Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G R - - Publisher’

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Till: EAST. "*■".■- - 1 AT West Stratford, Conn., Joseph Erase fatally wounded his wife with a dagger and then ended his life by throwing himself in front of an express train, which beheaded him... .President Green made his annual report to a meeting of the stockholders of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The year's revenues aggregated $16,298,638; the profits were $3,910,855, and the surplus is $4,309,834. Austin Corbin, Henry B. Hyde and John G. Moore were elected Directors. Mbs. Sarah E. Howe, the Boston' woman’s bank swindler, having served her term in prison, has opened a similar institution at the “Hub."....Near Newark, N. J., workmen unearthed a strong box containing $30,000 of canceled bonds of Kearney Township, New Jersey. Ten years ago the town treasurer had been accused of stealing $25,000, but he solemnly averred that he redeemed the bonds, which had been stolen from his office. The discovery clears up the mystery. A jury at Belvidere, New Jersey, convicted the janitor of the Hackettstown Seminary of the murder of a young colored girl who resisted his demands.... The legal fight for the Harlem Commons property in New York, valued at $30,000,000, will be begun within a few days by the filing of a bill in equity in the United States Court at New York. There are 1,400 claimants, but of these it is said that not over 500 will be able to trace their lineage to the proper source... .A fire at Roseville, New Jersey, destroyed the Windsor Hotel, valued at $24,000. A laundress was burned to death.. The city of Eastport, Maine, suffered to the extent of about $200,000 by a conflagration. Wm. J. Sherman, the young Catholic priest who married Lillie McCoy, of Brooklyn. and then went into a monastic retreat to purge himself of contempt of the church, has given up that scheme and gone back to his wife. He now proposes to become a Baptist

THE WEST.

Chicago detectives have arrested “Bobby” Adams, a notorious burglar, who is said to have planned and been the chief executor of the Minneapolis Postoffice robbery, whereby the perpetrators realized about $14,000 worth of stamps. The other'* night, when off fjheboygan, Wis., the steamer John Pridgeon, Jr., collided with and sunk the steam barge Selah Chamberlain, the second engineer, a firebi an, niMi tiirtjr ucck nan as oi uro muer boat being drowned. The Chamberlain was valued at $60,000. The Pridgeon is not badly damaged.... .A mob of masked men surrounded the jail at Monticello, 111., overpowered the Sheriff, and took out Henry Wildman, a wife murderer, and hanged him..... .When the remains of Chief Justice Chase reached Cincinnati they were borne to the Music Hall, where addresses were made by Congressman Butterworth, Gov. Foraker, ex-Gov. Hoadly, and Justice Stanley Matthews. James E. Murdock, the veteran actor, recited a poem, after which the casket was borne to Spring Grove Cemetery, and consigned to rest in the family lot. Mrs. Katharine Chase Sprague was present at the services. The National Educational Association will hold its next meeting in Chicago, July 12, Ten thousand teachers will probably be in attendance. FOR more than a quarter of a century no two names have been more familiar to American theater-goers than those of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence. Love and matrimony among stage people usually run at cross purposes, but the case of this couple furnishes a shining exception. It as reputed that in all these years their domestic life has been as happy and free from “fiunily jars” as their acting haS beeh ileligbtftil to the admirers of pure comedy. No one who ever saw Mr. Florence as “Gen. Bardwell Slate, the member ot Congress from the Cohosh District,” and Mrs. Florence in the role of “Mrs. Gen. Gilflory.” in the “Mighty Dollar," can fail to cherish a delightful recollection of those artistic and amusing interpretations. The Florences began their annual Chicago engagement at McVicker's Theater on Monday last. The German Orphan Asylum at Indianapolis was destroyed by fire early the other morning, one of the boys perishing in the flames. The boys were removed safely from an upper story, by means of a ladder, by the matron and her attendants. The owners of the sunken propeller Selah Chamberlain have filed in the District Court at Chicago a bill for $65,000 against the John Pridgeon. on which claim the latter was seized by the marshal. Search for a trunk of jewelry missing at St. Louis showed that it had been wrongly shipped to Memphis, where jt was* claimed by a railway engineer who held the check, and who was detained by the police j until the truth was known.... Nineteen brakemen of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Bailways, have been arrested for systematically robbing the cars.

THE SOUTH.

