Fort Wayne Sunday Gazette (Newspaper) - September 23, 1883, Fort Wayne, Indiana VOL 37 SEPTEMBER 23 1883 PRICE 5 CTS SPORTING Last Day of the Fait Meeting of the Latonia Jockey Clubs at A Large Attendance and a Fine Day's Sport Sports Surprised Close and Exciting Games of test Between Female Nines at York Serious Charges Against the Managers of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home Four Men Instantly Killed in a sylvania Elected of the Passenger Boat Jem City at St Vessel a Complete Wreck Vigor Manifested in the Iowa Gubernatorial SPORTS Day of tic Jockey Club ot Bue Ball CINCINNATI September 22 A large attend fast track and the defeat of the favorites were the tures of the last day of the Latonia jockey club's fall meeting at ton Tbe first race purse of which to second the first two-year-old stake winners to carry twelve pounds extra other winners seven pounds extra Those having run second In a stake of the value of to carry four pounds extra three-fourths mile The starters were Louisville Budget and Burr Oak The race was a prao tical for Louisville et second Burr Oak beaten off Time French pools paid 21.90 Second of which to second for horses that have not started and have not won during the meeting those having received second money to carry five pounds ex- tra one and miles starters were Carlisle Olivette Wild Kansas Monarch and vant The racM waa a great surprise to the knowing ones Levant ed off with the by Wild Kansas Monarch Carlisle and the others trailing Levant held the lead all the way to the quarter stretch where Murphy brought Monarch up and a race ensued hut Levant finished first bv a half length arch second third Time French pools In the third race Falsetto for three-year olds the starters were Violator Obermeyer Chatter and McGinty Violator went with the track the others bunched at his heels Violator held the pole to the and half post where he rendered it to Aztec won ly by three lengths Obermeyer came in with a rush for second place Violator fell back to third Chatter fourth McGinty Time 1 In the fourth H made all the winning by two lengths Wallflower second third Time Jocose was distanced Second began tailing while the horses were at the post won under a drive Effie H second Wall third Time Third horses ran on even terms until seventy yards from the wire when H drew away and won by half a length Time BASE BALL NEW YORK teen women at- tired attempted to play a game of base ball at tha Manhattan athletic club's grounds Tne contest was a mere and resulted 52 Blondes 22 BOSTON September 18 4 PROVIDENCE dence 11 10 PHILADELPHIA trolts 6 G game was called after the 8th inning on account September bus 1 7 ST Louis September 6 St Louis 9 CINCINNATI September 5 0 Game called after the 5th on account of rain LOUISVILLE 4 Eclipse 5 Eleven innings were played NEW YORK September York 3 Chicago 6 RING Preferred of a MILWAUKEE September Sentinel will publish to-morrow morning an account of the visit of the board of managers of tbe homes at the Milwaukee branch on Friday last giving in detail tbe ments of the inspectors while on the ground and showing up the of the inspector This will be followed by charges to the effect that the home ia run by a ring ing of the quarter geant and engineer It will be shown that the manager is perfectly helpless from paralysis and unable to see or hear except with the greatest difficulty That the are es allowed to reach him with com- plaints for fear the excitement may kill him and that Hall ia tyrannical in the of punishment foi minor offences That the surgeon of the homo is incompetent and never has performed an operation on an in- mate since his appointment though men were obliged to have surgical operations performed by city physicians That the farm on the home grounds has gone to ruin because of inefficient management and will also give room to special complaints by the inmates of tbe pital who have been forced to make beds and clean even at the point of death The officers selves deny everything in toto sel forth on these subjects Ko Frosts Reported September frost in this section last night September ness prevented frost in this vicinity last night and the thermometer ranged in the neighborhood of fifty degrees At the railroad offices it is said there was frost Council Blutts di- vision of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad but the extent of damage is not known The nal service reports give no indication of frosts in this state the wind having been southerly the latter part of the night It is now blowing off the lake and the air is now with prospects of a day The markets opened the lowest yesterday and commission men place no confidence in the frost reports It is thought possible tbe unsettled weather may have some fect on the markets as the frost will serve to keep them stilt an hour after the opening wheat hail gained of a cent Specials to brokers and to