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seven who had been given places in that office since he became Commissioner, are emphasized by the disclosure that of these seventy-two Democrats eight were townsmen of General Black, and gave their residence as Danville, 111. Before the pension committee has finished with the General they will probably inquire into the character and fitness of some of the Democrats General Black has fonnd places for. The committee is informed of one case that is quite interesting. Last November a man by the name of came here from Kentucky, and Senator Blackburn and some of the Kentucky members of the House made a very active effort to secure him an appointment to most anything that would give him a living. After several weeks of delay and disappointment Black finally turned out an old soldier who had occupied a place as chief of the division for some years and appointed to the vacancy. His appointment was made out and sent to his boardinghouse in the city, with a request that he should come to the office, report to the Commissioner and take the oath of office. The messenger who carried the letter was told at the boardinghouse that Mr. had not been seen for several days; that his truuks and clothing were still there and his board bill remained unpaid, bat that he had mysteriously disappeared. After waiting several days for him to turn up. another messenger was sent to the House for Mr. , to say that his services were desired immediately, and that Commissioner Black wanted him to report forthwith for duty. This messenger received the same answer as the first, and was told that Mr. had not made his appearance, and that they did not know where he was. His friends who had solicited the appointment for him were notified, and a search was commenced. With the aid of the police it was discovered thai Mr. , instead of occupying the desk of a chief of division at the Pension Office, had for some two or three weeks been boarding at the expense of the government at the work-house of the District of Columbia. His friends went down to the Bridewell to look after him, and found that he had been seut there under a sentence of sixty days' imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly. His pardon was very soon procured; he was placed in charge of J. S. Johnson, a clerk in the Surgeon-general's office, who came from the same district, and, after some medical treatment, was fixed up and sent back home to Kentucky, his appointment being canceled by the Secretary of the Interior. THE WOOL TARIFF. President Harpster, of Ohio, Looking After the Interest of the Sheep-Growers. Washington Special to Cleveland Leader. David Harpster, president of the Ohio Woolgrowers’ Association, has arrived here for the purpose of canvassing the members of the House in the hope that enough will be secured to vote against the proposition of the ways and means committee to put wool upon the free list. To your correspondent Mr. Harpster said that he was convinced that the committee intended to do that thing, and if they did, and the bill should pass Congress, it would be the deathknell of the sheep and wool industry of the country. The wool-growers had been hopeful, he said, that Congress would restore the old tariff on wool, but instead of that they are met with a proposition to utterly wipe out the duty on the article. The annual product, he said, was 300,000,000 pounds, at an average cost in the bands of the farmer of 25 cents a pound. All that would be *wiped out were such a bill as Morrison proposes to pass. Nearly every State in the Union would be affected. With free trade in wool, he 6aid, the Unit'd States could not hope to compete with South America and Australia. Mr. Harpster called upon Major McKinley, this morning, and had a talk with him as to the chances of defeating the wool proposition in the committee on ways and means. He then saw the Democrats in the Ohio delegation, and had a long conference with them upon the subject, and will meet them again in the morning for the same purpose. Representative L H. Taylor, of Ohio, has introduced a resolution which is now before the House committee on printing for the printing of ten thousand copies of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture on the international sheep and wool show held in Philadelphia in 1880. Mr. Taylor is hopeful that the resolution will pass, because of the great value of the report to the many wool growers of the country. The Commissioner of Agriculture, in speaking of it in his last annual report, says the work is a scientific indorsement of the value of American wool, and shows clearly that wool can be produced in the United States equal to that of any country in the world. The report, he also said, embraced information which has cost many thousands of dollars to procure and tabulate. He argues that the great wool industry is entitled to the information which it was the evident intention of Congress it should have. There have been many Balls for the report from all parts of the country.

