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# CHICAGO IN A FRENZY # GIGANTIC UPRISING AGAINST GAMBLING. Miners Appeal to Courts to Resist Re-duction of Wagés Indians Town Fights Advance in Gas Rates-Two Disastrous Sunday Blazes, Told In a Few Words. -The campaign against gambling is on In good earnest in Chicago Within the past few days raids, instigated by the Civic Federation, have been made upon many of the largest gaming houses, and the "lay-outs" captured and burned. Sports and gamblers "out of a job" stand around their old haunts and swear at the new order of things. Sunday a mass meeting was held in Central Music Hall, and this gathering declared war azainst the evil Rev. H. A. Delano, in his sermon. deplored the fact that the big speculators in grain escaped unscourged. Rev. William M. Lawrence, of the Second Baptist Church, rated bargain day patrons as gamblers. The First Methodist Church was crowded with enthusiasts engaged in the crusade against gambling, and many other ministers joined in the crusade. -Fire on Sunday destroyed property worth $1,500,000 in Portland, Ore. Three men are supposed to have been burned in an elevator. Park Opera house the chief amusement resort in Erie, Pa, for forty years, was burned. entailing a loss of $60,000. -The miners of the Pittsburg district-who are now worklig under the Columbus compromise, 69 cents a ton-now assert that if the operators who signed the scale attempt to reduce wages they will go into the courts. -Citizens of Wabash, Ind., are excited over an advance of 50 per cent. in the rates for natural gas furnished them. The price now is 6 cents per 1,000 feet and the new rate is 7½. -R. G. Dun & Co's Weekly Review of Trade says: Pienty of material for encouragement and also for discouragement can be found by those who seek that and nothing else. But business men who want to see the situation exactly as it is find accounts so far conflicting that it is difficult to strike a balance. In the aggregate, business is about a tenth larger than last year, but still falis about 25 per cent. below a full volume for the season. -S. Edwin Magargee, one of the assign-ees of the Columbia Bank of Philadelphia, says that ex-President Phillips is entirely innocent of any wrongdoing la connection with the affairs of the suspended bank, --At Zeigler Station. Ga.. Sheriff L. B. Brooker. of Scriven County, was seriously shot by George M. Zeigler and his son sol in a political quarrel. Brooker shot Zeigler seriously and wounded the son in the arm. -John Gillen, a deaf mute, was caught under a falling plate glass at Kokomo, Ind., and fatally hurt. -Perry Cook, suspected of stealing horses. was lynched near Lincoln, O. T. -Caving of the earth from some unknown cause has created great excitement among farmers in the vicinity of Wichita, Kan -The Rock Island Road cut its quarterly dividend in two because it had not been earned, and its action is generally approved. -Thousands of answers have been re-ceived bythe Smithsonian Institution to the offer of $10,000 for a treatise embodying some new discovery in regard to air. -A company has been incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, to build an electric road from Pittsburg to Chicago and to furnish heat and light to towns along the line. -Secretary Gresham has prohibited publication of "ads" in the bulletin issued by the Bureau of American Republics. -Bradstreet's reports continued improvement in business in all sections of the country, and notes Chicago's growing importance as a jobbing center. -Charles Watkins, alias Jesse B. Roper, a murderer for whom rewards of $4.700 are offered, was arrested at Perry. O. T. -Schooner Colonel Cook, which thirty-four years ago sunk the Lady Elgin, whereby 300 lives were lost. has been abandoned on Lake Erie. -Colorado's gold output for 1894 will reach $12,000,000, the largest in its history. It is hoped to mine $25,000,000 in 1895. -People of Sturgis. Ky.. have armed themselves to resist payment of the railroad tax and bloodshed is feared. -Charles F. Gloystein, of Spokane, Wash., supposed to have been murdered by populists, has been found alive at Grant, Oregon. -Mme. Fursch-Madi, the noted opera singer, died in New York. She was about 50 years old. -Dr. Rafael Nunez, President of the Republic of Colombia, died from gastric fever. He was 69 years old. -Charles B Norris, wanted at Pearsall. Tex, for a murder committed ten years ago was arrested at Chicato -Harry Jones, a Chicago negro, 62 years old, and tired of life. offered to sell his body to a drugzist ior $25. with which he proposed to have a last spree. -A post-mortem examination of one of the cows inoculated with tuberculin at the Michigan Insane Asylum disclosed tuber-culosis. -P. C. Patton, a merchant of McGhee, Ark., was murdered and his store looted by a gang of negroes. They were captured, and a lynching is expected. --Michael Lewis, of South Orange, N. J.. a trolley motorman, was found guilty in Newark of manslaughter in causing the death of little Martha Henry. Aug. 4 last. The full penalty to which Lewis is liable is ten years in the State prison. -Engineers are surveying a railroad to be run between Springfield, Mo, and Harrison. Ark Eastern capitalists are inter-ested in the project, -John and Jasper Atkins, white, were hanged at Winnesboro, S. C. for murder. The Governor wished to commute the sentence, but feared to do so W. IH. Hall. George E. Dameron, and Major W. D. Adams, prominent Keatucki-ans, have been arrested, charged with swindling business houses by a new method. -Cyrus Conway, 60 years old. was killed by the cars while gathering coal along the eailway track at Shreve, Ohlo -Theodore Bartholder, insane, was ar-