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              letting KDMBEB 1039. ( BstabUshed lWtij PITTSXON. PA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1885. J TWO OKMT8. I Ten Cents Per Weak ARSENIC IN THE FLOUR. FRE9H MONO CREMATORY. S10SS0N WINS AGAIN. JV H IN THE KAST. THAT RESURRECTION STORY. A NOVEL CA6E. A fount Woman ConfWM nut She In- \ FAMILY MADE ILL BY EATING The Body of a Man to Be' Bunted Before the Health Board. Il Will «f 180? Probated— Kailroad ' —fl BULGARIANS GAIN A VICTORY AT Portland., lie., Nov. 19.—Diligent investigation of tie resurrection gtory telegraphed hence last week has resulted in the discovery that it Was all a mKtatlra Blanche Edwards, who told the story, has made an interesting confession. Bhe loved one Charles Archibald, of Cape Elizabeth, in 1884, and for some unknown reason be courted her under the name of Joseph L. Dyer. At the time and place she describes he received injuries from which he died. Miss Edwards attended the funeral and wore mourning until very recently. Her parents objected to her wearing mourning for one whom they had never seen, and their daughter then produced three photographs, which she said were portraits of Dyer's father and mother and of herself when a child. She then wrote letters to herself, signing them "Mrs. Dyer," in order to carry still further the deception, that she might be allowed to mourn her lover. In one of these letters it was statod that Dyer had left her $5,000, to be paid when she became 20 years of age. This, of course, became a matter of interest to her parents. Before long the young woman was forced to substantiate her story in some way. She resorted to the startling narrative about the grave giving up its dead. Blanche certainly did not anticipate the interest such an announcement would awaken, but she stuck to her story until it was proved false in some of the details by outside evidence. She has made a clean breast of it. Several reporters confronted her in the presence of the family with the evidence which they had collected disproving her statements. The reporters had found the original of the photographs referred to to be other people than represented by the girl. This and other points were presented to her, and she broke down, saying that she was led into the deception by her devotion to her lover's memory, which her parents had been inclined to ridicule. Miss Edwards is a bright girl of 19. vented It. POISONED BREAD. New York, Nov. 19.—The wind whistled through the barbed wire fence that has just been erected around the crematory grounds on top of Mount Olivet, at Fresh Pond, L. I., but inside the building, with the furnace registering 700 degrees Fahrenheit, everything was as cheery as the nature of the place would allow. Superintendent Merriam and his assistants were putting up lamps and curtains to the windows of the room in which relatives will see the bodies of their dead placed in the retorts. A car load of ConnelUrvflle ooke arrived at the crematory and the arrangements for the incineratioD of. a human body were approaching completion. It is said that the incineration of a Brooklyn nan who died last Thursday, and who asked to be the first to be burned in the new crematory, will take place before the health boards of New York and Brooklyn, the directors of the company and members of Che Cremation society. HE EASILY BEAT8 8CHAEFER, THB NEW YORK EXPERT. Saijoi, Mass., Not. 19.—A novel case jame up in the probate court of Essex county, when Clarence A. Haddock, C f Haverhill, petitioned for the setting up tLa will of Sarah Pendergast, of Haverhill, whu died Sept. 18, 1823. The will bears date Oct. 81, 1807, and convey* the property in Havnhill, where the depot of the Boston and Maine railway now stands. Benjamin F. Butler and Mr. Webster appear as his counsel. The same petitioner also presented the wi'J of Samuel Punk, Jr., of Haverhill, who died about Jan. 1, 1843, leaving a will dated Oct. 10, 182& Where these musty documents have been for more than three-score years no CwD» in the court room could tell. Judge Carte , of Haverhill, appeared as counsel for Abn - ham Chase, of Haverhill, who deeded the property to the Boston and Maine railway. The petition for the admission of the will wtis dated 1844. According to the testimony tho wills have just turned up and the heirs arc preparing to bring suit against the Boston and Maine railway for trespass. Involved, SLIVNITZA. A. IDotf -Which Is Given Some is Found Nearly Dead—Arrest of a Servant on Suspicion—She Is Held In D10,000 Bail. L Great Crowd Present to Witness the Content—Vlgnaux Looks on From a Box—Maurice Daly to Challenge the Winner, Three Thousand Servians Killed and Wounded—Gladstone Not Surprised at American Fall of Xlnhla—Parliament Dissolved. Loudon, Nov. 19.