Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — Page 2

Sl^etnocrflticScntincl — -t- .« RENSSELAER, INDIANA. f J. W. McEWEN, - - - ; Publmhdi.

CIRCLING THE GLOBE.

A WEEK’S IMPORTANT OCCURRENCES CONCISELY SUMMABI ZED. Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World, Embracing Foreign Affair* and Home Happening* of an Important Nature. BAKERSFIELD, CAL., BURNED. Thirteen Business Block* and Forty Duelling* De*troyed— Lokh, 91,250,000. At Bakersfield, county Beat of Kern County, California, one of the most thriving cities in the lower San Joaquin Valley, Are wiped out every business House in the town and fifty residences. It started in some wooden buildings, but when once under headway it consumed brick blocks as though they were of cardboard. The loss will be over $1,001,000, only one-third insured. All hotels, banks, express offices, newspaper offices and stores are gone. The town was given a great boom a few months ago by the sale of thousands of acres of Millionaire J. B. Haggiu’s big ranch and a large amount of his town property. Many purchasers came from the East and extensive improvements were made, while thousands of acres were planted to vines und fruit. STRIKERS GIVE BATTLE. A Fatal Riot Between Laborer* and tlie Police, The striking laborers at Duluth, Minn., the other day attempted to intimidate a gang of workmen who would not stop work. Forty police were guarding the gang of seventy men at work on a sewer trench when a mob of strikers attacked them. It is believed that the first shot was fired by one of the strikers, but anyway it was followed by volleys on both sides. The fighting lasted tor half an hour, when Company Iv came to the assistance of the police and drove the rioters from the streets. The list of dead and wounded so far as known is: Dead—Ed Johnson. Fatally wounded—Tom Fitzsimmons, George Peterson. Slightly wounded—Max Mack, Mike Olson, George Cosliu, ■William Benson, Louis Nelson, Severin Nelson, John Shay, Edward Cummings, Rev. Dohl, Ham Martin, A. Palotor, M. C. I.uuglelen, Captain McLaughlin, Sergeant Clements. Officers’ force —Hayden, Donovan, Kilgore, and Wolkoviak. Private Farrell.

AROUND THE DIAMOND. Base-Bullist* Competing for the League Championship. The official standing of the ball clubs that are in the race for the championship of the associations named is given below: National. W. L. c American. W. L. f)c Boston 36 19 .654 St. L0ui5....45 21 .681 Cleveland.. .36 21 .650 Brooklyn. ...39 24 .619 New Y0rk...32 22 .592 Athletic 37 24 .606 Philada 29 29 .500 Baltimore... 34 28 .548 Chicago 29 30 . 491 Cincinnati... 34 30 .531 Pittsburg....26 31 .456 K’ns’s City. .29 35 .453 Indianap ...22 34 .392 Columbus...2s 39 . 390 Wash’gt’n...l3 40 .245 Louisville...l2 54 .181 Western. W. L. |>c. Interstate. W. L. l?c. Omaha 39 16 .709 Quincy 31 24 .545 St. Paul 38 17 .088 Davenport.. ,29 27 .517 Sioux City.. 29 25 .537 Springfield. .28 28 .500 Minneapolis 20 30 . 464 Peoria 28 28 .500 Denver 24 30 . 444 Evansville. .28 29 .491 Des Moines.. 23 29 .442 Burlington. .25 33 .431 St. Joseph..lß 33 .352 Milwaukee.. 18 36 .333 ROBBED A NATIONAL BANK. Cashier Miller, of Malta, Ohio, Embezzle* a Fortune and Disappear*. Hiel D. Miller. Cashier of the Malta National Bank of Malta. Ohio, is a defaulter to the amount of 532,000, and probably 550,000. His pecula'.ions have extended over a number of years and were carried on by pocket ng the discounts of the bank from day to day.. This was possible, as ho was cashier, paying and receiving teller aud clerk, and had the full confidence of the directors. A short time ago Miller was thrown from his buggy and sustained injuries which necessitated a substitute at the bank. One deficit of 51,000 was found, for which Miller gave his note; but, when others were brought to light, as soon as he was able to hobble around on crutches he left tho city, aud is now supposed to be in Oregon.

