Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — Page 6

StKJkniocrattcSentind RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publishes.

THE WIDE WORLD.

A Catalogue of the Week’s Important Occurrences Concisely Summarized. Intelligence by Electric Wire frcm Every Quarter of the Civilized World. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. BEHIND THE BARS. Oscar Neebe, One of the Convicted Anarchists, Banded in the Penitentiary. Oscar Neebe, the only one of the eight Anarchists who escaped the death penalty, aays a Chicago special, was taken to Joliet Monday night to serve his sentence of fifteen years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. At 9:03 to-night a heavy train with every coach crowded pulled out of the Union Depot over the Chicago and Alton Railroad. In too first passenger car, the smoker, sat Neebe, with his right hand fastened to Deputy Sheriff fipears. Near by was Deputy Gleason, and scattered through the car were several detectives. Neebe looked sullen. He talked httle. and his sentences were short and pointed. He •wore a slouch hat pulled down over his eyes. When he removed it he exposed his short, black hair, brushed as usual carelessly back from his brow. He had donned a brand-new shirt, but he wore no collar. He was w illing, he said, to go down to Joliet, and he had always labored for the workingmen and had bettered their condition. The bakers and other trades owed much to his efforts, aud he was satisfied ■with the result. He claimed that he had rendered valuable service in the eight-hour movement. lie was asked if he thought that his anarchistic comrades would hang. “Time will tell,” he replied. SHOT ON THE FRONTIER. Details of the Latest Franco-German Incident—The Bourses Excited. Dispatches from Paris of Tuesday state that the latest details of the shooting affair near Raon-Sur-Plaiue are that the French party consisted of five sportsmen and four boaters. They were following a path on French territory, seven yards from the frontier, when a person standing behind a clump of trees on the German side, eighty yards from the frontier, fired three shots at them, one cf which killed a beater, and another wounded a pupil in the Saumur cavalry school named Wagner. The Gorman officials declare that a German soldier named Kaufmann, who was detailed to assist the forest guards in preventing poaching, fired the shots. Kaufmann affirms that he shouted three times for the party to halt before firing at them, and says they were on German territory. The sportsmen declare they heard nothing. Premier Bouvier conferred with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Justice in relation to the affair after the receipt of the official report, and it was decided to send a note to Berlin requesting the German Government, in the interest of a continuation of friendly relations, to institute an inquiry into the affair without delay. Count Von Munster, German ambassador, in an interview with Foreign Minister Flourens, expressed regret at the occurrence and gave assurance that justice would be done by the German Government. VICTORY FOR B ELL TELEPHONE. A United States Judge Sustains the Demurrer to the Government Suit. In the United States Circuit Court, at Boston, Judge Colt gave a decree sustaining the demurrer to the bill in equity brought by the United States against the American Bell Telephone Company and A. Graham Bell for the purpose of canceling two patents granted to Bell relating to the art of transmitting speech by electricity on the ground that they were obtained by fraud. As a necessary consequence the Judge dismisses the bill, and an appeal will undoubtedly be taken to the United States Supreme Court. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. Secretary Fairchild Says He Sees Nothing in It to Cause Alarm. A Washington reporter asked Secretary Fairchild about his financial policy. “My poeition was pretty clearly defined in the Treasury Department circular which was issued a few days ago,” was the reply, “and I do not see any reason to change my views.” The Secretary saw nothing in the financial situation at which people need be alarmed. There was a good outlook for fall and winter business. Merchants and manufacturers were hopeful 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: Clubß. Won. Lost, P °™£ 74 41 .643 Philadelphia 68 48 £BS New York 65 50 .565 59 53 .£26 Washington 42 72 .368 Indianapolis 34 S 3 099 St Louis still maintains a long lead in the American Association pennant race. The following shows the record of won and lost games: ' PercentClubs . • Won. Lost age. St. Louis 99 35 799 Cincinnati....7B 50 *609 Louisville 71 53 .572 Baltimore 70 55 X6O Athletic...; 58 65 .471 Brooklyn 57 68 . 45(} . Metropolitan..4o 85 f£o Cleveland 35 88 284

