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ILLINOIS NEWS CONDENSED. <$?]gg» yy * ' fHB EAS-ft1 THOMAS A. EDISON, the electrician, has Wtamed to New York from Florida, lhor- Mghlr returned to health. ?; THE Western National Bank of New 'York, of which ex-Secretary Manning is to It* President, has been authorized to begin baafaess, with a capital of $3,500,000.... Walter W. Vrooman, socialist and editor of tile Labor Organiser of Kansas City, Mo., Has arrested while speaking in Allegheny City. The speech had attracted a large crowd. Vrooman said "the American flag Has a pole with a rag to it." This aroused the ire of the audience, and they became so violent in their denunciations of the speaker that Mayor Pearson ordered his •nest, fearing that he would be injured. • charge of disorderly conduct was made gainst him. MEAD, MASON it Co»'s furniture fac­ tory, with the adjoining buildings, at Lebanon, N. H., was destioyed by fire, the loss being placed at $300,000. AT Pittsburg, Miss Vannie Hill was re- . fused a license (o marry W. T. Lavelle, efenvicted of robbing Pan Handle freight oars. A11 efforts to secure his release on a Sew trial failing, she will wait till the ex- ' * , ni«aiio& of bis term and then become bis w«. _ THEWEST. V < ---- T - ' CAPTAIN BEN BCLI/WINLE, .formerly popular head of the Chicago fin Patrol, was thrown from his horse and killed at Flagstaff, Ari­ zona Indictments for murder in the first degree have been returned against the McCoys, of Haverhill, Ohio, who recently murdered Dr. Northrup, the temperance . advocate... .About 6,000 citizens of Chi­ cago assembled at the armory of Battery D to protest against coercion in Ireland. Mayor Roche presided, and Governor Oglesby and several others addressed the meeting. Resolutions condemning the bill as infamous, cruel, and an outrage on (Civilization were unanimously adopted. ^ ? W. B. TODHUNTER, cattle owner, who «wns 250,000 acres of land in Oregon and Nevada, has made an assignment to an Oakland (Cal.) firm. He owes $400,000. .... Sherman & Marsh and Schnabel A Co., two barb-wire manufacturing firms of J Chicago, have assigned for the benefit of their creditors. In both cases the liabili­ ties are estimated to be nearly double the assets, and the amounts involved are sev­ eral hundred thousand dollars. Sherman t 4fc Marsh's failure is attributed by Mr. Marsh to the interstate commerce act. CROP reports from 135 counties in Min- . liesota, Dakota, and Iowa 6how that seed- • fog through the Northwest has been com­ pleted. With favorable weather, the crops liarvested next fall in Minnesota and Da­ kota will be unprecedented.... Old settlers |& Wisconsin say this is the driest season for forty years. Wells have failed, the sarth is like ashes, fields and pastures have v" become sandy, and the wheat crop will be It failure unless rain speedily falls. ;6: h ' . THE SOUTH. .Jf5 A DISPATCH from Mount Sterling, Ky., •ays that Squire Silas Stofer, who took the nnusual course of liberating Mr. Corneil- jan, who was serving a sentence for his as- Sanlt on Judge Beid, has been arrested on ihe charge of unlawfully aiding *he escape «f a prisoner. ], ^ * THE thirteenth Kentucky Derby was run Louisville in the presence of 20,000 peo- • f>l®- The weather was admirably adapted •p racing, being sultry and still, and the vack was in excellent condition-. Seven three-year-olds, the pick of the season, eame to the post, and the winner turned up , in Montrose, one of the outsiders in the bet- tog. He led from start to finish, but would Scarcely have landed the rich prize had not . f Jim Gore broke down 100 yards from the wire. The heavy betting men who backed Jim Gore, Banburg, Pendennis, Jacobin, 'Av and Ban Yan all over the country lost thou­ sands of dollars. didatefora second term." After talking the matter over pleasantly both concluded toat no serious harm hud been done.... Upon petition of the Republican members of the Illinois Legislature, Senator Jofcn Sheiman will deliver a political address in the Capitol at Springfield, June 1. lSDHrtllUL NOTES. ,, 1 A Chicago dispatch says: "Two fhtrtr- sand bricklayers quit work because tbeir employers refused to pay on Saturday. The custom hfts been for years to pay on Monday or Tuesday. The employers will not yield the point* having already granted every other demand made upon them; and in order to settle the question they have determined upon a lockout, even if it should involve all the building trades. The strike of the hodcarriers stilt continues, and the walking delegates were busy per­ ambulating the streets in search of occa­ sional union men who might be at work. In this way some five hundred men were called off and added to the army of idlers." A CHICAGO dispatch says: "If an inci­ dent was needed to illustrate the disastrous results of the foolish demand made by the bricklayer^ the action taken by the Execu­ tive Committee in charge of the Chicago Auditorium Building at its meeting yester­ day furnished a startling example. After a careful survey of the situation the com­ mittee unanimously decided to suspend all operations pending the settlement of the labor troubles. The material which has been purchased will be piled around the site of the proposed building until a time comes when progress can be uninterrupted. This mammoth enterprise would have given steady employment for months to nearly one thousand men. They, with thousands of others, axe made the victims of the blundering idiocy of a coterie of walking delegates. When Secretary Schoenthaler wrote the follow­ ing notice .upon the blackboard in the Builders and Traders' Exchange the signal was given for the inauguration of the greatest labor trouble ever witnessed in Chicago. It is impossible to estimate what the result will be or where it will end. The notice read as follows: 'All members of the Master Masons now working men are requested to stop work Friday night, May 13, and report to the Executive Committee. Joseph Downey, President. This step was taken after an earnest con­ sultation of members of Master Masons'As­ sociation with the leading dealers in build­ ing materials. A committee appointed at a previous meeting had carefully can­ vassed the material men and found them unanimous in favor of aggressive measures. The prevailing sentiment was that the time had come to call a halt to the hitherto triumphant march of the blatant social­ istic walking delegate. WASHINGTON. i Tsot eignal service at Washington-has taken a new departure. It