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room, and looked out upon the faeee of a thousand delegates, assembled from every part of this country, representatives of a million men and women. White and black faces, the faces of men and women bound together by a common object, met his view. The session was to be an open one, and in addition to the large body of delegates were as many others not of the order as could find seats or shared what little standing room there was with its members. The large room looked like an immense banqueting hall, with tables formed of plain pine boards near the length of the room, in rows, as close together as the possibility of moving between them would permit On either side of these tables were seated the delegates. Neither flag nor streamer broke the severe simplicity of the white brick walls and the unbroken white paint of the arched ceiling. The only things that even hinted at a decorative purpose were lithograph portraits of General Master Workman Powderly and General Secretary Turner, that bung on either aide of the room, and a large gilt frame inclosing photographs of members of the Joel Packer Association, that hung behind the little platform. The latter is the property of the regiment in whose quarters the convention met, and was simply permitted to remain. While the sound of the master workman’s gavel still re-echoed, footsteps were heard approaching the entrance door. A moment later General Fitzhugh Lee, the" Governor of Virginia, entered. As ho walked up the central aisle, leading to the platform, escorted by Wm. H. Mullen, the master workman of the Richmond district, and Mr. O’Reilly, of- the Telegraphers' Assembly, of New York city, he was greeted with enthusiastic cheers, which redonbled as he stood on the platform bowing in response to this greeting. When the applause had subsided and Mr. Mullen bad presented Governor Lee to Mr. Powderly, the latter stepped forward and introduced him to the members, announcing that Governor Lee was to deliver to them an address of welcome, and through them to those they represented throughout the entire country. When the applause that again broke forth at the mention of his name permitted him to do so, Governor Lee said: “One of Virginia’s greatest statesmen has said, Tt is proper yon should understand what I deem the essential principles of government’ What were the principles of government laid down by this wise man? ‘Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.’ Fly from the fluttering folds of your flag that sentence, and the ground on which you march will always be strong and firm. We are told, gentlemen, the organization you represent is formed to elevate and protect the rights of the working class. Why, who are interfering with your rights, and who tramples upon year privileges as American citizens? Organized capital, do I hear? Against that is war declared. Will it be war to the knife aDd the knife to the hilt, or will there be a peaceful issue to the conflict? What, in your opinion, is necessary to promote the interests of both? The helm of the ship of this Republic was constructed by men of different and apparently irreconcilable views, and the Constitution was only framed by a compromise of all conflicting opinions. Compromise, then, gives ns our Constitution, and compromise will solve the difficult problem of the hour which you have assembled here to grapple with. The.battle, we are told, is one of labor againat capital. But what class of capital is oppressing you, and whose course is injurious to the lines marked out by the founders of the Republic? I divide capital into two kinds, and will go with you and give the command ‘forward* and fight by your side against one of those classes. Make war against incorporated rascality and we will help you to ride it down. Combat great moneyed corporations that seek to control your legislatures, federal and State, by bribery and corruption, in order that they may get votes in the federal halls of legislation to perfect and fasten upon the whole country legislation for their benefit, and not for the benefit of the people at large. We will march shoulder to shoulder with you in that Draw the fangs from the money kings who seek to take possession of the great telegraph lines of the country and deflect them from their legitimate purpose by controlling them to defeat the will of a free people in an attempt to defraud the whole country of their constitutional right to elect rulers, and we tlill rally to your support, horse, foot and dragoons, in that. Organize against capitalists who furnish money to carry elections, and then claim as their reward the selection of the men upon whose shoulders shall be thrown the purple robs of the judiciary, and we are with you in that. “Br.t all capital, my friends, is not used in this way, nor for such vicious purposes. Let us make no war upon those who nse their good fortune to alleviate the sufferings of mankind, and whose euloeies are written in the hearts of thousands on account of their generoas donations and noble deeds, and whose money is eraployed to whiten the ocean with sails and cause the wharves to be laden with commerce. Employers, as has been well said, have no right to lock out a whole shop full of hands to bring a few unwilling ones to terms, nor have they, in my opinion, the right to engage with other'employers to fix a rate for them to pay or compel all to remain idle; but they have a right to exercise their just judgment as to what fair dealing and justice demand, and what they would be willing to give for the work they want, and afterwards, if sustaining a loss, to say they wonld not be able to give so mneh. ‘You can have hell in your factory,’ says Washington Gladden, ‘or you can have heaven there, just as you wish. If