Minor Telegrams. The mints sent out during the week ending Sept 21 $1,359,465 in standard dollars. In the corresponding week last year the issue was $872,993. 1 One of the Ameer’s generals has run away ■with two thousand of his soldiers ’and joined Ayoub, the pretender, in Northern Beloochis- . tan. In Dayton, Ohio, George Zeigler drank twenty-two glasses of whisky op a wager, walked two hundred yards toward hoiffe, eat down, and was found soon afterward waiting for the Coroner. The tobacco crop in the region around Lynchburg, Va., has suffered a loss of onefourth of its value from the recent frost

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. A Pittsbugh dispatch states that a mammoth salt company, to be composed of all the large salt manufacturers in the United States, is about to be formed. A New York special of Saturday says: Asiatic cholera was brought to this port yesterday by the steamship Alesia, which comes from the cholera-infected ports of Italy. It comes in its worst, most virulent form, and death was the sure, quick result of an attack. The Alesia sailed from Naples on Sept 3. When nine days out from that port the first case, that of Luiga Marii, a steerage passenger, was discovered by the ship's doctor. He lingered along for three days in great agony and died. On the following day Paul Antonio Baldageria, another steerage passenger, died of the same plague. Both were promptly buried at sea. From that time almost every dav until the ship arrived in port a death occurred, and all received the same sea burial. There were eight deaths in all. When the Alesia arrived off quarantine Health Officer Smith boarded her and learned these facts. He also found that the ship's surgeon had diagnosed four other cases of steerage passengers sick with the same disease. The general agent of the Fabre Line, J. Ter Knile, on Broadway, was notified, and the Quarantine Commissioners, Mr. Knile, and E. S. Mellen, Secretary of the Quarantine Commission, at once proceeded to quarantine. An extended examination by Health Officer Smith resulted in the discovery of four additional cases on board which had apparently developed during the day. The ship was atonc.e ordered down to the lower bay. The sick were conveyed to the hospitals on Swinburne’s Island, and the remainder of the 561 steerage passengers were transferred to the hospital at Hoffman’s Island. The three cabin passengers on board, together with the fortyfive surviving members of the crew, were also transferred to Hoffman's Island by the Castle Garden transfer boat. Of the sick ones, three were children, and their three mothers went with their babes weeping violently.

THE WESTERN STATES.

