The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 November 1892 — Page 2
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SECRETARY RUSK.
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A NEW oil field has been discovered in tho northern part of the island of Sumatra. The field is situated close to these a coast near excellent harbors.
A Portion of the timbers of Gen. Benedict Arnold's flap-ship Conpress, which sank in Lake Champlain October. It76 has been raised by Capt. C. W. A lams, of West Addison, Vt.
The statue of Liberty in New York harbor now wears a blazinp diadem of fifty-four electric lamps in vari-colored globes, and the radiance from it is equal to that from 270,000 candles.
JULY has proven a fatal month to ■presidents. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Zachary Taylor, M. Van Huron, Andrew Johnson, U. S. tlraut, all died in July. James A. Garfield received his death wound in July.
Dynamite has been superseded in Sweden for blastinp purposes. Electric wires are introduced in the rock and then heated. The sudden hoatinjj ot the rock rends it in pieces, quietly and effectively, without peril to human life.
Deri.in is the best managed city in the world, and its city fathers repulate the style of the buildinps which shall be put up. You can not build a dog kennel without showing a design of it at the city hall, and no man can put up a signboard on his own building until he has shown a diagram of it and has gotten the permission of the government.
The presidents of the New York banks receive big pay. Geo. C. Williams, president of the Chemical national bank; President Potts, of the Park bank, and President Tappan, of the Gallatin national bank, are each paid a salary of $25,000 yearly. The salaries of the other bank presidents of New York range from $10,000 to $15,000.
Germany has a society for the Promotion of Aerial Navigation, which is patronized by the emperor. The first experiments are to be made with a colossal gas balloon, fifty-six feet in diameter and correspondingly tall, and with improved equipments calculated to give it longer floating qualities. It is believed this monster can be made to travel at a height of six miles.
One-fifth of the married women of Massachusetts are childless. It is said that in no country save France can a similar condition of affairs be found. On the other hand, instead of over 20 per cent, only 13.27 per cent of the foreign-born women of Massachusetts are childless. What is true of this state Is undoubtedly in a greater or less degree true throughout the country.
Col. Pope, of boston, is at the head of a movement to secure an elaborate exhibit at the World's fair of the best (methods for making roadways. It is -estimated that the cost of such an exhibition will be not less than $100,000, . and the government is to be asked to ^pay the cost on the ground that the general government is directly interested in the question of better or the best roadways.
The heads of the great railroad corporations are nearly all well paid. Chauncev M. Depew's salary as president of the New York Central can not fall below $100,000 a year. George B. Roberts, president of the Pennsylvania, receives a salary of $50,000, and President A. A. McLeod is paid the same by the Reading Co. Albert Fink, when he was commissioner of the Trunk Line association,
was paid $'.>5,000 a year.
Queen Victoria has prepared a Ibrooch to Miss Kate Marsden, the lady who dovotes herself to the founding of leper colonies in Siberia and other re- ! mote parts, and giving the lepers medical and other comforts. She is on her ■way to the United States to ask for help m her benevolent pursuits. The brooch is formed of a large pearl, on which stands an angel of gold. Across the angel’s breast is a scroll with the words,
“Victoria Regina.”
The chief o(fleers of the leading trust companies of New York receive big salaries. Frederick P. Olcott, president of the Central Trust Co., receives $60,000 a year; Richard King, president of the Union Trust, ?')0,0J0; Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, president of the Mercantile Trust, $30,000; John A. Stewart, president of the United States Trust, $.50,000, and Col. W. L Trcnholm, who used to help run the civil service machine, is now president of the American Surety •Co., $20,000.
The Utica (N. Y.) Press says that a novel bet was made in a boardinghouse in that city. The boarders were about equally divided between democrats and republicans, and they had had numerous heated discussions at the table and elsewhere. Finally they agreed among themselves that if Harriaon were eh ted all the democrats svould leave the house, and if Cleveland won the republicans would leave forthwith. Just wiiere the landlady came in is a question.
