The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1895, Page 1

/ WR PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. i) A FIRESIDE CORPANION. { tt is true if you see it in THE BEE. | DOwT BORROW THIS PAPER WASHINGTON @ie Bee GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM. | WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26,1895. REED OF MAINE. jitor of The Bee. Desperate diseases require desperate »medies and heroic treatment. Lib- of thought and action is rarely allowed by the average individual ij never conceded if diametrically spposed to us. are vehemently opposed by t owing to a want of i thre yugh theirignorance. Itisa strange jaw of nature that we always think our- celves in the right and_ those who are yin strict accord with us must neces- -arily and irrovocably be in error. We wrant to all the extreme prerogative of entertaining an opinion, and publicly expressing it and we reserve to our- selves the same privilege from others. th t matter focalized that all is the difference of opinion | uzhout and expressed by those re interested in the burning po- ] questions of the day. This vhirlwind of disaster, this cyclone of misery and deprivation entailed upon nd brought about by mismanage- t of the leaders and lack of confi- All radical movements | [BOOKER T. WASHINGTON DE- NOUNCED. lH BETHEL LITERARY DISCUSSES HI® SPEECH.—L. M. HERSHAW APOLO- GIZES FOR THE ORATION AT ATLANTA. uesday evening. The occasion was a review of the re- | cent speech by Prof. Booker T. Wash- | ‘ington, delivered at the Atlanta, Ga., Exposition. Mr. L.M. Hershaw was introduced, and ina strong argument | attempted to defend the speech of Prof. | Washington. He made an eloquent and strong plea jin behalf of Prof. Washington’s speech. Mr. J. W. Cromwell, a school teacher jin the public schools of this city and j Mr. Jesse Lawston, a clerk in the Pen- sion Office, defended the speech and | apologized for the excellent effort of| | Prof. Washington. | Addresses were also made by Mr. | R. S. Smith, Prof. Richards, Miss Ida | D. Gibbs, and Mr. L. W. Pulies and Mr. _There was a large crowd at the Bethel : Literary and Historical Society on last! understanding | - J © in the democratic party by the | Wetherless. : The two last speakers! iness men of this country. 1 know} P' carried the house by storm. € » told that it is simply a regres- | sive condition caused b) the republican | yarty, but who say 0? Those ea | # ) be benefitted financially, or those | who are democrats, they can't tell you | why only their fathe voted the ticke Ss. They area class of non-thinkers and -ote as they are told, and that class of ,en will cry out against the colored ace, because they are ambitious to jetter their conditions. If the condi- = of this country are to be bettered ne down-trodden poor are to have nts and liberty accorded to them they should vote the republican ene And to you luke-warm republicans would say in stentonian tones hunder be at peace with one pao harmonizing and mingling your feel- s and acts in one grand whole for f the party, who stands st you at all times. To have forgotten the kind have received in the o the enemy of ng ready to a those who treatment they past and Bene pre aS ae their party and their race. & n eye sh return.” Why feed ye 1pon husks that the swine will moLeass put return to your fathers house, 4 - full and plenty await youand the attec calf will be killed for you and the past will be remembered no more against you and the sunshine will return ne your life. Help us to build up t ts grand old party that Abraham res n iived for and then gave up his life Ge We desire a leader one who will ta 3 us out of this labyrinth of confusion an error and of want and sorrow. Ae who will receive the mantel that has fallen from the shoulders of aaa mar- tered President Lincoln and eal 4a tect it from judicial strain, anc win dare enforce the republican rise asw would have them executed. : 4 man | mean is Thomas B. Reed, 0 ; rae he is to-day a stalwart of the stal mee S. He never shrunk from his duty, a ever, displeasing or obnoxious 2 +3 opposing forces arrayed aoa re they might be. He was a 1 he among leaders and we believe that ae white plume of victory that so pred ly waved above the republican par = the past will again wave, | oe — purer, under the leadership a. ae noble and grand statesman, 0 B. Reed. RAMBLER. THE SOUTHERN RAILROAD TO iss ATLANTA. 