Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Indian uprising in the Northwest is less threatening. The exceedingly hot weather has greatly huittlie Kansas corn crop., A soap trust is being formed at TBuffalo. Soap will soon be a great luxury. Mrs. Meckie L. Eawson has begun suit against the Chicago Times Company for $50,000 for libel. J. J. Goodin, Treasurer of Rawlins county,' Kansas, has disappeared, and his accounts are $12,000 short. The-postoffice at Atlantic City, N. J. was entered by burglars and over $1,200 in stamps, registered letters and cash secured. Edward Beattie, a twelve-year-old Chicago boy, stole $275 from his father and started to Texas to be a cowboy, but was corraled. * # r Bartley Campbell, the dramatist, who ■has for some time been confined in an asylum for the the insane, died last week of general paresis. A large portion of the business district of Norfolk, Ya., was burned last week. Loss $400,00a Many families 'were rendered homeless. All the general organizers of the Knights of Labor at Pittsburg have received instructions from Mr. Powderly to organize the telegraphers. James H. Porter, of Chicago, who forged checks to the amount of SO,OOO and got them cashed two years ago, has been arrested at Portland, Ore. The New York State Insurance Department has shut up the New York Safety Reserve Fund Association. The liabilities are $43,161.27 and total assets $12.28. The Chicago grand jury has found indictments again Sumner Welch and lawyer Starkey, of the Chicago City Railway Company, for tampering with juries. The daughters of Wm. Rolland and Lizzie McLaughlin, of Pittsburg, were burned to death by the explosion of coal oil cans which they were using in lighting fires. Dispatches from Florida indicate that yellow fever there is entirely under control. The condition of things in the afflicted towns is favorable to eradication of the disease. Lizzie Bosemad, a prisoner who broke from the Knox county,lll.,jail,was fatally shot in the back by Sheriff James Richy, at Abingdon, for not halting when called upon to do so. Elmer F. Jenkins, of Abilene, Kansas, has arrived at Boston, having traversed the whole distance on his bicyle. He left Abilene May 16. The whole dis- . tance traversed was fully 2,000 miles. For the last seven months 28,352 more immigrants landed at Castle Garden than in the corresponding seven months of last year. The July arrivals were 28,090, or 1,246 more than for July, 1887. Charles Ray, Mary Wales, and John Martin were drowned while fishing at Motor, la. The two former were to be married next week. The other was a ; boy. John Haggert has been appointed Postmaster General of Canada, and Hon. EdganDewdney has been appointed Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. , ;

While laborers were engaged in excavating for a new building in East Dubuque, lowa, they came upo%a numher of skeletons, all of grown persons. One of the skulls has a bullet bole through it Masked robbers entered the farm house of Conrad Doup, in Knox county, Ohio, beat the old man with a club, bound him with a chalk line, and then stole $2,600 from a trunk in which Doup kept his money. The body of Michael Weiss was found near Calumet, Mich., with his head completely blown off. It is supposed that he committed suicide by placing a jitick oh Hercules powder in his mouth and touching it off. * The sale of the celebrated horse “Bell ' Boy,” at T. C. Jefferson’s farm, at Lexington, Ky., caused much competition. C. U.-Seaman, San Diego, Cal., bought him for $50,000. J. C. Clark, of Elmira, N. Y., bid $49 100. Wm. Bowen, a laborer at Rockaway Beach, in New York, went home drunk on Thursday night. He quarreled with his wife, and, after giving her a terrible beating, he gouged out one of her eyes. The otMr eye he gouged out about a year ago. She is now totally blind. Bowen was arrested. The largest cattle sale* ever made in Kentucky by one man was made last week by Mr. C. Alexander, of Paris. He sold from his farm of 22,000 acres, on the Bourbon and Fayette county line, 550 head of fat cattle to M. Kahn, of Cincinnati, for M. Goldsmitn, of New York. They areto be shipped to London, England. U The decision in the New Jersey Court of Appeals declaring the high license local option law constitutional is elaborate and argumentative. The high license feature of the law was declared valid by a unanimous vote, but the court was divided on the local option feature, the vote'standing 8 to 7 in favor oi its constitutionality. m . The new letter carriers eight hour law went into effect in New York on the Ist and 213 substitutes were placed on the regular list. Many of the Carriers are very much dissatisfied at what they claim is an evasion of the law. Though

