DORSET WILL ACCEPT
*
THE QUESTION Of REXOaU
LEFT irZTIZ 1FRIEXDS.
1VI11 Remain at Work In TTabhlngton
Ifltls Thought BoBt-The Diseased
Meat Question Being Agitated In
Chicago A Statement from the Com
missioner of Health The Nicaragua
Canal In Good Shape Preparation
for Paying the Census Enumerators.
Horsey Would Accept a Nomination.
WASHINGTON , Aug. 22. Represent
ative Dorsey has received a petition ,
signed by several hundred of the lead
ing republicans and influential busi
ness men of Dodge county , earnestly
requesting him to be a candidate for
ronominalion , and pledging him their
best endeavors to secure his re-election
if he will consent to the use of his
name in the nominating convention.
Mr. Dorsey having received so ma ay
requests of this character , addressed
the following letter to his friends at
Lome : "Petitions from so large a
number of influential republicans in
Dodge asking me to announce myself a
candidate for re-election affect mo
most sensibly. If it is the , desire of
the republicans of the Third congress
ional district , when assembled in con
vention , that I should continue my
work here I would accept the nomina
tion. If , , however , the party would be
-strengthened by the nomination of
some other man I will most willingly
and gladly labor for his election with
that of the entire state ticket. Har
mony in our ranks is essential , and no
man's ambition or prejudices must be
allowed to stand in the way of success
in November. "
The Diseased Meat Question.
CHICAGO , August 21. In regard to
the rumors that the Illinois live stock
commission is responsible for the sale
of diseased meat in Chicago , and that
a powerful but occult influence tvas at
work to secure the removal of Commis
sioner of Health Weicheisham , that
gentleman said to-day : "I never knew
Dr. McChesney , chairman of the Illi
nois live stock commission , until Icame
into office. He called on me several
times and I became suspicious of his
actions. From the way things were
going on at the stockyards I became
satisfied that the city was not protected
.sufficiently from diseased meat , and I
was convinced that it would be sold on
this market.
"Tho first outbreak came when the
state board shipped 109 head of lumpy
jawed steers to this market , as the
board claimed , for slaughter and rend
I ering . purposes only , to which I ve-
h mently objected. Our ordinances
Ji are strong against the admission of
diseased meats and I am sworn to obey
the laws .of the city. In a letter to
me Dr. McChesney says : 'During the
past year thousands qf cattle affected
with that dread disease , lumpy-jaw ,
have been driven from the stock yards
and their carcasses sold on the market
for human food. Neither you , I nor
the public will ever know how many
people have found ultimately graves
by eating the diseased meat. '
'I have received a request from a
firm to give a certificate that there
had been no cattle diseases at the
stock yards for some years. In view
of McChesney's letter I declined to
issue such a certificate and shall con
tinue to so refuseIt is now freely
charged that the chairman of the state
board has fraudulently profited by per-
'mitting the sale of diseased meat , and
the matter will be fully investigated at
the next session of the legislature.
The Nicaragua Canal.
NEW YORK , August 21. "The Nica
ragua canal seems to be in good shape. "
This is the opinion of Warner Miller ,
president of the company. ' 'We have
"been all summer , " said Warner yester
day , "building a railway from Grev- * *
town along the prosposed cannl. We
have completed ten miles and we will
continue until the line has reached the
interior and the i ock cut and the first
lock placed when it will have extended
to a place called Ochoa. There the
first dam is to be built. While wo have
been pushing.the road into the interior
we have been at the same time work
ing on an entrance to Greytown. We
have been dredging out the entrance
and erecting a splendid breakwater.
At present we have seven feet of water
on a bar where three months ago there
was dry land. Vessels drawing not
more than seven feet of water are now
able to come in. We have purchased
the entire plant of the American con
tract and dredging company at Panama.
We are now removing that plant from
Panama to Greytown. It consists of
several large and powerful dredging
machines , several tug hosts , lighters
and a complete plant for repairs.
Everything connected with it is in first
class condition. Incidentally I may
say that this shows the collapse of the
Panama scheme.
