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4 VAN Editor and Pub. XcHfWRY. ILLINOIS. A HOUfi CITY BLAZE. MINNEAPOLIS LOSES HER CEN­ TRAL MARKET. TAJOMMD BY MEN MMTTI Ruling Illinois Town'l Sere re LOM-(1OT. K*a Unique Idea of Chicago's Wlek- •*iS-- IfllUonalre Arrested* -;VP • Half a Million Los* • THE most serious fire of the year in Minneapolis and the largest in the 4 history of the city, broke out about 9 vj o'clock Thursday night, and before it was extinguished had destroyed prop- ; erty to the value o? over $.">00.(JO >. leav­ ing in ruins one of the finc§t market * l»aildings in the c untry. JUp origin has not be;n ascertained, "but the tiro broke out in the commis­ si i<?n &£>u-e of Dcdswcrth & Draw, *loc ited in the center of the New Cen­ tral Market Building, which wa? founded bv Second and Third avonues Jforth and Sixth anXSeventh streets, covering an entire bl<»k. In addition to its purpose as a mgj-ket, it was used by fifty commission texorchants, l*s u';: stands, and 20J market garden- V ' era The structure was entirely i:;J destroyed, • involving a , loss, iu- eluding the original cost end the f.p T»lua of the stocks Aratajnel therein, ;$'• of $175/100. Thirty hordes and thou­ sands of fowls were burned. The only fatality resulting fr. m the fire was the tlcath of Myron Finley, a lineman for the Gereral Electric Company. He " was hand ing some wires after the fire was marly out when he cauaht hold of w> telegraph wire which became crossed •with an electric-light wire. The re­ sult was aim st instant death. it>6 mines *n the Hazleton (Pa.) region took place at No. 8 Stockton Mine Tuesday morn­ ing. Two hundreds sticks of dynamite exploded among a crowd of men who were preparing to go to their day's work. All of these unfortunates were scattered and torn to fragments. The exact number killed is no!) positively known at this writing, but it is placed between eight and eleven. Tne true cause of the explo­ sion will never be known, as none of the men ari living. Although the ex­ plosion took place 300 yards below the surfa e tli3 shock was felt threo miles south and adjoining the mine No. 2 Stockton. From the latter mine a rescuing pa-tv rushed through Sub­ terranean passageways to No. 8. As | the^e men approached the bottom of j the ill-fated slope they cauyj up with | the drivers and ither'laborers groping I about in the darkness. Pushing for- fward toward the bottom, they came | upon a terrible scene. Huge timbers . were twisted and torn a.nd seattsre*} ab ut promiscv.ou ly. Rocks and debris were everywhere. Over all was strewn human flesh, legs and arm * of the un­ fortunate victims, and from the ;'agged sides hung two shattered bodies. Not one of the several bodies was left suf­ ficiently intact to permit identity. WESTERN. o Sit NEWS NUGGETS. SENATOR HILL has been informed the possibilities of revenue from the 1 Income tax are from $12,000,000 to $39,- 000,033. THE Suffrage Committee of the New York constitutional convention, by a vote of thirteen to four, defeated the proposition to submit the question of woman suffrage to the electors. MILLIONAIRE WILLIAM FELLOWS MORGAN, his wife and coach marl have i*3en summoned at Newark to answer "to the charge of cruelty to animals in Stocking the tails of their horses. CHARLES WILFRED MOWBRAY, a re- cent arrival frcm London, applied for Ms first ciiizens' papers in Newark, Wednesday. He boasts that he has been gent to this country to establish a propaganda of anarchism. MRS. JOHN SHOC. a restaurant-keep­ er at St. Cloud, Minn., has suddenly fallen heir to $100,000. Luther Bryant, a rich uncle t f Biddeford, Me., lef; an estate of over $l,00J,0o0 t j ba di­ vided among eleven heirs. A SAFE containing $120,000 in s?cur- ities left by the latj George Stewart of Wilmington was sent from that town to Joliet Penitentiary and opened by a convict. Mr. Stewart having died without divulging the combina­ tion. ARRANGEMENTS have been made at Milwaukee for the formation < f the icago-Milwaukee Terminal and Belt Company, capital; ed at$6,000.- by the Co lb.*. Hoyt and Vil'ard icate. It will accommodate saven HE bottom of a converter at the Homestead steal works of Carnegie & Co. blew out, scattering 3,300 pounds of molten metal in every direction. Peter Nelson and Timothy Diamond were fatally burned and Michael Hoi- bran and Wiiliam Davis seriously in­ jured. ADVICES from Fed Pork. I. T., scene of the 'Frisco train robbery, are to the effect that the six robbers concerned ©btaided £15.7.", several „j ack!tge> cf shoes and boxes of cigars, and a jusr'of whisky. The robbers wer3 identified as Bill Cook's gang. They were! aftar a money 1 ackage expected by the Eufuula I. T.. bank, but which was not on the train. MAKING a speech to a delegation presenting him with a gold watch, ! Gov. Hogg cf Texas Wednesday night J dieted that within six weeks mar- law wi uld be declared in California, as, Colorado, and Illinois, and that i anarchists of Chicago would use I ite and "baspatter the lofty ings of the city with the hearts, lungs, and Uvers of the citizen-." MOB. SATOLLI'S ruling sustaining the decree; issued