the evening papers say there was no frost in the state A Sensible move GALVESTON Texas September N Johnson attorney and J B Bryan andW K Reed clergymen all colored have after a conference with Vice-president Waldo of the Houston A Texas Central railroad is sued a card to the colored people ol Texas stating that all suits against the Central road on account of the denial of equal accommodations tc negroes are withdrawn Further suits are discouraged The company will put on separate exclusive ana equal accommodations for colored patrons within three months The card ex- pressly denies that the suits were brought to force social admixture and announces that the negroes do not desire to ride in the same car with the whites An appeal is made to the colored people to abstain from acts of violence and from threats Other roads It is said will shortly follow suit ST September 2 o'clock this morning the handsome passenger steamer Gem City which has been in winter quarters two weeks was burned to the edge The boat lay at the foot ot Dorcas street and the flames were seen some time before an alarm was turned on The fire spread too quickly for the depart ment to be of any service and less than three quarters of an hour from the time the Ore started the boat was destroyed only the hull which is of iron and the machinery remaining The Gem City was built two years and plied between St Louis and St Paul It was the fastest boat on upper rivers and belonged to the St Louis St Paul Packet company Commodore Davidson estimates the loss at Two of the company's barges were also burned Insured for almost full value Goal nine Horror Pa September 22 A terrible accident happened at the Woodward shaft of the Delaware Lackawanna Western coal com- pany at Kingston to-day in a shaft 500 feet deep which has tw enty feet of water at the bottom George Thomas J Davis Edward Phillips and Isaac Erevan were working on a platform timbering the shaft sixty feet from the bottom when a piece of timber half a ton fell on the platform while being lowered Et gave way and the four men were precipitated to the bottom falling into the water and were drowned Phil Parry und Lewis I Jones were saved by hanging to a beam and ing for help The men were all ried except Davis and have large in destitute circumstances An Important Mult LINCOLN 111 September suit was heard before Judge Epler in the circuit court this ing It was that of Mrs James dington vs James for interest on the sum of from 1875 to the present year In 1875 then a widower worth married the plaintiff then a comely widow not however before contracting to award her the interest on the amount stated Last summer they separated and she sues under he contract The defendant demurs o the on the ground that she was receive the interest after hia death The case excites considerable criticism and attracted a large attendance The court awarded the defendant al time to make further demurrers and amendments to the original Tracing the BRIDGEPORT September 22 At be inquest in tbo Stratford Joee Clark Amber case Professor White of Yale college who made a microscopic examination of Lewis carriage robe testified that he found a small spot of blood The corpuscles might be those ot human blood but certainly not of cattle horses sheep or swine but might be dog or rabbit He also examined a shirt belonging to Lewis on the bosom of which was a stain of blood mixed with saliva He also found blood on the stick found in barn He took back to New Haven the cushion belonging Lewis carriage for examination The testimony to-day points strongly to Lewis as the murderer but no arrests have bten made DANGEROUS SPORT A Grand Day at LOUISVILLE September the exposition the attendance to-day was between and this being the largest attendance since the ing A was to-night sent to Governor Butler of Massachusetts asking him to meet Governor Bole of Tennesee at the exposition on Octo- ber 4 or to come here on governor's day October 10 when the nors of several states will be present Invitations have been sent to all the governors to meet here then The governor of Arkansas and the Arkansas press will be here Septem her 26 The Texas press comes tember 27 The indications are that when the jockey club meeting begins next week there will be more people in Louisville than ever here before at one time The Seventh New York regiment band closed its engagement at the exposition to-night and more's comes Monday or the next fifty days Schaeffer Willing to Flay Jack Frost CHICAGO September says when Slosson issued the challenge to play him for the bil Hard championship at the balk line game it Was known that he fer had a game on with in Paris is November If Slosson would issue a challenge in the regular way after that matter he would accept Schaeffer leaves New York for Paris October 10 Reports gathered by the Associated Press last night throughout the great cornfield of the west