Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1891 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1891.

invoins the people to sustain the church during her present trial. Communications 'wired to the Vatican ursed that the papal message be read In the churches on Sunday TTior to tho Sligo election, but Archbishop Walsh, obtaining information that the district needed no external impulse to go solid against Pa me lb has postponed announcing the message until his return. The securing of Sligo will giTe a total to the Nationals in Parliament, counting John Dillon and W'illiam O'Brien, of hfty-two members, ngainst the Parnellites' thirty-two. The lunds of the National federation are daily incrr asing. while the Parncllite funds are nowhere. It is announced that Captain O'Shea has Drought suit against theCatholio Bishop of the United Diacese of Galway and Kilmaodaugn, the most Rev. Francis J. McCorraack. D. D.. and against Canon John CMahonev. of the Catholic Diocese of Cork. Captain O'Shea sues toe two reverend gentlemen for alleged libelous utterances in regard to his relations with Mr. Paroell "which have been attributed to the Bishop of Galway and to Canon O'Mahoney in the public nress. Alderman Collery, the anti-Parnellito candidate in North Sli go. avers that the Parnellites are distributing 5 notes among the rowdies of fiiigo. VICTIM OF THE MAFIA-

Merchant Stabbed to Death by av Member of tha Murderous Italian Society. Vienna, March 27. A dispatch from Krufstem. a fortified town near the Bavarian frontier, brings news of a murder Ty a Mafia conspirator. From the few details received from the scene' of the tragedy it appears that a well-known merchant cf Krufstein, who was upon the point of entering a railroad car at that place, was suddenly confronted by an Italian, who plunged astiletto into the merchant's breast, killing him almost instantly. The Italian, who turned out to be a workman employed in the neighborhood, was promptly arrested, and. from the investigation subsequently made by the police authorities, it seems the Italian was a member of the hideous Maha society, and that he had killed the merchant for a compatriot, by whom he had been detailed, for some real or fancied wrong done to the Mafia society, and for which the prisoner's compatriot had been condemed to death by one of the Mafia's secret tribunals. The murder of the merchant of Krufstein has created considerable excitement, and ther is a feeliog of indignation growing against the Italian secret society. PANIC IN A COCHT-ROOU. The Cork Trials Suddenly Adjourned by Fire, Which Destroyed tba lialldlog-. Cork. March 27. 'While the Judge was summing up, to-day, in the court-house, here, in tho case of the government against Mr. Michael O'Brien, Dalton and others, charged with assaulting the police and with rioting at Tipperary, at the time of the trial nf Messrs. William O'Brien and John Dillon, the court-house suddenly caught lire and a scene of alarm and confusion followed. All the occupants of the building managed to make their way safely into the street. The hre was discovered by a barrister, who noticed the rejection of the Uames in tho glass dome of the roof. The court room was packed at the time, and only the coolness of the judge and the police prevented a panic Despite all etlorts to extinguish the fire the dames spread rapidly, and the building was soon all ablaze. The court-house, including the municipal council cbamber,and the city and county oOicea, was destroyed. The intense heat melted the lead on the roof of tho building, and the molten metal poured to the ground in streams, hindering the work of the die men. During the height of the fi.o the roof, of the courthouse suddenly fell in with a crash, and tho walls collapsed vo the imminent peril of n large number of by-standers who had ventured dangerously near the burning building, gome of the archives were saved, but many documents, some of them dating back for centuries, were destroyed. When tho Hag-staff which surmounted the building was burned away and the union jack fell into the tiames the onlookers sent up a great cheer. Tne cause of the tire is attributed to a defective Hue. which ignited tho wood-work of the roof. The trial, which was so disturbed, will be resumed at a later date. Girl Shot bj a Lunatic. Belfast, Mr.rcb 27. A terrible scene occurred last night during the progress of a charity ball which was given atStragaddy, County Donegal. At the height of the festivities; an insane man suddenly made his appearance, armed with a double-barreled shotgun, lie fore his intentions were divined, or before he could be disarmed, the tnadman tired both barrels of his gun among the dancers. One young girl was shot in the back, and she was so dangerously wounded that she was removed lrom the ball-room in a dying condition. The madman, after discharging his shotgun, was seized by some gentlemen present, and was soon after handed over to the police. Protest Against Dllke's Candidacy. London, Mach 27. Over two thousand dissenting ministers have signed the protest against Sir Charles Di Ike's return to public life. Sir Charles persists that he will stand an a candidate for Parliament until he receives the official veto of the Liberal chief. lie has invited the opinion of Mr. Morley and Sir William Harcourt on his candidacy. Without fc response, Mr. Schnadhorst, the Liberal caucus chief, disproves the candidacy on tho grouud that if the Forest of Dean electors return Sir Charlea Dilke many thousands of dissenters will withhold their votes from the Liberals at the coming election. Von Boettlcher Will Resign. London, March 2a The Standard's Berlin correspondent says that Minister Yon Boetticher has been granted a long furlough.ostensibly for the benefit of his health, but that eventually he will resign on account of the Guelph fund scandal. The Emperor would riot accept the Minister's recent oiler to retire, because he desired to show his esteem for the Minister. Inveigled Forty-Three Men Into Marriage. Paris, March 27. A 'handsome English woman named Erelyne Neal has been ar rested in this city -for marriage frauds. She inveigled forty-three men to marry her by advertising herself as a wealthy widow. Uer last victim was a viscount, who almost ruined himself by gambling. Count and Countess Drowned. Vienna, March 27. Count Arthur Kessetstadt and Countess Anne Fries were caught in a storm in a pleasure boat off Albazfa. to-day, ana were drowned. Tne youthful Count Fries was saved. Cabl Notes. Quean Victoria Trill