Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, -'SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1889. TASUUsCJTON OFTICE 513 Fourteenth St P. S. IlrATn. Correspondent.

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PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemhlo, 3735 Lancaster avenue. cniCAOO Palmer House. CINCTNNATI-J. P. Hawiey A Co., liiVlne street. LOTJ I ffVILLE c. T. ' Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson street. i BT. LOUIS "Colon News Company, Union Deptt and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlgi House and Eltttt House. "Now that I am back, and am your leader aaln, I promise you any best efforts, and If you will stand by me as before, I promise you that when the smoke of battle rolls away we shall a pain be found triumphant." Sim Coy to the local Democracy, in his speech accepting a renominatUm for Council. TnE city election will take place next Tuesday. Onlt a part of William H. CoTbaley's unsavory record has been printed. If he has any friends they should advise him to keep quiet. TnE attempt to make ex-Chief Webster's sore toe a political issue resulted about like Governor Gray's reference to the Democratic record. The election of a Democratic Council means the reduction of the saloon tax to $100 a year, and that means beating the city out of $45,000 a year. Democrats appear to be very scarce articles in the new States, but there is no indication that their rarity has in any wise enhanced their value. In its efforts to drag Coy into the Republican party, the News still exhibits the energy of an indomitable little insect tugging at a hopelessly big piece of carrion. ' Democrats in tho .Eighteenth ward who favor the construction of a Virginiaavenue viaduct should renjember that Sim Coy voted against appropriating half of the revenue from tho saloon tax to that purpose. TnE spectacle of Leon Bailey and Charlie Polster driving from one saloon to another to assure tho outraged proprietors that tho Democratic committee repudiated tho Sentinel'8 saloon article was enough to make a wooden Indian laugh. It has taken so much soap for the Democratio committee to wash their hands of the Sentinel management, and for the latter to wash its hands of tho campaign management, that tho rank and file of unclean Democrats are not likely to get any at all. The man who introduced the bill in Congress to make Indianapolis a port of entry, and who made the first public speech and written report in favor of the soldiers1 monument, deserves to be j elected Mayor of the city. We do not ' refer to J udge Sullivan. The holier-than-thou organ says: i "Nothing more disgraceful than the Coy j pardon has occurred in city politics." yet the editor ot tno holier-than-thou organ signed a petition for tho pardon of Coy's partner in crime, convicted by the came jury at the same time. The News has analyzed tho city platforms, and finds that every declaration made by tho Democrats is honest and sincere, while every one made by tho ! Republicans is the reverse. It is as easy as misrepresenting other people's motives and praising your own. The New York Democrats, in conven- , tion assembled, indorsed Cleveland's "glorious administration" tho other day when it did him no good. Last November, when their action meant some- ! thing, they condemned him to the tune ! of something over 10,000 votes. ! . There never has been a time in tho history of tho city when the fire and police forces were as non-partisan a3 they are at present, nor ever a time when . either was more efficient. The management of these departments, in this regard, reflects great credit on the city . authorities. It is now generally conceded that exGovernor Gray's reference to. the last Democratic record in city government was one of the most unfortunate blunders ever perpetrated by a politician. The discharge of that gun knocked the Democracy crazy. The Governor didn't know it was loaded. If Indianapolis can have as good city government for the next ten years as it has had for the last ten it will be the most fortunate city in the United States, and stand at tho head of the listior low taxes, small debt, economical management, and the best permanent improvements on the smallest outlay. A circular addressed "To the colored voters of Indianapolis", has been widely circulated. It informs them that now is the timo to assert their independence and prove their power, and that the way to do it is by voting the straight Denio- . cratic ticket in the city election. They are told that the colored people have no show under tho present city government, and that their only chance lies in i Democratic success. This is important.

