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The ca.unlty Record.

BY a cave-in at Bruce Mines, Ont,
three miners were killed.
Samuel Steffle was killed by Nickel
Plate train at Claypool, Ind.
Sewell L. Parker was killed at To-
ledo, Ohio, during sparring bout. His
heart was ruptured.
At Muncie, Ind, a five-year-old boy
attempted to couple some cars and was
so badly hurt that he may die.
A Great Northern passenger train
was hemmed in between two washouts
ninety miles from Spokane, Wash.
The Cedar River dam at Cedar Rap.
ids, Iowa., was damaged $1,000 by the
freshet.
Judson Newton, Nauvoo, ILL.,, died
shortly after he and q companion had
drank gallon Of wine.
The arm Of Seneca Willis Of Syca-
more, ILL.,, a brother Of Judge Willis Of
Elgin, ILL.,, was lnangled in a stalk cut
ter and had TO be anlputated.
Several buildings were demolished
near Butler. Mo-, by a wind storm.
Two daughters Of James Smith were
injured by the falling walls Of their
home.
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One woman. Fidelity.

Duluth, Mimi, March 13.-Mrs. Frank
Houck is circulating a petition to Gov.
Nelson asking for the pardon of her nus
band, who was convicted of the murder
of John Haggcrty in a saloon row at
West Duluth two years ago. She was
then servant ut the small hotel where
he boarded and concealed him in her
room when the officers were searching
for him. When he was sentenced to
Saltwater she married him within the
prison walls and has since been working
at the prison as domestic so as to be
noor him
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1t May be Murder.

Maple Lake, Mimi, March 13. - The
body Of an unknown man was found on
the railroad track here about I 30 this
morning with his head severed from his
body, his back broken and his feet and
one arm partly cut off. A letter was
found in his pocket from his mother,
Annie Wright Atkinson, no state men,
toned, two. prescriptions signed DR..
Howe, Dcadwood, 5. d., lock of hair
tied with Il ribbon, an empty purse and
cent were also found on him. The i'll
dcations point to his being killed and
laid ON the track to cover the crime.
The coroner will investigate. Two men
bought bread i'll Buffalo last night say
ing they were going to heat their way
to Dakota as they had but Sc between
them. One was short with a smooth face
and dark complexion and dark clothes
This describes the dead man. The other
was tall. with sandy mustathe.
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Rolla, March 13-At mass conven-
tion of the citizens of Cavalier, T0wner
and Rollette counties, held here Saturday,
steps were taken to organize company
for building railroad from Langdon to
Dunscith. Six men from each county
were named as IL committee on organiz.l.
ton. Farmers along the boundary line
need railroad facilities badly, but this
scheme will probably fail in securing any
practical results.
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Seed Distrtbution Nearly Finished.

Washington, March 13.--The annual
distribution of seeds by the agricultural
department will be completed at the end
of this month. Practically all of the
100 temporary employees engaged in the
work will he dropped front he rolls at
that time. The total packages of seeds
sent out from the time the annual dis
Il button which connlcnc d late last year
until brought TO Il close vii! aggregate
0OM> (HNb
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A brakeman Killed.

Eagle Grove, Iowa, March 13.-W. ].
81 Sherwood, brakeman on tine North.
western, was killed Saturday in the
switch yard at Lake City, eighty miles
southwest. He was aboLt twenty-five
years of age ard has relatives in Tama.
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Monday, March IL.

Considerable excitement in Fargo
over the coming city election.
Chairman Kiff. of the prohibition
state central committee, is canvassing
in the interests Of the better enforce
ment of the prohibition law.
Complaints have been lodged with
the city authorities in Grand Forks,
against Great Northern engineers for
violating city o:,linancirs in running
trains over city crossings faster than
miles per hour.
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Eu: cl.n Finds protcction From Fir,

Eureka, S. D., Mrrch 1.-THE new
chemical engine purchased by the city
was tested this evening. The engine
was put to ss"erc test and did It's work
admirably. The macl. III, was made by
the Nutting Fire Extinguisher Company
Of Minneapolis. Eureka has been with
out protection from fire since its orgnniza-
tiOn some six years ago The citizens are
much clated over their purchase.
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Tuesday. Murch Ii.