Anarchist Parsons has issued a long address to the Amer.can people, in which he attempts to show that he was convicted on speeches that he never made and articles he never wrota He wants his liberty or death, preferring the execution of the full force of his sentence to commutation. In closing he says: lam prepared to die lam ready if needs be to lay down my life for my rights and the rights of my fellow-men. But I object to be killed on false and unproved accusations. Therefore 1 cannot countenance or accept the efforts of those who would endeavor to procure a commutation of my sentence to an imprisonment in the penitentiary. Neither do I approve of any further appeals to the courts of law. I believe them to be all alike—the agency of the privileged class to perpetuate theirpower, to oppress and plunder the toiling masses. As between capital and its legal rights and labor rights tho courts of law must Blue with the capitalistic class. To appeal to them is in vain. It is tho appeal of the wage slave to his capitalistic master for liberty. The answer is curses, blows, impris- < nmeut, and death. If I had never been an anarchist before, my experience with courts and the laws of the governing classes would make me an anarchist now. No, I am not guilty. I have not been proved guilty. 1 leave it to you to decide from tho record itself as to my guilt or innocence. I cannot, therefore, accept a commutation to imprisonment. I appeal not for mercy, but for justice. Louis Lingg, one of tho convicted Chicago anarchists, has written a letter to Most’s New York paper in which the defiance and bravado exhibited by him in court are well maintained. It is indorsed by Engel In full it is as follows: Friends and Comrades: The exertions of our friends and comrades in general, and especially by the Defense Association, to appeal our case to the United States Supreme Court, makes it imperative that I should explicitly declare it my positive desire to abandon ail efforts to secure justice from the authorities. Friends and comrades. I am disgusted with the thought that I should consider the working people so utterly stupid that it would require a new affirmation by the United States Suj.reme Court (the model representative of capitalism, fleecing, and law tyranny; in order to open the eyes of the American people as to the kind of justice dispensed by judicial bandits. Should any one harbor the notion that I expect the American people to be thoroughly aroused the day fixed for my judicial murder let him remove that illusion at once. On the other hand, I wish to combat the mistaken supposition that prevails in certain badly informed circles that it is the duty of our Chicago comrades to plan our release by force. This conception is erroneous, for the reason that to be successful it would necessitate a general uprising, but this is a matter that can never be “made to order/’consequently it would be unjust to charge our comrades with inactivity or cowardice. lam fully convinced that the sacrifice of my life or those of all of us, if made at the present moment, will hurry on the collapse of tho capitalistic order of society much more quickly than in case tho Supremo Court of the United States were to juggle with it for years. Simpletons or mischievous individuals are likely to interpret my desire to discountenance a continuation of the judicial farce as an indirect acknowledgment of guilt and my losing faith in all hone. Comrades, I am not desirous of advising you what should be your course of action in the days of legalized brutality near at hand. I have only this one word to you and organized labor: Be men! With a cheer for anarchism, I shako your hands as a brother. Louis Lingg. I certify by my appended signature that the opinions ana decisions as expressed by Comrade Lingg in every respect coincide with my own. G. Engel. At a meeting of anarchist sympathizers in Cleveland resolutions were adopted protesting against their execution. The Central Executive Committee of the Union Labor party of Cincinnati has refused to intercede in behalf of the condemned men. Lucy R Parsons, wife of the condemned anarchist, was arrested on Fifth avenue, Chicago, while in the act of distributing copies of her husband's “address to the American people” to the passers-by. The arrest was made under the ordinance prohibiting the distribution of handbills, circulars, etc., in the streets. Mrs. Parsons was locked up, but was shortly released upon a deposit of $25 by the business managsr of the Arbeiter Zeitung for her appearance next morning. The National Association of the Union ExPrisoners of War held its annual meeting in Chicago last weeek. The Committee on Pensions—E. H. Williams, of Indiana, Chairman —reported the draft of a bill, which was unanimously adopted. By the terms of the bill the Secretary of the Interior was directed to place upon the pension roll the names of all surviving officers and enlisted men, including sailors, marines, militia, and volunteers, who served in the late war of the rebellion and who werg prisoners of war. It provides for those confined in rebel prisons ninety days a quarter pension; for 120 days, one-half pensjon.; for 270 days, three-quarter pension ; «uid beyond that time a full pension. Proof of having been a prisoner of war to be accepted as sufficient ground for grant- ' ing - the pensions. It was further provided that this bill should not be construed to allow ■ mere than one pension to any one person. Also, that all prisoners should in addition receive $2 a day for each and every day during Which they were imprisoned. It was ordered that the draft of this bill should be sent to every G. A & Post in the country, and that

they be asked to vote upon it A committee of three was also appointed to present the bill to the National Encampment of the G. A. R for indorsement an I recommendation. The constitution and by-laws of the association were amended so as to change the name of the organization to Union ex-Prisoners of War, and to leave out the State organizations and make the local orders directly responsible to the national organization. General W. H. Powell, of Belleville, 111, was unanimously elected President Kalamazoo (Mich.) special: “E. Follett and E. P. Walter, the former for fifteen and the latter for eight years mail agent on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, have been notified that their services are no longer needed by the Government Their offense is pernicious activity in politics.”

