Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 August 1894 — Page 2

STht gifet County fjrmomt M- McC. STOOPS. Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. Fire destroyed several large storehouses in Reichenstrasse, Hamburg, on the 3d. Loss, 3,000,000 marks. In some unaccountable manner a cask of gold from New ¥ork, valued at 950,000, was stolen while in transit from Havre to Paris. Tire congressional armor-plate investigating eommitte made a personal inspection of the methods of making the plates at Homestead, Pa., on the S lstDr. Cornelius IIerz. the Panama lobbyist, was sentenced in contumacium in Paris, on the 3d, to five years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of 3,000 francs. On the 3d, Mr. Moore (dem.) was , seated in the house of representatives in place of Mr. Funston (rep.), the sitting member from the Second district of Kansas. r The Hawaiian royal commissioners, who came to protest against the recognition of the Hawaiian republic by the United States, arrived in Washington on the 31st. About 350 men, some of them newly hired, but the majority from the ranks of the strikers, went to work in the passenger car repair department of the Pullman (111.) ear works on the 3d. The senate committee charged with the investigation of the alleged specu- . lation of senators in sugar stock, decided, on the 31st., to make a report ex-^ onerating Senators Camden and Smith. On the lst the Japanese government informed the representatives of foreign powers in Tokio that a state of war existed between Japan and China. This is equivalent to a declaration of war.

Gen. Joseph Holt, retired, died at his residence in Washington on the 1st. His death was due indirectly to a fall sustained a few days before, but to which he at the time paid little attention. At the conclusion of the trial of Caesario Santo, the murderer of President Carnot, in the assize court at Ly--i ons, France, on the 3d, the prisoner -was sentenced to be executed by the guillotine. Advices received from different points in China and Japan state that the Japanese in China and the Chinese in Japan have placed themselves under the protection of the United States representatives in those countries. Capt. Galswortht of the Kow Shung and many other persons who were on board the Chinese transport sunk by the Japanese war ship Namwa, and 8 supposed to be lost, were rescued by the boats of the Japanese war ship. - The keg of New York gold, valued at $50,000, which was reported to have been stolen in transit from Havre to Paris, was found at the railroad station in Havre, on the 1st. where it had been overlooked and omitted from the consignment. The report that Jabez Spencer Balfour, whose extradition from the Argentine republic the British government sought to secure on account of his connection with the Liberator . Building society frauds, bad surrendered to the British authorities was denied on the 3d.' The Spanish government, as a result of misgivings .officially expressed regarding the possible results to the Philippine islands in the event of Japan becoming the dominant power in the east, has purchased three cruisers from English firms to guard against encroachments on her possession. Confirmation of the report that the emperor of China has divested Viceroy Li Hung Chang of the order of the yellow riding coat, the highest order in .China, allowing the wearer privileges next to the emperor, was received on the 3d. His offense was allowing Japan to get ahead of China in preparing for war.

The Japanese government* on the 1st, instructed its minister to London to apologize to Great Britain for firing upon and sinking the transport Kow Shung while she was flying the British flag. The commander of the Japanese cruiser did not know that the Kow Shung was a British vessel until after the fight. Dr. Samuel Wakefield, the founder of Methodist theology in North America, and his wife, aged, respectively, 96 and 94 years, attended the golden wedding at Red Stone, Pa., on the 2d. of their son, James A. Wakefield, and his wife, aged 73 and 72 respectively. Of the ten sons and daughters of the old -couple, seven were present—all over 60. A statement issued, on the 2d, by the comptroller of the currency shows "the total amount of national bank notes outstanding to be $207,445,489, an increase in total circulation for the month of $186,182, and for the year of $23,789,569. The amount of circulation outstanding against bonds is $181,050,034, an increase for the month of $487,350, and for the year of $17,834,641. On the 31st Mr. George reported the Bailey bankruptcy bill to the senate from the committee on the judiciary, witiua number of amendments, one of which provides that all creditors of a bankrupt shall be provided for,whether named in the filed list or not. It also provides that the property assigned is to be administered and distributed among creditors according to the laws of the state where the same is situated instead of the state where the debtor resides, as provided by the original bill

