Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1881 — Page 2

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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Single Copy, 1 year " 6 months.. 2.00 1.00 " 3 monthi. .50 1 month. ... .20 Club of tlx 1 year, each copy " " ten, 1 year, each copy ....... .... 1.75 .... 1.50 rrUfQ D 4 DP I J ni7 found on file at I tllkJ I AI rill Geo. P. Rowell A Co.'a Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where Hrrti8ing contracts may be made for it in NEW TUJtK.1 Subscribe for the leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Lead er: and let every 'white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in hu struggle for moral, social auu inieueeuiHi eiavauon uo likewise. It is reported that the laborers at -work on the Chesapeake and Ohio R. Ji., have been discharged and their places are to be filled by Germans from Castle Garden, New York. This is significant, and wo would liko further light on the subject. Gen. Wickham is the first Vice President of the Chesapeake and Ohio R. It., and the manager of the interest of the road in Virginia, and withal the leader of the Republicans who are contending for a straight-out nomi nation. Does he mean to secure the support of the colored voto by sup planting them with foreign labor on the plea that the colored laborers are unreliable? How is this, Messrs. Ross, Hamilton and Carter? People's Advocate. One Hilzheim, a second hand clothes monger, rag picker, goose dealer, etc., of Pine Bluff, Ark., has been airing his haughtiness (?) of race pride recently. On account of his being captain of a gang of cane breake guards, he was ordered by Governor Churchill to swear in u company of colored militia. Hilzheim, beitremembered,is a Germanllebrew. Instead of proceeding like a sensible man to perform his duty, this Euro pean refugee threw up his hands in holy horror, and under no circunv stance would he disgrace himself by swearing a company of "Nigger" militia into the service of the state. Governor Churchill immediately ordered the tramp under arrest prepar atory to court martial, and detailed another officer to swear in the militia. If Hilzheim were at home, in Germany or in Russia, he would be lia ble at any time to have his nose pulled, or his posterior base unmer cifully kicked, for no other reason than that he is a Jew; but here in freeJAmerica, where be is offered a refuge fromt ho traditional kicks and cuffs to which his race has been sub jected from time immemorial, he seeks to make himself infamously notorious by raising a point of race prejudice against colored militia. Hilzheim furnishes the most despisable example of the cowardly ingrate and tho infamous, slimy, poisonous reptile, which warmed into resusciitated life, turns and venemously stings its benefactor. It is gratifying to know that all European imigrants are not mado of tho same kind of stuff as Hilzheim, the ex-rag picker and dealer in geese, feathers and scrap iron. TUR VIRGINIA STA It. We know nothing about tho pecul iar political circumstance, which sur round the Virginia Star, and which conspire to induce it to throw cold water on tho Mahone movement, but to a man up a tree, and especially at our distance from tho scene of action, we are compelled to remark that wo think thcro is something decayed about the Star Office equal to tho original Danish putridity. It is a queer spectacle to see a journal proiessedly published in tho interest of tho colored people of Virginia, refusing to lend its influence to a movement that has already accom plished much toward establishing complete equality among tho people, regaidlcss of color or race, and which promises much more in the future. We think the proper position for tho Star or any other newspaper devoted to tho equality of manhood, is in tho fore-front of the fight. Instead of this, however, where do wo find this in. teresting political luminary of the Old Dominion? Well,we find it aping David Davis sitting on tho fence and owl like, chuckling "hoo-hoo" whenever Wickham, the Republican Bourbon tool, whistles. Now, wo say to the Star that it ceases to be a representativo journal of the race, when it becomes tho tool, either of the Negro hating bourbon Democrats, or of bourbon Republican office brokers, like Wickham. The Mahone

movement is a liberal, progressive movement, and deserves the support

of every honest liberty loving citizen in the State. Those white Republicans who oppose it, do so from selfish motives; while Senator Mahone's colored opponents, are tools merely of General Wickham and his so-called straight-outs, or sell-outs. COMETS AND THE SUN'S ENERGY. The Director of the Naval Observatory at Washington, in a recent interview, remarked that "the sun was constantly contracting and eventually we might be frozen out. The sun's energy is probably kept up by the constant violent impact of erratic heavenly bodies upon its surface, and as long as this absorption by the sun continues we need not have any fear of the return of the glacial period. If these strange visitors were to entirely desert our system the sun would eventually lose its energy and the earth would be frozen solid to the core. So you see comets may seem to be an evil to the earth, but they are a necessity to the sun, and what benefit the sun benefits our globe. You can understand, then, why I am so little disturbed by the appearance of the heavenly strangers. If a great comet like the one which has just arrived should enter our atmosphere and penetrate to the earth we might all be consumed by the great heat or sufiocated by eas." It is possi ble that the Director of the Naval Observatory has solved the great problem with regard to the sun's heat, but the world is not quite ready to accept the theory that the heat of the sun is maintained by the consumption of comets. It is held by some eminent astronomers, who have made the sun their special study, that its heat "is due, not to combustion