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person to the position to be irreconcilable with public order, because of some fact known to thq government, and by it proved to be serious. The Prussian government will perceive in these last proposals anew proof of the continual anxiety of the Holy Father to obtain religious peace, as well as of his endeavor to remove all obstacles to the examination of the means by which such peace may be arrived at.. “The undersigned, Secretary of State, has the honor to assure you, noble sir, of his highest consideration. Cardinal Jacobini.” Nearly all the parishes in Prussia, represent mg a Catholic population of nearly 10.000,000, have been deprived of all regular pastoral administrations since the real beginning of Prince Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, in 1872-73. It has been a long and disastrous struggle, and no wonder the Holy Father is willing to make great concessions to the government for the purpose of restoring to the Prussian Catholics their bishops and parochial clergy, and providing for the spiritual needs and educational wants of a generation so long neglected and persecuted. It is the crowning glory of the Pontificate of Leo XIII. ORANGEMEN ARMING. Loyalist Leaders Bald To Bo Preparing for War in Ireland. London, April 27.—A startling letter from an Ulster landlord has been received here, announcing that the Loyalist leaders have commenced arming the Orangemon. This is the most important item of the day, coming, as it does, from a source that may be relied on. It is confirmed by private letters received by Nationalist mem bers of Parliament Soon after Lord Randolph Churchill’s visit to Ireland it was reported that arrangements were secretly being made to purchase rifles and munitions of war for the Loyalists. Men were stated to be enrolling for service not only in the north of Ireland, but in Great Britain: but, until this letter was received, these reports rested On more or less shadowy rumors, and had not been verified. The Ulster landlord’s authoritative announcement puts an end to conjecture, and brings the country face to face with the fact that bodies of men are organizing and arming for the avowed purpose of levying civil war in Ireland. Within the past few hours the Fermanagh Nationalists have forwarded positive information to members of Parliament here that the Enniskillen Orangemen, among others, for example, lately effected a purchase of 250 rifles by way of a beginning. The incendiary speeches of the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Randolph Churchill and the Orange nobles are, therefore, at least bearing fruit. Mr. Morley, Secretary for Ireland, had early notification of what was going on. Before the House separated for the Easter recess he stated that the government was seriously thiukine of renewing the arms act. It was supposed then by outsiders that he apprehended trouble from the Nationalists in relation to the home rule difficulty. It baa now transpired that the danger he wished to guard against came from the Loyalists of the north of Ireland, aided and abetted by the instruments of the Tory party in England. The situation, then, is growing serious enough to call fur the strong arm of imperial authority. The government is understood to be further considering the expediency of prohibiting Orange meetings on the ground that they are the cause of incitements to breaches of the pf ace by the Orangemen in all parts of the north, where the Nationalists are sufficiently numerous to bo an object of resentment. During Mr. Morley’s last visit to Ireland he devoted some time to an investigation of the attitude of the Orangemen, with the above result. The recognized leaders of the Orange organization, as well as the Loyalist bodies generally, are open and above-board in their efforts to aronse their followers to a pitch of lighting enthusiasm by representing that tbe hearths and homes of every man outside the National ranks aTe in danger of invasion by the home-rule hordes from the wost and south.

