Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 December 1886 — Page 1

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVER? RSDAY. _ TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION. For one year .. . T For six months..1.WS For three months....1. S I INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. advertising rates! One square (9 lines), one insertion...L ti m Bach additional Insertion..so j' A liberal reduction made on advertisements tuaninr three, six, and twelve months. Leeal and transient advertisements must be *“ tor in advance. - J. L. MOUNT, Proprietor. VOLUME XVII. County Democrat. ==t OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, over 0. E. MONTGOMERY'S Store, Main Street. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1886. NUMBER 29. PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORKOF ALL KINDS Neatly Executed SEASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! ot th,» P"P*r wttk ^ ™,k,? crr'*f^ g ><-*<> prneil are notified that the time ot their aubscnption bas expired.

». *■ POSBT. rnoFKSSioNAli cards*. HONKTI A. 4 rosi'.jr & HONEYCUTT. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Pttmkuc, lad. Win practice In all the courts. All buslnere promptly attended to. A Notary Public contAantly in the office. Office over Frank A Horn brook s drug store. ■- r. RICHAIiOSON. A. H. T.lTlOk RICHARDSON & TAYLO] Attorneys at PETERSBURG. INB. Law Prompt attention given to all business. A •Notary Public constantly In the office. Office Sn Carpenter Building, 8th and Main W«. V. TOWNSKND. MART MJ TOWNSEND & FLEENEB IENKR. as. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. Win practice in all the courts. Office, over «us Frank's store. Special attention given to Collections, Probate Business, Buying and belling hands, Examining Titles and i'urnlshIng Abstracts.

A. *IT. a. w. -w ELY & WILSON, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. iWOffioe in the Bank Build T. a & E. SMITH, (successors to Doyle & Thompsoi ILSON, Attorneys at Law, Real Estate. Loan & Insurance PetersOffice, second floor Bank Building burg, ind. The b-st Fiie and Life Insurance Companies represented. Money to loan mortgages at seven and eight per cos Pi-empt attention to collections, business intrusted to us. R. R. K1ME, M. D., on first t. and all Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. Office, over Barrett & Son's store; residence on Seventh Street, three squ:i of Main. Calls promptly attended night. res south o, day or i. R- APAMS. c. n. rums ADAMS & FULUNWID5 Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, INI Office over Adams ft Son's drag store, Office hours-day and night. J. B. DUNCAN. Physician and Sudgeon PETERSBURG, IND. Office on first floor Carpenter Building. C. B. BLACKWELL, ECLECTIC M. D., Phy^ifen and Suilgeon, Dfllce, Main street, between 6th aud 7th opposite Model Drug Sto: -e. PETERSBURG, ; INDIANA. will practice Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics in town aud country, aud w: 11 visit any part of the country in consultation diseases successfully treated. >. Chronic 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J, E. TURNER, Fropri PETERSBURG, ator. IND. Parties wishing* work done at denef s will leaYc ordors at the Fiji; Adams* new building, rear of Adu dnqr store. their realop, in Dr. ms & Son's HOTELS. LINGO HOTEL, > PETERSBURG, INI1. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL ! New throughout, and flrst-clasn dations in every respect. IN TOWN aceomma GEORGE QUIMBY, Proprietc HYATT HOUSE Washington. Ind. Centrally Located, and A> First-class ccoin HENRY HYATT, CITY HOTEL, Under new manaremei JOSEPH LORY,/ . Cor. 8th and Main its , opp. C*u| Petersburg, Ind.I The City Hotel is centrally •lass in all its appointments and Prop. -house. cheapest hotel in the city. ted, first ie best and Sherwood House, Under New Management. BISSELL & TOWNSEND, j Prop’n First and Locust Street Evansville, s t Indians RATES, 352 PER DAY. Samplt Rooms for Commoroial Moi When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All 'Respict Una Laura Harris and Analog Proprietors. Gro. IS. Rossbtkr, Jsssk J. Morgan, Late of Cincinnati. Late ot Washington,Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETER & MORGAN, Lessees. Indianapolis, Ind. House Elegant, Table. Service ant; Genera Keep Superior. Location best in t lie city— »n the Circle. MlSCKLLANBOnS. PHOTO GALLERY, • OSCAB HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. All kinds of work done prompt! r and at reasonable rates. Call and examine hi* work. Gallery In Kisert's new building, oier the , Petersburg; Ind. Great Reduction re the prlee of SADDLES, H HUTC. The public is hereby In formed that I w ill sell nj’ large stock ot Saddles and Harnest. and mrything kept by me lower than ever sol l this place before. If you Want anything; ie tine, don't fall to call on me as am I ioler REU9S, a uwum.

