Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — Page 2

SbcJlrmocraticScutinct J. TV. MoEWEN, l*ut»lisslior. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

HIDEOUS SKELETON.

GRINS FROM THE CLOSET OF THE VANDERBILTS. Borne One (lakes Big Money Ont of the Whisky Trust—Mississippi River Little More than a Succession of Mad PudAles. Row of the Vanderbilts. For a month past very definitely stated reports have been current among American friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt In London and Paris that formal negotiations were In progress between them for a judicial separation. Failing that, it has been said there was a probability of a suit for divorce on the part of Mrs Vanderbilt. There is no doubt that Mrs. Vanderbilt has consulted friends as to the advisability of instituting such proceedings. She threatens to sue for divorce unless given three mansions and a yearly allowance of $300,099. The name of Nellie Neustretter, a well-known woman living in. Paris, though of Dutch birth, is mentioned in this connection, with what authority Is not known. She has recently established herself In expensive apartments at the Case Madrid, Paris, and at Deauville, with an elaborate entourage of servants RIGGING THE MARKET. Nearly a Million Made on the Whisky Trust Stories. There Is much excitement In the financial circles of Chicago and New York over the performances of the men at the head of the Distillers’ and Cattle Feeding Company, better known as the whisky trust, whereby some favored Individuals have ruade a profit of almost $4,009,009 in speculating in the .-hares of the company, and at the same time an opportunity to save for the company a great sum was thrown away. By the operation characterized among speculators as “rigging the market,” the price of whisky shares was carried up. then down, and then up again, and immense profits were made by those who knew how the cat was going to jump But the stockholders of the Distillers’ and Cattle Feeding Company are indignant. They complain that the interests of the corporation were •acrillced that some one might grasp large winnings in the stock market and Some even charge that certain directors played fast and loose with the company’s affairs Some of the stockholders intimate that President Greenhut, of the whisky trust, is responsible for the tricks played with the property and Is the greatest gainer thereby.

HOLD L’P TWO TRAINS. Amateur Bandits I’lay a Desperate Game in the Depot at Erie. Pa. At Erie, Pa , a band of five men made a most desperate attempt late Monday night to hold up two Lake Hhoie passenger trains in the Union Depot. Each one of the band picked out his car, and all began their work at the same moment. They flourished revolvers at the doors, cried <ut “Hands up!” In the most approved border tone, and then, having attracted attention to, themselves and awed and intimidated the nervous persons among the travelers, began collecting money and jewelry. 'lhelr success as contribution-lifters was phenomenal. considering the odds against them. Home of the passengers seemed glad to surrender everythin' in their possession in order to be rid of the supposed bandits. The gang was afterward captured by the police. TOUCHED LOW-WATER MARK. Upper Mississippi Steamboats llavq Been Forced to Stop for the Season. The Mississippi has reached the lowwater mark of 1864. Old river men say that the mark lias never bsfore been reached sin e the Government established It. The water In the I'pper Mississippi Is now so low that the Diamond Jo line of steamers lists been compe.lo I to stop business for the season. The river is full of sand oars. Never befoio lias the water fallen so rapidly or tiie channel changed so often or so treacherously, and several drownings are due to this fact. At Burlington the Mississippi is a mere thread In fact, no wider than the channel proper.

Blinded by a Pneumatic Lyman Parks, twenty-three years old, eon of Dr. Floyd '• homas, director of the Indiana prison at Jeffersonville, lost his eight through the explosh n of a pneumatic tire of his bicycle Parks was riding to Corydon, when the inner air tube of one of the wheels of his bicycle exploded. After having adjusted a new one Parks commenced to Inflate the tube, and this, too, exploded. Frazmoots of the tire struck him in both eyes, and he became totally blind. His Joy Was Short-Lived. David Farmer, a poor man of Martinsville. Ind., was recently overjoyed to receive a check for 32,000 on the First National Bank of Denver, Colo., from bis sls-ter-ln-law, who wrote that she was a millionaire and was soon to marry a wealthy wecond husband. 3he check has just been returned marked not paid for want of fundi The woman has been declared insane. Brave Messenger Rewarded. A. M. Chapman, the Wells-Fargo Express messenger whose train on the Frisco Railroad was held up at Redfork, I. T., on July 18 last by highwaymen, has been suitably rewarded by Wells, Fargo & Co. for his bravery at that time. The recognition came In the shape of a gold watch studded with diamonds and a heavy gold chain, valued at (590. Gold Pound in Indiana. While digging a well William White, a farmer residing several miles west of New Albany, Ind., found several pieces of goldbearing quartz, the deposit being distinctly marked and the gold being of a rich quality. Close Call for Senator Palmer. A telegram from Senator Palmer, dated Grafton. W. Va., says that the Baltimore and Ohio train in which Mrs Palmer and himself were speeding home narrowly es- ■ caped complete destruction by a landslide As it was, the engine, tender, and part of the baggage car were crushed flat and the engineer and fireman killed. Bitten by a Murderess. Sheriff Harrison Beecher, of Sullivan Couhty, New York, during the Incarceration of Lizzie Halliday, the triple murderer, Is suffering severe pain frem a swollen hand, U« result of a bite from her. Nebraska Republicans. The Nebraska Republican Convention, held at Omaha. Wednesday, nominated the following ticket: For Governor. 'J homas J. Majors; Lieutenant Governor, 11 E Moore; Secretary of State, N. J. Piper; Auditor. Xngene Moore; State Treasurer, Joseph S. Bartley; Superintendent of Public In•traqtlon, H. B. Corbett; Attorney Gonoral. A. & Churchill; Commissioner of leads and Buildings, H. G Russell. Hot to Kill Hippolyte. New has been received from what has hitherto proved a reliable source that an ettespt was made a few days ago to assesefartle President Hippolyte of Hayti.

