Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 7, Number 51, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 18 March 1886 — Page 1

THE yAPPAHEE NEWS. vnuans smt tsumday, WILL H. HOLDEMAN, --! -* 7 I • ■ HAPPANEB, INDIANA. i s3 . . ! ! ' 111 -' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION l tec copy OM year. •••••••

If ta piouaaut to know that almond trues arc blooming in California. It is reported that the Prince of Wales has in contemplation a visit to Canada and the United States. Perhaps, nowthat Edison is married, he will be able to invent a good reason for being out late nights. The second volume of •• General Grant’s Personal Memoirs” will not be delivered to subscribers until April. Several traveling dramatic and concert companies have gone to wreck and rain in Dakota this season—-and that, too, without the aid of either blizzard or the cyclone. Lieutenant - General Philip H. Sheridan was fifty-five years of age a few days ago. With the exception of General Miles he is the youngest general officer in the regular army. 11 " Twelve thousand heads of families have tiled upon homesteads in the Garden City land district, in Kansas, that it will have to be on their land within six weeks or it will be open for contest The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says that “during the past winter not less than one hundred children have been burned to death in Georgia. The majority of them were left alone in the house of their parents]” a —i Jr-wmsm Rev. Samuel Ramsey Wilson, aged sixty-eight, died at Irfraisville, Ky., a few days ago. He was one of the most conspicuous figures of the Presbyterian Church, being the leader of the split which cansed the establishment of the Southern branch of that church. ' .T I . Three million dollars is what each session of Congress costs the country. The Somerville Journal “wonders sometimes whether it would not be cheaper to divide the three millions equally among tho Congressmen on condition that they shall stay at homm” | - It would seem from the' statistics that the United States is gaining in sobriety. The internal revenue reports of 1885 show a diminution of nine million dollars in the revenue received for splits since 1884, and that the number of persons engaged in manufacturing spirits has steadily diminished every year since 1883. The man who gets hurt on Brooklyn bridge has a splendid chance for litigation. He can sue both Brooklyn and New York. Mr. Walsh was walking under the bridge #hen a plank fell and smashed the bones of bis foot. Mr. W alsh has sued both cities for ten thousand dollars damages and the judge holds that each city is equally responsible. . ...[ Society -has started upon its fortyday rest, and fathers and mothers, BBfs the Chicago Inter Ocean, can take occasion to be introduced and get acquainted with their sons and daughters. There are plenty of parents in Chicago who know a good deal more of the President of the United States or the Queen of England than they do of their own boys and girls. The United. Stales Supreme Court has decided, by a vote of five to four, that the property of corporations can not be exempted from State taxation by legislative authority, the majority of the court taking the ground that a previously existingjLegialature can ndt bind in this regard the action of sue-; ceeding legislative bodies. This is the promulgation of an important principle. [ - I■■ ■ The decision declaring New Jersey's special tax on railroads unconstitutional has caused much excitement in that State. About two million dollars have ifeen collected under this law, and the State finds itself with the money spent and obligated to refund the amount The State Treasurer refuses to issue further warrants, and the members of the Legislature, the State Judiciary and other officials are in a “state of mind” over the suspension of their salaries. The Cincinnati Price Current publishes the result of its special investigations in regard to the area and present condition of the winter wheat in the Mississippi Valley. The general results for acreage, as compared with a year ago, are: Ohio, Indiana. Michigan and Kentucky, 100; Kansas, 95; Illinois and Missouri, 90—total about 96) per cent. The inference drawn from the reports of condition is: Tennessee and , Michigan, 95; Missouri and Indiana, 94; Ohio and Kentucky, 93; Kansas, 92, and Illinois. 91. The glorious climate of California and the recuperative power of her citixens make a combination hard to beat. Both the climate and the power are responsible for the fact that little fonr-year-old Dan Murphy, who was shot through the lungs on New Year’s Day, is now playing around the street as well as ever. The shooting was accidental, and the ball, which was from a forty-two-caiiber revolver, struck the boy in the breast, a little above the heart, and came out under the left shoulder blade. An extraordinary case of boycotting is reported from a town near Greenborongb, Ga., where a certain cigar dealer has a beautiful and winsome daughter. A young man of the place paid b£r attentions and won her affections, bat the old man objected, and forbade theyonng man his boose. But, nothing dismayed, the yonng man organized a club of sympathizers, and they have boycotted the old'inan's business—-re-fusing to buy cigars of him unless the barricade be raised. At last accounts the old mao was growing weak-kneed.

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VOL. VII.