remain at Grata for a month. The winter wheat crop in the south of Russia is very unpromising. Small farmers are in a hopeless condition in conseA quence. ! There will be a brilliant period of court festivities in June, during the stay of Emperor William at Buckingham Palace. The programme will include receptions, balls, concerts and other entertainments. The Spanish-American treaty negotiations show a good prospect of success. The only trouble met with is American insistence upon the maintenance of the MoKinley tarifl in the matter of superior Havana tobacco. Walter Besant, William Black and others are discussing the formation of a society of English authors and copyright-owners.with the view of establishing or securing control of a printing-house in the United States. The Athemenm refers to the scheme as an indispensable preliminary to any attempt to derive advantage from the American copyright act. The Wesleyan agitation in England over biblical insDiration is extending to other churches. Leading theologians keenly discuss Profeesor Davison's criticism of the tenet of verbal inspiration. Mr. Spurgeon and several Baptist ministers, while refraining from detailed attacks on the new movement, constantly refer to "the fomenters of doubt," and pray that God will supply believing, earnest men. ' For strengthening and clearing the voice, use 'Brown's Jironefiial Troches." I have con?XLeuled tfcein to friends r ho were publio speaker, and ther have proved extremely eervicetLic." liar, ilenry k art Uetchcx. ;

MORE COKE OVENS BESUME

Two of the II. C. Frick Company's Plants Pat in Operation Yesterday. Strikers Mnit Accept the Sliding Scale or Men Will Be Imported Higher Waees Aifcedby Employes of the Pennsylvania Koad. Pittsbuko, March 27. Affairs in the coke region were quiet to-day, though the operators are gaining steadily in spite of the obstinacy of the men. Two new plants of the II. C. Frick company were started today, namely, the Adelaide and Leisanring No. 3. TLey now have fires in a round dozen other plants, and expect others to start to-morrow. It is stated a general morement will be made by the Stewart, Cambria, Hostotter, Hecla. and, in fact, all independent plant, large and small, to follow the lead of the Frick company and resume work next week. Labor officials say the few men who have gone to work have done so under a false impression, and will all come out when the situatiou is explained to them. They will hold a mass-meeting in Scottdale to-morrow, which 10,000 miners are expected to attend. Manager Lynch, of (the Frick company, said to-day that their works must positively be operated on the sliding scale basis, and their former employes will not be discriminated against, they must re! urn to work, or other men will be secured. Should the strikers prove obstinate, trouble will certainly eDt'.ie, as this statement simply means that men will be imported, 'and the strikers will rise in arms against such a move. N The men at Leissnring No. 2, who were driven away yesterday, were at work to-day, and were not interfered with. All is quiet also at the Morewood plant, which the strikers threatened to raid to-day. It is thought this is owing to the pacific advice of the labor leaders, thougb a strong guard of deputies about both works certainly bad a soothing effect. Knight of Labor Boycott. Rochester. N. Y March 27. The journal of the Knights of Labor this week publishes a boycott over the names of James Hughes, district master workman, and Walter B. Westbrook. district recording secretary, in which they say: Brothers Bee that you appoint committees at once to call on every retail clothing-dealer in your locality. Tell them they must countermand all orders of Rochexter-made clothing. Give all retail dealers to understand that they must not buy clothing from any Rochester manufacturer until the tyrautft who are in the Roches ter com Dine meet organized labor and treat us with justice m free men and not as slaves. Do not delay, but push this work in your neighborhood and send all reports to poatoffice box 722, Chicago. At the clothing-workers' meeting this I afternoon, to consider what coarse to pursue with reference to the lockout, the opinion of the national executive board was submitted to tho meeting and created a great sengatioo. It is ti follows: We, rour national officers, desire to make the following report and recommendations: After hearing an expression of opinion from the officers of tho local assemblies, we recommend that all locked-out members of the Knights of Labor apply to their former employers for their former positions. We take this position for two reasons: First, that any employe that is refused employment has reason of an action against the employer who so refused, who will be held to the strict letter of the law, with the understanding that we know a clear case of conspiracy. Second Tne reason we take this unprecedented move Is because we desire to give the consumers of Rochester clothing the opportunity to know the kind of men who conspired against American workintftneu and women of the city of Rochester, and as it will take several weeks to notify the consumers of Rochester clothing, it would be unS rentable and miadvisable to remain out of work uring that time. The men against whom the execntive board thinks there will be discrimination are the officer of tho local assemblies. It is on behalf of these mtn that the board proposes to commence suits for damages in case they are refused employment. Petitioning for Increased Wages. Philadelphia, March 27. The employes of the New York division of the Pennsylvania road are signing a petition asking that their wages be increased nearly 13 per cent, and when all the signatures have been seen red the petition will be presented to General Manager Pugh, diract. The ordinary way in which any communication reaches the general manager would be through Superintendent Joseph Crawford, bnt this time the men don't intend to ask for increase through any intermediate channel. The firemen on the same branch, who are nearly all members of the Brotherhood of Firemen, are also presenting a petition, asking for an increase.