Show LETTER the chief engineer answers powderly HE DEFINES HIS POSITION though he says it is not necessary for or any one kise to ask him to do so new YORK aug 28 special the latter given below waa written by P M arthur chief engineer of the grand international brotherhood of locomotive engineers to an engineer on the third avenue elevated road the let ler is in response to a letter on the sub act of the new york central strike and the first utterance of arthur which auly defines his position towards the central strikers and knights of labor the letter is as follows CLEVELAND ohio auy 23 DEAR sin AND your leter of the int with and other clip pinya from new york papers is received in reply 1 will say that I 1 have not received any letter from powderly he claims to have written me a private letter on the trouble and wants into define my po if lie idera his letter that which appears in the a private one I 1 dont know that I 1 can nn owera letter that reaches me in that way it is unnecessary for powderly or any one else to ask me to define the position of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers in the present troubles on the new york central the policy of the brotherhood is well known to him and the public as it has been repeatedly explained from the public and published in the newspapers he says some time ago I 1 telegraphed him meaning me that I 1 would meet him in cleveland ard when I 1 arrived there I 1 could not find him high or low my telegram had been by him but my efforts to locale him were fruitless now the facts in lie case so far as I 1 can recollect are iheke some four years ago I 1 received a telegram from powderly requesting me to meet him at the union depot in cleveland on the arrival of a certain train on the lake shore road owing to my absence from my office I 1 did not receive his message until after the departure of the train and I 1 so informed him by letter addressing it to him at scranton dc ranton I 1 do noi believe he stopped over and looked for me would have bad no difficulty in finding one at his office or at my home as I 1 am one or the other when in cleveland he bellg a wilful falsehood when he says others have been unable to find me when they tried to do so any man who tries to find me when I 1 am in cleveland can do so with so very little no man whether leader or private in the ranks of labor ever came to my office that he was no treated courteously while I 1 differ with men as to the best methods to be employed to secure a certain end I 1 always have been liberal enough to concede to every roan the same rights and privileges I 1 ask for myself when tha present trouble on the new york central first occurred I 1 advised the engineers to abstain efrom all participation in it and to attend strictly to their own business I 1 gave the same advice when the strike occurred on the gould system a few years ago my advice to the brotherhood of engineers when the men employed in the other branches of the railroad service had been on strike was to mind their own business and nut to do aej illing that did not properly belong to them as engineers can powderly say the same I 1 think not whenever the engineers have been on strike we never asked any other labor organization to assist us t s true sonae of the members of alie order during the chicago burlington quincy strike asked the switchmen to auit but they did it on their own responsibility not bv the authority of the organization consequently 1 hold we are perfectly justified in maintaining a strictly neutral kopsi tion when others are nudged in i con their employ eia powderly accuses the members of alie brotherhood of locomotive engineers of taking he places of the striking firemen if that is true the division of alipy are members will deal with them it is not nathin the my authority to deal with individual members I 1 wonder if had expelled who took th 0 places of our men en the C B Q yours fraternally eastern CONCORD N H august 23 special the fifteenth annual field meeting of the new state board of agriculture is being held today to day at baars boars head hampton beach alie governor waa present and delivered an address idoff a harder mystery was Carave led louisville KY august 28 special the field of usefulness fur ilie voodoo doctors has at last been in this city his black art has been suc cess fully utilized in unraveling raveline un and running down the ri minal in february bat henry A cabler a louis villa and nashville railroad Kail road conductor raa on the of a car by someone on the side f the track the only clew waa the foot mats of two men in the mud alfred branda neg arrested on suspicion but as nothing could be gotten QU of him he was released detective stewart and the railroad service kept au eye on the degro and finally worked ap a nove plan to pump him he a negro fortune teller or voodoo doctor into his confidence and then got brand to go have his fortune told brand fell ily into tie 1 rap the goodo man said he saw in the cards that brand had committed a great crime be had killen a railroad man and and another mad had been with him though he hal taken no direct part in the tragedy the doctor went on to eay that the other man would never be caught and that in consequence brands gnile would not be proved he said however that he could make a voodoo bag that would positively prevent the other man from being caught brund bought the bag and then admitted that the fortuneteller fortune teller had seen things right in lie cards he also gave the name at the man whom he wished kept out of the of he law the doctor had td him it was necessary for him 10 know the name in order that he could properly work the peu auel hatched wa named us the man who be airi out of the way the v 1 ast to an i was run down he confess mt ut one that he and brand ciul been put off the train and that braud out of revenue had fired a shot at the which killed him both negroes are anuw in jail A STARTLING apparition of i friends death marry beholds his ghost SAS cal aug 28 special those who do bot believe in ghosts or in spiritualism are puzzled by the convincing story of the appearance of a dead friend to harry E reeves choir leader in st luke s episcopal danril and a nephew of the english tenor sim reeves reeves ed the luu services Ber vices at the funeral of president arthur and soon after came to this city one of his closest friends here was edwin russell an englishman and a real estate dealer bad a rich bass voice and was a valued member of st lukes choir early on friday morning russell fell in an apoplectic fit on the street and died boon after several hours later before he heard of his