Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1883-09-28, p.2

# THE WEEKLY ALERT. J. C. WARNOCK, . . . EDITOR. [No date line or page number is printed on the page; the masthead title and editor line stand at the head of column 1.] ## Column 1 THE over zealous postmaster general Gresham may find that he has exceeded his authority in directing the posmaster [sic] general at New Orleans to not deliver any letters to or redeem any money orders payable to the First National bank in that city because he has learned to his own satisfaction that said bank is receiving money in that way for the Louisiana State Lottery. This would effectually close business correspondence of any character with that bank and it would be impossible to conduct its business. It would be a fine state of affairs if a bank or other business could be deprived of the advantage and privilege of the mails at the caprice and espionage of a self-constituted autocrat. Such a thing might be done in Russia, but Mr. Gresham has evidently forgotten that the people in this country have rights which he is bound to respect. It is fortunate for the people that he has tackled an institution which has the wealth to test the authority in the courts. The question in this case will not be the character of the lottery referred to but the right of the postmaster general to deprive the bank of the privilege of the mails in the transaction of its business. THE Valley City Times comes up to the help of the Lord against the mighty and gives away a circumstance which will convince the people of the truth of the allegations made by the editor of the Sioux Falls Press that once upon a time Governor Ordway attempted to bribe him. It seems that Chas. Richardson, editor of the Times, was at Yankton last winter, at and about the time the legislature adjourned. The fact of Richardson being a sojourner at Yankton militates somewhat against his credibility as a witness but truth very often comes out of unholy places, and this is one instance of that remarkable kind. The facts of the case seem to be, as Richardson relat es [sic] them himself, that he accompanied the members of the legislature, which composed what was known as the Iron Brigade. on their parting visit to the governor's office. After several of the members had fired their little speeches at the governor, and after Jud LaMoure had proceeded to the point where he disclosed the fact to his Excellency that "the men present, (including Richardson of course,) could play a stiffer game of poker, and drink more whiskey than any other set of men in the territory," the governor did then and there go across the room to said affiant, Chas. Richardson, and offer him a cigar, which he took,and considered himself bribed, but for what purpose he has never been able to find out, and now, in the interests of good government, gives the secret to the public through his paper. THE Alert would like to have seen the capital legally established at Bismarck. Their donation was a magnificent one and would have provided the territory with the finest capital buildings in the Northwest without the cost of a cent to the people in the way of taxation. So far as the law is with Bismarck the Alert is with her, but no farther. We cannot afford to take a position against the law out of friendship for Bismark [sic], nor can she afford to take such a position herself. The judgment of the court is against her now and the decision of the court is the law until otherwise ordered by a higher authority and must be respected as such. Bismarck can gain new and strong friends by submitting and conforming to the edict of the court, and she can, on the other hand, drive them from her by disregarding the decision. The masses of the people of Dakota territory have a reverence for the law born and bred in the bone. There is nothing to prevent Bismarck from going ahead and building the capital as a private and individual enterprise. Of course they could not get any money out of the territorial treasury and they do not need to, as they have put none into it from this source. The law being void the territory has no claim upon the money that shall be realized from the sale of lots. The better policy of Bismarck now would seem to be to construct the building as a Bismarck enterprise and then propose to donate it to the territory in consideration of the location of the capital there in a legal and proper way. They are under no obligation to give the 320 acres of land, nor anything for that matter. The law being void the bond they executed is void also. The fine building they designed to erect, if completed and offered as a bonus, together with suitable grounds, say five acres, would be as liberal as any one could ask and would be a powerful attraction. The next legislature should be composed of men who represent the people, and not themselves as townsite speculators, and with such a legislature that donation would be sufficient inducement and justification for removing the capital from Yankton to Bismarck. With the capital commission blunder and railroad bill before the people it is not extravagant to assume that the next legislature will be composed of new members by a large majority. THE order of Postmaster General Gresham against delivering letters or paying money orders to the New Orleans National bank is likely to raise a breeze about the ears of that imperial autocrat that will make his retirement to his home in "Ingeanny" more congenial than his present place in the cabinet. The American people a[r?]e jealous of their rights and will resist any act upon the part of those in authority which smirks of an infringement upon them. The people demand that those who administer the law shall themselves keep within the law, and with the intelligent press of the country every imperialistic encroachment upon the guaranteed rights of the people or