Paying the Census Enumerator * .
WASHINGTON , Aug. 21. The finance
division of the census office is at work
examining the accounts of the enum
erators which have been received and
upon which their pay will be based.
These examinations are progressing at
the rate of 800 a day and already 17-
000 accounts have been examined , but
it will be some weeks before the last
voucher can be sent away. Mr. Hunt ,
th chief of the division , said this
afternoon : "Wo have 1,700 men em
ployed on this work in one capacity or
another and are pushing it to comple
tion as rapidly as possible , but the
supervisors themselves are to blame in
part for the delay , because of the care
less manner in which they have sent
In their accounts. It is impossible to
say at present when the enumerators
of Nebraska and Iowa will be paid ,
but it is safe to aay that wo will get
the last check out by the end of sixty
days. The only enumerators who
have been paid up to the present time
are those who were employed in Now
York city. "
"World' * Fair Directors.
CHICAGO , August 21. After a wran
gle lasting until nearly midnight the
directors of the world's fair adjourned
again without definitely settling on a
site for the great exposition. It was
expected on all sides that the meeting
would bo a decisive one , but at mid
night the question vps left more open
than it had been for any time for weeks
past. Aside from Bearing the reports
of committees and experts , the whole
time was nearly consumed in the inter
change of widely differing views.
At times the talk grew quite heated
and again wearisome in the extreme.
Action was taken on but two motions.
A resolution offered by T. J" . Jeffery
was adopted referring the question of
the silo back to the committee with in
structions to abandon all consideration
of Jackson park unless enough area
there , say 400 acres , could be made
available at a reasonable cost to accom
modate the exposition. Any other site
obtained by the committee to contain
not less than 400 acres. The resolu
tion also contained a clause expressing
a desire to use in connection with any
site selected the present Lake Trout
park.
Following the adoption of this reso
lution , another , proposed by Lyman J.
Gage , was carried , rejecting the city
ordinance granting permission to pile
or fill in the harbor adjacent to the
present strip of land known as Lake
Front park. Gage's resolution contem
plated a new ordinance , , to be obtained
from the city council , permitting a
more restricted use of the lake front ,
details of which will be agreed upon
later. With matters left in this indefi
nite shape the directors adjourned un
til Friday night.
PI5KSONAL NOTES.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch , nee
Miss Blaine , have reached Bar Harbor.
It is said that Ouida is now engaged
in writing a play for Sara Bernhardt.
The sultan of Turkey takes forty
minutes to say his prayers in the morn
ing.
Timothy Harrington is coming to
America to assist in reorganizing the
Irish league.
Hirsch , the Jewish baron , said to be
the richest individual in Europe , will
shortly visit America.
It is reported that Lord Randolph
Churchill is coming to this country
soon on a coaching tour.
Colonel Tom Ochiltree is 54 years of
age. The colonel's red hair is a great
boon to him hiding both his ears and
years , but whatever may be his age ho
has all the experience , hopefulness and
zest of a youth of 20.
Sir Lyon Playfair , the distinguished
English statesman and ex-cabinet min
ister , was a passenger on the Teutonic.
He tells the Tribune : "All the indica
tions point to a great triumph for Mr.
Gladstone at the next general election. "
Queen Victoria pays great attention
to the floral wreaths which she sends
out. Inquiry is made as to what were
the favorite flowers of the deceased
person , and if it is possible they are
obtained. All the royal wreaths are
made at the gardens of Frogmore.
There is a rumor in- San Francisco
that Mr Pixley has concluded to sell
the Argonaut. It appears that this
periodical has enjoyed little measure
of success since Mr. Huntington with
drew the subsidy of § 10,000 a year
wbich had been paid by the Southern
Pacific railroad.
Marble busts of es-Yicc Presidents
Hannibal Hamlin and Thomas A. Hen-
dricks have been placed in the senate in
Spaces reserved for them in the wall
back of the diplomatic gallery. Two
or three years ago a sum of money
was appropropriated for purchasing a
bust of each of the ex-vice presidents ,
to be placed , as a western senator explained -
plained at the time , "in the nicks
around the wall. " ' It is said that the
placing of Mr. Hanilin's bust dn this
public place is the first instance on
record of such action being taken in
the case of a man still living.
