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WASHBURN LEADER.
BY R. H. COPELAND,
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA
XUIiH OF NEWS.
Both sides are confident of success in
the New York Central strike.
Labor day parade at Chicago this year
promises to be unusually great.
The Welch railroad strike is still on,
the men refusing offered terms.
The house anti-lottery bill has been
favorably reported to the senate.
Ten families were rendered homeless
by a $12,000 fire at Chicago yesterday.
The Missouri Farmers and Laborers'
union met in secret session at Salida yes
terday.
John J. Martin, a millionaire of Kan
sas City, died at him home yesterday,
aged 55.
Of the 1,342 abandoned farms reported
in New Hampshire last year 301 are now
occupied.
One hundred and seventy-five deaths
from cholera were reported in Mecca
yesterday.
ChatBworth. Ills., wreck survivors held
a reunion at Peoria Monday with a small
attendance.
The Topeka, Kas., original package
dealers are going out of business, it being
unprofitable.
Murray Hall, a summer hotel at Pablo
Beach, Fla., burned yesterday. The
guests all escaped.
The South Wales coal employers de
cided to united to resist the further de
mands of the miners.
Riraud, the murderer of Notary Gouff,
made an unsuccessful attempt in Paris
to kill himself to-day.
By & party vote the senate committee
on elections decided to report the elec
tions bill to the senate^
The New York Central was almost
completely tied up from Buffalo to New
York all day yesterday.
Peter Jackson and John L. Sullivan
have been offered a purse of 830,000 for
a fight at Ogden, Utah.
At an Italian dance at Rondout, N. Y.,
one was killed, one fatally clubbed and
several severely injured.
The Michigan crop report shows an
improvement in wheat but corn and oats
have fallen off in condition.
The New York coffee men discredit the
story of the colonization of the negroes
in Mexico for coffee culture.
The Odd Fellows at Chicago are kick
ing over the railroad rates to the big
meeting now being held here.
The accounts of Girard Austin, de
ceased treasurer of San Jose county,
CaL, has been found short $17,000.
Mrs. Boersa of Chicago tried to start a
fire with kerosene. She and her 5-year
old daughter died a few hours later.
The senate poatoffice committee or
dered a favorable report on the bill to
prohibit the carrying of lottery mail.
John W. Inglis, the Duluth crop ex
pert, estimates the wheat crop of Min
nesota and the Dakotas at 91,000,000.
The senate has passed the resolution
providing for the removal of Gen.
Grant's remains to Arlington cemetery.
Warren J. Harris and Frank Gates,
who left St. Paul last winter for mission
ary work at Sierra Leon, Africa, died of
fever.
The New York cloak makers strike is
on again, all employers having decided
to employ both union and non-union
people.
Dr. G. Sawyer was probably fatally
shot by J. Barton Fancher at Chicago on
account of alleged intimacy with the lat
tor's wife.
The Illinois crop bulletin say the
drouth greatly hurt the crops, especially
corn. The wheat yield is estimated at
14,540,000.
Edward Trensch, a Chicago street ped
dler, dropped dead of heart disease and
$4,000 was found sewn in the lining of
his clothes.
Mason City, la., was the place for the
conference of the original package deal
ers of that state, who decided to go out
os business.
The explosion of a gas well probably
fatally injured Michael Keunsel, Joe Se
bastian and Barney Preus at Redwood,
O., Thursday.
The New York Central strikers say
they have not yet lost, but will play an
other card which will place a different
look on affairs.
The Kansas crop report places it at 33
per cent, of the average. The corn crop
will not exceed 75,000,000 and wheat will
TTrnnn Clay of Paris, Ky., a lumber
merchant, has disappeared and his
friends are anxious- He was en route to
St. Paul on July 30.
A resolution has been introduced in
the senate to linit debate in that body*
It is the same resolution that had been
considered by the caucus.