The most serious gale since the war, prevailed on the Gulf coast on the 12th inst At Galveston heavy damage resulted, streets being inundated, tracks torn up by tee waves, and steamers and other craft injured by being pounded against the wharves. In Lower Lousiana people were driven from their homes, levees were demolished, and the rice and other crops ruined. The water in the to wn of Pointe a la Hache was several feet deep. In the vicinity of the Mississippi quarantine station the inrushing waters have left the people destitute, and at points on the Alabama eoast severe dosses have also been inflicted. The lake and shell roads at New Orleans were inundated. What are believed to be volcanic noises, accompanied by a quivering of the earth, are reported tn be heard almost daily in a district ten miles square in the southeastern portion of South Carolina, about one hundred miles distant from Charleston. These noises and convulsions have been heard and felt there at intervals for the past eighteen months, and are said to be increasing in frequency and force. Judge McCobd, of the Seventh District of Texas, has been requested by 800 prominent citizens to resign his office far releasing influential murderers on bail of $4,000 each. New Orleans telegram: “Th* Western

Union Telegraph Company has received a message from the operator at Orange, Tex., saying that the town of Sabine Pass, twelve miles below Beaumont, on the Sabine River, was totally destroyed by overflow of the river last night. There are known to be sixty-five lives lost. Last night during the overflow anrhotel with fifteen or twenty people in it was swept into the bay and every one of the inmates drowned. The captain of a schooner from there says not a house is left in the whole country, and every living thinglhere Was drowned.” Millions of acres of grazing lands in Indian Territory have been burned over by prairie fires, and large numbers of cattle are said to have perished in the flames. Great quantities of hay and fodder have been consumed. Judge Phelps decided at Baltimore that the counterfeiting of a label placed on union-made cigars, is illegal, and decided the case in favor of the Cigarmaker’s Union..,. .Henry Boyle, Special United States Baliff, and Edward Logan, Special United States Commissioner, exchanged shots in the latter’s office at Somerset, Ky. Three balls took effect in Boyle’s body and two in Loeatfs.... A wonderful activity in manufacturing industries is reported from the South. .A number of gi;eat enterprises have been inaugurated in the last few months or are now under way. Sickening details of the disaster caused by the recent Texas high tide and floods continue to be received by telegraph. Out of a total population of 1,200 along Johnson's Bayou, including the villages of Johnson's Bayou and Bradford, the dead number 85. The deaths at Sabine Pass exceed 90. The destruction of life and property is terrific in extent, the number of deaths exceeding 200. Over 8,000 cattle in the valley of the bayou have been drowned or are dying of thirst, as it is flooded with salt water. Mike McCoole, the pugilist, died in a New Orleans hospital, at the age of fortynine years. Salisbury, Md., was swept over by a fire which destroyed the business portion of the village; damage, over a million dollars. An estate vatued at $1,000,000, built up by John Davison, at Augusta, Ga., is now being distributed among relatives in Ireland.

WASHINGTON.

Col. James C. Duane has been appointed Chief of Engineers to succeed Gen. John Newton, who was placed on the retired list, to enable him to become Commissioner .of Public Works in New York. President Cleveland has appointed Col. O. B. Willcox a Brigadier General, and he will be ordered to take command at Fort Leavenworth. Col. James C. Duane has been made Chief of Engineers, with the rank of Brigadier General Prof. Iddings has prepared for a report of the geological survey a description of a long cliff in Yellowstone Park composed wholly of glass. Charles Thomas, a convict serving a life sentence in the W’est Virginia Penitentiary for killing the seducer of his wife ten years ago in Arkansas, has been pardoned by the President.... Secretary Manning is attending strictly to the duties of his department, and is thought to be growing stronger. President Cleveland has appointed Benjamin Folsom, of New York, Consul at Sheffield, and Frank H. Goodyear, of Buffalo; a Commissioner to examine a section of the Northern Pacific Road recently constructed in Washington Territory.... William L. Hall, of Chicago, a son of the Secret Service officer recently murdered, has been promoted to Assistant Operative.

POLITICAL.

