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JOHN BRIGHT TALKS, |
HIS OPPOSITION TO THE IRISH
BILL.
An Overwhelming Home Rule Demon, j
•tratiou in London.
Mr. John Bright has issued this manifesto |
to the electors of Central Birmingham:
Gentlemen: Thanking you for having
elected me in November last, I am now most
unexpectedly foiled to again address you.
Since November a single question has occu
pied the attention of the House of Commons
and the country. It relates to the i
future government of Ireland, and
consists of two bills, which were thrust ,
•upon Parliament and the country by the
Government. One of those bills was re- I
jected; the other was withdrawn. We are
not told by Mr. Gladstone or his colleagues
how much or how little of those unfortunate
proposals will reappear in the next Parlia
ment. We are asked to pledge ourselves to
a principle which may be innocent or most
dangerous, as may be explained in future
bills.
I cannot give such a pledge. The experi
ence of the post three months has not in- i
creased my confidence in the wisdom of the
Administration or in its policy respecting the
future government of Ireland. We have be
fore us a principle which Mr. Gladstone and
his supporters do not explain. I will not
pledge myself to what I do not understand !
and cannot prove. In 1872 I wrote a leter to
an Irish gentleman, from which I extract i
these short sentences:
“To have two legislative assemblies in the
United jJIJ»uld work intolerable
J <'»» "Lh tor two
not wish that, the ;
two or lnol ’ e nations,
i- ■ ■ each other/’
is opinion—if possible,
before. I do not oppose ;
WWrQrrofl Government on account of ■
than on account of Ireland.
HHPu Parliament can be so powerful or
as the united imjierial Parliament at I
Pmestminstor. 1 cannot intrust the peace
end interests of Ireland, north or south, to
the Irish Parliamentary party, to whom the ;
Government now propose to make a general [
surrender. My six years’ experience of them
and their language in the House of Commons !
and their deeds in Ireland makes it impossi
ble for me to hand over to them the industry, I
prosperity, and rights of S,(KM),(XX) of the
Queen's subjects. Our countrymen in
Ireland—leastways 2.090,000—are os loyal as
the people of Birmingham. I will be no
party to a measure thrusting them from the
generosity and justice of the united imperial
Parliament. 1 have written so that nobody
may be ignorant of my views. My vote in |
the recent division has given a great grief,
but my judgment and conscience made the
other course Impossible.
■ For forty years I have been a friend to Ire
land. Long before any' Parnellite now in
Parliament or any member of the present
Government opened his lips to expose and
coudenui the wrongs of Ireland I spoke for ;
her people in the House of Commons
and on public platforms. It is bemuse
I am still a friend of Ireland that I refuse i
to give her up to those to whom the recently I
defeated bill would have subjected her. If
you re elect me I shall, to the utmost of my i
capacity, seek only what I conceive to bj for
the permanent and true welfare of our
ceuntry.
Sincerely and gratefully thanking you for
your past kindness, 1 remain
John Bright.
A London representative of the New York
Tribune has hail an interview with Mi hael
DavitL This popular leader had just re
turned from a great Home Rule demonstra
tion in the division of West Ham in the East
Etui of lam lon, and was full of his subject.
“1 verily believe,” he said, “that even Lou
den itself would go for Home Rules. I ad
dressed an hour Or two ago th' greatest meet
ing ot English workingmen I ever witnessed.
It was an open-air meeting composed
of from 15,000 to 20,000 men, of
whom there were not 500 who
were not bona fide art isans cr laborers. The
eatliusiasm was simply amazing. When the
nieetiuk was over a procession of 10,000 men,
beaded by their bands, and cheering all the
way tor Gladstone. Morley. Parnell and Home
Rule, accompanied Mr. Ulster, the working
maxi member ot Parliament, and myself I
from the pin e of the meeting to the railway
station, a distance of a couple of miles. Mr. I
Herbert Gladstone has just sent an enthusi
astic telegram describing the meeting to the
‘Grand <>ld Mau.’ |
“You mnv say from me tj our American
friend* that after the vast meeting last night
in bt. James* Hall, but mon* particularly
after tbe tremendous demonstration this
evening, 1 feel convinced that Glad
■tone will carry a majority of the
London seats, an I London is almost as much ■
ajxwtion of strategy ma general de tton a< >
New \wk is in a I‘remdentwl contest. There .
