Harrisburg Daily Independent from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

VOL. XXI II. NO. 1G4. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1888.

Cm A WEEK. SINGLE COPIES, 2 CIS WKSTliltN M.OOIKS. WITHIN SIX WEEKS TKI.KOltAr-llIC SUMMABY. OLNKRAL SHKKtrtAX. BLAINE GOSSIP AT CHICAGO SEVENTEEN YEAR LOCUSTS.

The Independent. langnr to Lire and Property Track Submemcd. -ItMllrond DfLurii. June 13. The waters of tho St.

Louis river continued to rise yesterday anil now extend over a vast tract of land below rond du Lac, sixteen nillos above this city. The cur rent has abandoned the regular course of the river and is now sweeping down thimich tho villain) of Font! tin lae. Tolecraius from Cloquo. last night say the big knife falls still holds. Lumber Man ma tltn u-nt1, liefA OTO 1)10- pai-iug to prevent the great mass of logs from sweeping out into mo laau 11 n-jr DrcaK tnroiigu tno Doom.

Tim St. Paul and Duluth road has abandoned Us track between here and Thorn nson. twentv miles out. Oue train now stands on the track near Fond du Lac, the rising water puttiinr cut the lire in the engine. There is a severe storm near here, and more rain is falling.

Man and Wife Arrested for Murder. TonoNTO, OnL, June 13. Last August Joseph rriostmn, agent this eltv for the Northwestern Masonic Aid Association, was found dead On the street near his residence, having been shot through the head and a revolver was found lying beside him. Priest- man's life was heavilv insured and there were speculations as to suicide or murder, but ne clue was obtained. I.ast night County Constable Smith and wife were arrested cnargeu with havlnc committed the murder.

Smith was the first to discover Priest- man'a dead bodv. and tho detectives, who have been at work on the ease, believe that they have evidence establish ing his connection with the murder. Terrible Erfects of I.lEhtulns. Nothing, perhaps, was more terrible in lightning than that which resulted during a thunder storm at Palmyra, last Sunday. Tho lirst reports of its fatalities fell far short of their awful aggregates.

It killed two cows for Henry Fagan, two for Reuben olfens- burger, two on Brightbill's farm, four for Joiin Kuun, and also strucK a earn and killed one horse and stunned an other. Mrs. Sanders Still MlMing. Mm. Sarah Sanders, who mysteriously disappeared from home on Monday moruing, has not yet been found, ller husband is almost distraeted about her absence and went to Highspiro yesterday but found no traces of her.

Mis. Sanders' father resides at Cambellstown and the anxious husband left for that place last evening. Keslgned a College Presidency. Lancastku, Juno 13. Dr.

Thomas Apple, President of Franklin and Marshall college, resigned yesterday, his resignation to take effect at the end of the year. Ellxabethtown Items. Correspondence of the IXDKfKXbKNT. Ei.iZAiiKTHTOWN, Juno 13. The work of the remodeliug of the Reformed church is progressing rapidly, and whou finished will present a line appearance.

Tha Woowu'j Relief Corns will linlil a strawberry am! ice cream festival on Saturday evening, Juno 1H. A street parade, including the band and the G. A. No. 512, will take nlaco at 0 o'clock.

Children's Day, of the U. B. church. was celebrated on Sunday evening. The programme selected was well carried out.

Will "Malto" Intoxicate? Persons who nass nnr Hni(T stores will notice ou the show wiudifips prettily displayed words painted in water colors, which attempt to induce one to "'drink malto," a new summer drink. Some people say it was gotten up to displace ambrosia, the j'iiiiadeiphta liquid which was tnppressed by the courts of that city. Some drinkers say "malto" is even stronger than "ambrosia" and has an exhilarating effect. Others who have drank several successive glasses have felt no dizziness or intoxicating influence. THK Condition of Money In the New Vurk block 'EW YoitKj June 13.

Money l'i per cent.j Exchange steady; posted rates, actual rates, 4Ts487V for sixty days and 490.4S914 for demand. Government steady; currency, 6a, 119 bid; 4s, coupon 1274 bid; 4Vi9 do. 107 bid. Tho stock market opened firm and on by- ing of some of tho leading stocks prices ad vanced to V3 per cent, abave last nights closing in tho first half hour. Toward it o'clock however, there was a pressure to sell Erie, Lake Shore, St.

Paul, Union Paciflo and Reading, caused by a rumor of the death of the Emperor of Germany. The advance was entirely lost under this selling' market has beeu dull since 11 30 without any feature whatever and at the present writing the lowest figures are current. New York Official Quotations. XT i i. Vnu.

19 an M. 110V, 47 ivi 15 127U. 22' 81 Vi 11 W4 7t 214 4Vi 104 loa'i )4 21 86 7534 Chicago, Burlington and qnlncy Canada Southern Pjuitnil I' a i i. Canadian Pacific. Denver and Rio Grande Delaware.

