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? v . *\ A rt *rr*rv ANARCHISTS UUUMJSJJ. I Chicago's Seven lionib-Throw- i ers to be Hanged, & | Their Sentence Confirmed By the1 Illinois Supreme Court, The Supreme Court at Ottawa on Wednesday morning delivered an opinion in the Chicago Anarchist's case, affirming the judgment of thoeourt below. The executions are to take p!aco November 11th, between nine and four o'clock. At 9:o0 o'clo.-k Justice Magruder began the announcement of the decision. There was a general feeling that something important was about to happen. Justice Magruder appeared flushed and norvou; as ho entered the court room. Th'.? eauss of his excitement was nndj plain a few moments later wh?n Chief Justice Sheldon turned to him, aud, in a voice which would have been inaudible, save for tDe sill moss wmcn pcrvuueu uiv; iwm, said: ''Justice Alagruder, liave you any announcements to maker" The Justice responded: "In August Spies and others against j trie p ople of the State of Illinois, Mo. .V, advisement docket " Tine Chief Justice nervously luriu-d the leaves of the court dockt-t to the iudicau-d, when the Justico read the decision of llie court iu the Anarchist case: ' In this case the court orders that the sentence of tlie SujHTior (Joint of Cook County of the defeu iaiits in the indictment ?August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, A. It. .Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Kngel, and 1-ouis Lingg?be carried into effect by the Sheriff of Cook County on thellthday of Novemlicr next, on Friday, between the hours" of ten o'clock forenoon and four iu the afternoon, 011 that day. The judgment of the court was unanimous." The opinion was written by Judge Magruder, of the Chicago District, and is an exposition of the law and previous interpretation thereof by eminent jurists iu this country, as woUas of the courts,bearing u{K>n the alleged and real errors iu this record. In his work he was heijied by each of the other six judges, who made him their s|iokesman,and through him ejcnriissad their unanimous decision. The opinion covers rfcii pnges of closely written manuscript and contains alnjut 50,0(JO words. The Anarchists had no counsel at Ottawa to represent them Injfore tho court as the decision was announced, and no steps taken in'their l>eha!f. Tbey have fifteen days in which to file a motion for a rehearing and thirty days from tho close of the term to file a petition in support thereof. This will not act as a stay of sentence, and they will have to show very strong grounds before the court would eonseut to the issue of a stay of execution until a rehearing could l>e had next term. The trial of the anarchists for the murder of policemen in the ilayiuarket at Chicago, ended on August 20, 1SSG, when seven of them, viz.: August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel ami Louis Lingg, were convicted of murder. Sentence of death was i?ssed on these October 9, and an eighth one. Oscar W. Neobe, was sentenced to fourteen years1 imprison i. A Af merit 111 LIIU pfllllCII tiai j . xa. ova; ui oacv i*tioa was grunted November 'St, 1NS0, pending die decisiou of the Supreme Court of the State, which has just been handed down. "The only remaining course for us to pursue," said Mr. Black, of the counsel for the Anarchists, "is to take the case to the United States Supreme Court. 1 shall immediately go before the Supreme Court at Ottawa and ask for reasonable time to secure a certified transcript of the record for presentation to the Supreme Court at "Washington. Such proceedings aro rare, but I h ive no doubt of the court's decision on that poiut.'' The News Heard By the Anarchists. The first official information that reached Chicago was a telegram from the court clerk at Ottawa to the State's Attorney's office saying: "Anarchist cases affirmed: execution November 11." Mr. Purcell, of the State's Attorney's office, run nt, nnr-o tn t,h? ini 1 with the disnatcli. Fol lowing on his heels was a messenger carrying telegrams for August Spies that had been sent from Ottawa by an agent of the Anarchists. The turnkey, who took the despatch to cell Uo and shoved it through the bars, lingered a moment to watch the effect it would have on Spies. The Anarchist took the message, glanced firmly at the turnkey, and then withdrew to the darker end of the cell. In two minutes or so he called gently to the old man who sits as death-watch outside the barred door, and asked him to send the yellow telegraph sheet to Parsons. From him it went t'-? all the others and at last reached Tsoebe, who is only under sentence of imprisonment. Newspaper men had been rigorously shut out from the condemned men, and all observations had to be taken from the outside of the cage, about ten yards from the cell door. a It could lie seen that each of the condemned men made- ostentatious efforts at coolness and bravado. They took seats at their cell doors ami reau uuu nuu muukcu cigars, and once Lingg, the bomb-mal:er, whistled. Their wives and friends had been with them for an hour during the morning, but about thirty minutes before the news came they were excluded and the prisoners locked up, each one by him.self. Sheriff Matson had remained away "from the jail. By his orders, during the 'rmrfit tlia guards had all be?n doubled, including the Court Sheriff there were twenty of the Sheriff's men on duty, ten turnkej's and guards that are on regular duty at the jail, andsix policemen who patrolled the alleys on the outside. Captain Suhaack brought with him four detectives, who were stationed in the jail courts. Upon Captain Schaac k the protection of the jail devolves. He professes to experience no uneasiness from any M KnooLr infy\ fka ioil anrl crive ha has taken every precaution.J TEE NATIONAL GAME. Thi New Yorks have played twenty-fire different men this seasor.. Clarkson, the Chicago pitcher, is still Buffering from a lame arm. The Indianapolis League nine has been hut out six times this season. Audrain Cor.vrr, Missouri, has a baseball dub composed of nine brothers. Boston's Mayor occasionally takes in the ball games at the Boston grounds. Bennett is now making up for lost time and doing nearly all of Detroit's catching. Out of 14 games pitched by Getzein on the last Eastern trip of the Detroits, he won eight. The Association teams will mnko snmo wholesale releases at the end of the present season. President Spalding says that he will sell the release of almost any man on the Chicago