Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 August 1894 — Page 2

She pfcc County §tmmt M- McC. STOOPS. Editor and Proprietor PETERSBURG.' - > INDIANA. Secretary Gresham, on the 8th, notified acting1 Speaker McCreary that the Republic of Hawaii had been officially recognized by the president. Tbomas Achesox Desman, second Baron Denman, marshal and associate of the lord chief justice of England, died in Berwick-on-Tweed, on the 9th, aged 80. The returns to the statistical bureau of the agricultural department for the month of August makes the condition of cotton 91.8, an increase of 2.2 points over the July condition. From July 29 to August 4, 316 new cases of cholera and 240 deaths were reported in St. Petersburg. In Warsaw, from July 22 to July 28, 159 new cases of cholera and 83 deaths were reported. The Consolidated Coal Co. of Frosburg, Md., on the 9th; notified all the miners who stuck to their posts during the late protracted strike that they will each receive nine months' rent and fuel free. The Moline (111.) Plow Co., on the 10th, closed down its - entire shop, throwing 275 men out of work. A sympathetic strike was feared by the officers, and the shut-down was to avoid trouble. The Iowa battle flags were transferred from the arsenal to a permanent receptacle in the eapitol at Des Moines on the 10th. Thousands of old veterans took part in the great parade in honor of the event. Chief-Justice Cos well Bennett of of the Kentucky court of appeals died at Hopkinsville on the 9th. He would have completed his first term of eight years in January and had recently received nomination for re-election.* The Yankee yacht Vigilant showed her heels in fine style to her British competitors, off the Isle of Wight, on the 6th, beating the Britannia and Satanita, the former by nearly eight minutes and the latter nearly out of sight.

President Clark of the Indianapolis (Ind.) American Railway union has disappeared from-that city, and it developed, on the 9th, that he left to avoid arrest for connection with an alleged plot to blow up the Union station there. Sir Edward Grey, under secretary of the British foreign office, denied in the house of commons, on the 9th, the report that Jabez Spencer Balfour had been extradited from the Argentine republic upon the order of the federal court. The house democratic caucus, on the 7th, lasted an hour and a half, and adjourned after deciding that the house conferees on the tariff bill should not be embarrassed by instructions of any character from their democratic associates. The secretary of the navy has received the annual report of the board of visitors to the naval academy, which contains an unusual number of important recommendations for raising the standard of scholarship and perfecting the course. No appeal has been made for Santo Caesario, the convicted murderer of President Carnot, and the time for revision of judgment having passed, the documents were, on the 7th, sent to Paris. The execution will take plat e probably about the 27th. David Hahn, who drove coaches across the Alleghenies before the advent of the railroad, died at Portsmouth, 0., on the 9th, aged 94. In his day he carried Gen. Jackson, Henry Clay, President William Henry Hairispn and other distinguished statesmen.

It was officially reported from TienTsin, bn the 8th, that the efforts ‘ of Great Britain and Russia to bring about a peaceful settlement of the disputes between China and Japan have failed. China is willing to pay an indemnity, but she refuses to surrender her suzerainty over Corea. About 60 per cent, of the creditors of the Mambourg, Crockery and ‘Calcined Glass companies met with Assignee Fox and ex-Gov. Foster in Fostoria, O., on the 7th, and decided to pay a cash dividend of 10 per cent, on the indebtedness of the Calcined and 15 per cent, on the other two companies. The awful wreck on the Rock island passenger train, near Lincoln, Neb., on the 9th, was the work of train wreckers, and the company promptly offered a reward of $1,000 for the apprehension of the perpetrators. Twen-ty-four lives are now said to have been lost, and ten persons injured. Mbs. M. French-Shei.dox, the African exploress, arrived in New York from Liverpool on the steamship Aurania on the 6th. She is to lecture at Chautauqua, N. Y., on African subjects, and to arouse interest in her scheme for the colonization of a large tract of territory in East Africa. Miss SUbie Sherman, daughter of Rev. C. W. Sherman, left St. Louis, on the 8th, to become a missionary in Africa. She will sail for the 'Dark continent from New York city, on the 15thj on the steamer Paris. Her elder sister, Bessie Sherman, has been doing missionary work for years in India. The loss of sealers in the Arctic ocean is denied by the crew of the Bowhead which arrived at San Francisco on the 8th. They say that the sealer Thomas is safe, and that the schooner Savryard, reported capsize! or lost, with all hands, never lost a boat. They report the Unga safe at Hakodate

