Evening Gazette

              »T- T. •' - " • • — —- ;.v. ■ ■■||. K **-*0*: ■, -  "■» * Jp / } V 1 ? r / * I f WO GENT* Tea Cent* Per Weak ivun 1400 t Weekly Established MOO. f PITTSTON, PA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1867.  THE COAL STRIKE.? month, in the second class |7, and those in the third claw |5. Four of the striker* who took pert In Thursday night's fight with the police were 4ti4sted. They are James Donlan, John and Idlchael O'Neil, and James Flemmlng. Chief of Police Murphy has the names of about fifty others of the strikers, and they will be arrested, so he says, on sight TH£ STATE OF TRADE. IMPEACHMENT THREATENED. A LONG SENTENCE THI8 68- Tho Silver Ken Take Exception to Treaauy «*- '"'L ' " t-'hff ; • .f OP A SOMEWHAT NOTED CRIMINAL PRICES SOMEWHAT DI8TURBED BY WasHlHQTOit. Feb. 5.—The Star publishes the following, uuder the caption "To Impeach Secretary Manning:" A number of members of both partis* in the house intend to hold • conference, probably this evening, for the purpose of drawing up rteolutiona of impeachment against Secretary for violating the law* of congress in his aots. This movement is being promoted by the silver men, and grows directly out of what they construe into a virtual acknowledgement In his reply ratal Railroad Accident. Special to the Q as ttv. NO MATERIAL CHANGE IN- THI EXISTING LABOR TROUBLES. ABOUT. TO EXPIRE, BoSTOy, Feb. 6.—The Bofton & Mont-eal expteaa train went through a budge »tWoodstock, Vqi mont. Thirty people were i JUied, several passengers were killed. Four carp were thrown iuto the rivor. SITUATION. HrooklraP»tDe*inea Bide on Orfal Carta. Tlx Truckman Rafuso to Cart Coal. Aijluu Out or Fuel—'I«ng*lior**aea ltcmaln Firm. TTorelgn TFar Knmora Depress . the Stock Market, but Strengthen the Grain Market—Panic* In the Foreign Market Do And tho Fact* In HI* Career Are Recalle—From a Prosperous Business Career He Fell Into Bad Habits and A NOVEL PLEA Mot Mean War. Became a Leading Hon* Tlilet Striker* "On Da Side ob Do Lord" la New York, Feb. 8.— Panics abroad and strikes at home have tested the strength of all market* during the p#t«t week. Ovorhastily it Is inferred that panics on foreign exchanges mean war; they may mean only collapse of the unusunl speculation which has prevailed of late, especially at Berlin, and thus may get rid of a strong inoentive to circulnte warlike rumors. News, in the strict sense, does not afford much evidence thit war impends; but rumor and apprehension 'lave depressed stocks and lifted grain. Thus tested, the markets have shown unexpected steadiness. Foreign unloading of American stocks has caus3d but moderate decline in prices, while even In the grain market the advance has been conservative and limited, and other markets have changed but little. MiDDLjtToWN, N. Y., Feb. 5 —The twenty years' term at hard labor iu the New Jersey Mate prison at Trenton awarded to Jerry Storms for horse stealing, rnd shortened to eighteen years by allowances for good behavior, will expire this -inont,'', i:„ I :i famous culprit will then becomj a free man again. It is true that there are at least ha I a dozen old indictments for qffenses of the' same character hanging over Jerry's head, but it is likely that the authorities, in consideration of his 1-jng imprisonment and In commiseration of his broken health, will permit the charges to remain In abeyance. . A CONVICT'S .REVENGE. Niw You, Feb. 5.—Brooklyn had the latest development of the strike yesterday. The troubles of the Brooklyn coal dealers were intensified when In the morning the yardmen, cartmen and shovelers In almost every yard In the city stopped work, in obedience to an or3er received from District Assembly 49. The strike added about 1,000 qMB to the army of the unemployed, and almost put a complete stop to the delivery of coal all over the city. The yardmen told their employers that they would remain at the yards and" would clean and care for thf borne*, but would not handle any coal Policeman were sent to the various yards M*d in soma case* want out on tbe wagons to( protect non-union drivers. Several loads ol ooad which were not under police protection were dumped in the street by the strikers. A. P. Wernberg loaded his own wagon with three tons of coal, and, wearing his silk hat and his big four carat diamond, drove off from the yard to deliver It amid the cheers of hi* idle employ**. Police Captain Campbell sent an urgent message to W. H. Murtha ft Son for five tons of coal for the Adam* street station, but word came back that no coal could be sent. Alderman It jen, who furnishes coal for the jail, court house, Mktmrmoriaa, want to Hew York and begged the executive board of 49 to help him out of Mi difficulties, bat' was toid that nothing could be done for him. He was willing to close the gates of his yard aud cut off hi* private trade during the strike if enough men to fulfill his contract* were permitted to work for him. On returning to Brooklyn he asked Mayor Whitney for polio* protection. Tbe police authoriti** will give the dealers all possible aid in delivering coal Two policemen were on each of the aarta lent with coal to the county buildings. The coal at the jail had almost run out last evening when four of Alderman Itjen's cqrte arrived. , Forty-nine was informed last night that St. John1* Home, Bergen street and Albany avenue, in which are 810 children, had but one ton of ooal. It require* five tons a day. There are thirty-one children down with the msatlftts and twenty-three others are recover- J acksonvillb, Fla., Feb. 5.