Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 August 1887 — Page 2

Blooniington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - Pubushk

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The Latest News by Telegraph from All Parts of the World.

Political Gossip, Railroad Rotes, Personal Mention, and Occurrences of Lesser Note.

LATEST DISPATCHES.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT, Six Men Meet Death in a Horrible Frroi at Green Bay Literally Cooked to Death. A telegram from Green Bay, Wis., says six, lives were lost through the explosion of a steam-chest attached to the bottom of a large copper brew kettle in the brewery of H. Kohr & Sons. At the time of the accident August Delforge, an engineer and machinist, was at work under the kettle putting in some steam-pipe assisted by his two sons, and several employes of the brewery wer in the vicinity. The kettle, which contained over seventy barrels of boiling water, burst, Hooding the door to a depth of several feet. August Delforge had his skull crushed by a dying timber, besides being fatally scalded. His sous Frank and Joseph got out after being fatally scalded, as did also John B. Hoibe, John Biemeret, George Hnber, and Henry Seifert. Surgeons were at once summon. d, but little could be done for the injured, who died during the night. Their sufferings were frightful. The National Game. The record of games won and lost by the teams of the National Base -Ball League is as follows: PercentClubs. Won, Ijost age. Detroit 4S 27 MO Chicago. 45 29 .600 Ronton 42 M .554 New York 43 34 .558 Philadelphia 99 38 .506 Washington 33 41 .405 Pittsburg 29 44 .397 Indianapolis '23 52 ,3'J6 The American Association schedule of games is appended; Perce ntClubc Won. Lost. age. BL Lonia SO 22 .731 Saltunor. 46 S3 .58 Ixmi6Y?Me. 49 3S .676 Cincinnati 47 38 .552 Brooklyn. 38 42 .475 Athletic 39 43 .&3 Metropolitan 27 52 . .341 Cleveland 20 00 .250 Murderer Maxwell's Last Chance. St.Locis (Mo.) dispatch: "Several days ago P. W. Faunteleroy went to Block Island, R. I., to call upon Chief Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, and lay before him the law point by which it waa hoped to obtain a writ of error in the case of Brooks, alias Maxwell, charged with the murder of C. Arthur Preller at the Southern Hotel in April, 1884. Justice Miller granted the writ this morning. The effect of this order will be to bring the case before the United States Supreme Court for a hearing. As it can not be heard within the time specified in the sentence the issue of the writ will act as a supersedeas and postpone the execution, which was fixed for Aug. 26." Losses by Fire. Fibe at Baltimore destroyed James D. Mason & Son's cracker bakery, Henderson Laws fc Co-'s cracker, cake, and candy factory, and the stove warehouse of Liebrandt, McDowell & Co. Portions of the stores of E. Whitman & Sons, Newton Kurtz k, Son, B. Owens & Co., and E. Lu Parker A; Co. were also burned. A fireman waa buried in the ruins, and Chief Engineer Hennick, of the Fire Department, was fatally hurt. The financial loss exceeds $1,000,000. Twenty-two buildings in the business portion of Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, were burned. Violating the Interstate Mw, Liebes Bkos. & Co., of Sanrancisco. complain to the Interstate Commerce Commission that the Texas and Pacific and the Southern Pacific railroad companies charge $2.25 per hundred upon freight to Houston or Galveston, Texas, while to other points in Texas much nearer San Francisco they charge $4. Complainants are consequently compelled to ship to Houston or Galveston, there to be rescipped back to destination. They ask investigation and relief. The Prohibition Amendment Defeated in Texas. HorsTOX (Texas) special: "The election returns on the prohibition question are coming in rapidly. All counties in Southern Texas are giving large majorities for the anti-Prohibitionists. The present returns, carefully estimated, indicate that the prohibition question will be snowed under by a majority of 85,000." Fort Worth dispatch: "The Prohibitionists admit their defeat in the State by 15,000 majority. The anti-Prohibitionists claim 50,000 majority. Sixty-one towns give 4,017 majority against prohibition Boodler McGarigle. A Chicago special says: "The authorities of Ontario have peremptorily refused to surrender McGarigle to the Montreal officials to answer the Baxter complaint. The fugitive remains in the vicinity of St. Catharines, which will probably be his headquarters for the present. The Toronto Globe prints a leader advising the Government to surrender McGarigle to the American authorities as an act of courtesy." The Civil-Service Reformers. THE Civil- Service Reform League met at Newport, Rhode Island. George William Curtis, who was re-elected President, delivered an address denouncing the Democratic party for its attitude toward civilservice reform, and mildly criticising the President for his occasional concessions to the spoilsmen. EAST. Isr Jersey City, Joseph Schlimmer murdered his 16-year-old wife, to hom he was recently married, because she refused to live with him. There had been an agreement with the girl's parents that the young oonple should not live together for two years, on account of the bride's tender years. The colored veterans of the Union army have been holding a reunion at Boston, Resolutions were adopted to the fflffect that the colored troops fought nobly dnring the war, and that the negroes of the

