Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 October 1889 — Page 1

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THE WOULD AT LARGE Summary of tho Dallf Hows WASHINGTON NOTES, Tn« President bat appointed Edward Knots United States Marshal for the Northern district of Iowa, in plane of WllII*m Desmond, time out. The Secretary of the trwuirjr has accepted the resignation of Dr. James P. Kimball, of Pennsylvania, as Director of tb* Hint to take effect October IS, and baa granted him leave of absence until that day. The United 8'ates eteamahip Yankton has boon ordered to Weat Point to convey delegates to Ibe American congress and ttpmc* to New York. It Is reported In Washington that Rep. resentatlve Nutting, of New Yoik, who has been srrionsly III for a long lim«, will resign eoon ungues lie recovers, so as to give another Republican a chance. Tiie War Department is advised of the death of I, eutenant Colonel Pr >1 her ton, ret r#,l, nt Waynesboro, Pa., and Captdlin William R I-owe, retired, at Uovanstown, II d. The board of naval officer* appointed to select a navy yard aita on the northwest const has reported in favor of Port Tur. nor. Wash. They recommend that the Government purchase l,Md acres at a cost eflfcusa r E. Cl. I .each, at present the compntor of bullion in the Mint Bureau, has been appointed Director of the. Mint, to succeed Director Kimball, resigned. The fifth animal convention of the Ger-man-Amt rioan tech deker verein wes in sesdon in W’ashlngton. The President and party arrived in Washington from Deer Park on the 37th tud proceeded direct to the White House. 1 ■ ■ THE EAST. The New York Daily Graphic, which has been In financial difficulties for a long time, has suspended publication. The New Columbia Hotel at Cape May. N. J., I ui ned recently. Loss $75,000. Lewie Bltna. d; t o., ihe drv goods commission mere miits of New Yorlf, have made their lot mai offer to their creditors to comummlse at ft7‘» cents on the dollar. This cents more thgn they and the assignee thought they could pay when their schedules wero flied. . The third match of the series for the tennis championship of the world between George Kerr, the Irish champion, aud Tom Pettit, cham) lou of Am rica, was played at Boston on the’ilStb, and was won by Kerr by a score of 0-3, 3-8, 6 4 and 6-4. Tmk New Ye k Star says that A. Bent, ley Worthington and Mrs. Plunkett, the Christian scientists about wboma scandal was recently ventilated, eloped from Ihe city a few days ago aud are supposed to have gone to Australia The jury in ihs Ives case at New York disagreed, standing ten for conviction and two for acquittal. He was rrmauded to the Toiubs lor a new trial. The bo I -r at the sawmill of Trite Bros, Berlin, Pe., exploded r crntly. Johrf' Piiis, Kdward l r:s.Oovir It >«s Daysd Kosi and I>avld Baker were instantly killeiL Two liotbert named Brant wire badly injuted.

nr w I'l.u rt.'n ui iu'K iiirj at oaratog* on Itf 25th, Afier adopting a plat* form the following ticket «ti it * m tislo<l: Secretary of Stair, John J. U lliert, of Franklin Comity; Comptroller, Martin W. C-iok, of Monroe; Treast r-r, Iri Ifedg r; A'tornry-Ueneral, James Varmttu. if New Yoi k; State Engineer and Surveyor, W, F, Van Kancalear; Judge Court ol Appeals, Al r.nl Haiglit, of Duffels J. tj A. Bmockktt hat lieen nom.uated foi Governor by Massachusetts Republicant, Mixntrr Flack, William Flack, bit too, Judge Ambrose Mcnell, Joseph U Wrekt, relert e in the Flark divorce case, and Mrs. Itaymoad have been Indicted for conspiracy in conoeclion with the Flack divorce suit. At Carnegh’s E lgar Thome in iteel work* at I rvddoek, I'a, the Intlnm t f one of the ler;. a bias funic, r cave way end toi t of molten metal pouredf rth, injt ring several prrsous ao sevrrsly that iliev nr^j likely to die. Samuel Calpwki.u ex-prerjent of Vaster College, dud tuddenly on the 26th after a Irel illm ml He wat a native of Newburt p >rt, Mata, and wri fortrven yeeia ; rtsMtid of Vrsstr. Tnx Aral convention of the Union Proliibiicry League of Pennsylvania. n non* paititan ic'ntnr, having for tti purpose the tuppre,tion of the til. 01 outtida if party Hnet, wat h-bl at Hani-lu g, Fa., on the '.tUti, with about WO delegates iuattendance. Tnc M. l.tflln and Rind powder mill at Cretto-na. Fa., blew up recently. The exploaion waa terriHc in force. William Scbropp, Samuel Stotaf and Henry Reid were killed and a nurab.-r of other workmen injured Two tmnrrj were killed by black damp In an abandoned abaft near PottsViRe, Fa., recently. Two bodiet have bet n taken from the debrit at Johnstown, Fa. One wat Aden'iSed at that of Mrs Ed S» iieford, of St. I- .ult, who met her death on the day Asp-ess. . osrrh C. liAHVtT. a wealthy mill owiirrof Philadelphia, l ai been tent to the insane aa. lum through brooding over, the I urning of one of hit mill* in which Afteen per tons I oat their live*. Faaxcis BrcCLCT. need frrty-s x, head clerk-of the Pent aylvania newt|>eprr deprrtroent of the New Yt r‘; pcst-ofbcs, re-c-ntly fell dead of heart diteaae while at work In the prtt-ofllce. Tux flve-ttory building of the Wettinghonte Electric Light works at Pittsburgh. I a., wat partly burned the otlier night. The origin of the Are was