Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1893 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1893.

l;u!ck-o!nff instayp, was riht down on the line when the gua to ??nd her over sounded. At that time the win I was blowing about thirteen miles an hour from southwest by South a half south and It was In that direction that the regatta committee had notified the racers that they should make the Erst lejr of ten mlle3 of their course. It was. of course, a dead beat to windward from the Sandy Hook lh?ht ship to Long Uranch. The Vigilant pot quickly Into the wind after she made that unfortunate wearship and followed the Valkyrie over the line about two lengths behind. Neither boat crossed for the start as promptly after the signal as they had done on the previous date, but they were equally close together. After havlnpr pone over the line the handler of the Vigilant evidently felt that he must gain in windward work and that very quickly what had been lost in lateral distance. He began to pinch his boat high up Into the wind. Her head sails shook as though there was not enough wind to fill them, and she dropped behind. The Valkyrie's sails were kept well full, and ehe went ahead through the water with great speed. To the uncritical eye It looked as though the Valkyrie was skipping right away from the Vigilant, and so she was. in a way; but the Vigilant's centerboard was preventing that boat from sagging to leeward all the time, wherea3 the keel of the cutter had only a small part of the same effect The Vigilant also pointed higher to the wind by about a point of the compass. Presently, the sails of the Vigilant were aeen to bally out well, and from that moment the American boat began to win the race. She passed the Valkyrie at 12:03, forty minutes after the start, and was never afterwards headed or touched under any conditions of circumstances. "When the Valkyrie saw her opponent going ahead of her. and ait eighth of a mile to windward at that, she hauled down her big top sail, with the Intention of putting up a small one like that of the American's, but while the process of changing was going on. Captain Cranfield decided to go about and stand up for the New Jersey chore. No sooner had the, Englishman gone around than the American followed suit. As the boats stood off on the port tack it was seen that the Vigilant wa3 over a Quarter of a mile ahead, and Just about as much 'o windward. They stood pretty long on thaT tack, the centerboard naturally eating up the wind, and strange to say, clearly outfooting the cutter. They tried very hard on the Valkyrie to send her head up into the wind and lessen the advantage that the centerboard was making on them with every length, but let the Englishman's forestay Bail shake as It would, she could not better herself a single Inch. When the Vigilant got around the first legVjhe was over a mile in the lead, but the VaSTyrie stuck to her work, and the cutters admirers retained their hopes, saying that the more wind they had the better would be the chances of their favorite, and yet, as the wind increased, the greater distance did the Vigilant open between herself and her opponent. The wind was almost directly over the starboard quarter as they Started on the second leg. The Valkyrie now had a chance to show what she could do in running before a real whole-sail breeze. As has been tho steady claim of the cutter men, the model of their choIc was sure to beat the centsrboard in that sort of work for one thing. Instead of doing so, the centerboard increased her lead to an extent that made everybody, friends and enemies, astounded. The bow or the Vigilant Hopped up and down a little on the running seas, but, so little more tnan did that of the Valkyrie, that astonishment was expressed all around. It was a tair and square open-sea race, boih boats finding evary breath that was astir, and neither being bothered by the excursion boats. When the Vigilant turned the Hag at the end of tho second leg she was a good two miles in advance. Having rounded that mark, then came another leg, on which the cutter was supposed to be much the better boat. The wind was pretty nearly abeam, possibly half a po!nt forward of it, and uheets were hauled aft away. It was a pretty good specimen of a reach, and yet, hero again, the light-draughted boat Knocked the spots out of the other craft. The third leg is as easy to describe as was the second. There is but one thing to say about it the Vfrrilant continued to Increase hr lead from the time she begun her last leg until she crossed the finish line. When the winner did finally get over the line from which she had started she was three miles ahead. She had made on the average, and Just about actually, a gain of a mile on each of the three legs. It was an ampla test, as has been told, on each of the three points windward work, running and reaching. it Is generally admitted that the Valkyrie is the best boat that England ever sent over to win the America's cup. She met, however, a yacnt that 13 so far her superior that her hitherto admirers all say that there can be no doubt that the Vigilant will win three straight races and, therefore, the match. It still remains, however, a question as to which of the boats is the more worthy In a half gale and a very rough sea for instance. In a wind that will allow neither to carry a top sail. The cutter cranks, and a handful of them are still to be found, continue to claim that their boat can do up the Vigilant In a hard blow, and, therefore, is the more useful as a yacht for the purpose of pleasure in cruising and for safetv than the mere racing machine that the Vigilant represents. The American boat's supporters meet this assertion with the fact that the more breeze that blew the further astern did the Vigilant leave the Valkyrie to-day. The ofHoIal time of the yachts was: Vigilant Start, 11:25; finish, 2:50:01; elapsed time. 3:25:01; corrected time, 3:25:01. Valkyrie Start, 11:25; finish, 3:02:24; elapsed time, 3:37:21; corrected time, 3:35:36. Thus, the Vigilant beat the Valkyrie by 12 minutes, 23 seconds on elapsed time, and. after taking off the one minute and forty-eight seconds time allowance, by 10 minutes and 35 seconds. The regatta committee of the New York Yacht Club also say that the Vigilant crossed the starting line two seconds ahead of the Valkyrie, and they ought to know best. This would reduce the victory of the Vigilant by two seconds in actual time, but it does not count, as the yachts had equal chances to start away at the one-gun signal, at 11:25. The gains of the Vigilant are officially reported to be 4 minutes, 43 seconds In the first leg, 4 minutes. 12 seconds on the second and 3 minutes, 26 seconds on the third. The first leg of the course was to southwest by south, to windward; the econd, east half south in the run, and north-northwest in th4 reach home.

