Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1893 — Page 2

©he s cmocrnt DECATUR, IND- <, BLACKBURN, ■ ■ • PtmtiCTn. ~IW ordinary life the workman la frnown by his tools, but in politics it’s his tools that make the boss. When an organ-grinder takes off bls hat after playing a tune it's no sign of his reverence for good music. After friendship and love come benevolence and that compassion which unites the soul to the unfortunate. Let the memory of those oversights by which we have suffered instruct us; for, though past moments cannot be recalled, past errors may be repeated. As well might a planet, revolving round a sun, expect to have perpetual daylight in both hemispheres as a man to expect in this life to enjoy happiness throughout unmixed with sorrow or pain. An Idaho man proposes to set up a bank on a steamboat and do business with several small lake towns which are not large enough to sustain banks of their own. He will carry a floating capital, of course. Minister Lincoln says that It cost him $70,000 more than his salary to live in London as the representative of this Government .But the United States is not responsible for his tribute paid to London society. Two Mexicans fought with kn ives for the hand of beauty. They fought ■quite energetically. After the hand of beauty has strewn a few blossoms «ver a pair of graves it will doubtless be bestowed upon somebody who had pease enough to keep out of the row. A good deal of time and energy is expended in the public schools in teaching children to hold their pens and pencils in a position that is scientific, of course, but which, with the natural depravity of human kind, they are pretty sure to abandon as soon as they get outside the schools. A genius of Posey county, Ind., thus computes the expense of a day at the Chicago Fair grounds: Streetcar fare, 10 cents; admission, 50 cents; milk at milk exhibit, free; fresh rolls at yeast exhibit, free; buttered crack■ers at butter exhibit, free; total, 60 cents. This is the ingenuity of economy.— N. Y. Press. A son of the Czar of Russia has fallen in love with a girl who has nothing to commend her but beauty of person and character. Her blood, far from having a royal taint, is not even blue. But for once the Czar is helpless, and the prospect of having a nice girl for a daughter-in-law appalls 'him more than a nihilist bomb. Opportunities for doing greatly oeldom occur, for life is made up of infinitesimals. If you compute the happiness in any given day, you will find that it was composed of small attentions, kind looks which made the heart swell and stirred into health that rancid film of misanthropy which is apt to coagulate on the Stream of our Inward life. It seems pretty well settled that the much-Mked of leather trust has actually been formed. One hundred firms are said to have pooled their Issues in the scheme, and the capital of the organization is placed at $120,000,000, represented by stock, all of which, it is said, has been distributed. The trust has not such a complete monopoly of its field as have many, if not most, of the other trusts, and it will be interesting to see what will be its history.

The recent defeat of the Arabs In | ( the Congo region of Central Africa j is good news, for it means another ( blow at the infamous slave trade, of j which in modern times these degen- ( crate Arabs have been the worst so- j menters. This time it is to be hoped . the blow is final. The present leader , of the Arabs is a Belgian, 31 years , old, who served several years in the Congo Free State forces. He joined the rebel cause last year, and took .part in the battles last November and January. His defeat must convince him that he has sold himself very cheap—which, indeed, must always be the case when any man sells himself. Cleveland Leader: Georgia’s Commissioner of Agriculture proposes to call a meeting of the agricultural commissioners of several Southern States to “devise plans to elevate the standard of farming in the South.” They will have an immense field to work in. If there is one thing in the whole Industrial world of America which needs reforming more than any other it is the tillage of the soil in some of the Southern 'States. There millions of acres of grain yield hardly enough for seed, year after year. The very strongest' argument was • made by the American representatives before the conference to decide the seal question in Behring Soa. The argument dismisses entirely any claim that Behring Sea is a closed sea to the vessels of other nations. Tney may rightfully pass through it in the coarse of trade. But the seals in Behring Sea are on a different ■ basis. They belong to the United States, because they are bred on islands belonging to this country and