unknown. Loan, f»s.OOO. fully covrrsd by insurance. Emmons Blaine, son of Secretary Bt tine, was married at R chtle d Springs. N. Y., on the 26th to Miss Annua McCormick, daughter of the late Cyrus McCormick. of Chicago. Many distinguished gu-sis from Chicago and other portious pf the country were in attendance and the wedding although a quiet wat yet quite a brilliant affair. A Disrates from Canajoharie. N. Y., said that a frightful collision occurred on the STth on the New York Central railroad, near Palatine bridge, in which the death list wat likely to foot up twenty or ConanxBKMAit W. L Scott lately addressed a long letter from Erie, Fa., to Governor F fer, bearing on the Spring Valley troubles. and claims that he was paying for min lag all that he waa warranted ia a competitive market Fiva persont were lately drowned In a shallow pond at South Watuppa, Masts, by tbs captising of a rowboat. Uhe at least of the party was said to have been drunk. _____ THE WEST. Thx passage of the recent lottery ordinance at Uutlui-. Ok-, was thought to be a little queer. Colonel John tt Onrtott will organise e company to work it. A ratioht train crashed into a passenger cinch t f the Rock Island road on the onuk rt» of Chicago ou the evening of the Stih. Five pstsengeis were killed and seven terioudy wounded. The engineer of the Anight was said to have been intoxieetedwt the lime. By a collision near Galena, 111, caused bv a misplaced switch, the engines of a stock and passenger train we*e wrecked, baggage, mail and ’Booking can damaged and three pea eagers s ightly hurt. A loxu bet silver mine known as the Msr>a Rome •. ••ear M««t»roy, Cal., has been f* und i y « dec* wtoler and Uterv |rsat txcuetuvnk *

Tn subcommittee* intrusted with the collection of ftind* for the World'* Pair at SI liaul* bar* attained result* aibld to greatly exceed the moat aaagolae expectation*. Over 53,000,000 of the 15,000,000 guaranty fund la now pledged, and the total will reach much nearer *8,500,000 than $5,000,05)0 A number of committee meeting* huvPS^en held and alt report* are favorable, V Two men erere drowned near Menatha, Wl*., recen tly, while in a boat banting dacha \ Qconoc Francis TBain wm arretted at Bo*ton recently on a Writ (wont oat by Ch It Miller, of Toledo] (X, on a Judgment note of $1,000, Train t*J* the debt grew oat of a transaction In 1872 and «ay* he will not pay it a* it i* unjn«t Una Jotiirnma Gurxxt. now in the Joliet (IIL) penitentiary for abducting Annie Redmond, Oi Chicago, bh* confessed that tha child wa* itolen to go aa a child actress In a anap company. The ttory cornea from Milwaukee that on the niglt# of tha Grand Army eham lake battle the hill at Juneau park, oa which were Id000 people, began eliding toward the lake and a great catattropbe wa* narrowly averted. Lucinda Aldrich, aged sixteen, heretofore a model of propriety, disappeared in Springfield, (X, and no trace of her could be found Forest fire* have been raging in different parte of California consuming large tract* of timber, grain, fence*, farm bouse*, etc; The damage will be very heavy. It is estimated at Minneapolis, Minn., that tbe year’s cut of the sawmill* will be about 86. COO,000 feet lees than last year. The total for the teason will be about *30," »0,000 feet. R R Curtis, n merchant, and John Wallace, a mail carrier, quarreled at Cairo, IIL, over the removal of Commissioner Tenner and Wallace was struck on the head with a molassee jug, receiving an injury from which he died an hour Inter. Owiso to the prevalence of diphtheria in Marion, Ind, h'»e public school* have been ordered closed. Th* twenty-second annual reunion of the eociety of the Army of the Tennessee was held at Cincinnati on the 25th. General Sherman was in th* chair. Chicago was chos-n tor the next place of meeting. * Tbs schooner Alpha, of Port Townsend, Wash., i* thought to have been lost at see. A Mias Gleason was killed and Mr. and Mrs. Gale were seriously injured by their carriage being struck by a freight train recently at Hardin, near Greeley, Col. Tbs Wyoming Constitutional convention has adopted n clause positively forbidding combinations to prevent competition or control prices and products. A Racine, Wia, special says: Rev. A. P. Packepe, a Lutheran minister who came her* two years ago, ha* absconded with a portion ol the money raised to build anew church. He caused a split iu the congregation soon after his arrival. Thk Rational Bankers’ Association met In annual convention at Kansu City, Mo, on the 25t b. A Bunsen of prominent ladies of Chica#<b have formed an association and hired a lawyer to proiecute the gamblers of that city undeir the State law. The work was begun with tha arrest of John Morris, tbe proprietor of a gambling house on Clark strdyt. K. V. Halidat, the defaulting cashier of the FiVft National Bank at Mount Gilead, (X, wbofled to Canada about a month ago, returned home th* other night, visited hi* family and departed the next morning, escaping arrest A recent dispatch from Santa Anna, CaL. said that firs still continued iu the canyon The burning districts now extend over ICO miles, from north to south, and ten to eighteen miles in width. Over $1,005,000 in pasture and timber bad been ; destroyed.