"Wlint the Ynrlitmurn Say. , NEW YORK, Oct. 9. A reporter saw Captain Cranfield on the Valkyrie when the English yacht came to anchor off Cay Ridge after she was towed up from the Bandy Hook light-ship. "What kind of a day was It, Captain?" he was asked. "It was not a bad day' replied the captain. "We had a good, fair breeze, and not too much of it. . I must say we are much disappointed. I thought after1 the race on Saturday that we should do better on the triangular course than on the to windward and leeward race. Instead of that, she beat us on the wind and off it, and when the wind freshened, and I thought we should catch her, she walked away from us. When we had gone about five miles I thought we should have passed her, but was very much surprised that from that time to the end she gained on us. I expect that was on account of her center-board my Idea, I mean. She probably had not got It down to suit her. I knew after Saturday's race that we had a hard nut to crack, but I could not believe that we could have been so well beaten as we were. We knew from what the Navahoe could do, on the other side, that the Vigilant must be far away in front of her." "Has not your knowledge of cctfter-board yachts, as compared with the keel, convinced you that the American plan Is the better?" "I wiil not admit that yet," answered tho Bcotch captain. "We can yet show you Borne other experiments." Mr. C. Oliver Iselin, chief owner of the Vigilant, said when on the deck of the victor, while standing near Captain Nat Herreshoff and Captain Hanson, that tho Vigilant had not been I pinched In th early part of the race. "We held to windward in order to avoid the Valkyries back drift. As soon as we got the position we wanted," said Mr. lselm, "we let her Co and went ahead. I think to-day's race is conclusive in every way. The Valkyrie was outsailed. What more is there to say. The harder it blew tho more we gained. The excursion boats, 1 might add, did not interfere with us. and I cannot see how they bothered the Valkyrie." While the reporter was talking to Mr. Iselin a new bowsprit was dragged up alongside the Vigilant, and it was learned the American yacht's head spar had been strained during the race. A new one had to be rigged, and the crew went to work about it in a lively manner. As a result of this, Wednesday's race may be put off until Thursday. The decision in this matter will riot b known until to-morrow afternoon. Commodore ti. Nicholson Kane, the chairman of the regatta commute?, statec tonight that a notice concerning thl3 would be posted in the New York Yacht Club buletin at 1 p. m. to-morrow, lord Dunraven eft the Valkyrie on the tug lulver as soon as sh3 came to her Bay Hldge moorings, and dined out with a private party to-night. Tomljlnir to the llrltUhcra. LONDON, Oct 9. The newspapers of London generally accept tho defeat of the Valkyrie In Saturday's race in a sportsmanlike manner. If thtrz is any exception it is Mr. tstor'a Pall Mall Gazette, which says that

the wind was extremely tricky and that the Vigilant had an enormous advantage In that its men knew the ground and were familiar with the breeze. The paper's New York correspondent says that the VIgllant's crew is greatly Inferior to that of the Valkyrie, and adds "that the Yankee crew did not set the Vigilant's spinnaker a single time without making a mess of it." The. Daily News says, commenting on to-day's race: "It is no longer possible to believe that the Valkyrie Is as well built or handled as the Vigilant. It seems clear that our yachtsmen and builders must once more go to school In America. There is some secret in the American mind In this h-cn 0f sport which we have yet to master' i The Standard says: "There Is no question but that the Valkyrie has been fairly beaten by the Vigilant. It would seem that the American yacht designers have kept in front of us. The Vigilant is speedier than the last America cup defender, as the Valkyrie is faster than the Thistle. The result of the contest between theValkyrie and Vigilant is certain to revive the old discussion as to the respective merits of keel boats and centerboirds, but it is to be hoped that our designers will not be tempted to make another change, but to rest satisfied with such modifications in hulls as will enable England to make another and a successful effort to bring the trophy back to this side." The Times says the result of the second race for the America's cup leaves no doubt that In most weathers the Vigilant is more than a match for the Valkyrie. There Is no ground to pretend that the boats have not had a pood all-round hard-weather test. The Times expresses the fear that the Valkyrie, like her predecessors, will fail to bring back the cup. THE "AMERICA'S" Ct'P.

