Evening Gazette

              )■ |H \H r 1H- D' IHr \H \ !■ I !■ VB ■ I Jr I^B. • -v, mp £ A ' k V' HO !.:tulltlll«. I Weekly blDblMi«a tBSO ) PITTSTON, PA., SATURDAY. APRIL24, 1886. I JL WO CKNTS J Ten mui **ar WMk C0OTB01HSEL. FINANCIAL MATT1R8. AN INSANE MOTHER POWDERLY AND THI PRESIDENT. POLITICS AND LABOR WAS HE MURDERED! The Striking Lake Shore Switchmen Be* (Nda Outlook u KtfwM to ■"*■ street's AftMf, New Ydtat, April 84.—Special telagranM to Bradatreat's from leading trade ceatsn show moderate gains In the movamwrtof general merchandise. The greatest activity, relatively, is at Tan—s City, Detroit and Cincinnati. At eastern centers trade is irregular, but generally of moderate volume. The most depressing factor in the trade Etuation is the uncertainty attending the attitude of and outcome of existing demands of organized labor. Makes Bloody Work With an Ax in The Lsloi Message Good aa far as II Uaexplalbed Absanoa of • Wllllainaburft tume Work at Lut. Her Home. Washington, Apr* 94.—Tha president*! message on the labor QMltiOB oooMiomd more or lees coaamaat hare, not only in political circles but everywhere. Senator Back Is outspoken in praies of tka president's plan. He says if he oonld ha would adopt it and name ex-Senators Thurman, McDonald and Conkllng as the arbitrating commissioners, and give them 910,000 a year apiece. Such a board would oomauuad tha respect of all parties. Senator Van Wyck thinks the president's idea a good one and that II adopted good results will be sure to follow. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE STIRS UP STRIFE IN THE HOUSE. New York, April 24.—Thestartline rumor that Henry Wintgen, the trusted booltfce*per for Dick 8c Meyer, and the former's i.epbew, had been murdered by strikeri last night created Intense excitement in Williamsburg. Bookkeeper. CHICAGO MERCHANTS INTERVENE CHILDREN SLAIN WHILE ASLEEP. nntterworth Thinks It Was Designed as a Deeoy Duek to Cateh Vote»—Oib»on Calls Upon the Republicans to Hepen't of Twenty Tears' Bins. The I.ost Coupling Pins Found, the Ob- Htrurted Tracks Speedily Cleared and the Knmble of Wheels Is Heard In the Mrs. Fannie Smith Faaeles Her Home It was known that during the day Wiut;vn had drawn a revolver on a crowd of strikers, ind fierce threat* of vengeance had bean aeard at the time. When he failed to reach his home at the usual time last night his family became alarmed. They soon heard he had been arrested for drawing his revolver. The strikers had caused the arrest, and compelled a supposed special deputy sheriff to make it tmder penalty of death. Will be Lost, aad Takes Effective Measures to Prevent Her Children From lleooralng Homeless — Bessie Washington, April M.—When the predd«nt's labor menage was read before the house, Mr. Springer moved to refer it to the committee on labor, while M . Kut.'rnorth (CM desired Its reference to committee of the whole. The latter motion was lost by 77 to 147. In defending his reference, Mr. Butterworth contended that the matter was important enough to receive full debate at the hands of the house. He felt the president had segregated the labor element as a class by his language, and plaoed them apart from the great body of citizenship. This was demagogical. Geny tlemen here could not elevate labor; God had done that already. It was a device to catch votes, not by asking what was best forlabor, but what the workingmen could be induced to believe was the best for them. The bill which passed here a few days ago was a hollow mockery and a sham. It was not even Intended to do anything for the laboring man; it was a mere tub to a whale—a deliberate purpose to catch votes. He criticised the want of consideration given to the arbitration bill by the committee on labor. There had been no effort to ascertain the facts. If a member secured fifteen minutes to speak on the bill he devoted eight minutes to abusing Jay Gould and six minutes to abusing corporations and then surrendered the other minute, being unequal to the task of suggesting any remedy. l.uke City—The New Men Paid OK The New York stock market has been dull and spiritless. The existing situation induces caution and delay. The gold shipments this week in the direction of Paris have been thought to be indicative of a further docrease in the surplus bank reserve, Money on call has Accordingly ruled higher, though in fair supply. Interior domestic money markets report a moderate improvement in mercantile collections. The general industrial situation is more aggravated than a week ago, there being at least 43,000 striken reported among bituminous ooal miners, and railway, textile, boot and shoe and miscellaneous employes, as compared with 81,000 on April 18. The principal increases an among street railway, sewing machine and miscellaneous industrial employes. Refined sugar is one cent higher; owing to a strike at the Brooklyn refineries. Raw sugar has felt none of the advance, Spring wheat planting is progressing rapidly under favoring weather, with a probable tdtal acreage equal to that of last year. The movement of dry goods is moderate. There is a decreased tobaooo acreage in Virginia owing to low prices, also on account of damage from floods and bugs. Crop prospects in seed and western leaf districts are favorable. The Louisville market is drooping. Pleads In Vain for Life. Chicago, April 24.