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS II BBJET. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. In the senate, on the «kh. Mr. Chandler's resolution to investigate the Dominion Coal Co. of Nora Scotia, and the substitute offered by Hr. Hill, were the subjects of a lively debate during the morning hour, but went over without action. House bill providing for the inspection of immigrants by United States consuls, with the substitute reported from the committee on immigration for the exclusion and deportation of anarchists, was taken up. After a lengthy debate, the subtitute was agreed to. with amendments, the bill passed and a conference asked..In the house most of tie day was spent in discussing the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill. Wit bout conclusive action, however, the house adjourned. lit the senate, en the 7th. during a short and unimportant session, some half dozen hills weie passed, one of the greatest public interest being a bill to facilitate the collection of state, county and municipal taxes from corporations in the hands of receivers under orders of a United States court. The house baikruptcy bill was reported back from committee with amendments, and placed on the calendar.In the house, consideration of the Indian appropriation hill was completed, the house receding from disagreement to senate amendment relating to the ratification of the treaties with the Siletz, Yankton-Sioux and Nez Perces Indians for the purchase of portions of their reservations. Several senate amendments to the tariff bill were agreed to, and quite a number of bills were passed. In the senate, on the 8th, pending definite action fey the tariff conferees, an litter indifference to all other matters of legislation was manifested. Some dozen bills were passed by unanimous consent, and the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill Iras presented and agreed to. Mr. Allen introduced a bill imposing a penalty by fine and imprisonment u]ion professional lobbyists .....jin the house the resolutions providing for an investigation of the charges against Judge Kicks of having, when clerk, sequestered fees of the court, was agreed to. The action of the senate in substituting Mr. Hill's anti-anarchist immigration bill for Mr. Stone's bill providing for consular inspection of immigrants was nOn-concurred in, and the matter sent to conference. Joint resolution for the investigation of the effnet of machinery on labor and appropriating $10,009 therefor was passed. IN the senate, on the 9th. among the private h ills passed in the morning hour was house bill far the relief of Louis Pelham, who, during war times, under confiscation proceedings, paid (S.000 for a 97.000 note of a party i n Kentucky supposed to be disloyal. The confiscation proceedings afterwards being set asjide, Pelham was out the $3,000 he had paid the United States marshal. The hill passed was t<i> reimburse him.In the house Mr. Boutelle criticised t he administration's Hawaiian policy. The hill to increase the efficiency of the militia was taken up. and gave rise to a discussion in which the recent riots in Chicago and the employment of federal troops by the president were discussed. Six private claims hills were passed. -

Is the senate, on the 10th, Mr. Hill caused a lively discussion by ottering a resolution, which was rejected, directing the senate Conferees to report progress on the tariff bilL Mr. Harris, one of the democratic conferees on the part of the senate, made a statement of the status of the bill. Mr. Chandler offered ai resolution (which went over) looking to an investigation of the recent election in Alabama, and whether it resulted in the choice of a legislature entitled to choose a United States senator—In the house the session was almost wholly taken up with consideration of the first conference report on the sundry civil appropriations bill. Discussion of the public land question occupied the rest of the day. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. -- Viceroy Li Hcxg Chang expressesthe opinion that the British goverment will claim compensation for; the relatives of the "victims of the sunken transport Kow-Shung, and also for the owners of the cargo, who were under the protection of the British flag when the Kow-Shung was sunk. Li Hung Chang estimates the indemnity due to China from Japan on account of the Kow-Shung affair at $3,500,000, The president, on the 6th, nominated Judge Amos M. Thayer, of St. Louis, to be judge for the Eighth judicial circuit (newly created); H. S. Priest, of Missouri, to be district judge for the eastern district of Missouri, and James D. Porter, of Tennessee, to be district judge for the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee. Edward Wrihl, of Chicago, was arrested in New York city, on the 7th, charged with embezzlement. He was secretary of a Chicago building and loan association and absconded with $3,700.

