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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
HlGH LICENSB AND LOCAL OPTION.
The New Jersey Law is Declared Constitu
tionnI by the Court of Appeals.

ny AAAN SthAA va aAFFNFH
TRENTON, n. j., August 1.-The de-
cision Of the Court OF Appeals, declar-
ing the high license local option law
constitutional, is elaborate and argu-
mentative. The high license feature Of
the law was declared valid by a unani-
nous vote, but the court was divided
on the local option feature, the vote
standing eight to seven on constitution
ality. Justice Van Sickel read the
opinion OF the majority OF the court.
He first discussed the question whether
the law was prohibitory or regulatory.
He cOntended that the title was perfect
and explained the full object OF the law.
Said he: Assuming that the extreme
effect Of this legislation is to forbid the
sale by small measure, in my judgment
it must be regarded rs law regulating
the sale OF Intoxicating aud brewed
liquors. Every license law is TO some
extent prohibitOry law. It prohibits
the sale by all persons who have no
license. Such laws operate US q check
on the sale, not IN absolute prohibition,
and are in the strictest sense regula-
tions. Unless this view is accepted we
cannot stop short OF maintaining that
every law which prohibits any portion
OF the traffic is prohibitory law.
The court uphOlds the classification OF
licenses defined in the act on the ground
that the basis is substantial one, and
beyond all question rs to its legality.
The questions which have been dis
cussed in regard to the mode OF trial and
the penalty prescribed for the violation
OF this law are not necessarily involved
in the case before the court. 1t is sutli-
cient to say that the provision in this
regard may be eliminated from the act
without destroying its validity" In
discussing the local option branch OF the
law the court thought it pointed to re-
mark that there was no express pro-
visions iii the constitution that lcgisla-
live power should not be delegated.
The opinion declares the law unQues-
.ionably n general law, and in conclu-
sion declares valid and constitutional
hat part OF the act which relates to the
OF an election.
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VOLUME XXxvI--NUMBER 299.

demand Tor India, especially for Calcutta
and Madras, is well maintained, but the
offers for light and fancy cloths are often
impracticable. The sales OF shirtings
have been fair. China merchants have
done little. There is a quiet but
steady demand for the lesser for
eign markets. Home houses are buy
ing cautiously. The inquiry for export
yarn is moderate. The continental de.
mand is especially slow. The demand
for home consumption is also light.
Steadiness prevails throughout the East
ern departments. In the cloth market
several makes of shirtings have been sold
in moderate quantities for India. There
have been some important inquiries for
jaconets and dhooties, though the offers
were often too low. Printing cloth is
dull, but some sellers have made better
progress. Prices are low and sometimes
irregular. Colored goods are neglected.
There is quiet demand for heavy goods.
Sellers find difficulty in securing orders
in quantity, except ut lower rates, and
those they will not accept.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
A MINORITY REPORT
On tho Mississippi Election Riots Investl,
cation.

On tho Mississippi Election Riots Investi.
CATION.
WASHINGTON, August 1.-The minor.
ity report OF the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee on the jackson, Miss, political
riots, was submitted by Senator Pugh
to the Senate to-day.
The minority says the hearings were
held with closed doors and in Washing
ton, more than one thousand miles
from the locality Of the transaction.
Hence the members OF the committee
had no opportunity OF examining the
great mass OF witnesses who were upon
the ground.
"HOw unsatisfactory and misleading
such course is, says the report, "will
be evident to those who carefully exam
inc the reported evidence"
The minority says that for many years
there existed in jackson the best OF feel
ing between the two races, and that be-
fore January, 1883, the colored voters OF
Jackson had uniformly voted and their
votes had been counted.
The report describes the local option
contest in 1888, the killing OF Editor
Gambrell, and the consequent excite
ment and bitter feeling which followed.
Affairs were in this condition when the
events Of December "a occurred. Ed
ward Eugene Baldwin, u lawyer OF in
telligence, and as the minority assert,
the instigator OF this investigation, is
quoted as representing thatmatters were
very riotous among the young men Of
that day. Says the report:
"AbOut 0 o'clock that night Melville
Mitchell, with some Of his friends, en-
COuntered desperate negro named Bola
Whitesides, and in the end both parties
were killed. Upon this the White
League was formed, having for its sole
object the finding of the policeman and
others implicated, and having them pun
ishcd. No proper measures were taken
by the officials to discover the murder
ers."
The minority follows at great length
every detail OF the occurrences under
investigation. II declares that Baldwin
stands impeached as utterly unworthy
OF credit. 1t finds the evidence against
the federal officials inculpGted by the
majority, us unimportant, untrustworthy
and illegal. at is not shown" the mi
nority says, "that any one OF the federal
officers incriminated by the committee
did single illegal act or aided or I'D
vised in the doing OF SUCH"
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TILE PRESIDENTS WIFE.
Another Dip In the Sea mt OIarion-Hcr De-
parturo for Washington.

