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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-10-25

dent Of the railway mail service, in his
annual report to the postmaster gen.
era1 shows that on June so, 1888, the
railway mail service was IN operation
upon 143, 781 miles Of railroad. Clerks
were employed in the distribution Of
mail on Ia, $40 miles. On the ksame
date there were in operation forty-one
inland steamboat lines aggregating 81
972 miles ON which postal clerks were
employed; while in the performance of
their duty postal clerks on railroads
travelled in crews 122, OBJ ,104 miles and
those ON steamboats, ! 1877 $40 miles.
While so travelling they distributed g.
52S, 772, geo pieces Of ordinary mail
and receipted for, recorded, protected
and properly distributed 16, 001 ,059 reg
istered packages and cases and 1, 10S,-
08S through registered pouches and in
ner registered sacks. During the-year
II ,764 miles of new railroad service
haye been added being an increase of
9.74 per cent. The lines on which the
service has been performed by clerks
show an increase of 9.701 miles, or 1872
per cent. The total number of clerks
in the service at the close Of the fiscal
year was 5,094, an increase for the year
of 24S, or sol per cent. During the
year 6.545, 876 ,202 pieces of all classes
Of mail matter were handled and l ,765, :
s21 errors checked, showing that but
one error was made to every 3,7O7
pieces handled, as against one error for
every 1872 pieces handled in
1887. The casualties during the year
were more numerous than for any pre-
vious fiscal year, there having been
| 24S accidents to trains upon which pos
tai clerks were employed. In these
wrecks four clerks were killed, sixty
three seriously and forty-five slightly
| injured.
General Schofield to-day promulgated
an order from the secretary of war, de-
failing Captain s. G. Kellogg. FIFTH
cavalry for the purpose of completing
the location upon the official maps OF
the troops engaged in the battle o.
| Chickamauga. The plates of the sur
vey of the field have been completed
for some time but the positions of thu
troops have not been finally revised
Captain Kellogg was an aid to Gen
eral Thomas in the battle anC
is familiar with the field. In accordance
with his instructions he will cores
pond with leading officers OF that cam
paiQn and ask them to meet him a
Chattanooga for the purpose named
about November tenth.
The department OF state has beer
informed that the government OF til,
Republic of Columbia accepts the in
vitatibn extended TO it by the govern
ment of the United States to take par
in the conference OF Independent
American states. to be held in Wash
ington October 1889.
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EAST TAwAs, Mich, Oct. 20.-The
East Tawas Lumber g. Salt COM
pany's mill burned last night. Loss,
$40, OO0, partially insured.
TOLEDO, Ohio. Oct. 20.-GOelet s.
Co.'S. planning mills was destroyed by
fire last night. Loss s25, 600; insurance
$40, 600.
CHICAGO, H.. Oct. 20.-A singular
and serious accident occurred on the
Chicago s. Northwestern road last
evening near Geneva. The Council
BLUFFS express was running on parallel
tracks to those on which a long freight
train ran in an opposite direction.
Some miShap caused the fourth. or fifth
car of the freight train to jump the
track, dragging the other cars with it.
The derailed freight smashed against
the engine of the passenger, badly in
juring it, then crashed through the
train. A fruit car and the baggage
car were almost demolished before the
train was brought To standstilI. En-
gineer Sanborn of the passenger train
and Express Messenger YuWell were
seriously injured. The baggage mas
ter and two helpers in the express car
were badly shaken up. Great damage
was done to the contents of the bag
gage cars, the force of the collision
being such as to smash the express
safe, also shattered all the glass in the
coaches and frightened the passengers
badly Philip Beckel of this city was
quite seriously injured about the spine.
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Es11et;onsI 1IIe1-.;o. /,

CHICAGO, Oct. 1s.-Henry Crawford,
who is now the solicitor for Humph-
rey and Lindley, the trustees of the
Wabash mortgage of 1879, has. filed
with Judge Gresham brief contain
ing a sensational allegation attaching
the validity of seveIl million dollars of
hitherto supposed Indebtedness OF the
Wabash system. Tue paragraph in
which this claim of lien upon the road-
way in Ohio Is made by the Farmers
Loan and Trust company by virtue of
the mortgage of the Toledo and uli-
nois railroad company. executed in 1859.
your orator shows that all of the con-
pons described in said recorded mort
gage were fully pail at and before tue
year 1855, and the said corporate exist
ence of the said InoItgagur wholly
ceased in 1858, OyVirtue of y foreclos-
ure and sale of all its property and the
entire principal OF such bonds matured
by the terms of such mortgage in 1857
and more than twenty years has elaps-
ed since the full right accrued to the
foreclosure OF such mortgage for tbs
principal.
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A Clever Captnrs.


NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Inspector
Byrnes received a cable dispatch to-
day from Antwerp, signed by Detec-
tive Heidelberg, announcing the cap
tuIe of Adolph Sambolino, who is
wanted for swindling his employer,
David Spiro,. . fur importer at 6O6
Broadway, this city, out of at least
$40, 900 and perhaps more. SambOlino
was Spiro's confidential clerk. The
story of his crime is peculiar and his
pursuit and capture were remarkably
clever Deceive work. Incidentally too,
the result involves the exposure of the
infidelity of Sambolino's wife. Mr..
Spiro was in Europe last summer;
when he returned in July, SambOlino
who had had charge OF all the BUSH
ness, declared that he had taken the
books of the firm to his home in Brook
Ign, where they had been burned in a
fire which destroyed SambolinO'S house;
Spiro's suspicious were aroused and he
consulted Inspector Byrnes. The
inspector put detectives on the
case but Sambolino disappeared
before they got to work. SambOlino's
wife refused to give any information
about her husband. The detectives
then Swallowed the Brooklyn House
they discovered Mrs. SambolinO's faith
fulness to her husband. Two weeks
ago however Mrs. Sambolino engaged
passage on the Red Star steamship foT
Antwerp and detective Heidelberg
was sent acrose the Atlantic on the
swifter steamer GascOgne, of the
French line, leaving about the same
time. He landed at Havre and from
there went by rail TO Antwerp, reach
~ - =. L.
the Red Star steamer with Mrs. Sam
bOlino on board arrived. As had been
expector by Byrnes, Sambolino was on
the deck to meet his wife and was al
once arrested by Heidelberg. The
| fugitive clerk will be brought back to
New York as soon as the necessary
papers can be sent to Antwerp.
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Apnronsd h1 the President.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O.-The presi-
dent has approved the following acts:
Making an appropriation for the en-
forcement of the Chinese exclusion act;
the act for light house on Roe island,
California; the joint resolution author
izing extra pay to employees of the SEN
ate and house; the act granting the
right of way for the construction of a
railroad through the Hot Springs res
ervation; the act to secure to the
Cherokee freedmen and others
their proportion of certain pro-
ceeds of lands; the act for
the disposal Of the Fort Wallace reser-
walton; the act in regard to the time
for the meeting Of the electors of pres
ident and vice president; the act au-
thoriZing the secretary of the interior
to accept the surrender of and cancel
land patents to Indians in certain
points; the joint resolution allowing
the government exhibit at the Cincin
natl exposition to remain there until
November 18th next
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The Knights Of Labor.

PITTsBURG, Oct. I8.-W. 7. Lewis,
master workman of the Miners Ma
tional District Assembly, Knights Of
Labor, is in the city. Mr.. Lewis is
one of the Knights whose name has
been prominently mentioned in connec-
tion with the election for general mas
terworkman Of the order. In an inter-
view he said he would not accept the
office IL rendered him. IF Mr..
Powderly desires it, he Can be re-elect-
ed. but l have understood from him
that he would not be u candidate"
us there any foundation for the
charges that Candidate Barry has made
about the order?"
Yes, there is truth in what Barry
says, but it is not proper to have them
published. They are truths that do
not concern the public. By these
truths l mean the differences existing
between the officers If the different
policies that they advocated and so on.
These are matters however that should
be settled at the general assembly. The
order of the Knights of Labor cannot
reform itself from within. 1t does not
occur to me that there can be reform
outside or among those opposed to it.
1t Is true that the order is reduced in
membership
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ouist in Stevens County.

