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More Shaot'nu at East St. Louis.

EAST ST. LOUIS ILL, April 29.-About six
o'clock tonight disturbance, which al.
most assumed the proportions of a riot,
occurred in East st. Louis. A freight
handler named August Brondtoes and Belt
Line Engineer John Gibson were walking
along Missouri avenue, when they
were suddenly attacked by four
men. Both were knocked down and
badly beaten with brass knuckles and
billies. Gibson succeeded in drawing his
revolver, and as the men fled he fired four
shots. two of the bullets passing through a
saloon across the street He did not bring
down any thing. Several hundred people
flocked around in moment, and the
militia were summoned to protect the
wounded men There were no arrests, but
Gibson recognized two of the men who
assaulted him as Tom Stanton and James
Ellis, strikers under Indictment.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
BIRD DESTRUCTION.
Some Interesting Facts on the
Subject.
The Number and Kind of the Feathered
Tribe Killed to Satisfy the Demands
Of Fashion.

CINCINNATI, April 2S.--Superintenden
Todhunter, of the s. P. c. A., who has
given considerable attention to the matter
of bird destruction for ornamental pur-
poses gives the following startling facts
relating to this subject: The decrease in
song and shore birds has become so marked
that 1t is attracting most general attention,
and is becoming so generally discussed that
1t is evident that the wave of desti uction,
which has increased so rapidly Of late
years, has reached its limit, and must now
quickly subside. Complaint is made that the
English sparrow is driving out our native
birds. A well-known ornithoogist, who
in person has investigated the subject
~ the ground is authority for the
statement that there has been in the last
few years in the Southern Atlantic States
a wholesale destruction of northern-breed-
ing song birds, which resort to those States
for winter home. The destruction of 40
OOO terms in a single season on Cape Cod
and 1,NO, ,OOOrail and reed birds (bobolinks)
killed in single month near Philadelphia
are facts that may well furnish food for
reflection. A single dealer, in three
months trip to the coast of South Caro-
lima, last spring, prepared no less than H.
the birds killed were, of course, too much
mutilated for preparation, so that
the total number of the slain Nould
be much greater than the number given.
This man claims to handle thirty thousand
skins per annum. In four months time
seventy Thousand birds were supplied to
New York dealers from single village on
Long Island. On Cobbs Island, Virginia,
an enterprising woman from New York
contracted with Paris millinery firm
to deliver during this summer forty
thousand or more skins of birds at forty
cents apiece. Not long since bird lover
heard an agent of the millinery trade solicit
a sportsman in Texas to procure for him
the plumes of ten thousand white egrets.
There were sold in single auction store,
in London during the four months ending
! April, 1885, 404, 464 West Indian and Brazil
ian bird skins, 256, ,3S9 East Indian, besides
thousands of 1mpeyan pheasants and birds
of paradise. The slaughter has extended
to all parts of the world, and seems to in.
clude every species of bird, great and
| small, land and water. There are in this
country 600 inhabitants, one-half OF
whom, or rs, 100000, may be said to belong
to what some one has forcibly termed the
dead bird wearing GENDER of whom al
least 10, ,0O00 600 are not only of the bird-wear
ing age, but, judging from what is seer
on the streets, in public assemblages and
| public conveyances, also of bird-wearine
prOclivities. On many hats and bonnets
parts of three, four or half-dozen birds
will be found. But suppose that each Ont
of these 100000 bird-wearers has but
single bird, and that these are made ovel
so as to do service for more than single
season, even at this rate 100000 bird'
must be sacrificed annually to supply wha
has been the fashionable demand in tn,
United States.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
THE HILL STATUE.
A Great Day for the People of Georgia
The Northern Soldier Kindly
Spoken of, and Grant and
Lincoln EulOgized.


ATLANTA, GA, May 1.-The unveiling OF
the Hill monument to-day drew thousands
of strangers to Atlanta. The city is brilliant
with decorations, especially along the line
over which the procession passed. DR..
Spalding presented the statue to Governor
Mcdaniel for the people Of Georgia. He
alluded touchingly to Senator Hill, and
when the cloth which covered the statue
was raised revealing the ia
miliar form and features, great
shout arose from the multitude. Mr..
Davis received great ovation, people
fairly swarming about him. After the
oration, which was delivered by Hon. j. G.
c. Black, Mr.. Davis returned to the resi-
dence of Mrs. Hill, and will remain there
until tomorrow, when he will start for
Savannah to attend the Centennial. Every
incident of the day, showing fond mem
ory for the old war associations and an as
sertion Of rectitude in every thing that was
DONE developed nothing hostile, either
to the Union or the people of the
North. Federal soldiers were spoken
of in the most respectful terms. Lincoln
and Grant were repeatedly eulogized in
the personal presence of Mr.. Davis, and
nothing but kindly feeling was expressed.
The negroes were fully as enthusiastic as
the whites, and mixed up with them and
crowded for places with the whites. Mr..
Davis and his daughter, Miss Minnie, were
last night, and will be again tonight, the
recipients of all manner of social atten-
fionS
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
The Eiah Hour Day.

