Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Page 2

cmotratitSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. i. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher.

M’KINLEY REJECTS AID.

EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE TO THE PEOPLE. ffhe Indians. One of Our Crack Vessels, Successfully Launched —But One Legtalatlve House in Kansas Now —Michigan Democrats Make Noniilnations* Gov** McKinley Speaks. The Cleveland Leader has received a number of communications from citizens, of Ohio and other States expressing sympathy with Gov. McKinley and suggesting that the people show their regard for the Governor and his wife by contributing to a fund from which the debts incurred by indorsing the notes of a friend might be paid. Governor McKinley has been advised of the receipt of these letters and asked if he would permit his many friends throughout the country to his relief. In reply the following communication has been received: To the editor of the Leader: I cannot express the depth of my gratitude to the people who have sent money to the Leader for my use, of which you have advised me; but. grateful as T am and always will he for their noble generosity, I cannot accept their contribur tions. Nothing has touched me more iu my misfortune than the letters of sympathy and offers of help received from those of my countrymen who have little but what they earn. Please convey to such friends my heart’s best thanss. William McKinley, Jr.

TILLAGE SWEPT AWAY. Many Lives Lost by a Sadden Rise of the Danube. ABuddenrise of the River Danube has caused the loss of many lives in Gergely, near Pako, in Hungary. The rise of the water drove the 1,000 people of the village out of their mud huts, and they sought shelter In the village church and school. The water continued to rise, and the people, led by their pastor, offored up earnest prayers for safety, and mothers and children kneeled at the altar beseeching the intercession of the saints. The raging streams covered the floors of the two buildings and the people in a panic rushed out into the flood. Fathers and mothers carried their children and attempted to wade through tbo swift current to higher ground. r lhe strong escaped, but the weak wore carried away and drowned. One woman and her five children perished, together with a large number of others. liow many is not yet known, Those who survived reached Pako in a most deplorable condition. Almost tho entire village was carried away.

SHE IS MADE FOR WAR. Successful Launch of Another Steel Defender. The great battleship Indiana was successfully launched at the shipyard of the William Cramp & Sons Company, Philadelphia, in the presence of thousands of people, among them the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy, and other members of the Cabinet, and quits a large delegation of Congressmen and others who arrived from Washington on a special train. As if anxious to got into her native element, tho huge coast defense ship slid down the well-greased ways with comparative rapidity and struck the smooth waters of the Delaware River with a force that sent waves high into the air. Then she was towed back to the wharves, and in about a year she will be ready for service and turned over to the Government. WHIPPED BY WHITE CAPB. Negro Laborers in Mississippi Beaten by Cruel White Men. * New Wesson, Miss., White Caps, numbering about fifty, went to the houses 6i several negro laborers and took them out to the woods, where they were whipped and Instructed to leave the community at once. They also went to the home of a negro preacher and took him out for the purpose of hanging him, hut before they reached the spot selected for the hanging, which was several miles distant, the prisoner effected his escapa The nogroes in tho affair and many of the planters who employ negro labor say whitecapism is calculated to drive avay the calored labor, which, if done, will entail he ivy loss to the prosperous planters. NAMED IN MICHIGAN. Durand for the Supreme Court and Harmon and Dunker for Regents. Every county in the State, except a remote one, was represented at the Michigan Democratic Convention at Detroit,Tuesday, and the number of delegates present compared well with those at any of the gubernatorial conventions Albert R Morse was temporary and ex-Governor Wlnans permanent chairman. Judge Geo. H. Durand, of Flint, was nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court, receiving 618 of the 838 votes For Regents of the University of Michigan, Henry A. Harmon, of Detroit, and Robert E. Dunker, of Muskegon, were nominated.

Populists in Tlielr Seats. At exactly 10 o’clock Tuesday morning the members of the Dunsmore house, headed by Speaker Dunsmore and Speaker Pro Tern. Semple, marched in a body Into Representative Hall and took their seats In the legal House of Representatives at Topeka, Kan. The Sergeant-at-arms led the procession with a large American flag. No flemonstrafion of any kind was permitted, The House was rapped to order and the roll called. Populist members for the first time answered to the Republican roll call. one of them filed a protest against the Supreme Court's decision. A few of these wer&yery hitter In tone. The formal surrenderors made without special incident, and the Kansas revolution was formally brought to attend. Four Injured iu an Explosion. One hundred pounds of gunpowder exploded in the sporting goods store of Rawlings Brothers, St. Louis. The front win. dows were blown cut and the street strewn with broken window-glass, boxing gloves, broken shotguns, rifles, etc. The injured number four. Set Fire to 4,000 Barrels of Oil. The pipes of the Crescent Pipe Line Company were torn np at Mowry’s Mills, Pa., and 4,000 barrels of oil poured out Into the creek. The depredators chopped down a number of telephone polls, destroying communication, and set Are to the oiL Mexico Wants Immigrants. The recommendation made by President Dias in his late message to Congress that steps be taken toward encouraging Immigration Is being carried out by the General Government and a number of the Individual States A decree has just teen promulgated by the State Government of Campeaehy. under which *lO In State bonds wiU be given to promoters of Immigration for each; Immigran t Over 10 years old, being members of a family. iJI ■ Bapk Robbed by the Cashier. The disappearance and defalcation • cf ;A«Maat Cashier Red wine, of the Gate CMf Jlsttoealßank of Atlanta Ox, is the

