Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 8, Number 28, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 7 October 1886 — Page 1

THE SAPPANEE NEWS. WILL H. HOLDEMAN, ■ NAPPANEE, INDIANA. tfcm Booths ■>■! >■■> S

The house in which General Hancock was horn, near Lonsdale, Pa., was burned a few days ago. A urns girl defined “ nervous n as “being in a hurry all over.” What dictionary ever told it better? James Russell Lowell will deliver the oration at the 230th anniversary of i Harvard, which will be observed with nnnsaal honors early in November. Tter violins, enameled in perfect imitation of their prototype, are a passing fancy with ladies for lace pins. Very suggestive of a bean, we shonld say. In Southern India and Ceylon wild elephants are doing great damage to the crops. There is apt to be quite a circus when the elephant goes round. ' A potato and enrrot firmly grown together so that it is impossible to tell where the potato begins and the carrot ends is one of the vegetable freaks exhibited by an Indiana farmer. Chimney Rock, in the Bine Ridge mountains in Maryland, is a misnomer no longer. It’s a veritable chimney now, with plenty of smoke, and Maryland . has its own volcano now —or a very clever liar. It has been discovered that the bill passed by Congress authorizing the construction of a public building at Jacksonville, Fla., to cost $230,000, did not make one cent of an appropriation to boild it. THe Cincinnati Memorial Association is circulating a petition asking the General Assembly of Ohio to appropriate $25,000 for a monument to President William Henry Harrison, whose grave near that city is very much neglected. Captain Robert W. Andrews, of Sumter, S. CL. who is ninety-six years old, a few days ago finished his second summer pedestrian tour to Boston. In the last two years Captain Andrews has walked over seven thousand miles. About twenty years ago Charles Lawton, of Massachusetts, sent a dollar bill off in a letter, and it never reached its destination. Having made dne allowance for all probable delays, he now feels it bis doty to begin suit against Uncle Sam for the lost money. * The utterance, “To the victors belong the spoils,” has generally been ascribed to Andrew Jackson, but it is bow shown that it was first used by William L. Marcy, of New York, in the debate in the United States Senate on the nomination of Mr. Van Bnren by Jackson to be Minister to England. The harm cansed by the recent volcanic disturbance in New Zealand has BOW been pretty accurately ascertained. An area of two thousand square miles is covered three inches deep with volcanic dust, for four hundred square miles the eonfktry is wholly destroyed, and sixteen hundred miles are much damaged. The acting Secretary of War has received a dispatch from the Indian Agent at the San Carlos Agency stating that the removal of the Warm Spring and Chiricahua Indians is a cause of rejoicing to the Indians left there, who are relieved of their fears of attack and are afforded better opportunity for acquiring habits of industry. Theodore G. Hulett, an aged citizen of Niagara Falls, went before the sanitary board at Buffalo recently and explained his system of imbedding fruit and bodies of animals in cement, by which they were changed into a substance resembling stone, preserving the original color. His will provides that bis corpse shall be treated by this process. The Northern Sioux have decided to establish mail and transportation routes throughout the frontier region on the co-operative principle, the work to be done by the young men of the nation. As all the labor will be performed en foot, yonng warriors are now in training for their part in the enterprise. Each runner is to make seventy-live miles per week. How costly and demoralizing to the industries of a country are civil commotions is clearly shown in the recent message of President Terra to the Uruguayan Congress. In order to cover the deficit cansed by the recent devolution, the Government is forced to issue an internal loan for $2,000,0X), and largely to increase customs tariff. The annual revenue of the Republic is about $12,000,000, and there is an existing debt of some $50,000,000, so that the deficit noted is a serious matter for the Government. Rev. Dr. C. A. Bartol, of Boston, alluding to recent defalcations, said: “The badness of the bad shall never prejudice my mind against the goodness of the good, the purity of the pure, the honor of the honorable. There have been one or two defalcations on a great scale lately in Boston. Consider how many in places of trust (10.000 and more in this city) there are who do not default even by a cent. Nay, I who have lived more than seventy years, say that I have found 10,000 honest men to one dishonest.” The experts who have examined the mins caused by the earthquake in Charleston, S. C., are free to say that the buildings were poorly constructed, and that it is not surprising that they caved when the quake came along. They say that the mortar was poor, and in other respects the material used iu the construction was of an inferior quality. After an earthquake has shaken down a few thousand buildings it is very easy to pnt the blame on the builders. What this conntry wants, in cur opinion, is milder earthquakes.

YOL. VIII.