Lip to the morning oi tne "tn returns received from the Alabaiffti election would indicate the election of Oates (dem.) for governor by about 20,000 majority, and the entire democratic ticket by varying majorities. The state legislature was claimed by the democrats. Judge Camfbkui. held Adjt.-Gen. Tarsney in contempt of court at Colorado Springs, Col., on the 7th, and fined |rim $50 for ignoring the summons to appear before the grand jury sitting to inquire into the tar-and-'eather case. Dr. Guzman, th,e Nicaraguan minister, received a telegram from Managua, on the 7th, officially announcing that the town'of Bluefields, on the Mosquito coast, had been taken by the Nicaraguan army. A freight train on the West Jersey railroad was held up, at 4 o’clock on the morning of the 7th, at May’s Landing, N. J., by a band of twenty-five Coxeyites under Carl Browne. The “hoboes” stubbornly fought the train crew, but werl finally subdued. William Bean, a,/armer living near Grand Rapids, O., was instantly killed, on the Tth, by a bumble-bee stinging him on the neck. The Sioux City (la.) Telephone Co. has applied for a franchise. It is making a duplicate of the Bell instrument, which it sells outright. The company will not operate a central exchange for some time, but will put up wires which will be leased to patrons. Dave Van Lew and C. C. Ames, painters, fell 40 feet with a scaffolding, on the 8th, while painting a sign on the Buncombe house at Fort Dodge, la. Van Lew was fatally injured, but Ames may live. The viceroy of Kwang Tung, China, has engaged 5,000 Black Flags to strengthen the fortifications, and river defense in the north of Canton. Harrt A. Gardner,* cashier of the Second national bank ’of Altoona, Pa., lias disappeared in company with a Mrs. Gordon, to whom Gardner has been so attentive during the past year as to excite much unfavorable comment. A director of the bank is authority for the statement that Gardner has also taken with him a large sum of money belonging to tha bank.

The pope received 140 pilgrims from the United States on the 7th. There were no speeches. The Americans at* tended mass celebrated b- pis holiness. Ix speaking of the probabilities of the pending war between Japan and China an official of the Japanese legation recalled the fact that the season of the monsoon and the typhoon is rapidly approaching. The presence of the former is not regarded as a menace to sea maneuvering, but fear is felt for the latter. Last March A. H. BatlifF killed Andrew Thompson at Sewell, W. Va.. and escaped. The authorities offered a reward of $200 for his arrest and the citizens added $50. On the 8th the police at Charleston, W. Va., received a telegram from the marshal of Pittsburg, Kas., saying that Batliff was in jail there. U. Wesxer was shot and killed by his father-in-law, Jas. Livingston, at the latter's home in Lebanon, Ind., on the night of the 8th. Wesner is a son of Lawyer C. W. Wesner, who was killed by J. C. Brown in the court-room at Danville a year ago last May. Three hundred miners at Mystic, la., went out on a strike, on the Sth, because the company insisted on holding back two or three days’ wages when paying their men every two weeks. Representative Bryan, of Nebraska, has a petition bearing 10,000 signatures for an investigation of the course taken by Atty.-Gen. Olney during the recent strike looking to his impeachment. The poliee have discovered in Rome a revolutionary band who correspond regularly with foreign anarchists. Society women have acted as go-betweens for the correspondents in order that the suspicions of the police might not be aroused. Ox the night of the 9th the eastbound Oklahoma and Texas express on the Roek Island road plunged through an ^overhead bridge, 50 feet high, 5 miles south of Lincoln, Neb., into a creek, killing eight persons and wounding many others. Five of the victims were burned to death in the wrcek. Ox July 17 thirty-seven British marines crossed the line of defense adopted by the Japanese commander near Seoul, Corea. They were remonstrated with, and there was a slight collision. The marines forced their way through, however, in order to gc on duty to protect the British legation in Seoul. They were not subsequently molested.

