Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1883, Page 1

u s _— : LABOR'S GRIEVANCES. Tmportant Statistios Prnficntml the Sen- ate Committee on Labor, The Evils of Long Hours and the Cheap Labor of Peni- tentiaries, The Bakers, Brewers and Cigarma- Kers—Their Hours ot Average Wages, Toil and New York, August ¢ Before the comumittee of the United States senate in- vestigating the labor ditlicultics, president of the C ional union, read a tistics, showing the average rate s in his trade in this country and of living. The figures showed n organi- the cost that where there was existin zation, a much higher rate of wages pro- P —— ‘— ‘-::_11 "-BL.’ - THIRTEENTH Y my ™ with buckets by the passengers. About 100 passengers were on the train, but none were injured. C— Another Kansas Road. Osaar Ciry, Ks,, August 21. At a meeting of the directors of the Ottawa, Osage City & Council Grove railroad in Lyndon yesterday the contract for build- ing the road was let to Holden, of Chi cago. This road is designed to be an ex- tension of the Missouri Pacific system, connecting that road at Ottawa with the Topeka, Salina & Western at Council Grove, Kansas, It will traverse ¥5 miles of the very richest portion of the state and open up a new market east and west for the immense coal business of the Osage country. — THE OLD WORLD. *|The Crisis in AMairs Bebween Frauce and China Ramdly Ap- proaching. vailed than where the industry was unc Popular Discontent Manifested in ganized. Since 1864 there Nas been 362 |y 000 Teiiin and Trcland— strikes in the r business—207 won, | 137 lost, 12 compromised and six are | Various Items of News. still in progress. One strike lasted ten | ™ months and was finally compromised. | 3 A iN NEWS. These strikes actually ~cost $28¢ g S IR B L There was an actual gain in the wag | GUARDING SPENCER IN IRELAND, the workmen of £18,000 per annum. Loxvon, August 21.—A Dublin dis- There was 185 branches of the Earl Spencer, lord licutenant, international union in this country | 1at Cork last evening. Ho was and Canada, with a membership | es d through the principal streots of of 50,000. Strasser suggested for legis- ¢ a small mounted guard, He lative n ures which would tend to mitigate the evils which threatened labor in general in this country, the enforce- ment of the national eight hour law; to authorize incorporation of labor organiza- tions and place them on the same basis as other corporations; to establish a na- tional bureau of labor statistics and amend the revenue law by providing that after May, 1884, no license should be granted sigar manufacturers employing prisons or penitentiary labor. George J. Block, as representative of the journeymen bakers of this city, testi- fied that the condition of the bakers was a very degraded one, on account of the Tong hours they were compelled to labor. They begin work at 2 p. m., and contiuue until 4, 5, 6 and 8 a. m. The greater number were unmarried. The average wages were $8.20 a week. The bakers struck some time ago for a reduction to 12 hours per day. The baker bosses agreed to this, but when the men re- turned to work the pledges were broken. Block stated that of the waiters em- ployed in lager beer saloons many are i’rusui:m army officers, noblemen, Russian princes who came this country expecting to make their fortunes, but fou:d this their only means to gain a livelihood. Block said there are in this city 35 brew- ers employing about 2,300 men, A trades union was organized in 1881, Shortly after there was a strike for decrease of working hours to 12 hours per day and extra compensation for Sunday work The strike was won by the men. Wages range from $30 to $100 per month. T U e e e The Labor Congres New York, August 21.—The third an- nual meeting of the federation of or- ganized trades and labor unions of the United States and Canada began at noon to-day in Turner hall. Garpers, chair- man of the executive committee, called the meating to-order, The following delegates presented credentials: Kirwith McKenzie, Amalgamated Trades and La- bor unions, New York; Wm. McClellan, Amalgamated Society of Engineers, New . Tinker, Bookbinders’ union, ashington, D. C.; P. H. McClogan, 10 Trades and Labor Assembl tock, Columbus, Ohio; J. T ack, Indianapolis; Albert H Jean Weil, of this the German-Amer Typographical union of the United S i Richard Pow Scamen’s Benevolent union, Chicago; zier, O union No. 114, N monston, Carpente; of the United § Trades and Labor W. C. Pollmer, Ci union No. 17, Cleveland, O.; Fred. Blend, Evans- ville, Ind., Herman Phillips, Cincinnati, and ‘Samuel Sampers, of this city, from rnational union of Columbus Type- graphical union, Washington, D. C., and George Black, Workmen's association, armaker's yriel Ed- or's union . D. Connally, ation, Cincinnati; A Temperan Fort Scorr, August The temper- ance people of Kansas and Missouri have arranged to hold an inter-state encamp- ment at Merriam park, near Kansas