William L. Maginnis, of Ohio, has been appointed Chief Justice of Wyoming. Congressional nominations: Third Maryland District, H. W. Rusk, Democrat, for short and long terms; Thirty-first New York,, JJCL Sajyyari_.Rep»bUcan; Fourth. Maryland, Isadora Raynor, Democrat; Seventh New Jersey, Siegfried Hammersehlag, Republican; Second Connecticut, E.C. Lewis, Republican; Fifteenth New York, Henry Bacon, Democrat; Twentieth New York, George West, Republican; Thirty-third New York, Janies Jackson, Jr., Democrat; Second Massachusetts, Bushrod Morse, Democrat; Eighth Massachusetts, Charles Haller, Republican; Second Connecticut, Carter French, Democrat; Eighteenth Pennsylvania, Louis E. Atkinson, Republican.; Ninth Missouri, Nathan Frank, Republican; Second Louisiana, Richard Sims, Republican; Third Kentucky, W. G. Hunter, Republican; Sixth Massachusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican; Eleventh New York, James S. Ketchum, Republican; Utah, John T. Caine. Congressional nominations: First New York District, Perry Belmont, Demoscrat; Third Arkansas District, H. B. Holman, Republican; Twenty-sixth New York, M. H, Delaney, Republican; Seventeenth New York,. William Lounsberry, Democrat; Fifteenth New York, Moees Stevens, liepublican; Thirty-second New York, J. M. Farquhar, Republican; Twentyfourth Pennsylvania, Z. F. Allen, Greenbacker; Fifth Pennsylvania. Edwin Satterthwaite. Democrat; Fourth Pennsylvania, Franklin Bound, Republican; Ninth Massachusetts, D. E. Burnett, Democrat. It is reported that ex-Congressman Deuster, of Milwaukee, will be a candidate for United States Senator in case the Democrats have a majority in the next Wisconsin Legislature. Abram S. Hewitt has accepted the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York, and Theodore Roosevelt will stand as the Republican candidate The Indiana Democratic Campaign Committee claim that the Democnda will have a plurality of 12,000 in that State. James G. Blaine spoke at an immense mass meeting at Philadelphia. There, was-an enormous crowd and great enthusiasm. Galena (Ill.) special: The Hon. P. C. Cheney, who, the Associated Press states, has been selected by Governor Currier, of New Hampshire, as United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ■ Senator Austin F. Pike, is well known in Joe Daviess County, where he married his present wife, who is a sister of James W. White, of Hanover. Governor Cheney op- ' erated a pulp mill several years ago in .gwaoverTownship* —— ——-

THE RAILWAYS.

James F. Barkakd, traffic agent of the Burlington road at St. Joseph, Mo., has been elected President of the Ohio and Mississippi. ==—■ The President of the Hudson Bay Railway Company sent a cablegram from Lon-

’ don to Winnipeg stating that financial I arrangements have been made for the im- ’ mediate commencement of work, and that I rails are ’being shipped... .Robert Harris has been re-elected; President of the North- ! era Pacific Road. The gross earnings for the year ending with Junewere $11,730,527, I and the taxes and operating expenses were ' $6,156,263. To complete the Cascade diI vision $3,500,000 will be required. Judge Jesse Phillips decided, at Springfield, Illinois, that the Ohio k Mississippi Road must place in safe condition its* Springfield division.. The officers proposed to place the line in the hands of a receiver, but the Judge ruled that such action would not help the matter in controversy. The defendants gave notice of an appeal . The four leading railroads in Dakota have expended the sums mentioned in railroad construction in that Territory during the past year: Chicago and Northwestern, $3,656,378.45; Northern Pacific, $2,753,630.82; Manitoba, $1,570,555.25; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, $1,419,519:99. While on attempt is being made to boom the stock of the Nickle-Plate road, the fact appears to be that its value would be obliterated either bv a sale under the pending Lake Shore suit, by foreclosure proceedings already commenced by the bondholders, dr by a compromise similar to the West Shore deal of the New York Central... .The elevated railway from Kansas City to North Wyandotte has been opened to the public. Senator Vest and George J. Gould and wife participated in the preliminary excursion.

GENERAL

A bronze statue of Joseph Brant, the Mohawk chief, was last week unveiled at Brantford, Ontario, in presence of twelve chiefs and nearly twelve thousand whites. The statue was executed in England by Percy W00d.... .The remains of a woman were found in a pile of refuse at Alleghany, Pa. The body had been concealed in an oak box, which bore Pacific Mail and Adams Express labels. It is believed that the corpse had been shipped from Europe. A woman at Toronto, Ont., who five months ago was delivered of a child, gave birth to another babe last week. Both infants are males, well developed, and healthy It is reported that Romerio Rubio, the Minister of the Interior, has been kidnaped from the City of Mexico by insurgents. At Fresnillo, in the State of Zacatecas, twenty persons were shot by order of the Government, which is making strenuous endeavors to stamp out the insurrection. Business failures in the United States and Canada for the week number 179, against 190 last week. Buffalo, N. Y., was a severe sufferer by the late gale. Forty small houses were demolished and a number of lives lost. A report from Sabine Pass, Texas, is to the effect that over 100 lives were lost in the floods there. Stories of great damage also come from . other sections-ujf-the— States.... One English and two American companies are endeavoring to secure the contract for the drainage of the valley of Mexico, which involves the expenditure of $6,000,000. • Those passengers of the steamship Anchoria remaining in St. John’s have telegraphed a protest against longer detention, and given notice of their claims for indemnity for loss sustained by delay.... Major E. A. Burke, of New Orleans, has returned from a tour of two months in Honduras, where he was presented by the Government with sixty thousand acres of mineral land in return for the construction and equipment of an agricultural college and the furnishing of machinery for two large flouring mills. r

FOREIGN.

