Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 27, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 November 1887 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTEB a BRADFUTE, - - PcBUSHaa

A DAY'S DOINGS.

Xrentfal Happening in Every Hem isphere, as Transmitted by Telegraph.

Political Social, Financial, Commercial, Industrial, Criminal and Other News.

LATEST DISPATCHES.

TOYING WITH DEATH. A Mysterious Box, Said to Be an Infernal Machine, Sent to Chief Justice Waite. "While Chief Justice Waite was at din ser Thursday evening, says a Washington telegram, a messenger from the postoffica delivered to him a box containing what is supposed to be an infernal machine sent by some sympathizer of the Chicago anarchists. The box was about nine inches long, four inches wide, and two inches deep, and weighed only a few ounce. It was wrapped in brown paper and bore a special-delivery stamp. It was dropped into the postoihce a few minutes beiore t o'clock, and was sent at once by messenger to the residence of the Chief J ustice, where it was received and receipted for by a servant. After din ner the Chief Justice took the package to his library and discovered its chaiacter. Judge Waite admitted that he had received a mysterious package, but declined to dis dose its contents or sav whether it con tained explosives or .was intended to de stroy his life. He declined to say anything whatever about it. There have never been any anarchists in Washington, so far as is known, although they may have been attracted here bv the case in the Supremo Court TRAIN ROBBERS. Boad Agents Hold Up a Passenger Train in Colorado. Neab Grand Junction, CoL, a number of masked men stopped a Denver and Bio Grande express train, compelled the employes to leave their positions, and then entered the coaches and robbed the passengers. They failed, however, in their attempt to rifle the express safe, but cut tho mail poaches and carried off the contents of the registered packages. After holding the train over an hour the bandits, with their plunder, fled to the mountains. BEGGING FOR MERCY. Spies, Fieldcn, and Schwab Appeal to the Governor of Illinois. A dispatch from Chicago of Friday, the 4th inst, says: "August Spies, Samuel Fielden, and Michael Schwab signed petitions yesterday afternoon humbly begging the Governor to commute their sentences. It is considered certain that Parsons and the rest of them will siga the petition to-day, and those very near to Governor Ogles by confidently assert that the sentence of Parsons, Fielden, and Schwab will be commuted to imprisonment for life. Spies, Lingg, Engel, and Fischer will hang. Spies, Fielden, and Schwab are the only ones who have not written open letters to the Governor that they would not accept a commutation of their sentences and that all efforts in that direction were without their sanction."

A Strong Petition. Db. W. M. Salter, President of the Ethical Culture Society, says a Chicago dispatch of Friday, has drawn up a petition for executive clemency, to which, as hB states it, he only wishes the signatures of influential and cool-headed citizens. It is very short, the recital being to the effect that the signers believe justice can be best served by commuting the sentences of the condemned men, etc. He has already ob tained about twenty signatures, among which are those of Judge Tuley, ex-Judge Booth, Julius Eosenteldt, and Alderman Manierre. "Good-by, Lover; Good-by.n Geoege Fbancis Tbain, immediately on receiving the news of the Supreme Court decision, rushed off to a telegraph office in Omaha and nmt the following dispatch: Citizen Edward Devine, Editor Western News man, Chicago: Leave Cock-Boche-Ville to Cock-Roche, and join me at Toronto. Expatriation forever. Gbouox Fbancis Train. "There, that settles it. I'm off for Canada, where there is free speech and free press. No more Omaha; I'm off. Goodby, America!" were the last words delivered by Train. Extraordinary .Precautions. "We are ready for any emergency that may arise," said Capt. Schaack, of the Chicago police, to a reporter. "We have taken every precaution that we deem possible. I am not apprehensive of any riot or forcible demonstration by the friends of the condemned men, but I think it always well to be prepared. Of course I have heard many threats against life and prop orty, but I find that many of them are unworthy of notice." Kevslvers in Demand." Business at the various Chicago gun stores has been brisk daring the last few days, says a special from that city. The purchasers of revolvers are generally well dressed business men.

Minor Telegrams. Thextt-five cases of cholera have occurred on the steamer Alesia, and of these nineteen have proved fatal. The directors of the Northern Pacific Boad have been authorized to issue new bonds not exceeding $12,000,000, and bearing interest of not more than G per cent. A syndicate of New York and Philadelphia capitalists have secured control of the New York Graphic and the paper will continue to be independent Democratic in tone. Col. Frank A. Burr, of the Philadelphia TUntHj will be the editor.

