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I costs |5.125 an hour to run the city
of New*York.
THE property of Trinity Church,
New York City, is said to be worth
1100,000,000. ..x
COMMODORE JOSEPH B. HILL is the
oldest officer in the American navy.
He was appointed in 1813.
THE periodical dynamite scare has
possession of London just now, and
the police are on the alert for mysteri
ous looking Irish-Americans.
IN 1800 there were in all the Unite!
States only six cities of over 6.000 in
habitants. In 1880 there were 286,
and by this time there are many more.
JOHN SMITH is a famous old stage
driver, aged ninety years, now living
atFryeburg, Me., who is said to have
driven miles enough to belt the earth
nine times.
PROP. ELISHA GRAY has invented
what he calls "The Telantograph,"
which will transmit "fac-simile" au
tographs to any distance over ordinary
telegraph wires.
A SILVER-HAIRED patron of Ine Fifth
Avenue Hotel in New York, who has
lived there for twenty-five years,
claims that in that time his lodging
and meals have cost him $700,000.
WILL CARLETON is a good deal of a
people's poet. More than three hun
dred thousand volumes of his poems
have been sold. Betsy may still be
"out," but Mr. Carleton decidedly is
not.
LADY BRASSEY, who died on her
husband's yacht at sea, was the fore
most yachts-woman of her time. She
accompanied her husband in his voy
ages around the world in his yacht
Sunbeam, and published delightful ac
counts of them.
THE Hawaiian Government has
ceded the finest harbor in the islands
to the United States, to be used as a
coaling station, upon condition that it
is to be relinquished in case the re
ciprocity treaty, now in force between
the two countries, be abrogated.
THE other clay Jonas Murry drove
into Connellsville, Pa., in a dilapidated
wagon drawn by two bony horses. He
had driven from Tom Greene County,
Tex., had been since April 1 in making
tho twenty-four hundred miles, and
during the journey his wife had died.
DIVISION of labor has been carried to
such perfection in this country that it
is now possible, so it is said, to make
a complete sewing-machine in a min
ute, or sixty in an hour a reaper every
fifteen minutes a locomotive in a day,
and three hundred watches in the same
time.
A GIRL in San Francisco named Gil
roy, only thirteen years of age, has
startled the community by communi
cations and penciled sketches of heads,
supposed to be from life. These writ
ten messages and likenesses appear on
her arm, and often remain visible for
on hour. The father of the girl says
they come and go on the girl's bare
arm, ovidently under the cuticle, and
can not bo washed aAvay.
A TALL young man, far from stylish
in appearance, reoently registered at a
Philadelphia hotel and asked to be
called at half-past six in the morning.
He proved to be John Dubois, of Min
nesota, whose uncle died not long ago
and left him a fortune of $8,000,000.
Young Dubois is about twenty-six
yeara of age, neither smokes nor drinks,
is unmarried, retires early and rises
early, nnd has neither the habits nor
tho appearance of a youthful million
aire.
SPEAKING of tho late Jenny Lind,
P. T. Barnum said recently: "She was
worth at least $1,000,000. I remember
my first meeting with the songstress.
It was September 1, 1850, on her steam
er, in New York. She asked me where
I heard her sing. *I never had the
pleasureofseeingyoubeforeinmylife,' dared risk so much money?'
it on your reputation, which, in musical
matters, 1 would much rather have
than my own judgment,' I answered."
widow, was married to A. F. Searle in
Now York the other day. Mr. Searle
is a retired country gentleman. The
ceremony was simple, and devoid of
any pomp. Mrs. Hopkins is one of
the richest women in America. She
is the widow of Mark Hopkins, one of
the five men who built the. Central
Pacific railroad. When Mr. Hopkins
died, in 1878, he left an estate that was
inventoried at $21,700,000. Mrs. Searle
got the whole of it, except about
$4,000,000, and she is now worth at
least $15,000,000.
THE story of the poisoning of Daroko
lake, in Georgetown County, S. C, by
a hail-storm, has been corroborated by
a citizen who investigated the matter
at the request of the Chief of the Sig
nal Service. The lake is surrounded by
black gum trees, the leaves of which
are strongly impregnated with tannic
acid. The bottom of the lake contains
a deposit of iron. The poisoning of
the water is due to the falling in of
bruised leaves and branches, the tannic
acid emanating from which, mingled
with the iron, forming tannate of iron,
poisoning the fishes.
THE romantic is developed in con
nection with the marriage of the niece
of the late President Arthur, Miss Ellen
Botts, of Savannah, to Mr. J. H. Blaikie.
The excitement of the earthquake in
jured her eyes so that an oculist de
clared she would lose her sight. She
immediately sent word to Mr. Blaikie,
-who was in Scotland, releasing him'
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fidelity produced a nervous reaction in
,fM i Mi Botts' system, which ended in the
.'tF'ift i J.! -M I !_!-*
^M restoration of her eyesight..
Epitome of the Week
K*TEVSSTIN NEWS COMPILATjgN.,
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE yie.d of me corn crop in the coun
try th,s season as reported by the Agricul
tural Department on the 10 Ji was 1,450,-
000,000 bushels, a slight falling off from
the previous season. The potato crop is
placed at 134,000,000 bushels, against
163.000,000 last year.
DUBINO the seven days ended on tho 11th
there were 195 business failures in the
United States against 20 5 the previous
seven days.
SECBETABY LAMAB "wrote a curt letter to
Commissioner Sparks on the 11th in reply
to the latter's communication relative to
the adjustment of certain railroad land
grants, and in conclusion said that either
Mr. Sparks or the writer (Secretary Lamar)
must retire from the department forthwith.
TEES exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing-houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 12 th aggregated
$963,459,083, against $1,043,364,775 the
previous week. As compared with the cor
responding week of 1886 the decrease
amounts to 7.5 per cent
THE Supreme Court of the United States
"on the 14th declared as invalid what is
known as the drive-well patent
THE EAST.