CURRENT TOPICS. TEE NEWS IH BRIE]-. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Ik the senate, on the 30th, the con ference report on the agricultural appropriation bill (with the senate appropriation for the extirpation of the Russian thistle yet undisposed of) was agreed to. House joint resolution extending present appropriations up to and including August 14, was passed, as was house bill for the publication and,$li8tribution of public documents......In the house, after the passage of a few bills of comparative unimportance. reported from the committee on military affairs, the session was wasted in a vain attempt to secure consideration of Mr. McRae s bill, entitled “A Bill to Protect Public Forest Reservations,” In the senate, on the 31st, the bill to purchase a site for the government printing office was considered, but went over without action. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill, show n? agreements and disagreements, was presented and adopted and a further conference ordered. The general deficiency bill and t,he house bankruptcy bill were placed on the cr lendafr—the latter to be taken up for consideration on August 0. Some half a dozen bills were taken from the calendar and passed.In the house several bills, most of them from the committee on naval affairs and nearly all unimportant, were passed. The house voted to adhere to its opposition to the senate ammendment to the agricultural bill appropriating (1,000,000 for the extermination of the Russian thistle. In the senate, on the 1st, most of the day was occupied in the consideration of amendments offered by senators to the sundry civil bill. The question ol railway stations anti depots in Oklahoma territory was taken up, and the senate amendment (favorable to the railroads) was receded from. The conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill (the senate conferees receding from the $1,000,090 Russian thistle amendment) was agreed to-In the house the conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill was agreed to. ard the con-tested-election case of Moore vs. Funston was taken up, and the resolutions offered by the minority that Moore was not elected and that Funston was, vrere defeated by a party vote, after which the house adjourned. - ' In the senate, on the 2d. Mr. Chandler spoke an hour and a half in favor of the adoption of his resolution for an investigation of the history of the Dominion Coal Co. of Nova Scotia. The resolution was sent to the calendar. The sundry civil appropriations bill was amended and passed. Senator Peffer offered a resolution looking to the employment by the United States of all unemployed citizens at the minimum wages of two dollars per day. A bill fov the exclusion of anarchists was reported from the committee on immigration and placed on the calendar. .. In the house very little business of importance was transacted. The conference reports on the Indian and district of Columbia appropriation bills were agreed to, and Mr. Moore (dem.) was seated in place of Mr, Funston (rep.), from the Second district of Kansas.

In the senat e, on the 3d. the general efficiency appropriation bill was passed and sent to conference. House bill for-the admission of the territories of New Mexico and Arizona was reported tend placed on the calendar. The conference rei*ort on the river and harbor bill was presented and went over — ..In the house, after the passage of a couple of private relief bills, the con ference report on the river and harbor bill was agreed to, and a conference was ordered on the sundry civil appropriation bill: also upon the bill regulating the printing ahd publication of public documents. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The last report of the inter-state commerce commission shows that the number of railway corporations in the United Sta tes is 1, 890, of which only 752 are independent operating roads, although 839 maintain operating accounts. Of the 1,138 subsidiary companies, 778 maintain financial accounts, being leased or operated untler traffic agreements;, the remaining 360 apparently having only a nominal existence. On the 31st Vice-President Stevenson, through his son Lewis, stated that there was no truth in the statements widely published that he had been compeled to interfere to prevent the marriage of his daughter to one George F. Curtis, a clerk in the library of the senate. The wages of Ihe men employed in the ham department of Armour’s packing house in Chicago were reduced fifteen cents pa- day on the 31st. They asked for a eturn to the old wages, which was refused, and they were told that they alight strike if they wanted to. It is not believed that they will do so. Short in his accounts, his defalcation discovered , requested to make good the money he had taken and harassed by demands for the payment of an old debt in Evansville, Ind., George N. Wells, bookkeeper for the Royal Cigar Co. in St. Louis, ended his life, on the 31st, by taking morphine. A naval battle was fought, on the 30th, between the Chinese and Japanese fleets. The Japanese sunk the Chinese warfihip Chen-Yuen, and two large cruisers, supposed to be the Chin-Yuan and Foo-Ohing, vessels built for China by the Armstrongs, were captured or destroyed by the Japanese.

