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it I.WmYKl, MbrlNMIMMr. ILLINOIS. •m WKWB CONDBHSED. •;! THE EAST. '"'V- &r a cam near Silver Creek, N. J., an excursion tndn and a freight train came in the smoking car being telescoped car. Fifteen persons were mangled in a shocking manner others more or less seriously Jkx Irvington-on-the-Hudson, George J. eldest son of Jay Gould, the mil- was united in marriage to Miss Kingdon, the actress, who arrived from Europe a few hours previous to the oeresMoy New York dispatch: "James G. Blaine Jr. has returned to this city and njoiMd his bride. After their marriage the yonng couple went to Boston, where «»y remained two days. Young Blaine Hian started for his home, while his bride mtamed to this city. Mr. J. 6. Blaine has pardoned his son, and has given him a liberal allowance to spend during the honeymoon.n THE WEST. . CNTBDON S. HUBBABD, who has just tKed In Chicago, located there in 1818, while employed by the American Fur Com­ pany as a clerk. Besides Fort Dearborn and the residence of John Einzie there was only one log cabin. Some years after­ ward he established trading posts between the S«nkakee and Sangamon Rivers, hav­ ing learned the Indian language. In 1834, at the corner of Franklin and South Water streets, lie built the first brick building in Chicago. In organizing a line of vessels to Buffalo he used Commodore Perry's flag­ ship and the captured British flagship. He was born in Vermont in 1802. He leaves a second wife, a son and daughter, and four aged sisters. THE Common Pleas Court at Cleveland baa commenced the trial of the three-cor­ nered suit for the foreclosure of' bonds of the Nickel-Plate Road Fire at Elgin, HI., destroyed Da Bois' Opera House Block. The loss is $100,000, divided among about a dozen occupants. T., F. 8wan, a leading merchant, was probably fatally injured, and several other persons were hurt . PINK-EYB lias made its appearance in Shelby County, Illinois, and many horses have died of the malady. It is rapidly spreading, and nothing can be done to stop its progress A fire which caught in Holmes' elevator at Brooklyn, Iowa, spread rapidly, destroying several stores, tene­ ments, and offices. The loss is figured at $76,000. THBRE are still twenty-six of the Chica­ go policeman wounded in the Haymarket Slot unable to report for duty. The total amount subscribed to the fund donated to file sufferers is $70,361... .By removing a nil on fiie Grand Trunk track near South Lyon, Mich., some miscreant caused the death of a fireman and the injuring of an engineer and brakeman. A GREAT rain-storm, In many sections Moompanied by violent wind, swept over the West last week. Michigan seemB to have suffered more than any other State from the meteorological disturbance. In Livingston, Washtenaw, Wayne, Lenawee, and 1 lonroe Counties the wind blew a hur­ ricane, playing havoc with farm property, barns, wind-mills, fences and standing At Howell four buildings were and one man killed. At _ , the German Lutheran Church was blown from its foundation, and the State military buildings at Orchard Lake were destroyed. Flat Rock escaped damage by the storm dividing and passing in sections on each side of it. The western part of the city of Adrian was considerably dam­ aged, though no fatalities are reported. There is a rumor that great havoc was wrought at Monroe, but as the wires were all prostrated by tlie elements no particu­ lars are at hand at this writing. Indiana also suffered great damage from the ele­ mental disturbance. Many buildings were unroofed at Terre Haute, and the loss is 8laced at $50,000. At Newport, Vermil-on County, 68 buildings were wrecked, but, strange to Bay, no fatalities are re­ ported. The damage along the Wabash Valley to farm property is estimated at 9100,000. The storm was felt in Hli- nois likewise. At Illiopolis the roof was blown from Masonic Hall, and many winr dows were broken by the hailstones, which were of unusual size. At Shelbyvillo, houses and barns were wrecked, stock killed, fences and trees leveled, and grain slacks scattered. The largest saw-mill in the United States, located at Chippewa Palls, Wis., worth $250,000, was destroyed to a stroke of lightning during the progress n the storm. THE SOUTH. is said that not more than twenty white families are left in the town of Summer- ville, S. C. A shock occurred there on the 16th inst. which overthrew a small brick building. At a meeting of the relief com­ mittee at Charleston it was stated that ft would take at least $1,000,000 to make necessary repairs upon the res­ idences of the people, who are un­ able unaided to repair their homes. Ex-Governor Lucius Fairchild, Command- er-in- Chief of the Grand Army of the Re­ public, who went to Charleston for the pwpose of examining the situation of affairs, has issued an appeal to members of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which «• requests department commanders to eau upon each post in their department to appoint committees to collect subscription a to the relief fund. The money collected is to be transmitted to headquarters, whence it will be Bent to the Mayor of Charleston* AN avalanche of stone crashed down the mountain side upon the home of Leslie Cummins, in Jackson County, West Vir­ ginia. Frank Cummins and Edward Jenks, the hired man, were killed, as were also five horses. Two children were so badly crushed that they can not recover. The house and bains were smashed to kindling wood. WASHINGTON. j; /SACTTTABY MANNING'S personal friends, says a Washington dispatch, assert that his decision to retire from the Treasury De­ partment is final, and has been unchanged /Snce. forwarded his resignation to the President. The latter was, and is now ST?1?'* 40 .