EAST. An explosion in the Atlantic Dynr.mite Works, near MeCainsville, N. J., wrecked one of the pnekinp-honses and inhtmtly killed four men. Three others are missing, and are believed to be in the ruins. A mysterious explosion in a grocery store on Market street, St. Louia, shattered the building an i killed six persons. A New Hayek dispatch says that John Hodel, a silk-weaver living at Hebron, Conn., shot 1 is wife and then set tire to the house. Two children were burned to de ath. Hodel tied, but is now nnfler aires t. He had been on a spree for about a week,

and when himself was a qtnei., good-natured fellow, but drink made aim crazy. David Scott, of the firm of Vernon Bros. & Co., paper dealers of New York, is missing. Scott issued the firm b indorsement to the extent of $60,000, and besides that he has out notes of his own to an unknown amount. WEST. James B. Whitely, brother of the great reaper manufacturer, committed suicide at Springfield, Ohio, shooting himself through the head. The Chisago Times has been sold to a syndicate represented by J. J. West and Clinton A. Bnowden for $1,000,000. The sale includes real estate owned by Mrs. Storey. About $300,000 goes to Mrs. Hto rey, and $350,000 to Mr. Storey's sisters and brother. The property is mortgaged for $375,000. The purchasers will run the Times as an independent journal. If Mr. Storey's brother or either of his sisters should die before Mrs. Storey, there will be a chance for much litigation. John Peter McCartney, who has just been released from the Michigan City Penitentiary, after a confinement of eleven years, was once the acknowledged chief of the most notorious counterfeiters and safeblow ers in America, Immediately after his release he was arrested by a United States Marshal on an old charge of passing counterfeit money in Southern Illinois. Mr, D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, has, during the last week, presented to various educational and charitable institutions of that city property that is estimated to bo worth $175SU00. Tm: agent of the Northern Michigan Iiine at New Haven telegraphs that there were ten passengers aboard the Vernon, says a Chicago special. As that was the last port at which she stopped his (statement is probably correct. The crew was composed of twenty-six men. and as there are no survivors the most accurate estimate of the loss of life that can be made is thirtysix persons. The "agent at Glen Haven does not know the names of any of the passengers, but says that one was a traveling salesman for a Milwaukee drug house. Charles Kropp, a merchant of Good Harbor, Mich., s reported to have been aboard,

and it is known that "William Albert;, of; Saukville, Wi6., was a passenger. Three : ladies who were supposed to have been on ' the steamer when she went down are now reported safe. Henry Wright, of Harbor

Springs, telegraphs that Miss Durkin and Miss Gallagher left the steamer at Beaver Island, Mrs. Dunleavy, who was to join them there, not being quite ready. They intended to take the nest boat; for Chicago.

A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says: :

"Every union job printer in the city of Chicago, about four hundred in number, will be out of work to-day, the Typotheto?, the association of employing printers, hiving refused to accede to the demand of the Typographical Union that idne hours instead of ten shall constitute a day's work. The Btrike promises to be a determined and protracted one, as both (.ides are stubborn." Interna! revenue collections in the

Fifth District, in which Peoria, 111., is lo-

cated, for the month of October amounted to $1,840,058, the largest in three years. One of the mills of the American Cotton-seed Oil Company, at Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire, the loss reaching $100,000, with heo.vy insurance. At Cincinnati, Mrs. Katie Miller threw her 9-year-old daughter from a third-story window, and instantly leaped after her. The woman, who was insane, was killed, and the child fatally injured. Alfred Stone, a Swede, and one of the firemen of the ill-fated steamer Vernon, which foundered in Lake -Michigan, was picked up about eight miles from Sheboygan, on a raft. Stone gives a vivid account of his terrible experience in the raging waters: He awoke as the boat was sinking, jumped through a win-low, and f mud'thi life-raft with six persons o:a it. There wore lt'ty pcoplo, ho says, on board tho steamer, and when he jumped into the water there were people scattered around with life-preservers on. Ho saw the life-raft on tho crost of a wave not far distant, and succeeded in reaching it. The ice-cold water dashed over the i aft, chilling and freezing every one on it. One by one they succumbed to the cold, and were swept off by tho waves. The peonle floating auout in life-preservers had small chance in the terrible i;ea that waB rafting. He saw several portions torn out of their cork-jackets by the violence of the waves and go down, never to reappear. There was little shrieking or confusion. "The next morning, continued Btono, "1 was left alone, the others all having been overcome by ihe cold and swept off tho raft. I saw a steamer approaching from the north. For a time it appeared to be bearing drectly aown upon rr 3. As it approached I waved my handkerchief, hoping to attract attention. I thought I could see men on tho steamer watching me, bat she passed by about half a mile away. A3 she disappeared.. I thought my fate was surely sealed. 1 he waves were the highest I ever saw, and were continuously washing over the raft, testing my rapidly failing strength to the utmost to hold on. I was about overcome with faticuo, hunger, and cold when the schooner I'oineroy picked me up. It is likely the Vernon's machinery gave cut. and she got into the trough of the Bea, and her side was stove in by a wave." "Bat' Seea, a desperate Chicago criminal, who was serving a twenty years' sentence at Joliet, choked himself to death

