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NEWS IN GENERAL. Happenings of tbe Day Called from Oar Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches. WHAT 19 TRAXSPrRIKG THROUGHOUT OHM OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER¬ EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS. A New York dispatch says: The American District messenger boys went on a strike Tuesday morning. The steamer Teutonic arrived at New York Wednesday morning. She ran 525 miles Tuesday. This ia the best day s run on record. Anarchists Cauer and Knold were ad¬ mitted to bail in $5,000 each at Pitts¬ burg, Tuesday. The bonds have not yet been approved. A New Y’ork dispatch of Tuesday order says: Judge Larcombe has issued an continuing H nry E. Howland as receiver of the Florida Construction Company. The wall p .per trust was perfected at New Y’ork Tuesday. Forty leading m m ufacturers are interested and the value of the property involved is $ 200 , 000 , 006 . A cablegram of Wednesday says: Tbe Swiss government Las received from the United States an apology for the arrest by mistake of attache Geng of the Swiss legislaiion at Washington. Return of triennial elections held in provinces of France Monday for mem¬ bers of councils general have been re¬ ceived at Paris from 1,132 districts. They show a republican gain of 110 seats. • A New Y’ork dispatch says: In accord¬ ance with the resolution passed at a re¬ cent meeting of the Richmond Terminal advisory committee, default was made on the interest of G per cent bonds which was due Monday. The deputy and acting comptroller of the currency on Monday declared the first dividend of 35 per cent in favor of the creditors of the First National bank, of Palatka, Fla., on claims proved, amounting to $201,550. Ex-United States Senator Anthony Kennedy, age! eighty-two years, died at Annapolis. Md., Sunday morning. health Sena¬ tor Kennedy has been in feeble for a long time, but the superinducing late cause was the excessive heat of the torrid spell. The thirty-third or upper union mills in Pittsburg started up non union at 4 o’clock Monday morning. The plate mill is running, nnd the other department appear to be in operation. A guard of police is about the property and no trouble has occurred, » A cablegram of Monday from St. Pe¬ tersburg, Russia, states that cholera hris made its appearance in the prison at Tomsk, the capital of the government of that name in West Siberia. Already ten cases of the disease and eight deaths have been reported by the prison au¬ thorities. ited It was reported east-bound, at St. Louis that a lim¬ Big express, on the Four, which left that city at 4 o’clock Monday nfternoon, collided with a freight train at E iwardsville Junction, III., the engineer and fireman being killed and a large number of passengers being injured, several fatally. Operations at the Champion iron mines at Marqu tte, Mich., suspended Monday morning for an indefinite period and the entire force of 600 employes discharged. The suspension is due, it is said, to the fact that the company 00* unable to mark¬ et its ore, which is or P 'qualify that is crowded out of the market by cheaper ore. A Pittsburg dispatch saya: Joseph Driver, with three companions, who ar¬ rived at Homestead, Saturday, leftitfiere Tuesday evening. Driver declares fha^ his reason for leaving was because he knew there were unionists two esses of smallpox among the non in the mill. In this statement his companions bore him out. They claim the bodies were buried in the yard. Superintendent Polk denies the story. A Philadelphia dispatch of Monday says: James Hunter, twenty-five years of age, who fled after forging $105,200, re turned unexpectedly Sunday from Brazil, and was arrested. He is broken in health and his mind is shattered, and he bears but slight resemblance to the once hon¬ ored head of the extensive mill firm of James & John Hunter. It is thought he will never be tried-. Informations were made at Pittsburg, Monday afternoon before Aldmerman Reilly by ex Private lams against Colo¬ nel Hawkins, Lieutenant Colonel Streatcr and Assistant Burgeon Grim, of the Tenth