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Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-03

A MEETING was held by committee of
Chicago citizens on the 26th to take steps
to prosecute vigorously the people con-
nected with the election fraud in the Eigh-
teenth Ward of that city.
BRADsTREET's review shows that trade
was generally quiet during Christmas
week, owing to the holiday season. There
were 21S failures during the weak, as
compared with 3O5 during the preceding
week.
A NUMBER of citizens of st. Louis, Mo-,
have interested themselves in the work of
providing employment for the poor men
by having the streets cleaned. They met
on the 26th and formed an organization to
be known as the Sanitary Aid Association
of st. Louis. A committee was appointed
to raise funds.
A MONSTER demonstration by the idle
workmen of Paris is being arranged for
January 10Th.
On the 28th a rumor was current that
France had taken the last decisive step in
severing her relations with China by call
ing home the French Minister.
In his annual report the Commissioner of
Navigation makes the surprising statement
that of Great Britain.
A COMPLAINT has been made by China
about the sale of several English vessels to
France, and Earl Granville will take meas
| ures to prevent the consumm alton of the
transfer.
On the 9th the victims of the Brooklyn
Orphan Home fire were buried with i'm
pressive ceremonies.
BY the closing down Of the Keystone
Bridge Company, at Pittsburgh, Pa, 600
men are thrown out of employment.
IT is reported that a rupture has oc-
Cured in the Congo country between the
French representative and the African In
| ternational Association, and fight is i'm
| minent.
DURING the year up to the 9th the busi-
| ness failures numbered II 900 in the United
States, or 1900 more than in 1888, and
more than double those of 1881. Their ag-
gregate assets were $13O,00O,O00, and their
aggregate liabilities S240, 100000, showing
actual losses of $110,000,000.
| In New York, on the 2Sth about hum
| dred saloon-keepers were arrested for vio-
| lating the excise law by selling liquor on
| Sunday.
| THE Fredericksburg (Va.) Masonic
Lodge, of which Washington was MEM
| Der, will attend the dedication OF the
| Washington monument.
On the 9th, Favor, the two year old
| colt, was sold at Lexington, KY, for $12,-
| 900. He won five of the eight races in
which he started last season.
A SPECIAL agent of the Chicago Trades
Assembly, who recently went to the Hook
| ing Valley, says the trouble among the
miners is caused by the importation of ne
groes, Swedes and Poles.
| For the first five months of the fiscal year,
internal revenue collections from all
sources amounted to SAT ,322, 100, against
SOL ,3l7 1926 for the same period last year, q
| decrease of So, ,542,959.
| On the 9th simultaneous search was
made in all the military barracks in Paris
and resulted in the discovery and seizure
of number of Socialist pamphlets, which
were found in the kits of the soldiers.
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Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-03
ANOTHER RECRUIT
For the Gallant Army of Embezzlers and
Defaulters in Canada.

LOUISVILLE, KY, December 2s.
Christmas Day, G. B. Simmons, Local
Treasurer of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad in this city, was about the
office as usual, but Friday he failed to ap-
pear, and it was stated he was at home,
sick. The same evening a note signed by
Simmons was received by Comptroller A.
w. Quarter, stating that he was short
with the company about $34, 900 and had
left the city, owing to his inability to
make good the deficit. The note did not
state where he was going or how the
money had been used. The Comptroller
at once entered into an investigation and
found the exact amount of the steal to be
34,39S.62. 1t is officially stated that the
company will lose nothing, Simmons hav-
ing filed heavy personal bond, and also
being insured by the Guarantee Company
case could not be learned.
Simmons has been Treasurer of the
company since 1874, having been ap-
pointed by H. D. Newcomb, and at that
time gave personal bond for $4,000.
The belief is this has been reduced since
then. 1t is not known how long the
peculations have been going on. 1t has
been learned that he has been specu-
lating extensively in New York, and no
doubt exists that the money has been lost
in that way.
Simmons is fifty years of age, very
pleasing and gentlemanly and has always
borne an excellent reputation. He is a
man of family and lived in very unpre-
tentious style at 206 East Broadway At
the residence no information as to his
whereabouts could be obtained, but the
general impression is he has made his way
to Canada. 1t is known he left the city
Christmas night at eight O'Clock for the
East. Comptroller Quarter could not
say positively how Simmons carried on
his stealing without discovery. His ac-
counts were examined monthly and have
always balanced.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-03
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Elaborate Preparations For the New Years
Reception BY the President-All Former
Efforts to Be Put in the Shade.


