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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12
DR.. Harcourt Exonerated.

DR.. Harcourt, it is understood. will
shortly remove from Steele to Bismarck
In this connection the following card will
be read with interest and pleasure by his
friends:
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12
Pronounced Hopeless, Yet Saved.

o From a letter written by Mrs. Ada E
Hurd of .Groton, s. D., we quote: "Was
taken with a bad cold, which settled on
my lungs; cough set in and finally ter
minated in consumption. Four doctors
gave me up, say ing l could live but a short
termined if | could not stay with nv
friends on earth / would meet my absent
one above. My husband was advised to
get DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, coughs and colds. L gave it a
trial; took in all eight bottles; it has cured
me and, thank God, I I'm now a well and
hearty woman" Trial bottles free at H.
and al - ,l -rH-- f
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12

party, yet the defendant had, with this
exception, been an honest man. When the
country was in peril he came forward to
its aid and received wounds which had
tended to impair him mentally. Sentence
would be deferred for a time until the
court had an opportunity to investigate
the matter more fully, SO that justice could
be done on all sides. ys
Messrs. Hanitch and Francis were called
on by the court to state what they knew
about the case. Mr.. Hanitch, who was the
attorney for the Atrill estate, made a few
remarks. Judge Francis said that in his
Judgment the, mar was mentally unbal-
ancpd and not tile kind of a man who
should be punished for the Otfense he had
committed. If the defendant were men
tally balanced. the otfenses he had com.
mitted were deserving Of severe punish
ment, but the speaker was thoroughly con-
vinced, from conversation he had had with
the defendant, that he was wholly unac-
countable for his Offenses. Judge Francis
e%lOQuently appealed, OH behalf of the de-
PENDANT, for mercy.
Judge Winchester said he would take
further time tn consider the sentence to be
imposed and the case would be allowed to
stand over until this morning at 10
O'clock.
II o'LEARY CASE.
The states attorney moved the arraign-
ment of Coz nelius OLeary charged
with committing an assault with a deadly
weapon on James Mcbride. The defend
ant pleaded not guilty. Both sides were
ready for trial. Messrs. Francis and Barnes
conducted the prosecution and Messrs.
Jamison and Bergen appeared for the de-
PENDANT.
A jury had not been obtained when
court adjourned at the noon recess.
When the court met after the noon re-
cess, the jury was completed and the ex'
animation was begun after Mr.. Jamison
had made a formal objection to the admis'
sion of testimony under the information
The objection was Overruled.
Sidney &. Smith was the first witness eX'
amined. He testified as to the facts re-
garding the assault on Mcbride on the
night of November 1st; which facts have
been fully published in the TRIBUNE.
Thomas Hines was the next witness and
gave a very straightforward story Of the
occurrence.
Dr.. Kendrick testified as to the severity
of the blow.
Court then adjourned till this morning
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12
IRON Saturdays Daily.l

In the district court yesterday morning
Joseph NJ. Trammel pleaded guilty to the
charge Of selling mortgaged chattels. Mr..
Jamison appeared for the defendant. He
said that while the defendant was techni-
cally guilty Of the offense charged. there is
every reason to believe that his mind was
not. in such a condition as to warrant the
belief that he was mentally accountable
for his actions. Judge Winchester
then remarked that certain things
mad been brought to his attention IN re-
gard to this matter, and the defendant had
placed himself in the hands of the courl.
While it is time that people who mortgage
personal property should be made to
understand that II is a conditional sale
and they have no right TO sell it to another
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12
[From Sundays Daily.l

Yesterday morning court convened al
10 O'Clock. Judge Winchester said that in
the case of the State VS.. Trammel, sentence
would be postponed, to enable the court tC
look up certain matters that he desired tx
investigate more fully in relation to the
case.
The evening world., 1890-01-04

far as the aulphur went. showing they had
been lighted I'M promptly e~xtinguished
Then as TO the cloth reported satur-
nted With chloroform and thrown over
Miss purcells face. this proves to- have
been Miss Purcells handkerchief, which
she says was snatched from her hand Tor
the purpose. We consider this some.
what improbable.
Miss Purcell learned typewriting at the
Trenton Business College, where she WINS
a favorite pupil. She has been nearly
two years employed az the E"mpireRubber
office. Her employer and many Others
speak highly OF her. Her father is dead.
but her mother lives on a farm in Warren
county.
The fact that Mrs. Knifin's parents say
they place confidence in Miss Purcell and
believe her story of the burglary only
adds 10 the difficulty of fixing n solution
Of the great mystery. II is known that
the marriage OF Knihin 20 Miss Murphy
was not regarded with favor by her
parents.
II IL understood that after the autopsy
the stomach Of the dead woman will be
sent TO Princeton TO be submitted 60
chemical analysis by tho college pro-
fessors.
IA ARREST MISS PURCELL.
Prosecutor Stockson says no arrests
will be made by his order under present
information, but from another source il
is learned that Miss Purcell may be taken
into custody by the city authorities by
night.
The evening world., 1890-01-04
SHORTSTOP WARDS SUIT.
To Be Called Monday. Mickey WEIGH
Sticking 10 the Players.

