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<?rnl. and not local, there would probably be little cause for disturbance. If the proposition for eight honrs' work should result in an increased cost of prod action in Chicago, and hoars of labor should not be general over the country, the manafadorers and producers of Chicago would be placed at a disadvantage in comparison with other cities. If the proposition should become general in the United States, and not in other countries, the people of this country would be at a disadvantage with manufacturers and producers of other countries in which the eight-hour . rule was not in force. The proposition for eight hours for a day’s work means, practically, an increase of the cost of production. It means 20 per cent, less time, and consequently 20 per cent, increase in the cost of production as far as the labor of men is concerned. If eight hours means employment foe the idle laborers of the country, which I very much doubt, and an in crease in the industries of the couutry, it will not disturb the finances of the country. If eight hours for a day's work means a decrease in the industries of the couutry, it necessarily means an injury to everybody, not excepting the laborer himself, who will feel it as much as any one in proportion.” Mr. Fr*zier, of the firm of D. B. Fish, wholesale millinery, said he though it would increase the price of goods, aud decrease the price of labor. It was a question governed entirely by the laws of supply and demand. Less work produced less goods, scarcity of goods increased their value, and as the workmen would work a less number of hours, as a natural consequence their services would be worth less. Mr. Warner, of Sprague, Warner & Cos., said if the eight-hour rule became general be would be obliged to double bis force to accomplish the same amount of work as at present. Should the railway corporations adopt the system, the wholesalers would be obliged to conform to it. The eighthour question, he thought, would not have to be settled by the wholesalers. Mr. George Sturges, president of the Northwestern National Bank, was asked what, if any, would be the effect of the proposition for eight aours work upon finances. “I do not believe it will have much effect upon capital,’’ said he; “My belief is that the money problem is too well nettled just now to be unsettled by this movement.*’ “I have no objection to the eight-hour system,” said M. I). Wells, “if it is to be universal, but if It is a Chicago movement only, and affecting only Chicago laborers, the community must suffer. Capitalists, manufacturers and employers cannpt compete with other cities under such a system. Let me illustrate by referring to my own business. The boot and shoe trade in the West is much more subject to competitive influences than any other business, for the reason that Eastern manufacturers make the market. Quite recently manufacturers of Massachusetts, the controlling influence in our business, agreed that fifty-nine hours should constitute a week's work. Now how can we, supplied mainly by Eastern tanners with our leather, with active competition in Eastern cities, hope to continue business and pay the same wages for forty-eight hours’ work that others pay for fifty-nine? We cannot do it. Representatives of Eastern houses are in the field anxious to take our trade. Local manufactures are not buying leather, at least such are our advices. “If the eight hour movement becomes univor sal, well and eood; otherwise, we might as well go out of business if it is to be confined to Chicago manufactures.’' B. W. Dodson, of the firm of Ratliburn, Sard & Cos., said: “On account of this advance in wages and increased cost of manufacture, an advance in prices would probably result, but should ten hours’ pay be demanded for eight hours’ work, the advance in prices that would necessarily have to follow would be out of all proporiion to the needs of the country, and would greatly retard, rather than stimulate, trade. The effect might be disastrous to manufacturers.” D. Mimbark said if the adoption was uniform no harmful results to trade would follow, but if Chicago should reduce the laboring hours of its employes to eight, while Cleveland and other manufacturing centers still hold to ten, why, Chicago manufacturers would have to shut down. A. F. Seeberger, collector of customs, said, “I do not think the eight-hour movement will accomplish the results that are expected of it by its more enthusiastic supporters. There are many kinds of manufactures and industries in which the adoption of the system will so unsettle and disarrange business that the evil effects will be felt throughout the country for some time to come. Prices will necessarily go up as a result of the movement if adopted, and articles which even poor people must have will be dearer than now. I question the prudence of the manner in which the question is being agitated, because, while the system may }>e a good thing for employes in some branches of business, it is not needed in others. The agitation, I thtnk, has a tendency to create dissatisfaction in many places where uo real cause for dissatisfaction exists.’’

