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An Agent of Anarchists.

NEW YORK, July 26.-If the man who is
locked up in the Pittsburg Jail, for attempt
ing TO murder Mr.. Frick, is Alex Berkman,
formerly of this city, he Is an anarchist of
the most radical style.
About six years ago Berkman came to this
city. Although he did not become promi-
nent leader among the anarchists, he made
himself conspicuous from his marked radical
views against the capitalists, and it is said he
attempted to organize a group for the ex-
press purpose of going about the country to
exterminate capitalists.
In description he is a thin. Insignificant
little man with dark mustachc. He wore
glasses. The police advance the theory that
Berkman was SIMPLY the agent of the anar-
chists here, and was sent by them to Pitts
burg for the express purpose of killing Mr..
Prick. It was said at police headquarters
that the inspector received dispatches imme-
diately after the shooting of Prick occurred,
and sent detectives to hunt up Berkmal,'s
trail. The detectives are at work on the clue
and they are working on the theory that
Berkman was sent to Pittsburg.
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More Anarchists Plots

PARIS, July 23.-The Figaro asserts that
an anarchist plot has been discovered to de-
stroy the bourse and Palace of Justice at
midnight.
1t is learned that a plot to rescue Ravachol,
or at least interfere with his execution, was
only defeated by the preparations to keep
suspicious persons away from Mont Brison.
There is every reason to believe that the
anarchists are plotting some act of signal
vengeance for the execution of Ravachol
that will startle France and Europe.
The government Is determined to follow
up Ravachol's execution with the severest
punishment of all detected dynamit.rs.
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Pinkertons Before the Committee.
The PInkerton brothers were given an OPP
portunity to explain and defend the working
of their system before special committee
of the house committee on the judiciary
which has been engaged in an investigation
of the labor trouble at Homestead and of the
Pinkerton system.
Messrs. Hays, Devlin and Wright of the
knights of Labor, were present to watch the
proceedings. MI. Devlin said they had pre-
pared questions they desired the committee
to ask the Pinkertons.
Robert Pinkerton took the stand and laid
before the committee statement that had
been prepared. When first requested to send
watchmen to protect the Homestead plant of
the Carnegie company, the Pinkertons re-
fused to do so unless the men should be
sworn in as deputy sheritfs before gong to
Homestead.
''We were then assured" runs the state
ment shat the sheriff of Allegheny county
knew our men were going to homestead to
guard the property of the company and pro-
tect its workmen: that the sheriff had con-
sented immediately upon any outbreak to
deputize all our watchmen as sheritf's depu-
ties, if it became necessary for the protection
of life ard property. On that condition only
did we consent to furnish $40 watchmen. A
large number of these men were our regular
employees, who could be thoroughly trusted
for integrity. prudence and sobriety. The
remainder were men whom we employed
from time to time or who were known and
recommended to us"
The statement urges that the Pinkerton
men did not go into Pennsylvania rs IAN
armed force" The arms and ammunition
were shipped from Chicago and were ordered
not to be given to the men unless they were
deputized by the sheriff. AS matter Of
fact the boxes were not opened until the
strikers had opened fire and it became
matter of life and death. The statement
then says: ''Klein had been murdered by
the strikers and also five other watchmen
shot and wounded before our men began
their fire in self defense. Then it was impos-
sible to attempt to shoot those firing at the
barges, because the strikers made a breast
work for themselves by placing women and
children in front and firing from behind
them. Not sic:gle women or child was in
jurcd by our men.
The beating of the surrendered Pinkerton
watchmen was then dwelt upon and robbery
is charged upon the strikers. The clubbing
of Corners and the killing of Edwards was
then referred to. ''The acts of the strikers
after the men surrendered would be a dis
grace to savages, yet because done in the
name of organized labor, sympathy, if not
encouragement, for such deeds was expressed
by part of the press and by political dema-
gogues. We do not shirk the responsibility
for any of our acts in this or any other strike.
The coming murder trials ought to bring out
the truth; our actions will then be shown to
have been le9al.''
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NEW YoRx, July Pr q. Dun 4 Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade says:
There is distinct improvement, not only
in transactions in comparison with tho same
time last year, but also in the prospects for
the coming season.
The prospects for spring wheat are remark
ably good and in many of the states surpaas
all expectations. Wheat has risen ~ cents
in spite of the western receipts amounting to
2, 136, 900 bushels in three days, against tho
export of 5000 bushels. Oats also rose 1
cent, and pork products shade, and corn
has advanced II cents. In coffee there was
q slight advance, but in cotton a decline of
q sixteenth occurred with sales of 560, 900
bales in a week.
Southern sales depressed the prices of pig
iron, but bar plates and structural iron are
very active and higher. Tin is lower at 20 1-6
cents and lead at Al cents with pressure to
sell.
Further advance in anthracite coal is pro-
posed, but soft coal has sold at 81 at Phila-
delphia.
The stock market has been little affected
by the vote of the Burlington 4 Quincy to
withdraw from the Western Traffic associa-
ton.
Money Is unusually plenty. Merchandise
exports in the three weeks of July are only
half of 1 per cent larger than last year, while
in imports large increase appears.
The business failures the past week were
1877, against 100 the previous week. For the
corresponding week of last year the figures
were 254.
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To Check Emigration.

