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HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE BY HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE COMPANY. “With Charity for All, and Maliee Towards None.” SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 oer Annum. VOU'ME VIII._HUNTSVILLE, ALA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1887. NUMBER 10. SEWS IN BRIEF. C(niriuJ from Jariam Swrw. personal and political. Secretary Bayard recommends that an Valuation of duties be made on impor ts of raisins and currants in order to facilitate negotiations now pending be tween the governments of tho United states and Spain, looking to the establish ment of more liberal commercial inter ^THifreedom of the city of London was conferred upon Henry M. Stanley on the • AfV ' ** Oh the i3th David R. Turpie was nom inated for United States Senator by the joint Democratic caucus at Indianapolis, Tnd On the 13th Chas. B. Farwell, of Chicago, was nominated on the second ballot by the Republican caucus of Springfield, 111., and Congressman Morrison by tho Dem ocratic caucus, to succeed Senator Logan. President Cleveland has granted a respite until April 8, 1887, to Patrick Mc Carthy who was to have been executed January 14 at Fort Smith, Ark. On the 13th Michael Davitt, the Irish pa triot, and his bride arrived in New York, mil left during the day for Baltimore, where he was annouced to 6peak on the 14th. The date of his lecture at Madison •wjnare Garden has been changed from January 16 to the 33d. On the !3th the funeral of John Roach, the noted ship-builder, took place from St. Paul’s P. E. Church, New York. There was a large assembly of friends. Bishop Harris, assisted by the Rev. Dr. MoChes oev. officiated at the services. A delega tion of sixty-six of the leading citizens of Chester, Pa., was also present. 1 Is the Indiana Republican senatorial caucus, on the 14th, Benjamin Harris was renominated by acclamation. William O'Brien has accepted the apol ogy of the Dublin Express and has with irawn his libel suit against that paper. Cablegrams congratulating Bismarc^ ind Von Moltke on their speeches in •‘/he Reichstag were received at Berlin c^ the 14th from the Germans in Utah. Senator Van Wyck, of Neb^ftgjja has been exonerated from the c’^fo-e of brib ery after investigation bv "the State Sen ate. A council was at Queen Victoria’s residence at Osb^,Tne on t]le j4th, when the seals of office were transferred to the new members the Cabinet. -'l-'Uiibws, the colored nominee for re wrjer of deeds at Washington, was un favorably reported on by the Senate Dis trict of Columbia committee on the 14th. Senator Stanford has contributed a check for §1,000 to the Logan fund, and irill probably make an additional contri bution. The press of Paris exults over the quar ■el between Bismarck and the Reichstag, fho Temps protests against the idea of de fensive preparations being made with a view to checking aggressive movements by France. The House committee on invalid pen sions set Tuesday, the ISth, for the special consideration of the bills giving pensions rf 12,000 per annum to Mrs. General Logan ffld Mrs. General Blair. Henut B. Stanton, the distinguished Journalist and lawyer, husband of Eliza beth Cady Stanton, died on the 14th, of ruieumonia, at his residence in New York. He was in his eighty-second year. The Governor of Herat has been sum moned to Cabul to answer charges of se ven.'" favoring Russia and fomenting hatred of England among the Afghan peo ple. if found guilty he will be sentenced to death. 0v the 15th Secretary Lamar and his bride arrived at their Washington home. Ox the 15th Henry M. Stanley arrived in ■■‘Ssels. and had a long farewell inter ■ with King Leopold, his friend and Moo, -■‘■-"iden't Cleveland was given a sur party on the 15th. A number of Mis ' 'Unaus,headed by Congressman Clardy, 0D him, paid their respects and took r.oave without so much as hinting at ■/■re for an office for either themselves 'r mends. 'N he 15th a banquet was given in Paris — .ebrate the anniversary of the battle ,, ’orktown. United States Minister Me aud General Boulanger, the •vnch Minister of War, were among the ?uests. I-he 15th the remains of the late Lord ' ■‘sleigh were removed from London to kurial place at Exeter, in Oscar Warti, the Austrian explorer, rip believed dead in the interior of r ra. is reported to have arrived reeent *at Zanzibar. ^Derick B. Stanton, a Cheyenne ■h) attorney, has been disbarred from -■ actising before the Interior Depart 'Y'- or any of its bureaus. !p,1,s dosing session in Washington, on i.