THE resignation of Dr. McCosh as presi
dent of the Princeton (N. J.) College was
tendered by him on the 10th.
AT Honesdale, Pa., James P. McCabe was
hanged on the 10th for the murder of
Michael Riley.
PETEB DUFFY, a centenarian, died on the
11th in New York City.
IN all sections of the country favorable
trade conditions -were reported on the 11th
by R. G. Dun & Co., of New York.
CHABLES BONSEB, a merchant of Erie, Pa.,
was attacked by roughs on the 12th andwith
beaten to death
THE upholstery factory of A Woltge &
Son, at Buff alo, N. Y., was burned on the
13th, causing a loss of about $100,000,
THE death of Wilfred H. Nevin, aged
thirty-nine years, editor and proprietor of
the Pittsburgh Leader occurred on the 12th.
SOME Anarchistic sympathizers in Jersey
City, N. J., displayed red flags on the 12th,
and their places were immediately demol
ished by working-men.
JAMES E. QUINN, of District Assembly 49,
Knights of Labor, of New York, who was
one of the many who petitioned Governor
Oglesby in behalf of the Chicago Anarch
ists, said on the 14th that the Governor
told him that for every petition for mercy
for the condemned men he could produce
hundreds from law-abiding citizens all over
the country requesting him not to interfere
with the sentence.
A CONFLAGEATION on the 14th in Brook
lyn, N. Y., destroyed the Prospect Park &
Coney Island railway station, the stables of
the Vanderbilt avenue horse-car line, 157
horses, a quantity of feed, rolling Btock,
etc., valued at $200,000.
A. S. HATCH, a prominent "bear" operator
on the New York Stock Exchange failed on
the 14 h. It was thought that his liabilities
would amount to about $1,000,000.
MB. GEORGE FBANCIS TBAIN is so thor
oughly disgusted by the execution of the
Chicago Anarchists that he declared on the
14th that he would leave the country,
never to return.
THE Rome, Wafertown & Ogdensburg Rail
road Company on the 14th commenced
heating its passenger coaches with steam
from the engine, abolishing stoves alto
gether.
JOHANN MOST was on the 14th said by In
spector Byrnes, of New York, to be the
most dangerous Anarchist in America, but
the biggest coward of the whole lot
WEST AND SOUTH.
AT Peru, Ind on the 10th, William Green
was found guilty of murdering Enos Brum
baugh. The sentenca was imprisonment
for life. He was a brother of Amer Green,
lynched recently for killing Luella Mabbitt
AT the county jail in Chicago on the
morning of the 10th the officials were
startled by a loud report that proceeded
from the cell of the Anarchist, Louis Lingg,
and upon investigation it was discovered
that the desperate man had mutilated his
face horribly by exploding a fulminating
cap in his mouth. He survived his injuries
about six hours, death ensuing about three
o'clock in the afternoon.
THE building occupied by the Detroit
Evening eies was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 10th.
GOVEBNOB LABBABEE'S plurality in Iowa at
the recent election was on the 10th placed
at about 16,000 and his majority at 5,000.
The Republican majority in the Legislature
will be 39, with one seat in doubt
THE foreBt fires that had been raging for
some time in the southern portion of Illi
nois and in Southern Indiana were on the
10th partially extinguished by rain.
WILLIAM M. LOCKE, a retired banker who
had lost most of his wealth by unfortunate
speculation, committed suicide on the 10th
by shooting at Des Moines, la.
THE seventh annual session of the Na
tional Farmers' Congress commenced in
Chicago on the 10th. The president,
Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia, deliv
ered an address.
Two WHITE men had, it was reported on
the 11th, been lynched near Shreveport,
La., for living with colored women, and a
negro met the same fate for living with a
white woman. The people were determined
to stop miscegenation*
ESTTMATES made on the 11th for newAla,
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from the engagement. He refused to E^EN Schwab, the Chicago An-
accept it, and came to urge an imme- arohists whose death sentences were com-
diate marriage. This expression of his muted to life imprisonment by Governor
Oglesby, were taken toJoliet on the 12th
Before leaving the jail they were accorded
interviews with their families and friends.
111ft for ne*
the next fiscal year foot up $220
OFFICES HENBT SMITH, of Chicago, who
has j-.st recovered from wounds received at
the Haymarket riot, was attacked by an
_______________ Anarchist on the 11th, who attempted first
1UTO A T,V vf^r,TmZ~7u -IT to choke and then to shoot him The man
MRS. MARY HOPKIN S, the millionaire -wras arrested.
THE official returns of the recent election
in Ohio received on the 11th a Republican
plurality of 58,052 Democrats, 34,499
net Republican, 23,353. The Senate stands:
Republicans, 25 Democrats, 11 the House,
Repubicans, 64 Democrats, 44.
FTRE destroyed the large cotton shed of
Brooks, Neely & Co., at Memphis, Tenn., on
the 11 th, wiih 53, OOO bales of cotton. Loss,
$275,000* insurance, $200,000.
AUGUST SPIES, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph
Fischer and George Engel, four of the con
victed Anarohist conspirators who were ad
judged guilty of the murderous slaughter of
seven policemen at the Haymarket in Chi
oago in May, 1886, were hanged in the
county jail at 11:57 clock, on the morning
of the 11t The execution took place in
the presence of a small assemblage of peo
ple and was devoid of sensational inoidenta
The men met their fate stoically.
SIXTEEN cases of yellow fever were re
ported on the 11th at Manatee, Fla.
RICHABD E. "WABPLE, the murderer of
David Corker, was hanged on the 11th at
Laf yette. Ore.