has begun the Issue of a series of weekly reports of the climatic conditions which have existed dur­ ing the previous seven days in the agricul­ tural districts of the United States. They •re intended to indicate the deficiency or •Xcess of temperature and rainfall during Ihe growing season for the benefit of those Who wish to make estimates of conditions . #bicb favor the crops or otherwise. •SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has addressed a letter to Captain M. A. Healy, command- .v.;: fag the revenue steamer Bear at San Fran- ' , fisco, which will soon sail for Alaskan Waters, clothing him with full power to en­ force the law which prohibits the killing of any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur E*1'. or other fur-bearing animal, within Ihe limits of Alaska Territory or in the Waters thereof, except under the law and department regulations. He is also en­ joined to enforce the law against the im- ' > portation of intoxicating liquors and breech- , loading rifles into the Territory.... Acting -a Commissioner Stockslager, of the General Jjand Office, has recommended to the Sec­ retary of the Interior that the Attorney ^General be requested to file a motion in •the Supreme Court for a reargument of the Maxwell land-grant case, in which the ^flecree of the Colorado District Court was affirmed. It is claimed that new evidence j has been discovered showing the fraudu- S ^ lent characer of the grant. r PRESIDENT CX^EVELAND has appointed James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, to be Treasurer of the United States, tosaeeeed 'Conrad N. Jordan, resigned. POl'ftTIcijL. THE Kentucky Bepublican State Con­ vention, in session at Louisville, made the following nominations: For Governor, W. O. Bradley, of Lancaster; for Lieutenant HGovmrnor. M. O. Doberty, of Louisville; .•'for Attorney General, John Felan, of yjlopkinsville; for Auditor, B. D. Davis, of Carter. The platform favors Federal jaid to education, a protective tariff, •ad national aid for the internal im­ provement of rivers and harbors. The President is condemned for refusing to 'sign the river and harbor bill, as well as ' i-for his veto of the pension bill New Or­ leans telegram: "The prohibition move­ ment which has prevailed so strongly in Texas and Mississippi has reached Louisi- /•j I t ana, and is receiving much encouragement ' - from the negroes. A call has been read in " all the negro churches in the city for a §£'•prohibition convention t© meet in the St. 'Charles Avenue Methodist Church May 31 'Naltd June 1, for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization of the colored peo- Louisiana to break up the liquor '0 SENATOB VEST called at the White House the other morning for the first time since the second-term story was started, ' -says a Washington telegram. The President laughed quite heartily over the Senator's fans pas in the various interviews credit- ' "<:ed to him on the subject of a second term, and remarked that he knew the story Started with the Missouri Senator, because I it contained a statement that he never J' made to any one else bat him, and that was : "that no one but his wife would believe him when he said that he was not a can- IHTEBSTATE COMMISSION. THE Interstate Commission received A complaint from Chicago that the Sunday- school workers were cut off from "passes" and freight favors, and asking redress. The reply was that all such questions were in the' hands of the railroad companies, and they must construe the law to snit themselves until the points under it had been adjudicated. JUDGE COOLEY, Chairman of the Inter­ state Commerce Commission, has ad­ dressed the following letter to the other members of the commission for their ap­ proval: Tbe Interstate Commerce Commission has had transmitted to it from tbe State Depart­ ment, a communication from William D. H. Washington, United States commercial agent at London, Ontario, in which that officer lava before tbe department the disastrous effects of the recent act to regulate commerce upon tbe trade of tbe United States with Canada, and gives instances to prove tbeir alarming nature. From tbe communication's being sent to tbe commission 1 infer the department expects some notice to be taken of it, and, though the Commissioners are just now separated, I venture to express my own thoughts. Mr. Waanington's fears of disastrous consequences are, I am well assured, excessive. They will not to any. great extent be realized. Some in­ convenience* must necessarily arise from put­ ting in force a law which attempts such con­ siderable changes, but they will be greater at first than after tbe working of the law has become understood, and greatest while parties are hesitating to act because of doubts of constructions. Probably no important act ever passed by Congress has elic­ ited such a variety of opinions and with such radical differences as the one in ques­ tion. The terms of tbe act are not as clear as they might have been; but it should also be said that the state of mind in which jiersons dif­ ferently circumstanced have come to an exam­ ination of- tbe law has not been conducive to harmonious views. A careful reading of Mr. Washington's letter seems to show that tbe con­ sequences which he attributes to the law flow from the construction railroad managers have put upon it, and which may or may not bo correct. In a recent visit of the Commissioners to tbe Southwest it was made very apparent in the testimony taken that some persons were excited by fears of the destruction of tbeir business which bad no other basis than views of the law which were so erroneous that it would seem they ought not to have been entertained by anyone. I cannot help thinking that equally unfounded views have had much to do with the disturb­ ances of trade of which Mr. Washington speaks, and that as these are corrected the disturbances will become comparatively unimportant. I •hill remain In that belief until faither experi­ ence of the law shall show its error. GENERAL. THE twelve Irish constables who resigned rather than carry out evictions, and who ar­ rived in New York last week, have filed their applications to become citizens of the United States. A New York dispatch says that " Mr. William O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, was taken off the steamer Umbria down the bay by the recep­ tion committee, which brought him up to the city and escorted him to the Hoffman House, Mr. O'Brien's passage was not one