purchased from Russia with the understanding that this control of their breeding places gave us prior claims on all seals bred on our territory. Friends of Cuba announce that the great uprising that is to turn the island upsido down and shake off Spanish shackles has been set for June. Their thoughtfulnlhs is equal to that of a burglar who would send word to the police that he intended at a certain hour to break into a bank. There is reason to fear that the filibuster of the period carries his weapon poorly concealed between bis teeth. ' From present indications the whisky trust will soon be a thing ot the past. Somebody made a great deal of money out of the concern, but somebody lost a great deal, too. In their endeavors to defraud the government they have defrauded themselves. A few months ago it was generally believed that Congress would increase the whisky tax. The distilleries commenced to run double time, on the theory that all the spirits manufactured before the taking effect of the new law would be exempt from the increased duty, and the whisky trust would make the difference. But the duty was not raised and the trust is “soup.* FARMimprovementsoften pay when the value of the land they reclaim is not worth the cost of putting In the improvement. We have in mind cases where wet sloughs in the center of an otherwise dry field were underdrained at a cost greater than the value of the land owned. But it enabled the owner of the land to get to work on it one or tjwo weeks earliei than would otherwise be possible. In that way the whole field was made more productive and the improvement paid. In another case an open ditch that ran diagonally through a fine field was made into an underdrain. Then the whole field could be and was worked at greatly lessened expense. The foreign governments which took part in the naval review ofl Hampton Roads and in New York harbor lost, it is said, 300 seamen by desertion. Io is the natural desire of residents of all European countries to become citizens of the United States, and it was certain from the first that if European governments sent ships here a considerable proportion of the men when they arrived in United States waters would improve the opportunity to desert. It is a loss which all foreign vessels expect when they visit the harbors of the United States, and as the deserters come in without paying any head tax, they Lave some advantages over those immigrating in the usual way. An accidental discovery and seizure of counterfeit money, recently made at Bridgeport, Conn., furnishes some startling information in regard to the extent of the “green goods” business. The seizure embraced the complete outfit, books, accounts and memoranda of a firm which has been carrying on its business in New York for several years. Among other things there were 240,000 circulars, three in each envelope, addressed to 80,000 persons, all over the country. The circulars were ready to be mailed, and gave fictitious addresses in New York for replies. Among the papers seized was a list containing the names of 110 “customers” since April 1, 1893, with the amounts obtained from them. The sums vary from S2OO to S6OO, the total amount obtained from' 110 victims being $40,185. The list as published contains names from nearly every Western and Southern State.

The rapid depreciation of values in what qre called the industrial stocks, which caused the monetary tightness, has worked no real harm to the country. All these stocks are controlled by trusts, and fortunately It is only the fictitious value put upon the property by the trust officials that has been wiped out. That is a positive good in more ways .than one. Each Individual corporation is now working away as vigorously as ever, paying its money over to the receiver, instead of to the President and Treasurer. What the country now needs is a more vigorous enforcement of the laws, both State and national, against trusts. In that event the public will save all that the useless trust must have charged as profit to itself. Hence the country looks on complacently, while the inflated values of the stock market are scaled down. Air the property these stocks represent is intact. That is the main thing to be considered. ■■■■■■■■■■■■l— ■ ■*> ■ Original Method of Theft. An ingenious method of theft is thus described as taking place on the coasts of South America. It is needless to say that the perpetrators are, of course, “prqfessionals:” “One sailor is sitting, half asleep, on his sea-chest. A gaucho quietly comes up and taps him on the back. ‘Bueqo, Johnny; bueno, Johnny.’ ‘lf you are not off, I’ll send a bullet into yov,’ says Jack. ‘Bueno, Johnny; bueno; till to-morrow;’ and off skulks the gaucho to his horse, which he mounts. With a sardonic smile he takes off his hat to Jack, bids him farewell, and digging his spurs into the flanks of his wiry little horse, leans over his neck, and is ofl at full gallop over the short grass of the 1 sandy plains. At the first stride of the horse, to Jack’s Intense surprise, r his box is wrenched violently from I under him. He jumps up, rubs his eyes, and, before he can recover his senses, he sees his property rolling and bumping away over the sandhills, at the heels of the gauebo’s , steed; for this clever gentleman had 1 managed to make one end of his lasso ■ fast to the handle of Jack’s box while I engaged in conversation with him.”

