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flaindralcr J. VAN SLYKE, Cdlter and P*MM»r. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. the Holy Trinity, New York, come* under the "contract labor law," and that he will be forced to commence anit against the vestry and wardens of the church. WE8T- A' A rmoaTrrL accident occurred Chicago and Atlonttg Byroad near Kouts Station, Ind. A llttoseniger train consist- in*: of one baggage di|, two day ooidie*, and one sl<£g»er UKa stopped at a taiii&for Intter, wMba fttt freight moving in the Mime direction crashed into and telescoped' it. The passenger train was consumed by fire, and some twelve or thirteen persona perished in the flames. Many others re­ ceived injuries more or less serious. Joseph McCool, of Boston, one of thfe injured passengers, tells this story of the wreck: "I was in the passenger coach, next to the last car in the train. Just before midnight I' went into the smoker, which was Just ahond iA(«yr cu. tad ciwtt«d for an hoar, and cam* back to the Coach with a young man who sat down near me. That was" the last I've ever Men or expect to see of the poor fellow. Just as I had stretched mvself out to 10 to sleep, and almost before 1 had closed my eyes, there was an unearthly crash which--Uoit help me--I never want to hear again. I could feel myself thrown violently toward the top of the car and then I became in­ sensible. While in the air I realized that all was confusion in the car, and that canes, valises, rods of iron, and lamps were in the air about me. I must nave rogained my conscious­ ness in a very short time, for, when I awoke, all was darkness in the car, and horrible shrieks and piercing wails of agony dlinost deafened uiy ears. In the end of the car farthest from me the stove was ove.tumed and fiauies were just starting to spread with magic rapid­ ity. There was some sort of a new gas lamp in the car and reservoirs, reaching from one to the other. The flames reached up the sides, and in lass tima than I can tell it the gas was burning the whole length of the coach over our heads. I was wedged between the two seats, where I couldn't move a limb of my body, and there watched the flre slowly creep upon me. It was a terrible sight. In the end of the coach no&r the flre I could see a lady c&ught between seats aa I was. The lire slowly crep* across the car, her dress caught fire, and there, in agony, she burned before my eyes. Just before the acci­ dent I noticed across "from my seat a father and his wife and daughter. I saw them also crashed together and burned. Just fts the flames were blazing, but a foot or two away from me, a man pulled me into the aisle and said: 'Come to the Window.' He must have mistaken me for some one else, for the moment he lmd looked closely at my face he dropped lue and hurried through tbe window with an exclamation of evident disappointment. I then painfully crawled after him in safety " AFTEB a pleasant drive through St. Paul, the President and his party left that city at noon on Tuesday for Minneapolis. were taken to the exposition tliere^nd spent some time in sightseeing. Mayor Ames delivered an address of welcome, and the Presi­ dent responded briefly, complimenting the people or the yOung city npon their pluck and enterprise. Later there was a recep­ tion, and the party left for Omaha. There was a stop of an hoar at Sioux City, which was reached at 6:30 Wednes­ day morning. Although the hour wa9 early, there was an immense erowd at the depot to greet the President, and he was heartily cheered. THE President's train niade n6 stops oat the way from Minneapolis to Omaha except a brief one at Conncil Bluffs and one of THBWIDE , * ^Catalogue of the Wetk'afirn- %j»ort«nt Occurrences Col* > " cisely Summarized. Intelligence by Electric Wire from v Xvery Quarter of the Civil* \> j t * ized World. tATEST DISPATCHER M' F'*£ ' THE MASONS.'• tflklooA-fteep^rs Not Wanted in the Masonic >J W Lodges of Milbonrl. V J A S!*EoiAt, from St. Louis 6ays: "Rev- 1 »efral years ago the Masonic Grand L<M£e . V Missouri enacted a law forbidding lodges t to accept, as members anybody engaged in the saloon business. The law has been, . practically a dead letter until about three months ago, when the Grand Master issued a circular calling atteution to the law, and « wotifving all lodges that it must be en­ forced. Several lodges got rid of their sa­ loon-keepers, others refused to do so, and tfco lodges in St. Louis had their charters •» ,a»voked» The Grand Lodge is in session .here now, and members of the fraternity have anxiously awaited their action an the saloon-keepers' question. To-day the • Orttad Lodge decided to sustain the action of the Grand Master. The law will be en­ forced, and all saloon-keepers mast go." IN DIXIE[S LAND. President Cleveland Received a HeartyWel. , ^ come from the Memphians. * * THE President and party reached Mem- Tenn., Friday evening. The recep­ tion they received in the South was very hearty, .^t the stations on the way from Kansas City torthe objective point, crowds gathered to cheer the visitors, and, if possible, to grasp tbe Presidential hand. Memphis was thronged as it never was before. Over 30,000 people gathered to greet the President. Wheu the President atid Mrs. Cleveland had been seated in their carriage, the throngs in thiir -enthu­ siasm broke over all oounds, carrying away the colored militia guards stationed to keep the way open. Indeed, some of the guards seemed to have joined the moving irregular masses themselves, and followed on behind the President's carriage. Is the evening there was a reception and & grand display Of fireworks. _____ KILLED HIM INSTANTLY. Texas Train Robbers Foiled--One of the Des- • peradoes Slain. £ ,, A telegram from El Paso, Texas, says . J. ft-mail and express train on the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad was , flopped four miles oat of £1 Paso by threj masked men. While two covered the en- ='• gtneer and fireman with their revolvers, tbe third ran back to the mail- ear and thi%w a bomb - ogiiust ., the door. The explosion which fol- . lbwed sbattered the door and side of the ear into splinters. The agent was dazed v:§nd badly irightened by the shock, but "was uninjured. He recovered, however, 