JL llCt ou^amoiu^ viij( v* m V/ivmg ui rived at San Francisco, on the 10th. from Hong Kong, via Yokohama. Wai had not been declared when she sailed. Os the 10th the employes at the South Omaha (Neb.) packing houses resumed work under protection of the militia, at whose approach the strikers dispersed. Wm. F. Lee, cashier of the Canadian Express Co., left Toronto, Ont., on the 10th, owing to the discovery of a short* age in his accounts of $1,800. The American church at Shea-Lu-Lung, China, was totally destroyed during recent anti-missiona'ry riots. Geobge M. Pvi.lman arrived in Chicago, on the 10th, from New York. “Gen.” Jennings and his army oi fifty, just returned from Washington, took breakfast at'an Indianapolis (Ind.) restaurant, on the 10th, by invitation of the populist state central committee. As soon as the meal was over they were driven out of the restaurant and marched out of the city by a big squad of police. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on tbe 11th, the session was taken up in debate on the Hill resolution instructing the senate conferees on the tariff bill to report whether the conferees of the two houses were likely to agree, and if not to report a disagreement, with an additional clause requiring ’ the bill to be handed to the secretary of the senate for such action as the senate might desire to take upon it. The rote resulted in a tie; yeas, 85; nays, 35, which the vice-president turned against the resolution by promptly voting in the negative. The bill was placed on the calendar........In the house proceedings were confined to consideration of two items in the sundry civil appropriation, bill, upon which-the conferees had beep unable to agree. A further conference was ordered.

The f^reat anarchist trial in Paris ended, on the 12th. in the acquittal of all the thirty defendants on the charge of anarchy. Three of the prisoners, however, were found guilty on other charges, and sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying from six months to fifteen years. ‘The weekly statement of the New York associated hanks, issued on the 11th, shows the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $2,050,850; loans, increase, $3,318,800; specie, increase, $505.800; legal tenders, decrease, $2,686,500; deposits, decrease, $519,400; circulation, decrease, $27,400. J. S. Williams, a miner, was arrested in Colorado City, Col., on the 11th, for threatening to kill deputy sheriffs. He had laid a plot to entice Deputy William SheUenburger to a saloon, where a quarrel was to be started, in which the deputy would be beaten to death. H. L. Staxwood, of the Illinois Cycling club of Chicago, started from that city at 1 p. m., on the 11th, in an attempt to lower the Chicago-New York record of 10 days, 4 hours, 89 minutes, made in June, 1893. J. D. Gauoaur has deposited $500 at Toronto, Onf.. as a forfeit for a sculling match with Thomas Sullivan, late of Australia and now a resident of England, for $10,000 or more a side. Ex-State Senator Hannibal K. Sloan, democratic candidate for con-gressman-at-large, died at his residence in Indiana, Pa., on the 11th. Fourteen cases of cholera were reported on the P. Garland, which arrived at New York, on the 10th, from Rotterdam. On the 11th the banks of New York held $67,020,650 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. John Cnixiif, of Kokomo, reduced to desperation by a cancer, suicided by slowly starving himself. As alleged plot by strikers to blow up the Union depot at Indianapolis has been exposed. At Noblesville, Pat McCowan lost both feet while trying to board a moving train. W. C. Mathews was permanently disabled in a peculiar manner TSt Huntington. While holding a board which another man was chopping, the as slipped from the handle and cnt both his hands nearly off. They may have to be amputated. Hon. Joseph Gray was nominated at Logansport for joint representative by the democrats of Cass and Miami counties. Reports to the weather bureau in Indiana show that corn has been severely hurt by the long-continued drought. At South Bend the police last year arrested 31 persons who were under 14i years of age. A compaxt; has been organized at Tipton with $50,000 capital, to establish a national bank. Ex-Minister S. F. Chandler was shot in the shoulder by Lon. Davis, a brother-in-law at Noblesville. while trying to kidnap his child. Charles Reno, a merchant policeman of Indianapolis, is ander arrest for passings counterfeit two dollar silver certificate. The electric lights on the streets of Ft. Wayne have been turned off for lack of funds. At South Bend David F. Woolman, an ex-contractor, blew out his brains. Cause not known. The Merchants and the Meridian national bank, of Indianapolis, may consolidate. Walter Brandon, of Anderson, is the owner of a small pup that is a natural curiosity. It was bora about a month ago, and has only two legs instead of four. There is no sign of front legs, the breast of the dog being perfectly smooth and symmetrical. The pup walks on its hind legs after the style of a kangaroo, and gets about; with apparent ease. Richmond wants a large grain elevator.