Lackawanna and Erie, (Sf. L. E. and Kansas and Texas, K. and Lake Shore and Michigan Louisville nnu nasnviiie Michigan Central MiMAiiri T'aj'itle Northern Paciflo Northern Paciho, preferred New York Central and Hudson UnHhnMt id A V.

Wi OntntlA Cnll VfMlJWII Oregon Transcontinental Uregon aim mv iiwu yj Philadelphia and Heading Texas ar.d Paoilie Cnion Pacific Western Union New York Produce Market. Vkw York. June IS. Flour dull but steadv: superfine, fine, 2.25s2.80; Min nesota extra, z.uu.o,a.iu. Wheat quiet; receipts, shipments, 1WS.407: No.

1 red btata. No. 2 93' No. 2 red winter, July, l.Jc. ixrn aun; receipts, o.uou: 8nipmem, No.

2 mixed cash, July, SDVic; do. August, r'jc. uats steaoy; receipts, fv, "ii 204; No. 1 white State, No. 2 do.

41a.42c.; No. 2 mixed, July, Slhifi. Kve dnll. Barley nominal. Pork dull) 14.0014J0.

for 60 test boiling. Turoentinesteady ftt36c. Kosindull; strained to good, IAIN'S Freight rates quiet; grain by steam to Liverpool, 1 'A. Petroleum dull at 94c. Butter dull; Western ereamery, lf220o.

Cheese quiet; Western flat, 16200. Eggs dull; western, Sugar dull; cut loaf and crushed, 8c. Kice nominal. Tallow dull; prime city, 4 3-16c. CoSee quiet; fair cargoes, 15e.

Condensed from elaborate Dlenatnhea to the Independent. A double, tragedy occurred at Port land, Jay comity, Iudiaua, Monday night in which Joe M'Clclland was killed and Jeremiah Mooro fatally stab-heJ. A fight occurred iu which Moore, Charles Williams, James Colo and negro were principles. M'CMland tried to quell the disturbance and was tabbed by Colo and bled to death. At the same time Williams knifed Moore who is badly wounded.

Williams was arrested but Cole escaped. freight agents representing hues doing Mexican business via El Paso and Eagle Pass met at the Southern hotel, St. Louts, ester, lay for the purpose of fixing up a schedule that all can agree on. Poor progress toward an agreement was made. Commissioner Waldo will probably take the matter in hand to-day and inako a schedule for all of the lines.

The pension arrears bill, which will come up before the House to day, is a most prodigal and lavish measure. In addition to the appropriated by tho annual pension hill, to which the President has just aflixed his signature, the new bill to couio tip for dis cussion will, it is said, cost the country $300,000,000 more. The new registration of the city of naiumore is progressing slowlv. Thus far the books show a total oi 51,717 names of voters. From present indications the special Alger train from Detroit, will be called upon to carry to Chicaco Monday, over 2,000 members of Alger clubs.

The fourth reeiment band will accomuanv the clubs. Arrrived Chicaeo, the clubs will make a tour of the principal hotels. Tho Western Union Telegraph Com pany has to-dav declared a quarterlv dividend of 1 per cent. The transfer dooss close June so. Hon.

Robert M'Lane, United States Minister to Krance, left Baltimore to day for New York, whence he will on Saturday sail for Europe. In the Senate to-dav the fishery treaty was discussed while the House whiied away the session in debate on the tariff. At Noiwalk, CU, much excitement has been created by the discovery of a case of smallpox among the Italian la- oorers employed on the sewers now iu course of erection. The authorities say there is no cause for alarm. Four cases of smallpox are reported at Haverstraw, S.

and there is much alarm amongst the readouts. The Treasurer of Corydon county. Iud in his annual settlement stales that he redeemed county orders to the amount of $1:2,000, which had never beeu reported as outstanding. The preliminary trial of Rerlha M. Stanley at San Francisco, better known aj i'jriicr Bertha," who, with her alleged monev under false pretences, was con cluded yesterday.

I'ho two were held In $1,000 each for trial. A sculling match took place to-day on Urn Vitzroy river, Queensland, N. and, nanlon won by six lengths. The, race was or ow pounds a side. ai application for a writ of habeas corpus was made by counsel for AUlnr- man Henry Jaebne, at Jew lork, now in Sing Sing.

After giving a long opinion on the law in the case, Judge tencdict denied the motion. Prof. Edward Danforth, secretary of I he State Sunday School Association, died this morning at 1.15 o'clock, at Elmira, from Brigbts desease. 1 he three three-storv frame building. Nos.

17-21 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, with their contents were burned this meriting. The total loS3 is insurance about $35,000. Lebanon Valley College. of Lebanon Yalley College at Annville will be held to morrow. Rev.E.

S. Lorenz preached the Baccalaureate sermon on Sunday morning. In the afternoon a class of nine persons graduated in the course of study laid down by the Sunday School Biblical Normal Union. Rev. C.

