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The herald., 1894-12-23
FIRED A BULLET At HIS HEAD.
Then the Robber Emptied the
Money Drawer.
A Shopkeeper Robbed by a Masked
Man Last Night,
Eldridgs Fuller Held Up and Robbed oi
$50 in Hts Grocery Store
on Mission Road.

A bold "hold up" and robbery took
place at 80 O'Clock last night ct e. G.
Fuller's grocery store. 534 Mission road,
near Macy street. A masked mau en-
tered the store, and upon Fuller's re-
fusal to throw up his hands. that "a
him. This frightened the storekeepeI
into submission and the robber gol
away with $50, ell the money there wat
in the till.
Mr.. Fuller gave . graphic description
OF the robbery after he recovered bis
scare. He said hs was sitting on q
stool against the wall reading paper
when suddenly tide door was opened
and Q tall young man rushed in. He
had . black mask over his face and held
Ia rgerevolver.
Throw up your hands," commanded
the thief.
The storekeeper, before he could real
ize the situation, thought it was only q
Joke Of some friend. Mr.. Fuller hesi-
ta.ed, and the robbsr yelled out:
Throw up your hands, and be id
QUICK ADOut IL
This frightened the grocer badly, and
he was naturally slow in getting his
hand above his head, but up they went
finally, but not until the thief had fred
shot past the ear OF Fuller. The bull
let luckily only Rrazed the ear OF the
helpless man, and Was imbedded in the
wall Just behind his head.
The masked man. seeing that he had
his victim completely intimidated.
rushed behind the counter and removed
the till, which contained $50 In silver
change and gold. The thief ran ont and
started up Mission road.
When the robbery Was being com NIT.
ted two men stood on the outside.
Good descriptions OF them were OBJ
tanned by Mrs. Fuller, who. on hearing
the shot, ran from her residence In the
rear, into the store. She says the men
stood at the door and Immediately
after the rohber emerged they removed
the money from the till and ran away
together.
Soon after the "hold.up." Chief Glass
sent a detail Of officers to the scene.
Detective Goodman soon got clue. He
found the tracks of the robbers and fol-
lowed them. One of them had worn
rubber shoes.
Near q residence not far from the
store, the officers found the till, where
it had been tossed aside. A cap wRs
picked up little fur. ler on. and 4 few
steps more brought to light the
overcoat worn by the masked
man. The rubber shoes were
found at or near residence to
which the tracks apparently led. With
all this evidence. Detective Goodman
decided TO surprise the occupants Of the
residence. 1t is not very far from ths
scene OF the robbery. and is ocou pied
by widow and two dsuRsiris Nhey
The herald., 1894-12-23
Careful Attention to Mail Orders.

have lived there only few months,
and are considered quiet, respectable
family. Detective Goodman stationed
Officer Arguello at the rear of the
house, while he himself entered the
front door. He found three young men
in the house, beside the residents and
others.
The men proved to be John W. Hal
lum. E. B. Meyers and A. Garcia. Hal.
lum is a married man and has family
here. He was one OF the railway strikers
last summer and worked for the rail-
ways several years. He is called Jack"
Hsllum by his more intimate friends.
Meyers said he resided at 1927 CASTELAR,
street, and that he was q carpenter.
Garcia lives on Macy street. He ap-
pears to be only about 19 years OF age.
When the officers found the men
there, they placed them under arrest
aud conveyed them to the Second
street police station. They were taken
in on suspicion. They would not talk
upon the subject and were sent to Jail.
While ii may be that there is no guilt
OF any OF the boys, they will have to
prove themselves innocent.
The herald., 1894-12-23

mitsoners to me. 1 being the judge in
the case could not take the initiative.
As yet the matter has not been brought
to my attention officially. If the
charges were made and proved / could
only commend to the governor their dis.
missal.' A.jyH a..
Commissioner Sheehan was emphatic
in his denial of the etatemen Is affect
ing him em mbodied in Captain Schmitt-
bergsr's testimony. A special meeting
of the police board will be held on Mon
day to consider the Schmittbsrger tes.
timony.
Lawyer Louis Grant. who is acting for
Commissioner Sheehan, said today that
Captain Schmittberger dare not produce
the letter which he yesterday asserted
had been sent by him to the commits
sioner, with relation to the man Proctor
in the gam bling matter.
James j. Martin, president OF the
board Of police commissioners. com.
plains that Schmittberger put him in a
false ligh. regarding disorderly houses
on West Fifty-tbird street. A club friend
of Martins who was interested in the
woman who kept the house, rep-
resented to Martin that the
police had unwarrantsdly denounced
her, the place being simply a private
residence, whersupon Martin instructed
the captain to investigate and il the club
friends state msnts were true, to see that
the woman was annoyed no more.
Schmittberger reported that his mon
had been mistaken. The commissioner
also denied that Sergeant Lieber paid
1900, or 60 far as he knows there
was anything ever paid for his promo.
tion. Other statements of Schmittbsr-
ger which impugn the integrity OF the
president of the board are, Martin de-
clares, absolutely without truth.
Commissioner Sheehan also makes
specific denial of the allegations OF
Schmittberger in 30 far as they relate to
him.
The herald., 1894-12-23
MURDERED IN THE STREET.

