Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — Page 2

■ THE REPUBLICAN. B. Marshall, Publisher. —«a»b - wma

t; / . .... . If THi energy expended in politics ware exerted in any other direction what obstacles would it not surmount? The necessity of “saving the country” every fall entails a tremendous waste of time, money and good gray matter. Presidential prognosticators again have the floor. The following tables are given without political bias and with an “If." If all the States which had elections Nov. 3d, go the same way next year and the States which did not have elections go as they did in their last genera* election the net result would give the' Democratic candidate for President 243 electors and the Republican candidate 198 electors. This calculation divides the electors of Michigan equally between the two parties on account of the method in that State: of choosing electors by districts. Alj of the Territories in the Northwest which ha eeently been made States are given to the Republicans, for although they have not had genera* elections they are regarded as safely Republican. New York, lowa and Massachusetts are counted in the Democratic column as the result of the last elections. The showing of the Democratic electors is as follows: At kans&s 8 Misslouri....;.. rTT Connecticut 0 New Jersey...... 10 Delaware 3 New Y0rk........ 33 Florida 4 North Carolina. . 11 Georgia . 13 South Carolina... 9 jowa *3 Tennessee 13 Louisiana 8 Virginia.....,., 1 .. A* Maryland....... 8 West Virginia.... 0 Massachusetts .Xls , ~~ Michigan (half).. 7 Total 240 The Republican electors would be as follows: California.. ..... 9 Pennsylvania...... 32 Colorado 4 Rhode Island.... 4 ~ Illinois.. .. ...... 24 Vermont 4 Indiana 15 Wisconsin 12 Kansas 13 Wyoming 3 Maine 6 Idaho.. 3 Minnesota... Michigan (half).. .7 North Dakota.... 3 Nebraska.. 8 South Dakota... 4 Nevada..... 3 Washington 4 New Hampshire.. 4 Ohio 23 T0ta1.........198 Oregon... 4 □ The addition of the new States makes New York of less importance than it has been heretofore. For instance should the above list be a correct prophecy, except that lowa and Massachusetts cast their votes for the Republican nominee the re' suit would be Democratic votes 218 Republican votes 216, and Indiana to the Democrats would give them 233; Republicans 211. Wont it be a bat tie royal in 1892?

The Supreme Court of Michigan, says the Indianapolis Journal, has recently made a decision which ig claimed to be the pioneer in condemnation of unlawful combinations to mlki prices. Michaels, a manufacturer of machines for making hoops, required a certain kind of knife, which h<j had bought of a Buffalo •firm. Subsequently one Lovejoy called upon Michaels and said that he could make him a better knife for the same money. No agreement was m&de. But subsequently Michaels sent Lovejoy an order for two knives which were delivered, but the price was $29,15 in gxcess of the price paid the Buffalo firm. Lovejoy explained the increase in price on the ground that between the date of his offer to 6ell at the Buffalo price and that of receiving the oyder the price of knives had been raised by the Machine-knife-makers’ Association, of which Lovejoy was a member. Michael's Refusal to pay led to a suit, which in time was appealed to the Supreme Court, when Judge McGrath rendered a decision in which the court laid down the law as follows: “In the present case no price was agreed upon at the time the order was given, and there was no evi dcnce to show that defendaut had any knowledge of the price .fixed by the Knife-makers’ Trust, An attempt is made to fasten a price fixed by a combination on such a purchaser. It is sufficient to know that the price sought to be imposed is that fixed by the combination. If so, it was unlawfully fixed, and has no force as a market price for that reason. It is the combination for the purpose of controlling prices that is unlawful, and the fact that they, the manufacturers, deem the price fixed to be reasonable does not purge it o* 'any unlawful character. Independently of the unlawful character of the combination fixing it, a price so fixed cannot be regarded as any better evidence of value than that fixed „by any vender upon his own wares. A prieefco fixed is npt to be entitled to rank as the market price. It is not a market price within the contemplation of the law.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

