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RIOTING ID BUFFALO, j
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Serious Results of a Switchmen's
Strike.
Bai'road Property Burned and;
Troops Ordered Out.
A strike of switchmen on the Erie and j
Lehijh Valie/Railroads at Buffalo, V., |
has turned out to be a serious matter. There ,
bad ue?n more or less trouble between the |
... n-i thairs mioiithizipi and the wen I
who weredoin ; the strikers' work, aai a few |
desu tory assault* ociurrei. Things bezan
to pu on a more serious aspect at two I
o'clock in t e morning when a series of in cendi.-ry
fires hro^e out simultaneously in
the Letii^h Vallej- yards. Eighteen or
twenty freight cars filled with wool,
cotton, hay tmd various other merchandise,
two passenger coaches an.l two ;
watchmen's houses were burnel. The fires
occurred at places where the firemen could
not successfully stay the flames, on account
of an absence of water, besides the difficulty
df access to the fires.
The fire first discovered was in what is
known as the east-bound yards. Here the
watchman saw flames burst from the little
office buiidiug. and ran to give the alarm.
This spot is iuily a half mile from rne west
yards.
He bad not pone half the distance when
be turned around and saw that the flames
had burst out among the 500 or more cars.
In the meantime Yardmaster Mead,
at the west end of the yards, had discovered
flames in the two passenger
coacDes which were ush! to carry
workmen ud and down the road, and au
alarm had been turned in from William and
Dingens streets. T. e firemen were delayed,
owing to the bad condition of Dingens
street, and when they got on the tracks the
two cars and the little building had been destroyed.
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Other fires broke out in different places,
?nd more freight cars were destroyed. The
damage by fire was estimated at $100,000.
The cars destroyed were in the midst of a
frreat number ot other cars. The firemen
uncoupled a number of cars and removed
them trom danger. A dozen or so cars were
thrown from tbe Liebigb tracKs, ana a similar
number from tbe Erie, by mbplaced
switches.
Passengers on the Erie and Lehigh Valley
"trains that were ditched stated that strikers
-went through the coaches, detached the
-engine and broke the air connections.
H. Die German, a commercial traveler,
woo was on board one of
the trains--, said no violence was attempted
with any of the passensers. He continued:
Three strikers boarded our train.
They were all apparently sober and
met wiih no resistance. They politely
informed the passengers that the train
-would go no further. The spokesman was a
tall fellow, light complexion and with sandy
.hair. He simply stated that he was a striker;
had a wife and family to maintain, and the
road would not do the square thing by the
mer.''
Tr.ere was little disorder through the
lollowinz day, but several freight cars were
burning in tne Erie and Lehigh yards, and
it is estimated that more than 100 were
burned between midnight and dayligut.
Some of these contained Brussels carpets
and other cost.y goods. While
the flames burned the strikers jeered at the
firemen, and in some cases interfered with
them. In the afternoon Sheriff Beck went
out to the scene of disorder with a posse of
forty-lwo meD, each armed wita new ash
-clubs and shining handcuffs. The men
had been on the grounds only
-a short time when they were
met by thirty or forty strikers and asked to
disarm. Tbe deputies promptly surrendered
their clubs, which tbe strikers considerately
gathered up and piled into Sheriff Beck's
Buggy. The Sheriff drov? back to town and
at once asked General Pdter Doyle to call
out the militia.
General Doyle ordered < ui both regiments
of the National Guard. Tney were ordered
to wait at their headquarters under arms
tall a can was maae tor mem kj Uu
service in nutting down the lawlessness at
East buffalo and beyond.
Later reports showed that the Lehigh
Valley bad lost seventy-two freight cars by
the tires and the Erie fourteen.
At 1 a., m. the Sixty-lifth Regiment was
sent to Uheektowaga to guard the Lehign
Vali?-y and Erie yards, and halt an hour
later the Seventy-fourth Regiment was
called out protect the Central and West
Shore property.
A Conflict With the Strikers.
On the night following the foregoing
events rioting broke out in the yards
of the Lehigh Valley and Erie roads
-at Buffalo. There were three conflicts between
the mob on one side and the military
and police on the other from 6 o'clock, an J
the lawlessness spread to such a degree, both
in the number of tbe mob and the
extent of space covered, that General P.
C. Doyle deemed it necessary to send for
military aid to other cities. The streets in
the eastern part of the city, near the Lehigh
Valley and Erie roads were filled all the
evening with crowdsof men and boys hurrying
to and from the centre of disturbance.
The Seventy-fourth Regiment and most
KJi-tw.flfth mnvoi down from the I
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William street stati.m to Queen street
crossing when it be:?me evident that the
strikers were massing there. All the afternoon
there were indurations of the trouble [
that was brewing. The strikers gathered
near the soldiers and jeered and howled at
them.
Once or twice an exasperated soldier
-would strike out at his tormentors or
threaten them with k.is bayonet, and a number
of fights were stepped by the interference
of the police or the National Guard
officers.
Finally,at 8 o'clock Captain Kilroy, of the
police, with half a dozen men, ordered the
-crowa back. They refused to move and
threatened to sweep the police from their
path if interfered with. The Captain ordered
clubs drawn, an>i by means of their
potent persuasion the mob was driven
Back fror. the bridge. On William street ic
. made a stand and was charged by Sergeant
Lambrecht with tiiteen policemen. Clubs
-were used freely, and Anally the strikers and
their sympathizers broke and fled.
Bur, although broken up for the time, the
strikers and their friends soon drifted back
to their place under the bridge. This time
they meant bu-iness. It was now half past
S, and the deey shadow from the trestle con*
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ceaiea me sinners, vm:n a un^uk
burning near General Doyle's headquarters
threw a strong light over the forms of the
soldiers lying on taa grass.
Suddenly a large rock thrown by soma
-one in the shadow fell near a man belonging
to Company G of the Seventy-fourth
Begimeut, commanded by Captain Darner.
This company was nearest the strikers. A
ctorm of smaller stones and dirt followed,
and the mob set up a yell.
The soldiers sprang to their feet. Captain
Damer gave the order to fall in. Still the
mob continued yelling and throwing missiles.
