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Arrangements are being made for a
Universal Shorthand Congress to be held
in London in 1887, for the discussion of
the history and progress of stenography.
The free Monday scientific lcctures
have become such a passion among the
daughters of the lowly of Birmingham,
England, that 4'wash day" has been ,
changed to Tuesday, which the London
Globe considers the greatest achievement j
of science thus far.
Steamers have been charted in England
to hawk German merchandise at
ports on the Mediterranean. The saloons
will be used as pattern room3. Customers
will make their selections on board and
their purchases will be landed direct
from the steamer without having to
undergo Custom House regulations.
At a recent sale of autographs in New
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ton,, written before he became President,
fetched $51 each, and one by Martha
"Washington $151. Letters by Charles
Dickens and Thomas C'arlyle brought
$30 each. A page of Washington
Irving's manuscript of his "Life of
Washington" sold for $54. A letter of
Edgar A. Poe went at $45, and one by
Lafayette for $101.
The Laramie (Wyoming) Boomerang
has an account of some lake3 in the vicinity
of that city so charged with soda that
it accumulates in great quantities around
the edges, whence it is only necessary to
haul it away and work it up into com*
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merciai lorms. une 01 tne lases m iuc
immediate vicinity of Laramie has been
drained, and the soda is now being
worked up by a company, but the supply
in other parts is practically inexhaustible,
and has as yet hardly been touched.
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Concerning the great age of Emperoi
William, of Germany, the following is
of interest: "Only a few favored ones
are enabled to see five generations?greatgrandparents,
grandparents, parents,
children, grandchildren. The Emperor
has known seven generations, who comprise
a period of 158 years from the birth
of the oldest person up to to-day. The
Emperor was twenty-one years of age
when his great-grandmother, Langraviss
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of ninety years."
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~ Somebody who has figured on the subject
gives the ages of some of our most
noted public men as follows: Simon
Cameron leads in point of years; he is
87. Morrill is 76; Edmunds, 58; 1 'Pig
Iron" Kelley, 72; Randall, 58; McKinley,
42; John Sherman, 63; Lamar, 61; Tom
Reed, 47; Blaine, 56; Cleveland, 40;
Carlisle, 51; Beck, 64; Ingalls, 53; Holman,
64; Schurz, 57; Yoorhees, 59;
Morrison, 61; Logan, 60; Bayard, 56;
Hawley, 60; Garland, 54, and Sunset
Cox, 62.
Chang, the Chinese giant, has become
a citizen of tne united states, in ivansas
City, which he intends to make his home.
He will make one more visit to China
and then leturn Tor good, His idea is to
open a Chinese store. His relatives are
^engaged in the tea business in China, and
he' intends to import direct. He*"admitted
to a reporter that he had matrimonial
designs, and that at no distant
day he would take out a license, but did
not wi?h to disclose the name of the
happy Kansas City belle.
' A hollow steel float, eighty feet square,
anchored in mid-ocean, and bearing a
sixty-foot light tower, is the suggestion
of an English inventor. He would nave
this known as a harbor of refuge in distress,
or a place for transmission of ship
news by telegraph, and as a weather
station. The saving of cost in cable
telegraphing alone by the use of relay inx
struments on this lightship would, in his
opinion, be sufficient to pay its current
expense?. He undertakes to provide
secure anchorage, stability and harmless
deflection of waves.
One by one the ancient myths depart.
The old notion that wine improves by
Aorfi it so.ems. is a humbusr. One "Winkel
_D ,
man, a German chemist, has been experimenting
on the subject, and says
there is an age at which all wines, including
the very best, ce :se to be wholesome.
He ordered some wines of the
famous Bremen Rathskeller, Rudesheimer
Rose, 1G53, and Ilochheimer Apostel,
1728, highly recommened for theii
medicinal value, and found that they
were deficient in natural glycerine and
contained as much acid as the cheapest
new wines in poor seasons, so that they
were positively injurious to health.
The lumbermen of Michigan are constantly
reaching out into new fields, as
their own forests are disappearing.
There has been a great deal of Michigan
capital invested for a number of years in
Canadian pine. Several Michigan lumbermen
have been engaged for three 01
four years in the mahogany trade between
this country and Central America.
Now it is stateu mat syndicates 01
Michigan men have within a few days
purchased nearly a million and a half of
acres of the long-leaved pine lands of
Louisiana and Mississippi. The lands
were all Government property and have
been acquired at a cost of $1.25 per
acre?a total of something like $1,S00,000
having been p lid for them. It is
believed that the standing timber aggregates
15,000,000 feet of lumber. There
has been a much mooted question about
the quality of this yellow pine, but
tests have been made of it which were
satisfactory to the Michigan men, and
they propose to hold the production
and control it. Michigan pine lands are
worth to-day from ?30 to $100 per
acre, so that they have a margin for
profit in the land value, which is in itself
enormous.
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Those who sigh because there is not
time enough in the twenty-four hours for
one to do what he really ought to, in
these busy times, will be gratified to
learn that the days are actually growing
longer. Said Professor Pritchett to a
St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter: "Yes,
tne clays arc getting longer?almost imperceptible,
however, the extension being
at the rate of two seconds in a century.
This 'slow-up' on the part of the earth
in its daily rotation is caused by the
tides, which act as friction brakes upon
the earth's velocity. Two seconds in a
hundred years is not much, but in the
impenetrable future their effect will be
felt."
There are a number of Chinese junks
on the Pacific coast, and it will astonish
Eastern people to learn that the freight
carried by these boats amounts in value
to about $3,000,000 a year. They are
engaged in the fishing trade on the lagoo
s or tidal creeks which run up into
the low, marshy lands lying along the
shores. They make as much money in
as short a time as possible, and then go
back to China. From Vallejo to the extreme
south they are busy all the year
round, dragging the waters of the bays
with nets having meshes so small that
nothing that swims can escape them; salmon
fry, minnows, young herring,
shrimps, and large fish are all scooped in.