-which will make their pay 15 for a round trip. Neither petition is so worded as to convey the idea that a strike will ensue in case the company does not grant the requests. Threatened Strike on the K. T., V. & O. Road. Atlanta, Ga., Marcb 27. A big strike is imminent on the East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgia railroad. The brakemen and firemen, who think they have been nnjuitly discriminated against in the matter of wages, say the standard of wages throughout the country is two-thirds the rate paid the engineers and conductors, and that is what they ask for. A grievance committee called on Superintendent Eanprie, yesterday, and he told the men he had been trying to make tho run from Atlanta to Chattanooga a thirteen-hour run, under which the pay would be as much as the other roads pay This, the men claim, cannot be done. The roaa is in such a shape at present,. with the yards at all the main points full of cars, that a strike would completely block it and cause great loss. Carpenters Agreement Ratified. Chicago, March 27. Final settlement of the long dispute between the boss carpenters and the journeymen was reached last evening, when the two associations met and ratified the agreement signed on Saturday last by the joint conference committee. The United Carpenters' Council met last night and the agreement was gone over clause by clause, each receiving careful consideration. The committee that signed the agreement was in attendance and explained in detail the reasons that led to the adoption of the different propositions. A mass-meeting of carpenters of the city will be held at Battery D on Sunday, when the agreement will receive formal and final ratification. Several prominent citizens wiil speak. . Strike In a Printing: Office. PniLADKLPHlA, March 27. At 8:20 o'clock to-night the non-union men in the Press office joined the nnion. and at that hour they -went out on a strike. There are perhaps a dozen men left in the composingroom. The Press folks have asked Wilmington, Del., for men, and also two of the Philadelphia papers who employ non-union men to help them out. Palmer Says lie lias Made No Promises. Springfield, III., March 27. United States Senator-elect J. M. Palmer emphatically denied to-night that he has made any promiso to speak at Chicago, Monday night, in support of the election of Mayor Cregier. Genoral Palmer insists that be will mako no arrangements of any kind for participating in the Chicago campaign until after to-morrow's meeting of the Dem ocratic State central committee, in Chicago, at which it is understood an effort will bemads to induce ex-Mayor Carter Harrison to withdraw, and thus heal the breach in the party. Property Wantonly Destroyed. Hazeltox. Pa,, March 27. A. T. Reed & Co., contractors engaged in building a railroad between this plaoo and Green Monntaia. were the victims of a malicious depredation lastnightby unknown persons. The firm has a large force of men at work and use fifteen or twenty carts. Last night these carts were destroyed. The wheels were taken oil, and by means of an axe all broken to pieces, even the heavy tirss being bent and broken. The harness that had been left in the carts was cut to fragments and the toobbousea broken open and their contents destroyed. A short time ago tho firm dis-

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guilty parties, as they threatened to have revenge. NOVEL RAILWAY 3IEASUEE. How m Minnesota legislator Would Regulate Charges In 111 State. St. Paul, March 27. To-day being the last day for the introduction of bills in the Legislature, there was an unusually large number presented, although nearly all of them were of minor importance. One remarkable railroad bill was presented. It purports to have been introduced by 31 r. "Dearun but no such person is in the House, Dearing being the nearest to the name. It is a bill to regelate and equalize railroad rates, and is a decided innovation. County auditors shall submit to the Railroad Commissioners annually sworn statements of the average assessed valuation of all agricultural lands. The commissioners shall take such valuation as a basis for the rate to be charged by all common carriers, and the common carriers are to be prohibited from charging less or more for transporting freight from one point within the boundary line of one county than from another point within the same county. After ascertaining the average assessed valuation of all farming lands in the State the commissioners shall obtain from the railroads sworn statements of the average value per mile of their respective lines, together with the average cost per mile of operating and maintaining the same. From these facts shall be provided a separate freight tariff for each road so adjusted as to just cover expenses, and the commissioners shall add to it a sum sufficient to give each common carrier a dividend of 6 per cent, on both common and preferred stock. This tariff rate becomes sliding scale, to be adjusted according to the prosperity of the county where freight is shipped. With the sliding scale as a basis, where the average assessed valuation of farming lands in any county ?;oes below the average tor the State the 'aiiroad Commissioners shall make a proportionate reduction of the sliding scale, and where such valuation in the county exceeds the average for the State there shall bo a proportionate increase of the rates, A bill was also introduced to repeal the gross earnings tax as now applied to railroads. Penalty for Voters Who Do Not Vote. Springfield, 111., March 27. In the House, to-day, two bills were presented, one providing a penalty for voters refusing to register, and the other to provide that registered voters who do not vote shall be used as jurors, until the number isexhausted, before other citizens are drawn. Representative BryAi introduced a bill providing that election clerks, after each election, shall furnish the county clerk with a list of all electors who fail to vote. This list shall be adopted by the county board as the jury panel until the list is exhausted. Jurors named on account of faiiare to vote shall serve without compensation. Any legal voter who shall fail to have his name registered at least once in a year in which registration is made shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $25. or to he imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed, ten daji, legislative Notes. The New York Senate wants the world's fair appropriation to be made 200.000 instead of 250,000. A bill has passed the Maine House providing that no person shall be allowed to vote who cannot read and write his name. The amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution abolishing the property qualification for candidates for the governorship was passed in the lower house without debate. The Massachusetts Senate has passed tho resolution providing for the submission to the people