1 Hn Wyoming i. onsiuunonai con veil - tion on the 20th selected Cheyenne u the sent of government for ten years, or until a majority of the people rote a change. Two tramp* recently took possession of the town of Holland, Iowa, intimidating the constable and setting fire to a building »itb it broken lamp They then went to He in beck, where they were or er hauled by the sheriff. In attempting to arrest them Archie Meat was shot in the neck by one of the tramps, receiving fatal in1 juries. Bishop Abram R Kimball, of Balt i Lake City, died on the 25th at Kanosh, j Utah. bBYKBAL hundred Bhckfcet and Sioux I Indians recently held a grand “ghost > feast" at Foit Abraham Lincoln, Dak, ! which was given by the relatives iu honor ■ of theme who died or had been killed in : battle. Tub fourteenth annual convention of j the American Bankers’ Association ad.j jonrnedi at Kansas City, Ha, on the 20th, j the following officers were elected: | Charles Persona, of St. Louis, president; ! Morton MicMichael, of Philadelphia, first ! vice-president; George F. Baker, of New York, treasurer. William B. Greene, of New York, was elected secretary; D. V. Iteiger, of Kansas Ctty, was made vicepresident for Missouri and J. R Mulvane, of Topeka, vice-president for Kansas. AT the business meeting of the society if the Army of the Tennessee, held at j Cincinnati on the 26tt», officers were elected i a* follows: President General W. T. ! Sherman; recording secretary. Colonel L | M. Gay Ion; treasurer. General Force; i correeponding secretary, General A. Hick- [ en loo per. Emkby's large soap factory, Ivorydala, O.. wee destroyed by fire the other night, I causing :F125,000 damage^ * I A brisk snow storm prevailed on the | asih in Northern and Western Wisconsin. Bubs k Co ’B syrup factory nt Kansas City, Mo, was burned out early on the I morning of the 27th. Loss, 130,000. In- [ surance on contents, 415 000. M. Momsmsthx secretary of the Polish | National Alliance and Endowment Insurance organisation nt Chicago was reported as having absconded. Tag fourth annual convention of the BrotherlMXkd of BL Andrew began at Cleveland, O., on the 27th, with nboot 350 delegates present The Utah Commission on the 27th passed i-eeolations favoring Chicago for the World's Fair. A rate at Cresoot Iowa, recently burned twenty-two business places. Lose, f50,000. A RKcrxT telegram from Eusennda, Lower Calirornia, said that city was threatened with total destruction from brush liras. San Carlos, n neighboring town, eras reported in tames. Dm. JL B. Blairb. one of Englewood’s till.) pi'crainant doctors, has bean arrested on the charge of performing a criminal operation on hta niece, Mrs Jamie H. Barker. The woman was said to he la n erttItai condition. TBS SOUTH. W. B. Cobb, charged with the murder of R. 8. Richards, near Marysville, Tex. in June, 1)873, has been arrested near Oxark, Art, and taken to Gainesville, Tex, tor triaL Rkpvbi ICAKS of Alabama have nominated General James R Chalmers for GovLa MiprctR Bros., shoe dealers of Fort Worth,, Tex, have assigned with 435,000 liabilities and 44*000 assets. - Or the night of the 24th a number of robbers boarded the Bantu Fe train ten mites i,oath uf Fort Worth, Tex,and aftor intimidating the railroad •enger* robbed the express of packages of 45,t#<0 and esen Eeriest WiLLUoaAM, a i was killed by a blow f Branch at Atlanta, Gx, the < The men wen spam kmwk.4 A UUn^MUM

A STATS immigration convention mu hold in Louisville. Xy., recently under the aoipieee of the State league of commercial clubs. Governor Buckner presided. A motxmkkT it said to he on foot in Arkansas looking to the nnaotment of a lav for separate railroad coaches for oolored patengera. Kuot-GimuDinu. Ham Hu.u C a A., died at Charlotte, N. CL, recently. He took a prominent part In the battles of Antletam. Fredericksburg; Cbiekamauga end elsewhere. After the war he engaged in the publication of the Field end Farm ll Charlotte. Aloxg the line of the Mississippi Central the whitee are organising in opposition to the blacks, already organised. A grave state of affaire rxlsts. Sol Pc skill a negro, was banged recently by h mob at Winona, Mien He had assaulted a whl’e gtrL Tan faet mail train on the Mobile It Ohio mad vaa held uj> the other merniotf by robbers at Buckatuuna, IVavueCounty, Mias., and the mat) end express rifled. At Welker StafW Ala., the other day Deputy Sheriff Kwfc Venn was shot end killed by a negro named John Steele, whom he was trying to arrest The negro was afterward captured by a mob and hia body riddled by ballets; causing instant death. _ oirnu. Tax mammoth publishing house of Bedford, Clarke A Co., which has a targe establishment a( Chicago end branches in New York end San Francisco, has failed. The assets ere estimated at between $300,000 end $8001,000 end tbe liabilities ns at least $40a00a Lxxocx, a noted French parachutist, in descending from n balloon at Revel, France, the other day felt into the sen end was drowned. A Max named Kemp was recovered from the ruins caused by the Quebec landslide after he had been imprisoned 108 hours. He wee alive and revived nnder treatment It Is reported that dynamite was exploded at the Peterhof station Just previous to Ihe Csar leaving for Copenhagen. Tbe station was wrecked end a signal man was killed. Tux preliminary statement of earnings and expenses of tbe Union Pacific system tor August shows: learnings $8,014,13% increase $844,338; expenses $1,580,000, increase $16,504; surplus $1,438,640, increase $327,738. Tbs North German Gaaette denied the report that Prince Bismarck was nnwelL It said that the Chancellor had completely recovered from his recent illness and was fully able to attend to business. Thx captain of the Spanish crew recently captured by Moors, has died from tbe effects of the ill-treatment to which he was subjected. It is reported that Christiana in Crete ere being flogged end tortured and women subjected to gross indignities. A Greek gunboat bes been dispatched to Crete to put a atop to outrages. Thk men employed in Parnell’s quarry, Ireland, threatened to strike recently because of an obnoxious foreman. Elisa Cook, tbs English poetess, died on the 25th. She was born in 1818. Tax Canadian Minister of Customs has ordered an inquiry into tbe smuggling of whisky Into Canada, whole shiploads or American whisky being brought into Canada by tbe St Lawrence route. William .Waltkr Phelps, the new American Minister, has presented hit credentials to the Emperor W illlam of Gerhv^the collapse of an unfinished house in Milan, Italy, five persons were killed and twenty injured.

l he A nupip vt nesTou x wtu, vum«, containing the grsat throne of the sacred dragon, has been destroyed by fire. Fits hundred men working on the Bay de Chaleun railway, in Canada, hare ■truck for several months’ back pay, amounting to 140,000. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the week ending September S8, number 193, as compared with a total of 1SS last week and 193 the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 220. It was recently reported at Vienna that the Russian Oovenment intended to raise a large loan as a means of obtaining financial means to carry out its gigantlo plans in anticipation of war. The money will be devoted al'ogether to military and naval purposes. At least }79,000,000 are to be expended in strengthening the navy. A recent dispatch from London said that the first consignment of Chicago cat* tie bad arrived at Mains, and contracts had been made tor a portion of 80(000 head more during October. The plan of shipments to the interior cities in the Continent was no longer doubtful. Tax dock laborers at Rotterdam went out on a strike recently and the cigarmakers and other occupations Joined the movement. _ THE LATEST. Frank Duett, a Justice of the peace n Jay Gould, Mont, was fatally subbed bj John Glendenning in n quarrel growing out of an old grudge on the 39th. Daffy was the aggressor, and Glendenning claims he acted In self-defense. Hon. B. B. Stiles, one of the first settlers of Denver, CoL, and twice mayor of that dty, died suddenly from apoplexy on the 39th. Perry Belmont has written to the Sow York Herald from Newport R. L. that he is not a candidate for the Congressional nomination in the Ninth (N. Y.) Congressional district and says that he has no present desire to return to Conjoin Paras, a Jealous lover, shot and killed his betrothed. Miss Georgie 8tone, at Baltimore. Md., on the 39th, for miking with another young man. Hos. J. a Washburn, Minister to Bwitierland, arrived in New York, on .the 39th, on the French steamship La I (reUgue. fj C. A. Pills bust, the largest mill-own-er of Minneapolis, Minn., denies the report that the mills of that city hare been eold to nn English syndicate. Ex-Qubbe Natalie returned to Belgrade on the 29th. She was enthusiastically welcomed by the populace, but the government Ignored her presence. Cbemcals exploded in the artillery laboratory at 8pandau. Germany, on the 29th, wrecking a part of the building. Xo one was killed, bat twenty- two women and tea men were more or less seriously burl Gbnxral Samuel G. Stcrois. U. 8. A^ died at his home in St. Paul, Minn., on the 28th. He graduated from West Point in L8M, along with Geo. B. McClellan, StonesrnU Jackson, Stonemna Pickett and many other famous soldiers. He was engaged in some of the most important battles of the war of the robe lion, and fought Indians in the Northwest for forty years, retiring from active command three years ago. The six days go-as-you- please 73-hotn walking match at New Haven. Conn., cloned at midnight on the 38th. Score: Hegelman, 961; Guerrero, 366; Smith, 618; Connors, 918; Horan, 910; Sherlock, 991; Bison, 278; Dean, 383. Fifty per cent, of the green receipts goes to the five leaders. Hegelman receives 9600. Thu Paris Exposition awards were distributed, on the 39th, at the Palais de l’lndustrie. President Carnot thanked the governments and exhibitors who had contributed to the success of theexposl

