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HOME NEWS. 
Satdrdat, October 23, 1386. 
Oakland, Ill., was almost entirely destroyed 
by fire last Tuesday—loss over *300,000 
Whitelaw Reid is reported to have bought 
Hour} - Villavd’s palace here—price about *400, 
000.Aggregate loss by that fire at East- 
port, Me., about $800,000. While the town 
was in a blaze and the people were trying to save 
their effects a horde of Canadian fisherman 
from the neighboring Canadian islands 
invaded the place, and pillaged right and left, 
taking away furniture and all other movable 
property until frightened off by an American 
cruiser which arrived opportunely.J. G. 
Blaine has been making rousing “ protection¬ 
ist' 1 speeches in Pa.—hailed with tremendous 
Republican enthusiasm .At Biloxi, Miss., 
25 cases of yellow fever are reported. Too 
late to spread far this year.Loss by fire 
at Salisbury, Md., now estimated at over 
$1. 000,000.Geronimo and Natchez and 
13 of their principal followers, are to be kept in 
close confinement at Fort Pickens at the en¬ 
trance of Pensacola Bay, Florida. The rest 
of the surrendered hostiles, consisting of 11 
women, six children and two enlisted scouts, 
are to be kept with a lot of other Apache In¬ 
dians at Fort Marion, near St. Augustine, 
Florida. Husbands and wives are thus separ¬ 
ated.The will of the late Samuel J. 
Tildeu was admitted to probate at White 
Plaius, N. Y., Wednesday. An attempt to 
break it is to be made by some of the heirs 
.At Saco, Me., a family Wednesday 
drank cider which killed the son, while the 
father and mother were sickened. It came 
from a cask which had previously contained a 
poisonous embalming fiuid, and had been 
purchased from an undertaker .. . After 
all, the Inman Line of steamships has been 
sold to Peter Wright & Sous of Philadelphia 
for $1,250,000. The Philadelphia firm is sup¬ 
posed to represent the Penn. R, R.The 
prohibitory law went fully into effect at At¬ 
lanta, Ga., last Tuesday. All liquor stores 
shut u]): law to be rigidly enforced. City Coun¬ 
cil gave a local brewery permission to deliver 
beer at private residences; Mayor Hilleu has 
vetoed the ordinance... In Canada the most im¬ 
portant election since Confederation is probab¬ 
ly that of the Province of Quebec, just over. 
The Liberals, or opposition, claim 35 oat of 65 
members, but there are so many contested 
elections that the result is a trifle doubtful. 
The English districts favor the present Gov¬ 
ernment ; the French are against it, 22 of the 
40 French constituencies previously held by 
the Government haring swung against it. 
Bad for the French to run on party issue, as 
their number increases slowly by immigration, 
whereas other races increase fast. According 
to census of 1881, the French in Canada num¬ 
ber 1,208,929; English 881,301; Scotch one- 
half a million; Irish, nearly a million; Ger¬ 
mans a quarter of a million..Charles¬ 
ton is still getting lots of money, and wants 
more. Gov. Sheppard won’t call an extra 
session of the Legislature to make a special 
loan for building purposes; and there isn’t 
enough money in the place to re-build. 
.......There’s a great deal of sharp Congress¬ 
ional fighting all over the country, and it’s a 
splendid time for farmers or any other inde¬ 
pendent voters to make their mark, because 
the uncertainties of the Congressional cam¬ 
paign arc so great. The Democratic 
majority in the House is 43, and there are 44 
districts in which the plurality of the present 
Congressmen was less than 900. Twenty-four 
of these districts are represented by Demo¬ 
crats; one each in California, Connecticut, 
Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, 
New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia 
and West Virginia; two in Michigan; three 
each in Illinois and Iowa, and five in Ohio. 