Ilol > bcrs at the Wreck.
QUINCY , Mass. , Aug. 21. Two oth
er victims were added to the list of
dead. Miss Ella Bard , agedtwentj--two ,
who died at the hospital and Mrs. Ab-
bie Abbott of Louisville , Ky.
Although no investigation has been
made it appeal's that the cause of the
accident was a ' 'track jack" which had
been left on the rails. Such a tool was
picked up in the weeds near the scene
of the accident that showed plainly the
marks of wheels where it had been
run over. The foreman of the section
gang , a man named Welch , cannot be
found.
It appears from the statement of
passengers that pickpockets worked
with great success and reaped quite a
harvest. Those who escaped uninjured
were dazed and all that seemed neces
sary was for a respectable looking per
son to meet them and offer to take
charge of their valuables. These were
turned over in many instances. Sev
eral ofo the dead were known to have
had money and watches , but these were
not found on their persons. Twelve
persons are now at the Quincy hospit
al. They are all seriously injured.
Most of them were scalded by escaping
steam , and several are in a precarious
situation.
The Kansas state railroad commis
sion have issued a new schedule of
local rales to go into effect in Septem
ber by which a reduction of 33j per
cent on grain and 10 per cent on mer
chandise is made.
A fire in a San Francisco cemetery ,
caused by burning joss sticks at a Chi
nese funeral , did great and irreparable
damage.
THE CENTKAL STRIKE
MASTER POWDERLY ISSUES A STATE
MENT OF THE TROUBLE.
Vice President Webb , Ho Say * , Ke-
fuscs to Listen to Proposition * for
Arbitration , Contending That There
Is Nothing to Arbitrate Indication *
That the Fight Ittust go on to a Fin
ish Poivderly's Communication to
Arthur of the Locomotive Brother
hood A Report on Irrigation Wat-
tern.
An Address From Powderly.
NEW YORK , August 23. Master
Powderly has issued a statement in
regard to the New York Central strike ,
from which the following is an ex
tract : "In the interview with Vice
President Webb the following propo
sition was made by me : 'Webb , could
you sit down with , me in the presence
of the men who were discharged and
allow me to question them in your
presence , so that I might know the
facts in the case and bo better able to
arrive at a decision ? ' This Webb em
phatically refused. Devlin then said :
'Do I understand you to assume' that
the public and employes have no rights
that you are bound to consider and do
you look upon the matter simply as
though the railroad was your own
property ? Because if you take that
view of it there is no need of our say
ing anything further. ' Webb hesitated
and took refuge in silence. The pub
lic may have formed erroneous im-
pres > ions in regard to the position of
the knights in this controversy. Wo
do not pretend to dictate to the com
pany that it shall not discharge em
ployes , but in all fairness a discharged
man should be told why ho is dis
missed. During the session of the last
state legislature the Knights of Labor
of New York were active in the
passage of the weekly payment
bill. A committo from the knights
representing the employes of the New
York Central , were faced in the legis-
lalure committee room at Albany by
attorneys of the railway and brow
beaten , questioned and terrorized.
Some of the members of that commit
tee who were at the time employed by
the New York Central were discharged
without cause or rather without a
given cause. There exists not a
shadow of doubt in the mind of tha
commitleo that these men were singled
out for endeavoring to secure the pass-
j age of the above mentioned law. Af
ter thoroughly investigating the causes
which led to the strike and after mak
ing every effort in their power to in
duce the company to arbitrate or sub
mit to an investigation by impartial
men of the question at issue namely ,
whether the men were discharged be
cause they were Knights of Labor and
for the purpose of destroying their
organization , as they believe or" main
tain , or for just cause and proper rea
sons , as the officials of the company
allege the general exe cutive board
have by unanimous vote determined to
stand by the men , who , whether their
strike was opportune or not , had
no alternative consistent with then-
manhood. I have no doubt but that
it is the determination of the man
agement to destroy the organization
along the line of the New York Central
unless the organization subserviently
bends the knee to the will of the Van-
derbilts. During the controversy
I Voorhees and Webb stated and repeated -
' peated the statement that the men were
t not discharged because they were
I knights , and they expect the public to
, believe them simply becauge they say
so. Both these gentlemen deny certain
things in relation to their conversation
with , me , which both Devlin and myself
arc prepared to make affidavit to.
