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ft * iLLiNoia BUDGET. mmmmt ywsm i.-riisSsi IntilligMM from Ev«ry Part of th« Civilized . World. ud Domestic Hem, Political Personal Points, Labor Notes, Eta. iVf yM LATEST DISPATCHES. TttE SETTLERS MUST LEAVE. rllalneky Plight of Claimants to Land In the Fort Ellis Reservation. » UWDEK the recent decision of Secretary •mar, deciding that the land in excess of 10 acres in the Fort Boise Reservation illegally held and throwing it open to a large camber of settlers in entered claims on the llitilaty Reservation in Mon- «MM, feetieVtng that the ruling applied to Mat NHmiion also. Acting Secretary 1MMbw has decided that the law of 1853, military reservations to 640 acres, t only to the Territory of Oregon, as eoastitated, its eastern boundary Was the "commit of the Rocky Mount­ ain*/" and as Fort Ellis is east at that fcaaadaty line it does not come within the fmrview of the statute limiting the area of Bulitarv reservations. Settlers will be rfbtifttd Oat their claims have no founda­ tion ia law. r THE NOOSE. >SiM W. H««ka». a Trmia-Wrecker, Hanged at Nebraska City, Neb. AFTER A refreshing night's sleep and a Itearty breakfast, David Hoffman was Isanged on Friday at Nebraska City, Neb. The crime for which Hoffman was hanged «M the wrecking of a Missouri Pacific p--HI IIKIII train Jan. 11 last, near Dunbar, • small station ten miles west -of Nebraska Oh* at which time James De Witt, the en­ gineer, was instantly killed and a number •( passengers seriously woaaded. Tbe object of the wreck was plunder. BAS&BALL. ' CMtost for the ChamptoMMp ta tfef ; ' LnfUF and Association. % THE following tables show the standing ilt the elnbe in the two leading associa- Oeorge James in the croin and he will die. Officer Worden then shot McNerny in the back, from the effects of which hf will die. A BOSTON dispatch announces tike death of Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., the well- known story writer, at the age of 61 years. He died at Hyde Park, near Bos­ ton, of pneumonia. NEAR a curve on the Erie Road, between Hohokus and Allendale, N. Y., Thursday morning, the Chicago express train dashed throngh a gang of Italian laborers who were ballasting the lines. A dozen of the men were killed, their heads, arms, and legs being thrown in all directions. The express train was late, and at the time of the catastrophe was running at the rate of forty miles an hour. A passenger on the train describes the scene as one of the most sickening that oould be witnessed. "Along the tracks," he 6aid, "were arms, logs, trunks, and other parts of bodies, and tbe tracks for a long distance were slippery with blood. The disaster must have taken place with fuch appalling suddenness that the men did not kqow of their danger till the train was upon tbem. The conductor of the train on which I rode said that the train hands of the express were not to blame. He believed the foreman of the ping was responsible for tbe disaster by neglecting to give warning." An­ other account of the terrible accident uoio says that about one hundred Italians were Fort • at work on the road-led, when a train came MCtlOXAZ. LSAGOT. . Onto* • •(' %. • played. Detroit......... 6, Chicago....... S3 Barton .65 Hew York. 69 Philadelphia „67 WASHINGTON ...GO PltMtuig OS Won. 41 Si *5 lot 39 88 «7 .003 !wt) Ml .416 J»6 jne 4KXBICAX ASSOCIATIOH. /JDtahs. * Played. A Lmli „..7i Baltimore.. 71 OMnaatii TO Louisville. 75 Brooklyn.. 68 Athletic „73 Metropolitan. as Oaveland 3S Won. 63 43 45 42 St 35 a 17 LOST » » M 34 84 Percent- % .479 New Rente to the Pacific. SPECIAL surveying party of the Chi- •ago and Rock Island Railroad have re­ ported a rente to the Pacific coast between the lines of the Central Pacific and the . Atlantic and Pacific Railways, the line being drawn throngh low passes where little grading would be necessary. The .toad, it built, would render available the mineral region of Pioche County, and •ease a silver boom for Nevada. " fvi if. k TKXAS fever is spreading among' 'Me of Kansas. It is raging the 1 I"' m •- 1 Minor Telegrams. ; LA BOB numbers of striken in the coke •eglon hare returned to work, bat new complications are said to have arisen which pujr prevent a settlement of the trouble. St has been one of the most stubborn •dikes ever seen in Pennsylvania, and the loss in wages alone is estimated at $996,300. , THE Treasury Department has reversed 4he recent action of tbe Collector at Janes- Ville, Wis. , 'in making a seizure of horses where the claim was made by importers that the animals were for breeding. The decision is of great interest to horse- Breeders. • PBOFMSOB 8. N. FELLOWS declines tbe nomination for Superintendent of Public Instruction given him by the low Prohibitionists. the cal- raging tbe wont in Washington and Montgomery Counties, • apme farmers losing 90 per cent, of their herds A tornado in Cheboygan and Ifresque Isle Counties, Michigan, is re­ ported to have leveled vast quantities of pine. The roads in all directions, it is Stated, are blockuded by fallen trees. I*, , THE colored people of New Orleans are |fk f»ported to be indignant and excited over the announcement, apparently official, «hwt ',v eolored troops will not be permitted to par- , ticipate in the international military en- ijampment to be held at Chicago, g.THERE were in the United States during ;-•< fhe week 147 failures, and in Canada 25; total 172. For the preceding week, 179, f Jtnd for the same week in 1#8G, 183. *.• •- EX-CONGKEKSMAN ASA H. GLOYKB , iied at Georgetown, Kentucky. He was a 1^. Relative of President Cleveland. •If A IT is officially stated that 166 lives were y ' , M in Chicago on the 15th, Kith and 17th S . •Of July from the excessive heat. < W. A. FHERHETE, of Louisiana, has J»een apppinted Supervising. Architect of ^ , Ike Treasury, vice M. resigned. ' . ESSEX COUNTY, Massachusetts, has k *ate1y been lhe Scene of numerous rob- , fceries. A lonely hut on Powwow Hill, •a, ftear Amesbury, was raided Thursday, and p' ' jWOfWHl worth of stolen property recovered. p' • BAST. m , . - "ST 11; /' < accident happened to the President's | ^ Saturday night while returning from Clayton to Alder Creek, says a Utica (N. If.) special. The train was brought to a ptop before the President's party became awue that there was any accident. The engineer had his hand on the whistle to blow for btile crossing, when the connecting #5? for^ar^ drivei on the right-hand '5??. . broke and the huge piece y , revolved with terrible velocity, tear- tog out one side of the cab and ripping un . * and the ground as the engine xattMa^along. A huge fracture was made in toe boiler, and the steam escaped in vol- 2Se,« "t •informed of tte affair, said he thought there was some* •king serious