Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1886 — Page 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

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MODEL Our Boys’ and Children’s Clothing is receiving UNSTINTED PRAISE This season. For anything and everything that is stylish, nobby , durable and reasonable in price in the way of Clothing for the little ones, don’t fail to come to the MODEL is the time to buy a Fall Overcoat. WELL_ MATCHED! This beautiful weather, and .the BEAUTIFUL HATS Displayed by us from day to day. BAMBERGER, 16 East Washington St. N. M. NEELD’S DEFALCATION. Bis Rascality a Topic of Conversation in Chicago Financial Circles. Hints of Alleged Dishonesty in Connection lYith the Barsing Out of the Firm in This City-Statement from Mr. E. E. Barnard.

Chicago, Oct. 11 —The flight of Nathan M. Neeld is the only matter taflfed of in financial circles. The more the matter of the embezzlement is stirred up, the more sensational it besomos. Mr Wheeler, the president of the Continental National Bank, says: ‘‘So far as the liability* of the Board of Trade is concerned When it makes a house ‘regular,’ it is generally considered and acknowledged that no liability Whatever attaches to them. The foundation of nil business is commercial integrity, and when these conditions are violated or disrupted in any way, as in the case in point, individual losses follow and confidence is more or less shaken. But, happily, these cases are rare.” Among the insurance agents there is anew phase of Neeld’s record which is being talked of amoDg them. Just before the removal of the firm here, there was a fire at Indianapolis, and the insurance companies paid losses aggregating $300,000. The companies paid the losses promptly, and with thatmoney the firm moved here. After the fire there was a little muttering of the men concerned as to the amount of stock destroyed. Neeld presented all the agents with scarf-pins representing a boar’s head with largo diamond eyes. Said one agent this morning: “1 was always ashamed to wear that pin. I paid the losses of my company honestly, and did not put any faith in the rumors that were afloat at Indianapolis; but I am dead certain that that house had beeo cleaned out before ever that fire occurred.” Regarding the statement as to the Indianapolis fire, the newspaper printing it contains, this evening, the following: To the Editor. I noticed in your paper of this date a statement refprding the tire of J. U. Ferguson & Cos., in Indianapois, in February, 1881, wherein it aras stated that some insurance agents were talking now about that fire in connection with their present troubles. As our firm placed that line of insurance, I fool it my duty to correct the impression that has gained ground. The firm of J. C. Ferguson & 00. had their packing-house in Indianapolis destroyed by fire in Februaiy, 1881, when it was full of hog products, and many tierces were on the platform asd in the yard. A committee of insurance men was appointed to adjust the loss, every one of whom will, I think, sav it was an honest loss, and that Mr. Neeld handled the salvage invoice in a satisfactory manner and sold it to Chicago and Cincinnati parties at a good round figure. The adjustment was so pleasantly conducted on both sides that, at the conclusion, Mr. Neeld said, in a joking way: “It was a big pork deal, and he didn’t want the committee to forget it." Whereupon he ordered six gold wild boars made, with diamond eyes, and presented them to the committee. “Large oaks from little acorns grow,” aud “the time to kick a man is when he is down.” E. E. Barnard. President Nash, of the Corn Exchange Bank at New York, is here, simply looking into the methods of the fraud. It may make a difference in the chance of prosecution and recovery, whether the receipts were fraudulent from the start, or whether the receipts were all right in the beginning, but the goods removed later. Nobody believes that Neeld took much money with him. The members of N. M. Neeld’s immediate household have not as yet recovered from the terrible disclosures of Saturday. Neither of the Ferguson brothers was to be seen yesterday, and, although Mr. Howard has left New York, he had not arrived in town nt an early hour last evening. A friend of the resident members of the firm is authority for the statement that the Ferguson brothers knew nothing of the fearful fxavity of Neeld’s offense until Saturday mornnp, when they received the information but a trifle in advance of the general