Sunday Gazette, The (Newspaper) - October 17, 1897, Fort Wayne, Indiana THE SUNDAY GAZETT VOL XXXV NO 249 FORT WAYNE IND SUNDAY OCTOBER 17 1897 PRICE FIVE CENTS The Weather WASHINGTON D C Oft Partly cloudy possibly Helit showers an southern portion cooler northerly winds ATTORNEY VINCENT CAUSES OUT- OF Pall Overcoats Fresh from our own tailor shop Covert Cloth Broadway Short and Medium Lengths in latest and most correct shades These coats are the biggest value ID tlie city But as we mean business out they will go at 510 and Just stop take a look at our You Stoves ami Ranges from H J Asli yon ant them at headquarters for Stuves He makes a business of Stoves at wholesale as well as retail His Rules for the-week from the 11 th to the amounted to seventy-two Stoves Before you buy i Stove look through H J Ash's large assortment FOR H J ASH 1C East Columbia Street Machine and Repair Shop Gas Engines and Tubes a Specialty Agent for tlie Model Gas Engine Call at shop and Bee Engine in E Columbia St Splendid Table Board per week at Aldine rant 21 meal tickets ESTABLISHED THOSE ICO TROT STEAM LAUNDRY Not 48 A 50 St Finis tin J Is the Most WE DO it Our will will to my part of F L JONES A CO Tailors and Clothiers Baits made to order for to Trousers from to Call and examine our stock before leaving your order All Work Guaranteed Columbia and Clinton streets Argu Speech Mu With Juro xl Appeal for Chicago Oct last word for Luetgert has been spoken Attorney William A Vincent finished his long argument thia afternoon and aJl that remains of the famous trial is the closing address the court's in- to the jury and then the dict As soon as the counsel for the defense Hosed court adjourned until Monday when State's Attorney neen will make the final argument Mr Vincent is naturally gratified to think that the jury has all day Sunday to ponder his glowing plea for tho de- fendant The attorney drew on the reserve of his oratorical talent in his closing paragraphs and with ail the earnestness he could command sought to Impart to the twelve men who faced him some of the confidence lie himself possesses that the ie in- He attacked the hone theory of tho state iu detail aud went to great pains to show that by the evidence of tho own chemists a human body could not have destroyed in the vat With the aid of mathematics as well as chemistry counsel for the de- I i se according to the state's own figures the body destroyed In the vat must have weighed 750 pounds to yield the amount of organic matter found in the He viciously attacked Dr Dorsey Professor Bailey Dr Howes and other scientists by the prosecution and called them mechanics Attorney Vincent defended Mary valiantly and reiterated the woman's charges that she had been persecuted and intimidated hy the lice and attorney Ho denied that bo had persuaded to alter hla testimony to help father's case and like his colleague virtually charged tho police with placing the rings in tlie vat for the purpose of sending Luetgert to gallows In closing Advocate Vincent And of the jury the hands of the dial of der clock warn mo that the usual hour of adjournment has arrived I must cease and leave the case in your hands -I have fought the fight to ulic very best of my ability What 1 have done has been done with an conviction that It was right For two months we have been associated In the trial of one of Che greatest cases of the day Soon we must separate to go our several ways and again take up our different lines of duty But before I you I de- sire to you of my client my associate and myself for tlie close attention you have paid to this trial And now gentlemen after all that has said against Luetgert has been swept away by tlhe clear sunlight ot truth would it not be like shooting an old messmate In the back to find a verdict of guilty against hush over the court room at these words Turning again to the jury Judge He lost his liberty he has lost his name he ihas lost his fortune he baa lost bis wife Will be lose his As he said uhis the crowded court room into applause which the bailiffs vainly tried to subdue Judge Tuthlll his face flushed with anger stood up and commanded the applause to and as soon as he could he heard he the court room Pointing directly at a woman who sat ia the front row of uhd who had among tlhe most in her approval of Judge peroration he There sits a lady who is present in court room by courtesy J brought her here myself She ihas abused any kindness and Air Bailiff I desire that shf should lie removed from thn room The Jury was then dismissed and crowd was lectured for its breach of court room behavior Martin After of Other Martin died yesterday morning at home at 32 West Fifth street from the effects of an accident him three weeks ago He was employed in the stone yard of Keller Braun and assisting in the erection of a derrick The big timbers fell and Lbe workman was struck by one of them His