BITS OF CHICAGO LIFE. POINTS OF INTEREST TO THE WORLD'S FAIR VISITOR. Btraa(*r* Can Spend Several Dey* Blght■eeln* In the Center of the City—The Board of Trade, Water System. Polio* and Fir* Department*, Etc. Few Hlatorlc Point*. Chloaco oorreipondeno*:

IF the visitor starts out “to see the town and all its sights," he will find in the immediate center of Chicago sufficient to occupy his time and Interest for ’ several days. The skyscraping office structures, the retail stores of State street, the wholesale district, the produce quarter, the lumber market — all these may be taken In at a cursory glance; but the great grain el-

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evators, the safety-deposit banks, the new Art Institute on the lake front, the lookout tower of the Masonic Temple, the press-rooms of the great dailies,

s ® rfifisi yisi CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING.

turning out over 50,000 papers an hour, are novelty of more detailed attention. Os commemorative points there are comparatively few, Chicago being too young as yet to boast of many statues, but the site of old Fort Dearborn, near TH* CRIB IN X.AKE MICHIGAN. Rush street bridge, marked by a tablet, the’bustof the railway postal service pioneer, Armstrong, at the postofflee, the Douglas monument at Kenwood, the Drake Columbian public drinking fountain at the City Hall, and the monument at Haymarket Square indicating the scene of the lamous Anarchist massacre, are all associated with interesting reminiscences, and pave the way for comparison when the sojourner later Inspects the statues in Lincoln Park. The stranger seeking pleasure need only consult the amusement columns to find every kind and class of theater, a variety of museums and "magic maze" shows, cycloramas, panoramas and Historical curiosities, such as Libby prison. If a day on the water is scheduled, there are steamers leaving many river docks for points across the lake, such as an excursion to Michigan City in eight hours, at only 50 cents for the round trip, while land journeys may be made swiftly and with profit to the wonderful industrial town of Pullman or to the military post at Fort Sheridan. Some of the best obtainable musical and dramatic talent will be found on the boards oßthe various theaters during the World’s Fair. The Board of Trade. One great central point of interest is the Board of Trade; as famous as the Rialto or the Bourse of the old world. The headquarters of this aggregation of grain and produce speculators is found in the Chamber of Commerce, one of the truly palatial edifices of the world. Occupying half a square, its tower and entrance portal stand exactly in front of LaSalle street, where that thoroughfare ends at Jackson street, with an environment forcibly suggestive of Wall street, New York. The building is in two

ft J II ***** gfj 1 BATMASKST MOMUMBItC. sections, the one fading north being used for trading, the rear one for offices. Emblematic figures mark the

handsome doorways and pro.eot»ons, and the tower that caps the massive structure tapers in a pinnacle over 300 feet above the pavement The main Lail has two capacious galleries, and to these visitors nre admitted at all time* The view from the same, when trading is going on below on the main floor, is something never to be forgotten by the inexperienced spectator, little ' suggesting to him that the uproar and bustle, the hoarse outcries and frantic gestures are an accompaniment of transactions during which millions of dollars change hands In a single day. The building cost nearly $1,000,000, and it requires often as high as SIO,OOO to secure the privilege of trading in the wheat or corn pit The clearings of a year have aggregaied over $104,000,000. Trading la permitted In not lese than 1.000 bushels of grain or 250 barrels of pork—-all on paper —and fortunes are made and lost every day In the year, often nearly every hour In the day. 'city waterworks A visit to the city waterworks is well worth a mile ride or walk over into the North Division. The system of which it is the foundation has grown to a remarkable magnitude. The main works are located at Chicago avenue and Pine street, and comprise a series of structures embracing a tower, free to visitors, affording a fine view of the city,

