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Kcnnt 5?laimlcalc f & VAN $LYKE, Editor and PublUtor. - ILLINOIS. BREEZY BHlEFLETi i-* k - * " ; • v ' , . ' . CRM.1.ECTEO BY WIRE FROM FAR • * A N D N E A R . 0"' : lSntertalnlng and Instructive Summary j »T tl*e Doings of the Old and Now World, 'ismlx-aclng Politics, Labor, Aeetdeats. Oimt, Industry, Etc. IN SENATE AND HOUSE. • Durti Work of the Lawmakers at Wash- Ington. TRe river and harbor bill was taken up in «M Senate on the 15th, and several amend ments were agreed to. When the itouse met-it proceeded to a consideration of the Conference report on the"Indian appropria­ tion bill, which was presented by Mr. Per­ kins. (Kansas). Mr. Cannon (Illinois) criti­ cised? the report as being the most extraor­ dinary one .which had ever l>een sub­ mitted during his experience in the House. When the bill was "first sub­ mitted to "the House lie had conceived it to bo his duty to raise ^ points of order against items aggregating 8300.000. These items had been stricken out. The Senate had agreed to amendments aggre­ gating 81.200.000. The conference report «»rried the full amount Of the bill as it passed the House, with the full amount of t-he Senate amend ments and S12.000 more. The bill created a number of new offices and Increased a number of salaries. The.bill fin ally passed. THE NATIONAL GAME. of (he Clubs In the Base-Ball Leagn». \> c. National. W. h. ^3 o. ..V.ts Brooklyn . . .C'i 3d .650 .506 Boston 60 36 .C£5 ,5:W l'biladeIp's.S8 37 .611 .5i)3 Cincinnati.. .57 37 .607 .Sal;Chicago 50 43 .520 .443 New York...42 53 .442 437 Cleveland.. .30 64 .319 .28U Pittsburg.. .19 74 .204 ye.' Western. W. .€59 Milwaukee. .52 .5U5 Kansas City.52 .52-2 Minneapolis 50 .511 Denver 47 .511 Sioux City..43 .505 Omaha 37 .409 Lincoln 33 .287, St. Paul 25 V c ; Interstate. W, .650 Qnincy 14 .578 hvansville...:4 ,543| Peoria U .5-25 Burlington.. 11 .512; .475 .433 .292', F?C. .611 .611 .595 .546 .518 .440 .383 .901 L. fie. 12 .537 15 .482 12 .478 16 .407 Player*. W. Boston.. 55 Brooklyn 56 Chicago 54 New York.. .52 Philadelp'a. .51 Pittsburg... .39 Cleveland.. .4C Buffalo. 9} American. W. IjOulsviUe. ..58 St. Louis 53 Athletic 47 Columbus. ..46 Rochester.. .45 Tuit^io 44 Syracuse 36 Brooklyn .. .25 IlL-Iowa. Vf. Ottnmwa... 54 Konmontb ..47 Ottawa 44 Dubuque... .42 C'dr Rapids. 42 Aurora 39 Joliet 36 G&leeburg.. .24 WHEAT IN THE NORTHWEST. Yte Estimated Crop in Minnesota and Dakota 93,000.000 Bushels. FROM reports of the thrashing in South­ ern Minnesota it is found the crop is yield­ ing from fifteen to twenty bushels an acre in portions that went from two to four bushels more than that last year. This is particularly true of the timber sections, where the yield was very heavy in 1889. From general information it does not appear that the average would go more than about thirteen bushels to the acre, or, in round figures. 43,000,000 bushels for that State, against 48,000,000 bushels last year. The yield in South Dakota, so far as it is known, is quite satisfactory in the southern part of the State, while the northern central portions do not ex­ ceed 50 per cent, of a fair yield. Taken all together the yield does not exceed ten and one-half bushels. In North Dakota there is some very heavy grain and some very light. The best estimates give both Dakotas a production of about 50,000,- 000 bushels, making for the three States of Minnesota and North and South Da­ kota 93,600,000 bushels. More extended thrashing may call for some revision, but from observation up to the present that appears to** be what may be ex­ pected. DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE. Indus!rlea Doing: Less and Speculators Doing: . . More., R. G. Do* 4 Co.'s weekly review of trade says: The industries are doing rather less and the Speculators are doing more. That is the week's history in brief. The general aver­ age of prices of commodities is rapidly ris­ ing. and ltas advanced more than 2% per cent, during the last week. Wheat lias ad­ vanced 4% cents, with sales of 30,000,000 bushels here, oats 1 cent, and corn having been pushed quite high before the report appeared has since declined 1% cents on Bales of $.500,000 bushels. Pork is half a dollar per barrel lower, but hogs are coming forward in great numbers and do not ad­ vance. The exports of grain are already affected by prices, and of flour and corn shipments are less than half those of the same week last year. Cotton has fallen three-sixteenths, but is still so high that purchases arc limited. Coffee has not changed and considerable demand for the cheaper grades is reported. Oil has risen m «ents. A Mooted Question Settled. JUDGE SEYMOUB, of the United States Circuit Court, sitting at Raleigh, N. C., in the case of The American Fertilizer Company, of Norfolk, Va., vs. The North Carolina Commission of Agriculture, in­ volving the constitutionality of the license tax of SoOO on each brand of fer­ tilizer sold in the State, rendered an opinion adverse to the State. The de­ cision sets forth that the collection of the tax is a violation of the interstate commerce law. Robb;d and Murdered. J. KIBKLAND, a prominent Knight of Honor and Superintendent of the Pitts­ burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago car shops at Crestline^Ohio, was found dead, face downward, in a ditch in about eight inches of water. His watch and money were missing and marks on his body in* dlcated that he had been murdered. Set Fire to the Mission. S ' THE Indian mission on White River, S. D., was nearly swept out of existence by fire, started by a lower Brule Indian. The rascal stole a horse and escaped to the interior of the reservation. The fire was extinguished, before serious damage was done. Pope Leo Is Tired of It. TnE Manchester Courier says: "In consequence of the fierce persecution of the church, which is the policy of Crispi, the Pope will soon issue a manifesto to the Roman Catholics throughout the world, giving his intention of leaving Home, together with his court and all his adherents. From a practical point of view this means ruin to Rome, for with the Pontiff will go the Cardinals, tho prelates, and a vast number of persons who annually go to Rome as pilgrims, in fact, commercial ruin stares inukcep- ers and shopkeepers in the face." EASTERN OCCURRENCES. THE New York Board of Aldermen has adopted the following: WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State in Its wisdom has passed the following law: "No child virtually or apparently under 16 vf '^Pears of age should smoke or in aily way r( a cigar or tobacco in any form, whether any public street, place, or resort;" and, WJJF.IIEAS, Violation