\08in8 Mr. Manning from his of' ACTWO 8*C*ni*» *AI»OMUI KI issued a call for $15,000,000 of 3 per cent, bonds. What is commonly known as the voluntary bond call, or the circular of Aug. 30, issued by the Treasury Department, offering to redeem uncalled 3 nor csik. bonds to the amount of §10,000,000 if pte- sented before 8ept. 15, has been so modi­ fied as to offer to redeem, until farther no­ tice, all 3 per oent. bonds presented at the Treasury at par, sad with accrued interest up to the date of r**ftmption. SECRETARY W*mra has issued to the assignees of John Roach, in full payment of all claims for the Dolphin and Puritan, a warrant for $45,000. POUT1CAL. A SKCRXT organisation has been formed at Pittsburgh, Pa., for the sole purpose of purifying the polities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny City. The organization includes over seven hundred of the stanchest and most influential business and professional men of the two cities. It will not take active part in any political fight until the membership has reached 10,000. THE Wisconsin Labor party assembled in State Convention at Neenah, and nom­ inated an out-and-out labor ticket, consti­ tuted as follows: Governor, Colonel John D. Cochrane; Lieutenant Governor, George A. Lloyd; Secretary of State, J. P. Jasperson; State Treasurer, Frederick Hoenig; Attorney General, John E. Thom­ as; Railroad Commissioner, Henry Zinn; Superintendent of Public Institutions, J. K. McGregor; Insurance Commis­ sioner, Rittner Stephens. The platform declares that the use of violence in any form to settle disputes is utterly unjustifi­ able in a civilized community, whether ad­ vised by fanatical anarchists or prac­ ticed by corrupt politicians; favors the Government control of money, land, means of communication, and public improve­ ment; advocates labor bureaus, conducted in the interests of the whole people; the simplification of laws to but one on each subject; arbitration in place of strikes: the prohibition of child and convict labor; a graduated income tax; the amend­ ment of the patent laws so as to give labor a part of the benefit of labor-saving inventions, and to prevent monopolies; the forfeiture of all land grants, and the abolition of alien ownership in lands; a Government loan of money, and a rigid enforcement of the law against the importation of foreign labor The Pennsylvania Greenback-Labor Con­ vention at Harrisburp was presided over by Congressman Brumm. A resolution de­ claring that the convention should not af­ filiate with any other party or indorse any other candidates was adopted with a shout, after which the following ticket was nom­ inated: Governor, Robert J. Houston; Lieutenant Governor, John Parker; Audit­ or, General Daniel S. Early; Secretary of Internal Affairs, Seth H. Hoagland; Con- gressman-at-Large, Dr. C. D. Thomp­ son. The platform of the party demands that the Government shall issue all money; that no more bonds be issued by the Government; that all unearned lands be forfeited; that after 1900 the Government buy all lands held by aliens; that any deed made by a citizen of the United States to an alien after January, 1887, shall be void, and that land held by individuals or corporations in excess of 160 acres, whether improved or unimproved, shall be taxed as cultivated land; de­ nounces convict, imported, pauper, and heathen labor; demands a graduated in­ come tax; the recognition of trades unions, orders, and such other organizations, and that the Government buy all telegraphs and railroads; favors a practical eight-hour law; the prohibition of child labor; the abolition of the contract system in public work; the adoption of laws providing for the health and safety of workingmen and their indemnification from injuries.... At a State convention of the Midbouri Pro- . hibitionists, held at Sedalia, the following ticket was placed in the field: Supreme Judge, I. B. Orr; Superintendent of Pub­ lic Schools, A. J. Emerson; Railroad Com­ missioner, J. F. Brumer. The platform arraigns the Democratic and Republican parties and urges voters not to abandon their demands of Congress to suppress the liquor traffic wherever it is prohibited by law; that a prohibitory amendment be submitted to the next Legislature of Missouri, and that the Sunday laws be enforced. It declares for woman snffrage.... Congressional nominations: William H. Neece, Democrat, Eleventh Illinois Dis­ trict; Ralph Plumb, Republican, Eighth Illinois; J. H. Gallinger, Republican, Sec­ ond New Hampshire; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth Wisconsin; Byron Dunn, Republican, Fourth Missouri; Editor Joseph B. Cheadle, Republican, ffinth Indiana; Robert M. La Follette, Republicen, Third Wisconsin; W. T. Wallace, Greenbacker, Tenth Illinois; George H. Lacy, Green- backer, Eighth Illinois; John J. Donovan, Democrat, Eighth Massachusetts; M. A. Haynes, Republican, First New Hampshire; Dr. Stelye, Democrat-Greenbacker, Fifth Pennsylvania; Martin L. Clardy, Demo­ crat, Tenth Missouri; Marshall Parks, Dem­ ocrat, Second Virginia; W. H. Forney, Demoorat, Seventh Alabama; Frank T. Shaw, Democrat, Second Maryland; Barnes Compton. Democrat, Fifth Maryland; John H. Rogers, Democrat, Fourth Arkansas; E. C. McFetridge, Republican, Second Wisconsin; Justin R. Whiting, Demo­ crat - Greenbacker, Seventh Michigan; Ives Dungan, Democrat, Eleventh Ohio; J. J. Pugoley, Republican, Twelfth Ohio; R. M. Murray, Democrat, Third Ohio; Gen. Jasper Packard, Re­ publican, Thirteenth Indiana; Wilbur T. Sanders, Republican, Montana Territory; O. B. Thomas, Republican, Seventh Wis­ consin; Sherwood Dixon, Democrat, Sev­ enth Illinois; W. W. Adler, Prohibitionist, Fourteenth Illinois.... An Augusta (Me.) dispatch says that official election returns from 472 towns are as follows: Bodwell, Republican, 68,115; Edwards, Democrat, 54,764; Clark, Prohibitionist, 3,839; scattering, 192. Bodwell'B plurality, 13,351; Bodwell's majority 9,45)3.... The National Anti-Saloon Republican Convention, held in Chicago last week, had nearly two hundred delegates, repre­ senting eighteen States. Senator Blair was made temporary Chairman, and an­ nounced that they met to organize for the destruction of the rum traffic throughout the country. Ex-Senator Windom was elected permanent President. Resolutions were adopted demanding that the Repub­ lican party take a decided stand