and a castellated gothic stone building, from which a tunnel three miles long extends beneath tbe lake, ending in the great supply-well known as “the crib," which is ieited daily by excursion boats. The new engine at the works has a capacity of 2.750 gallons at one stroke of the cylinders. The West Division of the city has also a water works at Ashland and Blue Island avenues, with a tunnel sisTniJes long running to the supply crib. Its engineshave a capacity ot 70,000,000 gallons daily. The combined daily capacity of all the city plants is 250,060,000 gallons, distributed through nearly 1,500 miles of pipes and through 13,411 fire hydrants. The cost of the entire system was $17,000,000. No person visiting Chicago for the first time should neglect at least a casual inspection of the fire and police departments. The former has now some thirteen battalions, embracing 990 men, 72 steam fire engines, 22 chemical engines, three fire tugs and general apparatus for reaching lofty buildings and rescuing people, such as life-saving guns and nets, ladders, and the like. Callers are generally welcome at any of the flre-engine stations scattered about the city, at the central alarm office at the city hall, and at the Are insurance patrol houses, where

. □T HHt. ' I Bml fwElti flj hlfl 1 I jUiflli < z 2 MtesMil. . l£n M'VICKER’S theateb. everything Is done by electricity, from the sounding of the alarm to the starting of the horses. The police stations are also open for inspection, and the patrol-wagon system will generally be courteously explained by the officers in charge when not on active duty. Police courts are connected with many of the stations*, and an hour spent in one of these will give the stranger a very fair idea of “the seamy side" of life in a great city, He Must Here Died Young. Christian Helnecker, of Lubeck, when only 10 months old, could, repeat every word spoken to him; at 12 months of age he had memorised all the principal events mentioned In the Pentateuch. Before he had finished his second year he had learned all the historical part® of both the Old and New Testament. At the age of 3 he could reply correctly to all questions put to him regarding universal history and geography, and in the same year he learned to speak both Latin and French. Oranges and Lemons for Cholera. The orange and the lemon are both said to be fatal to the cholera bacillus. Placed In contact with the cut suiface of the fruit, the bacteria survives but a few hours. Even on the uninjured rind they die within twenty-four hours at least, so says the imperial health office of Berlin.

UNTAX THE PEOPLE. PROSPERITY WILL THEN GO ON WITH A RUSH. Stat*a>*at* Mad* In the New York Hun Shown to Be Fnl*e — Protecting the Cholera Industry-Tariff for Wage-Earn-er* a Sham. Th* Manufacturer* and the Tariff. Letters like the following appeal strongly to personal sympathy, but they have no part in poUtiCfl argument under the of 1892: To the editor ot the Sun: bis—Th* proiH>*e«i tariff change* are rulntus the manufacturer* of artlole* where labor enter* largely into the oo»t. Many ot u* do nut dare make our loeiea known, a* our credit would be Impaired. lam the president of a company recently employing Ouu hands, now Mo.inan Industry where labor 1* SO per cent, of th* cost of the goods. A SurriuuMu AMsmcaNMANuracTvua. Any proposed change of importance In the tariff produces more or less distress In industrial circles. The principle enunciated at Chicago, and approved and accepted by the people in the vote which elected Mr. Cleveland, is that the Federal Government has no power to shape its tariff legislation with regard to tue prosperity' or distress of American manufacturers, or of the American workmen whom ‘they employ. The solo constitutional purpose of the tariff is to raise revenue, and the only constitutional tariff is the tariff into which the question of the prosperity or distress of American industries does not enter. This is a broad, manly, definite and intelligible declaration of -principle. This is the principle on which the new tariff is to be made, unless promises are broken. Somebody may suffer, but suffering is a condition of human existence. The principle on which the tariff is to be revised takes no more account of such sufferings than the east wind takes of the welfare of men and women with bronchial difficulties. Although the question of consequences to American manufacturers and laborers is not pertinent, it is, nevertheless, urged in behalf of the strict application of this relentless principle of taxation that great general good will result from the experiment. Incidentally, some manufacturers may have to close their shops and seek a new business, and some branches of production may disappear. But these Incidental losses, it is maintained, will be more than balanced by compensating gains in other directions, and the giantwbeels of industry will continue to revolve as smoothly as ever, and more than ever for the greatest good of the. greatest number. That is why the experiment is to be tried.—New York Sun. The letter which gives the Sun another opportunity to stab the Democratic party in the back may be genuine or it may be a pure fake; in either case its statements are false. The .census bulletins for 1890 thus far issued show no industry in which the cost of labor is 80 per cent, of the cost of the product. The only industries in which labor cost exceeds 70 per cent of the product are mining and quarrying. In most industries the figures vary from 12 to 50. The average for all is probably less than 20 per cent In 1860 it was 25; in 1800, 23; and in 1880, 22 per cent, thus showing that in spite of increasing tariffs the share of the wageearner has been steadily diminishing. The Sun should be more careful and require greater accuracy on the part of its correspondents or editors responsible for such statements.