GARDEN CITY, Kas., Oct. 2O.-Ap-
plication was made before Judge Alb
bOtt, of the district court, in chambers
at Lakin, yesterday, for a temporary
injunction and restraining order to
prevent the commissioners of Grant
county from canvassing the vote on the
permanent county seat question, Grant
county being attached to Stevens for
judicial purposes. The application
was made by General Taylor in behalf
of the town of Appamatox, but he
could show no authority from the
county attorney of Stevens county, his
application was denied. He at once
started for Stevens county to apply to
the probate judge for writ. No fur
Their acts of violence are reported.
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N.rrosa Threaten 70 Rataliats !.

BRAZoRIA, Tex, Oct. ia con-
fict between the whites and negroes
of Fort Bend and Brazoria counties is
feared, on account of a lynching that
occurred yesterday. Tuesday night
Isaac VandOrn was assassinated by a
negro named Mat Nathaniel. Yester-
day morning citizens from the sur
rounding country assembled and be-
gan a search for the murderer. He
was captured in Wharton. His cap
tors started with him to the Brazoria
Jail and when five miles from Brazoria
were surrounded by a crowd, who. took
the prisoner from them and hanged
him. The negroes are greatly wrought
up over the affair and threats of retail.
iation have been made.
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RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 17.-At this
afternoons session of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers Chief Arthur
delivered his annual address. He an
nounced total membership of q, 600.
Regarding the Brotherhood's recent
strike, Mr.. Arthur said upon the
threshold OF new year that as an
organization, we have witnessed the
seYerest conflict in the history of the
Brotherhood. namely the strike
On the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy system, never even in
our earliest days when the powers then
in existence strOve to crush US, have
we met with such stubborn resistance
against the simple right and justice.
Every known eXpedient was tried to
bring about q settlement between the
company and the men, only to meet
with the utmost Indifference and we
were forced to yield to the inevitable
either the president or general manager
shown the slightest disposition to treat
the men fairly as the managers of
other roads have done there would have
been no strike. Surely there was no
good cause why they ought not to pay
their engineers and 6remen as much as
their competitors. They both admitted
that they had as good a class of men
as there was on any road liz the
country, yet rather than grant the re-
quest of their old tried and trusted
men, some of whom had grown gray in
the service, they allowed them to quit
and employed others. regardless OF
their ability and qualifications as men
or locomotive engineers, paying them
a higher rate of wages than we were
asking, besides boarding them and
guarding them with Pinkerton
detectives, virtually squandering
over five million dollars in their mad
attempt to cOerce the old men into
submission. We know as a rule, there
is nothing to be gained by resorting to
strikes, they are the bane of every
organization that engages in them and
they create distrust and suspicion,
engender i'll feeling and entail misery
and suffering upon innocent
women and children. 1t is and has
ever been the policy of both brother
hoods to avoid them as much as posi-
BILE. Mr.. Perkins and Mr.. Stone are
the first railway officials we have been
unable to settle with during eleven
years. We fail to understand what
they expected to gain by the course
they pursued. A large percentage
of the men they employed were
unreliable and incompetent, and
such men as they would
not employ prior to the strike. If
we had made unreasonable demands
or attempted any way to dictate to
them how they should operate their
road they would have been perfectly
| justified in resisting. But when we ex-
pressed q willingness to submit OuI
claims to any three general managers
in Chicago and abide by their decision
| and thew were unwilling to dc
likewise it showed that they
knew they were in the wrong and bt
it said to the credit of our men that
they acted in unison, and exhibited
throughout patience, prudence anC
forbearance, and were at all times
ready to make some sacrifice rathel
than to prolonga struggle that coulC
scarcely end fairly where tyranny &C
tuated by selfishness was the enemy.
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Co-opsr.tion Of Labor ORGANIZATION.


