Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 9, 1878, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JUNE 9, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES 5" e FOREIGN. gome of the Points in the Latest Anglo-Russian Agreement. qhe War Indemnity to Be on the Same Basis as the Turk- J ish Debt. j Fearful Outrages Committed A by Deserters Through- = out Roumelia. Additional Particulars of the Re- cent Mine Disaster .jn England, Distressing Scenes and Inci- ¥ dents---Searching for i the Dead. Many Additional Arrests by the Authorities in Berlin. A Socialist Member of the Reich- stag Convicted and Sen« tenced. The Complete Pacification of the Island of Cuba Aunounced. TIHE CONGRESS. LORD BEACONSFIELD. Loxpos, June S§.—Lord Bezconsfield has garted for Berlin to attend the Cougress. Beuwiy, June S.—Lord Beaconsfield will stay ot toe Hotel Kaiserhof, Counts Schouvaloff and Cartiat the Hotel Royal, and the other Pleni- poteatiarics to the Congress at thefr respective Embassics. Bratiano for Roumania, Ristich for Servia, and Deleganni Tor Greeee, will be in attendance 10 urge the claims of their respective countries. Greere hopes 10 be invited 10 o seat in the Congress with full powers. WILL PROTEST. BCCHAREST, June S.—The Chamber of Depu- ties yesterdsy decided thay the Roumanian represcutatives {u the Congress should inflexibly protest against the retrocessions of Bessarabia, and listen to bo representations or threats in- tended to shake their determination, THE WAR INDEMNITY. Eoglsod has agreed that the war indemnity is tobeincluded on the same basis as the other Tarkish debt in tue general plan of the con- version. . REWARDS OP MERIT. It is rumored that Lord Beaconsfield is to be bemsdea Duke after the Congress, but it is more probable that he and Lord Salisbury will receive the decoratiou of the Garter. TUE TURKISU REPRESENTATIVES, CONSTANTINOPLE, June 8.—The dclegates to the Berlin Conygress, Caratherlovi Eifendi, Mehemet Al, and Sadoullah Bey, started for Butlin to-day, via Odessa. Caratherlovi Effendi bss been appointed Minister of Public Works; Eamih Pasha, Prefectof Police; and Said Pasha, Governor of Angora. Mehemet Ali has been replsced in command of the troops by Fuad Pashu., BISMARCE. BeeLry, Jupe 8.—Bismarck will transfer his residence to the new Ministerial offices, former- Iy Radzivill Palace, where the Congress will sit. ‘The Protocols of the several Powers have been placed under the control of Radowitz, who will }:\; assisted by the Secretary of the French Em- 5. EASTERN NOTES. THE PORTRESSES. Loxvoy, June S.—The Porte appears to have vielded 1o the demands for Shumla, but has not for the surrender of Varna. Not Russia only, but Germany likewise, hinted to the Porte that ualess the fortresses were surrendered, an invi- tation to Turkey to attend the Congress would e withheld, i % B SULTAY TLL. With his failing health the Sultan becomes more capricious and dificult to manage. Ru- mors bave been - prevalent that he is vesy seri- ously L. < SERVIA. BeLgrave, June ‘The Servians contioue with encrgry their military preparations, winle making cfforts to obtain sdmission to the Con- ress. . OUTRAGES. Loxpoy, June 8.—Advices from Coustauti- ; welia as perpatrating horrible atratities onthe "' Mussulmans. Gen. Todteden has ordered vig- i orous measures of repression against the out- g Jaws. Three Bulgarians taken redhanded were { ¥ i 1 wople represent Bulgarians throughout Rou- summarily executed at Dedeagutch. Al travel- iugin Bosnia is stopped. Hizhways are fn- fested with robbers, principally Turkish desert- s, THE Al IAN CREDIT. VIEssa, June 8.—The Upper House of the Austrisn Reichsrath has adopted the bill already masced by the Lower House, providing means for realizing the stxty million florins credit. BURNING OF THE PORTE BUILDING. CoxstaxTiNOPLE, May 23.—The Sublime Porte [building] is fn ashes. Oniy the wings at elsber extremity remain. Of thesc wings, one Jodged the Grand Vizicrate, the other the Min- Istry jor Forcign Affairs. The whole of the centre bullding—which contained the Ministries of the Interior, of Justice, and of Public Fo- struction, the Council of State, the great Divan, With lunomerable departments and offices ap- vended 10 each, alonz with some archives—was fionsumcd this morning between the hours of 2a0d5. The building consisted of the base- ment, the ground floor, apd two floors above. The fire broke out fn the Bureau des Proces- Verbaux of the Council of State, oceu- Pring the centre of the upper floor, and, not- Withet: ng the stone partition-walls, swept v ju either girection slong those inter- corridors which trave the building Irom end to end, and which visitors well re- member, with their draughts, and their dreari- Bess, and their listless throng of weary suitors pecnz the rough-plauked floor, or scated_on 0w of hair trunks stuffed with arcl . The origin of the firc fs uuknown, becuse ali the spartments are put under the care of guardians 20 hour before sunset, when the functionaries leave. Ihe building now destrored was built thirty Jears azq, in the Grand-Vizierate of Topal Izzet 'asha. Its outer and partiticn-walls and its basement were of masonry. while the structure ’fil:e reolaced, and which also was destroyued by , was wholly of wood. THOE MINE BORROR. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. une 8.—The explosion in Evans’ at Haydock, yvesterday, occurred at 1 o'dockin the morning. The Woodpit Col- Yery cousists of two miues,—Ravenshead and Florida. The exploston was confined to the last-nauried. The men went to work at 62 m. The condition of the mine had been exarived 25 0sual, and ten mivutes before the disaster E‘YLWI\S, 10 all appearances, safe. There were 20 men in the Woodpit Colliery,—~cighteen in the Ravenshead and the remainder in the Flor- % faMine. Themen in the Ravenshead were £0t out immediately; one died, and the others were much affected by choke-damp. The two mines are connected by a tounel, and it was in the workinz of the Florida Mine, beyond the tuonel, that the explosion occurred. Itis the Loxpo: Zeneral opinion tuat every man in that part of the mine is dead. s HORRIBLE SIGNT. The explorers founa the dead bodies of men and borses on every side, fearfully burnt and mutilated, giving evidence of the dreadful force of the explosion. A great fall of coal occurred. The men engaged in exploring the mioe are working day sud night, endeavoring to reach the place where most of the bodies are sup- posed to lle. Great crowds of men, women, and children have assembled fn the vieinitv of the pit, and the gencral bel.ef prevalls that nearly every family in the village of Haydock has suffered the loss of one or more of its members. ¢ SAVED. No powder was used n the mine, The man- ager of the mine went down the shaft five min- utes after the explosion, and, finding a number of men at the bottom lying on their faces, open- ed the ventilatiog doors, and thus saved the lives of eighteen men. In the Ravenshead mine the bodies already found sre much disfigured. It will probably be days before all the bodics are recovered. The cxplorers have suffered greatly, aud have had to be constantly relleved. A large staff of doctors is in nttendance. THE BEREAVED. Crowds of women surrouud the pit since the explosion, weeptng and begeing for news from the explorers, but, on the whole, the people arc very quict and orderly. GERMANY. THE BMPEROR, Brruiy, June §.