i* no longer any question of the fact that the
«“*** ’?< the people are with Gladstone in
hi* fight, and when 1 add my knowledge of I
Pillar feeling in Wale*. Brotland and tte 1
Engush provitb'e* to the testimony we have
from Lood m itself, I feel the strongest hope
that the British democracy will enrrv Home
Rule to victory with * decisive majority,"
Tnx weak man fails and skulks to the
rear; the strong man is repulsed but
never defeated. He catches on again
with a fresh eriro and scrambles through
to the best of his ability.
We'll give eleven dollars for the sight
<<f the boy ten rears oki who can get out oi
bed in the moraing and find his hat and
above without half an hour's hunt, unless
be ha* not got any
One of the most remarkable lapses of
[ memory on record is reported by a Paris
I Journal. A man who is now enjoying
the social eminence of a dock laborer is
discovered to be heir to a vast fortune in
England. His mother visited the conti
nent when he was but an infant, and left
him with a nurse while she went shop
ping. The excitement of the moment
caused the mother to forget all about her
baby, and she never once thought of him
again. _____________
“Long John” Wentworth, of Chicago,
i ex-Congressman and ex-Mayor, has com
pleted a model for a gigantic monument
which he proposes to erect over his last
earthly resting place during the coming
summer. The material will be white
granite from the Hallowell quarries, in
Maine The monument will consist of a
base 18 feet square in a single stone —the
largest, it is claimed, ever quarried—■
resting upon which will be a tapering
shaft 50 feet high and 6| feet square at
the base. The four sides of the base will
bo engraved with an epitome of Mr.
Wentworth’s family history.
The Mexican authorities believe in “a
short shrift and a sudden rope” for
1 train-wreckers. The House of Depu
ties has passed the law which provides
for the immediate execution of those who
hurl a train to destruction, when appre
hended in the act. Wrecks, particularly
of freight trains, have been of more or
less frequent occurrence ever since the
Mexican Central Railroad was opened
for business. The lawless bands which
so frequently gather upon the other side
of our frontier, and which never scruple
to plunder friend or foe, have on several
occasions found a rich booty after caus
ing a train to leave the track and go into
the ditch. Escape has been compara
tively easy for them, and it is represented
that immunity from severe punishment
has made them bolder and more reck
less. For the sake of loot they have
caused the death of many a passenger or
railroad employe.
Sir,’James Caird, whose recent state
ment that there are 538,000 small tenants
I in Ireland who will be unable to pay any
rent, if the present low prices of produce
continue, has attracted so much atten
tion, write? to the London Times again
on the same subject. He classifies Irish
holdings under nine heads, as follows:
1. 218,(XX) holdings averaging £2 rental.
S. 196,00 u holdings averaging £7 rental.
3. 78,000 holdings averaging £l2 rental,
4. 46,000 holdings averaging £lB rental.
5. 47,000 holdings averaging £25 rental.
A 24,000 holdings averaging £35 rental.
7. 14,000 holdings averaging £45 rental.
I 8. 24,000 holdings averaging £75 rental.
9. 12,000 holdings averaging £2OO rental
This makes a total of 659,000 holdings
, on which the annual rent is $53,085,000.
, He says further that many tenants farm
two or more holdings, and estimates tire
I number of Irish bona fide agriculturalists
i at 400,000. He states that ho bas learned
! that a majority of Irish landlords do not
I want to sell out, but the statement has
been received with increduality.
According to Science, “there seems to
be ground for the desire so generally
expressed that the Signal Service should
give some warning of the probable occur
rence of tornadoes, at least in such away
■ that the inhabitants of towns in the ex
posed districts may be on the lookout
for the approach of the dreadful funnel
cloud. The reports state that i» the
open country there was little loss of life,
as the storms camo by day, and persons
generally saw them in time to take refuge
in the tornado cellars with which nearly
every farm in that region Is provided
But in the towns, where persons remain
more indoors, and where clouds near the
horizon are not easily seen, tornadoes
too commonly arrive unperceived till
the roar of their winds tells that there
is no time for escape, and here some
early intimation of the impending danger
should be given. The warnings based
on the conditions shown in the morning
weather map might be announced as
experimental for a season, so that a
public trial of their value could be
made. Towns at least could be reached
by telegraph and telephone in all parts
of the Mississippi Valley by noon on the
days of danger, and the saving of lives
in some places would compensate for a •
good deal of needless anxiety caused by 4
warning towns that escape destruction.