City, from September 3d to 10th, This being the only meeting of the ind to be held in either state tls year it is at- tracting unusual attention, and promises to be largely attended. Merriam park is one of the most beautiful parks in the west, and is so fitted upas to be the best possible place for an outdoor wmesting of this kind. It is supplied with an im- mense pavilion, an unlimited number of tents, abundant water, and is within within fifteen minutes ride of the exten- sive hotel accommodation of Kansas City. The prohibition league, of Mis- souri, with Dr. Brooks as president, will run the meeting on September Gth; the w.C.T, of Kansas, on the 7th, and on the 8th will be held a discussion as to the merits of high license as against pro- hibition. Many rsons in southern Kansas are looking with much interest to the result of this disenssion, np Meeting, —— Collision of Trains, SrrurHERs, 0., August 21.—By neg- lect some one left the switch open at the cast end of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie yard at Hazleton, two miles east of Youngstown, O. Passenger train b, due at Youngstown frem Pittsberg at 11:30 a. 1., ran into the rear end of a freight train standing on the main track, tele- scoped the caboose and ploughed through a coke car, completely demolishing both cars and badly wrecking the engine of the passenger train, which was running at the rate of thirty miles per hour. The engineer, Samuel Rose, reversed the lever and stood by the throttle, and came out of the wreck miraculously, not re- ceiving a scratch, The fireman, Louis Kertze, jumped, and was badly bruised and cut about the face, hands and body, but was not fatally hur William John- son, express messenger, of Cleveland, waa considerably bruised and his right arm sprained. Charles A. Walsh, brake- man, was also severely injured. The train took fire, but was extinguished pectfully received by the people. Policemen in sight of each other guarded the train of tho lord licutenant along the route from Dublin to Cork. Forty-three deaths from cholera occur- red in Alexandria yesterday. THE RIOTS caused by the opposition of the people to the use of the Hungarian language in offi- ial notices occurred in other towns in Crotia besides Agrain. Troops inter- vened to quell them. SOUIALISM IN AUSTRIA. LoNnoN, August 21.—-A number of socialistic pamphlets which attack Em- peror Francis Joseph in a virulent man- ner have been found in the vicinity of the imperial summer palace at Luxem- borg, a few miles from Vienna, where Archduke Rudolph, prince imperial of Austro-Hungary, and wife reside. Pam- phlets of a similar character have been circulated at several pleasure resorts in lower Austria. FRENCH AFFAIRS, yette will be unveil- ed at Lepuy, capital of the department of Houleteise, Francs September Hth. Waldeck Rosseau, minister of the inte- r, General Thibaudin, minister of war, and Morton, American minister, will be srosent at the ceremony. Rear Admiral Galiber, successor of Admiral Pierre in command of the French fleet in Mada- gascar waters, will meet Admiral Pierre at the reunion. He will afterwards go t> Tamatave and open negotiations with the Hovas, He will insist upon a French protectorate over Northwest Madagascar, abolition of the law relating to seizure of land by Europeans, and payment to the French of one million franes indemnity. The latter demand may be waived, how- ever, if the others are complied with. Hovas' news agency denies the state- ment of the Madrid correspondent of a London local news ageney, printed yester- day, that the Spanish cabinet has re- solved to seck the support of Germany, in vicw of the attitude of France towards Spain. The Times' correspondent at Hong Kong reports that Hoidoung, in Tonquin, was attacked by the Frence on the 19th The statue of L inst. The result is not yet known. The Standard’s Hong Koug corre- spondent asserts that the Chinese are treating with Germany with a view of purchasing 1,000 rifles, The Paris correspondent of The Times says the statement that Tricon would shortly leave f n adwmission of suspension of It China, JAM .‘x'hr:x:\mr'r, arrested at Liverpool recently on arri from America, on suspicion of chmplicity in he dynamite conspiracy, has been further remandod. The prosecution will show McDermott was m Cork with Featherstone. The fifth congress students of early American history was opened in Copen- hagen by the Princess of Wales and mem- bers of the Danish royal family. Ad- dresses weredelivered by Danish, Spanish, Belgium and French delegates. One hundred and forty deaths from cholera occurred among the British troops since the outbreak of the cholera in Egypt. A disastrous conflagration occurred at Bersizio, in the province of Como, Italy. Forty-four houses were burned. An explosion in a colliery at Cardiff killed thirty miners. here was a lively discussion in the commons this afternoon in regard to the caso of Shaw, Dritish missionary in