Tho suit against Shortstop John NJ.
Ward for alleged breaking of his contract
with the New York Baseball Club will
he called up Monday next in the Supreme
Court.
Lawyer George +. Duysters. counsel
for the New York Club. said this after
noon, however, that there might be an
adjournment Of the case when il is called.
Said he
II do not know to-day whether Mr..
Choato will be in position TO proceed with
the case Immediately when IL comes up or
not, and until Monday arrives IL will be
impossible to know what will be done"
Judge Bacon. of 100 broadway, who
guards Wards legal interests. when seen
in regard to the outlook. expressed conf
dencs that his client would win his case.
Judge Rowland. of Rowland d Ander-
son, in the Mills Building, il as enthusi-
nstic ms his confrere in the opinion that
the great shortstop will come out OF the
legal battle with flying colors. :.
II think we have an iInpregnable case. "
said Mr.. Rowland, and he only hoped
there would be 40 adjournment.
One Of the promoters of the PLAYERS
Baseball League arrived III town this
morning from a trip to the New England
States.
He saw Smiling Mickey Welch at Hol-
yoke and is jubilant because the clever
twirler has given his solemn pledge to
stand by the Brotherhood and the Players
League.
Welch expressed much indignation that
the report should have gained currency
that he intended afiliatinR with the Ma
tional League.
why. / never had any such inten-
ton" he is said to have exclaimed. II
shall certainly sign a Players League
contract later on"
Pat Murphy, the former catcher Of the
Giants. was seen ut Worcester by the
same Brotherhood worker. and expressed
himself IN terms similar to those OF Smil-
ing Mickey.
He. too, will sign with the players.
The evening world., 1890-01-04
FIGHTING Fire., NOT Waves.
La Champasne'S Sailing Delayed by
Burning Cotton In Her Cargo.

The steamship La Champagne, of lie
Compagnio Genernle Transatlantique, did
not sail Tor Ia belle France at 4 O'Clock
this morning as advertised. Some of her
passengers went ashore, not TO Paris.
La Champagne was at her pier, foot OF
Morton street. North River. her passen-
gers all aboard md cargo stored, ready
to start at 4 o'clock. when, within ten
minutes of the hour set, n a! arm of fire
was raise d.
Some cotton in her hold was afire.
Eighty or ninety bales were stacked i'll
one compartment. and among them flames
hat been seen lodging.
Night Waterman Richard Hoffman,
sent an alarm that brought the engines to
Yves. street in force. Lines Of hose were
stretched 500 feet to the deck and over
the side of the huge vessel down into her
hold. The fireboat Iophar Mills lay to
alongside and turned its powerful streams
into the hold also. Long after the blaze
was out 1t kept pouring water into tho
compartment until the cotton bales were
atioat ana soaked through and through.
Then the pumps were set TO work.
The sleeping passengers were ar oused
by the noise II confusion. Some of
them went TO sleep again, thinking the
ship was merely getting under way. OF
those who understood the situation the
great majority remained calmly on board.
impasSive spectators of what was
going on.
The fire broke out again about 10 o'clock
this forenoon, and engines were again
summoned and recommended the work Of
flooding the compartments containing the
cotton. The ships officers and agents
declare that the fire was soon overcome.
The vessel will not sail until all danger
If past Of n recurrence of the fire after the
snip has gotten out to sea.
The evening world., 1890-01-04
HER DEATH-DED IN A CELL.
MurdereSS Hanna SOuthWOrth Dying
In the TOmbS To-Day.