; by placing his neck in a loop made by hanging his suspenders from his bedstead

acd letting the weight of his tody rest thereon.

lA St. Lottis dispatch give particulars of I a terrible explosion by which eight or nine persons were instantly hurled into eternity j and a number of others maimed and j shockingly mangled: An explosion of gaso ino in the rear of tho !

cellar of Michael Newman s grocery store, 13 : j South Fourteenth street, lifted the two-story j I building from its foundation and dropped it j ) back again in a mass, beneaih whi-h were !

buried sixteen perilous. Tho messenger of i death had scarcely wrecked the place before a ; devastating Are swept through tho ruins and ! seewed bent on infernal work. Human aid was , quickly on tho sceuo, but in si.ch confusion j that the horror seemed to increase with ! their effort to relieve the imprisoned 1 victims .Sir. Newman and his fam- ! ily of seven lived over the fit re. J Tiie force of tho explosion w:is terrific, and tho j entire block of buildings north of and across j the alley f om tho building in which the ex- i plosion took place were putted by the blast. ; The Newman block, crushed in was covered bv

tho roof, which had s. ttied flown upou the : ruins and formed a barrier, thro.it; It which tho ; rea-juors had to cut a way. This impeded ; progress, and threatening walls on cither side oerbunp ready to crush tho galh.nt ' men who pressed to tho snot where calls ! ! for help directed thoui. Tho roof was '

soon removed and in the dobri3 were revealed the mangled forms of the groceryxnuu's family. 1'iveof tht-m were derul. t'oma Hat upright, and otbers were doubled in their beds, Lif.i had evidently lied while th-y wore wrapped in Hlumbor In the same building, over storeroom No. !, lived Chan. Uevtre, a traveling salesman, and his wife. Visiting them v as , Miss Hattio Brnt, of Columbus. Ky. Hie; was badly injr.red, but miraculously os- i caped death tho only person who passed through the horrible ordenl and lives to tell tho story of escapo. Whn finally the work of rescue was accomplished it was found that the jiMiH or of dead v as eight, as follows: Michael . Kewman, Mrs. Annie Newman, John Kowinan, j Kate Newman. Kddio Newman, diaries Do- f vere, Mrs. Chrle; Devere, Mrs. Agnes Porzely, j Three were wounded seriously, as follows : Nellie Newman; may recovtr. Miss Hattio Bryant; will probably secover. Mamie New- , man; recovery impossible. j

The jury Bitting on tin body of "lull,

tho fireman of the ill-starred propeller Vernon, found dead on a raft in Iake Michigan, recommended that the inspector who had last inspected the life-preservers of the wrecked steamer be arrested and held for trial. Tho preservers were stuffed with sea rushes, and not fit for the work required of them. Many of tho bodies of tho victims of Dig wreck are coming ashore near tho scene of the disaster. Nineteen were brought into Two ltivers, M is., on Thursday. One of them, was identified aa that of the captain, and another as that of E. li. 13oliind, a traveling salesroom for a Milwaukee firm. A c a railway crossing at Stetibenville, Ohio, Miss Hattie Turner was fatally injured, and her escort, John G Beatty, instantly killed. Miss Saline Hopkins, of Springfield, Mo., knelt in a boat, fastened a short rope around her neck, and pulled on it until she choked to death. The jury at Ravenna, Ohio, intheeasieof "Blinky" Morgan, on trial for tho murder of Detective Hulligan, returned a verdict of murder in the tiret degree. The Sioux chiefs, with one exception, express themselves aa friendly toward the whites, and they are all willing to take up arms against the Crows rather than to join them in their threatened uprising. Exploration of the ruina of the buildings wrecked by the recent explosions at St. Louis indicates that they were not caused by gas or oil; A clew to the identity of the conspirators may be obtained Leading stove manufacturers of the United States have been in conference at Cleveland, Ohio. One of the delegates said tho mniket was fully supplied, and that prices were quite low. Gas was the fuel of the future, and the meeting had been called lo perfect stoves and grates for its ase. SOUTH. J. E. Smith, tho express messenger who recently killed two robbers near El Paso, has been paid $2,000 as a reward by the Governor of Texas. He expects to receive $2,000 more from the express company, and if 1000 additional from the railroad corporation. Mit. George Akthttr, United States Naval Surgeon, fell from a train near Salem, Va., and was killed..