A Petroleum spring, affording a good supply, has been discovered under a house in Sligo, Ireland.. The police authorities have sent to Berlin a description of the chief organizer of the anarchist plot to burn Vienna, who is believed to' be in Germany. A search for him has been instituted.... The decomposed bodies of John Andrews and his wife were found in a closed house in Belfast. Some of the police believe that ,the couple were mur--I dered, others that they committed suicide, and others that they are victims of the recent riots. Lord Lismore has offered his tenants at Fohenagh a reduction of twenty-five per cent, from judicial rents.... A rapid growth of the war feeling is reported from France. The Boulanger party is printing tvsj newspapers which advocate an offensive policy in vindication of the old military prestige of France. General Boulanger disowns any connection with these journals, but M. Lavedon, the military critic, writes to Figaro that Boulanger has prepared a well-conceived plan, in conjunction with a staff officer of high rank, for a Continental campaign as a step leading to the solution of social questions. The strictest taboo of everything German is being observed. Canon Bianchini, while leaving St. Mark’s Cathedral at Venice, was stabbed to the'heart by a man who cried: “Behold thy victim.” The assassin was arrested and proved to be Signor Vianelli, formerly a deacon, whose conversion to Protestantism caused a flutteFaniong Catholics a few years ago. On examination Vianelli deposed that he came to Venice with the intention of avenging himself on Canon Bianchini, whose chicanery had driven him to apostasy and ruin... .Russia has selected Prince Alexander of Oldenburg as the future ruler of Bulgaria. Owing to the hostile attitude of some Metz tradesmen during the visit of Crown Prince Fredrick William to that city, the German officers resident there have boycotted their shops, acting, it is supposed, on a hint from the German Government. ....The Swedish Government proposes to introduce in Parliament a bill against the socialists.... The value of exports from Germany to America during the fiscal year ending September was 520.000,000 morethan tor the preceding fiscal H. W. Beecher caused intense excitement, among Londou clergymen while delivering a lecture at the City Temple, by pronouncing the doetrine of retribution a barbaric one; Several divines protested against his views. Medical experts pronounce the disease of King Otto of Bavaria incurable para--1 noea, which does not affect the duration of life... Herr Hutschenreuter, the Bavarian Premier’s father-in-law. after witnessing the trial and sentence of an editor at Maj nich for libeling the Premier, ran out of the court-room and committed suieide by shooting himself. He had been much depressed recently by seeing numerous editors, the fathers of families, imprisoned for press offenses. 1 A great hurricane has just passed over England and Ireland, accompanied by a heavy rainstorm. There have also been destructive floods in Wales. The British I ship Teviotdale was wrecked in Bristol | Channel and seventeen persons drown<4