as in our ordinary fires. but to the vivid incandescence of each particle brought about by the original contraction of the vaporous globe, or by causes even more remote, or unknown." The sun is of such vast extent that astronomers are not able to master the phenomena which it creates. The sun has a diameter of 880,000 miles and a circumference of 2,7C4,G00 miles, and its surface contains 2,432,800,000,000 square miles, and if it be a furnace which has to be supplied with comets for fuel, the consumption must be large, and our limited knowledge of comets, the material of which they are made, etc., is so vague that it is not best to indultre in en ess work and palm it off for the conclusions of scientific research. An effort has been made to associate famine with the appearance of dark spots upon the sun's surface, and observations for that pur pose have been conducted through a series of years in various parts of the earth, but, after all, conclusions are unsatisfactory, and the whole matter rests just about where it was when the investigations began. There is no satisfactory evidence that the sun's energy has abated in the least degree. The sun being something less than 100,000,000 miles distant from the earth, and being 1,350,000 times larger than the earth, it is a little too large and vastly too far away to handle con veniently. It is, therefore, better not to indulge in guess-work with regard to the duration of the present order of things; but to go for ward, plant and sow and reap, build railroads and factories, explore the bowels of the earth, dig out the gold and silver and iron, extend the outposts of commerce, kill or corvert savages, and do such other things as increase the sum total of human happi ness. The sun, moon and stars will con tinue to obey the laws of their creator, and if it has been discovered that comets are sun fuel there can be no objection to the arrange ment, since it has never been found out that they can be put to a better use, or placed where they can do more good. GENERAL NOTES. Senator Pexdletos, of Ohio, says that he has had several headaches in trying to understand New York politics. According to Secretary Blaine, there are more than 1,000,000 applications for office on file in the various Departments at Washington. THiTfirst currencv bearing the signature of B, K. Bruce, the new colored Register, was received at the Treasury Department on Tuesday last. President Garfield, General Hayes and Gen era! Sherman are expected to attend the unveil inar of the McPherson statue at Clyde, O., on July 22. Ma. Conklino spent Sunday in New Jersey. In case there was any thing in that story about the world coming to an end, he wanted to be out of danger. Mrs. General Sherman, with her youngesi ton and Miss Lizzie Sherman, will pass the summer in Boston with her daughter, Mrs. Lieutenaut Thackara. The youngest on of President arfield, who has Just made arrangements to enter Williams College, is engaged to be married to Miss Claimle Bradley, of Mentor. Senator Miller, of California, will, with his family, spend a short time at Saratoga before going to California. Miss Miller is very popular in Washington society. The Baltimore News says: "The insurance mon quote the price of Legislative votes at Harrisbnrg at f 50 each. The idea of a rooster getting $2,000 in Albany Is too abusurd." Sir Edward Thornton will sail for Europe on July 6, accompanied by his wife and daughters. Mr. Edward Thornton, his son, will remain in his present position as attache to the British Lega tlon. A special to the New York Sun from Batavia, N. Y., says that the story of the discovery of the bones of William Morgan is a hoax concocted by a certain Dr. Phillips, The bones are those of a female body. Miss Emma Gillette, who has just been ap pointed a Notary Public by President Garfield, is a Wisconsin girl by birth. She overcame this defect as much as possible, however, by going to school in Ohio. Mr. Cornelius J. Vanderbilt's new house in Hartford is described as remarkably handsonThe woodwork in each room Is unlike tbe res', and there is a great deal of beautiful carvln j about the house. Ex-Vice President Wheeler is quoted as say ing that he "was startled and alarmed at the evidence of corruption he saw at Albany." Two of tbe leading lobbyists approached him on the sr bject of a combination with De pew. Reports from Maine go to show that the vener able Justice Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, is improving in health, physically if not mentally. He is at present a guest at an oil friend's farm in Cornish, and he Is able to ride, stroll about quietly, and even Indulge in a quiet way in that favorite pastime of many an .humble as well as great manof trouUng. General AshbY's former chaplain, in a lecture in Baltimore the other evening, explained to illustrate the lengths to which "StonewaU" Jackson went when it was necessary, the disposition of officers elected in Jackson's comsaand and the substitution of others appointed by Jackson. When Jackson was told the men were disposed to rebel he said, "There wUl have to be some tall shooting among them." "When Mrs. Hayes was a Congressman's wife here," writes the Washington correspondent of the Troy Times, "she was one of the companionable sort to sit out on the front door-steps of her boarding-house with a waterproof over her head, chatting with the other boarders; and there were several families of old friends where she kept up

a fashion of 'running in' for a long time after she came to the White House, though always with her carriage. Mrs. Garfield, on the contrary, has