The president has appointed Joseph
j. Irwin postmaster at Park River.
Agent Donovan Of the Great North
ern at Grand Forks, has resigned, and
will 80 to Portland, Oregon.
A rousing revival Is on at Inkstcr.
H. +. Boyd was elected mayor Of
Wheatland.
Michael T. O'Connor of Bismarck is
under arrest on a charge Of assault
with dangerous weapon. preferred
by his wife.
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IIarl,inrer. of snrinr

Aberdeen, S. D., March 13.-Geese and
ducks ore flying north in large numbers
and indications poilt to on early spring
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From the Nation's Capital.
Congressman Blanchard is appointed
Senator Whites successor.
Owing to the illness of Capt. Miller
the Kearsarge hoard of inquiry has
Adjourned indefinitely.
The creation of fund from which to
pay pensions to railway mail clerks
Is advocated by Congressman Wheeler
The Tacoma tidewat,r land and lar-
Dor line cases are decided against the
Northern Pacific by the United States
supreme court.
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rsureln r. ut L,tchneld.

Litchfield, MIMI, March IL. - The
clothing house of John Birch was entered
last night by burglars who got away with
$500 worth of clothing. They left two
old coats and jack knife.
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Personal Mention.

Pcf0Onnl NeutIOns
The health Of Louis Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot, continues to I'M
prove.
Over 1900 people earn their living
in the service of Phil D. Armour of
Chicago, who pays out neatly $1,000
coo annually in wages.
In speaking of the deal Jubal A.
Early, Gen. James Lonsstreet said his
career as soldier was a dismal fail
IRE.
At the request of Illinois comrades
Thomas G. Lawler has cons 'ntcd to
the use of his name for commander-tn-
chief of the G. A. II.
Mrs. Lease has been found to be an
heir to q large estate left by a maiden
aunt, who died in Ireland se1 eral years
ago.
T. De Witt Talmage has recons.dered
his determination to resign lis Brook
lyn pastorate. He will spend the sum-
mer in Australia and India.
Giovanni p. Morisini, the late Jay
Gould's partner, although millicnaire,
neither drinks nor smokes, and lives
as regular a life as a busy man con-
sistenly can do.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, one OF
the surviving ladies Of the White House,
has paid $50,O0O for residence in
Washington, where she will make her
future home.
Louis Il. Blair, whose will has created
SO much litigation in New York, was
formerly proprietor of the Astor house
barber shop, where he amassed for
tune of nearly $50O,t0O.
Zola used to be very fat. To reduce
his weight he abstained from drinking
at his meals for two months, and ut
that time got rid Of thirty-six pounds
of superfluous adipose.
Archbishop Angus Macdonald, of the
archdiocese of Edinburgh, has issued
a Lenten pastoral dealing with mar
riage between Catholics and Protest.
ants. He warned the members Of the
church against such unions
Cora Belle Fellows. the Washington
girl who married Chaska, the Sioux
brave, is living in Ashland, Neb., under
an assumed name. Chaslia, under the
tribal laws, took another wife, and his
white wife left him.
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Died Of Smallpox.

Menominee. Mich, March 13.-Another
death resulted from smallpox Yesterday
and two more cases are reported. The
death was that of four-year-old child
of the Rehi family, where the disease
first broke out,
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St. Johns. N. F., March 13tThe steam
er Briscoc, which left Hamburg Dec. q,
carrying cargo of manure salt, lies in
desperate strait sixty miles south of
Care Race. Late yesterday afternoon q
lifcbcat containing five men arrived at
tie Cape Race signal staten and brought
news of the disabled and long overdue
steamer. 1t contained Mate Mackay and
four of the crew, all of them nearly ex-
hausted from cold.
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Clouxl. a Candidate.

Madison, $. D., March 13.-Dr. A. E.
Clongh is mentioned to succeed Senator
Pcttigrew.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-17
Gold for Cuf,n.

New York, March 13.-The steamer La
Champagne brought $4,000 francs gold
in transit to Cuba.
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Lost an Arm.

Bathgate, n. D., March 13. - CT: nd
Simpson, a boy of fifteen, had his arm
taken of below the elbow in the roller
mill.
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A New County.

Fairfax, Minn., March ia petition
has been sent in for IL new county here
called Birch Coolie county.
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miscellaneous Items.