regiment, for aggravated assault and bat¬ tery. Warrants were issued. The charge of aggravated assault was for tyiug lams up by the thumbs and the assault and battery for ihaving his head. Lieutenant Colonel Streatcr was ar¬ rested at his home in Washington, Pa., Tuesday afterno n on charges of aggra¬ vated assault and battery and assault and battery preferred by Private lams. Col¬ onel Streater went before a justice and waived hearing for an appearance at the September term of court ia Pittsburg. He cave bail in $500 on each charge and was released. Colonel Hawkins was not arrested, as he is still on duty at Home¬ stead. A New York dispatch of Monday says: The strike in the building trades, which began by the union men quitting work on the new criminal court building, where the Jackson Architectural Iron Company employed non-union men, has assumed alarming proportions. In retaliation for this strike the Iron League, to which or¬ ganization the Jackson company belong¬ ed, locked out all iron workers. Then walking delegates ordered strikes throughout tbe building trades. The usual monthly statement Tuesday.' prepared by the treasury was issued The figures are as follows: Aggregate cash in the treasury, $783,079,280; net cash bal¬ ance, $27,050,286; increase during the month, $357,909; decrease of interest and non-interest bearing debt, $398,905; decrease of certificates and treasury nipes and outstanding, $569,051; total certificates treasury notes out¬ standing, $619,675,803, offset by an equal am tint of cash in the treasure; net debts, $907,378,935. Telegrams of Monday from Spokaue, Wash., state that Indians on the Colville reservation threaten an outbreak. The Indians are greatly incensed at the fail¬ ure of the au horities to eject prospect tor*, and even those who have heretofote have been peaceably dispose 1, seem ( have caught tt.e infection Com other and all are armed. The removal of ai intruders would set le the trouble, am. Indian Ageut Cole has received offici i notification that troops will be placed at bis disposal for this purpose. TRADE REVIEW. Dull & Co.’s Report of Business for the last T> , ... Meek. . . R. G. Dun & Co. s weekly review _ of trade says: The extreme hot weather for tbe entire week has checked many kinds of business, but h;s not prevented considerable excess in the volume of trade over that of last year. At the same time the weather has been extremely fa vorable for growing crops, except in the limited districts where damage lias been d uT„„k J ? „ U .JKSSiSBiLtLSSUg' but there are distinct signs of a favorable settlement. ' Finished products of iron and steel are strongei—$3 to $5 higher, but great demora izatien is expected in pig iron unless m ire of the consuming works start speedily. Bar and sheet iron nre very active, und the manufacturers of plate and structural iron have more orders taan they can well handle, btit no im provement is seen in rails. • Boot and shoe shops are running full of business, and shipments exceed )ast year's every week; being for the year, thus far, 2,056,000 cases, against 1,967, 000 to date last year. The shipments of hides from Chicago have been 110,000, 000, against 97,000,000 pounds last year, At Baltimore the hot, weather retards much trade, though in dr\ goods and boot 3 and shoe? and furnishing gods it exceeds laVt ; 'year's. At Pittsburg‘the products of steel and iron grow stronger., A little improvementappears, ’ at Memphis u»<i-Little-Rdck.' Trade is dull at New Orleans, though •the prospects are bright there, and at Savannah the receipts of cotton are light and the eiyiorts aie slightly more than last stock’for year, but the sales bf plantation the we< k exceeds the sales of tangible and .visible cotton about ten to one, aggregating 7,000,000 bales. • The busine s failures occuning throughout the country during the last week, as reported to R. G Dun & Co., number for the United State s 171. THEY WANT REVENGE. The Pinkertons Swearing Out War¬ rants Against the Strikers. A dispatch of Monday from Pittsbuyg states that those who participated ip the disgraceful Homestead k after scenes at ' the surrender of the Pinkertons, on