Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1887 — Page 6

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THJ3 mDiA.HA STATE ÖKNTINEL. WEDNESDAY. AUG DST 24 1887.

AN OCEAN DISASTER. Tt8 Item Lies Stoiosr City cf Mistreil Desirojed by Firs.

A Bc&t CacUinisg Six Puseageri ml Ssven Kernten of ths Crew Missing. The SarviTcn Picked Up ly tis York C.ty ml Lis lei it QiMnsbwn. Iosdok, August 19. The Inrnan Line tteamei City of Montreal baa been destroyed by fire at sea. Her passengers were sayed. Tee City of Montreal left New York August 6 for Liverpool. She was ommanded by Captain Land. The new3 of the burning.'of the City of Montreal was learned upon the arrival at Qneenstown, this morning, of the British steamer York City, Captain Bennett, which left Baltimore August 4 for London. The passen gers and crew of the City of Montreal were takes off the York City by the tug Mount Etna and landed at Qneenstown. All were accounted for except the thirteen persons in a micsirg boat. It is learned that ttort'y alter the passengers had gone to bed on the night of the 10ih, the ship beiDg In latitude 2Z north at the time they were aroused by an alarm of fire. A scene of consternation enued acd the passengers were greatly terrified when they found oat the trae State of affairs. The smoke cansea by the fire was suffocating. The passengers dressed and got on deck as quickly as possible acd with bat little appearance of panic. The fire originated in the cotton stored in the after main hold. Nine streams of water were soon working on the flimes and the course of the vessel was shaped toward New Form dl and, 400 miles distant The flames spread with great rapidity and soon tad burst out with terrific force through the midway and after haters, the heat being Intense. It became eviient that it was impossible to save the ship, and a momentary panic ensued. The boats were lowered and passengers and crew got into them. The boats soon scattered and one entirely vanished. This contained two stewards, two seamen and seven passengers, and there is bat little doubt that the whale boat-load perished. The boat did not contain a fall crew and left the city of Montreal against the cap- ' tains orders, as there was time to take many more in it. The other suryivors consider the fate of the occupants of the list boat as a judgment for their cowardice. A bark was sighted shortly a'ter the boats left the steamer and her crew were preparing to pick up the survivors, when the steamer York City, attracted by the fames from the burning vessel, which were shooting up a hundred feet in the air bore dotra and with difficulty took all hands on board. The rescued people were treated with the utmost kindness by the captala and crew of the York City, and the passengers apeak with much feeling of the consideration which was accorded to th9ai. The York City proceeded to London after landing the City of Montreal's passengers and crew at Qneenstown. The survivors are unanimous in declaring that the officers and crew of the City of Montreal did their dn!y nobly and skillfully. The names of those of the missing boat, are: Passengers Samuel Hoffman, George Arnold, Samuel McKee; Intermediate; Kenard Woolton, Stephen Tuppor. Simon Eoelli, 8. Katchinka. Crew Henry Frazer, Charles Eoade, William Franny, Patrick Hnghes (trimmer), Charles Smith lInterpreor),Thos. Wilberforce (steward). Tbe steamer was worth aoout half a million dollars. The insurance is not known. Official lie port ot Captain Laad, the Comman der of the Vessel. QrzEssTowjT, August 19. Captain Land, commander of the City of Montreal, makes the following report: "On the 10th instant the wind was north to northwesterly. About 9 o'clock of the evening of that day fire was discovered in . the after hatch among the cotton. The fire hose was at once connected and streams of water were poured down upon the flames. Annihilators and hand grenade fire extinguishers were freely used. The f re, however, overcame all efforts to suppress It, and spread over ths upper and lower decks. The ship was doomed from the bfginning of the fire, and the boats had been actively provisioned. At C o'clock cn the morning of the 11th inst the flames burst through the after hatches. The boats were lowered. There was a high sea at the time and this caused mach difficulty. The women and children were first put aboard the boats, acd the male passengers and the crew were embarked afterward. The lack of time prevented the manning of the boats by their rerpective crews, the men being compelled to continue until the la3t moment tbe work ot keeping the flames down. All tbe boats left the ship safely, but by an unfortunate oversight, twenty people were left aboard the burning veaseL Boat. No. 3 returned and took off six of the number. Boat No. C, with the fourth officer took off six more. A barque was then reported approaching: and when ill the boats ha i put their people aboad her they returned and took off those remaining on the