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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW 4fc SON. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3,~1885.~ Telephone Calls. Business Office “38 | Editorial R00m5......242 REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. Election: Tuesday, October 13, 1885. Fob Mayor-CALEB S. DENNY. Fob CIerk— GEORGE T. BREUNIG. The Platform. The Republicans of Indianapods accept the issue made in the platform and nominations of the Democratic city convention, and in the pending canvass and approaching election invite the co-operation and support, not only of the members of their own party, but of all citizens, of whatever political affiliations, who favor— First—The enforcement of law in the interest of public order and for the preservation of private rights. Sceond—The strictest economy in the administration of the affairs of the city government within the revenue ■sued from the present rate of taxation, and of the xefnnding of the existing city debt at a lower rate of Interest. Third—The levy of a tax of SIOO per year upon mch saloon in the city, the proceeds whereof shall be placed in the general fund of the city treasury. Fourth—The overthrow of the arrogant domination ■of the Liquor League in the politics of the city and rftate. Fifth—A rebuke to the Democratic officers of State who have prostituted the metropolitan police system to the basest partisan ends, whereby the city's good name has been scandalized, its peace and goo 1 order imperiled, and the efforts of honorable public officers to vindicate th<? law paralyzed. *‘l want to lay, in the first place, that I plant myself squarely, ilat-footed, with both feet upon the platform you have adopted. ’ —Mb. Denny’s Acceptance Speech. There is a man of many aliases traveling •boat in the southern portion of the State representing that he is authorized to take subscriptions for the Weekly Indiana State Journal. He is a fraud. We have no traveling agents for our weekly paper, and people are cautioned not to pay money for the paper to any persons representing themselves as such. THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Sunday Journal for to-morrow, the 4th instant, will contain the second installment of Mr. Wilkie Collins’s weird story “A Ghost’s Touch.” The second and concluding part of the etory of Asiric Sterne, by H. F. Keenan, will •Iso he printed. Mr. Joseph Hatton will have a tetter discussing political and literary matters In England. Mr. Croffut will have his regular greekly New York letter; a sermon by Rev. Myreon W. Reed will be printed, and there will be •ther special articles, both sketches and correspondence, by well-known writers. In addition io these, all the regular and special features of •or Sunday Journal will appear. For an off year, Republicanism seems to be in prime condition in Ohio and New York. The Washington Post officially announces ihat “the President is a Democrat.” A great many didn't know what he was. Judge Hoadly’s challenge of Senator Sherman for a joint debate was a very small effort Ao give some little show of dignity to his ejleged canvass for the governorship. The Atlanta Constitution crushingly alludes to the Twain-Cable combination as a one-man show. It only took half the combination, however, to get away with Editor Grady. The political duplicity of Vice-president Hendricks is well shown in his relations to the case of Dr. Matthews. Read what the Doctor has to say of the great American trimmer. Judge Ward, the Virginia editor who was shot iu nine places by a political adversary, is likely to recover. The Virginia editor who •annot find business in Europe in campaign %imes has need of nino lives. Mr. Jones, who takes the place of the lamented Flower as Democratic candidate for the lieutenant-governorship of New York, laving been asked to give his opinion of the "ticket, pronounces it one of the strongest that that could have been chosen. Evidently Jones's other name is not modesty. The portraits of Captain Bacon, the late weigher in the New York Custom-house, and Ilia successor, Mr. Sterling, which appear in Harper’s Weekly of this week, speak for themselves. They should be framed and preserved as party types. It will not be necessary to label them to show observers which is Republican and which Democrat. The Journal is in receipt of resolutions passed by several Grand Army posts and soldiers’ reunions favoring the appointment of General Manson as pension agent, if a change is to be made in that office. We cannot print them. Let it be taken for granted that all ex•oldiera are in favor of General Manson if General Knefler is not to be reappointed. The Brooklyn Union complains of the cold welcome extended to the returning mugwumps *>y the straight Republican papers, or, as the Union terras them, the Blaine organs. It is • pity for the mugwumps to be disappointed In their expectations of fatted calf with brass t>and accompaniments, but the fact of the matter is, that the faithful, hardworking members of the party mean to feast upon the weal themselves this year. Does tho Sentinel really think it can force *ny of the business men of Indianapolis to Note for Mr. Cottrell by an attempt to “boycott” them if they favor the reign of law and order in this cityT We have no such mean opinion of a single one of our merchants or business men. If there be one, of any kind, Who can be intimidated into supporting the pandidate and principles of Sim Coy and Sam