South remain in a deplorable condition. Preliminaries were taken for a permanent organization, and it was soon decided to hold the next reunion at Washington. Mrs. W. H. Lisl:, of Lansingburg, N. Y., became excited on a train at Fort Edward, N. Y., and throwing one of her children to the platform, she jumped from the car, with a younger child in her arms. The woman fell under the wheels, and, with her child, was killed. The bravery of Engineer Martin saved the child she had thrown to the platform.

WEST. George Burton, of Homer, Mich., on Tuesday murdered his wife, wounded his mother-in-law, and shot himself. Burton first shot his wife twice, the first time in front of the right ear, the second time in

' the ear, and after she fell he ran behind

Mrs. D. P. Hatch, his niother-iu-law, and shot her, the bullet entering back of the left ear, but not piercing the skull. She fell, and he, supposing he had killed her, Bhot himself the ball entering on the right side of the head and passing entirely through it. Burton and his wife had parted, and (she had instituted proceedings for divorce. She returned to the house for her clothes and they quarreled. A Chicago dispatch oi Wednesday says: "W. J. McGarigle, the escaped boodler, is believed to be in hiding near St. Catharines, Ontario. A warrant has been issued at Montreal for his arrest on a charge of conspiracy, preferred by James Baxter, a broker ofthat city. The offense is alleged to have been committed while McGarigle was Chief of Police in this city, and the proceedings will, it is said, bo vigorously pushed. It is eaid McGarigle is badly scared." A Peoria (111. paper prints a story to the effect that Justice Craig, of the Illinois Supreme Court, in private conversation, stated that the Justices were practically unanimous in the opinion that tho condemned anarchists should not be granted a new trial, and that tho decision of the court will be announced at Ottawa Sept. 3. A Chicago dispatch of Thursday says: uIn the great omnibus boodle trial the defense rested yesterday. The State introduced no rebutting evidence, for the reason that there was nothing to rebut. Arguments were then made by Assistant State's Attorney Walker for the prosecution and Colonel Dan Munn for the defense. In the course of Air. Walker's speech he denounced Wren as 'the most contemptible swindler of the gang,' and as a 'perjurer.' Wren jumped to his feet and called Walker a liar, repeating the term several times, while SValker reiterated his characterization of the boodler as a perjurer. The Court finally succeeded in suppressing Wren, who left the room in a rage." Herr Grottkaxt, the Milwaukee socialist, who has been out on bail pending the result of the appeal to the Supreme Court for a new trial, was released by his bondsmen, and is now in jail.