A drummer beat the long roll. Ex- 1
cited by the sound and exasperated by the |
attacks of the strikers. Company M's men j
started forward. when the door
of the house where General Doyle |
bad his headquarters was thrown open, and [
Captain of Police Kilroy, who had been
conferring with the Gsneral, ran out at full
speed. Callinr to his man to follow bim, he
rushed among the yelling mo_> and the now
thoroughly exasperated soldiers.
'Keep back, boys, keep back!" he shoutei
to the soldiers. " ?V e can manage this ourselves.
For God's sake, don't shed the first
blood! K-ep ba??."
The s )ldiers paused for a moment, au i at
that moment twenty policeman hadfoilowei
Captain Gilroy into the open space liotweea !
the mo'i and the soldiers. fhe Caatain j
drew his club. " .'lu'>3 out, and chars??' he
shoute', and the tiventy policemen, .?ith
<nll nnnn fcVin striker.
Il/lCkS Ulnnu, ( ?
The latter retreateJ step by step until th?y |
got to William street, where they sroppe I J
*ad fought vicicudy. How it would have j
ended is doubtful, but at that moment a de- j
itachment of the Sixty-3fth Regiment, with J
[bayouits fixal, came down William street
at double quick and attacked the moo on the
left flank.
They stabbed for the legs of their op- j
ponents, and in a very few secjuJs the
mob was in rapi I retreat, minv of
them Needing from bayonet wounds,
but none of them seriously injured. I
They were I olio we 1 by the police,
who use I their ciubs vigorously, driving
them half a mile down William street on a J
ran. Guards w<?re then established au 1 no j
oae permitted to go near the tracks who
could not give a satisfactory account of
himself.
Governor Flower at Albany.
An AlDany dispatch sta:el that Governor
Flower arrive! tuere at 1:30 a. m. He was
met at the station by Adjutant General Porter.
The Governor saH he had not been
summoned to Albany by any recent comrauaication,
i<ut thought lie ou^ht to be
there. General Porter told him he had just
received word from General Doyle that he
tad ordered out the whole of his brigade on
the requisition of the SnwitT. The Governor
rep ied:
''Well, tue Sheriff has had all the troops
h? lma for thus far. and he can have
more. If he needs more troops he must
have them. We must stop this. It must
stool"
In all aSout 1200 additional soldiers of the
Fourth briga le were ordered out. When
they reached Buffalo the troops called out
formed a grand total of nearly I8U0 men.
The Central Switchmen Strike.
At 1:15 o'clock a. m. word was receive!
that the freight switchmen of the New York
Central Railroad at Buffalo had gone out.
A detachment of police was at once ordered
to the Central freight yards.
It was estimated that the Cantral strikers
numbered 300 switchmen. The strike of the
Central switchmen tied up all the trains and
locomotive?.
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg
switchmen also struck.
More Troops Ordered Out.
A midnight conference at Buffalo between
Brigadier-General Doyle, Mayor Bishop,
Sheriff Beck, Superintendent of Police Morgensterr,
H. Walter Webb, Daniel H. McMillan,
IV. S. Bissell and E. C. Spragu9 on
behalf of the railroads and several citizens
resulted in agreeiug to send the following
telae-ram to the Governor:
To the Hon. Roswell P. Flower, Executive
Mansion, Albany, N. Y. :
We have become satisfied that the situation
here in Buffalo under the pending strike
bas becoiae so serious that we ask that the
National Guard of the State be called out
to protect the lives and property of citizens
of this city and county.
August Beck, Sheriff.
Charles P. Bishop, Mayor.
At 1 a. m. Adjutant-General Porter talephoned
from Albany that the Twelfth and
Twenty-3econd Regiments of New York
City, the Tenth Battalion of Albany and six
separate companies would leave for Buffalo
in the morning, and that the remainder of
the Guard would start a3 speedily as possible.
THE LABOB WOBLD.
Texas bas no legal Labor Day.
A u.n'ion' of lead glazierB bas been formei
There are eloomy prospects for the cotton
trade in England.
The typewriters of Chicago are about td
organize a trades union.
Overtime has been nractically abolished
in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Union ijarbers at Haverhill, Mass., have
agreed not to shave non-union men.
Owing to the Homestead strike the price
of structural iron advanced $4 per ton.
The Government is preparing to enforce
the eight-hour day law on governmental
contract work.
Farmers in the West are offering as
much as $2.50 a day to men to help them
harvest the grain crop.
The composition roofers of St. Louis, Mo.,
gained a strike that guarantees them 12.25
for a day's work of eight hours.
Servant girls in California receive on an
average $23 per month. Nurse girls are I
paid $13 to ?30, and good cooks from (30 upward.
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The latest reports to the general office of
the Knights of Labor from Australia say
that the Order is growing wonderfully in
that country.
The Iron Moulders' Union of North
America has cast 13,61)5 vote in favor, and
4565 votes against, opening the World's
Fair on Sundays.
The Java Government, heretofore dependent
upon compulsory labor in coffee
growing, intends now to try paid labor by
the contract system.
According to Secretary Cooper, of the
Iron League, the Board of Walking Deleo-At.pq
rtfKts the workinzmen of New York
City $150,000 a year.
Drought sufferers from Mexico are coming
into the United States in great numbers.
and are offering to labor for their
board or for twency cents a day.
In Great Britain the yearly loss in wage:
through ill health is about $55,000,000, and it
is estimated that forty per cent, of those
who start in business fail, March being coasi
iered the slackest month for business.
The Carriage and Wagon Makers' International
Union, in ees-iiou at Columbus,
Ohio, provided lor organizers in each State,
and ordered that any person in the union
who becomes intoxicated shall be summarily
dismissed.
Dubi.vq the last five years the Brother- I
hood of Painters and Decorators has reduced
the hours of labor and advanced the wages
of its members in 2!)0 cities. The receipts at
the general office were $32,720.5'. ana the
expenditures (mounted to $2 L, 918.87.
VIEWED BY THOUSANDS.
The Body ol Riggin, the Murdered
Seaman, Lying in State.