There seems to be no way whatever of
saving property that lies in the path of
tlw) storm.
Portraits on Bank Notes.
The heids on the National Bank notes 1
of different denominations are not very
generally known, says the Toledo Blade,
and very few persons can tell what por
traits are on the different notes. They :
are as follows:
On United States. ! S»7w Certificates. I
fl, sVashington $lO, Robt Monh ;
$2, Jefferson $lO, Com. Decatur
$5. Jackson i SSO. K. Everett I
$lO. Webster ‘ 1100, Jax Monroe
S2O. Hamilton SSOO. C, Sumner
$Mk Franklin I W. L. Marcy
GoM Votes.
SSOO. Mansfield >
$ I,(KM, D. Clinton J?,- L, .
SSOO, Lincoln
, SI,OOO, A. Hamilton
| $&,000. Jas. Madfiton .
SIO,OOO, A. Jackson.
Hunters in Southern Oregon are wan
tonly slaughtering the deer for their ;
skins Their caroaseca are thrown into 1
ths overi.
THE HEWS IN GENERAL
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
H. H. Swift & Co.. New York importers
(sugar, the principal firm engaged in the
81 tra 'L e ’ have faUed for about
E1,000,000. Depreciation in the value of their
immense stock is the cause of the failure.
Herbert Meaton, a prominent jockey.
c o n g ress man Scott’s stable,
teom k hS l he ° th i er • day by bein " thrc >wn
Island hOrSe dunng a race at Coney
, St 4 nley Matthews, of the
ir.’xT Supreme Court, was married
K ThZoV° rk ? ni W da y® since t(J Mrs. Mary
K. Theater, of Cleveland, Ohio.
It was expected on the 23d that six of 214
people poisoned at a picnic near Flemington,
in. J., would die.
"Wilzig, member of a New York La
bor C mon which had compelled the proprietor
of a concert hall topay SI,OOO as a fine for not
immediately complying with its demands to
discharge non-Union employes, has been
found guilty by a jury of the charge of ex
tortion. Wilzig is the first of several boy
cctters against whom the concert hall pro
prietor has brought similar charges.
Providence, R. 1., is just 250 years old,
and has celebrated that event by a procession
and other festivities.
SOUTH AND WEST.
The Papal Embassy, bearing the official
notification of the elevation to the nardinaL
ate o f Archbishop Gibbons, of the Diocese of
Baltimore, arrived in that city on the 21st
from Rome.
. The switchmen on the Lake Shore road
m Chicago renewed their strike of two
months ago the other afternoon, demanding
the discharge of eight non-union men who
had been in the employ of the company from
eight to fourteen years. The demand was
refused by the railroad officials.
A mud drum in the International Cotton
Press Works at NewUrlean exploded, killing
the fireman and his assistant.
A boiler explosion at a saw-mill near At
k ns, Ark., caused the death of T. R. Adams,
proprietor, and two other men.
WASHINGTON.
The President,on the 21st, sent to Congress
fifteen veto messages, thirteen being private
pension bills, ana the others provided for
public buildings at Sioux City, lowa, and
Zanesville, Ohio. In a long message accom
panying these vetoes the President rebukes
Congress for what be < alls its hasty pension
legislation, and says he is thoroughly tired of
disapproving gifts of public money to indi
viduals who, in his view, have no right or
claim to the same.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
favors a bill imposing an iucometaxin order
to meet the additional heavy sum required to
pay pensions.
Thirty-four adverse reports upon private
pension bills were presented the other day by
the House Committee.
Additional nominations bvthe President:
Registers of the Land Office—Pierce H.