it is bell you want, build your business on the law of hell which is simply “Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost.” Out of that you will get fighting perennial and unrelenting. If it is Heaven you want, then build Jour business on the law of the king lorn of eaven. “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy aelf.” That will lead you m the path of peace. ’ Korean it bo admitted on your side that you have a right, by combination or otherwise, to prevent others working upon the terras and conditions you have rejected, if they desire to do so. The people of this country can never be satisfied until liberty of action is conceded to all. Samson overthrew the temple of the Philistines, bat it is instructive, says a wise writer, to remember whnt became of Samson. The inventor of the guillotine perished by its blade. The French revolutionists who worked it most freely on others, finally paid tribute to it with their heads. The law will protect botb capital and labor, and behind the statute laws is a great body of law which has existed all through civilized life, and which is known as common law. Each State in the crown of the Union inherits this system of law, and its courts enforce it ‘Students of political economy ar** universally agreed that the right of the workingman to combine cannot be questioned,’says Gladden, and he adds: ‘The combinations on both sides are so strong that they ought to be able to do each other and the whole country a great deal of damage and paralyze the industries of the Nation and waste a eood part of its savings, and dig the chasm that separates the employer and employed a great deal deeper and wider than it now is, and to sow the seeds of jealousy and spite that will yield a woeful harvest through many generations.’ It is a great mistake to think that all classes are hostile to the laboring class.” The large audience listened with close attention, and frequent applause marked their approval of the principal points made. When the Governor had taken his seat on the platform, Frank J. Farrell, the colored member of the delegation of District 49, whose associates refused to take up their quarters in the hotel in which he was refused admission on an equal footing, ascended the platform, and taking his stand beside the presiding officer’s table said: “His Excellency, the Governor of Virginia, and Gentlemen of the Convention—-It is with much pleasure and gratification that I introduce to you. 31 r T. V. Powderly, of the State of Pennsylvania, who will reply to the address of welcome of Governor Lee, of this State, which is one of the oldest States in the arena of political influence of our country.” When Mr. Powderly stepped forward, he was received with loud applause. The General

Master Workman expressed his gratification at the welcome which had been given the Knights by the people of Virginia, and more especially the people of Richmond. Continuing, he said: “The men who owe allegiance to the Knights of Labor are engaged in a conflict, but it is in a war of truth against error. It is not. as many honestly believe, and many more dishonestly assert, a war of labor against capital. It is a war in which the manhood of the American laborer is fighting for recognition. In this war it must be determined which shall rule, monopoly or the American people; gold or manhood. Our battles are not fought for the purpose of determining whether an individual shall rule a state or an empire, but to decide whether a people who are entitled to life, liberty and happiness shall live in the fall enjoyment of their rights and liberties as becomes citizens of a republic. No member must feel, as he turns away from the city of Richmond after our work here is done, that he can safely or conscientiously thrust aside the grave responsibilities and duties of our American citizenship. Popular disregard of political duty, and tolerated, continued political corruption will weaken our government and destroy our liberties; for the worm can eat its way through the oak which storm or tempest could not bend, and political dishonesty will strike where the lightning could never reach. If this land was worthy that brave men should die for it. it is at least worthy that unselfish, thouehtful men should live and work in a grand devotion to the ideas of a real, a true democracy. “We come hero not alone to settle the question of a dispute in regard to wages or hours ot labor. We come here partly to study and learn some lessons of the head and heart in practical citizenship. We are engaged in a work which, to the thoughtful observer, means more than child’s play, more than the regulation of trade matters; and the work will not end to-day, nor will the youngest amongst us live to see it complete. To remedy the evils we complain of is a diffi cult aud dangerous undertaking. The need o L stjrong hearts and active brains was never so great as at the present time. The lash was stricken from the hand of the slave-owner of twenty-five years ago, and it must bo taken from the hand of the new slave-owner as well. The monopolist of to-day is more dangerous than the slave-owner of the past Monopoly takes the land from the people in million-acre plots; it sends its agents abroad and bring hordes of uneducated, desperate men to this country; it imports ignorance and scatters it broadcast throughout the land. It, and it alone, is responsible for every manifestation of anarchy that our country has witnessed. All men may not be willing to admit that this statement is true, but when monopoly dies no more Anarchists will be born into this country, for anarchy is the legitimate child of monopoly. While I condemn and denonnee the deeds of violence committed in the name of labor durine the present year, I am proud to 3ay that the Knights