Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — Page 2

©{jeJltmocraticSentiitfl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - PUBLISHER

IHE’S A PATIENT ARTIST.

'MAKES SSO BILLS WITH A PAINT BRUSH. (Omaha's Big Bridge Disabled—Artists Object to the High Tariff-Mingling . Bros.’ Circus In the Ditch—Another Alabama Lynching. . On the 17th the Senate authorized the Washington Schuetzenverein to erect at its own expense a colossal bust of Baron von Steuben, a general of the revolutionary Army, in one of the public parks or reservations of Washington city. Mr. Chandler Introduced a bill to authorize the registration of certain steamships as vessels of the United States, aud it was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Senator Stanford, from the Public Buildings Committee, reported a bill appropriating $75,000 for the erection of a public building at Battle Creek. Mich. He also reported a bill increasing, to $125,000 the limit of cost for the public building at (Lansing. Mich, . and appropriating $25,000. The naval appropriation bill occupied the balance of. the time The House devoted the entire session to the discussion of depredations on public timber. PEN AND INK COUNTERFEIT. A Bogus *SO Bill That Easily Passed Through a New York Bank. A particularly fine counterfeit has been detected at the Sub-Treasury. It is the production of a pen and ink artist, who did his work so well that the bill passed through one of the city banks cf New York without attracting suspicion. The counterfeit Is of a SSO greenback of the series of 1880. The operator photographed a genuine hill, getting a light picture. Then he went over the photograph With ink, turning out a j marvelously fine piece of work The 00l- j oring is excellent, the design clearly repro- , duced, and the lettering far more accurate than is usually the case. The paper is good and has almost the right “feel" Of course one or two details were neglected, but they were not of a kind to attract attention. “Act of March 3, 1863,” appearing over the vignette of Frauklln on the genuine bill, was omitted on the counterfeit. •Engraved and printed at the Bureau of Engraviag atrd Printing” is also missing, possibly because the artist did not care to burden his soul with unnecessary lies. NATIONAL ART CONGRESS. Meeting at Washington to Protest Against the High Tariff on Works of Art. The first congress of the National Art Association began its session in tbe lectureroom of the Columbian University, at Washington, Tuesday. Tbe object of the present meeting is to protest against the high tariff on works of art. In the absence of Daniel Huntingdon, the President of the association. Jeff Chandler presided. Tbe delegates were welcomed to Washington by Dr. Willing. President of the Columbian .University. Private Secretary Halford represented the President aud Mrs. Harrison, and briefly expressed their regret at not being present Senator Wolcott of Colorado made a brief but solicitous address, In which he promised to labor not only for the removal of the duty on art but also for the removal of “alleged” art

CIRCUS TRAIN DITCHED. Pour Can sad an Engine Go Through a Trestle Near Concordia, Kan. The first section of a train on the Missouri Pacific Boad, carrying part of Rlngllng Bros.’circus, went through a trestle about midway between Concordia and Ames, Kan. Two of the circus employes, names unknown. were instantly killed. None of the train employes were seriously Injured. The locomotive passed over the trestle, but four cars crashed through, dragging the engine backward and piling all in a heap pt the bottom of the ravine The cars were Ibaded with Morses, many of which were kfllel trestle was recently examined and thought to be all right It Is supposed tbe recent heavy rains had undermined the foundation. THREE LYNCHED. They Try to Rob an Alabama Parmer t- and Are Punished by a Mob. ' burg, Ala., Monday morning. They tried to rob D. C. Bryant, a farmer; going into? his wife’s bedroom they beat her cruel,y about the head. The tniej'men were guj■ued, found in a swamp and put in a I Chlldersburg lockup. They 'wero taken out ■ NaTCfalTzlng Italians by Fraud, The ifew York Herald says: Chief Supervisor of Federal Elections John L Davenport caused an arrest in Mount Vernon On Saturday which brought to light a scheme .whereby a number of Italians had already secured and others were about to •ecure false naturalization papers. The tnan arrested was William J. P. Patterson. He admits that he was engaged to take (Italians from Mount Vernon to White Plains and procure naturalization papers ■tbr them. He was to receive $2 for each one. Papers have been given to 100 Italians the last four weeks, fourteen of which have been known to have been procured through fraud. Delaware tor Grover. The Delaware Democratic State Convention was one of the largest and most en- . thoslastlc ever held In the State. The delegation is nnlnstructed, but strongly favors Cleveland. The names of Bayard, Gray, and Cleveland caused great applause in the convention. Cat Off by Floods. The east approach of the Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri Elver at Omaha gave way Tuesday night, and, as • result, a thirty-foot gap precludes all Idea of using the bridge for some time. Drowned In the Mine. f Dispatches from Fuenfktrchen in Hungary say that a waterspout burst ovei 1 the mines near that town and flooded them, and that between 80 and 100 miners, If not more, have been drowned. v „ Thieves and OfHoers Eight. Guthrie (O. T.) dispatch: The mall carrier from Marshalot brings news of a battle between United States deputy marshals and horse thieves In the Sac and Fox country, in which two of the thieves and one of the deputies were killed. These are the thieves who killed William Stormer, of Orlando, a week ago Murdered by Tramps. ▲t Lima. Ohio, three tramps assaulted, With Intent to rob, George Hentze as he was walking along a railroad track He tried to fight them off, when one of tbe trio etabbed him to the heart. England Will Accept.; Bight Hon. George J. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced to a member Jt a bimetallic deputation that waited upon him in London that England would accept the invitation of the United Blatm to take part In an international conference to discuss the silver question. Oldest Ex-Speaker. Robert C. Wtnthrop, the oldest exfyiilr— of Congress, was 83 years old Fri«ay. and has received many congratulafifieem Ma Wlnthrop enjoys the distinction cf having known person Ay every President «f Mm United States except Washington a./’ . i

