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i. Wlimm. SMwaMNMMwr. ^wwWfwifl ILLINOIS InttJIfeettc* from EVtfry of th« Civiliied World. t £m* and Domestic Sews, Political Events, Personal Points, Labor w.T* Soles, Etc. ICATEST DISPATCHES HARD MAW TO KILL. ^ ©'Brlen Attacked hj a H«wllig Mob at KlBfitMi, Canada --Amid Slmnn of , Stones and Brick*, Ha Narrowly Escape* with His Life. J..:I EDITOR O'BRIEN again narrowly escaped Sleuth at the hands of a mob in Kingston, panada. O'Brien delivered hie address in j§ large skating rink, and whet followed is • Ant* described in a special dispatch Dram Kingston: , I For about bait an hour before the meeting in W skating-rink was concluded R crowd began to gather entside the building, and groan* tor * O'Brien, mingled with "To with thePof*!" 1 "Han* the traitor!" etc.,began t > intrude tijem- Elves upon the meeting. The meeting was ought to a conclusion about 10 o'clock. Down through the ball and out in the middle of the Stream of peonle that poured into Johnson Street walked Mr. O'Brien. The night was pitch dark, bat the flash of the revolvers of nine policemen oonld be seen reflected from the lights inside the hall The big hostile crowd Stood directly opposite the entrance on the Other side of the street, and the moment Mr. O'Brien appeared at the door the yells St rage ana execration became terrific. A group of fifty men rushed forward, crying Out: "There he is! That's his tall hat!" Mhey were a picked group of the most rabid Orange­ men, end the cry was "to strangle him." The policemen tried to interpose, and Mr. O'Brien and his friends walked rapidly south and turned the comer of Wellington street. They did' not proceed f &r along that street, but went south on Johnson as far as Ontario street. The entire nob now rushed after them, and its intent waa evidently the destruction of Messrs. O'Brun aad Kilbride, the latter having by this time joined the party. A huge paving-etme flew elose by O'Brien's hat, scratching the brim. A scene of the utmost confusion ensued. Wiends and foes seemed to be alike at fault A* to the whereabouts of Mr. O'Brien, and finally a rush was made for his hotel. Most of the Na­ tionalists succeed in getting inside when the .nob collected in front of the building and Commenced to break the windows ' Two hours elapsed since the first attack waa f iade, and nobody knew where O'Brien was. at be was soon discovered. Peter Devlin, who ves on the comer of Wellington and William Streets, stole down to the Chief of Police Horsey and said: "O'Brien is Bafe with me." "Thank God," exclaimed the crowd. Chief Horsey with Mayor Carson and six policemen then went to Devlin's houBe and brought hack O'Brien to the Burnett House. The tatter reached Devlin's house this way: Maurice Hogan changed hats with O Brien just as a stone struck O'Brien on the bock of the Beck and just as a big, powerful Orangeman with a club was going tm cleave open his Bkull. The house of au Orangeman named Donnelly adjoined the alley on the other side, and O'Brien In there and'was finally smuggled back­ ward to Devlin's house while the Orange mob dbteide yelled for his blood. "I Will protect yen to the hotel," said Mayer Carson. "I will call out the artillery." -\ou will?" exclaimed O'Brien, sarcastically. ,"I don't want your protection now. You saw a Blob of demons, SUJ stronc, outside that h ill, thirsting for my blood while I was addressing a peaceable meeting, and you didn't disperse them. Where was your 'artillery then, sir? Xansdowne and Howland winked at the efforts to murder me in Toronto, and now Lansdowne and you wink at the efforts to murder me here, lam not going to give yon the credit of the pre­ pense of having protected my lite when you oould have if you wished, but didn't." . mm t ? ' . A The Unrest of Labor. V THE Knights of Labor have in a measure *taken op the cause of the locked-out brick­ layer* is Chicago, add are discussing the propriety of retaining counaei to prosecute for conspiracy the material dealers who re- fuse to seB brick, lime. Band, etc., unless fbey bo granted a permit to do so by the Builders and Traders' Exchange. The Knights claim to have funds enough to pay the expensea of the prosecution, and it is Honored that they intend retaining "Bob" Tngersoll or "Ben" Butler.... A mob of negro and Hungarian strikers attached •oke-workere at Jitritown and Dawson, Fa., Wring dubs and p stole. A number of per­ sons were wounded and a large amount of property destroyed. W Electric Spark*. THE League of American Wheelmen, at Us meeting at St. Louis, elected T. J. Kirkpatricfc, of Ohio. President; H. B. Hayes, of Massachusetts, Vice President; ^ and W. M. Brewster, of Missouri, Treas- »ar. . THE suspension order issued by the In- 1 tsrstate Commerce Commission in the case of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Bailroads has been enlarged so aa to em­ brace the Denver and Bio Grande Railroad. ... .Charles B. Reynolds Was found guilty a# blasphemy at Morris town, N. JV, and 1 $25. He was defende4 J^BofesrtjS. ; Commerce.. Cattt.t were dull and lower at flue Otrt- Stock Yards Friday, the best Selling *:•]'0 $4.75 per hundred pounds. The hogs Sew all gold at an advance of 5 cents, and Cheep were scarce and s ightly higher, f ; Texas sheepmen are ready to send great SBibwf of sheep to Chicago as Boon as j|irices advance a little more. Grain and provisions in the local speculative markets #ere held comparatively steady. Coffee fontmu^s to advance rapidly, owing to the Short supplies in the markets of the world. ^ j 'Jpancy Bio was raised on Friday to 22 cents .S pound, and the best Mandahling to 29 •; k Mints. Latest market quotations: NEW YORK. ,J i yCatti.* „..f 4.50 £ 5.*S , fe'°8 - v--• 6-25 ® 5.73 K V e IWHXAT--Ho. l White...... .v.... .BBte a wi Mo. 2 tied - - - '3 §CBS--Mo. 2 4.TS--White OIIK--New Mess „ „ CHICAGO. J I CATTLK--Choice to Prithe Steers " Medium pi j; 4*» j,: Com i tiou f§Ai -tfjloos--Shipping Grades... Winter W&eat V. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring (\® "CORN--No. 2 ^' ' OATS--MO. 2 _ - BUTTER--Choice Creamery.. Fine Dairy .'.'.J . CHEESE--Full Cream, flata fe ' » Full Cream, new V - F-GGS--Fresh. ' POTATO**--Choice, new. POKK--Moss MILWAT7Kg.1T. .9! .48 M 15.75 .96 * .49 <0 .41 e 16.35 5.00 4.00 8.75 4.75 4.25 .87 <3 .88$* .25*4 * .18)4 % .15 & .12*** .10^ v .75 # & 5.25 «9 4.50 ts 4.00 5.2 i @ 4. 