shows that the anticipated general frost waa not lized and it had a quieting effect on change this afternoon and trading opened well and little change in prices of any cereal from close except corn which was a half cent lower in consequence Patriot Gone Dead NEW YOKK September nard Gallagher brother Dr lagher now under sentence for life in England for having been concerned in certain dynamite to-day in the Brooklyn court sent to the briate asylum for six months nard was arrested with his brother in Glasgow but secured his release there being no evidence against him He has fallen into drinking habits since his return to this country The death is announced at Summit of Rev Dr P Hatfield late of the Presbyterian General Assembly murdered and Plundered ST Louis September from Indian Territory say that four men named Saddler Tipton and two brothers named Gray from the ity of Paris Texas camped on Big Creek some time for the purpose of hunting and fishing Last day their camp was raided by a party claiming to be a posse ing for horse thieves and their render was demanded This was re- fused and a fight ensued in which one of the Grays and Saddler were killed The other Gray and Tipton escaped then plundered the camp taking away all the able effects or Win A Norton NEW HAVEN September liam A Norton senior prosessor at Sheffield scientific school died last night aged seventy-three He was a graduate of West Point in 1827 and after graduation served in the Black Hawk war He was connected with the Delaware College of Newark Delaware from 1839 to 1850 and Crown University from 1850 to 1832 He then entered Sheffield Scientific school He was the writer of works of wide reputation sailor Robbed and Killed CLEVELAND September Bruce a attacked James Ryan a sailor iu street at Elyria ate last night presumedly to rob liim of drawn during the day Ryan's dead body was found early this morning with an ugly gash in tlie neck but uo money waa found bis person Bruce was arrested and ad- nits the murder but pleads ense No money was found on his Lynched WILMINGTON N C A dispatch to the Star reports the by lynchers in Richmond Friday of a negro named Archie Johnson for an attempt to outrage a white giri six years of age the daughter of a highly respected of that county Johnson was eft hanging on a tree with a placard to his breast bearing the words Our wives and daughters must be Killed CINCINNATI September 22 A Lexington Kentucky special says that lost night Col R 8 ft trader a well-known horseman shot and killed Bradford Foster a employe Strader was told thai sier had turned a stallion in with a valuable filley He gota shotgun and went to the stable Foster ran but flred at Strader He returned and while advancing on Strader the latter twice killing Foster jave himself up and was admitted to Fatal Accident a Sham Battle at the Iowa State Re- Union Interesting Dispatch from Professor Greeley Re- ported Dead Admiral Declines to Accept Complete Control in Rumored Revolt in the Palace at kin Discredited in Paris Election of Officers of the National liberal of Dr Enthusiastic Reception of Union ans by the Citizens of Virginia Between Men Once ot Hound Maimed DAVENPORT Iowa September The great reunion has closed after a three days meeting It was the est ever held in Iowa with the ex- ception of the state reunion in 1870 at which all the expenses were de- frayed from the state treasury The attendance Friday was the largest of the three the number of veterans be- ing increased to and of other visitors to not less than In the morning the annual meeting of the Eastern Iowa Veterans association waa held and the following officers were elected for the coming General W S Roberton colonel T C of Cedar tenant colonel J B Morgan of P S Bannister of Clinton second major J M Jackson county adjutant J M of Jones county Addresses were then delivered bv General ertson Colonel Hinton Milo Smith and others and was chosen M pbW of holding reunion In the afternoon the great was the cipal attraction of most of the occurred at the fair ground A fort had been constructed de- fended by five hundred men resenting the confederate forces and was attacked by eight hundred the federal side Two guns were mounted iu the fort and two by the side while the attacking party had three The firing about ten minutes when Peter Wiehl of the Grand Mound Clinton county stepped iu front of an exploding gun and was blown clear over the fort to the ground outside His right arm was blown off his right eye ed and part of his face and chest mangled and torn He was ately taken to the the hospital where his arm was amputated and his other wounds dressed as far as possible It is thought that his injuries are fatal though there is a slight that he may live He is fifty years of age was a soldier in the late war and an artilleryman of ence The battle waa continued for some time longer when the fort After the the soldiers