VAN BUREN’S JEWELS. A Sparkling Package Which Lineal Descendants Were Shown, Washington Special. The Star to-night says: “On Monday Mrs. Van Buren and two daughters, of Pishkill, N. Y., daughter-in-law and grandchildren of President Martin Van Buren, called at the Treasury Department for the purpose of viewing the jewels, etc., stored in one of the vaults of the Treasurer's Office, which are said to have been pre•nted to President Van Buren. Chief Clerk oumans, Treasurer Jordan and one or two othr officials of the department accompanied the .adies to the vault in which the articles are kept They were carefully sealed, and have been stored there for many years. Treasurer Jordan broke the seals and disclosed the articles to the view of the ladies. The package contained a bottle of attar of roses, nearly a pint, a bottle of pearls, about fifty in number, some very large and elegant, two in particular, about half an inch in diameter; >a bottle of diamonds, about forty, small, but some very brilliant; a gold plate, a gold ornament with a silk tassel; a box of small diamonds, and pearls, and two pieces of gold. With the exception of the bottle of attar of ,roses, nearly, if not all, of the articles enumerated belonged to a jeweled sword, which was ■presented to President Van Buren by the Imanm of Muscat. The sword, and whatever other articles accompanied it, were placed fupon exhibition in one of the cases in the Patent Office, together with a number of other cariosities and presents. In 1849 the sword was stolen from the case. It was afterwards recovered, not, however, before the thieves had removed all the jewels from the scabbard, and left but little recognizable. To avoid a recurrence of the loss, the articles were placed in a box and deposited in the Treasury for safe keeping. They aro the property of the United States, and are subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner of Patents. The presents were made to Mr. Van Buren by virtue of his position, which gives the ownership to the government The young ladies, who are lineal descendants of President Van Buren. ■were very much interested in examining the various articles, and, although they made no claim of ownership, could not refrain from ex pressing a wish for them. The only way by which they could become their property would be through an act of Congress. When the ladies had looked long enough at the sparklers, Treasurer Jordan resealed the package, using Mr. Youmans's ring for the seal. SENATOR JONES TO RETURN. The Proposition to Elect Another Senator Has Brought Him to His Senses. Washington Special. Senator Jones, of Florida, evidently is anx>ub for some excuse to account for his absence from his seat in the Senate other than his love ffair in Detroit. The move in his own State to :>lace someone in his seat, unless he returns, .as about brought him to his sens, and, from reliable authorities, it is said he contemplates an early return to this city. He has written a letter to a friend here, and, while he denies that he is lovesick and repudiates such an aspersion, he says the real cause of bis absence is because he is disgusted with Cleveland's administration. Rather than be on hand to defend it in the late debate, he preferred to remain away, and says now that that point is settled he can come baek to bis place. Whether this will be aecepted as a ralid plea for his absence is not known, but at

any rate the country has bad a great deal of fun at the Senator*B expense, and his fellow-Senators are waiting his return with anxiety to see how the affair has affected him. MINOR MENTION. Fees of Telephone Connsel—The Increase in Accordance with Contract. Washington, April 2.—Acting Attorney-gen-eral Goode has returned the bills of Jeff Chandler and Charles H. Whitman, of special counsel to assist in the prosecution of the suit against the Bell Telephone Company, to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, with a statement that the amount called for (SI,OOO for each) is in accordance with a contract regularly executed, and is for services already rendered. The First Comptroller has accordingly passed the bills, and they have been paid. It is understood that the compensation agreed on under the contract referred to is $5,000 for the firm of Hunt & Chandler, and $3,000 for Mr. Whitman. The bills of Judge Thurman and Judge Lowry, the principal government counsel in the case, have not been rendered. Army Assignments. Washington, April 2. —A general order was issued by the War Department, this afternoon, announcing the following assignments: Maj.-gen. J. M. Schofield, to the division of tho Atlantic; Maj.-gen. A. H. Terry to the division of the Missouri; Maj. gen. O. O. Howard to the division of the Pacific. Brigadier-general Crook was to day relieved from command of the department of Arizona, and assigned to the department of the Platte, formerly commanded by General Howard. Brig.-gen. N. A. Miles, now in command of the department of the Missouri, has been assigned to the department of Arizona. Accident to Congressman Brown. Washington, April 2.— Congressman Charles H. Brown, of Ohio, met with a painful and serious accident yesterday afternoon. While going from the Capitol, to take a car for his house, he accidentally fell with his entire waight on his left leg, which had previously been wounded. He passed a sleepless night, and at one time it was thought he would not survive the night. He rallied somewhat, however, and is resting comfortably to-day. On examination of the wounded limb, it was found that no bones were broken. Miscellaneous Notes. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 2.—Since the contribution by W. W. Corcoran, yesterday, of SSOO to the Hendricks monument fund, qnite a number of contributions have been made. Hughes East, who has given the question considerable attention, says the fund will reach between $4,000 and $5,000 here, outside of that being raised by the Indiana association. W. J. Robie, of Richmond, is at the Ebbitt. Lewis A. Freidersdorff has been commissioned* postmaster at Canaan, Ind. Mail messenger service has been established from Billingsville to College Cornor, sixty miles, six times a week. - Miss Cleveland, accompanied by Miss Van Vechten. left Washington this morning for Atlantic City for a short visit.