BERLIN is enlarging its boundaries, and suburban towns are to be taken into the city within a short time which will give it a population of more than 8.000. 000. This will make it the second city in the world, for Paris has less than 8.500.000, and New York and Rrooklyn -together counted up by the last census only 2,250,000. Berlin has grown like 4 green bay tree since the Franco-Prus-•sian war, and there is no city in the 'United States which has increased so fast in population. In ISO ) she had less than 500,000 people, and before sha went to w», with France she had only 758,009.
Ilerinnn Nieglor, a < htcagonii. In a Fit of Suildnn tlealuua Frenzy Kills Ills Moth-er-In-Law anil Her HuslianU, Wounds His Wife and Two Others and Is shot by an Officer in a Struggle to Escape Arrest. Chicago, Nov. 21. — Herman Siegler, a cabinetmaker living at No. 723 North Paulina street, got up early Sunday morning, went to his brother's house and borrowed a shotgun on the pretext that he wanted to go hunting, returned home, shot and killed his father and mother-in-law, seriously wounded his wife and tilled a policeman's nose full of buckshot, he in return getting a bullet in his abdomen from another officer's revolver. His work of death was done mainly In the house in which he lived, but after policemen were summoned the battle waged between him from the house and the officers from the street. He emptied a doubled-barreled shotgun at them a dozen times and bullets from their revolvers flew in his di- | rection as rapidly as fingers could pull the triggers. Thousands of people, attracted by the fusillade, swarmed around the house, and when Officer Dan McCarthy finally grappled with and overcame the murderer they fairly howled for his blood. Some one started the cry, “Lynch him!” and it was taken up by excited men and women. Although four patrol wagon loads of officers were on i the ground they had a herculean task to prevent the infuriated people from making short shrift of the then cowering murderer. He was finally removed in safety to the East Chicago avenue police station and subsequently to the county hospital. Until Sunday, so far as can be learned, there had been no trouble between any of the persons in the house, j Siegler arose early Sunday morning after a sleepless night and after a hasty breakfast hurried away, making petulent answers to his wife's queries as to where he was going. He went direct to the home of his brother and borrowed a shotgun, ostensibly logo hunt-
ing.
On reaching home, shortly after noon, Herman called his 10-year-old ; son IVillie, and cursed him, then ! ran back to the closet in the rear of the kitchen, where he had placed the shotgun, dragged it out, pulled shells from his pocket and hurriedly loaded both barrels. The son screamed: “Papa, put down that gun.” Mrs. Siles, the 70-year-old mother-in-law, who was upstairs, hearing the child crying, ran down into the narrow hall and called out: “Herman, what are you doing with that gun?” He turned on her savagely and muttered: “Judgment day has come, lam God. Youmustdie.” Without another word he leveled the gun and fired. The muzzle was but a foot from her and the entire loud took effect in her left breast, and with a scream she fell dead at his feet. Mr. Siles, hearing the shot and the scream of Ids murdered wife, came running downstairs. Though an old man and frail he tried to grapple with the murderer. Siegler threw him off easily, drew down his gun and shot him. The load of buckshot tore through Siles’ right arm and entered his side. He fell prostrate over his murdered wife, but managed to again grapple with Siegler, As they struggled for possession of the gun Mrs. Siegler and her children ran for the front door. As she threw it open Mr. Siles, weak from loss of blood and unable to continue the fight, made his escape, close•y followed by Siegler. Mr. Siles turned again when on the sidewalk and threw up bis hand in a deprecating way, when Siegler shot him again in the neck and face and the old man fell over dead. Turning from this body Siegler saw his wife, babe in arms, running down the street. As she looked buck he leveled the gun at her. She screamed: “O, Herman!" as he fired. The shots struck in the back of the shoulder, side of the neck and right arm. She saved the life of her child by changing its position in her arms. Seeing that his wife had escaped Siegler gave a look down the street and then ran into the house. The quick succession of shots seemingly aroused the entire neighborhood and thousands of people came running from all directions. Some citizens turned in an alarm to the police and the North avenue station patrol wagon came rattling 1 up. Officers Simmonsen and Looby ! ran up to the house with drawn revolvers. Siegler pushed open the front door, stepped out, and -talcing deliberate aim at Simmonsen fired, but fortunately missed him. The plucky officer leveled his revolver and fired three shots, the last bullet striking Siegler in the side, and lie thereupon retreated into the house. Officers surrounded the house, and a fusilade of shots were exchanged, during which Officer Donoghue was badly wounded. Finally emerging from the j house Siegler advanced on the officers with his gtm leveled, when Detective McCarthy ran up from behind, and soon had him safely pinioned. Then followed the exciting scene of his removal to the station, and the attempted lynching by the infuriated crowd, narrated at the beginning of this dispatch. At the station Siegler made a statement It was short incoherent and indicative of insanity. He was after warns taken to a hospital.