of unmixed pleasure. He was subjected to various annoyances by his fellow-pas­ sengers. Bishop Ireland on one occasion rebuked them, saying that he could call up six hundred passengers from the steerage who would drown them out. This one of the passengers affected to regard as a threat. When Mr. O'Brien was leaving the Umbria, some of the passengers remaining on board cheered for Lansdowne and Salis­ bury, which were answered by cheers for O'Brien and Ireland from the Irish sym­ pathizers on board the small steamer." WILLIAM O'BRIEN was greeted by an immense crowd upon his arrival at Mont- real. He spoke briefly at the station, de­ nouncing Lord Lansdowne as the "exter­ minator of five hundred human beings," and in the evening addressed a vast audi­ ence at Albert Hall. THE International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, in ses­ sion at San Francisco last week, elected these officers: President, the Hon. S. H. Blake of Toronto, Canada; Vice Presi­ dents, Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard of Cali­ fornia, H. M. Williard of Vermont, £. E. Richardson of Missouri,L.C.WarnerofNew York, S. F. Hobbs of Alabama, C. W. Jester of Texas, and W. S. Woodbridge of Minnesota; Secretaries, George T. Cox- head of Missouri, C. A. Maydwell of Cali­ fornia, and C. F. Setchell of Connecticut. Mr. Blaine, with his wife and two daughters, will Bail for Europe on June 8. chanting the FsmeQittB vith MttMr in Irish crime Russia has decirewithai all merchants in Posen having commercial interests beyond the Rttiim lrontiet must pay the taxes of the Russian mer­ chants' guild and obtain • Busaian trade license. German newspapers are indignant, claiming that it is a crush­ ing blow to home industries... .The steam­ er City of Rio Janeiro, which arrived at San Francisco from China last week, brings I ews that on March the steamer Benton, plying between Singapore and Penacg, was run into and sunk by the steamer Fair Penang, and that of 250 per­ sons on board the former only fifty were saved. Most of tbose lost were natives. It is reported from Bombay that many of the Ameer's troops are deserting to the insurgents. In a recent battle, which lasted two days, 700 were killed. IF the news from Vienna is to be cred­ ited, the peace of Europe is in greater peril now than at any time in many months. The Vienna report is to the effect that 140,000 Austrian soldiers are in Dal- matia prepared for a campaign, and that tne Montenegrin army is also ready for action. A collision at this juncture between Austria and Montenegro would be almost certain to precipitate a general war Tbe editor of the Fraisin- niffe Zeitung has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment for libeling Bis­ marck's political character. ADDITIONAL NEWS. Tine business failures during the past week in the United States and Canada numbered 167, as against 176 during the corresponding period of last year... .R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly trade review de­ clare that a great revolution in business is going on, which they attribute partly to to the operations of the interstate com­ merce act and partly to the expansion in the volume and ohanges in the kind of currency. It appears that the smaller towns generally are being benefited by tbe interstate law, while the great cen­ ters are suffering. The out-put of pig-iron is increasing. The ex­ ports of breadstuffs have been checked by the recent advance in prices. Operations in the Eastern wool markets, BradHireet'« says, are confined to tho present wauts of manufacturers. The condition of the woolen industry is unsatisfactory, orders being fewer and smaller than a year ago, and there is no disposition to stock up for the future before tho arrival of the new clip. Prices are no better than steady. In the metal markets the price of pig-iron continues somewhat irregular on inferior grades East and West, reports of 50-cent cuts per ton being frequent of late. The lew more choice Eastern brands are, of course, stiffly held at higher figures, though some very good irons are sbaded a little. A Pittsburg dispatch states that nine blast­ furnaces have shut down on account of the Pennsylvania coker.s' strike, throwing out 1,500 men. Double this number will shut down in a few days if no settlement is reached. The Pennsylvania Railroad has also laid off several crews of men. AN official circular from General Master Workman Powderly addressed to the order of the Knights of Labor throughout the United States recommends that the next Fourth of July the members of the order, where there is an assembly in existence, hold demonstr ations and celebrations in honor of the birth of a people's government.... The Executive Council for Philadelphia and vicinity of National Trades Assembly No. 1 V)8 (Knights of Labor) has issued a circular to all machinists, blacksmiths, foundrymen, patternmakers, boilermakers. and Ihe respective helpers of each, through­ out America, appealing for assistance and co-operation Irom all members of the trades named. THE relations between Dr. McGlynn and the Vatican continue to be "strained." It is announced from Rome that the con­ tumacious priest is to be formally excom­ municated unless he presents himself be­ fore the "supreme ecclesiastical authority" within forty days,.. .It is rumored at Bos­ ton that the Ocean King, the largest Amer­ ican ship afloat, has been burned at sea while bound from Nanaimo, British Colum­ bia, to San Pedro. A KECEPTION was given to Jeff Davis at Meridian, Miss. In his speech he com­ mented on the inferior numbers with which he struggled against the great armies of the North, ana remarked: "United you are; and if the Union is ever to be broken, let the other side break it." The Epis­ copal Diocesan Convention of South Car­ olina, in session at Charleston last week, was agitated by a discussion of the "color line" question The lay delegates from fourteen parishes, who favored the admis­ sion of colored delegates, quilted the con­ vention. THE extensive shops of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad, at Minneapolis, were burned, with a loss of $150,000. A fire at Milton, Missouri, destroyed the County Jail and a number of business structures; loss, $53,tiOO. Destructives for­ est fires are reported in the Northern Pe­ ninsula of Michigan, and in Wisconsin, near Waukesha. THE New German Liberals are forming an Anti-Corn Law League... .An agent on behalf of three large banking firms in Ber­ lin and four