Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 July 1885 — Page 1

Pike W. P, KNIGHT, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XVI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1885. NUMBER 9.

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PROFESSIONAL CARDS r. B. POSBT. , i A. J HONEYCUTT. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petersburg, lad. Will practice in all thecourts. Al! business promptly attended to. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office over Frank A Horn brook g drugstore. B. P. RICHARDSON. A. H. TAYLOR. RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt attention (riven to all business. A Notary Public co is'antly in the office. Office, over Adams A Son's drugstore. K. A. KLY. W. F. TOWNSEND. MART FLEEKKR. ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Att’ys at Law & Real Estate Agts, Petersburg, Ind. „ Office over Gus Franke's Store. Special attention (riven to Collections, Inlying and selling lands, exanii ting Titles anil furnehng Abstracts, J, W. WILSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all business intrusted to Ips care. Ott o \ over Barrett & Son s store. J. M. DOYLE. W. H. THOMPSON. DOYLE & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law, Real Estate. Loan StaranceAgts. Office* FC *ond lloor in Dank Building, corner Main and Seventh Streets. Petersburg, - - Indiana. The b“-t Fi e and Life Insurance Companies repi-esented. Money to lo$n on first mortga^t s at seven and eight per cent. Prompt attend >n to collections, and all business intrusted to us.. ■■■ .' J. R. ADAMS. C. H. FULL1NWIDER. ADAM S & FULUNWIDER, Physicians & SurgeonsI PETERSBURG, IND. Office over Adams A Son's drug store. ! Office hours liny and night: J. B. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon ^PETERSBURG, - IND. Office, over Bergen’s City Drug Store. Office hours day and night. A. R. BYERS, M. D. WM. H. LINK, M. D. BYERS & LINK. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. trv Office, over Hammond A Son's Store. DR. A. B. CARLKTi)Nr7 Office, in Gns Frank’s new building, corner Main and Seventh streets; res donee in Moses' Flunk's new d»olirg in Pro tit's addition to Petersburg. Treatment ol Diseases ot Females & Children a Specialty Chronic and difficult cases solicited. Calls in the city or country promptly resiiondod to day or night. 0, K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, IND. Parties wishing work done at their ri sideuces will leave orders at the shop, in Dr. Adams’ new building, rear off Adams & Son’a drug store.

HOTELS. LINGO HOTEL, l-ETEKSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. New throughout, and first-class accommodations iu every respect. C. M. ROWE, Proprietor. HYATT HOUSE; Washington. Inti. Centrally Located, ami Accommodations First-class. J. 1C* FAULKNER, Proprietor, SHERWOOD HOUSE, WM. SHERWOOD, Prop. K. A. frost, Man. theo. rcssem. Clerk. Cor. First and Locust Sire ts, EVANSVILLE. - - - IND. The Shorwnt-d is centrally located, first class in ail its appointments, anti the l«est and cheapest hotel in the city. Kates, f- per day. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mrs. Laura Harris. Proprietress. W.w. H. Neal, Manager. EMMETT HOTEL; One square eaat of Court-house, oor. of Washington and New Jersey Sts., INDIANAPOLIS, - - IND. JAMES S. MORGAN, Prop r. RATES, $1.50 Per Day.

MISCK1. r.ANKOlS. PHOTO GALLE RY; 0SC4E HAMMOND, Prcp’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. All kind* of work done promptly and at reasonable rates. Call and examine 1 is work. Gallery In Eisert's new building, c vor the J’ost-offlce, Petersburg, Jnd. Great Reduction In the priea of SADDLES, HARNESS, ETC. ETC. The public t» hereby in formed that will sell my large stock of Paddles and Harn ass, and ever) thinjjr kept by me lower than ever sold in this plaoe before, if you want anything In ray line, don't full to call on mens am 1 oi.ering special ba; gains. • pked REUSS, PETERSBURG, IN]'USAs

