Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 25 August 1892 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN.

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GREENFIELD INDIANA

A MINNEAPOLIS man has asked the intervention of ths law to prevent another man from making love with the plaintiffs sister. Minneapolis human nature is entirely exceptional if that sister does not manage to receive and encourage her suitor, if she wants to, courts and an officious brother to the contrary notwithstanding. Things have reached a pretty pass, indeed, if the scales of justice can be balanced in that frontier settlement as to allow a brother to determine who can receive his sister's affections. The eyes of the nation will be kept upon that case.

DR. LYMAN ABBOTT is quoted as saying that the Ten Commandments are Jewish, and not Christian ordinances, and should be removed from our churches. It has been generally supposed that they were of divine origin, but, through whatever instrumentality they were delivered, they contain the essence of good living. Their prohibitions are as applicable to the present generation, and will be to all who come after, as they •were to those for whom they were written. As a code of morals they cannot be improved, and neither the church, the State nor society can afford to abolish them.

ALL sorts of curious things aie happening all the time in Russia. A few years ago Prince Wittgenstein died, leaving behind him an estate of two million acres in Lithuania. His sister, the wife of Prince Holenlohe, was the heiress, but there is a ukase which forbids a foreign subject to bny or hold land in the nine districts of Lithuania and Little Russia. The Princess begged the Czar to allow her son to become a Russian subject, but her petition was denied, although a certain period of time was allowed her in which to sell the propertyThis has now expired, and she has been able to sell only a small part of it, and that at a terrible sacrifice. Many of the estates are farmed prof, itably by Polish Catholics whom Prince Wittgenstein consistently protected while he was alive. But no Polish Catholic is permitted to acquire land, and so none of these tenants are able to buy tfeeir holdings, however much [[they ftsay wish to do so. Of course they are manifestly the proper persons to remain in possession, but it seems more than probable that they will all be ejected by the government, which is meditating the purchase of the estates with the view of settling native orthodox Russians on them. It is estimated that the land is capable of supporting 25,000 families.

THE laborious attempts to induce the colored people of the South to emigrate in Liberia that were begun early this year have come to an end, says the New York Sun and have ended in failure. The emigration boomers held meetings in many States of the South, especially in Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. They told the colored people all about the woes they endured in this country, and all about the attractions to Liberia, and in midsummer they declared that hundreds of thousands of them were aflame with the desire to rush to the continent of their ancestors- The movement culminated in a farcical way two months ago, when as the grand result of tne agitation? sixty-eight emigrants, most of whom were preachers with their families, sailed from this port on a trim little bark for the African port of Monrovia. The tale has been told. They got to Liberia they found it to be unlike Florida or Alabama several of them raised enough money to pay their passage back to this port, and most of the others would like to be able to do the same thing. The Liberian boom in the South has collapsed: the emigration boomers do not hold any more agitation meetings the multitudes of colored people who ware said to be anxious to get away from this country must have changed their minds.

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Twenty four houses were burned at Geneva, 111., on the 19th. Loss, $175,000. President. Harrison, who Is at Loon Lake, N. Y., was fifty-nine years old, Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland are much annoyed by idle gossip concerning their every day life.

Thomas Casteel, of Lorain. Kas.. is trying to get a pension because his substitute was killed in the war.

The one topic of interest in England just now i9 the war in this country between capital and labor.

The Rev. Dr. John Vanest Talmage, brother of the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, died at Boundbrook, N. J., Saturday. I Congressman John G. Wariick, who succeeded McKinlev in the House of Representative,died in Washington on the 14th.

Homestead is becoming deserted, many of the strikers having secured work elsewhere. There is talk of removing the militia Sept. 1.

At Griffin. Ga.. five children were locked in the house by their parents. The building caught fire and the children were burned to death.

A locomotive boiler exploded near Memphis on the Iron Mountain railway. Sunday, with terrific force. The engineer and fireman were killed.

Chief Harris, of the Cherokee nat ion,has forwarded to President Harrison a formal protest against the cattlemen now grazing on the Cherokee Strip.

