Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1889 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1889.

in the events of the day who would have otherwise been disappointed. On the other hand, the committee of arrangementsis being severely censured. The World is especially severe in its criticism. The banquet receives universal praise. The Tribune says it was the crowning glory of the celebration. THE CENTENNIAL. BALI.

IIcAUlftter's Dream Fully Realized A Thousand Feet of Champagne Bar. UeTT Tork Snx Ward McAllister would have died happy if he could have seen the banqueting hall that he had planned before the crowd was let into it. It was a dream m white, and red, and green, sprinkled with glowing sparks of electricity a cool, bright, refreshing dream, after the nightmare of the thronged and hot ball-room. The tables, which he said wero to be 1,500 feet long, might have been stretched a mile, so far as the eye conld judge, looking from the Broadway end and seeing where, far in the distance, they gathered into a brilliant knot at the corner of Seventh avenue, where the resident's table Was, and then turned and went out of sight around the corner up Seventh avenne. They were all white against the red background of the cloth with which the outer wall was faced from floor to ceiling. They were not straight, but built like a Grecian border, each front place about twenty feet in length and the niches rive feet deep. The actual length aud capacity of the tables was thus much increased and the spectacular efi'ect more than doubled. They seemed, looking along them at least ten feet broad, and the numerous corners gave opportunity for tho appropriate setting of tall pieces, accentuating the effect greatly. And that champagne bar! that magnificent, gorgeous device over the contemplation of which in advance even Ward McAllister's experienced mouth watered! Seven hundred feet long, and with a three-hundred-foot annex around the corner, on Seventh avenue, pure white and loaded with ten thousand Hashing glasses, arranged in a hundred pretty, odd. and grotesque designs! With the gilded necks of thousands of bottles showing above the sparkling ice in a hundred boxes ranged along the floor back of it, like the border of some great llower-bed all alive with golden bloom. It was all there, inst as Ward McAllister had seen it in his dream. They had even followed his idea of putting it across the hall from the food, "so that people w ould have to keep circulating." The ceiling of the room was of white cloth arranged in tasteful panels, and crossed every twenty feet by a broad beam of pale yellow. Breaking the dead effect of the almost solid whiteness of the ceiling and tables and redness of the outer wall, there was hung like chandeliers down the center of the ceiiing a row of large baskets tied with red ribbonsand rilled with amass of palms, ferns, and hanging vines, all green. Springing from each of these like brilliant blossoms bending and swaying on tall stems were twelve electric lights, eight white oues around in one circle andnbove them, mingling with tho topmosr palm leaves, four licuts in curious shades, some times white and sometimes colored. The brilliancy of the lights amid the green foliage was intense, and the effect of tho long line of hanging green masses against the whiteness of the ceiling was wonder fully beautiful. The features of the tables to the real lover of beautiful cookery were the salmon. There were a score of them, each tho center piece of one section of the tubes. They were three feet long, and each was decorated in a ditferent style. All the women said "Oh, my!" the moment they caught sight of tho tables, but when they saw the salmon thov exclaimed: "Isn't it iust too lovtdv " and. could liud no words to go into further detail. Where there were no salmon for center pieces there were tali structures of sugar worked out into the minutest details. There were also rarely tall and handsome moulds of jelly of delicately blended colors, and there wer busts of George Washington mounted on trotfle pedestals, and platters of bird all ready for the fringers, sot up on hiirh white platlorms. But there was noth ing, after all, that so combined appeals to the taste and to the eye as those mighty 6almon, with their varied decorations. Disgraceful Scenes After Sapper. New Tork Special. The scene in the supper-room shortly before 1 o'clock was a powerful argument in favor of prohibition. Groups of drunken lads, with vacant eyes, unsteady feet and reckless gayety of speech were scattered about the place holding in their trembling hands brimming wine-glasses. Naturally enough, the floor was soon in a terribly slippery and sloppy condition. The noise was deafeniug. Men were shonting to the waiters, some of the most inebriated were singing, and every now and then a woman's shrill laugh would rise above the general din. There were ladies present, in many eases escorted by sober men, who behaved with perfect propriety and were evidently seeking to satisfy legitimate hunger, but it was far otherwise with several of the "gen tle 6ex." Two females of unmistak able character attracted general attenrion by their bold and indecorous be havior, while others there were who. although evidently not belonging to the same class, wero exciting equal comment bv their unsteadiness of speech and