Show BY TELEGRAPH WESTERN UNION LINE LIKE A americana X ae U 11 C A N washington GroN 12 secretary lamar will leave the city this evening or tomorrow morning for his home at oxford mississippi second comptroller maynard has disallowed the claims of the globe mutual insurance company of st louis and 24 other insurance companies amounting iu ia the aggregate to t for losses antler policies taken by them upon steamboats employed in the government service in transporting troops und supplies for the use of the army during the civil war in 1861 and 1863 tile the second comptroller has also disallowed the claim of the powhattan steamboat company for the services of the steamer george peabody and of the owners of 23 other steamboats for their earnings while in the government service in 1862 and 1863 amounting to the claims were for compensation for certain days when the vessels were laid up for repairs and were being repaired by their owners acting secretary fairchild has received a telegram signed by collector hazer surveyor tinnin and supt bupt lawton of san francisco dated the dinst of which the following is a copy we called last evening on the chinese embassy and assured the minister that it was a misapprehension if he thought though tany any discourtesy or disrespect was intended to be shown either his government or himself on his arrival at this port the minister was invited to visit tile the united states mint which invitation he accepted 1 the house committee on territories today to day by a vote of 6 to 5 6 agreed to report favorably the bill to provide for the or the indian territory and me the public land strip into the territory ri t ory ot of oklahoma the bill provides that nothing in it shall be so construed as to disturb the existing property or the treaty rights of the indians the bill bill also provides that the public land strip shall be opened to settlement under the provisions of the homestead laws only and that as soon as the creek and seminole tribes and cherokee tribe shall give their assent the unoccupied lands ceded by these indians to the united states shall be opened to settlement under the five years settlement laws chairman morrison and hewitt of the committee of ways and means hove have completed the report of the majority of that committee to accompany the tariff bill which will be reported to the house today to day senator sherman submitted in the senate today to day an amendment to the house labor arbitration bill the amendment was ordered to lie over and be printed it is as follows to strike out all after the enacting clause of the bill and insert as follows SECTION 1 that a commission commiss ionis is hereby created to be called an arbitration commission to consist of 12 members composed as follows two members of the senate to be appointed by the president of the senate three members of the house of representatives senta tives to be appointed by the speaker of the house and seven members from civil life to be ap pointed appointed by the president of the united states by and with the advice and consent of the senate not more than four foar of whom shall belong to one political party who shall be selected for superior intelligence as to tile the industrial and laboring interests of the country the civil commissioners shall receive as compensation pensa tion for their service each at the rate of 10 per day when engaged in duty and each member of the commission shall receive actual traveling and other necessary expenses SEC 2 that it shall be the duty of the said Cominis commission sion to take into consideration and thoroughly investigate all the various controversies which have arisen or which are likely to arise between the employers and employed emp loyes whether they be corporations or asso citations ciati ons or private individuals and whether engaged in transportation manufacturing mining or other industrial d du interests of the united states so far as they relate to such controversies between rival and competing companies or between transportation manufacturing and mining companies and their employed emp loyes and for the purpose of fully examining matters which may come before it said commission in the prosecution of its inquiries is empowered to visit such different portions and sections of the country as it may deem advisable SEC 3 that the commission shall make to congress a final report of its investigation and the testimony taken in the course of tile the same not later than the first monday in december 1886 and especially of such measure or measures as in its judgment may be expedient and within the constitutional power of congress to adopt for a decision and settlement of such controversies trover sies and the proper means to avoid or prevent the same the president has withdrawn the nomination of orlando orlandos Or W powers of michigan to be associate justice of the supreme court of utah galveston 12 the san antonio special says twelve hundred and thirty two laborers in the employ of jacob marshall contractor for street improvements struck this morning for per day of eight hours the men had been rec receiving eivin 1 for a days labor of ten hours the the contractor informed the men that it was impossible to comply with their demand as he had taken a contract estimating ti the labor at 41 1 of ten