The Amalgaimiteil AmturJ^tlon Ileeldea to Full the llnniesteail Strike. Homestead, I’a , Nov. 21.—The great •trike at Carnegie's Homestead steel works has been declared off. After a five months' struggle, which for bitterness lias probably never been equaled in this country, the army of strikers finally decided on Sunday to give up the fight. The action was taken at a meeting of the lodges of the Amalgamated association at Homestead Sunday afternoon, the vote •lauding 101 in favor of declaring the •trike off and 91 against it. .Among those present at the meeting were Vice President Carney, Secretary Kilgallon, Treasure!- Madden and David Lynch, of the advisory board. The officials addressed the members and in plain v.ords told them the strike was lost and advised them to take steps to better their condition. The remarks met with considerable opposition, but when the vote was taken it showed a majority of ten in favor of declaring the strike off. Those who were in favor of calling the strike off were jubilant, while those who were against it were badly put out. Most of the latter were men who were obstinate, and many of them were men who bad either applied for positions in the mill and hail been turned down or felt sure that their names were on the company's black list and could not get positions. A member of the advisory board said that he had been trying to get the strike declared off for some weeks, as he knew it was lost, anil it would have been better for the men, as a great many more of them could have got their i laces back. Those who cannot got back are in a bad fix,as the relief funds will be stopped and many hundreds of them have nothing to live
on.
The people in Homestead, especially the business men, are highly elated over the declaration to call the strike off, for if it had continued much longer it would have ruined the town. Many business houses have fallen into the bands of the sheriff since the strike has been on. Business is expected to resume its normal condition soon. The Homestead strike has proved one of the most disastrous In the history of the country. It originated from a reduction in wages in tlio departments where members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steelworkers were employed. The hitch was on what is known as the sliding scale. It is a scale which regulates the men's wages by the market price of steel billeis. Nearly every raill in this vicinity signed the scale, including the mills of the Carnegie company. At the refusal of the firm to sign the scale for the Homestead mill a lockout occurred by the Amalgamated association and they were Joined by the mechanics, who struck out of sympathy only, their wages not being reduced. The strikers were determined to keep non-union men out of the mill and adopted military discipline. The story id the arrival and bloody fight with the Pinkertons on July 6, the subsequent riotous proceeding and the calling out of the national guard and its departure after three months' duty, is too well known to repeat. For six weeks the mill has been running, but until w ithin the last week the strikers have steadfastly refused to admit defeat. The strike at one time involved nearly 10 000 men and the loss in wages will reach, it is said, in the neighborhood of Sfi.ufd.out. Then there is the imiiu nse loss to the linn which caunut bo estimated, but which conservative people put at least at double the amount lost by the men in wages. To this can be added nearly 1500,000 paid to the state troops and the costs to the county of Allegheny for the riot, treason and other cases growing out of the strike. At least thirty-five deaths were directly or indirectly caused by the strike. Besides those killed in the battle of July 6 many soldiers contracted fever which resulted fatally, one soldier was shot accidentally by a comrade, another was killed hy the cars, one striker committed suicide, one drowned, one was killed by the cars, several non-union men died from fever and several were killed in the mill, and cue w as murdered by another non-unionist. The attempted assassination of Chairman Frick of the Carnegie company is also indirectly credited to the strike.
