Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — Page 2

sf) e Je mocroticScntiiifi RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher.

THE WORLD IN A WORD.

The Latest Intelligence, Domestic and Foreign, Transmitted Over the Electric Wires. Political, Bailroad, and Commercial News, Accidents, Fires, Crimes, Etc., Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. MINERS IN BATTLE. Nanticoke, Pa., the Scene of a Bloody Affray in Which Over Sixty Men and Several Women Are Seriously Injured. Dispatches from Wilkesbarre, Pa., give particulars of a fierce battle near Nanticoke, in which 300 miners were engaged: The combatants were composed of men of all nationalities, Irishmen, Welshmen, Hungarians and Poles being largely represented. Strangely enough, the occurrence was inspired by a Methodist preacher named Taggart. It seems that it has been the custom of several Hungarian and Polish merchants of Nanticoke to send peddlers to Glen Lyon daily to supply certain boardinghouse keepers. These latter in many instances are hired by young unmarried men, who club and live together. They order goods of the peddlers, who trust them. The Susquehanna Coal Company always selects Saturday for pay day. Heretofore it has been their practice to pay at Nanticoke. On Saturday, however, for the first time, they paid the men at Glen Lyon. The following day, Sunday, has always been chosen by the merchants to make their collections. Rev. Mr Taggart, of Git n Lyon, has frequently preached against this desecration of the Sabbath, and frequently determined to put a stop to it if possible. Yesterday he organized a posse of his church members for that purpose. The men got wind of it, and made up their minds to resist. Ths collectors made their appearance, and the natural excitement of the moment was augmented by a universal indulgence in beer and whisky. As the day advanced the churchmen became alarmed at the situation and kept themselves in hididg. The feeling of antagonism was so intense, however, that it finally culminated in a free fight between men of opposite nationalities, all of the participants being maddened with drink. Soon 300 men were furiously engaged, with sticks, stones, and clubs for weapons The riot lasted halt an hour, and men were struck down on all sides. Dozens were carried away with cracked and bleeding heads to their homes. A few women mixed in the fray, and several of them were badly beaten. Over sixty of the rioters were seriously hurt, many of them fatally.

GLOOMY FOR FERDINAND. Russia Will Not Recognize His ElectionTalk of Occupying Bulgaria. News comes by cable from St Petersburg that the Russian Government has sent a circular to the powers declaring that it is unable to recognize the validity of Prince Ferdinand’s election to the throne of Bulgaria. According to the circular, Prince Ferdinand acquainted the Czar with the fact of his election, and requested permission to visit St Petersburg in order to learn the Czar’s wishes before going to Bulgaria. The Czar replied that the Prince’s election would not be recognized by Russia, and that the Prince could by no pretext justify his journey to Bulgaria. The circular in conclusion expresses the hope that the Bulgarian people will coincide with the Russian views and not permit a flagrant violation of the Berlin treaty. DEAD CATTLE BY THE THOUSAND. Immense Losses of the Cattle Syndicate in the Texas Panhandle. A Colorado (Texas) special to the Chicago Timeg says: A gentleman just in from the upper panhandle informs your correspondent that the reports of loss of cattle by the Capital Syndicate have not been in tbo least exaggerated. The company has thousands more cattle than it has water to supply, and they are dying by the thousand. One emploj e of the syndicate told this gentleman that the losses for the previous twenty-two days would average five hundred head per day, and at one large well a herd of cattle, crazed by thirst, crowded on the covering of the well, which gave way, actually filling the well full of struggling cattle. Seventy-three head were afterward dragged out of the hole. The almost entire absence of winds for some weeks past has kept the wind-mills from pumping water, thus cutting off almost the entire supply.

The Green Diamond.

The race for the championship of the League is becoming decidedly interesting, as will be seen by the appended record of the eight contesting clubs: , PercentClubs. Won. Lost. age. Detroit. 53 34 609 Chicago. 51 35 .593 New York 49 39 559 Philadelphia 49 40 550 Boston 47 40 ’540 Pittsburg.; 36 49 423 Washington 34 49 408 Indianapolis 27 60 .’3lO St Louis still maintains a long lead in tho American Association pennant racb. The following shows the record of won and lost games: PercentClubs. Won. Lost age. fit. Louis 70 26 .729 Louisville 56 42 .571 Cincinnati 56 46 .549 Baltimore. 52 44 .541 Brooklyn 47 49 .489 Athletic 47 50 ,484 Metropolitan 33 61 .851 Cleveland 26 72 *265

Anti-Powderly Delegates Elected.