Yesterday Jack Finn, 8 cowboy, rode
into Fort Pierre, became intoxicated and
while running his broncho through the
streets, was thrown off and killed.
The New York Bun Bays the New York
Central strike is practically at an end,
and the Knights of Labor suffered the
most crushing defeat in their history.
Mrs. Mollie Storm and daughter, and
Mrs. J. R. Johnson and son were drown
ed while bathing in St. Marys Co., Md.
Nine others were in the party, but were
saved.
Daring a heavy storm at Crefeld,- Ger
many, Sunday a house with fifty peo
ple in it, fell to the ground and thirteen
were killed. Others are still buried in
the ruins.
On the Kansas side of the river at St.
Joseph, Mo., the water is cutting a new
rthnrmol and soon a million dollar bridge
will span a dry water course. Congress.
will be appealed to.
A saloon at Heekert's camp, near
Deadwood, was blown up bj drunken
ramblers Sunday.' The proprietor was
blown ont into the creek, but was not
injured. Hobos then stole the liquor
escaped. It was the first ..day the
Mima had ran.
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THE ENCAMPMENT.
President Harrison Arrives at Bos
ton and is Accorded a
Royal Welcome.
The General Thomas Post of Chi
cago En Route to Boston,
1,000 Strong.
A Volcanic Eruption Causes Alarm
Among the Denizens of the
Iloosicr State.
llArrlflon a! UoHton.
BOSTON, Aug. 11.—As the Baltimore,
flying the presidential (lag and bearing
President Harrison, Secretaries Rusk
and Noble, and Private Secretary Hal
ford, entered the Boston harbor this af
ternoon, she was met by other vessels of
the fleet, the cruisers Atlanta, Kearsarge,
the gunboats Petrel and Yorktown and
the despatch boat Dolphin, the dynamite
cruiser Yersuvius and the topedo boat
Cushing. All save the Kearsarge and
Cushing fired salutes. The revenue
cutter Gallatin, with Governor Bracket,
Collector Beard and Mr. and Mrs. McKee
on board, escorted her to her anchorage.
President Harrison landed at about 5:40
Lwe's
m., amid the thunder of cannon, at
wharf and was escorted to the
Hotel Yendome by the First batallion of
cavalry. The route was through Broad,
State, Wa®ngton, School, Tremont,
Boyleston ami Dartmouth streets. The
sidewalks and windows along the line of
march, which was nearly two miles in
extent, were packed with enthusiastic
multitudes, who greeted the president
with hand clapping and cheers. The
president rode with Governor Bracket in
a carriage drawn by four dark bays. He
carried his hat in his hand and bowed
right and left at the greetings of the
throng. Behind rode Secretaries Rusk
and Noble, and in a third carriage were
Private Secretary Halford and members
of the governor's staff. President Har
rison occupies the state suite at the Yen
dome.
Aicaiost the Uniform Hill of EatU/ig.
CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—This afternoon at
a meeting composed of representatives of
the principal commercial organization of
this country, with reference to the en
forcement of the so-called uniform bill of
lading, the following resolutions were
adopted:
WHEREAS, Representatives of the com
mercial interests of Duluth, Minneapolis,
St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis,
Peoria, Toledo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Buf
falo. Boston, Cincinnati, Louisville and
Kansas City, in connection with the Mil-,
lers' national association and the distillers
and cattle feeders' committee of the United
States have united in a patient effort, by
conference and fair representation, to in
duce the carriers' representatives to defer
the adoption of the so-called uniform bill
of hading until its terms, conditions, appli
cations and scope might be fully examined
and properly understood by all shippers
whereas, notwithstanding an express
agreement to recommend a reasonable ex
tension of time, the said carriers, represen
tatives did recommend the immediate adop
tion and enforcement of said instrument
and whereas, the practical effect of this
action has been an advance in rates rang
ing from 20 to 50 per cent, above the prices
which were charged for transporting the
same commodities and products under pre
cisely similar conditions and circumstances
prior to Aug. 1 whereas, the docu
ment under consideration is not a bill of
lading, but is a special contract or mutual
agreement to which the shippers we pre
sent have not consented and, whereas,
the alternative of shipping at higher rates
in order to secure the customary service
and protection has no basis in law or
equity and, whereas, the arguments and
explanations presented by carriers to the
conference do not afford justification for
their hasty action
liesolved, That onr earnest protest
against the unjnst and unreasonable course
pursued by the railways embraced in the
central traffic trunk line railroad and
and steamship association be recorded
resolved, that we recommend to all ship
pers and receivers that they continue to
make protest until this may be submitted
to proper legal tribunals for the purpose of
testing their justness and reasonableness.