SOUTH. A deluge destroyed the cotton and corn crops in the Savannah (Ga.) valley; Hamburg is entirely under water, and portions of the city of Augusta are submerged. Trains have ceased running and the damage is enormous. A HADEKSVriiLE (Ky.) dispatch says that three colored childrenSol Snowden, Moses Watkins, and Alice Cross residing near that- place, were working in a tobacco field, when a storm came up. They took shelter under a tree, and had been there but a few minutes when a bolt of lightning flashed down, shattering the tree and killing all three instantly. A Fort Worth (Texas') dispatch says: "On the occasion of the anti-prohibition State barbecue here a strong letter was rend from Jefferson Davis to ex-Governor Lubbock, denouncing prohibition on the ground that the world is governed too much. The Gazette prints a reply to Mr. Davis' letter from Senator John H. Reagan, expressing surprise and sorrow that Mr. Davis should have taken sides on the question. Senator Reagan says the Davis letter has cost prohibition thousands of votes in Texas." Judge Long, of the United States District Court at Baltimore, Md., has decided that "Blind Tom," the pianist, shall be given up to Mrs. Eliza Bethune, who represents his mother. Dvi;ing the election at Manchester, Cloy County, Ky., says a Louisville special, a furious affray broke out between the Democrats and Republicans. There was already a feud, and only the excuse of a political quarrel was needed. About sixty were engaged in the fight. Clay is a' mountain county in the extreme southeast of the State, on the headwaters of the Kentucky, and not far from those of the Cumberland River. It has only two or three hundred people, and has of late been orderly. Election day, according to the mountain custom, many voters came in armed with guns, revolvers, and bowie-knives. A quarrel arose which brought a shot. A general fight followed, involving thirty on a side. Pistols were emptied and clubs and knfves flashed. When quiet was restored six weie found dead. They were Jack Hecker, Dow White, John G. White, Dale Little, and two countrymen from a remote part of the county. Four or five leave families. Manchester was the home of John D. White from his boyhood and while in Congress, and the Whites are his cousins. POLITICS.

An Associated Press telegram from Lexington, Ky., says: "The following private dispatch has been received from W. O. Bradley: 'I am elected Governor of Kentucky by 5,000 majority.' This indicates the Republican claims as to the result of the election. Until Wednesday the Republicans conceded the election of Buckner on a small majority. Reports are in from nil counties with telegraphic communication. The Democratic loss as compared with the vote of four years ago in nearly fifty counties has been fully 18,000. The Maryland prohibitionists, in convention at Glyndon, nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Summerfield Baldwin of Baltimore; for Attorney General, James Pollard of Baltimore; lor Comptroller, Thomas E. Wright of Cambridge. The platform adopted suggests that men who sell votes or corrupt voters shall be forever disfranchised; that wageworkers should be protected by laws which will prevent the importation of foreign pauper labor; the enactmeat of laws providing for arbitration in cases where capital and labor are in conflict, and adequate appropriations for the bureau of labor statistics.

WASHINGTON. Public Printer Benedict asserts that there are to-day more veteran soldiers, their widows and children, employed in the

Government printing office than ever before. The President will leave Washington the last of September on his much-advertised tour, which will embrace St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, and Atlanta. Ho again requests to be spared any more visits from invitation committees. During the mouth of July there was a net decrease or $6,GG3,748 in the cash in the Treasury and a net increase of 4,017,133 in the circulation. LABOR. Nearly five thousand iron-workers in the Mahoning Valley have stopped work, owing to the refusal of the mill-owners to recognize a rule of the Amalgamated Association prohibiting any man from holding two "jobs" at the same time. It is expected that tho strike will become general throughout tho country. A novelty in strikes is reported from Fulton, Mo., where fifteen female attendants in the State Insane Asylum stopped work on account of an increase in their hours of labor.

AFTER JOHANN MOST-

GENERAL.