biggest financial sensation Atlanta lias known for years A thorough examination of the bank's affairs wa9 made by officers of the Clearing house Association, and they reported the defalcation was abent $65,000, _____ Winter wheat. Reports on Its Condition as Sent Oat by the Farmer’s Review. Reports on the winter wheat, as received by the Farmer’s Review. Bhow ihat in most of the States a critical point has been reached, and on the next few weeks will depend the future of the crop. In Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky there has been so much freezing nnd thawing, alternating with ice and snow, that many of the correspondents " confess .themselves at this time qnable to tell the exact condition ot the plant. In Ohio more than halt mr'. the correspondents : re- ’ port the ■condition as good, and most of tho remainder report fair. A very few report the .condition as bad or doubtful. In some* Ol tire counties that report the,condition as good, the plant had made hut small growth when it went into winter quarters, but as it has been coveted with a good blanket of snow a,ll winter It is at present An good condition'‘for an early spring start. Altogether the outlook in this State is better than most of the wheat States in the West. In Michigan the ground is covered with snow to such a.depth that little can be told concerning the condition of wheat. It is known that on many of the level fields and especially qn-the low lands ice has formed under the snow and damage is almost certain to result. Besides this . the condition last fall was not good in certain counties on account of the late sowing and the ravages of the Hessian fly. In Missouri a few, of the correspondents report wheat in good condition, more report fair, and most. report the condition as bad or doubtfuL In Kansas and Nebraska the general outlook seems, to be good, but there is so much uncertainty about it that it will require a few days of warm weather to reveal its true condition. In lowa the fields are still covered with snow to such a depth that it is believed the crop is yet safe, but the danger will come when the snow melts Thesamois true of the wheat in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

CONTROL THE PRICE OF F’LOUR. Spring Wheat Millers’ Association Now An Practical Operation. The Spi log Wheat Millers’ Association Is now in operation. It has at present a membership of several hundred miliars, representing a daily output of flour reaching into the hundreds of thousands of barrels. The States covered are Minnesota, North Dakota, lowa, Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and the spriug-wheat mills of New York State at. Buffalo, Rochester, and Niagara Falls, The conception of a xombiue dates from the organization of the Southern Minnesota Millers’ Association three ot four years ago. The principal object of that Association waß to fix the minimum price at which flour should bo sold. The headquarters of the Association are in the Corn 'Exchange Building, Minneapolis. Should the spring wheat dealers’ combine prove a success there is hut little doubt that the winter wheat dealers, who constitute an equally powerful branch of milling, would organize in like manner. TWENTY-FIVE SLAIN. River Inlet Indians Massacred by Kltkatalas in Urltlsh Columbia. Meager reports of a terrible Indian massacre on Sorrow Island, a distant trading post, have bden received at Vancouver. R C. The massacre occurred several weeks ago. Borne River Inlet Indians went to the! island to hunt They clashed somelof the Kitkatalas tribe, who were ali) hunting, and the ill feeling was lintensiflod by one of the intruders molesting a Kitkatalas girl, The offender waa killed by her tribe and a general fight ensued. The River Inlet men were vanquished, and all of them, over twenty-five In number, were put to death with the exception of three chiefs. They were imprisoned, but it was finally decided to kill them, and they were accordingly shot.