NEWS IN BRIEF Compiled from Various Sources. PKRSONAli AND POLITICAL. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Hon. Bd* ward Stanhope and Henry Chaplin have been re-elected to Parliament. The Right Hen. D. R. Plunket and Mr. Holmes have been re-elected to Parliament for Dublin University. Dr. E. Milks Willett, of Memphis, Tenn., was elected Supreme Medical Examiner by the Catholic Knights of America, in session at Louisville, Ky. In Mahaska County, Iowa, the colored voters have bolted the Republican party and nominated one of their own race for Representative, The President'has appointed the following named gentlemen Government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad; Francis Kernan, of New York; Edmond F. Noyes, of Ohio; General E. P. Alexander, of Augusta, Ga.; Franklin McVeagh, of Illinois, and J. W. Savage, of Nebraska. Colonel Wm. R. Patten,- ex-Clerk of the House of Representatives of New Hampshire, and ex-City Collector of Manchester, was committed to the asylum for the insane in Concord on the 3.1th. His insanity resulted from softening of the brain. Christopher R. Mablet, the clothier, died at Detroit, Mich., on the 30th, aged forty-nine. A whole-souled, public-spir-ited man has gone. The Loudon papers generally comment favorably on the acquittal of Mrs. Yseult Dudley. M. Patknotre, the representative of France in the peace negotiations with China, has gone to Pekin, where he will reside as the French Embassador. Admiral Lacombe, of the French war ship Li Flore, entertained a party of military, naval and municipal officers and business men on board his vessel at New York on the 30th. The first municipal election in Albuquerque, N. M., since the incorporation of the city, held on the 30th resulted iu a victory fop the Peoples’ Ticket over the straight Democratic. Emperor William promised to attend a regatta on the 30eh, but was unable to do so. The doctors order him to remain indoors in order to avoid excitement. It is stated that the German Diet has quashed finally the claims of the Duke of Cuu.bvrlaud to the Brunswick succession. The sons of General Garfield appeared prominently in the class day exercises of Williams College at Williamstown, Mass., ou the 30th. James R. was one of the marshals of the day, and Harry A. pronounced the oration. His subject was “Socialism." General A. B. Upshaw, of Tennessee, has been appointed Chief Clerk to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and entered upon the duties of his position on the 1st. General Upshaw is a prominent jonrnalist and an intimate friend of Commissioner Atkins. Colonel Dk Winton will return to England from thy Congo, on acconnt of ill-health. G. V. N. Lothrop, the new United States Minister to Russia, in London, on his way to St. Petersburg, called upon Minister Phelps ou the 33th Detectives Tracey and Badger arrived at Auckland, New Zealand, on the 83th. Tracey fully identifies Maxwell as the man whom he frequently saw in the company of Preller at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, before the murder. Maxwell refuses to hold any conversation with Tracey or anybody else on the subject of the murder. He denies everything connecting him-with the crime. He has the same counsel whom he employed when first arrested, and will fi<ht the case to the end. Application has been made in court for his extradition. Congressman Elwood of the.Fifth Illinois District is dead. Dr. Walsh, recently appointed Archbishop of Dublin, will be consecrated at Rome. The jury in the Mackin perjury case at Chicagoreturnel a verdict of guilty, with five years’ imprisonment. Corrib Grant is making a vigorous fight against Lord Randolph Churchill's returned to the British Parliament. Charles P. Olson was so anxious to be United States Consul at G thonburg that he offered Congressman Morse $1,500 to secure him the position. Edward L. Hedden, New York’s new Collector, lias taken charge of his office. He retains all the Republican deputies for the present. The firm of Coffin & Stanton, New York, were awarded $‘,030,000 of Cincinnati granite-block-paving bonds at $1.20 per $1,000 premium. At the request of the Pope, Signor Honx, editor of the Journal <le Some, an Ultramontane paper, has resigned. He will remove to Paris. Signor Deprstis announced in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the 1st that he would continue the Government policy, regulating details according to circumstances. Adolph B. Spreckels, charged with assault to murder M. H. Do You lg, proprietor of the San Franeisco Chronicle, on trial for several weeks past, was declared ‘“not guilty” by the jury on the 1st. The Prohibitionists of Ohio have put a full ticket in the field, headed by Dr. A, B. Leonard. The Gordon memorial fund nowamounts to £18,311. General Wolselet and staff have left Cairo lor England. Minister Roberts bad an audience with the President of Cbili on! the 2d. Lucille Yseult Dudley has been committed to the asylum for the insane at Middletown, N. Y. Ex-Minister Lowell has presented. t«8 volumes of rare books picked up alnad to Harvard University. General Stevenson, of Illinois, is mentioned as the probable successor of First Assistant Postmaster-General Hay. Minister Keilt will not be recalled. The Austrian Government can receive him or do without a mini ster from America. Dr. B own-Sequard has been awarded the prise of $4,000 by the FTench Institute for discover es in physiology. Chas. A. Libbt, who disappeared from Chicago some time ago, and whose wife committed suicide afterward, has turned up at Boston. He had been on a protracted spree.

uoi.leotor HKDDON Baa reappointed all the Republican storekeepers, inspectors, etc., at New York, niach to tbe disguat of expectant Democrats. Owkn {Cellar, the Ohio man who was refused a position by First Auditor Chenoweth, has been given the place by Secretary Manning, who says tbe civil-service ru'es must be obeyed. On the 3d Mr. Kimball, the new Director of the Miut, entered on d.scharge of the duties of that offlca. On the 7th a banquet in honor of Judge A B. Stallo, recently appointed Minister to Italy, will be given at Cincinnati, O., under the Auspices of the Ohio Olnb, the same organisation which honored Minister Pendleton in a similar way. CBIMKfl AMD CASIDALT1B8. TaTLoh Moccasin, while plowing in his field, near Carroll ton, O*., on the 80 tb, Was killed by lightning. &