of Labor, as an organization, is not in any wav responsible for such conduct. He is the true Knight of Labor who with one hand clutches anarchy by the throat and with the other strangles monopoly. We are told that it is because of the importation of so many ignorant foreigners that anarchy has shown its head in our country. Rather is it true that because of the importation of foreign airs, manners and graces by the wealthy, we have forgotten what it is that constitutes the true citizen of the Republic. The man who still believes in the ‘little red school-house on the hill’ should take one holiday and visit the mine, the factory, the coalbreaker and the mill. There, doing the work of men, will he find the future citizens of the Republic, breathing an atmosphere of dust, ignorance and vice. The history of oar country is not taught within these walls. The struggle for independence and the causes leading to that struggle, are not spoken of there; the name of Washington is unknown, and the words that rang out trumpet-tongued from the the lips of Patrick Henry are never meutioned. Our country, her history, her laws and her institutions are unknown to these Door children. How, then, can the child of the foreigner learn to appreciate the freedom that they have never been told about, much less experienced? “Questions of wages or hours of labor, shop discipline, or some other matter, may cause a rupture here ami there between the workmen and their employer, but they can readily settle it if mutual toleration and common sense are brought into the controversy, and once settled, they should be allowed to rest. Continued reminders of past troubles often create new ones. To those who have fallen into such habits. I wonld recommend the advice you so appropriately gave to a critic not long since: ‘Stop fighting when the war is over.’ “I thAnk you, and throueh you the people of the historic old city of Richmond, for the warm reception given to us. When we separate to go to our homes, we will carry with us a remembrance of this day and hour. We will also remember that it was from this city that the ball of revolution which crushed to dust the power of a king started forth on its mission. I trust that in the providence of God, we may be enabled to enact such legislation while here as will help to strike to the earth the last vestige of monopoly and compel all men. whether rich or poor, to stand equal before a just and humane law.” In concluding bis speech, Mr. Powderly said that some of the members of the visiting delegations who were of darker hue than their brothers, could not find place in some of the hotels. This was in accordance with what had long been the custom here, and old customs and prejudices do not readily vanish. There had been particular mention made of one Instance, where a delegation numbering sixty members had only one colored member among them, and he was refused admission to the hotel where they intended to go, and the delegation, standing by the principles of the order, which recognizes no distinctions of creed, nationality or color, went with their colored brother. That, he said, was what made the selection of that brother to introduce him to them, so that it might go forth that they practiced what they preached. At the close of bis address, Mr. Powderly requested that all those present who were not delegates should retire, and thanked them for having come to the opening session. Mr. Bennett, of the Richmond district, moved a vote of thanks to Governor Lee, and after this was heartily and unanimously given, it was followed by a burst of rousing cheers for Virginia’s Governor. All but the delegates then left the hall, and the convention settled down to the practical work that had called them together, and in which they bid fair to be engaged for the next two weeks or more. In secret session the only business done was the appointment of a committee on minor credentials. An adjournment was then taken to 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. The committee on credentials is in session tonight, and is industriously at work upon two or three complex questions, with a fair prospect of beine able to report in the morning. The vexed question before it is that presented by the Montack district (Brooklyn), and District 49. A portion of the city of New York very strongly opposed the admission of the Brooklyn district, and it looks to-night as though the Brooklyn men would be refused recognition, in which event they will return to their homes. The New York district, No. 49, is very determined, and, it is reported, had the committee on credentials selected with a view to carrying their point of sustaining jurisdiction over the Brooklyn assemblies. The race issue raised when colored Delegate Ferrell was refused admittance to a hotel, and his white brother delegates of district forty-nine, of New York, refused to go there without him, has appoared in another shape. The Kuights of Richmond arranged for a parade, tournament, and ball, next Monday, in honor of the visiting Knights, and a committee of arrangements was appointed. When the Ferrell question arose it became a problem how the ball could be given without bringing it up in new and more vexatious shape . It is contrary to local customs and prejudices to have whites and blacks at a ball together. If, at a Kmcht of Labor ball, both be admitted to the same hall, many white Knights here would refuse to attend; if in halls separately, visiting Knights, especially after Mr. Powderly’s redeclaration of principles of equality of races today, might refuse invitations. Another complication sprang from the fact that W. H. 3lullen, master workman of Richmond district, is a candidate for Congress, and his influence is strong with the committee. If it is decided to admit whites and negroes to the same hall, many of his white supporters would {abandon him. The committee oo arrangements had a meeting this evening, and at an early hour this morning had not decided what to do. Feuding settlement of

