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The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


The Secretary of the Treasury has ac-
cepted the resignation of DIR. James p.
Kimball, of Pennsylvania, as Director Of
the Mint to take effect October Is, and
has granted him leave of absence until
that day.
IT is reported in Washington that Rep
resentative Nutting of New York, who
has been seriously i'll for a long time, will
resign soon unless he RECEIVERS, so as to
give another Republican a chance.
J. Q. A. BRocKETT has been nominated
for Governor by Massachusetts Republi-
cans.
REPUBLICANS Of Alabama have nomin-
ated General James r. Chalmers for Gov
ernor.
THE Wyoming Constitutional conven-
tion has adopted clause positively for
bidding combinations to prevent compe-
tition or control prices and products.
REPUBLICANS OF New York met at Sara
toga on the 25th. After adopting plat
form the following ticket was nominated:
Secretary of State, John j. Gilbert Of
Franklin County; Comptroller. Martin w.
Cook, of Monroe; Treasurer, Ira Hedges
Attorney General, James Varnum, of
New York; State Engineer and Surveyor,
W. All SOuAb Va
Appeals, Alfred Haight, of Buffalo.
BISHOP ABRAM r. KMBALL, of Salt
Lake City, died on the 25th at Kanosh,
Utah
SAMUEL CALDWELL, ex-president of
Vassar College, died suddenly on the
26th after a brief illness. He was a
native of Newburyport, Mass. and was
for seven years president of Vassar.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, the new
American Minister. has presented his cre-
dentials to the Emperor William of Ger
many.
THE Wyoming Constitutional conven-
tion on the 26 h selected Cheyenne as the
seat of government for ten years, or until
a majority of the people vote change.
THE President and party arrived in
Washiug gton from Deer Park on the 9th
and proceeded direct to the White House
EMMoNs BLAINE, son of Secretary
Blaine, was mar led at Richfield Springs
N. Y, on the Goth to Miss Annita Nc
Cormick, daughter of the late Cyrus Nc
Cormick, of Chicago. Many distinguished
guests from Chicago and other portions
of the country were in attendance and the
wedding although quiet was yet quite g
brilliant affair.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
The Late "Sunset" Cox.

The advocates of freedom of ex-
change have had no stronger ally
than he, no one whose life was more
free from suspicion of self-seeking, or
whose record is more worthy of honor
from the fact that it is without stain
of single vote for a measure inimical
to the best interests of the common
people. 1t is to the credit of Mr.. Cox
that he was never requested to burn
epistles from the author OF the Multi
gan letters, and that no penny of a
corruption fund was ever considered
well invested in his hands. Repub-
ican statesmen seeking to place money
where it would do the most good, hon.
ored Mr.. Cox by their faith that their
schemes could only receive opposition
at his hands. No whitewash was ever
needed to relieve his fame from the
blot of suspicion; no memorandum
books need be concealed that his char
acter might remain unspotted. Chi
cago Leader.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
TROUBLE BREWING.

Important Anidavits as to the Great Strike
of 1886 Likely to Cause Trouble in the
X. of L.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2S-Important deposit
tions bearing upon the great strike of 1886
have been taken here very quietly, but
when the result becomes known in
Knights of Labor circles it is likely to
cause a large sized row. The recent war
bstween Mortimer d. Shaw, Of this city,
and Master Workman Powderly, in which
a number Of prominent knights Of this city
became involved, and which Is bringing
Master Workman Powderly and his en-
tire executive board to St Louis, is really
the cause which has led to the present
trouble. The depositions taken were from
a number of dissatified knights who. hav-
ing been in the inside of the affairs of the
great strike. have been able to give testi-
mony of great Importance to the Missouri
Pacific railway, which will be used in de-
fense of the damage suits instituted by the
men prosecuted for the Wyandotte train
wrecking. These depositions contain
startling charges against the leaders of
the knights. Among other things alleged
is a plot to blow up the big Eads bridge
hare
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
THE PENSION OFFICE.

