Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Page 2

SljeJltmocratirSfiitinrl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. t. W. MoEWEN, ... Putmsheb.

ATTACKS THE READING

GOVERNOR PATTISON TAKES IT TO TASK. (Senator Chandler Discusses the Immigration Question—Yale Students Must Curb Their Speculative Tendencies—Speaker Crisp Talks of an Extra Session. r All Power to Pattison. Tbe Pennsylvania State Legislature convened in biennial session Tuesday. Governor Pattison, in his message, repeats his well-known views upon the enforcement of the constitution against all corporations and calls for legislation enacting the sixteenth and seventeenth articles of theconetltlon, with severe penalties for any and all violations of them. He pronounces the Reading Railroad combine “an especially flagrant Illustration of the manner in which the constitution is defied,” and after giving an account of the commonwealth's litigation to have it decreed unlawful and declared void says: “This is not the time nor occasion to undertake to forecast the final determination of a question now in course of orderly settlement by the proper tribunals established by law. ’>

SUSPEND IMMIGRATION. This Is the Advice Offered by Senator Chandler. Senator Chandler, In an able article In the North American Review, says that protection to the World’s Fair requires the suspensiou of immigration. The Columbian Exposition at Chicago can only be protected from cholera and made a success, so far as foreign visitors are concerned, by the proposed suspension of Immigrat on. We are Inviting, and we very much desire. European visitors to the World's Fair. They ■will not come in the same steamships with swarms of immigrants, nor will they come even in steamships bringing no steerage passengers if they are to encounter tho Immigrants upon the docks of tbe steamship companies. Two currents, one of cabin passengers coming as visitors and one of immigrants, will not cross the ocean side by side. One or the other will stop, and that one should be the current of immigrants. It is certain that there Is to be some cholera in Europe. If there is also to be cholera in the Unite! States Europeans will not come hem If, however, it can be made tolerably certain, as It can by the suspension of immigration, that there will be no cholera In the T'nited States foreigners will come here in large numbers. It will be tbe safest place for them to visit; indeed, it will be the only place in the world which they can visit where they will be reasonably sure to avoid cholera. The success of the World’s Fair may be possible even without many foreign visitors. But such success will not be possible with any considerable amount pf cholera in the United States.

TO STOP GAMBLING AT VALE. Faculty Will Consider Measures to Students Betting on Athletic Events. The local Congregational clergymen clergymen lately sent a joint letter to the Yale faculty urging the prohibition of all betting and gambling at the university, especially on foot-ball and other sports. The letter signified that the university has a general moral tone, and added that the faculty should enact special measures against the vice of gambling and betting tc which some of the students are prone. President Dwight has replied to the letter, telling the clergymen that the faculty has taken the matter Into consideration and will frame some measure, If a feasible plan can be devised. The clergymen wished to publish the correspondence, but refrained at the request of President Dwight. CRISP CONFINED TO HIS BED. Will Not Preside Over the House When It Reconvenes. Speaker Crisp Is confined to his bed, but is only slightly indisposed. He tells his friends that since seeing Mr. Cleveland he is sure In bis own mind that Congress will be called together in early October, when an administration tariff bill will be ready for consideration. Mr. Crisp, according tc a Washington correspondent, believes tarifl revision will be swift and positive, as local prejudices and local interests will not. be considered In an administration measure; that the objects of Mr. Cleveland In taking the formation of the tariff bill out of the bands of Congress is to relieve Individual of Congress of the embarrassmenl they would otherwise have to meet.

FUMIGATING PASSENGERS. One English Traveler's Goods Rained bj the Intense Heat of the Machines. All passengers ticketed for the United States now arriving by English steamer; have to be fumigated at Halifax. Theli goods are all placed in fumigating machines. The heat in one of these machines reached nearly 300 degrees last Saturday, and the goods and a fur coat belonging to one of the passengers were rendered valueless, while a valise, the property of tht same passenger, was so shriveled that th» owner would not take it with him. J. M. Bacon Kills Himself. At San Diego, Cal., J. M. Bacon, a wealthy resident 61 Sioux City, lowa, committed suicide at the sanitarium. Despondency is supposed to be the causa Emery’s Designs Rejected. The Army Board of Ordnance and Fortifications has rejected the designs submitted to it by Mr. Emery for disappearing mountings for twelve-inch gun. Heroism of a Chicago Man. At Columbus, Ohio, John Lee, a young candy-maker of Chicago, saved the life ol a boy who had broken through the ice while skating. Killed the Bank Boss. John C. Albln. bank boss at the Nellie mine at Brazil, Ind., was mashed by fall- • lag slate There is no hope of his recovery. Kept in Captivity Twenty Years. A dispatch to the London Times from Boulogne tells a curious story of a French soldier, captured in the war of*B7o. repeatedly for attempting to escape He was released but a few days ago. and reached Boulogne shortly after, to find hlf wife married again and the mother of several children by her second husband. Relating to'&Uver. At a special meeting of the Boston Chamber of Commerce resolutions were adoptee against the continued purchase of silvei bullion by the government and asking tht repeal of the Sherman stiver act. . Paris Again Shaken. I Ail explosion In the hall leading to the Mite of offices between the ground floor and * the first story of the prefecture of police, farfi, has caused a sensation. The auAorlties are net decided as to whether the ixploslon was the work of anarebits or nerely an accident caused by a leakage of tas. An investigation is being held. Publish a Warning Against Cholera. The Ohio State Board of Health, In Its toaual report to Governor McKinley, says ihai If immigration is not restricted it is .•..JSSKJS! whether the present quarantine e» invasion of cholera in 1M&

CALIFORNIA ACRES UNDER WATER.

