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VOL. VII. CLEVELAND'S SUNDAY. The President Neglects to Attend Church and Spends the Day With Prom inent Politicians. Eepnblicans Senators Show a Disposition to Help the President On the Meet ing of Congress. Bayard's Western Trip and His Ple« ant Relations AVitli Cleveland and the Cabinet. ur . Graham of Minnesota Removed irom the Pension Bureau- -Civil Service Talk. Ihe President in New York. Nkw York, May 31.— President Cleve land slept soundly at Secretary Whitney's house last night, arose early, and opened his mail before breakfast. The president had thought of attending divine service at Rev. Dr. John Hall's Presbyterian church, of which Mrs. Whitney is a member, but he changed his mind before the time for starting and remained within doors ' until he left for the train. Hubert O. Thompson called on the presi dent and remained several hours. Mayor Grace made a visit of considerable length. Algernan B. Sullivan and Stephen P. Nash made short calls daring the afternoon. Several gentlemen, including Congressman Perry Betmont, called but did not see the president. From an early hour in ' the morning a woman with her two sons, aged respectively 2 and 8 years, stood in front of Whit ney's residence with a paper in her hand. She was the wife of Joseph Boc caiino whom Judi?e Benedict sentenced three months ago to three years' imprison ment in Auburn for passing counterfeit money. The woman had a petition for her husband's pardon signed by many Italian residents of Harlem. When the president finally did come out she handed him the document and he took it into the carriage. At 3p. m. the presi dent, accompanied by Secretaries Endieott and Whitney, was driven to the Desbrosses street ferry, where he took a boat to catch the train at Jersey City for Washington. ABKTVAL AT THE CAPITAL. Washington-, May 31. — President Cleveland, accompanied by Secretaries Whitney and Endieott, arrived in this city to-night at 10 o'clock. The president's car riage was in waiting at the depot when the train arrived, and he was at once driven to the Whice boose. POLICY OF THE SENATE. Republican Senators on Cleveland's Nominations.. Special to the Globe. Washington, May ."I.— Senator Van Wyck will leave in a few days to spend the 6iimmer at home. He has remained here mainly for the purpose of endeavoring to ascertain the policy of the new administra tion relative to land giants, the Indian country, the encroachment of cattle kings and the illegal fences. Being asked whether the resolutions repotted to have been adopted by the Republican senators in cau cus as to their political policy with respect to confirmations were accurate or not Mr. Van Wyck said: "1 did not attend all the caucuses, but I think that if such action had been taken in my absence I would certainly have been informed of it afterwards. An other reason for my disbelief in the publica tion is that 1 think Republican senators would have more sense than to write or formulate such an idle resolution as is the second: That in case any Democratic part isan causes the removal of an EFFICIENT BBFUBtIOIH and receives as his reward for causing such removal the nomination as successor to the decapitated official, such nomi mtions will not be confirmed. No. sir; me general dis position of the senate was to treat the president kindly and fairly as the Demo crats did to the Republican president." Senator Morrill of Vermont, on being questioned on the subject, said: "I would prefer not to talk about it, but I will say simply this, that if I were editor of any paper I would not think it worth while taking the least notice of it."' "I am satis tied," said Senator Dolph of jOrgon, that such resolutions were never passed. I don't care to say anything further than that. As for considering that political reasons would be regarded sufficient cause for removals by the Republican senators, I can only speak for myself. I believe that if federal officials who have a term of office to run were to be removed for cause the senate would consider it had the right to look into the reasons. The truth is that the subject of the future action of the majority in rela tion to nominations was DISCUSSED ES CAUCUS at different times, but no definite line of policy was adopted. It was found that the Republicans differed among themselves. Some contended that so long as the senate is Kepublican it would do all in its power to keep ltepublieans in office. Others boldly declared that the Democrats had elected a president and were entitled to the offices. About the nearest approach to any tixed policy was the action in permit ting the cases of one or two Democrats nominated to succeed Kepublican collectors of internal revenue, but recently appointed, to go over without action. It seemed to be the view of the majority that Kepublican collectors who were but recently installed ought not to be displaced, but that no ob jection would be made to the removal of collectors who had served several years. It will remain with the senate to fix the policy with regard to nominations next winter. Mr. Bayard TVot Unhappy. Special to the Globe. Wasiiixgtox, May 31. — Secretary Bay ard starts for the West to-morrow. A friend of his makes the following ex-cathedra statement as to Bayard's condition and his relations to the administration: "He act ually needs rest, which he seeks, for he has been constantly at work in his office until 6 o'clock in the evening and has carried his business home with him. He looks well and is in a pleasant frame of mind but he is fatigued. He is not suffering from the attacks which are made upon him and which are based on pure inventions. There is no straining of the relations between the presi dent and the secretary of state. It is not true that Mr. Bayard is not on pleasant terms with his fellow members of the cabi net. It is false that he is not consulted. He is on excellent terms with the president and every member of the cabinet, and he has supreme control of his department, and no cabinet officer has more than that. The president is satisfied that very few mistaken have been made and most Democrats here believe that Mr. Bayard has suffered from the fact that he has made more appointments than all the other cabinet officers and iheref ore criticism has been brought to