xn£iu< <u c uicu iu out of work. At Richmond coaching parties are all the rage. The baseball fever has struck Tipton. Muncik has a one-legged bicycle rider. At Portland, Bertha Beatlv, while riding from the field on a mower, fell under the wheels and was crushed to death. She was 6 years old. , Dan Gkeen was held in $300 bond in Justice of the Peace Thurston’s court, at Seymour for cutting with intent to kill Pat Horan. * Wm. Hog a*, of Fayette county, is insane over/schemes for running a threshing machine. He fired up an engine at midnight the other night and was prepared to thresh alone when arrested. The bam of Abram Miller, in Wabash county, was struck by lightning the other night and destroyed, to* gether with five hundred bushels of wheat, over five hundred bushels of oats and all the owner’s vehicles and implements. Loss, $3,000; insurance, $1,500, in the Ohio Farmers’. Winchester voted in favor of water works the other day by a small majority. The old Sixteenth regiment will hold its eighth annual reunion at Pendleton September 18. Long Long and Wong Long, two Chinese laundr^men of Elkhart, have left for their native land to enlist in the emperor’s army. A valuable yearling Wilkes colt, owned by James Morehouse, of Muncie, fell and broke its neck while being broken to a cart. ' _ At Shelbyville, Isaac Hendricks the other morning opened his front door and’ found a basket with a little girl baby in it. The foundling was taken to the orphans’ home. < A freak has been discovered at Evansville, in the person of a colored man aged forty-five, who is gradually turning white. Thb fourteen-vear-old son of Wharfmaster Cox, of Vevay, was drowned in the Ohio, the other afternoon while bathing. ' 1 —

At Kockport fare the other monung' destroyed Anderson’s drug- store, Dr. Dailey’s ofSce and Mason & Payton’s law office. Loss $10,000, partly insured. The sixteenth annual re-union of the Tenth regiment, Indiana infantry, will h$. held at Lebanon, on Wednesday; September 13. La porte is overrun with hobos. There is danger of a water famine at Anderson. Work on the new courthouse at Monticello has begun. A horse-radish canning factory will be established at Goshen. \ John Spangi.er, farmer, residing two miles north of Decatur, was gored to death by a vicious bull, the other afternoon. At Shelbyville Miss Elizabeth- Spurlin ran a needle into her foot and died of lockjaw. Memrers of the Elkhart militia who lost their situations while on strike duty, now call upon the people for employment. In making her first balloon ascension in Anderson, the other evening, Tillie Sabern, of Richmond, fell from the parachute, which did not work, and was dashed to death on the river bank. Miss Sabern’s brother had make three ascensions of late and it was his feats that the unfortunate girl admired and tried to imitate. Her brother had pleaded with her not to do it. The barn of Jacob Sinkle, near I-a-gro, Wabash county, was struck by lightning and entirely destroyed. Loss., $3,000; insurance, $1,350. . A New York man is in Elkhart looking up a location for the manufacture of cotton sweep. %

THE WAR IN COREA. Z4ite Sew* from OOrial Chine** Sourer*— The Anomalous Position of Ll Hons C bane—Stripped of His Chief Honors Be. enose of Inefficiency. Vet Left in Supreme ' Command of the Aruiy and Nary—War Loxik>x. Aug. IX.—The Shanghai correspondent of the Central News has been enabled to obtain from an official Chinese source a full confirmation ei the report that Li Hung Chang has been reproved and degraded by the emperor for dilatoriness in prosecuting the tvar. The correspondent says: : “The emperor expressed his displeasure at the backward condition of the soldiers, censured Li Hung for remissness and in a secret decree deprived him of the yellow Coat and the peacock feather and reduced him in rank three degrees. “Nevertheless. Li Hung retains of- ■ fice, and inasmuch as he has been given entire charge of the naval and military forces, enjoys all the privileges of viceroy.” The correspondent says the incident ’ is entirely comprehensible to anybody conversant with Chinese eustoms. In British naval circles the Japanese attacks on Wei-Hai-Wei ami Port Arthur are regarded as daring.' The rashness and the pluck of the Japanese is praised unstintedly. Wei-Hai-Wei and Port Arthur have exceedingly strong defenses. Moreover. according to the testimony of Capt. Lang and others conversant with the facts, the Chinese are expert torpedoists and gunners. It is assumed that the Japanese attack is part of a scheme to keep the Chinese fleet in the gulf of Pe Chi Li while ! Japan pours troops to Corea. Another dispatch from Shanghai says: It is reported that twenty-six j ships were engaged in the attack on Wei-Hai-Wei. Whether or not all.were war ships is not known. The forts and vessels exchanged about fifty shots. The forts tired badly: their shells _fell short or wide. The attacks, it is j thought, were a ruse to draw fire in order to ascertain the strength and position of the Chinese guns.