team for $10,000. Captain Anson now says he is sorry the Chicagoes parted with Kelly, whose release Vis sold to Boston for $10,000. The minor leagues are rapidly going to p'eces. Kven the strong Internationa] League has lost about half its clnbs. If T/it... Vmrir J- -i-j i illA.">AUCirt uun.l AJ^L?LiI Ad i CpUI lCU lO have said that a temperance plank will be inserted in every Louisville player's contract next season. The Boston-Pittsburg 28?14 score of August 27 was the biggest made this season In the League ranks. The next biggest was New York 20, Indianapolis 6, a total of runs. Six of the Bostons have made 103 safe hits ?more than in any other team. Five of the Detroits have got tr.ere, and three each of tha Chicagos, New Yorks, l'hiladelphias and Indianapolis. The latest reports from Chicago make Spalding say: "I look to see the League circuit for next vear composed of Boston, New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia in the Easf, and Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburg in the West. | THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. ITon. Lost. ITon. Lost. Detroit........06 87 | Boston 55 45 Pittsburgh....43 57 I New York....57 4C Philadelphia. .59 45 | Indianapolis...SO 73 Chicago 57 42 | Washington...39 01 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. iron. Lost. II'on. Los'. fit- Louis. 85 SSI J Brooklvn. 54 (JC Cincinnati.... OS 40 j Athletic 52 61 Louisville 67 4S j Metropolitan..30 16 BJ'.jaore 50 j Cleveland.....31 8f : NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. A preliminary organization of the new American party lias been made in Pittsburgh. Tiiukk men were buried alive under 120 feet of earth by a cave-in at the new uc[ queduct, Yonkers, N. Y. i The Governor of Connecticut has received j I from Colonel Thomas G. Jones, of Alabama, the old battle flag of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers, captured at Plymouth, N.C., I in April, The Pennsylvania Railroad's roundhouse, machine shop-:, five locomotives and six tanks were destroyed by tire at Lewistown, Penu. C. B. Ide, a Sunday-school Superintendent of Glens Falls, N, Y.* and bookkeeper of the First National Bank, has confessed to stealing jls.UOO of the institution's funds. Hekr Most, the Anarchist leader, wanted to declare his intentions of becoming a citizen of the United States in New York a few days ago; but as the questions put to him regarding his allegiance to th laws of this country were unsatisfactory, his application was refused. South and West. Jeffersox Davis has written a letter favoring local option in granting liquor licenses. A '-League of Personal Liberty ' is being organized in the Western States to [ counteract the rapid spread of Prohibition sentiment. Lizzie Abbott, aged eleven years, committed suicide at New Smyrna, Fla. She admitted to her mother having taken strychnine, and said: "Mamma; I am tired of| living; I want to go to papa." John T. Ross (colored) was hanged at Baltimore for the murder of Emily Brown, a white woman. The object of the murder was to secure the body and sell it for dissecting purposes. A tremendous flood has swept away twenty miles of track of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona. Two persons were killed and a number seriously injured by the falling of some rickety old sheds in New Orleans A gang of carpenters were erecting a trestle forty-five feet high at the Mudfork Mines, near Nelsonville, Ohio, when the whole structure fell and all were thrown into the gully. Three men were instantly killed and four seriously injured. Commander-in-Chief Fairchild, of the Grand Army of the Republic, declines to ba a candidate for re-election. The official vote of the late election in Texas, just published, is: For prohibition, 129,273; against prohibition, 2*21,027; majority against prohibition, 92,354. Four men were killed and sixty-one seriously injured by the upsetting of a construction train carrying 287 laborers near Lake Ivanhoe, Col. Washington. A Treasury Agent's report on the Alaskan seal fisheries says 50,000 sealskips have been unlawfully taken the past season by marauders. The International Medical Congress ended on Saturday. Resolutions complimentary to the President and Mrs. Cleveland were passed. The President has pardoned Thomas r. Knight, John A. Brooks and Henry Patz. of Arkansas, convicted of murder. He was satisfied that rashness, not malice, influenced the crime. Foreign. The Alfred Adams, a British Columbia sailing vessel seized by an American revenue cutter for unlawful sealing in Alaskan waters, eSlaped by a trick. A prize crew of only two men was placed on board the captured vessel, and her captain was ordered to proceed to Sitka. Instead, after parting company with the revenue cutter, he coolly sailed for Victoria, British Columbia. A large number of officials and merchants have been arrested at Vienna for connection with extensive frauds on the Custom House. Another person died from the effects of injuries received during the rioting at Mitchellstown, Ireland, making three victims;and two others were not expected to recover. Fifty-four constables were under the doctors' care, and 150 civilians were injured. Fire destroyed the British ship Clyde, from Leith for Quebec, in mid-ocean. The crew was rescued by a passing vessel. A French smack reports the loss of a vessel with fifty hands in the English Channel. Sir Charles Young,the well known English playwright, author of the successful drama, "Jim the Penman," is dead. During a hurricane off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland fourteen men belonging to the Nova Scotia schooner Maria were lost. Moonlighters killed one constable and mortally wounded another near EnnLs, Ireland. Five moonlighters were capturecL Three soldiers at Trapani, Italy, were Bent to perform disinfecting duty, and were assailed by a mob, who tried to force them to swallow carbolic acid, which they had been sprinkling about the streets and houses. One of the soldiers imbibed the liquid, and soon afterward died in horrible agony. The other two refused to drink the acid, and were killed. a nxu xjxiv.au uauv xja.jan.iav a, nvill Ijuiiuuu bound for San Francisco, lost ton men in a heavy storm. The National Prison Congress has been in session at Toronto. Questions relating to the cond tion of prisons and prisoners were diwtl<?vL LATER_NEWS. : Three sets of triplets competed for President Cleveland's $10 prize at the East Aurora (N. Y.) fair, and