by Bishop Watter- of Columbus, Ohio, that no per­ son engaged iu the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors may be admit­ ted to membership in societies affiliat­ ed with the ikman Catholic Church, has. according to a Chicago dispatch, produced a profound tensation in Ro­ man Catholic circles throughout the country. The pastoral let­ ter sent out by fishop Watter- son and now indorsed ffeOHT on one of the prettiest resi­ dence streets of Chicago an artillery caisson blew up Monday afternoon, scattering an awful discharge of shrap­ nel and (laming powder upon soldiers l and civilians. All the houses about were riddled and shattered by the thickly flying shell frag­ ments and the street was piled up with powde' -seared men and houses. Four soldiers were killed, three desper­ ately hurt, eight less seriously wound­ ed, and tnr.e citizens--two of them women--received injury. Nine hoises were killed. That anybody in the vi­ cinity-- so.dier or civilian--escaped alive is an absolute miracle. THE miners of Fontanet, a station on the Big Four, a few miles west of Terre Haute, Ind., added murder to their crime of stopping trains and at­ tempted lynchings. An engineer and fireman, who had nothing to'do with the strike, were mangled to death un­ der the wrecked engine of a de­ railed train. The train wrecked was N<\ 7 on the St. Louis di\ islon. which left Indianapolis on 1 time. Tao train was running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour when it struck an open switch and wentdown an embankment abaut eight feet high. The engineer and fireman were under the wreck, ground to pieces. The engine, baggage-car, ex­ press-car and the day coach were piled in the ditch, a broken mass. The wteck was undoubtedly the work of a lawle s mob of miners that pnsse sed Fontanet and stopped and sidetracked five Big Ft ur freight trains to show their sympathy for the rail'oad strik­ ers. The t:cublo was so threatening that Sheriff Stmt, of Vigo County, and se\e al deputies wont to Fontanel. No passengeis were seriouslv injured. INt the United States Circuit Court at Los Angeles, Cal., a most import­ ant suit was filed by United States District Attorney Dennis and Special United States At'.o ney Call, under the special direction of Attorney Gen­ eral Olney, it leing a bill in equity against tne Southern Pacific Com­ pany, o' Kentucky. The bill asks that' all corporations which have combined with the Southern Pacific Company of 'heCity of Mexico and other parts of the Republic has revealed a start­ ling condition of affairs, and there will be a wholesale weeding out of dishon­ est employes in the service in differ­ ent parts of Mexico. The lccal post- office ha* been systematically robbed of over $100,0^0. The shortage of the Postmaster, Manuel Nava. amounts to over $59.0 0, and that of tho cashier of the office to ab^ut $4+,0c0. INTENSE excitement prevails at Bir­ mingham, Ala., over the attack by striking miners on the guards and ne­ gro workmen at Pratt mil es, resulting in a bloody battle in which three men <are known to have been killed cut- right and a number wounded, save al fatally,.^ Forty-two striking miners were jailed cn the chat ge of murder, and fifty more will bo arres ed. A monster citizens' indignation meeting wa9 to denounce lawlessness and urge action to suppress it. Governor Jones ordered out fifteen companies of troops and put the others unoer eau* tionary orders. WASHINGTON. ' THE to'al disbursements on accoum of the eleventh census have been $10,- 365,667. ACCORDING to the reports ib the Agricultural Department the average weight per fleece of this year's wool clip is 5.33 rounds, against 5.3 pounds last year and 5.15 pounds for the census year. THE telegraph, says a Washington coi respondent, has brought to ^ ash- ington no more welcome news for many a day than the dispatch frOm Chicago telling that Eebs had declared the strike off. The information was at once flashed to the White House, the Capitol and all of the departments. The evening papers rushed extras on the street, ar.d half an hour after the first reception of the news everybody in the city knew of it. In consequence there was ;joy and gratification throughout the town The Preside at received the news just after calln% the Cabinet to order, and announced jfcho newg to the ^Cabinet himself. Th<| news had an electric-light effect oj^the gloom which has pervaded theJWhite House for a week. And the c'oud ot care which has darkened the President's face melted away before the warmth of the first smile his advisers tad seen for a fortn ght. IN GENERAL THE big cut in steeraga rates has re* suited in a great rush of unemployed aliens from America to Europe. IT is estimated that the combined loss of the various roads centering in Chicago caused by the strike 'will amount to over $3,000,000. This loss, it is claim d, is caused by decrease in earnings from traffic alone and does not include tho loss caused by destruction of prop­ erty, which will foot up about $2,100,- 000 more. Seme of the loss, however, is offset by large saving in expenses, yet the loss to the roads, both on ac­ count of loss of traffic and destruction of property by the Chicago roads alone, it is believed, will n_t be less than $4,000,000. THE American Line cut its steerage rate to $J0 for the eastward passage and $15 retu ning from the ports of Southampton, .London, Liverpool, Qucenstovvn, Londonderry, and Bel­ fast. The rate wi DEATH OS PABABE. UTAH 'IS ADMITTED. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AMONG UNCLE SAM'S MEN. •"ta dffWdnri Troops Stattered While Oat for Summer Day Drill Exerclae In Chicago--Four Men Killed, Seventeen In* land, and Nine Horaea Dead. - • <®lMwe of the Disaster Dnkn«Va> JT By the explosion in Chicago of an ammunition chest belonging to Bat­ tery F of the Second Artillery, from Fort Riley, Kan., lour soldiers were instantly killed, eighteen other peo­ ple, soldiers and spectators, were wounded, and nine artillery horses were killed. The carnage produced by the dis­ charge of the forward gun caisson, leaded with the death-dealing shrap­ nel shells and steel percussion shells, was frightful. The houses in the neighborhood of the scene of the ex­ plosion, which was the intersection of Grand and Oakwood boulevards, were riddled by the pro'exiles of all kinds from thrapnel bullets and canister and 1 arts ot the gun carriages. Two of the soldiers were l.tsrally blown to pieces. Their Jbtdias, mangled beyona recognition, Were picked up 2 0 fe^t or mere from where the explosion took place. The people for b ocks arojnd were stunted by the concussion. Windows were shattered b'ocks away from the acci­ dent, and tho pe pie rushed out into thg streets in alarm, thinking it was a dynamite bomb whic 1 some one had set. off. All excev.t live of lhe injured were snldiers of the regular crmy. The accident occurred at l:4)0'clock. The detachment, consisting of three troops of cavalry and one battery of to Havre, Hamburg, be separated from that corporation Bremen, Antwerp, and Rotterdam is 3 a. 1 1. 1 _ i_ * 1 AI. _ _ trt ft I ^ AO/>Vi u*uir on/1 Q/tnn/l t r»A_ S?" f- ifei 6 by the papal delegate was m^st sweeoing in ite condemnation of a I rersons con­ cerned in the liq uor tra?Kc. It with­ drew tho ep scopal sanction from all associations of which a ealoonkeeper was an o.Tcer, and it dec arei that no one engaged either as principal or age:it in the manufacture or sale of liauor could be admitted t > such soci­ eties. This was tho most radical utter­ ance on the liquor question ever deliv­ ered by a Roman Catholic prelate in this country, and its approval by the representative ot the holy see makes it the law for the faithful. THE new union station at St. Louis, which ha> the largest train service in |tie world, will be formally opened on Sept. 1. NELLIE KENNE, aged 9; of Bradshaw, Va., hangod herself because She ^ been kept home from school by mother to care for two babies. THE. Hawaiian Rep.ibliq has been rclaimed at Honolulu with Sanford Dole president. THE semi-annual meeting of the Northwestern Electrical Aswc:ation ia In progress at i-it. Paul. j EASTERN. j -- "KOBL MAESON, the convicted Pitts- j ^wrar, Pa., murderer of Mrs. Sophia Boes, was notified t^© Governor had **gDe» his death warrant and fixed Sept. 6 for the day of execution. The condemned man received tho news fMltnly, but, after returning to his cell, "came wildly excited and is now a wiring maniac. Maeson was an an- •fchist, and, it was alleged at the tri­ al, killed Mrs. llces because she cver- liaard a plot to blow up Canadian Gov­ ernment buildings. 7l t whi h and the agreement under which they are now working be annulled and cancelled. If the Government win.-;. it means the Central Pacific of C'ali'ornia. < f Arizona and ot New Mexico, and the Santa Monica branch, the Long Beach branch, and in ia.-t all lines which go to make up the South­ ern-Pacific system, will be separated and operated oy their own set of offi­ cers. The combination forming the Southern Pacific of Kentucky is al­ leged to be in a conspiracy to retard and restrict commerce. The bill is brought under the same United States statute under which proceedings t against the Southern Pacific striking employes were commenced, as conspir- ! ing to retard commerce. ® | A BAD wreck on the Chicago and J Grand Trunk occurred at L a'tie Creek. Some time after midnight the bolts I were remove 1 from the fish plates i which held the lails together and the ! plates taken from the ra4tf~^t the top • of Austin hill, just west of the city. J Train No. 6 was twenty minute;, late at this stati n, and was running fast to j make up time. The engine and train \ left tho track and lumped into the ' ditch. The t: ain was the same one that was in the awful wreck last fall. Tnere were seventy five passengers on the train and all were more or less shaken j up, c*t and bruised, but fortunately I none are badly injured. !