The Somerset Herald. EDWARD 8CT7I.L. Editor a.id Proprietor, WEDNESDAY.. .AwnutK.l'''" REPUBLICAN JUDICiARYTICKET HON. JHX CK&SXA. of P-lford. WILLIAM OULLIXS, of Somerxjt. SAMUEL RXVDER. of Somerset Twp. BlPOBUCAHCOUliTI TICKET. rOK rROTHOHOTACT : i-.treH of Boiurrvt. 8. JOH X J. Kl'ANULKll, f Somen T i. FOB UalBTBB AKD MTOKDKK : A. PTTTZMAX, of Stonycreek Twp. FB TKBAirBEIt: JOHX H. WEIMKR, of Somerset. ro comhimioxkhb: ADAM S. SHAFFER, of Jcnncr Tap. JOSErH HORNER, of Souierwt Tap. roB rooB BorflB wrbcto: PAX1KI. KIMMEt, of Somerset Twp. JOHX I". KHOAPS, orSomeTwt Twp. ISRAEL KMERICK. of Sout hampton Twp. Grave misgivings in regard to the condition of the President have been felt by the country for the past week; and not without cause, a? Dr. Agnewat 12:15 Tuesday morn ing informed Mrs. Garfield that she must prepare lienx-lf for the worst A later bulletin from Dr. Bliss says that the President was resting easier at 3 o'clock, and that the vomiting had ceased. The feeling seems to be that there is but little hoie of his ultimate recovery. But, where there is life there is hope, and the able physicians attending his led side, while admitting the situation to le very critical, do not yet de spair. The entire Nation will pray that their faith w ill be justified by the final result The National debt was reduced over ten millions of dollars last month. A few more j-cars of Re publican rule and the debt will be one of the things of the past. Hox. W. J. Baer will hardly make his fight in Bedford county on the ground that he is a non-partisan candidate ; that argument is for use in Somerset county only. In the light of his speeches against Garfield, it will not prove an acceptable ral lying cry here. UxrscAL interest is manifested by our Democratic brethren in regard lo the next Republican candidate for State Treasurer. Some of their newspapers are suggesting tlie names nf different gentlemen whom the Republicans ought to nominate fori that high office. The Republican party has been keeping house too long not to know how to choose its own servants, and it will be found at the right time that they will name, nominate and elect the next Treas urer. JurxiE Jons J. Peaksox, of Dau phin county, has declined a re-nomination for President Judge of the Dauphin district Judge Pearson made his name familiar all over the State in the trial of the riot-bribery cases and by his more recent decision in regard to the extra pay claimed by members of the IiCgislature. He has served thirty-three years on the bench and feels that he is entitled to lay aside its onerous duties. Al though eighty years of age he will practice law with his son as a part ner. Detectives last week succeeded in arresting some seven or eight men said to be members of the Mollie Maguire organization, charged with the murder of Maurice Healy, at Dunbar. Our readers will remem ber the manner of the cowardly murder, a full account of which was published in the Herald at the time. It lias been known for some time that this organization had gained considerable power through out the Conneilsville coal region, but this we itelieve is the first time any of its members have been ar rested. It is to be hoped that the good people of Fayette county will stamp this organization out as has leen done in the Anthracite regions. Men who band themselves together for the purpose of violating the law should le made to feel its utmost . j Not only do the Mormons pro-j ose not to submit to the laws of de-j cency and the United States eminent but Mormon emissaries are actually at work all over the ! I'nion as well as in foreign countries, j They are particularly active ia those sections where there are dense popu lations of ignorant and uneducated eople, as mining and manufactur ing centres. At least one of their missionaries hns been and still is actively at work near Mt Pleasant, in our neighboring county of West moreland. It is about time that Uiis "reproach to our government " j hid received its quietus from the ! .hands of Congress. Just why a man should be sent to the penitentiary r having two or more wives in the ate of Pennsylvania, while he is i rifled for having a dojven in V'tah, I ic of those things that no fellow Ind out , TK r'ilf 7' ? j currency to a statement of the Philadelphia Time ' (hat the friends j of A j (j0norn( j .Somerset coun - ty, now that he has lecn defeated for the nomination by John Cessna, will do their best to down Cessna at the polls and elect the Democrat ic nominee W. J. Baer." The Com mercial has made so many errone ous statements in regard to this ; matter that they are no longer con- ; sidcrcd mistakes but are Eft down to malice, and a desire to get even j with Mr. Colborn for the part he j took in having their correspondent, i Palmer, expelled from the floor of j the House at Harrisburg. The Re publicans of .Somerset county will see to it that Mr. Cessna gets the party vote and we are assured no one will work harder for the achiev ments of this end than Hon. A. J. Colborn. The Commercial must get better authority than the Philadel phia Times for Somerset county jk)1 ities. The heinous practice of carrying concealed deadly weapons has an other victim in the person of Mr. Joseph O'Donnell, of Ellicotville, N. V. O'Donnell claimed that Edward Northrop, a lawyer, had withheld from him $500 of his father's estate, which the lawyer positively denied. O'Donnell met Northrop and as saulted him, when the latter pulled out a pistol and fired three times, killing his man almost instantly. Both parties were reputably con nected, and enjoyed the esteem of their townsmen. When will the practice of carrying deadly weapons cease. Had Northrop not had a pistol in his pocket his hands would not now be stained w'.:h the blood of a fellow-man, nor would two homes be shrouded with gloom. The law in regard to this practice should be. rigidly enforcea every where, and all found guilty should be made to suffer the penalty. Mayor King, of Philadelphia is making strenuous efforts to have it enforced in that city, and his exam ple is worthy of imitation by all good officers. If the law on the subject is not forcible enough it should be rendered so at the first practicable moment No one thing will do more to lessen the number of cases of murder and deadly as saults that now cumber the records of too many of our courts. The most interesting thing just at present, in the field of politics, is the situation in Virginia. The Repub lican Convention, which met at Lynchburg last week, split on the subject of