PRINTERS’ HOME DEDICATED.

Phonsaigds of Persons Witness tbe Ceremonies. At Colorado Springs, Colo., 6,000 feet above the turgid bosom of Lake Michigan and yet within the shadow of the great mountain ranges, whose snow-tipped crests seem to touch tbe western sky, a Senator of the United States, a bishop of the Episcopal Church, and a journeyman printer stood Thursday noon upon a platform and amid huzzas from thousands of throats joined bands in response to one sentiment, “The right of union for selfprotection is given of God.” The Senator was Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, who, at 16 years of age, was a full-

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fledged master of tbe art preservative: the Bishop was the venerable W. E. McLaren, of Chicago, who also, in his early days, served time at the ca*e; and the journeyman, John P. McKenna, of New York, Vice President of the International Typographical Union. The event which gave occasion for their manifestation of fratefwtty, and which brought together representative printers and publishers from nearly every commonwealth of the land, was the dedication of that Institution—which owes its existence to the contribution of every un'on typo in the United States and tbe welcome aid of a Couple of philanthropic Philadelphians—a home for anion printers.

PLOTTED TO. KILL THE CZAR. Hls Palace Undermined and the Channel Filled wltij Explosives. A week ago two French detective; arrived at the palace of the Czar of Russia and began a careful investigation of tbe place, one In the disguise of a coachman and the other in that of an assistant. Two day* after their arrival they reported that the whole palace had been found to be undermined, that tbe underground channel beneath the Czar’s sleeping-room was already half filled with explosives and that the nihilists back of tbe plot would have started the explosion doubtless the next time the Clar slept at the palace had they not been frightened away by the algns of discovery of their plot. This plot was known In a general way to exist, yet the czar's police were unable to discover its details or even to fix its location definitely. Tbe cellars and grounds of the Gatchina palace were carefully examined and upon finding nothing the detectives decided that the conspirators had not yet begun to act The Paris detectives wore then summoned. DEATH BEFORE STARVATION. •Mr. and Mrs. William* Attempt Suicide to Escape Poverty. The identification of the body of John Williams by hls wife at the morgue in St Louis, brought to light a pathetic story of suicide as a release from poverty. Mr. and Mrs Williams went to St Louis from Warrensburg. Mo., where they had been married two years aga Williams secured work, bat was discharged about a month ago and had not been able to obtain employment since. The couple saw starvation staring them in the face and they determined to drown themselves. They selected different point; on the river to accomplish their purpose. Mrs. Williams threw herself into the water, but was rescued by boatman. Again she tried to kill herself in the same way, and again was rescued. She went to the morgue in search of her husband and found hls body on a slab. She told her story to the attendants and then went away. It is believed that ■he has at last succeeded in ending her life. CRASHED THROUGH A BRIDGE. S Electric Cars Fall In Toledo, Resulting In the Death of a Motor Man. Two electric cars crashed through the Lake Shore bridge, on fit Clair street, at Toledo, bhlo. ’fke first car broke jown p, short distance away from {he brldg"e and was being pushed into the city. When the bridge collapsed the floor rested upon a freight car standing on the tracks underneathj Frjnk Manet, the motor man on the rear car, was caught tlu twg and hls life crushed out Passengers escaped Injury, , They Are for OfOVef. ¥he New Hampshire Democrat! met In Btaffc Oonventioii at Oohttdrd and chose delegAbeh to Chicago. ' The concluding plank Peadß is toltowS! “We recognize in Grove* tefeVeihhd a great leader in tariff reform-, who, with an energy that never failed, with a directness that never swerved, with a sublime faith that never faltered, led the way through the reverses In 1888 to an overwhelming victory in 1890, and under whose continued leadership there will be achieved a crowning triumph in 1892.” Conductor and Passenger In a Ravine. J. D. Miller, conductor on the westbound train of the Texas and Pacific Road, ordered an unknown negro, who refused to pay hls fare, from the train. In the tussle which followed, both men fell from the moving train and into a ravine near the sldo of the track The train was backed op and Miller was found unconscious. He had been robbed by the negro, who had made his escape. Mllller is now at the point of death, due to a fracture of the skulL