Terrific storms hare prevailed in the French provinces. The 'destruction of property by the winds and floods has been enormous. Bight persons were killed by lightning. A dear and dumb man named Miller, residing in Dubuque, la., while walking on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road above Eagle Point on the 30th, was struck by the Flying Dutchman and instantly killed. , Eliza Sags, unmarried, thirty-four years old, was brutally outraged and murdered by unknown parties near Allegan, Mich., on the 30th. E. A. Boyd and Geo. 1L Boyd, father and son, were sentenced at New York on the 30th for. defrauding the Government, the father to the Penitentiary for two years, the son to pay a fine of $1,000. A horrible murder was committed at Dawson, Dak., on the 30th. The body of Mrs. Unger was found buried in the hay in one of the stalls of the barn. She had been dead some time. It is supposed a tramp that was work ng for Mrs. Unger did the work by beating in her head with an iioa wedge, I it accordance with a recent decision of the New York Court of Appeals, Frans Joseph Petmeaky, the Auburn murderer, was taken to Buffalo on the 30th and resentenced by the General Term of the Supreme Court to be hanged in Auburn, Friday, Angnst 21st. Os the 1st a woman and two children were burned to death in a tenement house nt Cleveland, O. Ox the 1st, in Stephens County, Texas, a man named Thompson inaugurated a campaign against Archie Freeman, bent on taking his life. Freeman’s cousin came along at the right time, and ended the campaign by shooting Thompson. It was all about a woman. Os the 1st James Oglesby, of Detroit, Mich., felt from the steamer Alaska at Fut-in-Bay, Lake Erie, and was drowned. Patrick Lifford oud James Millets, two tramps, were struck by the Western express of the Pennsylvania Railroad near Pittsburgh on the 1st Miller was instantly killed and his companion fatally hurt Ox the night of the 1st a fire in Sloss Bros.’ millinery establishment at Cleveland, O., destroyed $10,000 worth of feathers, flowers, etc. Insured for $9,000. W. C. Bell, jeweler, lost $2,000, and Hull, a dealer in rubber goods, $1,0.10. Fully Insured. Ox the 2d fire destroyed $75,000worth of property at Pe3htigo, Wis. Ox the 2d Mrs. Lewis Steele, a newly married lady, committed suicide at Utica, N. Y. Wm. Mkinricks was hanged in the jail yard at Binghamton, N. Y„ on the 2d,for the murder of Katie Brodh off. Ox the 2d Edward Hall and Isaac Lawrence were convicted in the United States Court in New York of conspiring to counterfeit Guatemalan currency. Eugene Saulsbury, who killed Peter Miller at Union City, Mich., in May, has been convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years in the State’s prison at Jackson. Durixg the first six months of 1885 there have been ninety-three lynchings in the United States, the South being responsible for over three-fourths of the number; legal hangings, forty-two. The total number of lynchings in 1884 was 193; legal hangings, 123. MUCELLANKOUB. During the last fiscal: year 149 National banks have been organised, and the charters of 731 others were extended twenty years. A reduction of 119 persons In the force of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing took place on the 1st > A dispatch from Dongo.la stages that the Monasier tribe made a raid upon Old Dongola. One hundred camels were secured by the raiding party. The Shagtyeh tribe have given in their submission to the Mabdi. Reports of the ravages of cholera in Spain on the 28th from official sources show a total of 1,032 new cases and 400 deaths, among them General Galois, Director of the Toled > Military Academy. Typhoid fever is said to be raging in Tonquin among the reserve troops from Marseilles. Captain Crawford has chased the Indians into Mexico and capture! fifteen women and children. Mr. Bock wood’s gelding, Harry- Parker, paced ten miles to sulky at St. Louis on theiDth in 28:52 3-4 very easily, in the endeavor to beat thirty minutes: This makes the pacing record.

the following galaxy or horses with remarkable records were at Cleveland daring the past week: Maud 8,2:00 1-4; Jay Eye See, 2:10; Maxey Cobb) 2:13 1-4; Phallas, 2:13 3-4; Clingstone, 2:14. It is rumored that the Yaqui Indians defeated the Mexicans in a recent engagement, killing 403, including General Qracio, and wounding General Loaiza. The custodian of the Federal building at New York was notified by Secretary Manning on the 3)th to reduce his force thirty per cent. He discharged sixteen men. The Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific shops and the Kerr-Murray Iron Works at Ft. Wayne, Ind., have resumed operations, the striking employes having returned to work on the 30th. O le hundred and sev-enty-five men are employed at the Wabash shops, and 140 men by the Kerr • Murray Company. A force of Cuban volunteers recently defeated the Sanchez bond and captured "Commander” Pedro Estrada. Nearly all the glass-works of South Jersey put out their fires on the 30th for two mouths. The Frenoh Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 219 to 210, has restored to the worship estimates the sum for canons* salaries expunged by the committee. Forty thousand hands are thrown out of employment through the masons’ strike in Berlin. The masters refuse to negotiate with the men and are beginning to employ foreign masons to take the places of the strikers. Recent thunder-storms in Germany have done much damage to property, flooding large tracts of lowlands and many houses. Russian advices from the Vladlvostock say that a Russian steamship which attempted to enter Port Hamilton was intercepted and forbidden to enter by an English man-of-war. The English are said to be fortifying the port.

Utrpf, w than « to. report rail ares In the Dominion of Canada for the first six months of 1885, its against 752 failures for the first six months of 1881. The liabilities for the first half of 1885 are only $5,166,000, as against $10,742,000 in the corresponding period of 1884 Dispatches from Russia report (fresh trouble on the Chinese frontier. Total number of new cases of cholera in Bpain on the 80tl>, 1,210; deaths, 615; on the 1st, new cases, 1,161; deaths, 478. Ox July 1st the total debt of the United States, principal arid interest;, was $1,889,577,103.75. Fic4htino is reported in Mexico between Lieutenant Davis and the Apaohee. Sixteen of the latter are reported killed. July 1st being the eighteenth anniversary of the Dominion confederation, was observed as a holiday in Canada.