forming a coalition with the anti-Bourbon or Readjuster wing of the Democracy. One hundred and sixteen delegates endorse the coalition, and refuse to nominate candidates, while the remaining fifty six refuse to endorse the Readjuster platform, but make no nominations of their own. In short there are no Republican nominees in Virginia, and by far the larger part of the party will support the Readjuster candidates. The Republicans being in a hopeless minority as against a united Democracy, have taken the lesser of two evils, hoping by this means to wrest the control of Vir ginia from the Bourbons and thus gain a foothold in the solid South. Perhaps the following short descrip tion of the situation may prove of interest to those of our readers who have failed to master the true in wardness of Virginia politics : There, are three tolerably distinct political organizations in Virginia to-day, the largest styling itself the Conservative Democratic party, and claiming to be Democratic as to Na tional affairs and conservative in its State policy. We say this is the largest party because that is its claim, and because it unquestionably does represent the old Democratic or Bourbon school of politics. The next party in magnitude is the Republican party, which includes the greater part of the freedmen and a considerable Caucasian element Its organization is defective, and its fortunes have been variable for many years. It is able to carry certain districts on Congressional and local questions, but has not for many years succeeded in electing a State official With the Democracy work ing together, the Republicans are in a hopeless minority. But within the last four years divisions in the old Democratic party have given considerable encouragement to the Republicans. They had some ex pectation of carrying some part of the electoral ticket last fall, but that expectation was not realized. The new departure of General Mahie has practically split the Democrjy of Virginia in twain. And since t'le Mahone branch of the Democratic party gained control of the State legislature, it has shown a disposi tion to accord fair dealing with re gard to the colored citizens. It de clares for equal civil rights and privileges, a fair vote and an honest count, together with educational advantages to be extended to all without respect to color or previous Gov--condition. This party is known a th anti-Bourbon party, and it is unalterably hostile to the Bourbon stock from which it took its depart- : ure. I An important loosi question in j Virginia is the disporfkioe to be : made of the State indebtedness. The Bourbons claim to Lie the Debt- Payers as against the anti-Bourbons, who are called Readjuster.. TJie j Debt-Payers declare that Virginia J owes a certain sum, and that it ought to le paid. But for sixteen years they Lave refused to increase the tax rate, and they have nominated for Governor a man who figured as a Greenbacker for several years, and who is charged with having held that the Federal Government ought to assume the payment of the State debt, Vtnce it destroyed property in slaves without granting compenea tion. The Republicans hold tliat Virginia must nay its debt. The ! anti-Bourlnms declare that one-third of the ante-war debt of Virginia should be paid by West Virginia, and they therefore ignore so much of the debt volume in toto. The re mainder they declare must be paid to the last farthing. They propose to equalize the valuation, and fix the tax rate at a figure which shall pay the interest Sad extinguish the principal in a long term of years. iTIXlXGS. The only mint which coins pen nies is that at Philadelphia, and it cannot suppb' the demand. The Senate of Georgia has passed a law, says the Omaha H-yuMican, which will put a quietus on all fu ture Democratic conventions in that State. "It makes it a misdemeanor, and imposes a fine, for carrying any intoxicating liquors to any public gathering." The Registry list are now posted up at the different polling places. Assessments, to entitle a person to vote at the November flection, must be made at least sixty days before the election. Republicans should at once make sure of their names being on the Registry list, by personal ex amination. If not there call on your Assessor at once. Neglect may lose your vote. A roRRKSPoxuEXT of the Cincin nati Commercial thinks t will be a difficult, if not impossible, matter to secure twelve men who are suffi ciently uninformed to qualify them as jurors in Guiteau's case. If such be true, is it not an unfavorable commentary on our jury system which forces ignorant men into the jury box to decide questions of life and death. The Baltimore pyrotechnist who received from the Congressional committee the contract to furnish fireworks for the Yorktown celebra tion will display eight set pieces on the evenings of October IS and l'J from rafts or canal boats in the river. The representation of the surrender ; 0f Ixrd Cornwallis will be forty feet square. Six hundred of the largest rockets have lcen ordered and sixty twelve-inch shells. I We have one strip of land in the j United States that appears to be un j claimed by the adjacent Stateand I Territorial governments, and w hich has never been given much atten tion. It is 100 miles long and 00 miles wide, and lies north of the pan-handle of Texas. It is marked on the maps of the Land Office as " Public Lands." An appropriation was made at the last session of Con gress of $1S,000 for the purpose of having it surveyed. It appears that the Star mail routes in the National postal sen-ice numbered ten thousand, and have been investigated over and over again, but thus far the frauds have only been exposed on about two hundred routes, where they extend to millions of dollars dishonestly obtained from the public Treasury. The system appears to date back for two generations, and was the real cause of the enormous postal deficit in the ante-war times. A simui.au barter and sale took place in Toronto recently. An em ploye in a brewery at that place fell in love with the wife of a fellow laborer and offered to buy her. The husband agreed to the price, provid ed the two children should also be taken off his hands, the bargain was concluded. A bill of sale was drawn up and signed, a rope was plac ed around the woman's neck, and she was handed over to the purchaser in full belief of all the parties to the transaction that everything was in regular form and was legally bind ing. Pkoim: iity holders will do well to scrutinize their insurance policies closely