Dinnin by this threat, by all means let him crawl on his belly before these would be dictators. It seems like living over again the times immediately preceding the war to read the Cincinnati Enquirer of this campaign. Then there was no argument so much used as that, if the Republicans should succeed by the aid of Cincinnati, the trade of the South would be at once withdrawn. Very few of the manufacturers and merchants of Cincinnati were frightened, but the arrogance and self-conse-quence of the slaveholders were intensified, and the animus which ultimated in the war was strengthened. To-day the stock argument of this same Enquirer is, that if Ohio goes Republican, this same South will again withdraw business from Cincinnati. This compliments the business men of Cincinnati by advertising that they have principles for sale as well as goods, and writes the. business men of the South fools, if any there be who prefer to buy goods of men who first offer their principles for sale. Yet this method is not wholly harmless. It tends, on the one hand, to weaken the public political conscience, and to educate men to believe that the welfare of the country is secondary to success in private affairs, and, on the other, to educate a class of lordlings, who are made to believe that their word is law, and that eveiy interest must bow to their behests. By the way, this is the exact condition of affairs in this city. Business men have so long catered to tho whims of the saloon interest that now, when it is proposed to hold it only to the restraints that it proposed itself ten years ago, there is a rebellion, and it seizes the machinery of the Democratic party to annul its own law. There was a universal chuckle when the law of 1875 made the closing hour 11 o’clock, instead of 9, and restricted towns and cities to a tax of SIOO, instead of leaving it possible to make it SI,OOO. But our leniency in not charging anything for many years, and then in charging only $52, when the traffic itself had consented that we might charge SIOO, has made it so arrogant that it now demands a repeal of even these $52, and an open-all-night-and-every-day-of-the-week law. It may succeed in electing a Council that will take off the $52 tax, and a mayor that will make the midnight and Sunday restrictions a farce, even if the metropolitan police should interfere. If it does, its next step will be a Legislature that will remove these onerous restrictions and make saloons as free in law as they now are in fact. And this is now the issue—the only issue before the people of Indianapolis. In only a little more than one week we shall know whether the saloons own the city, or whether the people are capable of bringing them under some kind of regulation. Tite last Harper’s Weekly contains two interesting pictures, one of Mr. George B. Bacon and one of George H. Sterling. Bacon served in the Union armies during the war, and since, for many years, has been employed as head weigher in the New York customhouse. It is an important position, and Mr. Bacon has distinguished himself in the performance of the duties of his office. He was summarily removed, recentlj', and the fellow named Sterling appointed in his place. Sterling is a notorious Brooklyn saloon-keeper. His place is an eye sore in that city. But he is a Democratic ward-worker and bummer of high degree. His appointment was a flagrant outrage „ upon common decency. The pictures of the two, side by side, tell the story quite hs graphically as words could do it. They make a perfect study in phrenology. They are types of their respective parties. The great Democratic party is dominated by the Sterling class. The Democratic loaves and fishes are greedily grabbed by the genus Sterling, to the exclusion of. the better element of that party. Harper’s Weekly never published a political cartoon more forcible or suggestive than these two portraits side by side. Look on this picture, then on this. Hyperion to a satyr. Bacon looks the man and officer he is, and Sterling like the thug he is. The impositions practiced on the President by his party advisers, in the recommendation of the Sterlings and Higginses et al., entitle him to the sympathy of mankind. We have to suggest that the precaution now taken by his Postmaster-gen-eral, in requiring Democratic office-seekers to answer whether they have ever been indicted, might be supplemented by requiring them to file their photographs. While this would result in many rejections, the pictures might be utilized for police purposes. “What has the Kitz affair to do with the coming city electiont” is in eveiy Democrat's mouth. “Just nothing at all,” the Journal replies. Mr. Kitz was elected on a reform ticket to reform township affairs, all of which he has done to the entire satisfaction of those who voted for him. It is impossible to find anything like it in the history of Center township, except the the trusteeship of that other Democratic reformer, Doherty, a few years ago. It is nothing new under the sun for Democratic reformers to reform just this way. That Mr. Kitz went from the saloon business into the trustee business cuts no figure at all in the case. He is a reformer, you know, and that is just what Mr. Cottrell is, if he is anything. Indeed, Mr. Cottrell w r ould never have left the Republican party but that it had become so corrupt that it could not afford an extra postoffice or some other fat place for all its “workers,” of which be was one of the chief while a reasonable hope of a good office remained. The truth is, however, that the Democratic party Las been just About as mean And ungrateful toward him