The larger fish are sold at ten to fifteen
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cents per pounu in umnaiowD, ohu r?u*
cisco, while the smaller ones, together
with the shrimps, are sent abroad.
As an offset to the immense fortunes
in this country, there are some famous
ones in Europe. The Baring Brothers
are nearly as rich and as powerful as the
Rothschilds. It is a half American
house, and keeps $30,000,000 "ready for
instantaneous use." The dead Duke of
Portland left unentailed property worth
$12,000,000, and his entailed estates are
worth a great deal more. The Czar of
Russia has an income of $10,000,000,
and Queen Victoria is very rich outside i
her enormous pensions. The Dukes of
Norfolk, Buccleugh and Devonshire, and
Marquis of Bute have rent rolls valued at
$2,000,000 a year, and the Duke of West- I
minister is probably the richest man ia
the world. Rumor puts his income at
$50 a minute, or over $36,000,000 a year, ;
an extravagant estimate, of course. But 1
he is very rich, the bulk of his property i
being in the thickly populated districts
of London. !
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T /-vnia TToVin r*f Pitfsburor. Pftnn.. is 1
well known there as "The Little Chief." !
"Whenever there is an alarm of fire, the
boy, clad in the garb of a fireman, is al- J
ways seen dashing to the burning build- ]
ing. He is almost a monomaniac on matters
pertaining to the fire department,
and knows more about the department ,
than most of the firemen. He can do 1
what every member of the department !
confesses himself unable to do, and that i
is, to be given the number of a box, and '
then tell its exact location and what en- t
gine will respond to the alarm from it. J
Time and again, when in an engine-house, (
this test has been made, and young Hahn j
could never be deceived. He keeps 11
posted on every new box. In his room J j
he has fixed up several wires and gongs,
and often enjoys himself in practicing
on them. So far has his fire department
proclivities gone that it is his great
desire to have a wire run to his ; i
house aud a gong placed therein, that he
may hear each alarm of fire. He knows
every fireman and frequents every engine-house.
Daring Deed of an Oil Well Shooter.
Dell Bankson, an oil well shooter,
went to the new Kane oil field, near
Olean. N. Y., one day recently, to torflio
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had just reached the sand. He had lowered
a shell containing twenty quarts of
nitro-glycerine to the depth of 100 feet j
in the well, when he discovered that the
well was about to make a flow_. He knew
that the force of the oil would carry the
torpedo out at the top, and if it wore
thrown upward with the flow it would
fall back to the ground and explode. In
either case Bankson knew that certain
destruction awaited him and the property
of his employers unle?s the torpedo could
be secured. With remarkable presence of
mind, he placed himself at the mouth of
the well, and as the shell shot up on the
flow of oil, he threw his arms about it
and held it.
Even then undue haste and lack of
judgment might have proved fatal, but '
Bankson held the torp; do until the spurt j
of oil had ceased before he removed it |
from the well, although he knew that
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the oil would be followed by a volume of
gns and a mass of rocks from the depths.
The instant the oil ceased he lifted the
shell from the well and walKed carefully
and steadily away, carrying the torpedo
in his arms. He had scarcely turned his
back when the gas and rocks came out of
the well with a roar and a rush. When
all was over Bankson replaced the
torpedo in the well, lowered it to the
bottom, and finished his work. When
the owners of the well heard of the
wonderful nerve and judgment displayed
by Bankson, they at once presented him
with a check for $100. Bankson's conduct
is said by old well shooters to be
the most coura^eou; in the history of
nitro-glycerine operations in the oil
regions?work that necessitates the exercise
of constant vigilance, cool judgment,
and steady nerves on the part of
the operator.?New York Times.
Two Styles in Staff of Life.
baker's bread.
This is a loaf of
baker's bread, that's mixed
uy uicu nxiu xul&o icu, wuu
puffed up like a spor.ge with air,
until no nourishment is there. Tis
bleached with alum,and its flour, is lowest
grade and always sour. Alas for those
compelled to eat, this un-dough-mestic
sawdust cheat, because somo girls think it's
low bred to cook, and loaf around instead.
HOME-MADE BREAD.
But here a good square loaf we show
Of home-made bread as pure as snow;
It's made by wives an daughters fair
At home, with cleanliness and care.
This is the "Staff of Life," indeed,
And little tots who on it feed,
Grow big with health and beauty great,
And learn to love instead of hate;
And papas, too, who share this treat,
All stop at home with tempers sweet,
And praise their precious wives so good,
Who fill them with this Angel's food.
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SHOT ion bt mnu.
A Milwaukee Mob Fired Upon
by the Military.
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lour rersons juiiea ana xive
Wounded, Three Fatally,
Milwaukee, "Wis., was on the 5th the
scene of terrible disturbances and bloodshed
similar in character to the affray in Chicago
on the previous day. In the case of the Wisconsin
city, however, the mob were the
principal sufferers. A Milwaukee dispatch
gives the following account:
Lincoln avenue, the boundary line between
the south end of the city and Bayview, was
spinkled with the blood" of Polish rioters at i
9 o'clock this morning. The crowd started i
from the corner of Grove and Mitchell streets,
a few hundred strong, but gathered strength
as it marched along Kinnickinnic avenue and
Bayview street. One of the men carried a
red flag. By the time the crowd reached
iiay view street there were perhaps 2,000 men
in line. Every minute the yelling
and cheering increased, and a 1
great shout went up when the 1
building of the great rolling mills
became visible down on the lake shore. The
mob swung into South Bay street and rap- i
idly approached the stationary bridge 1
crossing ~ Deer Creek, at the same
time, the military companies in the
yards of the rolling mills bestirring
themselves under command of Major i
G. H. Trenmer. There were four companies
constituting the Fourth Battalion
and the Bower City Rifles and Janesville
Guards, of Janesville. The Janesville Guards (
were stationed on a hill to the north, and
south of them were the Bower City Rifles, of ,
the same city, and the Sheridan Guards,
of Milwaukee. When the head of
the mob got across Lincoln ave- J
nue into Bayview the crowd was
ordered to stop. No attention being paid (
to the request, Major Trenmer repeated the (
order and gave them all fair warning. Again
the crowd, which was now about 1,500 feet '
distant, ignored the caution and pressed for- j
ward toward the bridge. Major Trenmer ]
had his orders, and they were to keep any ,
crowd from approaching the mills and to fire J
upon them as a last resort if the order could
not otherwise be enforced. Accordingly, 1
when no attention had been given to the
second warning he gave the order to fire.
