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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-13

BALTIMORE, Dec. 1s.-The Aanyac.
turers' Record OF this week will give re-
ports from leading manufacturers OF
machinery throughout the country, the
majority being from the North and
West, as to the condition OF business in
their line and the prospects for 1850
With scarcely an exception they report
that while during 1888 trade has been
good, there has lately been decided in.
crease. Many manufacturers report
that they are running overtime, with
orders ahead for several months, and
that the outlook for the coming year is
better than ever before. Orders for ma.
chinery, woodworking enterprises, for
cotton mills, iron works, mining indus.
tries, etc, are reported as unusually
hoavy in all parts Of the country, with a
noticeable increase in the demand from
the South.
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WANTS A BACKER.
Bridge Jumper Dyrnes Out of Prison and
Ready to Jump.

Bridge Jumper Byrnea Out OF Prison and
Ready to Jump.
NRw YoRK, Dec. 19.-The man who
has made the highest jump yet from the
Brooklyn bridge is Matthew Byrnes, OF
Port Richmond, Staten Island. He
jumped from the big cable that stretches
way toward the New York tower of the
bridge on the north side. He climbed
up the cable till he was fifteen feet from
the roadway, making his jump. he says,
fully l60 feet. None OF the previous
Jumpers climbed upon the cable. Byrnes
made his jump on August 8. 1t was
said at the time that the reason he
jumped was that his sweetheart, Kate
Smith, had forsaken him.
Byrncs was arrested and sent to the
Kings county penitentiary for four
months. He got out yesterday and came
into the newspaper office TO say that it
was not true that he jumped from the
bridge on account of his sweetheart, but
that he jumped to gain a reputation.
He declared that he wanted to challenge
any man in the world TO jump from any
height. He especially challenged Steve
Brodie, aud said that he wanted Brodie
to go up with him again to the Pough-
keepsie bridge and jump from higher
place than before.
81 have not got any money" he said,
"and all want is backer. I'm game
and want to show these fellows that !
can lump"
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RUSHING TORRENT.
Water Main In Cleveland Bursts and Doel
Great Damage 10 Property.

CLEVELAND, Dec. 1.-THE dreaming
residents on Hanover street hill were
rudely awakened from slumber this
morning to find themselves living in
houses fronting upon deep ravine
through which the mad waters were
rushing in torrents toward the river. A
water pipe had burst in the main run
ming from the pumping stations to Fair
mont reservoir and the heavy pressure
had aided the escaping flood in tearing
a passage through the streets. The
water forced through the rent pipe, tore
up the earth, and spurted high in the
air, making a noise resembling the
rumbling OF thunder. People living
near by Leard the report, and springing
from bed, rushed to the windows. 1t
was pitch dark outside, but the lamp at
the corner OF Hanover and Division
streets cast Pickering light upon a
mad torrent that was tearing up the
roadways and cutting the hill. The
alarm was quickly spread, and half
dressed men, women and children
rushed to their doors and then back into
the house, making speedy preparations
to move out.
The torrent cut a deep hole in Division
street below the break, tearing up shade
trees by the roots, and then rushed
downward toward Il o river. Cutting
Dragon alley across the street, 1t under
mined store building as It turned
neat corner at the intersection Of the
two streets. Then it tdug channel along
the east side OF Hanover street close TO
the door yard fences for distance OF
hundred feet. With q sudden turn the
waters coursed to the west side OF Han
over street, cutting away sidewalks,
fences and doorsteps, and washing out
half the width OF the street until an out
let was found for the raging flood on the
flats at West River street. West River
street was covered with sand from curb
to curb, and upon eight railway tlacks
in .he ore dock yards was deposited
from eight to eighteen inches Of mud,
completely blockading traffic. The dam.
age wrought by the wasbout is probably
S50,000. Division street, for n distance
of fifty feet, is blocked by hole fifteen
feet in depth and thirty feet wide, and
the foundations OF many houses are
gone and the cellars filled with water.
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REFUSED To BG INTERVIEWED.

vlco President Elect Morton Shows His
"Great Head" While In Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 12.-Vice President
elect Levi P. Morton was in Cleveland
for few hours this morning. He
travelled in the private car Of the New
York Central 4. Hudson River Railroad.
The distinguished traveller was accom-
panied by Mrs. Morton.
In reply to request for an interview
by reporter, Mr.. Morton said:
81 am not talking politics just now.
Mrs. Morton and are now on our way
to Indianapolis, where We will visit Cen
eral and Mrs. Harrison"
at is supposed that you will confer
with General Harrison regarding the pol.
icy of the incoming administration and
especially about Cabinet appointments, "
suggested the interviewer.
II have nothing to say on that point" "
replied the distinguished gentleman,
with slight smile.
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AN ARTILLERY POST.