pBES A PULLMAN PASS. Labor Commissioner Wright, the Strike Investigator, Carries an “Annual." Did Labor Commissioner Carroll D Wright go out to Chicago on a Pullman jass to Investigate tne Pullman strike? Commissioner Wright, according to hli iwn statement, carries a pass and uses It when be pleases, but hs says he didn’t use it in going to Chicago. Yes. Units'! states Labor Commissioner Carroli D. Wright, the Chairman of the special labor commission appointed by President Cleveland to Investigate the recent itrlke at Pullman, and to Inquire Into the treatment of Pullman's unfortunate starving employes, has a Pullman sleeping-car pass in his pocket He can feel it press against his broad bosom whenever he leans forward to question witnesses as to the condition of affairs In the “model town.” His feelings can only be surmised when the evidence is damaging to Pullman, his friend and patron, to whom he Is under obligations for many a ride in the palatial sleeping-cars Commissioner Wright’s pass Is an “annual” It entitles him to ride free in any Pullman Bar at any time in any part of the United States. He is not required to put up {2 for s night’s rest in a Pullman bunk, as less favored individuals without a “pull” must la

SAVED BY A BRAVE BRAKEMEN. Passengers on a Mountain Train Have a Narrow Escape. Passenger train No. 7. on the Stony Cove tnd Catskill Mountain Railroad, on a narrow gauge track to Hunter, and a steep trade, while going up the mountain met a wild train running down. The engineer st No. 7 reversed his englsup and all the crew jumped. Several passengers did likewise and escaped injury. Next came the crash, and then followed one ot the wildest rides passengers ever experlsneed. and they were saved from a fall Sown the mountain side by tho bravery of one man. When the crash occurred the engine of train No. 7 was badly broken, and, being reversed under full head of steam, started backward down the mountain without driver or fireman. Brakeman Arland B. Porter was on the rear car, and when the wild run commenced he tried vainly to stop the train with brakes. Then he heard the puffing of the engine and realized that something must be wrong there. Running through the curs he climbed into the cab and pushed the throttle and the steam was cut off. The train soon stopped.

HOWARD SKIPS TO CANADA. Founder of a New Religious Order Finds Dupes In Virginia. The Grand Jury ot Fairfax County, Virginia, has returned two Indictments against Dr. Granby Stanton Howard. Dr. Howard is the man who started what he called a new lellglous order on a bn sis which he claimed to have obtained while an officer in the British army In India. Howard established what he styled a school of philosophy at Gunston Hall, on the Potomac. He is said to be In Canada at the present time. The indictments charge him with obtaining from his dupes $4,000 in money and diamonds valued at 11,390. One of his followers has been Investigating Howard’s career for some time and asserts that he has operated in New York. Boston. Burlington, N. J.; Newport, It I.; St. Louis. Chicago, Kansas City, Chattanooga and other places under various names.

RIO UNDER MARTIAL LAW. President Pelxoto Assuming Dictatorial Powers. Rio Janeiro Is under military patrol. Pelxoto’s secret police are everywhere, "he Brazilian warship Constant has been

ordered back from Uruguay, and the harI or is patrolled by warship launches. Too city has tho appearance of a military camp. The Minister of War was hurriedly summoned. A number 'of prisoners have been released on Pelxoto’s order. A strict censorship has been established over the press

PEIXOTO.

and Pelxoto refuses to grant Interviews, saying that he has his own organs in the United States and In Europe.

Smothered to Death. A terrific gas explosion occurred in breast 62 cn sixth level of the Franklin mine, at Franklin, near Seattle, Wash., Friday afternoon. Sixty-two miners were imprisoned and thirty-seven were killed. The fire was soon extinguished and the work of taking out the bodies began. All were recovered It is evident that all the men had time to come out, for those at work In the farther breast reached the shaft in safety, while those who were nearest the shaft and consequently more removed from danger I all perished from asphyxiation. They | evidently believed they were in perfect I safety at the fire, but while they staid the smoke oozed from some outside place farther south and the bodies were all found south of breast 62. within a space of 500 feet Several mon were badly bruised and nno colored man was taken out with a broken neck, their wounds Indicating they had thrown themselves against posts and timbers of the gangway In a wild and desperate endeavor to e«capo. but a majority of the bodies bear no marks at all, not even a scratch, and their features were in quiet repose. Indicating that their death had been a speedy and painless one. The National Game. The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows in the championship race:

NATIONAL LEAGUE. Perl Per W. L. cent. I W. L. cent. Boston 68 35 .660,Pittsburg..fl 61 .500 Baltimore. JI6 36 .BHlChloagos.. .47 57 .461 NewYork*.66 38 . 635 Cincinnati. 46 67 .447 PbU’delpTatO 44 .680 St. Louis .42 89 .404 Clevelands.s4 46 .540 Waehlnat'uSl 69 .330 Brooklyns.,s3 48 .5'26 Louisville .39 71 .311 WESTERN LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sjoux Clty.69 49 .634 Indl'n'p’Hs.49 69 .485 Kansas C’v.6o 43 .678 Grd Rapldsl7 64 .465 Minne'p'lfsOS 44 .6’6 Detroit 45 58 .446 Toledo 62 44 .642|Mllwankee.33 64 .40 Bought by the Illinois Central. The Illinois Central Railroad, after Sept 1, will operate and own the Chesapeake. Ohio and Southwestern system. The Illinois Central will use that portion of the road from Fulton, Ky.. to Memphis, Tenn., as a main line along with the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, over which the fast freight and through passenger trains will’pass from New Orleans to Chicago Instead of through Jackson. Miss., and Jackson. Tenn, The entire line was ; urchased. it is said, for 85,(100,000. It was valued at $15,001,001 Boodler Callahan Convicted. At New Orleans, City Councilman John T. Callahan was convicted of receiving a bribe and was Immediately committed to the parish prison by Presiding Judge Moisa The penalty .for his crime is not less than one nor more than five years at hard labor In the State Penitentiary and a fine of not less than 559 nor more than (5.000. His conviction has struck dismay into the hearts of the city ring politicians, of whom he was ona Locomotives for Brazil. The Brooks locomotive worcsot Dunkirk, N. Y.. completed and tested under steam the first locomotive of the order of sixty for the Brazilian Government, to run on the Brazil Central Railway. Great Railroad Man Gone. t John Newell, o f Chicago, president and general manager of the Lake Shore,

and identified with other railroad liter- 1 ests, died Sunday afternoon at 2:Bfi.- la apartments at the Tod House, Young*- j town. Ohio, where he waa taken Saturday I night from hls private car. While traveling from Pittsburg to Cambrldgeboro, Pa., be I was stricken with apoplexy, which paralyzed his left slde.rendering him helpless Ho rallied under stimulants and was taken to ■ the hotel on reaching Youngstown and the best medical aid summoned. Until after midnight he seemed to grow stronger and was able to converse with bls medical attendants As daylight approached hts | symptoms showed brain disturbance and he became unconscious, so continuing until the end came. Ills life went out peacefully i and no Indication of Buffering.

MUST PAY THE BILL. United States of Colombia Ha* a Valid snt Large Claim Against Us. A secret has leaked out from diplomatic circles to the effect that our Government has become sadly entangled with one of the Central American republics as a result of the reciprocity treaties, and will have a bill to pay be tide which the Bering Sea claims will appear trivial In amount. The country tn question is the United States of Colombia, one cf the Central American republics which steadily refused all efforts of the State Department to Induce It to become a party to one of these reciprocity treaties. Moreover, when her sister republics and Spain (as to Cuba und Porto Rico) began to ship their products duty free to the United Stales under the terms of their new treaties. Colombia claimed the same exemption tor her staples, hides, coffee, sugars and molasses. The State Department rejected this claim, us it was obliged to do. else the whole fabric of treaties would have fallen. Colombia persisted In her claim, and pointed to the treaty of 1846, which declares that the Colombian* shall no; be assessed any duties upon their products Imported Into the United States higher than on like articles Imported from any other foreign country. They have never abated this contention; and at last the United States has been obliged to admit the strength and correctness of the Colombia!'. position. This being done, It follows that the Government must refund to Importers the amount they have paid in duties on Colombian products which should have been free, or admitted at lower rates Just what the total will amount to no one can tell at present, but steps are being taken to ascertain the amount from statistics.

HOT HUE AND CRY. Exciting Chase and Capture of Two Mur defers and Robbers. Two coolly desperate train robbers, Henry S’. Gordon, alias Griswold, and William Lake, both of Chicago, shot and Instantly killed Special Officer Patrick H. Owens, of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St." Paul Railroad Friday night as he was going to the assistance ot Freight Conductor N. A. Sargeant, who was being held up and robbed In the caboose by the desperadoes. Early Saturday morning, while fleeing from the scene of their first murder, the robbers shot and probably mortally wounded Officer ’Patrick McGrath of the Northwestern, who was about tr attempt their arrest The scene ol the robbery and the first shooting was at the little station of Deerfield, on the St Paul Railroad, throe and a hall miles west of Highland Park. 'J he shooting of McGrath was at Mayfair, ot the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. After the second shooting the murderers fled west, and their pursuit and running gun light with the police, their final capture after both were wounded, were In keeping with tho desperate methods that the robbers employed at the outset. Fur cool atrocity In both robbery and murder and for desperate deterrplnation to. escape, cost what It might, either to themselves or their pursuers, the crime and the criminals are alike remarkable.