a focus on him. Mr. Cleveland will hardly fail to consult Mr. Bayard when the annual message comes to be prepared, for there is no member of the administration so thoroughly equipped on subject of legislation. Minnesota Man Bounced. Washington, May 31. — Dr. Neil F. Graham of Minnesota, assistant medical referee of the pension bureau and Drs. W. H. Grobeichtaud John H. Koss of Indiana, medical examiners of the pension office, have been removed for offensive partisan ship. Testimony was taken before the Warner committee of the house of representatives showing that they visited their respective states during the last presidential campaign ostensibly to ex amine boards of medical examiners, but really to woik for the success of the Repub lican party, and that the expenses of that ' occasion were charged against the govern ment—this was the basis of charges against them. The Post will say that it is Under stood that fifty discharges will be made in the pension bureau to-morrow. Civil Service for Chicago. Special to the Globe. Washington, May 31. — The attention of Judge Thoman of the civil service com mission, who is to be present at examina tions in Chicago next Wednesday, was called before leaving to the report that he had been selected to go there because he was a Democrat, and that the Democrats hoped to manipulate the examinations in some way. Judge Thoman said any state ments of that sort were of course absurd, not to characterize them in any other way; that Commissioner Gregory had thus far happened to conduct previous examinations at Chicago, but that the commission had agreed that it would be expedient for the members to alternate in ditf erent sections of the country in order that the entire com mission might become acquainted with the condition of the service in the whole coun try: that the examination at Chicago would be conducted strictly in accordance with the law and the rules as they are everywhere, and that the examiners unquestionably would pass upon the merits of the papers without necessarily knowing the politics of the applicants. Judge Thomas added that while the pressure for office in the Chicago postottice would undoubtedly be very great, Mr. Judd has not more than a dozen places absolutely at his disposal which could be filled outside of the civil service examina tions. An Attorney Resigns. Washington, May 31. — Thomas Simons, assistant attorney general in charge of gov ernment cases before the court of claims, has resigned. Robert Howard of Little Rock, Ark., succeeds him. DEMOKALIZING THE MILLS. Iron Manufacturers Allowing; tlie Fires to go Out. Effect of the Pittsburg Scale Being Very Generally Felt. Cincinnati, 0., May 31. — The situation here among the iron manufacturers is simply that of following the lead of the Pittsburg manufacturers' act, deciding as they have done not only not to sign the scale as presented by the Amal gamated association, bvit also to de mand a reduction from the present scale of wages. As neither side has yielded and the contract year has expired, ali the mills in this vicinity will be closed to morrow morning. There are no exceptional cases, such as at' Pittsburg and Wheeling, where the demands of the workmen will be complied with, and the shutting down will be general. KEFUSE TO SIGN. Wheeling, W. Va., May 31. — Last night all the iron and nail mills in this city and vicinity shut down for an indefinite time. The owners of the Bellaire rolling mill signed the scale of the union, but it is understood they will not run. Other mills refuse to sign either the Amalgamated scale or the United Nailers' scale. Both sides seem firm and a long strike seems inevitable. The nail fac tories in and contiguous to Wheeling num ber seven, including the Mingo, 0., mills, with oftice here, one bar mill, two sheet mills and one bar and sheet combined. About twenty-rive hundred men are thrown out of employment by the stoppage. XO DEVELOPMENTS. St. Lons, May 31. — The Belleville Nail mill and the Western Nail wo_rks,_at Belle ville, 111., shut down-last evening, in accord ance with the arrangement agreed upon at the recent meeting of the Western Nail association. The new Pittsburg scale has not arrived here and therefoi-e no action has been taken by the manufacturers. It is expected to-morrow, however, when there will be probably some developments among the mill-men. JUBILANT WORKMEN. Cleveland, 0., May 31. — With the ex ception of the proprietor of the Russia mill atNiles, 0., none of the iron manufacturers of the Mahoning valley having yet signed the Amalgamated association scale. The men employed at the five mills in Youngstawn, and one in Girard, quit work at 12 o'clock last night. The manufacturers have not absolutely refused to sign, simply giving evasive answers to the workingmen. The latter are jubilant over the success of the association at Pittsburg, and assert that the Mahoning valley operators will sign within a week. The lires in the Russia mill, at Niles, were lighted to-night and all the men returned to work. THE FIRES GO OUT. Chicago, May 31. — Last night the fUe in the 'furnaces of the Calumet Iron & Steel company at Cummings, near South Chicago, were allowed to go out, and it is understood they are not likely to be relit for some days, perhaps weeks. The shut-down is partly owing to the dull times, but is the direct result of the failures of the employes at -their various meetings to continue work at the wages offered them. The company yesterday paid of 600 or TOO men, which is about one half of the mill's full force. These men are thrown out of work, but no trouble is an ticipated, as the are all of first-rate charac ter. RUSSIA'S ACTIVITY. Great Preparation tbat Don't Look Like Peace, London, June 1. — St. Petersburg ad vices state that the building of the Central Asian Railway is proceeding with extreme rapidity. Thirteen hundred laborers have just left Baka to work on the road, and it is reported that 6,000 more will fol low immediately. The Yiedomoste wants the Russian to to insist that a limit be put upon Afghan armament, supplied by English money* It also urges that a strong Russian fortress be built opposite Herat, and that a branch road be constructed to join with the Central Association railway. The Persian paper, Schema, states that Russia is negotiating with Bow khara for the cession to the former of all the towns on the left bank of the Amudaria river. RUSSIA OBJECTS. Advices from ' Sinjou say it is reported that the Russians have objected to the Af ghans occupying Karawl Khana, where the Marniend branches oif, half way between Mora and Balamurghat. NOT COMPLETED. Earl Granville. secretary for war, writes to the Daily News that it has been incorrectly informed as to the state of the negotiations between England and Russia, which the writer says are still progressing. The News says that although the negotiations are unfinished, it will be found when the govern ment is able to publish an official statement of recent and current proceed ings, that our statement of Saturday was substantially correct. The negotiations are progressing in the most friendly spirit on both sides and are approaching completion. Against Canal Tolls. Special to the Globe. Montreal, May 31.