the mattw when he saw the .ot Rielly, the ensineer, WFCO had saved his fireman by forcing him the cab, was found lying dong- «Me his ragine dead. After instructions sn to care for the dead engineer. attached to the M ii. - dead. Mn given ^ - ^du Prei ddent's car was along, and the Italians stepped onto the other track to allow it to go by. Just then the Chicago express thundered down at forty miles an hour, and literally mowed its way through, slinging the unfortunates right and left, tearing legs and arms and heads off, and grinding flesh into the road­ bed for two hundred or three hundred feet. So fierce was the shock that, although the engine struck nothing but human beings, the powerful cow-catcher was tons, twisted, and broken into pieces. RWEST. r Sells Brothers' cowboy* and In­ dians were having a sham encounter in a circus performance at Clinton, Iowa, Wednesday night, Mrs. Andy Lamberteon. of Clinton, was shot in the left breast. The (ball was taken out of her back. Wallace Phillips, a Clinton boy. aged 14, was shot in the top of the head, tbe ball lodging in his skull. George Harrington, of Fulton. 111., was 6hot in the forehead. The ball entered his brain, and he will die. The accident happened through the careless­ ness of some of the performers using load­ ed instead of blank cartridges. No arrests were made. Sells left money and a man with instructions to spare no exertion or expense for the wounded people. No rea­ son can be given for balls being used. The managers of the circus employ but one man to load the revolvers, who has strict instructions to use nothing but blank car­ tridges. ( A TERRIFIC powder explosion took place at an early hour Thursday morning at Streator, Illinois. The explosive--a car­ load of dynamite, just received the day before, stored in the magazine of the Chi­ cago. Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company--was struck by lightning, and from 6,000 to 8,000 pounds of powder con­ tained in the building exploded with a terrific noise which awakened the whole city. The fire alarm was sounded and nearly the entire population was soon on the way to the scene of the explosion. The powder house was situated in a thick­ ly settled district and the result of the ex­ plosion was disastrous. Many houses in the vicinity were destroyed, with their furniture, and many others were dam­ aged. Isaiah Ralston, living in one of the houses, was killed by a flying brick, and many people were more or less seriously injured. "The scene of the explosion," Bays an eye-witness, "beggars descrip­ tion. There are houses now only on the south and west sides of the maga­ zine. Isaac Love lived in a two- Btory house. His three daughters were asleep up-stairs. When the shock came they all jumped out of the window, and one of tbem--Mary--had her hip bad- ly injured. The house is badly wrecked and the furniture almost entirely ruined. George Senton lived east of Love's house. His furniture is a total wreck, but no one in it was hurt. George Powell, who lived on the south side of the street, had done no work for two years. Mrs. Powell kept a small grocery store. The stock is almost entirely ruined, as Is the house. Their little boy was knocked senseless by falling plaster." A CHICAGO dispatch of Friday says: "The jury in the great boodle case was se­ cured yesterday. General Stiles made the opening speech for the prosecution, which occupied almost two hours--a plain and powerful address outlining the character of the evidence to be presented for the peo­ ple, and delivered in the General's charac­ teristic and most impressive style. The jury is a fair average one; perhaps a little above the average in intelligence,' but not notably so. The majority of the inry are honest men; but, as to one or two of tbem, there are some doubts, if rumor is correct. This fairly good result has taken nineteen days of hard work to accomplish." SOUTH. HON. ROBERT M. T. HUKTER, ex- Speaker and ex-Senator, Confederate Secretary of State, and a member of the Peace Commission which met President Lincoln in Hampton Roads, died on Tues­ day at his home in Fount Hill, Va., aged 7«. * JOBS GBEES, an ex-convict, residing in Indiana, has sued Rill Johnson, Peter Jaggers, Lad Dawson, Dock Knight, Tom M. Seygly, Slaughter Fnqua, and John Goodman, citizens of Hart County, Ken­ tucky, for $20,000 damages in the United States courts. He charges that the defend­ ants, one night in Jnly, 1886, took him from his home, in Booheville, Ky., where he then lived, into the woods, and beat mal condition, and that he was therefore not as accountable as other men. Ihe trouble *as suaply a morbid disposition to live beyond his means which grew out of his parnion for fine arts. Hatvey had noth­ ing to say to the court except to deny a statement of the Prosecuting Attorney that he had sought the promotion from the Third Auditor's to tbe Second Controller's office. Hnrvey will be taken to the A*lbauy Penitentiary at once. He will not be given there the privileges he had in the District of Columbia jail, where he washed his hands in Florida water and bad cologne sprinkled through the ward in wh eh he wat-contined. INTERSTATE COMMERCE. THE Interstate Commerce Commission performs a great deal of effective work in a quiet way that doesn't get into the news­ papers, says a Washington dispatch. Complaints are almost daily received from individuals against alleged discrimination and undue exactions on Ihe part of rail­ road companies. Commissioner Morrison says this class of comj laiots were not only numerous but comprehended a great variety of subjects. Some were important, many were trivial, but all had to receive attention. In some instances the ortLog- rnphy and chirography showed that the complainants were lacking in education, although the manner of preferringthe com­ plaints showed the writers were not de­ ficient in the general knowledge of busi­ ness and commerce. In many cases the controversy wonld originate between the complainant and the local agent and might be attributed to bad temper on both sides. A letter from the commission was suffi­ cient to settle this class. Sometimes rail­ road agents, assuming that th«nr patrons were not well informed as to the new order of things, would make unfair exactions, and at other times controversial points would be submitted by both parties. All these cases, Colonel Morrison raid, were examined, and the commission's sugges­ tions and recommendations had always been acted upon. In this particular the commission was performing a kind of local magisterial duty. The cases pre­ sented were individal, but they represented a variety of subjects, and their settlement in the conciliatory manner alluded to avoided much controveny and friction. THE chairman of the Interstate Com­ merce Commission has filed the decisions of the Commission in the following cases: The Chicago and Alton against the Pennsylva­ nia, and the Chicago, ltock Island and Pacific against the New York Central aud Hudson Klver --these are known ua the commission cases, and are dismissed. Opinion by Mr. Commissioner Sohooumaker. Mr. Commissioner Morrison files a dissenting opinion. 