMAN.-Thomas Power
OConnor, Home Rule Member OF Parliament Tor The
borough of Galway Ireland married today TO Mfs
Wright, American author, who has lived Ia London
for some time,
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIEs-BYT TELEGRAPH
HOGS DYING IN wIsCONsIN.

HOGS DYING IN WISCONSIN.
ELKIORS, Wis. Juns lj.-IIog cholera has again
broken In this vicinity. s. ID. Chambors on the Allyn
stock farm, has lost herd Of eighty.
ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY.
CHICAGO, June l5.-Carey Jones, age twenty-five. en- n,
ployed III co5slo mouse Here' saln 70 w. ev as ar
rested last night on charge OF bigamy The complanan
Is Addie Jones, miiliner who says that lie conpeea
her 10 support him for time after their marriage, and
subsequcny deserted her The second Mrs. Jones was
Miss Baymier. Of Utica
HURT BY FLYING STONES.
PITTsBURG, June l5.-Contractor John Shields, en-
gagged In excayating for the foundation Of building IN
Buer-st fired a blast without warning at noon ,o-
ay and several passing at the time were MT Dy
ying stones. John Cannon, Mary Laskey and Mrs DC
tfich were seriously injured
HURT By AN ILI~BUILT WALL
PITISPILD Mass, Juno 15Ihe west wallo the DITCH
block which Abraham Burbank Is building az North aha
Depot sts fell down, three falling win the ris
One OF then Anthony Murphy. 80 badly hurt tnat
he The other two are net seriously III
iured The other walls cracked.
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TIE EIRE RECORD.
BUsINEss HOUsEs DESTROYED.

NEw-ORLEANs, La. June ia dispatch 10
The Times Democrat from Macon. Miss. says: a fire
occurred here = o'clock this morning. Tho list OF
losses and insurance follows: Jacob Iolberg gon-
era store loss $4,000 Insurance $4,000 T. NJ. Mark,
general store loss $1,000 insurance $4,000; Charles
Hardin uauor store, loss IL 800. insurance. John
Brogan loss $3.50. fully insured Pollock Bush gem
eral store stock damaged $500. fully insured j. j.
Colloway general store. loss $1,000 fully Insured; j.
W BRIDGES liquor store. loss $500. fully insured The
loss and in-urnncc buildings are ~ follows: Mrs l.
Burke loss 900. Insurance -. 800 VI. u. Edwards.
loss 900 Insurance ,jOO G. Hardin and j. Frazer,
los. OOO insurance $1,000; Judge Fooe, loss S0oV'
fully insured.
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ASSERTING THAT BIG BEAR Is HER COUSIN.
QI-rnEc Iunn 1 = -Mra Dulnia liXinN In

QUEBEC, june IO.-MTS. DUUOIS, TNIHR TT
St. sauycur an adjoining municipality to Quebec, says
that n Big Bear and that his proper name
is Edouard and that he Is OF Louis Lam
bert farmer Mary Frechettc of Nicholas County
of Lewis and therefore is cousin OF the poet laureate
1. H. Frechettc She states that when Edouard
twenty years of age he left st. Nicholas for the United
states with two friends. Nothing heard OF him by
his family twenty years, when letter received
stating that had been taken prisoner by Cree Indians
that they guarded him closely that he unable
escape. After this by acts OF bravery he won the ad
miratiOn OF the Indians and obliged to accept the
daughter OF the chief his squaw. Upon the death Of
chief he chosen to succeed him by the tribe
One OF EdOuard's brothers subsequently visited the
Northwest and recognized Big Bear as his brother The
Identification unmistakable from certain life marks
which, despite the Indian paint were discerniblc.
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MONUMENT TO JOHN @. o4LHOUN.

CHARLESTON, ). c., June 15.-The Calhoun
Monument Associated to-day decided to erect the monu
ment to John c. Calhoun In Marion Square, In Calhoun
st. In this city. The foundation will be laid as soon as
the contract can be made The monument is now being
executed by A. E. Harnisch sculptor. in Rome and
will about sixty feet high with base and curb Eighty
thousand dollars OF the fund for the monument col
eoted before tho War; and this amount has been In
creased by Judicious investment.
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LOST SIGHT OF IN A FOG.

HALIFAX, n. s., June 15.-The schooner Ida
Peters. Captain Ellis, OF Yarmouth was nshing on Sat
urday on Bowns Bank Yarmouth, and all the crew
except tho cook In dores when the vessel be-
gan TO drag anchors Two Of the men in dory OBJ
served this and got back on board. Then thick fog
came up and no sign OF the other men could be seen
The schooner remaed until fog lifted and then, not
seeiug anything OF missing ones the three on board
fook he Vessel into Yarmouth The captain is among
q sbe mis- ssi
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cENTRAL AMERICAN TROUBLES.