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Land Commis
sioner Groff has issued a circular for the
guidance of the local land offices in dis
posing of lands in Wisconsin and Min
nesota which were restored to the public
domain by act of congress, approved
June 30,1890. This act authorizes the
president to cause certain lands with
drawn for reservoir purposes to be re
stored and subject to entry under the
homestead laws. The commissioner
states that no entry for settlement will
be allowed until after December 30,1890.
MATHEWS WILL GET THE MONEY.
In the house to-day, while considering
the sundry civil bill, Rogers of Arkan
sas moved to strike out the clause appro
priating $6,600 to pay Geo. A. Mathews
in full for the unexpired term of the fif
ty-first congress, for which he was elect
ed as delegate from the territory of Da
kota lost—63 to 64.
CONFIBMATIONS.
Registers of land offices :Samuel Gor
don, Miles City, Mont. Postmasters
Iowa, H. C. Bulis.Decorah Minnesota—
C. H. Sohoregge, Sleepy Eye.
Freight Trains Collide.
ROCHESTER, Aug. 11.—A terrible
freight collision occurred this morning
near Fisher's station on the Auburn road
between a light train goiijg east on regu
lar and a heavy freight running west on
"wild cat" time. Engineer Darcy and
Fireman Lighthart of the east bound
train were buried under nearly a hun
dred tons of debris. Fred Harris, brake
man, was also killed. Two engines and
fifteen freight oars were ground into
fragments.
A Rumor.
GRAND FORKS, Aug. 11.—A rumor is
current that the Farmers' Alliance will
hold a convention here this week and en
dorse M. N. Johnson, Slotten,' Helgesen
and Roger Allin, on the republican
ticket W. N. Roach and Mrs. Eisenruth
on the democratic ticket. They will
then nominate officials to fill the remain
ing vacancies.
Senator Pierce's Amendment to the Tar
iff Bill Likely to be Adopted.
Curtis' special to Chicago News: The
telegrams from Cape May regarding the
conference between the president and
Mr. Blaine on the reciprocity question
have excited public interest here to-day,
and the report that, they decided upon a
line'of policy for the administration with
reference to the tariff bill is generally
nccepted as true. The president has al
ways ageeed with Mr. Blaine on the main
points of the issue which the latter has
invoked, although he has not been so
sanguine as to the degree of advantage
that might be gained by the United
States from reciprocity with the Ameri
can republics aud the Spanish colonies.
This, however, is due more to a differ
ence in temperament that to difference
of opinion. Mr. Blaine is an optimist by
nature, while the president is not. It is
true, also, that the president has recog
nized the political advantages and the
popularity of the propositions Mr. Blaine
has advanced. There has been no sug
gestion concerning legislation for years
that has awakened so much interest or
general approval among all- classes of
the people, irrespective of politics. The
president has watched the development
of public opinion very closely and is too
good a politician to overlook the effects
of its adoption upon the fortunes of his
party. At the same time he has regretted
that Mr. Blaine's propositions have not
been approved and accepted by the re
publican leaders in congress, particu
larly those in charge of the tariff bill.
For some weeks he has been holding
personal interviews with them with the
purpose of finding some ground of com
promise—some method of securing the
advantages Mr. Blaine seeks—that will
meet with the support of the McKinley
faction.