THE NEWS. Compiled from Late Dispatches. FROM WASHINGTON. In the United States and Canada the total number of failures durine the three months ended on the 30th ult. was 1.953, against 2,173 in the third quarter of ISSS, a decrease of 341. The liabilities amounted to $37,300.0.10, against #2’.J,874,000 in the corresponding quarter of 188. x The public-debt statement for Septern beris as follows: Total debt (including interest), #1,743,369,933; less cash items available for redaction of debt, and reserve bills for redemption of United States notes (#303,931,043), St.-LT),445,889; cash in treasury, #67,893,331; debt, less amount in treasury, #1.367,5+9.568. Decrease during September, $10,627,012. It was stated on the Ist by Captain Lawton, who was in command of the United State* troop{ at the time of the capture of Geronimo, that the surrender was unconditional, thus contradicting General Miles’ report that Geronimo was not captured bat surrendered conditionally. During September the total coinage executed at the mints of the United States was #5,070,055,30, of which $2,510,100 was in standard silver dollars. It was stated by the Comptroller of the Currency on the 3d that there was a decrease daring September of #1,t57,593 in ,the amount of national bank notes outstanding. The decrease since October 1, ISSS, aggregates #17,810,653. The amount oatstanding now is #303,213,153. Tbb Lnsiness failures in the United States daring tbe week ended on the 3d numbered,, 335, against 136 in the preceding week. There was $242,609,0LS in gold coin and bullion in the treasury September 30, as compared with $235,430,635 the 31st of the previous month. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States daring the week ended on the 3d aggregated $1,055,346,370, against $975,613,345 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1885, the increase amounts to 34.9 per cent. The special delivery-system of the Postoffice Department was extended on the 2d. THE EAST. At the Stat. convention of the Massachusetts Republicans held at Boston qp the 29ti nit. Oliver Ames was nominated for Governor. The platform favors the submission to the people of a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufactnre and sale of liqnor; denounces the importation^es foreign pauper labor; favors Civil-Service reform; opposes all horizontal jf redactions of the tariff, and denounces Congress for its failure to enact a Bankruptcy law, to repeal the SilverCoinage law and to provide for coast defenses. Congressmen were nominated in the following districts on the 39th nit.: Republicans—Massachusetts, Seventh, Will iam Coggswell; Tenth, W. W. Rice (renominated) ; New York, Thirty-fourth, W. G. Laidlow; New: Jersey, Fifth, W illiam Walter Phelps (renominated). Democrats —Pennsylvania, First, John Chambers; Second, JR\ E. Thomas; Third, Samuel J. Randall' (renominated); Fifth, W. G. Smith; New York, Fourteenth, W. G. Staklneckor (renominated); New Jersey, First, J. W. Westcott. Prohibitionists— Rhode Island, First, A. C. Howard; Second, A. R. Chance. By the explosion of a packing-house at the Ditmar Powder Works at Bayckester, N. Y-, four men were instantly killed on the 30th nit. At the State convention of the Massachusetts Democrats held at Worcester on the 30th ult John F. Andrews was nominated for Governor. The platform adopted indorses President Cleveland’s Administration, deman is a judicious reform of the tariff and protection of the fishing interests.. Upon pleading guilty on the 30th ult. William E. Gould, the defaulting cashier of a bank in Portland, Me., was sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. Prohibitionists on the Ist nominated Rev. Daniel C. Knowles for Congress in the First New Hampshire district, and in the First Massachusetts district, George W. Dyer. Three boys out of five were drowned in Lynn (Mass.) harbor on the Ist by the capsizing of a boat. Officers captured D. M. Cadwick, a notorious counterfeiter, at Albany, N. Y., on the Ist while in the act of making base Coin. i Mrs. Olive C. Clarke, who was born at Williamsburg, Mass., in 1785, celebrated the 101st anniversary of her birth at Springfield, Mass., on the 2J. George Bancroft, the historian, was eighty-six years of ags on the 3d. George D. Stizel was on the 3d nominated for Congress bv the Eighth Pennsylvania district Republicans. Orro Baumann, receiving teller in the Union Dime Savings. Bank of New York City, was discovered on the 3d to be a defaulter to the amount of 820,000. With a view of breaking up the hardcoal combination, the Governor of Pennsylvania on the 3d called the attention of the Attorney-General to the fact that the State constitution • prohibits carrying companies from engaging in mining or manufacturing articles for transportation over their roads. WEST AND SOUTH.^ Congressional nominations were made As follows on the 30th ult.: Republicans— Louisiana, Third district, J. S. Davidson (colored); Missouri, Eighth district, J. K. Cummings; Texas, First district, H. D. Johnson; Sixth, A. B. Norton. Democrats —Louisiana, First district, F. G. Wilkinson; Ohio, Eighteenth district, W. H. Phelps; Twentieth. Witliam Dorsey; Twenty-first, Martin A. Foran (renominated) ; Missouri, Eighth district, J. J. O’Neill (renominated); Minnesota, Third district, J. L. McDonald; Illinois, Fourteenth district, William Voorhees; Virginia, Fourth district, M. Page; Dakota, M. H. Day. Labor—Virginia, Sixth dis- I trict, J. B. Page. Prohibitionist—lllinois, Eighteenth distnetr. W. H. Moore; Greenbacker—lowa, Sixth district, Dr. Nelson. Andrew Lucas, bora in slavery in Tennessee, where he was a servant of General Jackson, died on the 30th nit. at Brantford, Ont., at . the remarkable age of 138 years. Lake Michigan was swept by a gale on the night of the 29th ult., and several disasters to vessels were reporrei. A series of five base-ball games i3 to be plave 1 between the Cnicago and St. Louis clubs for the championship of the world. There is, it is said, a pronounced movement among Western Knights of Labor to prevent strikes and boycotts in the future. At Marquette, Mich., a snow-storm accompanied by a heavy gale prevailed on the 30th ult. In memory of Schnyler Colfax, the fonnder of the Rebekkan degree of the Odd-Fellows, the members of that order will erect a monument in Indianapolis, Ind., on the loth of May next. Charles Edwards (colored) was hanged at New Orleans on the Ist for the murder of bis mistress. A mob at Steeleville, Mo., on the Ist took from jail P. F. Wallace, suspected of the murder of the Logan family, and suspended him fora time, bat banded him back to the officers on the appeals of leading i citizens.