Rev. Father Zigrang, of Worthington, la., whose word is law there, last Sunday directed that all saloons be closed. The town will be dry Sunday.- hereafter.

The once-famous troti.'f, Jay Eve See, has been converted to the pacing gait.and his owner, J. I. Case, of Racine, Wis., promises a sensation with him before the end of the season.

The seventeen-year-old daughter of Richard llisly, of Port Jefferson, L. I., is afflicted in a peculiar way, being unable to close her eyes, which seem ready to drop from their sockets.

John A. Bostwic'.f, of the Standard Oil Company, a millionaire, during the excite nient attending a fire in his handsome summer stables at Warnaroneck, N, Y., dropped dead on the 17th.

Last January, O. K.Rogers, city clerk of Beaver. Okla., disappeared. His skeleton has been found with a bullet hole In his skull. It is believed that he was murdered and robbed of a large sum.

The Austrian wood-carving industry will be specially represented at the Chicago exhibition, by thirty-four expert wood carvers from Vienna, who will exhibit their work in its various branches.

The New York Central Labor Union wants a conference of wage workers held in that city to consider means to effect the emancipation of workingmen from "capitalistic criminalism, anarchism, oppression and robbery.

The State Department at Washington has been informed that the house of Dr. Bartlett, an American missionary at Asia Minor, has been burned and his life threat,, encd. Protection, indemnity and punishment of the guilty persons will bo demanned.

President Harrison Saturday issued a proclamation retaliating upon Canada for discriminating against American vessels passing through the Welland canal, by fixing an almost prohibitory tariff on freight on Canadian vessels passing through St. Mary's canal.

Charles Vincent, con lined in prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., for burglary, was shot and killed, and James Welsh, doing time for grand larceny, was wounded severely in the leg, whilo attempting to escape on the 22d. They were confined in the same cell, and sawed the lock and bars off during the night.

Acting Secretary Spanlding has authorized collectors of customs and other officers under the direction of the Treasury Department, to grant leave of absence to all persons under their immediate jurisdiction who served in the army or navy during the war of tho rebellion for tlio purpose of attending the Washington encampment, September 20.

Capt. Eugene Bunch, the noted train robber, while resisting arrest was killed by detectives near Franklinton, La., on the 22d.. Col. Hopeood, who was with Bunch, surrendered without firing a shot. Bunch began firing as soon as he saw the officers, but none of them were hit, being protected by a fence. Bunch's body was riddled with bullets, all the posse firing at him at once.

The funeral of one of the victims of the Coal Creek, Tenn., war was held at Knoxville, Saturday, and a relief fund has been started for the surviving families, some of whom are destitute. The bodies of fifteen miners, killed in the fight, have been re. covered, and moro are believed to be on the mountains. Only four of the soldiers and volunteers were killed.

At Wise Court House, Tenn., a most revolting outrage has been perpetrated. Recently Ira Mullens, a desperate moonshiner, with his whole family was murdered, near Pound Gap. The bodies were buried near Wise. Friday* a relative, going to the graves, found that some.one had dug a hole near them, inserted a dynamite cartridge, and blew tho bodies out of the ground. They were found scattered in all directions. There is no clew to the criminals.

A wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania & Northern railroad near LloydsviIle,Pa., Monday night resulting in tho death of two men, John Tierney and Marion Garland and the probable fatal injured of fireman Hammer. An engine was derailed on a steep grade. Tierney's foot was caught in the wreck and when the rescuers would not cut off his foot to release him he severed it himself with his pocket knife. He and Garland died Tuesday.

