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              t. NUHBKB IlftS I Meekly IKOtl f PITTSTON, PA., THURSDAY. APEIL la, 1886. il'fftl CENTS Th cmuU Par WMk counter threats; Mid tliat while I could interfere, it was under Lh-) law which gave me jurisdiction over tbi ♦ntfre order aud not under any particular law. I furthermore explained to you that the spirit of our organization, its genius, was opposed to strikes, and that was the reason why our general convention never enacted any particular legislation I Or the government of them. I also said that the occasion before called for any interference from the general officers, but that the strike would show the necessity for the passage at our next convention of laws that would place Mie subject of strikes under the control of the general executive board of tho general order. When, on Monday, March 29, you sent me the letter marked "personal," you at the same time told a newspaper correspondent that you bad done so. What your motive was in marking yonr letter "personal," and at tho same time informing a representative of i lia press that you bo addrejsed me, I do not know, nor do I question your motive. I feel it to be my duty to let the people soe the letter, which contained nothing of a personal n&taire whatever. There might be people uncharitable enough to say that your intention was to give out tho impression that there was something between you »nd mo which wonld not bear the light of public scrutiny. I have had no such dealings with any mail since the trouble began nor previous to that tiuv. Iam quite willing to allow the matter in yonr own hands, settle every grievance, restore every man to his place .except those who have bean engaged in the destruction of property or who have broken the laws. Will you do this' You can then make rules and agreements with your man waich will forever preclude the possibility of another such a disastrous conflict as this one haa proved Itself to be. forcibly wishd, V" citizens o£ four state* and one territory to be deprived of their RIQHTTtTL *AIL!*Vr »ACtLITIE I. THE WIND'S WORK THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER Orti»f Bis Bimo— far Appointing Jud|« Thus forced, the bowd dCdireotors, prior to mv return, placed t&b matter in Mr. Hoxie's hands by a formal resolution, and that disposition of it has never been changed. You know this well, because you had a correspondence with him on this subject Hence, it was that, when Mr. Turner, secretary of your order, wrote to me on the subject, I fully advised hitd in my letter of March 27, that tho matter had been placed by the board in the hands of Mr. Hoxie, and that I must refer you to him as its continuing representative. At the same time reminded you that a 'standiug advertisement of this company was at that moment inviting its former employes to return to their occustomed posts, and that regardMss of their being or not being members of your order, and regardless also of their individual participation in tho ftiike which your order had recently inaugurated. When, in spite of all this, you desired to seo me personally, I cordially met you, and having put myself in communication with Mr. Hoxie, arranged with him for you the following, which was widely published by you at tho time: TOWN8 SWEPT AWAY AND MANY JMkwn. An Exchange of Compliments Not PEOPLE KILLED. Washington, April IS.—The following is the text of President Cleveland * k-Mrr to Senator Jackson, written on Sundny last, in reference to tha appointment to the judgeship vacated by Judge Baxter1* death: "The applications on behalf of so many people to All the place made vacant by Judge Baiter's death come in so fast that the matter promisee to degenerate into a most unseemly scramble. To avoid this I have determined to send the name of Judge Baxter's successor to the senate, and in the interest of this most important service, and in-a very clear conception of my duty in the matter, I now writo to say to you that you must abandon all the scruples that you entertain and permit me to nominate you to the-vacant plnco. Your reluctance to consent to this nomination, growing out of consideration for other people of your state who desire the place, does you great crgdit and increases my estimate of your value; but you have no right to attempt to control my action or limit my selection in this way, and I am quite willing that other aspirants and their friends qhould know that your nomination is my act and the result of a conviction of what ought to bo done, from which I could not be movedJjy your arguments or by your presentation* of the claims of any. other man. Fu]fy expecting that you will not be insubordinate in the face of a plain duty, I am/ yours truly, "Qaovaa CumcLAJW." * Complimentary. A Fatal Tornado Visits the Northwest and Leaves Death aad Destruction In Its Track—Partial List of the Dead I remain, very truly yours, T. V. Powderly, G. M. W„ K. of U BOTH MEN BID DEFIANCE. and Injured, St. Paul, Minn., April 16.