Everything that could in honor be done
lo terminate the strike on an honora
ble basis for these men was done , and
the alternative of unconditional and
absolute surrender on the part of the
men or a protest against the tyranny
of the railroad officials was presented
to us. Under the circumstances such a
surrender would be unmanly. It would
be cowardly and unworthy of the sons
of men for whom two hemispheres
struggled and died for the right of
humanity.
New York Central Trouble.
NEAV YORK , August 21. Powderly
stated last evening that the strike had
ceased to be one of local character and
has become one of the whole organiza
tion , and it will use every means in its
power to continue the fight. He inti
mates that the federation of railroad
employes will support the movement.
The situation is serious.
Grand Master Sargent , president of
the council and chief of the firemen's
organization , has ordered a meeting of
the supreme council Saturday at Terre
Haute for consideration of the ques
tion of the New York Central strike.
Whether this move means that the
council must go through certain form
alities before a general strike can be
declared or whether no strike will bo
delared at all remains to be seen.
Powdcrly Writes a Letter to Arthur
of the Brotherhood. ,
NEW YORK , August 23 Mr. Pow
derly has written the following letter :
To .Mr. Arthur , Grand Chief Engi
neer of the Brotherhood'&f Locomotive
Engineers There is at present a strike
in progress on the New York Central
& Hudson River railroad. In this
strike is involved a principle which
you cannot afford to ignore and the
principle is that of fair play. Many of
the men on strike are firemen and be
long lo the Knights of Labor as well as
to the brotherhood of firemen. Are
you willing that this should continue ?
Are we to understand that this action
is to .receive the sanction of the order
that you represent ? The "members of
the various Trotherhoods ( A ra'lway
employes are desirous of knowing
where vou stand , for on your answer ,
and wo desire that it be a public one ,
depends the future of your association.
We desire to know where to place your
order. Shall it be classed among the
organizations of industry or among the
allies of capital ? If your members
continue to do the work of firemen , we
shall know that it is with the corpora
tion and the future is plain before us.
Wo do not ask your official sanction to
strike , wo only ask fair treatment at
you hands , and that we have a right
to expect. The man who took the
place of another in this contest is un
true to the cause of organized labor.
The organization which approves of
such conduct must be regarded in the
same light , and we want to know from
your own lips where to assign the
brotherhood of locomotive engineers
in the roster of organizations. Wo
have asked of the other organizations
to take sides with us. They are responding
spending bravely and the future of
labor seems to indicate that there will
bo an understanding never before
reached. Which shall it be ? I re
main very truly yours.
T. Y. POWDEULY.
Irrigation by IVells.
WASHINGTON , August 23. The re
port of the secretary of agriculture on
irrigation by means of artesian wells
was presented to the senate yesterday.
It shows the number of wells in opera
tion in Nebraska to be some sixty-five
and says their success is sufficient to
warrant further investigation and ex
periment in that line. It speaks highly
of the report of Prof. Hicks of Ne
braska. The rainfall in Nebraska is
about 5,000,000,000,000 cubic feet an
nually , of which about one-fourth is
discharged by the rivers , the larger
share Ihus penetrating the earth. In
the western part of the state the under
sheet water rises to or near the sur
face. The report of Field Agent Greg
ory shows 200 wells in operation in the
great plains , extending from northern
Nebraska to the Indian territory.
The Meat Inspection Bill.
WASHINGTON , August 22. Late yes.
terday the senate meat inspection bill
came back to the senate with amend
ments by the house and upon motion
of Paddock were concurred in. The
authorship of this bill belongs to Mr.
Paddock , who is chairman of the sen
ate committee on agriculture , and who
had reported the measure from his
committee and it was adopted _ by the
senate as a substitute" flie bill from
the committee on foreign relations.