Chinese Lo in Falls. , A telegram from Shanghai says that the attempt of the Chinese Government tc float a loan of 1,009,090 taels, to be guaranteed by Chinese merchants. has proved a failure. The Japanese Government has declared rice to be not Included among articles contraband of war. The American consul at Shanghai has ordered the Japanese in that city to discard the Chinese costumes und advises a majority of them tc return to their native country. Mr. Oiori, the Japanese minister at Seoul, Is reported to have been killed. Was a Wind of Dzath. A wind of death—no other name can describe the cyclone that swept across the Sea of Azov Saturday. It will be Impossible for days yet to compute the dai.age done, but it is almost certain that at leasi 1,000 persons have perished, some by drowning, others by being crushed undei fulling houses and trees. The excitement is great among the American colony In St Petersburg, for It Is feared that at least two parties of American tourists were or the Sea of Avoz at the time the wind did its deadly work.

To Fay the Militia. Governor Matthews, of Indiana, hat mortgaged his farm for 340,902 to ralst money to gay the State troops for services during the strike riots at Hammond and In the mining region. lie expects to b< reimbursed when the legislature meets Four Hundred Go Out. Four hundred weavers In the mills -at Suncook, N. Y..dld not go to w irk Thursday, becau.se of r reduction In v ages equal tc the cut-down In the Full River mills. Casualty In a Pennsylvania Mine. Two men were killed and eleven Injured by an explosion of gas in the Gilberton colliery, near Ashland. Pa.. Friday after, noon.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. CATTLE—Common to Prime.... $3 60 05 75 Hogb—Shipping Grades 4 00 » 6 09 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 oo 4ajs Wheat—No. a Red 63 0 bi COBN—No. 2 53)40 64K Oats—No. 2.. v,., 20 & 31 Rye—No. 2 49 ,<<> eo Butter—Choice Creamery.... 23 <3 23'4 Eggb—Fresh n 0 j.s Potatoes, New. per bu 70 @ 80 „ INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE—Shipping 200 0 4 75 Hogs—Choice Light 400 @6OO Sheep—Common to Prime 200 “'l3 25 Wheat—No. ■< Red 49 0 49'4 Corn—No. 2 White 66 & 66 Oats—No. 2 White 32'40 33U „ ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 0 5 00 hogs 8 00 0 000 Wheat—No. 2 Red 60 0 m Corn—No. 2 53 0 539 Oats—N°.2 30 0 31 ‘ r.YE—No. 2. 62 0 66 „ CINCINNATI. Cattle 260 0 4 75 HOGS 4 00 0 6 00 Sheep 2 00 0 3 56 Wheat—No. 2 Red oil* Cobn—No. 2 Mixed 671t0 68a Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 32 Rye-No. 2 44 @ u „ DETROIT. Cattle 2ro 0 4 m> J?, 008 4 00 0 6 75 Wheat—No. 1 White 60-0 67 Corn— No. 2 Yellow 54 155 Oats—No. 2 White 32 | a 0 33it , TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 63 0 54 Cobn—No. 2 Yel ow os («>; Oats-No. 2 White Y 33 ® m ‘ Hye—No. 2 47 zj 48 ... v BUFFALO. ® w heat—No. 1 White 60 0 Gob No 2 Red 56k;«8 67'. Corn—No. 2 Yellow CO 0 o-Oats-No. 2 White J] S < ... „ MILWAUKEE. N a 2 Sprlng 64 ® f 5 Cais—No. 2 White,........; 341 J? BYE —No. 1 50 59 Pork—Mess .’l3 60 014 25 „ NEW YORK. Hogs Lß 300 ® s «> Corn—No. 2 i.... co ci Oats—Mixed Western...» * at sc 8 5 S

EGAN ON THE STAND.

ACTIVE FIGHTER OF THE RAILWAY UNION TESTIFIES. Thought Debs* Letter to the Managers a Piece of Cheek—Says the Charge that the Companies Hire 1 Men to Burn Cars la Vile Rot. Railroad Men Testify. John M. Fgan, who was the manager of the fight against the American Bailway Union, testified before the

Strike Commission that it was his duty to receive reports of c mditionof things on the different lines .and the nature and amount of violence committed; to hire new men, takecharge of the new men irom the tat and to assign them to duty and to report to the authorities points where protection was

JOHN M. EGAN.

needed. Mr. Egan said that he made a requisition ontbe United States Ma - shal for men and sent a great many men to him with the request that they be sworn in as deputies. Referring to the visit of Mavor Hopkins and Aid. McGillen to his office' with a proposition from the officials of the American Railway tu declare the rtrike off if the roads would take the men back, Mr. Egan said he told the Mayor that the assoc ation would not receive any such document and that he was sorry to tee him aciing as a messenger boy lor the American Railway "Union. He thought the document wat a piece of cheek. Asked if he regarded it as an insulti g document, answered that it spoke for itself. “You do nut answer my question. Mr. Egan,” persisted Commissioner Worthington. “I am asking you was the document of an offensive or insulting character.” “Well, so far as the roads were concerned the strike was settled. The document dictated the terms of an adjustment ot a matter which so far as we weie concerned was already settled.” “Had tho troops been withdrawn?” asked the Commissioner. “No.”