Settlers in Two Valleys Flee, Leaving Crops and Stock to Perish. Reports from the Sacramento and San, Joaquin valleys show that tbe damage by j flood will go above $1,000,000. The capital city is safe, but all along the river fine wheat land Is covered with water. In flutter County, a few miles below Colusa, the levee broke and 50,000 acres of the most fertile land In the State are several feet under water. Tbe unfortunate people have fled and left their live stock to perish. The loss to owners and renters will be at least $500,000. Below Colusa a few miles there were Inclosed In a levee some 4,000 acres. The levee broke, and the whole is several feet under water. This Is a very fine piece of wheat land, and the loss Is great. Below Sacramento City the levees have given way In several places on the Yolo County side, and big damage has resulted. Relays of patrols are guarding the levee for many miles. Tbe water is slowly falling, as the storm is over. The San Joaquin Is higher than ever known before, and stock men having cattle on the ranges behind Tracy are moving their stock. The weather being somewhat cooler, it Is hoped tho water will fall rapidly. The entire dam across Stephenson creek in Fresno has been swept away. It was thirty-seven feet high, 200 feet long, hu)lt of granite and faced with planks. A million feet of lumber and the sawmill were washed away. Tbe entire loss is estimated at $150,000. Stephenson's hotel was torn in two and about a dozen small residences were washed away. No one was living In the houses, the mill having shut down.

HRIBE MONEY IN AMERICA. Panama Canal Fnnds Freely Used In Tills Country. In a three-column article the New York World alleges that the Panama Canal corruptionists and thieves expended over $2,000,000 in bribing American legislators. In brief tbe article says: There Is an American end to the Panama scandal. Two million five hundred thousand dollars was sent to this country and no explanation has been given of what use was necessary or was made of this vast sum. The bribery and corruption practiced in the United States was just as flagrant, although less in extent and in the amount of money used. The French speculators obtained their rights front the United States of Colombia, and purchased the services of Ferdinand de Lesseps to give their scheme eclat The American committee was not disposed to work for nothing, and De Lesseps agreed to make, when tho company was organized, six annual payments to this American committee. The first payment was 3,100,000 francs. A year following, a payment of 1,400,000 francs was to he made, and subsequent payments of 1,500,000 francs a year for five years. Thus it was that-nbout 1 52,500,000 was provided by the head of tlife Panama Canal scheme to influence the people of the United States and their government Here was a corruption fund that was capable of accomplishing great results. Continuing, the article says that certain public officials In the American committee received $25,000 a year for their services."

BOOM FOR MORRISON. Illinois Democrats Favor Him for the Interior Portfolio—Crlgp and Grover. New York special: Sneaker Crisp and Congressman Owen Scott, of Illinois, have arrived from Washington, and are staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Scott declared that he spoke for the united Democrats of Illinois when he said that they are unanimously In favor of the appointment of William R. Morrison for Secretary of the Interior In Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet “We at first proposed to press Mr. Morrison as a candidate for Secretary of the Treasury, but made the change us soon as it was authoritatively announced that Senator Carlisle would probably receive that place. The Democrats of Ohio are also in favor of the appointment of Mr. Morrison to the Secretaryship of the Interior.” Speaker Crisp announced that he was In the city for the purpose of having a conference with Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland said later that he did not intend to have any formal conference with Speaker Crisp, as there was no necessity for such action. MEXICAN TROOPB ROUTED. ;\ _______ Revolutionists . Under General Estrada Gaining Many Recruits Dally. The reported engagement at Los Animas has been confirmed by news received. The Mexican troops were routed, having thirteen soldiers killed and many wounded. Six of the revolutionists were killed. The revolutionists were commanded by Gen. Estrada and the Mexican troops by Gen. Garcia. Seven wounded Mexican soldiers arrived at Nuevo Laredo. News has been received from down the river that the United States troops, under Lieut Hodlken, and a posse of deputy marshals, with an experienced trailer, are on the trail of the revolutionary party who captured the two United States deputy marshals, Guerra and Benavides, and will not stop until they are rescued.

