Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 January 1886 — Page 1

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GATH ROASTS CLEVELAND.

Man With a Cleaver Whose Policy is to Chop Up Bad Laws.

Tsars of Friends that the Country May Langh—The Day of Small Things Seems at Hand.

Mr. Blaine's Reasons for Frequent "Elections and Annual Leffls-

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lative Sessions,.

THE HUMBUG ANALYZED.

goir the Occupant of tbe White BOOM Is Comumed by Conceit.

Saqnirer Special. WABHINOTOH, D. C., January 12.— I have been looking around the city, and am surprised at its news dullness. Social life seems to have taken precedence of political life. Mr. Whitney, who may be considered the Ohio member of the cabinet, is the chief entertainer, and, as the cabinet is a close corporation, pretty well cowed by the president, the temerity '"of any member of it giving agreeable entertainments makes-his friends tremble.

The gentleman with the big neck, at the head of the government, and with his invisible cleaver in his hand cutting up public business like beefsteaks or other articles of butchery, indulg's p.self meantime by throwing ofi' ILKtle ^rhapsodies upon virtue as tha sum of kll .^things, and proceeds with his study of the 'government after midnight. He is generally credited with the best intentions, though some remark that he has postponed them rather late in life and set-ms by the vigor with which lie expresses them to have gathered them in that gea--eral quarry of good' intentions where things are hot Up to the latest advices he had concluded not to have any policy, but to let congress pass bad laws, as he seems to expect it will, and he will chop them off with t'e cleaver. Consequently congress rem vins with but one duty before it rather v^oe order from the other end of the avehue— to carry out that measure about silver which the president commanded before he tfas inaugurated. With a previousness all his own he let fly a message from Albany,

Vhen he was neithei governor nor president, saying that congress must snuff out silver immediately or sooner. A good many here thiqjt that if the president had let this subject alone until he occujpied an official position it might have gone his way but now a contrary course seems probable, in order to ^-"recall the Lord of Barataria to sotne of the political proprieties. The president 'has been so long in the constabulary, distraining and hanging as she iff, keeping bachelor's hall iu old Buffalo warehouses, and dominating the lager be.-r saloons that he takes policy like prescriptions, and when somebody had impressed him with the idea that the silver question was the big thing, he forgot the afmN^ac and notified congress what they must awhile he was still in private life. It is said that he has been much outraged by Samuel J.

VI ilden having issued a similar message before he took office. Tilden is up at Oreystone issuing one set of proclamations after his term of office has expired, as Cleveland sat up in Albany issuing :Hthem before his term began.

The trouble with the executive is high self-esteem greatly assisted by outside approbation. When I was at Albany his friends told me that while they liked him he had greatly changed since he first became governor, and they had finally got afraid of him before he left Albany, and now, still clinging to their affection, they feared that before the end of his second year of office he would make his selfesteem so conspicuous that it would get a laugh on him and he would die. His sincerity seems to be admitted on all sides, but it is without any illumination, and his training was spoiled Wore he Entered public life at all. Left to himself at an early age, with family responsibilities somewhat thrown upon him, Cleveland became hardy, grufi, mixed with men, and saw hardly anything of women or society, and these great honors, coming by accident upon hiun, have found him as confident as a New York City alderman who hud never lead any books. With his hard head he despises counsel unless it comes to him from outsiders,, mixed with adulation. Hence he hates politicians, and this dis like has increased by his success. He has none of the apprehensions which have made other presidents discreet, who have felt their responsibilities to the party, and of the party toward the people. He has persuaded himself that he derived all his honors from bis superiority and his lucky star. The intermediates who defer to him^ ask him no favori, and supply him with what they consider policy, have rather converted him, in the way churches convert people—through the instincts—to views which seem to him Btrong enough to prevail, by themselves. He is not a practical human philosopher in his methods, and divides the world into the disinterested and the interested, and he is the president of the disinterested, and means to put the interested on the defensive. The scheme has superficial strength among thejjeopl&buthere at the seat of government14^ ^certain paralysing influence u- vtyand personal conduct sees but little chang

^s, and.the great-

«et concei the appropriations. These are -ue without much debate in committee or by omnibusing, and as the two parties are without much hostility they* will probably arrange the purse to be divided, throw off some generalities, and at the end of this term we shall be further from self "*wernment than ever.

Mr. Blaine, wL^aPfen excellent reporter, one of the class tie president abhors, because, as he says, they tell lies in the newspapers, has already grasied the influence of this administration on the great body of the psople in his speech at Augusta last Thursday. The same day the president wrote a letter to Senator Thnnfian in Ohio, and it is well to read these two productions side by side, for they probably contain the essential difference between two schools of opinion in America. Mr. Cleveland refers to the benefits of a wise and unselfish administration of a free government to accompiish the greatest good to our people. Mr. Blaine refers to the drooping of annual sessions of the state legislature as a mis take like th5 infrequency of elections. Blaine says the moderate expense which a session of the legislature costs cannot be more wisely incurred than in bringing together and educating annually young men for the pablic service, and that it is a mistake in a republican government to get rid of frequent elections, because people must govern themselves or some' body will soon govern them. Blaine means the mugwumps, unquestionably, when hesays: "There are few men of the most cultivated nations of Europe wHo know anything of popular government Educated in all things else, they know nothing of that orderly self-govern-ment in which Americans are so well instructed." J* Jhe

ter to the Ohio democrats is cold and repressive, as if he disbelieved in the utility of large party organizations, and desired the people to lean on him as the virtuoso, so to speak, in moral bric-a-bfac. Mr. Blaine, who has seeh national life for nearly a quarter of a Century, and been exposed to the conflict of self-seekers of every sort, still keeps his faith in the race and the spirit of society np to the full measure of his youth. The advisers of President Cleveland are, generally speaking, disappointed men, some of whom have never been in office, and even his cabinet is crossed with the correction of most of their theories of this government

NOOSE* NEWS.