in St. Petersburg ha# con­ cluded an extensive arrangement for con­ verting the present outstanding Russian loans into new issues, with a view to rais­ ing Russian credit abroad. ...A dispatch from Odessa says: "The Bankruptcy Court is blocked with the insolvency cases of old- established and hitherto flourishing con­ cerns. Many commercial men would wel­ come a war as infinitely preferable to the present depression." FOREIGN* manager of the Eden Thefct**, irt Paris, who was compelled to withdraw "Lohengrin" because the people opposed German works, has sued the newspaper La France for 50,000 francs damage for an at­ tack made upon the opera....Tbe Pall Mall Gazette prints a sensational story, which is generally discredited, to the effect that tbe Government has ordered sixty first- class cells in Millbank Prison to be placed in readiness for the reception of Parnellite members of Parliament, whose arrest may be deemed necessary. IN a speech at a luncheon given to forty non-conformist ministers, at the residence of Dr. Parker, in London, Mr. Gladstone made a long Bpeech on Irish affairs. He said there never had been any reason for THEMARKETa NEW YoiUt. CATTL* F 4.50 @5.50 HOAS E.25 5.75 WHEAT--MO. 1 WHITE 95 ® 96 NO. 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WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--NO. 2 OATS--No. 2. PORK--Mess LIVE HOGS BUFFAI/O. WHEAT--Nou 2 Bed..... CoBJf--No. 2 Yellow. CATTLE INDIANAPOLIS. BEEF CATTLE ; HO G S . . . . : SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 1M COBN--No. 2 OATS--NA 2 Mixed EAST LIBEBTY. CATTLE--Best Fair Common,. .3 Hoas . .R5 & .37 E$ .28 0 15.75 <416.25 .85>4» .86* .43 0 .44 .30 & .31 15.75 <0 16.25 4.75 & 5.50 .90$fli .91H 4.50 (ft 6.25 ! 3.50 ® 4^5 , 4.75 ^ 5.50 ,3.25 ifli 4.75 , .83^® .81* .39 @ .99* .28 & .29 5.00 <» 5.2J 4.50 & 4.1S 4.2.1 @ 4.9b 5.00 T* 5.90 . 3.75 & 4£9 Government Monthly Report Shows a Dteline of Two Points in Wheat Showing the Condltlen ef P*iria| drain anil Fruits li Oil* nois and Indians. The Watlfnial Department BepWt» [Washington telegram.]1 " e report of the Department of Agri­ culture for May relates to the condition of winter grain, tbe progress of spring plow­ ing, and proportion of the proposed cotton area already planted. It indicates a decline in the condition of wheat of two points since April 1, the general average for the whole coontiy being 86, against 95 at the same date in 188(>, 70 rn 1885, and 89 in 1884. The changes in condition have net been nniform throughout the winter-wheat re­ gion, some States showing an increase, the majority a slight decline, and a few a heavy falling off. Tbe States of the Middle Atlantic coast from Pennsylvania to North Carolina show some improvement. In New York and New Jersey the amount of winter-killing was not fully known on April 1, and this, with cold, unfavorable weather during the month, has caused a serious reduction of condition. Drought has reduced the aver­ age somewhat in the Eastern Gulf 8tates, and has wrought very serious damage in Texas and Arkansas, lowering the condition during the month nineteen to ten points respectively. Favorable' temperature and seasonable rains have improved the pros­ pect in Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky, the condit on being considerably higher in those States than it has averaged in May for the past five years. The most serious reduction of the month is in Ohio, where there is a falling oft' of eight points since the 1st of April. Michi­ gan and Indiana show a slight decline, while in Illinois and Missouri there is a gain of one point. Unfavorable weather in Kansas and California has caused a slight falling off, while in Oregon the pros­ pect has advanced, it being the only Btate in which condition reaches 100. The averages of condition by States are: New York, 86; Pennsylvania, 72; Mary­ land, 84; Virginia, 80; North Carolina, 90; Texas, 60; Arkansas, 93; Tennessee, 96; West yirginia, 89; Kentucky, 95; Ohio, 71; Michigan, 90; Indiana, 87; Illinois, 93; Missouri, 96; Kansas, 81; California, 89; Oregon, 101. Rye has suffered from the same con­ dition which has seriously affected wheat, but on account of its hardier nature the general average is considerably higher, standing at 90.8 against 92.5 April 1, and 95.7 at the same date in 1886. The condition of barley is low. the aver­ age being 87.8 against 9G.7 in May, 1886, and 82 in 1885. The season has been more generally advanced in all parts of the country than usual, spring plowing being seriously behind only on the Atlantic coast south to Pennsylvania and on the Pacifio slope. The proportion of cotton already planted amounts to more than four-fifths the pro­ posed area, and is slightly greater than at the same date in any of the preceding five years, but is a little less than the propor­ tion returned by the .correspondents as the average planting at that date. . Report* from Illinois, Indiana, and Michi­ gan. [Springfield (111.) special.] Advance sheets of the May crop report of the State Board of Agriculture Bhow the condition of winter wheat in Illinois May 1 to be 92 per cent, of an average. This is an advance of 2 per cent, over the previous month. It is still 6 per cent. Ie6s than the average condition of May 1, 1886. In the northern and southern counties the average condition is 88 per cent., and the central counties 101, I Indianapolis special.] . Reports from every county in Indiana, Illinois, amfx)lilo state that the wheat crop has been damaged somewhat by the spring rains, and the average per cent, of condi­ tion during April was 83 in Indiana and Illinois and 79 in Ohio. The acreage of oats is 97 in Indiana, 104 in Illinois, and 98 in Ohio. The fruit crop promises to be larger than for several years past. {Lansing (Mich.) special.] The Michigan crop report for April shows severe drought in all parts of the State. On sandy soil wheat has made good growth, but on clay soil the growth has been unsat­ isfactory. In the southern tiers of counties the condition is 87 as compared with aver­ age years. The central counties show 94 condition, while the northern counties re­ turn 93. But little of the graiu will be plowed up. There has been marketed 54,891 bushels of wheat. Clover is badly injured, and in many sections it will be plowed up. Tbe condition of horses and other stock shows but little change since last month. Injury from the Drouth. [From the Chicago Tribune.] Dronth in tbe grain fields of the Missis­ sippi Vnlley was the