Snhncqacnt History of the Ynclit Which Won that Fatuous Prlre. Harper's Weekly. The story of the America's cup, how it was won in 1S31, and since defended. Is an oft-told tale, and no attempt will be made here to go into details that are familiar to every American yachtsman. Come what may, this cup must always remain our most treasured trophy, for all our magnificent development In yachtdesignlng Is directly traceable to the contests to keep it on this side of the Atlantic. Eight times have we accepted challenges for this blue ribbon of the ocean six from England and two from Canada, and seven times have we successfully defended it the eighth remains to be decided next week. The history of these races is the history of marine architecture, and the characteristic progress of the Yankee and the perseverance and sportsmanship of our British cousin3 are evidenced in every one of the struggles. With each challenge the interest has spread wider and wider, until to-day, it may be said, the eyes of the yachting world will follow the struggle between Valkyrie and Vigilant, which begins on the 5th. It was istly different in 1S50 when Commodore Stevens, of the New York Yacht Club, then In its Infancy, ordered the America from George Steers, the first and one of the most famous of American designers. The building of pleasure yachts at that time was a struggling industry, while racing was confined chiefly to the pilotboats, which were Justly renowned. There was, indeed, some desultory yacht racing, and there had been even ten years earlier, but it was only beginning to be recognized as a sport when the America was put overboard. George Steers deserves more than a passing notice; he was of a family of builders, and a designer as independent and original as Edwin Burgess and tha Herreshoff s who came after him. He revolutionize yacht designing in his day, and built many boats that became noted. Besides the America, he designed the sloop Julia, which in her day was as much a marvel and as unbeatable as was Glorlana in her llrst season. Each of these two famous boats has an interesting history. America was sold to an Englishman after her conquest in 1851, and for a time did service as a yacht. She was turned Into a blockade runner when the civil war broke out. but in this role she was not a success, and to escape capture was sunk in the St. John's river, Florida. After the war she was raised by the government, and put into commission as a training school for the naval cadets. When the Cambria came over to race for the cup, in 1S70, she wa3 refitted as a yacht and competed, winning fourth place, while the Knglish yacht pot no better than tenth; thus did the old boat, handicapped as she was, show that after twenty years she was still faster than the latest and fastest British creation. Later she became the property of General Benjamin K. Butler, and is still in possession of his son Paul. THE VALKYIIIE'S GODMOTIIEHS. lloir Lord Dnnravcn Selected the Xanie of Ills Yacht. New York Press. Lord Dunraven's formidable and handsome yacht Valkyrie bears a name more significant, and In many respects more interesting in its history than that of any of the white-winced racers that have hitherto striven In vain to wrest the America's cup from the posesson of the New York Yacht Club. Lord Dunraven Is himself descended from the sturdy Norsemen who, in the days previous to the Norman conquest, waged war so constantly and at times so successfully against the people of Great Britain. In casting about for a name with which to christen the handsome water athlete, which the ship builders of the Clyde had constructed to help him in his ambition to win the much-coveted America's cup, he naturally turned to the land of his ancestors for a fitting and significant name. "All water craft," mu3ed the noble yachtsman, "are feminine. I must, therefore select a feminine name for my beautiful racer. She is beautiful, and yet dangerous. .Where shall I find the proper name?" Lord Dunraven, as he tells the story himself, was sitting in his library at the time. His eye rested upon a work upon old Scandinavian mythology which stood upon one of his library shelves. "Ah!" he exclaimed, "let me look here and see what I can find." Any student familiar with the history and mythology of the Norsemen will at once appreciate how thoroughly successful was Lord Dunraven in his research. For the name selected Is at the same time that of the most beautiful and most terrible beings known to the mythology of the Scandinavians. Odin was the chief god of the Norsemen's mythology. He it was who not only created the universe, but all the other and lesser gods who assisted him in governing it. The place of his abode, the paradise of the Norseman's mythology, was known as Walhalla, In this paradise Odin surrounded himself with maidens of wondrous beauty, who were known