• ireman J Thomas Crow was thrown several feet from the engine and his neck was > broken. He died almost instantly, i Engineer Miller was badly cut about [ the head and face. Brakeman Mitch­ ell. Conuuctor Bishop and Baggageman I Adams were also badly cut and bruised, ' but their injuries are not fatal. A rc- ! w*ard will be offered for the apprehen- j sion and punishment of the persons who caused the accident. A dispatch > 6ays that therd is no doubt but the j work was the ies '.lt of a deliberate ' pi t to wreck the traift and take the lives of a number of passengers. The I same kind cf a plot was attempted at ' Vioksburg last week. One of the I trackmen fortunately found that the I plates bad been removed from the rails ! in tr.e tame manner as th°y were that j night and in time to prevent an acci- ' dent. cut to 815 each way, and to Scandina­ via the rata ha> bsen reduced to $15 outward passage and $16 returning. This action has been taken to meet the White Star Line's recent reduction in steerage rate-'. It is expected that a 1 the larger lines will follow suit. it n#ay result in a warfare which will re­ duce transatlantic rates to a lower water mark than ever before reached. THE clubs of the National and West­ ern Leagues stand as follows in the championship ra-e: NATIONAL ZJEAOUE. 1'eri W. Ii. cent.! W. Baltimore..45 21 .ia*Brooklyn...X5 Bonton 47 iift » .('^ Cincinnati.31 New York. .42 27 8t.. Louis ,H2 Cleveland..3'S 30 .!5'J Chicago 27 Pbilaileip'aiS 29 .6S4^ Louisville .2J Piltsburrf. .3# Mi .f>4<j!\VH,Hhingt'ni9 WESTERN' LEAGUK. Perf W. L. cent. W. Sioux City.4:1 22 .fitVjjGrd Rapitfstf Toledo :J8 26 .5!»4 lndiau'p'tiatt Mlnn'p'lls .36 32 .62#jDetroit. ;8 Kansas C'y.34 S3 .:07iMUwa'koe .17 R» G. DUN & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Whea circumstances aro duly weighed tho strength uud soundness of busiaess in ibi* country are amazing. With the sec­ ond city in tho country in the hands ot a lawless and murderous mob, besides many other cities and towns, with railway traf­ fic almost entirety stopped over the vast area between Toledo and the Pacific, with Presidential proclamations declaring the existence of an insurrection and the pas­ sionate ans'ver ordering half a million men to stop work, with a prolonged strike of coal miners not fully ended iu many States, and with differences between the Houso and Senate on the tariff question so wide that duties affectlni; mining and man­ ufactures cannot be anticipated, indus­ tries and trade nevertheless went on with subiime confidence that the pooplo and their government would soon restore order. The shrinkage of busiuess and the depres­ sion of values have been unexpectedly 'small, the failures relatively few and un­ important. and there aro even signs in some Industries of actual progress toward recovery from previous troubles, MARKET RBPOF.TS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.... f3 80 SOUTHERN. THE body of Edwin Traughbar wa? found hanging to a limb near Adaifs- vihe, Ky. THE Kontucky State Treasury be­ came bankrupt and payment was re- lused on all warrants. It is expected that the suspension will last until October or November. A MOB of twenty masked men at Burlington, Ky., took Louis Laferdet- 1 'Uxl--NoTa!1 ta from jail and ly nched him by hang- ' ~ ing. He was a tramp and had murdered William Whitlock, a farmer." T6m and Calvin Corley, brothers, horrible HOGS--Shippinv tirades. BHT-EP--Fair to Choice... WHEAT--No. 2 Hed CoiiN--No. 2 OATS--I.'O. a ItYE--No. 2.... IT UTTisit--choice Creamery Kous--Fresh POTATOES-- .\ew, per brl 1M>1ANAPOL.1S. CATTLE--Shipping ^lloos--Choice ljin'it "BHEEP--common to Prime "WHEAT--No. 2 Ilea 'JOKN - No. -i White OATS--No. it Wuite HT. LOUIS. CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--No. 2 Red.*.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'." COBN--No. 2 OAIe-NO. 2. C I N C1NN' A'i'L* CATTLK HOGB..-. SHEEP * WHEAT--No. 2 Red...'. COKN--No. 2 M.xtd who slew a Jewish peddler, were i HYK^NOV Mlxed hanged at Louisb jrg, N. C. Richard! * ' DETROIT.'"* Pierce, a wife murderer, paid the ex- ' a*"1'® hiiEEp. \v H E A R--N O .1 w h i te.'. *'.'.'.' killed Ed Gr&ut, were executed at Montgomery, Ala. THE most daring and disastrousriot ever marking labor troubles in that section c ccui red Monday afternoon at Pratt City, Ala. At least teven negroes were ki.ied and many wou.K'ed. and one deputy sheyritf was killed and an­ other fatally wounded. At 5:.'>0 o'clock ^Monday afternoon Sheritt Morrow, at J WHEAT--NO. 2 Sprini".." Birmingham, received the following ! r.OI!N v0, telegram from Jones Moore, suf erin- ! B1ELE5-NO^ 2 tenoent of the Tennessee Ccal, Iron 1 HYE--NO. 1 ......I"'.!.!"".'." ^ilrc,ad Company mines at Pratt I Mess... City: "Send military and deputies at 1 CATTLK orce. Strikers are killing all my ! HOOK. negroes." HHEEP. OFFICIAL, investigation which 'the Mexican Government has been con- 4 to 2 tO 66 «; Ai 48 17 » 1 n 3 CO 4 (10 •I Ot 45 (S« 8 '0 a oj tremo penalty at Cape May, N. J.: and Jim Galjoway and Joe Woodley, who vjuvdnmym iiius oeen con- f.7." ducting into the postoffice department kaus--Stat™.... 1**7.".". COKN-NO. 2 Ycl'ow" OATO--No. 2 White... . TOLEDO. WHEAT-No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 Yellow... OATS--No. 2 White HYE-No. 2 BUFFALO. WHEAT-No. 1 White No. 2 lied. COBN--No. 2 Yellow Oatb-t-No, 8 White MILWAUKEE. NEW YORK. WHEAT--No. 2 lied COKN--No. a OA-its--No. 2... at) to 2 CO 4 00 2 00 62 A3 48 43 2 50 4 00 2JB0 CO 49 42 66 60 47 40 62 69 4tf 61 64 42 40 68 60 12 26 8 01 8 75 8 00 6V 48 60 16 11 & 6 00 «S 5 25 0} 4 CO & 67 & 44 <3 W & 40 & lift <!9 10 VFI 2 23 & 4 76 6 W <3» 3 61) 61ty 4t( (9 48 (<? 