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At Hamilton, Mo., ten business buildings were destroyed by fire on the Ist, the loss being $50,090. Congressional nominations made on the Ist were: Prohibitionists—Missouri. Eighth district, James H. Harris; Ninth. William C. Wilson; Tenth, Emerson R. Grant. Democrat —Arkansas, Fifth district, Samuel W. Peel (renominated). Cueboygan, Mich., was visited by a furious snow-storm on the Ist, and throughout the Northwest the weather was cold and the frost heavy. An explosion at Bringhurst, Ind., on the Ist, caused by a merchant named Mr. Kearns accidentally dropping a lighted cigar into a keg of powder, wrecked 1 the structure, killed a customer and fatally l wounded two other persons. At Beaver Dam, 0., three members of the family of Samuel Weaver were ou the Ist lying at the point of death, and four others were rapidly sinking, from the effects of eating diseased pork. Early on the morning of the Ist slight shocks of earthquake were fel t at Charleston and Summerville, S. C. No damage was done. At Plaquemine, La, four acres of land caved into the Mississippi river on the Ist, completing the wreck of the front portion of the town. The standing of the National League base-ball clubs at the close of the week ended on the 2d was as follows: Chicago, games won, 87; lost, 31. Detroit, won, S3; lost, 3-1. New York, won, 70; lost, 48. Philadelphia, won, 67; lost, 43. Boston, won, 53; lost, 59. St. Louis, won, 43; lost, 73. Kansas City, won, 39; lost, 84. Washington won 23; lost, &t. At Quincy, Fla., on the 3d two men suspected of tiring anew mill were lynched. Frosts were reported on the 3d to have badly damaged the tobacco crop in sections of the South. There had been np to the 31 thirty one earthquake shocks at Charleston, S. C., since August 37. Os these five shocks were very destructive. Congressmen nominated on the 2d were: G. W. E. Dorsey (Rep.) in Third district of Nebraska; Samuel A. Miller (Dem.) in the First Ohio district; Hugh Shields (Dem.), in the Second; M. D. Logan (Dem.), in the Second Louisiana district. In Northern Michigan snow fell on the 2d to the depth of three inches. In a series of base-ball games for the Northwestern League pennant the Duluths won first place, Ean Claire second, Oshkpsh fourth, St. Paul fifth and Minneapolis sixth. Tre age of Miss Louisa Weeks, whose funeral took place in Chicago on the 2d, was one hundred years. She was born in Maine, and for some years was the head of a Shaker village. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The volcano of Colima, in Mexico, had on the 39th ult. again become active, making the third time within a year. The people in the surrounding villages were greatly alarmed. It was reported on the 30th ult. from Victoria, B. C., that a valuable gold find had been made close to the boundary between British Columbia and Alaska, and that already the quantity taken ont had realized $24,090. The stations of the German Lifeboat Association now number one hundred, ard during the last year 1,578 lives were saved. It was reported on the 30th ult. that the cod and herring catch on the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts was a failure. The consequent destitution this winter would be widespread. Mandras advices of the Ist say that floods were devastating the Godavery district. Some villagers tried to cut a dam to relieve their own village of water at the expense of other villages, when a fierce fight ensued, in which one hundred natives were killed. At several points in Ontario on the Ist very cold weather and snow were reported. Tuere were six deaths from cholera and twenty new cases reported in Austro-Hun-gary on the Ist, and in Italy five deaths and nineteen new cases. Reports received on the Ist state that thirty Russian sympathizers had been whipped to death in Bulgaria A convict in the Quebec penitentiary was given thirty lashes on the Ist for an attempt to escape. At Madrid, Spam, fourteen revolutionists were on the 2d sentenced to death. In the central portion of Germany violent shocks of earthquake occurred recently. In a colliery near Wakefield, Eng., an explosion on the 2d cansed the loss of twenty-four lives. LATER. The September fire loss in the United States and Canada was $6,509,000, a slight decrease from the average September loss of previous years. Up to October 1 the aggregate fire waste in 1886 was $83,000,OJO, against $11,500,000 for the same period of 1885. The cholera returns from AustroHutigary on the 4th were: Trieste, 14 new cases, 3 deaths; Pesth, 17 new cases, 6 deaths. Tub paper currency outstanding on the 4th comprised $303,082,437 in national bank uotes and #346,681,016 in greenbacks. The issue of the new orie-dollar silver certificates began at Washington on the 4th. The demand for these notes was already very great, and the treasury offi.-ials expected it would continue for months. It 'was believed on the 4th that the schoouer Setn Ktockbridge, a Gloucester (Mass.) vessel, had been lost with a crew of sixteen. Paris green, which had been spread on the cotton fields to kill worms on the Foster place, Bossier Parish, La, poisoned a number of field hands, causing their death on the 4th. During the nine months ended September 30 there were 7,583 bu-iness failures in the United States, against 8,433 in the same period of 1885. The total liabilities amounted to #77,110 644, agaiust $90976,358 in the preceding nine months. The Chicago Labor League on the 4th made the following Congressional nominations: First district, Edgar Terhune; Second, Frank Lawler; Third, W. E. Mason; Fourth, William McNally. Advices of the 4th from Algeria reported that forty Arabs had been drowned by floods at Laghouat. Attorney-General. Garland resumed bis duties at the Department of Justice in Washington on the 4th. The Woman’s National Equal Suffrage Association met at Leavenworth, Kan., on the 4th. Susan R. Anthony and other wellknown advocates of woman suffrage were present. A monster home-rule petition was on tbo 4th presented to Mr. Gladstone by Irish ladies. Four grocers were fined fifty dollars each on the 4th at Cincinnati for violating the State Bntterine law. A slight shock of earthquake was experienced in San Francisco about eight o’clock on the morning of the 4th. Tbb tenth annual convention of the Knights of Labor assembled at Richmond, Va, on the4th, Governor Fitzhugh Lee welcoming the delegates to the city and State. General Master Workmen Powderly then delivered his address, remarking that it shonld be the duty of the Knights of Labor to clutch anarchy by the throat with one hand, and strangle monopoly with the other.

NAPPANEE, ELKHART COUNTY, INDIANA, T HURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1886.