July 0th, will be prosecuted for aggravated assault a fid battery, highway robbery, and larceny, misdemeanors. pocket-picking and other crimes The work of secur ing the necessary eyufencc, ; a : convict ,those Pinkertons engaged and ift robbery the assaults on the of the surren dered men has been gbing on for some tune, and H is now so far advanced that informations will be made in a few days and the implicated persons will >o arrested. Among them Hre several women, who were par ncularly aggressive during the tune the Pinkerton men ran the gauntlet and after it In taking the property of the men and hiding it. Assault and battery and re against ceiving stolen worned. goods .will be charged these The Pinkerton agency will take part in these prosecu¬ tions, and now have in Pittsburg a lot of th'eir men who were assaulted and from whom ...... property „ stolen. . . The attorney for the _was informa prosecution is preparing tipn in these cases, and as soon as they are completed warrants will be issued. Governor Winans, of Michigan, Mon day afternoon issued a. proclamation calling a special session of the state leg islature to meet Friday August 5, at noon for the purpose of rearranging the senate district and apportioning anew the representatives among the counties and districts and for the. transaction of such other business as may be laid before it. OIL ON FIRE. Lightning Sets Fire to Tanks In the Pennsylvania Oil Fields. A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Thurs day says: During the prevalence of the thunder storm which swept over the southwestern oil field Wednesday after noon, lightning struck tank No. 17 of the Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line company, six miles from Washington. The tank contained 37,000 barrels of oil, and when it burst the burning fluid spread to twenty tanks in the vicinity and so*jb yete tvfiTft. The heat was so __ approach intense that trains could not within an eighth of a mile of the scene. The loss’s not known, but it is thought to be very heavy. ALABAMA ELECTION The State is Claimed for Jones by a Majority of 20,000. CAPTAIN KOLB ALSO CLAIMS THAT HE HAS CARRIED THE STATE BY NOT LESS THAN THIRTY THOUSAND. A special of Wednesday from Mont gomery says: Ihe returns coming in to night from the election of Monday tend to place the majority for Governor Jones at 20,000 or below, though the state ex ecutive committee still claims that there is no reason to show that the majority will fall below 30,000. Official and un official returns ieceived up to 8 o’clock Wednesday night show that twenty-six counties give Jones majorities aggregat- counties ing 33,734; twenty-six other give Kolb majotitits aggregating 18,— i- 34 ; leaving an apparent Det ma joriiy of 15,700 for Jones. Thisefig ures are subject to possible changes on the official count of returns which will take place next Sa'urday in every county in the state. t welve counties are yet to report; but it i. Minuted that their majorities will not affect the result one way or the other more than 5,000. The legislature is claimed by the state execu— tive committee, and Ko.b’s people also c i aim it) an d contend that many mem b- rs elected in Jones counties are Kolb’s fr j en(Js an d alliuncemen, while they claim every man in counties which they have carried. It will take a close can vass to settle this matter. captain kolb talks. Captain Rcubau F. EU.,, alliance can XSS-vSr'S confident of election and that I have my carried the white vote of the state by not less than 30,000 majority. I hold that the small majority which my opponent and his followers claim is based on a fraudulent and stuffed vote in the black belt counties of the state. I claim that on a fair and honest count of the vote as it was really cast-in the black belt counties of Montgomery, Dallas, AVilcox, Marengo, Lowndes, Macon, Luliock and Bar bour these counties would give me a ma jority of over 20,000, and with a fair and honest count in the whole state my ma jority would be 40,000. The democratic party of the state bf Alabama is essen tially the party of the white men of the statt;.., The returns show that