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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-26
Tronhlesome IndInn..

YANKToN, August 25.-A gentleman
who arrived to-day from sprink
county, on Jim river, $50 miles above
YanktOn, brings intelligence of drifting
Goose band Of Yanktonnais Sioux who are
making trouble with the settlers. On Sun.
day three Of them attempted TO outrage a
woman, but she stood them of with a re-
yolver. John Bell, mail carrier between
Foster City and jamestown, is missing and
is supposed to have been murdered BY the
Indians. His horses strayed into the sta
ton last Sunday, and one OF them had an
Indian lariat tied to the halter. The wagon
hasnot been found.
These are the Indians whom President
Hayes has given three townships OF the
choicest land on Jim River. Since the
order conveying the land was issued they
have become imbued with the notion that
they are backed by the Government and
will be protected in any excess. They
belong 10 the Grow Creek agency, a hun
dred miles west OF Sprink county. -
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The AIahonIng Valley strike.

EIVsUuIBh commercial.
The news from Youngstown with refer.
ence to the strike OF the blast furnace
laborers, which threatened to stop the
production Of that important pig iron dis.
tiict. indicates that the difficulty is to be
settled by a compromise of the demands
Of the strikers. The Youngstown Register
and Tribune of Saturday night announces
that the Brier Hill Company have com.
promised with their furnacemen. The
strikers demanded fifteen per cent ad.
vance, and the company have agreed to
give them ten. The furnace will start up
again tomorrow morning. Whether the
other furnaces will adopt like course
IS not definitely announced, but it Is not
unlikely thatsome such basis OF settlement
will be adopted throughout the valley.
The facts on which the workingmen
base their claim for an advance in wages
are stated by q delegation OF the strikers.
They say that pig iron that sold for $40 a
ton on the first day OF January now sells
at S23. They say the stock house men arc
paid dollar day and filters from 81 %
70 81 %. They demand an advance OF
fifteen per cent. They do not appear to
be boisterous, speak well Of their several
employers, and say thatf they will show
them that this advance is not due thew
will return to work without 1t.
On the other hand the case on behalf of
the furnace owners as stated by A. B. Cor
nell, Esq, manager Of the Himrod Furnace
Company, is that since any reduction was
made in wages, iron has declined Ave or
SIX dollars per ton; furnaces have borne
the'loss without exacting anything from
labor. Now when coke and ore have ad-
yanced, largely increasing cost OF manu-
tacture, the price Of iron has responded
partially, and nominal prices are two dol
lars to two.ifty above those current two
months ago, but the manufacturers, being
compelled to make engagements both for
supplies and sales one or two months in
advance, have not yet received any sub
stantial advantage, and will not before
October l.
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INDIA.

LONDON, August ga Calcutta cor.
respondence Of the Times reports that star.
yatlon and misery still prevails in Cash.
mere. The affairs in Eastern Bengal are al.
50 causing much anxiety. The Duke Of
Buckingham has not vet carried out his
idea ofVisiting the scene OF the Rumpa re-.
bellion. The troops Of Nizam will aid the
British in repressing the disorder. The
seventh and twenty y.ninth Madras infantry
are suffering severely from fever, The
Cholera Is increasing at Cabul. The nun.
Der OF deaths in the regiments which
lately returned from Herat Is yariously
estimated at 100 to S65.
CALCUTTA, August 25.-The mining en-.
gineer employed by the British govern.
ment to examine the Fyndad gold fields,
at Malabar, reports to the Viceroyof India
that there is not much gold left in the al.
luyial deposits, but the quartz contains
gold IN greater proportion than many Of
the successfully worked Australian reefs
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The Pittsburgh Glass strike Ended.