CHICAGO. May 2.-The number Of indi-
vidual strikes in the country yesterday is
too great TO summarize. They occurred in
varied industries in all the large cities,
with occasional movements of a similar
nature in smaller towns The most gen.
eral and serious inauguration Of the de-
mand for shorter hours and increased pay
occurred in this city, where practically all
manufacturing and producing concerns
are involved, as we'll as the railways
through the action OF the freight handlers,
who have taken steps to form a union, and
announce their unalterable purpose OF Sc
curing what they ask.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
A PITCHED BATTLE
Follows an Attempt to Make Grand Rapids
WOrkmen stop Work.

WOrkmen stop WORK,
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May 2.--Yester-
day about 100 men, who wanted every one
to observe holiday and work only eight
hours da, hereafter, marched from place
to place, making their demands known
and receiving recruits as they marched
along. Some carried book beer banners,
On arriving at Fuller 4 Rice's mill, outside
the city limits. they started to interfere
with the workmen. One leader of the par
ty drew revolver and ordered every one
to stop work There being hesitation at
this demand the procession soon made
break in a body, driving all hands from the
mill. Quickly they were met by clubs in
the hands of the mill workmen This
changed the aspect of affairs, and the mob
took refuge behind some freight cars and
renewed the battle with stones. At this
point the proprietors attempted to make
the men withdraw, but they refused and
pitched battle resulted. During the melee
one man was hit in the abdomen with
large stone and another was seriously i'll
jured A perfect hail of stones was show
cred upon the mill workmen by the mob.
The police and sheritf's force were called
out and quiet restored. The employees pro-
fess to be entirely satisfied, and say had no
desire to strike.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
The Cincinnati e.. ion Trouble.

COLUMBUS, April 30. Tie report made TO
the Ohio Senate to-day BY the Repub lean
section of the non-partisan investigating
committee makes review of the evidence
of $50 witnesses. and an inquiry con uming
forty-five days, and concludes that the
four Republican, candidates wera elected
bv maioritie~ ranging from @2 to | 48s,
and are entitled 10 seats The Democrat
members Of the committee, on the othar
hand. throw ont precincts which are ~
famed bv the Republicans, end claim that
the four Democratic candidates were
elected by maiorities ranging from 20 %
800. The reports are made The specia.
order for next Wednesday.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
MYSTERIOUS Murder of a Child.

NEBRASKA CRY, NEB., April 3O.-.At 5
O'Clock last evening Della Shellenberger,
eleven-year-old girl, was told to scrub
flight of stairs leading to a cellar. Ten
minutes afterward her father found the
girl lying at the foot of the'steps with hers
throat cut from ear to ear and bloody
carving-knife lying beside her. 1t was a
murder, as is proved by the character of
the wound, but there is no clew by which
the mystery can be solved
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Of Interest to Horsemen,

New YORK, April 2S,-The eleven car
Dads of trotting stock shipped by Senator
Stanford from California on April 10 to
Peter G. Kellogg & Co., have reached New
York and are stabbed at the American In
stitute Building Three stops only were
made for rest, the last at Council Bluffs
The special train followed the limited ex-
press closely, making passenger time, and
ninety-seven horses arrived in good cond
tion. Six died at Salt Lake City from
colds taken in the mountains. This is said
to be the largest shipment ever made so
great distance, and as the horses are
chiefly the get of the celebrated California
stallion Electioneer, out of noted mares,
their arrival aroused great interest among
horsemen and breeders.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Triumphal Tour of Davis.

ATLANTA, GA, April S0.-Jefferson Davis
was conveyed from Montgomery to Atlanta
to-day in great state and poinp. The spe-
cial train was profusely decorated with
flags, ribbons and flowers, the Confederate
colors being conspicuously displayed. At
various points along the line there were
great shows of military, cannon, flags and
blossoms. Mr.. Davis briefly addressed the
cheering crowds. followed in each instance
by General Gordon. At Atlanta there was
a grand reception. Here Mr.. navis will
assist tomorrow in unveiling the monu-
ment to Senator Ben Hill. Sunday he will
20 TO Macon and Savannah.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Kentucky LynChinu,

LOUISVILLE, KY, April 2S.-Merudy
Jones, notorious negro, was killed by
mob of citizens about midnight last night
near Auburn, KY. On Monday night Jones
entered the room of two respectable young
ladies and tried to chloroform them.
He was discovered but made his escape
He was captured by officers, who were
taking him to Jail, when the mob seized
Jones to hang him. He attempted to es-
cape and was shot down. A. L. Gooch, a
citizen, while demonstrating with the mob,
received severe piStol-shOt wound
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
The Oleomarqarine Bill.