un>b iu i^unuiR, va., for fifty years took place on the 31st, when Madison Brown, colored, was hanged for the murder of John Dollard, about sixteen months ago. A district convention of miners of the Pittsburgh district met in Pittsburgh; Pa., on the 1st, sixty delegates, representing about 15,000 miners, being in attendance. The object of the convention was to try and force all the operators in the district to live up to the Columbus agreement. The prince of Wales’ cutter Britannia arrived at Cowes, Isle of Wight,'on the 1st, flying twenty-four prize flags. Charles Meunier, the condemned French anarchist, has been transported to the penal colony in New Caledonia. Lamoure, N. D., is in ashes. A great fire bioke out on Front street at an early hour, on the 2d, and, fanned by a strong wind, laid in waste the entire business center of the town. This house of Princess Soltykoff at Slough, England, was entered by burglars, on the night of the 1st, and robbed of jewels valued at £10,000. Boats containing pleasure parties were capsized t>y a squall in the River Mawddach near Barmouth, Wales, on the ‘3d. and tea of the occupants were dro'wned. The official report of the German health authorities, issued on the 2d, shows one death from cholera in Dantzig, two in Sagorsz and two in Kurzebrack. The D. E. Stone furniture plant at Indianapolis, Ind., which went into the hauds of a receiver some time ago. was completely destroyed, on the 2d, by fire caused by lightning. Less, $d0.000, with 885,000 insurance ilite&XkiW--; life

Edward O’Keiat* who is serving' a life sentence in the Colorado penitentiary for the murder of Bob Ford, the slayer of the notorious bandit Jesse James, has applied fora pardon, claiming' self-defense as justification for the killing. A severe storm at Dels ware,'O., and vicinity, on the 2d, did much damage. Charles Boston’s barn with sixty tons of hay, horses, cattle and machinery was fired by lightning and consumed. H. Hill’s barn, with several bosses, high-grade cattle, fifty tons of hay and farming machinery, was also struck by lightning and burned. Mrs. Lewis’ barn, filled with hay and farm tools, was destroyed. Michael O’Brien’s barn, with hay crop and all his implements, were burned. The Japanese minister at Seoul, aftet the coll ision there between the J apanese and Corean troops, placed Tai-in-Kun. the king’s father, at the head of the Corean government, and he is now in command, not only of the government, but of the army. The lumber district of Chicago was again visited by fire, on the night of the 2d, which| for a time, threatened to rival in destructiveness that of the night previous. Before it was subdued it had wiped out the yards of the John Spry Lumber Co.; A. J. McBean, cedar posts; P. Farrell, cedar posts. Loss, $1,000,000. George Geisler, of Engine Co. No. 21, and George Dieket, of Truek No. 1, were killed and five other firemen were seriously injured by the falling of the third floor in the Mills building at Randolph and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia, while ■working on a fire on the 2d. Official bulletins from Chinese sources confirm previous reports of a land battle between the Chinese and the Japanese at Yashan on July 2? and 28. The Japanese were repulsed with a loss of 2,700 men killed and wounded. Mrs. Johx P. Arciif.r, of North Topeka, Kas., gave birth, on the 2d, to three perfectly-developed and apparently healthy children, weighing three to three and one-half and four pounds. The parents are natives of Russia. The first bale of hew crop of California hops was shipped from Sacramento for New York on the 2d. The indications are fora big harvest of hops of excellent quality.