Two companies emptied their guns with a 1
olm inf.-i f.Vio f.hivmcr '
The shooting had a terrible effect on the
men. Seeing several of their number fall
wounded or killed, they threw themselves
flat on the ground and sought the shelter of
the railroad embankment. The level of
South Bay street and Lincoln avenue,
being higher than the marsh, was
also sought by the frantic men, who tumbled
headlong into the water. There was every
evidence on surrounding objects to show that
the military had fired low and "with
intent to kill," as one of them expressed
it. ' The result of the first volley
having had such a salutary effect,
bhe military companies again stacked
their arms aud portions of the routed mob
returned to the scene of the shooting. A
squad of police also put in an appearance,
and began to assist the wounded. Several of
the latter were taken to the neighboring
saloons and dosed with whiskey, after which
they were conveyed to their homes.
Casimir Dudek, who had carried the red
flag, was the last one to receive attention.
Two bullets had carried away his lower jaw
and two others had passed through the upper
portion of his left arm, showiug beyond a
doubt tnqj ft? naa oeen maae a wgeu or more i (
than one rifle. j
The dead numberei four men, all foreigners,
and five more were wounded, three of
them so badly that they were not expected to '
live. Two or the men killed were innocent c
victims, one of them being an aged man,
who was feeding the chickens in his yard 1
when a stray bullet laid him low. i
Among the 3,000 strikers gathered at Mil- (
waukee Garden in the morning and refusing
bp disperse until attacked by tne police with
clubs'were many Socialists armed with revolvers,
and prooably a hundred shots were i
Bred without any serious effects. The .
crowds were finally dispersed, but
gathered again during the day, *
and the situation was often
:riticaL At night Paul Grattkauf, the Socialist
leader of the city, w^s placed under *
arrest, and the mob threatened to storm the 3
jail and secure his release before morning. '
So vera or Rusk with the entire First Regi- 1
ment was in the city, ready to call out the
sntire militia of the State if it proved ne> (
js^ary. c
A LABOR FIGHT.
Trades Unions Kicking Against the
Knights of Labor.
A Pittsburg (Perm.) dispatch says: The various
trades unions have been threatening to
fight the Knights of Labor for some time because
the latter will keep infringing upon the
former's territory. The fight started first
with tho International Ciirarmaker's Union of
New York The fight extended to this city,
and embraced the Flint Glass Workers'Union
and the Amalgamated Association of Iron J
and Steel "Workers. The fight has resulted
in the issuing of the following secret and confidential
circular to all leading trade unionists
throughout the country: ^
Dear Sir:?We, the uudersigned officers 1
of the organization named, deem it highly im- ]
portant to hold a conference, at an early date, j
of the chief executive officers of each and
every national and interuati ..nal trades union (
in America. It is suggested that the said con- j
ference be an informal one and be held in ,
Philadelphia on Tuesday, May 18, 1880.
The subject of the conference is to
devise ways and means to protect our respective
organizations from the malicious
work of an element who openly boast that (
trades unions mast be destroyed. This ele- j
ment urges our local unions to disband, and
it is doing incalculable mischief by arousing
antagonisms and 'dissensions in the labor
movement. Under cover of the Knights of 6
Labor,and as far as we can learn without au- j
thority from t'uat body, this element pursues 1
its evil work. "Rats," "scabs," ana unfair
pmnlnvers are backed up by this element.
Suspended and expelled" members of trades I
unions are welcomed into their ranks, and j
these elements use the Knights of labor as an t
instrument through which to vent theirspit? j
against trades unions. That this has been i
the case can bo amply demonstrated, by
the Cigarmakers' and Typograpicai ,
International Unions. Other traits .
unions have been more or less affected. These
and other subjects concerning the relations '
of the trades unions and the Knight of Labor
require that the above conference b.> '
held as speedily as possible, that we ?
may agree upon some plan to submit to '
the general officers of the Knights of Labor '
to cease this hostility and antagonism toward '
trades unions. I
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In view ot toe urgency 01 ma ,
upon you to personally attend the conference | J
or appoint a substitute. If you will attend,
sign this circular and return in envelope.
Then you will be informed as to place of
meeting. Consider this circular strictly confidential.
It is mailed to all national and international
unions. Yours fraternally,
P. J. McGUIRE,
General Secretary, Brotherhood of Carpenters.
A GEEAT STRIKE ENDED.
Knights of Labor on the Gould System
Surrender.
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tem of railroads in the Southwest has been
declared at an end by'John "VV. Hayes, of the
Executive Board of Kuights of Labor.
Notice was sent out in compliance with
a double pro-sure brought to bear by thb
St. Louis Citizen's Committee, in belnilf of
general trade interests, and an urgent appeal
made to the Knightj of Labor by the
Curtiu Congressional Committee in sessioti
nt St. Louis. Mr. Hayes ordered that the
Knights of Labor make application to their
former employers for re-employment, closing
his communication as follows:
"In view of the fact that the business interests
of the country are suffering, the Knights
of Labor, having the interest of the whole
people at heart, willingly comply with the
request of the nation's representatives and
that of the Citizens' Committee of St. Louis,
and deciare this strike at an end, to take
effect Tuesday morning, May 4, l&SG."
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
'1he five men constituting the Executive
Board of the Empire Protective Association,
the organization of drivers and conductors
which has been carrying on the Third avenue
horse-car strike, have been indicted by
the New York Grand Jury on the charge of
conspiracy and coercion.
Boycotting has been declared illegal by
the City Court of New Haven, Conn.