loft leg as fractured and a few days after the accident he was pronounced out of by One attending physician His constitution was weakened by the incidental to the accident lung trouble set In and caused his death Mr was boru ia many Ife was a of St Paul's Catholic chit roll and was a leader in of the societies of church The funeral will beheld Monday ing at o'clock from the Rouse and lf an hour later from St Paul's urch MIIS 0 E Mrs Ollie R Mowrey died at her home in township of old age She settled in this county her many years ago She was 78 ears old The funeral will lake place tins afternoon from Columbia City a A wio ol Oia of Mr and Mrs August of 154 street died yesterday morning of kidney trouble She was 13 years old The funeral will take place Monday afternoon at o'clock from the and at 2 o'clock from the Wayne Street M E church Rev H W Bennett will officiate MRS ROOT'S FUNERAL The funeral of Mrs Clara Root will take place Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the house on West Main street The services at the house will be hut tho burial will be private and will he mafle at tery Rev A W will BURIAL OF FREDERICK The funeral of the late Frederick iwill take place this after- noon at 2 o'clock from the house in Washington township DIPHTHERIA VICTIM Philip the son of Mr and Mrs Edward died last night of diphtheria The funeral will be private this afternoon from the at 64 Force street MARY MCCARTHY The death of Mary curred at St Joseph last night the cause cancer The body will he shipped to Richmond on Tuesday She was an aunt of Mrs Conway of Baker street CABINET STILL ON AND RECIPROCITY NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NOBLE COUNTS CASE Blood to Do Any at Rome City But Nothing new has developed in the Hoffman murder in Noble county Tim noted 0 blood were also taken to the scene but practically gave up the chase and the service IB abandoned During the day too many persons had visited the scene and crossed the farm in all directions destroying the possibility of obtaining a trail of tlie perpetrators although many trails in different rections were taken By the dogs and followed a short distance The owner uf the dugs claimed that he and his dogs had but little to work upon lie also stated that no one should have been allowed to RO near the house or premises if the services of the hounds were desired He and his hounds returned to 0 John Hoffman brother and Mr Hoffman a nephew of the murdered man have offered for the hension of the murderers which sura should instrumental Iu the services of good detective ability Several clues are being followed up ami the prospect of capturing the lains is by means hopeless Mr Hoffman's remains were taken to the home of hie brother John man and the funeral will take place from there this forenoon SUSPECTS RELEASED ROME CITY Ind Oct 1C Clyde White William St Mary and Jack Potter were arrested here by the Noble county officers on suspicion of being the murderers of old man Hoffman There was nothing to strengthen the suspicion other than the general acter of tlie suspects whose tions are none of the best When the blood from Laotto were put on the scent at the scene of the murder they headed for a patch of woods west of the place and then took a in the direction of this place They were taken to the starting point eral times but invariably went over the same trail for a mile or so and from this it was inferred that the derers this way Suspicion was at once attached to Clyde White aged 17 Willie St Mary aged 1C and Jack Potter aged 20 and they were accordingly arrested and taken to Brfmfield where the murder was committed They were confronted with young companion of the murdered man who failed to identify them They were then re- leased and returned to Rome City and started to celebrate their release In a hilarious manner PENSION RULING WASHINGTON D C Oct 1C In the cuse of John Kelly of the Pennsylvania emergency militia and the Pennsylvania volunteer in- fantry Assistant Secretary of the In- Davis laid down the ruling that as the two terms of vice aggregated more than 90 days the rejection of his claim under the act of June 20 was an error re- sps the former practice which re- quired the DO days service of dier tn have been continuous The de- is that tho claimant has n status it being proper to add two terms to make up the 90 days re- quired by the statute VOLUNTEER ANNIVERSARY H was 20 years ago yesterday that the old volunteer fire department had Its last parade The members of he company got together and dressed up for the occasion The Anthony Wayne company was organized in 1841 and after that there was a number of ether companies organized The last dis- banded in 1877 Since that year the city had tho paid department which lias grown to such proportions that there is now here one of the best departments in the state WANTS TERM EVANSVILLE Ind Oct tor David W Turpie was