„ s'h) the National convention of brick L‘.'r* c'ected Alexander Darragh, of St. MS *°r a secon(^ herm as president. ,.p.4' Dougherty, a prominent Ohio ■—cian, died in Washington on the 15th. /Yhe ni?lit of the 16th, General W. B. ip °hief of the Signal Service, died at ^ -'■ressman S. S. Cox is reported very ip He had a hemorrhage on the Wth. tathf ^nward Olnet, professor of zun eoiatics in the University of Michi Anu Arbor, died on the 16th. seconi *)R- HcGlynn has received a gjVe ’ aml final summons from Rome, but it 0 ’afilcation that he intends to obey E/,fr>]Sa'^ a clean sweep is to be made of , caa revenue agents, so that their tuoav b)e filled with persons in har 'th the Administration. r ' IMES AND casualties. X j„ n!,!.ath Agnew, of Palmyra, the ga>n0 ered ^is wifo and remained in s-as aw00® with the corpse, where he Cor.ctlefvu Jesideuce of Hon. J. C. c°asin a» it ,!ed States Senator of Wis fitetothne dson' "’is., was damaged by 0S Z * °f ®’000 011 the 13* • Josiah Mnwhthe death warrant of William atf confirmri'T' c®?vic*ed ot wife-murder ^anita CountrUpthe -*ail at Xlifflntown, f Patterson y'T.a ’was signed by Govern 29 “ *>»d»* «“d The counsel for Dr. Weir, of Oscoda, Mich., held at London, Ont., on a charge of murder, has secured a writ of habeas corpus and certiorari in his behalf. The demand for Weir’s extradition has been formally made by the United States au thorities. On the 13th Judge Pratt, of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, rendered a decision denying the motion of Arthur J. McQuade for a stay of proceedings pending appeal to the general term on his conviction for bribery, so he will have to go to Sing-Sing. An incipient Socialistic riot occurred at Norwich, England, on the 14th. Rev. oohn Patterson, of Cambridge, Wis., attempted suicide at Milwaukee on the 14th. - - • — A savage fight occurred at New Orleans on the 14th between striking ’longshore men and others who were at work. Thomas J. Cluverius was hanged at Richmond, Va., on the 14th for the murder of his cousin, Miss Fanny Lillian Madi son. James Lamb, Albert Odell and John T. Echols, white, and John Stephens, colored, were hanged at Ft. Smith, Ark., on the 14th for murder. An explosion of several tons of powder took place in one of the mills at Xenia, O., on the night of the 14th. The shock was distinctly felt in Columbus, and it was supposed to be an earthquake at the time. The mills are located three miles from the town. Fire on the 15th destroyed the Terre Haute (Ind.) distillery. On the 15th,in a fight with train robbers near Pittsburgh, Pa., Fireman Curley was shot through the thigh and a brakeman was badly beaten. Some one stole the tiara of the Duchess of Connaught from her apartments in the Duke’s headquarters at Poonah, India, The bauble is valued at £4,750. On the 15th Daniel Rosso was arrested fn New York for passing counterfeit dimes. A quantity of the coins and the moulds for making them were found in his apartments. On the 15th Frances Fox, a middle-aged woman employed as a domestic in the fam ily of Mrs. Metcalf at Middleton, Conn., was found dead in the barn near the Met calf house, with a bullet through her heart. Mr. Metcalf is suspected. On the 15th tho Clifford block, a three story building in Denver, Col., was burned, entailing a loss of fully £100,000; insured. Fire at the Rhode Island Electric Light works at Providence, R. L, on the 15th, did considerable damage to the machinery. The engineer vPas killed and another man was seriously injured. On the 15th the small farm house occu pied by Miss Albertine Hevenir, six miles from Syracuse, N. Y., was burned, and Miss Hevenir perished in the flames. It was a case of deliberate suicide. On the 16th an express train on the Bos ton & Fitchburg railroad was wrecked by a broken rail, but the passengers miracu lously escaped serious injury. On the 16th the schooner Parallel ran ashore near Golden Gate, San Francisco. One hundred thousand pounds of powder on board exploded, demolishing buildings in the vicinity and seriously injuring sev eral persons. MISCELLANEOUS. The statement that the Dominion Gov ernment had decided to revert to the old system of licensing foreign fishing vessels, is declared at Ottawa to be utterly with out foundation. A jubilee yacht race, for all nations, to be sailed around the United Kingdom, has been arranged for June. Tiie Government lost its case against J. T. Chichester, et aL, at Little Rock, Ark., in which the latter were sued for $174,000, money claimed to be overpaid on Star route contracts. The total values of exports of beef, pork and dairy products for the twelve months ended December 31, 1886, were $86,044,251, against *93,559,516 for the same time the previous year. The most severe snow-storm of the sea son prevailed in the province of Ontario on the 14th. Reports from different local ities showed the storm to be general. Railway travel was much impeded and some branch roads were entirely block aded. TnE Iron Trade Review publishes the fire losses in iron-works during 1886. One hun dred and twenty establishments in differ ent parts of the country were damaged by fire during the year, involving a loss of *3,400,000. on which there was an insurance of $1,350,000. The electric lighting apparatus in the interior of the Washington monnment at the National capital was tested on the 14th. Seventy-five incandescent lights, distributed at the stairway landings, were burning. Looking up the shaft from the bottom, with these lights burning on either side and brilliantly illuminating the interior of the structure for a distance of five hundred feet, the effect was striking. A large number of the New York fac tories expected to suspend operations by reason of the coal famine. The Colin Campbell dirty linen closet is to be reopened in February before Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and Justice Han nen. On the 15th the remains of sixteen victims of the wreck of the German ship Elizabeth were buried in the Seamen’s Friend Cemetery at Norfolk, Va. In the case of Emma Moore, who shot and killed her husband, from whom she had been divorced, in self-defense at Fort Huron, Mich., the jury returned a verdict on the 15th of not guilty after an hour’s deliberation. A snow-slide in the Marshall Basin in Colorado, on the 14th, killed two men and seriously injured several others, besides sweeping away a lot of mining buildings. A project has been started at Washing ton to get an appropriation for an eques trian statue of General Logan. The city of Washington, lnd., will give $75,000 and sixty acres of land to secure the shops of the Ohio & Mississippi rail road. . . , Supporters of the British administra tion are being urged to attend the opening of Parliament, as questions of grave im portance will be considered. Danger of an Austrq-Russian war is thought to have greatly diminished since Austria discovered that she could not rely upon the support of Germany. A sensational story connected with the Cluverius case is to the effect that two ladies—mother and daughter—who could have saved the man’s life, would not come forward because Governor Lee would not promise to keep their names secret. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate on the 11th the House bill granting right of way through Indian reserva tions was reported with amendment. Several pension measures were proposed. A memorial was presented from citizens of Jefferson Coun ty, Tex., asking protection from the Govern ment. A bill was introduced for relief of Freedmen’s Bank depositors. A bill was pass ed releasing to San Antonio, Tex., certain por tions of the military reservation; also, one granting relief to settlers and purchasers of public lands in Nebraska and Kansas. Consid eration of Inter-State Commerce bill was con tinued—In the House a resolution asking JFj£Bk&LC Secretary of War information about a sandbar in Red river was adopted. The River and Harbor bill was referred to committee of the whole. February 6 was set apart for reso lutions on the late Representative Price,of Wis consion. The Charleston (S. C.) public building bill was passed. An invitation from the inter national prison congress to send delegates to the meeting at St. Petersburg in 1890 was re ceived. The hill passed creating an agricul tural and labor department. The Cattle Dis ease act was considered. In the Senate on the 13th a bill was passed extending for twelve months the time for filing French spoliation claims. An appropriation was proposed of J5,000,000 for the construction of coast defenses. Consideration ad libitum of the Inter-State Commerce bill was had, and, after an executive session, the Senate ad journed.In the House conferees were ap- ! pointed on allotment of lands in severalty to Indians. An additional circuit judge was pro- j vided for Massachusetts. The Edmunds’ Anti Polygamy act and the Tucker substitute were : considered, and the substitute passed without ! division. Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 13th, a number of com munications, memorials and bills were pre- ! sented, after which Mr. Vest’s resolution re- j garding money paid out on account of prosecu tions of criminal cases in State courts by Federal officials was taken up, and, after being modified so as to make it apply also to civil cases, was adopted. The Inter-State Com merce bill was considered, and unanimous consent given that the vote should be ta ken before adjournment on the 14th. The House substitute to the Anti-Polygamy bill was non concurred in, and a conference asked .In the House a resolution by Mr. Bland regarding silver coinage was adopted. Several bills, reported by the committee on judiciary, were passed. A bill was passed providing for the bringing of suits against tbe United States Government. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 14th a number of local measures were passed on and then the discus sion was continued on the Inter-State Com merce bill, which was passed shortly before midnight by a vote ot 43 to 15. In the House the day and Fridary, the 21st, after the morn ing hour, were set apart to consider Sen ate bills on the private calendar. The Confer ence report on the Electoral Count bill was agreed to. Committee reports were presented, after which the House went into committee of the whole on Senate bills, half a dozen of which were passed. An evening session was held, at which a number of pension bills were passed. The Senate was not in session on the 15th. .In the House the conference report on the Inter-State Commerce bill was presented. Several bills were reported from committees. A joint resolution authorizing an investigation of the books and accounts of aided Pacific rail roads was considered in committee of the whole, but no action was taken. A motion by Mr. Hatch (Mo) to go into committee of the whole on the Pleuro-Pneumonia bill was lost. Mr. Norwood (Ga.) made a personal explanation regarding a publication connecting him with the accounts of the Central Pacifio railroad. A conference committee was ap pointed on the Anti-Polygamy bill. The House went into committee of the whole on the River and Harbor bill, which, after discussion, was laid over and the House adjourned. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The Logan fund now amounts to $60,00<. A peculiar disease, said to be the dreaded pink-eye, is raging among the horses at Philadelphia. Gov.-elect Green, of Texas, was inau gurated on the 18th. In his inaugural ad dress he favors the taxation of corporation and individual property upon the same basis. J. J. Upchurch, the founder of the An cient Order of United Workmen, died at Steelville, llo., on the 18th, at the age of 67 years. State Senator McDonald, Republican was unseated on the 17th by a strict party vote, and the Legislature of Indiana now stands 76 Democrats and 71 Republicans. One of the most noted desperadoes of Middle Tennessee, Luke Anderson, was captured on the 17th at Andersou Station, after a bloody struggle. He has killed four men in the last ten years, and was wanted on four charges of arson. TnE trades unions of New York have decided to support Dr. McGlynu in his trouble with Archbishop Corrigan. Prohibition is being strictly enforced at Hot Springs, Ark. Permission bas bet-u granted to open a saloon three miles from the city, which is the nearest point allow able under the law. The Governor of Tennessee, on the 15th, revoked the warrant issued for the extra dition of Dr. J. N. Doyle, who is charged with committing a murder in Illinois 2<t years ago. • j A gang of extensive counterfeiters was arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 15th. For some time past the city has been flooded with counterfeit specie, chiefly dollars. Leake county, Miss., has voted a tas of $50,000 to aid in the construction of the Gulf and Ship Island railway through that county. Mr. Randall has recovered from his indisposition and appeared on the floor of the House ou the 15th. Chas. B. Anderson was arrested in Sharkey county, Miss., on the 15th, charged with robbing the mails. A gigantic scheme for the general re organization of all the coal miners and mine laborers of the United States under one banner is being accomplished by the Knights of Labor. Gi n. W. B. Hazen, chief signal officer, United States army, died at Washington on the ltilh. He had been ill since the 13th but no danger v. as apprehended. Frank James arrived in St. Louis on the l(jth for the purpose of taking a position as salesman in a retail shoe and clothing house. A FLOCK of 1000 sheep was caught in