as the Valkyries. These maidens were as terrible as they were beautiful. Odin seems to have had authority to bring to his paradise the greatest heroes of the world so that he might enjoy himself with witnessing dally contests of skill, and bravery, and strength among them. The Valkyries were therefore charged with the work of conquering and overthrowing the bravest heroes of the world and bringing them to Walhalla. They hail the power to project themselves through ether at terrific speed, a power also which the owner of the challenging racer hopes she, to, possesses. They visited the battlefields of all the lands of the earth, and touched with their spears the bravest of the earth's heroes. The touch of the spear of a Valkyrie cast a fatal spell about the selected hero. Brave and vcllant and powerful as he might be. It was the signal that he was to be slain. The departed hero was at once brought to Walhalla, where he spent his days in fighting and feasting. Every day these heroes engaged in strife among themselves until the victors overthrew their adversaries. Then the overthrown were raised up again and summoned to a banquet prepared for them by the Valkyries. Th3 Valkyries attended at this feast, and when the heroes had eaten their fill they supplied them with horns of mead, from which they drank until they were intoxicated The proper pronunciation of the word is not Val-kie-rie, as is commonly heard, but Val-kyr-rie, with the accent on the first syllable. TWO 1'ItIZE FIGHTS. One Drawn and tho Other Won from Ernst by Leed3. NEW YORK. Oct. 9. There were two fights at the Coney Island Athletic Club this evening, and four thousand people, at their conclusion, pronounced themselves satisfied. There was a preliminary ten-round bout between Charlie Kramer and Jim Sullivan, local bruisers, which, after a hammer-and-tongs contest, resulted In a draw, but the star attraction was a go for blood between Horace Leeds and Billy Ernst. They fought at 133 pounds, and put up a pretty, though one-sided, exhibition.. Ernst was clearly outclassed, but game. The eighth round ended the azony, a straight ono on Ernst's heart putting him and his pugilistic aspirations to sleep. The Yellotv I'cvcr Itccortl. BRUNSWICK. Oa.. Oct. 9. The official report to-day gives thirty new cases of yellow fever four whites and twenty-six colored. Secretary CrugS reports two new cases at Jeup to-day.

M. DE LESSEPS DYING

The World's Greatest Engineer at the Door of Death. Career of the Man AVho Built the Suez Canal ami Started the Abandoned Panama Ditch. PARIS, Oct 9. Count Ferdinand de Lesseps is dying in his country house at La Chesnaye. Ferdinand Marie Lesssps was born In Versailles, France, Nov. 11, 1S03. lie received his early education In Paris, but finished it with his father, a consular agent, and lived with him in Philadelphia fn 1813-22, where he acquired, as h said, at a dinner given to him In that city in 1SS0, the qualities of pluck and tenacity. lie was French consular agent at Lisbon in 1S25-27, when he received an appointment in the Division of Commerce. In 1S28 ho was attached to the consulate at Tunis, and threa years later became vice consul at Alexandria and cansul at Cairo, where he remained until 1S3S, when ha was sent to Rotterdam, afterward to Malaga and to Barcelona. After the downfall of Louis Philippe he was appointed minister to Spain, and afterward to Rome. After 1S3) he devoted his energies to the opening of the Suez canal, the Idea of which he had conceived during his sojourn in Egypt. Whlla on a visit in Egypt, in 1S54, he disclosed the project to Said Pa3ha, who invited him to draw up a memorial on the subject, which was done, with full details. Said Pasha issued a firman sanctioning the enterprise in 1S54, granted a letter of concession in January, 1856, took a large number of shares, and after many difficulties Lesseps formed a company in Paris in 1S58. Work was begun in the spring of 18f9, and the completed canal was formally opened Nov. 17, 1S69. Lesseps then directed his attention to the Sahara desert, proposing to fiood a portion of it, and afterwards offered a plan for a railway through Asia. Beginning with 1873 he concentrated his energics on the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. In the following year the project was vigorously advocated in the French financial press, and at the meeting of the congress of the geographical sciences, held in Paris in 1S73, Lesseps formally proposed to cut a canal across the isthmu3. In the following year he formed a company, with a capital of $20,000, to make, the preliminary surveys. He visited Germany, England and Belgium to secure support from financiers, and, in 1S79, obtained from the Colombian government the exclusive privilege of constructing a canal between the two oceans through Columbian territory. He returned to Pari3 and opened a