Cable Notes. Twelve lives were lost during the conflagraiton at Liskow, Austria, on Monday, and many persons were injured. A collection of drawings by the Richters, father and son, will be sold by auction at Dresden about the middle of May. Eugene Louis Gabriel, a noted French painter, and author of the picture, “Temptation of St. Anthony,” is dead. He was born in 1804. The report that a British outpost at Suakim had been surprised and fifteen Indian soldiers captured by the enemy is incorrect. It arose from the capture of Indians by the Emir of Harran. Emperor William has sent the Pope a costly gold cross, mounted with jewels, as a souvenir of German gratitude for the friendly offices rendered by his Holiness in arbitrating the dispute between Germany and Spain over their respective claims to the Caroline islands. Lord Dufferin telegraphs from Mandalay that all is quiet there. The country and central dis tricts. however, are much infested with rebels. The cholera, he says, attacked with such virulence the Forty-ihird Regiment, while ascending the Irrawaddy river, that the whole regiment had to be disembarked. Fourteen deaths occurred. The dead were buried, the sick were laced in hospitals, and the healthy soldiers were oved a short distance up the river and there t it into camp. The Cinciunati Election Frauds. Cincinnati, April 27.—The Times-Star this evening contains a special from Columbus eiving the conclusions of the Democratic members of the State Senate non-partisan investigating committee sent here to take testimony on the election of four Democratic Senators from Hamilton county, last October. After a copious review of the testimony, the report says: “We find that, by reason of falsification of returns in certain Republican precincts by members of the election board, 654 votes are given to the contestors to which they were not entitled.” All of the Fourth ward “A” is repudiated, and the report goes further than the Republican report in condemning fraud and forgery, and calls a halt on Cincinnati politicians in both parties. The Democratic Senators are given majorities of less than 1,000, but larger than County Clerk Dalton gave them. An Attempt to Bribe a Senator.. Columbus, April 27.—5. E. Kemp, Republican member of the State Senate from the Dayton district, rose to a question of privilege this afternoon, and, commenting on the report that he bad been offered a bribe to vote against the reelection of Seuator Sherman; said he had been approached by a Democrat, prior to the Republican caucus, who said he could have money enough to buy a farm it he would vote against Sherman. He declined the offer, and had intended to uso the matter in the interest of Mr. Sherman had occasion required. Couvlcted of a Serious Offense. Baltimorr. April 27.— Captain Alfred H. Brotherton, late captain of the brig O. B. Stillman, tried for conspiracy to cast that vessel away, was to day convicted. Sentence was deferred. Brown, of the vessel, confessed before the first trial of Captain Brotherton. The penalty is ten years in prison and SIO,OOO fine. A Great Estate in New Hands. Dubois. Pa., April 27.—John Dubois has sold bis estate, valued at nearly $15,000,000, to his nephew John Dubois, for sl. Mr. Dubois is fatally ill. and resigns all his business to his nephew, who is a young man of twenty-three years of age. Steamship News. New York, April 27.—Arrived: Nevada, from .iverpooi; Bohemia, from Hamburg; St. Lauent, from Havre; Main, from Bremen. Hamburg, April 27.—Arrived: Moravia, from New York. Benefit of the Light Infantry—Grand Operahouse to-night. Riley, Nye and Colgan. At New York, last night, Frank Houseman and John H. Moore, negroes, quarreled, and Houseman was stabbed to death by his adver Wry. • Remove boils, pimples and skin eruptions by taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla to purify the blood*

HOURS, WAGES AND STRIKES Serious Effect of the Eight-Hour Agitation on Brick and Stone Interests. Millions of Dollars’ Worth of New Bnildings Waiting a Settlement of the QuestionLatest About Strikes and Lockouts. EIGHT HOURS A DAT. Disastrous Effect of the Agitation on Chicago’s Brick and Stone Interests. Chicago. April 27.—The effect of the eighthour movement upon the brick and stone crops, it is said, will show itself more plainly than in any other class of building material. Last year the stone-yards of the city turned out building stone of a valne of more than $3,000,000. At the same time the brick-yards in and around Chicago manufactured nearly 400,000,000 common bricks. The proposition for eight hours’ work after May 1 has had a paralyzing effect upon building interests, and as a consequence the stone and brick interests have already received a severe shock. A prominent brick manufacturer says if the system should be adopted here and not outside, the Chicago yards would be so affected that they would have to quit trying to make brick. The proposition for eight hours' work would make at least 25 per cent difference in the quantity of brick to be produced in and around Chicago. The brick manufacturers had expected a crop this year of 400,000.000, and with tbe eight hours work the yards could not make more than 300,000,000. “From the present building outlook,” said he, “It seems as if we would be at a loss to find a place to put 300,000,000 bricks. Building has stopped. The eight hour business puts at least $1 on the cost of each thousand of brick, and during the summer the price would probably be $7.20 a thousand, when it ought to be but $6.25. We do not know yet what our employes will do, and we doubt very much if they know.” Another manufacturer says he has been credibly informed that the plans for buildings valued at fully $6,000,000 are now lying in the pigeonholes of the architects awaiting a settlement of this question. A representative of the company which controls the stone interests of Chicago and Joliet said the eight hour proposition produced a feeling of uncertainty, which was having its effect on building interests. Those having money to put into buildings would withhold it for the present at least He added: “Stone men are not doing one fourth the business they should be doing at this time of the year, and I cannot tell what the result will be the Ist.of May. It will depend somewhat upon the shape which the eight hour proposition then assumes. If the men demand ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work they will knock the building business all to pieces. The stone used in Chicago last year was worth more than $3,000,000. If the present prospect prevails, the product of the stone-yards will not exceed $2,000,000, which means a loss of wages to the stone-cutters of at least 33 1-3 per cent, in comparison with last year and the season of 1884. The situation may even become wo*e. It may show a reduction in building of half, and if it does the stoneyards and the stone-cutters will have to share the reduction with the rest.”