Intimation is given by • member of the English Government that the Irish Crimes Act will not bo pressed. At Indianapolis a telephone rat* w i is in progress,' the Company trying to evade the rate impost! by the last Legislature by charging for extras. Coercion in Ireland is to be abandonedt and the government will rely upon the strict administration of the general law. Tn* question of convict labor is the cause of trouble in Johnson Coun-y, Arkansas. The people threaten to liberate all the prisoners now at work in the mines. The proposed naval demonstrai ion against Zanzibar by Germany has been countermanded by Bismarck, and the littlelwar speck Is vanished. • The post of Governor of Alsace-Lor-raine, made vacant by Mantsnffel’s death, has been abolished. The civil administration will hereafter be directed from Berlin. Burr for $1150,000 has been brought against Lester & Co. at Chicago by Samuel Berkswits for money lost on Board of Trade contracts. The snit is brought und r the gambling statute. Remarkably cold weather was reported from the southwestern portion of Virginia on the 1st. Snow fell in Taz swell County, and ice formed in Wythe County. The report of the South American Commission on our relations with Peru shows a disastrous condition of commerce there and our trade dwindled to nothing, and expresses the opinion that an American line of steamers is an imperative necessity. On the 1st the Music Teachers’ National Association began its ninth annual meeting in New York. About 500 delegates were present. Papers on musical subjects occupied the day. The oyster men in the vicinity of New Haven. Conn., are greatly agitated over the recent discovery that a very destructive insect has been at work on their oyster beds, and that of the 100,001 bushels of seed planted last year about 01.000 have been destroyed. The Imperial and American Club had its iuaugural dinner in London on the 2d. The Island of Madagascar is threatened with famine, the rice crop having failed. TheJ British Cabinet is considering the question of trad) depression. No more furloughs will be allowed in India until the Afghan question is settled. On the 2d the League of American Wheelman began Its annual conventim in Buffalo, N. Y. Up to July 1st this year the aggregate miles of railroad built in the United States is 1,895.5. Recent violent stocms have caus?d great damage to crop) and other property in Southeastern Kansas. A Ktw steamship line is to be established between Germany, East Africa and Austria. A fund is to be raised in England for maintenance of a torpedo service for coast defense. Two men were recently caught sketching the fortifications at Boulogne. They are thought to be German spies. In Southern Colorado the people are greatly alarmed over the threatening attitude of the Indians. The unemployed workman of Wolverhampton, Eng., complain to Premier Salisbury that they are in a starving condition. , The Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company have taken steps to put their wires under ground in Washington, D. C. The Conservatives'are about to establish a news agency in London to spread th ir doctrines among the people. IIayti has protested to the United t'ta rs against paying damages awarded acai-ist that governm)nt in favor of Pelletier by an arbitrator. It transpires that something over a million dollars coined at the New Orleans mint under the Confederate government has never been accounted for. More trou ble was expected the morning of the 3d in Chicago, when an effort was to be made to run street cars. The entire polce force of the city were detailed to take a hand in the business. The South American Commission from the United States has made its report on Chili. It received very little encouragement there—a chilly greeting, so to speak. Replying to inquiries from State officials the Postmaster-General has decided that penalty euTelopes can not be nsed to forward correspondence on State affairs, even when enclosed with matter properly mailable in penalty envelopes.

LATE NEWS ITEMS General Grant’s book is nearly completed. A sporadic case of yellow fever has occurred at New Orleans. Robinson, the St. John (N. B.) defaulter, haa been heard from in Mexico. Mrs. Garfield and family are, visiting at Stookbridge, Maas. Geo. H. Dunbar was murdered by unknown parties at Pittsfield, Mass., on the 5th. Henrt Ward Beecher has concluded his series of lectures on evolution. The French press hps assumed a more friendly tone toward England. France has adopted precautions against the introduction of cholera from Spain. The National military encampment at Philadelphia disbanded on the 6 h. It was a financial failure. An unknown man had his clothes stolen at Omaha, Neb., on the 5th, over which he went craxy and died. Tee authorities of Zurich, Switzerland, have forbidden meetings or processions of t ie Salvation Army. General McCook writes a letter arraigning the Government for its course in the matter of Indian leases. We Van Voart and Charles Maxweil were killed by the t remature explosion of jl cannon at Utica, N. V. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, issued a proclamation on the 5th forbid ling the people to congregate in large bodies along the car lines. The remains of Louisiana’s war Governor. Henry Watkins Allen, were removed frctn New Orleans to Baton Rouge on the 5th, and buried w.th honors. Chas. W. Buck. United States Minister to Peru, has been officially received at Lima. Louis Hasson, of New York, spent the Fourth on the top of Storm King Mountain, near Newburgh, and wound up the day by killing himself, after trying to kill his wife.

1 KAvi X MUU IUO Ok U JUI3 OiU* cers who went to New Zealand to bring bark Maxwell, the alleged murderer of Freller, hare notified the authorities that theyjwill return with their prisoner on the steamship Zelandia, sailing from Auckland on the Slat. General Grant spent a quiet day on the 6th, and was feeling in good spirits. Senator Chaffee waa among the visitors. It is said that the State Department has been informed that Ecuador and Chili bave arranged some sort of an offensive and defensive alliance, aud there is a certain amount of anxiety regarding the report. Mb. Malcolm Hat’s physicians have ordered his removal from Washington as soon as he can stand the journey. He will probably go to the' mountains with his daughter this week.