burning steamer. It was found that boat Nj. 8 was missing. She was seen to put herself before the wind when she left the ship, using her oars in support of the sails. Ehe ran away from the vessel In direct disobedience to the Captain's orders. Every body spent the night aboard the German barque Trabant, Captain Scheel, from Charleston, July 2d, for London, and all were then transferred to the York City, which stayed by throughout the night and vainly searched for the misdns boat. Capt. Land says- he la confident Ithat the people in boat No. S are saved, as the accident occurred in the track of steamers bound east aad west. The passengers, he Added, were cool and obedient during the criaia, and the crews were steady. The passengers and crew lost everything they had aboard the City 9f Montreal, cicept jfiist

they stood in when they went to the boats. The origin of the fire, Capt Land says, la unknown. He Is certain that it broke out in more than one place among the cotton. The ship was lost In latitude 43:33 north, longitude 43:54 west The following is a list of those who were in boat No. 8, intermediate passengers: Samuel Kauffman, George Arnold, Samuel McKee; sterage : Kennard Woolton. Stephen Luppe r, Simon Kowelsky, S. Kachmohi. Crew: Henry Frazer, Charles Eeade, Wm. Franney, Patrick Hughes; Che rlcs 8mith, interpreter; Thomas Wilberfcrce, steward. The reecuid passengers and crew when landed atQreenstown, by the York City, were in a pitiable condition. The I nman company's agents at once forwarded all of the passengers who were prepared to continue their travels, and did everything possible to be done for the comfort of the rest. The steamer Marathon, ot the Canard company's fleet, will sail in place of the City ot Montreal on Tuesday next. The Captain of the bark Trabant undertook to cruise around after the York City left the scene of the burning. There is,

therefore, reason to hope that the missing boat has been rescued. Tue rescued pass engers presented an address to Captain Land praising his conduct and thanking him for his efforts In their bthalf. NO REST FOR THE BOODLERS; Chicago, August 19. The announce ment this mormog that lienry bheridan is mjeUriously missing is believed to be the first of a series of sensational denouements in connection with a coming wholesale prosecution ofthe bribe-taking members of the Chicago uoara or Aldermen, baertaaa was tte private secretary and confidential man of Dwieht K. Tripp, ex-eeneral man ager of the Chicago Sectional Underground Electric Co., a concern which secured, at practically no expense, a virtual monopoly of the underground wire conduits in all the streets of this city a fraLchise enormously valuable and now vested in a suil greater monopoly, the socalled (i 8 Trust, baendau s disappearance is ui derate od to be the outcome ot work begun several months ago, when the citi zens association employed a number ot lawyers and doctor to search for definite evidence against thecouue l rin? that had so lODg and so brczenly ustd oincial posi tion for private poot. A great mas3 of evidence has betn collected and one of the first witDesss to be called before the grand iary was Sheridan. He has cot btn been since Wfedsesdty and re port baa it is being secreted by the authorities to be produced when wanted as informer. Nick EchDid?r wn produced and Lis counter part, butch- r Riprc. Sheridan was intrusted witamanv relicaie missions and tttw tl most as much as his employer Tripp, abon the deal iid Si h cues by which the EUctric Company secured its monopoly. Tripp minie if was a ho worker ot more tnaa or dinsry abl tv and is bitid to have acted as agent at the State C .pital for the notorious Alien lard'ord faculty who was recently legislated against. Ttipp is now in Eolaid endeavoring to noat among lirltish capitii ist s a e'eantic land and mining ectxeine from Arizona. When Tiipp left on this mission, Steridan lost his position and bei er improvident somewhat dis 8! rated and talkative when in lKiaor bas easily fallen into the hands of the citizen's association emissaries. Among other things Sheridan gave the starriin information that $200,000 of the stock cf tbe company wa distributed to members of the city council to secure the passage of one franchise, 'there is a bare possibility that bheridan is not In custody but has es caped tbe country. Even should this prove true the citizens' association has now the entering wedge. Other deals are under investigation. It is asserted positively that "pay dirt" has been struck la ipgard to tbe street car franchises obtained by Charles T. York es. and that inquiries io. bis direction are beirg prosecuted with vigor. It is regarded as not a little f icgular that just at tbia interesting epoch in oar offical history eo many prominent persons who must certainly have cognizance of the transactions mentioned have taken leave of abserce, and that arme of them propose to remain away probably until the limitation, with which any