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the question, efforts are being made to keep secret from the visiting Knights the fact of its existence. Governor Lee, Mrs. Lee and Miss Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis, occupied a box at the Richmond Theater to night In the opposite box sat Mr Powderly and Messrs. Hayes and Bailey, of the executive committee. OTDEI2 LABOR NEWS. A Probability of Fresh Trouble at the Works of the Deeri ug Harvester Company. Chicago, Oct 4. —There is a prospect of trouble at the Deering Harvester works. The immense shops were closed, as is the yearly custom, pn Aug. 13. The company has gradually been employing the 3,000 men for next season’s work. It is said that the Knights of Labor who have made application for work have been informed that their services were not required. The statement is also made that the foremen of the various departments have a list of the men who participated in l6t spring’s strike, and when such persons apply for work they are told they are not needed. To a reporter, to-day, 3lr. Deering denied knowing of any trouble. ‘.‘There is one thing eertain, however,” said he. “sooner than employ some of the men who worked here last year, I will shut down the factory and never run it again. That is positive. • I shall hire whom I choose, and dispense with whom I choose. I suppose we have a list of the men we do not want, tjpt that is not a black list” 31r. Deering declared there was no discrimination being made by him against any labor organization. The Store-Order System Illegal: Pittsburg, Oct 4.—ln the State Supreme Court, which met here to-day, Justice Gordon decided that the store-order system, under the act of June 29, 1881, was unconstitutional and void, inasmuch as by it “persons are prevented from making their own contracts.” In his opinion Judge Gordon says: “The act is an infringement alike of the rights of employer and employe, and it is an insulting attempt to nut the laborer under legislative tutelage, which is not only degrading to his manhood but subversive of his rights asacitlzenof the United States.” The decision was rendered in the case of Gadchalls & Cos. vs. Frank Weigman. of Northumberland county. The judgment of the lower court was reversed and anew trial ordered. The decision caused a great deal of comment in labor circles to day. Thomas A. Armstrong, of the Labor Tribune, advises every labor organization in the State to make a determined fight affainst the store-order system. John Costello, president of the Pittsburg Miners’ Association, said: “The decision will be startling news to the Miners' Association. They must necessarily begin a warfare against the pernicious system.” THE INDIANA CAMPAIGN. Senator Foulke and A. J. Beveridge in Monroe County. Special to tha Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Oct. 4. —The campaign in Monroe county, so far, has been a grand success ou the part of the Republicans. Opened by Col. George W. Friedley, private Ira J. Chase followed, arraigning Colonel Matson for bis misdeeds as a representative of the people of the Fifth district. Hon. Chas. L. Griffin gave a splendid argument for the cause of Republicanism, and then followed Senator Foulke and Albert J. Beveridge, the “young man eloquent,” on Saturday. Both had large audiences. Senator Foulke spoke to the farmers in the afternoon, severely reviewing the history of the Democratic party in Indiana. His arraignment of Treasurer Cooper and of the management of the benovolent institutions was strong and effective, as was his explanation of the gerrymander. At nieht Mr. Beveridge spoke to a crowded house. For the two hours that the eloquence roiled from his tongue men and women crowded the aisles in the effort to get closer to him. Less than twenty-tour years old, he is a remarkable personage, and is pronounced by Chairman Browniue as equal to any one who ever addressed a political audience in Bloomineineton. He would rightfully be stylati the “young man eloquent.” following in the footsteps of the remarkable exponent of Republicanism, Richard Thompson. Both the meetings of Foulke and Beveridge were a grand success, and will bear good fruit. The Campaign In Rush County. Special to the lrdlan&polls Journal. Rushville, Oct. 4 —The boat opening campaign meeting ever held in Noble township was that of Saturday night at New Salem. The house was crowded with Republicans eager to listen to the speeches. Thomas M. Green first spoke, and was followed by Hon. W. A Cullen. 3lr. Cullen is doing good work for the party in this county. Hon. A. J. Beveridge, of Indianapolis, will speak at the court-house to-morrow (Tuesday) night. Judge D. P. Baldwin, of Logansport, will speak at Carthage Oct. 8. General Ben. Harrison will speak at Rushville Saturday, Oct. 9, at 1:30. Senatorial and Representative Convention. Correspondence of the Indianapolis journal. Marengo, Oct. 4.—The Republican senatorial and representative convention of Orange and Crawford counties was held here to-day. S. B. H. Conner, of Orange, was nominated for Rep resentative. Dr. D. W. Voyles was nominated for Senator from the counties of Orange, Crawford and Harrison. A New Attraction for New York. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Richmond, Va., Oct. 4.