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Open for Arbitration.

CHICAGO, March 5.-About 4 O'Clock
this afternoon General Manager Har-
ris, of the Chicago, Burlington s.
Northern called at Chief Arthur's pri-
vate room. Mr.. Harris is manager of
the road on which a strike was ordered
to occur at o'clock this morning. The
road extends from Savannah, ILL.,, to
Minneapolis. Chief Arthur came
from the grievance committee meeting
to meet Mr.. Harris.
Mr.. Harris requested Mr.. Arthur's
assistance in averting the threatened
strike. To this Mr.. Arthur replied
hat he had not been consulted by the
men about striking, and therefore if
they struck it was their own fight. He
could not interfere either for or against
either side. This made it necessary
for Mr.. Harris to discuss the differ
ence with his own men. The grievance
committee of the road was called in
from the general meeting and talk
was had. An hours discussion
resulted in an order to the men not to
strike, and the whole matter is held in
allegiance until the chairman of the
committee can reach home and have a
talk
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Gen. Ransom is now United States Senator
Matt. W. Ransom. from North Carolina.
Gen Ransom, was a native of North Caro-
lima. born in 1926 He was educated in his
own state, became lawyer, and held various
local offices previous TO the civil war. Then
he entered the Confederate army and passed
up through various promotions to the rank OF
major general. He continued in the Army
of Northern Virginia till the end, and sur
rendered with Lee at Appomattox He Is
now serving his third consecutive term In the
United States senate.
Another Confederate general who has en-
tered Washington by different route from
the one he proposed twenty-five years ago Is
Wade Hsmpton, United States senator from
South Carolina He too was at Frederlcks-
burg and commanded a brigade Of cavalry,
w. II. F. Lee commanding another. J. E
B. Stuart was the division cavalry COM
mander
Wade Hampton distinguished himself in
the Confederate cavalry service. Lee placed
him ON guard above Fredericksburg to pre-
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Alter PIumage ana Furs.

NEW YORK March 3.-The Earl of
LOnsdale, who sometime ago visited
America as the manager of the Violet
Cameron opera troupe, arrived here
from Liverpool to-day. In regard to
his trip this time Lord Lonsdale said
that he would start for Winnipeg OH
his way towards the north, in the in
terest of prominent naturalist socie-
ty Of Scotland. He would go as far
north as birds and furred animals. He
had letters of introduction to the Hud-
son Bay Company. which will furnish
him with the necessary equipments.
kenzie river where a vessel will await
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crate service. Sturgis remained in the Union
service, and took an active part in the war
from the first. Beginning with Lyons in
Missouri, he at length came east and had
charge Of the Notifications at Washington,
then commanded division in the Potomac
army. He was afterward chief of cavalry in
the department of Ohio His rank at Fred
ericksburg was that of brigadier general of
quota Of dead men to the fatal stone wall,
LOIS out Of two brigades, and fell back.
Griffin's division of the Fifth corps fol-
lowed StuTgis, advancing gallantly. 1t lost
S18 men and retreated behind knoll. Sixth
and last, Humphreys division of Hooker's
corps was ordered to the assault. Hooker,
seeing the uselessness of this slaughter, begged
Burnside to countermand the order, but
Burnside replied: 1.-THE crest must be car
ried tonight" and ordered Hooker across
with two divisions, Humphreys and Sykes.
Humphreys Is said to have been the ablest
officer on the field of fredericksburg. By
the time he advanced on Marye's hill the
ammunition of the Confederate artillery
upon the heights was exhausted. and thus
one CALLING fire to which his predecessors
had been exposed was stopped His men
gained point some yards in advance of
those who had gone before.
Perceiving the uselessness of firing at the
wall, Humphreys ordered his men to charge
bayonets. They prepared to do so, though it
was hopeless, when the same sheet Of tame
flashed into their faces, and spite of all efforts
to rally them they turned backward. Nearly
half of their 1000 fell in fifteen minutes.
Then night closed.
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lreys was a Pennsylva.

