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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-01
NEWS IN BItIEF.


The President has vetoed the bill desig-
mating Omaha, Nebraska, as port Of
entry.
A new,ptl field has been discovered on
the Ohio River, fourteen miles above Mo.
tietta.
John WiddeCombe, well known citizen
Of Clarke county, o., was killed by train
at Plattsburg. q
Louis sommerAeld (white) and Richard
Lee (coloredl we're hanged at Washing
ton, D. O., yesterday. q p.
Seven members Of the Salvation Army
are In jail at Newark, o., for creating o
disturbance In the streets. H
The manufacturers Of 81. Louis will &C.
Cept the eighthour schedule, but will pay
for only eight hours' work.
The total imports Of dry goods at New
York during the past week we're valued
at $2,2B4, ,Og7, aud the amount thrown on
the market at &, ,23S,9l4.
A petition is In circulation In New York
City asking iof the pardon Of James D.
Fish. The petition Is said 10 be signed
hy over nine hundred depositors In the
Marine Bank and by many officers OF
banks In the city and throughout the
country. aM .I.F
The Presidents Commissioners Of the
District oi Columbia have removed Mar.
tin Oronin, for sixteen years Chief Of the
Washington Fire Department. The re.
moyal is In gross violation Of civil service
rules, as no charges. Gang be preferred
against the Chief.
The Cincinnati, Washington 4 Baltl.
more railroad company meets the eight
hour problem by Issuing a notice 10 shop.
men aud mechanics that, beginning May
|, they will be paid q fixed compensation
for each hour ol labor performed, the rate
10 be one.tsnth Of the sum heretofore
paid per day,
The business lailufes occurring through.
ont the country during the last seven
DAYS, az reported 10 II. g, Dun 4 Co..,
number for the United States lSV, and for
Canada iS, or q total Of 20T, as compared
with total oi lB4 last week and 1882 the
week previous 10 the last. The Western
and Pacific States this week furnish about
ohe.hali Of the entire number Of business
casualties reported.
The report made to the Ohio Senate
Yesterday by the Republican section Of
he tioh.partisan investigating oommlttss,
make1 d review Of the evidence Of 66t
witnesses, and an inquiry consuming iofty.
IIve DAYS, and concludes that the tout Re.
pdbliCen candidates were elected BY ma
lIoflties ranging from 9J9 10 ], ,4S9, and are
entitled 10 seats. The Democratic meii'
befs Of the committee, on the other hand
throw out precincts which are retained By
Ihe Republicans, and claim that the ioui
Democratic candidates were elected "
majorities ranging from 200 10 500. Thl
reports are made The special order for nexi
Wednesday,
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AssEl,rloNs AND pEN1AIs
About Dooth'S OunditIon--A Ftiond Say
He WAS OVer.wofksd,


About Iootl'S Oondlllou--A FEiSnd Says
He WAS OVsr.wofksd,
NES YORK, April SO.-The fall Of Ed
win Booth on tho stage Of the Academy
OiMusiC oil Wednesday, and his peculiar
conduct during the performance, were
much talked about around the theatres
yesterday. Several people who attended
the performance say that Mr.. Booths &c.
tiOns were wonderfully like those Of q
drunken man, and that the others on the
stage hid Booth as much Gs they could
during the last act.
Mary Of the others who stood around
Fourteenth street and Union Square pro-
ieaseJ 10 know that Mr. Booth has be.
come heavy drinker Of late, aud that his
performances have been marred before.
But Mr., ThayeF, Booths manager, said.
"Boosh has not been drinking. II was an
attack Of vertigo, which untitled him for
work the rest Of the performance. ue
went through as well as . sick man could.
Mr. ChiIGola, Salvini's inanaget said
that BOOTHS fall was partly SAlvlnl'a fault,
"BOOth had not been feeling well all day"
he said, "but be had worked hard, Twas
with him nOst Of the day and know he
had not been drinking. lie told me alter
ths play that he had been IiSEy at times In
the last act but could se0."
Mt. William Blrnhan publishes card
In the Tribune this morning, stating that
he WAS with Mr.. Booth oil Wednesday
evening and during the performance was
In Mt, booths dreBaing room. He denie!!
nOst emphatltally that MI. Booth had
been drinking, but staIea that the great
actor was sulferiug from q severe bilious
Attack and had been Ill oil day, and " IliaI
iITa only hlsgteAt Sense o. responsibility
10 The public that made him attempt hla
bari.
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"strloliy Coz Il aSntIal."