5 ; i Atlanta, The Southern Railroad to > oes the best accomodations to Eotton States and SE »osition than any other gon Sor Every convenience is eget s y Be road to the colored people. rae #5 three limited trains from. Washing! : to Atlanta, Ga., in each direction, =yee one of which offers a fine ee 4 ined Puliman or coach eccommn atior ne © d people especially. i " there will be special attraction among the Afro-Americans in Atlanta from the roth to the 20th of November. The Afro-American, Press a tic The Baptist Convention a various other associations, will meet in Atlanta, Ga., between November Io to the 20th inclusive. oh ere is an excellent opportunity for mericans to see the South position at reduced rates outhern Railroad. . urther information call at the ice, or to Mr. L.S. Brown, fam , Passenger Department 0 « ithern Railroad Co., at the cor- of 13th stree} and Pa. Ave., n. W- [HE STING OF THE BEE. the Wide Wake. Here's to you editor essful appearance t continue to stim, of The Ber. HEWING TO THE LINE. {From the Chicago Republican.] other Chase, of the BEE, is still} ing to the linein Washington. He tiainly has the courage of his con- tions. A recorder of deeds in Wash- -ton cuts no figure with Chase. ONGRATULATES THE BEE. Wi iamsport, Pa., October 12, 1895. Calvin Chase. at Sir: Inclosed find check for the | | nt lowe you. I congratulate you 1 the improvement of the new 1s- your paper. Iam glad to see _ >: &xoiming aright for the future as —. ays done in the past. shes for your success, I jcfully ‘ M, A. HaGan. of | “Return, | Chase on_ the} g the wayward | Whetherless in his remarks declared the speech hypocritical and showing the natural bent of the man, for in- stance that within a few squares of} Tuskegee Institute. Prof. Booker T. | Washington’s college a negro dared | | to entertain his guesta white Northern | gentleman. | Forthis crime (?) a negro was |mobbed and grievously injured. He was taken to Tuskegee Institute for | medical aid, and Mr. Washington, the negro of a negro institute refused a fellow negro admittance to his negro | college, thereby denying the right of | medical assistance. He declared that this hypocritical jcant made him tired. The house | roared at these remarks. | Mr. Pulies said: I admire the | ingunuity ofthe president, A. E. Clark, who said in his opening remarks that jthe President of the United States {had written a congratulatory letter to | Mr. Booker T. Washington thereby in- | timidating honest criticism of Washing- |ton’s speech. My hope was lifted up, | that in spite of all the inherent man- hood of the race was evident by the | fact that a man of such ability as Prof. Hershaw was compelled to give a _re- hash of that speech, and apologize for it. I would not pluck a single laurel from the brow of Booker T. Washington nor detract from him in any way. But I deny as alleged and claimed that his was the greatest speech ever deliv- ered by any negro inthe United States. That his speech was one which con- ceded the inferiority of the negro; it ignored the civil rights of the negro, but conceded that he was conceded just treatment. If accepted as the greatest speech ever delivered by a ne- gro, then it was a standing rebuke to the sturdy manhood ; the eloquent pro- test against outrage and the life work of the immortal Frederick Douglass, and a refutation of the exposures of barbarism and wholesale murder of negroes, echoed through two conti- nents by Ida B. Wells. The negro in this whole affair is merely a catspaw for the Atlanta Ex- position. Mr. Washington says cast your bucket down where you are, the ‘‘quo- tation is dip down where you are”’ and when we 5 down, we find certain buildings on the Exposition ground, placarded ‘‘dogs and negroes not ad- mitted.”’ We visit the negro building unfinished at this date and diped down for the negroe’s progress to find, he | has discovered the lost art, ‘‘five cents Georgia rum.”” The only places upon the Exposition grounds where the vil- lianous decoction is dispensed. This demonstrating the moral ma- terial, scientific, educational, and in- dustrial progress of the negro since emancipation. Mr. Washington fell into the error of the white man’s de- signed, confusion of social equality with civil rights. He wants us in social matters to be separate as the fingers; industrially united as the hand. We have always been as united as the hand, the negro labor were unquitted through two ceuturies and a halt have contributed much to the national wealth and development of the country. We have always been as separate as the fingers socially; the only inovation and forcing of social equality has al- ways been on the part of the noble anglo-saxon gentlemen. We simply demand if they perchant for social equality for our women that they will legalize it. 5 If Mr. Washington’s speech, in all its ramifications is the hit of the cen- tury then the barbarious murders in the South during the past few weeks is a fitting response to that speech. Mr. Charles Morgan who has been employed at the Treasury Department for quite a number of years, died Sun- | day night October 20th about 12 0’- clock. Prof. J. M. Gregory read a very inter- esting paper betore the 2nd Baptist Lyceum last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Bailey is meeting with success in the interest of her cook book at the | Atlanta Exposition. WE ARE CONGRATULATED. From the Negro Solicitor. We congratulate The BEE, Washing- ton, D. C., upon the wonderful im- provement in its size and make-up. Rey. W. B. Johnson will represent the Baptist Magazine at Atlanta, Ga., next month. Messrs. Hershaw, Chase and others will visit the Atlanta Exposition