TOOK A BIG SUM.
A Thieving Mt-s<enger ltc>b» tile U. S. Express Company-lie I.eaves Hu Train at Davenport, Taking « 100,000—Caught lu Chicago and the Cash Kecovcred. Chicago, Nov. 21.—Georffe J. Hanley, one of the United States Express Company’s messengers, is under arrest at the Central station charged with stealing a package containing SlOJ.OOO in currency consigned to his care in Omaha Thursday night for delivery in Chicago Thursday. When arrasted in this city Thursday night by Detectives Plunkett and Weaver Hagley confessed his crime and agreed io take the officers to Davenport, la., where he bad left the train to hide the valuable package. The offieers hoarded a train with their prisoner, found the money where Hagley had put it and returned to the city with their prisoner. The money was delivered to the express company officials, who will prosecute their dishonest messenger. Htigley has been in the employ of the United States Express Company for seven or eight years. For the lust two years he has been on the road; the most of that time his route has been between Chicago and Omaha. Previous to that lie was a driver on one of the wagons in Iowa. He had always enjoyed the confidence of his employers and was implicitly trusted. Many times he has carried larger sums of money to this city than was contained in the package he attempted to steal, but never before has the company had any reason to mistrust him.
AiihuhI of tho Head of the Ajjricultural Ilepnrluient. Washington, Nov. 21—The report of the secretary of agriculture has been submitted to the president. The report begins with a comparison of the export trade of the last fiscal year with that of former years, and emphasizes the fact that of the more than ll.UOO.OOO.OUO, representing the exports of our domestic products for the last year, nearly HO per cent, consisted of agricultural products, thus not only making the United States the creditor of the world for a sum exceeding $200,J00.U00—the excess of our exports over imports —but relieved our home markets from a surplus product which would otherwise have reduced prices to a point below the cost of production. For a large share in bringing about the conditions which have made these gratifying results possible the secretary claims credit for his department. In regard to imports he finds encouragement for the farmers in the fact that in spite of an aggregate increase there is a reduction in the proportion of imports consisting of products which compete with our American agriculture, 1 for, while in the fiscal year ended in 1HH9 54 per cent of the imports were competing, only 44 per cent, of our imports for the last fiscal year did so compete. He nevertheless regards Imports competing with the products of our own soil as still far too great. Ho instances M0,000,000 worth of animal products. 107,003,000 worth of libers, $27,000,000 worth of hides, 120,000,000 worth of fruits and wines, as articles of this kind, and cites the imports of raw silk, aroounting to $28,000,000 yearly, as an instance of products imported which could with proper encouragement bo produced in our own conn try. He declares these figures to indfcAte the main ultimate object of the work of the department, which he defines, in brief, as “the closest study of all markets abroad which may be reached by our own agricultural products, accompanied by persistent and intelligent efforts to extend them and the substitution in our own markets of home-grown for foreign-grown products.” The report shows an increase of 40,000,000 pounds of pork sent to countries which formerly excluded American perk, and $40,000,000 value increase in exports of live cattle. All this comes from the increased precautions to secure heal thr illness of American food products. The regulations enforced for the prevention of Texas fever alone have saved cattle growers more than three times the cost of running the whole department. And as to the Bupprossron of pleuro-pneumonla, the secretary grows emphatic. Notwithstanding the assertions to the contrary of London newspapers, he again declares that pleuropneumonia does not exist in the United States. This result, ho claims, has been obtained at a cost less by $100,000 than was paid out by LI real Britain during seven years as indemnity for slaughtering cattle alone. He also points out that the total loss to the cattlegrowers of Great Britain by this disease in deaths alone has amounted to not less than $600,000,000, and that this is the only country in the world where the disease, having *once gained a foothold, has been entirely eradicated, s Secretary Rusk explains why wheat did not realize