Bloomington Telephone, Volume 10, Number 52, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 May 1887 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMING TON, INDIANA. WALTER 8 BRADFUTE, - - PtTBLtsHKB.

THE NEWS CONDENSED,

THE EAST A stobt comes from New York to the effect that the death of lUiza Weathersby, the wife of Nat Goodwin, was the result of the doctors1 blunder, the allegation being that they killed her by on unnecessary operation. The case will probably be developed in the civil courts, Mr Goodwin taring refused to pay the doctor' bills. . . . Twenty persons were injured by the explosion of a rotary ra&-boiler in a papermill at Paterson, N. J. One is dead or tiring, and seven others are very seriously hurt. In Allegheny City, Pa., a grocery house was destroyed by fire and two men were suffocated in the burning building, and two others were fatally injured by jumping from windows. A collapse of pillars in a colliery at Ashland, Pa., resulted in a fall of coal, accompanied by a volume of gas. Five men and 6ix mules were suffocated. . . .The Bolton Dyeing, Printing and Bleaching Company's mills, at Broxdale, near New York City, were damaged by explosions and by fire to the extent of $130,000. THE WEST. The Chicago Daily Neics, commenting editorially upon the verdict in the SchwarteWatt case, recently tried at Morris, HI., says: Within forty-eight hoars after the Sioux City disagreement a jury in Grundy County, Illinois, rendered a verdict which commands the respect and coxi3decce of every unprejudiced observer of the developments of the trial The case was much more complex and obscure than that submitted te the Woodbury County jury. The evidence was purely circumstantial, and involved nbe examination of over a hundred witnesses, occupying owo weeks and a half in tes testifying, and the defense was conducted by five able lawvers. A week was consumed in

selectin g the jury out of upward of two hundred individuals summoned; but the character of the uoenmunity from which they were selected nay be fairly inferred from the fact that the State used less than one-half of its peremptory challenges, while the defense failed to exhaust these to which it was entitled. There was no prejudioe oxbias for or against the accused oi which it was necessary for either side to be wary. When the twelve good men and true were sworn both prosecution and defense were sadaflea that aa honest verdict on the evidence wcnld be rendered. With unwearied patience these twelve men sat and attentively listened for lifteen dajs to the testimony of 106 witnesses, weighing carefully, impartially, and intelligently the evidence of each, and at the close they hud arrived at a positive conviction of the complicity of Schwaitz and Watt in the murder of Kellogg Nichols. The many casual readers of disconnected scraps of the evidence are not competent judges of the tax made upon these men. Nothing short of an earnest desire to faithfully discharge a sworn duty, operating upon minds alive to the sacreclAess of the law and free from sickly sentimentality upon the one hand and sympathy with the criminal classes on the other, could command such concentration and fidelity. Their verdict is more than.the avenging of Nichols' murder. It is a reflex of the moral sentiment which dominates the community in which they live. ELBcxaicirr as a motive power has been successfully tested on the Washington avenue road in St Louis, and will be adopted at an early date.,.. A dispatch Irom Pierre, Dakota, says: "There is the greatest excitement on the Winnebago and Crow Creek Beservations. The evictions of settlers at Big Bend have begun. Indians, covered with war paint and armed with Winchesters, are on the road, mounted and following the troops. The news that the soldiers would drive the settlers from the land is known to every Indian tepee, and the chant of the squaws and braves is heard all sight long. Sheriff Harris says there are over three hundred actual farmers still residing on these lands. Many have plowed over fifty acres and put in seed, all of which will tie destroyed The number of settlers that came under Cleveland's ousting proclamation was 800. The settlers have resolved to make no resistance to the soldiers, but to return as soon as the soldiers are gone. The new Mayor of Chicago has ordered the withholding of licenses irom nearly 150 saloons already black-listed by the police. . . .The Huron Stamp-mills, at Hancock, Mich., valued at $75,000, were burned Judge Tuley, of Chicago, overruled the motion of counsel for the County Board "boodlers ' for a change of venue, and they will be tried in that county Physicians si Jefferson City, Mo., are taking care of Judge John W. Henry and State Auditor Walker, who had a bloody fight on the street The Judge was shot in the right arm and breast.... A mob of two hundred masked men overpowered the guards at the Paulding County (Ohio) reservoir of the Wabash and Erie Canal, and blew up the banks, saturated the looks and timbers with oil, and burned them. The Governor ordered a company of militia to the scene. . . .A train conveying President M. A. Low, of the Book Island, General Manager Fisher, Judge Severy, of the Iowa Supreme Court, Li outenunt Governor Biddie, State Atditor McCarthy, and Secretary of State Allen, of Kansas, plunged down an embankment between St. Joe and Topeka. All were badly injured. . . . Chicago's preat gas deal, by which all the gas companies of the city are to be bronchi under one management, has been brought io completion. The consolidation takes the. form c f a gas trust company, which is to have a capital stock of about $25,000,4)00, and guarantee the securities of all the existing companies. The companies absorbed by this deal and fathered by the Gas Trust are the People's Gaslight & Coke Company, Chicago Gaslight & Coke Company, Equitable Gaslight & Fuel Company, Consumers' Gas Company, Hyde Park Gas Company, and the Lake Gas Company. The combined liabilities of these companies, excluding capital stock, are about $10,000,000. Miss JIabt Gabkett, of Baltimore, offers to endow Johns Hopkins University 'with $35,000 per annum, on condition that the institution be removed to Clifton and that it sustain s scientific school. A xoiruMENT to the memory of John C. Calhoun was unveiled at Charleston by thirty-two young ladies. There was an imposing military and civic procession. Secretary Lamar was the orator of the day. ... At Longview, Texas, Caleb Foster, negro, went crazy and dashed his three-Year-old child's brains out nffftinst a inA