any one of its body,will be condemned no matter of what political party the autocrat may be. The surrender of one of the least of the rights of an American citizen paves the way to greater encroachments. It is the duty of the press, which in this intelligent age and especially in ## Column 2 America, is the lever that moves the world, to meet such innovations on the threshhold [sic] and throttle them in their infancy. On the subject of this order of the postmaster general the Fargo Argus editorially says: The act of congress may justify the postmaster general in refusing to deliver mail to M. A. Dauphin, as manager of the Louisiana State Lottery at New Orleans, but it must be a long stretch of authority that permits General Gresham to direct the postmaster to refuse to deliver mail or cash postal orders, addressed to or drawn in favor of the New Orleans National bank. Some people become so exceedingly pure that there is danger of excess. The constitution of the United States declares that men's private affairs shall be invioiable [sic], and that the United States mails shall not be subject of official inquisition is a long established rule. Such an order as is reported made by the postmaster general. in France, would create revolution. It is an outrage upon a free people and deserves the condemnation that the past record of an ever failing soldier and an unjust jurist warrants. WE have not as yet seen the full text of the constitution adopted by the Sioux Falls convention but so far as we may judge from the telegraphic reports the document is a good one, and one to which congress can make no objection for innovations upon the general rule or incompatibilities with the letter and spirit of the federal constitution, except it be on the grounds of doing away with the grand jury, if such has been done, as unofficially reported. The question will be not so much the letter and spirit of the constitutian [sic] as the advisability and public policy of dividing the territory, making the south part a state and of the north part the nucleus of a state. The people of the whole territory, who are directly affected by it, and in consequence interested parties, are not perhaps the best judges of the question. It requires more moral stamina than human nature possesses to decide a public question directly against one's own interests or wishes, and for this reason neither the people south or north of the 46th parallel can be regarded as impartial judges. If South Dakota had been satisfied to go into the union under the name of South Dakota, so far as North Dakota is concerned no obstacle would have been thrown in her way, and she would have been allowed to depart from the territorial family circle, with a fair proportion of the homestead, in peace and with our blessing. But she has wantonly and contemptuously disregarded the earnest and repeated protests of of [sic] North Dakota against appropriating the name of Dakota, which is equally our heritage, our pride and our right. She has in her pompous arrogance repelled with silent disdain the good will an[d?] sympathy of North Dakota by taking upon herself a name that has been raised above mediocrity and made famous by North Dakota enterprise and products. Their admission in the name of Dakota means the extinction of the name of North Dakota and the giving us of some other name that will require years of advertising to bring up to its present celebrity, if it ever can be done. There is a point beyond which forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and upon this subject that point has been reached and passed. The "southern confederacy" may be admitted into the union as the state of Dakota, but if she is it will be over the united protest and combined opposition of North Dakota. The coutest [sic] is now transferred to the halls of congress, and North Dakota should make preparation to meet the issue there. ONCE again the Alert, which is always on the watch tower for the wayward sinners of Jamestown, would admonish them to attend church to-day instead of going duck shooting or meandering around to the unguarded back door of some saloon. Prof. Swift, of the Rochester, N. Y., astronomical society, has discovered a comet heading directly toward the earth at a velocity of about seven hundred times that of a cannon ball, so that if you have been making any "bad breaks," and the Alert knows you have, you may avail yourself of this timely warning and favorable opportunity for fixing things up in good shape on your spiritual balance sheet before you are called upon for settlement. The professor does not say as to whether this wild ranger of the heavens is aimed at North Dakota for taking the capital away from Yankton or at South Dakota for stealing our name. In view of this uncertainty it would be well for both to provide against surprise and be prepared for the worst. If you have planned to go duck shooting to-day, or fishing at Spiritwood lake, and spending the money in riotous living that should go into the contribution box, renig while you may, for you will not have time to make change when the calamity comes, and in your agitation you will be as apt to "blow in" a five dollar gold piece as the copper you had laid aside for the support of the church. The professor has not published a time card yet, and we are not advised when the comet will pull up at Earth station, but as its speed is such that it passes telegraphic messages on the wire and there are no stations between, it will probably come in ahead of time. Comets were once regarded by the people with terror as they were looked upon as the harbingers of some national calamity, the great comet of 44 B. C. immediately preceding the death of Julius Cæsar. What they are, where they come from and where they are going is as yet an unsolved question in astronomical science. The comet of 1811 had a head