several colored babes were entered for Governor Hill's $25 prize. The New York Republican State Convention, held in Saratoga, nominated the follow- ( ing ticket: For Secretary of State, Frederick Dent Grant; Controller, Judge Jesse Lam- j . Qfofn Tprtocinw .TflmAs Hf'armichael; Attorney-General, James A. Dennison; i State Engineer and Surveyor, 0. H. B. Cornell. The platform adopted denounces Cleve- j land's administration; favors a protectivo tariff and the civil service reform laws; de- , mands a fair election in every part of the 1 country; denounces the "flippant, sneering language of President Cleveland's ve. toes of the pension," bills and his Confederate battle flag order; calls for the establishment of laws and regulations to "prevent the coming to our shores of disreputable and undesirable persons,favors tli" restriction of the liquor traffic and the protection of genuine dairy products; calls for cheap transportation and sympathizes with Ireland in its struggle for home rule. The twenty regimental and battery monuments built by the State of Ohio to mark the positions of Ohio troops in the battle of Gettysburg were dedicated on Wednesday. Governors Beaver, of Pennsylvania, and Foraker, of Ohio, were present. Ex-Governor Lukk P. Blackbcrn, of Kentucky, is dead, in his seventy-first year. A fourth man has died of wounds received during the fight with constables at Mitchellstown, Ireland. A LONG TRANCE, A Woman Who Has Rem in a Cataleptie State For Ten Months. mia vvmu **v? uvi v, mc uun cciuuiaiuu cataleptic, confined in St. Joseph's Hospital at Joliet, II'.. and who has been in a continuous sleeping trance or cataleptic stat* now ten months, remains about the same, with the exception that she talks more than when her case was last written up. Her talk is principally about something to eat. She is continually ordering her meals, but her ai>t>etite has not improved any. The eyes still remain closed, the muscles rigid, and the joints stiffened. She staiuls in any position she is placed in, like a statue, till moved, and the limbs will remain in any position in which they are placed until changed. She has but slight sensibility to pain, and is a perfect human automaton. Sometimes she cries, not aloud, but with seeming suppressed grief. At other times she smiles, but never laughs audibly. She has become a great curiosity. People come for miles to fcee her. and on Sundays the place is crowded like a museum. nniT urnTTinn nmnTFtf ! bUAit mm MO amiM. Twenty Tlionsand Men Idle In the Lehigh Region. An Increase of Fifteen Per Cent, in Wages Demanded. Twenty thousand minors and laborers in the Lehigh Districts of the anthracito coal region on Monday morning responded to the order to quit work, which ?CW 153UCU nj lliO VVII1W . of the Knights of Labor and the Miners' and Laborers' Amalgamated Association; and what promised to bo one of the longest and most bitter strikes in that region since 1S73 wa< lingun. The men demanded an increase of 1 "> per cent, in their wages. The operators refused this and refused to arbitrate, as they have agreements with their own men to work out t he year on a schedule adopted last January. Committees of the several l'K-al organizations waited upon A. Pardee & Co., Cove Uros. <fc Co. at Dritton, and other operators, but the operators refused to recoguize the committees. Thirty collieries in the Lehigh region were affected by the strike, and all of tlinm wore idle. At several of them it was attempted to ran the breakers with the aid of a few Hungarians and Italians, but after running for several hours they were obliged to shut j i? ;?u uuwn. JUl ill'VOI <J?1IU C UIUI lUCVlUCl<'i.wiivj'M>t? committee all tho engineers ami pump men remained at work, but only to do what dead work was necessary iu order to keep I he water out of the mines, and they were under strict orders not to hoist a single carload of coal At Dritton all the men, numbering over 1,000, were ordered to go to work at once or else take their tools from the mines and go to the office and get their pay. They refused to go to work and all were immediately discharged. At present, says a dispatch on Monday, the men "are all quiet, but should tlio operators carry out their expressed purpose to ojierate the mines with Hungarian an I other imported labor, serious trouble and possibly bloodshed is anticipated. Jtis Itelieved that the strike will not be adjusted for many months,unless a mutually satisfactory agreement is arrived at this week. Work will be continued in the Schuylkill and other regions, and the Lehigh operators will have till their orders lilltul there. There i<? no fear Mint the price of coal will be aterially alTi-clod, as Hie orders can be easily filled in th? other regions. The men who havegone out are employed by the J.ehigh Valley Uuilroad Company, the Lehigh(Tout and Navigation (Jonumny and a number of other companies una individual operators. Tho strike alTeols nearly all the mines in tho upper and lower Lehigh regions, but not including the Wyoming district or the Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley mines in the Schuylkill region. In refcrcnco to tho great strike of the Coal minors in tho upper and lower Lehigh regions, ? ... "> , i r< x?.:v _?,i a rmiaueipuia uispuxcu suys utueim ju.<.\L#tvu, of the Reading Railroad, said: "There has been 110 strike of the employes of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and wo do not exj>cct any. In fact, I am confident that we shall have no trouble. We know what the demands of the men aro, and they understand their position thoroughly, ?nd we can adju.