—The meagreness of the war news from the Bulgarian side is accounted for by the rigorous censorship over both the telegraph and the post, which is maintained by Bulgaria. Servia also intercepts most of the press dispatches sent by correspondents, but her own officials have been sending long accounts to Vienna of all the Servian victories, so that the preliminary actions of the war hare been pretty fully reported from the Servian standpoint. If the Bulgarians had been winning the victories they would doubtless have been just as industrious in reporting the battles. The report of a Bulgarian victory in front of Slivnitca came from Vienna aod was based aolely upon Bulgarian authority. The probability is that the lighting around Slivnitza has thus far been trivial and that it is unimportant which side has gained the advantage for the time being. From the mass of conflicting reports military experts here reduce the theory that the Servian operations in front of Slivnitza are intended merely as a feint. Slivnitza is only fifteen miles northwest of Sofia and its possession is not absolutely necessary to the capture of the capital. The Servians are established in force at Dragoman, ten miles north of Slivnitza, and on all the roads leadine to the south. The attack -.tpon Slivnitza, the experts think, has been made to mask an advance on roads further to the east and a rush on Sofia During the delivery of Mr. Gladstone's speech at West Calder the local telegraph lines liecame so choked as to cause serious .delay to hundreds of press dispatches. As aoon as they could be got to the trunk wires at Edinburg, they were promptly transmitted to all parts of the country, but the trouble ■was to get them to Edinburgh. The Cable NewB correspondents foresaw this difficulty And overcame it by liiilng .special engines. During the time Mr. Gladstone was speaking these engines were racing back and forth between West Calder and Edinbui^h—a distance of IS miles—and all ordinary traffic on the road was shunted for an hour an twenty minutes. Mr. Gladstone, in a conversation with a Cable News correspondent today, expressed surprise that America should be so much interested in his speech, hmf said he was too old to be much startled ,»t any manifestation of American enterprise. The Dally News Sofia oorrespon■dent ora firms the Bulgarian victory at Slivinitza.Boston, Nov. 19—Miss Annie Lyons, young and prepossessing, is under arrest on suspicion of having attempted a few days ago to kill the family of Mr. Charles W. Parker and nil hiii servants, by administering arsenic out of revenge for fancied injuries. By the active exertions of physicians the intended victims were saved from a horrible death, although they suffered great agony before securing relief. A month or more ago Mr. Charles W. Parker, who is a member of the firm of McCuller & Parker, clothiers, on Washington street, engaged a young woman named Annie Lyons as cook. He securwl her through an intelligence office on Carver street, which since that time has gone out of business. Chicago, Nov. 19.—The third game of tha tournament-, the first between the old rivals, Jaoob Schaefer and (leorge Slosson, brought )ut the largest audience yet assembled in Central Music halL Tho big French expert, Vignaux, had his first off night, and occupied a place in the box which hi., pretty wife pre-empted for the first two nights of his itrnggle. Schaefer won tha bank and repeated his miss of the previous night, failing by a hairsbreadth in his happy-go-lucky style. Slosson followed with 13, and continued to make double figures for the first four innings, quitting each time on easy shots. The Rev. Dr. Beugless, president of the company, is chaplain of the corvette Brooklyn, whioh was inspected Wednesday. The Brooklyn will be shortly ordered to Pensacola, and the first incineration will be hastened in order to permit Dr. Beugless to be present  In the latter part of the ninth inning, when Slosson passed the SO mark and lathered the balls by a combined masse and cushion draw shot, greeted the play, and when he took his seat with 57 to his credit he reoeived*an ovation. The wills were allowed. Mr. Lincoln appeared as counsel for the Boston and Mains railway and took an appeal. Gen. Butler objected, us they were not parties to the will. Before long little Jealousies arose between Miss Lyons and the other servants who had been in the employ of the family a long time. These feelings gradually grew in strength until they resulted in open warfare. Complaints were constantly being made to Mr. and Mrs. Parker. One had a story to tell about the other. The one complained of had a story to tell in turn. Mr. Parker was annoyed, and as all had gone along quietly previous to the advent of the new cook he could not help thinking that she was more to blame in the quarrels than the other two servants. Finally Mrs. Parker discharged her. THREE MEN MURDERED. THE NATIONAL GRANGE. A Farmer and His Two Sans Killed by a Schaefer made his big ran in the tenth inning, and daring the clicking of the spheres, which ceased with 80, the blonde moustache of Slosson suffered during his nervous tread around the table watching the play. The "Wizard," however, relieved him by letting op on an easy daaw, and George commenced a ran which netted him 88. Resolution of Sympathy for Striking Tenant. Shoemakers. Edoeixelp, S. C., Nov. 19.