W. J. McGarigle, the Chicago boodler, who escaped from the Sheriff of Cook County on the night of the 23d ult., is now safe in Canada. A dispatch from Sarnir., opposite Port Huron, Mich., says: McGarigle lauded here Sunday morning from the schooner Kdwavd Bluke, Tho Bluke1 and tho Marsh wore in tho same tow, and while iu American waters the tug Oriole, with Chicago detectives on board, steamed uj-to the Mural., apparently with tho intention of havirg them drop tho Wake's towline. Alter a short conversation the lUato's towlino was let go, hut at tho Knmo instant a yawl 3eft the schooner witli McGarigle, and quickly rowed for the Canidiaa side, landing at Point Edward. McGari:ie at once drove to Courtrigbt, twelve mites down the river, ostensibly to catch a boat. Ho waa however, driven bock to Karnia. It is believed that ho is nervous over his safety in Canadu, as he keeps away from the river, apparently fearing attempts, at kidnaping. A svecial dispatch from Chicago says: Mr. McOariglo prot;ah y regarda hie I'utiuUiaa retreat as a safe ono. hut Sherill Mulsja has not given up tho chase. Within a few hours after the news reached him that his ina:i was iu Canada a Deputy sheriff was started i t pursuit of the fugitive. Before tho afternoon had passed a movement was set on foot by a committee of citizens ( interested iu the prosecution of tho "boodlera" to secure Mcdarifjle't extradition. Governor Oplesby will be asked for the necessary papers at once. The grounds on which the issue of suc h documents will be asked is that the Queou' subjects entered into a conspiracy to procure the escape of a convicted criminal Several lawyers have been consulted on tho question, and have expressed the opinion i;hat sumcieut grounds exist for the extradition of tho exwarden. An earthquake shock was felt throughout Illinois, Eastern Missouri, and Tennessee early on the morning of Tuesday, tho 2d inst. At St. Louis the earth trembled, and so violent was the movement that thousands of families were awakened in that city and vicinity. The shocks were sensibly felt at Nashville, Tenn. A large portion of land near Golden Pond, Trigg County, KyM is reported to have sunk a half-dozen feet during the earthquake- The district is now slowly tilling witk water, and the dwellers on the land have been compelled to move out. Dispatches show that the earthquake was felt more or less severely at the following places : Jn Illinois At Carbondale, Springfield, Hillsboro, Vandalia, Elixabethtown, Shawneetown, Decatur, and other points:. In Indiana At Vincennes, Indianapolis, and other points. On the 30th of June the city of Cuena, Ecuador, was almost destroyed by earthquake shocks, but no log 3 of life is reported. Heavy damages resulted from the shocks at Azogues and Canar. At Quito, Cuena, and other towns the oscillations are reported as of a frightful character. Loss of life followed the disturbances at Guaranda, and at Guayaquil the shock broke all the telephone wires.

FOREIGN Russia has evidently determined to extirpate the German traders and German people in the Baltic and Western provinces, and has succeeded in affronting the German high-place dignitaries and the whole German commercial world. As a measure of retaliation the Reichstag will absolutely exclude all new Russian loan trom German market?, and in conjunction with the great financial, houses, means wil l be taken for the gradual elimination of Russian securities. Retaliatory fiscal measures will be prepared, and the Czar and Emperor William will not meet. The British, authorities are keeping a sharp lookout for dynamiters and tail twisters from America. A rigid search of the baggage of all passengers arriving at Queens town is being made. The Berlin mercantile community is sue - cessfully fighting anarchism and socialism with co-operative measures.

THE MARKETS. NEW YOliK. Cattle $ 4.00 5.00 Hogs 5.25 ($ 6.00 Wheat No. 1 Hard 86 m ,S6Jfc No. 2 Red 78 .79y.t Corn No. 2. 46 .47 Oats-White 3$ & .41 PoaK New Mess 10.00 &1G.50 CHICAGO. Cattle Choice to Prime Steers 400 & 4.7-5 Modiuru 3.50 $ 4.'25 Common 3.00 & S.50 Hogs Shipping Grades 6.00 $ fi.50 Fi.oun--Winter Wheat..., 4.00 C 4.25 Whkat No. 2 Red Winter 70 f .715$ Coun No. 2 39 $ .30)5 Oats No. 2 White.... 24 ($ .26 Bu'TTKH Choice Creamery 22 t .23 PJne Dairy 15 tfl .18 Cheese Full Cream, cheddara. 9 ,094 Full Cream, new 10 .10'$ Eggs Freeh 10 t& ,11 Potatoes Choice, now, per brl .GO c$ .65 Pork Mess 10.75 .17.i5 MILWAUKEE. Wheat Cash 03 $0 ,70 Corn No. 3 :9 a$ ,39 '-4 Oats No. 2 White iiO .30 Rye No. 1 41 & .43 Pork Mess 14.70 v 13.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 Red 09 & .70 Corn Mixed M5 j .35 Oats Mixe-i 23 .23"$ Pork New Mess 15.25 "l,i.75 TOLEDO, Wheat Cash 73 $ .73'$ Corn No. 2 40 lU ,41 Oaxs. 25 ,20 DETROIT. Reef Cattle 4.0) 4.50 Hogh 3.75 & 4.25 Scekp 3.50 4.75 Wheat--No. 1 White 73 & .70 Corn -No. 2 .42 H .42l Oats No. 2 Whito 20 $ ,29 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 lied 72 -A .72 Corn -No. 2 41 a .41 14 0T9-No. 2 2:5 A .27 Pork Meos 34.7.5 U.r.2j LiVKHoi.B 5.00 & iv0 BUFFALO. Whkat No. 1 Hard 82 ,K2 .j " iYjrs; No. 2 Yellow -14 i .45 Caitle 3.75 ((. 4.50 INDIANA l'OLIri. liKFK Cattle 3.50 4.21 Hogh 5 0) t 5.53 Sheep 3.00 4.0 Whkat No. 2 Hod m .lU'fc CfitN 40 .'C .4',t Oats No. 2 Mixed 2'i y? .23, EAST LIliKHTV. Cattle Prime 4.5!) n 5.21 Fair 3.0 .0) Common vl 3,75 Hogs ;.2 .5.75 Sheep 3.75 1.50