Reception BY the President-All Former
Efforts to Be Put in the Shade.
WASHINGTON, d. c., December 20.
Mrs. McElroy, the Presidents sister,
is preparing list of the ladies who will
be invited to assist the President at the
New Years reception. 1t is expected
that from thirty to fifty ladies will take
part in the ceremonies. The indicat ations
warrant the belief that the Executive has
decided to make his last New Years re-
ception the most grand of any ever held
in the White House. The floral decora-
tions will be very elaborate for
public reception, but the great
er pains will be bestowed
on the red, blue and green parlors, and
the rooms upstairs assigned to Mrs. Nc
Elroy's lady assistants. In the East
room only the mantels will be decor
ated with flowers. No plants will be
placed on the floors of the room, or
the parlors, but in the maj in corridor,
palms of every variety will be conspic-
uous ornaments, together with tropical
foliage plants. Flowering plants and
baskets of flowers will adorn the man.
tells of the three parlOrs, and the
south windows of the Blue room
will be almost tobstructed by
rare plants. The Red Room of tn e Ex
ecutive Mansion has been further beauti-
fed by the addition of handsome
mantel and pair of porcelain vases. On
one part of the screen, painted on a dark
plush back ground, is bunch of golden
rod and thistles; on another wild roses;
while the center-piece is an exquisite bit
of color representing landscape, in the
background of which is luxuriant growth
of wild grasses, out of which a startled
covey of game birds are rising. The
screen is about five feet high, and all who
have seen it pronounce it worthy of
place in the White House. On each side
Of the magnificent inlaid mantel of this
room there has been placed new vase,
ead the centre of the room contains
srasN table Of Mexican onyx, designed as
! sssAsh 3sr daily bouquet OF cut flowers.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-03
ANOTHER DEFAUlTER.
The Cashier of the Chicago, Wilmington q
vermillIon Coal Company Missing, To-
gether With About &2O, 900 of the Com
pany's Funds.

The Cashier of the Chicago, Wilmington q
vermilIIon Coal Company Missing, To-
gether With About $4,000 of the Com
pany's Funds.
CHICAGO, ILL, December 26.
Charles 4. Stephens, cashier of the
Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal
Company, failed to malerialize last Friday
morning. A messenger was sent to his
house to make inquiries regarding him.
The messenger was told that the cashier
had left home at the usual hour, and had
requested his daughter to drive to the Of
fee in his buggy II take him home at
night. Mr.. Sweet, General Manager, be-
came anxious and began an examination
of the books. Experts were called
in, and their researches disclosed a
discrepancy between cash receipts and
the balance at bank, which is thought
will reach $4,000. 1t is regarded as al
most certain that most of the defalcatiOn
was in cash, which passed through
Stephens hands, as no money could be
drawn without the signature OF Mr..
Sweet. So far as Known the pecula-
tions began last May, bat the sums taken
were comparatively small until within
few months. Stephens is fifty-three years
old with an appearance calculated
to inspire confidence. He is six feet tall,
wore a grayish mustashe and side
whiskers, and has handsome couten-
nance He has been twelve years in the
employ of the company, and enjoyed the
fullest confidence of his employers, who
rould not imaoine ANYTHING would tempt
him to commit the crime, because his cir
cumstances were believed to be COM
Portable. His father left him property in
New York valued at $40, 900 or more, and
Mrs Stephens was known to have
q comfortable income. His habits
were economical, even niggardly.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
ne,rs from Everywhere.
c.n,rss.,onal Proceedings.

7, the Senate on the 23d MIR. Jonas pre-
TOD ~ q memorial from the joint CONNER
sen'1Y stl, ossociation of New Orleans protesting
cial o. 80 the ratification of the Spanish treaty.
agalss+ Ias+ nffered concurrent resolution pro-
M Ss aacsnsoa sna be p %erba
delN delNNS,ncements, and when speeches are
annGuidd' anlInIeSnid for revision for more than one
wlth1et@ wll eha sneech shall be printed as deliv-
weeK sa 'IH He commented forcibly upon the man,
ereu. Mich mT the privilege had been abused
ner IN NL0h sill ast s campaign. The naval apprO
orgt5n drilg5 bili, as reported from the commit
bl,",r fee' was passed. The House was not IN ses-
sion. ,
1x tbe Senate on the 9th when the
.,orDinq business was disposed of the Chair
.nnounced his signature to the concurrent
resolution providing :for holiday RECESS. G,
t1.Si;nurned until January 5th.........W When
eng5oInr Carlisle called the House to order
,boro wore only about fifty members present.
IHo .ivlC Cconcurrent resolution providing for a
racesS raI until January 9Th was called up and
adopted No other business was transacted Ct
tSe assignments by the Speaker.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-03
nHCELLANEOUS,