JNUWS UN tit JIM Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Karl Von Weber, the composer, will be observed on December 18 with operatic performances throughout Germany. It is intimated that Secretary Lamar will make some important recommendations ill his report concerning territorial grasiqg lan Is. ' Baldwin Gardiner, president of the Pacific Stock Board at San Francisco, and a leading stock broker of the city, has disappeared. His liabilities are supposed to be about $200,000, mostly to customers. The London Standard considers the appointment of Sir Bobert Hamilton to the Governorship of Tasmania a sign that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is weak and irresolute. Ex-Governor Phelps of Missouri, who died recently in St. Louis, served nineteen consecutive years in Congress, during which time he made himself conspicuously useful, not only to his own constituency, but to the entire West. Dr. John Hancock Douglass, who attended General Grant during his last illness, has been suffering recently from nervous prostration. His friends have advised him to take a trip for his health, and the doctor has decided to travel through the Southern States. Herbert M. Hoxir, first Vice-President of the Missouri Pacific rail way, Company died at New York on the 23d. Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg, gave birth to a son on the 23d. Charles Frances Adams was buried at Quincy, Mass., on the 23d. The session of the Cabinet on the 23d was devoted to consideration of the Presiident’s forthcoming message. Lieutenant Pearct, who has been on an expedition to Greenland, has arrived at Halifax, Nova jScotia. Senator Edmunds is to inaugurate a war on the Administration for not enforcing the Civil-Service law to suit him. Sir Charles Dilks says he will shortly bring another suit to establish his innocence in connection with the Crawford divorce scandal. The President had taken no action upto the 23d upon this application of District Attorney Stone of Pennsylvania for reinstatement. Nobody knows, of course, definitely just w^at the President will do. At the State Department on the 23d a report, which had been printed on that day, that Minister Manning, the new Minister to Mexico, had become involved in a trouble similar to that with which Mr. Sedgwick was charged, was treated as wholly unworthy of attention. Erastus BrookS, the veteran editor, died at his home on Staten Island, N. Y., on the 25th. A special train left St. Louis on the 25th loaded with employes of the Gould system to attend the funeral of the late H. M; Hoxie at Dee Moines, la. Secretary Whitney is represented as being especially well pleased with the bids for the new cruisers. President Cleveland's message is said to be well along toward completion, the principal portion being now in type. »* Judge Turner of the Federal Court at San Antonio, Tex., held court on the 25th (Thanksgiving Day) and excited much criticism thereby. Some New Orleans people are making a fight on Consul-General Porch at the City of Mexico, the apparent object being to get in a man of their own. . It develops that Iowa opposition to Colonel James O. Broadhead is at the bottom of the fight against the bill creating the new Federal circuit of Missouri and Minnesota. In his speech from the throne on the 25th Emperor William said the measure for increasing the strength of the army is justified by the increasing of the armies of neighboring States. Colonel Huston, chairman of the Indiana Uepubllcnn State central committee, in an interview at Dallas, claimed the Legislature of his State for his party, and said that Harrison would be the Senator. Bishop Whipple had a medal struck at the United States mint at Philadelphia, and has presented it to Engineer Thomas Little, of Portage, Wis., in recognition of his bravery in saving life at the Rio disaster. Judge Scott of the Illinois Supreme Court has granted a superse leas in the Chicago Anarchist cases, which stays their execution until the full bench of the Supreme Court can pass upon the points raised in their behalf. O’Donovan Robsa has been retired from the leadership of the Fenian Brotherhood, and Dr. Hamilton Williams sue-, coeds him. Proceedings have been commenced against John Dillon, M. P., for his utterances on the rent q uestion in a speech delivered at Woodford, Ireland, on October 18. It is intimated that Secretary Majtnlng, in his report, wall recommend a two per cent refunding bond for the benefit of National banks wishing to continue their circulation. The bills of the House of Representatives tor draping the Capitol with mourning on the occasions of both Grant’s and Hendricks’ death remain unpaid for want of an appropriation. The will of the late Margaret S. Lewis, of Philadelphia, which was admitted to ^probate on the 23th, bequeaths over $200,000 to religious and philanthropleal purposes. It is stated at Rome that Mgr. Stranfero who carried the nuts to Cardinals Gibbons and Taschereau, will be sent to England to negotiate with the British Government for a renewal of diplomatic relations with the Vatican. |

CBimW 4KD CASUALTIES. Ok the evening of the 231 the mein building and three annex buildings of the Newburgh woolen mills, at West New. burgh, N. Y., were destroyed by Are. One hundred and twenty-five persons are thrown out of employment. Loss estimated at 1100,030; partly insured. Patrick McAdams, an old miner, and ever since its organisation a prominent member of the order of Knights of Labor, was instantly killed while at work in the Nelson Coal Company’s mines at Montgomery, Ind., on the 83d, by toe premature discharge of a blast placed by another miner. Nbws of a horrible affair comes from Catlettsburg, north of Chattanooga, Tenn. A farmer named Thrower, while driving some hogs, was attacked by a boar an d torn to pieces. The infuriated animal knocked the man down and seised him in the abdomen, tearing his body almost In twain. , Wm. Rkkd, treasurer of a horse railroad company at Boston, has been arrested on a oharge of embetisling cash and stock amounting to $300,0(10. Riv. Jos*ph Padiar, D. D., of London, strongly apposes th,» inclusion In the Liberal party platform of a plank favoring ah or oh diaaatahilsinr ant. __