—Yesterday afternoon a tornado struck the city of St. CIou'l, situated about seventy-flve milns north of here on the Mantitoba rai'-oii. Icroling everything in its path, then u-.vo .a a narrow rtrip of prairie and through the town of Sink Rapids. The path of the tornado at St Clond was right between the resident and principal business section of the City. Ho freight depot of the Manitoba company was scattered before the wind like chaff, and every car on the track was sucked in the mighty vortex and demolished. A drenching rain and terrific lightning accompanied the rushing winds, adding to the horror of the situation. Many of the inhabitants seemed to have a premonition of this disaster and sought the safety of their cellars Just In time to escape with their lives. Sensational reports as to the number of killed are current, the most reliable placing the killed at thirty and upward, with as many as fifty or sixty more or less injured. A special train with physicians and medical supplies left here for the scene of desolation. The Law to Be linked on Each Side GOULD'S REPLY. of the Controversy. Viewing the Matter From His Etnnd- point—The Challenge Accepted. N*\v York, April 15.—Tho following if Mr. Gould's reply to Mr. Powderly: New York, April 14, 1886. T. V. Powderly, Esq., G. M. W., K. of L: Dear Sir—At 12 o'clock to-day I received from Mr. William O. McDowell, whom you brought with you to our recent conferences, a letter, in which he says: "By yesterday's mail I received a letter, written by Mr. Powderly, addressed to you, inclosed in a letter addressed to me. With this I hand you the letter addressed to you by Mr. Powderly, and a copy of Mr. Powderly's letter to me inclosing the same." The following is a copy of the letter Mr. McDowell sent me, as coming from you: The New York Meeting Reviewed—Each A ceases the Other of Not Keeping Faltli In Their Alleged Agreement. Capital and Labor to Measure Swords In the Courts of Justice—The Issue Sqaarely Stated. New York, April 15. —The following manifesto was written by Grand Master Workman Powderly: Scranton, Pa., April 11, 1880, I 2 o'clock a. m. f To Jay Gould, Esq., President Missouri "New York, March 30, 188ft "Mnrtin Irons, 8t Louis: "Have boon in conference all day, with the result that Vim-President Hoxie agreos to the following: Willing to meet a committee of our employes without discrimination, who are actually at work in the Service of the company at the time such committee is appointed, to adjudicate with them any grievances that they may have. Have your executive committee order men to return to work, and also select a special committee from the employes of the Missouri Pacific to wait on Mr. Hoxie to adjust any difference. Do this as quietly as possible. Board will leave for St. Louis to-morrow. Pacific railroad, New York "General Assembly, Order op | "Knights of Labor of America. D "Office of General Master Workman ) Dear Bib—The events of the past fortyeight hours must have demonstrated to  the absolute necessity of bringing this terrible struggle in the southwest to a speedy termination. You have the power, the authority and the means to bring the strike to an end. I have done everything in my power to end the strike. The gentlemen associated with me on the general executive board of the g of Labor have done the same. Everything connected with honor and manhood has been done in the interest of peace. No false notion of pride or dignity has swayed us in our dealings with you oi" the gent!emen assodated with you. In that conference with you on Sunday, March 38, I understood you to mean that arbitration would bo agreed to. The only method of arbitration that was discussed was in ilia with that suggested in the letter which I sent to you in the name of our board the day previous. There was nothing particularly agreed upon, a? you well know. You ■aid that in arbitrating the matter the damages sustained by the company during the strike ought to reoeive consideration. I said to yon that it would not be the part of wisdom to bring that question up in the settlement of tM strike. When I called on you again evening you had prepared, as the result of your understanding of the morning's interview, a letter which you intended to give to me. That letter included a telegram to be sent to Mr. Hoxie, and in that telegram you said that the damages sustained by the company would be a proper subject for the arbitration board to discuss. This latter part of the letter or telegram you agreed to strike off after we had talked the matter over for some time, and I left yon as you were about to go to your room to rewrite •the letter which yon afterwards placed in the hands of Mr. McDowell to be given to me. The statement which you have since then made to the effect that you had prepared that Setter before I called is not quite correct, or If you did have it prepared, you changed it after we had talked the matter over for some time. This, I believe, you will admit to bp true. In the conference held between the members of our executive board and the directors of the Missouri Pacific company on March 80 you said to me that you understood me to say that the jQen along your lines would be ordered back to work at once, they having violated the rules of our organisation. I then reiterated the statement which I made to you, and' I now repeat it: The men