WASHINGTON, Secretary Whitney is so ill that it is thought he will be unable to prepare his annual report. Acting Secketary MuIjDKOw has rendered a decision rejecting the lists oi selections made by the Northern Pacific Kailroad Company of about 57,000 acres of in Washington Territory, on the ground that the lands in question were not within their prant. In his annual report, Commodore I. P. Harmony, Chief of the Bureau of "iards and Docks, earnestly recommends the ttrengthening of our naval stations. The attorney for George H. Thobe, who is fighting for SpeakerfCarhsie's seat in the Fiftieth Congress has filed sixty copies of his brief with the Clerk of the House, as required by law. He makes the claim that his client was elected by 600 majority. As there is no money with which to pay for the expense of the necessary surveys and examinations, the action of Congress last session for the distribution of lands in severalty to Indians cannot now be carried into etct. GENERAL," Two men were killed by the caving of tho bank of a gravel-pit at Paris, III. In a telegram to Surgeon General Hamilton, Commissioner De Wolf, of Chicago, makes severe comments upon the quarantine officers at Now York for their negligence in permitting imirigrante from a cholera-infected district of Italy to pass through that port to the West. Besides those that have been discovered in Chicago, other passengers on the steamer ludependente have been located at various points in the East. The visible supply of wheat and com is respectively 33,933,407 and 8,159,733 bushels. Since last report wheat increased 1,270,842 bushels, and corn increased 235,305 bushels. A Jacksonville (Fla.) special Bays that information has been received irhere of the wreck of a 6teamer off St. Sebastian, fifty miles from Titusville, supposed to be the steamer Havana of the Alexandria Line, with twenty passengers on board. The House of Bishops of the Protestan EpiscopoJ Church has elected Rev. Abiel Leonard, of Atchison, Kan., missionary bishop of the new jurisdiction of Nevada and Utah, and Rev. J. S. Johnson, of Mobile, Ala., missionary bishop of Western Texas. Another violent and disastrous storm, the third of tbe season, 6 wept over tho northern lakes on Friday and Saturday of last week. Several vessels were wrecked and a number of lives lost. The most serious disaster was the loss of the propeller Vernon, which went down in Lake Michigan, a short distance north of Manitowoc, Wis. Sift had on board a crew of twenty-two men, besides some passengers, and all hands perished. A Milwaukee dispatch says: All doubts were set at rost this afternoon when a tug from Two hivers picked m thft j ilot-houHO, Avith the uaino "Vernon" on it, and five life-preservers off Two Rivers. This lo.t no room for doirut as to this identity of thu lost steamer. Owing to tiie iact thnt probably nut a soul of the twenty-five or thirty people on board was saved tho cause of the terfiMe dinastor will probably remain a mystery forever. It is quit generally believed here that not a single anal has survived, as it would have been impossible for a person to live in such a son r-.nd exposed to the in ten so cold that prevailed on tho ui(.;ht of the wreck. The Captain of the steamer fjtwrencfl estimates tbe number of people en th ill-lated Kteamcr at aloi.t fifty persons. Ti c Vernon belonged to the Northern Michigan Line, and wan cnintnund-t by Cat t. (iecrue Thorpe. Bho was owned by AjUooth -V Co.. of Chicapo, ami cost . I'dj t. ,'ohn Snlli .'an was first mate, und Capt. Hiejn) j second mate. In tho settlement of ihe Rock Springs indemnity matter the Chinese government received more than ils dno, owing to she fact that Bix claims wore duplicated, find lLo Chinese Minister at Washington has H'turned to this government the money lhat was paid in excess of the just amount. The Western Union Telegraph Com-

pany bus reduced rates o:i ten-word m-js-fiages between New York, Philudelpl ia Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, and tit, Louis from -r)(l to 10 cents. The shut-down of oil wells, manipulated by the Producers' Protective Association and the Standard Oil Company, hit gone into eifect, ami, it im alleged, is to continue eighteen months. Standard Oil is to divide the profit of oJ't'tljOOW barrels