PHILADELPHIA. Oct. l9.-General
Master Workman Powderly to-day
made the first movement towards
securing the fraternal cooperation of
all labor organizations of the country
by sending kilograms to the conven-
lions of the brotherhood of locomotive
engineers at Richmond Va, and the
brotherhood of railroad brakemen
which is in session at Columbus Ohio.
The despatch to the engineers was as
ollows:
PHILADELPIfiA,O Oct. 10.
To p. NJ. Arthur, Grand Chief Engineer Broth
erhOod OF Locomotive Engineers, Richmond,
Accept fraternal greeting and best
wishes for successful session. Will
your convention consent to fraternal
cooperation with other labor organiZa-
tions to the end that all disputes may
be properly and eQuintably adjusted.
The time is now at hand when all
labor organizations on this continent
forgetful of the past should cooperate
on essentials for the welfare Of all.
Our hand is extended in friendship.
G. Nj. w. X. of L.
The dispatch to the Brakemen' s
brotherhood was as follows:
PHEAADELPHIA, Oct. 10.
To the Convention Of the Brotherhood of
Railway Brakemen--Col Columbus, Ohio.
Cannot steps be taken to effect an
understanding between all labor organ
iZations that the interests of all may
be guarded through cooperative EFFORT
in all cases of dispute and in seeking
legislation for labor. May success
crown your efforts and may no hand
turn that brake that will stop the
wheel of progress and fraternity.
7. V. POwDERLY,
G. w. M, K. of l..
~ certainly expected good results
from this" said MIR. POwderly this af-
ternoon. 'ShortlY after the Burlington
strike began several prominent mem
beers of the brotherhood came to see me
at Scranton and our interview was
such as to convince me that some
thing could be done to bring about a
better state of feeling between the two
organizations. We are already work
| ing in conjunction with the brother
hood on the Union Pacific and ready to
cooperate with them on all other
roads. Nor does this refer only to the
Iengineers, iremen and brakemen, but
to all other labor organizations. l am
| in favor of a federation of all. There
is not room for two warning Organiza-
tions in this country, but there is room
If they work together for all. 1 am
lready to 60 as far as any man in Amer.
| lea in order to bring about this union OF
Interests and am satisfied that the
men who are the heads of other labor
/ ing organizations have the interest Of
the men whom they represent as mucf
at heart as profess to have, and
lexpect to see all working in harmony
in a very short time"
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Ely's Cream Balm has entirely cured

Ely's Cream Balm has entirely cured
me of long standing case Of catarrh.
1 have never yet seen its equal as a
cure for colds in the head and head
ache resulting from such colds. 1t is q
remedy of sterling merit.-E. l.. Coisby
Nashville, Tenn.
After using large number of prep
arations for catarrh, I am satisfied
that of them all Ely's Cream Balm
gives the most relief. can recommend
it to any one who may have cararrh,
cold in the head or hay fever.-S. B.
Lewis, Principal graded school, Clinton
Wis
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ST.. JOSEPH, No., Oct. 19.-Joseph
LOwenstein, a grocer, WAS fatally shot
last evening by James Ford Of Mary
vile. formerly proprietor of q livery
stable in this city. Ford and strang-
er got into quarrel over a bet. Low
enstein was given the stakes TO hold.
came back in few minutes and asked
Lowenstein to hand him his money
back, and upon his refusal drew his re-
yolYer and shot him down
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CRIMINAL NOTES.
A Package for a Winfield 'arty Ex-
pIodss at cOffsyyiIIe
In the Home Ct ths Express Agen',
Fatally Injuriog His Wife.
A Paymaster and His Guard ShOi
and $4,000 Stolen.
An Arkansas Clergyman Kulfss q
Farmer in a Fight.

KANSAS CITY, No, Oct. 19.-An or
ganizatiOn known as the Industrial
Liberators of the National Order of
Videttes. was exposed by Winfield
newspaper and names of prominent
citizens were coupled with the record
Yesterday II. L. Upham, agent for the
Pacific Express company at Coffeyville,
received a package addressed to q party
in Winfield marked ''Glass," Handle
with care" Mr.. Upham took the pack
age home for safe keeping and last
night it exploded, tearing out one side
of the building and probably fatally in
juring Mrs. Upham and badly injuring
her daughter. Some startling develop
ments are looked for.
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The Biz Wheat Steal BxpIained.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. leone
of the directors of the Union Elevator
company explained how Hy HOlcomb
engineered the gigantic wheat steal
involving some 10000 bushels. Hol-
comb had a bin of his own in the ele-
vator, located below the other bins,
near the railway tracks. Cars are
loaded through chutes connected with
the wheat bins and HOlcomb took OF a
board from one of these chutes and
put on another instead that had an au-
ger hole in it. During the loading
process the wheat continued to pour
down into his bin through this anger
hole. When he had enough SO obtained
he loaded it into a car and hauled
it to market.
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WILkEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. ITO
day was pay day with the employees of
James McFadden, who is building a
branch railroad for the Lehigh Valley.
He employs about 400 laborers. This
morning Alexander Mcclure, his pay
master, accompanied by young Irish
man, left Pittston with $50, 600 in their
possession to 90 the works to pay the
men. They had just drawn the money
from Pittston bank. On their way
to the works they had to pass through
a lonely strip of woods, and without
any warning both men were shot from
ambush and their horses killed. Three
Italians are suspected. The $4,000
is gone. There is great excitement and
a posse of 500 men and boys are look
ing for the murderers.
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Los ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 20.-Nego-
tiations are going On between the pres
ident Of the university of southern Cal
ifornia and Alva Clarke of Cambridge
for the construction of forty-two-inch
lens for the biggest telescope in the
world, to be erected on one of the lofty
mountains near Los Angeles. Clarke
says he can make such lens in five
years for 100000. 1t will be eight
inches larger than the Lick telescope
and will bring the moon within sixty
miles of the earth.
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DuN's TRADE REVIEW.
Movements Of Trade Noted as Compared With che
Game Period Last Year.
NrIv YoDTx Oct 1Q-R q Enn a