Hangman's Day Celebrated at St. I#ouls and Belleville ST.'Louis, Mot, January 15.—At 7:30 o'clock Charles Wilson, colored, convicted of the murder of a. river steamer mate, July 31, 1885, accompanied ty Sheriff Harrington, Father Panken, deputy sheriff, Jailor Siegmund and about fifty persons marched from his .cell to the scaffold. The officials, condemned man and his spiritual adviser, mounted the scaffold. The black cap was placed on Wilson's head and at 7:45 the drop fell. Wilson's legs were drawn convulsively, the body turned around four

times, and then straightened out and all was over. He was firm to the last, and before the drop fell, made a speech in which he claimed he was innocent.

BELLEVILLE, 111., January 15.—Noah Merriman, after passing the morning in bidding his friends good bye, took up the march to the gallows at 11:20, supported by his spiritual adviser and a deputy sheriff upon the gallows. Merriman was calm until just as Sheriff Ropuiquet was about to spring the trap, when he broke down completely and limp as a rag. He had to be supported by several deputies. The trap was sprung whilst they held the trembling wretch up, and h6 tnmbled through. The fall failed to Jbreak his neck and his death was a slow and horrible one by choking.

NEVADA, MO., January 15.—Henry S. Stair, who is to hang here to-day, was visited by his father about 9 o'clock last night, after which he spent most of the time writing /until 4 this morning, when he went to /sleeep. He awoke at 8:15 and partoc of alight breakfast, after which he was shaved. Large crowds of people surged through the streets all the morning, tramping between the jail and the gallows, which is erected in a ravine forming a natural amphitheater, about a mile from the jail.. Trains from Sedalia and Kansas City aifrived at 10:30, bringing hundreds of people to witness the execution. Stair spoke from the scaffold for t*ty minutes, protesting his innocence and the innocence of the woman implicated, saying they were victims of circumstance. The drop fell at 1:28 p. m., and in fifteen minutes he was pronounced dead. His father will take the body to Marshall county, Ind., to-night for interment Ten thousand people witnessed the execution, and good order prevailed.

BEAUMONT, Tex., January 15.—Wm. Madison, colored, was hanged here to-dav for the murder of Albert Smith, also colored, last summer. The cause of the taurder was jealousy.

T.ATTT. PKOVIDENCE, La.. January 15— Wm, George, colored, was hanged in the parish jail here to-day for ihe murder of Peggy Johnson on August 10th, 1882. George ascended the scaffold at 12:25 p. m. As the trap was being adjusted he laughed aloud as if in defiance of his doom. The drop fell at ten minutes before 1, and in twelve minutes he was dead, his neck having been broken. From some cause his throat was and blood was spattered all around. He was 52 years old.

CATULLA, Texas, January 15.—Jose Marta Mendiola, who murdered G. M. Hodges, a Southern Pacific station agent, eight months ago, was hanged here at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Mendiola showed great nerve. His_ neck was broken and he died in four minutes.

|F THE MOB FOILED.^:?:

A Crowd of Bxclted anu Angry People Kept at Bay at Revolvers' Point. Special to the Indianapolis News.

BLOOMFIELD, Ind., January 15.—A desperate effort was made here last night to mob Holley, the negro who so cruelly murdered James Dobson a few nights ago, but the vigilance and bravery of the sheriff and his deputies kept the excited crowd at bay. All day people collected from the neighborhood of Salisbury, and by 4 o'clock it iwas evident that to leave Holley over Vght was almost certain death. So pa\. frs were at once prepared to remove him to Vincennes for atone. Just at dusk a buggy drove hurriedly up to the rear of the jail. In instant it was surrounded by the crowd. Soon the sheriff appeared with a cocked revolver in his hand and stated that he would shoot the first man that interfered. In a minute's time Holley was in the buggy* disappearing as fast as the horses could take him. The crowd was so infuriated that horses were secured and several men started at once, but as there were several different roads, they lost the track and soon returned. By midnight the streets were filled with excited people, and another posse started in hot pursuit to overtake the prisoner, but at 1 o'clock nothing had been heard, and it is likely that Hall is now at Vincennes.

Tried it Once too Often.

LONDON, Ont., January 15.—Letters have been recived from Dakota describing the recent death there of George McCable, who was tried there a year ago on a charge of possoning his wife at the Dewdrop Inn, London South. The circumstances of the case were suspicious, poison being found on Mrs. McCabe's stomach but the prisoner was acquitted. He had previously escaped conviction on the charge of murdering another wife in Ingersoll, Ont., and it was alleged that other women in Woodstock, Ont, had fallen victims

WASHINGTON.

The House Passes the Bill as it Qame Prom the Senate on Presidential Suooession.

Republican Senators In Cascna Agree That the President Hast (Wve Information.

The Confederate House Want to Have their Victims in the War Commemorated Equally.

THE SUCCESSION BILL.