T. Stearn, of Harrisburg. delivered an excellent address to the class. On Sunday evening Rev. H.

A. Schlicter, of Chambersburg, preached to the graduating class of '88. Last evening the alumni exercises were held and this evening Rev. T. T.

Everett, D. of Harrisburg, will deliver an address before the Literary Societies. New Station at Conewago. One of the handsomest stations to be seen anywhere will be that of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Conewago. It will be built of pressed brick, Queen Anne style and two stories high.

The first floor will be for station purposes, the second story to be for the exclusive use of Station agent and family. The building will be fitted up with all modern conveniences and will contain every accommodation for passengers. A shed for sheltering excursionists will also be built near the depot. Union Canal Land Titles. There is considciable dispute between adjoining property owners residing along the defunct Union canal, between Middletown and Reading, as to the title of the land formerly used by the company.

In some cases the title is clearly within the company, whilo at other points the records are very conflicting as to whether the land belongs to the companv or by reason of non usage under its charter it has not reverted to the original owners of the land. Mr. Gretna the Place. To-day's Lebanon Times says: Gen. J.

P. S. Gobin, commander of the Third Brigade, accompanied by Maj. Harry P. Moyer, Quartermaster, yesterday afternoon visited Mt.

Gretna Park for the purpose of laying out the camp for the encampment of Third Brigade. The engineer corps of the C. and L. Railroad Company was present. Adopted a New Name.

The Sixth ward Democratic club have changed their name to the "Cleveland aud Thtirman Ciub." The officers elected last evening were: President, George W. Luti; Vice Presidents, John Hoover and John Bower; Secretary, Ed. L. Madden; Assistant Secretary, James C. Skecn; Treasurer, Charles Jloyer; Marshal, Amos Davis.

The reeular meeting of the club will be held on Monday evening. Ilia Apuetlte in SuMrleut aud Ills Ap-iminuin Is Iietter. Washiuoton, Juue The follow ing bulloUu was issued at I) a. "General Sheridan slept more than usual last night. Towards morning he had a period of gaueral depression following an attack of cough ing.

From this he quickly and easily recovered. At present his appetite is sutticient; his pulse isUHMua; nisres-Dilation 27. and reaular; his tempera ture normal. His appearance Is better." AISEK FKKDKKICK WORSE. A Sudden Change Which Create Most Gainful Apprehension.

Bkrun, Juno Yesterday and last night, were periods of great solici tation and agony in the city, produced by conditions in the case of tho Em peror. Asm all such circumstances, tne real condition is difficult to devise by outsiders, which naturally tends to produce exaggerated accounts and render flying rumors frightful in their import. The facts as now given are that the disease has reached the entrance to the gullet, and that the dividing line protecting tho wind pipe is become affected. Under the circumstances the Emperor has an increasing aversion to food and liquids. lie is calm, submissive and patient to all handling of his disease, but bis objection to food increases his weakness and implicates the difficulties of the attack.

As he weak ens, the disease naturally strengthens in its inroads to a vital part. 1 he Kmpress only leaves the bedside of her imperial husband to seek needed rest and is herself a subject for medical attendance, as her exhaustion is ex treme. The city is very much excited to-dav, the streets being crowded in frout of the palace, while many places of amusement were closed last nffiht. It is the general opinion that the final etui of the Emperor is near. He cannot endure the agony of his case much louger, and his death is now re garded as a question of only a few days, and perhaps only of hours.

The Kuiperor's Case Hopeless. Berlin, June 13. Emperor Frederick is worse to-day. His case is now con sidered hopeless. SUJJBirRY.

ratal Arcident In the P. A K. K. K. Yard Tueedikj Other News Items.

Correspoiulvuce of the lxDErE-rK-r. Si'xnt KV, June 13. A dreadful acci dent occurred in the P. E. railroad yard on Tuesday by which John Fisher lost his life.

He started to so home to dinner ou an engine when ho fell, as is supposed, and got under the engiue mangling hiiu into a shapeless mass. He was not seen until the engine had passed over him. Ho was an old railroader and one of the best yard men that wat about here. He leaves a wife and several children and was a soldier of the late'war and a member of Lieutenant William. A.

Bmner Post No. ood, G. A. R. Mr.

Fisher is the second member of the post that died iu a few short days. One by one the old comrades go to the army above the skies. Zion's Evangelical Lutheran church, of this city, was dedicated to the service of Almighty God on Sunday last, entirely free of all encumbrances. The church is a model of beauty and cost $20,624 Of this sum tho Sunday school did a great work by raising the Ladies' Aid Society by their perseverance paid for the steam heat, which cost $1,400, and the young ladies purchased the chandeliers, the price of which was $o05. The following clergvmen were present: J.

II. Menges, P. of Philadelphia; J. A. Wirt, of Hugheaville; F.

W. Staley, of Wratson-town; S. V. Dye. of Port Carbon; J.

W. Shannon, of Ebysburs: J. A. Koser, of Northumberland; J. V.

bhindel, ot ML Carmel; Gorge Parsons and Charles Heckert, of this city. Rev. S. G. Shannon, pastor of the new Lutheran church of this city, is en'itled to the largest share and praise for the erection of an everlasting monument of energy and hard work.