50 .88 39 •iC54 .19 .17 .1254 .12*j .11 85 21.23 «• 21.73 ; |}Jt. n x . WHEAT--Cash. Corns--Na 3 OATS--No. 2 White RIK--No. | . i PUMK--Mess i.ir.l!. ST. LOUia WHEATS-NO. 2. • Conn--Mixed.... OATS--Mixed " > POEK--Now Meaa. «, ^ TOLEDO. WHEAT-No. 2 COUN--li®. 2 OAIS DETROIT." BEEF CATTLE Hot, a.. J WHK AT--Mi'chtgan Red .'.V. COBN--No. 2 OATS--White „r CINCINNATI." WHEAT--No. 1 Red COBN--No. t l . i OATS--No. 2 POBK--Mess...' ...."7..... IIIVEHOOS BUFFALO. ' WHEAT--Na %Red CORK--Ma * Yellow CATruc^. INDIANAPOLIS. . BEEP CATXXJI Hoes I SHEEP.. : WHEAT--Mo. 2 Red COBN--No. 2. : , OATS--No. 2 Mixed EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best ' #air. .82 0 •38Vj* .30 .90 14.25 .CS .88 .27 1S.50 .83 .39^4 «•> .58 * 14.15 CURRENT EVENTS BUt Tmi «»*piricy trial at BfdTalo resaltsd ia dw coBTMiat of Hiram B. tmk Chatlea V^Evsmt, of the Sochsster branch of the Standard Oil Company. The penalty is one yaar's impriaonmsm, 9500 fine, or both. The defendanta, who airs father and son, are millionaires, and naturally enough are much "surprised" at the. verdict They will appeal, of course, relying upon the money and influence of the Standard Oil Company to secure a reversal of the ver­ dict, This is the first time that any of the tools of this unscrupulous corporation have ever been brought within hailing distance of jastlee, sad the event will be hailed as aa auspicious one by the entire country A fire at the New York Central's hay-sheds in New York destroyed property to the Valae of $150,000. . MME. LEHEXDE, a well-known soprano, comraited suicide at Pittsburg by hanging. -flpitualism bad unsettled her mind General -Tames L. Selfridge, a dashing Union soldier, shot and killed him­ self at Philadelphia. Despondency aris­ ing from fllness is the only reason eTf [forthe act.' coMjMtaaft authorities «Manss •ray of idle men nusawli SS^QO. Th* employars ssem to 1» wok-rootod hi the stand which they have taken, and, while they regret the untoward ten* dition of affairs at the most favor­ able portion of the bniMUng season, insist that,until the mechaniqa reaade from their unwarrantable demtofl* fb aslaMoii to the hiring of non-union lahof and the employ­ ment of apprenticesitwo«l4bs uaeless to attempt a patobed-up peace. Tha, German contingent of the Bricklayerŝ union does not seem to |e iattsfitd with the situation of affairs." >• ' WEST. In memorial erected by the Odd Fel­ loes OT the United States to ScbuJ-ler Colfax, t^mpritihg a statne of bronze eight feet high, surmounting a granite pedeeial twelve feet high, has bten mTciMtt In- dianaptdis. UteaaveOing of the Cettax nomuMBt at­ tracted several thoosasd visitors to Icdianapo- life, says a dlspatco troni that city, uj%ny lodges , . , .. , .ii. ... , of Odd Fellows coming in a My. The : j has resumed its regular sittings at \YaSh RAILWAYS. * THE stock and 'bonds of ths/ Duluth A Iron Mountaui Bailroad Company, to­ gether with the title of 20,000 aeres of lsnd in Minnesota, will be turned over June 1 to a syndicate composed of H. H. Porter, J.C.Morse, and Marshall Field, of Chi­ cago; D. O. Mills, of New Y«rk, and J. D. Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company. THE commission now engaged, in in­ vestigating the books, accounts, and meth­ ods of the raiiroada which; have received aid from the United States has sent out a circular containing fifty-eight questions. These questions fover all those matters in­ to which Congress directed inquiry. The circulars have been sent to the leading business men along the lines ot the land- cmnt railroads and the leading shippers of the country. It requests that all persons in possession of information whioh might aid the commission in its work will com­ municate with it. INTERSTATE COMMERCE. THE Interstate Commerce Commiswrn parade praeeding tbe ceremonies *i? wr & mile in length. Ttie vu\ii!;nc ceremtMiie-* were simple. The m<\nuu;tnt was fcirma'Iy imTeiled "by Mrs. Taylor of South Bend, and it * as ti Sresented "to the daughters o! Vietekah by the [onnmeat Committee. AJdresfft were deliv­ ered by Grtad Sire John H. White and ct-Urn- tenant Governor Bnoss of Illinois, both paying tributes to the memory of Oo!fa\. Ten tnou- aand persons witnessed the ceremonies. WHAT was believed to be an earthquake shook the windows and rattled crockery in Dulutb, Minn., on Thursday last, says a telegram from the "Zenith City." "It was found to have been caused by an explosion of nitro-glvcerine at Spirit Lake, eight miles Iron) "Duluth. Ei^ht thousand three hundred pounds of the explosive was in a wooden building 50 by 50 feet. Where this stood there is now a bole 100 by 60 feet and 15 to 40 feet deep. The largest piece of the building found is ten inches dsep. A 3-inch cast iron pipe was found twisted round a tree. Jagged bits of iron snd tin were driven into (he wood so as to be inextricable. Bits of iron and wood were found a full mile from the spot. There were eight houses within half a mile, and every window - pane in them was' broken. One house was completely wracked 1,000 feet from the explosion. Trees were mowed down like grass. It is not known whether any lives were lost, but none of tbe workmen were in the bnilding. Two tramps were seen near the building just before the explosion, and have not been seen since. If they were in the bnild­ ing not a speck of them will be found."' FOA:ST fires are raging with unabated fury in the northern peninsula of Michigan and in northern Wisconsin. The village of Whitney, Mich., is surrounded by flames, and the people are fighting for their lives. The losses are enormous. A dispatch from La'Crosse, Wis., says: "Fires are raging oh the east fork of Black River. N. B. Holway had 3,000,000 feet of logs destroyed, and the Messrs. Altees also lost considerable. Advices from Northern Michigan state that the flames are still raging freely along the south-shor? line, and nnless rain intervenes ofttaLdloes sad suffering will ensue." ' J „ WASHINGTON .ft 34 .SB *4 410.0.) .41 & .ao «r .41 £ Mi* 4.S5 & 5.00 8.50 «« 4.50 4.50 & 5.73 .8854. .42 ^ .42* £ .33 .80&® A13i '• .ao>4<$ 15.25 *<415.73 4.60 & 5.23 Aty* Aim M & 4.25 .•254 .44; ti!