THE FIRE RECORD. Burning of the Newhart Hominy Mill 9 nt Terre Haute—Loss, $140,000. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Terre Haute, Ind., April 2. —The Newhart hominy mills, recently enlarged and improved, were destroyed by fire early this morning, and with them many thousand bushels of corn in the crib, which burned all day, in spite of the three streams of water kept steadily playing. The total loss is $40,000, with $34,000 insurance, in the following companies: Phenix of Brooklyn, $5,000; Phoenix o? London, $1,000; New York Alliance, $2,000; Girard of Philadelphia, $1,000; Franklin of Indianapolis, $1,000: Northern of Loudon, $2,000; Buffalo German, $1,000; Detroit, $3,000; Rochester German. $1,000; German of Freeport, $3,000; Fire Association, $1,500; German-American, $2,000; Royal, $2,000; North American, $4,000: Liverpool and London and Globe, $2,000; Farmers of New York, $1,000; Pennsylvania Fire, $1,500. Other Fires, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Clayton, Ind., April 2.—At 11 o’clock last night fire broke out in the dry goods store of Hamrick & White, at Belleville, two milessoutheast of here, and completely destroyed the building and its contents. Loss on building, $2,000; insured in the Home Insurance Company of New York, $1,000; loss on stock, $2,500; insured in the Franklin Insurance Company tor $1,200. To the Western Associated Press. Chicago, April 2.— A fire occurred in the southern portion of the city to-day, which threatened, for a time, the extensive meat canning factory of the Fairbank Canning Company. The flames were confined to one of the factory buildings, however, and the loss will not exceed SIO,OOO. There is no interruption in the operations of the company. Port Rowan. Out., April2.—Eighteen places of business on Main street were burned to day. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $12,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. LOUISE MICHEL COMING. She Is to Deliver a Series of Lecturos in All the Large Cities. New York World. Louise Michel, the French female agitator, is expected to arrive here in a few days for the purpose of delivering lectures through the country. The French Communists here are making preparations to give her a fitting welcome. M. Louis Mounier, a well-known artist, who played a prominent part during the Paris Commune, in speaking of her coming, said to a World reporter yesterday: “This rumor of her coming to this country lias long been known to the French refugees, but why she should come here is certainly a mystery to me. Id France there is a wider field for her than in this country. Aside from Blanqui, Louise Michel did more during the Paris Commune than auy other member of it. She is not what you would call a handsome woman, far from it, but there is a powerful magnetism, an indefinable charm about her that one cannot resist, and after a brief conversation with her the plainness of her features is lost sight of in the charm of her manner and of her mind. Sho is coming to this country to lecture on the same subjects as she has spoken of in France, and those are the purification of society and tho betterment of the laboring people." “Whv has she been hooted and hissed at in some parts of France, as.the cable has reported?” “I dare say the people that hissed at her were people who differed with her, and was not an expression of disapproval on the part of the French people as a nation. By the French people Louise Michel is regarded very highly, not only on account of her life and speeches, but because of her writings. She b s written some charming books for childre -nd lam sure if these books were translated -nd circulated in the United States, a very high estimate of her character would be formed. Poisoned by Colored Stockings. Petersburg, N. J., April 2.—A curious case of death from blood poisoning, caused by wearing colored stockings, occurred at this place today. Two weeks ago the youngest child of Jacob Riper walked a distance of two miles with her parents, wearing new shoes and red stockings. The shoes were tight and greatly irritated her feet She complained to her parents while on the road, but, when they arrived at their destination and the shoes were taken off, she said that her feet hurt her no longer, and nothing more was thought of it Three days afterward her feet began to swell, and three days later both legs were swollen to twice their natural size, and her mind became affected. A physician was called in, but, in spite of all his skill, she continued to grow worse until to day, when she was attacked with spasms, which continued at intervals of from five to ten minutes until she died in great agony. I have sold probably a dozen bottles of Athlophoros during the past three months. I can recommend it It cured me of a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism in forty-eight hoars. D. L Emrick, druggist, Greenville, O.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL SATURDAY, APRIL 3,188 ff.