gesture. Jvearlv all the women present who had not lost their sense of propriety through in dulgence in strong drink hastened to quit the scene, where indeed they were in more than one instance subjected to insult, but a few still lingered at tho upper end of the room, possibly unconscious of the disgusting scenes which were enacted at a little aistanco trom them. Many of the waiters added to the general - i ? j i i i? coninsion wnicn provanea uyxneir negu cence and insolence. While they, eazerlv handed ont bottle after bottle of champagne to those who "tipped" them, it was almost impossible, except in a few instances, to eecure anything to eat or drink without a compliance with their exactions. Food was strewn upon the door, the appearand of the buffet and tho space behiud it rapidly became uninviting, and the noise and drunkenness increased so much that about twenty minutes past 1 Sergeant Schmittberger entered the room at the head of some twenty policemen and announced mat the sale of wine must cease. The waiters., who had been drink ing freely, clamorously protested that they had already ceased to serve wine. but several struggles for the possession of smuggled bottles endued, lhe waiters encacre -fin a right which resulted in the con tents of a wine glass being spilled down a lady's neck, maudlin guests argued with the blue-coats as to the propriety of their inienerrnce. anu panuemomum rcigneu. Finally, orders were given to clear the room. This proved a ditlicult matter. The sober folks tried to haul their drunken friends out of the way, but with indifferent success. Some of them succeeded, however, with the result that one or two scenes occurred in the corridors. A policeman seized one particularly disorderly individ ual, attired, as were nearly all the drunk anls at this stage, in a dress suit, and upon a determined attempt at a rescue being made by his "aristocratic" frieuds, pushed him into a closet and guarded the door, with the, assistance of a fireman, until In spector Steers arrived and succeeded in re storing peace. Meanwhile policemen, tiremen and several nueerly-dressed. toughlooking men were eating their till in the supper-room, and three or four blue-coats at the door were repelling tho attempts of half a dozen more or less intoxicated wait ers to force an entrance. Having left the room these fellows protested that they mnst be readmitted, but the police refused to distinguish between waiters and guests. and no one was allowed to enter. Several free rich ts were coinir on in the suDnerrotims and half a dozen men were sprawling on the wine-soaked floor, when Stuyvesant Fish and Inspector Steers arrived on the ficeue and endeavored to accelerate the clearance of the rooms. . BANQUETS AND RECEPTIONS. A Society that Has for Its Object the Spread Ins of Patriotism Among tho Youth. New York. May 1. The National Provident Union celebrated the centennial by giving a musical and literary entertain went at the Metropolitan Opera-house to night. A concert was given by Cappa's Seventh Regiment Ban dj Senator Dan iel spoke onl the object of the society. Its membership, he said. was now 6,000, and it had branches in very city of tho United States. Its

object was to instil patriotic instincts

into the breath of every young man in tne Uuited States, and he knew f no better way of doing so than by referring to the life of the man who to-day has been houored more than any other man of the pres ent ages. Senator Cullom was also expected, bnt, owing to neuralgic illness, sent a letter ot regTer. Among tne prominent cnests on the platform were Ira D. Warran, Richard IS. Hartuett. Edward J. Bok. Mai. John Webster, of Baltimore; M. J. Allen, Gen. R. P. Wheeler. ex-Secretary II. 8. Paddock, Daniel Doughtery, and Ii. H. Hodges. In the Interests of Steamship Subsidies. New York, May 1. The first annual din ner of the Spanish-American Commercial Union was given at the Hotel Brunswick to-night, the president, J. M. Ceballous, presiding, and among the guests and speakers being Warner Miller, Russell Harrison, Minister Preston, H. Guzman, F. Concho. ex-Minister Foster, Secretary Noble and others. The Union aims at extending our South American trade by subsidizing steamship lines. President Harrison sent a lotter of regret, in which be said: Considering the present condition of public bimness. It would be impossible for me to prolong my stay runner, i have already Indicated to a company of gentlemen who recently met In jour city my In terest in and sympathy with the object for which the Spanish-American Commercial Union is formed, and regret that It will not be m my power to accept yonr kind Invitation. v ery truly yours, Benjamin Harbison. Ex-Virginians Give a Banquet to Virginians. New York, May 1. The Virginians resi dent in New York gave a banquet, to-night, to the Virginians now visiting the city. Geo. Carey Eggleston presided, and among thoso present were Gov. Fitzhugh Leo, Wilson, of West Virginia. Governor Fitzhugh Lee responded to tho toast "Virginia." He was greeted, as he always is in New York, with the most hearty applause, and his eloquent ana patriotic remarks evoked much enthusiasm. Reception to the Supreme Conrt Justices. New York, May 1. The New York Bar Association tendered a reception to-night to the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, a distinguished array of legal