Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 September 1897 — Page 3
tu. PARADE.
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THOUSAND VET-
BRANS MARCH THROUGH THE STREETS OP BUFFALO.
ident McKinley In a Carriage at the
Head of the Procession Which Was
Fire Hours and Forty-Two Minutes In Passing.
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Grand
Army Nationi-fl Encampment
Buffalo, N. Y-. Aug. 24th to 27th was a
phenomenal
2,000
success In every way. 'the
attendance
of veterans and visitors was
beyond
the
capacity of the city to enter
tain The great parade of Wednesday was, as
usuaI the chlef event 0f the
pr°"
ceedings. A Buffalo special in describing the scenes of the day says: Fortyflve thousand men today marched through the streets, glorious in flags and bunting, receiving the ovations of half a million people. The President of the Union they fought to save, himself their comrade, was at their head. "When the line of the grand army procession moved at 10:30 this morning the sky had not a oloud. The rainstorm of the night left a clear, bracing air that was lilte a tonic to the marching men." The procession moved for five hours and forty-two minutes. Along the route of march 100 girls, dressed In t'.ie colors of the flag, scattered Sowers in the path of the soldiers. President McKinley rode in a carriage at the head of the procession and waved his hat at the cheering crowd. At the reviewing stand he took his position with Comman-der-in-Chief Clarkson, and Governor Black and headquarters staff passed in review. Of all the throng viewing the proccssion, no one was more enthusiastic or more affected by the sight than President McKinley. With his hand on his hat, continually uncovering to the national colors or the salutes of the veterans, the President watched the array of proud vets march by. It was certainly a column to inspire admiration. Such men as Secretary-of-War Alger, Gen. Lew Wallace and Gen. John Palmer walked side by side with the negro or the 'lecrepit pensioner, whom they had to assist. As the veteran color-guard, the old Battle Flag battalion, passed, heads were uncovered. There were thirty battleworn, shot-torn (lags carried in the parade by Camp 1, Buffalo Sons of Veterans. in company with Meade Post of Philadelphia. The old color-guard was under command of Capt. Morgan and Edward Curtis. On came the procession, post after post, in columns of platoons eight flies front, at half distance, while the head of the pageant wheeled into Chippewa street, and passed under the gailydecorated arch erected by the colored people of Buffalo. Once clear from this arch the President saw before him a great, living shield and caught the music of
young voices lifted up in the national anthem. As the columns moved on nearer and nearer to the shield, the first platoon wheeling up Delaware avenue, the human sympathy that had been pent up for an hour of 'waiting broke out in one tumultuous climax of enthusiasm. At the large grand stand erected by the friends of the Fresh Air Mission for the benefit of charity, in Delaware avenue, near the shield, hundreds of spectators waited from an early hour. The bands. President McKinley and the marching men, came closer and closer, the children of the shield sang and men and women, boys and girls, young and old, rose and waved and cheered for the Grand Army of the Republic. "l-Iurrah, hurrah, we'll sing the jubilee." started a voice in the crowd, and high rose the chorus for a few minutes, dying away as the next band in line destroyed the harmony.
At 1:30 the President and Governor Black left the reviewing stand just a!} the department of Connecticut arrived at the place of review. Lunch was served at a private residence near by. The department of Massachusetts was also disappointed at not seeing the President. The stay at lunch was very brief, however, and by the time the Rhode Island delegation had come in sight the President and Governor Black were back in their places and the President was again bowing and smiling and lifting his hat to the veterans. With Lafayette post of Indiana walked Gen. Lew Wallace, and he received a welcome. At the head of the Minnesota division a drum corps of the oldest veterans attracted the attention of the President and he gave them a special recognition. It. was nearly 5 o'clock when the last of New York State division, comprising a brigade of Buffalo posts, passed 'he stand, and after nearly six hours of constant attention the President and Governor Black were driven to their hotel amid the hurrahs of the old soldiers and applause of the vast crowd. Throughout the entire day the great crowd was orderly and there was no Intrusion upon the President.
A Maniac Ranker.