Ryan, at Humboldt, CaL ; W. E. Copeland,
at Carson City, Nev.; Richard McCloud, at
Durange, Cal.; J. L. Camp, of Texas, at
Prescott, Arizona. David N. Burke, of New
York, to be Consul of the United States at
Puerto Cabello; Samuel L. Gilson, of Penn
sylvania, to be agent for the Indians of the
Fort Peck Agency, Montana, Postmasters—
Lewis C. Holmes, at Cobleskill, N. Y.; Nich
olas J. Macklin, at Stapleton, N. Y.; Henry
D. Linsley, at Branford, Conn.; James Mu
dey, at Pottsvills, Penn.; Fannie D. Porter,
at El Paso, Tex.; Thomas H. Perry, at Alton.
111.; James A. Able, at Auburn, Ill.; John J.
Ankeny, at Minneapolis. Minn.: S. C’nrfis
Symonds, at Hudson, VVis.; James' E.g|L'-
Donald, at Ligonier, Ind.; Frederick A.« -
wards, at Webster City, lowa; ijosepl J.
Topliff, at Ixmgjupnt, Col. »
Seven more vetoed pension bills were re
turned to the Senate on the 23d by the Presi
dent.
I The Senate on the 23d confirmed the fol
lowing nominations: C. T. M. Niles, Reg
ister at Garden City, Kansas; R. L. Cropley,
1 Collector Customs at Georgetown, D. C.; H.
Shepard, Collector Internal Revenue, Nixth
, Virginia District; E. H. Bryan, of Califor
nia, Consul at Lyons, and some thirty post
! masters.
The Senate has rejected the nomination ot
John Seeman to be Postmaster at Dennison,
lowa. His is the second nomination for that
office that has been rejected. The Senate
committeee charges that Seeman is conspicu
ously unfit, £i<l was the mere dummy for
' Keith, the first nominee rejected.
The Democratic Congressmen held their
first caucus this session the other afternoon,
•nd manifested a strong desire to adjourn at
an early date.
: President Cleveland on the 24th sent to
Congress twenty-nine more vetoes, mainly
of private pension bills. Up to the foregoing
date the President had vetoed sixty-eight
bills. President Grant in the course of bis
entire Administration, extending over eight
years, signed only twenty-eight vetoes, and
no other President ever reached that number
I before him.
Additional confirmations by the Senate:
Thomas C. Jones, of Kentucky, Consul at
Funchal. Madeira; William Neville, Register
at North Platte. Neb. Postmasters—W. R,
Joline., Long Branch Citv, N. J.; S. C
Logue, Central City, Neb.; M. A. Shirley,
Logan, Utah: AV. D. Lvon, Elkhorn, Wis. :
H. AV. Clendenin, Springfield, Ill.; George
Washington, Bay City, Mich.; 8. H. M Ken
zie, Honkinsville, Ky.; Fannie D. Porter, El
Paso, Texas.
FORKXGN.
After the recent great victor? of the Ba
cessioni>ts in Nova Scotia a wealthy old sea
captain of Digby nailed the American flag
to the highest tiisß on his farm and shouted:
“That is our next question to vote on, and
you will fiml before long two-thirds of us
that way of thinking.”
A ferryboat containing fifty persons cap
siz'd while crossing a river in Bohemia At
least twenty-fire people were drowned.
The Midlothian Conservatives have decided
not to contest Gladstone's election.
The Panama Canal Company wants the
French Legislature to pass a bill to permit
the directors to raise $120,000,000 by a lottery.
Another of Pasteur's dog-bitten patients
inoculated against hydrophobia has med.
A PHENOMENON.
An Oily «scem aleaa the South Carellna
( east Killin« Theu«an«h> es Fiah.
The people in tbe vicinity of Raleigh. N.
C, are perplexed over a phenomenon that is
observed along the southeastern coast of the
State. Au oily scum on the water
extends for several miles out to sea
•nd affects tbe rivers for a long dis
tance inland, making the surface smooth
and calm. Fish are dying by thousands and
floating like chip* on the surface of the water.