HELD UP THE TOWN. Bold Work of Three Desperadoes at Adair Station, 1.. T, Wednesday night, just after Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train No. 2 pulled out of Adair Btatton, L T.. three desperadoes confronted tbo agent and robbed him of *B.TOO. Eighteen citizens who appeared on the sesno 'were made to hold up their hands and were tmirfched at the point of the bandits’ guns to one of tlie principal 6tores In the town, which was robbed of 8300. The robbers then marched the men to the stock yards, where their horses were hitched. They then mounted and disappeared. Dakota Has a New Divorce Law. The South Dakota House passed a “valued policy” bill with only one dissenting vota This is similar to the Wisconsin law. It also passed a bill compelling railroads to put In connecting tracks at junction points, and concurred In the Senate amendments to the divorce bill, which makes a sixmonths’ residence necessary where personal service can be secured, and one year where service Is secured by advertisement The bill now goes to the Governor. Nominated Hooker. The Republicans of Michigan have renominated Justice Hooker for Supreme Court Justice. Jules Ferry Elected. M. Jules Ferry was elected president of the French Senuti by a majority of 148 votes.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. CATTLE—Common to Prime $3.25 (it 6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.8 C & 8.50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 73 @ .74 Cobh—No. 2 to & .« Oats—No. 2 30 @ .31 Rye—No. 2 52 @ .53 . Butteb—Choice Creamery 27!4@ .2854 Eggs—Fresh 22 @ .23 Potatoes—New, per bn 75 @ .85 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 St 6.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.60 @ 8.60 Sheep—Common to Prime...... 3.00 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 63 @ .68M Cobn—No. 2 White 41 @ .42 Oatb—No. 2 White BtH<3> .33?4 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs... 3.00 @8.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red .67 @ .68 COBN—No. 2 37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Rye—No. 2 54 & .66 „ CINCINNATL Cattle 8.00 @6.25 AJ HEAT--.No, 2 Red 72 10 .72*4 Cobh—No. 2 43’4@ .44^ Oats—No. 3 Mixed ,34 .36 Rye—No. 2 56 & .68 „ . DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.73 hogs /... 3.00 @7.50 Sheep.. 3.00 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 72 @ .73 Co BN—No. 2 Yellow 4'2’2@-._43'ft Oats-No. 2 White .38 & .© * „ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 , .72 @ .73 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 42 <0 .42*4 Oats—No. 2 White 35 (5! .36 Rye ... .57 @ ,6J BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 6.50 Hogs—Best Grade 4.00 @ 8.00 ■Wheat—No. 2 Red 7eh>@ .7714 COBN—No. 2 Yellow. 4614@ .47)4 Milwaukee. Wheat—No. 2 Spring.. 63 @ .70 Cobs—No. 3 38.>4@ .3914 Oats—No. 2 White... .1 3414@ .36)4 Rye—No. 1 56 @ .58 Barley—No. 2 1 62 @ .64 Poke—Mess 1 18.75 @10.25 NEWJYORK. CATTLE...* j 3.60 @5.50 Hogs 3.00 @8.50 Sheep s.ou @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red...., 78 & .80 Cobn—No. 2 63 @ .54 Oatb—Mixed Western .38 @ .39 BtTTtEE-Best ......... .... .25 .. .29 Poke—New Mess 20.00 @20.56

CLEVELAND’S CABINET.

BKETCHES OF MEN WHO WILL HOLD PORTFOLIOS. Cabinet Make-Up Curiously at Variance with Precedent—The President- Elect Has Relied Solely on His Own Personal Judgment. I — 1 *«■ The President’s Advisers. Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet is now complete. In making his appointments Mr. Cleveland has evidently been governed entirely by his own personal judgment, and neither outside influences nor established precedents have had any hand in his selections. The Secretary o. State. Judge Walter Q. Gresham has the unique dlstinctldn of having acted successively as Postmaster General and Secretary.of the Treasury under a Republican administration, of having been, courted by the Populists in connection with the Presidency in 1892, and, finally, of being installed at the head of a Democratic Cabinet. Ho was born March IT, 1834, on a farm near Corydon, Ind. His early surroundings were unprophetic of the distinguished position he afterward attained, and his education, general and • legal, was acquired only by dint of indomitable peisistence and rigid, self-denial. He was sent to the Indiana Legislature in

WALTER Q. GRESHAM.

1860, where he framed the Indiana Legion measure and saw it pass into a law. He. commanded a volunteer company at the outbreak of the war, and was disabled at the battle of Peach Tree Creek in 1865, after which he resumed the practice of law. He was appointed District Judge by Grant in 1860, in which capacity he served with ability for twelve years. Under President Arthur he acted first as Postmaster Gen eral and later as Secrotary of the Treasury, graduating thence to the Circuit bench, which he leaves now to take the premiership in Cleveland’s Cabinet. Tlie Treasury Portfolio. John G. Carlisle, who will act as Secretary of the Treasury, has filled the public eye for many years, and before

the President-elect appeared on the stage o f national polities Carlisle championed in Congross the anti-pro-tection principles with which Cleveland’s name is now so distinctly associated. Strong in debate, with the courage of his convictions and power of leadership, he

J. G. CARLISLE.

will be an undoubted element of strength In the coming Cabinet. He was born in Kentucky 58 years ago, and after a brief experience as a pedagogue at Covington, Ky., he engaged in the practice of law. He served several terms in the Legislature of his natlvo State, and from 1871 to 1875 ho was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. In 1876 he acted as Presidential elector, and was elected to Congress the same year.

The Secretary of War. The graduation of Col. Daniel S. Lamont from the position of Private Secretary to President Cleveland to the War

portfolio is without a parallel in the Washington records. He was born in Cortlandville, N. Y., in 1862, and enters tho Cabinet at an exceptionally early ago. Educated at Union College, he was early initiated into themysteries of New York politics by

DANIEL S. LAMONT.