and obey them to the letter, if they would recover in case of loss by fire. A New York man insured his country residence, shut it up, and went to the city during the win ter. While thus deserted the coun- j try residence was burned to the i ground. " The court decided that the j policy.could not bo recovered bc-j cause it was conditional oa being 'occupied.' The plaintiff showed that the house was visited weekly by a servant ; but taking good care of a building does not fulfill, it would seem, the condition stipulat ed for bv the clause "occupying it." Ox Thursday the Cincinnati Oun mercial announced that Capt C. A. Cook, of Brownsville, Ohio, who slapped George Morrison's mout'i for saying he hoped the President would die of his wound, had been fined 10 and costs for assault. The fine and coxU amounted to $32. and the Comma-cud jroposed that the sum be raised by citizens of Cincinnati, no citizen being allowed to give more than a cent The re sponse was li vely. )n the following morning the Commercial announced that before the afternoon of Thurs day had gone the number of cents contributed reached tin sum of $32, and by night there was a hand some surplus which it announced "will be devoted to & oJd-headed j cane or gold watch, or, pt-iUarc:, a j farm," adding : '"Captain Cook is the hero of the day. It was a slap that went to the right spot It was the right thing at ,the right time and place," So say we all of us. Me Vl?. Ai.toosa, Pa., August 14. oi.u Eagle, as aged citizen of this plaoe, dropped dead at his residence here this afternoon. He Lad eaten an unusually hearty meal, and was in the best of health. He sat down on the back porch, and fifteen minutes after he was a corpse. He was aged t U years, and was the father-in-law 0f A. F. Keesse, ore of our most cs teemed citizens. MOI.ME MACriltES. i;icit Men Arretted l) rPlnkcrton IK lei -lives How the 'af na AVorli. ed 1 1 Un.oxtowx. August 12. Much excitement was created here this mornir.g on the arrival of the early B. it O. train, which brought up from IJiMibar an oincer in cnarge oi John Kane, of that place, charged with complicity in the murder of Maurice llealy. lie was arrested at Youngstown, a short distance from Dunbar, at an early hour this morning. The excitement was soon increased by the news that the next train would bring up a number of others, on the Bame charge. Ac cordingly four more came on the 10:o0 train, accompanied by R. J. Lincoln, on whose information the arrests were made, and W. C. Mc Cormick and Frank Stevens, of this place. The names of the four are James McFarland, Pat Dolan, Jas. Regan, and John Collins. McFar land is a young, boyish looking fel low, being but 19 years old. He is a son of Pat McFarland, the hotel keeper in Dunbar, who was a bitter enemy of Healy on account of the active part the letter took in defeat ing his application for hotel license. The other prisoners are miners, and were arrested in the different mines around Dunbar. They were taken right out of the mines and brought to Uniontown with their mining clothes on and their little lamps in their hats. EXCITEMENT AT THE DEPOT. The word came that there were still three men at large, who would probably be arrested to-day. This caused an excited crowd to gather around the B. & O. depot when the next train came in, which was at 12:23 in the forenoon. On this train came two more men, who had also been subsequently arrested in the mines near Dunbar. Their names are Mike Dolan and Mark Donahue. They were also brought up in their working clothes. The detectives are yet on tho track of Bernard Flood, who will probably be taken up soon. This will make eight men arrested on the charge of murdering Maurice Healy, foundryman at Dun bar J'urnaae, on the evening of Sun day, June 2G. How many and who of these men arc guilty of commit ting the deed, and who of them are accessory to the act, is yet to be made known. The detectives have been following up clues in a quiet way ever since the murder, and they believe thev have the right parties now under arrest In 24 hours after the murder was com mitted the Pinkerton agency had their detectives on the ground, and they have never relaxed their search until it culminated to-day in the ar rest of the parties who had so long and so mysteriously covered up their tracks. LATER THE EIGHTH .MAX ARRESTED. The eighth and last one of the Healy murderers, for whom warrants were issued, last night was arrested in Dunbar and brought here at 7 o'clock this evening. The hearing of the men was deferred until all the arrests were made by order of Chief Linden. The hearing will be held soon : meanwhile the chief evidence on which the arrest were made is kept secret. Three or four of the Pinkerton detectives engaged work in the coal mines as common miners, and it was through their investigations and the confidence they gained among the miners that the infor mations were made. The detectives who worked up the case, it is un derstood, are still keeping in the background, for some reason WORKING I P THE CASE. Your correspondent hail a talk with Detective Linden as regards his method of working up the case. Shortly after the commision of the murder of Healev, when it became evident that the dastxrdly deed had been committed by members of the infamous order of Mollie Maguires, and when it was found that the lo cal authorities would not likely be successful in ferreting out the guilty parties, Major De Saulle and others of the Dunbar Furnace Company, in whose employ Healey was, tele graphed to Pinkerton's Detective Agency at Chicago asking them to instantly send on one of their best men to work up the case. In har mony with this dispatch Colonel Linden who is considered to be one of the most skilled detectives in the employ of the famous agency came to Pittsburg and met the rep resentatives of the Dunbar Furnace Company and was posted in the details of the case. Colonel Linden and two men then procured rough miners' suits and tools and costum ed themselves in a way that would have convinced the closest observer that they were simple, unsophisti cated coal miners.' They then went up to Fayette county and secured work in the mines. The detectives who had profiled bv the knowledge )icked up by their conferees who mnted down the Mollie Maguire devils in the anthracite coal regions and it might be added just here that Colonel Linden was the main spring behind the detectives working iu those cxcs in a manner that would not cause suspicion, sought out such of the miners who were said to be in the