investigation can only extend, expires. Some have gönn and more are preparing to go. It ia not' to neighbor Canada this time, but to distant Europe or perhaps around the world. Attention is called to the peculiar fact that W. J. McGarigle, the missing convicted boodler, was at one time secretary of this very electric underground company. There is no doubt that Mr. Tripp went to Europe mainly because he became imprested with the way in which McGarigle and other boodle casas were being prosecuted and knew that Sheridan might squeal at any time on him and the Aldermen he is accused of having bribed. It is knotvn that it is Tripp's Intentions to remain on the other side of the water until inch time as the statute cf limitatiens permits bim to return. Besides Sheridan, it is stated that a rasa narred Fuller, whom Tripp seems to have tricked out of stock, is also ready to go on tie stand end give evidence in the case, and it was stated that it was through him the information regarding this matter became public. Tripp had no go-between. He dwelt directly with the Aldermen, but how much he gave each one he and they only know. One thing la certain. Aldermen generally supposed to be above suspicion are undoubtedly implicated aad were bribed either with cash or blocks of stock. MEETING OF SOCIALISTS. New Yobk, August 19. Six enthusiastic meetings were held last night by the Socialists, at which Henry George and Dr. McGlynn were roundly denounce!. A reporter ast ed Alexen: er Jme tbe Socialist leader what he thougth of the situation. "eo George wants to catch the farmer vote does he? Doesn't he know that 40,000 farmers out in Ohio could not pay their taxes last year and were sold out by the iheriff ? George can't hookwink tbe farmers. They can never understand his theories. To catch them bo wants to throw us overboard. We are the bugbear. If we are thrown out bodily we will be ten times stronger than when he went in." "Dr. Marcus Merkln is the founder of the Socialist. lie made this statement to the reporter." "The Socialists will now paddle their own canoe, and will never more have anything in common with the United Lsbor party. The next sten logically must te the elimination of all that was for the interest of isbor on the platform of the United Labor party, even down to the very name of the party itself. It must not be called the United Labor party any more. Half of the working men will no longer belong to It," William A. Wallace, who was the organizer of the United Labor party tof the seventh assembly district, said: "It looks too much like machine politics, lienry George's partner, Croasadale. his lawyer, Post; his son Henry George, Jr; priest Dr. McQlynn acd his lieutenants are running tbe Syracuse convention. The horny handed sons of toil won't stand it." Keady for Dlds. I Jewish Mewcbgcr.l A clergyman on a sultry afternoon paused in bis sermon, and said: "I saw an advertisement list week for 500 sleepers for a railroad. I think I could supply at least fifty and. recemmezrfithemfas; good and sound"

A RAIL WRECKING ERA

in Elf reo Train oaths Pittatarg an! Clsvelani Reil Jumps the Track. One Yin Cnuhed ts Death, and Four Oien Seriously Iojarei Diustroci Collision on tie B. and 0. at Edicott City, Maryland. Fittsbckg, August 18. About 4 o'clock this morning the through - express train which left Chicago at 3: 15 yesterdgy afternoon over the .fntsbhrg, Ft, Wayne & Chicago railway was wr eked at Bayard, O., on the Pittsburg & Cleveland road, about, eighty one miles west of Pittsburg. When the train reached Alliance it was found that the Foit Wayne road was obstructed by a freight wreck, and the ttrain was oroered around by the Cleveland & Pittsburg road. The train waa made up of three baggage and express cars, one smoker, one passenger coach, two Chic go sleepers, and a Toledo sleeping car called tne "Topic" As the train swung around the tharp curve near Bayard, the rails spread atd Toledo sleeper was derailed, fallirg on itasule. Tbe two Chicago sleepers also ioroptd the track, but after running lit ail j Ö09 yards they were pulled on again atd ticaj ed ii jury. When the crash came the porter, O. Warner, ran for the forward piatlcrm and jumped, but got of on the wrcrg side of the car, and when it fell over on its bide was buried under it. Fortuuattly there were only three passengers and the flagman on the sleeper, and in the meant' me they were being tossed about the car like balls and all seriously hurt When the train stopped the passengers and trainmen rushdd back to ascertain what damage had been done. The injured weie speeaily removed from the car, but no tract) of the porter could be found. It was not until nearly an hour afterward that a hand was Been projecting beyond the wreck of the sleeper. Work was im mediately commenced and the crushed and mangled body was found. The casualties were: O. Warner, -colored porter, Pittsburg, Pa., crushed 1o death. S. L. Maloney, Detroit, badly cut about the face, head and brtaat: believe! to be fatally injured. W. H. Denniston, Pittsburg, badly cut and braised; Vtry weak, bat will probably recover. George D. Lawson, Washington, D. C. badly cut about the head, ntck aad bresEt: will recover. W. A. McCoy, Pittsburg, bruised and injured internally ; very eenous. The injured were taken to a hotel at Bayard and placed in the care of the company's pbysiciarjs, and the train came oa to Pittsburg, arriving three hours late. TOG li. AND O. ACCIDENT. Coroner's ! qortt The l?nglar Not to Blame lojartMl Djla Well Waseisgton, Aug. 18. Coroner Patterson began an inquest to-day into the cause ot the death ot the engineer killed yesterday morning in the accident on the Btltimore and Ohio "Y." The testimony tins far taken ehows that the engineer did all in his power to stop the train. When he found that tbe air brakes had failed he signalled for the ordinary brakes and applied the extra steam brake oa the engine, which is used in emergencies. The locomotive wheels were sliding when tbe (rain approached the Y," and tne brakes on the coaches set solid against the wheels. All the train hands, including tbe porters of the Blee pera, were on the p'atform trying to stop the trai, but the time was too short for the hand brakes to act effectively. The injured are doing well and are on the road to recovery. Aftn further testimony tbe jury returned a verdict tbat the deceased came to his death "from injuries received in an accident to the express train of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad due in this city at 8:20 a. ro. Tbe jury believe that this accident and others that have occurred at this point is due to the very great rapidity of speed with which trains habitually enter the city and especially in rounding this curve, wbicb the com pen y must know to be a dangerous point." THK f IBEMAK's ETATEKENT. . Fireman James W. Smith, who . lies at Providence Hospital in a badly injured condition, has made the following statement regarding the accident at tbe "Y" yesterday: "The train reached Queenstown, one mile and a half from Washington, all rUht. The air brakes were tested acd wcrked without any apparent trouble. We left Qneenstown about ten minutes late I think and I thins that my engineer tried to make up the lost time. As soon as we got under headway I noticed the train taking a sudden jump and then began to make fast time. Tne engineer caned to me tbat the air brakes would not work and I could tell by bis face that he was troubled abontit. He again told me that he could not stop the train nor even slow up, and I told him I would try and work the hand-brakes. I succeeded In getting oi e brake to work and started to try another, but the rate of speed of the troin kept me from walking over the car. The force of tbe train made a regular hurricane on the top of the cars. I could not hold my feet. I was compelled to almost hug the brake to keep my position on the train. I could not even j amp off. so last was the train going. The engineer stood at his post, doing his best to slacken the train. I saw the engine leave the tra:k before I was thrown to the ground. It seemed tbat the train was going nearly sixty miles an hour. It was completely unmanageable. It was a runaway train. I never went so fast in my life." An Attempt to WrKk a Trln. Chicago, Aug. 18. An attempt was made last night near Beividier. I IL, to wreck a paesenger train on the Northwestern railroad. Persons living In tbe yicioity beard strange noises near the track and upon going to tbe scene caught a view of two men hurrying away. The train came along at this moment and was nearly derailed by a huge stone that had been placed between tbe rails. The cow catcher was smashed but no other damage was done. Fifty passengers were aboard the train. Destruction of Live Stock Chicago, August 13. Near Naperville, I1L, two Chicago, Burlington & Qalncy live stock trains collided in a fog this morning making a fearful wreck. One of the engines plowed through three cars loaded with fat steers for Chicago, and the huge beasts, almost without exception, were scattered mangled and'bleedlog along the track or pitched down a twenty-fool embankment. A hog car on the other track was completely telescoped by the tender, and a great number of big porkers were crushed to a jelly. One of the engineers, known aa Yankee Iloblnson, was Ecrioualy, but not fatally hurt. Collision on the U, & o. Baltikue. August 18. A collision occurred laet night on the Baltimore fc Ohio Railroad by one of the east bound freight trains running into the rear of another freight train, by which seventeen cars were wrecked. The collision was about three miles west of Eliicott City, on the main tern near Holinelds station. A train ol colored excursionists from Harper's Ferry were detained on the track until this mornlsg The engineer and conductor of quo of

the trains were severely, and It Is believed fatally injured. The firemen are also prob ably faulty hurt. VERDICT OF THE JURY.

