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READING MEN ON STRIKE
EMPLOYMENT OF NON-UNION MEN
THEIR COMPLAINT.
Over 1,000 Hands Out on the Lines
Running from West Falls to Port
Richmond—Over 500 Men In Idle
ness at the Logan Colliery.
Philadelphia, Dee. 33.—Over 1,000
men employed by the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company on their lines
running from West Falls to the Port Rich
mond coal wharves, either as train men,
coal handlers or freight handlers, quit work
this afternoon at 4:80 o'clock. This action
was caused by the introduction of a train
crew of five non-union men to do work
upon which v. oion men had been employed,
but who had been discharged. This move
ment will be communicated to all the em
ployes of the road, and a general strike on
all the lines of the company may be the
result. The trouble originated yesterday,
when a crew of freight handlers, engaged
in shifting cars loaded with flour into a
pier controlled by the firm of Charles M.
Taylor’s Sons, refused to deliver any more
freight to the firm unless the non-union
laborers employed in handling freight
should he discharged.
THE COMPANY NOTIFIED.
Word was immediately sent to John
O’Keim, genoral freight agent and shipping
clerk at the Port Richmond wharves, who
tolegraphed the news of the refusal to the
general office of the company. Upon the
receipt of the telegram Supt. Sweigard is
sued an order discharging the crew who had
refused to handle freight, and threatening
the same punishment to other crews who
would follow the precedent. All of the re
maining force, which consisted of four
crew?, refusing to obey the order,
were discharged and the engines wore
taken to'the round house and the men left
the yard. The news of the discharge
quickly spread among the other employes
of the company in Port Richmond, and
stevedores to the number of about GOO men
dropped their work and left the yard. The
news of such a large number of men quit
ting work soon spread through Port Rich
mond, and a committee of Knights of Labor
Assemblies Nos. 5,331 and 6,285, to which
the strikers belonged, called upon General
Manager McLeod and Snpt. Sweigard with
the purpose of settling the difficulty and
preventing a general strike.
THE COMPANY WON’T YIELD.
The object was unsuccessful, however, as
the officers would not listen to any excuses,
claiming that the work had to be done, and
if the present employes found it difficult to
obey oiders the management would be com
pelled to look elsewhere for help. The situa
tion was unchanged this morning and no
freight was delivered to the covered piers
at the foot of Williams street,
nor were the stevedores at work.
The company was determined to operate
their lines, however, and made preparations
to secure crews for idle locomotives, but
were unsuccessful until about 1 o’clock,
when aid was secured by forming a mixed
crew of non-union men at the Third and
Burks street station. Trouble with strikers
ha/1 been anticipated, however, and the
company requested Director Stokely to fur
nish police protection.
POLICE ORDERED OCT.
Accordingly an order was issued by the
director this morning directing the captains
and lieutenants of the several districts to
mass a force of 250 men in three platoons at
tee point of trouble. At 3 o’clock one
platoon was sent to the round house at the
junction of the Philadelphia and Reading
track, and the|Pennsylvania railroad track
at Trenton avenue, one to distribute itself
along the line of the railroad running
from the round house to the coal
wharves, and a third to guard the coal
wharves, freight wharves and elevators.
This action in calling for police protection
was greeted with derision and sarcasm by
the men and inhabitants of Port Richmond.
The only cause for alarm was a suspicion
‘. hat the non-union crew would be molested
at their work, but they toiled on uninter
ruptedly and the police made uo attempt to
arrest any one.
EVERY MAN GOES OUT.
Engine No. 238, manned by the obnoxious
crew, arrived at the scene of the trouble
about 8:30 o’clock and proceeded at once to
move the boycotted freight. The news of
the renew al of work was quickly communi
rated among the other men at work, and
concerted action was speedily agreed upon.
An hour was given to allow the employes
on the road from West Falls ‘to the
river to learn of the determination, and
at 4:80 o’clock, when the signal
was given, every man stopped
work. Tlie shifting engines that were work
ing on the coal wharves quickly ran to their
usual resting place until the whole number
(fourteen) were placed in one line, and the
crews immediately drew the fires and blew
out the boilers. The men that were wheel
ing coal dropped their barrow handles, the
switchmen closed their switches anil left the
main line open, and the conductors, brake
men and other employes left their work and
quickly went to their homes.
WRAT ONE OK THE LEADERS SAYS.
One of the leaders said this afternoon:
“The whole trouble grew out of tbe fact
that Charles M. Taylor’s Sons were em
ploying non-union men to handle their
freight and raying them low wages. We
have urged them to employ uniou men at the
regular pay, which is about #2 a week more
than they are now paying, but they have
steadily and firmly refused to grant our re
quest and the refusal to handle their cars
was our only defense. The general strike
was forced upon us by the company, which
employed non-union men to run their trams
regardless of our agreement to the contrary.
The idea of police protection was a sympa
thetic movement, as the company well knew
that there has never been any need of pro
tection to the property at Port Richmond
during any trouble.”
MR. TAYLOR’S STATEMENT.
Mr. Taylor, of the firm of Charles M.
Taylor’s Sons, who represents the Phila
delphia Grain Elevator Company, who con
trol the covered piers used as a freight station
for the Allan line of ocean steamships,
claim that the men whom ho had engaged
in handling freight had been with him since
last August, and that he had re
cently raised their pay |4 per
mouth. The men were more
than satisfied, he alleges, and ho had no
trouble in securing help at his price of
"'ages. Ho intends continuing work with
the same force of men.
