Pike County Democrat, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 April 1886 — Page 1

unty Democrat OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, over 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Store, Main 8treet. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. APRIE 8, 1886. NUMBER 48. PIKE COUNTYOEMOCRSU JOB WORK • OF AIX KINDS toTeatly Eseouted —AT— REASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! Perrons ro< b'riiur " copy of this paper with his notice .crossed m Ica.l pencil are notified •bat the inae of their subscription has expired

1<UV- : oil the 30th con(of Geronimo’s surrender, nil to the President. SubseGeneral Sheridan called on the [lent, and, after a short consultation, atch wit sent to Geueral Crook, |mat>ly containing definite instruchow to deal with the surrendered : firm of Olive Brothers Sc Phillips, [workers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., have I the wages of their three thousand > from eight to fifteen per cent, he night of the 30th Secretary Manphysicians reported a slight imminent in the condition of their patient, had rested quietly and comfortably Jig the day and evening, and altopr, they saidl, he was doiug as well as 1 be expected. | the Sllth Neal, the keeper of the Nowf. J.) dog pound, who was bitten by i dog some weeks ago, and who had tlie tortures of hydrophobia for $, died in violent paroxysms. An |upt to treat him by the Pasteur methhited because not made in time. Is health of ex-President Arthur is loving, but he is stili unable to leave house.

IrmtHATK.-iiNS 'letter having beep reJid.by President Grevy of Prance, the pi at his house' has been increased. be powers have been notified by Prince jcauder of Bulgaria that he has reid to adhere t<> the Qrigiuai arrangei with Turkov. lis King of Corea is said to have issued pdict abolishing slavery in hiskingIt is estimated that over half the illation of Corea are slaves. the 81st ai North Fairfield, O., Je- ' Stevens, a prominent farmer, was and mortally wounded by a thief bin he detected in the act of stealing [in from his barn. ; the 31st General Master Workman vderly arrived home at Scranton, Pa., > ill, and had to be conveyed to his Ulence in a carriage. He was suffering “ i the effects of his recent fall, and is > troubled wit* quinsy. To add to his f steal troubles, a large boil had spared on the baok of his ne is the 31st Governor ffosaker of Ohio the Cincinnati jStSwsacommisn, as follows: Two years, TSbEgas C. jinor, Democrat ; Geo. R. Topp, Rcflublifour years, Robert S. Morgan,\ Re^biican; Milo G. Dodds, Democrat. The late Countess Chambord left $2,500,in cash, deposited with the Rothskilds, besides vast and immensely valuJe estates in Austria. JDr. Bhadin, who attended Neal, the hyprophobia victim, at Newark, N. J.t got ome of Neal’s saliva in a cut on his finger, ie has gone to Paris to be treated by Pasteur. General Fremont is at Washington orking on his memoirs. |Mrs. Tuos. A. Hendricks,left Iiviianaplis on the 2d for a trip to California. [Edward Hanlan has Issued from ToInto a challenge to Teemer to row hitu for J„Q00 in August. ■The Czar and.suite started on the 1st for le C; linen, and 100,000 men guarded the lilway over which the journey was made. ■Prince Hismavck received many couratulations on the 1st, it being bis seven-j-first birthday. [Prince Alexander firmly refuses to pbmit to the Powers, and the Bulgarian apers applaud his attitude. [Georoe Hollisushead, reported a few pys Since as having committed suicide at erre Kaute, Ind,, has turned up all right ; Vandalia, III., | A London rum hr has it that Mr. Gladpne is disposed to retreat from the bolder |tiiii6s of his Irish pofticy. dwakd H. Johnston, a well-known | izen of Eatontown, N. J., was ai'rested i the 1st, ch rged with complicity in the nching of tne negro, “Mingo Jack.” Seval other arrests are promised. The President lm s approved the act aulorizing the appointment of an acting sistant treasurer.^ [The Secretary of War received a disBtch on the 1st from General Crook oonkrning the reports of the surrender and absequent escape of Geronimo and part t hi'band, but giving no details in addion b what has already been published. Iioerhan Fitllorapp, ot New York, i arrested in connection with the vay franchise fraud, a. Davies, receiver of Grant & Ward, neither Warner nor his wife can be nd, and they li ave taken all their money [ valuables with them. a mass-meeting held at Guild Hall, Didon, on the Id, presided over- by the Ird Mayor, a resolution wag adopted pdemning Gladstone for his Irish pol- { Willi am C. Ackerman, of Harden ounty, la., attempted suicide at the J lrand Union Hotel, New York, on the 2d. [ was thought ho would not recover, asbe ok what is usually a fatal dose of laudaHhe Pall Mall Gazette says Gladstone is | 'Ag straight I'or a fall, and unless he /. Ifies his Irish scheme the country will neither home-rule nor Gladstone. [ xere wag no change in the jjrndjtlor I jjetary Manning on the if physi- " ps would only say, when ~ 'wiewed, l their-.^tient was a little r or a [le worse, as the case might is {own, however, that the Secrets,. grig 11 y paralyzed, urjd can barely m> » arms. There wa s no danger, howev. a in immediate cha nge in his condition. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. On the ,30th a construction train went through a bridge over the Tallapoosa giver between Op »lika and Danville, Ala. i feared some of the men were lost, l the 30th Key West, Fla., mu early out by fire. NearLvAhia^Bfeugition of a"