if true. Also, it i3 in the nature of news. The circular is 6igned by A.E. Manning, Edward E. Cooper, J. T. V. Hill and L. A. Simpson. As they seem desirous of figuring in the capacity of colored adjuncts to Democratic reform, we give them the benefit of a free advertisement. The circular is evidently gotten tip by the Democratic committee, and is a new phase of the old scheme to divide the colored vote. Colored men who think they owe a debt of gratitude to the Democratic party ought, by all means, to follow the advice of the circular, and vote the Democratic ticket. '

THE DEjIOCBATIO COBRUPTTOff 10111). An act of the last Legislature has considerably curtailed the honest uses of money in elections. Tho Australian system or secret-ballot law will go much further in the same direction, but that does not take effect till next year. That will do away with tho expense of printing tickets, and with other expenditures heretofore accounted legitimate, by devolving them on the State. But the law first referred to, and now in force, prohibits tho use of money in some ways that have prevailed heretofore, and makes violation of the law a penal offense. The new law prohibits any candidate for office from loaning, giving or offering to loan or give money to any person for the purpose of influencing his vote or securing his political services and prohibits tho candidate from doing this through a middleman. It also prohibits any person whatever from loaning, giving or offering to loan or give money to secure tho vote or services of any person for any candidate. It prohibits the use of money to induce persons to vote or to refrain from voting. It prohibits any person from hiring or otherwise employing for consideration any person to work at or near tho polls for any candidate on election day. Tho vio lation of any of these provisions is made a misdemeanor, punishable by fine, imprisonment and disfranchisement. The three Superior judges have decided that tinder this law "it is not lawful for any one to hire wagons with drivers for the purpose of bringing voters to the polls. Neither is it lawful for any one to hire and pay persons for acting in the ca pacity of challengers, to swear in votes, to hold poll-books, tickets, nor to direct or manage wagons at the polls, and it is wholly unimportant whether such per son influence any other voter or make the attempt. These services may bo rendered gratuitously, but cannot be paid for, directly or indirectly. In view of the curtailment which this law makes in the honest and legitimate uses of money at elections, tho question arises, what do the Democrats expect to do with the Inrge fund they are raising from tho saloons and breweries? The Journal yesterday published tho statement of one brewer that he had been as sessed several hundred dollars, and that others have paid still more. It is an as certained fact that all the saloon-keep ers have been assessed. Tho money collected from these sources will amount to several thousand dollars. As the op portunities for using money honestly are less than ever, it is plain the Demo crats are collecting this large fund to use dishonestly. They cannot use hon estly any such sum of money as they are raising. They intend to try and buy tho election. Under the specious cry of reform they are organizing a gen eral scheino of fraud. Tho saloon fund is a corruption fund. THE FIFTH WARD CONTEST. The Republicans and tax-payers of the Fifth ward will be very foolish if they allow themselves to be bulldozed or misled into voting against Mr. John R. Pearson for tho Council. He has repre sented tho ward nearly twelve years, and during that time the city has had no more faithful or intelligent public serv ant. In the matter of saloon taxes alone his record entitles him to tho vote of every good citizen. Mr. Pearson in troduced the first ordinance levying a saloon tax, he introduced the ordinance in creasing the tax from $53 to $100 a year, and ho introduced the ordinance increas ing tho tax from $100 a year to $250. These successive ordinances have put hundreds of thousands of dollars into the city treasury. The present ordinance, fixing tho tax at $230 a year, is mainly due to Mr. Pearson's energy and management. It involves a revenue of at least $73,000 a year, and prospectively .of a great deal more. The Fifth ward should be proud of having a member with such a record. But Mr. Pearson has been a hard, industrious and ef fective worker for tho city in other directions, on general and special commit tees, in opposing useless expenditures, striving to keep tho city's expenses within its revenue, etc. No member of the Council has a better record or de serves better treatment at the hands of his constituents than he. In the lan guage of the News two years ago: "He has attended to the interests of his dis trict without partisanship, and brings to tho administration of affairs ac quaintance and long experience."7 Mr. Pearson's opponent, Maj. Irwin Bobbins, was chief of police in 1883. In that capacity ho was so dismal a failuro that he resigned after a few months' service. If tho Democrats carry tho city next Tuesday the law taxing saloons $250 will be repealed. That is the real issue in this contest. Tho saloon-keepers are bending everything to that end. It is for this that they aro canvassing tho city day and night, and on election day it will Toe their money and liquor which will bo expected to promote the activity of the workers and control tho float." In every ward where it is proposed to beat a Republican his opponent is pledged to the sa loons. Tho saloon-keepers allege that. when the $250 tax was voted, there was an understanding that Mayor Denny should cease to assess fines for drunkenness, but that, in violation of this understanding, tho Mayor has continued to enforce the law. This kind of talk is being persistently indulged in all over the city among those whom it is hoped to influence in that way. Nothing could bo more absurd. That the Mayor has enforced tho law against vio-

lators may be a sufficient reason to them