General Freight Agent Keim was very
reticent in discussing tho apparent outcome
of the strike, and declared that the railroad
company would oiierato the road if it re
quired military surveillance of the projerty.
Trouble is anticipated for several nays, and
it is probable that a police force will be re
tained to protect the property of the com
pany.
CLAIMS OF THE COMPANY.
The Reading Company owns the ground
upon which Taylor’s Kons’ elevator stands,
and this, they say, is the extent of their
connection with that firm, but, the meu de
clared that the company have shown ihat
their interest is much greater- than they are
*o*Jing to admit, am) rv that, the. fact, of
tfc* Reading Company tur rushing “scab*' 1
fp)je JloMitg
to handle Taylors’ freight substantiates
their belief. Tne fight, as it now stands, is
entirely between tbe Reading Company
and its employes, and the Taylors’ cut no
figure whatever.
Representatives of five assemblies of Read
ing railroad employes, who met at Eliza
b thport Sunday last in convention and
elected temporary officers for the new
National Trade District Assembly, which
they have formed, and for which a charter
has been granted by the General Executive
Board of the Knights of lalror, met to-night,
and continued the temporary organization
until the convention meets in Heading, in
the early part of January-, to form a perma
nent body. To-night’s meeting also took
notice of the strike and called a general con
vention for to-morrow afternoon to take
further action in the matter.
ALL HANDS TO STRIKE.
It is said upon good authority that word
has been passed along the line of the entire
Reading system, ana that all the men in the
service of that company will refuse to go to
work to-morrow morning, and will remain
out until the Port Richmond troubles are
settled.
In referring to the cause of the trouble it
was state? 1 at. the Fourth street office of the
Reading railroad that the clear duty of the
company as a common carrier to deliver
merchandise to whomsoever it might be
consigned, without regard to any question
between the consignee and his employer,
made it necessary for the general manager
to issue orders that the cars in the Port
Richmond yard lie moved at. once, and that
if the men refused to move them they
should tie discharged at once from the sev- t
vice of the company.
ELIZABETH PORT’S TROUBLE.
In regard to the trouble at Elizahethport,
where 121 men were discharged to day, it
was stated that tho company sold 400 tons
of broken coal to be delivered free on board
a barge at that point. It was to be loaded
upon a particular barge belonging to the
purchaser of the coal. The company’s
hands refused to load the barge, as it was
incumbent upon the company to do as a
common carrier. When this was learned
at the general office an order was
issued for the discharge of the
men if they still persisted in refusing to
load the barge. They did refuse and were
discharged. The management stated that
they had no discretion under their charter
in tho performance of their duty, and that
they must receive freight from and trans
port to and for anyone.
HANDLERS IDLE.
Elizabethport, N. J., Dec. 23.—The
Reading railroad coal handlers refused to
day to load the Crosscreek Ixffiigb Coal
Company’s vessel at the Elizabethport
docks. They were all (about 100 men) laid
off. Shipping is entirely suspended. A
general tie-up is the talk.
MINERS STRIKE.
Ashland, Pa., Dec. 23. —The miners at
Riley & Co.’s Logan colliery struck this
morning, throwing over 500 men and boys
out of employment. The miners in the No.
5 slope struck a few days ago because
they were compelled to top their wagons.
A committee of the Knights of Labor neld
a conference with the superintendent to-day,
and the result, being unsatisfactory to the
men, a general strike occurred. It is feared
that the miners at the Centralia colliery
will also turn out for the same cause.
A MAN WITH A RECORD.
Maj. J. M. Wright Made Marshal of the
Supreme Court.
Washington. Dec. 23. — Maj. J. M.
Wright, of Louisville, Ky., has been ap
pointed Marshal of the United States
Supreme Court, in place of Col. J. G.
Nicolay, who has held that position about
fifteen years.
Maj. Wright, whose appointment will
take effect Jan. 2 next, is a son of Gen.
George Wright, of the United States army,
who commanded the Department of the
Pacific during the war and who was lost on
the steamship “Brother Jonathan,” in 1865,
while going from San Francisco to Oregon.
He has a largo army connection and was
himself at West Point at the beginning of
the war.
IN THE WAR.
In 1861, he resigned his cadetship to ac
cept an appointment as Assistant Adjutant
General of Volunteers on the staff of Maj.
Gen. D. C. Buell. He accompanied Gen.
Buell to the West and served there on his
staff throughout his campaigns. After the
war he settled in Ixmisville and began the
practice of law. He served four years as a
member of the Kentucky Legislature and
four years as Adjutant (General of that
State. He was subsequently President and
General Manager of the Southern Exposi
tion, which President Arthur formally
opened in Louisville in 1888.
As Superintendent, he organized the Louis
ville Board of Trade, and served for some
time as its Manager. He has been for a
number of years an almost constant con
tributor to the newspaper press, and for
nearly three years was a regular editorial
writer on the Courier-Journal.
The appointment of the Marshal is made
by the Supreme Court. The resignation of
Col. Nicolay, present incumbent, will take
effect Dec. 31.
A MOB THIRSTING FOR GORE.
Determined Guards Prevent the Lynch
ing of Fire Bugs.
