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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
THE TRAIN WRECKER
Hamilton in Had PesitiOn-SOme
Sensational Testimony Ex-
peCled.

KANSAS Cry, Mo-, December 90
Prosecuting Attorney Gibson made
the opening address tonight in the
trial OF George Hamilton, charged with
train wrscking, in the District Court
at Wysndott,. He said the State ex-
pected to prove that on the night Of
the wreck the knights of Labor held
a meeting at their hall 10 Kansas City,
Kas. tina. later the six accused men,
one OF them disguised, left the hall
and proceeded to the Missouri Pacific
tracks below Wysndotte; that there
oliver Lloyd drew the spikes from the
rails and removed the fab plates
while Hamilton and the others
watched; that then they returned to
their hall and two hours later a fteight
train was plunged into the river and
the fireman, Ben Horton, and brake
man, Forge Carlisle, were killed.
Alvin Spsuldir &, of Atchison, the
conductor of the il fased train, was
the fist witness. He described the
wreck and the evidence Of removal Of
the rails as has heretofore been pub.
liihed.
On cross examination the defense
tried to show by admissions Of the
witness that the track was in bad re-
pair at this point and the train was
running fast, but SpAu ding's testi-
mony wss not shaken. They were
running slow, he said, and the track
was all right the previous day. He
knew CT no grudge that could have
been borne against him by any Of The
8 rikers. There was bitter feeling,
however, entertained by the strikers
against the men at work.
In the afternoon session George
Fowler, the engineer, les fled sub
staniially to the same effect as the
conductor. He had also examined
The track and found it had been tam
pered with. There are rumors that
new evidence of a startling nature
will be presented In day or two.
Elk Road Master Daily, of the Mis-
souri Pacific, also test III d that he ex-
auined the track ard found that the
spikes and bolts had been removed.
A crowbar was produced which YVES
found near the track after the wreck.
Coroner Gray gave some compare
lively Hnimpoftant testimony, which
closed the d US proceedings. Vessen,
one of the prisoners, will testify to-
Marrow
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
THE HNTERsTAT RAILROADS.

Discussion upon the interstate rail
road bill now before Congress is very
actively carried on by the press,
Some OF the roads that think they
profit by tho absence OF government
regulation. and many Of the agents
and parasites OF the companies, are
very sure that the present loose, un-
steady state Of things is the mos! con.
ducive TO their prosperity. These
hangers on fish In troubled waters,
and tranquility aud order is hateful
to them. All these are making the
voice that always comes from those
who want TO have It believed that
their own believing and bawling is
the voice OF the people. The bill is
hailed with very generally hearty
reception as 20 nearly all its provi-
slone. The value Of published rates,
Of notice 10 be given before change Of
rates, and other points are heartily
approved. Respecting the prohibition
and short hauls there ia not the same
unanimity. But are ell the valuable
portions to be Lost for this session be.
cause Of those two pointsH Let us
have the rect now, and if necessary
leave the two Controverted points
for the Commissioners to investigate
and prepare the way for future action.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
Lynched Near VichsburE.

NEW ORLEANS, LA, December 20,-A
epecial to the Pi.dyure from Vicks-
burg snys: On the night Of the IL h
inst. Hrsch Bros, twelve miles below
this city, was bul glarzed, and Milton
Washington, colored, the occupant,
murdered. Robt. Beasley and Ray
mond Murphy, negroes known to be
enemies OF the murdered man, were
arrested for the crime. Az Constable
this evening was about 10 board a
train with the prisoners at Glasscross-
ing a mob of seventy Ave persons,
white and Colored, surrounded the
Constab Q and took the prisoners from
him. As the train started of the
crowd were taking the two men to a
telegraph pole to hang them. II is
said tnat the ouly testimony against
them was the evider ce OF negro
boy aged IA years, who rays he he'd
the horses # tho men while they
went to the store on the night OF the
murder,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
LIT TIE ROCK, ARK.
Tho Little Rock AND Mississippi
Road Sale 20 Mr.. Gould
Set Aside,
lerEoIAL ro rnE APrHAL.l