the big Mbpes raised by the short crops in various European countries in 1891 by saying that those anticipations of enhanced prices failed to take into account the changed conditions now surrounding the production and marketing of tbo world’s wheat crop. “Taking the world throughout,” says the secretary, “the fat crops more than equaled the lean crops of 1891, so that there was actually more wheat grown in that year than in 1890.” Even the exports from Russia, wh* r© famine existed in so large a section and where exports were for a time prohibited, amounted to 108,000,000 bushels, nearly as much as the average of the last four years, and more than the average for the last ten years. Secretary Rusk says: “The conditions which have at last overwhelmed cotton growers now confront wheat growers.” Hence the American farmer must reduce the wheat acreage and so bring produc- ; lion down«to the normal demand. While insisting that southern cotton growers ::»ust continue to reduce the acreage of cotton | planted, lie has some encouragement to offer : them in the shape of new varieties of cotum seed. He has undertaken experiments with imported seed to secure the production of a home- ! grown cotton which will meet all the requirements for which Egyptian and other cottons ; arc now imported. Ho also wants tho United States to raise its own raw silk, Instead of % sending $2^000,000 a year abroad for the raw material, and ho thinks 167,000,000 a year now i spent for imported fibers might bo saved, i The secretary says of the work of his Indian corn agents in Germany that many difficulties attended the introduction of a new food hcretoi fore generally regarded in Europe as notsuita- | bio for human consumption. A mixed corn and ] rye bread was found necessary to secure keeping qualities in a country where all bread is made and sold by the bakeries, and corn-grinding machinery is now in use in several mills in that country. One result is tho maintenance of the price of corn in tho I face of tho largely increased exports, | conditions which have heretofore always accompanied a groat depreciation | in price. The corn exports for 1H90, the only year in which they have equaled those of tho present year, brought the price down to a fraction under v2 cents a bushel at port of shipment, against a fraction over 85 cents a bushel this year, the difference aggregating on the exports of the last fiscal year not less than $10,000,000. Secretary Rusk throws cold water on the rainmakers. Tho experiments are being loyally made, as congress directed, but tho facts in his possession do not justify the anticipations formed by the believers in this method of artificial rain making. The experience of the department in the domestic sugar industry for tho last year confirms his former reports and shows that domestic sugar can be produced with profit to the grower of the crop and to the manufacturer, provided that the conditions of culture and manufacture insisted upon by the department
are secured.
The secretary expresses his profound appreciation of the cordial sympathy and broad intelligence with which theprcsiclcnthas uniformly, throughout his administration, heeded tho needs of agriculture, and he predicts that the people of this country will learn to apprcclatf more and more the fact that the first adminis tration during which the department of agriculture held the rank of an executive department of the government was presided over by a chief executive who never failed to appreciate thr importance of agriculture, its dignity and it value to the country at large.
THEY ARE PLEASED.
frolilbltlonists Satisfied with the Showing Made at the Polls hy Their Party. Chicago, Nov. 18.—“Leaders of tho prohibition party are very much encouraged over the result* of the election just passed,*’ said C L. Stevens, editor of the Lever, the official organ of that party. He continued: “Wc think tho national vote will run to about 825,000, against 250.000 for 1888 In the western states, such as Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota, where the people’s party movement was very strong, we lost some from our vote of four years ago. On the other hand, in most of the states east of the Mississippi river and in Iowa and California wo made substantial gains. Nearly every state shows some increase over 1888. I believe that the official returns will show the increase in Illinois to be the greatest of any state. Indiana made good gains and also New York, including New York city, and most of the New England
states.”
Mr. Stevens gives the following table ils a conservative estimate of the prohibition vote by states:
1888. 1899.