Twenty districts went Republican by less 
than 900 plurality—one each in Connecticut, 
Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada. New 
Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia; 
two each in California, Iowa, New Yoik and 
Wisconsin, and three in Indiana. In most of 
these districts the plurality is much less than 
900, in many less than 400, while the third 
party vote is often larger than the plurality, 
so that the catl for sharp lighting is pretty 
evenly distributed over the country, and the 
result mighty uncertain till after election day. 
.... Much complaint in Mass, that the 
new law prohibiting the sale of tobacco toper- 
sons under 16 years old is openly violated— 
penalty a fine of $50 or under...What a 
tremendous rush of dishonest rascals there has 
been from this country to Canada of late. 
Here they’d he pinched in prison; there they 
grow fat at hotels. The Dominion seems to 
have had enough of them—it has rascals 
enough of its own .The Canadian cabi¬ 
net Council has removed .the extra J$400Jfine 
imposed on the schoooner Marion Grimes and 
sent a letter of strong censure to Capt. Quig¬ 
ley of the schooner Terror for his action in 
hauling down the American flag. The Coun¬ 
cil was agreed that there was no precedent for 
such an act, and condemned it in unmeasured 
terms.Much complication about that 
Haddock murder case at Sioux City, la. 
Koskiniski, arrested in San Francisco, and 
Gauden, caught in the South, say they saw 
the shooting and were hired by the rumsellers 
for $100 each to pound the parson, while Leav¬ 
itt and Arensdorf, already in jail, were look¬ 
ing on. Their courage failing, Arensdorf 
stepped out and began the altercation that 
ended in the shooting. But he was in front, 
aud Haddock was shot in the back; who did 
the shooting?. 
_The stock-yard strike at Chicago collapsed 
Monday, the men offering to go to work at 10 
hours a day iustead of eight. Armour and 
the other packers won’t discharge the hands 
they took on during the strike, but they are 
sure to go themselves to avoid “pounding” to 
death by the old hands. A lot of them to¬ 
gether with about 100 Pinkerton ineu started 
on the cars from the packing houses Tuesday 
morning. The strikers and their sympa thizers 
hooted and stoned them, aud some of the Pink¬ 
erton men fired into the crowd, woundiug sev¬ 
eral and killing a truck driver named Terry 
Begley. About 75 of the Pinkertons were 
arrested and a dozen of them arc still in jail, 
and would be lynched by the populace if they 
were come-at-able. They say they didn’t fire 
till they were attacked with stones aud shot, 
Police Captain Markey says they fired first 
without sufficient provocation... 
... .Mike McCool, the notorious pugilist died 
in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, the 
other day—malarial fever complicated with 
diseases of the bladder which had reduced lum 
to a mere skeleton.A year ago, John 
B. Mannix, assignee of Archbishop Purcell of 
Cincinnati, who owed his people $4,000,906. 
when pressed for a settlement proved a de¬ 
faulter, having speculated away *366,600 in 
the stock market. At a meeting of the credi¬ 
tors Sunday a letter was presented from ex- 
Governor Hoadly, one of the four bondsmen 
of the assignee, in which letter the ex-Governor 
proposed to pay the trustees of the Purcell es¬ 
tate his fourth of the amount of the Matiuix 
bond—$62.500—and to transfer to them all his 
(Hoadly’s) interest in the property which had 
come into his possession from Mannix. In 
doing this noble deed Gov. Hoadly wrecks his 
fortune and deprives his children of a heritage. 
By his action the assignees will receive $105,- 
060, which will enable them to declare a divi¬ 
dend of lji per cent., the first sum the credi¬ 
tors have received since the failure. 
_E, O. Graves, Chief of the Bureau of En- 
graviug and Printing, denies most emphati¬ 
cally the stones of the flooding of Chicago 
with counterfeits of the new $10 silver certifi¬ 
cates.A National Convention of distil¬ 
lers, brewers, and wholesale and retail wine, 
spirit, and beer dealers numbering 400, in ses¬ 
sion at Chicago last Tuesday, effected a per¬ 
manent organization under the name of “The 
National Protective Association." The plat¬ 
form opposes prohibition, favors license, and 
denounces disreputable places . 