ARRIVED AT AUCKLAND. The Officers After Maxwell, the St. Loali Murderer, Arrive In Auckland—Inter* ▼lew Wltk the Culprit—He Will Come Back Without Trouble and “Establish His Innocence.** St. Louis, Mo., July 1.—The Bcpublt tan of this city has received a special cablegram from Auckland stating that Detectives Tracey and Badger arrived safely In that city on the morning of the 29th nit. Mr. Gamble, the American Consul, met the officers and gave them all the information relating to the arrest and detention of Maxwell. The fatter was found in custody and answered fully the descriptions of him given at the time of the murder. He has been treated well by the Auckland jailer and appeared to be enjoying good health. He was greatly surprised when the announcement of the arrival of the SL Louis officers was made. They immediately had a long talk with him, which resulted in Maxwell’s signifying his willingness to return on the next steamer. The papers were presented in due form and the requisition promptly acknowledged. ° The officers made an examination of Maxwell’s effects and found the fieldglasses bought at Aloe’s, the hat bought at Hart & Duff’s, a lot of clothing belonging to Preller and a number of articles with the alias, “Hugh M-. Brooks,’* stamped on them. Maxwell still insists that he did not kill his friend Preller, and that his name is T. C. D’Augier and not Maxwell. He is disposed to waive all rights under the New Zealand law for the purpose of coming back here and, as he says, establishing his innocence. He had very little money when he landed, but had letters of introduction to parties in Auckland and Sidney under the name of D’Augier which are believed to have been forged from Preller’s letters !of introduction to people in the same cities. The officers and their prisoner will return on the steamer Zealandia, which will leave Auckland July 25th, aud arrive in ’Frisco about the middle of August. A POWERFUL AGENT. A Terrible Kxplostun or Cu In a 1‘ennsylvnnU Coal Mine Causes Wide-Spread Destruction and General Consternation— Another Explosion Feared. Scranton, Pa., July 1.—About 1:30 o’clock yesterday morning an explosion of gas which shook the entire city and caused something like a general panic occurred at one of the Delaware, Lackawanua & Western Company’s coal shafts in the northwestern portion of Scranton. Many persons were startled from their sleep by the sharp shocks, and some thought it might possibly be an earthquake. Those who were abroad witnessed a dazzling flash of light, and thought it possibly was some of the powder mills ou the mountain that had blown np. The idea of such a terrific blaze and convulsion being caused by a mine explosion seemed incredible. The excitement in the vicinity of the shaft was most intense. The windows of ail houses in Park Place, a thickly settled portion of ihe city, were smashed, and the dwellings swayed like a ship In a storm. The shatt and its surroundings presented a strange pictnre. Heavy timbers were flung nearly half a mile away. The massive foundation of the hoisting tower was moved several feet, and all the stoat buildings, including the engine house, boiler house and (an house, were dismantled. Co.il cars were flung from the railroad track and smashed to pieces, and the entiru place was a complete wreck. Engineers and firemen employed in the vicinity of the shaft were badly stunned, but recovered shortly afterward, and the wonder is that they escaped with their lives. The Clark vein, in which the explosion occurred, is one of the'' worst in the valley. Gas blowers, which issue from crevices in the coal, and are quite common there, sometimes become ignited, causing the workmen a good deal of trouble. When the fire boss, Tunis Evans, visited the mine on Sunday morning last, he reported everything alt right, but he had not been out of the place fifteen minutes before there was an explosion which - tore the r.iof of the hoisting tower. This explosion dismantled the fan-house, and disabled the fan, and this accounts fbr the accumulation of gas which exploded .with snch terrific effect. As the fan is still idle another explosion is feared. The Clark vein in which the gas accumulates so rapidly lies at a great depth, being lower than the three veins known as the Duraond Rock and fourteen-foot Strata of anthracite.

DARK AND BLOODY GROUND. Another Battle Between Kentucky Faction k. Mt. Sterling, Ky., July 2.—Tuesday night about dark a battle occurred at Stepstone, a small station on tbe Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, about seven miles from this place, in which Dr. James Carter was shot by a rifle in the bands of James Wiueman. The ball struck Carter in the hip, inflicting a serious wound. A negro, whose name your correspondent was unable to learn, was shot With a shiMgun in the head, and at last reports is dead. Two factions have existed at Stepstone for some time, and the cause of the division seems to be the question of local option, which is in force at that place. Frank Brown, druggist, was arrested several times for selling liquor in violation of his druggist’s license, which only permits a sale upon a prescription from a physician. Tuesday Brown was tried on two charges and was fined $25 on one and acquitted on the other. The two factions were much aroused, and trouble occurred during the trial. Peace. was with much effort held until dark, when a general fight broke out between the friends of the parties. Several shots were fired with the above results. More trouble is apprehended, as each partv is thoroughly aroused. Exploded Her Boilers# Troy, N. Y., July 2.—The steam yacht Otis Smith blew up while lying at the dock at eleven o’clock yesterday morning. The explosion was tremendous, and shook the houses in the vicinity as if by earthquake. George Roberts, the engineer, who was just going ou board, was severely injured. No one else was hurt. The Area were banked last night, and the theory of the explosion is that some malicious person went aboard and closed the doors and fastened down the safety valve. The boiler was new and in good condition.