The Red - Mouthed Anarchist Charged with Inciting In- -cendiary Fires. Ike New York Underwriters Are Much Aki m 3d Over the 81 L 1. tioiL

New Yo.k special.! The Tribune Bays: 44 At Ihe office of a firm of well-kuDwu insurance brokers, yesterday, it was Slid that the past six months had been the mont diRastrous in the tire record of any like psriori, savt, of course, in that embracing tie Chicago and tic at on tires. So far as had been learned, only two companies had made any money in that six monthfi. The matter has been discussed in every office and every association of underwriter. There is one striking phasf1 of this matter which has come to the fore prominently in a few days, and th;it is the relation of Heir Most ana his sympathizers io many of those tires. As indicative of the e:;tent to which insurance companies are being aroused to this juettion, it is only nccesfiaty to call attention to a special meeting of the New York liop.rd of Underwriters held yesterday, to discus-? this very subject and adopt ways and mums to meet the emergency. Ilorr Most's book bearing on the subject of dynamite and phosphorus as incendiary ngeuts was considered at lengtl., especially his claim that many recent tires were due to their use. Copies of newspapers, the book itself, and all av ailable information upon the point were u week before handed over to the Committee on Police and the Origin of Fires, with instructions to make a thorough investigation of the matter, and report upon some plan which would check, if possible, the ijreat increase in th'3 number of tires which were undoubtedly incendiary. On this point a member of the board said yesterday: ".John Most has become a factor in the subject of tire insurance. Our civilization has come to a pretty pass when such a redmouthed, ranting anarchists utterances have to be considered by tire insurance companies, and means devised to abate their baneful effects. There is some means of reaching this man, and what the law can do will soon be tried. He openly boasts in his book that recent tires are, some of them at least, due to anarchists. Whether true or not, his utterances have tlieir effect." On the subject of averting disastrous losses in fire insurance, remedies have been considered by fire underwriters from time 10 time. Yesterday all phases of the matter were taken up. One measure proposed is that every person insured shall, in the case of a run in such extraordinary, and for the companies exhausting losses, share in a portion of his own loss. Another suggestion was that known as the French system, in which every insured person must pay for injury done to contiguous property when the fire starts on his own premises. This city and vicinity have been the great sufferers in tue recent unprecedented losses. Said Mr Kennedy yesterday; "New York has been the worst sufferer iu the last six months, although Chicago, Milwaukee, and other cities have done their best to keep up an undesirable rivalry. Just this morning we learn of another Chicago fire; loss, $;MO,000, One feature in insurance business which has been brought to light in the recent losses is what arts termed "Jumbo" lines, and the matter is commented on with surprise in insurance ciicles. By this it is meant that several companies which had hitherto incurred a risk of a email percentage have been injuring a much larger per cent., and thus running into the "jumbo" lines. Among those companies are said to be some well-known companies of this city, Brooklyn, and Chicago. On the whole situation an insurance agent

) said yesterday: "If this thing keeps up we are going to 6top:. that's all. It is uome-

thing like the hot weather we must have a let-up or perish."

A FAMOUS BALL-PL HER.