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as the Republican party was, for it has persistently refused to pay him for bis flop. He tried it first on Congress, but the people “could not see it,” and now, in his declining years, he tries for mayor. This time he has an extra string to his bow —yes, two of them. He runs not only as an old-time, dyed-in-the-wool, Jeffersonian Democrat—the which he is—hut as the champion of the Liquor League, law-enforcing and order-loving party. And then he is a reformer, besides. No, the Kitz affair has nothing to do with the Cottrell affair, except that there is a sort o’ family resemblance that will make men talk when they hadn’t or’ to. The investigation of the charges brought against Dr. Wishard, superintendent of the City Hospital, should be made as thorough and fair as possible. He enjoys a fine reputation in the city, both as a physician and as a man, but that should not work to shield him from a strict accounting of his stewardship. His principal accuser, Dr. Ridpath, is a young man but fairly entering upon the practice of medicine. He enjoys, so far as anything to tho contrary has been intimated or charged as yet, an excellent reputation. It may be that inexperience has led him into unwarranted opposition to his superior. This is a matter to be determined by the investigation. Dr. Ridpath should not be regarded a public enemy because-of the attitude he has assumed respecting the hospital management. Our charitable institutions must be kept open to tho completest inspection, and no effort should be made by anybody to prevent a showing on any point of importance in connection with their management. The Council committee have a delicate and important duty to discharge, and should be well sustained in every effort to get at the exact facts. Mr. Albright, an obscure but useful Democratic “worker” of New York, was not long ago given a place as skilled laborer in the Treasury Department, an appointment which did not require the preliminary of a civil-serv-ice examination. From this humble position he has just been promoted to be chief of a division, an advancement that the New York Evening Post, which still maintains that this is a “reform” administration, not unjustly designates as “curious.” Mr. Ira Davenport’s statement that he voted for Blane, and not for Cleveland, will not check the ardor of the mugwumps nor prevent them from following after him. Their anxiety to get back will cause them to forgive even more partisan acts than this. The picture of General Jones, second choice for the second place on the New York Democratic ticket, has what novelists would describe as a lovely droopine military mustache. It droops about ten inches on each side of bis American nose, and is evidently a cherished ornament. Mr. Jones, nominated to the on the New York Democratic ticket, is a manufacturer of scales. When he comes to weigh tho Democratic majority in his balance, next month, it will be found wanting. The record of the Democratic party in favor of a genuine civil-service reform is not of yesterday.—Philadelphia Record. No, indeed. It is a thing of day after to-mor-row. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Brother Loyson, formerly Father Hyaeinthe, declares that war cannot be dispensed with, and that “those who advocate its abolition are dangerous, almost criminal Utopians. ” Mr. George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, has had in his possession for some time the harp used by the Irish poet Thomas Moore, who resided for some time in Philadelphia, in a house which is still pointed out as “Moore’s cottage." The harp came into Mr. Childs’s possession by bequest. “The divorce between Mme. and M. Nicolas (Nicolini) has been legally pronounced,” says tho London World, “ind nothing now stands in the way of the groat tenor’s union with the most celebrated soprano of the day except the time prescribed by law, ten months after her divorce, which will expire in May next.” Mrs. E. G. White, the prophetess, on whose published visions, seen in a trance, the Seventh day Advent Church is founded, in her old age has gone to England. She is said to be a woman of stern Christian principles and much ability; and none of her obedient disciples believes in her revelations more firmly than she does herself. The real name of the Russian writer who calls himself Stepniac is Michael Dragomanoff. He was born in 1841. Shortly after he had completed his studies at the