Down Through a Bridge. , Chicago, III., July 1.—At two o’clock yesterday morning a south bound freight train on the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago Road, crashed through a bridge at Delphi, Ind. As the engine and tender had crossed the bridge a crash was heard In the rear, and all the cars, with the exception of the caboose and two; others plunged into the river. The cars that went down were loaded with lumber. Two spans ot the bridge, which was a high one, gave way just after the engine had crossed. One brakeman was seriously injured, aud another Is missing, and is supposed to have gone down with th« cars and drowned. —

THE CHICAGO STRIKE. Rlotovu-Seenes Result ins From the Strife* of the StreeUCar Conductors and Drivers —The Police Almost Powerless and the Roads Idle—A Conference* Chicago, III, July 1.—The vicinity ot the Western avenue car barns was the battle-ground between the street railway company and Its striking employes this morning. By five o’clock a crowd ot fully one thousand men had concentrated .ear that point. There were also about two hundred police and Deputy-Sheriffs on hand. At 5:30 two cars were started from the Lake street door, but the crowd surrounded them, blocked the wheels and hurled stones through the windows at the Depnty-Sheriffs, and the cars were returned to the barn. While this was going on, William Miller, a newly employed driver, attempted to take a car out on the Western Avenue Line, when the crowd began the same tactics that It bad employed on the Lake street cars. Miller held on to the reins, however, but John Hughes, the old driver of the car, knocked him senseless by a blow on the head,with a paving' stone. The police charged the crowd and arrested Hughes, and this car, too, went back to the barn. While the crowd was engaged with the police three cars were rnsbed out on to the Madison street line, but only got to Halstead street, where they were ditched by tbe crowd waiting on the corner. The company claims that the police are insufficient. The strikers are jubilant. N» cars have gone through up to this hour. At twelve o’clock three cars, with police and deputy sheriffs as the only passengers, started from the Western avenue barn on the Madison street line. The trip down town, although slow, was without Interruption, except for the hootings of crowds at various corners, and on the return trip, however, the cars were met by a mob of four or five thousand at Jefferson street. They followed the cars with hoots and yells to Union street. From thence on lo Hatsted street the scene was of the most riotous description. The crowd hurled beer barrels, bricks, stones, and all sorts of missiles at the cars, smashing the windows and nearly wrecking the . cars. Several arrests were made, but the police were almost powerless to handle the mob. During the’riot at Halstead street, Mayor Harrison appeared on the scene and attempted to restore order. He arrested one rioter who was armed with a pick with his own hands, and held him until an officer secured him. The officers charged the crowd with drawn revolvers. One or two shots were fired, but nobody was struck. There was no further trouble of a serious nature until the three cars reached Center avenue. There the last car fell behiud and was surrounded bj the crowd. The officers were compelled to abandon it, and it was thrown from the track by the mob and npset in the street. Skinner, the driver, was taken into a patrol wagon and his safety thus assured. The horses were taken in charge by one of tbe striking condnotora and led back to the barn. A few minutes later a patrol wagon was driven to the scene of the trouble, when the upturned car was righted. It was then fastened to the patrol wagon and driven to the barn. Another patrol wagon, filled with officers, gnardiug it in the rear. The other two succeeded in reaching the barn with little difficulty. On the Halstead street line, fonr attempts were made late in the afternoon to start out cars, but every time a car appeared a crowd of seven or eight hundred, composed mostly of sailors, iron ore shovelers and other hardy sons of toil, were in waiting. The four cars were picked up bodily and thrown on their sides. No stones were thrown and no firearms drawn. The company finally concluded not to make any more attempts. At three o’clock in the afternoon Mayor Harrison was wailed upon by Superin tendent Lake, Police Chief Doyle and Sheriff Hanchett for the purpose of having a thorough discussion of the situa tion, and about the best means to pre serve the peace. “Order must, of course, be main tained,” said the Mayor, in opening u\f the conference, “but I am not in favor oi putting tbe whole resources of the city a' the disposal of the company jnst for thi purpose of running a car or two.” The Mayor was unable to see how the.f could do anything to protect the coni pany’s property without incensing no’ only the striking employes, but the she p keepers along the different lines ss well. He plainly intimated that pubi’c sentiment seemed to be unquestionably in favor of the strikers. Tbe police could clear Madison street, the’principal scene of trouble, which would cause further complications; or the street car company, to avoid such complications, might make a concise statement to tie public, setting forth the reasons for tbe discharge of the sixteen employes, which was considered an umbrage by tbe strikers. Then the public' coaid judge which side to take. Everything was comparatively quiet last night, pending a proposition to be submitted by the railway officials to the Mayor.

OVER A PRECIPICE. Two Women and a Man Terribly InJurAl —A Baby’s Miraculous Kicape Erik, Pa., Jane 1.—On the NickelPlate Railroad at Springfield, last night, a freight train, baring aboard the wife and two children of the conductor, G. -Donlan, and a Miss Sadie Mahoney, was ran nnto by a nother freight while ou a trestle bridge. The women and children were on a flat car, and were hurled over a precipice ninety-fire feet deep. Brakeman Tahey was frightfully injured, and Miss Mahoney was disfigured for life, part of her face being torn away. Mrs. Dolan, who is now dying, was terribly cut by telegraph wires which obstructed her fall. She bung there for some time, still clinging to her baby, which had its arm broken. The wire gave way, atid she fell again, but the child was caught in branches and was saved. The War On the Louisville Gamblers. Louisville. Ky., July 1.—At midnight the police, acting under warrants taken ont by A. H. Gallier, a detective of the Law and Order Clnb, raided twelve gambling houses, arresting the employes and taking charge of the Implements and machinery.. Thirteen arrests were made. No players were arrested. The Law and Order Club is an organization of the best citiaens banded together for the suppression of gambling in the city. This Is their first open movement and it was a sweeping one. The bouses raided were running keno and faro games.