THE NEWS. Compiled from Late Dispatches. XLIXth CONGRESS. WEDNEsn at, March 10.— In the Senate the debate in regard to the suspension of officials by the President was continued. Senator Pngh, of Alabama, defending the Administration. The Urgent-Peflciency bill was passed, With an amendment appropriating 480,000 to defray the expenses of General Chant’s funeral. In the House a bill was reported by Mr. Herbert to increase the naval establishment. The Seney bill to repeal the Civil- Service Reform law was reported adversely by Mr. Pulitzer. Mr. Stone was given permission to file a minority report The Indian Appropriation bill was discussed. Thursday, March 11.—The debate in the Benate on the right of the Senate to papers on file in the departments was continued by Senator Wilson, of lowa. Senator Hawley reported adversely the Vance bill for repeal of the Civil-Service law. Senator Jones (Nev.) spoke in'favor of an unlimited coinage of silver. The bill for the forfeiture of part of the lands granted to the State of lowa to aid in the construction Os railroads was debated. In the House Mr. Long presented a petition from Methodist ministers of Boston denouncing the grievous outrages perpetrated upon the Chinese in Wyoming and Washington Territories and in the States of Oregon and California. The Indian Appropriation bill was further conside.’ed. Friday, March 13—The debate in the Senate on the right of the Senate to have papers and information relating to suspensions from office was resumed, Mr. Henna (W. Va.) speaking in defense of the Administration. A bill was passed to forfeit the Sioux City ft Pacific railroad land grant in lowa, except that portion claimed by the Milwaukee ft St. Paul road. In the House a resolution was offered by Mr. Weaver that the rules be so amended that it shall require at least two members to object to the consideration of a bill, “it now being in the power of an idiot, insane man or crank to prevent the consideration of any measure.’’ Objected to as disrespectful. A bill granting a pension of 43.000 per annum to the widow of General Hancock was favorably reported. At the evening session forty-five pension bills were passed. FROM WASHINGTON. The President sent his first veto message to Congress on the 10th. The act vetoed was one restoring Lieutenant Callis Me Blair to the retired list of the army. Commodore Trcxton being sixty-two years of age on the 11th was retired under the compulsory law. President Cleveland on the 11th sent a message to Congress vetoing the bill for the relief of settlers on the Des Moines river lands in lowa. It was decided on the 11th by the House Committee on Post-offices and Post Roads to report against any change in the rate of postage on packages of merchandise. IN the United States there were 311 business failures reported during the seven days ended on the 12th, ifeainst 227 in the preceding seven days. The Secretary of the Interior on the 13th submitted to Congress a list of about 4,500 Indian depredation claims. The total number of claims call for an amount approximating 415,000,00a Information about the PanElectric telephone stock to offers of the Government was being gathered in Washington on the 12th by a special committee of the House of Representatives. Second Comptroller Maynard has decided that the heirs of a soldier who, if living, would be entitled to a bounty under the act of April 23,1872, are entitled to the bounty whether the soldier died before the passage of the act or not. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 13th aggregated $850,614 300. against (903,936.511 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1885, the increase amounts to 19.8 per cent. The President and Cabinet, the Diplomatic corps and the Supreme Court attended the obsequies of Senator Miller, held in the capltol at Washington on the 13th. A special train bearing the remains, the stricken family and the Congressional committee left for California at seven o'clock in the evening. THE EAST. Near Lebanon, Pa., an aged inmate of the almshouse threw paris green into a huge kettle of coffee ou the 11th, by which one hundred persons were poisoned, ten or more of them fatally. Tub Dime Savings Bank of New Brunswick was ordered by the Secretary of State of New Jersey on the 11th to close itsdoors. There were-Tumors that Arthur O. Ogilby, the treasurer, was a defaulter for 480,000. Anew oil well said to be good one thousand barrels daily, was struck on the Uth near Washington, Pa., caasing great excitement in the county. Frans Murgatrotd, of Philadelphia, was taken with a violent fit of sneezing while in bed on the Uth, and died before a physician arrived. Five victims of the Uniondale (Pa.) mine explosions had up to the Uth died, and three otherswere still in danger. A middle-aged unknown man walked into Niagara nver on the 13th, about a quarter of a mile above the Horseshoe fails, and was swept away. In the New York billiard matah between Schaefer and Yignaux the former made a run on the 12th of 230 points, beating all precious records. Joseph Galce’s residence, near Pittston, Pa., was destroyed by fire on the 12th, and his two children, aged four and six years, perished in the flames. A process is reported to have been discovered at Pittsburgh which renders explosions of natural gas impossible while all the heating qualities are retained. By colliding with a schooner the steamer Oregon, with eight hundred passengers on board, was wrecked off Fire Island, twentyfive miles from New York, on the 14th, and sank a few hours thereafter. All on board were saved. The vessel was valued at 41,250,000. The billiard match between Jacob Schaefer, of Chicago, and Maurice Vignaux, of Paris, for the world's championship, terminated in New York on the 13th in a victory for Schaefer, he scoring 3,000 points to bis opponent’s 1,858. Zelno P. Gordon, eighty-two years of age, the oldest telegrapher in the United States, died at Castle, N. Y., on the 13th. Six thousand persons were on the 13th ont of employment owing to the strike at the knitting mills in Cohoes, N. Y. Upon investigation it was shown on the 13th that the inmates of the Soldiers Orphans’ Home at Erie, Pa., had been shamefully treated. WEST AND SOUTH. Chinese laborers in Los -Angeles, Cal., were on the Uth being discharged in large numbers by their employers. A snow-storm of great severity prevailed in Colorado on the Uth, and all railway travel was greatly delayed. An explosion occurred on the steamer Ike Bonham on the Uth, eleven miles below Vicksburg, Miss., in which a number of persons were killed and several dangerously wounded.

NAPPANEE, ELKHART COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1886.