But supposing the letter were genuine, and the* “suffering American manufacturer” had not lied! What then? Must a thousand other industries and 65,000,000 people continue to tax themselves to support this weak, trembling industry that has the life scared half out.of it by the mere suggestion that its supply of pap will bo reduced some time in the future? Hardly. It is time to cease to foster artificial industries, which will always be sickly here, and to lift the burden from the many sturdy, independent industries that ask no odds of any country. Take the brakes off these naturally healthy industries and they will soon show the world what kind of stuff Americans are made of. Five new mills will go up for every one abandoned and soon the recently discharged workingmen and the chronic unemployed will be at work at higher wages than ever before. Untax the people and prosperity will go forward by leaps and bounds. Gov. Hogg on Bo an ties. The State of Texas raises sugar on its convict farms. Under the law passed by tbe Fifty-first Congress it is entitled to draw from the United States Treasury a bounty of 2 cents a pound upon its crop. The Legislature ot the State recently passed an act to enable the superintendents of penitentiaries to apply for and receive the bounty. Gov. Hogg has vetoed the bill, and given his reasons in a very vigorous document He declares that the United Stales Government has no right to tax the people of the country in order to give the money to the State of, Texas or to anybody else. He finds nowhere any authority by willed Congress can properly give bounties to men for engaging in an unprofitable business. He declares that Texas makes sugargrowing pay, and that If it did not the remedy would be to quit raising sugar. He very plainly Intimates that the same principle is applicable, to individual sugar-growers. In brief, Gov. Hogg rejects for Texas the position of a dependant upon the national bounty, and contends that there is no constitutional warrant for Federal bounties in any Case. Whether he is right or wrong In his interpretation of the Constitution, the sturdy Texan is certainly right upon grounds of morality and manhood. Bounties are wrong in principle and unjust In effect.—New York World. Untax American Industrie*. All genuine American industries will be promoted and encouraged by a prompt and thorough reduction of the tariff to a strictly revenue standard;. and in my judgment they would be even.more encouraged by a much more radical reform. The chief burden of the tariff always has been and always will be laid upon American industries. More than threefourths of all the articles which are