LITTLE Rock, AK, December Co.
Jay Gould today, through J. NJ. Rose
and b O. Blown, his attorneys, petit
toned Judge Caldwell, of the United
states District Court, to annul the
sale OF the Lite Rock, Mississippi
River and Texas railroad, which road
was purchased by Mr.. Gould on the
10th instant. Mr.. Goud's Eastern
attorneys overlooked the Arkansas
statute which gives debtor twelve
months In which TO redeem property
s1ld under mortgage, the law max
ing IL only obligatory that the
amount Of purchase money, with 10
per cent. interest added, shall be paid
in order TO get hold OF such property.
The price at which the property was
bid Ia was so 900, Mr.. Gould aBsum-
ing tho reads first and second mort
gsge Indebtedness, which aggregates
about $4,00O,000. In view OF the fact
that Mr.. Gould labored under a mis-.
apprehension Of the above stat
ute, and R'so upon its being
made known to the court
that he desired stlll to
buy the road, with statutary protec
ton, the prayer was granted and
ordered Judge Redmond, the master,
tn Advertise the sale in the Arkansas
Gasate and the New York Evening
Post for twenty days. The Court also
ordered that $4,000 now on deposit
to Mr.. GOuld's credit in this city be
held as security that the bid for the
property will be made as claimed. Il
IA understood that his bid will be
$l,600,tO0, and that he will take the
road Ia fee simple II 1t is knocked
down TO him.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
AfEAIPHIS APPEAL.
PROHIBITIONS s HELPING THE
GAUnnNR

SALOOhbs
To get prohibition law upon pa
per, even with the authority OF lsgis-
ls,or and Governor, fails to prohibit,
because II is not enforced. Such law
appears like 9 ship cent to sea with
out crew or cargo. The agitation set
on foot secures the passage Of the law,
but the earnestness that secured the
passage OF the law appesrs to subside
when the paper document is signed,
and 90 law cannot administer Itself,
In one way or another it fails. Efforts
10 make the law effective at Atlanta
are met by the daily arrival Of jugs Of
liquor purchased outtide OF the State.
In this way between 4c00 and 5000
quarts arrived in that city one day last
week. In Ohio what is called the
Dow law is producing practical re-
suits. Licenses are put so high as 10
shut out the low, vicious dens, and
the remainder can be kept well under
police control. In the country idis-
trlcts the Ohio people can keep away
ali saloons by local option, II they de-
sire. The actual effect OF the law
can be judged OF by the great
efforts the liquor dealers, Wholesale
and retail, make to defeat IL; they
denounee II with bitter wrath, and
are now preparing TO appeal to the
United States Supreme Court against
It. Strange as 1t seems, the prohibit
ton people oppose and denounoe the
Dow law as iervently and as bitterly
as the saloon people. This has the
appearance Of bad policy. II the Dow
law does not give all the prohibition
lists desire, 1t gives much, and that
much Is an advance, and looks like
preparation for ultimate prohibition.
Local option is prohibition, as far as
1t extends. Let the zeal that Hecurss
prohibition laws be used to extend ii,
and prohibition, instead OF coming
'thick end FIRST" would come gradu-
ally, securing district alter district,
As long as the temperance cause wa,
an appeal TO the good sense and moral
feeling q the people 1t became popu-
lar. Since then policy Of coercion,
of driving the people whether they
are willing or not, is weakening the
cause with many. The advocates OF
prohibition would certainly do we'll to
review their policy, unless they are
willing to play into the hands Of their
opponeutg.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
The Inference " That FOtheI ing
ham IL Guilty.

KANSAS Cry, Mo, December 90
An interview with Robert PinkertoE
was secured late tonight. He stated
all sccomplices in the robbery had
been cap ured, the FIVE men under al
rest and Mrs. Haight. Being ssked II
FotherinRham was guilty be replied:
II am not ready to say, prepared
the evidence for the grand jury and he
was indicted. Draw your own conclu-
sions. There are q large number Of
accessories after the fact, he said,
scattered over the country, and he
would use his judgment as to making
further arrests. Pinksrton's men were
securing the city all night, but the
fruits Of their labors are net made
known. Witrock and Cook we're
kept in The Adams Express office all
day and removed to some place Of
conCealment at dusk.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
WitrOck DiaclOAes she Where
AbOufR of AL The NROOdle."