Alabama 583 OoO Arkunsus 614 1,000 (’aliforn a 5,701 15,000 rvUrtfuil.. 9 HU 9 9IH1
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ColoraUn 2,191 2.2U0 Connecticut 4,234 4,t>tJ0 D-laware 400 800 Florida 417 800 Gcortfla 1,808 1,NW i’>oo Illinois 21.095 SO.uiiO Indians 11,881 16,000 Iowa 3.550 8,000 KansaH 0,779 7,<»>0 Kentucky 6,225 8,000 Louisiana 160 150 Maine 2.691 4.000 Maryland 4,707 7,000 Massachusetts 8,701 9,000
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20.042 21,000 ... 15,316 16.000
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Mlssisslnpl ... 218 2,000 Missouri 4,539 6,000 Montana 400 Nebraska 8,429 9,50) Nevada 41 100 New Hampshire 1,594 1.7o0 New Jersey 7 939 10,000 New York 20,231 41,000 North Carolina 2,787 5,000 North Dakota .... Ohio 24.356 30,000 Oregon 1,677 2,000 Pennsylvania 20,917 26,000 Rhode Island 1,251 l.soo Tennessee 5.363 6,(too Texas 4,749 7.00O Vermont. 1,469 1,71X1 Virginia 1,682 6,000 Washington 3,(BO West Virginia 1.084 1,000 Wisconsin 14,277 15,000
Totals 249,945 327,350
JOY TURNED TO GRIEF.
THE GALE'S FURY.
Dig Fire Near Chicago. Chicago. Nov. 31.—Thirty sheds containing 330,000 barrels of suit and belonging to the Michigan Salt Company were almost totally destroyed by tire in Ctimmintrs Sunday nip-lit. Superintendent llavn.es, the local manhjrer of tho salt company, estiatates the loss at, 9240,009.
Five I.Ikvh Lost in an Arkansas Cyclone — Stock Killed and Property Itulned. Eureka Si'iungh, Ark., Nov. 31.— News lias just reached here that a cy- 1 clone struck Harrison, Ark., near here Thursday nijfht, killing- live residents and wounding many others. A large number of houses were blown down 1 and considerable stock was killed and curried off. Den ver, Nov. 21.—A passenger train on the South 1’ark rut way was on Friday night, near Kenosha, blown from the track by a heavy wind and toppled over au embankment. Eleven people were hurt,but it is thought none fatally. |
Lord Tennyson was morbidly sensitive to all criticism of his work. An unkind word in the obscurest newspaper wotild literally cut him to the heart, it is said. At the same time he was curious to hear everything said or written about him, and he had a great relish for flattery.
Solicitor Hepburn’i* Report. Washington, Nov. 21.—Gen. W. P Hepburn, solicitor for the treasury, has made a report of the character amount and results of public litigation conducted under his direction during the fiscal year ended June S3 last. The whole number of suit! commenced was 5,153 for the recovery of 83,465,170. Of the whole number of suits brought, 3,157 were decided in favor of the l nited States, forty-three adversely to the United States, 657 were settled and dismissed, and in eight the penalties were remitted, leaving 1,287 still pending at the beginning of the fiscal year.
A FAST penman will write at the rate of thirty words s minute, which means that in an hour’s steady writing he has drawn his pen along a space of three hundred yards.
New handkerchiefs arc of chiffon, and are embroidered ia fine and delicate designs.
To Ills: a Ship ( anal. Washington, Nov. 21.—One of the most important projects of the United States engineers is the excavation of a ship channel 30 and 21 feet deep in the shallows of the connecting waters of the great lakes between Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo. The work is divided ; into eight sections and must be begun by May 15, 1803. and finished within three working seasons, that is a period of 300 working days bet weep May 15 and Nov. 30. The contracts will lie awarded by sections. There is available for commencing the work the sum of $375,000, while congress tias limited the cost of the channel to $3,340,000.