Glasgow, Ky., Dec. 23.—A mob of some
thing less than one hundred men inarched
into Tompkinsville late last night, thirsting
for tho gore of five burglars and fire bugs
now behind the bars of the county jail, but
they found outside and in an armed guard,
every whit as determined as they. Turner
Nelson, YVilliam Glazebrook and other
sufferers and lusoi-s by lobbery and
fire, boldly. confronted the mob and ap
pealed to tlie excited men to let the law
take its course with the prisoners,: at the
same time telling them that, any attempt to
do violence would lie met with force from
the guards, and that there would be more
killed outside than inside the jail. Tho ap
peals, or threats, or the two combined, hail
the desired effect and tlie mob dispersed.
Tlie citizens of Tompkinsville have declared
their determination to protect the robbers
from lynching, and they will keep their
word. Their conduct is highly commend
able, in the face of the fact that many of
them have been utterly ruined by these
men, and their little town crippled almost
beyond recovery.
Mr. Manning Still Alive.
Albany, N. Y.. Dec. 24, 1 a. m.-Ex-
Secretary Manning’s condition shows no
change to-night, except that he is somewhat
weaker. His vitality is remarkable. He
may survive several days, but it would not
surprise those who have watched the case if
he should die without warning.
A Portrait of Cleveland.
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 38. —A large por
trait of President Cleveland was presented
to the city government this morning by a
number of his old Buffalo friends. The por
trait. has l>een placed iu the Mayor’s office.
It was purehaoi 1 for *6OO
car Halo and i..andall.
Washington, Dec. 23.—Representative
Randall has gone to Philadelphia for the
holidays. Mr. Carlisle will remain in town
and work on hiu committees.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1887.
FIGHTS WITH INDIANS.
BOTH DESPERATE BATTLES AND
BOTH IN SONORA.
The First Combat Lasted Three Hours
The Troops Ambushed Repeatedly
But the Redskins Lacked Sufficient
Ammunition to Annihilate Them-
All the Casualties Among the Bucks,
Nogales, Arl, Dec. 23. —Information
ha? been received from the commander of
the Federal troops at Sonora, at the recently
established military post town of Bonacita,
to the effect that a detachment of troops
under command of (,'apt. Kncisco, of the
Twenty-eight'i regiment,attacked a party ot
Yaqui Indians who were preparing to raid
at a place called laguna i)el Paria Sunday
morning. The fight lasted three hours.
The troops succeeded in driving the Indi&ns
from their hiding place among the rocks at
the first volley.
A STUBBORN BATTLE.
The battle was a desperate one, and the
Indians bad to be charged many times be
fore they would give up their stronghold.
One Indian was killed and one woundod.
Two squaws were captured and sent to
Bonacita. Chico Senaders (Little Poisoner)
one of the shrewdest warriors in the tribe,
was at tho head of the Indians. After being
forced to retire from the rocks, he covered
their retreat with great skill. The Federals
who followed him were ambushed several
times, and would have been horribly slaugh
tered had not the Indians ran out of am
munition.
* A FIGHT BY NIGHT.
One night, recently, Capt. Encisco, Lieut.
Oglunin and twenty-five infantry gave
chase to a band of Indians who had, been
discovered m the hills near Bonacita. The
Yaquis had taken refuge behind a ledge of
granite rocks. The Captain charged the
Indians, but was forced to retire. He then
detached the troops in squads of two and
three, with the intention of concentration
from different points, but the Indians broke
through tbe Federal lines amid rapid tiring,
during which Lieut' Oglunin'was wounded.
PURSUIT ABANDONED.
The pursuit was abandoned and the troops
returned to Bonacita. The next morning
they went to the scene of the battle for the
purpose of taking up the trail from it. The
previous night they had killed one Indian,
and wounded several others. A Reming
ton rifle belt with cartridges was found by
the side of a dead Indian. Further on the
command found two more dead Indians
riddled with bullets. A wounded Indian
attempted to escape, but the troops shot
him dead.
AN AGED COUPLE’S FATE.
Tha Husband Dies of Apoplexy and
the Wife Nearly Starves.
New York, Dec. 23. —James Miller, a
real estate dealer, about TO years old, was
found lying dead this morning on the floor
of his home in West Sixteenth street. Be
side him lay his wife, unconscious and dy
ing. On her face and head were several
gashes. It is supposed the couple were at
tacked and beaten by robbers. The discov
ery was made by a letter carrier, who
knocked at the door about 8 o’clock. He
received no answer, but heard
labored breathing within that caused him
to think something was wrong. He called
a policeman, who broke the door open Fur
niture, kitchen utensils and crockery were
broken and fragments strewn over tbe
floor. The apartments are on the ground
floor, and a window opening on the yard
was open. Miller was said to bo wealthy.
His wife, the neighbors say, has been in
sane for the past year. She was taken to a
hospital.
A NEW VERSION OF THE AFFAIR.
New York. Dec. 23, 9 p. m. —Miller and
his wife were heard laughing in their rooms
by a family living on the floor above them
on Wednesday atternoon. From that time
until this morning nothing has been seen or
heard of them. Miller was fully dressed,
and across his legs lay an overturned easy
chair. The police, on further investiga
tion, have arrived at the conclusion that
the case was not one of murder or robbery,
but that the old man died of heart disease
in his chair and fell from it, knocking the
chair and stove down in his fall. There
were no injuries on bis body, except a con
tusion of the back of the head, that is not
thought sufficient to cause death. It is sup
posed that Mrs. Miller, who was
but one year younger than her husband,
was too weak-minded to notify the neigh
bors of her husband’s death and that her
weak and exhausted condition is duo to
starvation, as she was unable to procure or
cook fool for herself. Her husband was
accustomed to do all the marketing, cook
ing and other household work. The old
couple had little communication with their
neighbors.