THE FLOODS IN THE SOUTH. Loss of Life and Damage to Property in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. A Whole Ward of Chattanooga Under Water and 5,000 People Hompless—The Losses Promise to Reach Into the Millions. Montgomery, Ala., April 2.— A special to the Advertiser states that the Warrior; Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers are falling. Thousands of horses, mules, cattle and hogs have been swept away. Corn, cotton-seed and provisions in reach of the flood were destroyed, and planters in the overflowed region have difficulty in starting. The relief boat brought a large number of people who bad been in peril and without food for two or three days. On a farm employing State convicts, the water flooded the quarters. The President of the Board of Inspectors made his way with b*oats to the imperiled place and the convicts got off in safety. So far the reports of drowning in various portions of the State foot up nine persons, all colored but one. Four of these were women and three children in a cabin on the Cahiba river, the building floating off with them. Railroad communication is intact to New Orleans, via Mobile, and with New York and the East, via Macon. There is no communication south by the Louisville & Nashville, or to Atlanta and Selma by the Western railroads. The officers hope to work through by making transfers to day or to-mor-row. The water is two feet deep at the Union Depot, and from there to the Alabama river bridge of the South & North road is an almost continuous sheet of water. Trains from Mobile and Macon arrive and depart at points half a mile or more from the depot. A special from Opelika says that Johnson Bridges, engineer of the construction train which went down on the Tallapoosa river, died after his leg was amoutated. Six hands on the same train had already died or been drowned. Selma has no connection with the outside world by rail. The flood throughout the State is unprecedented, reaching here six feet above the highest mark ever known. The ice factory, water-works, soap works, and gas-works, elec-tric-light workg, fertilizer works, iron foundries. oil-mills, railroad ehops and freight depot of tho Western & Central railroad, stockyards and brickyards, all have several feet of water in them. In most of them the damage will be confined to machinery. The only illumination in the city is by candles and oils. Viewed from the dome of the Capitol, the highest point in the city, is a lake of water to the north and west fuily ten miles squara Specials to the Advertiser from Rome, Ga., place the loss there at $1,500,000. At Selma the gas-works are submerged and the city is in darkness. A steamboat reached there to day with 150 rescued negroes. Nine negroes were drowned on one plantation. The Warrior river falls slowly, and great damage is reported all aloug its banks, especially in horses and mules and corn. Distress is reported from all the overflowed sections. The loss of life and property cannot yet be conjectured. Actual measurement makes the flood five feet and nine inches higher than any record of the Alabama river. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 2.—A colored man was drowned at 10 A. M. Both gas-works are inundated, and there will be no gas to night. The water-works are also under water. The supply in the reservoirs will be exhausted in twenty-four hours. Tho river is fifiy-one feet and rising. The water at 9a. m. reached Market and Eighth streets. Business is entirely suspended. Relief committees have been organized, and homes and goods are supplied to all the needy. The damage to the railroads is great; no trains are running, and none are expected to move before Sunday. The telegraphic communication is cutoff in many direction. The rivers above are slowly falling There is no improvement in the condition of affairs here to-night. The flooded territory has been largely increased to-day, and at 8 p. m. the river stood at fifty-two feet, and is rising an inch an hour. The river has been falling all day at Loudon. Davton and CharlesWTTTand it is expected to reach its maximum at this point before morning. No gas and no electric lights, no water in the reservoirs, and the river still rising, is the situation to night. It is estimated that 5,000 people are homeless in this city, though they all have comfortable temporary quarters and relief committees are supplying the necessities of life. The Fifth ward is completely under water, and hundreds of craft of every description are passing to and fro from Marketstreet railroad crossing to Lookout mountain and Missionary Ridge. The water now stands a foot deep in the union passenger depot, and has entered the lower floors of the Read House and houses on Market street. The express companies have moved to higher quarters, and at this writing the water lacks eleven inches of on tering the Times counting-room, which is about the average height of all the stores on Market street. A colored man and a white child were drowned to-day. The city is policed to-night by the military. All the railroads on the Chattanooga side of the river are under water, in some places ten feet. Heavy washouts have occurred on the Cincinnati Southern and Western & Atlantic roads.