Tnos. Smith was convicted at Boyne City, Mich., on the S31, of murder in the first degree. The location of a road through the farm of Kites Anderson caused a dispute, and resulted in the shooting of Anderson by Smith. For killing his wife Chandler S. Wells was convicted of murder in the first degree at Ann Arbor, Mich., on the 33d, and was immediately sentenced to State prison for life. Om Anderson, arrested near Bassett, Keb., last week for murdering bis wife and throwing the remains in a well, confessed the crime on the 33d. He says he quarreled with her because she would not consent to the sale of stiock to pay debts. Lxvi Stac spool. aged nine years, was killed by a calf at Auburn, K. Y., on the 33J. He was holding the animal by a rope which, in play he had tied around his neck. The calf started off, threw the boy down and dragged him until death resulted from strangulation. Whilb T. K. Stevens and son, twenty years of age, were filling a drill-hole in the Plutis mine, near Idaho Springs, Col., with giant powder on tiheSSd, the charge exploded, killing the son instantly. The father was so badly injured that he died subsequently. Tax Kew York Court of Appeals has confirmed the judgment of the court below in the case of Buddensiek, the Kew York builder, convicted of manslaughter, having been declared responsible for the death of a workman employed on a row of buildings which fell while in course of erection under his super vision. A slight fire occurred in the interior of the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World on the 33th. Clement Snyder, proprietor of a beer garden, committed suicide by shooting, at Tiffin, O., on the 33th. Two children named Molsal were caught in the recent blixsard tear Mandan, Dak., and were frozen to death. Five men were instantly killed by the explosion of the boiler of the tugboat Sunbeam, at Kew York, on the 33th. The body of William Gaul, of Indianapolis, Ind., who was lost in the woods near Ashland, wfe., on the 31st, was found on the 35th. Harry Burkshaw, a fireman, was killed in a collision on the Cleveland & Pittsburgh road, twenty-four miles from Pittsburgh, on the 33th, several fother persons being injured at the same jime. The Winn Parish (La.) court-house burned on the 36th with all the records. John Cavanaugh, of Jersey City.K. J., has been held for trial for the murder of Patrick Hayden. Lawrence Bethunie, of Amargo, K. M., has been sent to the penitentiary for robbing the mails. Investigation shows that the Continental Hotel fire at Chicago, on the 35th, was the work of incendiaries. The building„was fired in six places. John Mallory, a Missouri Pacific section foreman, was killed at Leavenworth, Ka4., on the 30th, by walking off a trestlework. A number of German Socialists who took part in a public demonstration have been sentenced at Berlin to various terms of imprisonment at hard labor. Herman Buckenhorpee, whose home was at Lebanon, Mo., while out with a surveying party in Oregon on the 36th was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol. It is reported that the Poe family, who were thought to have been burned to death in Knox County , Ky., a month ago were in reality murdered by a neighbor and his wife. The crime was witnessed by their young son who has told all about it. Alice Gridley, nged four years, fell upon a stove during the absence of her mother at Akron, O... on the 36tb, and was so severely burned that death ensued shortly. Robert Hill, shot; and killed his brother, Tony, at Atlanta, Ga., on the 26th, and then, placing the pistol to his own temple, killed himself. The trouble was caused by whisky. Mrs. Charles Smstth met with a horrible death at Charlotte, Mich., on the 36th. While working about the house her cloth- . ing caught fire and she was burned to a crisp. Cholera has been officially declared to exist in Cordova, South America, where five cases and three deaths were reported on the 33d iust. In Roasario there have been twenty-one cases aud eight deaths. There have also been three or four cases in Buenos Ayres. Three Russians living near Roscoe, Dak., while goin ? home on the night of the 25th, found a bottle by the roadside which they supposed to contain alcohol, and drank it. It proved to be aconite and all of them died from the effects. Their names have not been learned.

MISCKULANEOCS. Reports come that hog cholera prevails near Urbana, O. One farmer has lost eighty hogs out of a herd of two hundred from the disease. It is officially declared that Rosaire, in the Argentine Republic, as infected with cholera. Several points in the country along the Rio de la Plata are supposed to be also Infected. The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce denounces the action of the British Government in giving the carriage of the American mails to “subsidised foreign steamships.” The American Base Ball Association held a special meeting at Cincinnati on the 23d to take action on the matter of the withdrawal of the Pittsburgh club from the association. There was a large attendance. Canadian statistics show a shrinkage of only sixteen per cent, in fish exports, notwithstanding the heavy duty imposed by the United States. A general revolt; of the natives of Southeast Africa against the Portuguese authorities is reported, in progress. The report of the Austrian budget committee has been amended so as to contain a mild censure of General Kaulbars. Suit has been brought against the Ohio State Journal Publishing Company for $30,000 damages by Dr. C. R. Montgomery, of St. Louis, for alleged libel. Letters making suggestions as to a more permanent basis for National banks are being received from all parts of the country by the Comptroller of the Treasury. Application for a supersedeas, In the oases of the convicted Chicago Anarchists, was made to Justice Scott, of the Illinois Supreme Court, at Bloomington, 111., on the 28d. > Italy desires Ruropeitn concert In maintaining peace on the t>asis of the Berlin treaty and the independence of the Balkan States. The Ghilsai rebels recently defeated the Ameer of Afghanii>tan.’s troops, and under the influence of religious fanatics the rebellion ia«preadlng. The Marine Hospital Bureau is officially advised of the prevalence of cholera in Buenos Ayres. Tnn Comptroller of the Currency has authorised the California National Bank of San Francisco to commence business with a capital of $200,000. Commodore Schley, chief of Ifia Bureau of Equipment, in hi • annual report, the s~a—:-i-—