~The physicians attending the Emperor are anxious to have him removed from Berlin. TRECAUTIONS. The military autnorities are adopting exten- sive precautionary measures. The customary Whitsuotide furioughs have not been granted. ARRESTS. BERLIN, June $.—Several houses in the city were scarched by the police yesterday, and a number of persons arrested. Herr Most, a So- cialist memoer of the Refebstag, has been sen- tenced tosix weeks® imprisoument for persistivg in addressing o meeting at Chemnitz after the volice had declared it closed. Eight persons were tried here to-dsy for using disloyal languaee in speaking of the Em- peror. Seven were sentenced to from five years' to eighteen months’ imprisonwent. Judgment was deferred in one case. DISSOLUTION. It is considered certaln that the proposal to dissolve the Reichstag will be adoptea by the Federal Council. The nes elections will prob- ably be held towards the Iazter part of Jul Parliament is expected to meet shortly aft wards. During the clectoral period the Fed- eral Council witl draw up bills to be submitted to the German Purliament. They will comprisc mnot only measurcs acainst Seeial Demoerstic eXxcesses, bur also- bills relative to the economical policy of the Govern- ment. g the eluboration and _adoption of these legislutive measures, the Administra- tion will be occupied in - enforeinz the existing Jaws und regutations o far as they may apply to cases affecting the individual liberty of traveling from pluce to place. LaTEST. BerLIN, June 6.—The Emperor’s condition coutmuea favorable to-night. GREAT BRITAIN. DBANR ANNOUNCEMENT. LoxDOY, June §.—The Times says the Bank of England has resolved henceforth to discon- tinue the use of the word * minimum?” in an- nouncing the discount rare. The bank's an- nouncements therefore will be understood to wean about the medium value of good bills, but the bauk is free like other bauks to charge the above or bejow announced rate, aceording to the circumstances. The ultimate result will be that the open market rate, not the bank’s, will become the standard for mouey contracts. THE COLUMBLA COLLEGE CKEW, with many changes in the the boat’s rizging, have made great improvement, sod rivermen gre 2loud in_ praises of their style. The only fault found is that they are too sight. The crew cxpect to bein both of the four-oared races. It is stated ‘that the Cambridue four will consist of men who were in the recent Uni- versity race. The Oxford crew, it is believed, will be composed o vew wen. The Columbias are in vigorous heaith, und much interest is wanifested tn them at Uenley. § PARLIAM Loxpoy, Juu adfourned for the Whitsuntide bholidays—the llouse of (l:gtllnmn“ to the 13th, and’the Lords to the th, FAILURE, Loxpox, June 8.—Michnel Stel), spioner, of Bradtord, has failed. Liabilities, £54,000. TIKE, NEW YORK, Junc 8.~—Dispar:les from Lon- dou say that the Lancashire cotton-mill owners are errauging 1o brivg operatives from the Umted States, in view of the continued lock- PIRE. The Apothecarles’ Hull in Glasgow has burned. MISCELLANEOUS. DIED. Parts, June &—Maene, former Minister of Tinance, is dead. cuna. A, June 8.—An official telearam, dated ports tie surrender of the remuvunts of the insurients, thereby re-establishing the paciieation of tie whole island. ———— THE SUTRO TUNNEL. Sax Fraxcisco, Cal., June 8.—The Ca!! this morning has an interview with Thomas H. Will- iams, President of the Savage Mining Com- pauy. relative to the compromise with Sutro, to the following effect: * Yesterday the Directors of pearly all the mfning companies composing the combination to resist the payment of royal- ty 1o Sutro met avd passed resolutions author- izing the Directors to withdraw from the com- bination, leaving cachh company free to act as it deems best with rezard to suits brought by the companics to have the contracts for pay- mentof royalties declared void. The Savage, Hale & Noreross, and the Chollar also passed resolutions authoriziug the witndrawal of the suits. Best & Belener and Gould & Curry have agreed to take the same course. - The Bonanza firm have taken no part in the negotiations re- garding the uccevtance of contracts, us they are not in a posiion at present to avail them- selves of the drainage facilities of the tuonel, and therefore not disposed to pay for the same. Mr. Williams expresses the opinion that alt companies will eventually ratify the coutracts with tbe Tunnel Company.” 84N Fraxcisco, Juve 8.—So far asthe recent action of the Comstock Minmz Companies in counection with the Sutro Tunnel can be ar- rived at it is about as_follows: The Choilar, Hale & Noreross, and Savago coneede the right of we Tuonel Cumpn:g‘ to collect a royalty of $2 per tun on ) ore raised after the completion of the tunuel in accordance with the terms of the original agreement of April 13,1808, This breaks up the combination of mpizg companies formed in Japuary to resist the _collection of royalty. None of the miners, bowever, exceot the three above meu- tioned, to concede Sutro’s risht to collect roy- alty, and in the case of those threg it is an ad- misston of the barren right, as neither of these companics hus any ore to hoist, aud the tunnel will be useful to tnem without expense on their part. The Bonanza mines and probably others will pot concede he right to rovalty. A Viryrinia City disvatch to-day gives the in- terview with Sutro, who says no comprom'se kas been arrived at. The Savage Compauy has notified the Tuuncl Compauy of its readi- ness to withdraw from the suits, and recognize the royalty. If all the companics ~should take - the ssme action in good fwth everything _will zo_ - along_ smoothly, but if only the Savage, Hale & Norcross, and Chotlar, which bave no ore, and consequently Dothity to pay, propose to avail themselves of the tunnel, leaving the latter to protracted tigation 16 compel payment by the compavies having ore, the Company will probably not per- mit the use of the tunoel 2t all until'an under- stauding 1s reached with all the companies. ————t— A DRUNKEN THREAT. Des Moixes, Is., June §.—~Communists here say bolaly that on the day when Cougress is to adjourn (June 17), every car-wheel will stop fn the Umted States atnoon. Ther are evidently preparing for some important event. & ———eT——— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, BarTIMoRE, June B.—Arrived, steamship Berlin, from Bremen. MONTREAL, June 8.—Arrived, Sardinjan,from Liverpool. SITTING-BULL. Important Advices from the Camp of-the Sioux Chief= tain, Brought by a Catholic Misstonary Who Has Just Spent Several Months There. A Grand Powwow of Representatives of 'Lwenty-eight Thousand Warriors. They Want “ Bread or Blood "—Threaten- ing o Olean Out the British Forcey, And Then Move info the United States, Where They Will Di¢ in the Last Diteh. Speetal Corvespondence of The Tribune, BisMAkcE, D. T., June 7.