Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 March 1894 — Page 2

ftbe file Cmmtg Democrat M McC. STOOPS, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - A- INDIANA. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, who two years ago was stricken with paralysis, had another serious attack on the 20th. „ Oh the 20th the New York chamber of commerce unanimously adopted a petition to President Cleveland praying that he veto the seigniorage bill. The house* judiciary committee agreed, on the 20th, to report favorably a bill providing for an additional district judge for the northern district of Illinois. The queen and the prince of Wales have given their consent to the marriage of Lord Rosebery, the new British prime minister, with Princess Maude of Wales. The house committee on agriculture perfected the anti-option bill, on the 23d, and directed Mr. Hatch to submit it to the house with the recommendation that it pass. The United States senate adopted a resolution, on the 22d, offered by Mr. Hoar, expressing regret at the death of Louis Kossuth, and tendering to the falnily of the deceased the condolences of the senate. The 195 banks of Illinois outside of Chicago, held, on February 28, 36.66 pgr cent, of reserve; loans and discounts, $41,909,000; lawful money reserve, $5,542,000; surplus funds, $6,301,000; individual deposits, $40,393,000. The American ship Undaunted, which sailed from San Francisco, on the 19th, wheat laden, for Queenstown, was towed back the same night in a sinking condition, with four feet' of water in her hold, liaving struck on a bar going out. --—•— The imports of dry goods at the port of New York for the week ended on the 28d were $1,811,274, and the amount marketed $1,868,196. For the corresponding week in 1893 the imports were $1,932,025, and amount marketed $2,050,452. Delegates from various industrial establishments of Philadelphia, who proposed going to Washington on April 6 and 7, to attend a convention ip protest against the Wilson bill, have postponed their trip to the capital until the 20th and 21st.

Mrs. Mathias Breckel, of Cleveland, 0., arose, on the morning of the 20th, to find her husband’s dead body beside the bed. He had tied a rope to the bedpost and deliberately strangled himself to death while his wife lav asleep with her babe in her arms. Confidential orders are said to have been issued to the commandants of various posts and garrisons within reasonable reach of Washington city to hold their commands in readiness to move to the capital in the > event of Coxey’s horde assuming the proportions intimated by the press. Mourning emblems were displayed on all sides in Hungary, and every newspaper in Buda-Pesth appeared, on the 21st, with black borders. The two cities were black with crepe and other emblems of sorrow felt by the people of Hungary at the death of Louis Kossuth, the exiled patriot. Dr. Nettleship, the well-known London oculist, who has been engaged with several other eminent professional men to perform an operation on Mr. Gladstone’s eyes, says that in his opinion the proposed operation will fully restore their distinguished patient’s normal powers of vision. The meeting to be held on the steps of the federal capitol by Citizen Coxey and the army of the common weal on Tuesday, May 1, has been declared off by Maj. William G, Moore, superintendent of the Washington police, under authority of an act of congress entitled “An act to regulate the use of the capitol grounds.” On the 21st a number of coke operators in.^he Connellsville (Pa.) region made known their intention to resist organized labor, and by way of emphasis the Atlas Coke Co. discharged JL 5J. Davis and Daniel Darby, who on the day previous had been elected president and secretary, respectively, of the miners’ organization. The Italian chamber of deputies, sitting in committee on the budget, on the 21st, accepted the government’s estimates of revenue and expenditures. The proposals impose aggregate taxes of 50,000,000 lire per annum and prescribe economies to an equal amount. In the war and marine departments 20,000,000 lire are to be saved. The Italian court of appeals has rendered a decision that military tribunals are not competent to consider and pass upon the acts of prisoners prior to the proclamation of a state of siege in Massa di Carrara, Sicily. In consequence of this decision the sentences recently imposed on. many prisoners there will be materiaUy modified. Gov. Rich’s action in removing from office State Treasurer Hambitzer, Secretary of State Jochim and Land Commissioner Berry, was sustained by the supreme court of Michigan on the 20th, and the governor appointed their successors, as follows: Secretary of state, Washington Gardner; state treasurer, J. M. Wilkinson, and land commissioner, W. A. French. Adolph Krugg, the defaulting city treasurer of Seattle, Wash., was, on the 20th, convicted of using $10,000 of public, money in a manner not authorized by law and to make a profit thereby. Twenty-six more indictments are still hanging over him. Krugg left Beattie early in September last and was captured about two months ago in Paul and returned to Seattle