PlrTsBuRau, Pa, April 8O.-The Com
n,erciaL Gazette will publish tomorrow a
circular which 1t Is claimed, has
been sent out To the leaders
Of the various labor organiza.
tons throughout the country. The CirCu.
lar is marked strictly confidential, I"
and states that q conference OF the chief
executive officer OF each and every national
and international trades union In America
is highly important. ut is suggested, !" the
circular says, "that the said con nlerence be
an informal one and held in Philadelphia.
Pa, on Tuesday, May Is, 1885, meeting
place 10 be announced later. The object
Of the conference is 10 devise ways and
means 10 protect our respective organizes
tons from the malicious work Of an ele.
tnent who openly boast that trades unions
must be deetroyed,"
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TIE boycott.
4 New York Grand Jury makes Some Feel.
=. lug Rsmarks on the subJsot!,

, Ma, v,v,, n..1d .Irrv oa,,.. Mama rs.,.
~" ,"IA ,On n,,...a... s" Sss -. ~" % snS,so.% '
ivy N'mU n Sn Un 1T NO ouO5,Us r r
NEw YORK, April oo,-lne af"nu Jury
Of the Court Of General Sessions was dis
charged to-day. but not until Foreman
p..ssLo a ha.dod - pooo,dor e,n,th /.
ofo"n nau n"uusu '" NeOO'uea ' W, W "
presentment condemning ooycotung. Inc
presentment severely condemns police
Inatice Wilde. who. when a number Of
kan0o,,or. ,voro orrsstoJ and h,or,ht ho.
ooyVo!'e's "eie "te''eu "uu O,Ousns pe'
lore him ior annoying OaVanaugh, SANFORD
4 Co., the tailors, promptly discharged
them on the ground that they had not
violated the law. Police Captains VIII
liams, Mccullough and Copeland had con.
tessed that they were powerless TO relieve
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E1eur nOun MOVE.
some Chicago FIrms AcoSdO aud some Re.
iuss the Demands Of EnpioySS.

some Chicago Firms Accsde aud Some Rs.
iuse the Demands Of EmplOysS,
CHICAGO, April 3O.-The eight hour
movement was emphasized this morning,
In advance Of The day announced for its
Inauguration, CLARK Bros. 4 Co.'s iurni.
turs factory, at Blue Island avenue and
Robsy street 10 idle, the 900 employees
having struck. The men demanded eight
hours work and ten houn pay, The
firm told them they could not agree 10
this, and they oil left. The firm say the
factory will be kept closed until the labor
question is definitely settled.
The 81. Nicholas Toy Company inform.
ed ils $50 employees that II would not
grant the ten.houf pay iot eight hours'
work, The employees are atill al work,
The Hercules Iron Works on Canal
street will inaugutate the eight houi byb.
tenn with ten.houra pay, beginning to.mot.
row, for one month,
The immense iron works Of the Crane
Brothers Manufacturing Company will
close down Tomorrow night iot several
weeks at least The company intimatel
that II will then inAugufale the eight houl
system and deems The shut down iiebes,
safy 10 arrange iof the new order Of atIaifs
The Co.'s 4 Phillips Manufacturing Com,
pany, which owng very extensive planiny
mills haa arranged tof an eight hour work
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Gold Medal Csnts.t.