Maxey Cobb, the champion trotting stallion
of the world, died the other day at
rnuaaeipma. tie naa a recora or z:io i-z,
never equalled by any other stallion, and his
owner had recently refused $40,000 for the
animal.
The New York police have arrested thirteen
more men, all waiters, charged with
boycotting.
Nearly all the cars on the Third Avenue
line. Now York, were reported to be running
again on the 4th, the places of the striking
employes having been filled.
South and West,
The delegates to the twelfth State encamp- !
ment, Grand Army of the Republic, Depart- i
ment of Ohio, in assemblage at Cleveland,
passed resolutions condemnatory of the
speeches made at the reception given to 1
Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Ala.
J. M Armstrong was hanged in Perryville,
Ark., for the murder of Dr. Ferguson, ,
and on the same day at Searcy, Ark., George
Carroll suffered a similar fate for killing his
wife so he could marry another woman.
Thp mnvpm#>nf-, for nicrht hnnrs ns a dav's
labor was formally inaugurated at Chicago <
and other cities on the 1st,and in consequence (
many factories closed, the employers refusing
to accede to the men's demands. In other
instances employers' consented to the new
arrangement.
The unvailing of the monument to the late (
Senator Benjamin H. Hill took place at Atlanta,
on the 1st, and 30,000 people thronged {
into the city. Jefferson Davis was the centre 1
of attraction, and was received with the same*
enthusiasm that had awaited him in Montgom
ery. The ex-Confederate leader was almost
covered with flowers during the procession. 1
Beside him at the Hill monument sat Gen- 1
jral Lon^street, clad in the Confederate uniform.
The oration of the day was delivered
by J. C. C. Black, and Mr. Davis also made a '
sfcort speech. From Atlanta Mr. Davis pro- ]
needed to Savannah, and his reception there
tvas of the same enthusiastic character as in ^
the other Southern cities.
Strikers at Milwaukee attacked railroad J
jhops with stones and sticks on the 3d, and ]
compelled a cessation of work. Then the "
Jtrikers attacked other shops, but were j
ilubbed and dispersed by the police.
Charles Dean, a respectable young farTier,
of Elkhardt, III, shot and killed hii (
arother Leverette in a quarrel, and then
committed suicide.
An earthquake shock, sufficiently heavy to
sway houses, was felt a few days since in sec- ]
tions of Ohio.
A terrible domestic tragedy, caused by 1
family troubles, has been enacted at TeIconsha,
Mich. Ranodyne Shedd, a farmer
?eventy-three years old, killed his wife with 1
in axe and put an end to his own existence <
by cutting his throat with a razor. \
The nitro-glycerine hou9eof the California \
Powder Works, a short distance from Pinole,
Dal., was blown to atoms the other afternoon
i)V the explosion of 1,300 pounds of nitro- 1
glycerine. Three Chinamen and a white man i
were killed. j
Riotous Milwaukee strikers attacked a
lompany of military on the 4th, and the
wldiers immediately fired a volley into the 1
noD, wounding several.
Four men were killed by a train's fall
>ver an embankment thirty feet high near i
Delavan, 111. j
Robert Harding, assistant postmaster at (
Cleveland, Ohio, has committed suicide;
:ause uuknown.
The prisoners in the County jail at "Win- ^
ield, Kan., knocked down two guards and c
nade a break for liberty, four getting away. 2
Convict IV. O. Bennett was shot dead.
Washington.
The President has nominated Joseph C. c
lendrix for postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y., 2
md Frank Brown for postmaster of Balti- c
nore, Md., in place of J. P. Veasey, who
.vas only recently confirmed.
Out of the 10,000 bills introduced in the e
;wo houses of Congress, less than 6ixty have t
ret been sent to the President Of these he
las approved, or permitted to become law,
ill except four or live.
Two wife murderers?Louis Somerfield e
white) and R. J. Lee (colored)?were hanged a
>n the 30th in the city jail at Washington.
Additional confirmations by the Senate: t
ro be United States Cousuls ? Gus- r
ave Luck, of New Hampshire, at Sher>rooke,
Canada; Francis Underwood, of 6
Massachusetts, at Glasgow; Theodore W. f
)owns, of Connecticut, at Quebec; Albart j
Elatheway of Connecticut, at Nice; Darius
3. Ingraham, of Maine, at Cadiz. To be
United States Attorneys: Job H, Lippin- E
:ott, Distri.-t of New Jersey: John
D. Burnett, Southern District of Alabama.
Collectors of Customs?Charles A. Spotlord,
District of Castine, Maine; Leveritt
Saltonstall, District of Boston and Charles;on,
Mass.; John M. Williams, District of
Providence, R. I. B. C. Armstrong, of New
5forlc, Consul-General, Rio de Janeiro. B.
W. Hanna, of Indiana, Consul-General, Ar- c
jentine Republic.
The reduction in the public debt during r
April was $10,965,387.95. I
Charles A. Dana, the New York editor,
ippeared before the House Telephone Invosti- e
gating Committee on the 4th and testified m i
jO how the charges against holders of the
Pan-Electric stock first got into the news? a
papers. j
Many of tbe vv asningcon employers WliUAU I
imploycs went on strike for a reduction in j.
;he hours of labor or an advance in pay have ?
yielded.
Foreign. (
Four Americau fishing schooners wero ?
>rdere<i away from St. Andrews, Newfoundand,
bj' a Canadian government steamer, t
rhey had put in for bait. c
The German Government, fearing that 3
itrikesare impending, has issued a decree orlering
the police to interfere in case strikers e
ntinndate workingmen. (
Asiatic cholera has appeared at Venice, 1
Italy.
TnK Belgium government is vigorously
nvestigating the causes of the recent uprising
of workingmen which resulted in the
oss of many lives and destruction of much
property.
Wholesale arrests of Nihilists have just
aeon made in several Russian towns, and the
Czar is reported to be in great danger of assassination.