-t the difference without trouble. No reports of strikes have been received, and we believe that all of our men are at work and w ill not go out. The strike mr.y have some effect upon the coal trade, but we shall not feel it." THE PENSION OFFICE. Figures From Commissioner Black's Annual Report. General John C. Black, Commissioner of Pensions,in his annual report,makes a number of suggestions as to changes in the pension 1?VYS. AliO U ouuno buau buvic nwiv mv the close of the year 400,007 pensioners, as follows: 294,445 army invalids; S5,010 army widows, minor children, and dependent relatives; 3,281 navy invalids; 1,975 navy widows, minor children, and dependent relatives; 1,069 survivors of the war of 1812, and 11,S31 widows of those who served in that war; 7,503 survivors of the war with Mexico, and S95 widows of thoso who served in that war. There were added to the rolls during the year 55,194 new pensioners, and 2,707 whose pensions have l>een previously dropped were restored. The names of 17,077 pensioners were dropped. The aggregate annual value of all pensions is $52,824,641, an ] increase of like value for the year of $8,116,- i The amount paid for pensions during the year was $73,405,581, an increase over the 1 previous year of $9,009,750. The amount paid to 44,019 new pensioners during the year, upon first payment, was $25,10G,{)90; 1,091,200 pension claims have been filed since 1801, and 076,948 have been allowed; 5-5,194 original certificates were issued, a greater number than ever be fore in one year. The Commissioner asks for two additional Chiefs of Division at $2,000 each per annum, fifty additional clerks at $1,1200, and fifty additional clerks at $1,000 eaoli per annum. Following are the estimates for the next fiscal year: Salaries, $2,144,330; investigation of ^ pension claims, $525,000; repairs and improvements to build- < ing, $<?3,5C0; pensions, $75,000,000; examining surgeons, $1,000,000; pension agents and agcucie.s, $.>12,400. Total, $7'J,[M5,2.'?0. Tlio appropriation for the last fiscal year was $78,701,250. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Colorow, the Utc Indian chief, weighs 300 ' pounds. Zola, the French novel writer, makes $C0,000 a year. Kino Kalakaua used to peddle bananas in Honolulu when he was a boy. The Tichborne claimant is "managing" a liquor saloon on Chatham Square, New York. King William of Holland, who is now iKjvuii jr-uiiUj is repuibeu iu uu ujruig uy Inches. Da Horatius Bonar, of Edinburgh, the , poet, intends to retire from active ministerial ; life, after fil'ty years' service. j D. 0. Mills, a New York millionaire, is having a ?7,0(X) bronze door made for the < $30,000 tomb he is building at Tarrytown. j Hon. C. F. H. Bieley, of Volusia, Fla., de- J votes his spare time to the culture of figs. He Is said to have the finest fig farm in the United States. J General Albert Pike is very fond of birds, and has in his study dozens of them in cages?mocking birds, canaries, robins, blue birds and otl.ers. The fortune of George Westingliouse, Jr., the Pittsburg inventor, is estimated at $9,000,000. He ranks with Edison in the sue- 1 cess of liis numerous inventive achievements. Mrs. Kilpatbick, widow of the late Gen- ' eral Kilpatrick, Minister to l'eru, is on her ' way to this country with the remains of her husband, which axe to be buried at Decker- I town, N.' J. J Chevreul, the distinguished French chemist, celebrated his l(Hst birthday at Paris recently. In the afternoon ho visited the Agricultural Fair, and in the evening attended a banquet. Brown Goode, the late Professor Baird's successor as Fish Commissioner, is a brownhaired, shaggy-bearded man of 30. He dresses free and easy in clothes that never fit, but he knows trout from codfish Mrs. Cleveland declined Mayor Hewitt's invitation to visit New York and present flags to the fire department. The declination was on the ground that her husband had not been included in the invitation. President Cleveland writes all his letters and addresses with his own hand. He tried dictating to a stenographer some time ago, but found that it bothered him, and that UC LUU1U UU 11 IS uUJ IV IJ1UIU uivit juv.oiuvtvi j . in the old-fashioned way. Mrs. Nancy Baker, a resident of West fl.t J XT 1- ? ! A. *_1.4- A1/1 CKA UOJU, D. UM IS IllUCty-UlgllU JCU13 vtu. uuo manages her farm herself, and when one of , her employes neglects his work or does it carelessly, she follows him up and does it herself, ! mowing, hoeing or whatever it may happen to be. | In Salem, 111., a flock of 150 sheep were ' overtaken in their pasture by fire. Tney at ' once made for a knoll in the field, and there bunched themselves, with the lambs in the < middle, and began moving in a circle, tread- i ing the weeds and grass into the dry earth t until the fire was out ' THE GRAND ARMY. Pacts and Figures of its Meetings = and Membership. The annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, at St. Louis, which has attracted more attention than any preceding one for many years, is the twenty, first held since the foundation of the association. Its first post, according to a Washington dispatch to th3 New York Sun, AM/voni'ffl/l in hir Til A nril WltS ... ?I 0, 18G6, and the second quickly followed at Springfield, in the same State. Major B. F. Stephenson of Springfield, who had been surgeon of the Fourteenth Illinois Volunteers, originated the organization, and nmstured in the Decatur Post, with General I. C. Pugh as Post Commander, and Captain Kanan as Adjutant He also, a few months later, gave a charter to the first Eastern post, No. 1, of Philadelphia. General John W. Palmer was the first Department Commander. The first national encampment was held at Indianapolis in November, 1866, and General S. A. Hurlbut was there chosen the first Commander-in-Chief. The rules, regulations, and ritual have been materially modified during the lapse of more than twenty years since that first meeting. The second national encampment was held at Philadelphia in January, 1808, and the Grand Army then took on a new and far more important form, with provisions for permanent establishment. General John A. Logan was elected Commanderin-Chief, and a few months later signalized the beginning of his career as head of the organization by issuing his famous order directing the observance of May 30th as Memorial Day. The third national encamp? ?1 nf Pin/tmnofi urViavo fionorol lilt;ut vtu-a uciu uu vtuuuiuMv>t wt.v.?? Lo^an w&s ro-elected Commander-iu-Chief. and General Lucius Fairchild and General J. R. Hawley respectively Senior and Junior Vice-Commander-in-Chief. The fourth annual encampment was at Washington, the fifth at Boston, the sixth at Cleveland, the seventh at New Haven, the eighth at Harrisburg, the ninth at Chicago, the tenth at Philadelphia, the eleventh at Providence, the twelfth at Springfiold, Mass.; the thirteenth at Albany, the fourteenth at Dayton, the fifteenth at Indianapolis, the sixteenth at Baltimore; the seventeenth at Denver, the eighteenth at Minneapolis, the nineteenth at Portland, and the twentieth, last year's, at San Francisco. At the San Francisco encampment, held in August, 1886. there were shown to be connected with the organization 5,765 posts and 2119,087 members at the date of the last previous official reports. During the year the i - i 1?1 A7Q posts LltlU eA(JLUUC<.? (in v/?. out of their charity andf