00rfEsD0ndencc Of ne Inl(!IEQe1eeT.
MoRaANTowN, W. Va, April 3O.-The
gold medal presented to the Parthenon
Literary Society by tho Hon. w. s. Hen.
shaw, Of Marlinsburg, W. Va, for the
best original oratiOn, was contested for in
the Chapel hall by three Of its members,
Measrs. X. A. Armstrong, OF Upshur
county, subject Necessity OF Higher
Education for Young Ladies' in West Vir-
pinIa"; D. L. JamiBon, Of Marion county,
flame and Voariss" IT. j. Rector, Wood
county, "0ut OF Ruins" Mr.. Armstrong
was awarded the prize by the judges,
Hon. O, W. Lynch, Judge A. B. Fleming
and Hon. O. l.. Smith. ... -,
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Indicted Tor Uon.pIraez.

NEw YoRK, April 9O.-The members ol
the Executive Board Of the Empire Pro.
tectlvs Association, Joseph Il. o'Donnell,
chairman; Andrew ]. Best secretary
James X. Graham, James +. Downing
and John John Hughes, came TO the the District a
attorneys . Gitirs S,,. today lay 70 Learnt learn i they
Indictments we're presented aSainSt them
yesterday ior conspiracy in connection
with The Third Avenue Railroad strike,
and that they would be requested 10 fur.
niBh $4,000 bail each 10 anawer They
we're accompanied by bondsman who
became surety for them. The accused
men were atraigned ID court and pleaded
not guilty With leave 10 withdraw The plea
and move 10 quaBh the indictment. The
trial oi the prisoners was fixed for the 5th
ot NAV.
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nrasLIon Of the empIoyment Of ItaI

Tug question OF the employment Of ltal
ian labor on tie West Virginia Natural Ga
(,ompany's line has been happily settled.
The company did not desire the employ.
ment Of that labor, and it showed its dis
position by making such an allowance to
lbp contractor as satisfies him, and hi
agrees to do the work with home labor,
Tho issue Of tho affair is a graceful at'
knowleIvement that home labor ought te
be preferred, and nobody is hurt in the
amicable settlement, Our own Citizeni
are to have the work II they will take IT,
and this is all that anybody can ask.
There remains, Of course, no occasion
for citizens to assemble in mass meeting
and express themselves against conditions
which no longer exist. The company hst
left no room to doubt that 1t wishes 10 do
what is right, desires to be on friendly
terms with the people OF this community,
aud mean to push It's work as fast as men
aud money can do 1t. Now for the natural
GOA
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COWBOYS Ar woRK
On the Third Avenue Line, whOarO Anxiu
for n SCfimmHEO,

On the Third Avenue Line, WhORro Anxious
for u sctimmagO.
NEw YoRK, April SO.-Among the new
hands employed by the Third sAvenue
Railway Company yesterday were some
from the South and West, who had come
on hoping for chance to use their revol.
vers. In speaking Of these acquisitions
President Lyon said; "We have got some
cowboys now, and they have come 10
stay. One Of them went across the street
this morning to get his breakfast, and when
heard Of 1t l called him in and warned
him that he might get into row X
he did not eat with the rest of the men
in the stables. That's what am looking
ior,' be said. III they come any Of their
funny business on me they'll think Eiol.
land has got back from Texas again. We
have sent out West for more oil those men,
and when the next crowd gets here we
won't have any need Of the police. | was
out West in 1851 and saw the boys shoot
the spot out OF an ace OF spades as far oil
as you could see the card, know them.
They are Just what we want. The pickets
want to get hold Of just about one Of
these Cowboys and then leave the busi-
ness"
: The cars on the Third avenue line are
running at more frequent intervals to-day
than at any time since the strike was In
augurated. Fully 70 cars have already
been run from the Sixty.atth street depot
TO the PostolilCe and Printing House
Square, the downtown terminus. No
trouble OF any kind has been reported.
The police guard on each car Is kept up,
The sixth man, for whose arrest war.
rant was placed In the hands OF Inspector
Byrnes detectives yesterday, and against
whom the Grand Jury found an indiCt-
ment for implication in the riot at Forty
ninth street, which took place when one
Of the Third Avenue cars was wrecked,
was taxed into custody this morning. His
name Is George Weiruner, glassblower,
and be resides at q Clinton street. He
was arranged before Recorder Smythe
and held in $500 bail.
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DULL WEEK IN TRADE
THE DIscoUHAGINa REPORTS
OF Depression in General Lines of Bullus.s
DuS TO tho Aggravated Condition of the
Labor situAtiop-IrOp and Wool Mar.
ksts Dull-Sugar Boom Checked,