—R T. Jones, a farmer, residing eight miles north of this place, had a difficulty with the three Pressleys, the father, aged 80 years, and his two sons, Edward, Jr., and Charles. All three of the Preesleys were killed. Jones came to Edgefield and surrendered. All the parties are white. The man who did the killing has resided in this county only a few years. He is from Georgia The only eye-witness to the homicide was a colored man, who makes the following statement: Jones had been renting land from old Mr. Pressley, but is said to have been two years in arrears. The old gentleman had warned him off the land. The two young Pressleys were plowing the land when jbnes appeared, armed with a shotgun. Some angry words appear to have passed between them, when Jones shot and killed one of the sons, and retired towards a clump ol trees. The brother of the fallen man advanced towards Jones, who, drawing a long knife, cut him across the breast, killing him instantly. Jones then turned upon the man and shot him. Boston, Nov. 10—At the session of the National grange resolutions were passed sending greetings and sympathy to the striking shot - makers at Brockton, and assuring them that the National grange would ever maintain tinright of any class of fellow citizens to organise for self education. Officers for the e turning term were elected as follows: Worth/ master, Hon. P. Darden, of Mississippi; worthy overseer, James C. Draper, of Massachusetts ; lecturer, Mortimer Whitehead, of New Jersey; steward, J. E. Hall, of W«M Virginia; assistant steward, H. Stinson, of New Hampshire; chaplain, A. J. Rose, CJ Texas; treasurer, P. M. McDowell, of New- York; secretary, John Trimble, of Washington, D. C.; gatekeeper, Henry Thompson, of Dele ware; Ceres, Mrs. Kate Aby-Darden, of Mississippi; Pomona, Mrs. 8. H. Niel, of Kentucky; Flora, Mrs. James C. Draper, of Massachusetts; lady assistant steward, Mm E. N. Lipscomb, of South Carolina. It is reported that a final adjournment may b« affected to-night In the nineteenth inning the hopes of the "Wizard" revived when he succeeded in getting the balls in hand and passed the 50 notch with no sign of letting down. His bad hick did not desert him, however, and he qnlt with 71, missing on a simple carom by a miscue and leaving the balls together. The leave netted Slosson 20, he slipping up on a cushion draw. Schaefer started what proved to be the biggest run of the evening—85—by • fine exhibition of open table work and nurse. A short time previous to this Mr. Parker had purchased a barrel of flour, and about of it had been used. The new cook made broad out of this flour, and, though nothing peculiar was noticed in the looks or taste of it, all of the family and servants were taken seriously ill after eating it. Antidotes were immediately givon, but all the family are still somewhat ill. A little beggar girl who was given some of the bread the day the poisoning occurred was made deathly sick, but was saved by having an overdoee, and excessive vomiting relieved her. POPULATION OF NEW MEXICO The Territory Prosperou»-Fr»ud In Land Washington, Nov. 19.—Governor Ross, of New Mexico, in his annual report places the. population of the territory at 134,(WO, an increase of 15,000 within five years. The territory is represented to be in a prosperous condition. One drawback to settlement, which the governor thinks unjust, is popular prejudice about insecure titles to land. He says such insecurity does not exist to a greater extent than in other new countries where much of the land comes under Spanish grants. Many grants, he says, have been so extended as to include public land, and he instances one tract which was increased from 800 to 28,000 acres in this way. Gnants. Slosson continued his steady work, making double figures in nearly all the remaining Innings, with the "Wizard" playing a nervy second to him, but Jacob was unable to get the balls to roll for him, and Slosson, in consequence, maintained his safe lead until in the 83d inning, Schaefer got the balls together and did not let go of them until 79 was added to his string. He quit on an easy draw and Slosson made the neoessary six points.  