— A public meeting was held here yesterday and was largely attended by members of the board of trade, corn exchange and shippers and commer cial men. The purpose of the gathering was to formulate a petition to the govern ment to abolish all canal tolls on grain from the West, so as to enable the St. Lawrence route to successfully compete with the Erie canal. Resolutions were unanimously passed and a deputation ap pointed to wait upon the government. The tolls last year were reduced one-half. ST. PAUL, MONDAY MOANING, JUNE 1, 1885. LABOR AND CAPITAL. This Country Soon to Be Divided Between Princes and Paupers With Their Pal aces and Hovels. Coming Conflict of the Arrogant Monopo lists and the Laborers Crying ior More Bread, 11 Attempts at Reconciliation Ha 1 Ins Failed, Where Shall "We .Look for Relief* The World Being Swindled By tlie Robber Firm of Supply and Demand. Dr. Taimase's Sermon. Special to tbe Globe. Brooklyn, N. V., May 31.— Dr. Tal mage preached this morning in the Brook lyn tabernacle on the subject, Fist versus Brain. Before the sermon he read passages from the Book of Proverbs and from one of the epistles, the one in regard to slothful ness and the other in regard to insufficient compensation. The opening hymn was: "The morning light is breaking, The darkness disappears, The sons of man are waking: To penitential tears." The text was from Matthew vii., 12: "Whatever you would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Dr. Tal mage said: The greatest war the world has ever seen is that going on between labor and capital, not a strife like the thirty years' war of which history tells us, for this is a war of centuries. It is a war of live continents, a war hemispheric. In this country the mid dle classes , who have held the balance of power, and upon whom the nation has de pended as mediators between the two ex tremes, are diminishing and at the same ratio we will soon have no middle class, for all the people will be very rich or very poor and the country be divided between princes and paupers, between PALACES AND HOVELS. The two great antagonistic forces are closing in upon each other. "Telegraph operators' strikes," "Railroad employes' strikes," "Pennsylvania miners' strikes," the movements on the part of boycotters and dynamiters are only skirmishes before the general engagement: or, if you prefer, they are escapes through the safety valve of an imprisoned force that promises the ex plosion of society. You may pooh, pooh it, and prophesy that this trouble, like an angry child, will cry itself to sleep, and think you have be littled it into insignificance by calling it Socialism, Fourierisin, St. Simonism, Ni hilism, or Communism, but that cannot hinder the fact that it is the mightiest, darkest, most terrific threat of this century. Moreover, all the attempts at pacification have been a dead failure. Monopolists are more arrogant, trades unions more bitter. "Give us more wages," cry the employes: "We will give you less." respond the capi talists. "Give us less hours of work," say these; "You shall have more," say those. "We wont work under such conditions," cry these; "Then you shall starve, "respond those. Soon the laboring classes will have exhausted what little prosperity they had accumulated under a better state of things, and unless there be something done there will be in this country 8.000,000 HrXGKY MEN" AXD WOMEN. "Well, 3,000,000 hungry people cannot be kept quiet. All the enactments of legisla tures, and all the constabularies of the cities, and all the army and navy of the United States cannot keep them quiet. What then? Will capital and labor ev«r_ settle their quarrel by their own wisdom? No. The brow of the one will be more rigid and the fist of the other tighter clenched. First, it will not be stopped by an out cry against rich men because they are rich. There is not a member of a trades union in the United States who would not be rich if he could. Sometimes, through fortunate invention or some accident of prosperity, a man with nothing rises to affluence, and he immediately becomes supercilious and overbearing and takes people by the throat with as tight a grip as he himself was taken by the throat Human nature is a mean thing when it comes to the supremacy. It is no more a sin to be rich than to be poor. While there are those who have got ;their property by fraud, there are millionaires, who by foresight of changes to take place in markets or business brilliancy, won their property as honestly as the plumber ever earned his money for mending a pipe or a mason for building a wall. With vast mul titudes of people the poverty is their own fault. They might have been well off, but they smoked or drank up their earnings or they lived beyond their means. Men on the same wages or salaries as they had went on to competency. ATTACKS OX THE RICH. A vast multitude of the poor are the victims of their own improvidence. I pro test against the assault of men who through economy, self-denial and assiduity have amassed great fortunes. Thank God for honest rich men. They build art galleries and endow colleges, and adorn cities and erect churches, and if for eign despotisms should threaten us would subscribe, if need be, 850,000,000 to sink them before they got through the Narrows. By indiscriminate attack upon success you can never settle this fight. Neither will this pacification come through a cynical and