NEw YoRE, April 3O.-special tele-
grams to Bradsrctts do not report as en-.
courRginga view otgeueral trade as in the
preceding week, At Chicago and Kansas
City there is relatively the most activity,
but at a number Of cities at which an im.
provement in the movement OF general
merchandise was noted week ago there
is none now, Purchases at Chicago are
still characterized as for immediate
wants only. There are at least 10000
employees on strike against $4,000
last week, in addition to those seeking to
enforce the adoption OF the eight hour
rule, Brddsireets finds that at least 925,.
900 men at industrial centres are actively
moving to secure fewer hours OF labor,
vi this nQmbsr q 1000 are ou q strike, 92,-
900 have had their demands granted and
1000 threaten TO strike. There are I5,-
GOO who have not yet accompanied their
requests with threats Of strikes,
STRIKES RESPONSIBLE PORTRApR DEPRESSION,
The more aggravated condition OF the
labor situation is primarily responsible for
the noticeable depression in general trade
and industrial circles throughout tho
this week,
Interior merchants arc buying restricted
lines and manufacturers are basing con.
tracts on the enon-interierenCe OF employees.
The New York stock market was inac.
tive during tho first part OF the week and
leveriSh In the last three days. Prices
are generally lower, which is also the case
with speculative bonds, Investment
bonds are steady and Governments quiet,
Foreign exchange continues high, ana gold
10 still going out. Money on call Is easy
at from ! 10 2! percent, and commercial
paper ia scarce, though the supply OF loan.
able funds is not remarkable"
IRON AND WOOL DULL.
Iron markets are very dull, and the de.
maud is smaller, owing to the labor
troubles, Steel rails are firm. Water
and gas pipe makers are doing well, but
these arc the exceptions among tho metal
Industrles.
Wool is dull and la2c lower rs compared
with y month ago.
The rapid advance In the price oil re.
fined sugars last week checked the dc.
mand and the advance has been partly
lost. Fluctuations In the rate OF exchange
have made coffee prices irregular. Tea Is
depressed by heavy stocks. Wheat ia
quiet and lower on favorable crop reports
and the decreased demand from abroad.
Spring wheat sowing is earlier than usual
and the area ia reported in excess OF 1885.
Cotton planting Is fifteen days late and
The acreage Ia smaller in the Atlantic
States and Alabama and larger In Louisi.
ana and Texas. There will probably be u
decrease as compared with 1885 over the
cotton belt,
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BI,IDGEpoRr.
The Early Closing movsmsnt-NewS Notss
and Personals.

