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The record-union., 1896-11-20
FAILURES AT SIOUX CITY.
Two Banks and Wholesale and Re-
tail Crockery House.

SIOUX CITY Ua.), Nov. 19.-The
First National Bank of Sioux City
closed its doors to-day. The crash
forced to the wall the Sioux City Saw
ings Bank and caused the assignment
late this evening of ]. X. Prugh.
wholesale and retail dealer in crock
cry.
The First National Bank is an old in
stitution, and although it was known
for some time TO be hard pressed. much
surprise was expressed at the failure
No statement of the banks condition
has been given out. The officers of the
bank declare it is perfectly solvent.
and that dollar for dollar will be paid
creditors. The failure was caused by
recent heavy withdrawals and inability
to realize on assets.
On application of Charles Breun. F.
3. Goss was this afternoon appointed
receiver of the Sioux City Savings
Bank. The officers are working on a
statement, and nothing definite can be
learned concerning the assets and LA
bilties until ii is finished. The officers
declare, however, that all creditors will
be paid in fun. The deposits We're to-
night roughly estimated at 100000.
]. X Prugh. wholesale and retail
crockery, assets said to aggregate S41,-
900, and his liabilities put at $4,000.
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PENNSYLVANIA SENSATION.
A Young Lady Who Had Been Ruined
Murders Her Child.

UNlONTOWN (Pa), Nov 19.-The
disclosures attending the arrest of Rev.
Fitzgerald. Miss Eniline Freeman. her
father, William Freeman, and her
brother, Dawson Freeman, all we'll
known residents of MaSontown. has
caused great sensation in Fayette
County. Miss Freeman was arrested
yesterday and is in Jail charged with
numbering a child to which she recent
ly gave birth. Rev. Fitzgerald is un-
der heavy bail for adultery, and the
girls father and brother are charged
with conspiracy to conceal the muir
der.
The matter was brought to public no.
tice by DR.. Edmund O. Clough. who
was called to attend the girl Erniline
Freeman confessed to the physician
that she had murdered the child, and
that Rev. Fitzgerald was the cause of
all her trouble.
The Rev. Fitzgerald came from Vir-
ginia year ago, since which time he
has been preaching in the Reformed
Brethren Church and boarding in the
Freeman family. Miss Freeman is %
years old and pleasing in appearance
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LEFT WORTHLESS PAPER.
A Banker Who Squandered Deposi.
tors Money and Decamped.

BOSTON, Nov. 19.-The Herald s.
Paramount On. H) special says: The
banker John l.. Farwell of the Sulli-
van County Institution for Savings,
now in Europe, has left 81 900, 900 of
largely deprecated or worthless paper
behind him. Mr.. Farwell handled mon
ey for large number of depositors
and investors, and the cash, it is said,
was sunk in worthless investments in
Western land and stock speculation.
The bank was closed recently by the
commissioners.
Since Mr.. Farwell's departure for Eu-
rope many cases have been found where
he loaned money on Government lands
pre-empted by men who skipped away
before the first interest was due. He
dealt through a Nebraska banker,
whose guarantees on mortgages he ac-
cepted as sufficient.
The Bank Commissioners have found
that this banker" would guarantee
anything from a sandbank to a bunch
of alfalfa that he could get a mortgage
Sullivan County depositors hold hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth of
his worthless securities. 1t is thought
Farwen viii never be seen in Fairmount
again.
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THATCHER EXPELLED.
The Senatorial Candidate No Longer
an Apostle of the normon Church.

SALT LAKE (Utah), Nov. 19-Hon
Moses Thatcher, candidate for the
United States Senate who incurred the
dlSpleasure of the high officials of the
Mormon Church for running for a
public office without their permission,
was tried to-day by the church digni-
taries for INSTRUMENTATION and refusing
to harken to the voice of the church
authorities.
Mr.. Thatcher was not present and ig-
nored the whole proceedings, and the
ten apostles who were his judges unani-
mousiy decided that Thatcher be sew
cred from the church council of the
twelve apostles, and that he be de-
prived of his apostleship and other Of
fees in the priesthood and a public
notice to that effect was published this
afternoon in the 'Deseret News the
official organ Of the church.
The News and the church officials
keep up their opposition to the election
of Thatcher to the Senate on the ground
that his candidacy is based on his op-
position to the church. and that his
election would be a reward for OPP
posing the church in exercising author
ity over it's members, which in the eyes
of the Mormon Church dignitaries is a
heinous offense
The record-union., 1896-11-20
Corroborate the Reports of the Com
plete Blockade
The First California rlail Since Sat-
urday Received at Seattle Yester-
day, Having Been Transported by
Steamship From TacOma-Regular
Trains on the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific Abandoned West
of Helena, rlOntana.