Professor Hill, of Harvard college, an expert chemist, made an examination of all the food used at that meal, and discovered traces of arsenic in the bread. On Thursday night the daughter fed the dog with toast and shut him up in the cellar. The next morning the animal was found upon the floor nearly dead. Then Mr. Parker decided that the flour had been poisoned. He went to the barrel, and putting his hand into the flour, pulled up almost a solid handful of clear arsenic. The "poison had also been mixed with loose flour in another receptacle. As it turned out the family have eaten very spai ingly of the bread since the new cook entered the house. They have had French ljlls on the table at every meal. A SAMOAN LADY'S WARDROBE. THE BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. King Malleton's Gift to President Its Chief Suggests a Universal System of Maurice Daly's Challenge. Washington, Nov. 19—King Malieton of Samoa has made a present to IVesident Cleveland of a number of articles of Samoan manufacture, which were placed on exhibition in the National museum. The collection consists of a kava bowl, a cocanut cup, a rug made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree, and the complete wardrobe of a Samoun lady, the latter consisting merely of a girdk-, upon which are suspended fibres, about two feet in length, of the bark of the mulberry tree. Cleveland. Marks and Buoys. Nrw York, Nov. 19.—Maurice Daly, who won the cushion carom championship in 1888, issued a challenge to play any billiard player In the world a match game of cushion caroms of 500 points up. The winner of the Chicago tournament preferred. Washington, Nov. 19.—The annual report of the chief of the bureau of navigation, navy department, recommends the establishment of a compass station, near New York city, for the magnetic survey of iron and steel ships. The report suggests an international congress for the adoption of a universal system of marks and buoys for Channels and harbors, and cites the importance of an appropriation for commencing the erection of new naval observatory buildingf and for supplying other cities with standard time by the time-ball method. The superintendent of the naval observatory urges the importance of making the assignments of assistant observers permanent; of sending an observing party to the Afrioan coast in connection with the total eclipse of the sun on Aug. 39, 1886, and appropriating for the commencement of work on the new observatory buildings, for which the site and plans have already been approved. The Daily News war correspondent telegraphs that the Servians lost at the battle of tSHvnitra ten cannon, 85K horses and an Deetimated number of 3,000 men killed and wounded.  Attention is called to the fact that many fraudulent titles have been manufactured, and thus suspicion is cast on many good titles. These titles, adds the governor, are in worse condition than when the territory was annexed. He asks congress to appoint a commission to quiet titles to land in New Miss Lyons, who is about 38 years old, denies putting any poison in the flour, and says she has no knowledge whatever of the affair. After locking her up, the officers made a search for the druggist of whom she purchased the arsenic, going to all in the vicinity of the house and to others in Cambridge, but they were unable to find anyone who could remember selling such a poison to any person answering her description. They are renewing their search. The police do not know whether Miss Lyons dosired to revenge herself upon the servants for securing her discharge, upon Mr. Parker for discharging her, or upon the v.-hole family. The police know nothing about the previous career of Miss Lyons, but are looking it up. A friend of one of Mr. Parker's servants, upon hearing of the poisoning, said that she was greatly surprised that they should hire snch a person, intimating that she was competent to attempt such a wholesale killing through her previous doings. Washington, Nov. 19.—Upon representations made some time ago by Wade Mo- Donald, counsel for the Oklahoma "boomers," that they would not again violate the law by entering the forbidden territory, Secretory Lunar and Attorney General Garland agreed to have indictments against the "boomers" nolle prosequied in the courts. Since then the secretary ha? heard of renewed Invasions by "boomers," and on the 9th inst wrote to Mr. McDonald that it was with great disappointment that the department learned of the renewal of the attempts at unlawful invasion of the territory. He assured counsel for the boomers that if in future Capt Couch or any of them are caught no leniency will be shown them. No Mercy For the Boomers. The British Capture Minhla. Loiaot, Nov. 19.—The capture of the Minhla/oris was effected; after three hours' lighting, in which the Burmese acquitted themselves luaeb more creditably than had been anticipated. Tbeir antiquated weapons of defanee, however, wsra wholly inadequate to resist thd twenty pounders of the British, handled with the precision and coolness born of experience. The hardest fighting the English will have to do wi|l probably be on the Way to Mandalay, whither they are now marching. The fanaticism of the Burmese ,n*y be relied upon to defend the capital to .the uttermost, but the result is not doubtful. Mexico. Mormon Converts Going to Utah. AUTOPSY ON M'CULLOUGH Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 1#.—The hegiia of Mormon converts from the south to Utnh has taken place. Tho converts have Lea:.' gathering here from Georgia, Alabau:«, southern Virginia, North Carolina and ea?t Tennessee. The party numbered about 10U, and left in charge of Elder John Morgan, who has charge of the southern headquarters. The converts are representatives of the  est and most ignorant class of people. Dr. Engel's Theory of Hlood Poisoning Proved to b« Correct Philadelphia, Nov. 19.—An autopsy on the brain of the late John McCullough was 'ield in the receiving vault at Monument cemetery. The autopsy has fully substantiated Dr. Bugel's theory, that McCullough's mental aberration was due to the disease known as "thrombosis," which is the gathering of a thrombus or clot of blood in one of the arteries, thus blocking the free circulation of the blood through the brain. Dr. Engel always contended that the formation of one of these thrombi! was the primary cause of the trouble. He was confident that if he oould carry McCullough through thirty days without the formation of a second thrombus he could eventually cure him, but at the end of two weeks the second obstruction was formed and death ensued. B«Mh and Hanlan to Row Again. Pittsburg, Nov. 18.—The strike of the river miners is virtually settled. A conference was held, which was the result of a communication sent to Secretary Flannery of the Miners' association several days ago and signed by all the leading coal operators agreeing to pay two and a half cents for mining for one year or until the 1st of next July. A number of works along the river will start up in a few days, and a majority of them wil' be in operation by the first of next week. The labor leaders are well pleased with the result of the conference. The miners are suffering and need work. They are glad that the compromise was reaches through a conference, and claim that this is the first step toward preventing the frequent and continued strikes which have so often brought the river miners to the verge of starvation. The Miners' Strike Ended. Washington, Nov. 19.— An lnternatioi.nl •soil race in to be arranged for thechampiiuship of the world between Beach, at Australia, and Hanlan, The challenge issued b/ Richard K. Fox, offering to match Hanlu i against Beach for 99,000 a aide, has been mooepted by William Deeble, Beach's backer, and he has written to The Police Gaaette that he will oover the forfeit. The match u to take place two months bene*. t)M Qimd DImoIth Parliament. XOKMII, Nov. 19.—The queen signed the prochuaauou diiwolvftig parliament Her .majesty's signature is written in a bold, disjunct band the top of a broad sheet of jwwotuuent. A special gazette was issued announcing the prorogation, end writs giving notice to the electors of fee approaching general election, have beta panted. Death of a Railroad Builder. Nxw York, Nov. 19.—Azariah Boody died at his residence, No. 8 West Fifty-eighth street He was for thirty years or more a railroad builder. His earliest work was the Boston and Albany, the Rochester and Niagara Falls, and the Toledo, Wabash and Western railroads. It was the firm of Boody, Ross & Dunn who built the Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls road, which was one of the links in the New York Central system. The Toledo, Wabash and Western railrobd Boody, Ross & Co. completed under many In the municipal court Miss Lyons was held in (10,000 for trial Nov. 25. Building and Wrecking Telegraph Lines. Counterfeit Coin la TMt Room. Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 19,—Interest has increased in the contest between the Arkansas Telegraph company and the St, Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railway company. The telegraph men have been erecting poles on the line of the railway, near the city, and the railway men have taken them down as fast as they were put up. Each pole has been put up and taken down a number of times during the day. Frequently while one Bet of men are digging a hole the other set is shovelling the dirt back into it, yet there is no strife between the employes of the two companies. They are working for wages, and agree with each other not to enter into the dispute of their respective employes. Sale of a Mated Building. The Porto PnitMt*, Cley eland, Nov 19. - Mayor Gardner wv told a few days ago oy the landlady at No. 125 Erie street that a well-dressed couple occupying one small poor room in her house were acting strangely, and two detectives watched the premises. They burst into the room, which was tightly closed and intensely hot. A slender, handsome young woman, who gives her name as Ellen Barker, greeted them with the words: "What's the matter; you act at, if you were looking for counterfeit money." George Barker, the woman's husband, attempted to speak, but she silenced him. The couple were locked up, and a subsequent search revealed plaster of paris moulds for the making of silver dollars and halves baking under the stove, and several counterfeit coins. Boston, Not. 19.