hours a day the strikers proceeded to powder hill and compelled the workingmen there to throw down their picks later in the day about forty laborers told the contractor that they desired to return to work but that they were threatened with being stoned if they did so the contractor promised that they should be protected and they went to work those who still held out were persuaded to retire without offering any violence the strikers are of different nationalities and without leaders ast ST louis 12 in conversation with a reporter this afternoon general committeeman hayes said the statements attributed to gould in an interview telegraphed f from rom new york last night in I 1 n which mr gould said that Pow powderly gly at one of the new york conferences feren ces referred to the members ot of district as outlaws and said they had disobeyed the laws of the order was false in every particular he characterized it as aa one of goulds lies for the purpose of misrepresenting the knights of labor and destroying tile the public faith in the order I 1 I 1 minneapolis 12 shortly af after tei noon a fire broke out in the third story of the boston block in which the post office is located and the building was quickly enveloped in flames the mails have all been saved the fire anre was confined to the boston block bleck which was gutted the first floor was damaged only by water miller brothers removed all their stock and sustained but a trifling liaa loss the contents ot the post office were all 11 removed the loss to the block is 75 covered by insurance to the amount of over half of is in small companies not to exceed 1000 each the law library of volumes is to a total loss the estimate being ii with 2000 insurance stlouis ST louis 18 the whole force of strikers of the stlouis transfer company confident of protection by the militia from molestation have returned to their old places and transfer wagons together with private trucks and other vehicles are busy this morning hauling freight to the various depots of the railroads centering in st louis the force of switchmen and yardmen yardman who returned to work yesterday was increased this morning by many more of those who availed themselves of military protection to secure employment most of the roads now have full f switch and yardmen yardman yard men yesterday the bridge company was not able to secure a sufficient number of men to handle all tile the freight the roads were offering but today to day several more men resumed work at otheir old positions and the company is doing business almost as large as before the strike in the yards across the river switch engines have been running backwards and forwards all morning making up freight trains two trains have been sent out by the burlington the wabash has sent out one train and those being made up jn in the other yards will soon follow ko go disturbance occurred during last billit night or this morning beyond the firing 0 of a shot about 2 0 clock this morning in the illinois and st louis yards by one of the sentries at a man crawling along the ground between two freight trains who would not obey orders to halt the shot did not take effect and the man escaped ST louis 13 information from sedalia mo indicates that the strike is dying out there new men inen are going to work daily generally of the class most needed mechanics and many of the old men are leaving for other places in search of work not being able to remain any longer several will so go to california the master says he has all ail the men he needs at present and that his department was equally well supplied sup plied at parsons and hannibal at a meeting of the kni knights hag at sedalia on sunday resolutions were adopted heartily endorsing general master workman powderly and all his condemning acts all the violence and lawlessness that had been committed and favoring the presentation of a petition to the general executive board f for or modification of the conati constitution tu and bylaws of the order so that no strike or boycott can be ordered except by direction and under the supervision of the general executive committee SAG HARBOR 13 E R H harris treasurer of the sag harbor savings bank ban is discovered discover edio to be short in his accounts NEW YORK 13 A well known bro ker of this city dennis C wilcox committed suicide by shooting himself today to day his mind is said to have been diseased he was 57 years of age washington AsE aNGTON 13 dr hamilton said today to day secretary manning is still improving ampro ving and now able to sit up a short time every day washington 13 the president today nominated samuel H wagner to be postmaster at san jose cal the following confirmations were made today to day john A mcclarnand ernand to be a member of the utah commission robert L owen indian territory agent union agency indian territory N G barney washington territory receiver at spokane falls washingto nil territory M D Baldwin of Ohio Agent blackfoot agency Mon montana taua postmaster W V Me mcgarvey Garvey salinas cal ST louis 13 18 the inquest anthe on the body of thompson killed in the east st louis riot was completed tonight to night the jury finds that the shooting was not justified and holds the deputy sheriffs who participated in the shooting jointly responsible for the deaths