relief fund, not reckoning the expenditures of 750 posts whose reports had not been received, ana there was a balance in the fund of $301,012. A SCHOONER FOUNDERS, From Ten to Fifteen Persons Lost in Lake Superior. A Marquette (Mich.) dispatch says that the schooner Niagara, which sailed last week from Ashland for Ashtabula, foundered six miles above White Fish Point in a heavy gale. The crew of ten men were lost. The Captain was H. Clement, and his family are said to have been on board with him. The schooner was ore-laden, and must have sunk at once. Captain Delos Waite, of the steamer Idaho, reports passing the wreck of the Niagara. She lies in nine fathoms of water ten miles from White Fish Point and five miles from shore. Her mizzenmast just reached above water and her main and foremasts were floating near with other pieces of wreckage. Captain Waite saw no traces of any of her ill-fated crew, and says that, though not many miles from the shore and tho White Fish Point Life Saving Station, no small boat could have lived in the terrible sea which was running there on Wednesday. The United Empire, which arrived at the Sault during the day, reported that it was the worst sea her crew ever experienced, and when the Idaho came up it was still running. A Chicago dispatch gives these additional Sarticulars of the disaster: The schooner iagara, laden with ore and towing with the steam-barge Australasia, broke her towline off White Fish Point, Lako Superior, during a westerly storm and went down in deep water with all on board. The captain's wife and family and crew of ten men were included in the lost. The Niagara was owned by Corrigan & Co., of Cleveland, and was valued at &i0,000. White Fish Point is at the Lake Superior entrance to the straits connecting Lake Superior with Lake Huron. The point juts out from the shore of the Upper Michigan peninsula, and it is only a few miles across to the Canadian shore. Theport which the Niagara left is Ashland, Wis., and she was bound for Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Eriew O'BRIEN'S ABREST, 3 The Irish Home Rale Lender and jDuiiur m v^usiuuj Mr. O'Brien -was arrested in Dublin Sunday while seeing Mr. Labouchere, the editor of London Truth, off on the Bteamer. Mr. O'Brien spent the day at Ballybrack with Messrs. Dillon and Harrington. He received a telegram from Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Brunner, requesting him to accompany them to London. Mr. O'Brien, accompanied by Mr. Harrington, went on board the Kingstown boat for the purpose of declining the invitation to go to London, when a detective met mm ana saia ne wouiu not ue arrested if lie pledged himself not to go to England. Mr. O'Brien refused this condition, when he was taken into custody and escorted to the Imperial Hotel by the detective, who informed him that he could stay there all night if ho would give a promise that lie would not make a speech. This promise was not given, and Mr. O'Brien addressed a crowd from the balcor.y of the hotel. In the course of his brief remarks he said: 4'So long as there is breath in my bodv my voice will not be silent until I am gagged. I am proud to suffer for Mitchellstown. When in Kingstown I was told that 1 would not be arrested if I did not undertake to go to England. That shows that the government is beginning to dread us in England." "fcf.. a?* infnrvinw nn f.lin >f his arrest, said h-j ha i no intention of roing to England when he boarded the boat. Flc merely went thero to see Mr. I<al)ouchcre. A.s to making a speech at tlie hotel h s said ho lad no idea of doing so until the detective nentioned it. He was taken to prison at Jork, and confined in a small cell. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, New York is threatened with a groat sur ;JIUS OI MK'Ull L-a. The mclograph lias been invented, by A'hich a person cutt imj r<>\ iso 0:1 u piano ami mvc the music recorded. Sut Chahlks yocnti, tlionutlior of " Jim, ;he Penman," is dying slowly ill London from l complication of d.se ises. Mme Niemann Raaiie, llio great German jomedienne, will appear at theMtar Theatre, New York, on January -d. Mrs. Langtry has replaced unaries Toghlan with Maurice Barrymoro as her jading man for the coming season. The first Italian woman who sang in pubic in England was Franresea Marghcrita do I'Epine, who appeared in various operas in LOW. Messrs. Robson and Crane, during ;heir ton years' partnership, have paid in oyaltios to American dramatists nearly M5,00o. Mabei. Sterling is tho name of a Ken;ucky girl who proposes to come forth as a star this season. She is described as young uid handsome. * Tmrcmi Tri t.Vin colphrnfcpd virv IXLLiLjE*, A?,nr.OU1A < w*.j ?--?? ? ? !in player, will make her first public appearance iu America at Chickcriug Hall, New Sfork, on October 17. Mme. Adelina Patti does not begin her 3outh American tour, under the management | )f Mr. Heury Abbey, until some time in the ; Spring, and after Lent. j The tenor, De Rege, engaged for the next I season at the theatre in Cologne, while out bathing with a lady a short time ago on the I Main, was drowned with his companion. ' The German Government has issued the ' arder that lowers the pitch of all orchestras [ ind pianos a full half tone. This brings the standard pitch of France and Germany the 1 ' same. 1 FISHERMEN LOST. I Disastrous Storms Sweep the .' Coast of Newfoundland. I A Heavy Loss of Life Keported Among the Fishing Fleet. The fishing schooner Geraldine, at Canso, N. S., from the Grand Banks of Newfound- I land, besides having her decks swept, lost 1 fourteen dories and everything movable. One I man, named Nicholas Ash, was lost. The ' Geraldine reports great loss of life among the haud-line fishermen on the Grand Banks by the recent fierce gales. ( Captain Jamieson. of the Geraldine states M1UL tiiu inusb viuieiio uuu ucmi ut'tivc kjl the storms occurred on the 3d, and caused ' great hivo.