—The refusal of the stevedores at Pensacola to wc*k at loading lumber vessels or discharging those loaded with guano and phosphates is working serious injury to 1 hese industries at th.it port The Louisville and Nashville ralli-orn brought Into town seventy laborers, gathered along the line of their road, to discharge vessels now in port with guano and phosphate*. Upon their arrival in the city they were accompanied by policemen and curried in cars direct to the place of their labor. News of their arrival Boon spread among the striking guano hands, and a large .legation of strikers soon appeared upon the scene. The strikers, who were principally negroes, exhorted the new arrivals to abstain from work. Among their exhortations could frequently be heard an exclamation like this: "Come on de side ob de Lord. He will protect yer.™ After this pleading the new arrivals refused to go to work, and the company have made no progress in their attempt to hasten the discharge of vessels now here. Florida. Two Bulldog Pistols Tired In a DtnM to the Weaver resolution that ha had violated aad intended to violate the law requiring that mutilated notes presented for redemption shall be redeemed U) notes of the same denomination. The Star reporter gets his Information as to the movement from several members of the house, who declare that there is no buncombe in It, but that it is the r*r_a of a serious determination to resent a violation of law. In addition to the case with relation to the canceling of treasury notes, it will be charged that the law has been repeatedly violated by the failure to purchase the $3,000,000 worth of silver paeh month. It will be charged that, while tbe law is mandatory that that amount shall be purchased "aaah month," the treasury department fail* to make the purchase during any month, when tbe price of silver had advanced and bays the supply for two months or more when they have "beared the market and brought the price to a low point" It;ls known that the ultra silver men are very much agitated over Secretary Manning's reply to the Weaver resolution. One of the leaders of that faction informed a representative of the United Press that the Impeachr ment story was, to say the least, prematura The gentleman admitted that there had been a great deal of talk as to action on th* reply sent to the house by the secretary, but he declared that so far no definite plaas had been agreed upon. Gar. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 8l—Frank MaBon, ail ex-convict, attempted to Imirder nrd"rtD John Oreen, of the Kings Coua y i •M.&'fl' tiary, and Keoper James Hupi». «rC a Nw trand avenue borne car about !!::.• '.'-rxk last evening. Tho warden m»: eejvr boarded the car opposite the ; ..it ;• ry building, as they usually do tij_ r*:C■ »tmtu town, and were followed at oaYd'lSJ' Mul- As soo» as Qreep and Ku«i«  seated Jifallon palled two bulldog from his pockets and levelled theiu ut tD C■ prison official!1. Mallon fired from bot h iv v• D vera at the same tittle, one bullet striking .Warden Oreen on the forehead and ginned • ft, causing but a slight wound. The other siio* took effect in Keeper Hughes right bip, inflicting a painful but not necessarily fatai wound. Before Mallon could Are again the con.-fuetWr grabbed htm from behind, and Warden Green closed in on him from in front, t he t succeeding in overpowering the would-be rauiderer. Mallon was then conveyed to'.the station houae and physiciaus pal ed to dress the wounds of the injured men. Mallon was released from the penitentiary on thl 8th of last month, after sei virig a two years' sentence, during which time he contracted a bitter hatred of the warden. . f Jerry's parents were very respectable people of Bergen County, and he himself in his younger days was held in good repute as an honest, bright, and genial fellow. His wife, long since divorced, also belongs to a good family of that oounty. Atone time Jerry and his wife kept a popular hotel at Hohokus. Later, in 1865, he engaged as traveling salesman with wholesale grocnra. He proved an excellent salesman and was implicitly trusted by his employers, but after a year or so he fell among evil associates, male and female, and wound up by