HAMBURG, July 26.-The large depot
specially erected by the Hamburg American
Packet company for the accommodation of
emigrants and in order to prevent the eul-
barkation of emigrants who would be pro-
hibi ed from landing in the United States,
has been opened.
General Spauldlng. assistant secretary of
the United States treasury, arrived here, and
inspected the depot which will hold ], 500 en-
igrauts. Its cost was So, 600.
Under the new order issued by the city
authorities all through emigrants in the de-
pot will remain under supervisor of doc
tors until they embark.
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Always Srural.

WASHINGTON. D. c., July 25.-During the
examination of Robert Pinkerton before the
h01se committee, Mr.. Boatner having asked
how it was that the trouble occurred when
the strikers claimed always that they did not
encourage violence and only persuaded men
not to work, aud the Pinkertons we're in
structed not to use violence, Mr.. Pinkerton
made answer that hit squarely at the Knights
of Labor men present. He said he had never
seen q strike when labor organizations or
their men had not abused non-union men.
He had seen meH knocked of trains, he had
seen them almost beaten to a jelly, Ne had
known members of this very Knights of
Labor to put dynamite under cars, he had
seen men who wanted work treated worse
than savages by representatives of secret
labor organizations, and he had had them
sent to prison for it.
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Shooting of III. C. Frick.

II. G.. Frick, manager for the Carnegie
company, was shot and stabbed IN his Office
at Pittsburg at about o'clock Saturday p.
M, July q, by Russian Jew named Berk-
man, union printer, who says he is from
New York city, He is not known at Home
stead. Frick is conscious and may live, but
that Is uncertain. The American leaders of
the strike express great horror and sorrow
over the occurrence, while at Homestead
there are heard, among the laborers, mutter-
ings of, ''Served him rights" ''What else
could he expect; !" ''That is the stuff, &c, &c |;
while one brawny steel worker dropped on
his knees in the street and loudly thanked
God for the murder. One account of the
shooting would indicate that Frick saved the
assassin's life. In the struggle he had gained
an advantage over the assassin, and at that
moment Deputy Sheriff May entered the
door and drew q pistol and was about to
shoot the fellow in the back, when Frck
called out: ''Don't kill him. We have got
him ull right; leave him to the law" Later
accounts say that the physicians made care
full examination of the wounds, removing ore
bullet, and came to the conclusion that Mr..
Frick is not fatally injured.
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A National Holiday.

A National Holiday.
President Harrison has issued his procla-
nation, as directed by a joint resolution OF
congress, appointing October q, 1882, the
l0oth anniversary of the discovery of America
By Columbus, as national holiday. The
proclamation closes thus:
The system of universal education Is in
our age the most prominent and salutary
1eature of this piece of enlightenment and it
= peculiarly appropriate that the schools be
msde by the people the center. Of the days
demonstration. Let the national dag float
over every school house in the country and
TIE exercises be such rs shall impress upon
our youth the patriotic duties of American
Saeisenship. In churches and in other places
of assembly of the people lot there be express
sious of gratitude to Divine Providence fer
the devout faith of the discoverer and for the
divine care and guidance which has DIRECTED
cur history and 90 abundantly blessed our
people,"
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EriRhtful Accident.

louisville, Pa, July pa frightful ex-
plosion occurred on the York Farm colliery,
by which eight men are known to have been
killed outright, and it is believed three moro
have also suffered the same fate.
The explosion, it is believed, was caused
by strong feeder being broken into and its
force penetrated to safety lamp and ignlted
the g's. The York colliery is owned and
operated by the Lehigh Valley company, and
the Philadelphia and Reading company,
lessees,
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More of Pinkerton,s Test