taxed by any tariff are Indispensable materials for American manufactures or agriculture. It may be, unfortunately, necessary to tax them, but such taxes can never do any good to the vast majority ot American manufacturers and workmen. No industry can possibly be benefited by loading it with taxes.—Thomas G. Shearman. ; ' ' i ' ' T Was**, Frio**, and Oo*t of Production. American protectionists always point to free-trade England as showing the baneful influences of free trade upon the wages of workmen. Yet the contrary is true. English wages are much higher, and employment there Is steadier than in any protectionist country upon the continent of Europe. And that English wages are not even higher than at present is not the fault of its free trade policy, but, strange as it may seem, the result of the protective tariffs of those countries, new as well as old, from which England receives its food and many of the raw or partly finished materials it needs in its industries. If protectionists want to show the blessings of protective tariffs, let them point to the low wages of Germany, France, Italy, Austro-Hun-gary, or Russia, all of which pretend to protect their industries, and incidentally the wages of their workmen, by means of high tariffs. Does it not appear strange that at the present time so many nations are still adhering to this so often exposed system of so-called protection? But it seems stranger yet that the great bulk of the working people, the ones who pay dearest for, and suffer heaviest under, the tariff taxes and all its consequences, are not more Jealous of their hard-earned money. They first of all should not only oppose every attempt at fortifying a tariffwall, but should not suffer any tariff at all to come between them and the products of other countries. That they, at best, are indifferent about it, shows that the people ot air countries do not yet clearly perceive the principles underlying the production of commodities and the laws governing their distribution The great prosperity of the United States of America under a so-called protective system deceives nearly all nations, old as well as new, into the belief that their countries will prosper also as soon as they either levy or increase high duties upon commodities Imported from abroad. They do not perceive that the United States flourish because their people are among the most enterprising and industrious upon earth. They do not see that wages there are high because there is yet so great an abundance of free or untilled land, the owners of which are willing to part with it at a very small compensation or let it at a rent so low that nearly all of its product goes to the one who works it. This almost full return to the people working the land makes wages in all other occupations high.—Dingman Versteeg, in Tariff Reform. ' Must Pay the Fiddler. A number of well-meaning newspapers throughout the country are holding out hopes that the serious adverse balance of tDde mH be overcome when we be«n sq ship our crops. In four months the excess of imports over exports amounts to $86,000,000, and this serious condition of things, to some extent, explains the large shipment of gold we have been subjected to for some time; but do the facts warrant us in assuming that this adverse balance has any prospect of being wiped out through the shipment of our crops and the return of the precious metal? We think not. On the contrary, the crops of Kansas have been considerably less than in former years, and this serves as a criterion for other corn regions, and points unmistakably to the conclusion that we shall have little more than our own needs demand, without any surplus for shipment Added to this, owing to the splendid crops in many European countries —Italy, for instance, where the crop is estimated to be over 325,000,000 bushels—there is a doubt that our customers hitherto will rush so readily to our aid, even if we are in a position to supply them, when we so rigidly close all .avenues of reciprocal trade with them. Until this senseless barrier of protection and restriction to traders broken down we must of necessity be constantly in fear of panicky conditions and adverse balances. It would have shown itself much sooner if the abnormal crop in this country of 1891 and the corresponding failure of the crops in Europe had not come to our assistance and tided over the difficulties we ourselves created. But with the normal condition of things we can hope for little but disaster-until McKinleyism and all its attending evils are forever annihilated. —American Industries.

Protecting' the Cholera Industry. What? a blessing tariffs are anyhow! The health department of New York City has just imported from Chemnitz, Germany, a portable disinfecting machine which cost over S9OO. As this machine is intended to fight the cholera with, and as it will benefit the whole nation, as well as New York City, to have' the cholera germs waylaid and completely knocked out as soon as they enter this country, It would naturally be supposed that Uncle Sam would not attempt to discourage the importation of these disease destroyers by insisting upon clapping a McKinley tax upon them; especially as there Is no home competition in this industry, either present or prospective. But Uncle Sam informs us that he is working according to rule and that he can make no exceptions. Hence we will enjoy a duty which protects the Infant industry cf breeding cholera germs. McKinley tariff duties must be levied and collected though the heavens fall. Indeed, if the pearly gates and golden throne of the celestial city Itself should be let down from the heavens they would not be perihltted to touch land until they had paid duties at jewelry and pearl button rrtes. Consistency and protection are two costly jewels. The total expenditures for common school education in 1890 were $148,724,647. _____ Demosthenes was the son of a swordmaker and blacksmith.

A FEARFUL DISASTER} FORD’S THEATER THE SCENE OF A NEW HORROR. Awful Catastrophe Attending th* CollapM or th* Building—Four Hundrad United ■tut** Government Clark* Burled Under' Heavy Tlmb*r*-Few K*oap*d Injury. floor** Ar* Killed. Death visited the national capital Friday in its most terrible form and reaped a mighty harvest. Ford's Thea-i ter, where a little over a Quarter of al century ago a tragedy startled the na-| tion, was tho scene of the black angel'* visit. Without a moment's warning' the building collapsed, and 500 Govern-; ment clerks and a cellar full of laborer*; were burled in the awful mass of wieck-l age which was piled in the cellar. Thv front half of all three floors fell, carry-' Ing everything to the bottom. For a moment all was still. Then the air was split by the shrieks and groan* of tbe frightened, wounded, and dying hundreds who, like ■ a mass of worms, struggled, twisted, and fought to free' themselves from one another and from; heavy iron beams and timbers and furniture and government records which pinned them to their places. The peo-. pie in the neighborhood were for the moment stunned. The horror of it alt had robbed them of their senses. Then in a few moments, but what to the wretches pinioned in death’s embrace seemed ages, the truth buret upon their befud-;