Another Dip In the Sen mt DInriOn-Her De
parturc for Washington.
MARION, MASS, August l.-Mrs. Cleve'
land found her Mondays dip in the sea
so refreshing that she tried another yes
terday morning, this time being accom-
panied by Mrs. Glider.
4 more delightful and retired bathing
beach than that where the Gilders' bath
ing house is located cannot be conceived.
The morning passed very quietly for
the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Glider. There
were several callers for Mrs. Cleveland,
among them Mrs. Samuel Warren, OF
Boston, who drove over from Matta'
poisett, where the Warrens have Il beau
tiful summer residence. Mrs. Warren il
a daughter OF Secretary Bayard, and
therefore an intimate friend OF Mrs.
Cleveland. 1t will be remembered that
Il very charming little dinner party in
Mrs. Clevelands honor was given ut
Mrs. Warren's during her visit to Marion
last summer.
In tho afternoon Joe Jefferson and
Mrs. Jefferson came across the bay from
their cottage on the opposite side and
spent a pleasant hour with Mr.. Gilder's
guests. The comedian appears to be in
excellent health. Another visitor was
Postmaster Hall, Of Marion, who is d
Republican, and of whom it is said that
Mrs. Cleveland has made such n CON
quest that she has converted him to the
Democracy. At all events, he has put
out a large lthoEaph Of the President
in front of his office, which loyal Repub-
licans might think out Of place were it
not ior the presence OF Mrs. Cleveland
in their midst.
Mrs. Cleveland started for Washington
to-day by special train from Fall River.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
ROnNp AT LAST.
a Man Who Knows Something About the
Alleged Snnp Trust.

Man Who Knows Something About the
Alleged Soap Trust.
BUFFALO, N. Y, August lat last a
Buffalo soap manufacturer has been
found who is quoted us saying that the
soap manufacturers are trying to form a
combination for something more than
protection against tariff reduction.
Edwin A. Bell, Secretary and Treas
urer OF the r. W. Bell Manufacturing
Company, says movement has been on
foot nearly month among the larger
soap factories in the country, which had
its origin at the East, for the formation,
not OF soap trust rs trusts are gener-
ally understood, but for combination
among soap manufacturers TO remedy
many OF the evils Of the trade, to look
after the freight rates and to establish q
regular price on standard goods us well
rs scale OF prices on cheaper goods, ac-
cording to their quality and the amount
Of fatty matter and rosin contained in
them.
Among what he calls the evils II is
proposed to remedy, is the unlimited
number OF brands OF soap which each
manufacturer puts on the market. 1t is
proposed to limit them to a certain
quantity, say about ten for each firm Z;
second, adulteration in soap is to be done
away with entirely, and as each brand is
to be rated and priced according to its
quality, merchant can, by the price,
quickly judge how the goods offered him
rank, and what the quality is; third, all
soaps to be cut full weight according to
the weight they are represented to be.
"If u combination be effected, how
would you hold the members together?"
"Well, the idea is that each manVfac-
turer deposit with the treasurer OF the
combination certain sum Of money
proporlopete 10 his business, which
could be held for the purpose OF COM
pelling good faith. Ii any article Of
agreement were broken fine would be
levied, which would he taken out OF
this money and divided nmong the
other factories according &c the amount
OF their business"
Mr.. Bell, however, is quoted MS not
knowing whether there is my prospect
Of etIeCting such combination or not.
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NoSQulrE Mass, August l.-Dr.
u'Reilly issued the following encour.
aging bulletin tonight:
General Sheridan was last seen by me
The afternoon OF the seventh Of
July, the day after the dis.
embaEkation from the swatara
on resuming to-day my duty
as attending physician l note the fol.
lowing changes, which have occurred
since the date named: The Generaps
whole appearance is better, and his
color more natural. His eyes art
brighter and have mora expression
Ills face is fuller, and judging from thi:
9hi from the contour OF his limbs, III
mas gained in weight, His pulse Is 0S
81 good volume and tension, and per
iectly regular.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
TILE SYNDICATB'S DEFENSE.
Why Scotch Stone Cutters Were Employee
on the Texas Capitol.