as the enemy of the saloon, and favoring legisla­ tion by Congress to prohibit the manufact­ ure or sale of liquor in the Territories. FOBEIGH. IMP a»a at total - - an rsportsd.. . .Japan advices 59,000, of which 37,000 Mftdad Seven penona were instantly by the collapse of a suspension at Ostmu, in Moravia. A squadron of uhlans was riding across when the structure fell. PRINCE WOHAM, son of the German Crown Prince, who has bean visiting the Czar on a mission from Emperor William, has accomplished the same and departed, the Czar accompanying him to the depot and embracing him several times while bidding him farewell... .Several British fishing vessels have been taken into cus­ tody by the French Government for infringing the Ipw which forbids foreign fishing vessels to enter French ports, except when compelled to by stress of weather or want of provisions In a Catholic churoh at Radna, Austria, a panic was created by the altar curtains taking fira from the candles. Fifteen persons were crushed to death, and thirty more were se­ verely injured William Cuffe, an Irish bailiff who Jhad cruelly treated an evicted woman, wasfset upon by females while at church and unmercifully beaten The yacht Volka, propelled by electricity, crossed the English Channel from Dover to Calais in three hours and fifty-one min­ utes. > ADDITIONAL HEWS. U*. MCFETBIDGE declines the lican nomination for Congress from the Second Wisconsin District... .The total vote of Arkansas in the September election foots up 143,000. The Democratic major­ ity is 37,000. The Legislature stands: House, 90 Democrats, 67 Republicans, 3 Wheelers. Senate, 37 Democrats, 5 Re­ publicans and Wheelers. The Labor Congress in session at Toron­ to protested against the Government plac­ ing the results of convict labor on the market The miners in the Oakhill pits, near Brazil, Ind., went on a strike. The trouble grew out of some alleged light­ weight scales, and 150 men left their picks and shovels.... There was 183 failures in the United States last week, against 153 the previous week, 148 in 1885, 305 in 1884, 177 in 1883, and 139 in 1882. The total failures in the United States this year are 7,187, against 8,193 in a like period in 1885. I AT Hartford, Conn., the memorial arch, erected in honor of the soldiers and sailors of the war was dedicated with imposing services and a grand parade. General Joseph R. Hawley delivered the address. Seven Governors of States and Repre­ sentatives of three others met at Philadel­ phia to arrange for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the promulgation of the National Constitution, which will take place September 17, 1887. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE lace manufacturers ask their employes to accept a wage-reduc­ tion of fifty per cent. A lockout is im­ minent At Bucharest, in Roumania, an assassin shot at M. Bratiano, the Rou­ manian Prime Minister, on the street. The bullet missed its aim and wounded a mem­ ber of the Chamber of Deputies. The angry populace nearly wrecked an opposi­ tion newspaper office, and vainly endeav­ ored to take the assassin from the hands of the authorities. GENERAL S. W. CRAWFORD, who went to Charleston immediately after the earth- quake, has returned to Washington. He says that the most pressing need in the af­ flicted city just now is among the- small property-holders, whose little homes have been destroyed. These people are utterly . unable to repair their ruined dwellings unless it be by mortgaging or otherwise incumbering the property to an extent that would in most cases be a virtual trans­ fer. THE American Agricultural and Dairy Association held its seventh annual conven­ tion in Philadelphia last week. The mem­ bers characterized the passage of the oleo­ margarine bill as the greatest victory ever won for the farmers. The protection of American industries was demanded. Pres­ ident Cleveland wrote a letter expressing regret that he could not be present A special agent of the Treasury Department who recently returned from Alaska says the master of the seized British vessel Onward admitted having killed his catch of seal along the shores of the islands. IT is said on the authority of a Cincin­ nati priest that Pope Leo has ordered that the $4,000,000 owed by the late Archbishop Purcell be paid within 'five years. Several conferences of the Bishops of the Cincin­ nati diocese have been held in the last three months, at which the subject of the debt has been considered, but no satisfac­ tory basis of settlement has been agreed upon Julius Baum & Co., wholesale clothiers at San Francisco, have made an assignment with liabilities estimated at between $750,- 000 and $1,000,000... .Robbers blew up the farm-house of John W. Shryock, near Olney, 111,, and escaped with $1,400 in money, after shooting Mr. Shryock in the leg... .Near Chetek, Wis., a farmer named Upsold killed his wife with a razor and hanged himself with a bed-cord. IT is reported from Washington that Secretary Manning will go to Austria as United States Minister instead of returning to the Treasury Department. dition of Mr. Manning's health, and there- lore cannot conscientiously insist upon Ms remaining. As soon as Mr. Manning s physician diagnosed the «ase he announced that * it would j be almoet as much as the patient's life was to attempt to tax his brain ' -c.