On the 31st the preliminary examination at Springfield, Mo. resulted in Cora Lee being held without bail as accessory before the fact, and Mrs. Mofloy in $6,000 bail as accessory after the fact, in the murder of Sarah Graham. Ok the 31st a passenger coach was thrown down an embankment on the Louisville, Kvansville & St. Louis railroad, between Huutingburg and Ferdinand, Ind., and four persons were killed and eighteen or twenty more or less seriously injured. On the 31st the Merchants’ Hotel burned at Carver. Minn. Andrew Swenson, aged sixty, audan unknown man were cremated in their beds. Bt an explosion of petroleum on the 31st on board of a vessel at Baku, Russia, the vessel was completely wrecked, and the entire crew of thirteen persons perished. A shocking accident occurred at a theater in Heromal, a Japanese town, February 28. The roof Of the theater gave way uuder the weight of snow and fell upon the spectators. Onehuudred and fifty were seriously injured and killed. Tax rooms occupied by the Bell Telephone Company at Toronto., Out., were burned out on the 1st. . H-SY5D GhIqsby and Braden Porter have been arrested at Keokuk, la., on charges of counterfeiting. In San Lain Obispo County, Cal., Eugene Walker and his wife were killed by Peter Hemini and his son on the 1st, and the murderers were afterward lynched by a mob. C. S. Sxyton, formerly 1, New York stock broker, was accidentally shot and killed while examining an electric gun nt London on the 1st. Eahly on the morning of the 1st burglars entered the post-office at Center Harbor. N. H., blew open the safe and escaped with $100 in money, securities amounting to $1,000 and a quantity of stamps. Wm. E. Robertson left Readsboro, Vt., for Searsburg on the' 1st with six French logging laborers. While crossing a bridge it gave way and the men and horses were precipitated into the river. Mr. Robertson and three of the Frenchmen were drowned. Piiii.ups, the wife-murderer, is to be executed on the 8th at Indianapolis, Ind. Fire in the Fairbank canning establishment at the town of Lake, a suburb of Chicago, on the 2d, caused a loss of $00,000. Captain Farmington Power was arrested at Beatrice, Neb., on the 2d, and will be returned to Illinois on a charge of forgery.

Mrs. Nathan (Griffith, living near Londoit, Ont., white laboring under re* ligious excitement on the 3d, out her husband’s throat with a razor. The house of Josh Hohel, in Reno, Minn., was burned on the 2d by, an incendiary, and Hobel's two-year-old daughter was burned to death. The new tank-house of Swiift & Co., at Chicago, was wrecked on the 2ld by an explosion, and the watchman, David Merefield, was seriously injured. A party of Mexican customs officers recently surprised a band of smugglers near San Fernando, killed their leader and captured a large quantity of goods. The Newhary hominy mills at Terre Haute, Ind., were destroyed by fire on the 2d. Total loss, $40,000; insurance, $34,000, in Eastern and foreigu companies. John White, who lived a few miles north of 8eneca Falls, N. Y., drove in town on the 2d and became very drunk. When he returned home at night he, in some way, set fire to his dwelling a id perished in the flames. Eighteen places of business at Port Rowan, Ont., were burned on the 2d. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $12,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Rev. Wm. Hammond, of the Free Will Baptist Church of Franklin, N. H., decamped on the 1st with $3,000 belonging to a newly wedded bride. He was arrested iu a Boston bank the next day as he was cashing the check. MISCELLANEOUS., t For the past eight mouths the collections of internal revenue aggregate $75,158,200. On the 31st several leaders of the Belgian Socialists at Paris were arrested while attempting to hold a meeting. Many farms are inundated in Kentucky, railroad bridges have been swept away, and serious damage caused otherwise by the high water. It is said that wholesale trading of American whisky, guns and ammunition for Canada horses is going on between American and Canadian border Indians. The Colombian Government has taken no notice of the protests, made by the consuls against the suspension of the Panama Star and Herald. The steamship Gulf of Akabo is long overdue at New York and has been given up for lost. The Canadian Minister of Finance states that the Canadian Pacific railway will be in a position by J nly 1 to return to the government $20,000,000. Workmen in the Muriemomt colliery, Belgium, struck on the 1st. Passenger rates at Indianapolis have been restored to the regular tariff except through rates to California. Several of the large cigar factories in Boyertown, Pa., have shut down indefi- ! nitely, owing, it is said, to the poor state of trade and the fact tbatthe cigar-makers are joining the Knights of Labor, necessitating the using of the Knight'd of Labor i label,