A Big Concern Will Suspend Work. Chicago, April 27. —Mr. R. T. Crane, president of the Crane Brothers Manufacturing Company, employing some 1,500 men, says that he will close his shops May 1 if his employes insist upon their demand. “The reason I shall close the works,'* he continued, “is that the employes of Eastern manufacturing concerns in our line of business will not make the same demand. The firms have issued circulars to that effect, and are taking contracts for delivery immediately after that date. I will shut down until tho firms in our business arrive at some conclusion.” AN IMPORTANT GATHERING. The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor to Meet in Cleveland. New York Star. A most important action during the week has been the decision of the general master workman of the Knights of Labor to convene the General Assembly thereof in special session at Cleveland, 0., on the 25th of May. The object of tbis call is an obvious one. Organized labor, through its chief body, finds itself, at a period of culminations, with the machinery of organization that befits a system of petty trades-unions. It will be the work of the special session of the General Assembly to supply these wants and to perfect the necessary machinery of organization. Several great questions wiil come before this body. One of these questions is the framing of more perfect relations between the general executive and that of the district assembly. The consideration of methods for this involves the question of strikes and boycotts, and whether or no either may be ordered, even locally, without the approval of the general board. There is a strong tendency within the order to leave a great deal to the district bodies and executives. This belongs to the federal idea which animates the whole organization. The relations of the great trades-unions and the Knights of Labor is another question to be provided for. Many of the Knights, possibly a majority. though that is an open question, are also active members of their several trades-unions. There is considerable friction, however, coming from the want of a common understanding on the part of the officers of the great trades-unions as to the relations between those bodies and theKnights of Labor. The General Assembly of the latter order must take cognizance of this question, and what it involves. Asa secondary matter this involves the question of organizing mixed or trades assemblies. In &U the great manufacturing centers the tendency is to trades assemblies. In cities with a variety of what may be termed the administrative occupations there is a decided tendency toward the mixed assembly, and the organizers of the order regard the latter as the best for educational and propaganda work. In this and other large cities the trades assemblies are thought to be disposed to use the boycott too freely. It is the trades assemblies, again, that seem disposed to boast of the power of their order. Another question to arise at the special session just called is the relation of the order to the government. Some authority is to be exercised as to arbitration and kindred questions. The attitude of the Knights of Labor, through their legislative body, it is believed, will have a great deal to do with the success of such laws and action under them. Friends of labor, taking all the circumstances into consideration, rogard the Cleveland session of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor as likely to be the most important legislative gathering that organized labor has ever held. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS. Material Points of Chief Arthur’s Address —Sensible Advice to Workingmen. Hartford (Conn.) Special. The principal feature of the secret meeting of the officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers here was the address of Chief Arthur. After an historical retrospect of the work ana progress of the Brotherhood during the past twenty years. Mr. Arthur, in referring to the changes in the personnel and habits of railroad engineers, said: “We have given to the railroads reliable engiuoers. But some persons may say, ‘You engage in strikes.' Yes, yes, that is true. We have not yet reached that poiut *where wo class ourselves under the head of anti-strikers.” After reciting the methods of the Brotherhood to effect a settlement of grievances with companies interested, Mr. Arthur continued: “Let the men come together and discuss their grievances, and then come to an understanding. Let the employer give the men under him to under