! In official circles at London and at the continental capitals it is regarded as an absolute certainty that war in the East will open in the spring.. ..Meyer Karl Rothschild, the head of the great banking-house at. Frankfort, died of heart disease. ... The German War Ministry has ordered the immediate construction of 2,000 railway carriages.... President Grevy has decided to annul the decree of expulsion of Duo d’Auwale._.! .At a meeting held in Cork by landlords of South Ireland, it was resolved not to submit to mob law or the dictates of secret committees, while desiring to deal with every eviction on its merits.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The strike at the Chicago Stock Yards was ended by T. P. Barry, a member of the Executive Board of the Knights of I Labor, ordering the locked-out employes to resume work on the ten-hour system, at the winter rate of wages. It is understood that the new men will remain at their posts. The packing-houses of * Swift <fc Co. and Nelson Morris will continue on the eight-hour plan, subject to a contract for three days' notice of a change. The total cash in the Treasury at the commencement of business on the 18th was $513,098,318.... .President Cleveland has sent SIOO to Buffalo to aid the sufferers by the recent storm... .The Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing again denies the story that there are counterfeits of the $lO silver certificates “in circulation, and says it would be impossible for such a counterfeit to be in existence without the knowledge of the bureau. The coke syndicate, at a meeting in Pittsburg, reaffirmed the selling price, and decided to run all the ovens at their full capacity. Trade has improved fifty per cent, since this time last year... .The big snake that recently broke away in the City Hall Park, New York, again escaped in a Boston dime museum, and was only caged after a “terrible struggle,” during which he bit a man in the wrist, squeezed the breath out of another, smashed joists, and wrecked the cold-air box of the furnace. Moy Ah Kee, a laundryman in Chicago, presented to the Cook County Court a certificate of declaration of intention to become a citizen, made in New York five years ago, and requested naturalization papers. For some years he was the official interpreter of the Circuit Court at San Francisco, and speaks English like a native. Judge Prendergast instructed the Chinaman to employ an attorney to argue the question of his eligibility to citizenship under the law of 1875... It has been discovered that R. M. Dall, confidential bookkeeper for Weller & Co., of Cincinnati, who assigned last week, issued fraudulent warehouse receipts to the extent of $60,000. • Herr Schmidt, the Austrian Director of Railways, died in Vienna from cholera, contracted in Pesth... .Proposals have been 'sehFtoßertinfrom the Vatican for the resumption of clerical negotiations.... It is stated that the Inman Steamship Company has entered into voluntary liquidation for the purpose of-reorganization... .A meeting of notable persons was held at the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the purpose of organizing a movement to erect a memorial church in. honor of the attainment of the fiftieth year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Mr. Gladstone declined to permit the use of his nemo as a member of a committee which was appointed. One Day’s Good Work. Thomas O’Reilly, of the telegraphers’ district, offered a resolution, at the Richmond assembly, on the 18th. that the Knights of Labor demand the passage of a bill by Congress authorizing the purchase by the Government of the telegraph system of the country. The motion to refer the balance of the revised constitution to the executive board and a committee of four was adopted. This leaves the matter of national trade districts exactly where it was before the convention. Similar action was taken with the balance of the report of the committee on law, including all documents on the revision of the constitution. The Committee on the State of the Order indorsed the report of the General Master Workman and General Secretary-Treas-urer. Reports of numerous committees were adopted and indorsed. A resolution expressing sympathy with Ireland was passed. A report suggesting the formation of a congress of thirty-eight Knights of Labor to Bit in Washington during the session of Congress, was .referred to. the local assemblies. All matters in relation to stamps, labels, or protective designs placed on articles made by Knights of Labor were referred to the executive board. Resolutions ’ were adopted fa vqnn g the establish- . meiit oflibraries devoted to labor literature at state capitals; against convict labor; recommending local assemblies to work arid vote only for candidates who pledge themselves to sustain the principles of the Knights ; favoring the admission of colored apprentices in shops on the same basis as white ones. A proposition favoring the establishment of orphan asylums for the children of deceased members of the order was referred to local assemblies with favorable mention. All other matters referred to the Committee on the State of the Order were referred to the Executive Board. It was voted that a committee be appointed to promote fraternal relations between the Knights and the Patrons of Husbandry.

THE MARKERS.

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KNIGHTS OF LABOR.