It Passes the House by a Vote of 183 to 77, as It Came From the Senate. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15. In the house to-day, private business having been suspended with, the house resumed the consideration of the presidential succession bill. After debate, Mr. Caldwell, of Tennessee, at 3 30,p. m., demanded the previous question, which, after a little parliamentary fencing, was ordered: Yeas, 146 nays, 125. The amendment offered by Mr. Adams, of Illinois, striking out the clause which repeals the sections of the Revised Statutes providing for special elections, was rejected: Yeas, 113 nays, 153. The vote was then taken on the substitute offered by Mr. McKinley. of Ohio, leaving in force lie present law, with the addition of a proviso that for the purpose of having a speaker of the house of representatives in office continuously, the congress shall convene at 12 o'clock noon, oh the 4th day of March next succeeding the election of representatives in congress and whenever a vacancy exists esther in the office of the president pro tempore of the senate or speaker of the house, the president shall convene the house in which the vacancy exists for the purpose of electing a presiding officer. The substitute was rejected—veas, 108 nays, 157. The house was diveded on these votrj bv party lines. Mr. Ryan, of Kansas, and Mr. Everhart, of Pennsylvania, offered amendments, which were lost The bill then passed—yeas, 183 nays, 77, irecisely as it came from the senate, -iessrs. Bennett and Greene, of New Jersey, were the only democrats voting no.

MUST SHOW ITS HAND.

Tbe Republican Senators Insist that the Administration Must Give Information. 0

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15.— The republican senators met in caucus ut 10:30 this morning and adjourned at 1:30. Their purpose was to compare views with regard to the right

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senate to information as to the president's reasons for making removals from office. The fact was stated that many of the inquiries addressed to heads of departments by .chairmen of committees remain unanswered, but up to this time indicates a purpose to refuse to give this information. No formal propesition was made and. iu action taken. While a wide variety of opinions found expression with regard to the propriety of raising a formal issue with the administration at present upon this question, a majority were of the opinion that should tne information sought not ultimately be forthcoming the republicans •ill, in justice to the men who have been suspended or removed for supposed cause, be required to take some formal action in the senate to secure the information or an avowal by the president that' he will not give his ^reasons for making removals. There was unanimous concurrence in- the opinion that removed officials have a right to Know whether they were removed for political reasons or maladministration of their trusts and that it is the senate's duty to secure this information if possible.

Ml IN THE SADDLE.

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passion. It is now stated that after his acquittal here he went to Dakota and married again. One morning his wife detected him putting some -foreign, substance into her tea. Watching her opportunity, she exchanged cups. McCaoe drank the draught intended lor his wife, and while in the agonies of death, confessed to the attempt at murder, and also to the poisoning of his other four wives.

A Rink Collision Results in Harder. ST. LOUIS, Mo., January 15.—At the skating rink in this city early this morn ing, Hugh C. Robinson was tripped up while skating by a young man named Webb. Robinson demanded that Webb apologise, and upon the tatter's refusing to do so, a quarrel ensued which was stopped by the management of the rink. Upon leaving the rink, Robinson, with a party of his friends, was attacked by Webb and his followers. In the melee which ensued, Chas. W. Raicebeck, an employee in the general passenger agent's office of the Missouri Pacific railroad, and quite a prominent young man,_ was struck in the back of the head with a rock and (lied ft short tine afterward.

Shall Confederate Victories in the War be Commemorated With Those of the Union Army

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15.—The meeting of the house naval affairs committee took a senatorial turn to-day. The Boutelle resolution inquiring about the dismissal of ex-Union soldiers and sailors from the Norfolk navy yard, and the appointment of ex-Confederates in their places, and as to the story that certain inscriptions commemorative of victories over the confederates have been defaced, was called up, and let to a heated political discussion Mr. Wise, of Virginia, made a speech denouncing the resolution, and impugning the motives of its mover. He insinuated that the resolution was introduced from a desire to make party capital, and expressed the opinion that it should be amended so as to include a general investigation into the conduct of the navy yards. He urged that mere newspaper report was the sole foundation for the irofessed inquiry, and that it was not ecoming the dignity of congress to heeij such stories. Mr. Boutelle vigorously defended the resolution. He said he had been assured by a brother member that the publication was substantially correct. He wanted the matter investigated. -Mr. Thomas pointed out that the resolution was not for an investigation. It was a simple inquiry, and if the story was without foundation, the navy department could easily parch the bubble. Mr. McAdoo also contended that the investigation should be general. Republic- had been discharged from other yards on the eastern coast, and not at Norfolk? Mr. Hewitt inq ./ed if it would be contended thf,t the victors were not entitled to the spoils. Mr. Thomas acquiesced in that Rssumption, but said that in the case under consideration it was a question, not of politics, not whether a republican had been displaced by a democrat, but whether the statute giving preference to Union soldiera had been viol ted. He wanted to know whether Union soldiers had been discharged to make place for rebel soldiers, and whether the memorial stones commemorating Union victories had been obliterated. Mr. Hewitt asked if the gentleman would have tolerate^ a confederate monument commr grating the victory of Bull Run. M.. x'homas replied that he would have it pulled down. Fortunately the rebels failed in their object He was not yet ashamed of having fought for the Union, Other members of the committee expressed themselves in strong language, and the session ended without action on the resolution, which will come up for consideration at the next meeting.

DEL CAMPO SAILS AWAY.