steam cruiser training ships, on the ground that it is only on such vessels that the training necessary for modern war* fare can be given. , , Dates have been fixed by Indian Com* missioner Atkins tor hearing what St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City and New York have to say regarding the removal of the Indian warehouses from New York to a point further west. A seven-foot vein of coal has been struck at Omaha, Neb. Tbe forces of the Ameer of Afghanistan are gradually quelling the revolt of the Gbttiais. A motion, largely reducing military pensions, has been adopted by the French Chamber of Deputies. New Orleans fire insurance companies have formed a combination and advanced rates from ten to fifteen percent. A great gale occurred on Lake Michigan on the 25th, resulting, however, in little loss to shipping, as the navigation season is about over. A number of London companies have decided to sell their lands in the north of Ireland on easy terms to tenants. Tbe sugar experiments conducted by the Department of Agriculture at Fort Scots Kas., have resulted in a great disappointment to the advocates of the carbonatation theory. The Governor of Aleppo, in Asiatic Turkey, recently disarmed and arrested an Armenian who attempted to assassinate him. The heirs of the late Baron Rothschild, of Frankfort, will construct a public museum in which will be exhibited the Rothschild art collection, the richest in the world. The Government announcement of important new gold discoveries in Australia has caused a general revival in the industries of the colonies. Owing to recent rains in New South Wales the largest crop in many years is expected. The jury in the celebrated English case of Charles W. Adams against his father-in-law, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, for libel and defamation of character, returned a verdict on the 25th in favor of the defendant on the ground of privileged communication. Judge Noah Davis, sitting in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in New York on the 25th, discharged the jury in the case of John Lehman, who is charged with having killed his wife by throwing her out of a window, the jurors being unahle to agree. At the last ballot they stood 11 to 1 in favor of acquittal. There were 189 failures in the United States during the seven days ended the 26th. A run on the German Savings Bank at Davenport, la., on the 26th caused some excitement in that city, but it was counteracted by- heavy deposits of its friends. Dublin is agitated with the wildest rumcrs relating to the Government’s intentions. The Canadian Government has ordered that no vessels be allowed to pass through the Welland canal on Sundays. An agreement has been entered into between German and English steamship companies whereby emigrants’ rates will be advanced. St. Louis ranks seventh among the cities of the country in special letter delivery business for the past year. A wealthy citizen of Birmingham, Mich., was lately the recipient of a letter from the Cuban sharpers who swindled the Philadelphians. Tbe inside history of the packers’strike, as published at Chicago, (places Master Workman Butler in the unenviable position of having worked the strike for political advancement. A system of weather service similar to that of the Government is to be established by the Union Pacific Railroad Company all along its lines. Extensive preparations are being made for the celebration of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the independence of the Isthmus of Panama. About one-half of the damage claims growing out of the Rio disaster have been settled by the Chicago; Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company. A most remarkable haul of fish was made at Peoria, III., on the 26th by Walters & Co. At one haul of the seine they brought in 35,000 pounds of fish. The largest three were cat-fish, weighing together sixtyfive pounds, the largest weighing forty pounds. The entire catch was shipped to Kansas City.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Comptrou.br Tren holm argues strongly for a continuance of the National banks. Litigation has been begun over the ownership of one hundred and sixty acres of' land within the limits of Superior City, Wig. Admiral. Porter say* we need doubleturreted monitors and fast cruisers for the protection of the seaboard. Henry M. S tanley, the African explorer, has arrived in New York, and a banquet was given in his honor on the evening of the 27th, at which many notable persons wore present. Henry George, the defeated labor candidate for Governor of New York, intends to start a paper with the beginning of the new year. Severe earthquake shocks were felt in various parts of Asia Minor on the 27th. By the falling of an elevator in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the' 27th, one man was. killed and two others were seriously injured. , Bullock & Co., of New York, have concluded the purchase of the Memphis (Tennv) water-works, the consideration being $600,000. The new two-dollar silver certificates will be ready for issue by December 10. The Colin Campbell divorce case is the sensation of the hour at London, and it is a very nasty sensation, indeed. The steamers Alaska and Oregon collided in Lake Erie, near Detroit, Mich., on the 37th, and the Oregon had to be beached to save her from sinking. B. H. H. Clark has been appointed to succeed the late H. M. Hoxie, first vicepresident of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and general manager of the Southwestern system. It is rumored that General Sir Redvers Buller is to succeed Sir Robert Hamilton as Under Secretary for Ireland, anfi that he will soon be transferred to Duhlin Castle. Coroner West, at Cleveland, O., announces the verdict of the 1ury in the Whaller murder case, holding Hie husband of the murdered woman responsible for her death.

A status of Richard Cobden, the celebrated English free trade advocate, was unveiled by his daughter at Lockport, Eng., on the 27th. The Marquis of Klpon delivered the address of the occasion. According to the report of the acting Surgeon-General the health of the United States army was never so good before or the deatn rate so low. Euvators Q and A, owned by the St. Paul A Duluth Elevator Company and located at Duluth, was destroyed hy fire on the 27th. Chas. Moore, Ed. Lee and a man named Leronchi lost their lives, the two latter being burned to death. The