Embezzling moneys of the firm in quite a large sum. The next step in his downward career was to ally- himself with a band of horse thieves, then operating along the borders jot New jersey and New York, among \rhom he .speedily took rank as a daring and skillful leader. The band extended their operations through Bergen, Passaic, Sussex, Rockland and Orange counties, and terrorized the whole region by the boldness, cnn• ning and success Of their depredations. They had regular routes for running off stolen hvsee, with stations and confederates at convenient points, those routes extending soutk into Virginia and north into Canada. Scarcely a night passed but some valuable ' horse or toam disappeared from its stables, and the thefts were so adroitly managed that the owners usually failed to find the slightest clew to the thieves of property. Jerry himself is popularly crediteS with having been directly concerned In running off over 100 horses, few of which were ever recovered by_the owners. Probably grain would have risen more, had not the great strikes exerted a restraining influence. Transporter* are moving freight more freely than a week ago, but the disturbance is spreading, thousands of workers in various branches of industry having been ordered to strike, or thrown out of wgrk by stop|Dage of supplies to manufacturing establishments. Already it is clear that losses to laborers, as a body, must be many times the sum which could be gained by the original strikers if successful The large losses sustained by them and others will affect con sumption to D ome extent THE LOCKSMITH'S TALE. He Tells How He Opened a Jersey Bal- lot Hoi. Camden, Feb. 5.—The Republicans yesterday presented some startling evidence before the Assembly committee now sitting at Camden. They endeavored to prove that the ballot box of Centre township was opened by the Democrats and enough votes chunged from Haines to Turley to insure the election of the latter on the recount For this purpose they brought forward William Chambley, a Philadelphia locksmit*, whose testimony in reply to questions by the Republican counsel was to the following effect: The dry goods trade, though affected by uncertainty as to transportation, still impcoves with respect to cottons, while the hesitation in woolens increases. The China demand for brown cottons is excellent, the South American better, and the domestic demand steady and strong at the recent advance in prices. But woolens are disturbed afresh by treasury decisions, and by large auction sales. Large Job lots sf dress goods have been sold at Boston at little more than half last year's prices, and heavy woolens are not sought at any advance. Boston sales of wool are 20 per cent larger than last year, with prices barely steady. Imports for 1888 were 181,268,108 pounds, besides 4,431,689 pounds waste and 4,830,308 yarn. MANNING AND JORDAN. Their KvlfntlonK from \he Trauiry THEY FOUND THE LEAK. MHiigainaiit. ,  Washington, Feb. 6.—Mr. Jordan's resignation Is in the hands of the president. Mr. Manning's resignation will not have to be made over again. He placed it in' the president's hands last spring, when ha first began tonfeever from his stroke of: apopluxy,- It is thought Mr. Manning's resignation will now be accepted within a few day*, so that the senate can confirm his snooessor. Mr. Jordan will probably remain in his office to instruct his successor until Aprii'L Oh Works Blows Up Through Apparent Caralessnatfs. Ltkn, Mass., Feb. 5.—At 8:18 last night an explosion at tha Lynn gas works badly shook buildings and alarmed the city. 'The explosion occurred in the meter room, in the front part of the main building.' Daniel Driscoll, night foreman, and John Oosgrove, laborer, were badly injured and burned about the head, neck, face and hands. Both were taken to the hospital. They were looking for a leak, and lit a match. The room being full of gas, an explosion followed; Part of the roof was blown off and a large hole made in tfie side of a brick building. The city was In almost total darkness, the theatre being compelled to use lamps. The gas company's building took fire, which was extinguished after two hours' work. The loss is (5,000; fully insured. At the police headquarters and city hall lamps and candles were used. A number of church meetings were broken up on account of the sudden darkness, the gas being turned off immediately after the trouble. Repairs are in progress, and the gad will be turned on again to-night. I wax sent for to come over to New Jersey to open a box, and went and opened it It was in last Novemlwr. It was an awful dark and stormy night I started from my i oom and came down Market street and crossed by.tlie ferry. There was one man with me. When we got across we got in a carriage. I don't know the man. We drove around the corner. Then another man got in with the friend who came across the river