‘ THE GOI LD ROADS. Matters Are Very Quiet, and the Business Heavier than at This Time Last Year. New York, April 25.— Mr. Jay Gould was called on at his house this afternoon. In reply to an inquiry concerning the present condition of affairs in the Southwest, Mr. Gould said: “It is so quiet that we hardly know there has been a strike. The strikers console themselves with he thought that we are not doing any business, int we are doing a large business—a larger •mount than we were doing before the strike. ; have received the following from Mr. Hoxie: “St. Louis, April 24. “The third week’s earnings will not be ready to-day, but the auditor estimates that they will show an increase of about i?100,OOO, compared with last year. It is hard to get away from suen facts. I thiuk that the improvement would have been very marked but for these labor troubles. Publio opinion has risen up and asserted itself about this matter, and the formation of law and order leagues in the Southwest has exerted a great moral influence and effect in destroying tho organization of the Knights of Labor. In fact, to be a Knight of Labor out there now is about synonymous with boing called a criminal. Os course, •there is some bushwhacking and occasional attempts to throw trains off tho track, but the tracks are carefully guarded and the result is that everything is going along nicely.” Mr. Gould was asked what he thought of the threats made against the Wabash railroad system in the event of his obtaining control of it at the sale to-morrow. He replied: “The Wabash employs hardly any Knights of Labor. A re-organization was made after the August strikes in regard to the laborers employed. The road will be sold to-morrow, and it will be bought in by the bondholders. The majority of them are iu {Scotland and England, and the rest uro scattered about this country." Letter from Mr. Hoxie. Elmira. N. Y., April 25.— Vice-president Hoxie, vs the Missouri Pacific, has written a letter to the Elmira divisiou of the Order of Railway Conductors, thanking them for their recant resolutions condemning strikes and approving the course of the conductors upon the lines of the Missouri Pacific system in connection with the recent labor troubles. He says: “I am glad to be able to state that several associations of skilled labor upon these roads, among them the railway conductors, bavo proved their loyalty to this company and their regard for principles of right and justice, and, such having been their record, their organizations are entitled to the respect and confidence of railway managers.” AN ARMY OF IDLERS. Thu Invasion of St. Louis—What It Ousts to Support the Unemployed Men. St. Leuu Special to New York Times. And the cry is, “Still they come.” The v&njtiard was Biaall, and it appeared on tho ground ithout display. Unobtrusiveness seemed to be ts striking characteristic. This, however, was nit a surface indication. Unobtrusiveness has gradually been usurped by persistence, and it is evident that the new factor in the fight has come to stay so long as there is any money to be had. The new factor is the tramp. When he heard that there was a strike on the Gould Southwestern railroad system he gave the matter only a passing thought it would soon be over, he thought, and it would hardly profit him to walk from Maine to Missouri, except for a certainty. A week, a month passed, and the (trike continued. The tramp pondered. Then

he heard thst the strikers were paid for striking. Next he discovered thst all who joined the strikers would be paid. This was his platform. Ordinary people refused to pay except for work done. The Knights of Labor expressed a willingness to pay those who would not work. The tramps’ millennium had come. The fiery cross was carried from Maine to California, and the great army of tramps began its march from all quarters to St. Louis and other points on the Southwestern railroad system. The rendezvous, however, is St Louis. Detaehed bodies may picnic along the line, but their real destination is St Louis. Here is the boodle, and where the boodle is will the tramp be found. Jay Gould said labor was plentiful. The Knights 6aid he was mistaken, and that without them he could not operate his railroads. Skilled labor was scarce, they claimed, and to prove it they promised to take as good care of ail men who refused to work for-Gould as they would of their own members. To make the promise good they established numerous headquarters. Every headauarters has a committee. The duty of such committees is to keep the ranks of the strikers solid and to entice to their side men who have taken or seem about to take the places of strikers. There are over fifty local assemblies in District Assembly No. 101. and many more in District Assemblies Nos. 93 and 17. feach local assembly has its committee. It keeps track of all strikers in its bailiwick. It numbers as pensioners all who have refused to take employment from the railroad company. Its reports of the situation are made to the joint executive committee of the three assemblies, or to the general executive board. Upon the latter all these committees draw for assistance. They see the strikers gradually increasing in numbers. They conclude that the railroads must necessarily be losing ground. But is this the case? Not at all. Unemployed labor, the sort that is anxious to shovel snow in July and cut hay in January, is marching on St Louis, not in solid phalanx, but in open order, every man for himself. These summer snow-shovelers