order and ingratia ted themselves in their confidence. In some instances they were only atue to pict up a stray word or sentence, but every little point, no matter how insignificant which bore on the case, was woven into the web which eventually resulted in the entanglement of the assassins. On one or two occasions, the detect ives gleaned many points of import ance, by plying several of the min ers with liquor, and when "whisky was in wits were out" From clue to clue, the intrepid detectives work ed and at last suspicion pointed to one or two of the men now in jail here. One of the detectives who had been shadowing Bernard Flood, and had mastered the man's char acter, finding that he was not pos sessed of much nerve, worked upon his fears and finally succeeded in getting him to give away his com panions in crime. In order to do this, the detectives . promised Flood a large reward and immunity from punishment for turning "State's evidence." It was only a few davs ! ago that Flood was worked suffi ciently fine to "peach" on his com- ana tucn .Colonel Linden ! igave the order lor the arrest, and liARRisnuRC, Aug. 10. IheDem ! succeeded in landing all of his pris- ocratic State Committee met here i oners in the county iaiL Colonel to day. about twenty members be- Linden, the man who has charge of yie case, is a tall fine looking man j ber was settled as the day and Wil viil; Jce.cn blue eves, a splendid 1 lianisnort as the place for holdintr beard, an4 he can look is green j the next State Convention. Chair and unsophisticated as a backwootls j man I,ill was authorized to appoint farmer when occasion requires jt I a committee of seven Pennsylvania He deserves great crcdijt for the j Democrats to draft rules for thi manner ja which he worked up the ; gflyernrBpnt of the party in Penn- case. is. j ..4 1 1. ... Uxioxtowx, Aug. 14. Tha excite ment attending the arrest of the eighi Mollie Maguires charged with the Heily murder his somewhat abated here, but at Dnnbar the feel ing still runs high. Your correspon dent visited that l.hicn this evenina aim iuuiiu ii me uut;oruiii iujuu ui conversation. Excited crowds con tinue to gather about the street cor- ir I : i i : .' ; ncrs there and discuss this latest j t,hase of a subject : engaged more or less of altei.non for eight weeks. While there is a certain feeling of relief in the fact that the guilty parties have at least been landed in jail, still it is not unmix ed from a degree of dread from another source. Tho members of the Mollie Maguire order at Dunbar are unable to conceal the deep indigna tion they feel :;t tho arrest of their fellow-members and the probable disclosures in store, and have al ready begun to make some ugly demonstrations. A crowd of about thisty of them collected near the de pot Friday evening and indulged in murmurs and threats to the effect that the end of this thing hadn't come yet The citizens of Dunbar fear that some violent acts will be committed there shortly in order to divert attention from the prisoners and make the impression that the really guilty parties arc still at large. Thus tho rei'm of terror there is by no means over. Nothing new has developed here to-day except the efforts of the pris oners to obtain a hearing. Young MeFarland'8 father and several friends of the other prisoners came to town and engaged Col. T. B. Sea right as connsel for the defendants. An application was at once made for a hearing on a writ of habeas corpm. The petition was granted and the men will be brought before Judge Wilson for a preliminary hearing at 10 o'clock on Monday. Heavy Kinbezzlemciit. New York, Aug. 8. Saturday morning the firm of J. C. Walcott A Co., brokers, of 42 Broad street in formed the police that one of their clerks, who had been left to close up the business of the day previ ous, had absconded with $10,000 worth of stocks and securities and 81o,000 in checks. The abscond ing clerk is F. B. Wheelock, and is unmarried. He was left alone in the office, in charge of the books and safe. He filled out three checks on the Cincinnati Bank of $5,000 each, and got one cashed at the bank. On one of the others he got a letter of credit on the banking house of Brown Brothers, Iondon, and the other on Drexel, Morgan & Co. The letters are negotiable in any part of the world where first class banking-houses exist The firm has been in the habit of leav ing three or four signed checks in the bank, so that the office could at all times be ready to transact business. The stubs were filled out by persons authorized to sign the checks, but the rest of the check was left blank, to be filled by the clerk in charge. Wheelock filled cut these checks to suit his pleasure, and, after taking 540,000 m secun tics, numbers of which have been telegraphed throughout the country, left for parts unknown. It is sup posed lie sailed on an outgoing vessel which left on Saturday. A Penny l'ool. The indignation aroused against an Ohio man named George Morri son, who recently gave utterance to the expression 1 hojn; to God Gar field will die !" is being shown by penny subscriptions to pay the fine of $10 and costs which were impos ed in Cincinnati on Captain C. A. Cook for slapping Morrison's mouth when he gave utterance to the ex pression. In Cincinnati 5,000 peo ple subscribed one cent each to the fund. In Cleveland, Pittsburgh and other cities subscription lists have been started to pay the penalty im posed, no one lieing errnitted to subscribe more than 1 cent. In order to afford Philadelphians an opportunity to show their con tempt for such men as Morrison the Evening Xcirs yesterday bullet ined the fact that it would receive penny subscriptions from all who desired to contribute to the fund. The costs have been paid, and the balance is to be used to make some substantial reward for Capt Cook. From the rapidity with which these subscriptions are pouring in it is probable that a fund will soon be raised large enough to pay for slap ping the mouth of any other Morri sons who mav be hunted out and give the castigator a brick house be sides. A Policeman lias hi Skull Kracturei! at Iiatrobr. Latroije, Pa., August 14. Daniel McCarty, a policeman, in arresting Richard Stack for disorderly con duct about eleven o'clock last night while taking him to the lockup was struck on the head with a stone thrown bv an unknown party, frac turing hfs skull. The doctors say that his condition is precarious. Four young men have been arrested for inciting a riot who now nre in the Greensburg jail. The informa tion was made