—Father Genin, the Sloux missionary, is back after an abscuce from Bismarck of fourtcen months amoug the Indians. Ileis the chicf Catholic evavgelist of the Northwest, aud the only man I know of who is ncquainted with the Indjans, and has any special kuowledge that is of importance to the public. He arrived here direct from Woody Mountaln, after o drive of fifteen days dehind the war-horse that Sicting-Bull rode in the Custer massacre. Sitting-Bull made his old friend .snd spiritual adviser 2 present of this pomy,—a very, respecta- bLie looking gray. e lms u sear on his neck, as a reminder of the terrible aflray in which he and his rider took such an active interest. Father Genin reached Sliting-Bull's campand tepee on the 10th of last August. He went that way s o missionary, and uot a5 a civil, military, or newspaper ambussador. It cauie ubout in the order of his visits to the far- off tribes of the Sioux Natiou. Since 1367 he has been 2 missiouary amoug them, and since S8 PERSONAL FRIEND OF SITTING-BULL. He goes among them with as much impunity and freedom from insult as he possibly could in the most civilized portion of the world. As an instance of the honor shown hiw, 1 can mention first the New-Year celebration tendered him by the ali-breeds at the Forks of the Milk River; and, second, six days later, the reeeption the Sitting-Bull people gave him. At tha Forks of the Mili River the Cathiolie hulf-breeds bad a small chapel, and in tbat they received the priest, delivering an address'to him, and play- ing on fidales. ‘They approached the chapel fir- ing guus und playing fiddles, omitting the firing fnside of the chapel, and continuing both aiter they retired. Some of the half-breeds are good violinists. The - Sioux infidels received the Father, ns he approached the camp, on bended knees and with s salute. It was their way of saying “ Happy New Year' to a distincuished friend. 1 called Father Genin's attention tothe report from Maj. Iigis, publisted in last Satur- day’s Trisose. He read it over, und recoz- nized some of the data as information he had given, but repudiated all the sensational features, Including Sitting-Buil’s speech and the flyfng of the half-breeds. The bulf-breeds are from Minnesota and Northern Dakota, and are simply on thelr return home. They bave been up there on their anoual hunt. They are in vo deoger trom the Sioux. e gave me INSIDE INFORNATION 8s he received 1t from Sittinr-Bull. Of course, the Fatber talks the Sioux language fluently, and understands what the speaker means. e was with the chief warrior a great deal auring the fall and winter. He talked more ircely to Genin thao suy other muan, conper-colored or wmte, outside of his own kin. Hetold the Father that be might report to_the peonle he met on his return that Sitting-Bull would never fieht uniess he was oblived to. Le wanted to return tu bis own land &zhc Yellowstone and Big Horn), where there was plenty to live on. e wanted none of our gold, silver, or rOuGS. e wauted = uo reservation, but a land of his own. He saye the Indlans who mo un a reservation lose thefr and guns, aod are thew starved to death. its to be free. Ile will not entertain a tion proposition at this period of bis life,—tuc_35th year. He would be willing to stay north of the Missouri, and roam over what is popularly termed the Milk-River vountry. He was willing to return 1 person to the United States for a_conference with the big chiefs at Chitago or Washington, upon the guarantee of Fatber Genin that he wouldn’t be hungor otherwise discomfited. The Father had uo autbority to make any pledges, and Sittlog- Bull was not willing 10 take auv chances. Genin says he can bring him over at any tme when he is guaranteed SITTING-BULL IS SAPE. As to his returning to the United States with his people, there isno doubt. They can't live oo the Canadian side. There is pot the buffalo- meat in reach; aud even last winter they had to draw ou the Milk-River country for thiousands of buffaloes, as Father Genin personally knowe. He accompanied 300 warriors on a hunt that ter- inated within & few miles of Fort Peck. Gen. Miles was correct about Ins Sioux invasion last wiuter, and the nearness of ** hostiles” to Peck, but he was not informed as to their inotives. Theywereon thelookout forsoldiers, and pushed away north as soon as the chuse wos ended. Sit- ting-Bull realizes that the time is fast approach- ingr when he wust move his whole tribe south of the line, not. for war, Lut for meat. e fears, howeyer, that the soldiers will come after him, and theretore he expects the inevitable—blood- shed. In anticipation of a change, he has for a year been preparing for an International Congress of the Sioux, Bloods, Fiegans, Assinabomes, Crees, Biz Bears, and Chl‘;uewns.—me Indiaas on the Canadian side. {le had favorable responses from all, and the meeting was set for the end of May and the be- ginning of June. It is now about coming to 3 conclusion. This couference was to be beld ou the Little Sashatchewan River, about 100 miles from its mouth. It would be an immense aflair, even among white people. The Sioux sud Nez- Terce lodges number 1,750. ~ Genin count- ed them. The grand total of all the Indians sbove named is 6,469 lodges. The Futher figures nearty five warriors to a lodee, and makes out an army or confederacy of at least TWENTY-EIGIT TIIOUSAND WARRIORS. Of this number, 7,000 are called hostiles, and are personfied in the name © Sitting-Bull." “Fhe Canadian Indians get little or nothing from the Cavadian Government, and, with the “hostides” to sharc ticir game, there isa shortage of food for all, Hence thcy join the great pow-wow. Its object is to see how many are williug to stand by a formal demznd for something to eat. This demand_will_he made when the ¢chernes areripe, from June 20 to July 15. The cherries are 8 wild berry known as G choke-cherries,” and a vaiuable bit of forage for the Tudian when hie starts on o journey. It the formal demand i made and denled, as it uecessarily will be, the Indians will strike when the chernies are ripe. This demand will be mude of Maj. Walsh. Sctting-Bull said they would foilow up its refusal with an attack and com- plete eacrifice of every SMounted Policernun msfght. Maj. Walsh i very much disiiked by Sitting-Buil acd his warriors. They will scalp him the first man. They call him 3 squaw man. Walsh thinks heds *solid” with the “hostiles™; but Father Genin says he makes a fatal mistake, 85 the sequel will show. The Mounted Police sre in danger if food is uot forthcoming. _After cleaning out their ** Grand- mother's" (Qucen Victorin's) soldiers, they will move south of the line, to the buffalo-coun- try. and live until the Amerfeans meet them haif-way and demand a surrender or fight, Geniu would pot be surprised to hiear auy day in July the bloody alternative. Ile wistics us o _remember the great number of women, chiidren. and old men that 5,000 lodges imply. TFifty, sixty, or scventy thousand people can't live upon a poverty-stricken country. He snms it up in the words of the Communist: “BREAD OR BLOOD." Genin says Sitting-Bull has ascertained the strength of all the little aarrisons on the British side, and is, hesides, thoroughly posted as to the disposition of the United States troops. Hhs scouts number 300, and every oue