like blades of grass before reaper. Night
only closed the slaughter When it settled
down over that smoking, bleeding field there
were 1900 fewer effective soldiers of the
Army Of the Potomac than there had been in
the morning.
day, Dec. Il, but his officers dissuaded him
from it. That night he crossed back to Fall
mouth. withdrew his whole army to Stafford
heights and left Lee to possess Frsdericks-
burg, what there was left of it. He himself
passed the night in 9 state Of mental agony
hard to describe.
The battle Of FredericksburS was fought
on a Saturday. Burnside had 100, 900 effective
men in his army, Lee 76, coo in his fortified
heights. The Union loss was about IL, COO;
the Confederate, 5, 400 On the Confederate
side Gems. Gregg and 7. R. r. Cobb were
killed; on the Union side, Gems. George
Bayard and c. Feger jackson. Burnside
had resolved to cross the Rappahannock
again below Fredericksburg. The move
ment was to commence Dec. 80. when sud
denly Burnside received an order from Presi-
dent Lincoln TO make no general movement
without first informing him Of it. While
Burnside had been preparing to cross the
Rappahannock, several OF his generals had
been to the president and represented to him
that they thought Burnside's plans were
ruinous folly.
So nothing was done till Jan. %, 1863
Burnside had decided to make another at
tempt to cross the Rappahannock, six miles
above Fredericksburg. But it seemed that
not only his own officers, but the fates. were
against him. His army had no sooner started
mp the liver than q great storm set in. Snow,
rain and sleet came down. all together and
rendered the march impossible. The soldiers
said It seemed as IL the bottom bad fallen out
Of the roads.
The troops could not go forward A few
indeed reached the river after long delay,
only to f1nd the Confederates ready for them
At the crossing.
The expedition was q failure Officers
OF the Army OF the Potomac spoke OF is de-
/ Fisiveiy as the Mud March. Burnside was
next relieved from command Of the army sat
his own request" the government records
say. Whatever his military capacity or the
lack OF i he was one OF the most unsel6&h
and patriotic of all the Union generals
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GEN. TALIAFERRO. ana I'd done no
less hard marching than fighting
Gen. Richard II. Anderson, division COM
mander in Longstreet's corps, had, like all the
others, passed through the ordeal of fighting
He had aided in the capture of Harper's
Ferry, had been sharply engaged at Antie-
tam, and now with the rest awaited the shock
of battle at Fredericksburg.
Gen. Richard II. Anderson was a South
Carolinian, graduate of the United States
Military academy in 1912. He served in
Mexico. When the first probabilities of war
began to be talked of he resigned from the
United States army in March, 1861. He en-
tered the Confederate service as soon as it
came into existence and shortly became a
brigadier general He was wounded at An
tietam, though not mortally like his name
sake. Gen. G. T. Anderson.
The Confederates always spoke of their
army under Lees immediate command as the
Army of Northern Virginia, just as the force
opposed to them was designated throughout
the.war as the Army of the Potomac.
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this wall the road was practically sunken
one. 1t was quite invisible to the advancing

Longstreet perceived at once the advantage
Of this position Behind the high wall he
stationed some 2, 500 soldiers, under command
Of Gems KershAw and T. r. r Cobb Thus,
like Antietam, Fredericksburg, too, had its
sunken road.
sunken road came the columns of the Union
army. They massed upon the narrow plain at
the foot Of Marye's hill. Above them, the
moment they came within range, the Confed-
crate artillery upon the heights poured hot
fire into them. It cut great holes in their
renks-gaYs which could be seen a mile,
Longstreet says. In momenE the gaps were
closed again, however, and the devoted men
marched on.
Half the narrow plain at the foot Of
Marye's hill was crossed. when, IoI it seemed
as If all the thunders and lightnings of heaven
burst upon them. A living sheet of fire
blinded their eyes, an Internal din roared in
their ears, and when it passed hundreds of
brave men lay upon that plain, never more to
see or hear aught with earthly eyes or ears
again.
The deadly ightnings shot forth from
Longstreet's hidden guns behind the stone
wall in the sunken road.
Against that fire no living thing could
stand. French's soldiers fell back Ham
cocks came on calamity. Another sheet Of
uFlnR urey announcer 1nIernal roar, and nun
dreds of other bodies were piled upon those
that already lay upon the CHASTITY plain. One
brigade after another came on, each in its
turn to be mown down and hurled back
Those who saw the assault of Marye's hill at
the sunken road one and all speak of it as a
succession Of waves of living human beings
in turn dashed and broken against the stone
wall.
After French's and Hancock's divisions were
repulsed, Towards threw itself against the
wall It, too, was driven back, broken and
bleeding. That finished the available strength
OF the Second corps, Gen. COUGHS Then
Sturgis' division Of the Ninth corps was
ordered forward. The charge at Balaklava
is famed in history. More than twenty
charges like Balaklava would not have COM
passed the destruction wrought before the
stone wall at Fredericksburg, Dec. Is, 1862.
Six distinct waves Of troops assaulted the
works and fell back At one moment Lee.
watching the fight from Lees hill, expressed
apprehension to Longstreet that the position
might be taken, so never ending seemed to
be the lines Of blue that advanced against it.
Longstreet replied:
General, il you put every man now on the
other side Of the Potomac on that field to ap-
proach me over the same line, and give me
plenty OF ammunition, will kill them all be-
fore they reach my line"
Samuel Davis Sturgis was born in Penn
sylvania in 1922 Graduated at West Point,
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Rri9hffuI Mine accident