public. SiDce then they have been utterly unable to even take the first steps towards a solution of tho complications in which the firm is involved, and nothing whatever in that line has been done. They intend, as soon as possible, to take the necessary steps in that direction, but nothing can be done prior to the arrival of and a consultation with Mr. Howard. So far as any one outside the family knows, nothing has been heard from Neeld or his wife since their hurried departure Thursday night for the East. After a meeting of the bankers, who are the principal sufferers, it was decided to prosecute Neeld to the bitter end. The Bank of British North America engaged the services of W. A. Pinkerton, aud two operatives loft Saturday for ? Toronto, Quebec and Montreal. The fugitive is n a position from which he cannot well oscape. His offense is not extraditable, but the Bank of erituh North America is a Canadian institution,

WHEN INDICATIONS. Tuesday— Fair weather , stationary temperature. A BIRD IN_p HAND. There was an old man who said, “Hash! I perceive a young bird in this bush!” When they said. “Is it small?” He replied, “Not at all— It is four times as big as the bush!” Asa bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, such bird must be eight times as big as the bush. THE SIZE OF IT! That is about the way with purchases at THE WHEN. The satisfaction is about eight times bigger than that which comes from buying on promises held out by other establishments, which may be called the bird in the bush. A LITTLE EARLY. May be so for winter clothes, but not for a Fall Overcoat, nor yet for Underwear and Furnishing Goods. We have an unusually large stock in all departments, and in each always ONE PRICE BELOW ALL COMPETITION. THE"WHEN and if he is found in Canada he can bo tried there for his crime, while if he remains in the United States he is equally liable to arrest. Losses of Canadian Banks. Toronto, Oct. 11.—With reference to the defalcation of Neeld, of the packing-house of Ferguson & Cos., of Chicago, a prominent official of the Bank of British North America stated, today, that their loss would not amount to anything like $93,000, and that the Montreal bank escaped scot free. He stated, also, that he thought that Neeld would not come to Canada, as his crime is an extraditable one. Local Transactions of Neeld and Ferguson. In the search for property in this county owned by N. M. Neeld and J. C. Ferguson, of Chicago, it has been found that Neeld was recently a party to several real estate transfers here. The couDty records show that on the 30tb of last June James C. Ferguson and wife transferred to Neeld a half interest in fourteen acres of land east of the city, near the old Hill nursery, and a half interest in the old Ferguson residence, the consideration being $15,000. In the deed it was stipulated that it was the intention to convey to Neeld the interest of Mr. Ferguson only. Soon afterward Mr. and Mrs. Neeld and Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson sold to John F. Wallick the old family residence for $22,000. At the time these transactions took place it was understood here that Mr. Ferguson was adjusting the accounts of tho old partnership.

BLIND TOM. Judge Donohue Denies an Application for an Inquiry as to His Mental Condition. New York, Oct. 11.—Judge Donohue, of the Supreme Court, has denied the application of Mrs. Charity Wiggins, the mother of Thomas Wiggins, known as "Blind Tom,” the wonderful pianist, to have his mental condition inquired into and his estate cared for. Tom’s father’s name was Mingo. He is dead. Both father and mother were Georgia slaves. Tom was born in that State in 1849. When he was four years old the whole family were sold as slaves to James W. Bethune, with whom they remained until freed by the war. Under an agreement, Tom was placed in control of Bethune for five years, until May, 1870, when he would be of age. This was approved by S. F. Bayne, superintendent of freedmen, at Augusta, Ga. Without the parents’ consent Bethune took Tom out of the State, and put him on exhibition as a pianist. In 187CTom became a citizen of New York. While on exhibition in Virginia, Tom was declared a lunatic, and Mr. Betbune’s son, John G. Bethune, was declared a committee of his person. The latter acted as Tom’s manager till 1884, when he died. The elder Bethune was then appointed. In the meantime, Mrs. Wiegins removed to this city. She brought suit against Bethune for the services of her son and an accounting of the profits of the