Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — Page 2

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STEVENS IS REMOVED.

BLOUNT IS MADE MINISTER TO HAWAII. Five Lives Lost at the Burning of an Indian Village—A World's Fair Swindler Caught Early I —Curtailment of the Soft Snap of Naval Officers. Stevens to Return, Blount to Stay. Officials of the State Department confirm the report* that ex-Representative Blount Is appointed Minister Resident to the Hawaiian Islands. It has been supposed that Minister Stevens would remain In charge of the legation until the 24tb of this month, at which time he has announced bis Intention of sailing for San Francisco. It Is now known that Mr. Stevens has been instructed to forthwith turn over the legation to Commissioner Blount, who has been appointed his successor. There is reason to believe that Mr. Stevens was not allowed to remain In charge of the legation until the 24th Inst because of his activity In behalf of annexation. It Is further Btated at the department that Messrs. Bowen and Sewall. who went to Honolulu shortly after Commissioner Blount’s arrival, have been active In their efforts to stimulate sentiment on the Islands in favor of annexation, and are thought to have created the impression that In so doing they were representing the President, Secretary Gresham has informed Mr. Blount that the President repudiates everything said and done by tbeso gentlemen. MUST SERVE UNCLE SAM. Naval Officers Will Not Be Allowed to Enter Emplov of Private Concerns. Secretary Herbert has determined that he will not grant any leaves of absence to naval officers to engage in private enterprises or accept employment outside of the navy. This rule applies to explorers like Lieutenant Peary as well as to officers who are employed by manufacturing firms. Existing leaves of this kind will not he Interfered with or curtailed, but they will not be extended under any circumstances. One naval officer on leave Is drawing 86,000 per annum salary from the Cramps. Commander Folger is in the employ of the Harvey Nickel-I’late Company at a large salary. Secretary Herbert says that some of these officers are using their talents and the education and experience they acquired at government expense In direct competition with the interests of the government and that the practice must be stopped. The Secretary of War is considering the propriety of making a similar rule as to army officers.

IKON AND STEEL REPORT. Last Year YVas Not Prosperous, and a Gloomy View of the Future Taken. The statistical report of the American Iron and Steel Association for 1892 has just been Issued. Reviewing the domestic Iron trade, for 1892, the report says that prices utterly failed to respond to the very great demand for consumption. and it can not, therefore, be truly said that our iron and steel Industries were prosperous in 1892. It was a year of good profits for very few iron and steel manufacturers, of small profits for many, and of no profits at all for a large number. Seeking for the cause of the depression the opinion Is advanced that while other influences have had their part, the principal cause Is to be found In our capacity to produce much more iron and steel than the country could consume, notwithstanding the enormous consumption the last few years. A somewhat gloomy view of the future is taken. LOCHREN BEGINS HIS LABORS. New Commissioner of Pensions Has Not Vet Outlined a Policy. The new Commissioner of Pensions, Judge William Lochren, of Minnesota, has arrived in Washington and entered for the first time Tuesday morning the big building over which he is to proside during the next four years. “I have not been in a position to give* any time to the consideration of pension matters or any Government affairs except In the most cursory way, owing to the exacting nature of my judicial duties,” 6aid Judge Lochren. “Consequently I have outlined no policy and formulated no theories. All I have to do Is to carry out existing lawa”

Murderers to Be Shot. Nearly a year ago au Englishman named AlcKellar was shot down from ambush and killed near Saltillo, Mexico. The murder attracted attention throughout Mexico and England owing to the woalth and prominence of the victim. Adolfo Villareal, a wealthy Mexican,whose ranch adjoined McKellar’s, and his servant, Dionzlo Galan, were arrested on suspicion, convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison. The Supreme Court has just revised the sentence and sentenced both murderers to be shot. Entire family Burned to Death. The village of North Galveston. Ind., was almost totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. The residence of J. J. Jackson, among others, wss consumed, and the entire family, consisting of himself, wife, two sons and a daughter, perished in the flames. Several other persons were badly burned. The loss is estimated at 973,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Catlin as a Scalper. A conspiracy to defraud the World’s Columbian Exposition was unearthed at Jackson Park. The chief mover in the enterprise confessed his guilt and is now locked up. His name is J. M. Catlin, a member of the Columbian guard. Hi; plan was to share with a ticket taker in the sales of tickets which the latter was to hold out; but the BCheme was given away.

To Protect the Boys. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting the selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of cigarettes and cigarette papers to minors. Business Men Blackmailed. The St Louis Republic charges that the Vaster 6team and Hot Water Filters’ Association of the United States is a conspiracy, formed for the purpose of depriving the consumer of tbe benefit of competition and incidentally of blackmailing and browbeating all firms in business who refuse to enter the trust Killed by a Surprise Party. Mrs. Nicholas Hamer, of Burlington, la, on catching sight of a crowd of neighbors who had entered her house to give her husband a birthday surpr sc, fell to the floor dead from heart disease. Narrowly Escaped a Lynching. George Spencer, a Knoxville (Tenn.) painter over fifty years of age, committed an "assault on 4 9-year-old girl He was arrested and identified The jail was soon' surrounded toy 'a mob of 500 men determined to lynch Mb. but seventy-five deputies armed with. Winchesters defeated the plan. Drowned by the Swamping of Their Boat. .Captain Irving, well known ail the eastern provinces in connection with tbe ice boat service between Prince Edward J«l»sd r and tbe main land, and three others were drowned at Bell’s Point, Cape Traverse, by the swamping of their