1 enough to pour a charge from a double- Itorreled shotgun into the breast' of tho tfobber, who had jumped into the car, kill- tug him instantly. The two on the engine, Rearing the report, fled, the mail agent firing his remaining load after them. '4$i GENERAL BOULANGER. Is Suspended and Ordered Confined for , . Thirty Days. A cable dispatch from Paris says that Ferron has issued an order relieving XJeneral Boulanger from his command, ...and directing that he be .placed un­ der close arrest for thirty days, and as­ signing General Broyce to the command of Boulanger's corps during the latter's sus­ pension. Rumors are.current that General Boulanger has resigned. Daring the thirty days' suspension the ministry will decide whether or not General Boulanger shall be deprived of his command. The Radical - members of the Chamber of Deputies have decided to make General Boulanger a can­ didate for that body if he resigns or is re­ moved from his command. Fiuther com­ plications are imminent." Extensive Forgeries in Mexico. | • IuFbHifATiON Comes by telegraph from the City of Mexico of the discovery by the •Treasury Department of extensive forger­ ies of powers-of-attorney in transferring •edits against the government. The gov­ ernment will lose nothing. A number of persons have been arrested in connection with the affair. One transfer of crediting *D-~ed $149,000, and a series of signatures #ad been forged. « )il. Lo Is Learning Fast " THE noble red man is becoming profi- * "'•lent in the art of ballot-box stuffing. «" * Joseph Mayes was recently declared elected v Chief of the Cherokees by a majority of 143 Votes, bnt the returns have been changed ;t,,go aa to secure the election to Robert Ptmch, tbe opposition candidate. An toy ;j#ar is expected in conseqnenca. The Kouts Slaughter. IN regard to the railway horror at Koats, Ind., the Coroner has rendered a verdict eensuring the Chicago and Atlantic Com pany, and declaring that the train dispatch* of the road and Engineer Dorsey, of the eight train, were negligent andcarelessjn ie discharge of their duties. . Lamar Will Get There. A WASHINGTON dispatch says that Sec­ retary Lamar is certafu to take the place left vacant on the Supreme bench by the death of Justice Wood, and that he will be appointed immediately after handing in his Xeport as Secretary ot the Interior. ilbe cepting the looks and dams ceded to the POWDEELY'S MESSAGE. General Government by the State of Illi- •*. muvwuuui nois, and of making suitable appropriations for carrying on the work already began. HERMAK EH it I OH, a young man of Kan­ kakee, 111,, tried to make a night police- map| thiiUc '̂ a wae a burglar and was shot JL rmMe defense committee has been formed in San Fraliolsco to push ihe proe^ ecqUon ln the jury-bribing cases. aOUTH. THE Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., was opened Monday, addresses being delivered by H* W. Gradv, Govemor'Gor- don, and the Hon. S. J. Randall. A SYNDICATE of QM9 and Eastern .capi- tali&fe'has purchased 08,000 acres of coal lands in Breathitt County, Ky., and has or­ ganized a company with $3,000,000 capital. Mines will at once.he opened and roads built. v A SPECIAL from Brownsville, Tex., says: "Private advices fctate that the rancheros pursued and caught five of the abductors of Senor Berrera in Starr County, and at once executed them. Senor Berrera, it will be remembered, was captured by these ban­ dits hear his ranch on the Texas side of the river, and held eight days until $1,500 was paid by his family for his release. The bandits revealed, before being killed, the particulars of a plot to capture Mr. Yturna, of this city, one of the largest and most prominent capitalists, merchants, and ranch owners of the frontier, and hold him for a ransom." IT is stated that the scourge raging at Tampa,' Fla., is unquestionably yellow fever. ^ INTERSTATE COMMERCE, i : Th« General Master Workman's Annual Report to the Knights of Labor. famous impresario., He was known. In­ deed, qnite as well in Eu.Jiand and the United States as in Paris, and wherever he was known ho was liked. His long ex­ perience of life in every quarter of the flobe had given him a rare fund of anec-ote, and his conversation was set off by an originality of expression which gave it a peculiar zest. Momvitti by birth, he had a remarkable faculty for acquiring lan­ guages, but, with the exception of Italian, which he learned with care, he spoke tfaem Sail with a strong accent. Maurice Stra- kosch had an eventful career. He was first destined for the operatic stage, . . . . .. -, | and and he studied for some time Following is an abstract of the address tinder the direction of Pasta, who had al- ofGeneralMaster Workman Powdery retired fom pul)lic lifo. Seeing> toe General Assembly of the Knights of however, but little chkuce of distinction as Labor, recently m session at Minneapolis: | a 8inRer he tlirned hi8 attention to the piano j ftnd became a virtuoso of mark, playing I with success in the chief capitals of the world. When in America ho married Ame­ lia I'atti, who possessed one of the finest He Folly Explains His Position on the : Anarchiat, Denver, and Other >v ^ Questions. THE Interstate Commerce Commission has resumed its open sessions in Washing­ ton. The first case heard was that of Mil­ ton Evans against the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, in which Evans alleges that a charge of $81 made by the company for transporting a car-load of wheat from Walla Walla to Portland, Oregon, was unreasonably high and extortionate, and prays that the Thpjr-Tympany be required to refund half of that ~ Bum. The railroad company maintain in answer that the charge was not extortion­ ate, for. the reason that the road between the points named has extraordinary grades and curves, is frequently obstructed by snow and earth slides,.and is operated at great expense. 