—To-day Captain E. 11. Halleck, formerly aide-de-camp to General Grant, concluded the purchase of the log house occupied by General Grant when he issued his general orders and proclamation of peace, declaring the termß of surrender of Lee’s army. The house is somewhat dilapidated at the bottom, but otherwise is in good repair. It was the property of Dr. Richard Epps, a surgeon in the Confederate army. Captain Halleck will remove the house intact to New York, and present the same to the Grant Memorial Association, and it will no doubt be placed at Riverside Park, near the tomb of General Grant. Mack in’s Accomplice Under Arrest. Chicago, Oct 4.—William J. Gallagher was arrested tbis morning for alleged complicity in a city rebate warrant fraud. It was rumored that thousands of dollars of rebate warrants had been secured by the conspirators, and that some employe in the special assessment department played into the hands of rogues is admitted. Comptroller Schwab denies, however, that the conspirators have pocketed any considerable amount of money. “I think,” he said to a reporter, “that there has been no serious fraud committed. Os course, it is within the bounds of possibility that the thing may have occurred in a few instances, but I think this was onlv the inception of an attempt to defraud the tax-pay-ers. and I am sure that it will not occur again.’ Gallagher was one o? the persons indicted with Mackin for the Eighteenth ward election frauds. T. W. Ellis and Frank Bell, associates of Gallagher. were arrested this evening. The police deny that other arrests are con temp’ated, but it is currently reported that the conspiracy includes a dozen persons. Anti-Saloon Republicans. Chicago, Oct. 4. —The anti-saloon forces of Chicago propose to move ru the Republican campaign committee. The executive committee recently appointed a special committee to draft a petition to the campaign managers, asking for the removal of the saloon-keepers from the ticket and the substitution of men engaged in other business in their places. The petition is in the shape of a formal, urgent request, and is as yet only signed by a few. The anti-saloon executive committee will be called together soon to discuss the petition before it is presented to the campaign committee, and also to decide whether the association will beat the ticket if their request goes unheeded. Mr. W. H. Hkbson, Baltimore, Md., was cured of rheumatism by using dt. Jacobs Oil

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States, Terrible Death of a Workman in a Terre Haute Factory—Mrs. Woodworth’s Meetings at Mancie—Suicide by Hanging. INDIANA. Cauglit in a Belt and .Literally Beaten Until Life Was Extinct. Special to the lndiauatolis Journal. Terre Haute, Oct. 4.—Leonard Mills, an employe at Clift, Williams & Co.’s planing mill, was whirled around a pulley shaft this afternoon and killed. He was trying to tie a loose belt to a nail when some of the slack caught in a pulley. It caught hia arm, and instantly he was being thrown around with the fast revolving pulley, the body flying at fall length. After a halfdozen revolutions the arm was pulled from its socket and the then lifeless man thrown to the floor. The body was badly mangled and tbe arm ground to pieces in the beit and pulley. Mrs. Woodworth at Mancie. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Muncie, Oct 4. —The camp-meeting conducted by Mrs. Woodworth, on the fair grounds near this city, ‘is growing in interest, and the attendance is now quite large at each service. Yesterday, the weather being fine, about three thousand people assembled in and about her tent, to hear this wonderful evangelist She spoke in the morning, afternoon and evening, about an hour at each service. Her talks, strictly speaking, are not sermons, but exhortations and warnings to the unconverted to turn from their sins and flee the wrath to come. At the close of each talk her workers, as by mutual understanding, march in to*the crowd singing and shouting, and thus create the excitement which affects the sympathetic so peculiarly as to put them into trances. Quite a number of persons have been converted since the beginning of her meeting here. It is quite certain that this miscellaneous shouting, singing and praying by the evangelist’s helpers goes further toward producing these strange phenomena peculiar to her meetings than do her talks, which lack much of being logical or argumentative. She has the appearance of one deeply in earnest and sincere, yet she adopts methods somewhat fascinating. She is dr&ffiatic in tone and actions. Her speech is of a sing song style, while her hands are kept busy in graceful, easy motions. At times her eyes are fixed heavenward for several minutes, while she stands like a statue, her hands thrown hack over her shoulders. palms upward, in a slow, weaving motion. Thus she secures the attention of her audience, and perhaps the sympathy of those to be effected by her work. Three services are heid each day, morning afternoon and evening, the night service being very largely attended and particularly noisy and, to all appearances, very fervent. Jail-Delivery at Warsaw. Special to the Indianaeoiis Journal. Warsaw, Oct 4.—On Sunday evening, at about 8 o'clock, Peter Seagle, James Turner and George Parks, alias Ed McClaren, held here for burglary and larceny, overpowered the sheriff and escaped from jail. Sheriff Stephenson entered the large cell where the prisoners were confined for the purpose of replenishing the fire. In stooping to pick up the coal-scuttle, he was suddenly seized by Seagle and held until Turner and Parks secured the jail keys, unlocked the door and escaped, when Seagle threw the sheriff to the floor and rushed out, knocking down Mrs. Stephenson, the sheriff’s wife., in his flight The sheriff recovered himself in time to draw his revolver and prevent the escape of the other prisoners confined in the jail. No trace has been found, as yet, of the escaped thieves, although a vigorous search has been instituted, and a reward of S3OO offered for their capture and return. Seagle is a Chicago man, and was arrested about two months ago for complicity in the burglary of the store of S. L. Ketring, at Syracuse. Turner and Parks bail from Port Wayne, and were held for the burglary of the Pennsylvania depot at Etna Green. Suicide by Hanging, Special to the ludianaDolls Journal. Martinsville, Oct 4.