St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 September 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. STRIKE ON THE GAIN. SWEAT SHOP WORKERS REVOLT IN NEW YORK. Tale of Woe of Two Too-Confiding Wool Shippers—Chicago Gets a Soaking—Moro Town) Bora in Wisconsin - lowa Populists' Ticket Afield. Girmen‘makers Out. The ranks of the striking Now York ; garment workers were increased Tees- j day morning by the addition of 500 | men, representing the working forces : of tome fifty different sweat shops. ■ This swells the total number actually I on strike now, according to leaders i estimates, to 7,000 men. The strik- । ers now seem to be better organized oven. Twelve hundred new members have been enrolled in their union since Saturday. The strike affects 4,000 women and young girls also, who earn a scanty living in uany of the Rivington and Suffolk sf’ect%yoat shops. These heartily favvr th^<^to vement. t VVorkC&Kraet in tham vo shops huu^Mun Ml the end of the dav, and the mon de- • c’.are that if their demands are not ac- I ccd d t > all hands in every branch of the trade in New York, Brooklyn and I Jersey City will go out on a sympithetic strike. low i Sh pp t* Swindled. W. C. Moloney, who, under the I title of Moloney & Co., has been conducting an alleged commission business | in S r t i Water street, Chicago, vas 1 arrest 'd on war anti charging him i with defrauding farmers o wool sent : to him for sale. The complainants ate ! C. M. Haxton and Robert Duff, of Earlham leva who are 10-ers to the exit n of l.i-O and 700 pounds of w: ol rest octively, but it is thought by Atlurney L. 11. Craig, who has had the c se in charge, that further letu n< will show that fa-mers all over the count y have lean v ctimized. Moloney in April sent a c rcular lette ■ to fa mt rs all over the country asking for consignments < f •wool and claiming to be ub e to get from is to 19 cents a pounds for it. As ; this was considerably over the market > price, Mr. Haxton answered, addressing his letter to No. 114 South Water street, the address on Moloney A Co.’s I letterheads. This b ought a pr mpt reply, urging him to send in his wool | at once, and offering him a comm ssion ■ on any other business he could get in the neighborhood. Moloney A Co. I also sent Haxton ten wool sack . the I tags on which were addressed to “Moloney A- Co., No. SO Souih Water street.” Moloney had no office at either No. 114 or SO South Water street. Plain -s Leap Ar iin. In spite of the showers of Monday the forest Arcs in Northern Wisconsin burned Tuesday with renewed fury, destroying wholly or in part a number of towns. Bruce was wiped cut, and Port Wing and S.nvorn reported burning. Washburn. ( danah and Spencer were threate el. and the Hames were on y checked t>v determine.! bands of tire fighters. Man . farm buildings and logging camps were swept away, and some line- of railroads abandoned their train on account of the dense smoke. Kerrick, a small town in Minne-ot i. was also surrounded by fiie- and the women and children were sent to West Superior for safety. low t I'opulHtK in ( onv nitlon. The lowa Populist Stat * convention was held at Des Moines Tue-day and a full State ticket nominal d The at tendance was 1 u-ge, fully 7< 0 delegat being present. NEWS NUGGETS. JOHN Kauffman, a Wealthy brewer | of Cincinnati, Ohio, wa fatally wounded by his wife, whom he had left. The first ocean cable ever laid in New York Bay has just been put down by the Commercial Cal ’o Ct mnany. Smoke from from forest fires became so deme in the city of Boston that artificial light was necessary at no >.i. It is believed 2,000 clothing trades ! employes will go on a strike in New York for shorter hours ami more pay. Investigation shows that sugar ' trust men attempted to bribe in-p et- 1 yT f 0 the jgew York custom- • in IU 1 trees. <.lai ml x< that the in Teas • was ib legal, whisky men wih refuse