unsympathetic treatment of the laboring classes. Some talk of them as though they were cattle or draft horses. Their nerves are nothing. Their tastes are nothing. Their domestic comfort is noth ing, and there are men who have no more feeling for the toilers than the hound has for the hare, or a hawk for the hen, or a tiger for the calf. In warm slippers, what do they care for cold feet? Torches in this country applied to fac tories which cut down wages, shotguns aimed at workmen who take the place of hands resigned or hands discharged for good or bad reason, obstructions put on railroad tracks before midnight express . trains, be cause the offenders do not like the president of the company, strikers, who leave the ship the hour before it was going to sail or the printing office the hour the paper was to go to press, or the coal mines the day the coal was to be deliv ered, or the house-scaffolding the day when their absence would make the builder fail in his contract — all these things have given AMERICAN LABOR «a heavy blow on the head and crippled its arms and lamed its feet and pierced it through the heart. Take the last great strike in America, the telegraph operators' strike, and the loss to the operators was $400,000 and poorer wages ever since. Neither sudden trap sprung upon employ ers nor violence ever untied the knots from the knuckles of toil or put more money into the callous palm. Barbarism will never cure the wrongs of civilization. Yet all attempts at reconciliation between labor and capital so far having failed and trie two standing with their thumbs on each other's throat ready lor strangulation it behooves us to look elsewhere for relief. And from my text it bounds out, roseate and jubilant, and putting one hand on the broaddoth shoulder of capital puts the other hand on the homespun shoulder of toll, and says with a voice that will finally and gloriously settle everything: "What soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them." The manufacturer will look over his re sources aud say: "i mean to do the best for my employes that I can, and I will treat them in the matter of wages as I would like to be treated if 1 turned the iron bar in. the furnace or stood at THE FACTORY WHEEL, or had my fot>t on the treadle." And the toller Trill say: "Though my lace be smudged -with the furnace and my hand hardened on the wheel, I must be a gentle man, and I will not act as though my em ployer were an enemy, and I will do my duty among these wheels as well as though I were up in the counting-room among the ledgers." The iron manufacturer, having taken a dose of my test before he left home in the morning, is walking through the foundry and passing through the "puddling room,"' where are the men, besweated and stripped to the waist, the employer says: "Good morning, Donald; you look uncom fortable in this heat. I hear your child is sick with the scarlet fever. If you want to draw jour wages a little early tills week to buy medicines and pay the nurse, just come into my office." Passing along into the ' 'finishing room" he sees a young man very white and pallid and hardly abli to stand up to his work, and the employe? says: "I guess you don't feel very well to-4uy; better rest a little once in a while. WJjat are you taking for this illness? Call at. my house to-night and I will give you a vfrl of medi cine that will set you right up." "Thank you," says the workman, as he sweeps his arm across his torehead, taking off the beads of sweat, for God knows he is more lit to be in bed than there. After a while crash goes the fconey mar ket and the demand for manufactured goods ceases, and the question i» whether to SHUT UP TIIE MILI* or to run on half time or ty lower the wages. The boss calls all his hands to gether. They stand around hi» wondering what he is going to do. He s^s: "Men, the times are hard, the demand for our work is very small. Where Pifleed to make a hundred dollars I don't make twenty, you see I am under a great expense here, now what shall I do. I hate to dpse up and throw you out of employment, for you have been veiy faithful and I like you and you seem to like me, and you havo. families to support and the bairns must be taken care of and the wife must have a new dress be fora long. What shall I do?" Silence for a minute or two and then one of the workmen steps a little forward from the others and says: "Boss you have been good to us. When you prospered we prospered. Now, when yon are hard pressed I propose that if you will keep the place open we will throw off 20 per cent, of our wages and as soon as times get better you will remember us. Boys, all In favor of my motion say aye." "Aye! Aye!" shouts two hundred voices. "Oh," you say, "that is arcadian, apo cryphal, impossible." No; I can take you to the warehouses, the factories, the mines, the GREAT ENTERPRISES. where this Christly rule is practiced and you could no more get the employer to im pose on his men, or the men to conspire against their employer, than you could get your right hand and left hand, or your right eye and your left eye, or your right ear and your left ear, into physiological antag onism. The place to begin is in our own home and in our own storehouses and in our own banks and on our own farms and in our own factories, not waiting for others to do their duty. You say the law of supply and demand will control everything to the end of time. No; it will not unless God dies and the bat teries of the judgment are spiked and the throne of the universe is taken by Pluto and Proserpine, the king and queen of the infernal world. Supply and demand have joined partnership and put their wits to gether to rob the world. You are drown ing and they stand oh the shore beside the only boat and say: "Pay what we ask or go to the bottom!"' You are failing in busi ness for lack of 95.000. They say: "Pay us usury or become bankrupt!" THIS ROBIJER FIRM of supply and demand says: "The wheat crop is short and we bought it up and put it in our bin. Pay our price or starve!" Suppliuand demand own the largest mill on eartli, and it rolls over its wiieel all the rivers, and puts into its hopper as many men, women and children as it can scoop up out of the centuries and their blood and bones, ridden all the villages as the grind ing goes on. As sure as the ages