next : ule John’ Waller and her children have’ arrived in the city. THE MYSTIC SHRINE. MASON’S OF LOFTY DEGREE IN GRAND CONCLAVE. The 2nd Annual Session of the Im- | perial Grand Council of A. A. O. M.S. |convened in Odd Fellow’s Hall this | city on the 17th and 18th of this month. Representatives from all over the country were in attendatice and made | Men of all the different walks and professions in life were there, lawyers, | doctors, theologians, and men of busi- | ness, vied with each other in their ef- | forts to make the assembly a memor- able one. The first day session, moruing and evening were taken up in the transac- tion of the routine of business, the ac cumilation ofa year. Returns of tem- ples, being the annual reports of the temples in the jurisdiction were re- ceived and in nearly every instance there was a gratifying enthusiasm shown and a commendable and steady growthof the order evidenced. During the deliberations of the coun- cil several knotty and intaicate quest- caused a slight ripple on the usually placid waters of the council; but Impe- rial Grand Potentate Jones whois him- self a lawyer of signal ability soon re- stored things to their normal and peace- ful condition. Asa matter of fact the surprising ability of the Imperial Grand Potentate as a presiding officer was very generally and favorably com- | mented upon. During a greater part of the 2nd day session of the council James H. Lewis Imperial Grand Deputy Grand Potentic presided witha courtesy of manner and a dignity of berring. The very momentous and far reach- ing questions that arose during his in- cumbency of the chair, were decided with clear cut, logical and eloquent de- cisions. The report of the Imaerial Grand Cor- responding Recorder Seville, was the feature of the season and showed great care and skill in ihe compilation of data history and general workings of the order. There were several recomendatiofls in the report, the necessity of which wereimmediately recognized and ap- proved and a committee appointed to faithfully carry them out. The most notable and interesting rec- commendation contained in the report was the creationof ‘‘The Adoptive Rite,’’ which enables the ladies to be- come members, under certain restric- tions and to be known as ‘‘Daughters of the Sphinx.’’ The council readily conceded and recognized the indispensability of the services of the ladies as as a. factor in the up building and extension of the influence of the order and the reccom- dation to accept them as an auxiliary force was enthusiastically cheered. The Washington contingent was well represented numerically as well as by nobles of capacity and intellectual qualities. The representation from. Mecca and Kaliff Alee Temples were among the brightest minds of the council and contributed in a marked degree to the success of the deliberations. Illustrious Grand Potentate Hill of Mecca Temple in addition to the wise consul and ardor with which he worked for the success ofthe council presented the Imperial Grand Potentate with a gavel of unique design and_ beautiful workmanship the product of his own skill. The sentimental beauty of the preS- entation was boubly enhanced becaus® Mecca Temple was supposed to have 2 grievance that was beyond the pale of adjudication. Illustrous Grand Potentate James O. Holmes of Kaliff Alee Temple was very much in evidence by the wisdom of his counsel and loyal devotion to the interests of Kaliff Alee Temple. Dr. S. Roger Watts was in attend- ance during the first day of the session and by his scholarly arguments and beautiful logic contributed ina marked degree tothe literary history of the session. Nobles Irving of Mecca, Jones of Mecca, Lucas of Kaliff Alee, and Dyer of Kalitf Alee, and many others whose services, space will not permit us to recount now, were active participants in the deliberations. Noble Tancil of Kaliff Alee Temple impressed with what appeared to be several serious defects in the constitu- tion, gave notice that he would offer to amend them in several important particulars at the Triennial Assembly in New York, August 1896. Noble Tancil’s arguments were gems | of oratory and evidently had a power- ful effect upon his auditors. Noble Wm. H. Lee was in constant attendance upon the council and in collaboration with Noble Charles R. Beckley saw that no interloper dis- turbed the serenity ofthe deliberation of the council. The Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine is a recert addendum to Masonry in this country being of Oriental origin and this 2nd annual session of its disciples in this country mark an important chapter in its his- tory and growth. Roy. TAYLOR INDORSED CARSON... C. H. J. Taylor the: democratic re- corder of deeds accompanied by Mr: E..M. Hewlett, toa republicai meeting in this city was called’ on to’ make a speech. Among-other things he: said that he would not give Carson: for all the men who were’ opposingphim.