exhibition Bince 1805. That suit is pending in Alexandria, Va. The old lady has twelve children, the oldest sixty years old and the youngest twenty-eight, all born in slavery, and therefore not born in lawful wedlock. Tom has no heirs. His mother is next of kin, unless the court decides the other children as relatives Hence, the application to Judge Donohue. The affidavits state that, though possessed of wonderful musical ability, he is an idiot. The application was denied, on the ground that proceedings should be instituted in the State where the committee was first appointed. SNATCHED FROM DEATH. Remarkable Experiment of a Physician Upon a Woman Supposed To Bea Corpse. Atlanta, Oct. 11.— A restoration to life is reported here from Montezuma, which is creating considerable interest among the doctors. Dr. R. O. Engram, of that town, was called in to see a colored woman who had a congestive chill. When he reached her side he saw that extremely ill. Turning to her husband, he told him the woman would be dead in ten minutes. At the same time he prepared a decoction of brandy and aqua ammonia, to be given hypodermically, for immediate relief. When he turned to his patient her pulse had ceased to beat; her heart was motionless, and she was dead. Instead of placing the hypodermic syringe in her arm he inserted It in her body, imdiately over her heart, and pressed it in slowly until it touched that organ, and then discharged a portion of the brandy and ammonia. In a few seconds the heart made a struggle to perform its functions, and it was not long before the pulse was perceptible. The patient is now convalescent. Dr. Enerram declares that the woman was dead, and that his treatment was purely au experiment If the brandy had not been convenient the woman could not have been revived. More Wabash Litigation. Chicago, Oct 11.—Thomas B. Atkins, Henry K. McKarg, Jacob Short and Hughes H. Thayer, bond-holders of the Wabash, St Louis & Pacific railway, east of the Mississippi, presented a petition to Judge Gresham, to day, for leave to file a bill to foreclose mortgages on the property of tho road, and for a receiver. The mortgages sought to be foreclosed are on the Toledo, Wabash & Western railroad for $2,010,000; on the., Wabash for $2,000,000, and ten others, representing $15,000,000, all of which are prior to the mortgage under which the Wabash system was foreclosed and sold by the federal-court at St Louis. A separate and competent receiver is asked in addition to the foreclosure. Judge Gresham set the matter for bearing on Oct 19. Pure Popular Preparation—Red Star Cough Cure. Price, 25 cents.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1886.

PLAY-DAY FOR THE KNIGHTS. Part of a Day Devoted to Music, Marching, Speeches and Amusement. Governor Lee and Other Virginians Fail to Appear, and the Knights Are Forced to Draw on Their Own Oratorical Talent. A Prospect that the Strike of PackingHouse Men May Be Compromised. Freight Business on Two Divisions of the N. Y., P. & 0. Railway Abandoned Because of. a Strike of Switchmen and Brakmen. A DAY OF PLEASURE. Music, Marching, Speech-Making, aud a Grand Ball in the Evening. Special to tho IndianaDOlia Journal. Richmond. Va., Oct 11.—This has been a day of music, marching, speech-making and amusement for the Knights of Labor assembled here, and a night of banqueting and dancing is in progress. The demonstrations have been successful in every respect. A good deal of disappointment was expressed by the thousands who assembled at the fair grounds this afternoon at the conclusion of the parade. United States Senator-elect John W. Daniel, Governor Lee, Mayor Carrington, General Master Workman Powuerly, and others, were advertised to speak. Mr. Daniel sent a message to the committee on arrangements stating that this being the one hundredth anniversary of the city charter of Lynchburg, he would deliver a public address there; Governor Lee and Mayor Carrington were kept away by official business, and very soon after arriving at the fair grounds, Mr. Powderlv became ill and returned to his hotel. There were two speeches delivered by other gentlemen, however. Mr. Ralph Beaumont, delegate to the convention from Elmira, N. Y., spoke first. He was introduced by Mr. Wm. H. Miller, editor of the labor organ of this city, and talked from the seat of a carriage in front of the main building in the fair grounds. There were 5,000 or 6,000 people on the grounds, and as many on the outside who hesitated to pay the twenty-five cents admission fee.