LABOR’S HOSTS. Opening of the Convention of Knights of Labor at Richmond, Va—Eight Hundred Delegates in Attendance—Governor Lee Welcomes Them to tile City— Mr. Fowderly’a Response. Richmond, Va., Oct. s —The most important labor convention ever held in the United States began its sessions here yesterday morning. It is the tenth annual General Assembly of the Knights of Labor. To the surprise of all the officers of the order about 800 delegates are present, which is 300 more than was expected. Master-Workman Powderly faced a sturdy looking body of earuest-faced men shortly after ten o’clock yesterday morning, when he called the convention to order in Armory Hall. Governor Lee was introduced by Mr. Powderly and welcomed the delegates, making no political allusions. The master workman was then presented to the great audience by Frank J. Farrell, the colored delegate from District 41). When the master workman stepped forward to address the convention he was received with a long-continued burst of applause. On behalf of theassembled Knights

T. T. POWDERLV. he thanked the city of Richmond for the cordial reception accorded the delegates. Southern hospitality was proverbial, but until now many of those present had not really knownwhac it meant. Continuing he said: “The men who owe allegiance to the Knights of Labor are engrared in a conflict, but it is a war ot truth atrainst error. It is not, as many honestly believe, ami many more dishonestly assert, a war of laboragaiust cap tal. It is a war in which the manhood of the American laborer is fighting for recognition. In this war It -must be determined which shall rule, monopoly or the American people, gold or manhood. Our battles are not fought for the purpose of determining whether an individual shall rule a State or au empire, but to dec de whether a people who are entitled to life, liberty and happiness shall live in the full eujo. ment of their rights and liberties as becomes citizens of a republic. No member must feel, as he turns away from the city of Richmond after our work here is done, tnat he can safely or conscientiously thrust aside the grave respouslb lities and duties of our American citizenship. Popular disregard of political duty and continued DOl.tieal corruption will weaken our Government aud destroy our liberties, for the worm can eat Its wav through the oak whicli storm or tempest could not bend, and political dishonesty will strike where the lightning could never reach. If this land was worthy that brave men should die for it. it is at least worthy that unselfish, thoughtful men should live and work in a grand devotion to the ideas of a real, a true democracy. We come here not alone to settle the question of a dispute in regard to wages or hours of labor—we come^iere Sartly to study and iearn some lessons of the ead aud heart in practical citizenship. We are engaged in a work wh eh to the thoughtful o. server means more than child’s play, more than the regulation of trade matters, and the work will not end to-day, nor will tne youngest among us live to see it complete. “To remedy the evils we complain of is a difficult and dangerous undertaking. The need of strong hearts and active brains was never s > great as at the present time. Tne lash was stricken from the hand of the slave-owner twenty-five years ago, and it must be taken from the hand of the new slave owner as well. The monopolist of to-day is more dangerous than the slave-owner of the past. Monopoly takes the land from the people in m>liion-acre plots: it sends its agents abroad aud they bring bands of desperate men to this country: It imports ignorance and scatters It broadcast throughout: it. anu it alone, is responsible for every manifestation of anarchy tnat has been witnessed. Ail men may not be willing to admit that this statement is frae, but when monopoly dies no more Anarchists will be born unto this country, for Anarchy is the legitimate child of monopoly. While 1 condemn and denounce the deeds of violence comm tted iu the name of labor during the S resent year, 1 am proud to say that the .nights of Labor, as an organization, is not in any way responsible for such conduct. He is the true Knight of Labor who with one hand clutches anarchy by the throat and with the other strangles monopoly. It ii rue that the mi stions of wages, hours of labor, shop discipline, or some other matter may cause a rupture here and there between the workman and his employer, but they can be readily settled if mutual toleration and common sense are brought into the controversy, and once settled they should be allowed to rest Continued reminders of past trouble often create new ones. To those who have fallen into such habits I would recommend the advice you so appropriately gave to a critic uot long since: * Stop fighting when the war is over.’ ’’ In concluding his speech, Mr. Powderlv said that some of the members of the visiting delegations who were of darker hue than their brothers, could not find place in some of the hotels. This was iu accordance with whut had long been the custom here, and old customs and prejudices do uot readily vanish. There had been particular mention made of one instance where a delegation numbering sixty members had only one colored member among them. He was refused ailmissiou to the hotel where they intended to go, and the delegation, standing by the principles of the orders which recognizes no distinctions of crejbd, nationality and color, went with theirA’olorecl brother. That, he said, was wny he made the selection of that brother to introduce him to them, so that it might go forth that they practiced what they preached. At the close of his address Mr. Powderlv requested that alt those present who were not delegates should retire, and thanked them for having come to the opening session. All but the delegates then left the halt, and the convention settled ilowli to the practical work which called them together, and iu which they bill fair to be engaged for the next two weeks. In secret session the only business done was the appointment of a committee on minor credentials. An adjournment was then taken to nineo’elock this morning. . ♦ • —- —Nothing pays as '.veil as an amiable bearing. We do not mean in money merely, for there are much more important things to be gained. The person who cultivates gentle manners can’t help but cultivate gentle feelings at the saute time. He makes himself liked, and that is a large training in making one's self likable. One is morally improved by his own courtesy. — Montreal Star . —A great deal of talk has been caused at Dunkirk, N. Y., by the untimely and unexpected return, after seveuteen years’ absence, of three married fishermen. They bad been east away in Greenland. Like three Knoch Ardens, they have returned to find three Philips in their places, or, as the reports put it, “■their wives in the meantime had taken other husbands.” —No, no, it is not egotism; it is just a way the Ohio editor has of talking. Instead of sayiug “it rained here yesterday,” he says:- “H'e were pleased to see it raining in our town yesterday.”— IVashinyton l*ost. —The Pittsburgh Chronicle knows of one hnmorist so conscientious that 1)9 will not ride a chestnut horse.

