Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1892 — Page 2

@oe femotrotitSenliiift RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - Publishes

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SALE OF STANFORD’S ALTO STOCK. A JPatry Tale Al»ont a Tennessee Hangtag—Man and Wife Killed liy a Kicking Horse—Heath's Record of a Day—Theater Burned. At Washington. f The proceedings in the Senate the 2Gth ■were dull and uninteresting. Mr. Morrill, from the Finance Committee, reported hack ■with a substitute, the joint resolution to provide lor an international bimetallic 'agreement Placed on the calendar. The House bill lor the completion of the allotment of lands to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians was passed and now goes to the President The House bill to amend the act granting right of way' to the Hutchinson and Southern Hallway Company through tlio Indian Territory was taken frem the table, and passed. The Senate hill appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Leadville, Col., was taken from the calendar and passed. The J.a Abra hill was taken up and discussed until adjournment. The House has entered upon the consideration of the rules, and the time was wholly passed In debate, without action. HANGED BUT NOT DEAD. A Murderer Kecovercil After Being Taken iron) the Gallows. Rule Moore (colored) was hanged at Trenton, Ga., in May last for murder. The negro’s neck was not broken, but he was pronounced dead by the physicians. He was cut down, coffined, and placed In a wagon to be taken over* the mountains to his old home for burial. It is now pretty certain that Moore was not dead, and that the shaking up he received in the ride in his coffin over the rough roads revived him, and that he recovered. Several reliable witnesses testify to having seen Moore walking on the streets of his native village just as if he had never been hanged. The affair is causing great excitement throughout north Alabama and Georgia.

BABT M’KEE BRINGS *2.1,000. Bale of Senator Stanford's Palo Alto Stock at New York. The sale of the trotting stock bred at Palo Alto stock farm, California, the property of Senator Leland Stanford, began at New York. Electioneer blood ran through nearly all the youngsters sold. The first bid for Baby McKee was that of T. B. Greenwood. §10,000; then J. B. Walton bid $15,000; $17,50) and *20,000 were then bid, and in SI,OOO raises $21,000 was reached, and J. S. Ferguson, of New York, offered $25,000, securing the youngster. Baby McKee Is by Electioneer, out of Manctte, brown colt, foaled March 4, 1890. He is a full brother of the great Arion, for whom it is said that Mr. Forbes paid $150,000. HAS LOST MUCH FRESTIGE. A* English Opinion that Tills Country Should Have Been Active, lathe London Army and Navy Gazette there is an article which says that the United States has lost much prestige in South America owing to the unfavorable comment which naval experts found neces■ary to make upon the power of the States ta immediately hack up its somewhat arbitrary demand. It is therefore extremely probable that wltbln a few days a strong American fleet will be concentrated In Chilian waters, and then, if matters are not nettled amicably, measures will be taken to Aemcuts'.raie that bark nz can be followed by biting. KILLED HUSBAND AND WIFE. A Vicious Stallion Causes the. Death ol Two People Near Jeffersonville. Mrs. Frank Brown, of Boston, Washington County. Ind.. went to the barn. In a ■tall a stallion was standing. Without warning the vicious animal kicked Mrs. Brown on the head, fracturing her skull. Her husband hearing her screams, went to her rescue. he was raising his wife from the ground the stallion kicked him on the temple; also fracturing his skull. Brown, unable to move, cried for assistance. Persons In a passing wagon, attracted by the noise, found Brown and his wife. They w«rq assisted to the house and died of their Injuries later.

THE OBITUARY RECORD. Koiiland B. Howard, Secretary of the American Peace Association. Ker. Rowland Bailey Howard, D. D.. Secretary of tlie American Peace AssocimIkMt, died in Borne, Italy, after an operation for the removal of an abscess. At Vienna the Duchess Ludovica, of Bavaria, mother of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who for some days past had been prostrated with pneumonia, died. J. SI. Ballon, for many years President of the State Board of Education, died at Otsego. Mich., of pneumonia, brought on by 1a grippe. HALF A MILLION LOSS. The Metropolitan Opera Bouse Block at Columbus, Ohio. At Columbus. Ohio, fire broke out In Godman’sshoe factory In the Metropolitan Opera House Block, and because of delay 1b sending in an alarm the handsome and costly block was enveloped in flames beyond the power of the tiro department to control. The loss will probably reach half A million dollars. Little can be ascertained ss to the Insurance, though most of It Is probably covered. ONLY A “HARMLESS" IMBECILE Bat He Garrotcd One Fellow-Patient and Almost Hilled Another, O. A Williams, aged 47 years, who was taken to tho insane asylum last week from Washington County. Pennsylvania, killed A fellow patient and was trying to kill another when he was stopped by the keepers. The Washington County Sheriff represented bim to be a harmless imbecile, and as the Institution is badly crowded Williams was placed In a large room with twelve Other harmless patients. Terrorized the Town. Bays a dispatch from Guthrie, O. T.: A gang of outlaws, supposed to belong to the Dalton crowd, raided the new town of Harvey, in the Sac and Fox reservation, terrorteed the Inhabitants and robbed the principal store of all the valuable goods it contained. Body of a Dead Man Found iu a River. The body- of George Markert was found In the Csliicoon River at Middletown, N. Y. As was suspected, he had been murdered «*»d his body had been thrown Into the waters of the stream. Three persons are ondor arrest for the murder. I All the Druggists In Town Fined. All of the druggists of Jackson, Miss., were convicted of selling alcohol under the laced option law. The case will be appealUnless it is reversed, besides the crimt»*l liability, it will have the effect of forcing all of the druggists to take oat licenses costing *2,000. He Threw a Dynamite Bomb. , At St. Fouls, Frederick Straus was arrested, charged with having thrown the dynamite bomb in H. J. Miller's bakery on Jab. 7. aad seriously injuring F. Beck. Straus has confessed, says he wanted a job