never seemed to have much time for intimate riendi, but always to be very much engrossed with the domestic side of life a Martha, troubled about many things." All the personal effects of the late Henry Wil son, including his library and his collection of valuable autograph letters, are soon to be sold. Mrs. Howe, Mr. Wilson's mother-in-law, who is now ninety-four years old, will continue to live at the old homestead. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines is quoted as once saying to Mr. Webster and Mr. Clay: "I admit you are very great men, but you can not compare with General Gaines in all that is sublime and beautiful in human character. I often told the General he was too perfect lor this world, and although we had been married upward of ten years I have endeavored to find a defect in his character, and have been unsuccessful." The Orillia (Ont.) Tacket came to grief the other day. The editor had two local paragraphs one announcing a new preacher, and the other calling the Mayor's attention to assaults on street preachers and the foreman mixed them in this way: "Rev. Robert Moodie, of Stayner, will oc cupy the Presbyterian pulpit next Sunday, and the Mayor should direct the Constables to take effective precautions to prevent our town being disgraced by it. Religion has not much to gain from foul-mouthed, profane and egg-throwing champions." The statue of Byron, which the Greeks have erected to the cherished memory of the poet, is about to be unveiled at Missolonshi, where he died. The statue is the work of the sculptor Vi talis, of Syra, and represents Bjron standing; he is shrouded in an ancient mantle, which allows little of the costume of the nineteenth century to be seen. In his left hand he holds a roll, and with the right he points down to the land where he ap peared as a liberator. The expression of the face is noble and not without a touch of sadness. The statue is carved in Fentclic marble. General II. W Boynton, the well-known Washington correspondent, furnishes the Philadelphia Times with a four column review of Badeau's romance on Grant. He defends General Thomas, now dead and unable to defend himself against wrcckless assertions, and he shows that Badeau's criticisms are unjust. Jleüubbsthat romantic and untruthful writer the "Military Novelist." The "march to the sea" is shown to be a blunder. The Star was right when it said last week that Badeau would catch it both North and South. Wilmington, N. C, Star. It 5s related of Dr. Holmes that at a country charitable Fair one day he was entreated to furnish a letter for the Postothce. He seized a sheet of paper and between its folds placed a SI bank notes turning to the first page he wrote the following: Dear lady, whosoe'er thou art, Turn this poor pnge with trembling care;. But hush, oh hush, thy beating heart, The one thou lovest best will be there. In obedience to the pect's injunction the page turned disclosed the attractive greenback of $1, and to prove the truth of this assertion, he made the following appeal on the opposite page from the bank deposit: Fair lady, lift thine eyes and tell If this is not a truthful letter, Thts Is the one thou lovest well, And naught (0) would make thee love it better. A fine portrait of George Eliot, taken In 1850, when she was Marian Evans, is iu the possession f its painter, the Swiss artist, M. F. D' Albert Durade. At that time Miss Evans passed some months in the family of M. Durade, and a close friendship ior the painter and his wife was the result. Her objection to being limned was not then so strong as it afterward became, or at all events was not sufficiently strong to withstand the desire of her host to paint her portrait. Accordingly she gave him several sittings, and the result was a small half-length in oil, which was pronounced a good likeness, and especially happy in reproducing her expressions of benevolent sweetness. The friendship thus begun continued to the last, and M. Durade, who is equally at home in literature and art, became the translator of several of her books. M. Durade has had many applications for permission to photograph or engrave the portrait he painted thirty-one years ago, but these he has steadily refused. RESUME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS. Parnell will revisit the United States in July for an extended tour. Of eleven cases of sunstroke in New Orleans on Thursday, seven proved fatal. Havana reports eleven deaths from yellow fever during the week aud twenty from small-pox. Over 7,000 acres of wheat and many farm houses were burned last Thursday near Merced, Cal. The wheat harvest has commenced at Wheeling. W. Va., where the yield is large and the quality fine. The Baptist Church at Garrettsville, 0., was blown up by powder or dynamite on Thursday night. Silas C. Herring, the well-known safe manu facturer, died suddenly at Plainfield, N. J., on Friday last. A prelate will next week be dispatched from Rome to make a thorough investigation of the condition of Ireland. Leander Warren, commercial editor of the Baltimore Gazette, died very suddenly, iu Baltimore, Saturday, aged sixty-two. Benjamin W. Delamater, prominent in. the Insurance circles of New York, an uncle of Schuyler Colfax, died last week at the age of eightyseven. Alexander H. Stephens will deliver an oration at the Commencement of the University of Georgia this season, that University being his alma mater. The important (!) fact is announced by telegraph that at last Grant and Garfield met at Long I'ranch and exchanged simultaneous aud apparently cordial salutes. Albert Slocum. a manufacturer of straw hats at Milwaukee, has made an assignment. His liabilities are placed at the magnificent figure of 200,000, while his assets are 8101,000. . James Y. Christmas and William G. Whitney, of Washington, D C, partners in business, quarreled Saturday, when Christmas drew a pistol and shot Whitney through the heart. The Republican Executive Committee of Mississippi met lastf Friday at Jackson, but took no action, from which it is safe to infer that no straight Radical ticket will be put in the Held. During the week endinq Saturday there were 22,OU0 silver dollars issued trom tho mints of the United States. During the corresponding week In lhSO there were lCS.OOO put in circulation. A mysterious