out along the lines of your railways to shine upon iuy every transaction. I have nothing to conceal. You can settle this strike. ItC longer continuance rests with you and you alone. Every act of violence, every drop of blood that may bo shed from this time forth must be laid at your door. The Kuights of Labor were not founded t,o promote or shield wrong-doing, and to-day the order of the Knights of Labor stands between your property and ruin. We are willing to absolve the men along your railways from their allegiance to our order; we leave that to themselves We will not allow any claims which the order may have on them to stand between them and their restoration to their former positions. The order of the Knights of Labor asks of no man to remain a member if it is not to his interest to do so. You may deal with them as citizens if you will We will surrender our right to claim these man as members if they wish, but we will not surreflrter our right to see this affair thoroughly investigated. You havo said that the order of the Knights of Labor was a conspiracy, a secret menace, etc. I am willing, as the chief officer, to lay everything connected with our order bare to the world if you will, on the other hand, lay open 'to the public the means and 'methods whereby you have piled up the wealth which you control, and allow the FULLEST LIGHT POSSIBLE "Bcranton, Pa., April 13, 1886. "My dear Mb. McDowill : I inclose you a letter which you are to read and deliver to the man for whom it is intended. I do not care whether you deliver it in person or through the medium of another; only ask that it be placed in his hands. If you have succeeded in effecting a settlement with him, do not give it to him. If you think there is a prospect of an immediate settlement, do not give It to him; butifBuchis not the caso, then I want it placed In his hands. Allow him to either consent or make a reply. If he con sentw to an honorable settlement, then the letter will never Bee the light of day; but if he does not so act, then it will be published to the world, and from the time he opens up the ball in a legal way we will continue tD wage the battle with him. His wealth cannot save him if this fight is begun. Let no one know of the existence of this letter until after S o'clock of the day you deliver it; then il h e makes no reply, let it go to the world. Let him know the limit of time allowed. 1 sincerely hope that there will be no necessity for its publication. Hoping for the best, 1 remain very truly yours, The tornado began about 8 o'clock in the basin of the Masonic cemetery, forming a whirlwind 100 feet in diameter. It took almost every tree in. the circle from the ground or twisted it off at the trunk. Great stones were torn up and carried along with the wind. Moving slowly along in a norteasterly direction it wrecked the Catholic chapel and several houses. In its course across the prairie adjoining the town it completely demolished John Schwarts's large brick house, and scattered fifty or more smaller frame houses like so many feathers. In most oases nothing was left to mark the site of the dwellings but the cellars. The prairies were strewn with timber, furniture and clothing. Numerous cars loaded with freight were blown half a mile, and the rails wrenched from the track. Nkw Havkn, April 15.—All thp officers of the New Havon Typographical union and s6me of the members have been enjoined fey the superior court, upon the petition of counsel for The Journal and Courier Publishing company, from further engaging In the boycott recently declared, or in any way injuring the business of the company, under a penalty of 16,000. The Courier claims in Its petition to the court that its business has been injured to the extent of t'J.OUO in three days.  Boyeotters Enjoined."- "Frederick Turher, Secretary. Ever since then Mr. Hoxie has stood ready to receive any and all persons in the actual employ of this company, as a committee or otherwise, and confer upon or arbitrate any matter'of difference or complaint, either between the company and themselves, or between the company and its late employes, and, for that matter, between the company nhd anybody else. Shot toy an Old ltfan. Locklahd, O., April 15.—Bnrglars trlod to get in Alonzo Kendall's residence, whru Mr. Kendall, who is 70 years of age, hearing the noise, got his shotgun and fired through the window with telling effeot One of the burglars dropped dead, with the oontents of the shotgun in the upper part of the head. The others escaped. The dead man was about 50 years old, and in appearance a tramp.  