then ran into the woods with the dead body, where he was captured. When found Le was rending the child's body with his teeth, spitting flesh on to the ground, and all the time jabbering to himself. Three days afterward he regained his reason and asked for bis ch Id. A strict investigation showed conclusively that he retained no remembrmce of the awful tragedy in which he had bten the chief ttctor. WAKMlIYLiTOi. The At torney General has been instructed to commence sni against parties in wsrious fcoctiens of ihe country charged

with unlawfully removing timber from the public uomain Tbeworkof commencing the gathering of statistics about marriage and divorce, ordered by Congress, has been entered upon. In the jcase of tbe Chickasaw Nation against th United States, in which the Indians claimed over $600,000, with interest, by reason of alleged improper disbursement of their funds held in trust by the Government, the Court of Claims has decided that the Indians should have credit on their accounts for 240,108 The details of the internal revenue collections for the first nine mouths of the fiscal year are of considerable interest. As compared with the corresponding nine months in the previous fiscal year, the decrease in collections from grain spirits was no lesn than $3,696,022; the decrease from fruit spirits was $179,903, and the decrease from special take on retail liquor-dealers was $3,927,736. On the other hand, the increased collections from beer and ale at $1 a barrel

were $1,520,502. The tobacco taxes showed a substantial increase. TJie gain on cigars and cheroots was $591,464, on cigarettes $115,043, on manufactured tobacco $571,850, and the net gain on all classesof tobacco taxes was $1,303,275. In spite of this substantial gain and the fact that since Nor. 1 oleomargarine has paid $481,210. the decreased revenue from whisky was so much greater than the increased revenue from beet that the total internal revenue receipts ere less than in the same nine months of the year before lay $575,780.

POLITICAL

Coii. LaMONT and other prominent

Democrats, who can speak semi-offieially for Mr. Cleveland, deny that the President has decli ned a renomination. The Colcnel says that the President has never said that he would or would not refuse a renomiaation. Te President, Coj. Lnmont says,, denies emphatically that he made the statement attributed to him or :hat he had even given anjj thougbt to the matter of a second term. Spaith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, a prominent Democrat and f.n intimate personal friSnd of the President, says, however, thai Mr. Cleveland will not again be a candidate, ind that Hill will be the standard-bearer of tbe party in 1888. The people of Cincinnati are already

j moving to secure both the national political

conventions next year. Mr. BIia:ne, after remaining in Chicago for a week, left last week for his Maine home, where he will remain until he sails for Europe in June. His health is much improved since his arrival in Chicago A bill prohibiting the playing of base-ball on Sunday was defeated in the Illinois House of Representatives The Jjew York Senate has passed a bill providing for high license throughout the State. It was framed to meet the objections of Governor Hill to the bill recently passed. Neaby iihree pages of the last issue of Brad&treeHs was devoted to a review of the remarkaple boom in real eBtate in the South ad West during the past six months.! The article says: "The activity in real 4stale within six months has been vory conspicuous, the first four months of 1887 witnessing an extraordinary increase in the speculative interest. The greatest

activity has ruled in the more recently Bettied regions; of the West, and in those portions of the South which have shown marked; progress in manufacturing. " Habmon's cotton mill at Cohoes, N. Y., has sht down, throwing 000 men out of employment;, on account of their interf erence ini the management of the mill.... The card rate has been reduced by the Pittsburgh nail manufacturers from $2.70 to $2.2$, lowering wages about 5 per cent. The tin-plane and sheet-iron workers of

the United States met in convention

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Philadelphia o i Tuesday) and formed a national organization. The labor world is excited over a declaration by the executive of the Knights of Labor jf a virtual boycott against nearly ght hundred labor journals not in accord with the Powierly administration. But twentyi-two papers are recommended in a recent ! issue of the Journal of United

Labori the oflmal organ of the Knights.