̂ re8 &n<i responsibilities, to say Bottling of the physical duties, of his poBi- I tton....The issue of silver dollars ?rom *eek was $661,253, *'i • f®r the same period last JSf of fractional silver ®Oin Since Sept. 1 amount to £447 KRK TlwtotaTonmber °f silver dollars coined jjjjjlar the Bhuad act is 239,000,000. The report that Canada had made a ner* emptoiy demand for the release of the ves­ sels recently seized in Alaskan waters i« by Jhe State Department in Wash­ ington Thomas E. Benedict filed with lbs Secretary of the Interior his bond in $100,000 as PuWie Printer, and formall? charge of the office on the 14th IT is reported that Bismarck is support­ ing the project of a Russian-Turkish alii ance under which Russia guarantees to the Sultan the regaining of Cyprus and Egypt, on condition that Turkey allows Russia's war-ships free passage through the Darda­ nelles, and supports the candidacy of the Duke of Oldenburg for the Bulgarian throne... .Gladstonians and Parnellites declare that the winter will see a social war in Ireland, unless rents are reduced and evictions stopped. BULGARIA is to purchase, for $400,000, the property in that country owned by Prince Alexander, retaining half that sum to liquidate the Prince's indebtedness to the national bank. A Vienna dispatch to the London Timet asserts that Russia, Ger­ many, and Austria will take common action in regard to the vacant throne... .Father Fahy, a priest of Woodford, Ireland, has been sent to prison for six months for | threatening a landlord whose tenant had been evicted The eleven English fish ing boats seized by France have been re- ; leased. } { CHOIJERA is gaining ground in Austria ' and Italy. The disease is still at Seoul, . Corea. In July there were 38,600 fatal THE men who own England contribute annually $600,000 for Sunday schools and missions. The men who work give $2,000,000. THE MARKETS. NEW YOBK. BEEVES HOGS WHEAT--No. 1 White....... No. 2 Bed..; CORN--No. 2 OATS--White PORK--New Mess CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping Common HOGS-- Shipping Grades.. Fnotra---Extra Spring WHEAT--No. a Ked CORN--No. 2 OATH--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar.. Full Cream, new EGGS--Fresli POTATO KS--Early ltose, per bu.. FOBK--Mess WHEAT--Cash CORK--No. 2..... OATS--No. Si RYE--NO. 1 POBK--Mesa.... WHEAT--No. 2.. CORN--No. 2 . . . . OATS--No. 2 MILWAUKEE. TOLEDO. DETROIT. ' .,̂ 4 ̂ ' » BEEF CATTLE.... HOGS SHEEP W HE AT--Michigan Bed*. CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 White..! Wn.T-Sa! WORN--Mixed.".*.'.' ATS--Mixed OBK--New Mess . .. . _ „ CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2- Bed CORN--No. 2 1'.I'.!" OATH--NO. 2 * PORK- Mess LIVE HOGS BUFFALO*" WHEAT--No. 1 Hard CORN--Ho. 2 CATTLE INDIANAPOLIS. BEEF CATXUI HOGS SHEEP WHJSAT--NO. 2 Mixed. CORN--NO. 2 OATS--Mo. 2 "" EAST LIBERTY. CATTUE--Best. Fair Oomman rPy**-;•»* • •••'••v . N L U T e , ? • • I .. " I '*>• -' i 4*. • $4.50 & 5.75 LIS & 5.25 .86 & .87 .OT ® .88 .49 @ .59 .85 & .40 11.25 <912.00 5.35 & 5.75 4.00 & 4.75 3.00 @ 3.75 450 & 5.25 4.35 & 4.73 .74}*® .75J4 .38 & .39 .35 & .25J4 .23 & .24 .16 & .18 .00^ ̂ .10 .10.10« .16 m .17 .55 & .60 10.35 010.75 .75 9 .75)$ .38 & .89 .25 & .25* .51 & .53 10.35 @10.75 .77 0 .78 .41 0 .43 .96 0 .37 4.00 & 5.25 4.00 & 5.25 8.25 & 4.25 .78 & .79 .48 0 .48* .80 0 .81 .75 O .86 0 .25ftg» .76)4 11.03 011.50 010.75 A 5.00 4.75 <9 5.95 4.25 & 4.75 8.05 @ 4.25 XL Benedict, Qm Hew Public Printer. Thomas E. Benediot was boxn at War­ wick, Orange jjounty, K. Y., in 1839. His education was obtained at the common school and at the Warwick Institute. He engaged in teaching during his early years, and drifted thence into a railroad office, and finally into bookkeeping. He always had an affinity for printing offices, how­ ever, and, wherever he lived was sure to be an industrious correspondent of the local newspaper. He moved to Ulster County in 1868 as a bookkeeper of the Ulster Iron Kolling Mill, and in 1870 started the Ellenville Press in partnenhljp with hb imtite.T, G. H. Benedict. Th^f^i* gained a reputation for its vigorous De­ mocracy, and in 1873 the firm purchased The Banner of Liberty, which they con­ ducted as a stanch Democratic weekly, gaining for it a circulation that extended to every State and Territory of the Union. In 1879 Mr. Benedict was elected to the New York Legislature, and was re-elected for four successive terms, each year by an in­ creased majority. There he gained the confidence and friendship of Grover Cleve­ land, Daniel Manning, and other leading Democrats, and in 1884 was appointed Deputy Comptroller, which office he has since filled. He is known especially for his executive ability and unblemished in­ tegrity. The Government Printing Office. The mammoth establishment that Mr. Benedict assumes charge of is the largest printing office in the world, and located a mile north of the Capitol in what was once ( called "Swampoodle." It requires an army of 2,500 men and women the year round, with a pay-roll of about $135,000 per month, to turn out its productions. Over 3,500 tons of paper are fed into the capa­ cious maw of this monster, to be evolved into blanks, pamphlets, maps, elegant bound books, in fact, everything possible in the way of printed matter. The capacity of this establishment is practically unlimit­ ed, and the speed with which it can execute work cannot be excelled anywhere. THE KNIGHTS' GROWTH. Extending Their Organization Into En- rope--A Cosmopolitan (krtheriijg of Delegates for the Rich­ mond Convention. On the curious little five-sided brass buttons which designate the wearers as Knights of.Labor, and which to-day deco­ rate the lapels of thousands of ooats, there is a peculiar device which at once attracts attention. More conspicuous than any of the geometric devices which are interwoven to make up the emblem, is a diminutive representation of the globe, which is read­ ily understood as emblematical of the wide­ spread scope of the order. The United btates, where the Knights first became known, do not by any means represent the boundaries of this dominant labor organi­ zation, for within the last two years many thousands of the mechanics, arti­ sans and laborers of the European coun­ tries have been enrolled as Knights of Labor. The organization of the window- glass workers in England and Continental Europe was the first move on the other side of the water, and it is now claimed that there is scarcely one of that craft in the entire world who is not a member of the order. Hence directions to local and district assemblies, constitutions and by­ laws, and the various other pamphlets which are necessary to carry on the diversi­ fied business, have to be translated into a score or more of different