General Botler Is seriously 111. Chicago is threatened with a coal famine. ! ' ' » The W. C. T. U. was in session at Boston. The national mining congress opened at Denver. The strike of the French coal miners ■extending. W. J. Florence s condition is more encouraging. Mills and Crisp are said to be in the lead for the Speakership. At Red Lake, Minn., the thermometer fell 20 degrees below on the 17th. William J. Florence, the distinguished actor, died at Philadelphia, Friday, ill Rev. Dr. Dean, a distinguished EplseoDivine of New York, has become a faith curist. . Oklahoma is already figuring «m Statehood, and a convention to that end has been called. Filbert A. Dean, Democrat, a recently ejected State Senator of New York, died Frtdayvxßoraing. ... ~.T7~'_ Montana labor-organizations have begun a fight against the Chinese, es whom there are 4,000 in the State. Chicago is now seriously threatened with a soft coal famine. It is occasioned by the miner’s strike in the Indiana district-

Commander-In-Chief Palmer, of the G. A. R., favors the purchase by the National Government of Mt. McGregor, where Gen. Grant died. J. T. Chesney,a Natchez (Miss.) lawyer, has been sentoneqdloservetwo years in the Detroit House of Correction for pension frauds. Rev. Banker’s wife, at New Philadelphia, 0., was insulted by a drunken man and received a generous thrashing from the preacher. Capt. liettie Smith, of the Omaha Salvation Army, died ou the 17th from the shot inflicted by Nettie Biedler on the previous Sunday, . ■ ■ ■ ~ The dog meat craze is agitating the newspapers, audit is not improbable that it will agitate a few of the dogs before the bubble bursts. Several New York Chinamen have organized themselves into a societe called the “Hatchat,” for illegal purposes, including murder. W. H. Brothepton, the man who attempted to trundle a wheelbarrow from San Francisco to Chicago on a wager died at La Junta, Col., of mountain fever. The wife of Cashier Sinton, of the FirsJ National Bank of Louisville, Ky., was burned to death Thursday, at her home in that city, her dress catching fire from an open grate. Mr. William 11. Ropes, who, from 1859 to 1851. represented the United States us consul at St. Petersburg, is dead at Tenby, the well-kndwn watering place ou Carmarthen bay. Wales. Dr. Charles* Danzerau, of Taunton, Mass., has created a sensation by living with a pretty girl supposed to be his wife. His real wife and five .children turned up and Danzerau is in jail. The Doctor had a big practice and stood high socially. G. Henry Stratton, one of the dozen men who forty-four days ago began a fasting contest in a Now- York maseum, and who outlasted all the others and was taken to Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday in an exhausted condition, died on Thursday moru* Ing. ,; . ■ ' T~~

Commander-in-chief Palmer, of the Grand Army of the Republic, in genera orders No. 6, urges that the cases of suspended members in arrears be examined by post, commanders, and when worthy, arrears be remitted all save the per capita tax. The first steel derrick ever made in the U. S., was raised at the granite quarry of T. E. Taylor & Co., at Havre, Vt., Friday. The boom has a radius of seventy-feet,and the mast is ninety-nine feet high, it being the Wghe&t unsupported, metal column in the world. The captain of the American schooner William L. Bradley, which sailed from Charleston, S. C., on October a for Weyp.uith, Mass., and which was abandoned on Octobor 13 in latitude'37 north, longitude 02 west, states the crew of the schooiy;r took to the boats and were drowned. 'Ezekiel Sparks, of Marion, Ohio, a fortv-vear-old carpenter, fell from a new build'tig in that dty on the 10th inst., and now lies at the Carder boarding house with a broken neck. The unfortunate man fractured the seventh cervical vertebra, and his case is a puzzle to the attending physicians.

Judge Ross, of the United States Court, lias sentenced three Yuma Indians to death for the brutal murder of an old medicine man of their tribe some mouths ago. The medicine man had failed to bring rain when requested by the tribe to do so, ahd according to the laws of the Yuma tribe, such a failure is punishable by death. St. Paul on the 17th suffered one of the most disastrous fires in its history, th e buildings datnaged being those of Griggs Cooper & Co., wholesale grocers, and Farwell. Ozmun, Kirk «fc Co., wholesale hardware. The total loss is estimated at from $900,000 to $1,000,000, covered by insurance. The smallpox is now epidemic at Harris Keck, Ga. Surgeon White, of;the Marine Hospital service, who is in charge' of the sick, reports eighty-five cases and thirteen deaths. He says 1,500 people are known to be infected. There is much destitution and sufferings,. The citizens of Savannah are alarmed over the deplorable situation so near them. * Thursday n.ftcrnooti two masked men entered the Northern Pacific express car on the Missoula & Coeur d Alene railroad cud at the point of their guns made express messenger Case open the safe and give up all the monfcy it contained. $2,030. The robbery occurred between Dorsey and Miilati, near the Montana -aud Idaho line, a wild, mountainous country. Palo Alto, the game son of Electioneer, trotted & mile without a skip, at Stockton, Cal., on the 18th, in 2:OBJ£. By this remarkable performance the horse not only breaks the stallion record, but wins all' records of the world for the famous Palo Alto stable. Marvin had his charge well in hand all the way, and drove the fall