SN(& nearly on* i s, was prt>1 tbe eom»at body to o the re- . mum u* iuv u. .u. nuu «. nik IrOad yards from the heart of the city. Tins Ohio and Mississippi railway has been sued in the circuit <c »urt of Jennings County for NT,000 lit ■ failure to comply with a law p assed >y the last Legislature requiring mill' ads to post St stations bulletin boards< announcing the time of arrival o! trail s—Whether on timo or the hambef of u inti tea laid; At Evansville, Jefferson rwin, a carpenter, lost his hammer in he vault of a rear outhouse. In trying to recover it he was overcome by the | oisonous vapor, and when found was p ,at recovery; A Bogustowx, Johns ut County; fanner has a bantam he i that has adopted a litter of kitten „ which she cares for with unremitting lolicitude. Tuk President has appol ited Thomas C. Dalbey postmaster at Fi unkfort, vice Wm. G. Morris, removed. Scott Bariow, aged n neteen. was found dead in bed at bis bi other's house in Kokomo, the other day. It is thought bis death is the result c f too much opium. The election at Madiiu n resulted In favor of the appropriation tor the L.; C. A D. railroad by a big maj >rity. The people of Vernon ;i ■e very much elated over the discovery < f natural gas there in quantities enougl to supply the demand of home consunu rs. The well just completed proves to la > considerable of agusher. showing a pro sure of fifteen pounds to the square inch Th$ public schools at Marion were closed for a week on accoi nt of the prevalence of diphtheria. tbout a Aozm deaths have occurred. Gkohok Gki'h akt, of Sr eoisor, a PanHandle bmkeman, was i ut to pieces, a few days ago, at Ridg iville by the cars. Is a quarrel between tv 6 draymen at Peru, Alexander Worley was seriously stabbed by Daniel Hinkle. At Jeffersonville, Bu i Whitesides, while in a stall with a in ule. the other evening, was kicked a» badly that he will die. The Indiana State Fain opened on the 24th with the finest displ iy of stock and machinery ever exhil ited on the grounds. The Expositio i Building was already crowded. A mektisq has been called at Seymour, Octobtf 10, to fo -m a non-par-tisan press association to: Southern Indiana. At Marion, the breach if promise case of Rachel McGill Cox li.rainst Micajae Chambers wits concluded i few days ago, with a verdict of 53.000 1< >r plaintiff. Dcbixo an altercation .t Hillham the other day, Joseph Wall», a prominent citisen of Martin Count], was fatally Cut by Ora Mitchell, of 4JI at city. Mitchell has fled. STATE INTI A pktitios, signed by thousand citizens of Colm tented at the Iasi inee' mon council there, asking take some action looking ntovfil of thw J M am) T nil

I uk other night Ed ( ileman s prist I mill at Crawfordsville, v as fired by an j incendiary and burned. Loss, 56,000, insured tor $3,500. A. E Reynold's elevator adjoining was bmi rned. Loss on ! grain and machinery. $6, *00; insurance, i SI.500. Loss on building $3,000; insur- j a nee. $1,000. Loss on Jo in Rice's warehouse, $3,500; insurance., $1,000. Adja- I cent property was (It niaged to the amount of $l,000i which vas fully coy- ! ered by insurance. The commissioners of St. Joe County will be petitioned to app opriate $10,000 for the erection of a sold era' monument j at South Rend. Tuf. two-year-old daughter of John Mooney, of Ft. Wayne, swallowed the contents of a bottle of liniment, containing chloroform and laudanum, and died from effects of the p *ison. The grand jury of Mia ui County has condemned tho jail uin er the courthouse at Peru as unheal t iy, and recommends the construction of a separate building. Clark R. Parcel. an »x-county commissioner. was tightenii g a bolt on the machinery of his large I ouring-mlll. at Pulaski, the other day, when his coatsleeve caught on a pad! le which threw him on the large fly-whe >1. where he remained for upwards of five minutes, with the wheel making: 135 revolutions per minute. When he ras rescued not a shred of clothing was ■; a his body. His shoes were split from toy to toe. A large gash was cut in his tig -chead. his arm broken in three places, hree ribs were crushed, and his heel!; , where they struck the floor with ear h revolution of the wheel, were mashed to a pulp. Ithis condition th- man 1 ras still living at last accounts, and tin re are hopes of bis recovery. \Thiu laying tile iio a ditch on his farm, near Peru, Natbu n Hutson was killed by falling dirt! John Goss, sentenced o life imprisonment for child murder, tanged himself In his cell at Loganspon . The Seventy-fourth lit liana Regiment, held a reunion at Elkha t. Pasuuck All well I >11 into a hot water vat, at the Lafajr itte paper-mill, and was parboiled. The other night a bn glar was trying to gain an entrance to he residence of Mrs. J. L. Boer, Peru, w hen the woman discovered him. She ml lot through the door and put him to fiig it. The difficulty betwi on the Collier brothers, near Metarni ra, resulted in the death of John. Jail» and his wife are in the hands of the < (fleers. The second futile atti mpt was made a few nights ago, to Mow up Sam Smith’s saloon with dynamite, s Oasian. Foirr Wayne now ha natural gas. Yocso Hali- who mouth a few months burg, on the 30th i which the doctors had It is now thought he Isaac Decker, a i tor. was killed the i attempting to board wood coal mine. Mrs- William! Township, LaGrange > by lightning at the I who was lying ill at seriously £§|£Sgg5g The bed the hoy escaped injury. Charles H. the Northern City, is the as shot in the oat Lawrenoed up the bullet, died to locate. 1 recover. »r Leaf conducr evening while train at Silverof Springfield ity, was struck of her son, injured! the bolt, but