Tried to Cremate Himself. The negro McMlllen, now in jail at Houston, Texas, and suspected of being the party who committed the terrible outrage last winter In Sedalla, Mo.,' attempted to commit suicide by cremation. He took the straw from hls mattress, piled It in his cell, fired it with a match, and threw himself Into the blaze. He was badly burned about the neck and head. He made a desperate resistance when the jailer attempted to extinguish the flames. Bloody Duel In Frankfort. In a street fight at Frankfort., Ky., between John T. Johnson and Charles P. Owens the latter was mortally wounded, the former shot twice, and three bystanders severely hurt. Owens said tliut Johnson had been too intimate with hls (Owens’) wife, and had ruined his family and destroyed his happlnpss for life. He said Jobnson fired first, and he (Owens) fired Six shots, but was unable to kill Johnson. Diphtheria Epidemic In Erie. At Erie, Pa., thirty-two houses are placarded for diphtheria, a large proportion of Cases proving fatal. During an outbreak in January the school board refused to close the schools at the request of Health Officer Woods. The court will take action on a motion for a mandamus closing the public •chools for three weeks. Strict quarantine of the infected houses is ordered. Snowstorm In Indiana. A blustering snowstorm occurred north of Crawfordsvfile, Ind., Friday morning, which lasted about fifteen minutes, when a drizzling rain began. An area of perhaps ten miles was covered to a depth of an inch with snow. Had Tsiidll to Stone. Stephen Powers, according to an Angola, Ind., dispatch, was in life a unique character and in death be is still a marvel. While alive he was the champion whisky-drinker ti the State. No amount of it would lntoxt-

cate him. Finally whisky 4tt not sntfcfy him, and for years before hls death he bought Fowler's solution of arsenic by the dozen bottles and drank the stuff in large quantities- He lived to a very old age and after death was buried on hla farm. A few days ago bts family concluded to remove hls remains. On opening the grave it was found that the body had not decayed a particle and had literally turned to stone. BAD CREVASSE IN LOUISIANA. Break 100 Feet Wide tn the Levee at Bonnet Carte—St. Lent* Safe. A break has occurred in the levee at Bohnet Oarre, on the east bank of the Mississippi River, eighteen miles above New Orleans, The break is over one hundred feet wide and five feet deep. Tbe water is pouring through the crevasse at a tremendous ratu The levee tson the Gypsy plantation. owned by John Pymond. Tbe Mississippi Valley Railroad tracts run within two tulles of the crevasse, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks are about six ml es distant. At last accounts the crevasse* was over '-00 feet wide and 5 feet deep and was washing badly. The Missouri River has reached its height at Kansas City and Hermann. Mo . and is now slowly falling. The crest of the flood is about twenty miles from the mouth ol the Missouri River and is slowly making its way toward fit. Louis The Mississippi is now failing at that point. All the levees and embankments between fit Louis and the mouth of the Missouri are intact, and unless an unexpected strain occurs will be able to withstand the rush of the flood. Relief boats are busily engaged in rescuing people from Islands that are covered with water and Carrying them to places of safety.

BOLIVAR IS TAKEN. The Venezuelan City Captures! by the Rebels Fighting Palado. Confirmation of the capture of the city oi 801 l Tar by the insurgents and news of tbe death of tbe commander of the government forces. Gen. Santiago Rodll. has been received from Maracaibo, Venezuela. Beside; tbe killing of Gen. Rodll. Gen Lucio Espinoza, tbe government’s chief in the Altc Orinoco, was made prisoner at Bolivar. He was in command of the town while Bodil was out on the plantations forcing th< farm hands into Pataclo’s army. The rebel chieftain. Gonzales Gil. rode into Bolivai at the bead of a column of cavalry nearly sixteen hundred strong. Espinoza made as good a defense as he could, but after a light brush with General Gil he surrendered, as did 2)0 troopers under him. The men immediately enrolled themselves under the insurgent banner. A few were killed or wounded on both sides One oi Rodll’s guard rode Into the town with the General’s head on a saber. General Gi] ordered the head and body interred. General Gil now occupies Bolivar with nearly 2,509 well-armed men. The city of Bolivar is the key to Crespo's stronghold, the Alta Orlnooo GIFT TO KANSAS ODD-FELLOWS. Property Worth *200,000 to Found an Orphans' Home Donated by a FrenchmanE N. Deboissiere, a wealthy Frenchman, who came to this country fifteen years ago, has deeded over 3,000 acres of land, highly improved and stocked, with 500 head of fint cattle and horses, to the Odd-Fellows' lodges of Kansas, 1o be converted into t home for orphan children of Odd-Fellows. The gift is worth $200,000. The donor wil! sail for France in a few days, where he has immense possessions. He is 83 years old At New York, John D. Rockefeller has donated $50,000 to tbe endowment fund o’ the Tabernacle Church In Second avenue it fulfillment of a promise made last Thanksgiving Day to Rev. Dr. Daniel C. Potter,th« pastor. According to the provisions of th< deed the interest derived from this fund 1: to be applied to the general expenses of th< church for the next ten years, and durln* the subsequent ten years the proceeds wil be applied to the uses of tbe church or foj other purposes. FATAL FIRE AT BROOKLYN. Warner’s Institute Burned and Two Live; Believed to Have Been Lost. Warner’s Institute, Broadway and Willoughby avenue, Brooklyn, was destroyed by lire. The building had been recently fitted up by the Zoelner Maunerchor, which owns the premises. The loss wil. reach $150,000. Besides the singing society there wero located in the building several stores and a branch of the Postofilce. Tht mail raatterj Including two lurgo Irish anc ftermaii malls, was nearly all destroyed. Two young men named Carl Nedszu and John Kutsky, employed in thg Instjtut* Building, are missing, and it is they were burned to fleath. The origin o/ tbe fire is unknown. WRECKED BY A WINDSTORM. Arapalioe, the New Oklahoma Town Practically Demolished. A terrific windstorm swept over the new counties in the western part of Oklahoma Territory, Thursday. The tents and small buildings in the town of Arapahoe were all demolished. The temporary court house was wrecked, and the papers and record* scattered all over the country. The tent in which the newspaper was published wa* carried entirely away and the outfit wrecked. Near the town of Frisco five houses were totally destroyed. Several persons were badly injured. Death Smote Him In Chureh. Rev. William F. Spoake, pastor of the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, was stricken with heart failure while addressing the Sunday-school and died a few minutes afterward. Missouri tor Grover. The Missouri State Democratic Convention, at Sedalla, elected a solid delegation for Cleveland;