Fort Myer.
WASHINGTON, D. G., l2.-The success
of the cavalry post which was established
by General Sheridan at Fort Myer has
encouraged General schoReld to en-.
deavor to add toit by establing an artil-
lery post there.
An effort will probably be made at the
present session OF Congress to have a
bill passed providing for the acquire
nent OF large section Of land contigu-
Gus to the military reservation. There
is plenty Of room at present for quarter
ing the troops, but a suitable range for
man9uveringand gun practice would re-
uuire an additional section OF nearly a
mile and half square.
The idea Of centralizing at the Ma
tional Capital detachments from the diff
ferent branches OF the service meets
with general favor among military men,
and It is thought that eventually some
infantry troops as well may be stationed
here. General Schoheld's idea at pres
ept. however, is to distribute the ten
batteries Of light artillery somewhat dif-
ierently from what has been customary
heretofore. In case he succeeds two
batteries will be stationed at Fort Meyer,
one OF which will be the battery at present
ouarteredat Washington barracks. Five
will be stationed at Fort Riley and the
other three at some accessible and de-
Sirable point.
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THE PARNgLL INOUIRY.


Very Slow ProEreNS Mnao-Timo Wasted In
nUSslssS Manner.
LONDON, Dec. l2.-At the meeting of
the Parnell Commission to-day Attorney
General Webster, for the Times, an.
nounced that he would now proceed
with the examination of number Of
landlords from County Wexford in Or
der to show the condition OF that
county. Sir Charles Russell, for the
Parnellites, protested. He said that the
Attorney General had not included
Wexford in his opening address. II The
other side were going all over Ireland
the area Of inquiry would be increased
TO an alarming extent. The Attorney
General responded that he was bound
to prove that League terrorism prevailed
in almost every county. Presiding Jus
tice Hannah said that he could only
view the future with alarm. The Cont
had been engaged for many DAYS, bu I
had not yet arrived at the end Of any
one branch Of the inquiry. Only two
branches had been entered upon, and
several branches OF equal importance
remained untouched. He again made
earnest appeal to counsel TO do their
utmost to compress the inquiry and 10
avoid wasting years OF the life OF those
engaged in the case.
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A DARING BANDIT CHIEF.
He Stays Mt the scene of His Depredntlons
aud TsrriAes tho Law oGlesrs.

He Stays Mt the scene of His Dspredations
aud TsrFlGes ths Law oGlcsrs.
New ORLEANS, Dec. Notwith'
standing all efforts made to capture him,
and the large reward offered, Eugene
Bunch, the train robber, is in the viCin,
ity of this city, and is liable to be heard
from at any unexpected moment. The
result is that the trains of the North
Eastern and Mississippi Valley roads
have commenced carrying armed guards
and all the train employees are supplied
with Winchester RIFLES, to be used in
case of another attack. The romantic
bandit, who has been a lawyer, editor
and school teacher, had the bravndo the
other day to ride over the North Eastern
road at point where he robbed the ex-
press messenger OF S2S,000 u few weeks
ago, and no one ventured to molest him.
He has great many friends in the por-
ton OF the country mentioned, and they
offer him every assistance in eluding the
officers OF the law. Bunch, SO the po.
lice say, was last week in this city and
to Atlanta City, and spent money with
some OF his friends very freely, but the
local officers did not care to tackle him
aud the crowd he had at his back.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. l2.-Rev. Ira B
Hicks, of this city, who has achieved
considerable fame as a weather prophet
predicts that there will be severe storms
and the coldest weather Of the season
within forty-eight hours, and that the
period OF the regular annual winter So
listic storms between the 10th and 25tt
instant, will extend the time Of the dis
turbance. He also looks for storm o
exceptional intensity-a blizzard, per
haps-on the I'd and Sd Of January.
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JAMESTOWN, DAK., Dec. 12.-The Far
mers' Alliance Of Dakota met in con.
vention yesterday. Addresses by prom,
nent leaders were made, all pointing to
the great objects Of the order, the fight
against monopolies, change in the usury
laws, and new revenue law, whereby
the farmer shall only pay taxes on what
he owns. Nothing OF Ge6rgeism was
limited at. President Loeucks delivered
his annual address.
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THE BEvIER TROUBLE.
The Troops Command the Respect of Many
CItIE.ns-The Trouble Not Over.