The?uody ot Charles W. Kiggm, the murdered
boatswains's mate of the United State3
steamship Baltimore, has been lying ia state
under the Liberty Bell in Independence
Hail in Philadelphia, and has bein gazed
upon by thousands of his fellow citizens.
The ttirong was permitted to pas* ill
shortly after noon, and until 6 o'clock
p. M. a continuous stream of humanity
pass.d in a double line
through the corridors of the building, entsr
ing by the famous front entrance from
which the news of the signing of the Declara
tion of Independence was anuounced, and
emerging in the square in the rear. Tne external
decorations of Independence Hall outside
were severely simple, and did no
more than hint at the elaboration
within. The National emblem, lowered to
half-mast, and the oraping of the doorway
constituted all that could be seen from the
streets of the occasion's solemnity. The
bier upon which the victim of Chilean wrath
rented and the walls and windows of the
rear hall wore draped iu black, aud the
stairways aud window cases were converted
into floral balconies.
Shortly before noon an undertaker's
wagon drove up with the casket containing
TCirroriii'fi hrwiv nn.i if. u/nu immA iiatalv
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borne into tue hall on the shoulders of the
guard of honor selected for the occasion,
under the escort ot' a large squal o?
j>olice. At the same moment, tue flag tioatlug
above was lowered to halt-mast. When
the spectators who had gathered in
large numbers were dually admitted, they
wer< ailowea to tile past the cottiu, whicu
was buried beueath the drapery aud surrounded
by a guard with lixea bayonets,
composed o? tive members oc the Sons of
Veteran?, a teaman from tue.
Tortsmoutb, and two members of the
Patriotic Urdor Sons of America. The
burial occurred the following day. The
civic ana military demonstration in connection
with the luneral was one of tne
most imposing seen in fuiladolphia tor some
time, 50u0 meu being m line.
ALL ON BOARD LOST.
TweiUy-tlirre Persons Drowned by
the Found rliix ot a S.earner.
The British ship Thracian, which had just
been completed at Glasgow, and which was
being towed to Liverpool, was lost off the
Isle of Man. Her crew of twenty-two men
went own with her. The Captain's wife
was also on board the vessel. She was
owned in Nova Scotia.
The six children of the Captain and his
wife were awaiting the arrival of their
parents on the landing stige at Liverpool
! when tho news of the disaster was broken to
them
It has been ten years since hogs were as
high as they have been tbis summer. Valuas
have been up to $6,173^ per 100. One of
the highest sales that has been made at St.
Louis wag in 18S2, wben$7.75 was paid per
100 pounds for selected butcher hogs.
GLADSTONE IN POWER. .
England's New Prime Minister
Takes Command.
I The Liberal Leader Announces
j His Cabinet.
PRIME MINISTER GLADSTONE.
William E. Gladstone, leader of the Lib*
eral party in Great Britain, visited Queen
Victoria on the Isle of Wight to lay before
her the names of those who would comprise
the Cabinet, and to perform the usual ceremonies
attendant upon the taking of
office by a new Prime Minister.
On the following dav Mr. Gladstone retured
to London, and the new Government
was officially announce:! as follows:
William E. Gladstone, Lord Privy Seal
and First Lord of the Treasury.
Earl Rosebery. Foreign Secretary.
Baron Herschell, Lord Chancellor.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Herbert H. Asquith, Home Secretary.
The Right Hon. Henry H. Fowler, President
of the Local Government BoardThe
Right Hon* H. Campbell-Bannerman,
Secretary of State for War.
Earl Spenoer, First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Right Hon. John Morley, Chief Secretary
for Ireland.
The Right Hon. A. J. Muudolla. President
of the Board of Trade.
Sir Charles Russell, Attorney-GeneraL
John Rigby, Solicitor-General.
The Right Hon. Samuel Walker. Lord
Chancellor of Ireland.
Mr. MacDermott, Attorney-General for
Ireland.
The Right Hon. Edward P. C. Marjoribanks,
Patronage Secretary to the Treasury.
Alexander Asher, Solid tor-General for
Scotland.
The Right Hon. J. B. Balfour, Lord Ad
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vocawj UL OUJUBUU.
The Earl of Kimberjey, Secretary of
State for India and Vide-President of the
Council.
The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of Stat9
for the Colonies.
Sir George O. Trevelyan, Secretary for
Scotland.
Mr. Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General,
Mr. Arthur Herbert Dyke Aclani, VicePresident
of the Council of Education.
Baron Houghton, Viceroy of Ireland,
without a seat in the Cabinet.
James Bryce, Chancellor ot the Duchy of
Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet.
An Associated Press dispatch from London
says that "the composition of the new
Government is the causa of intense disappointment
amons; the Radicals. Not a single
man, except John Morley, prominently
identified with the Radicals has been ap
pointed a Cabinet Minister, and among the
ex-Cabinet po3ts few members of the new
set have any but the remotest chance
of getting a olac?. The old set
are masters of the situation. Representa
tives of old Whig families and men without
extreme views have been Mr. Gladstone's ex
elusive choice. Even Mr. Stansfeld, who in
the last Gladstone Cabinet represented democratic
opinion, has been shelved. The official
i ii?t when scanned to-nicht at the National
Liberal Club, awoke vehement protests.
The bulk of tbe members of stron? Radical
teadenoies turned from the announcament
with expressions of scorn and anger. Was
it for this undiluted list of old men associated
with the traditions of Waiggery, with
some new recruits from the territorial and
aristocratic class, that the Radicals hod
given their money and their time? This was
the general question, and the responsive
prediction followed thit such a Government
could not last three months after Parliament
resumed business.
"Apart from Radical opinion the Cabinet
is really composed of eminently reputabio
men. Mr. Gladstone has preferred collect*
ing around him tried colleagues accustomed
to subordination and certain not to
deviate into strange ways. His three
new Cabinet Ministers, Messrs. Asquith,
Arnold Morley ana Acland,
are sound Liberals. Mr. A?qutth alone is
slightly tainted with Radicalism, but be has
a legal mind, with such a strong bias toward
high office as makes him malleable on principles.