The Dissipated Chilian Diplomat Coaxed Home by His Anxious Mother. WASHINGTON, January 15.—Mr. Del Campo has withdrawn from the United States, and the commissioners of the Dis trict of Columbia think it may be practical to reduce the police force, for Mr. Del Campo neglected to wear his diplomatic uniform on the street, and consequently the police were freqaently obliged to arrest him and take him to tha station,

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only to release him when he made known his identity. He was secretary of the Chillian legation, and often labored under the impression that he was the Chillian navy, of whose ability to thrash the United States so much has been heard of late years. He was addicted to_ intoxicants, and not long ago rent the night air with howls as he tried to capture the National theater. Later he had to be ejected from the Theater Comique, and then -he smashed a lot of windows ont of revenge. Information of his peculiarities is said to have reached the Chilian government, although it is denied at the state department that his recall was asked for. He is sitid to have started for Chili in consequence of the entreaties of his mother that he come home and vindicate his fair name. Del Campo will probably never retrrn to the United States. His carousals nave been so outrageous and notorious that if he came back the state department would have to inform Chili' that, in the language of the Austrian foreign office, the position of a diplomatist addicted to the Sowing bowl .and to street brawls wouF be extremely difficult, and, indeed, possible here.

IS HE OUT OF THE ARMY?

Carlons Attitude of Uent. Simpson on Account of His Harriaga. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15 The senate military committee had before it to-day the consideration of a very interesting case.' Lieut Simpson, of the army, was nominated last year by President Arthur for promotion to a captaincy. pre\ ious to this nomination he had been court-martia''vu' and sentenced to dismissal for marrying a woman of questionable character. Neither the president nor the secretary of war approved the findings^ of the court-martial. The senate rejected the nomination. At the special session of the senate last spring President Cleveland renominated him. He was again rejected, rincipally on account of his marriage, 'he attorney general afterwards held that this rejection put Simpson out of the army. The president several days days ago nominated Lieutenant Steever for promotion. He was the next to Simpson in in point of seniority. If Simpson is oat of the army Steever is entitled to the promotion, but the military committee held that Simpson is in the army. It is probable that the latter will be retired, and then only will Steever receive his promotion.

Senator Voorhess and Dakota. Washington Speoial. Mr. Mellette told me, what will surprise not a few, that Senator Voorhees is to speak in behalf of the measure. Voorhees has a son who is a delegate in the house from the territory of Washington. That territory has claims for admission to the anion as a state equal in weights almost to those presented by Dakota. Heretofore elections in the territory have been fought upon purely local issues. It so happened that a democratic representative in the person of Senator Voorhees' son was chosen the last time. Democrats have argued from this that the territory,. it admitted as a state now, could confidently be counted upon as being democratic But this is a surmise only. The best informed people hesitate to express an." opinion either one way or the other. Senator Voorhees' object, however, seems plain. He hopes by a timely support of the Dakota measure to aid his son's political chances in Washington territory. Upon this ground alone can his action be explained.

A Treasury Raid.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15.— A morning-paper publishes a long article to-day under the heading: "A Raid on the Treasury." It is claimed that, under the law passed in 1836, which forms the basis of section 1560 ol the Revised Statutes, some fifty odd millions are due to widows of deceased soldiers. It is believed that the original act was never repealed, and if it had been," its reincorporation in the Revised Statutes would •have re-enacted it- There are said to be confiictitfg opinions as to whether the act of 1836 is still in force, and the article intimates that the question will have to be determined by tne Supreme eourt.

NATIONAL NOTES.

Pensions and Extra Pay—Indlanlans in Washington and What They Want. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15.— Mr. Bland introduced a bill repealing so much of the act of June 9,1879, as provides for the exchange and redemption of subsidary coin. Reierred.

Ex-Senator McDonald and Representative Matson called at the White House and saw the president.

It will cost $4,320 to run the collector's office in Indianapolis and $7,000 in Evansville during the year ending June 30, 1887.

State Senator Menzies, of Posey county, is here, and is said to be looking for an office, but he refuses to disclose the size of his ambition.

The house committee on rivers and harbors to day resolved to limit the total amount of the appropriation for improving rivers and harbors to $11,000,000.

The commiitee on invalid pensions of the house to-day agreed to report favorably Matson's bill to increase tne pensions of widows from $8 to $12 per month.

Fred Steinhauer, a transfer clerk of the mail service at the Union depot, Indianapolis, who is charged with going to Cincinnati as a deputy marshal and drawing pay in both positions, has b?en dismissed.

Mr. Dockry, of Missouri, from the cofilmittee on accounts, reported a joint lesolution allowing discharged employes of the house one month's extra pay. After a considerable debate the resolution was defeated—yeas, 71 nays, 189.

The number of employes required in the customs service the next fiscal year is estimated at 4,026, and (he total expenses of collection at $6,5f0,535-. Thelersons employed during the year ended „une 30, 1885, numbered 4,527, and the expenses of collection was $6,918,221.

The postoffice department has received letters from German, the director general of posts, vrging the United States government to send an officer of the postoffice department to Germany to personally inspect the parcel post service of that country with a view to join in an international parcel post.

It is reported that the object offRepiesentative Holman inr securing the removal of Joseph M. Dufour, of Vevay, principal clerk in the office of the supervissng architect of the treasury, is to make a place for Dr. Woollen, who has been a congressional aspirant against Holman, but friends of Dr. Woollen say he will not accept such a place. It is worth but $2,000 a year, and has no prominence. Mr. Holman is trying, however, to get a place for Dr. Woollen, who is visiting friends over, in Baltimore and awaiting returns.

Snowfall In Texas.

FORT DAVIS, Texas, January 15.' Snow fell throughout Presidio county during Wednesday—in KHB9 sections to deptn of five iooaw.

mrri EXPRESS, TEERE HAUTE, SATURDAY, OAN tJABY 16.1886.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Bradlaogh Warned that He Must be Ciroumapeot, Else Bankruptod by Finea.

Ireland's Deplorable Situation Is Becoming Known and of Iraport- .. aace in State Affairs.