John D. Tollant, president of the Tolant Banking Company of San Francisco,
C011"'iod
at a Chicago police station, a
£v'ng maniac. Mr. Tollant left San rancisco recently for a vacation in ^urope an(j ])6came violently insane at ^ouncll Bluffs, la., while enroute. He wwdnly began throwing $20 gold pieces follow passengers and flourished a ^e\olver at the trainmen when they tried calm him. Force was necessary to
es lltin
the unfortunate man.
Consul General Holloway.
Col. Vt m. R. Holloway of Indianapolis as been appointed Consul General at St. etersburg. Mr. Holloway was private -ecretary to Governor Morton for many
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I'I:XNSYLVANIA KKPIIBUCANS.
Treasurer and "Auditor-General Nominated.
The Pennsylvania Republican State convention, comprising 303 delegates, met at arrlsburg, Thursday, and nominated the following ticket:
State Treasurer—James S. Beacom of estmoreland county. Auditor-General—Major Levi G. McCau-
of
Chester county.
ho platform ratifies and reaffirms the Louis declaration of principles.
PENSION RULINGS.
commissioner Evans Will be Liberal But Conservative Towards Veterans.
Washington special: It Is evident the new administration of the pension office is being carefully watched by the advocates of economy. In fact, Mr. Evans has been rather conservative. He has modified the regulations of the bureau in some particulars from those of the last administration, but has done nothing to justify the belief that for the four years our pension expenditures will exceed an average of $140,000,000 per annum, which is the present allowance.
The Impression, that an era of extravagance had begun In the pension office seems to be due to the fact that the appropriation of the fiscal year ending June 30 had been so far expended by tho 1st of last June that during that month no new allowances were made, and all cases favorably acted upon were withheld until the appropriation of the new fiscal year became available on the 1st of July. The regular pensioners were paid as usual in June, but the new back-pay allowances had to go over, and that accounts In part for the very large pension outlay since the 1st of July, now the subject of so much comment.
It Is entirely likely that this year's appropriation, unless bolstered up by a further addition, will be exhausted In the same way by the 1st of next June, and that the opening of the following fiscal year will show a like temporary expansion. But this is merely a matter of bookkeeping.
The more liberal rulings of Commissioner Evans are mainly In connection with the act of June 20, 1890. The Harrison administration construed the law as capable of liberal Interpretation, and if a man was afflicted to a degree which would give him $12, if due to military service, he was still to have that amount when the cause was not so traceable. Beyond the $12 the department could not go, and so all cases of disability not due to the war, were compelled to stop at that figure.
When the Cleveland administration came in, Commissioner Lochran and Secretary Smith decided that Congress in opening the door to disabilities regardless of source (except vicious habits) was to allow for the newly-included cases, a lower rate. They held that only the cases of disability pensionable at $oU under the general law, were ratable at $12 under the act of 1890, and the $12 disability under the general law at $9 under the new act that the whole system should be one of proportionate ratings.
The present administration is going back, substantially to the practices of the Harrison administration. Commissioner Evans, in deciding to adhere to the usage of his Republican predecessor, thought it best not to compensate t.he pensioners for what they had lost by the Cleveland rulings. If under the act of 1S90 a man had received $12 a month In the Harrison administration and was cut down to $9 under the Cleveland administration, he may now in most cases be restored to the $12, but the $3 which he lost in the meantime will not be made up to him.
In two minor particulars also have more liberal rulings been adopted. What is known as Order No. 229 has been abrogated. That order, issued by Commissioner Lochran, made it necessary that a witness should certify that he facts related in his al-uavit were of his own knowledge, and told in his own language. The statements should not be dictated by doctors and lawyers for witness to sign. The trouble with this order was the practical impossibility of carrying it out in Its spirit at least.
AWFUL ARKANSAS.
Murders, Lynchlngs, and Assassinations By White Caps and Other Outlaws.