Almost day and night ho done all kinds of hard woi k. Francis Murphy, the temperance orator, lectures every evening in the court house in this city, to overflowing houses. Quite a largo number of temperance delegates are here from Pittsburg, Lock Haven and Reading. Secret sessions were held on Tuesday for business. over a nundred delegates attended.

Sckike. dolsgs ix court. The Grand Jury Indicts the Disturbers oi the Grantvllie stand Fair. Benjamin Sherman, who tried to chew the face of an Italian named John Check, was sentenced to jail for two The Grand Jnry ignored these cases: Mrs. James Sanders, common scold and public nuisance, prosecutor to pay costs; William Coslew, malicious mischief; Mary Montgomery, larceny.

True bills were found against the following young men who created a disturbance at the Grantville band fair a few weeks since: Edward Gerlock, felonious assault and battery oath of M. J. Shaffer. Thomas Davis, carrying concealed deadly weapons; oath of Charles Rhoades. John Schell, Eph.

Sjhell, Charles 'Coburo, John Walters and James Whitmoyer, felonious assault, etc, on oath of Eli Weaver; and John Schell. Eph. Schell, Charles Johnson, John Walters, James Whitmoyer, Edvrard Gerlock, Thomas Davis, riot, on oath of M. J. Sheaffer.

TO-DAY'S Arthur Dace, a young man charged with stealing a freezer of ice cream'on the night of the Long-Wike wedding, about six weeks ago, was found guilty. Dace, with one or two others, took the cream from the rear of Mr. Wike's residence, No. 112 Wallace street, tben shared it with a number of neighbors, who enjoyed the treat and laughed at the bey's trick, but were subpuenaed as witnesses at the trial. Isaac Vance, be of Conewago and "heifer case" notoriety, was on trial again to-day for the larceny of a heifer from a neighboring farmer.

The same case was tried last January, the jury failing to agree upon a verdict. Harry and Mary Corraan, of Brooklyn, prosecuted for keeping a disorderly house, were adjudged not guilty bnt directed to pay the costs. Frank Toohey was found guilty of larceny and remanded for sentence. We nesday.Juna IS. 18S8.

It is calculated that It will take three ways to do the work in tie Kepublican I convention. Kfkokts to regulate tbe manner of voting at elections in tne jtate oi -ew Tork, by acts of the Legislature, are not popular with Governor Hill. Fostponixo action on tho Mills tariff bill in Congress until next session will Dot be its withdrawal as an issue in the pending canvass for President. Nominations for local and state officers are being made by Labor Union nd Prohibition conventions respect ively iu all parts of the country. Dkatii is waiting at the couch of the Kuipcror of Germany, his case being onsidered hopeless.

The latest cable) trains from Berlin leave little hope of us recoverv. St who are constantly talking about oing to law, are not the people who Ire accomplishing the best ends in pub- Re policy, or the most practical good ia personal benefits. Boomeks who are now awakening he echoes of Chicago hotel corridors re in reality not the factors who will roduce results in the Republican Xa-ioual Convention. Bmokk a Kepublican candidate for 'resident can be nominated at Chicago, me one or more aspirants for the posi-on must be deserted, which will neces- trily create heart burnings. The appearance of the seventeen year icust, the brood of is indicated as the localities where they will swarm his year in a dispatch from Chicago.

Inibouying the opinion of an expert on is showing practical liber- ity and wisdom in the promptness with Inch it ruaks appropriations for the rection and maintenance of light houses needed points along the Atlantic and aciSc coasts. As Shsridax things" in irginia during Grant's pursuit of Lee, is to be hoped he will be able to puh" himself out of his sick room in II 3 liV UjU 311 11 11U -cans of surreuderiug to his disease. I ll'un nee struggle for the Ke- 3. i noiniuatiou for Preaiuont aud ice-President, among the first ar- fvals at Chicago, has a of Blaine inns-ace in it, which will not astonish Itos0 who understand the popular feei ng of that part). Thk peculiar interests subserved iu fc.ie elections of State Legislatures, do ot harmonize in any two or three tates, and "-ence a State election cau-ot be used as an indication of what the esult in any State will be ou National Miles.

Hakribiko can a must be gov- kned without the creation of new ot- es or the imposition of additional ex poses for mere personal service. What ha people want is improvements that ill retrench in expenditures and assure artful, practical administration. Two schemes are said to be under "Consideration by Mr. Blaine's friends to I ominate him at Chicago next week. ess and the other by a slow develop ment of bis strength by which, at a ivert ballot, there will be a stampede in Lis favor.