they work only eight hours, these hours are so distributed that they (begin work early in th<r morning and' do not get through until late at night. They talk of holding an .indignation meeting. Circulars have been issued by Alex. H. Smith, Secretary of the St. Louis Millers’ Association, calling a meeting of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana, Tennessee, and *f all winter wheat States, for the purpose of forming a flour trust. The Trust proposes to control, absolutely, the output, price and sale of flour in the territory it will. govern. The circular had been kept a profound secret until Friday, and the promoters of the project are very angry over its gaining publicity.

John Robinson, the(Veteran showman, died at Cincinnati, 0., Saturday. Mr. Robinson was more than eighty years of age, yet until within a very short time he maintained a remarkable degree of vigor. He has spent almost his whole life in the management of circuses, and was succeeded by his sons within the past few years. has amassed a large fortune, No showman in the country was better known fhan “Old John Robinson,’’ as he was familiarly called. He built .Robinson's Opera House at Cincinnati.

The village of Sidney, 111., is in a state of intense excitement oyer the discovery of a series of crimes committed by James Freeman, a rnarried man, seventy years old. who has accomplished the ruin of some twelve or thirteen young ladies, ranging in ages from twelve to sixteen years. He was arrested Wednesday, gave bond for SI,OOO and immediately absconded. The magnitude of his crimes was not tliscovered until after his disappearance. His nefarious work has been going on for over a year, and some of the most prominent families of the place are grief stricken over the disgrace of their daughters. Charles Perkins, alias Wilson, the desperado who killed seven mules and one horse belonging to Mrs. Moore, in the Choctaw 7 Nation, ten days ago, shot and killed two United States Marshals and one citizen Sunday, while resisting arrest. The officers got two citizens to pilot them to where they heard he was ambushed, and while on their way met him ot Marshall’s fern, 7 , on Red River, and attempted to arrest him, with the above result. Perkins and one of the citizens escaped unhurt. He is still at large. There are nine true bills against him for murder. He says he will never be taken alive. «

The conductors and stablemen on the Brooklyn Cross-Town Surface Roads to the number of 1,400 men struck Sunday because a conductor and driver of one of the cars had been discharged for arriv ing at the end of the trip four minutes ahead of time. The strike was announced at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, and the 450 horses of the lines were left uncared for. A half dozen strikers were arrested. One of the horses in the last car drove out was cut by a striker’s knife. The three lines involved in the strike run one from Hunter’s Point to Erie Basin;, another from Hunter’s Point to the bridge, and the third from Green Point to Calvary Cemetery. The car drivers and conductors in New York will not support their striking brethren in Green Point. They say that the strike was an ill-advised one and utterly uncall edfor.

FOREIGN. Near Montreal, Tuesday, a, hen scratched up $4,000 in old gold and silver coins, supposed to have been buried during the rebellion of 1837. The cholera in Amoy seems, for the time, to be checked, but at Chang Chon it is reported that 3,000 deaths have occurred in the past sixty days. The British government has requested a further respite for Hugh M. Brooks, better known as Maxwell, the St. Louis murderer. * Silesia is being devastated by terrible floods, the worst known in thirty years. Along the rivers Bober and Zacken the damage is especially great. Mr. Gladstone, in expressing thanks to a Sheffield deputation for a handsome present on the occasion of his golden wedding,said that when he secured home rule for Ireland his political work would be finished. New Zealand advices say the ship Star of Greece went ashore near Adelaide Harbor, July 13. The captain and sixteen others were drowned, the first and third officers, four men and four apprentices being saved.