by the time they reach St Louis are skilled mechanics. They quickly discover that machinists are in demand by the railroads, and that the strikers are uncommonly anxious to lodge and board snch craftsmen. *- The tramps at once become machinists aud display an intense desire for wore, while they curse the lot that compels them to take the places of strikers. But why do they do so? inquires a striker. The tie-counter scratches his head and mutters that he’s hard up and must work or beg. The committeeman’s face brightens. He slaps the tramp on the back, walks him off to a boarding-house, tells the proprietor that “his friend is all right,” and the tramp, after a good meal, falls asleep between sheets, with a smile on his face that cracks the looking-glass. J. J. McGarry is a striker who is continually knocking about among the new recruits wis well as the old strikers. When at work he swings a hammer. Through the East he is dignified with the title of Judge Advocate-general. It was presented to him by a facetious reporter. The Times’s correspondent had a long chat with McGarry to-night “Our men,” he said, “cost about a dollar a day all round to keep. We make a contract for boarding single men. We pay $3.50 a week for their board and give them a dollar a week for washing and tobacco. Men with families cost more. They cost from $7.50 to $8 or $9 a week. We have to pay their rent, and that runs from $lO to sl2 a month. Then we pay their grocery bills, and they sometimes want a little something else. On the average the cost is about a dollar a man per day. Os course, the men who aren't Knights, but v,ho are with us in the strike, get taken care of just the same.” “It’s wonderful how many of them there are,” he added, musingly. “By Jove," he exclaimed, as if the idea had just occurred to him, “I believe a good many of them are tramps. They say they are mechanics and out of work. They need a job, but they don’t want to hurt the strikers. Well, what can you do? You must take care of them. One fellow came to me yesterday. He was out of work, of course; didn't know the fix we were in here, or wouldn't have come, he said. ‘Well, what do you want?' I said. He wanted a passage to Pittsburg. I took him to a boardinghouse. He wanted a dollar or so to buy underclothes. Gave him that. To morrow he'll come for money for a shave; he’ll want to look decent. They all do this. They’re always wanting something, and the fellows who are worth the least always want the most. Men are coining to us from all points for assistance. A few days ago we were asked for help by a man who said he was aDe Soto striker- 1 asked him why he didn’t get help there. He said they had little enough, and he didn’t want to take the bite out of their mouth.” “The army is swelling, then?” “Every day, every day,” said McGarry. throwing his arms open as if words failed to describe its numbers. The strikers no longer care to say how many of them there are, but two weeks ago one of the leaders said the strike had thrown 12,000 people out of work. The original strikers have been joined by large numbers of men who do not care to work while the strike continues, or so long as they are paid for remaining idle. Some of the original strikers have removed to other places; some have returned to work, but these are more than counter balanced by the new recruits. If the number supported by Knights of Labor is put at 10,000, and their support costs a a dollar apiece daily the contract for continuing the fight all summer is not a small matter.

ORGANIZED CAPITAL. Sensational Statements Concerning Operations of Corporations and Moneyed Men. Now York Special. Just as the troubles between the Northern aud Southern States led year by year through a number of decades to *he struggle of twentyfive years ago, so have the differences between capital and labor been gradually approaching the final struggle. It has been said of late that the strikes all over the country are indicative that the period is at hand when the millionaire and corporations on one side and the workingmen on the other side must come to a satisfactory and final understanding which is to be the supremacy of the one'or the other. The strikers, in a majority of instances, have met with success in times past simply because they were organized, but recent information indicates that the millionaires and corporations have also organized. It is learned that from the day last summer when Mr. Gould was forced to bow the knee to the Knights and grant their demands for an adjustment of grievances on the Wabash system, capitalists and large corporations, seeing the handwriting on the wall, have been preparing for a final struggle. Practically speaking, a great union of the moneyed interests has been in course of formation for many months. At first the surface-railroad corporations of this city did not belong to the union, and they were forced to grant the demands of their men in January. Since then it can be positively stated that the presidents of the roads have joined the big union, subscribed anywhere from $1,000,000 and upward, and are now prepared to give battle to the Knights. When Mr, Hoxie turned his back upon the members of the general executive committee of the Knights of Labor he knew that all the roads leading into East St. Louis had subscribed $250,000 as a funajto defeat the strikers. He knew that all the other roads of the country had subscribed, or were willing to subscribe, hundreds of thousands to crush the Knights of Labor and