is an ex- pert. 14is spv system beats auy ‘that our sol- diery_could possibly establish. We can’t sur- prise him, DUt we can outnumber bim snd whip him in the end. He, however, is in the last diteh, and will probably die there. As an old officer, of thirty-two years of splendid service, remarked to the writer, the other dav, Tiere is no glory in fighting Indians.” There's the difference. The Indians see there is- glory in l fighting their oppeessors, and standing out for l heir own Jand and frecdom. They don't ap- preciate the “march of civilization,” or the other argument that they are savages. AMMUNITION PLENTY—INDLAN INGERNOITY. _ Futhier Genin reports theammunition plenty, nd tbe traders always, like Barkis, *willin.» No trouble to trade for cartridges, powder, and ball. He illusrates the emmunition qoestion in thisway: Many of the warriors have double . belts around the walst, full of cartridges; also, suspenders crossiog in front and back, with cartridies; even bracelets full of cartridges. ‘There are seventecn men at work on bright days _in Siting Bull's - camp, refiliing cartridges, and- challenging vrofessionals in their expertness. They cut the com- mon percussion-cap in two, and use it, when mecessary, o the central fire cartridge. _Tallow i3 used around it in fisting it in tight. They do better than that: they refill the Tlenry sim fire cartridge, which, an"expert runstith told_me, wasw't practicable. They take the phosphorus {rom matches, make paste of 1t, put s little in the bottom of « cartridge, dry {u the sup, ond then fill With powder ana uall. 1t never misscs fire. They caught the idea from striking matches and producing a Hlght. They ioterred that & gun-hammer could do the same and ignite the powder. The am- munition doesn’t come from this side of the Mne. ‘The traders are Canndians. Like En- cland, Sitting-Bull, while preparing for pence, has been loading up forwar. fc understands a well-equipped enemy lias un advantage in mak- ingr a compramise, S.-18.’S REPORT OF TIE CUSTER MASSACRE. "This brief account of the Custer massacre was given to Father Genin by Sittioz-Bull as one Sriend would narrate any interesting event to another. There was no motive totell any- thing but the plain trugh. Sitting-Bull snid: “Tne people in the States blame me for killing Custer aud his army. Ile came to attack me in suflicient numbers 1o show that he wanted to destroy me and my children. For three days 1 looked at them coming toward us. I then ast sembled the young men, aud toid them to put up the old tepees, light fires foside and out, put blankets and other thinzs upon the sticks and plane them in the ground around the fires, 6o that they would look like veople at o distance. At the same time I cent the children und women across the nills to a place of safety. With my warriors I turned arouna two or thrce blufls to give Guster tinie to come up and charge our empty tepes. When be came [ fell upon him by the pear, and in less than two hours destroyed them all. When 1 saw them coming I called on God to Delp me, and liberate meé apd my chilaren, They call me a very bad mau. Father, all I ¢ doue in my lifé bas been to get a living for my children and my old parents, and save them irom the dangers of death.” Genln says they say Lleno acted wisely, and that they only wiiidrew from the fight because of their stouts reporting Terry’s approach. Genin was told that the warriors who fell on Custer used their round-stone tomabawks, and Killed tnany soldiers with them. ‘That explains uhie broken siculls, and the so-called mutilation auribuzed to the squans. He was presented with two of those relics of the Custer horror. eieven and the other has twenty-seven csnoc marks on it. The horseshoe wark + a_Gead cavalryman. The warrior who presented the Futher with the oue of twenty- seven marks claims that he kilied twenty-seven men in the Custer fight (orobably struck that many). sighed when be gave’it up, but he thought he was obliged to make some great sacritico {n_respect;to “ the Black Gown with long beard.” goLD. Father Genin saysif the Goveroment does suffer these ans peaceably to re- wrn to the Miik-River country, it will soon be invaded Dby ~gold-hunters. and the story of the Black Hills region re- peated. He fs satfetied there is gold {o the Lit- fes, only thirty miles from the Missour er, aud in the Bear-Paw Mountains. Already there are miners there, who claim to have fine vrospects. ‘The Father bhas with him some specimens of the quartz. OuTLOOK. GUIBORD IN CLEVELAND. The Catholic Church Denying * Conscerat- ed" Luriui to One of [ts Members Because of Jls Conuection with n Seeret Society. Suecial Dispatch to The Trivune. CLuveLaxp, O., June S.—A real Guibord case hos arisen fu Cleveland, and s arousinz a Jarge degree of attention, and eliciting a good deal of discussion in the newspapers. A few weeks ago, onc of the most horrible accidents occurred inoneof the densely-pooulated pre- cinets of the city that bave ever hapoened here, and probably au exactly similar affair never oe- curred anywhere else. In brief, the facts of the case are as follows: Christoff Guise bad dug ‘a vault, some four feet frow privy, with the intention fn view of tapping the latter and drawing off its contents into the vault. The vault had been dug a few days, aud had been used meanwhile for a slop- bole, and was partly filled with water. When Guise had made u hole through the four fest of intervening earth, such a terrible chargze of powerful and poisonous sewer-gas came through mto the vault that he was unable to escape. He called for gsststunce, and one after another thres of his ueighbors eame to the rescue and entered the terrible grave, losing their lives almost immediately by inhaling the gases. Guise himself was got out alive, but the others were dead before taken from the vault, sud Guise died next day. The last mao who entered the hole was Joseph Oberle, a stone-cutter by trade, who left awite and four ebndren. . He bad been all bis iife a faithful Catholic,had bourht and paid for a fot in the privcipal Catholic cemetery of the ¢ity, ana everything was supposed to be moving OF all rigzlst up to tie time of his death. He hud celebrated the regulor Easter communion, had paid all demands *upon him, snd hoped to find a restivz-place in conscerated ground. But, on the day before the faueral, the pricst who watches ‘over the cemietery called upou the widow, and informed ber that her husband, beine a Forester, could not be buried fn con- secrated ground, and that she must find another spot in which to lay him. Oberle had been generally considered as a martyr, and bfs case had attracted 3a good of atteution, 20, when this announcement was made, much public comment was created, and similar cases have been hunted up. It seems that one of the thingswhich, accord- fng to the Catholic Church, debars oue from Chiristian burial is suicide; but, some efghtecn months ago, aman livioz upon St. Clair street named Beruard Tunte, who had amassed a £oo deal of property in the saloon and real-ostate business, zommitted suicide by shooting him- self through the Leart. He wasa member of the Good Feltows and the Masons; but the priests and Bishop