The Complexion of the Report of the
Commission that Investigated the PEN
sion ONCE. on which ComDnlsslODer
Tanners OmcIaI Head FeII-Prospect
that Others will Also be Rslegated to
Private Life.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-The Evening
Capital publishes the following: "The
report OF Messrs. Ewing, Campbell and
Bruce, the commission that Investigated
the Pension Office, though closely guard
ed by Interior Department officials, Is
gradually becoming known. Printed
copies Of this report are now, and have
been for some time, in the hands OF all
the members of the Cabinet. Commis-
sioner Tanner has one, as also has Major
Warner and Colonel Dudley. BY de-
grees its contents are being divulged. 1t
is known that the report takes up each
re-rating case separately and each case
is an exhibit In itself. Stress is laid
upon the fact that Deputy Commissioner
Hiram Smith, Jr., received over six thou
sand dollars as re-rating. This action
Of his comes in for severe criticism in
the report. Whether Mr.. Smith has re-
turned this money or not the report
does not state. Mr.. Smith receives
his pension at the Topeka agency. Ssc-
retary Noble, in view Of the report OF the
commission, has himself questioned Mr..
Smith as to the facts attending the re-
rating. 1t is not known definitely wheth.
er Mr.. Smiths certificate of re-rating Is
signed by himself as acting commission
er or by Commissioner Tanner. The pa
pers in his case went through during Mr..
Tanners absence from the Pension Of
flee.
The report also condemns Mr.. Squires
in round terms. especially for his action
in making cases special. 1t states that
Mr.. Squires possessed the stamp OF Mr..
Tanner as Commits sioner, and affixed IL
to papers without the Commissioner
knowledge. The number Of such cases
very large number-is given, and Com
missioner Tanner is criticised for his
gross carelessness in thus intrusting his
official prerogative to a mere private
secretary, who violated the confidence
reposed in him. The names of the Pen
| sion-Ofice officials who caused them
selves to be re-rated form a conspicuous
part of the report. Several were dis
| charged at the time by Secretary Noble
| and they now point to the fact that the
one who received the largest amount OF
| all-Deputy Commissioner Smiths still
| in office.
Said member of the board which made
| the investigation:
There was but one of two things fol
the President to do in view of our re-
port, either to dismiss every one Of u
| from the service as unworthy of belief
or else relieve Mr.. Tanner from office"
The same member intimated that the
chief culprits were still in position, bu
would soon follow Mr.. Tanner into pri
| yate life.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
THE CORN CROP.
The Amount According to the Various
Corn Producing States.

The Amount According to the Various
Corn n-Producing States.
CHICAGO Sept. 2S-The Farmers Re-
view publishes the following: Present in
dications point to a larger crop of corn
than has been anticipated by statisticians
generally. The quality, however, will
not be equal to that of 1888, except in
Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and Kansa%
The latter State will harvest fine crop
this year to offset the failure of last The
condition of corn in Nebraska was excel
lent during the early part of the growing
season, but hot winds in August brought
down the high average in some counties,
and early frosts damaged late planted
corn in localities. The low condition OF
maize in other States is easily accounte d
for by the unfavorable season; Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and w Wisconsin
suffered from a cold, wet spring, which
was very favorable for cut worms, fol-
lowed by long drought in July and Au-
gust. Minnesota and Dakota suffered for
rain the season through. 1t is as yet too
early to estimate the probable yield of
shelled corn, but from the reports of cor
respondents we estimate the crop as fol-
lows:
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