"iW 1 w FORD'S TRSATSR. died brains, and they joined their cries with the unfortunates within the collapsed building. Then, dividing, some rushed for help, some ran to the sinkhole of death Itself to lend their hands, while others, with selfish regard for thelt own safety and curiosity, stood where they were to look upon the scene. With the speed of the electric messenger the news seemed to fly from man to man throughout the city, and by the time the first ambulance reached the street that fronted the theater the thoroughfare was choked with people. It was like breaking into a mob to get through the crowd to the building, for many there had fathers, husbands, brothers, sons and sweethearts in the wreck, and they fought to retain the places they had gained and fought t< get nearer. Meanwhile the cries oi the wretches within the trap—foi it was but little else—were becoming weaker. Many whose voices had blend' ed with the rest at first had died i miserable death, others had fainted from fatigue. Some in their terroi jumped from the third story, windowl and were crushed into a mass of lifeless pulp on the concrete below. At the time this dispatch was sent out it was impossible to fell how manj had been killed outright,, but Isie number was conservatively Placed at sev-enty-five. Many others will die. Awful Tangle of Debrl*. The tangle of stuff inside of the build' ing that had to be cleared away in get ting at bodies was terrible. Girders bricks, beams, desks, furniture, all wen inextricably piled together. Bevera hundred men were at work clearlnj away, heedless of the danger that men' need them from the possibility of fall' ing walls. It was a difficult ai well as dangerous task, but ther was far less confusion than one wotflt have expected. Men turned pale am sick at the horrible spectacle pre sented by the injured. Genera Schofield promptly ordered two troop of cavalry from Fort Meyer, just acros the river, and two companies of in fantry from the Arsenal to the scene o the disaster. The Secretary of th Navy also ordered out all the nava medical officers stationed there, am opened the naval hospital to receiv the injured. The Commandant ot th navy yard was ordered to render al assistance in his power, and ever; hospital in the city was called inti requisition to care for the wounded. Cause of the Accident* An investigation of the cause of th accident discovered that it was appa rently due to criminal carelessness. J number of laborers were at work be neath the first floor excavating for a: electric plant The building rested oi underpinning and the earth, and as th earth was dug away the pressure of th' building rested on the unsupportei beams of the first floor. The weigh proved too much, and the floors col lapsed and fell Into the excavation burying the laborers and clorks beneat them. The building was acquired by th Government some years ago because o its historical associations, and, althoug it had been condemned as unsafe an unsuitable for the purpose for which 1 was occupied, sentiment kept it un changed. The floors were heavil; loaded with the records of the pensio l division of the War Department Th clerks employed there were all men. How the World Wags. A pension revision board of twenty three members has been appointed. The B. Goodman Company suspend ers, failed at New York for $63,000. The debts of Barr Co., the New Yor coffee merchants who failed recently are $1,000,000. The new coast-defense vessel Mon terey has been ordered from San Fran cisco to Puget Sound. Susie Mcßeth, for twenty year* ‘ missionary ajnong the Nez Petes Indians, died in Idaho. Fiftt-seven waiters in John Wahi * maker's restaurant at Philadelphia ai on a strike for better food. The Bradstreet-Thurber furnitui •tore at Minneapolis was destroyed b fire, with a loss of $160,000. Choleba is spreading among th Arab* of Turkey. Twenty deaths day are reported at Bassorah. Owing to the corn famine, 6,317,0 C bushels of corn from the United Stats have been shipped into Mexico. W. W. Johnson 4 Co., whose plat is one of the largest in Cincinnati, wi withdraw from the Whisky Trust. Russia will raise its Washlngto mission to an embassy, and probabl send some older diplomata as am ba sador: The Gould pleasure party has returns to New York from its three weeks' tr to the World’s Fair and to the West nr Southwest. Reports from several cities of Asiat Turkey say that the cholera has ai peered in many districts and is spreai "S ~