Samuel J. Tilden. When but 20 years of age he was a delegate at the convention at which Tweed -was defeated by Tilden. He held an interest in tho Albany Argus and was connected with that paper when Governor Cleveland appointed him his Private Secretary. The Postmaster General. The appointment of Wilson Shannon Bißsell is essentially a personal one, and one for which the great friendship ex-

WILSON S. BISSELL

► End on his general business ability. He was born in Oneida County, New York, Ip 1847, being taken when six years old tp Buffalo, of which city he has been a liesident ever sldco. In 1872 he entered lb to a partnership with Lyman K. Bass, pnd a few months later Grover Cleveland entered the firm, leaving when elected Governor of the State. Mr. Sissell is a director in many corporaons, railroad and commercial. The Seen* ary ot the Interior. The youngest man In the Cabinet will be Hoke Smith of Georgia, who, like Mr. Bissell, is a very large man, weighing

Dearly 250 pounds. A young lawyer in Atlanta six years . c go, he leaped to the front by his energetic and suc-oes-ful championipg of tariff* reform principles in Georgia. He. bought the Atlanta Journal -for a small sum and waged relentless war on the oppo-

nents of Cleveland’s tariff views In Georgia. He finally worked the defeat of the anti-Cleveland forces in his State. He is a very successful lawyer, railroad cases being his specialty. The attorney General. Bichard Olney, who has been chosen for Attorney General, graduated from Brown University in 1856 and Harvard law school two years later. Twice he has been offered a Massachusetts justiceship, but declined, having the last offer from Governor Russell. Mr. Olney was bob in Oxford, Mass., in 1836. Hie

isting between the appointee and the President-elect is responsible. Mr. Bissell has no political record whatever, and his reputation, which is a high one and more than local, is based entirely on his ''prominence as a corporation lawyer

EOKE SMITH.

only polldpal venture was when he rep. resented me Second Norfolk District ip. the Legislature in 1874- This was the year whe* there was a great overturn in State iolitip#, William Gaston defeating Governor Talbot by nearly 8,000 votes. In Mr. Oiney’s district there was a close contest. On the face of the returns he was only five behind. A recount made It a tie, and on a election he won the seat. It has been supposed by jnany that Mr. OTney was a mugwump; but his fealty to his party has never been que stioned. Secretary of the Navy. Hilary A. Herbert, the representative of Alabama in Cleveland’s Cabinet, will be placed in control of the Navy

H. A. HERBERT.

ginla, studied law and was admitted to practice. At the outbreak of tb4 civil war he enterod the Confederate service as a Captain and was promoted to Colonel of the Eighth regiment of Alabama Volunteers. ■ He was elected a member of the Forty-fifth and each succeeding Congress up to the present time. He was twice a member of the committee on naval affairs of the House and in the, present Congress is chairman of that committee. The Portfolio of Agriculture. J. Sterling Morton was born at Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., in 1832, going when a boy to Michigan, where he at

tended school at Ann Arbor, later attending classes at Union College, New York. From New York he went/ to Nebraska, where' he acted as editor, of the Nebraska City News. After being twice elected to the Territorial

J. S. MORTON.

Legislature, he made an unsuccessful run for the Governorship. Three times thereafter he was a candidate for the same position, each time Without success. Mr. Morton’s orchards at Arbor Lodge are the finest in the State. r ’ i

MURDER AND ARSON.

A Most Serious Charge Made Against Adolph. Niese, of Ottumwa, lowa. Ottuma (Iowa) special: There, is now little doubt that Ottumwa was the scene, Tuesday night, of an atrocious crime, it being tho murder of a woman and her babe by tho unnatural husband and father, who sought to conceal the crime by burning the house and cremating the bodies. Tho alleged murderer is a German, 39 years of age, named Adolph Niese. Pending the verdict of the coroner’s jury he was arrested. Niese’s house was discovered on lire, and burned to the ground with all its contents. Niese and three children, aged 9, 7. and 5, got safely out, but his wife and 9-moaths-old baby were burned to death. Much sympathy was felt for the afflicted husband until ugly rumors got afloat, which were confirmed by evidence taken by the coroner. It was ulleged that Niese had been untrue to his wife, that he had quarreled with her, that her life was insured for $5,009 in his favor, that the household goods were ful'y insured, and that Niese had killed his wife and child and then set fire to the house. The testimony of Niese’s own children before the coroner’s jury and others is exceedingly damaging. Niese took the three ohildren out of the house to the home of Mrs. Pease, a neighbor. The oldest little girl told Mrs. Pease that her father had (old her that morning that if the house burned and her mamma was burned up they would have money to build a new house, they would have nice clothes, and would have a new mamma. The sister or the dead woman, who is Implicated in the dreadlul affair, is unmarried and came from Germany three months ago. She has been arrested and is now in the oity jail. Her name ia Hattie Volz. The post-mortem of the charred remains of Mrs. Niese shows that the skull had been crushed, and there Was a large clot of blood on one side of the head. It is not known whether the infant was killed before being cremated cr not. The woman’s life was insured for $5,000 in the Covenant Mutual Benefit Association of Illinois. One of the most suspicious circumstances is that Niese was fully dressed, even to overshoes, before arousing his neighbors, and that anions the first offsets rescued from the burnng building were his in* surance policies.