with me. We drove up the country r. good distance, and stopped when we got to the place where the box was. It was a private dwelling. Alt three got out. I was the last one iu. There was no one there. I carried my tools, lock picks, flies, screw drivers, etc., with me. I opened the box. It was ;hat box (pointing to the Centre township ixix). That is the one I operated upon. It had thrfee locks. I picked it open. Tliore were papers in it, but I didn't see what they were. Then I unscrowed the locks and made keys to fit them. Those keys I gave to the meii. After I opened the box and made the key I was paid $10 by one of the men. Then I entered the carriage and was drivon nearly to the railroad station, and I went homD\ Iron is helped by a revival in shipbuilding, $22.00 being quoted at Philadelphia for No. 1, and an advance expected at Pittsburg. The name of E. O. Graves, the present chief of the |bureau of engraving and printing, is now mentioned as Mr. Jordan's probable successor. Mr. Graves was formerly assistant treasurer. He is a Mugwump Republican, but a very competent business man with'a high reoord in.the treasury department for elllcieucy and knowledge. The president bias had several interviews 'With Mr. Graves. t ... j. / © The wholesale depredations of the gang extended over a period of about two years, when the authorities succeeded in capturing five or six of the principal members and breaking up the band. Jerry was brought to trial before the Fasaaic county court at Paterson in 1809, and was convicted on two charges and given the extreme penalty of twenty yean' imprisonment. He escaped from the Trenton prison within a year, and for several months remained in hiding among hisold confederates In Delaware. He ventured into Wilmington under an assumed name and found employment in a livery stable. A Paterson woman with whom he had been intimate joined him in Wilmington, and shortly after in a fit of Jealousy betrayed him to the New Jersey authorities. When two officers from Trenton appeared at the stabteto arrest him be skipiwd otft of the hack door and made for the open oountry. Thfe officers pursued and tan him into a swamp, where they succeeded in capturing him after riddling one of his arms with a charge of backshot. After this escapade Jerry made no more trouble in the prison, and the wanton sets him down as a model prisoner. Coke has advanced at Pittsburg 58 cent* per ton. Western nailmakers will advance the price from $3.60 to $2.65, and the W indow Glass association has raised prices 5 to 7 per cent. Oil production was 26,881,506 barrels last year, against 20,770,041 in 1885. Trunk line presidents resolve to qbeerve the interstate bill, and hold that it renders their pool more necessary than ever to fix rates, though prohibited features will be dropped. East bound tonnage last year was 11,336,108 tons, against 11,864,001 tons in 1886, and west bound was 2,088,576 tons, against 3,045,025 tons, showing some decrease in quantities moved, though rates received were higher. coal cart men in New York have not been called, oat in a body. Individuals have been out for weeks. District Assembly 40 has sent out a circular to the master workmen of local assemblies to insure a large attendance at the outdoor meetings which it will hold to-night. Pittsbdro, FeU 5.—Rev. B, B. Warfield, D. D., professor of New Testament Exegesis, in the Western Theological 'seminary, this city, announces his acceptance of U)n vpll to Princeton Theological seminary, where he will occupy the chair of systematic1 and polemic theology. Dr. War4sld not sever his connection with the Western' seminary until the end of the current yarn*. In this call the reverend gentleman has reived the highest honor the Presbyterian church is able to bestow. Princeton Theology. Forty-nine also contemplates getting up a parade of tit* unemployed on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. The condition of the shipping interests brought about by the 'longshoremen's strike arill be considered at a meeting of the maritime trade at the Produce Exohange this afternoon. The money market is a little higher as to rate than a week ago, but well supplied, and foreign exchange moves up to $4.89. Bales of cotton last week were large, with prices depressed, but then fully recovering; wheat advanced 1 and cornlX «ents, with moderate dealings, declined 3^.cents and coffee an eighth. Fork and lard slightly advanced, and the New York oattl««aciarket was a shade stronger. BECK'S ATTORNEYS BILL. THE WiTll FBOZIT BLOCKADE. Mr. McDermott asked witness if he had ever opened a ballot box before. He £e had only once before. He thought it was an ordinary job, and had no idea that it was a What Senators and Con(rHsn« Shall Mot be Attorneys For. ioton, Feb. 5.