forty-nine times as large as the earth and a tail a hundred million miles in length. In this enlightened age of the world comets are contemplated as beauties rather than terrors of the sky, and as they have been very reliably ascertained to be of less density than a heavy fog no apprehension from concussion need be apprehended. They demonstrate the immensity of the universe and the omnipotent power which appointed their orbits and set them in motion. If there was no revelation a glance through the telescope among the countless worlds of the solar system must convince man that there is a God. ## Column 3 THE people of Duluth are somewhat "broke up" because President Villard did not bring his golden spike party to the "zenith city of the unsalted seas." It does seem a little queer to so ignore the very beginning point of the Northern Pacific, and its eastern seaport, as it were, and it is not surprising that its people kick. WHATEVER may be said of and against the capital commission bill, the commissioners who were appointed by and have acted under it are blameless. They performed the duties prescribed for them to do by that act of the legislature, and if their selection of a capital site proves in the final adjudication to be invalid the fault will be in the law and not in them. They have gone no farther in the premises than the law directed and whatever blan e [sic] attaches to the proceedings is with the legislature that made the law. The commission was composed of good and representative men from different parts of the territory, and the abuse and obloquy that has been heaped upon them was wholly undeserved and manifestly unjust. WHEN the editor of the Mandan Pioneer made his advent into Dakota a few months ago, he set himself up as a standard of "culchaw," he had grammar on the brain, and had it bad. For an exchange to use the expression "it don't" was to flaunt a red flag in the face of a bull. The "culchawed" editor would get up in the silent watches of the night and tear his hair in secluded agony over that grammatical error and "vulgah" expression. But as his "tenderfeet" began to take on the callousness of a buffalo hoof he let up on the grammar question and has now quite recovered from the attack. He is, however, a child of misfortune. As disease always attacks the weakest part it is not surprising that his brain should be afflicted with every malady that besets him. Just now he is troubled with an attack of morality on the brain. He imagines that the Alert, Bismarck Tribune, Valley City Times, Fargo Argus, and other papers in the country whose advertising space is worth seeking after are in danger of Gehenna fire for publishing the Louisiana Lottery ad. The sour grape virtue of the Pioneer is obviously due to the fact that it was not offered the ad. If the editor of the Pioneer ever obtains a situation in an office where a newspaper is run on business principles, he will be in a position to learn something about the business. ### The Thrice-Armed Panoply of Truth. The success of merit when once recognized as a success invariably excites detraction and stimulates envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitab[l]eness. No man or enterprise is worthy of regard whose reputation has not been some time assailed by the baffled rage of some disappointed one, whose attempt to defraud, defame or destroy a right[e]ous cause has been defeated after detection. The panoply of truth h[o]nesty and fair dealing to all has caused the Louisiana State Lottery to be invincible to any attack upon the integrity of the management of its distributions by Generals G. T. [B]eauregard of La., and Jubal A. Eariy [sic] of Va., and while here and there, some disappoint[e]d one may grumble, public opinion [i]s unananimous [sic] that everything is straight and square. The next drawing (the 161st monthly) will take place on Oct. 9th, and any information desired will be given on application to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. ### A Steam Fire Engine. A prominent merchant and taxpayer of Jamestown drops the following note to the Alert: You could not do your city more good or strike the sentiments of the community better than by stirring up, (and keeping at it) your city council to the necessity of a good steam fire engine and efficient fire department. It is a want not felt by one but by all, and much felt. The necessity of some efficient means of combatting fire is apparent to every one, but what would be practicable is the question. The suggestion of this gentleman helps to set the people thinking upon the subject. The Alert would be glad to have suggestions of the best practicable plan of fire protection for our city from others for it is an important one and "in the multitude of counsel there is wisdom." ### The Game. Mr. H. A. Mullane played a match game of finger billiards at Murphy's saloon last evening for a purse of fifteen dollars with five Jamestown gentlemen who were furnished cues. At an early stage of the game the flip fingered gentleman got the two reds in one corner of the table where he kept them until he had made fifty-two points. By this time the game grew rather stale and the crowd agreed with the five players to give up the stakes and permit the expert to give an exhibition of his skill, which he did No betting was indulged in, although some tempting invitations were extended by the expert. As a finger billiardist Mr. Mullane is pretty well up to the average. With a cue he is ver[y?] good being able to make all the way from one to two hundred at a run. Taking everything into consideration the game and exhibition was quite entertaining, the most prominent feature of which was a paying quantity of suckers who would bet on "another man's game." ### The Dalrymple Farm. The Casselton Reporter publishes the following in reference to the celebrated Dalrymple farm: Wheat