UN me sa me emperor oi imna uivested Viceroy Li Hung Chang of the yellow jacket in consequence of supposed remissness in prosecuting the war. The vicinity of Arkansas City, Ivas., was visited, on the 3d, by a cloud of grasshoppers, ranging in length from two and a half to three inches. They proceeded to devour everything edible in sight. Foitr tramps stealing a ride on a west-bound Pennsylvania train, on the 3d, were burned to death in the fire which followed a collision. The failures for the week ended on the 3d were 219 in the United States, against 496 last year, and 44 in Canada, against 84 last year. The town of Golop, in Hungary, was burned on the 3d, only fifteen houses in the entire town being left standing. Fire, on the 3d, destroyed a quarter of the business portion of Marion, la.; loss, over §100,090. The business portion of Lakeview, Mich., was burned on the 3d. The loss is estimated at $130,000. Simple funeral services were held in Washington, on the 3d, over the remains of Gen. Holt, after which the body was taken to Holt, Ky., for interment. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 4th, thirtyseven private pension bills were taken from the calendar and passed. Several other bills were passed, the most important of which was house bill to subject to state taxation national bank notes and United States treasury notes. The bill declares the notes named and gold and silver and other coin subject to taxation as money on hand or under deposit under the laws of any state or territory.The house was dot in session on the 4th. David Wilson and Henry Wright, residents of Attica, were attacked at Brazil, Ind.,'on the 5th, by a cfewd of men on the Jackson street crossing of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, and horribly beaten. 'Wilson will die and Wright is seriously injured. The crime is believed to have been committed by striking railroad employes.

Thh miners of Spring Valley. La Salle, Pern, Oglesby, Jones, Seatonville, Ladd and Lacyville, 111., held 'a meeting near Spring Valley, on the 5th, and with the exception of 200 of the La Salle miners, who had signed contracts to return to work at the Colnmbns scale, all voted in favor of prolonging the strike begun last May. At Phillipsburg, Pa., on the 4th, the miners’ convention voted to (feel are the strike off, and work was resumed in most of the mines on tlie 6th, at the terms first announced by the operators —forty cents a ton. * Mrs. George M. Pullman and her son George M. Jr., and daughter, were passengers on the French line steamer La Normandie, which sailed from New York, on the 4th, for Havre. The Japanese legation at Washington received a telegram, on the 4th, which fully confirms a former telegram with reference to the defeat of the Chinese forces in Corea. The striking miners of Barnesboro, Pa., became violent on the morning of the 4th, and burned the coal tipple and several other buildings of the Cambria Coal Co.’s mines. The date of the professional sculling race between George HoSmer and Fred Plaisted at the Point of Pines, Mass., has been;changed from the 6th to the 24th. It was intimated, on the 4th, that Gov. Waite of Colorado might be indicted by the grand jury at Colorado Springs for attempting to shield prisoners. A special cable dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, on the 4th, says: “It is reported here that fighting has begun in San Domingo.”

INDIANA STATE NEW8 As unknown man was killed by the fefonon train over the Cincinnati, Ham* tlton1 and Indianapolis railroad. The man was first seen by the engineer lying1 on the track about six miles west of Connersville. His face was so much cut up that he can not be recognized, and no papers were found on his person. There was a Testament found in the pocket of the deceased, but nothing by which he could be recognized. There is one milch cow in Bartholomew county to every four inhabitants. The Fort Wayne board of public works has Refused to accept the garbage crematory recently completed. The mail routes at South Bend are to be revised, and the free mail delivery service extended to over 400 additional families. R. C. Wood, the promoter of numerous newspaper enterprises in Laporte and adjoining counties, has mysteriously disappeared. J. L. Kilgore’s mammoth heading factory at Anderson ' shut down the other night to move to Paducah, Ky., it being impossible for the company to obtain suitable timber in Indiana at a reasonable figure. The plant is probably the largest of the kind in the state, employing three hundred men the year round. The new plant at Paducah will be an improvement over the Anderson plant, and will employ 350 hands. Henry Shade, night engineer at the rolling mill, at Terre Haute, was assassinated three years ago. It now develops that Mrs. Moore, an old Negress, confessed upon her death bed that she shot Shade at the instigation of his wife. Emanuel Davis, a leading citizen of Montreal, Can., died at El wood, the other night, at the home of his parents from gangrene caused by picking a wart on his hand with a brass pin. He •suffered awful agony and was a horrible sight to behold. Judge David Moss, of Xoblesville, died a few days ago, aged 70. He was a member of the legislature in 1852, and in 1885 was elected judge of the Madison and Hamilton circuit court, and has been a practitioner for fifty years.