Sacrificed to Carelessness. Dynamite exploded in the yards of the New York and Long Island Tunnel Company on Fourth street, between Vernon and Jackson avenues, Long-Island City, LI. So far as learned three persons were killed outright and a score of persons injured. The yards of the New York and Long Island Tunnel Company are surrounded by tenement houses of brick and frame and by stores. The company Is building a tunnel between the city and the New York Central Depot, and a great deal of dynamite Is used. Tuesday night the dynamite froze. In thawing it out the men placed it too near the Are, causing it to explode The three people killed were all in their homes, which were contiguous to the scene of the explosion. O'Brien, one of the killed, had his throat cut from ear to ear and his face was badly mutilated by falling glass. O’Brien was lying on a sofa when the explosion took place. A pane of glass was smashed directly over his head and a large piece of glass acted as a guilotlne. Some of the residents of the tenements had to be carried out by the firemen. Those in the vicinity at the time of the explosion say that the shock which followed was like an earthquake. The tenements 21 to 29 Jackson avenue were shattered with the stores and offices below. The post-office was in 27. The mails are buried beneath tons of ruins and they are certain to.be ruiued by water if not consumed by the flames. The explosion set fire to the buildings adjoining the tunnel company’s yard and shattered every pane of glass in the buildings for blocks around. The entire fire department of the city was soon upon the scene, "but so soon did the flames burst out after ’the explosion that It is not certain whether all the residentfl.jgiJ |be adjoining tenements escaped or are burled in the debris.

Iron Hall Men Arrested. Amos H. Hosmer and Edward W. Rouse, Jrrandbfficers of the Iron Hall organization, recently indicted by the Grand Jury of Indianapolis, were placed under arrest at Baltimore in obedience to a request from the justice'of police of Indianapolis. Killed an Electric Car Conductor. At Indianapolis a trailer attached to an electric motor car jumped off the track at a curve and Conductor Samuel Brodlin was hurled off the platform and killed,' J&-! To Rule the Canadian Northwest. C. H. Royal, of Toronto, Ont, was appointed Lieutenant Governor Qf the Northwest Territories . Briggs Is Acquitted. Altar a trial lasting twenty days .ftpfavor Charles A Brigft ftas acquitted Friday afternoon upon every one of the

r ■ "sff r purges of heresy brought against him by the committee of,prosecution. When tho members of the ecclesiastical court filed out of tbe Old Scotch Presbyterian Church jin Fourteenth street, New York, a few minlutes before 6 o'clock p. in. the jubilant and radiant faces of Professor Briggs’ partisans told tbe whole story. “Professor Briggs has been acquitted,” said one of them to the reporters who had been waiting outside the closed doors, “and he is not a heretic aflfir all.” WHITNEY FAVORS MURPHY. Mr. Cleveland Actively at Work to Secure the Defeat or Hill's Choice. In regard to tte contest for the office of United States Senator from New York, the Herald says: On the surface there are no signs that the supporters of Edward Murphy, Jr., for United States Senator have been made to hesitate by the public protestor Mr. Cleveland. Hill, Sheehan, Oroker, and Murphy stand firm. There Is said to ho one wavering member of the Legislature In the city, hut he is not expected to disobey tbe Tarnany leaders. Hugh McLaughlin gives no Indication that he will advise the Kings County members to lcavo the Senatorial caucus, Bourke Cockran also stands firm. Efforts have been made to Induce him to announce himself as a candidate. He will not say a word to encourage the opposition to Murphy. The effort of the men opposed to Murphy to Induce Cockran to break with Croker and the machine was prompted by the fact that when Murphy was selected as the candidate Cockran was disappointed. It Is not believed Mr. Cockran will allow his name to be used In the caucus. But the most Interesting thing Is that Whitney as yet stands firm. Mr. Whitney’s position is that he believes Murphy was entitled to the office and that It would he ungenerous to oppose him.

THE UMBRIA IN PORT. The Long Overdue Cunarder Makes Harbor Under Her Own Steam. “Umbria” was the name the signal lights of a large two funneled, three-masted steamship flashed to the tower on Fire Island a little after midnight Friday. It was indeed the long overdue Cunarder, and the operator in the tower lost no time in sending the good news to New York City. Then he took another look through his glass at the belated steamship. There was no mistaking tbe black hull and clean outlines of the Cunard racer. IJhere It was sharply defined In tho clear moonlight Smoke was rolling from its enormous rod funnels, and it was plain that Capt McKay liad carried his point and was bringing the Umbria into port under its own steam. It was steaming directly for Sandy Hook, leaving a long white wake as its screw drove it on toward its destination. The news was immediately cabled to London, and was the cause of general rejoicing on both sides the water. TOOK HIS WIFE’S LIFE. Peter Sutter, Goaded Beyond Control, Strikes Ills {Spouse with a Hammer Peter Sutter, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Polk County, lowa, and worth in the neighborhood of murdered his wife at their hoarding place In Des Moines, where they resided, Thurs- 1 day morning. He struck her on the head with a hammer and she died almost Instantly. Sutter gave himself up to the police. He said that he had no dosire to live and did not caro how soon he was punished for the crime. Said he: “I had no intention of killing her, and had no Idea of striking her. She goaded me to desperation and I lost my temper, struck her, and that Is the only explanation I can give of the affair.” His wife came from Ohio about a year ago, to jteep house for him. They were married., Luther believing her to be a widow. He subsequently learned that she had a husband living. Quarrels were frequent -