Madagascar, held in custody by the French. A landlord at Brest yesterday mur- dered his five children by hanging them, and then committed suicide himself. King Milan of Scrvia has arrived at Vienna, and visited Count Kalnoky, the imy minister of for air Emperor Francis Joseph Milan to-day, and rdmained half an hour. King Milan returned the visit later in the day. ABOUT CAREY, Details received by mailof the shaoting of Jumes Carey by O'Donnell show that O'Donnell, when he diseovered at Cape Town that Caroy was on board the Ken- faun Castle, excluimed, “Had T known ho was on board, T would havy swung for him, — The Templar Conclave, SAN Fraxcisco, August 21, — The grand encampment of templars convened in conclave this morning for transaction of buainess, At officers forming the escort, accompanied by the royal Hawaiian band, conducted Grand Master Dean to the grand canopy of California, Boston Knights acting s a special es- cort of honor. The California Knights drew up in double line, the officers of the grand encampment passing under their crossed swords. Large crowds of people assembled were greatly intorested in the proceedings. The business of the day was purely preliminary. The real work begins to-morrow. 8t. Louis and Boston are making active canvas for the ~ OMAHA, next conclave. The opinion is that St, Louis will get it, though many think Boston is better entitled. —— Storm in exota, MixxEarots, August 21, -A heavy storm has beon raging west and south of here to-day. The wires are down in both directions. A report comes from Kasson, on the Winona & St. Peter railroad, that a cyclone passed over that place, blowing down many buildings, killing two persons, and injuring several others. stone fell measuring ten inches in cirumfer ence. Clouds to the west and northwest were vory heavy and fears are expressed | that great damage has been done. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. | Several Appointments. Patriotic Dona- tions and Public Land Sales. uro-Pacumonin Reported in Cat- tle at Salem, Conn, | CAPITAL NOTES, APTOINTMENT, | Wasiisaroy, August 21— The prosi- dent has appointed Hiram Prince post- master at Albion, Neb. HON. POINDEXTER DUNN, of Kansas, has been invited by the demo cratic executive committee “of Ohio to take part in the state canvass and will ¢anumber of speeches during the ampaign, PUBLIC LAND AT AUCTION, £ 4The commissioner of the general land | office has been informed that the register of the land officeat the St. Cloud (Minn. ) district yesterday began the sale of a million es of public land at auction, The pricos realized $3.85 PLEURO-PNE! has broken out among cattle at Salom, Conn. Two wholo herds were attacked by the discase. Both are in quarantine, by order of the state commissioner, who appreciates the importance of prevonting a spread of the malady, and, having full authority, he will doubtiess prevent its further extension, The treasury depart- ment feels no apprehension as to the spread of the disease beyond its present locality. PATRIOTIC DONATIONS, J. B. Gardner, a wealthy citizen of Boston, recently deceased, provided by will that a large sum of money, bonds and other securities, aggregating in value £931,600, should be turned over to the United States treasury, to be used in | helping to pay the national debt. The bequest has been received at the treasury department, and was to-day placed to the credit of patriotic ations. ec— SPORTING NOTES. MONMOUTH RACES, Moxyourn Park, August 21.-—In the quatter mile race for two-year-olds eolt won, Greenbush second, ; third; time, 1:17}. West End lake stakes, three-year-old filhes, mile and a half, Miss Woodford won, Caramel second, Carnation third; time, 2:42, Mile and a half, Drake Carter won, Lella second, Pizarro third; time, 2 Mile and a quarter, Volusa won, Giro. fle second, Checkmate third; time, 2:12}. Steeplechase, short course, Chipola won, Charlemagne second, = Abraham third; time, 3:17. UTICA RACES, Umiex, August 2L, purse, §2,000, divided: Dire heats, or won in straight Duquesno second. Best time, 0, purse second, § 500, Phallas won, .'Cloud third, Tony e, 2:213, 2:22}, 2:20, SARATOGA RAC SarAToGA, August 21-—Mile, Mediator | won, Facobus second, Copias third; time, 1 Handicap_steeple-chase, about a milo and a half, Disturbance won, Miss Moul- sey second, Fury third; time, 2:55) Three-quarters of a mile, for two olds, was won by Welcher, Asinton ond, Sandoral third; time, 1:18). Third race, Clarendon’ hotel o8, three year old fillies, was won by All- handsaround, Blue Grass Bello second, Vera thivd; time, 2; BASE BALL. Bav Ciny, August 21— Grand Rapids 10, Bay City b, 10, Toledos 4. Bostox, August 21.—Boston 15, New York 8. Provipesce, August 21.— Providence 28, Philadelphia 0. CLEVELAND, August 21,—Cleveland 6, Chica; A Burkaro, August 21.—Buffalo 6, De- troit 4. Quincy, T, August 21.