4 75 <£ 6 00 «9 63 m 40 (<« 31 & 62 & 4 76 & 6 CO 3 73 & 13 & 43!^ & 43,'9 (£0 60 @ 4 CO <A 5 60 (4 3 75 & driven into the buildings on both sides of the street, and birely enough was left in the rcadway to indicate the spoi where the vehicle had stood. The four horses wjr.) 1 rightfully cut and mangled by the shrapnel. They plunged about in age nie 4 on the ground for a few moments and then lay : till. The horres on tho second t iece of ar­ tillery righi behind the explosion fared little better. All exceot one were killed. The cause of the explosion remains a mystery. As nearly all the cases in the ammunition chest were discharged, the cause of the accident will never be discovered. It is supposed, how- evyr, to have been caused by the acci­ dental unscrewing of an imperfect shrapnel shell cap. JUDGE DEFIES THE ARMY. Detachment of Kegtilar Troops Ordered from » California Courtroom. At Sacramento, Cal., . during the hearing of a writ of habea^ 0 rpus for the release of three Dunsmuir strikers before Judge Catlin, a detachment of regulars marched into the courthouse with the evident intention of taking the prisoners. Judge Catlin immedi­ ately arote and called upon persons who were present to resist any attempt of the sold erj to take away the strikers. Th3 excitement in the court-room was intense. Several of the spectators reached lor their hip po< k- ets and announced their determination to follow Judge Cathn's instructions to prevent the regulars from taking away the prisoner.. Others securely barred the docrj leading to ti e co. rt-room and threateningly declared their in­ tention of re isting the regulars. While the excitement was at fever heat the a ti tant District Attorney arose and waved the regulars back. He then commanded them to return to their quarters at the depot. FIGURING ITS COST. ^ ^ ' rvr DOINGS OP CONGRESS. artillery, was proceeding south rn Grand boulevard to Washington Pft 'k. Capt. Dodd from Fort Riley was in command. With him were troop B of the Seventh Regimen^ Capt. \ a^num; trocp E of the Sixth Regiment, Lieut. Hyer; and two pieces cf artil'ery of battery F, under c:mmand of Lieut. Gayle. Soldier* B'own High In Air. Troop F was in the lead, with troop B following. Behind this came the ar­ tillery, and troop E bi ought up the rear. In this order the soldiers were riding. Just as the artillery reached the intersection of Oakwood bou'evard the explosion occurred. First there cam3 a terrific concussion which blew the men seated on the caisson high into the air and prostrated the artil- le y horses and the nearest cavalry­ men. This was followed immediately j by a series of lesser explosions. These caused much less slaughter than the first. Donovan and D' y!e. two gi n­ nery seated on the exploding caisson, were thrown hundreds of feet into the air. Their mangled remains were af­ terward found 1:00 feet or mcr3 away from the scene. F/ uallv terrible was tho fate of Jce Galler, of Troop B, ju-t behind the ex­ plosion. His head was crushed by the she'l-*, The caisson was totally wrecked. Bits of the wheels were tJSCLE SAM FINALLY KILLS THE GIANT OF POLYGAMY. KXPLOSION or THE CAISSON. against rioters. What the railroad conn anies will do in the way of de­ manding financial redress ftom the county and c'ty has not been deter­ mined by the General Managers, but many suits aro exj ected. The commis.-ion men of South Water street wi.l meet to formu'ate a plan of action in regard to claims against the railrcad companies, it was estimated that the claims would aggregate $5J0,- 0i,0, and that the looses of the commis- eicn men would not be less than $1,- 503.000. In Chicago and vicinity, including Hammond, eight or, indirectly, ten lives were lost, the v'ctinn being killed outright or afterwards dying of their injuries while the number of wounded, as far as reported, wa; forty- one. At east nine, and probably ten, livos have been lo t throughout the West outside of Chicago. This dees not include those kilted and injured by the explosion of the caisson on a Chif- caso boulevard. CONSPICUOUS RAILWAY MAN. cent. Per L. cent. b6 ,6uo 36 .4!M 40 .412 42 .228 AFTER THE EXPLOSION Joha M. E;an, Chairman of the General Managers' Strike Committee. John M. Egan is one of the most con­ spicuous figures iu the rai road world by reason of his recont position as Chairman of the Gen­ eral Managers' Strike Committee. Mr. Egan i s a n a t i v e o f h e w England, but is more widely known in the West, having gone there at an early age. He is 4(i years of age. When a boy he en- t red the machine shops of tho .Illinois Central Railway, and at 19 was a clerk in JOHS JI. EGAN. T^e freight depart­ ment. He soon entered the engineers' office, and in 1877 became Chief En­ gineer of the Southern Minnesota Rail­ road. • Latjr he became conne ted with theS uthern Pac tic. and in 13rti was cho.en General Superinto.'jde >t of the St. Paul. Minneapolis and Man toba Railway. Iu he assumed the man­ agement of tho Chicago. St. Paul and Kansas City Railroad, and in lb(J0 be­ came president ot' the company, a po­ sition he held until April of the pres ent year. He knows all about the rai'- rcad busine-s. and by nature is pecu­ liarly qualified to fight and put d„wn strikes. FAVORS ARBITRATION. A DEADLY WEAPON. 