It is an open secret that the Pierce
amendment to the tariff bill, which is a
modified form of the Blaine proposition,
was introduced after consultation with
the president, if not at his suggestion.
That Mr. Blaine was invited to Cape May
by the president to discuss the situation
there is no doubt, and it may be an
nounced upon the very highest authority
that he cordially accepts the Pierce
amendment as quite as good and equally
as effective as his own. The president
and his secretary of state are therefore of
one mind upon this subject and will use
their united influence to secure the
amendment of the tariff bill so that the
duty on sugar shall not be thrown away,
but utilized in diplomatic negotiations so
as to secure the free admission of our
breadstuffs, provisions, and other pecu
liar products into the sugar-growing
countries, which constitute nine-tenths
of the area and population south of the
Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande. It
is believed that the president has decided
to address a message to congress on this
subject at an early day.
Could Not "Work" ltussell B.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—An attempt to
swindle Russell B. Harrison, son of the
president, by means of a green-goods
game, made about six weeks ago, result
ed yesterday in the arrest of three men
who occupied three rooms in the im
proved tenement, No. 484 Pearl street.
The prisoners described themselves^ as
Chas. Moore, Jos. Barnard, known" as
"Hungry Joe No. 2," and James J. Daly.
In the apartments where they were found
there was scattered about circulars and
alleged newspaper clippings, showing
that the prisoners were well equipped to
carry out their swindling operations.
The men named have been placed incus
tody and the paraphernalia found in the
place was confiscated and taken to the
custodian's room in the postoffice build-,
ing to be held there pending examina
tion of the case, which was set down by
United States Commissioner Shields, be
fore whom the prisoners were arraigned,
for Tuesday morning. Meanwhile the
prisoners are locked up in the Ludlow
street jail in default of $2,500 bail each.
The game being worked by the men was
first brought to the attention of the gov
ernment authorities by a letter received
from Russell B. Harrison, who sent to
Chief Postoffice Inspector Rathbone of
Washington the green-goods circular
which had been mailed to "R. B. Harri
son, Helena, Mont."
Base Ball Monday..
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
New York 3, Brooklyn 0.
Boston 14, Philadelphia 4.
Pittsburg 6, Chicago 4.
Cleveland 7, Cincinnati 9.
PLAYERS* LEAGUE.
New York 11, Philadelphia 15.
Boston 7, Brooklyn 1.
Cleveland 11, Pittsburg 20. ,'
Chicago 9, Buffalo 5.
Chicago 7, Buffalo 8.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.'
Toledo 6, Athletics 5.
St. Louis 15, Brooklyn 9. ]y'
Kansas Crops.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 8.—The latest re
ports from Kansas regarding the crop is
not of an encouraging nature. The most
favorable conditions cannot now benefit
corn very much, and less than a third of
the average yield is expected, or about
75,000,000 bushels. Wheat is nearly all
harvested. The yield is better than was
expected earlier in the season and the
quality is excellent. This crop was prac
tically made, the drought occurring too
late in the season to do any very great
damage.
RECIPROCITY. DUN'S REVIEW Of TRADE.
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Southern Sport.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 9.—Ford
Hancock and his brother George went
out to where W. J. Gunter and Charley
were working to-day to water stock.
The parties quarreled and an exchange
of shots followed. Ford Hancock re
ceived a dangerous shot in the neck. W.
J. Gunter started to town to surrender,
aud on the way met 'Arch S. Hancock,
who tried to shoot him but was himself
killed.
A Carving Bee.
MERIDIAN Miss., Aug. 9.—News has
reached here this evening of a terrible
affray at Tuscanola, a small station on
the Northwestern railroad. It seems a
feud has existed for years between a
family named Gandy and another named
Fairchild and to-day two Gandy boys
met two of Fairchild's-in Tuscanola. A
fight ensued with knives in which three
were wounded, two probably fatally.