A New York dispatch says that anti-Pow-derly delegates will represent District 49 at the Knights of Labor National Convention in Minneapolis. There was a stormy time at the district election. T. B. McGuire and other Home Club and administration candidates were defeated. The vote in several instances was close, and there will probably be a number of contests.

Bits dy Telegraph.

De. N. A Archer, Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania, was drowned near Atlantic City while surf-bathing. Fix men have been indicted at Woodstock, Va., for taking Senator Riddleberger l from jail, and the Deputy Sheriff who surrendered the keys to them has also been indicted. Biddleberger, who has been suffering from mania a potu, is convalescing, and will return to jail this week to serve the remaining three days of his sentencx

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Thomas Bbown, of Philadelphia, waa elected Worthy Grand President of the Grand Lodge, Order of the Sons of St George, which has just held its sixteenth annual convention at Pittsburgh. Miss Josie Barnard, a Lowell heiress, was married to her grandmother’s coachman a year or two ago. She now finds herself reduced to destitution, and has just returned to Lowell from Providence on a ticket furnished by the Overseers of the Poor. Young ladies with a weakness' for coachmen should paste this item in their hats. Pbof. Spenceb F. Baibd, of the United States Fish Commission, died at Wood’s Holl, Mass. He was boro at Reading, Pa., in 1823. He became Professor of Natural Science in Dickinson College and afterward Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Besides his other labors he has translated and edited the “Iconographic Encyclopedia,”, and published reports on ths collections in natural history made by Stansbury, Gilliss, Marcy and others. He also published in conjunction with J. Casein “Tho Birds of North America” and “The Mammals of North America. ” The inquest on the body of the Baltimore and Ohio engineer killed in tho accident at Washington resulted in a verdict censuring the company for running its trains into the city at a dangerous rate of speed. All tho injured will recover. Alvin Clark, who had a world-wide reputation as a practical astronomer and manufacturer of telescopes, and who has been a resident of Cambridge, Mass., for the past fifty-two years, died at that place Friday, 19th inst, aged 83 years and 6 months. Through his efforts he has given to the world the largest and most powerful astronomical instruments ever made. The North German Lloyd steamer Trane, from Bremen, crashed into the pier at Hoboken, N. J., and part of a shed fell upon tho passengers who were crowding her decks. Some of them were fatally and very many seriously injured. Mrs. Et.i.a Dinsmore has been convicted at Clarion, Pa., of the murder of James Davis, after a lengthy and sensational trial. David L. King is now under sentence of death for the same crime. Mrs. Dinsmore was an adventuress, with whom both Davis and King were infatuated, and conspired with the latter to entice Davis to her lodgings, where King killed him. It is supposed tho object of the murder was to plunder the victim, who was very wealthy. Both King and Mrs. Dinsmore pleaded self-defense on their trials.

THE WESTERN STATES.

The Coroner’s jury, after a searching investigation of the Chatsworth horror, returned the following verdict: We find that the wrecking of the said train, which totally demolished eight coaches, one baggage car, and one engine, and either killed or wounded most of the occupants of said coaches, was caused by said bridge having been burned out before -the train struck it. We think from the evidence that the bridge was fired from fires left burning which had been set as late as 5 p. m. that afternoon by the section men, as close as sixteen feet on both the east and west sides of the bridge We further find that the foreman of Section No. 7, Timothy Coughlin, disobeyed positive orders from his superior to examine the track and bridges on his section the last thing ou Wednesday, and we find that he did not go over the west two and one-half miles at all on Wednesday, and that the said foreman, Coughlin, was guilty of gross and criminal carelessness in leaving fires burning along the track in such a dry season and with a strong wind blowing, and wo recommend that he be held for examination by the Grand Jury; and, further, it is the opinion of the jury that the leaving of the track without being patrolled for six hours before the passage as the excursion train, and the setting of fires by the section men on such a dry and windy day as the lith of August, 1887, were acts deserving severe criticism. A warrant was immediately' issued for Coughlin’s arrest Republican City, Neb., was visited by a hurricane that almost destroyed the town. Houses were blown away and tho inmates buried in tho debris. Two men were killed and many persons were fatally and seriously injured. The stock company of N. Matson & Co., jewelers, comer of State and Monroe streets, Chicago, has closed its doors. Liabilities, $170,000; assets, $200,000.- Edward Forman was appointed receiver. The failure was caused by the death of N. Matson, President of the company. Two cannon prematurely exploded during a sham battle at the Enfield, 111., soldiers’ reunion. A njunber of men were terribly mangled. At Valentine, Neb., a mob of 100 masked men took Jerry White, colored, from the jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