61 «2Ja 88'-4 to;a 48 61 62^ 60 60 61J4 U¥u 43 4054 f 4 61 & 1312 76 & 6 26 6 60 4 25 <O» CO & 4tt 61 17H 18 Kaltrsid Logs eft. In Chicago Alone, Caused l»y the Strike May Uracil 88,000,000. One of the General Managers in speaking of the cist of tho'great strike to the rai Load.* in Chicago alone said that tho lo-ses to the i oads might go as high s s $u,0 ;<l,00 The loss occa- bioned by suso nded tralf c will be the largest item, but the destruction of property will be by no meins a small one. >ear'y C0j Fanhanule cars wore destroyed in one blaze, anl of this number ninety-eight contained mer- chandi e. It will be necessary to learn what the e cars contained before any computation of loss can bri made. Within the city limits tower houses have b en burned and tracks been U r.) up. Damage has been done in many railroad s> ops, and enormou i sum* ex. ended in detending the roads scattering as it is discharged, the gun, in the hands of a fairly accurate shot, is capable of disab ing lf.0 men to the m nute. Ma^hnl Arnold claimed that five men armed with thesa weapons and fairly protected cou'd easily dis­ pose of a mcb of 50,OOu rioers. V AT BRANDYWINE. Monument to Be Erarted on tho Historic Battlefield. The design given below is for a monument to bo erected to the mem­ ory of Gene al Washington upon tho b a t t l e f i e l d a t C h a d d ' s F o r d j Pa.,which is his­ toric by reasoii of the jaot thai! it is the only en­ gagement of im- portanca of tfye. lie volution a ry war in which the c o 1 o n i a t forces were de­ feated when un­ der the command of General Wash­ ington. The shart will cost about" $15,000. It is to be sixty feet in height, and BKANDYWISE SHAFT. weig,; about J80 ton*. The base wild con ain a historical room about 13x9 fo • thj s.orj ge of relics of the great lattle. THE BLACK PLAGUE. Senator George W.intt a Board treate;l with Power to Settle Libor Hlopnte-. James Z. George, United States Sen­ ator from Mississippi, introduced a bill in the Senate to create a board of labor arbitration. Senator George ii a native of Georgia, and is (W years old. His father having died in his infancy, he removed with his mother when he was 8 years old to Missis­ s i p p i . T h o u g h q u i ' o young, he served in the Mexican war. In l£54,and again in I860 ho was elected Re­ porter of the High Court of Errors and Appeals. In 1861 ho I*"--. r.vmu;;-.. was a member cf the convention in Mississippi which passed the ordinance of sece-sion, and he voted for and signed that instrument. He was a Brigadier General of the State tro.>ps, and held other offices during the war. In 1871) he was Chief Justice of the Su­ preme Court of Mississippi, but re­ signed his seat on the Supreme Bench to enter tho Unit3d States Senate in March of lS^l. He was re-elected in 1886, and again in 1891'. The 3Tew Riot Gun Which Can Disable ISO lWen to the Minute. The "riot gun" with which United States Marshal Arnold armed his posse of deputies during the re ent trouble in C h i Q a g o is really a cross be­ tween the Gat- ling gun and the Fie i. eh mitrail­ l e u s e . I t m a y be denned as a repeating shot­ gun. but is tjie most powerful hand arm e vi r loaded with pow­ d e r a n d s h o t . Tho weapon is of lar; er bore than t h e a v e r a g e army rile, but weighs les*. Its magazine has room for six 12- c a l i b e r c a r - t i d g e s . E a c h c a r t r i d g e c o n - j tuins rtj drams of u c w d e r a n d \ z b C i t s h o t . B e ­ tween the shot and the powder are twp eighth- inch completed ra er waas The THFC »IOT OT'N. SI.ell of tne car- (Staowlntr ti.«- c«rtr.dpe tridgo is of pa- full ±izr,) foamed by a i im of brass. Its outward appearance is very much like the ordinary shot­ gun snell, but its surface is thicker and much stronger. Tho six cartridge* may b± fired in half as many te itinds, thus throwing sevent;-two scatte ing bullets any of which would inflict a serious wound at ei/hty yards distance Tho magazine may be reloaded easily within a half minute, it is calculated that with the shot of ea;h cartridge Its Spread Directly Attributable to Native Superstition. The spread of the black plague in China was due to a great extent to tho superstition of th^ natives. In Hong Kong it was by a mere matter of acci­ dent that the European authorities learned cf the disease, as the natives carefully concealed t'ne spread of the contagion. Placards wero brought to He ng Kong from Canton, which reveal ! the deadly suspici >n of all foreign | means of treatment. These placards warned all people not to go to Hong Kong nor to- permit their wives and children to go, becau:e they wou'd lall victims to the foreign doctors, wno were chopping up all sick persons in order to