The President of the French Agricultural Society has made a report regarding the losses caused by the recent rains. He says that the hay has been destroyed and the peasants have been compelled to kill their animals, being unable Jo feed them. He also says that corn can not ripen, that potatoes are rotting and that the vintage this vearwill be inferior. He estimates the loss to agriculture at half a milliard of francs, and says if the bad weather continues a month longer 'the crisis will extend to enormous dimensions. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, had planned a pilgrimage to Lourdes to give testimony at that shrine of gratitude for his recovery from his late illness. He was disuaded from doing so by his physicians, and embarked at Bordeaux, Saturday, for de Janeiro. Considerable anxiety is felt as to the effect of voyage upon him should the passage be rough, and every precaution possible has been taken against a relapse. He is accompanied by several dectors and a large number of attendants.

GEN. SHERIDAN DEAD.

SUDDEN DEMISE OF THE GREAT SOLDIER. Vito Within the an Hour at Hi* Death He Seethe 1 B ight an<l Hopeful—Heart Trouble the Cause. Gen. Sheridan death occurred at 10:20 Sunday evening at Nonquitt, Mass. Previous to the sudden appearance of heart failure, at about 9:30, there bad been no premonitions of any unfavorable change in his condition. 7 The weatlier was warmer than usual and the General was at times a little restless but seemed generally bright and cheerful. His voice'was strong; he took a full supply of nourishment, slept occasionally as usual, and the doctor and his family were in hopeful sprits. At 7 o’clock Mrs. Sheridan and the doctors went to the hotel for supper, and soon after their return the usual preparations for the night were made. At about B:£Q, Col. Sheridan said good night to his brother and went to the hotel, ■ there having been through the day no signs whatever of any unfavorable change in his condition.- At 9:30 symptoiffs of heart failure suddenly appeared and Drs. O’Reilly and Matthews, who were with him at the time, immediately applied which proved successful in all similar previous attaeks,but this time they were without effect,and despite all that could be done the general gradually sank into a condition of complete unconsciousness, and at 10:20 breathed his last. Mrs. Sheridan, the sisters Maban and Justiaman and the faithful boy servant were also at his bedside throughout his dying hour. The following official bulletin was issued to the associated press at midnight: f

Gen. Sheridan died at 10:20 this evening. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. The remote cause was disease of the mitral and arotrical valves, .the existences of which was known to his phviscians, to himself and to his family in November of last year. The complications which have occurred have been nervous exhaustion, pulmonary insurrections, pneumonia, pulmonary oaegria, anasaca and hemmorrhage. The last day of his* life was somewhat restless, but- not more so than he has been several times since" his arrival at Nonquitt. At about 9:30 symptoms of heart failure suddenly appeared. The remedies which had hitherto been successful, were vigorously applied but proved ineffectual and he sank rapidly, dying painlessly at the hour named. The illness which has just resulted in Gen. Sheridan’s death commenced on the 12th of May last, immediately after his return of a tour of inspection out West. He complained of feeling unwell and worn out but came down tothe office •each day sot- about a week. He was then forced to remain in aoors, and on Tuesday, May 22, he had a severe attack of heart failure which greatly alarmed his family and physicians. On account of the effect it was feared the news would have on the general’s mother who was aged and in ill health, an endeavor was made to keep the more alarming phases of *his illness from the public, and it was not until the end of that week that the physicians admitthe Jrne character of the disease. On Friday of the week ending May 26tli he had several attacks of heart failure and these increased in violence with each succeeding attack. The history of his relapses and recoveries is familiar to the readers of the daily press. With the approach of warm weather it was decided by the physicians of several consultations that the patient must be removed as he would be utterly unable in his weakened state to withstand a period of prolonged heat. Accordingly on Saturday, June 30, he was after several delays placed on board the United States steamship Swatara and. taken to Nonquitt, Mass., which place he reached after several stops caused by recurrences of the heart trouble.