CHICAGO, ILL, December 29.-W.
A. Pinkerton tonight stated that he
had secured information as to the
whereabouts Of all the money stolen by
the Frisco train robbers. The portion
not captured in Chicago and Lesven-
worth was buried in five different
states. Each Of the locations have
been designated by Witrogk, but how
the information was obtained from
him or where the pisces are, Pinker-
ton refuses TO diec,ose.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30

members OF the Jockey Club. The
Prince wounded bis antagonist In the
shoulder, but not dangerously. The
duel took place at the San Lorenzo
School for Artillery, and has excited
much comment, both gentlemen De-
ing # the highest toclal standing.
The Prince is well known in Wash
iDgion society.
Nine Patti arrived here today. 1t
is reported that che will not be able to
sing tomorrow night on account of
fee ing the rarity of he atmosphere.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
Non Resident Notice.

No. 55S-In the Probate Court af Shelby
county, Tenn.-John Mitchell Petitioner,
vs.. Dodson Mitchell. Defendant.
1t appearing from affidavit IN this CAUSE
that tho defendant, Lodson Mitchell, Is q
nen.rcs ident OF the State OF Tca=osscs and
is q resident OF tbs State Of New York:
his appearance herein, ct tho courthouse
of Shelby county. 10 Memphis, Tenn on or
before the FIRST Morday In January, 1857,
A. plead, answer or demur 20 oomplRinautsI
bill, or he same II be taken for confessed
a. ~ him a, d set for herring eK parts; and
that copy Of III order be published once a
week, for four successive weeks, In the Menu
phis Appeal. This 9Th day Of December, 1898.
By Thoa, 3. CrenshaE, ID, q.
Henry =. Dix, Sol. fer oompln'ts tua
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
Diamonds at muIiord's.
The Press on tho English Cabinet
Vacancy.

New YORK, Deem Der 90 The Post,
referring to the vacancy ia the Cabi-
net, urges the Ministry to provide
some means by which Lord Randolph
Churchill can resume Office.
The Telegraph thinks that the Rt.
Hon. W. IL. Smith, Secretary for War,
may De appointed leader for the gov
eminent party in the House of Conn
mors.
The Daily Neos, in an editorial this
morning, advocates the postponement
OF the redemption of eonsols for five
years, in order to pave the way for tie
eventua ity Of war loan.
Inspect SsUltOrd y stock.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30

by Marion Harland, with other vslua-
BILE intormation; forty.eight page book.
Sent free on receipt of 2 cent stamp.
Address Reed 4 Carnrick, Mercantile
Exchange Building, New York City.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
Fine watches at MuIiOrd's,
Du.I wan Hwo,as-Pa,,i.

CRY or MEXICO, December ga
duel WAS fought here yesterday be-
tween Prince Auguttiue Iturbids aud
Senior Carcedo, both Of whom are
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
louisville Cement.

Foundations, cellar walls and huild.
ings subject to overflow should be con-
structed with Louisville Cement II u
the standard.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
Diamond Watches. MuIIOrd'S
ThoH Ara Non nnrrr.

There is one thing nobody ever re-.
grets-thst is, the day they fret adopt
cd Psrker's Tonic as their regular fam
lily medicine. tie range Ia 30 wide
aud its good effects 30 sure, that moth
ing else, except good nursing, ar.
needed in great majority Of cases
Buy II, Try IL, and aiterwsrd 1t will not
require any praiae from ma.
-
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30

accused. His plea was MT conclud cd
when the hearing was adj )urL ed until
tomorrow.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
FOR SALE.

WE OFFER FOR SALE on favorable
w terms large plantation in Bolivar
county Miss, recently improved with new
ne houses, cotton gin, sawmi1l and near
10000 feet Of lumber In stacks, 5000 new
cypress boards all ready 10 construct more
buildings. A good storehouse and eFcellent
tation Is improved with view 70 subdiviS-
ion. will sell all or part, according TO
wants OF purchasers. Plenty OF labor. No
gro tenants hfvo spilled and are daily ap-
anniH 10 rios. II. tLLKN L Gn.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-30
HEADQUARTERS FOB
CORRUGATED IRON SIDING
And Iron Roofing.

Fire, Wind, Water and Lightning
proof. Suitable for all kinds Of Buildings.
For prices and estimates q factory rates
call on or address
MEMPHIS METAL 4 WOOD MFG co..
GSS 4 40 Main st., and q 4 Is Mulberry
MEMPHIS, TENN.
Headquarters for Iron Fences and OroSting,
(4aivaniEsd Iron OornjoA Tin Roofs d Stoves.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06
He Who Can Look UnmoVed on
All This Misery Has
the Heart Of a
Tiger-Children of Tender Years
Forced Into the
Factories.
While Their Fathers Are Compelled
to Tramp for Want
Of Work.

