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ESTABLISHED AUGUST 24, 1852. WHEELING, W. YA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1893. YOLUME XLII?NUMBER 37. OnD'S?QOog]csQDcg@DoPs M?D?F(a]?s IFaBo0 IT[?D[p$o GDottsils ?oo ????nod] [Psigjcso IJEAT1], DESOLATION. The Awful Results of tho Recen Coast Storm THAT VISITED LOUISIANA TOWNS Villages and Hamlets Swop Away Without Warning, AND INHABITANTS IN THE SWIR Ol' a Flood of Irresistible Fore Swamped to Death. 1 THE VICTIMS OF THE GALI Arc Found in l?very Posture, Typlca of the Death Agony anil tho Frigh k They Went Through Beforp th ' ? Waters CTosoil Their Voices Forerci ( 'HinllipH Itlottod Out of Kxistcncf I Unidentified Corpses Thrown Int I a Common Grave, Like Unktiow I Heroes 011 a Battlo Field?The Tota / Mortality .May iteach Oror On Thousand?Touching Talcs of Fieli and Flood. Nnw Orleans, La., Oct. 4.?Tho disa? ter at Grand Island and Cheniere ha been unparalleled. Tho load of lifo i terrible. The first authentic news cam this morning when several survivor reached here. They tell hcartrendin stories. A tidal wave broko over th island destroying lives and property o all sides. Dr. Frey, a prominent phys cian, and his wife wero drowned. On hundred and forty-five familios are sai> in hnvn noriflhod. The death list wil ran up into hundreds. Tho eteumo Joo Weber was blown to piecea an several oi her crew wore lost. Cheniero Caminda ia opposito Grun Isle, and ia less exposed. It is tho hoin of many fishermen and constitute quite a settlement less exposed to tb< elemunta than its partner. There is Catholic church nt Cheniero, a schoc house in course of construction, severs BtoreB and some residences, and th population is about as large as Gran Isle. APPALLING NEWS. Tho news from Grand Isle was aj palling, but there are many porsons i tho city familiar with tho geographies position of the island and the tope irraphy of it, and the surrounding coun try who are inclined to bolievo that th reports are somewhat exaggerated. ] is not the first lime that Graml Ial lias been roportedto liavo been washe away. The island is practically cut o from communication and tho onl means of obtaining information i through tho regular passenger steamc that plios between this city and th island, and the many luggers eugaged i the oyster trade. Early in the morning when tho Gran Isle railway handa were cloaring th debris from the tracks just above Burn ' _* _ iuiu nicy iounu mo uuuy ui u hhiq wi.u girl in a fence corner. It was horribl torn on the bnrb wires. Clinging totli child were two others, evidently aister All three were in raw, almost nakoi and all woro terribly cut and bruised. A Til HILLING KXrEUIKNCE. Perhapa one of the moat thrilling 01 perience9 of tho atom was told I a woman who drifted to shore laahod t a log. She, her huaband, and two chi dron had taken rbfuge on board echooner outside of Bayou Coolc an intended to rido out thu gale. Who tho wind came from tlio west followu by a mammoth wave, the husband an two children were waahod overboar and tho lugger's muat snapping oil' at il foot drifted away. Tho frantic womn jumped on the floating tiinbor and i Home way laahedherself to it. All nigl she driftod througn Adam's bay, an then Aborigin bay, and when auyligl: came aho was picked up by tho lugge Vonm. Shu was naked and terribl bruised. John A. Sepul, one of tho many ur fortunate fishermen that lived on tl: shore of Bayou Creek, told the repr< sentative of tho Associated Preaa thi thoro was nothing left, either on th shores of tho bayou or its islands. 0 Bayou Simon, which is aituatod i Grand liay, there were fourteen fishe men. They were all drowned. NOT A IIOUSK LEFT. It is said everything on Bayou Cre< is gone, not even a house being lei and tho many peoplo aro where tl Almighty himself only knows. The family of John Barbior, a fisho man in Bayou Cook, had boon waah< away. Fotir children and the wife we; rescued, but the huaband and two chi aron woro drowned within a few feet i tiie poor wife. Tho nest houao was o cupicd by a man, wifo and two chi dron. Tho wife and children wei caught in tho water and aot off at rapid rate into tho darkness and wei drownod. (.ieorgo Cefarovich also livi in that neighborhood, and was tho during tho night with his family. Tl waves cauie with a rush, carrying wii them the house aud Cofarovlch's wi and his two youngest daughters. Tl lather was drowned later in