The Mechanics Bank of st. Louis, Mo-,
obtained new certificate of incorpora-
tion on the Goth, its old charter having ex-
pired.
On the night of the 25th two violent
shocks of earthquake were felt in Spain
At one place two persons were killed by
falling walls.
SPAIN will not object to having the pro-
posed treaty with America modified, but
would like to have sugar admitted free.
The New Orleans Picayune strongly ia
vors the Nicaraguan Canal project, and
thinks the United States should ACQUIRE
Central America.
The Sultan Of Morocco lays claim to SOW
ereignty over Timbuctoo, and desires to
annex to his dominions the coast country
south of Morocco
IT has been ascertained that the st.
Johns Orphan Home in Brooklyn was
set on fire by one of tn boys, who claims
that it was purely acci dental.
A REPORTER was recently detailed bv
the New York Herald to investigate the
condition of affairs at Fall River, Mass. It
was found that the factory operatives were
not in such bad condition as had been re-
ported.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-03
BEECHER'S DEFENSE.

The Plymouth Pastor Defends His Recent
Political Action, Apologies for Rash
Utterances, Offers to Resign If Necessary,
But Pleads for Unity in the Church He
Has Helped to Build Up.
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% 1893 Is: e1;rs. 50 oOsa 10; supeifns. & os

Rye-So nominal.
Brsn-Quiet; II . bid; held at Sll -.
Hay-Choice Timothy, sl2 % hi,.; held at SO a.;
No. Timothy, sl1 90 bid, held ST 81 90; No. 2
Timothy, $40 % bid; held at SO 20.
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH GRAIN Trade.
LONDON. October 1.-the Mark Lane Express
in its review of the grain trade during the past
week says a majority or the samples OF the new
wheat crop are unsatisfactory. The sales OF Eng
lish wheat during the week were TO- 0o9 quarters,
at COS. I'D; against 1881 quarters. at BIS I'd,
during same week last year. Flour is freely
offered at the lowest rates. Prices of superior
barleys are advanclng-those of inferior are de-
clining. Foreign yheats have gradually improved,
and are quoted 6dals dearer. 1t appears that a
project for creating bases for pure gambling in
the London wheat market has been quietly kept
alive and that defiant movement is being made
towards its realization. il the plan is successful
il will be the beginning eli the end of the stability
Oi tile London corn trade, which has been the
marvel OF the world during long period OF I'M
prCccndcnred depression. Tho receipts from
America markedly declining. Three cargoes
arrived, 2werc sold, WIS Withdrawn, : remained.
including OF California, - are due. So to-dayS
market, sellers oiwheat held firmly to their de
mands. Flour was against buyers. Corn was
quiet. Bar ley quiet.
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Killed bya Bear.

BISMARCK, ID. r.. O,tober 1S.-On this
evening east-bound train was the body of
Joseph Riggs, young man who was killed
in an encounter with grizzly bear while
hunting in the Rocky Mountains. Riggs
was n well-known hunter among frontiers
men, and his mourning companions who
were accompanying him say that he MORALLY
wounded the bear before he was killed him
self After discharging his last cartridge
the bear rushed at him and death struggle
ensued. Drawing long knife, Riggs stabbed
the ferocious animal in the heart but not
until he had been disembowled by the mus
cular brute. His body was found by his
companions several hours after the fatal
encounter, and is now being taken To his
former home in Canada.
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COMMERCIAL.

There Is still good demand for dry goods, e.
pccislly wooden fabrics. and the market is fully
mp TO the October average. In groceries sugars
remain firm; eohecs steady. Receipts OF pou-
try are excessive, and consequently q decline in
price. Butter and eggs are steady. There is no
quotable change in drugs. and th4narket is quiet
Fruits and vegetables are abundant and cheap.
GRAIN.
Wheat-Local markets are decidedly slumpy,
and prices show decline OF Z 10 94e from Satur-
days quotations. Receipts fair with very light
offerings. Futures dull. New. York, Baltimore
and Chicago each g lower, and St. LOuis re
OF.
Corn Quotations for old corn steady. The
principal offerings are OF new crop. Futures show
bids which indicate low prices-buyers Offering
SIC with sellers asking Sjc for November delivery
New York, Chicago and st. Louis - higher.
with baltimore unchanged.
Oats-Quiet with shade lower quotations all
round.
The following table shows the receipts OF grain
at this point for the past twenty-four hours:
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HAPS AND MISHAPS.
A Ere IN Chicago in Which -Four Persons
We're Burned 70 Death.
9hs Bsn Telephone Company's Office in 1t.
Louie Set on Fire by "A Current Prom an
Electric Wire-Kive Persons Killed
by "A Powder Explosion.