By submitting certain election returns on the 12th to the Ohio House, County Clerk Dalton, of Cincinnati, was purged of his contempt. At San Francisco an anti-Chinese convention on the 12th adopted resolutions in favor of boycotting all firms employing Chinese labor. Ex-Senator Sargent, who opposed the boycotting resolution, withdrew from the convention. , The tank of a gasoline stove at Logansport, Ind., exploded on the 12th, its flaming fluid saturating the clothing of Sarah Has* sett and Joseph Heffner, and they were fatally burned. 6s the 12th Patrick Ford and John Murphy, two New Orleans politicians convicted of the murder of Captain A. H. Murphy, were hanged In that city. They sought to escape the gallows by taking poison, but were partially revived and executed at the hour appointed. Louis O’Neil was hanged at Portland, Ore., for the murder of Lewis McDaniel. No notable change occurred on the 12th in the relations between striking Knights of Labor and railroad managers in the Southwest. The great strike was still on, with no signs of yielding on either side. An incendiary fire on the 13th destroyed the house of refuge near Toledo, 0., a magnificent institution, which cost 440,000. A Rock Islaxd ft Pacific express train, which started westward from Joliet about one o’clock on the morning of the 13th, fell into the hands of masked robbers. Between Joliet and Morris a veteran express messenger named Kellogg Nichols, of Chicago, was shot and pounded, to death, and his safe was robbed of about 425,000 in money and jewelry. A reward of 410,000 has been offered for the capture of the murderers. Missouri Pacific railroad officials on the 13th made several unsuccessful attempts to run freight trains out of St. Louis, and late in the afternoon they applied to the State Circuit Court for injunctions to restrain leading strikers from entering on the property of the road. At Sedalia, Mo., ten prominent Knights of Labor were arrested on State warrants for disabling an engine. At Chicago on the 14th immense audiences gathered to hear the evangelists, Messrs. Jones and Small, and thousands were unable to gain admittance. On the 13th a six-day bicycle race closed at Minneapolis, Minn., Schock, of Chicago, making 1,009 miles, giving him the world's chainpionship, the previous best score being 1,007 mile’s. In a linseed-oil mill at Toledo, 0., an explosion occurred on the 14th which threw many citizens from their beds and caused a 4100,000 fire. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. * In a fire in a flax-drying house at Dels, in Germany, thirty-five persons, including several women, were burned to death on the 10th. - A few days ago a collision between railroad trains near Monte Carlo resulted in the loss of many lives, some of them being English visitors. Along the western coast of Ireland great distress prevailed on the 10th among people who not only had hardly any thing to eat save moss and sea-grass, but were without fire, and often without clothing aud shelter. The people at Esquimaux Point, Pentecost and Blanc Sabine, in Canada, were in a starving condition on the 10th. A block of the principal stores in Valparaiso, Chili, was destroyed by an incendiary fire on the 10th, causing a loss of 41,000,000. The Austrian railways were forced by the extreme cold weather on the Uth to suspend operations. Several persons were frozen to death in the streets of Vienna. The hospitals of Paris were overcrowded with sufferers from frost-bites. Fire on the 12th consumed the customhouse at Catalinas, Brazil, with its contents, causing a loss of 45,000,000. A KJOT was provoked on the 12th at Toronto, Ont., by an attempt being made to run street cars. Both mounted and foot police charged the mob, who had wrecked a car, and several persons were injured. A large quantity of cotton was burned on the 12th in the railway station at Oldham, Eng.; loss, 4350,00a Thirtt Soudanese rebels were killed by British soldiers in a skirmish on the Uth at Suakim. ‘'Reports from London on the 14th state that as a result of a recent Cabinet meeting the hopes for the ultimate triumph of home rule in Ireland were increasing. Dispatches of the Uth from Saltillo and Monterey, in Mexico, report a fall of snow, a most surprising occurrence at this season of the year. LATER. Jay Gould, in an interview on the 15th in Florida, stated that the labor outbreak in the Southwest originated oh a road beyond his control, and in the hands of the Federal courts. He thought that the Knights were beginning to see that they were making war on the general public. There was no material change in the situation. Ex-President Arthur, who has been confined tohis bed in New York for nearly a month with a eovere cold, was rapidly Improving on the 15th. It was announced on the 15th that the National House Committee on Education would report adversely the Blair Educational bill recently passed by the Senate.. Michael Hahn, aged fifty-six years, representing the Second district of Louisiana in Congress, died suddenly in Washington on the 15th, of hemorrhage of tho lungs. He aided sh the reconstruction of his State, aud was its first Governor after the war. Tue mining companies in the Menominee (Mich.) iron range on the 15th voluntarily advanced the wages of employes. Amasa Sprague was on the 15th nominated by the Democrats for Governor of Rhode Island. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended on tho 13th was 411,780. The issue during the corresponding period last year was 318.997. Tue city of Granada, Spain, and Wiesbaden, the German watering-place, on the 15th experienced brief but severe earthquake shocks. Rev. Dr. J. G. Butler, of the Lutheran Memorial Church in Washington, was on the 15th appointed chaplain of the United States Senate. . The Pacific roads were on the loth selling first-class limited tickets from Chicago to San Francisco or Los Angeles for 434.50, with a rebate of 55 at the western terminus. Sevehai. villages in Silesia were completely buried by recent snow-falls. At one town five children were frozen to death while on their w ay to school. Tue visible supply of wheat and corn in the United Stated and Canada on the 15th was, respectively, 50,860,+21 and 14,616,867 bushels. In tho United States Senate on the 15th the bill increasing the pensions of widows and relatives of deceased soldiers from eight dollars to twelve dollars a month was discussed. Mr. Ingalls presented a joint resolution, proposing -a constitutional amendment providing shat the 30th of April shall be the day for the beginning of the successive administrations of the Government hereafter instead of the 4th of March. The death of Congressman Hahn was announced, and the Senate adjourned as a mark of respect to his memory, in the House no business was transacted, out of respect to the memory of the late Representative Hahn, of Louisiana.

THE LAW VINDICATED. Pat Ford and John Murphy Hanged at New Orleans—The Doomed Men Take Poison and Are Executed In an Unconscious Condition—History of One of the Most Remarkable Criminal Cases la the ■ Annals of the Country. I New Orleans, March 13.—Pat Ford and John Murphy, under sentence of death for the murder of A. 11. Murphy, were discovered unconscious in their cell Friday morning, and physicians being summoned they declared the condemueil men had been poisoned with powdered belladonna. All efforts to arouse them from the fatal stupor proved futile, and at 12:40 o’clock they were borne to the scaffold, Bented on the trap, and carefully supported until the nooses were adjusted, when the trap was sprung, and the necks of both were broken by the fall. Ths sheriff had appealed to the Governor, informing him of the condition of affairs, but the latter ordered the execution of the men. In Ford’s pocket was found a letter addressed to the Sisters of Mercy and all the writer’s religious friends, stating that he took the poison in order to spare his children the reproach ol being the offspring of a hangod felon. In the same letter he left his curses upon a number of persons „who had been active in opposing the commutation of his sentence to imprisonment for life. The crime for which Ford and Murphy were haugctl is without a parallel in the history of Now Orleans. The high position of the accused and thbse associated w.th theta: the boldness and audacity of the crime Itself, and the social, political aud financial Influences brought to Dear to retard and divert Justice, made the trial a duel between the State oa one hand and tho defendants on the other. The eentnil figure in the tragedy was Judge Thomas I. Ford, iato recorder of the city of New Orleans, and now serving out a twenty-years’ sentence in the penitentiary for the purt he played in the murder. He was a shrewd politician and was recognized as the "boss" of the Fourth ward, and his influence felt throughout the entire city. Despite his record as a•• boss," ho managed to get the good will of tho press and Jrnblic alike und was at ono