York towns, making surprising gains.
Sugar is cornercd. advances twelve
points and goes back again.
The Atchis0n withdraws from the
Western Passenger association.
Local elections in Maine result In
sweeping Republican victories.
The Associated Press leased wire sys.
tenn is extended to San Francisco.
The Atchison and Southern Pacific
may restore California rates.
One failure results from the squeeze
in sugar.
An artcsian well and irrigation con-
vention is held at Huron. S. d.
South Dakota's prohibition law is
knocked out by the state supreme court.
Mrs. Dorotllea Prescott of New York
is suing for w. =. Kookegcy's estate,
which, she claims, was left her by will.
The I.ehigh Coal and Iron company
is released from the receiyership, llav.
ing paid all claims in full.
-Four hundred children have been to-
ken from the factories ut Muncie, Ind,
and will be sent to school.
Suit has been filed in Goshen, Ind,
court to test the validity of the so-callcd
speculation life insurance.
The Holland Radiator works at Bre-
men, Ind, resumed operations, giving
employment to 300 men.
Ignorant residents in Southern Put.
nam county, Ind, are carried away by
a healing prayer" excitement.
The Tropic furnace at Jackson, Ohio,
has gone out Of blast. Only one Of the
twenty-five furnaces there is now in
operation.
Lamont NIormOns were victorious in
their legal struggle with the Indcpcnd-
ence faction for the possession Of Tenn
pie lot.
While reSretting the rejection Of the
equal taxation clause, Brooklyn's Con-
solidation league favors the greater
New York law.
Several gold, silver, copper and iron
mines near BOZeman. Mont, have been
purchased by a New York syndicate for
$1!OOO,OOO.
Worlds Fair Photographer Arnold
alleges a st. Louis publisher has in.
lEluSCu Ou lAlS IiSlllS ltuu dShS 'fstUD,DOU
damages.
A jury at Winterset, Iowa, gave
Charles Leaseman ST. damages in his
suit against Mamie Duncan for breach
Of promise.
Charles T. Chateau's title to 100000
acres of land in Duncan county, Mo-,
has been affirmed after thirty years
litigation.
Mrs. Nellie Buchanan, wife Of an In
dianapolis dentist. has begun suit for di-
vorce, alleging that he has been un.
faithful and asking for $4,000 alimOny.
The attorney general of Illinois de-
cides that an acting sheriff can demand
his fees in advance in civil case, but
not in criminal case.
A split is imminent in the Fraternal
Mystic Circle as result of the trouble
which developed at the recent national
convention.
DIsscnsion has been caused in the
Iowa Oratorical association owing to o
disposition of the smaller colleges to
run things.
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Sold Liquor to 1.ed Men.

Bismarck, n. D., March 13.-In the
United States district court this morn
ing, Thomas Murray of Winora, EN-
rcns county, was arraigncd. charged
with selling liquor to the Indians Of the
Standing Rock agency. he pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to sixty days in
the jail of this county.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-17
Yeor for Larceny,

Little Falls. Minn., March I3. - Ole
Nelson was given one ye .r for larceny.
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He "Rolled" Coulter.

West Superior. Wis, March 49,
@'Billy" Plant, charged with rolling
John Coulter and taking from him $3.50
was held to the superior court this morn.
ing in $1,000 bail.
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Goes to Brighton.

Lordon, March 13.-Mr. Gladstone, &C
, companied by Mrs. Gladstone, left Lon.
don for Brighton this morning. The ex.
premier was loudly cheered upon his de.
II rture for the seaside.
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PITH OF THE NEWS,
events OF THE PAST WEEK. IN
4 CONDENSED FORM.

The Latest ana Most Important News
Of the World, CulleL from the
telegraph Reports OF the Prcss
Associatioas.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-17

4 Duty of Forty Cents Per Ton Is
Placed ON Iron Ore and Coal and
One Cent Per Pound ON Sugur-The
Income Tax Retained.
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NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE STATE.
A Condensed Record of the lmpor.
tant happenings Of the Week In
North Dakota, Arranged for Rapid
Reading.
wednestlay. March :.

Fargo Opera House, Patti Rosa
March Goth.
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mitted suicide by shooting. He was
formerly cashier Of the German Ma.
tiOn0l bank there.
Foreign Go..,p.