DIED IN HIM ARMOR, A. H. Fairchild Killed by a Dynamite Explosion in Thirty-five Feet of Water. A H. Fairchild, one of the most skillful marine divers in the country, met a peculiar death in thirty-five feet of water at the end of the Inman line pier in the North River. He went down into the water in his diving suit, carrying with J)lm several sticks of dynamite to be used in blasting out the rocky bottom. After ho had been under water several minutes the men overhead, who were pumping air to the diver, heard a muffled explosion and the water was disturbed. Not answering a signal Fairchild was pulled up. His helmet was crushed Into the side of his face and the dynamite had evidently exploded while Fairchild was ramming It down. On examination it was found that the concussion had snaoped the valves of his heart‘’killing him almost Instantly. To Increase Its Capital. The big trust formed by the prominent wall paper manufacturers of the United States, and known as the National Wall Paper Company, contemplates an Increase of 818,000,000 in the capital stock, which will make the whole amount $38,030,000. A circular letter has been sent out from the company’s headquarters on Broadway. New York, to all the Interested manufacturers to call a meeting to discuss this plan. The trust was incorporated last August under the laws of the State of New York, with an authorized capital of $20,000,000. Suicide in a Well. Theodore Donuan, a farmer of Grand Pre, N. S., 62 years old, became suddenly Insane, and, rushing from his house, jumped head first down a deep well. Death was lnstantanoua Mrs. Langtry Somewhat Better. The latest report about the condition of Mrs. Langtry is that she is improving.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.25 (9 0.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.60 (9 7.00 SHEEP—Fair to Choice 3.00 @ 6.60 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 7lft@ .7214 COBN—No. 2 40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 so & .31 Rye—No. 2 si @ .53 Butteh—Choice Creamery. 29 @ .30 Eggs—Fresh 26 @ .26 Potatoes—New, per bn 60 @ .70 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @6.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 7.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red C 6 @ ,66ft COHN—No. 2 White 38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 White .34 @ .35 ST. LOUIS. Cattle.. 3.00 @5.00 Hogs 4.00 @ e. 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 @ .68 Cobn—No. 2 36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 32 @ ,32ft Rye—No. 2 48 @ .50 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.03 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.00 Sheep 3.00 @ B.on Wheat—No. 2 B6d 68ft@ .69ft Cobn—No. 2 40ft@ .41st Oats—No. 2 Mixed 36 @ ,35ft Rye—No. 2 55 m .57 DETROIT. Cattle ; 3.00 @‘4.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 6.60 „ Sheep, 3.00 @ 4.50 b Wheat—No. 2 Red 7lft@ .72ft Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 41 @ ,41st Oats —No. 2 White 36 @ .37 TOLEDO. WhEaT—No. 2 72 @ .72ft Cobn—No. 2 White 40 @ .40ft Oats—No. 2 White 34ft@ ,35ft Rye 51 @ ,53 rjt. BUFFALO. Cattle—Cofninon to Prime.... 3.00 @ 5.00 Hoos-lßest Grades 4.00 @7.00 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 80ft@ .81st Coen—No. 2 47ft® .48ft -MILWAUKEE. WHHW-No. 2 Spring 65 @ .66ft Oats—No. 2 White .34 @ .34ft Rye—No. 1 .55 @ .67 Babley-No. 2 .66 @ .67 POBK—Mess V.-i. 15.75 @16.25 SKEW YORK,, ATTLE 3.50 ® 5.75 008 3.00 @7.00 WHBAT-No. 2 Red 79 I .80 COBK-No. 2 .49 I Jtt OAHi—Mixed Western .36 @ .38

MANGLED IN A WRECK.

HORROR ON A CHICAGO'STREET CAR. , , , ■■■ ■ < Four Passengers Killed and Fourteen Badly Wounded—Run Down by a Fort Wayne Engine The Watchmen Not at Their Posts—Six Arrests Made. Death In the Darkness. Four people were killed and more than twice that number injured early Thursday morning by the collision of a Fort Wayne train with a crowded streetcar of the Chicago City Kail way at the 47th street and Stewart avenue crossing. The train which wrought such great disaster was made up of three cars containing laborers on their way to Colehour. The dead are: John Blaha, crushed to death; Archibald MeAndrews, Instantly killed; unidentified woman, supposed to be Mrs. M. Carson, address unknown; unknown man, horribly mangled. The accident occurred at 6:10 o’clock, When the street cars were crowded with workmen. Car 197 going east on Fortyseventh street had at least fifty passengers on board. As it neared the tracks of the Fort Wayne and Wabash roads there was no warning of an approaching train. Within the ill-fated car sat the workroon smoking their clay pipes and chatting pleasantly, wholly unmindful of their impending danger. All at once there was a wild shriek of the engine, a clanging of the bell, ana a construction train running at a high rate of speed crashed into the car, creating fearful havoc. There was no previous ringing of the bell, no oonspicuous light on the engine which was moving backward, and the gateman and towerman at the crossing had failed wholly to do their duty. Neither was at his post. The wreck occurred while it was still too dark for the driver or conductor of the street car to see 100 feet down the track. No one expected the construction train, and the first known of the danger was when the engine shrieked and the crash came. An instant later the killed and wounded were strewn along the frozen ground, the street car was a complete' wreck, and the tra ! n rushed by, leaving a frightful scene of death and confusion behind. The horses broke loose £pom tho car and ran away. Early risers in tho vicinity rushed to the rescue of the passengers, and the alarm -fras turned into all the neighboring police stations. Three hundred yards south of the crossing the train came to a standstill, and the half a hundred workmen who were on board en ronte to work down the track hurried to the assistance of the injured. AVildest Confusion Reigned. Wild confusion reigned for the first few minutes. Those who had come to the work of rescue could hear the pitiful cries of the wounded and see the body of one dead man. Where to begin was a question which ptffleled them. Five police patrol wagons arrived on the scene soon and policemen took charge pf the work. At first Uttle u ,attention was directed to the train which had done the damage, but after those about the car had been picked up it was found that the bodies of two men were under the tender. These were recovered. The police at once placed six persons under arrest. These are Conductor Bernard O’Connor and Driver Patrick Stanley, who were on the street car; Engineer Bosscup and Fireman Meager, of the construction train; “Old John” TJllbright, gateman,and Peter Scßwartz, towerman at the crossing. “Old John" was indicted last January for alleged carelessness when the freightful accident of Jan. 14 occurred at his crossing. Both the gateman and the towerman were in what is known as the ground house by the stove when the construction train came down the track.