tHE SNELL M<JR& Another Storf of the tr»Bfdy in the Death of Mlillonalrt CMMfe-A'leted Confession Gitlnni a Noted Thief and I an Hu Drath-D'd - The, 8t« Gaaty, and la Dented fcy J ttnchl to Know. CmcAoo, 8ept. 30.—The Trlb U at last able to throw new at light on the mystery of Snell's murder. It has discc ,-ed that three men took part in the e ie. One stood guard outside the housi two went in, cracked the safe in the ha nent and together shot Mr, Suell. Oi of these two was James Gillan, a note hief and ex-convict, It has been asce ined that Gillan made a full coofes a of the crime to Father Sullivan, ot $ Jarlath's Church, the night before hi leath, sii months ago, at the Count Hospital. M,ore important still, a stab ant mads by Gillan. the murderer, t morning after the murder to an old a: reputable lawyer whose services fad » led to retain in case of his arrest, fa: heed ob* tained in the lawyer's writ js A mass of collateral details, though >t needed to verify the fact of Gillen's dit, which is established by the con sion and statement, has been collects .’ith a view to the detection of his aco< jlioes. If the result of these discove i does not show the Tascott of the So case and Gillan to be the same pc m, it will show that Tascott was n »ljr a catepaw used by Gillan for th* irchase of tools and the secretion and position of stolen property, and that c >rs, hitherto as free from suspicion at illan, were the latter's partners in the irder. Gillan. in his statement t lis lawyer, described the shooting ot aell as follows: “Just as I got the arlor door open I looked up and ther* ood the old man at the head of the st a. He saw Sand swore at me. I lc no time in ting insMe of the pa r. and was, >ut to try to open tl connecting doors, when a shot was sd from the halter stairway. This ra d me a little.md not daring to ma a noise by forcing the doors, I wet hack to the door 1 had come in by am the hall. When Snell saw me the s *ad time at the parlor door he agaiu MB his load talk, saying he haid me in |§|i0le and he would catch me and brea very bone id my body. Just then oompanion showed at the rear of the .11 and head of the basement stairs. he old man had been trying to fire s revolver at me, but could not make it . off for some reason. He now turned the man at the head of the stairs. I ought to take advantage of this dlversi and step past Snell through the hall, be onld not. At this time he succeeded in ain firing his revolver, and toward t * I had not shown mine, but flndir his working again,and fearing for my e,I shot without sighting or taking ott aim than by holding the pistol towar aim. Almost at the same instant I e > his flash my oompanion fired, aud it s evident that Suell was badly wouudei y one or both of us, for he staggered d in a short time fell dead iu the hall. As to Tascott's part the tragedy, the Tribune says ther are excelent reasons for believing tha Milan's statement exonerating him t in direct complicity may be correct. is known from Giilau’s former associate at KelloheHs that he had been in th mbit ot using Tascott, who was not uni the suspicion ot the police, as an aget between himself and the purchaser! it his stolen goods. It is the opiate of those who knew Gillan best, that L hftng 'aware that Tascott had left th city about the time of the murder, pat i papers from the 8nell safe in Tasco i stove, which was found there sixte days later. ^3 Jumed , Sounds « Who »says H positive lionaire

There were special rei ms wny sui< plcion once directed s 'ard Tascott would take root, and the. were unknown to Gillan. They related a the faot that Tascott was acquainted th the family. In this connection it is add, on the authority of Tascott's br\ ;er, that Tascott, on hearing while in iadison. Wis., that he was charged * 1 the murder, came to Chicago on fund; applied by the brother to declare his anocence and stand trial. He cons sd a La Salle street attorney. The orney investigated the circnmstanth. <vidence which had been heralded as sit dent to oouriot him, and advised him » stand triad. Tascott learned, howevt of the discovery of a lot of stolen roperty in his closet, which he had be secreting tor Gillan. He learned tl this property, consisting of fine gt ra, mandolins and silverware, had be various West-Side t houses Gillan had pilla, that if he escaped on tk der he would be convic ■toleo goods, if not for termtned to leave Chic identified by .dents, whose !L He realised barge of mar1 tor receiving bbery. He de- , and did so. Oaly a Hue Chicago, Sept. 30,—'. says that the story day's Tribune chargi with the murder of Mi the alleged contessio together nntrne. Rev of St. Jartath’s Chord ited Gillan in the lo we ty Hospital, denies in saw a uam named G confession from him A. J. Stone, the ran family. Chief of Pc Sergeant Elliott all 11 cation a hnge hot perverted and dlstor the yarn. Herald to-day dished in SunJimmy Gillan a airs Snell and >f Gillan. Is slather Sullivan, ho it is said visK»m of the Counto that he ever n or received a red millionaire's e Hubbard and inounce the pub* with all the facts to make them fit The Washington H. U (til.) Accident. Chicago, Sept 29. investigating the V accident completed day by holding Tw and Leeloehe, the fii angina, respoosibl The crowning feat tlon was the eonfesi cloche, made afte brought in, and it that bis testimony Twombley was dm eldent Leeloehe broket cried like a child w he had perjured h that compulsion f cials, who wanted prompted him to coroner’s jury .hingtou Heights .elr work yeeterJly, the engineer, an of the freight or the accident of the ifveeUgai of Fireman Lethe verdiet was hich he admitted as false and that die night of the ae< a completely, and he confessed thaf If. He intimated high railroad offl lield Twombly.had HU situation is t Admiral Kimbei SAH Feaxcisco. eeived from from Sydney am lulu, state that . staff took passa Honolulu and die The Admiral wt upon hit arriva Carolina and th stationed in the of In Hobo!