Joseph McBean Ktiis His Stop Daugh-
ter at tho National Cap tai.
WASHINGTON, Dso. PA horrible
murder was com mitted in the northwest
section OF the city late this evening.
Joseph H! Bean shot and killed his
step.daushter, Mrs. Annie L. Lesny.
sending five bullets into her hody.
When the deed WAS done and che lay on
the floor in pool OF blood he kioBed
and stamped upon his dying victim.
The oise Of the shooting drew o num-
Der of citizens to the scene, but the mur-
derer held them at bay. Congressman
George d. Meiklejohn. OF Nebraska, who
was on his way home from the capitol,
heard the shots. and. Fastening to the
scene, succeeded in summoning an otfi
Ger, who captured the murderer. Bean
is carpenter by trade, but OF late has
not lived with his wife, because she re-.
fused to support him in idlensss. Con-
gresham Meiklejohn wears a Mason's
charm nd button, and when he ap-
peared on the scene Bean noticed it.
"Are you Mason ?" he cried to the
congressman.
"Yes," answered the latter. approach.
ing.
$50 am l." shouted the man, land a
Grand Army man; | have killed a
woman ana they are trying to kill me !;
l want you to protect me-"
While Bean was saying this the con-
qressman slipped around behind bin
and pinioned his arms. In a moment he
had possession OF the weapons and
handed them over to the police, who
tooh Roon IN tho atakiou Mr. Mail Ia
John then quietly continued his journey
nome. It 10 thought that Bean is insane.
He does not appear to regret his deed,
which he says was an act OF humanity
nicely accomplished.
The herald., 1894-12-23
A Pleasing Obtsct Lossou.

Visitors coming into this city over the
Santa Fs road are surprised and de-
lighted ct the beautiful little park ad-
jscent to Ls Grand depot. The repre-
sentation OF the kite-shaped track, SO
srtistically constructed OF elegant plan ts
ana flowers, is Q novelty which at once
attracts special attention. To visitors
from the snowy, clustering east, such q
spectacle as the railroad com pany'e park
at the station is a most charming sur.
prise. Many are the expressions OF
praise from enthusiastic travellers who
behold the object lesson after alighting
from overland trains. 1t gives them a
dim idea as to what kind OF q country
they are in, and starts them TO inquir.
ing into particulars concerning kite
shaped tracks and other California lux
uries.
The herald., 1894-12-23
POLITICAL INFLUENCE.
A Measure to Exclude Postmastors fro
lta Bane.

A Measure to Ex ciuds PostmAsters from
lts Bane.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.-Representa-
tive de Forrest, Democrat, of Connect.
cut. chairman of the house committee
on civil service. today introduced . bill
to exclude political influence in the ap.
pointment of postmasters.
1t provides that all poHtmas ters now
in Office or hereafter to b. appointed
shall hold their offices during the ses.
sion. The president is author.
lied to remove first, second and
third-class postmsstsrs ''for cause COM
municated to the senate" at the session
following the removal. The postmaster
general is also authorized to remove
fonrth-c class postmaeters "ior cause com.
municated in the letter of removal"
Section three provides that neither
the president nor postmaster. general
shall appoint or remove a postmaster for
political reasons upon political grounds,
NOR shall any postofics inspector re-.
commend any person for appointment or
removal on account OF politics."
The herald., 1894-12-23
IliinOis Bnndits.

