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A FACTION FEDD.
An Entire County in Illinois
in a State of Siege.
Bitter Quarrel Lead to Whole
sale Assassination.
A letter from Elizabeth town, 111., says
that the notorious Belt-Oldham feud, which
has caused the xiurder of not less than a
dozen persons in Hardin County, is likely to
break forth again at any time. Oath-bound
organizations are known to exist among the
lawless people of the hills, and these have
demonstrated that their purpose is assassin
ation. The feud legan with the murder of "DocM
Oldham by Logan Belt in 1S7G. The neigh
borhood divided into factions over the affair.
At this time the ".Sons of Liberty," who
committed so many outrages and assassina
tions, were f ormeiL While the excitement in
regard to the organization ran high, Belt
was arraigned for the murder of "Doj" Old
ham. He was tried on a change of venue at
JShawaeetown and sentenced to fifteen years
in the penitentiary. He served six years and
then was pardoned by Governor Ogles by.
During his incarceration ugly rumors
reached nim alout the conduct of his wife
and daughters: and when ho reached home,
he was divorced from his wife and drove his
daughters from home. Then his wife's brother,
who had boen associated with Belt in numer
ous crimes, went lefore the Grand Jury in
the fall of ISSo and gave his testimony, re
sulting in the indictment of Logan Belt,
"Jim" Belt, Earl Kherwood, George Rat
- cliff, Henry Ledbetter and Matthew Led
better for the murder of Luke Hambrink.
On the morning of the indictment Logan
Belt appeared in Elizabethtown with a new
bride. He was promptly arrested, together
with the others indicted with him. They
were arraigned in April last, and after ten
days trial the jury returned a verdict of not
. guilty,
The desire for revenge in the breasts of the
enemies or .Lorran neiz ana ms clansmen
Lorran Bel
prompted them to become assassins.
become assassins, licit
was warned of his danger and kept his wife
constantly by his side as a precaution. But
on the evening of June 6 last, he drove along
the public highway unattended, and at the
crack of a rifle from a clump of bushes near
the roadside, he fell from his Luggy dead.
Notices were sent to the other members of
the Belt faction to go or they would be killed.
"Jim" Belt was prej)aring to go, but on the
evening of July 18th he was riddled
with a charge " of buckshot within a
'half mile of his own house. George
llatcliff, another member of the Beit
faction, was with "Jim" Belt when he was
killed, and only saved his life by running
away. He has received a notice to leave
Hardin County, but at last accounts he was
safely garrisoned at the home of his Lrother-in-law,
County J udge J acob Hess.
The other members of the Belt faction have
received similar notices and some of them
have oleyed. The friends of both sides now
go armed daily, and band themselves to
gether for protection at night. Many of them
are afraid to sleep in their houses, but,
with guns by their sides, lie beneath
the shade of bushes, alternating with
one another in sentry work. The
Governor has offered the customary rewards
for the arrest of the assassins of Logan and
"Jim" Belt, but no one is brave enough to
meddle with thoso dangerous mysteries.
Strangers in passing through that neighbor
hood meet with a cool reception and are
warned to go elsewhere.
THE LABOR W0ELB.
The operators of the Brazil district of In
ana have yielded to the demand of the
iners for semi-monthlv pay days in accord
d
i
ance witn tne recent law.
The General Secretary of the Knights of
Lalor, Charles H. Litchman, says the Order
will foot up not far from 600,000 members at
the present time.
All the switchmen in the employ of the
Chicago and Alton Railroad in Chicago have
presented a demand to the company for
shorter hours and the abolition of the black
list letter system.
Xkarly 200 new manufacturing indus
tries have started up in New England since
January 1. Of these twenty-six were woolen
mills, twenty-one metal-working concerns,
eighteen paper mills, seventeen, machine
shops, sixteen cotton factories, fourteen
wood-working concerns and twelve hosiery
factories.
The demand for skilled labor in machine
shops of all kinds throughout the country is
greater at this time than for several years.
A number of shops in Indiana, Illinois and
west of the Mississippi are at this time in
need of capable workmen.
Two very large belts now making in Fall
River contain three thicknesses of leather ce
mented and riveted together. One requires
the hide from 75 and the other that from 100
cattle.
A Grand Rapids (Mieh.) paper says that
the Portable House Company of that city is
building eight cottages tor the use of army
oflicers'in Texas, and a larger lot for Califor
nia. They are pretty, conveniently ar
ranged, are" shipped in sections, and cost from
$85 'to $500.