> » It will be: remembered! that’ Taylor made Carson several promises*td ap- point a number of his friends in the Re- a notable and distinguished gathering. | ions of constitutional law came up and | corders Office, but whether Carson got them is a question of conjecture. | - Carson atthis time will take an dorsement from any one. | Itis also reported that Dr. Purvis who has been denouncing Carson for some time and declaring that he would | not believe anything he said, will, so} Carson says, withdraw his candancy | in his (Carson’s)favor. | Sei See ei Be ee | RILEY’S BOOK. in-| | i |THE PHILOSOPHY OF NEGRO ,SUF- | FRAGE, One, ifnot the best philosophy of negro suffrage is the title of a new book by Dr. Jerome R. Riley, one of| the most gifted writers in the Afro- American race. This book contains 110 pages, hand- somely bound, large and clear print, on superfine paper. The book is dedi- cated to thinking men and women, ir- respective of color or condition It is divided in to eleven chapters, as follows: Chapter x. The philosophy of negro suffrage, in which “The genius and intrepidity of American manhood and vigor is to begin at the beginning de novo, as often as it be- comes necessary, in order that a proper starting—a proper basis may be secured. This proposition the writer holds in much estimation, etc., and believes that | through such a beginning we shall be better able and equipped to realize some of the blessings of American citizenship, with a falien measure of popular privilege all along the line. With no record back of us demon- strating our capacity for successful self- government, the most philosophic question for us to consider is, how we can the better show ourselves compe- tent to render assistance in planing the common and popular rights of the race upon a sure and safe foundation, mak- ing however, no mistake as to real pur- pose and ultimate object. Chapter I. Suffrage in the District of Columbia, he says, that we find that a popular idea seemed to prevade the minds of many which does an injustice to the present colored republican lead- ersin the District of Columbia, Mr. Carson and Mr. Chase. These gentle- men cannot and should not be held re- sponsible for our failures here, in that, at that time, they were mere followers. The real gilt-edged leaders of that day were the late Hon. Fred. Douglass, John M. Langston, Capt. O. S. B. Wall, he says: Carter Stewart, Randall Bowe, Stew- art, Henry Johnson and others. Whatever responsibility attaches to our failure in this direction must be charged to the leaders of that day and hot to the leaders ‘of to-day. Tueir leadership is but the legitimate legacy left them. Speakers and essayists of our race seem to displace our lack of leadership that we have none. Chapter III. Negro suffrage in the Southern States. Some of the evil re- sults pointed out The remedies sug- gested. The cause ofits failure—The negro leadership. Miss Ida B. Wells and her crusades. criticised. Chapter IV. The Atlanta Exposition and its benefits to accrue therefrom to the negro race and our duty in con- nection therewith. Chapter V. The labor question dis- cussed, The benefits which must come to the negro through this field. Chapter VI. The Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia discussed. Impressions respecting his fitness given. His record compared with former officials. Some of the reasons assigned for the opposition to him. Chapter VII. Civil service touched upon. Chapter VIII. A word of counsel to the negro voters of Maryland and Ken- tucky. Seeking strength from those best able to render it. Chapter IX. Social equality dis- cussed. A manifested difference shown between social and common public rights. Chapter X. Discussion of the public schools of the District of Columbia. Suggestion asto their improvements. A lack of discrimination of the negro not finally developed. Chapter XI. Silver. The book is beyond all doubt the best written and question discussed with less passion or prejudice than any book ever written by an Afro-Ameri- can. The discussion of the Recorder’s Of- fice and the record of the present in- cumbent, demonstrate the ability of Dr. Riley of handling a negro demo- crat. : The book has created a sensation and the demand for it is wonderful. ALABAMA NOTES. TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 22, 1895. Our new machine shop, which is now being fitted with new machinery, will soon be ready for work. The cost o the machinery will be $1,500. This sum has been given already bya friend. Under the management of Harry Thomas, a skilled machinist of Spring- field, Ohio, our foundry is doing some very valuable work. This department is only one year old, but it will exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition, a pertect engine, a stove, and anumber of other castings, etc. Mr. Thomas says that he has students who have been trained under him here who will soon be able to conduct this department themselves. An arrangement has been made by which students desiring to study agri- culture, may receive theoretical in- structions in this science once every week, this arrangement is made for the benefit of those who do not work on the school farm every day. More attention will be paid to NEGRO BUTCHERED BY A MOB CUT OFF HIS EARS AND FINGERS AND THEN HANGED HIM. The Horrible Crime Committed by 200 Men Barly Wednesday Morning—A Fire had Been Built and There Were Cries of | “Burn Him”—Sueh a Fate Would Have | Been Meroy—The Mob Became Wild While the Motilation of the Negro Went On— The Head Cut From the Body. — Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 16.