THE convention of the American Public
Health Association at Memphis, Tenn., came
to an end on the 11th. Dr. Charles N. Hew
itt, of Red Wing, Minn., was elected presi
dent
THE funeral of Auguest Spies, Albert
Parsons, Louis Lingg, Adolph Fischer and
George Engel, the dead Chicago Anarchists,
occurred on the 13th. It was the occa
^jrtsionforalarge gathering of their friends
"and sympathizers, but the event passed off
very quietly. The bodies were taken from
their homes and a procession was formed
to the depot, where all who wished took
trains for the cemetery. Speeches were
delivered, after which the bodies were placed
in a vault
AT Seveor Station, Md, the house of Ste
ven Culver was burned on the 12th, and
Culver, with hiendeavoring two childreno was
escapeburned from
THK convention of the Farmers' National
Association came to an end in Chicago on
the 12th. B, Kolb, of Eufala, Ala, was
elected president
REPOBTS were received on the 12fch of the
marriage at Elkhart, Ind on the 7th, of
Clara Louise Kellogg to Carl Strakosch, her
manager.
AT AverilL Minn., freight trains collided
on the 12th and five laborers were killed.
MB. KELLEY, of Dds Moines, la., accidently
shot his wife on the 12th in trying to drive
a number of bad boys away from his house.
A CONSOLIDATION of the' Springfield &
Western and the Indiana & Western railway
companies was effected on the 12th under
the name of the Ohio, Indiana & Western
Railway Company.
AT S Peter, Minn.,, the business portion
of the town was destroyed by fire on the
12th Loss, $300,000.
PRESIDENT JOHN FITZQEBALD, of the Irish
National League of America, on the 12th
issued a special call to the wealthy class of
the Irish race in America for a generous
effort in aid of the Irish causa *${
AT Tampa, Fla, seven new cases of yel
low fever were reported on the 12th.
SCHWAB and Fielden, the Anarchists, were
on the 14th assigned to work in the Joliet
penitentiary, the latter in the marble shop
and Schwab in the bakery, where he will
assist in kneeding dough.
As A result of the drought in the Miami
valley, in Ohio, epidemics of diphtheria and
fevers on the 14th prevailed, resulting in
many deaths. The schools were closed at
Lewisburg, and children were forbidden to
appear upon the streets.
AT Madison, Wis., on the 14th Sophia
Yager, a young woman, pleaded guilty of
horse-stealing and was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment
A COTTON compress at Little Rock, Ark.,
was burned on the 14th, causing a loss of
$300,000.
AN employe of the Northern Pacific Ex
press Company at St'Paul, named JohnH.
Webber, disappeared on the 14th, taking
him a large amount of money that had
been expressed to Western points.
BY the accidental discharge of a revolver
in the hands of Ethan Leak, a farmer who
resided near Jamestown, Ind., Mrs. Leak
was seriously wounded Thinking he had
killed her he blew nis own brains out
AT Greenville, Tex., a cotton compress
was destroyed by fire on the 14th, causing a
loss of $250,000.
THESE had been up to the 14th 37 0 cases
of yellow fever at Tampa, Fla., and 6 5
deaths.
THE little village of Haysville, Kan., was
wiped out by fire on the 14th, not a build
ing being left standing.
A WAGON containing four children named
Shult was struck by an engine on the 14th
near Orion, HI, and two of the occupants
were killed.
JOHN ABENSDOBF was put on trial for the
second time at Sioux City, la., on the 14th
for the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock.
THE Bank of Dakin, Kan., assigned on the
14th
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE Bureau of Industries of Ontario, in
its crop reports published on the 10th state
that the yield of wheat, oats and barley in
that province this year has been exception
ally light
DISPATCHES received from Moscow on the
11th say that over six thousand Jews had
been expelled from Tiflis, and in a short
time the work of expulsion would be ex
tended over the whole of the Caucasus.
IT was determined at a meeting of the
British Cabinet on the 11th to prosecute all
papers that publish the reports of suppressed
branches of the Irish league.
ADVICES received from Shanghai on the
11th say that the floods in Hon-Nan were
increas-ng, and hundreds of thousands of
the inhabitants of the province were desti
tute. In one place live thousand men re
pairing the embankment were overwhelmed
by the flood and four thousand were
drowned. Another terrible inundation oc
curred at Sze-Chuen.
ATKilrush, Ireland, fifteen members of
the Irish National League were sentenced
on the 12th to one month's imprisonment
at hard labor.
M. FALIJEBS, Minister of the Interior, de
clared in the French Chamber of Deputies
on the 12 ch that the Government would
never permit the display of red flags,
which he characterized as emblems of re
volt.
THE Russian man-of-war Elberoue collided
with and was sunk by an English steamer
on the 12th and seven persons on board
were drowned
IN London on the 12th a serious riot took
place growing out of the order of Sir Charles
Warren prohibiting public meetings in Tra
falgar square. About two hundred people
and forty policemen were injured and fifty
arrests were made.
SEVENTY-FIVE men, participants in the re
cent London riot, were fined or sent to
prifeon.
SENOB TANCO AMEBO, an agent of the
Colombian Government, said on the 14th
that $508,299,000 would be required to
complete the Panama canal, and that the
financial condition of the company was
alarming.
LATER.
SENATOB JOSEPH R: HAWLEY, of Connecti
cut, was married at Philadelphia on the
15ih to ss Edith Horner, one of the head
nurses at the Blockley hospital in that city.
A large number of distinguished guests were
present at the ceremony.
ON the 15th two Mormon elders who
were striving to make converts to their
faith were driven out of Jefferson County,
by fifty armed men.
LEE MOSXEB was hanged on the 15th at
Wichita, Kan., for the murder of Hugh B.
Lawler, in the Indian Territory, in October,
1886. It was the first judicial hanging in
the State in eighteen yeara
CHABLES CAVANAN died in New York on tho
15th of hydrophobia He was -bitten by a
email dog last October.
LTEUTENANT-GENEBAIJ P. H. SHEBTDAN, in
his annual report on the 15th, says that,
according to the last consolidated returns
the army consists of 2,200 officers and 24,-
236 men.
THE sixth annual meeting of the Baptist
National congress began its sessions at In
dianapolis,-Ind, on the 15th.
Two VAGBANTS who recently attempted
to assault two women in the southern por
tion of Pike County, Mo., were captured on
the 15th and hanged to trees.