--Peoria 9, 8 THE SLADE-MITCHELL FIGHT, Kassas Ciry, August 21, —Goy. Crit- tenden to-day addressed a letter to Mar- shal Murray, of Kansas City, calling at- tention to the open violations of the utes by Slade and Mitchell, who are ning and preparing for a_pr | they and their abettc boing guilty of felony under the law and liable to punishment by confinement in the peni- ary four to ten years, Where the ement is made in this state or tre ing done to fight in another stat, punishment is two to five years, governor suggests to Marshal Murray that in the absence of Prosccuting At- torney Wallace, he (the marshal) should take such steps as he may deem proper to stop the matter, —— Preaching at Chautauqua CHAUTAUQUA, August 21.—This after- noon Rev, Dr, Whes , of Pittsburg, lectured on the future of the Christian Prof, A. Wiate, of Boston, on | New England orthodoxy and the revised version. In the evening Joseph H. Cook, of Boston, lectured to an immense audi- ence on the religious signs of the times. — Purched in the Pork Corner Bostoxn, August 21, The creditors of Wright, Warster & Co., suspended wool dealers, voted”to refuse any detailed statement of affairs for publication. The firm reported direct liabilities at $462, - 000; contingent liabilities something over $100,060; assets aggregate only $108,000, 1t is stated that the firm lost over $200,- 000 in speculation, principally in pork. EB. WEDNESDAY MOR East SaGivaw, August 21, —Saginaw ! {dered in the protection of the sett DEMOC'S DEFENDER. The Remainsof Julge Joe Blak Ful- lowed to the Grave by Thousanis, Reminiscences of His Career on the Bench and in the Cabinet. The Brilliancy of His Life Unclonded | Uy o Single Regreted Act. THE FUNERAL K, PA., August 21 of Judge Black was by far the largest over in York. Al business was suspend Wl thoe streets were thronged with I as the funoral Many distinguished peo; The pall-bearers were Gon, Hancock, Judge Gibwon, Judge Wickers, Goorge | Small, Gon, 8. A, Crawford, Chief Jus tice Mercur, Ao B. Farquhar, George H Sprigas, Judge Bear and W, L. Small The religious services were held at Brockie, conducted by Rev. Dr. Poiner, of Washington. The remains were in terred in the Prospect Hill cometery: MARKS OF REspS Harusevng, Pa, A house adopteda resolution, dire flag of the public building to boplaced at half mast, as s mark of vespect to the late Judge Biack, and adjourned as o further mark of respeet. The funeral »were present, REMINISC THE LIFE AND WO BLACK, Jeremiah Sullivan Black was born in ade, Somerset county, I’a., June 10, 1810. His father was of Scotch-Irish ancestry; his mother of Scotch-Irish on her father's side, as her name, Sullivan, indicates, and of Pennsylvania German descent on her mother's side. Judge Black’s father, Henry Black, was a man of prominence in southern Pennsylvania; he served in the legislature from 1814 to 1818, was an associate judgo for a term, and was a member of the national house of representatives when he died, Young Jere Black's education was derived from that admirable academic systom then prevalent in Scotch-Irish communities, which has been unhappily supplanted by the moro popular and less thorough nor- mal system, At Brownsvillo and Stoey- town hewas taught the classics and mathe- matics; in his reading the English pocts lis specialties, and the best models ent or modern literature. He had his *‘schooling” by the time he was 17, but his education was to be but fairly b gun when he left the class-room for the farm, By tho light of the early morning fire he conned his Virgil and Horace, and daily committed a number of lines in the original, which he carried with him to his work, and at the intervals of it he would take out his pocket dictionary and translate the passages in lus memory. the corners of the furrawor in the p of the {lail, he made translations into English prose and_verse, and bofore he entered upon his pr yAsional studies he well-nigh ' knew by Ieart tho whele of these two authors in Latin and English. He studied law with Chauncey For- ward, who was a member of congress, and abrother of Walter Forward, sceretary of the treasury under Tyler. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1831, and married his preceptor’s daughter, Miss May F. Forward, when he was 98 years of age. Rapidly rising to_eminence in the prac- tice of the law, he was appointed, in 1842, by Gov. Porter, PRESIDENT JUDGE of the Franklin, Bedford and Somorset district (Blair and Fulton counties after their creation being included init). For nine years he served the people of that district, his fame yound its borders, his opinions attra attention for their vigor and judicial vipeness and his popularity increasing by veason of his rave social qualities, for the excrcise of which enlarged dutics furn- ished new occasion, Under the constitutional amendment making judge ive ho was chosen with Lewis, Giibson, Lowery and Coulter to the supreme bench, and, the respoc- tive length of their terms being decided by lot, he drew the short term of three years, which