of this statute is fftadc a misdemeanor punishable by a fine UL"'iI'jrSjG not more than $10 n<>r less than $2; "fjljjherefore, .Resolved, That a copy of this preamble VI." res°lution be transmitted by the Clerk t * tit the Board to the Commissioners of Police, "With a request that instructions be given the police force to enforce the law by nr- rosting any minors using cigarettes or to­ bacco in any form upon the public streets or avenues, or in any public place. AT Boston the Grand Army festivities are now in full swing. The sounds of the fife and drum and the march of soldiers are heard on every hand, and Boston has the appearance of a besieged city. President Harrison and several members of his cabinet are there. When the President arrived he was driven to the Hotel Wndomo, making at the same time a circuit of the principal streets for the purpose of seeing the decorations. There he received the Grand Army officials and then accepted tho hos­ pitalities of the State. At the Ven- douje a battalion of the First Corps of Cadets was drawn up in waiting, and as the President alighted qnickly opened an avenue to the entrance of the hotel, the President mounting the steps arm in arm with Governor Brackets The De­ troit delegation, bearing one hundred red, white, and blue umbrellas inscribed: "Boston. 1890--Detroit, 1891," made a picturesque appearance. They were ac­ companied by War Governor Austin Blair, Mayor Pingree of Detroit, and representatives of Detroit papers. They want the encampment next year and the Common Council of Detroit has tendered an invitation to that, end. TnE New Yoria'Biscuit Company (the Cracker Trust) has bought the Shaver and Dow cracker factories at Cedar Rap­ ids and Des Moines. THE steamer Teutonic* reachod Now York from Queenstown in five clays nineteen hours and five minutes. This is the fastest time ever made across the Atlantic by thirteen minutes. A MILE in thirty-two seconds was the* rate at which a party of newspaper men were whirled along the Boynion Bicycle Railway in New York froiii Gravesend to Bader's Hotel at Brighton, Coney Isl­ and. A single bicycle passenger car was used, running up on one side of the old Brighton Beach track. The car itself was a double-decker car. in each deck being six double and one single compart­ ment, each compartment being by itself and entered from the side of tho car. Each seat accommodates three jiersons. The car is less in width than half the standard gauge tracks, so that two cars can pass each other when they are run on opposite rails. !,?od,000. Texas has Increased <500,000, having now a population of about 2,175,- 000. The increase in Missouri has been and her population is lMM^OOO. FOREIGN GOSSIP, CABDISAI, NKWMAX, the famous Ro­ man Catholic prelate of England, is dead. He had been in poor health for some time, for several years being un­ able to occupy his pulpit in the Oratory Church at Birmingham. He was 90 years old at the time of his death. For many years he was a clergyman of the Established Church of England, but in October, 1845, he0 seceded from the Established Church, was received ; into the Roman communion, and was, after being ordained priest, appointed head of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Birmingham. In 1S54 ho was appointed rector of the newly founded Catholic University in Dublin, but resigned that post in 1858, and estab­ lished a school for the sons of Roman Catholic gentry at Edgbaston, near Bir­ mingham. Dr. Newman was cieetcd an honorary Fellow of Trinity College. Ox ford. Dee. ~'8. 1877. He was proclaimed Cardinal-Deacon by Pope Leo XIII, in 1879. Dunrjfo a heavy storm that prevailed atCrefeld, Germany, a house containing fifty inhabitants fell to the ground. Twenty-six persons were killed. Their bodies were taken from the ruins. Twen­ ty others, more or less injured, were rescued. Ix a speech at Derby, England, Sir William Harcourt attacked the House of Lords, characterizing it as a standing obstruction to Useful legislation. As a deliberative assembly, he said, the House of Lords had almost ceased to exist. It had done nothing this session beyond promoting a bill to preserve hares or to extend and increase the stringency of the game laws. A msr, was fought near Paris between two prominent men named Do Neufvillo and Bcrny. Neither was hurt. The seconds were M. Philippe and Due Dino, who married the daughter of an Ameri­ can millionaire named Stevens. THE floods in Hungary continue. Tho harvest, is ruined. Many houses have collapsed and a number of lives have been lost. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. ELISHA CIVOUCII, of Chico, Colo., ar­ rived in Chicago the other day after an absence of thirty-eight years. "The last time I was in Chicauo." he said, "I came by ox wagon from Terre Haute. Ind. The place was then a village of 4,009 people." THE St. Louis management of the Western Union Telegraph Company has compelled all its operators to sign an agreement not to speculate in grain or provisions or place their money on sport­ ing events. The company takes the position that speculation by operators on information obtained while working tjie wires is demoralizing to them and tends to unsettle the confidence of patrons. Gov, Humphrey, of Kansas, has pro­ claimed Labor Day, Sept. 1, a holiday. IN South Dakota forest fires are rag­ ing, chiefly in dead timber. In the same section prairie fires have destroyed much property. SCIT has been brought by the Meridan National Bank of Indianapolis against W. A. Nimick, President of the Pitts­ burg National League Base-ball Club, for S2,406.39 on three notes that the Pittsburg club has failed to meet. NAUVOO, 111., reports an unprecedent- edly large grape crop. The manufacture of wine in that locality is becoming an important industry. SAMUEL H. BEABD, an attorney of Leesburg, Ohio, threw himself in front of an engine and was killed. Grief over the death of a son is thought to have un­ settled his mind. GENERAL rains have fallen throughout Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. In Mani­ toba there has been a general rain, and crops are reported in good condition ex­ cept in districts injured by hail. THE State Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Spring­ field, 111., lias closed. Resolutions re­ gretting that the Blair educational bill wag not passed, indorsing the pending national election bill, and condemning taxation without representation were adopted. TIIEIIE is great excitement among the oil speculators at Findlay. Ohio, over the drilling-in of an oil well in the north­ ern part of the city, which is, without doubt, the greatest producer ever