Extensive forest fires were raging on the
15th throughout the western counties of
Tennessee and the eastern counties of Ar
kansas. Great damage had been done.
EIGHT Crow Indians who took part in the
late uprising were on the 15th incarcerated
at Fort Sneuing.
MBS. SABAH GOWDT, who' was General
Grant's nurse in infancy, died al Ports
mouth, O., on the 15th, in the eightieth
year of her aga
RANDOLPH GBAYDEN, aged nine years, of
Taylor Center, Mich, snot and killed his lit
tle sister on the 15th while playing with a
revolver.
OFFICIALS in New York City on the loth
decided that hereafter thelAnarchists would
not be allowed to meet and that the carry
ing of banners or badges or the playing of
any music, should they undertake to parade,
would not be permitted.
MOOBE, BENJAMIN & Co., of Milwaukee,
mining stock brokers, failed on the 15th.
The firm controlled eight iron-ore mines.
AT a meeting of the congregation of
Plymouth Church in Brooklyn on the 15th
It was voted to extend a call to Rev. Charles
Berry, of Wolverhampton, Eng., to fill the
racancy caused by the death of Henry
Ward Beecher, at a salary of $10,000 per
year.
TELEGBAMS received in London on the
15th stated that on October 7 Henry M.
Stanley was only four hundred miles from
Emin Pasha.
LAND-COMMISSIONEB SPABKS on the 15th
handed in his resignation to the President
in consequence of the very severe letter he
received from Secretary Lamar a few days
ago. He says that the Secretary has sought
to create the impression that the issue be
tween them was one of authority alone,
while as a matter of fact it was strictly one
of lam
ASKS TO BE RELIEVED.
Band Commissioner Sparks Tenders His
.ResignationA JBei to Secretary
Lamsrin Which Defends His Course
In the Omaha Xand-Grant.Case.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 16.Land Commission
er Sparks lust evening personally delivered
to the President the following letter, de
nding his course in the Chicago,. St Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha land grant case, and
formally resigned his office:
"DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. GENERAL
LAND OFFICE, WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.To
the President: The honorable Secretary of the
Interior advises me by letter dated the 11th
inst., in effect, that he should on that date pre
sent to you the alternative of select
ing a new Secretary of the Interior
or a new Commissioner of the General
Land Office, in Tiew of which I have felt
called upon to address you this letter. Under
the authority vestod in the Commissioner by
the laws and in accordance with regulations
and practice pursuant to law, by which action
Is first taken in the General Land Office in all
matters relating to.public lands, I had, pre
vious to September, 1887, made adjustments ot
certain railroad land grants, two of which,
known as the Omaha cases, I had been special
ly directed by the Secretary to report.
On October 7, 1887, two decisions of the Sec
retary were rendered in the Omaha cases, non
concurring In my adjustments and overruling
the authority on which they were based. He
directed me at the same time to cause the
grants to be adjusted in conformity with said
decisions. The point at issue related to the
claim of railroad companies to indemnity for
lands that, under railroad granting acts were
reserved from the operation of those acts by
express terms of the statutes.
"Previous to 1875 lands that had been re
served by the Government lor Indian and other
purposes, and which were excluded from the
grants and from the operation of the granting
acts, had been patented or certified to the com
panies, both as granted lands and as indemnity,
promiscuously with other lands. This seems to
have been done in pursuance of a practice of
giving railroad companies whatever they ssked
for, apparently without much consideration of
the restrictions, and limitations of the grants.
In that year the title to a large quantity of such
lands in the State of Kansas which had been so
erroneously conveyed to the Leavenworth, Law
rence & Galveston Railroad Company, was de
creed invalid by the United States Supreme
Court. Since that date, or for the past twelve
years, lands that were reserved at date
of grant, or date of the definite locat!on
of the
roads, as the case may be, have been regarded
and treated in the decisions and practice of
this office and department as excluded not only
from all the grants, but from.the indemnity
basis under all grants wherein such reserved
lands are by the terms of the law 'excluded
from the operation of the acts.'
"The Secretary held in the Omaha cases that
the company was entitled to indemnity for such
lands. This dec.sion, if adhered to. will have
the effect to take from the people many million
acres of land within railroad indemn ty limits,
which by your advice and with your approval,
as expressed in the Guilford Miller case, have
been proclaime I to the couniry as restored
to the public domain. The question of the
correctness of these decisions became, there
fore, a matter of momentous conoern. If they
correctly declared the "law these lands belong
to the railroad companies. If they did not cor
rectly declare the law the lands belonged to
the people. The Omaha decisions purport to
be founded upon the decision of the Supreme
Court in the case of the Winona & St. Peter
Railroad Company vs. Barney (1]3 U. S., 618).
"It appeared to me that the decision of the
Supreme Court in the Barney cases was abso
lutely silent upon the question decided in tho
Omaha cases, and that not even the obiter of
the court sustained these decisions, and it
seemed that the rule of statutory interpretation
adopted in the Omaha cases was the opposite
of the rule of construction adopted by the courts
and laid down by law. writers. I was, there
fore, profoundly convinced that the Secretary
had been committed to errors of law, which, if
brought fully to his personal attention, might
be corrected.
"It is the practice of the department to per
mit representatives of railroad companies and
other private interests to apply for reviews and
recons derations of decisions when questions
are decided against such interests. I believed
that, as the officer of the Government having
immediate guardianship of the public lands,
and immed:ate charge of the issuance of
patents under all grants of land by Congress,
I had at least equal right with repre
sentatives of private interests to ask the Sec
retary of the Interior to re-examine a depart
mental decision. And I believe it especially
proper to express my views to the Secretary in
these cases because I had not, but would have
done so, the original instance, if I had
anticipated a change of ruling and decision
upon the point in question. Accordingly
I waited- upon the Secretary and personally
expressed to him my desire to have a
review of the decisions in these cases. He
suggested to me to let the matter rest for the
present, in which suggestion I of course cheer
fully acquiesced. On November 101 received a
note from the Secretary desiring me to presen'
to him what I had to say upon this subject. My
letter was accordingly signed and delivered to
him on the 11th inst.
