The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 02, 1892, Image 2
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BIOTING IN BUFFALO.
Serious Results of a Switch*
men’s Strike.
Railroad Property Burned and
Troops Ordered Out.
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A strike of switchmen on the Erie and
Lehigh Valler Railroads at Buffalo, N. Y.,
baa turned out t* be a serious matter. There
bad been more or lees trouble between the
strikers and their sympathisers and the man
who were doin 2 the strikers’ work, and a few
desultory assaults occurred. Things began
to put on a more serious aspect at two
o’clock in tne morning when a series of in-
eendi&rr fires broke out simultaneously in
the Lehigh Valley yards. Eighteen or
twenty freight cars filled with wool,
cotton, hay and various other mer
chandise, two passenger coaches and two
watchmen’s houses were burned. The fire*
occurred at places where the firemen could
not successfully stay the flames, on account
of an absence of water, besides the difficulty
of access to the fires.
The fire first discovered was in what is
known as the east-bound yards. Here the
watchman aaw flames burst from the little
office building, and ran to give the alarm.
This spot is fully a half mile from the west
yards.
He bad not gone half the distance when
be turned around and saw that the flames
bad burst out among the 500 or more cars.
In the meantime Yardmaster Mead,
at the west end of the yards, had dis
covered flames in the two pas
senger coaches which were used to carry
workmen up and down the road, and an
alarm had been turned in from William and
Dingens streets. Tr.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 bad been de
stroyed.
Other fires broke out in different places,
and more freight cars were destroyed. The
damage by fire was estimated at $100,000.
The cars destroyed were in the midst of a
great number of other cars. The firemen
nnccupled a number of cars and removed
them from danger. A dozen or so cars were
thrown from the Lehigh tracks, and a sim
ilar number from the Erie, by misplaced
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, Dickerman, a commercial travel
er, who was on board one of
the trains, said no violence was attempted
with any of the passengers. He continued;
“ Three str liters boarded our train.
They were ail apparently sober and
met with no resistance. They politely
informed the passengers that the train
would go no further. The spokesman was a
tall fellow, light complexion and witb sandy
hair. He simply stated that be was a striker;
had a wife and family to maintain, and the
road would not do the square thing by the
men.”
There was little disorder through the
following day, but several freight cars w<fre
burning in tne Erie and Leaign yards, and
it is estimated that more than 100 were
burned between midnight and dayligat.
Some of these contained Brussels carpets
and other costly 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-two men, each armed with new ash
clubs and shining handcuffs. The men
bad been on the grounds only
a short time when they were
met by thirty or forty strikers and asked to
disarm. The deputies promptly surrendered
their clubs, which the strikers considerately
gathered up and oiled into Sheriff Beck’s
buggy. The sheriff drov» back to town and
at once asked General Peter Doyle to call
out the militia.
General Doyle ordered < u* both regiments
of the National Guard. Tney were ordered
to wait at their headquarters under arms
till a call was made for them to do active
service in putting down the lawlessness at
East Buffalo and beyond.
^ Later reports showed that the Lehigh
Valley had lost seventy-two freight cars by
the fires and the Erie tourteen.
At 1 a. M. the Sixty-fifth Regiment was
sent to Cheektowaga to guard the Lehigh
Valley and Erie yards, and half an hour
later the Seventy-fourth Regiment was
called out protect the Central and West
Shore property.
A Conflict WitA 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 be
tween the mob on oue'side and tae military
and police on the other from 6 o’clock, an i
the la jelessness spread to such a degree, both
in the number of tne mob and the
extent of space covered, that General P.
C. Doyle deemed it necessary to send for
military aid to otner cities. The streets in
the eastern part of the city, near the Lehigh
Valley and Erie roads were filled all the
evening with crowds of men and boys hurry*
ing to and from the centre of disturbance.
The Seventy-fourth Regiment and most
of the Sixty-fifth moved down from the
William street station to Queen street
crossing when it beceme eviuent that the
strikers were massing there. All the after
noon there were indications 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 hie bayonet, and a num
ber of fizhts were stopped by the interfer
once of the police or the National Guard
officers.
Finally,at S o’clock Captain Kilroy, of the
police, with half a uozen men, ordered the
crown back. They refused to move and
threatened to sweep the police from their
path if interfered with. The Captain or
dered ciubs drawn, and by. means of their
potent persuasion the mob was driven
hack fror” the bridge. On William street it
made a stand and was charged by Sergeant
Lambrecbt with fit teen policemen. Clubs
were used freeiy, and finally the strikers and
their sympathizers broke and fled.
But, althougn broken up for the time, the
strikers and their friends soon drifted bac^
tc their place under the bridge. This time
they meant bu-iness. It was now half past
9. and the deep shadow from the trestle con-
cea.ed the strikers, while a bright bonfire
burning near General Doyle's headquarters
threw a strong light over the forms of the
•al hers lying on tne grass.
bu idenly a large rock thrown by some
one m the shadow fell near a man belong
ing to Company G of the Seventy-fourtn
Regiment, commanded by Captain Darner.
This company was nearest the strikers. A
storm of smaTer stones and dirt followed,
ana the nmb set up a veil.
The soldiers sprang to their feet. Captain
Danier gave the order to fail in. Still the
tnob continued yelling and throwing mis*
aflee. A drummer beat the long roll. Ex
cited by the sound and exasperated by the
attacks of the strikers. Company M’s men
started forward. when the door
of the bouse where General Doyle
had his headquarters was thrown open, and
Captain of Police Kilroy, who had been
conferring with the General, ran put at full
■peed. Calling to bis men to follow him, ha
rushed among the yelling mob and the now
thoroughly exasperated soldiers.