CIVIL-SERVICE EXTENSION.

Little Prospect That President Harrison Will Take Action. Washington special: A gentleman who has talked with the President on the subject says that the people who are expecting a large increase in the classified civil service before the administration changes will be very sadly disappointed. He said that the* President is strongly inclined to extend the civil-service rules in connection with the Postofflce Department, but that he has practically abandoned the purpose of any general extensioif, such as the increase of the employes of the Government printing office or the customs service. All employes now outside the protecting lines of tl\p civil-service regulations are using every endeavor to have themselves intrenched against Democratic Interference, but so far without success. There is a snag in the way of the extension of the civil service classification to the Government Printing Office. It is understood to be the desire of the President and of the Civil Service Commission that the office should be brought within the civil service classification, but there is trouble before them in the form of opposition by the Typographical Union. The objection to the extension of the service is raised that if appointments are made upon any form of examination which does not recognize membership of the union as a necessary qualification it will result in what the union would call “rats” getting into government employ. The government is hardly prepared to declare that none but union men shall be qualified for employment, and the union Will certainly object to any employment within that class of persons not belonging to the union.

UNCLE SAM’S BIG CAIN.

The Destruction of Paper Money Has Benefited the Government. In all that ha's been recently written about the depleted condition of Ihe United States treasury little or no account has been taken of the fact that with each passing year the treasury is a large gainer by the complete destruction by casualty of its outstanding obligations, says a AVashington dispatch. How much this amounts to. what percentage each year, etc., the best statisticians of the treasury department have rio means of definitely ascertaining. No two of their figures are alike. Since 1862, when the Government began to issue paper money, $5,819,629,108 have been issued of all kinds and denominations up to July 1, 1592. W ithin the same period $4,853,451,629 have been redeemed, leaving outstanding on July 1, 1892, as a liability against the Government, $967,178,479. »'The basis for the redemption of this vast sum of paper varies—gold for the gold certificates, silver for the silver certificates—sloo,ooo,9oo in gold as a reserve for certain notes, and so on. All this money is kept in the vaults awaiting the presentation of the paper for redemption. But much of this paper will never be presented. In au exhaustive inquiry on this subject made by United States Treasurer Hyatt it was estimated that the aggregate loss on all the issues up to January, 1888, would not be less than $8,700,000. This estimate did not include the fractional currency—“50 cents, 25 cents, 10 cents and 5 cent shin plasters”—in such extenslye circulation for the few years following the war. Secretary Sherman construed the act of June 21, 1879, as stating that $8,376,934 of fractional currency issued under various acts had been destroyed, and the debt statement as issued monthly oarries aa • debt bearing no interest but $6,908,-

462.620 f this fractional currency. United States Treasurer Nebeker, however, carries the full amount on his books, and in his report this year states that more than $15,000,000 of this fractional curroncy is outstanding, though it has practically gone out of circulation, and but little more than $4,000 was presented for redemption last year. What is outstanding is held to a great extent by collectors of coin and paper cabinets, and its value as such is greater than its face value as money. The aggregate of United States currency, fractional and otherwise, estimated to have been destroyed and not likely to be presented for redemption, approximates by these figures more than $14,(100,000. A recent estimate prepared in the Treasury Department places the sum as high as $20,000,000. This money can only be taken out of the liabilities of the Government by Congressional enactment. This will probably be attempted in the near future. The investigations into this subject have shown that most of the money lc3t has been destroyed in railroad wrecks that caught lire, though no inconsiderable quantity has been de-i stroyed by fires that occurred in the country banks, postoffices and resi-, dences.

UPSET THE PLAN.