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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THEY SPED TO DEATH.

FRIGHTFUL WRECK IN OHIO ON THE 810 FOUR. ! *■ * Driving Storm Tvro Train* Crash Togethrr- A Chang* | n the Schedule Not Hee.lc.t-Right Lire* Pay the Penalty. A Tale «f Horror. In the midst of a terrific storm ol wind and rain two Big Four trains ; crashed into each other at Cleves, Ohio, < Sunday morning, with awful effect. Not a person on either train escaped iu- ' jury. Many of the wounded have been removed, and their number is not j definitely known. As far as learned the dead are: F.ngineer Win. lligtrs of In- ; dianapolis. Fireman Hiram Bruce of In- ! dianapolis, Philip Gibbon, David Har- ! wood. Engineer Berry Edwards. Those removed from the wreck and found to he fatally injured are: Fireman Holton Tyrrell, Conduct r John Sehroeder, George W. Hudler. live to eight passengers are said to be missing, who are supposed to be in the smoker, which is buried in the wreck. Nothing is known ns to who they are. No one is able to conceive how any of them could have escaped death under that mass of wreckage. The summer schedule went into effect Sunday morning, and orders had been issued accordingly. Freight No. 43, a through train north-bound, had orders i to stop at North Bend to a'.iow express | No. 80, a cannon-ball special, to pass. | Under the old schedule the trains passed at another point, some miles further on. Instead of stoj ping the freight engineer. Higgs, pulled ahead and approached Cleves running at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Why he did not stop at North Bend will never be known, as he is dead, but it is thought that in hiß anxiety over this storm, which might have washed out bridges, he forgot the new schedule and hurried on.

As the train approached Cleves Chas. Smith, the telegraph operator, was astounded, for he knew that it should have 6ide-tracked at North Bend, and that the express, a few minutes overdue then, was but & short distance away, running forty-five miles an hour lomake up lost time. Smith rushed to the signal wires nnd dashed off the dangei signal. Either it was not seen in the blinding rain or the engineer could not control his engine, for it sped on by without lessening speed. At that very moment the express came into sight with the speed of the wind. If any effort was made on either engine to slacken speed it was not appreciable, and the iron monsters sprang at and crashed into each other with a roar that rolled above the storm like a clap of thunder. Both engines were battered into shapeless masses and rolled off the track. The cars behind were mashed into kindling and the track for 100 feet was tom up. Telegraph poles were thrown down, and It was two or three hours after the wreck before word reached Cleves, and a special train was sent to the scene from Cincinnati. Long before, however, the people from the little village and from the surrounding country had gathered, and in the frightful storm were doing oil they oould for the victims. With the arrival of the special train the work of getting oiit the dead began. Of the five bodies recovered four were shockingly mangled and mashed out of all human shape. Under the freight engine, broken, crushed and scalded, were found Engineer William Higgs and his fireman, Hiram Bruce, both of Indianapolis. Under a mashed freight car farther back I’hilip Gibbon and David Harwood were found. Nearly every bone In their bod es was broken and their faces were horribly disfigured. The fifth body taken out was that of Barry Edwards, engineer of the passenger train. Hls fireman, Holton Tyrrell, had jumped before the crash, but had been caught under a mass of wreckage. His chest was crushed in and his head cut. He was taken to Lawrenceburg, but cannot survive. John Sehroeder, conductor of the pass-nger train, was injured in almost the same manner, and can live but a few hours at the most. George W. Hudler, a commercial traveler from Mian isburg, was crushed between two scats, being bent almost double. He xvas taken to Ihe Cincinnati hospital apd Cfinnot survive. Conductor Soluoetk-I wls only able to speak oflCO after being extricated. Then it was that he gave the information that when the train left Talley Junction there were from five to eight men in the smoker. Valley Junction is less than.two miles from the scene of the wreck. This is the basis for the fear that these are buried in death under the wreck. *