of an amendment to the Constitution abolishing.the poll-tax qualification for voters. The Illinois Senate has passed the bill to prevent unjust discrimination by insurance companies. Notice was given, however, of a motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Near Summerville. Tenn.. yesterday, J. W. Carter shot and fatally wounded Marion .Tom lan. A freight train collided with a cable car on a crossing, at Chicago, yesterday, - doing slight damage. John Havel and son Jonepn, while crossing a railroad track in Chicago, were struck by an engine and fatally injured. Three men, A. Cassidy, Pat Lynch and a Frenchman, were killed, yesterday, in the Caledonia coal mine, at Onllnp, N. M. A boiler explosion at Williams's brickyard, near Hazluwood. Pa., yesterday, almost instantly killed John Jones, foreman. Henry Smith, colored, was yesterday given the death penalty at Louisville for the murder of Louis J. Specht, a saloonkeeper. The house of Mrs. Caroline Tuck, at Haynesville, Me., was burned yesterday morning, and Mrs. Tuck was cremated in her bed. "While some children were playing "circus77 in Columbia, Pa., Anna Kiehl, six years old, was fatally burned by some of the paraphernalia catching tire. The New York health department yesterday reported two more deaths from grip symptoms. This makes eleven deaths from this cause during the present week. Secretary Proctor spent Thursday inspecting Forts Davis. Hancock and Bliss, in Texas. His reported retirement from the Cabinet, July 1, he said, was pure gossip. George Harris, of Newborn, Mo., who achieved some notoriety by bis thirty-three days' fasting in Jannary and February, has been adjudged insane and placed iu an insane asylum. . An effort is being made by a syndicate to get control of the brandy market in California. There is now stored in the warehouses over one million gallons of brandy, one-half of which is held by the syndicate. Joe Lewis was hanged at Belton, Tex., yesterday. His neck was broken by the fall, and be died without a struggle. The crime for whioh he was executed was the murder of his mother-in-law, Frances Moore, in August, 1888. Two saloon-keepers of Barnura, la., have invented a scheme for evading the liquor law. Thiy have constructed a building in sections, and when proceedings are instituted against them, they take down the building and store it away. William Hud gins, who was captured at Paris. Tex., recently, is the leader of a gang of outlaws, and is himself the murderer of several men. He is twenty-two years old, but is one of the most hardened criminals in the Southwest. Envoy O'Kelly, of the Parnell faction, arrived at Omaha yesterday, and an honr later was informed by a delegation of representative Irish-Americans that Omaha would contribute nothing to the election fund until assured of a change. The Heading Iron Company has notified its two thousand employes that a slight reduction in wages will be made on April 1. The employes will accept the reduction, as a restoration of tho scale of wages is promised by the company with improved business. A dispatch from Astoria, Ore., says the Astoria Athletic Club has raised a $17,000 purse (or a tight between Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Hall. Fitzsimmons's backer, who is in Chicago, wired his acceptance of tho offer. Hall, who is now in Portland, accepted the terms to-day. The date of the tight has not been decided on, but it is to take place before Aug. 15. Zoe Gay ton's Lone Walk Completed, New York, March 27. Zoe Garten, tho actress, who started from San Francisco several months ago to walk to New York on a wager, arrived at the Ashland Hotel at 6:25 o'clock to-nicht, thirteen days ahead of her time. She is said to have walked the distance of miles in six months and twenty-six days, and will receive for her trouble about $1,300. The elegant Hotel Denison, :mder th new proprietor, C. W. Shepherd, is fast growing in popularity with the traveling public. It has the largest, coolest and best furnished rooms in the city. Extensive improvements have besn made, and now every modern comfort and luxury, combined with the bst dining-room service, awaits guests on their arrival. Special inducements are oftcred commercial travelers.

WENT ASHORE ON THE BOCKS

Norwegian Bark Dictator Wrecked Off Cape Henry, and Seven Lives Lost, The Captain's Wife and Child Victims of the Accident Heroic Work of Life-Saving Crews in Kescning the Unfortunates. Norfolk;, Va.. March 27. The Norwegian bark Dictator, from Fensacola, Fla., to Hartlepool, England, loaded with pine lumber, and with a crew of fifteen and the captain's young wife and little boy of three years, came ashore in a strong easterly gale, this morning, four miles south of Cape Henry, and two miles north of Virginia Beach UoteL The weather was so thick that the vessel was cot seen until 9 o'clock, and then she was in the breakers, broadside on, within a quarter of a mile of the shore.. Full crews from two life-saving stations, those of Cape Henry and Seatack, under command of Captain Drinkwater, were promptly on hand and began firing lines to the ill-fated bark. The guns could not deliver the lines so far, though they were repeatedly fired. The ship finally succeeded in getting a line ashore, tied to a barrel, which the surf carried to the life-savers. The breeches buoy was quickly rigged and sent to the vessel, but unfortunately the bark's crew were ignorant of its use, and the rescno wss delayed until Captain Drinkwater wrote instructions, put them in a bottle and sent it to the Dictator by the line connecting the vessel with the shore. The men on board broke the bottle at once, as conld be seen by glasses from the shore, aud prooeeded to carry out the directions. The first man was delivered ashore in eight minutes, and seven others were rescued before sunset, four of whom came ashore in a life-boat, which was capsized, but the men succeeded in reaching the shore in a half-dead condition, one man having his arm broken. During the entire day the ship rolled and pitched terribly, and made the work of rescuing the unbappy sailors exceedingly difficult and slow, as the life line would tighten or slacken in response to the motion of the vessel. Once the line broke with a man midway to the shore, and he was hauled back to the bark half dead. The line was mendod and tho same man 'was safely landed. The beach was lined with people who had come from the country booses and tho hotel, and to the spectators the anxiety and suspense was awinl as they could plainly see