in Evansville a few hours and announced bis dacy for re-election to the United States to himself lie declared himself In favor of ing the Cuban belligerents and also of the annexation of the island to the United States He believes that ps should be sent to Cuba tu make ne Figures Great Lent mauy in After Law by Associated BERLIN Oct after the new United States tariff went inio fect the officials of the American em- bassy informed the German ment that the United States was Ins to begin negotiations for a treaty under clauses 3 and 4 No answer of any kind has thus far been made but preparations are making to open negotiations The fact that the Cabinet crisis is on and is considered to enU only with the de- parture Prince Honenlohe sarily retards the work of the ity treaty Preliminary erroneous and misleading reports as to the effects of the new United States tariff on the industry to appear in the press and schmidt has just compiled an official list of German exports from which it appears has a great decrease ia exports for the quarter ending tember 30 This is largely due to the very great haste in crowding to America prior to the becoming a law hut the decrease in the whole of Germany is only 34 per cent points out that the decrease is mostly in sugar as is evi by the fact that hiring the third quarter of 1896 the sugar exports from Germany to the United suites were valued at while in the second quarter of anticipating tae passage of the Dingley the exports of German sugar to the United States were nearly that namely hut for the third quarter cf 1897 the sugar exports of Germany to the United States were under in value The sugar ported the fiscal year ending in August amounted an enormous excess compared with normal years Tbe official report the effects of tlie exclusion of cattle and meats from most of the German frontiers shows that only 2.4 per cent of the to tal consumption is imported Since October 14 1894 not a single head ot American cattle nor a pound of can fresh beef has been imported The condition of Prince Henry of whu Is confined in a private asylum for rapidly ing worse aud the proceedings to ir- appears that before placed in confinement did several sensational things He dered of a Berlin jeweler diamonds and other jewelry to the value of 000 marks and tho jewels have since disappeared tie also presented his valet a man named Schneider with a deed of a house in Berlin worth marks Albert a German American Socialist was expelled during the week by the police of Hanover hours after his arrival there to visit relatives The shipment of American ler arrived at Hamburg in excellent condition anil found a ready market at prices slightly than iu many averaging to the American 24 to 26 cents per pound Captain Wiburg ot Cincinnati who accompanied Geu Nelson A Miles through Europe has sailed for home At the reception to members of tho conference at the new palace at Potsdam on Friday by the Emperor and Empress His Majesty conversed at length with the American delegates Doctors and aboul about leprosy and the danger of it in Hie United States OCT Ol Steal made In our ml tiito morning 21 W He No Strike Slmll AI IK Toleration of A TO BE It the H be Taken Co Ohio reported in business and road yesterday that the al of the Kindlay road be removed from this city to Findlay 0 The company has completed the work of road of and the removal of the offices would be so as to have them nearer the middle of Che line General Manager Bissel was asked about the report but he would neither confirm uor deny it He did say ever that nothing would be done at present WELLSBACH PEOPLE WIN Judge Baker of the United States district yesterday issued a de- cree of injunction against the Wahash Fuel Company restraining it from in- fringing upon the Wellsbach patents for incandescent gas lighting This endi a fight made by the bach corporation While Wabash Company the nominal defendant the people aimed at the of the incandescent burner known as Sunlight The injunction was granted upon confession by the de- fendant Indianapolis LONDON Oct the of Lilly died iu Utu for the insane at Chester to which he was recently committed by a trate having been found wandering in a helpless condition in that vicinity It ie supposed that Mr was suffering from concussion of the brain due to falling down the gang way ol the steamer on which he travelled from Dublin to A of Very Krv Il Subject or Organized y BATTLE CREEK Mich Oct This afternoon in the civic pic congress the very Rev Dean W R Harris of St Out read a paper on Organized Charity He is a Catholic priest and caused great ap plause by We all worship one God but Che knee at different altars I hope that the time will come when the riers of religious will be for- er broken down Every large city has its destitute population consisting of two those will and those who not There are also drunkard and criminal classes kepi at