of oil at 02 cents among the syndicate who shall live up to the contract, and 2,000,000 barrels are to be set aside to create a wage fund for the laboring men thrown out of employment. In his annual report the Governor of Alaska puts the value oil the taxable property of the Territory at $10,000,000. The white population numbers only 5,000. FOREIGN, Advices from Central America stale that ex-Vice-President Casfenadas hoving disagreed with President Barillos' notion in proclaiming himself Dictator of Guatemala, headed a revolution against him, being supported by the most prominent fam ilies of Guatemala. The government forces suppressed the uprising, however, captured the chief aud shot him, together with four othera. ThE appeal of Mr. W illiam O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, against the sentence of three months' imprisonment imposed on him by the Mitchellstown court, has been refused, and the sentence of the lower court confirmed. Says a Dublin dispatch: Tho charge of which K'r. O'Brien -was convicted was using seditious luuguago under tho crimes net at u National league meeting at Mltehollstown. A moat e:cc:itiii scene euauod in the court-room when tbo decision confirming tho sentence was announced. The room was immediately in an uproar, and the people cduetvred about Mr. O'Brien to prevent the law otiicers from arresting him. Mr. Harrington contended that the police had no right to arrest Air. O' Brian, A terrible struggle took phico in tho court-room and in tho ptisan go leading to tho Btroot between Mr. O'Hriott and bin friends on one Bide and tho police on tho other. .Ladies screamed and fainted and tho confusion was general. Tho police finally Bucueeded in arreuting Mr. O'Brien. Tho people rm.iMuod in the street outside the court, clamoring for tho roscuo of Mr. O'Brien and vengeance upon tho police. The periodical dynamite scare has possession of London just now, and the police are on the alert for mysterious-looking Irish-Americans. The great dramatic attraction of the season in London has closed. The typical American, Buffalo Bill,, gave the last performance of the Wild West show in the presence of an enormous audience. The Irish Nationalist O'Brien is causing as much trouble in confinement as he dkl when at liberty. The governor of the prison in which he is incarcerated is in a quandary as to what to do with him, and has telegraphed the Prisons Board asking for advice. DEATH OF JENNY LIND. Jenny Lind Goldschhidt, tho celebrated Swedish singer, passed away quietly at her homcnear London en the 2d of November. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 1821. From infancy she showed a remarkable talont for smginer, and at 9 years of age was given admission to a musical academy. She made such progress that in a year he was deemed titted for the stage, on which she made

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her appearance in juvenile parts attracting considerable attention by her dramatic talents as well as by her vocul accomplishments. At 1G she had become the reigning prima donna of the Stockholm opera. In 1840 she went to Paris and received instruction from Garcia, the first singing-master of Europe. In 1844 she first appeared before an audieuce outside her native city in Berlin. From this time her reputatien grew with each performance, and she was received with enthusiastic at all the leading musical cities of Europe. She made her first appearance in London in 1847, aud in September, 1850, was brought to the United States by P. T. Barnum, and was everywhere received with the wildest enthusiasm. In 1852 she was married in Bostou to Otto Goldschmidt, a young pianist who accompanied her. Since her marriage she has refused all offers to appear on the stage, only singing occasionally in concerts. She resided in Germany until 1858, when she removed to England, where she has since lived. MARKET REFORT&

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UNCLE SAM S LEDGER.

Some Interesting Points from the Treasury Statement for October.

The Debt Reduced Over $16,000,000 During; tbe Montb, and $41,000.000 in Pour Months.