Peter Wright, a colored murderer, confine .1 in jail at St. Joseph, Mo., under sentence of death, died Saturday afternoon. Some days previous ho was set upon by another prisoner and beaten terribly, the effects of which it is supposed caused his death. Wright killed a man named Clark, who supplanted him In a position. Ho was twice convicted and sentenced to death and escaped ouce. but was captured at 3a!acjr, -rharo lia had married. Oe leaves

two wives. He was to have been hanged next month. A singular instance of long continued silence on the part of one able to talk is re called by the death of Mrs. Matilda Erny, at Hatfield, Pa., on tho 22d, She had not uttered a word for over eleven years. Twelve years ago she became mentally unbalanced and was taken to tho Morristown insane asylum for treatment. Soon afterward, without apparent excuse or reason, she suddenly ceased talking. Repeated attempts were made to surprise her into speech or conversation by an-' nouncing interesting news and wonderful intelligence, but no inducement could lead her to open her lips to speak a syllable, and during all these years she maintained an unbroken silence.

The number killed iu the Tennessee warfare was greater than at first reported, Fifteen dead bodies of miners have already been recovered. Bud Lindsey, a leader and an outlaw, was captnred, and Sunday the vigilantes proposed to lynch him. He pleaded so piteously, offering to turn traitor and point out every mau who was identified in the troubles as a leader. On this condition his life was spared. Over 400 of the miners have been captured, and will be charged with murder. Scouting parties of soldiers are hourly bringing in other prisoners.

Specialists of the Department of AgrL culture are much concerned over the continued spread of the disease among the peach trees known as the "yellows." Prof. Edwin F. Smith reports that the disease, which was originally confined to a small district on the Atlantic coast, has now spread so as to include the Delaware and Chesapeake region, and the peninsula Maryland. It is abundantly established that it is contagious. It has extended as far south as southern Virginia, and probably as far west as Arkansas and northeastern Texas. Peach-growers are advis ed to stamp out the disoise by tho- detruction of trees in which it appears im mediately on its first manifestation, and are warned against tho importation of trees from the infected rigions.

FOREIGN.

Parliament has adjourned until December. Four deaths occurred in Paris on the 19t,h from sunstroke.

Gladstone is worried by a threatened defection in the ranks of his party. As the result of a dispute over piecework the master tailors of London on the 22d locked out 55,000 of their employes.

Trade statistics for the seven months of 18*.»2 show that France during that time exported to tho United States goods valued at 142,733,000 francs, and imported goods valued at 463,5,2,000 francs.

Over three hundred houses atSordovoslr, Russia, burned. Twenty-five hundred people are homeless.

Orders have been given that no American hog products be placed on sale until after examination by the Prussian authorities. 2 A dispatch from the Congo State announces that a Congo Stat«» force has defeated tho Arabs on the Sankoran river, near the placo whore the Hodister expedition was massacred. [Ten chiefs £$re killed and soven hundred men were captured by the troops.

The official cholera report issued at St. Petersburg on the 22d, shows an incrose of 331 new cases and an increase of 226 deaths, as compared with Saturday's figures. Tho total number of new cases reported Sunday was 6,891 and tho deaths numbered 3,313.

Cholera continues to claim a fearfully large number of victims in Teheran. Sanitary regulations are almost unknown there, and the fatalistic tendencies of tho people make it almost impossible to combat with the disease. Eight hundred died on the 22nd. Tho city is estimated to have a populatiation of 141,033.

Considerable anxiety prevails in London religious circles because of the work that is being carried on there by tho Mormon missionaries, They have been especially active in North London, and it is said have gained quite a number of converts to their faith. A petition was recently presented to the London County Council asking it to stop the Mormon propaganda, which is carried on principally through open air meetings. The council considered the petition and finally refused to stop the outdoor meetings. A Baptist minister in tho Hornsey district, in denouncing the perversion of his flock, stated that Brigliam Young, Jr., who is an European apostle of tho Mormon church, sends five hundred converts to Utah annually. The greater part of these converts, he added, were English.

.POLITICAL.

Independents and Democrats in North Dakota are proposing to fu3e. A call for a silver convention to meet in El Paso. Texas, Dec. 5, has been issued.

The Carroll county Democracy havo instructed for the re-election of Senator Turpic.

Mr. Cleveland, Joseph Jefferson, R. H. Gilder and Win. Crane have gone to Mashpoo—fishing.