“Honey" Keefe, a freight brakeman, had just reached the top of a car when the collision occurred. The crash was so terrible that he was thrown over a telegraph wire forty feet into a stream of Water, Which saved his life. Ho tinhks at least three tramps mot death under the wreok of the freight train. The property loss will be SIOO,OOO. Both engines are complete wrecks, and the -coaches of the express train are ruined. It is said much valuable mail and express matter is lost. A dozen freight cars loaded with costly goods are a total loss.

A train on the Norfolk & Western road was wrecked eleven miles from Hagerstown, Md., at 1 o’clock Sunday morning. It was in.charge of Conductor William Hays, and was made up of a sleeper, two coaches, a smoker, and a baggage car. Just as the engine reached the switch it Jumped the track nnd dashed into freight cars on a siding. Conductor Hays was on the platform of a car and was hurled headlong thirty feet against the rocks and instantly killed. John Hauke, a passenger hailing from Lewiston, Fa., was dug out of the wreck with a broken leg and suffering internal Injuries. He will die. His father was also badly hurt. Another passenger, supposed to be a drummer, was taken out in a dying condition. A card found in his pocket bore the name John Boyle, Brooklyn, N. Y. C. N. Wenner, traveling passenger agent, and William Elslinger of West Fairview, Penn., were also severely hurt.

Estimating Horse Power.

The horse-power unit was established by James Watt about a century ago, and the figures were Settled in a curious way. Watt, in his usual careful manner, proceeded to find out the average work which the horses of his district could perform, and he found that the raising of 22,000 pounds one foot per minute was about an actual horse-power. As a method of encouraging business, Watt offered to sell engines reckoning 33,000 foot pounds to a horse-power, or one-third more than the actual.

So Frank and Candid.

A bureau of press clippings in London has received the royal “command” to furnish twenty distinct sets of newspaper clippings from, every periodical in the world, so far as obtainable, referring to the death of Prince Albert Victor. The sets are to be pasted each in a separate album. The section devoted to American clippings should make a very edifying collection, if the bureau is faithful In obeying tbe command.

SURE TO BE NOMINATED.

Indications That Harrison Win Bo tho Winner at Minneapolis. The last of the Republican State Conventions for the selection of delegates to the Minneapolis Convention has been held at Atlanta, and as the Georgia delegates were instructed for the renomlnation of President Harrison, it becomes an easy matter at this time for the President's friends to figure just how their favorite stands as to renomination, says a Washington dispatch. The figures heretofore given out by them upon this subject have been attacked by the finding of uninstructed delegates now and then in States where delegates-at-large have been instructed to vote for renomlnation. Deducting all of the uninstruoted delegates in States where the State conventions have instructed for the President there have been 442 delegates absolutely instructed to vote for the renomination of the President They are as follows: Alabama 22jlndiana SO California a Kentucky 28 Illinois 44 Maryland 10 Kansas 8 Minnesota 2 Louisiana. 16|Miseouri 80 Michigan 4 New York 26 Mississippi .. isfohio 6 Nebraska 18|South Carolina 18 North Carolina 12iTennessee 20 Pennsylvania 2 Virginia H South Dakota 8 Wisconsin ", 10 Texas.. 30|Georgla 28 West Virginia. 19i Arkansas 10 Total Instructed Florida s| delegates. 442 By the above it will be seen that there is a total of 442 delegates instructed, or within nine of the number required to nominate. These figures do not include the number of uninstructed delegates who have voluntarily pledged themselves by letter or otherwise to vote for renomination upon the first ballot. These number about one hundred. They exclude every delegate who has not specific instructions from a district or State to vote for renomination from the very beginning of proceedings in convention. For instance, the four delegates from districts in Illinois which did not adopt resolutions of instruction are left out of the calculation, although it Is held that the instruction in the State convention binds delegates from districts which did not instruot. For the same reason four delegates are dropped in Missouri, although it is reported that the delegation as a whole will act under State instructions. Of the instructed delegates 230 are from the South and 186 from the North and West. Private information from uninstructed delegates leads the friends of the President to claim that two-thirds of the 900 delegates will vote for Harrison on the first ballot.

PEOPLE'S PARTY PROGRAMME.