for opposing the Republican party; but it will only tho more commend that party and its officials to all law-abiding cit izens. If you wish the saloon tax to re main, and the laws to be enforced, vote for the Republican candidates. It due to the Democratic candidate for the Council in the Eighteenth ward to give him the benefit of the widest circulation of these geni3 from tho Sentinel. For convenience of reference they are numbered consecutively: 1.3 Even if Mr. Cor were all that his ene mies have charged hiui with being and be is not ho would still be a better man than a number of candidates on the Republican councilinanic ticket, whom the Journal is actively supporting. 13. Mr. Cov. whatover his merits or demerits f.tnd he lias bothl. i aiinnlv one of some fifty nomiueen for the Counril who will ask the people for their suffrages at the approaching electiou. Ho is not the leader or a leader of tho Democratic party of Indianapolis. 3.1 So far as the nersonaiitv of Mr. Cor is concerned, it is, of course, not involved in the campaign to a greater extent than that of any one of the othev twenty-four Democratic nominees for the Council, or of any one of the actual or prospective Republican nominees. This is the Sentinel's way of opposing Coy. It has always opposed him in the same way. From his entrance into politics to tho present time, during the prosecution of the tally-sheet forgeries and after his conviction, it has never opposed him in any other way. All its opposition to Coy has been to the effect that he is a much persecuted man, and if he has done some bad things in poli tics, Republicaus.bave done much worse. This is the position of the News also. It is the key-note of Democratic reform. For Mayor of Indianapolis, the Senti nel said recently, was needed "a man who is thoroughly identified with tho interests of the city; a man of good abil ity, high character, broad views and progressive ideas; a man of life and ac tion, physically as well as mentally; equipped for the multifarious and important duties which devolve upon the chief executive of 6uch a city as Indian apolis. Above all, we want a man who cannot be controlled or managed by tho corporations and rings; a man of so much uprightness of purpose and force of character that ho can be depended upon to rise superior to tho influences, the more dangerous that they are often ex erted so insidiously, which such combi nations always bring to bear upon tho head of the municipality. General Coburn might have sat for that photograph. lie fills the bill perfectly. His proved ability, hislong identi fication with the interests of the city, his largo knowledge of public affairs, his incorruptible integrity, his iudomitablo energy and public spirit all mark him as the man for tho place. By the way, what record has his opponent? Goverxou Giiay hit tho enemr a verv hard blow in his Tomlinson Hall speech Tuesday night. "The best platform which any party can adopt' he said, "is a reference to its record while in power' Sen tinel. This was at the beginning of the present .campaign, when the Sentinel was young and handsome, as it were, and before it had been mado acquainted with local history. If Governor Gray had to open his mouth again he would probably try and not put his foot in it: There never was auy thing quite as ridic ulous as tho reference to the Demo cratic record in city affairs while in power. It recalls the most disgraceful period in tho city's his tory a period of reckless inisgovernment, extravagance, wastefulness, fa voritism, jobbery, partisan misrule and corruption, which was without precedent, and; Ijappily, is still without parallel. The city has not yet recovered from the blasting and blighting effects of two years of Democratic government nearly fifteen years ago. W. II. Corbaley seems to covet tho distinction of being the champion liar of this campaign. He could take tho prizo without making such ridiculous statements as those which tho Sefitiuel prints for him relative to General Coburn's connection with the bill to equalize bounties. Corbaley says: Mr. Cobnrn's term in Congress' ended March 8. 1S7S, but the bill did not pass Congress until March S. 1373, just two years after Mr. Cobtiru's term expired, and was vetoed by President Grant in March, 1875. Corbaley lies. General Cobum's term in Congress ended March 3, 1875. Tho bill in question passed while ho was a member, and ho spoke, worked and voted for it. Corbaley should hire somebody to help him shut up. Ind i ANAro li s has never had a Mayor who was born in the city. General Coburn is the first native of tho town who has ever been nominated for tho office. Of tho fourteen Mayors who have served since 1847 all have been born outside of the city and some outside of the State. General Coburn was born hero in 1825, very soon after the location of the capital, and long before tho incorporation of the city. His life, therefore, has been almost exactly identical with the history of tho town, and his public services havo been identified with it in many ways, always to his own credit and to tho lionor and advantage of the city. There would be eminent fitness in his election as Mayor. The South Side will never get justice until we havo a Democratic Council. Sentinel The South Side owes nothing to it3 present Democratic councilnicn. They have stood in tho way of every effort at improvement. When Councilman Troisier moved to amend the $250 saloon-tax ordinance by providing that half tho revenue from this source should be used in the construction of a Virginia-avenue viaduct, Sim Coy, Markey and other Democratic South-side members voted against'it. They not only voted against the tax but voted against devoting any part of it to a South-side improvement. TnE Republicans havo had control of the city government for ten ye'ars, and yet, out of eighty-seven firemen, no less than thirty-eight were appointed as Democrats, and most of them aro still so. Since 1S7C only eight men have been discharged from tho department, and every one of those for disobedience of orders. Finally, of the eight men thus discharged, 8ix were Republicans and two

were Democrats. For fairness and nonpartisanship we doubt if this record can be equaled in any other city.