the nigh with his six-year-old boy. The no door neighbor waa a Mr. Barton, wi his mother and two daughters. Mi Barton waa saved by tho Vonus, but tl daughters wero drowned. ONLY ONE SAVED. The only person who waa saved fro tho Oyster bnyou catastrophe waa ano Spaniard, llo waa routm hanging I one hand to a poat in an nnconscio condition, and will die. Tony Morvich, owner of a lugger, ar a resident of Bayou Cool: aettlomei lost his wife aud little baby. John Stook, a young Italian about years old. waa struck in tho head bv floating skiff and instantly killed. Another Italian by the name of Lu Hotrovltcli lost his tour daughters; 1 wifo and two sons wero roscuod. On Simon Isle in Grand lslo we twenty-eight inhabitants, keepers oyster camps and wore waiting for tho i return of tho oyster fleet. Sixteen of 1 thorn were drowned. ' I Nearby is another small island called Razor Island. Hero a camp of five men I t were located, who wore all drownod. OSE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DROWNED. ' On Bird Island, which iB situated a little further to tho westward and is i, more exposed to tho heavy surf, lived about ono hundred and fifty people. . They woro all drowned. On Grand Bank, which borders tho Grand Lake, there were eight persons killed. Mr. Jlatthew Sohurtz, of Goldboro, juatopposito tho city, was ono of tue I survivor* of tho Cheniere Campina calamity who arrived this morning on the ' Bcliooncr Good Mother. Ho brought 1 o with him a harrowing tale of his ox- 1 periences, and the loss of iifo at Cheni- 1 ore. Mr. Schurtz wont to the island * about four weeks ago with Mr. George J r Thompson and a nocro bricklayer, ] t named Louis Roberta for tho purposo ' of constructing a school house, llo on- ! gaged board in a liuuie in which there 1 was a very largo family, not less than j t twenty-five in all. Tho houso was a ] 0 rudo establishment of boards, but it ' had withstood many gales and tho oc- 1 cupanta of it felt reasonably safe from the atorm. 1 q TURNED INTO A niER. n It turned out to be the bior of prob- : j ably twenty-five people. Mr. Schurtz on Suuday night had an experience severe enough to turn a man's hair gray, 1 and when he reached tho city this ' morning he ahowod tho results of the ' peril he had been through. Ho was < almost naked, the clothes ho hud on < i- were torn to shreds; hit face was bruised < s and he had not yot recovered from tho 8 excitement ho had undergone and the i frightful scenes of death ho had wit0 noised. I s Mr. b'churtz says tho estimate is that J >' tho loss of life on Grand Islo aud Che- ' e niero and in the Grand and Adams bay, and tho Cook* Chalon and Oyster bayou a settlements will reach eight hundred to i- a thousand. When he left Cheniere 0 Island yesterday ho counted but eight 1 houses standing out of a total of about . 300, while tho land was covered with 11 corpses. J MR. BCIIURTZ'S STORY. Mr. Bchurlz, lilr. Thompson and a d negro bricklayer wero in a house in 0 which there wero fully twcnty-fivo peo- , * pie, all huddled together, and torror | strickon at the mighty agony of the ele- , >1 ments. Suddenly there was a fearlul 1 crash of timbers and tho roof caved in, , e burying nearly everyone of tho party, d only Mr. Schurtz and the negro brick- i layer escaping. Mr. Schurtz clung to floating debris until ho saw a light i j. twinkling in a house not far away. Me I swam to the house and was admitted. < 11 There were sevoral people in this house, j 1 Mr. Schurtz had luuulJy enterod, how) over, when thoatruetilre wont to pieces, I i- and out of those who were in tho house j o Mr. Schurtz, a lady and a child escaped. ] t Mr. Schurtz is certain that not lens ti than niue hundred to a thousand peo<l tilo nerished in this awful cvclone and II tidal wave. y Schurtz and the lady and child snca ceoded in reaching a tree. Schurtzaays r while ho remained in the tree, three 1 o wnve9 washed over him that were n mountain high, but ho and tho lady and baby clung tenaciously to the limba for d support and saved themsolves from boe in?r washed awav in tho awful howling is gulf around them, o AN AWFUL SIGHT. And here, thore and everywhere wero tho ghastly faces of corpses turned up1, ward to tho peaceful stars, now bright and beautiful and bearing no traco of the awful poril of the night Upon many of them wore still evidences of y the terrible agony they hatf suflered be0 fore death came to relieve them of their 