IsHPEMING, Mich, March Ga
frightful accident happened at Cleve-
land mine last night, in which five
miners lost their lives. The men were
blasting out a drill hole at the bottom
of No. shaft, using dynamite for the
purpose, when the charge exploded
prematurely, mangliDg five of the
supposed that the explosive was ig-
nited by the heat of the gas pipe which
was charged with it and which had
been heated and Strengthened in a
blacksmith shop just before being
used. The victims of the casualty
were: Charles Russell. John Williams,
Erick Matteson, VIM. Gendle and AL
fred Lucas. All but Gendle were I'M
married
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on. Daily, as of old, the newspaper head
lines announced, GAN quiet on the Potomac"
Then the old impotence and dissatisfaction
broke out anew, and the country began to
wonder why it was quiet along the Po-
tomac.
Moro weeks went on till it was six weeks
after tho battle OF Antietam, and nothing
done. BY that time Lees army was thor
oughly rested and REINFORCED, and amounted
TO 10000. To the presidents orders to move
against him early in October Mcclellan had
answered that he must have new cavalry
horses. By the last of October he concluded
that he was ready to cross the Potomac. The
crossing was actually made Nov. 2
Mcclellan ordered his main army to con-
centrate at Warrenton, Va. On this Lee, his
army in good trim, his communications with
Richmond perfect, resolved to retreat south
ward. The main portion of the Confederate
army marched up the Shenandoah valley,
turned of to the Rappahannock and took po-
sition at Culpeppsr. Stonewall Jackson'5
command, with the cavalry under j. Z. B.
Stuart, remained behind 10 hang upon the
Union army and annoy and delay it as far
as possible till the main Confederate body
should be secure.
II one could have stood upon peak of the
Blue Ridge mountains of bright morning in
those early days of November, 1862, he would
have seen n sight to thrill gods and men, On
the east side of the ridge McClellan's mighty
army of over 100, 600 men marched with wav-
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TOPOGRAPHY.

Lees plan for the battle OF Fredericksburg
was at once simple and admirable. Long
streets corps had been the first to arrive on
the ground, and it occupied the left, with
Gen. Richard II. Anderson on the extreme
left Stonewall Jackson was on the right,
and the forces Of the two Joined in the center
and encircled Fredericksburg.
To understand the fight fully, glance at the
accompanying map. Five miles below Fred
ericksburg the little Massaponax river
flowed into the RappahannOck from the west.
A ridge of hills sloped down to the Kappa
hammock above the Massaponax, running
from the northwest. Five miles above the
Massaponax the ridge retreats from the river
far enough to leave plain, and upon this
plain the town of Fredericksburg was built.
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ing the war he reached the rank of major gen.
eral. Since then he has served two terms as
governor OF South Carolina, previous to his
election to the United States senate.
Senator Hampton's grandfather, also
called Wade Hampton, was likewise a soldier
and politician. He was an officer in the rev.
olution and q member of congress in 1875.
The old man died at Columbia, s. c., in 1884,
the richest planter and slaveUwner in the
United States.
The name of Lee was numerously repre-
sented in the officers grouped around the
Confederate commander. Brig. Gen. w. H.
F. Lee, the cavalry commander, was Robert
E 3 second son. Robert E. s nephew, Fitz
Hugh, also a cavalryman, held prominent
command in the Army of Northern Virginia
All Of Lees sonS-three of them-served in
the Confederate army. The eldest, G. w. c.,
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unsolicited cannon from Marye's heights, tell
ing Lee and his men that the time was come.
Barksdale's sharpshooters within the town OF
Fredericksburg began firing on the bridge
builders. They prevented the completion Of
the bridges. The batteries from Stafford
heights were then trained upon Fredericks-
burg. They battered it down, yet the sharp
shooters were not dislodged. Then Union
volunteers to cross the river in open boats
and drive out the sharpshooters were called
for. This was done with the loss of 800 men,
and the Federals took possession of the river
front Of Fredericksburg, Dec. IL. That even
ing and the next day Summers and Frank
Inns grand divisions crossed, leaving part Of
Hooker's center grand division on the Fat
mouth side
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Maine ELECTION.