nCEBENT TOPICS TEE HEWS IE BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Ik the senate, on the 19th, the only occurrence that possessed any general Interest was the announcement by the vice-president that he had affixed his signature to the Bland seigniorage act Messages from the president transmitting the latest dispatches from Minister Willis in Honolulu in relation to afTalrs in Hawaii, and from Ambassador Bayard in London in relation to the landing of British forces at Bluefields, Nicaragua, were presented and referred. Half a dozen bills were taken from the calendar and passed.In the house the entire session was spent in further consideration of the sundry civil bilL The army appropriation bill was reported. In the senate, on the 20th. the tariff bill, as modified by the senate finance committee, was reported and ordered to be printed and placed on the calendar- Mr. Voorhees gave notice that he would ask the senate to begin the consideration of the bill on Monday, April 2. Mr. George spoke on the Hawaiian question— In the house the sundry civil appropriations bill was passed. The contested-election case of O'Neill vs. Joy, from Missouri, was called up, but action was delayed for want of a quorum. In the senate, on the 21st. the session was confined almost exclusively to bills on the calendar unobjected to, twenty-five of which were passed as fast as they could be read in full by the clerk. None of them were of general interest or importance. At 2 o'clock, when the morning hour expired, the calendar was laid aside, and from that time until 3:30, when the senate adjourned, a discussion was kept up on a bill to simplify the form of deeds of conveyance, trust and releases of land in the District of Columbia. No aotion was taken on the bill, which still remains the unfinished business.The house was not in session on the 21st In the senate, on the 22d, Mr. Sherman offered a resolution looking to the enactment of a bill for the pravention and punishment of simulation of United States coins by coins of the same weight of metal and fineness, which went over. The bill to secure a site for the government printing office was taken up, and the Mphone lot was selected by vote. A motion to reconsider went over without action. The unfinished business—the McGarrahan bill—was laid aside by request. The bill to appropriate 11.000,000 for the extermination of the Russian thistle, went over without action ......In the house the session was spent in an unavailing effort to secure the vote of a quorum upon the motion to take up the O'Neill-Joy contested-election case. The senate was not in session on the 23d.... In the house an expression of sympathy on the death of Uouis Kossuth was voted. After one vote the O’Neill-Joy contested-election • case went over. The Whitely-Cobb case was decided in favor of Mr. Cobb, the sitting member. The military academy appropriation bill was passed, as was also a bill appropriating (10,000 for the further enforcement of the Chinese exclusion and registration act. An evening session for the consideration of pension matters was held.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Thirteen county prisoners at Cripple Creek, Col., broke jail, on the night of the 19th, and gained their liberty, friends on the outside having knocked the locks off and opened the doors. The arrest of W. E. Darrow, alias W. F. Shaw, at Sioux City, la., Monday, for making counterfeit silver coin,. was reported to the treasury department on the 20th. A large assortment of tools, files, lathes, etc., was captured. Incendiaries attempted to burn the business portion of Clinton, la., on the morning of the 20th. An alarm called the department to the residence part of the city, and immediately after two jires were discovered in the business district. This necessitated a division of the department, and, with a high wind prevailing, the fires were only subdued after much hard work. The ^dwelling' of the chief of the Cherokee nation, at Tahlequah, I. T. was burned on the night of the 19th. I The structure was a two-story frameNothing was saved. Chief Harris had a narrow escape, barely escaping with his babe, in his night clothes. His hands were badly burped. It was reported in Athens, on