fHE CORPORAL* 5 STATEMENT. (•hey pat me la the Pe leton shop, they raised a great hurrah. [hey knew I’d maki 'em solid with the G. A. R, rhey slobbered o'er th f Ooldiers, they made a ioyous hymn, "Hurrah tor bigger p melon* and httrrah tor Corporal Jim;** But when I tried to do the thing I woe pot there to do, rhey choked me off ai 4 said I made too much Ot a hullabaloo. 1 Bounded on the bigle and I beat upon the drum; t lay awake darted ( echemee to make the enrplue hum; 1 asked my comrades to borne In and warm them from the sold. And stuff their poek >ts brimming full of greenbacks and of g iid; t teeny thought thi t Horrleon bod mount the thingehelald » When, all at once, 1 e ssjfsl “•hut up. you're suffering fron big head." He thought that 11 as good enough to win th4 soldiers' yotci, But when I tried a keep his pledge he said 1 felt my oats; A battered voter .n like me was handy for a sign To shoe the Adm tnUtration was great la the pension line. But I was much loo bones t In my speech and la my talk. And «o tor indli ireUoa I have been made to walk. Kow, Indlseretlo t It n fault to make o&eials grieve. And consists in % tying publicly the things that you belie re, And la toiling te taka notice ot the deprecatory Wink Which shows 1 sat yonr superiors aren't saying what t icy think. Bntrm nn up uid downright chap. lean not skulk or Vim, And so they th< ught It safest to get rid ot Corporal Jim. In 'SB Ben Herr son true glad to hear me speak. Bat now my lonvorsatlon appears to make him weak Have 1 changei or has he changed? that's what 1 want tc know; And if it’s 1 v hy. then, of coarse, 'twos right that I sh mid go. He thinks in suffering from big head; perhaps the charge is true. But I respet ttully submit he’s got the big head, to x . -N, Y. Boa. PRIVATE DALZELL. i Sundry Heath Knolls Curst s ot the Fairchild Order. Ho Sound Though too indignant and exasperated to write concisely, my humble opinion o! the dismissal oi Corporal Tanner, i ©quested by you. is of little worth, bt it here it is; It is the old story of “I fit d no fault in this man, but crucify tlm!" If Tanner had been found, guilty of drunkenness, stealing or othei crime the soldiers would be satistio) - If his crime is that he is not an iristocrat with a pedigree, a martin it with a title, or a millionaire with a million, a million men who wore like him the private’s blouse will ci mdemn and avenge this decapitation If his fault is that he was too libers i toward the soldiers it will and shoul i destroy the Republican party, for it obtained power alone by promise of in< xeased and unmeasured libeddity in p« nsions. My own opinion is that

any man, no matter who, na« umier been dismissed than Corporal Tanner, and I am confirmed in this opinion by the universal voice of all soldiers hero, whoso indignation is simply indes> xibable. The proposition to raise a quarter million dollars for, legless Corporal Ta mer is gaining ground daily among the indignant soldiers. They raised such funds for Grant and Garfield. They can do as much for Tanner, to sh iw their appreciation of his liberality as Commissioner, their sympathy w: th him in his distress, and their contempt and hatred of his persecutors. In his degradation they see their O' rn. In his fall they see theirs. They s<e all privates are despised and storned and ostracised. They hurl bick their indignant defiance in the fi.ces of the plutocrats who degrade Tanner and in degrading him show t ieir contempt for us all. A curse —a blighting, withering, £ tunning, lasting, blasting curse— seize them one and all; the blistering, blasting curse of the rank and file who 'von the victories of war and whose l»llots achieved all the victories of We sure betrayed in the house of our friends, and this fund shall be our significant reply to be reckoned by avenging ballots at the polls. I never saw them so angry before since Lincoln was assassinated, for their best friend has beep stabbed to death in the house of his friends. It may all be explained and made satisfactory yet, but nothing so far seems to justify this monstrous crime against the rank and file. We all know and admire and indorse Corporal Tanner and had expected great things of his administration in carrying out the pledges whereby the Republicans gained power. No matter what Tanner said in words, he left two more legs, on the field than any man did who forced his decapitation. The soldiers don’t know that man’s name and a thousand-fold better had it been that that man had been forced out. It sounds the death knell of the Republican party unless it can be explained. It destroys the man who instigated it. anyhow, standing though he be behind the President, urging on this outrage. I have also felt that man’s venom. . If the rank and file are not fit to hold office they are not fit to vote. Corporal Tanner was the first private ever yet appointed to any office—he will be the last One might as well he a nigger as a private under any administration. for all despise him and seek to humiliate him.—Private Dalsell, in N. Y. Gerald. WHITNEY’S TRIUMPH. Secretary Tracy’s dispatch to exSecretary Whitney congratulating him on the magnificent success of the new cruiser Baltimore, built under the late administration, was a graceful and just tribute to one conspicuous example of the good work done by a zealous, painstaking official It Is in striking contrast to the snarling malice of the Utica Herald, which abuses Mr. Whitney for encouraging the builders of the Baltimore to achieve the remarkable results for which Mr.'