University of Kiev, hefwas appointed to the chair of ancient history. Some criticisms on the minister of instruction caused his resignation a few months later on. Mr. FUank Siddalls, of Philadelphia, the champion advertiser of America, says that he is flooded with offers of all the fast horses in the country, excepting Vanderbilt’s and Bonner's, and that architects besiege him to build stables ranging from $5,000 to $50,000, when he now has all the fast horses and all the stable room be wants. Ex-Governor English, of New Haven, supplements his gift of SIO,OOO to the city to build a drive that would start on the east side of East Rock and run around Indian Head to the Orange-street side, completing the system of park roads begun by the Farnsm drive, by another of $4,000 to bridge a deep gully between East and Snake rocks. In the possession of General Badeau is an old and worn memorandum book, tied around with a bit of string. Valueless as it looks, one of the most important documents connected with American history is written in pencil across one of its pages. It is the original of General Grant’s dispatch to Secretary Stanton, announcing the surrender of General Lee’s army at Appomattox. Andrew J. Fleming, of St. Louis, has in his possession a slip of paper bearing an autograph written by Alexander H. Stephens. The writing is with a pencil, and the souvenir contains the following words: “Revenge reversed—that is, to rise superior to the neglect and contumely of mankind by trying to do them good instead of harm. A determination to waxeven against fate; to meet the world in all its forces; to master evil with good and to leave no foe standing in mv rear.” Parisian journals rejoice at the death cf Mimi Lepreux, who had the reputation of being the most skillful pickpocket of France, although he was scarcely ever convicted. M. Gisquet, chief of the Paris criminal police, said of him that he employed quite an army of underlings, whose movements he directed like a general. He described him as very oh&ritable toward the poor and very generous toward beginners in his “profession.” With true Parisian pathos, Jjepreux is spoken of by the journals as a “handsome man of elegant manners and many accomplishments.” He leaves a wife, “young and beautiful, the daughter

of an English ‘colleague, ’” in easy circumstances, for Lepreux was, above-all, a good husband and father, and settled on his widow an income of 4,000 francs. His two children arc “paragons of beauty." A LONDON private letter says that Mrs. Langtry has certainly made up her mind, since the LonsdaleChetwynd fisticuff, to make America her permanent home. She owns a house in Fifteenth steet, and will probably occupy it. As an evidence of her intent, she speaks in most eulogistic terms of the noble people of the mighty Republic, who are so generous and chivalrous to women. The determined effort of the Prince of Wales, the con e#pc ndent adds, to keep her from Coventry, has completely failed. Mr. Langtry will, of course, remain in Europe. She feels sure she can make a great deal more money here than in England, and she admits that she has an ardent love for Yankee dollars. It was Governor Austin Blair, of Michigan, who first commissioned Sheridan as colonel of a cavalry regiment. The little captain was serving in May, 1802, as chief quartermaster on General Halleck's staff in the army before Corinth, and was ordered to Michigan for the purpose of buying horses. Governor Blair saw and admired the active, brainy soldier, and appointed him Colonel of the Third Regiment of cavalry of that State. The commission was accepted. In less than six weeks, Colonel Sheridan’s command being in northern Mississippi, General Halleck placed the young colonel at the head of all the cavalry in his army, and sent him on a raid to break up the Mobile & Ohio railroad. This was the first organized cavalry raid of the civil war, and demonstrated the great utility of that arm of the service, when and were armies were opei’ating over such vast areas as was then the case. Sheridan was made a brigadier at the termination of that campaign. COMMENT AND OPINION. Nearly all the labor outrages in this country have been perpetrated by foreigners.—Central Advocate. The government has no more interest in silver mines than it has in lead mines or coal mines. —New Y T ork Graphic. There i3 a time fur all things; and, with the independents, this is a time for modesty.—New York Commercial Advertiser. The way of the Democrats with civil-service reform is as the way of a dude leading a Siberian bloodhound.—New York Times. It will interest many who have wrestled with the new word “sheol" to learn that Mr. Beecher pronounces it exactly like “shoal."