> 5.00 (« 5.00 & 5.5J <t* 4.00 & .Si .385$ 8.50 4.50 2.75 .84 .88<£ .28 & .29 4.75 & C.00 4.60 (A 4.75 4.25 A 4.50 fStaajrarsosss®: IB Iff , ASSOCIATE JUSTICE WM. H. WOO»S, of the Supreme Court of the United States, died in 'Washington on the 14th inst. of dropsy. He was promoted to the Supreme bench in 1880 Secretary Bay­ ard, in speaiing of Sfr 'Charles Tupperls threats of' what England will do in case of the non-intercourse policy being adopted, Said it would be time enough to consider those things when they become actualities. Secretary F&irchild thought the matter would have to be dealt with regardless of the question whether it would pay. THE Postoffice Department announces that copies of the revised edition of the postal laws and regulations will be ready foe distribution about July 1, after it has been approved by the Postmaster General. Judge E. E. Bryant, Assistant Attorney General, has been collating and arranging all tbe laws in regard to postal matters. It will be of inestimable importance to the 54,000 postmasters throughout the country. A CASE arising under the alien labor law came before the Treasury Department at Washington the other day. The persons involved are two English immigrants, man and wife, who arrived at Philadelphia on the 16th. Their credentials consisted of a memorandum addressed by an employment bureau in Liverpool to the Chicago Em- Jioyment Bureau which certified that "the nearer will receive 25 shillings per week from the time of reaching destination," with prospects of additional compensa­ tion. The immigrants said tbey had paid their gwn passage, and that their compen­ sation was contingent upon their giving satisfaction. Assistant Secretary Maynard decided that the case came under the law and that the immigrants should not have been allowed to land. • -»-* '• • • •• ' POLITICS. A NEW YORK special says: The fact that the New York Tribune, Blaine's special organi should print the following inter­ view, has attracted much attention- here: "General J. B. Henderson, of St. Louis, Chairman of the last Republican National Convention, speaking of Republican pros­ pects for 1888, said: 'In order to win next year we must nominate a man who is able to carry the State of New York. I don't think that Mr. Blaine is able to carry New York. I said to him some time befoie the last Na­ tional Convention: "Blaine. I don't think you can cany New York. With the influ­ ences at work against you there among so- called Republicans combined with the natu­ ral.Democratic strength, I feel that your chances of success are Bmall." I think that Mr. Blaine was not so deeply interested in his candidacy, and would willingly have given place to some other Republi­ can had it not been for the influences that operated upon him and upon the conven­ tion'." PENNSYLVANIA'S Legislature has ad­ journed sine die.... Samuel Pasco has been elected United States Senator by the Florida Legislature Henry George's New York Labor party is actively prepar­ ing for the fall campaign. Mr. George denies that there is or will be any deal with Mr. Blaine, who, he says, represents all that he "has been fighting ngainst for years." Mr. George thinks there will be a lafcfE j.'W*di4atg for the Presidency in ~ LABOR. ~ THE grave-diggers in the Holy Cross cemetery, New York, are on a strike. The men are satisfied with their wages and terms of labor, but demand that two men who are personally objectionable to them shall be discharged. The men asked the Superintendent to discharge the objection­ able men. He refused, snd laid the mat­ ter before Bishop Lauthlin, who also re­ fused. "We'll work with the four other fellows," said the leader, "whether thc-y're in the union or not. But we won't work with Byrnes and Bucklay." A CHICAGO dispatch of Wednesday says: "The lockout of workmen engaged in the ; building trades oontinues unabated, and ington. Wednesday they devoted time to hearing John C. Gault, General Manager of the Queen A Crescent system, in favor of an application for the perma­ nent suspension of section 4 of the law. He recited the effect of river competition upon the lines comprising the system in reducing cotton rates. Mr. Gault said that he believed in fixing rates that would be ju6t to all, and tbat he would rather have a dozen thriving towns on his road than a large city. Gen. | Black, Commissioner of Pensions, repre­ senting the Board of Managers of the Na- i tional Soldiers' Homes, asked that some | arrangement be made by which the in­ mates of the homes mi^ht be permitted to continue the enjoyment of the half-fare rates on railroads. Commissioner Morri­ son intimated that the law did not prohibit such a concession, but Gen. Black4hought a statement by the commission would be necessary to secure the privilege. No final action was taken. Congressman Cabell, representing the Danville (Va.) Board of Trade, presented a complaint of unjust discrimination against that town by the Richmond and Danville Railroad. JTTDOE COOLET, Chairman of the Inter­ state Commission, has addressed a letter to J. H. Hanley, traffic manager of the Minneapolis and Northwestern Railway, defining the powers of the commis­ sion in certain cases. The letter is in reply to a telegram urging that an order be speedily issued relieving the road named from the provisions of the long and short haul ciause. Chairman Cooley say» the Commissioners feel compelled to withhold the order requested so that the matter may be more fully investigated than has yet been possible. He points out tbat previous to the passage of the act many railroad companies, including that represented by Mr. Hanley, had been in the habit of charg­ ing more for a short than for a long haul over the same line, In the same direction and under conditions substantially simi­ lar, judging for themselves whether the circumstances and conditions justified such action. Congress, in passing the act, de­ cided that the rule should thereafter pre­ clude this greater charge, and in so doing it must be understood to have determined that, in its judgment, any incidental in­ juries that might flow from the enforce­ ment of the general rule would be more than «qwtt»rbalanced by resulting henefito. GENERAL. JOHN FITZGEBALD, as President of the Irish National League of America, has sent a cable message to Mr. Gladstone cordially inviting him to visit this country during the coining summer Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the well-known millionaire manufacturer of Pittsburgh, has written to Mr. John Paton, a banker of Bouchurcli, Isle of W ight, declining to take part in a pro­ posed celebration of Queen Victoria's