WAR ON THE COAL KINGS. Governor Pattison Makes an Attack on the Great Combination—The Oppression of the Pool Set Forth in Strong Terms —A Suit Likely to Be Brought. Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 4. Governor Pattison has written a letter to the Attor-ney-General of the State requesting him to begin proceedings in the courts agaiust the anthracite coal pool, and it is understood that the Attorney-General will take immediate action. The Governor in his letter recalls the facts that the pool was formed in New York December 31, ISB4, by the Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, Reading, Lake Erie and Pennsylvania coal companies, the Delaware & Hudsou Canal Company, and the Lehigh Coal and NavigationCompanv, corporations chartered by the State of Pennsylvania; that at that time an agreement was entered into by which six of these corporations were in effect pledged in writing to restrict and regulate the production of coal und to maintain and advance its price; that an apportionment of the total production was then allotted to each company for the year 1888, and on January 1, 1886, anew allotment went into operation bused on an annual production of 33,500,000’t0n5. The Governor, after referring to the advance in the price of coal since July 2, says: “Recently through the offices of a syndicate of capitalists there has been a strengthening of the anthrac.te coal combi nut.on. an.l the claim is now made by some of its members that they can markup coal prices to any figure they please, thereby subjecting the public to the.r mercy, injudiciously and unwarrantably taxing every fires de. and imposing upon coal consumers the financial burden which the speculations of some of those companies have engendered, although the State constitution declares that ‘no corporated compauy do ng the business of a common carrier shall directly or indirectly prosecute or engage in mining or manufacturing articles for transportation over its lines:’ yet all, et nearly ’I, of the common carriers represented in the anthracite coal combination are engaged directly or indirectly in mining. “The anthracite coal regions of the State are practically under the control of this combination. For long periods it has kept tbe miners running on three-quarters time, thus putting nearly 100,000 workers on what amounted to three-quarter pay. and, by hindering competition, it has restricted the developing of our mineral wealth. It has advanced or depressed the price of coal as best suited its purpose. It has ma.ntained the prices of coal supplied to town and to city trade at prices ranging more than one dollar per ton over anu above tbe price at which it sold the same article to consumers located further from the mines but in territory that did not come within the terms of the agreement. “It has advanced the charges for transportation in face of the fact that the cet earnings of tbe carrying companies belonging to the combination amouuted to about nineteen per cent, per annum of the tost of tbe roads and their equipment, and of the further fact that charges are higher than they were twenty-six years ago, though the cost ofe transporting a ton of freight dees not to-day amount to more than one-third of its cost at that time. By restricting production ami advancing prices it has crippled the vast iron interests, decreasing the demand for anthrac te coal in the reduction of iron ores, forcing iron furnaces out of blast and placing nearly all the industries of Eastern Pennsylvania at the mercy of the managers of these companies.” The Governor then refers to the trunkline pool and says: “It destroys competition by bringing every manifest under the supervision of a trunkline commiss.oner, and practically un tes all tbe lines under one control. To give an artificial stimulus to traffic it arbitrarily raises or lowers its charges for transportation, adjusting its freight rates upon a basis which will purchase peace amoug its members. It extorts from the profits of shipment ail that the traffic will bear, aud sometimes more than it will bear, doing th:s without reasonable regard to theeost of service or tbe rights of shippers It causes violent fluctuations in prices, making all trade dependent upon its movements, aud hold.ng a perpetual menace over the material interests of the country. “Against such combinations the individual is helpless. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania in creating corporations that are members of the anthracite coal combination aud of the trunk-line pool vested them with the right of eminentd >main and other franchises of a public nature. They owe certain duties to their creator, aud one of these is to avoid am' infringement upon the rights of individuals’or the general well-beiug of the State. Their interference with the uatural current and conditions of trade has been in violation of what is believed to be sound public policy and against the best interests of the State. It prejudices the public and oppresses individuals. It is a perversion of the purpose for which tncy were created. These facts, which have beeu reported to me aud measurably authenticated, 1 deem of sufficient importance to refer to you foryour consideration and such aetiou as the circumstances may warrant.” lUt lapelphia. Oct. 4. —The action of Governor Pattison in instructing the At-torney-General of the State to institute legal proceedings against the six greatest coal-carrying railroads of the United States to prevent the contemplated advance of iirteen cents a ton in the price of coat after October 1 will be of far-reaching importance, not only to the rival railroads which have entered into the treaty but to the coal consumers of the entire country. It was a part of the agreement between the Delaware, Lackawanna A Western, Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia ifc Reading, New York, Lake Erie & Western, Delaware & Hudson and the Pennsylvania that the output of coal should in future be restricted and rates rigidly sustained at the higher prices. Governor Pattison’s proceedings will be based on the law of Pennsylvania forbidding the consolidation or combination ot corporations which compete for business in the State. The application of the law to the present contract is likely to lead to a legal conflict, which wilt employ the talents of the best corporation lawyers oi the country. Damages for Horses Killed. Pekin, 111., Oct. 4.—A verdict, for $2,100 was rendered for the plaintiff Friday night in the suit of Christian Zebr, of Lilly, this county, against the Live-Stock Commission of the State to recover $5,000 for killing four horses supposed to have been glandered. The case is one of great interest, as it was the first test of live-stock commission law. The plaintiffs claimed that the old law which gave compensation was not repealed when the new one was passed, and therefore is still iu force. The board will take an appeal. Meauwhile. iu order to- prevent the bringing of other suits against the State, glandered horses will be quarantined and not killed. Rubbed a Dime Savings Bank. New York, Oct. 4 —On Saturday, September 4, Otto Baumann, receiving teller of the Union Dime Savings Institution, left the bank with the understanding that he was to have a vacation of two weeks. On the Monday following he appeared at the bank for the purpose, as said, ot correcting a mistake in his books. He pored over the books a few moments and then disappeared. He has not been seen since. Several days after he had gone an item in his book aroused suspicion and a deficit of $19,152 was discovered. Since then the police have been vainly searching for him. Gold aud Bullion. Washington, Get. 4.—The total gold and bullion in the treasury September 30 was $242,609,018, as compared with $235,430,635 on the3lstof the previous month. The net gold in the treasury, after deducting gold certificates in the treasury, cash, and in circulation, September 30 was $157,917,211, as compared with $157,732,288 on the 31st of the previous month. A Sale of New Cora at Baltimore, Baltimore, M<L Oct. 4. —The first corn of the new crop, white, was sold on’Change Saturday. It was in good condition aud brought fifty cents per bushel.