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stand that he is interested in their welfare, and not that he considers them mere senseless machines. Acting under this policy, whenever during the past twelve years we have been met by the officers of the roads, there has been no strike. Every strike by us has been caused by the blunt refusal on the part of the roads to recognize us. Now, who is to blame for the strikes we have had? During the excitement of the past few months we have had seven different cases, and in every case the policy of the Brotherhood has settled them all. As far as i know, the locomotive engineers and the railroad companies are on excellent terms.” Referring to the men on the Connecticut River and Vermont Central roads, who were ordered by the companies to withdraw from the Brotherhood, and who soon after had their wages reduced 10 per cent., Chief Arthur said: “No man has the right to say to another ‘Thou shalt or ‘Thou shalt not,’ and the violation of this principle is where the trouble lies among the workingmen to-day. We have no business to say that an employer shall employ or shall not employ this man. A man has the right to belong to any organization provided it is not contrary to the law. And, too, we have no right to go to the companies and say, ‘You must not employ that man.’ We oppose this way of doing things, on principle. The great trouble is there has been too great a chasm between capital and labor. There should be no antagonism. There is no occasion for it, and, though I want every laboring man to bold up his head aud look his employer 6quareiy in the face, I want him to remember that capital, as well as labor, has rights which we must respect. We cannot do without either. Both are essential to the prosperity of the country. There should be no clashing between them; there need be none. ” Concerning the eight-hour law, Mr. Arthur said: “Make the best you can of the time God gives you. and if you want an additional two hours for the purpose of improving your mind, then I hope the law givers of the land will give it to you, and that you will appreciate it, and not loiter it away as many men do, I am obliged to acknowledge. Above all, keep out of whiskyshops, shun dens of infamy and the gaming-ta-ble, and spend your time with your wife.” Os the Knights of Labor Mr. Arthur said: “Now we have another organization that has sprung up. It is called the Knights of Labor. It is an honorable name, and, if any of them are here to night, to them I say, if you expect to succeed and prosper, carry out the golden -rule that I havo spoken of this evening. Do unto others as you would they should do unto you, and your organization will succeed and prosper. Be faithful and just to your employers, be true and faithful to the principles of your organization, and, after having rendered the service due to your employer, hold yourselves erect, look him frankly in the face, and feel that your are his peer.” OTHER STRIKE AND LABOR NEWS. The Sentiments of the New York Chamber of Commerce on the Pendiug Troubles. New York, April 27.— The Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting this afternoon to take action on the labor question in its relation to strikes. A large number of business men wore in attendance. Resolutions were presented declaring that minor difficulties between employers and employes should be settled by mutual concessions, without the intervention of a third party; that important differences effecting the public interest or convenience should be settled by arbitration; that questions as to rates of wages, hours of labor and the kind of service to be rendered, are proper subjects of arbitration; that the Chamber fully recognizes the right of all classes of citizens to unite in trade or labor unions, and to use all moral and legal means in furtherance of their interests; that any employe leaving his business and going on strike vacates his place Absolutely; that any man resorting to violence to prevent another man working should be visited with the full penalty of the.law, and that every association which endeavored by intimidation to abridge the liberty of choice or of action of those who are not of its members deserves the severest censure of every American citizen. The resolutions were discussed at great length, nearly all of those present making strong speeches in favor of their adoption. A resolution presented by Gustav Schwab, calling upon tho citizens of America the guardians of the law in main tain in peace And order, was added to the list of resolutions presented. The entire list of resolutions was then adopted by the board with much enthusiasm. President Lyon says he will have no more conference with the strikers, and that he would resign rather than confer with them again. Experienced drivers are being sought for in other cities, and when the running of night cars is resumed, if the police are unable to preserve order, the Governor may be called on to give military protection to the company. It is said that a basis of agreement between the company and the strikers was reached yesterday, one of the terms of which was that the prosecutions against the rioters should be abandoned. The grand jury, however, had taken the matter up and refused to stop its investigations, so the settlement fell through.