SLAIN ON HIS SHIP.
Tho Captain of the D. and E. Kelly
Met With Foul Play.
Philadelphia, Dec. 23. —(.’apt. Walton,
of the schooner C. G. Cranmer, makes the
following statement : “On Tuesday morn
ing, Dec. 20, my mate and crew boarded the
schooner D. and E. Kelly fifty miles east of
Cape Ilenlopen and found the Captain lying
dead under the lazaret, and not buried at
sea, as published. There were finger mark?
on his throat and several bruises on his
head. His pockets had been ransacked,
and some of them torn. Nothing
remained in his pockets but a
tow bill, which had been
paid at Norfolk. His pistol was lying on
the quarter deck with one chamber empty.
1 think that Capt Taylor mot with foul
play, and had to defend himself with his
pistol. His clothes were perfectly dry, and
he was lying in a dry place, apparently
hidden away to cover all traces of the
crime. His body is still aboard the schoon
er.”
Arrest of an Absconder.
St. Louis, Dec. 23.—H. P. Crandall, who
while acting as cashier of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad (,'ompany at San Antonio,
Texas, absconded in August with 81,100 of
the company’s money, was arrested at I.a
Junta, Col., to-day by an inspector of the
company’s special service. Crandall was
acting as brakeman on the Atchison. Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad when arrested. He
will be taken .o Hun Antonio for trial.
Murder In the Second Degree.
I bonton, 0., Dec. 23.—Pearson McCoy
was to-day found guilty of murder In the
second degree for the killing of Dr. William
T. Northrupst Haverhill last April. He and
his father killed Northrup in a fight grow
ing out of a prohibition cuarrel, Northrup
being a Prohibitionist and McCoy a saloon
keeper. Alt' McCoy. Pearson's father, is
now servings life sentence
A isetng Girl Found.
MoNTOOsnwei, -i.a., Dec. 28. —Miss Bes
sie I/ing, who mysteriously disappeared
from the College of Music at Cinclnuati,
was found here to-day and is now at the
residence of John Walker. Her brother
will arrive to night to take her home to
morrow.
DEATH ON THE RAILS.
Two Accidents Cost Two Lives and
Injure Several Persons.
Milwaukee, Dec. 23. —In the heart of
the great pine forest between Fairfield and
PhiUips on the Wisconsin Central railroad,
a passonger train that left Ashland at 7:30
o’clock last evening, was wrecked about
midnight by a broken rail. Two fatalities,
and the injury of a score of passengers re
sulted. When the broken rail
was encountered it threw a
sleeping car and the first and second class
coaches from the track. The baggage car
and engine remained on the road bed. The
cars were well filled with passengers and
but few escaped without injuries of more or
less importance. There were sixty passen
gers aboard.
Mr. M. Montie of Butternut. Wis. attempt
ed to get out of a window, when he fell anil
was caught under a car and crushed to a
jelly.
Conductor C. H. Greenfield, who was
passing through the train, was caught in a
shower of falling dobris and held a prisoner
between two timbers. His injuries are in
ternal ami a broken leg. They will prob
ably prove fatal.
Thomas Mooney, of Ashland, was terribly
bruised, but will recover.
Thomas Schneider, of Ashland, has a
frightful gash in his head and is badly
scratched.
A Mr. Clemens, wife and three children,
of Duluth, are all badly bruised.
Mr. Alahoney, of Ashland, received
severe cuts.
Mrs. Sullivan, wife of Conductor Sulli
van, received serious injuries on her haul
and her scalp was laid open. Her little
liaby was thought to have been killed, but
was found under n bundle of bedding in the
sleeper. The berths were lammed into a
heap. The little one was unharmed.
YV. E. Baker, of Bancroft, hail two or
three fingers amputated.
John M. Dillingham, ofAshland, was
slightly hurt.
Among the others injured were Mr. Con
nells, of Chippewa Falls, and half a dozen
whose names wei-e not ascertained. The
train was traveling at a high rate of speed,
and the cars ran into the woods and were
piled into a heap.
A message was sent to Ashland at 4
o'clock this morning, and a relief train was
at once dispatched to the scene.
A FIREMAN KILLED.
Quincy, 111., Dec. 23. —An accident oc
curred to a fast train on the Chicago, Bui
liDgton and Quincy road yesterday. A
switch engine runs the train from the
Quincy depot, up to a “Y,’‘ where the regu
lar engine takes it ncr-ss the river. The
switch engine jumped the track at the fork
of tho “Y,” pitching down an embankment.
One of the sleepei-s was derailed but did not
go over the embankment. None of the
passengers were injured beyond a few
brakes. A. C. Allen, the fireman, was
caught between the'tender and cab and
crushed to death. Engineer George Heath
was badly bruised, and a brakemau was
slightly hurt by jumping from the train.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
Seven Passenger Care Smashed and
No One K'lled Ou<. jg'ht.
Chicago, Dec. 23.—Frobably the worst
skaking up ever given a train load of passen
gers, without killing a single person out
right, occurred to 150 people coming to
Chicago in the regular seven coaches on tlx
Minnesota and Northwestern road this
morning. Fully forty passengers were in
jured, five of them seriously and two, per
haps, fatally. Though there was not a
single one of the seven coaches but what
had both ends smashed in, and all
were pitched off the track, some being
hurled over on their sides, there was no
conflagration. This is made more strange
by the fact that all the coaches were fitted
with the old-fashioned stove in the corner.