public ex- pense The task is easy to maintain the compared with the task to the idle and Organized charity prevents waste abuse and imposture It is one com- mon field men of all beliefs and no belief work side by side in the cause of humanity It means a al investigation in all individual oases and the detection of impostures It Is a and exchange of formation in confidence people should give their money to organized i OF THE 11.1 BE PUBLIC III Oct proposed plan of federation ratified by the con- of the grand chiefs antl of railway brotherhoods held here during the week was made public to-day Although the tion of firemen trainmen telegraphers aud conductors indorsed the proposed plan it has been referred to the lodges ratification Tlie have not yet considered the plan but it is said Grand Arthur who at- the conference indorsed Che federation idea and promised to pre- sent ft to grand lodge meeting next May The organization will flic called the Federation of American Hallway Employes None of the brotherhoods belonging to it can to any other railway alliance at the same time The most important articles relate to strikes They provide that each must make every effort to settle its own grievances but if it fails it can for a meeting of the executive committee of the federation If the consider the complaint a just oue the board shalf make a united fort to settle it and if fails shall vote on a strike Each organization shall have one vote and a general shall nut be ordered unless all the organizations favor it fr they do 11 brotherhood men on the system shall go out on the strike No brotherhood man shall take part in any strike not sanctioned by the tion EDITOR'S REPLY TO GORMAN Oct Sun day publishes u lengthy editorial reply to Gorman's letter which in part is iis No person of ordinary intelligence can read the letter from Senator to Sun which is published in our advertising columns to-day out at once that it is a mere campaign trick eminently in its palpable insincerity of the source from which it proceeds If he wanted to down and out or any real intention of so he have effected that purpose with far smaller expenditure of cash and words this is the very latest thing which he has any intention of doing A cum pie of everything by amateur photographers Can furnish any camera made M L JONES 44 STREET Second Floor Hamilton Bank ARTISTIC Frederick J McGuire rendered a number of piano solos at the bee entertainment on Friday night re- icd from New York a week ago He spent some time in that rity in inj lessons from oue of dho most noted teachers in uhe east lie graduated from a conservatory of music He is pronounced to be one of the best formers on the piano heard Sit this city for some years Jlr will establish himself in this city At the enter tal Friday evening he dered a number of difficult and heavy pieces and in the audience were a number of musical people who say he has a tine touch and method of playing Sensational WAGES RESTORED It I Oct request tho weavers at the National woolen at for a ration of the scale of wages prior to the reduction of 1893 was granted and will go Into effect December 1 The tion made in amounted to an of 20 per cent NIGHT There a large attendance at the Fort Wayne Club last casion being a smoker to members and their friends orchestra furnished the music and luncheon was served The evening was thoroughly iB OF i YORK NEW YORK Oct The popular reception to Miss Evangelina Cossio Y Cisneros Ia Madison Square to night was an- extraordinary demonstration Fully people one-third women crowded upper half of Madison Square Park and filled Broadway and Fifth avenue and wait Hi for the con- gratulatory speeches to be finished and the Cuban heroine to appear Previous tu the appearance of Miss a number of short speeches were made Mural Halstead was man and introduced the speakers United Senator Thurston of Nebraska was the tirst speaker If 1 my not only the belligerency of Cuha he recognized hut I would send a battleship to anchor in Havana in order to inspire with and courage those struggling for freedom Henry spoke briefly Among those at the reception in were Former Ambassador E list Is and wife APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON U C Oct President the following PAPE THE CHEAPEST IN THE CITY New arrivals of Fall Stock coming in every day Call and examine yourselves THE SIEMON Wall Paper Oo 195 St nf Ofttimdrar Eugene Illinois to he States at Rio Brazil Consuls of the United Jarors Franklin Darnell of Indiana at No- gales Mexico John E Kehl of Onto at Stettin Germany Frank M dage of Pennsylvania at Aix la olle Germany Julian M Phelps of Iowa at Germany Charles P Snyder of West Virgina nt Diaz Henry S ver of Ohio at London Out David H Endlong of Idaho to he register of laud office at Cocur D'Alene Idaho John ai Hill of Washington to lie register ol land office at Walla Walla Wash POWDER Absolutely Pura