Arnold Morley is in everything
Giadstonian. Mr. Acland has potent old
Whig family connections and is heir to larg*
estates."
MnMbincr of Lord Houehton's appoint
ment as Viceroy for Ireland, the Bublin
Freeman's Journal says: "If tbere is substance
in the modern theory of heredity.
Baron Houghton is likely to be a
justly popular Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
His father was a gentleman ani a
scholar, of winning personal courtesy, with
deep sympathy for Ireland's national aspi"ations.
The son is said to be active, distinguished
and popular in his own country,
endowed with political ambition and ability
and with wealth and personal accomplishments
tnat will enable him to till tbe position
with dignity and success. But
unquestionably the chief lesson of the
appointment of Baron Houghton as
Viceroy, without a seat in the Cabinet, is
that John Morley will takj the administration
of Ireland completely into his own
hands. We trust and believe that his administration
will be thorough. Hitherto a
change of Government has but slighty
changed the administration of Ireland, This,
the first Government ever elected with a
distinct mandate to do full justice to Irish
opinion, means a revolution in Castle methods."
COUNTING THE CHURCHES.
Census Figures Depicting the Goun
try n i>oiiKioa? uruwtii,
Statistics of the churches of the United
States, as gathered for the eleventh census,
show that there are in this country neany
150 different sects or denominations. Rough*
ly stated there are in sects 13,498,532
communicants, as follows:
Denominations. No. Communicant!,
Congregational............ 512,771
Lutheran 1,199,514
Methodist 4,255,877
Presbyterian 1,273,315
Roman Catholic 6,250,045
Total 13,4(5,523
The communicants of the Baptist andEpis
copal, with ttiose of otber denominations,
will bring the aggregate up to about 20 000,uoo.
The number of cliurches showing the
growth of forty years is seated thus:
Denominations. i">0. IW.
Congregational 1,70(5 4,7'?f?
Lutheru^ ,.... 1,221 0,559
Methodist 13,338 44,244
Presbyterian 4,83<> 12,468
Kotnan Catholic 1,227 8,76'j
Baptist 0.3W 39,412
Episcopal 1,461 5.Cil5
All others..., 5,007 20,471
Totals 35,183 142,256
Total value of church proierty. as as :er
tained by census uutiioritif-. is #031,221,333,
as against ?57,440,371 in 1850.
The eo.ored cliuroiies of ail denominations
show a total membership of 2,379,100, and
own church propsrtv value I at $13,403,000.
Newfoundland is rejoicing over the
catching or four hundred thousand seals by
her fleet this season.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
The City of Mexico will have a special
exhibit at the World's Fair.
Germany will be represented at the Columbian
Exposition as it never has been at
any previous international, exposition.
The Pilot Commission of New York has
decided to make an exhibit at the World's
Fair in the Transportation department.
The old whaling bark ''Progress," with
its extensive museum of marine curio3 and
relics of whaling voyages, is now in the
harbor at Chicago, and is being visited by
hundreds of people.
W illiam L. Lafollette, Superintendent
of the World's Fair agricultural exhibit for
the Stato of Washington, is arranging for a
complete model farm in miniature for the
Washington exhibit.
It is announced that the Postmaster-General
of the United States has decided to Issue
a new series of postage stamps, with designs
appropriate to the commemoration of
the discovery of America.
Hip Lung, the wealthiest Chinese merchant
in Chicago, together with several influential
Chinese of Canton, San Francisco
and New York, have applied for space at
the World's Fair for a big tea house.
New York will exhibit at the World's
Fair sections of all the trees which are indigenous
to the State. Of these there are
forty-three species and eighty-five varieties,
a number which is not excelled, it is claimed,
in any State in the Union.
Processor Putnam and his assistants,
while engaged in collecting material for the
ethnological exhibit at the World's Fair,
have made a very important archoeological
discovery near Fort Ancient, Ohio. It is
that of a serpent mound 1900 feet long and
about ten feet thick.
New York will have a large exhibit of
interesting historical relics at the World's
Fair. AmoDg them will be Washington
relics, autographs of all theTresidents, au
Itograpbs of tbe signers 01 we ueumrauuu ul
independence and famous men of the revo|
lutionary war; portraits of famous citizens
of New York, including those of all thb
Governors; model of Fulton's steamboat,
and many other relics dating back to revolutionary
times.
The World's Fair buildings will bo dedicated
on the 21st of October instead of the
I2tb, Congress having passed a bill to that
effect. October 21 is the exact anniversary
or Columbus's landing, allowance being
made tor tbe correction in the calendar
( made by Pope Gregory. The change of tho
date of dedication was made in the interest
of chronological accuracy, and also to oblige
New York City, which will have a Columbian
celebration on October 12.
"Marshall's gold npggett" will be exhibited
at the World's Fair by California,
and it is safe to say that thousands will consider
it one of the most interesting oLthe innumerable
objects which will be displayed
at the great Exposition. This is the identical
nu?gett wjich Marshall picked up in
tbe American River, February 10, 18i8,
when selecting a site tor Sutter'* mill, and
which constituted the first discovery of gold
in California. The nugget is about the size
of a lima bean, and, on account of its associations
and tne almost incalculable wealth
and development which have resulted from
its finding, is regarded as an almost priceless
treasure.
A HUMAN VAMPIRE.
The Perpetrator ot Dreadful Crimes
to be Taken to Washington.
The Penitentiary Board at Columbus,
Ohio, has directed its Secratary to notify
the National authorities that Jimmy Brown,
the insane United States prisoner, musk be
removed from the prison within the next
thirty days. Brown's case is one of the
most noted of the prison. Twenty-live yean
ago his crime was the talk of the Nation.
He was charged with being a vampire, aad
it was alleged that h9 lived on human
blood.
Brown is a Portuguese, and when about
twenty-two years old he shipped as cook on
a fishing smack from Boston for a trip up
the coast m the summer of 1867 There
was a crew of about thirty men, and one
of the men disappeared. It was thought
that he bad fallen overboard. Next the
mate was missed.