—After a warm de- At noon yesterday a Una of fceight ladeu tracks reached from pier 1 in West street •long the Battery park to Broadway, and Wert street itself aa far up as Franklin was ■o badly blocked that it was with difficulty and at a snail's pace that Ute Belt line earn worked their way along. The green hands- Italians for the moat part—who were employed at the piers of the Brie, the New York Central and the Jersey Central, and at all but ptors 4 and 5 of the Pennsylvania company's freight houses, were reduced in numbers, and those *ho remained were stiffened by the hard work. Aa the day went on. however, new man ware employed, and freight was on the whole handled a little mora freely than It had been the day before. At pier X of the Pennsylvania company between eighty and ninety man were at work. Ou-Thursday there were 110, but Chpt. Raymond, who is in charge, say* .that he dismissed about thirty men. bate, in which more or leu bad temper was developed, the senate took a vote upon the anti-attorneys bill. . The bill was passed by 89 to 14. The bill provides that it shall be unlawful for any member of either house of congress to accept employment as attorney at law, or payment for eervisee ot any kind in opposition to the United States, in any case to which the United States may be a party, or in which It*interests may be concerned, or from any railroad company, It such member shall have reasonable cause to believe that meoshrea specially affecting the interests of such company are ponding before congress, or are about to be so pending during his term of office. Any person who violates the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by Imprisonment not exceeding one year or by a fine not exceeding $500, or by both, in the discretion of the court. At this there was a laugh, and Chairman Matthews ordered the sergeant-at-arins to rako the witness in custody. The Republican counsel resented this action, and insisted that the witness should besot at liberty. A sharp discussion ensued, which ended in a vote sustaining the chairman. crime. Philadelphia, Fob.0 5.—The Inquirer says: The coal trade Ja gradually wo. king into a normal condition, Although there will be more or less disturbance until, lite labor troubles at New York are ended. Soma shipments are being made, but the auiouut of coal delivered is not sufficient to m«et the The Coal Trade. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun ft Co., of the Mercantile agency, number for the United States 329, and for Canada 33, or a total of 261, as compared with a total of 371 last week, 301 the' week previous to the last and 2H7 for the corresponding week of last year. Failures in Canada ore numerous and important; In New York city few and insignificant; ill the other sections of the country about up to the avorage. KUtMUf the Presidential Term. Crrr or Mexico, via Galvmbton, Feb. &— The legislature of the state of Puebla has sent a bill to the permanent commission of congrass, which provjides for extending thn presidential term, to- six years, and sddlnf: two years to the present term of President Diaz, which would 'extend his administration to I)Member, 1890. The bill will go before congress at the April session. It excites much interest in political circles and in the press. ANOTHER RAILROAD wants at maud from New England. In m wast thare It a genuine scarcity of anthracite. Tbara i» a d®- To Penetrate Northern Now York Prom Cnnastota. A Madman's Bad Work. W*mTO»lt, N. Y., Feb. 5.—A representative of the Etmira, Cortland and Northern railroad, of which Austin Corbin, of New York, is president, has been in this city in the interests of a new railroad to northern New York, running from Cnnastota to Ogilensburg via Watertowu, Clayton, Alexandria Bay, and Morris town. A brunch line is also included connecting at Carthage with the Carthage and Adirondack railroad, built Inst summer, and in which Mr. Corbin is largely interested. HanoVbb, If. H., Feb. 5.—Stephen Lamphier (hot and killed Mn Mark Pooaidsou, aged GO, at her home in Lyme. Lamphier then shot himself dead. He was about 60 yean old, and «ru considered to be mentally unsound. He boarded with the Donaldson family. Insanity is the only known cause for the tragedy. o FIRE IN A MEDICAL COLLEGE. Exeltlnf Time In the Chicago Homeo- Vanny Davenport's Diamonds. Forty of the eighty odd who remained were the identical men, under the same bosses, who helped the company out during the strike of 1883. They are Italians, and live 4Dwu the line of the Pennsylvania road at tii?r«reut points. They are taken across the ,river at night on the company's tugs and then transported to their homes in the ommtry. Theee men, Capt. Raymond says, are experienced freight handlers and do good nark. They know just what they are doing a&d understand the hostility toward them, aod are all armed. Capt Raymond thought that at pier 1 they were handling about twoiMrds the usual amount of freight pathic College. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 8.