Nowhere outsido of Kentucky could such a horrible crime becur as the killing of a bridegroom, bride and clergyman while standing at the marriage altar. The a ssassination was simply a renewal of the Hatfield-McCoy vendetta which has been waged so long and with such terrible results. The world would bo tho gainer if every member of the two families should suddenly find ropes around their necks. TnE roster of the present police force shows that out of eighty-four men who now constitute tho force, forty-two men were appointedas Democrats on the recommendation of John P. Freuzel, John W. Murphy, Thomas Cottrell, SterliugR. Holt and William Henderson. Could there be a more complete answer to the charge that tho force has been run as a political machine? The boast is made that taxation here is low.. Why is itl because a law limits tho rate. This has been one of tho best measures ever devised for the city, and has maintained its credit for years. News. It was enacted by a Republican Legislature, and has been faithfully observed and enforced by Republican Councils. For all the benefits of this law the people have to thank the Republican party. If certain candidates for re-election to tho Council had only obeyed tho dictates of the great Pharisaical czar of Indianapolisf,nd voted for the pet schemes in which he is interested, all would have been well. Because these men happened to havo souls of their own, and could not bo influenced by bulldozing, they aro now receiving the most unstinted abuse. The frantic efforts of the News to prove that tho Republican party is responsible for Coy's present candidacy should bo followed by a campaign to "prove that the Young Men's Christian Association was responsible for the tally-sheet forgeries. We think the News could prove itif old Rill Jones was alive. A correspondent says he has heard it asserted that General Coburn ia a member of the Loyal Legion, and asks if it is so. No, it is not. General Cobum would be entitled to membership in that society, but, as a matter of fact, he has never joined it. The election of Sullivan would be a rebuke to gang politics. News. But not to tho Coy gang, for Coy's ward, as well as BumVs and Markey's, instructed for Sullivan. TnE animus of the abuso heaped upon certain Republican candidates for the Council by the Evening News is so well known that it ought to carry no weight with intelligent voters. The troubles in two great churches in revising their creeds naturally gives rise to the question whether creeds aro of real value to Christians. Why should the Bible not answer as the creed of allf The distinctive names of denominations and forms of worship could still be maintained, while a simple form of vow would be sufficient to indicate faith in Christian doctrines. In Kansas City, Kan., the other day, a young woman pursued her "recalcitrant lover from the depot to the jail on a dead run, and succeeded in imbedding a pistol ball in his shoulder. Even then her thirst for vengeance was not satisfied, and she married him. ' The fact that the climate of Florida does not agreo with Geronimo's health is an excellent reason why ho should be kept in Florida. COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED. An Orange County Gang Captured by Officers of the United States Secret Service. &veclal o the IntUo&poUs Journal Paoli, Oct. 4. This usually quiet town has to-day been thrown into a furor of excitement by the arrest of eight citizen charged with counterfeiting. Never, since the days of the Archers and their taking off, has the public interest been so intense. For more than two years it has been suspected that counterfeit money was being manufactured in the hills of Orange county. Last July Sheriff Pierce informed the government authorities of these suspicions, and detective Henry Webster, of Indianapolis, acting under the instructions of Maj. Thomas B. Carter, of the secret service, was detailed to work up the case. He arrived on the scene of action about the middle of August, and began operations. Last night Deputy Uuited States Marshal Harry Mounts arrived with warrants, and, with the aid of Sheriff Pierce and Deputy Baggerly, and some local help, the whole gang were arrested. They are Robert Williams, Thomas Williams, his sou, Henry Crow. Samuel N. Liudley, William K. Lindley, Joseph Low, George Lee and Charles Waltz. Little difficulty was experienced in capturing the party, excepting Robert