Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1888 — Page 2

TUB IXDIAXAPOMS JOURAIi. TUESDAY, APRIL

3, 1888

to the East after discharging them, the officials Claim thnt the now mea wore brought here oa th express condition that tbey would not reiceive pUcrs until thy proved competent. One of the mea who mads complaint worked for the Burlington three weeks 10 Nebraska, earning 75, ami wa then discharged for incompetency. The company passed him eaet to Chicago, but refused to buy a ticket lor further trans port a tion eastward, aa he waa not without means. Several similar instances have arisen, bat in znost eases the company has compromised in preference to bavin? complaints or trouble. Several cas are known where a discharged employe bai made a sale to the Brotherhood by keeping the fact of hi discharge quiet, onereeiving aa high as $175 from the engineers. AT MILWAUKEE.

The St. Panl Will Not Refuse to Handle the. IJurlington's Cars. Milwaukee, April 2. General Manager Miller, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, aid, this morning, that the situation on the St. Paul line is very much the same as on Saturday. "The local engineers, brakemen and switchmen held meetings yesterday," he said, "but as far as I have been able to learn no resolutions to strike were adopted. No communication to that effect has been made to me." In case a demand was made by the men would yoii isue an order against handling Burlington freight?" asked the reporter. . ' "1 will never issue such an order never." Mr. Miller said the number of striking St. Panl employes at Chieago has been decreased since Saturday, by Chicago suburban men and round-house men returning to their work, alleging that tbey quit work through a misunderstanding. "I cannot teil exactly how many are oat now," said Mr. Miller, "but I should say about 17o." , AH is quiet about the yards in this city at present. A report is current that a strike will occur at 12 o'clock, but is not generally credited. Five Thousand St. Paul Men Laid OtT., a Milwaukee, April 2. A report gained currency this noon that a large number of men in; the St Paul company's employ had been laid off on account of the existing troubles. The yards in this city are deserted, and absolutely nothing is doing. Manager Miller, when approached concerning the report, at 1 o'clock, 7 'said it was true; that the company had laid off. , fully 5,000 yard and switchmen along its system tontil the present trouble blows over. The order affects about 800 men in the yards and general office in this city. A railroad official said this afternoon that the reduction in tho pay-roll of the St Paul road has been seriously considered ever since the engineers' strike was started in Chicago, whea it seemed likely to extend to Milwaukee lines. "If there is a strike," he said, "all the other roads in town would do the same thing. In case of a general tie-up, a still greater reduction in the force would be made. There are over 20,('00 men on the St Paul pay-roll, and the one-third reduction which has been ordered . means' 7,000 or 8,000. Passenger trains are rnn-; ning as nsn.il on all divisions of the St Paul road. - GETTING TIRED OF IT. The Chicago Publio Vry Tired of the Causefiess Railroad Strike. Chicago Ilcrald: Chicago has been made a rat pit for the amusement of all the labor agitators, oosaes, cranks, ehiefs, moguls, masters and fuglemen of the earth. Here tney come to wage their battles. From our first-class hotels, where they establish their conrts, they sue the orders which carry paralysis to gigantic interests and biting hardship to the homes of thousands on thoosands of honest but misguided men. . This villainy must have an end. It is in the power of the people of Chicago to end it now. Will they do it! Chicago News: It may be a disagreeable fact for the ex-engineermen of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Railway Company to realize, but In the riotous extension of the railway strike there is no ray of hope for them. Ever since the inauguration of the strike on the Burlington road the drift of public opinion and sympathy has been steadily away from the strikers. This adverse sentiment has only been strengthened by the causeless extension of the strike to roads whose employes had no manner of direct grievance against them. In a worthy contention the constancy of the Burlington strikers to their claims would have evoked admiration and moral support. But without reason or rizht on their side their attitude has only provoked criticism as obstinacy in a wrongful cause and accountability for the unfortunate consequences that have ensaed. Chicago Times: The threat that a general Strike will be ordered on Wednesday is made on a wrong estimate of public sentiment. The temper and tbe conscience of the people are alike opposed to a further prolongation of a dispute which was at first groundless on the part of the strikers, and which is now unjustifiably aggravating. Chicago Inter-Oesan: Nothing in the way of strikes has aroused the indignation of the public so fully as the present strike among the railroad men for the reason that the strikers have never been able to assign any just cause for their action. In every case the strikers have been the recipients of good wages, and treated in all respects as honorable men. If commerce and the publio interests are all to be jeopardized at any moment by the whim of one boss aided by a few walking delegates the sooner society arranges to protect itself the better. The wheels upon the Nation's great highways should not be allowed to stop at the order of engineers, or brakemen, or switchmen, or any other class. The railroads are to serve the public, and are chartered for that purpose. If the men engaged in that class of work do not like it, it is their privilege to quit, and their duty to allow others peacefully to occupy their places, and this they will have to do. The time for temporizing has passed. Let the trains move. GENERAL STRIKE NEWS. President Depew, of the New York Central, Gives His Views. New Yoke, April 2. The Ilerall this morning prints the following: The Burlington & Quiney railroad strike, with its far-reaching ramification, is assuming Such gigantic proportions that its effect is likely to b felt far and wide. Other roads are, through some cause or - other, becoming entangled in this great struggle; one city is threatened with starvation, and it is not impossible, judging from the news which comes from the west, that the strike may be extended to the Eastern reads, although there are not at present, so far as known to the outside world, any existing circumstances which would justify such an eventuality. It is within the realm of possibilities, however.aud as the effect, if such a thing should come to pass the railroads tied up by strikers before they had time to recoverfrom the effects of tbe tie-up of the blizzard would be most serious and affect commerce, as well as the well-bin of every Eastern city, the opinions ct that genial and practical railroad man, Chauney M. Depew, were sought yesterday by a Herald reporter. The president of the New York Central & Hudson River road was somewhat reluctant to speak on the subject, owing to the position be occupies, as he said his language might have some effect be bad not intended to produce. After being assured that he would be faithfully reported, Mr. Depew consented to answer the following questions: "Do you think, Mr. Depew, that the railroad strike will extend to the Eastern roads, as is romoredr "1 see no reason why it should. There are no circumstances existing, so far as I am aware of, that would seem to warrant such a step." "There are rumors that the strike will become general. Have you any information which would tend to confirm or deny such a report!" "Well, no; I have not been m Chicago, and hare not seen any railroad men since Thursday. On that day there were some here, and they told me they could not understand this strike, especially since its recent developments." "If it should become general or extend to the Eastern roads, what, iu your opinion would be the eff ecf "It would depend upon its extent, character and cUies. There are no two strikes alike. Still some of its effects would be this coal and food would give out, everybody would be out of mploymont, and tbe working class would be the greatest sufferers. Chicago could be starved to death in thai way, for it would be shut off from the outside world." "What course would the Eastern roads be likely to purtua in-such an eventuality?" "That is hard to tell till tbe nature of the ttrike became known." "Is there any likhhood of trouble oa the E astir n road s r "None. I have heard of no complaint on any of tbe roads." "It is reported that the Chicago railroad men have derided to order a strike on the Lake Bhore, Chicago & AUon. Panhandle, Fort Wayne and Sao ta Fe roads. Would not that interfere eriously with Eastern connections?" "There would still remain several roads open, tnd ' t would not embarrass Eastern roads te - ny extent" "Mr. Depew, how do you regard strikes gonrallyr "A a very poor wt of re aching results." "Do you faTor arbitrationf "I do that is. unless the strikers want to ret the entire management ot the road. Then you caa'f arbitrate." "As a railroad man, what coarse do yea think

would be the best to adopt under tho present and in similar circumstances?" "I don't iike to advise others, but my way is to keep mydoor constantly open to our employes, see their committees, t ear their demands and remedy tneir grievances when it is possible to do so, and when the demands are reasonable. Tbe main elements of success in this world are good sense, good temper and minding your own business. That's how wo kept out of the fight in 1877." "What is your opinion of the Brotherhood of Engineers!" "I always found them a veiy intelligent body of men. and Arthur I look moo as a man of good sense and courage, to whose wisdom tho Brotherhood owes its present strength." A Tle-TJp at Port Wayne. Special to tne IndlanaooHs Journal. Fort Wayne, Ind., April 2. As far as freight business is concerned, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway is as effectually tied op at this point to-night as tlough tbe Chicago strike bad extended here. Tbe Company's yards have assumed a Sabbath-day stillness, broken only by the arrival ami departure of passenger trains. No freight train has come in all day from tbe West, and but two locals have gone ' East. A freight train sent ot t from this city to Chicago, this morning, was abandoned a abort distance from Chicago, ar d the erew was brought back to Fort Wayne. The forty stalls in fhe company's round-hous-s have been full of locomotives all day, and seventeen more were counted lying on aide-tracks to-tight. At the freight house no west-bound goods are received, and shipments from the East are being stored here and at tbe yards east of this city. Tbe switchmen have not struck, sdeh action being quite unnecessary. Meantime Superintendent Law is confined to his residence here with a dangerous attack of laryngitis. The Outlook in St Panl. St. Paul, April 2. A switchman employed in the Union Depot yards stated that while the switchmen have received no orders to go out, they expected to be called out within a few days. The roads are expecting trouble, and in anticipation of it, the transfers, were heavier this morning than they have been for months. There is, he said, no truth in the statement that the Milwaukee & St Paul switchmen have been ordered out If an order fron headquarters is received it will be for all the switchmen in St Paul to strike, without regard to what company they are employed by. In conclusion, the yardman stated that the men would stand together, and that it was his own opinion that a strike would be inaugurated in St Paul within a day or two, unless the roade ceased handling Chicago, Burlington & Quiney oars. Recruiting Men In tne Hast. Philadelphia, Pa., April 2. Captain Dougherty, of tho Pinkerton Detective Agency, in this city, had bis hands full to-day, recruiting switchmen, conductors and switch brakemen for tbe Chicago, Burlington 6; Quiney railroad. In response to an advertisement about one hundred men appeared at Captain Dougherty's office, and there was a great scramble for two or three hours to get up to the Captain's desk. Most of the applicants were from tbe ranks of the late strikers on the Reading railroad system, who were experienced men, and a very large number of them were engaged to go West The inducements offered were free passage out good pay and steady employment if the men proved that they could do tbe work required. About fifty men were engaged to-day and' Captain Dougherty says that be can get all the men be wants, and will ship them out to Chicago and other points on tbe "Q" road as fast as tbe contracts are made with them.

The Boycott at K suasas City. , Kansas Citit, April 2. Orders were issued by the Ft Scott road this afternoon that Burlington freight must be treated tbe same as any other freight This will probably precipitate a strike of switch engineers and firemen and switchmen on that road, in pursuance of the policy laid put by the general meeting Saturday night. . The boycott on Burlington freight went into effect in the yards here protaptiy at noon. A Ft Scott switch engine had just backed np to some Burlington cars, but when 12 o'clock struck the men left the cab and refused to haul it Tbe engine was soon uncoupled and the freight left standing. The Burlington switchmen are still at work. Not So Threatening. None of the Indianapolis locomotive engineers, firemen or switchmen have left their places, and while there is still much talk of a strike, the indications of trouble were not so plentiful yesterday as they were Saturday and Sunday. The men still refuse to divulge their plan, if they have any, and thejrailroad officials are consequently very nneasy. An official said yesterday that there wore some railroad engineers on the roads that would make trouble if they could, but he did not believe there would be a strike, because tbe great majority of the men were satisfied, and therefore opposed to going out There will be no security felt until after to-morrow, as a good many of the officials believe that if any strike is intended it will begin then. 6 - Notes. Fifty engineers and firemen passed through Buffalo yesterday morning, enroute to Chicago, to take engines of men engaged in strikes. Their arrival here created great talking among railroad men. Thirty engineers and firemen from along the line of the Michigan Central railroad, were sent from Jackson, Mich., to Chicago on Sunday nizht to take the places of tbe prospective strikers on that road. The Ohio, Indiana & Western engineers and firemen of the Brotherhood at Springfield, O., have notified General Manager Henderson that if he accepts any more C B. & Q- cars they will strike. A strike is expected by Wednesday morning. Captain Dougherty and Ii. Eckstein, of Pinkerton agency in Philadelphia, have engaged eighty watcdmen, and they were sent We6t last night under the charge of a Pinkerton officer. They are for police dny on the "Q" road ic and about. Chicago. Wra. Forsythe, the mechanical engineer of the C, B. & Q. road, had, up to last evening, engaged about seventy-five switchmen, switch brakemen and yard conductors at Philadelphia to go to Chicago, but a short time before the train waa due to leave he received a telegram to hold the men until further orders. Captain Linden, superintendent of Pinkerton'a Eastern agency, and a party of fifty detectives, were in Pittsburg yesterday on their way to Chicago. The men are members of the famous coal and iron police of Pennsylvania, and served in the coal and coke regions during the recent strikes. Captain Linden will take chare of Pinkerton's men on the Burlington system. General Freight agent Ripley, of Burlington, i ssoed a notice yesterday to other roads that, owing to labor troubles at Chicago, traffic for tba Burlington is liable to detention if routed via this city. The company, he says, is prepared to receive freight for shipment to all stations on the Chicago, Burlington & Qaincy and auxiliary lines, at ail junction points, except Chicago. Live stock and perishable freight, however, for points on the Kansas City, St Joseph & Counoil Bluffs road will not be received. Charles Green arrived in Chicago Sunday with twenty-four new switchmen for the Burlington and told a graphic story of tne perils he encountered on the way. Mr. Green left Dayton, O., about 7 o'clock Saturday night with a contingent of more than forty switchmen. The switchmen had to ehange cars at Lima, and while so doing were set upon bodily by the emissaries of tbe strikers. According to Mr. Green, several of the men were detained by physical force, and others jonly escaped aftera roub handling. The conductor pulled out four minutes ahead of time through fear of further violence, and Mr. Green found that be bad only twenty-four men left The contingent showed op at Chicago in pretty bad shape, some of tbe men having their eyes blacked, and Mr. Green's ktuckles showing the effects of hard usaga The tne a were sent on to Nebraska yesterday noon. GENERAL LAUOR NEWS. Riot Among Italian Laborers In John A. Logan's Ous,rrle. Cleveland, Aoril 2. A dispatch from New Castle, Pa., says that a riot occurred to-day at the limestone quarries at Carbon, Pa. Tbe employes, who are mainly Italians, were notified a wek ago of a reduction in wages. The sheriff, in response to a telegram from John A. Logan, jr., Boa of the. late Senator Logan, who is superintendent of tbe quarries, sent a posse to the scene this morning in anticipation of the trouble. Tbe conflict occurred this afternoon. Several shots were exchanged and an Italian named Angelo Nocero received a bullet wound in the knee. About one hundred Italians are engaged in the strike. Later. Five of the leaders of tbe rioters were arrested by the sheriff and lodged in jail at New Crfstlo. Strike of Pipe- Workers, Pitts bubg, Pa,, April 2. A general strike u ioaugarated at Spang, CLaifant & Co.'

pipe-mill at Etna, thi morning. Six hundred men refused to go to work, and before the trouble is settled there are apprehensions that the entire works of this firm will be directly concerned. Trouble has been brewing at these' works for some time past, and tbe precipitation of the general strike at the pipe-mill to-day is looked upon only as a culmination. Everything was qniet at Etna this afternoon, but the strikers, who are all members of the Knights of Labor, are determined to resist any attempt by the firm to resume operations with nonunion men. Coke-Workers Accept the Reduction. Pittsburg. Pa., April 2. Tie coke-workers, as far as could be learned to-day have accepted the reduction of 6J per cent in wages, which took effect this morning. The price of coke, it is thought, will not long remain at $1 per ton. The shipments this week are about 600 ears per day. Tbe loss sustained by selling at $1 per ton, it is estimated, will amount to ?6.000 per day. , A movement is already on foot to have the war declared off and prices advanced to $L 25 or $L50 per too. 1 Strike of Painters at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, O., April 2. The house painters of the city, numbering over 800, struck to-day or an advance in wages and a decrease in hours. They have been receiving 25 cents an hoar for ten hours, and now want 30 cents an hour and nine hours for a day's wort They also want 45 cents an hour for extra hours, 60 cents for Snnday work and the abolishment of some rules that are obnoxious. Labor and Industrial Notes. Philadelphia Becord. The Eureka Steel-casting Company, of Chester, Pa., has made experiments favorable to the adoption of a new process for making castings which does not require annealing. It has been estimated that only 2,000 men are at present employed around tbe mines In the Shamokm (Pa. ) district. Heretofore 6,000 have usually been at work at this time of year. An organization of 200 United States weighers has been formed in Brooklyn for the purpose of nrging an increase in wages to forty cents an hour, which sum they were formerly paid. - , The Monon gahela-river miners, who were convicted of conspiracy while on strike three years ago, recently celebrated at a banquet board the first anniversary of their liberation from jaiL The coal output of Missouri during 18S7 was 2,865,906 tons, worth $1.50 a ton at the mines. The area of coal covers 27,000 square miles. The average annual wages of the miners was $346.55. Widener aad Elkins, of Philadelphia, propose to have the cable road at Pittsburg finished by July 1 and, to accomplish this, work will be earried on day and night A portable electric light plant will be used to aid the night workers. Assistant State Labor Statistican Cougar, of Kansas, in an address to Carpenters and Joiner's Union, No. 158. of Topeka, disapproved of manual training-school because they will overflow the various occupations and reduce wages. The Pittsburg steel casting-works, wherein the big ten-and a-half-ton government gun was east, has just finished a big gear wheel for tbe Toronto water-works. The wheel measures nine feet in diameter outside, and weighs nearly eight tons. An authority says that 52,000 pianos were manufactured last year in tbe United States. The average life of this instrument is twenty years. Only a few factories make the piano entirely, there being about nineteen trades in the composition. The Jobbers' Watch Trust, of New York, has offered the striking sixty engravers of the Dueber Watch Company's branch plant at Jersey City $10,000 to help them stay out. Tbe firm is removing the Jersey City plant to headquarters at Cincinnati, O. Cotton factories will be put up at La Grange, Ga.; Charlotte, N. C; Round Knob, N. C; Forest City, N. C; Orangeburg, S. C, and one of from 1,200 to 2,000 spindles at King's Mountain, N. C. The factory at Mapleton,,, N. C, has increased its capacity by 400 spindles. Seventeen employers of the striking Chicago I painters have settled with their men by agreeing to pay. at the lowest, 37 cents an hour and j an eight-hour day. Of the 1,700 who struck j only 850 are still out Painters are requested to not go to Chicago during the struggle. ? ; Mines will be develoned as follows: Mica", at Canton, Ga.; iron, Cedartown, Ga.; iron, Silver ; Creek, Ga.; coaL at Paris, Eiddell, Taylor and :' Woodbine, Ky.; gold, at Asheville and Brittain, : N. C; coal, Egypt. N. C; mica, Macon county, H. C; coal, near Buckeye Station, Tenn. ..'T" i ' The members of the Builders' Exchange of Hamilton, Canada, will discharge all their employes who belong to any labor organization, after Wednesday next, until the rupture be- ) tween the Laborers' and Bricklayers' Union and the master builders shall have been settledr: A lumber-stacking machine, which takes the place of fifteen men, is in successful use. "The lumber is carried on. chains from the trimmer and drooped on the cars in better shape than .Jbe men formerly did the work. But one man is now necessary to manipulate the machine. Samuel R. Lowry, eolored, has established a colony of negroes in Jefferson eounty, Alabama, where the silk worm is cultivated with great success. From 100 to 400 pounds of silk, worth $5 a pound can be raised on one acre. A company will be formed to manufacture the silk. - A-Pittsburg lead company will increase its plant so that an output of 300,000 ounces of silver may be extracted from copper, lead, bismuth and other impurities. Its present capacity is 100,000 ounces of silver per week, the greater portion of which is mads into money in this city's mint . A successful experiment has been made at the Etna Iron "Works, Pittsburg, by which the lap welding of the tubes is done in one heating instead of two. Less metal is required. Iu fact, the new way saves a great deal of labor and the cost is 25 to 40 per cent cheaper. An employe is the inventor. Japanese compositors have lots of fun hustling around after the 8,000 characters which make up the alphabet of that language. There is only one case for all the compositors, and it is stationed at the side of thdwalL It has been estimated that a compositor iu that country covers about twenty miles a day while at work. Some of the striking Omaha. (Neb.) bricklayers have gone to Denver. Col., whets they are getting $5 a day for eight hours, and e, few have been in Memphis, Tenn., working ail win ter at the same wages and hours. The bricklayers at St Louis are getting $4 50 for an eighthour day. Some Omaha contractors are hiring men at 50 cents an hour. Because the men refused to work six heats instead of five, with pay in proportion, so that a contracs could be filed on time, the Delaware Rolling Mill at Philliosburg, N. J., which was to be started up last week, did not resume operations. Tbe men claimed that the weather would be too bot to do six heats. The resumption would bave given employment to 150 men till June. A saw and planing mill will be put np at Childersburg, Ala. Saw-mills are to be built at Fayette. Ala,: Macclenney, Fla,: Homerville, Ga.: Forest City, N. C, and at New Market, Teun. A planing-mill is to be built at Parkersburg, "W. Va. Lumber-mills are to be built at Marianne, Ark.; Bonifey, Fla,; two at Beaumont, Tex. A foundry and machine shop are to be built at Bessemer, Ala: a machine shop at Dalton, Ga. and one at Alexandria. Va. Canning factories will be established at Dade City, Fla.; "West Point, Miss., and Monticello, Ark. In a paper recently read before one of the English associations" of engineers the writer asserted that, according to present methods ot dealing with the motive power of the steam engine, only some 20 per cent was made available, 80 per cent, of the energy developed in the furnace being thrown away, and it is quite common to realize no greater efficiency than about 4 per cent on the gross or potential energy of the fuel. In large factories that admit of the power being concentrated in one or two great machines, condensation can be taken advantage of. and, with water heaters and other appliances, double the above figures realized; but in the very best engines, with all the latest improvements and elaborations, not more than 12 per cent, has ever been realized, nor is it possible to realize more, and even this 12$ per cent, ean only be obtained by the finest of wiro drawing and the best of coal. Obituary. CoLTTMBtrs, Ind., April 2 Rev. narry Smith, an aeed minister of the Baptist Church, wellknown throuehout the State, died here Saturday. His funeral to-day was very largely attended. The Grand Army and Odd Fellows, of which be was an honored member, attended as bodies and escorted the remains to the grave. Chicago, April 2- Leander Stone, who for fifteen years has been assistant editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, died this afternoon of paralysis, aged fifty-seven years,

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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

The Dailj Chronicle of Happenings of Various Kinds in the Two States. A Prosecutirj?: Attorney Killed by a Convict Whom He Had Sent to the Penitentiary . . Attempt to Cremate a Family. INDIANA. r A Good Find of Nat oral Gas at' Shelhyville. Special to the Indianaeolis Joomau j Shelbtville, April 2. Gas well No. 4, on the farm of Jonathan Tenant, two miles east of town, was "shot" to-day by C"j B. Lore, of Greensburg. The result was highly satisfactory, the well being five times as good as before the shooting. It has a capacity of 1.500,000 cubic feet per day. Other wells j will be drilled at onee, and the piping of the town commenced within ninety days. The people are all happy, as it is now demonstrated that Shelby villa is in the gas belt - i A Remarkable Case. Montpelieb, Apri'. 2. A three-year-old son of Rev. Chenoweth is afflicted in a strange manner. For tbe past fortnight he has seen soakes and other foul objects on his body and limbs, which he throws from him with an earnestness that shows how real is the terror of his phantasy. It is pitiful to bear him plead with hie parents to take "them awlul things" out of the crib, so he can go to 6leep. He is ail right in daytime, except that he is nervously on the go. He is a fine little fellow, mentally and physically, and tbe case is very baffling to medical moa here. Death from Strangulation. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Corydon, April 2. Jennie Harry, an inmate of the county asylum, came to her death yesterday in a peculiar manner. She was of unsound mind, and it was necessary to keep her confined in a cell. In her cell door was a small hole about six feet from tbe floor, and in some manner she got her head through the hole and died of strangulation. She was about thirty years of age. Glanders at Thurston. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Montpelieb, April 2. Tloward & " Shoemaker, veterinarians at this place and Bluff ton, were called to Thurston, five miles west of here, this evening. They report two cases of glanders. Horsemen here are very much excited, and the foul disease will be quarantined. The disease was brought here by a Texas pony. Oil and Gaa In Jay County. Special to tbe Indianasolis JournalPortland, April 2. The gas company's well, two miles west of Portland, just finished, has developed an oil well with a capacity of 100 barrels a day. Tbe Camden well, in this eounty, just drilled in, shows eight million feet of gas a day. Minor Notes. George Lehr, while cleaning an engine in the Ft Wayne shops of the Pennsylvania Company, was probably fatally scalded by escaping team. Charles Floyd, a native of Greenville, had both legs cut off by a railroad accident near Memphis, Tenn., and died from the effects of hie injuries. The abandoned gas-well at the New Albany glass-works is now flowing about 5,000 gallons of water daily. It is strongly impregnated with salt, sulphur and iron. ' Gallian and Dunham, who brutally assaulted Harry Winters, at Logansport, were captured after being in biding for sixty hours in the timber. - Winters is in a critical condition. The New Albany plate-glass works, after having been shut down for repairs for several weeks, resumed operations yesterday. The services of twenty-eight boys employed in the polishing department have been dispensed with and their places supplied by men. The ex-soldiers of White oounty held a massmeeting at Monticello on tbe 31st. nit, and passed resolutions asking the passage of the per diem service pension bill. They also appointed a committee to circulate peMtions for tne pas sage of the bill. A letter from Representative Uwen indorsing tne bill was read. ILLINOIS. An Ex-Convlct Kills a Constable, According to Promise;. Litchfield, April 2. Five years ago Thomas 'Davis, a well-dressed stranger, came to Litchfield, and a few days after his arrival a wealthy citizen was robbed at the muzzle of a pistoL Samuel Waldrop was constable at the time, and he arrested Davis for tbe offense. The case at first was cot strong against the accused, but Waldrop worked bard and secured a eonviotion. Davis was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary, and, when the sentence was pronounced, he turned to Waldrop and said. "I swear to God, if I ever live to get out I'll kill yon." No attention was paid to the threat, and Davis was conveyed to Chester, where he served his term and was released last week un der the good time rule. Saturday he returned to Litchfield, but was only recognized by a few people. Yesterday he called at Waldrop's resi dence and asked to see Waldrop. The latter, who is no longer connected with the administration of the law, stepped to the door. . 'Is your name WaldropT asked Davis. Yes, sir." "My name is Tom Davis, and I've come to kill you, as I swore I would." Before Waldrop conld move uavis nred three times, killing him instantly. The murderer fled and a posse started in pursuit St. Louis. April 2. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Litchfield. IU., says that Davis, the murderer of ex-Constable Waldrop, was seen going through the woods yesterday, and early this morning a sheriff's posse started in pursuit of him. It is rumored that he was met by the posse and shot and killed one of there, and then made his escape. The people are determined to bring him in, dead or alive. Attempt to Burn a Whole Family. Chicago, April 2. A special to the Chicago Times from Tolono, III, says: A dastardly attempt to cremate a whole family was made at tbe farm of Mrs. Joseph McKelvy, about three miles west of Tolono. at 1 o'clock this morning. The house and barn were soaked with kerosene. The barn was fired, and the flames spread almost instantly over the entire building. The flash aroused George McKelvy, and be rnshed out, half dressed, just as the villain applied the torch and .fled. Prompt action saved the house, but tbe barn, with fonr valuable horses, a lot of implements, a wagon, two buggie3 and 1,000 bushels of corn, were in ashes inside of an hour. Tbe most sensational reports are afloat regarding the affair, which is believed to be the result of a family feud. THE FIRE RECORD. One Fireman Rilled and Several Others liadly Injured. Philadelphia, April 2. A fire broke out this evening in the large furniture warehouse of James B. Pooley, 122 Walnut street, and before it was subdued one fireman was killed by falling from a ladder, several others badly injured, and more were overcome by heat and smoke. Following is a list of the killed and icjured: Felix Donnelly, compound fracture of the skull, from which he died soon after; Sylvester Peake, assistant captain, badly injured by being struck by Donnelly in his fall; William Barrett, hoseman, overcome by smoke and badly burned; William Ludwig. hoseman, badly burned and suffocated by smoke; John Dougherty, hoseman, badly burned about the face and bands. In addition to these a half-dozen firemen were partially asphyxiated. The loss by the fire was only $10,000. , Other Fires. Rock vill e. Conn.. April 3,-1 A. m. The Second Congregational Church is on fire and has about burned down. It is a wooden structure, worth $25,000. The firemen are unable to cope with the flames, which may spread to Fitch'a wooden hotel adjoining, and the Do wling Block, across the street. Later. Tbe chnrch was completely destroyed, and the adjoining block caught fire, bot was saved, though much damage was done by water. Probable Loss of an American Crew. Philadelphia. April 2. It ia feared that tbe missing erew of the ship John T. Berry, which wan burned off the Australian coast on Jan. 9. while bound from Philadelphia to Japan, bave

met the same fate as their unlucky craft Notwithstanding the great efforts made by the.Aostralian government, at the instance of the United States consul at Sidney, not tbe slightest trace of anyof the missing crew ha beau discovered. An English war ship has just returned to Sidney, from Lord Howe's island, one of the Society group, in latitude lGy. 50' south, longitude 15iJ 21' west, but tbe search was without success and the commander thinks that further efforts in that direction would be useless. The bull of the vessel wis seen several days after the fire by merchant vessels in latitude 31, longitude 1G2J 25.' It was still burning.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Holbrook, N. Y.. on Sunday night The oscillation was from east to west At Plattsburg, N. Y., yesterday, Charles Harrison, prompted by jealousy, nearjy severed his wife's head from her body with a razor. It is regarded as probable that the confederation diepnte now going on will end in the overthrow of the New Foundland government As the result of a love affair at Houston, Tex., on Sunday night. Henry Hagan. a switchman, shot and killed ex-policeman John P. Butler. The counting of the money in the New York sub-treasury, whish occupied just one month, showed the amount of cash to' be $17,575,645.85. The judges of the license court, at Philadelphia, bave rejected over half the applicants for license in the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Thirtieth wards. In the New York Common Pleas Court yesterday, a passenger who had lost pro party while occupying a berth in a sleeping car obtained judgment against the company. Zeph Dayis, the young negro who murdered little Maggie Gaubon at Chicago, about a month ago, for "sassiug" him, was yesterday convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. A heavy hail and wind storm visited Decatur, Ala., yesterday, doing great damage to fruit and windows. One building was blown down, and Eckford Cooper, of Uniontown, Ky., was killed. .. . r The body of an unknown man was found ia the Ohio at Brandenburg on Saturday. - The jaw was broken. A rumor that iij was the body of ex-Treasurer Tate is not credited, but will lead to an examination of the body, which was buried without inquiry. Three murders were reported in New York yesterday. Patrick 'Packenham cut his wife's throat with a razor, Guanivo Canti, an Italian, was found dead in his room with two deep cuts in his temple, and Caroline Heine, was found in her back yard with her head crushed. Last January Mrs. Wellstedr, of Montreal, left her millinery business in charee of her husband and came to Detroit to visit her brother. On the 24th of that month she bid him good-bye with the ostensible purpose of returning borne, remarking that he might not see her again for three years. Since then none of her friends have heard anything of her. The case of Jacob Sharp, the New York boodler, was set down for hearing yesterday, - and a motion for a change of venue was to be argued. His counsel reported him very sick and that they were not ready to proceed as bis illness had prevented them from having proper consultation with him. Judge Patterson put tbe matter over and will appoint two physicians to examine into Sharp's condition. Business Failures. Louisville, Ky., April 2. Jacob Krieger, tanner, assigned to-day to H. M. Lane. Liabilities, $20,000; assets, $15,000. Caused by dullness of business. Chicago, April 2. A dispatch from South Bend, Ind., says: It has just been learned that John Brownfield, sr., an old business man of this city, made an assignment Saturday. Tbe liabilities are $117,000, and it is thought that the assets will reach that figure. Brownfield had been copsidered substantial financially, and bis assignment caused more or less of a sensation. Nearly $70,000 is due to farmers, a great number of whom did their banking with Brownfield. He has given up everything he possessed, his business, residence, bank stock, interest in city property, etc., for the benefit of his creditors, and his aged wife has declined to adhere to her dower right and signed the deeds which leaves herself and her husband penniless. Two Boys Drowned. Detroit, Mich., April 2. It has been learned that a double drowning occurred Friday afternoon on Lake St Clair. The victims were two boys about twelve years old, named Demarra and Gravier. Their fathers' farms adjoin each other, and trouble over the boundary line led to numerous disputes. Friday the two boys, with several companions, were going home from school, and walked on tbe ice which still fringes the lake front The boundary line question came up, the boys quarrelled as they had often done before, and after clinching they fell together and rolled upon a place where the ice waa rotten and gave way. Both lads sank and were not seen again. Their companions ran to the shore, screaming for help, but nothing could be done, and at last accounts the bodies nad not been recovered. Steamship Nws. Plymouth, April 2. Arrived? Amsterdam, from New York for Rotterdam. Southampton, Aoril 2. Arrived. Eider, from New York for Bremen. Queenstown, April 2. Arrived: Kansas, from Boston; Sardinian, from Baltimore and Lord Clive from Philadelphia. Glasgow, April 2. Arrived: State of Georgia, from New York, and Prussian, from Philadelphia. New York, April 2. Arrived: Devonia, from Glasgow. Philadelphia, April 2. Arrived: Steamer British Princess, from Liverpool. The Welch-Vilas Jury Disagree. Milwaukee, April 2. A special to the Evening Wisconsin from Minneapolis, Minn., says the jury in the famous Welch-Vilas libel suit disagreed, after being out forty hours, voting standing seven for conviction, five for acquit aL Welch is jubilant at the result and predicts an acquittal at next trial. "I went into tbe jury room this morning," said Mr. Welch, the aged defendant, "just as the jury came in. The judge bad submitted two questions to the jury. viz: (1) Was the Madison Mutual Insurance Company wrecked and the money misapplied! and, (2) What were the defendant's motives? To the first question the jury unanimously re turned an amrmative answer. Ihe disagreement was to the second point only." Prohibition in Missouri. Chicago, April 2. A dispatch from St Louis says: Owing to the political excitement in this State over the approaching National Uemocratic convention the Prohibition leaders bave decided to take a rest and no more elections will be held for two months. Lighty-two counties and twenty towns of more than 2,500 inhabitants have voted. Forty-nine counties have voted "wet" and thirty-three "drv." The Democratic counties voting "dry" were 3G; Republicans 13; Democratic counties voting? "wet" 22; Republicans "IV Thirteen of the twenty towns went "dry." seven "wet" Of the thirteen "dry" seven are Republican and "six" Democratic; of the seven "wet"' towns, five are Democratic and two Republicans. . , The Fire Record. Harrisburg, 111., April 2. The stores on the west side of the publio square were completely destroyed by fire yesterday, entailing a loss of $25,000. Two buildings on the other side of tbe square burned. The fires are supposed to be the work of incendiaries. The losses fall heavily on the town as tbe insurance is very small. Arnprior, Ont, April 2. The town hall, containing all tbe fire apparatus, waa burned at an early hour this morning. The lossU $10,000. Not An Eucourstglng Answer. Harper's lrawer. "Granny, whar you gwineT" The speaker was a poor pucy little pickaninny, black as the ace of spades, who traded wearily along, almost bowed double beneath the weight of an immense bundle of soiled clothes for the wash. "Granny," an immense oody with a sable visage, pouting lower lip. and a savage aspect, turned sharply around and confronted tbe widow's mite. "Whar I gwinef Whar I gwin? I ain't gwine tell you whar I gwine. You al'ays axin', 'Whar 'e gwinal whar e gwineF I gwine whar I gwine dat a whar I gwine. Whar 'e gwinef whar 'e gwinef ai'ays axin'. 'Wbar 'e gwine! whar ewine?' I ain't gwine tell e whar I gwine." It is needless to say that no further Information was elicited, or in fact desired. A Oueen'a Attendants. Foreign Letter. Tb Queen of Spain has her own physician. Dr. Kiedel, who came from Austria with her. Tbe Spanish court physicians have never ben called in, except for form's sake when the Queen or her cbi dren bave been til This has given rise to much jealousy, but Dr. Riedel has Quietly held his own, and by degrees bas won the friendship of his Spanish colleagues, who can not deny that he bas great talent The Regent

has two aides de-camp, one an army and the other a marine officer. These gentlemen are on duty oniy on certain days, and are changed every thrre years. In the army and navv it is considered quite a distinction to be the Quen'a aide-de-camp, as she makes the young officers feel quite at home, so that they really form part of the famny during their stay iu the palace. The Regent has a host of servants, but she bas but two maids, one of whom is an Austrian. Besides a head chef cuisine there are many assistant cooks and pastry eooks. But it is said that the royal table is not always well served, and the wines especially are inferior. The late King had not the slightest idea what a good cellar meant There are many stories aiioat telling bow badly the poor dying monarch waa fed, and how he once said to a foreign embassador who went to see him at the Pardo Palace, that he would give anything for a good chicken broth. At the royal dinners and banquets, one finds everything that taoney ean procure, but somehow or other nothing seems well prepared. . Four Type-Settins Machines. Gath's New York Letter. ' Upon the car, was "Mark Twain" returning with his wife from the Washington convention of literary spirits. Mr. Clemens is ageing gracefully, but the threads of gray are fast mingling with the somewhat reddish shock cf hair which covers bis colossal bead. "I don't take much interest in politics," be said. "Just now 1 am more interested in a type-setting machine in which 1 have a ! beneficiary interest Naturally I thought he might be an enthuiast of tbe Mergenthaler, machine, now ia operation in eastern and Western cities. "But, no," he said. "I am not. . I bave carefully and critically examined the machine. It is a good one, but I think I have a better one. In the Mergenthaler machine the type drops of its own weight Thia is an important defect, calculated to cause vexatious delays. My machine overcomes this, and for such reason I think it a better one." He explained that it was manipulated by the key-board system, had already been granted letters patent and was owned by a Hartford syndicate. I may be in, error, but as I now reflect upon it he called it the Phipps machine. Thus it appears that four machines are now in existence to supplement the human hand ia picking up the types. Mr. Schuckers, of Philadelphia, who was the private secretary of Salmon P. Chase, has one, and he claims, through his attorney, that Mergenthaler has adopted his system of justification. There is a machine at Albany which actually picks up the type as does the hand. The Mergenthaler and Phipps.or "Mark Twain," make tbe fourth. All of which tends to show that tbe inventive genius of the land ia racking its brain with a problem w&ich sooner or later will be solved. This suggests the greater problem of how the existing order of things in the "art preservative of arts" will adopt itself to the new condition when it is perfected.