Less Favorable Crop Prospects, Stringent
Money and Uncertain Business.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—R. G. Dunn &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
"Less favorable crop prospects, closer
money markets and further delay in ac
tion on the tariff bill in the sepate have
increased the uncertainty which retards
business. In Bpite of the sharp advance
in wheat, corn, oats, oil and coffee, the
general average of prices for commodi
ties is a shade lower than a week ago.
The present state of trade throughout
the country appears satisfactory for the
season, and reports are almost uniformly
confident in tone. The crop outlook on
the whole is less promising. Specu
lative news gatherers are making most of
the damage to wheat and corn. Wheat
has risen 3^ cents, with sales of 28,000,
000 bushels corn, 3}4, with sales of 18,
000,000, and oats 5 cents, while pork hogs
and cotton are unohanged. The contra
dictory state of things is seen in the
wool and woolens trade decidedly larger
sales of wool and of lower grades of
woolen goods, but lower prices for wool,
and a depression in the manufacture, es
pecially of all-wool and finer goods in
the belief that the delay of tariff and
heavy imports will prevent a price this
year. The outlook depends largely upon
the extent of injury to crops the action
of congress regarding the duties, and for
eign complications which affect the de
mand for gold. Domestic exports of
products continue small and imports
very large."
CROP CONDITIONS.
Statistics from the Department of Agri
culture at Washington.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—There is a re­
duction of the condition of all cereals as
reported by the statistician of the de
partment of agriculture. The decline
from the 1st of July to the 1st of August
is from 93.1 to 73.3 in oorn from 94.4 to
83.2 in spring wheat from 81.6 to 70.1 in
oats from 88.3 to 82.8 in barley. The
condition of buckwheat is 90.1 and spring
rye 96.8. The condition of potatoes is re
duced from 91.7 to 77.4 A fall of twenty
points indicates the disaster which has
befallen the corn crop within thirty days.
The cause is the abnormally high tem
perature of the central maize districts
with an insufficiency of rainfall. Re
turns of the drouth, which cover a broad
area, and the severity of the effects pro
duced, are more general and depressing
than the signal service record of tempera
ture appears to indicate. One factor in
the blighing of vegetation is evidently
the hot winds that have scorched the
lower basin of the Missouri. Iowa and
Nebraska are nearly in the status of the
Ohio valley, while Minnesota makes the
highest average of all states. Wisconsin
suffers slightly and Michigan still more
from drouth. There has been consider
able reduction in the condition of spring
wheat amounting to fully eleven points.
It is less in the Dakotas than in other
spring wheat districts. The average
condition is 80 in Wisconsin, 80 in Min
nesota, 87 in Iowa, 71 in Nebraska and
88 in the Dakotas. The latter is a de
cline of seven points, owing to hot south
ern winds, which affected late sown more
than early. The oat crop is certain to
be one of very low yield and probably
poor quality. Another crop of great im
portance, potatoes, has also been much
damaged by drouth. A low rate of yield
is certain.
THE INDIANA ERUPTION.
Great Fissures in the Karth, and Fish
Cooked in the Water.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 12.—All
traces of the farm of Thomas Haddock,
late representative in the legislature,
three miles north of Watson, have been
blown up and destroyed for farming pur
poses and great cracks have been blown
in the earth. The course of Flat Rook
creek .has been turned up stream. Birds,
snakes, rabbits and fish are dead, while
the fish are thoroughly cooked in the
heated water. All this was caused by
an upheaval of earth. A log fire was
blazing in the midst of ten acres when
without warning the earth belched forth
its flames great trees were hurled sky
ward and all the waters of the Flat Rook
were converted into foam and steam.
A vast pocket of natural gas took fire
and blazed fiercely up above the trees
and at times many feet higher and con
tinued all yesterday and last night. To
day 3,000 spectators viewed the phenome
non. The fire has been extinguished
but the gas is still escaping. Some
claim that other agencies than that of
gas is the cause of the phenomenon, but
the general conviotion is that no other
agency could have produced the effect
on the water. One of the marvelous
effects upon the water is that not a drop
of the Flat Rook's flood has gone below
the cavern since the upheaval. The
caverns have taken in the current and a
wild howling is created.