ST. LOUIS, Dec. l2.-Last nights ex.
citement at Beyier, No., the scene OF the
mine troubles, was brought about by
the threats Of John Atkinson, chairman
of the strikers committee, who is also a
leader in the State Labor Confederation,
who stated that the strikers would erect
Notifications in Bevier to-day, and that
they had one and a half car loads OF tim
Der coming on the road now to build
them with. Atkinson said one OF the
Notifications would be erected along the
streets where the buildings were burned.
This is about 200 yards north Of where
the Swedes are quartered. He said an.
other would be built over on the hill
south OF where the Swedes are located.
The people OF Bevier who are in sym.
pathy with the coal operators, and a
large majority OF the other citizens there
who sympathize with the unemployed,
think the military good thing for Be-
vier, but some thoughtless boys and
some other individuals call the militia a
set OF kids and make fun Of the soldiers
in different ways. The militia so far
have acquitted themselves very credita-
bly, in Bevier, and while some OF them
are young men, there is no cause to
make light ofthem.
Public sentiment in Macon county is
becoming stronger in its demands that
the Bevier differences be settled and it is
time that the whole people OF Bevier, in
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WASHINGTON, D. G, Dec. l2.-The
President has denied the application fol-
pardons in the case OF Henry Q. Ander.
son. convicted in Arkansas OF violation
OF pension laws and sentenced August
1887, to five years imprisonment at Little
Rock penitentiary, and in the case ol
George NJ. Balm, il, convicted in Vir
giuia OF violation Of the National Bank
ing act and sentenced March 1888, to five
years in the Albany penitentiary.
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THE LAW is EXCELLENT.
Judge Cooley says the Interstate Com
merce Act shonId Not be RGppaitd.

Judge Cooley says the Interstate Com
morce Act shonld Not be RHppai'd.
CMcAGo, Dec. l2.-Judge Cooley,
Chairman OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission, was shown a dispatch from
Washington regarding the bill intro
duced by Congressman Morse in the
House OF Representatives, Monday, pro-
yiding for the repeal Of the Interstate
Commerce law. The Judge snid he did
not think there is the least danger that
either the long and short haul clause, the
the pooling provisions or any other por-
tion OF the law will be repealed. 1t is
his opinion as well as that Of all other
members of the Commission that the
law is IN excellent one and fully meets
the expectations o: the projectors. The
Commission not only iavors the reten-
ton OF every provision OF the law rs it
stands, but desires it should be made
stronger. The failure to strictly enforce
the law is due to determined opposition
on the part OF some railroad interest
and the inability of the Commission to
procure the proper evidence to convict
the parties guilty OF the violation.
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BERLIN, Dec. l2.-The National Zcitmg
says: Count Herbert Bismarck called
the attention Of the foreign committee
OF the Reichstag yesterday to the fact
that France has not shown the same
frankness and good will as the other
powers appealed to in assisting in the
suppression OF the slave trade on the
east coast of Africa. The government,
the paper says, expects the Reichstag to
give decided support to the measures
for the repression OF the rising there
and protection Of German interests.
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Dlscoversdln in lime.