time oudly proclaimed as a model officioL There was ono thorn in his flesh, however, that annoyed him beyond endurance. This was Captain A. H. Murphy, or “Cap" Murphy as no was more popularly known, also a polit cian, holding the positiou of superintendent of the public workhouse. He wasa eousiu of ex Congressman E. John Ellis, came of a good family and was a man of undaunted courage and conviction. Thequarrel between these men dates back four years. Murphy was brought before Ford, charged with some violation of the law and Ford denounced him as a hoodlum city official. Murphy responded with a challenge which the judge declined. Murphy then posted him throughout the city as a coward, liar and thief, and proclaimed it so often that the judge finally had him indicted for criminal (ibeL Murphy claimed up to the day of his death that tie had in his possession ample evidence to prove that Ford was a th.ef and embezzler. He never had an opportunity to produce this, for on the very day of his trial on the criminal libel charge, he was murdered in cold blood. The murder was the boldest on record; done in broad day, in a populous section of the city, in the very face ot hundreds of lawabiding citizens, and the murderers walked away unknowu. the.r smoking pistols Btill in hand. On the morning of the murder, December 1, 1884, Captain Murphy was directing the labor of some fifty or sixty men at work cleaning the Claiborne canal. The “captain" was seated on the doorstep of a house at the corner of Claiborne and St. Ann streets with no thought of danger, when two men stepped around the corner, aud, without a word of warning, opened fire on him. Murphy ran into the middle of the street, drew his revolver and returned the fire. Each of his assa lants wore doubly armed, aud, not being able to stand the fire from four revolvers. Captain Murphy turned and tied up tho street and around the corner, followed by his assailants. At the corner be encountered two more men who had been stationed there to intercept him, and thev opened fire also. Murphy then continued down Claiborne street, his pursuers increasing in numbers at every stride. When he turned intoDuraain street no less than half a dozen men were in hot chase, all tiring as they ran, and the discharge of their firearms created consternation and wild alarm. On Dumain street he was finally brought to the ground. Two of his assailants then walked up, turned tho body over and fired bullet after bullet into it until life was ext.net, and the body a horrible s.ght to behold. A large crowd of excited citizens had by this time congregated, but the small army of murderers turned from their victim and disappeared as mysteriously as they had come. The deepest nular excitement was aroused and hitensiby the fact that the murderers were apparently unknown and uever would he brought to justice. Indignation knew no bounds, however, when the law pounced upon Judge Ford, his brother. Pat Ford, bis cousin. Officer John Murphy and Officers Buckley, Canfield, Favetto and Baoer, five officers of Judge Ford’s court, as the murderers. It required all tho intlueuceof sober public opinion to prevail agaiust the prisoners even after they were arrested, so strung was their political influence. Tho district attornev was nominated by Judgo Ford, and was his dearest political friend. With plenty of mosey for the defense. unlimited social and political backing, boldness and audacity, it was a very hard matter to secure a conviction. The first trial was a complete farce from beginning to end. There were open bribery and defiant perjury. Five of Ford's witnesses were indicted for perjury and a deputy sheriff and two ot the jurors for bribery. This hod a very salutary effect. Fifteen arrests bad now grown out of the crime. The evidence clearly demonstrated the guilt of the accused, but it seemed impossible to convict them. The district attorney, though Judge Ford's dearest friend, never for a moment wavered in his duty, and, backed by public opinion, finally triumphed in his prosecution. THo second trial was begun. aud resulted in a verdict of guilty being found. Pat Ford and John Murphy were sentenced to be hanged, and Judge Ford, his clerk. Caul fled and Officer Buckley were each sent to the penitentiary at bard labor for a term of twenty years. The Fords now took the fight beTore the Board of Pardons and the Governor. Every means was resorted to, but in raiu. A committee of ono hundred whose duty it is to see the laws enforced, appeared in opposition to the Fords before the Board of Pardons, and made such a logical and eloquent appeal against a pardon that their fate was settled. This was on November 9, 1885, and the men were to be hanged on the 13th. WheD the news reached the prisoners they were dumfounded. “For God’s sake give me Vine to pray for my sins,” screamed Pat Ford in terror, when Informed of bis fate and told to prepare for death. His agony was so intense that a respite of thirty days was grant ed by tho Governor. A now feature of the case was made public as soon as tha respite had been granted. Judge Ford then came forward, and, although during the first tnal he proved an alibi, he now publicly stated that he was alone guilty of the murder of Captain Mur phy, and that his brother, Pat Ford, was innocent. It seemed impossible to believe this story at first, but at ast it was established as fact, but without the result anticipated. The popular verdict was “It comes too late; and as Pat Ford was among the party of assassins, ho was equally guilty or murder.” and so tho case rested. Pat Ford’s constant prayer was not to bo hanged, and during the last rocments,of hir confinement his mental condition became sc pitiful his friends could not bear to visit him This is the story of the murder of Captuir. Murphy by a judge of a court of recorJ. aid ed by all the officers of his court, for wh efi two men have been hanged and three others are now serving out a twenty-years’ sentence at hard labor. Fortifying Halifax. Boston, March 13. —A special from Hali* fax to the Advertiser states that on nocount of the recent opening of the Canadian Pacific railroad and the early prospective establishment of England’s military route to India via Canada, the British Government will create an arsenal here anil make Halifax Britain’s greatest naval station in the new world. The most impregnable circle of fortifications now guarding the harbor will be supplemented by several large forts. The dock-yard, which occupies one-third of the water front of the city, is to be re-established on its old time basis, and y second British regiment has been ordered to the garrison. Riot at Toronto. Toronto, Can., March 13.—Owing to ■ renewal of obstructive tactics, all the street cars in the city were withdrawn between three and four o’clock yesterday afternoon. About 2:30 o’clock the police had hot work in clearing Yonge street of the crowds congregated there. They charged on the crowd repeatedly, using their batons most effectively. The crowd retaliated by throwing bricks, ■ticks and stones. The police succeeded after a half-hour’s hard work in dispersing the mob, who, however, congregated around the street-car stables. The police again appeared, and, after a severe struggle, dispersed the crowd. Then there was comparative quiet