fire in the Courier-Journal building, at Louisville, on last Wednesday night, destroyed about Sd.OOO worth of paper and inflicted a damage of $:t.000 on the building. Through the agency of the Associated Railway Lines In Virginia and North Carolina, many Germans are settling in those .States. Nearly 2,000 have already settled near .Salisbury, in the latter State. Frank Braga, of Pan Francisco, Secretary of the Portuguese Protective and Honevolent tiooiety, has absconded with altout 8100,000 thonging to his countrymen, w ho deposited with him their savings. Near Cuantla, Mexico, Friday night, a whole train on the Ncost les Railroad, plunged into the River San Antonio, on account of the downfall of a bridge. Nearly 200 persons are reported xillcd. A fourteen-year-old son of Rev. Mr. Smith, of Mutual Village, near Urbana, O., while playing with an old horse pistol, discharged it, when a wooden brecch-pin Hew-out, striking his eye aud knocking it entirely out. Dr. A. Chapin, of Carlotte, Mich., cut his throat at ihe County Poor Hon while 1m an in.-aue condition on last Friday. He is said to have been 107 years of age, and leaves a wife, a centenarian, also a charge on the County. A ps.rty of cowlwysat Eureka, New Mexico, surprised aud killed the noted Hazlett brothers and a German companion last Thursday. The Hazletts had recently murdered Leonard and Harry Head, the stage-robbers, Cardinal McCloskey is cut out of $:,,00,000 from the estate of Mrs. Caroline A. Merrill, of New York, by the decision of the Surrogate that the will was executed while laboring under an insane delusion as to her nephew. Some statements abuve of Secretary Blaine having got into the newspapers as uttered by R. B. Hayes, the Maine statesman wrote the exPresident and received the assurance that the paragraph was an utter fabrication. Thomas Garfield, an uncle of the President, was fatally Injured at Meadville, Pa last Monday, while driving across the railway track in front of a train. His niece was thrown upon the pilot, but escaped with slight injuries. John Allen, claiming to come from New York, entered a restaurant in Cleveland Saturday evening, and after tinisining his meal walked to the desk, and hhot the proprietor, George Williams, through the heart. The murderer was arrested. Unable to stand the constant flagellations of the press, and foaming at the mouth over the steady collection of evidence against him. General Brady petitioned the Criminal Court at Washington for an immediate Investigation of the charge of Star Route frauds. Colonel Cook, the special counsel I for the Government, stated to the Court that not a single case is yet ready for Bubmission to the

Grand Jury, and that complete failure would result from using the testimony in its present con

dition, i ne uourt, tnereiore, oraerea mat tne case go over until September, to which date the Giand Jury has a recess. Samuel W. Shell, a fruit-grower residing near Anderson, Ind., went stark mad last week. He got five loaded revolvers and a rifle, drove away his family, went naked into his yard, and defied arrest, but found his way to the Insane Asylum. At ClarksviUe. Tenn.. Saturday, John Averett, who had been drinking, went to tho business house of Jack Everett, and attacked him, when Everett shot his Assailant twice, the wounds being fatal. Everett immediately surrendered himself and is in jail. Arrangements have been made for a prize fight between Owen Maloney, a New York pugilist, and James Weedeu, for $500 a side, according to the rules of the London Prize Ring. The fight is to come off in August, witMn 100 miles of Pittsburg, catch weights. General Butler, General Pryor, ex Senator Sprague aud others held a conference, Saturday, with a Committee of creditors of the Sprague estate, looking to a proposition for purchase of the entire estate by a Syndicate represented by Butler and his associates. The Pah Ute Indians are again engaged in murdering settlers and stealing cattle iu Utah, and the cattle men are organizing for protection. Military ere on their way to the scene of the troubles, and there are indications of a general Indian outbreak before long. J. W. Sage. Sheriff of Sculleyville County, Choctaw Nation, was found dead last Thursday. He had evidently been killed by white men for attempting to enforce upon them what is known as the "permit law," and which has caused so much disturbance in the Nation lately. Charles A. Anchisi, a well-known embezzler, formerly of the Secret Service of the Treasury Department, has been recaptured in San Francisco. In addition to a package of important papers he had counterfeit National Bank notes of five denominations and a bad $50 greenback. A conflagration at Tombstone, Arizona, last week, swept over a space of tlx blocks, destroying a -out 150 buildings, and entailing a loss of nearly $250,000. a cigar lighter ignited the fumes from a barrel of whisky which was being opened in a saloon. About NX) peopie are homeless. In the United States District Court at Chicago, on last Friday, John Bate, better known as Dr. Olin. was sentenced ti imprisonment for three years aud a fine of 8100, and Dr. Jordon was given one year and $100. Their offenses were the use of the mails for the circulation of demoralizing literature. Good. It is said that the bondholders of the St. Louis bridge, who mainly reside Iu London, have leased the structure in perpetuity to the Wabash and Missouri Pacific Roads at an annual rental of 050,000. The annual report of the Bridge Company shows total earnings of 1,138,627, and a net income of $4ö4aj040. conclusions at me Cambridge university are that the comet is now moving away from the earth at the rate of 300.000 miles per day. The tail is at least l.OOO.OOj miles in length. Professor Henry Draper, at Hastings Observatory, on the Hudson, New York, succeeded Friday night in photographing the comet. A comet of vast size, with a bright center and fan-like tail, is now plainly visible to the