The President Vetoes Secretary Foster's Arrangements with Wall Street. A New York correspondent says that Secretary of the Treasury Foster’s trip to New York City was not on private business, as was given out officially, but was for the purpose of consulting Wall street magnates on the proposition to relieve the money market and check the exportof gold by having the government issue from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 of bonds. The Wall street men were in favor of the scheme and the speculative contingent were in high feather. The President’s co-operation had been counted on as sure, but this confidence was suddenly discovered to be delusive. The President not only refused to approve the deal, but he went further and expressed himself with unusual force and declared that he could see no excuse for issuing bonds, and, what was more, he did not propose that any should be issued while he was President. According to Wall street reports, Secretary Foster, before he suddenly left town to go West, is credited with having received a dispatch from Washington couched in pretty stiff language and running substantially as follows: I want no new bonds Issued under my administration. Take no steps. Do nothing. B. Harrison. He says that Mr. Foster met the Wall street men at a club house and a prolonged conference was held. Some of the most notable men in the street are said to have been present, and an agreement was formed on the financial policy of the Government. The action of President Harrison upset their plans entirely.

NO MERCY TO THE JEWS.

of a Grand Duke—Cruel Edicts Being Enforced Relentlessly. The latest advices from St. Petersburg and other parts of Bussia show that the persecution of the J ews and the inhumanity of the Ozar’s officials toward that unhappy raoe are greater than ever before. Six edicts have been issued, aiming to disperse the Jewish subjects of Bussia, weaken their position at trading centers and crush out their religion. These edicts are enforced with the utmost rigor in many parts of the empire and with severity every where. The Moscow papers boast that, since the beginning of 1891, 20,000 Jews have been converted to orthodoxy. The unhappy converts, who have been driven to a pretended denial of their religious faith in order to escape intolerable persecution, have been deported to the district of Tcherkosovo, about five miles from Moscow. There they are rigorously governed by priests of the Bussian orthodox church, who require them to attend the services of that church and to comply with its various rules, watching narrowly for any sign of evasion or repentance. These priests have entire supervision of the wretched colony, and the alleged converts from Judaism are only allowed leave to return to Moscow upon a certificate from the priests vouching that the convert holding such document is assured in the faith of the orthodox church.

TO START A RELIGIOUS DAILY.

Methodists Talk of a Paper in Chicago with 1,000,000 Subscribers. It has developed that the Methodists propose someth.ng unique in daily journalism. At a convention of the Epworth League of Northern Wisconsin, at Hudson, a resolution was passed recommending that the Methodist Church of America begin the publicat'on of a Daily Christian Advocate at Chicago, the editorials to be in line •with advanced liberal religious thought, with sensational and objectionable news eliminated from the news columns. It is estimated that there are five million members of the Methodist Church in America, and the promoters of the scheme say that a daily could be started with a million subscribers. The influence of the paper, it is claimed, will be far reaching. Epworth Leagues throughout the country, it is understood, will pass similar resolutions, and the new venture will be launched in March or April.

Briefiets.

President-elect Cleveland has secured the services of a detective, who will act as a body-guard. Postmaster N. T. Anderson, ol New London, Conn., is missing. He is short $4,000 in his accounts. Secretary Foster will visit New York and confer~wlth bankers on the financial condition of the country. THEEbbitt House will be the home ol Vice President-elect Stevenson while in WashingiSh prior to the inauguration. Many distinguished people attended the services at Haverhill, Mass., in memory of the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. E. A. Peck has resigned the position of General Superintendent of the “Big Four” Eailway, and the office has been abolished. James S. Clarkson is at the head of a syndicate which has purchased the City of Mexico street railway service for $7,000,000. The United Slates Consul at Hamburg will not issue clean bills of health to steamers clearing from Hamburg for the United States. William Gbun, in jail at Canton, Ohio, for larceny, hanged himself after having been prayed with for an hour by W. C. T. U. members. The revolutionary sentiment in Bio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is subsiding. It is now known that the Federal Government intends to interfere. Thomas Gaston, Captain of the Police, shot and killed W. C. Strickland at Jackson, Tenn. Strickland charged Gaston publicly with corrupt official acts. George Babcock Hazard, of Newport, B. 1., who is accredited with much wealth, has been in jail one week because he neglected to pay damages recently assessed upon him by the court in a case of trespass. v He is upward of 70Years of age, and ie the donor of the Hasard Memorial School.

LOSS HALF A MILLION.

THE MILWAUKEE STREET-CAR BARNS DESTROYED. \ v«k ijL >. Unknown Man Threw a Bomb Into the Main Building, Which Exploded an'd Set Fire to the Interior—Machinery and Stable* Consumed. Infested with Firebugs. At 2 o’clock Wednesday morning a bomb was thrown into the main building of the South Side plant of the Milwaukee Street Bailroad Company. There was a tremendous explosion, and in a moment the Interior of the building was in a blaze. In a few minutes the fire was beyond control, and in less thnn an hour the entire plant was consumed, entailing a loss of S6IO,O(K'. The street railway company’s South Side plant is located on Kinnikinnick avenue. It includes the immense storage stables for electric motors, the machine shops, and the stables. In the barn were thirty new electric motors. The machine shops were built the past season, and were fitted with very fine machinery for the rebuilding and repairing of cars. In the stables were sixty horses, but these were gotten out alive. The cars stored in the building were valued at $350,000, while the structure itself is worth at least $60,000. The machinery is valued at fully $76,000, while the stores of the company were kept in the building and were worth $26,000. The only insurance carried was on the building and amounts to $40,000. The barns which were destroyed were the principal depot of the Milwaukee Street hallway Company, and the fire greatly cripples the company.