A Central American. City Shakei Oat of Sight by an Earthquake—Foreign in General.

RUIN TO THE SCOFFER.

Bradlaagh Unit Bridle His Tangne Or Take the Consequences. LONDON, January 15.—The government leaders have decided to take no official notice of Mr. Bradlaugh's act in ^king the oath as a member of parliafor Northampton. The letter of protest written lg Sir Michael Hicks Bqach to Speaker Peel i. meant for the record. ana not for immediate effect There are more pressing matters to be attended to between now and the 21st inst, and the tory leaders are anxious to let the Bradlangh incident drop. It is possible, however, that some of their bigoted followers will exert a pressure which will compel the government to sue Mr. Bradlaugh for the penalties prescribed for taking a false oath as a member of parliament If the courts declare that he was illegally sworn he can be compelled to pay £500 for each vote that he cast Mr. Bradlaugh's course will be carefully watched by the Btrict constructionists, and if he becomes unusually troublesome they will seek to remove or ruin him by law. If he were content to be a silent member, dozing on an opposition bench and voting mechanically with his party, he would be welcome to sit in the house as long as his townsmen chose to keep him there. But Mr. Bradlaugh could never be a silent member. He is a reformer, an agitator and an iconoclast by inBtinct and profession. He has also been cooling his heels in the ante chambers of parliament for several years, and during that time he has formulated some notable schemes of reform which he will very soon launch upon the house. Last evening Mr, Bradlaugh addressed and enormous gathering of his adherents in the famous Hall of Science. He was received with frantic enthusiasm. Some of the men in the audience whooped for joy over his final triumph after so many rebuffs. MrBradlaugh stated that he would forthwith begin a vigorous campaign in parliament for the reform of the land lawB and the abolition of pennons.

IRELAND'S SITUATION.

Evictions and Prospective Starvation Will feeder the People Desperate. DUBLIN, January 15.—United Ireland attributes the intended resignation of the Earl of Carnarvon, lord lieutenant of Ireland, to his reluctance to abet wholesale evictions contemplated by the government, and which will render the Irish desperate. United Ireland implores the cabinet to look before it leaps, and not to adopt coercive remedies, as the people will not suKiiit tamely to being robbed of their homes. |i

The Evening Mail, a loyalist organ, commenting on the utterance of United Ireland, says they constitute a note of warning that the government should not neglect. The executive is distinctly told that unless it curbs the landlords, "Captain Moonlight" will be fully empowered to slay, mutilate and pillage with the vigor and hellish ferocity of the land league days.

The Freeman Journal seviewing the opinions entertained by the dillerent English political parties says: "The tide runB high against Ireland. The antiIrish feeling is rampant among Englishmen, and they loatne the idea of home rule for Ireland."

An Irish high sheriff has written to the London Times, that pendfng the discussion of politics by) parliament, a famine is approaching Ireland, and with it will come acts of lawlessness. Violent men, he says, determined not to starve, will seize the necessaries of life even at the risk of doing bodily harm to others,

LONDON, January 15.—Earl Carnarvon, lord lieutenant of Ireland, declares that if parliament does not help the starving people on the island of Achill, they will have to rely on the work house for relief.

SHAKEN DOWN,

Destruction of a Central American City te Earthquakes. PANAMA, January 15.—At 2 o'clock, on the morning of December 18, the Spanish city ol Amatilla was awakened by frequent shocks of earthquake, which continued all day to 5 p. m., when a very heavy shock was felt, and at 5:26 p. m. the heaviest shock came, throwing down m^.

and houses. People were

thrown aS#n, the air was filled with dust from the fallen houses, shock followed shock, and the frightened people rushed to the large plaza in front of the church of San Juan, and dragged the image of the guardian saint outside the trembling walls of the church, and erected a temporary shrine in the midst of the square, before which all prostrated themselves. One hundred and thirty-one shocks were felt the first day, principally from east to west, eighty-one of which occurred between 4 and 5:30 p. m. The second day was nearly as bad, and the shocks continued sor some days.

GUAYAQUIL, January 16.—Serious volcanic disturbances have occurred within the last few days. There have been, at different places, showers of earth and ashes, accompanied by loud rumbling. The real state of t^e mountain is unknown, owing to the interruption of the government telegraphs. Slight shocks of earthquake have also been felt

Blackmailer Magee Gets Seven Tears. LONDON, January 15.—John Magee, convicted of thr charge of attempting to procure money from the Prince ot Wales by sending him threatening letters, was to-day sentenced to seven years penal sevitude.

He Pants fer Inspiration. PABIS, January 15.—Gounod has asked the archbishop of Paris to allow him to place a writing table at the foot of the altar where Joan of Arc stood in the Rheims Cathedral, when Charles the Dauphin was crowned in 1429, in order that he may derive inspiration from the position in writing a mass.

Three Killed In a Railroad Accident. WINCHESTER, Va., January 15.—A collision occurred on the Valley branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Millville between an engine of the ballast train and a freight train, both going very fast William Fitzpatrick, supervisor of the road Bishop, the fireman on the freight train, ana Charles Crider, brakeman, a youth of 13, were killed. Others of both trains saved tbeir lives by jumping*

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MORMONS AND APACHES.