AUGUSTA, Me-, March 5.-Chairman
Manley, of the republican state COM
mittee, to-day sent the following tele-
gram to Hon. Whitelaw Reid:
AUGUSTA, March 5.-Municipal cleo
lions held to-day in the cities of Halo
well, Gardener, Bath, Rockland, Port
land, Lewiston, Auburn, Saco and
Ellsworth gave sweeping republican
majOrities in every city, redeeming
Ellsworth and lewiston. Maine re-
pudiates the free trade message. and
emphasizes its condemnation of the
surrender fishery treaty.
(Signed) j. ii. MANLEY
Chairman Republican State Com
mittee.
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been the grave Of the military regulations OF
Mcclellan and Pope. Burnside's name was
TO add the third to the hapless list. After
his. fredericksburg campaign he was sent west
and performed distinguished service in the
department of the Ohio, freeing east Tennes-
see at length from the Confederates. During
the final campaign against Richmond he was
In the east again and commanded his old
Ninth corps, contributing not a little to the
closing victory.
After the war he was three terms gov
ernor Of Rhode Island He was in Europe
during the Franco German war, and was adj
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ST. LOUIS, Mar. 5-The big steel
gun was taken from the annealing
furnace of the Pittsburg Steel Casting
Company's works this morning and
found to be still perfect. The finishing
touches will now be put on and the gun
shipped to Washington for the final
tests on March goth.
superintendent HampwOrth stated
that if the gun is a success, he will
offer to make steel gun in one cast
for the government the same size and
of better quality than the great En-
glish Ill ton built-up gun for S175, 900.
The cost of the English gun was 1926
O0O
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ESTABLISHED
1857.
FREDERICKSBURG.
Gen. Burnside's Campaign on
the RappahannOck
CENTURY AGoNE
Story of the Sunken Road and the
Fatal Stone Wall.

Portraits of Leading Generals ON Both
sIdes-BurnsIdo Arranges His Army
I'm Three Grand Divisions Commanded
by Sumner. Franklin and Hooker.
BIarye's Hsights-"A Chicken Could
Not Live Upon That FIeId"-Wayes of
Men I'm Blue Fight and Fail.
copyrighted by the American Press Association.l
Those who have followed somewhat closely
the career OF Gen. Mcclellan cannot fail to
be impressed that there was a fate which
more than once deprived him OF victory at
the moment il seemed surely in his grasp.
Just before the beginning of Pope's campaign
in Virginia, while the Army OF the Potomac
was still on the James below Richmond, Nc
Clellan announced himself ready to strike the
Confederate capital. Even he seemed to be
satisfied that his army was ready and SUI
fciently large II he had attacked Richmond
just at that time, early in August, 1862,
1t could have been taken, most likely, for Lee
had well nigh stripped 10 OF defenders to send
men against Pope in Northern Virginia.
But at the very time Mcclellan was giving
orders 20 advance Oh Richmond, Hnileck sent
him u peremptory command to quit the
peninsula with his army and prepare to CO
operate with Pope. Nothing was left but to
obey, and McClellan's opportunity was lost.
After the battle OF Antetam, Sept. II,
1862. there was an interval OF doing nothing.
Mcclellan distributed his army along the
Maryland side Of the Potomac, watching its
fords. He evidently thought the used up
army OF Lee might attempt another invasion
Of Maryland. He called vigorously for re-
endorsements, supplies Of all kinds By the
last Of September he had an army of 10O,0
men, stin on the Maryland side Of the Poto-
praai1ant lincoln diracfah fba
general TO 'cross the Potomac and give battle
TO the enemy, or drive him south"
But Mcclellan was not yet ready TO do SO.
While he Axas waiting, that dashing Con-
federate cavalry leader, j. Z. b. Stuart,
made one of his characteristic raids, and,
flguratively speaking, tweaked the nose
Of the whole Army of the Potomac under
tho eyes of its commander Oct. 10 he
crossed the Potomac into Maryland with
800 cavalry, near Williamsport, gal
Hoped northward into Chambersburg,
Pa, destroyed the public property there,
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AT Sc. LOuIs.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March Z, 1888.
CATTLE-Receipts, 500 head; strong.
HOGs-Receipts, 900 head; market eteadys
choice heavy and butchers, e5.369550; pack
ing. 8. 10f150: light grades, 81. eJ05.15.
SHEEP-Receipts, none.
WHKAr-Strong; No. red, cash, 61z<062e;
or, S31zc.s
CoRN--weak: cash, 48Kc; April, 461So: May,
Exc: June, 4ec; July, 48sSc-
OATs-Easy; cash. 3Gt<c; May, 2ehc.
PORk-Jobbing, &l4.15.
QLARD-S7.35.
WHIsKY-eI 90.
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The Emperor Growing weaker.