The People's Party and Democrats will unite in opposition to Funston in the second Kansas district.

Whitelaw lloid was given anon-partisan reception Saturday at Cedarville, O., the home of his aged mother,

Piatt and Quay have given assurance that they will work actively for the,,success of tho Republican ticket.

Tho Democratic split in Texas is growing worse. One convention Thursday renominatedjGovei nor Hogg and a full State ticket, and the other nominated Gonerai George Clark for Governor and a separate ticket.

General Weaver, in an interview at Denvor, Saturday, expressed great confidence in tho People's party carrying all tho Western States and a number of the South. He claims the result in November will be a great political upheaval.

It is stated that James H. Blount,chairman of the committee on foreign relations In the present House of Representatives, will not bo a member of the next House. After a service of twenty years in the body he has decided to quit Congressional life. 4

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

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Peru has a DePauw club. There is talk of establishing tin-plate works at Warren.

The trade unions of Shelby villo will observe Labor Day. Muncie reports five chickens hatched by the heat of the sun.

Charles Bell, of Shelbyville, fell off a ladder and was fatally hurt. A logrolling down hill caught and fatally crushed Daniel VVarman, of Clark county.

James Barrett, a farmer near Chesterton, Porter county, was trampled to death by a colt.

A patrolman of South Bend, while asleep on his post, was robbed of his club and gold watch.

Oliver Scotten, near Huntington, while thrashing wheat was killed by the explosion of the boiler.

An emery wheel flew to pieces at Colum. bus, and a fragment was imbedded in Charles Hanson's skull. 2 Harvey Reed, an old man, of Portland, was seized of hiccoughing two weeks ago, and has still failed of relief.

The court house at Lebanon was gutted by fire Sunday- Tho loss is placed at 510,000. The records were saved.

Miss Anna Mueller, of Muncie, dropped a lighted match in a gas stove, and it was blowii to pieces, while she was severely burned.

F. C. McCuen, of Howard county, who officiated »s a witness in securing a marriage license for a girl uuder age, has been arrested for perjury.

O. H. Deming, a contractor, of Valparaiso, is being prosecuted by an employe for violating the law providing that eight hour shall constitute a day's work.

Miss Dora, an attractive young woman, daughter of David Paddock, of Corydon, killed herself by swallowing Rough on Rats. She was disappointed in love.

In a runaway accident at Elnora, Mrs, T. P. Gephart attempted to jump and received fatal hurts. Her husband was thrown out and received a fractured rib.

The old court houso at Tipton has been sold and a new ono will be erected at a cost of $200,000 on the old site. The condemned structure was built in 1867, and at that time was thought to bo one of the finest in the State.

Duck Nesbilt, with a wagon load of intoxicants, appeared at Somerset, and opened up a bar. Somerset is a "dry" town, and after warning Nesbit without avail, there was a call to arms and he was hustled out in short order.

William A. Lynn, of Randolph county, forged his wife's name to a check for $150, and countersigned the check with his own name, and the bank honored it. Afterwards he was arrested, but it was held that he could not be prosecuted for forgery because of his own signature, and he was turned loose.

Sharp Iiagerty has discovered a twoacre bed of clay upon his farm east of Marion, from which tho silica, when subjected to the severest tests, has proven to be the finest quality of lire clay. Ono specimen lay for seventeen day3 in the pot furnace of one of the window glass houses, and was found to withstand the intense heat perfectly. A company will be organized for its development.

The radical wing of the Indiana and White River conference of tho United Brethren church, which has been in ses~ sion at Hartsville for several days, made a striking departure from tho old and established belief by the admission of women lo tho ministry. Miss Elniira Robbins and Miss Gertrude Meyer, graduates of Ilartsville College who have been engaged for some time in missionary and other religious work were formally accepted and ordained.