DIED AT HIS POST. Masked Robbers Board an Express Train Near Joliet, 111., Kill the Messenger and Plunder the Safe of Its Contents, Valued at •30,000—'The Murdered Man's Desperate Fight In Defense of His Trust— A Heavy Reward Offered—No Arrest* Made. murder was committed at Morris at one o’clock Saturday morning on the Kansas City express, No. 5, which left Chicago at eleven o’clock Friday night. As the train was nearing Morris the baggageman, who was in file second baggage-ear, heard the door from the forward buggnge-car open and found hiinqelf covered with a revolver, and was ordered not to stir and informed that another revolver was covering him. He then saw a hand with a revolver pointing toward him from the top of the car. The robbers then went through the express safe. When the train stopped it was found that the express agent, Nichols, in the other car, had been murdered. His body showed that a desperate struggle had taken place. He had, indeed, sold his life dearly. Three bullet wounds were found, one passing from the right side of his neck through, coming out near the car on the left side. A second bullet struck him near the right collar-bone, and came out on the left side of the breast, while a third passed through his left arm. Ho had evidently defended himself, with his right arm by raising it to shield himself from the blows that wefe aimed at his head, for the right nand was cut and bruised, while the wrist was broken. The wound, however, that caused the messenger’s death was dealt with an. axe, which caused a cut five inches in length, extending from the ear to the top of the head. The sharp edge of the axe half penetrated deep into the head, laying the brain open and covering the hair with blood, In addition there were twenty-six cuts on the face und head, some ol which were delivered with the axe and some with the butt end of the revolvers. The men were evidently afraid to fire, except as a.last resort, lest the noise might be heard outside the car. The fight must have lasted fifteen minutes at least, the messenger defending himself as best he could against such odds. Ift the dead man’s right hand was clutched a tuft of hair, pulled from the head of his assailants. The hair is straight, about three inches in length and of a light sandy color. This was taken by the coroner and turned over to the detectives as a valuable and the only clue to the perpetrators of the outrage. Nichols leaves a wife, whose residence is in Chicago, ' The value of the money and jewelry stolen from the safe in the express car is reported to be 535,000. Nichols, the murdered agent-, 1b an old employe on the road, and had the respect and confidence of the company. Conductor F. L. Wagner, who had charge of the train on which the express agent, Kellogg Nichols, was murdered, arrived here at 12:30 o’clock Saturday, with N H. Watt, the baggage man, who was in charge ol the express business with Nichols. Conductor Wagner said: I left the coal chutes just below Joliet at 12:55 this morning 1 mid passed Miuooka at 1:15; lam positive of this time, as 1 looked at my watch us we whistled going by. We got into Morris at about 1:35. As the train caino to a stop 1 got out on the platform. About the same instant Mutt jumped out of the baggagecar as white os a sheet and gasped out: "My God, iny God, lost lu there. Tho sal e Is all gone and the papers are all over tho car.” 1 looked in with my lantern, and the safe was standing open. The way bills were all scattered around and the drafts and other papers, some of them torn up, were all nround ou the Uoor. 1 took my kqy aud went to the other car and called "Nick! Nick!” but there was no answer. As 1 swung my lantern into the car a horrible sight was seen. There was biood scattered around everywhere. The local way-bills 'Were all covered with blood, and the legs of the chair were bloody. In the forward (part of the car I found tho body of Nicholas. The face was covered with blood, and a great pool was underneath him. The body was still warm. The car showed that there had been a big fight from nearly one end to the other. On a hook hung a big poker, which was also covered with blood. The baggageman, N. H. Watt, who is about tweuty-four years of age, told the following story in response to various questions: I was s.tting in the car; the chnins were up ou the door which went hack to the train, but the door in the front part of the car was not locked, as the car ahead was the one In which was the messenger. He was checking up his runs. 1 sat on ( V a trunk, and just after they had whistled for Minooka 1 beard a sort of a scraping sound on tho floor, but not much- just as though someone had rubbed his foot on the floor. Before I could turn around a big gun was poked over my shoulder, and a man said: “You open your mouth or movp a muscle, and I'll blow your brains out.” 1 could only see the lower part of his face; it was covered with some cloth or paper. I sat looking toward the back part of the car toward the rear of the train, when I heard someone atthe safe, which was behind me, and could hear the rusting and tearing of papers. This webtfon for a while, and tho man who stood over mo said to me, “if yon move or stir hand or foot before the train stops at Morris that man up there will Wow the top of your head off.” 1 rolled my eyes up and there was a man's hand stuck through the ventilator with a gun in it. In about five minutes, as it seemed to me, the train slowed up for Morris, and I looked up. The hand was gone, and 1 Jumped out of the car. I heard no fioisc nor any shoot-ng. The first I heard was, as I said, the man speaking to me, and at the same time putting the gun over my shoulder. They must have gotten Into Nichols’ car first and got the key to the safe before they camo into mine. Chicago, March 15.—The United States Express Company, by its Chicago agent," states that the currency in the safe was about $21,500, besides a large quantity ol jewelry, value not known. What at present seems the most favored theory is that the act was committed by trainmen, in whole or in part. They mechanically hang up the poker which they had used ns a weapon. They went to the proper place to get the key to' the safe, not disturbing the bunch of keys which remalncd ia the pocket of* the deceased. His watch was not taken. Conductor Wagner says that four men left his train at Joliet after drinking and playing cords on the way down. Two ol them lie put off because he discovered that the pass which they gave him had been altered from 1885 to 1886. The pass was made out for “R. D. Martin and one.’ Three of tile men in question got on at tht Chicago depot and the fourth one at Blue Island. At Joliet one of the men asked the telegraph operator where he could find a cheap bonrding-house. He did not go as directed, however, when he disappeared. It is supposed the men got üboard the train at Joliet, and that they got up between the express cars at the coal chute. General superintendent Kimball, of the Rock Island road handed a reporter the following official announcement.' 410.0J0 reward. Several persons entered the express car on the passenger train movipg west on the Chicago. ltock Isiand Ac Pacific railway, between Joliet and Morris, between one and two o'clock a. m. of Saturday, the 13th cl March, and murdered the messenger ol the United States Express Company, and robbed its safe of a considerable amount of money. 'Tho Chicago. Itock Island A Pacific Railway Company will pav a reward of 85,910 for the arrest of anv one of the parties guilty, if but one shall be arrested, and 4U).(kJt) for the arrest of all—rewards to be paid when party or parties are arrested and finally convicted. A. Kimball. General Superintendent. Chicago. March 13.1888. Indiana’s Revenue. Indianapolis, Ind., March 16.—The State Treasurer has issued circular letters to county treasurers asking them to send in all the money in their possession coming to the State at once, instead of waiting until the May settlement, it being necessary to thus anticipate the revenues to meet current and coming expenses. The deputy treasurer says that the State revenues now exceed its usual expenses about $50,000 each year, and nqless the coming Legislature makes unusual appropriations the Btate should lie able to pay off its entire indebtedness, $1,685,000, from its savings from vtur to year without extra taxation.