WaBhingtrn apeciiil. Tho statement of the Treasury for the month just closed presents several points of interest. Tho customs receipts ore 2,0iM)(00J more than for Ootober, l&0t and nearly $5,000,000 more (luring tho first four mouths of tne fiscal yeir than during the same portion of the previous Ii3al year, 'lhe Internal rovenue receipts rthow 0. pain of $ ,00,000 for tho month and more than t3.o&),ooo for ths four inont hs. The miscellaneous receipts show more diminution for Oatober, and a trifling increase for tho fiscal year current. Tho aggregate receipts show an jicrease of S2.250.00U for tho month and over -25,5uj;j.;0 for tho last third of too fiscal year. Tne surplus roeuue for tho montb was $11 o4j,uuu, and for the four months a little more rLan fciy.uOj.ouu. As compared with the taine mouth hint year, the ordinary expeuiiturts tor October show a decreaue of i2,-MH,(XO, and us compand with the same four month of last year tho ordinary expenditures since July i h:ivo fuhen o:t more than ifSUOO.UOi. Pension payments siiow a failing otf of more than cl, 'OarOJ for ihe month, but an increase of considerably ma:o than $5u0,00j for four montbs. l4'or tho last four months the payments nave r.ggroattrd hut a lew thousand less than ,O(.O,O'0, The interest payments show slitfut reductions. Tho total disbursements show a reduction of over fcyi0.0u0 for tho month and an iucrea-o of xnoro than 0 for the lour months 'lhe- reduction of the national debt, or tho total Utl less cash in tho Treasury, v aa ?ietK3;jiMij for October and 40,730,03 lor the four mouths. fl ho reduction of nearly 17f(KM,U0U in ihe net debt duriny October was elected by a redemption of over &",0i0,t.0J of bonds and an increase of 11,4:9,039 in the cash balance or socalled surplu in tho Treasury. The reduction in the principal of the interest-bearing debt during tho lut-t lour mouths has been M-l.ii.'v il , aud the surplus has increased nearlv $11,5oo,ix,U 9ince bept. avt and nearly $io,ouU,iiuO sinco June 'AO. Tho transformation of the Treasury's silver into g"Ul is going on with nu.rked rapidity. When tho present administration camu in the stock of old wu8 low and running down and the stock of s Iverwas largo and increasing, and there was no very &reat difference lotween the amounts of gold and fdUer held in the Treasury. The last Kepublican Secretary and the lirst Democratic Secretary fir some mouths were afraid to pav out loM for bonds lest the K'dd should be exhausted and the Treasury be compelled to force ailer payment 4 on tho Government creditors. Since tne administration bogan the bold policy of redeeming bonds freely, tLe gold has nearly doubled, though disbursed liberally, and tbe sliver has ful.en of! a third or more, thouzh forced upon no one. The Government now holds in cold rA.2N.i.i,J.id considerably more than it aver owned before an incroase for the month .f more than ?1u,om,uuu, and for lour months of nearly iNtVwo.UM. The silver owned Uy tho Uovernn out is So8,lt2 571 a decrease of nearly Oj.O .O for the month and of more thuu tl'vWO.C jo in four months, HncoJuIyl the Government s gold has increased inoretban ShVXxJ.ouu ani its btock of silver has decreased more than 1 ,ou ,000, Tho circulation of liver Las mcroabdd, both in the form of certin .atos anu in tho form of coins. The outstand ing silver cert;litato3 have increased for the moutn v5.J,131, and for four months Slti.SiiSJ-iO. Tho silver dollars in circulation have increased Vl,H4,v2i'A for the month, and sT.Ob-l, 1-7S for tho four months. On the other hand, tho net reduction in tho circulation of national banks was S8dl,v;&7 for the month raid 5-9.1JJ.540 for twelve months. While nearly nxi.uo. of national bank circulation was surrendered and destroyed in October, $23S,5u wait issued to new banks and Sl,'t48,8J was issued to banks increasing their circulation. The outstanding national bank circulation amounts to 1271,101,4, of which 5169,215,tW7 is secured by the deposit of bonds and SUO-V'V-'-'' 9 represented by lawful money deposited wit! 1 the Treasurer to redeem this portion of the nutional bank circulation. How httlo silver is being paid into the Treasury is shown by the fact that the percentage of silver certincates in the receipts of the N- w York Custom House has fallen off from ifi.2 in January to O.J. in October. The gold oertircatos formed about 3 per cout. of the tot il in July, l.H which is about tho time the redemption of bonds was rerouted, and since September, lHi, tho gold certificates have formed never loss than two-thirds of the total and most of the time about three-fourths. For the last thr e months they have been nearly fou::-hfths of tte whole. This present surplus, if calculated as it was under jrovious ad-miniBtrations, would be fclrit,f?31fW)3.

Following m a recapitulation 01 tne pnoi:c debt statement issued on tho 1st inst., cents omitted ; XTE2lEST-BEAIiING DEBT, Bonds at 41.. percent S 230,544,000 Bonds at 4 percent 72I447,.'i-0 Refunding certincates at 4 per cent. 155,030 Navy pension fund at S per cent. . . . 14,000,000 Pacific liaihroad bonds at 0 percent. 64,023,51-2

Principal 51.041,770,742 Interest IWWM

Total . . . . $1,049,532,1185 DEBT ON WU1CH 1NTKHKST HJLS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal 13,460,105 Interest 181,4S5

Total $3,641,670 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes 1346,738,121 Certificates of deposit 72l5,U0u Gold certificates 99,084,' 63 Silver certificates lG0,713,ii37 Fractional currency doss $8,375,934, estimated an lost or destroyed). .. 6,943,916 Principal 8621,295,767 TOTAL DEBT, Principal $.1,066,526,614 interest 8,550,100 Total $1,675,076,715 Less cash items available for reduction of thn debt 5 379,625,308 Less receive held for redemption of United btatos notes 100,000,000

Total 379,625,303 I

Total debt less available cash items $1,295,451,406 Net cash in the Treasury 50,758,704 Debt less cash in Treasury Nov. 1. 1SS7 1,233,692,701 Debt less cash in Treasury Oct. 1, 1W7 1,255,526,390 1 Decrease of debt during ths mouth. S 1G,833(C9 Decrease cf debt since June 30, 1887 40,736,035 CASH IN THE TKKASORY AVAILABLE FOR THE BEDUOTION OP PUBLIC DEBT, Gold held for uold certificates actually outstanding $96,084,773 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 100,713,957 U. S. notes lwl-1 for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,215,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpn.id 11,493,813 Interest prei aid not accrued per department jircuiar No. 90 600,392 Fractional currency 1,37'i Total available $279,025,308 llESmtVK FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Juuu&rv 14, 1875, aud July 12, 1S82 $ 100,000,000 Unavailable 1'or reduction of debt : Fractional silver coin 5 24,46,135 Minor coin 51.400

THEY DON'T WANT MERCY.

