Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 May 1889 — Page 1

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WORLD-OF TRADE AND LABOR.

The Clay County Block Coal Miners Submit a Proposition For Arbitration.

THE OPERATORS DECLINE TO ACCEPT THE SAME.

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The Outlook is Discouraging—The Steel Mill Consolidation ...... —The Iron Trade.

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THE NKW STEEL COMBINATION.

What Some of tbe Kasteru Director* Say About It. NEW YORK,

May

9.—The

WHS

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vention, nearly two thousand miners were represented. By a plurality vote a committee was instructed lo call on a representative of the operators' executive board 'and state that tbe miners were willing to submit the differences to trhifaatfany-'Tlie 'Qjwtw-declined arbitration, saying it was impossible to pay a higher price than that offered. The committee returned and reported to the convention, and a committee of five was appointed to act in behalf of the miners ut any conference that may be asked by the operators. All mining has, been suspended and the prospect is not encouraging.

Times' Bos

ton special says: Nathaniel Thayer and Francis Blodget.t, of Boston, and Wm. J. Knth, of New Bedford, are directors in the new steel trust with a capital of $25,000,000 that has been formed by the North Chicago rolling mill company, wbicli holds 54 per cent of the new capital stock the Joliet steel company, which holds 20 per cent, of the stock, nnd the Union steel company, which has 20 per cent, and which trust controls altogether fourteen blast furnaces. Boston steel men are much interested in the new trust, and there is very general anxiety to know what its effect on the steel industry will be. Mr. B. M. Jones, of B. M. Jones & Co.'s, said tlie combination was in no sense trust monopoly. Its effect would be regulative rather than to have a tendocy to increase prices. The concerns which bad combined had been for some time in practical co-operation, and the step taken is in the interest of their united prosperity, rather th for the purpose of advancing prices, indeed, it would be difficult to advance prices in the face of the competition from the Pennsylvania rolling mills. Being all prosperous concerns, their union will be protection to them against small concerns that start manufacturing on a email scale and sell at prices that don't pay a profit in order to get business, and which go under sooner or later after disturbing prices of .products. He thought this oomnination would have a large influence in the steel trade of the country. Another Oliver street dealer said there was always one effectual remedy for any undue advance in the coBt of steel rails, and that

importation.

to the

combination controlling the steel rail business of the country, that was not to be thought of in the face of the immense concerns in Pennsylvania.

WAR IN THE IRON TRADE.

The KriVnt Cut in Pig Iron Likely to Cause Much Trouble.

Nicw

YORK,

May 9.—The cut in pig

iron made by the Thomas iron company seemB to be the eignal for a war between the producers of the North and the South which may eventually prove a demonstration of the "survival of the IT teat." "I do not thiuk the Southern companies will meet this cut," said Daniel L. Codde, of H. W. Adams & Co., the representatives in this city of the Tennessee Coal, Iron Jk Railway company, the Sloes iron and steel company, both of Birmingham, Ala., also agents for fourteen of the twentysix Southern furnaces now in blast. "It relates, as you see, only to May and June deliveries. If it is kept

after June,

and the Southern companies find their stock accumulating, they will have to take a hand in the game. Thus far they have taken no action. We, ourselves, declined to day an offer for 2,000 tonB at fifty cents below our scheduled prices. There are many old furnaces in the l£ast and North that can make money with iron at $20 a ton, live when it sells for $18, barely exist when it iB $17, and blow out when it goes below that figure. The Southern furnaceB have no accumulation of stocks and are in good condition for a fight if they are forced into one."

CompelliuK Hi» Employee to Marry. DCLVTN,

Minn., May 9.—A strike at

A. M. Cox's broom factory was Bettled in a rather singular manner. The proprietor increased the wages of »11 his married employee, and gave the single men notioe that they would not be wanted after the end of the month unless they were married by that time, in which event they would be retained at an inoreased salary.

Ontario Agricultural Report. 'TORONTO,

Ont., May 9—The Ontario

department of agriculture has issued a bulletiu from the bureau of industries. It reportB a remarkable and gratifying contrast in the tenor of information concerning fall wheat as compared with that of the spring of 1888.

I.iik« Busluess Very Dull.

NEW VOKK,

May

9.—The

Times' Buf

falo (,N. Y.) special Bays: There is bitter complaint from all quarters that lake business is dull beyond every expectation. Not only are freights low and shippers indifferent, but the low water in the rivers and harbors is a serious drawback. It is estimated that deep draught vessels are only loading about three-fourths as heavily as usual.

A Ground Hog Joke.