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Dobleb & Mudge’s paper warehouse at Baltimore was destroyed by fire, with a loss of about $60,000. Two masked men with drawn revolvers mounted the cab of a Texas <t Pacific express train as it pulled out of Benbrook, Texas, a small station twelve miles west of Fort Worth. The engineer was ordered to run the train a few miles from Benbrook and compelled to stop on a high trestle. The engineer was then made to move the train again until the express car was off the trestle. Here two other masked men boarded the train and the fireman and engineer were placed under guard. A dozen shots were fired into the express car, and the door was finally opened by the messenger. One robber entered and cleared out the safe, and then went into the mail car. Every registered letter in the car was secured by the robbers. The work was done in ten minutes, and the engineer was ordered to pull out The train was the through express from San Francisco. The booty taken is valued at $30,000. A train was robbed on the same trestle last June. Guards wcre.in the passenger coaches, but they were over tho passengers. No attempt was made to molest the passengers. A hurricane which swept Matamoras, Brownsville and the adjacent region of Texas, was very disastrous in its results. A special from Brownsville says: Morning dawned on a scene of desolation. W ater filled the streets, through which the roaring north wind drove the rain like great volleys of small shot. The fallen trees, ruins of houses, and prostrate fences, all half submerged in water, rendered passage difficult and at times dangerous. The duration of the storm may safely be calculated at thirty-five hours. The rainfall was very heavy, being 10.40 inches. The damage in tho country, outside of the two cities, is incalculable. Countless head of cattle and sheep have been lost, and the crops of cotton, com, and sugar cane are completely prostrated and destroyed. One rancher on a small place calculates his loss in cotton alone at $20,090 and many others are equally heavy losers. The total of the losses will be far beyond $1,000,000. In Brownsville tho chief sufferers were among the poor.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The following is the itinerary of the President’s journey in tho South and West, as telegraphed from Washington: Leave Washington Friday, Sept. 30, at 10 a. m., arrive at Indianapolis Saturday, Oct. 1, at 11 a. m.; leave Indianapolis Oct. lat 4p. m., arrive at Terre Haute at 5:30 p. m.; leave Terre Haute Oct. 1 at6:ls p. m., arrive at St. Louis Oct. lat 12 o’clock midnight; leave St. Louis Oct. 4 at 11 p. m., arrive at Chicago Oct. 5 at 9 a. m; leave Chicago Thursday, Oct 6, at 10 a. m., arrive at Milwaukee Oct, 6 at Ip. m.; leave Milwaukee Oct. 7atlo a. m.; arrive at Madison Oct 7 at 1 p. m., leave Madison at 9a. m.; arrive at St. Paul Oct. 10 at 5:30 p. m., leave St. Paul Oct. 11 at 12 noon ; arrive at Minneapolis Oct. 11 at 1 p m., leave Minneapolis Oct. 11 at Bp. m.; arrive at Omaha Oct. 12 at 11 a m., leave Omaha Oct. 12 at 12 noon; arrive at St. Joseph Oct. 12 at 5:15 p. m., leave St. Joseph Oct. 12 at 5:45 p. m, arrive at Kansas City Oct. 12 at 8:15 p. m., leave Kansas City Oct. 13 at 11 p. m., arrive at Memphis Oct, 14 at 6p. m., leave Memphis Oct. 15 at 1 p. m., arrive at Nashville Oct. 15 at 11 p. m., leave Nashville Oct 17 at 11 a. m., arrive at Atlanta Oct. 17 at 11 p. m., leave Atlanta Oct. 19 at midnight, arrive at Montgomery Oct. 20 at 8 a. m.. leave Montgomery Oct, 20 at Ip. m., reach Washington Saturday, Oct. 22, at 6 ai m. At tho suggestion of the President much proposed speech-making at the places to be visited has been abandoned. Secretary Whitney is pleased with the result of tho dynamite gun experments. A Washington dispatch reports him as saying: The experiment was most successful. Seeing is believing, and I wished to see something actually done. 1 had been incredulous, but I confess that I was greatly impressed with the power of the explosion. The vessel was lifted up bodily and then went out of sight instantly. The resistance of that target was evidently no measure of the power of the projectile. It demonstrates this : that they cau lodge dynamite in destructive quantities a mile and a quarter off with considerable accuracy, and it is a matter of detail merely to increase the range of the gun and the quantity of the explosive so as to render it capable of destroying the strongest iron-clads. It avoids the present contest "between torpedoes and machine guns. The method now employed for using high explosives is in torpedoes. Torpedoes are met with machine guns and steel nettings placed about the ships, but this pneumatic gun is a new method of attack. Taking its range and the line of flight of the projectile, it is difficult to say how it can be met. For coast defense it seems to me the most important arm yet invented. Its usefulness on ships is yet to be established, but its importance generally in naval warfare as an arm can not be overestimated.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The Democrats of Massachusetts met in convention at Worcester and placed in nomination the following candidates: Governor, Henry B. Lovering; Lieutenant Governor, Walter E. Cutting; Secretary of State, John F. Murphy; Treasurer, Henry C. Thatcher; Attorney General, John W. Corcoran; Auditor, William F. Cook. The platform discusses the national administration; advocates the filling of all important offices by persons in political sympathy with the administration; denounces the retention in public office of anyone who has shown himself an offensive partisan; expresses the belief that the power of Congress to tax people is limited to the requirements of the Government; denounces the system that produces revenue beyond that extent as unwise; favors the release of the increasing and unnecessary surplus in the treasury; freer entrance to imported materials; the application of the income derived by the Government from the internal-revenue tax to the discharge of the burdens imposed on the people; approves the acts of Congress forbidding the importation of contract labor; and extends the deepest sympathy to the advocates of Home Rule in. Ireland-

THE RAILROADS.