mile without even a sign of distress front the horse. The quarters were made as follows: :31Jf, TiMjC 2:08^. Several men employed by a manufacturing ooncern arrived at Crow Landing, N. Y.,for the purpose of ‘-‘making rain.” They brought an outfit of explosives which were to be fired into the clouds. The first was with 200 pounds of explosive. Almost immediately after entering the clouds there was a great ?ift* and a perfect deluge of water began failing, such an outpouring as would fill every stream to overflowing in a few hours.’' Roger S. Pease, a Minneapolis man, has ust received letters patent on an invention which, according to the claims of the inventor, will reduce the cost of making a square foot of plate glass from 70 cents to 10 cents. To perfect his idea has cost Mr. Pease twenty years of close study and $50,000 cold cash in making the necessary experiments. His invention consists in rolling the plate of glass on a perpendicular instead of a horizontal surface. It is rolled in the exact thickness required instead of haying to be ground down and polished. It comes out filie polished and free from waves and chills, and a surfac 0 of soapstone prevents its being scratched or marred while cooling. The rollers turn out two sheets simultaneously, and the production is very rapid. " •

■ FOREIGN. rhlli it as assumed a less defiant attitude toward the United States and is now believed to be disposed to arbitrate,. A shocking crime was committed at Letchfickl-with-Crofton, London, Monday morning. A woman murdered her three little girls by cutting their throats from ear to ear, and then committed suicide by , cutting her own throat The Socialists are preparing, it is said to make a warm attack in the Reichstag upon any measure proposed in pursuance of the Kaiser’s new hobby of enforcing personal, morals by law. The Kaisers yiews are not at all acceptable to the Socialists, who charge him with attempting to assume authority little short of Omnipotent, and altogether unsuited to the present stage of civilization. Between Bismarck and the Socialists Sll indications point to a lively session in the Reichstag.

INDIANA ODD FELLOWS.

The Indiana Grand Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows met at Indianap. oils Nov. 18 and 19, with 1,000 delegate present. The report of tirand Alas ter W H. Leedy shows the order to he in the most prosperous condition. The initiations during the six mouths numbered 2,385 and the net gain 1,651, both larger than in any other term in the -history w&£ tho -order. 1 Six subordinate and eighteen Rebekstr lodges Were instituted. Grand Secretary Foster in his report, says: “We have cause to be thankful to the great Father of all for the continued and unparalleled prosperity of the Order. After deducting all. losses we are left With a net gain in membership of near seventeen hundred. Fe largest gain in any one term in the history of the Order in this Jurisdiction. An examination of the statistics herewith presented will show twenty-three hundred and eighty-lis'e initiations; lour htindnsi and fifteen admitted liy card, and three hundred and five reinstated^ Our relief report is unusally large, and may be summed up as follows: Two thousand six hundred and six brothers and one hundred and forty-one widowed families have been relieved. The sum of $51,233.10 has been paid for the relief of brothers: $2,033.62 for the relief of widowed families; $244.23 for the education of orphans; $13,. 143,56 for burying the dead, and $5,331.16 for other charitable purposes, making the Total amount of relief $71,985.07. During the last ternutbere lias been an unusual amount of sickness among our members as the foregoing figures would seem to indicate. The proposal to erect an Odd Fellows home for indigent members and their wives was acted upon favorably/ otictwelfth of the receipts of tiro grand lodge for dues being set apart to be applied to the use of this fund. The officers elected aud appoiutdd were as follows: 11. Z. Wiley, Grand Master, Fowler; George Ford, Deputy Grand Master, South Band; Will H. Talbott, Grand Warden, Orleans; B, F. Foster, Grand Secretary, Madison; Theo. F. Ilatighoy, Grand Treasurer, Indianapolis; E, 11. Cnppenger, Grand Chaplain, Rockpot t; J. F, Rann. Grand Marshal, Decatur; W. 11. Willoughby, Grand Guardian, Lafayette; T. F. Humes, Grand Sentinel, Muncie; W, 11. Leedy, Grand Instructor, Indianapolis; W. 11. Leedy, Representative to Sovereign Graud Lodge; J. F. Wallick, J. A. Fergusou and George Shirts, Trustees.