“Were you running the trains at that time?” “Only Irregularly.” “Then why did you refuse to confer with the officers of the American Hallway Union?” “Well. I had no authority to confer with them; and as I looked at it such authority could only be given by the association.” “You had full authority to hire men and to employ force in quelling the strike, but no authority to seek y peaceable methods ot settling it, Is t -at It?” “Well, we retarded the A. R. U. as whipped and did not propose to compromise at that late dat ” “Did the Managers’ Association ever use any means other than force to settle a great strike which was causing both themselves and tho country hundreds of thousands of dollars every day?” Mr. Egan admitted that they had not “Was It n >t a fact that the Managers’ Association was determined to crush out the American Union, and was It not for that they steadily refuse:! to ioceive any communication from them?*” Mr. Egan finally admitted that was about the true suite of the case. “One of the witnesses here stated that there was evidence that you used money to hire men to burn cars. What do you •ay to that?” asked Kernan. Egan repliedi “Mell, considering the source. It is the vilest rot. I never heard of such a thing till I saw It In tho papers, and consider it on a parity with many other statements made by Debs and Howard. ”

Asked to state his views on the methods to be employed to prevent strikes, Mr. Egan said that he favorea government license ot all railway > mployes except common laborers; that each class be provided with distinctive uniforms and be required to pass an examination as to their competency In their llnei; that all should bo able to read and write the English language. and that none but citizens of tiie United States should be licensed. That a schedule of wages should be made and that both parties should be under severe penalties for violation of existing agreements. Manager St. John brought with him a pile of documents, among them a set of books showing the schedule of wages paid

the employes of each railway belonging to the Managers’ Association. He began his testimony with a report made to h 1 ni by an agent of the Rock Island Railroad on June 30 of a meeting held at Blue Island, at which Vice President Howard made an inflammatory speech, saying that he “would like to hang Pullman,” and “toshow St. John thatthe American Railway Union

had strength and stamina to lie up the Rock Mund so tight that a fly couldn’t get over It,” and that he “hoped if any sneaking detectives were found among us there would be moral courave enough to use the round end of a coupling pin. ” This report was made by one of the “sneaking detectives” nntch It was alleged Howard wanted a coupling pin used on. Superintendent Dunlap, of the Rock Island, testified briefly retarding the alleged blacklist, which he declared bad no existence.

WINDS ARE WROTH.

They Spring Up from the Sea and Wipe Out Russian Towns. It was a wind of death. No other name can describe the cyclon; that swept across the Sea of Azov Saturday. It will be impossible for days yet, says a St. t etersburg dispatch, to compute the damage done, bnt it is a’most certain that at least 1,000 persons have perished, some by drowning, others by being crushed under falling hou es and trees. The excitement is areat among the American colony in this city, for it is feared that at iea ttwo parties of American tourists weie on the S9h of Azov at the time the wind did its deadly work. The wind was first felt at Nogaisk. Nogaisk is peopled mostly by fisherman, who were out on the’ water. When the hurricane had swept out to the north a terrible scene was presented. The village was razed, overturned—as if an immeno plow had been pushed through it. Lying everywhere were woman and children, dead or in the last agonies. The shallow waters of the Sea of Azov were lashed to such a height that it was plain that every tishing-boat must have been sunk. The cyclone swept on to the northeast after wrecking Nogaisk. It path seetns to have been unusually wide, for at Marinopol it devastated the country to a point eleven miles in’and, and had its outer edge far u on the sea. Marinopol was practically blotted out of existence, Not three houses in a hundred are left standing. z

HAD BEEN DEPUTY MARSHALS.

Desperadoes Who Held Up a Train Had Been in Uncle Sim's Employ. Henry I-’. Gorman and Willia n Lake are now prisoners in the West Chicago Avenue Police S.ati n, ch rged with hoi i gup a train cn the Chicago, Milwau' e : & St. Paul Road at Deerfield, murdering Special Officer Patrick H. Owens,'attempting t > take the life of Wm. McGrath, a watchman employed by the Northwestern Load, and robbing Conductor N. A. Sargent. The nen were inly captured after a desperate tight, in which icO poli e officers and they were engaged. Both prisoners were badly wounded before they surrendered. Over 200 shots were fired during toe qngagemant, and the