Rock ISLAND, Dec. 22.-Two men who
robbed the sale OF an express car at West
Libsrty last night caused panic among
the passengers on tho Omaha express,
due here at Z :55 this morning, By at
tempting to blow up the train about
eight miles west of here. They threw
stick dynamite under the cars. which
exploded. breaking the windows and
nearly derailing the train. LSur shots
were fred At the conductor, wAs tried
to prevent them pe';zg the bsh cord.
Tn, bandits got off ia the denee thicket.
followed by the chief OF police OF Des
Moine, and q deputy, whom they suc-
cesded in overpowsring.
The herald., 1894-12-23
Millte-C Christine

Is still attracting very large crowds OF
people daily to her receptions ON Third
street. She was out yesterday buying
Christmas presents for the old folks at
home, away down in North Carolina.
Several years ago she built little brick
church for her people to worship in and
gave it to them for q Christmas gift, and
she sends them donation every wear.
Millie-Christine never exhibits on the
Sabbath. she believes in keeping that
day holy, so ii you want to see her 20
any day but Sunday. Service will be-
held in her pavilion this afternoon and
evening.
The herald., 1894-12-23
A POL|CEMAN'S MIGHTY RAGE.
Inspector Williams Angered by
a Reporter.
Some Effects of Schmitt ber gers
Confession.
d. partmsnt OfHoials In New York
Decline to Discuss tho Latest
Disclosures.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Police Inspector
Andrew S. Williams was plainly upset
BY yesterday's testimony before the
Lexow committee. A reporter who
asked him today for q statement regard
ing Captain Schmittbsrger's sworn
statement that money collected from
law5reakers had been regularly divided
with Williams and other police officials,
was the recipient OF vile epithets hurled
at him by the inspector, who also ad.
vanesd upon the reporter with clenched
and appraised hand.
"Get out of here" roared Williams,
II won't talk to any body"
Asuggestion that he was the one fav-
orsd in being given an opportunity to
clear himself in the estimation of the
public merely angered the inspector the
more.
"You're q - fool" he shouted.
"You don't know enough to take no for
an answer. Get out OF here or I'll put
you out"
SILENT POLICEMEN.
Inspector McAvoy, who is also impli-
Gated in the bribe taking, asserts that he
never received money from Schmitt.
bSrgsr.
Superintendent Byrnes would not talk
OF the incidents Of yesterday and took
refuge behind the locked door of his
private Office.
Among people who generally have had
foreknowledge regarding police exposes.
say there is we'll defined expectation
that Inspector Williams will be heard be.
fore the Lsxow committee before il con.
cludes taking the testimony. 1t 10 rep.
resented that Williams regards
himself as having been attacked
by Schmittbsrger with the pur.
pose Of shielding himself and Superin.
tsndens Byrnes. Friends OF Williams
are represented a. noting in this con.
nection the long standing enmity be.
tween the superintendent and the rank
ing inspector, and the fact that Schmitt.
berger, once bosom friend and oonH.
dental wardmsn for Williams, had been
of late with Byrnss.
These people see, throughout Schmit.
tenberger's testimony, evidence that
Byrnes WAS always in the captains
mind. and care was taken from the Fl rst
to the last to shield the superintendent.
Feeling between Williams and Byrnes
is one OF bitter resentment, and the
theory above recited 10 based ON ex.
pectations OF a counter confession by
the inspector.
MAYOR GILRoY AT EASE.
Mayor Gilroy was asked If he in
tended to take any steps toward the re.
moval OF Commissioner Martens and
Commissioner Sheehan in consequence
of Captain Schmlttberger's state
ment OF yesterday. He ssid:
Before taking any action charges will
have to be preferred against these COM
The herald., 1894-12-23

The Metropolitan Turf club, 1875 West
Second street. Entrance also on Center
place. Durkee & Fitzgerald, proprietors.
The New Orleans and San Francisco
races are now being posted. Direct wire
to room. Full description given Of each
event and track odds laid. Eastern
rscee begin ct IL M. Los Angeles time,
Entries put VI every evening. A book
made on all sporting events OF import
anra
The herald., 1894-12-23
Ell TELEGRAFos.
Hoyas Out to Places.

MARsEILLEs, Dsc 22.-Advices by
mail from Madagascar report the arrival
OF Colonel Shervistion, who. it is said,
will take command of the Hovas, and
other British officers desirous Of taking
service under the queen of Madagascar.
The herald., 1894-12-23
Fir q OF Oficr.

BuDA PEsrH, Dec. 22. The Hungarian
cabinet ministers have sent special
messenger to the emperor At Vienna to
tender their designations. The decision
OF the emperor will he aunounc "a Thurs.
day next VI. B,nffy is expected to
form the next cablnsl.
The herald., 1894-12-23
Baseball Today.