9AST. A Qt"ABirKii of long standing has existed the families of Charles Schauffert and George Gaeblein. of Breslau, New "York, owing to the fact that the former have made use of a path that crosses tbe of the latter. Yesterday Gaeblein ™°' ^5*' Schauffert as she was walking along this path, and buried her in a grave K oUg *or tte purpose. Later on f hn "^auffert, bat injured him ohly AT Amesbury, MMS., fire destroyed the • carriage factory of Locke Si Jewell, the ma­ chine works of C. F. Pettingill, and other JJ^an*868 a^egate #125,000, witn about $66,000 insurance. CONFLICTING reports come- from New York as to Robert Garrett's mentfd con- Jtipo* THOMAS C. MASNIXG, United States Minister to Mexico died in New Yotk. THE Bryn Mawr Hotel, a well-known summer resort near Philadelphia, was de stroyed by fire, causing a IOBS of $230,000. UNITED STATES DIQTBICT ATTORNEY WAXCKEK has decided that the ease ot Rev E. Walpole Warren, who was called from to the rtctenUp^of the Chnrchof half an hour's daration at Sioux City to enable the travelers to visit the corn palace at. that place. The party spent twenty minutes in the palace. There was no speech-making, the whole time being given* np to sight-seeing. Mrs. Cleveland said she never dreamed sueh effects could be wrought out of corn. "What is this?" asked the President, pick­ ing up an ear of corn of various colors. "That is squaw corn, and was raised by the Indians on the reservation in Nebras­ ka," explained Judge Whitinp. "With your permission I will take this," said the President, and it went into his pocket. The' President was in excellent humor, and talked freely. He pronounced the Corn Palace "a grand and wonderful affair," and declared it to be "the first new thing he had seen." To Colo­ nel Lamont he remarked: "Yon see, the West beats the EaBt." He expressed him­ self astonished to find Sionx City so large and prosperous a city. The party arrived at Omaha at 1(X30 Wednesday niorning, and after the usual speeches 'were taken for a drive. The crowd that greeted the President was the largest ever seen in the streets of the city. It was augmented by people from all parts of Nebraska and Western Iowa. At St. Joseph, Mo., the President was accorded an enthusiastic welcome, and at Kansas City, which was reached at 8:15 p. m., he was-greeted by an enormous crowd. THE Ohio Asylum for the Insane, at New- burg, was partly destroyed by fire Wednes­ day night. Six women, who were incura­ bly insane, were burned to death, and three others were badly injured. The fiames broke oat daring the progress of the weekly dance, given for the amusement of the more rational class of patients, and the excitement and confusion attending the rescue of the inmates were of a fearful character. • FROM the testimony }aken before the Coroner at Huntington, Ind., with regard to the Kouts disaster, it appears that the list of fatalities will not exceed nine. The railroad men claim that the night was so foggy that danger signals could not be seen in time to prevent the accident. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was given a royal welcome by the people of I^anpas City, on Thursday. Mayor Kumpf deliv­ ered the address of welcome, and the Pres­ ident replied in a Bpeech considerably longer than those he has been in the habit of making. After referring to the wonder­ ful growth of Kansas City, he said: W hen I leave you I shall go on my way ot travel to visit our iallew-oit zena in the 8outh. I •h&U bear to older cities the impression ni*4e by my observation of the new, fresh, and as­ tounding growth of tbese of tno Want. I shall see there a section of our country whose pros­ perity is necessary to your prosperity. I shall not find people heedless of our nation's growth and welfare, but I shall fnd there, is well as here, a determined, cheerful, American ;iride of country, stimulating to activity aad en- 1 «rpriee, and leading notlesa there than hare to national greatneBS and glory. The West and the Fouth, and every section are hand in hand in this sublime mission, and no discord or parti­ san hate and rancor should be allowed to Tutor- rupt the cadence of thoir steady tread. The President laid the foundation-stone of the new building that is being erected by the Young Men's Christian Association. In the afternoon a public reception was held at the Custom House, where some fif­ teen or twenty thousand popple passed be­ fore the President and his wife four abreast. There was no attempt at hand-shaking. In the evening, after witnessing a pageant in their honor, the Presidential party left for Memphis. A FOND DU LAO (Wis.) dispatch says great excitement was produced in that city by the discovery of a shocking tragedy which was committed near the limits of the town. An unknown burglar entered the house of Mrs. William Koehne and her four daughters. He was discovered, and attacked the five women with a club, nearly killing all of them. The walls and floor of the house were spattered with blood, and everything indicated that a terrible strug­ gle was made by the frenzied women. The assailant 83cured $^t, after first threatening bis mangled victims with immediate death if they made an outcry. A reward of $300 has been offered for the detection of the criminal. The unfortunate victims are in a critical condition. f A GATHERING of excited persons at Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday night, burned in effigy Alden J. Blethen, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, which paper pub­ lished an editorial commenting in severe terms on the tour of the President and his wife, and alleging that Mrs. Cleveland married the President from motives other than true affection. Alter the straw figure had been consumed, the men marched to the Tribune office and removed a picture of Mr. Cleveland which had been exposed in a Conspicuous position since bis visit lo the city. AT the Illinois River Improvement Con­ vention at Peoria, resolutions were adopted •Wl upon Congress the e*pedienej of ,ac» GENERAL. THE visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 30,980,852 bushels and 7,385,- 756 bushels. Since last report wheat in­ creased 384,075 bushels, while corn has been augmented 208,308 bushels. A TERRIFIC storm at Mazatlan, Mexico, destroyed $300,000 worth of property, and it is feared a number of lives were lost."'