one great topic of conversation in commercial circles Tues­ day, and it materially influenced the course of prices for the leading cereals. The ground is very dry in the Southwest, and to this is superadded the appearance of the chinch-bug in Kansas, while the news from tbe great spring-wheat regions of the Northwest was very bad, the crop prospects in the fertile Red River Valley being de­ scribed as poor indeed. Grass seeds and bay, as well as oats, corn, and wheat, promise but a scanty yield, unless there be a speedy change in the conditions. And in some cases the season is too far ad­ vanced to permit reasonable hope of a full crop. The time for spring showers has gone by. and the good, vigorous root, which is possible Only when moisture has been supplied during the early stages of growth, is hardly to be expected now, the indications being regarded as decidedly unfavorable to an average yield in propor­ tion to acreage. Our street markets show the effects of the nnusunl dryness in other directions. The strawberry patches in Mississippi are desiccated to the extent of rendering the fruit unmarketable, while the dusty appearance of the berries -received from Tennessee tells of almost equal drouth in that State. GEN. BERDAN'S TORPEDO. ohfaMoy, is a feature of the boats, Ihe stsnt- ing surfaces requiring only light plating for this purpose. The torpedoes may be fired automatically or by mechanical or' electric devices contiolled from within the host. WOMEN MURDERED. %est Virginia Burglars Raid * Honse and Slaj Mother and : £ wy" Daachter.» fv ~ ^ : ^ •/' Murder 'of an Old Woman in Her Lonely Home at New Haven, Gonn. Designed Especially for the Attack of Ves­ sels Protected by the Steel Met. [New York dispatch.] The Berdan torpedo, a working model of which was shown before the United States Naval Torpedo Board at the Navy Yard Fri­ day, is designed especially for the attack of vessels protected by the steel net, though equally effective in the absence of a net. The individual expression of the members of the Board was tbat of favor and admi­ ration for the device, but this was not for­ mulated by the Board, as it must await an authorization to accept the terms under which Gen. Berdan will let it go to the Government for trial. There is no doubt that an agreement will be reached, and the trial made this summer. 1 Out of twenty-five torpedoes offered to the consideration of the Board, twenty- three were deemed to be unworthy of being ordered to trial. The one selected besides Gen. Berdan's was the Howell, a self-di­ recting torpedo, against which the net is a sufficient protection. Gen. Berdan has contracts with the Governments of Eng­ land, France, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Italy, and Spain for the use of this inven­ tion. In England it is known as the "Yan­ kee trick." The torpedo is described as a diving tor­ pedo, with a snubbing line. It can be rigged on vessels of any size, afid has the advantage of being capable of working ef­ fectually in heavy seas and rough weather when a self-steering torpedo would be as helpless as a ch.p on the waves. The boats are intended to be swift, bandy craft, and to be used in connection with mother ships to wry MotheWMMl D*aCht«r TovStf fttwniereA. [Steubenville (O.) BpeciaLJ A shocking double murder was perpe­ trated at Halliday's Cave, Hancock County, W. Va., on the Pan Handle Road. When Mr. Van Baker, who left home Monday at 4 p. m. and spent the night at his father's, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, re­ turned Tuesday morning, be found his wife, Eliza Baker, and her mother Suzelle Mc- Wha, lying dead in the sitting-room with their heads beaten brutally by a car pin. An ax was also lying beside them. Mr. Baker says the only thing missing is $350 belonging to him. Evidences of search are plainly to be seen. The theory at first given for the murder is that it was for robbeiy. Mr. McWha Lad a few days ago received several thousand dollars, and Monday he went to Pittsburgh to de- Eosit it. His son-in-law, Mr. Baker, also einar absent that night, it is thought some one familiar with the situation, but not knowing that the money was gone, at­ tempted robbery, and being discovered and identified by the women, killed them to conceal their crime. Mrs. McWha was 70 years old, her daughter about 40. The be­ lief is general that the murderer is some one familiar with the family. An Aged Woman Strangle!)*' ' J I New Haven (Conn.) telegraimf < ' Mrs. Margaret Ernst, a German lady, aged 74 years, was found early Tuesday morning by the milkman in the front room of her house, No. 34 Spruce street, with her hand and feet bound with ropes and a rope around her neck. She had been choked to death during the night and robbed. She was supposed to have had on her person at least £400 in bills, but when the Coroner arrived Tuesday morning only $1.27 was found. She was (he owner of two houses, and there is about $1,500 in the bank to her credit, she being worth about $10,000. She made a will about two years ago and had notified her at­ torney that next week she desired to see him, as she had concluded to change it. The Coroner and police see in this fact the motive for the crime. She was the widow of John Ernst, a Union veteran, who died twelve years ago. EFFECTS OF THE EARTHQUAKE. Report of Dr. D. E. Goodfellow--The Dam­ age Done In Mexico Slight. Dr. D. E. Goodfellow, of Phoenix, Ari­ zona, has sent to Washington the following report of the earthquake: "The distance covered is 1,200 miles long and 600 miles wide. The general direction of the shock was southwest to northeast, and the average duration one and three- quarter minutes. The damage done in New Mexico and Arizona is trilling. In Sul- ?hur Springs valley, twenty-five miles from 'ombstone, fissures occurred in the bed of an old stream and a considerable amount of water spurted up. After three days all were dry except some which appear perma­ nent and are running a small amount of water of ordinary temperature. "Succeding tbe shocks-fires were observed in many mountain ranges, which gave rise to reports of volcanic action. 