GIRLS IN A FLUTTER. They Object to Appear for Charity’s Sake in Simulated Bathing Suits. Springfield (Mass.) society is in something of a stew because twelve of its loveliest girls, who had been selected to take part in a Ben Hur entertainment for sweet charity’s sake, have refused to don the tights and abbreviated skirts provided by the management. Thera are to be 150 persons In the cast. Most of the important parts have been assigned, and the young society buds had gone to much expense in furnishing costumes of their own, which they wore at the first rehearsal one day last week. The Boston director shocked the girls by saying that their home-made coktiimes were not suitable for the presentation of the play. Then he reached down Into his trunks and hauled forth some gauzy creations of the costumer's skill, which one piquant miss described as “a cross between a full dress costume and a bathing suit.” They positively Refused to appear bgfore the public In such garments.

CONDITION OF WESTEBN BANKS. They Make the Best Showing of Any Section in the United States. Comptroller Lacey remarked at Washington the other day that the abstract of reports showing the condition of 3,692 batiks In the United States at the close of business Dec. 2, 1881, was the most gratifying exhibit and tho most satisfactory announcement made since he came into office. For tho United States the individual and other deposits aggregated $1,620,486,537, the reserve fund being 28.88, the law only requiring in the case of national banks in cities that It should be 25 per cent of deposits. For country hanks, however, the law requires that 15 per cent must be the reserve, end from the Western States the financial showing was the best made in any section of the United States. Only one State. Nevada, was below the limit by a fraction less than 1 per cent, while in Oklahoma Territory the reserve was shown to be 50.16. more than three times what the law required. LOSSES IN SOUTHERN IDAHO CATTLE Grass on 111© Ranges Under Deep Snow and the Animals Are Starving. Thousands of cattle are slowly starving to death in the hills of Southern Idaho. The loss to the stock-raisers will be tremendous. Every blade of grass upon the range is under from twenty-tWo to sixty inches of snow. The recent winter has riot been equalled in severity since 1870. The rigorous season was not anticipated by the ranchers, and they delayed bringing the cattle to the low lands. The delay has proven fatal, and welt-known stockmen sqld to-day thattamry domestic animal lpft in the hills is stfS*/to meet- death either from cold or hungers Nearly every rancher will lose more or less heavily, though many of them had the good fortune to drive portions of their cattle Into the valleys before the great snow-storm came. The mlqcrs In the mountainous districts cannot work, as their claims are hidden by the snow.

CHILI BACKS OUT. President Harrison’s Ultimatum Seems to Have Had a Wholesome Effect. The Chilian Government has sent a reply to the ultimatum of the United States. The reply is In effect as follows: Chili agrees to withdraw the offensive note sent by Senor Matta to all the Chilian ministers abroad and ackuowleges that Us issuance was due to an error of judgment. Chill also withdraws . Its request for the withdrawal of United States Minister Egan. In addition to this tho Chilian Government. in Us answer, proposes that the affair of the attack on the Baltimore’s sailors in Valparaiso be submitted to the arbitration of somo neutral nation. If this proposition is not acceptable to the United Slates Government the Chilian Government suggests that the matter lie submitted to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. FORTY BULLET BOLES IN BIS BODY. John Peevey’. Body Burled—His Negro Murderer Completely Unnerved. John Peevey, who was murdered at Columbus, Miss.,has been buried. Will Arnos, the negro who was arrested charged with the crime, has been proven to bo guilty. They took him to the scene of the crime and when he saw the mutilated body of Peevey it completely unnerved hint. While tho officers and some citizens were about to search bis house he knocked two of them down and attempted to escape, but was shot down after running a short distance. There were at least forty bullet holes in his body. He was handcuffed when he attempted to escape. Amos had procured a marriage license and a wedding suit, and was to have been married that night. END OF THE WORK OF REVISION. The Presbyterian Committee Completes Its Difficult Task.