roll to ward millennial release, that diabolical firm will have to step aside for ihe law of love, the law of co-operation, the law of mercy, the law of Christ. As that law takes sway you will see more men consecrating their life to humanitarian and evangelical purposes, like James Len nox and William E. Dodge and Peter Cooper and Ceorge Peabody. More parks and gardens and picture galleries will be opened for the people's holidays. The pallor will go out of the cheeks of the workman and the frown off his brow and the gnashing out of his teeth. That day will surely come. ANTI-CATHOLIC ACTIVITY. What Cardinal JttcCloskey's Secre tary Has to Say. Special to the Glebe. New Yokk, May 31. — New activity is discernable in know-nothingism, or rather among the zealous anti-Roman Catholics. The organization known as the American Protestant league, long dormant, is now in a state of something like agitation. It is understood that Miss Catherine Wolff, the wealthiest maiden lady in America, has con tributed a fund for the cause in which she has long taken a deep interest. At all events the society is preparing for an effort to arouse religious feeling against the Roman Catholic church. Freshly written tracts are to be issued by the million, and a plan for a newspaper organ of the league has been perfected. The promoters declare that §100,000 is already at their command and they are confident that before that sum is exhausted the OLD TIME ACRIMONY will have been more than revived. The point of especial insistence will be that the Catholics under direct orders from Rome and immediately directed by Cardinal McCloskey have gone very far inn a systematic effort to capture Washington as a center of political influ ences. The evidence to be cited in support oi' that view are the immense acquirement of property by the church in the District of Columbia. Sites for schools, convents, colleges, churches and asylums have been purchased there greatly in advance of the actual needs, and now sixty-live acres of ground have been bought for the projected seminary, to found which a Catholic lady recently gave $300,000 as a beginning. In all this the American-Protestant league sees a determination on the part of the Catholics to make Washington their . POTENT AMERICAN CENTER. Cardinal McCloskey is very feeble, and if lie is able to take a directing part in such a scheme, it would surprise those who know his physical condition. He has taken no share in public services since the impos ing ceremonies with which, his red hat of the cardinalship was received. His secretary is Father Farrell, who says of the new anti-Catholic movement, "His eminence" has been for sometime aware of it. He re gards it as a liarmless outcropping of old narrow prejudices. It will amount to noth ing. As to our movements in Wash ington they show for themselves they are charitable, educational, spiritual, such as the growth of our -church interests demand. Possibly they are more comprehensive than are absolutely required at present, but we shall giow up to them speedily. I have cot a word to say of the policy of my superiors, special or general, except that of course it is carefully calculated for the good of the church." Had Never Seen the lAglit. Yonkers Statesman. gj"Does Fussanfeather use gas or oil?" asked a young drummer for an oil house Of young Crimsen beak, who had just come from calling on Miss Fussanfeather, late the ether night. "Weil, I really don't know," replied the innocent youth; "you see, the truth la, Miss Fussttiiieather-aud Tare courting." SEIZED BY A MANIAC. A Madman Takes Oommand of a Passen ger Train and Buns Things to Suit Himself. Drawing a Eevolver He Orders Everybody to Leave the Chair Oar or Suffer Death. At Chicago He Kills One Officer and Wounds Several, But is Finally Overpowered. Richard Hands, a .New Torlc Drue Clerk, Mysteriously Murdered in the Store. A Thrilling- Adventure. Chicago, May 81. — Passenger Train No. 6 on the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific rail road arrived here to-day an hour and a half late, in charge of a madman. Out of the twevle or fifteen men, officers and citizens, who finally secured him, one officer is dead — shot through the body — another probably fatally wounded, several citizens injured, and the lunatic himself lies in the county hospital, mortally wounded, with three bul lets in him. Shortly before noon to-day the station policdman at the Wabash, St. Louis So Pacific depot, on Polk street, received the following dispatch: Chenoa, IIL, May SI. — I have an insane man on my train who has possession of one car. The police at Kansas City, Jacksonville and Peoria were all afraid to take him. Please send ten or twelve policemen out on No. 1 to take him when we arrive in Chicago. They had better como in citizens' clothes. They ■will have to look sharp or some one will get hurt. Putnam, Conductor No. (i. No. 6, which left Kansas City last night, was due here at 2:50 p. m. There was difficulty in starting out No. 1, as directed in the dispatch, and it was decided to meet the tAiu at the depot. Officers Casey, Ryan. Murphy. Rowan, Walsh, Stenning, Dohney, Barrett and Keenan, in uniform, and Smith, Terry, Arnstein, O'Brien and Laughlin, in citizens' clothes, under the command of Lieut. Laugh, made up the squad, which arrived at the depot a few minutes before the train was due. The train being delayed, as was subse quently learned by ineffectual efforts to capture the lunatic, the police were forced to wait more than an hour. After consid erable anxious speculation as to the condi tion of things on board No. fl, the officers were finally anything but reassured by a dis patch from a suburban station warning them that the maniac was well armed and would resist desperately. Later No. 6 ap peared in sight, and THE POLICE, separating so as to form two squads, awaited her arrival on either side of the track. As the train approached the whistle sounded a number of warning notes in quick succession. People, hanging half way out of the car windows, were seen to gesture wildly to the crowd. Before the train had stopped a dozen passengers jumped to the ground and fled, looking back with blanched faces. Officer Barrett was the first to observe the lunatic. Barrett was standing near the rear end of the smoking car. The madman, with