SEATTLE (Wash.), Nov. 19-The sit
uation on the Great Northern road has
not been overdrawn in the least Rail-
road men and others who have trav-
eled over the flooded regions corroborate
in every particular the reports of the
complete blockade on that road. One
of the most prominent business men of
this city, who declines to have his name
used for obvious reasons, said he was
Informed at Index that the Great
Northern's passenger train No. 5, due
here last Friday morning, was tied up
near Wellington: that firSt-claas passen-
gers were being supplied with half-ra-
tions from the dining car, while second
class passengers procured food from
Wellington. Mr.. Mccarthy, a merchant
of Sultan City, says the passenger train
was still there yesterday morning, and
that the food for passengers was OBJ
tained from nearby towns AS to the
damage to Great Northern property
Edwin Hall Warner, reputable en-
sineer, who has been several days get
Ting out of the flooded district, tonight
confirms the reports.
Two days California mail. the first
since Saturday, was received to-day via
the steamship Kingston from Tacoma
The railroads are still badly crippled by
the floods. 1t will probably be several
days before connection can be made
from Seattle with the Northern Pa
ciflc main line to Puyallup
The Great Northern announces that If
will have its coast line in operation to-
morrow or the day after, and that an
effort will probably be made Sunday to
resume passenger traffic over it's main
line East. The passengers who were
hemmed in for SO long on the Great
Northern between wellington and Mad
ison, it is stated, have been rescued. and
are now making their way back 10 Spo-
kane and on to Seattle over the North
ern Pacific via Tacoma.
Lumber men of this CITY saw that
~ per cent. of the shingle bolts cut in
Northwestern Washington were swept
down the various rivers and ont to sea
and that from three to five million feet
OF 1ogs were driven through the booans
and lost the same way
PASSENGERS TRANSFERRED.
SPOKANE (Wash), Nov. 19-Pas-
sengers on the stalled Great Northern
train We're brought to this city and
transferred to other roads. They signed
statement that their being put on
short rations lis untrue.
TRAINS ABANDONED.
HELENA (Mont), Nov. 19.-Both the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
Railroads abandoned their regular
trains west of Helena this morning. The
former road is completely paralyzed, and
the Northern Pacific is only able osrun
an occasional special. The trouble is
due TO landslides on the Great Northern
in the Cascade Mountains. and inunda-
t1on of four miles of track on the
Northern Pacific.
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BOB FITZSIMMCNS
Says His Fight With Corbett Must be
to Finish.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19.-Re-
sarding Jimmy Colve's offer in behalf
of New York club, which he declines
TO name, of a purse of $4,000 for
tWenty-round match between Corbett
and Fftzsfmmons, the Cornishnnan
made this definite statement this Ctcr-
noon:
There is no use of these people max
ing offers for a limited go between
Corbett and myself, for l have stated
and Corbett has agreed to it. that when
we meet it must be finish fight ror the
championship, and such a contest can
not be brought off il New York
have received. and / presume Corbert
mas also, assurances from Dan Stuart
that within week he will be ready TO
make definite proposition for a match
Tor better purse than anybody else
can offer, and until l hear from him
snail not consider any offer. If he
fails to carry out his CONTEMPLATED
plans l will accept the best offer made
for match with Corbett. but 7 am
confident Stuart will be able to fulfll
his promises
The record-union., 1896-11-20

Denver, and had a large fortune in
real estate and mining property in ad-
dition at Cripple Creek and Central
City He leaves a widow and three
children, two boys, 13 and 10 years old,
respectively, and a married daughter,
all of whom reside in Denver
Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon per-
formed an autopsy on the body to-
night. He found fatty degeneration of
the heart sufficient, he said to produce
death. There was slight gastritis in
the stomach, which might have been
due to alcohol or some irritant poison.
To settle the question definitely, the con-
tents of the stomach will be analyZed.
There was also found congestion of the
brain, which might have been caused
by alcohol. A very slight confusion
under the scalp back of the right ear
and a slight hemorrhage of the right
kidney were probably caused by fall
ing to the ground They were not, the
doctor said, the result of an assault.
Up to a late hour tonight no arrests
had been made. When asked whether
they had any clews which would lead
to the detection of a possible criminal,
the police said although they had made
careful inquiry, they had found no
one who had seen or heard of Mr. Ar
buckle before he was found in an un
conscious condition in vacant lot.
WIFE OF THE DECEASED.
OMAHA, Nov 19.-Mrs. Frank Ar
buckle, whose husband was found in
a dying condition in New York this
morning, was a passenger on the Union
Pacific train that passed through this
city at 4:45 o'clock this afternoon. She
said that she had received the news of
! the death of her husband at IL o'clock
| in the morning, a telegram having been
| sent to her on the train by friends in
| Denver.
| Mrs. Arbuckle said that she would
| continue on her way East, but that
| there had been no arrangements for
the funeral. nor had she given the sub
| ject any thought as yet She said that
her husband and Mr.. Fiegel had both
| urged her to come to New York and
| spend some time there visiting, and this
| she had intended to do when she left
| Denver yesterday, but she doubted if
she would remain in New York but a
few days. The interment will probably
be in Denver.
Mr.. Arbuckle, his wife said, was in
the best of health when she last heard
| from him. The particulars of his
death she CLEANED from the United
| Associated Presses dispatches. He has
| visited New York several times a year,
| she said, and usually stopped at the
| Fifth h-avenue Hotel, but this time he
stopped with his friend, Mr.. Fiegel.
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DUELING IN THE GERMAN ARMY
Debate on the Question Resumed in
the ReiChstag.