\ Early in the morning there was no indication of an approaching storm, and at 5 o'clock all the dories of the Geraldinc, sixteen in number, set out for the trawls. Then there was only a light breeze from the southeast. Two hours later the barometer showed signs of the approach of dirt}* weather, and guns were at once fired as a signal for the fisherman to return on board the vessel. All the boat? but one succeeded in reach'n; the schooner. In that boat was Nicho'as Ash. Though only a short distance away when the signals were Aral, he had not time enough to return before the storm descended and swamped his boat and he was lost. As the Geraldine tore along before the stonn many other fishing vessels passed her, all adrift and showing signs of having suffered from the gale. Many flags were at half mast for the loss of men, and the number of the victims cf the gale must have been terribly large. After the weather had moderated, the Carrie C. Miles, of Provincetown, Mass., was spoken, leaking badly. A large number of dories were seen bottom up. and Captain Jamieson states that the loss ol life is enormous. He says he has been going to sea for twenty years, and that this was the most severe storm of all his experience. ST.ATN BY A BULL. A Farmer Knocked. Down and Gored to Death in His Own Pasture. Farmer Lyman, a resident of the southern part of Downers Grove township, Illinois, 1 was gored to death a few days since by a hull. Mr. Lvman and another man went into 1 the pasture to look at some cattle, when the bull attacked his owner and gored him in a horrible manner. His companion escaped to a barn, and he and another man mounted horses, armed themselves with pitchforks and galloped back to the rescue. They were too late, however, for Mr. Lyman was dead. The bull stood near the mutilated body, bellowing angrily. His eyes were rolling, froth waa dripping from his mouth and his his tail was lashing the air. The horsemen charged upon him with the pitchforks, and after a stubborn fight he ran away. Return tag to the body or air. layman, me iubji IVUilU | i it terribly mutilated and disfigured. One ear was torn off and he was nearly disemboweled. Mr. Lyman's companion says that when the infuriated bull first knocked his victim down Mr. Lyman lay still, and the animal simply walked around his prostrate form, pawing and bellowing. It was then that the eye-witness ran for a horse, thinking that Mr. Lyman would lie still until h< should arrive armed. It is supposed that Mr. Lyman got up, and that the act was the sie nal for the animal to renew the attack, whic) resulted in the death of Mr. Lyman. THE FLOOR GAVE WAY. Fatal Accident at a Revival in a Tennessee Church. A terrible accident is reported from Need more, a small village in Tennessee. Kb v. J. M. Carter and Dr. Logan were to speak there in favor of prohibition. When they arrived they found a big revival in progress, and did not speak. The revival was being conducted in a two-story church building, the upper floor being used for church purposes and the lower floor given up , exclusively to school purposes. There was an" immense audience in the upper story listening attentively to the exhortation of the minister, when suddenly the rear 1 floor cave way with a crash, carrying sixty or seventy people with it The fall was thir- , teen feet,anil hardly one of them escaped injury. The injured were quickly rescued from the wreck, and three of them found to be seriously injured. One man was fatally hurt. Every physician in the country was immediately sent for, and the work of relieving the injured promptly begun. A GOVERNOR DEAD. California's Chief Executive Pics iften a T.rmtr llltlPSB. I ' ?? o Governor Washington Bartlett, of California, died on Monday at his residence in Oak- 1 land, after suffering several months from ! Bright's disease and having been partially paralyzed about the 1st of August last. 1 Mr. Bartlett was born at Savannah, Ga., j sixty-three years ago and became a citizen of California in 1850. settling at San Francisco, where he published the first daily newspaper issued in that city. Nine years later he was electeJ County Clerk, and in 1870 he i became Harbor Commissioner. He was elected Mayor of San Francisco in 1882 and was re- I 1 elected at the end of his first term. Lust , year he defeated Mr. Swift, the Republican, , candidate for Governor. The Lieutenant Governor, H. TV. "Waler- ' man, who succeeds him, is a Republican. ] ? i a horse grazing on the banks of Higgins' j Lake, Mich., saw Mrs. Charles H. Pettit and ' > her little daughter drowning, jumped into 1 , the lake, swam out to them, made them un- I ' derstanu that they were to take his mane, < and then carried them safely to the shore. j < The people of Switzerland, by a vote of j 252.791 to 127.474, have approved a law which 1 gives the Government the "sole right to manu- , Facture and sell spirituous liquors. THE MARKETS. NEW YOllK. 37 Beef, good to prime 7% Calves, com'u to prime 5 @ 8 Sheep 4 (t$ 4^ f.aml)S ti.'u? 7 Hogs?Live 5 @ 5}, Dressed 71-^(<? 7?^ Flour? Kx. St.,good to fancy 4 .'50 ($ 4 !35 West, good to choice o WO (<? 4 00 Wheat?No. - Ked VJ}{{tli SO Kyo -State 50 (& 58 Rarley?Stato (!0 (tit 75 Dor 11?Ungraded Mixed.... 50%@ 51)? ; Juts?Whito State (# 34 | ] Mixed Western 3- @ :>5 } FTny?Med. to prime 80 @ 85 Straw?No. 1, Kye l>0 (<? TO . Lir<l?City Steain 6 7S @ 0 Si * butter?State Creamery? ? & ~4 ? Dairy.... 21 @ ~2 c West. I ni. Creamery IB <?) 19 n Factory IS &' j Cheese?State factory 10^(2 11^ Skims S & yjli s Western 11 ' Eggs?State and Penn 10)4? 2? f BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 50 @ 4 00 Sheep?Good to Choice 4 ?> @ 4 45 AV.. .f...... r. ii/i /v i! "rt ??? 'J vv fiogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 45 ($ 5 55 h'lour Family 4 75 (?( 5 15 s' Wheat?No. 1 ? (d &~}-4 a Corn?No. J, Mixed 4S.'<f<<$ 4S)^ " Oats?No. Mixed oU r Barley?State 04 '(& Co " BOSTON. fi Beef?Good to choice S (i]5 14 ]j Hogs?Live 5}f<.$ 15 ^ 1 i\oruiern Dressed.... ? Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl...1" 00 (d 17 50 , 1( Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 75 (<i 4 IK) | Vi 3orn?High Mixed 5<>3^(e? 57}? f( 3ats?Kxtra White ? & 37?r Elye?State GO @ 05 i WATERTOW.N* (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressei weight 5 @ 5\{ Sheen?Live weight '^Y\% * ' [.ambi 55% ir Elogs?Northern ? @ 7 j w PHILADELPHIA. j Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 00 @ 3 25 | IVheat?No. 2. Red 7S^@ 7S% & Dorn?State Yellow ? @ 54 , st 3ats Mixe 1 31 @ 31w Rye?State 52}?@ 53 u Butter Creamery Extra... 22 (g 23 . :heese?N. Y. Fiill Cream.. 