1<\ D. Harding, com­ plainant, against the Chicago, St. Paul, Minne­ apolis and Omaha Ilailroad Company--this was a complaint of unreasonable and unjust rates. Ths case is dismissed lor insufficient evidenoe, but without prejudice. Opinion by Commissioner Bragg M. A. f ulton, complainant, against the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Rail­ road Company--this WRB also a complaint of unreasonable rates, and It is likewise dismissed without prejudice. Opinion by Commissioner GENERA!* D. BRECKENRIDGE, of Silver City, N. M., says an El Paso dispatch, was recent­ ly arrested by the Mexican authorities at £1 Valle, a town in Chihuahua, at the re­ quest of Silver City (N«Jf.) officers and held for extradition on a charge ot muAler. Breckenridge claims that he was brutal­ ly treated by the Mexican officers, who struck him over the head with a sword and stuck it into his legs. They then placed him in jail, where he was kept a month until officers from Silver Citv carried him to that city, where he was tried and acquit­ ted. Consul Brig ham has written to the Governor of Chihuahua complaining of the ill-treatment of an American citizen, and asking for an investigation of the case and the return of Breckenridge's property, amounting to about $2,000, which was taken from him at the time of his arrest The case will also be reported to Washing­ ton. THE Globe Iron Shipbuilding Company of Cleveland has concluded a contract to build six steel steamships for the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad Com­ pany, each vessel to cost $300,000. They will form a line between Duluth and Buf­ falo. A NATIONAL waterways convention has been in session at Sault Ste. Maria, Mich. Over four hundred delegates were in at­ tendance. The main object was to get an appropriation from Congress of $7,000,000 to improve the Hay Lake channel... .The boot and shoe dealers of the country have just closed their annual convention at Chi­ cago. G. G. Pierce, of Chicago, was elected National President The third annual convention of the National Railway Station Agents' Association !<"• been in session at Minneapolis. (JM Fresh express train, which had come up by this time, and taken to Alder Creek, where the President and Mrs. Cleveland and others the car. It was° uTfcn AT Oil City, Pa., John McNerny, labor- aged 60, killed his wife with an axe and atgrtalhr shot his son James, aged 21. when the police arrived he shot Officer POLITICS. CHATJNCEY M. DEPEW, it la said, wonld not object to become a Presidential candi­ date under certain contingencies. There is said to be a bureau at work dlatrfhnHng Depew literature. THE Ohio Democratic State Convention met at Cleveland on Thursday, and per­ formed its work in an expeditious manner. It nominated Thomas E. Powell, of Dela­ ware, for Governor on the second ballot. D. C. Coolman, of .Portage County, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor by ac­ clamation, and L. R. Critchtield, of Holmes County, and Virgil P. Kline, of Cleveland, were nominated for the Supreme Court, long and short terra, respectively. The other nominations were: Emil Kiesewet- ter, of Franklin County, for Auditor; George W. Harper, of Greene, for Treas­ urer; W. L. Leet, of Ottawa, for Attornev General; Peter J. Murphy, of Butler, member of the Boatrd of Public Works. The platform strongly indorsed the ad­ ministration, and demanded a n^iTp of thetarifT. WASHINGTON THE President and Mrs. Cleveland reached Washington Wednesday morning. The President at once tackled the big mail which had accumulated during bis absence. HARVEY, the horse-claim forger of the Treasury Department, says a Washington telegram, pleaded guilty, and was sen­ tenced on Wednesday to twelve years in the Albany Penitentiary. This is at the rate of about a year for every $1,000 out of which he succeeded in beat* ing the Government, and the pun- Mhmcnt is not heavy. Harvey's attorney wied to make the court believe that tbe of­ fender s mind had long been in an abnor- FOREIGK. RcserA has replied to the circular issued by the Porte, in which it says that while it has no personal objection to Prince Ferdi­ nand. it declines to accept the decision of the present Sobranje. Germany, Austria, and Italy reply that they will ac­ cept any solution of the question based on the Berlin treaty Mr. Gladstone addressed the National Liberal Club, and denied that there was any alliance between the Nationalists and Liberals of which either side need feel aBhamed, and said his endeavor wonld be to promote a settlement of existing issues that would fulfill two conditions--the satis­ faction of the Irish people, and the adjust­ ment of affairs so that the greatness of the empire could in no wise be threatened. ARCHBISHOP WALSH, of Dublin, is en­ deavoring to induce the British Govern­ ment to suspend further evictions in Ire­ land until the land bill has been passed by Parliament. MARKET REPORTS. NEW YORK. CATM « 4,00 HOGS WHXAT--Xo. 1 Hard .86 No. 2 Bed .63 COBN--No. 2 48 OATS--White s..... 39 POBK--New Mess 1*00 CHICAGO. CATTLE--Choice to Prima 8tears Medium Common Hoos--Shipping Grades ........ FLOUR--Winter Wheat WHEAT-NO. 2 Red Winter CORN--No. 2 OAIS--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery Pine Dairy CHZKSK--Pull Cream, cheddars. FullCieam, new...... EGOS--Fresh POTATOES --Choice, new, per bii 4.23 8.00 8.75 8.23 4.00 .73 .37 ,26 POBK--Mess. „ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash CORK--No. 8 OATS--No. 2 White.. BTB--No. 1 POBK--Mess """ w _ BT. LOUIBT WHEAT--No. S CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed POBK- New Mi <f# & .14 & .ttt <3 .11 «• .40 «* © 5.25 0.0J @ .87 & M <& .50 & .48 & 16.50 & 4.80 & 3.75 <£• 3.25 & 5.75 & 4.50 & .73# .27 .21 .15 18.75 (F 17 *1 .73 .78# .87 # .87# .82#® .88# .&« «• M 14.75 015.25 TOLEDO. :: r**" DETROIT!' .. .72 & .78# .. .88#.* .84# •f ,24<$3 .28# .,1125 «15.7I WHEAT--Cash... Coax--No. 8 OATS...., BEEP CATTLS. . HOOB HHKEP WHEAT--No. 1 White 77.*" CORN -NO. 8 . i. OATS--No. 8 White..... „ CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. 8 Rod ... COBN--No. 8 OATS--No. 2.....1***.... POBK--Mess !!!!!!" LIVEHoos „ . > BUFFALO. WHEAT--NO. 1 Hard. COBN--No. 8 CATIU...., INDIANAPOLIS. BEEP CATTLB. Hoos .74# 9 •40# « A7 a .75# .41 .87# *75 4.00 8.75 .77 .41 M A 4.88 & 5.00 ci< 4.76 ® .77# 4» .48 «» .85 WHEAT--No, t Bed........ COBB. OATS--NO. 8 Mixed EAST LIBERTY. GATTXJI-- Pri me. . Fair, Common... .78 0 .74 .48# 0 .44# .30 & .80# 18.75 016.25 FCOO * 5.75 .88 M .84 .48 RF .48 4.00 & 00 8.30 <9 4.50 8.00 E* 5.80 9.50 m Mi .7o#<<* .n .m s j» .8i#» .88 4.00 & 4.K* - IS 4.09 #4.75 BASE-BALL. The Fight Between Chicago and ̂ Detroit for the League Pennant. Aatea's •en Playing Great Ball-- •ad News, Game. is® [CHICAGO C0BRESP6KF>EL<CE.] Chicago has drawn still nearer to Detroit in the League pennant raC3 during the past week, anil sLould it continue to play at its present speed the first of August, or even before, will probably see it neck and neck with the Wolverines for first position. Re­ covering from tbe tough deal they expert- enced at Washington, Anson's men last week entered upon a brilliant series with Mutrie's giants npon the polo grounds. Last Saturday's' game was particularly noticeable for Ihe brilliancy of the crowd of spectators as well as for the magnificent playing of the White Stockings. There weri 10,000 persons within the inclosure, and among those who sat in the grand stand was Miss Helen Dauvraythe actress, in a dress of white fluffy material. Marie Jansen was there, too, and so was the eccentric DeWolf Hopper. Half ail hour before the game commenced, Oov. David B. Hill, who had come down from Albany expressly to see the game, appeared in the grand stand. The Governor came to the grounds in a barouche drawn by two pray horses. He was aooompanied by Bichardson of the New York Club, who Hill thinks is the greatest base-ball player alive to-day. He sat in a direct line with the home plate, and perspired, got excited, and grumbled at the umpire like the humblest Shanty* town crank in the crowd. Tliere was loud cheering when the champions hopped out of their carriages and marched toward the diamond, and when they passed the bleach­ ing boards there was a loud roar of ap­ plause. "Go in and beat the life out of them," shouted a 6core of men who were disgruntled over the poor play of the giants on the day before. GEOROE TAN HALTBEN pitched for Chicago, and signalized his debut before a New York crowd by strik­ ing out Ewing the first thing in the first inning. Ward flew out to Byan, and Con­ nor drove the ball so hot to Burns that the latter dropped it. Pfeffer now sprang after the ball and got it to first in time to nip the big first baseman. Tiernan struck out in the second inning. Gore hit for a base and was advanced to second by Dorgan's single to left. Bichardson hit to Burns, forcing Gore ont. George then lined the ball out to Byan, and Dorgan made a des­ perate dash for home. "That's a good hit," remarked Governor Hill, as he watched the crow-line (light of the ball. "I imagine we'll get a run now." Sore disappointment was in store for the bald-headed Governor, however, for no sooner had the words escaped from his lips than his bright eyes caught sight of Byan's beautiful Throw to the plate, whioh settled Dorgan in very short order. "Grand ball-playing," was all the Gov­ ernor could say in his temporary attack of astonishment. "They are noble, those Chi- cagos, and no mistake." Little Daly did something in the third inning which made the good-looking Dem­ ocrat from Albany remove his tile in amazement. Brown, who led off with a base-hit, had got around to third on Ewing's grounder to Anson and a passed ball; herb he began to take a long lead toward the home plate. Daly kept one eye on the Califomian and the other on Van Haltren's curves, and wheat hq thought Brown was napping he shot the ball to Burns as quick as a flash and the elongated pair of scissors from the slope was called in by the umpire. Governor Hill has seen a gveat many games of base-ball in his life, but he admitted, as he tried to bolster up his fast wilting collar, that the cham­ pions were ahead of anything he had ever •een. What a wonderful batsman is bftf - / CAPTAIN ANSON, 'x ' . the burly, muscular giant who guards first base for the champions. Talk about hit­ ting the ball? If any one man who ever played base-ball has got on to the scienoe ©f batting, that man is Anson. It was in the fourth inning of last Saturday's game at New York that Anse got in one of his old-t mers in a style that fairly lifted 10,000 people off their feet in the excite­ ment of the moment. The big feMow came to the bat with the perspiration streaming off his face. He wrapped his big hand around the bat handle and looked towa-d the New York pitcher with a pair of bloodshot eyes, for the day was fearfully hot and oppressive. The south-paw twirler of the giants passed a beauty over the plate, and Anson's clijb went after it. There was a sharp, rattling noise, like a waiter falling down stairs with a tray full of dishes. "Great Casar, look at that!" shouted the Governor of the State to his companion, as he saw the ball traveling like a rifle shot toward the One Hundred and Twelfth street fence. "Gore will get it surely," said pretty Misc Dauvray. as she wiped her mouth with a dainty handkerchief. "See, he's got it No; isn't it too bad?" , "Why, my dear lady," said a benign old gentleman in a yellow vest, who sat behind the actress, "that man could not have got that with a horse or a balloon." Gore made a desperate ran and jump for the ball, but missed it by at least twenty feet. The sphere sailed over the picket fence into the crowd and against the black stone foundation of the fence. The old man lammed that, ball just one block, and he got third base before it be­ came possible to field it back. Pfeffer followed with a single, earning Anson's run. Well, the game resulted in a victory for the champions by a score of 9 to 4, and a better fielding game, fuller of incident and pretty work with the stick, has rarely if ever been seen upon the Polo grounds. THE DETROIT CLUB. Your correspondent is in receipt of the following letter from' President F. K. Stearns, of the Detroit team, which would seem to set at rest any discussion concern­ ing the future of the Wolverines: - Xo : "DEAR SIR--I notice that you say in one of your recent letters that I am tired of tbe base-ball business and will probably quit at the close of our present season. If you really thought this at tbe time of writing, I would hasten to set you right by saying that instead of tiring of the business I am just beginning to enjoy it. With our team playing such ball as it is at present, with our treasury in good condition, and with prospects for taking this year's pennant very flattering, I should indeed be a "quit­ ter* weie I to weary of the business at this stage of the game. I note your expressed desire to have Hardle Bichardson with the Chicago team, and he would no doubt be a great acquisition to your ranks. I would say, however, that so long as Detroit con­ tinues a member