After felicitating the citizens of the Old Dominion’s capital upon the success of the demonstration, Mr. Beaumont said that he was reminded, by the remarkable contrast of the scene about him, of the gathering in Reading, Pa., in 1878, of thirty-two men, who organized and put in motion the great order here represented. "This organization,” said he, "is not a voluntary one—necessity created it, and made it grow.'* He denounced claes legislation, sayiDg it put the wealth in the hands of the few and made monopoly and oppression. Abraham Lincoln declared this to be "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people;” "but now,” said Mr. Beaumont, "within twenty-five years from the time of this utterance we find it 'a government of the corporations by the corporations, and for the corporations.’” The Knights of Labor, ho said, believed, as an organization, that the government can be trusted in the hands of the people. There were laws, but no rights. "This condition,” said ho, "reminds me of the explanation of it made by a statesman recently. In clearing away tho cause of the oppression on our statutes, he said that our laws and rights came to us from England. ‘They came,’ he observed, ‘in two ships—one was loaded with the laws, the other with the rights. The ship bearing the laws arrived safely, but the one with the rights never found its way here.”* Mr. Beaumont denounced the press and the telegraph as combining against the laboring element. The telegraph, ho declared, throttled beneficial information, and created damaging statements. He pointed out at length the condition of the anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania, saying that where he lived one hundred and twenty-five miles from the mines, he paid $5.50 a ton for coal, and the miners only received 10 cents a ton for mining it The $5.40 wen! to the monopolists. The 230,000 acres of anthracite coal are controlled by six corporations, who had mortgaged the fuel of generations unborn—aye, of generations a thousand years hence. Ho drew a pathetic picture by contrasting the wives and daughters of the corporation owners at seashore resorts, in luxury, while the poor miners, amid gases and foul air, worked their lives out away down in the boweis of the earth, and their families in poverty, living in slab shanties; yet the latter made it possible, by indigence and hard work, for the former to spend their lives in opulence and blissful happiness. "Work your brains more,” was his advice, "and you will have to work your hands less.” Ho did not think the fact could be helped that Jay Gould had his millions, but thought tho time had come for the Knights to say, ‘Jay, let’s quit now, and let’s have another system.’ ” The speaker called upon the Knights to patronize their own literature. Here in this city, he said, they had an organ, "and tho editor has to live in a garret and exist on cheese and crackers.” There were many interruptions by applause and cries of approval, aud when Mr. Beaumout had concluded, at the end of thirty minutes, Mr. Charles H. Litchman, of Marblehead, Mass., was introduced as the "silver-tongued orator of the Knights of Labor.” Mr. Litchman's address was more conservative than Beaumont’s. The economic questions which entered into the duties of voters, as well as laborers, were dwelt upon. Laborers, he said, must be consumers as well as producers, yet they can do neither as they should unless their compensation as laborers was equal to the rights guaranteed them by our form of government. Labor creates all values, and the laborers are entitled to a more equable share of the values. They can only get this by standing together, by standing together in a body, as did the people of the North or those of the South in 1861. Mr. Litchman brought forth yells and cheers from the colored people until the welkin rang, by an allusion to the race issue raised here during the convention. His hearers were largely composed of colored people. He said that the organization of the Knights of Labor ought not to be condemned for the act of a single man, or the indiscretion of a few men in it There were those in tho order who did wrong, and they were punished whenever found. The Knights of Labor, as an organization, stood between monopoly and anarchy. He cautioned tho people against driving the laborers to ies peration, saying it might lead to the execution of 700,000 men in many cities, as well as the seven men in Chicago. "Recently I was asked,” he continued, "what, as Knights of Labor, we wanted. I replied that the Good Book told us that the earth and the fullness thereof was the Lord's, and that as we were the children of the Lord, we wanted our inheritance—wo wanted