It is supposed that they are poisoned by this
oily scum, but whence the distroyer comes
notKxiy knows. A suggestion that a shin
loaded with oil may have foundered in the
vicinity isscoated. because, from Lock wood’s
Folly all the way to Little River, the scum is
found and the coast is strewn with the dead
fish all the way. In the salt water a’x>ut
Shallotte and Tubbs Inlet are immense
quantities of tbe dead fish of every kind, and
it is feared that there are no live fish left in
! Shallotte river or within ten miles of its
mouth The water appears to have te.ome
a- o 1 twi th* wuad to nitke do iin-
on it
I DEATH OF DAVID DAVIS.
! THE DISTINGUISHED JURIST AND
EX-SENATOR IS NO MORE.
Synopsis of His Career on the Bench and
in the Senate.
_ _
Judge David Davis died on the 26th at his
home in Bloomington, HL He had suffered
for some time from a malignant carbuncle;
but the immediate cause of Judge Davis’s
death was Bright’s disease of the kidneys,
aggravated by a weakened condition of the
system dating from the time when he became
afflicted with the carbuncle. His last horn s
were calm and peaceful.
_ David Davis, formerly an A-sociate Jus
, tice of the United States Supreme Court,and
a Senator from Illinois, was a native of
j Maryland. He was born in 1815, and at the
i dfite of his death was in the seventy-second
; year of his age. His father was a wealthy
larmer. Mr. Davis received an academical
education, and graduated from the well
known Episcopal college of Kenyon. He then
i studied law, and after his admission to
the bar, moved to Bloomington, 111.,
j where he Las ever since resided. Mr. Davis
■ entered on practi e, and early obtain d, for
the times, a lucrative professional success.
He devoted himself very largely to real es
i tato law, in which he was always esteemed a
great authority. Like most young and ca
pable attorneys of the period and region, he
j soon entered on public life. He identified
j himself with the Whig partv, and
served several terms in the State Leg
islature. He was an early friend and
associate of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Davis was
elected to the State Constitutional Conven
tion of 1847,and there n held a leading place.
' Shortly after, he was elected District Judge
and retired from active politics, though dur
ing the early years of the Republican
organisation he became identified there
with. Judge Davis was a good busi
ness man, and from his early
settlement at Bloomington became a large
owner of land. His real possession* have
been estimated at 300,000 acres. He owned
a considerable amount of property in the en
terprising city where he lived and in Chi
cago. He was always known as a public
••nirited citizen, as well as a man of kindly
disposition.
une or Mr. Lincoln’s earlier appointments
was of Judge Davis, who, in 1862, was nom
inated and confirmed as Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court. Justice Davis served
fourteen years, or until 1876, when he re
signed his seat on the bench to take the posi
tion of Senator from Illinois in the United
Spites Senate. He was elected as an Inde
pendent through the votes of the Dem
ocrats and a number of anti-Logan Republi
cans. In 1872 Judge Davis was nominated at
Columbus as the Greenback Labor Reform
candidate for President. It will be remem
bered tt*at though Judge Davis had expressed
decided Greenback views, he never definitely
accepted or declined the nomination tendered
him.
On March 4, 1883, Judge Davis was suc
ceeded in the Senate by ex-Governor Shelby
W. Cullom. Judge Davis’s appearance in
the Senate has been thus deserioed:
He weighs about 210 pounds. He usually
walks to and from the Capitol, and moves
around the Senate chamber like an over
grown schoolboy. He has a Roman cast
of features. His eyes are blue, and are
shaded by bushy iron-grey evebrows.
His cheeks are fringed with gray whiskers,
and his lip is clean shaven. His
head is thatched with straight gray hair. He
smokes a meerschaum pipe with a long
cherry stem and an amber mouthpiece?
He is courteom in manner and a genial
conversationalist. No man is surrounded
by more attached friends. He is plainly
dressed, and has the appearance of
a well-to-do farmer. His favorite novel is
“David Copperfield,” though he has a great
fondness for Thackeray and Walter Scott.
He is not a church member, but he usually
attends Presbyterian services.
Asa United States Senator his position
was an anomaly. During a portion of his
term he held the balance of jiower. He was
elected President pro tem of the Senate, and
served as such for about four yea:s. Mr.
Davis did not take a very active
part as a debater, but was vigi
lant in watching legislation. He i
endeavored to secure a reorganization of the I
Lsleral judiciary, and his plan is still being
considered. The Senator was a man of strik
ing physique, being tall of stature, large
frame and very corpulent.
After his retirement to private life in 1881
Mr. Davis devoted himself to the care of his
large estate. In 1882 he surprised the country,
as well as his friends, by marrying again, be
having been for a number of years a
widower. After his marriage the ex-Seoator
and bride traveled extensively, visiting
Europe and the Orient. Judge Davis, as
a jurisprudent, was well read and scholarly
with a wide grasp of legal principles and a
keen, logical, judicial power of statement. As
a Senator he showed the same traits. Per
sonally, he was a man of attractive disposi
tion, an excellent conversationalist.* dr>- wit,
and, like most Western law versos promi
nence, an excellent story teller,
Messeges of condolence were received at i
Bloomington from ex-President Arthur. Se
nators Sherman, Edmunds and Logan. ex-
Senator Conkling, Attorney General Garland
and others, all speaking in the highest terms
of the ability and Uvuosry of the dead jurist
FATRICIBR IN NORTH CAROLINA.
On Tuesday James N. Bascmore, who i
lives near Windsor, Bertie county, and
his son, Stone Bascmore, quarreled". The
son fired both barrels of a shotgun loaded
with buckshot into his father's body. ■
He then broke open the safe, took there ,
from SBOO and fled. The sheriff and a
jx«se are scouring the country in search
of him. The father will die. There is
great excitement over the awful crime.
TWO UISLS BURNED TO DEATH.
Two daughters of William Miller, aged
12 and 10 years, were burned to death
Sunday night in a house seven miles
southwest of Sherman. Texas. The house
was set on fire by the careless throwing
of a lighted match on the floor after j
lighting a lamp. Other members of the
family had a narrow escape.
THE CHICAGO STRIKE.
. TRAINS BEGIN TO MOVE ON THE
LAKE SHORE.
Bytlie Aid of Offlcrrs and Rifles the Rail
roads Send Out Freight Trainsand
Resume Business.
The chief of police of the town of Lake
appeared at the extensive switching yards
of the Lake Shore railroad Monday morn
ing, with a police force of one hundred
men, including “specials” and Pinkerton
police, and at once began to clear the
yardst)f strikers and idlers. Very few of
the latter had entered the yard, but re
mained in large groups just beyond the
railroad tracks, intently watching the
movements of the railroad people. Sev
eral hundred men, however, remained in
close vicinity of the round-house and the
cars of the Lake Shore road, and refused
to obey the order of the police to move.
Clubs were drawn and several rushes
were made at these groups, the police
using their clubs, and in one of the en
counters Detective Finn, of the Lake
Eolice, knocked one of the men down.
[e is the only person reported to have
I sustained any serious injury. The crowd
. gradually withdrew from the immediate
vicinity of the yards.
preparing to move trains.
Preparations for a determined effort to
move trains on the Lake Shore xvere per
' fected by the officials of the road Sunday,
j They were somewhat elated by the sut
| cess attending the efforts of Capt. Hunt,
I of the Hyde Park police, in protecting
' the train which was taken out late Satur
! day evening, and the fact that so many
! arrests of strikers and their sympathizers
had been made. On the other hand the
strikers presented a bold front. They
renewed their determination to stop the
movement of all freight trains at all
hazards. They still profess not to be
responsible for the trouble of Saturday,
and a reward has been offered for the
discovery of the man who “cocked” the
I switch. Shortly after six o'clock Mon
j day morning Billy Pinkerton, in charge
of a large number of special police, were
taken to the town of Lake. On their
arrival there they were sworn in as spe
cial officeps. Thirty switchmen, to take
the places of the strikers, were also sent
down. About a hundred special police
j arrived in a special train of three cars at
8:30 and were also taken to Forty-third
street. A dozen or more imported
i switchmen were also on board.
WARNrNG THE STRIKERS.
j There was an under current of cxcite-
I ment and suspense that boded exci
i ting developments during the day. The
town of Lake detectives started through
the yards repeating the following formula:
“All you people must move. Do not
i congregate in groups on the tracks or
' crossings, or we will be obliged to take
i means to disperse you, and we will do
j it, too.”