—Atlanta Constitution. The independents had got into false relations, and they have seized the first opportunity to extricate themselves from au awkward situation. —Philadelphia Press. Whatever the system employed, it is essential to good government that the best citizens devote their attention to public interests. —New York Mail and Express. If the party elsewhere follow the example of the Democrats in this State, before Mr. Cleveland’s term is ended he will be a President without a party. —Brooklyn Union. Between the Chinese and the white men in Wyoming it is not hard to say which are the heathens, but it is exceedingly hard to tell which are the Christians. —Philadelphia Inquirer. The nomination of Governor David B. Hill as the Democratic candidate, while not unexpected, is none the less regretted by the honest friends of reform throughout the State. —Frank Leslie’s Weekly. The temperance idea of a lunch for fifteen cents is a glass of sour milk and water, ar.d a hardware sandwich. This does not seduce the stomach, and the liquor man wins.—New Orleans Picayune. The Indian question will never be fully settled until the Indians and the whites are held responsible in alike manner and degree for tlieir depredations upon each other.—Denver TribuneRepublican. There is only one real compromise possible on the silver question. It is the suspension of the coinaee of silver dollars, conditional on an international agreement for the coinago of silver. —Boston Advertiser. Os all the platform literature put forth this year that adopted by the Republican State convention in Massachusetts is about the best. It is terse, vigorous and covers the entire ground. —Pittsburg Chronicle. While the managers of trunk lines of railroad are universally censured for the “ruinous competition,” not one word of gratitude toward railroads which do business for nothing has yet been spoken.—Boston Transcript. Confident in the intelligence and honesty of our own laboring population, we know that'the best safeguard against Socialism or Communism is to let the people hear from the lips of the agitators just what Socialism and Communism means. —New York World. Dr. Talmage says “a cup of coffee and an egg is no kind of equipment for a day’s work —I take three good meals and I eat more on Sunday than on any other day of the week.’’ But if he had to do brain work he would find it wouldn’t do. —Milwaukee Sentinel. If we have inadvertently said anything in these columns to hurt the feelings of the New York mugwumps, we beg leave to withdraw it —at least until after the coming election—inasmuch as they propose to vote the Republican ticket this year.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. General Butler’s opinion of the laboring men that they “are not intelligent’’ and that “nine out of ten of them will sell their votes for $2 apiece,” must be flattering and soothing to those who have voted for him in the past as the “workingman’s friend.”—Boston Herald. If a fourth-clas3 postmaster is justly removed for offensive partisanship, no man who has proved himself to be an offensive partisan in a much more influential office should be confirmed in that office by the consent of senators who honestly desire reform.—Harper's Weekly. We do not believe Mr. Hill can be elected. His nomination is the effort of reactionaries, Bourbons, the opponents of progress nnd reform in the Democratic, party, to regain the control which they lost through the nomination and election of Mr. Cleveland.—New York Herald. Tho mere procuring of faithful servants can never be the chief end of government. Something more enters into the judgment of a political party's claims to power. It is responsible for legislation as well as administration, and must meet and solve grave questions of policy.—New York Star. The modern world is working upon an impossible theory of freedom in trade. It virtually says: “Wolves are the great modern benefactors: they must have lambs to eat; lambs wore made to be eaten.” A Christiau theory of trade must take the place of this heathen doctrine of lambs. —Northwestern Christian Advocate. It is true that independence has not permeated the Democratic to the extent that it has the Republican ranks, but there is a vote absolutely beyond tho influence of party tradition large enough to turn the scale of a close election, and that., like the votes of both Democratic and Republican mugwumps, will be substantially unanimous against Hill.—Brooklyn Union. Now the British policy in reference to this country is to induce us to reduce our tariff to a low figure, and then to fill the country with her products at lower prices than our manufacturers can afford to do and pay decent wages. When the Morrison tariff bill was under discussion a leading English paper said that its passage would be worth $500,000,000 a year to Great Britain.— Boston Journal. A Tale of Two .Columns. Washington Post (second editori.il column!. Mr. Cleveland is simply fulfilling his promises to the country and realizing his own enlightened philosophy of government when he serves notice that neither by word nor deed, by direction nor indirection, shall the influence of the administration be applied to the political affairs of the States. Washington Post (third editorial column). The Republican lie that the President is not favorable to the election of Governor Hill iuNew York is early and effectually squelched. A Sad Historical Reflection. Atlanta Constitution. “What Prohibitionists want,” is the title of an editorial in a valued exchange. They want the earth, but some of them will compromise on a quart of pale ale, and a small slice of toast behind the bushes at a camp-meeting.