the people on the bark and near their cries for aid. At nightfall there were still nine persons on the bark, and among the number the captain, his wife and little child. The captain had urged his wife all during the dfty to take the buoy and come ashore, but she refused. as she wonld not leavo her husband and child, and only one conld take the buoy at a time. The wife and child were already greatly exhausted, according to the report of the sailors. To-night the work of rescue was continued, and the captain vainly besought his wife to make the attempt for life. The apparently slow progress of the work of rescue was due to the fact that a lifeboat could not live in the snrf, and that the guns would not reach the bark, and that they could not use the breeches-buoy until they were instructed from shore, which caused great delay. The burk went to pieces to-night and the seven that remained on her have been lost, including the wife of the captain. The captain, just before the ship went to pieces, sprung into the sea with his sop strapped to his back, and reached the shore alive, but the boy was lost, making a total loss of eight lives. The list of saved is as follows: Capt. J. M. Jorgou8en, Second Mate Julius Anderson, Ampter Harrett, John Stevens, John liatterson, Yelraer Olsen, Johu Mall, Carlo Olson and Charles Joseph. The Dietstor was trying to make Hampton Koads, having been disabled by hurricanes since the 12th insk All that .conld be gathered from the half-dead sailors 'as to the cause of the stranding of the vessel was that they did not know whero they were, the sun not having bsen seen for four days, and the weather so thick last night and this morning that they struck the breakers before they could see the coast. Movements of Steamers. New York, March 27. Arrived: Werra, from Bremen; City of Chester, from Liverpool, and Gallert, Hamburg. London, March 27. Sighted: Bostonian, from Boston. OBITUARY. '. John M. Donglas, E-Prestiut of the Illinois Central Hallway. Chicago. March 7. John M. Douglas, one of Chicago's pioneer, citizens, and for a number of yearn president of the Illinois Central railroad, died at his residence last night of pneumonia, the outgrowth of an attack of la grippe. Mr. Douglas was born in Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1819. On coming West Mr. Douglas entered on the practice of law at Galena, 111., and afterward removed to Chicago in 1857 to accept the position of general solicitor for the Illinois Central railroad. He was elected president of the company in 18G5. In 1S71 he retired from the service of the company, bnt was re-elected in 1873 and served until 1876. In 1881 he was appointed receiver of the Ohio & Mississippi railroad. Charles Arbuckle. New York, March 27. Charles Arbnckle. the senior member of the well-known coffee tirm of Brooklyn, died at 7 o'clock tonight of pneumonia. His remains will be taken to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, foi cremation. Mr. Arbuckle was born in Allegheny City, Pa., fifty-eight years ago, aud began life as a grocer. He established the present business in 1875, the largest of the kind in the country. He was a millionaire. Mr. Arbnckle gained considerable notoriety in a breach-ot-promise suit in which Miss Clara Campbell, of Ironton, O.. recovered a verdict of 45.000. Letters of love were produced, from which Mr. Arbuckle received the sobriquet of "Baby Bunting," for be was so addressed in the letters. Miss Campbell was called "Bonnie" in these letters. Hon. Unfits Prince. Lkwiston, Me., March 27. Hon. Ruins Prince died this morning. He was worthy master of the Maine State Grang and president of the Maine State Agricultural Society. RPM0R8 ABOUT A BANK. The Mechanics' and Traders, of New York, Swid to He Hard Pressed for Fundi. New Yohk, March 27. There were reports about Wall street, this afternoon that the Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, of Broome street and Broadway, was hard pressed for money, and that the directors were having difficulty in getting assistance. Mr. Meyer Thalmessenger, who was president up to Jan. 13 last, when he was succeeded by J. Boskowitz. was seen tonight. He said he considered the bank in a sound condition. He admitted that in the November troubles they had to borrow $1,000,000 in clearing-honse certificates, but he said these had been repaid while he was in control. He denied that they had been refused at the time a further loan from the clearing-house, an be had asked for no other loan. President Boskowitz could not bo seen to-night. Other Business Troubles. Boston, March 27. -The Boston Carspnng Company, manufacturers of springs, valves, rods, vulcanized ludia-rubber goods, etc.. 140 Franklin street, with a factory at Koxbury, has gone into insolvency. Tho company is a Massachusetts corporation, with a capital of f 'lO.OOO. Savannah, Va., March 27. Valk & Son. retail clothiers, are financially embarrassed. The National Bank of Savannah foreclosed a mortgage for 16.000 and took possession of the stock. Liabilities, 5.000; assets. $50,000 or JfiO.ooO. Milwaukee, March t7. The wholesale clothing-house of 1L Newbourg & Co., 34S

and 350 Broadway, is in the bands of the sheriff on a writ of execution. The assets and liabilities cannot be ascertained as yet.

IOWA'S PfiOUIBlTORI AMENDMENTS. State Temperance Alliance Want to Reopen the Question of Constitutionality. Des Moines, la., March 27. President J, II. Harvey, of theState Temperance Alliance, took steps to-day to reopen the question of the prohibitory constitutional amendment. This amendment was passed by the Eighteenth and Nineteenth General Assemblies of Iowa, and voted on by the people in 18S2 and carried by thirty thousand majority. Owing to clerical errors, the amendment was annulled by the State Supreme Court, and the present prohibitory law was then passed by the Gen eral Assembly. The Temperance Alliance, through its .president, still insists that the amendment is part of the Constitution of the State, notwithstanding the decision of the Supreme Court. The theory is that the question was a political one. and not a legal one, to be passed upon by the courts. The people naving passed upon tne same in ineir sovereign capacity, removed it from the jurisdiction of the courts. In pursuance of this theorv. President Harvev to-day demanded of Secretary of State McFarland a certified copy of the Constitution of the Mate.inciucing this amendment. Mr. McFarland refused on the theory that the amendment was not a part of the Constitution, and therefore