Fears of n Flood at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, April 2 —At 8:30 o’clock this evening the snow which had been falling nearly all day measured nearly four inches in depth, and was still falling. This fact, together with reported rams up the river, causes considerable apprehension as to a flood, and business houses in the bottoms have beeu busy all day removing goods from cellars and the first floors. Many cellars are already flooded, and the mills on the Licking river have closed. The river at 8 o’clock was 50 feet 9 inches and vising two inches an hour. HIS FAMILY ANXIOUS. Detectives Searching Europe for a Prominent Railroad Offloial Who Went Astray. New Yoik Special. For two weeks detectives have been searching all Europe for Frederick R. Nourse, treasurer of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. The detectives have searched through the hotels, hospitals and morgues of Liverpool and London, where he was last seen, but with no results. Mr. Nourse left the city for a brief vacation in Europe, two or three months ago. After his arrival he communicated regularly with his wife in this city, and finally wrote, stating that he would return home on the Adriatic, leaving Liverpool on March 4. On March 3he sent a cable dispatch, saying he would sail tho following day, as "tie had arranged. The detectives have discovered that on the evening of that day he drove to the depot, in London, of the Northwestern railway, to take the train for Liverpool. This is the last trace of him that has been found. As he did not arrive on the Adriatic, nor on any of the steamers which left Liverpool during the same week, his family and friends here became thoroughly alarmed and employed detectives to search for him. The Gallows. Lexington, Mo., April 2.—Jeff Wilson, colored, was hanged here to-day for the murder of Jennie Sanford, his mistress, on July 31, 1304. The reading of the death warrant to the condemned man did not seem to move him, and when the procession passed from the jail to the gallows he was cheerful, and smiled recognition to all as he went aloog. He talked seventeen minutes on the scaffold, and when the drop fell his feet touched the ground, but he was hurriedly drawn up and the rope shortened. His neck was broken. Life was pronounced extinct in twelve minutes. Five thousand people witnessed the execution. State Christian Temperance Union. To the Kditor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1 notice in your report of the State Christian Temperance Union what so many of us predicted a year or two ago when it entered the field of party politics. When it stood aloof from party politics, hundreds of noble men and women attended its annual sessions, and it was wielding a powerful influence for good all over our State by moral influence. Now, a dozen or two loiter at

its annual sessions. And I see it is stated that the grand council that used to wield a great power for good is never to be called together again. I am grieved to see the great cause of temperance so prostrate. Oar friends who have led our movement into this disaster have an awful responsibility upon themselves. They can never undo the harm they have done, and only time and wise counsels can ever restore the temperance reform to its former power. O how many of us pleaded and prayed these, our misguided friends, to desist and not bring on us this disaster. In humiliation and shame, though not guilty of this thing, I sign myself, M. E. A. Montezuma, Ind. THE LABOR TROUBLES. [Concluded from First Page.] while he was endeavoring to bring about a satisfactory settlement of the strike in the West, on top of a month’s severe labor, was more than he could stand. He was in no condition to travel when he went to New York, ten days ago, to hold a conference with Mr. Gould. His physician advised him not to go tnen, but bis desire to help along the cause to which he had devoted himself impelled him to disregard the advice of his physician and friends, and make the trip. On his return, on Tuesday, he had to be assisted in his carriage, and was driven at once to his house. Mr. Powderly’s condition is not regarded as serious. Dr. Allen, his attending physician, said to a correspondent yesterday: “What Mr. Powderly needs more than anything else, and must have, i3 absolute rest for a number of days, at least I have forbidden him to receive visitors, or to be annoyed with business or anything likely to distract his mind. I do not believe that he is in danger if he follows my instructions. Mr. Powderly is suffering from a complication of diseases. In the first place he has a return of his old trouble—quinsy, but that is much improved now. In addition, he has muscular rheumatism, arising from a reopening of the old injury to his sida He had a fall a year ago, and broke two or three of his ribs, and this left his side in a very weak condition. An abscess, or large boil, has formed on the back of bis neck, and, besides that, he is thoroughly prostrated physically. 1 shall be able to tell you more to-morrow, but I believe, from my knowledge of the man, that he will pull through all right. He has a strong constitution, and there is no reason, under ordinary circumstances, why he should not live a great many years yet. He has the great advantage of youth. He is not yet thirty-seven. Great sympathy is expressed for Mr. Powderly in his illness by the people of Scranton, where he enjoys much deserved popularity.’’ Mr. John E. Barrett, editor of the Scranton Truth, who was allowed to see Mr. Powderly yesterday, says: “I believe Mr. Powderly’s condition to be very critical, and the . country should know that he is in no condition to know what is going on in the West, and should not be held responsible for what Mr. Irons and his associates may do.”

\}RAMD CHIKF ARTHUR. Facts Abont the Man Who Extricated the Engineers from an Unpleasant Dilemma. Chicago News. Twelve years ago the grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers resigned. His order was in just such a condition as Mr. Powderly, in his late address, said that the Knights of Labor are now in. There were too many strikes, and it was not possible for the chief engineer to control the membership. The great Panhandle trouble was on then, and every State, almost, had an engineers’ striae. It was during this crisis that P. M. Arthur, the present grand chief, took the helm. He was radically conservative. He held that men should work until they found their differences could not be settled by arbitration, rather than to strike until they were adjusted. By a little diplomacy he fixed up the Panhandle trouble, and then made a tour of the country. Wherever he met the officers of the road the men were justified and work was resumed. In several instances he found the men had violated the principles of the organization by striking without exhausting all resources. In such cases the men were forced to apologize to the company and go to work, or suffer the revocation of their charter. Mr. Arthur went all the way to Maine to defend an engineer who had been arrested for interfering with the mails by refusing to take out his eugine. Although the man was liable, Mr Arthur paid his fine and the expenses of the trial, amounting to $3,000. Then he prosecuted to the bitter end a defaulter who had run away with funds belonging to the insurance department of the Brotherhood. All • his was a revelation to the order, which had before believed that the grand chief was simply the boss striker. He was re-elected and but few strikes followed. There never has been a strike on any road by the engineers under Mr. Arthur after the company consented to an interview with him. He will always make concessions. The doctrine which he has taught the order is “come, let us reason together." The order was in very good shape when the trouble arose, iu 1876, on the Grand Trunk road. Mr. Arthur went with his committee of thirteen to Montreal, but his request for a conference was spurned with offensive words. He called his committee together and counseled them that during the strike which he was about to order no violence should be done to any one nor to property. No engine was to be “killed” nor derailed. Every engineer who was put up by the compauy was to be taken down by the men by their contracting to pay him regular wages for doing nothing. The men struck, and for three days not a wheel was turned on the road. Then the company sent for Mr. Arthur and his committee, and treated them like kings, conceding everything. For eight years the Brotherhood has not had a strike. Mr. Arthur ran an engine from Albany to Schenectady, on the New York for twenty years. His engine was the “William H. Vanderbilt," the crack engine of the road. It was then that he and sixteen other engineers were discharged for daring to ask for passes for their families. They had no organization then, but a few years later they concluded to ask for enough more wages per day to pay fare for their wives. The same man who discharged them was glad to grant the increase. Mr. Arthur is very proud of his order, which is very exclusive and wealthy. He does not believe in geueral orders —the banding together of engineers and shoemakers—but believes every branch of skilled labor should look out for itself. He says America is proud of her railroad engineers. The Brotherhood discharges for drunkenness and other offenses, and he says the traveler goes to bed in his sleeping car in the darkest and stormiest night that ever blew with just as much confidence in his safety as he would at the finest hotel. This assurance, he believes, is largely due to the work of the Brotherhood. Mr. Arthur’s greatest work now is in editing his magazine for engineers. Its circulation is world-wide, reaching 20.000 copies. Mr. Aithur’s interview in the Daily News a few days ago, advising Mr. Powderly to order his men in the Southwest to go to work, was approved editorially by all the leading papers of the country. Personally the grand chief is a sociable, genial fellow. He is fifty years of age, with a round, full face, covered with a closely cropped gray beard. He is a pleasing talker and gives dates and figures like an historian. VICE-PRESIDENT HOXIE. A Shrewd, Qulck-Wiited Man Who Began Life as a Hostler. During the great labor strike on the Gould system of railroads no name has been brought more prominently before the public than that of H. M. Hoxie, vice president of the Wabash system. So great is Mr. Gould’s opinion of him that when it was determined to settle the difficnltv by arbitration the matter was placed in his charge. H. M. Hoxie has an interesting career. He was a poor boy in Polk county. lowa, at the time when immigration was pouring into that State. He became the hostler of a country hotel, and thus became acquainted with many prominent men who stopped at the establishment on their Western way. At the time of the outbreak of the war he had grown to manhood and had entered local polictics. Somewhere in 1864-65 he became chairman of the lowa State central committee, and managed his State so succesfally—rolling up majorities approximating fifty thousand —that he was made a United States marshal as a reward. Just after the reconstrustion he removed to Palestine, Tex., and there became connected with the management of the International railroad. He soon showed that he had in him the qualities 0 f a great rail-