I HE railroad committee of the New York ! Senate on the 31st reported favorably the bill to repeal the Broadway (New York City) surface railroad franchise bill. A special meeting of the English Cabinet was held on the 1st on account of threatening news from Bulgaria and Greece. - A kivk-dollah counterfeit brownback National bank-note has been discovered, purporting to be an issue of the Central National Bank of Norwalk, Conn., and giving the charter number of the bank as 404. This bank has never issued a note of | the series of 1883, and its charter number j is 2,342.' A general strike took place in the paper \ mills of Birmingham, Eng., on the 1st, i against an ordered reduction of thirty- | three per cent, in wages. It is believed the strikers will accept a more moderate reduction. The richest silver ore in large bodies ! ever discovered in the United States has been struck in the Iron Hill mine in Da- > kota. Much of it assays 15,000 ounoes to the ton. A five-foot breast has been opened. The Reading (Pa.) iron works, in re* sponse to the petition presented by tbt men, advanced wages fifteen; per cent, excepting puddlers, who will receive three dollars and a half instead of three dollars, beginning on the 2d. The employes num- I ber some two thousand. • The great strike and shut-down at Beverly, Mass., was ended on the 1st, by an amicable adjustment of the grievance of Wallis, Kellham ft Bray by the joint board of arbitration. Most of the factories have started up. Brakkhen on the Bt. Louis division of the Lor.isviUe ft Nashville road are on a [uestions concerning wages, it activity in the British is repot ted in tijy |

Firms thousand struer* in the Charleroi district. Belgium, refuse to return to work, but the riots have been suppressed. A threat is made by the Freeman'* Journal that it the Scotch members help to defeat home-rule the Parnellites will relentlessly oppose all Scottish measures. The visible supply of wheat in the United States and Canada, on the 2d, according to the New York IToduce Exchange report, with the amount of wheat now at sea for Europe, amounted to 67,134,300 bushels, against 74,683,072 bushels a year ago; and of corn 21,357,073 bushels, against 13,318.283 bushels a year ago. At Kansas City, Mo., on the 2d, a mortgage of $20,000,000 was filed from the Kansu City, St. Louis & Colorado railroad in favor of the American Loan and Trust Company, of New York. Orders have been issued from the War Department making the following assignments of division commanders: MajorGeneral Schofield, Division of the Atlantic; Major-General Terry, Division of the Missouri; Major-General Howard, Division of the Pacific; Brigadier-General Crook, relieved at his own request -from the command of the Department of AritoM, and assigned to the Department of the Platte; Brigadier-General Miles, assigned to the Department of Arisona. There were 200 failures in the United States reported for the seven days ended the 2d, against 191 for the preceding like period. Canada had 18 against 30. The total number of failures in the United States from January 1 to April 2 is 8.339, against 3,911 in a like portion in 1883. Canada had 300 in three months of 1886, against 437 in a like share of 1883. The total number of rioters killed during the recent rioting in Belgium has been ascertained to be twenty-si*. It is probable that the persons arrested for inciting the strikers to violence can not be punished, as it is doubtful whether the mere act of inciting to riot is punishable under the provisions of the penal code. The freshet in the James driver in Virginia has been somewhat alarming, but no serious damage has resulted, though poor people have suffered most intensely. The flood has been si* feet higher than in 1877. The water was falUng on the 2d, and the trains were running through on time. There was no gas in Richmond on the 2d, owing to the rise in water.

TOJIWMBSITOAI, PROCEEDINGS. In til© Senate on the 29th a memorial trom the Pacific coast lor relict from the Chinese was laid before the Senate. Mr. Logan's Army bill was taken up and debated at length....In th$ House, under the call ot States, a preamble and resolution were Introduced directing the labor committee to Investigate she trouble between the Knights of Labor and Jay Gould; also a bill to pension all ex-Union soldiers and furnish artificial limbs to mutilated Confederates; to aid the public school system; also a joint resolution for Indemnifying China for losses and Indignities of the Chinese at the bands of cltlsens of Rock Springs, W. T.; also a bill by Mr. Glover forfeiting parts of the Southern Pacific land grant; by Mr. O'Neill, creating boards ot arbitration; also a great many bills of minor Importance and a resolution fonuominlttoe to Investigate the Carrolltan (Miss.) massacre. In the Senate on the 30th the bill establish Ing two additional land districts in Nebraska was passed. Mr. Logan’s Army bill was taken up and debated at length. Territorial bills occupied the remainder ot the session.In the House Mr. Guenther rose to a question of privilege, and defended himself against oertaln newspaper attacks. The Post-office Appropriation bill was then taken up In committee ot the whole and discussed. During the debate Mr. Houck and’ Mr. McMillan entertained the House with expressions of opinions ot eaoh other. Mr. Kanda'I introduced a resolution for a committee to Investigate the Carrollton (Miss.) slaughter. In the Senate on the 31st Mr. Logan’s army bill was taken up and discussed by senators Logan and Plumb. Senator Vance made a speech In favor of his bill to repeal theCivtlServtce law..in the Ho me Mr. O’Neill re- ’ ported his Arbitration bill, which was immediately taken up In committee ot the whole, ami Mr. O’Neill explained the necessity for prompt a'-tlon. Others also made speeches. The liiver and Harbor bill was reported. The majority report on the llurdKomeis contest was submitted. In the Senate on the 1st the bill for the erection of a monument to Abraham Lincoln was favorably reported. The Washington Ten itory bill was debated and sevmat amendments adopted and others rejected. Adjourned till Monday.In the House, In committee of the whole, the Arbitration bill >Jas taken tip and discussed during the entire session. Thkkk was no session of the Senate on the 2d —. .Ill the House a Knight of Labor protest against the Free Ship bill was presented. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was teported. Private business was dispensed with a»d the Arbitration bill was taken up in committee ot the whole. During tha course of debate Mr. Glover (Mo.) denoun od the bill as a fraud and a “constitutional abortion.” Four sections of the bill were considered. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The Senate was not in session on the 8d.In the House communications from the Treasury Department setting forth the necessity of an appropriation of $1,000,000 to pay pensions allowed by act of March 19 was submitted. The Labor Arbitration bill was then taken up, and, after discussion passed. The Silver bill was debated during the remainder of the session. A posse of deputy sheriffs, commanded by the famous Jim Courtright, who were escorting a train out of Fort Worth, Tex., on the 3d, were fired upon by a band of armed men about a mile and a halt from the city, and three of their number were wounded, two fatally. One of the attacking party was also severely wounded, and the rest made off to the timber. Troops were ordered by Governor Ireland to Fort Worth.