The Toledo, Peoria eurd West tm Company ExoBoratod, Chatsworth, HL, August 13. The coroner's jury agreed on a verdict this morning, which holds Timothy Coughlin, foreman of section 7, to tbe grand jury, and negatively exonerates the Toledo, Peoria A Western Company. The management is not censured for running a double-header, for a lax system ot track inspection, or for anytbirg else. Tbe verdict simply says the failure to patrol the track for six hours before the train came, and the habit of burniDg grass to the track, is the subject for criticism. The three or four friends of the road on the .jury had better staving dualities than the two or three of those i ho wanted to fix a portion of the blama on the management. Timothy Coughlin, the section foreman, was promptly arrested and will ba taken to Pontiac, the county seat of Livingstone County at once. He says he cannot ctve bail and will have to go to jaiL He insists tbat the verdict Is UDiust; that he went over his entire Bectlon as ordered, and that no fires were built as near the bridge as Heald and Teggert testified. The Jury made out separate verdicts for each of the victims. Mrs. Dr. Ducketts is the first name of the list. The following is the verdict of the jury on her death; State of Illinois, Liyikgstos Couhty, ss: "In the matter of the lnqusttion of the body of Airs. vt. JJuctett, ot Forest, in., deceased, held at Chatsworth on the 11th day of August, A. D , 1837, we, the undersigred jurors, sworn to inquire into the cause ot tbe death of Mrs. Dr. Uackett, late of Forest. 111., on oath do find that she came to her death by injuries received in tbe wrecking of the Niagara Falls excursion train on tbe Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway, on which she was a passenger, at bridge two and one-half miles east of Chatsworth, about 12 o'clock, midnight, Wednesday August 10, 1SS7. "We find that the wrecking of the said train, which totally lemolishei eight coaches, one bpggage car and one engine, and either killed or wounded most of the occupants of Baid coaches, was caused by said bridse baving been burned out be fore tbe train s'rnck iL We think from the evider.ee that the bridge was fired from fires left turning, which had been t et es late as 5 o'clock that afternoon by the section men, as close hs sixteen feet on to'h the eat and west sides of the bridge. ve farther find that the foreman of Sec tion 7, Timothy Cooghlin, disobeyed positive Orders from his tuperior to examine the track and bridges on his section the lest thing on Wednesday, and we find that he did not go over the we3t two and onehalf miles at all on Wednesday, and that the said foreman, Coughlin, was gailty of eross and criminal carelessness ia leaving fires burning along the track in each a dry section and with euch & strong wind blow ing. "We recommend tbat he be held for examinstion by the grand jury, and further, it is the opinion of the jary that tbe leavirg of the track without being patrolled for six hours before the passage of the excursion, and the setting of fires by the section men on auch a dry and windy day as the 10th of Angust, were acts which deserve Eevere criticiso." Death of Another Victim. Chicago, An?. 18. Another victim of the Chatswerth wreck died t.hia moaning at Fairbnry. His name was Elton Waters of Cattaraugus, N. Y. Until within a few days of the accident he was employed in a watch factory at Peoria. This makes the total number of verified deaths 7ü. RAILROAD WAR IN MANITOBA, Tbo Fooplo of Tbat Province (letting; Kxclted Over th Stat of Aflalrs. Chicago, August 19 Premier Norquay, of Manitoba, ia in the city. Concerning tbe railroad war in Manitoba he said: "We are goirg to get to the boundary lice, and that's all there ia about iL Manitoba was a Province before the Canada Pacific received its charter from the Federal Government and we have the same right to build railroads as has the Province of Ontario or any other Province of Canada. The people are getting terribly excited over this thing but some of this excitement I am afraid, is being ereated for political purposes and the excitement may be worked up to sucn an extent that those who have created it may not be able to entirely control it. "But let me have an idea of your understanding of the trouble aa you understand it." "The Canadian Pacific is a gigantic corporation ; it is a monopoly which desires to perpetuate itself. We don't deny its privileges which it has under its charters, but w deny that it has a monopoly of the railroad business in Manitoba. We have the same right to construct railways in Manitoba that the Canadian Pacific has, and we can build a railway anywhere within the provincial limits. There is nothing in this talk of annexation to the United States. That is simply cheap political chaff. I can't eay about the Canadian Pacific subsidizing our local papers, because I know nothing abontit. I do know, however, tbat the rights of the whole community, supported by tbe local government, which is demanding the new railroad, axe being trampled upon. Tbe Government of Manitoba is building this road for the benefit of tbe commonwealth, and the Canadian Pacific corporation is arrayed against the Government and the people. There is no dacger of an uprising. Whatever is done will be done quietly. I don't believe in the injunction method to stop, bectuse 1 don't consider that an injunction can lie a against the authority represented by ths Provincial Government. It would ba the crown against the crown or as in your country the 8tate against the State, and such a proceeding wonld certainly not be possible. There Is a liability of the con struction gangs of the two roads meeting, but I don't think there would be serious collision in such a case, because I hardly think that the employes feel sufficiently interested in the contest to make a right. I thick that they will leave that to the Government and the corporation to fight it out among themselves. I think that the matter will be peacefully settled. The Manitoba Government ia right and will Bain tain Its position." Found Dead at Ills Borne. LiBAifow, Angust 19. Special. The body of Winchester Beck, son of Paleman Beck a wealthy and retired farmer of this ! city, was found to-day in a house on one of his father's farms where he has been keeping "Bitchelor's Hall." The corps was badly decomposed anditia supposed he died about noon Wednesday while taking his dinner. An Investigation showed that he had taken strychnine. He has been unbalanced mentally for years and recently purchased the poison to take in small doses for worms which he imagined he waa troubled with. He was 32 years old and unmarried. Tbe nervous system is the seat of animal life and governs the functions of the body. All the medicine In existence cannot make a constitution or health it by mental and physical overwork or dissipation the nerves are weakened. We are sick, because they are unable to keep the functions in operation. How much do you gain by drugging? Reaction leaves the nerves weaker. The Moxle Nerve Food has proved a hundred thousand times that it can restore such cases without harm or reaction. Druggists have it. 50 cents a bottle. A nice table drink.

BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

Reports Poitt to a Probable Wheat Tiell Slightly Lets Tain List Tear. Stringency in the Blooey Markets From Several Interior Foists July Exports 21 or Satli factory. Nrw Yobk, Angust 19. R. G. Dan & Co'., weekly trade review has the following points: Everything now turns on crop prospects. Considerable injury fs no longer disputed; indeed its effects are already felt in diminishing demand, from regions most afiected by the drouth, for some manufactured products. Bat, estimates of the extent of harm done differ widely. Chicago and Detroit advices indicate that rains were too late to save a considerable portion of the corn crop, but after declining 1 1-23 on the growing impression that the injury would not prove so extensive as to balance the increase in acreage, the price roe aa much on reports of injury by frost on Thursday. Latest government reports point to a probable yield slightly less than tbat of last year. Wheat rose half a cent on Wednesday, but lost the advance; injury to this crop dees not appear important, and official figures point to a yield exceedirg 430,000.000 bushels, which with stocks carried over would meet all probable requirements. 'the cotton speculation has resulted in a fur it er decline, and while New Orleans reports as to the yield are less favorable, Atlanta and Galveston report improvement from recent rains. The injury to rice from drought and freshets is estimated in Savennah at 250,000 to 300,000 bushels. What may prove the most serious effect of the lcrjg drought, the Injury to the pastures and bay crop and consequent losses in dairy and animal product, is often overlooked. Put the movement of grain from the northwest is remarkably large, though lake transporters get the lion's share of it. Buffalo Jnly receipts by lake have never been exceeded but once, while the latest report of cast-bound rail shipments from Chicago is the smallest for many years. While the railroads continue to report large earnings, 180 roads showing a net earn of 77 per cent for July over last year, the weakness in securities operates to prevent sales for extensions and ner roads, and thus effects the demand for rails and iron. At PhPadelphia rails seem weaker, and a rale of 8,000 to a Southern road at a price equivalent to $37 at mill is note 1. Mskers are disposed to meet foreign competition, though renewal of the compact to regulate production promises to prevent urdue depress'on. Pig iron is a30 shaded, and it is admited that the tupply seems to exceed the demand. Tbe monetary situation hes one unfavorable and several favorable features. Stringency increases at several interior points, and reports of unsatisfactory or only fair collect ons grow more numerous, Battle purchase tf bonds by the treasurer, the shipment of cold to Europe, and the sales of security abroad by Mr. Goal J nnd by some Oer man houses here, appear to avert, pressure in the market for the pres ent. Exports in July more satisfactory, and for the past three weeks have been Higatiy lareer than for the came weeks of last year and awhile tbe reports of gold on the way from Europe are probably exaggerated, for etc the outward movement of securities undoubtedly rostiLues. The possibility of important failares resulting from recent daring speculation, and the chance of large dtmandsfor money from the West and South, are not to be eafely overlooked. Tle business failurt s occuring throughout the United States and Canada during the last eevn data number for the United States 135, and for Canada 20. EQAN AND FITZGERALD, Their Tie ws Regarding; the Suppression of the Irtar;?atlonJ Leacne Lincoln, Neb . Aue. 19 Patrick Egan ex-President of the Irish National League. in an interview this evening regarding the .League in Ireland, said in part "The League by keeping the masses on the line of constitutional agitation .served as a safety valve for the just and natural bitterness and passion of the people. If we now have repetition ol the 1'hccnix i'arfc tragedy acd other deplorable horrors of the past coercian rsgimts the verJic of the civilized world will hold the English Tory government alone accountable. They may proclaim the League, but instead of killing the idea which the League represents, they will but strengthen it ten fold. The proc'a niation can have no other termination bat complete and speedy ruin of the present truculent Tory government and the triumph of Home rale cause." Hon. John C. Fitzgerald. President o the League, expressed much the name eon timenta as Mr. Egan. "The Na tional League," said be, another name for the Irish Nation and tbe suppression of a nuion is a moral impossibility. Agitation has hitherto been open and above heard, but will now be driven beneath the surface. and apparent justification will be given for the existance of secret societies, over whose members and methods the recogniz ed leaders of Ireland can have no control. I greatly