Strike of Safe-Makers. New York, April 27.— The employes of Marvin & Cos., safe manufacturers, went on strike last Thursday and have been out since. They number 200, including a few boys, and claim to have grievances. As soon ar they left work, a committee was organiz.ed to obtain an increase in their wages. The company offered to make an increase of 5 per cent, in wages, but this was deemed insufficient by the strikers, and the offer was refused. Mr. Marvin refuses to treat with the union, but is willing to treat with his men as individuals. The company has issued a circular to its men in which it states that the pres* sent state of business will not warrant a larger increase of wages than the 5 per cent, offered, and that unless the men retnrn to work this morniug their places will be fiUed by new men. The Third-Avenue Car Strike. New York, April 27.—The Third-avenue road ran an increased number of cars on its various lines to-day, and many of the strikers’ pickets were driven off the street by the rain. It has been decided by the company to fix a day after which none of the strikers will be taken back under any consideration. It has also been decided to run niehtcars, starting to-morrow night. This afternoon the strikers started a stage from Eighty-sixth street and Third avenue and ran it to the postoffice. On the sides were signs reading, "Free from postoffice to Harlem bridge.” The strikers will run more stages if they can procure horses to pull them. Two dollars and twenty-five cents in contributions were put in the box on the down-trip. Boycotters Held for Trial. New York, April 27.— Inspector Byrnes’s men arrested thirty boycotters this morning for interfering with the business of Messrs. Cavanagh, Sandford & Cos., manufacturing clothiers, at No. 23 West Twenty-third street, New York. The warrants on which the boycotters were arrested were issued by Recorder Smythe. The men were arraigned in court, where the specific charge of conspiracy and coercion was preferred against them. They pleaded not gnilty, with leave to withdraw the plea and demur to the indictment. Their bail was fixed at SSOO each. At 5:30 p. m. the last of the arrested boycotting tailors were released on bail. Demands of Railway Employes Refused. Chicago, April 27.— The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company to-day returned an answer to the men iu its car-shops, at the suburban town of Cicero. Borne days ago the men requested an advance in wages and also the adoption of the eight-hour schedule. The officers of the company, after fully considering the request, declined to grant it, on the ground that the business of the road did not justify such an expenditure. General Manager Hughitt said to a reporter that, while he could not state what the result of the refusal would be, ho hoped for an amicable arrangement Labor Notes. The Rtrikeof the Baltimore railway car-drivers ended Tuesday, and for tho first time in two weeks the cars of the Frick lines are running at night. Many of the old drivers have been taken back, but the new men will not be discharged to

give places to those who struck. The pay will be $1.65 for twelve hoars’ work, the company refusing to give $2, for which the strike was inaugurated. Tbe Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers has gained every advance it has asked for for years pa&t, and it controls nearly every mill in the country. The differences between the Cambridge, Mass., street railroad company and its employes have been adjusted on terms which practically concede the demands of the men. The seventy-five boys employed by the Great Western Glass Company, of St. Louis, who struck on Monday, all returned to their places yesterday morning, and the works resumed operations. Some suspicions are being circulated against Grand Chief Arthur, of the Locomotive Brotherhood of Engineers, because he lives in a $40,000 house and owns a $15,000 lot near by, and also owns enough other houses to bring him in enough to live on, which his critics say he never earned in the cab. Several of the largest furniture factories in Milwaukee were closed yesterday in consequence of a strike of 300 or more finishers and woodcarvers, whose demands for ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work were refused. There is no immediate likelihood of a settlement of the difficulty. Oliver Bros. & Phillips’s South Tenth-street mill at Pittsburg was closed dowa yesterday morning, because of a strike of about three hundred workmen who claimed that when the advance in wages was made recently they were not included. They want an increase of 10 to 15 per cent. The New York grand jury yesterday took evidence concerning matters connected with the Third-avenue street car strike, including that of the man who tried to wreck the cable car on Monday night, and with the case of Mrs. Landgraff, the boycotted baker; but no return was made to the court at the time of adjournment. A movement is on foot to organize the several thousand boys in New York city, a great many of whom are doing men’s work for boys' wages. A great many of them are kept at working shops for years and are not permitted to learn trades. The same evil is said to exist in other cities, and a concerted movement will likely result to protect labor from this fire in the rear. Theiemarkable development of natural gas in Western Pennsylvania and in other localities is forcing upon a good many manufacturers who have heretofore regarded that development as an uncertainty the wisdom of taking advantage of that fuel. The well which was struck at Grapevillc, and which is blowing off from 7,000,000 to 10.000,000 feet of gas per day, is anew pointer to the gas hunters. Within a month past $2,000,000 worth oi manufacturing establishments have been projeoted in and near Chicago—one u firearms company, with a capital of $500,000, that will turn out 1200 rifles and shot-guns per week, besides 1,000,000 cartridges. Mills, furnaces and large manufacturing establishments are t.o be located there. A great deal of enterprise is also let loose in the Ohio Vailey. but the peculiarities there is the building of small industries and establishments. Thirty-five more of the employes of the Missouri Car and Foundry Company, at St. Louis, who struck last week because the management of that company refused to cease supplying repair material to the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, returned to work yesterday morning. About two-thirds of the entire number of men necessary to carry on the full business of the establishment are now at work. A full resumption of operations is expected by President McMillan by the end of the week. One of the effects of the combination of labor is to induce employers to set forth the condition of their business in its fullest details. No less than a dozen have doue this in the past ten days, in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Chicago and further East* The other day 490 men employed in the Mason machine works at Taunton, Mass., asked for a 10 per cent, advance in wages, which they believed the firm could afford to gi7e because the working force had been increased since last winter from 500 to 700 men. The firm answered the request, going into the secrets of its business and showing tbe men exactly why their requests could not be granted. This is something new. Employers heretofore have scorned to explain their business to their employes. The information they receive in this way will prove to be of an educational character and will furnish them with material whereby m tho future they can decide more wisely as to strikes, advances, etc.