a pi-iirio iir-: near Austin. Texas, ou He 15th, and perished in ' flames. SOUTHERN GLEANINGS. The President declined to interfere in the cases of James Lamb, Albert O’Dell and John T. Echols, sentenced to be hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., on the 14th inst. Thirty-eight-pound turkeys are common in Southern Kentucky. Baltimore capitalists are developing a manganese mine in Augusta County, Va. Nearly one hundred and sixty-five gin- i houses ha< -j been destroyed by fire in Ala bama duri g the past three months. It is estimated that 6,000,000 bales of cot- j ton will constitute the cotton crop of the ' South t'TT v ,ar. A remarkable Florida production is a ; geranium that measures thirty-two inches in circumference. Mosquitoes have made their appearance at Brownsville, Tex., and the inhabitants are preparing for a long summer. “Sun parlors,” or glass-inclosed piazzas, | where invalids can recuperate, are a feat- ‘ ure of the first-class hotels in Florida. The editor of the Iberville (La.) Democrat ; recently gave his readers their valuable : paper in the form of a half-sheet, all he : could afford to give, he says, to people | who pay him only half they owe him. Governor Scales of North Carolina will | not order an election m the Fifth con- j gressional district of the State to fill the i vacancy caused by Mr. Reid’s resignation, j Rob Ream, a noted character of the In dian Territory, and brother of Vinnie Ream, the sculptress, died a few days ago at Fort Smith, Ark. A negro desperado named George Megethum went into Blackshcar, Ga., a few days ago, armed with a Winchester rifle and a belt of cartridges, in search of his wife, and opened fire on the house where he was informed she was staying, wounding two of the inmates. His fire was returned and he was killed. Chief Justice Simpson, of South Caro lina, has been going about recently with a body guard in attendance upon him, a desperado named Benjamin F. Welch hav ing threatened his life. A fire started at Carlisle, Ky., a few days ago in the dental office of Mr. H. H. Genslinger and extended to the adjoining buildings of F. M. Peal and I. H. Piper. When the walls fell Dr. Genslinger and Newton Craig were caught in the debris. They were extricated, but were fatally in jured. Total loss, $50,000; insurance, $25, 000. Besides Messrs. Peal’s and Piper’s losses J. A. Chappell loses $12,000 on dry goods. Jacksonville, Fla., has the largest artesian well in the world. It is now 760 feet below the surface and flows at the rate of 7,000,000 gallons in twenty-foui hours. On Monday, the 16th inst., Governor Taylor of Tennessee was inaugurated. A movement is on foot in the Tennessee Legislai itq toeffect the removal of the re mains of Governor Sevier from Alabama to the National cemetery at Knoxville, and to erect a monument to his memory in the State Capitol grounds. Judge Charles Millor, a native of Ken tucky, but a citizen of Fort Smith, Ark., for the past forty years, died suddenly in the latter city a few days ago of cramp colic. Five miles north of Taylor, Tex., a few days ago, fire destroyed about 8,000 acres of pasture and fences for a rancher named MeFadden. The fire corraled 1,000 head of sheep, killing 500 outright and leaving the balance in bad condition for the spring clip. Thomas J. Cluverius, the murderer of his cousin, Fanny Lillian Madison, was hanged at Richmond, Va., on the 14th inst., Governor Lee declining to interfere further with the due execution of the law. He died protesting his innocence. A bill has been introduced in the Texas Legislature to establish a mechanical and agricultural college for the colored youth of the State. Hon. Jas. Jackson, Chief Justice of Georgia, died a few nights ago, aged sixty-seven years. Deceased was in Con gress before the war, and has held many judicial positions. In the Circuit Court at Jackson, Miss., a few days ago, Walter Napier, colored, was convicted of sand-bagging and robbing an old negro from Simpson County, last October, and was sentenced to the full limit of the law, ten years in the peni tentiary. Mr. W. D. Hamilton, proprietor of the Champion flouring mills at Falmouth, Ky., was accidentally killed a few days ago by a cam-rod flying loose and crushing his skull. There are now 350 registered pharmacists in the State of Ken tucky, and the State Board of Pharmacy at its recent meeting in Louisville, resolved to take action against violators of the law affecting drug gists. An unknown man was found frozen to death on the plains a few miles north of Big