The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-04
COLD STORAGE HORROR
Recalled by Alarming Testimony
! Before the Grand Jury.
INoENpIARIsM TO COVER ROBBERY.
n she Statement of Joseph Duggan be
True tho Fatality Was Duo to tho
Criminality of an Organized Gang of
: Plundorera.


True tho Fatality Was Duo to the
Criminality of An Organized Gang of
Plundorers.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4-Evidence OF a start
ling nature concerning the Cold Storage
Warehouse company was taken by the
grand jury yesterday The witness who
gave this startling testimony was Joseph
Duggan, formerly Stony Island avenue
saloon keeper, and the man who first told
of the looting OF the Cold Storage ware
house and its firing by gang OF robbers.
He was flushed and excited with the in
quisition he had undergone, but said he
had made clean breast of II all.
According to Mr.. Duggan there were
100 men concerned In the conspiracy, and
he declared that he had given the names
to the grand jury. He said that from the
opening Of the exposition right up to the
time of the fire goods were stolen, or at
least removed from the Cold Storage ware
house by the wagon load. The wagons
used were express wagons generally
though he had known of water carts GO
ing out the gates with tanks filled with
hams, bottles Of wine and other stock.
"Who removed the goodsr' he was asked
by reporter.
that lives on Stony Island avenue, Just
outside the grounds"
"Did you give evidence that would i'm
plicate criminally the hepersons who removed
the goodsf
"Yes; there will be sensation when
this thing comes out. There are about 100
implicated. have given the names to the
jury"
More witnesses ara testifying in regard
TO the affair today.
The bonds of the Worlds fair officials,
found guilty by Judge Stein of contempt
Of court in tho violation of the Cling
man injunction by closing the fair to
the public Sunday, July 2o, were filed yes
terday. thereby suspending proceedings
pending the action of the appellate court
The case cannot take precedence on the
appellate court calendar, and at the car
liest possible time will not be called before
che end OF next October.
Colored people from all parts of the
country will visit the fair on Aug. 25, this
day having been set aside by the fair man
agement for the African race. The excur-
sion committee has secured concessions
from several railroads, and excursions will
he run from Louisville and other southern
cities and intermediate points. There will
also be excursions from the east and west.
The exercises will take place in Festival
hall, beginning at 8 o'clock. Siessieretta
Jones, the black Patti; Harry Burleigh,
teacher in the National Conservatory of
Music. New York; Sidney Woodward, of
Boston, and Mime. Selika will be the SOLO
ists. A specially trained chorus of 100
voices, the original Fisk Jubilee singers
and the exposition orchestra will partici-
pate. There will be scenes from the opera
Of "Uncle Toms Cabin" composed by a
young negro, Will NJ, Cook. All the music
win be by colored authors. In the evening
Fred Douglass will preside and deliver the
Grafton. Addresses will also be made by
John NJ. LaDRston, Of Virginia; B. X.
Bruce, of Mississippi, Charles NJ, Morris,
Of New York, and other prominent colored
orators.
One Of India's potentates, the Maharajah
Of kapurthalia, reached Chicago yester-
day. Accompanied by one of his half
dozen wives and his retinue, he registered
Mt the Hotel Windermere, where sump-
tuous apartments had been reserved for
them. The maharajah has come to see
the fair and will stay until he has done
she exposition thoroughly
Tho paid admissions at the fair yester'
day were 9o,0o7.