struck in any oil field. The flow was over 1,000 barrels the first hour, and there is no let-up in the stream of petroleum that is flowing from the pipe. The well is good for 24,000 barrels a day, it is thought. ANNA MCGOWAX, who in life weighed 4G5 pounds, was buried at St. Louis. There was not a casket in the city large enough to accommodate the remains. A strong, square box was made and cover­ ed with sable cloth. The box and corpse weighed 5)00 pounds, and it took ten men, aided by handspikes, to place it in the hearse. The box was thirty-four inches wide, twenty-six inches deep, and six feet long, and the corpse completely fil|ed it. Ix a cloud burst that occurred at Col­ orado Springs, Col., two lives were lost and it is feared that those of a family who were camping on a dry creek were lost also. Roofs were beaten in, signs hurled to the ground and walls under­ mined by the water and hail. Twelve miles of railroad tracks was washed away on the Midlands and all trains de­ layed in consequence. The duration of the storm was twenty-five minutes, and Its path was a mile wide. The damage will amount to at least 55200,000. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. JTDGE J. R. REED has been nominated for Congress from the Ninth Iowa Dis­ trict by the Republican convention at Red Oak. AT the Republican convention at Sac­ ramento, Cal., Henry H. Markham was nominated for Governor on the first ballot. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. CAREFCL estimates of the growing orange crop in Florida place it at 5,000,- 000 boxes, or about the same as last year. UPON affidavits sworn to by Azariah F. Wild, of the Secret Service Division, United States Treasury Department, Frank Sintes and Charles Haggerty, of New Orleans have been arrested upon the charge of'passing counterfeit money. Sintes is a saloon keeper and' a promin­ ent politician. THE figures of Superintendent Portnr, of the Census Bureau, show that Ala­ bama now has a population of 1.520,000, as against 1,202.505 in 1880. Arkansas has increased from 802,52"> to 1,182.000, Delaware from m,r,08 to 17.V*>0,"Flor­ ida from 200,403 to 300,000, Georgia from 1,542,180 to 1,840,000, Kentucky from 1,648,090 to 1,870,000, Louisiana from 039,- 946 to 1,115,000, Maryland from 034,943 to 1,400,000. Mississippi from 1,131.597 to 1,265,000, North Carolina from 1,390,750 to 1,640.000, South Carolina from 995.557 to 1,187,000. Virginia from 1,512,565 to 1,700,000, West Virginia from 018,457 to 774,000, Icuuetsee fro:n 1,542,350 to FRESH AND NEWSY. NCARLY all the flint-glass houses in the West have resumed operations after the usual summer shut-down o£ six weeks. The stoppage has resulted in a large re­ duction of stock, and the outlook for a busy season was never brighter. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF WHEELOCK G. VEAZEY of the G. A. R. Such is the way the Interstate Commerce Commis­ sioner and ex-Vermont Judge can now write his name. The election took place rather unexpectedly at the Boston En­ campment, but it passed off without any friction. Three names were presented to the convention, those of Gen. Veazey, Gov. Ilovey of Indiana, and Col. W. K. Smedberg of California. Warner Miller presented the Vermoqtor's name to the veterans in an earnest and eloquent speech. Then followed an interest­ ing scene. The intimate, friends of the other candidates urged their claims, when one by one the great departments came forward for Veazey. tb<j spirit ana enthusiasm became contagious, and the upshot was the withdrawal of the other candidates. Col. Veazey thus succeeds Gen. Al^er as the unanimous choice of the body. Rich­ ard F. Tobin. of Boston, was elected Senior Vice Commander on the recom­ mendation of the Massachusetts delega­ tion. The principal positions went to the East, in pursuance, as is claimed by some, of a plan to give the encampment to the West three successive years--De­ troit in 1891, Topeka in 1892, and Chica­ go in 1893. ACCORDING to reports from the prin­ cipal States north of the Ohio River, it appears that the potato crop this season will be almost a failure. Averaging the probable yield in these States, it will be the smallest ever known in one season. In some parts the failure is al­ most complete, in others the yield is fair, but nowhere above the average. Tlje surplus will be small, hence prices high­ er. though the unfavorable season'pre­ cludes the raising of any superior qual­ ity. In many places there will not bo enough for home consumption. The re­ gions which will be able to export any part of their yield are neither numerous nor extensive. Wisconsin. Minnesota, and the Dakotas are the only States in the Northwest where there is any prospect of a surplus of potatoes, and even there the crop is not large. Dispatches from the East say that apples will bo scarcer and sell for higher prices this season than for many years. The famous An­ napolis Valley of Nova Scotia will only produce half a crop of winter fruit, and the per cent, will still be lower in the apple belt of Southern and Western Ontario and Michigan, along tho lakes. There is a fair yield of apples in Maijie and limited sections of Vermont. Maine is best. The outlook fjr winter fruit is worse than ever before in Southern New En­ gland and in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the interior States gen­ erally. It is said that the apple belt of Western New York along Lakes Ontario and Erie, which in good seasons ship more than one million barrels to New York or foreign markets, has almost no crop whatever this year. HAKKET BErOKXS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--RRIMN £ Fair to Good Common Hons--Shipping Grades Sheep WHEAT--No. 2 Bed Comn--No. 2 *; OATS--No. 2 liTK--No. 2 HCTTBB--Choice Creamery CHKKBK-- Full Crea.ni, flats Wi<;s--Fre«h I'OTATOKS--Karljr Ohio, per bu.. INDIANAPOLIS. CATTT.E--Shipping HOGB--Choice Light SHJCEP--Common to I'rime WHEAT-NO. 1 HOD COBN--No. 2 White OATS--No. 2 White 1ST. LOUIU. CATTI.E Boas..., WHIJAT--No. 2 Ked \\\ COKX--No. 2 Ked OATS--No. 2 BYE--No. 2. „ CINCINNATI. Hoofl WHEAT--No. 2 Red COIIN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed. __ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 SPRING. COHN--No. :I OATS--No. 2 White ltYK--No. 1 BAULKY--No. % DETKOIT. CATTIES HOOB KUKRI* " WHKAT--No. 2 Ked ..." ColiN--No. 2 Yellow OATH-No. 2 Whits TOLEDO. WHJEAT COHN--Cuh OATS--No. 2 White BUFFALO. CATTLR--Good to Prime HOOK-Medium and WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. CoitN--No. 2 LAST LIBERTY, CATTLK--Common to Prime Boo»--Light KHEEP--Medium to Good NEW YORK. CAT-TLB. Hoos. 8REKI'... WmAT--No. 2 Bod Coax--No. 2 OAT»--Mixed Western.. BIG STRIKE IN THE EAST THE NfiW YORK CENTRAL fcAti.W ROAD TIED. 4.50 <£ 5.00 3.7.i M 4.50 2.75 & 3.75 3.50 (A 4.25 8.00 <<4 5.00 ® 1.0u',j .4fl C» ,4'J .37 .08 .61 .03 .16 & .21 .08U .15 (jo .16 1.W & 1.40 3.00 & 4.53 3.00 4.03 3.50 & 6.00 .95 & .05* .31 & .52 .80 & .30 4.00 ® 4.75 3.30 & 4.00 .06 & .'M .46>«# .47 38 & .30 .90 & .01 8.00 & 4.00 .97*4 .98 •94 .30)4 £ .97 <9 .98 .49 <& .51 .40 <3> .41 .01 .62 ,5J & .61 8M3 & 4.5) 8.00 & 4.00 8.00 (f? 4.50 .04 & .99 M & .55£ .40 V$ .41 .09 & .9954 £1 & M .40 & .40* 8.75 & 4.75 8.50 <& 4.50 1.02 & 1.04 .52 0 .53 8.25 @ 4.50 8.60 49 4.25 4.00 & 5.2i 8.60 (7* 8.25 4.00 & 4.75 4.25 0 5.50 LOS & 1.08 JH . 