At Washington.
WASHINGTON, Aug 12.—Senator Blair
in behalf of a majority of the members of
the woman suffrage committe to-day re
ported favorably the proposed constitu
tional amendment to give women the
right of suffrage-
Confirmations Indian agents: John
Tuly, Tongue River agency, Montana
George Steele, Blackfeet agency, Mon
tana.
It is generally believed on the republi
can side of the house that a special order
will be made setting! apart Saturday
next for the consideration of the anti
lottery bill. Every effort is being made
tbseourethe presence of a republican
quorum on that day.
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The Farmers* Ticket in Kansas.
TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 13.—The Farmers'
Alliance of the state of Kansas met in
convention here to-day to nominate can
didates for state offices. Five hundred
delegates from allparts of thq state were
present. W. F. Wrightmore was nom
inated for chief Justice of the supreme
court John F. Willets of Jefferson
county for governor, and A. O. Shinn of
Franklin ceunty for lieutenant-governor.
Salvator Again Beats Tennr.
MONMOUTH PARK, Aug. 12,—Salvator
won the champion stakes* beating his
only competitor, Tenny, by four lengths.
They ran on even term until the last
quarter was reached, when Salvator drew
I away an won without an effort.
AT THE HUB.
Boston Thronged With Distinguished
Visitors and Bubbling With
Patriotic Enthusiasm.
Fully 100,000 People Witness the
Parade of the Nation's
Noblest Order.
The Entire Procession One Series of
Ovations to the Various
Departments.
Incidents of the Review.
BOSTON, Aug. 12.—The grand review
of the veterans of the Grand Army of the
Republio was held in the city to-day, and
the old soldiers and their leaders were
out in force. The weather started out to
be pleasant, but it rained later and then
cleared off. The reviewing stand was
located at Adams square, and Com
mander-in-Chief Alger reached the stand
at 1:45 with his staff, and from there, in
company with a large number of other
distinguished people, reviewed the pro
cession. General Alger and staff had
gone over part of the line of. march pre
vious to this and were everywhere#
cheered by the veterans. They headed
the parade to thie stand. After the gen
eral's escort and staff, numbering 600
horses, came the Illinois department.
The Wisconsin boys who followed got
many a cheer and provoked mAny
smiles, as they carried a badger in a wire
cage, suspended on a pole. The Penn
sylvania, third division, was notable for
the large number of battle flags they
bore, over fifty being in line. There
were a great many buckeyes in the
Ohio division, of which the distin
guishing feature was a large copper
one suspended between poles. The New
York's leading feature was Post 140,
dressed in white hats and neat aniforms.
The nutmeg state was finely represented
by a huge nutmeg and well drilled posts.
It was five hours and thirty-five minutes
that the parade in front of the stand
lasted. President Harrison and party,
Mrs. John A. Logan, Gen. B. F. Butler,
Congressman McKinley and many others
were on the stand. As each department
came in front of the stand the colors were
dipped, hats raised and in many in
stances rousing cheers given for the pres
ident, "Uncle" Jerry coming in for the
lion's share of attention when Wisconsin
passed in review. The entire procession
was a series of ovations for all the de
partments along the line from the scores
of thousands of patriotic citizens, fully
100,000 witnessing the parade. Post 5 of
Lynn, with 726 in line, was the strongest
and largest post in the parade.
Strike Situation Unchanged.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—The strike situ­
ation to-day remains practically un
changed, except in that the officials
claim that it is improved. They say that
trains are coming in and going out on
time. They also say that the running of
passenger trains has resumed a normal
condition. Suburban traffic still suffers,
but as the New York Central is notorious
for the poor accommodations furnished
the unfortunates who live along its line,
it is not surprising that these trains
should be the last resumed. Webb says
he has received numerous applications
from old hands, but will not under any
circumstances reinstate them.