Joseph Snyder, a farmer, near Delphi, two weeks ago purchased a yearling colt named Grasshopper, for 475. The colt was entered in a race at Delphi, pacing a half mile in 1:41%. At Lebanon he made a half mile record of 1:20, scoring tho second quarter in 0 38. After the Lebanon race Snyder was offered $1,£0)for tho colt, which was promptly declined. Ho was then offered $10,000, provided Grasshopper made a record of 2:30 this fall. The oolt is considered a marvel by horsemen, and Is being carefully trained.

Tho Lake Erie & Western railroad took out what was said to be one of the largest excursions that ever left Indianapolis Saturday night. It was to Chicago, via Michigan City and the lake route. There were three trains, thirty-three cars iu all, including one train of chairs and sleeping cars. Tickets were sold to no more persons than could be given seats. In all 1,597 tickets were sold at Indianapolis. Two more cars were put on at Peru, to accommodate 150 more people, who got on at intermediate stations.

Twenty-three years ago Benj. lfubbs, a wharfmaster at Evansville, well known in business and Masonic circles, was supposed to have been drowned. He carried 0,030 life insurance, and the family settled for $5,030. Some years ago Evansvillains claimed to have seen Hubbs in California, but this was disputed by the family. Recently, however, a letter pur* porting to have been written by his wife, was received at Evansville, making inquiries relative to Hubbs, with a view of securing a pension, and this letter developed that Hubbs was at the head of an influential family at San Francisco.

Will Kenney, of Evansville, insanely jealous because his sweetheart, Miss Cora Dardene, attended a ball with another escort, threatened suicide in her presence* but she only laughed at him. Then he pulled out

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head and pulled the trigger, falling heavily to tho floor immediately thereafter. Friends rushed to his sido in wild dismay, but tho young lady simply stood off, screaming with laughter and shouting. "Only a bluff it never touched him.'' Finding his ruse wouldn't work, Kenney withdrew in disgust.

Patsy Sears, presumably the oldest inhabitant of the Hoosier State, died at 3 o'clock on the 17th. at the home of her son-in law, John Wolf,in Howard county. She was 108 years of age, and of English descent. She was born in Culpepper county, Va., in 1784, her maiden name being Patsy Humphrey, and Is of a family noted for longevity, her lather living to

round out a century, and her mother attaining the remarkable age of 106. In 1800 she married Fielden Humphrey,who died in 1828. Two of her children are veterans of the'Mexican war. Forty years ago she married Robert Sears, who died at the age of one hundred, while on a visit with a daughter in Illinois.

John Dishart, an inmate of the Daviesscounty asylum, claims to be the oldest living inhabitant in the Hoosier State. Ho places his age at 109. He emigrated with his parents from Germany in 1789, settled in Virginia, and he was a member of tho Lewis-Clark exploring party, which penetrated the wilds of the great northwest. He settled in Daviess county at an early date, and for many years manufactured the "Dishart" wagon, which was known far and near. When seventy-three years old he married Miss Lizzie Tranton, who was fifty-four years his junior. Their wedded life lasted but a few months, when they separated. Mr. Dishart reports tha he was never sick in his life, that his eyesight is still good, and that ho continues a good judge of tobacco and liquor. He does not show his great age in his physical appearanco, and he bids fair to live several years. 5 Some time ago. when Choulet show and menagerie passed through Crawford coun ty, a boa-constrictor of medium size escap" ed from its cage and spread consternation among the natives. As time wore away» tho incident was forgotten or looked upon as a"fake," Early Wednesday the matter was suddenly sprung afresh, near Doolittle's mills, at Eckerty when J. D« Doolittle entered his barn and saw tho monster in hay-loft. Doolitile had lost a calf and several shoats, of which he could find no clew. Their disappearance was explained by the presence of tho snake. Seeing the reptile, Mr. Doolittlo beat a hasty retreat, and after releasing his horses fron tho barn, and without attempt, ing to take out his wagon, buggy, and other properts, he applied a match and burned the structure and contents to the ground. The mow was full of new hayAfter the fire had spent its force, the ribs of tho reptile were found in the ashes, and they were nearly as large as the ribs of a two-hundred-pound hog. Mr. Doolittlo says that ho feels worse from the effect which the snake's vicious eyes had upon him than he does over the loss of his barn and contents. The eyes still haunt himThe contents of tho barn were tho principalis as the structure was an old one and was soon to be replaced. Mr Doolittle is the proprietor of a large flouring mill at Eckerty.