WASHINGTON, April BY the new bill
in Congress regulating the manufacture
and sale of oleomargarine, manufacturers
are required to pay special tax of $500,
Wholesale dealers $3.50 and retail dealers
S4S. Tax-paid stamps are to be affixed to
az packages containing oleomargarine.
Manufacturers of domestic oleomargarine
shall pay tax of ten cents per pound, and
on the imported article, in addition to the
duty, there shall be imposed tax of fifteen
cents per pound
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Saved the Hangman a lob.

HUDSON, N. Y, April 3O.-Guiseppe
Scoma, the Italian convicted yesterday Of
the murder of Antonio Rocco, at the Jones
Quarry, this city, and sentenced to be exc
cuted on June 4next, committed suicide in
his cell at 10 o'clock last night by strangu-
lation. When conducted from the court
room to his cell a bottle of poison was
found upon his person concealed in a
paper of smoking tobacco. Four hours
afterwards he was found hang ng in his
cell dead. He used small cord which he
had worn about his waist to hold his
trousers up He had threatened self-de-
Struction frequently.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
More Murderers Santeneed.

FORT SMITH, ARK, April 3O.--Four more
Indian Territory murderers have received
their death sentences, and unless the Presi-
dent interferes will be hanged July 90.
They are Blue Duck, Cherokee convict,
murderer of white man named Wyrick,
June 1854; Kit Ross, white, who killed
Davies, also white, last December; Calvin
James, negro, who killed Tony Love, me-
gro, in Chickasaw Nation, July last; Lin
coin Sprolla, white, who killed Clark and
his father, also white, in Chickasaw, last
Nav
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
More Strikes.

DAYTON, o., April 2S.-Forty girls, en-
ployed in the Cooper cotton factory, asked
for advanced pay, which was granted.
The boys struck for better wages, and they
were discharged
CHICAGO, April 29.-Two hundred and
seventy five men in the sR. Rothschild's
furniture factory went out on a strike, the
outcome of a similar strike in the Cincin-
natl factory
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
The Demonstration at MONTGOMERY. Ala.

MONTGOMERY, ALA, April 29.-This city
was the scene of a tremendous demonstra.
t!on to-day Flags were waving every
where, and the crowds were immense.
Streamers and banners bearing the names
of prominent Confederate Generals were
prominent. Jefferson Davis delivered au
address on the Capitol grounds. near Il
spot where he took the oath of udice as
President of the Confederate States IN
1851, and referred very feelingly to the late
war to VIII CD ali his .emarks were devoted.
General Gordor's speech was at consid-
erahle length, ad i'll it also be discussed
the war
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Badly Burned.

CAIRO, Ill, April 30.-A singular acci-
dent occurred at the Singer works to-day.
A damper in the chimney of the furnace
turned suddenly, shutting off the draft,
and causing flames to puff out of the fur
mace doors. Tress Brown, fireman, and
Harry Wilson, engineer, we're standing in
front of the fire doors, and the flames
burned Brown badly in the face and Will
son on the left arm, from shoulder to wrist.
Brown may be injured internally.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08

WASHINGTON, April 29.-The Adjutant
General of the Army has received the fol-
lowing telegram from General Miles, dated
at Tucson, Ariz. The Apaches in small
numbers have been committing serious
depredations in the country east and adJs-
cent to the Sonora railway, from thirty o
one hundred and fifty miles south of the
boundary, and to-day (April 20 killed one
man north of the line, near Calabasis,
Ariz. Our troops and thirty men of the
Mexican troops, under Major Refs, have
been in active pursuit, both crossing the
line and following the raiding parties"
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Want of Broth rIy Unity.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, May "A special to
the Sentinel from Green Bay announces
fatal quarrel between three brothers
named DeLarde near that city. An alter
cation over property interests led to a
battle among the brothers, during which
one was pounded to death with a heavy
chair, and another probably fatally stabbed
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Frjuhtful Double Accident,

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, April 3O.-At O'Clock
this morning the first passenger train
from New York struck and killed August
Wachaowski, aged fifty weight years, and his
daughter Mary, twenty years, at the War
rem avenue crossing OF the Consolidated
road. Two horses which the unlucky man
was driving were also killed,
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Startling Discovery In a Church.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, April 2S-The new
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church building,
in progress of erection, will be thrown
open to worshippers Sunday next, and the
ladies met this afternoon to assist in appro-
pirate decoration. To their horror they
found the colored janitor, Isaac Brown,
dead upon the floor. Examination dis.
closed that he died from heart disease
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
BURIAL OF THE MANIAC.
The Husband, Under Guard of Two Men,
Attends the Funeral of Mrs. Smith,
the Child-BTainer.