on the Texas Capitol.
CHICAGO, August Ia reporter calle(
on Colonel Abner Taylor, u member o
the Texas Capitol Syndicate, for som'
information regarding the importation
OF stone cutters from Scotland, us devel
opcd in the Congressional investigation
now going on in New York.
In reply as to whether he and othel
members OF the syndicate knew tha
foreign labor was Imported to do thu
stone cutting, Col. Taylor said:
81 presume il was generally known t.
the syndicate, but could do nothing tC
prevent it. am unalterably opposed tC
such practices myself, but in this in
stance neither | nor any other member
OF the syndicate had anything to say
about it, because the work was let by
contract"
"Wero there not plenty Of stone cut
tiers in America to do the work~
"Not in Texas. All that were needed
would have to be brought from somC
place outside the State. The fact OF the
matter is, the original plan was to builC
the Capitol Of limestone, but this stOnt
was found unsuitable and the STATE
found the material changed to granite
Of which there IS very fine quarry il
the land granted to the syndicate. Th,
difference in the cost OF Quarrying thi
granite amounted to nearly half mil
lion dollars, which the syndicate werC
not willing to expend, so, in order TO Sc
cure the stone for the Capitol, the State
agreed to furnish convict labor to QUAR-!
it. This carsed the union stonecutter
to strike, or rather they refused to Gu
stone quarried by the convicts, and Mr.
Willie was therefore compelled to &c
stonecutters from Aberdeen"
"Could not the syndicate have pre-
vented this importation and given thu
American mechanic n chanCeN
"No; it had absolutely no power ovel
the contractor, and, besides, the Ameri
can stonecutters would not cut thu
stone because it was quarried by con
victs, and, as l said, they were employed
by the State in order to have the Capito
built OF granite, and also because por
ton OF the extra expense OF that class o.
stone could be saye0,n
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
MEMORY FAILED A FARMER.
lie Raises lila Money From Its Plant, Dis
nnnnnrs mud Rcturnn Homo Dnzed.


lie Raises lila Money From Its Plant, Dis'
appears nud Returns Home Dazed.
LAFAYETTE, IND, August lon Sat-
urday last Dennis Walker, Of Switzer-
land county, came to this city, having a
team and wagon, which he placed in a
feed stable. After he put up the team
he asked for hatchet, and going to the
wagon removed n piece of timber and
took out seven one-hundred.dollar bills,
and since that time he has not been
seen here. lie had about Sl50 when he
returned home in dazed condition, and
could give no account OF his movements,
save a vague story in which he mention.
ed LAFAYETTE. A friend came here to-
day and recovered the team. Some
think he was sandbaggcd and robbed
Others believe he has been overcome by
the heat and it has affected his memory
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
A RAILROAD SENSATION.
Violation OF tho Long and Short Hau
Clause of tho Commerce Law.

Violation OF tho Long and Short Hnul
Clause of tho Commerce Law.
CHICAGO, August IA sensation has
been created among the Northwestern
roads by the announcement that the st.
Paul road had given notice that it would
at once reduce the through rates be-
tween Chicago and st. Paul to the basis
OF 40 cents first class, the present rate
being 60 cents. No change, however,
will be made in local rates, which will
remain ms at present, based on the 60
cent rate.
The St. Paul road simply follows the
example OF the Wisconsin Central and
st. Paul and Kansas City roads in vio-
lating the long and short haul clause OF
the Interstate Commerce law. This
identical issue was up before the Inter
State Commerce Commission ut Dubuque
last week, and aruling is expected with
in few days.
1t is anticipated that the action OF the
st. Paul road will be followed by the
Northwestern and Rock Island, the only
roads now holding to the G0.cent basis.
The reduction amounts to just 20 per
cent on all business between Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis and common points.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02

NORFOLK, August l.-This morning at
half past ten o'clock a destructive fire
began in Suffolk, Virginia, which was
notcontrolled until about 4 o'clock this
afternoon. 1t originated in the oil
warehouse OF Joseph p. Webb's drug
store, in the Excelsior block.
The burnt district extends from Main
to Bank streets on the north to the Nor,
folk x Western railroad depot on the
south. Nearly the entire business por.
ton OF the town is destroyed. The loss
Is roughly estimated at from $780, 900 to
S,iOJ,OOO, with the insurance far below
the loss. A large number OF dwellings
were burned, and many families rem
dered penniless.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
GRASSIIOPPERS
Devourlng the Crops In canada-C"tholicS
Invoke Divine Interference.