x\ VKiMSii i»uy uruppcu a miw Chief of Police Coburn’s desk at Anderson in time to prevent a wholesale delivery of the prisoners from the jail. James Smith, a farm tenant near North Madison, was white-capped by seven disguised men for alleged cruelty to his family. At Muncie great damage is being done the city water pipes by the trolley system of the electric street railway. The other evening a leaky pipe was dug out and was found to be almost destroyed by electrolysis. The process of chemical decomposition had progressed so far that the weight of the metal was destroyed and portions of the pipe were perforated like a gas burner. The escaping water had found its way to the surface. A seven-button rattlesnake was killed near Elkhart the other day. Johh Hill and Maude Wingate, Albany elopers, were married at Muncie. In a garden at Centerville is a radish 18% inches in circumference. Nearly all the professional men of Elkhart reside on one street. Many farmers near Princeton are being swindled by traveling grocery agents. Fortville wants several policemen to prevent depredations by drunken rowdies. A sensational but unsuccessful attempt at suicide occurred at Tipton, the other night. John P. Oglebay, a young attorney, was found at the cemetery late in the night in an unconscious condition. He was lying on the grave of his sweetheart. Miss Amelia Kiefer, who died a few days ' ago. Young Oglebay had taken an crunce of chloral, and the fact that he had taken an overdose was all that saved his life. Rey. G. W. Gee yen, of Patriot, who recently acquired unenviable notoriety by eloping with another man’s wife, has been pronounced insane by a board of medical examiners. Jordan Olcott, aged 19 years, youngest son of Dr. W. A. Olcott, of Patriot, was drowned while bathing, the other morning. He was a bright medical student, just ready to eliter college, and one of the most deservedly popular young men in the county.

The Adams county bank, oi uecatur, has been incorporated; capital, $120,000. A Bedford mechanic has invented a machine which makes one hundred stone bricks a minute from limestone slabs. The Goshen water supply is running short. «. Chewing gum socials are the latest at Elwood. Frank Marshall., near Valparaiso, was burglarized by tramps who missed a suit of clothes which contained $1,200. The Midland steel works and the Indiana iron works resumed operation at Muncie, the other day. Over one thousand men are employed in these mills. Miss Anna Hunt, of Indianapolis, a young lady nineteen years of age, has gone to Chicago to take the Pasteur treatment as a preventive of hydrophobia. Miss Hunt was bitten by the dog of Fred Bunte on the same day that the same dog bit little Bertha Wenning, who died a few days ago of hydrophobia. The other morning a case of smallpox was discovered at Straw's Mill, three miles north of Jeffersonville, The victim is James Crandall, aged 45, and owner of the mill. Fire originating from a hot boxing totally destroyed the large plant of the Hamlet Hay Co., at Hamlet, eight miles north, the other day. Loss $10,000. Postmasters were appointed the other day as follows: Emma A. Courtney, Center Square, Switzerland county, vice A. G. Hunter, resigned; and J. W. Senor, New Middleton, Harrison county, vice M rs. Maararie Watson, removed

THE TARIFF MEASURE. The Present Week Expected to Seel It* Fate—A Very Slight C hence of A creel or, with e Possibility of the Whole Quest loo Heine Again Opened to Interminable Debate end to Ftllbastertnc—Danger of Defeat. Washington, Aug. 6.—The present week will probably seal the fate of the tariff bill. The democratic members of the conference committee met in an informal way yesterday, and again went over the bill, agreeing here and there to tentative changes, in the hope that they could hasten a conclusion. The senatorial contingent of the conference were unable to assure* their colleagues of the house that the new sugar schedule would be acceptable to the senate, and, secure the ■ fortythree votes necessary. The discussion in conference, however, indicated that all parties recognized the necessity of making an early report of some kind. The senate conferees decline to indicate what the nature of the tip will be, but one of them stated positively that there would be a conclusion reached not later than Wednesday and possibly by to-day. He made the positive statement that there could be no compromise on eoal and iron, and if the house conferees insisted upon the house bill on these items there would soon be a disagreeing report. The house men still demand some concession on these items. The parliamentary status of the bill is giving its managers some uneasiness. The bill is now in possession of the senate. The house can take no action on the measure until the senate has acted, and it is the probable result in the senate that causes the uneasiness that has been manifested. Some conservative democrats in the house, who have heretofore upheld the licuse bill, are now condemning the deadlock, Could these men get a ehance to vote on the bill, it is believed they would override their conferees and hasten the end of the struggle. Whatever may be the conclusion reached by the conferees, the.report must first go to the senate, and the bill cannot be acted upon in the house until that body has before it the original bill and the conference papers. How long it will take these documents to get back to the house after the matter is again opened in the senate, no political augur can foretell. A disagreeing or an agreeing report is bound to renew the whole field of debate.