Pine Bluff, Ark., special: T. T. Johnson, a prominent white man, who was brutally cut last Saturday at a negro dance at Kendall, died here Sunday morning. Tom Handley, who was also badly out. Is ffipt improving. When the news of the affair became known the citizens in the vicinity started out, determined to capture the guilty parties, and they have succeeded. Sunday afternoon the deputy sheriff captured two of the negroes connected wi.- the bloody work near the scene of the crime. The party then started for Rison to place the two men in jaiij when one of the negroes broke away, and although he was shot the second time It did not stop his flight anu he made good his escape. The officers then continued on their way with the other one, whose name is Bill Wiley Douglass. When near Anderson the negro was taken from them some time late In the night and he was immediately strung up to a bridge on the Cotton Belt Railroad, where his body was found this morning. It is given out that a mob of negroes hanged Douglass, but It i« generally believed that the mob was composed of enraged white citizens. Douglass has always been a desperate character and Is supposed to have led a gang that did the bloody work last Saturday.
A well-authenticated report reached here late this evening that six other negroes wno are known to have been connected with the affair have been arrested and placed in jail at Rlson. Tho jail is not considered very safe, and it Is the general opinion that belore tomorrow morning all six will be lynched. Excitement In and about Anderson and Kendall Is at fever heat and more trouble is expected.
Ten Thousand Klondlkrrs.
Twenty-nine vessels carrying 9,592 passengers enroute to Klondike have left San Francisco since the arrival of the Excelsior at Seattle with the first consignment of gold from Alaska.
FINED AND IMPRISONED.
Promoter and Employes of tlio Charity Bazaar Punished. Paris cable: Baron Mackau, one of the chief promoters of the charity bazaar of the Rue Jean Goujon, which was destroyed by lire on May 4 last with a loss of over a hundred lives, has been sentenced to pay a fine of 500 francs. One of the employes of the cinematograph establishment, the section in which the fire broke out, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and fined, and another employe was sentenced to eight months' Imprisonment and to pay a fine.
DRAMATIC SCENES.
AT BANQUET TENDERED PRESIDENT IU'KIXIJEY
BY G.
A. R. AT BUFFALO.
The Chief Executive Grows^Eloquent In Responding to it Toast, "The Country and Its Defenders."
Buffalo, N. Y., special, Aug. 25: Never before In the history of the city of Buffalo, which is the hostess of the nation's heroes, were such scenes witnessed as those which marked tho close, of President McKinley's eloquent Incitement to patriotism at the dinner given, Tuesday night, at the Elliott club, by the Columbia Post, of Chicago. When the chief executive of the nation finished his address, the 400 men in the beautiful hall sprang to their feet with a heartfelt, frenzied cheer. Some of them cried and others wiped away the tears which dewed their lashes. The president's face was snow white and the deep-set eyes burned as he drew the scenes and lessons of the war and laid down the rules of love and universal peace. Shortly after 6 o'clock, President McKinley entered the hall. He was escorted by Commander-in-chief Clarkson and Comrade A. Blgelow, of Columbia Post. Following the President came Secretary-of-War Alger and Governor Black. Commander McConnell then introduced Governor Black, of New York State, who extended a welcome to the guests to New York State. He was followed by President McKinley, who delivered an address to "The Nation and its Defenders" as follows: "Mr. Toastmaster and Comrades and my Fellow-Citizens—I wish I might frame fitting words to make suitable response to the more than gracious welcome which you havo accorded me here tonight. 1 come with no set form of speech I come with no studied phrases to present to you, but I come in the spirit of comradeship (great applause) to talk with you as we have often talked in the past around the campfires in war as well as at camplires In peace. (Applause.) "To me, I see by (he program, has been assigned the toast, "The Country and Its Defenders.' My fellow-citizens, blessed is that country whose defenders are patriots. (Applause.) Blessed is that country whose soldiers tight for It and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has—their own lives—to preserve it because they love it. (Applause.) Such an army the United States has always commanded In every crisis of her history. (Applause.) From the war of the revolution to the late civil war the men followed that flag in battle because they loved that flag and believed in what it represented. (Applause.) That was the stuff of which the volunteer army of 1S01 was made. (Applause.) Every one of them not only fought, but they thought (applause), and many of them did their own thinking (laughter and applause) and did not always agree with their commander. (Laughter and applause.) That was the case with the young soldier, who In the late war, on the battle line, ahead with the color guard bearing the stars and stripes, away in front of the line, but the enemy still in front of him, when the general called out, 'Bring those colors back to the line,' answered back quicker than any bullet, 'Bring the line up to the colors.' (Prolonged applause.) It ^ras the voice of command there was a man behind it, and there was patriotism in his heart. 'So nigh to grandeur is our dust,
So near to God is man, when'duty whispers, "Lo, thou must," the youth replies "I can." "And so, more than two million brave men thus responded and made up an army grander than any army that ever shook the earth with its tread (applause) and engaged in a holier cause than ever soldiers did before. (Aplause.) What defenders, my countrymen, have we now. We have the remnant of this old, magnificent, matchless army of which I have been speaking, and then, as allies in any future war, we have the brave men who fought against us on Southern battle fields. (Great applause.) The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. (Applause.) They are one now In faith, in hope, In fraternity, In invincible patriotism (applause), and, therefore, the country is in no danger. (Applause.) In justice strong, In policy secure and devotion to the flag all one. (Great applause.) My fellow-countrymen, I thank you and bid you good-night." (Prolonged applause.)