ACCORDING to the figures of the State
Treasurer of Louisiana, the amount Of
fraudulent State bonds already in sight
will reach more than 81 100000.
The expenditure of S50,000000 by two
English syndicates for the control of an
extraordinary aggregate of industrial en-
terprises in the United States, was COM
pleted in Chicago on the 2Sth.
THE Jail at Newport, Ark, holds George
Gould, who inhumauly chopped his father
n-law, Sam Price, to death with an ak.
AT Cairo, Ill.,, on the 26th, B. F. Curtis, a
merchant, and John Wallace, a mail car
rier, quarreled over the removal Of Com
missioner Tanner, and Wallace was struck
over the head with molasses jug, receiv-
ing injuries from which he died an hour
later.
The Secretary of the Treasury has made
the following appointments: ID. l.. Shoup,
storekeeper and gauger, Arkansas; G. G.
Allister, gauger, Seventh Kentucky Dis
trict: NJ. G. bailey, gauger, Eighth Ken
lucky District.
rHERE is considerable excitement over
the discovery of natural gas at Murfrees-
boro, Tenn. 1t is not known whether or
not it is in paying quantities.
AT Birmingham, Ala, on the 9th, King
Vann, deputy sheriff, attempted to arrest
John Steele, a negro who was wanted for
felony, when the negro shot him dead with
a gun.
Those in charge of the arrangements
for the approaching triennial conclave Of
Knights Templar at Washington October
5 to u, anticipate the largest gathering of
the Knights and their friends ever held.
SIX NEGRO prisoners confined in the con-
iemned cell of the Pulaski County, Ark,
Jail escaped on the 9th.
NJ. F. BRYAN, of Nashville, Tenn, on the
27th secured Judgment against the Pull
man Car Company for $50, stolen from
him while passenger in one of the Com
pany's cars.
A NUMBER of Tennessee and Alabama
capitalists are reported to have COM
pleted the consolidate ion of several
large iron interests into one company. The
main object is to manufacture charcoal,
iron and steel on big scale.
THE citizens of Wichita, Kas., have de-
cided to address a memorial to Congress
asking that the Worlds Fair be located at
St. Louis. Fort Worth, Tex, will do the
same, and other cities in Southern Kansas,
Arkansas and Texas, have expressed their
intention of following in the same course.
The Treasury Department has decided
that horses imported from Canada and in
tended for use in circuses and menageries
are not exempt from duty under the pro-
visions of the free list for stools of trade,
occupation or employment of persons ar
irving In the United States.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
UNITED EVERYWHERE.
The Educational Campaign Carried On In
Various states.


It is a source OF qualification to
tariff reformers all over the country
that the Democrats OF Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Virginia have stuck so
Loyalty to their party faith in tho
State campaigns OF this year and are
fighting so valiantly under the tariff
reform flag which was unfurled at St
Louis last summer. A tariff campaign
must of necessity be an educational
one. The Ohio and Penpsvlvenia
Democrats may not win victories this
year, yet they are keeping the great
issue before the public and are doing
noble missionary work for the cam
paign of 1892. The Democratic party
is no longer open to the charge OF oc-
cupying an uncertain or vascillatlng
position on the tariff. When Mr..
Cleveland planted the banner of tariff
reform in his celebrated message to
Congress the Democratic party rallied
around the standard and have been
standing Loyalty to their colors ever
since. They were not a whit dis
COurdBeu ny uoiOd1 Al bhO Ae"SS Wv
ton, as is demonstrated by the ad-
vanced position on the tariff ques-
ton the party has taken in the vari-
Gus States where elections are to be
held this year. Nor have they
reason to be discouraged. There is
many a man who voted the Repub-
lican ticket last fall who went homo
from the polls to regret it. During
the last six months a great many Re-
publican business men, who voted for
Harrison last November, have come
to see the folly of supporting a party
that is pledged to making raw mate
rials dear. New England manu-
facturers now say that unless they
can buy raw materials at cheaper
rate they see nothing but disaster for
the future in their business. That Is
what the Democrats told them last
year, but they didn't see it then. The
scales have since fallen from their
eyes, and, II the Presidential election
were to take place next November,
instead of last, tariff reform would
be an established fact. Thus the
Democrats are encouraged to keep up
their educational campaign. The
common sense of the people may be
blinded for awhile, but in the long
run the crooked things are straight
ened out. St. Paul Globe.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
Free Raw Material.

Free hides and paper stock with free
fuel will alone in the course of time
save to this section its immense leath-
or and paper industries. When coal
has been liberated artificial restriction
will have here given way to the play
of natural causes. And unless the
statute barriers that have contracted
for New England the sources of wool
and lumber and ore and crude metal
supply are likewise torn down, who
will venture to predict the final results
in the unequal race thus imposed by
law upon these industries? 1t is NOS
natural cause but government inter
ference in the free play OF natural
cause in the matter of ships and raw
materials that shaekles section which
must turn to commerce and manu-
featuring in order to maintain itself,
Springfield Republican.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

BEFORE Justice Prindiville ut Chi
Cago recently James Nicollet. an Ital-
lan' accused his wife Emily of living
with Salvatore Lemor, also an Italian.
Inc woman said her husband had
tlred of her and sold her to Salvatore
lOr $40, Salvatore corroborated the
statement, and the woman said: "Of
course obeyed James when he told
me to live with Salvatore. / do not
'nink | am guilty when my husband
ordered me to do So" She also said
mat the child was not her husbands 8
aS ne had sold it for $5. Nothing was
aone by the Justice in these matters,
out Lemor was fined $50 for carrying
concealed weapons.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
Gold Mining In China.

