WHITE CAPS’ OUTRAGES. du Adventure in Ohlo—A Warning Ushceded—The Outlaws Peppered witk Small Bird Shot from Shet tung. rs A ——— CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—Mr, Eddison vance, a well-known resident of Rut land, Vi., is visiting friends on Wash- ington boulevard, For nearly three weeks prior to his Chicago visit he had been staying at the home of his uncle, Aaron Vance, who lives near Sardinia, Ohio, at present thescene of White Cap outrages, Mr, Vance says he had a thrilling experience with the ruflians and was handled roughly by them, The story, in his own words, is as follows: ‘| arrived at Sardinia the night of November 9th, My uncle, whose farm is situated about three miles from the lown, met me at the depot with a horse and buggy. We stasted for his howe shortly after 9 o'clock. The route was lonesome, The greater part of the way lay through a valley, and the hills are heavily timbered. About a mile from town a man on horseback passed uns, His head was enveloped with a white loth, and he was nding at a terrible ace, My uncle said: ‘There goes me of those cursed White Caps; somebody wili get whipped to-night.’ Dur couversation naturally continued wm this subject. About half a mile further on, at the edge of a woods, 3 a drinking trough for horses, My uncle drew up to it, and got oul to looten the check from the horse’s head, He had been telling me about the de- predations of the band, and continued talking while the borses was drinking. He naturally talked in a loud tone, apd ip the stillness he could easily have been overheard by any one coucealed within 20 yards, My uncle awong other things, said ‘I know two of them rest, in the penitentiary. has the reputation of always started. We arrived at the house about 11 o'clock, and retired shortly after, [1 was tired and slept soundly. had got up. through the centre. In the bones and picture of a coffin. scription which read: ‘Aaron Vance, you’d better be careful as to what you says, and dose. This is a warning if worst of it. ‘White Caps.’ **On the steps was a bundle of beech held them together was a tag, on which was written “Weapons of Reform.’ warning and the bundle of whips, first words were, ‘The devils must have been in the woods last night when we watered the horse,’ intention of going into town and pur- chasing firearms. He returned in afternoon with two shotguns, three re- volvers and a quantity of ammunition. Then he posted a notice on the fence not fear all the White Caps in had hung a few of them. I tried dissuade him from putting up the tice, but the old man was stuck on the front door, named Harwick to watch On the fourth might man premises, he surrounding the house. We arose aud dressed hurriedly. Arming ourselves, we wi nt to the front window. 1 should judge there were 30 masked men in the yard. “*Who are you, and want? asked my uncle, “The foremost horseman replied: We wants you, and we are going to have you,’ “+All right,’ replied the old man; ‘come on,’ “With that be raised his shotgun and fired Into the middle of the group. what do you his horse, ‘L'hey picked him up, and all turned and galloped away. In about two hours we heard them re- shot and, as they dashed Into the yard, we did not hesitate to fire at them. The volley seemed to rattie them. Again they went sway. We heard nothing for three days I sup- posed they had gotten enough and would let us alous, The third night about ten o'clock we heard a nolse in the barn, and Hardwick and I went to see what was the matter. I never thought of white caps, “We left my uncle with an old woman servant alone In the house, We had hardly leit the house before I was struck down, and taree men, their faces covered with masks were on top of me, At my side, Harwick was suf. fering fromm the same violence. They bound us with cords and half carried and led us to the barn, Oue of them eald to us: “We mean you no harm if you keep still, We are going to teach Adlon a lesson to keep his tongue Lied, “Then all but one went away. The man Jeft with us took a seat about 10 feet away and uever took Lis eyes from us, “In a short time we heard a report of a gun and then followed a perfect insilade. Shot after shot was fired, and 1 remember of wondering how my uncle mapaged to load and fire mapidly., A few minutes later a ho opened the barn door and beckoned to our guard, He immediately left us, did not ses him again. It was ay light hen my uncle ope h ggaae HH ne] vant, who loaded the guns, he had been able to fire so rapidly. Two days before I left my uncle got a letter which said that the White Caps would bave re venge if it took all winter. I tried to induce him to go away until the gang had been brought to justice, but the old man sald he would fight tae baitle out from iis own castle, When 1 was at my uncle's some neighbors were whipped, though innocent of any dis regard of public morals,” ni——— a AAG WOULD NOT STAND THE TEST. A DESSEMER CAST STEEL GUN BURSTS INTO PIECES WHILE DEING TESTED AT ANNAPOLIS, AXNATOLIS, Md,, Dec. 5,—At the second test of the Dessemer cast-steel gun at the proving grounds, at the Naval Academy, this afternoon, the gun burst into pleces, breaking the heavy timbered platform it was on into a thousand fragments, The first charge was 56 pounds, the second 48-—the regulation charge. The gun, made of Dessemer cast steel by the Pittsburg Steel Casting Company, was 16 feet 1 inch in length, and weighed 10,000 pounds, It was charged with 45 poundsof powder, and shot a concave vall of 100 pounds, The property about $5000 by the burstin of the gov, Ensign Robert Dashiell. cne of the officers who made the test, said { the experiment proves that Bessemer cast steel will not do for great guns; i 1t has not the elasticity nor the tensile | strength, The gun exploded had a {| pressure of 14 1 10 tons to Lhe square {inech, It was shatlered from the trun- { nions to the butt into over 20 pieces, | From the trunnions to the muzzle it remamed in one piece, The gun showed weakness In the breech, where it ought to have strength. A DYING MAN'S CONFESSION Alleced Br velation ef an loeendiary Fire, Which had Terrible Conse. ffuvnees, Radiger, of this city, liam has just of a dylng man, Heinrich Schance, a bridge builder, of Chicugo, made to : Radiger mn that city last May. Schance’s confession, ln substance, is as follows: ‘In 1844 my partner, Schultz, and myself robbed a barn in Prussia, and to throw off suspicion we iset fire to the barn. A strong wind 100 houses and stores were in flames, { The suffering that might was horrible; | many mothers and children perished in ithe flames. I.arge rewards were | offered for {deed, but w- were never caught. As people ga iwred at the fire, { we stole away tvrough the woods | I immediately took a steamer for America, came to Chicago, and have been here ever since, My partner was | a braver crimiopal than I. He remained and 18 still living in Colverte, Prussia, | where he is a wealthy merchant.” Schancs enjoined upon Radiger that { he should forward the confession the German authorities, and to-day the | latter nade a sworn statement of the | facts, which he forwarded to the Ger- | man Consul at Cincinnati, Mr, Volike. A PROPOSED UNION A MOVEMENT TO UNITE IN ONE OR- GANIZATION ALL THE RAILROAD EMPLOYES IN THE UNITED STATES, EXCEPT CONDUC TORS, PitTrssu ng, Dee. 6,—~A movement is ou fool to erganize a feleration of ratiroad employes in the United | Siates, excepting comnductors, and a | meeting looking to that end wiil be held in this city early in January. The union will embrace the Brotherhoods of Loco- motive Engineers, Firemen, Brakemen, | Switchmen and Yardmen, and it is claimed will have as membership of 100,000, Secret meetings have already been held at Columbus and Chicago, and the plan of federation is now in the hands of the Grand Chiefs of all | the organizations enumerated, In speaking of the proposed organiza tion, a Fort Wayne Rulroad engineer said last night: “Among the features will be an in- {surance and strike fund, and one of | all i will be that no organization will be consent of the General Board of the | Federation, This will result in fewer strikes, but whenever they do occur they will be of tremendous power, as the railroads of the entire country cau be tied up if necessary to secure justice and victory to the men, “While the Federauon will theoret« ically unite the 100,000 ratiroaders into one organization, yet tue autonomy of every separate brotherhood 18 to be carefully preserved with their local officers and governing rules,’ IN SOLDIERS’ ORPHANS SCHOOLS: Hanrisnunre, Pa, Iwo, 6.—Thero ment of Soldiers’ Orphans’ Schools a pamphiet, containing a complete list of all the soldiers’ orphans now in the schools under the care of the State who will become sixteen and be discharged during the coming year. The list is ar ranged in schools, and there has been added the date at which each ehild will be discharged. Copies of this list will be sent to each post of the Grand Army of the Republic in the State, and to pumerous soldiers and citizens The object had in view is to Interest as many as possible in obtaining homes aud ewployment for the orphans upon leaving school, A summary shows that a tolal of 366 will be discharged ju 1880 trom the several schools, as follows: Chester Sprices, 44, Hartford, 25; In- dustrial, 2; Mansfield, 27; Mec Ailistor- ville, 27; Mercer, 41; Mount Joy, 30; 8. 0. institute, 42: Uniontown, 43, White Hall, 80; St, Paul's Home, 8; Tressler Home, 17, Apologies for COhristienity were addressed by Justin Martyr to tte Em or Antonius Plus, about A. D. 14 Vr THE HAYTIEN TROUBLE. —— THE STEAMER HAYTIEN REPUBLIC JLLEGALLY SEIZED. SECRETARY ICAN MAN-OF-WAR TO PORT-AU-PRINCE HER RELEASE. New York, Dec, 4.