A BLOOD-CURDLING KANSAS HORROR. Outrage and Brutal Murder Punished by Dragging the Criminal at a Horse’s Heels. Kansas City, April 27.—The Times ’b Topeka, Kan., special says: “Last Saturday the wife of Jacob Freimuth, a homesteader, in Seward county, was cruelly murdered and outraged by Fritz Rupin, a half-witted German, who was dragged to death later. Rupin had been for some time enjoying the hospitality of the Freimuths. He was homeless and without friends, and they had taken him in until he could find work. On the day mentioned, during the temporary absence of his benefactor, Rupin over powered his benefactress and brutally outraged her person. Not content with this, he bouud the lady hand and foot and cut.her throat from ear to ear. The brute then secured an old rusty hoe, and while the woman wes yet writhing in the death struggle, he disembowled her with the blunt instrument. When discovered, her unborn babe lay a few feet from the body of the mother, cut in two. ‘•Mr. Freimuth returned Sunday, and when he discovered the mutilated body of his wife, he became a raving maniac. A neighbor in that sparsely-settled region happened to be passing that way shortly after 12 o’clock, and found him wild with frenzy, but dared not approach for fear of his personal safety. He rode rapidly to a settlement, some eight miles distant, and told the terrible tale. A party was at once organized, and they returned to the scene of the outrage and found Freimuth weltering in his own blood. He had killed himself with a shotgun. A grave was dug and the remains of the unfortunate people were buried. The posse then set out to scour the country for the murderer, and found him secreted in a small ravine several miles away from the scene of his diabolical crime, near the Cimarron river. Some speculation was indulged in as to the proper method of ridding the world of him, but not much time was consumed in deliberating. A fractious and spirited horse was secured and saddled. One end of the long lariat was then fastened around his neck and the other extremity was attached to the pommel of the saddle. The horse was then started, and amid the shouting of the men and crack of revolvers and rifles, the frightened animal tore madly away. After a run of nearly five miles the beast fell exhausted, and the lifeless body of the murderer was loosened as soon as the men came up. The rope had drawn so tight that his head was almost severed from the body. The features showed that he had died a terrible death. The body was left lying on the prairies uncovered.” SCOTT’S EMULSION OF PURE Cod Liver Oil, with Hypophogphites. In Pulmonary Affections and Scrofulous Diseases. Dr. Ira M. Lang, New York, says: ‘T have prescribed Scott’s Emulsion and used it in my family, and am greatly pleased with it. Have found it very serviceable in scrofulous diseases and pulmonary affections.” * A Good Nomination to Reconsider. Philadelphia Press. The Senate will do wisely to reconsider the confirmation of W. S. Rosecrans, as Register of the Treasury. Rosecrans should either disprove the charge that he has infamously slandered the memory of Grant since the latter’s death, or be firmly retired to the cool shades of private life. Fall of the Famous Libby Prison. Richmond Dispatch in Baltimore Sun. The weight of fertilizing material packed in the upper floors of the building known as the old Libby Prison caused it to give away to-night, carrying with it in its descent all of the floors beneath. Loss SIO,OOO. There is neither morphia nor opium in Red Star Cough Cure. Vegetable, safe, sure.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Death of a Venerable Methodist Minister —Child Choked to Death by a Piece of Lead Pencil—Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. Death of Rev. W. C. Smith, a Veteran Minister of the Methodist Church. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Frankfort, April 27.—Rev. William C. Smith, a veteran Methodist preacher, died in this city to-day, after a long and painful illness. His remains will be taken to Martinsville for burial, on Thursday. William Carlisle Smith was born in what is now Wayne county, Indiana, Sept. 14, 1809. At the time of his birth there was no white man’s residence west of his father’s cabin, his father’s farm adjoining the lands of the Indians. He came of excellent stock, his great-grandfather having come to this country with William Penn. Living in the backwoods; upon the very frontier of civilization, he enjoyed, in his youth, but few opportunities to gain an education, but these few he embraced with ardor, and was a hard student all his life until his physical disabilities compelled him to forego his studies. Having early united with the Methodist Church, in 1839 he entered the ministry. His zeal and ability as a pulpit orator was soon recognized, and he was sent to fill the most important stations. * For ten consecutive years he filled the office of presiding elder, and was twice elected a delegate to the General Conference of his church. He was for a time agent of Asbury University, and. with Richard Owen, raised the largest part of the money that endowed that institution. During the last fifteen years of his active ministry he suffered very much from a disease in one of the ki.ee joints, which finally so disabled him that he was forced to take a superannuated relation. He leaves surviving him a widow, three sons and a daughter. The Recent Killing at Fairland. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Shelby ville, April 27.— The Shelby Times will to-morrow print a letter from M. F. Anderson, the man who killed Cochran last week, at Fairland, in a saloon row. The letter was received last night, and was post-marked at Indianapolis. In the letter Anderson claims that the killing was done entirely in self-defense, as Cochran advanced on him some fifteen or twenty steps, and put his hand in his pocket as if to draw a revolver. Anderson says he came to Fairland on that day intending to take the train for Shelbvville, where he proposed pressing hie claims for county surveyer, but missed the train rod had to remain in Fairland. While there he vrns invited into the saloon by Cochran to play a game of pool. Anderson says in his letter that he is still in the State, and expects, at the proper time, to surrender himself and stand a trial. The letter is signed, “Yours in sadness, M. F. Anderson.” Fatally Shot In a Saloon Brawl. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Evansville, April 27.—About 11 o,olock tonight, while George Merth and Christian Moch, ex-township trustee, were in a saloon on Water street, they were set upon by four rowdies, and daring a free fight which ensued, Merth was shot, the ball entering the right ear and coming out near the temple, inflictiug a fatal wound. The wounded man was conveyed home. In the meantime the rowdies dispersed, but were arrested an hour later. They are Wm. H. Rowe, John Longfellow, Wm. Schieler and a man whose name is unknown. Longfellow was identified as Ahe murderer. All are from Cincinnati, and belong to the tow-boat Dick Fulton. The trouble arose over ninety-fire cents which was due from the bar-keeper.

Election Contest Dismissed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Shelby ville, April 27.—The contest case of Thomas Hawkins (Democrat) vs. Thomas Woolley (Republican), for the office of trustee in Washington township, began yesterday before the Board of Commissioners. Some ten witnesses were examined for the contestor, and the case was so poorly made out that Hawkins came into court this morning and dismissed his case. The dismissal vindicates Emmett Deacon, a leading Republican, whom Hawkins charged with taking out of the ballot-box two Democrat tick eta and putting in their place two Republican tickets. Alleged Safe-Burglar Arrested. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Madison, April 27.-—Deteotive C. W. Page and Deputy Sheriff Dan Demaree this evening arrested Edward Jennings, of Kansas, who is charged with blowing Lochard’s safe, at Canaan, this county, and robbing it of $25,0001 Jennings was placed in jail here to-night. He married a Miss Nichols, of this county, and was here visiting. The arrest was made at the Christie homestead, in Ripley county. The officers claim that they are sure of the guilt of Jennings, and implicate three others. Killed by s Falling Beam. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Covinoton, April 27.-—Mr, James T. Sharon an old citizen of Covington, was killed this morning by a falling beam, at a barn-raising, at the residence of his brother, threo miles east of town. His skull was fractured, causing instant death. Mr. Sharon was president of the Coving ton School Board, and treasurer of the Agricultural and Fair Association. He was also prominent among the Odd-fellows and was one of the county’s best citizens. Choked on a Piece of Lead Pencil. Special to the IndianaDolis Journal. Plainfield, April 27.