The measure will now go to the presi
dent for his signature. It provides for
the inspection of all salt meats in
tended for export , the inspection to be
made under the direction of the secre
tary of agriculture , prohibits the Im
portation of all unwholesome food pro
ducts , adulterated drugs and vinuous
liquors under heavy penalties , and
proposes punishment to those who
knowingly ship any impure food pro
ducts. It has a retaliatory clause , giv
ing the president authority to prohibit
the importation of products from coun
tries which discriminate against our
products. Senator Paddock is now
sure that the Conger lard bill will be
substituted in the house by his pure
food bill , and says that if the house
does not substitute it with his measare
the senate will do so , as it covers all
food adulteration and can in no way be
construed as class legislation.
Amended Alien Contract Labor Lair.
WASHINGTON , Aug. 24. The amended
alien contract labor law .vas presented
in the house from the committee on
labor. Its principal features are : It
is made unlawful on the part of an
alien to enter the United States under
any contract to psrforai labor or serv
ice. If the master of a vescl shall
bring any such alien into the United
States he shall , being subjebt to a fine
and imprisonment , be required to re
turn the alien to the port of embarka
tion. It shall not be lawful for any
person or corporation to encourage
an\ * alien laborer , artisan or mechanic
to emigrate from any foreign country
to the United States by a promise of
employment through advertisement or
otherwise. The provisions of this act
shall not apply to professional actors ,
artists , lecturers , regularly ordained
ministers of the gospel , learned pro
fessors for colleges and seminaries o
professional singers.
Large Bond Olferiiigv Looked For.
WASHINGTON. August 24. Secretary
Windom's offer to pay all the interest
which may accrue at maturity on the
4J per cent bonds which are now
offered for redemption , will likely re
sult , it is &aid at the treasury depart
ment , in 90 per cent of the 4Js being
offered within sixty -days. Cafl money
is higher in New York than it has
been for ten years. This is explained
by the heavy gold exports to pay for
orders by importers who are antici
pating the adoption of the McKinley
bill. It will probably take four month ?
to relieve the money market.
\Vindom 011 the Money Stringency.
' NEW YORK , August 24. When Sec
retary Windom was seen concerning
the stringency in the money market
and the effect of his order for the re
demption of 4 } per cent bondshe said :
' I have been in consultation with a
number of gentlemen since my arrival
concerning the effect of the measure
and the reports were favorable. Bonds
seem to be coming in freely , and I be
lieve this action will afford sufficient
relief.
Against Lotteries.
WASHINGTON , August 24. Hans-
brough of North Dakota introduced in
the house a joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the constitution pro
viding that neither the United States
nor any state shall pass a law author
izing the establishment or maintain-
ance of a lottery or any scheme fortho
distribution of prizes by chance.
SELECTING THE SITE.
DIFFICULTIES OF DECIDIXO
GROUXD FOR THE FAIR.
Congress May Yet Have to Take the
Matter lu Hand The Bill Giving
National Banks Circulation to the
Full Par Value Discovery of a New
Tribe of Indian * In Arizona Re
demption of Government Bonds A
Scheme for the Farmer.
The AVorld's Fair Site.
CHICAGO , Aug. 22. The whole Chicago -
cage press is universally criticising
the world's fair directory. The Even
ing Journal joins in the chorus and
says : "There hcs been so much of a
diversity of opinion and so many con
flicting interests , which so far have
prevented a decision being reached on
the question of the fair site within the
city limits that it would not surprise a
good many if congress , at present in
session , was petitioned to so amend the
world's fair bill as to allow of a 'site
being chosen outside of the corpora
tion limits. Such is the feeling among
the directors that if matters do not
soon reach a finish within the city lim
its , congress may be asked to so amend
the bill as lo allow a site being chosen
outside.
1 'It was common talk on the streets
this morning that the directors so far
by their action had given every evi
dence that they were committed to
Jackson Park , and it is claimed that
some of them have large property in
terests in the neighborhood , while oth
ers are heavily interested in South Side
street car stock. This may or may not
have an influence on their present very
evident intention to put the fair at
Jackson park , if by any hook or crook
it can be done. "
National Bank Circulation.