the Cnlld-BTalner.
PoRT MONMOUTH, n j., April 29.-The fd-
neral of Mrs. Smith, the maniac murderess
and suicide who Drained her four children,
at Harmony, near this place on Friday last,
took place this morning. Her remains W re
inferred in the same grave with that of her
baby girl, Edna, who was murdered by the
insane mother The heart-broken husband
and father, guarded by two men, was al.
lowed to attend the funeral He seemed
not to realize the fact that his wife was
dead, and inquired several times for her
Before the mourners returned from the
fun P-al of Mrs. Smith the thrteen-year-old
boy, Rufus, whose head was split open
from the forehead to the back of the right
ear. died, making the second victim of his
mothers frenzed act. The physicians are
now sanguine that the lives of the otbe,
two children will be saved.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Saturday Half Holiday.

ALBANY, N. ", April ?9.-The Governor
signed Mr.. Cantor's Saturday half holiday
bill to-day The standard gas bill became
law today " thout the Governors sigma
ture, the time having expired.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Terror-Strickfn Landlords.

CRACow, April 2S.-The Galician land
lords, panic-stricken by the news from the
west of the province, are abandoning their
estates and pouring into this city and Lem
burg by hundreds The peasants are rising
in all directions, and it is feared that un-
less the agitation which began so strangely
last week is promptly and sternly sup
pressed there will be a repetition of the
awful scenes of 1916.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
Cheap Farming Lands
BOARD OF AID ESTATE
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HEALTH AND CLIMATE.

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Decrease of debt during the

Decrease of debt during the
month ............. ............ $lO,965,3S7
Cash in Treasury available
for reduction of the debt
Gold held for gold certificates
actually outstanding ......... SS4, 7l5,225
Silver held for silver certiti-
Gates actually outstanding. W,7S,l4l
United States notes held for
certificates of deposit actual
ly outstanding ........... ..... ll,3l5,OO0
Cash held for matured debt
and interest unpaid ,,............ l5,343,4l
Fractional CURRENCY - 903
Total available for reduc-
ton of the debt. ............S 2,301,7W
Reserve fund
Held for redemption of United
States notes, acts of January
IA, 1875, July u, 1852. ......... $lOO,UO,UU
Unavailable for reduction OF
Fractional silver coin ......... s2s, ,S64 4s2
Minor coin, ......... ....... 496,3a1
Total .....,......... $29, 800 S13
Certificates held as cash sS3 l6s,GN
Net cash balance on hand. T,U3O,@9
Total cash IN Treasury as
shown by Treasurer's gen
eral account. 492, 49,, $40
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Public Debt Statement.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April1.-The follow
ing is recapitulation of the debt state
ment issued to-day for the month of April;
Ian. d1hf-
Little Falls transcript., 1886-07-09
ntfo., a,,nd Dealln.

81 1t Is a curious study how near some
people come to death, apd yet do not die
.till their time comes 2 as the 1Rytng is
An old Englishna1 who had passed un-
harmed through the hoz1oM :of the Indian
ymutiny came home Z 6Oh India and went
zupen an expedition to the heart Of Africa.
After passing through many dangers both
Ion sea and land, and getting safely home
after tempestuous voyage, he was drown
led the day after his arrival in simply step
ping over gang plank from his ship to
another, and was drowned In sight Of his
home. But there are many cases very
similar, and they are 90 frequept as TO-
hardly occasion eon11nvnt. 5t-.-.
.sInstle Inidstot life We are In sdeath," !"
smaghtsosaetiraes be aptly made to read, In
the1ntdst ct death we are In life. In one
.of tie large printing of London q
Mesv tears since an elevator carrying an
eof1Ge hoy and several "forms" Of type was
precfpitated the entire length of the well,
80 feet deep. and while the forms Were pied
and the elevator splinteled, the boy escaped
with u few bruises. Not;a week afterward,
while passing down flight of two or three
ssteps he trtpped and fell, and broke his
;neck Instantly, ,.=>%.%E..-f...
Here Is another Instance not less remark
able: A slater working upon the roof Of
ahutldi4e 10 feet high lost his balance and
went rolling down the side of the roof
Fortunately, just In the middle OF the roof
was askyhght Of heavy glass opening in
ward. 4'Directly the uaan struck Il. h.
. carried itAwath him through the root to TIT
5Hor below. failing upon the head OF ,
,workmans standing at a bench. The falling
glass injured the. workman so soverel,
alopt the head that he died Instantly
while the slater Nved to tell Of hi
miraculous escape to his grandchildren: