Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1896 — Page 6

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‘‘DEAD AS JULIUS CAESAR.” Senator Frye Says 'That Is the Condition * of the Tariff Bill. ’ Washington, Feb. 26. —Mr. Morrill, (chairman of the senate finance committee, again moved to take up the tariff Mill yesterday, but the motion was defeated by a vote of Messrs. Cannon, Carter, Dubois, Mantle and Teller, Republicans, voting with the majority against the bill. After the vote had been announced a ssensa’tibnal colloquy occurred between Mr. Morrill, Mr. Teller and Mr. Sherman. Mr. Morrill said the tariff bill ■was dead, and he added that it was now »firown that there was not a Republican’ majority in the senate. Mr. Teller responded with intense feeling. He declared that he and his si Ivor -Republican associates could not be read out of the Republican party. Mr. Sherman followed with a severe arraignment of the inaction of congress, saying, i t was a crime against - the country and against civilization. Mr. Frye said the tariff bill was as (dead as Julius Caesar. Business interests, he said, demanded thatrthe statement Te made emphatically that 'the •j bill was dead. He hoped it would never ' be heard from again, and that the responsibility should rest where it belonged. The Cuban resolution was .then taken up and Mr. Morgan finished his speech in favor Os the insurgent cause.’ He was followed by Messrs. Gray, Lodge, Stewart and Call. , Proceedings In the House* , The house yesterday passed the Indian. 'appropriation bill, the sixth of the 13 general appropriation bills, and sent it to rife semi te. The house also passed, Without debate, the .Dingley bill authorizing the secretary of tl<e treasury to take and kill the Alaskan seal herd if a jpodus Vivendi could m t be concluded before the opening of tiie prosenffseason ifor the protec-, tiori’ of the seals pending negotiations for the- permanent protection to the herds .with the countries .interested. The Vanhorn-Tursney contested election case froiiHjie Fifth Missouri district occupied the'remaiirrternf the afternoon.' —“ Tjrc*. -4 ’ Senator Squire's Fortifications Bill, Washington, Feb. 26. — Senator Squire yesterday uresented his renort

1 on the fortifications bill. The. committee I amended the. bill, making the totdlS amount carried by it $80,06(1,000 instead of |87,-’»00,0(X), $10,000,000 of it available at once and to be expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, and $10,000,000 thereafter for the following seven years. - inis is in non or the emergency S' ction of the bill which allowed the president to expend all the money in his discretion. The bill also authorizes contracts to be made sod the entire work of fortifications. Offer Maps and .Charts. Washington, Feb. 26. —The Venezuelan boundary-commission has received through Mr. Tehane a letter enclosing one from Sit Clement Markham, president 'of the British Royal Geographical society, offering to furnish the American commission with all the charts and information in its possession touching the location of the true boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana. Fatal Lump Explosion. TkrueXHaUje, Ind., Feb. 26. —Eva Miller, an 8-year-old girl, was burned to death by the explosion of a lamp. Her eyes were burned out. Site lived for two hours in great agony. I'oor Way to Enforce Payment. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 26.—James H. Clutter, proprietor of a.cooperage shop, has bqen arresTpd by United • States Marshal Hawkins yni the charge of sending scuirilous ’ Cards thrqugh the mails to Frank Barr of Indianapolis. Tim postal cards were duns couched in laiiLljage not permissable on' postal cards. . Freak of Nature. Arcadia, In®.-, Feb. 26. —A peculiar freak of nature is attracting considerable attention at the farm of Fred Smollinger. southeast of here. It is a calf a a week old that has but two legs, the hind pair being missing, It is in perfect health. TJ e calf jumps like a kangaroo when mo ring about. 0 » ~ ■ School! oys Use Knives. Logansport, Ind., 'Aeb., 26.—Ed Nice and. Miles Run*’]], ,6-year-old schoolboys, quarreled over a girl and fought in the Central school building. NiVe stabbed Rumelil twice, inflicting flesh wounds in his sti Ju Ider. He fled and cannot be found.Lt Humell is not dangerinjured. I ■

— —WmmwW r it might cause war I .. I • ' 1 Spain Would i ognized the Belligerency of Cuba, I s OPINION OF SENATOR MORGAN, h — ' Mr. Lodge Make* an Eloquent Plan In I Favor of the liuurgent Cmue—Graphic ■ Description of the Rise anil Spread ol [ the Rebellion— Populist Senators Ex- > pertenoe n Change of Heart. I Washington, Feb. 21.—The Guben ( question came before the senate yester i day for definite and final action, and it ' is expected that votes will be taken at I an early day on the several pending i propositions—-requesting Spain to reei ognize the belligerency of Cuba, and re : questing a recognition of Cuban indeI pendence. There is every indication. ! also, that the debate will lead to more i radical and decisive resolutions. '; The opening of the debate yesterday drew large crowds to the galleries, and there were frequent demonstrations of approval at the stirring and dramatic i utterances of several of the speakers. ' Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts and Mr. Morgan of Alabama were particularly forcible and direct in their language, | Mr. Morgan expressing the belief that ■ war between the United States and | Spain would result from recognizing i the Cubans as beligerents. Rise of the Rebellion. In graphically picturing the rise and 1 spread in rebellion, Mr. Lodge said: I “Just a year ago another revolution be- ' gan. It began in the eastern part of the island witli a small band of 500 men. With the vast wilderness of lying bulletins that come from Spanish sources it is very difficult, and it is not worth, while perhaps to try to trace the battles that have been fought. But there are certain great facts which there is no mistake. Those men who started so feebly a year ago in the eastern part of the island have crept over that island ' from one end to the other. The 500 have grown until today the hostile aci counts represent them at 45,000 in the field. We know that the railroad lines are cut, that the telegraph lines are down, that every report of a Spanish victory that conies to us in the newspapers is followed by the statement of a i fresh insurgent advance. We know, iij? a matter of fact, that; the whole of that . island, except where the Spanish fleets i ride at anchor and where the Spanish ■ armies are encamped, is in the hands of ; the insurgents. We know they ; formed a government; that they have i held two elections; that every officer in i the army holds his commission from the i government which they have established. We know the terms of that provis- ■ ional government, and in the presence j of these facts and of the fighting that I these men have done I think it not t:.n- --' reasonable of them to ask some recog- | nition at the hands of the United i States.” ■ There was hearty applause as Mr. ! Lodge closed, with the following peroraI tion: “If that war goes on in Cuba i with ttfe added horrors which this new general brings with him; if it continues, the responsibility is on us. We cannot escape it. We should exert every influi ence of the United States. Standing, as i I believe they do,-for humanity and civ- : ilizatioi* we should, exercise every influ- ■ ence of our great country to put a stop ‘ to that war which is now raging there, and try to give to'that island once liiore ' peace, and liberty, and security.” Would Cause War With Spain. j Mr. Morgan, who Reported the resolu- | tion, expressed the opinion that any tic- | tion that this country might take look-' & ing to Cuban recognition would result in war with Spain, and he also said that Spain would welcome a war with this , country because it would afford her a i legitimate excuse to, get rid.of Cuba iu ; away not to wound her pride. The galleries broke into loud applause when, in response to a question by Mr. Frye, Mr,,Morgan said: “My opiniowc. is unit congress has the perfect, indeendent, absolute right to wake this recognition of belligerency, or a. delaratiou of independence, and if it necessary. > so enforce it by any military movement at sea or on land. It has‘the right to , command the commander-in-chief of ! the army .and navy to go on the field, if | ' it is necessary, and expose his person to ; the execution of that order. That is my : opinion.” Mr. Cameron (Pa.) and Mr. Call (Fla.) also spoke, Mr. Cameron gave l notice that if the resolution was adopted ( requesting Spain to act. and she did not, | he would then move for the imniediate • and complete recognition of Cuban in-1 i dependence. : Throughout the debate, lasting three I hours, Senor Pastor of the Spanish legation sat in the diplomatic gallery. Attended Strictly to Business. The h'ouse attended strictly to busi1 ness again yesterday. The conference 1 report iu the diplomatic and consular bill was agreed to, the senate amend- ' ments to the b e,ls ’ ,,lr tdß. were, sent to conference aii<l die Indian appropriation . bill was taken up. The latter lull dames $8,630,4)95, or $132,792 less than the law for the ciirrent year. In con-! nection with a proposition to increase | the salaries of Indian inspectors from $2,500 to $3,000, both Mr. Cannon and | Mr. Dingley, the Republican leaders on the floor, appeal to the majority, in view | of the situation of the treasury, to keep I down •xpenscs and refuse to Jhke a step in the direction of increased, salaries. But their appeals wer< in vain and H>e action of the committee mi Ijidian affaim in restoring the salaries was sustained by a vote of 87 to 59. CHANGE THEIR MINDS. Fopulilt Senators Will Now Vote to ConBidets the Tariff Bill. Washington. Feb. 21.—The Populist senators have now decided that wji f, n the motion is renewed for the/considerajion «i the tariff bill they will cast their ■• i' ' ’. k. ~•" - ’ <cf u£ ' ' i . > ' ■ ~ ' ' s ' ' 4''*>■'* x Id*. ■ • v - .

■„ , , ——— votee in the affirmative. If they adhere ’ tn thia decision they will be able to turn the result from the negative to the | affirmative side of the scale and thus secure the consideration of the meamira in the ednate, providing as large a number of Republican senators vote in tin affirmative as did on the first occasion. The Populist senators say they have never been opposed to the cdusideratlon of the bill, but that they were taken by surprise by the first motion. It is un-1 derstood that Mr. Mon-ill considers it in the interests of the bill to postpone for some time another effort to bring the matter up, and considerable delay is possible. Varilnn For Waller. Washington, Feb. 21.—Secretary Olney yesterday rechiveil the following cablegram from Ambassador Eustis, announcing tho pardoning of ex-Consul John L. Waller by President Faure of I’Yance: “The president has signed Waller’s pardon. Orders are Iming issued for his release,” PUT INTO COMMISSION. Hurboi* Vefeime Rnin KHtiihdin himl tor Moiiodn<»c Kondy For ItiotinesM. • New York, Feb. 21.—The new harbor defense ram Katahdiu, designed by Admiral Anunen, was formally put into commission yesterday. The crew, numbering 50, uro now on the receiving ship Vermont, awaiting orders. The officers who have been selected to take charge ! of the new vessel are Richard P. Leary, commander; Lieutenant William Wood, I executive officer; J. C. Colwell and ' George P. Blow, lieutenants. San Francisco, Feb. 21.—The monitor Momxlnoc was formally placed in commission at Mare Island navyyftrd yesterday. The construction of the Monodnoc commenced 21 years ago and has dragged along at intervals all that time. Naval officers say she is now a most powerful battleship and able, to hold her own against anything that floats. Captain Sumner took command of the vessel yesterday. , ' HANGMAN’S ROPE BREAKS. Horrible Scene at the Execution of Mur- i <lerer- Janiea Fitzgerald. St. Loris, Feb. 21.—The hanging of James Fitzgerald yesterday for the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Naessens. on Nov. 23, 1893, was one of the most horrible affairs that has ever happened in this city. The rope broke at the first attempt and the condemned man fell struggling and strangling among the doctors below. As he was picked up | and stood on his feet, he gasped: “Loosen the rope, for God’s sake! I’m choking!” , He was carried into the morgue, and for an hour he endured terrible agonies. A new rope was finally procured and the man was then taken out and again hanged. This time the neck was broken and death soon ended his sufferings. ; Fitzgerald’s father, mother and sister died of grief as the result of his conviC- , tion. ONE HUNDRED DEAD. Victims of the Awful Explosion of Dynamite at Vie<len<!orp. Johannesburg, Feb. 21. —The amount of dynamite which caused the terrific disaster in the suburb of Viedendorp is now ascertained to have been 20 tons. This had been standing on the railroad switch for a period of three days, exposed to the sun and the air, and this is supposed to have put it into a condition in which its chemical constitution was very unstable, so that it was'ready to be set off from the slightest disturbance. ! It is now definitely learned that the number of deaths resulting from the I disaster is over 100, besides thb large number of maimed and injured. The distress which has resulted from the accident is both keen and widespread and -a large number of firms, both here and : in London, are subscribing liberally to afford relief. -— PRIZEFIGHTERS OFF. Leave El Paso For the Scene of the Coming Contest. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 21.—The prize- ' fighters got off late last night for the , scene of the Rattle. They left on an ' eastbound train' over the Southern Pacific. The immediate members of the Maher and Fitzsimmons parties are * provided with railroad tickets to Langtry, Tex., 400 milest, east of here, and steeping car berths to Del Rio, Tex., the second station east of Langtry. The ' train on winch the pngs left was due at Langtry at :32 this afternoon. Has Not Purchased IlclaKoa Bay. I London, Feb. 21. —The Daily Telegraph says that it has the highest authority to deny the report or rumor circulated on the Stock Exchange yesterday that Great Britain had purchased Delagoa bay. “Bill’’ Nye Slowly Sinking. Asheville, N. 0,, Feb. 21. —The ■ condition of “Bill” Nye, the humorist, shows no material change. He remains in an unconscious condition and appears to be slowly sinking. Weal her. Indiana, Ohio and Illinois—Fair and warmer. ’ BRIEF MENTION. A bicycle show opeqed at St. Louis yesterday. It is Wrought that T 3 fishermen lost their lives <hiring the storm at Buffalo. They had been out on the ice fishing. I Sir John K Millais was elected president of the Royal’ Academy yesterday .in sucI cession to the late Lord Leighton; I A motion was, made before the New York supreme court yesterday to admit I Miss Clara Short.ridgc Foltz to tire New York bar. Benjamin M. Watson pf Plymouth, Mass., who was an intimate of Emerson, Thoreau am' Alcott, died yesterday from heart trouble, aged 76 years. It is announced in England that William Waldorf Astor, proprietor of'the Pall Mall Gazette, will marry Lady Randolph Churchill, who was formerly Miss. Jennie Jerome of New York. “Dipk” Fails, the pugilist who shot and killed James'McCarthy, was pardoned by Governor L pham of-Wisconsin last night. He was serving a sentence of six years ami jix months in Waupun prison. ... . ■ " “* * i"* r ••’ ■ '• ’- V ?■.' A -I- ' -T*. •

'SEVEN ABPRYXiAf(| Terrible Results of a Fire In a Baltimore Residence. ONE FATALLY HURT BY JUMPING. Flames Break Out. While the Inmates Are In Their Bedrooms—Death Overtakes Two of the Victims as They Were Trying to Rescue tho Children—A Sister's Brave Act. Baltimore, Fob. 24.—Seven people were asphyxiated, one fatally hurt by jumping from a window, and five others more or less injured by a fire In the residence of Janies R. Anniger, a promi inent jeweler,at 1806 Charles street yesterday. Tho dead are; James R. Armioer. aged 55. William B. Riley, his son-in-law, aged 36. Richard Riley, son of W. B. Riley, aged 4. Marian Riley, daughter of W. B. Riley, aged 2. 1 Mrs. Marian Champlin, daughter of James R. Armiger, aged 30. James Champlin, her son, aged 3. i Horace B. Manuel, aged 56. of New ! . York city, a guest. The injured: 1 Alice AVillianis, colored servant, skull fraettired and other serious injuries; will die. Mrs: William B. Riley, burned about face and arms and suffering from inhala- , tion of smoke; will recover. Mrs. James R. Armiger, aged 50, slightly burned and suffering from shock and ex- I posure. Miss Eleanor Armiger, aged 14, slightly burned. Miss Virginia Armiger, aged 25, slightly injured in jumping. Ida Whiting, colored servant; will recover. The house in which, the disaster occurred is four stories in hight and was i filled with costly furniture and much rare bric-a-brac, plate and unique jewelry, of which Mr. Anniger was an enthusiahtie collector. In the house were just 13 persons. Os these. 10 were members of the Armiger household, two were servants and the other, Mr. Manuel, was a guest.. Discovery of the Fire. All of these people were in their bedrooms on the upper floors, some of them , bqing partially dressed, when a few minutes after 8 o’clock fire was discovered issuing from a partition in the cellar. It was first seen by Louis Whiting, a colored man-of-all-ivork, who was at the time cleaning the front steps. ■ Whiting ran to the adjacent corher and gave the alarm to a policeman, then hurrying back to the house, he ascended to the second flixir where Mr. and Mrs. Armiger had their bedroom. The place Was by this time filled with a dense, stifling smoke, and Mrs. Armiger was taken by Whiting from the house by way of a front window and a small bal ■ cony. He then returned to aid Mr. Armiger, but found the latter had gone. In the meantime the other inmates of the front rooms were crowding to the windows making the most piteous appeals for help. The pconfie below shouted to them not to jump, but Alice Will jams disregarded their warnings, andwith an appalling shriek sprang from tho fourth story window, struck the stone I steps full upon her forehead, fracturing ! her skull and sustaining other injuries from which she will die. Sister’s Brave Act. In the rear room of the second floor were Eleanor and Virginia’ the unmar-, ried daughters of Mr. Anniger. They were partially dressed, but so rapid was the spread of the flames that they had no time to escape by the stairway. Miss Virginia bravely lowered her younger sister with a sheet ami throwing a mattrass out of the window, leaped to the yard below. By this time the firemen had reached the scene and in a twinkling had reared long ladders up to the windows, both front and rear. Up these they swarmed and in a few minutes lhe remaining inmates of the doojnbd house were being edrried out. On the stairway leading •from the second to lhe third floor was found the body of Mr. Armiger with that of his little grandson, Richard Riley, clasped tightly in his arms, showing that the old man had made a gallant attempt to rescue the boy at the cost of his own life. Unavailing Heroism. In the ffont room on the third floor was found the corpse of Mp. Manuel. He too had the body of a child in his arms, telling another story of heroism. In the rear room on the third floor the firemdn found the dead body of Mr. Riley. By his side lay his wife breathing faintly. She wxs hurried into the open air in time to save other room were tho bodies of Mrs. Champlin and her 3-year-old son, while upon tiie upper floor the firemen found Ida Whiting, the qolored servant, unconscious from smoke, but not seriously hurt. The suffocated were carried across she street to the residence of Dr. K. B. Batchelor, where every effort was made to resuscitate them without avail. , The fire although a fierce one was confined to the Armiger resicflßice; Whlcn . was completely gutted. No estimate has yet been made of the loss, but it is thought the contents were worth at least SIO,OOO. Boys Killed by a Falling Roof.. Stamford, Conn., Feb. 24.—8 y the collapse of the roof of an old building at Dublin into Saturday night, one boy was killed, anotin r fatally hurt and several ot hers mi re or less injured. The building in which the accident cecurredhad been given to the residents of Dublin for fire wood. Twelve boys went upon the second floor and'began cutting out the studding posts and other available material. They cardlessly cut the lower parts of rafters which supported the roof and almost without warning t h.e roof gave way, crashing down on them. Weather. For Indiana, Ohio and Illinois—Fair weather. . . • «> - *7 - ■ j ~ '

KATIE ANDTHETENOR * ■■■ A BIT OF GIRLISH ROMANCE WITH AN ■ UNROMANTIC ENDING. Ab Impreavlonßble M»i<Wn BBd thß'Siagßf Who Bad Been Much|of the World—»ho Got tho Aatogroph. but After It Wm. . All Over Felt Very Foollth. I I have heard thia about a romantic young girl who became infatuated witii a certain famous tenor last winter: She saw him ,in a favorite role, and his dashingappearance and superb singing made such nn impression upon her that she became “opera mad,” as she told her friends, bnt 'tienor mad" would be nearer the mark. All her pin money site saved and turned into seats for the different performances. I ■ She bought every photograph of her favorite that she could find and grew f wildly jealons of the sopranos and con- ■ traltos who sang the opposite roles to him. • Os course she couldn’t go on like this without having a confidant so she selected a school friend and told her all. I There wasn’t much “all" to it, but the friend thought it was delightfully romantic. ■: “Has he ever noticed you, Katiet” “No,” replied Katie, “I don’t think I that he has. There was one time that I thought he was looking at me over the footlights, and, oh, Laura, I became so faint that I was afraid I’d fall off my seat. But I think he was looking at the conductor: ” | “Yes, they look at the conductor • good deal, dear. I wonder whyr" 1 “Ob, I suppose they’re fond of him." Well, they went to three more performances, and by this time Katie wasa case of “clean gone. ’’ “Laura, dear, if I could just take his hand and look into his eyes and ask him for his autograph, I think I’d !»■ willing to die right there!" “I don’t see any hafm in that." “In my dying?" “No, goosie! In your jost shaking* bands with him and asking him for bi«; autograph. You take his best photograph, and I' d get a fountain pen, and we’ll go, after the matinee tomorrow." "To the theater?” • “Why, yes. You couldn’t goto hie hotel.” So this plau was agreed on, and a nice flurry poor Katie was in. She went a..«t heard the opera the next day in a kind of dream, and whea it was over rc»o in a white heat of excitement. - “We must grve him time to dress,” * said the practical Laura. "So we’ll go and have a cup of chocolate. ” They dawdled over this refreshment for 20 minutes, and then started for the stage door. A stout, coarse man barred their passage here, and asked: "Well, young ladtes, what can I do for you?” Katie was simply speechless, so Laura spoke up. "We wish to see Mr. . ” “He won’t see you. He’s gone tc his dinner, anyway. But he’s got no timer to see anybody unless you have an ap- ' ■ pointment with him ” Then Laura the brazen told a whopper. ’ "Wehave,’’shesaid, pining. "I don’t know how we missed him. ” "Well, he's dining at the H —— House,” said the doorkeeper. "He said some people might call for him. You can go tlffire and send in your card. ” So this they decided to do, and to the hotel they went. They sat all a-tremble in the gayly decorated reception room after they had launched their cards, and presently they heard a manly tread. Nearer, nearer, nearer. Katie seized Laura by the hand and shook with emotion. Then a tall form appeared in tho doorway, and the tenor stood before them. A little older looking, not so romantio in appearance, and holding a napkin in his hand instead of a truncheon or a sword—but still the tenor. He advanced courteously and bowed as he looked at theSn and at their cards. "I do not think I have the-pleas-ure”— he began. Then /Laura burst in with what they wanted. He frowned a little and then smiled wearily. "I am at dinner,” he said, "and I have friends dining with me, but I will do what yon desire. ” So they produced the pictures. There were four instead of one, and he signed them in a bold hand. "Will you pardon me?” he queried. "But lam pressed for time. lam glad to have met you. ” . Then he turned to go, and Katie found her vmce. “Will you—will you—l-let me shake hands with you?” she stammered. He smiled. "Certainly,” he said, and he gave her a strong hand clasp. The poor, Silly child bent forward, kissed his hand and half fell upon her knees. He raised her instantly and said: “I thank yop for this tribute to the artist. It is not for the man. My dear young lady, lam 56 years old, and I ■ have seen too much of . the world to en- it courage ti*« impulses of young girls like yoa, who are often not in their right minds regarding stage people. Goodby and good luck to you. ” So away ho went, and the two devoA Greater Scheme. "We mean to try a penny social at the church next time,’’said Mrs. Watts. "And what’s that?" asked Mr. Watts. • "Every woman gives a penny for evV ery year of her age.” "Betti® make it a penny for every year she is under 70. Then the contributions will be long instead of. short" —lndianapolis Journal 1 tv Simmons —You laughed at that dreary old yarn of Mudge’s as if you really enjoyed it Timmins—l did really enjoy it, It U one of my own jokes.<? l Wfcip®|fln a '■■k..-'- ■ • ' - d