Two days auerwara a is uou y was iuuuu
hidden in the bold, and near it the body of
the sai.or. There were small cuts in various
parts of the bodies.
The men set a watch and were rewarded
by seeing Brown stealthily creep up to the
bodies and move the on to another part of the
hold. He was place t in irons, taken back
to Boston, and tried for murder. The d?
fence was insanity, but the jury brought a
verdict of guilty and Brown was sentenced
to be hanged. A few days before the day
set for the execution Preside nt Johnson interfered
and ordered him removei to the Government
Insane Asylum at Washington.
Before the transfer was effected Brown
killed one of his keepers witn a chair, and
when discovered he was lapping his victim's
blood. He was sent to Washington and
again back to the Bay State Penitentiary
for fifteen years. He never saw the light of
day, being oonfineJ in a dungeon and
alone.
When the Government made arrange*
ments for the transfer of its criminals to
Columbus, Massachusetts insisted that
Brown be taken along. On arriving at
Columbus he stabbel a guard with a fork.
He will be removed to Washington.
NEW YOKE AT THE FAIR.
The Handsome Building Now Being
Krected at Chicago.
The New York State Building at the
World's Columbian Expositioa is now in
course of construction in Jackson Park,
Chicago, according to the plans of Messrs.
non
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THE NEW YORK BUILDING.
MrJvia?, Meade & White, architect?, New
York City, 'lhe building covers an area of
iCCb, tAUlU^n O ui ten auc auu uui wivva?
which cover an additional area of 3776 leet.
Apex of tower roofs, ninetj-jix feet.
' The building is ill ttie style of Italian
Renaissance, a villa in character, reccangiv
lar in form, approached on the south by a
i flight of fourteen stop?, forty-3ix feet wide,
giving aocess to a grand terrace fifteen by
eighty feer, from which the loggia or open
vestibule, forty-six feet by seventeen feet
six inches, is reached. In the selection of
the style of the building the architects and
the Board of State Managers were cuided
by several conditions of climate and sur
roundings, and after careful reflection, bv
lievin? that in the school of the Italian
Renassance the best opportunities exist for
a Mic.-esstul comparison with the larger
buildings of the Exposition, they decided to
adopt it in the design.
Partaking of the domestic as well as the
palatial, this builJmg will form, not only a
headquarters lor the Stateof New York, but
a house for the comfortable recjptioa and
entertainment of visitors from all over th?
worid.
NO RAIN IN THREE YEARS.
Seventy-Six Thousand Cattle Dead ia
Seven Mexican Ranches.
There is great suffering among the people
and the live stock in the Stat3 of Zacateca,
Mexico, tawing to th9 prolonged drought.
Although bountiful rains have fallen in all
parts of Mexico during the past two weeks
that section has not bean blessed with a drop
of moisture for nearly three years. There
have been enormous lo?e> of cattle.
Tne following is a list of the larger ranches
and the number of cattle on them which
have died from lack of wator and grass:
Sierra Hermosa, 2f>,0J0; Tetillas, 10,000;
Guada De Las Corimtjs, 10,000; El Fuerte,
6000; Pastelera, 500j; Poza Hondo. 10,000;
Mezunite y Nori, 15,UOO.
I BURNED THE STOCKADE.
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Trouble Between Miners and
Convicts in Tennessee.
A Prison Destroyed and the Inmates
Sent Away.
A Nashville (TeniO dispatch says that tho
scenes enacted at Briceviile, Coal Creak and
Oliver Springs one year ago when the free
miners rose up in arms against convict labor
and, capturing the prison stockade, applied
the torch to them, have been repeatsd
at Tracy City, the stockade at the branch
prison there being burned. In this case the
convicts were not released, out tne.mi men
were taken from the stockades and mines
placed on board box car.s and S9nt to Nashville.
The wires were cut by the miners to
prevent communication between tha local
representatives of the Tennessea Cjal, Iron
aud Railroad Company and the home ottic?
in Nashville, and all the engines in the railroad
yards were held for a similar purpose,
but the convicts were guarded.
At 5 o'clocc a. m. a committee of miners
awoke E. O. Nathurst, Superintendent oi
the mines for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company, and asked him that the
miners be allowed as many hours' work in
each week ns the convicts. Mr. Nathurst
replied that he would submit the matter to
the company an1 do what he could.
The committee then left, and Mr. Nathurst,
knowing that a secret, oath-bound organization
had been formal some weeks ago for
purposes unknown, at once begau to suspect
trouble. He went to Deputy Warden Burton.
and together they began to circulate
among the miners, who were gathering in
groups, and to try to influence them to keep
quiet.
At 8:89 o'clock an organized body of 155
men, 10'J of them armod, advanced on the
stoc <*de. To capture it was the work of a
minute. Without undue canfusioa every
piece of property belonging to the Tennessee
Coal, iron and Railroad Co-npany ?as carefully
removed to a safe distanc?, and the
convicts who were in the stockade were led
out under guard.
Then the torch was applied, and at 9
o'clock the buildings were a mass ot flames.
The miners at once proceeded to the mines,
took possession of the convicts, marchel
them to the railroad station, and loaded
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wires were cut and a guard was placed over
every engine in the yards to prevent it from
carrying the news down the mountain.
Between Sewanee and Monteagle the convict#
cut the train in two, and ten or fifteen
made a break for liberty Several shots
were fired. Mat Wilson, white, was killed,
and Tom Smith, colored, wounded. Six or
eight made good their escape. The train was
held at Cowan until orders to come on were
received from Nashville.
There has been much dissatisfaction
among the tree miners at Tracy City because
of the lease system, Tfbich allowed
the bulk of the work to be done in the mine
by convicts. Yet the miners at Tracy
City have been among the most conservative
in the State, an 1 the company has had
very little trouble with them. They have
been determined to support no party or candidate
in the coming election that was not
pie Iged to the prompt abolition of the system.
Oovernor Buchanan stated that the
convicts would be brought to the main
prison at Nashville and kept until a new
stockade could be built, when they would b<
returned, as had been done at Coal Creek.
More Convicts Released.