lev eled revolver, glared at him from the front platform of the chair car, the length of a car distant. Barrett turned half around and stopped instantly, but too late. A ball from the lunatic's revolver struck him m the side and in five minutes he was dead. One look at the maniac was enough to sat isfy anyone that while his ammunition lasted he would NOT BE TAKEN ALIVE. Seeing this, the officers, after removing iheir wonwiwi comrade, began a fusilade through the windows of the smoking-car, where the madman had taken refuge. After a minute or two he plunged out on the platform, fired a couple of shots into the crowd and dashed down Fourth avenue. Officer Laughlin started in hot pursuit, and at him the lunatic fired the last shot in his weapon, but without effect. The maniac stopped there and awaited Laughlin's coming with gleaming eyes and frothing mouth. They clinched, the officer tripped his prisoner and they both fell, the madman meanwhile beating Laughlin unmercifully on the head with his revolver. The officer was in citi zen's clothes .and was set upon and terribly pounded by an excited colored man, who mistook the officer for the prisoner. The rest of the squad arrived shortly, the maniac was secured, taken first TO A CEI/D and then to the hospital to have his wounds dressed. When he realized that further resistance was useless he grew calm and said, quite rationally, that his name was Louis Beaumesy, that he was 23 years old and was en route to his home in Detroit, from Denver. The trainmen of No. 6 tell a tlirilling story of the trip from Kansas City, where the man boarded the train. At that place he remarked that people were after him to lynch him, and that if left alone he would molest no one. At El Paso. 111., he became violent and with revolver in hand ordered the train men to cease mak ing some changes in the make-up of the train. The passengers all left the chair car, which the madman made his head quarters, and were locked into the others. No one dared approach him, and after he had exchanged several shots with the city marshal he ordered the train to proceed, and from there to Chicago his will was the only law obeyed. Since his wounds have been dressed Reaumesy has become somewhat more communicative. He says he is a French Canadian by birth, a fresco painter by trade and has a wife and three children in Detroit. He wore a white sombrero, and as he ran down Fourth avenue was thought by residents to be a cowboy on a spree. laterally Butchered. New York, May 31. — John Lauer, day clerk at Henry Crawford's drug store, on Hudson street, upon reporting for duty this morning found the .door unlocked, though closed. Upon entering the back room he was horrified to find *the dead body of Richard Hands, the night clerk, on a chair in a sitting posture, with a frightful gash in his throat, as well as a crushed skull. The shocked day clerk managed to get to the street and find an officer. On returning the men found a heavy iron pestle covered with blood and hair on the floor, the dead man's throat cut from ear to ear and ugly wounds on the right cheek and over the right eye. Suicide had been sug gested, but an examination of the wounds and the discovery by Mr. Crawford, who soon arrived, that $35 or $40 that had been taken in the store on Saturday was missing, satisfied the authori ties that it was a brutal murder. The coroner's examination showed that the pestle which was found fitted well into the depressions in the skull, and seemed to have been the weapon with which the blow was struck. No sharp-edged instrument that could have been used to cut the throat could be found, nor even a sign of a struggle. The blows on the head had been dealt from behind, and the throat cut after the clerk had sunk in his chair. The bed had been prepared for retiring and the man was still entirely dressed when found. As yet the police have no clue. Hands was unusually popular and was not known to have AN ENEMY and his domestic relations were of the hap piest. On Saturday night about 11 o'clock his wife brought his lunch to him as usual, and left him in good spirits. When the news of the crime was made known to Mrs. Hands this morning she was spreading a cloth over her husband's breakfast prepara tory to taking it to him. Hands had been night clerk since Jan. 19, when George Angemier was discharged. Policeman O'Reilley says he saw Hands in the store at 12:20 this forenoon. Mrs. Hands stated that she had feared that harm would come to her husband ever since Augemier was discharged. From her statements there were said to be reasons for suspecting Augemier. The police say the murderer must have been acquainted with the prem ises. The cellar door was open, and it is thonght the villain entered that way. A trap door from the cellar to the store had been opened during the night. The police are hard at work on the case. Her Confidence Games. New Yobk, May 31.— Detective Golden, of Inspector Byrnes' staff, to-day seized the clothing, jewelry, etc,, contained in the trunks of Mrs. Susan K. Buck, whose mysteriovs disappearance from Busch's hotel in Hoboken about ten days ago, caused some excitement. A dispatch from the police of Liverpool, Eng., stated that Mrs. Jean nette Vanderetain had had her trunks stolen from the steamer City of Richmond, and the detective found identifying marks on Mr. Buck's goods. Mrs. Buck is a Scotch woman, 27 years old. The police say she is even more dangerous than the notorious Mrs. Eller E. Peck. She re turned to New York by the City of Rich mond, bu how she obtained Mrs. Vander stain's trunks is a mystery. Inspector Byrnes knows where the woman is, but will not arrest her, as he has no proof that she came by the property unlawfully. She travelled on the steamer under her maiden name, Anna Louise Shaw. Mrs. Buck, it is said, once swindled the lord mayor of London out of £80, but her brother suc ceeded in having her sent to an asylum in stead of to prison. Accidentally Snot. Portland, Or., May 31. — Mrs. Preston Smith, the wife of a prominent capitalist, was instantly killed in her bedroom this morning while seated hi a chair nursing a babe, by the accidental discharge of a pistol which the chambermaid was carying from the bed to a place on the mantle. Her husband had left the revolver imder the pillow, when he left home, a