Proceedings of the Richmond Convention. The event in the convention of the Knight* of Labor at Richmond, on the 12th, was the defeat of the proposition to make the terms of general office* three years. Mr. Powderly earnestly advocated the measure, but by an Overwhelming vote the term was fixed at one year. The convention spent nearly the whole morning session discussing th* revised constitution submitted by the committee appointed at the Cleveland meeting. They got down a* far a* the third paragraph of the fourth section. paragraph is aS follows: “The elective officers of the General Assembly shall be Grand Master Workman, General Worthy Foreman, General Secretary, General Treasurer, General Executive Board of five members, in addition to General Master Workman and General Worthy Foreman, no three of whom shall be from the same State, and a co-operative board of six." This was adopted! Mr. Powderly received the' following telegram from Thomas B. Barry, a member of the Executive Committee, sent to Chicago to.endeavor to settle the strike of the employes of the porkpackers in that city: “The packers say they nave no organization, so I must treat with them as individual companies. We called <?n several firm* yesterday and all expressed a desire for settlement, but insist on working ten hours, while the men are firm for eight. We look for a settlement this week.” Mr. Powderly has received almost hourly telegrams commending the position he has taken in his letter on the face question. The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor re-elected Mr. Powderly to the office of General Master Workman without opposition, on the 13th inst. The nomination of Mr. Powderly was made by E. F. Gould, of Indianapolis, and seconded by Tom O’Reilly, of New York, both telegraphers. Mr. Powderly vacated the chair, the General Worthy Foreman taking his place. More than 100 delegates shouted: “Have the election made by acclamation I” When Mr. Griffiths put the question there was a storm of “Ayes." Whan the “Noes" was called for there was one solitary “No.” It came from Henry Beckmeyer, one of the delegation from New Jersey. This delegation wears a yellow badge with the motto “Solid for Harmony." There was no candidate placed in nomination in opposition to Mr. Powderly, and he received the votes of the 647 delegates present. When Mr. Griffiths was nominated for re-election as General Worthy Foreman the only candidate nominated in opposition was R. Bennett, of Illinois. Mr. Bennett received only fifty votes, and Mr. Griffiths' election was made unanimous. The office of General Secretary and Treasurer was divided, and Charles H. Litchman, of Marblehead, Mass., was placed in nomination for the office of Secretary by James Campbell, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The nomination was seconded by Tom O’Reilly, of New York. The only candidate placed in nomination in opposition was Joseph Buchanan, of Denver, Colorado. Litchman was elected by more than 233 m ijority. Frederick Turner, the present General Secretary-Treasurer, was nominated for General Treasurer by R. F. Trevellick, of Detroit, Mich., and seconded by JamesE. Quinn, of New York, The only candidate nominated in opposition was H. Beckmeyer, of New Jersey. Mr. Turner was elected by more than 200 majority. Balloting for members of the Executive Board then began. The following names were placed in nomination: John W. Hayes, New Jersey; Thomas P. Barry, Michigan;' W. H. Bailey, Ohio; T. B. McGuire, New York; Tom O’Reilly, New York; Joseph Buchanan, Colorado; Win. H. Mullen, Richmond ; Iraß. Aylsworth, Baltimore, Md.; John Howe, Massachusetts. An informal ballot was taken, in which Mr. Hayes led in the number of votes polled, with Mr. Barry second. The proposed amendment to the constitution, extending to two years the terms of all general officers, excepting those of the members of the Co-operative Board, was adopted. The Knights of Labor General Assembly at Richmond elected these members of the General Executive Board on the 14th: Thomas B. Barry, John W. Hayes, William H. Bailey, A. A. Carleton, T. B. McGuire, and Ira H. Aylesworth. There was a preliminary ballot for the election of two members of the General Co-operative Board to fill the places of the two retiring members. The General Assembly then agreed to contribute $15,000 in aid of the'Augusta (Ga.) cotton workers, the Salem ana Peabody (Mass.) tanners, and the . New York City plumbers, now on strike. Colored Knights of Labor now in attendance on the convention will probably form a bureau of their brethren throughout the Southern Stites for the purpose - of procuring accurate statistics relative to the condition of the colored people and their relation to the white laborers whenever they are employed together. The general assembly of the Knights of Labor elected L. C. T. Schlieber, of Massachusetts, and J. M. Broughton, of Raleigh, N. C., members of the General Co-operate Board, at Richmond, on the 15th. David R. Gibson, of Hamilton, Canada, was elected Canadian Sup ply Agent. Mr. Powderly then installed the new officers. In addressing the assembly he expressed full confidence in all the men elected and pledged himself to the faithful performance of his duties. He urged upon the delegates to impress the importance of temperance upon the local assemblies. He called attention to the fact that not one of the general officers elected used intoxicating liquors. All of the general officers then formally pledged themselves to abstain from the use of intoxicants during their two years’ term of office. A resolution was adopted declaring that the Knights of Labor recognize in the field of labor no distinction on account of color, but have no intention to interfere with the social relations existing between races in any part of the country. The report of the Committee on the State of the Order- indorses the report of the Committeeon Legislation and the supplementary report commending the establishment of a Labor Congress, at Washington. It also indorses the General Master Workman’s address to the general assembly and recommends the indorsement of the report of Charles H. Litchman, special agent appointed by the General Master Workman to represent the order before the Congressional Committee appointed to investigate the cause and effect of the Southwestern railroad strikes. In his report Mr. Litchman ridicules the testimony given by the railroad s witnesses, who, he says, were drilled to echo like parrots the statement that the only cause that they had ever heard assigned for the strike was the discharge of a man named Hall at Marshall. Texas. The Committee on Legislation, among other bills before Congress, recommends the Poindexter bill in favor of New York pilots. It was voted to hold the next Conven-. - iion at Minneapolis in October, 1837. Considerable progress was made at the sessions of the General Assembly at Richmond, on the 16th. Mr. Powderly was not feeling well and was absent from the convention, remaining in hls room the graatar part of the day. In his. absence General Secretary Litchman presided. The new constitution was taken up and several sections were acted upon. The duties of offi- * cer.s first passed, and the important question of whether the locals should be compelled to form State Assemblies was also settled. There ■was a big fight on this matter. J. E. Quinn, of New York, opposed the provision, and A. J. Schafer, of Michigan, led the delegates who were in favor of State Assemblies! First the whole section was adopted. It provided that the locals should form State assemblies and be subject to the action of such. This was finally changed so as to allow ten locals to form a State assembly, but those who decline to go into it will not bo bound in any way by that body. Schafer declared that the whole section having been adopted it could . not be changed by a majority vote. Litchman declared that he was out of order, and Schafer exclaimed: “I know that lam right, and you can't bamboozle me, as you have others.” “Let him go on record,” said the Chairman to his clerks. The question of dis-’, tricts was settled to the satisfaction of all. Any twenty-five locals of one trade may form’a National district. Another important change was that locals which are attached to the General Assembly shall not have representation in that body. Then the question of representation was taken up and settled. There were a score of plans and twice as many amendments, but out of the whole finally came the decision that hereafter the representation shall be one from each 3,000. A lately deceased French doctor spent his life in studying distorted mankind, and made a large collection of skeletons of deformed persons. This unique museum is about to be sold in Paris, and is expected to realize the sum of SII,OOO. “Doctor,” said a patient, “I suffer a great deal with my ayes.” The old gentleman adjusted his spectacles, and,.with a Socratic air replied, “I don’t doubt it,'my friend; but then you ought not to forget that you would suffer a great deal • more without them.” Susan says the man who would have his dead wife buried without her false teeth because of their gold filling ought to wear them. The old saying is, “Throw physic to the dogs,” but where will you find the dog that will touch it?