NEGROES GOING TO OKLAHOMA. A Prominent Colored Man of Kansas I’roinises to Locate 100,000 People. W. L. Eitgleson, a prominent negro politician of Kansas, is the prime mover in a scheme to induce the negroes of the South to emigrate to Oklahoma. He has organized an immigration company, composed of some of the prominent colored mon of Kansas, which will have agents in all the principal cities in the South. He says he is receiving letters everyday from people in the South, inquiring about Oklahoma and how to get there. He expects to have KW.OOJ colored people in Oklahoma by next July. KAN INTO AN OPEN SWITCH. Eight Persons Killed in a Railroad Accident in Germany. Thrpugh the blunder of a switchman, eight lives were lost on the railway near Jtochemoos, in Germany. The Frankfort express.while going at a nich rate of speed, ran into an open switch and dashed into an empty train which was standing on the side track. Eight persons wore instantly Killed and eleven others wore injured. Elaines in ail Ohio Town. At Geneva, Ohio, a'flre occurred, and'before it was gotten under control $25,000 •worth of property was destroyed. Eight business places were burned out. inelufling the Postoftice. The Are w;\s causod by a defective flue. ' A Greenback Convention Called. George O. Jones, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Greenback party, has issued a call for a convention of that party to meet in Cincinnati September 12 next.

UNCLE S.UI'B BIG DEBT. It Ha* Been Reduced During June Over 81Q,00*,000. The following is a recapitulation of the monthly debt statement: INTEBKST-BEAKIXG DEBT. Bond* at 4's per cent if 1.T‘,039,000 Bond* at 4 per cent 070,095,330 Refunding certificate* at 4 jier cent.. 119.040 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 04,023,512 Principal $ 894,477,472 Interest 10,574,562 TotaT. $ 905,052,064 DEBT OX WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal 8 1,911,485 Interest. 153,988 Total $ 2,005,474 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-lender notes. .8 346,737,458 Certificates of deposit 16,73.5,000 Gold certificates 116,792,759 Silver certificate* 257,105,445 Fractional currency tie** $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6,910,690 Principal $ 744,284,352 TOTAL DEBT. Principal ; $1,640,073,340 Interest 10,728,551 Total ... .$1,651,401,891 Less cash items available for reduc tion of the debt :. $ 403 271,227 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 $ 503,271,227 Total debt less available cash items $1,148,1:10,663 Net easti in the Treasury 71,484,042 Debt less cash in Treasury June 1, Debt less cash in Treasury July 1, 1«8» - $1,076,646,021 Decrease of debt during the month $ 16,255,929 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1888 . 88,398,035 CASH IN TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $ 116,792,759 Sliver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 257,102,445 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit 16,735,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest. unpaid 12,640,036 Fractional currency 937 Total available for reduction of the debt $ 403,271,227 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882.$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt : Fractional silver coin 25,129 137 Minor coin... 225j074 ~ Total $ 25,354.807 Certificates held as cash. 43,003,094 Net cash balance on hand 71,484,042 Total cash in the Treasury, as shown by Treasurer's general account $043,113,172 PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. Those Who Hat e Been Successful in Tlioir Aspirations. The following appointments have been made: Daniel Hogan, Collector of Internal Revenue for tlie Thirteenth District of Illinois ; Augustus J. Kicks, of Canton, Ohio, Judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, to succeed Judge Jay, on account of ill-health; James Jackson, of Alabama, Assistant District Attorney for the Northern and Middle Districts of ADbama; J. C. Chaney, of Indiana, Assisttaut Slate’s Attorney in the Department of Justice; Simeon P. Child, of Illinois, Postoffice Inspector, in place of A. M. Scott, of Illinois, removed.