subscription for a company with a capital of $120,000,000, which proved a failure. He then came to the United States, where he visited the principal cities, making speeches, and finally called a congress of engineers to meet In Paris and discuss the merits of tha nronoaM routes. That of Panama, hav- . ing been approved, he again began a' Tutf- 1 scriptlon for a company with a capital of ' $100,000,000, which. was succepsrui. xne company was definitely constituted on Jan. 31, 1SS1. and work bepun in October of that year. The work was conducted in the most wasteful and extravagant manner, and was continued until 1SS5. when $2S0,000,000 had been expended, for which there was very little to show. The French government had become interested in the scheme, and as a result of the collapse a commission was sent out to Investigate. This commission reported that it would cost $312,000,000 to complete the work, and the Immediate result was the appointment of a receiver. The Inquiries set on foot resulted in a scandal of national proportions, in which members of the government wero involved. A series of trials followed, resulting In the conviction of Lesseps nnd his son and several other celebrities. The failure of the Panama scheme prostrated the elder Lesseps, and, though he was convicted in the courts, he was never permitted to know that he had been tried, and th sentence as to him was remitted. His son Charles and the others found guilty served portions of their terms of imprisonment, but all are now at liberty. Neither hi3 own countrymen nor intelligent men in other lands believed that the elder Lesseps personally profited by the complete collapse of tne great scheme ot which he was the originator and the central figure. a CRUEL PARENTS. Mother nnd Fntlier Cliurpetl -vrltU l nnaturnl Condnct. LONDON, Oct. 9. The hearing in the case of Constance Phelan and her husband, charged with extreme cruelty to their two children at their home in Chester, reveals a story that is, in many respects, worse than that brought out at the celebrated Montague case. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has charge of the prosecution. The court room at Chester was crowded on Saturday, when the hearing was begun. As the prisoners entered they were hissed. One of the former servants of the Phelans testified that the prisoners were most cruel in their treatment of their children. Five days after the witness had entered the employ of the prisoners she saw Mrs. Phelan put the young child into a bathtub, holding it by the hair. This act she repeated nearly every morning. In the daytime the child Ernest was generally strapped to a chair and left on the lawn until the evening. At times he was not brought Into the house until 10 o'clock. III3 meals were taken out to him. The witness said that on one occasion she had seen Mrs. Phelan strike Ernest repeatedly on tho head with an Ivory hair brush, and she did not desist until the brush broke. On another occasion, when Ernest refused to take castor oil, his mother took him by the arm and leg and threw him a distance of three yards. At another time she saw Mrs. Phelan strap up her younger child In a cruel way while he was in bed. She also beat Ernest with a dog whip and a strap, with a buckle at the end of it. Tho elder child was beaten by both Mr. and Mrs. Phelan. but not so. often as the younger one was punished. The witness then made the remarkable statement that she was promised 1 advance in her wages and a handsome present if she would consent to beat the children during the confinement of her mistress. Much further testimony showing the unnatural manner in which the prisoners had treated their children was given and the hearing was adjourned. The prisoners were admitted to ball, their solicitor saying that the defendants were people of niean3 and position and it would be a very serious matter to thorn If they were deprived of their liberty. FRAXCE AND ITALY. IlI-reoliiiK Set Strong: that Wnr In n Possibility. LONDON, Oct. 10. The Chronicle's correspondent at Paris says 'that the unexpected resignation of General Mathelln, commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps, who, in the ordinary course, would have taken command of a French campaign against Italy, has caused a painful sensation In government and army circles. This feeling, the correspondent says, has been Increased by a telegram from Marselles to the Jour, which telegram the authorities caused to be suppressed, stating that In the higher military circles no surprise would be felt if Italian troops should pass the frontier to-morrov, The telegram also said that General Mathelln. owing to the condition of his health, did not feci equal to the task with which ho would be confronted If the Alpine outjk:Us wnro doubled. It says, further, that , thy attlluis of the ofilcers and men of

Ferdinand de Lesseps.

