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EST ABLISHE D 1867 WILMINGTON, N. C. THUJRSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1895 S1.00 PER YH.AR. THE INSDBANCF. SWINDLES. The CJVPlracy Extensive Eleven Men Arrested Hix Companies Involved Much. Inginutty Dis played The Investigation to Begin To-Day. j Special to the Masenger. MokkheapCitv, X. C, July 29 The noted Tavey ard insurance conspiracy existing at Beaufort and already of considerable notori ety in the newspapers will come up for legal investigation before a justsce of the peace here to-morrow. A number of the allegedcon sDirators are under arrest some of them xnen of considerable prominence and re soecubilitv. Col. John W. Hinsdale is in charge of the prosecution and startling de velopments are anticipated. in addition to the information furnished n3 for Sunday's issue by our Raleigh corre spondent regarding the insurance swindle, e Hve the following special dispatch sent tlie New York World from Beaufort, N. C, on Saturday last: ' "Ten prominent men were arrested to-day for an alleged conspiracy to collect 'grave yard insurance' from the Mutual Reserve Fund Life association, of New York city. The warrants were made out on an affidavit of J. W. Aiken, a special agent of. the in surance company. i m "The accused men are Dr. T. B. Delamar, ex-treasurer of this town and iustice of the peace; Medical Examiner Charles II. Has sell. Selden Delamar, ex-Mayor of this place; Jacob C. Delamar, general insurance a "ent; the Rev. Stephen I. Turner, William t Turner, David W. Parker, William "Fisher, Albert Wigfall and Levi T. Noe. "The arrests were a surprise here. Su spicion was aroused nearly a year ago. The prosecution alleges that the evidence will show much ingenuity on the part of the de fendants. The insurance companies in volved paid some of the claims before any suspicion of fraud was aroused, but they are now united in pressing the case vigorously against the defendants. 'The specific charge made is that these men planned and partially succeeded in car rying into effect a scheme to defraud six life jnsnrance companies the Northwestern Life Association of Minneapolis, the Michi gan Mutual of Detroit, the Life Insurance Clearing company of St. Paul, the National Life Association of Hartford, the Massachus gets Lenefit Association of Boston and the Mutual lleserye Fund Life Association of New York. "The hearing on the charges made by Mr. Aiken began to-day before Justice Allen Davis at Morehead City, a small watering-place near here. John W. Hins dale, of Raleigh, a leading attorney, who represents .civil suits against the com pany amounting to $35,000, is conducting the prosecution, District Solicitor O. H. Allen is assisting him. "It will take about a week to get in the testimony against the accused men. There are- more than fifty witnesses against them." . I "Frederick A. Bnrnjiam, who sncceeded the late E. B. Harper as president of, the Mutual Reserve Fund Life association, said last ni'-nt that frauds against the company were suspected in North Carolina, and an agent was sent there 1 3 investigate. A number of persons were suspected of work ing graveyard insurance schemes, but the conspiracy was not supposed to be so ex tensive. No report has been received by the company from Mr. Aiken, so the details of his discoveries were not known to the home office." IBy Southern Press. Boston, July 29. The Massachusetts Benefit Life association, of this city, was the first insurance company to unearth the frauds which were being practiced at Beau fort, N. C. They received a tip from some anonymous correspondent about three months ago and the wholesale arrests yes terday were the result of the investigation started by this company. The official who had charge of the case is on Cape Cod, but Mr. J. R. Roland Corthell, one of the com pany's adjusters, gave a press representative an outline of the case as he heard it dis cussed in the office: He says: "As I overheard the discussion I got the impression that there was a very complete plot to defraud the insurance company, but J cannot tell you how many were connected with it nor their names. As I understand the case, we appointed an agent to take charge of that territory about a year ago. In the course of time we wrote policies for several persons in Beaufort, N. C. The papers were properly made out and every thing seemed to be done in a legitimate manner. Then we were notified of deaths, one after another until three claims had been made. We carried about a dozen policiesrepresenting a face value of be tween 1 50,000 and $ 60,000. The last claim was on account of the death of Mrs. Freda Williams. Just about that time we received an anonymous letter to the effect that our agent in Beau fort was taking risks which no insurance company would think of taking if all the facts were known at the main