Bicj Stoxe Gap, in the mountain range di
viding southwestern Virginia and eastern
Kentuckv. is to be the centre of eight rail
roads,most of which are now under construc
tinn Thi-fi are larere Quantities of iron ore.
coal, and limestone near the
industrial town is projected.
gap.
and
a uig
The employes of th? Pennsylvania Rail
road having "formed a national trade assem
blv the emploves of the Philadelphia and
Reading road decided to form an interstate
assembly. The men employed on the other
roads propose to form assemblies also, and
there is every prospect that all the railroad
workers in the East, if not in the whole coun
try, will be united under one head.
"Labor Day" was celebrated by parades
of v.orkingmea in many cities throughout
the country.
"Helio, v, here's Jones, the catcher?"
csked the mauager, as the club assem
bled on the grounds. "Caught a bad
t old and couldn't come," replied the
pitcher. "Well, Pm glad he's found
something at last he can catch. Pitts
burgh Telegraph.
FEDERAL FINANCES.
The National Debt Statement for
Last 3Ionth.
During August $4,809,475 of the public debt
was paid off, making for the two months of
the new fiscal year a reduction of 19,054,310.
The debt now consists of f 1,662,905,
2G7.63 principal, and $11,376,543.01 in
terest, making a total of $1,674,0S1,
815.64, against which there is in the Treas
ury available cash to the amount of 1259,
546,540. The following statement shows the
asset3 and liabilties of the Treasury from the
latest returns received from the several as
sistant treasurers, mints and assay offices of
the United States and national bank deposi
tories: Gold coin 169,187,479
Bullion 92,boB,tt$
1232,039,533
Silver Standard dol
lars $213,212,443
Bullion 5,024,420
- 218,036,83
United States notes $28,287,53-3
Trade dollars redeemed.
515,709
Trade dollar bullion 6,6-37. 495
National bank notes 219,313
Deposits in national bank deposit
ories
Fractional currency redeemed. . .
Interest, c hecks and coupons paid
Registered and coupon interest
prepaid 1
551
49,589
723,133
redemption 3,135,413
Interest on District ot joiumDia
bonds paid ;.
Assets not available minor coin
in mint for recoinage
Fractional silver coin
38,465
110,799
26,148,531
Total $593,060,849
Liabilities.
Gold certificates $lll,7a5,547
Less amount on hand 23,008,207
$33,765,340
147,876,385
7,130,000
Silver certificates $153,873,128
Less amount on hand 5,99(5,743
Certificates on depssit
Less amount on hand
$7,550,000
420,000
Public Debt and Interest.
Interest due and unpaid ,
Accrued interest 7,737,687
Matured debt 4,397,715
Interest on matured debt 1S6J31
Interest prepaid, not accrued, as
per Department Circular No. 90. 1, 075,2S0
Debt bearing no interest 551
Interest on Pacific Railroad bonds
due and unpaid . . 18,479
Accrued interest on Pacific Rail
road bonds 646,235
Reserve for redemption of United
States notes, acts of 1875 and
1883 100,000,000
Fund held for redemption of
notes of national banks, 'failed,"
4,in liquidation" and "reducing
circulation" 103,951,505
Five per cent fund for redemption
of national bank notes 8,042,004
Post Office Department account... 4,195,758
Disbursing officers' balances 38,143,455
Undistributed assets of failed na
tional banks 1,785,426
Currency and minor coin redemp
tion account 4S0
Fractional silver coin redemption
account 4,560
Redemption and exchange ac
count 417,S85
Treasurer's transfer checks and
drafts outstanding 5,844
Treasurer United States' agent
for paying interest on District
of Columbia bonds 110,84S
Total
Balances.
Net gold
Net silver
Net United States notes
Trade dollars
Trade dollar bullion
National bank notes
Deposits in national bank deposi
tories .$522,046,610
$193,274,103
70,360,483
21,157,538
515,709
. 6,637,495
219,313
25,923,902
Total $318,0SS,635
Recapitulation.
Assets $593,066,849
Liabilities 522,016,610
Balance. $71,020,239
Gold coin and bullion in the Treasury,$281,-6-30,411;
silver dollars and bullion, $213,140.
223: legal tenders, $28,252,717; gold certifi
cates, $88,003,557; silver certificates, $147,
755,967, and currenc', $7,360,000.