make medicine out of their eyes and bones. No amount of explanation has yet sufficed to erjxlicite the deep-seated suspicion that, all foreign doc:ors are on the still hunt for the eyes of dead Chines?. The people cannot understand that European medicine does no', value cer­ tain parts of a body for medicine, be­ cause their own physician-, who are mainly quacks, insist that by eating certain parts of the b dies ot animals one may secure the b st qualitios of those animals. They cling to this be­ lief, and therefore such absurd stories as those t f Christian missionarie3 kill­ ing native children to secure their eyes ficd ready credence. In Hong Kong th s silly suspicion of foreign ucctors Jed to thousands of un­ necessary deaths. When the physi­ cians began house-to-house inspection f6r patients suffering from the plague there was a tremendous clamor, t la- p a r d s w e r e n o s t e d n o t t o p e r m i t t h e foreign devils to enter their horns--, as this search for patients was merely a ruse. These warnings also declared that m^nyVho were removed were not suffering, from the dread dis; ase, but liad been selected a* spec:ally suit- ab:e for furnishing medicines. In the excited condition of the public these p'acards and rumors created such a*i outbur.-t of fanaticism that the doctors were forced to give up the hou e inspection for two das s. Before they relinqui;hed ii, however, they were actually stoned by crowds which followed them in'tJ«e streets. The police detailed armed Sikhs to accompany the doctors, but thi i was found to promote dan . er of an insurrection, and it was finally decided to yield to native c amor. After two dav's the inspection wa? lesumed, the native Governor having is ued a proc­ lamation warning every one from in­ terfering with the doctors. All par tienta, however, were trari ferred to the native hospitals, as the Chinese absolutely refused to use the European hos pital. ; Telegraphic Click*. AN unknown negro wa3 lynched at Biloxi, Miss. THIRTEEN men and wotnefl working in a field at Delmo> Prussia, were killed by lightning. HARRIS G. HADLEY, a noted crim­ inal, has been arrested at Elwo.d, Ind., for hor e stealing'. Two CHILDREN named Carlston lay down in the railway track at Borden- town, N. J., and were killed. MAIL from the East which had been delayed for sevon days reached San 1 ram isco by way o: Seattle. A TRACTION engine and team went through a bridge at Lima, Ohio, kill­ ing Jacob Allen and the team. SEAR^HEFS for Cook Colgate, de­ sert el by the Carlin hunting party, have returned to Missoula, Mont., empty-handed. MINNESOTA'S Supremo Court decid­ ed in favor of the republicans in t ie contest for control of tho municipal; r scmbly of St. Paul. COMMONWEALERS encamped in tie vicinity of Wtshinerton are in dira straits for food, and desertions are daily taking placa. IT is eaid tho Czar ha^ announced his intenttcn to pardon on the occasion of the wedding of the Czarowitz and Pr'ncess Alix cf Hesse a large number of person* convicted of poli ieal of­ fense . Thj C?arina, it is also said, will louod a char t»ble f.nstitutkn in honor of the marriage. MEASURES CONSIDERED AND , ACTED' UPON^«:4, • At the Button's Capital--What U Done by the Senate and House--Old Mat­ ters Disposed Of and New Ones Consid- nd itnOlii In tLe Senate the river and harbor bill was passed Friday without debate and other important bills taken up. The House agreed to the report of the conferrees on the pension appropriation bllL It makes but slow progress with the tnrlff. The re­ mainder of the day was devoted to tho consideration of private liiils. Although several were debated none were passed. At 5 o'clock the House-took a recess until & The evening session was devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. Two more appropriation bills--the legis­ lative, executive and judicial and the Dis­ trict of Columbia--were disposed of by the- Senate Monday. This leaves but four more appropriation bills to be considered --t'ae Indian, agricultural, sundry civil and deficiency-- t»ud of these only the first lias corns from the committee. 1 he con­ ference report on the military academy ap­ propriation bill was agreed ta The House, by a vote of 125 to 27, adopted a resolution offered by Mr. McCreary. of Kentucky, indorsing the action of the President and the administration in suppressing lawless­ ness in connection with the strike. The remainder of the day was spent In an effort to press the Bailey bankruptcy bill, but. although it was engrossed and read a third time, tho quorum failed on the final vote In the Senate Tuesday, the following; House bills were rassed: To authorize the- construction of a bridge over the Missis­ sippi at Dubuque, Iowa; providing for the- resurvcy or Cirant and Hooker Counties. Nebraska. Consideration of the agri­ cultural appropriation bill was thea resumed, and Mr. llansbrough offered an' amendment appropriating 61,000,- 000 for the destruction of the Russian, thistle upon tho bill as a "rider." A point of order was made against it by Mr. Cock- rell, but by a vote of 26 to 22 the Senate decided tho amendment to be in order, and it was adopted, 27 to 24. 