CHIoAGo, October IA terrible quick
spreading fire broke out in the one story and
= half brick cottage at No So Vernon Park
Place owned and occupied by w. P. Bates,
. ftw minutes after q O'Clock this morning,
in which four persons were burned to death.
The family consisted of five persons and a
servant girl and all but two met a most hor-
rinic death. An alarm was sounded AZ 6:25.
When the firemen arrived on the scene the
house was in a blaze. Fire Marshal Campion
found AIR. Bates i'm the alley at the side of
the house suffering from severe burns but
able to tell the story of the catastrophe.
WringinS his hands in agony over the loss
OF his family, and suffering keenly from his
own severe hurts, he said that at o'clock
this morning the servant girl started fire
in the kitchen and went out doors moment
later,p aving the door open. She returned
III q minute or two and found the kitchen
IN blaze. The girl ran away screaming
With fright, and Mr.. Bates was aroused,
rushed into the kitchen and tried to ex-
tinguish the flames with hose attached to
che hydrant. and afterward with buckets.
Not succeeding he rushed ont and sent in
> an alarm. The iiremen went TO work on the
blazing pile with will, and succeeded in
putting the fire out in fifteen minutes. The
entire interior of the house was Quilted, but
the walls remain intact. When the firemen
entered the house they found the charred
bodies of the entire family, except Mr..
Bates. They were: Mrs. Mary T.. Bates,
aged thirty-five; John Bates aged five Ed
ward Bates, an infant Mrs. DreylsOn, aged
seventy, mother of Mrs. Bates. The body Of
Mrs Bates was lying two feet from the win
iOws on the first floor, burnt TO a crisp. The
charred remains of her baby were lying
close by. The remains of Mrs. Dreylson
were found upstairs, where she died of suffo-
cation, as the body was not much burned.
The partitions and wall OF the house were
lined with felt. and when the blaze once
started it spread all over the house with in
conceivable rapidity.
The charred bodies were removed to the
MOrgue by patrol wagon. The house was
value, at 81 500 and there was no insurance
on il. Nothing was heard of the servant
girl after her flight. 1t is also said that a
brother of Mrs Bates was lodging at the
house, and was seen about the place when
III fire was in progress, but suddenly disap-
pCared.
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The suppOsition that were eight wac caused
by the mixing up Of the dismembered limbs
Of the women found this morning.
Throngs of people in search of the latest
particulars of last nights disaster continue
to visit the depot of the Pennsylvania Rail-
way Company, but in the majority Of eases
little information can be given them, as the
uniniuTed persons have been forwarded to
their destinations. Besides having personal
interviews, Superintendent Crawford and his
clerks have been kept busy replying to floods
of kilograms from all parts of the country.
OF the seven bodies at the Morgue, five have
been identified. They are those of Karl III.
CONNER, of Norway, his wife Maragret, and
their two sons, William and John. They
were ON their way to Battle Creek, Mich.
The fifth body is that OF Mrs. Earneas aged
thirty-iive, who was going to join her father
at Madison, Wis. The remaining bodies are
those a woman found to-day, and a boy
found last night. Neither have been identi-
fed Coroner Hughes has been ordered 10
hold all inquest which will begin its sessions
in this city Thursday evening. The jury has
been impaneled. They viewed the bodies
to-day. The wrecked Lebigh Valley engine
was raised at 80 p. IN. In the mud beneath
the boiler was found the body of a boy, ap-
parentiy ten years of age. Both legs were off
below the knees. the right side of the face was
crushed in, and the hands were scorched.
Besides the body was found the right leg of
boy, who was presumably about twelve
years of age. The member does not Corre-
spond with any of the bodies now in the
morgue. This makes total of nine deaths.
A pile OF debris still remains where the loco
motive lay, and the workmcn are carefully
searching il.
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dun 20 fair 81 ssas g: good butchers grades,
"a oes54 10: pigs, s. 70es o.
CHICAGO, October IS.-The proyers' Journal re-
ports:
Cattle-Receipts SEQ head: shipments, ZOO
head Tracing slow; shipping ste srs, 3 6O@l 90:
stoekers and feeders, aun az a. sos 20 cows,
bulls and mixed, q 59d4; through Texas cattle
shade lower st g s0d3 20: Western rangers dun
and Ioe lower; natives and halfbreeds $ 4O94 30;
wintered Texans, SSd3 20.
Hogs-Receipts. 1000 head: shipments. i0O00
head. Market opened weak, but closed stronger;
rough and mixed, g s0d3 90; packing and ship
ping, g 4093 %; light weights, S. sos So skips,
e s0.a3 20.
sheep-Receipts, $500 head Market slow but
steady; natives, s2a3 30; Western, s293; Texans,
81 j0eIS; lambs, S3sf4 IS.
The DroVers Journal special cablegram from
Liverpool quotes lse decline American cattle:
best Ia per 10 dressed. the bottom prices O the
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Ground tn Pieces bv nm Engine.

