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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
Hknrt Schafxer, of Potteville, Penn.,
seventy-one years old, in an insane fit "of
groundless jealousy shot and killed his wife,
aed fifty-six years, anl then put an end to
himself with a pistol ball.
A sawmill, boiler exploded at West
Brownsville, Penn., killing two brothers
named Kelly and wrecking the mill.
Skxator Fbye, of Maine, Fpoke before the
Convention of the American Shipping and In
dustrial League at Boston, saying that Con
gress should "put its hand into that big sur
plus and pay for sailing merchant ships under
the American flag." Ten States were repre
sented in the Convention.
The corner-stone of the new Clark Univer
sity was laid at Worcester, Mass. General
Charles Devens presided at the ceremonies,
and Senator George F. Hoar made the
address. 31 r. Jonas G. Clark has given
$2,000,000 for the purposes of the University.
An express train crashed into two palace
cars at the Hoboken (N. J . ) depot, com-
Eletely wrecking them as well as an office
uilding. Engineer Dunn was killed.
Henry George and Sergius Shevitch,
leaders of the rival labor factions in New
York, had a lively Sunday night debate be
fore a large audience in a Metropolitan
theatre.
Two brothers named Cunningham were
blown to pieces, and another man named
Schmidtke was seriously injured by the ex
plosion of a boiler on a small steam launch
at INew ork.
Sonth and "West.
The twenty-fourth annual Convention of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at
Chicago, was welcomed by Governor Oglesby
and Mayor Itocho. Chief Arthur, in his an
nual address, spoke strongly against strikes
and in favor of abstinence from drink. The
Brotherhood now numbers i,000 men.
The twenty-first annual, convention of
American Architects has just been held in
Chicago.
The General Assembly of the Knights of
Labor at Minneapolis has adjourned. Next
year the Convention wiil be held at Indian
apolis. The Anti-Horse Thief Association of Mis
souri has been holding its annual convention
in the town of Mexico. The deliberations
were secret.
Governor Gray has urged the Federal
Court oflicers to undertake the prosecution
of the night marauders and whippers of men
and women in Southwestern Indiana, known
as the White Caps.
Violent windand heavy rain have been
demolishing property in Southern Louisiana.
Colonel A. II. Montgomery, President of
the Memphis Jockey Club, fell dead of apo
plexy a few days since on the race track.
. Extraordinary precautions were taken
to protect the Chicago jail, as an outbreak
and attempt to rescue the condemned Anar
chists was expec ted. A large body of police
were placed in and about the prison. j
A fire in St. Louis destroyed or badly
damaged a number of big stores, causing a ;
total estimated loss of over $SA)()M. j
Mr. E. B. Washburne. the distinguished
ex-Mini.ster of the United States to France,
died suddenly a few days since at Chicago.
He was born in Maine in IS 10, went A Vest in
served sixteen years in Congress, and
was Secretary of State under Grant for a
month.
Perry Ackers, a shiftless resident of
Maxwell, 111., borrowed a revolver, and
starting out with the remark that he was
going to "wipe out some old scores," mur
dered J ustice Schmetzer and Mayor French.
Then Ackers killed himself.
Washington.
Messrs. Oberly and Edgerton, two of
the three Civil Service Commissioners, do
not agree upon some constructions of the
Civil Service law. The former opposes
political organizations of oftTveholders at the
National Capital; the latter thinks they have
a riant to exist.
Counsel, for the condemned Chicago
Anarchists appeared in the United States
Supreme Court and applied for a wnt of
error in behalf of the condemned men.
Roger A. Pryor made the argument for
the prisoners. The other counsel were
Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts; ex
Congressman J. It. Tucker, of Virginia, and
Messrs. Black and Solomon, of Chicago.
2Jine law points were made in the appeal.
Foreign.
Severe snowstorms, accompanied in some
parts by a hurricane, are reported from Italy.
Crops and animals were greatly injured, a
number of houses were unroofed at Pisa, and
several persons drowned in Lake Como.
The carpenter of a Russian schooner mur
dered the Captain and five of the crew, and
then threw their bodies overboard.
Heavy inundations in Cuba have flooded
large districts and rendered many people
homeless.
The Australian steamer Cheviot has been
wrecked. Many of the pass-ngers and crew
were drowned .
Scenes of violence in connection with the
eviction of tenants on Irish estates are still
reported almost daily.
Mrs. James A. Garfield and her
daughter Mollie have arrived in England.
The biggest steamer in the world, the
Great Eastern, has been sold at auction for
$105,000.
The steamer Upuna collided with and e,,nv
the German bark Planteur off Beachy IIoa,
Great Britain. Out of fourteen i; on
the bark only two were saved.
john uickerson, a California capitalist
has been murdered in Mexico by bandits.
Kitah, a town of Bokhara, Central Asia,
has been destroyed by fire. Half its in
habitants perished in the flames.
A widow's house in County Wexford, Ire
land, was defended against evictors by
twenty eight men. The Emergency men
were routed with vitriol, boiling tar and
red-hot iron.
Joseph Condon, Nationalist member of
Parliament, has been arrested, charged with
intimidating a witness,
Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at
Newcastle, England, defended coercion in
Ireland.
The Spanish Queen Regent has signed a
decree authorizing fhe construction of six
ironclads of 7.00J tons each, whic h shall be
capable of attaining a speed of from sixteen
to twenty mi es an hour; also four large and
sixty small torpedo boats.
MGHTS IN MOLT.
Delegates From Thirteen States
Declare War Upon Powderly.
Taking Steps to Leave the Order
and Form a New Organization.
The dissenters from the action taken at the
recent Minneapolis Convention have declared
pen war with the Executive Bbard of the
Knights of Labor and have issued their
declaration of independence. On returning
Trom the convention about thirty-five
delegates, representing thirteen States,
rtoppeJ in Chicago and determined to
bring about a reorganization of the
order. They elected a Provisional Committee
tf five members, of which Charles F. Seib
was made Secretary. A long communica
tion was drafted at Secretary Seib's office,
and was forwarded in circular form to the
Knights of Labor all over the country. The
following is the communication;
To the Rank and File of the Order of the
Knights of Labor:
Indignant at the usurpation of power, the
gross violation of the laws of our order, by
those high in authority, disgusted with those
whose loyalty to . the present ring has been
gained by the pickings they receive as a re
ward for their services; incensed at the
fawning sycophants who crawl on their
knees in slavish submission to the most
corrupt, the most hypocritical, the
most autocratic and tyrannical clique
that has ever controlled any labor
organization, we therefore affirm the motto
of our order, that ''when bad men combine
the good must associate, else they will fall,
one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a con
temptible struggle. " We assert that the hour
has come when, as honest men and women,
we declare ourselves independent of those who
have abused the confidence reposed in them
by our order.
Our duty to the working men and women
demand thai; we at once reorganize the
order of Knights of Labor on a basis which
will secure the autonomy of the trades and
the sovereignty of the districts in all per
taining to their trade and local affairs, and to
prevent it from being used in the future as a
machine to fill the coffers of designing and
unscrupulous men, as it is by those now in
power. We affirm the following to be the
reasons that have compelled this serious ac
tion on our part.
1. The general office has become a luxur
ious haunt for men whose chief aim is to
benefit self, pecuniarily and otherwise, and
is no longer the Jerusalem of the humble and
honest Knight.
2. There has been for more than a year (be
ginning prior to the Richmond session)an un
derstanding, which, for lack of a better word,
we will call a conspiracy, for the purpose of
holding the salaried positions,elective andap-
Eointive, in and under the General Assem
iy. o. This conspiracy has used the secret
channels and the funds of the order to manu
facture sentiment for certain members and
against others. Certain persons sometimes
called "General Lecturers," "General Or
ganizers." "General Instructors," and general
many other things, have been paid extrava
gant sums, both as wages and expenses, when
their chief work was to "fix" certain dis
tricts. The lobbyists of railroad corporations
would turn green with envy did they know
the superlative excellence attained by these
bloodsuckers of the Knights of Labor.
4. Organizers' commissions have been re
fused to members who were known to dis
agree with the methods of the ring, though
the applications were indorsed by the dis
trict assembly to which applicants balonged,
and. commissions have leen recalled because
of the refusal of the holders to fall down and
worship the powers that be.
5. District and local assemblies have been
suspended or expelled and deprived of a voice
in the General Assembly because they were
known as opponents to the policy of the con
spirators. Conspiracies have been hatched against
dissenting members by the aid of corrupt
tools in the district assemblies or local as
semblies, or both of such members.
7. The records of the General Office have
been fixed and decorated so as to rule out or
admit, as the case might be, General Assem
bly representatives.
8. Men have been admitted as delegates to
the General Assembly who clearly had no
constitutional rights to seats, while others
have been refused upon technicalities con
trary to precedent and established custom.
In all cases the test was for or against the
ring.
if. (A) Many thousands of dollars of the
order's funds have been illegally expended
frequently against the earnest protests of
honest and law abiding members.
(B) Extravagant hotel bills contracted b
the families of general officers have been paid
out of the order's funds, as have family
laundry and bar bills.
(C) Funds have been given and loaned to
officers and their friends for their own per
sonal use.
(D) General officers, organizers, and lec
turers have not only been paid liberal salaries
and allowed heavy expenes from the general
ti easury, but have charged additional sums
to the locals and districts.
10. Honest men devoted to the cause of
labor have been made the scapegoats of the
blundering high officials and driven in dis
grace from the movement.
11. Efforts made t y Assemblies to better
their condition have been strangled by the
ring. I is charity to av fr no meaner
reason than in response to the clamor of the
common enemy of labor.
12. The boycott has been used to injure the
labor press, union establishments, and the
products of Knights of Labor and - union
labor for the sole purpose of "downing"
workingmen and women who could not be
used by the conspirators.
Persons who were not members of the
order have been provided, for personal
reasons, with lucrative positions in the
general offic e.
14. The constitution has been altered in an
illegal manner; it has been tampered with,
and measures inimical to the interests of the
order at large have been railroaded into what
is called "law."
15. " AVar has been waged by the adminis
tration ring against trades unions and trades
districts. The motto of the ring has been,
"Down with trades districts; exterminate
the trades unions." This in spite of our obli
gation to extend a helping hand to all
branches of honorable toil."
16. Nearly every important strike or lock
out in which the general officers interfered
was lost.
17. As a result of this blundering, wishy
washy, incompetent, and stupidly arbitrary
policy, the membership of the order has de
creased 217,4 members in one year.
IS. In spite of the de .Tease of membership,
they have increased the annual expenditures
of the general officers to o0.),000.
10. Tnere was no itemized account of re
ceipts and expenditures either issued quar
terly, as had formerly been the custom, or to
the General Assembly.
20. In the General Assembly, arguments
were met by buncombe; gag law was reduced
to a system - by the use of the previous
question; outrageous decisions rendered;
appeals and protests ignored, all for the pur
pose of covering up the rascality of those in
power.
All local and district assemblies in accord
with the above declaration desiring in
formation will please address
r Charles F. Seib,
Secretary of the Provissional Committee.
THE LONG T0UB ENDED.
Return of the Presidential Party to
"Washington.
The exercises at Atlanta on Wednesday in
President and Mrs. Cleveland's honor were
marTed by a heavy rain. The Presidential
party breakfasted with Senator Colquitt at
10 A. M. There were about thirty other guests,
including most of the people of note
in town. The President and Mrs.
Cleveland entered their flower-bedecked
carriages at 11 o'clock, and, with an
escort of cavalry and artillery, made their
way through muddy streets to the Exposi
tion grounds, three miles away. There Mr.
and Mrs. Cleveland viewed the military pa
rade. In the afternoon the President
was entertained by Hon. Julius Brown,
son of Senator Brown. At the
same hour a reception'-in Mrs. Cleveland's
j honor was given by Mrs. Henry IV. Grady.
! At night the President reviewed a torcn
i light procession of the Young Men's Demo
cratic Leagues of the State, and made a
prevh. The party left at midnight for
Montgomery, Ala.
'itie special train containing the Presiden
tial party reached Montgomerv, Ala., at 8
o'clock Thursday morning. Tha visitors
were greeted with booming cannon and the
cheers of a great crowd. The military
presented arms as the President and Mrs.
Cleveland entered their carriage. After
breakfast at the Exchange Hotel, the Pres
ident reviewed the military parade, and
there was a presentation to Mrs.
Cleveland of a handsome solid sil
ver jewel casket, representing a cotton j
bale, and bearing an appropriate inscription i
indicative of the visit to Montjromerv. A !
satin copv of the day's edition of the Mont
gomery Dispatch, consisting of thirty-threw
pages, elaborately and expensivelytrimmed
and enclosed within a handsome crimson
plush roll, bearing on a silver plate an ap
propriate inscription, was also presented to
the President and Mrs. Cleveland by
Editor Fitzgerald. After a drive through
the principal streets, the party
were taken to the Fair grounds,
where, in presence of an immense crowd,
Governor SJeay delivered an address of wel
come. Mr. Cleveland responded, speaking
words of praise for Alabama, its people and
its industrial growth. After a drive around
the Fair grounds the party again took the
special train and started on their journey for
Washington.
At Calera, a junction point in Alabama,
where the special train stopped to change en
gines, 3,000 or 4,00!) persons were assembled,
and among them cO J workmen from Birming
ham, who had come on a special train with
cars gaily decorated. Here three cheers were
given for Mrs. G rover Cleveland and the
President. Mrs. Cleveland remarked sotto
voce: "They have got it wrong end first,"
but the President thought the people knew
what they were about.
At Asheville, N. C, the party stopped an
hour and were escorted through the city in
carriages. From Asheville the train pro
ceeded on its way without further stop,
reaching Washington Saturday evening.
Both the President and Mrs. Cleveland ex
pressed themselves as well pleased with their
journey.
PERIL ON THE RAIL.
Fatal Accidents in South Carolina
and West Virgiua.
A- freight train from Spartansburg and a
passenger train from Atlanta ran into each
other at Greers Station, twelve miles east cf
Greenville, South Carolina, the other
morning. Two persons were killed and
ten injured, one of; whom was ex
pected to die. Both engines were wrecked,
also the postal, baggage and express cars of
the passenger train and the first three cars
of the freight train. Engineer Harris and
Conductor Keville, of the freight train, dis
appeared. On the same day, at noon, the fast express
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, six
coaches, going West, met with an accident 12
miles below Charleston, W. Va. Twenty
six passengers were more or less injured.
None were killed outright, but several were
seriously, if not fatally injured. The railroad
authorities sent to Charleston for surgical
aid, and Drs. Henry Tompkins and Thomas
left for the scene of the accident, reaching
there within twenty minutes.
The accident was caused by a defective
switch, over which the engine, baggage, ex
press and mail cars passed unharmed; but
the three middle coaches, all well filled with
passengers, were thrown from the track; two
of them were turned completely over; one
turned over twice.
Two passengers suffered with broken
backs. It was fortunate that the fires had
gone out in the stoves, or the loss of life
would have been great. Many of the injured
were not able to continue their journey.
Those who were worst hurt were taken to St.
Albans, only a few hundred yards from the
accident.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Chicago's local steam engineers have left
the Knights of Labor.
A Brooklyn factory sold 6,000,000 pounds
of licorice last year to a tobacco firm.
Grape -pickers have been getting as high
as $2 a day in the Napa Valley, California
papers report.
The annual convention of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Brakemen was held recently in
Bingham ton, N. Y.
The International Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers has just held its twenty-fourth
annual session in Cnicago.
California fruit canners find it impossi
ble to supply the Eastern demand for their
goods, though they run both day and night.
It is estimated that a reduction of one hour
in the day's labor in Great Britain would
furnish work for 70J,000 additional persons.
The business of poultry breeding and egg
production is fast increasing at the South,
wheie remunerative prices are readily ob
tained for all products of the poultry-yard.
The Leavy & Britton Brewing Company,
of Brooklyn, X. Y., has begun a suit for
$100,000 damages against the Ale and Porter
Employes' Protective Association and the
Long Island Brewing Company for inciting
a strike among its employes.
The miners in the vicinity of Bessemer.
Midi., having received no wages for months
though working steadily, and great destitu
tion prevails among them. They have placed
aUaenments amounting to $10,000 on six
months miuing properties for their due.
To construct new railroads in the United
States and repair old ones, according to the
estimate of timber of the Forestry Division
of the Agricultural Department, a total of
o0.,712,2s cubic feet of timber is used an
nually. This is equivalent to over 500,100,000
test of round timber.
STRANGE AFFLICTION
A YOT7NQ GIRL. TRANSFORMED
INTO A PEEVISH OLD WOMAN.
Her Vitality Destroyed by an Acci
dental Shock Received in an
Electric Light Establishment,
On the Beeksville road, about six
miles from the town of Lorraine, Ohio,
lives a fanner named Max Harman, who
came from Pennsylvania about a year
a?o, Harman's family consists of a wife
and three children. The oldest, named
Mary, is a young lady nineteen years of
age, who has passed through one of the
strangest and most painful experiences
which ever fell to the lot of a human be-
A chnrt time nrrn shf WAS a TilumD.
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rosy-cheeked girl, in robust health and
of a sunny disposition. To-day, throucn
the influence of a most peculiar accident,
she is in all but years a shrunken, peevish
old woman. The story of this strange
metamorphosis is as follows:
Mary was engeged to be married to a
man named Jacob EbertHi, who worked
for Mr. Harman and made his home with
the family. About two months ago the
young couple came to Cleveland to make
some purchases and see the sights. One
of the young man's friends worked in
one of the electric light establishments
at the time.
Ebertin proposed to take his future
bride through the place and show her
the machinery. It appears that a broken
wire of her panier or bustle, had, un
perceived, worked its way thiough her
dress. While passing along the wire
came in contact with one of the powerful
electric machines, and her hand, resting
on an iron bar at the time, completed
the current, and she received a severe
shock, and fell insensible to the floor.
In a few moments she revived suf
ficiently to be removed from the place,
and was taken to her home. Medical aid
was summoned, and for four days the
girl lay in bed in a paralyzed condition.
Then she regained the use of her limbs,
but immediately began to lose flesh
rapidly, the hair on the left side of her
head turned crrav. and ocean falling
out. After four weeks Miss Harman
was able to be about, but in
that time she had been transformed
from a young, handsome girl into a feeble
old woman. Her form, which had been
plump and rounded, was thin and bent,
and the skin on her face and body was
dry and wrinkled. She had been a
sweet tempered, affectionate girl, but is
now peevish, irritable and selfish. Her
voice is harsh and cracked, and no one to
look at her would imagine that she was
less than sixty years of age.
The Harman family are horrified and
well nigh heart-broken bv the fate of their
once handsome daughter, while young
Ebertin is almost frantic over the change
in his affianced bride.
The physicians claim that the electric
current communicated directly with the
principal nerves of the spine and left
side of the head, and that the shock al
most completely destroyed their vitality.
Instances in which a person's hair has
turned white in a single night from fright,
grief or some excessive nervous shock are
not rare, but this is supposed to be the
first case in medical history in which a
person has been known to step from the
bloom of vigorous youth into the decrepi
tude of old age within a week. New
York Grapftic.
An Indian Community.
The populution of the Cherokee nation
is about 24,000. The nation comprises
11,000,000 acres of some of the finest
land in the world. Of this o, 000, 000 are
"occupied," and 0,000.003 are leased to
cattle syndicates. The Cherokee coun
try is rich in mineral resources. Some
of the finest coal beds in the country are
now in process of development. It is
well wooded, well watered, and is equal
ly applicable to cattle raising or agricul
ture. The land is held in common. Any
Cherokee citizen can cutivate as much
land as he feels like, provided he does
not infringe on the claim of his neigh
bor. He can fence in any amount of un
occupied domain he desires to cultivate,
but must leave a space of a quarter of a
mile between his fence and that of the
next plantation. This vacant space is
used as a common for grazing and road
purposes. RocJuster Democrat.
Hints for Modern Barbers.
Our Saxon ancestors appear to have
devoted considerable attention to the
subject of their hair. Though ignorant
of macassar oil, they discovered that dead
bees burnt to ashes, and seethed in oil
with leaves of willow, would stop hair
from falling off; but should the hair be
too thick, then must a swallow be burned
to ashes under a tile, and the ashes be
sprinkled on the head. But in order
altogether to prevent the growth of hair,
emmets ejzgs rubbed on the place are
found an effectual depilatory ; "never will
any hair come there." Nineteenth Cen
tury. Hugh Whittcl!, a forty-niner, who died
recently at Alamenda, Cal. at the age of
seventy-seven years, erected his own
monument some years ago. It is a splen
did marble shaft, bearing his natie and
the dates of his birth and death, and this
epitaph: "He traveled over the first !
railway ever built in England and crossed
the Atlantic in the first steamship that
ever plowed the ocean. He explored
many lands and died in the fullness of
the faith. Amen."
The Prussian Army List for 1887 con
tains 2 Field Marshals, the Crown Prince
and Count Moltke; 50. cavalry and in
fantry Generals, 70 Lieuteuant-Generals
and 117 Major-Generals. The cavalry
staff consists of 51 Colonels, 38 Lieutenant-Colonels
and 205 Majors; and in the
infantry staff there are 1G1 Colonels, 172
Lieutenant-Colonels and 700 Majors.
The number of officers shows an increase
of 65 as compared with last year.
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