Tukr is a growing demand for a expressed law that will protect nnoeent people from false arrest by ma- icious parties. Much of this kind of irrest ij made in all parts of the coun- ry, to the disgust of police authorities ind the injury of the innocent, merely gratify the motive of bad people. A Wholesome law to stop such proceedings much needed. Afteb as we have hereto-jre announced, the letter carriers will (make their deliveries in eight hours. Whether this will lessen the number of leliverers, or increase the force of k-arrrers, remains to be seen.

If it t-lioulj deprive tho public of any of he facilities of the free delivery system, there will naturally be some prosests gainst the aspiration. A crKiot's story comes from Pitts burg by wire to day to the effect that Chairman Jones of the Kepublican Xa- loiial Committee has a letter from Jams G. Blaine, which he will read to Chicago Convention, in the latter says be will decline the nomination for President, even if it is unani mously tendered. It will be prudent, after perusing the story of this alleged epistle, to wait for coroboratiocs. FEXSiYLYajriA seems not to be taken into account in any of the National conventions where candidates for President and Vice President are made.

The Democracy had no favors to ask of her and none to grant. Republicans always count on the Keystone State as sure for them, but it cornea to make a candidate for a national office for that party she is not taken into account, and the singular part in this connection is, that the Republicans of Pennsylvania bear with those who thus slight them, and as a role, give the a the largest majorities cast for their candidates for national office, given by any other State in the The Fourth Street Overhead Bridge ot Penna. R. R. Wl be Opened TO THE TRAVEL OF MAN AND BEAST.

A Thoroughfare Closely Connocilng East and West Harrisburg Interests, DOCK STREET BRIDGE TO BE ERECTED. Visitors to, and lmiiiiries concerning the overhead bridge at Fourth atrcot have become so numerous that tho olllcials iu charge think of adopting a plan whereby bullet Ins may bo displayed dally on which will bo slated tho condition of the work, Its progress and pros poctive completion with other minor details. This morning an Inhki-kndkm- representative strolled up the approach leading from Fourth and Chestnut streets aud poked his innocent f.iea through the door of tho barricade. 'Jin; scribe glanced to tho left side of tho entrance and there discovered a shingle on which was printed: "No admittance, except on business." Engineer Merriweather was sought for and found and the newspaper man made happy by securing from the gonial engineer the pass-word by which members of Council and tho press may gain access. The pass-word was "(io In, but mind your own business." The.

news gatherer went and returned safe. From what could be learned by a hasty survey of the bridge it limy bo opened to tho public by the middle of July. If not then within the next two months positively. Since the opening of spring thu work has been pushed rapidly, much to the gratification of all persons inter-estetl. All the spans of tho bridge are practically completed, the side walks excepted, which will also be finished within a week.

Workmen aro engaged at laying tho iloor of the span crossing tne canru. ine space uetween me pier cast of tho canal anil the Heading tracks will be bridged by a heavy frame structure, tho timbers for which arrived this morning. Carpenters were directed to begin work 011 tho trestlo at once That portion of tho bridge between tho pier on tho west bank of the canal, and the Heading tracks will bo protected by neat railing on either side. Tho eastern approach from Tenth street will soon be lilled to tho Heading railroad. Tho roadbed will be a substantial one and of easy rade.

TM latter begins at enth street occupying in part that portion of Mulberry street running along the brickyard. It will bo necessary to protect tho eastern approach by a fence or railing to prevent possible accidents. At the. Fourth street approach somo changes have been lately made. A stono wall will be built to the left to onnect with that at Chut tout and Fouth streets.

The pavement has been graded to reach tbe approach to the bridge ty easy ascent, while wooden stairs extend from the pavement ad joining the old Cumberland Valley depot. VVhen tho Fourth street bridge is thrown open to the public, and the day is fast approaching, the event should be celebrated iu a way that will prove the city's gratitude and appreciation of necessary Work ou tlio dock, street bridge, which has been delayed for several months, will bo resumed at once. The delay was on the part of the City Council, the latter neglecting to comply with the origiual agreement in relation to opening certain streets. Had not the hitch occurred when it did, South Harrisburg would have been benefited by the near completion of an overhead bridge, as their neighbors in the centre and upper end will soon know and appreciate. A bridge at this point will be of incalculable advantage ami everything that Councils and individuals can do should bo done at once.

Grade crossings must be abolished. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have begun the work they expect the city to keep its part of the contract. With the steady increase of population, the rapid growth of all branches of brsiness, and the vigorous push and enterprise; manifested by our citizens everywhere, the necessity of overhead bridges grows more and more apparent every day. Cameron street is becoming the main thoroughfare by which the central part of the city is reached, and overhead bridges will bo the only medium by which the tido of travel may pass safely and expeditiously. Let the bridges be built that tbe city may improve and take its place among tbe foremost municipalities of the Keystone State.

Coming War Against Cattle Men. Somo time ago the cattle men of the Chickasaw nation, in the Indian Territory, resisted the collection of a tax of $1 per bead for cattle grazing on Indian lands, and tho Governor and United States authorities were notified. A peaceful settlement was attempted, but without regard to the Indians. Xow, about 500 cowboys are gathered in the south ern part of the nation. Governor Guy has ordered out the militia about 100 Indians and it is expected that they will at once march against the cattlemen.