Springs, Tex., a few days ago. "The Tennessee House of Representatives adopted a resolution requesting the Ten nessee Congressmen to use their influence to secure the repeal of the Civil-Service acts. While the convicts were at work in the Dade County (Tenn.) mines a few days ago, there was a heavy cave-in, arid the convicts organic ed a movement to force an i escape by cutting through the outer wall. I While perfecting their arrangements they j were betrayed, and they were immediate- 1 ly conveyed to the stockade. The men ; were furious, and when Warden Connor; entered the stockade to punish the ring- j leader, Jim Holt, the latter assaulted him j with a knife and inflicted several wounds. A general mutiny then ensued and a rush was made. Holt was shot and the others were overpowered. One of the guards was wounded. John Inigert, a young Louisville (Ky.) tailor, had for some time been paying at tention to Miss Theresa Pfeiffer, and he was engaged'to her. The wedding was to take place shortly. A few nights ago he called, and about ten o’clock he rose to go, and was kissing his sweetheart good-night, when he experienced a choking sensation in his throat, swooned and fell to the floor. He was carried to a Dedroom in the house and medical aid summoned, hut after regain ing consciousness his throat continued t* swell. He was unable to catch his breath and was finally smothered to death. Dave Pruit and Billy Flynn met in Little Bock by chance a few days ago, and came very near renewing their old difficulty. They were arrested and placed under bonds to preserve the peace M’QUADE AT SING SING. The Doors of the Penitentiary Close Upon Another of New York's Corrupt Aider men—He Will lie Initiated Into the Mys teries of the La ui > lry. New York, Jan. 17.—Convicted ‘-Bood ler” Arthur McQuade was taken from the Tombs a few minutes after one o’clock by two deputies, who accompanied him in a coach to the Grand Central depot, where the party took the train for Sing Sing prison. Mr. McQuadc’s brother Barney, was one of the party. Shortly after ten o’clock the under sheriff entered the Tombs and with the aid of the ehcrtff'-s “representatives h ind cuffed McQuade and then gave the follow ing receipt to Warden Walsh: City Prison, Jan. 17. Received fr»m Thos. Walsh, warden, the body of the following named prisoner to be conveyed to the State prison: Arthur J. McQuade—bribery—seven years. [Signed] Jno. H. Saxton, Under-Sheriff. McQuade was quickly hurried into a carriage and’driven rapidly to the Grand Central depot. It had leaked out that McQuade would go on the two o'clock train, and there was a large crowd of people waiting at the depot. McQuade, who was hand-cuffed to Barny Martin on the One side and under Sheriff Barton on the other, stepped lightly from the carriage on arriving at the station, and the trio, making th'eir way through the crowd, took seats in the smoking ear of the train. The train arrived at Sing Sing at 3 p. m., and was met by a big crowd at the station. McQuade was at once driven to the prison and was received there by Warden Brush, Keeper Jim Connaughton and State Detective Jackson. The latter received the commitment from under Sheriff Sax ton and handed it over to Chief Clerk Baleock, who immediately led the way to the chaplain’s office. McQuade, on entering the office was directed to fold his arms and face the wall. After being in this position for a few minutes, he was ordered to turn around and was asked as to his former habits of life, whether he could read and write, what his sentence was, and whether he was idle or employed at the time of his ar rest. He was told that he could receive a package every two months, a visit once in two months, write a letter once a month and receive as many as were sent o him. McQuade was then cautioned as to his be havior while in prison. He was then marched to the State shop where he was shaved and dressed in prison garl* Dr. Barker, the prison physician, then examined him, and he was taken to his cell, which is No. 307, on the fifth gallery, and almost directly over Jaehne. He was not put to work to-day, but to morrow he will be given a position in the laundry and a chance to learn how to starch shirts. -■■■■ -w- w GENERAL HAZEN’S FUNERAL. Disposition of the Remains Pending the Return of Mrs. Hazen from Europe—Ilis Death a Surprise to Many. Washington, Jan. 18.