the labor unions of the country. The last to come into the big union are .the sugar-refiners of Brooklyn. They also have sub scribed to the big fund and are prepared to fight to the bitter end. They are even more defiant than Mr. Hoxie. They refuse absolutely to take the strikers back at anything like their former wages. They will jhut down entirely, they say, knowing full weil that as the Knights of Labor have a reserve fund from which to draw support, they also have a fund running up into tho millions from which to draw sustenance. A certain president of one of the trunk lines said today that his company stood ready to subscribe $500,000 to the big fund at the first indication of trouble from its employes. Whether Mr. Gould is the general master-workman of the Knights of Capital cannot be learned, but such is the report. This big fund has enabled the corporations to scour the country for non-union men, and it can be stated positively that in the event of a general tie up of the railroads iu this or any of the other larger cities, there are men who stand ready to take the places of the strikers. OTHER STRIKE AND LABOR NEWS. The Horse-Car Strike In New York—Threats to Burn the Company's Property. New York, April 2£k— I The Third-avenue Railroad Company ran fifty-seven ears on their

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mian line to-day, and twelve on the .One-hun-dred and-twenty-fifih street line. Contrary to expectation, there was no disturbance, the pickets of the strikers keeping their men off the avenue, and persuading, so far as possible, the public from patronizing the cars. This was the tenth day of the strike, and the attitudes of the company and the strikers appear not to have changed. Three hundred and sixty-nine cars are usually ruu on Sundays, of which fiftyseven were run to day. All the drivers and conductors of New York. Jersey City and Brooklyn are contributing one day’s pay per week to support the strikers. The company’s buildings are being guarded to-night by a doable force of police and watebmen, because of private information that the stables were to be set on fire. The night report of the committee of the strikers to-night recites details reported by the pickets, and of money contributions received. It is charged by the strikers that the cars are becoming filthy and infected with vermin, and that they have not been cleaned in ten days. The officers of the company have been in private conference much of the day. All is qniet at midnight. Insanity Caused by the Strike. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Dr. Bremer, of the St. Louis Medical Society, says he knows of two persons that the riot in East St Louis, had driven insane. One insane person, of an inventive turn, had made a trap to catch Jay Gould, which was an ingenious device, and the only difficulty would be in getting Gould to go iDto it Another one had a grand scheme to settle the strike. In fact, there were a large number of insane people who might have lived to the end of their lives apparently rational but for the strike. A Striker Gives Warning. Parsons, Kan., April 25. —A striker here today expressed the opinion that but few people realized what was to occur on the Ist day of May. He said; “On that day, as sure as the sun rises, every Knight from Maine to Oregon, and from the Canada line to the gulf, will be called out on a strike.” He said that it was absolutely impossible for the railroads to down them, as their strength was almost unbounded; that their ability did not consist so much in their strength as it did in the influence they had with the average workingman. _ An English View. London, April 26. —The Vanguard, commenting ou the strikes in the United States, says that they “will strain the resources of American statesmanship as they have only once been tried since the war of independence, to keep the conflict within the bounds of legality and constitutional order. Republican institutions are still on their trial. It looks as if the social difficulty would become their severest test yet." Labor Notes. The master plasterers of St. Lonis have agreed to put the eight-hour system intoeffecton May 1, and to pay the men $3 75 per day. The old rate was $5 for ten hours. The new rate is really an advance of 15 cents per day. The journeymen are expected to accept tne plan, and no troube is apprehended. An unusually large number of labor meetings, including the Central Labor Union and the Amalgamated Building Trades, which embraces a good many separate unions, were held at St Louis yesterday afternoon ami night The eighthour system was the principal subject discussed, and it was pretty generally decided to put the plan into operation one week from to day-e-May 3. The movement among the St. Louis stovemolders for an advance of 15 per cent, in wages will doubtless result in arbitration between the molders’ union and the stove companies, and the establishment of anew scale of prices, both sides being willing, aud in fact anxious, to make such au arrangement, and definitely settle the matter of wages in a manner satisfactory to all concerned. The master masons of the Master Builders’ Association, of Boston, have issued a lengthy report to the bricklayers’ assembly of the Knights of Labor, which report recommends that the whole question of the reduction of the hours of labor be abandoned till a more propitous time, aud that the rate of wages remain as at present, but that on Saturday eight hours be accepted as a day’s work.