Should the Chickasaw authori-tius be unable to quell the trouble, the United States troops at Fort Iteno are prepared, to take the field. Tammany Ratine the Nominations. New Yobk, June 13. The Tammany Hall ratification meeting came off in the Academy of Music last night. The list of officers included 700 Vice Presidents and Secretaries, all well-known members of the organization.

John Cochran presided and General Cochrane and Governor Hill made speeches highly eulogistic of Cleveland and Thurman. President Forster, of the Board of Aldermen, presented the resolutions ratifying the National nominations and platform. A Doctor's Revenge on a Reporter. Zanesville, Ohio, June 13. Frank II.

Gardner, city editor of the Times Recorder, was struck and knocked senseless yesterday afternoon by Dr. James Holden, son of the late Mayor. The paper contained an article describing a chicken fight, and the names of Dr. Holden and his bro among those participate" -seriously injured. L.

Rumors Ttat Ha Has Written Another Letter of Declination. AVOWALS IN FAVOR OF SHERMAN. Is II i Trick Coined bj Cunning Boomers of th) Ohioan? SENATOR QUAY'S HAND IN THE AFFAIR. PlTTsiBURo, June 13 Tho Leader this afternoon publishes the following: F. Jones, Chairman of tho Repub lican Nattoual committee, left for Chi cago last night to establish his head quarters at the Grand Pacitlc He was weighted down with a great secret, and absolutely refused to be interviewed prior to his departure.

In his posses sion was a letter just received from James G. Blaine, which is to be read upon the assembling of the National convention next Tuesday. It states in terms that cannot be mistaken Mr. Blaine's position in regard to the Presidency, and settles for good and all the question of his candidacy. In neither of his previous epistles from Florence and Paris did Mr.

Blaine state positively that he would accept the nomination if tendered him. In the letter which Chairman Jones has, this declaration is most emphatically made. Under no circumstances, Mr. Blaino says, will he permit the use of his name at Chicago, nor would he ac cept were the Presidential nomination unanimously tendered nun. lie Utrtber goes on to indicate that Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, is his preference, and advises tho convention to place him at the head of the Republican national ticket.

Continuing, Mr. Blaine gives quite a lengthy dissertation on the tariff; touches the important issues of the day, and predicts iu glowing terms tho glorious victory for tho liepublicau party in November. He contrasts the campaigns of 18t4 and 1SSS, and shows how this year all the od ls arc in favor of the Republicans. It is said that enator Micrman and Mr. Blaiue have understood each other on the question of the Presidency for several minutes, and that even before Maine man's departure for Europe an arrangement had been entered into between the two, whereby Sherman was to receive Blames support for the nomination aud election and that in case of the elevation of Sherman to the White House, Blaine is to be his Secretary of Stale.

It is also stated that Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, was acquainted with alt the details of the Blaine-Sherman agreement, hence his active work in the formers intere t. tuay is ambitious to preside over the Republican National Committee and to dispense tho fedoial patronage of the Keystone State in the event of a Republican President, and for these reasons he baa taken hot interest for Senator Shermau's canvass. All this ht stated on the most reliable autority, the information coming from a gentle man high in the councils of the Republican party, and very near to Blaine and Sherman. Suspected as a Train Robber. Dayton.

Ohio, June 13. Michael Madden, a boiler maker, is suspected of being one of the Delhi train robbers. Madden left for Ciuciunati last Thurs day night. Monday his friends received an anonymous telegram which was sent from Cincinnati which stated that he had been killed Friday night and that his body was in Illinois. The theory associated with the report is that Madden was the man knocked oil tbe engine and that his companions got pt of om train and escaped to Illinois, where he died.

A Barracks Officer's Defalcation. COLfMBUfl, Ohio, June 13. A sensation was created here by the discovery of a shortage in the amounts of the Quartermaster's department of the United States barracks. Some time ago Captain Collius was relieved and his place was filled by Captain Clemm. During Collin's term of office the assistant was Seargeant Thomai Lacey and to him are attributed the discrepancies.

Bacey found that his shortage was to be exposed and deserted. The amount of the shortage is not known. Middletown Depot Kemoved. The Pennsylvania railroad depot at Middletown was to day removed from Main street to a point one-half mile west, and is now outside the borough limits. The removal ef the building was the result of a difference that existed between the borough council and the railroad company.

The structure was placed upon trucks and taken to its present location with as little trouble as the removal of a chicken coop on a wheelbarrow. Above nigh Tide. City Engineer Cowden, at the request of the United States Signal Service Bureau was engaged in ascertaining the height of Harrisburg above high tide at Sandy Hook to-day. The height is 340 feet and 1 inab, computed from the sea at Sandv Hook to the stone step on the first floor of the post office. Engineer Cowden will hereafter base all his calculations for city work from tHat point.