Telegraph Of yesterday.
The strike Of the workers in pressed
glass has at last been ended by the accept
tance Of q compromise on the part Of the
workmen, which was proposed short
time since by the manufacturers. The
final action was taken at fully attended
meeting OF the Union yesterday, at which
a long'continued discussion took place.
The workmen have gained their point on
the equalization OF moves, and they have
yielded in their demand that the gather.
ers be paid by the turn, and this class of
workmen will hereafter be paid by the
piece. The number OF men who have
been out on the nine months strike is
said 10 be 500, and they claim that NOT
more than dozen have gone back on the
employers terms, and deserted them dur.
ing their nine months idleness. Seven
factories have shown themselves inde-
pendment OF the strikers by getting along
in a sort OF way by employing green
hands. These arc Adams 4 Co., Camp.
bell, Jones & Co., Bryce, Walker & Co.,
King, Son & Co., Ripley & Co., Duncan,
Sons & Co. and Hartley & Co.
All classes Of people on the South Side,
and indeed elsewhere, have cause Of re.
ioicing that this difficulty is at an end.
The prospects OF the trade are very bright
for the coming year, and it is to be hoped
that the great Inconvenience to which the
workmen, manufacturers and the public
generally have been put during this long
strike will lead to the adoption OF some
Iorm Of arbitration by which the like may
be avoided in the future.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
The Breach Between Germany and
Russia Widening.
Great Damage Done by Excessive
Rains In England.
The End of the Port.au-PrlnCe
Revolution.
The Deficiency In the English Grain
Crop.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, August 95.-The American
sailors at the port Of Liverpool have drawr
up petition 10 Consul General Packard
praying for the appointment Of an Ameri
can Shipping Master at that port. They
state that by the present mode OF shipping
American sailors in Liverpool are sub
jected to exorbitant charges.
1t Is declared by competent judges that
the rain OF last week has done more dam
age in some districts than all previous ex.
cessive rains.
Sir Charles Tupper has ordered $1,000
tons OF steel rails at OF shillings and six
pence per ton, to be delivered in Mon.
treal for the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
Six hundred more colliers have struck
in North Stafordshire, Fife and Clack.
maunan collters. On Saturday they re.
solved 10 ask on ADVANCE OF l2A per cent
in wages, which the masters say they are
not able to paya
Mr.. Scott, the well known agricultural
authority, in his annual letter reviewing
the crops, estimated the outcome OF grain
crops at a third less than the average,
amounting to q loss Of 25, ,000, 900 pounds to
cuitivators and that 10000, 900 quarters OF
wheat or possibly 100000 quarters will
be required from abroad. Scott also esti-
mate that the deficiency In the potato crop
will cause loss to cultivators OF l5,OO0,-
900 pounds and the deficiency in beans,
peas and rye loss Of 5000, 600 pounds.
Almost a famine prevails among the tenant
farmers in the west OF Ireland.
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PnILADELPmA, August 24.-The general
improvement Of business is strikingly
illustrated by the experience OF an agent
OF the Albany and Rensselaer, Iron and
Steel Company, who has been on pro.
longed tour in search Of rolling mill hands.
His experience was the same in all the
manufacturing centres he visited from
Georgia to Maine. He found no idle iron
workers in this State, could only engage a
small number in Boston, and secured only
four men by visit to Portland, Maine.
This company has now 1900 men in their
employ, though short Of workmen in
nearly every department, and Is turning
out $50 tons OF steel rails daily, besides a
vast amount OF other work, and yet orders
for work are already On file for a year
ahead in some branches, and 1t has had to
decline competing for some large orders.
The best thing about 1t Is that the expert.
ence Of the Albany and Rensselaer, Com
pany Is not an exceptional one, the most
favorable reports coming from iron works
all over the country, 80.
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The Grain Trade on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.


Railroad.
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
People who never go into the yards ofthe
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, or who
arc not thrown into contact with railroad
men, can form no idea OF the extent of the
the grain freights in charge of the com.
pany at the present time. The holding of
grain in storage has been entirely revolu-
tionized within the past ten years. Here.
tofore ithas been customary to accumulate
enormous quantities Of grain in elevators,
buildings so constructed as to be neces.
sarlly costly in machinery and material,
ana at the same time unavoidably inflam.
mable because oil the combustible charac.
ter oil their internal arrangements. The
expenses OF all such! grain repositories
was very great, alike in repeated handling
OIL the grain, the loss therefrom in shrink.
age, and cost OF insurance.
1t has been found cheaper to hold grain
in cars, and store these at various points
along the line OF q road, from which they
can be moved to markets as the stock Of
grain is needed. Acting ON this all the
railroads in this State are now using cars
for the storage OF grain in transit from the
North and West 10 certain markets. There
are nearly, il not quite, 5000 cars loaded
with grain between Pittsburgh and Phila-
delphia, at points along the Pennsylvania
Railroad, held for shipment rs the grain
is required for disposal in the Eastern
market. Within week there have been
repeatedly 1000 cars in the yards Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad in this city loaded
with grain, which were shipped eastward
as required and other cars with like freight
added every day.
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VOLUME XXvIII.-NUMBER q