...The Richmond Convention of the Knights 
of Labor has come to au end. It reelected 
Terrence V. Powderly as General Master 
Workiuatn by acclamation, J, L. Griffiths of 
Chicago was reelected General Worthy Fore¬ 
man by 496 votes, against about 125 for all 
others. Frederick G. Turner, of Philadelphia, 
the present Secretary and Treasurer, was re¬ 
elected Treasurer; and Charles H. Liehman, 
of Marblehead, Mass., was elected Secretary, 
Powderley’s’ salary was raised from $1,500 to 
$5,666 a year; and the salaries of the other 
chief officers were raised to $2,000 apiece. 
.Prohibition in Georgia has proven a 
wonderful stimulant to illicit distilling. The 
jail of Fulton County is filled with violators 
of the internal revenue laws, and eighty 
others are held in the inclosure on the same 
charge....A fire which swept away one- 
half of Stockton, Utah, is believed to have 
been set by Mrs. Provost, who had threatened 
to burn the town unless the saloons stopped 
selling liquor to her husban i.Second 
Comptroller Maynard and Third Auditor 
Williams have just concluded a critical re ex¬ 
amination of the accounts of the Signal Ser¬ 
vice from Sept. 1, 1886, to July 1, 1886. The 
expenditures aggregated $1, 865,833; of this 
amount the accounting officers have dis¬ 
allowed and suspended items amounting to 
$1,801,669, as unauthorized by law, principally 
for telegraphing, the purchase of supplies, 
foreign service, etc John T. Jones, a tramp 
is reported to huve lately made *5,000,060 in 
two months. He discovered that the refuse 
ore rock of the iron mines in the upper penin- 
sula of Mich., contains 56 per cent, of good 
ore, yielding, when sorted, $5,56 per ton.. He 
contracted for the heaps at 25 cents per ton, 
sold the ore, and now vast reduction works are 
being constructed, aud a new industry which 
will give work to thousands is being started. 
. .The switch- 
ineu’s strike at Minneapolis is still paralyzing 
railroad business there. The roads refuse to 
arbitrate or yield an inch.... The steamer 
Anchoria with all her crew and passengers, 
arrived safely at St. Johns. Newfoundland, 
having broken her screw shaft ...Mr. 
Jacob Sharp, Mr. J les W, Foshay, Mi-. 
James A. Richmond and Mr. Thomas B. Kerr, 
the chief officers of the Broadway aud Sev¬ 
enth Avenue street railroad of this city, were 
indicted and arrested for bribery Tuesday, 
They gave $60,000 bail each to appear for 
trial, Solomon Suyles, a wealthy butcher of 
this city, who gave $25,000 bail for his brother 
“’boodle ” Alderman Sayles, who fled to Can¬ 
ada, has paid into court $25,600 forfeited bail. 
.The strike of the eigarmakers in Ha¬ 
vana is ended. The operatives have been con¬ 
ceded all their demands by the manufacturers. 
- The Probibitiouists are rather more 
active in Michigan than in most States. Un¬ 
til the campaign opened they were organized 
in but IS of the 77 counties in the State, while 
now they have 50 county organizations, con¬ 
gressional candidates in every district but one, 
and 17 Prohibition papers pleading the cause. 
They publicly claim a vote of 25,000, a gain of 
7,000 in two years, and privately they say 
that their State canvass indicates a vote of 
from 30,000 up. .,. Jay Gould is reported 
to have tightened his grip ou the transporta¬ 
tion facilities of St. Louis, and to have killed 
the project, for a rival to his bridge across the 
Mississippi. .. 