naked eye. Astronomers at several Eastern points are claiming credit for its discovery. It is believed to be the great comet of 1812. which is due this vear. It appears at 9 o'clock in the evening, and disappears with the rise of the sun im the northeast. A lawyer of Washington, named George Taylor formerly a Member of Congress from New York, is said to have acquired an immense fortune in a few years by corrupt methods, and is believed to hold nearly $6,000,000 of the claims made before the Franco-American Commission, which Board he was largely instrumental in creating. A decision just made by the United States Court of Claims brands Taylor as guilty of subornation of perjurv, and of having manufactured a claim upon which he was paid nearly $300,000. THE COMET. Professor Klein, of Kentucky, the Discoverer It lias Grown Old to Him and He Knows it as hn Would a Child. Louisville, Ky., June 27. Professor Klein, of Hartford, Ky., claims that he discovered the comet now attracting attention, last September. In a letter published in the Courier-Journal of to-morrow he says: "This so-called newly discovered comet may be new to the world at large but it is not new to me, as I have been gazing upon this very comet ever since last September. You will remember that I told you in my letters that it would be visible to the naked eye in June or Jul)', 1881, and that it would not be seen again for seventy-nine years. Furthermore it is not the comet of 1819 but it is the comet of 1873, which was supposed to have been the cause of the terrific atmospherical disturbance of that year. I feel that I know more about this comet than any other astronomer, as I have nursed it, as it were, from its first appearance until the present, and I know my comet by sight, just as a father would know his children by seeing them. Professor Swift and other eminent scientists have written to me in regard to it from time to time ever since last fall." The Courier-Journal of Septembers contained an account of the discovery of this comet by Professor Klein, in which he at that time said: "I am of the opinion that the earth passed through the tail of the comet, and that its vapors so permeated our atmosphere here as to be the direct cause of the recent unprecedented rainfall all over the country. I believe it was the cause of the great snowstorm on the lakes early in the fall. Indeed, the tail of the comet may have actually swept all over that portion of the continent. Many of the recent hurricanes can, I think, be accounted for if we accept the above theory." Washington, June 27. At the Naval Observatory last night the position of the recently discovered comet at its lower culmination was found with transit circle to be five hours forty-eight minutes thirty-eight and four-tenth seconds right ascension, and fifty-seven degrees, forty minutes, fifty-two seconds north declination, lime, ll:l' p. m. . The Whites Must Go. "Washington, D. C, June 27. The Secretary of the Interior to-day received from the Attorney General an opinion upon the legal questions involved in the settlement of the troubles growing out of the threatened enforcement by the authorities of the "permit" laws in the Indian Territory. The question as to who are to be deemed intruders upon the Choctaws and Chickasaw lands, and whether it is the duty of the Department or Indian authorities to remove them, is now definitely settled, as the Secretary has adopted the Attorney General's opinion. The following telegram, which embraces the main points of the Attorney General's opinion, was sent by Secretary Kirkwook to United States Indian Agent Tufts at Muscogee, Indian Territory, today: "The Attorney General expresses t lie opinion that it is the duty of the Department, not of the Indians, to remove intruders from the Choctaw and Chickasaw lands if, that all persons other than Choctaws and Chickasaws by birth or adoption, comprised within some one of the excepted classes described in Article 7 of the treaty of 1855, and Article 43 of 1,8GG are intruders, and tk.it those excepted are Government employes, their families and servants; employes of Internal Improvement Companies, travelers, sojourners, holders of permits from the Choctaw and Chickasaw authorities and white persons who are employed under the laws of said Indians as teachers, mechanics and skilled agriculturists. All others are intruders. That the permit laws are valid and the right to remain expires with the termination of the permit. Promptly notify interested parties and advise them that measures will be speedily taken to execute the claims as construed by the Attorney General. You will be further fully instructed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at an early date. Suspend removals until such instructions are received." A Terrific Storm In Washington. Washington, June 27. A fearful storm, of thunder, lightning and wind, accompanied by hail, occurred here to-night. Some houses were blown down, nanv unroofed, trees torn up, and sewers flooded and burst. The roof of the Armory Medical Museum building, formerly Ford's Theater, in which Lincoln was killed, was torn in two and the two halves blown in different directions, and unroofed the Masonic Temple. The iron railing and ornaments wTere blown trom the Pension Office building, and damage done in all sections of the city. Ford's Opera House, City Hall building and a large number of residences were unroofed. Shade trees were prostrated and considerable damage done the fire alarm and other telegraph wires. Many cellars in the southern portion of tbe city were Hooded. The extent of the damage done to property in this city and Georgetown is variously estimated from $75,000 to $100,000. Considerable anxiety is felt for the safety of several excursion boats which left well tilled with passengers for different points down the river during the day and evening. It is feared the storm in, its passage southward, met them returning to Washington.