languages, and more than one of the progressive members of the Executive Board are looking hope­ fully forward to the day when the ramifica­ tions of the order will include even the nations of the far East, and the linguistic catalogue of the General Secretary-Treasurer will include the tea- chest tongue of the Chinese. The manage­ ment of all the foreign branches of the order is vested in the General Executive Board of this country, and that little body of five men--Bailey, Barry, Hayes, and Turner, with Powderly as their Chairman-- wields a power which is felt by laboring men upon both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The annual convention of the order, which meets this year in Richmond, Va., will be the largest ever held, and probably the largest that ever will be held, as in fu­ ture delegates will be chosen upon a differ­ ent basis of representation. As provided for under the present regulations each dis­ trict assemblv is entitled to one representa­ tive for each 1,000 or majority fraction of 1,000 of its membership. The rapid growth of the order, which is fast ap­ proaching a membership of 1,000,000, in­ creases the number of delegates to such an extent as to render an annual convention a cumbersome and unwieldy body, and to obviate this difficulty the number of dele­ gates will be reduced by increasing the con­ stituency of each representative to 2,000, or perhaps more. The convention will open on Monday, October 4, and will probably continue for at least fifteen days. Dele­ gates will be in attendance from all parts of the United States and Canada. Mexico, Central America, and even South America will send their quota. European assemblies 'will also send representatives, and the con­ vention will show a gathering of different races, colors, and nationalities such as has sever before been seen in the quiet city of Blchmond. During the last year the Knights of Labor have m&de an invasion of the South, and the organization of white and colored laborers has progressed with remarkable rapidity. Thomas B. Barry, of the Gen­ eral Executive Board, has just returned from an extended tour in that section of the country, and expresses himself as very Sanguine of the beneficial results which will follow the organization of the planta­ tion and mill hands of the South. The Knights of Labor form one of the few labor organizations which are not directly opposed to Chinese immi­ gration or labor in this country. As William H. Bailey,of the General Executive Board, remarked the other day: "I wish that the Knights of Labor were bet ter un­ derstood by the outside public. We have no antipathy to the Chinese or any ottier immigrants. The people of the United Btates have said that the Chinese must go, but we say that the system must go--the system of importing Chinese or any other laborers under contract. This is what we are opposed to. Let tlis obnoxious con­ tract system be abolished, and we will wel­ come all foreigners who come here to iden­ tify themselves with the nation and to be' hohestand indostafcras eitie*Kr Some the Ktrtkwert the Corn Crap. i» The Farmers? Review, of Chicago, has been gathering reports from the corn-grow­ ing States, of which the following is a sum­ mary: The corn crop had a week of hot and crowding weather, and the majority of the reports received at the close of the last week indicate that the crop is well past any serious danger of frost. In portions of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Wis­ consin the grain is already sufficiently ma­ tured to resist any injury from light frosts. The general averages indicated by the re­ ports during the last four weeks have not changed in any particular degree. In a general way the prospects are still very good for a full average yield in Ohio, Mich­ igan, Indiana, and Minnesota. The average prospective yield is lowest in Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Iowa, and ranges low in Kansas and Nebraska. The average for Illinois, according to reports from twenty-two of the principal corn-growing counties, is between 62 and 65 per cent., and five of the counties report that the crop is out of all danger from frost. The most encouraging reports from Illinois come from Lee, Ford, and Morgan Coun­ ties, and are the only ones giving a pros­ pect of a full average yield. The average is the lowest in Edwards and Mercer Coun­ ties. In twenty counties of Iowa the gen­ eral average ranges from 59 to 63 per cent. In Cass and Carroll Counties the reports show that the crop will give a full average yield. In Madison, Decatui, Marion, and Appanoose Counties the average falls from 20 to 35 per cent, of an average yield. In Kansas the lowest average reported is 25 per cent, and the highest 100. The aver­ age for the State ranges from 66 to 72 per cent. In Missouri the average for the fif­ teen scattered counties falls below 50 per l cent., with a general average of 58 per cent.' In Wisconsin some of the counties indicate i very low averages. In Grant, Fond du Lac, and Sheboygan Counties the yield iB placed at from ten to fifteen bushels an acre. The average for the State runs very i low. Fully one-half of the counties in Minnesota predict a full average yield. In j Pipestone County the average yield promises to be the largest ever raised in that county. In Michigan the yield will be nearly a full average, and in Indiana will probably exceed the yield of a year ago. In Nebraska the yield will be fully 85 per cent, of an average yield. The reports continue to indicate that early planted potatoes promise a fair yield, while nearly all late-planted potatoes are very poor, indicating generally lesB than one-fourth the usual yield. The average for the total crop will exceed very little more than one-half the usual yield. Late rains have improved the pastures somewhat in Iowa and Illinois, where the grass in many sections is reported short but green. In other large sections pastures are reported dry and short and cattle lean. In many portions of Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and