The committee on revision appointed by the last general assembly of the Presbyterian Church to take In hand the difficult task of revising the old Westminster confession of faith and preparing a new confession has finished its work, and tho new statement of doctrine and belief is ready for presentation to the church. Tuls does not, however, by any means dispose of the question of revision. The new question will bare to be referred back to all tho Presbyteries throughout the country for tlieir conjurrence in it. No further action on revision will be taken until the meeting of the general assembly at Portland. Ore., next May. LONG DROUGHT BROKEN. The First Rain for Four Years Falls in Durango. At Durango. Mexico, a steady rain fell tor two days. This is the first rain that has fallen there In four years. The drought Is broken, but there will be no decrease In the iufrering among the people for several months, as crops will not be harvested until August. So far 250.000 bushels of corn have been purchased by the State Government tnd distributed among the half-famished sards Of the city. It Is estimated that >OO,OOO bushels of the grain will be purchased to carry the starving people through ihe next six months. All of this corn will be purchased In tho United States. GREAT JURIST GONE. Death of Associate Justice Bradley at Washington. Joseph P. Bradley, Associate Justice of ; he, Supretnb Court of tho United States, lied at his residence of general debility, fustlce Bradley was in the seventy-ninth rear of his age. Justice Bradley had been II for several months from general breaklown. Recently he grew worse and failed rapidly, although apparently not suffering iny pain. Though conscious when aroused >e was so feeble that he talked but little ind took no notice of tbose about him. He ras devotedly attended by his aged wife, two daughters and son.

KENTUCKY COLLEGE IN FLAMES. Fifty Young Women In the Building Escape Uninjured—Fires Elsewhere. Cedar Bluffs Female College, Kentucky, »as entirely destroyed by fire. All the fifty roung ladies escaped from the burning iuildlng uninjured. They succeeded In laving thetr trunks- and mest of their jroperty. The loss on building is *15,000; nsurance, (0,000. SECRET MURDER SOCIETY. lath-Bound Conspiracy to Take the Lives °f Judge Botkin and Other* la Kansas. The suspicion that there was an organzed conspiracy to kill Judge Botkin, Atorney Fitter, Sheriff Dunn, and two "or three other persons in Southwest Kansas, tas been fully substantiated. There ire three men, residing In adjoining

counties, who have furnished information and whose forecasts have always been correct. While they are not ready to reveal the full enormity of this criminal organization, they have detailed enough of its operations to show that tlireo separate oaths biud the members to obey the orders of the inner council, even though these orders involve the taking of life. The members swear to obey these orders without question, even though they may bo commanded to take the life of their dearest relative. In the counties of Haskell, Grant, Stevens and Seward there are sixty-five members, all of whose name; have been furnished Judge Botkin. WERE BURIED TOGETHER. Obdurate Parents Drive a Virginia Girl and Her Lover to Suicide. Nows has just been received of a shocking double suicide in Franklin County, W. Vo. Jdhn L. Pinkhard, a son of a well- todo farmer'Of Franklin Comity, was engaged to be married to Miss JleHa Nicholsan. an attractive young lady of the same county. Miss Delia’s parents objected to the marriage and guarded against every opportunity of elopenoent. The young lady procured a rope and proceeded to the woods near her home and banged herself to a tree. Yoqng Pinkhard, after hearing ol his sweetheart's untimely death, at once took a dose of arsenic, from which he soon died. The bodies of both unfortunates were buried together.