Tho President's allusion to the South and its unity with the North was received with vociferous applause, tho audience standing upon their seats to cheer and at the conclusion of the toast Governor Black led the applause.
M'KINliUV'SLX'miiVlUlV.
The President's Ideas on Present Conditions and Future Prospects. In an Interview with President McKinley, at Hotel Champlain, Bluff Point, N. Y., Sunday night, the President said: "The cause of the present boom in the west Is undoubtedly due, in a great measure, to the big crops and the high prices caused by the failure of crops in other countries. But the fact that prosperity nas set In in the east cannot be accounted for in any other way than by the wise policy of the Republican party in restor ing a protective tariff. "The present boom Is not spasmodic, but will continue to Increase, -and not only the manufacturers, but the people generally will soon realize that it Is only with a protective tariff and sound financial principles that the country will be prosperous and remain in that condition. "With the restoration of con^dence will come a restoration of prosperity."
Pension Agent Spencer Removed.
Martin Van Buren Spencer, Pension Agent at Indianapolis, has been removed from office because of charges, filed and ex-Congressman Leighty of DeKalb Co. has been appointed to succeed him. Mr. Spencer's term would have expired next February."'
The Polk canning factory at Greenwood Is using 200 wagon loads of corn and tomatoes a day and Is employing 1,200 hands. The factory will can 100,000 cases of tomatoes this year, 24 cans to the case, and 36,000 cans of corn.
THE ENGLISH BETRAYED.
Treacherous Native Troops Surrendered Ivhyber Pass to Rebel Forces.
Simla, India, cable: A strong column of native troops and the Royal Irish Regiment, with four guns, under the command of Colonel Richardson, has started for the relief of the Kurum valley forts, and another force has been sent to the assistance of the Shimwari garrison. It has developed that the capture of Fort LundiKotal was accomplished through treachery, and that the original report that a fight lasting two hours took place within the walls of the fort was unfounded. The 350 Khybcr Rifles who were stationed there belonged to various clans and included a number of men from the Peshawur valley. After fighting of a desultory nature, some of the Shimwarls dropped from the walls and fled to their homes. The Afridis on the walls soon began to exchange greetings with the besiegers of the fort, whereupon the gates were opened from the inside and the enemy poured in. Some of the defenders fled and others remained and fraternized with the besiegers. The Peshawurls were disarmed, six of them were held as prisoners and the remainder, to the number of thirty, were allowed to go free. It was this news which led to the disarming of a portion of the garrison at Jamrud. It Is believed that the Kryber Rifles, garrisoning the forts in the Kyber pass, had acted in a similar manner.
BRITISH DEFEATED.
TRIBESMEN OF NORTHAYESTERN INDIA CAPTURE FORT MAUDE AFTER DES
PERATE FIGHTING.
Situation Considered Serious—32,000
British Regulars Sent to the Front.
London cable: An official dispatch from Simla announces that Fort Maude, in the Kliyber pass, has been captured by the Afridis, after desperate fighting. The garrison, which was composed of native levies known as the Khyber Rifles, retired with ihe loss of three men. The Afridis afterward burned the fort. The fate of Fort All-Musjod, which was simultaneously attacked by the Afridis, is not known. The British officer commanding at Jamrud moved a battery of artillery, escorted by the Fourth Dragoons, to the mouth of the Khyber pass and shelled the enemy at a range of 3,200 yards. The Afridis retired, but the battery returned to Jamrud, the officer in command deeming it Inadvisable to enter the pass. GenEllos began a concerted movement against the insurgent tribesmen.