of the League, and that will probably be for many years to came, Hardie Kichardaoa will oontinue one of the sluggers. "We shall meet your champions noon our own grounds July 23, 25, and 26, when we expect to take two games out of the eerie* of three. Baldwin will pitch against yon, and Charlie Bennett, 'the old reliable,' will be behind the bat. Hoping to see you hen at that time, I remain yours truly, "P. K. STKAKKH, " "President Detroit Ball Club.1 It Is tbe intention of yoor correspondent to be in Detroit upon the dates mention ed to see the White Stockings pass the present leaders in the awe. In my follow­ ing tetter to your psper I shall probably haYe something interesting to write. OOXORBOAV. SMRCW9 M'fSNAM'QtlSb Some Ught %hrown Upon the UTAH Conetitatioitai Con- vention. ^ It Was a Mormon Affair, Pore Ud the OeBtilu BaUnrif Ignoring It» We are permitted to make the following extract from a private letter from a mem­ ber of tbe Utah Commission, now in ses­ sion at Salt Lake City. It throws a flood of light upon the movement of the Mor­ mons for statehood, and the motives governing their action, and will be read with interest: SALT LAKE Cirr, Jnly 21. * * *. Onr commission is very btfsy gett ng the election machinery in order for the coming election, which takes place on the firs Monday in August There is a good deal of excitement here on the sub­ ject; not between Democrats and Repub­ licans, but between Mormons and gentiles, or anti-Mormons. The movement for a constitutional con­ vention which you observed and mentioned while I was in Chicago was a spontaneous movement among the Mormons. When I say spontaneous movement it must be understood to mean that the movement originated with the Mormon leaders, who in their own way gave forth the informa­ tion ihat such action was to be taken, which was all that was needed to make it a suc­ cess. MA«s meetings were held in every County in the Territory, and delegates chosen, who assembled by preconcerted ar­ rangement in this city on the 1st day of July, formally organized themselves as a con­ stitutional convention, and in about seven days hatched out a constitution in which polygamy is declared a misdemeanor, and forever prohibited; and another prohibiting any union of church and state. This lat­ ter provision was wholly unnecessary, Bince three-fourths of the vo'ers of the Territory are Mormons and under the rule and dominion of the church rulers, to whom every Mormon owes a sworn allegiance, and who from the Temple can dictate the whole policy of the State, when admitted, without the clerical hand ever being seen. In the event of admission as a State nine- tenths of all the office-holders would be Mormons. The Governor, Judges, Sen­ ators, Representatives and all officers would be Mormons, and the whole policy of the State, legislative, executive, and judicial, would be Mormon and in Mormon inter­ ests. Punishment for the crimes of polyg­ amy and bigamy would be in their own hands, judg s and juries being Mormons, hence there would be no convictions nor any punishment for these offenses. And they wonld not consider that they had done any wrong in not doing so, for they claim, andtnany believe, that these practices are carried on by the sanction of God Almighty. That it is not only permitted but en­ joined as a religious duty; and they are taught that their obedi­ ence to God and His revelations is superior to any human law, whether legis­ lative or constitutional. The provision, though standing on* boldly in the consti­ tution, would be a dead letter and have no more meaning or binding force than so many meaningless hieroglyphics on an Egyptian pyramid. There is another no­ ticeable fact. The lending polygamists are not taking any active part in the pro* oeeding, and are in position not to be caught by any promises or prohibitions. They will hold still, retting it be under­ stood that they are assenting when they really are not, because they wish the Ter­ ritory admitted as a|State, so that the Mor­ mons may get control of the country, when they will forge to the front and assume the reins of power. There are some very shrewd, far-seeing men among them, and they are laying their plans wide and deep, and to extend far into the futpre. The constitution is to be submitted at the general election for approval or rejection by the people, and it is probable there will not be a vote against it, since the gentiles wholly and totally ignore the whole pro­ ceeding. and will not take any no­ tice of it , except to denounce it as being the 'sublimity of hypocrisy and deceit. It will get the full vote of the Mormons who can vote. Many of them are disfranchised, and will not vote; not that they could not do so, as the election is not held under any election law, but they wish to publish to the world that none but qualified electors voted on it. And they will abstain from voting from motives of policy otherwise. I think the press of the country ought to take up this question and ventilate the motives and inducements that are moving to the adoption of this Constitution, so as to prepare the public mind for an expres­ sion on it. In my opinion Utah should never be admitted as a State until the Con­ stitution of the United States is amended, prohibiting bigamy and polygamy in all tbe States and Territories, declaring them felonies, and giving the United States Courts jurisdiction ot them and the power to select juries who do not respect the di­ vine right of those crimes. Suppose Utah were admitted as a State, what is there to prevent these Mormons, who are in a large majority, from immedi­ ately calling together a convention and framing a new constitution, with the polyg­ amy prohibition clause left outV And what could then be done \mder the doctrine of States' rights and home rule? • 'in ' ' • tip The Alaos. A puzzle to the ethnologist is pre­ sented in the fast-expiring race which were the true predecessors of the J ap- anese all. over the Japanese Archipela­ go. The dawn of history shows the Ainos living far to the Bouth and west of their present haunts; and ever sinco then, century by centurv, we see them retreating eastward and northward as steadily as the American Indian has re­ treated westward under the pressure of the colonists from Europe. Their numbers are growing smaller decade by decade; their industries are passing ' into Japanese hands; the animals which were their principal sustenance are rap- idly becoming extinct; the survivors of this people almost all speak Japanese as well as their own tongue, and are losing their special characteristics. The race is now no more than a "curio" to the philologist and to the ethnolo­ gist. 14 has no future, because it has no root in the past. The impression left on the mind after a