NASHVILLE, TENN, Dec. ls.-The fail.
pres Of the desperate attempt OF the
conyicts Of the main prison at this city
to escape four weeks ago was but the be.
ginning OF still more desperate at.
tempt. The prison officials yesterday
discovered concealed on the person OF
convicts and in beds between fifty and
sixty knives, fifteen or twenty tazors,
one revolver and three ropes. 1t is be.
lieyed by the authorities that the con.
victs had arranged to make desperate
break for liberty and that the weapons
were to be used to the best advantage
against the guards who might interfere
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r,,,,.a states soldiers prownetl.

wATgRrowS, n. Y, Dec, l2.-Sergeant
Darlington and Privates Fred Petit and
Benjamin wetson, all of Company A,
Eleventh infantry, now located At Madi-
son barracks, Sackett's Harbor, were
drowned IN Lake Ontario, off Catfish,
point, near the harbor yesterday alter
noon, The soldiers were net fishing,
and the boat Capsized In IN attempt to
raise the net.
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SIIeeldl DItpalch 70 Nt In'e'll1tRcer.
WESTON, W. VA, Dec. 12.-Frank
Lowther and Austin shilllet, who were
arrested in Gilmer county on the 7th
inst, for HOUSEKEEPING in Harrison
county, was taken this morning to
Clarksburg, where o man by the name
OF Wood identified them as the parties
wanted in Upshur county for horse
stealing.
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CpIcAeo, Dec. I9.-- Chairman Kavensr,
of the Engineers Grievance Committee,
arrived from San Francisco yesterday.
He called upon the representatives of the
Switchmen's Association and learned for
the first. time that that organization had
declared the old 20" strike of. The
Engineers Committee were together all
day, but did not take any official action
or outline any plan. Kavensr will make
an energetic attempt to settle the strike.
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RoME, Dec. 19-It is stated that the
Pope, desirous OF conciliating Russia, is
inclined to grant three of the most i'm.
portant concessions demanded by NJ.
Izevolsky, namely: The appointment OF
Rector Simon, OF the st. Petersburg
Seminary, to replace the Bishop Of wilma
the appointments of bishops to the vacant
Sees OF Lublin and Plasco, and the intro.
duCtion Of the Russian Language in the
Catholic churches in Little Russia and
Lithuanta. l: is not known what coun.
ter concessions will be obtained.
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SIMPLY A WASTE OF TINE
To Talk About the Possibility Of Tabor
Going Back to the senate.

To Talk About the Possibility OF Tabor
Going Back to the senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ia New York
paper to-day says that at a conference Of
Colorado Republicans in that city yes
terday, Senator Teller said that if ex-
Senator Tabor were elected to succeed
Senator Brown, he TELLER would resign.
Upon this being shown to Senator Teller,
he said: "There was no conference OF
Colorado Republicans, ] did say to few
friends whom l met that il MIR. Tabor
was chosen Senator, l would not ..b.a be a
hence. | had nothing to say whatever
respecting his personal habits or pecu-
liarities. There is go little prospect Of
his election that any speculation upon
the results of such an event would be u
waste OF time"
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PARIS, Dec. l2.-Seyeral newspapers
say that il the issue ithe Panama canal
loan proves a failure the Government, in
conformity with the proposal Of the ex-
ira parliamentary commission, will in
troduce bill in the Chamber OF Depu-
ties to enable the company to meet its
engagements. A new company, under
the leadership Of the Credit Foncier, will
then purchase the canal.
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THE TRUST INVESTIGATION.
Mr. F. II. Thurber TestIfIes as to tho suGaI
Trust and Its Operations.

nAIs + bs AGNtihOh AH " SAkhA
Trust and Its Operations.
NEW YoRK, Dec. l2.-The Senate
Trust Committee resumed its session to.
day in the county court house. Mr..
Francis B. Thurber, OF the firm of Thur
Der, Whyland & Co., was the first wit.
ness. He said that the purpose of the
Wholesale Grocers' Association was to
maintain uniform prices by the whole
sale dealers. The only articles in which
any attempt had been made to fix rates
were sugars, bakers cocoa and royal
baking powder. The witness denied
that the Wholesale Grocers' Association
had been formed to compel the members
OF the sugar trust to sell to the membeIs
OF the Grocers' Association at less rates
than were charged to merchants who
were not members OF the association,
Any member OF the association was at
liberty to buy from sugar manufacturers
outside the sugar trust, and many had
done 30,
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SEM 10 tAtd Eou'
SUeciai DisDairh 10 The IEtsliOeuner.