THE RAUL WAITS.

FoBithe third week of April the freight

shipped east ward from Chicago amounted to about twenty-nine thousand tons, a decreese of one-sixth under the interstate commerce law. Passenger business is abnormally light, especially to jthe eastward Parties sut posed j to represent C. P. Huntington bought the Kentucky Central Eoad for $l,505j,500. . . .Thomas J. Potter of Chicago h4s resi gned the office of Vice President of tho Chicago, Burlington and Quinoy Railroad to accept a similar position with the Uriion Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Nar gtioii Company, with headquarters at Omaha. Mr. Potter was receiving $30,000 a year; from the Chicago, Burlington and Quinoy, but it is said a larger salary induced! him to go to the Union Pacific. A JpLiET dispatch announces the purchasa i of a tract of twenty-five acres in the suburbs oi? that city., on which to erect depots, elevatorc, and other facilities to tap the eastern trunk lines and cut off the transfer business of Chicago, Twk Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad are selling one thousand-mile tickets at $25 The trial trip of the Illinois Central freight train,; on which were air-brakes worked by electricity, was made between Chicago and Kankakee, 111., and proved highly successful. The inventor is Mr, Carpenter, of Berlin, Germany The United States Circuit Court at New York' has refused the petition of a New Jersey tugboat owner for an injunction to restrain the Baltimore and Ohio Koad from building a bridge across the Arthur Kill from Btaten Island to New Jersey. In April, 1SW9 the New Jersey Legislature Cassed a law forbidding the erection of the ridge, and in June following Congress passed an act authorizing the company to Duild the structure. The petitioner claimed that the bridge would interfere with his business.

examined was Charles A. Sindall, Secretary of tbe Southern Hail way and Steamship Association. He gave minute explanations of how rates ore made and maintained by railroads and water lin k. He was crossexamined at great length by Judge Cool-ay, Commissioners Walker and Bragg. T. M. Emerson, of the Atlantic! Coast Line, and W. P. Shelman of the Georgia Central Railroad were also examined on the same points at great length. Mr. Ogden, of i e SoutJaern Railway and Steamship Association, testified touching tbe difference between Muter rates and land rates. He fluid that, to a great extent, water rates controls d tbe rates of the railroads. Me sbowed how rates on certain classes of freight would be affected if long and short hauls should be enforced. Sol Haas, of Richmond, Va., agent of the associated roads of Virginia and the Carolinas, testified that rates on his lines were controlled by the trunk lines and ws.ter routes; the only complaint had been from competitive roiuts. J. M. Cuh, of the

Louisville and Nashville Road, said that rates from the West to the South were controlled by ocean competition. The rates to various Southern cities ware affected by water competition. Col. S. A. Pierce, President of the Columbia (S. C.) Board of Trade, read a memorial from that body setting foith the serious damage that would result to the farming community and shipping in marketing their commodities if the fourth section were enforced. About a dozen other citizens, presented similar memorials. A Icrge number of colored men petitioned for the enforcement of their right to equal accommodations on the railroads. 'Jelerains were received from the Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade of Savannah asking that Sec. 4 be enforced. A Washington dispatch says "the Commission's correspondence is increasing very fast, and Secretary Mosely now has a force of live clerks and a messenger hard at work classifying it and answering such as can be answer d in accordance with decisions already made." The operation of the fourth section of the interstate commerce law has been suspended for seventy-five days on the Northern and Southern Pacific, Atchison, and St. Louts and San Francisco roads. The Mexican House of Deputies has passed, by an overwhelming majority, a constitutional amendment which would give to President Diaz a second consecutive term of office, , , . A sensational newspaper of New York prints a letter from Havana stating that a band of Cuban outlaws laid their plans to capture Senator John Sherman on his recent visit, and only failed by being five minutes late. Is the Canadian Parliament Curran's anti-coercion resolution was carried by a vota of 135 to 37, notwithstanding the opposition of Sir John Macdonald. . . . A recent repo rt that the cholera had broken out in Guaymas and Mazatlan, Mexico, is officially denied by the Governor of Sonora, in which those cities ore located. . . . The guests who assembled to celebrate the marriage of Benito Hernandez and Juanita Alvidez, near Merida, in Yucatan, became