The crowd moved back surlily and
| momentarily increased in numbers,
i Some resistance was shown in moving off
I Root street, and one man was severely
j beaten by a policeman. The excitement
rapidly increased, and by nine o’clock the
crowd was ready for anything. Shortly
after nine o’clock, the town of Lake
police cleared the tracks, and the streets
leading to them, of the crowds who
were on them. Just after this, Pinker
ton and 124 of his men appeared on the
scene. Many of them were armed with
I Winchester rifles.
GUARDING THE TRACKS.
There were fully 200 police and spe-
I dais stationed along the Lake Shore
tracks between 41st and 45th streets.
About one hundred were regular police
I of the town of Lake and Pinkerton po
lice, and nearly 100 “specials” in the em
ploy of the Lake Shore road, the latter
of whom w r ere armed with Springfield
breech-loading muskets. These men
were guarding the round house and
tracks o| the Lake Shore road at inter
vals of ftfty yards, and no one was allowed
I to approach the switches or property of
: the railroad.
A deputy sheriff appeared at 41st
street shortly after 10 o’clock, accom
panied by six deputies. This was the
first time since the strike began that any
j of the representatives of the sheriff had
been on the ground.
READING THE RIOT ACT.
The chief deputy read the riot act at
four points along the line of the Lake
Shore road between 41st street and En
i glewood, and the police and special dep
uties began to clear the tracks. The
crowd moved off quietly after the read
ing of the riot act, and up to 11 o’clock
everything remained quiet in the vicinity
of the railroad tracks from the city limits
as far south as Englewood. The Lake
Shore company succeeded in making up
a train of fourteen freight and caboose
cars and started south at 11:55 without
molestation. A few minutes before the
train started five of the strikers ventured
into the yards at Forty-third street and,
refusing to move, were handled roughly
by the police and one was 'placed under
arrest. The others moved off. The strikers
congregated on State street, and intimat
ed that they would attempt a demonstra
tion in the presence of the armed force
then on the ground. The railroad
company brought out eight engines and
sent six down the road, each having on
board a deputy sheriff and a squad of
men armed with Winchesters. These
locomotives were employed as sccuts to
see that the tracks and switches were
protected and ready fer the passstge of
regular freight trains. No molestation
was offered to men on these engines.
Kearns, the engineer who was in idiarge
of the Milwaukee and St. Paul engine cap
tured by the strikers and used in pursu
ing the Lake Shore train, claims that the
strikers placed the muzzles of two revol
vers to his head and threatened him with
death if he refused to do their bidding.
FREIGHT TRAINS GO OUT.
The Lake Shore company succeeded in
getting a freight train started from the
yards at Root street. At 12.15 the switch
engines which had been making up
a train, steamed on the side track and a
regular engine coupled to a train. Spe
cial police, with their Winchesters ready,
stood on the alert. Their guns were too
much for the crowds and no attempt was
made to interfere. When everything was
in readiness for the start, a detail of Pinker
ton men, armed with rifles, climbed on the
engine and the tops of cars. Their ap
pearance gave the scene a warlike appear
ance. Just before the train was ready to
i start, a switch engine to which a caboose
was attatchcd, also heavily guarded,
j steamed to the main track in front of an
! east bound train, but the conductor had
orders to only proceed to South Chicago.
The train reached Englewood at 12.20 p.
m., without molestation.
At 12:50 p. m., South Chicago was
j reached and no serious opposition had
been encountered. There was a large
crowd in and about the yards, but a large
squad of Hyde park police prevented
even the semblance of disorder. The
train was guarded to Indiana state line
by armed specials on board, A second
freight train of twenty-six loaded freight
i cars followed the first train, having been.
■ made up at Englewood. It had about
j twenty armed specials, and reached South,
Chicago in safety. The railroad officials
, anticipated no trouble after leaving that
point unless it should be at some place
beyond the state line and the squad of
Pinkerton men, already mentioned, went
j to that point to guard against that hap
; pening. A third tram was gotten under
way, and passed south Chicago without
molestation,
j The officials have issued a notice to
accept freight without limits. They
state that they believe the strike is ended.
A. bill was filed on Monday in the
j United States circuit court, at Chicago,
by the Lake Shore road, asking for an
injunction against the striking switch
men.
LUITPOLD MADE REGENT.