Arlie Latham, Tliird Baseman of the St Louis Browns. Eumors of the base-ball deal by which Yon Per Ahe is to assume control of the Philadelphia Athletics are rife, says an exchange, and it is said that if the deal is consummated Yon Dcr Ahe will transfer Latham, the great coacher of

the St. Louis Club, to Philadelphia. Should this be effected there can be but little doubt that the Athletic Club will again rise to the place it; held a few years back. Beside this, it is reported that Latham and 13 us hong do not agree together, and that a change would therefore be somewhat of a diplomatic stroke. It will be remembered that I at bam and Bushong indulged in a right on the Baltimore grounds early in and that the manager, Barnie, of the Baltimore, prefered charges against thera, which resuited in their each being fined $100, the tine being levied at a special meeting of the Association managers held at Columbus, Ohio, June 0, lhhw. Latham :s the greatest third baseman in the Association, and as a coacher he stands unequaled.

Bket Haute was a book agent in 1849 and 1850, He was a good one when he would work, which was seldom. The agency period of his life was before he wrote "The Heathen Chinee." What other American besides Buffalo Bill has taken the Princess of Yale& out riding? Alas! none. Bill's show ought to bring seventy-five cents at the door after this.

John Buskin has improved in health to such an extent that he propose? to travel. Of course he will walk. He objects to railroads and everything on wheelu.

THE BASE-BALL. RECORD.

Tho Fight Between Detroit;, Chicago, and Boston Growing Sharper,

Changes in the Detroit Team Other Base-Ball New and Gossip.

CIIICAGO COKREST'ONDEKCE. Fourteen weeks of the League champion ship season have passed, ;md the teams in ithe :race, from tho leaders to tho tail-enci-ers are playiDg better ball, upon te average, than has been known before in the history of the game professionally. In the opinion of nine out of ten Chicagoacs notLing short of the collapse of the team oan prevent the White Blockings from winning the pennant again this season. This is a most gratifying change in ice drift of public opinion and sentiment, for not more than six weeks ft sro an indignant public in this city was freely expressing u:s disgust at the policy of President Spaliing and Capt. Anson in releasing what we.s looked upon as the most valuable men in the team, and thus ruining the chances of the city for even a decent standing in this year's race. Messrs. Anson and Kpaldmg, however, builded wiser than the public knew, with the result i;hat Chicago b&3 probably the most capable ball team today that it ever had. The me thus far ha? been a desperate struggle from the start. With such strong clubs t s Pittsburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Detroit ahead of him, Ansoi'fl task to pilot his own nine to the top was thought to be too grea for the famous captain to accomplish. But he has done it, thanks to his own matchless guidat.ee and the wonderful playing of his men, and to-day he stands the same excellent char.ee of winning the iia? as he did at this time last year. The spurt made by the Chic&gos is without a parallel in the history of the league. It is a record such as will pre-b-ably not be made again in years. Letters of a congratulatory nature have been pouring in upon Anson from all sections of the country for more than a month past, and there seems not to be a sign remaining of the condemnatory and critical spirit that existed everywhere againt$t Anson and the club at the outset of the season. HOME AGAIN. The champions returned last week from tlieir second Eastern trip, and are now upon the Chicago grounds for a series of gaa&s with all the Eastern club 3 and three gair.es with Detroit. The boys are playing pennant ball in every game. The three batteries are in splendid form, and every man in the team has got his eyes on the br.lL Sullivan, PfefiVr, Ciarkaon and Baldwin have picked up in their batting the past week, while Burns, Van Haltren and Williamson have dropped off a little. The most pronounced feature of the team's pls.y is the field-work of P;!etfer, Burns and Williamson. The latter is without doubt the finest short stop in t he League. His play, which was always gEod, has become phonomenal, and is attracting attention all over the country. Glasscock's title of "King of Short Stops" is rapidly waning in the light of Williamson s work. Pi'etfer :is also playing remarkable ball, and the same may be said of Bums. The out-held appears to be pretty near impregnable. Sullivan is covering more ground than a summer squash-vine, and Kyan, in center, :is attending to nearly everything that comes his way. BOSTON'S WORK. As for Boston, the team next to Chicago in the race, there seenim to be something between its players and winning bail which even the influence of the great and ouly Kelly cau not dispel. It seems to be peculiarly unfortunate away from home. When the boys from th3 Hub came West early in the summer Kelly got so badly crippled that he could not play. Several other members of the teem were suffering from injuries. The boys had not been away from home two dcys on the present trip when Hornung was taken ill and had

to be left in New xork. Kelly is no wdoubled up with cramps, and is scarcely able to play. With Kelly and Hornung out of condition, there isn't much loft in the Boston team to whip. 'The club will be in great luck if it regains the groundit has lost during the past week. THE OTHER CIA'US.