The General had made his will and all preparations fpr, death and was ready to face it, though resolutely determined that life should not be given up without a a severe struggle on bis part. He leaves a wife, the daughter of Gen. Rucker, and four small children—three girls and one boy. The Senate and House both adjourned in respect to the memory of Gen. Sheridan. In the Senate a bill was introduced providing for a pension of *5,000 a year to the widow of Gen. Sheridan. With the death of General Sheridan the rank of Lieutenant General lapses; The command of the Army of the United States falls to the rank of Major General. There are now three Major Generals— Schofield, Howard anu Crook—General Schofield being the ranking, or senior, appointment. If Congress should create the position of Lieutenant General, the appointment would be made by the President from the list of Major Generals.

Philip Henry Sheridan was born in Perry county, Ohio, March 6, 1831. He entered the. United States Military Academy as a cadet July 1, 1848, remaining there until July 1, 1853, when he was graduated and promoted in the army to the position of brevet second lieutenant of infantry, going to the garrison at Newport Barracks, Kentucky, ami from there to frontier duty at Fort Duncan, Tex., in 1854, and thence to La Pena and Turkey creek. He was made

second lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry Nov. &2 r . 1854, after which he was on frontier duty escorting a topographical surveying party from the Sacramento valley, California, to the Columbia river, Oregon; in the Yakima expedition; at Fbrt Vancouver, Washington Territory, scouting in defense of the Cascades; at Grand Rbnde reservation, Fort Haskins I and Fort Yamhill. These various expeditions and services occupied the time J from 1854 to’ 1861. On . March 1, 1861, he was made first lieutenanfc.in the Fourth Infantry, and May 14, 1861,,he. was commissioned captain in the Thirteeth Infantry. -He was president of the board for auditing claims at St. Louis from Nov. 18 to Dec. ! 26; chief quartermaster and commissary of the Army of Southeast Missouri from Dec, 1861 to March 12, 1862; in Mississippi campaign until September, 1862; was mad§ colonel of the Second Michigan Cavalry, Volunteers May 25, 1862, and on May 28 commanded a brigade on the raid to Booneville, Miss.; was in pursuit of the rebels from Corinth to Baldwin, participating in skirmishes at Booneville, Blackland, Donaldson Cross-roads, and Baldwin, June, 1862, and the action of Booneville, July 1, 1862, when lie was commissioned on that date brigadier-general of volunteers. He commanded the Eleventh Division, Army of llie Obio, from October 1 in November 2, on the advance into Kentucky, being engaged in the battle of Perryville, October 8, and on the march to the relief of Nashville in October and November, 1862; was in command of a division of the Army of the Cumberland in the Tennessee campaign, |rom November, 1862, to September, 1863, taking an active part in the battle of Stone River. He was made a major-general of volunteers December 31, 1862. *He was in pursuit of the rebels under Van Dom to Columbia and Franklin, capturing a train and prisoners at Eagleville in March, 1863; was in the advance on Tullahoma; at the capture of Winchester crossed the Cumberland mountains and the Tennessee river, and was at the battle of Chckamauga, the operations in and about Chattanooga, and actively engaged in the battle of Missionary Ridge, Nov. 23 and 21, 1863, and wad engaged in the East Tennessee campaign until March, 1864. From April 4to Aug. 3, 1864, he was in command of the calvalry corps of the Army of the Potomac, and with ten thousand men was actively employed in operations in the Wilderness, and between it and Richmond in May, June, and July. While mainly employed in reconnoitering and in protecting the flank of the army, his corps made several vigorous raids, cutting off railway connections and capturing and destroying stores, was more thap twenty times engaged with the confederate cavalry* and took an important part in the actions in and about Cold Harbor. *On August 4 he was placed in command of the Army of the Shenandoah, and Aug. 7 in command of the Middle Military Division. He defeated General. Early at the Opequan, Sept. 9, and on the following day was made brigadier general in the United States army. He was at Fisher’s Hill Sept. 22, and at Cedar Creek Oct. 19, where he turned a row into a brilliant victory, for which he received the thanks of Congress, and on Nov. 8-wns made a major-general. From Feb. 27 to March 24, 1865, lie was engaged in the raid from Winchester to Petersburg, during which he destroyed the James river and Kanawha- canal, cut important railway connections, destroyed military and commissary stores, and had numerous skirmishes with the enemy. From March 25 to April 9 he was in the Richmond campaign. On April 1 he gained the battle of Five Forks, Which insured the abandonment by the confederates of Petersburg and Richmond, and led to the pursuit of General Lee. He was present at the capitulation, April 9, at Appomattox Court house. He was appointed to the command of military division of the Southwest, June 3, and of the military division of the Gulf, June 17, of the department of the Gulf August 15, 1866, of the Fifth military district, including Louisiania Texas, March 11, 1867, of the department of the Missouri, with headquarters at Fort Leavenworth, September 12, and on March 4; 1869, upon the accession of General Sherman to the position of general, made vacant by the inauguration of General Grant as President, he was made lieutenant-general and assigned to the commaxid of the division of the Missouri, including the departments of Dakota, of Missouri, of the Platte and of Texas, with headquarters at Chicago, yihich position he left to take command of the army of the United States, the position having been made vacant by the retiring of General Sherman:

BASE BALL.

Standing ot tbe League and American Clubs up to and Including Aug. 6. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won Lost New York 53 28 Chicago 4M 32 Detroit 7 33 Philadelphia. 39 40 Boston .. .... " 37 45 Pitttburg „ 33 4: Indianapolis 49 Waahlngton... „ 30 59 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won Lost St Lords....'. s"* 27 Brooklyn ,2 32 Cincinnati... ; 49 ;.‘3O Athletics,...®.... 50 31 Baltimore 3« 41; Louisville * n 50 Cleveland......—.. .36 4§ Kansu City......—..... v 3 57 John L. Sullivan has gone into training to fight Kilrain.

THIRD-PARTY NOMINEES.

FISK AND BROOKS WRITE LETTERS ACCEPTING THE NOMINATIONS. Both Gentlemen Decline that the Total Destruction of ilie LWjin r lr ttlc is the Param unt P.li.Cil Issue olf the Time The letters of acceptance of the national Prohibition party candidates for President and Vice-president were made public Monday afternoon. The letter of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, candidate for President, is dated at Seabright, N. J., July 25. The opening paragraph expresses a grateful sense of the honor conferred upon him by the Indianapolis convention and formally accepts the nomination. It then proceeds as follows: “Within a few years the temperance reform has altogether changed front. In the great conflict which has been, and is yet waging, the temperance forces no face human appetite and habit alone; they oppose legislation, law, the purpose of political parties, the policy of State and Nation. What law creates, law alone can kill. The creature of law, the saloon, the liquor traffic, can die only at law’s hands or at the hand of law’s executor. Conceived in avaricious iniquity, born of sinful legislative jyedlock, the licensed saloon, the legalized liquor traffic, bastard child of a civilization professing purity gnd virtue, must be strangled by the civilization that begot it, or. that civilization must go forever branded with the scarlet letter-of ts own shame. It is not enough that we reform the individual; we must reform the state, the policy of great commonwealths, of a whole people must be remade and put in harmony with sound economic principles, the true co-opera-tion of industrial effort, the essential conditions of a national prosperity and genuine brotherhood of man. It has been well said: ‘A political reform can become a fact in government only through a political party that administers government.’ A reform so vast as this we advocate, involving such radical changes in State and national policy, is utterly dependent for its agitation and consum mation uponsome party agent or force. * * * The national Democratic party in its platform utters no word in condemnation of the greatest foe to the Republic, the liquor traffic. That party h aving steadfastly in its utterances at national conventions maintained its allegiance to the American saloon,it was no disappointment to any one that at St. Louis, in 1888, it reaffirmed its old position on this the greatest question Dow being debated among men. * * * It was with great reluctance that I accepted these conclusions, and came to admit the imparative need of a new party, while yet the party of my choice, the national Republican party, maintained its organization. * * * It cost me the sacrifice of cherished associations,when, four years ago. I enrolled myself in the ranks of party Prohibitionists, under the flag of prohibition bleached snowy white by the tears of smitten women and children through generations of sorrow and want. I