TERRIBLE • CALAMITY. A Half Hundred Coni Miners More or Cess Seriously Burned by nn Explosion of FireDamp — Some of Them Injured Beyond Recovery—An Awful Scene nt the Mouth of the Pit. Wilkes bark*, Pa., Nov. 37.—At ten minutes past seven o’clock yesterday morning a terrible explosion of fire damp occurred at the Conyngham shaft, owned and operated by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, and located in the Second ward of this city. The black breaker rises in the centre of a field off a main road, which was today covered with six inches of snow. About fifty men had gone down into the mine, and were sitting in groups about the bottom of the shaft, which is nearly eight hundred feet below the surface, waiting for orders to go to work. No work had been done Thursday on account of Thanksgiving. While the miners were engaged in genial chats about the happy holiday the thundering report of an explosion rang through the dark corridors, and in a second the frantic men hurried to the foot of the shaft all anxiously peering upwards. In less time than it takes to tell it the deadly gas fame circled around their heads and agonizing screams rent the air. Many fell at once in a heap, while others less injured, dropped on their knees and stuck their blistered heads into the stream of water that ran along the gangway. Tha fact that the men were in such close proximity of the shaft rendered their removal to the surface an expeditious matter. In two hours all were safely taken up. As they came up to the surface, t\vi> or three at a time, the horror-stricken crowd peered anxiously at the faces of the men. It was impossible to recognize any of them at that time, la some instances the skin had been ripped off in masses leaving the purple flesh exposed, which in turn was begrimed with coal dirt to an intent that made the facial disfigurement horrible to look at. As each man was lifted from the cage a thick blanket was thrown completely over him and he was hurried to one of the neighboring offices. Some were taken to their homes. All sorts of conveyances were sent to the scene. It was a cruel sight to see many of the sufferers passed into common coal carts and jolted over rickety roads and pavements. Your correspondent talked with Mike Clinton, one of the men who escaped injury. He said: “We were all at the foot of the shaft waiting orders to go to work. It was about 7:10 a. m. The inside boss had not arrived. Most of the men were seated in groups. Suddenly a terrific explosion was hefcrd, and in an instant we were all thrown down on the bottom of the gang-way. Some of the men dove their faces into the running water. The water was up to the rail, and we didn’t know whether we could work until it was removed.” A laborer named Cornelius A. Boyle, walked to the chamber, across which a little board was stuck with the word “Gas” on it. He either didn’t see this or was careless. Any way, he went in with his open lamp and thus set fire to the gas and caused the explosion. Fire bosses Wm. Evans and William Williams, both Welshmen, were both taken out terribly burned. Inside Foreman McDonald went down after the explosion, and was overcome by fire-damp. He will recover. The names of the men severely burned are as follows: Jas. Boyle. Cornelius Boyle, James Elliott, Thomas O’Brien, Michael O’Brien, Pat McCable, Peter Kline, Jim Duffy, Charles Duffy, Hugh McConnell. Jno.'Cannon, Alf. Meier, Bill Griffith, Jack Phillips, Pat Sweeney, Jim Davis, George Marley, two brothers named Friel, Jack Williams, Dick Coulter and Mike Clinton. Some forty-five men were burned, many of whom will die. Dozens of others will be horribly scarred and maimed for life. From the indications last evening, twelve of the injured men will die, namely: Hugh Sweeney, Denis McCabe, John Dougherty, Edward Kerns, Richard Coulter, Daniel Ferry, Christopher Brundag, Caudy Cannon, Thos. O’Brien, Mike O’Brien, Jno. Cannon and Cornelius Boyle. The number of persons badly injured is now learned to be forty-two, and there were several others slightly hurt.

PULL THE BELL. A Worn-Out Game, by Which Some Philadelphians Have Been Bitten, Becently, Being Tried on Some of Michigan's Wealthy Citizens—The Jig is Up, However. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 26.—Cuban sharpers, evidently the same gang Who have been swindling rich Fhiladelphians, are playing their game in this region. A letter written in Spanish was recently brought to Herman Freund, with a request from the receiver of the letter, a wealthy citizen of Birmingham, for a translation. The letter was postmarked Havana, and the writer said that he was formerly a high official in the Government service and had absconded to the United States several months previous with $300,000 in Spanish bonds. He exchanged the bonds at New Orleans for United States securities, and with the securities on his person made a trip through the States, going as far north as Birmingham. Becoming suspicious that he was being shadowed be buried his stolen wealth in the vicinity of Birmingham. He then returned to the South, and at Key West was kidnaped, taken to Havana and thrown into the Government prison. The writer then went on to say that he was still in prison. He had heard while in Birmingham of the high standing of the man he was addressing, and be offered to give him one-third of the securities if he would interest himself in securing the writer’s release. Before any thing could be done, however, it was necessary to negotiate some of the securities. A plan of the locality where they were buried was among bis baggage, which was detained by the Havana police, and $1,500 was needed to release it If the Birmingham business man would send the money the plan would be mailed to him. Three weeks ago a similar letter was brought to Mr. Freund from another party, and another letter last week from still another citizen. The men singled out by the sharpers are all rich. It is not known whether any of them have accepted the offer or not

No Occasion for Alarm. Tosonto, Out., Nov. 37.—The Globe, in an editorial yesterday headed “Is Protestantism in Danger,” says: “A certain set of fanatics are endeavoring to impress the people with the idea that religious equality and civil rights are in danger by reason of the spread of Roman Catholicism in the Province. The Globe denies the statement and proceeds to show that the increase in numerical strength of Roman Catholics i n Ontario is less than that of any other denomination except the Church of England. The numerical strength of Protestants and Catholics is given as follows: Protestants—1851,701,139; 1881, 1.539,712. Roman Catholics—1861,107,096; ir A New Source of Sugar Supply. NbwYoiuc, Nov. 27.—The Evening rat says that a company has been formed in Condon and Antwerp for the manufacture of saccharine, a newly discovered substi tute for sugar. It is a chemical product of coal tar, is far sweeter than sugar, and, though it can not yet be manufactured sc cheaply as sugar, yet its great sweetness makes it possible, by using small quantities of saccharine with larger quantities of cheap gluoose, to produce a compound sweeter and cheaper than sugar. The new product is expected to disastrously affect the sugar industry. Saccharine was discovered accidentally seven years ago, but it is only lately that practical method* aU lately t! mm