The woolen, metal and cotton schedules are said to be-as difficult of solution as the other three schedules around which so much political importance clings. Mr. Smith and Mr. Murphy have resisted from the first any serious encroachment upon the woolen and cotton schedules, while, it is said, the retention of the iron and metal schedule intact, is the preference of certain republicans who, should these be reduced* will at once resume dilatory tactics and insist upon talking the conference report to death. The situation in the committee of conference may be briefly summed up. The house insists upon materia? concessions in coal and iron ore; the senate refuses absolutely to give more than reciprocity on coal. Mr. Gorman will not listen to any proposition looking to a graduated duty on these raw materials or the counter proposition that the duty be left as it is with the proviso that it shall expire in three years and iron ore and coal be then transferred to the free list. The house conferees will agree to the scedule recently made public, on the one-fifth basis, and the sugar senators, so-called, have accepted it. . The Louisiana senators and Messrs. Allen and Kyle will not support it, and these four votes together with those of Mr. Hill, and probably that of Mr. Irby, would defeat the bill. With the sugar schedule as it is now the senate was able to pass the bill only by a very narrow margin, and that, too, as is now claimed, in the belief on the part of the Louisiana senators that the bounty was to be given them in conference. This bounty having been refused, it is problematical if the democrats could get the bill through again if no item be changed. The managers on the part of the senate recognize the dilemma in which they find themselves and naturally dread the contest that must come. In addition to this, it was understood yesterday that at least fifteen republicans had bound themselves bv a tacit agreement that when the conference report again came into the senate they would use every means in their power to prevent the bill from ever getting off the vice-president's table. This course means more filibustering.

DEATH OF EX-GOV. BLAIR, He Fussed Away Like a Child Falling Into a Sweet Slumber. f Jackson, Mich., Aug1. 6.—Ex-Gov. Austin Blair died at 1:20 this morning. The end came like a child falling into a sweet slumber and death was painless. For the last twenty-four ■ hours he has lain in a comatose state and only once or twice did he recognize his family abput him. The cause of death was uremic poisoning and inflammation of the liver. The deceased leaves four sons, a widow, one brother, William Blair, of Fremont, Neb., and one sister, Mrs. Daniel Lyman, of New York. The funeral will be held at the Unitarian church, but the date has not been fixed upon. MORE FIGHTING IN COREA. Three Chinese "War Ships Said to be Captured by the Japanese. London, Aug. 6.—A dispatch to the Central News from Shang-IIai, dated August 5* says: “It is reported that there has been another engagement off the Corean coast in which three Chinese war ships were captured by Japanese. The report has not been confirmed. A Japanese mob attacked the Chinese residents in Kobe, a day or two ago, severely maltreating them. A dangerous riot ensued