“Keep back, bovs, keep back!” he shouted
to the soldiers. “We can manage this our-
aelvee. For God’s sake, dou’t shed the first
blood! K-ep back.”
The soldiers paused for a moment, and at
that moment twenty policemen had followed
Captain Gilroy into the open space between
the mob and the soldiers. The Captain
drew his club. “Clubs out, and charge!” he
.shouted, and the twenty policemen, with
■ticks drawn, fell upon the strikers.
The latter retreated step bv step until they
got to William street, wnere they stoppe 1
and fought viciously. How it would have
coded is doubtful, but at that moment a de
tachment of the bixty-Sfth Regiment, with
bayonets fixed, came down William street
at doable quick and attacked the mob on the
left flank.
They stabbed for the legs of their op
ponents, and in a very few seconds tne
mob was in rapi l retreat, man v of
them bleeding from bavo-i-t wounds,
bat none of then s-.-riouslv injured.
They were I olio we i by the police,
■who used their c.uos vigorously, driving
them half a mile down William street on a
ran. Guards were then established and no
caa permitted to go near the tracks who
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could not give
himself.
satisfactory account of
Governor Flower at Albany.
An Albany dispatch stated that Governor
dispat
Flower arrived there at 1:30 a. M. He was
met at the station by Adjutant General Por
ter. The Governor said he bad not been
summoned to Albany by any recent commu
nication, bnt thought he ought to be
there. General Porter told him be had just
received word from General Doyle that he
had ordered out the whole of his brigade on
the requisition of the Sheriff. Thu Gover
nor replied:
“Well, the Sheriff has had all the troops
he has asked for thus far, and be can have
more. If be needs more troops he must
have them. We must stop this. It most
stopP*
In all about 1900 additional soldiers of the
Fourth Brigade were ordered out. When
they reached Buffalo the troops called out
formed a grand total of nearly 1800 men.
The Central Switchmen Strike.
At 1:15 o’clock a. m. word was recaived
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 Central strikers
numbered 330 switchmen. The strike of the
Central switchmen tied up all the trains and
locomotives.
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 Mor-
f eastern, H. Walter Webb, Daniel H. Me-
[Ulan, W. S. Bissell and E. (3. Sprague on
behalf of the railroads and several citizens
resulted in agreeing to send the following
telegram to the Governor:
To the Hon. Roswell P. Flower, Executive
Mansion, Albany, N. Y.:
We have become satisfied that the situa
tion here in Buffalo under the pending strike
has become so serious that we ask that the
National Guard of the State be called out
to protect the lives and projierty of citizens
of this city and county.
August Beck, Sheriff.
Charles F. Bishop, Mayor.
At 1 A. M. Adjutant-General Porter tele
phoned from Albany that the Twelfth and
Twentv-second 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 as speedily as possi
ble.
Sixth Day ot the Strike.
On the sixth day the offizers of the rail
roads involved in the switchmen’s strike at
Buffalo claimed victory. Trains were moving
from the great yards at East Buffalo, with
a soldier on the p.afcforms of each car.
By daylight fully four thousand more
soldiers were in camp, an i by evening one-
half as many more, bringing the total n am
ber of militia up to over eight thousand.
The regiments which arrive! at Buffalo
during the day included six from New
York City and two from Brooklyn.
Charles O’ Hara, of Oswego, a private of
the Forty-eighth Separate Company, while
on duty in tae Central yards. East Buffalo,
during the morning was struck by an
engine and instantly killed. This made the
second militiaman who lost his life by
accident during the strike.
The Centra 1 , Lehigh Valley, and Erie
tracks for five miles from tae stations ware
closely guarded by the military. Sol iiers
with fixed bayonets patroled uo and down
the tracks in small detachments, stoo i on
guard by the switches, or were carried up
and down the tracks ou open cars provided
with benches. Strict orders to stop all per
sons not having business along tne tracks
were given out to the sentries, an i were
rapidly carried out.
No sooner tiid a civilian leave the road to
go up or down the tracks than he found a
bayonet presented at his breast ani beard
the challenge: “vVno goes there?” If he
gave a satisfactory reply he was passe! by
the corporal of the guar!, othervise he was
peremptorily turned back. After 10 o'clock
at night no person was allowe 1 through the
lines except at certain Diaces near the
headquarters at William street.
The two companies of the Seventy-fourth
Regiment, under the command of Major
Hardy, were on guard at the Lehigh Valley
coal trestle, four miles out from the city
limits, and were keeping a picket line about
the trestle continuously, the men wonting in
relief, two hours on and four hours off duty.
Two strikers were arrested during tne
morning for breaking a train on the Cen
tral tracks near the bridge. The train was
just pulling out, waen it broke in two near
the engine. Two men ware seen to jump
from the train where it bro te and run for
the grass. They were caught an! arrested by
policemen wao were near by. Oa the Li-
high tracks two men were arrested for
threatening the working switchmen. They
told the “scabs,” as they caltel the non
union men, that they would be kiliel unless
they stopped work. Waen arrests! the men
said tnat they had co ne from Pailalelpaia
to work as switcanen, but hal decile! not
to on looking over the situ itioa. They were
locked up.
The Seventh Day.