1_ troubles. Some had lost their lives in tt the wrock of their homos; some had j been drowned after escaping from tho n shells which could not shelter them j from tho blasts of that frightful gale; ,1 aoino had probably given up their lives d in a vain otfort to aavo those whom they loved and who were dependent upon n thorn lor protection. Many of tho poor , n fellows, many of the womon and chillt dren had lived through the night, but (1 mortally wounded, and with nothing to quench their thirst, and no modical r assistance at hand, had given up a y strugglo that very sorely tried men's souls. Tiiero wero broken arms and {. logs, bruised and battered bodies, faces i0 clashed out of all human form. Marty a. a pilo of debris was tho temporary grave h of a family. 0 Cheniero Caminda lies acrosi from in Grand lslo and is separated from the jn island by Cheniero bay. r* 110MB OP FISHERMEN. It was the homo of fisherman and storo-keopers and it comprised a colony 5 of 1,400 souls with ohurchea antTschoola ' and other ovidoncea of modern civilizai() tion. Nearly all its residents wore white people, the Spanish race largoly r' predominating. Huudreds of fishing 5(1 smacks wero owned by the residents po and many of those were moored to >* thoir landing places on the Cheniero of lake when the storm came up. Others J* that wero not eithor on their way to or 1" from tho city, or wero engaged in lish'? ing for oysters which is tho great ina <J ii9try of tho islands. Dozens of tho ro little craft that were tied to posts at ^ tho main landing were picked up by the ro mighty waters and either beached in >? the iuarsh or torn to pieces liko tho homo of thoir owners. Hardly any of f? them escaped injury and most of them 16 had been battered to pieces. THE PRIEST'S EXPERIENCE. li1 Tho good priest, who lookod after the s. spiritual welfare of tho islaudors was i 10 among those saved, but ho, likewise, had an awful experience. Tho littlo frame church is, or was, visible from m Grand Islo. A siraplo woodon cross Id adorn its top. A pretty littlo thatched l>y cottage hostled by the aide of tho sacred us edifice. When the hurricane struck the island it swept the church out of existid once, and it lifted tho priest's residence it, from its foundations and dumped it without ceremony into the water, which 15 was then up to the door stops. Tho a nriost escaped with his life, and the lady who occupied tho house with him, ko and who was his housekeeper likewUc, lis was spared. The good father remained awuko during all of tho terrible night ro and when morning catuo during all of of the terrible night and when morning :amo ho was ready to succor those who liad boon saved from the awful wrath of thoatorm. As stated before, the picture was a terrible one on Monday. SCORES OF BODIES. There wore scores of bodies lying around, and beginning to show signs of iecomposition. Under the circumstances, for the safety of the rest of the colony, it became necessary to take prompt steps to bury those who had lost their livos. There woro still many people who were alive and able bodied, ind thoy were immediately organized for the work of duty and charity. There was no time to build colline. If there had been time there were no tools, no boards that could be nailed togethor, no receptacles for the bodies lying sverywhere, tio the living merely huntad up spades and commenced tho task )f digging trenches, iu which to deposit the remains. Up to 12 o'clock Mr. Schurtz assisted in that great work, and iuring that time he participated in the intoruient of not losa than fifty persons, oieu, women and children, and somo of them not having a mark upon their peraonB to show what hail caused their Jeath. Othora wore budly slashed. Not loss thau six people were in ono crdve. They wero all tho grave would liold. There was little time lor ceremonies usual on tho burial of a human being. I'ltOVKD HIMSELF A HERO. Robo Iiaudo proved himself a hero. He was tho bead of a family that, beside himself, comprised his wife and two children. Their house had been torn to pieces by the hurricane and they were in imminont danirer of losing their lives. Just ubout this time tho Weber had parted from her mooring ind was sweeping down paat Cheniere. Hando swam about in the water until ho had gathered sufficient lumber to make an impromptu raft, and with thin raft ho succeeded in saving himself and family from a watery gravo or from ? worse death. Mr. Schurtz uays a gentleman from Is'ow York 19 among those lost, Ho iiad gone to Oheniere for his health and occupied a house near tiiat in which Mr. Schurtz had 3lept During the height of tho storm Schurtz heard him cry piteously for help, but 110 succor was near, anu Mr. Schurtz believes ho perished along with tho hundreds of others who wero lost. It will never be accurately known just how mauy lives wero lost in the storm. The mighty waves swept with such irresistible force over the land, itnd at such a great depth that it is probable that many bodies, and perhaps many who are still living wero carried into the marshes. As previously mentioned the population of Choniore was about 1,400. Mr. Schurtz thinks that 1,000 of these have been lost, though his calculation may bo someivhat overdrawn. No thought has been i?iven to tho monetary damage. Unless stepa are-immediately taken for the organization of relief parties, it s not unlikely that many will perish trom starvation and thirst. A TOUCHING TALE. TonyMegovitcli came in to-day, direct from Bayou Cook. lie said that dun lug the height of tho storm ho saw his wife swept by him, appealing piteoualy for help, lie was unable to give her a helping hand and she perished. He witnessod scores of people drown about him, men and women whom ho had known all his life. Many of them did not drowu, but wore dashed against their houses and their lives were crushed out. Others perished iu the destruction of their homes. > It is variously estimated that from 200 to 500 people perished on Bayou C'ook and that section of the country; the deaths at other points, ail the way from llayou Couk to tirand Island and Oliomere, will swell the total to more than 1,200, according to the best information now obtainable. At Grand Bayou not loss than twentysix porisheil. Nonrljr H Fatal Runaway. Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer. Mannington, W. Va., Oct 4.?While MrH. J. O. llupy and Mies Annio Burchinaid were taking a drive yesterday afternoon tho home took fright and ran off. Both ladies were thrown out of the buggy. Mrs. Huev in falling alighted on her head, inflicting painful injurios, the extent of which cannot as yet bo told, She was unconscious for several hours but it is now thought that nothing serious will result. MncCorklo Condemned. Special Dispatch to Vie Intelligencer Huntington*, W. Va., Oct. 4.?'Tho Barrnim club last night virtually con* deraned Governor MacCorkle. They passed resolutions stating that his explanation didn't go, and that West Virginia coal did not need any tariff to protect it. A copy of tho resolutions ia to besont to the ways and moans committeo and Larry Neal. Change in Foatnl Delivery. Special Dispatch to the IntdUqenccr. Washington, D. C.f Oct. 4. ? Tho postollicesite at Oxbow, Ritchie county, has been moved threo quarters of a mile southeast, and Daniel H. Valentino commissioned a postmaster. The postoflico at Vendome, Brooke county, has boon discontinued. Tho mail will heroafter go to Wellsburg. lie Cmuc to Talk. Special Dispatch to the Jutclliijencer. Huntington, W, Va., Oct. 4.?Ed. Crura, tho prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, was arrested at 2 o'clock this morning on the street for being drunk and carrying a revolver, lie was flnod ten dollars in the police court. He canio hero to talk over the .Mac* Corkle matter.' Now rofttma?t<tr.H. Specia1 Dispatch to the Intellijcncir. Washington, D. c.f Oct. 4.?West Virginia postmasters have beonappointed as follows: G. it. Creel, vice J. P.McCardell, removed, Davisville, Wood county; C. J. Gamer, vice . II. Barr, resigned, ftycamorg, Calhoun county. Crushed to I ) !<( Ii. Special Dispatch to the IntelHt/cncrr. Piedmont. W. Va., Oct. 4.?Conrad l'azenbaker, oi Western port, .MdM n Cuinborland & Pennsylvania conductor, was crushed to doatii this evening while coupling cars in tho Piedmont yard. He leaves a large family. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Reorganization of the Greatest News Service Ever Known IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Tho Enmity of Another Association Shown to bo Not Only Jealousy, But a Schonic to Debauch tho Markets and tho Eichangcs of tho Country. Tho Now Organization Starts Out With tho Most Magnilicont Pros* poets?Why tho Association "Would Not Ktiucklo to Corporations or Politics. J Chicago, Oct. 4.?Tho members of the Associated Prosd held a special mooting at the Grand Pacilic hotel in in this city to-day. It is tho first time in tho history o! tbe organization that tho newspapers otnbraced in the Associated Press membership wore ever called together in extraordinary session, as it has never before beon deomod necessary to can ine ownora 01 mo xruui> wcwo^apera of the country together, outside of tho regular annual session. The special purpose of tho mooting was to provide for an increase in tho capital stock of tho organization to enable tho manage* meat to widen tho field of-ita operations, ao as to include tho entire country. Hitherto this association has confined its inomborahip to the territory we.it of tho Allegheny mountains, although its news has embraced the information of the entire globe, and it has had working alliances with all of the leading news gathering organizations of tho world. Tho attQndance was larger than at anv previous mooting of a proas associ i...u :? iVi. (pi,;. JUIUII ever iiuiu 111 mio uuuuuj. una was largely duo to tho fact that a deep interest had been aroused by the machinations of three men, under tho leadership of a Chicago banker, looking to the Boizure of the businoss ot the gathering and distribution of the news, and the conversion of it into a private trust. Tho raenance, alike to tho newspaper profession and thegenorftl public, involvoi in this attempt, was so great as to create general alarm, and call for prompt and heroic measures. MEMDBRS FHE8EKT. The following members wore in attendance: General Horace Buhleo, Sentinel, Milwan koo; P. C. Boyle, Dcrrick, Oil City; II. 11. Coleman, Edgar W. Coleman and NV. J. Fohl, Herald, Milwaukee; Albert J. IJarr, Pittsburgh Pout; W. I). Brickell, Columbus Dispatch; Fred J. Grant, Pittsburgh Dispatch; A. J. Aiken, Evening Wisconsin, .Milwaukee; E. A.Eaton, Sentinel, Indianapolis; F. Driscoll, St. Paul Pioneer^ Press; W. J. Richanh. Indianapolis News; S. F. Farrar, Clncago Evening Journal; Robert Simpson, Commercial Gazette, Pittsburgh; Victor t\ Lawson, Chicago Daily News and Chicago Record; Charles W. Knapp, St. Louis Republic; II. H. Kohlsaut, Chicago Inter-Ocean; Carter II. Harrison, jr., Chicago Times; II. C. Vortriedo, president Toledo Commercial; O. S. Ilershuian, manager and treasurer Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph; L. Swift, manager .Minneapolis Journal; II. W. Haley, 1 manager Denver Times; W. J. Murphy, Minneapolis Tribune; 11. II. Hall, St. Paul Qlobc; W. C. Ball, Terro liauto Gazette; & T. McNeoly, Evansville Journal; W. W. IiOBH, Evansville Journal; J. II. Wood, jr., Milwaukee Sentinel; D. K. Cooper, Nashville American; Charles Ray, Milwaukee Sentinel', Chat lea 11. Taney, Wheeling Register] Ji. U. iteming, Columbus Dispatch; K. C. Coopor, Denver Republican] John Arkins, Rocky Mountain flews; Gcorgft Thompson, St. Paul Dispatch; A. L. Markbreit, Cincinnati Volksblall; J. I). Ellifion and 1). L. Boworamith, Ohio btate Journal, Columbus; Kobinson Locko, Toloilo Blade; L. M. Markbreit, proxy for Cincinnati Volkt freund; A. W. Campbell, Wheeling Intelliqk.nceii; James E. Scrippa, Detroit Tribune; Marshal ilalstead, Cincinnati Commercial Gazelle; I. A. Mack, Sandusky Register; W. McDonald, Kansas City Timet; \\\ A. Bunker, Kansas City Journal; Eugetio U. Pordue, Cleveland Leader; Charles P. Taft,' Cincinnati Times-Star; A. C. Boy n ton, Detroit Free Prai; W. D. Bickham, Dayton Journal; George M. Allen, Terre Haute Exnress; F. T. Lane, Toledo Blade; Victor Ilosowater, Omaha Bee; L. E. Holden, Cleveland Pluin Dealer; A. IT. Bolo and It. C. Lowe, Galveston New*; William Drupe,St. Louie America; D. M. Hoilsor, St. Louis Globe"Democrat; John Schroors, St. Louis Anzticer; Florence D. White, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; William A. Collier, Memphis Appeal and Avalandu; llarry ?. Now, Indianapolis Journal. tub oanoers op monopoly. Fourpapors only, mombers of tho Association, were reported as having no representative present, and three of theae, who were unable to reach hore from the Pacific coast, telegraphed their loyal adhosion to tho Association, and thoir acquiescenco in and approval of the most vigorous measures to insure tho purity and integrity of tho news service. They gavo positivo expression in favor of the co-operative plan of news gathering, which has been tho policy of the Associated PresH for more than thirty years, and were equally strong m thoir