"Several important questions were decided
in the Omaha cases other than the one re
ferred to herein, which justly call for consider
ation upon the point of agreement with or
contravention of decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States, but I confined my
application for review to the question of 'in-
demnity for lands excluded from the opera
tion of granting acts,' that being of overshad
owing importance.
"It is but just to say that the published com
munication addressed to me and laid "before you
is no answer to my letter applying for review.
The issue raised by me was strictly one of law.
The presentation of the issue was strictly in
the line of legal argument. In the letter ad
dressed to me the issue is not met, and the
effect has been to create the erroneous impres
sion that the issue was one of authority alone,
and that I had efused to execute the Secre
tary's official orders. This diversion of the is
sue from one of legal construction to one of an
ts ority and insubordination, is the substitution
of force for argument a diversion of the pub
lic mind from the merits ot the case.
"The office of Commissioner of the General
Land Office has been one of intense labor, im
posing a constant sense of high responsibility.
Having sought it at your hands I have continued
to hold it only out of a sense of duty, with a
view of effecting some good to the public.
I have endeavored to discharge my full
duty in it, in the face of many discourage
ments and much calumny and abuse from those
whose interests were to defeat the policies pur
Bued. I have believed my line of action to be
correct, and thought I had reason for the belief
that it met your approval. If these decisions
foreshadow a change inofficial policy on this
subject, knowing well what this will mean in
practical application, I could not, of course,
w:th my sense of duty, be the instrume to
effect the change.
"Having ever, as now, regarded the commis
sion I hold from you as subject to your recall,
and desiring to relieve you of any possible em
barrassment, I herewith tender you my
resignation of the^offlee, of Commissioner
of the General"- Lane Office, and ask its
early acceptance. And in thus severing my
connection with your Administration I beg to
assure you of my earnest wish that the same
sdom. firmness and integrity which has chus
far so emmently marked your Administration
may continue to enhance you in the estimation
of your countrymen. Very respectfully.
$?s:Sj|$f "WruaAM-A. J. SPARKS."
DYNAMITE *N CANADA.
Anti-Prohibitionists Blow Up the House of
a Police Inipector at Orangeville.
OKANOEVHiB, Ont, Nov. 16.The house
of Inspector Anderson was again blown up
by dynamite last night. The charge was
placed on the veranda. Two front rooms
were badly shattered, and the veranda is a
complete wr. ck. Mrs. Anderson, who was
alone in the house, was badly shocked. The
inspector, who had just left the house, was
only about ten yards away, and was stunned
by the concussion. A note was tacked on
the fence warning him to desist from his
efforts to enforce the prohibition law. In
tense excitement prevails. This is the sixth
dynamite explosion in Orangeville in two
years. The perpe. rators are unknown.
Saved by He Corset Steel.
TBOT, N. Nov. 1CEdward Daly,
aged 23, shot at Mollie Nealon, aged 18,
Monday night, and would probably have
killed her if the ball had not been stopped
by the girl's corset Daly says he was fool
ing with the pistol, and It was accidentally
discharged. He claims that the young
woman is his wife, but she denies any such
relationship. Daly is under arrest
Wants an International Dollar.
Crnr OP Mexico, Nov. 16.The Partido
Liberal, the organ of the Administration, ad
vocates a planlor an international dollar to
circulate between the United States and the
sister BepubHc.
UNCLE SAM'S ARMY.
It Consists, Accoruiug -o the Report'of
General 8he idan, of 36,436 Officers and
MenRecommendations Regarding the
Indians, Coast Defenses, and the State
Militia.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 16.Lieutenant-Gen-
eral P. H. Sheridan in his annual report says
that according to the IOBJ consolidated
returns the army consists of 2,200
officers and 24,236 men, including
Indian scouts. Touching the recent
Indian troubles the General says that
in order to quiet the restless young
men among the Crow Indians General Ruger
has been authorized to enlist about thirty of
their number as scouts and take them to
Fort Custer. The Crows have always been
friendly and make it a boast that they have
never killed a white man, and it would be a
great pity if any thing should now
occur to disturb the peaceful relations of
BO long a standing. General Sheridan is
confident that General Buger will be able to
effect a permanent settlement thafrwill be
satisfactory to the Crows as well as to the
Government
In regard to the concentration of the
army in the larger posts, the report says
that work on the new post at Denver will
shortly be commenced that at San Antonio
has been progressing favorably during the
year the ground for the new post near
Chicago will pass into the possession of the
Government at an early day, and at Fort
Snelling both the reservation and other at
tendant conditions are favorable for the es
tablishment of a large garrison. An addi
tional appropriation will be necessary to
finish the reconstruction of Fort Kiley.
General Sheridan does not look favor
ably upon the proposition of General Miles
to separate the Indians now at San Carlos
into several camps about one or two
hundred miles apart Divided into
different bands, he says, each lo
cation might become the center
of disturbances, and the difficul
ties of their supervision would be greatly in
creased. The General expresses regret at
the fact of a slight increase in the num
ber of desertions during the year, and
sees no remedy for it He looks
favorably on the new plan of monthly
payments. The recruiting service,
he says, has enlisted an increased number
of good men. Discipline is good The ar
tillery, infantry nnd cavalry schools are re
ported to be doing good work, and the
army has greatly improved in rifle practice.
The General renews MB recommendation
that 5,000 men be added to the army.
On the question of arms the report says
the time is near at hand when the army
should be supplied with machine guns, and
chat unless an effective arm of this charac
ter is developed by an American manufact
urer very soon :e Government should adopt
some foreign repeating gun. On ie subject
of our coast defenses the General says that
they have continued to deteriorate during
the year that adequat3 defenses must be
the work of years and attained at heavy
outlay. In the meantime, he says, the dyn
amide-gun experiments show valuable qual
ities and good resuits within their range,
and that experimenting with aview to their
further development should be encouraged.