•^MIM.KRSSI'RG, O., May 9.—Frauds are being practiced on the township clerks under the ground hog scalp law. They cut the hides up into pieces as large as a scalp, cut eye-holes in them and sew on ears made from the hide, and pass them off as scalps. One lot of twenty-four socalled scalps only had three that were genuine.

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rTHE CHICAGO HOM« FOR INCURABLES.

Tlie Depositions of Inmate* Testify to Cruelty Practiced. CHICAGO,

May

9.—The

taking of

depositions in the suit brought against the management of tbe home for incurables was begun to-day under an order of the court. The depositions of a number of inmates of the institution were taken. They were generally of a tenor to sustain the allegations in the complaint filed in court a couple of days ago by certain ladies who averred that they were unable to right the wrongs being done in any other way than by an appeal to the law. The unfortunates were very loth to testify, a number of them declaring that they would be made to suffer for it. Their Btories were pitiful ones, and told of neglect and harsh and cruel treatment from the matron and tbe attendants. Two.of the patients testified that on the morning before the night that James Botton died they heard a conversation between Mrs. Barlow, the matron, and an attendant named Tuxford. The conversation was relative to a proposition made by Tuxford to tie Botton's hands. Mrs. Birlow agreed to the proposition, thq witness said, and the next morning Botton was found dead in bed with his hands tied, and his face and eyes blackened from the attendant's blows. Others testified that a paralytic was forced to walk without shoes or stockings through the enow from one buildiDg to another that _a patient suffering from chronic dyspepsia was not allowed to have tbe food prescribed by a physician and nearly starved to death that another patient suffering from a spinal affliction was forced to set in a stiff, straight-backed chair, causing him intense suffering and generally that patients were treated to abuse and cruelty.

UTILIZING SALT WATER Iff OIL WELLS.

The Process or a Findlay, O.. Company by Which Cheap Salt Is Made. FIN

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O., May 9.—The great diffi

culty with which oil and gas operators have had to contend in the northwestern Ohio field is the presence of salt water, which often comes into a well while drilling, rendering it worthless and a dead loss or, if the well escapes at the time of drilling, an extra demand upon the capacity will bring in the salt water so strongly as to destroy its usefulness.

There has never been any way discovered whereby this difficulty couid be obviated, but within the last few months experiments have been prosecuted in this city by a company which demonstrate successfully the fact that this salt water can be utilized in the manufacture of an excellent quality of salt. This company last fall purchased two gas wells which had been abandoned on account of the salt water which came into them rendering them worthless. Tbe company began a series of experiments and under a new process they have been enabled to produce salt at a cost which enables the company to sell their product lower than any salt manufacturing institution in country.

The process under which this company experimented and is now working is as yet a secret. The company is now erecting extensive works and is backed by an abundance of capital. It is the purpose of the company to purchase all the oil and gas wells which are affected by salt water and pipe the fluid to their refinery, in this city, the same as gas and crude petroleum are now handled.

COMMENDING THE LEAGUE.

Archbishop Walsh Continues His Defense of That Organization To-Day. .LONDON,

May

9.—Archbishop

Walsh

continued his testimony before the Parnell commission to day. He said that facts which had come to his knowledge proved that the league tended to diminish crime. There had been a gradual decadence in the number of secret societies in Ireland since 18GG. He was aware that the league had advised tenants not to enter the land court after the passage of thto act establishing that court in 1881. Subsequent events had justified that ad vice. He only knew of one instance where the league had been indiscreet. This indiscretion consisted of the passage of a resolution, by a branch of the league, to publish iu its district a list of persons not members of the league. He protested against this action and the publication of tbe list was thereupon abandoned.

As the league spread the secret societies vanished. The people learned to prefer open parliamentary action. Throughout the archbishop's diocese the cases of boycotting had been few, although the league was strong in that district. The only sense, the archbishop said, in which boycotting ought to be tolerated, can^e under the name of exclusive dealing. Anything like intimidation was reprehensible. The members of the league held that boycotting kept the country free from outrages. The witness did not approve the refusal to sell the necessaries of life to a man under boycott. He understood the plan of campaign to be a purely voluntry combination, and that it did not imply boycotting.

Mr. Atkinson, of counsel for the Times, here quoted from a pastoral issued by the archbishop in 1882, which denounced the movement not to pay debts as forcible resistance to the law. Archbishop Walsh said that the pastoral had been issued in consequence of the increase in the number of secret societies, owing to the disorganization of the league while its leaders were imprisoned an4 while he people were driven to despair by evictions.