man hunt, for such it was, lasted over eight hours. During the desperate fight a distance of ever thirty-two miles was covered. At first it was thought that the bandits were novices in crime, butafterthe exhaustive examinations made by Inspector Schaack and Capt. Koch it is the general opinion that the murder and robbery of Detective Patrick H. Owens, the shooting of Detective McGrath and the robbery of the conductor and brakeman of the Milwaukee fraight train, for which they are now held, are but Ihe last of a series of depredations marked by the same flaring recklessness. • Of the two men. Gorman, Griswald, or Gordon—and the police only conjecture how many other aliases he may nave—is the deperado. He is the one who did most of the shooting and allof the talking, and it has become apparent to the police that Lake was only an underituiy, a pupil, sworn to do the bidding of the master-hand in crime. It is now believed that the two m.n committe 1 many o’ the tocent depredations on the N rthwestern and Milwaukee Roads. Their appointment as deputy marshals to protect the property of the railroad companies against the ravages of the strikers during the recent disturbances attendant < n the boycott doubtless gave them a double opportunity to pursue their path of crime. The hold-up of a freight train on the Lake Shore road several weeks ago and the robbery of the conductor and brakeman in a manner exactly similar to the attack on the Milwaukee trainmen early Saturday morning can, the police think, be traced to Eandits Gorman and Lake.

Frlßht'ut Ravacrg of the Plague Among the Celestial*. The fatalities accompanying the plague in the Canton district of China have been terrible, thus far over 120,0< 0 p3op o having perished. In the streets of Hong Kong and other cities the dead were so numerous that they lay on the streets for hours, awaiting the c rlous funeral rites so peculiar to the Chinese. In Canton, says Consul Seymcu-, everything is in wild confusion. Business is almost suspended.

During all of this plague heathen processions have con. tantly marched through the streel s of Canton throughout the night, pounding gongs. sxploding firecrackers, exposing idols, and other similar doings, supported by contributions from the sho s and stores, to propitiate the evil spirits and to dispere the adverse elements. Among its latest victims are Capt. Vesey and two privates of the Shropshire regiment, who caught th a dread disease while engaged in sanitary duties in the Chinese quarter. All three were strong men, but despite the efforts of the doctors they were carried off in a few hours. No treatment that has yet been discovered has had the slightest effect upon the disease, 'lhe death of these men conclusively proves that the plague is not a curse which falls upon Chinese alone, as was at first thought, but is a contagious disorder, if it is not highly infectious. [Numerous orders have been published in the Government gazette enjoining measures, such as whitewash ng and cleaning the drains of their dwellings, but, as might be expected, scarcely’ any notice was taken by the natives, who herd together in Hong Kong under conditions that won d be tolerated in no civilized country in Europe or America. The richer Chinese have left the colony and come to the coast ports, the arrivals at Shanghai alone being often 300 a day. Fully a quarter of the native popu ation has thus fled from the plague-stricken colony.

GEO. W. HOWARD.

How Chicago Produce Swindlers Daringly Victimize Country Shippers. Country produce dealers think they have a grievance against South Water street. Chicago. They cannot be satisfied until various sums of money out of which they have been swindled are returned to them or the swindlers are put behind prison ba-f, or both. South Water stree. teems with swindlers whose operation, are crooked as a forked stick, but who shrewdly manage t j work and thrive safe from prosecution though evading the criminal laws. The Chicago police appear to be powerless, and the postoffice authorities, within wh se jurisdiction these transactions come, con ess that they are unable to make out a ca e that would "stick.” These swindlers are men who have for stock in trade a little cheap furniture and office stationery. They rent a small room somewhere in the produce commission district and send out inflated advertising circulars and business cards to the country- dealers. They are ready to promise anything to get trade quickly, as time is precious to them. The countryman ships his eroorls and waits for a check. After waiting a long time, as he Is .invariably compelled to do, he may wrtte to the firm for a settlement. He receives no answer, and then he makes a sight draft, which in due time come, ba k marked “payment refused,” or “parties not found. ’’ Then he writes to a friend or an officer of the law, and he is informed there is no such firm in the directory or at the address given. The produce is then sold on the open market and the alleged commis-ion man pockets the proceeds. In a month or two he has completed many of these transactionsand lealized considerable money in cash, as his expenses are light. In the mean time complaints, which he completely ignores. are po iring in and the swindler knows that he m ist soon change his base or he may get into trouble. He hires another room, changes the firm nann. has a new stock cf office stationery printed, has the old sign repainted and moves. Members of the Chicago Produce Exchange at a recent meeting decided to take prompt a tioii in getting rid of these swinders. A committee has been appointed to thoroughly ijvestigate the matter, and steps will probably be taken to secure State legislation to meet the ex gencies of such cases. Mrs. Nancy Martin died at Massillon, Ohio, aged 95 years, leaving considerable property, six children, thirty grandchild en and seventy.five great grandchildren. A cHAPTERof Daughters of the Revolution was organ! ed at Dubuque, la.

BLACK DEATH IN CHINA.

THE DEAD LYING IN THE STREETS.

BUNKO THE FARMERS

ERRORS IN THE BILL.