coudomnation of all I schemes for making the collection mid distribution of news enterprise subjoct to the irrerponsible control of designing men. The dangers of such a system wore mado manifest, involving, as thoy do, the possibility of tampering with markot reports, the coloring of political or other important information, and all absence of restraint or congureship on tho part of the papers themselves. So alarming was the thrpnt that it was felt by every one to reach entirely Ucyotul the line* of the newspapers and touch in a vital way tho inj terestsof overv citizen. two koft\utfl attempts. I j Two or three attempts of such a char) acter had been mado in tho past, one , i of them notably by Jay Gould, but nil i camo to grief, because of the natural II refusal of any of the new?papers of the country to print their news. The pres ent oflort, cloaked under the inviting name of tlio United Press, and posing .19 an "association," has succoodod in securing patronape from a number of important journals, chiefly in the east, and it was this fact that attracted tho attention and aroused the spirit of the members of the Aseociated Press, who assembled to-day. Besido the members propor, enumerated above, there were also present and quite as deeply interested, the representatives of the allied associations of the Associated Press, uil of which are upon the same co-operative plan, and represent an a^re^ato membership running into the hundreds. It was the unanimous opinion of those presont that the timo was ripe for a proat national Asiociated Press organization, Buch as has never oxiated in thiR nonntrv. and which should extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific, embracing in its membership all of the leading daily newspaper*, while preserving tho autonomy of tho various sectional associations for local purposes. PLAN OP ORGANIZATION, The plan of organization provides for an absolutely equal stockholding right for each member. This insures the moat perfect equality among the members. The administration is placed in tho hands of a board of directors, representing every section of the country and every considerable interest, and elected annually. The executive officer, tho general manager, is also elected annually. This policy throws about tho news service tho bo3t possible safeguards, and necessitates the most thorough accountability, by tho management for its every act. In respouse to urgent applications from leading newspapers in tho east, it waa found necossary to increusu the capital stock. Mr. William Penn Nixon, president . : ~ - > n ?t\i* OI tQO ASSUCiuiou i. tuaa, uti.u);iow nuv chair. ' Mr. Victor F. Lnwaon, chairman of the executive committee, ollored the following resolution, which waa unanimously adopted: THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. Ilesolvid, That the board of directors be instructed to take the necessary stops to incroaao the capital stock of the Associated Preaa to $100,000, to the end o( nationalizing the proprietorship of the association by tlio admission of leading newspapers in all sections of the country to stockholding in the association in individual amounts, not exceeding the holdings of the present stockholders, provided this shall not impair the existing rights of membors. Mr. A. J. Aiken, of Milwaukee, ollered the following solution, which was adopted by a rising vote, unanimously, and substantially sitmed by those present as expressive of their sontiment: Jlaolved, That the members of the Associated Press aro unanimous in their determination to sustain the ofUcers and directors in their purpose to build up a national, mutual, newaeathering association for the benefit of its members and the public it serves, and to this end wo pledge our continuous, loyal support. FREE FROM DEDT. The goneral manager presented a financial etatemont, showing the Assooiut.inn tn hn frou from indebtedness. and having a surplus of over $33,000. Owing to the establishment of exclusive relations with the great European news gathering agencies of lteuter, JIavas and Wolf, and the added expense involved in the extension of tho service, it was suggested that a guaranty fund of an adequate amount bo provided against any emergency that might ariso. Tho idea was taken up promptly, and volunteer subscriptions to such u fund wore oflered. Tho following legal and binding document was prepared by Mr. John X'. W ilson, general counsel