THE DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN* Indications. War Department. ewe- I Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, April 26, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Hours, from 7 a. m., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Light local rains, followed by slightly cooler weather, with a slight cool wave during the night. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Fair weather in the eastern portion, local rains in the western portion, winds generally shifting to westerly; slightly cooler, with a slight cool wave during the night For the Lower Lake Region—Fair weather, slightly warmer, followed by local rains; winds generally shifting to southeasterly. For the Upper Lake Region—Light rains, warmer southeasterly, generally shifting to slightly cooler westerly wind* For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Light rams, with local storms of considerable severity, followed by cooler clearing weather; winds generally shifting to northwesterly, with a slight cool wave. For the Missouri Valley —Local rains, followed dy fair weather: slightly cooler, except in the extreme northern portion, slowly rising temperature; northwesterly winds. Local Observations. Indianapolis. April 25. Time. Bar. Tber. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6a. M.. 29 94 63 5# South,Fair 10 a. m.. 29 92 76 43 SwestJClear. 2p. M.. 29.85 81 34 SwestiFair 6P, M.. 28.81 76 40 SweatiClear. 10 P. m.. 29.82 ,67 52 SouthjFair Maximum temperature, 81; minimum temperature, CO. General Observations. War Department. I Washington, April 25.10 p. m > Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. ”r3 J T s s g 3 e. STATIONS. || • g & jf <t> B • 2 3' ; : * { •?* ; • t 1 • • ® ; New York Citv 30.06 43 S’east .... Clear. Washington City... 30.01 58 East .02 Clear. Vicksburg. Miss 29.85 61 N'east .47: Cloudy. New Orleans, La... 29.95 70 S’east iThr’t'ng. Shreveport, La. 29.79 66 S'east Cloudy. Fort Smith, Ark... 29.72 58jSouth 2.30 t *Hyrain Little Rook. Ark... 29.74 65 S’east .02 Fair. Galveston, Tex... . 29.31 71IS’east i loudy. Memphis, Tenn.... 29.81 CGlS'east .06 Clear. Nashville. Tenn.... 29.86 74|Nouth Cloudy. Louisville. Ky 29.86 7LjSouth Clear. Indianapolis. Ind— 29.84 69iSouth Clear. Cincinnati, 0 29.87 67lSouth Clear. Pittsburg. Pa 29.91 67]Calm Clear. Oswego, N. Y 30.04 46;N'east .05 Lt. rain. Toledo, 0 30.89 49 Kast Clear. Escanaba, Mich.... 29.91 38jN'east .02*Lt. rain. Marquette. Mich... 29.92 37|Calm' .02 Lt. rain. Chicago, IIL 29.80 48;Nwesfc Clear.' Milwaukee. Wis.... 29.82 41 N’east Foggy. Duluth, Minn 29.88 37N'east Cloudy. Su Paul. Minn 29.69 54]Kast Cloudy. LaCroase. Wis 29.69 51;East .02 Thret'ng Davenport. la. 29.68 63'S’east .XX Clear. De 9 Moines, la. 29.55 64;South .10 Fair. Keokuk. Ia 29.GH (>7;B'mt Clew. Cairo. 111./ ...... 29.82 GG .South ..... Clear. Springfield. 11i...... 21).70 G7i South Clear* St. Louis. Mo 29.74 7l'South Clear. Lamar, Mo 29.72 56 East .18 Cloudy. Leavenworth, Kan.. 29.60 64iSwest- Fair. Omaha. Neb 29.48 60 South .18jClear. Yankton. Dak 29.49 51 !Nwest .76 Lt. rain. Moorehead, Minn.. 29.84 42jNorth .10 Cloudy. Bismarck. Dak 30.02 43; 'orth Fair. Fort Buford. Dak.. 30.12 42;Nwest Fair. Ft.Asimboine. M.T 30.16 43 S’east Clear. Fort Custer. Monk. 30.14 39|N’eaat Fair. Dead wood. Dak North Platte, Neb.. 29 80 36 N'west .09 Lt. rain. Denver, Col 30.01 33 North Fair. W. Las Animas. 00l 29.94 41 Vaast 1.59 Fair. Dodge City, Kan.... 29.88 42 Nweat Clear. Fort Elliott Tex... 29.87 49 Nweet ..... Clear. Fort Sill, Ind. Ter.. 29.76 60 North Clear. Fort Stockton, Tex. 29.78 69 South Clear. El Paso, Tex 29.79 71 West Clear. Salt Lake Citv. U. T 30.00 45 North Clear. "Thunder storm.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Fatal Fight Between Boys at Danville~A Farmer Brutally Assaulted by Young Ruffians—Attempt at Safe-Blowing. INDIANA. Quarrel Between Uy—One of the Participants Fatally Shot. Special to tlis IndianaooUa Journal. Danville, April 25.— An affray occurred here last night, between 10 and 12 o'clock, which will no doubt result in the death of one of the participants. A crowd of students, on returning from an entertainment given at the college building, were engaging in boyish sport, in which a hat was lost. While searching for the lost hat the students were approached by a crowd of night loafers, who proposed to assist in the search. The search being continued for some time in vain, the boys dispersed. Shortly afterward several of the students met on the street, and decided to secure a lantern and continue the search. During the effort to find the hat they were again again approached bv the same crowd of boys, who proposed to fiud the hat if the loser would give them tweuty-five cents, which proposition was declined. The students separated from the others, but shortly afterward met again in another part of town. A few words in regard to the lost hat were passed, when a fight ensued between Terry O’Donald and J. R. Miller. A few blows were struck, when Miller, thinking O’Docald was striking at him with a knife, began to retreat, but was followed by O’Donald, until Miller drew a revolver from his pocket and shot at O’Donald, the ball striking him about the center of the forehead. The physicians say the wound is fatal. J. R. Miller is a young lad, about sixteen years old, and is the son of John C. Miller, of Elaska, Morgan county. Young Miller came hereabout a month ago, to attend the Normal. Miller immediately after the shooting, summoned a physician to wait upon O'Donald, and then presented himself at the jail and surrendered himself. Miller is confined in jail awaiting the result of his shot Brutal Assault by Drunken Boys. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Peru, April 25.—A brutal and outrageous assault was committed this afternoon upon Mr. Shepler, his wifd and child, about two miles from this city, by a party of four self-styled “bloods” from Logansport named Barry and Frank Cullom, St. Clair and one whose name is unknown. Shepler was driving toward Peru, and the boys were in front A number of times he attempted to pass them, when they would block his way. An altercation finally ensued, when the boys, who were evidently drunk, stopped his team, and dragging him from the buggy, beat him savagely; also struck his wife, and, it is reported, his babe. Snepler and wife, when met after the affair, were in a pitiable condition. They came to this city and informed Marshal Bozart, who met the boys and proceeded to arrest them. They resisted and attempted to run him down, but he finally captured the Cullutn brothers and St. Clair, the other escaoing. They are now in jail. Search revealed two pint bottles and a large knife blade about seven inches long. Mr. Shepler is a wealthy and respectable farmer. Minor Notes. The Ohio Falls iron works at New Albany have resumed operations. Mrs. Margaret Embaugh, long a resident of New Albany, has died at the age of sixty-eight years. Mrs. Mary Moore, a crazy woman in the Terre Haute jail, has been called for by her brother and taken to her home at Etna, Ills. The fine two-story residence of James Hender shot, in Morgan township. Owen edunty. seven miles northwest of Spencer, was burned to the ground, with all its contents, at noon on Friday. Cause, a defective flue. Loss, $2,000; insurance, SBOO. A large barn on the farm of Isaac C. Rardin. adjoining Greenfield, burned yesterday, together with its contents, consisting of a large quantity of hay, corn and oats, farming implements, buggies, wagons, and one horse. Loss, $1,800; insurance, S3OO. A woolen mill will soon be established at Charlestown by a stock company. They will give employment to about thirty-five workmen, and will have a capital stock of $25,000. Two similar manufactories at that town have been burned down. Mrs. Retta M. Sterritt and Lulu Shields, the latter aeert fifteen, recently disappeared from Carbon, and at the name time James Bush, a married man. and William M. Stewart turned up missing. It is stated that the quartet eloped, and are now living in a mining town near St. Louis. Mrs. Sterritt left a husband and three small children. George P. Shaw, of Brazil, who was stricken with paralysis Thursday night, died on Saturday. Mr. Shaw was one of the original owners of the furnace at Brazil, in which he sunk considerable money. He has been justice of the peace for a number of terms, the last just expiring. He was at one time connected with journalism. His remains will probably be interred in Pennsylvania. The Kniehts of the Switch of Crawford county the other night went to several houses in search of John Aistot, who. they allege, has not lived exactly up to their standard of citizenship, and failing to find him they went to the house ot William Smith, who resides one mile west of Taswell. and, calling him from the house, administered fifty lashes. The cause for the chastisement was Smith’s indisposition to work.

ILLINOIS. Thieves Bind and Gas a Policeman and Attempt to Crack a Safe, Boeolal to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, April 25.—Avery bold piece of villainy was perpetrated at McLean, on Saturday night, which was as full of audacity as could well be imagined. At 12 o’clock the town night-watchman at McLean was surprised and overpowered by two men, gagged and led to a freight car on a eide-traefc on the Alton road, nnd bound to the car-ladder. They then broke into the store of Captain Wheelock and drilled the safe, but they were not successful, for the reason that they broke the drill in the safe. They left without getting nnythine. The watchman was not released until daybreak this morning, when he wns discovered by early risers. No description of the men can be given. Brief Mention. The brick store at Latham, occnpied by Sheldon Bros., was destroyed by an incendiarr fire on Friday morning, entailing a loss of SIO,OOO, Thre pupils ot the Clinton schools have made a demand for shorter hours, and propose to strike next Monday if concessions are not made. There is no talk of arbitration. Friday evening, at Delavan, Jennie Thompson, aged fifteen, threw herself in front of a passenger train, and the wheels severed #er head from her body. She had previously announced her intention of committing suicide. The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company has a suit pending for $1,000,000 damages, for infringement of the Gorham patents, against the Walter A. Wood Mower Company, of Hoosick Falls, N. Y. Recently a stranger visited Rockford and purchased from Mrs. Helen M. Gorham the original Gorham self-binding machine, paying therefore S2BO. The machine was stored in N. C. Thompson's shops, and was only secured through a writ of replevin and the presence of the. Sheriff and eight or nine deputies, it turns