is the only crop produced on the farm for export, the hay, oats etc.,being used for home consumption. The cultivated portions of the farm is in divisions of 6,000 acres,each of the five divisions being sub-divided into sub-divis[i]ons of 2,000 acres each, all parts of the farm being in telephonic communication with head quarters,each sub-division having a general superintendent. The farm lands were bought at a cost of 60 cents to $2 50 per acre. The cost of buil[d]ings, household goods, machinery, etc., makes an average of $10 per acre. Af[t]er this the average cost to raise a crop,including all repairs and renewals, is $6 per acre The land now under cultivation is of the average value of $25 per acre, and the earn[i]ngs $15 per acre. The first crop from 1,200 acres was harvested in 1876, and this surface has been added to until now the figure is 30,000 acres. To harvest [t]he crop 200 self binders are employed, cutting on an average fifteen acres per day. The average yield this season is twenty bushels per acre of No. 1 hard, which is under contract for market at $1 per bushel net, or above the cost of transportation to market, and it is expected that this year's crop will net $600,000 One self binder is required to each 160 acres, and a steam thresher to each 1.000 acres, and the threshers turn out 1,000 bushels each per day. ## Column 4 # COUNTY COMMISSIONE[R?]S. ### Business of Stutsman County Transacted by Its Financial Guardians. Proceedings of board of county commissionees [sic] in session at 10 o'clock a. m., Sept. 17, 1883. Present—Commissioner Woodbury. There being no quorum, adjourned to meet at 2 o'clock p. m. Called to order at 2 o'clock p. m. Present—Commissioner Woodbury. There being no quorum, adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock a. m , Sept. 20, 1883. L. B. MINER, Co. Clerk. Board in session at 10 o'clock a. m., Sept. 20, 1883. Present—Commissioners Nickeus and Woodbury. Nickeus in the chair. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. On motion, the county attorney was instructed to take legal steps to compel the children of George Brewitt to support him. On motion, all road supervisors were instructed to stop all road and bridge work at once, without a special order to proceed from the board of county commissioners. On motion the following bills were allowed: | Claimant and item | Amount | |---|---| | James Laverty, mileage to district court, | $6 80 | | David [R?]ussell, witness fees and mileage, district court, | 7 70 | | J [E?]. Britton, witness fees and mileage, district court, | 7 70 | | Wm M Price, witness' fees and mileage, district court, | 7 90 | | A W [E?]dd[y?], grand juror and mileage, district court, | 13 80 | | E P Clayton, 11 days bailiff, dist. court, | 22 00 | | Thos Driscoll, 10 days petit juror, district court, | 20 00 | | Geo W Vennum, 10 days petit juror, district court, | 20 00 | | [J]no A Moore, 10 days petit juror, district court, | 20 00 | | Dan Nevin, 3 days petit juror, dist. court, | 6 00 | | Thos W Fields, 11 days petit juror, district court, | 22 00 | | Henry Laughlin, 11 days petit juror, district court, | 22 00 | | P Aubertin, 1 day pet. juror, dist court, | 2 00 | | P Aubertin, 4 days grand juror " | 8 00 | | I B Harris, 2 days pet. juror, dist. court, | 4 00 | | W D Nickeus, 10 days petit juror, district court, | 20 00 | | W A Reddield, 9 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 18 10 | | Alex McKechnie, 2 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 8 50 | | George Young, 11 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 34 45 | | Jos Lee Kerr, 10 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 23 00 | | Wm Miller, 11 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 27 00 | | Chas H Goudey, 11 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 41 20 | | Christ Hagner, 3 days witness and mileage district court, | 3 50 | | Christ Hagner, 11 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 22 50 | | Gustav Geschke, 11 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 30 80 | | Neil Bell, 11 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 22 40 | | E [illegible] Parker, 2 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 9 70 | | R M Lyon, 9 days witness and mileage, district court, | 10 80 | | R M Lyon, 11 days petit juror and mileage, district court, | 23 80 | | Daniel Steele, 1 day petit juror and mileage, district court, | 2 00 | | Joseph Kirby, 7 days witness and mileage, district court, | 16 00 | | L [illegible] Wilcox, 7 days witness and mileage, district court, | 16 00 | | Aug Welkske, 3 days witness and mileage, district court, | 7 90 | | Mat Welkske, 3 days witness and mileage, district court, | 7 90 | | R L Watters, 8 days witness and mileage, district court, | 11 50 | | Anton Ohrner, 8 days witness and milrage [sic], district court, | 11 50 | | A L Hanscom, 8 days witness and mileage, district court, | 18 50 | | E N Edwards, 3 days witness and mileage, district court, | 3 00 | | W E Dikeman, 1 day juror, dist. court, | 2 00 | | W [illegible] D Lynes, 1 day " " | 2 00 | | A L Hanscom, 4 days grand juror, district court, | 8 00 | | M Daly, 2 days witness, district court, | 2 00 | | P Fergu[s?], 5 days petit juror and mileage district court, | 10 85 | | John R Crum, 4 days grand juror and mileage, district court, | 12 00 | | G B Cutler, 4 days grand juror and mileage, district court, | 19 75 | | Herman E Sox, 4 days grand juror and mileage, dist[r?]ict court | 19 75 | | W Ed Ruthruff, 4 days graud [sic] juror and mileage, district court, | 19 75 | | Horace Hardy, 1 day petit juror and mileage, district court, | 2 00 | | Horace Hardy, 8 days witnees [sic] and mileage district court | 12 70 | | John Dwyer, 1 day pet't [sic] juror district court | 2 00 | | H G Anderson 1 day petit juror district court | 2 00 | | W E Mansfield 2 days pelit [sic] juror district court | 4 00 | | W E Mansfield, 3 days grand juror district court | 6 00 | | W B Sharlow, 1 day petit jury and mileage, district court | 3 40 | | John Bellivo[n?], 2 days petit juror district court | 4 00 | | P H Foley, 10 days petit juror district court | 20 00 | | Ed L Bishop, 10 days reporting and paper district court | 101 50 | | Chas T Hills, 11 days clerk of district court | 55 00 | | Chas T Hills furniture for office | 12 35 | | Bill & [P]arkhurst counsel for Cartwright by court | 10 00 | | Burke & Speaker 75 copies of court calendar | 37 50 | | Burke & Speaker court blanks and certificates | 9 40 | | C Hagner, board of pauper | 35 75 | | R P Simpson- signs for county offices | 45 00 | | S S Altchul, blankets for jail | 8 00 | | F M Brown, furniture for county offices | 61 45 | | F M Brown, furniture for court room | 330 50 | | H B Bush board of pauper | 51 18 | | H B Bush board of pauper | 21 48 | | C G Holcomb, looking for delinquent tax due from Henry Herron | 3 10 | | John A Moore, livery for commissioners examining bridges | 8 00 | | A Steinbach, table for clerk's office | 12 00 | | A Steinbac[h], furniture for sheriff's office | 42 00 | | Slowey & Thomas cuspadors &c county offices | 6 50 | | J M Thompson, board of Geo. Brewitt pauper | 25 72 | | (Above bill referred to county attorney for collection.) | | | John S Watson expenses of trip to St. Paul, legal business for county | 25 30 | | J D Ellis witness fees in Justice Hamilton's court, Ty vs Philamslee [sic] | 6 50 | | Pioneer Press company blanks for sheriffs office | 13 00 | | Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co tax receipts for treasurer's office | 42 50 | | P Aubertin labor and material for culvert, district No 4 | 105 33 | | P [A]ubertin, labor and material for culvert district 4 | 55 60 | | Porter & Roper, plank, district No 3 | 48 87 | | Jas R Winslow, lumber, district No 1 | 109 38 | | " " " " " 4 | 385 39 | | " " " " " 3 | 49 80 | | " " " " " 2 | 81 63 | | Goodrich & Johnston, 2 scrapers | 20 00 | | Grimm, Geiseler & Co material district No 3 | 10 15 | | Grimm, Geiseler & Co material district No 2 | 2 14 | On motion the following road supervisors certificates were cancelled and county road and bridge orders were issued : District No 1, J J Eddy supervisor: No 1 for $90,00; No 3 $32.00;No 10 $18,00 No 12, $85.50; No 13, $438.75; No 14, $22.50; No 16, $536.50; No 17, $36.00; No 18, $6.75; No 19, $36.00; No 20, $36.00: No 21, $291.25. District No 2, J J Leisch. supervisor : No 27 for 49.50; No 28, $36.00; No 29, $51.75; No 31, $40.50; No 32, $47.25; No 34, $84 00. District No 3, C W Hendricks, supervisor: No 66 for $202.25; No 68 for $30.00; No 69, $5.00; No 70, $54.00; No 71, $45 00; No 72, $103.50; No 73, $103.50 No 75, $99.00. District No 4, A. McKechnie supervisor: No 8 for $6.75. F. A. Carley, supervisor district No 5, reported on proposed site for bridge across Beaver creek, petitioned for [b]y Reeves, Shippy and others. The clerk reported that Henry W Verner had filed bonds and qualified as county surveyor. On motion bonds approved. On motion [b?]oard adjourned. L. B. MINER, County Clerk. ## Column 5 ### Who Is He ? The following communication from Fort Buford has been sent to the Bismarck Tribune: FORT BUFORD, Sept. 17—Michael Chrisman left Fort Buford some three years ago, ostensibly for Bismarck, and has not been heard from by his family since that time His wife has recently died, and his two little girls, aged ten and thirteen, are upon the charity of friends in La Crosse, Wisconsi[n?]. Any person knowing anything of the missing man will confer a favor upon the children by addressing Clara L. Chrissman, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Dak[o]ta and Montana papers may gratify the little girls by passihg [sic] this notice around. S. S. TURNER, Postmaster. ### An Exceptionally Fine Display. A Herald reporter visited floral hall at the state fair grounds for the purpose of noting more specifically an exhibit made by the Northern Pacific railroad company of products from the regton [sic] traversed by their newly completed transcontinental line. The exhibition elicited admiring comments from all who examined it. The samples of grains, grasses and vegetables from the crop of 1883 were exceptionally fine. There were specimens of hard spring wheat from Cass, Barnes, Ransom, Stutsman, K[i?]dder, Burleigh and Stark counties, North Dakota, and from Northern Minnesota. This variety of spring wheat is celebrated as being that from which the finest flour is manufactured by the patent roller process. There were wonderfully fine samples of wheat from Montana, Washington and Oregon. Grasses were shown of the highly nutritious varieties common to the western territories. They are of luxuriant growth. The vegetables were of immense size and superior quality. The exhibit was as great a surprise as it was attractive, it having been brought from such a distance. The farmers who inspected the exhibition commented upon it in the highest terms of praise. It occupies a space of eighty feet of the hall and is arranged in a tasteful manner. Mr. Geo. D. Teller, traveling agent of the Northern Pacific railroad, whose office is at Buffalo, was in attendance and dis[t]rib-uted pamphlets and sectional m[a]ps descriptive of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Mr. P B. Groat, general emigration agent of the road,was also in attendance. and may be addressed for information regarding the region referred to, at St. Paul, Minn.—Rochester, N. Y., Herald. ### A Pittsburgh Horror. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20—Another disaster has been added to the list of accidents that have from time to time spread consternation and grief among our iron and steel worders [sic], and their families. The dangers attending the operators of our iron mills have not of late been greater than those which attend the life of the average mechanic, but on several memorable occasions fatalities have occurred which have been attended with peculiarly distressing cir[cum?]stances. Such an accident happened he[re?] to-day, resulting in the instant death of three men and serious and probably fatal injury of twelve others. Between 1 and 2 o'clock this afternoon a shock was felt throughout the city which shook many buildings to their foundations, smashed windows and terribly frightened the residents of the south side, who rushed from their houses into the street in terror. Immediately after the shock an alarm of fire was struck and upon investigation it was found that a large boiner [sic] in the flanging department of the Sligo iron works had exploded with fearful violence scattering flying fragments in every direction, setting fire to the Lake Erie railroad shops and a number of dwellings in the vicinity. News of the disaster spread like wild fire and soon thousands of people were at the scene of destruction. Upon arrival there a fearful sight met their gaze. The boiler department, a brick structure, was a complete wreck,as were also a number of passenger and freight cars, and the master mechanic's shops of the Lake Erie railroad, while a row of dwellings on the opposite side of the street were in flames. Men,women and children were running about wringing their hands and calling for friends who were either killed or wounded in the ruins of the flanging department. Scattered around were the dead and dying, some with legs and arms off, some disfigured beyond recognition and others suffering from severe burns and scalds. By this time the police h[a?]d arrived in force and the work of removing [t]he dead and injured from the ruins was begun. It was found that at the time of the explosion twenty men were at work. Of these nine are reported all right, three were killed and 8 badly injured, four fatally, while four children of Charles Douglass, living across the street, were badly burned. The following is the list of killed: John W. Allen, the top of his head blown off. Charles Douglass, side of head blown off John McGarrigan, scalded and sides crushed in. Following is list of injured: Louis House, leg and arms broken and otherwise injured, probably fatally hurt. Mr. Stewart, both legs broken, injuries fatal. Wm. Rodeman, compound fracture of the right leg and other injuries, probably fatal. Thomas Smith, hand blown off and other injuries, probably fatal. Christ. Miller, badly scalded. Edward Malley, head hurt by falling debris. Patrick Leek, leg and arm blown off, serious. Patrick Welsh, shoulder blade fractured. John Douglass, boy, scalded, serious. Jesse Douglass, little girl, scalded, serious. Willie Douglass, injured about head. Ba[b]y Douglass, scalded with steam, very serious The neighbors did all they could to relieve the sufferers. The boiler was an upright one, six feet in diameter, and was split in fragments, the longest being blown 200 feet, landing in the middle of the Monongahela river. It is not known what caused the explosion. It was just after the dinner hour and steam had been turned on only a few minutes when it exploded. Coroner impanelled a jury and a thorough investigation will be made. Sligo iron works formerly owned by Lyon, [S]hort & Co., but now by Merrick, Philips & Co. Their loss is estimated at $10,000. Loss to Lake Erie railroad company and dwellings $30,000. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 22—To-day Gov. Dresden refused to interfere in the case of Geo. Wallace, colored, sentenced to hang at Savannah, next Friday. ## Column 6 # NEWS BY TELEGRAPH AGRAM, Sept. 21—Six hundred peasants from Gradescz and B[a]llover assembled at Fankaswinch yesterday armed with muskets and shouting, "We won't [b]elong to Hungary." A small b[o]dy of military attempted to disperse the mob but were compelled to withdraw. Reinforcements at midnight were received with a volley of stones and shots. The troops returned the fire, killing ten and wounding [m]any more. Two soldiers wounded. PITTSBURG, Sept. 21—Benj. Young, boiler inspector, Ford's clerk stated to-night that they had no record of the exploded boiler and that it had not been inspected because the inspector did not know anything about it. He said the law requires all persons operating steam boilers to notify the inspector but this was not done. The penalty for neglecting to do this is a fine of five thousand dollars and twenty years imprisonment besides being responsible for all injuries and damages sustained by others in case of explosion. Two more injured reported to-day, Martin McHugh and Wm. Jones, but injuries are not of a serious nature. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 21—Weekly Grain Circular, grain market quiet, foreign wheats rather more steady, English wheat under liberal supply. Cargoes off the coast continued depressed and difficult to sell unless a large reduction was made in the price. Majority of holders therefore order them elsewhere. Since Tuesday a better feeling is apparent and trade for forward delivery also improved. Indian corn on spot 1½[d?] dearer. At to-day's market there was an average attendance. Wheat in moderately good consumptive demand, especially for red winter, which was 1d higher. Flour in fair request. Corn dull, small supply and rather dearer. MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 21—A buyer of wheat with transit appeared on the floor of the chamber of commerce to buy wheat with transit of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road. He was bidding millers' association prices and taking the transit with it. Rumor has it that he is simply an agent of the road and that he brought with him fabulous sums to back his purchases with. He denies being an agent of the road or anybody else, but says he is running a quiet