LA LIBERTAD, June 10, VIA Galveston
pesultory firing was heard La bertad last night
and it h believed forces of both parties are ap
preaching The coming Pacific Mail steamer Is bringing
100 Nicaraguans There United States war vessel
bere 1t 10 said that the war being carried on Win the
usual barbarities of civil Brosa was butchered BY
Iadians Montcrosa and Parrilla arc both prisoners
Lesona stis holds Ahuachapan notwithstanding re-
pcaed attacks IL u certain that Rivas took C)ute-
beque on Saturday II Menendez s beaten there IN al
fnost sure 70 be Q civil war in Guatemala
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DrcIJNIN0 TO RELEASE HIS PRISONERS.

DoNGoLA, June 15.-The Mahdi has written
eter declining release the Christian prisoners VINO
have embraced the Islam faith. He says that they are
unwilling to leave him. The Mahdi exhorts Engishmeh
to turn Mohammedans. as otherwise he VIII destroy
them letter has also reached Dongala signed by
n,netvsi, of the Mahdrs prisoners including Greeks,
Copts and syrians stating that they are unwilling to
Seaya fhs Mshdi aud are longer Christians Lupon
Rev and Slatin among tine sgners OF this letter
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THE PEKIy TREATY RATIFIED.

TIENTsIN, June 15.-The Emperor OF emma
has ratified the Pekn treaty. or treaty OF peace WIN
France.
At dinner given IN the French Consulate Ii hung
Chang. Chinese Minister for Foreign Anas' On es
,n,Srood 20 \, Watacben the Russian Consul, asked
him brusouely whether Russia had appointea COM
mission upon the delimitation OF the ManchooIian
frontier, Eastern Asia NJ Watacheh rePueu sono"n"'
curtly don't know"
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FRAGMENTS OF CABLE NEWS.

VIENNA, June l5-The Austrian Government has re-
fused to give its sanction to the organization Of private
cremation societies The Government takes the ground
that such societies arc calculated to tend TO the Increase
OF crime.
PoRr SAID June ia new channel has been made
around the dredger which accidentally sunk In the
Canal IL 10 probable that the traffic OF the canal
will he resumed by Thursday.
CoSsTASTISopLr, Janc 1j-Anarchy prevails in Crete.
BOMBAY June l5.-The Monsoon has begun
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DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDAyUM

Lottie L. Dixon, age thirty-fve, wife OF
William H. Dixon, died on Sunday at her home, No.
1886 West Eighty fourth-st from overdose OF iauda
num- Her husband said last night that she was woman
OF extremely organization and had OF ate SUI
fered severely from inability TO sleep lie supposed tnat
abe took dose OF the drug TO induce sleep ana TOOK 700
terna use and had gathered strength BY the evapora-
tiuu OF the alcohol
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TIE FRENCH BUDGET.

PARIS, June 15.-At meeting OF the budget
Committee to-day NJ. sadCarnot Minister oi Finance
stated that the floating debt OF France was now
400 600 600 francs and that next the deficit In
the revenue is likely to be 3oooooooo francs 1t might
ultimately be necessary said NJ sadiCarnot and he ad
vocated It as temporary expedent. to vote gradual
issue of 800 francs in twentytw year treasury
bonds A.. -. - ,,,a
ture In thirty years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-16
AIIVEIY THUNDERSTORM.

The thunderstorm which drenched things in
the city yesterday purely local Affair." unless 1t
by through express from Rochester where there
was similar storm at in the afternoon.
still Il was n storm OF which any city might
he proud Two-tenths OF an inch OF rain
fell between s:5 and $50 m the greater part OF IL
falling in the last minutes. The lightning was vivid
bt aintness OF the thunder showed the dlschrges
OF electricity be at low tension As there was Itlie
wind the temperature was not lowered perccptbly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-16
MR.. BLAINE CONGRATULATE FORAKER

CINCINNATI, JUNO 10 IopectuIJ IJ.-AIiOHg IHlHy
congratuatory letters received by Judge Foraker was
one to-day from James G.. Blaine who wrote have
no doubt but that you will be elected by o much larger
majority than your opponent two years ago.. Both
Blaine and Logan will DO on the stump for Foraker In
the campaign, which promises to DO as lively aud
portant as that OF two years ago.