to pay the new tax and appeal to the Supin me Court. I’l' is claimed that (treat Britain endeavored to draw tiie I’nited States into an entangdnu alliance over the war in ('orca. POLICE investigation shows that Tuomas ( arroil, of Perth Ambuy, N. ! J., caused his three little children to live in a dry goods box and beg for : food. Three inches of rain fell between 9 o’clock and midnight in Chicago Monday night—an inch an hour—the greatest precipitation, period of duration c msidered, ever put on record in the I < hicago weather office. There have ■ been longer storms ami storms that: did far moi e damage, but this visitation was the most energetic seen in twenty-five years in the city. Three young men have been arrested in Seneca Falls, N. Y., charged with having dcstroyed^property worth ■ S2O 1,000 by fire. Funeral of Agnes Wabnitz, the so- ' ci ilist lead-r. wa; made the occasion for a great demonstration by Berlin I eocia ists. State Senator Jacob C wtet, of , Now York, is r, ported to bo engaged , to Loie Fuller. CHAUNCEY Dhpxw d Clares that he i will not be a candidate for governor of New York. i

EASTERN. j Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his 85th birthday at Beverly Farms, r ear Boston. Mrs. Lizzie Bent, of Lynn, Mass., has recovered her daughter, who was stolen from her thirteen years ago. A slate quarry at StoinsviUe, Pa, caved in, killing two men, David Williams, aged 55, and Edward Daniels, aged 30. E. H. Parmelee, of Burgon, N. Y., committed suicide by throwing himself in front of the west-bound St. Louis express. A contract has b *en dosed at Philadelphia for the transportation of 5,(0 > regroes from the South to Liberia before Nov. I and more lat r. Mrs. Edward L. Youmans, con spicuous in literary circles, widow of the founder of the Popular Science Monthly, died at her homo in Ridgefield, Conn. The Brooklyn Biscuit Works wore destroyed by tiro, The loss is $2(0,000. The works were owned by a company recently formed. The building was a new one. The Cunard Line steamer Campania, which sailed from New York Saturday, arrived at Queenstown Friday, bringing with ho • another new tiansatlantic record of speed, having made । the passage in 5 days 10 hours and 47 minutes. Heretofore the eastward record has boon 5 days 12 hours and 7 minutes, made in November, 1 WOP, by -the Campania. Three men dead, a fourth, a fireman, dying, and a dozen families homeless is the awful record of two fires in the tenement-house district of the East Side in New Y< rk. The flames broke out at 2 o’clock in a six- । story sweatshopat 220 Riverton street. ; At 31 Goereck street a six-story tone- ' ment was burned, a dozen families i were driven out panic-stricken and . $17,00 ) damage was done. The River- ! ton street house was occupied almost ■ solely by sweetshops The second ■ floor was used as a synagogue, and a portion of the third floor as a Hebrew ■ school for boys. WESTERN. Massh.t.on coal operators have decided to resume operations witnout delay. Elgin's wild man has bo m caught after a chase lasting nearly a week. He prove - to be Douglass Force, a desperate patient from the insane asylum. IN a tit of jealousy at Columbus, Ohio, Ceorge Kalb, a patent medicin ' i vender, shot and killed his wi c. The name of a prominent merchant i- mentioned. By co’lision of two freight trains I near Cleveland. lowa, a small station |on the Burling on road. Eng neer (>us i Starkman and Eiremai Ed Walker were fatally injured. Smallpox at Milwaukee ha^ as i sinned a very seriou- phu-m. The cit\ authorities are u: able to cope with | the jest, and the' State Board of Heath has taken hobi of it. AMBlujisE Lnklidrr an I Rol»«rt i Tucbs left Huron, Ohio, for Havana. | । Ohio, with two large casks of ammo | riia. The casks explod'd, and both ! I men were instantly k Hod. James W. Barnes, a Pleasant Hill. I 111., desperado, whi e bong tried Ixr- I : fore a .lu-tiee for disturbing the ■ peace, attympted to i scape. E. W. i Ed< m, the Town Clerk, inter, epto 1 i Barnes, whercup n the latter plunged : a knife into Edom’s breast, killing him ‘ instant!