The Early Closing Movsment-NewS Notes
and Personals.
Frank Malby and his wife returned
yesterday.
Col. T. H. Morrip, who has been laid up
for some time, was In town yesterday.
W. II. Grout returned to Cleveland yes
terday after having spent few days in
the city.
Two small sheet mills at the Standard
Iron Works will be of to-day on account
Of scarcity Of iron.
Mrs. Z. P. Rhodes and daughter Kate,
left yesterday for Philadelphia 10 visit q
daughter, Mrs. Carrie Stevens.
The Union Cornet Band will give a con.
cert at Bellaire next Thursday night week.
A special train will be run from Martins
Ferry 10 Bellaire and return on this occa.
sion.
The O., L. 4 W. R. R. contemplate
some change In their track at Kifkwood,
which will make their crossing Of the
o. 4 T. track q little south Of where II
now is.
Alta recent meeting Of The Trades As.
sembly Of Wheeling, Charles kaufman
and George O. Hamilton were appointed
as a committee 10 wait on the merchants
Of Bridgeport 10 secure their signatures 10
an agreement 10 close their business
houses at o'clock p. n.
Following are the names Of the ftms
who agreed to close: Samuel Junkins,
Samuel WoodCook, r. II. Clayland, Scott
L MCGraw, James CLARK, Fowler L Drum.
mond, George Stewart, George Glaen, ].
A. Heinlein, Fred Nelninger, w. L. & f.
Cook, John Turner Q. 7. Handel, 4. 4
Goudy, J. 0aenhelmer & Co., Miles r.
Cafnes, W. H. Hillyer, II. q. ellis,
George W. Medill, 4. W. Gilmore, W. II.
CLARK, George B. 0'Kelly, ]. A. Metz.
Charles kaufman, Of the Standard Iron
Works, and Teddy 0'Leary and Daniel
Morgan, Of the Etna Iron Works, were
chosen as delegates 70 the next Amalga.
mated Association Convention at Pitts.
hurbh
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.FIRMs sh UYIlNG pOMN
In Preference to Eunniny Their EstabliSl
monts Eight Hours aud Paying for Ten.

In Preference to Euuniny Their Establish.
rnsnts Eight Hours aud Paying for Ten.
CHICAGO, April 3O.-The employees Of
the furniture manufacturers R. E. Pople
and William Clifford numbering ,l5O men
struck to-day for eight hours and ten hours
pay. One hundred and forty sewing ma.
chine makers employed by the June Man.
utaCturing Company also struck upon re-.
ceiving refusal TO similar demands. The
ExcelSior Iron Works and the Link Belt
Manufacturing Company, employing re.
spectively 100 and los men, decided To-.
night To shut down tomorrow indefinitely
owing 10 existing conditions In the labor
situation. The strike at Rothchilds iurn.
iture works has widened.
Reports were received to-day that the
workmen In the firms shops at st. Louis,
Kansas City and Denver struck this morn.
Ing, In sympathy with the men here and
ut Cincinnati.
Tomorrow the Furniture Workers
Union, numbering about 1000 men, will
hold Q meeting, to be preceded by a pa.
rade, In honor Of the emancipation OF the
workingmen. The Unioniats say they
have been working for the eight hour
system for twenty years and are now
going TO celebrate its adoption.
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A BALTIMORE BLAZE.
WIPES OUT ELEvEN BIG FIRMS
Before 1t is Controlled by the FirtmSu-TAo
Lassos wul Amount to Over Hair
MIIlloa Dollars With Very Heavy Iu.
surRuoo on stuOss and Ruildipgs.

BALTMoRE, April SO.-The most disas.
trous IRE that has taken place in the city
for many years broke out shortly after
O'Clock tonight in the 6ve-story ware,
house No. 5lS West Baltimore street, oc-
Cupied by S. W. Floss & Co., wholesale
dealers in notions and white goods.
The flames spread with great rapidity
and the entire fire department was
called upon, but brisk wind carried the
fire to the adjoining buildings and they
were badly damaged before the water
could exert an influence. The losses are
Floas 4 Co., $3.50, 900; insurance, $50, 900; ;
estate Of Jacob Trust, one building, $780,
900, insured; Levlsson's, ct aw goods,
5000; fully insured; NJ. Ring 4
90, clothing, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000; NJ, Ring on building, $4,000, in
SuIed; Cross & Dunbrace, furniture, $780,.
600, insured estate OF Jesse Sling, build.
my, $4,000, insured; Albeit Brothers,
hardware, $4,000, insurance $4,000;
MedaCy 6 Co., stationers, $4,000, insur.
anCe $4,000; Jenksns BFothers 4
Co., oil cloths, $50 900 insurance Sl7 ,50Oi
Bell, Knapps Il Co., bOok.bluders, $685.
900, insured; Frank n Adler, Wholesale
shoe dealers, suffered some loss from
water, insured, The total loss cannot be
leHs than 100000. The origin OF the are
is unknown.
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TAKEN ny SURPRISE.
rhe LumbOrmen's Uuion Makes . Demand
for Eight Hours Work.