have seen no hour of regret. Every day since then has shown yet more clearly the logic of my course and the inevitable truth of my conclusions. In Michigan, in Texas, in Tennessee and Oregon,so-called non-partisan efforts to estabish prohibition have failed, through partisan necessity born of liquor elements in old-party composition. In lowa, Rhode Island and Maine the laws have been shamelessly defied for like reason. -The entire trend of things, these last four years, have proven hopeless the broader range ot prohibition effect through non-partisan means, and equally futile, as a final consummation, the narrower methods of local option and high license, while from the Supreme Court itself lias come,with startling emphasis,a declaration so nationalizing this refrom that in can never be made a local or State limitation again. * * * The first concern of good government, said the recent National Republican convention at Chicago, is the virtue and sobriety of the people and the purity of the home. Revenue, then, is not government’s chief concern, whether eoming from internal taxtation or from a tariff on importations; and any source of revenue which discounts ‘the virtue and sobriety of the people,’ and begets impurity in the home, should be the first object assailed by every party professing to seek good government; while the revenue derived from such a source should be the first to be forsworn—not alternatively, for sake of a protective tariff, but positively, for the sake of protection dearer and more vital than the tariff can ever \ield. Had I not left the Republican party four years ago,l should be compelled to leave it now 7 , when,after reading the words I have quoted, from a resolution supplemental to, but not included in its platform, and finding in these words my own idea of government’s chief concern set forth, I search the long platform through in vain, to find condemnation of the saloon or hint of purpose to assail it, or any sign of moral consciousness that the saloon is a curse and its income too unholy for the Nation ti share. If the ‘chief concern’ has no place in a party’s platform, and a party has no policy as to that ‘chief concern,’ that party does not deserve the support of men who love good government and would see it maintained. * * * The Prohibition party’s ‘chief concern’ is for the purity of home and the virtue and sobriety of the people. That party is now labor’s truest friend, which would bar the importation of paupers from abroad, or close the tariff door of competition to pauperize foreign industry, and then by a liquor system perpetuate the manufacture of paupers and criminals in our own midst, with which honest labor must compete, and whom, largely, honest labor must support.” The’ letter closes with a review of the principles of prohibition. dr. brooks’s acceptance. John A. Brooks, in his letter, after acknowledging the honor conferred upon him, denounces monopolies and trusts, and says that trusts art; “against a wholesome revision of the tariff.” He then says: “Party issues are now before the people as formulated by the finaWutborities in such cases—the three great National conventions. Senators and Representative may concluded that their party conventions have made great blunders in their official utterances, and may seek to modify the same bv congressional action bnt the country will hold each party to its platform. That the solution proposed by thq Prohibition f party is the wisest of the three I do not J hesitate to declare. We must avoid an