town parties. The old company went
INTO bankruptcy, but the new company IL
doing 9 fine business at present. The
works have four stacks and employ three
hundred men. Such Is bird's.eye view
ot the larger iron industries In this sac.
ton and up the Lehigh Valley, That
the trade Is reviving Is evident from
the fact that one year ago not Ave
ot the many furnaces and works men.
toned above were employing one. half OF
the men that now, with hard muscle and
brawny arms, WELD those implements
which convert the ore hidden down In
the earth into the finest iron manufacture
ed in the country. II would be difficult
task to ascertain how many men are find.
ing employment in the iron industries, but
1t snot so difficult a matter to perceive the
great change produced all through this
section by the revival, in q most substan.
tal way, OF one OF the greatest industries
Of the age, and one Of the chief interests
OF Eastern Pennsylvania, in which latter
can be found In the Lehigh Valley alone
furnaces capable Of producing from the
ore over five hundred thousand tons Of
iron annually, all at the present time rum
nlngt TO their utmost capacity.
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ILIs Dying Wish Refused.

PHILADELPHIA, August ga comrade
of Schuyler Post, G. A. R., dying Cath
olic, and having expressed wish to be
buried with Grand Army honors, the
Post was ordered TO assemble to attend
the funeral. The Post, however,
was informed that Archbishop Wood
would not allow the Post 10 en-
ter the Cemetery. The committee call.
ed at his residence, but both the Arch
bishop and the Secretary were absent.
The Vicar General was waited upon, and
he said that he could not consent to their
entering either the church or the cemete-
ry as Post. Such were his orders against
secret societies, and the Archbishop only
could revoke them. At a meeting OF the
Post to-day twas decided to lay the mat
ter before the Archbishop on his return.
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The depreciation Of Land In this Region.
The farming lands OF this region of
country are said to have deprecated fully
one'third in price since the panic. Lands
that were sold at SIS per acre in Washing
ton county, Pa, or Belmont county, Ohio,
are now selling at about $50, and at forced
sales have gone as low as $40. The lower
priced lands-those that formerly sold
atSO-have deprecated still more, and
have been sold at SOS. Rough land, for
merly worth $50, has not been salable at
any price, and at forced sales has been
closed out at SIS and $50.
The question arises as to whether these
lands will again reach their old prices.
The panic has introduced a new measure
Of land value, viz: cheap transportation,
and also another factor in value-the rap
i'd settlement Of the unoccupied domain
Of the West. High priced lands in the
Eastern and Middle States have these two
depreciating influences to contend against
in the future. 1t is not now as 1t once was,
when 1t took one bushel OF wheat in the
West to market another in the East. On
the contrary, wheat is carried from the
Mississippi river to the Atlantic seaboard
at 10 cents per bushel, and millions Of
bushels OF Iowa grain have reached salt
water at considerably less than this rate.
The Eads Jetties at the mouth Of the Miss.
issippi are causing wheat to be carried
from the principal exporting points above
St. Louis at cents per bushel to New
Orleans. This is not as cheap, as the
rate from Chicago to New York at one
time this summer, viz: OF cents per
100 pounds, but 1t Is very low, and prac-
acaIly it means not more than IS to %
cents per bushel on western wheat laid
down in Liverpool.
1t lsthis low rate on grain and all west
ern farm products, coupled with the low
price OF western land, that will tend to
equalize real estate values between the
East and West. The farms in this region
have heretofore had a value that was pro
tected by high rates OF transportation from
the West to the East, and also by the fact
that their products were largely consumed
by manufacturing centres in the immedt
ate localities. For instance, take the tarml
Of the country tributary to Pittsburgh
Wheeling and steubenville, and we SO,
how steadily values have been kept VI
on account Of such proximity, main
ly because those cities and the small
er places have afforded market 10
all that could be raised. The West has ha,
no such advantages. Being a purely ag
rcultural country, without manufactures
1t has been forced to ship It's product
ever long distances TO the seaboard for ex
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CHICAGO.