Both State committees are engaged in making arrangemetts for the formal open ing of the campaign, the Republican on the 3d, and the Democrats on the 10th of September. Both committees have arranged to bring prominent speakers from other Strtes into Indiana on tho opening day, and all tho best political speakers in tho State aro being assigned appointments. Candidate Stevenson will be tho greatest attraction the Democrats will have, and Major McKinley will be the Republicans' chief speaker. In a few days both committees will be ready to announce the list of appointments for the opening. The chairmen of the committees expect by the time set for opening the campaign the candidates will have submitted their lettere of acceptance to tho public, and the line of campaign will, therefore, be marked out.

THE MARKETS.

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All miotutioue forliidiauapolii wUau aot spjculjl GKAIN. Wheat,—No. 2 led, 71c No. 3 red, C5^ wagon wheat, 70c.

Corn—N o. 1 to, 51c No. 2 to, 51c white mixed, 48c No. 3 white, 48«)50c, No 2 yellow, 47^c No. 3 yellow, 47c No. 2 mixed, 4Sc No. 3 mixed, 47c: ear, 4Sc.

Oats—No. 2 white, 3f5c No. 3 white, 35c No. 2 mixed. 32c rejected, 32c. llay—Timothy, choice, £14.00 No. 1. $10.50 No. 2. $10.00 No. 1 prairie,$6.50 No 2 ?6.50 mixed hay, $7.50 clover, $d.00. 'Bran $11.00per ton.

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HOGS.

Heavy packing and shipping. $5 o@5 so Lights 5 1«85 7 Mixed 5 0 Heavy rott8tt3»t#• t» 4 0

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Butter—Choicecountry buttor, 12(tl5' common, 6(dl0c creamery, retailing from store at 25c.

skims Feabuoi* duck 20c $

Beeswax—Dark, 35c yellow, 40c (selling price) dealers pay MCgiOe. Wool—New clip fine merino, 16c coarso wool 17(818c medium, 20c black, burry, Jotts, cboffly and broken, 15@17c.

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FRUITS AXD VEGETBIES.

Cucumbers—.0c dozen, Watermelons—$l3(a}i& $ 100. Peaches—Bushel crate, 12.50 and $3,03. Tomatoes, $1 W bushel crato onions, 12Kc $ doz. radishes, 12Xc doz.

Apples—Green, $3#3.25 lb brl oue-ftiird bushel box, ire. Cabbage—Home grown, II brl.

New Potatoes, 1. .5 brl. New sweet potatoes. [email protected] brl. Egg plant, 11.50 do*.

STRIKING SWITCHMEN.

Sixth Day Closes With Increasing Complications.

Nickle Plate Switchmen Join the Striker* —Eight Thousand State Troops on the Field to Control Three

Hundred Switchmen.

BUFFALO,

Aug. 18.—The sixth day of

the switchman's strike closes with increasing complications. The leaders of this strike have witnessed the movement and massing of troops with growing determination to meet every adyance of their opponents with a counter stroke. Before to morrow shall haye dawned 8,000 troops in the State service will bo upon tho field here to watch and control about 300 strikers. The presence of so large a number of soldiers is relied upon by the railroad officials as a cover under which they-may put to work non-union men, already engaged, to break tho freight blockade. What the counter stroke of the strike leaders may bo to this situation was at nightfall, to-night, problematic, but it is not beyond the range of near possibilities that the firemen and the trainmen on all tho lines where tho strike is now prevailing may be called out.