The Prince Takes the Oath in the Presence
of Parliament.
I A dispatch from Munich says: Prince
Luitpold was to-day formally made re
gent of Bavaria to administer the affairs
of the kingdom during the occupation of
the throne by King Otto. The path was
administered by the minister of’ justice,
and the ceremony was performed in the
t hrone room of Residenz Schloss, in the
presence of the minister and a majority
j of the parliament. Prince Luitpold. ow
ing to the reading of the oath, stood
with his right arm uplifted, and at the
conclusion of the reading, said, in a
i strong, clear voice:
j “I swear.”
I He was cheered three times, and in re
sponse thanked the assembly for their
j manifestations of loyalty, feelingly re
ferred to the career of King Ludwig, and
j promised to do all in his power to pro
mote the prosperity of Bavaria.
A STRIKE ENDED.
The great nail mills strike at Bellville,.
HL, has finally come to an end. The set
tlement, at Pittsburg, of wages question
has proved satisfactory to both nailors
and operators. Under the new agree
ment, the men will not receive less than
seventeen cents per keg, no matter what
the price of nails may be. The mills
employ about 350 men, and will start,
again in a few’ days.
A DUEL BETWEEN BROTHERS.
i News has just been received here of a
duel, fought with shot guns, between
I two brothers, Adam and Alphonse Reed,
who live five miles west of Opelousas,
La. Adam received two wounds, one in
the face and one in the bowels, which, it
is thought, will prove fatal.
uliix.ugh Adam
;shotß3t ~—m
THE FIRST TRAIN.
The first through train to Van Conover'
on the Canadian Pacific railroad left Mon
treal at eight o’clock Monday evening.
Many of the most prominent men in the
city, including representatives of all com
mercial bodies and thousands of other
I citizens, witnessed its departure and the.
battery fired a salute.
INJURIES BY STORM.
Reports have come in from many parts
of Georgia showing that much and seri
ous damage has been done by the late
I storms. Crops have been destroyed,
houses, trees, fences, etc., blown down,
as well as some buildings struck by light
ning and destroyed.
THE MILLS BURNED.
j On last Saturday night Mr. Flemings’
of Monroe county, Ga., lost his mill, gin
and variety shops by fire. Says his loss is
$4,000. The origin of the fire was by an
unknowm party.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
It is said at the treasury department at
Washington, that the public debt state
ment for June will show a reduction for
the month of about ten millions of dol
lars.
MUSICAL AMD DRAMATIC.
Signor Salvini's fortune is set d.iwn
no less than tUOO.OCO.
Lawrbxce Barrett declares that he re
gards Edwin Booth as the grandest flgur j on
the stage to-day.
It is said that Rubinstein is so popular in
London that a premium of 100 per cent, is
paid for seats at his piano recitals.
Thomas W. Kekne, the American actor,
ha? so far recovered Ids health that he will
be able to resume the stage next season.
Another English professional beauty,
Mrs. Mclntosh, has gone on the stage with
the intention of raking in ths American dol
lars in the near future.
In John 8. Clarke's new comedy of “The
Alps” that eminent actor fills the congenial
part of an elderly English tourist among
those historic mountains.
A new comic opera is announced, with the
title of “A Thousand Em?. 1 ’ It will present
scenes and incident? of life in a newspaper
office and a printer’s composing room.
Mme. Nevada-Palmer has disappeared
for a time from the lyric firmammt and is
living quietly with her husband in Parisi.
She sang at a recent soiree before Liszt and
Rubinstein.
Before leaving London, Sara rate, the
Spanish violinist, refused SSOO which was
offered him to accompany Patti in a single
song at her last concert before her marriage.
He demanded SI,OUO,
Miss Lulu Rathbone, the daughter of
Justus H. Rathbone. »he founder of tbe
Knight? of Pythias in Washington, has made
asuc. e%ful debut in comic opera. She has
adopted the stage as a profession.
A coming American comic opera is
“Bounced, ’ the libretto oi which is the work
of H. C. Banner, editor of Puek, and Julran
Magnus. Louis Lombard of Utica, N. Y., is
composing the music. The cbararters,sceaat
and ineiaents of the opera are esscnt aliy
American.