Other points to be used by the Signal office in this city will be ascertained by the Sergeant in charge. Barclay Peak GeU Twenty Tears. Mount Holly, N. June 13. Barclay Peak, who pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree for having shot and killed his cousin, Katie Anderson, was to-day sentenced to twenty years Twelve Cents Instead of SIO.OOO.

New Yokk, June 13. In the suit of Miss Minnie Terry against the wife of Dr. Perrine for $10,000 damages for libel, which was tried in this city, the jury yesterday returned a verdict for the plaintiff for twelve cents damages. Exports of Cotton. The total exports of cotton from the United States during the nine months which ended on May 31 were valued at $203,514,208, against $193,870,171 during the corresponding period of last year.

About the Outcomes of the Approaching Republican National Contention. BOISTEROUSLY BOOMING BLAINE. Sherman, Gresham, Allison and Alger in Antipathies With Each Other. CONJECTURES AND PROGNOSTICATIONS Chicago, Juue IU. The city to-day is in a bun iu a ferment, which really sounds like tho first mutteriugs of a cyclone before it bursts with energetic fury.

Strange as it may sound and appear to people at a distance, the only activity now in Chicago by the crowds which arrive with every train of specta tors and delegates to the Republican National Convention, is that iu the interest of Mr. Blaiuc. In these dispatches the purpose is to give tho facts of the situation as they appear on the surface of conditions and as they are presented iu the surroundings. No other man mentioned for the Republi can nomination for the Presidency im bues the same elements of strength that are presented in the name of Mr. Blaine.

No matter what he has said or written about his candidacy. It is the orhce seeking the man, without regard to his wishes or private desires. It is a great party, beaten by a very narrow popular majority iu a single State which decided the election four years ago, now determined to take the same leader and go forth to meet the party and its leader, which then carried the day. No one denies the merits aud abilities of the other aspirants all of whom have their friends, but it has becomi a furore with the great mass of the delegates aud people alrealy on the ground, as it is the undoubted desire of the Republican masses all over the country, that Mr. Blaine be given the nomination again, in order that the Republicans of the United States can vindicate their power tor victory at the ballot box on measures, aud prove their deep devotion to a man whose very being, fame and personnel arc Identified with them.

A Snemian northwestern liepublicau savs that under no circumstances can Senator Sherman be nominated. There is not the cohesion iu the Sherman ranks that was expected to be developed, and ha will not get the votes ho expected, but he will still have the power to contribute, to a deadlock temporarily. Between Sherman and Gresham there are antagonisms which cannot be al- lavctl, and the same antipaties exist be tween Allison and Alger. This quar tette are antipodes, each in himself, witii a feelins among the Sherman men that the other three arc of tke character of intruders on domain which the Ohioan 1 believes he shorlld be allowed to occupy unmolested. Under these circum stances neither one nor the other of the four men will contribute to either's suc cess.

Blaine's friends claim that they will go into the convention with a strength equal to the combined force of Sherman, Greshaiu, Alger and Allison, which sounds like bombast, but is nevertheless made with auair of agres sion that has all the appearance of confidence to carry it along. There is no sincerity in the devotion manifested for either of the four men mcntioued on the part of their supporters. The Ohio delegation is not sincere tor Sherman and will not move with anything like tho electrical force necessary in n-h affairs and the desire of many Re-1 publicans is to exceed the furore excited in the Democratic convention when Mr. Cleveland was nominated. Chicago never was in better condition to receive and accommodate a great crowd, than it is now.

Its sanitary elements are of the hichest order; its streets are magriricent in cleanliness; its water supply is excellent; all the hotels are supplied with extra fire escapes, and will be thoroughly policed, and the illuminations of the city, with additional electric lights, will make it brilliant in the extreme, Chicago intends to make more capital out of the coming Republican convention than ft gained from any similar eathering within its midst, since such assemblages were convened therein. She must eclipse St. Louis or surrender her long claimed prestige of superiority to that city. GARFIELD NUPTIALS. The Dnnble Wedding to Occur in the President's Old Home on Thursday.

Mestor, Ohio, June 13. The double wedding at the Garfield mansion will take place in the library of that building on Thursday afternoon. Precisely at 5 o'clock Mollio Garfield will be married to J. Stanley Brown, and immediately after the benediction Miss Belle Mason will become the wife of Harry Garfield, who was his fatber's-fcuonte son. The double ceremony will cw performed by the Rev.

William Davis, of Worcester, formerly pastor of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian church, of Cleveland, of which Mrs. Garfield is a member. The ceremony will be private, but about one hundred persons will enjoy the wedding supper, "which will be served by a Cleveland caterer. Immediately thereafter the two couples will go to Cleveland, whence they will leave for New York. After a short stay the metropolis they will sail for Europe, returning to this country in the autumn.