—After nearly a week's cessation the striking switchmen of tho Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad resumed work yesterday afternoon. In an hour all the available switch engines and the whole day crew of the strikers were hard at work, while at 6:80 the first freight trains started since Saturday of last week left tha company's yard at twelfth street Whose victory it was could not be ascertained, and will perhaps never be known with any degree of exaotnrflH. The railroad officials ai e very emphatic in their assertions that they have not made the slightest concession to the strikers, and the latter insist that the agreement upon which the resumption of work was based is in-every way satisfactory to them. At the lame time they admit that none of the ra'lroad officials in authority slgrud the agreement Kryport, N. J., April 31—On the back road between Keyport and Port Monmouth, nestling among a few old trees and cloee by a running brook, In the little village of Harmony, a suburb of Middletown, stands a small two-story, pitched-roofed farm house. In this house Mrs. Fanny Smith, the wife of J. M Smith, a farmer, in a fit of insanity deliberately attacked her four children with an ax, killing one outright and 'njuringthe others so badly that there is little hope of their recovery. The two prominent Knights of Labor in town, Messrs. Powderly and McDowell, both say It is good so far as it goes, but it dose sot go far enough. Mr. Powderly said: "It is not just what I want though. I want a department of labor. I don't believe in doctoring these troubles. I want to go to the root of the disease. Strikes are bat medicine. They relieve the patient for a time, but his sickness comes back on him. The matter must be seriously and carefully studied. We need a department of labor to have records on file to make a careful and constant study of the labor question and be ready to act and recommend action at any time. Arbitration should be conducted from this department" The present's idea of having a permanent commission of arbitration he liked better than the bill that came from the house labor committee, which provides for arbitrators to be appointed in each particular case. Hen ware sent to all the police stations, but they failed to find Wintgen. Ugly rumors were heard to the effect that he had been seen struggling near the river front with a party of strikers, who were beating him with sugar barrel staves. Mr. Dick, fearing that harm has come to him, sent armed men along the river front and to the strikers' resort to ascertain, if possible, whether or no he has been murdered.Ever since the birth of her second dhild, about thirteen year* ago, Mrs. Smith has suffered occasionally with deep fits of melancholia. At that time her 'disorder was so marked that she attempted To kill herself, and she was placed temporarily in the Trenton insane assylum. About six months ago she had an attack of malaria. She was run down also from overwork. Added to this she was oppressed with a constant fear that the interest of a mortgage on the house, which is the old family hotneetead, would not be paid, and that her seven young children would become homeless. This so preyed upon her mind that it finally determined her to kill her children rather than see them starve. Thinking that a change might benefit her, her husband sent her to the house of her brother, George W. Hopping, in Elizabeth. Here she stayed until ten days ago, when she became so excited and restless that it was thought best to allow her to go home again. After her return nothing unusual Was noticed in her actions, except that she was constantly 1 ftlses and melanoholy. It never entered her hosband's head that she would attempt anything desperate. Wlntgen's family are In great distress over his sudden disappearance. AN OPEN SWITCH Causes a Disastrous Crash at Green During la*D ldght the principal scene of what littla axciteioont the strike caused—the Forty-first street crossing—had been deserted. It had bean given out that operations would begin at 8:30 a. m. The crowd began to assoluble at that hour, and by noon was as large as on any day during the strike. Good order prevailed, with perhaps a little more hilarity on the part of the strikei * and their immediate friends, because remarks that the company would "give in," or at least consent to some arrangement favorable to the strikers, were flying thick and fast The men were myte reticent than ever, and of the leading' railroad officials none were on the ground. The executive committee of the strikers was in permanent Ression from 8 o'clock till noon. At atout 11 o'clock all the strikers except a few guards were called to the hall, where they remained until 1:90 p. m. in informal gathering. At that time the two leading officers of the Switchmen's union, accompanied by County Commissioner McCarthy and William 8. Btahl. ot the executive committee, returned from the city in a carriage which had evidently been driven at a break-neck pace, the horses being covered with foam. At once the doore of the hall were closed to all outsiders, but soon tumultuous cheers from within were heard at the tracks, where the crowd took them up. Island. Mr. McDowell's recommendation is that aa executive department with a cabinet minister at its head should be created, and that the control of external navigation or the mercantile shipping Interest, now held by the treasury, should be handed over to it Trot, N. Y., April 24.