—Curtis Huxley, aged seventy-five years, living in the. northern edge of Monroe county, committed suicide on Saturday evening by hanging. Ten days prior to his hanging Mr. Huxley had made a contract for his future wants by deeding his land, some eighty acres, to the man with whom he was living at the time he committed the act Some time since he had disposed of part of bis land, taking in payment therefor notes to the amount of SI,OOO, on which he could not realize anything, and which is supposed to have caused him to thus take his life. Minor Notes. Mr. M. A. Marks was, on Sunday, chosen president of the Hebrew congregation Adath Israel, at Madison. Burglars entered the store of Kreitzer Bros., in West Union, a suburb of New Albany, opened the safe and secured S2OO. The barn of Robert Stricklen, at Boggstown, caught fire, on Sunday evening, and burned, with its contents. Loss, $1,000: insurance, SSOO. The wife of William Denniston, living at Sardinia, in the south end of Decatur county, left her child, six weeks old, lying on the bed, and soon after, upon going to it, was surprised to find the babe dead. No reason can be assigned for its sudden demise. On Saturday night last the frame barn owned by Mr. John Haynes, living one mile north of Eaton, was burned to the ground. Two head of good horses, 100 bushels of wheat, eight tons of hay, one two horse wagon, harness, and some farm tools were consumed. The loss is placed at $1,500, with no insurance. Mrs. Perry Sexton died very suddenly at her home, near Alto, Howard county, Saturday evening, of congestion of the stomach, aged forty-eight years. She had lived thirty years on the farm where she died. A procession of neighbors and friends a mile long followed her remains to their last resting-place, on Sunday, in Crown Point Cemetery. Rev. Charles W. Lee, of Lawreneeburg. preached a sermon in Trinity Church, Madison, Sunday night, that created a sensation, being pronounced very unorthodox. His theme was “The Resurrection,” and he denied the generally accepted belief of recognition of friends in heaven, all terrestrial kinships and memories being forever unknown to the celestial dwellers. John Short was arrested at Lafayette, and his wooden leg taken off. In it were found secreted a fine gold watch, a costly lady’s necklace, three pairs of fine bracelets, five diamond rings, with other articles of jewelry and ornaments to the value of $1,500. John's brother, William, is an inmate of the northern prison, having been sent there a few weeks since for robbery, and the valuables captured from John are supposed to be a portion of the proceeds of his brother’s bprglaries. ILLINOIS. Testing the Legality of the Live-Stock Commission Law. Pekin, Oct. 4.—A verdict of $2,100 has been rendered for the plaintiff in the snit of Christian Zehr, of this county, against the Live stock Commission of this State, to recover $5,000 for killing four horses supposed to have been glanderd. A motion for anew trial will be argued. The case is one of ereat interest, as it was the ..r3t test of the Live-stock Commission law. Brief Mention. Charles S. Neal, a bridge carpenter, fell from the Big Muddy bridge of the' Mobile & Ohio road, near Murphysboro, and broke his neck. His home and relatives are unknown. George Ritter, a former resident of Shelbyvilie. lately of Colorado, returned to Shelby ville • few days ago and registered a a hotel. On

Saturday morning he was found dead and a par tially empty package of Rough on Rats suggested that the unfortunate man had- committed suicide. The coroner’s inquest confirmed beyond a doubt this theory. Despondency doubtless prompted the act. El Paso people are excited over the mysterious disappearance of one H. F. Holtz, and it is feared that he has been foully dealt with. He came to El Paso last Monday to represent a sew-ing-machine company of Chicago. He took a room at the Campbell House, from which he leisurely strolled Wednesday night, and since then nothing has been learned of him. His valise, clothing and all his effects were left in the room. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN Indications War Dipvrtment, ’ ) Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Oct. 5, la. h. ) For Twenty-four Hours from 7 a. m. for Indiana—Fair weather, slightly warmer in northern portion, nearly stationary temperature in southern portion. For Indiana and Illinois—Fair weather, winds shifting to southerly, slightly warmer in tbo northern portion, nearly stationary temperature in the southern portion. For Eastern Michigan—Fair weather, followed by local rains in the northern portion, winds shifting to southerly, slightly warmer. For Western Michigan and Wisconsin—Fair weather, followed by local rains, winds shifting to southerly, slightly warmer. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Oct. 4. Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. J Weather j Rain. 6A. M.... 30.15 48 67 South|Fair 2P. M.... 30.05 69 50 West I Clear 10 P. M.... 30.13 54 77 North|Clear Maximum temperature, 71; minimum temperature, 45. General Observations. War Department, > Washington, Oct. 4. 10 p. m. J Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations--1 a i j 5“ 5 ST S' °°s-l 2 2 2 o. O' 2,1 f* STATIONS. 