DEATH'S DOOR.

THE MOllELOS WRECK. Two Hundred and Seven Persons Perish In the Accident on the Morelog Railroad in Mexico Full Paiticulars. Chicago, June 27, City of Mexico, June 25. A most terrible accident occurred late Friday night on tne -Morelos Railway in Mexico, whereby over 200 people were burned and crushed to death. The scene of the catastrophe was the River San Antonia, near the village of Mailpois. For some time past this section of the country has been swept by fierce storms, swelling the creeks into torrents and laying Waste many fertile fields. The bridge spanning the river at the point mentioned, although known to be unsafe, was still in use when the fatal train bearing a battalion of soldiers attempted its passage. Tne result was a crash as the undermined supports gave way and the engine and cars were hurled headlong down the chasm. Scarcely had the magnitude of the tragedy become apparent when a new horror was added. In a freight car comprising a portion of the train was a consignment of alcohol. This took fire and a subsequent explosion contributed much to the loss of life. The few who escaped uninjured at once applied themselves to the rescue of their less fortunAe comrades, but it was some hours before the extent of the tragedy grew apparent. It is now known," however, that thirteen officers and 192 privates were either killed outright by the fall or roasted to death, while fifty others sustained hurts of a more or less serious character. The train was entirely consumed, When information of the sad event readied tins city the excitement was unbounded, and crowds thronged all the news centers anxiously awaiting particulars Never in the history of the Republic has so frightful a casualty been chronicled, and its occurrence, it is feared, may still further prejudice the popular mind against railroad enterprises. However, "Los Unngos, as the natives term all "outside barbarians," can come in for no share of the blame in this connection. The Morelos Road is a nar row gauge line built by a Government sub vention, and is entirely the workof Mexican engineers. It was first opened to the public on the 18th instant. In addition to the loss of life already presented, it appears that the engineer and fireman of the ill-omened train were scalded to death. ONLY SIXTY S WED. City of Mexico, June 27. A horrible catastrophe happened on the Morelos Rail way Thursday night 11 o'clock. The l'rovisiona wooden bridge fell down, while a . 1 , i ' train, eirawn oy two engines, was passing over it, and the cars and engines tumbled down the precipice.' The fires of the en eines caused a general conflagration of 100 barrels of brandy. The dead number is 197 soldiers and seventeen officers, not includ ing railroad officers, or the women and children of the soldiers. Forty were more or less wounded. Only about sixty were saved. The Secretary of Public Works and military physicians departed Saturday for the scene of the di3aster. SLOWLY BURNED. Another account of the calamity says the list of seventeen officers and 197 privates killed does not include the railroad officials and -employes, or women and children of soldiers. Only sixty persons in all were saved alive, and of those forty are more or less injured, for a moment after the plunge of cars from the bridge all was darkness, Suddenly 100 barrels of brandy, loaded on two of the vans, caught fire and the burn ing tluid inundated the mass of passengers struggling in the ruins. The only persons not disabled or hoplessly wedpred in the timbers escaped. The dead and living were wrapt in a sheet of flame, and slowly burned before the eyes of the survivors, who were unable to save them. Further Ietalla of the Terrible Accident on the Morelos Railway. City of Mexico, June 29. The reports have been meager regarding the Morelos accident, as the telegraph was destroyed by the managers for the purpose of suppressing the details. The official announcement o the killed was 192 soldiers and thirteen officers, of the wounded tw,enty-eight Later reports are expected to somewhat increase the number. Heavy rains fell Thursday with hail Thursday night. By order of the War Secretary the Third Battalion o soldiers took tne train from Cuantla to come to the City of Mexico. The road had been inaugurated a week before by Presi dent (Jonzales, and the ihird liattalion was one of the regiments taking part in the in auguration. The train passed Malpois, and two miles beyond where a bridge was washed away, the train at ful speed plunged into the chasm. ! The engineer and fireman were killed .instantly, A large cargo of whisky anil alcohol which was aboard caught fire. The car containing the thirteen olhcers fell beneath the load of blazing spirits and was burned wilh its contents. The cars containing soldiers were partly burned. A heavy Hood was rushing through the chasm and many were drowned and others burned beyond recognition. The night was dark ami misty, and no help could be obtained. The news was one day in reaching the City of Mexico, fifty miles off. President Gonzales has ordered a commission to investigate the matter immediately, though nothing can come of investigation. The Government is somewhat interested in the road. Great sorrow is prevalent in the city. A concession for the Morelos Road was given Del fen Sanchez, a Mexican constructor, from