sojourn among the Ainos is that of a profound melan- oholy. The existence of this race has been as aimless, as fruitless, as is the perpetual dashing of the breakers on the shore of Horobetsu. It leaves be­ hind it nothing save a few name*. ADIRONDACK MURRAY and President Cleveland will not speak as they pass by each other in tbe future. It is stated that the only bite tbe President got in the mountains during his summer sojourn was after dark, in the privacy of his chamber; and, as he was enticed to the resort by Murray's glowinar description of hunting and fishing to be found there, he holds Murray responsible for his being white­ washed. Hence the coolness in the future. "AH, my dearest Esmeralda!" exclaimed Kosciusko Murphy, as he fell upon his knees at the feet of Miss Esmeralda Long- coffin, after having imprinted a kiss upon her ruby lips, "a kiss from you is indeed a taste of heaven on earth! Placing her gentle hand upon his contracted brow, she remarked in a low, gentle tone of voice: "Bah! Cant you say something original? Forty different men have got off that same STEREOTYPED remark." Sl%N of good breading Getting prize at a dog show. Lii: the IMPORTANT DECISION. The Vhraayh-Uefcet Cases Bedded iftilast the Alto* a*4 Kc* j - Island CoHfMinlet. Eastern Railways Hot Obliged to Permit FifSient of 0ommiasion» fcy (*+* I-• aecting Lines. - .> • „ [Washington telegram.] Three decisions were rendered by the Interstate Commerce Commission on Wednesday. The most important was the one in relation to the payment of commiss'ons by one road to the agents of another and connecting road for sales of through tickets. The points in dispute grew out of the commissions and anti-commissions fight between the seaboard trunk lines and some of their Western connections. The following three cases were disposed of in the one opinion: The Chicago and Alton Com­ pany against the Pennsylvania Com­ pany, tbe Bame against the Pennsylf vania Railroad Company, and the Chi­ cago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company against the New York Cen­ tral and Hudson River Railroad Com­ pany. The following svnopsis contains the more important points of the opin­ ion, which ia very long: The complaints in these caaaa were founded upon the third section ot the aot to regulate commerce, and charge violation* of that sec­ tion by the defendant companies (n refusing certain facilities for receiving, forwarding, and delivering passengers to complainants' lines, consisting of through or coupon tickets, which, being afforded to other and competitive compa­ nies, give, the complainants allege, undue and unreasonable preference to those companies. The material facts found by the commission are recited at length in the opinion. They show that for several years prior to the «tn« when the act to regulate commerce took effect, substantially all the railroad com­ panies of the country, including tbe com­ plainants and defendants, paid commissions. Xhe defendant companies and some others for about two years have made earnest efforts to abate the practice of paying commissions About a month before the act to regulate com­ merce became operat.ve the defendant com­ panies took Bteps to procure agreements *ith their connecting companies to abolish the com­ mission business altogether. With this end in view they sent printed circulars on or about March 15 last to their connecting companies, expressing their willingness to continue to act as agents in the sale of through tickets and Btat ng the nature of the agreement. The circular of the defendant companies contained a condition prohibiting; the pay­ ment of commissions by other companies to its agents. The complainant companies re­ fused to enter into the agreement proposed. On account of their refusal the defendants, after April 4 last, refused to eell throngh tick­ ets over the complainants' road* from Chicago and Bt. Louis to Kansas Citv, and still refuse, solely for those reasons. On these facts the complainants aver that the defendants refuse to afford them reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for receiving, forwarding, and deliv­ ering passengers, and give undue preference to competing roads in contravention of the pro­ visions of the act to regulate commerce. The defc ndants deny tin at they have violated the provisions of the act, and claim that they have the exclusive right to control their agents, to fix the amount of their compensation, and to pay themselves; that the payment of commis­ sions by other companies is demoralizing to their agents, and often leads to discriminations to passengers tor roads paying large commis­ sions, by division of commission between the agent and the passenger; that commissions consume a considerable percentage of the rev­ enue from the sale of through' tickets; that without oommisslons all connecting roads stand on a basis of equality, and passengers select their own routes uninfluenced by agents having an interest in the form of commissions in per­ suading them to ehoose some particular route. The offenses of which the commission has cognizance are anything done or omitted to be done in contravention of the provisions of the act to regulate commerce. Railroad corpora­ tions in the States are the creations of the State Governments, and their powers and duties are defined by their eharters or by general laws. The act does not make it the dutv of State rail­ roads to organize and operate through lines of transportation consisting of separate roads owned by different companies. The organiza­ tion of such lines is left under the act to the voluntary action of railroad companies, as it ex­ isted previously. The law in this instance does not in terms require one railroad company to sell through tickets over the road of another rail­ road company. In the absence 01 statutory au­ thority one railroad company can only sell tickets and cheek baggage over the road of an­ other railroad company by agreement By agreement between two companies through tickets, very properly, are sold and used over connecting lines as. a convenience of passenger traffic a*nd an inducement for patronage. Such tickets very evidently are a great convenience to travelers and perhaps to connecting roads, but they are a part of the voluntary arrange­ ments for business purposes, like joint tariffs, interchange of cars, and common use of depots. It being, therefore, under our statute, a matter of mutual agreement whether coupon or through tickets shall be sold by a railroad com­ pany over roads of some other companies, it follows that the form of such tickets and the manner of their sale are also matters of agreement by the companies interested. If companies can agree upon their tariffs, the form of their tickets, and how they shall