Mrs. Southworth's condition., as re-
ported to-day by DR.. Chetwood. the
Tombs physician. is extremely critical.
and he believes that the gradual sinking
into n comatose state. which usually ter
inmates in death, has already begun.
She is so weak that she can scarcely
speak, and very little nourishment, ex-
cept the drugs and stimulants prescribed
for her by the doctor, has passed her
lips.
Il understand from what DR., Chef
wood tells me c~onfdeRtially, " said War
den Osborne this morning to an EyESISG
WORLD reporter, " that the prisoner can
not be kept alive for another week.
Her condition this morning was so
much woTss than yesterday that any at
tempt to remove her now would undoubt-
edly kill her, and ! never expect to see
her leave the Iombs alive.
Az the office of Howe X Hummel II Was
said that no removal OF Mrs. SouthWorth
from the rombs was contemplated,
The evening world., 1890-01-04
SCENE OF THE MURDER

that II was at the same place he was OIL
the night of Nov. 80, when his house wa
alleged to have been entered by burglars
before.
At thGt time Miss Purcell told a thrill
ing tale of masked men in her bedroom,
who cowed her with knives and reyolvers,
and after all stolo only SIG when they
might have taken 300 just ms well.
As was stated in the full story of the
tragedy told in yesterdays EVENING
WORLD, Miss Purcell is a typewriter by
occupation and q cousin of tho murdered
woman.
From oil accounts she and DIR. Knifin
were good friends.too good, 1t Is limited.
to please Mrs. knifin-and her presence
in the household was the cause of more
than one wordy quarrel.
Dr. knlftin denies this, but admits that
he was with her ut the Phillipsburg depot
on Tuesday. but he claims the meeting
was an accidental one and that they only
convcrsed together a few moments.
When asked where the young lady had
been the doctor said she was returning
from a New Year call on her.parents ut
broadway and was waiting for IA train at
Phillipsburg for Trenton while he vas
waiting for one to take him to Broadway.
W HIS wIFE's CORPSE.
After his examination at Police Head
quarters the Doctor went to his home at
2O6 South Broad street, and gaZed on the
dead face of the woman who had been his
wife for ten years.
lie examined the rooms, but reported
nothing missing. He is cool almost too
cool, some think under the circumstances.
WHY WAS THE BOY SENT oFF2
The police think it curious that the
doctors nine-year-old son Jennie had
been sentaway from home to sleep at his
grandmother's place, ~ Cooper street, and
they examined the little fellow closely.
Chief McChesney, when seen by an
EVENING WoRLD reporter this morning,
admitted that he had obtained some yalu-
able information from the little fellow,
but refused TO say what it was.
All he would say further was hat the
boy had been taken by his grandmother,
Mrs. II. Murphy. of her own accord. and
tIat Mrs. Martin wanted Mrs. Knifin
and Miss Purcell to 60 also because of
the fear Of burglars.
The ladies refused but the boy went.
County Physician LeavItt's examina-
ton of Mrs. Kniffin's body disclosed the
fact there were several slight scratches or
abrasions of the skin on the chin, and
most important of all he found on the bed
u portion of a mans SHIRT.
This slight clue the police are jealousy
guarding,
When found Mrs. KniAin lay partly
naked with II foot oyer the side OF the
bed, and her night-robe torn open at the
neck.
She wa a handsome oma about
thirty-three years old. Miss PURGE. is
going ON twenty-five.
F.. b. Sterling, an astute gentleman,
with luxurious side and chin whiskers,
The evening world., 1890-01-04
B0GART WILL NOT ACCEPT.
Mayor Grant Offered Him The Street.
Cleaning COmmiSSiOneIShlp.

No appointment Of n Street Cleaning Com
missioner will be made to-day.
Mayor Grant told an EVENING WORLD re
porter at noon that the position had been
rendered 10 State Engineer Joh Bogart. but
that he bad decliued the appointment.
The Mayor had not yet decided upon any
other gentleman TO fill the position.
In his note declining the proifered Com
missionership MI. Bogart said that his
refusal was necessitated by reason Of his
official position and his professional engage
ments. A year ago he declined the Commits
sionership OF Public Works rendered him
by Mayor Hewitt.
The retiring Commissioner is a civil en-
gineer. and Mayor Grant has been trying to
replace him by one o. the same profession.
but IL il said that falling in this he has IN
reserve another gentleman who Will prove
acceptable for the position in Commissioner
OF Accounts l.. l.. Barker.
Commissioner Barker was Deputy Com
missioner Of Public. Works under Commits
Secretary OF the Park Department.
The evening world., 1890-01-04
A Brooklyn Man Kills His
Wife and Child and
Then Suicides.
They HAD AGREED TO DIE.
Mother and Child Killed with
Morphine.