The Former in Leiiga* with Gerontmna to Maiaaere White Settlers. CHICAGO, 111., January 15.—Concerning the petition of the Mormon colony at Pima, Arizona, to the territorial government, for arms and ammunition to defend themselves against the Apaches, a special from Tucson, Arizona, says: "It is not known what action Governor Zulick will take in the matter, but many suspicious circumstances have recently come to light which indicate that this Mormon colony has all along been secretly encouraging the murderous Apaches by supplying them with powder and trading them guns in exchange for stolen horses, which the Mormons sell in Mexico. Some of the Indian scouts recently employed by Gen. Crook, while he were told by some friendly Indians who liv^ in th'H vicinity that the Mormons of Pima weie in league with Geronimos band and that the hostiles were on the most friendly terms with the Mopvans, These Indian scouts, some of whodpiave since proven that they themselves were in league with Geronimos' band, also privately told that the Mormons were getting ready to abandon their Pima colony and move -her onto Sonora that in view of this they were burying all the stolen horses and cattle that were brought to them either by renegade Indians^ or thieving white men. It has been anticipated for several weeks that the Apaches were running short of amunition, and it is almost certain that they are Peeking to obtain afresh supply through their Mormon allies. This Pima colony numbers some 3,200 Mormons, most of wfaom are Polygamists. The Edmunds la* 7-is not yet teen enforced among them, anc they live in great dread of its execution."

BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES.

Hnbbard, the Well-Kno^i Advertising Agent, Issnea a Statement. NEW HAVEN, Ct., January 15.—Harlan P. Hubbard, well-known throughout the country as the proprietor of the International Advertising Agency of this city, makes the following sMtement of his embarrassment, financially, to the mercantilejagencies: "Owing to the failure of the Hunt's Remedy compaay to come to time, as I was led to believe they would, coupled with other losses and persecutions, I am under the necssity of personally suspending payment for a while, at least, and on Saturday last I called a meeting of my creditors in New York, stated the case fairly to them, and they appointed committee.consisting of L. H. Crall, representing the Chicago Inter Ocean, Cincinnati Enquirer and Cleveland Leader M. D. Hanover, representing the St Louis Republican, Chicago Times and Louisville Commercial, and W. W. Hallock, representing Kellojg's co-operative list of 1,400 papers,

confer and make

up a statement. To these I am to report the first of next week, and I hope they will be able to devise some plan to straighten out matters before long. Every one snail be treated fairly, ana no one shall have a preference. "Ifvbyone makes attachments it will make unnecessary expense and takes sixty days to perfect them, and unless arrangement is made before that time I shall be obliged to make an assignment, which will be costly and disagreeable, but I tell all frankly that I shall do this rather than give any one creditor advantage over another. "H. P. HUBBABD."

Mr. Hubbard says that this embarrassment does not afiect his succewors in the business, the H. P. Hubbard Company, who started on January 1 without any indebtedness and ample capital.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., January 16.—W. H. Craft, doing business in the name of Mrs. Flora W. Craft, made an gssignment to-day, giving preferences to the amount of $2,700. A statement of the assets and liabilities can not be made until an inventory is had, but it is believed that the latter will approximate $2,000. Four yean ago Craft got into difficulty, and this, he says, is the culmination of that trouble.

NEW YOBK, N. Y., January 15.— special from Halifax says: yova Scotia financial circles are unusually inter ested in the failure of the Bank of Jersey (Channel Islands). The report is current that the firm of Roben & Co. is involved. This is the largest firm of fish merchants in the world, having branches in Norway, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, iebec and Labrador.

WASHINGTON, I? C., January 15.— Towers & Green, conducting a small banking business in this city, closed their doors to-day. They are not yet ready to make a statement of the condition of their affairs, but say that the failure is for a small amount

ISHPEMING, Mich., January 15.— Falen, Johnson & Co-,' dealers in dry goods, provisions and feed, made an assignment yesterday to J. W. hem. The liabilities will exceed $60^ ', and the assets are less than $20,000.

NEW YOBK, N. Y., January 15.—Geo, Y. Brown, Ralph Lee Anderton, jr., and Edward K. Anderton, composing the firm of Btown & Anderton, bankers, No, 6, Broad street, assigned to-day to Timothy Y. Brown, giving preferences of $78,450 to Alexander Nicoll. The other liabilities' will foot up about $50,009. f, /V'

The I. A St. I.. Collision.

Billy McCammon, the D, O. & O. R. fireman who was so seriously injured at Kansas, Illinois, last Monday morning, in the collision of an I. & St L, locomotive with the engine upon which he was serving, was not killed as at first reported, but is still suffering from his injuries at the residence of Mr. A. W. Flenner, in Kansas, where he was taken after the accident. His injuries were about the head, shoulders and back, and are considered very serious.

A Bankrupt Town.

ST. LOUIS, Mo., January 15.—East St, Louis is rapidly becoming bankrupt. Last week the police struck, and when Judge Launtv attempted to convene court this week the foreman of the jury said that he had been informed by the mayoi that it would be foolish for them to serve, as they would not be-paid, they did not propose to try any cases unless a guarantee was given thai they would receive their money. The judge was obliged to adjourn court.

Thirteen Miners Killed.

OGDEN, Utah, January 14.—Six of the thirteen victims of the coal mine explosion at Almy, Wyoming, which occurred Tuesday night, have been recovered from the mine. The men met their death from suffocation and the appearance of the bodies indicated a terrible struggle for life. The searching party expects to reach the other seven bodies remaining in the mine to-day.

A Salt for Slander.

Mary A. Horgan has begun a suit for damages against Ellen Burns, claiming $5,000. The complaint alleges that defendant accused the plaintiff of stealing gold ohain.

SHERMAN ON CRANT.

He la Impatient at tha Beporta that He Slurred tbe Hero'a Memory.

General Fry's Article la the North American Review oa Sbfleh Commented Oa.

"Our Relations Were Brothers Rather than as Commander and Commanded."