Special DLLPdtch 10 me I"euIQeHcer'
WESTON, W. Va, Dec. l9.-Sheriff D.
A. Perry, OF Braxton county, arrived
here last night from Braxton @. Ii. with
Kiles Dean, sentenced to eight years in
the penitentiary for committing an as
sault upon l2.year-old child in Brax-
ton county. They left here on the early
train to-day for Moundsville.
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CHICAGO, Dec. IL. - The socialistic
Turner society Of Lakeview circulated
printed cards yesterday announcing a
free entertainment for Friday evening
at Lincoln Turner Hall. One Of these
cards came to the hands Of Mayor Bold
enweck, who immediately notified the
manager OF the Tdrner Hall to inform
the Socialists that the hall would not be
opened for the entertainment.
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Thought He Could split the @. A. n.

INDIANAPoLts, Dec. 12.-Not a single
post of Kountz's Democratic Veterans
organization has been formed outside oil
Indianapolis. Mr.. Kountz is very much
discouraged, but he says he thinks that
after the constitution Of the new organ,
station has been widely circulated and
read, more Of the veterans will be ready
to enlist. Col. L. y. Walker, Adjutant
General Of the Indiana Department oi
the G. A. R., says the membership oI
his department has increased two per
cent since Kountz began to organize an
opposition order.
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Two Young women mnngIed by rrnIn

KNoxvrLtr, TEsS, Dec. l2,-Nliss
Bypum, aged 10, q school teacher, and
Miss Levitt, aged Is, were run down by
an incoming express train on the West.
ern North Carolina road near Alexander,
N. O., last evening, and both horribly
mangled. They were literally ground to
pieces. The accident occurred on q tres.
! tie on a sharp curve Of the road,
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CHICAGO, Dec. l9,-oue Of the heaviest
yerdicts ever given against street car
company for damages was returned
this afternoon in the case Of Frank viii
cox against the Chicago City Railway
Company. The jury decided that Sl5, ,0O(
was the proper compensation to the lit
tie plaintiff for the loss OF one Of biz
legs,
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PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. Eat a dele
gate meeting of the Connellsville coke
woakers at Everson, Pa, to-day resolu-
tions were adopted endorsing the Ma.
tional District Assembly, knights oi
Labor, and urging the miners to join the
OruaniZation
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CoouAssEr, MASS, Dec. 1.-THE storm
which ragged here with tremendous force
entirely subsidized during the night and
the sky looks clear and beautiful this
morning. A train along the coast from
Scituate to Hull ut an early hour this
morning revealed no marine disasters.
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PITrsBURoH, Pa, Dec. l2.-The sani'
tarium, a private hospital at Youugs'
town, Ohio, was entirely destroyed by
fire at an early hour this morning,
Eight patients were carried from the
hurAing building on cots. The FIRE was
caused by natural gas. The loss was
SlOOO0
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Major spauldlpr accid,ptalIy Killed.

PnGSlx, ARlz., Dec. l2.-Mai. spauld-
ing, of the Fourth Cavalry, commanding
ut Fort Mcdowell, was killed yesterday
by the accidental discharge Of his gun
while hunting. His wife will take his
remains to Kalamazoo, Mich, for inter-
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rIEMlNG rAKRN IN.

Judge Fleming allowed himself to be
taken into the trap. The chiefs had im-
plicit confidence in the courage aud will
OF their henchmen-that something
would be done to save the Third district
and the State to the Democracy. When
the henchmen reported back "all right, !"
then 1t was that the Democrats were in
spired with hope and told some honest
but credulous dupes Of their party, who
would scorn their leaders il they knew
the facts, that the Republican canyassers
had miscalled the names on the tickets.
This damnable work OF tampering with
the returns has been traced to the Office
OF the County Clerk, who ran the Demo-
cratic campaign in this couty as a slow
second to the Union Labor party. The
indications are tnat the Democrats are
badly lett this time, and some OF those
people may have time to repent OF the
folly Of their friends in their zeal for the
cause OF Democracy, for the Republicans
OF this county intend to leave no stone
unturned till the guilty parties are
brought to Justice and the perpetrators
OF these frauds on the people Of the
county and State are safely landed be-
hind the bars. Yours, &C.,
THOMAS J. RocKEY.
CharIeSlOn, W. Va, Dec. 10.