—The remains of General Hazen, who died here Monday night, were taken yesterday from No. 1307 F street, where he had lived in apart ments since the departure of Mrs. Hazen . for Europe, to the residence of Mr. Wash ington McLean, on Lafayette square. Here the body lies in a cloth-covered casket, dressed in his full army uniform. A cable gram was received from Mrs. Hazen yes terday asking for full particulars concern ing her husband’s death, and seeking ad vice about returning to this country. General Hazen will be buried with mili tary honors on Wednesday', at twelve o’clock, from St. John’s Church. His remains will be tem porarily interred at Oak Hill or Rock Creek Cemetery. The final inter ment will be made after Mrs. Hazen’s return from Europe, probably at Hiram. O., his old home. The pall-bearers will be Adjutant-General Drummond. Paymaster General Rochester, Quartermaster-Gen eral Holabird, General Duane, Chief of Engineers and Surgeon General Moore. General Sheridan has charge of the mili tary arrangements for the funeral. The signal office was draped in mourn ing yesterday in memory of General Hazen. His death was a surprise to many in the bureau, who had not heard of his serious illness on Saturday or Sunday, and who first learned of his death in the morning journals yesterday, or were ap prised of it when they reported for duty in the morning. IN FOR A FIGHT. Phil Armour Inaugurates a War on the Eight-Hour System. Chicago, Jan. 17.—Mr. P. D. Armour, after vanquishing the Knights of Labor in their battle over the eight-hour day, has thrown down the gauntlet to the Brick layers’ Union, and an interesting struggle is now going on in consequence. The trouble arose over Mr. Armour’s action in regard to the bricklayers on some of his stock-yards work. After engaging Chris Garry, a member of the union, as his fore man, by the year, Mr. Armour insisted on the men working ten hours. Garry endeavored to enforce the order, wheu the rest of the bricklayers struck. Garry's case came before the union at once, and he was fined $700, which he has refused to pay. The bricklayers were then called oft all the buildings in ; whose construction Mr. Armour was in terested, except the Armour Mission, which the union excepted on account of its character. Since hen a number of bricklayers—just how lany is in ques tion—have been imported from the coun try and put to work at ten hours. These men are keot secluded, and all efforts of the union to reach them to call them off the jobs have failed. “Armour’s action means simply that h< is beginning the fight against the eight hours to help the contractors, who dare not do it themselves,” said a member of the union yesterday. “He is going to im port enough men here on his work to give the contractors a force with which to start the war upon the union again, and ry to best us out of our eight hours.” .-* ♦ » Will Celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Boston, Jan. 17.—The St. Patrick’s day parade, which has been abandoned during the last two or three years, was last night 70ted to be held this year by the meeting of the Irish societies here. A BIG EXPLOSION. A Hundred Thousand Pounds of Powder Explode and Nearly Throw the Golden Gate Off Its Hinges—A General Shaking Dp and Much Damage to Property—Sev eral Persons Injured. San Francisco, Jan. 17.—Information has just been received here that the schooner Parallel, which sailed from here last Friday for Astoria, Oregon, with a general cargo, has been driven ashore near the Point Lobas signal station at the Golden Gate, and an immense quantity of giant powder in the cargo had exploded. The reports say that the Cliff House and several other buildings were destroyed by the explosion. The vessel had been beat ing against adverse winds and was carried on the rocks by a small tide. The captain and crew took to the boats and being una ble to make a landing in the heavy surf, stood away for the entrance to the Harbor. The life-saving men went to assist the schooner, but finding her abandoned, most of them left for their station about one o’clock. Soon afterwards a terrible ex plosion occurred, caused no doubt by the beating of tho vessel upon the rocks. The entire amount of 100,000 pounds of powder on board exploded. Every thing in the vicinity was wrecked. The life saving station was shattered. The signal station was completely demolished. The side of the Cliff House nearest the vessel was torn to pieces and the whole build ing was badly wrecked, despite its elevated situation on the bluff. The numerous bathing houses and the concert pavilion on the beach were dam aged and their windows were all broken. The fine conservatory of Adolph Suttro on the heights was ruined. It seemed to