No such committee or individual employe has, so far as known to me, ever made any such application. In this connection it will be remembered that they left, not because of any complaint whatever of this company's treatment of themselves, but only because of the company's refusal to comply with their demand that this company refuse to do what the law requires in the way of interchange of business with another company, with which some of your order had a quarrel.The storm passed the limits of the town just west of Lieutenant Governor Oilman's residence, killing several horses. It crossed the Mississippi at the Sauk Rapida wagon bridge, which It demolished. It hers widened to 600 fsst and leveled Stanton's grist mill. From there it swept through the center of the town, taking the best business part of it, including the court house, hotel, public school and every important business building in town except Wood's store The village is virtually wiped-, out, four-fifths of the buildipgs being leveled. The fatalitiee in St Cloud, though great, are not equal in number to those of Sank Rapids. In every house most allthe inmates wars more or les hurt. "T. V. Powdkrly. "To W. O. McDowell, Esq., New York." Change Cam. I thus received your letter to me, dated Scran ton, Pa., April 11, 1886, at the same time and by the same agency that I received your foregoing letter of instructions to Mr. McDowell. Cincinnati, April 15.—Railway men from all parts of the United States have met here to arrange the general time schedule of all southern, western and central roads. It has been the custom of late for these general conventions to meet and so arrange schedules that passengers can always oonnect at transfer points. Under the old system every road arranged Its own time, and consequently connections were a matter of ckance. to pats judgment on the two and say which is the conspiracy. Do you accept the challenge? You have instructed your legal adviser to proceed against every man connected with the Knights of Labor-for the damages sustained since the strike began. Two weeks ago I said: "Do not do this;" today I say begin at once, lay claims for damage* in every court within whose jurisdiction a Knight exists. Proceed at once, and In every state where you can recover damages do so if the law will sustain you in it It is just and right that it should be so. We are willing to face you before law; we will fight you with no other weapon. For every violation of the law of state or nation, we will enter suit against you, and in this.crusade against you do not understand that we mean to persecute. On the contrary, we wish to see the law vindicated. If you have at all times obeyed the "law in your dealings, in the methods by whiob you have acquired your immense fortune, then it Is time that the many offences with which you are charged should be refuted. You have remained silent under many a damaging charge of injuring the state. We will be your avengers; if you have been wronged we will let it be known to the world through the modium of the court of justice, and let me say right here that no money will buy a verdict at the hands of the courts. TRIBUNAL OF PUBLIC OPINION In the meantime this company has, of necessity, gone on to extend employment to such of those persons, who recently and without even alleged provocation, left its service, as saw fit to return. THE ANIMUS AND PURPOSE of your letter to me cannot be fully under stood without knowing the conterijs of that one. I was peremptorily notified at the same time that I must answer your letter by S o'clock to-day, and I was graciously given until that hour to respond. These returning employes have been very many, and in this way its rolls are already nearly, if not quite, as full as its shops and equipment, crippled by acts of violence attendant upon recent action of your order, can employ. Mr. Hoxie advises me that every such person applying to be received back has been employed, unless believed to have token part in recent acts of violence. The dead at St Cloud, so far as known, are as follows: Nice Jumann, Mrs. Weisman and little girl; a son, 4 yews old, of 0. Wertk; son, 7 years old, of Frank Geinskoffsin; Mrs. Stein, a widow; son, 4 years old, of P. Waldorf: Shortrldge, a young railroad man; his brother William had both legs smashed, since amputated; —— Van Hoeeen, an unknown railroadman; two young children of Mr. Ceris; baby of August Knoll. Dead at Sauk Rapids: J. Berg, merchant, and two children; John Kenard, county auditor; George Lindley, county treasurer; two children of C. G. Wood, merchant; Abner Steyr, fatally hart; ohild of P. Carpenter, clerk of the court; P. Beaupre, judge of probate court, badly hurt; Edgar Hill, president of the German-American National The Diamond Field. Your letter to me embraces two subjects: One relating to me personally, and the other to the relation of the Knights of Labor to • railroad company of which I am the president, and, in some degree, the representative of Its public and private duties. I shall refer to the first, subject vary briefly. The circumstances above given, under which your letter was delivered, as well as its tenor and spirit, place the purpose in writing it beyond any fair doubt. It would seem to be an official declaration of the Knights of Labor that the; had determined to pursue me personally un less the Missouri Pacific company should yield to its demands In what you call thC strike on that road. Nkw York, April 15.—The games yesterday resulted as follows: At Brooklyn—Brooklyn, 11; Princeton, 3. At IWw York—New York, 14; Newark, 9. At Philadelphia—Philadelphia, 4; Athletic, a. This company still stands ready to make good in the fullest sense its agreement as ex-' pressly set forth. At Baltimore—Be ltd mors, 5; Boston, 9. In the face of all this, -you notify me that unless by 6 o'clock I personally ooasent to something—precisely what I do not see—then personal consequtnoes, of a sort vaguely expressed, but not hard to understand, will, at the hand of order, be visited upon me. Hah Marcos, Tex., April 1S.-H*. number at ichool boy* quarreled over a game of cards ai Staples' store, and Polk Edwards, aged 17, fatally atabbtd Ed BttftOeld, aged 30, and sacaped. K . ff .. Ttkaa School Boys. Let me again remind yon that it is an American citiaen whom you and your order thus propose to destroy. The contest is not between your order and me, but between your order and the laws of the land. Tour order has already defied those laws in preventing by violence this company from operating itSToad. Tou held than that this company should not operate its road under conditions prescribed by law, bat only under conditions prescribed by you. You now declare, in effect, that I hold my individual property and rights, not as other mon hold theirs, but only at the peril of your A T«xm QaarreL CAN BE ORDERED BACK In answer to these personal throats I beg to say that I am yet a From Sauk Rapids the storm struck Riot's station, Beaten oounty, demolishing the village and killing or injuring nearly the entire population. The wins are down, and no definite information is obtainable from there. Eastland, Tex., April 15.—In a quarrel between Thomas and John Ellison and W. O, Hardin Thomas Ellison was killed, Hardin fatally injured and Job? Ellison slightly wounded to work, but If they are given to understand that they are deserted, that we do not take any Interest in them, it will not in any way mend matters; on the contrary it will make things worse. There are along the roads oat there a great many men who have no regard for orgnlzation or law, men of hardy spirit, energy and daring. Such men as have left the east and have taken up . their homes out in a wild country such as .that is, -will not submit so quietly sb the men they hare left behind in the east They are apt to dc rasher tilings than tbey would do elsewhere, and I have no doubt we have some of 'them in our order; in fact, my experience vwith the men of tjiat vast section leads me to think that the men on both sides out there are more dare-devilish than they are in the «ast kven the business men of that country are of that stamp of character. Both you and Mr. Hopkins heard me make that statefaieut, and X believe the latter agreed that was his experience also. The danger of the I am past 49 years of age, was born at Roxbury, Delaware oo unty, in this state. ] began life in a lowly way, and by industry, temperance and attention to my own busi ness, have been successful, perhaps beyond the measure of my deserts. If, as you say, 1 am now to be destroyed by tia Knights of Labor, unless I will sink my manhood, so bC it Fortunately I have retained my early habits of industry. My friends, neighbors and business associates know me well, and 1 am quite content to leave my personal record in their hands. If any of them have aught to complain of I will be only to glad too submit to any arbitration. If such parties, or any of them, wish to appoint the Knights oi Labor, or you, as their attorney, such appointment is quite agreeable to me, but until such an election's made it,will naturally occur to you that any interference on your part in my personal affairs is, to say the least, quite gratuitous. FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN. ins oceanic MCr A terrific thunder storm passed over 8t Paul and Minneapolis about 0 o'clock and a heavy hailstorm followed, but was of short duration. In fact one storm cloud after another has swept across the state ever since, and the rainfall has been heavy. Near Fergui Falls a house was struck by lightning and CI C. Rogan and his hired man were severely Injured. New York, April 15.—Arrived: Steamerj Devonia, from Glasgow; Labrador, from Havre, and Wyoming from Liverpool. There are people who say that this struggle is the beginning of the war between capital and labor. Th at statement is false. This certainly means war, but it is a war between legitimate capital, honest enterprise and honest labor on the one hand and illegitimate wealth on the other hand. This is a w ar in which we court the fullest investigation of our acts. Do you dare to do the same? Washington, April 15.— Fcfr the ? riddle Atlantic states, increasing cloudiness and local rains, stationary temperature, winds generally southeasterly. Weather Indications. LETTING LOOSE IRREVOCABLY after 5 o'clock, your order upon me. If this is true of this company and of me, it is true of all other men and companies. If so, you and your secret order are the law and an American citizen is such only in name. Already for weeks your order have, In your attack upon this company, not hesitated to disable it by violence from rendering its duty to the public and from giving- work and paying wages to men at least three times your own number, who, working as they were by your siile, were at least deserving of your sympathy.,.. . ; CJJW .J# j . The storm is the worst known in the stats «inc6 1888, when Rochester and Elgin were devastated by a tornado. This war means no further strike; no shedding of blood. It is a war in which every business man, every commercial man, every professional man, every workinginan will be invited to enlist It will not be a war upon the innocent, and the battlefield upon which it will be fought out will be before the courts of law, and that which makes lawpublic opinion. There will be no mobs in this supreme hour to silence any man's opinion. No converts will be made by physical force. "That flag which floats over press or mansion at the bidding of a mob, disgraces both victor and victim," and under such a flag as that we will not wage the battle, but this battle of the people against monopoly may as well be fought now as ten years from now, and what field so eminently proper in which to flght it out as bofore the courts? Let us know whether laws were made to be obeyed or not, and if they were not so framed, then the people must make laws that will be obeyed. No man, whether he be rich or whether he be the poorest of the poor, shall, in future, Bhirk the responsibility of his acts and shield himself behind the courts. It was to see that the laws were obeyed that the order of the Knights of Labor was founded, and if the day has come to make the trial, so let it be. I do not write this letter to you either in the spirit of FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. • A Quiet Day Among Wall Street flpecn- FROM RAIL TO WATER. N*W York, April 11—Money easy at 3 per cent. Exchange quiet at *4.87KC»4.tt»4 Governments Arm. Currency Gs, 127% bid; 4s, coup., lJ6*Dla; 4D$s, coup., 112H bid. 2 F-i: * ij 7 } The stock market opened flrni'anil fractionally higher, uurl during Che early dealing* w«f firms but shortly before the first call there was a decided pressure to sell Pacific Mail,.and under Ite lead values declined to 1 per cent. After midday the tone was firmer and the decline recovered. The market closed extremely dull. lators. TWO Coaches Kan Into m River With Lincoln, Neb., April northbound train an the Republican Valley railroad, running from Omaha to Marysville, Kan., was wreaked yesterday near Oketo, fifteen miles south of Beab-ioe, Neh., and two coaches were thrown from the track into Blue river, where the water was about six feet deep. The train was rounding a curve near a bridge when one of the rails moved and the train was thrown in the water. Everyone on board was hurt more or less seriously. A 4-year-old daughter of Mj-s. Smith, of Oketo, was killed, and her infant was so'injured that it will die. The injured are G. A. Grasscnp, H. A. Koster, A. Raphael, slightly; Paul Smith and Mrs. Ida Smith, severely; Jason Moreledge, Harry Benner, George Heath, J. M. Conn, Clinton Russell, Oscar Russell, Frederick Hysenbach and E. H. Alden were all severely bruised, and some of them sustained serious sprains. Fortunately the oars burst open when they went down the bank and enabled the occupants to escape from tin water. Fatal Results. Since I was 19 years of age I have been in the habit of employing, in my various enterprises, large numbers of persons, probably at times as higH as 50,090, distributing oi'teu $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 per month, to different pay rolls. It would seem a little strange that during all these years the difficulty with the Knights of Labor should be my first. Any attempt to connect me personally with the late strike on the southwestern roads, or any responsibility therefor, is equally gratuitous, as you well know. It is true 1 am the president of the Missouri Pacific, but when this strike occurred I was far away on the oc:an, and beyond the reach of telegrams. I went away relying on your promise made to me last August, that there should be no strike on that road, and that if any difficulties should arise you would come frankly to me with tbem. Mr. Hopkins, the vice president of this company, who was present and cognizant of this arrangement with you, in my absence, sent you promptly, when the present strike broke out, the following telegrams:was also discussed, and I said to you that it would not spread; that an effort had been made to have the men of the Union Pacific take a part in it, but that the Knights of Labor on that road had a standing agreement with the management of the road that there was to be no trouble or strike until the last effort to effect a settlement had failed, and not then until the court of last resort had been reached. When I made that statement Mr. Hopkins remarked that they had better Btrike then, for if they did not the Union Pacific would not much longer have sufficient money to pay their employes. The impression made on me was that you would be pleased to spe a strike take place on the Union Pacific. TD»is, I believe, covers the chief points of discussion. I did not hear either you or Mr. Hopkins say that the present trouble out along your roads would not be arbitrated with the men who were not at work. It was my firm belief when I left you that night that you meant to have the entire affair submitted to arbitration at the first possible moment That belief is shared in by