for tho organization, and was signed as indicated. although a number of the uentletnen probent felt they wero not authorizod to alllx their signatures, without action by their corporate auttioritiea, and there* foro, a number of subscriptions are yet to bo mado, and will bo reported by (olograph, an soon aa authorized, titili the immediate guaranty reachcs the large total $310,000. Following is the document and signatures: A BINDING DOCUMENT. In consideration of one dollar, to each of us in hand paid, uud of the Associated Press continuing it* existing news service with such modillcation uh its bourd ol directors may deem advisable. we the undersigned. hereby agree to pay to said Associated Press from time to time, 05 called for by its board of directors, our several pro rata shares of the cost of such service over and above its current income, for a period of two years, the total liability of any subscriber not to exceed tho amount, tet opposite his name, and the pro rata share of each subscriber to be ascertained by tho proportion which his subscription bears to the aggregate amount oi all tho subscriptions hereto, the amounts so advanced to be repaid, without interest, when uud as soon as said Associated Press shall have surplus fuuds on hand uvailuble for such purpose uud not. otherwise. Victor F. Lawsgui, for the Chicago Record and Daily Aewt 8 20,000 II. II. Kohlsaut, Chicago Inter-Ocian aJ0,000 Chicago Hvt iniin Jimmal, by J. II. Wilton 10,000 | St. Ixmir, Rep\mic, Charles W. Kuapp 20,000 SL Louis Giobc-Democrat, D/M. Houser 20,000 m. Louis Amerika, William Drupe, president 6,000 St. Louis Die Weilliche I'ost, Km 11 Protortus 6,000 Col. Frederick Driscoll, Bt. Paul Pioneer trin 10.000 St. Paul (Jlobr, II. II. Hull 10,003 St. Paul i>i-jHitcii, George Thompson 10,010 Minneapolis Tribune, W.J. .Murphy 30,000 Minneapolis Journal, 1* Swift 10,000 Milwaukee tentinel, Charles Ray 10,000 The. Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee, A. J. Aiken lO.ono Milwaukee Hera'd, Edgar W. Coleman...- 5,003 Detroit Tribune, James li. Scrip pi 10,000 Cincinnati Volk*b!att, L. Markorult - 5,000 I Cincinnati Jiinea-slar, Charles P. Tuft 10,000 ! Cleveland 1'lain Dealer and I'ost by L. Ii K llolden ...... 10,000 Cleveland Leader and Xeict anil llerald, E. Perdue..... 10,000 I Pittsburgh l'oit, A. J. Jtorr 6,000 I Pittsburgh Commerteal-GaxtU, lioben i tslmpsou 10,005 I Oil City Derrick, P. C. iJjyje 0,000 l'o\c<\o Hladc, T. li Laue ] 0,000 Columbus Ditnatch. W D. Brlckoll ..... 5.W% Onto S!alr. Jtiurnul, Columbus. J. Dellison.. 0o>j Indianapolis ri.tiw'. H. A, Eaton A,000 Indianapolis Aeu-s, Wm. Henry Smith 6.0iX? Indianapolis Journal, Harry S. New 5,OjO Denver / ima, II. VV. Hawley 0,000 Denver Rthiiblican, K. (J. Cooper 6,003 Denver Rocky Mountain .Vuit, John Ark Ins 6,000 Nashvllie Amentyiu. I). H. Cooper 30.000 Doyion Journal, W. D. Iiiekhatu 1,000 Evunsvillo Journal, K. P. McNoelcy. secretary -. 1.000 Torre Haute jixure**, Ueorgo M. Allen 1,000 Terrc Haute (iaz-rie. W. c Dal) - 1,000 : an lu-k v RajUUr, I. H. Msiu 1.003 Wheeling Inie. hyenerr, A. W. Campbell...- 1,003 Wheeling R'pi't r, Charles II. Taney 1,003 Galveston Sew*, A. II. Belo. president 10,000 H?u Antonio l">i y ' x> re**. Frank Grice... 1.000 Houston J J. Watson l.oxi Total $310,000 A MAN OF FAITH. Mr. Grant, of tho Pittsburgh DUpalch, said that while he was not authorized to subscribe in advanco of action by his board of directors any specified sum, yet ho would say thnt thoro was no suin on the list, however largo, and no assessment, however great, that might bo mado, tho Dispatch would not meet. The applications of several papers, which desired to join, wero presented. Tho mooting then adjourned. CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS. An Amendment iu tho Hoiiao thai Smacks uf "ComproniU?." Washington, 1). C., Oct. 4.?Several senators addressed tho senate to-day, tho most important specch boing that of Senator Butler, of South Carolina, in favor of a compromiso on the ponding silver bilL In tho house the debate on tho Tucker bill was continued. Juat beforo tho house adjourned, Chairman Fitch, of tbo committoo reporting tho bill, introduced a substitute which strikes out the section of tho reviaud statutes, empowering tho milil tary to keep peace at tho polls and repealing all tho laws regarding the appointment of supervisors or deputy marshals. The substitute would leave