the army towards Italy has become so aggressive that even Germany is counselIns calmness and prudence. The correspondent adds that probably the reports of the anti-Italian 'feeling are somewhat exaggerated, but he says It is difficult to imagine .greater unpleasantness, short of positive hostilities, than now exist between France and Italy. Guns Ilootnlng at ltlo Again. Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 0. The insurgent fleet again bombarded the outside forts to-day. There Las also been some firing to-day on tbe other aide of tho baj opposite to tbe city. It ia believed that tho insurgents will malt an attempt to captnre the Estrell powder magazine, but the government ia determined to blow the magazine up if it seems likely that it ia in danger of capture. There ia no troth in tbe report that the foreign ships are loading Bailors to protect foreign subjects. Tbe insurgent Admiral De Mellos baa issued a manifesto in wtnoh be disclaims any intention of bombarding tbiacity. Called Gladstone a Qnuck. LONDON, Oct. 9. Lord Randolph Churchill, in a speech at Iluddersfield, this evening, took occasion to criticise the speech which Mr. Gladstone delivered recently at Edinburgh. He characterized Mr. Gladstone as a common auack, and said that the Liberal Unionist party had not tried to secure the amendment of the homorule bill, because the measure was of too halrbrained and insane character to be possible of improvement The speaker declared that if the House of Lords had not rejected the bill, he himself would have voted for the abolition of that body. Cable IVote. An epidemic of influenza is raging at Tripoli. M. De Giers, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, whose health has long been declining, ha3 had a fresh relapse, and is growing weaker. The sailing vessel Sinyo Maru was wrecked off the coast of Japan on the 4th inst. Twenty-two of the twenty-eight passengers were drowned. Arrangements have been concluded between the Berlin banks and tha Banoe Natlonale and other banks of Italy providing for the advance of 49,000,000 marks on security of the Italian rentes. One of the largest paper mills in England has closed its doors owing to a lack of coal, and many other mills are upon the point of similar action. This may lead to a paper famine in the newspaper world, where the stocks of paper are being quickly exhausted.

STRIKE OF WEAVERS Seven Thousand Quit Work in a Suburb of Providence, R. I. Proposition of General Echols Accepted by Enyployes of the Chesapeake & Ohio Hallway. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct 9. A big strike in the woolen mills at Olneyville, a suburb of this city, was inaugurated this morning. Probably seven thousand people are out of work, and the strike is growing rapidly. Before it stops, unless all signs fail, every woolen manufacturing establishment, in the State will close, and there is talk of the cotton workers also joining in the strike. There has been discontent ever since a notice was posted in the mills last week of a reduction in wages, and several metlngs of the operators were held and speeches of a nature to precipitate a strike were made by labor agitators. It was resolved to wait until this morning, when it was understood the scale of prices was to be posted before taking definite action. The price list was posted this morning. The weavers in the Taft & Weeding mills held a consultation In th work room, which resulted in their leaving' their looms and coming out on strike. As soon as they went out a cry was raised: "Let us go to Fletcher's mills," and the crowd marched down to the National worsted mills shouting, "Come out," and the weavers promptly left their work. The strikers then proceeded to the other mills, bringing out all the men employed In the mills of Charles Fletcher. The employes in the Riverside mills have yielded, and every woolen mill closed at noon. Seven thousand people are Idle in the little village, and a contest has commenced that will involve the textile workers of New England. Cut Accepted by C. & O. Employes. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 9. The employes of the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern railroad have agreed to accept the 10 per cent, reduction In wages under the terms of General Echols's proposition, and the trouble Is now at an end. General EcholS's proposition to the men contained two clauses. The first was rejected by the committee representing the men, and the other, which was submitted to the employes to be voted on, has been accepted. This clause provided that on Jan. 1, 1&)4, all employes whose wages were J 10 or less per month shall be restored to the scale In effect prior to Oct. 1, 1S93. The company agrees that whenever the earnings of the company in any month hereafter shall equal its earnings in the corresponding month of the year begining July 1, 1S92, and ending June SO, 1893, to restore the wages of all employes to the scale In effect prior to Oct. L 1S93. Tennessee Arm' 3Iay lie Dlsbnndcd. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 9. Habeas corpus proceedings were Instituted before Judge Sneed, of the Knox county Criminal Court to-day for the release of the sixteen soldiers now confined in jail at Knoxvllle, charged with the lynching of miner Richard Drummond, at Driceville recently. It Is the general opinion that the soldiers will be released. The entire command of troops from Camp Carpenter, wh ) have been held a3 witnesses for their comrades, were brought to Knoxvllle to-day. If the soldiers on trial are acquitted the Army of Tennessee will be disbanded; if not, those under arrest will be released on bond and the others disbanded; at any rate, the army, which has been on constant duty for more than a year, has now been removed from the mining districts, where trouble with the free miners has co3t many lives and a large amount of money Strike In Contemplation. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Oct. 9. A strike among the workmen in the press ware factories has been under contemplation for some time, and It is understood here that the vote just counted 13 decidedly in favor of the strike. The union has over $160,000 in its treasury, and expects help from the other branches of the flint glass workers. The contest will, therefore, in all probability, be a stubborn one. The manufacturers want a reduction of wages. Miner Retnrn to "Work. KNOXVILLE Tenn., Oct. 9.-Four hundred miners, who have been on strike for two months in the Coal Creek and Brlceville districts, returned to work to-day, on a compromise with the coal companies, which was a 10 per cent, reduction and one dollar off on house rent. The reason given by the miners for accepting the compromise wan that their wives and children were starving and that they must feed them. BABY SLAUGHTER HOUSE. Kcsult of a Coroner's Investigation of a Fonmllinp; Asylum. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9. A shocking scandal ha3 been caused here by the coroner's Investigation of the San Francisco Foundling Asylum, where thirty-three babies have died within the past six weeks. The place has been closed. The coroner as certained that the thirty-three waifs died of lack of nutrition and maltreatment. The Daughters of the Good Shepherd publicly brand 2d the asylum as a slaughter house for babies. The sanitary condition of the asy lum is very bad. It is charged that the nurses and attendants occupied the sunny rooms upstairs and kept the babies in damp, dark apartments. U3iore the coro ner to-day it was developed that the dead l babies had been kept on the premls?s four days. Tne oiuciai unueriaxer or me institution testified that when an Infant died the attendants put the body in a box under the front dodr steps and it was kept there like so much garbg until he came to take it away. He bad found three bodies cast in discriminately Into the box at one time.

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WON BY 0RA . WILKES Kick Stake for Three-Year-Old Trotting Stallions. Fastest Five-Heat Kace for tho Class This Year Other Events at tho Lexington Track. LEXINGTON. Ky., Oct. 9. The weather was clear and delightful to-day, and seven thousand people saw some magnificent racing. Of the four races on the .card the star event was the stallion representative stake for three-year-olds, worth $11,230, of which the winner received J8.000, the largest amount ever trotted for by a three-year-old. It was a stubborn fight between Ora "Wilkes, Medio and the Conqueror, while Axle was very prominent in the first two heats. Ora Wilkes fought for every heat, and his gameness and Goldsmith's great drives through the stretch won first money. The struggle for the place was very excit ing. William Corbltt, of San Mateo, Cal., bred the gallant black colt, and pocketed $1.9C0 bj' the conditions of the stake. In the betting the winner ruled favorite all through. The track was very fast, and the time in the three-year-old stake Is tha fastest five-heat race for three-year-olds. Summaries: 2:0 trot; for four-year-olds; purse, $C00. Eoliuc 1 1 Aunt Delilah 3 li Ureenlander Girl 2 4 Uncle Tom 4 3 Governor Strong 7 5 Dorfmark 5 7 Kratz G C Turner Boy 8 8 Tnne-i::172. 2:1 S trot; purse, $1,000. Florida 1 1 1 Commodore Porter 2 '2 U General Cass 8 5 3 Brazil : 5 3 8 N. T. II 4. 