—The little daughter of Oliver Jones, aged about twelve months, swallowed a short piece of lead pencil, this morning, and was choked to death. Minor Notes. The will of Jacob Bader, deceased, of New Albany, leaves his property, valued at $20,000, to his wife. The directors of the Terre Haute Trotting Association have decided to enlarge their half-mile track to a mile track. Mrs. Max, of Lafayette, blind and feeble, fell and broke her right arm. She is ninety-two years old, and the injury will probably cause her death. John Ewry, aged eighty-two years, one of the best-known residents of Lafayette, and at one time a prominent business man, died in that city on Sunday. About 1 o’clock Monday morning a large barn belonging to John Scott, located ten miles southeast of Rushville, was burned. A large amount of bay, grain, farm implements and three horses were consumed. The Daily Dispatch, another of the numerous ventures in that line in LaPorte, made its first appearance yesterday. Harry N. Stockton, of Crawfordaville, Ind., is publisher, and Stockton and Henkel are editors. The four-year-old son of Andrew B. Baker, of Jeffersonville, feii into a large pan filled with boiling corn syrup which his mother had placed upon the floor. The child’s thighs were scalded, and the injuries are serious. Mrs. J. Hauser, of Tell City, an aged lady, committed suicide yesterday by jumping into a cistern. Her body was recovered with great difficulty. She had been an invalid for a long time, and had lately expressed the opinion that she would never get welL The Warsaw Times is urging that eity to celebrate the Fourth of July with a sham naval battle on the lake adjoining the city. The fight be-

tween the Kearsarge and the Alabama is su* gested for a model, as good descriptions of it have been given recently. The following nominations have been made by Edinburg Republicans: Couccilmen—First ward, J. D. Fee; Second ward, A. W. Winterbergj marshal, G. R. Stiver?: clerk. Alexander Bruicej treasurer, Thomas L. Richardson. Nathan Bibler, an inmate of the Fulton connty asylum, was kilted by lightning during a severe thunder storm which passed over that section on Monday - evening. Several years age Bibler a well-to do farmer, but for some time past he had bean partially insane. The Republican primary at Madison last night nominated for Mayor John Pattie; water works trustee, William Dunn; councilmen—First ward. Wm. Wolf; Second. Wm. Prather; Third, Chaa. Ailing; Fourth, W. W. Hinds and James White; Fifth, Alexander Cravens; Sixth, Henry Town. Samuel Leepor, of South Bend, who came to that city in 1828, died at Des Moines, la., while on his way home from California, where he had gone for his health. He was the father of exState Senator D. R. Leeper, Samuel Lee per and Mrs. Daniel Greene, of South Bend. He had accumulated a large fortune. At Rush ville, yesterday, an altercation took place between the city marshal and John P. Fairly, daring which the latter fired four shots without effect. The marshal threw hie antagonist to the ground and held him until a bystander took the revolver out of Fairly’s hand. A personal matter is said to be the source of the trouble. Both parties gave bond. Henry J. Trunk, of New Albany, a paperhanger, with a wife and two children, attempted to jump upon a freight train of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad at Spring and East Fifteenth streets, and missing his foothold on the car stirrup, fell under the train and was literally cat in two across the abdomen, hip heart being also torn out and thrown twelve feet from the track ILLINOIS. Calling's from Correspondence and Gleanings from Exchangee. Herbert Pallock, fourteen years old, driving across a field near Hudson, was struck by lightning and killed. Johu Martschick, a Hungarian miner thirty years of age, was drowned in the canal at La Salle while fishing. George Bristol, a farmer near Aurora, was attacked by a bull, and had his arm fractured and received severe internal hurts. A young man has been found dead near An* gent a. He is a stranger, and nothing to identity him has been found on his body. At La Salle, in a street brawl, George Mellon was stabbed by a Polish miner, Peter Lata. Mellen is lying at the point bf death. A company has been licenced to build a bridge over the Mississippi at Venice. The capita! stock is placed at half a million dollars. Charles Holmes, of Rochelle, drank from a jug of insect powder, supposing it to be whisky, and died soon afterward in terrible agony. The Edgar County Agricultural Society will hold their thirty-third annual fair on theht grounds, near Paris, on Aug. 30 and 31 and Sept. 1, 2 and 3. Hon. Isaac Lesem, of Quincy, and wife leave, to-day, for Europe on an extended tour. Mr. Lesem has been president of the Jewish congregation of Quincy for seventeen years. Democratic circles at Wilmington are excited over the appointment of an ex-saloonist as postmaster. A Democratic editor and another reputable citizen, both old soldiers, wero candidates for the position. Fire North of the City. This morning, shortly after 2 o’clock, an alarm of fire from Box 314, at the corner of Howard and Seventh streets, was soundod, and the department responded, but it was found that the fire was a frame residence beyond the northern limits of the city and could not be reached. A bright light was visible from the city but nothing could be learned regarding the fire.

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