—A letter from Secretary Bayard to the owners of the steamer Haytien Republic, which is heid by the Haytiens as a prize, having been condemned for running the blockade, was made public to-day. The Secretary declares the seizure illegal, and states that an American man-of-war will be sent to Port-au- Prince to demand the steamer’s release, Itis expected that within the next twenty-four hours the U. 8. corvette Galena will sail from the Brooklyn | Navy Yard under orders to proceed with | all despatch to ort-au-Prince, Hayti, the seat of the revolution on the island, and demand from the Haytlen Govern. { ment the releare of the American | steangshiip. 8 tary Bayard to-day wrote the agents of the ill-fated American steam- ship that **the validity of the seizure BAYARD BAYS AN AMER WILL BE SENT TO DEMAND | Republic cannot be admitted.” | “I have so Informed Mr. Preston, | the Haytien representative at this capl- | tal,”” writes Mr, Dayard, ‘‘whbo has | been instructed by his Government to ito the Government of the United States.” Mr. Austin sald that the owners of the ship would leave everylhing to the Government now. “We shall bring suit agaiust the Haytlen Government, under General Legitime,”” he added. ‘““The passengers were ili-treated, one of the crew has died of yellow fever on board while at Port-au-Prince, and the lives of all the officers and crew Lave been endangeied,’’ Mr. Prestou, the Haytien said: **I think it wouid be very lm- proper for me to make public the ofli- cial communications wich I have with your government,’ Consul Geperal Bassett sald he had no news to give, aud declined to say anything at all about the lHaytien tlepublic. Admiral Gherardi sald he was sur- prised at Secretary Bayard’s decision, “If the Navy Department decides to send a ship to Hayil,” he sald, *‘there | is the corvette Galena, She can be got in readiness at short notice and is an efficient little ship, Then there Is | the Yantic just out of the dry dock. She, too, will be ready for sea within & few days, and the llichmood may be {cleared In a week MR. BROOKS THINKS THAT ANY AT- TEMPTS TO AMEND IT WILL FAIL. HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec, 5.—Among the legislators at the Capitol to-day was Regresentative Brooks, author of the High name, He was asked whether the law would be touched at the coming ses~ sion of the Legisiature. **Well,"” sald Mr. Brooks, ‘there may be some al- terapts to amend it, but they will not succeed. In one feature both Philadel- phia and Allegheny are particularly de- sirous of amending the bill, and that is in taking the power of granting licenses from the hands of the Judges; they either want that or they want the power of discretion taken from the Judges; that is, every man shall be granted a license who asks provided he pays for it. It will not work, however, as this is not a special | act, and special features cannot be in- {troduced as amendments,’ “Will an attempt be made to reduce the fees?’ “On the contrary, if anything, fees will be made higher.’ —————— i — BERY. A BOLD ROB the > ¥ioux Urry, lowa, Dee. 3.—A bold attempt was made early Sanday morn. ing to rob the safe in the office of the Booge Packing House. About 2 o'clock four masked men rusted upon Thomas Coleman, the walchman, and over powered him. A gunny sack was Lied over his head and his hands and legs were secured and he was laid down in a corner of the office, man did not rept the engineer, the assistant engined and the tank men went successively 0 see what was wrong, and each in turn was seized and bound like Cole man. The burgiars worked hard to open { the safe, but, at 4 o'clock, they broke a drill, and gave np tLe job after going through the pockets of the captured men securing $65. Had the burglars succeeded in opening the safe they | are not negotiable, The police beheve | the thieves have been connected with | the establishment, but have no positive | information upon which to make | arrests, POWDERLY INTERVIEWED. Cricaao, Dec, 6A despatch from | Columbus, Ohio, says: General Master | Workman Powderly, speaking last avening of the recent Indianapolis Con. vention sald: ‘we are weeding out the trouble- some elemenis. For some time there hag been an Anarchistic element in the Order. with all of our stitutions, feel per- ! i { Order and succeed In quarrels, We have noroom forany kind of Anarchists in the pountry, They have opposed me, and it has simply been ® question whether they should gogor IL. So far 1 have come ont ahead, The Kn ghts of Labor, it is true, Such organizations hnve their ebb and w. the membership is growing. “We are not opposed to strikes, but believe iu reason before strikes, not strikes and reason afierwards,”’ ~= An explosion oconrred 1n the Mid. laud Mive, at New Castle, Colorado, on the atternoon of the 34. One man was killed and eight were injured, soversl of whow are not expected to fecoVel Nh nh We, a Ha ® ¥ iad Na k » oy CCU 650th CONGREES,-Second Session, BEM ATS. In the United States Senate on the bth, Mr, Vest offered a resolution con tinuing the select eommittes on the meat product and transportation of the United States, with leave to sit during the session and the next recess, The resolution was referred. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution continuing the Se- lect Committee on Relations with Canada, with power to sit during the rocess and report in December, 1880, The resolution was referred, A reso- lution offered by Mr, Plumb was adopted, Instructing the Committees on Epidemic Diseases to inquire into the yellow fever in Florida and If legisia- tion is necessary to prevent other In- troductions of the disease, The Tariff bill was takep up, and Mr, Harris of Tennessee, moved to lay the substitute {the Senate bill) on the table. The motion was rejected—yeas, 19; nays, 26. The Tariff bill was proceeded with, and the end of Schedule A reached. A motion to strike out all the sections relating to aleohol used in the arts and manufactures was lost yeas, 17; nays, 24. After an executive ses. sion the Senate adjourned, In the United States Senate on the { 41h, bills vere introduced and referred | for the comstruction of two steel rams and two cruisers, to be | dynamite guns, Mr. Frye moved to proceed to the consideration of the | Union Pagific Settlement bill, On mo- tion.of Mp Aliison the Tariff bill was taken up, but, the D:mocratic Sena- tors uot ising ready to offer proposed amendmegis to the first section, relat- ing to tobgeco, the bill was laid over and the Sduate adjourned, In the Cnited States Senate, on the 6th, a copmunication was presented from the Secretary of State, with a certiled py of the [inal ascertainp- ment of Presidential Electors in Kan. isang, Tha presiding officer said that similar catificates from the Slates of | Maryland, North Carolina and Georgia had also been transmitted Ly retary of Fale, and desired Lv know | whether tley should be ei tered on the journal or placed in the archives, Aller some debe a provision of the law of February, 1887, wus read, requiring the Seerviiay of thie Nec. State to transinit copies of puch correspondence to both liouses of Congress. The papers were erred 10 the Com mittee op Privileges and Eleclions, The Tarif Will was considered. No | amendwet, beyond two changes of phraseology, was made to Schedule B, covering eartvenware and glass, Schedule (0, relating to metals, being taken up Mr. Plumb, of Kansas, offered agamedment reducing the rate on beams girders and joists from 11-10 to 5-10 edits per pound, and Mr. Har- ris movedto make the rate 6-10, With- out actiog on the amendments the bill | was laid snde, Mr. Butler introduced a constitd ional amendment enlarging the Presifental term to six years, Ad- journed. HOUSE, In the Bouse on the 4th, leave was granted Be Committee on Appropria- | tions to #t during the sessions. Mr, Dingley, ¥ Maine, during the closing days of te last session, succeeded in having nide the special order for the 4th a bilior the erection of a mwonu- iment to General Henry Knox, at Thomasté, Maine, and subsequently Mr. Kilgge, of Texas, entered a mo- tion to pconsider the vole by which the specid order was made. Mr. Ding ‘ley on tis 4th called up this motion and movd to lay Jt on the table, After much deldla, the opponents of the hall fililbusteriig agalust it, Mr. Dingley yielded ® Mr Mansur to offer an amendmeit locating the monument In Washingtn, The previous question i was thed ordered ou the Wii and amendmelt, but Glibustering was re- sumed ull, at § o'clock, the House adjourned In the fouse a number of bills and resolution were introduced under the call of Rates. Among them were bills by Hr. Oates, of Alabama, to regulate thmigration; Mr. Vandevere, of Califorfia, to divide that State into two Staté, and by Mr, Stewart, of Soorgia, establish a graduated in- come tax br the payment of pensions, Mr. Springer asked unanimous consent for the idmediate consideration of a resolution! making the bill for the ad- mission offDakota, Montana, Washing- ton and Jew Mexico a special order until dispped of Mr, Grosvenor, of Ohio, obiefted, The Senate bill for the adjustmen} of the accounts of Govern- ment workmen under the Eight Hour law wis discussed, Mr. Springer asked utanimous consent for the adop- tion of § revolution making the Senate biil for Me admission of South Dakota {a spedal order from to-day until | disposef of, leave being granted far the efferingof the House “'Omnibus’ bill as a subtitute, Mr. "ayson objected, and li up the Des Moines River land Titles bill, which was | passed. Adjourned. In ths House on the 7th, the Speaker | annourbed the resignation of Perry | Belmod as Congressman from the First bistrict of New York. The | order Hr the consideration of the | Direct Tax bill was modified so as to make ihe special order for yesterday, taken | of the fhole. The District of Colnm- | bia Ap {ation nll was reported and | the Houle adjonrned, | THE GRAND MARSHALSHIP OF THE IBAUGURATION PARADE. C—O Han®sptne, Pa, Nov. 20 The | fnaugurkion Committee sl Washing: | ton to