Mr. McDowell, who was present during the entire interview. When you sent the telegram to Mr. Hoxie, you sent it as President of the Missouri Pacific Railroad company. You sent it as the chief sends his message to an inferior offieer, and it-meant as much to a sensible man as the most imperative order could possibly mean. When I, as the chief officer of the Knights of Labor, send a message sucji as that, it is understood to be my wishes, and those wishes are respected by the subordinate offieer to whom they are sent It is not his place to put a different construction on tBCab, and give them STRJKX SPREADLNQ Having pushed this violence beyond even the great forbearance of the public, and fomd in this direction cause to hesitate, you now turn upon me and propose that the wrongs that you have hitherto' inflicted on the public shall now culminate in an attack upon an individual. W. U. Telegraph Del. A Hudson  Adams Express...... 145 Del., Lack. & W... U. S. Express 62 Denver — C., C./C. A 1 51* Erie iKi New York Central... 108H Kansas A Texas. New Jersey Central.. Lake Shore.. Illinois Central 130 Lake Erie A west Ohio Central. 1# Morris &.E«s-x.... Mich1 gan Central.... « Northwest  Northern Pacific 36)4 Do. pref,  Do/pref 07H Ontario A West... Central Pacific.~.... 42 Ohio A Mis*.  Union PacificPacific Mall  Missouri Pacific lus Beading  Texas Pacific 109$ Rock Isfand  Metropolitan L 166 St. Pauh  Alton4T.Il.;.—'.. 4014 wab.ish  Canada Southern..,.. 40* Buft&Cj«lacy  Chicago A AitOn 141 Oregon Trans— Canada Pacific 65H Ore. B'y A NaT. Ches. A Ohio. 11 West Shore  Prloes olesed as follows: ;o« Til •J-*6 In this, as I have said, tho real issue is between you and the laws of the land. It may be, before you are through, that thoso laws will efficiently advise you that even I, as an individual citizen, am not beyond their earo. Very respectfully, Jay Qould. J 40 .iu COMMENT ON GLADSTONE. Views of Leading Frenchmen on the . 8* 1134% Paris. April 15.—In an Interview M. Barthelemy St. llilau'e says he trusts that Mr. Gladstone's Irish scheme will be rejected. If he hjmsult were an Irishman he would try to tighten the union instead of to break up the body which gave splendid driving power to national genius, which had shown itself In a long series of unique and glorious' achievements. The substitution of money lenders for landlords would be an eviL Statesmen now more than Mpr ought to hesitate to strain the national Credit Campetition with America would In the long run be a benefit, but it might also produce a long and difficult crisis, which the nations whose fiscal resources were the least crippled could best surmount. -- I'reuDier's Flan. .. SOU 141 WX I General N*w York, April 14.—FLOUll—Cloeed quiet, With prices si ghtly In the buyer*! fefror. Minnesota ex tra, 43.15d5.2U: city mill extra, 94.6004.60, for West Indies; Ohio extra, *8.1505.30.3 Southern Hour closed steady at unchanged figures; common to choice extra, iatfcKWao. WHEAT—Option# were moderately active. In the ■ early dealings prices declined \i to ff*. on favorable  crop reports from the. west, but this was more than ,y% reversed late in the day, and prices closed M to J*c. A higher* Spot lots closed steady and unchanged. W Spot sales of NoM red state at t9e.; No.* 2 do. at 91 JjJc.j Na J white at 91 cc.; ungraded winter *ed at 87*Mc.; Na 3 na winter at tl00)(c.-, end ungraied wh"te at dC^essj&a&k. srsss flfiMtarft amlx*d, 1UJ. 4&**«Ko.; da, Jrae,4B)te.; ANGER OR REVENGE. "New York, March C, 1886, "T. V. Powderly, Soranton, Pa: Hackittotoww, N. J., April 15.—The coroner's jury has brought in a verdict that Matilda Smith came to her death at the hands of persons unknown. Munich and Haring were held to bail as witnesses in the sum at $500 each. ' K. 8. McCracken, proprietor of the American house, went on the bond for Munich, and John B. Siliker, liveryman, did a like office for Haring. The Murder »t Matilda Smith. For you, personally, I have no dislike. I believe that if allowed to follow your impulses in this matter you would have had the strike ended ere this. Those who advise you do not mingle with the people. They do not care for the people. "Mr. Hoxie telegraphs that that the Knights Labor o to our road have struck and refuse to allow any freight trains run, saying they have no grievances, but are only strking because ordered to do so. If there are any grievances we would like to talk it over with you. We understood you to promise that no strike would be ordered without consultation. You,have been warned that your life is in danger. Pay no attention to such talk. No man who haa the interest of bis country at heart would harm a hair of your head, but the system which reaches out on all sides, gathering in the millions of dollars of treasure and keeping them out of the legitimate channels of trade and commerce, must die, and the men whosn money is invested in the enterprises which stock gambling has throttled must make common cause with those who have been denied the right to earn enough to provide thrf merest necessaries of life for home and family. "A L. Hopkins." ' "Philadelphia, March 8, 1886, A. L Hopkins, Secretary M. P, R. R, New Washington, April 15.