celeb rities being .present. Chief-justice Puller and Justices Blatchford, Field and Strong i retired), ex-President Cleveland, tlihu foot. Judce Macrv. of New Jersev. Allen W. Lvarts, Senator Hiscock and William Jay were a few of the many prominent guests. - - - Brooklyn Centennial Banquet. Brooklyn, N. Y., May 1. The centen nial banquet at the Academy of Music, to night, was one of the most interesting and successful affairs Brooklyn has ever known. Between live and six hundred guests were present, and toasts were responded to by Andrew McLean, Bernard Peters, St. Clair McKelway, Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, and others. Ohloans Entertained New York, Slay 1. Ex-President Hayes and the Ohio centennial commissioners and their ladies were entertained at dinner tonight by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Caldwell, of No. 5 West One-hnndred-and-tweuty-third street, and a reception was held, at which a large number of Ohioans, resident in this city, were present. Reunion of Veterans. New York, Slay 1. A grand reunion of the veterans of the late war of the G. A. R. posts of New York and vicinity, was held Z. i. ii i t i .1 t r ut iiaurm-iivci i ui& iw-uaj, m uuiiur ui Wm. Warner, commander-in-chiet of the G. A. K. About six thousand members of tho G. A. R. attended during tho day and evening. LIBOR TROUBLES. Illinois Miners Kef use to Accept m Reduction and Will Quit Work. Streator, 111., May 1. The convention of the Twelth, or Northern, District of Illinois Coal Miners, to consider the proposi tion of the operators to reduce the price of mining ten cents per ton, concluded its labors to-day. Resolutions were adopted declaring the reduction unjust and uncalled for, and advising the use of all honorable means to prevent it: calling for a national convention of all miners in bituminous coal fields and a ces sation of work until such convention is called. A mass-meeting of more than 1.000 miners, subsequently held in the public park, indorsed the work or the convention without a dissenting voice. This action will throw out of work at least 2,000 men in the btreator mines. Miners Compromise In Ohio. Akron, O., May 1. Tho strike among the miners of the Akron district, expected to day, when the summer scale of wages went into effect, did not occur. Operators had decided, instead of dropping from 85 cents to 80 cents the usual summer price to insist on 75 cents. After much parleying, a compromise yas made on 77 1-2 cents, and President Lewis, of the Ohio Miners Union, said to-day that all the miners in this district would accept it General Strike in the Building Trades. Pittsburg. May 1. A general strike of the building trades was inaugurated to-day for an average advance of 25 cents per day and union workmen. Nearly all the carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, hod-carriers aud stone-masons in the two cities are idle, and work has been suspended on almost every' new building. Tho strike affects about 5,000 men. Pennsylvania Miners on Strike. Pittsburg, May 1. About 800 of tho 8,000 of the railway coal miners in this district are on strike against the new 6cale adopted by the operators which went into etlect to-day. The miners at the works on the Westmoreland, Pennsylvania and W. L. Scott companies have accepted compromise rates and are all working. Two Sons Charged with an Awful Crime. RnrpPT Pa.. Mnxr 1.- Tim awfnl ni1 mysterious tragedy in Jefferson township, facts appear. It now seems more than 1 1 ' il L At- A. 11 prouaoie mac mo two sous oi oia man, fcjhaulis, who was sixty-five years of age,' and much debilitated, deliberately conspired to put both their father and stepmother ont of the way. that they might speedily come into possession of the estate, which is valuable. The evidence so far adduced justifies the conclusion that the two sons, uavia aua ueorge, nangea tneir father, and that David, an hour or so later, body as she was returning from the barn to the house. The step-mother still lives, and may recover. One thing is certain, the father was hung previous to the 6hooting of the step-mother. Early one morning. auout iwo years ago. ur. c?uauin arrived in town with a bag of llour, which he asked Dr. Bonbaker, of Somerset, to examine, saving that he believed his sons were endeavoring to poison himself and wife. Altogether it is a most revolting and mysICUUU9 UUUlIi Catholic Colonization Society. Chicago, May 1. There was a meeting of the Irish Catholic Colonization Association of the United States at the Grand Pacific Hotel to-day. Bishop Spalding, of Peoria; Bishop O'Connor, of Omaha; General Lawler. of Wisconsin; Kev. J. J. Riorden, W. P. Kend. Michael Cudahy and W. J. Ouahan, of Chicago, were selected as directors. A dividend of G per cent, was declared on the stock of the association. Steamship AniTals. Lonpon. May 1. Sighted; Borderer, from Boston, and Asterdam, from New York, for Rotterdam. Qcf.enstowx, May 1. Arrived; Arizona, from New York. Np.w York, May 1. Arrived: Alesia, from Marseilles. Wholesale Condemnation of Cattle. Buffalo, May 1. A Lake Shore car, containing twentv head of uninspected cattle from the West, was switched last night to the Jacob Dolb packing-house. It is claimed that the cattle were lump-jawed, and the health authorities to-day condemned them, and tney were turned over to the fertilizer works.