It is admitted even in official circles in London that the news from India is of the gravest description. All those who are familiar with the situation attach the greatest importance to the rising of tho warlike Afridis, who are estimated to muster 25,000 fighting men. The Afridis, however, only form a part of the insurgents. A letter from India, published in the Standard, emphasizes the belief that the Sultan of Turkey is at the back of the whole uprising.
Later details received at Simla of the capture of Fort Maude by the Insurgent tribesmen show that the garrison of that place retired at 10:30 p. m. Wednesday, and that the fort was burned half an hour later. The garrison reached Colonel Westmascott's relief column coming from Kohat at 11:30 p. m. At the same time that Fort Maude was abandoned the Khyber Rifles, garrisoning Fort Jewangera, were compelled to abandon that place. The area of active fighting is enlarging rapidly. The Afridis attacked with great determination the fortified post at Sudda, but wero not successful in capturing It. Parocliinar was also attacked. The results of this attack and of the fighting at Fort Ali-Musjid are not known. There are two English ladies with the garrison at Parochlnar. The British military authorities have now mobilized 32,000 men for frontier operations, w—ch, with t!ie frontier garrisons, make 42,000 men available for use against the insurgents.
DENOUNCES USURPATION OF POWER BY FEDERAL JUDGES WHO PLAY THE ROLE
OF TYRANT.
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QUAKING JAPAN.
SixlyKlve Villages Inundated by a Tidal Wave and Hundreds Killed.
Tacoma.Wash., special: A Japan steamer just in brings the news of severe earthquakes in Japan on August 5th, followed by a tidal wave and great floods. A thousand houses were inundated and 200 persons killed and injured. Sixty-five Chinese villages were inundated. Official information received at Manila confirms the reports previously published as to the disastrous character of the eruption of the Mayon volcano. Lava covered the whole mountain to its base, and thp obscuration of the scene by the clouds of ashes was so great that in the neighborhood of the disaster artificial light had to be used at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Several villages were completely destroyed. At Libog 150 bodies were recovered and buried, and more remained in the lava. At another place two hundred persons were missing. Some of the bodies recovered wero so completely calcined as to be unrecognizable. Serious Hoods are reported from various parts of Japan.
Six Tons of Gold,
The steamer Portland arrived at Port Towr.send, Wash., Aug. 25th, from St. Michaels, Alaska, with over six tons of gold dust and nuggets on board. The cargo was estimated at $5,000,000.
THE WEALTHIEST DENTIST.
Dr. Evans, Worth $301,000,090, Returns from His Paris Homo. New York special: Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the famous American dentist, who for the past forty years has bem dental operator in Paris of most of the crowned heads of Europe and many celebrities, returned to this country on the French liner La Champagne from Harve. He came over with the body of his wife, which is to be Interred In Woodlands Cemetery. Philadelphia. Dr. Evans Is now,seventyfive years old and Is said to be worth $3S,-
000,000.
DEB'S MANIFESTO. ACHINESE PIRATES.