A GREAT FAILURE. The Well-Known Chicago Wholesale Dry* Goods Firm Goes to the Wall, with Liabilities of #835,000 and Assets of Nearly #1,000,000 —Cause ot the Crash. Chicago, Oct. I.—A. S. Gage & Cos., the w ell known wholesale and retail millinery and dry-goods house, failed yesterday. Approximately the liabilities are $825,000 aud the assets $1,000,000. The immediate cause of the suspension was Mr. Gage’s inability to raise $5,000 to satisfy a claim of H. B. C’laflin & Cos., oi New York, which Mr., Franks, Western business agent of that firm, was pressing. Aware that an attachment would issue yesterday morning in favor of the claim of Clatlin & Cos., and this would be quickly followed by other attachments for larger and smaller amounts, the firm made an assignment to H. J. McFarland. The papers hud hardly been made out when the sheriff arrived to nerve the attachment, but found the doors closed against him. At this time there were several hundred customers in the store, and these were kept imprisoned during the efforts to keep out the sheriff and his deputies. Entrance was finally effected by the latter, and both the assignee and officers of the law held joint possession during the afternoon. Judge Prendergast’s court was in session, and to it was referred the task of determining the question of possession. The court having confirmed Mr. McFarland as assignee, the deputy sheriffs were obliged to withdraw and leave him in possession. Thestore will be reopened this morning by Mr. McFarland and business continued as before. The assets of the firm are estimated at nearly $1,000,000. Os this amount about $200,000 is represented by the retail stock of dry-goods and millinery, $200,000 by the wholesale millinery goods, and $300,000 by unpaid accounts. No exact figures could be obtained eit her as to the accounts ortlie liabilities. The latter lie mostly in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, and represent goods purchased and money rowedThe causesof the failure are said to be decline fn the value of goods, lack of practical knowledge of the retnil trade, vastly increased expenses, and the falling due of large claims of Eastern firms of whom, when the retail business was begun, goods were bought on six months’ time. In commercial circles it was rumored that the credit of the firm has been questioned for twelve months or more. About the time the concern changed from wholesale to retail dealing, which was last March, intimations of its shaky condition were afloat, but Mr. Gage declared there was no foundation for them. It is said to be true, nevertheless, that at no time within four years has the firm been easy financially. It has been doing a business of about $2,000,000 a year, and of late the dailv receipts have been from $3,000 to $5,000. Mr. A. S. Gage was questioned and Said : “ I was being pressed by creditors till the pressure became, as I thought, unendurable, when I made an assignment for the benefit of my creditors.” The house of A. 8. Gage & Cos. is one of the oldest in the city. It was founded in the early part of 1857 under the firm name of Webster & Gage. Shortly before the great fire of 1871 the firm name was changed to Guge Bros. & Cos., the original members retiring. , Mr. A. S. Gage, son of Seth Gage, of Gage Bros. & Cos., and nephew of John N. Gage, the original founder of the house, shortly after ibis took the helm, and the house became known as A. S. Gage & Cos. About five years ago they moved into their present quarters, the large and handsome structure on the corner ot Wabash avenue and Adams street. FOUR AWFUL DEATHS. Tbe Explosion of s Powder-Magazine in New York State Literally Blows Poor 4 Men to Fragments. Barton-on-the-Sound, N. Y., Oct. I.—A terrific explosion occurred at the Ditmar Powder Works, at Ba.vchester. of the Harlem river branch of the New York & New Haven railroad, about teu o’clock yesterday morning, resulting in the instantaneous death of four men employed in the factory. The explosion occurred in the packing-house, a one-story building, twenty by thirty feet in the center oi the grounds and about 200 yards from the main factory, a large building near the water, where the bulk of the giant powder aud nitro glycerine used in the new aqueduct works is manufactured. The men were hard at work putting up and packing cartridges, when suddenly and without warning the explosion occurred, shattering the building to splinters and blowing the four men to fragments. The exploding powder, of which tnere was a large quantity, shot up into the air as high as fifty feet and splinters of the building were blown over a mile distant. The names of the men killed areas follows: Ernest Pralen, John Rusch, Max Shafbolt, Mr. Reinhart. Nothing was left of them except the fragments of their bodies. Their hands, legs, feet, arms and pieces of skulls, back bones and charred bits of flesh were scattered in every direction from 500 to 600 feet from the pack-ing-house. Max Cruger, foreman of the works, says the explosion was caused by two men shooting into the building. He was in the packing-house at the time, and, going out., found two men, who said they were shooting squirrels. He says he threatened them with arrest, and they then became impudent. As the explosion occurred the men were seen hurrying away. Tbe main factory of the Ditmar works was badly wrecked, one end being blown to pieces, exposing the interior. After the explosion the lower timbers of the building took fire apd burned fiercely. A large tree near by was torn up by the roots and branches of other trees were blown away. The ground around for half a mile was strewn with fragments of tbe dead* splinters, packing paper, etc. The violence oi the explosiou shook houses in Barlow, across ibe creek from Baychester. Many windows m John Elliott’s" Bay View Hotel at Fhelatn Bridge, over a mile awav, were broken. Thomas Dinwootlie’s blacksmith shop at Westchester was shaken violently, and the windows iu many houses in the same village were broken. New York, Oct. 1 —lt is snid that the shocks felt in Westchester County and portions of Eastern Connecticut yesterday morning were due to the explosion of dvnamite .at Baychester. Westchester County. !' For tbe World’s UhaippiousUip. St. Louis, Oct. I.—Fresident Von der Ahe, of the St. Louis American Association Base-ball Club, has rceived a letter from Fresident A. G. Spalding, of the Chicago National League Club, accepting the former s challenge to play a series of nine games for the championship of the world, the winners to take the total gross gate receipts. Four of the games are to be played in Chicago, four in St. Louis and the" ninth on neutral grounds. Mr. Von der Ahe says it will be impossible for his ctub, owing to a previous challange, to play more than five games with the Chicago*, but otherwise Mr. Spalding’s plau is acceptable. Mother anti Child Kilted. Reading, Fa., Oct. I.— Yesterday morning Mrs. Mary Wagner, of Bingen, Le. high County, went to the depot at that place to attend the Allentown fair. She had with her a five-year-old daughter. The child wandered on the track unnoticed by its mother. Then a fast express train came along. Mrs. Wagnersaw the peril of her child and ran out on the track, grabbed up the little one, and proceeded to run away, when she was caught by the cow-catcher. She dropped the child and the tittle one’s head was njt off. Mrs. Wagner was then drawn under the train and her body mangled in a horrible. manner. Her death was instantaneous.

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STATE INTELLIGENCE. At Goshen Eva Myers, aged eleven years, ■was horribly burned the other morning. She is blind, and, in the absence of her pftrents, she tried to start a fire with kerosene oil. The blaze caught her sleeves, and she was soon enveloped in a mass of flames. Her screams drew some men to the house who were working close by, and they succeeded in smothering the flames, but not until she was so badly burned that the flesh peeled off with her clothes. The doctors pronounced her case hopeless. Hog cholera rages in Benton County. Tee President has appointed Noble P. Howard, jun., to be postmaster at Greenfield, vice Henry C. Marsh, resigned. A post-office has been established at Shepherd, Boone County, and Henry W. Glendenning commissioned postmaster. The State Board of Health was in session at Indianapolis, on the Ist, considering the reports of members who recently visited the State Prison South, to investigate its sanitary condition. The physical conditions surrounding the prison are described as abominable; but one covered sewer leads from the prison, and the gas which escapes from this and the open ones is the prolific source of sickness in the prison and the city. West of the prison is a low ground, which is made a receptacle for all kinds of filth and trash, and this contributes to the unhealthy conditions. The committee recommend extensive improvements, and the subject will be called to the attention of the next Legislature. At Bringhurst, Canoll County, a small village on the Vandalia railroad, Terre Haute and Logansport Division, twenty miles from the latter city, occurred a most fatal explosion a few mornings ago. Messrs. Shanblin & Kearns had just opened up their store, when in came a little boy and Thomas H. Britton, the latter to purchase some power to go hunting. Thomas H. Kearns, the junior partner, with a lighted cigar in his mouth, proceeded to pour out the powder from a large can into the scales, and had set the can down, when his cigar fell from his mouth into the can, which exploded. The front part of the building was torn out, the goods knocked topsy-turvy, and a fearful wreck made. Mr. Kearns had his arm broken in two places, his shoulder'put out of joint, his head terribly burned, and suffered other awful injuries in the lower part of his body, and yet he lived until the afternoon, Mr. Britton, who was buying the powder, had both arms broken and is badly burned. The other partner, Mr. Shanklin, was severely hurt by shelves and other articles falling on him. The little boy was burned, but not seriously. The goods were scat tered all over the street. Wishixg to honor the founder of the Rebekah Degree, the Odd Fellows have been earnestly at work for some time collecting a fund to erect a monument to the late Schuyler Colfax, and funds enough have been obtained to warrant the committee in taking action, although a considerable sum must yet be raised. The Executive Committee, after a careful examination of designs and propositions, have awarded the contract for the monument to Mr. A. A. McKain, of Indianapolis. His design is a bronze statue of Mr. Colfax, set on a Barra granite pedestal. This pedestal will be triangular in shape: thus symbolizing the fundamental principles of the order —friendship, love and truth. A bronze medallion of Rebekah at the well will be placed in the die. The monument is to be completed by the 10th of May next. Its location has not been determined yet. Morton Howell, an Indiana farmer, is under arrest, charged with using the mails with fraudulent intent. Jons MuFaddex, who pleaded guilty to robbing a car of cigars and tobacco at Lafayette, was sentenced by Judge Vinton to one year in the penitentiary. ■ Visfisxis was successfully lighted with electricity the other night. At Columbus. John Raederspelf, carpenter, fell from the roof of a building and was seriously injured, and Donald McFee, a lad, fell from a second story-window to the pavement below, breaking an arm and injuring himself internally. Quite a sensation was created in political circles at Madison the other night, when Judge Jas. T. Allison came out in a card declining the nomination for Congress against Holman. It wilt be remembered he was given the Republican nomination after Captain A. D. Yanosdol declined. The stores of Chris Myers and Joseph " Grantz, at Lanesvillo, were burglarized the other night. Grantz’s daughter was awakened, and, raising a window, was shot by one of the burglars from tha street. It is thought she is not dangerously hurt/ , The following is the only instance in Indiana’s history of a bridge being stolen: The old wagon bridge at Attica, blown down by the late tornado, floated down the Wabash river and lodged on the farm oi Aqnilla Laverty, of Park County,who kept watch and kept roustabouts from stealing it, and gave notice to Andrew Cross and J. W. Powers, of Clinton County, to leave the lumber and iron of the structure alone, r s the property belonged to the bridge con - panv at Attica. The men did not heed this warning, and got the bridge afloat and towed it down the river to Terre Haute, where the iron was sold for $36.30. When arrested, on the Ist. they had not sold tie lumber. They were taken to Rockville ana placed in jail. They will be turned over to the bridge company at Attica for further investigation. Pauline Nelson, a German girl, who hi s been employed as a domestic in Indianapolis for the past six months, has been notified that by the death of an nncle in the Fader land, she has inherited his estate, the estimated value of which is $250,000. Miss Nelson and her sister and two brothers leit for New York, where they will take steam?r immediately. _ A post-office has been established at Koro, Carroll County, with S. C. Rodkey, jr., as postmaster. A poultkt show on an extensive sca e will be held at Shelby ville the second week in November. Anew G. A. R. Post was instituted at Chauncey, Tippecanoe County, th% other evening. The officers installed were: P. C., W. A. Gaddis, Fourth Indiana Cavalry; S. V. C., 8. M. Aiken, Tenth Indiana Infantry; J. V. C., Zachariah Upp, Thirtyfifth Indiana Infantry; Surgeon, J. D. Wright, Seventy-second Indiana Infantry; Chaplain, B. F. Magee, Seventy-second Indiana Infantry. New post-offices were established tie other day as follows: Payne, Monros County, Elizabeth Payne, postmistress; Wissel, Franklin County, Conrad Bissel, postmaster. Eaklkam College, Richmond, has opened with an attendance, in all departments, of 215 students. Bentonville has anew postmaster in the person of Benjamin F. Rea. John Michael is the new postmaster at Zanesville. Harrt Sprat, aged fourteen, clfmb< and into an inclosure on the farm of J. H. Peter, near Seymour, in which were some pet deer. The buck attacked the boy, stabbing him in the abdomen with his antlers, injuring him seriously. The county commissioners at Logansport, awarded the contract to erect the soldiers’ monument to Schuyler PowelL