Queen* Victoria, attended by the English
royal family and many dignitaries, proceeded
in state through the streets of Londou
to Albert Hall on the 4th, and opened the
Colonial Exhibition. The streets along the
routj of march were packed with cheering
people. The chief feature of the opening
ceremonies was the singing of a new British
xle composed for the occasion by Lord
Tennyson.
REAPER WORKS RAIDED.
Policemen and Strikers Shooting at
Close Range in Chicago.
t>movi-Ail t.ViA strike
IViUllll^ aau uiwuouwu iiiui mm.wv?
at Chicago on the afternoon of the 3d. when
a mob of thousands made a raid upon the |
MeCormaek reaper works. Their purpose !
was to wreak vengeance upon the 1
men who had taken their places
in the shops. The building was 1
seriously damaged by showers of |
stones. The police were suminoued and a
battle ensued, during which five strikers
were shot, two fatally; four polite nen were t
seriously injured, and Assistant Superinton- j
dent C. J. Bewbv ot' the McCormick \vork3 [
was struck in the face with a stone and badly
ha~t.
Their ranks broken, the rioters fled in every
direction. A dozen were captured and taken
to the police station and locked up on
the charge of riot. Many of McCormick's
workmen were assaulted and
slightly injured. Patrolmon Ca^oy was sent
to Vojtek's hou-e to tell his family he was
injured. There he was surrounded by a mob
and a rope brought out to hang him. A detail
of pulice came to his res^He-Jtistfin the
nick of time. / *
The Mormon elders are still searching for
young female converts iu-some rural villages
in Pennsylvania. 1
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LATER NEWS. j
The master builders of Boston have united |
In issuing a circular stating that they "utterly
refuse to enter into any conference witb
labor organizations, ana mat nereaner
they will deal only with the individual workman.
A body of 200 Federal troops have been
sent to Cincinnati to protect government
property in case of a riot
The Chicago police on the 5th arrested
three of the leaders of the Anarchists who
threw the bombs into the ranks of the officers
with such deadly effect on the day previous.
The dens of the Anarchists were also
raide 1, and hundreds of muskets and
revolvers, together with a vast
amount of dynamite, were seized. A mob
gutted a drug store and a saloon. They were
dispersed by the police after a severe contest,
in which pistols were used on both sides and
many injuries inflicted. Officer Madden had
on pr?rniintf>r with n. rioter whioh 1 in
each being fatally shot. Mayor Harrison
issued a proclamation forbidding all public
gatherings and processions. All the wounded
Anarchists arrested were held for murder.
More than $20,000 was subscribed during the
day for the benefit of the families of the dead
and wounded policemen.
George Jo.ves, proprietor of the New
York Times, testified before the House Telephone
Investigatiug Committee on the 5th
concerning the alleged attempts of the Bell
Company to obtain newspaper influence in
its favor.
The House Committee on Agriculture is
considering a bill providing for an extension
of the benefits of the signal service to
farmers.
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v^uivajkjujuxiuhs uggregnuiug c*a/,vw uuvo
been received from America during the past
fortnight for the Irish Home Rule party in
the British Parliament.
The Belgian government has issued a loan
of $3,600,000 to provide work for the unemployed.
Miss Amelia. Morosini, daughter of the
well-known New York broker, has just been
noculated against hydrophobia by M
Pasteur in Paris. She was bitten in New
STork by a pet dog. M. Pasteur has thus far
noculated nearly 1,000 persons.
Thirteen' of the New York Aldermen in
dieted on ttie cnarge ol DriDery m connection
with the granting of the Broadway railroad
franchise have been arraigned in court, all
pleading not guilty.
A bill to legalize boycotting has been introduced
in the New York Legislature.
A proposed amendment to the State Constitution
to prohibit the manufacture or sale
5f intoxicating liquors has been defeated in
;he New York Assembly by fifty-three yeas
So sixty-three nays.
Milwaukee Anarchists have stolen a
arge quantity v ? dynamite from a quarry,
md great fear of reprisals on their part exsts
in the city.
A straightout Greenback ticket has been
Dut in the field by the State convention of
;he Iowa Greenbackers.
Two more Chicago policemen have died
!rom the effects of wounds received by the
x>mb thrown into their ranks, and several
>thers were not expected to recover.
The President has nominated James H*
tfcLeary, of Texas, to be Associate Justice
>f the Supreme Court of the Territory of
llontana.
Representative Tucker has been iniructed
by the House Committee on the Judiiary
to report adversely a bill to allow citi:eiis
of one State to take fish from the waters
ii anocner estate .
The officials of the French New Hebrides
ompany on Espiritu Santo Island have
>een massacred by natives.
There are a number of Mormon missioniries
in Switzerland trying to induce girls to
migrate to Utah, promising them happiness
nd prosperity.
Late dispatches report that Greece refused
o comply with the demand of the European
towers to give more precise assurances that
he would disarm, and that accordingly the
oreign ministers were preparing to leave
Vthens. Mr. Gladstone, in the British House
if Commons, advised the adoption of com
(uisory means toward Greece.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Savannah was the first Southern League
lub to play an errorless championship garner
Waterbtjry, Conn,, claims the best baseunning
and batting team in the Eastern
jea&ue.
Steinmeyer, of the Bostons, is looked upon
is one of the most promising young pitchers
n the League.
Every Hartford (Conn.) player who makes
'Unn./v iHin ?anairoo o Hnv nf ricrflrs from a
b U\JiHO 4 LiU A bV.Vl T wu * v- ~-0
ocal enthusiast i
Thus far the pitching in various clubs has
>een first-class, indicating closely contested
;ame$ among first-class clubs.
The Charleston Club is enjoying the best
)atrona;e in the Southern League. The
Charleston ladies turn out from 50U to 700 at
ivery game.
In reckoning up National League proba)ilities
it should oe borne in mind that Chi'ago
does not finish at home this year and
Sew York does.
A number of New York actors, who are
inthusiastic on the subject of base baU, have
)reanized a nine. The New York Press nine
ivill play the actors.