*'"' :\ THE report that Emperor Bom Pedro of Brazil is about to abdioate his throne he- cause of ill-health is unfounded. IN1 the disastrous storm on the southern coast of Mexico Oct. 7 and 8, the town of Quelito, a place of 8,000 people, was total­ ly destroyed and many lives were lost. THE mystery sorroupding Owens, the runaway express messenger, has been cleared up. It seems "that the man com­ mitted the robbery for which he was ar­ rested when drunk, and, according to his own story, he was hardly responsible for the deed. He made off with *$2(5,000, all but $2,500 of which has been dug out of a hole in St. Louis, where he buried it. FOREIGN. POPE LEO has intrusted all the arrange­ ments in connection with his jubilee cele­ bration to a commission of four Cardinals. I)HT:LEEP SINGH has undertaken a big job. In a letter to the native papers at Calcutta, he declares that he will devote his life to freeing hia country from the British yoke. A STORY comes from Baden-Baden that Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, has an­ nounced that he will abdicate on account of impaired health. . A DISPATCH from Sharghai states that It is the belief there that the British gun­ boat Wasp has been lost with all on boara. A LONDON dispatch announces (he death in that city of Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, known to fame as the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." She was born in 1826. A cable dispatch also reports the death of Lady Brassey, the foremost yachtswoman of the age. She idied on board her husband's celebrated yacht, the Sunbeam, and was buried at sea. THE Duchess of Cumberland has recovi- ered her reason. A SLIGHT earthquake Bnock wae felt, in Wales on Wednesday. GENERAL BOULANGER denies any com­ plicity in the Caffarel matter, and chal­ lenges the most searching investigation. THE jury in the Mitchellstown case ren­ dered a verdict of murder againqt Inspector Brown Bigg, Sergeants Kerwan, Ryder, and Brennan, and Constables Gavan and Dorance. THREE HUNDBED Russians, under the guise of merchants, have entered Hemt, and the Afghan authorities are greatly worked np over the matter. • . . • • KiiVV lOitK. . ••> ' CATTLE $5.00 tfi 5.7S Hoos 6.00 « 5.50 WHKAT--No. 1 White ,8T & .88 . No. 2 Bed.............. .83 to, .81 CORN--No. 2. .51 & .fti OATS--White '.. .35 & .40 1'OHK--New Mess... CHICAGO^ CATTLE--Choice to Prime Steers Good Common.. Hoo»--Shipping Grades ftoCR--Wiater Wheat :. WHEAT--No. '2 Med Winter CynN--No. *2 OAT* -No. '2...., • BUTTER--Choice Creamery...... Fino Dairy .18 CHEESE--Full Cream, new...i.*. ' .11 Eooa--Fresh. .16 POTATO Choice, per bu ' 70 PORK--Mess : x jft.gj <g 14.23 * MILWAUKEE. Wheat--Cash,... .TT. .TT.T7. .10 ® Conn--No.3 .43 OATS--No. 2 White ,28 <9 RYK-NO. 1 48 (A .49 PORK--Mess 13.00 IT 14,25 ST. LOUIS. 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(.00 .00 4.50B' & .73; m & .27 regulations, as well as to the true and loyal luemuers of the Order of the Knights or Labor, is convened for tho eleventh time in regular session. I am to make 10 the representative assembly report for tho eighth iinie. I ask that it will reeei\« that consideration ut your bauds »vhl.-h its merits desorvo, and ihut such reooxn- moudationa as I may make will be received and acted on according to thoir importance and necessity. Wo adjourned a year ago with ais- BT'Msion in our own rsuiKB ; that di»so:iHion was enlarged upon and scattered to the world by: enemies from within aud from without. The news of discord reached tho ears of the employ­ ers of labor, and they In many instances took advantage of what they mistook for our weak­ ness and riiBliod into conflict with our members in various parts of the country." Mr. l'owderly yave a complete history of the famous Chicago strike 01 last year. All the correspondence, both telegraphic and written, between Mr. Powderly aud Mcssru. T. H. Barry and Carlton, who were in cliai-ge of tho strike in Chicago, is quotod in full and reasons given for each step taken. Mr. Powderly then continued : "The relation of the order to anarchy has taken up so much space in the public press and has bean the sub­ ject of so much discussion in the assemblies of some large cities, that it is proper to speak of it here and report to you my doings in connec­ tion therewith. Let ine say ht.-e that 1 have never, as lias been so much asserted in the press of tbe laud, confounded socialism with anarchy. I draw a wide line of distinction be­ tween the two, as every ruadins, thinking man must. I will ask of the (jencral Assemnly to ! define the positiou of tne order on the attempts ['that have beeu made to prostitute it to such ba6e uses as the anarchists would put it. I have never publicly uttered a sentiment regarding the course of tho seven men who are con­ demned to death in Chicago ithis is wr.tten Sept. lo, l«87j. I will now give my opinion. If these men did not have a fair trial, such us is guaranteed overv man in the United States, then they should be granted a new trial. If they have not been fonud guilty of murder, they should not be hanged. If taey are to bo handed for the actions of others, it is not just. The man who threw tho bomb in Chicago should be han;;ed and his accomplices should receive the punishment allotted to :,uehoflenses by the laws of the State of Illinois." All letters relating to the anarchy subject were quoted at length. The Denver question was given in full, and of the matter Mr. Pow- derly said : "I regarded the wholo affair as an outrago and the questions as being Impe rtinent, rascally, and prompted by malice or reveuge. The resolution which should pass is one to de­ mand that every avowed anarchist should be obliged to withdraw from the order or be ex­ pelled. We have nothing to fear from the trade- union, but everything to fear from the contam­ inating influence of the men who preach de­ struction in the name of our order, and who at the same time assert that they aro socialists, while giving tho lie to every principle of social­ ism when they advocate violence of any kind. As to the Honie Club I believe that this report would not be complete without an explanation of my knowledge of the Homo Club of New York and the abuse and ridicule which have been heaped upon me for the last two years in consequence of my supposed connection with it. Now, I intend to apeak plainly aud candidly." Mr. Powderly quoted voluminous correspond­ ence and related incidentally the factj as known to him of the attempt made' tj. take his life in 1883. Mr. Powderly continued: "For a long time after the adjournment of the last General As­ sembly there was no aotion taken by the Gen­ eral Executive Board on the resolution of expul­ sion of the cigarmakers. Frum a great many places a demand was made to have the resolu­ tion carrie. 