Minnie Palmer, the popular American actress, goes to Australia from England next mouth for a year's professional tour. A Washington dispatch of the 4th said that while Attorney-General Garland was still confined to his residence, be »«s eery much tmproved in health. Secretary Manning was reported to lieconrulescing slowly. It is said that General Miles will discard General Crook’s plan of fighting hostiles with friendly Indians, and try what virtue there is left in regulur troops for Indian warfare. Another of the wolf-bitten Russian patients of M. Pasteur died of hydrophobia in Paris on the 3d. Hon. James Russell Lowell sailed from N ew York on the Sd for few months visit to Europe. In the university boat race between the Oxford and Cambridge crews on the Thames on the Sd, over the usual course between Putney and Mortlakc, the Cambridge crew were victoi ious in 2:1:29 1-2. It was a close race. Secretary Turner and W. H. Bailey, of the Knights of Labor goneral board, had a conference with Mr. Hoxie in 8t. Louis on the 3d, which, however, was barren of any satisfactory result to the strikers. Jay Gould is said to have lost three pounds of flesh as the result of the anxietyattending the trouble over the recent strikes, * General Master Workman Powderly is said to be in a precarious condition, owing to the heavy strain upon him in the recent multiplicity of labor troubles in which the knights were interest-id. Commodore Truxton fell in an epileptic fit while being shaved in the Ebbitt House, Washington, on the 3d, and, striking his head upon the marble floor of the room, sustained a severe scalp wound and was rendered unconscious.