fewport, and point to the fact ot her afe arrival aa a vindication of Roach , .nd condemnation of Whitney. Dur□g her trip from New York to New* icrrt the Atlanta labored feariully in a orty-mile gale, and H took four days tnd four nights for her to make the rip, tWhlle this Taunted Roach miser was making a desperate fight or life, dosena of other vessels were rat in Ae same gale, and seemed not o be Rfected by it t All the vessels designed and oon* itructed under Mr. Whitney’s dlreoion have so far proved decided suoosses, and the United States may well >e proud of the nucleus of the new lavy provided by the Democratic adnintstratlon. Secretary Tracy found he Navy Department in the most adnirable order when he assumed :harg* of it and there were no Roach allures before him to patch up or vloated contracts to set right He has nanfully acknowledged the debt of gratitude which the country owes his predecessor for giving it the swiftest usd best cruiser afloat If the snarling Republican organs have any reip ©et for the memory of John Roach hey will refrain from dragging him [rom the grave and drawing attention sgain to his conspicuous failurea— Albany (N. Y.) Argus. ^ ^ “ PIOUS MR." WANAMAKER.' v Row H< Make* HI* Connection wlUl ifl* Government Fay Well. The New York Saturday Globe declares Itself unable to accept a statement ot the Cincinnati Enquirer, the statement In question being as follows; Bids wcreJmUted some time ego ter the uniforms ot^MCincinnatt mail-carriers. Many of our [^■leading furnishers went into the oompetIHC The lowest Cincinnati bid was R9.:U per uniform. Bnt Wanamaker £ Brown, of Philadelphia, got the contract at Ht 01 course, John did not hare any tip to knock ofl that Are cents. j v We have opt seen the Post-Office Department books or the contract, but this statement of the facto has been made in the Cincinnati papers as an announcement of the result of the bids. R has been reiterated and commented on there and elsewhere, and we have^^a waited in vain for Mr. Wanamaker t^^H deny or explain. The report of ftH bidding and award made public iff^ Cincinnati has, therefore, all the probabilities on its side, and we have no doubt that if Congress investigates, it will be found that the contract was awarded to Wanamaker & Brown exactly as stated. The house of Wanamaker & Brown is, we understand, an offshoot ol “John Wanamaker’*,” and the bust

ness nxnuuus *uvu» »♦« close, though Wanamaker A Brown claim independence of the „ parent house. Nevertheless, It is generally understopd^that the capital in Wanamake o-df 1Brown is, in part at least, Johp Wanamaker’s capital, so that when ha lets a contract to that firm ho'practically lota it to himself. While this ts our understanding oI the matter, based on all facts obtainable, we prefer to leave it for a Congressional investigation in which all the facts can be developed. It is of record that since John Wanamaker became Postmaster-General, Wanamaker A Brown have attempted to use fourth-class postmasters as their agents. The letting of this Cincinnati contract is no worse for the Postmas-ter-General than this His methods call for full investigation from Congress, with a view to bringing out the connection between Wanamaker, the Cabinet member, and Wanamaker, the breeches-maker.—St Louis Republie. AMONG OUR EXCHANGES. -"A tanner.” says Shakespeare, “will last you nine year.” Alas! for the oorporal. He didn’t last nine months. —Chicago Tribune (Rep ). -If the Harrisonian concern has got so deep in the mire in six months, how much of it will be sticking up at the end of twelve? — Louisville Courier-Journal. -Tanner has gone, but let us not forget what Mr. Assistant Secretary Bussey said about the deserters: “The dishonorable disdw*^*f a soldier front the service of^me United States-is - _ n > bar to a pension.” There is the platform that this Administration rests on.—Chicago Herald. —-if officials are to be executed for looking out for their own interests, giving publio places to their relatives, courting the soldier vote to the point of political lewdness and scattering the public money as if there were no end to it, Mr. Harrison may well ask with Hamlet: “Who of us shall go unhanged?"—N. T. Times. -General Alger is quoted assaying that he “would rather be Oom-mander-in-Chief of the G. A. R- than President of the United States.” Without enlarging on the acidity of the grapes that hang beyond our reach, let us hope that Governor Alger will always continue to-pre-serve the modesty of his ambition.— Pittsburgh Dispatch. ——“There are nearly 8,000,000 colored people in the Democratic Southern country, and they have but one member of Congress to represent them,” says the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette (Rep.). There are nearly 80,000 colored people in the State of Ohio, and they have not so much as one postmaster to represent them.— N. Y. Evening Poet. -What has been termed Commissioner Tanner’s liberal pension policy has not been in the interest of those Smost deserving and needy. It has chiefly resulted in rerating in cases of favored pensioners who had other sources of income, some of them of a liberal kind, and the special listing of other favorites to the exclusion of equally meritorious but less influential claimants. —Philadelphia Inquirer. The pension-claim agents at Washington, who have been getting rich “hand over hand” of late, are not at all discomposed by Tanner’s rejaoval The National Tribune, organ "f Captain George E. Lemon, thel