DEAD IN HIS CAB. Remarkable Story of the Recent Wabash Wreck at Alaildin. Considerable excitement has been caused in railroad circles at St. Louis over the statement made by Fireman Ed Warboy, who was on the fated west-bound Wabash ’•cannon ball” express that dashed into the east-bound express (it Aladdin about a week ago. Engineer Burchard of that train was killed, and all the railroad men wondered how so careful a man could have run by the switch in the fog as he did. Warboy, whe Is recovering from his hurts In the wreck, says that Burchard was undoubtedly dead in his cab before reaching the switch, having died of heart disease soon after leaving HulL Horrible Death of a Young Bride* Mrs. Henry Pickens, living within a few few miles of Sulphur Springs, Texas, met with a horrible death. Her husband left her in her room perfectly well at noon while he went to attend to some farm duties. When he returned lie found his wife lying upon the hearth with her head in the fire, burned almost to a crisp. How she came to get in this horrible position is unknown. She was a bride of only a few weeks. Fiendish Act of a Husband. Oliver Williams, a glassblower of Dunkirk, Ind., while crazy from drlqk, made an unsuccessful attempt to cut the throat of his wife. Williams used a pocket knife, and succeeded in nearly decapitating the woman’s head. At every pulsation of the heart blood would spurt from the wound, yet it Is thought the woman will live. Williams is in jalL Horses and Mules Cremated. The horse and mule market of Sparks Bros., at the corner of Eighteenth and Bell streets, Kansas City, Mo., was totally destroyed by lire. Two hundred and ninetysix horses and mules were burned to death In the fire, und twenty others were so badly Injured that they bad to be shot. Wiping Out Its Beer Garden. The Colorado Springs (Col.) City Council, actuated by the W. C. T. U., the Good Templars and the general temperance sentiment of the city, has closed Cassaday’s beer garden, which has flourished in the city for years. By a clause in all deeds that Is a prohibition city. . McKee Rankin’s Company Disbanded. At Denver McKee Rankin disbanded his company. He says that bo means to go at once to California to press his suit for a divorce against Mrs. McKee Rankin, who is now playing in New York. He Was Too Proud to Begt At Wapakoneta. Ohio, Judge Day sentenced John T. Simpton, aged 70 years, to the penitentiary for one year for burglary. He stole money to keep him from starving, being too proud to beg. Clilnaman Instead of a Negro. narvey Latimer, a young man of Canton, Miss., shot and killed a Chinese laundrym.an. The Chinaman was advancing on Latimer’s brother with a drawn pistol. West Lehigh Mine Fire Under Control. The West Lehigh mine fire, Taraaqua, Pa., which has been raging for some time 1 past and threatened to destroy the entire 1 mammoth vein, is now under control. Pine Bluff a Heavy Loser. A half block of Pine Bluff (Ark.) business houses was destroyed by lire, entailing a loss of $150,000; Insurance SBO,OOO. The fire was of Incendiary origin. Died in Defending His Sister. Frank Laughlin. a twelve-year-old boy, was murdered while attempting to defend his sister, who teaches school in McDonald Township, Hardin County, Ohio. Shot by a Sheriff. R. W. Wallace, a deputy sheriff at Tex arkana. Ark., shot and Instantly killed Ben Sheffield, a horse drover, while the latter was resisting arrest. Blown to Pieces by Dynamite. The premature explosion of a blast at Now York killed two persons and seriously Injured three others. Actor Curtis on Trial. At San Francisco the trial of Actor Curtis for the murder of Policeman Grant began.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIbNAL LAWMAKERS. I Proceedings of tho Senate and House of Representatives Discussed and Acted Upon-Glst of the Business. Tlio National Solons. When the Senate met on the 20th, only one of the two re-elected Mississippi Senators, Mr. Walthall, was In his seat, und he received congratulations from his fellow Senators from both parties. Mr. George entered the chamber and took his seat while the business of the morning hour was In progress, and was warmly congratulated. The following bills were passed: For public buildings at Grand Haven, Mich., 550,000; Deadwood, & D., 5200.000; Stillwater, Minn., 5100,000; Salem. Oregon. 5100,000; the Dalles, Oregon. SIOO,OOO. The latter bill gave rise to a long discussion, but It was finally passed—yeas, 35; nays, 12. A 1)111 also passed for a public building at Fresno, Cal—s7s,ooo. In the House, on motion of Mr. Stone, of Kentucky, a resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of all goods Imported Into the United StHtes from the Dominican Republic and from Porto Rico, dutiable or free. Also a statement of all goods exported to the countries for ten years prior to the passage of the McKinley act The following bills were introduced: For a public building at Ann Arbor, Micb.; directing the Secretary of the Treasuiy to call In at once and cover Into the Treasury all moneys deposited with national banks and drawing no Interest; for a public building at Huntington, W. Va. Mr. Springer introduced his free wool bill and it was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

On the 21st, Mr. Stanford addressed tho Senate In advocacy of the bill introduced by him to provide tho government with means sufficient to supply the national want of a sound circulating medium. The discussion was not concluded, and the bill Is on the table to be called up In the future. Mr. Cockrell reported the bill for the relief of the University of Missouri, at Columbia, and after explanation It was passed. The La Abra bill was again taken up, but without disposing of it the Senate went into executive session and soon adjourned till the 25tb. In the House, Mr. Davis, of Kansas, asked for the present consideration of a joint resolution authorizing the President to appoint a commission of three persons to investigate the cause of the recent explosion and loss of life at Krebs, I. T. The resolution, after some debate, went to the Committee on Rules. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the drawbacks paid to Importers of tin-plate under the provisions of the McKinley bilL Also for a statement of duties refunded to Importers of salt for curing fish and meat Mr. Harvey, of Oklahoma, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill appropriating 815.000 to complete the allotment of lands to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in Oklahoma. Passed. Adjourned till the 25th. On tho 20tli but little business was done in either bouse. The entire mass of correspondence with Chill, in relation to the Valparaiso incident was laid before both Senate and Houso In joint assembly, together with a message from President Harrison. This action virtually placed the next steps of settlement of the question In tbs hands of Congress. Rarely has tho Capitol building been the scene of such intense,’ though suppressed, excitement as when the mass of spectators and legislators were waiting for the long-promised message. To add to tho interest in tlio House, also, Speaker Crisp occupied tho chair for the first time in six weeks. Tho message was loudly applauded by Congressmen and spectators alike. Adjournment was taken immediately after Its reading.

Out of the Ordinary.

Fully four times us many people speak Chinese as speuk the English language. In France the average family comprises three members; in England, four; in Ireland, five. The constant use of the telephone produces impaired hearing, headache, and nervous excitability. During the past twelve years tho value of farm land in Kansas has advanced fully 25 per cent. A harness that looks luminous in the dark has been Invented. It is intended to prevent collisions at night. The wind blows constantly from a well 100 feet deep in Tacoma, Wash. No one knows the source of the wind. A Cincinnati court has decided that it is libelous to call a man who neglects to pay his tailor’s bills “a delinquent.” The salary of the King of Samoa Is only SB4O a year. His legal adviser is much better remunerated. His pay is $5,000 a year. Colorado’s “pay dirt” last year in gold, silver, copper, and lead amounted to $33,548,034. Her smelters’ product amounted to $44,010,193. If any W estern gills want to open negotions they arc herewith further informed that tho nume of the love-sick jurist is Judge J. A. Koebuck. Two litigants in Boston have very suggestive and antagonistic names. When the clerk called tho case, he shouted, “Paine vs. Bliss.” The smallest steam engine ever made has been constructed by a machinist in Chemnitz, Saxony. The fly-wheel is two-flfths of an inch in diameter. Eugene Winchet, of Dayton, Ohio, is a popular man. Ho owns a street railway in that city, and permits all the working girls to ride for half fare. Careful investigation in Prussia reveals the remarkable fact that the average life of Jews in Prussia is five years longer than that of Christians. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, is to have an immense cocoanut tree from Honolulu. It weighs six tons, is already boxed, and awaits shipment. The population of New York town, as estimated by the health department, was 1,680,796 July 1, 1891, as against 1,631,232 in 1880.

People and Events.

Thebe is an oil craze at Tacoma, Wash. Of the foreign merchants in China only twenty-seven are Americans. The genuine Shetland pony can be bought on its native heath for about S4O. A new ocean cable is to be laid between Pernambuco, Brazil, and Senegal, Africa. It is controlled by English capital. The output of asbestos from the Canadian mines last year was 8,000 tons. It is said tliat more money is spent for eggs than for flour in the United States. \ Immense flock of crows have exterminated the grasshopper pest in some parts of California. The famine in Russia; has seriously affected work upon the construction of the transsiberian railway. The new Swiss railway—the Brenzer Rothbornbahn—is the highest in the Alps. It is 7,536 feet at the summit level.

Political Proverbs.

Says Judge Waxem ijffhe Detroit Free Press: A congressman is jist about 350 times smaller in Washington than he is in his own deestrick. Congressmen like to see public economy practist everywhere except in their own deestricks. A statesman ain’t really dissatisflde till he gits the white house fever.

WILL DALLY NO LONGER

BLUNT REPLY TO CHILI’S INSULTING DEMANDS. (nDtead of Recalling Egan Secretary Blaine Require* tile Immediate Withdrawal of Matta’x Note. an Apology and Indemnity to the Baltimore’* Sailor*. The Hour of Reckoning Ha* Come. During the last week, in spite of the show of friendship toward Minister Egan | by Senor Pereira, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other members of the | Chilian Cabinet, events have come to light exhibiting surprising duplicity Minister Egan was asked last week by the Chilian Foreign Office to “recognize” the fact that Secretary Blaine had accepted the renunciation of Matta’s circular letter by the Chilian Government, the so-called renunciation being forwarded upon the explanation that President Harrison’s message was a domestic document and it was therefore improper foraforeign government to officially comment upon it. Mr. Egan declined to entertain the proposition until after ho

MINISTER PATRICK EGAN.

! had communicated with the Washington ' Government and obtained instructions from his own superiors. He declined ;o acknowledge the “renunciation” upon the grounds stated by the Chilian authorities without official information from Washington. When the request in regard to the Matta note was made by Minister Eagan he was told that a letter in regard to the subject would be sent to the American Legation. The promised letter was not sent. On the contrary the Chilian Government cabled Senor Pedro Montt, its Minister at Washington, to demand the recall of Mr. Egan because he was persona non grata. Secretary Blaine’s reply to the demand for Minister Egan’s recall has been delivered. Instead of being an Instruction to Mr. Egan to return home it instructed the American Minister to deliver the ultimatum of the United States Government to the Chilian authorities. This ultimatum demands the immediate and unqualified withdrawal of the Matta letter without reservation, an apology for the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore, and the payment of an indemnity. It is couched in an extremely firm and decided tone. Minister Egan is instructed if the demand is not complied with at once to sever diplomatic relations with the Chilian Government. Chili’s hour of reckoning has come, and it must reckon with the United States for two distinct offenses. One is a purely diplomatic one. It is the insolent circular of the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government, in which the most insulting things were said of the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy, the Minister to Chili, and the naval officers. The other is the antecedent one growing out of the attack on sailors wearing the American uniform by the Valparaiso mob. There is a third cause of irritation, but it is not set forth as an offense. This is the request of the Chilian Government for the recall of Minister Egan without that Government having previously settled the Baltimore outrage and disavowed the Matta circular.

Every diplomatic step has been taken. The ultimatum has been duly presented by Minister Egan to the Chilian authorities. While several messages have gone to him during the last tew days there was no possibility of mistaking the later ones. In them he was directed to state with all formality that the United States renewed on the present Montt Government the demand it had made on the Provisional Government for reparation for the Baltimore outrage, and in addition he was instructed to demand a complete disavowal of the Matta offense. These messages were not simply in the nature of an ultimatum, they were the ultimatum itself. To guard against any error in terms after he received them Minister Egan repeated the instructions back again. They were found exactly as sent, and he was directed to present the ultimatum at once and ask for an immediate reply. He did so. Chili has made no reply, either to Minister Egan in Santiago or through its minister in Washington. It is still defiant. The United States held no communication with Minister Montt in regard to the final demands. The administration ignored him and dealt directly through the Minister to Chili. He was not even told that the last message had gone and the news was known to the Chilian government before the minister in Washington had it. This was about the most emphatic way in which the President and Secretary of State could show their displeasure at the course of Chili in presenting the request for Minister Egan’s recall when the circumstances were so critical. Officially the United States does not entertain the request pending a settlement of the controversy. It. was therefore the simple truth to say that when Minister Egan leaves Santiago Minister Montt will leave Washington.

The Dem. Con.

Chicago is really the convention city of the United States. Milwaukee Journal. The Democratic ron veto ic n goes to Chicago, peihaps the best city for a convention in the country.—Terre Haute Express. Chicago is a hospitable city and has all the facilities and accessories useful to a great national convention. —Minneapolis Times. Next io getting the convention herself, Milwaukee would sooner have it in Chi, ago than anywhere else.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. Chicago didn’t want the convention, but she will hardly permit her native modesty to refuse anything coming her way.—Detroit Tribune. Milwaukee congratulates Chicago on her success. If (he conversion could not be held here, Chicago was the next best place.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Chicago was net a competitor and was not supposed to be in it, but somehow great things turn to the great central Western metropolis of the country.— Toledo Bee. So the Demo3ratic national convention will be held at( hicago June 21, and the Bepublican uaticnal convention at Minneapolis June 7. The West is in it this time.—Cleveland Plalh-Dealer. The choice of Chicago is from all points of view and On all accounts a good one, and is sure to be Indorsed by t^«.ran^ r aDd of the party, especially of the West and South.—Memphis Commercial.

CHICAGO GETS THE CON.

the national committee so DECIDES. Tile Garden City the Place, and June 81 the Date Choaen—Many Cities Wanted It—How the Decision Was Reached— Party Leaders Satisfied. The Democratic Convention. The next Democratic National Convention will be held at Chicago on June 21. The date was fixed at an executive session of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, and after fourteen ballota the same committee selected the place. Eight cities had Eut in their claims as candidates for the onor, and two cities not candidates were voted for, one of the latter carrying off the prize. The result was a surprise to the friends of Chicago, since they had not sought the convention for their city, find had, indeed, tried to prevent its location there, fearing, as they did, that it might create antagonism and endanger the chances of the coveted World’s Fair appropriation. Still the statement was frequently repeated that Chairman Brice, Senator Gorman and other leading spirits of the committee were determined to locate the convention in Chicago for reasons best known to themselves, and that when the proper time came in the executive session of the committee during the balloting for location the vote would be forced to Chicago.

Whether this statement is true has not been thoroughly established, but the result tends to verify it, and it is furthermore certain that Brice, Gorman, and Hill are well pleased with the selection. When the committee went into executive session and began balloting, much to the surprise of everybody Kansas City led on the first ballot with 13 votes. Milwaukee and San Francisco had 10 apiece; St. Paul got 7; New York, 5; Cincinnati, 3; Indianapolis and Detroit, 2 each; and Chicago, although not a candidate, received 1. Kansas City lost one on the second ballotand Milwaukee gained two. their votes standing respectively 12 and 10. St. Paul’s voteremainedunchanged, and so did San Francisco’s. Cincinnati dropped to only one, and Chicago gained one. Indianapolis got three instead of two, New York was reduced to four and Detroit held her own with two. On the third ballot several complimentary votes went to San Francisco, running that city’s support up to fifteen. Chicago gained another one, and Kansas City lost seven, her vote being thus suddenly reduced to five. Milwaukee dropped to eight. St. Paul took third place with Cincinnati and got three, Indi napolis two and New Y’ork and Detroit only one apiece. The fourth ballot was about as badly scattered. St. Paul shot up to first place with thirteen votes and Milwaukee still held second, though she polled only eight. Indianapolis got seven, Kansas City six, Chicago and Detroit three each. San Francisco lost her complimentary votes, dropping to only two. New York got just one, as she did on the Drevious ballot.

On the fifth ballot Cincinnati took first rank with eleven votes and Kansas City and Milwaukee tied each other for second place with ten apiece. St. Paul had eight, a loss of five, New York got lour, and Chicago merely retained her three. Indianapolis dropped back to her original two, Detroit received just one and San Francisco went out of the race. On the sixth ballot Detroit was favored with a complimentary vote, or rather the committee continued its experiments in trying the strengtli of various cities. The Michigan candidate got nineteen votes in place of the modest one it had received on the previous ballot. Milwaukee went back to eight, but held second place, and St. Paul also lost two, taking third place with only six votes. Kansas City got five, New York and Indianapolis three apiece, and Chicago and Cincinnati two each, the latter city losing nine. Another experiment was tried on the seventh ballot, and Des Moines, which had not been announced as a candidate, was given seventeen votes, leading all the others. Milwaukee got back one of the votes she had lost and polled nine, and Kansas City gained two, getting seven. Four went to St. Paul, three each to Chicago and New York, two to Cincinnati, and one apiece to Indianapolis and Detroit. More experiments were tried on the eighth ballot, and the floating votes that had complimented Des Moines with their support deserted the lowa city for Indianapolis. The latter’s vote was suddenly increased from one to twenty-two. The Indiana shouters in the lobby obtside nearly went wild over the sudden prospects of success. Milwaukee’s vote was unchanged. Kansas City and St. Paul got five apiece, New York and Chicago had three each, as before, and Cincinnati and Detroit brought up the rear with one apiece.

On the ninth ballot Milwaukee got a boom. Its vote went up from nine to twenty, its highest previous vote having been ten. New York took a spurt to ten, Kansas City and St. Paul receiving six apiece; Chicago got four and Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Detroit one apiece. On the tenth ballot Milwaukee led again with eighteen votes and Chicago pushed up to second place, receiving thirteen votes. St. Paul got eight and Kansas City seven. Cincinnati dropped out of the fight and Indianapolis, New York and Detroit received one apiece. Indianapolis dropped out oh the eleventh ballot. St. Paul got only six and Kansas City three; New York and Detroit held their one apiece and the fight was between Milwaukee and Chicago. The Cream City felt pretty sure of the prize when its vote was announced as twenty-two, lacking only four of enough. But Chicago gained one more, scoringjourteen. The twelfth showed an increase of three for Chicago, her vote reaching seventeen, while Milwaukee still led with twenty. St. Paul still clung to her six, and Indianapolis, New York, and Detroit to their one apiece. Kansas City received three. The thirteenth ballot was about the same, Milwaukee gaining one and leading with twenty-one, while Chicago crowded her close with seventeen. Kansas City gained one from St. Paul, and New York dropped out; of the race. ‘ The contest was ended on the fourteenth ballot. Chicago’s vote ran up to twenty-seven, one more than was accessary, and Milwaukee lost three, scoring only eighteen. Kansas City got two and St. Paul two. The fight was over, and the city of Chicago had been awarded the convention. A tabulated statement of the various votes is as follows: o • • O Bxixors. J, JIM! § 111 glides Slag slljl t& first 187223 13 58.. Second 210 7 2 3 112 4 8.. Third........ 310 9 12 8 6 115.. Fourth 3 813 3 7 6 6 1 2.. Fifth ..... 310 8 1 21110 4 ..;.. Sixth 2 8 619 3 2 6 3 .'. .. Seventh 59411873 ..17 Eighth.... 396122151.... Ninth 420 6 1 1 1 610 .. .. Tenth ....13 18 8 1 1.. 7 1 .. .. Eleventh. 1X22 6 1 1 .. 3 1 .. .. Twelfth 17,26 S 1 1.. 3 1.. .. Thirteenth 17 21 5 1 1 .. 4 •Fourteenth 2211 3 1 .. .. 2 Fifteenth *7lB 1 1 .... 8 .. ..

CRIPPLES IN A FIRE.

CONFLAGRATION IN A SURGICAL INSTITUTE. Flitecn People Believed to Have Met LU*ath and a Score or More Injured in a Midnight Blaze at Indianapolis—List of the Victims.—Origin of the Fire. A Hoosler Horror. One of the most appalling fires in the history of Indianapolis occurred shortly after midnight the other night. The National Surgical Institute, one of the most famous institutions of its character in the United States, burned to the ground. The fire started in the office building, and above the offices were the wards for babes and mothers and known as the ABC departments. Smoke was discovered a few minutes before midnight issuing from the advertising-room of the building, which is immediately over the office. The origin is claimed to have been from the spontaneous combustion of some chemicals which had been placed in the room. Circulars and papers in the room soon were ablaze and in fifteen minutes the whole lower floor was enveloped in flames.