CuiCAao, ILL, April 8O.-The proprie.
tors Of every one Of the ninety.three lum.
Der yards in the city received to-day cir.
Cular from the Lumbermen's Union de.
manding ten hours pay for eight hours
work, commencing May /. A meeting
was at oncecalled, at which eighty.iour Of
tha ninety.three proprietoB were repre-.
sented. All Of them had been taken by
surprise, there having been little or no In.
dication of an eight hour movement among
the men Ia the lumber yards. The
proprietors in their meeting did not com.
nit themselves upon any course in regard
to the demand further than 10 appoint q
committee 10 meet daily and endeavor To
Bettle the problem with the men in the
various yards on a basis OF mutual con.
cess ion. According TO statement by the
Chairman Of the committee appointed OF
the meeting q general strike In the lum.
ber yards Of Chicago will directly involve
workmen To the number Of $4,000.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa April 8O,-ThO Al.
Iison car works have shut down and
locked out 900 employees, The men a week
ago demanded an increase OF wages. The
company granted an increase Of 0 to 10
percent. The men to-day notified the
company that the increase was not salts
factory. The company Immediately shut
down the works. rgA
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|IN A CHAOTIC STATE,
roo MANY sFRIKEs ooovRRINa
TO Count Thsm-Ths Eight Hour Movement
in Chicago Driving ETsn the PrOIsstorS
Of the Scheme to DiStraotiOn-Ths
Labor Situation n Other POintS.

CHICAGO, LIS, April 80. 1--WE are rap
idly drifting into q state Of chaos" said
George A. schilling, ono Of the acknowl'
edged leaders Of the eight hour move
ment, this afternoon to q reporter,
"strikeS are occurring by the half dozen
all over the city and the Central ExeCu'
tive Committee, which should be the
guide and director Of the labor forces
has no means Of keeping track or
checking them, with view OF bring
iug order out OF this condition OF
affairs, l waited upon Mr., Rowan,
president OF Trades and Labor Assembly
and We resolved to form central govern
ing body consisting OF delegates from the
Trades Assembly, the Central Union and
the eight-hour committee and every other
organization involved In the struggle,
This body will meet every night to size up
the actions and movements OF the day.
Every strike will bs recorded and general
uniformity and reciprocity Insured"
Mr., Gano, foreman Of the Chicago, Bur.
lington 4 Quincy freight house, called on
Vice President Potter aud Superintendent
Stoue at noon to-day and asked for au In.
crease Of pay for his men for ten hours
work, and also that the salaries Of check
clerks be equaliasd, He returned to the
depot little before o'clock and reported
that his request had not been granted,
though MeSsrs. Potter and Stone had
promised to see what could be done at
some future time when matters had quiet
ed down little. .t.I
By three o'clock in the afternoon all
Of the Burlington freight house men,
numbering nearly three hundred, had
gone out.
very shortly thereafter.
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PITTSBURGH, April SO,-A general strike
Of cabinet makers for an advance of 2C
percent in wages and reduction Of the
working hours from ten to eight hours has
been ordered for tomorrow by the ALLIE
gheny county union, which embraces all
the cabinet makers, burnishers and car
vers, some S0Otn number in the two cities
The manufacturers are unanimous In Their
refusal to grant the increase, claiming
that II is impossible to ConCede the terms
desired and prefer to close their factories.
A dull trade and low prices are given as
the reason, The workers are determined
TO seCure the advance and long strike Ia
promised.
The carpenters Of Allegheny county will
strike on Monday for nine hours Rs a day't
work and q ten percent advance in wages
At a meeting last night 1t was announced
that the master carpenters had rejected
the offer, and twas decided to call out
al the carpenters ~ the county on Mon.
1aU