the earth.” There were almost deafening cheers, which were renewed when Mr. Litchman added: "And more than this, we are going to have it.” After the addresses there were bicycle races, and to-night a banquet, followed by a ball in Agricultural Hall, which is progressing at this time. No disturbances on account of the color-line issue, or anything else, have occurred so far. There will be but one session of the convention to-morrow, and that will be in the morning, the Armory being engaged in the afternoon for the Grand Army demonstration. As the committees have been at work to-day, and will continue industriously, it is expectod that there will be a number of propositions reported back to the convention on Wednesday. The Knights and the Press. Richmond Special in Philadelphia Press. It must be admitted that the whole method of dealing with the public is both unsatisfactory and autocratic. Here is a vast body of men who propose to take an active part in American politics and aro asking for the support of American voters to redress their wrongs, yet they refuse to enlighten the public ou the action of their most important convention by exercising a censorship over the press reports such as the Czar of Russia does, preferring that the news should gradually leak out through the paid traitors in their own organization than by legitimate methods. such as those adopted by all patriotic political organizations, feeling themselves strong enough and their cause just enough and their methods honorable enough to take the public into their confidence. The result of this unfortunate course has injured the Knights of Labor incalculably. The absence of legitimate news has resulted in a good deal of speculation on the part of newspapers throughout the country, and the average Knight thinks the newspapers of the land are all against the order. On the contrary, the newspapers have treated the Knights of Labor far better than the Knights of Labor have treated the newspapers. Take the city of Philadelphia, and I do not know of a prominent journal that is not willing to sustain this organization in every reasonable effort it makes to advance the cause of labor. Yet a representative of a journal in that city, whose proprietor is known throughout the land for his generosity to those who toil, told me that the average Knight of Labor regards newspaper men as their natural enemies, and that, with the exception of a few of the more intelligent leaders, they were not eveD civil to representatives of the press, who are generally referred to as "those low-lived reporters.” This is the testimony of one of the most experienced and accomplished labor reporters in Philadelphia. The correspondents here are treated very much in this way, and a newspaper man who undertakes to talk to any of these airy delegates here runs the risk of being insulted. Powderly tells them to avoid reporters and newspaper men of all kinds. The majdrity follow his orders literally, though for a consideration some of then are being bought every day to furnish accounts of occurrences inside the convention and to give inside views of the situation. There is a feeling among some of the more intelligent members favorable to open sessions, or at least that an official report of some kind be prepared for the press. The absurdity of Mr. Powderly haranguing twenty newspaper men twice a day in the reading-room of the hotel for ten minutes and presenting them with a few unimportant telegrams from people and societies anxious to stand in with the Knights of Labor while all discussion indicating what the Kuichts of Labor are aiming at and thinking about is kept secret is apparent to sensible men and women. A farce of that kind cannot last long,

A Modern Knight’s Gallantry. Richmond Letter in Philadelphia Press. The street cars here are drawn by two, and sonaeiUnes three, mules, but there are no conductors. The steep grades make it almost impossible for a woman to deposit her fare and difficult for a man. Stepping in one of these bob tail conveyances the ’other afternoon I observed a very pretty and modest Virginia girl hand a quarter to a Knight of Labor who sat near the fare box and ask him to get it changed for her. The man replied, rather gruffly, “I’m not the conductor.” The young lady looked embarrassed, and gladly accepted my proffered services. I obtained the change, and put tho fare in the box, whereupon the noble Knight and his two companions loudly informed mo they had their opinion of me for acting as conductor for a miserable corporation. I was obliged to confess that tho act was performed solely to oblige a lady, and with no intention to aid and abet a grinding street-car monopoly. In the meantime the three Knights had refused to put their own fares into the box, and gallantly invited the unhappy driver, who was struggling with the three mules in front, to put off the three Knight 9. It is needless to say that the task had its difficulties, but was finally settled by the Knights givine their fare to the driver, and tho driver requesting a less punctilious passenger to deposit the money in the box. I quite indorse the principle the boys were fighting for, though they were not knightly in their conduct to the lailv, and in this Mr. Powderly would agree with me. THE CHICAGO STRIKE. A Prospect for Compromise—Walter Girls - Boycotting Pinkerton 3len. Chicago, Oct 11.