«ai«ic in I cLLIGENCE. Supreme Court has affirmed the life sentence imposed upon Luther P. Brown, of Madison County, convicted of the murder in April, 1884, of Eli F. Cummings. Miss Ella Scott, of Richmond, clerk in the Adjutant-General’s office, has resigned. She will be succeeded by Miss Williams, of the same city. Near \ alparaiso, Charles Barcombe, a muskrat hunter, blew into the muzzle of his gun and his head was blown off. Jerry Smith died near Jeffersonville, aged 101 years. Cynthia Freyer, aged seventy-two years, fell down a flight of stairs, at Richmond. fracturing her hip and receiving other injuries that itfis feared will result fatally. Epizootic in a mild form prevails in the vicinity of Wabash. The city marshal of Crawfordsville has notified all gambling rooms that they must close, and several gamblers received orders to leave the«ity. David Crane, one of the Archer gang of Indiana murderers, has been arrested. Hon. Wm. Trclock, aged eighty-four years, a prominent citizen of Scott County, is dead. Rebecca Barrett, aged sixteen, daughter of Herman Barrett, of Indianapolis, has become so violently insane that she was removed to the asylum. She was one of the High School students, and was ambitious to qualify as a teacher, and to this end sat up late at niglt studying, and early morn also found her hard at her tasks. Coupled with her ambition she was also very sensitive, and her school-mates sometimes ridiculed her about her nationality, she being a Polish Jewess, and called her “sheeny,” and this caused her great mortification and many tears. Her recovery is improbable. A young man named Taylor Phillipi was killed by a vicious stallion at Lexington. Charles Love, recaptured convict, is just seventeen months ahead of the State on his five year sentence, which dates from the day it was pronouuced. The law ought to be. cobbled. Indianapolis’ magnificent new City Hall is rapidly approaching completion. A grand programme for a week’s festivities is being arranged to commence May 31. The Y. M. C. A,, of Indianapolis, will begin, shortly, the erection of a grand temple for the occupancy of the Association. Sam Jones is to give two weeks in June to the Indianapolis sinners. Sixteen years ago the bodies of two girls were found in Pogue’s Run, near, Indianapolis, one aged eleven and the other four. It was evident that the person of the elder had been outraged. A reward of ?1,500 was offered for the arrest of the murderer, but all in vain. Now, after sixteen years, the police claim they have a clew that will lead to the arrest of the guilty party, who lives in another State. The enumeration of children of schoot age in Wabash, just completed, shows there are 1,898 between the ages of six and twen-ty-one within *he corporate limits, an increase of seventy-eighj^ during the past year. James Depp, an employe of the Lutz Hotel,Wabash, was attacked by Will Newman, manager of the house, who broke n glass vessel over his head, and then made several vicious lunges with the sharp edge of the weapon, cutting his face, head and neck in a shocking manner. Depp is disfigured for life, and but for the interference of outsiders would have been killed. Complaint having been made to the common council that in excavating graves in the old cemetery, in the eastern part of Wabash, the spades of the workmen almost uniformly struck relics similar to those of Hamlet’s friend Yorick, the council has determined to preveut the further disturbing of bodies long since buried, by prohibiting the interment of corpses in the inclosure. The cemetery was presented to the city by Colonel Hugh Hanna, fifty years ago, and is literally honeycombed with graves. The yard is in a dilapidated condition, tombstones and monuments lying on the ground, and it is deemed advisable to take steps to put a stop to overcrowding. A heavy rain and wind storm prevailed near Nashville, the other evening tha developed into a cyclone. A stable on Green Watson’s farm was torn to pieces, the kitchen and dwelling on Newt Prosser’s farm were both blown off their foundations. Wm. Burns’ stable and dwelling were unroofed, Dave Hague’s barn unroofed, Wm. Hagne’sand Tom MeFadden's barns blown down, torn to pieces and six hundred effects blown away and torn into shreds. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. Oscar Dawson, the young man who eloped with his step-mother in November last, swallowed a fatal dose of arsenic at Indianapolis, a few days ago, dying that evening. Mrs. Dawson died from the same cause two days before, tha disgrace incidental to their act being the prime cause. Her remains were buried, and grief over her unfortunate ending hastened Oscar’s suicidal act. The deceased was aged thirty-two. This closes. a tragic chapter of domestic sin which, owing to the several prosecutions, has occupied no little share of attention for several months. The grand jury, which has been in session for the past two weeks at Madison, adjourned on the 35th, returning one hundred indictments, a great many of which are against saloon-keepers for violation of the liquor law. Ten indictments were found against James Davis, of Republican Township, who not of-’ sold liquor without license, but \vh.j ran a saloon wherever and whenever htf heard of a picnic, party or dance in Ais neighborhood. Before adjourning, the jury by a rising vote unanimousljytestified their approval of the manner in whiciwProsecutor Snlzer conducted affairs’Wore that body. THis'njnth annual meeting of the Southern Indiana Teachers’ Association was held at Vincennes the other day. The attendance was unprecedented. —To reel with and for others—what a glorious widening out and enriching of one s kfe that is! How it increases our joys because of the pleasure that we take m the joys of others! How it renders selijah brooding over our own woes impossible because of the sympathy wejffnsi; give to the sorrows of oth- - Not generosity ers. - Not generosity only, not kindheanedne,°i only, nor courtesy, nor unsell.shues'> nor keen perception, nor quick mkho-stamiSng—it js ai| these, and mori thanlhese.—JV. Y. Ledger. —There bus lately been mne paper discussion as to whether work ean be sel on lire by steal The possibility Us been affirm denied; but several indlsputs stances of fires originating in t have been repotte* and the < may be rcg<i*le«*as settled.Times. —A Los Angeles the threesouthernm] State a/e destined lire great rural hoi United States, sur] certainly looks hotel boom will jimits assigned,—! Paper claims that >st counties of this become the futcountry of the ‘ ig Florida. It Tjr the to the