—diaries Tnlbott, the Memphis hotel clerk who on Tuesilay night stole Fanny Davenport's 135,000 diamonds and fled, was arrested bare by the Pinkarton agency. The valuables weiffers covered. Talbot was betrayed by his mis. tross, who disclosed his Identity to the detec. tives at the depot. Chioaso, Feb. 6.—Last night the fire department was called to extinguish a blaze in the dissection room cf the Chicago Homeopathic college at the corner of Wood and York streets. The room is in the southeast corner of the upper floor. Ladders were necessarily used in reaching the flames. As tho foremost, fireman stepped into the room he saw what appeared to be a man overcome by the smoke lying on a table. Calling bis companions, the fireman seized the body and had succeeded in lugging it from the room before he discovered that he was carrjf- Ing nway a partly dissected cadaver. There were thirteen other bodies in the room. On the fourth floor of the building were a number of patients, who up to the arrival of the sity force, had known nothing of the fire. On hearing the noise of the engines they became greatly excited and could be quieted only aHer the department had gone. One old lndy had become completely frenzied, and force was necessary to prevent her from jumping from a window. The physicians in charge fear that the excitement wilPhave a serious effect upon the patients. A Connecticut Fire. HAKTfOKD, Feb. 5.—A dispatch from Middletown says: The Stiles ft Faker Press company's plant, with the exception at the foundry, was destroyed by fire lost night. The Are broke ont at 10 o'clock, and is supposed to have originated in the office in the south epd of the main building. There was some delay tn getting water on the burning building, and a brisk wind Aided the fire in its progress, and at midnight the foundry was the only building standing. The main building was erected in 1878. It was of briok, two and three stories high. The total loss will probably reach 9100,000, and the insurance is about $50,000. The specialty of the works was the manufacture of drop hammers, perforating, boiler (tamping, punching, screw and lever pressed and power shears. The Arm did a large export trade, and employed 76 to 10# of the most skillful mechanics. It is probable that they will rebuild immediately. The Old, Old Story. Philadelphia, Feb. Three han.ired men employed in the nut, bolt #nd rivet works of Hoopes & Townsend 'struck work. The 'men allege that' for months workmen have been discharged for mD other reason than that they were Knights of Labor and they demand their reinstatement 'fhis now road will open a new territory in Northern New York, and will compete with Ihe Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg line. The last named company ig in bad odor with the people of this part of the state since its leasing of the Utica and Black River road, freight rates having been generally increased in order "to declare a divideud on stocks which a year ago were worth less than forty cents on the dollar. CONDENSED NEWS. Natural gas has been disoovered at Covington, Kv. Rusiia is selling France large quantities of oats for the use of the French cavalry. The Ticket Completed. Philadelphia, Feb. 5.—James I. Brown, Horatio B, Hackoit and Johneoo-'Roiiey were nominated by the Bepublicans for police magistrates, thus completing the city ticket \t plan 4 and 5 of the Pennsylvania company a full force was at work, and Mr. J. 8. Baden, who is ia charge, said they were handling just as much freight and handling it just as fast as they ever did. The men are • il'Swedes and Qermaus, and were hired in this city. Mr. Boden said these men suited Lisa, and ha proposed to keep them. The urticles of association of the new road have already been signed by the required uumber of capitalists in Watertown, and it is expected that work will be begun early the coming spring. H. A. UcLeod, of Elmira, i-i to be president of the new company. The largest coal dealer in Canada, Patrick Burns, of Toronto, has failqd for from $300,- 000 to $500,000. St. Louis Bremen rescued ten female seiD rants from the Mer.nutilo club. building by means of ladders Outh of Associate Justice Ask*. Charlotte, N. C.,. Feb. 5.—Hon. Thomas B. Ashe, associate justice of the Sorth Carolina supreipe court, died at bis hbtue at Wades boroat the age of 75. year*. A fatal railroad collision In Indiana is said to have been cnuso l fi.