BERLIN, Nov. 19.-The debate on the
Radical motion in regard to the prac-
tice of duelling in the army and the
case of Lieutenant Baron Won Bruse-
w"itz who recently murdered Herr Sieb-
mann in a cafe in Carlsruhe, was re-
sumed In the Reichstag to-day.
Herr Rickett said he was not dis
a lawyer, defended the procedure of the
military courts, which he admitted
might be amended. He was not pre-
JUDGED in favor of it, but the procedure
gave every different affair trial. Herr
Heller denied the statement made on
Tuesday by Herr Bebel, that the Public
Prosecutor almost always presided over
military courts.
eHrr Rfckett said he was not dis
posed to hold the army or the army
system responsible for the act Of Lieu
tenant Won BrusewitZ.
Egen Reichlin- Meldegg, a Bavarian
army officer and Deputy, protested
against the attempt of the Radicals to
compare the Bavarian military institu-
tons with those of Prussia, in order to
make the latter appear miserable. The
German army, he said, ought to be one,
and it was desirable that the same sys-
tenn of procedure should prevail every
where.
Herr LenZman, RicEterite Radical,
said that the German people had waited
long enough for reforms and they must
now press them without delay He de-
plored the fact that the speech of Cen
eral Won Gossler, Minister Of War, had
been such a lamentable failure.
Oaughter) He gave an instance of the
tendency of a military education in the
story of a recent recruit, Who, upon
being asked who were the internal foe Of
Germany, replied civilians"
Herr Lenzman concluded by saying
that the Government must beware. If
reforms are longer withheld the nation
might have to resort to a volksmothwenr
Ga peoples Self-defense action) Some
one of the Government benches called
out: Revolution, whereupon Herr
Lenzman said: Il want to avoid a for
eign word, but If you like it I will call it
revolution tremendous cheerin q
from the members of the left)
General Won Gossler, Minister of War.
made a feebly reply, which was only
partly heard, and was greeted by gibes.
laughter, etc, in which he said: "If
you continue your attitude against the
army beware; if the army is now silent
ITS Irritation is increasing
Count Won Mirback followed DR..
Schonstedt in a fierce attack upon Herr.
Lenzman, for having, he alleged, gone
beyond the latitude of speakers in the
house, and threatening the country with
revolution.
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HANGED HIMSELF
Sickness Leads a Man to Take His
Own ife

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19.-Wheu
Josiah G. Johnson of the firm of r G.
johnson & Sons. wholesale butchers at
South San Francisco, arose this morning
and went into the stable in the rear of
his residenc, "a Oak Grove ayenue he
was startled to find his nephew. Will
lam II. Johnson, hanging from a beam
with rope around his neck. A casual
glance told him that the man was dead
he having been dead several hours. The
Margue was telephoned and Deputy
Coroners John O'Brien and Thomas
Smith cut down and removed the re-
mains
Mr.. Johnson was at a loss to know
why his nephew committed suicide. The
only reason he could give was that tho
deceased was suffering from stomach
troubles for about three years,
The dead man always appeared to be
in the best of spirits and worked for nis,
uncle at his establishment at South San
Francisco. He was a native of New
Hampshire, Al years of age, and unmar-
RED.
The record-union., 1896-11-20
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
The Railroad TIagnate Improving in
Health Every Day.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.--Chauncey N.
Depew to-day gave out the following
statement:
Cornelius Vanderbilt is improving
every day in health. He is not attending
to the practical details of the vast busi-
ness of the railroad with which he is
identified, and will not until he fully re-
covers. He is in touch with the busi-
ness, however, and has full knowledge of
all important matters concerned with
1t as they arise There is the most cor
dial relations between the brothers Cor
nelius and William K. Vanderbilt. and
William X. will continue to manage the
business until his brother has fully re-
covered
The record-union., 1896-11-20
RIFLES FOR THE ARMY.
A Big Order to be Placed With the
Winchester Arms Company.