The Bostons have official contracts with
16 players; the Chicagos, 14; Detroits, 12;
* * i i i- ir*. C?*- T nnic
New xort, 13; rnuaaeipmu, ou. juuiuo,
L7; "Washington, 11; Kansas City, 11: total, 99.
The strong showing which the different
Eastern Leajue clubs have made in the ;
janies that they have played so far is very
jncouraging to their managers and to th9
patrons of the game in the various cities
where they are located.
The playing of the Southern League clubs
50 far bas proven that the teams are more
jvenly matched than last year, and that the
fight for the pennant will be so spirited that
x person will have to guess several times
luring the season, and then may guess
wrong.
hflcnhflH Associations
Jiiuni luii y "ov.jui|/^v* k/vtwwv... .?
are now in existence, employing over 700
players, whose salaries amount to $800,000.
Ln addition to thesj are a number of State and
Diher Leagues of the semi-professional character
employing at least 300 more players,
who will receive in salaries at least $100,000.
An excaedingly exciting contest took place
recently in Richmond, Va., between the
Boston and Newark (N. J.) Clubs. A twobagger
by Johnson, after two men were out
in the ninth inning, enabled the Bostons to
tie the score. Both clubs were blanke 1 in
tha tenth inning, leaving the score a tie, 3 to
3, as the Newarks had to leave the field to
:atch a train for the North.
The grand stand on the Metropolitan CIub'9
new grouuds at Staten Islan-i is the finest
ever seen on a ball-Held. It is a three-story
structure, nearly tour nunare:i ieeb iuujj uy
sixty feet in width, with extensive balconies,
and will seat over five thousand people.
There are a so included in the build a hand*
some dining-room, with space for more than
a thousand persons to bo fed at one time.
A novel feature of the national game is
seen in the Southern League cities where
the details of the contests between the homo
team and the other clubs are shown each
day. The games are reported from the stage,
where a special wire is placed to receive the
game in every detail, the ball being followed
as if you had" your eye on it. On the stage
a diamond as large as'the stage will permit
is marked ofF, the chalk line and bags being
there as well as the bat and batsman. Nine
small boys do the playing as tho telegraphic
instrument instructs. The boys are all labelled
in large letters?according to who is batting
at tho game at a distance?and whatever
happens to the real player this youth does
likewise. 1
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KILLED BY BOM
Slaughter Following an Anarchist
Meeting in Chicago.
Many Officers and Civilians Killed
or Badly Wounded*
The contest between the police and striken
in Chicago on the 3d was followed by a far
more bloody encounter on the night of the
4th. A Chicago dispatch gives the following
In response to a handbill invitation a :
large crowd gathered this evening on ,
the plaza at JJes Plaines and Randolph
streets. After several speakers had
addressed the meeting Sam Fielden, an
Anarchist leader, mounted the wagon from
which the orators spoke, and
began a violent and incendiary
harangue. Police Inspector Bonfield had |
heard the early part of the speech, and, walking
down the street to the Des Plaines street
police station, not 800 feet south of where
Fielden stood, called out a reserve of
sixty policemen and started them I
up the street toward the crowd. ,
The men were formed in two
lino3 stretching from curb to
curb. The Inspector hurried on ahead, and
forcing his way through the crowd, reached
a point close to the wagon. Fielden had
iust uttered an incendiary sentence, when ,
.tjonneia cned:
"I command you in the name of the law to
desist, and you," turning to the crowd, "to ,
disperse."
Just as he began to speak the stars on the .
broad breasts of the blue coats, as they came <
marching down the street so quietly that they .
had not been heard, reflected the rays or 1
lieht from the neighboring street lamp. From a
little group of men standing at the entrance
to an alley opening on Des Plaines street, j
opposite where Fielden was speaking, some- .
thing rose up into the air, carrying j
with it a slender tail of fire, squarely .
in front of the advancing line of t.
policemen. It struck and sputtered J
mildly for a moment. Then, as they were so *
close to it that the nearest man could have ,
stepped upon the thing, it exploded with terrific
effect.
The men in the centre of the line went
down with shrieks and groans, dying together.
Then from the Anarchists on every
side, a deadly fire was poured in on the
stricken lines of police, and more men fell to
the ground. At the discharge of the bomb
the bystanders on the sidewalk fled for their
lives, and numbers were trampled upon in the
mad haste of the crowd to get away. The
groans of those hit could b3 heard above the 6
rattle of the revolvers, as the doIice answered
the fire of the rioters with deadly effect. In j
two minutes the ground was strewn with '
wounded men. Then the shots straggled, and c
soon after all was quiet and the police were !j
masters of the situation.
The situation was appalling in the extreme. c
The ground was covered with the bodies of e
men writhing in agony and apparently dying. s
The men who were uninjured were minister- ?
ing to their comrades as best they could, and 1
as soon as possible the wounded were removed
to the station house. The first death was
that of Officer Joseph Deegan who rose
from the ground where he was thrown J
by the explosion, walk 3d a hundred feet <
toward the stat'on house, and dropping down,
expired. All around within a radius ^
of a block of the field of battle men were 1
seen limping into drug stores and saloons or ;
crawling on their hands, their legs being 1
disabled. Others tottered along the street }
like drunken men, holding their hands to their
heads and calling for help to take them (
home. The open doorways and the saloons I
in the immediate vicinity were crowded *
wittirien. Some jumped over tables and I
chairs, barricading themseves bedindthem; 6
others crouched behind the walls, counters, e
doorways and empty barrels. For a few *
minutes after the shooting nobody ventured *
out on the street. t
A hospital was hastily improvised in the
squad room at the station house, and thither ?
the wounded were carried by tender hands. 1
The room presented a harrowing sight. Half *
a dozen men, from whom the blood literally t
flowed in streams, were stretched upon the c
floor. Others were laid out on tables ^
and benches, and others not so badly <]
wounded wt re placed in chairs to await, with '
what patience they could, the assistance of a
the surgeon. Mattresses and other bedding e
were dragged down stairs, and dozens of a
willing hands did their utmost to assuage the d
pain of the sufferers. r
Besides Officer Deegan, a civilian (a Bo- ?