.... Great preparations here for unveiling 
the great statue of “ Liberty Enlightening the 
World” on Oct. 38; will lie a general holiday; 
and delegations from all States and Territor¬ 
ies are expected. From France, De Lesseps, of 
Panama Canal fame, and several representa¬ 
tives of the Government will take part in the 
ceremonies. So will Bartholdi, the sculptor 
of the marvel. Military organizations from 
all the neighboring States will add to the 
glory of the day.Earthquake shocks, 
well defined but comparatively slight, were 
felt in Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro¬ 
lina, Tennessee, Ohio aud the District of Col¬ 
umbia yesterday morning. Charleston seems 
to have suffered the most. Buildings were 
somewhat damaged and there was considera¬ 
ble fear, but no people were hurt. 
A Novel Treatment lor Rheumatism. 
If you have ever had a touch of this disease 
you will appreciate what is said by the follow¬ 
ing correspondents in reference to the results 
of treatment by Compound Oxygen: 
Mrs. Margaretta Bair, a Philadelphia lady 
living at 19th aud Filbert Streets, says: “Near¬ 
ly twenty years ago I was attacked by rheu¬ 
matism. I suffered from it for years and was 
reduced almost to a skeleton. My condition 
led my physician to conclude that I could not 
live more than a few weeks. About this time, 
in 1881, a friend had been wonderfully helped 
by Compound Oxygen. With hardly a hope 
of success I began tho treatment. I am no 
louger an invalid in any respeet, Rheumat¬ 
ism, is {/one long ar/o." This is only a speci¬ 
men. Hundreds of letters of similar charac¬ 
ter are ou file in the olliee of Drs. Starkey & 
Palen, 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia; some 
of them are printed in full in a monograph on 
“Rheumatism,” and others in a volume of 
nearly two hundred pages, both of which you 
may receive free by mail for the asking.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 23, 1886. 
The Bulgarian muddle is still the chief topic 
of European interest. Reports relating to it 
are so contradictory that there is little doubt 
that many of them are made for the purpose 
of influencing prices of stocks and agricultural 
produce. There seems to be an agreement 
among the Powers that the re-election of 
Prince Alexander of Batteuberg, cannot be 
permitted, as he is politically aud personally 
very distasteful to the Czar and Czarina. 
Tux-key seems to have mode au agreement with 
Russia, and urges the Bulgarians to postpone 
the meeting of the Great Sobranje for the 
election of a prince in order to allow Russia 
and the Porte to agree upon a ruler; but the 
Regency declares this cannot be done unless a 
specified time is announced withiu which the 
ruler must be chosen .A vus 
majority of the newly elected deputies to t 1 
Sobranje insist on the necessity of electing 
a prince at the date appointed for tho meeting 
of that body, Oct. 28. Germany and Austria 
however, according to this morning’s cable¬ 
gram, side with Russia in declaring the 
election illegal, on condition that. Russia will 
not occupy the country. Russia lacks tho 
“sinews of war” and may therefore moderate 
her claims; though it is seldom war is pre¬ 
vented by scarcity of money. Reliable reports 
describe the condition of Southern Russia as 
deplorable. Discontent is universal. The 
Nihilist propaganda is in a more active and 
flourishing state than ever before. The 
prisons, especially those at Nicolaioff, Odessa 
and Ekaterinoslav are filled to overflowing, 
and the proportion of officers aud stu lents 
comprising those who are contiued in the 
prisons and those who are under police sur¬ 
veillance is a sourc 2 of alarm to the authori¬ 
ties. This year’s harvest in Southern Russia 
has been unusually abundant, but the high 
German duties absorb the profits, and the 
value is therefore diminishing year by year. 
Landowners are selling out at a ruinous sacri¬ 
fice,and Moscow merchants declare that com¬ 
merce is at a complete standstill. The scar¬ 
city. and iu many places the entire absence of 
banking institutions of any kind combine to 
complicate matters, and the near future 
promises no improvement. 