}. The pay-rolls of Company E. sixth ; Regiment. Illinois Nationa G.iard, for I strike services, will le paid i \ thMo ire Nationa Bank. D Compan, oi > the Eighth will 1 e paid by a i ank at ! Irbaua. The Moluv National will; take up vouchers of 1 v ompan . Seventh Regiment. Through a confession ma e by William Lake, one of the Dcsj 11 robbers, to Ins eetor Schaack, an innocent man. Frank Murray, will be relea ed from the jail at Chicago. The poor fellow wa - arrested on a charge of highway robbery n ariy a month ag >. He was a st: anger in the city, out of work. He was identified as one of tw > highwaymen who robbed,!. W. Steventhe night of Aug. <> of a gold watch and ss<i. He wa- held to the grand jury, and but for lake's cenfe-si n would, in al! probability, have been , sent to the pen tentiary for a crime of ; which he was innocent. The north-bound fast train on the Chicago and West Michigan road Friday morning crashed into a herd of r attle on a sharp curve near Bro k- I ings, sixty- ne miles north of Grand Rapids. The cattle had lx en diiven upon the Track bv the surrounding ; tur—t I.■-. .to a th,. * • ra? n plowed into ’ । am \\ • \c-pt i ar <>t turned ov -e ' H“'man^Lhn^X was ! crushed to death I eneath the epeii e and I ngineer John S. Paltei-on wa-- so badly scalded he e.ie 1. Mrs. l.ackerv a passenger, had her shoulder blajc , and one arm broken. OWYHEE C IVNTY. Idaho, is having j an Indian excitement. District Aitor- i ney C. M. Hayes was notified that a number of Indian from Fort Haves I Reservation were killing game in great I quantities in the Owyhee Mountains. ; ! He consulted Secretary of State Curtis, I who wiied the facts to the Indian Agent ’ at 1 ort Ha l and he started at once for i । the cone of action. Meantime Game ' Warden Johnson repaired t > th • In- | dian camp an 1 w arned the redskins to i । demist. They threatened to kill him ' and he tied. A Chinaman was found I i shot through the eye, presumably by | j Indians. Settlers are alarmed at the ! hostile attitude of the Indians and the ’ authorities are taking prompt steps to ? ; have them put back on the reserva- I I tion. An Appleton, Wis., dispatch says: ; I An English syndicate lepresentcd bv i j Fiank Butterworth., of ( hicago, has I practically clo ed a deal for the purchase of all the paper and ] ulp mills in : Wisconsin. The mills involved in the i deal number thirty-four and the price ' agreed upon is $14,0 0,00). The trans‘for will Ie made March 1. half the I i price to bo. paid in ca h and half in 1 I bonds secure'! by mortgage. The deal ' ; lias been < n f ot lor scveial weeks, but ’ the information leaked out Thursday. ■ The lacts are admitted by inta.ested

j parties. Most of the property Involved I is located on Fox River, and fifteen of the mills are at Appleton. The deal, if c nsummated, will be the largest transfer of manuta taring property ever made in the Northwest. Six tow ns wiped out and more than .100 dead is the record made by the for, st fires in Minnesota in twenty-four hour , Sat urday and Sunday. In Hinckley, San Istone, P< kegama, Sandstone Junction, Skunk Lake and Mission * V*?? . i! 10 *’ 0 ui'e 35 > known dead. In addition, several hundred are mis-lng. while from InOtoiW people are tcatt mt d on farms throughout cho district burned over. The destruction was complete in most of the towns named, but some of the forest land o caped. The loss, however, will l>e in th 'millions and the loss of life will not be definitely known for several days, if ever. The relief trains carried supplies sent < ut from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and other Minnesota towns and the sufferers wo o being handsomely cared for at 1 ‘ine City and other i