At 8 o'clock in the morning between 153
and 200 miners made a sudden descent upon
the prison stockade at Inman, Marion
County. Tenn., after capturing,on their way
to that place, fourteen guards who bad
been ordered irom Nashville to assist the
| regular guards ia defending the stockade
from invasion. The miners stopped the
train at a trestle, and, taking
charge, ordered the engineer and conductor
I to take the train back to Victoria. Th9 mob
then continued on their way to the mines at
Inman, aud, surprising the guards on duty
at the stockade, compiled them to surrender,
a task that was attended with little
difficulty, although the guards numbered
sixty-five. The next step was to call out
the guards and convicts who were in the
mines. When they appeared they were told
to march to Victoria, and they complied
with the order. It was the intention of ths
mob to lay the stockade in ashes, but they
were aslsed by Mr. Anderson, the Superintendent,
not to do it. They said they would
not burn the stockade, but would tear it
down, and with this threat they left the
place.
When they came to Victoria they made
the convicts enter coke cars, and when
everything was ready they gave the trainmen
instructions to proceed.
The 275 convicts driven oat of inman ar
rived in Nashville at night, and were taken
to the prison by the State officials, the
lessees having informed the Governor and
Board of Prison Inspectors that they would
have nothing to do with them.
Governor Buchanan announced his determination
to U3e every lawful means in
I uJo nAWfli. *a nrocorirA nrrlpr when the an
plication in proper and legal form was made
to him by the civil authorities. The Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
officials stated that they would reopen the
mines in a few days, cs soon as they could
organize a force to work the ovens, and that
convicts might not bo used again at these
mines.
Free Miners Repulsed.
The excitement among the free miners in
Anderson County, Tenn., which was in ten
sified by the developments first at Tracy
Citv and then at Inman, resulted in the
holding of secret meetings at which the de
cision was reached that a bold effort should
be made to release the convicts at the Oliver
Spring mine?. These mines are four
or five miles distant from tbe Coal Creek
mines, where the soldiers have for months
been guarding the two bui.-Ired conv.cts
employed in ligeing coal there. The miners
intended to destroy the stoctcade and other
buildings by tire after they had set the con*
victs free. and thus for the second time in a
year strike a strong; .>low at convict labor. /
Arming themselves with guns and rifles,
they made the attack at 3 o'clock in the morning.
The guards, some twenty-flve in number,
were game, and volley after volley wus
exchanged, the result being tbe wounding
of ssveral ineu, three of them
being guards and the others miners.
One man, a guard, received a mortal
wound. During the firing the convicts were
considerably excited, but the officials kept
a close watch upon them, and aiter the departure
of the miners quiet was restored.
Governor Buchanan was notified, and
troops were forwarded to Oliver Springs
from Chattanooga and Knoxville on special
trains. The troop* reached the stockade at
Oliver Springs by night, and immediately
went into camp.
During the afternoon a bani of 109
miners, armed with Winchesters, took
possession of a train on the Kuoxville
and Ohio Road, at Coal Creeir, bound
for Clinton, where they hoped to be able
to intercept the reinforcements; but they
were too late.
Oliver Springs Captured.
The victory of the guards at Oliver
Springs over the fre? miners, as detailed
above, was followed the same night by a
second attack upon the stockade, with
different results. Eight hundred miners
assembled at Oliver Springs at night, compellei
tha soldiers and guards at the prison
* A 1 fcfAftlf.
I stockade to surreuaer, captures wu
ade, burned it, and forced the troops to
conduct the convicts to Clinton for transportation
to Nashville, via KTnoxville.
| It was the general impression among
people distant from th9 scene that a terrible
( would take place, because the guards
at Oliver Springs had repulsed several hi-a!
drad men in the early morning. However,
I the opposing forces were so large that, believing
surrender was preferable to aimrst
certain annihilation, the fifteen guards and
twenty-eight soldiers decided to give way.
^Having expelled the convicts and their
> protectors at this place, the miners, who
were strongly reinforced, expressed their intention
to make an attack upon Coal Creok,
five miles distaut, where nearly 2X) convicts
were in the stockade, guarded by probably
125 men and forty guards under the command
of Colonel Anderson.
I Great pressure was brought to bear upon
Governor Buchanan to call out the eutire
National Guard. Before deciding upon ordering
the State Guard to the scene of the
trouble Governor Buchanan opened telegraphic
communication with the Sheriffs of
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the Counties of Hamilton, Knox, Roane,
Morgan and Anderson. These officer* were
directed to summon as many men as migat
be deemed advisable and to zo at once to
Oliver Springs and Coal CreeK.
Th? Sheriff of Anderson County, the
county in which the two mines are situated,
was reached with the greatest difficulty,
owing to the lack of telegraphic facilities/
He sent a reply to the effect that he was
powerless to act iu the matter, and positive
orders were tor a second time given h'iui.
LATER NEW?.
The little town of Delmar, De\, has been
almost wiped out by fire. About fifty buildings,
covering three acre?, were destroyed,
entailing a total estimated loss of {75,000.
A Buckwheat Trust has been formed,
with a capital stock of $5,000,000. Incorporation
papers have been filed at Trenton,
N/J.
Private Klsaesser, one of the militiamen
ordered out during the switchmen's
strike at Buffalo, was shot to death by the
accidental discharge of a rifle.
Jabez a. Bostwick, the Standard Oil
Trust millionaire, met with an accident during
the burning of the stables at his summer
residence at Mamaroneck, N. Y., and died
in ten minute3. Two stablemen were burned
to death in Mr. Constable's adjoining stable,
which was also destroyed by fire.
Six men were killed and fifteen injured, ,
several fatally, by the wrecking of a construction
train at Coshocton, Ohio.
Michigan Democrats at their State Convention
in Grand Rapids nominated a ticket
heade I by AUen,B. Morse for Governor.
Ex-Senator John C. Spooner heads the
Wisconsin Republican Stata ticket pat in the
field by the Convention at Milwaukee.
The Ohio People's Party, at A 8tate Convention
in Massillon, put in nomination a
full ticket, with S. C. Thayer for Secretary
of State at the head. About forty of the
eighty-eight counties were represented.