* tlitf engineer having been on duty for forty-eight hours. The work at these piers was going on so fiuely that it attracted rather a large crowd at strikers. None of them manifested any inclination to break the peace. The rumor got •bread in some way, however, that 800 men were going to make a rush for the piers and tfcrow the- non-union men into Uke river. This rumor reached Capt Saunders' station, at «ier A, and he sent a special detail of ten ("libeinen to piers 4 and 5, and as many more irefe scattered along down as far as pier L Unhing occurred. The Lehigh Valley pier Is still closed, no effort being made to receive freight, and the same state of affairs exists at piers 87 and 28 —the Union and Empire lines—of the Pennsylvania company. At the Erie freight house a fair amount of work was done, but it was in no way adequate to the demand, and the truckmen waited in line for hours, Dnd at last had to give it up Sharon, Pa., Feb. 5.—The 1,600 furnacemen of Sharon and the vicinity, except the employes of the Stewart Iron oompany, were unanimous until this week in asking for only fifteen cents advance. This was granted in all cases, even in instances where it had not been asked. The Stewart Iron company's men asked for twenty-five cents, and now a strike has been instituted at all furnaces, exoopting Kimberly's and Buhl's, two furnaces of this city, to support their demaqd. It is reported that from 100 to 400 of the SharpsviUe strikers will be here to ask the Kimberly and Buhl workmen to throw down thoir tools, and upon refusal will forcibly drive them from the works: Expecting Trouble with Strikers. Gulliver's Travels. The United States circuit court in Cincinnati has decided that insurance agents have no property right in their business. Weather Indication*. Portland, Me., Feb. 5.—A' team was about to -crass the Boston and Maine track when the driver, Tbfcoias Gulliver, discovered that an engine was bat a lew yards distant He drew up the horses so sharply that the engine struck the polo, turning the horses completely around and bringing the sled directly in front of the engine. Mr. Gulliver was sent completely over his team and struck on the opposite side of the track, passing ahead of the engine. The sled and load was completely smashed up. Gulliver was badly cut about the head and was otherwise hurt, but the fall extent of his injuries have not yet been ascertained. It is said that so strange an accident was never known. Washington, Feb. 5.—Per New Englaud and middle Atlantic states, fair weather, followed by rain or sno*, warmer northwesterly winds. ■ . Mexican Pension Claimants. The Wine, Liquor awl Beer Dealers' association, of New York, has determined to break the beer brewers' pool and defeat the Crosby .license bill. Washington, Feb. 5.—Commissioner Black, of the pension office, is preparing and will have ready for distribution by next Wednesday, a set of blank forms for the use of Mexican war survivors and widows making applications for pensions under the recent act of congress. The commissioner is specially desirous that applicants and others defer correspondence on ths subject, as it is sxpectad that the forms in preparation, and the accompanying instructions will be so full and complete as to render correspondence unnecessary. All forms furnished by pension olaim agonts will be considered informal, unless approved by the commissioner of pan- That backing cough can be bo quickly cured tj 8hiloh'a Cure. We guarantee It For Mfe hr J R. Klemlne. D The bursting of an Immense waterspout at Chestnut Mound, SmiCh county, Tenn., caused tlie loss of one life and immense damage to property. The receipts of butter, cheese and eggs In New York and the domestic and export sales for the month of January this year show a large falling off from the month of January, lBbO. Nine Uvea ia Peril. -It is reported that the malady from which Mr. Parnell is suffering is Bright'a disease, and it is thought to be improbable that to will be able to stand the strain of his parliamentary work. Charleston, Feb. 5.—In crossing the Charleston bar the schooner Fred W. Chase, from New York, was in collision with tha steamship City of Atlanta, bound for New York, and was cut down to the water line. The Chase went ou the breakers of Folly island, and will go to pieces. The sea was so rough that neither the tug Monarch nor the revenue cutter McCulloch could reach her. Capt. John H. Nason, the crew of seven men and Pilot Fischer are on board. It is thought that they will be saved. No blame can attach to the Atlanta, which proceeded on her way to New York. Hopkinton, Feb. 5.—Thar* is a prospect ot the big lookout in this town, which is only a part of the trouble, extending as it doss into Spencer, Worcester and Che Brookfialds, being amicably settled. The manufacturers, it is rumored, have sent for their man, and are now in oonsulfetion pending a settlement. This move is looked upon here aa the bftginning of the end, and the manufacturers in other towns are sopeoted to follow suit. Protective Settlement. IN JERSEY CITY. sions. Europe is panio stricken over the war preparations and the consequent great excitement In all the money Centers. Big tallurn are (eared from the drop in prices of securities in Loudon, Paris and Berlin. Krla JlrAetnen Get an Increase Birmingham, Conn., Feb. 6.