WASHINGTON , August 22. Chairman
Dorsey of the house committee on
banking and currency said that he had
been assured by Senator Sherman that
the senate would , immediately after.
the titriff bill is disposed of , take up '
bill giving national banks circulation
to the full par value of bonds deposited
and requiring the banks to issue only
a circulation of 10,000,000. The
minimum of circulation at present Is
§ 12.000,000. This bill is now pending
in the house as unfinished business and
when the senate bill is adopted it can
be taken from the speaker's desk and
receive action as privileged busir.-ess.
Senator Paddock baj s his pure food
bill will be substituted for Ihe lard bill ,
which is now before the house and
being bitterly fought. Representatives
from the cotton producing stales feel
that one of their growing local indus
tries is threatened. The manufactur
ers of compound lard feel that war has
been declared against them. More
than a score of representatives have
prepared themselves for this fight.
Among them is Mr. Mason of Chicago ,
who will make the effort of his life for
the compound. There will be some
opposition from those who abhor in
ternal revenue taxation , but the bulk
of the fight against the bill will be
made by those who have the keener
incentive of self-interest at stake. The
laboring man is opposed to taxing the
compound article simply to increase
its cost that the slaughter house pro
duct may thrive , and so the fight goes.
The previous question will be reached
on Salurdav at 4 o'clock.
An Aboriginal Discovery. I
WASHINGTON , August . 22. Dis
patches from California announce ther
discovery in an almost inaccessable
canon in Arizona of a settlement of
Indians who were not heard of before
and who had never seen any tthite
men except John D. Lee , the leader of
the Mormons in the Mountain Meadow
massacre. The announcement is at
tracting much attenlion from scientists.
Captain John G. Bourke of the Third
cavahy , who is thoroughly familiar
with Arizona and its aboriginal inhab
itants , siys that instead of only recent
ly being discovered these Indians have (
been known since 177G. when they
were visited by Father Escalante , a
Jesuit'priest He left Santa Fe and
crossed New Mexico and passed
through Utah and then south to the
Grand Canon of the Colorado. Father
Garcia also entered their country and
described it the same year , coming on
foot from the mission at Los Angeles ,
Cal. , and it is more than probable that
Don Pardo de Tobar , a Spanish explor
er , visited them as early as 1541. In
Avasupois , Captain Bourke says , are a
small but very interesting band of the I
Hualpia tribe of Indians. They have !
no connection with the Apache In
dians , are entirely different in manners
and language and until quite lately
have been hostile to them. They trade
to some extent with the Piutes on the
north side of the canon , with the people
ple of the village of Oraybe of the
Mogvi tribe to the caet and with their
brothers , the Hualpias , to the west.
They were visited and described by
the military expedition under the com
mand of Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives of
the corps of engineers , United States
armj * , in 1859 , whose report can be
found in almost every library in the
country.
Send In Your Four and a Half * .
WASHINGTON. August 22. The
treasury department has issued a cir
cular providing for the redemption be
fore September 1 of § 2,000.000 4 } per
cent bonds at par and will after Sep
tember 1 prepay to the owners of the
bonds so received all the interest on
said bonds up to and including August
31 , 1891 , without rebate or interest.
The circular of August is hereby re-
ecinded.
Nearly all the mflls at Fall River ,
Mass. , have closed down.
5BR.
About the Weather and Crop * *
WASHINGTON , D. C. , Aug. 25. The
weather crop bulletin issued for the
past week says : The weather during f H
the last week in Minnesota and Dakota
was too cool for late crops. Although
wheat has been nearly all cut , some
fields of late sown in the extreme north
have been injured by frost. Light
frosts also extended over the northern
portions of Iowa and Michigan , but
caused no material damage. The re
cent rains have greatly improved the
condition of crops throughout the corn
bolt , extending from Ohio westward to
Kansas and Nebraska , and in this sec
tion the conditions of corn and pota
toes are much improved and the
ground is in good condition for
plowing. Cottow is opening rapidly
and picking is in progress. Drouth
continues in west Texas and in some
localities in Louisiana , but crops arc
generally improved throughout the
cotton region. In Louisiana the cane
ij reported as excellent , and the yield-
exceeds expectations. Corn and to
bacco were improved in Kentucky , but
heavy rains caused some damage to
grapes. In Tennessee tobacco in the
lowlands was slightly injured.