A ST. LOUIS IIORROR. i Fire and Loss of Idfle in the Plant' era* House. The Victims, Four la Number, Part of the Female Help—Aa Exciting Time Among the Guests—Damage to the Buitdlug Light, St. Louis, April 3.—At 3:80 this morning Sosa Sloane and Kate Dooley, scrub girls of the Planters’House, discovered dames issuing from the rear of the house near the laundry. Without losing any time the girls, with great presence of mind, notided Mr. James O’Connell, the night clerk, who turned in aa alarm. In the meantime Mike, the watchman, and Frank, a call •toy, ran through the building alarming the guests and at the same time allaying all apprehension by their cool and selfpossessed behavior. Many lingered in their rooms after the call, but the fumes of burning wood penetrated the house and soon convinced the lodgers that personal safety required immediate action. Contrary to all precedent there was little confusion, and the guests found their way to the main exit, and, with admirable courage, placidly awaited the result. Some of the faint-hearted ladies and gentlemen rushed to the stair-cases and tumbled down with disordered costumes bundled in their arras. The fire department was promptly on the ?round, and a line of hose was taken up the main stair-case to the fourth floor, where a powerful stream was played across the arcade w-ith telling effect. Another line was parried into the alley off Pine street under the storehouse and taken directly Into ’he laundrv. where the flames were biasing fiercely In the rafters overhead. The fire had secured good lodgment, but with several well-directed streams it was soon overcome, and the Bahcocks brought into play to extinguish the smouldering enters. At the first symptoms of danger the nurses who were attending Governor Phelps, were informed of the real situation and notified that there was no imminent danger. The long-suffering patient accepted the situation calmly, and instead of growing nevous. as was anticipated, he chose to abide the situation and trust in his attendants. The Governor’s room is on the main floor at the Chestnut street side, or nearly a block away from the fire. The greatest danger that developed, after ‘he fire had gained headway, was from the fear-stricken women and some men. In many instances they had hung around the balls, afraid to venture awav, for fear of meeting the flames, and all the time being ■mhjected to greater danger from suffocation. On the lower halls and in the ro‘unda and on the streets the scenes were piteous. It was earlv reported that many people were in the building who conld not be accounted for and that they were evidently; lost, but this giving way to a feeling that all had been saved, the fears oi ’hose already out of danger lessened, but ’hey had not been taken away when it was discovered that there had actually been toss of life. The scenes th*en became again »f the wildest character, and while some of the people hung around breathless to see how mavw had been lost, others cried out piteonslv for friends who had been separated from them for the moment. The chambermaids and servants were particularly panic-stricken. The missing people were all from their number, and it was heart-rending as they called out piteously for their friends to answer. In room 240 lay Marv Cooney, chamberoiaid On the fourth floor, who had evidently made frantic efforts to escape by rushing through the hallways and down the stairs. She was found Iving on her face in the hallway on the third floor, and carried into No. 240. where every effort was made to resuscitate her. without result. Her face was begrimed with smoke, and on either side of her neck the skin and flesh was torn, as though in the agony of suffocation she had tried to tear *he choking _ sensation from her neck. Her right arm was bruised and torn, and there was a wound on her left ankle, hut none bail enonght to warrant any theory other than that of suffocation. The victim was about twenty-live years of age. dark hair and eves, and had been a faithful employe of the Planters’ House for manv years. Scarcely had the discovery of the first body been announced when two more unfortunates were found locked in each other’s arms, suffocated. One proved to be Kittv Cassidy, aged seventeen years, an employe in the linen department: the other was Mary Coogan, twenty-five years of age. who was also employed in the linen department as an irnner. She had been in the employ of the Planters’ about two weeks, having come there from the South-.-em Hotel. Kitty Cassidy was an orphan, and had a sister living in the city, but no other known relatives. By her side lay Mary Coogan. her roommate, who presented a horrible appearance. Her face was blackened and features drawn as though she had died in the greatest agony. Her hands were clenched, and the position her body had assumed was plainly indicative of the terror preceding ’he agony of a death by fire and suffocation. The next bodv found was that of Maggie KTmrdon, aged forty years, an employe of the linen nepa>tment in the capacity of irnner. She hore no mark upon her face or body. but was begrimed with smoke and dirt. She died from suffocation. Maggie Reardon was a steady, industrious woman. the support of an aged mother and an invalid sister. Her body was placed in the dining-room, alongside the two victims referred to above. The large crowd which soon gathered on the deeply-incrust ed sidewalks and streets was busied In caring for the hnlf-ciad guests of the hotel, as they emerged from the main entrance, and out of the Chestnut street entrance. Many of the ladies and employes of the hotel rushed out of the building with only a skirt thrown around them, and their stockings hastily pulled on, their shoes and the remainder of their clothes gathered hastily in their arms. AU of the hacks on the street had been called to the scene the moment the fire broke out, ready to convey the guests to other hotels. The burned portion of the building is located in the rear, on the alley running from Pine to Chestnut. It is supposed that the fire originated in either the lanndry or the kitchen, located on the first floor, and in about the center of the building. This part of the hotel, besides the kitchen and laundry, is used for the sleeping apartments of the help, who occupied small, close rooms situated on the second and third floors. It appears that wherever the flames started ttaeytat once started upward and raged : more furiously in the secotpi story than j anywhere else. The rooms here are badly j burned, as well as on the third floor, and at one place the flames have eaten a big hole from the first floor to the roof. It is not known what the fire originated L om. A New Colorado Railroad. Fort Rkogh, Mont., April 2.—Montana is booming with nftw railroad schemes this" year. Articles of incorporation were filed Wednesday with Recorder Lee at Billings, Clark’s Fork and Cook City Railroad Company. The capital stock is placed at 91,000,000 in $10,000 shares at $100 each. The new road will open tip the Ciark Fork mining district, and also give a northern ontlet to the new oil fields In Southern Montana and North Wyoming. George V. Simms, of New York, and Henry Kelly, of Philadelphia, are among the incorporators. Knocked Out by Sullivan. Toronto, Ont., April 2.—A dispatch from Cobonrg, Ont., says that a train bearing the John L. Sullivan combination stopped there for refreshments yesterday, en ronte for Toronto. Wm. Johns, a hackmnn, walked throngh the car where Sullivan sat, and made rather uncomplimentary remarks to passengers Sullivan jumped up and struck Johns a terrific blow in the face, cutting an ugly gash and knocking him over. The train dispatcher offered to hold the trati^ijl| Johns would send for the chief of pcrcH and arrest Sullivan, but the Jehu ..1