e him chicf justico at once, and in 1854 he was ro-elocted by a large majority, the wave of knownoth- ingism then sweeping over the land never hing the hem of his robe. His de- s ornaments to the reports and ar to lawyers, being distin. guished by all tho virility of his later style. His eulogy on Gibson has long been famous as one of the most eloquent of forensic efforts, After two years of service in the term of fifteen years for which le was re-lect- ed, and when Mr. Buchanan was eleoted president, he called Judge Black from the bench to his cabinet as logal adviser, and he continued in that position until December, 1860, when he became sccre- tary of state, and 8o remained until the end of Mr, Buchanan's term. vadually spreading | AS ATNORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITER TES 8 MORL comspinuOus Kervices wore under government patents in Califo against fraudulent find grants, purport- ing to be of Mexican origin, In the treaty due respect to genuine original Mexican grants had been guarantecd and this offered great incentive to the fabri cation of hogus grants, against which the nment interposed to protect the s under its own patents, Attorney Bluck won all these cases for the went and its settlers; he exposed and perjury of the false wit nesses, seitled the principles by which the courts were guided in their juc and prepared for the ready use o court huge chart of the professional witnesses who were relied on to swear the cases through, The city of San Francisco was cov three deep with these bogus grants, and Attorney General Black saved the city from confiscation. It was his association with him in these cases that directed Black’s attention to Edwin M, Stanton, and when he took the portfolio of state it was at his sug- gestion that Mr. Buchanan appointed Stanton attorney-general, mainly with a view to & successful continuance of the defense of the California patents, which Mr, Btanton skillfully carried on. As secretary of state Judge Bluck made vigorous opposition to the secession move- ment. He led the northern wing of the 3, AUGUST 22, 1883, At|when Judge Black cabinet in reinforcing Fort Sumter. He issued instructiony to our foreign repre- sontatives to recognize no disintegration of the republic, declaring that the union of the states was indestructiblo and indis soluble. After his retirerent from a cabinet ef fice his first impulse was to return to his native state to take up the practice of law. Ho was appointed reporter of the United States supreme court, and issued umes of reports, when his practice ed 8o rapidly and so suddenly crowded in upon him that he was com polled to resign his place, and since then probably no lawyer of the land has had a larger practice before the highest judic atory within its bordoers, AS A PRACTITIONER before the supreme court Judge Black has been conspicuous for his participation in nearly all the cases involving the constitutionality the reconstruction acts. In the famous Milliken case, in which the accused were under sentenceof death from a military commission, he spoke for three hours, displaying in this probably the “‘greatest etfort of his life all his leading cf ctoristics as a lawyer and public speaker, A stalwart Kontuckian visiting the na. tional capital during the Milliken trial, accidently stumbled into the supreme court room, He had never heard Judge Black before, and listened with the most intense interest almost to the conclusion, He could not contain himself after the cloquent counsel, with all his tereible power and inyeetive, had contrasted mili- | s| tary tribunals with the impudent as- sumption of Lola Montez in importing a pack of English bull-dogs into Munich to hareass and worry and tear everybody who displeased the royal mistress of a dissolute king's fancy.” As he told how the |um\:|u finally rose and “‘drove outthe king, dogs and strampot,” Kentucky rushed breathless from: the court room over to the house and begged the first group of congressmen whom he encoun- tered to “hurry over to the court room 1lm;ll Dore old"Jero Black giving them hell. Important as that Milliken case was in its results to the defondants, saved from the judgment of death, the sevvice rem dered in it by Judge Black to the whole country was of a most signal charncter, in eatablishing forever the regularity and unconstitutionality of military commis- sions in civil cases. Judge Black was likewiso of counsel in the famous slaugh- ter-house causes, and in most of the other leading cases THE RECONSTRUCTION LAWS. rey in the Vanderbilt ralan claim, the New Idria quicksilver mine grant, the Belknap impeachment, the electoral con- test, and many other causes celebres. In no caso in which the public interests were involved, whether divectly, or when represented in some one person, as in the Milliken case, has he ever taken a fee. His appearance before the supremo court was always a subj interest and attention by the jud Justice