occasioned at a mass meeting of citizens chere here tonight to night called to order by chauncey T ceilley TE filley illey and at which dr thomas oreilly OE eilly acted as chairman a long ion preamble and resolution was read and unanimously adopted setting forth the depressing effects of the strike and recommending the appointment of a committee of citizens of st louis three from tile the resident directors of the railways interested three from the resident laborers interested and three discreet and recognized representatives of the mercantile manufacturing and professional element to confer arid and arrange if possible tor for an end of tile the existing troubles the committee was ordered to report at an adjourned meeting to be called by the chairman for that purpose new YORK 13 the amail and express asserts that on sunday laut last diver merrit Mer of the breckl wrecking ug Company went down and made an examination of the sunken steamer oregon and ascertained beyond question that she was sunk sank by a collision ten feet below the main deck and about twenty feet forward of the bridge the diver found a hole in the steamers side the beav heavy iron plates being crushed in therole the hole is ia six feet deep and three feet in breadth at the widest part the steamer is broken in two and her upper decks parted over twenty feet on top most of her cargo will be saved washington N Z 13 later reports from the scene of the wreck of the coasting steamer snows that fourteen persons were saved from the vessel the number drowned was four ST louis 14 shortly before midnight last night cass jones the man who was shot through the hip at last fridays shooting died from the effects of his wounds jones was a middle aged unmarried man and was shot while standing near the greentree hotel just across from the place where the louisville and Ns nashville saville deputy sheriffs directed their f fusillade fusi usi lade this makes nine deaths with another victim not expected to live SCRA SCRANTON penn 14 powderly has written to secretary turner of the knights of labor saying that a spirited circular should go out at once to the order asking them to turn every dollar they can raise into the hands of the southwest committee in support of the tight against the gould system NEW YORK 14 ex alderman chas H reilly was arrested this morning ST T louis 14 the situation in east 0 it louis remains about unchanged from erom that on previous days since the arrival of the military with the exception that the roads are in better shape to 0 o do business and are doing more the switch engines in the yards are busy and the resumption of business seems more probable than at any time since the strike the great drawback and the principal one io various companies p anies in f ully fully resuming is the inability of the st louis bridge company and belt line to afford sufficient transferring trans fering facilities across the bridge and river and from the levee to the various yards the bridge company employed a few more men yesterday and also a few more this morning but cannot do all the business required of it the belt lije and bridge company require 16 s switchmen wit ahmen on the east side ot of the river to do the necessary wor kand the number of men now employed to do the necessary work is inadequate the officials state that this state of affairs is not because the men do not desire to return to work but because the they Y are afraid to do so tor for fear of t the he consequences after the militia shall be ordered away peru 14 A disastrous fire occurred here on monday night seven houses were destroyed by fire and two women were burned to death LIMA 14 it is said that the peruvian minister in chili has telegraphed the government that don nicolas de Pie rolo chief of the democratic party in this republic is purchasing arms in chill chili the democratic organ el pais denies the report and says that although the internal tranquility of peru may be be menaced the menace does not come from the democratic party or its chief minneapolis minn 14 reports are just received of a ter terrible c cyclone at st cloud this afternoon in which ah 40 were killed and 75 injured half the town was laid waste thero there are rumors that sauk rapids near st cloud also suffered dr ames mayor of the city and a staff of a dozen physicians are just leaving cloud on a special train for st cloud in answer to messages for assistance st paul minn 14 the st cloud and sauk rapids were swept by a terribly destructive cyclone about this afternoon the first knowledge of the disaster was contained in the following telegram sent to mayor ames from st cloud asking for help to mayor ames minneapolis A terrible destructive cyclone has passed over st cloud and sauk rapids late this afternoon terrible destruction here please send up all assistance you can immediately by special train send physicians and surgeons A telegram to tb the following effect was received from sauk rapids to mayor ams ames minneapolis can you send a special tra tm inith physicians to this city cyclone passed over the city this afternoon A great many are believed to have been killed but the tae number is ill not yet known signed saux SAUK RAPIDS immediately upon the receipt of this news preparations were made to respond to the call for help A train left |