Who the man is who threw the bomb Is not known. He is supposed to be the firebug who has started fully a dozen other disastrous blazes within a month. A Grand Jury will be summoned to investigate. The only person who saw the alleged bomb thrown was Night Watchman Worden. He says that he was standing near the main doorway of the barn in which the motors and cars were stored. There was a whizz of something through the air, a flash, and a tremendous explosion. If there was a bomb thrown, which many doubt, it came through the main doorway and struck in the car nearest this entrance. The projectile must have been filled with some highly inflammable substance, as hardly ten seconds elapsed, according to the night watchman’s story, before nearly all the cars in the building were in flames. Manager Lynn, of the company, is convinced of the truthfulness of the watchman’s story. That there was an explosion every one in the neighborhood will testify. There was nothing of an explosive nature about the plant, and the electric current was not od, the machinery at the power-house not being in operation. A small cottage next to the plant of the street railway company was also destroyed. A woman residing in the house became paralyzed, and had to be carried out of the house after it was in flames. The rear end of the plant of the Dutcher Stove Company, which has been leased by the Milwaukee Street Bailway Company, was slightly damaged. Investigation shows beyond doubt that the tire which Tuesday destroyed two tanneries, causing a loss of $260,000, and by which two lives were lost, was incendiary. This i 6 also the case with the two fires on Sunday, when $125,000 worth of property burned. Property Owners Alarmed. There is a genuine firebug scare in the city, and what is mere there seems to be good grounds for alarm. Conservative citizens are now thoroughly alarmed and steps are being taken to guard against further loss by fire as much as possible. That incendiaries are at work is no longer doubted by any one conversant with the circumstances surrounding many of the recent fires. The most glaring case was that of the old Keenan mill. Here was an urioobUpied building close to the business center, which was used for storage purposes and in which there had not been a light or a fire for several years, and yet it is suddenly discovered to be ablaze on the evening of the est day of the year. There was not a dollar’s worth of insurance on the building or its contents. Another fact that Is now attracting attention Is that all the fires of mysterious origin have occurred when the weather was best suited to their spreading. On rainy days or when the weather was mild and no wind blowing there have been no fires, excepting those where the origin could be clearly traced. Another curious feature is that 50 per cent of these big fires have occurred in the 3d ward. So large have been the losses and so apparent has i't became that incendiaries are at work that insurance men are becoming alarmed, and a number of outside companies have ordered their local agents to take no more insurance here, and in several eases have ordered them to cancel many of their risks. Property owners and business men are alarmed and a mass-meeting will be called to consider the matter.

URGED TO STAND FIRM.

Manifesto Issued by People’s Party Leaders at Indianapolis. The People’s party leaders In attendance at the conference in Indianapolis issued the following manifesto: To the People’s party Legislators-elect in Nebraska. Wyoming Montana, California, North Dakota, and other States: We hereby request that nil and each one of you stand firm when it comes to balloting for United States Senators in your respective States. We caution you against fusion with any of the two dominant parties. Make a square fight for our principles; vote for no man unless you know that he will advocate and defend them in the United States Senate. We have arrived at a period in our movement when we must make a square stand-up fight for principles. If the two dominant parties want to fuse on, a candidate to defeat ns let them do so. The sooner they do that the better It will be for ns. You cannot afford to consider the personal Interests of any Individual. The people look to you to carry out the promises made in the last campaign, and unless you do your utmost in that direction you will fail to do your full duty. We Rlso’kindly request that the People’s' partv State, county, and local committees in every State in the Union do all in their power and lend a helping hand to organize the industrial legion. Push that organization into every State, county, precinct, and school district in the land. H. E. Tacbeseck, Chairman. J. H. Turner, Secretary. M. H. Rankin. Treasurer. The conference of the People’s party leaders was in session in Indianapolis for two days. It agreed to the revision of the constitution and by-laws of the Industrial Legion as suggested by Paul Vandervoort. The revision does away with the secret work provided vfor in the original constitution, and the different branches of the organization are all merged into one. The Commander-in-chief announces that he will appoint organizers in every State. For a while, at least, headquarters will be at Omaha, but later may be removed to Indianapolis.

WILL CAUSE A HUBBUB.

Governor-Elect Lewelllng in Favor of the State Agency Plan Topeka, Kan. r special: In an interview in a local paper Rev. J. D, Botkin, late Prohibition candidate for Governor, •aid that Governor-eleot Lewelllng was a pronounced Prohibitionist and that he would favor the State agency plan in his forthcoming message. Botkin said: “I am in favor of fee State agency plan, and recently had a long talk with Gov. Lewelllng c* this subject and

, * , '• . he Is heartily In favor of it also. He said to me that he believed it would forever settle the whisky question W this State, as it would abolish the drug store saloon and take the element of profit out of the sale, so the jointists would have to go out of business." The announcement of Governor Lewelling’s views on this subject will cause a great hubbuU-among the and the liquor element generally, who supported him, hoping that in return for their votes Mr. jewelling would prove lenient to violators of the prohibitory law, or even encourage its repeal.