2 M TtrantMid Men oa Strike -- TSt* Sh«r* «nd Michigan Central Will Also H« involved--The C«UM ilia Troabl*. tKrw York di (patch.] The srreat strike on the New York Central is rapidly spreading. On that road 12,000 Knights of Labor are out, because, as they claim, the company has unjustly 'Uscrlm- inated afrainst members of their order. They claim tho New York Central is trying to break up the Knights ot Labor, an<i the present Jight la made to determine which is the stronger. The business of the Central from .New York to Buffalo is completely paralysed. At a conference of the District leaders of the Knights of Labor here it was deckldd to tie up the Lake Shore and the Michigan Central Railroads from Buffalo to Chicago. As a result of this order, all yardmen, switchmen, and brakeiuen of those roads belonging to the Knights of Labor will not go to work to-morrow. This strike is in the main a sympathetic one, but the employes of the Lake Shore and Michigan Central claim that they have grievances similar to those of the strikers on the New York Di­ vision of the Central. Locomotive firemen on the New York Division of the Central from New York to Albany went out to- , night at midnight. Tho decision to tie up the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the Michigan Cen­ tral roads is final. Said Master Workman Lee: "A special meeting has been called of the local assemblies, comprising the men on all the Vanderbilt lines between Buffalo and Chicago, for tomorrow morning, and the men on those lines will be called out surely by tomorrow afternoon. We are determined to tie up the main line of the Central all the way from New York to Chicago as tightly as we can." 'Will the men on these roads come oat?" Was asked. 'They will. The jurisdiction of District Assembly No. 246 extends as far as Buffalo and I have no doubt but that tho tie-up will be fully as effective west of Buffalo as it has been east of that point, and, despite the fact that a few passenger trains are got through, the road is tied up tight." 'Will tho Vanderbilt lines west of Chicago be tied up?" 'That hasn't yet been decided," was the reply. •At present we will tie up the line to Chi­ cago. If the strike is not settled soon the other lines of the system will be considered. It looks now as If this was to be a longer struggle than we at first Intended, but we are prepared for it. We are not frightened at all by the fact that the road is running passenger trains through. As a matter of fact they are getting only a few of them out, and these are run on any time they can make. We realized in the beginning that unless we resorted to violence we couldn't prevent them from getting through some trains, and we will not resort to violence of any kind. Wo rely on the justice of our cause and our ability to make a strong fight in lawful lines, together with the sympathy of the public, which we have. 'We do not Intend to tie up the West Shore passenger traffic, but we do Intend to prevent that line from taking care of New York Central freight, and so far as freight traffic is concerned it will be tied up tight. We intend, as far as is consistent with good generalship, to look after the interests of the public." It has been practically decided to trans­ fer the headquarters from Albany to this city, and it is not probable that Mr. Lee, on the District Executive Board, will go back to Albany until some definite termination of the tie-up has been reached. The reason for this is that the leaders of the strike do- s're to be where they are nearer the execu­ tive officers of the company and can keep a close watch on them as well as be on the ground when, as they hope will be the case shortly, the Central officials are ready to talk settlement. One of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers said to-night at Albany that the members bad decided to support the Knights of Labor assemblies, and with the locomo­ tive engineers go out within forty-eight hours. It is plain," he said, "that if Mr. Webb destroys the Knights of Labor he will next destroy the Brotherhood. Ours is a com­ mon cause, OinHbrganizAtions are our ;only hope. As workingmen .we have some rights which we cannot afford to give up, and we have decided to go into this fight if neces­ sary. The New York Central railroad has violated its precedents and struck at labor organizations. Wo must protect ourselves, and the public will judge of the righteous­ ness of our cause." Acting President Clark has served notice under the statute on all mayors of cities and sheriffs of counties along the line that he demands protection for the employes and property of the Central. In his proclama­ tion he says there aro well verified rumors that the discharged employes will resort to violence to interfere with the traffic of the road. Ho also says that threats have been made to shoot any employe who attempts to man or run a train on the Central road. Reports come from De Witt of serious demonstrations on the part of strikers there. De Witt Is a big freight-yard six miles west of Syracuse. The village is composed entirely of switchmen, trainmen, and other employes of the Central Road. Several hundred of the men went out, and at once began to cripple traffic. Unliko the men in New York and Albany, who have - conducted the strike thus far with good order, and refrained from interfering with the property of the road or hampering the company, except by quitting work, the De Witt strikers are reported to have shown signs of violence and to have begun disabling trains by throw­ ing away the coupling-pins of the cars. Then they began to attack trains arriving in DeWitt and bound for Now York. The first was No. 12, the Cincinnati express from Buffalo, due to arrive in New York at 10:32 a. m. The strikers boarded the cars and assaulted some of the trainmen. Then they began to throw away the coupling-pins. Within fifteen minutes a good-sized mob had gathered in and around the station and the police were