HE DEALT WITH FACTS. The Dignified Senator frqju Vermont I .aid ou His Hick by the Energetic Gentle* ■nun from Kentucky. Senator Edmunds has never appeared to more disadvantage since the organisation of the spoils-mongers’ crusade against the Administration than he did in his little bout with Senator Back, of Kentucky. Senator Beck has the habit of calling a spade a spade, and in a scrimmage his favorite weapon is the club. He has very little respect for Senatorial tradition, of which the Green mountain statesman is the selfconstituted guardian, and none at all for the absurd notions of Senatorial dignity and consequence with which that eminent person is so tremendously inflated. The stalwart Kentuckian laid about him right and left with his bludgeon, knocking Senatorial dignity and Senatorial tradition into smithereens, exploding the gauzy fiction of Senatorial secrecy, and tilling the proud '"’I1 the Vermont oracle with profound disgust. Senator Beck showed, by a plain statement of facts, the utte^. humbug and hypocrisy of the pretensions put forward by Senator Edmunds and his colleagues in support of their demand for the papers in the Dnskin case. He declared that Duskin was notoriously an unfit man for the office from which he had been suspended by the President, and that the fact of his unfitness was known to no person better than to Senator Edmunds himself; that Dnskin had been rejected bv the Senate when originally nominated in March 1881, and that when again nominated in October of the same year Senator Edmunds, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, had refused to report his name back for confirmation; that he had been nominated in all three times, and that there were papers now in the hands of the Judiciary Committee which abundantly justified Duskin’s dismissal from the public service. Senator Edmunds winced under this exposure of disagreeable facts, and made several unsuccessful- attempts to choke oft'Senator Beck on the plea that he was violating the rules by betraying the “secrets" of the executive session. A pretty plea, indeed, to come from the man who has contended, in fine set phrase, that “there is no room for secrecy in the operations of a free Government!" But it had no effect upon the Kentuckian, who proceeded to demonstrate the absurdity of the theory of Senatorial secrecy by showing that all the facts as to the action of the Senate upon the Dnskin ease in exexcutivc session had been published in the newspapers of the country at the time of its occurrence. He concluded his onslaught upon the Edmunds cabal with the remark that “fortyparson power would not do justice to much of the hypocrisy that is now presented to the Senate in the pretenses of a desire to establish public justice.” Subsequently in “secret session" the Senator moved that all the proceedings of the Senate (relative to the Duskin appointment) iit March, 1881, October, 18S1 and December, 1881, all papers before the Judiciary Committee, and all the proceedings of that committee ho made public. In the meantime it would be interesting to know what Senator Edmunds really and honestly supposes the country thinks of his performances regarding the Duskin matter, in the light of Senator Beck’s astonishing revelations on the subject.—Chicago Times.

A WEAK NAVAL POWER. The the Work to lie Accomplished by Present Democratic Congress. The House Committee on Naval Affairs strongly approve and support the late very patriotic letter of Mr. Tilden on the subject of the necessity for the improvement of our coast defenses. Mr. Tilden declared that our coast towns were absolutely without defenses against a naval enemy, and that a third or fourth class naval power could, in the event of war, hold this country entirely within its power, or destroy millions of dollars of property without our being able to prevent it or to do any thing but look on. The Huuse Committee agree thoroughly with this view of the matter and particularize and point out just what minor power could step in, overthrow the American navy, inflict incalculable damage on our shipping and cast disgrace upon the Nation. The Brazilian armed cruisers could run from Brazil to New York, pass its forts, or, if necessary, lie off Coney Island, far from the reach of any of our guns, and lay the metropolis in ashes. The little Republic of Chili, with less than one-twentieth the population of the United States, has no less than three vessels any one of which could bombard and reduce to ashes San Francisco or New York, and yet keep out of range of our guns. There is no security here as long as this condition of affairs prevails. We are simply trusting that no trouble wilt: ever arise with any other country, a Utopian trust that history should have cured ns of. We are constantly threatened with National disgrace; indeed, our present relations with foreign powers is more or less affected by our defenseless condition. In our diplomatic relations with them there is always a lack of confidence, a fear of bringing about trouble, and these smaller powers have discovered our diplomatic timidity, appreciate the fact that this country is ill-prepared for a naval war, offensive or defensive, and are saucy and impertinent in consequence. The Naval Committee wisely advise that work be begun at once on our ioast defenses. It will render this country more independent and confilent and restore its prestige and politeal influence abroad.—N. O. TimesDemoerat. --Congressman Henderson’s attack upon the Southern members of Congress for their course in regard to tension bills'was not justified by the Facts. Many Northern votes are given For pension bills, not because they are just and reasonable, but for the purpose if securing the soldiers’ votes. It is tot uncommon for a Northern member to say in private company that the pension business has been overdone, but lie may always be depended upon to rote for the next extension.—Boston Herald. ——Senator Edmunds is acknowlBdgcd to be an able lawyer. He has great strength as an advocate, and iveak causes are frequently able to borrow a tempotary Vigor from his ospousaL That is the whole measure iif his success defence that the execuh is cate