The wedding trousseaus of the brides are magnificent and the floral decorations and jewels will be rich and rare. Honoring the Dead at Gettysburg. June 13. Shaler's Brigade Association arrived here yesterday afternoon. In the evening a camp fire was held, and among the speakers was General Alexander Shaler.

The brigade marched to Culp's hill this morning, where, after an address by General John Cochran, of New York, each of the four regiments will dedicate its mennment. This afternoon they will view the second and third days' fislds. Appearance This Year is Indicated Dj an Expert. IN SOME STATES AND TERRITORIES. Mother Poisons Her Children and Cool) Admits the Enormity of the Act DENIES THE KILLING OF HER HUSBAND Chicaoo, Juue 13.

Dispatches from points in Northern Iowa and Western Illinois report the appearance of swarms of seventeen-year locusts. Frofessor Kiley, United States Knto mologist, who is at preseut in Chicago, when asked about the locusts said that a well-known brood occurs this year, and this periodical visitor may be looked for in wooded portions of Illinois and Iowa, and also in the following terri tory, as indicated by the experience of 1S71 Wisconsin Waukesha, Walworth, Jef ferson, Rock, Green, Dane. Iowa Grant, Crawford, Richmond and Sauk counties. Indiana The boundary iu this State is not well defined, but includes the extreme northwest counties. Michisan In this State, the southern tier nf conuties, extending from Lake Michigan east to the midtile of the State.

Pennsylvania Lancaster county, the southeast by eastern portion, known as the "Feouea Valley." This locality was not verified in 1S71, although there is no doubt of the appearance of the insect in immense numbers in lS-4. In replv to a question as to whether the grasshoppers are to be destructive the Professor could not ex press a positive opinion. I to three years ago he had been able to confidently state the prospects in advance, but since then he has )een unable to get together sufficient data as to the extent of egg deposit to justify a predic tion. He has just received a telegram from the office that the young are hatching in immense numbers in parts of Minnesota, and, with weather favorable to them, considerable injury may be done, especially as the average period between visitation has expired since the last troubles. One thing he felt sura of, however that they will never do as much injury as they did between the years 1S7 and 1STJ.

AX ArrAIAING REVELATION. A Mother Tell How She Murdered Her Children. Philadelphia, June 13. A most revolting story of the poisoning of two children by their mother and the possible murder of the father through the same rueaus was made public yesterday afternoon for the first time. Although the last of the thre mysterious deaths occurred over two weeks ago, yet the fact that arsenic had been the means employed was not fully established until Sunday last.

Since then the horrible particulars were brough1 pieverceal to the surface by Coroaer Ashbridge, assisted by Clerk Donal and Detectives Geyer and Crawford, culminating yesterday in a full and absolute confession from the murderess. The victims are John Whiteling, aged 3S years his stepdaughter, Bertha Story years of age. and son William. 2 years and 2 months old. The family lived in the rear of No.

1227 Cadwallader street, a small thoroughfare east of German-town avenue, above Girard avenue. Wbireline- was attended bv Dr. George W-. Smith, of 1320 Walnut street. and when he died, on March 2v) of the present year, the phvsician gave a cer tificate ascribing death to inflammation of tne bowels.

The girl Bertha was suddenly taken ill a month later and Dr. Smith was again called to the house on Cadawal- ader street. When she expired the physician attributed death to gastric fever. Dr. George Dietrick, of No.

1232 North Fifth street, was called to attend the youngest child, and although he was Informed of the peculiar circum stances surrounding the other two cases his suspicions were not aroused when the boy died, as the doctor believed, of congestion of the bowels. The svmp- loais attending the illness of each were singularly similar, but as it was understood that death was due to natural causes no official investigation was deemed necessary. Tariff Bill to be iduCjtoMle. Washtsotos, June 13. There is no longer any doubt that Chairman Mills is fully convinced that he cannot pass his Tariff bill, and therefore, the measure will be laid aside at the close of this week, not to be called up again at this session.

This is a concession which greatly irritates the tariff reform ers and incenses many Southern Demo crats. Representative Randall and other protection Democrats accept it as a confession of weakness on the part of Mr. Mills, but will still maintain their antagonism to the principle which the measure embodies. As the Democracy at St. Lotus endorsed tbe jlilis bill, it is of 3urse now part of their platform.

Stop I'selew Whipping of Horses. Philadelphia, Jane 13. A resolu tion was adopted yesterday by the So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals requesting the secretary to notify the presidents of the various passenger railway companies that "the useless wuippin- oi norses must oe dis continued." Census of Kaltimore. Kiittuari' nn 1.. Ti ru itn- partment has just finished taking a AAn, rt trio rvmnlatinn or tnAritv in.

eluding the newly annexed sections. The results snow loe numoer oi inhabitants to be 416,805, of which 04,500 are colored. Want to be a V. 8. Washtxstos.

June 13. Indian Com missioner Atkins to-day tendered his resignation, to take effect at the pleasure of the President, and will leave in a day or two for his home in Paris, to enter upon an active canvass for elec tion to the United States Senate,.