Williams, the others offering no resistance. Williams is an old man, more than eighty-three years of age, and when confronted by the sheriff and Marshal Mounts, in a jiffy. Hashed a pistol in the faco of the marshal, but was deprived of the weapon by force, when he drew a knife, and swore he would disembowel the officers. Williams is an old offender, and learned tho business in his youth. He is a silversmith by trade. Ho has not pro li ted by it, but is a poor man. Henry Crow, is a secretive, mild-mannered, middle-aged man, and he, too, is a silversmith and itinerant clock tinker. He and Williams are the skilled men of tho gang. Crow was mending clocks at Judge Farrell's day before yesterday, at the noon hour, and being invited to eat with the family, upon request asked a blessing with unwrmkled sanctimoniousness. Waltz is a huckster and merchant of Cbnmbersburg. The. others are zuiddlenged men and farmers. All have families. Ualtz and Lee, after the arrest, confessed and gave the whole crime away. Molds for making nickels, dimes, quartet's, halves and dollars, dies, nulling screws, stamps, chemicals, crucibles, hfty pounds of metal and money in all styles of manufacture were captured with the men aud in the honses, or pointed out by the informers, forming three full outfits, which, when gathered together, make almost a wagon load. The evidence is complete, and the whole party will doubtless be convicted save those to whom clemency has been promised. The prisoners, in charge of Marshal Mounts, Sheriff Fierce and detective Webster, left for Indianapolis this evening at 8 o'clock, and will be arraigned to-morrow before Judge Woods. Witnesses accompany them. How a Clerk Wat Robbed of 0500. Boston, Oct. 4. G. H. Wright, a clerk employed by W. P. B. Brooks fc Co., furniture dealers, took $500 in a wallet to tho Bank of the He public for deposit to-day. Ho laid the wallet on the counter, keeping his hand on it. A stranger asked him where tho postofttce was. "Over there." said Wright, turning to point to the building. When he resumed jhis former position the wallet was gone. The stranger mid his confederate have also disappeared.

SURYIYORS OF THE CORONA

Incidents of the Explosion on the IllFated Steamer Told bj Rescued People. The Captain Burled Throngh the -Roof of the Cabin and Instantly Killed A Brave Little Boy's Successful light for Life. New Orleans, Oct. 4. A number of the survivors of the Corona disaster reached this city to-day. Seven of them came by rail and others by the City of St. Louis. Those who came by train were Capt, T. C. Sweeney, who was a passenger; pilot L. W. Hawlins. bill clerk Billy Higgins; Jack Green, captain of the deck watch; Robert Cams, carpenter; second steward Win. Fleming and engineer Wm. Handly. As they stepped from, the train they could easily be identified by their cut and bruised countenances. They were quickly surrounded by a crowd of weeping men and womcD, all anxious to learn the fate of some loved one.- The scene was, indeed, heart-rending, and strong men were compelled to turn aside their heads when some one, in answer to a question, would ascertain that the one they Inquired after was among the lost Mrs. Henry Blanks was among those who came down by the Anchor line steamer City of St. Louis. She was on the Corona with her sister, Mrs. Huff, and two children, en route to Columbia as a passenger. She says: I was standing with my sister and youngest child in my arms in-the rear of tho boat's cabin when the explosion took place. The chambermaid came running to us with life preservers, which, wo fastened on. William Fleming, the : pantryman, then came running to us and told us to go up on the hurrican roof until he could get the life-boat down, which he did in ahurrv. We then got into the vawl, and hardly had we been seated when the boat wa swamped, throwing us all into tho river. I, with my three-year-old child in one arm. held on to a piece of wreckage until one of the St. Lonis boats came and saved us. I told the child. "Hold tight, daughter, God will save us." A little six-year-old boy of Mrs. Henry Blanks, who was blown into the air by the explosion, said: "I was out looking at Captain Sweeney fixing the electric lights, aud then went into the cabin to see my mother, and had hardly got as far as the office when I was blown away into the air, and when I came down fell into the river on HIV hack; when I ram f n Mia tnrfapA I caught on to a wick, and an old man was near by holding a piece of wood, howling for the yawls to come and save him. It was then that I was frightened and began to yell also, when the skiff came and picked me and the old1 man up and took ns on their boat, tho City of St. Louis." The brave little fellow is badly hurt about the head. He stated that this was caused by a man throwing a plank on him. . Captain Sweeney stated that tho whole thing came on so suddenly that he hardly had time to see anything. Captain Blanks, who was sitting in the barber-chair, was hurled through the cabin roof and instantly killed. The others in the cabin were struck by flying timbers, among whom was Shrimp llanna, who was setting near the clerk's office. The explosion seemed toco downward, and the full force was in tho rear part of the boat. The cabin parted and one half of it fell into the river and the other half floated with the wreck. Those that were not killed outright by the flying timbers were pinned down and scalded to death. Captain Sweeney said the scene was indescribable. When the explosion took place he was on the forecastle, and thus escaped the heavy timbers that were flying around. He remaiued on the wreck as long as possible, and as there was no chance to rescue anyone, he sprang overboard, and was picked up by the yawls of the City of St Louis. Mr. Henry Jolle, the pilot of the Corona, says he was in the pilot-house at the time of the explosion, and felt as though he was blown up at first, and then fell down through the wreck on the lower deck on the debris, and fouud his arm badly hurt. In a short time a skiff camo alongside and took him from the sinking boat. He also says his steersman, Mr. Pierce, was in the pilothouse with him, and was also blown up, and when ho saw him he was lying upon the lower deck some feet away, also badly hurt by the fall and flying timbers. "After the explosion," Mr. Pierce said, I found myself among the wreckage and was picked up by one of the boats of the rescuing steamer. My right arm is, I fear, fractured, and my head is cut in several places. - Injured in a Kear-End Collision. Springfield, Mo., Oct. 4. This morning, at 4 o'clock, a serious rear-end collision occurred on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad near North View, Webster county, fifteen miles east of this city, in which five persons were injured, one fatally. Engineer Savage suffered from a fracture of the skull, and had one leg broken; he will die. Brakeman Cartwright and engineer Will Dyer, each had a leg broken. Michael Murphy and Al Myer, were also slightly bruised. The injured men were brought to this city. Street-Car Crushed. Rochestek, N. Y Oct. 4. A frightful ac cident occurred at West-avenue canalbridge this afternoon. Tho bridge is known as a lift . bridge. A streetcar was passing over wnen one end of the , heavy troughs filled with nig-iron used to assist in raisins and low ering the bridge fell from it support, and 1,500 pounds of iron crashed through the top of the street-car. John Metzer and Mary Birmingham were injured fatallv. auu vureo oiuer persons very seriously . Fatal Fall of &tage-TluUders. Rockville, Conn., Oct. 4. George John son and John Hanson, of Worcester, Mass., employed by Darling Brothers as stagobuildors on the Union Church, were precipitated seventv-five feet, this mornintr. bv the breaking of the staging. Hansonrs skull was broken, and he was almost instantly killed. Johnson's back is broken, his ribs driven into his lungs, and he cannot live. . Child Blown to Pieces in a Powder-House. Cayuga, Ont., Oct. 4. Three children named Waltou obtained access to the pow der-house of tho gypsum mine here, yesterday afternoon, and ono of them lighted a match and united a ouantltv of powder. One of tho children was literally blown to pieces, and the others were so badly injurea luai iney cannot recover. Burled Under FaUlnr Hock. IsiirEMiNG, Mich., Oct. 4. Four miners wero buried by a fall of rock from the root of C shaft in the Lake Angelina mine at noon to-day. Two were badly hurt, but were rescued and the other two were nearlv saved, when a second fall of rock occurred. Neither can bo gotten but alive. One is a Swede and the other a Manxman. Fatal Colliklon on the Union Facifie. ' Omaha, Oct 4. J. So ward, supposed to be from Villasca. la., was killed and an engineer named Dillard and a Pullman-car conductor named Putz seriously injured by the collision of two freight trains on tho Union Pacific road, near Kosco station, in the western part of the State, yesterday. Six Persons Injured Near Cheyenne. Cheyenne, Oct. 4. r ive cars of a west bound passenger train were ditched near here yesterday 4y the spreading of the rails. Six persons wro injured. Four ladies were seriously injured. The porter! skull was fractured and the conductor's leg was crushed. FoUoned by Eating Candy. Sr. John, N. B., Oct. '4. Mrs. McCrae, wife of a Presbyterian clergyman here, has been poisoned by strychnine, which was in candy that had been sent to her husband : i r . I. : : . v. ? a . uy uiuii. i huuiuci uuuiotcjBHncrfctivcu poisoned candy in the same way. The case. which i most mysterious, is similar to the one at Gait. Ont.. when little Meta Cherry was murdered and poisoned candy was sent to the lanniy oi itev. jonn itidley. m m Mutt Do One Hind Act Every Day. Chicago. Oct. 4. The Earl und Countess of Meath joined in u chilcCVa service in

the school-room of St. James's Church yesterday. At its conclusion the Karl Raid i!la.$i th? Tfoumk'r ,of, .the Ministering Children's League, of which order it Rems most of the children present were members, was present and he would, therefore, giva way to her. Lady Meath. a handsome aud kindly looking woman, bowed, and then spoke pleasantly to the children for half an hour or more, fche told how she had founded the order in Loudon four ami one-half years ago, and said that now there wera members in nearly every country on tho globe. The only object of tho society, according to the founder, is to induce each of its members to do at least one kind act every day. OUR FOREIGN GUESTS.

Delegates to the International Concre&s Enjoy a Ride from West Point tc New York. New York, Oct 4. At 9 o'clock this morning Colonel Wilson, superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point, received the members- of tho All-Americas excursion in hisoftice. Mexican Minister Romero was among them, and, addressing him, Colonel Wilson expressed his extreme gratification that, as a near friend of Gen. Grant, he had participated in the unveiling of his portrait last evening. The Mexican minister responded with expressions of es teem and pleasure, also remarking: ''Gen. Grant was very good to mo. I was glad to be present." Secretary of War Proctor and the party of excursionists, under Colonel Wilson's direction, were led the rounds of the de partments, from barracks to recitationrooms. A view of the river and mountains was had from tho point whither the party was driven. The foreign delegate wero clearly impressed with the rigidity of th routine at the post, the scrupulous care ot the barracks, and severe penalties for nonobservance of regulations most 6trongly challenging their attention. The inspection of the post was coucl: ded by an exhibition of cavalry drill in the riding hall. oon alter 11 o clock the entire party found their way down tho hill to the dock. whence tbey embarked on the gun-boat Yorktown. The embarkation was made in boats,of which there wasasmall fleet headed by the steam launch. Colonel Wilson and Mr. Romero had seats in one of tho small craft, well in advanco of the others. As the party approached the lorktown a tilo of marines was drawn np on the port side. and the ofheers stood behind Commander Chadwick. with uncovered heads, as tho distinguished visitors crossed the gangwu.y. iuo visuura Yteru imruuucru 10 mo commander by Superintendent Wilson, and preparations lor departure were immediately begun. The bell sounded, the screws i'oined motion, and as the ship gathered ieadway a salute was lired. Tb interest of the foreign visitors had been enlisted by the proceedings up to this point, but they were aroused almost to enthusiasm, an. un der the direction of the executive ociccr. the machine guns began to belch forth at intervals of two and one-half seconds until fourteen shots had shrouded the vessel in smoke. No effort was spared bv Commander Chad wick and his ofiicerstomako his passengers comfortable. Small parties of tho gnests were placed in charge ot various othcers and explored every corner of the ship, from the white desks, with thir great guns in the sponsons, their brass rails and wealth of ship furniture, to the hot- and rapidly puinatlng engines. When the delegates could spare the timo from their examination of the beautifully proportioned mechanism of the great guns and other warliko