jubilee at New York. He places his refusal on the ground that he is a "stanch republican-American who rejects the monarchical idea as inconsistent with and insulting to his manhood. He says be does not see why naturalized Americans should celebrate the reign of any sovereign ,ponarch, and rejoices that the committee is compelled to import a Canadian orator for the occasion, and that "no New York men of position could be found who could so far forget themselves as to appear upon republican soil as the eulogists of mon­ archy." A SPECIAL from the City of Mexico says: "A week ago a train on the Mexican Na­ tional Railroad ran over and killed a Mexi­ can near Patzcuaro. The friends of the dead man undertook to retaliate, and put a big rock on a curve. The engine of a pas­ senger train struck it and an American en­ gineer was injured and a Mexican fire­ man killed. The jefe politico sent a squad of Mexican gendarmes, with instructions to bring in every person suspected of any complicity whatever or any information. Thirty-three arrests wer#made. The investigation re­ sulted in the selection of three victims and sentence was immediately passed. Shortly after sunrise Wednesday morning the three were marched to the scene of the dis­ aster, stood up before an adobe wall, and a file of soldiers ten paces distant fired a vol- lev at them. The men fell at the first fire. A sergeant stepped forward to the bodies, put a revolver close to each head, and blew out their brains. The corpses lay for some time where they fell, as a warning against more train-wrecking, and were ntigr the scene of the wreck. V1', FOREIGN. Iv case France mobilizes her army in October Germany will mobilize also... .In the Paris municipal elections the Revolu­ tionist party gained several seats... .Wm. O'Brien has been elected to Parliament by a Cork constituency te fill a vacancy.... The F-nancial Secretary for India has ad­ vised the British Government of the dis­ covery of an immense amount of treasure, estimated at over $25,000,000, which had been Becreted in the palace at Gwalior by the late Maharajah. The treasure had been sunk in pits under the vaults beneath the Zeenana and tbe secret intrust­ ed to a few confidential seivants. Tbe Secretary was present when the treasure was unearthed. After removing the eaith to a depth of six feet the workmen revealed great flagstones. Beneath tbAe were sev­ eral pits tilled to the Irim with silver, chiefly freshly coined rupees. In eneh pit was a plate recording the amount of treas' nre and the names of the officials who as •isted in secreting it. The Indian Govern ment has taken the hoard as a loan Irom the young Maharajah. RODMANiA is fortifying rapidly under the superintendence of German officers... The owner of the English race-horse Ben digo has refused an offer of £20,000 for Him Five of the Nihilists who attempted to assassinate the Czar of Russia In March were executed Tuesday....A prominent Italian statesman, Signor Fazzari, expresses the opinion that an entente between Italy and the Vatican conld. easily be attained if the Pope would adopt the same course as to Italian politics that he has recently pur­ sued in Germany. King Humbert, he says, AND WHMIER& ZtotM and New* of Xatwwt la Dp Oreat W A*-. labor. ' AU Prosperous Outlook in Nearly Trades--Doings of Orsraalsed • 7:r?W'. ' ; f w* \ t , > » : 'T V, ** V>*I The Chleaffo Strike and Lockout. In Chicago, the chief seat of Me dis turbances . in this country, a strike of the bricklayer! has been answered by a lockout on the part of their employers. As imme­ diate reqplts not only are many thousands of workingmen threatened with loss of em­ ployment, but great business interests in­ timately associated with tbe city's welfare are endangered. In its origin the quarrel was of comparatively small moment. The bricklayer.* demanded that pay­ day be changed from Tuesday to Saturday, and tbat a slight advance be made in wages, threatening a general strike if their demands should not be com­ plied with. Instead of yielding, the Mas­ ter Builders' Association responded with a circular ordering a complete suspension of work. It is estimated that by this com­ bined movement of strike and lockout no fewer than 50,000 workingmen will be thrown out of employment. Moreover, as is usual in such cases, among the w6rst sufferers will be multitudes of families whose heads have not hud the slightest share in originating the conflict. In behalf of the master builders the claim is made that this extreme measure of a lockout was taken in self-defense. Tbe suspension of business operations in the most favorable season of the vear for building will be accompanied by great losses, and for this reason the builders say they would not have resorted to a lockout except from the necessity of resisting arro­ gant dictation on the part of their em­ ployes. To the Bricklayers' Association belong nearly all the bricklayers and ma­ sons of Chicago. It is a local guild that has no connection with either of the national organizations of la­ bor. Strange workingmen are not ad­ mitted to the association, and the cer­ tificates of membership of other labor unions are not recognized. Resident masons and bricklayers, whether belong­ ing to the organization or not, must pay into its treasury an initiation fee of $75 for the privilege of working at the high wages paid in Chicago. There are other rules of the association under which the master builders have chafed, and when the last demand was made upon them they de­ termined upon resistance. This is the excuse given by the master builders of Chicago for a lockout which, if continued for the season, must be attended by the most serious consequences. Knights of Labor. The Now Haven Knights will form a co­ operative association to run a grocery store. A ladies' assembly of Knights has just been organized in Wheeling. The Cin­ cinnati Knights are to hold a grand picnic at Parlor Grove, June 20. John W. Hayes, of the General Executive Board, has re­ ceived $5,000 for the loss of an arm while employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company several years ago. The Holli- day (Pa.) Knights will shortly start a co­ operative store with a capital of $15,000. Isaiah Tuppins, the colored man, was elect­ ed Mayor of Glennville, Ohio, by the Knights. Some bricklayers of Chesterton, Ind., have started a co-operative brick yard at Porter Station,which will employ 350 men when working full. The Chicago boot and shoe Knights have organized a co-oper­ ative shop with $25,000 capital. The no­ torious Mrs. Parsons is a'member of As­ sembly No. 1724, Jersey City. The San Diego (California) Knights elected a full ticket at the recent election. District As­ sembly jJ»o. 41, of Baltimore, now includes the enure State of Maryland. A Missis­ sippi assembly fines any member caught in­ toxicated, $2 for the first offense and $5 for the second, and for the third offense the penalty is expulsion. Indiana!