CHICAGO, August 25.-About 50 truck
men and freight handlers Of the Michigan
Southern railroad in one of the houses
struck to-day for raise OF wages. They
have been receiving 81 O5 per day and
want 81 %. They also claim that they
are required to work thirteen hours or
more daily. They consider the hours too
long and the pay insufficient for the sup
port OF their families, especially in view Of
the recent heavy advance in freight rates.
Some Of their friends in the other houses,
being ordered to take their places, refused,
and were discharged.
The coal beavers in Robert Laws yards,
some four hundred in number, are con-
templating q strike because the proprietor
has put number OF colored men at work.
Numerous small strikes are being inau-
gurated and settled every day. THERE'S a
general disposition maniiesting itself to
demand and concede a trining advance in
wages in most branches OF industry.
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New OrIenns.
WASHINGTON.
Dividends TO Creditors Of National Ranks
shipments OF Standard silver Dollars.

Dividends to Creditors of National Banks
shipments OF Standard silver Dollars.
WASHINGTON, August 25.-The Comp
troller of Currency has declared the fol.
lowing dividends to creditors, to be paid as
soon as the schedules can be prepared.
German National Bank, Chicago, first div.
idend, 25 per cent; National Bank of the
State Of Missouri, St. Louis, fifth dividend,
20 per cent-making in all 70 per cent,
Also the following dividends to sharehold.
ers in solvent National Banks, 100 per
cent and interest having previously been
paid to creditors; Farmers National Bank
Of Platte City, Mo-, first dividend, lS per
cent; Commercial National Bank, Kansas
City, No, third dividend, II per cent
making in all "a per cent.
The shipment Of standard silver dollars
by the Treasury for August aggregate
S5ll, 500. To.day's shipments were $55,.
500, as follows: Illinois, $4,000; Pennsyl.
vania, $t1 COO; Wisconsin, $1,000; Ohio,
$1,000; Virginia, $4,000; Colorado, 81, 900;
Iowa, 5000; Indiana, $1,000; Kentucky,
Michigan and Missouri $1,000 each; Kan
sas, $500.
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AUSTRIA.

vienna, August 25.-The diplomatic re.
lations between the Austrian and Russian
Cabinets are less cordial than between any
two Cabinets in Europe, and the friendly
intercourse which existed between the
two governments for many years has also
entirely ceased.
vienna, August E25. - The Internal
Grain Fair opened in this city this morn
ing. The official report states that the
Austro'Hungarian wheat crop OF the pres
ent year is nine millions metric centals
more than the crop Of 1878, but owing to
the accumulated stock of 1878, only two
million centals will have to be imported.
The importation OF four million metric
centals Of rye will be necessary. The oats
crop is large enough to allow margin for
export.
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DERRY's DETECTION.


J..
LITTLE Rock, August 25.-Robt. j. Der.
ry, who escaped from his guard at the
Union Depot, St. Louis, en- route to Pine
Bluff, to answer a charge OF the murder
OF ". Fl. Davis, was arrested on Saturday
near Pine Bluff. He says that the pub.
lished reports OF his escape at St. Louis
are true, except he had no assistance.
He had previously filed one link OF his
shackles, and tied the same with string,
and when an opportunity occurred he
snapped tho string and boarded the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad getting of after
he had passed through the tunnel and
bridge. Securing some pieces Of iron he
made his way to a canebrake, where he
relieved himself OF the shaCkles, walking
forty or fifty miles. He worked the
freight trains on the st. Louis and Iron.
Mountain Railroad Of nights, and tramped
when he thought prudent. Leaving
train at Argenta he walked down the Ar
kansas river to Red Bluff, where he
crossed, and when within six miles Of
Pine Bluff, being mucn tatigned, he
stopped in acorn crib out OF a shower OF
rain, where he was discovered and ar.
rested by Constable Bush. Derry says he
was on his way to give himself fup.
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TELEGRAPH BRIEFS,