NEW HAVEN Comm, Nov. 10
The Register this afternoon prints a
story that the Government before
noon Tomorrow will place an order
with the Winchester Arms Company for
100000 rifles of the Lee pattern, the
standard small arms of the American
army. This statement is made on the
authority of a statement by a CONNER
cial agent who had it from a member of
the Winchester Arms Company As
usual, the Winchester Company will
not talk. According to this agent, the
contract is due to the relations between
the United States and Spain. and de-
sire on the part of the United States to
be prepared for an emergency.
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TRAVELLING SALESMAN'S LOSS.
Robbed of Valise Containing $4,000
Worth of Watches.

COLUMBUS (O), Nov. 19-M. Kip
part travelling salesman for Hipp.
Didisheim & Co., S3 Nassau street, New
York, was robbed at the Union Passen-
ger Station here this evening of a valse
containing $1,000 worth of gold watches.
KIippart had boarded a Big Four train
for Cincinnati. carrying two satchels.
which he placed in the seat beside him.
Seeing an acquaintance outside, he left
the car for a moment, and when he
came back the valise With the valuable
contents was gone. Though the car was
full of people, no one could give the
slightest clue to the robber
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NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Frank p. Ar
buckle of Denver, Chairman of the
State Democratic Committee of Colo
rado, Receiver of Public Moneys OF
that State and business man of great
wealth, was found unconscious in Up
per Eighth avenue, near One Hundred
and F'ifty-third street, this morning by
the police, and died shortly after being
removed to a nearby station house.
There We're no marks of violence on
the body, but there was a distinct smell
OF liquor about it, and the detectives
were sent out at once to make an IN
VeStigation. They went to Captain
Sauer's Atlantic Casino, at One Hun
dred and Fifty-fifth street. and there
learned that a man answering the de-
scription of the dead man in every par
ticular had been in the Casino between
10 and IL o'clock last night. Charles
HorStman, the bartender, said that the
man then had a handsome watch and
chain. He remained in the Casino for
half an hour, and while there bought
several drinks and showed a large roll
of bills.
OF his movements after that the DO
lice have been able to learn nothing
They examined the ground where he
was found, but not trace of Strug-
gle was indicated. There was no watch
on the body when it was searched at
the station house, and but for the state
ment of the bartender the police have
no evidence that would point to rob-
berry or assault.
The neighborhood where the dying
man was found has an unsavory repu-
tation, and just Whereabouts there are
a number of Raines law hotels fire.
quented by boatman and women OF
low character. Nearly every week the
police receive a report of some robbery
or Knockout.
Fred Feige1, editor of the "Tan1many
Times identified the dead man as
Frank P. Arbuckle, a millionaire mine
owner and politician of Denver.
Mr.. Arbuckle had been in this city
for one week, and during that time had
been a guest of Mr.. Feigelat his resi-
dence, No. 236 West Thirty-ninth street.
Mr.. Arbuckle when last seen by any of
his friends was in Fourteenth street,
near Tammany Hall, at O'Clock yes
terday afternoon. He was with Mr.
Feigel, and was IN excellent health and
spirits. After few moments CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Feigel he went away,
saying: I'll see you at q o'clock at the
house" He did not go to the house,
however, and was not heard of until
Mr.. Feigel identified his body at the
station-house a few minutes after 10
O'Clock this morning. How and why
he went to Upper Eighth avenue is a
mystery, and the police as well as his
friends are at a loss to account for it.
Mr.. Arbuckle was President Of the
Highlands Water Company and the
Highlands Electric Light Company of
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BOB HAYES KILLED.
The Notorious Bandit Shot by a
Sheriff IS Posse in Arizona.

TUCSON, Nov. 19-News has
reached here of desperate fight near
the Chihuahua line.
For some days past Marshal Hall and
a determined posse have been in hot
pursuit Of Black Jack and his gang.
Several times the officers of the law
were quite close to the desperadons, but
never near enough to engage them.
Finally, however, they caught them
in position where they had to fight
The Sheriff's posse opened fire first At
the first fire the notorious Bob Hayes
was killed.
Black Jack himself was badly wound
ed. Despite his severe wounds, the
noted bandit escaped.
None of the posse were injured. They
are still in hot pursuit of Black Jack.
The record-union., 1896-11-20
Duffy's Pure
Malt Whisky.