* Bis Gas Bomn. The discovery of natural gas in Indiana, at various and distant points with varying pressures, indicates a multiplicity of reser­ voirs that are but feebly connected with one another, if, indeed, they be connected at a>l. The first well struck in Indiana has been giving out 2,000,000 cubic feet per day, and since then two other wells have been bored in the immediate vicinity, from which still greater volumes are obtained. Well known as No. 2, which was struck on the 31st of November, has been flowing ever since at a rate of 6,000,000 cubic feet per dav. It is 916 feet 6 inches deep. Well No. 3 is 912 feet deep, and flows 7,000,000 cubic feet per day. Manufactur­ ing enterprises will be transplanted to that locality as soon as possible. Influx or Foreign Labor. The extraordinary influx of foreign labor threatens in time to affect the rate of wages paid. The majority of the new-comers are seeking agricultural employment, and will in time become valuable consumers for our ihop and mill products. The rush will continue for months to come, and it will be some time after the inducements disappear before the rush will be over., Skilled labor is anxious to escape from Europe and Great Britain as common or farm labor, and more or less correspondence is going on between the trades unions on both sides relative to opportunities here. Industrial and Labor Notes. A $1,000,000 company, composed largely' of Philadetphians, is about introducing a new incandescent light system at St. Louis. A $100,000 tack and nail company is about starting business at East St. Louis. A $100,000 company has been organized for manufacturing hay-knives at East Wilton, Me. A Buffalo scale company has just booked a contract for sixteen 90,000-pound scales. The Cleveland ship-yards are overrun with boat orders. A Reading founder has just booked an order for three very large cotton-presses. The first one to be made will weigh 150 tons. The Bethle­ hem Iron Company has 800 men on its pay­ rolls. The steam engine manufacturing com­ panies throughout the East are all running a full force of men, and the managers re­ port flattering prospects. A new cotton- mill is to be built at Holyoke, 344 feet long by 88 feet wide, which will have 30,- 000 spindles. The weavers of Fall River, Mass., are about forming an organization similar to the Spinners' Union. Weaving has been advanced 124 per cent, at the Troy blanket-mills. A Manchester cotton- mill company has just put in a 1,000-horse power engine. A new silk-mill has just been started in Mansfield, Conn. Rail makers and the manufacturers of railway material generally are predicting an improving demand for material, on ac­ count of tbe steady increase of earnings on the leading railroads. The improving commercial reports are also stimulating confidence, and leading to an enlargement of industrial operations. The reports of earnings of ttirty-eight railroad companies for the first quarter of the year show an increase of 21 per cent, over 1886. The Schuylkill region has 120 collieries, employing 30,500 miners, who mine 9,000.- 000 tons of coal and are paid $11,000,000 annually in wages. There are fifty-two collieries in the Lehigh region, employing 13,000 miners, and in the Wyoming region there are 109 collieries, employing 39,000 workers who nre paid $14,000,000. There are in all 281 collieries, employing 83,000 men, who earn $30,000,<(00 per year. Genera] Francis A. Walker, in a reoeat article on the sources of business pn%, holds that profits do not enter into the price of produce, and are not obtained by de­ duction from the wages of labor. In an article on the "Socialists" he claims that no permanent unity can bo maintained . , .. .. . wbo advocated socialist­ ic vie «ra. _&Ml estate aaj|l«vs are very active in fit. $M,00«,W0, as against $t,000,000 for the $*,000,000, against $1,350,000 for the same twse iMt year. The American cheese manufacturer* find their Scotch market leaving them. Last year's imports at Glasgow were 3,642 tons, as against 7,20u tons in 1884. The cheese makers are told they must manu­ facture more oarefully and take more pains in shipping. The result of the active demand for satinets has been a large increase in the demand for shoddy suitatle for such goods. The nse of shoddy and wool ex­ tract has increased during the last four years, owing to the competition and low price of goods. The New York workinemen are nearlv all busily employed, and'since tbe 1st of May have won a good many small strikes involving questions of unionism and wages. There is an increased dem md for ma­ chinists and mechanical labur of all kinds in" the West and Northwest. Wages have been advanced in a good many shops. Building operations are still greatly de­ layed at Omaha, snd contractors are put about. Workmen were sent for to Kansas City, but the Knights there were on guard. The St. Louis printers expect to secure the nine-hour day after Sept. 1, and be­ lieve that it will be enforced generally by tbe International Union. The wagfs of lumbermen will likely be advanced during the coining season. The lumbermen are compactly organized, and are working in harmony. The brick makers of Tore Haute, Ind., have decided to introduce molds into the upion brick-yard that will leave upon each brick the union imprint. A new mill, to cost $275,0(0, is to be bnilt at Fall River, and will have 20,000 spindles, to be used for the manufacture of yarn for the hosiery trade. A $1,000,000 malleable iron works is to be erected at Nashville; a bridge works at Rome, and a rolling-mill at Florence, to cost $150,000. The Somerset Iron Works, in Massachu­ setts, which cost $250,000, are offered for $80,000. The Union Labor party of New York will bold a State convention at Elmira, June 15. All of the 200 union brewers of San Francisco have been