hemian) was picked up dead in the streets. ^
Twelve of the policemen were badly injured, B
and it was expected that several of them r
would die, while a score or more
of the blue coats were wounded *
less severely than their unfortunate com- J
rades. Among the civilians at least fifty t
were hit by bullets from the officers' revol- ^
vers, but as most of the wounded men were
immediatelv carried away by their friends J
the fatalities could not at the time be ascer- 1
tained. t
Later in the evening 203 Bohemian sau- t
sagemakers from Armour's pork-packing es
tablishment marched down to Asnland ave- J
nue, carrying red flags, beating drums, and 0
shouting "Down with the police." They pa
raded around all night ana about 11 o'clock T
reached the corner of Forty-eighth and Laf- &
lin streets. Officers Doran McManus and J. 0
W. Murphy were met. and the mob com- t
menced to beat them, when Officer McManus 9
drew his revolver and fired. Matthew Blank, F
one of the strikers, ran a few yards and then n
dropped dead. The mob then fled. ?
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Successful Cast of an Immense Gun ?
at Boston. *
A "big gun" recently cast at the Soutn j
Boston Iron Company's works was th ) other t
day taken out of the moulding pit, where it C
had lain for about three weeks. The 8
casting, so far as could be ascer- a
tained, is a complete success The t
gun, in its present rough state, is thirty- 0
nine feet long. When finished its length v
will be thirty feet, and its largest diameter
fifty-four inches. This is the last of three s
fifty-four ton breech-loading rifled can- g
non, ordered by the government ^for 0
experimental use. All of these guns ^
in their finished state are of the <]
same size and weight and will throw the ?
same projectile, but they differ somewhat in v
construction. The one just taken out of the *
Eit will be comoleted next fall. The work 0
i superintended by a representative of tke ^
Iron Company and by three government ord- 4
nanco officers. t
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FALL OF A WALL. j
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Minneapolis. n
The side wall of a five-story building in F
Minneapolis, Minn., fell out the other after- ?
noon, burying thirty men who were at work
in an excavation adjoining. Of these eleven I
escaped uninjured, as they were warned by 1
the cracking of the timbers, but eight were i
killed outright and six seriously injured. d
The building was a new five-story brick (
Structure, on the northeast corner of Second s
street and First avenue, south. The floors I
were supported by two parallel rows of t
heavy wood columns, resting upon large f
3uar6 timbers, running from front to rear t
the building. In this temporary wood e
i.L. wnrVmon I f
WOrg WftS tliD v> t atv 0|A/V. AUV I'VAntovM were
excavating at one side of the building j
for an addition. The wall was removed, and J
the weight of the accumulated material on
the floors and roof caused the disaster.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. a
John E. Owens, the comedian, has entirely
recovered his health. t
Bartlet Campbell is writing a new play, a
based on life in New York. a
Madame Janauschek is to begin a series 0
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ol I are wen wjlu ? ui .iiUDn? s
Mapleson's Italian operatic "season" in a
San Francisco has not been financially sue- J
cessful. i
A careful estimate shows that only 919,001)
pianos have baen made in the United 1
States since 1760. I
Henry Irving's receipts since 1ST8 are said "
to have been nearly ?2,500,000, including the t
proceeds of his American tour.
Rose Coghlan, the actress, has purchased i
a handsome villa on the Hudson adjoining r
"Greystone," the residence of S. J. Tilden. {
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
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Senate Sessions.
Ninetieth Day.?Ac attempt to pass ovar / j
the President's veto the biU giving a Wap-i
ington medical college the unclaimed bodies
of paupers was defeated by by C to 48?A;
number of private bills were passed, Mf.'
Hoar criticising the policy of delay in adjust*
ing honest bills against the government..^!
Mr. Hale renewed his argument in favor of
subsidizing steamships for mail purpose*,
Europe, he said, had built up its foreign
commerce by this policy. Mr. Brown saia,
he opposed his party in favoring the subsidy
The South now haddiversified manufacture!!
that demanded an outlet for overproduction,
and such markets, he believed, could 1*
reached by this means.
Ninety-first Day.?The joint resolution
providing'that the 30 th of April shall here*!
after be substituted for the 4fch of Marcb aft
the beginning of the official term of the Presi?t
dent, Vice-President, and the Congres^
was reported favorably, as was also ^
bill creating a Commission to be appointed,
by the President to select an accurate ballotbox
and counting device, which shall be used
in all Congressional elections....Mr. Dolph,
offered an amendment to the Fortifications
Appropriations bill approprt? ?
ating $10,000,000 for the construction of
fortifications and other works of coast defence
in accordance with the recommends- . -C
tions of the Board of Fortifications, to be
expended under the direction of the Secretary
of War?In debate on the Postoffice
Appropriation bill Mr. Vest actackcd the
principle of giving subsidies to steamship
lines, maintaining tliat the provision would
be destructive to the American merchant
marine. After a running debate the Senate
went into executive session.
Ninety-second Day.?The Senate resumed
the steamship subsidy debate. After
remarks by Messrs. Morgan and Plumb, an
intendment directing the proposed contract*
x> be made for not less than five
lor more than ten years was adopted
>y a vote of 39 yeas to 27 nay\
Sir. Morgan moved to strike out the clause
eouiring the steamships to be of Americas'
Duild, wnioh amendment was lost by a vote
)f 20 to 41. The committee's provision
tor the foreign mails, as finally
imendedby the Senate was agreed to . by
id yeas to IS nays. The vote on the final
jass&ge of the bill was 45 yeas to 10 nays. '
Ninety-third Day.?Mr. Morgan, from
Foreign Relations Committee, reported a
resolution looking to the suppression of
;he evils growing out of the crossing
>f cattle over the border line3 be- "r
.ween the United States and Mexico...*
rhe Senate considered the Inter-state Com*
narra hill t.ho nAnHintr nmpnrJmAnt hairier
;hat offered by Mr. Camden, applying an ab;olute
long and short haul clause to each rail oad
separately. The amendment was adopt*
>d by a vote of 29 to 24?Executive Seeifon.