DeVOurinE the Crops In Cannda-CntholicH
Invoke Divine Interference.
MONTREAL, August I'm the Parish
of St. Barthelmi, county of Berthier,
swarms of ravenous grasshoppers have
settled down upon and eaten almost
everything in the fields. The wheat
and oat crop in the neighborhood has
been completely destroyed.
The grasshoppers do not seem to be
satisfied with the ruin they have wrought
to everything in the shape OF fruit and
vegetables, but are actually eating the
collar bark from the posts along the
fences.
In speaking after mass with reference
to the plague, the priest attributed the
serious visitation to the probable wick.
edness OF the people, who had neglected
to perform their religious duties in d
manner becoming Christian people
hence the wrath OF the Most High.
Those present were cxhorted to make
all possible atonemcnt for their sins
Yesterday the faithful assembled at the
church door and great number OF them
marched in procession through the viii
lage and invoked Divine interference
for the sadly stricken parish.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS.
Nominations for ConEressmen and Electors
Text of the Plntfurm.


Text of the Platform.
SAN FRANClsco, August lat last
nights session OF the Republican State
Convention additional nominations for
Representatives in Congress were made
as follows:
First district, Judge ]. j. Denhaven,
OF Humboldt; Second, John A. Engon,
OF Amador; Third, Joseph McKe6na,
renominated; Fourth, W. W. Morrow,
renominated; Fifth, T.G. Phelps; Sixth,
General William Vandever, renomi-
mated.
For Presidential electors at large,
John F. Swift and W. II. l.. Barnes.
First district, r. @. Corrothers; Second,
G. w. Schell; Third, L. Miner; Fourth,
Samuel NJ. Shortridge; Fifth, George 4,
Knight; Sixth, II. n. Streeter, :
The platform demands the maintain.
cnce OF Protective Tariff; denounces
the Free Trade tendencies OF the
Democratic party; appeals for free bal
lot in the South, and asks for the en-
actment OF an apprenticeship law.
The resignation OF Judge McKinstrey
from the Supreme Bench has made va
cancy which the Democrats will try to
fill by placing Superior Judge Sullivan,
of Sharon-Hill divorce.suit fame, on
their ticket. It is conceded that the
Republicans will nominate Judge Beat.
ty, OF Sacramento, for Chief Jus'ice, and
Judge Works, of Sandiego, for Associ
ate. The convention is unusually har.
monious,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-02
THE LAW DEFlED IN ALABAMA,
VIGIlnntes Watching II Coal Mine In Which
DIoonShinGrs take Refuge.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, August la tel
egraph operator at Rockton, who arrived
here to-day, gave meagre details of a
bloody tragedy in Bibb county. For
some time gang Of moonshiners have
been operating around the coal mines
and railroads camps in that neighbor-
hood. They became so bold that they
detied arrest, and the last Uni.ed States
Deputy Marshal who visited that section
was run out and ordered never to return.
Last Sunday the gang waylaid and muir
dered prominent citizen OF the county
for his money. This aroused such ex-
element that posse was organized to
hunt the outlaws. They were soon
found, and after IN exchange OF shots
the moonshiners took refuge in an old
drift OF the Brierlield coal mines. Tho
posse Of citizens determined to starve
them to death if they would not come
out and surrender. Monday night one
of the moonshiners made a bold dash for
liberty, but was shot at by the posse and
fell dead. The rest OF the gang are still
in the mines and the posse is standing
puard
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DUBLIN, August 1.-The names OF five
priests who urged the tenants on the
vandeleur estate to resist the eviCtors
have been forwarded to the Pope by the
clerical authorities. They have also sent
a report TO the Pope Of the case Of Father
McKenna, Of Kilrush, who, on July II,
openly and before other priests and a
magistrate, informed Col. Turner that
only solvent tenants were allowed to
join the plan OF campaign on the Vandc'
leur estate.
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HELENA, MoNT., August Ia tele'
phone dispatch to the Independen. from
Phillipsburg says: A fire ut the Bime-
tallic mine started about 4 o'clock and
burned the shaft house, hoisting
machinery and upper part Of the shaft,
together with lot Of wood, entailing a
loss OF several thousand dollars. One
hundred men were in the lower levels,
but came up to the hundred foot leYe!
and followed it to the air shaft, AL
came out safely.
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A FATAL EXPLOSION.
Two Killed and Five Injured near PHIL
nlalnlIn.