WHOM CAN THEY TRUST? The Chicago Packers’ Strike Shown to Have Been Manlpshted by District Master Workman Butler to Aid In Keeping HU Political Irons Hot — The Knights ol Labor Badly Duped. Chicago, Not. 27.—The inside history of the recent strike at the packing-houses at the stock yards, when 30,000 men wero thrown out of employment, is printed here this morning. When the packers decided to return to the ten-hour working day on October 14, the workmen, supposing that they would be backed by the Knights of Labor, rebelled and all went out, excfpt the beef butchers, who had a contract with the firms of Armour, Swift and Morris, requiring four dayss’ notice before opening hostilities. Despite this agreement the beef butchers of Armour & Co. were ordered out on the following Thursday by District Master Workman Butler, who deliberately broke . the existing contract. Thos. P. Barry also arrived upon the scene. He stated to a newspaper reporter that he had been instructed by Powderly to settle the difficulty, and to members of the Knights of Labor he said that he had simply been sent to investigate. At the same time Butler had made his debut in the Town of Lake politics as a labor candidate for sheriff of Cook County. Butler had been notified by Master Workman Haunt of the Butchers’ Assembly of the existing agreement, but, as has been said, he ignered it. The butchers at Armour & Co. were loti to obey Butler’s order, but the presence of Barry, who was a member of the general executive committee of the order, reassured them to a certain degree. The executive board of the. local assembly, however, concluded to get Mr. Powderly’s views, and it sent the following telegram •. “T. V. Poirdtrly, Richmond, go..“Has executive board of district 57 power to repudiato agreement made by the executive board of local assembly 7,808, and a clause of which reads: ’One day shall be considered sufficient time for calling a meeting of both parties of the first and second parts, and no definite action shall be taken inside of three days after such a meeting.’ Have they power to call out men governed by this schedule, without complying with this clause, that are working eight hours a day!” POWOERLT’S REPLY. To this question Mr. Powderly vouchsafed no direct reply, but he did send an auswertoMr. Barry, who asked, the executive board of the local assembly the following day regarding the existence of the agreement with the packers. Barry investigated the matter, and found that Master Workman Butler had made a mistake. Barry wanted the butchers to return to work, but the damage had been done. Butler made evasive replies. Nobody was in reality looking after the interests of the 18,5ft) men who had been allured into a strike. In the meantime the packers were making extensive preparations for a long fight. Bev. P. M. Flannagan, pastor of St. Ann’s Church, telegraphed a long statement of all the facts to Powderly, declaring that unless the men were ordered to return to work incalculable injury and misery would result. Barry was immediately telegraphed to ordqr the men to work, but did not do so until the following Sunday. Among the violent opponents to this order was Butler, who told Barry that the order would cause him (Butler) to lose 3,000 votes at the approaching election. Before leaving, Barry divested Butler and the executive board of the district of all power to create another strike, instituting a committee to have charge of all matters affecting these workmen. Butler, who, it is claimed, saw he was making a losing political fight, succeeded in having the committee of five ovethrown, and a committee of twenty-five, with himself as chairman, appointed, contrary to the constitution of the Knights of Labor. The cattle butchers, in returning to work, had sucoeede d in having their wages increased fromtwenty-four to twenty-seven dollars a weak, agreeing to work ten hours. On the flay before election several drunken jppeu rushed among the workmen;*5'at Swift’s house ordering them to Jjnit work, and they did so. This panic' had been carefully planned. On the* following day all those on strike voted for Butler. The latter called out Armour’s men on the Thursday succeeding the election. Master Workman Haunt protested, and he and two followers were expelled from the order. Barry reappeared on the scene and the order from Powderly, which was suppressed for four days, caused the ending of the strike.

A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY. The Poe Family, Thought to Hate Been Burned to Death, Now Shown to Hare Been Horribly Butchered by a Revengeful Neighboring Family—Statement of aa Unsuspected Eye-Witness. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 26.—A special to tho Evening Post from Williamsburg says: “It is developed that the family of eight persons supposed to have been burned to death in Knox County a month since, wero murdered, their throats being cut from ear to ear. The particulars are as follows: The family, whose name was Poe, seem to have had for neighbors, a couple whose reputation was bad, they having an illegitimate son aged ten years. Being refused admittance to Poe’s house, they became enraged and planned the horrible murder. The boy, suffering under severe chastisement from his reputed father, now tells the whole story. He says his mother was talking about the matter for several days, and it culminated during the night, when Mr. Poe was absent; that when his father and mother left home for Poe’s house they forbade his going with them, but that he slipped along without their knowledge, and saw them enter the house. The family were all asleep in one room, and his father with a razor cut the throat of each from ear to ear, while his mother picked the bodies up, placed them in the middle of the floor, piled bedding on them and then set fire to them and the house. He says that the baby screamed until the flames smothered it. The boy told his story in such a straightforward manner as to lead to an investigation, and arrests were at once made. , A sewing machine and other articles belong ing to the Poes were found in the cellar of the accused parties. They were at once placed in jail at Barbourville. There is no doubt of their guilt, and excitement has reached an intensity bordering oittfyenzy. The couple will undoubtedly be ly*hed.