Kansas corn is being cut in large quantities for fodder. Hogs are reported light but generally healthy. Hog cholera is reported in Jasper County, Illinois, and in Osage County, Missouri, hogs are dying from an unknown disease. BLAINE'S FAYORITE SON. He Is Secretly Married In New York tê t Young: Catholic Girl. ̂ [New York telegram.] James G. Blaine, Jr., youngest son of ex-Senator James G. Blaine, was married in the rectory of St. Lios Boman Catholic Church in this city, last Monday afternoon, to MisB Marie Nevins, daughter of Col. Bichard Nevins, of Columbus, Ohio. The ceremony was performed by the Bev. Father Thomas J. Ducey, pastor of the churchy There was no one else present. Young Mr. Blaine is the favorite son of his distinguished fath§r. He is about 20 years old, and haB n6t yet completed his collegiate course. Mr. Frank Nevins, the youngest son of Col. Nevins, has been in business at Augusta, Me., for sever-, al months past. His sister Marie visited him in Augusta dur­ ing the last summer, and there met for the first time, her husband. Miss Nev­ ins spent several weeks at Augusta and Bar Harbor, where she joined her parents, returning to this city with them a week ago last Friday. They took rooms here at the New York Hotel. It is understood that Mr. Blaine followed very soon after Miss Nevins' departure from Maine, and was the guest of her parents at the hotel. Mr. Blaine applied to Archbishop Corrigan on Saturday, September 4, for a dispensation, Miss Nevins being a Catholic. Miss Nev­ ins then for the first time informed her family, and with her happy young husband started for Augusta to apprise his father. Miss Nevins is nineteen years old. She has fair hair, a handsome presence, and an exceptionally beautiful face. She is said by her friends to be a woman of many brilliant mental and social accomplish­ ments. She is a member of one of the oldest and most distinguished families of Ohio. BALTIMORE'S DEFENDERS. Only Four of the Participants In the Bat­ tle of North Point Left. [Baltimore special.] Sunday and Monday last were the an­ niversaries of the battle of North Point and bombardment of Fort MoHenry. It formerly was a great day in Baltimore with the gallant band of men who in 1812 so ably defended the city from the British. Now but four members of the Old Defend­ ers' Association survive. George Boss, the oldest, was 92 last month. He is very feeble, but still delights in sit­ ting beneath a luxuriant box-tree in his garden that his grandfather planted way back when Baltimore was. a colony. His wife, a sprightly old lady of 81 years, has been wedded to him sixty-one years. James C. Morford, another of the old de­ fenders, is 91 years of age. He is a stronger man now than he was a year ago. John Pitticord, third of the survivors, is also 91, and lives at the Aged Men's Home. On the anniversary last year he was totally blind, but he has regained his sight and now reads his Testament. Nathaniel Watts, who com­ pletes the quaitet, is, too. nearly 91 years old. He has his second sight, and laughs at his children, all of whom have to wear glasses to read. These are all that are left of over 1,000 men who formed the Old .De­ fenders' Association of Baltimore. IMPENDING STARVATION. By the Failure of the Labrador Fisheries Thonsanda Are Made Destitute, [Halifax (N. 8.) dispatch.] Alfred B. Morrine, member of the New­ foundland Legislature for Bonavista, now here, says: "The Labrador fisheries are an entire failure; at their best they afford but a bare subsistence. Thirty thousand peo­ ple go from Newfoundland to Labrador for fish every year. This year they have not caught enough to pay the cost of transpor­ tation and supplies. At least 20,000 more people are dependent upon the success of the above-mentioned 30,000. The total failure of the shore fishery this year renders 70,000 people destitute, only 20,000 of those depending upon them being prepared to stand the loss of a year's labor. The people have barely enough for the present necessities, and no means of earning a dollar. The only relief to this Sicture iB the faot that the potato orop, le only crop raised on the island, is turn­ ing out well, and will yield about a peck Eer head of population. Tlfis seems ighly colored, in view of the recent fabrications of starvation stories among the Labrador Esquimaux, but it is the plain English of actual facts and inevitable A; y; „0,un jn'. iiiiiiiiiiyijiii The Wit* yjzc-M "'"'Soflforaik HMUWB-- (Charleston spsetaL] - Strenuous efforts are being made to patch np the houses in. a rude way to make them water-tight, and allow residences to be oc­ cupied and business to be resumed. Considerable excitement ha* been caused by the refusal, of bricklayers to work for less than $5 a day. The objection, appar­ ently, is not so much to the amount asked for as to the character of the work done, many of those claiming the Mvanced rate being inefficient. Under instructions from the Treasury Department Mr. Earl Sloan has visited the reported fissure on the Savannah and Charleston Railroad, and finds it due to the contiguity of a mill-pond, and not to the earthquake. Mr. Sloan will visit the fissures in and about Summerville and traverse the whole line of the South Caro­ lina railway, examining the phenomena re­ ported and observing specially any changes in levels of the earth. At a special meeting of the City Council Mayor Courtenay reported that the amount of the relief fund to this time is about $100,000. He said further that with the large measure of relief necessary to reach the many sufferers it was hardly necessary to say to the Aldermen of Charleston, how small this sum would be when divided among the sufferers. "To show," he said, "the grossest ignorance as to the amount received and the needs of the city, it has been deliberately suggested that no taxes be levied next year, and the relief fund be used instead. As sue taxes in 1886 in Charleston reached nearly $900,000, it is easily seen how fallacious and misleading are such suggestions. THE NEW PUBLIC PRINTER. Thomas E. Benedict