'I he first and most severe shock rolled bowlders down the mountain sides, raising clouds of dust, which, with the noise, caused many to think it an eruption. There was np erup­ tion in any part of the section disturbed. The railroad track, at a point where it runs east and west, was bent four and a half inches out of line for a distance of three hundred feet, the convexity looking south. Miners working six hundred feet up felt vibrations severely; some became sea-sick. The shock was not severe. In Frontereas, Mexico, ten houses were blown down, a child killed, and a man injured fatally. At Cumpas, one mile southeast, four houses were demolished." Dr. Goodfellow has gathered data and confirmed every statement before making his report. ' LIVED NEARLY 102 YEARS. He Voted for Madiaon and Cleveland, and Never Rode on a Railroad Train. [Freeport (111.) tolepram.] The oldest man in Stephenson CouHty, if not in Illinois, has just died at his home, about seventeen miles northwest of Free- port. Had he lived until July 20, Mr. Smith would have been 102 years old. He was born in Guilford County, North Caro­ lina. In 1815 he moved to Highland County, Ohio, and from there came to this county in 18-10, and has resided here ever since. When about 20 years old lie was married to Dorcas McDaniel in his native county. She bore him twelve children, all «*of whom but one grew to manhood and woman­ hood. Two years ago bis hundredth birthday anniversary was celebrated with great pomp, therj being present perhaps 2,000 people. When in his younger days he enjoyed fishing and hunting exceeding­ ly, but when it came time for him to get down to business he learned tbe black- smithing trade, which he followed for some time. The greater part of his life was de­ voted to farming. With the exception of chewing tobr.cco, Mr. Smith was a most temperate man all his life. He never joined any church, but had nlways been an atten­ tive and careful reruler of tbe Bible, and about six years ago was baptized. He cast his first Presidential vote tor James Madi­ son, and his last for Grover Cleveland, and had always been a Democrat. He never rode on a railroad train and never ate a meal in a hotel. A SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Five Men Fatally Burned at the Edgar Thotnnon Steel-Work*. [Pittsburgh dispatch.] A terrible accident occurred at the Edgar Thomson Steel-Works, at Braddock, which will probably cost five lives. Furnace E was blown out a few days ago, and Tuesday a gang of men was put to work clearing it out. An arch had formed, composed of coke, limestone, and other materials, which was still at a red heat, and part of the men were working beneath this mass. Shortly after 10 o'clock nt night, without warning, the arch gave way. The red-hot matter was thrown in all directions, knocking men down and in some instances almost burying them. Few of the men in tbe vicinity escaped un­ injured. In a short time the debris was removed, and five men were taken out in a horrible condition--the clothing burned from their bodies and the fifesh literally cooked. The names of tbe victims are: John Zawlos- key, John Gearcilt, John Gedard, John Lawatte, Charles Ledonofki. The physi­ cians who are attending them entertain no. hope of their recovery. Contested Congressional Election Cases. I Washington telegram.! The Clerk of the House of Representa­ tives has received the testimony in the contested Congressional election cases of McDuffie vs. Davidson, of Alabama; Worthington vs. Post, of Illinois; Lowrie vs. White, of Indiana; Frank vs. Glover, of Missouri; and Small vs. Elliott, of South Carolina. The time limitation has not yet expired in the New Hampshire case of Hajnes against McKenzie. In the case of Theebe against Carlisle, the period within which the testimony must be taken ended on the 25th ult., but no testimony Mexican Towns Destroyed fcy Yotamk ErnpUsns Caased by the SartkftMkfc Gold Mines Opened--Thousands of Asm ym fend Benderad fit t % Farming. •"'1 [Guaymaa (Mexico) dlapateh.] The town of Bahispe, in the district ot Montezuma, in Sonora, was destroyed by the recent earthquake, and 150 lives were lost. Twenty persons were killed al Opnto by the falling of buildings. Many people were injured at Granadas and Gusabar, which towns were almost completely de­ stroyed. [Hermosillo (Mexico) dispatch.] The earthquake caused terrible damage in Montezuma. It destroyed several vu- lages, but tbose in the northeastern part suffered most terribly. Oputo had all its houses destroyed, and nine persons were killed. Bahispe was utterly destroyed, and 150 people were killed. The houses were leveled to the ground. A new volcano appeared, and its eruption destroyed all the timber and pastures of adjoining valleys and mountains. [City of Mexico dispatch.] The Government has just received its first information regarding the disastrous earth­ quake on tbe 3d inst. at the town of Bahispe, in the district ot' Montezuma, Sonora, by which 150 persons lost their lives. The earthquake occurred at 3.30 p. m. At the same time volcanic eruptions began in the neighboring mountains, lighting up the summits for a long distance. The prediction is made here by local scientists that Mexico is about to undergo a general seismic convulsion, and recent records of earthquakes show that there is widespread volcanic activity from one end of Mexico to the other. [Tucson (Arizona) dispatch.] A party has just returned from the Santa Catalina Mountains and report that the canyons are full of water, brought to the surface by the earthquake. This is a great boon for this region, as there are thou­ sands of acres of good farming land at the base of these mountains which only need water to make them valuable. Another good effect of the earthquake is the open- ing of two large gold veins which were discovered in the Santa Catalina Moun­ tains at a point where the whole side of a mountain slid down. Several prospecting parties left to-day to locate claims. From one to two slight shocks of earthquake have been felt here for several days. They are too slight to cause alarm. There is no doubt that nearly every high mountain in Southern Arizona has to a greater or less extent had its topography changed, but BO far as can be learned here there is no ac­ tive volcano among them. [Nogales (Arizona) dispatch.] Later accounts received hers tend to ihow that the report of a volcano having broken out in the Whetstone Mountains is true. Men who arrived from Sonora say that there is strong evidence of a volcanic eruption at a point about forty miles south­ east of Magdalena, and it is confidently said that one peak is throwing out large volumes of smoke, accompanied by streams of lava. Smoke and fire can be distinctly seen from several points along the line of the Sonora Railroad. As far as can be as­ certained, the volcano is in the Sierra Azul