fixed it up,and gave him * Christian burfal,” taking him into St. Peter’s Church, and placing him in consecrated ground. There was a slight objection made at first, to be sure; but the son told them that he would fizht the tnatter in the courts, and all the family would leave the church; and they suddenly con- cluded that the aecensed was erazy when he commutted the unchristian sct, and they shouid not. diseriminate acainst him. Shristopher Audrews was another well-to-do citizen of Cleveland. He died in 1870. He bad Leen a heavy contributor to the Catholic Chwreh durinic bis life, aud he left s rich widow, who would be 6f zreat advantare to the_cause. Mr. Andrews, however, belonged to the Druids, the Odd-Fetlows, aud the Free Masons. He was refused burial, and 5 good deal of a row oc- carred, occupving nearly « montl, But menn- while the deeeased was placed in a vault in the Protestant cemetery, and efforts were made to have him interred upon his own lot. Finally, Mrs. Andréws told the priestly authonties that, unless ‘they granted burial to her bus- band, she wouald give up her lot, take one in the Protestant /:cemetery, and renounce &0 bigoted ay.Chureh. * This brought them and the fear of losing & hold upon ‘Christopier Andrews' moucy laid aside ail scruples, and caused his body to be safely deposited in the *cunscerated ground.” Now the question s anxiously asked, whether there was anything exeept o money differcoce between these paeallel cases. Al of these men belonged to seerct societies; one was a pro- seribed sufclde; yet be and Andretws were rich and given burial. The chird one, a martyr and hero, who simbly belonged to- the Foresters’ Mutual Lnsuranie Association, 3 -pxcluded be- cause heis poor. The whole matter {s rank with injustice, and there is 3 good ‘deal of talk of taking it into the courts in_the fitterest of jnstice and to have its equity tested, There is Tio doubt that the letter of the law is with the Chureh, but cquity might reach forth her hands to steady the scules of justice in case it were brought before the courts. —ee——— ILUNOIS SUPREME COURT. Epeciat Dispatch (o The Tribune. Mr. Versor, Iil,, June S.~The session of the Supreme Court to-day was a bricf one. In case No.§ a motion to dismiss was denied, the affi- davit beinginsuflicient. Cases numbered 133, 154, and 156 were dismissed. In case No.10 a mation to dismiss was overruled, and & cross ‘motion for scira facia allowed. ‘The motion to advance case No. 203 upon the docket was over- ruled, Case No. 155 was dismissed by plaintifl, No. 167 was_also dismissed by plaintiff, with jeave to withdraw record. In case No. 15k the demurrer was withdrawn. Cases numbered 41, 3 43, 41, 13, 46, 47, 43, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 53, 36, 7, 59, and 60 were taken oo call. MILWAUKEE. A Lively Week in the City of Cregm-~Colored Bricks. ¥ . The Tragedies and Comedies of Life Stand in Close Prox- imity. 3 The lpoifigs and Sayinge ©Of the ¥ School Board: i The June Races s Ejzibi:-4 Batch of Pergonal and'Lj¢nl Itema. A ARAGEDY. From Qlr, qun Correspondent, guu/ont, brief candle! Life's but a watkng hadow: a poor player, That strutesagésets his hour upon the stage, And themai fdrd no mora: it ls a tale Told by aseiot, full of sound and fury, Siznirympaothing.—Vacoeth. MiLyvyEEE, Wis., June S.—The little line thaz diyndés the liviug from the dead is narrow and bittle, and on either side lie the vragedies of lufnan life and all the mysteries of death. ‘The people of Milwaukee were shocked on Thursduy to fearn that Jav Paige had been shot zud killed in Kansas City. He was the son of the Inte Herman L. Paige, formerly Seriff of " this county, and at one time Mayor of this city, and o wealthy and influentinl civizen. His mother stitl resides here, and i3 a hiznly re- spected Jady, who has the deep symbpathy of s lgrge cirde of the best people in the , . city and State. Mrs. Paige is/'a duughter of Judge Barber, of “Horicon, oue of the most prominent citizens the State. One of Mrs. Puize’s sisters mar- ried the late Hon. Charles Biliinghurst, who served two terms in Congress from the Dodge County district, and her cldest daughter mar- ried Mr. Dilingham. Mrs. Matt H. Carpenter’s rother, and uow resides here. So you see how the “tragic death of young Palzo touches the tender feelings of all our people through their love aud respect for bls family and irlends, notwithstzuding the murderea boy was as dis solute and wnruly.as he could well be and_keep His murderer was out of the eluteh of the law. tion of hispame in that counection will recall an unpleasant association in the nunds of those who served fu- the Legislature ag that session, Webb wus charzed with altering an approoris- tion bill, but which be stoutly maintained was o clerical error, and I belicse a committee of a subscquent Legislature fully exonerated him and_condoued the offensc. ~ Webb was a fine presiding officer and an excellent parliamenta- Hlan. e was also a ready and sble debater, and olways took a leading purt-in the proceed- ings of the Assembly. Duriug the sessions of 1833 and 1564 bis son was one of the messenger- boys in the Assembly. t, intelligent lad of 15 ot that time, who now ficures as the chief actor in the horribie tragedy which results in the death of Jay Paige. 'Thc origtn of the difii- culty was a dispute ubout some zamoline oper- ntkmi in whiclt the youug men bad been en- guged. A dispateh from Kansas City gives the follow- ing account of the murderous affair: The facts of the shooting are these: Jay Palge kept o gambling piace of questionable coaracter in* Winfleld, Kan. 1t is sald thui men have been roped_in there and afterwardthreatened with pis- tofs If they '*squealed.™ Webh was drinking bard previous to the shooting. The night betore he was in one of the roows of the building, where Paige vot awny with his money by unfair means, silenced the feeced man with o slow of two pistols. Webb left in a haif demented con- dition, and under the influence of whisky, druzs. avd frenzy returned and went up 1o Puige as the lntter stood ngainst the counter of his saloon, dres o revolver and lired, th bull enterinz Paige’s lefu breast aboat five 1nches above the mople. Paige ran out of the front aoor, blood gushing from uis mouth and nostrils, Ccryinz That Webb had Killed him. The wounded man ran 100 feet afony the eidewatk, and fell a comse. No word way spoken in the saloon by either Weou or Paige.. Webb immediarcly surcendered himsel( 10 Depaty-Saerilf Ihil. He has o wife and two children. Puige leaves o wife, who is fua delicate condition, approaching confinewment, and the ef- fect of this blow w3y prove serions to her. Paige ‘was a professional gumbler, and 14 represented to have been not only skillful_but unprincipled and reckless. Ile was quick and handy with a pistol, and had nerve to use st The pnysician attending Webb gives it us bis opimon that the aesverate mau {8 in a crazy condition. L. J. Webb. whoshot Yaige, 19a Kepublizan member of the Legisinture, a lawyer by profession, und a son of W. C. Webb, of Topeks, who {3 ope of the moet prominent lowyers in Kansus. During the Senatorial contest in 1577, Webb was a stromr xupporier of Col. Plumb, and expected the Recaivership of Yublic Lunds in the Wichita oftice aa his reward, He went to Washingion and made o strong effort to securo the position, but was unsaccessful. Palge was engaged in a street fight in this city Inst fall in which the wmost painful results were only obviated by the intervention of the bystauders. Tho same day that the news reached the city of the \Webb-Paige tragedy, auother sccident occurred, resulting in the death of J. W. Shoughnessy, a young man of much promise, whose body was pickea llr in the lake. ‘The grict of bis parents when bis lifeless remains were conveyed to the home which he left in per- fect bealthonly a few hours before was_heart- rending in the extreme. His father fmnted again and again, and the mute despair that overspread the sad faces of the other members of the family was touchine to the last degree. 