Total $ 2J.5i9,r.3j Certificates hold as cash 36,479.(352 Net cash balance on hand Sii,7S,704 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account. .$ 497,383,201

Some curious results produced by exploding marked blocks of gun-cotton oa flat plates of wrought iron have been desorihed by Mr. C. 12, Monroe. The gun-cotton blocks were placed with the lettered side down, aud the letters stamped in relief appeared in relief on to irou, after explosion, while, ou tho other hand, the letters depressed in tho gun-cotton were also depressed oa the iron plate.

Fkcher, Lingg, find Engel Write Letters to the Sovernor of Ulinois.

Coox CotrNTir Jail, Chicago, Kof. 2, 1887. To Mr. It. J. Ogk.sby, Governor r tte Stato of Illinois : Deau Bin I am aware that petitions t ere b-. laif circulated and elgned by tbe gener&l public

b.h tun ? you 10 commute ino senwnce c r aatn

viiich was inn toed upon me by a ( 'riinifial

Court of this State. Anent thU actior; f sympathizing and weM-meaning portion, of 9

jteDDlu 1 solemnly declare that it has not toT"

sanction. As a xnun cf hnor, as a mar of conscience, and aa a m an of princ;pte I cannot ac?et mercy. 1 am not (futi'.o of the charge la this ijdlctment of murder, lam o mura.rrm and cannot apologize 1 or an aetion of which I knoiv I um innocent-. And should i ask "mercv on account of my principles, which I lionesdy belie . e to be true a id noble? A'e I aoi no hypocrit, and have, therefore, no excuses to otf or with regard to being an Ani rciiist, becaa-ee the experiences of the hist e&hteen mouths have only strengthened my convictions. The question Is, Am 1 responsible forth destti of the pcficemenat the hiymarketf and I ay tu, unless yon assert that very AlKlltloniit could.. have been held responsible for tixe deeds of John Brown. Therefore, Icoulfc not a?k or accopt -mercy" without lowering myself in my self-estitnation. If I cannct obtafu rti$Urt front-.

the authorities aud be restored my family, then 1 prefer that the verdict should be carried, out as it stands. Every informed person must, I should think, admit that this verdict ;s solely duo t3 clas hatred, nreiudice. Mia it-1flmiTirT nf ni-ihlif ntiin-

ion by the milioio'is newspaper fraternity, ancL it dosiro on tho part of the privileged classes b' check the progressive labor movement. Th3 interested parties, of course, deny this, but it is nevertheless true, and lorn s-are that cowing ages will look upon our trial, conviction, and execution as the people of the nineteenth cent ury regard the barbarities of past generation)! as the outcome M intolerance and prejudice against advanced ideas. History repeats telf. As the powers that be have at all times thought, that hey could stem the nrorressivo tide dvexterminatinjr a few "kickers, so do the ruling classes to-day imagine that they can put a iwp10 the movement of labor emancipation by hauging a few of its advocates, rrogresa in itavictoriue march has had to overoomf many obscocles which seemed invmoible, and many of its apostles have died the death of martyrs. The obstacles which bar the road t f urogross-to-day seem to Do invincible, too; but they will he overcome, nevertheless. At all time whon the condition of soiiety had become fauchhata. lar'o pcrtion of the people complained cf tne existing injustice, the ruling cJ asses have denied the truth of these complaints, but have said that the discontent of the portion of thepeople in question was due only to the "pernicious influence" of "mcdicious agitators' Today again some people assert that ttwM t agitators" are the cause of the immense dis