General Sheridan concludes his report as
follows:
"I am strongly in favor of the general Gov
ernment extending all possble aid to the Na
tional Guard of the different States, as they con
stitute a body of troops that, in any emergen
cy, would form an important part of our mili
tary force. They should be armed with the
best weapons, amply prov ded with complete
camp and garrison equipage, and instructed in
the various drills and exercises according to
the tactics and systems followed in the regular
army. According to my observation and ex
perience, most of the State troops now march
well and handle the gun well, but they are
deficient in discipline and in all the duties that
teach a soldier to take care of himself while in
camp or upon a march. This defect can best be
overcome by establishing some system of en
campment under the control and direction and
at the entire expense of the general government.
In the development of such a measure the en
tire army, as well as myself personally, will be
glad to render such assistance as lies in our
power, and I recommend that the favorable
consideration of the subject may be commend
ed to Congress."
HOPE FOR AMERICA'S NAVY.
Commodore Wilson Appears to Think
That Its Outlook Is Very Bright.
"WASHINGTON, NOV. 10Commodore T. D.
Wilson, chief of the bureau of construction
and repair of the Navy Department, has
submitted his annual report to the Secre
tary of the Navy. He renews
his recommendation that two new
vessels of about 1,000 tons each be
built to replace the training-ships Saratoga,
Jamestown and Portsmouth, which can not
possibly be kept in service much longer,
and he asks that special authority be given
for the repair of the historic sloop-of-war
Hartford, at a cost of $175,000. In con
clusion the report says:
"The outlook for the navy in the near future
is a very hopeful one, and with the completion
of the vessels now projected the navy will con
sist of a number of modern vessels, admirably
adapted to the varied needs of the service. The
character of the work beaig done on the vessels
now building and those lately completed shows
that our ship-builders are able to turn out ves
sels of war second to none in the world. The
establishment of the gun factory at Washing
ton and introduction by the Bethlehem iron
works of a plant to furnish heavy armor and gun
forgings makes the United States absolutely
independent of other countries in the construc
tion and armament of her ships-of-war, and if
the work of rebuilding the navy is only kept up
as it is now goiag we shall soon have a navy
that will be a credit as well as a protection to
our country and our country's interests."
Tables attached to the report show the ex
act condition of every vessel in the navy.
This tabie shows that in three years we
shall have twenty-one of the wooden ves
sels remaining, six years but four, and in
nine years the entire wooden navy will have
disappeared
To Protect Merchants.
NEW YOEK,NOV.16.A number of wealthy
residents of this city have organized
a company with a view to protect
ing merchants against loss by giv
ing credit The company is called
"The Dry Goods Credit, Guaranty and In
demnity Company," andisths first corpora
tion of its kind in this country. The
capital stock will be $1,000,000, di
vided into $5 0 sharea The purpose
is "to guarantee and indemnify merchants,
manufacturers, traders and those engaged in
business and giving credit from losses and
damage by reason of giving and extending
credit to their customera The company
will work on the same basis as an insurance
company. If a merchant who has sold a
lot of goods on credit has insured himself
the company will stand his loss if his cus
tomer fails to pay within a prescribed time.
Eager for Annexation.
NEW YOKE, NOV, 16.Mr. Edward Atkin
son thinks that this country could buy the
provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton for
$50,000,000. He says they are all eager
for annexation, and he believes that the
Dominion Government would be only too
glad to get the money at the present time,
because of the big railway enterprise it has
on its hands.
Fatal Explosion.
PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 16.By the explo
sion of a boiler in Heller Brothers' blast
furnace at Woodside, N. J., one man was
killed and three others were injured The
works were damaged to the extent of $30,-
000,,,,
Us5& To Enjoin the Evictions.
WrtKESBABEE, Pa, Nov. 16.The coal
companies of the Lehigh "Valley region, it is
understood, are preparing to take most ex
treme measures against their striking
employes, and have commenced the work
of evicting the men from their homes.
The Knights of Labor have employed
counsel who will ask for a restraining in
junction on the ^ground that .the leases are
illegal. Sft*
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LoNDONfNov. 16.Private telegrams have
been received stating that on October 7
Henry Stanley was 400 miles from Emin
Pasha, and that he was taking half bis faros
on forced marches. _..
NEWSY PifcRAG^APHS.
Happenings in the Northwestern
States and Territories.
JIXXNOIS.
Captain Joab Wilkinson, a veteran of the
Mexican war, died at his home near Decatur
the other morning.
A woman lives near Marion who the other
day reached the 101st year of her aga She
walks about at will, and, aside from slightly
defective memory and eyesight, her faculties
are well retained.
The farm buildings of Seymour Cleveland,
near Kockford, were destroyed by fire the
other evening. Loss, $10,000: insured for
$3,000. J.
The Elihois Association of ex-Prisoners of
War held its meeting at Peoria recently and
re-elected C. W. Pavey, of Mount Vernon,
president The next meeting will be held
at Bloomington the third Thursday in No
vember, 1888.
William E. Dowdy," of Greenville, Bond
County, has been appointed United States
District Attorney for the Southern district
of Illinois, to succeed E. T. Boe.
Dr. J. Y. Winn, a prominent physician,
died at his home in Williamsville the other
day, of apoplexy.
At Charnly, Coles County, the other day
Mrs. Lewis Mushrick gave her sick daughter
strychnine instead of quinine with fatal
results.
At Hagerstown, Fayette County, the other
night Sid McAdams and Pete Davis, farmers,
quarreled, and McAdams struck Davis on
the head with a brick, crushing the skulL
At Orion, Henry County, the other after
noon a carriage containing Mr. and Mrs.
Shuet's three children was wrecked by a
train, and one girl, Ida, was killsd instantly
and the two brothers were fatally injured
Thft horses were killed
B. W. Ashbrook and wife, of Mattoon,
celebrated their golden wedding a few days
ago.