1 out, and the board was finally obliged to take action. I did not favor that reso­ lution at Richmond, and do not favor it now. I believe that it was wrong and in violation of the laws of the order. Soon after it was promul­ gated by the board I prepared a decision regard­ ing it and intended to lay it before the board. I did not present the decision to tho board, and kept it until now. I present it for the consider­ ation of the General Assembly." The decision is carefully prepared and ex­ presses Mr. Powderly's belief that the resolu­ tion is unconstitutional and of no binding effect except as a warning. After comp4eting iiis defense Mr. Powderly Baid: "I now desire to make some recom­ mendations to the General Assembly, and I do most respectfully ask that more consideration be given to dim than has been given to others tbat I nSade to past general sessions. I bolieve the day has come to aak at tho hands of Con­ gress the passage of a law creating a Depart­ ment of Labor at the seat of the National Gov­ ernment. We have to-day a Department of War; we do not need it at all in comparison to a Department of Labor, The prosperity of the whole country rests on the broad shoulders of labor, and there is nothing now so prominently before the nation and the world as the ques­ tion of labor. Nearly every action taken now by the Exocutive or his Cabinet deals in one way or another with the question of labor ; its ramifications extend everywhere, its power is felt everywhere, and its usefulness is now recognized everywhere. I believe that the Government of the United States should oper­ ate its own lines of telegraph." "I believe that it is absolutely necessary for the welfare and prosperity of tiie country that the Government establish a telegraph Sys­ tem to be uBed in the interest of the people. I recommend that steps bo taken to have the next Congress act on a bill to establish a gov­ ernmental telegraph, to be run in connection •with the postal service. I believe that we should go before the next Congress asking for tne passage of but one or two measures. They should be important ones, and .tho full strength of the organization should bo behind those who fnake the demand. I believe, however, that nothing can be more Important than tho pass­ age of laws creating a governmental telegraph and a National Department of Labor. "To deal knowingly a'nd intelligently with the questions in our declaration of principles we should have a journal published under the control of the order which would reach every member. It should have a department espe­ cially devoted to the discussion of these very questions. It must make a radical change in tho methods of educating our members. In the Journal of Sept. 10 I published an outline sketch of a plan for the regulation of State, Territorial, mixed, and trade assemblies. I will do no more at this time than to draw the atten­ tion of the General Assembly to the matter, and ask either that or a bettor plan be adopted ior the regulation of the order. Ouo tiling that draws our members away from us is the facili­ ties afforded them to secure assistance of a pecuniary nature in other organizations, some of whom are not in sympathy with our orjder; and if our members could but receive the reliof in the order which is guaranteed to them out­ side of it we would have them with us all the time. 1 recommend the adoption of a universal benefit plan. "The question of my being a member of the Socialist organization has been made the sub­ ject oi so much comment of late tn at I believe it but fair to this General Assembly to ma.e known my connection with social sm, or rather with the men WHO in former years were at the head of the Socialistic Labor party, in 188C Philip Van l'atton, the Nat onal Secretary of the Socialistic La- or party, was a member of the General Executive Bourd of the Knights of Labor. I became very intimate wrth biin, and we frequently discussed tbe various measures of reform which all men in the movement re­ garded as of importance. He rent mo a red card of membership some time about tne month of August, 1860 The card was paid up by him for three months. I regarded it as a compli­ mentary act on the part of Brother Van Patten. I saw, however, tbat the declaration of princi­ ples of tho Knighis of Labor contained all of socialism that i cared to advocate, and I ne<er took any action on the card, except to keep it as a memento of the days when we were associated as officers of this association. I never cast a vote for tho candidates of that party, was never a member of any of its sections,'and had'no oonnectlon with It except in the manner re­ lated above. The use of firearms or dynamite is pot advocated by the socialists ; the confisca­ tion of property or the distribution of wealth, or, in fact, the bestowing of wealth or means on those who have not worked or earnad it, is not socialism ; it is jobbery; it is rapine, and no sane man onn advocate such a doctrine. If be­ lieving in the declaration of all the principles of this order makes me a socialist, then I have no denials to make ; but tbat I am a member of any other society in whicn questions of aeform are disenssed I ao deny. * I cannot speak too highly of the energy and ability displayed by the general Investigator. From tho places she has investigated I hour tho most flattertng reports of her management, and the disclosures that have been lnnde to hdt are of such a nature as to strengthen my belief that the office should be made permanent and the sphere of usefulness of the department in­ creased. " Mr. Powderly condemned the practice of caucusing and lobbying on the part of the members of tho order, aud in conclusion stated his perfect willingness to withdraw from of­ fice if the assembly so desired. Some very wholesome aavlce was given regarding the proper attitude of tho members of the order toward their officers, and as to tbe best way of oonducting the business of the convention. The report was very favorably received by the delegates, who spoke of it as the best-wrlt- ton and rnoBt complete address ever prepared by the Master Workman. DEATH IN AWFUL FORM. Details of tho Tcrriblo Accidaut on tho Chicago and Atlantis Railroad. Passengers Mangled and •f All Semblance of H inanity. «t & s.00 4.50. & 4.00" 85.50 OS contralto voices of the day. Adelina has often declared (hat her sister Amelia had the most splendid contralto she had ever heard, and even if some allowance were made for sisterly partiality, Mme. Nicolini is not far wrong, in such noble style does Mme. Stmkosch still sing. It was under* Maurice Strakosch's auspices that Adelina Patti, after having made a marked success in the United States, first appeared in Europe at the Covent Garden Theater, nnd she went through the continent with him until her ma riage with the Marquis de Can*. KING OF THE ANARCHISTS. Chicago Reds Made Captive by George Francis Train's Silly Bombast. ! Chicago special. 