office. We immediately sent an inspector to investi gate the matter, and he immediately no tified us not to pay any of the claims. It seems that our agent had organized a regu lar band of conspirators to defraud insur ance companies all oveif the country. The plot involved men of previous high standing in the community. They had written policies on persons who were even then on their deathbeds. Some were sic at the time the policies were made out on their representa tions that the insured were -healthy and a proper risk. Some of the persons did not know that they had been insured. Some were insured for large amounts who were living in abject poverty and could not pay a dollar for insurance. Not one of the poli cies, as I understood the case, was a proper risk for a reputable insurance company to take. Yet, socomplete was the organiza tion of the conspirator that all the papers bore the signature of the necessary endorsers Nothing was missing which could in any way arouse suspicions at the home office. You must remember that ours is only one of the victimized companies. The same de ception was practiced in the other cases. vVe are satisfied that Mrs. Williams was murdered in order to secure the insurance money. There are suspicious circumstances surrounding other cases, and we propose to 'fash the investigation until the whole plot e exposed, no matter who is involved in it." Why Not You? When thousands of people are taking nooa s frarsaDanlla to overcome the weakness and languor which are so come "juu at tnis season, wny are you not doing the same? When you know that Hood's Sarsaparilla has power to cure rneumatkin, dyspepsia and all diseases caused by impure blood, why do you continue to .suffer? Hood's cures otheJ3, ny not you? Hood's Pillar are prompt and efficient, Chicago, July 3( J. D. Caton, one of uucago's oldest settlers, died at his residence in this city to-day, agt'd 84 years. He was jn ex-justice of the Supreme court of Illi- GRAVEYARD INSURANCE. INVESTIGATION INTO THE CASES AT BEAUFORT. ThR Kirst Day' Proceeding An other Added to the List of Defend ants A Nest of Swindlers and Wholesale Frauds Discov ered by the Insurance ' CompaniesBoldness Caused by Sac cen Iads to Detection. Special to the Messenger. .Atlantic Hotel, Morehead City, N. C, July 30 The famous Beaufort life insur ance conspiracy trial opened in preliminary hearing here to-day before Justices of the .Peace W. W. Willis and McCain with an imposing array of distinguished counsel on both sides. The trial warrant was issued by Justice Allen C. Davis, but the defense swore out a removal of the case from before him and Justice Willis was selected to pre side with Justice Joshua Dennis as associate. The case was then stated by the plaintiff and the charges specified and the witnesses sworn. At this stage of the trial it developed that Justice Dennis was the son-in-law a fact that he had adroitly withheld of the arch conspirator, Hassell. This precipitated a lengthy and spirited argument pro and con between the counsel, but resulted finally in Dennis withdrawing under heavy fire and McCain was selected. The case was then opened de novo and proceedings begun. The bar and court room was packed with the large number of defendants, the larger number of witnesses and scores of interested spectators. There are twenty-five cases of alleged fraudulent graveyard insurance pending at this trial, with as many indi vidual defendants and with C. R. Hassell and Noe, Delamar & Co., insurance agents, and Drs. T. B. Delamar and E. L. Perkins, examining physicians, figuring as the arch conspirators in every case. The first case called was that involving the policies issued on the life of one Charles Arthur, a street beggar, now deceased, who in his applications for insurance through the above agencies and in the examinations of the above physicians, was reported to be a man of sound constitution, good health, and splendid hereditary record, whereas in truth and in fact, as sworn to by witnesses who knew him intimately and constantly, he was a walking skeleton at the time of said applications and examinations and had been for more than two years previous af flicted with bowel consumption constantly and of which complaint he died within a few months after the issuance of said -policies, aggregating more than $9,000, and of which it is said he knew nothing, his applica tions, signatures and physical examinations being forgeries by the said agents and phy sicians aforesaid and their co-conspirators, necessary to the required proofs of death in order to secure payments of assured policies. At this stage of the trial pending a spirited argument of counsel as to the admissability of certain evidence bearing on the allega tion of conspiracy the court adjourned until 10 o'clock to morrow morninc. By Southern Press. New York, July 30 A Beaufort, N. C, special says: A warrant for another arrest in connection with the alleged graveyard insurance swindle has been issued. The ac cused is Dr. L. W. Perkins, formerly of Morehead City, but now a practicing physi 'cian at Newport, N. C. New York World. Morehead City, July 28. The insurance swindle has been going on for eight years, and some of the merchants in the town have been engaged in it. So remuner ative had it become that the negroes went into the business on their own account, and eventually joined forces with the white men. The gang finally became bolder, taking out larger policies of insurance, where heretofore they had been satisfied with small but quick profits, and their greed was the ultimate cause of .their exposure. Policy holders of five New Nork and New England companies haye been defrauded by them. It is alleged that about eight years ago C. R. Hassell, a shrewd horse trader, went to Beaufort and soon engaged in the insurance business, and that after a while he and a physician and some merchants formed a ring to defraud the several insurance com panies that employed Hassell as their agent. Old, decrepit and dying whites and ne groes of both sexes were insured, in many instances without their knowledge. It waV no uncommon occurrence, it is said, to see men hawking around Beaufort and its su burbs policies of life insurance, offering to place them free of cost to the assured if in ill-health, and agreeing to provide the neces saries of life while alive and at death to have them decently buried, besides occa sionally allowing a small sum to provide for their families' requirements. When they found a dying person they would sometimes take out policies without secur ing the consent of the insured. It is alleged further that Levi T. Noe, Selden D. Delamar and Jacob C. Delamar, under the firm name of Noe, Delamar 'it Co., secured the assistance of Dr. T. B. Dela mar, a relative of the junior member 'of the firm, together with the agency of seve ral reputable life insurance companies, and began operations of a similar character. The first company to start an investigation was the Mutual Reserve Fund Life associa tion of New York, which had a death loss of f 1,000 upon Ella G. Rountree, a negress, in sured as a white woman, who died of con sumption shortly after she had been insured. The aggregate insurance placed upon her life in various companies within a few months of her decease was f 14,000. The Massachusetts Benefit Life association of Boston, which had been represented by Noei Delamar & Co., less than six months, stood for policies aggregating $50,000. Upon notification of two death losses, occurring within a period of less than two months after Ussuing the policies, the company de tailed 4ts inspector, W. C. Abrams, to make an investigation. He forind that Fereda Williatis, one of the risks, who had been nsuredfor 82.000, had been lying at the point of kieath for several weeks prior to the issuance' of the policies, and that Ella G. Rountree, colored, who had been insured as a white woman, had been in ill health for three years before, and had been confined to i her bed several months when the insurance was effected. The beneficiaries in the Roun tree case figured in the policy as the father and the brother of the deceased. The ' father," Stephen I. Turner, is a Baptist minister, Neither of the parties was pos sessed of the means to carry so heavy a line of insurance. I In the course of Inspector Abrams' inves tigation he discovered that men and women 65 to 80 years of age had been insured on the basis of ages ranging from ten to fifteen years. He discovered also that one of the insured, John Boyd, was a poor demented negro: another,Mary A. Longest, was 65 years old. but was insured as 54. while she had suffered from heart disease for several years, and died of it a few months after the can celling of the policy. Fereda Williams had been in ill health for several years. Her husband, Samuel Will iams, wno is nominated as beneficiary, is a fisherman who is and always has been in straightened circumstances. . His boon companion, Abe Wigfall, se cured $3,000 from the Bay State Beneficiary Association of Westfield, Mass.. upon - the death oi his brother, James Wigfall,. who was insured on his deathbed, eleven days before his decease. The claim had been paid without investigation upon the part of the company, as a clean set of proofs of loss had been forwarded by the conspirators, giving cause of death as malarial fever, a disease common in this section. This money, it is alleged, was divided between Abe Wigfall, David Parker,- Frank "Gibble and Silas Blount. It was invested by them in real estate, and the Bay State has insti tuted suit against each of them to recover the amount. f It is stated the inspector's life has been threatened since he began his investigation. Among the many cases of alleged fraud developed in policies secured through; the agency of Noe, Delamar & Co , with the aid of the company's examining physician. Dr. T. B. Delamar, are the following: Samuel Windsor, insured as a white man, aged 58, for $ 3,000. He is a negro, 75 years old, in ill health, and had no knowledge that his life was insured. Mary Williams, negro, as 50 years old, has a son living aged 45 Rosanna Washington, insured for 15,000, has never been examined and had no knowledge of any insurance being placed upon her life. William J. Morgan, insured for f 6.000 at the age of 59, is in ill health and is 70 years Old. Holdah A. Morgan, insured for f 2,000, was suffering from a complication of; dis eases, and her signature to the application, according to her statement, is forged. , Sarah A. Lewis, insured for $2,000 af the age of 49, is a septuagenarian. ? William H. Jones, ex-postmaster of More head City, insured for 11,000. The policy was cancelled, as he is a consumptive. Maria Hamilton, insured as a white woman for 2,500 at the age of 47, is a negress 65 years old, and in declining health. Thomas Davis, insured for f 2,000 at the age of 44, is over 50 years old and has ; con sumption. Shepherd Davis, insured for $ 6,000, age given as 57, is 75 years old, bent, a, chronic sufferer from rheumatism, and is poverty stricken and dependent wholly upon charity for support. He had no knowledge of being insured. : The medical examination in the Wigfall case was made by Dr. Edward Thomas, of Newbern. N. C, who at the time was visit ing Beaufort. He has since removed to New York city, and is said to be domicilii at a lodging house known as the Waverly, No. 9 Bowery. . A man named Thomas, possibly the doc tor of that name mentioned in the More head City dispatch, has been at the Waverly lodging house, No. 9 Bowery, for the past seven months. He has been quite a mys tery to the other lodgers in the place, prob ably because he is non-communicative. He pays 15 cents a night for his room, and usually arriyes at the lodging house after midnight. He is a clean shaven man, of medium height, about 60 yeais of age, and although his attire is somewhat seedy, he is the best dressed man in the house. He was not in when a reporter called last night. Hewbern Journal, July 30. In another column will be found an ac" count of numerous arrests of Beaufort citi" zens on the serious charge of conspiracy in procuring the insuring of parties diseased with fatal maladies so that they could speed ily collect insurance money and reap a large harvest of spoils in short order. We are informed that there are two sides to the question and that so far only one side has been heard through public print but that the other side will be heard before they are through. The preliminary trial will be held to-day and the defendants will be ably represented by two Newbern attorneys, W. W. Clark and O. H. Guion. They went down last night for the purpose of appearing for them at the preliminary hearing to-day. It will be held before Allen C. Davis, justice of peace . of Morehead City. We understand that a number of the de fendants have over-due policies of insur ance in the companies, to compel the pay ment of which they brought suit in the Su perior court of Carteret county, and that most of those suits have been remoyed to the Circuit court at Raleigh, and further that the same claims which the defendants in the civil cases against them set up as their answer are argued for the prosecution of those arrested. We know nothing of what the evidence will show, but the above fact being so it looks somewhat as if the criminal actions against the Beaufort citizens might have been brought for purpose of eliciting in ad vance evidence that would come up on the trial of those cases and also for the purpose of creating a sentiment adverse to the plaintiffs who want to get a settlement for the policies which the insurance companies refuse to pay. More Conspiracies in Russia, St. Petersburg, July 30 An extensive conspiracy has been discovered among the priests of the Seminary and University of Kieff, aiming at the introduction of a plan of greater freedom of attack upon the pre vailing system of nepotism in governmental positions, and it is also stated that the dis covery has been made that the students union in the University of Moscow are plan ning to assassinate the Czar. Specimen Cases. S, H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma tism, his Stomach was disordered, his Liver was affected to an alarming degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, D.I., had a running sore on his leg of eight years' standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Buck len's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and well. John Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One bot tle Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold by R. R. Bellamy's Dmsr store. VALUABLE INFORMATION AS TO COTTON AND WOOLEN MILLS IN THIS STATE In Next Bulletin or the .Agricultural Department-TVake'e Pine Roads A. Horse Thier Caught Dr. Grissom is in an Asylum State Fair Note An Escaped Murderer Joins the Cuban Insurgent. Messenger Bcrkac, ) Raleigh. N. C, July 24 J State Treasurer Worth to-day received a telegram from William A. Guthrie, who represents the State in the suit aeainst the Wrought Iron Range company, in Person county Superior court. The State wins the suit. Judge Starbuck dismisses the injunc tion restraining the sheriff of Person from collecting taxes from the stove company. For years this company and others have worked the scheme of sending a supply of stoves to some central point for distribution and thence their agents take them in all directions and deliver to customers. Not a cent of tax has been paid. In some cases the companies carried on these proceedings simply by means of "nerve," while in other cases they have claimed immunity under the wide-spreading mantle of the inter-State Commerce act. The Treasurer to-day received a check for 1250 from E. VanLaer, of Wilmington, to pay the license tax due from dealers in mu sical instruments. The Treasurer savs this is the first tax of this description collected in two years. There is a good deal of talk about the ex tension of the lease of the North Carolina railway ;that is, as to whether it shall be ex tended or not. That road is a fine property. Of course there is always talk about the Southern railway paralleling it. President 8. B. Alexander, of the North Carolina rail way, says he believes that it is only a ques tion of time when the Southern will build a link between Mooresville and Mocksville, as it needs greatly a aoubie track between Charlotte and Danville. He says he thinks this link will be built even if the extension of the lease of the North Carolina road to the Southern is made. Three convicts from Columbus county arrived at the penitentiary to-day. News from the eastern and northeastern Earts of this county is to the effect that the eavy rains of last Friday and Sunday haye done much damage by washing lands. Dirt roads have also been damaged. Deputy Collector S. G. Woods reports the seizure near Adelaide. Rockingham county, of Albert Wall's fifty-gallon illicit distillery. Wall escaped. Late yesterday afternoon as Miss Harvey, a sister of Mrs. Bennet Smedes, was walk ing through the campus at St. Mary's school here, a negro boy about 12 years of age, ap parently, sprang from behind a tree and snatching her pocketbook from her hand, ran away and made his escape. In the pocketbook was $21. The daring thief has not been caught. Dr. A. O. Jones, whose home is Leesyille, this county, has typhoid f ever and has been placed in the Rex hospital here. His brother, who has the same disease, is also in the hospital. He nursed Dr. Jones three weeks. Mr. Von Herrmann, at the State central weather station, has not heretofore sent out weather signals to the displaymen if the weather was to be fine, but to-day he had orders from the weather bureau at Wash ington to send them daily no matter what the weather will be. These signals are sent by telegraph to sixty displaymen from this station. There are mailed daily 243 fore casts. In all, from here, from Wilmington and Charlotte, forecasts are daily sent to 500 persons, Mr. Von Herrman tells me. Messenger Bureau, ) Raleigh, July 26. The Populists are certainly getting at work early in their campaign business. Here it is a year before the campaign of 1896 and yet they are making things lively. Already they have hade several rallies, one to-day in Wilson county, at which Maj. W. A Guthrie was the chief speaker. It was thought in 1894 that Senator Marion Butler made a pretty early start when he begarl his "campaign of education," as he termed it, in January of that year. Farmers who come in bring news of damage by rains and hail and wind. The weather is now fair and fine, to the great delight of everybody. The Baptists will put up a $7,000 building at their orphanage at Thomasville. It is not thought that the stoppage of work on their woman's university will be for long. Just -as rapidly as possible money will be raised, so the work can be pushed. It is reasonably sure that the building will be readv by next spring. The State Auditor says he has up to this date licensed forty-seven building and loan associations to do business in this State Of these nineteen are from other States, four being from Virginia, five from Tennessee, one from Louisiana, five from Georgia, one from New Hampshire, two from New York, and two from Connecticut. Rev. Dr. Bennett Smedes returned to-day from a trip as far west as Salt Late City. The clerk of the railway commission has completed the lists .of assessment of railway property in all the counties and towns and is sending out the statements. The Seaboard Air Line has made the pay ment of the taxes on all its property in North Carolina, aggregating 112,966.45, the valuation being, as stated last Monday, $5,186,580. Ten days ago Charles Solomon, aged 26 years, a city employe, was injured in the foot by a nail in aplank, which penetrated his shoe. Up to Wednesday he, was appa rently all right; then lockjaw supervened. He was taken to the hospital yesterday and died there last night. It is the second case of the kind here in about a year. Dr. Hubert Royster, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has settled here and will practice. He is a son of Dr. Wis consin I. Royster, who is so well known in the medical profession, and is a brilliant young man. There continues to be talk about the re tirement of Mr. John H. Mills as superin tendent of the Baptist orphanage. A direc tor said the cause of his being removed from that position was that he antagonized some of the warmest supporters of the orphanage. It is said that the action taken was abso lutely necessary, and that Mr. Mills' warm supporters wrote to him and asked him not to be a candidate for re-election. The trus tees declare that no secret influences were brought to bear to oust him. He and the board could not be harmonious, it seems. Members of the board say the talk of Mr. Mills' reinstatement is idle. Mr. Thomas D. Watson is continued as principal deputy to United States Marshal O. J. Carroll, at $1,200 salary, and Mr. Clif ford Carroll is appointed chief clerk at $1,500 salary. Both these are new offices. : Messenger Bureau. ? Raleigh, N. C, July 30. ) Last Friday a thief stole and carried off a horse belonging to Rev. Dr. J. B. Babbitt, To dav the man was arrested at Golds bo ro and Deputy Sheriff Brooks at once went there alter him. At 11:15 o'clock to-day twelve car loads of white excursionists, containing about people, arrived here from points on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railway be low Fayetteville. Very few of the excur sionists had ever seen Raleigh and they en joyed themselves greatly. At the came of base ball between Raleigh and Wilmington colored teams here yester day, there was a remarkable play in which four players were put out at once. The crowd at the grounds was the largest ever seen there. - The Agricultural Department will issue 20,000 copies of its August bulletin, contain ing statistics regarding cotton and woolen mills, etc. Material, in the shape of reports from the various counties, is pouring in and the report will contain a mass of valuable information. Road Supervisor McMackin tells me the complete cost of the twenty-four-foot roads here is $1,600 per mile. The Hillsboro road is now complete three and one-half miles, and is one of the finest thoroughfares in the State. The country people, who two years ago cried out at the mere idea of paying taxes for roads, are now of one mind, Super visor McMackin says, in desiring to be taxed. Every day they talk to him about this mat ter. The leaven is certainly working The foundation for the new building at the Agricultural and Mechanical college is laid and the walls are going up. At a meeting of the State fair executive committee it was decided that there should be a tournament, probably on Friday, the last day of the fair. A committee composed of Charles E Johnston, A. A. Thompson andC. G. Latta was appointed to request the railways to make the rate one cent per mile. Much pressure will be brought to bear to secure this rate. In fact, the railway peo ple, after the 20th of May experience, ought not to need any urging to maka that rate. . Dr. Eugene Grissoni. who was for twenty five years the superintendent of the insane asylum here, and who has for several years lived in Colorado, is now at an asylum at Denver, under treatment for the morphine habit. - One of the trustees of the Baptist Woman's university tells me that work, which stopped last Week, will be resumed September 1st. Thus far f 6,000 has been expended. This is the first payment. There will be five more payments. Each one will be met, so there will be no debt. The trustees will pay as they go. S. B. Norris t Co. have sold their large new stock of dry goods and ladies' furnish ing goods to Williams, Hood it Co., of Charlotte, and the latter firm has its men here packing the goods for shipment. The firm had not been in business long. Deputy Collector E. A. Mofiit reports the geizure of a fifty-gallon illicit distillery in Montgomery county, owned by Hall fe Luther, who escaped arrest. The gentlemen who are to conduct the civil service examination here August 3rd say that only ten or twelve persons so far show that they will go before the board. There was quite a demand for blanks, but it appears that most of those who sent for these are afraid to stand the examination. Thus far about 100 makers of fruit and grape brandy have given bonds in