Another remarkable feature is that the
affair happened just after the train had
passed a long bridge 10 feet high. The ar
eident occurring a moment sooner would
have made a catastrophe of fearful fatality.
A PASSENGER’S STORY.
The details are best given in the words of
one of the passengers, John H. Davidson,
a resident of Bt. Paul, who arrived here
this morning from the wreck: “It was a
merry crowd on board,” said he, “so many
of them were excursionists. There were
seven cars. Fii-st the baggage, then the
lirst-elass passenger, second-class passenger,
buffet and three-sleepers, including one
Mann boudoir car. In the 150 persons was
a holiday excursion party of fifty, mainlj
from Winnipeg. Tbe other passengers
were nearly all from Minnesota, Montana
and Dakota. We were left at Freeport
twenty miles lie hi nil and were
at German alley. I was just
telling a story—-it was uever fin
ished—when there came a sudden, fearful
jolt, and then a swaying and plunging for
ward of the car. Something struck me
across the thighs or I was thrown agaim-i
it, dazing me for a moment. People were
tieing tumble I in every direction, shrieking
and groaning, while tbe horrible jolting
seemed unending, and the crunching and
creaking of the car timbers were telling
that every moment might be our last.
SCRAMBLING TO GET OUT.
“Before the car came to a stop the pas
sengers were scrambling heller skelter over
each other to get out. When I reached the
air I was bruised and sore all over and
scarcely able to stand, owing to the pain
across my thighs; but I noticed that noth
ing of the train was on the track hut the
engine. We had been going about twenty
five miles an hour anil the cars had plunged
along the ties or gone off on either side
from 100 to 200 feet. One coach
had left its trucks and had slid aw ry out in
a cornfield, ploughing the dirt to a depth of
two or three feet. Dirt was over every
body, ladies and all. It would huve been
ludicrous if it had not been pitiful to see
bloodstains through The mire, and hear the
moans of those who were hurt. Broken
glass had done most; painful work.
NOBODY HELPLEKH.
“Nearly everybody could get, around
themselves, though cut and bruised and
besmirched. The ladies were huddled into
the boudoir car ami made ascomfortahle as
possible while waiting for surgeons from
Freeport. Three gentlemen were found to
be laid up with very severe hurt*, ami two
ladies had been carried into a farm hpuxo
apparently i a dving condition. One was
Miss Hune, of Dubuque. Her injuries wore
in the hip and back. We were all too gla i
to have escaped to care much about hew
the accident occurred. It was ascertained,
however, that it was due to the spreading
of the rails.”
SAVED BY PILLOWS.
The Strange Escape from Death of a
fufan on Runaway Cars.
Como, Col., Dec. 23.— This morning while
train men wore transferring the Gunnison
sleeper to the Leadviile train, in some way
the sleeper with one coach got away and
started down a steep grade with no tram
men on them to set the brakes. Soon a
velocity of fifty miles an hour was reached.
Two miles from here the cars jumped the
track and were demolished. Tne ouly pas
senger of the ill-fated cars was named
Bates, who covered bis bend with' pillows
and was taken out without a scratch.
A HOTEL BURNSAT NIGHT
ONE OF THE GUESTS DIES AFTER
BEING CARRIED OUT.
The House Crowded with People Who
Saved Their Lives by Fleeing into a
Pelting Rain Only Half Dressed-
Thomasville the Scene of the Blaze.
Thomasville, (4a., Dec. 23.—The Wnver
ly House caught, tiro about an hour after
midnight last night. Tho first intimation
of danger came from one of the guests, who
was awakened by smoke in her room and
rang for the night watchman. He discov
ered tho fire on the second floor. The house*
being frame, the tire made great headway
before an alarm could be given. Though
the fire company worked hard, the entire
building' was consumed, and the flames
spread to (he next house, und despite the
efforts of tho firemen, this, too, was de
stroyed before the fiames could be con
troller!. The Waverlv House and its furni
ture was owned by N. A. Peters, but was
leased this season by C. T. Stuart, of Val
dosta.
FLIGHT OF THE GUESTS.
The house was well filled with guests, who
escaped with their lives, but iu nearly every
case lost everything else. One of the guests
on the third floor was cut off by tho flames
and smoke and could uot be rescued until
ladders were brought. As far ns Is known
no lives were lost. It was mining, and as tho
guests had no time to snatch sufficient
clothing they would have suffered but for
tbe hospitality of tho Thomasville people,
who offered their homm and assistance in
every possible way. Warren Doolittle, an
invalid, wascarrioil out, but was in such an
exhausted condition that he died shortly
after reaching a place of safety. The house
was insured for SII,OOO in different compa
nies. Mr. Stuart’s loss is about SI,OOO with
uo insurance.
RAILROAD SHOPS BURNED.
Seven Locomotives Partly Destroyed
-Other Fires.
Oil City, Pa., Dec. 23. —The Western
Pennsylvania and New York railroad shops
were burned to-day. Seven locomotives
were partly destroyed. The loss is SIOO,OOO.
SPIKE MILLS BURNED.
Richmond, Va., Dei*. 23.—Fire at noon
today, at Hie Tredegar Company’s iron
weeks, destroyed a portion of two of their
spike mills. The loss is about $5,000; in
sured.