Lamentable Accident. AlgOna, Ia.-, July 1.—While Prof. Shtppey, principal of the public schools, and his family were boating on the Des Moines River yesterday, their boat passed over the dam. Mrs. Shippey jumped out with her six-months-old baby in her arms. Their son jumped out also. Mrs. Shippey and the children snnk at once. The Professor battled with the water for some time, hoping to rescue thorn, but was finally taken out of the water by assistance from the shore. The bodies of Mrs. Shippey and the babe were recovered within a short time Prof. Shippey was formerly from Bascom. Seneca County. Ohio.

PUBLIC REGARD FOR TRUTH. Blaine’s Mendacity and TersIvemUoaa the Cannes of HI* Defeat. Blaine recently said that the nomination tor the Presidency had been thrust it him, and he did not feel justified in declining it This is political, or, more itrictly speaking, parliamentary language of .that nature coming more genr'ra’ly into use among politicians as the world grows older. Thers 18 no reason why a politician Bhould not teil the truth. He has to mix with all classes of people; sees all phases of life; possesses rare opportunities for the study of human nature, and, if originally without a talent for close observation, his constant intercourse with men should of itself nourish into activity even his most latent possessions of the perceptive quality and cause him to learn the one fact which his observation surely teaches—namely, that people demand truthful utterances from public men. They are supposed to speak for the masses, and therefore their responsibility is all the greater. John Stuart Mill was once invited to stand for Parliament by a few friends who knew his great ability. He consented, but he was generally unknown to the people of that particular district. The Toting population was made up largely of workingmen. His opponent, who regarded his candidacy with indifference, had, he was certain. one bomb which, when exploded, would shatter Mill’s slightest chance of success. It was a report thafhad been raked up from the past to the effect that Mill had opce said that “the working classes of England are given to lying.” “Did you ever make that remark?” asked Mill’s opponent at an immense mass meeting composed almost entirely of the working-classes. Mills straightened himself, iooked the man in the eye, and said simply: "I did.” That was all—no explanation; no equivalent What was the result? That meeting, made up as it was of the working classes, sent forth a shout of applause which shobk the building. Here was a public man who had the courage to tell the truth about a remark he had made, although the truth appeared damaging to him. He had made an assertion he should not have made, but he did not attempt to escape the penalty by equivocation. It elected Mill. Tiiese people whom he had once dispraised realized that they would get in him a man whose word they could rely upon. They felt that here at least was one public man who was not given to lying. If one cause more than another can be given for Blaine’s defeat it is to be found in the fact that the people had ceased to believe what he said. He had made so many misstatements that the public wanted the affidavits to substantiate his utterances. He had made that mistake so surprisingly common among public men—namely, that the people can be fooled more than once. It is a contrary fact that the masse, are like's child. One untruth ovl forfeit a trust of rears. And Blaine has lied repeatedly, but never so transparently as When he avowed that he did not try to get the Republican nomination for the Presidency. His last reported utterance is that he will never again be a candidate. But who believes him? Who can believe him? Because a man is a Republican it is not necessarily held that he is a liar. Because a man is a public man it is not necessarily held that all public men are liars. But Blaine as being a conspicuous Republican and public man has been a shining exemplification of the fact that both Republicans and public men can lie and do lie too often.— Richmond (!«.) Stale. GENUINE BOURBONS.

Politicians Who ^evor Learn and Who T Serer Forget—The Bloody Shirk Bust* ■ ness. The Republicans of Ohio are genuine Bourbons. Like the line of princes who bore that name they never forgednnd they never learn. The utterances of the platform which they adopted at their convention last-week is the most foolhardy attempt to revive dead and long buried issues we have witnessed in many a dpy. The bloody shirt lost all the potency it ever possessed years ago, and no one ought to know this, better than the Republican leaders in Ohio. The platform adopted by them was denounced in advsuape seven years ago by the most brilliaifrRepublican statesman their State ever produced. We refer to General Garfield, who, on the 10th of October, 187b, spoke as follows in the House of Representative^: ‘T want to say another thing. The man who attempts to get up a political excitement in this country on the old sectional issues will find himself without a party and without support The man who wants to serve his country must put himself in the line of its leading thought and that is the restoration of business, trade, commerce, industry, sound political economy, hard money and honest payment of all obligations; and the man who can add anything in the direction of the accomplishment of any of these purposes is a public benefactor.’' “Without a party and without support,” these are the words in which General Garfield in 1878 foreshadowed the defeat of the Republicans in Ohio in 1885. At the same time he outlined the course of the man whom these same Republicans now denounce, President Cleveland, who in three short months has done more to firmly reunite the North and South than was accomplished by the Republicans in twenty years. He is endeavoring to make the interests—business, political and social—of the two great sections of this eountry a unit, and because his efforts are being rewarded with success the Republicans of Ohio lyingly assert that he has appointed unrepentant rebels to office and disregarded the claims of the Northern Teterans. And the leading Republican journals of the country, re-echo-ing the sentiments of the Springfield Convention, assert that these are the grounds upon which the political battles of the next four years are to be fought! Such blind folly as this invites defeat, and defeat will come. If thero are any Republicans in Ohio who still revere the utterances of their'great leader, let * them heed the warning of seven years ago before it is too late, The party that hopes to return to power by a renewal of sectional strife will find tho road a long and difficult one.—Pittsburgh Post.

—Visits to strawberry farms shows much animation in the picking, season. When the berries begin to ripen the pickers swarm to the various patches to gather the berries for market In the Maryland fields the colored laborers give great pietnresqueness. The fields, half ebveml with berries, people clad in many-Iated gowns, picking or carrying the fruit on trays, make an intareatmg spectacle.—Chicago Times.