The first shot since the beginning of the
strike was fired at eight o’clock P m. of the
seventh day. The peacefulness that had
been a characteristic of the day was oroken
by another riotous demonstration out at the
Erie yards. Two men euterei the trestle
overlooking the yard near Baily avenue.
East Buffalo, and began pelting a crew of
yardmen who were engaged in making up a
train.
None of the railroad men were hit, but
they gave the alarm to a guard of soldiers,
who ran toward the trestle on double time.
They were met with a volley of stones and
promptly returned it with a volley of bul
lets.
The men on the trestle ran and two more
volleys were fired after them, but the bul
lets whistled wide of the mark and the stone
throwers disappearei in the darkness. Tfie
shots alarmed the pickets all along the line,
however, and in a few minutes a company
of soldiers were in hot pursuit.
A member of the Twenty-second Regiment
of New York City was seriously stabbed.
The soldier was assaulted by tares men on
Tifft Farm, where the regiment was sta
tioned. He received three serious cuts in the
left arm, the wounds being deeo. The
soldier was sent into Buffalo an! taken to
New Yo: k.
Grand .Master Switchmen Sweeney, leader
of the strikers, stated, in an interview, that
in all 475 meu were out on strike, divided
among the roads as tollows; New York,
Late Erie and Western, SS; Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern. 62: New York, Chicago
and St. Louis, 47; New York Central and
Hudson River, 128; West Snore, 41; Lehigh
Valley. 84; Buffalo CreeK, 22; Buffalo
Creek (non-union men), 3.
During the uay two of the strikers were
arrested for assaulting men at work on the
railroais and locked up. The Chief of Police
also ordered the arrest of all persons making
any disturbance, and, as a result of the
order, more than 300 persons were taken to
the police stotions of Buffalo in patrol
wagons during the evening.
It was claimed by the railroad officials
that as far as the switchmen were concerned,
the strike was at an end, as during the day
freight trains were moved with almost ac
customed rfgularitv.
Master Workman Sweeney in the evening
address©! to officials of tied-up roads a
formal letter reciting the history of the de
mands of the switchmen for ten hours’
work at previous rates, for overtime
and for the right oi appeal of dis
charge! or suspended switchmen to
higher authority. He then proposed arbi
tration of the differences between the roads
and the men by three persons one each to
be chosen by either side and the third by
these two.
The Lake Shore’s response to Mr.
Sweeney’s letter contradict©! many of his
statements with regard to the company’s ac
tion towards its men, and ciosed without a
definite statement as to wba: course will be
takeu by the company
accounts from Russia in regard to the
prospects ot the growing crops are very
gloomy. Locusts nave destroyed the grain
over several of the Southern provinces. In
other places worms and innumerable mar
mots, the same as the American ground
hog, nave done enormous injury. The same
complaint comes irom Centra! Russia, and
around Moscow vast clouds ot locusts have
covered the land and eaten it bare of Teg tv
**ififwis
THE HEWS EPITOMIZED. GLADSTONE IN POWER WORLD’S FAIR NOTES.
Eastern and Middle States.
The bodv of Samuel F. Keller, Sheriff of
Danohin County, Penn., was found beside
the Pennsylvania R tilroa'l track, east of
Conewago Station. It is supposed that he
was accidentally thrown from a train dar
ing the night while passing from one car to
another.
The American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science held its annual con
vention at Rochester, N. Y.
The little town of Delmar. Del., has been
almost wiped out by fire. About flftj build
ings. covering three acres, were destroyed,
entailing a total estimated loss of $75,003.
A Buckwheat Trust has been formed,
with a capital stock of $5,000,000. Incorpora
tion papers have been filed at Trenton,
N. J.
Private Elsaesskr. one of the militia
men 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 dur
ing the burning of the stables at his summer
residence at Mamaronecr, N. Y., and died
in ten minutes. Two stablemen were burned
to death in Mr. Constable’s adjoining stable,
which was also destroyed by fire.
The Republican State Convention of Del
aware met in Dover and nominated Rev.
Jonathan S. Weller, a Methoiist clergy
man. for Congress by acclamation, and also
Presidential electors.
Charles H. Peckham, sixty-two years
old, walked into the station house at Fall
River, Mass., and declared that he had
killed Mr. and Mrs. Borden, for whose mys
terious murder Miss Lizzie Bor leu has been
arreste!. Peckham was evidently insane,
and little stock was taken in his story.
A NEW TURF QUEEN.
Nancy Hanks Trots a Mile at Chicago
in 2:07>4.
Maud S. is no longer queen of the trotting
turf. The proud position which the daugh
ter of Harold has held so long has been
wrested from her, and Nancy Hanks reigns
nancy hanks.
in her stead. At Washington Park, Chicago,
in the presence of 10,000 sp?ctators, Budd
Doble drove his beautiful mare to beat her
record of 2:19. She not only beat her own
record, but lowered the world’s trotting
record from 2:0S}£, made bv Robert Bon
ner’s Sunol. and 2:08% the time of MauP
S., to 2:07*.
Owen Chase, a Maine hunter, knows the
forests of the Piue Tree State by heart, hav
ing hunted and woraed in them for nearly
fifty years. He has killed 222 bears during
: that period, and entertains very little re
spect for bruin’s courage.
England’s New Prime Minister
flakes Command.
South and West.
Pit men were killed ani fifteen injured,
several fatally, by the wrecking of a con
struction train at Coshocton, Ohio.
Michigan Demo-'rats at their State Con
vention in Grand Raoids nominated a ticket
heade l by Allen B. Morse for Governor.