The two games Of base ball at Athletic
park will be between the Wilson's and
Ell Telegrafos and Keatings and Stare.
The first game will be called at O'Clock
and the second game will follow imme
diately after. Following is the list OF
the players and their respective posi-
tlons:
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26
Workingmen For the ELL.

The following resolutions were adopt
ed recently in Cincinnati by Clothing
Cutters association No. 1854, Knights
of Labor:
Whereas, The people overwhelming
ly have declared in favor of tariff re-
form by electing Grover Cleveland pres
ident and Adlai Stevenson vice p1esi-
dent of the United States, and
Whereas, We hold that the present
obnoxious tariff laws are il no small
degree responsible for the present de-
preston OF trade, and
Whereas, We believe that revision
and a reduction of our tariff rates. as
proposed and set forth in the Wilson
bill, would prove beneficial to the wage
earners in particular and stimulate and
revive business generally; therefore
be it
Resolved, That we indorse the said
Wilson bill in its entirety and earnestly
pray congress for its speedy adoption.
Resolved, That we indorse an income
tax on all incomes exceeding 81, 900 as
equitable and as a means of relieving
the nonpossessing class and placing the
tax on whom it belongs-the opulent.
Resolved, That a copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to the chairman of the
ways and means committee of the ma
tional house Of representatives and to
our congressman and to our senators of
the state of Ohio.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26
The Problem of Taxation

The disposition of local taxation con-
stitutes problem that at present large
ly occupies the attention of the legisla-
lures of our several states and is found
by them most difficult of solution, and
yet very few-perhaps none-of the
men intrusted with the initiating and
enactment of laws on this subject ever
recognize that it would be difficult to
name a single form or species of taxa
tion-including even the single tax on
land proposed by Mr.. George-that has
not somewhere and at some time been
substantially tried, and that knowl-
edge of the resulting experience might
help to the avoidance of old errors.-
David A. Wells in Forum.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26
THEIR NAMES IN HISTORY.
A List of the Eminent Dead of the year
just Closed.


just Closed.
Among the men who have died during
the past year and whose names will fig
ure in history are James G.. Blaine, late
secretary of state; Alexander of Batten-
berg, once the prince of Bulgaria; ex-
President Hayes, General Benjamin F.
Butler, Justices Lamar and Batch
ford, Hamilton Fish; Beauregard and
Smith, Confederate generals; the Earl of
Derby; Miribel, chief of the French gem
eral staff; MacMahon, ex-president of
France; Jules Ferry; Senator Stanford,
the founder of Leland Stanford universe
ty; Sir A. T. Gait: Sir John Abbot, ex-
premier of Canada; Uncle Jerry Rusk;
Tirard, a former premier Of France; Ad-
miral Tryon of the Victoria, first of Eng
lish naval officers of the day, and Ferdi-
nand de Lesseps.
The church, in its various members,
has lost Phillips Brooks, who is claimed
by the church universal; DR.. A. p. Pea
body, DR.. Philip Schaff; Frederick Evans,
the Shaker; Bishops Kip and Bissell and
Brother Azarias.
The ranks of the men of letters show
few breaches, but among these are
places once filled by Taine, Francis Park
man, Guy de Maupassant, John Adding
ton Symonds, Lucy Stone, Mrs Maria
Lamb, founder Of The Magazine of His
tory; De Mile, Lucy Larcom. Professor
Jewett and Dr. William Smith, the leAi-
cographer.
Among the scientists who have been
taken away the names of Tyndall, Char
cot and Professor Horsford of Harvard
are the most prominent. Others of
this class are Craven, the inventor of
the submarine cable; Lichtenthaler, the
conchologist and marine botanist; De-
candolle, a French botanist; Captain
Anderson, who commanded the Great
Eastern when laying the first Atlantic
cable; Joseph Francis, the inventor of
the lifeboat; Cotton. the map publisher;
Viner, the meteorological; Stephenson,
builder of the first street car; Rae, the
great arctic explorer; Harvey, the ia
ventor of The armor plate.
Few men have died in 1898 whose loss
has been more severely felt and whose
names have been more widely honored
than General Armstrong, founder of the
Hampton institute and friend of the ne
gro and the Indian. In this category,
among those who did much for their fell
low men, may be mentioned also An
thony Drexel, George 1. Seney and Colo
mel Auchmuty.
Last. but by no means least, in the
ghostly procession we note Edwin Booth,
greatest of American actors and very
rare character; Fanny Kemble, J. E.
Murdoch, Gounod, the composer, and
Tschaikowslly, the Russian musician
Buffalo Commercial.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26
CRITICAL TIMES FOR DEMOCRATS.