Mexico to Cuantla, with a subsidy of $8,000 per kilometre The line is a narrow gauge built entirely with this one subvention and had no other financial backing. Itwas built by Mexican engineersand was a first attempt at railroading. The road was cheaply ana hurriedly built, and an accident was prophesied by competent engineers. Public opinion blames Manager Sanchez, who has left the city. The train conductor's defense is that there were no trackmen to warn him of danger. It was the inteuiion of the promoters to extend the line to the Pacific at Zely, by means of a Government subsidy. The Lünes, the only citv paper without Government subsidy, attacks the Government and the Administration. It says some one is to blame, assails Porlirio Diaz and calls Sanchez to account. The Diario, official Government organ, considers the accident beyond human foresight. The road cost theGovernmentso far $310,000 in subsidies and sixty miles have been built. Pachcco to-day becomes Ministerof Tublio sVoiks, vice Diaz, and Fernandez assumes Pacheco's position as Governor of the District. The changes are significant. Pacheco and Fernandez are -eorted to be interested in the Morelos Road, and will oversee the investigation. It is alleged the Government gave the manager of the Morelos Road $80,000 to reach Cuantla before July. It appears that the road was condemned by the Public Inspector the day of its inauguration. There is general indignation, and the papers demand that the blame be fixed. A dispatch received to-day reports the Governor of Guearero is missing. It is ne t known if he was on the train. Over 100 bodies have been recovered in a charred and mutilated condition. The wounded are in the Hospitals at San Diego and Cuantla. The Son of Major O-neral Rousseau Ex pires in n Maine Poor House. On Sunday morning, June 6, the engineer of a train on the Maine Central Railroad, as he was approaching Topsham, saw what he took to be a sleeper lying near the track some distance ahead. As he drew near he discovered that the object was a man lying near the rails. He applied the brakes, and the train passed the man at a rate of speed not faster than an ordinary walk. The train was stopped, and the engineer, running to the depot, reported that a drunken man was lying near tne track. A hand-car was sent out and the man was taken to the station, where he gave his name as Richard Rousseau. He was a tramp, and was severely in-

jured, apparently by being struck by an engine. He was taken to the County Poor House, where he soon after died. He declared that he wasasoirof the Union Major General, Rousseau, and said that he had formerly been an inmate of "Sailors'

Snug Harbor, Staten Island. A letter to the Board of Selectmen of Topi-ham from Thomas Melville, Governor of bailors' Snug tiarDor, continued his story. Rousseau left the institution September 10, 180, without permission, and has not been beard of since. Ie belonged to Louisville. K v.. where his his widowed mother still resides. Whether tie was drunk or not when he lay down bv the track it seems difficult to determine. At the Coroner's inquest Murrv. the nisht watchman of the depot, said that he saw urn pass through at 4 m the morning and take to the track, but that he saw nothing io ndicate that he was drunk, but other wit nesses testified that when he started on his ast tramp he was so drunk that he did not know what he was doinsr. In the Poor House he told Dr. Gould that the engine struck him, and to Dr. Palmer he said that he did not know whether it struck him or not. He was treated with every kindness after reaching the Poor House, and everything was done to save the life of the son of General Rousseau, but without avail. The verdict of the Coroner's Jury was that he came to his death from causes unknown to the Jurors. Half Holidays for YYorkiuguien. New York, June 2(5. At nearly all the Trade Union meetings yosterday it was stated that the demands of the members have been granted bv the tmplovcrs. Since June the workingmen have demanded concessions of time in more- instances than au increase of wages. TIip idea that workingmen should have half a holiday on Saturday is now being promptly pushed to a practical solution here. The men who are managing the movement are sanguine of success, and even say that if Xew York manufacturers will not concede this demand, mechanics who are anxious for the success of a Satur day half holiday will follow the movement to other places. Those employers who refuse to give their men a iiall-holidav claim the concession would often place their business in jeopard v. one large manufacturer saiu to a tribune reporter, recently, that a large contract had l i t i . oeen lost uy mm because his men were taking a half-holiday on Saturday. This prevented him from completing the work as soon as a rival firm whose men were work ing sixty hours per week. Other firms engaged in business sav where men stop work at 12 o'clock on Saturday the expense of runi,ing the shop is nearly the same as if a lull day was used. Hall -holiday men say, in answer to this, that in shoos where the concession has been granted, the employers are itiiiy satisned with tbe amount of work done, and believe it is even greater than would be accomplished by working the en tire week. According to the vital statistics of the machinists of Great Britain the