returned to their tents where they broke camp and marched through the streets to the special train waiting for them Twenty thousand persons the battle No other dent except that to Wiehl occurred during the reunion Sews WASHINGTON September president of the New Orleans National bank which eral Gresham's recent order in tion to lottery company's mail matter was directed had an interview with the of the treasury on the subject Secretary said the question of the delivery of mail ter to the bank was one of which he bad no direct control that being uu der the jurisdiction of the department The only question be said which he Folger had to decide was whether the action of the bank in becoming the agent of the lottery company to receive its mail was er authority for an investigation by the treasury department The Twenty-first infantry stationed at Vancouver's will remain there and not exchange posts with the Tenth infantry stationed on the lakes The expense of the transfer is too great to justify the proposed Lieutenant-Colonel A W Evans was to day placed oil the retired list of having been found by the returning board incapacitated for active service The retirement the last vacancy which in tho four hundred retired list Condition of treasury coin and bullion silver dollars and bullion tional silver coin United notes Totol Certificates gold silver currency Explanation mf the Front Bulletin CHICAGO September lowing explanation in regard to a wmewhat sensational signal bulletin pouted on the board Friday morning predicting frosts in the states north of Tennessee that night and which caused a decided ia corn reaches this city from ington There were more or less undefined indications of frost in the territory of Montana and the signal officer not desiring to create a panic or ance of values appended a foot note to the usual bulletin addressed as a private message to the observer at Chicago and several other important cities not to give too wide publicity to the as they appeared by the re- ports By mistake tue bulletin itself was not given out the private note to the observer which did all the mischief was posted on change The failure of the fulfillment of the prediction was the topic of tion among members on the board day who were not aware of the ex- planation national liberal MILWAUKEE September National Liberal League passed the forenoon in discussing whether or uot they should enter politics No ion was reached It was decided however to discuss and adopt a form in support of the special com- action with the ing that if they do enter politics they will go in on such platform which may now be adopted The afternoon session was passed in discussing the sections of the platform reported but the report as a whole was not adopted A special business meeting will be adopted to-morrow The election of officers P B Wakeman of New York dent T C of New York Courtland Palmer of New York treasurer T B Wakeman T C Leland Courtland Palmer of New York E A Stephens of Chicago Mrs H Lake of Rochester New York board of directors E A was chosen chairman of the ex- committee The vice dent will be elected to-morrow A Man MINNEAPOLIS Minn September buyer of wheat with transit appeared on the floor of tho chamber of commerce to buy wheat with sit of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul road He was bidding Millers association prices and taking the transit with it Rumor baa it that he is simply an agent of the road and that he brought with him fabulous sums to back his purchases with He denies being an agent of the road or anybody else but aays he is running a little quiet business of his own The character of his chases taken in connection with the fact that he refuses transit of any as evidence that the rumor is correct and that ho is protecting the interests of the road in its fight with the Millers tion The Iowa Campaign CHICAGO September 22 campaign in Iowa is be- ing conducted with unusual vigor this fall The issues outlined are tion and a protective tarillon the side of the Republicans aud tariff for revenue ou the side of the Democrats They are calling some of their strongest men into the fight Ben Harrison bus been on the stump for the Republicans and Governor Hendricka for the and Congressman William Sprague of Illinois is iu the city to-day on his way to that where he will begin on Monday aeries of speeches ing till the time of election September 22 dent Arthur spent tho afternoon ing and this evening ne dined with Mrs Parian Stevens To-morrow he will dine with Colonel N M with The town and o club was en a reception by Colonel W A Roebling engineer of the Brooklyn bridge Mrs and several bundred others were present lire Julia Ward Howe read a poem and Professor Raphael read a paper on his recent northern Pacific survey Enthusiastically Received Va September 218 Union rans who served in valley in 1864 under General dan