—The situation at the stock yards is absolutely unchanged. The beef-pack-ers in Swift's and Morris's houses went to work, while the other places were shut down. The report that District Assembly 57 had ordered tho men to report for work this morning failed to be substantiated by facts. There were at least as many men out to-day as there wero Saturday, and in addition to these 'are the few men from the other houses, who have cleaned up the benches and have now joined those on the outside. The men themselves scarcely knew what they would do to day, and many gathered in the vicinity of the houses with their dinner-pails on their arms, prepared for work if the main body of strikers should go back, but thi3 was not done, and the men took their dinner-pails home again. Almost all the strikers seem contented to remain in their homes, and only the younger crowd hang around the houses. At 9 o’clock this morning all the beef men at Fowler’s quit work, and soon after the beef loaders at Armour's house, as well as about fifty of tho beefkillers, refused to go on. It was thought that all the beef men in the yards would be out. At 10 o’clock there was an immense crowd in the vicinity of the packinghouse, but Captain Markey ami his men kept splendid order. Messrs. Butler and B.arry, who were sent here by the Richmond convention to effect a settlement of the packers’ strike, hold a long conference this afternoon with Messrs. Bettford and Hately, representatives of the packers. After the conference, Mr. Barry stated to a reporter that the packers insisted on a return to the tenhour system, but there was a prospect of a compromise ou nine-hours’ nay for eight hours’ worx, or ten hours’ pay for nine hours’ work. When the conference ended no time wa3 set for a future meeting, as the representatives of the packers wished to confer fully with all the rest of the packers, and said that it would take several days to affect a settlement. The strikers had an open air meeting in Packin gtown to-night, which was addressed by Mr. Barry and other speaicers, who counseled moderation and urged the men now working eieht hours to remain at work, and those who had left any unfinished work to return until the houses had been cleared. Last Saturday night the girls at the Transit House absolutely refused to serve the Pinkerton men, and a compromise was effected by the head waiters, by hitting on the expedient of putting the provisions on the tables before the men entered, and allowing the men to help themselves. The girls agreed to fill the platters and take away the soiled die lies, Today, the girls de-

clare, is the last that they will submit to doing even this, and a strike among the waiter girls seems to be impendi%. OTHER LABOR NEWS. Freight Business Entirely Suspended on Two Divisions of the N. Y., P. & O. Railway. Cleveland, 0. , Oct 11. —Monday morning found the attitude of the New Yora, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad toward the striking brakemen unchanged. The officials are still hoping for an amicable adjustment, and while no arrangements have been made with the brakemen, it is probable that many of the strikers will return to work. Superintepdent O’Brien said that if they will come back at the terms offered they will find the company ready to employ them. The road will probably run freight trains to-morrow or Wednesday, if not with the old brakemen, with new men. The men in the Cleveland yards are quiet, but watchful, and express themselves as determined. The machine shops of the company in this city were closed today. A special dispatch from Meadville, Pa., says that at 6 o’clock this evening all the brakemen of the first and second divisions and the switchmen at that place quit work. The railroad company were fully prepared for the strike. An order was sent through to move all freight as quickly as possible, and to receive none whatever. All freight trains have been abandoned, the last train having left Meadville, east-bound, at 5 o'clock. The Assisted-Immigration Law Sustained. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 11.—Judge Brown, of the United States Court, this morning handed down his decision in the case of the United States against John Craig, on the action brought to recover a penalty of SI,OOO provided for in the "assisted-immigration act” of Feb. 26,1886. Mr. Craig imported ship carpenters from the Province of Quebec during the ship-yard strike of last spring. The defendant's counsel had interposed the objection that the entire law against importing labor was unconstitutional. Judge Brown has had this question under advisement for some time. It involved not only the Craig case, but was a test upon which the whole law was to stand or fall. This morning Jndge Brown delivered an elaborately-written op lion, reviewing each objection to the law and overruling them all. He holds that tho law is within that provision of the United States Constitution permitting Congress to regulate commerce. To the objection that our laws cannot punish an offense committed in Canada he answers that Mr. Craig’s offense was completed on this side by the actual landing of the imported Canadians. This is equivalent to the law punishing an accessory to a crime. If the crime .is not committed, the accessory is not guilty; but as soon as it is committed the accessory becomes liable. _ Ordered to Go to Work at Old Wages. Philadelphia, Oct. 11.—The executive board of District Assembly No. 1, Knights of Labor, this morning ordered the eight hundred striking stove-mouldars to return to work at the rales in force previous to Sept. 7, when the strike commenced. There was a stormy scene at the assembly’s meeting. A number of prominent leaders in the strike were present, and violently opposed the order of the board. Their opinions, however, were overruled, aud the order went into effect at the various stove foundries in the city. The strikers applied for work individually, and not as members of the Knights of Labor. Not more than half of them wore taken back, as the manufacturers said the strike had seriously crippled the winter trade, and they would not have use for their former force.