friends death reeves saw the apparition of russell at his home and was so shocked that lie nearly fainted when asked to tell the story last night he prefaced it with the remark that he was not a spiritualist and had always been skeptical of stories of ghosts and then said russell had parted from me a week ago and promised to call on friday of this week while looking over some music yesterday I 1 heard the front door bell ring I 1 afterwards learned that the caller had come to tell the sad news of russells death I 1 lay down on my lounge a moment and then by an impulse I 1 can not account for I 1 walked to the door the head of the stairway was somewhat dimly lighted but not BO dimly bu what I 1 could see what appeared to bt the figure of russell it was so leal so lifelike life like that I 1 at once stepped forward and stretched out my hand and was about to speak some works of wel weli i come the nure seemed to have a roll of music in one hand and the other over its face but it was russelle image I 1 am quite sure of that As I 1 advanced to the head of the at airway the fidure seems to turn as if about to faded into tap air J le member trying to speak to alie figure but alie tongue clova lo 10 the roof of my mouth then I 1 fell against the wall aud gasped out ah my god mv sister and niece with other folks came up my niece said uncle harry hie mattar matt pr I 1 went on to explain it was but waa so scared that I 1 bould hardly speak my niece said dont you know russell is dead well eliat flabbergasted me it only made matters worse and I 1 nearly fainted tieu y told roe mr sprague biad called n tell roe the fad news I 1 was terribly startled by the affair and feel shaky even now I 1 saw russell after he must have bean dead three hours as plainly as I 1 see you in that chair reeves story lias made a local sensation as his temperance aaro atro it nerves and cil tendency place him above reproach or hallucination twe strange suicides pa AUR 28 special beck of st clair III jumped from a rapidly moving new york yesterday and was at once followed by his little aither was instantly killed but liis daughter lived a few hi urs ko cause is assigned for the deed they were borud fur germany on the fathers person was found checks for marks an inspection of the dead mans effects was made from letters it was learned that the deceased was held in bail for a felonious assault upon the little girl and he bad given a check to bis bondsmen to cover the amount and then lie had prepared to flee the country the man was evidently intoxicated as there was a strong smell noticeable on the corpse peace fairly certain taia CITY OP MEXICO aug 28 special advises advices from guatemala are to the ef fact that tha truce continues and that thu probability of the restoration of peace is strong A dispatch says that all is quiet on itse honduras salvador frontier and eliat the rumors ot fighting on the border are untrue president diaz laughs at the idea that lie is secretly aiding salvador and says 1 I mexico will observe the in the affair iturbide goas to jail MEXICO aug 28 special the court martial to hear the retrial of llie case of anant niile for criticizing criticising critic ising superior officers ivas convened here yesterday morning and iturbide was found guilty of the charge and sentenced to days imprisonment dismissal dis from the army and from holding public altice fur a period of ten years hided case haa attracted more alian ordinary attention owing to his high social position both here and in batih bugton he was in fact the adopted heir of maximillian to succeed to the throne of mexico lucion notes LONDON aug 28 special the queen haa given her consent to the bestowal be stowel upon lord salisbury by emperor william ot the order ol 01 the black eagle in re cognation of his work in the conclusion of the anglo german agreement mayor general middleton who was forced to resign his command of the canadian militia arrived in liverpool today to day from canada much sympathy js expressed in military geh eal middleton who it is believed was dishonest in the dj cha r 0 his duly the azars czars scheme sr petersburg PETERS BURO aug 28 special tha st petersburg atta clies political significance to the bestowal upon chancellor yon caprisi caprivi of the highest eurasian decoration and says there ia ground for the belief in a peaceful coexistence of russia and germany macket aa increase ia price sall crops ire kited the states TOPEKA kan aug 27 special the monthly crop report of secretary mehler of the just issued contains the following it is still early to approximate with any degree of accuracy the total aggregate wheat product ot the united states for this year but enough is known to warrant the statement that it will be very much less than the crop of 1889 the crop of 1889 was placed by the department part ment of agriculture washington last december at bushels and from the government reports just issued we estimate the crop of thia year at from to bachels les than that cf last year the stat ician of the department of agriculture places the general overage of the winter wheat july 1 at per cent of an average crop and in alio report enst published he places the gen eral average of spring wheat at per cent taking bogli the winter and spring wheat together the average ia about 80 per cent or 20 per cent less than a full average crop taking last year as a full average crop it was we find that our crop this year is about 20 per cent or 12 less than last years crop the aggregate estimated wheat product of twelve leading states for 1890 is 17 5 17 less than eliat of 1889 we are I 1 think warranted saying that the wheat crop of the united states for this dearia at least bushel short 0 last years product by reason of this heavy shortage in the wheat crop of our country together with other minor causes wheat has been steadily ing in ance until today to day in topeka it is worth 85 cents per bushel and if the advises advices recently received from europe to the effect that a shortage in the wheat crop of european countries is found to exist it will probable advance tol per bushel in kansas before next january the annual meeting of the vienna congress recently held in that city published its estimate of the worlds wheat crop and claims there is a shortage of bushels in the wheat growing countries of the eastern hemisphere the indication are now that the worlds wheat consumption is about to overtake the worlds production and that wheat will henceforth command better prices it further demonstrates the fact stated before thai the way to increase the price of wheat is to diminish the supply ine noam |