before Justice of the Peace Bear that these four were more or less implicated in trying to ?revent the arrest of the prisoner, he party who is supposed to have thrown the stone has left. At this writing McCarty is resting easier and seems much better. Two of the parties arrested are Known ns the Dailey brothers. McCarty was struck on the head near the templa and his skull was fractured. He is not likely to recover. He has been unconscious since he received the blow. Krytitoiie Politic-. Meadvhxe, Pa., Aug. 13. James E. McFarland, Esq.. of this city, whose name has been favorably mentioned by several prominent Republican newspapers of Western Pennsylvania for the Republican nomination for State Treasurer, has written a letter to the Crawford Co. delegation requesting that his name be not presented, t the late Re publican convention' heJ'J in this city the delegates to the State con vention were unaulmously instruct' ed to use all honorable mean to se cure the nomination of Mr. McFar land. The friends of Mr. McFarland regret this action very much. Democratic Convention. ling present The 28th of Septem- gylvania, the committee to rejiort to the meeting of the State' Cotrimittep at W'illiamsport on the eva of Sen? ternber 27. HOTEL BDILDING BURNED ! TIIK I'AHHV IIOISK AT HKKCII HAVKX, X. J., COXSI MK1. Nearly Tlirro HutKlreil Guests (Jiuii ellel to Leave all Tlieir KTccln in the llaililiiig Some Xurt-owly K !? With Their Live Total Iktitrurtlon ofhr Structure. Maxahawix, N. J., August 11. A destructive conflagration took place early this morning at Beach Haven. About three o'clock the Parry House was discovered to be on fire. Tho alarm was quickly given, and all the guests escaped from the burning building without injury. The flight was in extreme haste, and clothes in many instances were left in the rooms, borne of the guests lost all their baggago and clothing, and were compelled to make shift with bathing suits. Ef forts were made to save the structure but to no avail, and it was soon burned to the ground. Stretch's drug store also caught hre, and was totally destroyed. The Parry House was an old-fashioned frame building and was under the management of Messrs. Darnell and Buzby. There were nearly 300 guests in the hotel at the time of the fire, which broke out about 2:4o o clock. 1 lie fire was fanned by a stiff ocean breeze, and spread with great rapidity. The sleeping guests were all awakened in time, and although some very nar row escapes are reported, no one was seriously burned. Opposite to the burning building was the well known Engleside hotel, and this, with sev eral cottages, was at one time in im minent danger of destruction. Mr. Engle, the proprietor of the Engle side, with a corps of men, succeeded in getting a line of hose from his hotel to the burning structure. The water was forced through the lnse by a pump belonging to Mr. Engle, and was the only one in the place. After a great deal of hard work the flames were gotten under control, and the fire was prevented from spreading. After the fire had gain ed headway and it was certain that the building was doomed to de struction, the scene was terrible in the extreme. The half clothed peo ple from the ill-fated hotel were run ning in all directions looking for friends ami relatives, and all the others in the place were making frantic efforts to render help ana prevent what at one time threatened to prove a great disaster. None of the boarders, except those in the end farthest away from the fioint where the fire broke out, saved any of their effects, and many only succeeded in snatching bed clothing for a cover ing. The panic stricken folks hur ried to the leach, which was soon crowded with a motley looking crowd of half dressed, night gowned and quilt covered people. Many were without any clothing when they escaped from the burning build ing and these made a wholesale raid on the bitth houses for bathing suits. After the excitement attending the fire had subsided somewhat, atten tion was turned to the unfortunate ex-boarders of the burned hotel. Everything was done to make them as comfortable as possible. Some of them were supplied with present able clothes, but others were com pelled to don bathing suits in which to return to their homes, which many did in the morning trains. Among the guests of t';e unfortunate hotel were a large number of well known Philadelphians, though Bal timore people were in the majority. The Indian Outbreak. Den ver. August 13. The7iVm& lican,n Santa Fe advices from below are : The situation is more serious than ever lefore as regards the out break of the Mescalero Apaches. The Indians in small bands are raid ing the country and it is utterly im possible for the troops to come up with them. Report of murders and depridations come in every day and there is no telling the damage done or number of lives lost since thej have been in the field. The sup ply of troops is unequal to the emer gency, deneral Hatch is in the field notifying people to arm and in forming them of the movement of the Indians as far as known. Two prospectors were killed by the In dians in the Florida Mountains and a number near Gaudaloupo Mount ains. There is the greatest apprehen all over the country and unless more troops are ordered to the district there is no immediate prospect for , netter the outlook, i he volunteer from Santa Fe have returned home relieved by troops from Ft Wingate, who are posted at .McCarthy and other stitions on the line of the At lantic and Pacific Railroad, where the hostucs are likely to cross. Ihe Indians were expected to attempt to cross at Cahero yesterday. Maj. Ingalls and Capt. Sehaner with vol untcers are co-operating with the troops and its hoped thev will be able to surround the hostiles. AlMiut Artificial l.i 111 lis. WAsmxfiTox, Aug. 13. The Sur geon General's Office has issued the following circular for the informa tion of persons entitled to artificial limbs: All disbursements connect ed with the furnishing of artificial limbs to those disabled in the pub lie service have been made from this oflice since June 30, 187-. The First Comptroller of the Treasury, however, has recently made a decis ion, the purport of which is given in his own words, as follows ; "Af ter a most careful examination and with an anxious desire to se if by any legal means the Surgeon General could disburse the appro priation here referred to, I have been constrained to decide that the Commissioner of Pensions is alone authorized to disburse the money." So long aa this decision