this dis trict and it is expected that about 400 more will file bonds. It is said by people from Montgomery county that Young Tucker who murdered the handcuffed colored prisoner in Mont gomery county, waBied to Fair Bluff, sixty miles away, got funds from his father and then went to Florida, It is said by a member of his family that he went to Cuba and has joined the insurgents. This may .however be a mere fiction. It is said Tucker's relatives secured counsel to ap pear for him in case he was apprehended and tried for his horrible crime. It seems that no application for a reward for his ar rest has been made. A SEVERE TEST To be Made of Turrets for Oar New Battleships Secret Mission of the Atlanta All Quiet at Jack son's Hole Increase of Yellow Fever in Cuba. Washington, July 30 The ballistic test of a turret, representing those to be used on the battleships Massachusetts, Indiana and Oregon, will be made at the naval proving ground, Indian Head, Md., in the near future. The turret was built by the Cramps, of Philadelphia. The test will be very 'severe. The attack will first be made with a six-inch gun, and will be continued until the largest sized gun a thirteen-inch bore is reached. A test will also be made of a plated structure representing the side of a ship. The ordnance bureau expects to ob tain much valuable information from the test and the experiments are looked for with much interest. The cruiser, Atlanta, returned to Key West yesterday from another search after Cuban filibustering expeditions. A telegram announcing her return received at the Navy Department to-day was the first information vouchsafed to the public by the Navy De partment officials that she had been away from Key West. It cannot be learned what results, if any, were achieved by the vessel, as everything connected with her move ments is kept in close secret by the few naval officials who are informed on the matter. It is learned at the State Department with reference to the report that the recent trip of the Atlanta was for the purpose of pre venting the Spanish soldiers from lynching Sanguilly, Aguirrie and Gomez, alleged revolutionists who claim to be American citizens, that no information that these men were in danger had come to the department from any United States consular otncer, and that all the department knew of the alleged threatened lynching was contained in news paper reports. Gen. Coppinger has been heard from. The following dispatch from the headquarters of the Department of the Platte, Omaha, was received by Gen. Schofield at army headquarters this morning. "Market Lake, July 23. "A courier w, ho arrived at Market Lake this morning reports that when he left Gen. Coppinger's troops last night, information had just been brought in by a rumor from Marysvale that all was quiet there. The Lemhi agent telegraphs that only three of his Indians are supposed to be in Jachson's Hole country and that there is no indication that others will join the uprising there." A belated telegram, dated Saturday, was received at the State Department this morn ing from Consul General Vif quain, at Pan ama, stating that trains were moving with out interruption over the route of the Pan ama railroad. It is believed at the depart ment that the strike is practically over. According to reports received by the marine hospital service, yellow fever is making largely increased ravages among the gople of Cuba. The medical inspector at avana states that in the week ended, July 29th, there were seventy new cases in that city and twenty-three deaths. From Osaka and Hiogo, Japan, comes the report that in the week ended. July 6th, there were 104 cases of cholera with seventy nine deaths. SEVEN MURDERS CHARGED AGAINST HOLMES BY THE CHICAGO POLICE. They CJatm to Hare the Man Who Known all About f!olm liar deroua Transactions V Slight Cine r ct the CI t; rand Murder Holm Attempt to lnT' urothe Ilfe of An other Woman a Failure. Chu a.o. July 30 Mr. Curand, the father of the missing Emeline. who was suppoatl to have been .murdered by H. H. Holmea, and iPhilomena, her sister, arrived from their;home in Anderson this morn in and paid an early visit to Inspector Fitxptricfc. They were accompanied by lr. B. J. Cigrand, a cousin of the reputed victim. They were closeted with the inspector and Chief Badenoch for over an hoar. Tb only ;new information they have wu con cerning a trunk which was received atOi- ford.jObio. where the Cigranda lived, a few days after the announcement from the Chi cago employer of the girl that ihe had dis appeared. The tmns contained only a few clothes, readily identified as the property of Emeline. There was no note or other word accompanying it. The police will at once begiri work on this slight clew. They will endeavor to discover if possible what i press company handled the trunk and by whom it was sent. Mrs Strowers, a washerwoman, who live at Sixty third and Morgan streets, fujrmhed the detectives with a new feature in the case to-day. She said she used to wash for Holmes and for Mrs. Connors. Several times, she said, some of the latter' b clothing were! brought to her by Holmes. In 1.U. she stated. Holmes came to her and tinted her to take out an insurance policy on her life for 10,OX). 