average length of life has been increased nearly ten years since tlie general adoption of the half-holiday system. The Sultan's Murder. Constantinople, June 27. The trial of persons charged with the murder of exSultan Abdul Aziz commenced to-day with a public examinuiim of the prisoners. Xeuir Pasha admitted having ordered Abdul Aziz to be put to death -by command of the Commission composed of Midhat.Ruchdi&nd Mahmond Pashas. Midhat Paha in a long, speech denied the existence of any such Commission, and maintained that Abdul Aziz committed suicide. He expressed regret. He had taken refuse at t lie French Consulate in Smyrna. The witnesses were then examined to prove Abdul Aziz was murdered. The trial adjourned. The Public Prosecutes will demand that the penalty ef death be pronounced against the actual assassins, and that Midhat Rue hdi and Mahmoud Pashas be condemned to fifteen years' hard labor. The as;sa?sins confe-ssed that the assassination was ordered by Nouri Pasha. The replies of Ruehdi Pasha in the examination at Smyrna are systematic denials of the allegations, but are shown, even in the speech of Midhat Pasha, to be self contradictory. Midhat Pasha, in his address, rebutted twentyseven points of the indictment, and declared he would never have degraded the revelation which he had glorified and which had been accom plishcel without bloodshed. Mahmoud Pasha energetically denied participation in the crime. The session to-day lasted six hours. Members of the diplomatic body and a large number of spectators attended the trial. Wholesale Shooting at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, June 27. In the case of .George Hillier, who shot and killed Walter Fink in the street last night, while the latter was talking to Maggie Savage, the fact has been developed to-day that Maggie is the wife of Hillier, who had forbidden her to see Fink. About an hour after the Fink tragedy another husband shot his wife and her paramour. James Gourley, who has been living apart from his wife for some time, entered her house througn a winelow, about 11 o'clock last night, and found her in her room with Daniel Dougherty. Without saying a word he began shouting at both. Dougherty was shot twice in the shoulder, but not mortally wounded. Mrs. Gourley received a bullet in her left breast which the doctors have not yet been able to extract. Gourley was arrested. Assassinated. Little Rock, Ark., June 27. Information has just reacheel this city of the assassination of James Anderson, in Clark Towrnship, Pike County. Anderson was plowing in a field, and failing to return to his house to dinner, search was made, and horrified relatives discovered the dead body in the field perforated with buckshot. Near by was a fdind constructed, behind which the assassin stood and fired the fatal shot. C rcunistances point strongly to Richard Johnson, an unmarried man. and a neighbor of the victim, as being the principal, and James Johnson.ltobert Estirs and son as accessories to the killing. All the parties are now in custody awaiting examination. The motive for the bloody eleed is said to be to gratify revenge engendered bet ween the parlies by Anderson homesteading some land wanted by the supposed murderers. - - - - -i Her Head Was Level. It was announced in the leading journals of Paris a few months ago that the only daughter and heiress of a Lowell (Mass.) millionaire was soon to marry one of the Rourbons, a cousin of Don Carlos, of Spain. Rut the marriage never occurred, because the Yankee girl wouldn't invest. The Prince called every day last winter at the hotel where the young woman resided. In the words of the Paris corresondcnt of the San Francisco Chronicle: "Fancy the noble scion of the very illustrious and thrice puissant House of Hourbons going on his knees to $2,oue,0e0 worth of sarsaparilla! Rut I may have overdrawn the picture. It is not certain that the noble Prince actually went upon his marrow bones in propria persona. He did that by proxy. Though he paid court assiduously and daily in person, the Prince sent a formal demand, or, to speak exactly, several demands by his chamberlain. Fur, though a Prince may have no cah, as long as he can borrow monev lie keeps up a petty court, and of course must have his chamberlain. On one occasion, when his deputy came to ask the hand of Miss r- in marriage, or rather to inform that young lady that his Highness the Prince A de Rourbon proposed to confer upon her, a plain, untitled American, the honor of his name and high sounding title, Miss quite peremptorily refused the honor. Whereupon the cjiamberlain exclaimed: "Do you say you refuse him! His Highness the Prince is not a personage who can be refused. Oh, no! Tis impossible. Put it in some other form, I beg of you. Say you are unable to accept of the honor ofFered you. Anything but a refusal! The Prince is not an ordinary man to be rejected in this manner!' Notwithstanding the fervid eloquence ot the charaiierlain, the 'no' of the Yankee girl was positive. 'Tell your master,' she said to the deputy, 'that I don't want titles half as badly as he wants cash.' " Colonel O'Bergon, commissioned to investigate the cause of the Morfes Railway accident, declares the actual and sole cause of the disaster was the very bad construction of the bridge.

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