—Jefferson Ellis was hanged frem a telegraph pole at 140 this morning by 350 men within 200 yards of the scene of his crime. Be- fore hanging the negro the mob cut off both his ears and all of his fingers, and mutilated him in a horrible manner. The mob with their prisoner reached the home of his victim, Miss Prater, soon after midnight. The young woman Wall street business men expresse@ themselvee as not unfriendly to Cleves jana for a third term. Harry Lyons was hanged at Chicage for the murder, on the night of Febru« ary 9, cf Alfred B. Mason, a scenic artist. An incendiary fire destroyed the Hole land radiator works at Bremen, Ind. All wrenches for hose carts were stolen | and no water could be obtained. J. Zell Hoover, a well-known Wash- ington character, related how he se cured $2,100 from Lord Sackville-West, then British Minister to the United States, on a fictitious letter telling him that the Fenians were about to blow him up with dynamite. The London Times’s Paris correspons dent wires that directly Parliament ree opens M. Lebon, Minister of Commerce, will submit a bill ratifying the contract for a new cable to be laid from Brest to New York, with brancnes to the West Indies and Brazil. Mrs. Frank Miller, who inherited = fortune from her father, has eloped from her home, Elizaville, Columbia County, with her first lover, Fred Les- ter, a railroad engineer, residing in identified him as her assailant. As soon | Hudson. She leaves @ husband and thoroughness in the’ academic work this year than heretofore. Soke bones Isaac FIsHEr. Advertise in the BEE. as this was done an armed squad of men took Ellis from Constable Farrow and started with him for the scene of his i crime. A fire had been built at the place and around it the mob gathered in a circle. The handcuffed negro was on his knees before the fire. The leaders of the mob told Ellis to pray, but he only iooked at them in a stupid manner. Be- ing told that he was about to die he raised his voice in a negro hymn. By the time he finished the mob was look- Ing ugly. The fiercer element were in complete control. Cries of “burn him” were heard on all sides. Even this fear- ful fate would probably have been Mercy to the negro as subsequent events proved. Amid the shouts of the mob a man jumped to the negro’s side with a drawn knife in his hand. “Cut off his ears,” they cried. “Give me a finger,” shouted one man. “I want a thumb,” cried another. The better elements in the crowd drew off at this time, and said they were not in favor of doing anything but hanging the negro, The protests were not noticed. Being urged on by the fiercest in the crowd, the man with the knife cut off the negro’s rig} t ear and held up the bleeding trophy in full view of the crowd. The negro screamed, but his other ear was cut off a few moments later. The mob became wild at the sight of the work, and those who were mutilating the negro found ample en- couragement. They next cut all of his fingers. The negro was covered with blood and his head looked as if it had been scalped.. The mob was not sven then willing to end the negro’s agony. They made him stand up so that all the crowd could see him. Finafiy, fully thirty-five minutes after the torture of the negro began, the rope was put around his neck. The telegraph pele was seventy-five feet away. The rope was a very long one. The free end was taken by a man, who climbed the telegraph pole, and threw it over the cross-arm. The crowd jerked the negro to the foot of the pile, and while the mob shouted his bleeding and mutilated form was swung to the cross-arm. The negro was lowered to the ground and his head was cut from his body with pocket knives. The noose was then put over the feet and the headless body was again swung up. It is in- tended to send the head to the family of the little girl the negro attempted to assault last Saturday in Mississippi. A placard was placed on the ly, bearing these words: “Death to the man who cuts him down before 6.80 this evening.” The mob dispersed, after doing its work. Jeff Ellis, on the afternoon of October 5, criminally assaulted Miss Bettie Prater, in the presence of the latter's two little sisters. He escaped from a mob which had gathered to lynch him that night, but was captured Monday near Mount Pleasant, Miss. He con- fessed to the assault upon Miss Prater, to the outrage and murder of @ Mrs. Wilcox, of the same neighborhood, two years ago, and to an attempted assault upon a little girl in Mississippi while he was trying to escape from the mob. The point where the lynching oc- curred is a cross-road called Clifton Summit, in full view of passengers on the Louisville and Nashville trains REVISION 18 SHELVED. Episcopal Convention by 2 Decisive Vote | Takes This Action. Minneapolis, Oct. 16.