LABOR'S WAR. Over Fifty Thousand Workmen lu Idleness Through the Various Strikes—Utter Failure of the Missouri Pacific Company in Its Attempts to Move Trains. New York, March 15. —Special telegrams to Bradstreet's from the more important business centers report the movement of general merchandise rather below than above previous totals. At S4. Louis and southwest thereof business is at a standstill, owing to ; the continued interruption of traffic over the Gould Southwestern railways and the Texas & Pacific line. The,number of strikes throughout the country has increased beyond all precedent, and the number of employes so die is reported as 51,000 east of the . Rocky mountains. In December, 1884, the total covering the same territory was about 18,000. Both the bituminous coal and the textile strikes outrank the Southwestern railway strike in point oi numbers. St. Louis, March 15.—1 tis Understood that Governor Marmaduke is attempting to open negotiations between the Missouri Pacific railway officials and the Executive Board of the Knights of Labor, but the resultß of his efforts are not known. It is believed, however, that after the Labor Commissioner has reported to him some definite arrangement will be affected to bring about a conference between the conflicting Knights and their former employers. Mr. Hoxie, general manager of the Missouri Pacific railway, emphatically denied yesterday that propositions of compromise of settlement, of the difficulties had been made by cither the company or the Knights of Labor. St. Louis, March 15.—The attempts of the Missouri Pacific road to start out trains Saturday morning ended in failure, the engineers and firemen deserting the trains as soon as requested by the strikers. The- first engine called out came steaming from the round-house, and had not gone far when the fireman, who was called off by the strikers, left his post, and the engineer brought his machine to a standstill, jHe wouldn't move without the assistance of the fireman, who would consent to do nothing unless it was to assist in getting the engine back into the round-house. The same engine j with another crew was stopped at another ' point, and again the engine went back to the round-house. The engineer said he I could not proceed because the strikers in- ! herposed an objection, and so the plan to move the freight was abandoned. No accommodation trains went out. No freight 1 is moving at any point, and every thing is I dead in the surrounding yards. The strikers are peaceful but determined, and , there is no prospect oi a speedy settlement. ) Similar scenes were enacted at Sedalia and other points on Saturday, the strikers toeing successful in every case in persuading engineers and firemen to abandon their engines. Not a IreigKt train was run out from any point on the road. I Late Saturday afternoon the Missouri , Pacific filed a petition for an injunction in i the State Circuit Court against J. J. Mc- ! Garry and other strikers, and Judge Horner granted a temporary injunction restraining such persons from going on the railroad’s property or interfering with the employes. The object of this move on the part of the railroad company is to prevent the strikers from making personal appeals to or threats against the engineers and firemen in charge of engines. : The engineers had a meeting yesterday, as did also the firemen, and they decided to live up to their agreement with the Missouri Pacific road as long ns the company performed its part of the contract, but will not run their engines if intimidated by the strikers. The company will endeavor to givo them protection, so that they will have no excuse for deserting their engines, as most of them did who started out with freight trains last week. The strikers at all stations on the road are to lie enjoined from entering the property of the company or interfering with the running of trains, but whether this will have the effect expected by the company remains to be seen. Thecompany claiiflsthat it has received several hundred applications for work, and that if the engineers nnd fireinen live up to their agreement the road can be operated without the assistance of the strikers. sea. G The Canard Steamer Oregon Sunk by a Collision with a Schooner off Fire Island —Her Crew and Passengers, Numbering Eight Hundred Persons, Saved—The Vessel and Cargo Go to the Bottom—The Fate of the Schooner Unknown. New York, March 15.—The famous Cunard Bteamer Oregon, with 800 souls on board, was struck by the threemasted schooner Fannie A. Gorham at3:4o Sunday morning, while proceeding under a full head of steam, twenty-five miles southeast of Watch Hill, near Center Moriches, L. I. Three holes were stove in the Oregon’s side, one almost twenty feet square and the others Bmalier in dimension. The vessels drifted apart, and in the darkness the people on board the i Oregoii heard the despairing crieß of the crew on the schooner as she settled and sank. It is supposed all on board the schooner were lost. The Oregon also began to fill and her engines soon ceased to work, for her third compartment was open to the water. As day dawned pilot-boat No. 11 from this city was sighted, and signals of distress were Immediately hoisted on the Oregon. The pilot-boat ran to her assistance, and the schooner Elsie Graham was also attracted to the scene. It was broad daylight when they got alongside, and the work of transferring the passengers was immediately begun. This was not completed until 11:30 o’clock, Captain Cottier, of the Oregon, being the last to leave his vessel. Not a life was lost nor a person inand some of the mail, of wlifth there were 800 bags, was saved and landed on the pilot boat. When this had been nearly all done the steamer Fulda ol the Bremen line hove in sight, joined the two rescuing vessels, and] took all the 800 people of the Oregon on board. The Cunnrd vessel was then drifting hopelessly about in the sea, with all her cargo and the baggage of the passengers and crew on board, when suddenly, at 1:30 yesterday afternoon, she went down head first with a great noise, and the Fulda then proceeded to this port. The passengers of both vessels will land this morning. Third Officer Taylor, of the Oregon, said to-night that immediately after the collision he attempted to save the crew of the ill-fated schooner, but vessel and men had disappeared. IThe Oregou was built for the Guibn line by J. Elder A Cos., at Glasgow ia 18.S1 She was built for speed, and her trip from Queenstown to New York finished on August 23, I+4, was made in 6 days and 10 hours, breaking the best record made up to that date. The Oregon was mad of iron and was 520 feet long, 54 beam, and 40 feet. 9 inches in depth, her gross measurement being a Pout 7.5 K tous. Herengines wqre capable of developing 13,000 horse power. She had four masts, five decks and a berthing capacity for nearly I.BUOI When Wißiam H. Guion withdrew from the Guion line in the spring of 1881, the Oregon was bought by the Cunord Company.] Favoring Chinese Claims. Washington, March 15.—The House Foreign—toffairs Committee on Friday talked ovgrthe recent correspondence from the Secretary of State relative to indemnifying the Chinese for losses at the riot at Rock Springs, Wy. T. The committee is inclined to take the same view of this question ns presented by Secretary Bayard, and a bill will probably be shortly agreed upon and reported making the necessary appropriations asked for by the Chinese Government. The amount of this indemnity is 5160,000. This action of the committee will doubtless lead to the filing Os other claims.