not a matter to be certified from his otlice. Mr. Harvey then had served npon Secretary McFarland a notice setting out that a petition would be on tile immediately in the District Court, asking a writ of mandamus against the Secretary, compelling him to certify as demanded. Ex-Attorney -general Baker and United States Senator J. F. Wilson, it is understood, will be the attorneys for the Alliance. Secretary McFarland, in consultation with Attorney-general Stone and Governor Boise, will immediately take steps to make a defense in the case. The step taken by the Alliance has, it is said, caused much surprise and is a general topic of comment. It means the opening up, before the Iowa Supreme Court, of the whole constitntionul prohibition question. Interesting developments are expected. m m BURNED IN A HOTEL Three Lives .ost.by the Destruction of a Untitling- at Austin, Pa. Austin. Pa., March 27. Fire at 1 o'clock this morning destroyed, the Commercial Hotel and the residences of R. Henry, Carrie Clark and J. Pomeroy, all frame buildings. Three inmates of the hotel Lizzie McGarish, a domestic; Jack McCarty, a boarder, and another person unknownwere burned to death. Four others Ed Cain. Mike Cooley, George Gordon Mnrdock and Maggie Sullivan were badly burned. The iirst two will probably die. The total loss is about $5,000; partially insured. When the fire was at its beigbt. Lizzie McGavish appeared at one of the second story windows, and endeavored to leap out. She fell back, her foot caught in the sill, and she was bnrned to a crisp in eight of the horrified spectators. John Murdock, a Canadian, jumped from the second story and struck on his head and shoulders, lie is fatally injured, and will die. Ed Kane was badly burned and seriously injured by jumping. Michael Cooley was badly burned. Maggie Sulllivan, a domestlc.and John McXerney were frightfully burned. John McCarthy and Frank Ordish roomed together, and their charred and blackened bodies were found in the debris this morning. It is reported that a child was also burned to death. There were twenty-tive persons in the hotel, and all had narrow escapes. BEWARE OF RED AS A COLOR. Also of the Man Who Perpetrates This Sort of a Thing as a Joke. Chicago News. "Has it ever struck yon' said a roan who paints not signs but pictures, "that red is a very dangerous color that it stands for danger ir all sorts of ways? On the railroads, of course, you know red is the danger signal in Hags by day, in lamps by night Everybody is accustomed to tho idea of red as a warning on the railroads, and at sea the red light serves the same purpose. The red stands for anarchy. The Anarchists are often called the reds, and the flag which has waved over some of the most sanguinary scenes in the world's history is of a red color. "To wave a red flag before a bull is about as dangerous thing as you can do. The uniform of the tiremen has been red since time immemorial, although since regular tiredeEartiuents bave been organized the color as been sensibly changed, for the element the firemen tight is red aud the danger of the confusion of men aud flames is apparent. The hue of the poppy in the helds suggests the dangerous side or the narcotio it harbors. Some one aware of tho dangers of debauches has coined the phrase we know so well: 'Painting the town red.' "Red in art is a risky color to use unless the painter knows thoroughly how to use it, as Sir Edwin Laudseer did in bis pictures, which invariably contained a touch of red somewhere. Turner employed red lavishly, and, although he succeeded in producing marvelous effects, bis followers nave made countless millions mourn over coruscations on canvas. Wherever you turu you find red as a mark of peril." "In literature is it so!" "Yes, even in literature; for are not bad books most harmful when they are read!" Serious Railway Wrecks. C n a rle stown, Va., March 27. A local passenger train on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad ran into the rear of a freight train in a tunnel, seventy-five miles east of here, yesterday, and both trains were wrecked. Fire broke out and the entire passenger train was consumed. Several persons were slightly injured. Ashland, Pa., March 27. A disastrous wreck has occurred on the Philadelphia & Reading road two miles from this place, by which three men were killed and as many injured. Three Murderers on Trial. Pi neville, Ky., March 27. Three noted murderers who have been kept in the jail here for safe-keeping left in charge of a posse for the soene of their crimes this morning. They are Sidney Lewis, who murdered his father. Judge Lewis, about a month ago; William McGraw, who assassinated James Middletou last fall, and young John Howard, who killed several people in the famous Howard-Lewis fend. The latter is a brotber of the notorious Wils Howard. They all go to Harlan Court-house for trial, and nobody need be surprised to bear of a lynching within tho next forty-eight hours. General Ekln's Funeral. Louisville, Ky., March 27. The funeral of General James A. Ekin will be held to morrow, raong the pall-bearers will be Col. Henry C. Hodges, Capt. Addison Barret,' JMaj. L. H. Kirk, u. S. A. Col. Andrew Cowan, W. K. Belknap, and other leading Louisville citizens, and Hon. J. J. Brown and W. S. Culbertson, of New Albany. The lfev. Xevin Woodside, of Pittsburg, an old comrade, will officiate. In accordance with General Ekin's wishes the burial will be private. He will be laid beside his wife at Cave HilL Demolished a Saloon. Tiffin, O., March 27. A riotous demonstration in connection with the temperance crusade at the village of Bloomville occurred last night, when a mob of supposed temperance advocates attacked the saloon of William Miller aud literally demolished it. Windows and doors were smashed, tho stock of liquors and cigars destroyed, pool and billiard-tables broken np and general cbaos established, lioth men and women were engaged in the fray, and their work. from the standpoint of the raiders, was done with symmetrical completeness. No Hope for Dr. Crosby's Recovery. New York. March 2& At inidniirht Dr. Conrad announced that Kev. Dr. Howard Crosby was in a state of coma. 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A good woiu) rem TUB bacteuia. 