few minutes before. Mrs. Smith was a native of Huntsville, Ala., and married there six years ago. Damaging Water Spout. St. Louis, Mo., May 31. — A water spout burst in Yankee Branch, in Crawford county, Missouri, Friday afternoon, and swept nearly everything away. Fences, growing crops and all portable things were carried away, and nearly all the farms on Yankee Branch were almost destroyed, the soil being washed off to the depth of sev eral feet. The damage will reach many thousands of dollars. Crushed by a Boat* NkwYokk, May 31 — Charles Herold, a resident of Chicago, fell from the pier at the foot of West Forty-fourth street this afternoon, and was horribly crushed be tween a canal boat and the dock. He was taken to Roosevelt hospital. HIID9LETON ON TO FORT PITT. Departure From Battleford "With Over Six Hundred Men. Special to the Globe. Winnipeg, May 31. — Gen. Strange's encounter with Big Bear has agah»aroused great interest in the progress of the Indian war. It is fully expected that Middlcton will have trouble with the Bear, for the latter is reduced. Meantime there is much solici tude for the welfare of the captives in In dian camps as it is hard to tell what the savages may do with them. Middleton left Battleford for Fort Pitt this morning with 600 men, the companies being se lected from the Ninetieth Rifles, Queen's Own, Toronto Grenadiers. Midland "A." and B batteries of mounted police and Boulton's mounted men. More will prob ably follow. Trouble is reported to-day from Medicine Hat. Several parties of horse-stealing Indians were reported within twenty miles oi that point. Two of Stewart's mounted rangers were fired at on Saturday by a band of Indians .number ing 150. It is not known what tribe the hostiles belonged to. Stewart's force has gone in pursuit. A part of the Halifax battalion is stationed as a garrison at Medi cine Hat. Middleton's Forces. Ottawa, May 31. — Ah official dispatch from Battleford, dated the 31st, has been received here, stating that Gen. Middleton had left there at 8:30 a. m. with reinforcements on the steam ers Marquis and Alberta for Fort Pitt to meet Big Bear. The reinforce ments consisted of the Tenth Royals, the Midland battalion, and the Nintieth Winni peg, with two Gatling guns, fifty of the gar rison artillery, Boulton's mounted infantry, Dennis' surveyor scouts, the Birtlebank (Lake Frenchs) scouts and fifty mounted police, under the command of Col. Herch mer. The water of the North Saskatche wan was reported high, and Gen. Middle ton expected to reach Pitt this evening. Where Beauty Sleeps. From a Late New York Letter. Would you like to see how a New Tork belle of millionaireism sleeps? I can grati fy you so far as to describe, with literal ex actness, the bedroom of a young woman whose name is printed as often as anybody's in the society reports. I never saw a more beautiful, cosy, in every way delightful place than the sleeping-room of this young princess of fashion — the eldest child of a many-millionaire. The wall paper was pale gold on faint slate color. The gilt bedstead was pushed against a square of painted silk of pale gold, with slate colored silk bows at the corners. Just such another square of plaited silk rose to the ceiling above the wash-stand, On that were only pictures, bowl, soap dish and so on, because water is presumed to invite not only sewer gas, but all of the choicest ware. A great sheet of beveled looking glass, six feet high, swung on brass rods above the floor in one comer for the young woman to seeher whole attire in. She had also a hand some folding glass to reflect her ears, back hair and neck. There was an open fireplace, besides the hot air register; a dressing stand, laden with pi-etty toilet boxes and bottles; an ivory clock like a bird-cage, U which ivory canaries trilled sweetly as each hour began; easy chairs and a rocking-chair to match the wall paper and furniture; a pret ty little pr'e-dieu for the young woman to say her prayers upon as fashionable as pos sible; and a wealth of elegancies completing a general effect that was exquisite, dainty and inviting beyond computation. Opening out of this room the young millionairess had another apartment where she wrote and painted and "worked," so to speak, but I did not see it. The Lord Was Driving. From the Bloomington Eye. One of the prettiest conceits in Mr. Har ris' (Uncle Remus) new book is put into the mouth of an old negro driver. He had run away from his master and could not be caught; but an old lady bought him, because he had saved the life of her son, and he sur rendered himself and became a faithful ser vant. When his old mistress came to die her wandering mind dwelt upon the negro who had served her so faithfully. She fan cied she was making a journey. "The car riage goes smothly along here," she said. Then, after a little pause, she asked: "Is David driving?" and the weeping negro cried out from a corner of the room: "'Taint po' Dave, mistr'ss! De good Lord done tuk holt erde lines." And so, dreaming as a little child would dream, the old lady slip ped from life into the beatitudes, if the smiles of the dead mean anything. A little cold cream is good for chapped lips. That's the reason the girls are always leading the footsteps of their beaus to the confectionery saloon.— Boston Budget. ]SFO. 152. " AN OMINOUS OUTLOOK. Eeliable Crop Eeports Gathered From the Wheat-Growing States and Ter ritories. The Winter Wheat Yield Believed to Not be More Than Half That of Last Year. But Spring-Sown Wheat Has Muck Better Prospects, Though Not Flattering. Minnesota, Dakota, lowa and Michi gan Come to the Front in Rais ing Breadstuff's. Growing Grain. Chicago, May 31.