Tabor and Industrial Kotos. / The Detroit stove works are sending their stoves all over Europe. A company to make iron roofing will start in Birmingham, Ala., with a capital of SIOO,OOO. The Rochester Tumbler Company, of Pennsylvania, offers $4,000 in prizes to its employes for the best work during the coming year. A glass bottle factory is to be established at Atlanta, Ga. There is a large local demand in the South which this enterprise expects to supply. New York and Pennsylvania capitalists are buying up 3,000 acres of land in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of operating it on a large scale. Copper tube manufacturers will be interested to know that there is anew process just patented in Birmingham, England, for making seamless copper tubes. Frederick Siemens is making railroad sleepers out of glass, which will cost considerably less than cast-iron or steel. Ho expects to manufacture them on a large scale. Extensive additions are being made and new machinery will be put in nearly all textile mills. A Meriden, Conn., company filled an order last week for Bridgeport amounting to $70,000. Some very large steam eneines are being made. One New Hampshire firm has just put in one 100 horse power engine. The capital stock of about a dozen companies in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut has been largely increased. Anthracite coal dust is to be made into coal bricks for fuel to be used in locomotives, glass furnaces, steamers and for domestic purposes. A company has been formed with a capital of $75,000, and it expects to g%to work on a large scale right away. British capital in the valley of Mexico has started to use peat in the manufacture of brick by machinery, the peat to be supplied at 60 per cent, less than the present price of wood. Large beds of alleged anthracite coal in that, locality will be worked by English companies which expect to sell it to railroad companies. The system of public lectures by Knights of Labor will be carried on energetically during the coming winter. The best speakers will be engaged, and special efforts will be made to furnish them with the most valuable information that can be had; that is to say, they will be started out with a good stock of information gathered for them rather than by them. Masons and plasterers would do well to make note of a hint thrown out by an English architect, who says that the addition of saccharine matter increases the strongtli of mortar, making common lime, with sugar added, as strong as Portland cemeut. Water, to which sugar has been added, dissolves fourteen and a half times more lime than does water without sugar. A silk manufacturing firm in Paterson has concluded to follow the rest who have gone before. It has leased a large structure in Meadville. Several more silk-throwsters will leave that center for New York'and Pennsylvania. The linen-thread mill at Allentown is being pushed to completion. A silk manufacturing concern has started up in Chicago, with a capital of SIOO,OOO. Paper manufacturers have for years been casting about them for some new material for paper making. The use of peat is now an accomplished fact. A machine has been made that can turn out three tons an hour. A Boston mechanic has just invented a machine for cutting leather lacings by machinery, which have hitherto been cut by band. Each machine turns out the work of ten men. A great deal of rolling-mill capacity is going up, and new rolling-mills will be completed at Scotdale. a twelve-inch mill started la3t Monday at Sherman and four furnaces and a Basic-Bes-semer steel works will be built at Pittsburg, Ala. Anew nail factory has just been completed at Youngstown, and an extensive tube and iron works will start up to-morrow and will employ 700 men when fully completed. Employers are pleased with the attitude taken by Mr. Powderly on the eight-hour question. They have been apprehensive that that agitation will be renewed next year. There is a strong sentiment amoug the Knights of Labor in favor of it. Strong combinations have been effected among the manufacturers to fight the movement in organized form when it comes. Unless the Richmond convention takes very strong ground against the eight-hour agitation it will set in and sweep the country.

PRICE FIVE CENTS.

THE FACTS ABOUT GEKOMMO. Gen.Milcs’sOfficial Report of the Apache Surrender Giwn to the Public. The Indians Laid Down Their Arms on th 6 Terms Granted Prisoners of War—llow the Final Surrender Was Brought About, Figures Showingthe Yield of the Farms During the Crop Year Now Closing. Chicago and the Northwest Liberally Snpplied with Counterfeit Silver Certificates— Miscellaneous Washington News. ♦ MILES AND GERONIMO. The Apache Raider Surrendered on the Terms Granted Prisoners of War. Washington, Oct. 11.