satisfaction among the working pcoplat O, you people who speak thus, can you. not or Will yoa not read the signs of the timeH? Do you not see that the clouds on the social firm une nt are thickening ? Are you cot, for instance, aware thatthe control of industry and of the means of transportation, etc., is constantly concentrating: in fewer hrnds ; that the monopolistTs i. the sharks among the capitalists swallow tie little cues among them; that trusts, "pools, and other combinations are being foniifd In order to more thoroughly and tystematically fleece tho people ; that under tbe present system the development of technic and macninery is from year to your throwing more workinmeifc on the waysido ; that in some parts of thht greataud fertile laud a majority ot tho farmers ar obliged to mortgage their hemes in order to satisfy the greed of monstrous corporations ; that, in nhnrt, the rich are constantly gix-.wing. richer and the poor poorer ' Y es ? And do you not comprehend tbt all these evils find their origin in the present institution of society which allows one portion t f the human race to build fortunes upon the misfortunes of others; to enslave their fellow, men? IiiHtead of trying to remedy these evils, and instead of ascertaining just what the cause of the widening dissatisfaction is, the ruling elahsts, through their mouthpieces, the press,. pulpuVctc., defame and misrepresent the character, teachings, and motives of the advocatesof social reconstruction, and use the ride and club on them, and, if opportunity is favorable, send them to the gallows and prisons. Wili this do any good? As an answer I may as ell (mote the following words with vhieh Benjamin Franklin clcee-d his sstirical essay, MKules for Kedncine a Great n;jire-t-y a Small one," which he dedicated to tbe English Government in 1716 ; "Suppose all their !the kickers' complaints to be invented and. promote a by a few factious demagogues, whom it you could catch and hang all ould be quiet. Catch and hang a few accordingly ; and theblood of the martyrs shall work miracles in favor of your purpose i, e., your own ruin. So, I say, society may Lang a number of disciples of progress who have disinterestedly served the cause of the sons of toil, whk h ia tho cause of humanity, but their blood wili work miracles in bringing about the downfall ot modern society and in hastening the birth of s new era of civilization, Magna est Veritas, efc prevalebitl Adolph Fischer. To Mr JR. J. Oglesby, Governor of the S&ite of Illinois: Anent the fact that the progressive and liberty-kwing portion of the Americanpeople are endeavoring to prevail upon you tointerpose your porogative in my case, X feel impelled to declare, with my friend and com rod er i arsons, that I demand either liberty or teath If yon are really a servant oi the people according to the Constitution of the country, them you will, by virtue of your office, unoonditiona'.ly release me. Keferring to the general and inalienable rights of men, I have called upon the disinherited and oppressed masses to oppose the force oi' their oppressorsexercised by armed enforcement of infamous laws enacted in t he interest of capital with force Id. order io attain a dignified and manly existence by securing' the full returns of their labor. This and only this is the "crime At bich was proven against me, notwithstanding the omploNir.ent of perjured testimony on the part cf the State. And this crime is guaranteed not only as a right but as a duty by the American Constitution, the representatives of which, you aire supposed to be in the fetate of Illinois, But i:! you ere not tfce representative of the Constitution, but, like the great major ty of otnce-holders, a mere tool cl the monopolist, or a specific political clique, you will not encroach upon the thirst for blood displayed by the extortioners, because a mere mitigation of

the verdict would be cowardice ana a proof matthe ruling classes which you represert are themselves abashed at the monstrosity of my condemnation, and, consequently, ox their own violation of the most sacred sights cf the people. Tour decision in that event will not only judge me, but also yoursoif and those whom? you represent. Judge then! Louis laKGO.

Dear Sir: X, George Engel, citizen of the United States and of Chicago, and condemned to death, learn that thousands of citizen petition you, as the highest executive ottice of theState of Iiliuois, to commute my sentence from death to imprisonment. I protest emphatically against this on the following grounds : J am not aware of having violated any laws of tuis country. In my firm belief hi the Constitution which the founders of this Republic bequeathed to this people, and which remains unaltered, I have exercised the right of iree speech, free press, free thought, and fm as semblage, as guaranteed by the Constitution,, and have criticised the existing condition of society smd succored my fVllow-cttizent with my advice, which I regard as the right of every houtst citizen. The experience which I have had in this countrv, during the fifteen years that I have lived here, concerning tbe Fallot and administration of our public functionaries who have become totally corrupt., hoaeradioutod my belief in tho existence of equal rights of poor and rich, and the action cf tbe public o HI cord, police and miiitia, hav- pro.lucod the firm belief in mo that these conditions cannot last long. In accordance with this experience I have taught and advised. This I have doue in good faith of the rights whteh we are guaranteed by the Constitution, ant, not being conscious of my guilt, the "powers that be" may murder me, but they caunot It gaily punish ine. 1 pretest against a commutation of mv sentence, and demand either liberty or

death, l renounce any k:nd cr n-:rcy. ko- ... .m 11 inAUAV' kTvry

Diamonds were first set and polished at Bruges in 1450.

Stoke your turnips, beehi, potatoes, and carrots in bins in the barn, rjuckinc them

in dry dirt, and they will keep well axd be

also makes an excellent packing material. This plan is muoh better titan digging in the frozen earth for the root crcps, as is the case when they aie stored in mounds. It costs very little to plant trees along the road, and wben they snail reach a fair size they will add something to the valoe of the farm. Attractiveness is often of as much riAxto fortuity The iicposiLf; of a