Movements Of Trade Noted as Compared With che
Game Period Last Year.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-R. G.. Dim q
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
Exports of breadstuffs, cotton, pro
visions. petroleum and cattle from the
principal ports IN September were $685.
20S $40 in value against $37 .049. 761 last
year. But since October /, the bread
stuff movement has been almost en-
tirely arrested as is natural, with
prices at New York higher than at LIv-
erpool and December wheat is as high
at Chicago as at New York; perception
of the unnatural state of the markets
has led to some declines during the
week. wheat having fallen At cents,
corn % cents, hogs and lard a quarter
each, cotton an eighth, refined oil the
same and petroleum certificates one
cent.
During the week the treasury paid
out Sl2 900 600 gold, 80 400, 900 silver
and $500. 900 legal tender. An addition
of over SIS 900, 900 to the circulation in
a week would tend in ordinary condi-
tions to lift prices in speculative
markets and yet the tendency
of prices has been downward
during the week every interior point
reporting represents business as i'm
proving. and at few points it Is larg-
er than IA year ago. The increasing
transactions at speculative eenterS,
swell bank clearings so that the in
crease outside of New York over last
year is about 10 per cent but with full
allowance for the influence of specula-
tive. it is evident that the volume of
| legitimate trade is also very large.
No complaint of scarcity of money Is
heard and the demand from this city
| though still large shows some
signs of abatement, nor are complaints
| of hardness in collections as frequent
as they were recently.
a decrease of 900 tons in the week
| " output of charcoal iron makes the
| net increase during September in iron
| of all kinds {, 645 tons weekly. or 8
per cent. The market for pig iron Is
! awaiting one without change IN prices.
| Bar iron is rather less firm owing to
western offerings and in rails no east
ern sales are reported and only 1O,Ooo
tons at Pittsburg and 1000 tons at
| Chicago.
Official reports show that sales for
nine months ending Oct. l were ,S44,
S44 tons against 1888 ,126 last year,
and deliveries 921, 1853, tons against l.
$50, S25 lastyear.
The coal trade is now quiet.
In lead fall of 40 cents
per hundred pounds in day was at
tributed entirely to speculation and
the same influence lifted coffee slight
" though the distributive demand is
still restricted.
The sugar market fovors buyers and
in groceries generally there is some
evidence of a siackening demand.
The wool market continues strong
with the best grades scarce and prices
hhave again slightly advanced.
, A firmer feeling is noted in dry
! goods though the trade at present Il
only moderate in volume and buyers
continue to operate with caution.
The failures occurring Throughout
!, the country during the week numbe
224, as compared with 227 last weei
and 2ll the week previous, for TIT
'. corresponding week of last year the
! figures were POI.
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I,.o;.l.4;on Dsmspssd,

BALTIMORE, Oct. 17.-In respone to
the recently published letter Of Grand
Master Workman Powderly of the
knights Of Labor, asking an expression
of opinion by local assemblies as TO the
necessity for congressional legislation
on the subject of trusts, assembly
,233 has sent a letter to President
Cleveland asking him to send mes
sage to congress demanding Immediate
legislation to abolish all institution:
that gamble infood.