'i he House passed the Bailey voluntary bankruptcy bill by a vote of 127 to 81 and devoted the remain­ der of the day to business reported' from the Judiciary Committee. Only two bills, however, were disposed of--one to create an additional Circuit Judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit and the other mak~ ing United States railroad corporations, for the purpose of jurisdiction, citizens of the States through which they pass or into- which they got In the Senate, Wednesday, Mr. Carey called up the Senate bill to reserve for ten years in each of several States 1.003,001 acres of arid lands to be reclaimed and1 •old in email tracts to actual settlers, and it was passed. The,> bill applies to the same States as the desert land- law an'J al-io to Montana and Kansas and to the States that may be formed out of tlio Territories of Arizona. New Mexico. Oklahoma and Utah, when admitted. By unanimous consent bills were passed by the House authorizing the con­ struction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Lexington. Ma; also a resolution calling on tho Secre­ tary of War fur a report on the Govern­ ment improvements at Sausatuck Hafbor. Mich. Under the special order adopted on Monday the remainder of the day was de­ voted to business reported from the com­ mittee on military affairs. Bills were also passed to regulate enlistments in the army, to authorize tho Board of Manaiers of the Soldiers" Hotne to transfer and maintain tho inmates of any branch in case of emer­ gency, to place Major General John L. Green on 1 he retired list as first lieuten­ ant. Napoleon J. T. D!-"a as an assistant quartermaster, Dunbar K Ransom as cap­ tain, Charles. B Stivers us captain and James William Albert as Major. How Miners Art? Robbed. In discussing the treatment received by the miners from the operatjrs in the coal regions, where pluck-rr.e stores, dcckage, etc., are common things, Henry 1). Lloyd related the following: "The most gla-ing and out­ rageous, the most utterly damnable case of systematic oppression ever known was at Spring Valley, 111., about ten years- aeo. W. L. Hcott -- happily he is dead--or ganized the company and built the town. Miners were lured there by good wages and bought hemes. When the men had their homes half paid for f>0 per cent, were locked out. When their mortgages had been duly foreclosed the other half weie locked out and their hemes went to the spoilers. There was no violence, njuptoar. no militia. The" miners r-eemed to think it was all rigtft. There was a singular thing happened at Spring Yaller. Tne last )«ckout left but few men at work. They held a meeting ana decided to work only half time-they weto earning but $i<> per month--and let the men with families stand off starvation a while longer bv working the other ha'f. This would not do for tho proprietors. When the r knew it they shut dtwn work and everyone starved at his leisure." Left $SOO tb Her Do 5. There is a little dog named Bobby, a Skye terrier, in New York, that should feel extremely ha'ipv, and very prob­ ably there are many peiple in tho great metropolis and elsewhere who would liko to swap place.*, but of cour-e not forms, with that dog. l:obby, by the will of his mistress,Mrs. Kunegunda Kugler, is left $300 during his lifetime. Of course he hasn't got the money him­ self, for dogs can't use money: but it is held in tru&t for him. The will says nothing about his heirs, so probably the trustee < will use the balance after Bobby's death. There are a good many people who would hasten the end. A Man with a Double Heart. When tho Mercer County (N. J.' Medical Association was in session a few years ago. a colored individual named William King came before them for examination. He claimed to have two hearts, but a careful exami­ nation revealed the fact that his hea"t was double instead of being tw > sep­ arate blocd-pumping t>rgans. Be?ides having two distinct pulsations, which could easily bo felt, he had wonderful control over his doublolifo engine, be­ ing able to stop its boaling fop sixty Eeconds without inconvenience. Tills and That. WHEN ants are unusually busy weather is at hand. MANY scientists row believe that the atmosphere is not less than one hundred miloj deep, and may be two hundred. Ox manv railroads of Germany the? station agents are parmitted to keep> bees, which thus form a small soureei of income. Tint • laborers in every occupation! aro paid from two to fi\e times as much in tht I'nitel States as in any country in Europe. IN 18I:$ William Burton patented a loc imotivo that was provided with legs and feet b hind to push the machine along the track. IF a person suffering from whooping cough asks advico of a man riding on a piebald horso. the malady will be cured by doing what the man tells him to do. Misa MARY PROCTOF, daughter of the 'ate Richard A. Proctor, is a deep student of the science of astronomy. She recently delivered a lecture in Brooklyn on "The Giant Sun and His Family," which, though prepared for children, proved instructive and enter­ taining to adults .xiiil IAwv-lw.