'They Are Natural Scavengers, and II are av Legitimate place In Nature's Economy. Chicago Tribune. A (treat deal has been said and written in the last few months about the bacteria. Few people have any adequate idea of the true place in the grand scale of nature that is occupied by these little rod-shaped entities, which are less tban the thousandth part of an inch in length, and three hundred billions of wftirb are sometimes evolved from a single parent in the course of a day. The bacteria are natnral scavengers. Their legitimate work is akin to that of tho buzzards aud carrion crows, which take out of the way matter that has ceased to be useful in the animal economy. Inside and upon the living body they appropriate the material that is thrown oil by the excre tory tissues, and when the greater life ceases in the organism they swarm in and arouud it, their work performing the wellknown nhenomena of nutrefuction. With out their action in health the body would soon become clogged up with matter no longer useful, but absolutely poitonous to the frame. In their absence after death the body would remain with little change for perhaps centuries, aud tho undecomposed dead be ultimately so numerous as to interfere with the living. The corpses of men and the lower animals, except us they might be eaten up by larger feasters on nesb, would ultimately ohoko up the seas and lakes, or. perhaps, have to be utilized for building purposes, but this could uot last forever. Ihe gasrs used by living beings for respiration, and those nt eded for forming the structures of plant life, would be used up aud fixed in the dead forms so as to bono longer available by fresh generations of animated creatures. Animals and plants would die out us species in much the same manner as certain of the baoteria themselves have been observed to do, through being clogged up aud debilitated by the results ox the vitul processes which conititnted them living entities. The sweet scent of the flowers and the foul smell resulting from auimal decomnosition are equally the work of the bacteria. It is the accompaniment of their digestion. which is perloruied from without, tho creatures getting inside their food and ab sorbing it. hen the rood has yielded up all its nutriment the remainder is noxious to them as water is to tire, though water is a product of combustion. They are no more able to live in it tban the human being is to exist in an atmosphere of nitro gen from which be has removed most of the oxygen by inspiring it. Unless the result is removed by the animal economy, or the bacteria can get away from it. they die, and this accounts for the suddenness with which a contagious disease will sometimes disappear just at the time a community seems threatened with complete extinction. The most interesting thing about these microscopic parasites is that their normal function is a healthy one, like that pf the buzzards above alluded to. it is to take out of the way of the larger animal and Klant organisms matter which has ceased to e useful to them as such, and put it in the round of chemical processes by which it will be again htteu lor appropriation by the vital economy. Their abnormal func tion is that of causing disease and death in the structures they inhabit. sis HUMAN NAT CUE AT A HUE. A Woman Grabs Her Umbrella and a Dade a 21attress. Portland Oregonlan. Human nature and the eccentricities of genius will crop out at a lire if on no other occasion. A if ortlandera observations at a small tire in San Frauci6Co bear evidence to this conclusion. It wus 4 o'clock in tho morning at the Palace Hotel. The fire-gong sounded, and as the tire was in the house the alarm was carried to every room. In a moment every one was astir. Men hurriedly dressed themselves and women rushed frantically out of their rooms in all stages of dress and undreos. The Portlander took his time dressing, being of a less uervous temperament th in most of the other guests of the bouse, and then leisurely strolled out to watch the actions of those who were not so extensively endowed with composure and equanimity of mind. Moreover, he was satisfied that the tire did not amount to as much as the ringing of the electric bells would seem to indicate. On going to the head of the stairs on the second tioor he fouud a woman on the verge of hysterics. She was dressed somewhat after the fashion of Eve in the Garden of Eden, and danced like a fairy danseuse in a competition clog dance. All advice to her was of no avail. She refused to listen to anyone, although told that the tire was already out. She was sure that all her effects, as well as herself, would be burned up. After resisting all efforts of outsiders to compose her riotous souses, she rushed back into her room, aud in a moment came back with an umbrella, which she hurled down the hotel lobby. There," she said, MI will save that anyway." She could not think of anything else worth saving, but seemed to take a great deal of satisfaction in saving that. It was not long after when she recovered her scattered senses and retired to her room to dress more in accordance with the requirements of nineteenth century fashions. Another object that interested the Portlander was a man of the v dudo pursuasion. He looked like an American wbo bad a grudge against himself for not being an Englishman. When he emerged from bis room he was dressed in his tronseis and night-gown. Only one side of the nightgown was inside of bis pants, while one wing of the suspenders had to overcome the gravity that tended to pull bis trousers down. Over his back ho had swung a large bundle that was encased in a sheet. He inquired for the nesrest way down the stairs, but being assured that the tire was out he dropped his bundle and fell down on top of it completely exhausted. No one knew what the bundle contained until it flew open as it touched the Moor. Itcontaiued nothing butthemattreesof his bed. He too was bentou saving something.' but every one thought the bundle contained a trunk, valise, clothes and all the rest of his personal elleots. No Winter Climate JLlke Our Own. Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's. . There is no winter climate elsewhere to compare with that found in our extreme Sonthwest or in Mexico, and the sooner we put this fact into poetry and literature, and begin to make a tradition of it, the better will it be for our peace of mind and for our children. And if the , continent docs not satisfy us, there lie the West Indies within a few hours' sail, with all the luxuriance and geniality of the tropics. We are only half emancipated yet. We are still apt to see the world through the lm agination of England, whose literature we adopted, or of Germany. 