GENERAL SHERMAN'S LETTER

He Comments on the Talk Abont a Bepated Conversation with Him. BALTIMORE, Md., January 15.—'The Sun will publish to-morrow the following letter frem General W. T. Sherman, in relation to General Grant and a recent statement in the North American Review:

ST. LOUIS, Mo., January 12th, 1886. Rev. Geo. Morris, Baltimore: DEAB SIB I have received your letter of the 7th, with a newspaper slip enclosed. Of course, I have read carefully the first volume of General Grant's Memoirs, and regard it as admirable in eveft sense, and now await the second volume,which, I doubt not, will be equally valuable and interesting. From the day I reported to him from Paducah till his death, our relations were as brothers rather than as commander and commanded, and it is utterly impossible that I could have written or spoken the words as quoted in the December number of the .North American Review. I have a very lane correspondence and converse freely witL thousands of people, and as is natural, as we often speculate as to what might have been had General Grant gone to the rear and G. F. Smith fought the battle of Shiloh what might have been had Washington accepted his warrant in the English navy, etc., but that I could have written the positive expression: "That had C. F. Smith lived General would have disappeared from history," is an impossibility. Personally, I want to live in peace and avoid all controversary, but I am confident that in good time we shall learn on what authority, or hearsay this publication is based. I inclose with this a slip containing my last public utterance about Geneial Grant when I announced his de&h to his old comrades of the Army of the Tennessee. I don't believe any man living, or dead has borne more willing testimony to General Grant's great qualities, especially as demonstrated at Ft Henry, Donnelson, Shiloh and Yicksburg than myself.

Yours truly, W. T. SHKBMAN.

General Sherman encloses a printed copy of a portion of his speech to the Army of the Tennessee, announcing the death of General Grant and eulogising him in the most flattering term.

Plead Guilty.

Yesterday forenoon Sam Rusk, colored, plead guilty to the charge of petit larceny. He stole a pair ol gloves from Fitzs Patrick, also colored. The court withheld sentence.

The duty of defending Rusk devolved on'Judge McNutt, county attorney. The judge stated to the court that he investigated the case, also the defendant's character, and recommended that he be given the extreme penalty of the law.

The Christian Church Pulpit. The pulpit of the Christian church in is city will hereafter be filled regularly iy the Rev. Mr. Smith, of New Lisbon, who has accepted the call from the church, and will preach his initiation sermon to-morrow.

W Soldiers' Meeting.

The county convention of soldiers, called for yesterday, has been postponed until the 6th of February. The state convention has been postponed until the 11th of February, the day before the state encampment

Plead Not Guilty.

Wm. Needham was before Judge Mack yesterday on the-charge of petit lirceny, stealing a shovel from Mr. Harry Ross. He plead not guilty and was returned to jail to await the action of the grand jury.

Fire Record.

CINCINNATI, O., January 15.—The carriage factory of Hiram W Davis & Co., was burned about 3 o'clock this morning. It was a five-story brick building, with a large frame addition. It was one of the largest factories of the kind in the west. The loss is estimated at $150,000. Two hundred men will be thrown out of work."

BEAVEB FALLS, Pa.r January 15.—^The car works, foundry and machine shops were burned to the ground this morning, together with the Chinese headquarten and every building in the square facing Sixth avenue, except the old Mansion House. The property belonged to the Economites. The fire destroyed over $50,000 worth of patterns, and rendered four families homeless. The loss is from $150,000 to $200,000, on which there is no insurance.

LEXINGTON, Ky., anuary 15.—A destructive fire spread rapidly here this morning, entirety destroying the grocery of Innes & S msj the Langdon Opera house, and the office of the Adams Express company, with their extensive stables on Broadway. The hardware store of W. J. Houlihan & BrOy was also damaged to the extent of $5,000. The total loss will reach $35,000 to $40,000.

OPELIKA, Ala., January 15.—Two"fires destroyed a saloon, barber shop and the Times office. Total loss, -$30,000 well insured.

HEBSEY, Mich., January 15.—The postoffice and several stores burned this morning. Loss, $30,000 insurance, $15,000.

Cable Clicks.

1L SagoL, banker, Paris, has suspended, His liabilities are 02,000,000. Br. Schweninger, Prince Bismarck's pbysi cian, has been summoned to St Petersburg by the czar, for a consultation on his majesty's health.

A train oonveying a military company was completely wrecked, last night, at Valdira Poland. Thirty soldiers, inoluding eleven officers, were killed.

The annual banquet in oommwnoration of the battle of Yorktown was hdd at the Hotel Continental, Paris, last evening. United States Minister MeLane was present.

Queen Victoria has oommended the production of Mr. Gounod's oratorio, Mors et Vita," at the Boyai Albert hall. Her majesty will o6me from Windsor to attend the performance. This wilkbe the queen's first appearanoejin pnblio for many yean.

Greeoe offer to demobilise her fqroes on condition that her claims for an extension of territory be considered by the Balkan confsrr ence when that body reassembles at Constantinople. The Porte has informed the powers that it is reedy te disband the Turkish levies as soon as peace in flervia and Greeoe is as•onfc

DaDj Eitabllahed In 1861.

AN INCREASE OF

Repotted by Secretary wise In the enteen-Oent Machines Working. Following is the weekly report of Secretary Wise, of the Western Nail aM0«t" ation: OFFICE or WKSTEKN NAIL AJSSOCIA-

TION, WHEELING, W. Va., I January 13, 1886. GENTLEMEN—The following mills have reported:

Belmont Nail Co.—January 12. Have 105-machines, heating furnaces and rolls running.