points. SOUTHERN. Charles A. W. Mason, of Joplin, ; Mo., was killed and his holy concea ed J in a car of grain. It was not discov-i ? cred until it reached Mobile, Ala. William May, a railroad contract- [j or, was assassinated in Illinois, oppo^B site Paducah, Kv. Bloodhounds wer2 put on the. trail of the r• 11rdrror \ Henry Gum, a lad. wasleft in char^BT of his 3-yea -old cousin at FineastlW Ky., when he became tired of Ivaj. charge and killed the child withA^' club. " Thomas H Martin, a well-known! lawyer of Louisville, ha; gone insane.i His principal delusion is a be ief that he in Congres man Breckinridge and! that he will win his election. F, D. Mi Nut. minu; loth leg; anq one arm. wanted to marry Mrs. Martin, who had left her hu-band in Arj kansas. She refu-ed and both were foi n 1 dead at Bonham, Texas. J. L Bay was arrested at Memphis, Tenn., and taken t > Little Rock, ArkJ, to answer four indictments charging him w ith grand larceny and emlwzz em nt of SIOO,OOO in script from the state treasury. A crank armed with a big revolver gained access to th • New < ’rleaus Cotton Exchange, but left without doing any damage. Out ide his antic-dn'W a crowd of 5,000 pc >ple before he was arrested and locked up. An earthquake burst the earthen’ walls of an artesian water basin in ti e hills near Fvalde, a thriving town, the county scat of I valdo County, Texas, . at 2 o’clock Friday morning. The I flood overwhelmed the town sub i merging and w recking houses ; and drowning n number of j p'c. It is feared that 200 or 3o) i people may have 1 eon drowned in the I lowlands south of I valle. The ea t sile । f Vv alde is built on 1 w land i nd was directly in the path > f the water. I ! All the houses in the he art o’ ; । the town wo o subm -ged. There I ; wore a number < f miraculou; ‘ csea]>cs an . the re-cuor- and ihe ;r< ped । erform d many heroic ;<!-• j | A track wa kerof ihv Southern j le, * i aft. ;' wading Cirouj h w ■•- r — ■ neck with his hint 'in elevated a fine i ■ ) is head, succeeded in feeling hi-vay ' far enough ea-t to intercept a i west - bound t ain and p event | its plunging into the raging I river where the railroad bridge ! had Ix'.-n destroyed. The loss to the ' | Southern l’acilie Company isenormous. , i forty miles of truck and many bridges I : having U'en washed away, A rou.’h > ; estimate of the loss to properly in gen [ era! and the railroad company will, as j far as known, r ueh $L >9 0. WASHINGTON FlVi workmen were hurt, one fatal- • ly, by the falling of a -c.iffo’d in St. ' Paul s ( atholic ( hurch, \\ ashingt >n, D. < ’. The Census Office investigation of ! the que.- ion of farm and home pro- i prietorship in all the States and Terri- i tori s, .-how- of l?,’i'. 0,1‘>2 families in । this c untry, P |>er cent, own their wn lion es. The War Department has granted a discharge to Grover Elint, a privuUi in A Troop of the I'nited States Cavalry * stationed at I'ort M- ver. to allow him to bjeome posse s ir of a fortune esti-j mated at T./ey O), POLITICAL. I Ebe W. Tunnell i- the D mocri^tic nominee for Governor of Delaware, T. C. Platt says that Levi P. Morwn will a< c pt the Republican mmination for Governor ot New York Texas Republican state ticket Governor. W. K. Makeson Lieutenant ( vernor. R. B. Rcntfnw. Supecln- ’ ;• » of Ed’ieath n, A. H. C aldw.G; ' « op’co '•■! ,< \ T nilins. n. ! * i'liivw Wn.-.,v „f theWav«Jß M an- C. mmitteo. the Deim>de« tarul leader in tie House of Rejk] •m’-itu. <-s, was renominate 1 f r <jf 6 * i , \\ il-on made a notable address to®r« : convention. who : i ( I 'Ngressunal nominations: s’" Milwaukee, Samuel S. Barner, 11-Ji At liean. l ifth District: at Rock ib- । 111.. Jonas Olson. Democrat. 