The Convention Will Begin Business nt Omaha, July 2. The National Executive Committee of the People’s party met Friday morning at the Millard Hotel, in Omaha, and promulgated the following official orders and programme for the national convention of that party lo be held in that city, July 4. Owing to the desire to make nominations on July 4, all delegates will meet for temporary organization at the Coliseum Building, Omaha, Neb., on July 2, 1892, at 10 o’clock a. m. The various State delegations are requested to meet at 9 o’clock of the same day to elect one member of each of the following committees: Credentials, Buies and Order of Business, Permanent Organization and Resolutions; also to elect three members of the National Committee from each State and Territory. The following order of exercises has been arranged: 1, call to order by Chairman H. E. Taubeneck of the National Committee; 2, prayer; 3, address of welcome by Mayor George P. Bemls of Omaha; 4, response by United States Senator J. H. Kyle; 5, announcement of temporary officers; 6, call of States and Territories for the announcement of committee on credentials; 7, short addresses by L. li. Polk, T. V. Powderly, J. B. Weaver, Ignatius Donnelly, Jerry Simpson, Ben Terrell, and others, interspersed with music and singing. After the report of the committee on credentials the roll of States will be called for the announcement of members of the committees on rules and order of business, on permanent organization and on resolutions. —■ -*c-

HAS RUN OUT OF CASH.

Columbian CommUlon Bead Over Heels , , s In Debt. According to a Washington dispatch, the World’s Columbiam Commission seems to be a bankrupt concern. It is out of funds. The Treasury Department hasn’t enough money to pay the expenses of the last session of the National Board, not to mention the expenses of the offices at Chicago, from now until July 1, when the next appropriation, if one is made, becomes available. The plain truth is that the National Commission is already head over heels in debt and that its account with the Treasury Department is overdrawn at least $12,000. The fact has apparently been concealed out of deference to the national branch of the World’s Fair. At the'Treasury Department it was stated that only ten vouchers, calling for the pets diem and expenses of members of the National Board, had yet been presented tor the April service. These ten vouchers, including the expenses of one committee meeting, aggregate $1,587. At the last meeting of the National Commission the attendance was unusually large. The expense of that session could not have been less than $12,000. Only ten vouchers have been received at the Treasury Department for the expenses of the commissioners who attended that session.

INDIANA’S FEMALE ORATOR.

Miss Nelson* Whose Eloquence Knock ed Out Nine Male Contestants. Greencastle, Ind., went wild over the victory of Mi6s E. Jean Nelson at Min-

MISS NELSON.

students and citizens got out and paraded the streets, firing cannon, ringing bells and yelling themselves hoarse. This is the fourth victory- for De Pauw and the first by a lady representative. Miss Nelson is a member of the junior class and a prominent member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity, having lately represented the western division of the fraternity in the first national pan-Hellenic convention of the women’s Greek letter fraternities in Boston last year. She is the daughter of Frank P. Nelson, and is but 19 years of age..

Tanneries for Human Skins.

Wilkins—At a place in France there was once a tannery for human skins. De Still—Why, that’s nothing; I went to a tannery myself when I was a boy, but I see they are trying to abolish it in the present school system.

MANY MINERS DEAD.

TERRIBLE RESULTS PROM A MINE EXPLOSION. r*— . . Prom Forty-five to Fltty Men Lom Their Live* In a Slope at Rosyln, Wash.—The Explosion Caught Two Shifts, and None oi Them Are Alive to Tell the Story. f An Awliil Disaster. The most horrible explosion ever known in the Pacific Northwest occurred at the coal mines of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at Roslyn, a smalltown about four miles from the main line of the Northern Pacific, 107 miles from Tacoma. At least 42 men are believed to have been killed. Excitement in the towD borders on a state of frenzy and has extended throughout the State. Nothing like it has ever been known anywhere in that portion of the country, and from all parts of the State news of intense interest in the matter is being received. Many dead bodies, aooording to a dispatch, have already been taken out, and hundreds of people have gathered arouhd the scene of the accident; wives and children of buried men are at the mouth of the mine and acting like maniacs in their terrible distress, Every body that has been taken out uo to this time is terribly disfigured, and many of those buried have been crushed beyond recognition. Some are horrible masses of flesh without a trace of their identity left, while many of the unfortunate men are believed to have been blown to atoms. Nearly all of the men were married and a large number of them had large families.