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Ninety-fourth Day.?The Senaie Comnittee
on Public Lands to-day reported the
Dill passed by the House some time ago declaring
forfeited grants of land made in aid
>f the construction of certain railroads in
Mississippi, Alabama and other States. The
:ommittee amended the House bill so as to
>xcept the Gulf and Ship Island road of Miaissippi....
An animated debate on the Interitate
Commerce bill took place between
Messrs. Camden and Ingalls.
House Sessions. J
103d Day.?In discussion of the River and
3ar bor Appropriation bill there was a debate
>ver the Mississippi River appropriation
rbe matter was brought to ahead by Mr,,
SoLman (Ind.), who offered an amendment'
jroviding that the money appropriated for i
;he lower Mississippi should be expended , .:
n continuance and completion of titte ^
Tork on the Plum Point and
Providence reaches. He thought Congress
>wea it to tne country tnat tne plan or in*
movement should be thoroughly tested at
hose two reaches before any more vast exjenditures
were authorized." Mr. Holman's
imendment was rejected, seventy-one to <
lighty-one; also an amendment by Mr. Warier
(Ohio), placing the distribution of the
und under the Secretary of War instead of
he River Commission. r' fi
104th Day.?Mr. Findlay from the Civil
service Committee submitted a report on the
esolution offered by Mr. Taulbee (Ky.) directug
the Secretary of the Treasury to inform
he House by what authority substitute
Jerks were permitted in his department.
?he report says that there is no reason to
luestion the good faith of the statement of
ne acting Secretary that substitutes are
llowed in cases of absence of permanent
mployes through illness, and accepting this
is a valid reason, the committee asks to bo '
ischargod from its further consideration. A ,
unning debate on the merits and demerit#
f the Civil Service law ensued between
lessrs. Taulbee, Miller (N. Y.), Cannon (I1L)
nd others, at the conclusion of which tho
pqnlufcinn was tabled?veas. 114: navs. 118
... Mr. Cox, from Foreign Affairs, reported
he bill amendatory of the Chinese Immigraion
Act. Also providing indemnity to cer?
ain Chinese subjects for losses sustained
vithin the jurisdiction of the United States.
105th Day.?Mr. Findlay (Md.) offered a
oint resolution in favor of abolishing all
axes of every description on tobacco and on '
he manufacture and sale thereof, rather
han to reduce the tariff on imported good$
.. .Mr. Bean (Ari.) introduced a bill authorzing
the President to offer a reward of $25,00
for the killing or capture of Geronimo
...Mr. Breckenridge (Ark.) introduced a'
esolution to give silver certificates full legal
ender character, and providing for the issue
f certificates of the denominations of one,
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the rules were suspended and a bill passed
roviding for the adjustment of land grants
lade by Congress to aid in the construction
f railroads in Kansas and for the forfeiture
f unearned lands.
106th Day.?The speaker presented acomlunication
from the Secretary of State of
fe w York enclosing a copy of the resignation
f Joseph Pulitzer as a representative from
he Ninth New York Congressional
)istrict, and it was laid on the table....
'he Campbell-Weaver contested election
ase obtained the floor, and by a vote of 118
o 80 the resolution of the majority of the
Jommittee on Elections, which confirms the
itting member, Weaver, in hi3 seat, was
107th Day.?Mr. Hewitt (N. Y.) addressed
he House at length on the bill for the relief
f certain officers of the Volunteer Army. It
. as time, he said, to call a halt upon these
ills giving an unknown sum?an untold
um?from the Treasury of the United
States, which could only be brought
ut by the coined sweat of
he laboring men of the country. s
.'he Government had not any money to give
iway. Thousands of men were to-day in the
iresence of starvation. The avenues for work
vere being closed up?mostly the result of
ver-taxation. Let the House, he said, ad
[ivss itself to the work of reducing taxes.
'What is there dishonest or dishonorable in
his measure ;" queeriedMr. Warner, of Mis- '
ouri. "The limit of endurance on the part
f the taxpayers has been reached," replied
li\ Hewitt, "and it is breaking out in riot .
nd death and dynamite; and it will not stop
intil the pressure and load of taxation is reaoved."
Mr. Frederick, from the Comaittee
on the Alcoholic Liauor Traffic, retorted
adversely a Senate bill providing for
. commission on the subject of the liquor
108th Day.-?Debate on the River and
lar'oor Appropriation bill was resumed. Mr.
Sverhardt (Penn.) severely criticised theneasure.
Several amendments were introkuel
and rejected. Finally, Mr. Holman.
Ind.) moved to recommit the bill with intructions
to the Committee on Rivers and
larbors to report back a measure appropriar
ing $8,000, OCX) for the improvement of rivers
TmrVmrc Ko nnH<vr the direc
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ion of the Secretary of War, subject to the
ipproval of the President Rejected?yeas,
15; nays, 157. The bill was then passed?
eas, 143; nays, 10~\ The bill as passed ap>ropriates
about $15,000,000.
THE BRITISH IN EUBMAH
Che Troops Powerless?4,000 Houses
in Mandalay Burned.
Recent news from Burmah is very sensaional
and shows that the natives, with the
^sLstance of the Dacoits, have, temporarily
,t least, got the better of the British army of
iccupation. One dispatch states that the inurgents
have got possession of Mandalay
nd have burned no less than 4,000 houses,
^mong the buildings burned were the Chilese
and Siamese baz:mrs.
The hostility of the native? who remain
oyal to the dethroned King Theebaw to the
,'hinese is intense, because of China's openly
ivowed endorsement or tireat Britain s seizire
of Burmah. The officers commauding
he British forces have tele^rraphed to Lord
)ufferin, the Viceroy, that they are poweress
to prevent the "rebellious rioting of th?
latives, and have urgently asked for reiaorcements.