fear a repetition of the wild 'deeds when men despairing of justice, seek gra tification for revenge.' MM'E. GERSTER'S MISFORTUNES. Separated From Iler Dnsband and Her Vole Haid to Be Gone. IBoston Herald London Letter. A sad story comes to me about the unfortunate termination of Etelka Geister's domestic relations with her husband, Dr. GardinL The latter has at last forsaken his wife and children, and, unhappily, no blame is attached to him for such a proceeding. He has been driven to take tbe etep, owing to the actual impossibility of enduring existence any longer with one of the most charming singers I everlistened to. The separation realy occarred some months ago, but the friends of both have endeavored to repair the breach between them, and, until within a very short time, there were fond hopes entertained of the estrangement being ended. Sach a hope, however, no longer exists, and their separation is a matter for considerable commiseration. I r st knew G erster in the winter of '78 and'7'J, when she created such a furor in New York as the prima donna of Mapleson's company at the Academy of Mnsic She was the new operatic star that ia every now and then being discovered by the energetic Colonel, and she took New York operagoers by storm. Gerater was never a pretty woman, owing to a heaviness of feature and an unattractive presence that were particularly noticeable away from the glare of the footlights, but she came very near being called beautiful at times, particul arly in a handsome costume of black, lighted with diamond stars, that she were in the "Magic Flute." In "Sonnambula," an opera in Which she also achieved remarkable success, and In which she made her New York debut, she looked like an awkward Dutch peasant girl, and about as plain as any prima donna I ever saw. She was a great favorite, though, with her audiences, and with women particularly, who crowded the matinees to hear the Hungarian singer with almost as much faithful devotion aa they are wont to do when Pattl appears. The cause of her present banishment from the operatic stage, owing to the almost total loss ol her voice is said to be temper, A lady who w personally very

well acquainted with the Hungarian singer bas related some wonderful episodes m which the passionate display of Gerster's

temper seems to have been eo remarkable as to barely merit credence upon being related. As is well known, no person in the world is bound to guard and protect any thing as carefully as a singer does his, or her .voice, and emotions in excess of any kind whatever are strictly tabbooed by vocal Instructors and impresarios. Mme. Gerster, It seems, though, has given way to frightful outbursts of anger, and the irequency ol them, it is said, has at last teen the prime cause oi raining a voice tbat was once voluminous, clear, true and bird-like, and of exceptional brilliancy and power. There teems every reason why Geister should not have had to cntead with such a serious misfortune, and she was born and brought up in the midst of refinement, her parents having a social position of excellent standing in the town in wnicii they lived in Upper Hungary. When qaite a young girl she is said to have been desirous ot obtaining a position in the operatic firmament Bimilar to that occupied by her more gifted sister prima donra Adelina Fatti, whoss Christian came Etelka is the Hungarian for. Her ambition in this direction piloted her so safely that she was less than twentyfive when in the very height of her success, and yet, although she is now but little more than thirty, it is highly improbable that her voice will ever be heard again in public. Her husband. Dr. Gardini, was tbe impresario at Berlin for a number of years, and met Gerster a year or tiro after she made her debut, which was in Venice in 1875. duriDg her first appearance at the German capital, where, by the way, her success was eo great that the Prussian critics emphatically declared that she was the enly rival they could compare with Scntag. and tbat never since the latter sonptrtta had been beard in Berlin had there been fo great a marvel. Mme. Gerster has several children, ihe eldest, a girl, is called Linda, for one of her mother s favorite roles. Tbe happy home, a pretty villa in the Appenines, near Bologna, to which many ol Gerster s Amer lean friends have found their way within the past few years, will no longer know its mistress who precided eo def 11 y over a well appointed household. The villa Mezzana, a it is called, has been closed, and the teveral farms lying on the plateau cf the mountain that are included in the estate, have been let t" various small farmers. Mme. Gerster and her children are at pres ent in Paris, where they are livmg in apartments, and. if present rumors are true and the probability of her ever returniDg to the tage is as vague as stated, time win icon enace the pleasant memory Amen cans have of Etelka Gerster. GRANT'S FUNERAL EXPENSES. military