—The New England Institute fair building was transferred at private sale to the Metropolitan railroad company for $900,000. The building was erected and utilized for several years for exhibition purposes at a cost of about #400,000. It cove, * about five acres of land, with about ei£lu acres of floor space. 'Constantinople, Nov. 10.—The ports ha* tforuwJly protested to the powers agalnet the invasion of Bulgaria by Bervia, and declaring that Turkey reserves her military rights in Bulgarian territory. discouragements. This system was intended to merely connect Lake Erie at Toledo with 8t Louis on the Mississippi river, but subsequently assumed vast proportions. Take* Charge Monday. Bokto*. Nov. 10.—Collector Saltonstall ar- with Collector Wortliington to take -chcrge of the Custom house Monday next at 40 a. m. A Commissioner Aiding an Ksoape. Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 19.—Gen. W. GL Hancock arrived here, accompanied by Gen. Francis A Walker and others. The arrival of the train was greeted with an artillery salute by post 9, Grand Army of the Republic. Gen. Hancock was received with great cheering and escorted to the hotel. The general was serenaded by the Grand Army band, after which he held a reception. The party will visit the battlefield and endeavor to locate accurately the position of the different corps on the field. Gen. Hancock at Gettysburg. Omaha, Nov. 19—Judge Brewer took occasion in opening the United States circuit court to express unmeasured denunciation of United States Commissioner Saville's course in assisting in the escape of the mur- Nkw Haven, Nov. 19—The report of tl • treasurer of Yale college for the fiscal year ending July 31,1885, shows that the expense* of the college exceeded the income by $11,- 584.09. The theological, law and art school' were a little mare than self supporting, while the academic, scientific and medical departments show deficits. Tale College Flnaneea. Failures la Syracuse. SraiCUSK. Nov. 19.—H. E. Paoctor, furniture dealer, lias failed. His liabilities are alDontt8l,000. H. B. Andrews, successor to Babcock & Andrews, bucket shop dealers, foiled. Liabilities, $10,000. derer Matt a few weeks ago. Washinqtoh, Nov. 19.—The indications are that the old officials of the house, with the exqpption of the doorkeeper, will be reelected. No opposition has yet appeared to Gen. Clark for clerk, Mr. Leedom for sergeant at arms and Mr. Dal ton for postmaster. With regard to the doorkeepership, the prevailing impression is that Col. Sam Donelson, of Tennessee, will be elected to succeed Mr. Winter-smith, who died last August. Several other candidates for this position are mentioned, among them John Trainor, of New York. Donelson's friends say he will have a walk over, OfBelals in the New House. Zimmerman was convicted of murder and while under sentence of death was released by Seville on a writ of habeas corpus on ball oi (5,000. It being considered straw bail, Seville and J. C. Burr, Zimmerman's lawyers, were arrested. A case has been instituted ir the Nebraska supreme court to disbar Burr. Zimmerman has not been heard of since hit release. Judge Brew instructed United States District Attorney Lamberton to push the proceedings against Savilla Why the Prisoner Ate Soap Every Day. Architects In Convention. Galveston's Actual Lots. Toledo, Nov, 19.—William Elwood, the noted New York gentlemanly burglar, who successfully worked many western cities and who was recently brought here from New York and committed to the county jail, was discovered eating soap. His fellow-prisoners say he has eaten two cakes a day for a month, in order to reduce his weight and give him a consumptive appearance. When searched tobacco was found in his armpits. Physicians say this will reduce weight Elwood is awaiting trial for the burglary 'of Edson Baumgartner's house, in this city, and for shooting a policeman. Eh1. Louis, Nov. 19.—The seoond annua) convention of the Western Association of Architects was opened in the entertainment hall of the Exposition building at 10 o'clock. One hundred and fifty members were present The day was taken up by addresses of welcome, President C. E. Illsley's address am) reports of officers. Galveston, Nov. 19.—With the view of .porrecting an erroneous impression which hftj gone abroad of the actual losses incurred by UK' disastrous conflagration of the 18th .4ae&, the following card has been issued: "I ; beg to gtate that the latest computation now ■placeethe loss at 91,000,000 over and above t the amount of the insurance. Five hundred aind seventy houses were burned, many of •their occupants being without a dollar with which to again commence life. The immediate uuccesity of those who have suffered hawskesa liberally met by home contributions asd Other outside sources, but much oan yet he doae by those who, being made of the actual facts, may feel disposed Cto assist the worthy in ita» hour Of their distress. "Robkrt Smith, Washington, Nov. 19.