12 uH 12V 1 01 t OPIUM SLAVES. \ DOCTOR TALKS ABOUT THE BANEFUL HABIT. Victims of Opium Not Sane?Effect of the Drug upon a ^Person's Physique?How Opium is Taken. My experience has taught me to believe that no person who is addicted to the opium habit is sane. I do not mean to say that when a person begins to use the drug he is out of his mind, but after be has become addicted to the use of it, in other words, when he has become a chronic opium eater, I consider him insane. I have had considerable experience with opium eaters aud, as a rule, I do not like to have them in an insane asylum. In curing the habit I would show the habitue his usual dose of opium, and let him tnlro it lvit rlnv liv flav T wmjlfl 1*0 dace the fluid with water but always give the same sized dose. A person who has been addicted to the opium habit fourteen months is regarded as a chronic case. Three grains of opium daily is a a large dose, but ten grains is enormous. The effect of the drug on a chronic opium-eater is merely quieting; he is in a state of half-drunkenness, whether he takes large or small doses. But, in an acute case, the effects of the drug are very pleasant indeed. The victim sees visions of loveliness and grandeur impossible to describe, and catches glimpses of a heavenly state of existence. "When he' has become a chronic user of the drug and his system demands it he. to a certain extent, ceases to have these visions and rapturous dreams unless he takes unusually heavy doses?enough to produce immediate sleep. Under such conditions he will usually have pleasant dreams, though sometimes he passes through horrible scenes of torture. The effect of the drug on the physique of a person varies somewhat. Sometimes i mi ,i?K??. LIU Will UwL'UlllC Ull'ttUiiiiijr wiuaviaivu, uuu if the appetite keeps good he will not decrease in weight. There is always, however, a peculiar color about an opiumeater's face,and by that he can be known; the complexion assumes the color of old brass, having a pecular death-like hue, but it is seldom that the digestion is impaired. Opium affects the spinal cord and the brain principally. The nerve power of the opium eater is very much lessened without the opium, and it is very much increased with the drug until the end comes. The death of the opium eater is not marked by any particular scenes of horror. I have seen several opium eaters die a very pleasant death, and I do not know thai I ever saw a very bad death among such patients. The causes which lead persons into the opium habit arc so numerous that no one would attempt to define all of them. The habit is often brought on in young medical students who resort to the stimulant through overstraining themselves in study. The troubles brought about in the rush of business account for others using the drug. Excessive liquor drinking sometimes leads to the habit. I am now attending a prominent citizen of New York city, a man of wealth, Ki? hppn a vfirv heavv drinker. He resorted to drink to drown his sorrow over the death of a beautiful daughter. I took him for the opium habit. He took chloral aud morphine combined. He would take enough chloral and morphine in a day to kill fifteen men. I reduced his allowance ta almost nothing. He got so that he took a very small dose every day, but, in a short time, he relapsed into his old habits, became as bad as he ever was, and the consequence is he will soon die. There are three methods by which the drug is taken, viz.: internally, by hypodermic injection and by absorption, that is by rubbing the drug on the skin. My experience is that about one-third of the opium eaters take it in paregoric form, while two-thirds take it in the gum. Very few people take tincture of opium. Taking the drug by means of a pill is a favorite method. It can be kept more secretly about the person in that form than in any other. Paregoric has to be carried in a bottle, and it has a strong smell very similar to anise-seed. The smell is quickly noticed, while, if a person chews opium, you have to get very close to him to smell it.?Dr. E. N. Car ventery in Epoch. Humorons Scenes in a Bank. The Chicago Herald has the following ibout what is seen and heard in a bank: A.s queer things happen sometimes at :he ba-iks as anywhere else. It was not long ago tnat a gaioousn-iooKing "cllow walked into the First National ind asked for a certificate of deposit. [Ie counted out his money and handed t through the window. The teller took t, counted it, and threw it into his box. Then taking his gr^at canvas-covered jook, wherein are entered the signatures )f the thousands of people who hold lertificates of the First National, he ;hrew it around and passed it through 'or the galoot to sign. The next instant, vhen the teller looked up, the depositor vas half way down the big banking room vith the great book under his arm and naking for the door. There were the noney boxes to look out for and the Irawers to close, and the clerk could get >ut in pursuit only by running clown ana tround 10) feet of counters. He didn't , rv to do all these things. lie halloed J o'the nearest customer he saw outside to j uu and stop that fellow with the great I anvas-eovered bock. That was no diffi- | lilt matter. The man wa3 making his | vay painfully and slowly down Dear- i iorn street, and came back chccifully. Ie thought that that forty-pound book, ic sail, was his certificate of-deposit. A rather nir c-lookin?r, but matronlyookins. young woman began depositing >1^0a week aF the First National. She amc so regularly, always with the same mount, that the young-man at the winlow made bold to congratulate her that lie was doing so well in her business. 'Don't give me away.1' she said in a riendlv tone; "my husbaud is a bar1'iider." Drugging Criminals. A Paris communication says that the tudy of hypnotism "has bccome a passion mong medical men, who say it may reatlv help legal procedure, inasmuch as - 1!? ?: ?: ?1? oiwl rl in or. y scimuiij Liiiniii.ii.-5 iu aat]/ * *? i i:iLT their secret from them while under ypnotic influence there woukl be little L-ar of Judges condemning the innocent )r the guilty. A theft in the hospital as found out in this way by Dr. Marie, >r many years I)r. Charcot's assistant, lie subject refused at first to tell where le stolen object was concealed. After little diplomacy, kowever, on the part f the young doctor, who told the sleepig girl he was the young man from hom the card case had been taken and ot to fear telling him where it was, she uvc the detailed account of having olen it, and told whore the card case as to be found. Dr. Marie immediately ent to the spot indicated, where, sure iyugh, the stolen article was found. FACTS FOE THE CURIOUS. The game of chess was invented 608 B. C. V/-:~|g I T.antnrns -wore invented bv Alfred th& Great, in 820. Diamonds were first set and polished at Bruges, in 1450. A St. Catharines (Ontario) barber owns a dog which can climb a lamp-post as readily as could