continues in force no money for artificial limbs or commutation can be drawn from the Treasury on the applica tion of this oflice. Some delay will be unavoidable until the Commis sioner of Pensions shall have com pleted such arrangements as may be found necessary. i(qs(Fial Ienrina(ry tniiijission. Crkshox Sprinos, August 11, 'The Commisnionera for th erection of an Industrial Reformatory an Hunting don organized here and are now in conference with Governor Hoyt, in terchanging views in reference to the erection of buildings and the in dustries to be adopted. A full Board is present with the exception of Mr. Rawle, who is now in Europe. The Board consists of the following, genteman : Charles T. Jones, H. C Howell Philadelphia; J. K. Moore head and John Paul, Pittsburgh; William Nolan, Reading; Thomas B. Kennedy, Charabersburg, and Henry Itawle.Erie; W. B. Hart Sec retary and Superintendent, and John A. Wilson, engineer and architect, will accornpariy the Board of Uqm migsionerB. ' The FU of Chlrf. YaSkton, D. T., August It The official account of the murder of Spotted Tail, received here by Gen. tkiok, agent of the Spotted Tail In dians, from acting ngont Lalox, is as follow' : Alxnit noon of the 5th inst, Spot ted Tail reported at the agent's of fice to receive instructions regard ing his contemplated visit to Wash ington, lie Having ieen kwuh port to Agent Andrus, at Yankton agency, no later than the .rth inst. As a delegation from the Pine Ridge agency was expected to reach Rose bud agency on the evening of the 5th, Tpottod Tail conclued to wait until next morning and go with the Red Cloud delegation to Yankton agency. This arrangment having; been decided upon Spotted Tail de cided to have a talk with his people that afternoon and receive an ex pression of their views upon thesub- buccuu- - lects to come before the conlerence. l.i.l. I tilnf rr...1-Kvo an vimr Ka l.i il .i !. ...r. Jr. iV.c ing to receive any furtherinstruction j to that gentleman, Spotted Tail left ff.i. iha Trwlim. x'illfifrAtn ernfi r tt'if.l. .7 . .. his people. An interview was held with the Indians, they had a very long talk and feast, when the council broke up Spotted Tail mounted his horse and started homeward. The Indians were scattering in every di rection with the noted chief some- what in advance of the others, he being the firet out of the lodge after leaving tha council. Crow Dog was seen approaching Spotted Tail. He had his wife with him. He got out of the wagon and was stepping down. When Spotted Tail rode up to him he suddenly rose up and shot Spotted Tail through the breast The chief fell from his horse, but rose to his feet and made three or four steps towards Crow Dog, en deavoring to draw his pistol. He then reeled and fell backwards. Crow Dog jumped in his wagon and drove off at full speed towards his camp, some nine miles distant T'e Acting Agent at once issued an or der for the arrest of Crow Dog, un der a paragraph in the treaty of lxflb, which renders him amenable to white man's laws. In compli ance with those rders, the Indian police accomplished the arrest of Crow Dog, and he was sent to Fort Niobrara to await trial for murder. Mr. I'illmr; Dratl. Bi ffai.o, X. Y, Aug. 11. Mrs. Millard Fillmore, died at her resi dence in this city to-night aged .71 years. Mrs. rilimores lite was characterised by chanty, both pub lie and private, being a liberal sub scriber to many of the public char itable institutions of this city. Mrs. Fillmore received a severe stroke of paralvsis in October last, which rendered powerless one side of her bodv and very nearly de prived her of the faculty of speech. From this stroke she almost fully recovered, and on Sunday morning last was bright and cheerful. About noon that day she sustained a sec ond stroke of paralysis, and since then has been in a verv critical con dition. She was the second wife of President Fillmore, whom she mar ried after the expiration of his pres idential term. When she married the ex-President she was the widow of Ezekiel Mcintosh, of Albany, where she then resided in the old Schuyler mansion. The first wife of President Fillmore was Abigail Powers, who died at Williard's ho tel, in Washington, on March 30 1S 3, less than a month after the ex piration of his term of office. Dur ing that time, however, she had been in poor health, and left to her only daughter, Miss Mary Abigail Fillmore, the duty of presiding for mally over the White House. The daughter died on July 20, lSo-1, at the early age of 22 years. The ex President died at Buffalo on March X, 174. The Fenian Toredo Hunt. Washix;to. August 10. A trov- ernment official, who has returned from New York after an insjiection of the alleged Fenian torpedo boat, pronounces the solicitude of the British Government unfounded. He says it could be put to absolute ly no use at all by "the revolution ists, because it cannot be taken across the ocean, nor into rough water. If shipped abroad it would have to be on a steamer, and if it could he once unloaded and set afloat it would have to keep inside some harbor, and would be practi cally boxed up and harmless. It could not put to sea if pursued, and it has not the capacity to carry sup plies for more than a few days at the utmost, so it would be dejiend ent upon a shore connection. It is pronounced to be a most flimsy construction, with a plate on each side for raising and- sinking it in the water, so light in manufacture that the least collision would disa ble it by breaking this gearing. It is said that while it might make a practicle harbor defense, as a means ! ot ollense it is worth nothing at all. The only valuable thing, about it that is a new invention, is reported to be an appliance for keeping the air pure while the Wat is submerg ed. The English Government is laughed, at for its anxjetv over the afrair. tits Raised the Amount. Steibicxville, August 14. A young Steubenville clerk has been in considerable trouble lately over a note. Mr. Musgrave, Surperin ent of the Steubenville Furnace and Iron Company, is authority for the statement that he signed a blank note and handed it to a clerk, Ed ward Dav. to fill out with th. amount of two hundred and fifty dollars, but the figures were made seven hundred dollars without Mus- grave's knowledge. He placed the matter in the hands of his attorney, who had detect? VPS watching Day until the matter was settled. A couple of d.ayg since the young man crossed the river In a skiff and went to Pittsburgh, but returned on being notified that he had better show up. uay claims mat he did not intend to commit any crime and that Mus grave is indebted to him for the full amount the note was drawn for. He is the son of a wealthy Cleve land gentleman and has alwaVs borne a good reputation. A settle ment was effected that was satisfac-1 tory to all parties. Kicked by a Horsp. Drtint Wt ' ii,nn n . rickC?m&M know resident of Richmond, was kicked by his horse ' ifonday,' and . :' i t 7 1 uict i.i ins injuries uim morning. m, ,.r Hw r-...r.t,t.irives of the i '", - " . ' V . , . i KottiTil estate. 