—The house vote on the contested election case of Hurd vs. Romeis, of Ohio, stood infavor of Hurd 106 against 168 to retain Romeis, its present incumbent. A large number of Democrats voted for the latter. Hnrd Defeats. Wife and Husband Dead. York "Have telegraphed west for particulars. Papers nay strike caused by discharge of man named Hull. Can be be reinrtited pending investigation? T- V. Powdjshly." "New York, March 8,1880, "T. V. Powderly: Salamanca, N. Y., April 15.—A few years ago Vernon Morely, a resident of Jamestown, lost his wife by death. On the same day Mrs. Bailey, of Villenova, Chautauqua county, buried her husband. A year or so later Sloretey met Mrs. Bailey, and they were subsequently married. Morely removed to Villenova. A few days ago he died. On tho night of his death his wife insisted on all the househittd-leevteg- her alaee tor a time with the body** herhusband. An hoar or so later oneof the family entered the room. Mrs. Morely sat by the side of theooffln, dead in her chair. Morley's remains were interred by the side oTUe first *6* in the Jamestown oewetery, Mrs. Mattur was buried by the tar first ftmkMd is the Villeaova grmmfttir -- a* lyimxcxnx .« OATS—Options were heavy and quiet, closing ban ly steady at a slight dec lne. 8pot lots closed steady, but JCc. lower. Spot sales of Na 1 white state at tfo., and Ka 2 do. at tSfcfic.; No. 2 mixed. May, 86c.; da, June, «%c. RYE—Dull; western, 60#62*a, state, 60000c. BARLEY-Nominal. PORK—Doll, but steady; old mm, $9.50® 10; new da, fiaoo* a75. HIS OWN INTERPRETATION Bis dtrty is to obey the spirit of the instructions. The man in power need net be an autocrat in order to have his wishes respected. "I would like to see it done," comee with as great a force from the man in authority as "I must have it done." That was the Idea that I entertained when I left your house that night. I also explained to yoathat toe men who had entered upon the strike bad not violated any law of the order in so doing; that while I thought it would have been better if they had laid their grievances before the general executive board before yet there was nothing in our laws to command them to do so. 1 said that a district assembly of the Knights of Labor bot e t e s m e i elation to the general assembly of which 1 was the chief officer that on« ot the states of the American Union bore til 4J»o general government of the United States, Contented Workmen. When I say to you that wo will meet you in the courts, I do not speak rashly or inadvisedly. I have taken counsel from the best legal minds of the United States. We are "Thanks for your message and suggestion. Hall was employed by the Texas and Pacific, and not by us. That property is in the hands of the United States court, and we have no oontrol whatever over the rece'vers or over employes. Wo have carried out the agreement made last spring in every respect, and the present strike is unjust to us and unwise for you. It is reported here Uiat this movement is the result of Wall street influence on the part of those short of the securities likely to be affected, A. L. Hopkins." ftumn, Tex., April 15.—Of the 1S0 man working in the shops hare, seventy-eight are old employes, some of whom ware in the strike, They all seem contented, and no more trouble is expected. doll, oaah,tL17Ml 4#*U. •«»#C" U July if mil Tf[ auaxft—DUl, but tmijt OK to (nod nftilng. BIM). BPTTWI-nil Md In ths buyer's favor; western, 15fC632o.: state. lB034c. COTimg «r—iy, bolwesfct stole, WKe.j Westin fair daoaadt ttato. 13l*»iSc.! Under m ValU** Wall. before the courts, and now await your action in the matter. This is no threat. I play no game of bluff or chance. I speak for 000,000 organized men who are ready to pay out the last farthing in order that justice may prevail You have it in your power to make friends of these men by acting the part of the man, by taking this matter in your own hands. Will you do so and end this strife in the interest of humanity and our common country I It is your duty to brush aside every obstacle, assert your authority, and take this PREPARED TO FACE YOU Auburn, N, Y., April 16.— An aged laborer named Terrenes Dunlevy was instantly killed by the falling wall of the Pi limps roller rink, which is being removed to make way tor a street extension. _ . Ut. Monk MMtoi :«! _ . , ... . ■ -M I Chicago. April U-,CMtle—R oelpta, «,»» head! A Democratic Ticket. ,, .Wmwni* l,«)t mwltot ste«Uri uupuliig t«r«. N»w York, April 15.-The Sun prinft th. following from Tha National Free Prw; ijJow) head; lUMifntg, 7,quo; market dnii and 6a For president: ffnnuifl J. Randall, of Peon* UrtM rioghand mfcaitf, *04-*** paeklnK arid'sh!^ This dispatch you never answered. Smallpox ia IllluoU. apRifiGMtwt, JJJa., April 16.— ■ serious outbreak of smallpox at (Jtumi, White county. The .dfceaae was introduced by a tramp. Three doutto hav® tbus far occurred. One new caae wis reported, and it i£ feared there are others In the gurrCuwftift country. 'i'hiB corre pondence places the continuance of the strike on your shoulders. You sat still anl was silent after Mr. Hopkin*' urgent' appeal, and allowed the strike to go on; allowed the company's property to be