JOHN ARENSDORF,

' : ’ _X''. ' Charged with Killing Rev. George CL Haddock, Held in Bonds of Twenty-five Thon* sand Dollars., * v [Sioux City telegram.] John Arensdorf, who is charged by H. IX Leavitt with being the man who killed Rev. George C. Haddock, was arraigned in Justice Brown’s court on two charges—conspiracy and murder—and held in bonds of $25,000, which were furnished with very little delay. The bondsmen are James Junk, C. F. Hoyt, J. B. Belzer, E. J. Ressegieu, and L, H. Drumm. Confession of the Man Who Turns State’s Evidence. Harry L, Leavitt is my stage name, and the name 1 commonly go by, but Herman Levy is my real name. My home is in New York City, but I have been a resideni of Sioux City sines January, 1886, opening the Standard Theater in February, 1886, as proprietor and manager. I am 33 years old, ana I have long been connected with theaters. I arrived in Sioux City from a visit East with my wife the Friday evening before the killing of George C. Haddock. Up to Monday morning I had no conversation with any one in regard to the injunction proceedings, but that morning I went to the Tribune office to see about putting an advertisement in the paper about opening the theater, and I or-, dered an advertisement. In conversation with Mr, Kelly and Mr. Hill 1 told them it was my intention of. opening .the place and running it without Selling liquor, and I said to them that I believed I could make it pay. I had Joe Marks and Walter Strange come in and look at the place, and had about the same kind of talk with them, and told them I would not sell liquor. In the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 2, I was approached on the street by Mr. Simonson, and asked to join the Saloonkeepers’ Association. He told me that the organization was for the purpose of protecting the saloonkeepers and employing a lawyer, and myself and Doc Darlington and Dan Moriarty went to the meeting in Holdenreid’s hall that night about 8:30, and joined the association. My name was written on the iist by Fred Munchrath. I told him that as soon as it was necessary to use money, to pay lawyers that I would pay the $25 fee, and that I could not pay until after I should open my place. Adelsheim then said he did not know why Simonson had called this meeting unless it was for the purpose of making Leavitt a member, and as this was’accomplished he moved to adjourn. Louis Selzer seconded. the motion, and the meeting adjourned. On going out Fred Munchrath and Siflionson said to me,wait a minute, until the crowd, goes down-stairs, as we have some more to talk over and we don’t want to do bo while people are around who do not belong to the saloonkeepers. So Fred Munchrath, George Treiber, Simonson, Louis Plath, and another man, whose name I have forgotten, but whom I can identify, who runs a hotel in Sioux City, and I were the ones who remained after the meeting had adjourned. George Treiber had whispered tfajs4hing about holding the meeting around to the members of the committee, as he said he had some matters to tell which were private and not for outsiders. George Treiber said he had two men who would do anything to Walker if they got money for it. Some one then said: “Junk has the money in his safe, ” and some one then said, “We will give SIOO to have Walker licked good.” It was then agreed that Treiber should get the men and go to the court house next day, and when Walker came out of the court-room they would whip him. -1 then said, “If you cant get these men I will ask Dan Moriarty to do it for $100.” We then left the place. I thought no more of it till the next morning, when Munchrath came to me and said Treiber could not get the two men, that they were too drunk. We then wept down to the depot to see Moriarty, and he refused to have anything to do with it. I supposed this was the end of it until Fred Munchrath and. George Treiber came into the court house where I was standing at the stairs with Major McDonald. They called me aside, and said Matt Cassman had two men that were going to leave town, and he would get them to do the job for $lO9. 