called out. The scene had all the elements of a riot, and it was impos­ sible to start the Cincinnati express on schedule time. Upon the main track, over which the express should have left from Do Witt, tho strikers had backed alotof freight cars, run off tho engines, and made a com­ plete blockade. All the switches were tam­ pered with, It was reported, and the yards were in a state of seemingly inextricable coiifusion. Shortly after this demonstration train No. 14, tho mall limited, bound for New York and due to arrive at 12:35, was stopped at Do Witt by the strikers and disabled ,as tho others had been. By this time the little local police force was utterly powerless to restrain the mob of strikers. Tho authorities at Sy­ racuse were telegraphed to for assistance. An hour or two later a company of militia was sent to the scene of the trouble from Syracuse. After much difficulty the riot­ ous strikers were quieted somewhat and then tho men at work, in tho yards began to shift the freight cars that had been piled up to obstruct the passenger trains. It took over six hours to extricate both trains and they were then combined. Maj. Auer received order* to have his en­ tire battery under orders, and was notified that ten of the separate companies of the 8tate militia would report here. Two com­ panies are to come from Oswego, one from Elmlra, and the Sixty-fifth Regiment from Buffalo. The companies from this section of the State are for the most part in camp at Peeksklll. The officers of the military companies have orders to clear tho East Syracuse yards at all hazards as soon as the companies can be massed. If necessary, they will turn the guns on the strikers. The dissatisfied men say that no trains will be moved, if they can prevent, even if bloodshed follows. It is hardly probable that tho military will advance on the strik­ ers until daybreak to-morrow. Thousands of laboring men have been at East Syracuse all day. Their sympathies are with the strikers and they have lent all the encouragement possible. More t)ian 1,000 Grand Army men are detained here while on their way to tho encampment at Boston. They held an Indignation meeting tills afternoon and passed resolutions con­ demning the action of the strikers. Passen­ ger trains and excursion trains of Grand Army men from tho t have been going over tho West Shore r/nu every half hour during tho afternoon. Mixed with the West Shore and Western Road cars are many New York Central cars put on at Buffalo. West I ' Shore Road men here who are Knights of Labor say that this will lead to an extended strike on th»t road, for they are bound k* stand by the Hew York Oeateg^mjMfc IT IS STILL UNSETTLED. IT IS ALMOST A VOLCANO TROUBLE ABOUT THE WORLD'S WONDERFUL NATURAL GAS EX- FAIR SITE. PLOSION IN INDIANA. Obstacles in the Way or the lake Front and Jackson I'ark--The Hcheme to Fill In tho Lake Front Area Said to Be Itn- , practicable. [Chicago dispatch.) Tho Illinois Central refuses to accept the terms of the World's Fair directors, and It is not probable that the Lake Front can bo used as originally intended. The authori­ ties of Jackson Park are also disinclined to give the fair the necessary room. So the site question is still unsettled. Moreover tho Lake Front has been dealt another blow. Captain W, L. Marshall, of the United States army, who is in charge of the river and harbor Improvements about Chicago, as much as says that to fill In the proposed area for the fair is an Impossibility, com­ plete and abject. Captain Marshall's opinions carry weight. He has spent long years on the nation's great waters. He is acquainted with every form of engineering improvement. Ho is skilled, lie has age and experience. And ho says the filling cannot be done in time for the fair. "Ever since Pharaoh, Egypt's king, had all his hosts and hopes, his plans and ambitions, his engines and his implements of wa r over­ turned in the Red Sea," said Capt. Marshall yesterday, "down to the present time, when the World's Fair people would divide the waters of our own sea and camp on the bottom, marine engineering has been shaky and unsure. Money can control anything, everything almost but lakes and rivers." Captain Marshall whirled his big chair away from his desk at which he sat in his quarters high up in the Exchange Building, and continued: "For instance, take tho Government improvement here, the narrow slip of purported breakwater that runs along out there, that Is popularly presumed to protect and shelter tho harbor. It was begun away back In 1870, I believe, and it isn't done yet. and do you know what.lt has cost thus far?" "No." "Well, I'll tell you." Capt. Marshall dis­ patched a subordinate for a .huge record book. When he returned the Captain rattled over its pages and showed these figures, $1,594,887.90. "Over a million and a half," continued the Captain, "and it isn't all done yet. What'sjnore, I doubt If it ever will be. It is folly to pursue It. Tho harbor is perfect useless, except as a shel­ tering arm about the Illnois Central Rail­ road docks. Not that I complain of that, or care, for I suppose the Illinois Central Is entitled to as much protection as anybody or anything else. But it Is not subserving the purpose for which it was Intended. It is not fulfilling the high destiny to which it is called." "And how much remains to be done?" "Well," was the Captain's answer, "there are 275,000 cubic yards of material to bo dredged yet to make the water sixteen feet deep at the dock line. I have recommended, unless tho work be abandoned--which I am strongly urging on the Government--that this bo postponed until the projected dock lines are built. It was the original inten­ tion, you know, to run docks out to tho breakwater, but the litigation that grew out of the question raised over the ownership of the riparian rights lias caused a postpone­ ment of these constructions, and no one knows when they ever will bo made." "And now about filling the area for the fair; is that practicable?" "Some engineers say it is," replied Cap­ tain Marshall, "and some of them offer to do it." "But can tliey?" "Why should I say? I don't want to an­ tagonize them." And the Captain's eyes twinkled. "Then, if you were to express your opin­ ions they would be antagonistic?" Captain Marshall made no reply to this question, but he went on: "Money can do anything--everything almost--but can it prevent storms coming up? Can it prevent breakages in machinery? Can it prevent dredges from toppling over? Can it keep rain and fog and heat and snow and storms from Interfering with the work? I have been watching marine engineering feats for years. None of them, perhaps, is