Another double murder and suicide ha
been added TO the bloody deeds whicl
have characterized the opening Of tn,
new year.
Edward Katzenstein. q bookkeeper, re
siding Mt 90 Even street, Brooklyn, +. D..
reported TO the police that n man nance
Franken, who lived with his wife anC
three-year-old daughter at $50 Maujei
street, had not been seen by his neigh,
bors since Tuesday. and that Mrs. Frank.
en- and her child had not been seen in
the house since Wednesday, and that
there was something suspicious about
their apartments.
A policeman was despatched to the
house.
He peered through n rear window and
deserted Frnnken sitting on u bed with a
huge revolver in his hand.
The policeman demanded admittance.
when Franken levelled his revolver al
him and threatened to shoot.
His manner was so determined TINT the
policeman beat a hasty retreat for the
purpose of summoning help.
He had gone but q few steps when he
heard n pistol shot. and returning to the
window, saw Franken lying on the bed,
blood pouring from a wound directly
over the heart.
Raising the window the policeman
entered the room.
One glance suficed to show him that
the man WINS dead.
On o bed in the rear COON he found
Mrs. Franken lying on the bed. black
from decomposition, the odor from the
decaying corpse being almost overpow
ering.
Beside her lay the body of her three
ysar-old daughter, also in IN advanced
state OF decomposition.
The woman's hands were crossed as if
laid out for burial.
On the table were several letters written
by Franken, in ono of which he SAYS that
finding it difficult to get along, and
having no money. his wife and he had
agreed to die.
He says he gave her thirty-hve grains of
morphine and the child six grains.
A package of Paris green lay upon the
table, evidently for use in case the NOR
Phine failed 10 work.
FIanken was an upholsterer by trade,
but had done no work for the past two
months.
The house where the decd was COM
mitted is a little one-story frame building
in the rear of a tenement-house.
Franken rented it two months ago, but
had been unable to pay the last months
rent.
He is said TO have been a New York
Park policeman up to within a year ago.
Mrs. Franken and tine child had evidently
been dead since Tuesday, as they were
not seen since that day.
The bodies have been placed in the care
of an undertaken.
Those of Mrs. Franken and her daugh-
ter must be buried at once, as they are 50
decayed.
The tragedy has caused the widest ex-
element, and Mortified neighbors gather
around the house n discuss the affair in
awe-Ptruck tones.
From papers found in Franken's apart
ments it is learned that he was an enthusi-
astic Anarchist. and had been a frequent
contributor 10 AnaTchistic publications.
The evening world., 1890-01-04
Or. PAUL HOFFMAN INSANE.
The Assistant School Superintendent
q Victim OF the Grip.

DR.. Paul Hoffman. Assistant superintend-
ent OF Public Schools. who lived in a suite
of rooms in the Alpine fashionable apart
ment house at 90 West Thirty-third street,
became insane this morning and was taken
to Bellevue Hospital.
House Or. Douglas. who has MN IN
charge. says that he was not violent when
he arrived At the hospital, and lie thought
that DIR. HotimAn's fTenzy Was the result OF
an attack of the influenza, from which he
has been suffering for several days.
IL Was DIR. ugla opinion that lie
wouid soon recover.
DIR. Hoffman is n graduated physician.
and for seven years has been connected
with the New York Board OF Education, lie
il forty-iye years old and unmarried.
The evening world., 1890-01-04
Western Union Charges
Said to Have Killed
the POOIrOOmS,
NO BUSINESS DONE TODAY.
Some Claim That Anthony CON-
stock Caused the Shut Down,