little business of his own. The character of his purchases, taken in connection with the fact that he refuses transit of any other road, is accepted as evidence that the rumor is correct, and that he is protecting the interests of the road in its fight with the millers' association WHEELING, Sept. 21—At two o'clock this morning J. B. Birmingham, treasurer of the Fred Warden theatrical company, got into a difficulty with Miss Annie Boyle, the leading lady of the company. While in her room on pretext of delivering a package, he made insulting proposals which were resented by the lady. She rushed from the room to the parlor and sent for the manager, John Collins On his arrival he found Birmingham under the influence of liquor battering at the door. Collins stepped down to the office of the hotel, called a policeman and had Birmingham arrested. In the police court Birmingham was fined ten dollars. Later in the day Manager Collins discharged him and at the same time gave him his opinion of his actions. This scene occurred in the lobby of the McLure House. Birmingham becoming exasperated drew a revolver and was about to fire when a porter of the house prevented him. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22—About 2 o'clock this morning the handsome passenger steamer Gem City, which has been in winter quarters two weeks, was burned to the water's edge. The boat lay at the foot of Dorcas street, and the flames were seen some time before the alarm was turned in. The fire spread too quickly for the department to be of any service, and in less than three-quarters of an hour from the time the fire started the boat was destroyed, only the hull, which is of iron, and the machinery remains. The Gem City was built two years ago, and plied between St. Louis and St. Paul. She was the fastest boat on the upper river and belonged to the St. Louis & St. Paul Packet Co., Commodore Davidson president. Loss estimated at $30,000. Two of the company's barges were also burned. Insured for almost the full value. BOSTON, Sept. 22—September 4th Fred P. Jenks, a well known cotton broker, hired a room in the Tremont house and during the day took four bottles of patent medicine containing opium. He was found nearly lifeless and died on the 6th. An inquiry was begun into the affair and the first discovery was a note which he got some time ago and was a forgery. Other forgeries were discovered in rapid succession, and it was also found he had appropriated and squandered $6,500 in cash which had been entrusted to his friendship by elderly females. The signature to the note was that of J. E. Warfield, of Oakdale. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 22—A terrible accident happened at Woodward shaft, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western company, at Kingston this afternoon. The shaft is five hundred feet deep and has twenty feet of water at the bottom George Bulge, Thos. Davis and Edward Phillips were working on a platform timbering thr [sic] shaft sixty feet from the bottomt [sic] when a piece of timber,weighing half a ton, fell on the platform while being lowered. It gave way and four men were precipitated to the bottom, falling into the dump and were drowned. Phillips, Harris and Lewis Jones were saved by hanging to ths [sic] beam and crying for help. Men all married except Davis, and leave large families in destitute circumstances. ATLANTA, Sept. 22—A Newnan special to the Constitution gives an interview with the boy White who was stolen by Ogletree, now so notorious for stealing boysConstitution [sic] previously gave details of Ogletree's abduction of Charlie Tilden from Atlanta and of the abduction of the other boys in Hardeson [sic] county all of whom he subjected to most beastly treatment before they escaped. The abduction of Joe Allen White, aroused the county and numerous parties went in pursuit of the rascal. A couple of days since he was so closely pursued that he hid the boy in a fence corner and moved out himself. When the boy was found he was nearly dead from fright and want of food. He said the man approached him August 28, telling him he owned a saw mill in Tennessee and wanted him to work. The story of his rambles through swamps, repeated chastisements and personal abuse, baffled description. The country will still be scoured for Ogletree, who manages to keep ahead. ## Column 7 NEW YORK, Sept. 22—Eighteen young women gorgeously attir[e]d, attempted to play ball on the Manhattan Athletic club grounds to-day. The contest was a burlesque and resulted, Brunettes 52, Blondes 22. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 22—The steamer J. G. Fletcher sunk near [S]hreveport this evening, valued at $7,500; insured f[o]r $3,500. No lives l[o]st. Cargo will be saved in a damaged condition. She lays in six feet of water and will be raised. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Sept. 22—Mrs. Wm. S Reynold, a widow and resident of Brooklyn, was thrown from a wagon at Millon this afternoon and instantly killed, her head striking the dock. Mrs. Pitcher, who was riding with her, was thrown into the water but rescued uninjured. CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 22—Commercial Gazette: News received of a horrible murder and robbery near Salem, Washington county, Thursday night. Thos Johnson, a young farmer, ha[d] been to the fair and carelessly displayed money. On his way home he was attacked and beaten to death. Two pistol shot wounds were found on him and all his money was gone. Murderers not arrested yet. WILMINGTON, N. C., Sept. 22—Dispatches to the Star report the hanging by lynchers, in Richmond county, of a negro named Archie Johnson, for attempting to outrage a white girl six years of age, the daughter of a h[i]ghly respected planter of that county. Johnson was left hanging on a tree with a placard pinned to his breast bearing the words "our wives and daughters must be protected." HELENA, Mont., Sept. 22—Reports cir[c]ulated certain visitors in the Yellowstone p[a]rk of acts of vandalism by the soldiers of the president's escort during the late trip are emphatically denied by Gov. Crosby, of Montana, a member of the party, who says Gen. Sheridan's orders were strict [in?] this regard, [also?] as to unnecessary killing of [game?]; that orders were carried out to the letter in every respect. LEXINGTON, Sept 22—Last n[i?]ght [C?]ol. R. L. Strader the w[ell?] known horseman, shot [a]nd killed Bra[i?]ford Foster, negro employe. Strader was t[old?] that Foster turned a stallion in with a valua[b]le [filley?]