Evening journal., 1888-08-01
General News of tho morning.

K4eia mas been recommended and sent ny /
the new President TO the Venezuelan Con-
gress for ratification. The Tears Of a serious
revolution have been dissipated the chiefs |
on the western coast having surrendered |
their arms.
Many New York diamond dealers are
anxious about the prolonged absence Of A.
g. Radcliff, who has an office at SO Nassau
ST. II is thought that he has gone to Eng
land and may not respond with over
$50 600 worth OF diamonds received by him
on memorandum.
Surgeon General Hamilton has received
word of one new suspicious case in Plant
City, Fla, that looks like yellow fever. He
says that the fever at Delaware Break
wster has been confined to those cases
taken from the brig Teneriffe. One Of the
crew OF that vessel died on the 9th in
slant.
Tax Collector Prout Of PittsBeld, Mass,
has disappeared. and yesterday the select
men began suits against his bondsmsn,
some 80 business men, for the balance due
the town. Prout Is Faid 20 be several
thousand dollars short. He charges his
difficulty to his lsniency to some tax pay
era who were his friends, and from whom
he could not collect without resorting to
legal measures.
Bausreissn, Godding and Koegel. three
of the men charged with the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy conspiracy. had
another hearing in court at Aurora, ILL.,,
on Monday. The prisoners were held to
bail, Bauersisen in $1,000 on three charges
OF conspiracy, malicious mischief and un-
lawful handling of dynamite; Godding in
$4,000 on two charges OF conspiracy and
handling dynamite, and Koegel in $4,000
on the charge Of handling dynamite.
Johana and Mamie Lobbllngar Of New
| York City, had miraculous escape from
death yesterday. They are three. and-s-
half and tive. e.and-a half years old respec-
lively. While at play they fell from the
fifth story OF an east side tenement to the
ground, distance of fifty feet. A clothes.
lins partly broke their fall. They were but
slightly injured. The father Is a conductor
on a line of horss cars that pass the door.
BE saw them fall and rushed to where they
we're lying expecting to hnd them dead.
They laughed when they saw him.
Mayor Hewitt. Of New York, yesterday
announced the following appointments to
succssd the present incumbents on the
Aqueduct Commission: General James G.
Duane, retired army officer and late m SEM
ber Of the United States Engineering Corps
Democrat; Walter Howe. ex-msmber OF
the Legislature, lawyer, now at Newport
mugwump; John ]. Tucker, builder, con.
tractor for the construction OF the bank Of
the Manhattan Company. Republican,
Francis M Scott, until now assistant coun
sci for the corporation, Democrat.
The sale Of Bell Roy yesterday at the
farm Of I. @. jefferson, near Lexington
KY, drew large crowd Of turfmen from
, all sections OF the country. David Bonner
New York; c. C. Seaman, San Diego, Cal
, J. g. Clarke, Elmira, n. r.; Simon Gross
Phil Grist, Boston; c c. Herbert, New
. port, Iowa; e. NJ. Mexican, Terra Haute
. r. P. Peppsro, Frankfort, Ky, and others
Bidding was started by j. s. Clarke a
800. 600, followed by Mr.. Seaman q
, S21 900 These were the only bidders, an,
when $40, 100 was bid Mr.. Clarke quit. Mr.
Seaman bidding $50 200. which is the high
I est price ever paid for a horse In tn
world.
At The place In Crawford county. In
I diana, where the two women and two Nor
4 mon missionaries we're beaten by Whit
Caps last week, the people in abe neiRhbor
a hood have organized and are armed wit
+ rifles and double-barrelled shotguns.
{ guard Is constantly kept at the house wher
the two men and two women are beiD
q cared for, and II the "White Caps" shoul
. return there will be bloody work. The d,
4; Tenders Of the Mormons and the two wome
J.; do not believe In Mormonism, but they ar
!. rough and courteous backwoodsmen, an
declare that no more "White Cap" outrage
3 shall be perpetrated in their neighborhoot
While laborers we're engaged in excsvs
y ting for a new building In Fact Dubuque
Iows, on Monday, they came upon a nuu
:, Der Of skeletons. all of grown persons
8 One of the skulls had bullet hole throug
!. it. A quarter of a century ago the siI
was occupied by a frame boarding housl
y and old settlers remember stories OF mystl
y rious disappearances OF strangers abor
q that time. All the bones found we're tho'
Of middle-aged men. The parties wh
c kept the house at that time have long sine
disappeared. Further search is bein
y made. Il looks as il another Bende
tragedy had bsen enacted there in earl
2 days.
q As Frank Mott Of Cincinnati left h
hlme on Saturday he shocked bis wife b
!, bidding her good bye, that she would prol
ably not see him egain. and that il 81
N needed money to 20 to the Building ass
10 citation. He gave no other explanation &c
a left He has not been seen nor heard frol
by his friends since. He had been conf
b Dental bookkepper Of the firm OF Dani
3: Stone g. Co for years. On his desk was
, note saying that il bis books we're wror
D. his father would make up the deficiency.
+. is not yet known that he is a defaulte
,r There has been nothing to indicate it, an
II the cause OF his absconding is mysterl
5 He leaves an interesting family.
Two maiden ladies, Maria and Vireti
ID Reeves. living near Davisville, West Va
lt Monday night shot and killed one burgll
and mortally wounded and capture
ge another. One Of the sisters saw a man
]. her roon1, seized a revolver and fired, xii
10 ing him. He was shot through the tempt
IN Tue other sister was awakened, seized
IN weapon aud sprang on the other one az
was trying TO escape through the windoV
is He was too late, as he fell TO the grour
as with bullet through his groin. Both bu
glars we're strangers in the vicinity, b.
be are supposed TO be old-timers. The tw
ns hsroic ladies are being lioniEed by Il
Al nafOhhora Than are uanaralIv eupnnae