1 n purchasing , Sioux at the coming conference at r olM r " 11 .. J , . . . . i ir liirice was s.nmkk. i ik; imi un tile national capital. He was urg- rn" ... .. ' ed to start at once, as a letter from i rovcmeiu ou u , p. -v. r - i . w. -.....ii... ent is an unti'iuated larm house, out 471 IIOVSKH IN SIX YKARA Mow A.J. !ivel i KidMinfc l the liower Part of Uroad Jirrrf. What was formerly known iw the w . . . J .... It . .4 f ... 1 . . ii I..tu,,, i,eniza i!i later m- taic, iwru.K ui-; - v. cln.IinL' Reed and Dickinson street-, has just been purchased by Mr. An thony J. Drexel from the Pennsyl vania fVmnanv fr the Insurance of - , i ii two years heiiee the estate will be covered with residences and a cou ple oi hundred families will be add- ies win ue wiu ed to the population of the Twenty !;.!. . . . r ! 1 f 1. ,1 :.. 1 U , .r,m nienced to follow in tho footsteps of liis father bv purchasing land away down Broad s'reet a great improve ment has taken place in that section. In that vear lie commenced the ii erection of 131 dwelling-., on the west side of Thirteenth street, east , . , .... 1 r. ! n-vi. ......v.. I ti rti r.rr fi n 1 I .i:ir , "" . . -... ,. - ----- ! ion south sine oi ueeu, aim norm ' Sine OI lK Kinsou smei. ' side of Dickinson street in iiu lie io.igui tin; i..oiiin.-i iiii, l.iml from Dickinson to Tasker ..,u.n l;,.l 1 wkiu upn erected. Tle fol lowing year he ob- , of the eastern half ! Gained possession 01 me auove ion, anu auaiuuuui dwellings sprung up like mushrooms, in 187b he acquired the property on the south side of Wharton street, from Broad to Sixteenth, and on a portion of this ol residences were erected, while at the present time he is engaged in erecting 83 houses on Broad, Tasker, Thirteenth and Mor ris streets. This makes a total of 471 residences which his means have enabled him to add to the real es tate of that portion of the city, and whei. the property just purchased is built upon the total will be in the nt 'ighlx.rhood of 7W houses. Phil'i. Uceoril. .... . i . .. i i 1 A Narrow K--arH-. Mapisox, Wis., Aug. 1'). A nar row escape from a terrible casualty was had on Lake Monona to-night. Two steamboat, p'y between Madi son and Lakeside, carrying passen gers to and from the Sunday School Assembly camp. One boat is a fa vorite, and receives a great majority of the passengers, much to the dis gust of the other. Shortly before 10 o'clock the P.arnes boat was on her return trip with a heavy load, many of whom were women and children, who had attended the evening meeting. The other Wit, run bv Captain I.lackman. was on her way to the camp for a load, and when half way across, where the water is very deep, the boats should have passed. Captain Blackman, however, left the regular course and steered directly in front of the Lames boat, it was done when Mr. Barnes was engaged collecting: tickets. He saw the extreme peril and cave an order to bear away to the left, and jumped to reverse the engine, so as to avert a collision in the nick of time. Ten seconds later Barnes would have been unable to save his boat, and 7" passengers would have been floundering in the water. As it was the Wats collid ed although Barnes succeeded in wheeling around so that Blackmr.n's boat did not strike him fairly, but glanced off. The women and child ren were terror stricken, and some were preparing to jump into the wa ter. The opinion of the passengers is that Blackman's action was ei ther a foolhardy one or was a das tardly attempt to wreck the Barnes boat, and may be made the subject of an investigation. Killed by a I.ujrf-r. E1.1.10TTVH.1.E, X. Y., Aug. !i. Edward North up, a prominent at torney, shot and killed Joseph O' Donnell, a clerk for a lumber firm in that place yesterday. Xorthup had been administrator of the es tate of O'Connell's fatheh. In closing up the affairs of the estate vouncr O'Donnell claimed that Xorthup I Handy and J. M. Robb. It L pro withheld 8500 due him. This the ! posed to have a grand street parade attorney denied. Several times in 1 in honor of the visitors, to be fol'ow the past year O'Donnell has made I cd by a meeting in the Main Baui personal assaults upon Xorthup on ing, at which addresses of weUvcit account of this misunderstanding, j wiil be delivered bv several prom; On one occasion Xorthup caused , uent gentlemen, la the evening the arrest and imprisonment of (V- j the Frenchmen will be the guests 01' Donnell, which intensified the lat- the city at a grand banquet, which tors hatred fox Xorthup. At 11 will probably take place r.t the o'clock vesterdav Xorthup was in 1 Union League. the Crawford House conversing with ... . .. a friend, when O Donnell entered approached him, and said, "You I can whip you," and struck him. Xorthup seized O'Donnell. In the struggle both fell to the floor. Xorthup's friend ran out to call for assistance, and during his absence heard three shots fired. One ball entered O'Donncll's right lung, and another passed completely through hw abdomen from su'.e" to side. O'Donnell died within a few hours. Xorthup immediately surrendered himself to the authorities. The af fair has created great excitement in the village and vicinity, owing to the high standing of Wth jarties. It is thought that O'Donnell was partially under the intluence of liq uor. Si!eri:tii Cutle iMan.