John @. Teneyeck, ex-United States
Senator, died at Mount Holly, N. j., last
evening, aged 65.
The steamship Brittanic, which ar.
rived at New York from Liverpool yes.
terday, brought $780, 900 in gold bars.
Larry o'Neil, the sicilian, has been fully
committed at Boston for his share in the
murder of Jos. F. Fry, to await the action
Of the grand jury.
Richard F. Boiseau, for several years
Senate reporter Of the Associated Press,
died at Washington, D. O., yesterday,
of consumption, aged Ss.
The upper powder mill OF II. A. Weldy
4 Co., Of Tamaqua, Pa, exploded yester.
day, killing the foreman, James Meiiert,
and seriously burning two children.
Anaptha lamp of peddler at Daniel.
sonyille, used to light his stand, exploded
last night, setting the clothes OF three chill.
dren on 6re. One, Walter Bowman, died,
and another named Lucian is not expected
TO live.
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port to Europe. The rates Of transporta.
ton have heretofore been 80 high as to
keep down the price OF everything in the
hands Of the farmer, and as he had no
local markets he was forced to submit
to the exactions Of the railroads.
But now all this is being changed. Cities,
large towns, villages and manufacturing
concerns are springing up all over the
West, and at the same time railroad facili.
ties are multiplying and rates Of transpor-
tation being reduced. This change wipes
out many Of the drawbacks Of the West,
and tends to put that great section more
on par with the agricultural interests
nearer the Atlantic. The success Of
the Eads Jetties and the enlargement
OF the Canada canals tends still further In
the same direction, as does also the use OF
steel rails forming as they do permanent
highwaYs) on the trunk lines Of the Coun-
try. The Eads Jetties admit vessels OF
the largest burden into the Mississippi
river, and the enlargement Of the Niagara
and Lachine canals will allow vessels OF
twelve to fifteen hundred tons. to
reach Montreal and Quebec from
the upper Lakes.' Thus it will
happen that the products OF tho West
will have two great outlets by water,
saying nothing Of the third outlet
by canal from Buffalo to New York, by
which route the principal grain shipments
from the West already reach New York.
In view Of these changes it is quite pos.
sible that the price Of lands in this region
may never reach their former high level,
but only level that will correspond with
the prices Of real estate in the West.
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FOREIGN NOTES,

The bullion Withdrawn from the Banl
Of England on balance yesterday was ESQ.,,
900.
Should q second dry winter occur Per.
sia'would be threatened with famine a.
disastrous rs that Of 1872.
James Ristoria, who took part in the
mutiny on board the steamer Casswell In
1879, has been hanged at Cork.
A Paris correspondent telegraphs that
twelve OF the Councils General are hostile
70 and ten In favor Of Ferry's educational
bill.
The marriage Of the King Of Spain will
take place at Madrid at the expiration Of
the period Of mourning for the Intanta
Maria Del Pillar.
The maize harvest in servia is very un.
promising In consequence OF the drought.
Numerous fires are also reported daily,
owing to the extreme dryness.
Mary Aitken, niece and amanuesis Of
Thomas Carlyle, was married at Dumfries,
Scotland, to her cousin, Alexander Gar.
lyle, Of Brentfeld, Ontario, yesterday.
The builders strike in Bristol, which
began in November, 1878, Is now ended,
with tho submission OF the worklnen In
the Ioiners' and carpenters departments
10 the masters terms.
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A YOUTHFUL MURDERER.
A Boy Eleven Years Old Kills His PIa,
mazda

a BOY Eleven Years Old Kills His Play,
mato.
LOUISVILLE, August 25.-Charlie Grider,
but eleven years Of age, was arrested to.
day charged with the murder Of James
Fernie, playmate, the same age. Friday,
they with a number Of other boys were
playing when dispute arose between
Grider and Fernie, the former struck the
latter on the head with q rock knocking
him down. He was taken to his home
when he complained Of pain in the head
back OF the left ear, where slight bruise
was noticed. The little fellow laid down,
but his parents thought that all would be
right in short time and paid little atten-
ton to the matter. About 12 o'clock that
night he was taken worse and at 1880
Saturday night he died from conclusion Of
the brain, produced by blow received
with rock, Young Grider had an ex-
animation in the City Court to-day and
was held in $500 to answer in the Circuit
Court.
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FRANCE.

PARIS, August 25.-The L Union news.
paper declares that Count de Chambord is
still at Frohsdorf, which place he has not
quilted for some time past. Reports N were ere
current that he had been on the French
Territory and had left for London in
obedience to the request Of the police.
VERSAILLES, August 25,-The great
shooting contest was concluded yesterday,
Milton Farrow, the American rlarksmai,.
gained the first three prizes.