8 5 • g?. a S I -i S5-| f New York City 30.00 59 3west Cloudy. Washington City... 30.05 54;South Clear. Vicksburg, Miss 30.11 64 N’east ..... Clear. New Orleans, La 30.07 73 North Clear. Shreveport, La..... 30.12 63 Calm Clear. Fort Smith, Ark... 30.07 61|0alm ..... Clear. Little Rook. Ark... 30.08 60 Calm Clear. Galveston, Tex 30.19 72, S’ east ..... Clear. Memphis, Tenn.... 30.12 61 Nwest Clear. Nashville. Tenn 30.09 59 West Clear. Louisville. Ky 30.09 61 Swest Clear. Indiauapolis. lad... 30.14 56 North Clear. Cincinnati, 0....... 30.08 60 North Clear. Pittsburg. Pa 30.06 56 South .02 Cloudy. Oswego, N. Y 30.08 56 N’east Cloudy. Toledo. O 30.14 58 North Cloudy. H scan aba. Mich 29.24 46 N’east Clear. Marquette. Mich— 30.26 37 ,Nwest - Clear. Chicago. 11l 30.19 54 N west Clear. Milwaukee, Wis 30.20 51 N’east Clear. Duluth, Minn 30.21 45 N’east Clear. St. Paul. Mian 30.18 55 Calm iOlear. LaCrosse. Wis 30.22 54 West Clear. Davenport, la 30.17 59 Calm Clear. Des Moines. la. 30.18 57 Calm .....Clear. Keokuk. Ia 30.15 62 North Clear. Cairo. 11l 30.10 62 Calm Clear. Springfield. 1U....... 30.17 60 East .... Clear. St. Louis. Mo 30.12 65 North Hear. Lamar, Mo ..... 30.14 65 Nwest Clear, I °avenworth, Kan.. 30.14 58 Calm Clear. Omaha. Neb 30.20 61 S’east Hazy. Yankton. Dak 80.15 58;8’east Clear. Moorehead. Minn.. 29.09 521 South Clear. Bismarck, Dak 29.99 66 S’east Clear. Fort Buford. Dak.. 29.78 63;South Cloudy. Ft.Assinibome,M. T 29.87 60: S’east Clear. Fort Custer. Mont,. 30.81 67 1 North Clear. Deadwood, Dak North Platte, Neb.. 30.11 58 East [Fair. Denver, Col 30.00 58;South ICloudy. W. Las Animas. Col 30.12 sG!South .18 Cloudy. Dodge City, Kan.... 30.18 58 S’east Fair. Fort Elliott Tex... 30.08 62;S east Cloudy. Fort Sill, Ind. Ter I Fort Davis. Tex 30.05 56 N’east .28 *Lt. rain El Paso, Tex 30.05 59 N’east .07iClear. Salt Lake City. U. T 29.92 62,N’east |Clear. •Thunder-storm. The Hennepin Canal Project. Chicago, Oct 4.—The United States government board of engineers on the Illinois & Michigan, and the Hennepin canals, composed of General (i B Comstock, of Village Point. N. Y.; General O. M. Poe, of Detroit, and Major J. C. Post, of Cincinnati, was in session in this city to-day to report on the eanals. Beside the board, several other gentlemen were present. General Comstock presided at the meeting, and called for some remarks on the subject of the canals. Governor Oglesby said he had not studied the matter, and was not prepared to give any definite information. With the great Lake Michigan lying useless, and the Mississippi river on the other side of the State, it seemed as if nature intended the canals for use. He asked if the government could, iust for the sum of $10,000,000 or $20,000,000, afford to let the great natural artery or ohanoel remain idle. He referred to the vast increase of population and the marvelous increase of coal, corn, lumber, grain and flour shipments during the past thirty-two years, and wanted to know what the increase would be in tbe next thirty-two year* The object of the canals was to reduce to the lowest possible standard the rate of transportation. The United States cannot afford to let the project go by unnoticed. The government should not wait a day to avail itself of this water-way. The Governor’s remarks were followed by a running debate by tbe gentlemen present, all of whom favored the project. The meeting then adiourned without any action being taken. The board will submit its report to the government some time in November. Colonel De Revolse’s Alleged Shortage, New York, Oct. 4.—On Friday last Colonel W. H. De Bevoise, late chief stamp clerk in the Brooklyn postoffice, died suddenly. It was rumored yesterday that there was a defalcation in his department in the office, traceable to tbo time when ho was chief clerk, and that he had committed suicide. The coroner held an inq jest over the remains, and the verdict was that he had died of cerebral apoplexy, pret-uina-bly superinduced or hastened by anxiety. All of the officials in position to know about tbe matter are very reticent. This much, however, has been learned: Three packages of stamps, containing 50,000 stamps each, which were turned over to the new postmaster as two-cent stamps, have been discovered to be oiks instead, making a shortage of $1,500; that there had been erasures and changes in the books; that Colonel De Bevoise was called on by the postoffice inspectors to explain the matter, and that he said that there had been two deficiencies in the accounts of the office—one for $2,000 and one for $1,558 —which had been rectified, and the money had been put ud. There were various other rumors, hut none of them could be traced to any reliable source. Commissioners of Foreign Missions. Des Moines, la., Oct. 4.—Visitors to the meeting of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions began to arrive in this city yesterday, and have been coming all day. California and Connecticut were among the first States represented, and large delegations are expected in the morning. The local committee has made preparation for the entertainment of seven hundred visitors who have sent on their names, and fully a thousand or twelve hundrod are expected. Committees will meet all incoming trains several miles from the city and direct strangers to their stopping places on arrival. The first meeting will be heid at 3 P. m. to-morrow, at which there will be reports from the home secretary, Dr. Allen, and the senior foreign secretary, Dr. Clark. In the evening, the annual sermon will be preached by Dr. Withrow, of Boston. Dr. Mark Hopkins, of Williams College, will preside. Must Have Been Wiggins’s Earthquake. Cjty of Mexico, Oct. 4. —A curious phenomenon has occarred at Chiinapla, in the State of Mexico. Within a few days past tremendous subterranean reports were heard, though at the time the meteorological conditions were perfect, there being no unusual aspect of the sky nor the slightest rain. The people of the town were filled with alarm, and an investigation was made by which it was discovered that a high hill in the vicinity had been completely divided into two parts by some powerful force.