ODD FELLOWS' ENCAMPMENT.

Reports of the Various Officers Read—A Rig Attendance. The Grand Encampment Independent Cfjjder of Odd Fellows, held at the Grand Lodge Hall, Indianapolis, on the 17th, shows the past twelve mouths to have been the most successful period lu the history of the order iu this State. The report of S, P. Stroup, Grand Patriarch, shows that sixteen uew encampments have been added under his administration, The report of Grand Scribe Foster showed the number of effective encampments in the State to be IC2, with 9,103 contributing members, and $15,350.25 expended in relief and charity. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: " Grind Patriarch—John W. Cooper, Kokomo. ■_* Grand High Priest—John B. Cockrum, Boonville. Grand Senior Warden—J. L. Weaver, Warsaw. Grand Junior Warden—J. S. Byers,New Castle. Grand Sentinel—J, S. Watson, Indianapolis. Deputy Grand Sentiuel—George Kuhn, Camden. Grand Scribe—B. F. Foster, IndianapolU. Grand Treasurer—Theo. P. Haugbey Indianapolis. , W. H. Leedy was appointed Grand Instructor.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

. Andersou has a municipal garbage furnace. t The Evening Call is a new daily at Eiwood. Muncie will soon have thirty-six saloons. Michigan City lias nine miles ot paved streets. St Lonis had a million dollar fire on the 17th, Raising black cats is a new Washington industry. 7 Logansport has a new electric street railway. The carpenters have forty local unions in Indiana. There are eleven oil producing wells in Jay county. The State Fair grounds have been sold for $275,100. Counterfeit five-dollars are being circulated at Portland, A Wauatah constable has been found guilty of stealing flour. The Muncie Republicans are organzing for the campaign of ’92. Sheihyville turned out en masse to j_e<|; the eclipse of the moon. George Eden, near Lawrenceburg. was kicked to death bv a mule. Richmond clamors for low-priced gas, but the company only smiles. □ The gig saddle works, of Jackson,Mich.. will be removed to South Bend. Cr R. Mustard, near Hartford City, liad both cal’s badly frost bitten by the cold. The fourth-class postmasters of Hamilton cofunty are clamoring for more pay. Twelve hundred feet of lumbejis iised daily in the prison south in making bird cages, rat traps and brushes Hon. Albert G. Porter, Minister to Italy, arrived at Indianapolis on the 19th on a sixty days’ leave of absence. It is asserted that no section of country on the habitable globe can raise such a diversity of crops as northern Indiana. KeV. D. P. Roberts, colored, of Evansville, was on the 20th appointed Recorder -of the General Land Office,-to succeed MtTownsend.

James Kennedy, auditor of Decatur county, has given way to ins successor, •JohnJ. Puttmann, who defeated him in the last flection by one-vote. - The’warden of the prison north has recently granted permission to convicts to wear mustaches, and every prisoner is cultivating the hair on Ills upper lip with great assiduity. Joseph Hudson, of Bro\vnsburg, entered ProfessorWisehart’s residence on burglary intent, but was seized and held by the Professor. He was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Mrs. William Vanhorn, of Hartford City, was shot. 1n the hand by her husband who fired through a rear window after she had taken her scat in a passenger-coach, enroutc for Marion. She continued journey. The water dropped eighteen inches in the Michigan City harbor one night ,last week, and for hours the city was seriously inconvenienced in its supply of water. The Michigan Central railway was a,so put to considerable trouble. It is said of Mrs. Dr. Wilson, who recent] y died near Noblesvilie, that, shortly before death she called for paper and pencil, and inscribed her belief that there was no hereafter. During her life she had apparently held opposite views. Mark Denton, of French Lick township has been arrested, charged with criminally assaulting the twelve year-old daugter o* Representative Trimble, and attempting an assault upen another little girl, aged eight. Great indignation is shown toward the accused.