SWITCHMEN GP OUT.
ALBANY, Aug. 13.—The switchmen and
laborers in the upper Deleware & Hud
son freight yards, near Lumber street,
quit work this afternoon. Railroad men
say they do not know the cause. A re
port that the brakemen had also gone
out is pronounced as untrue. One of
the company's officers says the number
of strikers will not exceed 250. The
men claim they have detected the Dela
ware & Hudson officials endeavoring to
move Central freight in violation of a
promise made to them. They said they
aid not strike without due warning, and
that the strike will extend the whole
length of the road before night. Passen
ger trains are all running and the strik
ers say they will not disturb them.
There is a large amount of perishable
freight consigned to the Saratoga hotels,
which was all ready to go up this after
noon. The Knights claim the action of
the Central people in bringing in a large
number of switchmen from the Michigan
Central yards in Chicago will at once ex
tend the the strike to western lines of
the Venderbilt system. At noon the
Delaware & Hudson Canal company's
and yah) men, except the engineers and
firemen, quit work as though a signal
had been given on that road. It is said
that the Boston & Albany and Pittsburg
freight departments will strike before
night Trouble is feared now.
FIREMEN AND ENGINEERS IN SYMPATHY.
SARATOGA, Aug. 13.—There is a rumor
among railroad people here to-night,
that appears pretty well founded, that
the engineers and firemen on the Dela
ware & Hudson road are in sympathy
with the Albany strikers that the fire
men have reoeived permission from their
headquarters to strike if they so desire.
Should this happen the engineers say
they will refuse to work with green fire
men.
TO MEET A GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE.
TERBE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 13.—Grand
Mmrfar Sargent, of the brotherhood of
locomotive firemen, left ._ at poon for
Cleveland to meet with a grievance com
mittee, but whether or not in connection
with the New York Central strike is not
known. At the national headquarters
here a positive statement was made that
he-had not ordered the firemen to strike.
Yvv^'" ko Strike at Bnflldo.
BUFFALO, Aug. 12.—The New York
Central railroad 'authorities in Buffalo
are -more confident than ever that the
strike, as fer as this end of the road is
concerned, is practically oyer. This view
of the" situation was bore out by the fact
that such trains as had arrived up to
10:80 o'clock were not any later than
they might be at any time when there
was no strike in progress.
FROM LABOR'S STANDPOINT.
An Editoral from the Journal of the
Knights of Labor.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12.—The follow­
ing editorial will appear in this week's
Journal of the Knights of Labor: "The
strike on the Vanderbilt system came
upon the public like lightning from a
clear sky. It was generally believed
that if there was any railway upon.whioh
a good understanding existed' between
the company and its employed, it was the
New York Central and the other roads
under the management of the company
of which ChauncyM. Depew is president.
Nor was this believed without founda
dation, but unfortunately the action of
the management of the lines passed into
the hands of Webb, the vice-president,
a man the very opposite to Depew in his
ideas of the relationship which should
exist
between employers and employes.
From the moment the management went
into his hands he began a systematic at
tempt to break up and destroy organiza
tion among the company's employes.
The first organization against which he
directed his efforts was the Knights of
Ltbor, though, doubtless, he haB his
plans laid for an attack upon the engi
neers and firemen, when, in his opinion,
the opportune moment shall have ar
rived. Webb plainly aspires to the same
"bad eminence" from which the infamous
Austin Corbin proclaimed tnat no
member of any labor organization was in
the employ of the railway he controlled
The immediate cause of the strike was
a systematic and evidently oarefully
planned discharge. Although to the
general public the strike was a surprise,
the causes which led to it have existed
for some time, and among those convers
ant with the situation it has for some
time been feared that a strike could not
be avoided, however much the necessity
for it might be deplored. It would serve
no good purpose for us to conceal the
truth that the men have a very serious
struggle before them. It is true that
skilled men to fill their places will be
dificult, perhaps impossible to find. If
skilled men can not be got, we do not
hesitate to say that we believe that no
care of the lives and limbs of the travel
ing public, and no thought of the danger
to the property of the company whose
interests he is supposed to conserve, will
prevent Webb from employing the most
incompetent hands, if only doing so will
help him win. What hope can be placed
upon the engineers and firemen we can
not tell, but the history of the past does
not afford the promise that they will
have the wisdom to see that the defeat
of the Knights will only be a signal for
the commencement of attaok upon
them."