PE0MINENT PEOPLE.
On his Western trip President Cleveland
expects to attend several of the great State
agricultural fairs.
Bismarck is said to be ageing fast. His
hair is snow white and his face is marked
with deep wrinkles.
Kuki, the Japanese Minister at "Washing
ton, is not a convert to Christianity, but has
had his children baptised.
Miss Anna Dickinson, who has been very
ill at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, has so far re
covered as to be able to take short walks.
Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, General Grant's
only daughter, arrived in this country from
her English home a few days since, and will
remain for some time.
Rev. J. M. Sutherland, the evangelist,
after nine years' missionary work in the
principal cities of the country, has decided to
return to the minstrel stage. He was unable
to make a living in the pulpit.
The oldest General of the United States
army is William Selby Harney. He was
born near Nashville, Tenn.. in 1S00, and en
tered the army in IS IS. He was breveted
Major General on March 13, 1865.
Buffalo Bill was never a member of the
Nebraska Legislature. He ran for the office
once and was believed elected, but the rival
candidate contested the election and won be
fore Buffalo Bill could take his seat.
A hitherto nameless peak of the Great
Smoky range of mountains in Tennessee has
just been christened Point Allen, in honor of
a young and aspiring Tennessee writer, Miss
Drumgoole, whose pen name is "Will Allen."
Russell Sage is said to be able to com
mand $25,000,000 in cash in half an hour
during business hours. Notwithstanding his
wealth, Mr. Sage lives very plainly in his
modestly appointed home oa Fifth avenue,
New York city.
Mr. A. Bronson Alcott has kept a jour
nal ever since he was a boy, and, as he was
born in 1797, and has known intimately nearly
every man of distinction in New England
from tbat time to the present, it ought to be
most interesting reading. The journal fills
sixty volumes of neatly written manuript.
which will be given to the world after hia
death.
Miss Alice Brookings, while at work in
a shoe shop at Xatick, Mass., was caught by
her hair and drawn up by shafting, com
pletely teariugaway her scalp and right ear.
When she fed she exclaimed: "Oh, dear,
won't I look terrible!" She was taken to the
Massachusets General Hospital.
A GREAT RAILROAD DEAL.
A Syndicate in Control of the
Baltimore and Ohio Road.
The Official Statement of the
Plan of Beorganization.
The announcement that a powerful syndi
cate of bankers has obtained control of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad makes public
the most important railroad "deal" that has
been consummated in many years, and lifts
the financial cloud which has rested upon the
stock market for some months. By this new
arrangement the Baltimore and Ohio road
passed into the hands of capitalists friendly
to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and upon
terms which remove it as a disturbing
factor in the trunk-line situation, and
make it really a part of a railroad combina
tion that covers more miles of territory than
any other system in the world. The official
announcement of the deal, issued from the
office of Drexel, Morgan & Co., the New
York bankers, is as follows:
"A preliminary contract has been executed
to-day between the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company and S. J. Morgan & Co., Bar
ing Brothers & Co. and Brown, Shipley &
Co., of London, and their allied houses on
this side. The contract provides for the ne
gotiation of $5,01)0,000 B. & O. consolidated
OS.
"Five millions B. & O. preferred stock, for
the purpose of paying off the entire floating
debt of the company and placing it upon a
sound financial basis.
"The conditions are as follows:
"First The verification of statements, &c.,
as made.
"Second That the management of the
company shall be placed in competent hands,
satisfactory to the syndicate.
"Third That satisfactory contracts shall
be made between the Baltimore and Ohio
and the other roads for New York business,
which shall remove all antagonism between
them on the subject and insure the permanent
working of the Baltimore and Ohio in entire
harmony with the other trunk lines; also
avoid construction or threat of construction
of expensive parallel lines north and east of
Philadelphia.
"The houses interested on this side are
Drexel, Morgan & Co., Drexel & Co., Brown
Bros. & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co."
This announcement, the World says, means
the retirement of Robert Garrett from the
active management of the great property
created by the energy and ability of his
father. It means that the Baltimore and
Ohio has become crippled financially by its
long and expensive fight for entrance into this
city and by its maintenance of an unprofitable
telegraph system in opposition to the
Western Union. It means that a combina
tion of capitalists has agreed to come to the
financial assistance of the road and by the
negotiation of $10,000,000 of securities to
place it on a sound basis. It means that the
syndicate does this on conditions which
must appear very hard to Mr. Garrett,
as they place the B. and O.
property in the hands of a syndicate
friendly to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
compel the abandonment of tile long cherished
plan of the elder Garrett, the building of an
independent line into New York paralleling
the Pennsylvania. It means finally that a
handful of capitalists now really control a
railroad system tnat covers nearly half a
continent in every direction, and with the
New York Central system absolutely controls
the trunk-line situation.