—There are apprehensions felt that the ice gorge at Boar bridge, on the Housatonic river, may cause destruction of property. The ice is piled thirty feet high and. the backwater and ice have surrounded a number of dwellings near the river bank. A force of twenty men are at work trying to open the jam. Considerable alarm is felt as to what extont this stajji of things may go. The Housmtonte lea Jam. Juuucy Cmr, Feb. 5.—The Erie strikers in Jersey City were up early yesterday morn,,g. looking none the worse for their encounter with the police on Thursday evening. They gathered in small groups in the -neighborhood of the freight yard and piers, But did not venture on railroad property. There wat not the slightest disturbance during I he day, and the 400 non-union men who jueut work in the strikers'places were not .disturbed. A number of freight brakemen t ad switchmen who had been induced by the *trilwr* to quit work held a meeting in the jlepot to decide upon their future action. The day brakemen and switchmen met *vith them. Tb» men sent for Division Superjiiusadeut Barrel and told him they would not go back to work auleas they received the •mm pay that the Pennsylvania men received jftw* tils same kind of work. The superintendent granted the demand, and the meet- Jug .broke u[x The day men went back to their work, and the night men repor&d for -Juty at the usual hour. Yard Vihor at lb» KrU dejtot is divided into three claw*. Under the new arrangement the man hi the Arvt class wltt receive aa increase of $11 a III Wages. The New YoA chamber of oommeroe addopted resolutions to the iqsmory of John Roach, reciting that ha met with unjust ravefses and died brokdb hearted in a oountry that should have honored him. Will Prohibit Dealing In Fatnres. Thlx medicine, oomblnlng iron tilth pure vegetable tan lea, quickly and completely Cora Dnpepsla. Itdl(Ntlu, WcdiUf], layiwBliA DbUH%CUII«u4 Ann, * Hla an for 01 ■ Itdoe* not the teeth,eauwheadachc.r produce constipation—othfr' mm Makeftin do «- The genuine baa aboT»»»jdpin*rk auf red line* on wrapper. Take no other CCa*Mhh MlMHIMUtClulllflMnl* Fears of a Kabblt Pestilence* Austin, Tex.. Feb. A—A bill passed the Texas senate, and will probably pass tha house, prohibiting dealing in futures and fixing a line of not less than |100, and not mors than $500, and imprisonment in the county jail for six months, each day tha business is conducted to constitute a separate offense. A firm of operators In materialised spirit* were disclosed to be frauds in Boston, a preconcerted movement on the part at a party of unbelieving gentlemen revealing in the glare of the gaslight that tha spirits were Wholly mundane and not at •UathersaL Washington, Feb. 5.—The president has received a letter from Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, calling attention to a report that a cargo of Bnglish-Australian rabbits is at sea bound for the United States. He says it would be better to have pleuro-pneuuionia, smallpox and cholera spread over the United States than to snffer the ravages which will result from tha importation of theae rabbits. The matter was referred to the treasury department  February Floods. Pittsburg, Feb. 6.—Navigation is entirely suspended on account of the high water in both rivers. The wharf marks show twentyone feet, and slowly rising. Twenty-three to twenty-four faet of water is expected. The weather is clear and moderating. No damage has yet been reported except the enforced closing of several iron mills and glass houses until the water recedes. There are on the pension rolls of the government 300,000 names, in round numbers. Ot. the 3,000,891 men who were in the union service there ware: living at the close of tha war some 1,700,000. Making a liberal allowance for deaths, there are sUD left of tha survivors of th* army and navy not now receiving any pension, and either not entitled to or not claiming any, tally 1,000,000 man. If on* half of this numbsr apply for pensions under the department pension hill mom In th* hands Boston Sympathy. Boton, Feb. 6.—Representative* of all the local labor assemblies met last night and passed resolutions sympathising with the New York strikers and calling upon the government to taka charge of the coal mines under the right of eminent domain. Shipping Mews. Norwich, Feb. &—The state G. A. B. convention has elected Henry E. Tainter, of Hartford, commander; Samusk B. Homo, Caaaeotleat U. A. K. QugxmnowH, Feb. fc—Arrived, steam ■hip Britannic, from New York. $600 toSS.OOflssS^rB Utm. MlliDff the Mluouri 8t««m Wulw.. CELK* Boston, Feb, 6,—Arrived, Beaver lln* steamer Lake Superior, from Liverpool Hine stallions died daring tha voyage. of Wins ted, vi ; William EL Tha Presldaat Blgasd. Washington, Feb. A—Tim president has Pserpont, of Nsw Ha van, junior vlca-eomf ot th* prssidwt, ths amount requital to meet lhair alaiass wtmld ha about |TO,000,000. signsd tha interstate