a street gamin. Farmers around the natural gas wells of Indiana harvested their grain by gaslight, aud thus escased the heat of the sun. . Annie Mercer, of Missaukee county,. > Mich., promises to become a giantess. She is only in her twelfth year, and yet j she is a trifle over six feet in stature. '. The wearing of false hair was intro- ; duced into England from France in. I 1572. The practice was introduced into- . I the latter country from Italy, where it originated. In 1783 Hecla, in Iceland, ejected twostreams of lava forty or fifty miles long, seven to thirteen miles broad, and 100 to GOD feet deep, which destroyed 9,000 persons and twenty villages. As part of a real estate auction in aWisconsin town; a deed to a lot wa? thrown out of a balloon. Now they are- j booming that town by asserting that >;. "real estate has taken a wonderful rise here lately." Paper made of cotton was in use in Jjjj tne eieventn century; maae 01 unen, la 1319; and its manufacture was first introduced into England in 1588. The use of straw in paper manufacture datesback to the opening year of the present " 3 century. Recent measurement of their coffinsshows that the average ancient Romatt could not have been more than five feet five inches tall. The mummy of Cleo- -ti patra measures four feet six. "Within the last five hundred years the height of -X the English ariscocracy has considerably increased. "Violet stones" are a species of porou?- * rock 1'ouud in the Hartz Mountains. The V moss known as violet moss, which emitsan ordor similar to that of violets, coversthe stone thickly, and fills its porous surface. The odor is said to be retained, || sometimes for years, and is increased by moistening the stone. They are much sought after in Europe as a means of permanently perfuming toilet article* Superstition Among Polish People. There is a venerable superstition among" s Polish people that when a crow alights- 'J on a house it portends death to one orj more of the occupants. When, about 8^: -i o'clock Thursday morning, a couple of*"M birds of this species were descried calmly perched on the roof of one of Poland^ r~| sons on Racine street, north of Brady, thfr* neighborhood, which is inhabited almost entirely by Poles, was thrown into the* greatest excitement. In less than half," ;i an hour the street was filled with people, ; # the proportions of the crowd attracting * -5 the attention of the t>olice. Hostile demonstrations caused the sable-hued birds to fly to an adjoining roof. Up* i popped an upper story window in the -J next house, a -woman's head appeared, and in evident alarm the woman waved an apron meaningly at the "birds of evil "r omen." Instead of being frightened away, the crows took the waving of the apron as a mark of welcome, and changed their position from the roof of her neighbor to her own housetop. By Jf. this time the excitement of the crowd below had grown to fever pitch. "Women . * were shedding tears or mumbling '~je prayer,- while little children clung to-- i their skirts, unable to make out what waa the matter. Men and women were gathered in knots, all gesticulating and jab- !ft bcring at once, but all keeping a weather* * eye open and a pocketful of stones ready t in case the birds should steer for their; 5 own premises. Finally the crows began M to fly from house to house, and then there-%? was a shower of stones as thick as hail, V men, women and boys being engaged in i the fusillade, amid the most indescribable* \ excitement. The birds flew from house to house until they had taken in the en- -i tire square. Finally they distanced tSfeir* ^ yelling pursuers. As the people returned to their home*- jl many offered prayers for thenwlves and ' families. One old man who believes in ,N the superstition said in his broken Eng- | liah: | "It must be so now that we all die. , You sec, some terrible sickness spread : among us."?Milwaukee Sentinel. How Coth is Canned. The canned corn offered for sale in- s 3tores is preserved in tin cans by thosewho make a business of it. The canahave an opening at one end closed by a cap, which fits into a groove. Great y. care is tuken to select the best kind of corn, to gather it at the right time, and to can it immediately after it is gathered. It should never remain over four hours before canning. The corn is cut from the cobs with a curved knife made for th& I purpose, taking care not to cut too close B t the cob. The cobs are boiled in I water, just enough to cover them, for as flj hour. The cans, with the covers sol dered on. are filled with com through the fl opening for the cap,pressing it in hard,but I leaving a space about a fourth of an inch at the top to allow ior expansion. me h liquor obtained by boiling the cobs i? added, sufficient to cover the corn in the H cans, and if not of the sweetest kin 1, a a teaspoonful of white sugar is added, The next step is to solder on the caps, H each of which has in its center a small H hole pricked, called the vent. After the H caps are soldered on, and the vent still open, the caps are "processed." A ket- fl| i tie or vat is provided, containing water, D in which the cans may be boiled for the .H required time. The cans of corn are H boiled for two hours, when they are H taken out, one at a time, with tongs made for the purpose, set down with a shock on the soldering table, to remove any !m corn that may stop the vent. The heaa H of the can is wiped with a cold, wet cloth, and the vent closed with a drop of |H solder. The cans arc then returned to the vat, and boiled for four hours.? Hj tunt/ Natural (*as Once a Nnisance. jfl Iu 1827 tlicre lived in Washington jjfl County a farmer by the name of McCook, H an uncle of the famous General Anson G. McCook, the present Secretary of the United States Senate. McCook's farm was situated 011 the old national pike,. eight or ten miles out of Brownsville. In attempting to dig a well a short distance back from the pike.hestruck a large flow of natural gas. This by accident became ignited,and the flame it gave forth scared the horses passing ou the pike and many runaways occurred. This went on for fiflj some time until the authorities in that |H section parsed an ordinance stigmatizing Hj it as a nuisance and compelling McCook M to suppress it as such, which he did. lift Thus what tne citizens or rlttsourg now consider the greatest discovery of the HB nineteenth century, just half a century ago the citizens of Washington County Bl considered the greatest nuisancc.?Pittsburj Tiirut. ll