John McCartney, of West Albany, while calling upon his sweetheart, Miss Nancy Lewis, attempted to.explain the workings of a stnall revolvoiv and the weapon was discharged. The bullet struck Miss Lewis squarely between the eyes and was imbedded in the bone of the forehead. The State Fanners’ Alliance of Washington (State;, Friday ifight“gKcttSTßi I*' Ravens president. Resolutions, were adopted favoring the sub-treasury scheme fho third party movement and free and unlimited coinage of domestic silver, a laritf for revenue ouly and the election of Presidents and United States Senators by the direct vole of the people. Daniel Snyder, aged in excesg of seventy fives alone in a little shanty tjn tho borders of a big marsh In U union township! St. Jo.e county. Lata, at night two men ] daor, assaulted him until he was unconscious, and robbed ’’film of SSO cash, aud SOOO in negotiable bonds. It Is probable that Snyder will die. cuses William Oorney, a fisherman, as being one of his assailants, and Gorney has been arrested. A case of malignant diptheria was discovered on the 15th in the family of janitor Dorsey, of the Central school building. Crawfordsville.and this,of course, necessitated tho dismissal of that school and the 850 attending pupils. There are a number of other cases being discovered over the city, and an epidemic is greatly feared. So far, however, there have been no deaths and every precaution is being taken to prevent tho spread of the disease. The pastor @f the Church of St. Martin's In the hamlet of Yorkville, is at outs with the way of these latter days, and he proposes that his flock once moro shall follow the methods of former times. In consequence ho has issued a pulpit edict which decress that hereafter there shall be a division of sexes In church worship. Pews have been Sold accordingly, and beginning with Sunday next husbands and wives must sit apart, and even children will be taken from the sides of their mothers, and sweet-hearts will be separated. Village gossips have set their tongues a-goiug in consequence. A shameful outrage was committed near Piltsboro on the night of the 9th,and the guilty ones are still at large. At New Hope Church, three miles north of Pittsboro, m young farmer was called out during meeting by some men whp tried to kill him. He had hardly got on the outside till he was set upon by unknown enemies, who beat him with stones, fracturing his skull. Some of the would-be as sassius had knives and gavo him several murderous stabs, one blade having penetrated the kidneys. The man was picked

np in almost a dying condition, and it Is more than possible that he will die. Benjamin Farley, of Whitestown, indicted for the murder of Alexander Stew-, art, and triad at Frankfort on a changed venae, was found guilty and sentenced to twenty-one years’ 'imprisonment. Stewart was the tenant df property of which Farley was the ageut, and he was advised, by the owner to pay no money to Farley : The latter threatened to have tiie moqey or Stewart's blood, and meeting him on a vacant lot followed up the demand for payment by knocking him down with a billet of wood. Farley then used a knife, cutting Stewart to death. The defendant is aged sixty. The Depanw Plate (Mass Company, organized to construct and operate a new plant at Alexandria, in connection with the New Albany works, 4ias been] incorporated in Madison county. The stockholders and directors are N. T. DePauw.Chas. W. DePauw, W. D. Keyes, Charles TV Doxey and E. P, SclilaLer. Capital stock, $1,200,000. The plant at Alexandria will cover forty acres, and the buildings will be of stone, irou and brick, with a manufacturing capacity 0f75,000 square feet of plate glass weekly. The New Albany plant has 30,000 square feet capacity. The company has leased a large acreage of gas' lands in the viciflity of Alexandria for fuel purposes. “Little Union.” as it is familiarly called, is one of the banner counties of the v Statc in ail that goes to make enterprising citizenship. Liberty, its county seat, isouo of the prettiest little towns in Eastern Indiana. It has three churches and fine schools. There are but three saloons in the county, two of. which are located at Libert y. A fine court house Is now in process of completion, costing SIOO,OOO, and it is the third court house seen there in forty years. The last two were built since 1850. There is but one toll road loft in the county, and it will soon be purchased by thp county. Although the entire population numbers but. 7,000, the county free marvels of. efficiencvT T ~' ~T A decision rendered by Judge McConnell at Logansport on thelTth, in the injunction proceedings against the Chicago Pipeline Company, makes perpetual the in , junction stopping them from crossing tho bed ou the old Wabash & Erie c anal. The case is known technically as Elbert W. Shirk versus The Indiana Natural gas Company. Judge McConnell held that the plaintlff’s-title is sufficient; that the defendants should be restrained, because they had instituted proceedings to condemn the land after the restraining order had been granted, which was no ground for dissolving the injunction, as the plain, tiff was entitled to the injunction for the purpose of protecting the possession, and that the injunction was proper as an auxiliary proceeding igaid of an action at law. C. P. Richards, of New Albany, on November 11,1839, at the time a healthy, robust young man, was seized of hemorrhage of the nose and mouth, and after the flow had been stopped numerous purple spot 9 appeared on his body. He soon recovered and returned to work. One year later, almost to the hour, the homorrhage returned, and it was accompanied by a blotched appearance of the entire bodyThis attaek—left him .very weak, but he eventually recovered This year so confidently did he expect another attack of this strange visitation that, lie had a physician in attendance, and,sure enough the bleeding returned, together with the attendant spots upon the body. This time he suffered great Toss of blood and was so weakened that he can scarcely speak above a whisper. The hemorrhage continued until the 18th, and his condition is quite critical.