Sworn In as Snooeasor of 8. P. Bounds. the [Washington special.] Public Printer Thomas E. Benedict has been sworn in, giving a bond for $100,000, the sureties of which are citizens of Ulster county, New York. The new Publio Printer said that until he got his hands well on to the reins of the office he did not contemplate making any changes. Be also said that he would undoubtedly make changes as rapidly as he thought they were advisable. He has, since the fact of his appointment became known, been overwhelmed with applications for positions under him, and with letters asking that many of those already in be kept in. As yet he has made no ap­ pointment whatever. There are a number of men whom he has an eye upon with a view to their appointment to the more im­ portant subordinate positions, but he has as yet definitely decided upon very few. He certainly could, if he desired, provide Elaces for many people. He will be at the ead of a pay-roll of 2,400, all of whom he can remove or keep in place, just as he sees fit, without any reference to the Civil- Service Commissioners. Many of the 2,400 places are very good ones, varying in their salary attachments from $1,200 to $2,100 a year. IRISH MOONLIGHTERS. ' Freqnant' Raid*--Women Beat a Bailiff- Other Matters. [Cablegram from Dublin.] Three moonlighter raids took place last night, all of them close to the headquar­ ters of Gen. Sir Kedvers Buller. Moonlighters broke into a house in Tra- lee, County Kerry, overpowered the inmates, and with drawn revolvers searched the house for arms, but found nothing but an old sword, which they carried away. William Cuffe, a bailiff, who had made himself very obnoxious by his cruel treat­ ment of a woman whom he had recently evicted, went early to attend mass in the Belcarra Chapel. When the men and women of the congregation who were in the chapel noticed Cuffe's presence they be­ came very indignant, and the men dragged him from the building. When they had him outside they turned him over to the women, who were begging "for a chance at him." Among these women were twelve that Cuffe had evicted. These women were furious, and they fell upon the bailiff and beat him unmercifully. Subsequently the priest, who is also the President of the local branch of the Na­ tional League, admitted tlie battered bailiff to hear mass, and this mercy for the un­ fortunate man has almost caused a rebellion against the priest. Most of the tenants of the O'Flaherty es­ tate, near Longford, have accepted the offer of their landlord to sell them their holdings at a price equal 10 the sum of six­ teen years' rent. As none of the rents was fixed under the land act of 1881, the purchase will be based on the old rents. Becent heavy rains have almost ruined the crops in the north of Ireland. TROUBLESOME APACHES. They Are Prisoners of War--The Dis­ position of Geronimo. « [Washington telegram.] Gen. Drum, acting Secretary of War, speaking of the statement made by Gen. Miles that the Apaches now on their way to Fort Marion, Fla., were never prisoners of war, said that, although they may not have been disarmed, the President alw ays considered them as prisoners of war, and as such they were turned over to Gen. Crook. The best proof of their being prisoners of war, Gen. Drum said, was the fact that otherwise they could not have been held under military control. The War Depart­ ment could not have fed them otherwise, and they would of neoessity have been un­ der the charge of the Indian Department., General Phil Sheridan says he does not know whether any conditions attach to Geronimo's surrender. He believes the chief is entitled to no mercy, and says: "If he can not be dealt with summarily he will probably be removed east of the Mis­ sissippi--to Florida, perhapB--the very place he doesn't want to go. The cDry Tortugas would be a good reservation for CHURCHILL. A Searching Letter from s Scottish Glwgjr- ir 4 WW v [London dispatch.] The Bev. James Palton. Director of the Scottish Protestant Alliance, in answer to Lord Randolph Churchill's reply to their protest against the appointment of Henry Matthews, on the ground that he is a Roman Catholic, has written a letter to the Chancellor, in which he says: MYou have penned an insolent reply to a respectlul public document. Although you are now a Cabinet Minister we observe with astonishment and regret that you have not laid aside those weapons of abuse with which you tomahawked your 'wav to power. It is a national calamity when men pitch-' forked into high position are destitute of decent manners." The letter concludes by saying that the protest was founded on the same grounds as those upon which the exclusion of Ro- in a Curved fitly Work 5 for Hany Others Dangw- [Buffalo telegram.] Falls excursion trtf Wllif Nickel-Plate Railroad, from Ohio, collided with a local freight train in the out on the curve just east of Silver Creek, on the morning of the 14th Lewis Brewer was the engineer of the exe,n!*ion train, drawn by engine No. 169. and William Harris was of the freight train, drawn by fngine No. 6. Both engineers and firemen saved themselves by jumping. The excursion train consisted of one baggage-oar, one smoker, and eleven coaches. Only thosq, in the smdking-car were hurt, it being completely tplopoopod by toe baggage-car. The corrected listof killed is as follows: W. W. Loornis, aged 40, of Erie, Pa. Epofy ftoddard, s«ed 54, of Pittsburg,, W. N. Stoddard, a son of the above, of burg, Pa. ' ,N Stephen Culverton, Mayor of Watertord, John Sleeker, aged 27, Pittsburg. Pa. David Bharp, of Erie, Pa. Charles Hirsch, aged 30, of Erie, Pa, W. W. Restetter, of Erie, Pa. John Lythers, supposed to be from Erie, pa W. P. Reynolds, Deputy United Shal, of Dunkirk, N. Y. w John Myers, aged ±S, of Erie, Pa Orrin Parktaurse, of May ville, N. ' John F. Gilbert, of Pittsburg, Pa. ^• Henry Gebhart, aged 44, of Pittsburg, Pa,. * Frank Gebhart, a son of the above, of Mflja. burg, Pa. • ' , John Siefert, of Erie, Pa. Unknown man, thought to belong to Erie, Pa. Henry Hike, rescued alive, but who died