Miller, a political opponent said that ‘it is always a relie s to speak. His arguments aro as delightiul as a page from Macaulay.” This same member of the court, less relished an incident that is + Upon one occasion, since Inws. were passed, . white man was indicted for killing a negro in Kentucky, and the motion was made to transfer his case to the federal courts for trial before a mixed jury. Judgs Black carnestly pressing the case upon the court for a decision of some mooted point, when, to avoid judgment upon it, the court held that it had no jurisdiction, the law in question not boing applicable to a case in which the vietim was a negro and the defendant a white man, 8 tering up the street a days afterward with a Pennsylvania triend, Judge Black met Justices Miller and Strong. Stop- ping them and addressing his friend that they might hear, he said: I want to introduce you to these two gentlemen They are two judges of the supreme urt, who, in order to tlodge a constitu- tionul point, decided that killing a nigger did not affect him,” There is has A TOUCH OF AUDACITY about this which only he dared, who, in his address before the clectoral commis- sion, could hurl at that court, committed in advance, the fine scorn of o disappoint- ed people. The *‘thunderous veracity” of his specch in behalf of Belknap lay in his scathing denunciation of the vreva- lence of official bribe-taking, which made his client's offense 1o exceptional crime. Judge Black was in 1873 elected a member of the Pennsylvania constitu- tional convention on the democratic ticket of delegates-at-large, and ho tow- ercd aloft in that distinguished assem- blage of Pennsylvania's ropresontative men. In company with Woodward and Buckalew, and men of that stamp, he vigorously pressed the logislative reforms sadly needed in the commonwealth, His romarks on logislative bribery, the ag- gressive power of corporations in collu- sion with political rings, and kindred sub- jocts werein his characteristic vein, and contributed much to the general toue of the convention’s conclusions. To the country at large Judge Black was known not only us an advocate, but as AN EXSAYIST OF WONDELFUL POWER, Ho never held any ofice, and certainiy never sought any, savo in the strict line of lis profession. But he always seemed to bo ready for every great occasion, and no crisis ever chullenged a champion of democracy to defend its faith buthe was ready to enter the lists, and many a vash untagonist has been unhorsed in the ven- ture of breaking a lance with him, His memorable letters to Henry Wilson about tanton; to Charles Francis Adams about Seward; his account of the Erie law suits; his annihilation of Stoughton on the el cotoral frand; his open letter to Garfield; his latest contributions to political litera- ture in his first and secoud articles on the third term, were all monumental, not only for their irresistable logic, their masterly style of composition and the utter dl'lllllflll(!ll of the person and ob- at which they were aimed; but each A to sorve & special purpose in re- xposing, and averting some mis- representation of his party, some attack on its public men, or some crisis threat- ening the country. It has been strongly intimated thot some of the best of An- drew Johnson's veto messages were his handiwork, It is proposed at an early date to publish a volume of these writ- ings, to be edited by the Hon. Charles R. Buckalew, Personally, Judge Black was a familiar figure in the leading courts of the coun- try, and well known to visitors at the [ national capitl. He was about five feot | elcvon inches in keight, with shaggy gray | eyebrows, that in repose gave his features |8 stornness’ of expression, which was quickly melted away in THE HUMOROUS TWINKLE of his oyes; or as the animated expt ws ‘n stole over his face, which had never worn a beard, He was of ruddy, healthy com- plaxion, strorig bodily Prame, and erect carriage. In 1868, while going to Gal- veston, Texas, in compaay with some other lawyers and Justice ne, to ar- gue & railroad case, & wood car that had | slipped from its place on the siding of a Kentucky railroad bumped against the sido of the passing car, in which his right hand was lying on an open window. 1t was very severely injured, and after care- ful nursing at Louisville, during which he was the object of much solicitude and attention from the citizens, the arm was saved from amputation at the expense of its future usefulness. When he was told that he would never use that arm his characteristic reply was: “Thea I'll never enter the prize vin, For a time, owing to this disability, he traveled with a colored body servant, but he grow im- | patient at such dependence; he “wonldn'’t bo dependent on any fellow to shave and write,” 80 in n fow wecks, by persistent efforts and will power, he learned to shave himself with his left hand and to write a clear, beautitul back hand, his autographs now being out in two entirely distinet chirographies. Among the public men of the country there was probably none who was so great a social favorite as Judge Black, and, in the face of his RADICAL POLITICAL PRINCIPALS, somo of his warmest personal friends wore his partisan antipodes. One day Black was surrounded by a bevy of personal frsonds on the floor of the house, among the rest Judge Moreur, then the Bradford congrossman, who turned to hin and sid: *“Judge Black, you havo more friends on this side of the Louso than on your own. You ought to bo'a ropublican. 