ever-increasing surplu%in the treasury, and all unnecessary taxation must be lifted from the shoulders, of the people. The surplus is a perpctnal menace, not \ only to the business of the country, bnt to the public morals as well. The question of the propriety of removing the tax from whisky must depend altogether upon the purpose intended toi he accomplished by such removal. Upon the principle that it is a public enemy, legislatures have placed it under bonds and < penalties, and courts have declared it a public nuisance. The traffic itself, conscious of its own infamy, pleads its right to existenoe upon the ground of its recognition by the Government and the revenues it pays intojmblic treasury. Conseiousthat this is last defence, it intrenches itself behind Federal and State taxation. Strike down this defense, an outraged public would not long suffer-its continuance. Two political parties demand in their platiprms the abrogation of the federal tax. But upon what ground do they base their action? The Prohibition party would strike off the tax that it may the sooner destroy the traffic. It would not have the government to be a co-partner in profits wrung from the vices of its citizens. The principal purpose of the Republican party in the repeal of the tax is to reduce the revenues so that they may not have to surrender any part of our protective system. Indeed’, the proposed remedy is not to be applied until this theory of protection is tested to the point of prohibition upon all foreign products such as are produced by our own people. Then, if there snail remain a surplus, rather than touch the protective system, they will take this traffic out of prison and bonds and turn it loose upon a helpless public to corrupt, degrade and destroy society. The Prohibitionist w 7 culd take <his arch criminal out of prison to hang him; the Republican to set him at liberty. The one would repeal the tax the sooner to destroy the traffic. The other would overflow the country with free whisky rather than injure the already subsidized interests of the country. In the face of these indisputable facts, every Christian and every patriot will approve the motive prompting the one and denouncing the other as the consummation of human selfishness and infamy A proper protection of American labor and the. infant industries of our country may and does commend itself to the majority of onr people,but of infinitely more importance is the protection of our homes. To this end your platform justly subordinates all other questions.” Dr. Brooks concludes by some remarks regarding the sanctity of the home,refers to the evil influence of saloons, indorses woman suffrage and the work of women for prohibition, and again thanks the convention for tile honor of the nomination.

POLITICAL.

General Alger of Michigan, visitedGen. Harrison, Tuesday. Several Terre Haute business men have organized a Tariff Reform Club. The United Labor and the Union Labor parties of Cincinnati have agreed to consolidate. As a result of a political quarrel at Cherokee, la., the postmaster dangerously stabbed State Senator Meservy. President Norvin Green, of the Western Union telegraph Company, has subscribed SIO,OOO to the Cleveland and Thurman campaign fund. Senator Yoorhees opened the campaign for OK Western Indiana Democracy at Terre Haute, Saturday night. He spoke for three hours to an audience of 2,000 people. The New York Republican Executive Committee have received information! that the Democrats are organizing a band of Chinamen to get up a parade and to carry Harrison and Morton banners. Then they would have photographs taken of the procession and scatter them broadcast over the country, and especially over the Pacific Coast. If this is done, it is said the Republicans will get up a parade of British tars for Cleveland, wearing suits made of English flags. The intellectual campaign is progressing. The Young Men’s State Prohibition League met at Indianapolis, Tuesday, and completed the organization. B. F. Watson, of Danville, was elected President, C. L. Jessup, of Friendswood, secretary, H. L. Ritter, Indianapolis, treasurer, H. F. Bullock, of Dana, State Organizer, and a member of the State committee from each congressional district. A constitution was also adopted, which provides for co-operation with the Prohibition party and to be auxiliary to the National League. Representatives of the United Labor and the Union Labor party met at Chicago, Wednesday, to see if a consolidation could not be effected. The United Labor people made various propositions, offering to divide tickets and electors in the various States with the other, but all were refused. The Union Labor men demanded as a basis of compromise nothing less than the complete withdrawal of the United > Labor party’s candidate, without condition, and their support of the Union Labor party. The United Labor committee bade them good-day, and withdrew from the conference. "

BURIED BY A VOLCANO.

A telegram from Wakomoloa, Japan, Thursday, says that the volcano of Mount Iwahassi suddenly burst into ac tivity, and in a short time fifty-six houses in Iwasenura were destroyed. A later telegram says the eruption continued with great destruction and loss of life. About four hundred persons and thirty houses in a village called Bira, were buried under sand and ashes thrown out by the volcano. Among those buried were some fifteen visitors at the hot springs in the neighborhood. At Chicago, Saturday, James Geddes and Charles Nelson had a fight and Geddes not only bit off the other man’s ear, but swallowed it.