Which never fails to give strength
run down. Nothing so quickly over
comes exhaustion and debility. Moth
ing compares with it for stirring up
the sluggish blood and building up the
health. For curing or preventing
coughs, colds, the grip and pneumonia
it is absolutely unequaled.
All grocers and druggists keep it.
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SUICIDE AT LOS ANGELES.
A Woman Ends Her Life Because Her
Lover Was Dead.

Los ANGELES, Nov 19-'I linked
my fate in life with the man l loved, I
link it in death with him. Bury me
with my darling if you can. You will
find $50 in the Broadway Bank to
bury me. l don't owe anyone. Good-by,
and may God forgive Tom and l." was
the message penned by Fannie Nc
Bride last night. Then she secured a
room at the Hotel Broadway, swal
lowed a dose Of morphine, and went to
bed. Her lifeless body was discov-
cred to-day.
The woman claimed to be the wife of
Thomas S. Wylie, late of Oakland, who
committed suicide here September Both
because his wife, whom he had desert
ed to elope with the Mcbride woman
had followed him to Los Angeles and
threatened to make trouble.
The record-union., 1896-11-20

er 3O,242. Craig 30,333, Fowler 30.317.
Merritt 30,253, Webster 30.3S1. Mckay
3O,O36. Republican Electors-Scott
81. lO6, Mckinley 81, ,041, Francis 30,-
SIG, Walling 30.SS4, Powell 3O.910.
Spear 0,S95. Spreckels 81 1885. Cooper
o0,S3o, Flint 30,623. For Congress.
Fourth District = Mcguire 1901,
O'Brien 1O,94O. Fifth District-Kelly
6,12S. Kinne 5,133, Loud 12,449
For the sixth or woman's suffrage
amendment, 1860: against, 36.741
Martin, the Democratic Elector, beat
Flint in this city. Scott received the
highest vote of the Republican Electors,
receiving 81. Jog, as against 30,6i9 for
Martin, the highest Democratic Elector.
The record-union., 1896-11-20
Do You Realize?

That clothing insures you comfort by
affording protection from the heat or
cold?
That books and newspapers insure
you against ignorance?
That a pure malt stimulant taken
regularly. viii insure your health, and
keep you toned up?
That to insure getting the purest and
best of all matt preparations, you
should obtain
The record-union., 1896-11-20
Death of Pioneer Citizen of Tracey

TRACY, Nov. 19.-This morning at l
O'Clock Maurice Byrnes died here. sur
rounded by his family and friends Mr.
Byrnes was "a pioneer citizen of this
place, a wealthy property owner and
for a number of years had been Con-
stable. Mr.. Byrnes was a native Ire
land, aged o6, and leaves a widow and
two SONS to mourn his death.
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Sugar From Cuba.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19.-The
shipments of sugar from Cienfugos.
Cuba, will again be resumed after a
long suspension. The first vessel for
more than a year to bring sugar from
Cuba was chartered here Yesterday
The vessel is the schooner Belle Woos-
ter, which will take out a full cargo of
coal from Philadelphia, returning with
sugar
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Mrs. Merritt's Body Cremated.

LONDON, Nov. 19.-Thc body of Mrs
Alma Merritt, wife of George W. Mer-
ritt of New York. who committed sui
eide in the Hotel Cecil Saturday night
while temporarily insane, was taken last
night to st. Martins Church. where fu-
neral services were held, and to-day it
was cremated at Woking. Mr.. Merritt
has received a large number of letters
of sympathy.
The record-union., 1896-11-20
Roe Murder Case.

NAPA, Nov. 19.-Dstrict Attorney
Bell consumed the greater portion of the
day in summing up the evidence for the
prosecution in the Roe murder case. He
was followed by John T. York for the
defense, his associate, Mr.. Beerstecher.
consuming the remainder of the session
Mr.. Gesford viii close for the prosecu-
ton in the morning, when the case viii
go to the jury.
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RACING AT OAKLAND.
Doubtful, Tea Rose, Earl Cochran.
Geyser and Braw Scot Winners,

OAKLAND, Nov. 19.-Weather damp
and track muddy. Six furlongs, Doubt
full won, Elmer +. second, Boraas third.
Time-1:16A.
Six furlongs, Tea Rose won, Fortu-
nate second, Draught third Time
Six furlongs, selling, Earl Cochran
won, Cadenza second, Last Chance
third Time-1:17
Six furlongs, Geyser won, Dafargilla
second, Peril third. Time-1:16.
Seven furlongs, Draw Scot won. Navv
Blue second, Encino third. Time-1 :3Oa,