A BRIG RUN DOWN.
The Schooner Grace En Route to Thin
City Did the Damage.
Philadelphia, Dec. 28. —The brig Sagita,
from Ragua, while towing up tbe river last
evening, opposite Billingsport, was run into
by the schooner Annie C. Grace, hence for
Savannah with iron rails, and stove the
Sagua in from rigging to stern
and completely demolished her cabin.
She also damaged her main rigging
on the port side oill he main rail on the star
hoard side. Tbe schooner hail her jibboom
and bow sprit broken, and nil her headgear
damaged. Hhe re.urnod to Philadelphia.
Pilot John Maull, of the brig, was jammed
between the wheel and cabin and badly
hurt.
WRECKED AT SEA.
ProvincEtown, Mass., Dec. 23.—Tbe
northwest gale I as moderated somewhat.
The schooner John Kranz, from Mobile for
Boston, arrived laft night. Capt. Pitcher
says that Dec. 18 he sighted a dismasted
wreck, bore down to her and took off Capt
Newcomb and tho crew She proved to be
the schooner Mattie Atwood, of Wellfleet.
she was from Norfolk with coal fur
Boston. On Dei;. 17, in latitude 38.2’
longitude 42* 20', she was struck by a heavy
gale from the east, shifting to north, and
lost all her spars and her sails, stove in her
forward deck-house, lost her boat and
sprung a leak. Th vessel then became un
manageable and was left in a sinking conoi
tion.
A BANK ROBBER BAGGED.
Frank McNeally Captured at Halifax
After a Long Journey.
Halifax, N. 8., Dec. 23. —Frank Mc-
Nealy, the Saco bank robber, was arrested
at five Halifax Hotel this morning. He has
beon here since Sunday last, when he ar
rived in the steamer Polynesian from En
gland. He registered at the Hotel as W. E.
stiivvesant.
Sdly acknowledged his identity, but
,no conversation with newspaper
detec,ive searched his luggage to
found no bonds or anything to
connect him with the robliery. On his ar
rival here last Sunday. McNeally was met.
by a young man who is supposed to be his
biother, and who left by train Monday
morning. The prisoner is said to have made
in exlen>-i vecontinental trip. It is believed
that, he has visited Egypt, as among his
‘•fleets was found the bill of fare of an
Egyptian Hotel. His personal outfit is very
tine and costly, indicating a man of expen
sive tastes and abundant m atm of gratify
ing them. He had in his baggage an
excellent outfit fur effecting disguises.
Two cipher dispatches found in McNeally’s
room have been translated by a bank man
ager here. Both are supposed to have been
sent or intended to lie sent to llarry Mc-
Neally. One was translated as follows;
“Danger! Someone has found out that I
arrived on Polynesia, saw in papers.”
The translation given of tho other is:
“The paper that you made out is not enough.
If you send any telegrams after this, use
concealed alphaliet.”
SONGSTERS SAD.
The National Opera Company’s Box
Office Receipts Attached.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 23. Tbe
box office receipts of the National Opera
Company were attached here last night ,
during the performance of “Nero,” by the
Sheriff, at the instance of New York cred
itors. Though the receipts of the Bt. Paul
engagement amounted to several thousand
dollars, the management claims to have
lost $2,400 in that city, and Manager Conk
ling, of the grand opera house her--, bad to
become responsible lor tho board bill of stso
at tho HotoJ. Ryan, before Manager Locke
ceuld bring over his baggage.
Four Killed by Dynamite
Halifax, N. 8., Dec. 23.—An explosion
of and vnon ii to occurred at the I Jmeetone quar
ry, near Brookfield, Colchester county, this
morning and killed i our men, one of them
being Alexander McDonald, proprietor of
the quarry. They were warming dynamite
previous to using it for a blast when It ex
ploded, it is supposed, from overheating.
Two other persons were slightly injured.
Let, Her Go, Gallagher.
Birmingham, .n., ■>■ —. George
Williams, (colored i, was hanged to-day for
the murder of s fellow convict in May last.
When asked if he hail anything to sav he
answered: “I’m ready; let her go.” The
execution took place In the jail yard and
waa private.
RUSSIA’S CORDON.
Count Von Wolkenstein's Explanation
of the Movement of Troops.
Vienna, Deo. 3a. — It is reported that
Count You Wolkenstein, the Austrian Am
bassador to Russia, has sent a confidential
and reassuring report to the government
from St. Petersburg, to the effect that the
movements of Russian troops on the Aus
trinn frontier are only in accordance with a
scheme which lias 1 een in operation since
the Turkish war to place a permanent cor
don from the Raltic to the Black sea.
RUSHED RACK TO GERMANY.
LONDON, Doc. 33. —Count Von Hat/field,
the German Ambassador here, departed sud
denly for Germany to-day after holding a
long interview with Lorn Salisbury, who
especially requested the meeting. The Prime
Minister sulwequontly had an interview
with the Russian and French Ambassadors
The commanders of the Russian military
districts of Warsaw, Odessa, Vilna, Kiefr
and Charkoff have been summoned to
Gatchina.
The Austrian reserves employed in
South Germany have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness to join their regi
ments at any moment.
Mr. Sexton 111.
Dublin, Dec. 33.—'Thomas Sexton, mem
ber of Parliament for the w’est division of
Belfast, is seriously ill In this city with
typhoid fever.