discharged. ANOTHER BIO BRIDGE. The Northwestern Boad to Span "• Iftantiri with a Pine Bridge at Sionx Uity. the l8ioux City special.] ^ The long talked-of bridge across thi Missouri River, at Sioux City, is at last finally assured, and its immediate construc­ tion is practically settled. It is to be built by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, and it will not cost the taxpay­ ers of Sioux City a dollar. The contract has been made and 6igned, and the work is to be pushed forward to the speedi­ est possible completion. It is confidently believed that the bridge will be com­ pleted within eighteen months. Repre­ sentatives of the Sioux City Bridge Com­ pany were a lew days a?o invited to a con­ ference in Chicago where an agreement for the transfer of the bridge franchise was entered into, mutually satisfactory to both parties, and the details under that agree­ ment are now so well advanced that it is only a question of a few days until the ne­ gotiations shall have been fully completed. This involves a consummation greatly desired by this people, and the largest in its material significance toward the future of Sioux City of any single achievement in the histoiy of the city. The Northwestern Railway Company is the most powerful corporation occupying the territory of this Northwest. In the territory north of the Platte and south of the Northern Pacific it is king. It has established and is extending lines radiating to the Missouri River on this side, and from the Missouri River on the other. The bridge means that the Northwestern will focilize these great' interests here--that it will make Sioux City its Missouri River hub. This involves some change of policy on the part of the Northwestern Company, and under this change of policy it is happily found--happily for Sioux City, at least-- tbat Sioux City's territorial interests and the Northwestern'B territorial interests are twins; and so they have come together in this bright May weather, in complete good­ nature and temper, to say one to the other, Shake! And they shake. The bridge to Sioux City, with the support it has bick of it and for it, means the bridging of the only chasm that has stood in the way of anybody's confidence in Sioux City. Work on the bridge is to begin just as quick as the plans of the bridge can be ap­ proved by the Secretary of War. The plans have already been completed. They have been examined and approved by the Missouri Pacific River Commis­ sion. It is expected to have the bridge ready for running trains in the winter of 1888-89. Of course, there may be unexpected difficulty in getting the Eiers in, which of unusual depth, etc., ut, while this is barely possible, it is im- Erobable. It will be what is commonly nown as a high bridge--that is, a bridge without a draw, and so high as not to obstruct navigation. It will embrace three spans. The cost is estimated at a round million dollars. A prominent citizen expresses the opin­ ion that the move of the Northwestern Company in taking up the bridge build­ ing project means two bridges for Sioux City in a very short time. His idea is that the Northwest^ ern people are working to reach the Pacific ooaet as soon as possible, and that the Union Pacific will now rush a line..eastward to Sioux City, build another bridge, and connect with the Illinois Central and the Milwaukee, giving it direct and ample eastern outlet. jj. OOULD. He dives Same Interesting Testimony lie- lore the Paelfie Railroad Commission. Jay Gould was before the Pacific Rail­ road Commission, sitting at New York, in the capacity of a witness, on Thursday and Friday, and his testimony fairly bristled with "points." Few of them, howev­ er, seem to have been made at his own expense. Mr. Gould asserted that in 1877 or 1878 he made an offer to tbe Senate Judiciary Committee to pay the entire Government claim against the Union Pacific at its then value--$15,000,- 000 to $17,000,000. No record of any such an offer can be discovered. The Thurman bill Mr. Gould considered an effort to "squeeze more out of the turnip than there was in it." He gave an amusing account of the manner in which he waB deceived by Oliver Ames and others in the purchase of the Central branch of the Union Pacific, but added, with quiet humor, that he "didn't think h« was taken in, after all." He gave various details aB to the condition of the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific roads, and expressed the opinion that the Government would never be able to collect principal and interest of its claim upon ths Union Pacific. If tbe back interest were forgiven, he said the principal sum--$27,- 000,000--could be paid. In answer to Commissioner Littler, Mr. Gould expressed the Bunsbyian opinion that there was "a great deal of good and some bad" in the interstate commerce act. WILLIAM STU-XVESANT FISH, of New York, has been elected President of the Illinois Central Bailroad, vice Dr. Junes C. Clark, resigned. 7 B3 movement to have silver dealt in on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange promises to be saocekeful. Amj afiirfpE Ohicago Olnb Alter Hew Pitoltan uod Good General Players-- ̂ , Gestip and Comment [CHICAGO COBBESPONDENCE.] The last game of the first home season took place between the Western clubs at Chicago and Pittsburgh Saturday, and upon the same evening they departed for their first tour of the year among the BM>- ern cities of the League. On Satniday the first fifteen days of the season passed, and at the close of that day's games we find -- just as might be expected under the new rules --the heaviest batting club of the organiza­ tion a good four lengths in the lead of its nearest competitor in the race. Detroit has been playing magnificent ball ever since the season opened. Not only is it batting powerfully, but its fielding otrengtH is gnater and its team works better in every particular than that of List year. In Getzein and Ganzel it has a battery that is working with much effect under the revised lules, and it is needless to say that the old otit and infiekl is as strong as money aid en­ terprise could get together. Those who feel interest enough in the race to exercise their judgment in picking a winner will probably not fall far short in selecting Captain Hanlon's team as that which will carry off the League pennant of 1887. Boston is playing strong ball-- stronger a good deal than it was