Hon. John Kandolph Tucker, Moucnre JL. Conway, Roger A. Pryor, Senator Daniel Custis Lee. Logan C. Murray and Governor

INDIANAAND ILLINOISNEWS

A Verdict of $3,000 Against the Democratic Sluggers of Morgan County, The Soldiers Home at Marion Jennings Coun ty Fatalities Men Who Came to Grief While Asleep The Eastern Indiana Dentists. INDIANA. A nam 11 ton County Jury Assese Democratic Ilulldoxcrs 93,000 for an Assault. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Noblesvillk, May 1. The jury in the damage suit ot Eli Jackson against Wm. S wope, Sanford Sawyers and Charles Beasely, for personal injuries, returned a verdict this morning finding the defendents guilty and awarding the plaintiff, Jackson, $3,000 damages. The amount sued for was $10,000. The caso was bitterly contested, and ocenpied ten days of the Hamilton Circuit Court in the trial. There were more than a hundred witnesses from Morgan county, and the case has been a very expensive one. The result is a just vindication of Eli Jackson, who dared to assert his right to vote for local Republican candidates in Morgan county, and whose assertion of this right made him the object of a conspiracy andthe vicious assault on him, on election da. Eastern Indiana Dental Association. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Muncie, May 1. The dentists of central and eastern Indiana formed an association here to-day called the Eastern Indiana Dental Association. A. C. Budd, of this city, was chosen president, and M. H. Chappell, of Knightstown, secretary. The business of to-day was only routiue in character, but to-morrow several subjects of importance will be discussed. The following dentists are present from a distance: W. P. Jones, Portland; A. J. Smith, Greenfield; J. W. Jay, Kichmond; J. W. Ellis. New Castle; C. S. Wilson, Cambridge City; John Clayton, Connersville; M. H. ChapDell, Knightstown; A. J. Morris, T. S. Hacker, W. F. Kawles, J. A. Morrison and L. Barnes, Indiauapolis. A largo number of members are expected to arrive tonight. A clinical meeting will be held tomorrow morning. Jennings County Fatalities. . Special to the IixUanapoll Journal. Columbus, May 1. A remarkable epidemic of fatalities has occurred in the vicinity of Zenas, Jennings county, recently. On last Friday evening Morton Elliott, a prominent young farmer living near there, lost his life in a runaway accident. 1 He was thrown from a wagou, the wheels of which passed over his head, killiug him instantly. Less than a wee U ago Thos. Lowe, of the same vicinity, was killed by a hoise falling on him, and about the same time Leo Lehman, a near neighbor, who has been insane for a number of years, killed himself by taking poison. A few weeks ago a bov named llahn. of the same loc.il it v. had his neck broken by being thrown from a horse. Caught the Drummer Asleep. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawfordsville, May 1. John Prine, of Crawfordsville, went to the house of his divorced wife on Tuesday . morning, and found a drummer asleep upon a bed. He at once proceeded to give the man a pounding. Ho smashed the wash-pitcher over his head, which awoke the man, aud then a tierce struggle en sued. The drummer got the worst of the affray, and was cut in the had with a knife. After escaping from the house, he went down to a branch and washed his bloody head, and then he was arrested and fined. Prine was bound over to the grand mry. A Forcible Hugger. Special to the Indianapolis Journal; Tiptox, May 1. An unknown man has been creating considerable excitement in Tipton during the past few days, by catching women on the streets after night and forcibly hugging them. Several ladies have been insulted in this manner by bim;' He conceals nimseii oeninu trees ana then catches anv women that mav chnnm in hA passing. Last night he attempted to over take a couple of Indies who were going home about y o'clock, bnt wa9 frightened away by some ovs. All the ladies who have suffered at his hands describe him alike, and tho authorities think they have Jl Ml 1 1 tne guilty person locaieu. The Soldiers Home at Marion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. , Marion, May 1. Gen. L. A. Harris, of Cincinnati, a member of the board of man agers of the National Soldiers' homes, and Colonel Thomas, commander of the home at Dayton, accompanied by an architect, ar,i i ii.:. j. i . a i , nveuuero mis iiiemuuu. ui Hoieci a Dunn ing site on the farm, near this city, recentlv purcnasea lor tne establishment of a soldiers homo. A Cool Piece of Robbery. Special to the InlianaiKl!s Journal Rochester, May 1. Last night burglars entered the house of Isaac Alexander, and succeeded in taking his pants from under his pillow while he slept, and relieved them of their contents, about $225. They then entered his saloon, adjoining, and laid in a supply of hne whisky and brandy. California IIores at Terre Ilante. Terre Haute, May 1. "Knop McCarthy arrived here to-day from California with his stnng of trotting horses, among which are Geneva S.. Sir Archie. Kajah and Lena Wilkes. Ho will work them on the track here until Jnne. when he will enter the circuit beginning hore. Minor Notes. Rev. Adam Scott, of Jackson countyf died this week of Briglit's disease. Hon. Don glass Morris, of Carthatre, is re ported dangerously in ot typhoid fever. Dr. S. A. Shrewsbury, of Dupont, died last week in the 6ixty-hrst year of his age. Rev. T. 0. Smith, of Plymouth, has resigned his chargo there and gone to Grand Rapids, Mich. The life-saving station at Michigan Citv. this season, is to be in charge of Captain Henry tincn. "William Osborne, aprominent resident of Elkhart county, fell dead from his carnage, centennial day. Henry Stockhoff, a farm hand who sui cided near Hrownstown, left a note saying ne was urea, oi me. The Good Templars of the Twelfth dis trict will hold a secret session at Frankfort on the 8th and 9th i nsts. The Society of Friends at Cologne. Jack son county, will dedicate a new house of worship there next fcnuday week. There are 4.046 school children in Union township. Montgomery county, of which number 2,5?J are in Urawfordsville. Mrs. Margaret Sutton, one of the oldest residents of Wabash county, died there yealeruay ar tne age oi niuexy-iwo years. The rsew Albany rresbyterv meets at Hanover on the 14th inst, to ordain several young men to the work of foreign missions. Dr. Claire Taylor, a female physician of rem, cuarzea wnn criminal malpractice, has been held in the sum of 1,000 to answer lumcimeut. A little daughter of Martin Pupel's, living near Portland, fella few davs since and injured her lower limb3 so that both had to be amputated above the knees. James Marrical. a prominent farmer liv ing two miles east of Montnelicr. lost his uninsured honso by lire last Tuesday. All Rev. R. W. Christian, pastor of the Sec ond 15aptist Church of Madison, left, Wednesday, for Philadelphia and .New York, in the interest of his church. A branch of the Soldiers' Service-pension Society has been organized in Jellerson county, with Col. W. t. McClure as presi dent ami A. . iienn as secretary. Benj. Riley, a sleep-walker, got out of a second-storv window of a New Albany ho1 ..11 A i A I S 1 xei, anu icu iwcuiyiive ipci on nis neau. i a ;j j j Ills couauiou is consiuerea aangerous. A two-year-old son of W. P. Stonfcr. liv ing near Wabaidi, wandered into a field where colts were pastered and was kicked and pawed until he was nearly dead when rescued. After seventeen ballots the Republicans of Marion last night nominated the follow ing municipal ticket; lor Mayor, A. E.

Steele; clerk, Thos. B. Doan: treasurer, Mark L. Swayzee; marshal, Charles Can-

ady. Joe Harris and John Clark, two young men of Crawfordsville, fought a prizefight for li near that city Monday night, and Harris railing to come to tune after tho eigth round the fight was awarded to Clark. The two-hnndredth recital of the School of Music at DePaujv University will be. given to-night by . H. bherwood, pianist, assisted by Alary Mitt, Anna Bunger, Nelly Turner and Lulu Ward, vocalists, and t. Grace Faul, accompanist. The Yeedersbunr Reporter has been pur chased by Jl A. Gilkey. The retiring editor, Mr. Clark, has had one of his legs amputated, on account of a bone turner, and last Saturday he was chosen the can-' didato for the postmastership, the result of an election. Last Tuesday evening a young man called upon a young lady of Crawfordsville, and in the course of the call exhibited his revolver. In taking out the cartridges one of them exploded, the ball striking the lady in the hand, inflicting a painful wound. Spencer's High School commencement ex ercises were successfully held, this week. The graduates were Jennie Froth, Howard Peden. Minnie lieem. Lola Mcllalev. Lillie Jarvis, Ethel Wiles, Guy Ellis, Florence Lverly, Anna Ellis. John Walls, Mamie Anderson, Miss "Chat" Pickens, Nellie Mullinnix and Winifred Morgan. The managers of the Battle - irround Camp-meeting Association held a meeting at Crawfordsville, last Monday, and made arrangements for the repair of everything outot order upon the grouuds. The price of family tickets was placed at 2, and single tickets at $1. The log cabin recently presented the assoeiation by the Republic an central committee was accepted, and will be taken down and erected inside the inclosure. and will he used as headquarters. This cabin will have a rail fence around it. and will be furnished with old-fashioned furniture. The mauagers will hold another meeting on May 27. ILLINOIS. Two Miscreants Celebrate the Centennial by Firing Into a School-Houae. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mattoon, May 1. While celebrating the Washington centennial, yesterday, Dick Harris and Charles Spitz, two young men of this city, secured a carriage and with two female companions drove three miles north from the city. They stopped in front of a school-house and fired a number of shots from revolvers into tho room, where the teacher and children were busy at their studies. One of the bullets which passed through the door was picked up by the teacher. Miss Murray Woods, and brought to the authorities here. Officers will look after the miscreants.' Fortunately none of the school children were hit by the bullets. Brief Mention. The Litchfield Tile Company's brick and tile-works burned, last Tuesday, with a loss of 1 10,000. ' Ludwig Van Embden. proprietor of the European Hotel at Galena, died there a day or two since. Coles countv Republicans are nleased with the prompt appointment of Republicans postmasters in that county. Hon. John Sloan, of Yates City, died last Saturday. He was a member of the State Legislature for two terms, from 1878 to 1882. Pekin recently elected Hon. E. F. Un,land, Kepublican, Mayor, and voted in favor of making the bridge across the Illinois river free. In the Senate, yesterday, a bill waa passed providing that physiology and hy giene suaii ue laugut in me puuiio scnoois, with especial reference to the etlect of alcoholic stimulants on the human system. Judge J. 13. Williams was nominated by the Democratic convention at Shawneetown, yesterday, to rill the vacancy oc casioned by the death of Congressman if. W. Townshend, of the Ninth Illinois dis trict. Southern Manufacturers Association. Augusta, Ga.. May 1. The Southern Manufacturers1 Association organized today, with headquarters at Augusta. They elected H. II. Hickman president, and iivo vice-presidents. Representatives from all of tho cotton States were present. Resolutions were passed to memorialize the government to subsidize ships to South American and Central American and Mexican norts. The association also nledsras members to pay 10 cents more per 100 pounds lor cotton baled iu cotton bagging than for cotton baled in Jute bagging. The secretary of the association is to keep all obtainable information about southern mills, the number of mills, spindles and looms, the yearly out-put, etc. Hallway Track Sinks Fire Feet. Howeli- Mich., May 1. The north-bound train on the Toledo & Ann Arbor road had just passed a point three miles north of this place, about y o'clock last night, when the track immediately in the wake of the train sunk fully hve feet below its former level, for a distance of half a mile. It has been necessary to transfer passengers around the sunken section of track to-day, and freight traffic has been stopped. The connection will be re-established around the beach by to-morrow morning. Similar trouble has occurred in the vicinity before. It is at tributed to quicksand. Whlto Caps Close a Saloon. Find lay, O.. May 1. About a month ago the saloon of Jack Messamore, at Kawson, lit a Anntw tst a a xr i ui toH Vitt 7 Vi i a Porta who cleared out its contents and destroyed them, leaving a note to the effect that thev would repeat the dose if Messamoro should reopen, lie commenced business again, and placed a watchman on guard at night. Last niflcht. coming to tne conclusion tnat toe White Caps were only making a bluff, he withdrew the watchman. LatoTn the even ing the White Caps descended upon the placo and again cleaned it out Messamoro has decided to move to another town. To Consider Oar Relations with Canada. CniCAGO, May 1. The Senate committee on relations with Canada will hold its first meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel to-morrow, when the work to be accomplished and the general plans to be adopted will be decided upon. Senator Hoar, chairman of the committee, arrived here this morning, and Messrs. Allison, Hale, Dolph. Pugh. Butler and Voorhees aTe expected to be here in the morning. Atter the conference, which may continue through a portion of Friday, the entire committee will leave for the Pa cific coast on I nday evening. Sporting Men Admitted to Ball. Montreal. May l.The application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Andy Maloney. the Montreal sport, and Harry Phillips. Sullivan's ex-manager, who were committed for trial for unlawfully possessing themselves of 14.000 worth of jewelry belonging to a loronto hrm. was made to day before Judge Davidson. Counsel for the prosecution consented, and the writ was consequently granted. Bail was accepted in $4,000 each, .$3,000 personal and 1 A. A- - r-y-V iwo suusianuai sureties, eacn oi $i,mu. Off for Their Posts of Doty. New York, May 1. Hon. John Sherman, Hon. Johu C. ew. consul-general at London: Hon. W.W. Thomas. Envov Extraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiary toSweden and Xorway.and Lincoln Valentine.consul to Honduras, sailed for Europe on the steamer Cit.v of New York, to-day. Mr. John Hicks, United States minister to Peni, was a passenger on the steamer Para, which sailed to-day. A Shrewd Swindler. St. Paul, May 1. By collecting $10.25 from each man he hired for work on a Da kota railroad, called the Anchor lint, one John Smith secured about $1.C00 from labor ing men. and this morning when the police were looking for him for ruumng an em ployment agency without a license he skipped, and has not since been heard from. Woman Sandbagged and Ilobbed. Cincinnati. May 1. At Hartwell. to-day. Mrs. Proesman. wife of the ticket agent of the Bee-line road, was sandbagged in the omce anu cnottrti 10 insensioiiiiy uy a thief, who Rtole $150 from the drawer, and escaped. The woman did not recover consciousness for several hours. A fair trial oi Hood's Sarsaparilla for scrofula, saltrheum. or any affection canned by impure blood, or low state of the syNtcm. will be sufficient tc convince any one of the superior and peculiar curative powers of this medicine, liuy it of your druggist. One hundred doses one dollar.

THE PAENELL EXAMINATION

Attorney-General Webster Extremely Harsh in His Jlethqd of Questioning. . The Irish Leader Gives His Testimony in a Straightforward and Deliberate MannerAction of the Samoan Conference. PAKNELL ON THE STAND. lie Denies Being an Unconstitutional Agita tor, and is Not in Favor of Landlordism. London, May l.The direct examination of Mr. Parnell was continued at to-day's session of the Parnell commission. Mr. Parnell declared that he had conducted the Irish agitation constitutionally. Mr. Parnell, on cross-examination, denied that the Irish World had coUected money for the Parliamentary party since 1S82. Attorney-general Webster here produced extracts from the Irish World, praising Mr. ParnelPs action in Parliament after 1883. Sir Charles Russell, counsel for the Parnellites, put in extracts adverse to Mr. Parhell. The cross-examination was then contin ued. Mr. Parnell admitted knpwing Mooney, otherwise known as "trans-Atlantic." He did not know whether Mooney contrib uted to the Parliamentary fund. Mooney wrote violent articles; still, witness would not object to receiving Mooney's tribute to assist the party, if he did not publish ar ticles advocating murder. Witness had held no communication with Patrick Ford since 1881. Mr. Parnell emphatically de nied that his Irish schemes ever included a ' coalition with the Fenians in oraer to expel landlords from Ireland. He certainly aimed to destroy landlordism, but not to drive individuals from the country, and never had any idea of resorting to illegal means. He did not recollect meeting Mr. Davitt and John O'Leary in 1870. and discussing with them a possible alliance between the Nationalists and the Fenians. He had no notion that the National fund in America and the skirmishing fund were identical. Attorney-eeneral Webster here read & violent manifesto, signed bvJohn Devov and others, and issued at Dublin. Mr. Parnell declared that he had never heard of it before. He had metMessra. I)evoy, Breslin, Finerty and Alexander bum van, and a number of physical-force" men. He said he would frankly avow that he felt it was no part of his duty to exclude anyone from the League on account ot their antecedents. He wanted to include in it all Irishmen, trusting that every section would accept the new constitutional form of agitation. He had aimed at asking the "physical-force" nieu t abandon their movement and to accept hu To shut the constitutional door in tlicir laces, because they did not immeifailv :;ree, would have been very foolif h. Ho d:d notrecolwhich it was alleged he hadsid thatwhen Lngiana was beaten ti her Knees, the time would have come to rv.lize the idea of the Nationalists. Ha admitted that if he had used those words he must have been thinking of method'! of warfare in the event of of constitutional agitation failing. At Troy somebody otf ered him S5 for bread and $20 for lead. He did not object to the otter, because he thought the offerer only meant $5 for charitable work and $20 for League work. This statement caused laughter. The commission at this point adjourned. L very body is commenting on the acerbity of manner which characterized the demeanor of Sir Kichard Webster toward Mr. Par nell, much to the discredit of the former. Lven the leading and most pronounced To ries doubt the wisdom of tho Attorney-gen-eral s course, not that they desire to sparo the feelings of the Irish leader, but because they belie ve that the harsh manner adopted . m 11T 1 it . 