New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island and arrived hare They were met twenty-five miles north of this alace by a delegation of soldiers and citizens and on arriving at the depot were met by 300 and veterans of the Tenth Virginia regiment The greatest good feeling and enthusiasm prevailed throughout Au HELENA Mont September The report by certain ors iu Yellowstone park of acts of vandalism by president's escort during the is emphatically by Governor of tana a member of the party General Sheridan's orders Were strictly regarded as to essary of and all orders were carried out letter in every respect THE OLD WORLD LONDON September telegraphs the ing from to the associated press of During my sion on the inland I was accompanied by Dr Nathorst With ths steamer Sofia in charge of Captain I anchored on the of iu a bay near Cape York The doctor was from by an Esquimaux interpreter named Hans Christian who bad met at party of fifteen Esquimaux from stenhome They said they had been informed by other natives that the commander of the American tion name they pronounced and another member of the party which bad arrived at a point north of Smith Sound were dead arid that the rest of the expedition had re- turned on sledges to Littleton Island Unfortunately this Information was not given to Dr Nathorst until he re- turned to I myself ined Christian and his seems to be reliable Before ward Sofia met on July 16 at which intended to proceed to Littleton Island if and if unimpeded by ice to Lady Franklin bay When the Sofia visited Smith's Sound that body of water was encumbered by A dispatch from Hamburg cays the Marquis Spanish minister of foreign affairs and Count Kon German secretary of state for foreign affairs will hold a conference to-day Arrangements are being made by the Irish National Land League for a series of mass meetings in America which will b-s addressed by many t Redmond who ia now in Austria Redmond will return from Austria by the way o San Francisco Ho ia ex- to reach there iu November LIVERPOOL September Silesia which sailed to-day from Havre took members of the troupe including tho let and a portion of the chorus and orchestra Slgnor tor also to-day from Havre on the J R horse is scratched for the meeting DUBLIN September townships in Counties Clare and erick have been officially proclaimed as being in a disturbed state additional police force PABIS September Courbet commander of the French forces in sailed from angan Tuesday ou the clad Bayard accompanied by the boat Lynx for the Gulf of Tonquin Admiral Courbert has been tendered the complete civil and military for the French government in Tonquin which he declined It Is believed however that lie may yet be induced to accept the position The health and morals ef the troops are excellent President Grevy has given the king of the cross of the legion of honor and has made two of his ministers grand officers of this order At the Chinese legation here a re- port of revolt in the imperial palace at Pekin is disbelieved Hit by the Locomotive 111 September A distressing accident occurred oast of Decatur a few miles on tho Indiana A Western railway Samuel M C Davis seated in a farm wagon with hia wife and two children tiad driven on tho crossing a train going at the rate of teen miles an hour came down the hill and threw the and its occupants the track into he ditch Mrs Davis and one of tbo children were knocked senseless and he other child and tho farmer were stunned and All were severely hurt but fatally It was a miraculous escape from in- stant death One child may die The wagon was wrecked but es escaped Davis says that no nal was sounded by the engineer MILWAUKEE September 22 The initiatory i a the ion of a citizens league for tho of the prohibiting tho sale of liquor to and ards taken at Plankton nouae Paxton ot the meeting and explained tbe workings of Chicago league altar the organization in thin uity modeled A will be held on the second Sunday in at which Emery Storra and other prominent will Elected CHICAGO rom the recent f notion for chief in Territory are all in except two is elected u and Chicote by about forty Trie result is a defeat for the and progressive party Odd September Sovereign lodge of Odd lows its Hessions to-day Tho next will take place at third Monday in September N Y September 22 A on the anil Boston road went to flag a passenger train and down grade at too rapid a rule to to a freight train TUB engineer aud fearing a collision The engine into the freight train and then ran buCK to run a enger train on the track One lady injured and four cars derailed The attorney of General looper of Cincinnati by ft stenographer tracing out was in- iti a witli the wife of u bauk clerk has discovered that she isa woman who will soon be called to defend herself in a civil suit In the bicycle tournament at made 20 miles in 68 beating tho record by taking a purse of and La of the world