JOB PRINTING sum as KTO* KOt EXECUTED TO OBDE3 In the Neatest and Promptest Manner AT THIS OFFICE.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —General Phil Sheridan has made • handsome collection of gold and unique coins. —Miss Leah Brooks, of Seneea, N. • Y., who is only nine years old, weighs one hundred and twenty-nine pounds. —Wilkie Collins is holding back his new novel till autumn. 'Hi* pen is now plotting a Christmas tale.— N. Y. Tribune. —ln the State Library at Boston, which contains sixty-thousand volumes, there is not a single novelBoston Journal. —Paul Hayne once described a cywhich he viewed from the windows of hi* cottage, as “the untranslated blasphemies of hell.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. —Cornelius and William K. Vanderbilt have ever since their father’s death received daily about one hundred letters from strangers, appealing for aiL — y. Y. Graphic, —Roy Allen, for a long time traveling passenger agent of the Grand Trunk railroad, has been licensed t preach and will go to India as a missionary.—Chicago Inter Ocean. 4 —A Cape May young woman has got into the newspapers by the simple method of letting one of her little-tin-ger nails grow to an unusul length and having it tipped with a gold rim.— M. Y. Sun. ' —Charles Monckey, inventor of tha Monckey wrench (ignorantly called the monkey-wrench), is living in poverty in Brooklyn. He sold the patent for two thousand dollars, and now millions are made annually out of tha invention.— Chicago Tribune. > —The mother of General Philip She** idau is eighty-seven years old and lives in a modest little boose near the Hocking valley. Her health is excellent, and she enjoys nothing better thaa a chat about her son. To a visitor she said recently: “You can exense an old mother for being so proud of her son. He has always been good to me.”— Cleveland Leader. —Miss Polly Gehris, of Washington township. Pa., who recently died at the age of eighty-four, was always a manly sort of woman. She hired out to the farmers to work in the held and could do a man’s work. She smoked and chewed tobacco for over fifty years, and boasted that she had never had a bean and that no man ever lived who dared to ask her to marry him.—Pittsburgh Post. *• —Lotta’s latest biographers say that the actress’ fortune easily reaches a million and that she has lost and been swindled out of fully a third as much. She prudently put $400,000 in United States bonds and the rest k invested in real estate. Next year Lotta wilt not play more than three months, and after that it k not improbable that she will withdraw altogether from the glare of the footlights— Chicago Jour* nal. t —Lord James Manning three years ago was one of the best-known men about town in New York. He fc the son of one of the best-known mercantile men in London and of royal descent. Lord James came to this country possessed of a fortune that is variously estimated at from $<5,000 to $150,000. In New York he fell in with a jolly lot of companions, and the fortune soon vanished. Now he holds a menial position in the sheriff’s office. Most of the ether decayed Lords in New York are attaches of saloons, and cheap restaurants. — N. Y. Mail . HUMOROUS. —Here, now, is a good title for the long-looked-for American novel: “The Deserted Coachman; or, the Tale of Two Schillings.”— Troy Telegram. —A man has invented a chair that can be adjusted to eight hundred different positions. It is designed for a boy to sit in when he has his hair cut. —N. Y. Mail. —Teacher (to the class in chemistry) —“What does sea-water contain beside - the sodium chloride we have mentioned?” Gubbins’ Youngest—“ Fish, sir.”— Chicago Ledger. —“Mamma,” exclaimed three-and-a-half year old Walter, earnestly, as he came running in at the back door, “now I know what the sky k; it’s the roof to all over. ” — N. Y. Telegram. —Explicit Directions. Youn man (driving with young girl)—“ 1 say, farmer, how can 1 get back to the village the quickest way” Farmer—- “ Well, you might run your horse.’*— I'id-BUs. —-Never missed.— When a girl is duly married. * And by the bridegroom kissed. She's numbered 'mongst the many Who never will be missed. ‘ —Merchant Travele —“ That’s what I call hush money,” remarked the daddy when he planted down the cash for a bottle of paregoric to take home for use in the infantile portion of the family.— Toledo American. —Mrs. Champignon—“How k the ehisine at your hotel?” Mrs. Startup J—“ The wot?” Mrs. Champignon—- “ The cuisine.” Mrs. Startup—“ I don’t know. 1 ain’t seen none yet; but the cookin’ is jest elegant.”— The Rambler. \ —“Dearest, I love you. Fly with me,” said a base-ball player to hk best girl. “I would,”, said the fair one, “only it would never be a success. ” “Why not?” 4 Well, you know, you are always caught on the tty, and ’* But he rang his gong and fled.—<Y. Y. Sun. —A well-dressed countryman stopped at the entrance of the Petroleum Exchange on lower Broadway and gazed inside with considerable interest A broker on the look-out for commissions said to him, cordially: “Are you in oil,* sir?” “No, mkter,” said the countryman, moving away. “I’m no sardine.” — Harper ’> Bazar. —"Why He Suddenly Left. George—- “ Then you will not have me?” Aurelia (firmly)—“No, sir.” George—“Then I have but one request to make.” Aurelia (affected) —“W’hatk it, George?” George (in tears) — “Bury me in the woods.” Aurelia (considerately)—“ Hadn't I better call the bulldog to kill you first?”—Philadelphia Colt. —Au Italian organ-grinder had been playing before the house of a very irascible old gentleman, who furiously and with wild gesticulations ordered him to “move on.” The or-gan-grinder stolidly ground on. and was arrested for his disturbance. At the police-court the magistrate asked him' why he did not leave when requested. “Me no undeistan’ mooch Inglese,” was the reply. “Well,” said the magistrate, “but you must have understood his gestures—hk motions. ” “ 1 tinkee he come to dance,” was the rejoinder.—A. Y. Ledger.