1 said, “GO on and bring the men up.” Treiber told the fellows when they got there that it was all fixed with the policemen. I wentacross the road and sat down in front of Wescott’s stable, talking to Tappan of the Lone Star Restaurant. Messrs. Walker and Wood came down the stairs and these two men followed behind. I did not try to keep it secret, but said openly that they were going to be licked, then Walker and Wood started on down toward the Hubbard House. Ab Wood and Walker passed them I stepped up to King and Waldevering and, pointing to Walker, I said, “That’s him,” and walked across the street. King and Waldevering got up and followed them down to the Hubbard House. Aboutß:ls Tuesday night, Aug. 3, in front of the Sioux National Bank, I met Fred Munchrath, George Treiber, Louis Plath, a saloonkeeper whose name I can not recall, and those two Dutchmen whom Treiber said were the men he had to’do up Walker. They were talking together and about Haddock and Turner going down to the Greenville House, Theiber Baid: “Let us take a hack and see what they are going to do.” Munchrath said: “Let UB take a ride and go down to Greenville and see what they are going to do.” I replied, “All right, I don’t care. ’’ We went over in front of the Hubbard House, and Henry Habeman, Treiber, Plath and myself got' into the hack right under the electric light. I asked Adams, the driver of the hack, to let the windows down, which he did, and drove to the Greenville, Henry got out in front of the Greenville House; went in and asked if there had been a buggy over that way within the last hour. They said no. He got in and we came right back to town. At Junk’s saloon we stopped. On the outside were the two Dutchmen who were hired by Treiber to whip Walker. John Arensdorf came out of the saloon with us, and these two Dutchmen said to him, ’but loud enough for us all to hear: “The buggy has come back.” Arensdorf sold: “Let us go over and see.” We—that is, Arensdorf, Munchrath, Treiber, Plath, Henry, myself and the two Dutchmen—started to go toward the stable. I dropped behind. I met Harry Sherman and we followed on behind, and Lange, the painter, was following us„ I said to Sherman, “Thi's will be another failure; they are all cowards; they have been going to do some slugging for two days and no one has been hurt yet.” By that time we had got close together and were talking, and Munchrath said: “If you or your men are going to lick Haddock, tell him not to punch too hard, but hit him in the face once or twice and give hi m a black eye; tlfht will do, as we don’t want to go any farther than that.” Treiber sail: “That is right; we only want to give one of them a whipping. ” . The morning after the murder John Arensdorf came to me while I was standing in front of Warlich’s saloon and said to me, “How. do you feel?” I said, “How do you feel 2" He did not answer, and said, “John, I think you did wrong.” He said, “I thought Haddock was pulling a gun on me, and in the excitement I shot; that is how it happened." Then he asked how many had seen it. I said they might have nil seen it. He says, “Can I depend on you?" I replied, "Certainly.” During the dav I told Warlich and Junk who shot Haddock. They said the less said about it the better it will be. Afterwards I came on to Chicago and engaged in my legitimate business, to open at the Princess Theatre, Mobile, Ala. Here Hill found me, as I had given him my address. I have made no concealment of my whereabouts, and have always been ready and willing to make the proper party a full and complete disclosure of all my acts connected with the Haddock murder and the donspiracy to whip Walker whenever I could do so without receiving bodily injury and be legally protected in so doing. There is another, matter I wish to refer to. About one week after the killing, John Arensdorf came to me in front of Wary ch’s saloon and said to me: “Henry, the driver of the wagon, knows all about this, and I am thinking of sending him over intq, Nebraska to his home.” I said you had better let him stay right here, you can't tell how the thing is coming out, and I wont have it that way. I was in the court-room Saturday, July 31, and Monday and Tuesday afternoons at the Court House. Munchrath said that he had just been to Junk and got the money and gave it to Cormeny. He said this in the presence of King, and Waldevring agreed to do it. and we separated. Munchrath afterward gave me a note to Cormeny to get SSJ. I borrowed it.

All Sorts.

There are only twenty-six newspapers in Idaho. :- Pet turtles are becoming the fashion in New York City. David Hicks, aged 93 years, of Jefferson, N. H., amuses himself by hunting deer, partridges, and quail* » “Yreka Bakery” is the palindromic legend over the doorway of a bakery establishment in Yreka* Cal. A THREE AND THREE-QUARTEBS-Carat diamond was recently discovered by a Chinaman near Helena, Mont.