FIRE HAS AN INNING, And Plays an Exciting Engagement M thy Chicago Grounds—A Fifteen Thousand Dollar Stand Destroyed and the hives of n Thousand Sightseers Imperiled by the Flames—Quick Action of Flayers Kynn and W11 mot. Chicago, Aug. ^5.—Time was called in the seventh inning1 of the ChicagoCincinnati ball game this afternoon at- s the West Side park by the cry of fire, followed by scenes never before witnessed at a sporting event in this city. Curiosity to see the ire led more than a thousand spectators to rush into danger, and in their frantic efforts to extricate themselves from their perilous positions they became panic stricken,, They found themselves hemmed in by fire on one side and high barbed wire fences on the other. erected to keep the people from encroaching on the diamond. The exits were few and small, and althoug other means of escape were provided by the quick action of Players Ryan and Wflmot, of the local team, and President Hart, the imperiled and fearcrazed crowd bucked against the barbed fencing. Their mad rush to get away from the advancing Haines resulted in the injury of scores. Cuts, bruises, contusions, a broken arm ami a broken leg wtre the injuries sustained. Many of the victims, although badly hurt, left the grounds before the police or others could get their names. The property of the club was damaged $15,000 before the lire department extinguished the flames. A cigar stub, thrown among rubbish, started the fire. 4 Anson was showing the visitors how ' - to hit the ball in the seventh inning when a red light began to flash and rise along the side stand, where the , ^ fifty-eent spectators sat. There were 1,600 of them in the seats and 0.000 witnessing the game altogether. The breaking out of the fire caused a general rush of people in that part of the ground to the top of the stand to take a look as there was no longer any game in progress. In a few minutes they realized the danger of their position and broke for the narrow exits, which had already filled with smoke. The spectators who were in the grand stand and on the bleachers were at a safe distance from the fire and got away into the field without any mishap. From that position they witnessed the destruction of the stand and the serious plight of the other less fortnnate SDeetators.

The woodwork of the stand and the piles of paper and other rubbish thrown around provided fuel for the flames which gained on fhe imprisoned men before they know it. All was _sjonfusion in an instant among the occupants of the flaming wooden structure. Women screamed in their fright and men got jammed against the sharp fence. The exits might as Well have not been there. Hands, faces, limbs and clothing were cut and torn by the scrambling mass of humanity in trying to force a passage through the stands or over them. The fence would not give way, but liyan and Wilmot used their bats like blacksmiths and made a way of escape for hundreds. Five minutes after the last spectator had gone out of reach of the flames every seat was being consumed.. The grounds will be used to-day by fencing off the burned part. * • ■ ON THE WHEEL. Th« Great Relay Ride of Over Two Thousaml Miles Start* To-Day. Washington, Aitg. 6.—Cycle riders all over the country are interested in tlje great bicycle relay of 2,087 miles to Denver, which starts from this city to-day. Washington wheelmen will make the first run of seventy-seven miles to Hagerstown. The time sheduled is seven hours and thirty-five minutes, but the boys say they may do the distance in an even seven hours. Saturday morning the Washington Road club sent out a detachment of fifteen men to look over the first thir-ty-eight miles, and the rest of the distance to Hagerstown will be covered by members of the Georgetown Cycle elub. Each relay will be composed of two men, and pick ups will be five miles apart.

A committee composed of Messrs. Cook, secretary of the" Georgetown Cycle club; George Bennett, president of the Associated Cycling clubs; Chief Consul French, of the league, and llonsaville, of the Washington Road club, met Saturday evening and arranged all the details ;of the start, pickups, etc. The start will be made from the White House at exactly 12 noon. A message from President Cleveland will be secured through Private Secretary Thurber, and Gen. Greely will send another to . the chief signal observer of the department of Arizona. Messrs. French and Ronsaville will have charge of the first relay of one mfleko the corner of Fourteenth and R streets, and the pick-ups will takeiUp the run. The road goes out by way of Laytonsville, and each relay will be on hand at their respective statioris ready to take up the run without a moment's delay. Arrested for Treason. Berlin, Aug. 6.—Editor Teufel, of the socialist paper Volkstiinme, of Mannheim, and the printers. Dreisbaeh and Fentz, have been arrested for high treason in having printed on August S the republican manifesto of 1848. Dreisbaeh was formerly a member of the reichstag. , . ~ THE STRIKE IN CHICAGO Declared Off by the Special Committee of the American Railway Union. CmcAGO, Aug. 5.—At a meeting of the general strike committee selected r by the special convention of the Ameri- r can Railway union last week, and which was held at Ulich’s hall this afternoon, it was decided to declare the great strike off in Chicago. This does not include the Chicago & Eastern Hltnois nor the Santa Fe, where the men have voted to continue the strike to settle local grievances, and where they think they have a show of wiimin?.