An Exploalon of I’omler at a Jnlllliratl.m Meeting In ArkaiiMa. Fo.t. Four Live.— Fifteen rersonx Injured, Fayetteville, Ark., Nov. is.—The democrats of Mountain View held a presidential election celebration in the district schoolhouse Wednesday night, and a terrible disaster ended the proceedings prematurely. Anvil firing and the discharge of fireworks were features of the jollification, and as a consequence a large quantity of explosives had been provided. A portion of these had been stored iu the schoolhouse. During the speech-making and while the building was packed with men, women and children, two kegs of powder exploded. The results were frightful. Tho schoolhouse was totally wrecked and most of its occupants buried in the ruins. Those who could extricate themselves set about at once to rescue the others. Shrieks and moans came from the mass of wrecked timbers, and it was evident that the calamity was a terrible one. The debris took fire in several places, and it required hard work to prevent the' cremation of the persons who were imprisoned. The flames were subdued, however, and only one person suffered by the fire. A son and daughter of Silas Graham were taken out dead, and Berry Sherod, one of the most prominent residents of Washington county, was so badly injured that ho has since died. Another man whose name has not been learned was also killed. Fifteen other persons were injured, some fatally, but their names have not been learned here. Berry Sherod suffered horrible agonies, mentally as well as physically, before he was gotten out of the ruins. He was pinned down ty timbers and was burned beyond recognition. He lived several hours after being rescued.
AFTER THE PINKERTONS.
A Senate Committee In Chicago Investigating the Employment ot Armed Men During Labor Troubles. Chicago, Nov. 18.—An investigation into Pinkerton methods was begun at the Grand Pacific hotel when Senator Gal linger, of New Hampshire, and Senator I’feffer, of Kansas, 0/ the senatorial committee of seven appointed by the president last August, began looking into the Chicago end of the relations between detectives and labor organizations. The work was quietly begun and it was not known it was in progress until a representative of tho Pinkerton agency made his appearance as a witness. The two senators named are the only ones in the city, tho other members, Senator Hansborough, of North Dakota; Fenton, of California; White, of Louisiana, and Hill, of New York, not being able to be present. The Pinkerton officers say they are not at all worried by the inquiry and say the committee’s work of investigation is general in its nature and is not specifically directed toward the Homestead affair. They think the rep'>r- w made by the senators will result in a law expressing the best method of dealing with labor troubles in the way of strikes and riots.
I.oat at Sea. London, Nov. 18.—The collier Tiretoria. bound froin Glasgow to Bordeaux, caught fire and sank near Brest Wednesday. The mate was lost. The captain and five men are missing. Eleven of the crew were saved.
Itrakrnmii Auclflentally K!11<mL Newark, O., Nov. 17. -W. E. Tucker, a young man aged 26 years, employed us a hrakeroan on the, fStraitsvllle division of the Baltimore <fc Ohic, fell between the cars at Bristol tunnel and was instantly killed. Tho remains were taken to his home in Gratiot, this county. National Ilrewary Huriird.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 18.—Fire was dis overed at 9 a. in. in the National biewery, at O'Donnell street and Third avenue, Canton, it is a suburb, and Bid was asked of the city tire department Loss will be about 8300,000.
Til* Town of Kvd Itml, 111., 4 Ixlted 1»y • Cyclone Which Wreck* Ktghty-Four Building*, Kill* One Feraou and Injures Many Olhera—Three Lives Lost Near New rnleatints IN. Red Bud, 111.. Nov. 18.—A eyelono, beaded due northeast, its wings fraught with ck-atli and ruin, -came bounding over the earth from the Mississippi bluffs at 8:30 o'clock Thursday morning and for the distance of half a mile it plunged its tortuous way along through Red Bud, leveling houses, barns, fences, shade trees and slirubbe ry. Only one person was killed, Willie Kopp, aged 10, though nearly a dozen have cuts and bruises which may, ia two or three cases, cost life. Eighty-four houses are wrecked, household goods totally destroyed and business paralyzeit The damage will exceed SiriO.ObO. the insurance agents’ report on houses alone being $85,000. The only person killed outright was Willie Kopp, aged 10. Those fatally injured arc: Mrs. Jacob Kopp, Mrs. Peter Kardell, Mrs. M. Triesweiler. Among