'jK ad. I ; District: at Waterloo. Freeman K* th : I 1 ojmlist, Twelfth D’strict: at *1 oMoine-. J. R. Barcroft, Populist,]B )es , enth District. ■ jv- I FOREIGN, K Abbe Bruneau, so merly vldr j 1 1’c < hut ch at Entrammes, who <of I 13 was convicted of murder. roB, lv and arson, was put to death guuii'tine at Laval, France, in thowt, L I cnee of . v ,090 persons. | Many citizens oi Rio de Jane:r@ :> being arrested. Among them ar J number of Moraes' Hiends. IK' ‘ incut ( ongressmen opposing -R4W& believe that no accusation will bW sented against him as he is grSu leared. The warship Constant® ; ’®* been ordered to Ri) Grande dr^S a k v probably to bring buck the Minist® War. It is rumored that import: ;>• । change - in the ( übinent are immine ' A terrible fire has occurred on 1 Canton River, in Chimu--A_tlower b caught fire, and the flames spvg^df , at til hundreds of those craft were® in _ |

fctrjyed The progress of the fire I w id that at lea t l,')0() natives perlsl%d in the flames. The flower boats mocrod stern and stern, in rows, “'’fl large numbers of natives lived uptif ■ be spread of the conf'agraone boat to another wa so that the unfortunate Chinese ncf P° t 0 cut them from fbeir !l strong wind materia'lv }j T>lping the increase of the fire. M»anv o (Mdreds of persons on b ai d the llowboats leaped overboard and were r J»vned, while several hundred others jJoined on board the craft and per- ■ ‘ .wi in the flames. bispateh: Andrew Carnegie t ar H c l e the September ( onReview, con .‘erning labor ^hsKmerica. He says t at an AmerijXW workman can live for less in Amer(C®, if he chooses, than in Great Brit(dn. provided that be lives frugally. 'Ojpsequently Mr. Carnegie thinks the irgument that wages must be higher n America is fallacious. A pound ju- I illci usly expended in America on the nMessaiiei of life would afford the WO> kingman's family more c unforts than would the lame amount spent here. The American workingman's : position was like that of the old Sm chwomun who. when asked if she could he on a certain umuitv. replied that Mie could live on half of it. "but could I ■pend dooble. ” IN GENERAL ^The Canadian Pacific table of earnlast hull year shows a decrea o of nearly sl,ooJ,(o‘. Norman Murray, the notorious anti-Cntholic agitator, wa put in jail at Montrea' so • failing to ray his fine for disturbing a proco ion. The date for the forthcoming convention of the National Woman's Temperance I’nicn to lx* held in Cleveland, Ohio, has been set for Friday, November I’’, and the five succeeding days. President I ng alls of the Big Four wh • is close to the Vanderbilts, says that t’re-ident D. W. Caldwell of the Nickel Plate will probab’y be made President of the Lake Shore, us President Nowell's successor. John Madigan and David McDonald, ex-deputy I'nited St :te- mar.-hab, who were arrested for looting a Santa Ee dining car, were arraigned before Jus ice Biudwell and held to the crim nal < ourt in bond- of sl,(Hri each. A Chicago grain man says: All the indication- are that wi eat is going to I be a cheap article for a long time t > come, and ■ peculators are getting tired of b lying it for an alvance. in the end pretty nearly all the profits g< to the elevator jmopl \ and it is a < old day when the-, get left, l-’or some days pa.-t trading ha con isted chiefly of changing over of Sepb-mlxm to l)e---cemb r. and the elevator men have l<cn buying in the September wheat the. had sold “sh< ri'” and s Hing wheat for December delivety. In a short time more all the । üblic and private storage room he e will be filled, and this ©norm us quantity of wheat will doubt ess i emain here for a long period, as wa- th • case v. ith the Isp.'i crop, so that tlie elevator proprietors can get th • tarrying charges. The natural re-ult of so huge a mi-s of wheat stored here will be to d epress : ’id -, and it is at L a-t pro’, able t at the - brire vH' b.-nt even the record of the ’a-t few tn nths. Tilt. eml>„ of the .National and Western league- stand a- follows in the championship race: san xalleiwce. Vt Pel \V. L cent.' AV. L. cent. Raltlxorf T 2 c .m" I'itißbnr^ it rs .oil Boston :i 3’J ,i4’> Chicago . co an New Yotk ?2 < i .