range. From the appearance of the coun­ try and the heavy earthquakes that hare occurred it is believed that other volcanoes will break forth in a few days. |l<aredo (Texas) dispatch.] Passengers arriving on the Monterey train report that great fires are raging on the summit of the mountains in many 8laces on both Bides of the road. Whether lese fires have any connection with the recent earthquake disturbances in Arizona and New Mexico is yet to be determined, as the tops of these mountains are almost inaccessible. < -ALIVE IN HIS COFFIN. A Supposed Corpse, Shipped on a Railroad, Found to Have Regained Consciousness. [Vincennes find.) special.] During the session of the Lutheran Evangelical Synod at Booneville Philip Oyer, a wealthy citizen of Mount Auburn, O., who was present as a delegate, arose to make a few remarks. He had scarcely risen from his seat when he was noticed to stagger, and the next second fell on the floor dead. A physician was called and pronounced his case apoplexy. The re­ mains were hurriedly prepared for burial, and ordered shipped at once to the home of the deceased. Ten hours after the supposed death the remains arrived here by special train from Evans- ville. John Kuster, the baggagemaster, assisted by Clark Harvey, transferred the corpse from an Evausville and Terre Haute to an Ohio and Mississippi train. Harvey declares that he heard the dead man kick against the lid ot the box thr je or four times. Mr. Kuster said: "I have handled more coitins than any man about this depot, and I Hatter myself that I'm not super­ stitious. The sensation I experienced in lifting the coffin from one car to another was the same as lifting a crate having a live calf in it. The coffin seemed to be alive. _ There was no dead weight about it. We only had a few minutes in which to transferT.be remains, and it was suggested by some of tne boys that the box be opened and an examination made of the corpse. To this a strenuous objection was entered by an unknown gentleman who ac­ companied the r i-mains." Depotin aster Mechlin telegraphed from here to Wash­ ington requesting that the coffin on arrival there be opened and an examination made of the body. There, as here, the man who had charge of the corpse ngain interposed. Word was sent lrom Washington to the Chief of Police at Cincinnati, and word was telegraphed that on the coffin being opened the man was lying on his face, his shroud was torn and there were other indi­ cations going to show that Gyer had come to life after having been placed in the coffin. THERE WAS TALK OF WAR. Uncle Sam Prepared to Concentrate- < Militia Troops Against Canada. [H&rrisburg (Pa.) telegram.] Governor Beaver formally opened the exposition of the City Grays at the armory of the company last*evening in the pres­ ence of several thousand people. In speak­ ing of the utility of the national guards, the Governor said that a little over a month ago it looked to those in authority very much as though the services of tbe more than nine thousand disciplined men would soon be needed. Inquiry, he said, had come from Wash­ ington as to the time that would be requir­ ed to concentrate Pennsylvania's troops at Lake Erie in case of trouble with England in regard to the fisheries dispute. The re­ ply was sent back that twenty-four hours would be all that would necessary to con­ centrate the troops at the lake or at any point on the border of the State. Gov­ ernor Beaver added that happily the pros­ pective emergency had passed, and thatif why hs had mentioned the matter. SOUTHERN CROPS. Increased Cotton and Corn A<M(pa. ! (Memphis (Tenn.) dispatch. ] The monthly cotton crop report for the Memphis district, which embraces west Tennessee, northern Mississippi, northern Arkansas, and northern Alabama, says: The weather in the main has been favora­ ble, excepting in portions of Arkansas, where dry weather interfered with planting operations. Generous rains have, however, fallen since May 1. Fully four-fifths of the crop bad been planted up to the 1st inst., and will be finished not later than May 10. The acreage planted in cotton shows an increase in Tennessee of per cent.; Arkansas, 4 per cent.; Alabama, 2 r cent.; and Mississippi is the same ss " year. C>r i st toMtor wt Statesmen at Washington. The President, His Cabinet and Kara Distinguished Ken Present the Occasion. President Cleveland's Bemarks In Accept­ ing the Monument on Befcatf of the Nation. »•' * ^ Hi (Washington special.] . -J. The Army of tbe Cumberland conld not have had a more perfect day for their dedi- i|! cation exercises. Promptly at 11:30 o'clock • General Baird, Chief Marshal of the "fjtl parade, gave the signal for marching, and the procession started. A platoon of ' mounted police led the way, followed by General Baird and his aids, who preceded ? a carriage in which was seated Generals Sherman, Sheridan, and Bosecrans, three of the four living commanders of the Army of the Cumberland. On a grand stand near the statue seats had been arranged for 1,500 persons. Just befpre 1 o'clock the invited guests be­ gan to airive. James and Harry Garfield were escorted to seats by Gen. Mussey, while Col. Wilson performed a similar office Sli for the aged W. W. Corcoran. Secretary £$> Bayard and Attorney General Garland were among the early arrivals. The mem- .}0s bers of the Supreme Court of tbe United States came in a body. The District J udi- ciary, members of the Court of Claims, and District Commissioners were also present. At 1 o'clock Gens. Sherman, Hheridan, and Kosecrans and Gov. Curtiu arrived in 51 a carriage, just after tbe head of the pro- 5f- cession made its appearance. They were : soon followed by President Cleveland, es­ corted by Gen. Anderson, and Secretary and Mrs. Fairchild, Secretary and Mrs. ; Lamar, Postmaster General Vilas, and Col. 1 Lamont. Ex-Secretary Windom and ex- ^ Attorney General MacVeagh of President; t Garfield's Cabinet were among the guests > present. At 1:10 o'clock Marshal Wilson, taking his place on the stand, said: LADIES AND GKNTM .MKN--Tbe Society of the Army ot the Cumberland, with these dis> tin^uiabed guests, are asseiableil here to-day tcr the purpose of unveiling the atntue of that enaiuem statesimin and soldier, Jauies A. Gar- field. The exercises will be opened with prayer by'the Rev. Dr. GieBy. . There was a short lull in the proceedings while a battery of artillery fired a national salute. Gen. Sheridan then introduced . the orator of the day, Gen. J. Warren Keifer, who, on the