Ex-Senator John C. Spooner heads the
Wisconsin Republican State t cket put in the
field by the Convention at Milwaukee.
The Ohio People’s Party, at a State Con
vention in Massillon, put in nomination a
full ticket, with S. C. Thaver for Secretary
of State at the head. About forty of the
eighty-eight counties were represented.
Jerry Simpson, renominated for Con
gress in the Seventh Kansas District, has
been endorsed by the Democrats.
A State Convention to devise means for
securing better roads in Iowa was held at
Des Moines, with nearly 1003 dele gates in
attendance.
• Logan Murphy was taken from jail and
lyncaed at Mount Sterling, Ky. He had
killed Ids father. While in jail h4 attacked
two fellow prisoners, one of wnotn die*.
Three highwaymen held up and beheaded
a man near Eilensborg, Washington. Vigi
lantes pursued the highwaymen, and after
capturing them hanged them to a tree.
Hon. Whitelaw Reid spoke at the Con
vention of the Illinois Lsague of Republican
Clubs at Springfield, III.
The Common Council of Battle Creek,
Mich., has put a boycott oa Carnegie bridge
steel and iron.
At Washington Park. Chicago, the geld
ing Hal Pointer pace! a mile against time
in 2:05*, breaking all previous records and
gaining lor himself a foremost place in the
annals of the track as being the fastest har
ness performer the world has ever seen.
The Iowa Democratic Ste-te Convention
at Davenport nominate 1 a ticket headed by
J. H. McConologue for Secretary of State.
The Republican State Convention of
Idaho has nominate 1 W. J. McConnell for
Governor and Willis Sweet for Congress.
Geneva, Ohio, has been partially de
stroyed bv fire. Loss, $175,003.
Governor Hogg, of Texis, was renomi
nated at Houston by his faction of the
Democratic State Convention which split
after a hot fight. The Clar.t Convention
com Dieted the State ticket healed by Clark
for Governor.
Washintrton.
Admiral Ghef.ardi has been ordered to
Wasnington, and will then go to San Fran
cisco to take charge of the naval parade next
spring. This will leave Commodore Walker
in command of the North Atlantic Squad
ron.
William Harrison Bradley, of Illi
nois, present Consul at Nice, has been trans
ferred to Copenhagen in place of H. B.
Ryder, under arrest lor embezzlement and
forgery.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is
preparing actively for the display it will
make at the World’s Fair. A complete col
lection of portraits of the Secretaries of the
Treasury and the portraits of all the Pres -
dents will be included in the exhibit of the
bureau.
A telegram has been received by Acting
Secretary Adee of the State Department
from Minister Egan at Valpiraiso which
says that the Chilean Senate and Chamber
of Deputies have unanimously passed the
appropriation for the payment of claims
growing out of the Baltimore incident.
Foreign.
Fifty persons were seriouslv injured by
the conapse of a grand stand at Lanuemazan,
a summer resort in the Pyrenees.
Five vessels were wrecked "during a storm
on tne New Brunswick coast.
I Four inmates of a workmen’s lodging
; hou-e at Tredegar, England, were burned to
death.
Rigid quarantine against Russian vessels
has ueen established by Sweden and Den
mark ou account of Asiatic cholera.
Wales has had a severe earthquake
shock.
Fire destroyed three hundrei houses and
rendered 2533 people homeless in siervodsk,
Russia.
The notorious Duke of Manchester is dea 1
in his thirty-ninth year. He married a Sew
York City girl in 1876, but deserts! her for
a London concert hall singer na ned Bessie
Bel wool. The marriage of the Duke’s
mother, the Dowager Duchess of Maacnes-
ter, to the Duke of Devoushire, took place
only two days before his death. He left
three children.
Europe has had a hot wave, the mercury
rising to beyond the one hundred mark in
some places.
The Swiss villages of GrindelwalJ and St.
Stephen have been destroyed by fire.
Fifteen hundred tourists at the former place
lost everything they possessed.
The Liberal Leader Announces
His Cabinet.
any
of getting a d
are masters of tta __
tives of old Whig fa
extreme views havj
Total a...............
Tne communicants ot
copal, with those of c her denominations,
will bring the aggregat* up to about 20,000,
000.
The number of chqfches showing the
growth of forty years u stated thus:
D ?3ominat Ions.
Congregational
Lutheran
1350.
3,705
:s«iu.
4,736
6,559
Methodist
13.-MS
44,244
Presoyterian
4,936
12,463
Romau Catholic
1.227
8.76»
Ijdf)
9.360
-39.412
Episcopal
1,461
5.605
gYii Okb&rs«••••
5,<X>7
20,471
Totals.•»•••*•••••■» s;.. #
85,183
142,256
Total value of churcf, property, as ?scer
tain ed by census authorise 5 --, is $021,221,3 .3,
as against $87,440,371 in S50.
The co.ored churches 1! all denominations
show a total membershfa' of 2,370.10''. mid
own church property vi uei at $13,103,000.
In the new Maine ton ,
where not eveu a log ht,
$10,000 residence is buii
at work upon mills an i
■itor-General.
. Samuel Walker. Lord
■d.
t, Attorney-General for
PRIME MINIS FER 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 cere
monies attendant upon the taking of
office by a new Prime Minister.
On the following dav Mr. Gladstone re
tired to London, art! the new Government
was officially announce! as follows:
William E. Gladstone, Lord Privy Seal
and First Lord of tha 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, Pres
ident of the Local Government Board.