1" you would join us wo would appreciate you, and give you duo prominence,” o which Judge Black replied that he Knew it all to bo true; the republicans were all good fellows; he would like to belong to them, and there was only one thing in the way. “If,” said he, “there was no hereafter, T would join tho repub- lican party at once. Nothing deters me but tho fear of holl."” If any one PERSONAL CHARACTERISTIC of Judge Black was more striking than another it was his omniverous reading and his recollection of everything that ho read, Barly imbibing a taste for the English classics, the Bible, Shakspeare and Milton were at his tingers’ end. He knew them nearly all by memory, and could at will quote any passage from them which may be familiarly recalled. His knowledge of the English poots was uni- versal; but, while he read the masters, nothing that fell mn his way was At the railway book-stalls and train nowsboy he purchased anything that was put at him, and was as likely as not to bring home a *‘yellow cover” or tho lightest fiction of the day. Orthodox, pupe, simple Christianity, in all its holiness, had no more devout wor- shiper in spiritsand truth than he, and the best uden,fi;u-mr was printe when he published a reply to Ingersol: froma lawyer's and layman's standpoint. THE COLORADO POOL, Decisions of the Arbitrator on Percentages, —_— Bosrox, August 21— A meoting of vep- resentatives of railroads interested in the Colorado pool was held to-day. Little business was done because all interested porsons were not present. Another I iy RN Ot i cisions on several points in reference to the pool will be given to the roads in- terested by the arbitrator, Joseph r. The first decides that coal y the Chicago,® Burlington railway from Denver to east- its should bo puoled; ud, switching charges for switching cars from Pacitic Junction to Council Bluffs on freight transferred from the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railway to the Union Pacific railway must be paid for by the Union P \tages ¢ third, pere inthe Colorado 1 between April last and July 1 should not be rearranged. Tho Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and Denver and Rio Grando roads asked for increased per- centages on account of the order of the United Statos court compel- ling them to pro rate business with the Denver and New Orleans railroad; fourth, carnings on high explosives which are NO. 56. 'BELIAL'S BRETHREN. An Embezzler of $60,000 Eases His Conscience by Surrendering. A Noted Oounterfeiter Unshackles Himself and Leaps From a Train, The Cowboys Humming at Honaniwellt ~Frank James' Trinl—A St. Louls Mystory. NAL RECORD. R SURRENDERS. 21, Kirkland MY Bostox, August Fitch, defaulting cashier of the Second National bank of Ohio, arrived hereearly Sunday morning. During the day he ap- peared to suffer severe mental trouble. Arising yesterday, after a sloeploss night, he decided to surrender, and walked into the headquarters of the district police. He said lis name was Kirkland M. Fitch, and he was wanted in Warren, Ohio, for- embezzling £80,000 from the Second Na- tional bank of that place. He said he could not account for his coming to Bos~ ton, unless it was to get away as far as possible from the scene of his crime. He: also said he had embezzled the money as charged, and lost it all in stock specula- tions in New York. He was desirous of saying but little about his evil doings. Ho expressed a desire to return to Ohio a8 soon as possible and would go without. a requisition, MYSTERIOUS DIS. St. Louts, August 21.—Another one of those mystorious dissappearances for which St. Louis has become somewhat famous oceurred here Sunday evening, and has caused great grief in several well known families, On Sunday evening Colonel James . Church, vice president. and manager of the Western Anthracite Coal company, with his wife, went out. for a short drive, leaving at home their duughter Mary, about 19 years old, On ARANCE. their return, about8 o'clock, the daugh ter could not be found, and no to her whereabouts has as yet been discovered. She was last seen standing alone about 7 o'clock at the front gate of the family residence, at 2,327 Morgan street, and pmmmin% no unusual appearance. Detectives have boen working the case sincelast night and every effort, fuu! been made by them and by the father, but nothing has yet beem heard from her. She was quite grave, studious, given to music and cared noth- ing for gentlemen’s socicty. The only theory thus far advanced is abduction. Tho young lady is described as follows: About five feet three inches high, straight. and well developed, light brown hair and. grayish blue eyes, oval face, regular features and some times wears her hair banged. . THE TRIAL OF FRANK JAMES, GaraTiy, Mo, August 21.