Near Sidell, Coles County, horses were
recently dying by the score from a disease
milar to cancer. Nothing had been found
that would relieve the beast dying or cure
the disease.
James Ray, a druggist, jumped from a
fifth-story window of the Grace Hotel in
Chicago a few mornings ago and was al
most instantly killed
B. F. Henry is the oldest teacher in De
Witt County. For twenty-three years he
has taught school, during which tame he
haB had under charge 1,986 children,
and thinks this winter's school will com
plete the 2,000.
The Chicago Times says that since the
hanging of the Anarchists $600,000 has
been refused for apiece of inside real estate
which could have been bought before the
execution for $500,000.
IOWA.
The total receipts of the W. C. T. TJ. of
Iowa have been during the year $5,201.93,
and the expenditures amounted to $5,064.-
36.
The main building of the Soldiers' Or
phan's Home at Davenport was burned a
fw nights ago. Loss, $30,000 insurance,
$22,000. A flash of lightning caused the
fire. No lives were lost
The main line of the Central Iowa rail
road was sold at master's sale at Marshall
town a few days ago, and was bid in for
$2,400,000 by James Thompson in behalf
of the Stickney reorganization committee
Some time ago the residence of D. S. Wil
son, at Dubuque, was entered by burglars
and robbed of several hundred dollars'
worth of valuables The other rooming,
when the front door was opened, the family
were agreeably surprised to find every
thing taken by the burglars lying on the
steps. There was also a note Btating that
the burglars were sorry they had stolen the
articles and asking forgiveness.
The sheriff of Taylor County recently ar
rested in Nebraska City, Neb., B. Foster,
charged with having murdered and drowned
Emmctt Keed
General Weaver, having addressed a letter
to President Cleveland upon the matter of
the eviction of settlers from their homes in
O'Brien County, is in receipt of a note
from the President saying that he .did not
see any legal way that the General Govern
ment could take cognizance of the matter,1
as the Government has lost title to the
lands in question.
The other afternoon the four-hundred
fo )t draw span of the Santa Fe bridge
across the Mississippi at Fort Madison was
swung for the first time.
Mrs. Schnee, wife of the hotel-keeper at
Hampton who so mysteriously disappeared
recently, attempted to commit suicide at
her home the other day by taking poison.
Mr. Schnee has been found atGrinnellin a
demented mdition.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
I wa State Improved Stock Breeding As
sociaiion will commence in the opera-house
in Newton December 7, closing.on the 9th
The State Short Horn Cattle, Draft Horse
and Ho ste Cattle associations will hold
their annual meetings ar
the same place on
the 6th and 7th of December.
Fifty business men at Waterloo have
formed an association for the advancement
of their mutual interests and the welfare of
the town.
On account of the incendiary fires at
Dubuque the Standard Lumber Company
at that place has shut down for the season.
Nearly every city in the Stace reports a
large list of marriage licenses.
The registration law applies to fifty-four
cities in the State.
At Des Moines the other day the Des
Mnines & Osceola railroad was sold by order
of court, B. Y. Edgerly, of Springfield,
purchasing it for $305,000.
WISCONSIN.
Elmer Poquette, of Durand, fell in love
at first sight with a young lady who has
since refused to marry him. Poquette is
now violently insane.
Thirteen persons were recently arrested
at Sheboygan for an outrageousattack upon
the parsonage of Bev. Mr. Hoffman, the
Lutheran minister, who had been deposed
but refused to go.
Joseph Keller, aged seventy-two years,
formerly proprietor of a large chair factory
at Sheboygan, and Miss Mary Baucknecht, a
charming damsel hailing from Manitowoc,
aged sixteen years, were married a few days
ago.
John Schener, a farmer of Manitowoc
County, was recently placed in jail at Mil
waukee charged with running an illicit dis
tillery. It apperaed that he had boen doing
a very profitable business as a moonshiner
for a number of yeara
The reports from the State institutions
show the number of people held in charge
by the State to be as follows: State Hos
pital for the Insane, Mendota, 517 North
ern Hospital for the Insane, Winnebago,
651 Industrial School for Boys. Waukesha,
343 State Prison, Waupun, 447 State Pub
lic School, Sparta, 102 total, 2,060.
The five-year-old child of N. S. Belden, of
Durand, was burned to" death the other
day. The child's dress caught fire from a
hot poker. -5' C^r ~\r~&
Seven thousand feet' of lumber, thirty
cords of wood, three cars and other proper*
ty were destroyed by fire recently at
Stephens' lime-kilns near Madison.
The body of Eric Tosterton, a farmer
who disappeared from his home near Eau
Claire, was found by a hunting party hang
ing from the limb of a tree a few days ago.
Jacob Steinman, an old soldier, aged six
ty-eight years, suicided recently by drown
ing in the Bock river near Watertown,
The State Board of Pharmacy at its re
cent meeting in Appleton organized a
mutual fire insurance company for the pur
pose of insuring drug stores only.
Between fifteen and twenty per cent of
the tobacco grown this season in the
Yi'.-inity of Janesville was damaged by
frosts.
The Governor has appointed A. D. Thorp
sheriff of Door County, vice Thomas Scott,
who died reoently.
The farm residence of Frank Sands, in
Union, Eau Claire County, with most of the
contents, was destroyed by fire the other
night Loss, $5,500 insurance, $3,000.
A five-year-old daughter of George Jirtle,
of Clay Banks, died recently of inflamma
tion caused by a beech-nut lodging in her
throat
Centerville wants a harbor and the people
have subscribed $1,000 to start with and
will appeal to Congress for an appropria
tion.
y, MICHIGAN.
Wyandotte is excited over the striking of
natural gas at a depth of fifteen hundred
feet
Chief-of-Police Winney, of Jackson, has
declared war on the gambling places in that
city.
Louis Maquis, a Bailor arrested at Chey
boygan last winter and placed in jad on a
charge of larceny, broke from his prison in
the spring. Late the other night the sheriff
went on board the schooner Belle Hans
comb mid found the escaped prisoner. He
was locked up
J. A. Bacot, a prominent citizen of Hayes
township, Charlevoix County, took Paris
green by mistake recently and died in a
short time.