1 George Fran.-is Train opened his cam­ paign in Chicago at the Princess Tteater Sunday atternoon before a highly appreci­ ative audience of about six hundred. Nearly all tbe leading socialists and anarchists were present and greeted the celebrated crank with a cheer. His speech was a curi­ ous mixture of bombast, eloquence, rhet­ oric, history, fl -tion, anecdote, and Zinsan- ity. He caught the audience from the first word spoken and retained their strictest attention until the close of his talk. Said he: I have como to Chicago for the purpose of starting the Daily Anarchist. I crammed Herr Most down tho throat of the New York labor people. When I btarted there Herr Most was uppermost among the Socialists there. After I had broken his talk teemed tame and insipid. I told tUem, aud I tell you, that if theBe seven Socialists 1 anp, I will load 20,000,OUO working- men against ( hicago and cut the throats of the men who so foully murdered them. (Lous continued applause. I The polico h^e now made a Btartling dis­ covery. They have found some bombs. All those in favor of bombs say aye. It is carried. I Wild applause and laughter. | I will leave it to the reporters if I haven't talked long enough. All in favor o.' coming again to-night say aye. Tbe meeting broke up amid wild applause and cheers for Train. Several hundred crowded around the speaker and tried to shake hands with him. He refused to shake hands with anyone, claiming that it would deorive him of his psychological powers. Niua Van Zandt came forward and was recognized by Train, who mounted a table aud said: GENTLEMEN : Allow me to introduoe to you Mrs. Nina gpias. All those who, in case the Supreme Court refuses to liberate her husband. August Spies, will follow mo to the County Jail and help to liberate hiui will signify by saying aye. A wild anarchist yell, such as has not been heard iu Chicago for a year, was tbe answer given the daring or crazy orator. The crowd gave cheer after cheer for Train, Spies, Parsons, and other anarchists. Train was surrounded by the crowd, who tacitly crowned him the King of the An­ archists. A dozen or more detectives and officers in ciiizen's clothes made no move, and seemed dazed at the recklessness of the man who had thrown down the gaunt­ let to the police force and authorities. So­ cialists arid anarchists who have not smiled for months went out of the hall with a new light in their eyes and congratulated 4ach £ther that a new apostle had arisen. . . LUXURY ON WHEELS. The Saloon and I>lnlng;-Room of tho Pres­ ident's Car. President Cleveland, says the Chicago New#, does not accept any favors from the railroad companies, but pays out of his own pocket for the best conveniences and com- - fort that modern railrbad enterprise can DINING SIXTY MII.XS AN HOUB. afford. The saloon of the President's ear is furnished with all the comforts and at­ tractions that brighten the elegant modern parlor, and his bedroom is furnished as choicely as the upholsterer's art can BOg- THE CAIl RI.ERPIXG BOOM. gest. As Mr. Cleveland pays in fall for al ne gets as he goes, there is no danger of the railroads that carry him coming into any coniiict with the Interstate Commerce Commission. KA.UKICE 8TBAK0SCH. Mm G*eat Impresario Passes Away Sud­ denly at Paris, A cable dispatch announces the sadden death in tbat cttar 0f Maurice Slrakofch, the THE compass was invented in China 1120 B. C.; used in Venice A. D. 12 JO; improved at Naples 1302. Its varia­ tions first observed in If 00; its dipping in 1576. Tho dipping needle is the in­ vention of Robert Norman, a compass- maker of Batolilf, England, bj whom it was devised in 1580. IN 1752 Buffon and Dalibard ascer­ tained the identity of electricity and lightning by insulated rods; and the •very same year Franklin ftaade the •aine determination by a kite. TALLOW candles took the plaoe of prepared splinters of wood in 1290. [Special telegram from Kouts, Xnd.1 The worst horrors of Chatsworth were duplicated here Tuesday. A dozen blood­ stained, Bmoke-begrimed, injured victims of railroad carelessness or blupdering were brought into the village's little station- house, and nine cbarred corpses, victims of the same blandering or carelessness, were laid npon the station platform, while three miles west, down the track of the Chicago and Atlantic Railway, near a lonely old water tank, piles of fearfally tangled debris marked the spot where a col­ lision seldom equaled for terrible results had occurred. Boone Grove consists of a station build­ ing and a simple little store. It is forty- nine miles out of Chicago on the Chicago and Atlantic rOad. The roadbed enters on a heavy down grade, which runs two and a half miles west of the State ditch. On the north of the track is a large water tank. The country thereabouts is a wide prairie, relieved but infrequently by sparse growths of stunted trees. There is no habitation within a mile of the water tank, immedi­ ately in front of which Tuesday's terrible accident occurred. Conductor Parks was in charge of the train when it left Chicago. The train proceeded without accident to Hulbert's, six and one-half miles west of the scene of the accident. There one of the eccentric straps of engine 2(i broke, and Engineer Barney Connors disconnected one side of the engine and ran, as ii is termed in railway parlance, "on