More of Pfnkerton'S Testimony.
The statement read before the congress
sional committee, as part of his testimony,
by Robert Pinkerton, further holds that the
principles involved is larger than the dispute
between the Carnegie people and their men.
The Pinkertons had no qaarrel with organ
lied labor save ps it attempted life and de-
fed law. If owners might not employ watch
men, then capital is at the mercy of secret
organizations ''whose tyranny and despot.
ism," says the statement, exceed anything
known in the history of the world. These
societies terrorize immediate communities
by threats of murder. and are determined
upon ruin and destruction of property if their
demands, no matter how unreasonable or
impractlcable, are not complied with"
The Mollic Maguires, the Chicago Stove
company's strike, the Burlington strike, and
others are referred 10 in detail as basis for
the statement made in the paper, that ''every
large strike has shown that these labor organ
izations will murder and destroy property
out of sheer wantonness and revenge"
1T was morally certain" concludes thu
statement, from the threats of the men
themselves, that the strikers at Homestead
would resort to similar violence and to at
tempt to destroy the property of the Carnegie
company if any attempts were made to sup
ply their places py non-unioa men,"
The employment all o-er The country by
banks and private peop!s .; Pinkerton men
as watchmen is referred to, and then the SUBJ
scribers to the statement affirm that thei,
counsel assured them that they have violated
no law, federal or state; that they had the
right to employ and send men 20 Homestead
to act as watchmen: that if they were at
tackled, they had right to kill if absolutely
necessary for self defense; that they had the
right to besr arms on the premises of the
Carnegie company in order to protect life
and property, whether or not they were depu-
tlzed by the sheriff of Allegheny county;
'that We had the right to ship arms from
Chicago to the Carnegie mills for the pur-
pose of arming our men. and if, after they
were deputized by the sheriff, in view of the
attack on the barges our men had tho night
to bear arms and to defend themselves, and
that all their nets in firing in self defense
from the barges after the attack on them
were legally justifiabie under the laws of the
United States and the laws of Pennsylvania."
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The Partisan Cholera.

ne PdfISIan Cholera.
LONDON, July pa dispatch to the Lancet
from Paris says that the cholera in the sub
urbs of that city is stationary and exhibits
no tendency to extension within the fortif-
cations Officially the disease is styled cpl
demic choleriform. 1t develops SO slowly
that time for preparations to combat it can
be readily taken. It does not seem to have
taken root within the walls of the city.
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The Wizards Latest.

PARIS, July "a story is published here
that Edison has invented an electrical ma
chine which will destroy whole towns at a
distance of thirty miles, and has sold the in
vention to the German government.
A professor in the university here, it Is said,
wrote of the matter to Edison short time
ago, and Edison replied that he was not ani-
mated in what he had done by any wish II
aid the enemies of France.
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Contributing to Strikers.

TOPEKA, July 26.-The Topeka Labor and
Trades assembly held meeting and decided
to make an organized effort to send money
to the wol king men at Homestead. COM
mittee of twenty-five, representing as many
labor organizations in the city was appointed
to solicit aid, collect money and turn it over
to the secretary. ]. G. Samuelson, who will,
at once, forward it to the proper committees
at Homestead. The men expect to raise at
least LOCO.
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Trains Piled Up.

TAMwoRTH, ONT., July "a collision oc-
CURED about four miles west of here at
o'clock a. N. on the Bay of Quinte railway.
The regular passenger train was coming
from Tweed on time when 1t was met by a
special work train from Erinsville, consist
ing of an engine and tender, both going at
full speed. The trains met in a deep cut
and a terrible crash followed, the engines and
cars being piled in an indescribable mass.
There were three persons killed and a large
number injured.
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No Longer Employees.

P11TsBURe, June 26.-It is stated that the
advisory committee of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION will file petition asking that the
present troubles between the former work
men at Homestead and the Carnegie compa-
ny be settled by board of arbitration to be
appointed y the court under what is known
as the voluntary arbitration act of 1883. The
company officials say arbitration must be re-
quested by both sides which has not been
done. Besides the names of the strikers have
been stricken from the pay rolls, and they
are no longer employees.
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ADetermIned Covernor.

HOMESTEAD, Pa, July Ex-Governor Pat
tison gave his ultimatum to committee of
citizens who called upon him and requested
the removal of the troops.
The governor listened attentively to what
the committee had to say, and replied he
would keep guards here and stay here him.
self all summer if necessary to indicate law
and order, and if necessary would spend
every dollar in the treasury and then mort
gage the state to accomplish that and.
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To be Seen From Afar.

TO be seen From Afar.
BosroN, Mass. July 2.-Genersl Manages
Tucker, of the Maine Central railroad, says
the necessary money for placing an electric
search light on the top of Mount Washington
has been subscribed. The light will be the
highest and strongest in the world. and viii
be visible from Maine, Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire. Vermont, New York and Canada.
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Another Illinois Storm.