I have carried a vast majority of the white vote of the state. I do not propose to sub mit-to-a fraudulent 64uat, nor do my friends propose to submit to it. My white followers represent two-thirds of the democracy of the slate of Alabama. I cannot believe that the minority of the democratic party of the state, represent e d by Governor Jones and liis followers can afford to longer antug q nize„.ugJ.’ a telegram to Georgia. Cantaiu Kolb Georgia—telegrams has received ^'npmber of telegrams from con .gratulatory aiffi telegrams of inquiry— an( i i n his reply to one of these from the Southern Affiance Farmer, at Atlanta, Captain Kolb sent the following 1892‘-South- ■ Montgomery, Meance Ala., August 3, Ga. My cm ,Farmer, Atlanta, will : exceed ma jority of the white vote in the state thirty thousand. The 15,000 majority claimed by Governor Join s is based on a fraudulent count in the black counties. With an honest count of the votes as cast in Montgomery', Bul¬ lock. Macoiq Lowndes, Dallas, AVilcox, Perry and other black .counties, my majority will not bjj.legs than 40,000. , It. F. Kolb. A s COLUMBUS DAY* j Great Interest Taken in the Approach ing Celebration. The approachi ^ celebration of Colum bus Americrii Da by the 13,000,000 pupils in public schools is attracting gcneral attention. From £ prominent ed - ucat from eminent sta smen in hi h ^ laces and from the humblest citizens me wordg of commendation . R appeals Ju. to all cla98es and conditlon8 bec e it touches the institution which is closest to the % ^ j mo8t representative \ of the ^ fullegt of for the future . 8eye ral thousand American newspapers hftV0 championed the movement. A bill recently passed congress authorizing and instructing President Harrison to is¬ sue a proclamation making ColumbusDay, October 21st, a general holiday, and rec¬ ommending to the people, a fitting ob servance of this 400th anniversary of in America>g school discovery,in J ; all their idealities; their hou g g and other of as , em51 Speaker ^ Crip, when asked a few dav9 ag0( what do you - think' of the movement for a national celebration of Oolumbus Da J „ replied F : .* The idea of ivi the fe Deral c elebrati on of Co lumbug D in to tfae handg of the Dublic schools impresses r me very J favorably’. J The public school is certainly the most char¬ acteristic product of the 400 years of American life. The public school stands for the spirit of enlightenment which has been the mark of life in this country. The public school may have its defects, but take it all in all, . it is a superb thing. Third Party in Michigan. Five hundred delegates were present at the people's party convention which assembled at J ickscn Michigan, Tuesday, The platform of the Omaha convention was adopted and a motion to incorporate prohibition plank was made amid great disorder. The following ticket wa3 nominated: Governor, John AY. Ewing, a farmer of Grand Lodge; lieu tenant governor, Louis (Alich.) I ;de pendent; treasurer, Joseph, state, Frank M. A T andercock, editor, of S'. Louis . j (Mich.) Independent; treasurer, Joseph W. Welton, of Kentucky, country aud general.Uliut Peek, of Laaer county. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES, Executive and Campaign, as Announced by Chairman Harrity. After several nays’ deliberation and conference with Calvin S. Brice, AVilliam C. Whitney and Gov. James E. Camp¬ bell, Chairman Harrity, of the demo¬ cratic national committee, announced, Friday afternoon, the national executive and campaign committees. They are as follows: Executive Committee—M. F. Tarpev, California; Charles S. Thomas, Colorada; Carles French, Connecticut; Samuel Pas coe, Florida; Clark Howell, Georgia; J. J. Richardson, Iowa; Charles W. Blair, Kansas; Thomas W. Sherley, Kentucky; . . . „ James Jeffr.e-, Louisiana; . Arthur . Sew all, Maine;. Arthur P. jorman,. Mary land; Daniel J. Campas, Michigan; Michael Dore, Minnesota; . Charles L. Ho wry^ Mississippi; John G. Pra ther, Missouri; Alvah W. SuDoway, New Hampshire; Miles Ross ; New Jersey; William F. Sheehan, New York; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina; Calvin S. Brice, Ohio; Samu&i