. He got a shot gun and went to the stable and fired at Foster, who started to run, but turned, and while advancing t[o]ward Strader, the latter fired twice killing Foster. Strader gave himself up and was admitted to bail. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22—Advices from the Indian Territory say two men named Sadler, Tipton and two brothers named Gray, from the vicinity of Paris, Tex., camped on Big creek in the Choctaw nation to hunt and fish, and last Wednesday night their camp was raided by a posse claiming to be in search of horse thieves,and their surrender was demanded. This was refused and a fight ensued, and one of the Gray brothers and Sadler were killed. The other Gray and Tipton escaped. The posse then plundered the camp, taking all valuables. PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 22—Astoria chamber of commerce, telegraphed Villard, president of the Northern Pacific, asking him if he would build the Astoria Forest Grove railroad provided they found contractors to take it at $30,000 per mile and they to furnish terminal facilities at Astoria. Villard replied that he would is [sic] the contractors would take it at $20,000 per mile payable in first mortgage bonds and $10,000 a mile payable in second mortgage bonds, which were all the available funds the company had at present. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22—Capt. Caverly, of the steamship Coleman, who touched off Mazatlan on his way up from Panama, in speaking of yellow fever on the Mexican coast confirms the reports of burial of dead by a band of hired Indians who, he says, roamed from house to house gathering corpses as a garbage man would make his rounds. This resulted in many persons being buried alive. In the case of a man taken up for dead and was carted away and buried, a noise was heard in the box as he was being carted off. Friends hearing this went to the cemetery, disinterred the remains and found the body turned over from agony of suffocation. Information from private sources states that there have been 800 deaths at Mazatlan during the last six weeks. LONDON, Sept. 22—Prof. Norderiskjold telegraphs the following from Scrabster to the associated press agent at London: During my excursion on the inland ice, Dr, Nathorst with steamer S[o]fia in charge of Capt. Nelson, anchored on the 25th of July in the bay near Cape York, 76° north. The doctor was accompanied from Goodhaven by an Esquimaux interpreter who had met at Goodhaven a party of fifteen Esquimaux from Wolst[en]holm They stated that they had been informed by another native that the commander of the American expedition, whose name they pronounced "Kash[g?]n," and another member of the party which had arrived at at [sic] a point north of Smith Sound were dead and that the rest of the expedition has returned, he states, to Littleton Island. BOSTON, Sept. 22--Three f[ugi]tives who have reached here tell a horr[i]b[l]e story of the cruel treatment to which bondsmen are subjected to on the island. They were property o[f] Marian Va[io?]tti and were engaged in tilling the soil. H[o]urs of labor, 4 a. m. to 8 p. m., meals consisting of nine bananas, and every three or four months the diet was changed and a pound of codfish distributed to each slave, this supply to last them one week. Women are expected to do the same work as men. Slaves were subjected to the most brutal treatment often times resulting in death. In many cases they had been shot down in an attempt to escape. If they recovered from their wounds they were afterwards kept with a heavy iron chain on their ankle to the end of which was attached a heavy iron ball. VINCENNES, Ind., Sept. 22—Joseph Ritchie, an old citizen of Chauncey, Lawrence county, Ill., alleges that he was robbed and his wife killed on a palatial steamer on the Ohio river. Not long since, himself and wife were visiting friends in West Virginia and upon their return boarded a steamer and were robbed by negro servants of the boat. Just before the craft arrived at Cincinnati pudding was sent to Ritchie and his wife and both were taken ill. Upon their arrival at the Queen city emetics affectually cured Ritchie, but after four days of horrible torture the lady died. Ritchie is crazed with grief and he is hardly able to give an intelligible account of his trouble but says that the captain of the boat refused his protection on account of his age and the distance from the scene of the outrage. No prosecution is contemplated. GUAYMAS, Mex., Sept. 22—Nine deaths from fever reported in the past twenty-four hours. Thermometer raised to 97 degrees and fears are entertained that under the great heat and filthy condition of the streets the fever will increase and spread. Eleven new cases reported yesterday. Not enough rain fell to clean the streets and the hot sun has tended to increase deaths and malaria. The new cases have driven people almost frantic, not knowing whether they should fl[ee] from the city [o]r remain in the hope th[at] the worst is passed. Members of the board of health proved utterly impossible to deal with the disease. It is rumored that DeValle, a millionaire of this city, who fled to the country has died.