T-angnlin Nail Co.—January 12. Have 92 machines running, including 39 selffeeders.

Norton Iron Works. January 8. Have 88 machines, heating furnaces and rolls in operation.

Belfont Iron Works Co.—Jaflfcary 11. Have 100 machines running. Heating furnaces and nail plate rolls on deable turn.

Kelly Nail and Iron Co.—January 13. Have 71 maghines running. Heating furnaces and rolls on double turn.

Western Nail Company.—January 8. Have 85 machines ranning. Heating furnaces and nail plate train working.

Wheeling Iron and Nail Company.— January 12. Have 65 machines, heating furnaees and rolls rolling.

Riverside Iron Workk—January 12. Have 57 machines running, bating furnaces and rolls on double turn.

Calumet Iron and Steel Company.— January 12. Have 35 machines and nail plate rolls rumning.

La Belle Iron Works.—January 12. Have 32 machines, heating furnaces and rolls running.

Jefferson Iron Works.—January H« Have 30 machines, heating furnaces and rolls running.

Benwood. Iron Works.—January IS. Haw machines running. The above mills report an increase of twenty-two machines over last report^

Yours respectfully, GBOBGE Wiax, BecMary.

Nail Mill Notes.

The new gas heating furnaces at tke' Laughlin nuU, Martin's Ferry, were lighted, and a trial heat made. It is said they will go to work regularly at once.

The South Chicago Daily Calumet says the plate mill furnaces are lighted and. the mill is expected to resume again to-"' night James Deviney has returned to? Belleville. He was running four machine in the factory. The output of nails at the factory last week was 1,528, kegs.

The Cigarcuakers' Strike, ,w NEW York, N. Y., January 15.—Over 400 cigarmakers went on a Btrike to-day at the factory of Brown & Earle. Five hundred men who quit work yesterday in the factory of Levy Bros are still out. -s This morning a conference wss held be-i-tween joint committees of the Progressive'' and International Cigarmakers' unions and the committee representing the man-. ufacturers' association. The union men insisted on the old schedule of prices, and said that the men would not work under the new system. It is expected that the manufacturers will deqline to yield, and a general lockout is looked for.

The manufacturers met this evening, and decided to lock out all their men next Wednesday unless the men returned to work in the shops of Levy Bros.-, under the schedule of prices posted by the manufacturers on January 2nd. To-. night the employes held a meeting, at which each pledged himself to hlr to accept the lockout and stay out on the manufacturers yield.

Box Factory Strike Riot. _: CHICAGO, HI., January 15.—A seriotftriot occurred this morning at Halstead.. and Green streets, between the strikers atMaxwell Brothers and a number ef new^. employes who were going to work. Bnt for the prompt interference of the police-. the result might have been very serious.' Abont sixty men were engaged in the row. The strikers, who numbered about fitteen men, were armed with clube, and their attack, though against three times their number, was fierce. Only one man' is reported as seriously injured. The police arrested three men.

Tlie Week's..Failures."

NEW YOBK, N. Y., TrnfiTfJi

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The business failutes^occQrring throughj* out the country during the last seven. days as reported to B. G. Dun A Co.^v number for the United States 307, and for,: Canada 25, & a total 332, as against a total of 336 last week. Business casualties are exceptionally numerous in the. western, southern and Pacific states, which three sections of the country furnisher more than two-thirds of the whole namt, ber reported.

Vigo Agricultural Society. The directors of the Vigo Agricultural, society met again yesterday. In their re-arrangement of the premiun list, several new pretniums were added to the class of "garden and farm products."

Seriously Injured.

Yesterday morning Harry McAllister, a clerk at H. D. Pixley & Co., fell on the sidewalk and broke his shoulder-blade. He was taken to his home on north Sixth street.

The Anti-Chinese Fight.''

SAN JOSE, Cal., January -15.—The anti-coolie league has decided to circulate petitions asking congress to abrogate tha,^ Burlingame treaty.

Stetalta Wins the Third QUM. NEW YOBK, N.Y., January 16.—The third- game in the Steinitz-Zukortort championship chess match was V.onjrp HerrSteinitz to-day.

Terse Telegrams.

.••'t-'rtSi'. Brown Bres. & Co. have engaged $002,000 in gbld te be shipped te-day by the steamer Arrenia.

The Mono County bank, Bodie, California, has suspended. Its liabilities are only about $50,000.

Governor Sherman, of Iowa, speaks wefl el{ the liquor law, and says there ia now 1««». drinking in the state and less crime.

The total imports of dry goods at New during the past wsek were valned at $2,930,695, and the amount thrown on the market at $2,8ol,647.

Certain trade unions in Chicago have voted fond! for arms, and the socialists claim to have 9,000 loaded bombs for distribution. One point is to carry by foroe the eight-hour law on May 1st.

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The total value of the exports of domeetie cattle and hogs and of beef, pork and dairy products for the twelve months, ended Decern her 81, 1886, was $96,713,020, against $96,-} 449*142 the previous year.

Thoe. W. Hunter, a wealthy cattle man and mine owner of Colorado, who has been the guest of Dr. Baasett, of Vandalia, EU., the past few days, was found dead ia his bed yesterday morning, from heart disease. The deoeesea was formerly a prominent cattle raiser in Bond county, 111.

The aud coke drawers threw dewn their tools at the Standard Coke works, to the ConneUsviUe region, yesterday,

10 per »nt advance ip wagse. The lndlcaticos are that the strike will bewaae general, poflsibly before wy action if oon vsu ties oa Saturday.