- in IIunmii. Wasiiixctox, August lo. Consul General Stanton write-, tn ft... partment of State under date of July I cver " " in all different Idw i-s-1!, 1SS1, that tlu local journals an .. . ...... "fc nounce tho appearance of the Siberi an cattle plague in thegovernments adjoining that of St. Petersburg, and that it is steadily increasin although as yet not to an alarming extent According to the telegram's to the Gol: the governments have taken, although somewhat tardily, the nec essary measures for isoloting the in fected districts, but the lack of vet erinary assistance and the unwil lingness of the peasants to comply with sanitary regulations are great obstacles to a speedy eradication of the plague. It is also reported that in some localities to save the skins the peasants foolishly flayed, the dead animals, whereby they contrb buted to tho spread of tho dineae, and were themselves in many in stances infoetod with the plague, which in somo eases pro veil fatal. According to the latest reports no headway has oeen made against the uise.ase. Tobacco Factories nnrnrtl. Lyxciiburc-., Va., August A large canflagration at midnight de stroyed the tobacco factories of U-ft-wich Co. and Wood Co.. in the j eastern portion of the city. A lare I nnnnt.lu ! . ? . . - " ciurcii 111 : biiviu. em. Losq fil.r.nf cj-. AAA ti..: the - mt "V: 1 uau tu nn Kav, 4 named 4iiw LLiua isciiL mr n n i rrr im owanwnowa3 with lk-nt, who may be mortally injured. Kay es caped. J nut. P WAM . lll.HH il lVC arrive erection of vilia .it die . JK '.!, ' ; !Hfin" till' !iri .f 41... t.nt (i',r.. td I.... . ... " i i hri n i '"'''"t ',,... , :. I1"' '1', .,( wucro uie ground m iu, v f . ...... .. .... ... lt w,u j l!i'!d...gsofasiy.eui!!i;:.' 4 . - ..ieri or more. Th'.. riir-..! f. .. I . .. ti "!;:tH.n them; vilhw were prep.ir(., ' PriHjicr Hueru.e rSi . . .i .... i .i ... . " n ' ... Mr . .. fir.-i.,.,. ill.. JUKI Uinv U'l I... ..... . ....... nr. i... i ' in'- MT'nai vim and lus lon-nian Mr I Vr The villas are admirably' 1 " 1 1 in fact, Mr. Huerme rat ,',"U: 'sanitary towns." Ti1(- 1,7 ":r!1 specially desi-mf.,1 ... J,,:"ar(. - .i.t - .,.' , t.,. . . - nion bifmrpr rm'rm , . lr ,,rr,. ' 'i " i"'"r' thoi. iic i, u.ii'1 uiini'ar to ilv. i ' I , ' IlHi'. In-,.., carefully consider...! .T . foreman and engineer It ;s ,e say that if the canal con. nan, get a few more American rrVr, to work for them, a, IM fllT me, the work on the Isthmus vr. I further advanced and Lett.-rV." temized. and people wouM more faith in the enterprise U " ruur leauinir einr. Hvm company have died recently . -... .j ly, .Mr. r.t'.enne, su director at i' pmwall, softeriin;: by of th- U.;,. Mr. Bertrand, his secretary j jaj or j ',v : of 11, .1'. or issibl yellow. f.-V.r' . is Side .Messrs. K-.irW,.", i.ierntowsii, hoth chiefs 0f v brigades, and most excellent t'- The latter two had overwork.-, t.W selves, depreciated theeff.ts r,'f climate, anb, it is said, were n . promptly treated when thev to. !. It is believed they fell victual wretched health service, and' u good treatment would hav4.S;lvti them. It may interest phv-io".' in the United States to learn IT the canal treatment for Istlnn-w' vers is : First, an emetic ; si-con, j purgative third, another en..-., fourth, another purzative. ami w -. t . " ii:.;! j Xo quinine is administered. Is ; to be wodrrcd at that peoph die ij-'. ; der such a system of treatment? ' 1 freak of Lightning. WlI.KFXl.VIiI.E- Aug. 8 A mc.t remarkable disaster by lii'htnmjo.-. curred at Ashley, a siibiir! ()f ".hi. city at3:-i0 o'clock on Sunday a;V noon. There were few cloud. '; the sky at the time and no sir. storm, except afar off to then,-. where a few thunder-heads wi rr-vi-ible. Xo rain was falling and .!.,. atmosphere was extremely L.,t At the time named alve Cui Iearborn. a little girl four yearl 1 SOuth side of her residence, drii- was Biitiiuui" ii'-ur ;i window on t:. a glass 01 root wer. ine wind,. was raised about tn inch, ; the sill. ami the child Ftood al.ou.a foot from it. Suddenly a Lmd rv port was heard and the little jrL-l was sent flying across the ra Her mother, who was in anoti.?. apartment, ran to her rescue ar.d raised her from the fla.r. The lo; t flowing hair of the child was ia flames, which the mother soon ex tinguished by wrapping her apron about the head of the sufferer. A physician was subsequently czZ-l and it was found that her head try encircled with a huge blister. hr fa burned in several places and h hands, badly injured. ThesW'sM the child's system was terrinV. !;.t it is thought a fatal result will c.. follow. The bolt seemed to cx from a clear sky, as no more ti.'.iv der was heard until S o'clock in:.. evening. A Weliiime to Kn'iK-hnirn. 1 r . rt The visitors from France to the Yorktown Centennial CeleLrati.r. jand particularly thejiescendacts of I Lafayette And Rochambeau, art? t 1 be tendered grand receptions at the ' Permanent Exhibition soon artrr month. The prime movers in the matter are the Pennsylvania ino... porators of the Yorktown Cii.tr nial comprising Dr. J. A. Paxs-.n. Thomas Cochran, Colonel Dale Ben son, B. K. Jamison, Hon. Dani.-! J. ! Morrell. Hon. G. II. Buker. M. P. A Sriou.H Charge. WlLI.IAVSPORT, Aug. S. It : now as though murder had committed in this county, the mo tive for which was the hope of f1 i curing insurance money. A nun ; named Miller, aged 04. who livt 1 ; with his son Samuel in Clinton tp I died suddenly a week ago on San j day, ar.d was buried the follow:'..! dav. The circumstances of de:ii: land burial and the fact that there ! was a heavy insurance ujwn hi? life in a Sclinsgrove mutual eoir.pi ny created suspicion. After a post mortem examination a verdict w rendered that deceased had died from poison administered lyhy son, Samuel Miller. A warrant was issued and the officers went al ter the defendant, who arrived h.tv with him the same night Th144" cused son held a rJiov rf Si'M' urKin his father's life, there bein? ulii' Fired by llWk wrk. Pkovipexce, R. I. Auj (.-The dwelling of Dr. William II. Uowj-n-in Scituate, was burned last n12.1t. with ne irlv all its contents. Bowen is absent The family ,,re aroused i'i time to save their livt After the house had been lurnfJ down fire broke out in the doctor i barn, near by. Help being at loaji the llames were extinguished. V-." it was found hat the ti-e ai tiit nt it..iiir.ib'lfl H'-lp'liI'lJ kilHTU" Cll 17 T till til 11 I 4 ted by cloukvvui'i,. uuuut- 1 I to hum thehouso. Lots on the house. (MX Dr. Rowen has been very ac tivo in enforcing the law again-1 1: ....11:. 1... !..f.iri im'' ii.juur M.'i4in, nun in.-1 . eil in consequence, inert' excitement in the town. Fatal Affray. ) PllILAPELI-IIIA, A-lgUSt Sapp, a firemen on one 01 n steamers, entered the house olJe" nie Woods,' on St John s"1? . morning ami attacked one of Ue " mates, Lydia Goldsniiti. wtfM knife. lie stabbed her several t.n iu the chest, side and back., inir such wounds aa U I"" ' 0 , .vVl D...n WAS itxutciy utu.t - i i ...I -.T.i r.,; 1 t.xl to await1". result 01 ine gin s i"j'"- . ken previously lLti girl, but she nau ien Ued her this morning to p hr to return to him, and upon refusal, attempted to kill ber. On 1 iMt) i !
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