be sold, they have the right to do so. and by such agreement become interstate carriers; but if they cannot agree the act does not undertake to coerce them to do business together upon terms that may be Justly objectionable or in­ jurious. Through tickets are not indispensable for these purposes; but assuming, for the sake of argument, that they may be deemed "facili­ ties" for tbe receiving, forwarding, and deliver­ ing of passengers to connecting lines, carriers are only required to afford reasonable, .1 ft ~ . ... proper, and equal facilities. They are not required to afford special, unreasonable, improper, or un­ equal facilities. Tois presents the question whether the pay­ ment of commissions is in itself, or as inci­ dental to the enjoyment of, a facility, reason­ able and proper within the purview of the statute. Toe facility of through tiokets is equally offered to all, and may be enjoved without commissions. If the company selling the tickets should charge a commission it would doubtless be regarded as an imposition, and, therefore, unreasonable and improper. These commissions are gratuities to induce special efforts for the company paying them. If the statute do a not give one company au­ thority to subsidize the agents of another com­ pany, and if the practice is injurious In its effects, it certainly cannot be reasonable and proper. For the proper government of their own sub­ ordinates the defendant oompanies have forbid­ den their agents to receive commissions from other companies, and directed them not to sell over roads of companies that refuse to recog­ nize this corporative authority, but insist on subsidizing the agents In these directions the defendants have not transcended their reason­ able rights. One person or corporation has no right to Interfere with the emp'oyes of another, and tbe statute does not disturb this old and sound principle. The defendants might rest npon their right to control the official conduct of their own agents, but they go further and show by evidence tbe practical effects of commissions, and that their natural and usual tendencies are to a variety of abuses. The opinion then quotes the testi­ mony of an officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad and others to the effect that commissions w&r& used to corrupt agents to sell through tickets over the commission-paying lines in preference to others; that these commissions, amounting in the average to 25 per cent, of the value of the tickets, were frequently divided with the purchaser, thereby making a discrimination in rates in favor of the company which paid the commission, and that agents sometimes received more money from other companies in this way than they received trom the companies which em­ ploy them, and so passed, in a measure, out of their employer's control. The opinion continues: A practice capable of producing and having a tendency to produce results tbus described can not be reasonable or proper, and a railroad company is fully justified In the use of all law­ ful precautions to protect itself and its agents against such invasions of its corporate author­ ity and its business morality. According to the testimony the defendant* are supported in their position on this question by a very large majority of connecting roads, showing a decided preponderance of opinion againBt the practice. The source of the. complainant's position is clearly presented by the distinct assertion of a right of one corporation to employ and pay, for its own interest, an official servant ot another corooratloii to which bis service is primarily ana exclusively due. A theory of this charac­ ter ought not to be and is not' Tecbgnired in business affairs or in official life. A divided service between many masters cannot be satis­ factory to any, snd as a rule is Injurious to the peiton so employed. The oomplalnts are dismissed. All concur­ ring except CAnmisioner Morrison. Op in lop by Commissioner tSchoonmaker. THE Dode's collar ia said to be getting lower. Is this one of the effects of the de- the NmM Brilot • % The Other Nomineee of the Con- vjintion--Text of the Plaf> • form Adopted. The Nomination Satisfactory to Both the Thurman and PA] + * ' • ' f r a c t i o n * • „ tua-, - ' A" ; The Ohio Democratic State Convention ̂ ': assembled at Cleveland on Thursday, July S§f 21. There was no temporary organize- Sta ­ tion, and Hem. George £. Seney, of Tiffin, at once took his place as permanent Chair- man. In his speech Mr. Seney said there were Op no quarrels in the Democratic party, is Every Democrat seeiped to know who; would be his candidate in 1888, and all H , were satisfied. [Applanse.] He eulo- v gized ex-Senator Thurman, saying he would have honored the office of Gov- ernor. After speaking of the various candidates for Governor, he said all ^ was not harmony in the Bepnbli- can party. Every tomahawk and scalp- ' ing-knife, he declared, was sharpened for ; the fight at Toledo next week. Hi» refer­ ence to tbe Presidential contest between Blaine and Sherman was applauded. He charged that Governor Foraker's adminis­ tration had been permeated by a desire to promote the interests of the Republican party rather than the interests of the peo­ ple. Referring to Cleveland's administra­ tion, he said that so well had its power been used that now it has little, if any, opposition ̂ ptcept from those who expect to ask favors from the Republican party. About civil-service reform he said: While all Democrats give the administration a hearty support, there are many who would feel better satisfied if all the Republicans re­ maining m office were promptly turned out and their places filled by Democrats. As to this feature of the situation the resolves of this con­ vention ought not to be uncertain in meanins or sound. If we believe that Democrats instead of Republicans should assist a Democratic Presi­ dent in the administration of the government, let us have the courage of our convictions, ana here now, so declare. If it be the civil service law that keeps Republicans in and Democrats out of the publio service let us strike boldly and and demand of our party representatives at Washington, in the Senate and House, to la­ bor and vote for the immediate and tlonal repeal of the law. The Committee on Resolutions reported the following platform: The Democratic party of Ohio, in convention assembled, proclaims its hearty and unqualified indorsement of the honest, patriotic, and eco- nomlcal administration of President Cleveland. We demand such judicious reduction of the present burdensome tariffs as shall result In producing a re\enue sufficient only to meet the expenses of an economical adminstration of fovernment, the payment of liberal pensions to Jnion soldiers and sailors, and the payment