ELEVEN MEN WERE KILLED.

Bloody Battle at the 'San Juan Mining Camp In Colorado, The San Juan mining caifip has followed the precedents of alj great mining excitements by baptizing itself’with human blood. A courier arrived in Bluffs City, Col., and reported a terrible battle, in which over one hundred shots were exchanged. He reported eleven men killed and a large number wounded. George Ferguson, an old prospector, and James Cody, known as “Blind Jim,” one of the best-known characters in Arizona and New Mexico mining camps, axe among the slain. The courier was in a state of breathless excitement and had left the ground, after the last shot was fired, to obtain medical aid. A private dispatch from Dolores to John Eddy, a Denver mining man, confirms the terrible report. The trouble grew out of a dispute over certain claims which have been staked out. There are nearly 5,000 men on the fields, and there has been very little attention paid to the people staking off claims. The prospectors have simply devoted their time to prospecting and scouring the sands to find the most promising locations. Thete have been a few claims staked out, however, in places where many dollars to the pan have been found, but the lines of the claims, it is said, were not recorded and a quarrel ensued. The direct cause of the trouble was the discovery of large nuggets in the bed of a small stream. Up to the moment of strike everything was all right, bub. the sight of the large nuggets had the same effect on the prospectors as a red rag on a Mexican bull. Each man claimed that he had first located the ground, and to settle the dispute guns were brought to bear. There were over forty men engaged in the terrible conflict. Few, if any, escaped unhurt. The information of the trouble has caused great excitement in Denver among prospectors, who were skeptical of the fabulous wealth of the new gold fields. The battle will undoubtedly bring thousands of people to the new camp, for the old prospectors regard deadly conflicts over mining claims as the best evidence of rich strik. s.

POPULISTS COME TO STAY.

Senator Stewart Think* They Are Likely to Elect a President in 1896. Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada, is in New York. “The monetary conference,'’ he said, “is a fraud. It won’t amount to anything. If the B«publicans do not hurry up and pass a free coinage bill this winter they will not carry a State west of the Bocky Mountains in 1896. If the Democrats do not pass a free coinage bill when they come into power, if they have control of both branches of Congress, the Populists will elect a President in 1896.” According to a dispatch Senator Stewart said he thought the Popolists had come to stay. Free coinage would be one of their principal issues. He said he did not know which party would have a majority in the Senate after March 4.

Magnificent Beneficence.

John D. Rockefeller’s Christmas contribution of an additional million dollars to theV University of Chicago makes his total gift to that institution $3,600,000 —a noble sum—probably the greatest amount ever given in the history of the world by one man during his life time to a single educational object. The original gift of George Peabody for the promotion of education in the South was $2,100,000, and he subsequently increased it to $3,500,000, but this was SIOO,OOO short of what Rockefeller has done for the Chicago University. The giving of Peabody’s $8,500,000 ‘ was stretched over a period of three years. Rockefeller has given his $3,600,000 since May, 1889.

Telegraphic Brevities.

California raisin-growers are forming a trust. New York will have a new police boat, to cost $50,000. Snow fell at Puget Sound to the depth of twenty-two inches. Senator Carlisle, it Is said, will be Secretary of Interior. The Nicaraguan Canal bill has been reported to the Senate. An annexation paper—the Sun—has been established at Toronto. C. F. Mayer has been re-elected president of the Baltimore & Ohio. During 1892 there was 4,062 miles of railroad built in the United States. Many colored colonists have been driven from Oklahoma by starvation. Fred Christie, an alleged counterfeiter of dimes, was arrested at St. Louis. The Hughes extortion case has been argued before the New York Court of Appeals. * Isaac H. Maynard will be appointed associate justice of the New York Court of Appeals. * A new linp of steamers is to be established between San Diego and Mazatlan, Mexico. Cleveland is out in an interview declaring against Murphy for the United States Senate. The Toronto Bar Association adopted resolutions favoring the admission of women to the bar. The Detroit Presbytery has charged the Rev. H. P. Walton with being guilty of willful falsehood. Mrs. Kuehnert, wife of the missing Cincinnati lawyer, who is a defaulter, has assigned. She has SIO,OOO worth of property. > Conductor W. A. Nickey and Engineer Mullaney are under arrest, charged with the St. Cloud, Minn., railway wreck. Five Chinamen were sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment at Suspension Bridge for illegally entering tho United States. The 11-day-old child of a Bohemian immigrant named Carl Valdo died in its mother’s arms at Kansas City. The child was born at sea. Emmet Dalton, the desperado, under arrest at Coffeyville, Kan., may escape trial, owing -to the impossibility of securing an Unprejudiced jury. Sixteen Indians, who were taken prisoners in the terrible massacre at Tomaehie, in the western part of the State of Chihuahua, two months ago, will be shot. Lirl Lesbtoynski, a Russian Jewess, who has died at New York from old age, was certainly one of the oldest women on earth, if statements she made were true. She once told her relatives that she was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1768, which would make her 124 years old.