1t was supposed at first 1oat be was out rowing on tho lake, and that by some unknown acci- dent he fell overboard, but the Coroner’s jury rendered a yerdict of killed by lightning, He was seen at the end of the pier just before a heavy thunder shower. SUMMER REST. In this city the custom has always been to pay the teachers fu the public schools by the year, and to give them o vacation of two months—July and August. But now the poor teachers are on the ragmed edge because the School Board has been discussiaz o proposition 10 shiorten the vacation one moath, thus making them teach eleven months instead of ten, as Dberetofore, for the same smount of movey. The Board bave not yet decided upon it, but the fact that it has been seriously discussed hus created considerable nervousness, and given the teachers oceasion tosay some things that are not at all complimentary of the powers that be. It is a reform of doubtful expediency, osthe munth of August is not of theinvigoratine kiud for school orlk, and the children os well as the teachers would be better off out of school than fn. But the amazing stupldity of thenew Bourd has already been demonstrated to o degree that nothing it can do hereafter will surprise_any- body. ~A reduction of tbe Principals’ salaries from $1,500 to $1,200 fs also under discussion, and will most lfkely bo encouraged in the inter- est of *Reform ” “(capital R). If they would make such a reduction, and put German on the same footing in the public schools with French and Latin, it would be a judicious change made in the interest of the taxpayers. But, from the discussion thut took place ut the last meeting of the Board, it appears as if the teaching of German is to be made stil] more expensive, as witness the {ollowing resolution: Resotved, That the Commitiee on German be and is hereby instructed and authorized to take the necessaty steps to find a publisher for the printing and publishing of such text-books as are adapted ta the wants of the ectigols. Said: bookd arc to be wo in namber, vne ** German Language Lessons for Upper Grades,” and one **German Lapguage Lessdns for Intermediate Grades.” Tae formet to be adapted for use in the Firar, Second, and Third grades, -apd the Jatter for use in the Fourth, Fifth. 2nd Sixthigraaes. These books are to be written and compiled. by the teachers of German now in the employ of zhe Board, under the enpcrvision of the Committea on Gerinan, are to be got ready for Introduction asusoon 8 poestble, and are to be adopted with **The Beginmng iu German™ and ““"The Progressive . Translation" now 1a use, for the period of the pext five years. Provided, how- ever, Lhnt the books now ia use fo the uvper and intermediate zrades are to be continued until the before-mentioned books:are ready for introduc- ton. i This clicited so much discussion that it was at over for further consideration. Itis a zrati- fiation to kuow that the Euglish language is il ‘nermitied to be tanght, m our public £choIS; gnd that there is occdsionally a Ger- man like Carl Schurz, who calls it ‘“‘the len- guage of civilization. i AMUSEMFENTS. 7 The amusements for the week hitve cousiated of the Evingeline troupe, the Jupe races, an a lecture by the Rey, Joseph Cook, of Boston. It may seem a little singularat first to piace Mr. Caoks it the category -of amuscments and in the same rconnection withhorse-raciog, bub the classification s not o bad after all,and I do not think he yould object to it. e is certainly 23 much of B curiosity as Rarus, who waseltlze;e at the sames time, and as be was plued in the race! (Tagpafust Emersos, Spencer, Jobn Su Mill, Huxley, John Xiske, -~ OT" the evolu- o gnd il the Siiaced th ntire certarnd he taprdinary man, even in his oWn esitmaties DUL 88 you have enjoyed bis i WAL} Chicago, it 1s not worth the miStrRtY T on about bim. 23 bad. but our June races were pretty I mne: Of o fafiure. This was owing in part to }Al“ bad management in placing the terms of mission too high, so high, in fact, that many peovle who wanted to gowould not submit to what they felt tobe au extortion. Apother reason was the rain that fell on Thursasy and Friday, the days that had been calculated vpon for tne finest sport on the programme. Many tine horses at first advertised were not here, notably Mr. Case's famous Gov. Sprague. And some others, such as ' Brodheat's Mazomanie, were out of condition. Taking it all jnall, therefore, the June meeting of the Driving Park Associntfon was far from the success which the {ennemn who are mansging it hoped to make it. RAILROAD ELECTIONS. The two companles whoss lines of raflroad do most of the business for the State of Wisconsin, ~the Northwestern and the St. Paal, held thelr annual elections last week, and the result is the continuance of the present management in both ronds. The re-clection of Mr. Keep, as Presi- dent of the Northwestern. Is especially eratify- fox to Wisconsin people because he was for- merly a Wisconsin man, and socondly, for the reason that Lie has managea his greas interest in o0 honest, business-like, and liberal manuer. Nearly 1,000 miles of the Norshwestern Hne lies inside of our State boundaries, aud the juterest our people feel in its manawement fs not to be wondered at. The relations between . Mr. Keep and the citizens of the State bave ever been of the kimndliest. character; the differences that necessarily arise in tho transaction of an im- mense business have alwaysbeen adjusted by the officers of the Company in a fair and zenerous rmanner, and the news of Mr. Keep's re-clection will be & satlafaction to the buslucss portion of the people. The annual election of a Board of Directors for the St. Paul Company takes blace to-lay at noon. The Eastern stockholders are represent- cd by Messrs. Wadsworth, Gurney, Van Nest, Geddes, Chamberfain, and others, and, us there Is na contest over the election, the affair is a mere mutter of fortn. The old Board and the old officers will all be re-clected and the great corporation will o onits grand carcer, con- quering and to conquer. _With such adrairable oflicers” as Mitchell, Merrill, Gault, and tbeir thorousrhly trained’ and efficient lieutenants, the interests of the stockholders will be well cared for. The increased value of the property of tliese two preat lines of road that traverse the State in all directions fs one of the gratify- ing siczus of recurning prospericy, and may be compared aa follows: Louwest Jlflfl,fll. last year. Adeance. 