A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. The Mud-Drum of a Battery of Boilers Explodes with Terrible Effect. Three Men Fatally Scalded and Fourteen Men and Boys Fatally Injnred—The Grief of Wives and Children. Pittsburg, Pa., Oct 2.—Shortly after 3 o’clock this morning a battery of boilers at the Solar iron works, of Clarke & Cos., on Thirtysixth street, exploded with disastrous effect. The night turn had just been relieved by the day force, when a loud explosion startled the workmen, and that portion of the works in the vicinity of the boilers was filled with a cloud of death-dealing steam. Through the dense mist came shrieks and groans, which notified tho employes bsyond harm's reach that a calamity had overtaken a portion of their fellowworkmen. As soon as the steum settled down, a rush was made for the spo* where the explosion occurred, when it was ascertained that the mud-drum of the boiler had exploded, aud that the escaping steam had scalded seventeen men. Closer investigation showed that of this number fourteen were badly burned, and three fatally scalded. The names of the injured are: Frank Martin, badly scalded about the face and arms; will not live. James Cattoe, fatally scalded; the top of his head was almost severed by a piece of flying iron. Frank Murray, boy, terribly burned; injuries fatal. ’ Thomas Stein, a boy, badly scalded; Win. Daniels, a boy, scalded and injured by flying debris; David Richards, a boy, scalded and an arm broken; William Orth, roller, badly scalded; Frank Good, a boy, badly cut on the head; Patrick Henderson, shearsman, seriously scalded and injured by flying debris; David Smith, shearsman, badly scalded; Joseph Getz, a boy, scalded, but not seriously; William Simpson, a boy, scalded and injured by debris; Chas. Haywood, a puddler, seriously hurt by flying debris; Joseph Steiner, assistant engineer, badly bruised and slightly cut; Joseph Neff, a boy. badly scalded; Frank Neff, a boy,badly scalded; Bart Henderson, a gauger, terribly burned, and probably will not recover. Scarcely had the hills beetling along the Allegheny ceased to reverberate the tones of the explosion when frenzied, frightened wives, mothers and children began to rush upon the scene and peer anxiously into the faces of the gasping, dying men. seeking to identify their loved ones, or inquire in agonized tones if they had escaped. Women half dressed, others putting on their clothes as they ran, children almost nude and screaming at the top of their voices, crowded and jostled each other in the mad rush for the mill. Arriving there, there was stillness for a moment, then a woman’s wail was heard, and another and another, till there was nothing but a discordant chorus of feminine shrieks, and moans and cries of anguish. The cries and groans of the parboiled men would occasionally rise above the shrieks of the women. It was an awful scene, and the physicians who arrived said they were almost un nerved at the sight, and in the presence of so much human suffering, physical ar.d mental. The injured were found lying in all positions. Some of them were so far away from the battery that it seemed impossible that they could have been injured by the explosion. The large number of boys hurt is accounted for by the fact that they were employed to handle the hoopiron, which was rolled in the mills nearest the boilers. It was fully twenty minutes after the explosion before the boy Frank Murray was taken out from under the truck where he was thrown. In addition to being scalded, he was terribly crushed by the weight of iron piled on top of him. James Cattoe and Frank Martin suffered most from the escaping steam, but no hopes are entertained for the recovery of either of the three named. The others are expected to recovef, but the majority will carry marks to remind them of their experience as long as they live. Those most seriously injured were taken to the West Pennsylvania Hospital, while the others were removed to their homes. The interior of the finishing mill presented a terrible sight of desolation after the accident. Thines were badly wrecked. The boilers, six in number, form a battery, which sits in the extreme southwest corner of the mill. The muudrum runs lengthwise under all six boilers. It was the end of this which blew out. With such fearful force did it explode ns to scatter destruction on all sides. All the boilers were unseated, and two of them tilted back on their ends. In the rear the whole wall of masonry was moved outward. Avery remarkable feature was the jamming of the mud-drum’s head against one of the engines. This engine was sitting a few yards north of the boilers. The burst iron was blown directly against tho cylinder-head of the engine, smashing it to pieces and blowing the whole h*ad inwards. From this steam rushed out with a loud, hissing sound. Large stacks of hoop-iron were blown all over the mill, machines were upset, rolls rolled all over the floor, and in one instance a wheelbarrow was trundled through a door. The iron machines and benches were all thrown together in inextricable masses of debris, under which several of the men were buried. Mr. Powers, the chief engineer of the mill, says the boilers and mud-drum were inspected by the Hartford Boiler Insurance Company two months ago, and were then