fall to pieces. All the windows in Mr. Suttro’s house were broken. Three of the life-saving crew, who were left to camp on the beach near the wrecked vessel, were blown into the air and severely in jured by the concussion and the fall. One of them, Horace Smith, has nearly every joint in his limbs dislocated. He suffers greatly, but it is thought that he will re coverThe others, Charles Rogers and John Wilson, were less severely hurt. Captain Hayslip of the life-saving station says a great wave followed the explosion, rolling up the beach like a tidal wave. The shock of the explosion was like an earthquake. The whole cliff shook. The men who had gone to bed in the station were thrown violently out upon 'the floor. The Cliff House will have to be entirely rebuilt. DEATH OF GENERAL HAZEN. Th® Chief of the Signal Service Succumb* to a Disease of Long Standing Aggravat ed by a Recent Severe Cold—A Calm and Peaceful Death. AVashington, Jan. 17.—General W. B. Lazen, chief signal officer, died hero of diabetic coma at eight o’clock last even ing. General Hazen had suffered from diabetes for some years; but of late, hav ing improved in health and strength, hopes were entertained of his complete recovery. At the reception to the diplomatic corps given by the President last Thursday night, he took a severe cold, causing him to keep his bed on Friday. On Saturday he was up and reported himself much bet* ter, saying he would go to his office on Monday. ‘ Yesterday morning his phys ician, Dr. P. F. Harvey, U. S. A., was sum moned to see him soon after daylight. He at once repaired to his room and found an alarming change in his condition, suggesting a poisoning of the blood from his constitutional disease. Dr. Har vey at once adopted measures to overcome this condition and restore strength. A consultation was also at once sought with Dr. D. L. Huntington, of the army, who agreed in the main with the attending physician. The case was deemed of so ex treme gravity that his relatives in this city were informed, and they at once gathered aboiil him and spared no effort to bring him relief. Some improvement resulted from the treatment, but toward evening his symptoms became aggravated, and at the urgent request of the family Dr. Lincoln was also called in and met Drs. Harvey and Huntington in consulta tion. Every measure that skill or science could suggest failed to rally the sinking officer, and he breathed his last at eight o’clock. His final illness was not accom panied with suffering, and his death was calm and without a struggle. General Hazen was born at West Hart ford, Vt., on the 27th of September, 1830. In 1851 he was appointed a cadet in the military academy at West Point and graduated in 1855. In September, 1861, he took command of the Forty-first Ohio reg iment and served with distinction to the close of the war, when he was in com cand of the Fifteenth Army Corps. Gen eral Hazen was appointed chief signal officer in December 1880, succeeding Gen eral Myer. Mrs. Hazen and her only son are now in Paris, where they have been for several months. ■■■ ^ m » ■■ ■ ■■ Serious Illness of Sunset Cox. Washington, Jan. 17.—“Hon. S. 8. Cox is a very sick man,” said his private secre tary to a reporter . the United Press last night; “and I wish you would make it known to the country, as his mail matter is accumulating daily, and his physicians will not allow him to transact any business whatsoever. The Congressman is a grea deal-worse off than many of his friends have supposed, and he may not be able to get about for several weeks. Dr. Bliss hopes to have him out within ten days, but he is far from sure of it. You would be surprised to see the immense amount of mail that is daily received addressed to him. People all o\er the country are writing to him about matters connected with the administration of the Govern ment. I believe there are fewer letters received by him from his own district in New York than from any other section. The letters pour in from the North, South, East and West, and of course they will have to remain unanswered until the Con gressman recovers.” About four o’clock yesterday afternoon Mr. Cox was attacked with quite a severe hemorrhage, which has caused his friends considerable anxiety. There is understood to be indications of pneumonia, and' it is 1 this that the doctors are fighting to pre vent. Mr. Cox says he contracted a se vere cold shortly after the holidays by sleeping in his room at the hotel before it had been properly heated, and that his present illness is the result.