It would be well for everybody to keep an eye on Philadelphia and New York, These clubs are not so very far behind, and, what is more interesting, they are playing stronger ball as the season advances. One or both of these clubs will cause some trouble. Of the tail-eaders Pittsburgh has been playing the better ball during the past week. Tue fielding of this team has been very fine all season, but they are still lamentably weak wi;n toe stick." If th:s club had had a half-dozen good battora at the beginning of the season it would have a hand in the tight lo-ilay. IndianapoLs and Washington are showing a marked improvement ia playiag strength,, th e Eastern dub iu particular playing seme of the. greatest ball recorded this year. A great many people seem to have made up their minds that Detroit is going to take a very big tumble in the race. One Chicago paper iu particular expresses the opinion that it will be beaten out by Chicago, Boston, and New York, and that even Philadelphia will give it a tough tussle before the season ends. Ia the opinion of your correspondent this is a mistaken idea. In the face of all this sort of predictions that havis been made for a month past, Detroit has gone right aionaj playing good ball, defeating the League's best teams, and staying at the top of the string in the race, and the probabilities would, to an unprejudiced mind, seem to poiut to its continuing as it in unless Chicago alone among all th3 or.h' r clubs can overtake it. During the past week tho management of tbe Wolverines has spent no less than SH.OOJ in securing new players, a fact w hich proves more conclusively than anything else that the club intends staying in the League for not only the present season bat so many more ae: it chooses. The three men secured in the latest deals are ttood ones, timber, the successful pitcher of tbe Hartford t Co:an. ) Club, wa; the first one signed, and he has been tried and has given satisfaction. The others are Beatin and Kinslow, tbe crack battery of the Allentown (Pa. Club, and if records count for anything they will prove valuable additions to tbe nine. With thc new material thus secured the club has a great deal more material than is needed, and it is bu t natural to suppose that some of those who are considered the least useful will be allowed to go. The probabilities are that Briody and Weidman will be among those which the c ub will let go. Con Cregan. EDlTOir A N TH OS VS PISTOL.

An Amusing: Scene In a Leavenworth Police Court. Leavenworth (Ka.n.) special. It has been Anthony vs. Bond and Fond vu. Anthony at the Police Court all day. aad at 5 o'clock a rathex dramatic inciien;

occurred. Ihe case being trie! wm oi charging Colonel D. B. Anthony, th editor of the Times, with carrying concealed weapons, and three witnesses had! sworn that the package on the desk in front of the Colonel was like the one in whxch he was accused of carry ing aron ad, as the prosecuting attorney remarked, "a piece of." artillery." Mr. Baker, prosecuting attorney, asked that the court instruct the M;r--shal to open the parcel, that lil present, might see how Colcue Anthony waiviolating the law under the very bom of the honorable Cou;rt. Judg Hunter decided that he had no rtgt.t to give the desired permission. At that point Col. Anthony arose from his seat and, approaching his Honor's desk, oaid: "I nave re-fused the right of the Prosecuting Attorneyand his witnesses to examine this package,, but as you decided that they hare not theright, I will give yon this package, which contains what I call a quaker-pistoL And. he exhibited to the excited crowd a pieceof lead pipe, about five inches in length, with a small elbow. The laugh against. Mr. Baker, who had been expecting to eee a lurge-sized horse-pistol, was long and1 loud, and it was quite a time before ordercould be restored.

NATIONAL FINANCES.

The Mont lily Del Statement Issaed? by Treasurer Jordan

Uncle Sam's Indebtedness Reduced About: Fiive Millions in July.