The Right Hon- H. Campbell-Bannerman,
Secretary of State for War.
Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Right Hon. John Morley, Chief Secre
tary for Ireland.
fhe Rizht Hon. A. J. Mundolla, Presi
dent of the Board of Trade.
Sir Charles Russell, Attorney-General
John Rigby, Sol' “ - " ’
The Right Hon
Chancellor of Irela
Mr. MacDermc
Ireland.
The Right Hon. Edward P. C. Marjon-
banks. Patronage Secretary to the Treasury.
Alexander Ashir, Solicitor-Jeneral for
Scotland _ ...
The Right Hon. J. B. Balfour, Lord Ad
vocate of Scotland.
The Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of
State for India and Vice-President of the
Council.
The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
Sir George O. Trevelyan, Secretary for
Scotland.
Mr. Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General.
Mr. Arthur Herbert Dyke Ac!an!, Vice-
President of the Council of Education.
Baron Houghton, Viceroy of Ireland,
without a seat in tip Cabinet.
James Bryce. Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, with a stat in the Cabinet.
An Associated Press dispatch from Lon
don says that “the composition of the new
Government is the cause of intense disap
pointment among tbe Radicals. Not a single
man, except Johnj Morley, prominently
identified with th^ Radicals has been ap
pointed a Cabinet Minister, and among the
ex-Cabinet posts f.’w members of the new
set have any but the remotest chance
ne. The old set
.tuation. Represents
dies and men without
ien Mr. Gladstone’s ex
clusive choice. Evfen Mr. Stansfeld, who in
the last Gladstone Cabinet represen ted demo
cratic opinion, has been shelved. The official
list, when scanned jto-night at the National
Liberal Club, awoke vehement protests.
The bulk of the members of strong Raiical
tendencies turned Irom the announcement
with expressions of scorn and anger. Was
it for this undi'uted list of o d men associ
ated with the traditions of Wniggery, with
some new recruits from the territorial and
aristocratic class, that the Radicals had
given their money and their time? This was
the general question, and the responsive
prediction followed that such a Government
could not last three months after Parliament
resumed business.
“Apart from Radical opinion the Cabinet
is really composed of eminently reputable
men. Mr. Gladstone has preferred collect
ing around him tried coileagues accustomed
to subordination and certain not to
deviate into strange ways. His three
new Cabinet Ministers, Messrs. As
quith, Arnold Morley and Acland,
are sound Liberals. Mr. Asquith alone is
slightly tainted with Radicalism, but he has
a legal mind, with such a strong bias toward
high office as makes him malleable on prin
ciples. Arnold Morley is in everything
Gladstonian. Mr. Aciand has potent old
Whig family connections and is heir to largo
estates.”
Speaking of Lord Houghton’s appoint
ment as Viceroy for Ireland, the Dublin
Freeman’s Journal savs: “If mere is sub
stance in the modern theory of heredity,
Baron Houghton :s likelV to be a
justly popular Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
His father was t gentleman an l a
scholar, of winning personal courtesy, with
deep sympathy for Irdaud’s national aspi
rations. The son is sxid to be active, dis
tinguished and popular in his own country,
endowed with political ambition and ability
and with wealth and personal accomplish
ments tnat will enablt him to fill tne po
sition with dignity and success. But
unquestionably the ebief lesson of the
anpointment of Paron Houghton as
Viceroy, without a seat in the Cabinet, is
that John Morley will take the administra
tion of Ireland completely into his own
hands. We trust and believe that his ad
ministration will t e tiorough. Hitherto a
change of Govern mint has but siighty
changed the admiaistntion of Ireland, This,
the first Government ever elected with a
distinct mau late to dofull justice to Irish
opinion, means a revoiition m Castle meth
ods.”
COUNTING THd CHURCHES!.
Census Figures Depicting the Coun
try’s Religious Growth.
Statistics of the chu-ches of the United
States, as gathered for the eleventh census,
show that there are in this country nearly
153 different sects or deiominations. Rough
ly stated there are in dve sects 13,496,522
communicants, as follovs:
Denominations. No. Communicants.
Congregatioual 512,771
Lutheran 1,199,514
et nodist 4,25o, 817
Presoyterian 1,273,315
Roman Catholic 6,250,045
13,496.522
be Baptist and Epis-
The City of Mexico will have a special
exhibit at the World’s Fair.
Germany will be represented at the Co
lumbian Exposition as it never has been at
any previous international exposition.
The Pilot Com mission 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 curios and
relics of whaling voyages, is now in the
harbor at Chicago, and is t^ing visited by
hundreds of people.
W illiam L. Lafollette, Superintendent
of tbe World’s Fair agricultural exhibit for
the State of Washington, is arranging for a
complete model farm in miniature for the
Washington exhibit.
It is announced that the Postmaster-Gen
eral of the United States has decided to is
sue a new series of postage stamps, with de
signs appropriate to the commemoration of
the discovery of America.
Hip Lung, the wealthiest Chinese mer
chant in Chicago, together with several in
fluential Chinese of Canton, San Francisco
and New York, have applied lor space at
tbe World’s Fair for a big tea house.
New York will exhibit at the World’s
Fair sections of all the trees which are in
digenous 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.
Professor Putnam and his assistants,
while engaged in collecting material for the
ethnological exhibit at the World’s Fair,
have made a very important archceologicat
discovery near Fort Ancient, Ohio. It is
that of a serpent mound 1903 feet long and
about ten feet thick.
New York will have a large exhibit of
interesting historical relics at the World’s
Fair. Among them will be Washington
relics, autographs of all the Presidents, au
tographs of the signers of the declaration of
independence and famous men of the revo
lutionary war: portraits of famous citizens
of New York, including those of all the
Governors; model of Fulton’s steamboat,
and many other relics dating back to revo
lutionary times.
The World’s Fair buildings will be dedi
cated on the 21st of October instead of the
12tb, Congress having passed a bill to that
effect. October 21 is the exact anniversary
ot Columbus’s landing, allowance being
made for the correction in the calendar
made by Pope Gregory. The change of the
date ot dedication was made in the interest
of chronological accuracy, and also to oblige
New York City, which will have a Colum
bian celebration on October 12.
“Marshall’s gold nuggett” will be ex
hibited at the World’s Fair by California,
and it is safe to say that thousands will con
sider it one of the most interesting of the in
numerable objects which will be displayed
at the great Exposition. This is the iden
tical nuzgett wu’ich Marshall picked up in
the American River, February 16, 1848,
when selecting a site tor Sutter’s 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 asso
ciations and the almost incalculable wealth
and development which have resulted Irom
its finding, is regarded as an almost priceless
treasure.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Gladstone’s first book was published
fifty-four years ago.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
is just eighty-six years old.
f resident Harrison and David S wing,
the great Chicago preacher, were classmates
at Miami University.
It is said that the Sultan, of Johore, who
is to visit this country, observes the tenets
of Mohammedanism so strictly that his only
beverage is pineapple juice.
Mr. Cleveland writes all his letters be
tween 10 o’clock at night an i 2 o’clock in the
morning. This habit the ex-President con
tracted at the White House.
General Lew Wallace is sail to have
been the first man to conduct a courtship by
telegraph. This was in 1852, and tne mes
sages were to his future wife.
The Queen of Greece is President of a sis
terhood devoted to the reformation of crim
inals, and visits personally the condemned
prisoners in Athenian prisons.
Miss Ella M. Knowles, whom the Peo
ple’s Party of Montana has nominated for
Attorney-General of the State, is a success
ful practicing lawyer in Helena.
Mrs. Guild, an American sculptress, has
recently completed a bust of Mr. Gladstone,
whica is very highly commended by tne
critics as a portrait and a work of art.
John G. Whittier writes in a bold, dash
ing, but irregular and uneven, style, as dif
ferent as you can imaiine from the plain,
precise, unassu ning Quaker that he is.
In Europe the two most conspicuous pub
lic personages to- lay are Gladstone and Bis
marck, bota of waom have passed far be
yond tne mark of threescore years ani ten.
William H. Rice went from Massachu
setts to Texas in 1833. He has given the
city of Houston $230,330 in cash. $43,033 in
securities, and OOOOaeresof good Texas farm
land to found a college.
Squire Massie Beasley, of Aberdeen,
Ohio, has male that town famous as the
American Gretna Green. For many years
he has been marrying all comers until now
his record is between 5303 and 6303 couples.
The adjournment of Congress complete!
a thirty years’ service in the House for Mr.
O’Neill, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Holman, of
Indiana, comes next in length of representa
tion, as ne has been for twenty-eight years
a Congressman.
The Czar and the Siamese King ar 3
among the monarchs who are allege i tori le
bicycles: The Empress of Austria has a
ladies’ safety which she rides wit 1 almost as
much skdl as she does a hors?, and the
Princess of Wales moves about oa a tri
cycle.
VIEWED BY THOUSANDS.
The Body of Riggin, the Murdered
Seaman, Lying in State.
The body of Charles W. Riggin, the mur
dered boats wains's mate of the United States
steamship Baltimore, has been lying in state
under the Liberty Bell in Independence
Hall in Philadelphia, and has been gazed
upon by thousands of his fellow citizens.
The throng was permitted to pass in
shortly after noon, and until 6 o’clock
P. M. a continuous stream of hu
inanity pass-d in a double lino
through the corridors of the building, enter
ing by tbe lanaous front entrance from
which tbe news of tbe signing of the Declara
tion of Independence was announced, and
emerging in the square in the rear. Tne ex
ternal decorations ot Independence Hall outr
side were severely simple, and did no
more than hint at the elaboration
within. The National emblem, lowered to
halt-mast, and the urnping of the doorway
constituted all that could be seen irom the
streets of the occasion’s solemnity. The
bier upon which the victim of Chilean wrath
rested and the walls and windows of the
rear hall were craped in black, and the
stairways and window cases were converted
into floral balconies.
Shortly before noon t.n undertakers
wagon urove up with the casket eontaming
Riggin’s body, and it was immeaiately
borne into tue hall on the shoulders of the
guard ot honor selected for the occasion,
under the escort of a large squa i
police. At tbe same moment, t ie flag float
ing above was lowered to halt-mast. .V ben
the speciators who had gathered in
large numbers were finally a unitted, they
were allowed to file past the cottiu, whic.i
was buried beneath the drapery ana sur
rounded by a guard with lixeu bayonets,
composed of live members oi the Sons of
Veterans, a seaman from tue
Portsmouth, and two members of tne
Patriotic Order Boils of America. Tne
burial occurred the following day. The
civic and military demonstration m con
uection with the iuaeral was one ot taa
most imposing seen in Philadelphia lor come
time, OOoO meu being m iine.
of Ru nford Falls,
stoo i a year ag j, a
< ng, and 700 men are
kther itruefara*.