1 "Dont't be afraid of rae" Mrs Stowers quotes Holmes as saying, "you take out the policy and I'll give you f5,(M) cash for it at once.?' Mrs. Strowers friends persuaded her not to do so and she never talked with Holmes on the subject again. Mrs. Pietzel willgotoGalva. Ill , to night. The police did have an idea of preventing her from leaving the city, but have aban doned it. They are still ot the opinion, however, that she can tell a great deal more than she has yet divulged. There Is now little doubt that the Chicago police will convict H. II. Holmes, alias Mudgett, alias Prattt, alias Gordon, now in the Philadelphia jail, of the murder of at least seven persons. They know the -name of the man who can hang Holmes by giving his testimony and that man is in their power. His name is Hatch, alias Bond, alias Mascot, and he is now serving a sen tence; of ten years in the penitentlarv at Little Rock, Ark., for horse stealing. He is as close to Holmes through all his murder plans as Janitor Quinlan and is ready to tell all he knows. This includes the pointing out of the resting place of the bodies of the Williams sisters, whom he himself as sisted in secreting after they were murdered. He will tell how they were murdered and exactly how all their bodies were handled. He will also give full and explicit information concerning the murder of Pietzel and his two children, and of Mrs. Connors and her daughter Pearl. In short this man is the only other living person aside from Ouinlau who can tell the story of the murders in the chamel house at Sixty-third and Wallace streets Aaide from Quinlarr, he is the only man who can tell of Holmes' crimes in a way that will bring forth evidence of Holmes' guilt. The mention of his name by the police to day made Janitor Quinlan turn pale and re fuse to talk further and a confession from Quinlan is almost assured, but will come too late, as Hatch is to be the Bute's wit ness, j It has been arranged to request bin pardon from the Governor, of Arkansas if he will give his testimony, with the under standing he will not be proaecuted in Illi nois for complicity in the Holmes frauds and crimes. ' It is suspected that Attorney William Capps, of Fort Worth, Texas, gave the police of Chicago ome valuable information about Hatch. Id fact, it is definitely underwood that Hatch -vas discovered in the Little Rock peniteL f iary by Attorney Capps. who is in Chicago for the purpose of proving up the fraudulent transactions of Holmea with regard to the property of the Williams girls. He declared to-day that the Williams . girlH were both dead and that he could offer suf ficient proof to a civil court to secure a set ting aside of the title of their property (now in the name of Pietzel as D. B. Lyman), so that the heirs of the two girls could secure the property. But he refuses absolutely to say what his evidence of the murder was. LIBERIAN IMMIGRANTS. Return of Three of the Colony Which Sailed From Savannah Deplor able Condition of Thoe Lieft Be hind. Philadelphia, July M At the Waylareri lodgej Lombard street, homesick and desti tute, j are three negroes of Arkansas, who have ijust returned from Liberia, whither they went as colonists some months ago. Of nearly one hundred companions in the ex pedition, some are said to have died of star vation and other are eking out a wretched existence in Africa. They say the International Migration ko ciety,i of Birmingham. Ala., offered twenty five acres of land to every colonist and used as endorsement the name of Bishop H. M. Turner, of Atlanta, Ga. The subscribers were required to pay til in advance install ments and their passage to Savannah . In return they were to be given their passage, food and the land on arrival. The ship sailed in March for Monrovia with ninety seven colonists, who were in the care of the society's secretary. The men declare they were Bimply dumped ashore and allowed to shift for themselves. A score of their com rades died of climate fever, and some, it was reported, perished by starvation. Work could not be secured, and the flesh of dead animals and snakes was seized upon with avidity for food. These three saw no hope for them in the colony, and succeeded in obtaining passage to Liverpool and thence to Philadelphia. They; expect help from Arkansas which will enable them to return to their homes. Baldness is often proceeded or accom panied by grayneaa of the hair. To. pre vent both baldness and Hall's Hair Renewer. grayneaa, use
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