PORTLAND. Ore, Sept 2a-News of the
discovery Of rich gold-b airing quartz in
the province of Canton. China, about 100
miles from the city of Canton, has been
received here by Seid Back. a prominent
Chinese merchant. Chinese merchants of
the Pacific coast have organized
a company. Experts from New York
who examined the ledge report
that the rock assays from SS75 to s40o per
ton.
The ledge is a mile and half long and
thirty feet thick. The Governor Of the
province issued a proclamation against
mining. 1t Is the intention of the com.
pany to spend $780, 900 for machinery in
the United States.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

Germany has tremendous
army and large navy, but her army
and navy expenditures are very little
in excess of our annual pension ex.
penditures. Buffalo Courier
The New York Evening Post is
of opinion that the net result OF the
first six months work of the Harrison
is lower moral tone
in politics that the country has shown
since 1872.
The Republican party appears
to be daily becoming infatuated with
the beauty of the idea that tariff
should be imposed sufficient to keep
imports out, while ships should be SUBJ
sidized to bring them in.-Providence
journal,
Minor, the Republican candi-
date for Congress in the Third Louisi-
ana district, has disgusted his party
friends by announcing that he will
not contest the election of Price, al
though the latter's majority is Z. .507.-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
With a President who was not
elected by a popular majority. and a
Congressional preponderance by
throwing out members who have been
chosen to seats in the House, the Il.
o. P. ought to get along swimmingly.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The six great coal producing
companies have agreed to curtail the
September output 100000 tons. in
order to keep up prices and keep down
miners wages. These great monopo-
lies are the prime foundation of Repub-
lican power in the land.-Springfeld
en- Register.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

The Opera House at Hartford, Conn.
was crowded to Overlooking the other
evening to witness the historical tab
leaux given in part as testimonial to
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. The
tableaux illustrated national events
from Columbus to date and were de-
signed especially to show the progress
OF woman. The authoress and man
ager was Miss Cora Scott Pond. of
Boston. Mrs. Livermore was lecturer
Mrs, Isabelle Berry Hooker person
ated Mrs. Stowe.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

SECRETARY TRACEY has decided to
accept the new cruiser Charleston,
which is at San Francisco, from it's
builders, but has not given any orders
10 that end. as he is awaiting the ac-
ton of the bureaus of engineering and
construction, who are now considering
the official report on the last trial of
the vessel. The Charleston, during
her trial, showed an average speed of
over Is knots an hour and horse
power of over $500
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03


A GENERAL combination of the win
W" glass factories west of the Allie
snany mountains, which has been so
freely talked of within the past few
weeks now appears to have been
gwen up, Along with that went also
a scheme to build an immense tank
.actory by capital furnished by the
'arlous manufacturers. After weigh
s ana Investigating the matter sew
p" " pittsburgh manufacturers and
-aS'ern capitalists who were interest
" arrived at the conclusion that to
sanlze tze a trust or to purchase a con-
slo' Of all factories or to build tank
~ .uFnaces of any size was now not the
'ning Tor several reasons.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

A LATE dispatch from Helena, Mont,
says that the half has not been told of
the ravages of drought and fire this
season in that State. The long con-
tlnucd dry weather and great forest
and prairie fires have left the grazing
lands in such condition that the cattle
can not obtain proper subsistence
from them. The cattle are already in
very poor condition, and if there
should come a hard winter many of
them would perish.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

IN an interview General Boulangel
said he had no hope of his party has.
ing majority in the new Chamber OF
Deputies. He had not, however, lost
faith in the future. The Government,
he declared, had everywhere stolen
votes, with raven-like characteristics.
The Republican majority would prove
unmanageable, he said, and France
would soon be calling him to power.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
The Secretary of the Interior Renders .
Decision on an Appeal Case.