anticipat ed it would play. Mike Kelly's presence in the t->am seems to have had ju3i the ef­ fect generally anticipated, viz: that of imbuing it with the winning spirit which so long characterized the Chicago while Mike was with it. Philadelphia and Piltsburg, too, are each playing a rattling, determined game, while New York and Chicago, from both of which was expected so much, are a'good deal further down in the list than they .should be. Particularly is this true of New York, which in many quarters was looked upon as the fancied candidate in the League race. Their record will show such confidence to have been the result of mis- iudgment, however, for New York is play­ ing at present a much poorer game even than it played last year. It would seem that it needs a general weeding out, from manager down to mascot, and the sooner it comes the better. The following table will show the record of the clam up to Sunday, May 15: '* V. Detroit Boston. Philadelphia New York Pittsburgh. Chicago Washington Indianapolis Games lost 41 6| 7| 0l 71l|l2 President Spalding has signed a new player, Emile Geiss, who, it will be re­ membered, was blacklisted by St. Paul last year for failing to report. Through the efforts of Sam Morton he was reinstated, and signed with the Whites. He is said to .be an excellent fielder and a good, strong batter. Should he prove the correctness of these reports he will probably be put upon third ba^e, while Tommy BurnB will be sent out to infuse a little of the old war- horse spirit into the infield. But it iB pitching Hlrevgththe club wants most, and pitching strength it must have, or good-by to all hopes of a creditable showing in this year's race. One of the fairest among the many fair faces that may be Been in the grand stand at the Chicago Ball Park during a game is that of Mrs. Ned Williamson, the young wife of the Chicago Club's big short stop. Ned won nis pretty wife in New Orleans while playing ball there, and both seem to have little cause to regret the meeting. Mrs. Will­ iamson and several lady friends sat behind your correspondent in the grand stand at .last'Saturday's Detroit game, and, judging from the young lady's modcBtly but earn­ estly uttered comments upon the play of both teams, I should say she might give even her clever and good-natured husband a few points on the same. A certain young . fellow who drops into Spalding's store oo- 'casionally saw Mrs. Williamson some time ago in company with Ed on Madison street. Rushing into the store he greeted your cor-, respondent with the announcement: "Say, come out here, quiok. I want to show you,^ how Ed Williamson puts in his time wnen he's in town." We went out, but Ed had disappeared among the crowd, and the young fellow referred to was in despair. "Say," said he, "I would give a hundred to get an introdnction to the lady Williamson was with. She is the prettiest girl I ever saw in Chicago." Several days later, while standing in the store, the same yoong fellow came up to me and as we were chatting together Mrs. Williamson, handsomely dressed and her big blue eyes shaded by the brim of a be­ coming Gainsborough hat, entered the door and passed up to President Spalding's office to make some inquiry as to the time of the team's return. The young man re­ ferred to seized me by the arm and, with parted lips and distended eyes, gazed up the stair-case. "That is the girl I saw with Williamson," he whispered. "Do you know her?" "Yes," said I quietly., "That is Mn. Ned Williamson." I never saw a man's face change color more quickly or assume a deeper shade of .chagrin as he heard my reply: "I should have known as much after all I have read of Mrs. Williamson and Mrs. Williamson's beauty. Please don't tell this on me," was all he said as he left the store. HEBE AND THERB. Jimmy Galvin is willing to wager that he will have a better batting average than iGeorge Weidman this year. Hornung's hopeful, the same youngster who used to sit upon the grand stand and •hout to his father, "Go it, Joe," wants to sign a contract as mascot for the Bostons. Tom Deasley makes the best third bass- man the New-Yorkers have yet tried m that position. The nine would be greatly strengthened by keeping him there. Glasscock told the Detroit®: "You peo­ ple up here are mistaken about your team. You are not playing fast enough ball to win the pennant. Wait till you strike the E astern clubs, and you'll see." The New York World in speaking of the New York Club and its poor work says: The fact is that they are giants no longer. They are very small potatoes, and in an advanced state of decomposition, too. They have been treated too well, and are spoiled. What is now needed is a general toning up all around. !! Gerhardt, of the New York Club, is loud, in his denunciation of Ewing, who prac-| tically froze him out of the team by sign­ ing a contract to play second and not at all behind the bat. Ward, the Captain of the Giants, also receives a send-off, as he would not permit Joe to Dractice with the regular team. Gerhardt says he will be glad when he gets away from the crowd. _ "One of tbe objects of the new rules. I understand," Umpire Valentine of the American Association is reported as say­ ing, "was to lighten ihe labors of the um­ pire; but they have badly missed the mark in this regard, as our duties will be harder than ever. Why? Because we have so many base decisions. It is precious sel­ dom now that from s xteen to twenty men are not on the bases during the progress of the game. Moreover, the new restrictions on tbe pitcher mnke it a comparatively easy matter to steal a base, so that wo are con­ tinually forced to make base decision* which are dose." BpaflTitatlea at to Bit flnnwai Qaii [Washington speetaLj Justice William B. Woods, affile United States Supreme Court, died Mere on Bator- ;-'fl day. He had been unable from dro()«|ed* Y ^ and kidney troubles to perform any judicial JJ duties fbr nearly a year, and spent the fall and winter in California. William B. * ^ Woods was born in Newark, Ohio, sixty- one or two years ago, graduated at Yale College in 1845. and began the practice of law in Ohio in 1847. From 1857 to 1861 he was a Democratic member of the State House of Representatives, and for one term was the Speaker. When the war broke out he entered the Federal servioe, and went to the front as Lieutenant Colonel of the