No mention is made in this announcement
of the telegraph, but it can be stated as almost
certain that the syndicate will not long carry
the burden of the telegraph, and that the
latter will sooner or later become a part of
the Western Union. All that delays this con
summation is probably the arrangement of
the terms and disposition of the other
telegraph companies which are now
competing with the Western Union.
The sleeping car system of the Baltimore and
Ohio will no doubt go to the Pullman Car
Company, the price of whoso stock has been
rapidly advancing in anticipation of this re
sult. The Baltimore and Ohio express has
already passed into the hands of the United
States Express Company. Thus the great
Baltimore and Ohio system is dismembered,
and its parts are swallowed up by rivals whose
competition it was unable to overcome.
NEWSY G-LEANING-S.
Americans spend
$30,000,033 in Europe
every summer.
A French company are raising Arabian
horses in Dakota.
There are 2,500,000 dogs in Texas, which
aro said to kill $5,000,000 worth of sheep every
year.
Eight "War Governors" have agreed to
attend the G. A. R. encampment at St.
Louis.
Nine cables are used to tell the daily story
of Europe to America and America to
Europe.
There is a storage reservoir for irrigation
building in Arizona which will hold 15,000,
0J0 gallons.
The Iowa State Board of Health reports
that there are 10,000 victims of the opium
haMt in that State.
Black rot has attacked the grapes in sev
eral parts of France, and it is thought the
lo.'sas will be immense.
Mr, W. L. Gilbert, of Hartford, Conn.,
has given $400,000 to found an institution for
friendless boys and girls in tbat ity.
The King and Queen of Saxony Saturday
op?ned an int ?rnational bakery exhibition at
Dresien. America is largely represented.
Russia will celebrate on October 30 the
fiftieth anniversary of the opening of her first
railroad. The country his now 17,000 miles
of railroad.
Tokio, Japan, is about to be rebuilt, and
the harbor is to be enlarged. Brick struct
ures will be erected along the principal
streets of the town.
Within the last few weeks no fewer than
twenty-two tourists, of whom eighteen have
been picked up dead, have met with serious
accidents in the Alps.
Captain Clark, of the Atlantic City Life
Savin Station, his rescue! nineteen drown
ing pei sons this season. During the past five
years he has saved over 150 lives.
TnERE were 7,55S photoriphers in the
United States In 1370 and 9,990 in 1SS0. There
are now about 11,000 parsons engaged in the
photographing business in this country.
Celeryville is one of the familiar names
for Kalamazoo, Michigan, where there are
over 2,000 acres of celery under cultivation,
with a stated average profit of $400 an acre.
rT itti -vi IaItt trill TT-rvmn AtiHitroAi
of the United States Lives in Hiawatha, Kan- !
sas. one Keeps ner eye upon id.uuli
her eye upon lo,000 silk
makers, and declares it to ba the most inter
esting work in the world.
Thc production of anthracite coal for the
six months ending July 1 was 1'",275,72S tons,
the largest ever known for a like period, yet
the stock on hand is less than 500,009 tons
over that of any previous period.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
It Is reported that Washington has released
Shoch.
Ixdiaxapolis has tried twenty-three men
this season.
The Detroit3 received $1,090 for three
games in Chicago.
Mjke Kelly has averaged one run to every
Came he has played.
Nearly 500 three-base hits have been
made in the League so far.
Clarksox, of the Chicagos, leads the
League pitchers in strike-outs.
A hot ball is not to be particularly dreaded
If a man is hungry and it is a fish balL
The Vermont Legislature will be asked for
a law to exempt baseball players from serv
ing on juries.
A temperance plank will be inserted ia
the League constitution at the next regular
meeting of that body.
The Interstate Commerce law has added
thousands of dollars to the expenses of every
large professional club.
The Philadelphia? won 14 out of the first
15 games played in August. This is way ahead
of i he record "of any other club.