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AN ERA OF AGITATION. A Resume of Recent Strikes, lockouts and Roycotts—An Interview With <y Oould. Chicago, March IC.— lt has escaped the notice of none that within the last three or lour years there lias been a marked increase in the antagonisms of capital and labor; that is, in their attitude toward each other as evinced by the increase in the number and magnitude ol strikes, the introduction of boycotting, the formidable growth of the secret labor organization known as the Knights of Labor, the proscription practiced against the Chinese on the Pacific coasts, and in the reports of the sufferings of the strikers and their families. Discussion as to the origin of. the prevalent evils has already occupied a vast amount of the attention of the public, and, as a rule, with no satisfactory results. There are those who hold that the difficulty is due to the power and greed of capital; others find it in overproduction; others in immigration, which has largely increase the supply of labor, and hence a competition whose result has been the lowering of wages; still others find an explanation in the acts and policies of the great political parties, in the imperfect organization of society, in the distribution of land, and in other directions too numerous to specify, or, in many cases, too obscure or improbable to be worthy of mention. The extent to which the relations of labor and capital have been ruptured is enormous, if the area of civilization involved be taken into the estimate; it is enormous if limited simply to this country, which, of all countries in the world, is asserted to be one in which there is no lack of democratic equality in the distribution of the necessary products of life. Within the last six weeks sufficient events have taken place to indicate a most unsatisfactory condition of labor, and what has occurred within this limited period is but a small fraction of events of the same nature which had existence within the lust twelve months. A few of the instances which have taken place within a few weeks will serve to indicate the nature of the situation. In New Orleans, February 22, the brakemen working on the Illinois Central railway struck for an advance of wages and increased assistance for operating the freight department. For some time, freight movements were wholly interrupted. A few days before this two hundred shipcarpenters in Spring Wells, Mich., struck against an increase in working time without a proportionate increase in wages. An attempt was made to fill the places of the strikers with Canadian workiug-men, but, owing to interference of the Knights of Labor, it has not yet been successful. In February 120 men struck for an increase of twenty-five per cent, in pay in the trunk factory of Lewis & Cos., Racine, and about the same date fifty men went out in the harness factory of Sax & Morseback, in Cincinnati. Among other strikes of that month was one by the employers, in the person of the coal syndicate of Pittsburgh, which ordered a suspension of work in the Connells ville coke region on account of riots and incendiarism in the vicinity; one of eighty men in Chicago in the furniture factory of Bruschke & Rieke for payment fortnightly instead of every three weeks, as ivas the custom, and for the discharge of an obnoxious foreman, and to do away with piece-work. Still other strikes are those of the Maxwell factory men against the use of machinery in the making of boxes; the McCormick reaper difficulty, in which the strike of several hundred operatives was precipitated to secure the discharge of non-union working-men, and the New York street-car strikes for shorter hours of labor, which terminated in favor of the strikers. The present month, although only about one-half gone, has been a notable period for the outbreak of labor disturbances. The strike against the Gould system in the Southwest commenced February 15, with the gbiug out of 4,000 men in Marshall, Tex., on account of the discharge of A. C. Hall, foreman of the wood shops of the Texas & Pacific railroad. Hall was a delegate to a meeting of the Knights of Labor, and claims to have secured leave of absence for the purpose. At the close of the session he went to work, but was discharged. The strike has since been extended to all portions of the railway system controlled byGould, and probably not less than from eight to ten thousand men are now lying idle in obedience to the order of the Knights of Labor. The list thus given is but a small portion of the whole. In Erlington, Ky., 350 miners are out; in Springfield, 0., 1,200 men are locked out by two or three establishments os a movement against the Knights of Labor; in Saflth Bend, Ind., 1,100 of the Studebakers’ employes are on a strike for an increase of twenty-five per cent, in wages; in New York 4,000 members of the American Order of Joiners have struck for an i ncreaßC in pay, and in Shenandoah, Pa., 500 men and boys are locked out by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal Company, on account of a disagreement as to the price to be paid for the working of anew vein of coal. It may be noted that in all these numerous instances there have been a few mutual concessions. The Chicago Cable Cigar Company, after a ten months’ boycott, ordered by the Knights of Labor, yielded the point at issue—the employment of union workmen. A strike at the Mingo nail works, in Ohio, after extending over nine months, was settled a short time sinee by compromise. Several shoe firms in Auburn, Me., have yielded to the demand, and have agreed with the Knights of Labor on a plan agreeable to both parties, and the same is true of several cigar-making firms in the city of New York. The boycott against the leading shoe manufacturers, of this city, instituted beta use of the em ploy ment of convict contract labor, has been lifted, the manufacturers agreeing to desist from the employment of any but free men. Jacksonville, Fla,'March 16.—1n an interview Mondny Mr. Jay Gould said that he was surprised by the strike; but it was made on an issue which the roads could not control. The Texas <fc Pacific being in the bands of the United States Court, any attempt to arrange matters could be looked upon as contempt. Mr. Gould said it was the intention of the management of the Missouri Pacific to resume operations ns soon as protection is afforded. Wj - Starved to Death. Shelby ville, Ind, March 16. —The recent death of Albert J. Gorgas, clerk of the Shelby County circuit court, it is now learned,was caused from starvation. Some time ago his health began to fail, and he became imbued with the idea that he could cure himself by dieting. Accordingly he began to diminish his food, but this did not seem to afford any relief, and he then totally desisted from eating any thing. From the time he began his fast until his death, a period of forty-two days, not a particle of food passed down his throat, and he died literally of starvation, resisting all efforts to give him nourishment, which was furnished him during the last days by enema. Killed by Exploding Boilers. Clarion, Pa, March 16.—Shortly before noon yesterday the boiler used at Hick’s coal shaft on the Pittsburgh & Western railroad exploded. William Banes, engineer, and Joseph Elsener, fiat trimmer,* were buried in the debris. Elsenor died in a short time. Banes was terribly scalded and his skull fractured. He can not recover. At Limetown, Pa, the boiler of the pumping-boat at Hilldglitr coni works exploded yesterday morning,'fatally scalding William Farre, the engineer; The boat was badly damaged. J,.