Continuation Of Samuel Fielden's great
speech before Judge Gary.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06
WILLIAM HOLMES.
Duty Calls Him to Attempt to Break
the Wall OF Prejudice.

The following self-explanatory letter,
which should have appeared earlier, and
would but for nv absence, is published
that the comrades may know that the
cause of Right will have another able
advocate on the rostrum. "Cato's fear
less pen has done grand work in the
past, and the cause of the poor will re-
ceive telling aid and assistance from his
voice in the future. -
The purity of his motives can be meas
ured by the knowledge of the fact that
whoever in these or in past days has
taken up the unpopular standard of the
poor and the despoiled, the oppressed,
toilworn millions, has received naught
but the ieers and kicks of Dives and a
very tardy gratitude from Lazarus:
DEAR CoMRADEs-I have determined
to take the field as lecturer and agita-
tor in behalf of our imprisoned comrades,
and FIR the general dissemination of
Socialistic truths The fearful wall of
prejudice must be assailed, and feel it
my duty to 60. My principal lecture
will be upon THE HaYmarket Tragedy
and Trial of the Anarchists" l shall
also be prepared to lecture upon the
general subject cf Socialism. All lee
lures will be free. AS you are doubtless
aware, | am an elocutionist ; l shall
therefore give readings and Rotations
wherever desired. shall also have for
sale ALL the speeches of the condemned
Anarchists, as we'll as their photographs.
AS freely devote nv time to this work
l shall look for moral support from COM
rades on the way, and hope they will
render all the assistance in their power.
There is no longer any necessity for
hiding my identity behind an assumed
name, therefore l shall hereafter sign
my proper name to my contributions.
Comrades, 1 cheerfully give myself to
the Social Revolution. W. HOLMES.
CHICAGO, October 2.
Communications will reach Mr.
Holmes through this Office, as be Las au'
thorized me to receive orders from soci'
eties and others who may wish him tc
lecture.-ED.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06
A Fatal Confession. n.

Judge Gary's confession that ParsOn's,
Spies and their fellow prisoners were not
found guilty of connection with the
bomb-thrower, or of anv conspiracy for
the purpose of throwing bombs, but
that they were found guilty and shall
bang because their speeches tended to
make the exploited wage slaves discon-
tented with their lot, aud that one of
these discontented Tor perhaps Pink
erto2 thug threw bomb which resulted
in the death of several policemen who
attacked q peaceful gathering of work.
men-this confession is sufficient vindi-
cation for the prisoners and q perfect
arraignment of the prosecution. This
idea is forcing itself upon conscientious
citizens whether they sympathize with
the agitation of the Anarchists or not
and iG will be considered a shame and
disgrace for all time if these men srs
executed for opinions sake; nor will
the state of IlliCois have the excuse
that may somestimes be offered in be
half of lynching if she permits the exc
cution of her citizens for exercising (
constitutional right. If the sentence oi
the court is carried out, Illinois will b.
guilty of eold-blooded murder.-Work
mems Advocate.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06

Turner hall, on the London riots. Re
porters have been brought here to prove
that was conspirator and was intend
ing to sack Michigan avenue. intending
to create riot and revolt in this city,
by quotations from my speeches. ]
have shown you, my friends-I am
speaking to you as well as to the court,
and I am speaking to the country-that
reports Of newspapers cannot be de-
dended upon, and mans life which is
placed IN jeopardy on the bare report of
a newspaper reporter. that man is as liza
BILE to be murdered as not.
At Twelfth Street Turner hall I made
laspeech concerning the riot in Loldon.
On that occasion stated that the same
causes IN Chicago would produce the
same results that we had seen in Lon
dop. and that the privileged classes of
this city who had read of the homeless
and down-trodden and desperately poor
of London creating the havoc and con-
sternat,on that they had in the East
End of London by throwing bricks
through the Carleton club windows,
that thew need not be surprised if the
same causes here should bring out mob
which would march down Michigan av-
enue and throw a brick through the
window of the Calumet club. 1 said
that the same causes existing here
would produce the same results here. A
reporter of one of the morning papers
came into the hall after l had got
through and was sitting down in the
hall. and the next morning he stated
that Samuel Filden had said he would
lead mob down Michigan avenue and
he himself would throw brick through
the windows of the Calumet club. And
it is on such testimony as this that l
have been convicted of murder.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06
Parsons Speech.