In New South Wales ewes have been snli
at sixteen cents per heal, and bids were
subsequently made oi 13* cents. A drove
ot cows was offered at $2. iJ each, fat bul
locks could not beplacel at $l0.aud53J two-
tooth ewes went at fifty cents, no bids be
ing obtainable on a furcaer lot of 3)JO. {Sur
plus supply and drouth are accountable for
‘.hUcoalition of affiirs.
WORLD’S FAIR FINANCES.
A FRIGHTFUL FATE.
JMEWSY GLEANINGS.
Alaska is raising hops.
Chicago bandies 1363 trains daily.
Uncle Sam has 8,935,812 dwellings.
A great corn crop growing in Texas.*
Of Waterloo veterans France has eight
left.
The United States contain 43,000 oil
wells.
Milan is to have an electrical exhibition
in 1894.
Switzerland is erecting its first sugar
factory.
Churches built in America in 1991 num
bered 8508.
London has now over 700,000 houses inside
its city limits.
Caucassia is said to be infested with huge
swarms of locusts.
A twin watermelon is a fruit freak m
Ware County, Georgia.
A potato weighing twenty-six ounces is a
curiosity of Gastana, N. C.
Seven-eights of the bread made in Lon
don is made of American wheat.
The real and perscnal prooerty in Phila
delphia is assessed at $752,763,332.
A miner of Silesia has been unconscious
for ftmr months, says a medical paper.
A dealer in artificial limbs estimates that
300,300 Englishmen have lost one or both
legs.
Newfoundland is rejoicing over the
catching of 400,003 seals by her fleet this J
season.
French speaking Canadians now embrace
29,3 per c?nt. of the population of the Do
minion.
A society has been organized in Iowa
whose object is to push the pansy as the
flower of America.
Mrs. Watson M. Smith, of Bonn, Mich.,
has given birth to four sets of twius in ten
years. The eight are all healthy. .
A man in Maine lost nearly 6303 lobsters
lately, that he had confined in a pond, by a
quantity of fresh water flowing into it and
killing them.
The highest viaduct in the world has just
been erecte l in Bolivia, over the River Lea,
9833 feet above the sea level, and 4098 feet
above the river.
Reports from all over the Northwestern
wheat belt show good prospects on the wnole.
with an average crop certain, and above
average with good weather.
There are seven brothers and sisters in
New London, Conn., wnose combine! ages
are 512 years. Their family name is Corn-
stock, and their Christian names are Emily,
Orlando, Cordelia, John, Frank, Ezra and
Stephen.
The recent disastrous avalanche at Saint
Gervais is the ninth serious disaster of the
same sort to occur in the Alps during the
present century. Nearly 530 persons per
ished in the avalanche on the Rossberg in
1806. Eleven other like Alp.u? disasters oc
curred in the period between the years 1356
and 1749 inclusive. In 1618 an avalanche at
Plurs in the Grisons destroyed nearly 2500
persons.
11 ^
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Viau has been released by Louisville.
The Bostons have released Catcher Lake.
Cleveland won eight straight before
dropping a game.
Harry Stovey is one of the most timely
hitters on the Baltimore team.
Pitcher Stein is doing phenomenally
good work for the Brooklyns.
Von der Ahk has signed another young
pitcher named Hawley for the St. Louis
Club.
Duffy, of the Bostons, played the first
twenty games of the second season without
an error.
Bad weather and the poor record of An
son’s colts has made this a decided off-year
for baseball in Chicago.
Childs, of Cleveland, and McPhee, of
Cincinnati, are considered the heaviest
batting second basemen in the League.
Burke, of New York, is not far behind
them.
The Philadelphias do not play steady
enough for a winner. They make phenomenal
spurts at times which are headbreakers to
their opponents, only to fall back with a
sickening thud.
Ward, of the Baltimore?, in chasing a
two-bagger at Baltimore, and while sitting
on the ground, tossed the ball to Van Halt-
ren, who by a beautiful throw headed the
runner off at third base.
The phenomenal success that the second
season has had in reviving lost interest in
many cities has bean a very strong point in
favor of the twelve-ciub League, whose suc
cess is assured for another season.
Stivetts, of Boston, is the only League
pitener who has so far this season shut out
a team without a nit. The feat is doubly
remarkable in that it was achieved against
Brooklyn, the hardest hitting team ip the
League.
Jocko Halligan, the Baltimore out
fielder who broke Captain Strieker’s jaw in
Boston during a dispute, the result of
Halligan getting ilruuk, has been suspenied
without any pay for the rest of the season
by the Baltimore management.
Elmer Smith, himself a pitcher, is quoted
as saying that Tony Muilane is the best and
most wonderful pitcher in the profession.
He is as speedy to-lay as in 1883. Neverthe
less Tony has still a long way to go to equal
Galvin’s record of nineteen years of success
ful pitching.
Sullivan, the Cinciunatis’ new big
pitcher, can get over ground in remarkably
last time, considering the fact that he
weighs 210 pounds. He is a left-handed bat
ter, and when he hits he goes away from the
batter’s box like a professional sprint-rua-
ner leaving the mark.
New Yorkers have all at once fallen into
4 Western haoit. In the ninth inning of a
recent New York-Brooklyn game after
Doyle had scored the tieiug run he was
greeted with a shower of silver pieces from
the grand stand. These were picked up and
presented to the club’s mascot.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
Per Per
Clubs. Won. Lost, ct. 1 Clubs. Won. Lost. ct.