Jerry Simpson, renominated for Congress
in the Seventh Kansas District, ha3
been endorsed by the Democrats.
A State Contention to devise means for
1? k.h?>. in Trvcpa wa<( held at
SeclLTlUg UHI.K1 ...
Des Moines, with nearly 1000 delegates in
attendance. ,
Logan Murphy was taken from jail and
lynched at Mount Sterling, Ky. He bad
killed bis father. While 'n jail be attacked
two fellow prisoners, one of whom died.
Three highwaymen held ap and beheaded
a man near Ellensburg, Washington. Vigilantes
pursued the highwaymen, and after
capturing them hanged them to a tree.
Fifty persons were seriously injured by
the collapse of a grand stand at Lannemazan,
a summer resort in the Pyrenees.
Five vessels were wrecked during a storm
on the New Brunswick coast.
Four inmates of a workmen's lodging
bouse at Tredegar, England, were burned to
death.
Rigid quarantine against Russian vessels
has been established by Sweden and Denmark
on account of Asiatic cholera.
CHOLERA PATIENTS SHOT.
They Tried to Break Through the
Guards at Trebizond.
The cholera ia raging in Asia Minor, having
been brought there tyr travelers from
Persia. At Trebizond, the capital of the
vilayet of that name, not less than 1500 persons
are confined in the lazaret*/, a rude
enclosure outside the walls of the town.
Many are restless under detention, and tae
other day made an effort to breaic through
the cordon established around the lazaretto
and to gain their freedom. The Turkish
troops were summoned to prevent the escape.
A targe force of military hurried to the
scene, and the mob was ordered to disperse
and return to the lazaretto. The mob refusad,
whereupon the troops were directed
to tire. The soldiers sens a volley straight
into the struggling mass, who were filling
the air with cries and shouts of deflanoe.
A number of persons fell, killed and
wounded. This terrified the rioters, and the
survivors returned, without further demon*
stration, to the lazaretto. Th9 number of
killed was eight and of wounded thirtyfour.
Iu Northern and Central Russia t he disease
is increasing, and in Moscow twentythree
more factories have been closed, owing
to the spread of the plague. The Grand
Duke Serous, Governor of Moscow, has
surprised the people by his display of personal
energy in dealing with the plague;
while the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, jranodaughter
of Queen Victoria, devotee her
personal attention to the relief of the sufferers.
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prayers are offered up daily in the churches
for the abatement of the pestilence, and the
monks of the various monasteries may be
sera going in procassioo and chanting
hymns. The authorities are enforcing a
thorough cleansing of the filthier districts
of sit. Petersburg, much to the disgust of
She lower classes, who object to being disturbed.
People who fail to obey the sanitary
regulations are severely punished.
BLOODY HGHHOT.
About 500 Men Killed in a South
American Revolution.
The city of Bolivar, Venezuela, baa
fallen into the hands of legalisbas after a
desperate and bloody battle. The legalistas,
some 400J men strong, wera under command
of Generals Hernandez and Gil.
They appeared betore the city early in the
morning and demanded of the commander
of the Government forces that ho surrender.
The reply was a prompt refusal.
This precipitated the en^a^ement. Hernandez
and Gil at the head ot their forces
advanced on the position of the Government
troops and attacked in the face of a
murderous fire. The attack was male with
desperate courage, and was resisted with
equal vigor.
For a time the decision was in the bal
once, but numbers told at last, and the governmental
gave back slowly, contesting
every inch ot the ground.
It was not until Generais Carrera, Acosta
and Laudalta oad bean lolled at the head
of their troops that the govern mentals broke
and retired from the field in much disorder,
leaving or. the tield uaariy nve nunaroa mea
deai
The legalista?, while thej lost no general
officers, suffered fully as much as the goveruaientais,
losing almost tivo hundred men.
INDEMNITY DEMANDED,
The State Department Asifs Nicaragua
to Pay S'25,000.
The Government of Nicaragua, Central
America, has been asked by Secretary of
State Fo3ter to pay $23,000 indemnity for
ill-treatment of Dr. Myer, an Anericaa citizeu.
Dr. Myer went to Nicaragua four
months ago to make exolorations. A report
was circulated tbat he was a conspira
nnoni.rht he was told to CQOOS9 b3
tweeu death and leaving the country. Ho
choose the latter. He was not allowed to
depart in his own way, but was arreste.l and
sent to the coast in a car with seven Nicaraguan
political exiles.
While the Doctor was in Nicaragua nil
his letters were opened by the Governmenr.
They included one from United Stat?3 Mill
ister Shannon under the United States
seal.
The annnal report issued by State Comptroller
Heppeahelmer shows that durinz the
past year there were 1300 accidents on all the
railroads in New Jersey. The number of
persons killed in the accidents was 331; 201
were killed or injured by jampinj from
trains in motion. The elevation of the Pennr?ivania
Railroad tracks in Jersey City har
? ,-eatlv lessened the nuaber of fatalities*,
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.' B
Eastern and Middle State*. H
The wall of a building beta? pat at th? |fl
Ogden mine, in Ogdenaburg, N. J., fell aad
buried twenty men in the rains. Two mea flfl
were killed and several injured. HM
The grain elevator at Eleventh avenue Hj
and Thirty-fourth street, New York City, of
T. B. Chase & Company was bur nod, with Bfij
a loss of $300,000.
A severe thunderstorm prevailed at Boszard's
Bay, Mass. At Monament Beach the
cottage occupied by George Aldea was
struck by lightning. Mrs. Aldea was instantly
lolled. She was twenty-eight years ^B
old. A house a .few feet away was also H|
struck. The bolt entered the tower, went ^B
direct into the cellar, an 1 Instantly killed M
the cook, Ellen Eagen. |H
A theory has been advance that the B|
murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden at Fall
River, Mass., was done by two sailors whoVff
were convicted of riotinz on ttxe Bordeos* BB
testimony.
George T. McLa.uthli?t, an assistant
professor of the Masaicnusitts Institute of
fechuology, was drowned white bathing at
Lynn Beacb.