A battle has occurred in Africa be-
tween English and Portuguese forces.
The war in Brazil Is considered prac-
tfcally over, the insurgents being in a
badly crippled condition.
Four powder-loaded bombs and three
dynamite petards were found in dis
mantled fort ut Carthagena, Spain.
At the elections for members of the
Chilean congress the Liberal party is
said to have been victorious.
A rumor that Cardinal Leilochowski
would resign the prefecture of the con-
gregation Of the Propaganda Eide is
denied.
A dispatch received ut London from
Panama says that revolution has
broken out in Costa Rica, but, it adds,
so far the rebels have not been success.
full.
DR.. Simon, formerly editor Of the
New Yorker Handele Zeitung, and we'll
known to the public through his inter-
views with Prince Bismarck, is hope
lessly insane and has been placed in
an asylum at Munich. His condition is
due to an attack Of influenza He re-
Gently made an attempt to commit sui
eide.
The Italian chamber of deputies
adopted the recommendations of the
convention of Latin Cnionists provid-
ing for the redemption of the Italian
coinage, which We're signed in Paris
Nov. Is last. Signor Sonnino. the min
lister of finance, said that while he was
not enthusiastic about the Latin Union,
he did not desire its dissolution.
A Capetown special says: A trader
named Dawson, who has arrived at
Buluwayo from the Shangani river,
says at that point, where the last stand
was made by the Wilson party, which
was annihilated by the Matabeles, he
found within Il circle of fifteen yards
the bones Of thirty men. Dawson gath
cred the remains together and buried
them in one grave. King Lobengula, it
is now stated, died Jan. %.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Paris says: An officer who has just re-
turned from Dahomey reports that
when King Behanzin found that escape
was impossible he summoned his aged
mother and said to her: Il am going
to surrender to France. My father
must know Of 1t. You therefore shall
see him and tell him. The king there
upon had his mother behcadcd, while
he calmly looked on, smoking pipe.
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West March 13.-This
town hS no license tickets
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-01
MYSTERY ABOUT 4 CORPSE.
Another Strange Case in Which
Undertaken Duffy Figures.
He Obtains a Named Body and Re
turns 1t az an Unknown.

Keeper White. OF the Morgue, received
the body of an unknown man from the
Harlem Morgue to-day. Attached to II
was a note from the keeper of the Har-
lem Morgue to the effect that the man
died from sunstroke ut the Harlem
Hospital July 30, and 1t was removed by
Undertaken Duffy on a permit signed by
Deputy Coroner O'Hare. which called
for the remains of one Charles Boat.
Either Boats friends did not claim
the body from Undertaken Duffy or It
was case Of mistaken Identity. The
undertaken returned the body to the
Harlem Morgue last night as that Of
an unknown man.
Dury has been accused heretofore OF
obtaining dead bodies for speculative
purposes. II friends turn up. he has a
good chance to secure the order for the
funeral. II they fail to come, he re-
turns the body to the Morgue. 1t Is no,
explained how an unknown body was
delivered to Duffy, when the order he
presented called for the remains Of one
Charles Boat.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-01
HAS MCDONALD SMALLPOX I?
His Wife and Two Children Taken
to North Brother Island.
Inspectors OF the Health DEPART
ment Searching for Him.

Three Of n family OF four named Nc
Donald. who live at 22s West Sixty
fourth street, were removed to North
Brother Island this morning suffering
from smallpox. They were Christina.
the mother. thirty-seven years old, and
two children. Margaret, fifteen, and Jen.
ME. four and n half years.
A physician, who was called in to at
tend the children yesterday morning.
saw at glance from the blotches on
their faces that they were suffering
from smallpox, and at once reported II
TO the Board of Health.
The health inspector who was sent to
Investigate found that the mother was
also infected, and the family was re-
moved at once to the Reception Hos
pital and the house Immediately fumi-
gated. Every precaution was taken to
prevent the spread of the disease.
The husband and father is plas-
terer at work somewhere in Harlem.
Inspectors are searching for him to-
day
Josie Pilchrist, one year old. OF GO Var
lex street. was removed to North
Brother Island to-day, suffering from
smallpox.
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KILLED IN AN |cE-sHAFT
Marie Lorenza's Fatal Quest fol-
Free Scraps Of Ice.
She Is Caught In the Hosting Ma.
chinery and Crushed.

Marie Lorenza. thirty years old, OF
634 Hudson street. while picking up
broken ice at the dock OF the National
Ice Company. on Thirteenth avenue
between Jane and Horatio streets. at
8.15 this morning was caught in the ma
chinery used for hosting the Ice out
OF the boats and almost instantly
crushed to death.
The Ice dock consists OF platform about
800 feet long and about feet high. Un-
derneath runs a continuous line OF shaft
ing, operated by an engine at the end OF
the platform. This shafting Is revolving
while the boats are being unioaded. 1t
has been a practice for a long while for
the poorer women Of the neighborhood
to visit the dock to gather up the broken
ice which falls through the platform
planks, and among the machinery under
meath This practice is forbidden by the
Company, and watchmen are stationed
there to prevent 1t.
her screams were the first warning
given that she was under the platform.
Her sister. Annie Lorenza, who was
with her and was on the platform,
heard her sister call out, and notified
the men on the pier and the machinery
The woman was taken out dead. She
was crushed almost beyond recognition.
The body was taken to the Charles street
The dead woman Is the wife OF Michael
| Lorenzs. a laborer. The body was taken
home later In the day, and the Italian
in their lamentations and denounced the
Ice Company for not keeping people OUT
| OF danger
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ANTICIPATING DEATH.
A Bride of Three Months Takes
Paris Green.