out that a representative of the Hoosick Falls concern was the purchaser of the old binder, which will be used in the coming trial to shew that the Wood and Gorham machines are entirely different LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Not Too Late. To of the Indianapolis Journal; It is not too late for the county central committee to prevent the most disastrous political blunder of the canvass. It is well to have the nominating convection next week, so far as the county offices are concerned. The sooner that agony is over the better. Os the material offering the Republicans can hardly make a mistake, for wa have seldom had a hotter lot to pick from, but not so with the legislative ticket The difficulty lies not in the men who are proposed, but in the fact that at no time in forty years have the issues on which the people are to divide next November been so ntterly chaotic, six months before the election. The qnestion whether this man or that shall be Democrat or Republican will sink into utter insignificance in less than 120 days. We are confronted to-day by the oncoming shadow of more than one social and political revolution which will have assumed formidable proportions before the Ist of September, the precise nature and extent of which no human sagacity can foresee. Men are now spoken of for the Legislature who in one contingency would lead the ticket; in another they would not get the vote of one-half of the Republicans of the county. Why should we be handicapped by needless haste! Why should we find ourselves predoomed to dsfeat by having even one man, much less all of them, out of harmony with the demands of the hour! Two months ago it would have been considered the perfection of political wisdom to have nominated a mao otherwise worthy who was in hearty sympathy with the Kniehts of Labor; two months hence, if the anarchy which they are causing continues, a Knight of Labor will not eet one-half of the vote of Marion county on any ticket He would damn any party by his contact We do not wish to denounce the order on present developments, and no man will dare defend it if the present indications are properly 'interpreted. Why be compelled to take sides either way now? Let the effervescence of to-day subside. If it can expend its force in harmless gar, so be it; if it must cause an explosion, let us not be in a position to be blown to atoms by it. Four months will tell the tale. Then there is the liquor question. Two months ago it would have been easy to name a ticket that would carry Marion county by a handsome majority had that question been left as it then was. But who can foresee the political horizon of ninety days hence? By a secret circular the liquor sellers of the State are called to a secret meeting, to be held in the near future, whose special work is to take control of the politics of Indiana. Just what they will do no man can predict, and perhaps what they do when assembled will never be known until the blow falls, all too late to be avoided. Now the people of Marion county, and of Indiana as well, are in no mood to lay their beads upon the block and iet the nx fall. Not a bit of it. Though concocted in secret, .their plans will be sufficiently developed by the Ist of September to euable us to take sides for or against them, and whichever we do must be with our might. If their pians are wise and proper we must not hesitate to defend them in our own local platform and by the character of our nominees, as well as by the press and on the stump; if not wise, we must oppose them, and do it vigorously, aud to the death. In our platform we must denounce them; by our men we must antagonize them, and by tonguo and pen opoose them everywhere. It is going to be no child’s play, let me tell you. We cannot afford to have a half-and-half ticket. But even more than this: the cup of. Democratic iniquity is not yet quite full, though it is filling rapidly. Give them four months more to show their utter incompeteucy to run the government. There are a thousand men in Marioo county —there are fifty thousand in the State who now demand that the Democratic books be opened—who, two years ago were deluded by the demagogical cry: “Open the books;’’ “the people want a chance.” They have seen enough to be readv to go back to honesty and capability.' Let this leaven work four months more before we attempt to organize to resist it. Unless the signs of the times deceive me we will be in position by the Ist of September to draft euch men as John M. Butler. Albert G. Porter, A. C. Harris. Stanton J. Peelle, John Coburn, John Caven, William Wallace or W. H. Calkins, men of age and experience, to lead us and represent us in the crisis that is upon us, rather than to leave the work in the hands of men tyros, however talented and promising. These men do not want the office, but the office needs them, and they dare not sav no. We want such a selection of candidates as can be made in a separate convention by delegates chosen the day before, so as to reflect the public opiuion of that hour, and selected not especially to nominate a clerk and a sheriff, but to nominate men to represent them on the live issues of the day, as they shall then be. The people will discuss these questions this summer as never before. Let the conclusions of their discussions be embodied in the candidates for the Legislature. Let the county committee take the responsibility of fixing the day for this nomination, and per haps the judicial officers, not earlier than the middle of August nor later than the first week in September, and we will carry the countv by 1,200 to 1,500. U. L. See.