The situation may bo broadly stated thus: The latest addition of strength to the striking switchmen was ninety men in the Nickle Plato yards who struck because they were required to handle boycotted freight. So it is now that the switchmen upon fhe entire Vanderbilft system in this vicinity are out. Tho Lake Shore men. to be sure, were working on tho western schedule at the same rates for which their colleagues in Buffalo went 011 strike last Saturday. They went out solely to add their strength to the movement of their fellows. The Nickel Plato men who went out to-day struck only out of sympathy, for they are receiving at least 10 per cent, higher rates than the men who originated the strike. The Michigan Central, which is of tho Vanderbilt system, practically has no yards in Buffalo, its switching being done OD the Central's tracks. So stands the Vanderbilt system, so far as the strike in this city is concerned.

The leaders of the striking men hold to-night that the Vanderbilt roads are tied up and inactive at this point. They urge in addition that the Erie, the Lehigh Valley and the Buffalo Creek roads are likewiso paralized by tho strike. They feel that the movement against the roads by tho mon has now reached such magnitude and completeness in this locality that it, may not bo necessary for any men in allied trades to bo called out at this point. Their ground for operations is a possible calling out of the switchmen on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Rochester & Pittsburg and tho Western, New York & Pennsylvania roads. Tho relations of these roads with the strike leaders are ex tremely amicable, and they will not bo called out except to make the strike absolutely completein this vicinity. Indeed,iti3 moro probable that the firemen and the trainmen will bo called out on lines already affected by the switchmen's strike.

The writing of this digest of tho situation at the hour of 9 o'clock is embar

rassed

by the fact that even before dawn of to-morrow tho switchmen of tho various roads affectcd here may bo called out at Suspension Bridge, Hornellsville, Jersey City, and possibly .Rochester and Albany.

The Delaware, Lackawana & Western, which has alroady conceded the demands of the men, Avent. further to-day and formally notified its employes that they would not bo asked to handle a pound of boycotted freight. The result is that the men of this road are extremely loyal to it. One of them in the yards to-day remarked that he and his colleagues would bo ready even to fight for their employers. The strikers regard the Western New York and Pennsylvania officials and the Rochester & Pittsburg officials as a "gentlemanly lot.'

Feeling so sure of this reserve ground In Buffalo the presumption is that the strikers prefer the open countenance by the roads of their cause to tho moral support that might arise frffm tho going out of tho men on these roads in response to a call. Hence, the counter strokes in future to be dealt the contesting roads must fall upon their interests at other points.

There can be no doubt to-night that before yielding this fight, the leaders will extend their strike west even to Chicago, and eastward to New York, ultimately calling out, perhaps, not only switchmen, but firemen and trainmen. Tho strikers look for wide developments in tho next three days.

The strikers claim full sympathy on tho part of the firemen, and they state that if they are called out they will quitCiheir engines wherever the order may reach them.

The railroad companies at Buffalo, un. der tho protection of the soldiery, sucseoded Sunday in breaking the blockade and moving trains. It is alleged the companies havo been discharging firemen for refusing to act as switchmen. If this is true ail engineers and firemen will bo called out and tho contcst will begin in earnest. An investigation is being had.

HAL POINTER'S GREAT MILE.

He I.owers the Pacing Record to 2:05 1-4 at Chicago. 5

The world's pacing record wont to smash at Chicago on the 19th. Old Johnstoa, who paced his mile in 2:06^, Oct. 3, i884, at the Chicago West Side driving park, has been dethroned, and Hal Pointer reigns in his stead. The game son of Tom Hall went around the Washington Park track Thursday iri 2:051^, making the fastest mile ever gone in harness. As in the caso of Nancy Hanks, who on Wednesday beat the universe as a trotter, Friday's record-brealter was hitched to a sulky with low wheels, pneumatic tires and ball bearings. Its weight was tho samo as that used by Dobie in driving Nancy Hanks— (W4 pounds.

As on Wednesday the running horse Abe Lincoln was usod as a pace-maker, but his services apparently were not needed. Hal Pointer, with Goers driving, went to tho quarter in :31%, half l:03jf£, threequarters 1:34, mile 2:08#.