The First Railroad in New York.

The Albany' & Schenectady Railroad... chartered IjT 1862 as the Mohawk & Hudson, was opened September 12, 1831, and was the first Railroad built in the slut; of New York. In 1847, tho muna was changed to the Albany & Schenectady. , in 1858, this road was consolidated with nine other small lines, forming tiie New York Central: and in 1869 this company was consolidated with the Hudson River Railroad, forming what has since been known as the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. In 1831, the Mohawk & Hudson carried but a few hundred passongers; last year, the New Y'ork Central & Hudson River Railroad carried over eighteen million. A syndicate at Mancie recently par, chased 1,200 acres of land adjoining that city

THE MARKETS.

lNDiXKAeoc.es, Ncv. 31, 1311. i Wheat. | Corn. Oats. Kyo. , Indianapolis.. 3 r'd 951 w 54 3 w 33 ....... CIiiCUK O 2 r'tl 95'4 54 33 Cincinnati.... g r'tl 90 54 34 1 .93 St. I.ouis *J I'M 94 M 31 107 New York.... s r’d I 10 71 8854 * lJaltinioio.... 106 <V> JO It 2 Philadelphia . 2 r'd 101 69 36‘, Uover Toledo t(H 66 S 3 * 4UO ' Detr0it........ | wli 9.54 .tyf Minneapolis.. 89 ■■ CATTLE. Fancy, 1,450 to 1,650 Its $5 3055 05 Good, 1,300 to 1,450 tts 4 lOi Good to choice shippers 4 50 Fair to medium shippers 3 Common shippers 2 73(a3 20 Stockers, common to good 2 25 »3 U) Good tochoicp heifers.,..... .... 2 65(93 0) Fair to medium heifers ....... 2 25<u3 03 Common, thin heifers.... l ar»®2 10 Good to choice cows 2 65M3 00 Fair to medium cows 2 di i:* 43 Veals, common to choice 3 09'd5 00 Bulls, commou to choice i 50(92 75 Milkers, medium to good 25 (OTarii 0) Milkers, common to fair 12 Oo@2o po HoeuJ Heavy packing aud shippers....S3 90@i 05 Aiixtu •••; ‘‘ ‘ ' 3 *3%3 9j Rest common light . 3 50.(t3 gj Heavy roughs.. 3 Uo(gjj jy . ■ v . aiiEJcr, Good to ch0ice........... .... ..$3 75@4 oj h air u> medium. 3 o., Common to medium 3 (X>«3 25 naimie, good to choice... 4 Lambs, common to medium 3 ;5 <ti 7.4 Bucks, 9 head.. $ 50@t 03 MISCELLANEOUS. □ Eggs, 22c; butter, creamery, 20@ Cc dairy, 20c; good country 16c; feathers, 35c: baeswax, 35(3 <oc; wool [email protected] unwashed 22c; hens, 7c; turkeys t’e clover seed 4 35(84.50.