'To these bleak lands Italy was a paradise, and so was sung by poets wbo had no conception of a winter without frost. W e have a winter climate of another sort from any in Europe. Wo have easy and comfortabln access to it. The only thing we need to do now is to correct our imagination, which has been led astray. Our poets can at least do this for us by the help of a quasi-international copyrignt. IIow Oar Population Is Increased. JoTm H. Gould, la Abrll Pcrlbner. The immigrant bnsiness has come to be so important a feature in transatlantic passenger tratiic that it may not be uninterest ing to conclude this article with a few bgures that show somewhat of its growth and proportions, and also the method of bandling the immigrants. At least K percent. of all immigration to the United States comes throuuh the port of New lork. ihe board of immigration was not established until lMi. and previous to that time rec ords were rather loosely kept. The official ngures, however, have been obtaiued, snow ing that between 17S3 and 1SU. 1.063,507 irn migrants came to this conntrv: between 1M7 and 1S73 there were 4(Vo3,5; a marked falling oil in the annual average occurring durins the war of the rebellion; between 1873 and 1SW. mclusive. 4.010.804. Immlgra tion was heaviest in the years 1SS1. iss2 and tho ligures being 411,001, io5,i50 and

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Trains arrlre and leaTS IuUansnolUss follows Leare for 8L Ukus. 7;U am, ll:5oato. lojp m. 11:99 pm. AiitraiDicouneciat Terre uaute. Tarousa sleeuernn ll:Oon. m. train. Greenoattie and Terre 11 saw Aorom'dnlon, 4:00 b-h. Arrive rrom st, iouis, 3t4 sin. atu, pin, a.'ja pin. 7:45 pm. Terre II auto and GreeneasUe Areora'Aatlon. 10:00 am. 8Wunn and rarlort"ars are run on through tralui. Fur rates and information apvly te ticket M'oti of tiie coiutiir. or W. F. District Passeuser Affsnt iili iifiliiiTl THE VESTIOULCO PULLMAN CAB LINE, uuti nrntAKArou. No. ?H Monoo aoo, ex. Hands jr !n Mtnhiniuro um tollman VesUbulad ..5:15 pi eoaouss. narior aim qiuiuk car, j i . V :! . '.ii. u.or Arrive In Olucaro&.lO pm. 10.34 CblcaRONljrul bL, Vuilmau Vestl. buled ouaolies and s'eevers. tU.Hr 12:40 1 Arms in Chicago 7:35 at a, AkklYK AT IMXJiAJiATOU. SI vsmttbule, dallr 8:20 Jio. 3S Vestibule, dailr 3 IS ho. ay ItoLon Arc tL flnndar 10 AO snt No. 4 luteal fi eljtht Imtm AJbm-C ?rl aA 7:Ooam. Pullman Vestlbuled Sleepers for CtdoajrotUnAat est end of Union Station, aud oan be laxuat S:iS p. tlallr. Ticket offices No. 25 Bouta Illinois street sadAt Union Station. if i WrosgM-Iroi Kje roa Gas. Steam i Water DoUer Tubes. Cast anl Malleable Iron Kit Unci (black and tralvaniieU). Valves, Stop Cocks. Knjrine Trimmings, teain Gauges, Pipe Toners, line CuttersVises, crew Plates and I Ues. Wrenches. Steam Traps, Puxups, Kitchen blnks, IIoe, I5lthi, Babbitt Metal, feolier. White and Coiored Wiping Waiteu and all other supplies used In connection with Gas. bteaui nnd Water. Natural Gas Supplies a epeclaltr Steaui-heatinir Apparatus for i'ublio liiuldius. storerooms. Mills. Phopi, Factories, Laundries, Lumber Dry-bouses, etc Cut and Thread to order any site Wrought-lron Pipe from s Inch to 12 Inches diameter KNIGllT A JILLbOV, 75 & 77 A. Pennsylvania at. SSS,267, respectively. The greatest arrival of iiniiiisrants in any one day was on May 11, 1SS7. when nearly 10.000 were lauded at this port. The greatest number ever brought by asinule ship was 1,767, by tho Egypt, National line, in 1873. ITenry Ward Ueechers Successor, New York Letter. No two men ever lived, perhaps, mora totally unlike tbau the Kev. Henry Ward Beecher aud his successor as the -shepherd of the Plymouth flock iu Brooklyn. X never saw Beecher, but bis pictures show, auiau of wonderful physical as well as mental vigor gross, heavy, sensual in appearance. Lyman Abbott has an abnormally large head, is bouy, with pipe-stem leiSH, and uot an ounce of humor in his make-up. lie is a typical ascetic. There has not been a funny anecdoto told in Plymouth Church since his call to its pulpit, and yet something very like a smile spread itself over the congregation, recently, at an impromptu humor of the pastor. His subject was the obligation resting upon Christians to get out of their shells and do something for the good of mankind. "What is this wonderful bodv of ours given us fori" Dr. Abbott exclaimed. "Look at it Look at these muscles7' Dr. Abbott stretched out his Ions amis "look at this strength, this adaptability, this God-given vigor Something in the expression of the faces of the members of the congregation, and a rustling like a faint titter, recalled the preacher to himself, and. with a faint smile, ho passed to another phase of his sermon. An Unsolved Problem. " April Ecribner. To call right-handedness an instinct may seem to some an evasion of the question, art explanation which does not explain, but this criticism is uot just. We call certain nhenomena electical, though we do not know what electricity is; and in the same way we may call others instinctive, though, we must content ourselves with defining instinct as an inborn impulee to certain actions for the benefit of the individual or his descendants, depending neither on reason nor experience. When we understand instinct, then, and no sooner, we may hope to understand rieht-bandeilness, and to know why it is sometimes reversed. i ' IlUing In the World. PbllAoelphlA Iteourd. "I may turn news-gatherer myself," says Evarts. It beats Bannaker how they all drift into a higher sphere. Will Kot Act wltft Theiu. The Governor will not act with the Audi tor and Secretary of State in tho appointing of the members of the newlycreated State Board of Aericnlture, but will let those officials make ur the organization to suit themselves. They will announce their appointments Monday or Tuesday. Taken from a Ulackatnlth's Shop. The blacksmith shop of Martin Kiley. corner of California and West' Washington streets, was broken into early yesterday morning and a bar of steel three leet long, some fine saws, two chisels and a brace and bit stolen. As A Rule Your own feelings will toll you, when you are in need of a tonic or Blood purifier. A lack of enerpry, a tired feelinjr, depressed spirits are pood indications that the h ood is slupriah and your system is out of order. -I HAVE USED 8. a S. FOR DEBILITY RESULTING FROM CHILLS AND FEVER. AND HAVE FOUND IT TO BE THE BEST TONIC AND APPETIZER THAT I EVER TOOK. IT ALSO PREVENTED THE RETURN OF THE CHILLS." A. J. ANY LIN, EUREKA SPRINGS. ARK. Books on Wood nnd Skin Diseases free. The Swift Srrciric Co Atlauta, Gs

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