Kosciusko County Farm Land. To the Eiitor of the lmliAnapolia Journal: In your paper of April 19 I saw an aiticle on “Indianafarm land.” Asa fact wears inclined to favor the countyHn which we live, but when we are positive our county presents the best inducements for “emigration” then we can taik. 1 refer to Kosciusko county. It is the fifth county in the State for resources, and I think is the place to locate for those wanting farms. We are about 100 miles from Chicago or Indianapolis and thirty miles from Fort Wayne, and the best of shipping facilities with .‘hose great railway centers that supply the world. We have plenty of timber lands of the best. Our soil is varied but the wainut, beech, sugar and ash and some bastard barrens is of the best. Tne north part of the county has fine prarie land also. Our improved and unimproved lands are cheaper, proportionately, than Western lands, all things considered. We have raised 1,500,000 bushels of fine amber wheat in a year ana otuer crops in proportion, and no finer fruit in America than is raised in Kosciusko county. We have plenty of lakes, deep and clear, well stocked with fine fish, including three large lakes close to Warsaw, our county-seat, a city of about 4.000 inhabitants. We also have a Summer Resort Association here putting things in order for the finest resort in the State. A canal is now about completed connecting the lakes, which means a fine steamer and boats, and all improvements necessary for pleasure, health and happiness for those who will come to take advantage of same. The Pittsburg. Fort Wavne & Chicago and the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan rail ways run through our city and are doing much for the resort to make it a success. We have in this county, also, the Baltimore & Ohio railway, running across our county east and west, twelve tuiles north, and also the Nickel-plate railway eight miles south of us, wtiich runs east and west across our county. We have some twenty towns in the county and twenty-five postoffices, a school and church on almost every section—or near —with graded schools and An active enterprising: people of about 40,000 in the countv, We ruereiy ask an investigation of those looking for a home, ‘'as to see is to know,” and especially those crossing tho State from the Eastern States for the West. Come and see us and we will do yon good. The Journal of Indianapolis has a large circulation here which looks well to the interests of the State. Waksaw, Ind., April 24. N. N. Boydston. Gave His Wife to His Friend. Philadelphia fiecord. Max Rebstock, of this city, was married three years ago to a pretty German girl. Araoue Max’s friends was a handsome young German, Albert Wolf, who lived in Reading. Wolf, upon one of his visits to his friend in this city, was introduced to Mr*. Rebstock. This was unfortunate for Rebstock’s marital felicity. Tbe young wife and the yoang friend fell la love with each other, and their intimacy was noticed by tho

husband. Instead of raving about the matter he agreed to let his friend take his faithless wife upon condition that she should surrender to him certain gifts mado at the time of the marriage. The contract of separation was signed at the office of Alderman Scheetz, of Reading, and Reb* stock returned to this city leaving his wife be* hind. EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. How Senator Morton Sometimes Boused tiu, Wrath of Mr. Edmunds. Washington Special to New York Herald. The late Senator Morton was one of the most discreet Senators about disclosing secrets of executive sessions. In bis day there were important treaties before the Senate, some of which he did not believe should be ratified, and he was not averse to uncovering their tenor in such manner as to aid in defeating them. Again, some of President Grant’s nominations were not wholly agreeable to him, and the opposition which sometimes appeared as senatorial gossip came from the lips ot the great war Governor. Senator Edmunds in those days was quite as much a Mentor as he is now. When hs suspected a colleague of high degree was violating the Senate rules he spoke bii mind freely in executive session, but never called names. On one occasion the Vermont Senator got rather personal, and said that hs had reason co suspect that certain published statements were inspired by a Senator whosa fame and influence prevented him from personally charging a disregard of his oath. Senator Morgan twisted his cane like a top, but did not otherwise betray that he thought the remark referred to himself. That night, when the faithful agent called on Governor Morton, at his room in the Ebbitt, he was told to quit coming fora week or so. as Senator Edmunds was getting very petulant over the correctness of statements Printed about executive business, and had very plainly hinted that be thought the “leaky” Senator was from Indiana. “You know,” said the Senator, “that Edmunds cannot quarrel with me, but, out of deference to his dyspeptic frame of mind, I think you had better stay away for a little while, until the self-imposed affliction has time to cure itself.” Murders by Apaches. Tombstone, A. TANARUS., April 25.—Reports from Magdalena, Sonora, announce that the Apache* attacked Bado Sec’s ranch, twenty-five miles southeast of Magdalena, killed three men, two women, and destroyed a quantity of property. It is also reported that Indians, who are believed to be a portion of Geronimo’s band, attacked a ranch near Santa Crus, Mexico, and killed ft number of ranchers. No pain remains after the affected parts are rubbed with St. Jacobs Oil.

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