—The sheriff is busy empanneling 100 jurors for the Frank James trial. It is be- lieved it will take three days to secure the twelve good men. The town is crowded. Charloy Ford is here and will It is tho! © are numercus, but make no demonstra- tiony, A COUNTERFEITER ESCAPES, Stoux Ciry, August 21 —J. M. Biggs, arrested at Eagle Grove with a large amount of counterfeit money in his pos- session, escaped from Deputy Marshal Burch, of Dodge, at Marcus station, on the Illinois Central railroad last night. Biggs was being brought to Sioux City for confinement in the jail, he having been held by Commisstoner Johngon, of Fort Dodge. Biggs was shackled to @ confederate named Johnson, ana es- caped by slipping the hand cuffs and jumping” from the car through the window, He was without hat or coat. The train had just pulled out of Marcus. The prisoner hid himself in the high woods, and in the darkness made good s cscapo. Biggs is deseribed as o straight, wiry fellow, five feet ten inches high, dark hair, sandy moustache; was an inordinate chewer of tobacco. He has lived in Dakota county, Neb., and iswoll known in these parts as a crank. THE COWBOY'S PARADISE. Husniwery, Kan,, August 21,—This place has been in a ferment for some days on account of the attempt of the cowboys to run the town. Five city marshals have been successively appoint- ed und resigned in ten days. Last Thursday Deputy Marshals Forsythe and Raynor arrived from Fort Worth and were sworn in _as marshal and deputy. carried by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Atchison, Topekn and Santa Fo, but not by the Union Pacific, should not be pooled, —— Lost Yachts, Bowro, August 21,—Tho yacht Mys- tery, from Now Haven to Nantucket, is missing, She sailed the 10th inst, She had on board Leicester Sargent, of New Haven; Mr. Rupert Sargent, of New ; Mr. Hawkins, of Mew Haven, and tlett, of Now York, er, Mo, August 21,—Thesteam yacht Ideal, with her owner, T. J. Pavey- meyer, on board ran ashore near Lubre, Sunday afternoon, in o thick fog. All hands saved. Phe yacht lies in a dunger- ous position, - ——— English Shylocks, Arcinson, Kas,, August 21, —Sir Stu- art Hogg, of London, president of the ish Land and Mortgage of America corporation, representing about 5,000, 000, has been in this city several weeks. He has just returned to En, . He has appointed Hon. E. B, Purcell, of Manhattan, Kas., as agent and general manager for the company; Messes, Ever- st and Wagoner, of this city, as general solicitors, and the Exchange National bank of Atchison as bankers for the com- pany. & —e— Two Boys Drow Speclal Dispatch to Tik Bre. Connixag, 1a , August 21, —Willie Mil- lor und Archio Potwin, boys aged about 13 and 14, were drowned here to-day while in swimming, . Two hours after their arrival they went on the street and were met by a gang of cowboys; a fight ensued, and one of the latter was fatally wounded, and two horses were killed. On Sunday night Sheriff Pratt, of Wellington, came over with a posse and arrested ten of the riot- ers. The town is now quiet, the author- ities being in the supremacy. The cow- boys, however, are still ugly, and threat- en to make further trouble. This is anx important cattle station and is situated near the line of the Indian territory., C — Suspended, Bosron, August 21, —F, Paul & Co., extensive lumber, dealers, suspended. Tho embarassment is temporary. Paul is largely interested in a Boston sewing machine company, recently established. It is thought this company is doing & «ood business, There has been scarcely time to realize from investment. A large note due to-day caused the suspension. Percl Stallions, Yont, August 21.—The steamer Holland from Havre brought 180 Percheron stallions, This is the largest shipment of grown stallions of the year from Europe. Not a single animal “was lost on the voyage. All were shipped to the farm of their owner, W, Dunham, at Wayne, 11, e —— The Hatch Junketers. New York, August 21.—The follew- ing is & copy of & telegram received by the Northern Pacific railroad officers here from Rufus Hatch: Farco, Dak., August 20, — Evs;ything 0 — Steamer Ashore. New Youk, August 21,—The steam- ship New Orleans, arrived to-day, re- Yun‘ that twenty miles south of Long seen ashore with a tug alongside, extremely pleasant thus far, representatives from London Telcgnx. the Post nn(.lh'l‘ims: and Psrin.ll‘ignhrio“ are expressing themselves as pleased, and the crops be:llluthm this section. Cities and towns are - your road, Branch a brig-rigged British steamer was | ing great preparations for. opening of