• 4 < Cincinnati u 63 ,r»T Pall'd Ip'iv. ■ 47 .Sty St. Lonta t 5 66 .UU mookLn. << «.< .'.'j Wathlngt'ats 3 all Cleveland. M 5 ..'l4 Loul-viile 32 '.B .291 WEUJRX I.EAGVF. I'er let AV. L. cent. W. L. cent. Stona < ftv42 .0 : Gr'd R’p'dsn ft? 471 Kuim« C’t.62 4 - .'7 । iudt'n'pTia '0 57 .wt Minne phu 5j 4? .537 Detroit 46 6>> .434 Toledo 54 47 .Liv Milwaukee 36 68 <d R. G. Dun Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: ~. ■ .'.i/ which camo with exhausted st;..' .s and the tressure of delayed fall do- । niands, and was increased by the removal . t uncertainty about the tariff, has coni Hnued with heavy entries of foreign go id* I since tae bill became a law. The gain 14 I not yet what was expected, and btisine-s. | If 20 -d In comparison with last year, fl I still po r in comparison with years pre* : cedin ’. Presumably ther ■ has not bees ' t me t > fesi the full effects of the change, I and a gradual gain vHI bo m >to healthy I and encouraging than a spasmodic rise, ! but the expansion of corn me: cial loans has । suddenly ceased, prices - f manufactured products show weakness rather than strength, and there has teen . reaction in the sto. k market, i ru’c-of railway st ■<•!,*. । avera ing 3J cents and of trust stock 2. II : a share lower tn ti a wee'.; MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. । Cattle - Common to Prime.... $3 .70 & 6 on Hogs— Shipping Grades 4 m u 6 2'> 1 Sheep— Eair to Choice 2 U> et 3 7s I Whe at— No. 2 R?d ' j t lOa is No. 2 2J . i 3uJJ I Rye No 4‘- u BurTEß—Choice Creamery 23 <<6 24 Eggs— b’resli. G @ 16 Potatoes. New, per bn 65 75 INDIANAPOLIS. I Cattle— Shipping 2 on <a 5 oi I Hogs -Choice Lhht * oo 6 25 i Sheep —Common to Prime 2 00 ia 3 <0 > Wheat— No. 2 Red 4’J (<? auV i Corn—No. 2 White 55 ft’s. Oats— No. 2 White 32 c 33 ST. LOI IS. Cattle Bon <5 5 50 I Hogs 3 rt 6 <o I Wheat— No. 2 Red " u '• I Corn— No. 2 53 f3's Oats— No. 2 ?0 31 I Rye -No. 2 52 @ 53 CINCINNATI. ; Cattle 2 co 4 75 I Hogs 4 V? '' 2. Sheep 2o> c- 3 t«> Wheat— No. 2 Red si et- 52 Corn No. 2 Mixed .. 55^'t ’6'• I Oats No. 2 Mixed i.e . -r, i l , Rye— No. 2 (6 47 DETROIT. Cattle 2 50 <<« 4 co Hogs 400 ■' 6"" Sheep 2 co 3 so Wheat No. i White 56 57 Corn— No. 2 Yellow 53 Oats— No. 2 White 32 cD 33 TOLEDO. Wheat— No. 2 Red 53 54 Cohn— No. 2 Yellow ctG । . OATS—No. 2 White 32 33 RYE —No 2 47 48 : BUFFALO. I WHEAT— No. 1 White CO ' ;0,'2 No.2Rcd O'. ' 51 ■■ Corn— No. 2 Yellow f"'■ 1 j 3 Oats— No. 2 White 34 . " 3o e U MILWAUKEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring f 3 ", CORN— No. 3.... . “6 ' Oats— No. 2 M hite j ; . BARLEY— No. 2 -d A ’ rye -NO. J- .ji | POBK-Mess | CITTLE * J? ' , j 7,| ro ■ j WHEA f-Xa 2 Red LL > 3 'f •’ '* ' i o O AT6-SHic<i WeLteru j i RurrEß- Creamery 7* ~ j

BARN BURNERS SHOT. WHOLESALE LYNCHING BY A TENNESSEE MOB. Observance of Labor Day-Rain Checks Forest Fires and Floods Chicago—Daylight Raid on a Kan ms Bank —Gen. N. P. Banks Dead. Barn Burners Shot. Six prisoners in charge of Detecti .e W. S. Richardson were shot to death I by a mob near Millingt m, Tenn. The 1 men wore in a wagon at the time, • handcuffe I. Ail were negroes and had • been arrested several hours before by I 11’chard son on a charge of barn burn- I irig- i’or a jear or more the people of । that part of the country have b^en I i kept in a continual exc tem mt by acts of in -endiarism. Barns and dwelling, have been burned and recently the 1 buildingson the Millingt n Fairground were destroyed. Suspici n pointed to - Dan Hawkins, Kobert Havnc, Warner Wil iams, Ed Hall, John Ha.es an i Graham White and they were arrested near Kerrville bv leputv Sheriff I ieh- . ardson. I ater in the day Bichardson I started with hi; prisoners in a wagon . for Millington, where they were to have a pr.' imina y examination lx f re ;i nui2 istvate. ’lb' six nt-aroes were I'hainel together. About mi night ! when the party wa nearing Millin^tcn it was stopped by a mob of tHtvmen l Hb ”t uhl who killed all 11 x ! , O:U,,H H, .