of the interest and the principal ot the public debt; nnd, if necessary, we favor such reduc­ tion of internal revenue, except on liquors, as Will prevent the accumulation of a surplus in the national treasury. And we denounce any attempt to aboliBh the tax on liquors for the purpose of keeping up the present unjust, un­ equal, and oneious tariff system. We call attention to and affirm as sound doc­ trine and policy the following emphatic and patriotic lansuage of lresident Cleveland! "Our } ublic domuin is our national wealth, the earnest of our growth, and heritage of our peo­ ple. It should promise limitless development &iid riches, relief to A crowding population, and homes to thrift and iudustrv. These in­ estimable advantages should be jealously guarded, and a careful and enlightened policy on the part of the Government should secure them to the people." We demand that all lands of the Government, be held for actual settlers wbo are citizens of the United States, and for those who declare their intention to become such. We are in hearty sympathy with all people struggling to free themselves from the environ­ ments of despotism, and especially does the long and gallant struggle of Ireland for the priceless boon of home rule and the rights of manhood evoke our warmest applause and commend our heartiest good wishes for speedy success. Labor, being the chief factor and great con­ servator oi free &nd liberal institutions, should enjoy its full share of tbe common benefits de­ rived therefrom ; therefore, we favor such re­ straints of the centralization and encroach­ ment of corporate power as will bring the best possible protection to honest labor and at the Bame time conservo tbe interests of honestly employed capital. We favor such legislation on the question of immigration as will prevent the landing, for permanent residence, of aliens who are not willing to declare their intention of becoming citizens of the United htates. We declare our opposition to the importation of contract labor, and we demand speedy punishment of all per­ sons incitirg to riot and revolution against re­ publican iiihtitutions. We denounce the present Republican State administration as weak, partisan, and unbusi­ nesslike ; we call upon tbe people of Ohio to turn out of power a atate Government whose only apparent miBSlon is to augment ex­ penses, multiply offioes, create deficiencies, and increase taxation, with the bank­ ruptcy of the treasury as the ultimate result. We denounce the late Republican Legislature for its cowardly aud hypocritical alliance through intrigue with the Republican Board of Works and Republican Attorney General in a scheme whereby millions of dollars' worth of the property of the State is to be transferred ta> i. corporations interested in creating a monopoly of transportation, without the State or the peo­ ple thereof receiving any benefit therefrom. We demand the fullest safeguards for the ballot-box, the punishment of all who seek to corrupt it, and the enactment of a law making it a felony for corporations, capitalists, and em­ ployers to intimidate or attempt to control the- political action of their employes. We favor Come rule In the management and control of municipal affairs, and denounce the partisan acts passed by the lute Republican .Legislature to subserve the interests of schem­ ing politicians; and we demand the repeal of all laws which depri ve tbe electors of the ex­ ercise of their constitutionu.1 privileges. The commercial and industrial interests ot ~ the State require that equal use of all transportation facilities be secured to all on equal terms, and we demand that favoritism by common carriers and the employment of corporate franchises to foBter monopolies and oppress the people be prohibit­ ed by law, and that pools, combinations, trusts, or conspiracies to corner or forestall th? market and to fetter or crush free competition be sup­ pressed by legislation. We declare in favor of a proper regulation of the liquor traffic, and believe it to be the duty of all good citizens to aid in reducing to a minimum tbe evils resulting therefrom, and to this end favor the submission of an amendment to the constitution providing for the license of such traffic. The platform was adopted without a dissent­ ing vote. Nominations for Governor were then called for. James E. Meal nominated Congressman James JK. Campbell. Charles W. Baker, of Cincinnati, named Thomas E. Powell. Con­ gressman Martin A. Foran was named by £. M. Heisley. Tbe balloting resulted as fol­ lows: Total vote, t£8; Powell, 821; Campbell, 251; Foran, 68. The sec­ ond ballot resulted in Powell's nom-' ination for Governor. The vote was: Powell, • S50H.; Camp ell, 251!£ ; Foran, 56. The follow­ ing nominations were then made: D. C. Cool- man, Lieutenant Governor; L. R. Critchtield, hupreme Court Judge (long term): Virgil P. Kline, Supreme Court Judge (short term): F.mil Kiessewetter, Auditor; George W. Harper, State Treasurer; W. H. Leet, Attorney Gen­ eral ; Peter J. Murphy, member Board Publio Wofc.6. The Nomination Satisfactory. Powell's nomination, says a Cleveland dis­ patch, ls much after the nature of a little trib­ ute to Mr. Thurman. ana may serve to dispel tbe acerbity of feeling which for years provoked a windy quarrel between the ihunnan and Payne Democratic factions. Mr. Payne is sat­ isfied with the selection, believing that Powell is a good man and in accord with the Demo­ cratic doctrine. The Nominee for Governor. Thomas Edward Powell, nominated for Gov­ ernor of Ohio, is 43'years old. He is of Welslt. descent, and was born at Delaware, Delaware County. While a student at the Ohio Wesleyan University In 166• he enlisted as a private in an Ohio regiment and served four months. Subse­ quently he graduated, aad having studied lar with Col. W7 Reid, formed a partnership witlU him. His politicaloaieer began in 1*72, when ht was a speaker for Greeley In 1875 he was nomi­ nated for Attorney-General and had the dis­ tinction of defeat by a smaller majority than. Governor William Allen. Contrary to his wishes he was nominated for Congress in ltSi, - and, though defeatod by General James S. l obinson, he reduced the Republican majority to -» o. In 1881 he headed the Democratic elec­ toral ticket In 1SS5 be served as Chairman of « the Democratic State Committee. DuHng the last four years he has had a law office in Columbus. Convention Chat* SKMATOB PAYKB came on tbe stage and was given an uproarious round of applause, and in acknowledgment of the compliment Mr. Payne bowed bit thanks. KANDALI. Democrats are below par in Ohio now, and the platform substantially lavs down the views ot the party in such manner as to- - ^ make the question of tariff reform the issue of r";: ' the campaign.