one leg," or with only one piston rod. He pulled his engine into Boone Grove thus crippled. He tele­ graphed tidings of the accident to Hunt­ ington and then resumed his run, with half force. He passed the water tank on the prairie, then reversed his engine und went back for water. Half a mile back, as a warning to -trains following, stand the semaphore lights, which were properly turned. At 8:15 o'clock a freight train composed of refrigator cars laden with dressed beef and fruits left Chicago. It was due at Boone Grove at 11:U8 o'clock. John Dor­ sey, the engineer, had instrtlctions to "rush through." The night was heavy and foggy as he pulled out of Boone Grove a few minutes late and started down the steep grade, unmindful of any danger until he had passed under the semaphore lights and caught a sudden glimpse of the danger signals dangling from the rear of the pas­ senger train. He reversed the engine, sounding several piercing blasts of Warn­ ing which sent the trainmen scurrying over the cars to set the brakes. But the im­ petus of the heavy train was beyond such trifling control. The engineer and iireman jumped for their lives only a few seconds before the engine crashed through the Pull­ man sleeper. The passenger train was driven its own length ahead and then tfie rbar coach forced its way through and on top of the coaches in front. The freight engine was wrecked entirely. Its tender was thrown over the engine and onto the coaches, while eighteen refrigerator cars were strewn zig-zag across the track or piled in an indescribable mass --one within the debris of another. Dressed beef sufficient to feed an army was scatter­ ed in the adjacent fields, while fruits lay about as plentiful as though rich orchards had yielded their bounty to the earth and been spirited away. The ready and dangerous stove in the second* coach 'responded at ohce to the deafening invitaiion the crash of the col­ lision ottered to join in the wreck of de­ struction and death, for the heavy Pullman had scarcely settled into position after its terriiic plunge through the two coaches when fire added its horrors to the already terrible Bcene. All the fatalities were from the flames, which instantaneously enveloped the shattered cars. , Conductor Parks, Engineer Connors, and all the trainmen escaped miraculously, and immediately set about the rescue of the doomed people imprisoned iu the burning wreck. They worked in the face of the flames, drawing away from-their grasp all within reach until they were com­ pelled to desist by the tire's dangerous ad­ vance. On either side of the tangled wreckage, reaching out from its midst, were the heads, arms, or feet of the passen­ gers who begged piteously to be released before the flames took them in their fatal embrace. Little Herman Miller was found under the foremost coach, his arms extend­ ing above his head. Visible through the splintered timbers were the other members of bis family, already in the throes of death from the breath of the hot fiames encircling them. In broken English the boy begged of those endeavoring to save him to save his mother and sister. The boy's head was split open, but he retained his consciousness until he, free himself from further danger, gazed back at the quivering forms of his father, mother, and sister encircled in flames. An unknown victim, who was caged in the very center of the debris--a large, pow­ erful man--made a desperate battle for life. He fought his way from one end of his prison to the other end--100 feet away--in an effort to keep beyond the reach of the flames. He tore down the broken frames as if they had been reeds, plunged head­ foremost through the litter, or rooted up the earth to force his passage from the path of the fiames. As safety was about reached the flames descended in front of him, he inhaled them, and falling, yielded up the struggle. Of all the victims his form alone retained any human semblance, for the fire leaped over the prostrate man as if content with victory over so stubborn a victim with­ out destruction. A pathetic incident of the wreck is re­ lated by the station agent. It is of the story of a yOung lady from Ohio who-e name could not be remembered. She was one of the passengers on the ill-fated train, and when the trash came, with the presence of mind and energy worthy of a strong man, she seized an ax from its rest­ ing place on the side of the car and hewed her way through to a window. Her own safety assured, her thoughts turned to the helplesB unfortunates whose cries for as­ sistance sounded behind her. They did not call in vain, for she rushed in the <li- rectiou of the cries and personally aided the sufferers from the wreck. To use her own language: "I did all I could, and would have continued had I not heard Dr. Perry crying and moaning piteously that his feet were burning. Then my strength gave way, and I was compelled to desist and seek assistance myself." The collision is attributed to the care­ lessness of the engineer of the freight train which dashed into the delayed passen­ ger. The freight men, it is said, were warned to go slow and look out. but it seems they, drove ahead, passed a danger signal at Boone Grove, aud tlm-e miles beyond ran into the passenger. Frank Cramer, General Western Agent of the Guion Line, was one of the passen­ gers who escaped from the wreck unhurt. He said: "I was asleep when our train waS run into, but the shoc-k awoke me qui kly enough. There were only seven pereons in the sleeper I was iu. I think they all escaped without injury. I dressed quickly and got out. The forward coaches were telescoped and the whole train was burn­ ing. The train men were doin^c all tln-y could, but many who were killed or wounded b^dly must have been burned up, be ause the tire broke oat as soon as the wreek occurred, and the means of extri­ cating people caught in the wreckage were •canty. I have no doubt persons who Bight have been saved perished ia the because there wax* no facilftiee fBfr reaching them." mux CITY'S CORN PALACE. Hundred) of Cartons Shapes and Fu- tMles Made Out of the Cora Plant. fnrnd attraction of the Harvest Jubilee at Sioux City, Iowa, la the corn palace, an allegorical temple of Ceres de* signed by a skilled architect, and made ot