Seventy-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served through the war with that regiment, being mustered out of the service with the grade of Brigadier and brevet Major Gen­ eral. He immediately settled down in Alabama, and was chosen State Chancellor for a term of six years. In 1869, while he was »resident of Mobile, President Grant appointed him United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit. When Justice Strong retired from the Supreme Court in Decem­ ber, 1880, President Hayes appointed Judge Woods, then living in Atlanta, his suc­ cessor. Although he was a carpet-bagger : in the South and the Senate was Demo­ cratic, the Judiciary Committee reported hiB nomination favorably, and there were but eight votes against his confirmation. A motion was made to reconsider, but the Senate did not retract its assent to his ap- poinment. Immediately upon his nomina­ tion the bars of Atlanta, Savannah. Mobile, 1 Montgomery, Huntsville, San Antonio, ^ New Orleans, and Jacksonville memorial- ized the Senators from their respective States to confirm the appointment. * , [Newark (Ohio) special.] >• " There is general sorrow and frief here over the receipt of the news of the death of Jnstice Woods. This was his home. He was born here, and elected Mayor in 1856, and in 1857 member of the Legislature. He was leader in organizing the Seventy- sixth Regiment, and was its Lieutenant Colonel. He was mustered a member of Lemort Post 71, Grand Army of the Re­ public, of this city, in 1886. •fnstiee Woods' Vacant Seat. [Washington special.! Some pretty shrewd and well-informed Democrats here are confident that Attorney General Garland will be appointed to suc­ ceed Justice Woods. They put the thing in this way: If the President had been dissatisfied with the course of the Attorney General during the last two years, he would have got him out of the Cabinet. His re­ tention of him is evidence that be is en­ tirely satisfied with the uprightness of his c.onduct. That being BO, the Attorney General has been persecuted, and the President is under some obliga­ tion to vindicate him, or at toast be may be supposed to be anxious to do so. Besides, there would be a fine stroke of politics in putting the Attorney General on the Su­ preme bench. The attacks on Mr. Gar­ land liave been to a large extent attacks on the administration. The vindication of Mr, Garland would be the vindication of the administration. If nominated, Mr. Garland would certainly be confirmed, and if he were promoted from the Cabinet t«» tbe Supreme Court the administration would be vindicated at the point where it has been most sharply assailed. Secretary Endicott has been suggested, but no one can really expect that the President would ap­ point a Massachusetts man in the Southern circuit. Speaker Carlisle has been men­ tioned, but it is believed that his ambitions are political -rather than judicial. He does not live in the Fifth Circuit, and there is already one Kentuckian on the bench. Senators Pugh and George have been spoken of. Both are members of the Sen­ ate Judiciary Committee, and Senator George has been Chief Justice of Missis­ sippi. Both live in the Fifth Circuit, but George is sixty years of age and Pugh is sixty-six. The name of Secretary Bayard is freely spoken of in connection with the vacancy. THE WESTERN RANGES. Cuttle Losses Not as Heavy as at First Reported--Excellent Spring [Boston telegram.! The Commercial Bulletin publishes a special repoit of the range and ranch cat­ tle industry. The reports are furnished by Bpeoial correspondents from thirteen States and Territories, covering the whole field. The conclusions arrived at indicate that the early reports of winter losses have been considerably exaggerated. The only territory where cattlemen suffered severe losses was in Montana, where the mor­ tality proves to have been from 15 to 25 per cent, on the average. The losses in Colora­ do, Western Kansas, and Northern Kansas were very light the past winter, running under 5 pfer cent, of the average. Paris of Idaho and Wyoming suffered quite severely,. particularly the northwestern, but the av- eaage losses in the Territories were not ex­ cessive. Utah, New Mexico and Arizona were particularly fortunate. New Mexico . correspondents write that the loss does not exceed 3 per cent, in either of the Terri­ tories named. Texas reports scone suffer­ ing because of the drought, but the winter : was much more favorable to Btockmen than that ol 1885-6. On the whole, the conclusion is arrived at that the past winter was a favorable one to the cattle-raising interests of the Wtot, and that the hide and leather markets will not feel the effect noticeably of what fallen bides will come upon the market. From every section come reports of the encroach­ ments of immigrants upon tbe grazing territory, and particularly from Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado, where tLe cattlemen are being pushed steadily westward. It is the opinion of some of the correspondents that the cattle-raising industry Las reached its height, and several stations report that it is becoming necessary to raise alfalfa and grass for feed. The interstate com­ merce law works to tbe disadvantage of ' most sections, but the reports vary on this point. Without exoeption as to a single State or Territory, the spring season has opened well, with an abundance of rain and a fine •. outlook for grass. Cattle-raisers in Mon­ tana feel much encouraged over tbe out- •' , look, and feel that the favorable spring % • will go far to recuperate their losses ana * prevent further mortality among weak cattle. =--• „• = SHOT IN THEIR CELL. A Savage Mob Avenge* the Mordefr of ^ Granville Powell at Willis, Texaat [Willis (Texas; dispatch.] J '<$ A body of armed men surrounded the calaboose, where two colored men-- J ^3 Andrew McGeehe and J. B. Walker--were confined, charged with shooting yeung Granville Powell while he was assist- ing some ladies on a passenger train Saturday evening. The mob overpowered the guards, broke down the doors, and told Walker's wife, who was present, to get out. Then they opened fire on McGeehe and Walker, wh® were chained together. Five minutes later the mob disappeared. Mc­ Geehe was found dead in the cell with eight bullet holes in his body. Walker was seriously wounded ih three places, but may recover. He and his wife were taken by a deputy si keeping. JI;