Hen and Others with Hills that Never Will be Paid. Washington Special.l All of the bills rendered to the govern rxent for expenses Incurred at the funeral of Gen. Grant have either been paid or d s allowed by Congress. No unpaid biks are pigeonholed in tbe War Department. The total amount or tne bui3 renuarca is t: 238 OS. This amount was cut down by by Congress to $18,3il tiS. and the latter sum was mciacea in tue aeucancy du for 18SG and paid. The House Appropria ticn Committee cave these bills careful consideration. All of the kills approved by Gen. Hancock were accepted by the committee aa just and allowed. Gen. Han cock approved bills to the amount ot 12,A separate account rendered by Stephen Morritt, undertaker, for $6,303 75 waj not approved by Gen. Hancock, as tae expense was incurred before Gen, Hancock arrived at Mount McGr-gor and took command Gen. Hancock did approve of a bill by iler ritt, which was incurred after he assumed command of the arrangements, lor $525. Both of these bills wereeuosequently allowed by Congress. Bills to the amount of 8,syl SO were forwarded to Washington by Gen. Hancock which were not approved by him. The reason assigned was that they were unauthorized by law, and Congress refused to appropriate for them. Tte tills rejected by Congress are a3 follows: For music, bands and drum corps, Ang.;5 and 8: Old Guard, New York City, $217; Seventh Regiment, $064: Klghth Regiment, 730; Mnth Regiment, $1,010; Eleventh Beriment, &514; Twelfth Regiment, $G13; Twenty-second Regiment, ü,0)l; Sixty-ninth Regiment, ölü:even'y-firii Regiment, $892. For horses: First Bitter, $009; Second Battery, $4S3. These disallowed bil a were approved by Gen. Alexander Shaler. Tne bills, he siys in his indorsement, are a jast and propar charge and those foi hcr&es include only borses used by enlisted men. Gen.Shi'er also approved a bill by Lawson B. IM1 f:r carriage hire and street car fare. $13.75; telegraph and messenger service, $7 03. G-n. Shaler eays this is for cash outlays for hiaieelf, lunches and meals not included. On tbe rejected list these also appear: Daniel E. Sickles, stationery and printing, $12; telegraph and messenger tervice, $17.93; carriage hire and street car fare, $l50; retions, $51 00; total, $131.33, approved by Gen. Aspinwall as "actual expenses of Gen. Sickles as aide while arranging obsequies." Then come Alexander Sbaler, telegraph and messenger service, $21 2z; Danit 11 it Sod, sashes, badges, and searfs, etc.. $1GS -0, approved by GeD. Aspinwall; J. W. Frzier, horses, $30; approved by Gen. Aspinwall; James Brady, sashes, badge, etc, $ 4. approved by Gen. Asyinwall, alto by Gen. McMahon, who says: "Tbe badges were to designate civ.c and nnifoiniwl aides;" ßartin B. Browo, stationery and printing, $33 25; postage, $-: apirovea by Geu. Atpinwal and Gen. McMahon. M. T. McMahon, clerks, stenographers, messengers and undertakers' service, $55; telegraph and messenger service, $2; postage. $3; horses. $10; carriage hire. $15; total, $S5, approved by General Aspinwall as "actual expenses ir curred by Generai McMahon as aide to General Hancock." Lloyd Aspinwall, clerks, stenographers, etc.. $92; telegraph and messenger service, $13; freieht aad tb er transportation expenaes. $95 50; to:al, 1233.50; Charles W. Deckel & Co , horses, $350: indorsed "General Aspinwall disapproves as rendered, subject t) further examir stion as to mm properly due;" Western Union Telegraph Company, telegraph nnd messenger eervice, $2.S2; American District Telegraph Company, telegraph and meesenger service, $1.10, and E. A. Brown, rooms or aides and committees, approved by General James R, O'Beirne, a.de to G er era! Sickles. None of the above accounts can be paid by tbe government except by a special act of CoDgress appropriating the money. Therefore, as Congress bas once rejected them as unauthorized they are not likely to be brought up again. The Kaormons Bum Paid oa the TabUo Debt. I St. Louis republican. 1 There is something almost staggering in the enormous figures representing the payments the American people have made on account of the civil war of 1SG1-5 since the war closed, and without iBcluding the expenditures of that four years' period. In August of 18C5 the national debt was $2,755.U95.000, with an annual interest chtrge of $151,832,000. Now the debt is $1,105,434, C50 showing a reduction in twentyone years of $1,590.5C0,C25. The Interest charge has been reduced to $10,G15,000. The aggregate interest payments on the debt since 18G1 hare been over $3.850,000,000. Add to this the pensions paid. $1,Cl 4,000, COO, and we have the enormous sum of $5,405,000.000. This is about $100 for every soul of the average population, and exhits a debt-paying rapacity that no other people in the world can afford a parallel to. The figures do not include the payments for support of Government during the period referred to,

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