TWENTY-FIVE WERE LO IT. A Terrible Railroad Accident Near Lynchburg, Ya. The east-bound express on the Norfolk & Western railroad, when near Thuxton’s station, about thirty miles from Lynchburg, Va. , run into a washout and was completely wrecked, Tho locomotive and several passenger coaches were thrown into a ditch, but the sleeper lemainel on the track. Several of the coaches caught fire after falling, and a number of passengers were seriously burned, while others were injured in the wreck. The killed, so far as ascertained, *ere: Charles Bruce of Lynchburg, fireman, scalded to death; Nathan Cohen of Roanoke, en rout* for Germany via New York; Patrick Donovan of Lynchburg, engineer; A. S. Francis of Marion, mail agent; A. M. James of Roanoke, traveling engineer of the road; J W. Livsay of Roanoke, train dispatcher ; Dennis Melon, janitor of the railroad offices, en route for New York to be married; W. C. Stead of Cleveland, Tenn.; a stranger, bound for Paris via New York; L. B. Summers of Abingdon, Va., mail agent; a little girl, supposed to he the adopted daughter of Mrs. Judge Thompson of Staunton, Va. ; J. W. Dubarry, Superintendent of the Eastern Division; J. C. Cassell of the Western Division ; J. J. Rose, Postal Clerk, of Abingdon, Va - .; John Kilpa.trick of Lynchburg; the husband aud two children of a lady passenger on the train, whose name cannot be learned. Conductor Johnson, Bishop Wilson, Express Messenger Ashinere, v Mrs. Judge Thompson, Maj. J. C, Cassel, Superintendent of the road, and Baggagemaster Ford are among those most badly hurt. A number of others, including several ladies from Texas, are slightly injured. Only seven persons in all aro said to have been saved. There were about seventy passengers on the train, besides the employes, and as it is absolutely impossible to ascertain the exaot number saved, the exact number of those killed cannot be accurately ascertained. There is every reason to fear, however, that the number wiil reach thirty, if not more.

BY A CONTRACTOR’S NEGLECT. Collapse of a Crowded Grand Stand at Oklahoma City. At Oklahoma City, the festivities in honor of the nation’s birthday were brought to a sudden and sad ending when the crowded grand stand fell, carrying down nearly onethousand persons and burying hundreds in the debris. When the victims' had been taken out, it was learned that no one \vadead, though niue persons were perhaps fatally and many badly injured. The only death thus far is'that of the 18-mouths-old child of Xjr. J. A. Ryan, of Jimtown, who died a short time after the accident. The injured are: Mrs. Dr. Martindale, of Howe, Tex.; Mrs. Mollie Campbell, of Pauls Valley, injured internally ana will probably die; Herbert Glower, aged 18, will also probablv die; J. W. Mingus, Harrison, dangerously ; Charles Cottell, Pauls Valley, fatally; Tom Reynolds, Oklahoma, serious ;J. T. Vanzandt, Oklahoma, serious; C. Gordlin, Warner, Tex., serious; Marshall McNeill, Oklahoma, arm tom off. A detachment of troops under Captain Stiles was at once ordered to the scene, and rendered valuable service in preserving order and conducting the removal of victims with something like system. Over one hundred persons were injured, most of them being hurt in the back, caused by falling timbers. Great indignation is expressed at Contractor Aubrey for the lin-

safe construction of the sland. Heisecnsideredjlargely responsible for the disaster, as he was warned by bis workmen that the stand was not securely braced. Ho paid no attention to the warnings, and told the men to mind their own business. THE TRADE BAROMETER. The Commercial Situation Summarized by a Mercantile Company. B. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly leview of trade save: Business ha* been fairly maintained in volume, aud is gradually improving in prospects. June vias a mouth of exceptionally large tran»actions. Price* of eoimuodnies, in spite of the rise in some specula.ive markets, have on the whole fallen during the month about 2 percent., and arc now hardly 1;.. per cent, above the lowest average ever recorded. But there are signs of substantial improvement in the most important branches of industry. The monetary situation remains undisturbed. Report* from interior points are generally favorable. Ct Rodions are nowhere seriously disturbing. The half-yearly return of failures shows a relatively larger increase in New England than in any otner section—about 28 per Cent., and next in the traiiß-Uississippi region, this side of the Reeky Mountains, about 20 per cent. In the Middle States the" increase has been but 4)fc per cent., thence to the Mississippi about 5 per cent., and at the South about 3)4 per cent. Against a. general increase of 8 per cent, in number there is a decrease of B*4 per cent, in aggregate liabilities. The markets have not changed greatly during the broken week. Wheat is higher, owing to accounts of injury from prolonged drouth aud heat in Dakota and Minnesota, where heavy rains have just improved the outlook considerably. Other crop prospects continue, favorable. Pork products are weaker, and dairy products ase coming forward in immense quinJity, - «<> ikat prices are depressed. Leather d6es not .change,'bht the le.ised quotations of wool show an average advance of about one cent per pound. The price of cotton has advanced three-sixteenths, in part because of scanty supply of desirable grades The iron market remains strong in tone. The busines* failures number 202, as compared with a total of 215 the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 214.

TEN BLOCKS IN ASHES. Tks Business Portion ot Ellensburg, W. T., Destroyed by Fire. Ten blocks of the best portion of Ellensburg, W. T., are in ashes, and nearly one hundred families are homeless. The flames started on the north side of the city, with a very strong wiDd blowing from the northeast. The fire department could do nothing to check the rapid advance of the conflagration, which within an hour spread to the business center. Help was telegraphed for from tho neighboring towns, but long before it could reach the scene the flames hud literally wiped out the heart of the city and had commenced to spread among tho residences on the South Side. It was not until the main portion of the food for the fire Irad boen consumed that there were any signs of abatement It is estimated that the loss will run up to many hundreds of thousands of dollars. All of tho business blocks on Pine and Pearl and Third, Fourth, and Fifth streets are consumed, excepting only the First National Bank building. Bloomer & O’Connor’s dry goods house', H. Gotzien’s boot and shoe store, one saloon and one general store. Over one hundred families are homeless, penniless, and with nothing left save the few scant clothes with which they escaped from the advancing flames. Help is badly needed, in caring for the homeless victims of (ho conflagration.

Tlie Pope Sends a Note to the Powers. The Pope has, through his Secretary of itate, sent a copy of his lately pronounced allocution to all the Powers, accompanied by a note asking whether they will interest themselves in his condition or not No decision will be taken until the result of his note is seen. The Advocate General of Minnesota Dead. The Hon. A., C. Forbes, member of the Legislature and Minnesota Advocate General, died at Marshall, Minn., of catarrh of the stomach. Mr. Forbes was one of the most prominent members of the Legislature and one .of the leading politicians of the State. _____ A Great, Educator Dead. Theodore Dwiuht Woolsey, D. D., LL. D., ,ex*-President of Yale College and one of the leading thinkers of America, died at New Haven, Conn., on the Ist inst., aged 88. Gen. Sherman’s Soil Ordained. At Philadelphia Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest son of Gen. W. T. Sherman, has been ordained a Catholic priest.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Prime $ 4.25 @ 4.80 Good 3.50 @ 4.00 Common 2.50 & 3.50 Hogs—Packing Grades 4.00 & 4.50 Sheep 3.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 (Spring 82)60 .83)6 Corn—No. 2 . 35 0 .35}b Oats—No. 2 22)6 @ .23 Rye—No. 2 42 )£@ .43 Butter—Choice Creamery 15 0 .16 Cheese—Full Cream, flats. .07)60 .08 Eggs—Fresh 12 0 .13 Potatoes—Choice new, per brl.. 1.25 0 1.75 Pork—Moss .. ..11.50 012.00 . MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 78 @ .79 Corn—No. 3 @ ,36 Oats—No. 2 White 27160 .2816 Rye—No. 1 44 0 .45 Barley—No. 2 50 0 .61 Pork—Mess 11.50 012.00 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 0 4.25 Hogs 4.25 & 4.75 Sheep , •.. 3.50 0 4.25 Wheat— No. 2 Red 88)60 .8316 Corn—No. 2 Yellow .35 0 .36 Oats—No. 2 White 28 0 .29 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red j 88 @ .89 Corn—Cash 36 @ .37 Oats—Cash 24 0 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.75 Hogs 4.50 @ 6.00 Sheep 4.00 @5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red... 1 ? 80 @ Corn—No. 2 42 @ .44 Oats—Mixed Western ;... .27 @ .30 Pork—New Mess 13.00 @13.50 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.75 @ 4.50 ’ Hogs 4.00 @ 4.50 Whkat-tNo. 2..., 85160 .8616 Corn—No. 2 1... .31 0 .3D6 Oats . .22)60 .2316 Rye—No. 2 37 @ .40 INDIANAPOLIS, Cattle..... 2.50 @ 4.25 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.50 5heep....... 3.00 0 4.50 Lambs 4.00 @ 5.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red .89)6@ .9016 Oats—No. 2 Mixed........ .25 @ .26 Rye—No. 2..... 45 @ ,47 Pork—Mess 12.00 @12.50 KANSAS CITY. ‘ Cattle—Good 3.60 @ 4.00 Medium 8.00- & 3.75 Butchers’ 2.00 0 3.00 Hoos-Choice 4.15 @ 4.25 Medium 3.75 0 4.15 Sheet 3.00 0 4.00

CRONIN GRAND JURY.

SEVEN INDICTMENTS PR T.SKNTED AGAINST CONSPIRATORS. The Name* of Coughlin, Burke, Coone.v, O’Sullivan, Beggs, Woodruff, and John Kunze Included- No Presentment Returned by the Inquisitor* Against Alexander Sullivan. A Chicago dispatch of the Ist suys: The special grand jury in the Cronin murder case has found indictments against seven men, four of whom are now locked up in the county jail to await trial for the murder of Dr. P. H. Cronin. The men indicted are: John F. Beggs, senior guardian of the famous camp 20 of the Clan-na-Gael, who is believed to know something of the organizing of the mo k tribunal which condemned Cronin to death. Dan Coughlin, the ex-city detective, who is supposed to have found the active men for the work and to have been general director of the conspiracy. Martin Burke, the Winnipeg prisoner, who is believed to be. one of the men in the cottage at the time of the murder. Patrick Cooney, the “Fox,” who was Burke’s “paL” He is now a fugitive. P. O’SulHvan, the Lake View iceman, whose contract with Cronin male it easy for thq other conspirators to lure the doctor to'death. FranV Woodruff, alia; Black, who confessed that he had carried the butchered body to its catch-basin tomb. John Kunze, a young German. His name had not been mentioned in connection with tho case until the indictment against him was returned before Judge She pi erd.

Kunze was a henchman of Dan Coughlin’s and accompanied the detective to Peoria when the visit was made to Ed Spellman. He is brought into criminal connection with the murder through his relations with Coughlin, against whom sqme new aud startling evidence was adduced just previous to the adjournment of the grand jury, when it was gleaned that Coughlin had entered tho Carlson cottage on the night of May 4 at ju.-t about the time the murder was done. Be was driven to the place by Kunze, whose picture has been identified fully by Milkman Mertes. The same picture was also iden.ified as that of a man who had been seen around the rooms at 117 Clark street when the flat at that -number was occupied by the furniture afterward found in the Carlson cottage. Kunze had been in trouble before he became acquainted with Cough f lin, and the detective protected him aiK) made him a ready tool in his murderous schemes. There was considerable surprise expressed over the failu e of the grand jury to include the name of Alexander Sullivan in the list of indictmentvbut despite the most earnest efforts the jurors were unable to secure any evidence of a nature that would justify the return of a t-ue bill. What was heard was damning in implication, and some of the jurors were anxious to base an indictment on it. State’s Attorney Longenecker claimed not to feel disconcerted over the escape of Sullivan. There was time to take up his case yet. he said. At the same time he admitted that it would hardly be possible to show that the lawyer was a party to the conspiracy unless there should come a “squeal.’’

ANOTHER MYSTERY.

Dr. .John Mclnerny Said to Have Been Lured West and Murdered. New York, July 1. —Dr. John Mclnerny, one of the four men who are alleged to have been doomed to death by the inner circle of the Clan-na-Gael, ismi*smg. His friends claim that he was killed before Cronin was. Shortly before he was last seen in the middle of April, he received at the Catholic Protector a telegram from Omaha offering him a good position if he would come there immediately to take it. It is assumed that he started for Omaha in' time to have arrive 1 m Chicago en route on April 21. His friends in New York have written to Omaha to inquire about the telegram and the alleged position awaiting him, and have received replies that after diligent inquiry no one could be found who was interested in Melnerny’s going to Omaha, nor had he been seen there. John Devoy, who was Mclnerny’s associate in the Irish Nation, believes Mclnerny was lured to bis death by the telegram. All agree that there is just as good ground for believing that Mclnerny was assassinated as for the assertion that Cronin was slain by the inner circle of the Clan-na-Gael, which had doomed Cronin, Mclnerny, Devoy and Dr. McCahey, of Philadelphia, to death. There is evidence to show that traps were laid for McCahey, just like those that at first failed with Cronin. Devoy has been oj enly threatened, rnd men have watched his moveipents, not' knowing that their movements were also watched.

Since Mclnerny disappeared fr.om this city on April 6 a letter has awaited him at his address here in which a young married woman seems to hint at an intrigue with the missing man. His friends here believe that he was murdered in the Carlson cottage before Cronin, aud that the arrangements made for tha disposal of the latter’s body, but interrupted, were carried out in Mclnerny’s case. Dr. Mclnerny was the most secret and most trusted agent of tne Irish revolutionary organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. Mclnerny was the go-between for the triangle composed of Alexander Sullivan, Michael Boland and D. C. Feely of the Clan-na-Gael here, and the extremists of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood m Ireland. He was the man of all others who had the key to many a secret transaction; who was in full possession of the underhand workings of the Clan-na-Gael. And more than all, it was he who, as general agent, knew just how much money each man sent across to the other side received from the triangle in America. When Mclnerny began to compare notes w ith emissaries who had returned from • England and Ireland lie found that there was a screw loose in the financial department, and then, having found this out, he despised the executive and made no secret of the fact that somebody was dishonest. Here then is a sufficient couse for believing that Mclnery has been murderedThe bond of society is.obedience to law, and the obligation of all law, human or divine, rests on the doctrine of reanonsibility.

THE NATIONAL GAME.

TUB TEAMS IN THE LEAGUE PENNANT RACE. Boston Falling Down—Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Washington Playing Poor Ball —New York Playing a Strong Game, and Chicago aud Indianapolis Biacing Up. [SPECIAL COBRIB PONDEXCE.] The pennant race between the teams of the National League becomes more interesting as the half-mile post in the run is neared. Boston has met with a sore set-back upon the present Western trip, while New York and Chicag o have begun to pick up ana play the ball of which they are capable. New York is in hard luck with Kee # e absent, Crane and Ward disabled, and Welch sick; but it con|ttoues to win just the same. The Clevelands are still playing excellent ball, and seem to be in as strong form as at any time. • Philadelphia for some reason is slowing down in speed, aud unless it braces: up pretty quickly will be well down in the list of competitors. The Philliea started fn this year confident of winning the flag, and in looking back over their record it will be seen that they had good grounds upon which to base strong hopesof success. In 1887 the Phillies landed a good second, and had the season lasted two months longer they would undoubtedly have finished ahead of Detroit. Last, year they l ad calculated on winning, but the death of Ferguson, and the accidentsto Fogarty, Mulvey and Bastian again interfeed with their plans. Despite these drawbacks, however, they finished a. food third. This year the management ad a right to look" for the pennant. They strengthened center field by putting Fogarty there in place of Andrews, and added great batting strength to the team by placing Thompson in right field. They strengthened second base and added a good batter to the team when they got Delehanty,- who is not-'only better.than Bastian but as good a base runner as: there is in the league. Thus it will be seen that the field was rigged up for a pennant-winning team. Then came the batteries. Buffinton, Sanders and Casey were regarded asthree of the best pitchers in the league,, and to this department was added Gleason and Pete Wood, two fine youngsters. In Clements, Schriver, Hallman and Decker everybody thought the club had a quartette of catchers that could not be equaled, by any other club in the league. The advance of the season, however, has seen not a few changes. Irwin was released on account of a “misunderstanding” with President Beach, Delehanty was injured, and laid up for six weeks, and Buffinton turns out to be about the only pitcher the club has got. How or where the Quakerites may finish is a question. Pittsburgh and Washington are playing poor ball, but Indianapolis, the past fortnight, has braced up wonderfully, taking four straight from Washington, and three out of lour from Boston, all within ten days’ time. The League staff of umpires is going to get a shaking up at an early day, and two •of the present staff'will walk the plank. It is not a difficult matter to guess who they are, forßarnnm and Fessenden have hardly given satisfaction in any of the League cities. They no doubt mean well, but they do not appear to be gifted with the qualities that go to make up successful umpires. Barnum is gentlemanly and goes about his work with great care and tries to do what is right, but he is of a nervous temperament, and lacks judgment at critical points. Fessenden has weaknesses which are apparent to every one who has watched his work; hence be will have to go. President Young would ha e been pleased to have kept his staff or umpires intact throughout the season, but there was a general complaint against Barnum and Fessenden that could not be ignored. Wesley Curry will be promoted to be a regular, and Phil Powers, of the International Association, formerly an old league player and afterward an umpire, will be appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr. Young has over fifty applications for the position of substitute, but has not deciced whom he will select. New York lovers of (he game are just now in good spirits over the club’s arrangements for new grounds. The grounds across the bay at Staten Island where the team has been playing since it was compelled to leave the polo grounds have been given up, and a piece of property secured on Manhattan Island, which it is hoped will be ready for the team when thev return to New York, July 8, for their next home season. The new park will extend 410 feet on One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street and will have a front line of 310* feet on Eighth avenue. Its shape will bea segment of a circle with straight sides; not unlike a horseshoe, but broader. The average depth will be fifty feet on. the main floor and thirty-one feet on the balcony. It will seat 5,500 people, which, with the bleacheries, will afford accommodations for 15,000 people. It will be built in framed trusses, so that it can betaken apart and put -up elsewhere if necessary. President Day thinks that ..when finished the new polo grounds will be the best ball park in the country. It is 'easier of access than the old grounds, the entrance being within a few yards of thesteps of the elevated railroad. Of course it is further up town, but the difference in time was used up by the ten-minute walk necessary to reach the old polo grounds, which is now avoided. SMALL TALK. Pitcher George was released by New York last week and will no doubt sign with the Columbus. He is .in good trim and would make a good man for them. There is a general disposition on the part of all clubs to insist that umpires shall not do their work behind tbe pitchers. They miss sharp hits near thefoul lines and batsmen declare that they interfere with their sight of the ball. The betting "here against the‘Giants taking the -pennant has been 25 1o 1. Now the odds are 5 to 1, and not many takers at that. George Shoph has accepted the terms of the Milwaukee Club and has gone'ty'est . to join the team at Omaha': He states that he. had several offers from Eastern clubs, but he preferred to join the Western Le&gue. He will probably be heard from somewhere near the top of the West- - ern League general players.

EARRY PALMER.