corn and the other cereals of the North­ west. Within the palace is exhibited all the grain grown in Iowa, Nebraska, an<| Dakota ana all the other products of th* 'farm. The Com Palace, as it stands, is in truth a revelation. It fronts on Fifth street 21<> feet aud on Jackson street 100 feet. Ris­ ing from the center of the structure, as at first planned, 100 by 100 ffeet, is the dome or cupola, surmounted by a spire 100 fee| high. Each of the four corners rises bold* ly into square pavilions. The extension now includes on the Fifth street front Armory Hall also, and beyond that two ad* ditional pavilions, companions in form to the four pavilions of the original plan, making, as before stated, a frontage on Fifth ^ street of 210 feet. Imagine such magnificent proportions, broken by the pavilion towers, by projecting minarets, by arched openings and immense panels; be* hind them rising in relief the great roof; above all ^ the towering cupola and spire, connected iu relief with the pavilions with flying buttresses--imagine these propor­ tions clothed all about with the products of the cornfield and decked out with these in a profusion of beauty--one grand, har­ monious whole, a stately witness of the bursting bounty of the empire of the North- , west, the re ilm of King Corn. It is $ spectacle to enchain attention, to command admiration. Take the great fronts of the structure on Fifth and Jackson streets, and none who have not seen would believe that suoh magical effects could be wrought out of the materials of the cornfield. Take the 210 feet frontage on Fifth street, and every square inch of it is wrought into soma cunning and representative form of the king of products. The walls rise one 'har­ monious, though variegated, mass ot' the stalk and leaf; at the base, wicker work, green as the rushes of tbe Nile, and here and there, pendent, in rich contrast, are the golden ears. The double nrchew of tho ' openings in the pavilions are faced with rows of ears, sometimes richly fringeil with the husk, sometimes of one color and sometimes of another. Then, the great panels in the body of the wall and tho columns rising high to the battlement-- here is one of the special marvels of the unique creation, or rather scores of mar- vel8. ̂ In each of a score of these panels or divisions there is wrought some design- here a diamond and there a checker, here a ^ motto and there some other in- sciption--wrought from corn of a dozea kinds and a dozen hues--golden yellow, pure white, blood red, violet and so on. Against thes? ingenious forms of beauty stands the quiet but none the less effective beauty of the corn-clad columi.s, broken by the columns around which are bound tho russet blades of the corn plant and a grace­ ful combination of grains and grasses. Along the upper line of the front runs a shiny hem of oats, interspersed in placesi by the dark seeds of the sorghum plant, corn ears ot flaming red or some other re­ lieving color. Still above, rise tiie graceful minarets, raimented in rich colors of native grasses, and crowned with tufts of millet and flying banners. In the background rises the root, a seeming solid mass of corn almost, and from it towers the cupola, its arches wrought like those below, and here and there panels of curious forms of corn, red, white, violet, yellow and all eolora under the 6un, surrounded and interwoven with the plnnt itself and other products in every conceivable shape. Passing to the interior of tbe great structure, amazement finds fresh stimulus at every turn. There hangs a sunflower,^ perfect in form and color, yet every fiber from the corn plant. Yonder are the tiger lilies, of the same element, illusion per­ fect--who would have believed it? Every­ where, bouquets, panels, ceilings, mottoes, draperies, pendants, stars, statues of Ceres, bells, latticework, beaded curtains, all forms of farmers' implements--every last one made of the corn or of the plants that grow with it. As you enter the wide portal, above will be tho seal official of the city--every bar and coloring made of corn; beyond, a great spider aud his web will be spread out above; still higher hangs a mammoth bell; to the left there is a tableau of "The Golden Stair;" further on, the figure of an Indian and an eagle--all made and dressed with the blade and grain and stalk of corn. One great mirvel of the scene will be a landscape, "The Setting Sun," the great orb itself made all of corn, the beams shot with the brilliancy of the grain, and the perspective executed with such skill as to deceive the keenest eye. These are but samples. A hundred other curious shapes and fantasies would weary the onlooker if all were not so new, so strangely made out of material so long thought common tvpd despised, yet now found to outblush the rose and shame the lily.--&t. Louis Globe- Democrat. SUDDEN SUMMONS. Death at New York of Hon. Thomas C. Manning, Ex-Minister to Mexico. [New York telegram,] Judge Thomas C. Manning, ex-United States Minister to Mexico, died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Tuesday. He had been ill for about a week, aud took sick shortly after his arrival in the city to attend the meeting of the Peabody Educational Fund, of which he was oue of the trustees. The cause of his death was au obstruction of the bowels. Judge Thomas Coartland Manning was aged about (50 years, and a uative of Eden- ton, N. C. He graduated from the Uni­ versity of North Carolina, and after pric- ticing in Ed> nton for sev< ral years removed to Alexandria, La., in 18M. In 1864 Mr. Manning was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. After tho war Judee Manning devoted himself to tbe law aud drellneil the ag­ ination for Governor of Louisiana. He ^served a^ a Tilden elector in 187IS, and in 1877, when Governor Nicholls was Installed, he was appoiuted Chief Justice of the Su­ preme COurt. Two years later he retired, but was attain restored to tho Supreme bench, and served with distinction until 1885. His next and last positiou. ihat of Minister to Mexico, was coiijf/rred by Pres­ ident Cleveland. . ^ Judge Mimvtagwas of massive, fignre and dignifiv d. eourtlv bearing. He bore » great resemblance to Salmon P. Chase, and ; was alwajs very highly regaided a9 a man I and a jvrist.