A PAINSTAKING OFFICIAL. The Kmb Judgment •£ th« President fiUf * Kxempli&ed la Hie Selection. Postmaster-General Vilas has accomplished a vast amount of work during tin three months he has been ia office. In no instance was the keen Judgment qf President Cleveland exemplified more fully than in his selection of this hard-working, capable official. He threw himself into his work from the beginning with a zeal and activity that have been crowned with a gratifying success. To this zeal and activity he has combined excellent judgment and caution, earnestness,: tireless industry and readiness to adopt, after careful scrutiny, any new method which may tend to simplify and facilitate the workings of his department. Like the othei members of the Cabinet, Mr. Vilas is a steadfast upholder of the true principles of Civil-Service reform, to which the President is unalterably committed. He found the department in a condition calculated to discourage aud dampen the ze >1 of any reformer. It was permeated with the leaven of the notorious Frank Hattou and the still more notorious Brady, and was, if possible, more Republican and offensively partisan than aav of the other departments. Like the cities of the plain, few. just men could be found in it. and Mr. Pearson was the only Lot who was considered worthy of being saved. Throughout the length and breadth of the laud were postmasters who .obtained their positions as the reward of party services and on the condition that they were to regard themselves as mere electioneering agents when the good of tlie party demanded it. Democrats were rigidly excluded, as a matter of course, from this huge partisan ma chine. _ j Mr. Vilas, although naturally surprised at the magn tude of the evil he Was appointed to suppress, did not indulge in precipitate measures which might have embarrassed the postal service and have done violence to his reform principles. He has proceeded Cautiously, examined each ease carefully before making a removal or an appointment, aud consequently he has, as far as lie has been able to go, so far, raised the standard of the service to a’ degree of efficiency and honesty which would have been considered impossible six mouths ago. Besides the excellent material he has substituted for corruption hi the postoffices, he has stopped'. several important leaks in the business ■ of his xlepartment. By a new postage stamp contract he saves over thirty thousand dollars a year to the Government and seven thousand on postal cards. In one item of sending office packages by mail he effected a saving of $42.437.20. All this has been accomplished in the first three months of his administration, and he proposes to do a great deal more when time and familiarity with the workings of “his office permit. He has been more fiercely assailed by the spoilsmen, probably, than any other member of thef Administration, but they have failed to move him a jot from the plan of thorough reform he has mapped out for himself. Virginia is particularly indebted to him for removing from her shoulders the incubus of Mahoneism, which derived all its oppressiveness from the Federal patronage In the hand ; of the apostle11 of repudiation. The general cleaning out of Mahone postmaster? will enable the Old Dominion to recuperate and meet the emergency of financial difficulties now presented before it. Mr. Vilas is the youngest of the Cabinet: officers, but he has given ample evidence of ripe judgment and caution which'dismisses to a vanishing point all dread of blunders. The postoffice department is jn excellent hands. —Albany Arjfl^s.

The Removal <)fj Republican Office-Holder* imperatively Demanded. “Another old and faithful officer reORDERED \BY THE PEOPLE. ORDEj moved,” is the pathetic announcement With Which the Republican papers seek to rouse popular indignation against this “inconsistent and hypocritical Administration for displacing a Repub lican official who has spent twenty-foul years in the public service and “worked his wav up from every grade.” Ane then, there is the Director of the Mint, Mr. Burchard, an exceedingly mentori-, ons officer, who has gained high credit by his judicious conduct of the coinage bureau; lie, too, is to go and make room for 9 Democrat. The Republican press thinks, or affects to think, it is insufferable, anjJ the people ought to gnash , their teeth at the way the Democratic Administration is turning good Repub' iicans out of office. It is hard. There is no reason for turning these good men ont of office, but that they are Republicans, and there is no reason for putting new men in, but that they are Democrats. It is not only an outrageous and crying injustice to the good men who have been, some of them, drawing salaries from the Government for eighteen, twenty and twenty-four years, but it is a flagrant violation of the spirit of the Civil-Service rules. The people must be appealed to. But here is the trouble: The people who are to be appealed to began the mischief which they are asked to remedy. Didn't they turn ont “■the grand old party” last fall, the party which, in the opinion of its adherents, had governed the eountry with admirable hdelity and success for twenty-four years, the party that had saved' the Union, freed the slaves, half paid the public debt (after contracting if), restored specie payment (after suspending if), and done a,,great many other fine things? Didn't they turn out that “old and faithful officer," President Arthur, and repudiate that other “old and faithful” patriot, Mr. Blaine, for no other reason under the sun than that they were. Republicans? And didn’t

tney pitra jxew lorfe Democrat in the White'House, utterly ignorant of Presidential duties, simply because he was a Detribcrat? If the people are to be appealed to against President Cleveland, who is to be appealed to against the people? They are the authors of the trouble, for they began it. President Cleveland is* only imitating and obeying them.—SiU Louis Republican. —A snake nine feet long and seven inches in diameter was killed near Starueca, Pa., a few days ago. The animal had a peculiar flat head and about its neck was a circle of short stiff hairs. Its color was brown, with red bands around the body at intervals of a few inches. Killing it was an easy matter, as it was helpless from gorging when discovered, being in the act 0?devouring a newly-born lamb, which if had almost half swallowed.—PUtsburgkBsst -—Hie encouragement of oat-door recreation has a material Influence upon the physical development of a nation. — San Francisco Bulletin,