4. U Happy IJromUo C l'J 4 Taken 90 5 Elfrlda 7 7 li! fceaslde 11 0 7 Dan Cupid 10 8 9 Kustlque 12 10 lo Mlea lieauty 1313 li May King 3 11 dr Tliuex:lG3it2:15s.2:144. - Etalllon representative stake, for three-year-olds; trotting; value to wlnnej, $3,000. Ora Wilkes (Goldsmith) 2 2 111 IJedio (Haybould) 1 1 2 G 8 The Conqueror (Chandler) 9 G 3 2 5 Georgia Iee (Kea) 5 5 5 7 2 liaron Moore (Jeflerson) 4 7 0 4 3 Deliuarch (Carl) 0 3 7 8 7 Areua tlllokok) 8 0 4 3 6 MaKdalena (Vau Evera) 7 8 8 5 4 Axle (C. Doble) 3 4 dls. Margrave (Dickeraon) Dis. Mary Majrdaliuo (Kelly) Di. Time-2:U34, 2:142. 2:15. 2:154, 2:174. 2:50 trot; for two-year-olds; purse, $500. Precuiz 4 1 1 Buexzetta 1 2 2 Dentecn 2 3 3 Imitator 3 4 4 2anoy Itice 5 5 5 fcylvia 0 Cdr. King Albert Dls. Time 2:20a. 2:25, 2:J. Snle of Palo Alto Stock. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 9.-At tho Woodard & Shanklin horse sale of Palo Alto stock, at Lexington, Ky., to-day, nineteen head brought $10,903, an average of $570 per head. The principal sales vere: Electricity (2:174), out of Midnight, the dam of Jay Eye See (2:10), $2,900, to Graham & Conley, Lexington, Ky.; Weldock. br. c, by Electricity, out of Lida Wilkes, $S25, to J. H. Peeper, St. Paul, Minn.; Winna S., br. m., seven years old, by Electioneer, out of dam Winne, the dam of Palo Alto (2:0S3.i), $750, to L. Broadhead, Spring Station, Ky.; Ellener, by Electioneer, dam Lady Ellen, $1,000, to T. C. Angline, Lexington, Ky.; liernel,- by Electioneer, dam by General Denton, $1,100, to Brook Curry, Lexington, Ky.; Elma Scntag, by Electioneer, dam Sontag by Dixie, $1,050, to John E. Madden, Lexington, Ky. Several daughters of Electioneer, out of high-bred dams and in foal to Palo Alto stallions, ranged from $050 to $700. The largest crowd of tha pale was present, among the number being Senator Peffer, of Kansas. French LaUy Sliot. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Oct. 9. The fall meeting of tha Louisville Jockey Club was. Inaugurated to-day at Churchill Downs by a six-event card of good racing. The crowd numbered about fifteen thousand, and the weather was all that could be desired. In the second race there was a jam at the sixteenth iole, which bruised "Soup" Perkins up considerably and Frsnch Lady had hr leg broken. She was shot, and Scoggan Brothers lose $1,100 by the accident. Perkins was fined $15 In the same race for breaking away. The favorites had the best of the day, taking four of the six events. The winners were Hampton, Emma Mack, Buckwa, Volantress, George Beck and Cosmoline. Tyler Mnkea Another Bicycle Record. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct 9. Harry C. Tyler, of the Springfield Bicycle Club, lowered the world's record for the quartermile, standing start, to 23 1-5 seconds, today. The previous mark for the distance ngainst time was 30 1-5 seconds, made by E. A. Nelson, of the same club, at Hartford. Conn., on Labor day. The Springfield track now holds the world's record for all distances up to twenty-six miles. Tyler's trial was made without pacemakers. Tho record was officially timed. , "We Mny Have a Hall Cluli. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 9. A meeting to reorganize the Western Bas2ball Association will be held in Chicago Oct. 5. Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Toledo, Kansas City. Omaha and MlnneanolH w'll become members. The eighth club will be either Columbus, St. Paul or Grand Itapids. A salary limit of $1,50J or $1,W0 will be adopted. ECLIPSE OF THE SUX Observations at San Francisco, Where It Was Only Partial. San Francisco, Oct. 0. lb eclipse ot the sun to-day tt&s only partial here. At the time of the greatest observation six tenths of the son's diameter, or nearly oncbalf of the diic. was obscured. The nky here wns doodles. The first contact occurred at 10:ll':2T a, m. Tho tun of the greatest obscuration hero was 11:40. A partial loss of rtiulitfht was plainly noticeable, bnt the eclipse did not attract very general interest. The final contact occurred at 12:"5:'.. AH observatories, including tho Lick Observatory at Monnt Hamilton, are taking accurate observations of the phenomenon. NEWS FROM PEARY. Twenty Tons of Walrus Meat Secured for the Explorer's l)ozs. London, Oct. 10. A letter from a mem. Ler of the Peary expedition, received by the Morgenblatr, of Christiana, says that the Falcon reached Uowdoiu bay. Mnrchlson sound, on Aug. 2, IJy diligent shooting, twenty tons of walrus meat lor the nsn of the dogs dur inc the winter had been stcured. A cache of provisions had been established on the inland ice for th use of then1f::r varty on their journey in tho spring. L juteuant Peary uac going witU

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