The American Federation of Labor and
the Amalgamated Association of Iron sad
Steel Workers have issued a statement
presenting the employes' side of the story .
of tha Homestead strike, it is denied that
the men are recsiving the high wagn.
generally snppoio.i, and contributions from
the public are solicited.
The body of Samuel F. Keller, Sheriff oC
Dsuohin County, Pean., was found besida
the Pennsylvania R ulroid track, east of
Cone wago Station. It is supposed that ha
was accidentally thrown from a train dor,
ing the night while passing from one car to
another.
The American Association for the Advancement
of Science held its annual convention
at Rochester, N. Y.
. South and West.
In a stampede at Bannock Butte, Idaho,
which was caused by huugry prospector*
attempting to capture a cilf, two oowoo/fc'
and 361 cattle were swept over a cliff and
dashed to pieces.
W EL FoasMAV, Albert In man, Alexander
Moore, Charles Sawyer ani Jack
Pummel were killed by a falling wail at'
Hartford City, Ind.
A. Price and Arthur Kurt*, each eight .
yean old, were found dead at Lasting,
Mi'rtli in An ThftV hftri AvidfflKtuT '
crawled into It in play 'and bad been
smothered.
Gutbbal N. Gaxo Du.vit, who succeeded
Chester A. Arthur as Chairman of the Neir.
Torlc State Republican Committee, ootn*
mitted suicide by shooting himself at Deover.Col.,
where he had lived for some years,
having separated from his family.
Fnrrcxir person?, most of them
Templar returning Cast from Denver, were
injured by a railroad smash-up near Clinton,
Iowa.
Grasshoppers in countless numbers have
been doing great damage to oats and other
crops in Huron County and adjoining counties
ip Ohio. '
GovrBKOB Buchaxax, of Tennessee, announces
that he will run tor re-election on
an independent ticket. . jr
Washington.
Tax July report of the Chief of Statistic,
Treasury Department, shows that durinc
the mouth the exports of breadstuff*
aggregated $14,267,400, as against f 18,379, '
291 during July, 1891.
Assistant Sxcrstabt Solit has completed
plans for the course of stady to be
pursued by officers of the Navy ana Marine
Corps who will ba assigned to duty at the'
Naval War College. ^
conqbtsskatf Johit G. Wabwick, who
defeated Governor McKtnley, of Ohio, in
the last congressional election, died'the
other night at the National Capital. Hie.
was born in Ireland in 1839, was elected
Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio in 1888,
bad acquired a fortun9 in milling and min- ?
iog purauite.
The Treasury Department will tak* step*
to shut oat all woolen goods from Eorop*
likely to be infected frith Asiatic cholera.
Foreign.
The Queen of England through her Private
Secretary has commanded Gladstone
to form a Ministry.
JoBAinr Sixozja, a cleric in Vienna, Austria,
killed his sweetheart and his three
children by charcoal f umai ife was driven
to the aot by poverty.
Ehpebob William has withdrawn all
official support to ttie proposed Berlin Sx>
position.
Arabs have annihilated the (Jongo state
forces on the upper Congo. Commander
Hodister was captured, tortured and killed.
Rebel villages near Tangier, North,
Africa, have been burnel by the dultau'a
troops.
It ia officially admitted that cholera ia
present in St. Petersburg, and the wealthier
residents are leaving the city.
A banker named Stein and his two vns
were sailing a yacht near Kop^rnlcfc, an .
island in the bpree near Berlin, when a>.'
thunderstorm came up and a bolt of light
ning struck the. yacht, killing Stein and
both his sods.
Deaths from Asiatic cholera in Russia
number over 4000 daily. The disease is also
raging with fatal efface in Persia. t
Mr. Gladstone visitei Queen Victoria
at Oflbourne House, isle of Wight; presented
Her Majesty with thi; names of til*
members of bis Cabinet, and carried out the
old custom of kissing the hand of the Sorer*
eign.
A FATAL FESTIVAL.
Six Persons Killed and Many Injured
by an Explosion ot Fireworks.
The festival of St. Anseliuo was closed at ;
Cesa, Italy, with fireworks in the market ?'
place. A crowd of several hundred bad
gathered around the spot waere the fireworks
were set off. A hunch of rockets :
were s?t too near a burning ''*heel," and
was ignited. The rods ware driven in all drecttons
through the crow I, carrying with
them tire and panic.
Six men were struck in tin face or necx
by the rods, and were so badly torn an!
burned that they have since died. The
sparks set fire to the light gown3 worn by
several girls, and bafore the fire could be extinguished
four of the vouug women wers
serionsly injured, in thj pan'*? many* children
were trample 1.
Seven men suffered fractures of arms or
legs while they were scrurglin? in the
crowd, and some twenty-five or thirty
womeu were more or Je& injured.
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G. A. B. ENCAMPMENT.
Sixty Thousand Veterans Expected
at the Opening in Washing ton.
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ID 18 OXpOUbVa tuau H/J(WV jnn/pig niu
visit Washington at the coining Grand
Army encampment, 81,000 of whom will be
veteran?. The encampment opens September
19th, and Chairman Edson says there is
no lack of money to provide for the enter- .
tainment of the tip crowd. A number of
buildings are being put up to be used as
sleeping barracks, two of which will provide
for 30,000 men. The feeding or such a
large numuer of people is no slight task, but
the arrangements which have been, mad?
promise welt. The railroads are making
great preparations, and expect to be taxed
to their utmost capacity. The parade on the
last day of the meeting will be a monster
one.
SITTING BULL^SDAUGHTEE.
Married in Rondout, N. Y., to Peter
Markle, Formerly of the Army.
A romantic wedding occurred at Rondout,
N. Y., a few days ago. The contracting
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ptuuea ivao a uau^uwi u<. ^ ,
great Indian chief, and Peter Markle,
formerly of the United States Army.
Markle served with Caster for a long
tima, and it is reported that his bride onco
saved his life attacked by Indian?.
The weddinr was celebrated at the residence
of William Van Br-imer, Union avenue,
in the presence of a fa* intimat*
friends o* Mr. Markle.
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