President Cleveland will go direct to St. Louis without a break, and has arranged the time of his departure so that he will arrive in that city Veiled Prophet’s day. He will then go direct to Chicago, where he will arrive Oct 5. So says a. Washington telegram.' It is probable that Prof. S. P. Langley will be Prof. Baird’s sue cssor as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch says: “Popular indignation against an article in the Herald, a weekly paper edited by a colored man named Jesse Dukes, reached a climax here yesterday. The article came out Saturday, and is as follow : Every day or so we read of the lynching of some negro for assaulting some white woman. Why is it that white women attract negro men now more than in former days ? There was a time when such a thing was unheard of. There is a secret to this th i.g. and wo greatly suspect it is the growing - appreciation of the white Juliet for tbe colored Borneo as he becomes more and more intelligent and relined. If semething is not dene to break up these lyi.cl ings it will be 30 that after awhile tbey will hijeh every co'ored man that looks at a white woman with a twinkle in his eye. A large public mectng to-day adopted resolutions denouncing him a id warning him to keep away from Montgomery at the peril of his life. Dukes’ pt per has been bitterly partisan and more than once con'ained articles to which the white< seriously objected. An Atlanta dispatch says that in 1858 Claiborne Vaughn, a prominent citizen of Cumming, Ga., was murdered by five men. They

were all found guilty; some were sentenced to life imprisonment, others to the death penalty One Jake Pettyjohn escaped and made his way to the Indian Territory. A son of one of the prosecutors moved there a month ago, and in one of his neighbors discovered the murderer. Officers will take him back to the scene of his crime.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The Nebraska Prohibitionist State Convention at Lincoln nominated the following ticket: Judge C F. Abbott of Saline County for Supreme Judge; Horatio 8. Hilton of Merrick and J. D. Newell of Richardsen for Regents of the State University. The platform declares constitutional and statutory prohibition the most vital issue before the American people; denounces the policy of the Federal Government in issuing permits to liquor-sellers; denounces the law permitting foreigners to vote before being naturalized; favors granting pensions to all disabled Union soldiers and sailors; demands equal rights for all citizens; indicts the Republicans for defeating the submission of a prohibiting amendment to the Legislature; arraigns the Democratic party for disloyalty in denying the right of tho people to say whether or not the liquor traffic shall be outlawed, and invites the workingmen of Nebraska to join the prohibition army in its crusade against the enemies of honest labor. The official erturns of the recent Kentucky election give Buckner (Dem.) 17,015 plurality over Bradley (Rep.). The forthcoming annual report of the appointment division of the First Assistant Postmaster General’s office, says a Washington dispatch, will contain the following statement of changes in postoffices of all grades during the last fiscal year, ended June 30: Number of offices established, 3,043; number of offices discontinued, 1,500; appointments on resignations and commissions expired, t’,863; appointments on removals and suspensions, 2,584 ; appointments on changes of names and sites, 4sz; appointments on deaths of postmasters, 58 '. The total number of appointments of postmasters of all grades during the year was 13,079, The total number of appointments for the years 1886 and 188 > was 22,7<7 and 9,547 respectively, making a total for the three years of 45,373. The total number of postoffices of all grades in operation bn July 1, 1887, was 58,157. The editor of tho New York World declines an invitation to attend a conference of antiCleveland Democratic editors. A Syracuse dispatch says that after a long and stormy session the Committee on Platform of the United Labor Party Convention managed to fix up a platform, which was reported to the convention by Henry George and immediately adopted. The old platform adopted at the Clarendon Hall meeting last year was taken as the groundwork for the new platform, and enlarged to suit the necessities of a State campaign. A few of the planks of the platform of the old Greenback Labor party are also used. Ono of the principal of these favored tho establishment of postal banks and a postal telegraph. A full State ticket was put in nomination as follows: Secretary of State, Henry George of New York; Comptroller, Victor A. Wilder of Kings; State Treasurer, B. H. Cummings of Montgomery; Attorney General, Dennis C. Feeley of Monroe; State Engineer and Surveyor, Sylvanus A. Sweet of Broome. George M. Stearns has resigned the office of United States District Attorney for Massachusetts.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

A cable dispatch says Mr. Gladstone has written a letter to Mr. Brunner, the successful candidate for Parliament in the Northwich eleclions, in which the ex-Premier says: Few will seek to disguise the unquestionable addition thus made to the evidence, now rapidly approaching a demonstrative character, that the people of England intend to do full justice to tho people of Ireland by confiding to them in a spirit alike generous and wise tbe conduct of Irish affairs. It is to be lament d that years of the precious legislative life of the country should have been spent in a controversy which can only end in one wav. But, while it is important that the nation's judgment be speedy, it is more important that when it does come it shall be unequivocal and decisive. The royal Afghanistan treatment of inefficient physicians is described in a cable dispatch: The Ameer, when .on a country excursion, was afflicted with a boil on his arm, from which he suffered much pain. On returning to Cabul the principal court physicion was summoned, and he applied an ointment which was, no doubt, intended to be highly efficacious in its ultimate results, but at first it considerably aggravated the Ameer’s anguish, and, having passed a sleepless night, he ordered the instant execution of his medical adviser, who accordingly was forthwith beheaded in the courtyard of the palace. The British Cabinet has decided to convoke Parliament for an autumn session. Sept. 23 and Oct 8 Bismarck will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his assumption of the offices of Prussian Foreign Minister and Prime Minister, respectively. The Tory press of England and Ireland is unanimous in its approval of the proclamation of the National League. Lord Salisbury announced in the House of Lords Friday afternoon that the Government had proclaimed the Irish National League, says a London dispatch. The announcement was expected to create a sensation among the Gladstonean and Parnellite members, but such was not the case. The Parnellites were prepare! for it, and many of them unhesitatingly declared that the cause of home rule could not have been more benefited by any action the Government could have decided upon than by the adoption of the short-sighted policy it has chosen. The proclamation, th y argue, cannot do much harm to th 3 League, since the methods of that organization enable it to conduct its business with secrecy, and, at tho same time, with no decrease of effect, while the influence of the government’s coercive action upon the English electorate must result disastrously to the Con ervative party. In short, a great many members believe that in taking steps to suppress the League tho Tory party has committed political suicide. Joseph Chamberlain made a peculiar speoch at Birmingham, from which it appears that although he was in favor of the crimes act he did not want to see it enforced, and that while he is grieved at the action of the Government in proclaiming the League he cannot find it in his heart to criticise it harshly. Mr. Chamberlain wanted it understood that he was still a Unionist, although he spoke very tenderly of Mr. Glad-

stone, in whom, he said, the country had never lost faith. Dispatches from Constantinople announce that the Czar has proposed to the Sultan a joint occupation of Eastern Roumelia and Bulgaria. Turkey is in no hurry to assent to the proposition. Prince Ferdinand was received with much enthusiasm at Philippopolis, but none of the foreign Consuls have yet visited the Prince, and Germany has instructed hei Consul not to consider himself attached to the Bulgarian Government Consequently the German flag has been loweredfrom over the consulate. It is reported that the powers have expressed disapproval at Prince Ferdinand’s irregular action in taking possession of the Bulgarian throne. The Bulgarian Government has ordered 203,000 repeating rifles from an Austrian firm. In a letter written by Stanley, the explorer, from Gambuya, near the rapids of the Aruwini, June 19, he reports that amicable relat'ons had been established with the natives. Sir Francis de Minton, President of the Emin Bey Relief Committee at London, believes that Stanley and Emin Bey have met ere this.

THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly trade review has the following points: Everything now turns on crop prospects. Considerable injury is no longer disputed—indeed, its effects are already felt in diminishing demand from regions most affectod by the drouth for some manufactured products.' But estimates of the extent of harm done differ widely. Chicago and Detroit advices indicate that rains were too late to save a considerable portion of the corn crop. While the railroads continue to report large earnings, 108 roads showing a net gain of 7.7 percent. for July over last year, the weakness in securities operates to prevent sales for extensions and new roads, and thus affeets the demand for rails and iron. Tho monetary situation has one unfavorable and several favorable features. Stringency increases at several interior points, and reports of unsatisfactory or “only fair” collections crow more numerous. But the purchase of bonds by the Treasury, the shipments of gold from Europe, and the sales of securities abroad by Mr. Gould and by some German houses here appear to avert pressure in this market for the present. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number for the United States 135 and for Canada twenty-six. The Cuy of Montreal, an Inman Line steamer, burned to the water’s edge whe 400 miles off the Newfoundland coast The passengers and crew, numbering over 400, took to the boats, which were all picked up save one containing thirteen persons by the steamer York City, which landed them at Queenstown. It is supposed that all on board the missing boat perished. The American Bar Association held its tenth annual session at Saratoga, N. Y. Mr. George C. Wright, of lowa, was elected President The Bank of London, Canada, has failed. It had a subscribed capital of $1,000,000, of which $223,588 was paid up. The bondholders will not lose heavily. The President of the bank, Henry Taylor, who had become involved by the collapse of other business enterprises in which ho was interested, has left the city, and it is rumored that he took $25,000 of the bank’s funds with him. A New York dispatch says the Union Strawboard Company of the United States, an organization of strawboard manufacturers who produce about 95 per cent of the product of tho country, has just made a deal which will result in the format on of one of the strongest trusts in the land. Heretofore the pool has marketed the product of all its members, and its directors have from time to time ordered shut-downs of the various mills to prevent rapid accumulations of surplus product In spite of this, there is still about one-third more straw board made than can be marketed. It was, therefore, decided to buy outright, and to shut down probably permanently the following m Ils, for which negotiations have just been completed, the aggregate purchase price being $603,900: Akron Strawboard Works, Akron, Ohio; Lyons Paper Mills, Lyons, Pa., and strawboard works at Upper Sandusky; Tippecanoe, Ohio; Hamilton, Ohio; Kankakee, IL ; Wooster, Ohio; and Rockford, HL The members of the syndicate argue that this move will prevent overproduction and will permit the running of the other seventeen mills the year round. They argue, further, that under the combination’s management strawboard can be made cheaper than ever.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattle ...$4.03 @5.00 Hogs 5/25 @ C.OO Wheat—No. I Hard 8> @ ,85;<j No. 2 Red..... 81 @ ,81}6 Corn—No. 2 -. 4<J @ .51 Oats—White 36 @ .41 Pork—New Mess 15.50 ra16.00 CHICAGO. Cattle--Choice to Prime Steers 4.75 @5.25 Medium... 3.75 @4.50 Common 3.00 @ 3.75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.03 @ 5.75 Flour—Winter Wheat 3.75 @4’25 Wheat —No. 2 Red Winter 71 .<4 .72 Corn—No. 2 41l£@ 32 Oats—No. 2 White 241$ .25 Butter—Choice Creamery 24 @ .26 Fine Dairy ,18 @ ’2O Cheese—Full Cream, cheddars. .10J4 <t> .11 Full Cream, new 10% <1> .11 u Eggs—Fresh 13 & Potatoes—Choice, per bu...... .80 @ .93 Pork—Mess.. 16.00 @1703 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash Corn—No. 3 40 @ 30V. Oats—No. 2 White 28 & .29 * Rye—No 1 45 @ 37 Pork—Mess 1425 <<11475 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ .69% Corn—Mixed 38 (<a .33 Oats—Mixed .24 @ .’2.5 Pork—New Mess 14 75 @ls 25 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 74 @ .74% Corn—No. 2 45 @ 45% Oats... 26 @ >26'6 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 3.75 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.25 <<i 40) Sheep 3.50 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 White 78 @ ,78 V. Corn—No. 2 45 (_«, .45U Oats—No. 2 White... 30 @ .31 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 73% .74’6 Corn—No. 2 46 @ ,4rt% Oats—No. 2 2! @ .28% Pork—Mess 14.75 «• 15.25" Live Hogs 4.50 @ 5.25 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard. 81 @ .82 Corn—No. 2 46'2 0 .47 Cattle 4.25 & 5.C0 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.50 & 4.50 Hogs. 4.75 ,« 5.50 Sheep •. 4.00 @4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Eel 70 @ .70 6 Corn 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 Mixed '. 26 @ .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 4.25 & 4.50 Fair 3.75 @ 4.25 Common 3.25 @ 3.75 Hogs. 5.25 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.75 4 25

THE BASE-BALL RECORD

The Fight Between the Chicago and Detroit Tearns Now Hotter than Ever. Boston’s Anxiety to Win the Pennant— President Soden’s Generous Offer to the Team. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] What a fight the League clubs are having, and what a magnificent race they are enjoying for the League pennant of 1887. When they started out at the commencement of the season the indications for a race after the procession order seemed plainly descernible. Chicago, the champions of other years, seemed to have gone to pieces, and an assertion that they would be in the race at this stage of the struggle would have received the laugh from nine out of ten lovers of the national game. The end of the seventeenth week of the season, however, finds Detroit (the present leaders) and Chicago neck and neck in the most remarkable pennant fight the League has vet known, while Boston and New York, although a bit lower down in the string than are Chicago and Detroit, are still in the race, and either of them may go to the front before the season closes. Both are being whipped and spurred to their supremest efforts by their respective officers, and the following circular issued to the members of the Boston team by President Soden upon the return of the team from its last Western trip, shows how much the championship is wanted at Boston. President Soden’s circular reads as follows: To the Members of the Boston Base-Ball Club: Gentlemen—You have returned after a disastrous trip, unsatisfactory alike to the management and public. Various reasons have been advanced by lovers of the game for the poor showing made, none of which we feel justified in accepting as the true explanation, and we therefore await the result of our observance during the coming games to lead us to a satisfactory conclusion. The Boston public, who generously and enthusiastically patronize the game, justly demand better ball-playing, and the management insist upon a better showing for the future. The management feel that you are very liberally compensated for your services, that a generous policy has been shown toward you, and that there is no ground for dissatisfaction or complaint, and in return they feel that they are justified in demanding your most skillful services. We are verydesirous that the championship pennant shall again be brought to Boston, and as an incentive to you to redouble your efforts to bring about that much-desired result we submit to you the following proposition: Should you win the championship the present season the management hereby agrees to divide among you the sum of $2,500, and in addition thereto to arrange for a complimentary benefit game, the entire receipts to be divided among the players. We hope and expect that each member of the team will do h s utmost to win the coveted prize, that each will play as if the result depended on his individual efforts, and that with a “strong pull, and a pull altogether,” success may crown your efforts, and our most sanguine expectations be realized. Very truly yours, for the management. A. H. Soden, President. DETROIT AND CHICAGO.

The series of games just played in Chicago between the champions and the Wolverines have been of absorbing interest to lovers of base-ball everywhere. When the Wolverines arrived here the standing of the teams was such that Chicago, by winning the three games, might take “ the lead in the race which Detroit had so long held. Both teams went upon the ball field Saturday afternoon “for blood,” and a more intensely exciting game has never been witnessed upon the Chicago Base-ball Grounds. But seven innings were played, owing to the heavy clouds, which shut out the daylight; but the 15,000 people present tbe largest crowd present at any one game this season—went home just as well satisfied as though nine innings had been*played. The game stood three to two at the end of the sixth inning, when Chicago suddenly dropped onto Getzein’s delivery, and entered into a batting streak that raised that great crowd onto their feet in many and many a cheer that fairly shook the grand stand. The game was in many respects one of the most remarkable yet played on the home grounds. Clarkson, whom the Detroits dread as they do no other man in the National League, was in the points. His work outgrew the descriptive power conveyed in the adjectives, and became simply phenomenal. Pitching with wonderful accuracy and coolness, he completely baffled the great sluggers from the Straits Brouthers alone of all the team was able to gauge the wizard’s delivery. Besides striking out six of the Michigan men Clarkson fielded six grounders to Anson. Three of these were red hot, and one was pulled down with one hand on a jump. The great pitcher, besides pitching an extraordinary game, made two home runs—one over the Harrison street wall and the other a low, hard drive over the grass in left field. Flint handled the delivery of his old colleague in splendid form. Vhen the game was called at the commencement of the eighth inning the score stood 8 to 2 in favor of Chicago. The two clubs crossed bats again on Monday, and again the Wolverines were downed, after a magnifi ent contest, by a score of G to 4. This produced a tie for first place between the two clubs, and when the contestants met on Tuesday for the third game of the present series, excitement among base-ball enthusiasts ran high. Another enormous crowd assembled at the ball park to witness the battle of the giants of the League, and were rewarded by another splendid exhibition of the science of the national game, For a third time in succession Clarkson, the crack pitcher of the Chicago team, faced the Detroit sluggers, and he held them down to five base-hits. Four of these, however, were bunched in one inning, which, aided by an error and a base on balls, netted them five runs and gave them the game by a score of sto 3. In the other eight innings but one solitary base-hit was made off John Clarkson’s deceptive curves. In the three games the heavy hitters of the Detroit nine hit him safely just eighteen times, an average of six hits to a game. Verily is Clarkson a wizard. THE WESTERN CLUBS IN THE EAST. The Chic.igos, who are still second in the race, are in prime condition. Upon the result of their playing during the next three weeks will depend their chances of winning the pennant. 1 The New York club is now in fine form, and with Keefe and Welch on their mettle there is certain to be some fun on Manhattan Island during the next three weeks. The feature of the Philadelphia’s play, recently, has been the phenomenal pitching of Buffinton, who in two games retired the Chicagos with a total of five dean hits.