It is thought that the explosion took place when the men were changing shifts. The concussion shook the ground perceptibly and the noise was heard a long distance. Smoke belched from the shaft almost immediately, showing that the mine had taken fire. All the inhabitants of Eoslyn were on the grounds in an incredibly short space of time, and the friends and relatives of the men known to have been in the slope crowded about the mouth of the mine, the women and children crying and the men wringing their hands in helplessness. Hopes were stretched to keep the people back, and a rescuing party was hastily formed. In their grief many of the men acted like maniaos, and as one body after another, each horribly mutilated, was brought out the wild exclamations of horror and sorrow were terrifying. At midnight seven bodies had been recovered, some of them crushed beyond recognition, and it was known that none of the entombed men were alive. Thirty-three of the dead were married men and had families who swarmed about the opening of the tunnel, hoping against knowledge of their loss. While the wives and children of the victims waited for the rescue of the bodies a car load of coffins, sent from Tacoma by special train, was unloaded, and the coffins were laid side by side near the tunnel awaiting occupants. If anything could add to the horror of the situation it is the fact that most of the families of the dead are in destitute circumstances. For several weeks the camp has been dull on account of the light demand for coal, and as few of the men were provident, it is feared that much suffering will be experienced unless aid from elsewhere is sent. When the work of rescue began it was founds that the entire interior of the mine was clogged with debris, and nothing could be done until a new air shaft could be put in. Deadly fumes Issuing from the mine stilled all who entered. When the thiid level of the slope had been reached and several bodies had been found, badly mangled and blackened, the presence of a small fire which was roasting some of the corpses was noticed. This gave rise to the belief that the explosion was caused by fire in the mine. Manager John Kangley, formerly of Illinois, says the gas accumulated in the slope where new levels were being driven and before connections were made with the air Bhaft the exposure of damp to a blast or match could have caused the explosion. Inspectors were continually on guard in the mine and reported no aocumulation of gas on the levels and Kangley says it will probably never be known exactly what caused the explosion.

ASSASSINATED BY RUSTLERS.

Foreman of a Ca tip Ranch Shot Down from Ambush. The rustlers are evidently determined to beat the big cattle men In this section, says a Buffalo, Wyoming, dispatch, declaring they must either abandon their property or employ as foreman only those who bear their indorsement. George Wellman, foreman of the H. A. Blair cattle company, better known as the Hoe outfit, was shot by a concealed assassin and instantly killed on the main road and about thirty miles south of here. The only known reason for the crime is that he has been notified to leave the country and has refused to obey the order. The first news of the tragedy was brought in by Tom Hathaway, an employe of the same company. He says he and Woilman started for Buffalo on horseback. When 'about twelve miles out and passing through a rough, broken country a shot was fired and his horse sprang ahead and ran away with him. While trying to subdue the frightened animal he heard several other shots, and, glancing bacx, saw his companion fall from his saddle. He started back along the road and met Wellman’s horse, which he mounted. He saw Wellman lying in the road motionless, but was afraid he would share the same fate if he approached nearer, so he came in and gave the alarm. There are probably one hundred people in this county, business men and others, who hav,e been warned to leave, and doubtless others will be killed unless they at once seek a more congenial climate.

The residence of a Jeffersonville, Ind., man has been burglarized seven times within fifteen months. They have just opened the doors of Johns Hopkins College to females. Singularly, the first girl to get in- was a Ladd. A Western schoolmaster is being prosecuted by an irate father whose son was compelled to eat soap as a punishment. A kind-hearted man in North Berwick, Me., name not given, is about to found an asylum for aged and and infirm horses. The whole world now operates 900,000 miles of telegraph lines, and the charges for messages amount to nearly $450,000,000 annually. A pig with one head, but two perfectly formed bodied and eight legs, was born alive in Wilkinson County, Georgia, a few weeks ago. Numerous grandchildren of both the contracting parties attended the wedding of a groom of 75 and abride of 71 at Crawfordsville, Ind., a few days ago. A Florida fish story tells of a shad some twenty inches long which leaped from one stream to another, over a considerable space of ground, in search of food. It is announced that the Virginia Exposition Board intends to reproduce at the Fair, Mount Vernon, the famous home and last resting place of George Washington.

neapolis. She was the Indiana representative in the interstate oratorical contest in which ten States were represented. When the news of her success . reached her home, though a heavy storm was raging,

Current Happenings.