Sir. Ralfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
has been suhpeenaed to attend the Portumna
assizes in January, when the court will
hear the appeal o i Sir Wilfrid Blunt, who
was sentenced to two months imprisonment
for taking part in a proclaimed home rule
meeting.
A man named McNamara has been sen
tenced at Ennis to two months imprison
merit at hard labor for selling copies of
United Ireland.
England's Debt.
London, Dec. 34, 4 a. m.— The Stand
ard, in its financial article says:
“Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Ex
chequer, has sounded leading bankers
and financiers with reference to the
conversion of the national debt. He con
templates a big operation for the conversion
of the 3 per cents into per cents at one
jump.”
Charged With Being a Spy.
Paris, Dec. 23. — A German named
Chauvin, who has been traveling as a
peddler, has been aiTested at Bethune on
the charge of l'ing a spy. He was im
prisoned on the same charge some time ago,
and afterward expelled from France.
Floods In Italy.
London, Dec. 33.—Dispatches report
heavy rains and floods in Italy. Many
rivers are so swollen that they threaten to
overflow their banks.
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RAILROADS AT WAR.
Freight Rates Between Chicago and St.
Louis Ruthlessly Cut.
Chicago, Dec. 33. —The war on freight
rates between Chicago and St. Louis raged
fiercely to-day, culminating this evening in
complete demoralization. The Wabash
having met the 10 jier cent, cut of the Chi
cago and Alton made yesterday the officials
of the latter road at once announced to
its patrons and shippers that tbeir
rates by the Alton line were
10 per cent, less than by any competing
line. This meant a further cut of 10 per
cent., which was followed by the Wabash
Company instructing its agents at all 'com
peting points with Alton to quote lower
rates than its rival. The consequence of
this was that nobody could tell what rates
were in force, and shippers could ship
their freight at any rate they pleased.
It is not only through, but also
rates to such intermediate points as Spring
field, Jacksonville, Decatur, etc., that arc
demoralized This is true both of dead
freight and live stock. It is expected that
to-morrow both roads will be hauling live
stock to Chicago for nothing. Next week it
seems certain that the fight will extend to
the passenger business. Such an extension
would not only cut down fares to St. Louis,
but to Kansas City and beyond.
REDSKIN POLITICS.
The Government Takes a Hand in Set
tling the Controversy.
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 23.— The latest
advices from Tahlequah says that Special
Agent Anderson gave the two contending
factions clearly to understand yesterday
that he would give them fifty-eight hours
to settle their difficulties, and if at the end
of that time the trouble was not adjusted,
the government would step in and settle it
for them. In view of this the Nationals last
night Hre said to have agreed to come in to
day, furnish a quorum in the Senate and
count the vote and declare the election of
the principal anti-Assistant Chief of the
Nation.
JOEL MATS CHIEF.
Tahlequah, I. TANARUS., Dec. 2a.—The bitter
fight between the Downing and National
parties over the recent election came to a
peaceable end to day. The Council met this
a f entoon and proceeded to count the votes.
Joel Mays, the Downing candidate for Chief,
was declared elected, and ttie chief obstacle
to harmony being removed the Council pro
ceeded to its regular work. Special agent
Armstrong returned to Washington to
night. Those who were anxious for a fight
between tiie parties, so as to open the
(Cherokee Nation to settlement, are discon
solate.
LYNCHERS ON HIS TRACK.
A Young Negro Outrages an Aged
White Woman at a Plato.'s Point.
Lvnchburo, Va., Dec. 23. A Lilierty
special to the Advance says: Dick Welcher,
a colored youth 18 years of age, outraged a
very old white woman named Fifer near
this place yesterday. Mrs. Fifer was pass
ing through a piece of woods when Welcher
stopptxl her with a pistol, telling her be
would blow her brains out if she resisted.
After accomplishing his design, he allowed
the old woman to go. The people are very
indignant over the act, and large parties
are on the hunt for the fiend, and if caught,
he will be lynched.
An Earthquake In Rhode Island.
Newport, It. L, Dec. 23.—Reports from
various neighboring points are coming in to
the effect that a shock of earthquake was
felt shortly after midnight, last night.
new Bedford’s tremor.
New Bedford, Mass., Dec. 23.—A deep,
rumbling sound, lasting three seconds, ac
companied ny a tremor of the earth, was
noticed shortly after midnight, this morn
ing. The disturbance aroused people from
their sleep. The shock was felt m other
towns ip this vicinity.
Burglars oracle a Safe.
Jackson, Mich., Dee. 23.— Burglars
blew open the vault and safe of the
Farmers’ Bank at Concord early this morn
ing, but were driven away by approaching
daylight before they could open the inside
strong box, which contained *15.000.
IfBILEftO* YBAR I
1 0 L EVI'S A COP l f
BUSINESS QUITE ACTIVE
DUN & CO.’S REPORTB GENERALLY
SATISFACTORY.
Currency In Good Supply—Speculation
Lees Active—The Iron Trade Unset
tled -The Boot and Bhoe Trade Doing
Well Payments of Interest on Mort
gages Pretty Prompt.
New York, Dec. 33.—R. O. Dun & Co.'a
review of trade for the week says: “Busi
ness throughout the country is active for
this season, and though collections at some
points are slow and credit* are strained, re
)iorts are generally satisfactory. But un
rertainty and hesitation affect important
branches of production, and the industrial
outlook does not improve. Currency is
generally in good supply, even where
payments are slowest and cred
its most strained. Speculation
has been less active, and the general level
of prices, though higher than a week ago
in most speculative market*, has advanced
l.Vrt per cent., with the tendency still up
ward, while the average advance in all
other prices has been 6.6 per cent., with
the late tendency down want Three facts
indicate activity in trading rather than
satisfactory relations of supply and demand.
the iron trade.