STOLE OVER A MILLION.

Another Lot of Forged Paper to the Amount of 00,000 at Lincoln, Neb. The Omaha dee’s special from Lincoln, Neb., ears that another lot of forged paper, aggregating $200,000, has been brought to light in the Capitol National Bank case. One batch of notes now in the hands of attorneys for collection for Eastern banks, amounting to $173,000, sigred by an ex-employe of Mosher named Hurlbut and indorsed by Mosher as president of the Capitol National Bank, were floated Uy Mosher and the money sequestered by him. Mosher admits that he got the cast, but refuses to say where any of it went. The bank was opened Thursday for the purpose of admitting creditors to file their claims and wind up its business. It is now stated by conservative men who are intimate with the affairs of the instituticn that the bank’s liabilities will exceed $1,200,000, with assets practically nothing. Mosher admits that his efforts to raise money to settle his shortage have failed, It is not expected that the bank will pay to exceed 10 cents on the do’.lar. Lincoln's business men, who have had faith ia the statements that a full settlement would be made, are greatly excited. In the Senate a resolution orderirg immediate steps to be taken to proteetthe Stats was passed.

BERING SEA COMMISSION.

Arbitrators Meet at Parts and Adjourn to Harch 23. The Commission of Arbitration on the Bering Sea controversy between the United States and Great Britain met in Paris Thursday in the foreign office to open formally the proceedings. There were present Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court, American arbitrator; Lord Hannen, British arbitrator; Marquis Visconti Venosta, Italian arbitrator; Baron Alfonse de Courcel, French arbitrator; C. H. Tupper, Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, there as British agent; J. T. 'Williams, council for the United States; Sir Richard Webster and Sir • Charles Russell, counsel for Great Britain. Judge iram, or the Christiania Supreme Court, the Swedish arbitrator, will not go tc Paris until the next meeting. Baroi de Courcel was elected to preside. Ihe proceedings, which lasted bilt hal an hour, were purely formal and the commission adjourned until March 23. In 1848 1,631 journals wore issued in the United Stabs.

WENT OVER THE BANK.

WRECK ON THE FT. WAYNE ROAD NEAR COLUMBIA CITY. Om Man Killed and Twenty Ferson* Injured in the Accident—A Broken Kail Caused the Disaster—Bimetailsts Meet In Wasington. Derailed at u Bridge. The two rear coaches of train No. 21 of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Bead, eastbound, left the track at Eel River bridge, one mile east of, Columbia City, Ind. One man was killed and twenty persons, injured. The cars rolled down a rocky embankment twenty feet high. The accident was caused by a broken rail. The rim on a driving wheel of the locomotive came off and broke the rail. The train ran over the bridge on the ties, and the two rear cars left the track 800 feet further on. Five minutes after the wreck every passenger, with the exception of Dr. John W. Paramore, had been removed from the ruined coaches. Dr. Paramore was sitting in the rear coach when the' cars left the rails' and began to bump ac:oss the ties on the bridge. When the coach whirled over the embankment his head wa3 caught between the crashing timbers of the roof, and crushed like an egg shell. The body was so entangled in the wreckage that axes had to bo called into use before ft could be removed. Scarcely had the body of Paramore been secured when both coaches caught fire from the overturned stove. The flames were soon extinguished by the passengers, who threw snow and ice over the burning debris. The wounded passengers looked on while the fames were extinguished with that thankfulness which comes to those who realize a narrow escape from the most horrible of deaths. One feeble old woman, whom fate had miraculously allowed to escape without a scratch, knelt down in the snow and offered up a silent prayer of thanks.

Department. He is how a resident of Montgomery, Ala.,but was born at LaucensvUle, S. C. When he was a child , his father removed to Alabama, settling in Greene *ll le. He received his education at the University of Alar, bama and the.UnK ver6ity of- Vir-

The American Bimetallic Loiguo Convention at Washington. The first annual convention of the American Bimetallic League was called to order in Washington by its President, Gen. A. J. Warner. Fifty delegates from the Western States were present, among them Gen. Weaver, the candidate for President of the People's party, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Lease. Gen. Warner stated the aim of the league to be the securing of legislation for the free and unlimited coinage of siver. This question, he said, was the most important one now before the American people or before the civilized world. It overshadowed the tariff question, which, in his opinion, was but a result of the restricted coinage of silveivand it was really at the bottom of the Finish question. It was also at the bottom of the labor question and was responsible for the condition of the laboring man. Three-fourths of the value *of gold came from its monetary use. He urged the league to fight not only against the repeal of the Sherman act, but to labor until silver was put on a parity with gold. Gen. J. B. Weaver male a speech, in which he referred to Chairman Warner, and said skid that twelve years had elapsed since they had joined in making the best fight possible in the House of Representatives for the free coinage of silver, and he called upon his friends to bear witness that the cause had made considerable progress. Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, who then addressed the convention, was frequently applauded. She said that the people of the West had felt the crushing effects of legislation enacted by the two great political parties for the last thirty years. The people of the West, she said, demanded free trade, free silver and free citizens, and if there is anything else good in sight they are in favor of that also. They realized that God was the first to bestow free trade and they held that Congress had no right to restrict it. They demanded competition in the open markets of the world, the expense of the Government to be maintained by an income tax.