In New England and the middle
states the weather has been good. A
largo corn crop in Pennsylvania is
almost secured and tobacco is
being housed in good condition.
Grapes and hops are reported as
promising in Now York and were
improved during the last week. Light
frosts occurred in northern Vermont
on the 1 6th and will probably occur
again to tight. Some damage to crops
and trees occurred in western Massa
chusetts on the IDth from severe local
storms.
Beports from the Pacific coast indi
cate that the weather during the past
week has been unusually favorable for
securing crops. Wheat , oats and bar
ley are turning out extra good in Oregon
gen and grapes are ripening , with a
prospect of a large yield. An abund
ant hop crop of a superior quality'-is
reported from California and Oregon.
The President * * Vacation *
WASHINGTON , August 25. After this
week and till about the first of October
the business of the executive mansion
and most of that of the executive dei
partmeiits will be conducted from Cresson -
son , Pa. , on the summit of the Alle
gheny mountains. The president will
be located there with his family. The
Park cottage has been put in order for
their occupancy this week , and when
the president goes there ho will return
to Washington only at intervals of a
week or longer , for a day or two to
attend to business which he cannot
transact outside of Ihe white house.
He will have a special wire and his
regularly employed operator at hand ,
placing him in constant and direct com
munication with congress and the exe
cutive departments. In all the depart
ments there are special telegraph
operators , a government wire being a
circuit of them. Bills for the signature
of the president can go from congress
to Cresson in a few hours and the an
nouncement of his signature made by
telegraph. The president has had a
long and wearing season. He has been
on constant duty for almost a year.
There is no work more exacting or ex
hausting than that which the president
of the United States has to perform ,
and no one has been moro faithfully at
his post than the present occupant of
the white house. If he takes a "day
off" at that time the people of the coun
try , irrespective of party fealty , will
wish him fair weather.
Kiot in a Theatre. * v
HUNTINGTON , W. Ya. , August 25.-w
There was a serious and bloody riot at
a performance given by the Sunny
South theatrical company at Credo Fri
day night , the particulars of which
have just been received. One man was
shot and over a dozen badly beaten ,
while the floating theatre in which the
trouble occurred was badly wrecked.
The trouble was inaugurated by a num
ber of roughs , who persisted in insult
ing the people on the stage. During
the second act three of the performers
left the stage with clubs and attacked
several of their tormentors , but were
overpowered and cruelly beaten. The
remainder of the company went to
their assistance , when some one turned
out the lights. Pandemonium broke
loose , and every man began an on
slaught on his neighbor in the dark ,
while the wemen screamed. The po
lice arrived , but this only made mat
ters worse , and soon revolver shots be
gan to echo around the hall. Finally
the crowd charged on the stage after
the fleeing- performers , who were un
ceremoniously flung into the river ,
where they stoned in the darkness.
Every one of the police and show people
ple was badly wounded by stones , and
the condition of several is serious.
The Compound Lard Bill.
WASHINGTON , August 25. Although
Congressman Mason succeeded in wear
ing out a quorum of the house on Sat
urday and thereby preventing the pass
age of the bill to tax compound lard
under the internal revenue law , there
is little doubt that it will receive the
votes of a ma'orit\- a qurum tomor
row and be sent to the senate. A num
ber of representatives admit that it is
vicious legislation and will fall far
short of accomplishing what is ex
pected of it by the farmers , yet hecausa
its passage is demanded by that class ,
who are on top this year , they will
vote for it. They hope that the sen
ate will substitute for it the Paddock
pure food bill , and then in conference
can be secured a measure that ap
proves itself to the judgment of a great
majority of the members.