•Japanese Movements in Seoul. London, Aug;. 12.—A dispatch received from Shanghai this noon confirms the Times’ correspondents statement that 12,030 Japanese who were landed at Fusain.and 8.000 more who were landed at Gensan. are marching toward Seoul. The two forces will meet at some distance from Seoul and. then effect a junction with the Japanese troops already in the Seoul district. This combined army is expeeted to operate against the Chinese army coming down the peninsula. Tb« Powers Should Intervene to Prevent the Kxtinctlon of Japanese Autonomy. London, Aug.. 13.—The Daily News recommends concerted action by the European powers to stop the war between China and Japan. It says: China and Japan respectively embody conservative and innovating forces. It is, therefore, natural that western nations should sympathize with Japan. If her ultimate victory were probable or even within the range of practical possibilities, there might be plausible arguments against intervention. But the permanent defeat of China is almost impossible, and the result, unless the powers interpose, will probably be the extinction of Japanese autonomy and jealous exclusion of “foreign devils” from Japan as well as from China. If mutual jealousy prevents the European powers from acting, there remains the alternative of possible action by the United States. That may be contrary to one aspect of the Monroe doctrine and opposed to American ideas, but the situation is exceptional enough to justify a departure from precedent and usage. The -fighting cannot continue without seriously injuring the tradle of the world.” ASIATIC CHOLERA. Fourteen Cases of the Disease Reported on a Vessel Just Arrived at New York. New York, Aug. It.—Fourteen cases of cholera are reported on a vessel just arrived in port. She is the P. Garland and is from Rotterdam As soon as her signals asking for a medical officer were recognized the authorities sent a staff of physicians on board. Fourteen steerage passengers were found to be suffering from Asiatic cholera. The vessel is detained at quarantine off Hoffman island, on which is situated the state crematory. If any of the victims die they will be cremated at once, as they were during the scare and forty days of purification two years ago.

A BLOW AT PULLMAN. The Attorney-General of Illinois Charges that the Pullman Palace Car Co. lias. Forfeited Its Franchise. Chicago, Aug. 11.—At 1:20o’clock this afternoon 'Attorney-General Moloney appeared in the office of the circuit clerk of Cook county and filed a petition covering sixty pages of typewritten, legal cap for a bill in equity against the Pullman Palace Car Col , calling upon it to show cause why it should not be prohibited from further doing business under the laws of the state. The petition set forth thaft it has violated the franchises conferred upon it by the state in numerous particulars, and lays stress upon the fact that it Is conducting a hotel business, and a real estate business, without warrant of law. GOING AGAINST THE RECORD. Harry Stan wood Trying to Itreak the Chicago- New York Wheel Record. Chicago Aug. 12.—H. L. Stanwood, of the Illinois Cycling club, of this city, started from the city hall at 1 p. m. in an attempt to lower the Chicago-New York record of 10 days, 4 hours, 39 minutes. mad? in June, 1893. Stanwood will ride n wheel weighing nineteen pounds. He will take the northern course, which takes him through northern Indiana, Ohio and through Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.