“ l thon ’ V. mount.nI their hortes which weie ti e i uem by, ' rode away in the darki es-. The lynchers were not masked, but the <> seer 1 being new to that part of the country , recognized none of them BREVITIES. G. W. COOK & S IN. retail shoe dealers ale l at Cmaha, Neb., for S2 J , 0). A. A. Zimmerman, the American champion, won the grand prizo in the rat es at 1 ’ari . While attempting to swim across East River, in New York, on a wager, F. W. Markoe wa- drowned. T 10s. Gahter and an unknown boy were killed by the wrecking of an excursion train at Camden, l’a. Three armed men held up the assista t ] ostmast nr at I'niversity Place, | Neb., and loot d the office of its valu- . ables. D\ W. H. Houghland, of Mexico Min. was killed by the brother of a girl with whom he had been Reaping company. <'hampion Corbett has expressed ( hi- willingness to meet Jacks n at Sioux City, lowa, for the p irse offered there. Polish Catholics at Omaha were swindle I cut of $22,0 mi by their p ies* and locked cut of church by the bishop. B shop J. M. Thoburn, cf India, speaking in Chic go, said great difficulty was experienced in convert! g Hindoos. Miss Morton won the la lies' champi< nship in tennis at the Ravenswood to irney. Bennett won the male champion hip. Two MOUNTED high waymen have b en creating a reign of terror in < unaha by robbing people found out after dark. Masked robbers tortured an aged ecu; Ie near Warren, (>hio. and secured 7<i cents. The eld peop e may die of their injuries. general Nathaniel P. Banks. soldier an I sta esman. died at his hom? in Waltham, Mass., from brain trouble, after a long illness. The fires in Northern Minne otaand Wisconsin were checked Monday by heavy rain-, but in Northern Michigan they were fanned by a fierce ga’e. Albert Stout, a el W years, is under arrest at W Im ngton Del., fcr the murder two years ago of Katie Dugan, who was found with her throat cut. The Wardens’ Associction of the I nited Stat s will meet at Pitt burg, Pa , a week from next M n.lay and discuss practical method-; of p.i; u government. D wx-town Chicago street; were t’orded Mo: day night by a tremendous rainfall. Sowers were choked, ba ements filled and cab’e trains stopped in the tunnels. B'. reason of salt sprinkled on the rails a t oil y cir ^umped the trackon a steep grade at Asheville, N. C. and a num! er of summ jr ' i-it >1 s were injured, none fatally. Ux-Tax GjLLECTOR R A.Tjmpkins. of Franklin County. Ala., whe left the county under a charge of beshort $2.00 i in his accounts, has be ? captured and returned to answer \ | foui teen indictments. Labor Day was observed pretty : generally throughout the cities in th! count y. In ( hicago. notwithstanding the downpouring rain. s .uOJ men were : in the procession. Hor.-eshoers secure J the prize for tine appearance. : ' The bank at Tescott Kas., was rob bed by tw » ma-ked m -n who boldly entered the l ank, killed the cashier and carried away considerable mon y. The-horitt or-anized a p to hea 1 them off. as the robb rs started south ! after ]>b ndering the bank. Father S. B. Si’aldin . a Ca'holic prelate of West Chester, l’a.. has declared war upon the Anci< nt Order of Hibernians. In a spee.'h at Asbury ParK Con-m-e-sman Springer warmiy defended Congre- from attacks b the newspa- ’ r ers. _ Bur Sih-.'., who was convicted 01 ' murdering Robert R. ss at Ttoj, N. N.. I <iurir <T last springs elections, and uno was to have been eleetr cuted. has re- <- Hvo I■> -tav pending an appea< 1 uij; nvg v,. him a. ear of life JOHN- M. Devinf, S- erUar: of the j i imvtaliie League has been n mmatI cd for Congres- by Nebraska 1 opui lists. ■ S'’K! - yn ■; rails caused the wreckI ing of a \ii waukee train near Ontonai gon, Mich. Engineer I red Almquist i was killed.