involved in a general fight. Several of them, including the groom, were killed. . . . The wife of a Tamaulipas (Mexico) ranchman eloped with the son of a neighbor. The husband overtook the guilty couple at a hotel in the interior. Going to the door of their room he rapped, and when tbe door was opened shot the young man. The wife sprang to the window, but was overtaken

by a bullet from her husband's revolver. The latter then stabbed himself to the heart with a sheath knife and died instantly. A besoitjtion against the Irish coercion bill was passed in the Dominion House of Commons. .. .A banquet was given at Pittsburgh, Pa., Wednesday night, in honor of Gen. Grant's G5th birthday. Many prominent people were present. .Crop reports received at Toledo from every important wheat county in the six principal winter-wheat States show that tho present prospect of the growing crop is very favorable except in Ohio, which averages only fair. Michigan needs rain. Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas report a better prospect than a year ago. All States except Michigan have had plenty of rain recently, and show material improvement since the April Agricultural Bureau repoxts were gathered. The acreage is about the same as last year. The best crop promises to ba well marketed. Michigan reports a quarter of the crop remaining, but Kansas and Missouri have very little of k on hand. FOREIGN.

INTERSTATE COJIJIIKSIO. Ajpox factory at Swanzey, N. II., is to suspend operations on account of the interstate! commerce law.

Representatives of the Alabama and !

Mississippi lumber manufacturers met at Montgomery and adopted a petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission asking for the suspension of section four of the law, in view of the demoralized condition of business caused by increased freight rate. The Interstate Commerce Commission began its sessions in the Council Chamber of tie City Hall, at Atlanta, Ga., on the 27th ult. The Commission expressed a desire to hear from the railways, and a list of witnesses was given The first witness

Ix is said that English detectives are in this country investigating the Clan-na-G ael and other Irish organizations Mexican advices fdajed Nogales, Arizona, April 24) say that cholera is raging at Muzatlan, and has also broken out at Guaymas. People are leaving the infected district in large numbers. .There is a Hood-tide of immigration just now at Castle Garden. It is estimated that the total immigration this year will reach 400,000. Ihe class of immigrants landed if) much better than in former years .... A City of Mexico dispatch says that Lieut. Col. Lunoz. of the Eighth Battalion, and M. M. Savalla, Musical Director attached to the command, quarreled in a saloon in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where they were stationed, and a challenge was accepted at; once. The two officers, accompanied by a. Captain of the regiment, were driven to a retired spot, and at the word both shot at once, and both fell dead. The French have occupied the Wallis Islands, in the South Pacific, for a coaling station A chorister in the Military Academy Church in St. Petersburg committed suicide. It was then found that his house was a Nihilist rendezvous. Leo Hahtmanx, the nihilist, has been identified in New York as a soap-peddler. He has been making a poor living for months, under an assumed name,, and quite unknown to the police; but he was tempted to make a speech in a recent meeting denunciatory of Secretary of State Bayard for arranging a treaty with Russia to extradite assasins of the Czar and recognition has ensued The arrest of Sohnaebels on the Franco-German frontier is the sensation of Europe. Conflicting stories are current relative to Bismarck's alleged authorship of the affair. It is generally believed that Schnaebels was decoyed to German soil, and that the German Government will back up the action of its polico. Pkince Bibmauck expresses regret that the arrest of Schnaebels, the French Commissary, was ordered without consulting the Chancellor The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution declaring the protective system of other countries injurious to British trade, and asking that England revise her tiecal relations. The Manchester Chamber affirms its unabated confidence in free bade us the best commercial policy. Dk. Pakker, of the City Temple, London, has decided not to visit Brooklyn in June to conduct the Beecher memorial serviceu, and will postpone his visit till October. .. .The Russian Government has prevented the presentation of a sword to General Boulanger, the French War Mia

ister, by Bussian admirers, on the ground that it would create erroneous impressions regarding Bnssia's f oreicn policy A heawy snow-storm prevailed in Scotland and Wales on the 26th of April. A SAT1SFACTOKY adjustment of the Franco-German difficulty over the arrest of the French Commissary Schnaebels is deemed probable .... Customs officers throughout Great Britain and Ireland have received striugent orders to search all vessels arriving from America, China, and the Eaut, the English Government ho-ving been warned that explosives havo been sent from San Francisco to ports in the Eust, to be transhipped to England.

ADDITIONAL NEWS. The Pacific Railway Commission, sitting at Washington, has been investigating the workings of the Union and Central Pacific

roads during the past week. C. P. Huntington gave some interesting testimony. Among other things he said that the company's lawyer in Washington was paid $20,000 a year tialary, and was allowed $30,000 to $40,000 to "explain" the advantages to tho public to be derived from the approval of the Central Pacific schemes in Washington. Charles Francis Adams testified in regard to the management of the Union Pacific Company for the past three years. He expressed the belief, from c.refiu scrutiny, that Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon had always been more than fair to the company. He reported the taxes annually paid by the road at $1,100,000, A htjbbicaxe s wept, over the northeast coast of Australia the 22d of April. The pearl-fishing fleet, numbering 401) boats, was destroyed, and 550 persons perished. ....During a gale on the North Atlantic coast, boats in charge of lobster fishers off Tusket Island, New Hampshire, were capsized, and six men perished. Many others had marvelous escipes.... The steamer Benton, of Singapore, was sunk in collisi on with a bark off the island of Formosa, and 150 persons were drowned. The schooner Flying Scud was recently lost off the coast of Alaska, with the owner, Captain, and fourteen native hunters. A Sotjthef.x Pacific train was stopped near Tucson, Arizona Territory, by a band of men, who had obstructed the track and exposed a red signal. The mail and express agents refusing to abandon their cars, it was decided to blow them up with dynamite, the e:j;ineer of the train being directed to apply the fuse. The messengers, fearing death, surrendered; and the mail and etpress cars were taken 6ome distance f rom the remainder of the train and plundered. Not more than $5,000 in money and stamps was secured. The passenge::. knew nothing of the affair at the time, and were not molested by the bandits, . . .r. W. T. Northrop, an advocate of local option, was waylaid at Haverhill, Chio, by Thomas and Alfred McCoy, and the two sons of the latter, and murdered. Thomas McCoy is a saloon-keeper. The assassins have been arrested, and lynching in threatened. A iad named Defroiitus, who recently leaped from the B;rook lyn bridge, was nent to prison for three mor ths. A memorial was revived by the Interstate Commerce Commi.ssion, sitting at Atlanta, from business mo:a of Opelika, Ala., showing how railroads discriminated against that town in favor of Columbus and Montgomery. Judge Chisholm, counsel of the plant system, and Gen. Alexander, of the Georgia Central, made arguments favoring the suspension of the long-and-Bhcrt-haul clause, A petition was received from the Wilmington (N. C.) Chamber of Commerce and Produce Exchango, strongly ureriug the enforcement of the Ion? and short haul section. The Commission lief t for Mobile on the 28th ult. Secretary Mosely received at: Washington a numerously signed petition from citizens of California, requesting the Commission not to suspend the operation of section 4 of the interstate commerce law, bo far as the commerce of the Pacific coast is concern ed, until an opportunity be afforded all persons interested to be heard A commuui.ation from v.he Chamber of Commerce of Tacoma, Washington Territory, was also received, asking that transcontinental lines be exempted from the fourth section. It represents that since the interstate commerce law went into effect the rates betw een New York, Chicago, and Pacific coast points show an increase of 100 per cent., and in some classes of goods nearly 200 per cent The Sisters of St. Joseph, at St. Louis, have received a letter from Judge Cooley in answer to one requesting that the interstate Commission be authorized to give the Sisters reduced rates of fare. The letter says the commission can make no order in this matter, as th railroads are empowered by the law to determine their own policy in the matter.

THE MARKETS, NEW YORK. Cattle 5 4.7S t3 6.00 Hoos 5.50 & U.OO Whkat No. 1 White titS .90?$ No. 2 lied "ft .9ii$ ConN No 2 49 & .51 Oats White 37 il? .42 Pobk New Mess 14.75 15.25 CHICAGO. Cattle Choice to rrhue Steers 5.00 (s 5.50 Good HhippiUg 4.5J ,tt 5.W t oinuion 4.00 4..5G Hogs Fhipping Grades Z.'li 5.75 Flour Winter Wheat 4.-15 4.5 J Whkat No. 2 Spring 82 .822 CoitN No. 2 H8 .iJSjj OATh No. 2 27 liuiTiiit Choice Creamery 20 e$ .23 Fine Darry 18 & .23 Cheese KU1 Cream, Cheddar. . .lH&i .11 Full Crjuui, now $ MlA Kggh Fresh 11 t .12 Potatoes Choice, per hu 75 i 0 Pork Mesa 20.50 ii 21.00 MILWAUKEE. Whkat Cash 78 .79 Corn- No. 3 38 w .& C ats No. 2 White- ;il v'? .82 Kyi: No. 1 00 ; .(12 Pork Mess 15,25 15.75 TOLK1XJ. Wi:kat No. 2 H4 ; .84ti Corn No. 2 41 & .41 Oats :o .ai " IXHTttOlT. Bekf Cattle 4.25 5.3J Hogs 4.UJ 5.0J Si worn -j.iO -t 5.75 Whkat No. 2 8 if?; Corn No. 2 .41 ,4lJ$ Oats Whito 3.S i& ST. LOUIS. Whkat No. 2 .Kl,. .82 Corn M i xed : :5 " a': HO Oats Mixed V8 , .28$ Pork Now Mess uiltS.75 " CINCINNATI. Whet-No. 2 Hod 63 ,h3'.j Corn No. 2. 41 c-C .42 Oats No. 2 30 Jit PoUKMefla lG.tO vlii. 0 Live Ho oh 5.0j 5.7j BUFFALO.. Whkat No. 1 Hard H9V$ .90 Corn No. 2 .Hl.t, ,i Catt-XjK 4.50 5.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Bkkf Cattle 5.75 K 511 Hugh 5 25 ia 5. Khkei 3.50 & 4.7 i Whkat No. 2 Bed Ki mu h C.)RN x o. 2 88 t .3HK. O Jfl-Mixed 29 d'; EAST LIBERTY. C4.TTLE Beat 5 CO 5.2t Pair 4 50 at 5.0J Common 4.25 i; 4.50 Hogs 5.75 0.25 iJBBEP J.75 (f 4.23

HIS FINAL HOME.

Funeral Services of the Late Alexander Mitchell at Milwaukee, Wia.

An Immense Concourse of Attendants from All Portions of the Country.

Milwaukee special, The funeral of Alexander Mitchell wis ihe largest evor witnessed in Milwaukee. It took place from St. James Episcopal Church. Before removing the casket from the house,, Rev. Dr. Keeue read a prayer in the presence of the family. Thij scene at tho church was in accordance with the beautiful ritual of the Episcopal Church, of wk.ch Mr. Mitchell was a devoted member. About all of the seats in Ihe church were roserved for the relatives and friends, for the Governor find staff, the State and city officials and delegat ions of societies, comraerce and railroad bodies and delegations. The casket wo 3 orxned, and the remains lay in state uni;il the hour of the fuueral. A constant 01 ream of people had been

paGsicg through the church, and during the forenoon t b ousands viewed ihe remains. The face of the dead man looicod lifelike and natural, and there were many sad scenes and incidents daring the day as old friend? looked ut the dead man for the last time. The casket was heavily draped, and on its lid rested a crests of calla lilies. A special train from Chicago brought hundreds of people, many of whom could not get near tfce church, imring the service the bread avenue was blocked with a denso mass of humanity that had gathered to pay their last respects to the dead millionaire and citizen. Hundreds of strangers from over the Northwest and from other parts of the country were present. The service was impressively conducted by Kev. Dr. "Keen-3, Mr. Mitchell's old friend and pastor, and Kov. E. . Kichardsou, rector of St. Jameu Church. At its close a vast funeral cortege formed and slowly wended its way to Forest Home. There was no military display, and the long line that followed the remains was made up of railroad and other employes of the big enterprises of which Mr. Mitchell was the head, of old settlers, and of societies in which he had long held membership. As the cortege passed through the Soldiers1 Home a guard of t00 old veterans acted as an escort from one gae to the other. At the grave ie. Forest Home Cemetery the service was brief, and was conducted entirely by Dr. Kt ene, and consisted of the committal and a prayer. All flags over the city wtre flying: at half mast. The stores and shops closed at noon, and during the afternoon buainess was as entirely suspended at; on the Sabbath. Storteti of the Dead Millionaire. I From the Chicago Times. Jn 1879 the Democratic State Convention at Madison nominated Mitchell for Governor while he was in London. He sent a cabia die patch positively declining the nomination, but omitted his signature, as is customary, to save expense, when the sender of a cablegram in well known. The enthusiastic Democrats would not accept the dispatch as gentine because he had aot signed it. "Jim" Jenkins, i:he Milwaukee lawyer, was n delegate in uhe convention, end defended the genuineness of the dispatch by explaining the custom as to cable messages. "Cablegrams cost forty cents a word," he sai:l, "and wa till know Mr. Mitchell's economical habi; where expense in not recess ary. 13y not signing his name to his d:spa:ch he "saved eighty cents." I'he argument was conclusive to the Democrats ol the outlying Milwaukee wards unci of the backwoods, and the declination was accepted . Yet in political matters, when he took an interest on one side or the other, Mr. Mitchell was not only generous but lavish of money. He attended a meeting of the

Democratic State Central Committee in 1871, when ex-Senator J. K, Doolittle was the Democratic candidate for Governor. "How much money do you expectto raise?" he aked. He was answered by Sat Clark that they ought to Lave about $5,000. "Give me the pen," he said, and pulled the paper toward him, He Bigned tor $2,500

half the amount s&id to be required and drew his check for the money. It was about all the money that they had for the campaign. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1876, where Tilden was nominated for President. Doolitde, George B. Smith, Joe Runliin, N. D. Fratt, and others were hi colleagues. At the close of the convention their several, bills were sent to their parlor, the cost of which ($500 for the week) was apportioned among them. Ringing the bell as a clerk appeared Mr. Mitchell eaid: "Mako the biL; (he pronoureed it "bull," with a bur iu his pronunciation) for the room out to me. It was clone, and he drew his check for the whole azuoant. His gifts to charity were very numerous, and he eve:i allowed himself occasionally to be bled to a reasonable extent by frauds anddeadbeata whom he knew to be such. He hind some wotthv pensioners, generally

poor Scot oilmen, to whom he gave regular gratuities. In church matters and others of a r ?ally deserving character, he usually let the begging committee get all thas they could raise from otbers, and then made up the remainder himself. When Mitchell was worth $100,000 or $200,000, and was regarded as a growing Western banker, he made his rmt formal visit ai) a capitalist to the Ktst and went on to Wall street. He was immediately selected as their prey by he wolves of the street. He had determined to try his luck a little in stocks and they found out what his pu i'chu83 was. They manipulated the stock, working it down, and hung on to it with characteristic tenacity. He was called upon for margins, and kept putting up and putting uv- It did not hike him long to catch on," and he taw w hat the sharpers were at. He at once drew and raised enough money to buy at its greatly depressed value every dollar of stock which he had margined for a considerable portion of its price as it then stood. "Take that, dom ye," he said mentally and aloud to the whole of Will BtreeU as he bade it good-by.

The sfo ?k rebounded with force as the artificial pressure was taken off, nd tbe blac clegf who had been selling it short to "skin" him saw it advance above th priceat which lie had niade the original, purchase, po that he unloaded at a profit Mid they wen. the l ose is. One or t wo anecdotes that axe characteristic of a grimly h uaorous Hide of his disposition mav bo told. Four o? five yeanrago fi. book-keeper i a his bank proved a defaulter. The clerk had a desk near the vault, out of which, by some sleight-of-hand, he had stolen money for' years nl falftiiled the books so as to cover it. Exactly how it wui done could not ex plained, and nobody could tell how IQOch cash be bad not nwny with. The sum stolen was supposed to bo hundreds of thousand of dollan, and the thefts had been goixtg o for at leat six or toveu years before they were discovered, Mitchell was talking' abou: the weuther cue day to a friend-, antfi. smiled lightly at tfc 3 loss. "But," said he,, "'there's ny nephew, John Johnston, who is an expert book-keeper and has charge of the books, and. be can't tell bow it happened, jit's a doia'd good joke on Johi Johnston that he couldn't see what was going on before his ees." The late Chief ' Justice E. G. By an, of Wisconsin hid something of thetodyiiu his disposition while he was struggling 3:'or a livelihood as a needy lawyer. Alter he leenme Chief Jartice he decided rdl the cases under the absurd granger laws ainst the railroads, and the St. Paul line suffered severely. The Chief Justice met the railroad magnate after the decisions were given. Why, how well you are looking, Mr. Mitchell," said the Chief Justice, with an an ability that ai; that period he show ed to few men, "Ye;;," said Mitchell, Tvebeen getting fot fiat) on your decisions." The sneer cut the great jurist like a knife,, and he w alke i aw iv without a word.

President Young Addresses a Letter to4 the Oilwiul Hoovers of the Nat tional League

Attacking the Eeaerve Bule President Spalding Unjustly Censured HoteB of &ht Game.

A ttacking th s Reserve Bute.

The uu warrant ed attacks of certain, papers upon President Spalding, of the Chicago Base-Ball Club, regarding the sale of ihe re lei se 6i of players to other clubs has earned the contempt of loversef fa r piayP says the fnfer Ocean. The reserve rule was the salvation of. the professional base-ball clubs that adopted it. The National agreement piotects the smallest club in its list, aaunomfitter how good a player tbey trnvj develop, they are protected against the lew:rtion of the player by the offer of a Hg salary. But for this rule the spirit of rivalry which exists between the professional ball clubs of the country would ie suit in the total disintegration of every professional team at the end of each s'&son, a.nd the competitive bidding by clubs for ball-players' services would finally result in extravagant salary lists ttiat would bankrupt tiver, club that attempted to stand ur under it, ind effectually kill the sport; pro feusienally. The Chicagos Were the l:-st to sell a release; all the other clubs had sold releases. President Spaldins eaid: The ease of McLormiek is peculiar. He, with Glasscock, Briodyv and another, deserted irom tho league, and, teinptddby offers of increased salaries, they all vent into Lucas' club in the Union Associat.on, The Cleveland Club promptly expelled them for their action. The Union Association went to pieces, and these debcrtexsfound themselves blacklisted and thrown out of employment. At the personal so li citation of McCormick (who came to me with tearu in Ids eyes, begging me for God s sake to pnt him in 11 way to earn & living), and at ti e request of Mr. Lucas, I interested myself : to secure the reinstatement of the deserters. They were reinstated. McCormick west to the Providence team, and his habits were so against him that the Providence managsmetit wanted to release hi:n to me for $600. I bought his release, be t not until 1 had a talk wi.h Urn, in which he said he wanted to come to Chicago and promised ine that we should have nothing to complain of on the score of his hub its Last yar his habits wem so not or io os that wo cou'd not endure? them, and hence the discipline against wiaich he rebelled. We did ic in his interest as well as our own. I submit whether I have not been McCor;niok's frknd, and whether he has not go: 1 ground for being gmtdful to the management of the Chicago Club." Scoring. President Young, of the Base-Ball League, ha addressed the following letter to the official scorers: To the official acoer of the Nation 1 League : In reviewing th; new code with view to ascertaining it tJie;iti are 9uy points t which the attention of the official scorers should be drawn, I h&vt oo::ue upon the provision tiedifeing a stolen bite to a runner where the e&me is secured through the assistance of a ruisplay other than a battery error an overture" or fumble, for example. The philosophy of this credit is perfectly logical. The runnor ear 11 j base by mak a daring attempt to fiecurd it and, if successful, even chough assisted bran error deserve;! the point. The credits will, Of course, to included iu your official returns of stolon bases. We now come, however, to the point which I 3 em re to emphasize. Tills query has been propounded to me; Suppose a plater reactes ftrat an a hit, steals Heco&d oa a tumble of the baseman, and i& baited home, ifi tho run

earned ? I amwr, no. The reason la obvious, but the point ebould be carefully borao in mind in tilling out tlie arned-xun blank in your sdorV sheets. Er racd -una, it shrold be remembered, are not credited to individuals, nor do they have an? particular bearing npon the status of a club in making up the aveimge which constitute the monuhly and annual records. They are important factors, howeveir, to gauging the effectiveness of a pitcher, and tt is in this lipht alone that they ?houk: be regarded It is then muinfestly unfair to charge a pitcher with a run earned off hia delivery when bases secured by fieldin errors are essential factors in it. Obviously the pitcher can ia no way b responsible for a muff by the basetuca or an overthrow by the catcher. In oonpnting earaod runs, therefore, you will scan your scores carelull v and oue.t tallies in which the tnoa bane assisted by an error is a necessary element. Around the 34ee. Murphy, of the Boston tear?, is the youngest catcher in the league, being bat 19 years old., The new rules have the effect of keeping the catcher uneer the bat the greater part of the game. The St. Lows team got $3,500 for its share of the recent games , and the Chic gos took $4,000 for the ir share. The colored league seems to have come to a sudden halt. The interstate commeroo bill made iailey travel too expensive for them. Five of the Chicago players are over six feet tall ryle, Anson, Darling, Baldwin, and Sullivan, Pyle is 6 feet 8 inches be mg the talle.'t man in the League. The Amer .can Association Captains are; St. Louie, Comiskey; lircoklyn. Swartwood; Louisville, Hecker: Cincinnati, Fen, nelly; Athletic, fcitovey; Metropolitan. Orr; itojtiniore, Greenwood; Cleveland, Snyder. lhe Captains of the League teams for 1887 are: ( hioajo, Ansoit. Detroit. HanIon; New York, AVard; I'hiladetphia, Jrwin; Boston, Kelly; Washington, Farrell; Pittsburg, Brow:!; Indiwapoiis, Glasscock. It might be "s ell to cut this out tor reference.