Impossi­ ble, but I never yet knew one to be com­ pleted within the specified time." "And theji." the Captain went on, "even if the work could be completed in time there would be no foundation for buildings. Arti­ ficial ones would have to be made." "But if there is not time, could not Mayor Cregior's plan of piling be utilized?" "The whole space could be piled and planks put on the tops of tho plies, with the buildings on these, but think of the stag­ nant water underneath; it would putrefy, the stench would bo unbearable. Have you ever trifled with the odor of bilge water when it arises in its might? And then the exhibits would all mildew. Now, the only way to do it, if it Is done at all, is to fill It." "How much is there to fill?" "About five antl a half million cubic yards." "What of the scheme to balld the coffer­ dams?" The Captain leaned back In his chair and laughed an awful laugh. "That engineer might have as much success as Pharoah did with his experiment In the Red Sea, if he had providence on his side." "And as to the establishment of the dock line by the Secretary of War. what?" " Well, one Secretary of War can change a dock lino that another Secretary of War established if he chooses. Secretaries' ac­ tions do not establish precedents like Su­ preme Court decisions. But. the law says that no Secretary of War can establish a dock line for a private concern. One can­ not be made--ior the World's Fair, or the city of Chicago, or tho Illinois Central Railway, or you* or me; it can only be for the purposes and preserva­ tion of the harbor. But when that breakwater Is a sad, sickening fail­ ure, when vessels can fly over it in a storm, when It ought to be abandoned, why should the Secretary of War do anything about it? Oh," concluded the Captain, "there are joys more ecstactic. there are delights with a fuller and gladder fruition along this cloud- environed pathway of human existence than building great marine improvements in a week or two. There isn't much fun or anything else in It. But I want to see the fair a great success," concluded the Captain. free Newsy Paragraphs. LA, POKTK, Ind., is to have a postal delivery after Oct. 1. FKED W. JORDAN, wanted inRockford, Tenn., for the larceny of $800, has been arrested at Boston. FBAXK WILLIAMS, a colored tramp, was run over and killed in the Union Pacific yards at Topeka, Kan. NORVELL ST. CI.AII;, a farmer, was shot and killed by an unknown person on his farm about eleven miles northeast of Princeton, Ky. OGPEX & MCCORMACK of Philadelphia and J. P. Foster & Co. of Boston, both firms dealing in boots and shoes, have failed. THE King of Holland is in a fecblq condition, and is confined to his room, but tho alarmist reports current are without foundation. THE United States Fish Commission is about to place 3,000 young fry of black bass, perch, and sunfish in a lish-preservo at Iowa Falls. WILLIAM H. SMITH, the colored wife- murderer, of Pittsburgh, Pa., twice sen­ tenced to be hanged, lias been declared insane by a commission of lunacy. THE son of George Ilellyer, 12 years of age, Hying near Liberty, Gage County, Nebraska, was drowned in the Blue Elver. The body was recovered. AT Wichita, Kan., a tramp named Au­ gust Brock of Grand Summit, Kan., Jumped from a quickly moving freight train, and was so badly injured that he died soon after. HEXRY E. WALDO..of Minneapolis, and Miss Hoffman, of Kansas City, were drowned while fishing on American Lake, Washington, by the capsizing of their boat. MRS. CARRIE HOWARD, of Jamestown, N. Y„ after weeks of fruitless search for her kidnaped baby daughter, found the long-lost child in tho H^ome for the Friendless at Erie, Pa. D. I. FORCE, a well-connected and prominent timber dealer of Kinmundy, III., was arrested at Eilingliam, 111., while attempting to cash a note said to faave bceu forged Many Acren or •"round Torn Up--Flames Sent Two Hundred Feet Into the Air-- A River lieil Torn to Ptaces--People UT- toff "ear Itadly Frightened. rShelbyvillo (Ind.) dispatch.] . Tho farmers near Waldron, this county? were startled recently by a terrific explo­ sion. When they reached the Ogden grave­ yard, which is on a bluff near the Flat Rock stream, they discovered that fully ten acres of the earth was in commotion. Gey­ sers were shooting up to the height of six and eight feet, and gas was blazing from ten to fifteen feet above the Water of the gey­ sers. The river bed was torn up and tiio water had stopped running below the grave­ yard. names are still shooting from fifty different fissures in the earth. The county has not been considered In the gas belt, although local companies have sunk many wells. At Waldron, a little town eight miles southeast of this place, sufficient flow of gas was found to supply the citizens with fuel. Noliody thought a gusher was slumber­ ing near t lie town, and few have entertain­ ed the Idea of a permanent flow of gas in tho locality. A little stream known as Fat Rock runs southwesterly through the county, and about three miles south of Waldron on the banks of Flat Rock Is a sort of butte, upon which a country graveyard has been for many years. The river at this point runs west and Conn's Creek empties into it from the north, forming a kind of horse-shoe shaped strip of land opposite the graveyard. Edmund Cooper owns the land on the north side of the river, and it was in this strip of land that the explosion occurred. J. H. Lowe, who lives on the Cooper farm, heard a terrific report and felt the earth quivering beneath his feet. Ho went toward tho graveyard and was soon confronted by a sheet of flame 200 feet high. Then fifty or more fountains of fire burst from the earth. These were Interspersed with six or eight ac­ tive geysers. At the east side of the erup­ tion a large stackof straw was aflame, and a field of green corn was drooping before the excessive heat from the ten acres of flame. The river bed was torn to pieces and the hugo fissures were receiving the river's water. Sheets of flame swept over the water and a crater covering an area of about one acre was quickly converted into a huge hole, from which a continuous roaring and rum­ bling noise proceeds. Within tho bend of tho river and for one-eighth of a mile along the stream great rents are in the earth and tho river bed. At the "bend of the river the bank, which is of limestone, is a fracture a quarter of a mile in length, and stones the size of a house have been hurled from their places. The graveyard was shaken up, the skeletons of the dead being distinctly seen in the fractures of the earth. Gas flows freely front the entire surface of the ten acres. Many theories have been advanced as to the cause of the upheaval. Many people contend that It was a spontaneous combus­ tion of natural gas. As much as the gas is flowing, there seems to be room for the con­ jecture, but Mr. Lowe, who got to tho scene before tho gas ignited, says that tho up­ heaval was volcanic. The gas ignited from a burning brush heap near the eruption, and the blaze im­ mediately shot 200 feet in the air. Blue mud and water continues to spout upward in streams to the height of four to ten feet, which indicates that somo powerful force is still exerting itself upon the matter within. No use can be made of tho flow of gas at this point nor near it, as the fracture will let the gas escape so as to destroy tho gas pressure for miles arouiki. As- yet no one can get within the furthest limits of the rupture owing to the intense heat. Dr. R. It. Washburn visited the scene within an hour after the explosion, but could not get nearer than a hundred feet. He was not anxious, however, to venture much closer, <as he discovered that the county road has sunk several feet, and the adjacent soil had been going down from its proper alti­ tude. It is three miles to any gas well or lino of gas pipes, and this makes the phe­ nomena more mysterious. It looks as though something akin to hades has broken loose in Shelby. The State Geologist and other prominent scientists will be here soon to investigate the intruder. A terrible rumbling sound as of distant thunder wsis heard for miles at the time of the explosion, and as there was not a cloud to be seen tho Inhabitants in the locality became greatly alarmed. They are wild with excitement and some of them are leav­ ing their homes. Within the last eighteen months there have been thirteen gas wells sunk In the locality of tho graveyard, and while each has had some gas none have been gushers, and it is suggested by some that gas in large quantities has escaped below the casing in the wells, causing this unusual occurrence. THE SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OP OUR NATIONAL I-AW- • MAKERS. THE REMAINS OF GEN. GRANT. Shall They Be Kemoveit from JRiverside to Arlington? [Washington dispatch.] Representative Quinn, of Ney York, ad­ dressed the following letter to Mrs. U. S. Grant: "WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 11. "MADAM--As the Representative of the Congressional district adjoining that in which tho remains of your illustrious hus­ band are buried, I address you this commu­ nication to learn, if possible, your wishes in the matter of tho proposed removal of his body to this city. The Senate, as you are aware, has passed a resolution directing tlrat the removal be made. Tho resolution is now lying on the Speaker's table. Are you in sympathy with tho proposition? Do you desire it to be carried into effect? I shall be glad to represent your wishes on the floor of the House if you will favor me with a reply to this letter. Meanwhile I shall ask further postponement upon the resolution. Yours respectfully, "JOHN QCINK." Pending Mrs. Grant's reply Mr. Quinn will endeavor to secure expressions of opinion from his constituents regarding tho pro­ posed removal of the remains. Mr. Quinn personally is not favorable to tho plan. He says frankly that it would entail a serious loss upon the property-owners in that vicinity. The selection of the present site, he says, gave a great "boom" to all tho real estate thereabout, and now if Gen. Grant's last resting place be transferred to Washington it would cause a marked depreciation in values. He thinks Now York has done all that can bo expected of It in raising funds for the Grant monu­ ment, and his suggestion is that the Govern T ment shall contribute whatever additional amount shall be necessary for that purpose. Mrs. Grant is reported to have written to friends in this city that she will offer no ob­ jection to the removal of the General's re­ mains hither. If this be true it is not proba­ ble that Mr. Quinn or any other Represent­ ative will offer objection to the passage of the resolution when it shall come up by unanimous consent within the next few days. PAKOTA'S LIQUOR LAW. It Zs Constitutional and County Courts Have Fall Jurisdiction. [Pierre (8.1).) special.] Chief Justice Dighton Corson, of the Supreme Court, has handed down a de­ cision that has been awaited with great interest in all parts of the State, as in effect it totally does away with the sale of intoxicating liquor as required by the stringent laws already enacted. He affirms the constitution­ ality of the law and gives our County Courts full jurisdiction to fine and imprison liquor sellers without interfer­ ence of grand juries or other courts, making it final jurisdiction in any such cases. His decision is very lengthy, cov­ ering the pround thoroughly, and waa made upon a writ of habeas corpus in tho case of Robert Evans, an original pack­ age dealer of this city, who was lined $100, with two months' imprisonment, by County Judge Stdiigh, and went be­ fore the Supreme Court on tho writ on the grounds of no jurisdiction in the court below. Denver Hanks Swindled. E. F. G. Hall, representing himself as a contractor on the Nicaragua Canal, traveling West for his health, is wanted here for passing forged drafts on New York banks to the amount of nearly $5,- 000, says a Denver telegram. Tho same man visited Glen wood Springs in July and swindled banks and merchants out of $3,509 by the same means. Proceedings of the Senate and HMM of Hepre«entatires -- Important UeatnrM Discussed and Acted Upon--Gist of tk» Business. IN the .Senate, on the 9th, Senator Hoar- offered a resolution providing "that th» rules of the Senate be amended by adding' the following: 'When any bill or resolution shall have been under consideration for a reasonable time, it shall be in order for any Senator to demand that debate thereon bo closed. If such demand bo seconded by a majority of the Senators present, the ques­ tion shall forthwith be taken thereon with­ out further debate, and tho pending meas­ ure shall take precedence of all other business whatever. After the Senate shall have decided to close debate, no motion shall be in order but a motion to adjourn or to take a recess, when such motions shall be seconded by a majority of the Senate. When either of such motions shall have been lost, or shall have failed of a second, it shall not. be in order to renew the same until one Sen­ ator shall have'spoken upon the pending measure, or one vote upon the same shall have intervened.' " In the House on mo­ tion of Mr. Mclvlnley of Ohio (by unanimous, consent), the Senate joint resolution was passed accepting from the G. A. R. a statue of Gen. IJ. S. Grant. IN the Senate, on the 11th, Senator Ed­ munds, of Vermont, asked leave to Intro­ duce an order, and then had it read from the clerk's desk. It provided that during the discussion of any item in tho tariff bill, or amendment thereto, no Senator should speak more than five minutes on the one item without tho consent of the Senate. Senator Morgan claimed he yielded the floor only for a motion to adjourn, and the Vermont Senator withdrew the order and announced that he would introduce it next day. Senator Edmunds' ac­ tion was a complete surprised He has bitterly opposed changing the rules by adopting the previous question or in any way limiting the debate, but has al­ ways said that when the purpose of the mi­ nority to filibuster was clearly shown then was the time to apply a remedy for that particular case. The House proceeded to the consideration of the conference report on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Af­ ter a brief debate. In the course of which Mr. Dockery (Mo.) predicted a deficiency of between $20,000,000 and 323,000.000 in the revenues of the Government during tho current fiscal year, the conference report was agreed to and a further conference or­ dered upon the amendments still in dispute. M«. EDMUNDS, from the Judiciary Com­ mittee, reported to the Senate on the 12th an amendment to bo offered to the river and harbor bill, and explained that its pur­ pose was to make It unlawful to obstruct the navigation of any of tho navigable waters. The amendment was laid on the. table and ordered printed. Mr. Edmunds, presented the motion for a change of the rules by limiting debate on tho tariff bill which he had offered at the time of ad­ journment on the 11th, and it was laid on the table and ordered printed. Mr. Blair also offered a resolution for such a change of the rules as will permit the previous ques­ tion to be moved after a proposition has been considered two days, and the same disposition was made of it. The tariff de­ bate was then resumed. In the House :k Joint resolution extending temporarily (un­ til Aug. 29) the appropriations for the sup­ port of the Government not already pro­ vided for in the general appropriation bills, was passed. THE conference report on" the Indian ap­ propriation bill was presented in the Senate and agreed to on the 13th. The tariff bill having been again taken up, Mr. Gorman addressed tho Senate i>i opposition to tho proposed increase of duty on tin plates. The tariff bill was laid asido informally and a conference was ordered on the Senate bill in regard to collisions at sea, and Messrs. Frye, Washburn, and Gorman were appoint­ ed conferrees on the part of the Senate. Mr. l'lunib, from the Committee on Appro­ priations, reported a joint resolution for the relief of destitution in Oklahoma. The House bill making appropriations for additional clerical force in tho pension office was taken from the calendar and read for amendment. Various amendments re­ ported by the Committee on Appropriations were agreed to and the bill was passed. In the House a bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain lands and to grant the proceeds of the sale- to the town of Pelican, Oneida County, Wis. On motion of Mr. Dockery (Mo.), a bill was passed authorizing the construction of a. bridge across the Missouri River at St. Charles, Mo. MR. 1'I.UMB, from the Committee on Ap­ propriations, on the 14th reported to the Senate the joint resolution appropriating for the relief of destitution in Oklahoma the unexpended balance of the appropriation made last April for the relief of the district overflowed by the Mississippi River, and it. was passed; The tariff bill was taken up and Mr. I'lumb offered an amendment to strike out the clause imposing a duty of two and two-tenths cents a pound on tin- plate (reserving tho other part of the propo­ sition as to bounty), but finally withdrew it and offered another making tho duty on tin-plate one cent a pound and providing a bounty of one cent a pound on tin-plate manufactures in the United States. Without action on the amendment tho Senate adjourned. The first business in order In the House was the vote on sus­ taining the decision of the Chair, overrul­ ing the point of order made by Mr. Springer of Illinois, that the Nat McKay relief bill must be considered in committee of the- whole. The decision was sustained--yeas, •114; nays, 31; the Speaker counting a quo­ rum. It was soon found that no quorum was present and tho House adjourned. SOME LITERARY WOMEN. Mrs. Charles Rohlfs, better known as Anna Kathcrine Qrcen, is now in Lon­ don with her husband. Mrs. Kohlfs complains that literary piracy is not' confined to this side of the Atlantic, and says that the sums she has received for her books published in England have been pitifully small. Mrs. Mary Spear Tier nan Is another Baltimore woman--tall and exception­ ally lino looking, with intensely bluo eyes. Her looks have been pronounced by competent critics, the finest of their kind, vivid with color, interest, and' good writing. Her girlhood was spent in Richmond, Va., wliero she lonnd tho material for her three well-known creations, "Su^ettc," "Homocelle," and "Jack Horner." Miss Hester Crawford Dorsey is & society favorite in Baltimore and con­ sidered one of the clever and capable young writers of the South. She i» doing journalistic work on the Balti­ more American and New York Ilei^Ld, but her spccial talent lies in the direc­ tion of story telling--stories full of life and color. Tlie Woman's Literary club of Baltimore owes its existence to her enthusiastic efforts. Mute. Berthe Galcron de Coloune ha& published a volume of poems entitled "Dans ma Nuit," which Is exciting much interest in Paris. She is both blind and deaf, but very attractive in appearance. A young architect fell in love with her and married her. They had one child, and for a time her lifo was as full oT passionate happiness as it had before been darkened by melan­ choly. But tho child died, and the mother was overwhelmed with grief, which w^s 'only gradually soothed by tho teuder love of her husband, who adores her. In her poems can be traced tho history of a soul which, by bitter struggling, has fought its way to peace. "Carmen Sviva" wrote the pre­ face of her book. WHAT MRS^ G R U N D Y S A Y S . That prejudice against paper-covered novels appears to have died out. That tho most exasperating people are those who cannot bo snubbed.. That tho standard of morality in most fashionable circles is very low. That In town just at present- It is not the least "trouble to show goods." That many a time and' oft a girl ,t» known by her troatmout of the