in force the election laws rotating to tho punishment of private individuals for bribery, and, above all, loaves in fore* the declaratory principles of tho Fifteenth amendment. Tho northern Democrats, after an informal conference, decided that the Tucker bill was too sweeping, and this substitute was formulated to meet the objections. Adjourned. rnitod Slatps Court Proceedings* Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer. Clarksbuko, W. Va., Oct. 4.?United States vs. Ham Collins, Pocahontai county, chargcd with retailing without license, nolle pros. United States vs. Sin Crawford, Braxton, sumo charge, $100 and thirty dava in jail; same vs. Patrick Dougher, Webster county, infraction of navigation law, nolle pros; | samo vs. Homer Davis and NVick Davis, Webster county, rotailiug without license, the former disappeared and the latter was fined $100 and costs and thirty days in jail; same vs. John Gump, of Wotzol county, samo charge, nolle pros, had licenso; same vs. Bascom Baker, of Tucker county, sumo charge, jury returned a verdict of not guilty; same vs. Harry Triplott, of Buckhanno'n, samo charge, $100 fine and ninotv daya in jail; state vs. Stephen Htout, Wetzel county, same charge, $100 and thirty days. JTryo-Steftley. Spcctal Dispatch to the Intelligencer. Clakksburo, Oct. 4.?A very protty wedding among the "400" was solemnized at Goff chapel, by Kev. B. B. Evans, this evening. Mr. John Frye,of Cincinnati, and Miss Ilattio SteaJey, the handsome daughtor of Mr. Jerome Stoaley, wero the interested parties. The attendants were Miss Lily Stealey and Mr. Lyle Smith, and ushers Messrs. Harry M. Shuttloworth, Carl Vanco, Ed. 1L Davis and Mr. Frye, all prominent society people. The party left immediately for the uast on an extended bridal tour. Notorious Ilorao Thief Captured. Spccial Ditpatch to the Jnldligcncer. Clabksbubo, W. Va., Oct. 4.?A notorious horse thief was arrested here last -:-u* i... l Un k? thm Lly lUUitl umtutg, <1U gwua *jj VM? name of John Had d ox, nnd has been traced from Missouri, whoro about six weeks ago ho stole two horses, a buggy and harness. Deputy Sheriff Barton, of Marietta, Ohio, arrived this morning and identilied the prisoner. lie* tilt of Home Kills 1)111. London, Oct. 4.?The Pull Mail Gazette this afternoon, publishos a long inter view with a secret service officer, who was empfcyed by tho government since the itataeil movement. It is presumed that tho officer referrod to is tho famous Le Caron, who was well known in connection with tho great" Times suit. Tho secret ollicer referred to declares that tho Clan-Ns-Gaol is being reorganized under tho direction of Patrick Egan and Patrick Ford, as a result of tho rejection by tho house of lords of the homo rulo bill. , Kndlrott .SiiHpuetM Voorhi'os. New York, Oct. 4.?William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts, ex-secretary of war, who is at tho Fifth Avenuo Hotol, I took occasion to-day to criticise the leadership of Senator Voorhees in the silver fight, which, ho said, did not amount to anything, as Senator Voorhees did not seem to make any pro* gross. Mr. Kndicott said ho suspected something was wrong. Senator Gorman was a man oi great influence and Mr. Kndicott thought ho would have pushed things much bottor than Senator Voorheos had done. Money In <'lrciilat!ou. Washington, D. C., Oct. 4.?According to a treasury statement which has issued by Secretary Carlisle, the total amount of money in circulation in the United States October 1 was $ 1,701,030, 918. The average circulation per capita, estimating tho population at, (57,800,000, is therefore $25 '20. The not increase in circulation during September was $21,.'177.247, tho greatest item of increase being gold, viz: $14,830,741. CnnlUera Strike. Pirrsnunair, Pa., Oct. 4.?Tho boat caulkers along tho Monongahelu river struck to-day against a reduction of 25 cents per day. The strike will cause a suspension of work in'tho boat yards. Woaiher Foreciwt for To-Jar. For Western Pennsylvania. We?t Virginia nud Ohio, fair: warmer, except stationary temperature in western Ohio; east to south Wiada. THE TKMl'KItATCaU V r.lTKHDAV. ns fnrntahod by C. Suinkit, druggist, corner Market uad Fourteenth it recti. 7 n. m c:i | 3 p. ftl Duu CI I 7 p. in .Ci lis la.- Cl I Weather?Cloudy. Don't lit? I.ntt. One who hasn't seen tho World's Fair won't bo "in it" after the show ii over. The Intelligence!! makes the way easy.