devices, they pointed with admira tion to tho beauties of tho valley tnrougn wnicii the river ran. irurthcr down the shipping began to increase in number and the delegates fell into conversation. Many of them are nou-committal as to what city of the united fctates they would most caro to visit upon the occasion of a world's fair in bV2. Clearly they all appreciate the situation, and the feeling has been ascertained- among them that Americans should settle the question of site among themselves, uninfluenced bv opinions of foreigners. fSpuyten Duyvil was passed about 3:15. A most elaborateluncheon had mean while been served in tho captain's cabin, and the vigorous exercises of the day brought keen and appreciative .. appetites 10 me least. JSew lork was reached about 3:30 p.m. A salute of seventeen guns was lired ia honor of Scnor Silva. Secretary of the Treasury of Colombia. Bapidly, but in perfect order, tne guests aud tne great piU oi uaggage which maue a pvramiu upon the main deck, wero transferred to tho Pteamer Puritan, and at 5 o'clock the party ?egan the trip to Boston by way of Long: gland sound. The delegates, before start ing for the East to-day, received and ac cepted an invitation to a diuuer in Canada on the evening of Sunday, 12th instant. which day they will spend at Niagara Falls. The host of tho occasion will be'Mr. Erastns Wiman. and the entertainment will be given at the Clifton House, on the Canadian side of the falls. 0B1TUARI. lion. Christopher Hoblnson, Ex-Member of Congress, and Also Minister to Fern. Woonsocket, IL I., Oct 4. Hon. Chris topher Robinson, formerly prominent in public affairs and as a lawyer, died last night of heart failure, in his eighty-fourth year. Mr." Robinson wa Attorney-general of Rhode Island from 1S54 to lb55. Representa tive to Congrxm from 1Sj9 to 1SG1 and min ister to Feru from 18(51 to IS&L Gen. Asa P. Blunt. Blunt died here this morning, aged sixty two. General Blunt was born in Danville, Vt., served through the rebellion as adjutant of the Third Vermont Volunteers, and has been almost continuously in tho United States military service since, receiving various promotions for meritorious services, and filling many positions of responsi bility and honor. From 1KT7 to IbSH ho was in charge of tho military station at Fort Leavenworth, and was department auartermflster at boston at the time of his eath. He received his commission us major-general last Saturday. . Other Deaths. Tl . vttfAnr O A IF T 1T 1 .!. Ill n. ttpII.Ic nnwn firnnd Armv man. ilronnoil dead to-night in the Crescent club-house. He was a native of New York. Middletown, Conn., Oct. 4. John Lvon. Smith, the last of tho twenty-one original trustees of tho Wesleyan University, died to-day, aged ninety-three. Montreal, Oct. 4. T. Tandy, general ' freight aarent of the Grand Trunk railroad, dropped dead, to-night, of heart disease. Salcld Mania Ainonj Gamblers. New Orleans. Oct. 4. Mayor Shakespeare's order closing the gambling establishments has borne its first fruits, thoueh it is fair to presume they are not of a species which his Honor had in ind when b.9 issued if. Tho order was to take cflcct last evening at 6 o'clock. Jarly yesterday morning Joseph M. Marcus, a young Hebrew merchant, and a silent partner in ono of the tabooed houses, sent a bullet through his brain, within a few paces of the main entrance to the parish prieon. Insomnia aud the fear of loss to bo suffered from tho closing of the jramMing-houscs are supposed to have caused the act. Later in the day. Napoleon Bonaparte White, one of the most familiar figures of the local gambling fraternity was found dead in his bed. in a lodging-honso. on Custom-house street. A vial, in which a few drops of a decoction of morphine still remained, lay near the jcorpse, and left no room for doubt as to the caue of his death. White was one of the Erst to volunteer his services in the famons Walker expedition to Nicaragua in lsr3. He made several fortunes, but lost them ut the gamblingtable. m m A Big Uowlder for a Monument. Jamaica L. I.. Oct. 4. The will of Wright Duryea, president of tho Glen Covo Starch Manufacturing Company leaves tho bulk of his estate to be divided betweu his two sous when the yonngest, Frank V attains his majority, lie uirectn that a bowlder to weigh not less than 4.U00 pounds, with a suitable inscription,' be th only monument p!aced overms rave. Tho citato is estimated at l,5QQ,0uu.