Charles Crockeb, the Pacific Railroad magnate, was examined by the Pacific Railway CommSssion at New York. Mr. Crocker’s

memory proved very treacherous, and the number of things he didn’t know about the affaire of the company was really astonishing. The witness answered the questions propounded him in a very flippant way; said he didn't know where the books of the Contract and Finance Company were, and told the Commissioners they “could bet their bottom dollar” he had made all he could out of the Pacific railways. He said the Central Pacific was now wholly unable to pay its debts to the Government, and thought it ought to be given a hundred or a hundred and fifty years m which to do so. Altogether, the commission got very httle enlightenment or satisfaction out of Mr. Charles Crocker. Magnate Huntington was before the Pacific Railway Commission at New York Wednesday, and in the course of his examination lost his memory and his temper too. He insisted that none of the large expenditures charged m the Central Pacific books to “legal service” had been made for the purpose of corrupting Congressmen, and paralyzed the Commission by the statement that “he had spent twenty-five of the best years of his life in benefiting the public and the Government, and had received nothing but kicks and cuffs in return.”

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The trial of Mr. William O’Brien, under the crimes act, was concluded at Mitchellstown on Saturday, says a Dublin dispatch. The accused was found guilty and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment Notice of appeal from the judgment of the Court was given. Mr. O’Brien, addressing the Court in his defense, said tho crown was guilty of having suppressed evidence favorable to him. The crown had witheld, for instance, the notes made by the head Constable of the defendant’s speech. Ln these notes, he said, was recorded his statement that the Irish party would give the land bill fair play. Continuing, Mr. O’Brien justified hie defense of tho Kingstown tenants on the ground that the evictions against them were commenced just on the eve of the passage of the land bill, and thus an attempt was made to defraud tho poor, wretched tenants of the benefits of the measure. He admitted that he had advised the tenants not to give up without resistance, and that he had declared that, before God and man, they were justified in defending their homes. Immediately after sentence had been pronounced against Mr. O’Brien on the first charge he was placed on trial on the second charge. This was of the same nature as the other. Upon this he was also found guilty, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the term to be concurrent with the other. Mr. O’Brien appealed from both judgments, and was liberated on bail. The sailing of tho English man-of-war Pylades for La Guayra to demand indemnity from the Venezuelan Government for the detention of tho schooners Josephine and Henrietta is interpreted in Rew York as an indication that Great Britain’s intentions toward tho South American republic are warlike. Tho Consul General of Venezuela at New York regards the situation as critical, and says his Government depends upon the United States to defend it against English encroachments. He explains that the schooners wore detained for non-compliance with the customs regulations, and claims that England’s real object is to gain control of the Orinoco river. Thirty-two railway projects have been started in Japan during the past six months.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

General Pryor says it has not yet been decided to what justice of the Supreme Court the application for a writ of error in the anarchists cases will be made. The Mexican Government insists that it has no sinister designs upon Guatemala, and that all it seeks is proper reparation for insults offered to attaches of its legation in that country. The appeals of Guatamala to the United States for assistance have created considerable uneasiness in Mexico. The Oceanic Steamship Company is said to have arranged with the Santa Fe railroad for a through express to run from San Diego to New York in four days, which will reduce the time between Liverpool and Sydney to twentyeight days.

THE MARKETS.

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THE CONDEMNED REDS.