Bushing, Fulmer, Kerins, Flint and Ewing,
five of the greatest catchers in the country,
are all laid Up with broken fingers.
Tom Deasley, one of the catchers of the
New York Club, has been release!. Deasley
was bought from the St. Louis Browns several
years ago.
Axsox, the big Chicago captain, says that
if the St. Louis American Association Cham
pions were in the League they would land
about fourth.
Rainey, the new third baseman of the New
Yorks, had a record of 3 put outs, i:J assists,
0 errors, July 27, 1SS3, when pia3ing third
base for tne Torontos.
Miller is the one player Pittsburg brought
into the League there is no division of opin
ion about. All admit that he is one of the
great catchers of the profession.
Daily, the one-armed Cleveland pitcher, is
not such a poor batter as one woula suppose,
lie ranks above Townsend, of the Athletics ;
O'Connor, of the Cincinnatis, and both Toy
and Crowell, of the Clevelands.
The Brotherhood of Professional Baseball
Players held a special meeting in New York,
recentlj. The players want the managers to
agree to a new form of contract which will
be more equitable in its provisions.
Of the League champion players none are
natives of Chicago. Flint, Daly and William
son are from Philadelphia ; Burns from
Honesdale, Penn. ; Anson and Sunday from
Marshalltown, Iowa ; Pfeffer from Louis
ville ; Clarkson from Cambridge, Mass. ;
Darling from Erie : Rvan from Clinton ?
Van Haltren from the Pacific
Baldwin from Pittsburg.
coast, and
the national league.
Won. Lost. Won.
Detroit 61 37 i Boston 53
Lost.
43
4.3
70
57
Pittsburgh 42 54
Philadelphia. .54 45
Chicago 55 39
New York . . . . oii
Indianapolis ... 29
Washington . . .38
THE
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Won. Lost. Won.
Lost.
57
5S
St. Louis.
83 27 Brooklyn 51
Louisville 03 46
Athletic 50
Metropolitan . . 35
Cleveland 29
Cincinnati . . . . o. as .metropolitan . .
Baltimore 59 47 j Cleveland 29 79
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Won. Lost. Won. Lost.
Birmingham. .13 42 I Memphis 51 34
Charleston 50 32 New Orleans... 55 30
THE
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Won.
Syracuse 53
Hamilton 49
Jersey City. ..39
Wilkesbarre.,22
Lost.
31
39
42
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A French writer who knows it all
has been giving his fellow-countrymen
some insight into American politics
through that eminently reliable jour
nal, the Paris Figaro, in this fashion :
"The President is now accused of try
ing to bribe the South. The most ab
surd suppositions are freely circulated.
The removal of the Minister of War
has been demanded, and it is the opin
ion of every one that this affair will
injure Mr. Cleveland, who has next
year to submit to re-election. The
truth is that the flag incident is only a
pretext. The people are discontented
with Mr. Cleveland, not so much as
President, but as a private individual.
This gray-haired statesmen is in love
with his wife. The Americans say that
in this he exceeds his rights. Miss
Cleveland, his sister, last year left the
White House, because young Mrs.
Cleveland had introduced, or rather
reintroduced, strong drinks into the
Presidential dining-room. All the tee
totalers then passed over to the oppo
sition. But this year the President
has made other blunders. He has gone
carp-fishing with his wife in a retired
corner of the Rocky Mountains. It is
true, however, that all the reporters in
the United States were at his heels.
The public read every morning in the
New York papers the place and hour
when the President last embraced his
wife. This was too much. The Amer
icans might have pardoned Mr. Cleve
land for having taken eight days'
leave to go carp-fishing. Carp can be
eaten and sold. But to take eight days'
leave for the purpose of fondling his
wife in the open air is considered im
proper for the Chief Magistrate. There
is a time for all things, and the Presi
dent has no right to pass his entire
days in amorous toying."
Sons time ago several remittances
from the Soo post-office failed to get to
their destination and the old Postmas
ter has been sued for the amount.
When the case came up in the United
States Court at Marquette one of the
jurors happened to be employed in the
nostofficft dpnartmnnt hiaTf ,!
i X X km V CftAAVl
! when he was asked if he knew anything
I about the case he remarked that he j
; rather thought he did. "The fact is," !
he continued, "I have been suspected
of stealing that money myself 1"
Won. Lost.
Newark 53 31
Rochester. 46 40
Toronto 50 32
Buffalo 57 37
Scranton. 14 46 j
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