—The Montreal express, on the Delaware and Hudson railroad, due in Troy at 3:10 p. m., was a little behind time, and when the upper end of Green island was reached, the locbmotive City of Troy, driven by Frederick Biailshaw, of Whitehall, left the main track, and ran into a long freight train of loaded cars Cm a side track. The engine crashed thrtfu fa several cars, completely wrecking them, atid one car rested on top of the locomotive, \t hi!e a big freight engine wai covered with the wreckage. All tho paiiem;w cars were damaged somewhat, although none of them left the track. The engine is a total wreck. This department should be known as the department of labor and commerce. By having an executive department oontroling internal and external transportation, railroad and marine matters, he believes the presentumilculties could be reached, and an equitable system of regulation established. A LA8T FAREWELL. "Why didn't you suggest a remedy?" asked Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri. Two Men Hung From a Much Used Gal- lows. "Because you didn't give me time even to open my month," replied Mr. Butterworth. Fort Smith, Ark., April at—The two Indian territory murderers, James Wasson and Joseph Jackson, were hanged here yesterday. Both men died protesting their innocenoe, and Jackson denounced (he witness in his case, whom he charged with perjury. Ths execution took place within the lnclosnre oi the garrison walls, near the court house, and was witnessed by about 100 deputy marshals, guards and reporters. Wesson's friends tried hard to get a respite until the trial of John McLaughlin, a Chickasaw Indian, who Ji charged with the same offense for which Wasson was executed. Anticipating a respite the marshal delayed the execution till afternoon. At 2 o'clock the prisoners wen dressed and the death warrants were read, after which they bid their fellow prisoners good-by and were handcuffed and marched between the guards and deputy marshals to the scaffold. After waiting some time for the minister a short prayer was said, the ropes adjusted, and both prisoners, bowing to the crowd, bade all a last farewell. At 8:44 the trap was sprung. Both died without a struggle and stood Arm to the last They were executed on the same scaffold upon which sixty-nine others have been hanged within the past twelve years, all for murders or rapes committed in the Indian territory. In oonclusion, Mr. Butterworth said that oongress owed it to itself to take up the labor question and consider it carefully, and then refer the subject to an appropriate committee.THE 8UGAR MEN. When Enginear Bradshaw saw ihat the switch was turned the wrong way ho blew his whistle, but the switchman did not appear. The engineer applied tho air-brake* and sprang from his engine, alighting on his head. He was buried beneath the dabris, and was found out and bleeding, his face scarcely recognizable. Brakeman Rivers was overcome by the excitement and fainted. Joa Gushing, the switchman, says that just before the train reached there be examined tho switch, and It was all right. * The loss by the accident is estimated at (50,000. A Circular Issued—Cooper Shop Skat New York, April 24.—The riot at the sugar refineries in Brooklyn has not been resumed. Great crowds visited the scene in the morning, but the police were out in force, and the throngs dwindled away as the day wore on. Down. Mr. Randall said the president had acted under constitutional directions, and yet he was met here by an assault oh his motives. There was not one word against the proposition which he made. On the contrary, there was not an intelligent mai\ in the country but knew that the present condition of the labor.of die country commanded the attention of congress. It was easy to question men's motives. He had also supposed that the right to question the motives of a human being rested with a higher power. He asked that the message should have due consideration and deliberation and a remedy for the troubles conceived, if possible, and enacted into law. He declared proudly that there was not a word in it that appealed in any particular to any party or any seot or any class of men in the United States. On the contrary, it appealed to congress as a body of American citizens wishing for the public welfare. During Thursday night Mrs- Smith became very