SECRETARY FOSTER RESIGNS.

He Goes to Europe to Represent America In the Behring Sea Arbitration. Secretary John AY. Foster has retired from President Harrison’s Cabinet for the purpose of assuming the management of the case of the United States before the international tribunal, which is to assemble in Paris, Fiance, for the arbitration of the questions in controversy between the United States and Great Britain in connection with the sealing industries of Behring Sea. Secretary Foster will sail cn the steamship, New York for Southampton, proceeding then to Paris. He will be accompanied from New York ly Senator Morgan, one of the arbitrators; Hubbard T. Smith and FTauco's S. Jones, attaches; Mrs. J, \V. Foster, Miss Cockrell, daughter of Senator Cockrell: Miss Halford, daughter o. 1 Private Secretary Halford; and Miss Williams, daughter of Gen. Williams.

INSPIRED BY JENKS’ ENEMIES.

Source of the Statement That He Was to Re Cleveland's Attorney General. The statement that George A. Jenks, of Pennsylvania, was to be Mr. Cleveland’s Attorney General emanated from friends of William F. Harrity, to whom the thought of Mr. Jenks’ appointment was as gall and wormwood. The announcement was made for the purpose of destroying whatever possibility there might be of Mr. Jenks’ entering the Cabinet. Mr. Harrity himself is said to have sent word to Mr. Cleveland within the past few days indicating that Mr. Jenks’ appointment would be distasteful to h'm. Harrity, it is explained, would have gone into the cabinet himself had it not been for the fact that he is making $15,000 a year in his present position as Secretary of State of Pennsylvania. He does not want to give up this income for a Cabinet salary of only SB,OOO a year.

As the result of correspondence between Secretary of State Foster and Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister, a new “order in council” has bebn issued by the Canadian Government regulating the tolls of the Dominion canals for the season of 1893. The effect of this new order is to abolish the rebate on tolls and the regulation against transshipped goods, thereby removing all the discriminations of which the government of the United States has so long complained.

The Massachusetts Legislature killed the woman suffrage bill. The Pope devotes nine hours daily to the reception of pilgrims. The Behring Sea modus vivendi has been extended anotner year. The 19-ounce babe of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones, of Wichita, Kan., is dead, Martha E. Buchanan was burned to death at Pittsburg by a lamp explosion. Nine gondolas for the World’s Fair have arrived at New York from Venice. P. P. Lorillard’A steam yacht was burned in the Lucian Biver in Florida. Representative McCreary, of Kentucky, fell on a slippery walk at Washington and broke an arm.

FREE SILVER THE CRY.

Canal Tolls Are Abolished.

Telegraphic Brevities.

EIGHT LIVES LOST.

CRUSHED BENEATH A BIG CHICAGO BUILDING. • ■-% A. Small Cyclone Blows Over an Unfinished Structure—Weakening of the Mortar by Thawing Frost Supposed to Be the Cause of the Disaster. Buried Under Tons of Brick. Eight people were crushed to death and four others seriously injured at 1:15 o’clock Tuesday morning by the falling of the stone rains of John York’s building at 781 South Halsted street, Chicago. York’s store was gutted by fire aifew weeks ago and the blackened Stone walls were left standing. It not supposed that there was Any danger of their falling. Shortly after 12 (o'clock Monday night, however, a brisk/gale of wind was blowing and a sudden gust caused the wails to topple,.-'and fall biitying two frame houses which . stood juht north of the ruins. The first house was occupied on the first floor by one Kunz, a jeweler, and his wife and four children. On the second floor lived the family of John Smith with his wife and three children. Smith was a saloonkeeper and with him roomed his bartender, who recently came from .Syracuse, N. Y. His first name was George, but the police were unable to learn his surname. Smith and his family and the bartender were all buried beneath the ruins. The York building was five stories high and the walls were made of large stones. The force of the wind which toppled the walls must have been terrific, as many of the large stones were hurled clear across the street. Shortly after the crash the ruins took fire and the bodies of the mangled victims were badly burned. An alarm was turned in at 1:45 o’clock; this was quickly followed by a second and third alarm. The fire department promptly responded, and went to work extinguishing the flames and attempting to rescue the victims. A great crowd soon congregated, and it was with difficulty the police and firemen could keep back the citizens who seemed anxious to assist in the work of rescue. The front walls of the building were threatening to fall at any moment, and the crowd was repeatedly warned to keep at safe distance from the ruins,

The fallen building was one of the South Halsted streetjandmarks. A year ago last summer it was reconstructed and changed from the old style frame structure that bad for years been known as a general store into a modern fivestory brick and stone. • It was then an imposing structure in that locality. The new store had 1 been in operation, but a few months, when last fail it was visited by a fire that! was probably the direct cause of the Calamity. The fire which wrecked the bjtrilding was a fierce one, and after several hours the side walls of the large structure fell in. Within a short time work was begun upon the ruins. Txyo weeks ago a falling scaffold severely injured two men at work upon the walls, but the work of repair went forward, and a week later York obtained a bujlding permit for a new five-story bridle building to cost "$&0,000. This had been begun some time ago, and the side walls were already in place. One of these caused the catastrophe.