—The annual report of Chief Postofflce Inspector West shows that 530 arrests were made by inspectors during the year. Of this number 308 were tried and convicted and await trail. During the year 459 postoffices were robbed, 256 burned, and SS postal cars burned. Inspectors recoveped and turned into the treasury from delinquent and ex-postmasters the sum of $58,852.  458 PostoHlees Bobbed. National Convention of Cattle 6rqvDr*. Chicago, Nov. 19,—There was an increased attendance at the national convention oi cattle growers, lie report of a special com A Wagon Load of People In the River. Batavia, O., Nov. lft—A wagon load of young people returning from a dance, upset at Old Stone lick bridge, and fire were thrown oyer the abutment into the river. Miley Bigam, 18 yean old; Hilton Bigam, 13, and Zoeeph Berkley, 26, were drowned. The rescued are Charles Page and E1U Y eager.  He Will Have to Fay Bom's Liquor Bill. mittee appointed to make itlom Louis VILLI, Nov. 19.—When JO'Donovan Roesa came here to lecture to empty benches last winter, the first man he met was a constable at the Gait house, who arrested him on a bail writ sued out by a local whisky firm for a debt of $83. Roesa would have gotje to Jail but for the interference of John Oillen, a saloon keeper, who went on his bond. The dynamiter thanked his friend eloquently for the service, and bade him good-by with tears in his eyes. Gillen was sued in the court of oommon pleas for Rossa's debt, and will have to pay it in regard to contagious diseases was read and adopted, also a series of resolutions on thC subject of contagious diseases. The convention provided fpr a finance committee of five to raise a fund to secure legislation and asked for an appropriation of not less than $1,500, 000 Irom congress to pay for diseased cattlf slaughtered, and also to provide for the payment of experts to settle the value of thi cattle on the basis of health before infection. CONDENSED NEWS. Th* Derby Cup. London, Nov. 19.—This wan the third day Of the Derby autumn race meeting. The race for the Derby cup wag won by Mr. R. C. Naylor's 4-year-old chestnut Ally Fast and Loose. Mr. C. Archer's 3-year-old chestnut gelding Broxbourne was second, and Lord Zetland's 8-year-old bay fllly St Helena third. The betting was 6 to 1 against Fast and Loose, 10 to 1 against Broxbourne, and 9 to 4 against St. Helena. There were five starters. Mr. Leopold de Rothchilds' 5-year-old bay horse Lucerne was the favorite Jn the betting at odds of 8 to 1 against  The reform Hebrew rabbis at Pittsburg have formulated a statement of their belief. The Dally News complains of Mr. Gladstone's und; e leniency toward Lord Salisbury's Balkan policy. James Fitsgibbon, a resident of New York, fall from the top of a railroad car at Wilmington, Del, and was crushed to death. Germany has acquiesced In the pope's settlement of the Carolines question. It only remains now to give it a definite form. The application of the Connecticut Insurance commissioner for a receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance company, hfs been withdrawn. The socialist Lieske, who was convicted of the murder of Police Counselor Rumpff at Frankfort, has been beheaded. He protested his innocence to the last During the trial of a case in Toronto the fact was elicited that $90,000 had been spent in fighting the Scott temperance act in Ontario."District Manager for R. ft. Bun & Co." Glove Fight In WuhlDgton. Claims for Lost Postal Funds. Washington, Nov. 19.—The glove fight between Jack Ash ton, of Providence, and Joe Denning, of Brooklyn, waa decided at the Comique, in six rounds, Ash ton being the winner. Denning was seconded by John McAuliffe, and Ashton by Billy Madden. Referee, William E Harding, of IV.v York. "Washington, Nov. 19.—Gen. Bryant, a»- sfatant attorney general of the postofiBce department, in his annual report shows that #138,877 ia claims were allowed for postal funds lost or destroyed by Are in postoffices, and that claims to the amount of (8,899 were disallowed. The act of March, 1882, under which these claims were allowed, he says, did not beoome generally known for some time after itw passage, hence many postmasters did not avail themselves of the opportunity to present their claims within the specified six months after it became a law. He Killed the Wrong Man. Nashvillk, Term., Nov. 19.—James Bowman, a prominent resident of Riddleton, Smith county, shot and killed Albert Haney, a respected colored man, by mistake Bowman had a quarrel with a negro named Scott, which resulted in Scott's striking him on the head with an ax. Bowman recovered from the blow, went into his house and got a gun with the intention of shooting Scott. Ht came out hurriedly, and, mistaking Haney, who was standing near by, for Scott, fired at him Haney died instantly. Philadelphia, Nov. 19.