PLAYED DETECTIVE

And Took Passage in the Filthj Steerage. What Commissioner Owen Says Abo in the Quarters of Immigrants on Atlantic Steamers. Special Immigration Commissioner, Mr Schultiez, on bis trip back from Europe disguised himself and took passage in th* steerage of the steamer Servia. His experiences were printed in the Easters newspapers and excited mnch comment Especially was this true in the official circles of the Treasury Department After Immigration Superintendent Owen had read the narrative very carefully he said to your comspondent: “Schultiez har done a very clever piece of detective work, and it will serve a good purpose in bringing to the attention of the public what is now known in official circles to exist. We are well aware of the misery and squaloi with which the immigrants are surrounded during their passage, and it is simply appalling. A short time ago, when I was making a personal investigation of this subject, I went to New York with several other gent.emen and determined to stop oue of the incoming tramp passenger ships for the purpose of getting an exact idea ol the condition of the passengers. We found over nine hundred Italians aboard. They were crowded below deck, the men, women and children being there promiscously. The stench that arose from tho hatches was so great that none of us could gel down the ladders to see the mass of humanity. When the decks were cleared we found that'there was not a single pump below the decks for that great crowd of immigrants. If they managed to struggle up two flights of ladders they could find two pumps at which two basins were placed, and these two pumps and two basins were serving foi nearly one thousand people. There were no water closets on tho lower deck, and only three, or perhaps four, on the uppe t decks. It was grossly Inadequate for the calls of nature of nearly ~ one thousand people, and the result was that filth abounded everywhere. They were liters ally living in filth. In short; what we saw | was exactly parallel to the shocking scenes [ which Mr. Schivultiez describes. I have ■ reported these observations, and they are now a matter of official record, but Mr. Schultiez has gone further, and by surrounding himself with detective methods and a somewhat ingenious and picturesque scheme has brought out some facts which we know in an unofficial way, so that they will be read and understood by the public at large.” ! The Commissioner was asked if any i other immigration official had ever found ! that debauchery existed among the ’women immigrants and crow, as Salinities describes. “No,” continued Mr. Owen> “and 1 doubt very much if the debauchery ivblch Schultiez tells of is anything more than might, be expected among such people. Mr. Schultiez could hardly overestimate the depravity of the ’Steerage,’ ,j eto- " eluded Mr. Owen. “It, exists not only on the tramp ships, but on such as the Servia and the Umbria, which are regarded as palaces on the ocean, but they are palaces on the upper deck alone; below every, thing is vice and filth; It is Fifth avenue and Five Points set side by side.

RAINY LAKE COUNTRY.

Two Hunters Tied to Trees and Subjected to Severe Trials. Shocking Story from the Italny hake Coun-try-Two of the Tarty Killed. C. B. Gear arrived in West Superior, Wis„ on tho 17tli, looking for relatives of James Mcßride, who lies in a critical condition at hts home on a claim adjacent to Gear’s near Grand llapids, Mlun. Gear says that a few weeks ago a party made up of men named Ilahn, Redding, Bruce. Mcßride and two tin known men, started oma hunting trip to the Rainy lake counLast Friday Mcßride came to his shack with his feet bare, left arm broken and hands and feet frost-bitten, and in a delirious condition. In his lucid moments the following story was gleaned: Afte the party had been out several days ding, who furnished the supplies, cut off the whisky rations. This enraged Hahn and his friends and they tied Redding and Mcliride to trees. Afterward Mcßride*-* was released and driven from camp without even a blanket. Mcßrido hung around out of reach of the men, who became wildly drunk. Next day lie returned to camp and found Redding still tied to the tree, with his head blown off, and at his feet was Bruce,his body full of bullets.. No trace of the others could be found. Mcßiide managed to make his way back\ and is now being cared for.

ALASKA DISCOVERIES.

Lieutenant Scliwatka has reached Des Moines, lowa, on his return from Alaska explorations. His party, including Dr Hayes, of the United States Geological Survey, and ten natives, left Luneau, Alaska, Juno 25. They proceeded up the Nakou river sixty miles, consuming two weeks on account of the swiftness of th« current, Jhence across the country eighty miles to a lake which tho natives told about. Tho lake is nearly one hundred miles long by fifteen in width, and was named by the party Ah Klaln(blg lake,) They then descended the new Berry rlvg for 150 miles. Frond Ft. Selkirk they went southwest 220 miles to what was snpposed to be a region in which copper abounds, but none was found. Several weeks were spent In exploring the Copper river, ouo of the most turbulent streams they had ever seeu. After ascending mountain peaks i» the interior and taking a number of observations of peaks never before seen by white men. the descentof the Copper rivet was made in canvas boats for nearly ons hundred miles. The Lieutenant is mors than pleased with his discoveries, and thinks them of great geographical as well as of geologicai value. The whaling schooner Nicolene, CaptaiJ Herendon, arrived at San Francisco «l Wednesday after an absence of over years In the Arctic ocean. The schoone* had several times been reported as lost I