HNGTowNr Pa, October 10. - William
Becker, citizen of this place. was ground
to pieces on the Cstawissa bridge of the
Reading Railroad yesterday. He was walk
ing on the track toward his residence when
the fast freight, en- route for Williamsport,
struck and ran over him. The engineer
stopped the train as soon rs possible and
the crew went back. An hour was occupied
in picking up his remains. piece by piece,
which scattered in every direction. lie was
seyenty-twO years Of age and was one OF the
fnunGer. of Shenandnah Pa
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APowder Explosion.

LEAVENwOETH, kas., October l9.-News has
Just reached here from Osawkee, Kas., OF Il
terrible accident which occurred near there
on Saturday night. Mr.. Lander, farmer.
accompanied by his wife, two children. and
Mrs. Steck, started for home in farm wagon,
after making number of purchases, among
which was ten pounds of powder. \ short
distance from town Lander IN lighting a
pipe. dropped a spark on the powder, which
ignitCd and exploded, throwing everyone
out and killing Mrs. Lander instantly The
four alive can not live.
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Measures for stamping out smallpox

PEORIA, ILL.,, October l9.-The local health
authorities of Peoria have decided to take
active measures for stamping out the small
pON here, Of,which there have been altogether
twenty-eight cases and three deaths. There
were five new cases Saturday and three Sun
day. Beginning to-day. all school children
will have to be vaccinated or be suspended
from school. The cases so far have been so
mild that in several instances they were mis-
taken for chickenpox.
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THE INDIANA
State Sentinel,
The Recognized Leading Democratic Newspaper
Of The State.
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The Largest, Best and Cheapest Weekly
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As heretofore, an uncompromising enemy
of Monopolies in whatever form appearing
and especially TO the spirit OF subsidy, as
TARIFF.
Indiana Democrats. il may be fairly sand that
YOU are even yet fresh from the field of glorious
victory in your state, victory which aided ma
terialiy i'm transferring the National Government
once more into Democratic hands. In all these
years the Sentincl's arm has been barred in The
tight. We have stood shoulder 10 shoulder, a.
brothers in the conflicts of the past, and we now
ask your hand in generous support. Win lts en-
larged patronage the SENTINEL will be better en-
abted than ever 10 give an
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The Telephone COmpany's Once ut ST..
IouiS DESTROYED.

ST. Louis, October l9.--Firc was iii severed
on the sixth floor of the Third National
Bank building on Olive street between
Fourth street and Broadway yesterday. The
entire floor is occupied by the Bell Telephone
Company and such rapid progress did the
flame make that the operators had barely
time 10 make their escape.
The fire was confined to the sixth floor
though the building was flooded to the Gel
lar. The sixth floor was completely burned
away andlall the paraphernalia of the Central
Office of the Telephone Company. The
bank suffered loss from water. The building
is owned by the Third National Bank and is
insured for 100000. The Telephone Com
pany estimates its loss at SIS 900. The dam
age To the building is the same. The fire
was caused from an electric wire accidental
~ communicating with some parafiine COW
cred wires in the exchange.
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Foreign Money and stocks.

LONDON, october is, 5 p. m.-Consols. 100 I'D
for both money and the account United States
Bonds-is, 127; as, ll6. Railway Bonds-AtlantiC
and Great Western frsts, 355s; do. seconds, ~;
Canadian Pacific, AZ: Erie, 23s; do. seconds, ~
Illinois Central 1881; Mexican ordinary, 223s;
st. Paul common, SI5s: New York Central, 1885;
Pennsylvania, $50; Reading, 95s. Theamount OF
bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England on
balance to-day is $4,000.
PARIS, October 19.-Three per cent. rentes
S0f zoe for the account. The advance is due Il
the result of the election.