NO SLIPSHOD METHODS. Does Not Believe In Disturbing Land Titles Already Acknowledged. President Cleveland has given Congress two specimens of his ability in a field in which he distinguished himself particularly as mayor and Governor. His first two vetoes have been transmitted" to Congress, and give evidence of the unwearying industry and painstaking care he bestows upon every subject that falls within the Fine of his duty. He explains, in a clear, exhaustive manner his objections to the bill to quiet settlers' titles oh certain lands in Iowa, taking the position that the Government ean not litigate private rights, and that the lands in question were remitted by the Government to the State of Iowa, and 'onId not, therefore, be regarded as a portion of the public domain. The point at issue was fully settled years »go, and to reopen it now would only lead to endless strife and exhaustive law suits, in which the Government >I1UU1U UUl DC lililCl 1* a uv uui .ought to destroy vested rights and to disturb interests which have long since become fixed. The President says1 that it would be better to compensate the parties incurring losses caused by an invitation on the part of the Government to settle upon lands apparently public, than to attempt a disturbance of titles already acknowledged. He warns Congress against interfering with ^matters which should be jeft to judicial cognisance, and he expresses himself as’ unwilling to coneur in legislation which touches too closely upon judicial power. In this he gives a proof of his attachment to constitutional principles, and reminds Congress that no ill-con-sidered measures of legislation, however popular they may be in their application in certain cases, will receive favor at his hands.' There has been a Hood deal of this legislation going on for some time past, especially in regard to land titles. It was by such means that the most notorious schemes ol land-grabbers were carried through and honest settlers disturbed in their rights and deprived of their homes. President Cleveland’s vetoes will be an intimation J to Congress that every bill will be mbjectud to careful scrutiny and examiniKjondiy the Executive, and that the slipshod '‘methods hitherto in vogue have nofplace under the present Administration.—Albany Argus.

An Unpopular Body. Outside of the Republican majority in the Senate no one saw sense or reason in the claim to ascertain the causes of suspension. From the first the people took the common-sense view that the President, intrusted with the administration of the Government, should have full control of his subordinate officials, and should be able in his discretion and in the interest of effective administration to remove them at pleasure. The position taken by Mr, Edmunds has all alon<j seemed to them strained, far-fetched, illogical, unpractical and unconstitutional. Now, they have seen the figment of a principle, for the sake of which Republican Senators were willing to make war on the President, disappear like a cob-web at the mere mention of that other figment known neither to the constitution nor the laws—the “eourtesy of the Senate.” They have seen the public business paralyzed and blocked by a debate which its promoters have covered with a taint of insincerity and bad faith. And in consideration of the Senate’s easy neglect of the public interests and its" readiness to enter on partisan projects, it is not to be wondered at that their feeling toward it should be one of distrust The Senate is not a popular body, either in its formation or its constitution. Tt has not in later years grown remarkably into public confidence. But this last episode is likely to attract attention to its peculiar methods. Indications are not wanting that reform might be useful within its sacred and secret conclaves. If Mr. Edmunds’ keen and microscopic vision has not been wearied into dullness with its recent strain he might find scope for minute inspection nearer home.— H'as/iinglon PhsL

Jay Gould's Man. The suggestion has been made, tenlativelv yet seriously, that Judge Staney Matthews Of the United States Su>reme Court should be invited or astigned to sit with the circuit judge be!ore whoin the Government suit igainst the Bell Telephone Company is ;o be tried. This is in several respects k remarkable, and astounding proposiion. Why should Stanley Matthews be elected for any such special service? iVhat are his antecedents? He bears mprmted on his forehead the wand of being Jay Gould’s man. >o notorious ana oftensive was the inluenee by which- his nomination was iriginally'procured that a Republican ienate refused to confirm it. It has lever been disputed that his ultimate ilevation to the bench was the equivJent for Mr. Gould’s very liberal conribiition to the Republican campaign und, So much indignation did the ulfilment of the bargain provoke that dr. Matthews himself deemed it adisable to publish a statement denying hat die would be the pliant tool of lould or Gould’s corporations. Could my thing be more humiliating than he consciousness that such a denial ras necessary, except the implication onveyed in the proposal that he should iow assist at the trial of the Bell intents? Mr. Gould and Western > Jnion are behind the Bell monopoly ■ ,nd they shamelessly essay to enforce heir lien upon Stanley Matthews if hey can do so. The project is montrous in its unblushing audacity.—N. r. Graphic. "What Did Mary Say?" The discovery that there were no tapers filed in the Duskin ease* during he period covered by the Senate resoution calling for such papers recalls a egal "chestnut,” which is old enough o be resurrected. It was in Judge ihaw’s court in Boston. A ijfkness on he stand was asked: “Whit did Mary ay?” The question was objected to ind the objection argued for four long tours. Counsel on the other side took our hours mere in support of his right o ask the question. Then the obiectng counsel took two hours to close, rhe judge, in a learned opinion of one tours length—fer the preparation Of vhich he adjourned the court an out’ lay—decided that til# question ' ‘ ~ t. and that »he witness 1 ' M* not