Baptism of an Infant Prince. LONDON,

May

9.—The

baptism of the

infant son of Prince Henry, of Prussia, took place at Hiel to-day. The event was signalized by the attendance of the entire imperial family of Russia. The king of Denmark and the czar officiated as godfathers.

Minister Grant at Vienna.

VIENNA,

May

9.—Colonel

Frederick

Grant, the new American minister te Austria, has arrived here.

Foreign Notes.

Tbe attendance at the exposition has thus far averaged 71,000 persons daily. Leguerre ha# refused to act as counsel Tor rerrln, tne man who on Sunday tired a blank cartridge at President Carnot

The strikers at Essen held a meeting at which it was resolved to adhere to their demands for an advance of 15 per cent, in their wages and a reduction of their working hours to seven par day. Funds for the support of the strikers are being received from miners in Belgium and Silesia, and It Is expected that English miners will also con tribute to their support The International character of the movement adds to tbe gravity ot the situation.

SPOKANE WINS THE DERBY.

The Montana Horse Takes the Honors at Louisville From Proetor Knott.

A GREAT CROWD WITNESSES A GREAT RACE.

Jimmy

Carroll Wants to Fight

Jimmy Carney—In tlie Base a W

LOUISVILLE,

Ky., May

2:36)4,

so Armstrong came to

day with Spokane and two seconds more disappeared. A little crowd of far West turf men were present and with little ado they went about backing their favorite. Armstrong a year ago said he was going to take this, the highest honor of the West." There were not a coast people to overcome. The immense enthusiasm backed tbe home horse Proctor Knott, and the betting was nearly all one. way. The first pool sold this morning was S150 for Knott and §111 for the field, and while much better than this was done, both iu the books and especially in private bets, this shows the strength of the sentiment. All bets against Knott were snapped, and the only reason Ken-, tucky is not broke to-night is the lack of men from the West to take their offers.

As the horses filed up the track for the great event all appeared in perfect condition. The game chicken on the great futureity was cheered to the echo as he came out sixth, and Young's entries, who followed, were lost in the applause. Spokane was hardly noticed, though a quiet tip was out among tbe knowing that he had been saved for the occasion. Facing the post the starters and riders were Sportsman,. 118 Isaac Lewis Spokane, 118 Kiley Proctor Knott, 115 Barnes Once Again, 118 Murphy Bootmaker, 118 Warwick: Cassius, 118 Taral Outbound, 118 Hollis Hindoocraft, 118 Armstrong.

The race was run out of the chute. Ferguson had little difficulty in getting them off together and the start was very even. Hindoocraft was in front, Bootmaker second, Spokane third. On the way down to the stand Barnes gave Proctor Knott his head, and the great gelding bounded forward like a flash, passing the stand five lengths in the lead, Hindoocraft second and Spokane third, Young's pair being close behind. All the way round to the head of the stretch the positions were little changed, though the crowd was closing up on Knott, who was evidently waiting ior the finish.

they turned

around the Btretch the race commenced, and Beldom was such a run witnessed in America. Knott was let out, but Spokane came up with a tremendous rush. Half way down the stretch Knott swerved, and Spokane forged to the front by two lengths. Barnes wheeled the favorite into line just as they reached the distance stand, and he came up like a bolt. It was too late, however, and Spokane piissed under the wire winner by a nose, Once Again third, three lengths. The rest were strung out.

Summary: Keatucky derby one and a half miles, H-yeur-old, $100 entrance, $2,500 added.

N. Armstrong's Spokane, cli. Hyder All, Interpose. 118 Klley. Sam Bryant's Proctor Knott, ch. g., Luke Blackburn. Tallapoosa, 115 Barnes.

Milt Young's Once Again, b. c., Onondaga, Black Maria, 118 Murphy. Time—234I&.

Betting: Knott. 10 to 2 Young's entry, 8 to 1 Hindoocraft. 4 to 1 Spokane. 10 to 1 Sportsman, 15 to IjCasstus, 10 to 1 Outbound, 15 to 1. Spokane is owned by Noah Armstrong, of Belena, Mont, where he was bred. He wintered at Memphis. The race was worth $4,860 to the winner.

It is the general comment to-night that the derby run to-day was the greatest on record, both for the noble company and the exciting run. No better bred horses ever started. Milton Young fully expected to win with one of his entries and backed them heavily, as also did Barnes. A big sum changed hands on the result. The quarters in the derby were run as follows: First quarter. 24^ half mile 48}^ three quarters, 114% mile, 141% mile quarter, 209.