1 dv air. weosier win greauy increase me already widespread proular sympathy with that persecuted gentleman. LI HUNG CHANG'S ILLNESS. How China's Great Viceroy Is Being Cared For by the Emperor. A recent issue of the Pekin Gazette contains an official statement respecting the health of the Viceroy, Li Hung Chang. It seems that at the end of last autumn he caught a severe cold, which affected the muscles of his face, and produced great thirst and redness of the eyes. He obtained , first twenty days' leave, and was subsequently granted two extensions of a month each, on both of which occasions the Emperor expressed great solicitude respecting his health, and urged him to procure the best medical aid available. Princo Chun, the Prime Minister, sent him twenty pills, which had been specially prepared in the palace, one of which was" to be taken every day before food. "Externally he applied a lotion to dry up the tears in his eyes, and internally he took medicine to relievo his kidneys and promote circulation. The doctor's bulletin states that disease is already eight parts gone. With the mildness of the spring he will be able to go out once more, and under the vivifying influences of that health-giving season his muscles will resume their proper functions, and the dryness of the mouth will disappear." Li expresses himself profoundly grateful for the many tokens of regrets which he has received from the throne, and assures the Emperor that nothing is further from his mteution than to take his ease at such a moment as the present. "Though he has been on leave for the past month, he has been daily occupied in transacting business and seeing his subordinates, and Las often forgotten to take his food nntil after the going down of the sun. All through the stillness of the niffht his mind has been troubled with the thought that his sickness might cause some miscarriage of mihlic business." Upon this report the Emperor writes with his own hand: "Wo have carefullv perused the above, and must again urge upon the patient to be still more careiai in sparing nimseii anxiety ana xaoor, and to continue a course of medical treat ment, in the hope that his early restoration to health mav remove the earnest solicitude which we feel on his behalf." GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Probability that King Malletoa Will Be Re instated Land Tenure in Samoa. Berlin, May 1. It is stated that the liberation of Malietoa, tho deposed King of Samoa, has been voluntarily announced to the Samoan conference. It is supposed that this action on the part of Germany is the prelude to the reinstatement of Malie toa. A sub-committee of tho Samoan confer ence, consisting of Delegates Kanel, Bates and Scott, has prepared a report on the land question in Samoa. It is stated that a sub-committee of the camoan conference has under consideration a plan for the fut ure government of Samoa under a native ruler, with a tribunal to adjudicate the question of land tenure. It is considered probable that the conference will decide to appoint a triumvirate which will act as counsel to the native sovereign, and have a general supervision over Samoan a Hairs. The Berlin correspondent of the London Times, referring to the bamoan conference, savs that, while England's attitude is en tirely clear, there is nothing to fehow that the British government leans toward Germany. Plot Against the Ciar Discovered. St. Petersburg, May 1. The police at Cronstadt have discovered another plot against tho life of the Czar, and in the course of their investigations found a Nihil ist etore-house tilled with arms and explosives. Several arTests have been made in connection with the discovery. Cable Notes. Bv an exnlosion in the Unrechlinhansen colliery at Dortmund, Germany, yesterday, three persons were killed and eight injured. President Carnet vesterdav cave an au dience to Mr. McLane, the United State minister, who presented General William B. Franklin, the commissioner of the United States to the Paris exhibition. Lord Dunraven'syacht Valkyrie was launched yesterday. T he frames are of steel, the tops, sides, deck and fittings are of teak, and the bottom nlankinas are of hard wood. Tho length is 65 feet; beam, 15.0 feet;