Washington telegram. Tha following is a recapitulation of th debt statement issued on the 1st inst: INTEREST-BEART.JIG DEBT, Bond at 44 percent I 250,000,000 . - ."I . a mrm pai

xonut: til percent 'fdf,ou4,rov Refunding certificates at 4 percent. 171,900 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. ... 14,000,000 Pacifi ; Kailroad bonds at 6 for cent. C4,G3,512 Principal ftl06lGtiOl963r

Total $1,073,769,015 DEBT ON WHICH 1NTK11E8T HAS CEAtfED 6IXCB MATURITY. Princ pal. $6,11. 1W Interest. 195.865Trrt.rtl 9X ?7 AttV

DEBT BEARING KO INTEREST. Old d.iinaiid and legal-tendt-r notes $3 H, 73-3,146.-Certificates of deposit S,46!00il Gold certificates 91,990,067 Silveertificates 244,166,141 Fractional currency Jess $8,375,93$ estimated as lost or destroyed.). 6,915,749 Principal.. fC01.S03,12 - TOTAL DfiBT. Principal 8ve7M61,600Interest. ?,634,53 Total 42felLess cas.3 items available for reduction of the debt $ &ei,14470 Less reserve hold for redemption of United States notes lX),000f000 Total $ 361,143,70 Total debt less available cash iteais tt. 320,282,435. Net cash in the Treasury 45,698,59 Deb less cash in Treasury Aug. 1. 1887 l274t5$38i2f. X'ebt less cash in Treasury July 1, 1387. 1,279,428,757 Decrease of debt during tne mcnth $ 4,341.894 CASH I2i THE TBE A B TOT AVAILABLE FCE BED CO TION OP PUM.IC DEBT, Gold held for gold certificate s actually outstanding t9i,9J,03? Silver hold for Biiver certificates actually outstanding 144,166,141 U. S. notes held for certifies tea of deposit actually outstanding 3,400,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 13,52564 Fractional currency 1,821 Total available 1201,143,70 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of XJ. S. notes, &c:i, Jujiuarv 14, 1375, and July 12. 188i $ 100,000,000 Ur f.vai lable for red uction 01 debt : Fractkme.l silver coin. . $ 86,631,105Minor coin 112,73 Total $ 2l$03,845. Certificates held as cash.... ii,68,219' Net cash balance on haact 45,693,594 Total cb.b.2. in Treasury us shown by the TreAAuror's generid account. .5 155,304,361.

SIMEONL The Cardinal Who Interceded In BehalT ot Dr. McGlynn. His Eminence Giovanni Simeoni, aik Italian Cardinal , was born at Pidino, iu the diocese of Palestrina, July 23, 1816r and having been ordained priest, he was,, on account of bis solid learning, tin ployed: in o:Mces of considerable importance. In 1817 he was Auditor of the Nunc inture of Madrid. After some years we find him ift Kome, Prefect of Studios in the Pontine si Lyceum of the Roman Seminary and)

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Prothonotary Apostolic Participant. For many years he was Secretciry of t'.ie ConRrogation of the Propaganda., and as Con

sumer he belongs to the Holy Roman and Universal Inquisition, to the propaganda, for affairs of the Oriental Bite, to tho Council for the revision of Provincial Councils and for extraoidmiiry ecclesiastical affairs. When the Eoameiuofd Conn cil of the Vatican was cajled Mgr. Simeoni was one of tbe Consul Lers for tho Commission of Oriental Churches and Min&ions and for Ecclesiastical Discipline. March 15, 1375, Pius IX. created him a C ardinal, and on the death of Cudinal Autonelli,. in 1876, be was appointed Secretary of State to Pius IX. an ofttce which he retained until the death of that Pontiff. He Was succeeded as Secretary of State by Cardinal Pranchi in 1878, when Pope Leo XIII. appointed Cardinal Simeoni Profeot of the Propaganda,

Mrs. General Logan's Painful Iujary .Washington tele Tarn. Surgeon General Hamilton, assisted by Manning Logan and Major Tucker, reset Mrs. John A. Logan's fractured shoulderblade and elbow, tbe surgeon having made the discovery that the parti had )egun to knit in the wrong places. The operation was entirely successful, and Mrs Logan though suffering iutense pain, is reported to be resting quietly without suffering any ill effects from the ether ale inhalod.