WASHINGTON WAIFS.
A New Silver Bill and the Tariff—Pro
hibition with a Vengeance.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Senator Teller
to-day introduced a new Bilver bill in the
shape of an amendment to the bill to dis
continue the coinage of S3 and $1 gold
pieces and the 3-cent niokel piece. The
bill differs from the present law princi
pally in that it requires a continued
monthly coinage of 2,000,000 ounoes of
silver into standard dollars strikes out
the provision that this rate of coinage
shall be until July 1, 1891 only does
away with the discretion given the secre
tary of the treasury to redeem treasury
notes issued in payment of bullion either
in gold or silver and provides for the
free coinage of silver when the market
price of 371.25 grains reaches $1.
The tariff bill was again taken up in
the senate to-day, the pending question
being Mr. Vest's amendment offered
Monday, reducing the duty on tin plates
from 2 210 cent to 1 cent per pound, the
existing rate, and he continued his argu
ment against the proposed increase and
in support of the amendment. The bill
was temporarily laid aside and the con
ference report on the Indian appropria
tion bill was presented and agreed to.
The tariff bill having been again
taken up Mr. Gorman addressed the
senate in opposition to the proposed
increase of duty on tin plates. It was
further debated but not voted on.
In the house a bill was passed author
izing the secretary of the interior to sell
certain lands and to grant the proceeds
of the sale to the town of Pelican, Oneida
oounty, Wis.
Confirmation—D. F. Royer, Indian
agent at Pine Ridge, S. D.
Senator Blair to-day reported favor
ably from the committee on education
and labor the joint resolution, intro
duced by him, proposing an amendment
to the constitution to forever prohibit in
the United States the manufacture,
importation, exportation, transportation
and sale of all alcoholic liquors used as
beverages.
Base Ball—Wednesday.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Boston 6, Brooklyn 7.
Cleveland 20, Pittsburg 9.
New York 3, Philadelphia 5.
Cincinnati 4-, Chicago 6.
FLAYERS' LEAGUE.
Boston 8, Philadelphia 7.
New York 6, Brooklyn 3.
Cleveland 12, Buffalo 8.
Chicago 4, Pittsburg 2.
J. i.
WESTERN ASSOCIATION.-
Denver 12, Sioux City 13.
Minneapolis 12, St. Paul 6.
Kansas City 5, Omaha 3.
Linooln 3, Milwaukee 4. 7
A Visionary Scheme.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13,—Charles Wil
liams of Aberdeen, prepreeenting the ir
rigation committee of North and South
Dakota, is in Washington in connection
with the consideration of a project to get
water from the Missouri river to the
James river for irrigation purposes in the
Dakotas. In company with Major Piok
ler he called upon Director Powell of the
geological survey, who promised to make
a survey this fall to see where it Would.
be the most feasible to make a canal to
conduct the waters of, the Missouri
aoross country to the James. Mr. Piok
ler will introduce a bill to appropriate
for building such a ditch.
IR
Decorated General Thomas' Grave.
TROY, N. Y., Aug. "11.—Post Thoma*
G. A. R. of Chicago, with mora than
1,000 men in the party, arrived at noon
to-day. Service was held by the post at
Gen. George P. Thomas' grave in Oak
wood cemetery. After a few speeche»
and decoration of th» grave the party
left for Boston.