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL'LAWMAKERS. of the Senate and Honu of Representatives Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The National Solon*. In the House, the iith, the appropriation of $620, COO for the purchase of a site aad commencement of anew building for u new mint at Philadelphia was struck from thesundry civil bilL This was done upon motion of Mr. Holman. The Vice President, having gone to New York to act as pallhearer at the funeral of the late Mr. Astor, hU chair was occupied by Mr. Manderson. President pro tern., who laid before the Senate the resolution of tbe general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church assembled at Omaha, Neb. (representing 2.500,000 members and 10,00’,000 adherents),' heartily approving the World’s Pair appropriation bill. expressly that it be conditioned on 'closing the Exposition on Sunday.” Tie following bills were passed: House bill to proviue for a term' of tbe United Slates Circuit and District Court at Evanston. Ma House bill authorizing tho construction of a wnven and motor bridge over the Missouri River at Bt. Charles, Mo. Approp: latlug $103,000 for a public building at Pierre. S. D. The presiding officer laid before the Senate a message from the President of the United States transmitting the seventh annual report of the Commissioner of Labor. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House, the 12t.h, a resolution for tne investigation of the Pinkerton agency was adopted after a sharp debate, the conference report on Ihe bill for the sale of the Klamath River Indian Reservation was also adopted. The House then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Lester of Georgia in the chair) on the sundry civil appropriation bill. Among the bills Introduced In the Senate and referred were the following: Authorizing the President to proclaim a general holiday, commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, Oct 12. 1892: to endhurage American shipbuilding, extending to the steamship China the same privileges as have been extended to tbe City of Paris and City of New York. The China is a steamship of 5,000 'tons, built in Glasgow in 1889. She plies between San Francisco and China, on the Pacific Mail line, but flies the British flag. The message of the President on the subject of an International conference on bimetallsm and the naval appropriation bill consumed the rest of the time. In the Senate, the 13th, the river and harbor bill was reported back from the Committee on Commerce with amendments. The consideration of the naval bill was resumed. Mr. McPherson offered an amendment appropriating $250,000 toward the construction of a dry dJck at Algiers. Louisiana. It was rejected. Mr. McPherson, from the Naval Committee, offered an amendment to the Senate amendment providing for three harbor defense double turret ships of the monitor type —instead of one ship. Mr. Gorman spoke at length on lines of economy, but not against enlarging the navy. After further debate and without action on Mr. McPherson’s amendment the Senate adjourned. In the House, the Sibley tent claim bill again came to tbe fore on a report from the committee of tbe whole referring the claim to the Court of Claims for final adjudication. To this substitute there was pending an amendment providing that the reference should be merely for inquiry, and report to Congress. The amendment was lost. , While the sundry civil bill was under discussion, the 16th, the free silver question came to the front again In the shape of an amendment offered by Bartine, of Nevada, but a point of order was made against it and the matter went over for the present without a decision. After the approval of the journal the Speaker laid before the House a communication from Vice President Morton announcing tho death of Senator Barbour and inviting the House to attend in a body the funeral ceremonies to be held In tfce Senate chamber. When the committee resumed its session Mr. Culberson, of Texas, moved to strike out the appropriation of $25,000 for detecting persons guilty of violation of internal revenue laws. Agreed to. The clause for the recoinage, reissue and transportation of minor coins having been reached, Mr. Tracey of New York made a point of order against It He also raised a point of order against a free-silver amendment offered by Mr. Bartine of Nevada. Both points went over for the present without decision. The Senate,did no business.

On the Diamond.

Following la a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations i RATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. We. W. L Vo. Boston IV 5 .7.12 Pittsburg.... 13 12 .iftj 8r00k1yn....19 8 .519, New York. ..11 11 .505 Cleveland... 18 9 .691 Washingt’n. 10 13 .430 dnolimatl...ll 11 .550 Phlladelp’a. 10 14 .417 Chieago .18 11 .542 St. Louis.... 7 19 .269 Louisville...l3 11 .542 Baltimore.. 5 17 .227 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. so.i W. L. se. Columbus. ..15 5 .7jo Omaha 6 9 ,400 Milwaukee... 10 6 .067iSt. Paul S 8 .835 Kansas Clty.lo 7 .488 Minneap’lis. 3 11 ,214 Toledo 7 7 ,500. Indian'pi’s,. 1 8 012 the illinois-iowa league. W. L. se. W. L. Vo. Joliet 13 1 .929 Rock ford 5 6 .455 Peoria 9 5 .643;Terie Haute..s 7 .417 Evansville... 8 7 . 583' Jacksonville . 5 10 .333 Quincy 6 6 .500 R. 1.-Moline.. .3 12.200 Miscellaneous Notes. If you can not give a good reason for what you are doing, that is a good reason why you should not do it. A motheb, father and their eighteen children joined in one day a Mennonite colony in Lane Ceunty, Oregon. The most powerful electric lighthouse in Europe is the one at Hanstholm, on the Scow. It has a strength of 2,009,000 candles. . J . . Beware of the man who is always suspicious of everybody else's motives. The chances are that he has some motives himself. • Most .women have a good deal of romance fn their dispositions. If they hadn’t, very few men would ever succeed in getting married. Recently invented wire - drawing mechanism has made it feasible to produce silver and platinum wire so fine as to be thinner than a human hair. A representative of the Krupp gun manufactory at Essen, Germany, is about to start for Chicago to make arrangements for an exhibit at the fair. George Kennan, the American lecturer and traveler, declares that he will never cease agitating until the political prisons of Siberia are things of the past. The Arkansas Bankers’ Association has appropriated $50,01X1 to furnish a room in the Arkansas State Building for the use of the association during the Fair. Ex-Secretary Bayard will address the Phi Beta Kappa alumlni of New York, on Tuesday evening, March 22. Rev. Dr. Deems- is President of the association. In a Philadelphia church the choristers felt rather dull during the delivery of the sermon, so four of them passed the time pleasantly, but irreverently, by engaging in a game of whist. A tender-hearted Parisian lady has made her pet dog comfortable in cold weather by clothing it with an embroidered fur-lined blanket and decorating its little legs and feet \fith shoes and stockings. A Chicago newspaper Bays that B. P. Hutchinson, the great speculator, who is now in New York, is broken in spirit, and that the fortune of $10,000,000 he possessed a few years ago has dandled to an insignificant sum. - Most of the men in the islands of Southwestern Japan lead lives of idleness, and are cheerfully supported by the women. The males are fond of music, some of them being excellent musicians on various instruments.