Jimmy Carroll and Jiinmie Carney. NEW YORK,

May

9.—The

following

letter was received at the Police Gazette office yesterday from Jimmy Carroll, the light-weight pugilist who recently defeated Sammy Blakelock, the English 126-pound champion, for a puree of $1,700 in the California athletic club. Carroll, by the tone of his letter, is eager to meet jimmy Carney, the English lightweight champion, or Jack McAuliffe for the championship: "The California athletic club have decided to offer a puree large enough to be an inducement for Jimmy Carney, England's lightweight champion, to come to the Pacific slope to fight me according to the rules which govern all contests under the management of the club. Carney can rest assured that he will receive fair play, and if he is able to win the purse the directors of the California club have decided to offer he will get it. I want to see who is the champion and Carney is at the top of tbe tree in my opinion, at'present. I am willing to fight Carney to a finish—no draw—for the lightweight championship of the world. If he does not want to come out here to fight it is a 6ure sign that he does not want to fight without a gang of tough heelers. If he does not accept I shall consider him as a pugilist beneath my notice. Then Jack McAuliffe can be accommodated by me upon the same

TERRE HAUTE, IND., WAY MO NINO, MAY 10, 1889.

terms. Hisi work, for the win if he cadi Billy Madd It will be to and the clut he says it is from one ot'j posing as chi

^T^IftOOQ, bluff won't for him to in the club, but 'gaK bo gate money.

Tummy IT| NEW YOBS ton special western fe Frank Murpt will meet at Athletic clut Tbe member so much tba have been tr they thought ing." Failiu Johnny Mur_ tiating withj in Beloit, wiiedj yesterday, good man tti

9.—The

spring

meeting of the Louisville jockey club opened to-day judges, M. Lewis Clark, T. J. Megibben, Gen. J. P. Robinson timers, Major B. G. Thomas, John Funk and W. S. Barnes starter, James B. Ferguson. The weather was very fine and- tbe largest crowd ever known was present, being variously estimated from sixteen thousand to twenty-five thousand. The etand was overflowing and every available Bpace full, while the field was blocked with struggling humanity. The track was in good condition, well sprinkled, hard and safe through two inches of duBt and a little fast. Montana answers to California in the result of the day.v All else is eclipsed in the Kentucky *r It has been in sight and hearing for weeks. A great race was expected, and the expectation did not rise to the reality. As three years ago Haggin brought Ben Ali out of the West to lower the Kentucky derby record to

VfiNk if ne meets me a purae when I shall hear who are lam yours,

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nk Murphy. He Son's BosWarren, the pugilisit, and

English lad,

e( the California I of next month,

lotabdialike Warren months they some one that ^ve him a "lick-

McCarthy and ib began negoiy who iB now rlieaident Fulda

Polioe News, _F"Wonld-be a

cfai^against Warren.

Captain Cook ^bpmd that Murphy would be too weaKBt H8 pounds but at 120 he would knodic smithereens out of Warijen. Captain^ Oook received a telegram from Fulda wlich read: ''Warren will fight at 120 fcfetjl Jl,800 purse, the winner to take $' Murphy was at onoel offer and as he Jiai Warren at the Cili undoubtedly accept the offer now made by the club.

'the loser $300." ifiedof the club's anxious to fight in club he will

Baa* Ball.

A Decatur (111.)'-spatial says: An important base ball meeting was held here this afternoon, whail [the Illinois-Indi-ana base ball leaguejto include six clubs, was organized. Deoatur. Danville, Bloomington, and ""Lafayette were repreeented at the meeting in person, and Terre Haute and Logansport by proxy. The following officers were ileioted: President, W. W. Irvine, of Bl|tmington secretary and manager, HanjpE^Smith treasurer, H. W. Miller, of Logansport. The salary list of the players each club will be limited to fGOOl Itljras an enthusiastic meeting. Games will begin May 30. The league will have an adjourned meeting at Danville on May 16.

On Wednesday: Sjvansville 15, Quincy 12 Peoria 16, Burlington 5 Davenport 7, Springfield 1.

President DavidEob, of the Louisville base ball club, annoiraoed that the club is on the market, am unless disposed of in a few days, he wifr disband and sell tqe players. He is diagueted.

Games yeeterday: Cleveland 13, Indianapolis2 Philadelphia 6, Washington 0 Chicago 7, Pittsburg 6 New York 10, Boston 9 Cincinnati 14. Athletic 6 Columbus 6, St Loots 4 Baltimore 12, Kansas City 6.

The Eastern Stars'have organized for the season with the&^wing players: Hanson pitch^y .JC, E^aon catcher, Whiteman lb, pffk.,Haaley 3b, Shannon li^llitj,ttglStr^^8tiokey of, Smock rf. They will play the Rockets next Sunday at the park. Game called at 3:30.

The Stanford Sale.

NEW YORK,

May 9.—The sale of the

trotting stock of the Palo Alto farnit in Santa Clara county, Cal., the property of the Hon. Laland Stanford, closed to-day at the American institute rink. The prices obtained ranged from $300 to over fifteen hundred dollars. The total receipts were $77,370.

2 ST. JOSEPH'S FAIR.

An Iucreuswl Attendance—The Raffling to Begin This Evening.

The second night of St. Joseph's fair witnessed a larger attendance. A new stand contained some very beautiful pictures, among which was a large picture of Father McEvoy. The "Oid Woman in the Shoe" show was liberally patronized, but the cigar and the lemonade stands enjoyed the beBt trade. Tbe entertainment last night was by the young ladies who performed their parts splendidly. The programme consisted of eight selections of music, declamations and dialogues. The raffling will commence thiB evening. The following is the programme for last evening: 1. "Shoemaker'-—Chorus Little Girls 2. "Blue Danube"—Waltz

Hisses H. Faganand E. Dally

3. "Grandma's Angel"—Speech

Miss G. Theobald

4. "The Wearing of'the Green"—Trio .. Misses H. McMahon, K. Cronln, M. Madlgan 5. "Swiss Toy Girls" Miss K. Cronln

Accompanylst—Miss Bertha Metzger. 6. "Ocean Pearl"—Duet Misses E. Theobald and N. Osborn 7. "The Wind Whispers Low"—Chorus

Miss B. Metzger, accompanylst

8. "Jennesse Doree"—Instrumental Duet... Miss Sophie Hulman and Miss A. Hiilinan

Pardoned by the President. WASHINGTON,

May

9.—The

president

has commuted to ten years imprisonment the sentence of death imposed in the case of Grace Stuallwood, colored, convicted in the District of Columbia of the murder of her infant child. He also granted a pardon in the case of John Alaska, an Indian convioted of resisting an officer, and sentenced to six years imprisonment, in Washington Territory. The president has denied the application for pardon in tbe case of Joseph White and Shannon Foster, convicted in Arkansas of manslaughter.

Speaker Asa Matthews Gets a Oood Office. WASHINGTON,

May 9.—The president

appointed Asa Matthews, ot Illinois, to be first comptroller of the treasury, vide M. J. Durham, resigned. Mr. Matthews is the praeent speaker of the Illinois house of representatives, which office he has held for several terms. He was colonel of an Illinois regiment during the war and subsequently held the office of collector of internal revenue for the Peoria district He livee at Pittsfield, III. He is said to be an excellent lawyer. He was endorsed for the office by Senator Cullom and many others.

AMUSEMENTS.

The Bennett & Moulton company had a good house last evening. "The Black Hussar" was the opera and it was well received. The music was particularly bright and pleasing, and won many encores. The "Bohemian Girl" will be presented to-night.

The engagements of the Boston quintette club will prevent their giving a concert in this city before October next. They had expected to give one early in June, under the auspices ot the Terre Haute Concert Guarantee association.

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THE OIL VELL FLOW CONTINUES

The Oil is Undoubtedly of the Very Best Quality and of Great Value.

MUCH TALK ABOUT NEW WELLS TO BE SUNK.

What ©ne of tlie Visiting Experts Says of the Well and Its "V Prospects.

Tne number of visitors to the oil well yesterday was up to the average. The curiosity of citizens is not satisfied with one visit. The most objectionable feature ot visits to the well is the odor of oil on tbe clothing. After a visit one or two days is the time required to remove the odor from the clothing. The most interesting feature connected with the well now is the amount of speculatfbn concerning it. There is much random talk about organizing other local companies to bore wells, but none of this talk has assumed definite shape as yet. There are also several strangers in the city whose business is not known but whose clothing smells strongly of oil. The stockholders in the well say that there are men here from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Missouri. Some are here to sell the company fixtures with which to conduct the oil to suitable places and to refine it. Some have taken samples of the oil and will have them analyzed. The most reasonable supposition is that they will analyze the oil and, if it should prove to be of excellent quality, they will lease ground and bore for oil. One of these gentlemen said that he had a sample of tbe oil and would have it analyzed. In speaking of the well he said: "To produce oil is my business, and if I should find a superior quality of oil I will drill for it here. I have been engaged in the business several years, and do not desire to express opinions concerning the well because a correct opinion isdiflicult to form on such short notice. There is an ample quantity of oil in this well. As to the quality, a scientific test must determine. This oil is heavier than the Ohio oil. It has more body. I understand that this oil is giving excellent satisfaction as a lubricator. I understand that Mr. Diall has ordered 2,650 barrels of tank lines for the well. When the tank line is placed he can let the oil run freely for about ten hours. After the first ten hours the amount of How should be taken for the succeeding ten hours. Then the amount of flow should be taken for the next ten hours, so that the amount of falling off could be calculated. This would form a fair test of the well's capacity. Ali of this talk about what the Standard oil company will do to destroy this well is bosh. Of course this, talk always originates with new wells, but the Standard company has not done so in other instances of the kind. Of course if the well should prove a success there will be numbers of oil-well drillers here. Lands will be leased, wells drilled and the community will win. Experienced oil men are not in a hurry to enter the district but prefer to wait until the fever dies. Matters will be more stable then. Of course oil men will remain qniet until they get ready to enter the field."

Mr. Diall measured the distance to the gravel pit yesterday and found it to be 1,000 yards. Although the well is not emitting the full flow of oil at present it is a paying institution each day.

There was some excitement in real estate circles yesterday by tbe report that a real estate firm here had been instructed by eastern capitalists to lease land in the eastern part of the city, but if such instructions had been issued most probably the report would not have been circulated. It is a notable fact that surrounding cities and sections are more excited concerning the discovery of oil here than Terre Haute is.

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THE RAILROADS.

General and Personal Notes of I.oral and Widespread Interest.

N. R. McNabb, of the tin shop, was off yesterday afternoon. Passenger coach No.

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was taken out

of the shops yesterday. The C. & E. I. is talking of building a new iron bridge across the Wabash at Clinton.

F. C. Crawford, of the paymaster's office, returned yesterday from a fishing trip to Lake Maxinkuckee.

Logansport Pharos: There is a- move to close freight depots at noon on Saturdays, in the larger cities, during the summer months.

Messrs. Ed Wilmer, Mike Collins, C. M. Noble, Joe Bombach and George Schilling, of the boiler shops, are off because of sickness.

The O. & M. is now running vestibule cars on all the fast trains. The coaehes are brand new and are very pretty. No road is better equipped for passenger service.

There are four blacksmiths in the new shops near Washington whose united avoirdupois amounts to 1,150 pouadr. They are called the "Big Four," and came from Cochran.

Logan Chance, formerly of the E. & T. H. offices of this city, but now night ticket agent, at'Brazil, left last evening for a few weeks visit with friends at Houston, Texas, and Parsons, Kan.

One-half of the passenger conductors on the Nickle Plate railway running upon the west end of tbe road between Chicago and Bellevue, Ohio, were discharged Monday. Some of the conductors had only been running passenger trains for a few months.

The employes' insurance system will go in effect on the Pennsylvania lines west ot Pittsburg on July 1st, and it is believed that over ten thousand men will join at once. No physical examination will be required, and the company will guarantee all the benefits.

A report from Danville, 111., states that Malcom A. McDonald, general manager of the Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago railroad, has decided to accept the position of general manager of the Pittsburg & Western railway, with headquarters at Pittsburg and a salary of $12,000 per annum. The Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago will go into the Big Four combination about June 1, and most ot its present officials will accompany Mr. McDonald to Pittsburg.

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UNDER WHICH KING.

Tamase'e is Afflicted With an Earnest Desire to be Klif at Samoa. STDNEY, N. S. W.,

May

Admiral Kimberly thereupon issued a proclamation, urging the natives to maintain peace. The steamer Rdckton, which will oonvey 450 men belonging to the wrecked American war ships to San Francisco, was ready to leave, and was expected to sail on May 1st from Apia. Eighty men wiU remain with Admiral Kimberly at Apia. The Nipsic had been fitted with a new rudder and was about to start .for Auckland. Herr Stuebel, the newly-appointed German consul, has arrived at Apia.

The commander of the British cruiser Rapid, has hoisted the British flag over the Suwarrow islands, which lie in the southern Pacific ocean, northwest of the Rock islands.

A COLLIERY ACCIDENT

Ten Miners Near Pottsviile, Peun.. Instantly Killed in a Shaft. POTTSVH.IJJ,

Penn., May

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The Leper Priest is Dead.

SAN FKANCISCO,

May

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9.—Dr.Knappe,

the consul general to Samoa, has arrived here on board the steamer Ludeck. Advices from Samoa to April 30 stated that the natives are quiet. The position ot the hostiles is unchanged. Admiral Kimberly, of the United Statee navy, on the suggestion of Mat&afa, tried, through Dr. Knappe, to persuade Tamueee to agree to a peace. Tamasese declined to agree to the proposition unless he was recognized as king.

9.—At

at the William colliery, near Middleport, this evening, the cage containing ten miners was ascenking the shaft, and had reached a height of about sixteen feet from the bottom, when an empty car was puBhed over the top of the shaft by two Hungarian laborers. The car struck the ascending cage with awful momentum, shattering it to splinters, and instantly killing every one of its occupants. The cage, with the ten victims, was hurled into the "sump," a hole at the bottom of the shaft, where the water from the workings accumulates, and the mangled bodies were not recovered for sometime. The mine is operated by the Alliance cool company. It is an old working mine, and the shaft is 500 feet deep.

Tlie Multiple Wire System. PITTSBURG,

May

9.—The

COLUMBIA,

argument in

the case of the Edison electric light company against the Westinghouse-Church-Kerr company to restrain it from alleged infringement of a patent, is in progress before Judge McKenna, of the United States court. Richard N. Dyer and Edward II. Rodgers, of New York, represent the Edison company, and Bakewell & Kerr, of this city, the Westinghouse. The case is one involving the use of what is known as the multiple wire system of electrical distribution. The suit was originally jght in New Jersey, and is to restrain the Westinghouse company from using the system in any part of the United States, w-

Shamrock and Thistle.

Tenn., May

9.—TheScotch-

Irieh congress was opened here yesterday by Dr. John Hall, the famous New York divine. Colonel James Q. Johnston, of Alabama, the president, was made chairman of the congress and delivered an address. A poem by Wallace Bruce was read and a telegram was received from Sir John McDonald. ExGovernor Knott, of Kentucky, delivered an eloquent oration. Last evening Dr. McClosky, of Princeton, spoke, and Dr. Mcintosh, of the same place, and Dr. Hall made addresses to-day.

9.—The

bark-

entine W. H. Dimond, which arrived yesterday from Honolulu, brought word that the Rev. Father Damein, widely known as the taper priest of Molokai, died at Kalawa, Hawaii, April 10. Father Damein was born in Belgium in 1840, and went to Hawaii in 1864. For the last sixteen years his labors has b?en confined to the leper settlement at Molokai, where he contracted the dread Jisease which cost him his life.

Financier Alcflfurdo Dead*

NKW YORK,

May

I).—The

Times' copy

right London special says: "Edward McMurdo, who for years past has been one of the most prominent Americans in London financial circles, died suddenly at his residence in Berkley square at 1 o'clock p. m. yeeterday. Mr. McMurdo came to London eight years ago and joined a company which was organized to promote financial ventures of all kinds. He had extensive interests in Central America and South Africa.

Looking for a Texas Htrbor. GALVESTON,

Tex., May

9.—The

board

of United States engineers appointed by the last congress to make an inspection of the Texas coast for the purpose of recommending a point available for the location of a first-class harbor, arrived in this city yeeterday and will remain here for several days.

Voaiis Skene Confessed His Crime. GAI-F.NA,

111., May

9.—Jonathan

Skene, who is in jail for murdering Professor Matchett and shooting Weeby Prisk, made a full confession of both crimes to-day. Since his arrest Skene has strongly protested his innocence and was only induced to acknowledge hjs crime after most earnest efforts ot his father.

Ctoorge Francis Still Fasting. NEW YORK,

May

Francis Train still fasts. He also takes Turkish and electric baths. He has lost twenty-four pounds and every vestige of appetite, yet in other respects he is doing well. He takes his walk abroad and sits daily in the park, and is graceful, genial and jolly.

Decided Against Nye and Riley. FORT DODOE,

la., May

9.—Judgment

for $313 damages against Bill Nye and amee Whitcomb Riley was rendered in the district court here to-day. The suit was brought against Nye and Riley for violation ot contract to fulfill a lecture engagement.

Representative Laird Better. WASHINGTON,

May

9.—Representative

Laird, of Nebraska, who has been ill for several months, is slowly recovering.

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TBE NEWSROOM ABOUT TOWN

Interesting Facts About the Collection of County Tax«9.

A FORGER PLEADS GUILTY AND IS SENTENCED.

He Lost Money Playing Cards and Used a Forged Order to Raise tlie Cash.

The county treasurer has completed the additions of taxes collected for the six months preceding the first Monday in April, preparatory to making a financial statement to the state auditor. The following is the statement of sums collected by funds: Road fund.....'....27.7. .'.ir il.Oti.95 April Installment— 136,417.65 November Installment 24,742,92 Old delinquent taxes 36,732.15 Interest S,8«j.2» Polls collected 1,827.00 Dogs 864.00

Total collections for six months *216,717.86

The following aiej the charges on the duplicates for the year 1888, of which the above amount has been collected: Total charges, Including current taxes..$336,135.68 Old delinquents charged 84,849,56

Total charges 420,'J8514 Polls charged 7.HS2 Dogs charged a.«H Polls delinquent 6.075 Dogs delinquent 2.068

The above statement is considered to be a good showing for the past year as the taxes were well paid during the six months. An unusual amount of delinquent taxes was collected, and the county auditor expects to to find the delinquent list less than it was at the cloee of laet year, April 1888. The following iB a comparative statement of taxes collected for the last two years, ending the first Monday in la6t month: Taxes, November settlement, 1887 $128,343 6(i Taxes, April settlement, 1888 1&U65.4S Taxes, November settlement, 1888 124.992.0U Taxes, April settlement, 188U 216,717.86

FORGERY.

Sentenced to Two Tears For Forgery—A Bungling Job.

William Bright was yesterday sentenced to a period of two years in the penitentiary and lined $50 for forgery. On Wednesday evening he was playing cards in a saloon in the west end, and at the close of the game owed the bar 40 cents. He had but 5 cents in change and paid that amount. He pawned an order for $75, bearing the signature of Mr. E. W. Curry, saying that he would return and redeem the paper. After he had gone the bartender thought that he was playing a smooth game and informed the authorities. He was arrested and said thnt he had been employed by E. W. Curry, a farmer in the north part of the county, for three months, that he had played cards with one Clark and had won $t5 from Clark that Clark did not have the money to pay and proposed to give Bright this order, which proposal he accepted. This story appears increditabie, because he said that he had been in the employ of Mr. Curry and the order purported to have been issued by Curry. Further search revealed another order for S85, purporting to have been issued by Mr. (J. W. Bement. The two orders, although bearing the signatures of different persons, were in the same handwriting. He was sent to jail and pleaded guilty to forging the orders in court yesterday morning. Upon his plea he wa'. .:-ntenced. Mr. Bement said that'rie did not know the man but had heard of him several days ago attempting to pass the order in the north part of the county. Both orders were drawn on the Prarie City bank. It is said that Bright was sent to the penitentiary from this county several years ago, also that he was once sentenced from Kentucky nnd once from Missouri.

Indiana Woman's Hoard of MIHHIOIHI-

The woman's state board of foreign missions of the Congregational Church held its annual meeting at Indianapolie, the attendance being the largest in the history of the society. Reports from all the churches were received to day, and indicated rapidly growing interest in the subject of missions. Miss Carrie Bell, an East Indian missionary, is supported entirely by the Indiana churches. Mrs. E. M. Elder, of this city, presided. The following officers were chosen: President, Mrs. K. M. Elder vice president, Mrs. N. A. Hyde secretary, Miss E. B. Warren [Terre Haute] treasurer, Miss Mary Perry. For the central association, Mrs. T. P. Sanborne, and for the northern, Mrs. John Burton, were chosen vice presidents.

A Mail Route Cliauge.

Mr. C. M. Hamill was admitted to practice law in the courts here yesterday. Mr. Ilamill has been a mail clerk for several years and has read during bis service. He was recently relieved of his position on the Van accommodation between this city and Indianapolis by Captain Bryant, his predecessor, and appointed to another route. He is in the service as yet.

Pills For tbe Depressed Democracy.

Dishon has received three barrels of pills for free distribution, and says that all Democrats will be supplied, immediately.

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George

Tlie Collett Park Music.

The Military band has been engaged to furnish the music for Collett park every Sunday during the present season.

ANew Roost For Vale Boys. NEW HAVF.N,

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Conn., May

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9.—Vale

students have at last found a place to rest their weary frames, much more comfortable than was the historic "fence." The new roost is a broad, granite Btep of the new recitation building, occupying almost the identical spot which the "fence" covered. They have been occupied for the last twenty-four hours by armies of the students, who have dedicated them by chanting the old college songs, while sitting on their flinty surfaces. The steps command the same extensive view of Chapel street promenaders that the old "fence" did, but the interior view of the Lyale campus is shut off by the new building. They will become as much of an institution at Vale as the "fence" ever waa.

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