WASHINGTON, Sept 2s I'm the ex parts
case Of Abraham L. Miner, on appeal from
the decision of the local officers of Marys-
willie, Cal, the Secretary of the Interior 10
a decision rendered holds that under the
school grant Of the sixteenth and
thirty sixth sections to the State of Gals.
fornia, the title rests on the date Of sur.
vey, and il the lands, although in fact
mineral, were not then known to be miE-
eral the subsequent discovery OF then
mineral character does not affect or diveSt
the States title. This decision overrules
that in the case OF Colorado, rendered by
Secretary Villas December 10. 1855
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

NEWSPAPERS in the City Of Mexico
demand of the Government that it for
bid the entrance into that country of
Syrian and Turkish beggars. A num-
ber of Cinnamon arrived at Tampico
recently and departed Immediately for
MnNns
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

ALL HERE, the imported English
stallion, owned by Burgess Bros, of
Winona, H.. recently died at the State
Fair grounds. He was four years old
and valued at 100000.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
w. 40
state. .o.,s [no, yield Bushels.
-io'e0' bu.

Assuming that the crop in other States
will be equal to that Of 1888. or 525, 215 600
ushels. the total crop Of 1889 will be
2,c6> 292, ,C93, against total in 1888 of
/, 9S7, 100000 We summarize the reports
of CORES pondents relative to the present
condition of corn as follows: Illinois, 92
per cent; Indiana, "a; Ohio, 81; Ken
lucky, 1O1; Missouri 10s; Iowa, 1903; Kan
sas, 110; Nebraska, 96; Wisconsin, 70;
Michigan, co; Minnesota, 50; Dakota, II.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

Ten double-cabbed monster locomo-
tyes will soon be out of the shops for
use on the Rock Island road 1t is
stated that this road will endeavor to
make the fastest time between Kansas
City and Denver of any of the compet-
inC lines
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

TIE New York Daily. Graphic has
gone into the hands of the sheriff. 1t
was an experiment in the field of illus
trated journalism and mas never been
successful, though every thing that
could be done for it by changes OF
ownership and politics has been tried.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

The novelty of seeing two women
srraicned for highway robbery was
recently one of the features of the pro-
ceedings in the Tombs police court at
New York.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
Somebody has been asking

Somebody has been asking for
the whereabouts of Senator Ingalls,.
and somebody else pretends to have
him writing book at his
home in Kansas. Nothing is more
likely; the late Roscoe Conkling was
the first to discover that Mr.. Ingalls,
was "a Kansas cabbage with a literary
dayor. Chicago Herald
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

EXTERIOR WILLIAM has refused to
mitigate the severity of the imperial
regulations concerning passports, and
the Inconvenience to which hundreds
Of travellers in Germany are daily sub
iected seems as far from removal as
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
CURRENT COMMENT.

ACCORDING to the latest official state
uort the contributions for the relief
of the Johnstown sufferers aggregate
e $4,000.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

A STATE immigration convention
was held in Louisville, KY. recently
under the auspices of the State League
Of Commercial Clubs. Governor Buck
ner presided.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

"a ihE Treasury Department has de-
.S iaeu mat horses imported from Can
aSs ana intended for use in circus
Su. "u menagerie are not exempt from
~, susy under the provisions OF the free
.as ass lor tools. Of trade. occupation of
s''sons arriving in the United States"
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

A SUGAR refining company with a
copital of $1,000, 600 has been incor-
rorated in Baltimore by prominent
and wealthy citizens.
The Globe-republican., 1889-12-04

The man who Is thoroughly in
earnest and alive to the importance of
killing weeds will be constantly on the
lookout for times when he can rid him
self of these pests; but few farmers
realize what tax 1t becomes on their
energies and capital to allow weeds to
ripen their seeds.
Two swindlers played a very
shrewd trick on the merchants OF Som.
erset. Ky. They bought up all the
ginseng they could find, took it to town
and sold it at the nominal price of 81
per pound. Upon investigation it was
found the ginseng had been bought
while green, split and a groove made
in the root. which was filed with lead.
Even iron tacks we're found stuck into
the ends of the roots.
The Globe-republican., 1889-12-04

"A fresh young bride from Ohio
having heard that camphor fumes
would Danish flies. put on her kitchen
range lot Of supposed humps of cam
phor. They melted and spread out.
and all the flies for squares away came
swarming TO them. The despairing
bride consulted an experienced matron
next door. who discovered that the sup
posed camphOr was rock candy.
-''Grass is the forgiveness of ma
ture-her constant benediction. Fields
trampled with battle. saturated with
blood. torn with the ruts of cannon.
grow green again with grass. and car
mage is forgotten. Streets abandoned
by traffic become grass-gr0wn like
rural lanes and are obliterated. For
ests decay. harvests perish. flowers
vanish. but grass is immortal. Sen
ator ingalls,.