the others seriously injured are: Herman Droeg, Mrs. Margaret Havermnnn, S. D. Berry, Mrs. S. I). Perry. Archie Sutherland, Mrs. John Mander feldt, Mrs. Louise Bair, Julius Hahn, Julius Heilmann, Mr. and Mrs. Alden Starr, Charles Starr, Peter Doz, Miss Emma Crowe, liesides those named many were badly bruised and suffered from exposure. The large stone residence of Peter Kardell had been crushed into powder and Mr. and Mrs. Kardell and their daughter, Mrs Louise Blair, were hurt very seriously, blood pouring from the old lady’s mouth whenever she was moved. Mrs. M. Triesweiler was so badly frightened that it is believed she will die. Mrs. Margaret Havermann was badly hurt by glass and falling brick. Mr. and Mrs. John Mundcrfeldt were cut and bruised, as were also Mr. and Mrs. Alden fStarr. Miss Emma Crowe was crushed and cut and Julius Halin received serious bruises. He required Hie services of the doctors, and a Air. Heilmann, who was lifted on his feather bed out of the second story of an unroofed building and was deposited in the next lot, did not alight without severe cuts. 8. D. Perry, of the Red Bud Democrat, lost all he had in the world, his presses and everything being smashed. The brick of his house came down upon him and his wife in their bed and they crawled out of the debris all cut and crippled. Red Bud is situated in the northwest part of Randolph county, 37 miles from 8t. Louis, on the Mobile & Ohio railway, and was one of Hie most improved cities in southern Illinois. It contains 1,500 people, lias a number of stores, two mills of 800-barrel capacity each, a bank, four churches, three of which are wrecked, a public school, now in ruins, and v, as a popular pleasure resort. It* beauty is sadly marred by the storm and it will lie long before it can regain its vigor. Help is needed, as a cold wave has added to Hie sufferings of those who were made homeless. St. Louis, Nov. 18.—Near New Palestine, 111., the wind blew almost a hurricane, and the only fatalities occurred at the home of Herman Otteng, where a tree was blown across the residence, crushing it. Otteng had a narrow escape. Mrs. Otteng and her two cliil dren were killed. Mascoutah, 111., Nov. 18.—A cyclone struck Hie southern portions of St. Clair, Washington and Clinton counties at an early hour Thursday morning. Houses were blown down at Fayetteville, New Memphis and Queen’s Luke. The large* lumber sheds at the latter place were scattered iu all directions. The cloud was black as night and appeared to roll upon Hie earth. Whole orchard* were destroyed, many of the treet being twisted off at the ground. There were numerous narrow escape.^ but as yet no serious casualties havt been reported. The course of th* cyclone was from southwest to northeast. Durham, Ark., Nov. 18.—A village in Washington, on White river, was totally destroyed by a cyclone at 8 o’clock Thursday morning. Every house in the town except the school- . house was demolished. No lives wer« ^ lost, but the damage to property is great I’KORtA, 111., Nov. 18. — Peoria was visited by a violent storm Thursday, commencing with a driving rain. At 5 o'clock snow began to fall and the tem perature lowered 20 degrees in fou hours. The coldest weather of the season was experienced Thursday night. Telegrams from the surrounding territory indicate that the storm is general in this portion of the state. Salem, 111., Nov. 18—A violent storm, accompanied by hail and torrents of rain, prevailed through this section at an early hour Thursday morning. Hail iu many instances as large as walnuts fell thick and fast and shattered many window panes in residences. The steeple of the Baptist church was blown down, trees, haystacks and fences laid, houses unroofed and much other damage done. Kansas City, Mo.. Nov. 18.—The heavy snowstorm of Thursday throughout Missouri and portions of Kansas, southeastern Nebraska and southwestern Iowa will greatly benefit winter when* lb-ports received at the various railroad offices are that the fall of snow was ns good as a heavy rainfall and has saved the winter wheat.
Killed lliin«Hf. New York, Nov. 18.—Edmund Titus, a retired New York merchant, committed suicide Wednesday morning in his carriage house, at his country home at Seursdale, Westchester county. He was for many years at the head of Hie firm of Titus, Frazier & Titus, produce and feed merchants of this city. Five years ago Mr. Titus retired from active business life with a fortune estimated at $3,000,000. No reason can be given for the act, and it was a great surprise to his friends. Mr. Titus was about 68 years old and a prominent Quaker.