R. Hovey, Rhode Llaud; Holmes Cummings, B. lennessee; Smalley, C. T. Iloit, lexas; Bradley Vermont; Basil B. Gordon, Virginia; William F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania, Sheerin, chairman ex-officio; S. P. sec retary ex-omuo. the The following compose ice, Ohio; campaign committee: Calvin S. B A. P. Gorman, Maryland; William F. Sbee han, New York; B. B. Smaller, Ver mont; M. AV. Ransom, North Carolina; B. T. Cable, Illinois; E. C. AV all, AVis consin; Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts; W. F. Harrity, Pennsylvania. SHE IS INSANE. «° 9*r tt. the nice Mitchell Murder Case. A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch says: large crowd was in attendance at the criminal court Saturday, it being an aounced that Judge DtiBose would de liver the charge to the jury in the famous ,\.Hce Mitchell case, murderess of Freda Ward. The defendant appeare 1 calm , lD( j collected during the reading of the charge, the time occupied in its delivery being fifteen minutes; the question of sanity or insanity of the prisoner at the time of the trial being the only question considered. The jury retired at 9:30 and at 9:50 o’clock filed into the court room with the following verdict: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Alice Mitchell, insane, and believe it would endanger the safety of the com mu pity to set her at Liberty.” • Alice Mitchell was then remanded to the custody of tbe sheriff, and will be ordered placed in an insane asylum. Should she be released as sane at any time the she, can then be placed she upon trial on _ charge of murder, as was only tried as to he.r mental soundness or un soundness at the time of her trial, the question aa to her mental condition at the time of the cqmmission of the homicide not being touched upon during her trial, now Concluded. • When the verdict was read by the clerk * f aint smile spread over the defendants’ features as if she had been confident of W trial. 0 '# She verdict taken , throughout to jail, gavly the entire chat was ting as she went, and will be sent thence ' to of the state insane asylums, one CONDEMNING THE PINKERTONS Railroad Men Pass Resolutions Against Their Employment. Sunday seven of the orders of railroad employes of New Y oik, New Jersey, Penn sylvania and Delaware met at AVilkes bkrre, l’a., in general and convention to dis¬ cuss the benefit advisability of com¬ ing under one head a The societies are the Railroad Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Switchers’ Mu¬ tual Aid Society, Brotherhood of Rail¬ road Trainmen, Order of Railroad Te¬ legraphers and ladies’ auxiliary. In the afternoon a mass meeting was held at¬ tended by 5,000 non-brotherhood men. Addre-ses were made by prominent mem¬ bers of the various branches. Grand Master AYorkraan of the Knights of ously L^tpff the T. V. Powderly spoke vigor¬ of outrages of the Pinkertons at Homestead and submitted the follow¬ ing resolution, which was unanimously adopted: interfer¬ Resolved, That xve regard the ence of the Pinkertons in the labor trou blt s as unpat r iot,ic and un-American. AYe have confidence in the power of the law to keep the peace' and, therefore, demand the abolit’on by law of the practice of throwing standing armies of irresponsible men niouud mills and factories and upon our railroads in times of labor disputes. DISASTROUS HAIL STORM. Crops Totally Destroyed—-Losses Esti¬ mated at $200,000. Wednesday terrible hail and wind storms swept over the town of Farming ton, Minn., and an area of country twen¬ ty miles east and west by two miles north and south. Hailstones the size of hick¬ ory nuts and hen’s eggs fell, covering the ground six inches deep, tearing awnings and signs dowo, splitting the latter into ribbons, and glass suffered in proportion. Trees were stripped of their foliage and many totally stripped of branches, while the roofs of small outbuildings were bat¬ tered in. The loss to crops is absolute, the corn, wheat and oats being cut down. The storm covered an area of fifteen miles square in Rice, Dakota and Good hue counties, and extending to the Mis¬ sissippi river, thirty