Cleveland..‘Zl 8 .724 Pittsburg.. 15 14 .517
Philad’lp’a.IS 12 .600 Louisville..13 16 .44S
New York. 16 11 ..',93 Cincinnati.12 18 .400
Brooklyn...17 13 . 567; Chicago.... 12 18 .40U
Boston 16 13 .55:! iVashiug’n.ll 18 .319
Baltimore..!5 14 .517jst. Louis.. 9 20 .310
The Bonds, Souvenir Coins and $1S,-
000,000 Budget.
Members of the Finance Committee of the
World’s Fair at Ch cago have practically
determined the podey which they wifi pur
sue in regard to floating $5,003,000 worth of
bonds, selling the souvenir fifty cent coins
and disposing of the budget of estimatsd ex
penditures which has been submitted by the
heads of the various departments. Ferdi
nand W. Peck, C airman of the Commit
tee, has submitted the report of tbe Board
of Directors.
Directors are of the opinion that no more
than $4,000,000 worth of the bon is will have
to be sold, peruaps not any. But provision
for their sale will be made in order to com
ply with technical conditions of the Act ot
Congress granting the $2,500,00.3 appropria
tion. These bonds will be payable on sr be
fore January 1, 1834.
The souvenir coins will be sol 1 by the Ex
position Comoaay for $t each. The idea of
giving to any syndicate the entire issue was
cii-couraged.
Tbe budget o: expea litures up to theopen-
ing of the Exposition on May 1, 1393, mdi-
eates that a trifle over $18,00 >,000 must be
ixuanded.
Five Children Burned to Death in a
Georgia Xowu.
Nathan Ellis and his wife, with his sister.
Silver Baker, went to church at Griffin,
Ga., a few nights ago, leaving two children
of a dead aister of Ellis and thres of the
Baker woman’s chillrsn locked up in the
building. The house was discovered on fire
about nine o’clock, and tbe flames had
gained such headway that it w&s imooisible
to rescue the children, although the .- cries
for help were IT 'rd. All tiv? perished.
Padgett
WILL PAY
THE FREIGHT
SAY!
DO YOU KNOW TIIA.T YOU
Can buy any article of
FURNITURE,
Cooking Stoves,
Carpets, Mattings,
Window Shades and
Lace Curtains, Cor
nice Poles,
BABY CARRIAGES,
Clocks, Mirrors, Pic-|
tures, Dinner Sets,
Tea Sets, Chamber|
Sets, Mattresses,
Comforts, Blankets j
and a thousand and
one articles needed
in a house delivered
at your depot at the
same pr ce that you
buy them in Au
gusta?
I CARRY EVERYTHING
You need, and can quote
you prices that will sat
isfy you that I am giving [
a dollar value for every |
dollar paid.
Special Offer No. I.
To introduce my business in every |
neighborhood in the quickest possible
manner, I will ship you one Bedroom
Suite complete, consisting of One Bed.-
stead, full size and high head. One
Bureau with glass. One Wash Stand,
One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat
Chairs, One Rocker to match, well H
worth $20; but to introduce my goods M
iu your neighborhood at once I will
deliver the above suite at your railroad
depot, all charges paid,
FOR ONLY $16.50,
When the cash comes with the order.
BESIDES this Suite, I have a great
many other Suites in Walnut, Oak,
Poplar, and all the popular woods,
running in price from the cheapest up
to hundreds of dollars for a Suite.
Special Bargain No. 2
Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven
pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in
E lush in popular colors, crimson, olive,
lue, old gold, either in bandea or in
combination colors. This suite is sold
for $40.00. I bought a large number of
them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago,
hence I will deliver this fine Plush
Suite, all charges paid by me, to your
nearest railroad depot, for $33.09. Be
sides these suites 1 have a great many
o f her suites in all the latest shapes and |
styles, and can guarantee to please you.
Bargain No. 3
Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge, re
duced from $9 to $7. All freight paid.
Special Bargain No. 4
Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove,
trimmed up complete for $11.50, all
charges paid to your depot; or a 5-
hole range with trimmings for $L5.
Besides these I have the largest stoeE |
of Cooking Stoves in the city, includ
ing the gauze door stoves and rani'es,
and the CHARTER OAK STOVES
with patent wire gauze doors. I urn
delivering these stoves everywhere, all
f reight charges paid, at the price of an
ordinary stove, while they are far
superior to a^iy other stoves made. Full
particulars by mail.
100 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the
roil, $5.50 per roll. 1003 Cornice Polls,
25 cents each; 100 Window Shades, i
3x7 feet, on spring roller and frigned,
at 87* cents each. You must pay
your own freight on Cornice Poles,
Window Shades and Clocks.
Now, see here, I cannot quote you
everything I have got in a store con
taining 22,600 feet of floor room, be
sides its annexes and factory in another
part of the town.
jgf-I shall be pleased to send you
anvthing above mentioned, or will send
my catalogue free if you wifi say you
saw this advertisement in The Aiken
Recorder, tniblished at Aiken, 8. C.
E3f-No goods sent C. O. D., or on
consignment. I refer you to the editor
and publisher of this paper, or to any
banking concern in Augusta, or to the
Southern Express Co., all whom know
me personally.
Yours, etc.;
L. F. PADGETT,
DIER BUILDING,
805 Broad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture,
Stove and Carpet Stores.
Factory, Harrison St.
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