the 21st, that an earthquake had occurred at Tarissa, near the Gulf of Salonica, destroying many houses. Particulars were not obtainable. Thirteen persons were injured in the wild rush of 400 men, women and children, from- the “Mixed Ale” flats, a big six-story double-decked tenement house in New York, on the 21st. The panic was caused by a fire which destroyed the upper portion of the building. The four-story public school building in South Evanston, IS miles north of JChicago, was completely destroyed by fire on the 21st; loss, $50,000. Several pupils were severely injured by jumping from the third and fourthstory windows. On March 16, at 7 a. m., James Melville, aged SO, a steerage passenger on the steamer Anchoria, en route to New York, and an American citizen, in a moment of temporary insanity stabbed Charles Macklehom, also a steerage passenger, causing a slight flesh wound, and then jumped overboard. On the 21st it was given out that Senator Colquitt’s bowels were paralyzed, and his physicians reluctantly admitted that his death was but a matter of hours. The absent members of the senator’s family were telegraphed for. The eighth annual convention of the Michigan Christian Endeavor union met in Detroit, on the 21st, about 1,500 delegates being present. John H. Perkins, of Lebanon, Ind., received a letter, on the 21st, containing $26 and a note saying: “I sent this for Jesus Christ’s sake.” There was no signature to the note. About eight years ago Mr. Perkins’ store was robbed and about $20 worth of goods taken, and the*3ujpposition is that the money he received was sent by the robber. At St. Paul, Ind., on the 21st, Andrew Gayheimer, an aged and respected citizen,climbedtothetopof the railway bridge which spans Flat Rock river, the top of which is 80 feet from the river bed, which is solid limestone rock, and without saying a word deliberately walked to the edge and jumped. Every bone in his body must have been broken. Princess Maud, the youngest daughter of the prince of Wales, and Prime Minister Rosebery will shortly he married. An official announcement of the engagement will be made within a few days. The princess is the prettiest and most vivacious member of the royal family. She is 24 years old and is a general fa rorite

The residence <>f Eli Clark, « miles south of Hartford City, Ind., was destroyed by an explosion of natural gas, on the 21st, and an infant child was so badly burned that it died. Six other persons were seriously burned, irtDk. A. J. Houser, of Indianapolis, Ind., who some weeks ago directed a message to ex-Queen Lfliuokalani asking her royal highness to accompany him on a lecture tour through the United States, claims to have information indirectly from the queen through a Washington friend that she has decided to accept his offer. Hon. Andrew D. White is about to retire from the Kussian mission. The mission will soon be raised to the rank of an embassy, a id Leri Z. Leiter, the Chicago milhona ire, it is said, will be made ambassador to the court of St. Petersburg., During a quari-el over some pasture land at Lebanon, Ind. , on the 21st, Seymour Thompson drew a revolver and attempted to shoot his father-in-law, Hartley Smith, but the latter was too quick for him and Thompson received a blow on the head which may prove fatal. The coronor’s jury at Troy, N. Y.,on the 21st, in the case of Robert Ross, who was killed a t the\riot at the polls on election day, rendered a verdict that the murder was committed by Bartholomew Shea. On the 21st Sweet Perry, a negro boy, aged ltt, was found guilty at Guthrie, Okla., of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the stoning to death ot J. W. Chamblish, a cowboy, about six months ago. Rev. Thomas Spurgeox was, on the 21st, elected pastor of the London tabernacle. No mention was mad,e of Rev. Dr. Arthur P. Pierson, the American minister, who was a candidate for the place. Justice of the Peace Newton, of Brooklyn, was, oa the 22d, sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $500 for complicity iD the Gravesend election frauds. He then withdrew his appeal in the contempt of court case and received an additional sentence, of thirty days’ imprisonment in Raymond-street jail and a fine of $250 in that case. Senor Idiart Borbet has been elected president of Uruguay and will assume the duties of the office at once. He belongs to the official party and was elected by a narrow majority. Five members of a wealthy Jewish family residing in Smorgoni, Russian Poland, were murdered, on the 21st, by peasants, whose motive was robbery. Oil the 22d the senate confirmed the nomination of Ma rshal H. Williams to be associate justice of the supreme court of Arizona.

Mrs. Sidney Schui.l, of Muncie, Ind., aged 72 years, while attending the funeral of a neighbor, on the 23d, became greatly grieved, was attacked with a fit of coughing, and died in a few minutes. Mrs. Geo. McOmber, of Chicago,* claims to have been guided by her spirit mother to Independence^ Mo., where she located her runaway husband, who left her a year ago in company with Mrs. R. D. Brown. Commodore Kirkland has been assigned to succeed Admiral Benham in command of the South Atlantic station. Ax application made to Judge O’Brien, of New York, on the 23d, for a writ of habeas corpus for John Y. McKane, was denied. The body of James Kingdom, the fifth of the victims of the Gaylord mine disaster at Plymouth, Pa., was taken from the mine on the night of the 22d. LATE NEWS ITEM& The senate was not in session on the 24th.In the house, after preliminary business, the postal appropriation bill for the year ending June 30,1895, was taken up in committee of the whole. The bill carries a total appropriation of $S7,470,«00, or $3,125,500 less than the estimates of the department. The sum of $20,000 was set apart forf experimenting on free rural delivery. Other amendments were considered and adopted, after which the committee arose and the house adjourned. Coxey’s army of the commonweal, which it was claimed would leave Massillon, O., 10,000 strong, took up its march, on the 25th,'with about seven-ty-five stragglers in line. The column was accompanied by a bugler, four covered wagons, containing camping outfits, baled straw and several quarters of beef and a brass band. Before the end of tie first day’s march, one-third of the “army” had deserted, owing to the providence of a snowstorm. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 24th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $1,774,850; loans, increase, $2,516,300; specie, increase, $69,400; egal tenders, increase, $2,755,700; net deposits, increase, $4,499,000; circulation, decrease, $65,900. A committee of tie followers of M. Jules Gusede, the well-known socialist member of the French chamber of deputies, have arranged for holding two immense mass meetings on April 12 and 14. The federal council of Switzerland has notified the goverments of France, England and Chilli hat Peru authorizes the Swiss federa court to arbitrate the claims of the Peruvian creditors. Numerous reports from the northern and western sections of New Hampshire indicate that the maple sugar harvest will be a practical failure. - H. A. M. Glenen for many years business manager of the Boston theater, died on the 24.h. He was a veteran of the Mexican war. Mrs. Ross and lie:.* 5-months-old infant perished in the flames of their burning home in Sat. Francisco on the 24th. Ox the 24th the Ne w York associated hanks held $79,077,650 in excess of the requirements of the i5-per-cent rule. The coke ovens at Black Lick and Coketown, Pa., emiloying 850 men, have resumed operat ona

OVER THE STATE. Telegraphic News from Various Towns in Indiana. On Trial for Her Life. = Kokomo, Ind., March 22. —Wednesday morning Mrs. Augusta Schmidt was put on trial for killing her tenant, Oscar Walton. A special venire of eighty talesmen was exhausted and another eighty ordered. Owing to the, prominence of the case and searching jury examination a panel may not he secured! this week. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt is 45 years of age, with a husband and three children. She recently came into possession of a fortune of $100,000. October 20 last Mrs. Schmidt, in a towering passion, shot and instantly killed James Oscar Walton, a tenant on one of her farms near the town of Walton, Cass county. Mrs. Schmidt and Walton quarreled over a division of the crops and the shooting followed. The woman sets np a claim of self-defense. Slaved Two with m Pistol. Tollkston, Ind., March 22.—At 7 o’clock Wednesday evening James Conroy and William Cleary, watchmen in the Tolleston shooting club ground, quarreled with Albert Tooker, who drew a big n^ry pistol from his pocket and fired »six shots at them at short range, killing both outright A vigilance committee. was immediately organized, and ten minutes later seventy-five farmers armed with shotguns, rifles, clubs and hay forks began scouring the woodr and swamps. Foand Dead on a Train. L La Pokte, Ind., March *22.—When the Lake "Shore reached here Wednesday morning the train crew discovered that a man occupying a seat in one of the day coaches was dead. He had died between here and Otis, and papers on his person showed he was C. A. Shattreck, of Parsons, Kan., on his way to Kalamazoo, Mich., to visit an aunt A bottle of laudanum was "found in a pocket and he may have committed suicide. 1 Restores the Money He Stole. Lebanon, Ind., March 22.—John H. Perkins, of this city, received a letter Wednesday from an unknown source containing 128. About eight years ago Mr. Perkin’s store was robbed and $20 worth of goods taken. The supposition is the money he received was sent by the robber, who has probably been converted since. The letter bears the Chi* cago postmark.

Married Sixty-Eight Years. Logansport, Ind., March 22.—Judge Hewitt L. Thomas and wife of Galveston, this county, celebrated the sixtyeighth anniversary of their wedding' this week. Both are now in the 90’s, but are still possessed of remarkable vigor and unimpaired mental faculties. They are among the earliest settlers of the Wabash valley. Jumped Cram a Bridge. Shelbyville, Ind., March 22.— Andrew Gayheimer, 60 years old, climbed to the top of the railroad bridge which spans Flat Rock river at St Paul Wednesday and jumped to a river bed which is 80 feet below. He struck on solid limestone rock and was dashed to pieces. * Destroyed by Natural Uas. Muncie, Ind., March 22.—A natural gas explosion destroyed Eli Clark’s large residence near Eaton Wednesday. The fragments took fire and were destroyed with the furniture. Mr. and Mrs. Clark and two children were badly injured, and the baby will probably die. Probably a Fatal Quarrel. Lebanon, Ind., March 22.—During a quarrel over some pasture land Wednesday afternoon Seymour Thompson attempted to shoot his father-in-law. Hartley Smith. The latter was too quick for him, and Thompson received a blow on the head which may prove fatal. " Folding Bed Causes Death. Warsaw, Ind., March 22.— Mrs. Marj Dolt died here Wednesday morning. She was one of two women sleeping in a folding bed, which collapsed, fracturing her spine by the concussion. A bent rod in the mechanism of the bed caused the fatal accident A Fatal Shock. Indianapolis, Ind., March 22.—C. H. Carlton, a prominent real estate man of this city, died of heart disease Wednesday. He had a tussle with a burglar Tuesday night and the shocfc; was the real cause of his death. N«w Industry for Florida. Anderson, Ind.. March 22.—The Steece Manufacturing company, formerly of West Muncie, has located at Florida, Ind. A $20,000 bonus was paid by the citizens and a franchise for free gas was given. Given Nine Years In the Pen, Anderson, Ind., March 22.—Tom May was sentenced Wednesday to nine years’ imprisonment in the Michigan City penitentiary. He is the first one of the celebrated Goodman gang to come to tidal. Drive Out Chicago Beef. Richmond, Ind., March 22.—By a united effort among such Indiana cities as Richmond, Kokomo, Terre Haute and Indianapolis Chicago dressed beef has been practically driven out of the state. ‘ ' One Year in Prison. Brazil, Ind., March 22.—Theodore Taylor was sentenced here Wednesday to one year in prison for stock stealing. He is believed to be an escaped convict from the penitentiary at Columbus, O. Assaulted Their Mother. Brazil, Ind,, March 22.—Edward and Patrick Tool are on trial here for assaulting their old mother with intent to kill, and for horribly cutting James Kerwin, who Interfered. Three Deaths at Kikhsrt. Elen art, Ind., March 22.—Mrs. T. Daily, aged 72 years; Mrs. Dr. Aitken and Adam Hartman, aged 83 years, all prominently known people, died Wednesday morning.

MONKEY LANGUAGE. Prof. Garner** Return After a Four Years* Residence Amgiaj the Gorillas of Africa. Devoted to the Careful Study of the Language of the Ynriou* Tribe* of the Monkey Kingdom—Another Trip Pro-* jiected. New York. March 26.—Prof P. L. Garner, who has been in Africa two years studyinj? * the language of the gorillas, arrived in New York on the Etruria. He expressed himself as well pleased with the results of his investigations. and will make another trip to continue the study. He proposes to visit the same part of the Dark Continent again, and to get there at the beginning of the dry season of 1895. He will plant his cages in two places near the scene of his former labors* spet ding almost six weeks in each place. Then he will take a month to explore the Apinji country and investigate the race of dwarfs that are said to live there. The region from which Prof. Garner returns is in the west central part of Africa, just below the equator. He said that he was confirmed in the theories that he had previously advanced concerning the language of monkeys. His efforts were directed almost en? irely toward an understanding of the language of gorillas and he learned many things about their habits that are contrary to the beliefs of naturalists. Among these he mention* the fact that the gorilla is a" carnivorous belast and is especially fond of chickens, rats and small animals as an article of diet. Prof. Garner says he is obliged to refute many statements about gorillas thatnaturalistsarein theha$itof making. He says he has about completed his studies of monkeys, and will hereafter direct his attention to the anthropoid arte with a view to showing the philological relation between their language and the language of men. Prof. Garner did not find his cage complete protection against the attacks of gorillas, but it was strong enough to keep them at bay until be could shoot them. While in the interior he made a detour to visit the enchanted lal^e called M’Buiri'M’Polofby the natives, which, had never before been seen by a white man. The lake is about four days’ journey from the west coast, in 2K degrees south latitude, and is remarkable for the mirages seen upon it. He was unable to find the outlet of the lake. :4

HAWAII DETERMINED *:>- * To Resist Any Attempt to Restore the Monarchy. New York, March 25.—A special to the Tribune from Colfax. Wash., says: A letter received by the last Honolulu mail by James Good, of this city, from his brother,Capt. Goodee, commanding' the national guard of Hawaii, confirms the report that Secretary Gresham has received advices of the British intrigues in Honolulu. Capt. Goode says: “The populists may conclude to attempt something on their own account. If they do we will easily take care of them; but they may make a splurge for a few hours and declare Mrs. Dqminis again qnpen with the hope that Great Britain may sustain her. The British minister is an intriguer, and all his family as well as national interests are bound up in the restoration 6f the monarch}’, and should an uprising take place, he might declare an alleged monarchy under the British protection and land men from the English man-of-war to sustain it. If they come ashore, we will stamp them into the earth, no matter what the after consequences may be. Should stfch a collision occur, we believe that the people of the United States would compel the government to sustain us. We are determined to maintain our position until annexation is accomplished, and will fight any foe, either internal or external, that stands in our way. We are in fine position from a military standpoint. My company garrisons the palace, the vital point They are in splendid condition and anything can be done with them. Perhaps I ought not to say it, but they are in a much finer state of drill and discipline than are any of the crews of the war vessels here.” __ KILLED HER FATHER %o Save the Life of Her Mother, and was Acquitted. Atlanta, Ga-, March 26.—A special to the Constitution from Homer, Banks county, says that J. F. Willis was killed last week by his daughter, Lillian, and his wife. A son testified at the preliminary trial that his father came home from work, and setting a bottle of whisker upon the cupboard, called for his supper. A d ifficulty arose between the father and mother, but the former sat down before the fire, when Lillian struck him with an ax, cutting a gash in his skull. Rising up, Willis threw back his head, and the mother took the ax from the girl and cut him across the throat with it. The girl says she struck the blow after having cut her father’s throat with a razor, while Willis was choking her mother to death. After drawing the razor across thej throat of her father, and seeing that |he was not dead, she picked up the j ax and finished him. Her plea was that she did the deed to save her mothers life. A crowd remained anxiously awaiting the verdict of the jury until Sat nrday afternoon, when the jury ren dered a verdict releasing the girl. The verdict was met with demonstrations of approval in the court room. Two More Bodlee Of the Plymouth Mine Victims Discovered, Scranton, pa., March 25. — The rescuers in the slope at Plymouth came upon the sixth body shortly after midnight As several hours’ work will be necessary to uncover the remains sufficiently to move them, identification is as yet impossible. At 8 a. m. the seventh body was partially revealed. These two bodies, it is expected, will be taken out in time to give them burial during the afternoon. The rescuers believe that the bodies of the remaining six victims will be found within the next three or four days.

ON TO WASHINGTON. The Army of the Commonweal Taken life Its March—The Movement a Colossal Finis— A Ridiculously Small Band of Tramps with Thousands of Amused Spectators—Coxey a Ruined Man Uulea* He Deserts His Army. Cantos, O., March 28. —Coxey’s army of the Commonweal moved out of Massillon yesterday on schedule time. There were perhaps seventy-five stragglers in line at the start and twentyfive less when Canton, eight miles away, was reached. Carl Browne, chief marshal, headed the procession. He was mounted on a white horse and, was followed by half a dozen aides, all mounted on horses belonging .to Coxey, who rode in a carriage drawn by a pair of spirited steeds. The procession consisted, of the marshals, Coxey, his wife and sister, a bugler, four covered wagons, containing campihg outfits, baled straw and several quarters Of beef; a brass band that played all kinds of music at once, and the soldiers of the commonweal on foot. They marched single file and two abreast as pleased their faney. With very few exceptions they were a hard-looking lot of citizens. This, they "claimed, was not their fault, bat the fault of our system of government. The weather was pleasant when the start was made, bat the procession was soon overtaken by a severe snow storm. This had a depressing tendency and a number of desertions were reported before Red Urban, the first stop, was reached. After a brief stay at Bed Urban the army resumed its L onward march and reached Canton shortly after 4 o’clock where Camp Lexington was pitched. On the march from Massillon to Canton the Commonweal army was followed by a mob of nearly 1,000 people ' in carriages, on horseback and afoot. They made the welkin ring with their cheers and kept Coxey constantly bowing and lifting his hat. On reaching Canton the army was greeted by fuliy 10,000 people who were crowded on sidewalks and in windows and balconies along v Tuscarawas streetEveryone regarded the affair as a huge joke and good humor prevailed on all sides. • " - ■

Camp Lexington was pitched on a vacant lot near the workhouse, shortly ' after 4 o'clock, and the tramps constituting the army of the Commonweal at once began building bonfires, scattering straw upon the ground and making other preparations to keep comfortable during the night The army „ had to start on its march without the Goddess of Peace, as no maiden could be found to assume that role. Instead of the goddess, a burly negro has been enlisted to carry the banner, thus giving the African race representation in the movement . One group of five soldiers deserted in a body before Canton was reached. Their marshal. thought the celestial powers were not exercising proper discretion in sending a snowstorm upon the advancing hosts, and advised his men to break for a passing freight train. They broke, and have not been heard from since. It was feared by some of Coxev’s lieutenants that there would be mor& desertions before morning unless the weather moderated, Coxev’s life insurance policy has been revoked, the officials of the company fearing he "may meet with a violent end before finishing the present * enterprise. Coxey is enthusiastic and claims the movement thus far exceeds his most sanguine expectations; but this is hardly in keeping with his former declarations. Canton and Massillon were both crowded yesterday with people who had come in from surrounding towns and cities to witness the sight. COXEY A RUINED MAN Unless He Deserts the Army of Tramps and Hastens Home. New York, March 26.—A special to a morning papier from Massillon, O., signed by Hugh O’Donnell, the labor leader, says: “Unless Coxey can manage to raise $4,000 by next Wednesday he is probably a ruined man. lie still owes that amount on the celebrated -yi Alcoyte, and the former owner of the . horse, Col. James E, Peppier, the wellknown whisky man and stock raiser of Kentucky, holds a mortgage on the horse and other property of Coxey to protect that amount. Coxey purchased the stallion for $40,000 and gave notes for that amount. He paid off $16,000, and owes $24,000. The former owner, alarmed by the reports of Coxey’s insane movement, sent his son here this week to take a,, survey of the situation. The result is chat attorneys were instructed to proceed against Coxey yesterday, but after a long conference it was agreed to give the president of the Good Roads association until Wednesday to settle. This is very likely but the beginning of the end. Coxey’s entire property is heavily mortgaged and this move of the Peppers, it is thought, is calculated to start up his other creditors and if they come in force, Coxey is done for, as his first wife has predicted, and as his second wife feared he would be. Provisions for the Commonweal Amy, Alliance, O., Mareh 25.—Yesterday afternoon the chairman of the committee who has charge of the arrangements here received a letter from Gen. Coxey requesting him to buy provisions, if not enough had been donated, - and send the bill to him. . His fears are groundless, however, as concerns this place, as several carloads of food are now here waiting his coming. They Are Not Alt Tramps. Pittsburgh, Pa., March 25.—Aiderman McNierny, Maj. Thomas Curley, of the Keystone Bridge Co.; John Rodgers and Capt, Conley, all well-to-do citizens of the Eighteenth .ward, Pittsburgh, are actively engaged and des- * perately in "earnest in organizing a cavalry troop to join Coxey’s army of peace on its march to Washington. At. noon yesterday the names of sevontyfive volunteers were on the list. Alderman McNierney, who is atlthe head of the organization, says that by Wednesday he will have at least 300* members in his troop.