The eloquent address delivered oy A
R. Parsons before the jury in the An
archist trial, has been printed in pamph'
let form, and will be sold at cents per
COPY. The money raised by the sale OF
these pamphlets will be devoted to the
trial expenses.
This speech, which held SPELL bounc
the court, prosecution, jury and audi
ence, should be read by every American
citizen: as a contribution to the labor
movement it is without a superior.
Those desiring copies can get them, II
any quantity, by writing to the Chicago
Labor Press Association, 76 and Is Fifth
auenue, Chicago. tt
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06
IN THE BELGIAN COAL-PITs.
Women and Girls Loading Seventy cars
Of Coal Per Lay for
Is Cents.

The Revue Industriale Of Charlerol
publishes long extracts from the report
of the Belgian commission of inquiry
into the material condition of the work K
ing classes in that country, through
which we learn that a young unmarried
girl, II years of age. stated in reply to
the questions of the president of the
commission: "My work in the coal pits
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06

NJ. Victor Mennier, of the Rappel, has
been studying the capabilities Of the
chimpanzee for some years, and sup
poses that with proper training 1t can be
made to work machinery he considers
that this will be serious question for
9orkingmen in the future. We pity
the poor monkey if this fate is in store
for him. But just Imagine a society of
bourgeois and chimpanzee as the out
come of human progress London JUS
tice.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06

Use Wilhelm's Nasaline for Catarrh,
Hay Fever and Colds. Drug stores; SOC
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06

many times another farmer had "run" his
horse from his home to the store in our vii
lage. | can tell you bigger story than
that" was the reply, II have D,any time
eodked my horse every step Of the way
from my house to the store" And this
farmer, as rule, has fair horses and gets
lat prices for them, too. 80 Alfred
Carnes this season harvested from six acres
OF the Samuel Foster farm three hundred
eighty-siX and one-half bushels of oats !;
from two acres more, one hundred one and
one-half bushels wheat: and forty-seven
bushels of barley from another piece all of
which Messrs. Hoyt and Yaw of Plainfeld
threshed in twenty-five hours. Mr.. Carnes
mas half-acre of potatoes that promises
yield of two hundred bushels, he thinks.
- Mr.. Hoyt, of the threshing firm of
Hoyt and Yaw of Plainfeld, was very sick
with pleurisy last week at Alfred Carnes,
but was able to be carried home on Satur-
day. - Because 1t Is to be feared a like
complaint might justly be made against too
many, persons, in too many places one may
be allowed to quote, in substance, a SEN
tence from letter we have recently seem
written by a person elsewhere. Like so
many others of our fellow-men this writer
mas Tor quite long time, been well-nigh
overwhelmed with trouble in the way of
sickness, DEATH etc. To quote: 81 have
thought many times | should leave Blank
town with very good opinion of its people
as Christians, for | think if they tried to
follow the Lords commands they would
plainly find it their duty to visit the sick
and the afflicted" Then, with disclaimer
of any intent to unjustly blame any one,
the writer closes with But people who
have never had any trouble do not know
how much good few kind words may do"
- Our old townsman, Dana p. White,
son of the late Josiah White. and till re-
Gently a business man in Keokuk, Iowa, was
in town last week. He is staying at present,
in Brooklyn, n. Y He was accompanied
by his cousin, Mrs. Caroline White Down
ing, of st. Adams, aud formerly of this
place == A daughter was born last
Thursday, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank York.
- We hear the Lynde Brothers have
recently invested some hundreds in fine
horse shown at the Mortified fair last
week. - There is to be a Soldiers
campfire at the Town hall next Saturday
evening, with the usual " bill of fare "
Everybody is cordially invited TO be present.
80 Snow-hakes fell here last Saturday,
as if old Boreas would remind us he had re-
ceived notice of the worlds fair at Tun-
bridge this week. 60 If our ex-soldiers
are none of them likely to have " monu-
ments built to the memory of service done
the country in the late war, some of them
are having homes and home-improvements,
through their pensions that may please
them better than piles" of monumental
stone. Newell Farnham is the latest to use
a portion of a pension, in erecting a new
barn.