MANY MISTAKES DISCOVERED IN THE TARIFF BILL No Appropriation to Put the Income Tax Into Effect—Treasury Asked for 8500,000 —Diamonds Unintentionally Placed on the Free ListBig 1 Tariff Blunder*. " In addition to the long list of errors found in the Gorman tariff bill, the surprising discovo y has been made by the Treasury Department officials that no appropriation has been made for putting into effect the income tax provisions. The col ectors of internal revenue can do nothing under these circumstance i in the direction of preparing to collect the tax. The treasury officials claim to be blameless, for they forwarded to the Appropriations Committee more than a month ago an estimate for an initi .1 appropriation of $500,000 to be used during the current fiscal year in carrying out the income tax provisions of the tariff bill if it should become a law. The omission cannot be rectified at this se sion of Congte s. Scattered over twenty-ore different cages of the new tariff bill there have teen discovered so far a total of thirtyone errors, the greater part of which have no e .ect on the bill. There are three serious errors, though, not counting the section that authorizes the payment of a rebate on the tax paid on alcohol used in the arts and sciences. None of the errors can be corrected without a joint resolution of the two houses, for the “law” print of the bill must be an exact copy, wording and spelling, pu: ctuation, and everything else contained in’the enrolled bill, which is the copy that becomes part of the archives of the government.

By the omiss’on of a comma the Senate has lifted bodily from the free list the products o' coal tar, not colors or dyes. Among the p oluctsof coal tar the more important are dead oil, pitch, and benzole. These stiou d have come in free, but by the omission of the comma they are all t ansferred to the dutiable list. Another error is one over which there has been some dispute, but according to tariff experts it operates to put diamonds in the free list. The use of the semicolon instead of the colon 'is used by experts to indicate that diamonds themselves, as a clas-, not set. in addition to those for u-e in certain trades, as was intended, are admitted free. It is aid that some of the largest importers of precious stones in New York, aware of this error, have ordered large invoices of diamonds before the erior can te corrected. Paragraph 24 of the chemical schedule makes sulphate of magnesia, <-r epsom salts, dutiab'e at 1 5 of a cant a pound. This was an item add d by tne Senate which omitted to str ke from the free list paragraph 542, which reads: “Magnesia, sulphate of, or epsonf salts.” The two paragraphs are in opposition. CtiMtlv Error* of the Past. In a communication sent to Congress some years ago it was shown that the insertion of a cimma instead of a hyphen in a tariff bill ccst the government almost SSCO;OOJ. The tariff act of ~ur.e o, 1872. contained in the free list a paragraph reading: “Fruit, plant . tropical and semi-tropical, for the purpose of propagation or cultivation." instead of ths comma aft.r the word “fruit” there shou d have been a hyphen, the article intended to be ad-" milted free being fruit-plants. The error was corrected by a joint resolution on May 9, 18i4, but up to that time hundreds of thousands of dollars’worth of tro. ic U.fruits were brought in absolutely free of duty. A serious error in the McKinley act was corrected in like manner, the mistake being the misplacement o a parenthesis. 'lhe paragraph as it appeared in the law read: “Cables, cordage, and twine ex ept binding twine composed in whole or in part of istle, or Tampico fiber, si al grass, or sunn) 14 cents per pound.” The only w rd’ that should ha e been inclosed in parentheses were ' except binding twine,” which made a very material change in the construction cf the paragraph. The correction was made Feb. IH, 1&91, the law, however, having been in force since Oct. 1,18 JO.

WHEELMEN MEET.

National Racing; Tournament of the L. of A. W. Held in Denver.

HE national racing tournament of the League of American Wheelmen, held in Denver, was inaugurated in rhe presence of lOjOuO people. The first championship race was the half mile. Twelve men st a ted. l aid, the winr.o •, is from Buffalo. The f.tifth

event, the one rbile open,. created the greatest enthusiasm of the day. Sanger toek the lead at the two-thir's and held it until two hundred feet fom the tape. Here Sanger, Titus, Brown and isald were all lapped. Frown finished ahead of Titus and Sanger. The winner is a Cleveland man. In the two mile handicap, Barnett, of Lincoln, Neb., who had a handicap of 1 0 yards, passed the leader of the second mile and won b.- : 0t» feet. In the five mile champion hip. Titus won and beat the world’s record lor fi e miles in competition, making the distance in 12:19 1-5. The previous record was 12-27 2-5. Wonderful rs was the first day’s riding, the second day s races were a total ecli se. Two important records fell the first day and four fell the second day. The day was fine for racing, and the. crowd in a'tmdance large. The high atmosphere had a terrible effect on the men. They gasped for breath when they came off -heir wheals. Western men are a little dr.-appointed that their racers did not win mo.e prizes, but are jubilant over the i»erformanceso' Barnett of Lincoln, Neb., in the two-nrile handicap, and the good showing of kitgler, of California, and the Illinois men. Anderson and Gardner. and also Weiler, of Salt Lake, and Maxwell, of Winfield, Kan.

AGAINST ANARCHISTS.