road tnanAger. When Mr. Gould bought np a large number of the railroads of the Southwest, and had consolidated them under the general name of the Wabash system. Mr. Hoxie was chosen as first vice-president, and made his headquarters at St. Louis. He is a shrewd, quick-witted man, of few words, but prompt in decision and in action, when he has once made up his mind. His varied work has brought him into contact with all kinds of people, and his thorough knowledge of human nature enables him to deal intelligently with the questions that arise in the management of his railroad affairs. OTHER LABOR NEWS. Brakemen Demand Pay by Mileage Instead of a Stipulated Sum Per Month. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Evansville, Ind., April 2. —A1l of the brakemen on the St. Louis division of the Louisville & Nashville struck this morning, most of them being at the time at Mt. Vernon, 111. It is not a strike of Kuightg of Labor or Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen, but an independent movement. The men ask the company to pay them mileage—two cents a mile each way —instead of SSO a month, as heretofore. The strike only applies to freights. The local freight left here this morning, bnt no freights hare arrived. This is only a preliminary movement to a strike along the entire system. The Maxwell' Boycott Raised Again. Chicago, April 2.—The Box-makers’ Union and Maxwell Brothers to-day agreed on a basis of settlement. The firm agrees to take back all the old men who were in its employe at the time of the strike, nearly four months ago. The agreement stipulates that no child-labor is to be employed on the machines introduced into the factory at the time of the strike. The employment of this labor is what led to the men going out The men will go to work tomorrow. The schedule of wages is to be fixed hereafter. Chief Arthur in Texas. Corsicana, Tex., April 2.—P. M. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, arrived here this morning from Chicago. The Brotherhood lodge in this city held a session in their hall to-day with closed doors. It is believed that Chief Arthur will be able to adjust the differences and grievances now existing at this point. He left for Houston tonight _ Labor Notes. Hamilton, Ont., April 2.—The employes of the southern division of the Grand Trunk railroad, whose wages had been reduced, have agreed to aecept the increase offered of from 2$ to 5 per cent Cleveland, 0., April 2. —Five hundred men employed in the limestone quarries at Hillsville, Moravia and Carbon, 0., have struck, because their demand for an increase of two cents per ton has been refused. Pittsburg, Pa., April 2. —The secret fight against the product of Wm. Clark & Cos., glass manufacturers, waged by the Knights of Labor, was ended to day by the firm signing a scale of prices, and granting better hours. Pittsburg, April 2.— The street-car troubles are in a fair way of adjustment After numerous conferences it is understood that this evening a compromise was proposed which struck both sides favorably. It is thought the strike will end to-morrow. Philadelphia; April 2.— About 2 o’clock this morning the mass meeting of street-car employes ratified the compromise entered into by the arbitration committee and board of presidents, and all the cars are running as usual this morning. This action ends all fears of a “tieup," and the men get about all they demanded in their grievances. Taunton, Mass., April 2. —On Monday the backboys and doffers of the Wittenton mills struck for an advance from 42$ cents per diem to 50 cents. On Tuesday the advance was granted, but the boys then refused to return t.o work unless the girl-doffers’ wages were increased 5 cents per day. The managers refused. Last night the mills here shut down, and 1,800 looms are idle. Youngstown, 0., April 2.— Fifty Italians in the lime-stone quarry of Grist & Graham, near Edinburg, struck yesterday for an advance of 3 cents per ton. To-day the strikers went to the Carbon Company’s quarry, at Carbon, and to the Brier Hill quarry, near Lowellville, and induced all the quarrymen to quit work. These Italians took the places of American workmen several years ago, and are now striking for the same rates as were formerly paid the native workmen.

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