Ascending to Power on the Tariff Issue,
They Must Not Shirk Responsibility.
The Republicans under the Arthur
administration set out to reform and
reduce the tariff. They appointed a
commission for this purpose consisting
of the most noted protectionists of the
day. These gentlemen spent nearly a
year taking testimony and finally re-
ported in favor of reduction Of duties
equal to 20 or 25 per cent on the pre-
existing scale. Then the manufacturers
rushed pellmell to Washington, and by
personal appeals, such as they are now
making, battered down the work of
their own leaders-the men whom they
had themselves chosen-ard succeeded
in passing the tariff of 1888, which
changed the duties here and there, but
did not make any real red uction.
This exhibition of greed and imbe-
cility prompted the Democrats to make
the tariff real issue in national poll
tics and to take up the role that they
had played SO successfully back in the
forties, when they had endorsed Henry
Clay and the tariff party of his era.
Then came the Morrison tariff bill,
which, although defeated, had an edu-
eating influence and helped to bring the
party up to the mark which Mr.. Cleve-
land set in his message of 1887. This
was followed by the Mills bill. The
campaign of 1888 was fought on the
issue of that tariff message, and the
Democrats were defeated in the cleo
toral college, although the popular vote
showed a plurality for Mr.. Cleveland.
Then came the Mckinley tariff and the
two smashing defeats that the Repub-
icans received in consequence of it.
Nobody questions the fact that this
Mckinley tariff was the predominant
if not the sole issue in the campaign of
1892. By slow degrees the Democratic
party had arrived at an understanding
with itself and had proclaimed in
trumpet tones that that was its present
raison 'etre. The people took the party
at its word and raised it to power by
splendid majorities.
Old Republican states like Illinois,
Wisconsin and California joined with
and Indiana in giving a laundering YER
dict against McKinleyism. Even in
Ohio, McKinley's own state, the bal
loting was SO close that one of her cleo
toral votes was cast for Mr.. Cleveland
and all would have been but for a mis-
understanding of the ballot law. In
consequence of this victory the party
finds itself in possession of all those parts
of the government which are necessary
to make and unmake tariffs. What
will happen now if, for any reason
whatever, it fails to do the work COM
mitted to its hands? Will not the peo-
pie say, Cut it down; why cumbereth
it the ground?" Ought they not to say
SO? Surely they ought. A party which
cannot execute it's own policy when the
means are put in its hands has no fur
Their excuse or reason for being. The
Democratic party is in the very crisis
of its life. 1t must act now or never.
New York Post.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26
A Belated Newspaper.

A curious instance of delay in deliver
ing a newspaper by post has been
brought to light at the general postofice.
Some alterations are being made in the
newspaper department, and on the re-
moval of an iron girder which had sup
ported the roof a few papers blackened
with age were discovered. One was a
a copy of the Wakefield Journal for
Aug. II, 1866. 1t was addressed to
Buckingham Road, De Beauvoir Town,
and as it was posted long before the
halfpenny stamp was invented it bore
the old red penny stamp. The paper
had evidently reached London Gin course
of post" and by some unexplained
chance had got into the hiding place
where it had lain all these years. 1t has
now been sent for delivery, but whether
the addressee has been found after the
long interval does not appear. Perhaps
he or she, like the paper itself, has in the
meantime died; at any rate, the Wake
field Journal has no place in recent
press rectories.-Blackbu burn Qngland)
Times.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26
A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
Comedian Joseph jefferson Declined a
Unique Money Making Proposition.

Comedian Joseph jefferson Declined a
Unique Money Making Proposition.
Several weeks ago when Mr.. Jefferson
was playing Rip Van Wrinkle at the
Walnut Street theater he found among
his mail one mornings letter from q fur
niture man. The epistle, which was
written on letter head adorned with n
large cut of u folding bed ''closed" and
"opened," read as follows:
Mr.. jefferson:
SIR--I saw you play Rip Van Wrinkle last
night, and l have u proposition to make
to you. When the curtain goes up on the
third act, and you rise all stiff and sore
after your long sleep, you might say a few
words something like this: "Oh, how stiff |
ami If l had only slept last night on one of
Blanks patent folding beds, warranted safe
durable and comfortable, how much better
would feel this morning!' ] think it would
bring down the house. Now, am willing to
pay you well for this, Of course. Let me know
what you think of it.
The owner of Blanks folding bed has
not yet heard from Mr.. Jefferson.-Phil-
adelphia Record.