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STATE INTELLIGENCE. John Ltnch, one of the Archer gang and Martin County desperado, kat been plact and in the penitentiary at Jeffersonville for safe keeping, fearing violence from the Archers’ desperate friends. The three-year-old daughter of Dr. John Kennedy, Paragon, Morgan County, turned a kettle of boiling water upon iteelf and was scalded to death. The proprietors of the Malleable Iron Works, of Indianapolis, increased the pay of the molders from sto 15 per cent. They also increased the pay of their common laborers.. About 350 men get the benefit of this increase. Wm. Bake, of Warren, was arrested on a warrant for arson. It is alleged that Bane fired a stable In Huntington County several months ago, burning four horses and other property. He was locked up at Wabash. The evidence against him is strong. The appointment of M. A. Barnett as postmaster at Madison has been confirmed by the Senate; also that of Natharfiel S. Bates at Renssalear. Charles A. Sparks, an old gentleman living near Charleston, a few miles south of Lexington, recently determined to break up housekeeping on account of the death of his wife. The other morning while packing up his household property he found a number of partially filled medicine bottles and thinking they would be broken he poured the contents into a glass and drank the mixture. In less than an hour he became unconscious and it took the doctors eight hours to resuscitate him. Recovery doubtful. Sarah Hassktt and Joseph Heffner, employed at Myers’ restaurant, Logansport, were literally burned up before between forty and fifty horrified spectators the other night. The woman was filling a gasoline stove with oil from a pitcher, when it exploded, saturating her clothing and that of Heffner. They ran into the street with flames ten feet high streaming over their heads. They ran for three minutes and at last sank exhausted to the ground, when they were dragged and placed under a pump-spout. Neither can live. The dead body of Fred. Herbst, an old citizen of Ft. Wayne, was found floating in the canal feeder at that place the other morning. Mrs. Belle Evans, of Lafayette, became suddenly insane. She seized her four-months-old infant, undressed it, and was about to offer it up as a sacrifice. The fortunate arrival of her father-in-law put a stop to the proceedings. Samuel W. Archer, another member of the notorious Archer gang in Martin County, was captured a few days ago and placed in jail at Covington. He was found in the woods eight miles south of Hillsboro, where he had been hiding for the past two months. He had not heard of the lynching of the other members of the gang. Rats and matches set fire to the wholesale grocery of Kreitline & Schrader, Indianapolis. Loss, about*4o,ooo; insurance, *36,000. The chair factory of Nixon & Cos., North Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire a few nights ago. Loss, *IO,OOO. The Greenfield post-office and dry goods store of C. M. Jackson was set on fire the other morning. The post-office was seriously damaged and the building made a wreck. The store clerks of Indianapolis have organized, for .early closing. Pat Hamilton, Richmond, gets two years in prison for shooting to kill. Jesse Billings, the wealthy young Daviess County farmer who was sent to the Jeffersonville penitentiary, for forgery, has been assigned to the blacksmith shop of the prison. Alfred Carpenter, aged twenty-eight, farmer, living on Pleasant Ridge, near Madison, committed suicide recently by placing the muzzle of a gun to his forehead and pulling the trigger with his big toe, thus sending the leaden messenger through his brain. Brooding over financial trouble is thought to have brought it on. The officers of the Southern prison at Jeffersonville have filed their report with the Governor for the fiscal year. In it they state that for more than two years the cat, or whip, has not been used as a means of punishing refractory convicts. Lighter and less revolting methods of punishment have been found to be more effective in tho maintenance of disciplin< . There are now 596 convicts in the prison, and the daily average has been 573, wh le in the preceding year it was 570. The expenses of maintenance amounted to *85.666.96. The depot at North Vernon, used by the Ohio and Mississippi and Pennsylvania Company was totally destroyed by fire the other night. The fire originated in the oilroom, and the whole building was in flames in an instant. By the united efforts of the citizens every thing of value was saved, including the safes. Adjacent buildings were in great danger, but the exertions of the citizens saved them. Cause of the fire unknown. The following ticket has been nominated by the Democrats of Madison County: Representative, F. P. Foster; sheriff, Mat Moore; clerk, J. Netterville; recorder, A. T. Davis; auditor, John Canedy; treasurer, W. H. Dobson; coroner, W. Hunt; surveyor, A. D. Williams; Commissioner second disdrict, John L. Jones; Commissioner third district, E. H. Peters. At Evansville both the Fulton Avenue Browing Company and Mr. John Hartmetx agreeably surprised their employes the other evening by announcing that they had voluntarily adopted the ten-hour system without a reduction in wages, following the example set them the day before by the F. W. Cook Brewing Company. The Fulton Avenue Brewery employs seventy-five men, and Mr. Hartmetz twenty-eight. Several of the enterprising business men of Muncie are engaged in organizing a stock company to bore for gas. The fever originated with them by a visit to Findlay, 0., where they inspected the gas well in operation at that place. „ The work will commence in or near that city at an early date. Jesse Billings, a prominent and prosperous farmer, living near Washington, was taken to the Jeffersonville penitentiary the other day, having been convicted by a jury of twelve men of forgery. He was sent up for two years. The parting between him and his family was heartrending. In view of a contemplated strike by the coopers of Terre Haute, for an increase of wages, the manufacturers of that city have organized a company for the purpose of making barrels by machinery in a factory built for that purpose. Seventy years ago, in April, the bill authorizing Indiana Territory to form a State Government was passed in Congress. An order for a farm in Washington Connty was received by a local real estate agent there from an Ohio man who wanted also, if possible, “a wife between the ages of twenty and forty-five years,” to go with the farm. TnE journeymen barbers of Indianapolis are organizing to compel the bosses to close up shop at 3 p. in., save Saturday, and then at 11 p. m. At Eaton, Delaware County, a stock company with *IOO,OOO capital stock has been organized and will commence operation soon in search of gas or oil.