from his Injuries. A dozen or more persons were seriously injured, some of tnem so badly as to (se­ clude all hope of recovery. The excitement among the survivors was intense. The scenes in the smoking-car were most harrowing. The first warning that was given was the Blight jar caused by the heavy pressure of the air brakes. Some of the passengers stirred themselves in their seats, seemingly apprehensive of danger. Then came the terrible shock, followed by the smashing of windows and the roof of the car, a$d all was a mass of bleeding and struggling humanity. Men> covered with blood were locked in each other's arms, while underneath them and on all sides lay the poor unfortunates, crushed out of all human semblance. The wounded crawled out of the debris,, and were assisted to the neighboring houses. People brought bedding, etc., on which to lay the dead and dying, and did all they could to relieve the suffering until tha arrival of medical aid. Mrs. J. H. Sigel, of Erie, Pa., a passenger, who was on ner way to Buffalo, said: I was in the first coach next to the smoking- car. The passenger train was a large one, and carried a large number olf excursionists, as well as regular passengers. The first we knew of the collision was a terrific crash like an explosion. Nobody was hurt except those in the smoking- car. The sight was so horrible that I could not look at it. Not a ^ ingle car was thrown from the track, but the smoker was completely tele­ scoped. It was a mercy that our car was not crushed. It was a narrow ee^ape. One young man in the smoker saved himself by dropping oil the floor and escaped with a few bruises. 1 did not learn the cause of the accident, but w® were going very slow, while the freight was coming at a high rate of speed. We were just one coach-length off the trestle when the col­ lision occurred. Some of the wounded men were taken to different houses, and one of the coaches- was turned into a hospital. In another coach the dead were placed. There were many horrible features con­ nected with the accident. Two of the men in the smoking-car had their heads pro­ truding from the car windows when the collision occurred. The head of one of these was cut completely off, and the head of the other man was nearly severed from the body. When the body of the third vic­ tim was taken from the wreck his arms and legs were separated from the trunk," »o badly was the body crushed. Dillon, one of the slightly injured, had his face and head completely bathed in the blood of one of the mangled victims. Shocking Railway Ac cldent in Wisconsin [Waupun (Wis.) special.] A sad accident happened on the Northern division of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway,close to Waupun, by which a widow named Dacey and two little girls, one the daughter of Mr. Holbrook, editor of one of the Waupunjpapers, and the other of Mr. Jones, a dry-goods merchant of that town, lost their lives. As the railway approaches the depot there is a sharp carve and a bridge which spans the river. As a train came round the curve the engineer saw walk­ ing on the bridge a women and two children. He whistled and put on the brakes, but the distance was too short, and the engine ran over the unfortunate trio, mangling them terribly. The train was pulled up and the bodies taken to the depot. It seems that the parents of the two girls had gone out of town, and had left the children in charge of Mrs. Daoey, who did washing for the families. The girls, who were between 8 and 9 years old, had gone onto the track to play, and Mrs. Dacev had gone after them to bring them back, when they all met their death. A gentleman who was on the train says the sight was a horrible one, as all three bodies were terribly mangled. The woman was about 40 years of age, and the children pretty and handsomely dressed. HARRIED SIXTY MILLIONS* Jay Gould's Son and Miss Edith. Kingdon Quie ly Married at-" •" 'i Ipvlngton. ; J George J. Gould, the eldest son of Jay Gould, and heir to his $60,000,000, was married to Edith Kingdon, late of Daly's English company, at his father's , house in Irvington on the Hod- son on Tuesday. Miss Kingdon and her mother quietly embarked on Jay Gould's yacht Atalanta at noon, escorted by Mr. George Gould. At Irvington the party was met by Jay Gould himself with the family carriage. George introduced his bride to his father, ana Mr. Gonld shook her hand warmly and raised bia hat. Miss Kingdon entered the carriage^ first, and George took a seat at her side. Mr. Gould devoted himself to Mrs. King­ don, and was the last to get in. The car­ riage drove rapidly over the graveled roada leading to the mansion. A swallow-tailed lackey opened the massive oaken doors, and the party disappeared in the house. The marriage ceremony was performed ac­ cording to the ruleB of the Presbyterian btiurcli. Congratulations were passed, and the- family sat down to an early dinner, which was made to answer for a wedding feast. No preparations had been made, and the whole affair was as simple and unpretentious as could be. Until seven o'clock the house remained closed, and visitors who handed in their cards were invited to call at another time. At that hour the family coach avain appeared at the door. Mr. George Gould bundled his newly made wife and her mother into it, and the carriage rolled off to the depot to catch the 7:55 train. George and his bride and mother-in-law returned to the city on the train, and drove direcUy to the residenoe of Mrs. Kingdon, in Thirty-eighth street. Young Gould sprang from the carriage and assisted Mrs. Kingdon and the bride to ̂ alight. The ladies immediately entered r the house, and Mr. Gould followed them. The young man's handsome face was ra- -I diant. "Yes, we are married," he said, smiling. , "We were married to-day at my father'* | house in Irvington. All my family were present. We haven't made any definite plans for the future as yet, but shall prob- , ably start otf our wedding tour to morrow. We don't know where we are going, sad , we d&i't eaiii" . r- ' M ;• * r.' . , . v * .