BERLIN, Mar. THE Reichanzeiger
publishes the following bulletin which
has been issued by the emperors physi-
clans: ''To the general symptoms of
cold which have effected the Emperor
since Saturday, together with an affec-
lions of the mucous membrane of the
throat and irritation of the membrane
of eye lids has been added during the
past few days painful abdominal dis
order, which have occurred frequently.
Since Monday the emperor's appetite
has materially diminished, owing to
which there has been a marked de-
crease in his strength" Signed
Won LAUER, Leuthold.
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APIunger Goes Down.

CHICAGO, March I'd. r. Breary &
Co., traders ON the regular and open
boa I'd of trade, failed to-day. Brearly
has recently cut a wide swath on the
big board as plunderer in corn.
Several weeks ago he made trades in
corn which surprised the whole pit.
The transactions were of such
magnitude that it was thought for a
time that he was acting for some one
else, but the announcement by the
secretary that his trades would be
closed for his accounts furnished a
solution of the problem,
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Eaten by Wolves.

= FARGO, Dakota, March Word
reached here that man and his son,
living at Poplar Grove near Fort Tot
ten, were eaten by pack of wolves
last week. The facts, as near as could
be obtained, are that the father and
son left the house with shovels to clear
the snow from a haystack not more
than fifteen or twenty rods distant.
They were met by pack of sixteen
wolves, which literally ate them alive,
while the wife and mother gazed
through the window at the horrible
sight, knowing it was certain death to
or ont
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BRIDGEPoRT, Conn, March "a
small building used for mixing fulmin-
ate at the works of the Union Metal
and Cartridge company was blown to
atoms and Henry Becker. its only Oc-
cupant, was hurled into the air and
fell in a shapeiess mass several hun.
dred feet distant this morning. The
cause of the explosion is unknown.
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Fort SMITH, Ark, March 5. "A dep
uty United States marshal arrived here
last evening with Joseph Beasley, Jack
son Silley and La Fayette Teel. charged
with murder in the Cherokee nation.
Two or three days previous to the kill
ing these parties and fourth man,
John Smith, arrested .'Jeffo Smith
without authority. and were compelled
to release him. On the morning of
February IL they crept up to Smith,
house and Teel got him out of doors.
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go" Wreck.

NEBRASKA CITY, March About l
O'Clock yesterday freight train on the
Kansas City, st. Joe 81 Burlington
railroad run by a new engineer was de-
rallied six miles southeast of Nebraska
City by tie having been placed across
the track. Before the passenger train
could be tagged, which was following,
it ran into the rear of the freight,
wrecking a number of cars and the
engine. a number of persons are re-
ported injured, among which were the
engineer and fireman of the passenger,
but none fatally. Two men were ar
rested on suspicion.
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mattox. They took part in the heaviest
fighting of the Army OF Northern Virginia
throughout, several times distinguished
themselves, yet none OF them was killed.
They survived to be estimable, and in some
some cases distinguished, citizens Of the
United States. "Fitz," as it was customary
to call Fitz Hugh Lee, is now the governor
of Virginia.
Gen. w B. Taliaferro. He also was q for
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, March 6.-J. H.
Thompson, Oscar Goodman and
Hugh Rodman, members, of an organ
lied gang of highwaymen, which has
Systematically worked passenger de-
pots on both the Gulf and Frisco roads
for several weeks, have been captured.
Their last robbery was that of Pitts
burg drummer, from whom they took
S258. Thompson's father is a prOmi-
nent farmer, worth at least $50, 900.