Justice Harian Fays the Cases Would Have Precedence ou the Supreme Court Docket. friends of the Convicted Man Gutside the Jail Disgusted with Their Actions. The Amnesty Association. [Chicago special.] The work of the Amnesty Association is largely directed to agitation among organized labor. There was a plan to appoint committees to go to all the meetings of the trades-unions and Knights of Labor assemblies and urge the adoption of resolutions denouncing the decision of the Supreme Court against the anarchists. But as most of the members of the Amnesty Association are members of labor organizations that plan was abandoned and an undei standing prevails that each member should work in his organization for the passage of such resolutions, and stir up his friends to do likewise in other bodies. As a result, resolutions of that character are submitted at almost every labor meeting, and in many cases the resolutions are adopted. Bakers’ Union, No. 49, and Furniture-Workers’ Union, No. 1, are the last that have adopted resolutions,, tne last-named organization simply indorsing a set of resolutions adopted by the Custom Tailors’ Union last Saturday. “It is enough to make anybody sick and disgusted,” said one of the most prominent friends of the anarchists yesterday, “to see those fellows in jail behaving this way. Here we are spending our time and money and energy, and taking without a murmur all the odium cast upon us by a hostile press, in order to rescue them from the gallows, and in the meantime Parsons, Lingg, and Engel come out in public letters denouncing everybody, rejecting our efforts to get them a fair hearing before the Supreme Court, and abusing the men who try to get up a petition for their pardon. It’s the silliest thing that could be done at the present time, and if it were not for the sake of justice I would drop the matter at once. It’s no fun to do all this work and swallow all the abuse, and if our friends in whose behalf it is done discourage us in this way it makes it twice as hard. I can understand how some of their friends who are not in danger themselves can be imprudent enough to indulge in wild talk. But those men themselves ought to have more sense.” Justice Harlan’s Views. [Washington telegram.] Justice Harlan’s attention was called to the recent interview with Justice Miller io Chicago, in which the latter said that any writ of error in the cases of the anarchists would ordinarily be made to Justice Harlan, Illinois being in the latter’s circuit. Justice Harlan said he had no information that any application would be made. Hewas asked under what circumstances criminal cases could reach the Supreme Court of the United States from the State courts. He said, in reply, that he supposed any application for a writ of error to whatever Justice it should be made would be under Section 709 R. S., which provides among other things that “a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of a Stale in which a decision in the suit could be had, where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the Constitution or any statute of the. United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or immunity specially set up or claimed by either party under such Constitution, may be reexamined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States upon a writ of error.” He also referred to section 710, which provides that cases on writ, of error to revise the judgment of the State courts in any criminal case shall have precedence on the docket of all cases to which the Government is a party, except only cases which the court may, in its discretion, declare to be of public importance. He declined to say anything further on the subject. Denouncing the Sentence. [Buffalo special.] The Socialistic Congress, which has just concluded its sessions here, adopted the following: The Congress of the Socialistic Labor party, assembled in Buffalo, although neither agreeing with the tactics nor with the principles of the anarchists, nevertheless declares the confirmation of the judgment against the eight Chicago anarchists to be unjust, to be dictated by prejudice and class hatred, and to be an act of class injustice. It is generally admitted that none of the condemned men threw the bomb, and our conception of right and justice is not so developed as that we could find any connection between tho teachings of one individual and the acts of au unknown person; for it is a fact that even to-day nobody knows who threw the bomb We cannot understand how it was possible to know the motive of an unknown person. The meeting at which the bomb was thrown was, according to the evidence, peaceable and would in allprobability have euded peaceably if the police had not illegally interfered for the purpose of disturbing the meeting. .We therefore declare that the decision is an attack upon free speech and the right of the people to freely assemble, and that its execution, would be judicial murder. [Elizabeth (N. J.) dispatch ] About seven hundred German socialists met in Turn Hall to protest against thehanging of the Chicago anarchists. On th© stage was a red flag bordered with black, and in the center were portraits of the doomed men. Resolutions declaring the sentence an attack upon labor and demanding a new trial were adopted. [Cleveland dispatch.] About two hundred and fifty anarchists met at a down-town hall and protested against the execution of the seven condemned Chicago anarchists. They spoke in German and were in favor of blood if everything else failed. I Cincinnati dispatch.! The socialists requested the Central Executive Committee of the Union Labor party to intercede in behalf of the Chicago anarchists. A vote was taken by wards and the request was refused by a’ large majority. There was a shower of stones near Delores, in the volcanic region of the Argentine Republic, a few weeks ago, that lasted for more than a minute. The stones fell as thick as hail, and varied in size from a pebble to a veryrespectable bowlder. Great damage was done to trees, while barns and outhouses were demolished, many domestic animals killed, and large numbers of wild geese and hawks on the wing..