uneasy, and getting out of bed she walked up and down the floor repeating over and over again: "I am lost I am lost" The cooperage firm of Palmer & Weidman has shut down, throwing 1,000 men out o( work. The suspension was the direct result at the strike, as the sugar houses were ths best customers of the cooperages. Have meyer Sc Elder, the sugar refiners, have issued a circular to their men, saying that they could hire new men at (1.25 per day, but preferred to pay $1.45 to the good men that had been working for them; their demand for $1.75 per day would merer be granted; new men would be hired first. Ne trades union would be recognised by ths firm. The circular advises the men to return to work for a certainty instead of holding out for an illusion, and to treat all trades unions seeking to control wages through strikes with contempt The other firms will hold a conference with the strikers with a view to a settlement Her husband finally persuaded her to get into bed again, and she apparently went to sleep. At 6 o'clock yesterday morning both Mr. and Mrs. Smith got up as usual, and after dressing, both went down' stairs and out into the yard. Nothing was said about the occurrence in the night, and Mr. Smith noticed nothing strange in hi* wife's manner. As he left her to go to his hotbeds, which are near the house, she said to him: BRAINED WITH AN AX. At 2:80 p. m. the news that '*everything is settled" reached the roundhouse, and a scene of activity ensued such as has never been seen at Forty-Srst street crossing. About sixty of the strikers ran along and between the long lines of freight cars. In a twinkle the derailed cars on the stock yards "Y" which had blocked that important combination «f tracks since Monday night were adjusted; missing coupling pins were replaced; brakes were unloosened; obstacles were removed from the switch tracks and everything was made ship-shape for resumption of traffic. Up to 8:1S thirteen switch engines had been run out and were hard at work. Front that time until dark the rumble of heavy freight trains past the Forty-first street crossing never ceased At 6:30 the first out freight destined for Elkhart, Ind., went bf; the whole complex switch yard system ot a great railroad Was once more in smooth and uninterrupted operation; the six days' strike, so much fraught with evil forebodings, was at an end In the city the forenoon*and the early part of the afternoon had been periods of anxiety. Arrangements had been made for twice as large a force of officers as went to the scene before. Secret meetings were held between the sheriff and the railroad officials and also between the sheriff and representatives of the : strikers. The railroad officials held about fifty of the imported switchmen in readiness at the depot, and every one in authority asserted most emphatically that these men should take the places abandoned by the even if the aid of state and Union had ilo be invoked But when. Division Superintendent Amsden received the telegraphic information from Committeeman Stahl after 2 o'clock that the strikers had gone to work the imported men were at once paid off and dis-1 latched to their homes. In this point, at least, the company has "given in." The eight objectionablee, on whose acoount the switchmen went oat, were sent down to the round house at 8 o'clock and went to work. It is asserted by the strikers that this is but temporary. A Fallow Workman Slain In a Hard- ware Store. Kansas City, April 34.—Hiram T. Smith, a Knight of Labor who had been lampooned in a public print by Qeorge W. Armstrong, a fellow employe, stole upon his tormentor in the hardware establishment of Richards & Coaover, and brained him with an ax. After committing the bloody deed Smith notified his employer of what he had done and was taken to the station. He evinced strong symptoms of insanity and excused his crime by saying: "They say that I am cracked because I am a Knight of Labor. That is what's the matter," and he spok : of the articles which had appeared in print. Armstrong's wife Is at present visi'inC; i i "John, it was very careless of you to leave the hen house door open. HI go and shut it" She started to go to the hen house, which is in front of the house, near the barn. After closing the hen house door, she stopped at the woodpile on her way back, and, securing an ax that was lying there, concealed it under her drea. She then ran stealthily to the house and went up the back stairs. Her 4-year-old daughter Edna, a beautiful child, lay asleep in the room at the right of the head of the stairs. The frenzied mother brought down the edge of the ax on the little one's head and brained her. She next went into the room of her 13-year-old son Rufus, who was also asleep. She struck him on the left side of the head three times, laying it open so that the brains protruded. In the next room her two daughters, Bessie, 11 years old, and Alida, 7 years old, slept Mr. Gibson (W. Va.) regretted that the gentleman from Ohio should undertake to bring politics into a discussion of this question. The troubles the country was suffering from were the result of the powers given by corrupt congresses to great organizations under the twenty years #f Republican administration. It was the watered stock, the unjust charters granted by congress against which labor was rebelling. Gentleman on the other side ought not to assail this house because it could not bring about a remedy in a day, but ought rather to confess ths crimes and sins of their twenty years of legislation. A HUSBAND'S MAD WORK. Triple Shooting by a Jealous Man—His A FAMILY QUARREL. New Orleans, April 24.— Mrs. William C. Nesaen was awakened by her husband, who told her that as they could not live peaoeably they had better die together. At the same time he drew a revolver. Mrs. Neesen caught his arm, but he fired, the bullet passing through her wrist Her IS-yearold son rushed in and grasped his father's arm, but be fired a second time, taking off the boy's finger and sending a ballet through his wife's breast, inflicting a probably fatal wound. Mrs. Nessen ran screaming from the house and sank unconscious on the sidewalk. The husband did not attempt to follow her, but going to the bureau removed his false teeth, and placing the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth blew oat his brains. He has frequently accused his wife of infidelity, and* they had numerous quarrels. He leaves ton children, the result of three marriages. Desperation. Stealing a House From a Futher-in-Law Syracuse, N. Y. Smith is a man of \ ,»ma of age and has a family. His wife says mat two weeks ago- he attempted to cut his throat, saying he was tired of the Knight of Labor business, but he was disarmed and had been attending to his work since. Lancaster, Wis., April 84.— Considerable excitement exists in the town of Ellenboro, Grant county, over a quarrel concerning a house. Malcolm Wood resided In t fine bouse on land owned by his father-inlaw, Manly Dean, who ejected Wood for non-payment of rent. Before an injunction could be served. Wood, with a large force of men, removed the house to another man's land. Leads to War. Mr. O'Neill (Ma) said that the arbitration bill had been discussed by the house for four days without one word of partisan bias. It had passed by a four-fifths vote; it had been 'reported unanimously by a senate oommittee; it had been indorsed by the Journals and intelligence of the country, and it rested with the gentleman from Ohio to take this pretext of injecting partisan bias into the question. He was like the man with one story—the gun story. If the conversation did not give him an opportunity of telling this story he-would stamp his foot on the floor and say; "That sounds like a gun, and talking of guns," etc. Hie gentleman was so full of partisan bile that he oould resist no opportunity of showing it » DYNAMITING A CHURCH Bessie had been awakened by the soreama of her brother and getting out of bed had seen her mother strike Rufus the last time. Knowing that something terrible was happening the poor child ran back to her bed, and kneeling down by its side began to pray. In this posture she was disoovered a moment later by her mother who, despite her piteous cries for mercy, attacked her with the bloody ax. The child crawled toward her mother on her knees, holding up her hands to protect herself, but at the fourth blow she fell forward on the floor horribly gashed. Mrs. Smith then went to Alida's bedside and struck her six or seven times. The child evidently put up one little arm to ward off the blows and received a fearful cut across her four fingers. Then putting out the other arm she received another blow which nearly severed her hand at the wrist. One of her eyes was entirely cut oat and her skull was fractured. D A Good Friday Oatrags Causes Indigna- tion In Madrid. A riot is imminent, about one-half of the town standing guard over the house, while the other half is making preparations with the view of moving the house back if victorious. Disinterested parties informed the authorities, and Sheriff Richards and deputies are on their way to the scene to quell the disturbance. Madrid, April 24.— An attempt was made to destroy the Church of San Luis, la this city. An explosive was placed inside of one of the enormous hollow candles which stand on either side of the altar. The explosion, Instead of taking place whilo the church was crowded, as probably intended, occurred before the people began to arrive for the Good Friday service. A PRISON COLLEGE. The edifice was badly wrecked, and for a time was filled with smoke and flying debris. Two sextons who were in the building were badly burned. The outrage has produced profound and widespread excitement and indignation in the city. No trace of the identity of the person or persons engaged in the conspiracy has yet been found. JOHN MOST'S HARANGUE. Faculty and Pupils Taken From the Convicts. The message was then referred to thejlabor oommittee. Publicly Appealing to Incendiaries' Fu- •loat-A Hldiculoua Picture* Boston, April 24.—Sinoe the throwing up of contracts by the state prison contractor! it has been a problem to relieve the enforced idleness of the convicts. Warden Usher hai hit upon one apparently satisfactory solution. He has established a school for the first time in the history of the prison, in which all who wish may receive instruction in the elementary branches. Certain convicts specially adapted to the various branches of study have been selected for teachers. Reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic and bookkeeping are taught at preeent, and sessions are held forenoqns and afternoons daily. The plan has become popular and is succeeding. Sixty pupils are now receiving instruction. New York, April M.—A meeting of workingmen, under the auspioes of a so-called international rifle club, was held last evening at the Oermania garden. The call, which was published tin yesterday's Freiheit, was headed as follows: "Order of the Day! To Arms, Workingmenl The Banditti of the Capitalist Murder Your Brothers! Prepare for Defense! Appear in. Mass!" The hall was packed. A large force of police was on hand. John Most, the Socialist, made the principal speech. His expressions were flery in the extreme. He advised the worklngman to arm themselves and capture the city. During the evening several persons were ejected from the building, but no arrests were made. Mr. Voorhees (W. T.), rising to a question of privilege, offt-ed the following: Resolved, That the committee on rules be instructed to inquire whether Hon. L. D. M Swett, or any other ex-member of the house, who had availed himself of the privilege of admission to the floor under Rule 84 is interested as agent or attorney for any railroad or other corporation, or interested in any claim or blU .pending before congress and report to the house the result of such inquiry, with such recommendations as may be necessary. The Blair Educational Bill. Beyond the children's rooms, in a small room in the end of the house, the eldest daughter Fannie, 18 years old, slept with her little 2-year-old sister, Nancy. Fannie was awakened by the screams of her two sisters, and jumped out and threw her whole weight against the door just as her mother was pushing it open. She was not a moment too soon. The frantic woman, maddened by the scenes through which she had passed, strove with all her strength to gain entrance. After a fearful struggle Fannie succeeded in hooking the door. All this took only a few minutes. When Betty Beldo, the old colored family servant, who was preparing breakfast down stairs, heard the noise above, she ran up stairs and tried to prevent Mrs. Smith from completing her bloody work. Mrs. Smith chased her down stairs, and she ran instantly for Mr. Smith. He reached the room just as his wife was beginning to batte* down her daughter Fannie's door. As soon as his wife saw him she stopped, and he led her down stairs and placed her on the lounge. Her strength then seemed completely gone, and she lay there muttering: Washington, April 34.—The house oommittee on labor heard Mr. Reagan in opposition to the Blair educational bill. His principal objection was on constitutional grounds. A prolonged and at times a very animated discussion followed. Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, moved that the-committee report as a substitute a bill to appropriate the proceeds arising from the sale of public lands during the next fiscal year.. After a session of two hours the committee adjourned without action. President Newell, when asked about the settlement, said the company had made no concessions. "The eight men," he added, "will be on the same equality with the rest of the men as before the strike. They will not be removed just because they are non-union men. This company does not recognize any union." Mr. Newell professed ignorance of the existence of an agreement beVvaen the company and the strikers, and seemed to treat the close of the fight on his lines as a complete surrender on the part of his employes. The results are undoubtedly the outconoe of a compromise, and this is most likely the reason why the strikers refuse to make known what the details of the arrangement between them and the railroad company are The most plausible theory is that the important business interests involved icaused some of the merchants and manufacturers who were the heaviest sufferers to become successful mediators between the company and the man. Had the former insisted on putting the imported men in the places of the strikers Sheriff Hancbett would have been compelled to afford protection, and had the arrangement entered into been unsatisfactory to the strikers operations would not have been resumed by them. It has been an 'open secret, he said, that ever since the beginning of this congress a powerful lobby, organised in the interest of various railroad corporations, had invested the Capitol, and that the rules of the house had been openly and repeatedly and notoriously set at defiance by some members of lobby. He protested against the continuance of that rank and crying abuse. Omitting the name of Swett it was adopted and referred to a special committee. Punished for Marrying. The committee on education did not obtain a quorum until a few minutes before the meeting of the house, and then adjourned until the third Friday in May, and consequent - ly action on the Blain bill by that committed Is deferred until that date. Bad Gang of Sneaks. Freehold, N. J.,. April 23.—James Mc- Cormack, the farm hand who was indicted and fined $400 in this county for abducting and marrying the 15-year-old daughter of his employer, Farmer Vandeveer, of Manapalan, about six months ago, has also been indicted in Mercer county, where he and the girl were married. The new blUctment is for marrying a girl under the legal age. The court has decided that McCormack could be held under the second indictment, but in view of the fact that he bad already been punished in the Monmouth county courts, sentence was suspended. The girl has returned to her father's house. Boston, April 24.—The police inspectors have at last succeeded in breaking up a gang of notorious house sneaks and house breakers which has Infested this city for some time. About a month ago four of the gang named Hueth, Crowley, Cook and Fenton were captured and are now awaiting sentence for highway robbery, larceny and house breaking. Last night Daniel Ryan, alias John Dodge, William Cummings, alias "Dorrey," and William Marshall,' the other members of the gang, were arrested. On April 4 they stole 1300 worth of jewelry; on April 15 a watch and (40 cash, a/ukpn April 30 clothing valued at $250. The Latest Fish Story. Panama, April 34.—The British ship Alexander Yeats, Capt. Dunham, from Lobos for Falmputh, while leaving bor anchorage struA heavily upon a shoal and commenced to make water. The pumps were got in working order and were gaining on the leak, when the influx of water suddenly stopped. The vessel put into Callao for examination, and the diver found that a large hole had been knocked in her bottom. In the hole, and completely filling it, was the body of a large fish. It is supposed that the ftih, while swimming past the vessel, was carried in by the water rushing through the leak. At ail events, the fish saved the vessel and her cargo of 8,000 tons of guano, which is now being discharged. Boston, April 34.—Pembroke D. Blckford, alias C. Brown, who is accused of having committed upward of forty forgeries, pleaded guilty to several indictments, and was held in $2,000 bail for the superior court. Pleading Guilty of Forgery. "God told me to do it It was the only way. I killed them rather than to have them homeless and go to hell." CONDENSED NEWS. No Proof of Brlbory. Land owners in'Washington ask about four prices for the site for the proposed congressional library. A Family Foolishly Drowntd, Mr*. Smith is in a praoarious condition. It was discovered that before going to the children's rooms she had taken a doee of rat poison. A stomach pump was applied to no effect Buffalo, April 24—A special dispatch from Albany gives the report of the committee of five who investigated the recent charges of bribery in connection with the natural gas francli?-. TS» roport save that the committee examined thirty-eight witnesses, and did not discover any evidence to show that any, bribery had taken place or had been attempted. There were plinty of rumors, but it was impossible to ascertain what foundation they rested upon. The BaI»no«-8heel. Defiance, O., April 31—Fred Hillman, a laborer, bind a small boat hardly large enough to safely carry more than one person, and attempted to cross the river with his wife, a little boy of 4 yean and a baby girl of IB months. When out in the stream the boat swamped, and Hfllman and his little family were drowned. The qsws reached town and a large crowd gathered. The river was dragged, and the mother's and the little boy's bodies were recovered. Efforts are still being made to recover the bodies of the father and the baby. CoL McCarty, of Pittsburg, has solved the problem of making hydrogen gas cheaper than by any other process. Washington, April 24.—The total value of merchandise exported from the United States during March, 1886, was 153,090,306, and of imports $60,087,627. In March, 1885, the exports were valued at $51,398,266; imports, $52,976,345. The total value of exports for the twelvo months ended March 31 was #«05,956,920, and of imports $614,778,670; excess of exports over imports, $51,178,230, •gainst $147,588,358 excess of exports over imports for the twelve months ended March Si, 1885. _____ Little Edna was killed instantly. Mr. Smith is heartbroken. For twenty-five years he has lived with his wife in the same house where they are living, and nine children have there been born to them Mrs. Smith is a pleasant-faced, motherly looking woman of 43. A liquor store at Halifax was set on fire to prevent exposure of a fraud practised to defraud the banks. Honey had been advanced on whisky in barrels, and it is alleged that the whisky had been removed and the barrels filled with water. Compensation of Armv Nurses. Washington, April 24.—The house committee on invalid, pensions adopted a resolution declaring that the committee will consider no bill to pension any army nurse unless it was dearly proved that some disability was incurred in the service, or that the person rendered some distinguished service, or served as a nurse without pay. The house, committee on war claims ordered a favorable report on the bill to direct the secretary of war to examine the claims of United States volunteer female nurses who served in the lato war, and to allow them compensation at the rate of *25 per month, any amount heretofore paid to be deducted from tba amount found due them. The governor of Maryland has signed a bill abolishing the drummers in that state, and the knights of the grip rejoice. The PostolBee Appropriation Bill. Washington, April 84—Notice of the confirmation of Gen. Rosecrans to be register of the treasury has not reached the n resident Upon inquiry it is learned that the uomination is still hung up in the senate upon a motion to reconsider the vote by which it was a few days ago confirmed. Rosecrans Not Confirmed. Washington, April 94—The senate committee on appropriations has finished consideration of the postotfice appropriation hill The only important amendments are the following: $40.(X)0 is added to the appropriation for increasing the special mail facilities to make a connection with Cuba; the Frye amendment in substance is adopted, appropriating 1800,000 for foreign mail service, and the last year's provision that no more than $4,000 shall be used for the extension of the free delivery service is readopted. The price of sugar advanced from 4% to 7% cents on account of the Brooklyn strike. lioycottlng Parsons. In 4hs Diamond Field. The following an the scores for the games played yesterday: A new Congregational church has been opened at Spring Valley, N. Y., and Bev. Dr. Bristor, lately withdrawn from the Methodist church, has been called as pastor. Feovidence, April 94.—Pro tee taut clergytom of this city and state, to the number of 101, chiefly Baptists and Methodists, tiave signed And published a declaration that the publication of Sunday newspapers is a hindrance to the proper observanoe of the Sabbath, and calling the attention of all Christian people to the alleged detrimental tendencies of their publication and sale. At Providence—Providence, 7; Browns, 3. At Philadelphia—Philadelphia, 10; Rochester, 2. At Newark—Detroit, 7; Newark, 3. At Brooklyn—Brooklyn, 9; Baltimore, 8. At New York—New York, 15; Yale, 5. Athletic, 14; Metropolitan, 6. It Cincinnati—Cincinnati, 13; Pittsburg, 7. Indicted for Relllns Bogus Butter. Mrs. James G. Blaine has been in New York buying Easter bonnets far her daughters.St. Louis, April 24—The grand jury returned in indictment for fraud *g»inDt Charles Hoff«nan, » member of the firm of Hoffman Brothers, wholesale butter dealers, charging him with selling oleomargarine and representing it to be butter. There have been 1,003 entries for the Westminster Kennel club show which opens in New York May 4 Loiro Branch, N. J., April04 At the Tillage of Marlboro a dog, supposed to be affected with rabies, bit two boys, Edward Kelly and lid ward KDen, a number of other and two oow*. There is much excitement The dog was (hot. More fatten to for Pasteur. Hit lute Will Not Kaslffn. The village of Lee, Mom., lately damaged by flood, is said to be m a condition.Lancaster, Pa., April 84.—Dr. Bigbees answer to the governor's request for his resignation as superintendent of public instruction and superintendent of orphans' buhools is ready to be sent to the governor. Dr. Higbee says in his answer that he will not comply with the forsrnor's request for his reslgiiaW.ee. I.ONDON, April 34.—The trustees cf tte exteqiive Symes estate, near Westport, have offered to sell the land to tenants at a prioo C qi al, in every case, to twelve years leutal 01 ibe holding:' the property to tie sold at the present poor law valuation. The offer has (.routed a sensation in Iivland, Selling: L.*nCU for Itental. Kalamazoo, April 84.—Henry Bailey, aged 10, was arrested for attempting to wreck the fast east bound train on the Michigan Central railroad. He made a full confession in writing, stating that the Michigan Central had refused to pay for the burning of sixty rods.of fspce. Attempting to Wreck a Train. Charged With Criminal Malpractice. Exxtbb, N. a, April 84.—Dr. Kir* BartD- fett, who w«a arrested tar criminal nudpractioe in causing the deutt} of Alice F, Window, of H«v«rbW, *M yesterday bound grfr to the supreme oourt in $5,000, He t| over 80 jmn old. ~ Four hundred too* at Mb hare been taken from the (trended chip Eroe, off Barnegat beach. In hopea of floating the reeeel. Four little glib a» U deoTlUa, O., hare been mangled vicious boll doge. fwaboje at Marlboro, IT. J,, were bitten fc£«4°tMVnNt»l|(4M4D '  Weather Indications. m H ** Washington, April 24.—For the middle states, fair weather, stationary temperature, (lightly warmer winds, generally southerly.