ndeIphIn.
PHILADELPHIA, August 1.-The boiler
OF a locomotive on the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad attached to Chestnut
Hill accommodation train exploded last
night shortly after eleven o'clock, near
the Ninth and Columbia avenue station,
killing the engineer and fireman and
iniuring five passengers.
The killed are Andrew Pond, engineer,
aged 80 years, and Peter Craiglow, fire.
man, 30 years. The injured are Charles
Ryan, James Brien, George l.. Van Vert,
l.. ?. Deveny and Thomas Crispin.
Ryan was terribly burned about the
face, hands and legs, and his injuries are
serious. He was removed to the hospi-
tai. The other four passengers are less
seriously injured and were able TO go to
their homes.
The force OF the explosion turned the
locomotive upside down, and the heavy
machine almost fell to pieces in its place
on the track. The explosion is thought
to have been caused by low water in the
boiler.
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CARTHAGE, TRIM, August lat 10
o'clock last night fifty armed men vis-
tied the Jail here and took out W. II.
Handy, who on September II last
killed j. B. Woman, a deputy Sheriff,
The Sheriff refusing to give up the keys,
the mob with axes and crowbars broke
into his cell, took him across the river
and hanged him to tree within sight
Of the jail. Handy was to have been
tried to-day.
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WEST VA. MATTERS AT WASHINGTON.
Gen. Con to Speak in New Hampshire,
Cadet Camden's Case.

NNAs NSA ~ HFNAt@ AA ANN"
Cadet camdon's Case.
Special Dispatch 10 he IatclligHeer,
WASHINGTON, August LA grand
mass meeting of New Hampshire Re
publicans, under the auspices of the
Republican League of that State, will
occur at Concord, September II. Con-
gresham Gof' and Henry Cabot Lodge
will be the principal orators. The in
vitation to General Golf was highly COM
plimentary in terms.
Secretary Whitney informed the IN
TELLIGENcER correspondent this morn
ing that he had uot yet decided the case
Of Cadet Camden and Others. He says
young Camden's friends are very active
in his behalf.
A new postoiIice has been established
at Ambrosia, Mason county, between
Brighton and Point Pleasant, with
Charles +. Pullin as postmaster; also ut
Britain, Taylor county, between Valley
Falls and Fetterman, with Theodore
Busch as postmaster. Lee W. McConi-
hay was to-day commissioned postmaster
at Pryor.
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CLEVELAND, O., August 1.-Two hun
dred Italian labores on the Mahoning
railroad near Findlay struck for higher
wages to-day and were discharged. They
demanded their pay, and were so bois-
ferrous that Hygenro, the paymaster,
hesitated about producing the money.
The strikers procured n rope and were
Just about 70 hang him when tho Sheriff
appeared with a posse and rescued him.
There is great excitement and fears oi
another outbreak.
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SHELDryILLE, IND,, August 1.-The
Republicans OF the Seventh Congress-
ional district to-day nominated by acclu-
nation Thomas G. Chandler, promi-
hent manufacturer OF indianapolis. A
resolution endorsing and iavoring the
nomination OF Ex-Governor Porter for
SSovernor was unanimously adopted,
hedelegatesrising and cheering PoTter's
name fully ten minutes,
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ArarsTA, NJ, August l.-Mr. Blaine
cabled as follows to the State Republi-
can Committee yesterday afternoon: 81
shall be present at the great Portland
meeting, August Is, and speak"
a New York dispatch says: Patrick
Ford, Of the Irish World, Cabled James
&. Blaine, to Liverpool to-day that the
workingrnen OF New York would scre-
made him on the evening OF his arrival.