Say "Thcys Are Guilty of Treason and Shonld bo Made to Answer at tho Bar ol'un Outraged Peoplo," I
Terra Haute special: Eugene v. Debs has issued the following circular: "To the Social Democracy and All Lovers of Liberty and Fair Play—Greeting— A mass convention will be heiu at St. Louis Monday, August 30, in the interest of the striking, starving coal miners. The official call has been Issued by the execu^ tlve board of the United Mine-Workers and Indorsed by the executive heads of the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor. "I understand that this convention is called, not to pas3 idle resolutions, but to take prompt, vigorous and united action, and, this being the case, I appeal to the Social Democracy and to all lovers of liberty and humanity to meet at St. Louis on the day named to lend a hand to the stricken, suffering miners of the country. "The injunction has again done Us deadly work. Constitutional liberty has been bludgeoned to death and labor bound and gagged for the perpetual exploitation of corporate capital. "There Is no relief In the courts. Wo have tried them all. from the bottom to the top, and they are all against labor. So far as I am concerned, we will appeal to them no more. We will now appeal to the American people. Judges, the creatures of the plutocracy, rule the country by Injunction. From justice of the peace to the Justice of the Supreme Court, the injunction has full sway: American citizens are forbidden to open their lips or walk on the public highway. Sheriffs, marshals and other petty officers issue proclamations and then proceed to shoot and club workingmen if they are not as servile and obedient as if they were so .many savages off their reservation. "That there has been no violence and bloodshed In the miners' strike is simply because the judges and sheriffs and deputies have been unable to provoke an outbreak. The miners have patiently, meekly submitted to the most flagrant insults and abuses. "The hour has struck to call a halt. The cowardly, brutal and wholly un-
American reign of injunctional government has got to end. A vast army of miners are famishing their wives and children are dying. The calamity cries to heaven. Ws do not ask the courts or the authorities to help these perishing tollers, but we do demand that they take their cruel clutches from the throats of workingmen and allow them to help themselves In lawful ways. "The Pittsburg operators have declared that they will open their mines If they have got to do It with Gatling guns. No Injunction has been issued and no soldiers have been called out to restrain .them from executing their murderous designs. Injunctions, soldiers, marshals, deputies, thugs and jails are for the exclusive benefit of the worklngman. "Under the rule of the money power labor Is plundered until the starvation point la reached, and then Its emaciated body Is shot full of holes. It Is notoriously true that the American miners have been robbed In countless ways, and now that they c.re hungry It Is proposed to murder them. "The horrors of Siberia are not of greater enormity. Every atom of American manhood revolts against the spectacle. "Judges, by the usurpation of power and playing the role of tyrants, have
annihilated the constitution, abrogated thus right of trial by jury, forbidden free speech. suppressed peaceable assemblages and transformed our republic into an absolute despotism. "They are guilty of judicial treason and should be made to answer at the bar of an outraged people. "Tho Issue has been forced upon us, and wo have retreated before It to the verge of slavery. Let us now meet it as It would have been met by the patriots of 1776. "EUGENE V. DEBS."
:'v A PRESIDENT KILLED.
J. Idiarte Borda Chtef-Execiitlvo of Uruguay Assassinated.
Montevideo cable: During a national fete which was held Thursday President J. Idiarte Borda was shot and killed by an assassin. A revolver was used by tho assassin. Senor J. Idiarte Borda was elected President of Uruguay for the term extending from March, 1894 to 1898. The fete at which he was assassinated was being held In celebration of the independence of Uraguay, which was achieved on Aug. 25th, 1S26. The assassination of the President occurred just as he was leaving the cathedral, where a te deum had been sung. The assassin was arrested. He Is a youth named Arrendondo. The assassination of President Borda of Uruguay was not altogether a surprise to officials who have watched the recent outbreaks in Uruguay. This was the second attempt on the President's life, the former being made by a crazy student named Revecca. The assassination doubtless wi.. —ng the country to a revolutionary crisis which has been long Impending. The revolution thus far had been confined to the country districts, where several extensive engagements had been fought, the government forces securing tho advantage.
The Deadly Folding Bed.
Chicago special: "Al." Hanking, the widely known sporting man, was killed Sunday by the collapse of a folding bed. His death occurred at 390- Cottage Grove avenue. He had just entered the apartment and seated himself on the edge of the bed, when It unexpectedly closed and Hanklns's neck was broken. Persons in the place rushed to his asistance, but they wero too late—death had resulted almost Instantly. Hanklns Is said to have conducted a gambling establishment at the number given, and tho accident occurred In the rear room of the place.
BRITISH 8TI0A1ER HAGUE LOOTED AND POUTY PASSENGERS BUTCHERED.
The Dock of the Ship a River of lllood— A Government Station Raided by Brigands.