—In the United States court, counsel for Win. RoLinson, of New York, and other holders of general mortgage bonds of the Reading system, amounting to more than the one-tenth of such bonds required for the making of such application, also counsel for the Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit company. Trustee of aid bonds Aled a bill in equity for tbe foreclosure of said mortgage. Decision wm reserved. The Reading Trouble. A Young Swindler Caught. Hurt In an Indiana Smftsh-Up. Newark, N. J., Nov. lft—Detectivta Stainsby and Reever arrested Annie He P.' oagel, alias Lewis, the young woman who has been victimizing various merchants ami , citizens for some time past. She denied tuat she was guilty, but when taken before the several parties she was at once identified. Indianapolis, Nov. 19.—The local freight train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis railway, which left here at 5:80 o'clock, plunged into Big Buck creek, seven miles from this city. Charles Holland, the engineer; John McNaught, tfee fireman, and John Franklin, a brakeman, all of Indianapolis, were severely injured. It is believed that the engineer will die. The engine and twelve cars were wrecked. Travel was interrupted until noon, when a temporary track was laid.'  The Brockton Strike. Brockton, Mass., Nov. 19.—Every effort to effect a speedy settlement for the strike, is met with counteraction. The situation looks more and more as if a long and tedious lockout wpuld be experienced. Philadelphia, Nov. 19.—Stephen McPherson, the colored Janitor of The Press, who or Oct 28 struck Robert J. Cook, the businesi manager of that paper, with a hatchet, wai given a hearing on the charge of assault anc battery with intent to kill. Mr. Cook wai present and detailed the facts which led u| to the assault McPherson was held in $1,U( bail to answer at court Capt. Cook* Assailant Held. A Boston Editor Convicted of Ubrl. Foreign Episcopal Missionary Society, Dr. George William Smith, president of Trinity college, Hartford, was elected bishop of the diocese of Easton, Pa. It is not known whether he will accept Boston, Nov. 19.—Dexter E. W. Stone, publisher of The Saturday Evening Expr jg.", has been convicted of criminal libel in pullishing an article about Mrs. Annie' P. Forbes, of Charlestown, derogatory to her character. Sentence was postponed. Philadelphia, Nov. 18.—The fiftieth an? ni versary of the reorganisation of the Domestic and Foreign Episcopal Missionary soc'cty, and of the consecration of Dr. Kemper, the first missionary bishop, was commemorated in Christ church. Among the participants were Bishops Lee, of Delaware; Beddell, of Ohio; Howe, of Pennsylvania, and Garrett, of Texas. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, preached the sermon. A prominent labor man says that a cooperative factory is being*earnestly discussed, „-«pd that if the present situation continues it haa a good chance for success- There are Boston business men, he says, whe are all ready to furnish the needed capital, take the ebodgoff the men's hands and dispone of them More Central Conductor* Resign. Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 19.—Twelve passenger conductors on this division of the New York Central have up to this time resigned or been discharged, and it is generally believed that before Jan. 1 all conductors between Syracuse and Buffalo will be replaced by new men. In anticipation of this several have tendered their resignations. "Blue envelopes," which indicate discharge, have begun to be received by conductors on the division C4 fee road between Syracuse and Albany. _ . Emmet Cunningham, a young colored man, was found In the streets in Cincinnati dying from two knife wounds. He after- Held by Cuban Bandlta for Kansom. ward died in the hospital without having been able to speak. There la no clew to his HU Wife Drove Him to Suirlde. I murdtrer, Syraci sb, Nov. 19.—Adam Baltsheiser The grand Jury in Montreal returned true aged TO years, a rag dealer, committed «ui ! bills against J. Vanasse, editor, and J. Iftr cide by taking "Bough on Rate.1' He hiu sard, manager of Le Monde, for crinrjiiajlv married his fourth wife, who, at the time o libelling Mayor Beaugrand. The action arose his marriage to her, had been three tiihes i (ram strictures passed on the mayor for h»v widow. She drank and drove Baltshaiasr to . |ng the Oagnon patient* removed by force t» kill himspilf the smallpox hospital Havana, Nov. 19.—Two men on a plantation in the district of Colon, unable to satisfy she demands of brigands, have bean seirod ind carried off. A heavy ransor* is domanded.4Drer the country. A Bark Wrecked Atchison, Kan , Nov. 19.—The jury lathe Baldwin murder caw have returned a verdict of murder in the first degree. Th verdict almost universal satisfaction. Murderer Baldwin Foiiiid Oullty, Quebec, Nov. 19.—A telegram from Capt Rex stattfc that the bark Red Cross, from Quebec for Glasgow, is peeked near Bay St JBeorge, Newfoundland Crew ml*. Portland, Ore., Nov. lft—Bl43enatar T. H. Mitchell waa elected senator on ths third ballot, the Democrats voting for htm. Ke-elected a Soaeter.