The record-union., 1894-06-22
srnRGIs-FARwELL CASE.
Opinion Read by Judge Tuley In the
Litigation.


Opinion Read by Judge Tuley in the
Litigation.
CHICAGO. June 21.-Judge Tuley this
afternoon read an opinion in the Sturgis-
Farwell litigation. 1t is a finding for
William Sturgis Of $4,000 in the suit
against ]. V. Farwell, C. B. Farwell and
Abner Taylor on the Kensington con-
tract, to be paid in ninety days, with five
per cent. interest; a finding for William
Sturgis of SILL $50, to be credited on a
note for $4,000 made in July. 1889, and
finding for J. V. Farwell. for the use of
the syndicate against William Sturgis.
for SIS, ,509 payable in ninety days.
In the Marquette contract, where Sl8,-
600 was deposited, the court gives J. V.
Farweli $4,000, and the balance of $4,000
to Mrs. Sturgis. The S75,0 900 ordered paid
to Mrs. Sturgis is the capital contract,
which was the main matter of litigation.
The court holds that MIR. Sturgis was not
regularly employed, yet his services
were held by the company and must be
paid for. The court overrules the conten-
ton that AIr. Sturgis' services were of no
value. and holds that he did good work
for the company.
The litigation, which is ended by this
final arbitration, extended over a long
series of years. and involved claim of
over s., 100000 for services rendered by
William Sturgis in reporting the Texas
Capitol scheme. The Texas Capitol was
to be built at cost of 81, 500, ,000 by John
V. Farwen of Chicago, his brother, eX-
United States Senator Charles B. Far
well, and Congressman Abner Taylor.
They were to receive from the State of
Texas 100000 acres of land stocked
with 100, 600 head of cattle. The building
cost more than was expected, and to
obtain funds Sturgis attempted to inter
est foreign capitalists, being promised.
he claimed, 40 per cent. of all profits over
s., 100000. The disputant is now in y
sanItarium, his mind having failed dur
Ing the present hearing.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
One Man Killed and Three Others
Badly Hurt.
KNOXVILLE (Tenn.), June 21.-A terri
D10 DOilOT 0A plOSlOu
at Hiawassa Station, on the Marietta and
North Georgia Railway, yesterday.
James Devers, fireman, was killed and
j. c. Devers engineer, j. G. Sanger, bag
gage master, and A. g. Bentley, brake
man, were badly hurt, Sanger fatally.
1t occurred at the foot of a mountain.
where the large push engine, Of which
Devers was engineer, hitched on south
bound train to pull it over the mountain.
Bartlett, the engineer on the south
bound train, had detached his engine and
gone over the mountain. Young Devers
had come off the siding and backed the
push engine up to the train. They were
just in the act OF making the coupling
when the explosion occurred.
The elder Devers and Bentley were on
the ground making the coupling and
Sanger was in the baggage car. Young
Devers was hurled into the front end OF
the car, which was torn away by the
force of the explosion. He was instantly
killed. Sanger was covered by lot of
coal hurled from the tender, and was
badly scaided by escaping steam. The
loss of life would probably have been
greater but for the fact that the engine
was of the saddle-tank pattern, and the
water cooled the escaping steam. The
track was badly torn up. Not one pas
senger was hurt.