—General Miles’s annual report as commander o' the military department of Arizona and New Mexico, which has been received at the War Department, is a voluminous document, containing a full history of his operations against Geronimo and his band t together with a statement of his position in regard to the terms of surrender. It is learned that this part of hi3 report sets forth minutely the official orders received by him; his own orders placing Captain Lawton in command; the system of signaling adopted, etc., and afterwards recites substantially the following details; t Some 'lays prior to the surrender, a desevter from (Jeronimo's band came into General Miles’s camp with the information that vhe renegades were short of food, clothing and ammunition, were footsore and nearly exhausted from long marches, and could not hold* out much longer. Thereupon General Miles ordered Lieutenant Gatewood who knew Geronimo and Natchez well, and spoke tbo Apache language, to take a guard Os two men, obtain a parley, if possible, with Geronimo, and see if he would surrender. This mission Lieutenant Gatewood accomplished successfully. He iufovmed Geronimo, in answer to the chief’s questions, that he had no offer him terms. Geronimo then asked to be taken to Captain Lawton, who was in the immediate neighborhood. This was done, and on repeating the question asked Lieutenant Gatewood, Captain Lawton told him that he could make no terms, end that he most surrender. Geronimo then wanted to see General Miles, and both parties—Captain Lawton and command and Lieutenant Gatewood, and Geormmo, Natchez and their band—set out for the north, traveling for some days on parallel lines and within sight of each other. In the meantime, v messenger had been sent ahead to notify General Miles of their approach. On coming into General Miles's camp, Geronimo, as before, a- ked what terms would be given him if he surrendered. The General replied that he had no terms to offer; that if he and his band surrendered at all, they must surrender as prisoners of war; that they must lay down their arms, and trust the President, of the United States. Upon this, Geronimo laid down his arms and signilied his willingness to surrender, but Natchez, who had in the meantime kent out of reach and refused to com* in, sent word that he wanted to go to the Whit© Mountains for a month, whereupon Geronimo went out after Natchez, and soon returned with him. Go-' ronimo,. in explanation and justification of his conduct, said he left the reservation for the reason that t'hero was a conspiracy on foot there, headed by Chatto, to murder him. Geronimo, Natchez ami two others were loaded into an ambulance, followed by the iest of the band, in charge ot Captain Lamc.i, and taken to Fort Bowie Station and shipped to Texas. General Miles, in his report, argues at some length the question of punishment, and calls attention to the fact that heretofore, in such case*, removal has been deemed sufficient. He citea several cases in which no greater punishment ha* been inflicted, speaks of the great good done Arizona by their removal, and suggests that they bo treated as other Indians have been treated under similar circumstances. He highly compliments Captain Lawton, Lieutenant Gatewood and the officers and soldiers generally for tbeiv meritorious services during the campaign. From an army friend of Lieutenant Gatewood, it is learned that he found Geronimo and his band encamped near the Mexican town of Fronteras, in Sonora, in an old Mexican adobe hamlet, surrounded by an adobe wall. It was at one time a mission hamlet, founded by tho Jesuits. When Lieutenant Gatewood came upon the band he left his guards and alono walked into Geronimo’s camp. On seeing the intruder the Indians seized their eune, but on the Lieutenant laying down his arms and beckoning Geronimo, whom ho recognized, the Indians also laid down their arms and came forward. The two seated themselves on a pile of stones. Geronimo wanted to know what kind of a man General Miles was—whether he had a bright eye or a dull one. whether he talked fast or slow, whether he was a large man and what was his general appearance. He wanted to know all about him. Gatewood replied that General Miles had a bright eye. did not talk much, but what he said couict bo relied on. The Indian rva* much pleased with this assurance, and together they walked away to find Captain Lawton. Gov. Zulick, of Arizonia. is in tho city, and this afternoon bad a long interview with the President, presumably concerning the question of Geronimo’s punishment, but when interrogated as to the result of the interview and his opinion of General Miles's report, ho very firmly stated that as to tho first question his interview was of a confidential nature and not for tho public, and as to the second question, he did not care to discuss a report of which he know nothing. He stated, however, that he had great confidence in General Miles’s judgment and other soldierly qualities, and believed him to be a brave and efficient officer.

THE YEAR’S CROPS. Figures Showing: the Average Y ield of Wheat. Corn, Oats and Other Farun Products. Washington, Oct. 11.—The report of the Department of Agriculture for October gives local estimates of yield per acre of small grains, with condition of corn, potatoes aud other late crops. The results corroborate tho previous returns of wheat, confirming expectations of a slight increase from the first records of thrashing, without making any material addition to the crop aggregate. The average yield, upon an area ol* fully thirty-seven railiion acres, appears to be close to 12} bushels per acre, making the crop of an average of a series of years. The area actually harvested is now the principal object of exact determination. The result will vary little from an increase of 100.000,000 bushels over the crop of last year. The State averages of the principal States are: New York, 17 Pennsylvania, 13; Kentucky, 11.5; Ohio, 15.7; Michigan, 16.3; Indian®; 15.1; Illinois, 13.1; Wisconsin, 12.3; Minnesota, 12.6; lowa, 12.5; Missouri, 12.5; Kansas. 11; Nebraska, 9.6; Dakota. 10.5; California, 11.5; Oregon, 12.5. * Tho average yield per acre of oats is 26.6 bushels, making a crop of over 600.000.000 bushels. The Ohio valley averages over 30 bushel® per acre, lowa over 34 bushels, with lower yields