15 $§5, 812,500 3 8400000 . 40% is incrense fn the price of these stocks not been aitozether speculative, but th imense crops of lust year, and the increased earnings of the reads, have given them a value more substantial and permanent than they bave had for many years before. The repeal of the notorious airarian Potter law and all other uniriendly legislation has bad a good effect in reassuring capitalists who wished to Invest in | Western railway securities. Tle St. Paul Com- pany is buildiug about 150 miles of nesw road in extension of its lines in Xowa and Minuesota, and {c will probably gobble the Madison & Yortage bLranch, and the narrow-gauge spar from Fond du Lac to Iron Ridge. Ibis s mys- 1erv to evergbody that its line is not extended Trom Movroe to the Mississippi River. COARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. Milwaukee will soon become as famous for the number of her charitable institutions as she uow is for the number of her lager-beer sa- loons, so that we shall offset the evils of promiscuous drinking with our Dbenevolence, and the quality of that merey which is not strained. Jo sadition to what we have already in the line of asvlums, homes for the aed, the friendless, hospitals, and so on, we are building this season three ore that will ueet o loug-felt want., These are the Industri- al School for Girls that is to be under the super- vision of the State, a city hospital, und_an asy- lum for insane and inebriate persons,—all under contract to be completed 5o us to be ready for occupaney before winter. A medical coflege is 2lso taiked avout. but as the doctors are neyer agreed it is not likely an institution for making ‘mre of thewm will very soon have & local habi- tation and u name in this city, thouzh the loca- tion fs zood and the demand for 1t imperative. PERSONAL. Col. E. A. Calkins, formerly editor of the Daily News, has been making good use of his jouralistieabilities by representing the Sentine? at 3fadison during the extra session of the Legis- lature. ‘Word comes [rom Helena, Montana, that Mrs. A. C. Botkin arrived there in safety after & pro- tracted journey of oue montl. She was de- tajped eight days at Bismarck in waiting for a bost. ‘The tme expended ou ber trip to join her husband, who was recently sppointed United = States Marshal for that Territory, was suflicient to cnable a person to visit Parls and retury,— which is another wav of saying that the Star- Spangled Banner floats over a country of mag- miticent distances. Poor Sum_ Rindskopf, who was once called “the Prince” because of his immense wealth, his fine personal appearance, and bis generous liberality to his iriends, hias become o man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Sam’s origival trouble was with Mr. Bristow, who was then Secretary of the Treasury, aud com- meuced while Rindskopf wus dealing with the Middleton Distiliery 10 the crooked whisky Dusiness. Betwixt the Government on the onc side and_the lawyers on the other, the mag- nificent fortune of the ** Prince® vanished Ilke dew before the sun, until there i3 hittle left he- sond what s exempt by law. This week the Sheriff levied on bis remaining property to satisfy o judzment obtained.in the Circuit Court for over $11,000. Those who take their whisky . cither strmaht or crooked are apt to come vut at the littie end of the norn. It is surmised that Mr. MeAllister, ex-Super- fntendent of our city schools, is - likely to be clected President of tbe Normal School at Whitewater, a position that he i3 well qualificd to fill with credit to Limself and_advantaze to the institution. The Board of Regents could not do a beuter thing. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Aiken, of the Evening Wis- consin, arrived last week from an extended visit to Europe and - the Paris Exposition. One of ther young daughters remains at &chool in Germany. Tbe Hon. Harrlson C. Hobart {5 said to be looking for the Senatorial nomination in the Fourth District. Heis 2 gontleman of large legislutive_experlence, having served several terms in the Assembly, and acted one session g3 its Speaker. Lie has peen twice the Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of the Statg, and would be a credit to any legislative body. It is not often the Democratic party fn Milwaukee stumbles on 50 zood a man. The Rey. W.W. Case, s well-known Meth- odist minister, who was formerly stationed here, but who is now a resident of Cincinnati, will pay his old {rivnds in Milwaukee a visit next week. Miss_Frances Cary, daughter of John W. Cary, Esq., ané Mr. Charles D. Kendrick, were marcied at the bride's bome oo Cass streetat 5:30 o'clock last evening, the Rev. Dr. Nichols officlating, 3 ‘Miss Belle Bryant, daughter of 8. Bryant, Esq., the contractor, and Mr. Edward Vioson, were married ot Mr. Bryant’s residence on Sycamore street, Thursday cvenlog, the cere- wony being performed by the Rev. Heary Col- man. MISCELLANEOUS. Stock In our base:ball club can now be pur- chased very cheap. The club. bas got down to bard-pan, beinz badly beaten everywhere, ex- cept by alittle jueuile squad somewhere up in New Hampsbire, and it there is a change at all it must be for the better. Butthe boys have still plenty of friends left-in the city who do not think an occasional Buil Run is to decide o Whole campaign. £ut it was a long way from Bull Run to Appomattox Court-House. 1 met Sat Clark_vesterday, who was just in from his hotne in Dodze County, and he puts Toore favorable face on the defalcation of the County Treasurer. He states, that Mr. ‘Fraivor las sought the investiration himself, ana_now seeksa judicial examination of the matter. Muny of his youchers werc burned witbhhe other public Tecords at the timethe buildings were destroyed . e firg last tinter, aod consequently he is una- ble 10 TUritwshem for inspection. Mr. Trainor i3 now in thE EUSLOUY " ~ho Sherift, but firmly mantoing that his GeCOUNLS Win v -yg bo 2tivel t. O quictly whispered sround in political cir- cles thut our German fellow-titizens of the Democratic persnasion will insist that it is their turn to name the candidate for Conzress from this district next time. They say that the pre- onderating vote of ,the district s largely erman, which is true, and that they must have the Represeniative. I£ they are uited they will certainly izet their' man nomipated; but they are likely to fall out among . themselves, and the prize will go to some other uatfonality. The Irish are mad enough at Lynde for voting against, Gen, Shields for Doorkeeper to unito with the Germans in the effort to defeat him. Among the candidates Mayor Black, Barcn Cotzhausen, Voo Rletbrook, and Deuster, of the Sez Bote, are the prominent names men- tioued, with the cbances in favor of the latter. Ah, me! . Does the unsuspecting reader know how near it is to graduating-day, when the in- ciplent philosophers of the gentler sex dream of nothing but white dresses, zay ribbons, staga friht. poetical quotatipns, and showers of bou- quets? And the young gentlemen, too, are often found now in some sequestered glen