The attendants barely awakened all of the patients, and in the halls and supper-rooms pandemonium reigned. Shriek after shriek went up as the inmates realized their terrible situation. In a few moments thoroughly frightened faces appeared at each window of the large building, and lips could be seen beseeching succor from those below, yet their voices could not be heard. Prayer after prayer went up from the unfortunate creatures, already the victims of cruel circumstances, that they might not perish in flames after suffering the most terrible pains from their afflic-, tions. The police and firemen and attendants all worked diligently and in perfect accord, and many were the patients taken from the upper floors by means of ladders and carried to places of safety by them. No attempt was made to save anything but life. The patients, both male and female, themselves under ordinary circumstances unable to barely get about, assisted most nobly in the work of rescue. A view in the halls and on the stairways before the fire had communicated to the main building furnished a weird sight. Inmates wrapped in bedolothing crawled and helped themselves along from one floor and one landing to the other. Without waiting for ladders to be run up, the desperate inmates jumped from the windows or huddled together upon the fire escape, but the 3ames cut off this descent at the second story and here they threw themselves to the ground. At least thirty persons were injured, some terribly. Some of the worst hurt are: Mr. Gales, of Madison, Ind., fell from a ladder, with a child in her arms; internally injured. Kate Elstrang, Indianapolis, fatally turned. Mrs. Thomas, Indianapolis, fatally burned. Fannie Breeden, Memphis, Tenn., badly burned; recovery doubtful. Mary Steams, Warren, lowa, burned about feet.

Clara Morris, address unknown; back injured. Grant Van Hoesen, Althena, N. Y., band and’ ear burned. Clarence Mead, Athens, N. Y., leg hurt. William H. Albach, Dunkirk, N. Y., burned. Leora Knowles, Independence, Ind., oack hurt in jumping. W. W. Snyder, Troy, Ohio, internally injured falling from window. Will Mansfield, Otsego, N. Y., foot hurt In jumping. Mrs. John S. Stokes, Danville, 111., ankle sprained. Nellie Mason, Walworth County, Win., jumped from third story and is fatally hurt. Mrs. Lazarus, of Texas, jumped from third-story window and will die. Mrs. G. J. Simpson and child, seriously burned. R. Connor, fell through hole in floor; fatally hurt. May Ballinger, Indianapolis, terribly burned. The scenes about the burning building were heartrending in the extreme. Many of the children were attended by their mothers, who were boarding at the institute, and these were nearly frantio with fear when they were discovered. One lady refused to leave the ward till her child had been carried off, and a policeman had to drag her from the room. Her child had been taken out, and when she found it In an adjoining block the transition from grief to joy was so sudden that she seemed like one deranged. The building was owned by Drs. Allen and Wilson, and it and the furnishings are estimated by Dr. Wilson to have been worth $250,000. The furnishings, including valuable appliances for all kinds of cripples, are a total loss, but the front building was partially saved. The loss will aggregate $200,000, with insurance of $150,000. It is feared that possibly as many as fifteen were suffocated by the smoke and perished in the flames.

Cardinal Manning.

No one can question that a good and great man left us when Cardinal Manning died.—New York Recorder. A great light has gone out from our midst, and the deepened shadows of grief fall upon all who admire the good and the true in manhood.—Detroit Free Press. The death of Cardinal Manning will be deeply regretted by not only the church which he so earnestly served, but by thousands of Christians of others denominations. —Springfield Register. Cardinal Manning was more than a prince of the church in whose communion he died. He was a statesman of the best type. His labors in public were directed toward the elevation of humanity.—Troy Press. The death of Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, removes, however, a man of pre-emi-nent character and influence, one of the foremost factors in contemporaneous thought and action.—Boston Globe. He was a great man intellectually, and no better man, none of more sincere piety or more worthy achievement, has walked the earth in this oentury. He will stand as one of the most imposing figures in the history of his time.—lndianapolis Sentinel. His own words, in the noble eulogy he delivered on Newman at the requiem mass, apply with equal force to himself: “He was the center of innumerable souls, a geat teacher of men, a confessor for the faith, a preacher of justice and piety and compassion."—Buffalo Commercial.

In the estimate alike of his co-religion-ists and of his Protestant fellow countrymen, he has played a great and exemplar}' part in contemporary life, and his name is inseparably united with the history of Catholicism in the memorable period of its revival in Great Britain.— New York Sun.

Not even his great colleague, Cardinal Newman, with his rare intellectual and literary gifts, did so much as Cardinal Manning to dispel the prejudice of Protestant England, to introduce cordial co-operation in common efforts of benevolence, and' to promote the humane spirit among both Catholics and ProLiant*.—New York Times.