Hong Kong cable: It is reported off the coast of Achentskachen that tho British steamer Hague was attacked by si* armed Achinese. Capt. Ross managed to force his way through and reached tho dock hotly pursued by his savage assailants one of whom had meanwhile laid hold of the carving knife from the table. As the skipper, badly wounded, struggled to get to the bridge, he was stabbed in the abdomen. The remainder of the piratical gang surrounded the prostrate man and hacked him savagely, actually disemboweling him and leaving him a mangled corpse on deck. The mate and the steersman were the next to be attacked. Both were on the bridge and In splfa of what resistance they could otter were soon cut down. The boatswain however climbed up the funnel stairs and thus escaped the onslaught of tho pirates. Returning to the dec-- two more of tho crew and four Chinese passengers wero killed. Thirty or forty more passengers according to accounts have been killed, or met their death by jumping overboard. The vessel was then looted. Ono of tho Achinese was placed at the wheol to steer the ship nearer land. Others plundered lae captain's cabin, taking a repeating rifle and revolver. The safe was opened, $15,000 was taken, two boats lowered from the ship and the pirates made off in the direction of Slmpang Clim. The vessel was a frightful sight, the deck being splattered with blood and the entrails of the victims.
Matt Salet, a notorious brigand, with 200 followers, raided the government station at Fulop Gnihay, captured Mr. Newbronner, the officer in charge, killed a corporal and then sacked the treasury $20,000. The town, which consisted entirely of wooden and Ivajang houses, was then fired and every building destroyed. Galhny Is the export and Import center of a considerable district and the population was largely Chinese. Salet, at last accounts, was fortified at Inaman, and. it is feared, will attack Sandakan, and massacre the Europeans, after looting the town.
STRIKE NOTES.
There has been no material change In the situation in the past week at the various points where the striking coal miners have control.
At Pittsburg, Thursday, the wives and daughters of the striking miners at Do Armitt's Oak Kill mines, near Turtle Creek, took, a prominent part In the demonstration against tho working miners. Early in the morning a dozen or more women gathered at the camp, and with flags and banners marched along the roads leading toward the tipple. On their way they met a number of miners going to the pit, and they greeted them with yells and jeers. The derided the miners who were working and ridiculed them In a manner which caused many of them to hang their heads In shame. The women say they will make a demonstration every day hereafter.
Reports to the State authorities Indicate that the condition of the striking coal miners in Indiana becomes more distressing from day to day. The State Labor Commission says there are 7,000 of the strikers, and, together with their families, there are probably 26,000 men, women and children In the coal regions of the State who are going hungry on account of the strike. Governor Mount receives appeals from some point In the coal fields every day. The miners are asking for something to eat, and the Governor, the labor commission and the miners' relief committee seem at a loss as to how they should proceed.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,
The London Chronicle says the delay in the appointment of a commission for the settlement of the Venezuela question is due to the difficulty experienced In finding a suitable umpire.
Two guides were killed and an Austrian, tourists v-as seriously Injured recently while attemtping the ascent of the Jungfrau, by being thrown over a precipice by tho collapse of a snow cornice.
John A. Gifford, the slayer of Bartow Lloyd, better known as "Rufus Sanders," has sent word to the authorities at Greenville, Ala., that If assured of protection from mob violence, he will surrender.
Near Wilton, Wis., a wagon containing four persons was struck by a passenger train and Mrs. Cusick, of Chicago, and Daniel O'Rourke, of Wilton, wero killed. At Relcjpburg, Wis., a similar accident occurred in which William J. Bennett was instantly killed, and Byron Yant fatally Injured.
The Rev/ Charles T. Phillips, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Cairo, 111., has received and accepted a call to the Presbyterian church at Prlncevllle, 111. He came to Cairo from Belleville, 111., In April, 1891 ,and during his pastorate In Cairo a fine church was erected, at a cost of over $20,000.
Two aeronauts were fatally hurt at the fair grounds at Toledo, O., Friday afternoon. Walter Steele, of Columbus, Ohio, had his neck broken, and several ribs crushed by a fall due to tho failure of his parachute to work, and Leroy Northcott was frightfully burred while Inside a balloon which took fire while being Inflated.
Commander-in-Chief Gobln.
At Thursday night's session of the Na
tional Encampment G. A. R. at Buffalo, Gen. J. P. S. Gobln of Lebanon, Pa., was elected Comamnder-in-Chlef for the ensuing year to succeed Thaddeus Clarkson. Cincinnati was selected as the place for holding the Encampment next year.
Larayecte Is making efforts to catch up with the gas belt towns by organizing a commercial club.