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Jnstin McCarthy lectured in New York last night for the benefit of the Charleston relief fund. The number of applicants for admission to the literary or collegiate department of the University of Michigan is unprecedented, reaching 300. The attendance in all the professional schools is also very large. Attorney-eeneral Cassidy, of Pennsylvania, will be in Harrisburg on Wednesday or Thursday, when he will take preliminary steps against the coal pool men. A bill in equity will be filed to restrain the several corporations from entering into the combination. Christopher Meyer, of New York, a millionaire ten times over, and president of the Meyer Rubber Company, has been sued for breach of promise by Miss Annette Schenck. Miss Scheuck is a descendant of an old Knickerbocker family, and ia about thirty years old. Meyer is sixty eight The plaintiff places her damages at $100,000; Wesley Olewciler, residing near York, Pa., on Saturday evening retnrned from a hunting expedition, and, considerably under the influence of liquor, he threw his shotgun down upon the floor of his house with such force as todisebarge the load. The contents of the gun entered his abdomen, killing him almost instantly. E© leaves a widow and three children. Thd Philadelphia Times yesterday astonishsd its contemporaries of that city and newspaper men generally by reducing its price for the daily from two cents to one. In giving a reason for tho change, the publisher mentions the fact that the price of white paper has been reduced one half in the twelve years since the paper was started, and that to-day telegraphing to Europe was as cneap by cable as it then was to Louisiana or Florida. Two boys, while out. hunting near Columbus, N. Y., on Sunday, found tbe body of a man hanging to the limb of a birch tree. The man’s suspenders had been removed from his clothing and used as a noose. The body was found to be greatly decomposed; so much so that the features were unrecognizable. Nothing was found to tell who tbe man was or where he came from. He was, to all appearances, about forty years old, of sandy complexion, sandy hair and sandy side whiskers. John Schmidt, who was in jail at Newark, N. J., for the murder of his wife, committed suicide yesterday. He left a letter saying he had bought the poison in Chicago and came East for the purpose of killing his wife and then himself by shooting, and intended to use the poison ia case he failed to end his life with the pistol. He killed his wife and having failed to kill himself at the same time, he resorted to the poison. In the letter he explains how he bad the poison sewed in the waistband of his pantaloons. Henry Hotchkiss, a musician of Hartford, Conn., aged thirty-five years, has for some time been in trouble with his wife, from whom he is supposed to have separated. They had two children. On Sunday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, they met on Market street. He drew a revolver and fired two shots at her, one of which took effect in her head and the other in her back. She died in a few minutes. Hotchkiss then fired one shot into his own head, but the wound inflicted is thought to be hut slight. He was taken to the hospital. The tragedy has caused groat excitement. Fire Losses in September New York, Oct. 4.—The September fire loss in the United States and Canada, according to the estimate of the New York Daily Commercial Bulletin, was $6,500,000. a slight decrease from the average September losses of previous years. The Bulletin’s fire record contains mention of 129 September fires where the reported loss was SIO,OOO or more. There were 12 fires of over SIOO,OOO during the month. Ud to Oct. 1 the aggregate fire waste in 1886 was $83,000,000, against $71,500,000 for the same period of 1885. So that with October, November and December yet to be heard from, there is no likelihood of a lower figure than $100,000,000 to be charged for fire in 1886. Philadelphia, Oct. 4—Greer & Cos. ’s woolen mill was burned to night Loss, $75,000; insured. Schooner and Crew Lost. Gloucester. Mass., Oct. 4.—The schooner Seth Stockbridge, wbioh sailed from here several months ago with a crew o? sixteen, for the Greenland fishing grounds, is believed to be lost Captain Olsoo, of the Stockbridge,. before leaving port, agreed to meet Captain Vela, of the schooner Herbert M. Rogers, at Isifjerd, as both had met at that place before. Captain Vele called at the place, but failed to find the Stockbridge. Whilecrnisine along the coast in searoh of tbe missing vessel, the natives informed him that a vessel had been crushed by ice several months before. They could give no description of her, nor did they know what became of the crew. Captain Vele was satisfied that the vessel was. the Stockbridge, and sailed for this port, arriving here yesterday. Baptists Don't Want Jones and Small. Boston, Oct. 4.—The Baptist ministers, at a meeting to-day, refused to co-operate the Methodist ministers in furthering the appearance of Reverends Sam Jones and Sam Small ia a series of revival meetings in this city. Obituary. Detroit, Mich., Oct 4—Gen. Mark Flanagan, organizer and lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Michigan troops, who were known as the “Iron Brigade,” died tonight, aged sixty-one. Wonderful conjunction—Red Star Cough Cure for colds; St Jacobs Oil for pains. The report of Secretary Hammond, of the Illinois State Horticultural Sooiety, based on over 300 replies to questions sent out shows that only 22 per cent of the farmers of the State grow strawberries for their own use. 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