CURRENT COMMENT. Wright an<! Ills Pass. Cannot Mr. Wright see the fncons stency of acceptii g a favor like this from Pullman and then sitting as an examiner in a strike in which Pullman himself figure-?—T> ledu Blade. Colonel Wright investigating the Pullman strike with one hand and waving a Pullman pass in t! e other would make a great hit as a living picture.—Grand Rapids Democrat. The fact that Carroll D. Wright has a Pullman pass will tau e many people I to believe that hii judgment as an ini vestigatur of the Pullman strike can- ■ not be unbiased. —Milwaukee Wiscon--1 sin. Being a “personal friend” of Pullman and carrying a Pullman pass in his pocket, Labor Commissioner Wright would have done himself hon r । by declining to se.ve on the investigating committee.—Kansas Citv JourI nal. I If Mr. Wright has a pass entitling I him to ride free on PuLman cars at any time he should have returned it to the giver before undertaking the present investigation, which will prove of little value unless it is ai impartial and thorough one.—Buffalo Enquirer. If thu admitted fact that he is a deadhead sleeper and a close personal friend of Sir George Pul man ha no bearing whatever on his co .duct in the strike inquiry, why is Commissicner Carroll D. Wright so highly in-cen-od over its publication?—Louisvile Times. ■ .V ar ? d for i ur -V duty in a one of S° mpany Wa * bad a b o disclosure before his acceptance, \'X cause for his instant rejebtlAgj^ ft the^ dis every was made after a vercFC*^% would be sufficient cause for the granting of a new trial or the setting aside -of the verdict. And the same would . be true if he was the trial judge.— ( Terre Haute Express. The Armor-Plate Scandal. A more disgraceful chapter of contractors’ dealings with the government would be ha'd to find than is supplied by this investigation.—Baltimore Sun. Both the Carnegie company and tL government ins ectors ate hanmed without g’ov -s in the report made by the investigating committee, of which Mr. Cummings is chairman. —Mercury. The immense amount or noise about f auds in armor plates and castings of nearly every kind for the navy has re- : suited at last in the arrest o two contra tors, charged with plugging T'ncle Sam’s plates ana 1 lucking his pockets. —Louisville Courier-Journal. The officials of the Carnegie company will not relish tie report of the committee a pointed to investigate the facts ie.arding the quality o: armorplate which has been furnished the government. Congressman Amos Cummings is an adept .n writing sharp and. stinging criticism one casion.—Boston Globe. The committee finds that it caonot speak concerning the Carnegie a morplate scandal except In ths superlative degree and the burden of the Con-gres-men's complaint against the Pennsylvania iron-workers is “that I the commission of such frauds is a moral crime of the gravest character."—Newark Advertiser. Remarks on Mr. Pullman. 1 If Duke Pullman has a single friend, left in 11l nois the fact does not appear on record. He is the most despised man. of his day and generation.—lllinois Stale Register. When all this trouble shall be ended the memory of the condition of the Pullman men and the L.c: that the strike bro. ght that condition to public ' notice will remain—a lesson for the . great corporations of the future. — Grand Rapids Herald. I ; The Pullman company’s contractswith other corporations contain a pro- . vision that all differences shall be adjusted by arbitration, and the people at large are lost in wonder why the 3 rule does not also apply to his <.m---r ; ployes.—Spi ingfield News. ’ Recent events are calling special atl tention to the management of the Pullman Palace < ar Companv, and the 3 smaller shareholders think they are being squeezed to death by the auto- ' cratic “boss.” George M. Pul man, whese arbitrary methods have imm^nse’yaggravated pubic sentiment against the Pullman company. —Mil- ’ waukee Wisconsin. Npw York's Disgrace. ; Never has any investigation into charg s of official wickedness revealed so much o f what appear^ to be hor- - ribly 1 iscreditable. —Washin ton Star. The coir ption is a result o' Tammin meth'd- and its ^posurO-- wiM:- — probably contribute to the downfall of that organized body.—lndianapolis - I Journal. - The investigation of po'ice affairs in s- New York Ci yis progre-sing with a vigor which is a; surprising as it is 3 certainly welcome to all honest citizens. —Philadelphia Bulletin. . It reveals that it is the lowest and ' , most bestial class of criminals that are _ able to purcha e protection of those who are osten-i ly employe! and paid 0 by public t ixation to suppress crime.— d Philadelphia Times. >. Till mail's Manifestov The drought in South Carolina will r s on disappear, as G v. Tillman says he will open the dispensaries. —Florida Times-L'nion. Tillman setting up the State dispensarv in South Carolina against the court’s decision is a case < f < ther spirits against the spirit of the law.— Philadelphia Time-. Ju-t ai peace has com pl ted the spreading of her bright wings Mr. Ti Iman takes occasion to remind the country that the Governor of South < 'arolina we have with, us always. Milwaukee Sentinel. Sparks from the Wires. Fl a SIES starting from an unknown cause destroyed property in South Bend. Ind., valued at 525.000. Railway mail clerks are wrought up over the new order requiring them to live tn the line of their run. Resolutions were passed by 70,000 persons in London demanding th© abolishment of the House of Lords. Citizens of Elkhart, Ind., are alarmed over a fissure in the eart ^ which threatens to destroy man / bu luings.