None of the fifty odd poolrooms in New
York City did any business to-day.
The doors OF most Of them are open,
but the proprietors allow only privileged
persons inside.
In most cases the clerks are ensconcet
behind their desks as II ready to take any
bets that might be made, but whenever q
person stepped up to the window the 70,
frain Of mo business done to-day
greeted the would-be bettors.
Most of the poolroom owners declare
that the heavy charges of the Western
Union Telegraph Company is the cause
of the lockout.
Some of the most prominent followers
of the turf declare. however, that Anthony
Comstock is at the bottom Of the affair.
Said one of these well-posted individuals
this morning
This talk about he exorbitant charges
of the Western Union Company being the
reason for the closing o. the p%oolrooms is
all nonsense.
Anthony ComStock ~ closing them
up; ! know this TO he a fact.
"Thc trouble il caus ii wholly by
young clerks. Tho small salaries that
they receive, as n rule. prevent them
from INDUCING their sporting proclivities.
aud no they have helped themselves to
whatever money they could lay hands on
in order to play the races.
"Ihe amounts taken were usually too
insignificant for the employers to care to
arrest their clerks for, so instead Of this
they complained to Comstock and asked
that he close the poolrooms."
At the office of the Society for the Pre-
y~ention of Crime, the assistant in charge
said that Mr.. Comstock was i'll and had
not been nj his Office for a week.
He denied all knowledge concerning
the closing of the pool-rooms.
The owner of one of the largest pool
rooms on Park Row said to-day that the
police nre in no why responsible for the
present trouble.
The case is this said he. 1.-THE
heavy charges Of the Western Union Com
pany have become ~unbearable.
The poolroom owners, therefore,
decided that there was no use in trying
to conduct business for the benefit of a
telegraph company, and agreed to stop
business to see IL some more equable
arrangement cannot be fixed up with the
telegraph people.
The Company exacts what Is called n
: correspondence fee of SO q day from
each poolroom.
Then they make US paw S75 a month
for each operator we employ. and
besides this we have to pay $500 a month
for each wire.
The total paid by the average pool
room TO the Company amounts TO $50 or
$50 a d y.
Formerly the Company charged MS
but 81. 30 a day for correspondence.
Then they increased II TO 80 a day. and
all last year we paid the Western Union
$40 q day for this class OF service.
When the racing at New Orleans
commenced the Company charged us
such an enormous tax that none OF us
could afford 10 take the reports.
Despite what the public says Of our
enormous profits. that Is all bosh.
None of the poolrooms have made
much money recently, and we are not
sorry to close up for a while.
THE report that the accession of
Judge Fitzgerald 10 the Court of General
Sessions in place of Judge Gildersleeye
has anything TO do with the c~losing-up
is untrue"
The evening world., 1890-01-04
Mrs. Kniffn'S Murder q
Deep Mystery to
TrentOn'S Police.
ARRESTS EXPECTED HOURLY.
Suspicion Fastens Upon Or. Knit
fin and the Pretty Typewriter.

TRENTON. N. j., Jan. 4.-The bold
burglars who Miss Emma Purcell sayt
invaded the home of dentist Arthur s.
Knifin during his absence yesterday,
chloroforming and killing Mrs. Myra
Knifin, and giving Miss Purcell only
enough of the narcotic to ender her un.
conscious, had not been captured this
morning.
The police do not believe the murder
was committed by burglars, or that any
burglars entered the house.
This is the opinion of Detective Leahey,
md is shared by Chief of Police McChes.
ney.
In consequence the majority of the peo-
pie here believe to-day that the story OF
The evening world., 1890-01-04

We hnd. for instance mat the
matches found around the aoor 70 give
the impression that burglars had lighted
hem were IN most cases burned Only ~
The evening world., 1890-01-04
CURRENT NOTES OF The RING.

Backers Of Billy Mccarthy and George
Russell. the middle weights, have the stakes
for their night Of Jan, 10 on deposit az the
POLICE gazette Othce.
A physiciAu has examined Ike Weir's hand.
audi IL has been decided that he mnst meet
Billy Murphy before the California Athletic
Club Jan. -.
Mike Lucie and Brooklyn Jimmie Carroll
will light before the Golden Gate Athletic
Club. San Francisco. jan, -.
Jan. - has been set a. the date for
matches between Paddy Smith. ot Birmiug-
ham. and jimmy GTlticu, at the Occidental
Club.
According to Patsy Hogan's letter t. the
FaIo q .rftr Mccarthy is training hard Tor
his mat-u with Dempsey. and the Nuuparell
h. also working earnestly. The ugh ONE
on the last week OF the month.
Jimmy Carroll i, already getting into con
ditlOn for his -, 500 night with Jack Nc
Aullie, and Patsy Hogan thinks its time
jack VAS AZ work, too.
The evening world., 1890-01-04
FOREIGN NEWS OF THE DAY.
Preparations for The Trial Of The
UShOa Divorce Case.
London and ala Grippe "-GcncraI
Notes and Gossip.
rprSLAr CABLE news srrct,l.l

lbA NIAf CABLE NEWS trfCIAIsl
LONDON. Jan. i.-ln the suit for divorce
TINT hns been brought by Capt. O'Shea,
with Mr.. Parnell as correspondent. the
plaintiff has engaged Mr.. Inderwich and
Sir Edward Clarke rs his counsel.
The interests Of Mrs. O'Shea will be
looked after ny Mr.. Lockwood, while Sir
Charles Russell has again been retained
by Mr.. Parnell.
II is expected that this famous ndvo-
Gates discrimination of 0'Shea will
quite equal his eIcoriation of the unfor-
tunate Piggott, who deemed flight and
suicide not too heavy n price 10 pay for
liberation from the torture to which n re-
appearance in the witness-box would have
exposed him.