part of the Monument Committee, delivered an address transfer­ ring the statue to Gen. Sheridan. At its conclusion Gen. Sheridan, in be­ half of the society, transferred the statue to the President in the following words: " Mit. PRESIDENT--TliiB statue which has been unveiled in, your preF.snoo to-day was erected by tbe comrades of Geu. Garttelcl belonging to the Army of the Cumberland. Thoy recognized hia merit as a soldier and tuey wished io pay somti testimony to that merit and to his worth as a man. I have the honor, sir, on behalf of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, to ask you as the representative of the merican people to accept the statue from their hands aa it was given to.me. 1 Applause.] The President, who arose as Gen. Sheri­ dan began speaking, then began his ad­ dress, accepting the statue as a gift to the nation. FRLLOW-CITIZENS--In performance of the duty assigned to me on this occasion, I berebv accept, on behalf of the people of ths United Bttftes. this complote and beautiful stiitue. Amid the interchange of fraternal greetings between the survivors of the Armv of the Cum­ berland and their former foes npon the battle­ field, and -while the Union General and the peo­ ple's President await burial, the common grief of these mngnanimous survivors imd mourning citizens found expression in the determination to erect this tribute to American greatness : and thus to-day, in its symmetry and beauty, it presents a sign of animosities forgotten, an em­ blem of a brotherhood redeomed, and a token of a nation restored. Monuments and statues multiply throughout the land, fittingly illustra­ tive of the love and affection of tiur grateful people, and commemorating brave and patriotic 1 sacrifices in war, fame in peaceful pur suits, or honor in public station. But from this day forth there shall stand at our seat of government this statue of a distin­ guished citizen, who in his life and services combined all the&e things and more which chal­ lenge admiration in American character--loving tenderness in every domestic relatior, bravery * on the field of battle, fame and distinction in •; our halls of legislation, and the highest honor and dignity in the chief magistracy of the nation. This stately effigy shall not fail to teach every beholder that the source of American greatness Is confined to no condition nor de­ pendent alone for its growth and development upon favorable surroundings. Tho genius ot our national life beckons to usefulness and honor those in every sphere and offers tho high­ est preferment to manly hopes and sturdy, honest effort, chastened and consecrated by < patriotic hopes and aspirations. As long as this statue stands let it be proudly remembered that to every American citizen the way is open to lame and station, until he-- > "Moving up from high to higher, Becomes on fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The center of a world's desire." ' Nor can we forget that it also teaohes on * people a sad and distressing lesson, and the thoughtful citizen who views its fair propor­ tions cannot fail to recall the tragedy of a death > which brought griaf and mourning to ©verv household in the land. But, while American citizenship stands aghast nnd affrighted that murder and assassination should lurk in the midst of a free people and strike down the head of their Government, a fearless search and the discovery of the origin and hiding-place of j these hateful and unnatural things should be followed by a solemn resolve to purge forever from our political methods and from the opera­ tion of our Government the perversions and misconceptions which gave birth to passionate and bloody thoughts. If from this hour our admiration of the brav­ ery and nobility of American mauhood and our faith in the possibilities and opportunities of American citizenship be renewed ; if our ap­ preciation of the blessing of a restored Union and love for our Government be strengthened, • and if our watchfulness against the dangers ot ' a mad chase after partiBan spoils be quickened, the dedication of this statue to the people ot tbe United States will not be in vain. The President was frequently inter­ rupted by outburst of applause. When he had concluded the band played "Hail, Columbia," and the Rev. F. D. Power, who • was tbe pastor of General Garfield's church in this city, pronounced the benediction. The troops were then dismissed and the ceremonies came to an end. At the buinesss meeting this morning of the society Colonel Henry Stone, of Bos­ ton, was selected as the orator, and Colonel Wm. McMichael of New York, as alternate of the next reunion. Chicago was selected as the place, and ChickamaUga week in September, 1888, as the time for holdjjjMLx the next reunion. z" •* OEM. SEDGWICK'S MESORIU. : Unveiled on the Spot Where He Fett-A Letter from Mr. Cleveland. IFredericksburg (Va.1 telegram.) The visiting members of the Sixth Army Corps went from here Thursday morning to Spottsylvania Court House to dedicate a tablet to the memory of the late Gen. Sedgwick. At the battlefield they were welcomed and warmly greeted by a large gathering of Virginians, including many ' ex-Confederates. The opening address was delivered by Gen. H. G. Wright. The following letter from President Cleveland, was read: have received an invitation on behalf of the Sedgwick Memorial Association to attend the dedication of a monument which shall mark the spot where Major General John Hedgwick ; i was killed. The patriotic sentiment and devo- *;t tion which erect among the busv throngs of life imposing monuments in memory of those who 'fts died in battle supply proof of that love and ap- > ^ preciation of our soldier dead which is a part of ij our national life. But when the ground is ; | marked and set apart where in valorous tights ' the blood was shed and the sacrifice of life was ; made which preserved us a nation a holy shrine is erected where all who love their country may devoutly worship. "Elaborate shafts of marble fittingly remind us of our soldier dead, and of their bravery and patriotism, but the touching service your asso­ ciation contemplates shall chasten all our ! thoughts of them by printing out on sacred ground the spotWhere blood was bravely shed, and life -was patriotically offered up. "With thanks to tbe association for their r®. membronce ot me at this time, and regretting that official duties will prevent my* acceptance ot the invitation tendered, I an yours very •1 3 :v' ,<• A , k'm-