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At the time of the great crush and panio on the lake front. last night, a similar scene on a smaller scale yas being enacted near Lincoln Park on the North Side. When the pyrotechnic display in the park was concluded, the im mense crowd surged westward-on North avenue. Just west of Clark street is a wooden sidewalk, elevated about four feet from the ground for a considerable dis tance. While the people were crushing and pushing each other over this walk, an al tercation ensued between two men, and some one fell down. Somebody else fol lowed suit. Then it seemed as though bedlam had been let loose. Women shrieked, men swore, children cried. Pell-mell fell fully a dozen more people, some of them . women and children, and at last, while the struggling mass of human beings was endeavoring to save itself from trampling the fallen underfoot, the wooden sidewalk gave way and fully a hundred peoplo were thrown over the top of each other in a confused and seemingly inextricablo heap. The horror of the situation was further added to by tho thousands of peoplo behind those who had fallen in the crash. Not understanding what had occurred, aud being solely desirous of escaping from tho ever-increasing aud still greater crowds which poured from the park, those in the rear of tne broken bide walk kept pushing on until it 6eemed impossible that many snould not be stmed to death, even if tbey escaped death from being trampled upon. When the news of the accident had been commnnicated to those in the rear, and they had stopped the shoving process, it was found that half a dozen persons had been seriously injured, a gTeat nnraber bruised, but no one killed. None of the in jured will die. It is exceedingly diQicuit to seenre reliable information in regard to the number of Eeople who were hurt in the crushes on the take Front and at Lincoln Park last night. A very large proportion of the injuries re1 f . A 1 A ,1 ceiveu were oi a comparatively inning cnaracter, and tnose who sunered them went at once to their homes, while many others who were more badly hurt were immediately taken in charge by friends and conveyed to private houses before the police or the reporters were able to secure their names or destinations. All of those who were sent to the hospitals are reported as doing well this morning, and it is not believed that any fatalities will result among them. So far tho coroner has not received any notification of death from any private house, and the supposition, therelore, is that none has occurred. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. At Jasper. Ala.. Tuesday nittht. the West- '. era Union Telegraph otlic was struck by ! iigmumg anu operator nunu was Killed. A New York woman named" Ellen Good. . aged twenty, gave poison to her child yes-' terday afternoon, r.nd then cut the child's ; throat. She was a servant, and has been . arrested. The schooner Shiloh sailed" from Glouces ter, Mass., on a fishing trip to George's Banks, on March 23. since which time noth ing bas been beard from ber. Her owners to-dav have given her un for lost. She car- ' ried a crew ot fourteen men. While Joseph Evans, owner of an etdato recently purchased by the State of Massachusetts for an armory site, and some workmen were engaged in moving a barn from the place to-day, the building fell, bndly crushing Mr. Evans and liartholomew Curry. Both wero taken to tho hospital, and will probably die. During a drunken fight between negroes. which became general, in a low quarter of Kansas City, about midnight on Tuesday, Annie Edwards was cut in the throat, James Levell was dangerously cut near the heart, and several others received more or less serious wounds. The woman died at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Voluntary Alignment of a Tinware House. Chicago, May 1. The Cragin Manufacturing Company to-day made a voluntary assignment to William A. Montgomery, a lawyer. No schedule was fixed, nut the assignee said the assets were from 180,000 to $150,000, and liabilities about 70,000. Tinware and sheet-iron goods, particularly coal -hods and dripppm? pans, were the company's specialties. "This i hardly a failure?' said Assignee Montgomery, 4but rather a liquidation. The company expect to pay its creditors 100 cents on the dollar and have something left for the stockholders." The name Cragin has been known in the trade for a great many years. The present company, however, was not organized until lks3. when it started with a capital of 120,000. The stock is chiefly owned by the president. Wm. P. Hale, and the Charles L. Dudley estate. Xrancvllle Man One of the Hamilton Tlctlin. Hamilton, Ont, May 1. Tne remains of two more of the charred victims of the Grand Trunk wreck have been identified and taken away. They were those of Morgan H. Scullen, of Chicago, which wero identified by A. Colvin, ami those of H. 8. Hail, an old and retired merchant of Evansville. Ind., which were identified by his son-in-law. Henry Pringle, of Chicago, is reported missing. Tho remains of Mrs. . Geo. Grummels will be sent to Chicago tomorrow. It is almost certain that Charles J. C. Frazer, of Toronto; J. L. Kurnick. of Chicago, and J. B. Sterns, of Camden, Mm., are among the dead. Thirteeu dead are thus far accounted for, leaving six bodiet about which no inquiries have been made. An Escort to a Dead President's Remain. A Little Rock, Ark., May l. General Escobedo, the hero of Querotaro. Mexico, to whom Maximilian surrendered. pafsed through here to-day, cn route to New York ; to escort to Mexico tho remains of cx-Pres-ident Lesado. He was accompanied by i Colonel Vilianuva, Lieutenant-colonel Cor- ? rellai and two orderlies of the Mexican '. army, Tho report that the United states fovercment will furnish a military guard las given the liveliest satisfaction u, Mexico