— The growing wheat crop having reached a critical stage, and winter wheat having approached a condi tion sufficiently near maturity to approxi mate acreage and probable yield, me Farm ers' Review has followed up its usual W f summary by a complete survey of all the W estern and Southern wheat grow ing states, reports having been" received from over three hundred correspondents, covering every wheat-producing county in lowa, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ken tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kan sas, Nebraska, Wisconsin. Minne sota and Dakota, together with a very accurate and recent summary from the Pacific coast made by the Asso ciated Press, it is believed, makes the most complete report ever issued. The review lias been carefully prepared, and the in formation is believed to be most exhaustive and the best that has yet been obtained, and foreshadows the states and government re ports. In summing up its DETAILED KEPOKTS the Review says: The gloomiest views which have been advanced concerning the winter wheat outlook for 1884, must now be accepted as the most accurate. The promising conditions of 1884 have.this sea son, been completely reversed. The absolute uniformity of the returns indicates that the outlook for the- winter sown wheat, this year, is the worst in ten years and it may now be set down as posi tive that, under the most favorable condi tions, the total winter and spring wheat yield is to fall considerably under the short crop of 1881, when the total product was 380,000,000 bushels, with tiie exception of Michigan and Oregon and territories on the western slope, the causes leading to a de creased output of winter wheat are almost identical. In Ohio. Indiana, Illinois. Kan sas and Missouri the ground was bare of snow during the severe cold weather at the close of the winter, which was followed by cold dry winds later on. There was also A DECREASED ACREAGE, owing to the low prices which prevailed for the crop of 1884. In California the de creased acreage was accompanied by a severe drouth, which has tended to almost ruin the glowing crop. Oregon and Wash ington territories were saved by bountiful showers, which came in time to save the grain. When the states are considered in detail, the situation can be better appreci ated. In Illinois 58 per cent, of the entire wheat crop of the state has been plowed up and more would have been plowed had not the ground been sown to clover and grass. A very large proportion of the wheat that is heading out proves to be chaff, and there is no probability that bread and seed will be made in Southern Illinois this year. Four entire counties in the center tier have been plowed up. and hi eight other counties the crop is an entire failure. The average condition of all the counties of the state does not exceed 4G per cent, of the yield of 1884, based upon the fields not yet plowed up. Kansas — The same conditions which ex ist in Illinois were to be found in Kansas, with this exception, that the Hessian fly has been at work more largely in this one state than the others. The acreage of the state not plowed under is S3 per cent, of 1884, and the average condition is 55 per cent. Missouri — The state presents the same conditions spoken of with reference to Kan sas and Illinois. The winter-killed fields having been plowed under leaves the total acreage remaining 58 per cent, of 1884, and the average condition Ls 52. The state will not produce more than one-third, of its yield last year; Ohio — The northern tier of counties are making a better showing than the average of the states already given, but in all the southern counties the plant has been badly winter-killed; the growing acreage has been reduced to 76 per cent, of last year, and the average condition does not exceed 5S per cent, of 1884. Indiana — In portions of Northern Indiana there is a promise of an average yield, but in the southern portions of the state the outlook is no more promising than in Ohio and Illinois; the yield of the state will be about 45 per cent, of ISB4. Tennessee — The winter wheat prospects in this state have been running down stead ily for thirty days, and the latest advices indicate that the state will not harvest one fourth of the crop of 1884. Kentucky — In a few counties the wheat crop promises to be fair, but the returns by counties indicate that the crop will not exceed 50 per cent, of last year. California, Oregon and "Washington Ter ritory — The prolonged drouth in California has very seriously injured the prospects of the growing crop. Edwin F. Smith, secre tary of the State Agricultural society of California, has computed the yield of that state at 25,000,000 bushels, while Oregon and Washington territory, under the improved condition. Will turn out 17, -200,000, an aggregate of 42,200,000, against 68,700,000 for the Pacific coast in 1884, or a shortage of 26,500,000 bushels for the Pa cific coast region. » Michigan — This state is the only one in the winter wheat belt to-day which gives promise of an average yield. While the win ter in the other states was bare of snow, the wheat in Michigan was well protected and covered, to which cause is to be ascribed the present promising condition of the crop. The state promises to turn out fully 96 per cent, of an average yield. From a close compilation and taking ths most cheerful view of the situation, the winter wheat yield for the present year will not exceed 200,000,000 bushels, and the ab solute percentages from the most trust worthy sources indicate that the yield "will fall somewhat below that of the figures given. Turning to the spring wheat belt, the outlook is altogether more promising. Full returns fromQNebmska show a slightly en larged acreage, as compared with last year, while in lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota the decrease in acreage will be about 10 per cent., while the condition is about 95 per cent. The acreage of Dakota is about 5 per cent less than last year, and the condi tion fully equal, although the season is from ten to twelve days later. The probable spring wheat yield, based upon continuing favorable weather, will be 130,000,000 bushels. The total wheat crop of this country, therefore, from the present out look, will be from 820,000,000 to 380,000, -000 bushels, against an average yield for the past five years of 464,000,000 bushels. IN ENGLAND. ' London, May 31.— The most ; encourag ing feature of the agricultural outlook is is the favorable change In the weather, which has come at the most opportune time when the ] warmth and sunshine * will s produce the best .< results, especially as it has been prec eded bycopious rains. The backward condition of the crops and the discoloration of i wheat have been a source of complaint, ; but it is now admitted that no lasting Injury has been done, aridjif ; the present find weather V s continues : a rapid improvement in harvest prospects is expected. :.■/