The Senate’s Sweeping Bill Restricting Immigration. The Senate bi 1 for the exclusion of anarchists from this country and their deportation in case they should enter it is one that will meet with general approval. ;ihe r ehas been no law to preve it the landing of anarchists, and should the gates be left open the stringent measures recently adopted in Europe for the iestriation of anarchv would flood this country with men of the Most and Cesario type. But under the new law the e will be no room here for the long ha red, unwashed advocates of lawlessness and murder. ' The measure provides that no alien, anarchist shall be per pitted to land in the United States, that in thee”Cint

of one landing he shall bo deported tathe country whence he came at the expense at the importing v essel; that in the case of a foreigner tried for any crime or misdemeanor, it shall be the province of the court to investigate his character, and if the court is satisfied that he is not a man of good character, or that he is not well disposed to the gcod order and happinesa of society, he shall te deported to the country whence he came at the expense of the United States; should he return, he shall be arrested and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding four years, and afterward be again deported. It further provides .or the ap-

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pointment at foreign ports of irspecV ors to examine passengers embarkingfor the United States, and an appropriation of soo,ooo is made 'or the purpose. The fact that an alien has declared his intention of becoming a citizen shall not protect him frem.proceedings under the act.

PULLMAN IS PITILESS.

Re fa* e* to Aid Starving Residents of Bia “Model Town’’—Altgeld'* Appeal. Sixteen hundred families without food. Sixteen hundred families without income. Sixteen hundred families

without resources of any kind. Sixteen hundred families well-nigh without hope. That is what Gov. Altgeld says he found in aid about the model town of Pull-, man when he j aid it an official visit 1 at the request of a committee of the lockel-jut Pullman workmen. The Governor has is-

sued a pioclamation addressed “To the People of the State of Illinois, and especially those of Chicago,” appealing for aid for the destitute of rullman, whom he claims are in a terrible condition. Governor Altgeld also sentout a quite lengthy telegram to Pullman calling attention to the situation, and asking him to do something to help the sufferers. Pullman replied, at length making reference to Gov. Altge ds declination of es ort of Vice President Wickes, which fact Pullman regretted. Pullman then continues: x uavo tue bast reason lor believing unit the husband ot the woman, whois published as representing her family to you yesterday as In need of help, drew more than $1,300 ot his savings from the bank on July 2, for the purpose, as he said, of buyln : lota While Ir. has not been represented to the officers of this company that there is any such extended distress at Pullman as represented tor the first time by the extraordinary method of the published telegram to you, I do not doubt there Are many cases of need caused by the refusal ot employes tor more than two and a half months to earn wages to the amount ot more than $300,010. and such caies are Increased and made more severe by the persistence of some six hundred and fifty of our employes, of whom about three hundred and fifty live in Pullman, refusingto apply for their old places. As to those who are not at work, canceling their rent* Is not a question to which attention should be given at the present juncture. It their pressing needs are as you suppose them ir> be. Regnrdlng your suggestion that the work be divided in order to give at leas* half time for all.the policy of the company is io employ only as many men as it is possible to fnrnlsh work for on full time.” To this the Governor replied: “I sea yoar company ref uses to do anythingtoward telieving the situation at Pullman. If yon will make the round I made, meet these people face to face and talk to them vou will he convinced that none of them had s],:o ),or any other sum,a few weeks ago. As you have refused to do a ij thing to relieve the suffering in the case I am compelled to apperl to the humanity of the people of Illinois to do so. ”

USE OF FEDERAL TROOPS LEGAL

PreAident Cooley of the American Bar Association on the Strike Riots. The Ameiican Bar Association, of which Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is President, held

its seventeenth annual meeting at Sa rati ga, N. Y. The President being absent, by reason of illness, his address was read by the actingpresident. Judge Samuel F. Hunt, of Cincinnati. It was very lengthy and communicited the [most noteworthychanges in statutory .law on points of general interest which

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have been made in several States and by Congress duringthe preceding year. In part it dealt with the “protest” of Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, against the use of United Stafet treops in quelling the recent riot, showing that Altgeld s j>osition was entirely wrong and toat of the government perfectly lawful. The speaker condemned the Coxey demenst ations and the sympathetic strike, as well as Gov. Altgeld’s position re--1 arding the use of Federal troops.

Sparks from the Wires

The revolt in Venezuela Is at an end. Marie Tempest, the singer, has returned from Europe, she decided not to sing abroad. Several persons were ■ killed and a number in ured in a collision on the Hidalgo railroad in Mexico. Rather than be <en-ured frr reckless driving. C. Peck, a member of the Philadelphia fire department, killed him.elf. Religious warfare at Ottawa, 111., x has teen settled, permiss on havingbeen granted the Salvation Army to hold meetings. Senator McPherson, who contemplated resign ng- because of illhealth, was prevailed upon by friends, to change his mind. , A GRAitn jcry at Lincoln, Neb., hasheld to trial George Davis, the n gro suspected of causing the wreck on the Santa I e road by which > ado en liees were lost. A LONE highwayman'held up a train, near Lufkin, Tex., and shot and killed. Dr. DreWeney and robbed the body, Mterwards ielie\ing others cn train of their money and wof ho*-

GOV. ALTGELD.