—The question of revision of the canons and constitution, | upon which the leading minds in the Episcopal Church in this country have been engaged for three years, has been shelved until a more convenient sea-/ son, | The test ballot upon the proposition to shelve was 187 to 90, less than one-half of the delegates being in their seats; but later, when the house had filled up and it was put as the substantative motion, scarcely a dozen voices were heard in the negative. Armenians Again Attacked. London, Oct. 16.—The Daily News to- day prints a dispatch from Constanti- nople saying that the agitation there is being renewed, owing to the neglect of Turkish officials to fulfil their prom- ise of seourity to the Armenians when they left their churches. Another at- tack was msde on Kassin Pasha : sae other Armenians on the 12th inst., wt four were killed and a number wound- ed. It is allege@ that the police re- fused to interfere. Details have been received of an organized attack on AF-. menians by. a Moslem mob at Akhissas on October 9 Forty-six Armeniags were killed and a large number wound- ed. —_—- by a falling timber yesterday. three small children at home. A Deadwood, S. D., dispatch says: The Golden Reward mines and mills, one of the largest concerns in the West, have been bought by wealthy capitalists in New York. The price paid is $2,000,000. The new company will take charge in a month, and it is understood will develop mines in this section on a large scale. Judge John L. Thomas, Assistant At- torney-General, has submitted to the Postmaster-General a report of the operations of his office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895. During the year there were 218 fraud orders issued, 55 of which were against lottery come panies operated by so-called “bond in- vestment” companies, 12 against avow- ed lottery companies, 21 against mis- cellaneous games of chance and the remainder against various schemes to defraud. There has been a steady in- crease in post-office robberies. CONQUERED THE SPAINIARDS. he Cubans Under Antonio Maceo Win = Victory. Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 3, via Key West, Fla., Oct. 16.—The famous meun- tain of Mogote was the scene of a heavy battle on the 2d inst. The Modote is forty-five miles northeast of this city. The Cubans, learning that Spanish Generals Garcia, Navarro and Linares were on their way thither, placed themselves in a 400d position for the attack. The combined Spanish column, 2,600 strong, opened the attack from their vanguard. Antonio Maceo, with 800 men, returned the fire, and after a severe battle of five hours he conquered the Spaniards, who were obliged to retire, leaving five officers killed, ten officers wounded and 3230 soldiers killed and wounded. The insurgents have lated the towns of San Luis and Palma Soriana, situated twenty-four and thirty miles respectively from Santiago, by setting fire to a bridge between the towns ARREST OF A MINISTER. He is Accused of Sending Sourrilous Matter Through the Mails. Boston, Oct. 16—The Rev. Frank Hyatt Smith, pastor of the North Ave- nue Congregational Church, of North Cambridge, was arrested in Denver, Col, yesterday, charged with sending obscene and scurrilous matter through the United States mails. His arrest was ordered by United States District At- torney Sherman Hoar, of this city. The arrest fs the culmination of the big fight that has been going on in the North Avenue Congregational Church under the surfaee for several months, and openly since September 1, when Mr. Smith announced that the present was the last year of his pastorate at that church. The letters were sent to Smith’s enemies in the church. ee Girls Pardoned. Chicago, Oct. 16—Governor Altgeld pardoned yesterday a bunch of 112 girls from the Evanston Industriat School. The pardon applies to every prisoner in the school, and Is the re- sult of the unfavorable report made by a commission which investigated the institution. The girls range in age from six to twenty-one years, At the White House Again Washington, Oct. 16.—The Presiden- | tial family was reunited in Washing- | ton last evening. President Cleveland reached the city by water in the after- noon and Mrs. Cleveland and children arrived by train over the Pennsylvanta at 9:45 p. m Knocked Off a High Trestle. Butte, Mont., Oct. 15.—Four bridge carpenters at work on the Northern Pacific road a few miles from here were knocked from the top of a high trestle One was killed and two fatally injured. New York Produce Market. New York, Oot. 16 (noon).—Flour—Receipts 20,200 bbls; sales, 10,000 pkgs; State and West- ern quiet; offerings molerate. Wheat—Receipts, 49.000 bush; sales, 750.000 bush. Market opened quiet but firm; suaty all morning. May 70 15-16@%1%c; December, ‘Asily_duriig the merning. December, ta: Subscribe for Thé Bez,