where they exercise their husky elocutionary powers in. reciting the oririnal oratiuns that dre to make them fmmortal on the one great day of their lives,—the day, so it scems to them, for which all other days were made. ARt who can tell how bard it s to climb Tue steep where Fame's proud temple shines n';u. AT THE RAILROADS. THE EAST-BOUND FREIGHT AGREE- MENT. ‘The agreement in resard to the East-bound freizht business expires June 11. - On the same day the monagers of the New York trunk lines and their Western counections mect in New York to see what action is necessary to main- tain rates in the future. An effort will undoubt- edly be made to extend the agreement or re- place it by something of the same general char- acter, but ‘there dues not secm to be much ex- pectation that it will succeed. The old agreement has not beeu cffective enough 93 an apportionment to be very encourazing, and there are some who do oot need much discouragement to lead them to discourage any further sttemptsin that direction. Noue of them are opposed to com- binations aid divisions of tarifl, but they do not put much confidence iu un agrecment that cannot and will not be enforced. The agree- ment has now beenin zore for three wonths, but during nll this tune the competition be- tween the various roads rematned as active as ever, and o division of traflic has ever been made. In referring to this subject the Kailroad Guzette makes the Tollowing pertinent remarks: Some practical method of compelling the several parifes to a contract 10 keep it secms 1o be o desid- * Cratusm 10 This matter, 38 in most human sifaics. At presenc there scems uot to oc auy cattlnz of rutea; but then there is no marsin of prodt 1o cut off. There i 4 large throuzl tradlc, notwithstand- ine the heavy lake and canal business; but its chict valne seems 10 b to keep the trmin-men employed. And the conviction that for the present rates can- 10t be advanced, uuder zny kind of combieation, doubtlces hns soinething to do. witn the reported indisposition to_ muke one. Lust year th roads ot 30 cents per 100 ibs from Chicuzo to New York ©n grain aud foarth-class freizit in July and_Au- fmist, and then were able o ndvance the Tute 10 45 centé. It certatnly scems very strange thai now, When there certainly 18 mora (o carry, aad the ves- sels are charg more rather then less, the market will mot vear & rate hizher than 20 Cents. 1tia casy to_unacrstand thst thiy may ce true of pran, bot that it can be of vorg-products 13 stranze indecd. Tnese have always, or fora ereat muny yeare, moved chieily by mil. frequent- Jyat40 or 50 cents per hunared, amil gene: whien the difference in favor of the water rate was sy ¢rain to Lake Michigan ave getting &n enorinous Lrud t remunerstive ralcs, Znu making large profits. Just sunth of them 5o areat petwork of roads that have hardiy coyikiug fohope from their tratle, however great it may be. Evenif rates canuot be advanced this suwis mer, the summer will mot last forever, and the time will come waen there wili be some’ profit in —if the railronds do not guarsel over it, About that time it will be o rood thing to bave a comoiuation in good WOrkIng order. RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. Last Friday the Railrond Commissioners of Tllinois met with the Railroad Comunissioncrs of Missouri at St. Louis. The questions dis- cussed were: The principles on which freight rates are 10 be cetermined. Stcond—A utaform classification of freizhts in the diferent § s PArd—A unitorm system of reports of railroad companies to Commussioners, Fourth—A convention of all State Ratlroad Com- missioners in the Usited Statcs. All these points were freely discussed, and it was sgreed that a uniforin clussitication of freizbts, with such shight variations as circum- stances way demanid, or articles of traflic would indicate, is very roads penetrate eeveral di thut a uuiform. systet of Lookke obtaiued by ipstitutinz a unitorm unfform reports. Unitorm reports can be ob- tained by sending ouc uniform blauks to the different Toads. Under the head of the convention of Com- missioners, it was deemed very desirable, in many respects, that suen a_convention should be held for the purpose of an interchange of views, statistics, cte., upon ruilroad subjects, and the promotion of uniform, and the preven- tion of uuneessary and contradictory, legisla- tion upon tlhese matters. ‘The timnce and place suggested for holding the Convention were Nov. 12, at Columbus, O. C.p M. & ST. P. MILWACKEE, June 8.—The anuual meeting of the Cbicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railrond Company was held to-day. The following Di- rectors were re-clected without opposition: Alexander Mitchell, Milwaukee; Julius Wads~ wortl, New York; Zelah Chamberlain, Cleve- lana; Jobn M. Burke, Walter S. Gurnec, Peter Geddes, David Dows, Jeremiah Milbank, Abra- bam Vannest, New York; George W. Weid, Boston; Junn Plankiuton, 8. 8. Merrell, Milwaakee; J. Bowman, Kilbourn City, Wis. Subscquently toe Directors re-elected the fol- Jowing otlicers: President, Alexander Mitchell Vice-President, Julius Wadsworth Secretary reasurer, R D, Jeunings; General-Ma- Merrell; Assistant-General-Manager, John C. Gault. “The Directors Jeave here Monday morning for o trip of iuspectivu over the road. ITEMS. Mr. T. B. Lewis has becn appointed General Ticket Agent of the Chicago, Clinton & West- ern Rallrosd, in place of A. Pickard, resigned. Mr. O. F. Davis, for many years Land Com- missfoner of the Cnfon Pacific Railroad, and Mr. Wepster Soyder, the first General Super- intendent of that road, have entered into part- nership 85 land areuts and opened an office in Owaha. The Chicago, Burlfozton & Quincy Railroad is now runsing a throveh car from Chicago to Lincola, Neb., the car being transferred accoss the Missouri at _Plaitsmouts, and runniog thenue over the Buriington & Missouri River Railroad. As will be seen by an_advertisement in au- other column, the Lone Tsland Railroad is giv- ing extraordinary inducements {n_the shape of low rates to people who like to take advantaze of the splendid surf-hathing on the Lons Island shore, or spend the samwer at the excellent summer resorts 1o that section. ———————— THE WEATHER. Orrrce oF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,: WasminGToN, D. C., June 9—1 a. m.—Indfca- tions—For Tennessee aud the Obio Valtey ris- ing barometer, cooler northwest winds, partly cloudy weather, and occasional rains, followed in the western portions by falling barometer and warmer easterly winds. For the Upper Mississiopi and Lower Mis- gouri Valleys falling, followed by risiug barom-. eter, northieast to northwest winds, nearly sta- tiopary temperature, partly cioudy weather, und raio areas. For the Lake region rising barometer, nearly stationary temperature, northwest to northeast winds, and_ecnerally clear_or partly cloudy sweatner, followed over the Upper Lukes Ly fall- juz barometer, easterly winds, snd possibly occasional rains. N The Cumberlaud, Tenncssce, and Upper Obio Rivers will rise. 3 Cautionary signals continue at Rochester and Oswego. GENEBAL ODSEZRVATIONS. Cutcavo. June 8-Midatght. Wind. [ Rain Weathar. Stations., Marauette.. i