The Record of Cleveland's Three Tears. Sew York Sun CDem.) The six definite enterprises which constitute the whole book of Mr. Cleveland's policy, so tar as bis administration has had a distinctive policy, are these: The reform of tbe civil service on the so-called non-partisan or mugwump plan; The suspension of silver coinage in order to avert a predicted financial nic; Tbe negotiation of an extradition treaty with Great Britain; Tbe settlement of the fishery troubles by the negotiation of a treaty with Great Britain; " The reduction of the surplus by means of an extensive reduction of customs duties, retaining the internal-revenue taxes; The Pan-Electrio suit to annul the Bell telephone patents. In every one of these six cases the result of the undertaking can be recorded in a single word: The Administration's civil-service reform policy Abandonment The Administration's demand for the suspension of silver coinage Relinquishment. Tbe Administration's extraditiou treaty Collapse. The Administration's fishery negotiationsSurrender. The Administration's surplus reduction planRepudiation. ' . The Administration's Pan-Electrio suit Disgrace. The Latest Hotel Swindle. Detroit Tribune. "Key to 278!" said the bell boy to the clerk of a city hotel, as he rushed up to the counter. The clerk took the key out of the box and extended it to tbe boy, when a thought struck him, and he stopped and looked in the box al the address on an enveloye lying there. "Who want ill" he inquired. ' 'Lady in parlor in a hurry," replied Front, dancing a jig of impatience. 'That ain't her room. Go back and ask for her name." Front disappeared and returned presently, slowly. "She says it don't make no difference it's a mistake and she's gone." "Thoueht so," ejaculated the clerk to a reporter standing by; "she was working the nw racket Its a pretty good one, and sometimes taken; operated by women generally. They go into the ladies' parlor, ring for tne bell boy. and send him in a matter-of-fact way for the key of some room. He asks the olerk for it, and if he is busy and thinking of something else he hands it out without question. Then the female sharper goes through the room in a hurry, trusting to thieves' luck that the oceupant will not return before she gets away. Then the hotel it responsible for the loss." A Little Mixed. Pittsburg Dispatch. A little Alleghenian, the hopeful eldest born of a clergyman, was discovered by his mother erecting a prodigious mud pie in the back yard. The size of the earth-work suggested to the maternal mind to inquire its purpose. To her surprise the youngster replied, earnestly: "I'm building a smokestack to smoke out tho heavenly Father! v He bad mixed up man's modern atrocities With the Tower of Babel. Mr. Media's Free-Trade. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Mills tariff bill is not sweeping enough to suit Mr. Medill. To a newspaper interviewer in Washingion he says: "Republicans should take the Mills free list, with perhaps one or two exceptions, and add several things to it. notably coal and iron ore And pig iron." Mr. Medill Is going to feel very lonesome in the Republican camp before he gets to the end of his journey. Old the Blizzard Start In China. Cleveland Kews and Uerald. Exceptional weather seems to have visited China. A native paper brings along news that "a cold wave passed over almost the whole land, snow fell at most of the coast port, and even as far south as Canton, stagnant peols were frozen. Snow has fallen in Formosa for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitant" Dictated.' Puck. It is just as hard for the man who employs a atenographer to refrain from easnally alluding to it, as it is for a woman to fasten the top button of her newtnarket when there is a diamond pin at her throat The First Symptoms Of all Lung diseases are much the name : feverishness, loss of appetite, soro throat, pains in the chest and back, headache, etc. In a few days you may be well, or, on the other hand, you may be down with Pneumonia or "galloping Consumption." Run no risk?, but begin immediately to take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Several years ago, James Birchard, of Darien, Conn., was severely ill. The doctors said he was in Consumption, and that they could do nothing for him, but advised him, as a last resort, to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Alter taking jthis medicine, two or three months, he was pronounced a well man. His health remains good to the present day. J. S. Bradley, Maiden, Mass., writes : " Three winters ago I took a severe cold, which rapidly developed into Bronchitis and Consumption. I was so weak that I could not sit up, was much emaciated, and coughed incessantly. I consulted several doctors, but they were powerless, and all agreed that I was in Consumption. At last, a friend brought rne a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. From the first dose, I found relief. Two bottles cured me, and my health has since been perfect." Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, PREPAKKD BY Dr. 4. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Bold by all Druggists, Price l ; six bottles,