The Grand Rapids Board of Trade was for
mally organized the other night President,
George G. Briggs Secretary, H. D. C. Yan
asmus.
Joseph H. Chandler, of Chicago, a few
days ago secured a Michigan State deed to
forty acres of swamp, land, which embrace
the ground of the Calumet & Hecla Mining
Company. The filing of the document
created a great sensation at Houghton.
Lawyers do not think he has a chance of
getting the property.
Sands Maxwell, of Prentiss Bay, have
sold to Wolf Bros., of Evart, their entire
plant, consisting of saw and shingle mills,
18,000,000 feet of standing pine, 8,000,-
000 feet of lumber, 8,000,000 shingles,
1,000,000 feet of log in boom, and other
stock. The consideration was $121,000.
The other night a flouring and saw mill
atMayville, owned by A L. Bryant, was
burned Loss, $10,000 no insurance.
A Finnish school has been opened at Ish
peming. Rev. 0. K. A Jurwa, pastor of the
Finnish Lutheran church, is in charge of
the school.
The Young Men's Christian Association at
Coldwator is so prosperous that they have
begun to publish a monthly paper.
A young son of Jere Penoyer, of Rockland,
was killed by the kick of a horse a few days
ago.
Judge Bunce, of Port Huron, celebrated
his one hundredth birthday a few days ago.
McHose & Talbot's flouring mills at Vassar
were destroyed by fire the other night
The flames spread to a cooper shop and.
dwelling, and both were consumed Loss,
$62,000 insurance, $22,500.
C. H. Fargo & Co., of Chicago, have ac
cepted a proposition and will move their
shoe-factory plant to Jackson.
Estella, Gratiot County, has had its name
changed by the supervisors to Sumner.
MINNESOTA.
The Sisters of Mercy recently sold their
hospital at South Minneapolis at a loss of
$15,000.
Major A. N. Eeip, of Duluth, has gone to
Washington, where he will hereafter reside.
He recently secured a divorce from his wife
and gave her $100,000.
Isaac N. Cardozo, who died at S Paul a
few days ago, was senior United States Com
missioner. He was born at Richmond, Va.,
in 1820, and was appointed to his position
by Judge Nelson in 1858.
Judge L. W. Collins, of S Cloud, has been
apppointed to fill the vacancy on the Su
preme bench of Minnesota caused by the
death of Judge Berry.
Fred Bickell, the bank robber, arrived in
Duluth the other night in charge of Will
iam A Pinkerton, and was lodged in jaiL
All the money stolen ($24,500) was recov
ered except $305.
The gospel army, which has been sta
tioned at Red Wing since last August, has
been obliged to disband. Financial embar
rassment was the causa
A dynamite bomb was discovered at Min
neapolis a few days ago and created some
alarm.
John Webber, a young man in the em
ploy of the Northern Pacific Express Com
pany in St Paul, disappeared a few days
ago, taking with him $5,000 left lor ship
ment to Western points.
A dozen tenants of a building in Minne
apolis sustained losses by fire aggregating
$30,000 a few evenings ago.
The fifth district convention of post
masters decided to request Congressman
Nelson to aid in securing an increase in
Baleries and allowances of third and fourth
class postmasters.
The order confirming the sale of all ef
fects of the Northwestern Manufacturing &
Car Company at Stillwater has been signed
by Judge McCluer. The property is valued
at $6,000,000.
By an order issued by the Board of Rail
road and Warehouse Commissioners the
passenger-rate on all roads in the State is
placed at three cents a mile. This order,
however, affects but two roads, the Mani
toba and Northern Pacific, the other roads
having been charging that rate since June,
1886.
J. Parks, whose daughter e'.oped with
her uncle, George Resn-.ck, returned to his
home in Perham the other morning, hav
ing captured both runaways at Litchfield.
They were not married, but were living to
gether.
DAKOTA.
A pressed-brick company at Yankton is.
turning out twenty-five thousand brick per
day by artesian water power.
A terrible prairie fire sweet Coteaux the
other night, destroying thousands of dol
lars' worth ef property.
Commissioner of Immigration McClure
gives notice that his office will hereafter be
at Pierre instead of Bismarck.
Persons south of Mandan recently re
ported the narrow escape of the Govern
ment buildings at Fort Yates from prairie
fires. Several bodies of Indians on the
Sioux reservation which had been buried
on raised platforms, as is the custom of the
tribe, were burned The Riverside Ranch
Company lost three hundred tons of hay,
and a good many settlers lost all their hay
and other property.
Mayor Rowley is reported to have
been appointed register of the land office
at Mitchell He is president of the Secur
ity Bank and one of the oldest residents of
the city.
One hundred women voted at Sioux Falls
at the recent election.
A call has been issued for a convention to
be held at Aberdeen December 15 for the
purpose of petitioning Congress to author
ize the holding of a convention to frame a
constitution for a State embracing the
whole Territory.
Sitting Bull and a number of his people,
who had been on a visit to Cheyenne
agency, were in Pierre a few days aga
Sitting Bull said he was sorry that the Crow
outbreak had occurred, and that he was
tired of war and would advise his younger
people to remain npou the agency.
Banker E E. Eddy, of Fargo, has been
appointed Deputy Territorial Treasurer
with reference to the seizure of the
Northern Pacific engines for unpaid taxea
The site has been purchased for anew
Catholic church at Rapid City.
The announcement of the marriage of
Chief Justice Bartlett Tripp, of Yankton,
and Mra Jennie Washburn, at St Paul the
other day, created quite a sensation, as
their most intimate friends knew nothing
of their engagement
Chicago parties are to erect an opera
house at Fargo.
The monthly expense account ot the
mines operated in the neighborhood trib
utary directly or indirectly to Deadwood is/
$196,000.
Judge Thomas, of Deadwood, fined him-''"
self five dollars a few days ago for being,S=
tardy.
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