A Maniac's Horrible Feast. Hayensvillk, Kas., Nov. 8ft.—Late Wednesday night a young farmer named Rhodes Clements, while going from prayer meeting with another farmer named Samuel Gordon, suddenly became insane and killed the latter with a club. Not returning home, a search was instituted for Clements, and he was found some distance from the road sitting beside the body of the mau he had murdered, eating his heart. , „ . , He had cut off the head from Gordon’s body and had torn out the heart, lungs and liver, and was devouring them. Clements was arrested and is now in jail, a raving maniac. A Pica for the Naval Hospitals. Washington, Nov. 87,—Surgeon General Grinnell of the navy, in his annual report, repeats his recommendation for increased appropriation for the preservation and repair of the several naval hospitals. In recommending prompt measures to increase the advantages and improve the medical corps of the navy he says: Vacancies in the corps have not been filled for several years, resignations, deaths and retirements having depleted il more rapidly thatf candidates have been obtained, and it is impossible, with the present inducements offered, to find medical men possessing the necessary quaUflea

TRIBUTE TO HONESTY. President Cleveland's Fitting Reception nt the Bands of Harvard’s Scholars. %oth Old and Young—Instructive Words. There was a warmth and heartiness about the greeting extended to Mr. Cleveland in Boston that testified how close and strong are the’ bonds that unite him to the people. It was a spontaneous tribute to a faithful official, honest, straightforward public servant, who places duty before every thing and is staunch and true under all circumstances. In the oldest and most eminent university in America, surrounded by the most distinguished representatives of New England education and culture, the Democratic President was the recipient of honors and courtesies of which any man might be proud. From the revered president of Harvard down to the youngest graduate, every one was eager to testify his respect and admiration for Mr. Cleveland. While much of this enthusiasm was owing to the high office of the distinguished visitor, a very large proportion td it was caused by the sterling qualities which have characterized his public career. The unvarying success of that career, due to fidelity, high purpose and earnestness, was an example to the young men around him hud a subject of admiration to their elders and professors. The occasion was one, also, calculated to inspire the most sluggish breast. Fair Harvard, young and vigorous, ardent and ambitious, after two hundred and fifty years of life, was in her gayest and brightest mood. Around her gathered her children, among them men of world-wide fame, all filled with the same affectionate feeling for their Alma Mater. To her were offered the noblest tributes that American lips could utter in Mr. Lowell’s grand oration and Dr. Holmes’ impressive poem. Most instructive to the young graduates were Mr. Cleveland’s well considered words on the duties of American citizenship. After all it conies to this, the people of the United States bare one and all a sacred mission to perform, aud your President not more surely than every other citizen who lores his country must assume a part or the resoousibility of demonstrating to the world the success of popular government. No man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation his slothfulness deserves, uor evade the stern sentence which his faithless ness invites. In parting with you now let me express the earnest hope that Harvard's alumni may a ways honor the venerable ItBtt*” tution which has honored them, and that no man who forgets dr neglects his duty to American citizenship shall And his Alma Mater here. It was a day to be remembered in the annals of Harvard and one worthy of the occasion and the distinguished assemblage. And in the opinion of many who attended the quarter millenial, the brightest feature there was the presence of “the handsomest Democrat in America.”—Albany Arqus. A BROAD VIEW. A Statement of the Encouraging Result of the November Election and the Good Prospect* of the Democracy for 1888. Every one naturally looks at the November elections with a view to their bearing upon the Presidency.'* There are two ways of contemplating those elections now in respect of the subjects to be decided in 1888. One way is to consider the comparative effect upon the fortunes of candidates. The other way is to consider the comparative effect on the voting strength of parties, that is to say, the division yifhich would have taken place in the Electoral College if the Presidential election had been determined on the basis of the vote cast during the present month. There are 401 electoral votes in the United States. Of the Electoral College 201 votes are a majority. Iu 1884 of these 401 electoral votes 219 wore east for Mr. Cleveland and 182 for Mr. Blaine. At the elections lately held States representing 207 electoral votes went unqualifiedly for the Democratic ticket, and of the original Republican States, Commonwealths aggregating 142 electoral votes went for the Republican ticket,without perceptible shrinkage. The remaining 52 electoral votes in the college were cast by States whieh are legitimately to be characterized as doubtful in the politics of the future, and which the result this year was very close—so close that in several of the States official returns will be requited t«» decide for which party a majority of their people have cast their ballots. It will thus be seen that if all the surely Republican States and if all the doubtful States were given to the Republican party, that organization would even then have but 194 votes against 207 securely held by the Democratic party. The opponents of the Democratic party will perceive that they must devise or discover some method of carrying the State of New York before they can hopefully expect to elect the President of the United States. New York seems to be a permanent stumbling-block in the way of such calculations. It has gone Democratic over a longer scries of elections than any which have passed consecutively to the credit of the Republican party in this State in all the history of that organization. New York went Democratic in 1882, in 1883. in 1884, in 1885 and again ill 1886. The most elementary reasoning leads to the conclusion that the State should be expected to go Democratic in 1887 and in 1888, because the prestige, the future and the inclination of the party, victorious for four years in succession, will be enlisted in producing such a result, and because that party is now and then will be in executive control of the Government of the Commonwealth and of the United States. The House of Representatives of the Fiftieth Congress will be securely Democratic. We may be sure that the next House of Representatives will be moderate, business-like and practical. We maybe sure that the present Houso of Representatives, in its final session during the ensuing winter, will be marked by a chastening sense of responsibility, which will lead it to act cautiously, prudently, slowly, doing little more than passing the necessary appropriation bills, ana not trying to "evive or unsettle any of these large questions which the people have preferred should not be brought to a decision at the present time. It will also be seen that many of the losses in Congressmen are due to local and personal oauses. Districts West, South and East have got tired of voting for the same men. There was a disposition in many quarters to have new blood brought to tne front. The result is seen in a Congress which contains perhaps a smaller proportion of reelected men and a larger proportion oi men new to public functions than anj which has assembled for twenty years in the United States.