.Iu the United Kingdom there’s some¬ 
thing of a lull in political excitement. At the 
adjournment of Parliament it seemed likely 
that it would reassemble in Novemlier to legis¬ 
late on Irish matters; but lately affaire in Ire¬ 
land have been quieter than for years. A 
great number of eviction notices have been 
served on tenants who are backward with 
their rent; but there is a strong disposition 
among landlords to make considerable reduc¬ 
tions where investigation leaves no doubt 
that the tenants can’t pay up iu full. Where 
the reductions are satisfactory, the rent is 
paid: where they are not largo enough no rent is 
offered. A considerable number of agrarian 
outrages are perpetrated, especially by 
“ moonlighters”—disguised men who prowl 
about collecting arms, maiming cattle of ob¬ 
noxious farmers aud committing other devil¬ 
tries—but the National League appears to be 
opposed to these doings aud the priests and 
Catholic bishops certainly are,and their num¬ 
ber is less than was expected. 
In England unusually great distress pre¬ 
vails among the wage-earuing classes. Busi¬ 
ness is very dull; wages are low, and hundreds 
of thousands are compulsorily idle. The 
work-houses are uncommonly full, and while 
iu Ireland “wards of honor” are set apart for 
those who go to the poor houses on account of 
the land troubles, for English work people 
there is no way of lessening the humiliation. 
Among the general distress the Socialists, who 
preach a more equal distribution of property, 
are making thousands of converts. At the 
Lord Mayor’s Show in London next week, 
at. which much antiquated mummeries usually 
excite laughter, jeers and curiosity, there is 
likely to be trouble, as the “labor reformers,” 
or Socialists,threaten to follow the show from 
80,060 to 150,000 strong to emphasize their 
strength and distress. The police authorities 
cannot manage such au assemblage, aud are 
trying to induce the leaders to forego the dis¬ 
play...Last Satur¬ 
day and Sunday the United Kingdom was vis¬ 
ited by a hurricane fully as bad as that which 
swept over the Gulf of Mexico and some of the 
Northern States about the same time. Con¬ 
siderable destruction of life, and great destruc¬ 
tion of property . .... 
.In France, apart from war preparations, 
which always hold first place in public atten¬ 
tion, the chief topic of interest just now is the 
withdrawal of English troops from Egypt. 
There was an international agreement that 
they should be withdrawn; but no specified 
date for doing so was ment ioned. France says 
England keeps them there with the hope that 
the trouble in Europe may enable her to oc¬ 
cupy the country permanently. Frenchmen 
are as deeply interested as Englishmen in the 
enormous Egyptian debt, and the permanent 
occupation of the country by England would 
give her command of the Suez Canal,the route 
to tho French Eastern colonies, ami make her 
mistress of the Mediterranean. Hence Fi ance 
with the uid of Turkey and Russia seeks to co¬ 
erce England to withdraw.France is squan¬ 
dering money iu Touquiu, having just appro¬ 
priated 30,660,006 francs for use in that grave 
of sO many French soldiers. Her trouble with 
the people of Madagascar is not yet over, as 
the lntler arc very dilatory in complying with 
the terms on which peace was concluded, which 
gave French trade an advantage over that of 
all other countries. English intrigue is bit¬ 
ted y opposiug such concessions. 
.Germany still dominates Europe. If 
war Is avoided in the Bulgarian erobroglio it 
will be because Bismarck objects to if; and his 
objection is due solely to the great age of the 
Emperor, who does not want the last years or 
months of his^reign to be disturbed by war. 
Moreover, his friendship for the lute Czar has 
descended to his son, anil in ease of war Ger¬ 
many and Russia would most likely be on op¬ 
posite sides. Hence Bismarck i.s coercing Aus¬ 
tria to lake a less hostile attitude, aud urging 
Russia to moderate her demands. It was 
doubtless by his advice that General Ghourko, 
one of the heroes of the Turko-Russian war, 
when Russia “ created” Bulgaria, is to replace 
the truculent Kaulbare as Russian agent in 
that country. Reports are very conflicting 
as to the health of the old Emperor. 