THE BICYCLE RELAY. Brilliant Ending of the Cwo-tht-Cwa-trjr Knee—k'uthiwiutlr Wcivome at I>et|»er—The Two Thousand Mile* Covered In Six Days and a Half—tiov. Waite Beads His Mmms« and Makes Speeches. Denver,CoL, Aug. IS,—The last 100 miles of the great YVashiogton-Denver relay bicycle race was covered txader the most favorable conditions, a clear sky, little or no wind and a smooth, hard road that was an inspiration to the flying wheelmen, who forged ahead at a gait that would have done credit to a locomotive. The sandstorm which the Nebraska riders ran into Saturday night was a most unfortunate occurrence. It delayed the race several hours, and prevented it beingconipletedin six days, as was anticipated Saturday when the news that such excellent time was being made in eastern Nebraska was received here. But west of, Julesburg yesterday morning the sun found the president's message moving Steadily westward sixteen miles per hour. The couriers arrived at Cheyenne at S:39 p. m., where the best riders of that city received it without a second's delay and were off for the south like the wind. The road from there to Greeley is smooth and hard with occasional hills or slight rises, giving the men a chance for an occasional "coast.” The Cheyenne boys were greeted a few miles north of Greeley by an eseort of local wheelmen, who set a killing pace on towards their city anti the pouch was transferred to the Denver boys with th^same celerity with which it had beentumnging hands ever since Monday noon. Arrival at Its Deuiimtloo. * Denver, Aug. 12.—'The relay raceof the L. A. AY.' was finished to-night at 10:37—6 days 10 hours and 17 minutes from AVashington. The signal rocket at Sand Creek, five and three-fourth miles distant, went up at 10:23, and the cheering of the waiting erowds that lined the streets soon heralded the Oncoming of the wheelmen. The riders on the last section were George L. Maearthy and George AV. Harty. They entered the city in Arapahoe street to the corner of Sixteenth, and from there up Tenth to the county court house, -V where an immense throng had been patiently waiting since 5 o'clock, .

l ne governor received tne pouen ana took fi-om it the messages, reading the one'to himself and his telegraphic reply and 1 anded a message to den. McCook and one to Mr. Black, who had charge of the race from Washington, from Representative Springer. 1 - The governor then said: • “Mr. George > Macarthy, as the governor of Colorado, 1 desire to thank yon for the delivery of this autograph letter which was placed in the hands of the first relay wheelmen at Washington. August 6 at 12 o'eloek noon by the private secretary of the president of the United States. In future years it shall be a matter of pride to you and your fellow bicyclists that you had part in. this grand achievement and helping tomake this wonderful record of the skill and speed of the American wheelman. [Applause.] Turning, to Mr. Black, the governor said: “Mr. A. T. Black, of Jacksonville, 111., of the L. A. W.: It is my pleasant duty to congratulate von. Mr, Black, as the manager and promotor of this great enterprise upon its auspicious termination. Yon have aroused & a new interest in that beneficient invention, the wheal, whieh has already produced so extraordinary a change in locomotion. The fact is the wheel is the greatest invention of modern times [applause], wheels in the head, alwaysexeepted. [Laughter.] Gen. McCook then made his reply to Gen. Greeley, after which the crowd slowly dispersed. THE ROCK ISLAND DISASTER. The Coroner'* Inquest—A Suspicious Character Arrested— Possibly Twelve Killed Killed. t ' Lincoln, Xeb. .Aug. 13.—The coroner’s inquest on the- bodies of the eleven victims of Thursday night's railroad disaster began yesterday and continued until late last night, when an adjournment was taken until 10 o'clock Monday morning. But three witnesseswere examined, their testimony being very complete and substantially the same as already recited in the United Press dispatches. The cause of the wreck formed a new theme which will be gone into very thoroughly. - 'VP. The chief interest yesterday in connection with the disaster centered in the arrest of George Davis, a negro, who is charged with no less a crime than being the author of the catastrophe. He was captured late Friday night by City Detective Malone, and circumstantial evidence is strongly against him. The police declare that there can be no possibility of their being mistaken. Davis tells conflicting stories, and has a bad record. A rumor circulated , to-night that he has made a confession cannot be confirmed. It has been definitely ascertained that the list of dead numbers eleven, with the possibility of twelve.

The Brakes Failed to Work. London, Aug. 13.—While the Edinburgh express was entering the St. Pancras station, London, last evening, the brakes failed and the train dashed against the buffers. The guard's van and one car were wrecked. Twentyone persons were injured, six of them seriously. No one was filled. The guard saved himself hr jumping. The “Good Roods Association** to Be Given a Chance for Practical Operation. Baltimore, Aug. 13.—Everybody who has followed the cause of Coxey knows that it was the idea to make the army a “good roads association,” and now Warden Moore of the Maryland house of correction intends to accord eighty-eight of the soldiers an opportunity to show the practicability erf the association. On Monday morning the Coxeyites who were arrested at Hyatts^ villelast Thursday and sentenced to three months in the bridewell will be put to work on widening a private road from Jessups to the institution.