A severe wind storm accompanied by heavy
rain and lightning swept over central and
southern Illinois and southern Indiana July
20. At Galesburo, H., many buildings were
damaged and several persons received serious
though not fatal Injuries Thecotton factory
Was demolished, involving a loss o. 5000
At Henderson necriy every building in town
was damaged and some we've completely
wrecked. At Jacksonville and Monmouth
the storm was also severe.
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ohio FruIt Prospects.

DAYTON, O., July 26-The peach crop in
Southwestern Ohio will not amount to much
and what there il will be late. Lake Enc or
chards have none. Some parts OF Michigan
will have good peaches. There will Be few
apples in Michigan; none = Southern Ono.
Pears are good everywhere.
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Another Sensation

Homestead had another sensation, follow
ing the assault of Frick at Pittsburg. Meas
ures were taken to prevent a parallel to the
Pittsburg tragedy. The precautions are for
one who has held of late, more than Mr..
Frick, a conspicuous position in the public
eye, being no less a person than Major Gen
eral Snowdep. The guards about the camp
were doubled and at some polnts trebled. In
ton. were excluded from within the lines
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TWO Thousand Perished.

HAGUE, July 25.-An official telegram 10.
ceived from Bolivia confirms the recent &C
count of the awful destruction caused on tho
Great Sang,r Island, belonging to Holland,
by volcanic eruption, June H. The later
advices state that the whole northwestern
portion of the island was destroyed and 2,0o0
inhabitants killed.
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Train Men rhreatened.

HoNKsrEAD, Pa, July "a dark and
threatening story is in circulation which
causes some adverse comment, though it il
denied by the advisory committee. The
crews of several freight trains over the Mo-
nongahela division of the Pittsburg, Nc
Keesport & Youghiogheny railway, have been
approached and warned by parties unknown,
that if they earned a pound of steel out OF
the Munhall yards they would be shot. The
engineers have been requested to furnish de-
scriptions of the men uttering the threats
and prompt arrests will be made.
There is more activity about the works,
and the workers say they notice many strange
faces.
PARADE PROHIBITED.
The chief danger of physical force COLI
sion in Homestead is generally expected to
follow on the release of Hugh O'Donneu and
his return home, if that should take place.
In the event OF bail being accepted for him
by the court, his friends here have deter
mined to give him a rousing reception
home.
Provost Marshal Greene said the sheriff
had decided to prevent any public assembly
of the kind.
The steel workers, on the other hand, said
the proposed prohibition was illegal and they
would not submit.
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Valuable Horses Burned.

WESTMINSTER, Nh, July a.-Lightning
struck The main stable of the stock farm OF
C. Wyndham Walden, at Bailing Brook. set.
ting it afire. Fourteen colts and hlleys OF
great value persisted in the flames Twenty.
seven yher valuable animals were saved.
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Wales Is Coming.

QuxBnc, July PIT is stated that the
PRICE of Wales will visit Canada next year
and make q trip to the Pacific coast over the
Canadian Pacific, visiting the worlds falr
en- route.
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IMPROVEMENT,
Both Compared With Last Sea-
son and In Prospects.

Grain Advancing I'm Spite Of Large
Receipts and Smaller Export-Mer-
chandise Exports Not Greatly In
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Depend on Their Being Experts.
Fio,rEsrEAD. Pa, July 2a-Members OF the
odvisory committee insist that non-union
uen can never run the Homestead mills, b.
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Putting in the New Msn.

Putting in the New Msn.
Tho two steamers Tide and Little Bill made
several trips each from Pittshnrg to Home
stead. each trip taking thirty or forty men
with satchels aud grips and landing them at
the Carnegie mills. The boats were guarded
by a squad of policemen when they left Fits.
burg wharf.
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export Hotels Deserted.

Newport Hotels Deserted.
|, NIwPoRT, R l., July 23.-0wing to the dis
covery of smallpox in q Block Island hotel.
there has been q constant hegira of strangers
and guests from the island, and it is believed
that the hotels Of this resort will be practi-
cally deserted
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THE ISSUES.
Limited to a Narrow Margin
They Are Few

According to cleveland-HisS Speech
Covers Two Of Them-The Tariff
and Proposed Election Laws-De-
nunciation OF Opposing Party.
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Pinkertons to Appsa,

wAszmezox, d C., July 2.!Ths house
judiciary committee has summoned Robert
A. Pinkerton and William Pinkerton to m.
pear before the committee to be questioned
in regard to their police and detective system.
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Missouri Democrats.
The Missouri democrat state convention
nominated w. J. Stone, of Nevada, Mo-, o.
candidate for governor, on the 18th ballot.
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paint wears on and there you are.