pronounced safe. He was certain they were all right when he left last evening, and couid only account for the explosion on the ground that the iron in the mud drum was too weak to stand the pressure to which it was subjected. Twice before have accidents of this nature occurred in this mill. The first occurred five years ago, and was unproductive of death. The second occurred only eighteen months ago, and although several men were scalded, no one was iat ally hurt. On the last occasion, two men were arrested for tampering with the boilers, but were not convicted, because of lack of proof of the crime. Two of the victims, Thomas Cattoe and John Murray, died at the West Pennsylvania Hospital, this morning. Three or four others are not expected to recover. The explosion was caused by the mud eating through the coating of the mud-drum. Pieces of the drum picked up were not more than a thirty second part of an inch in thickness. Later. —No more deaths have resulted from the boiler explosion at the Solar iron works |this morning. Five of the victims, however, are pronounced fatally injured by the attending physicians and their deaths are hourly expected. Their names are Ghas. Heywood, Jos. Getze, Patrick Henderson. Thos. Stein and Wm. Daniels. The others are resting easily and will, no doubt, recover. The coroner adjourned his investigation until to-morrow. Senator Hoar’s Respects to the President. From Speech at Springfield Convention. I would speak with all personal kindness of the President. I like some things his administration has done, especially its firmness and courage in protecting the rights of the Indians. I think the remainder of the Ponca9 will dwell in their homes in safety during his administration. In the name of the whole manhood of the country, I would call upon the Executive to sup press and punish with strongest hand the outrages committed and threatened against inoffensive Chinese, and assure him that in guch case he will have the fullest support of the people of Massachusetts, without distinction of party. In my judgment, the fair and honest criticism, even the fair and honest opposition to the President of his Republican antagonists, is infinitely more respectful to him than the style adopted by his supporters. The whole tone of these latter is: “Oh, he has made some mistakes. He means well. He is doing very well, considering. It is his bad party or his bad advisers that deceive him.” Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part; Curtis engages lus assent. But Manning \vio9 his heart-. I think Republican criticism is better than independent praise. Our friends seem to think that a Democratic President of the United States is to be judged as a civil-service reformer,

as the cynicism of Dr. Johnson judged of a woman’s preaching; “Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well. But you are surprised to find it done at all.” HENDRICKS’S DOUBLE-DEALING. His Left-Handed Support of Dr. Matthews —A Slur at McDonald. Louisville Special. Dr. J. M. Blatthews. of this city, who was an applicant to succeed Dr. Hamilton as United States Surgeon-general, makes some statements, in an interview published this afternoon, which show that the war between Vice-president Hendricks and ex-Senator McDonald is cot over. Matthews supposed that Hendricks was warmly supporting him for the surgeon-generalship, but a day or two ago Hendricks, in an interview, said he knew nothing of Matthews, and bad never met him. Dr. Matthews is one of the most distinsuished surgeons in Kentucky, and he asserts that Vice president Hendricks did indorse him and promise him every assistance that- he could render. He relates this significant incident of his relations with Hendricks: “Recently a distinguished United States senator, whose name I have not permission to use, approached me, and in a conversation on the subject, said: *Dr. Matthews, it is my impression that Mr. Hendricks is playing you foul in this matter.’ I refused to believe so. Later Mr. Hendricks wrote a friend of mine, saving he was afraid I was going to have serious opposition. I was advised to consult with him, and at once went to Indianapolis for that purpose. He said to me: ‘While lately in Washington I discovered that you have opposition for the office in the person of Mr. English’s son-in-law. I told the party who informed me that I did not believe this, as I knew Mr. Walling as a druggist in Indianapolis, and did not believe him a candidate. 1 was assured by authority that ha is opposing you.’ I replied that I knew Dr. Walling well, and that he was an old friend of mine. TTie V ice-president asked: ’Can you ascertain, while in the city, if he is a candidate?’ I did as requested. When I sent up my card Mr. Hendricks answered my call immediately, asking, as he entered, ‘Have you learned anything?’ ‘Yes,’ I replied. *l)r. Walling is a candidate. Senator McDonald has been at Washington and presented his claims to the President, and was followed by Mr. English.* ‘I can explain this matter,’ answered the Vicepresident. This man McDonald wants to be United States senator, and he is courting tho favor of Mr. Enclish for the sake of his money. He (Mr. English) was kept out of the Cabinet, aud the President feels like eranting any request from him that is reasonable. From this fact I regard the candidacy of Dr. Walling as formidable, and would advise you to get as many of the Kentucky delegation as possible to go to Washington with you at one© and see the President.’ ” Dr. Matthews produces documents to provo that Hendricks backed him, and he leaves Headricks the worst of the controversy. PLAIN TALK FROM A CLERGYMAN. A Well-Known Methodist Minister Denounces Modern Church Services. Boston Special. The Rev. Dr. Mark Trafton, the venerable and widely-known Methodist clergyman, made a sensation at tho weekly conference of Methodist ministers to-duy by denouncing the modern church service, and by defending the non-church-going masses. “I confess,’’ he said, “I don’t like to go to church. I’m sorry to say it When I was a boy 1 was glad when they said. ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.' I enjoyed the preaching, the singing and the praying.” A Voice—You were pious in those days. “Yea. Well, it’s no wonder I’ve backslidden with such associates. [Laughter.] Let me st art out, now, to go to church and worship God. At home we have had our private devotion. We come to the church door—l’m saying what took place exactly—and we see plenty of seats vacant We ask one of the young snippersnappers, with a rosette in his buttonhole, for a seat. He says, ‘You wait awhile and I'll see.' By and by, when the bell stops tolling, the man says, ‘You can find a seat in the gallery.’ ” A Voice—What church was that? “A Christian church. In the gallery yon see four young people talking and laughing. Suddenly the organ starts, and then as suddenly the four grow solemn, jump up, and begin to squall. You can’t understand a word they say. They sing a hymn you never heard before and never want to hear again. You can’t sing with them. Call that singing God’s praise? It’s not only folly, but it’s blasphemy. You’ve no business to introduce such trash as that, and call it devotion. Then the prayer. In the old times the minister used to pray, to supplicate, to implore, just as if he expected something would come, and something did come. Now, this brother who prayed delivered a homily, .an address to the people, a strained effolt. It wasn’t praying. 1 confess it didn't touch me at all. 1 kept saying to myself: ‘Oh, nonsensel’ ‘Fiddlesticks! 1 I say this ought not to be. We ought not to go away disgusted.” There was much more in the same strain, and ftien the ministers decided to consider tho subject at length two weeks hence. John 8. Delano on tho Ohio Campaign. New York Mail and Express. Mr. Delano said to a Mail and Express reporter that he thought Foraker's raajorily would be between ten and fifteen thousand. “The campaign is waxing waim,” he continued. “Every time Hoadly makes a speech he loses many votes. Naturally Ohio is a Republican State. The reason it has gone Democratic is owing altogether to side issues. The Republicans are the intelligent voters. These side issues have carried a good many of them, and thereby lost the State. The Democrats, on the other hand, stick together. They do not care for side issues.” ‘‘How about the Prohibition vote?” “It will not hurt the Republicans as much as the Democrats suppose. This is an off year, but the vote will be large enough to carry " the Republicans through. We are not bothered with civil service reform notions out West. The people think that each party should be responsible for its own government and have its own men in office. It will be some time yet before civilservice reform becomes anything like an issue with us. 1 refer to both parties.” The President Very Mad at the Mugwumps. Brooklyn Eagle. There is the very highest authority for saying that President Cleveland aud his Oahinot earnestly desire and confidently expect the election of the Democratic State ticket, which they regard as a body of names of exceptional strength and mei it. There is also the very highest authority for SHying that the President and his associates resent in the most absolute manner the statements of the mugwump press that the friends of the administration should or can show their friendship for it by supporting the Davenport ticket and opposing the Hill ticket. The administration considers the statements of the mugwump press to that effect as the height of sophistry and impudence, and will take unmistakable occasion and method to show that it thinks so. Doesn’t Appreciate Reform. Minneapolis Tribune. The New York Evening Post says that the way to support President Cleveland is to vote for Davenport. This is the mugwump idea. Wish your friend long life and then rip his bowels open. Only One. Milwaukee Sentinel. After scratching his head a while, the Madison Democrat is able to make out this list of nonpartisan appointments: Mrs. Mulligan. Why Jones Is a Good Candidate. Boston Transcript. It will not hurt Jones to be beaten as a candidate for Lieutenant governor so much as it would either of the gentlemen who declined tho nomination. A Reasonable Suspicion* New York Commercial Advertiser. It is thought that B. F. Butler is about to enter upon another political farewell campaign, What character he will take is not known. Whose Collar Does the Times Wear? Philadelphia Times (Dun ) There's going to be a chance In the politics of this country by and by for the man who wou’fc wear another man’s collar.