“The iron trade is unsettled, with sales of
several thousand tons of Birmingham pig
here, while at Philadelphia offers of $1
below the market are noted.
“Sales of 40,000 tons of steel rails have
been made during the week, and generally
at terms netting tint ween #3l and #32.
‘ Bar iron is weaker, and the tendency to
shrinkage in the demand appears not only
in crude but in many manufactured forms
of iron and steel.
“Wool is dull and price* range from 10 to
15 per cent, below that of May last, not
withstanding the decrease in imports, and
home production, which .hows a curtail
ment of manufacture.
“Cottons are firm at the recent advances,
and in good demand for the season, print
cloth having ttiis week risen to 83^'bid, but
continued large supplies caused raw cotton
to recede j^c.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
“The lioot and shoe business is doing well,
and it is noticed that purchasers are al
ready hurrying uf their orders, while the
leather trade improves slightly, if at all.
“The lichigh coal strike continues, and
the consequent, financial strain is in some
quarters severe. Resiling has decided not
to continue the late advance in wage*.
“Several manufacturing establishment*
have closed for the present, among them the
great, Edgar Thompson works, and the re
pair-, usual at this season are likely to con
tinue longer than usual, if the market* do
not change.
"On the other hand, the distribution of
groceries is noticed in all sections as unus
ually large, and the trail* in holiday goods
is unusually large. At the West the
we&ther is noticed a* causing dullness in
sortie branches, hut the general volume of
trade shown in bank clearings outside tbi*
city, in even now fully as large as last year’s
at this period.
stocks higher.
“Notwithstanding the expected Reading
strike, stocks have averaged a fraction
higher than a week ago, but the market
has rx*n exceedingly dull.
“Wheat has risen lWc., oil coffee
with better distribution; ana hogs
J jC., and pork 25c. per barrel. The sugar
market shows no change, though the Louis
iana crop is now reported fully 100,000
hogsheads larger than last, year's.
“The exports of wheat shrink as prices
advance. Up to Dec. lin wheat and flour
64,200,000 bushels had gene out, against
65,300,000 to the same date last year, leaving
an estimated surplus of 13,000,000 bushels
more than last year’s exports for the re
maining seven months.
REAL ESTATE’S BOOM.
“It is an encouraging fact that singularly
little disturbance has yet appeared in
regions whore real estate speculation vis
active, and payment* of interest on
mortgages do not yet seem unusually de
laycvl even where the crops have been short.
A Chicago agency .having $350,000 interest
due on mortgages Jan. 1, had
ulready received more than half the
amount Dec. 17. It is observed
too, that th * demands for money from the
interior diminish at Chicago, though that
city is still drawing front New York, and
the pressure for money there does not abate.
The Treasury has added $2,000,000 to the
circulation during the week by increasing
its bank deposit* $8,000,000.
“Foreign trade shows a small decrease in
Imports, while the exports from this city
for three weeks have been 5.4 per cent,
below those of the corre*q>otiding weeks last)
year.”
Th* business failures occurring through
out the country during last weak number for
the United Stab* 361, and for Canada 32, a
total pf 390, agaip-t 388 last week.
A Purse for Edward Burgess.
New York, Dec. 33. — A check for $10,173
was to-night sent to Boston to be presented
to Edward Burgess, a* a testimonial to hia
skill in designing the victorious
yachts Mayflower, Puritan and Volun
teer. Among the lea/ling subscription*
are: The New York Yacht Club, $1,000;
William P. Clyde, $500; H. C. Roorae, $500;
J. Pierrepont Morgan, $500; C. Vanderbilt,
$500: Janies Gordon Bennett, SSOO. The
greater part of the money was raised in
New York city, but the testimonial is
termed by its managers “a national purse."
Sale of Chicago’s Times.
Chicaoo, Dec. 33.— The Dai hi New* to
morrow will say: “The long talked of sals
of the Times to Snowden & West, anr
a syndicate of capitalist* has been practi
cally consummated. All the parties concern
ed are agreed as to the terms but as the
estate is in the hands of officers appointed
by the Circuit Court,the court’s approval o!
all the stef* to complete the deal it neces
sary; that, it is expected, will be
given by Judge Tuley to-morrow
morning. Yesterday attorneys represent
ing the different parties were engaged in
consultation with JudgeTuley and Receiver
Hurl but iu regard to the details.”
Deadly Germs in Water.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 33.—The Board of
Health, through a committee, has exam
ined the south side water to determine to
what extent it was the cause of the present
typhoid fever epidemic. Crucial test* were
made and the water was found to be dan
gerously contaminated with organic mat
ter and disease germs, bacteria being more
prominent Of the 2,000 cases of typhoid
fever in the city in tne past three months
1,300 are on the south side. The epidemic is
still increasing.
Rochester to Bring Suit.
Rochester, N Y., Dec. 23.—The city
authorities have decided to sue the Vacuum
Oil Company of this city for damage* to
the sowers and other property occasioned
by the explosion of naphtha" Wednesday.
Several of the lateral sewers are thought to
be ruined. It is thought that the litigation
will involve over halt a million dollars.