miles. A liberal estimate places the'acreage absolutely destroyed at ten thousand and the loss at $ 200 , 000 . THE deadly h Tlis Higtest Dean Kate Twenty T MU eiR _ TWO HUNDRED AND in new York OXE years. death rate The for number^ a single da?'V 6 he C 4 week was 1 434 v. ea, us f 0I ■ , tions for the from week beat endino- amL»V that5r l Were Pt N ^ Williams.,„r„ su?1[ week exceeded 600 Onlv f 1 large houses ♦ 0 sugar are in f„i, ly Havemeyer’s establishment huadrS^ one thousand four these more than four carriedo&* hundred 1 33 per cent, were week. The Brooklyn thesefctwt^ su aar ‘ ploys 450 men; Of y i ty and one hundred enss *i men, as house. were those i„ tkt H,> 11 sugar great mortality ix P m UD Jhe effect of the terrible ^ week in \ past, the city of Pna was startlingly shown by the 1 port made Saturday by the k 11 health, During the week enrti ' o'clock Saturday, Health Offi 1 issued death v 870 certificates Thi-i mortality than has 13 ever) corded by the officers before. “fof “'II diphtheria scutged the cooler in Baltimore, The weather at Baltimore Saturdw about-eight degrees cooler on aa anlJ ar«J than that of Friday, but deaths trations from heat during thed«ij Dearly of the protracted as numerous hot as those spell. on The"red anyo3 of the city health commissioner for tlj week gives the following facta: Tot number of deaths for the week, 45] under five years, 224; from sunstrok 51; cholera infantum, 89; convulsion 18. The number of deaths for the j responding week of 1891 was 207,or2 less than for the week just ended,a the excess in mortality is attributed! the health’commissioner to be unpsti leled heat Here. 'Never before ini history many deaths t of the during city have the same there perioil bes] time, POOR ALICE MITCHELL While on Her Way to the Asylum Ski Tears OTer Freda Ward’s Grate, The last scene in the famous A! Mitchell case was enacted Mondaywl the insane murderess was convey^ tbe insane asylum at Bolivar, Te Before leaving the city, a carriageo taining the prisoner halted at the Mil ell residence, where Alice toyed a i ment with a couple of cats, then thru ing them away petulently with “Oh, j can go, I don’t love you any mod Reaching Freda Ward’s grave in I wood cemetery, Alice and her fatherd mother alighted from the carriage. 1 eaid nothing, but evidently was d strong emotion. Her meditation wasa I interruptid by the other members of party. She moved with around wide the op ij mound and e y ed jt eyes gome flo ’ whic £ s h e nlaced tuM wi and then ghe announce d she to return. i THE MAFIA AGAIN. A Strange Letter Received by of Police of Yew Orleans. Chief of Police Garter of NewOi received a letter the Saturday Mafia. from^ Fu..*! supposed to be the letter: ChiefofJ p* New Orleans, July 29.-To Gai ter: We have in our Possesion forP Will deliver him in your hands liberate him for $1,000. WewiU old clothes, etc., such as we found son, but bear in mind, by one ba thonzed by you, hia body wih be ■ ■ w shot; then sent you for a present, days, must reach us before twenty furth ■ will have his right ear. For tom ( tion address general delivery, po- ’ cago, St- Louis or New Orleans. Respectfully, remembered that *• Jadge ' ,< It will be court i of the criminal district ,; . Orleans, mysteriously disapptr April. He wa 9 old and feeble. “ j last seen walking along the ^ V impression of his friends was ■ 1 fallen into the river and was ; and that i mpression still ^ j Warrants for Five S un(ll ! A dispatch of Wednesday fro®J dens, Idaho, states that Gene , ( and Major R mdall have rc ill I" _ Fort Sherman. The troops , ^ Wardens for an indefinite United States commissione j for the arrest of 500 men, “ ffe i dred of which are yet to " has been represented and the m P' e P. ld e 1 tbi! the governor have been designated ^ m f tbe ^ men and that sin’s knife or bullet evidence proves the assertion. Forfeited RailroJd A San Francisco dispatch *J- f90{i hundred forfeited and to the fifty Southern th ° us fp Pac aC ific getW - company were openea fffie AA’ednesday. Many en in lister. San Francisco^nd Most of the latter otje ^ ^ tiers. Claims will be maue . tied within five months.