GO WITH THE REPUBLICANS.

Kansas Populists Decide to Give Up Their House Grgranization. Topeka, Kas., special: After a heated caucus discussion, the Populist members of the Kansas Ilegislatuie decided to go into the Republican house, which the Supreme Court had declared to be the legul bedy. The Governor visited the members of the caucus and pledged himself to abide by the caucus decision. The appeal against the decision of the Supreme court will be made at the general election two years hence. In going iato the house the Populists have asked no concessions and the Republicans have granted none.’ There is talk amofig the Republican members of the Legislature of filing articles of impeachment against Gov. Lewelling. Should the House prefer the charges it is not contemplated that the Senate would convict, The Governor will be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors in office by the usurpation of powera that belonged to the peace officers of the county and with the unlawful use of troops.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Spain liasinstiluted a cholera quarantine against i* ranee. Archbishop Kenbick, of St. Louis, is improved in health. Four cases of small-pox are reported in a Portland, Ore., hospital. Henry George is a candidate for the Manchester, Eng., consulship. All employes of the Santa Fe P.ailway system will unite in a federation. Kippey, who shot John W. Mackay, has a divorced wife living in Seattle, Wash. F. O. French, President of the Manhattan Trust Company, of New York, died at Tuxedo. Belgian forces in Congo Free State defeated a party of Arab slave traders, taking 500 prisoners. The Brdwery Workers’ Union will leave the Federation of Labor and affiliate with the Knights of Labor. Four oyster boats were wrecked in Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, and seven oystermen were drowned. Oliver Burr Jennings, who died recently at Bridgeport, Conn., left an estate of $20,000,000 to his family. Samuel Price, a railroad employe, was so badly frozen near Pittsburg that his hands and feet were amputated. Emperor William has ordered an Inquiry into the causes of- the increase of crime among the young in Germany. John B. McFee, an Indianapolis attorney, who embezzled $12,000 and fled on Jan. 12, was arrested at Philadelphia. A bill is before the New Jersey Legislature providing for the introduction of the Faribault school system into the State. Ten persons belonging to a peasant wedding party at Ekaterinoslav, Russia, were drowned by a sledge breaking through the ice. New York asks an appropriation of Congress to be used in entertaining foreigners who will visit the city during the World’s Fair. A report to the Kentu ky Legislature shows that the Mason & Ford Company, convict-labor lessees, is in debt to the State $94,0u0. The Minnesota Shoe Company’s plant, at St. Paul, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $v:00,000, of which $28,000 falls on Kuhles & Stock, cigar dealers. President Gannon, of the Irish National League, repudiates the antiHome P.ule circular recently issued over the signatures of the officers of the League. The Cofroae & Company, operating the Beading roller mi is, is in the hands of a receiver. The company, a Philadelphia concern, has a capital of $500,000. Father Flaheily, a Mount Morris, N. Y., priest, is accused of embezzling SIOO,OOO from the estate of Dr. G. A. Bartholick, of whose estate the priest wi»? executor. 1

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK QF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and Bouse oi Representative. Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Busiuess. The National Solons. In tbe Bouse, Tuesday, the hours were mostly employed In filibustering against the car-coupler bill. Day" and night were devoted to the consideration of the postoffice appropriation 'bill, the debate on which was confined, to the special service provision. But the oat-coupler measure was the ene which -met’ with determined oppoßltish: Mr. feidhardspn led the opposing party and,- by. 'parliamentary maneuvers, prevented any’ action being taken on It. •. , The first of what is said to be a dally series of conflicts between the appropriation bills and the anti-options bill until the latter is acted on was the feature of Wednesday’s session of the House. The members were worn out from Tuesday night’s session, which lasted uirtil morning, and the day' passed tamely. Mr. Hatch had grown tired of the delay to which the anti-options bill is being subjected, and when It was moved to take up the postoffice appropriation bill he antagonized tbe motion , jvlth the measure of which he Is champion. Being defeated he made the same fight also unsuccessfully when the postoffice bili was passed with the special mall facility appropriation Included m it, and again when the Indian appropriation bill was called up. Members were thus put on ‘record, and then the Indian question was discussed languidly for three hours. In the Senate Senator Chandler, from the Committee on Immigration, submitted a report on hts bill establishing additional Regulations concerning immigration In the United States by Increasing by three the number of excluded classes of aliens The consular and diplomatic appropriation was next brought before the Senate, but the consideration of executive business was resumed instead.