Mrs. Ida Markoff. twenty-five years
old, and bride of only three months.
attempted to commit suicide at her
home, ll9 Sheriff street. about o'clock
last night.
This morning she is In Bellevue Hos
pital a prisoner. suffering seriously as
the result of a dose of Paris green.
Mrs. Markoff Is a Russian. and has
lived with her husband in the Sheriff
street house for six weeks. She is n
poetess, and of Il melancholy DISPOSE
ton, laboring under the hallucnation
that she was about to die of consump-
ton. 1t is said that she had touch
of the disease, but the doctors told her
she could be cured.
Still she worried. and refused to be
comforted. She would dwell on the
horrors of death as she talked to her
husband, and said she knew she must
soon die.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Markoff
went out and bought Paris green and
swallowed 1t before she came home. Mrs.
Kosnoyitch, with whom the Markoffs
lived, found her III last night. She al
legged that she had taken medicine TO
cure II headache.
on the young woman's face and notified
the Union Market police,
The husband believes that the poison
was taken with suicidal intent.
Mrs. KosnOvitch said this morning
that Mrs. Markoff was educated in some
of the best seminaries In Russia.
"She was reading all the time said
Was not satisfied with her station in
. life"
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WAR NOW DECLARED.
Japan Gives Formal Notice Of
Hostilities with China.
Col. Won Hannekin Was Saved from
the Kow Shins.
Capt. Galsworthy and Others Also
Rescued from the Transport.
(By Associated Press. }

IoNDON Auy l-The Excbanpe Tel
osranb connanv states that war be.
tmoan ch,r, ana J,nan vas formally
doo,.r.d NJ MON today nv Japsn
1,ha I.nan.sa minister Of o'clock
,,,s af,.rnoon informed tho Ear, NJ
I,r,her,ev Sacrst.rv ~ state for For.
oign Affairs that n state Of war exists
.o,,,aon I.n,n and CHINA
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o re "a Iora,,,o n,.,ha-op a ~
,or 90 shorgha, from, whom, the
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HELEN GOULD,S GUESTS.
Twenty-One Tenement Children En-
tertained at Woody Crest"

terta1neO AZ woody Srebt
Twelve little girls and nine little
boys from the east side tenement-house
district left the Grand Central station
at 11.SO o'clock this morning. to be the
guests of Miss Helen Gould at Woody
Crest, near Tarrytown, for two weeks.
The children belong to the Kindergar-
ten and Potted Plant Association, of
l2S Broome street, which owes its ex-
istence to the generosity Of Mrs. George
j. Gould.
Every now and then Miss Helen
Gould entertains the children OF this
and other societies, and sometimes even
such children as the New York City
Mission picks up, friendess and home
less, In the street. Yesterday sixty chill
dren, between twelve and sixteen years
old, returned from Woody Crest after
two-weeks junket.
The party to-day was under the
guidance of Col. A. d. de Frece, di.
rector OF the Kindergarten and Potted
Plant Association, who received cable
gram from Mrs. George j. Gould from
Europe to represent her as mentor &c
the children. The other escorts were
Miss frankie A. King, Acting Secretary
Miss N. Wiley and Miss A. Wiley
teachers OF the association.
Each child carried n bundle OF clothes
| and some OF the boys mad bats. Col
de Ffece looked out for a tsn-pount
package of candy, which was the cy
nosure OF all the tots eyes.
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HERDMAN's BODY UNCLAIMED
A Letter Left by the Suicide Ac-
cuses Frederick Gross.

The body OF Albert Herdman. forty
five years OF age, who committed suicide
yesterday by taking morphine on the
Bowery Bay pier, Is at the Newtown
Morgue, and has not yet been claimed
II was said to-day that Frederick
Gross, President OF the Gross Manufac-
turing Company. OF 6S and &c Liberty
street, In which the suicide was a stock
holder, will make arrangements TO give
the body a decent burial.
In a letter left by Herdman he accused
Gross Of having treated him unfairly In
their business transactions.
Gross says that Herdman had acted
strangely since the disappearance OF his