hold the Administration responsible for these local lossesand for these set backs is unfair. They declare that Mr. Cleveland has not concerned himself with the petty details of polities, but that he has been reasonably considerate of the position, the power. ■ and, relatively speaking, of the rights of politicians of large degree, whose primacy in the leadership of the party is attested by the results in contests of larce proportions, and by the consent of large communities. There is much to justify this conclusion. He who talks with men on the street, at their places of business, or on the avenues of travel, finds that the President is highly respected, that his honesty is admitted, that his firmness is appreciated, and that his homely, direct, personal way of doing things contrary to precedent and out of routine, has commended him to the people, as truly as it may have lost him the regard of that limited and superstitious class, the politicians by profession. The President certainly has a coign of vantage in the Presidency Itself which is not to be lost sight of. His Administration can not be regarded as a failure without a confession of judgment against the party itself. The inclination of Democrats to succeed on their own behalf must be made synonymous with the effort to represent that the administration of thgir own election has been successful also. This does not mean that the party Is bound to the renomination of Mr. Cleveland, or that Mr. Cleveland is bound to submit to a renomination and to place his leisure and a large portion of his future at the further disposition of the people, unless he shall so desire. But it does mean that the party is in good shape and that it is as able to make the present Democratic Administration an instrument in the perpetuation of Democratic control of the offices as it was to make the Jackson Administration a factor in the election of tho Van Buren Administration and the Pierce Administration a factor in the election of the Buchanan Administration. There is no disposition among Democratic statesmen and politicians to antagonize the President now, or in 1886 to commit themselves to an unalterable programme for I088. But there is a realization of the collective strength oj the Democratic party, and there is, so to speak, a reconsideration of the lessons of tho late election, which strengthen and encourage the heart of the party, and which correspondingly depress the expectation and hope of its adversaries.—George Hope, in Brooklyn Eagle. A Great Difference: Secretary Lamar has been making some rattling speeches in the South-, west and telling the people that the United Stated is a pretty fair place to live in after all. Though he did not avoid the subject of the war and former sectional differences, he expressed the belief that the North and the South have reached a stage in their history when they can lock arms and march through “the corridors of time” to the music of the Union. Let us see—Secretary Lamar is a Southern man. Mr. Blaine has been making a tour through Pennsylvania and New Jersey, doing his best to keep the old ante-bellum antagonisms alive. He has shaken them up as a kennel keeper lashes his dogs ana sets them all yelping. Then iu a magnificent peroration he described the tyranny of the whites and the oppression of the blacks until the groundlings were wild with delight. it is a little odd that the South should accept the new order of things, while Mr. Blaine insists that unless the North hates the South it yields one of its greatest privileges and is recreant to its most important duty.—A'. Y. Herald.

A Democratic Senate. Every day brings fresh evidence that the elections resulted in a grand Democratic triumph. In addition to carrying Minnesota, California and Colorado, and reducing the Republican majorities in Iowa and Ohio, the party makes such gains in State Legislatures as will guarantee the complete obliteration of the Republican majority in the United States Senate. In the present Senate the Republicans hiive a majority of eight. It was expected that there would be a slight reduction in this majority, but the most hopeful didn’t anticipate that it would be wiped out in a single contest. The general belief was that by 1889 sufficient changes might be made to ' change the Complexion of the body, but tne late victory has made it possible by the fourth of March next. This is the most important result ot the elections. To have the support of the Senate to the Democratic Administration is strengtheniAg the arm of tho party more directly and effectively than any other agency could accomplish. With such a result the Demcrats have no reason to complain pi the late election.—harrisburq Patriot.

Couldn't Carry Him. The Boston Herald (Ind.) finds two causes for the decreased vote for the Republican candidate for Governor in Massachusetts. The first was the dissatisfaction with Mr. Ames; “The second cause.” it says, “we find in the activity of Mr. James G. Blaine as a Republican leader. This revived the worst memories that pertained to the Republican party in its later action. It did more. It gave evidence which seemed to mark the further degeneration of the party. Mr. Blaine, appearing in public as a Republican leader, identified himself with the Republioan party wherever it existed. He was a heavy load to carry in Massachusetts. Not alone the Independents, but many Republicans had cometo feel that with Mr. Blaine’s defeat two years ago there ought to be an end of him as a candidate for the Presidency. Thoy saw him pressing directly to that goal again; they saw the Republican press of the State defending and even eulogising his speeches; they saw—most discouraging of all—Mr. Blaine invited to take a part in their own canvass. They were disheartened and disgusted, and thus they became indifferent to the canvass.” —The doctors are falling into agreement that the excessive use of tea is working great injury to its consumers. Tea is now set down as more deleterious than coffee, especially when taken hot. This being the case with good tea, it is painful to think that the article commonly sold and used is in quality far below