Good progress was made in the Senate ’lhursday in disposing of the absolutely necessary work of Congress Within less than an hour two of the general appropriation bills—the diplomatic and consular and the military academy—were read, considered and passed. Then the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, which appropriates about $22,000,000, was taken up and considered up till the sime of adjournment. Without disposing of the legislative bill, the Senate adjourned. On motion of Mn Hitt in the House, a bill was passed for the relief of George W. Jones, late United States Minister to the United States of Colombia. Mr. Jones, who was the first United States Senator from the State of lowa, was present, and when the Speaker announced that It had been agreed to he arose and returned his hearty thanks to Mr. Hitt for his- successful effort The sundry civil appropriation bill, with Senate amendments, was laid before the House arid referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Peel (Ark.) moved that the House go Into committee of the whole for the consideration of general appropriation hills. This motion was antagonized by Mr. Hutch (Me.), who wished the consideration of the anti-option bill. Mr. Peel’s motion prevailed—yeas. 152; nays, 75—and the consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was resumed. Without disposing of the bill the committee rose and the House adjourned. Mr. Hatch received another reverse Friday in his efforts to secure consideration of tbe anti-option bill It was his third reverse within twenty-four hours, and it caused much alarm in the anti-option ranks. There was a disposition to criticise Mr. Hatch for lack of judgment in bringing tne bill forward in antagonizm to the appropriation bill. Mr. Hatch, who was presiding over the committee of the whole, left the chair and addressing his successor said that for three legislative days the Indian bill had been under consideration. There was not, he continued, an intelligent member of the House who did not absolutely know that at this hour of the session the appropriation bill was being used as a means of obstructing the consideration of the anti-option bill, and that the opponents of the latter measure, the friends of the demonetization of silver and the friends of the Senate rider to an appropriation bill were In an absolute agreement and conspiracy, and no sentleman from this time until 12 o’clock March 4 could shield himself under any sort of subterfuge unless ho was willing to go on record not only as opposed to the antioption bill, but as the opponent of silver and the friend of tne 2 per cent, amendment. The House was brought face to face with this issue, and he gave notice that he would continue this struggle In the interest of the people as against the Interest of Lombard street and Wail street until the people’s rights were preserved. The House then took a recess until the evening session, which was to be devoted 1.0 the consideration of private pension bills. Jhe debate In the Senate was over the question presented in ihe legislative appropriation bill, whether the Utah Commission, which has been In existence for the last ten years, should he abolished, as proposed by the House, or continued in office, as recommended by the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The question was decided In fhvor of continuing the commission. A fight was inaugurated In the nouse Saturday. It was over the sundry civil appropriation hill which contains the Sherman bond amendment. 1 here are in all 207 amendments to the bill Mr. Holman desired that all—except the Sherman amendment, upon which there was to he debate—be nonconcurred in. Mr. Bland, as leader of the opposition to the Sherman amendment, objected unless it was agreed that that amendment should he, after debate, also nonconcurred in. > This suggestion of Mr. Bland's raised the antagonism of Mr. Cockran. and no agreement was arrived at. The sliver men then resorted to filibustering tactics, which were effectual. and after a speech by Mr. Bland the bill went over without action. After four hours passed In discussing various amendments (of little Importance) to the legislative appropriation bill the Senate passed the bill, insisted on its amendments, and requested a conference with the House on the disagreeing votes. The pension appropriation bill was passed by the Senate Monday without any amendments. It appropriates for army and navy pensions (including widows and minor children) $165,000,000 and about $1,500,000 In addition for fees of examining surgeons, clerk hire at peusion agencies and some small items. Mr. Gorman commented upon the magnitude of pension appropriations, and gave it ns his opinion that it would be necessary to appropriate $200,000,000 for pensions next session. There was a general expression in the discussion which took place that no material reuuctlon co.uld be effected except through a repeal or modification of sonys of the laws on the subject, and that there was no probability of such a thing. One of the most important hills affecting railroads ever passed by Congress was that which went through the House Monday afternoon, providing for a uniform system of brakes and car-couplers. Tbe hill has already passed the Senate, so that the action of the House Insures a comprehensive American system of safeguards for railway travel The bill passed In spite of the most bitter opposition from the railroads, which contended that it would bankrupt somo of the Southern roads, and would cost tbe railroads of the country from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000.

The March of Pestilence.

In 1867 cholera very severe in Rome*. Naples, Sicily and Spain. In 1867 black jack at New Orleans; from Havana; 3,107 deaths. Blauk vomit at New Orleans in 1878; from Havana; 3,977 deaths. Memphis almost depopulated by yellow fever in 1878; 5,160 deaths. In 1877 measles broke out in Russian army on the Danube; 10,00) died. ‘ In 1867 plague and cholera appeared together in Borne; great mortality. . Savannah, Ga., suffered severely from a visitation of yellow fever in 1876. Cholera general in every quarter of Vienna; thousands of deaths in 1873. The outbreak of 1867 caused by excavating a plague cemetery of Nero’s time.