CREEPING VINES LINED HIS STOMACH Lemon Tree Takes Growth In the Interior or a Negro. John Herry Leake, a stalwart negro living near Trimble. Teun., a week or two since ate a lemon and swallowed one of the seeds, which. It seems, lodged In his stomach, and, attracting to it a certain portion of the food subsequently eaten, was soon surrounded by a clot or mass of matter, which gradually grew larger. After a short time Leake began to suffer with acute pains in the region of the stomach, and applied to a physician. The pains increased and it soon became a matter of impossibility for the sufferer to retain any food except such as was administered in a liquid form and the doctor began to suspect that the cause of the trouble lay beyond the ordinary phases of Indigestion and declared an operation necessary. It was with a groat deal of difficulty that Leake was prevailed on to submit to this, but ho finally consented. The surgeons thoroughly explored the alidomeo :and Intestines, but without finding any disturbing object, though it was observed that the stomach was distended to nearly twice is normal size Leake finally died in great agony, with repeated efforts to vomit, which continued until death ensued. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that the seed had sprouted from the mass surrounding it, and. putting out shoots, had actua lly attacked the wall of the stomach as a creeping plant does a wall, and so caused the man’s death.

RESERVOIR GOES OUT. The Huge Artificial Lake at Lewiston, 0., Cuts Through the I>ain. The break In the Lewiston reservoir. In Logan County, Ohio, which bad been expected for several days, came between 3 and 4 o’clock Wednesday morning. Much anxiety had been felt throughout the Miami Valley, and when a courier dashed through the country announcing the break and the news was spread by telegraph to all the cities and towns threatened, the people were aroused and hundreds fled at once to the elevations, fearing that a mighty torrent of water was on its way down the broad valley to sweep everything before it The great rush, however, did not come, and by dark the general alarm bad considerably subsided. The Lewiston reservoir Is a Miami canal feeder, and is a famous fishing resort It belongs to the State and contains 17,000 acres. The break is not complete, but is growing. Thousands of acres of farm lands have been submerged, and it Is yet possible that the whole basin will be emptied. If this happens, the loss of life will be great and damage to property will reach millions.

BABY HARRISON RECOVERS. Electricity Successfully Used In the Treatment of Paralysis. Mart hen a Harrison, the 5-year-old daughter of Russell B. Harrison, who has been under treatment for nervous prostration and paralysis, lias almost entirely reccskered and is now able to play with her companions. The child, with Its mother as nurse, was quarantined .for five weeks In the White House while suffering from a severe attack of scarlet fever. When that disease was conquered Martliena’s right arm, side and log were paralyzed. The paralysis affected her ;speoch so that she could not talk plainly, und her case seemed hopeless A few days before the Inauguration of President Cloveland they concluded to go to New Y’ork and jplace tho child under electrical treatment I Mrs Harrison, with Martnena in her lap, sat in an insulated chair while the electricity was being administered. The presence of the mother gave the child confidence to undergo the ordeal, so that she was not frightened even when the big sparks leaped from tho conductor to her arm. The doctors say tho treatment Is practically the spraying of electricity upon tho parts of tho body affected.

PENNOYER IS PEPPERY. An Exceedingly Short Reply to Secretary Gresham's Note. Tho following telegraphic correspondence Wednesday passed between Secretary of State Gresham and Gov. I’ennoyor: „ „ Washington, D. 0. Gov. Sylvester Pennoyer, Salem, Ore.: Apparently reliable reports Indicate danger of violence to Chinese when exclusion act takes effect, and the President earnestly hopes you employ all lawful means for their protection in Oregon. W. Q. Gresham. Gov. Pennoyer immediately sent the following reply: _ „ „ Salem, Ore. To W. Q. Gresham, Washington, D. C.: 1 will attend to my business; let the President attend to his. SYLVEfiTEB Pennoyer, Governor. Gov. Pennoyer, speaking of the correspondence, said; The Gresham telegram is an insult to Oregon. I will enforce the laws of the State and the President should enforce the laws of Conpress. It comes with poor grace for the President to ask me to enforce State law while he. without warrant, suspends the exclusion law.

NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Senator McPherson Says the Financial Condition of the Country Is All Right. Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, who was in Washington for a few days prior to his departure for the summer, being a member of the Finance Committee, has watched the financial situation closely. “I do not believe.” said he, “that there is anything in the money situation that will necessitate the President calling an extra session of Congress earlier than ho Intended, probably Sept. 15. The financial condition of the country is all right if the people will only let it alone; . The Secretary of the Treasury has the confidence of the public and it is believed that he will be able to meot any contingency that may arise,"

Excited by Oil Finds. While drilling for water on the Shennati farm, at Nelson Ledges, Portage County, Ohio, the drillers struck sand at a depth of 200 feet bearing the finest grade of lubricating oil. The discovery has greatly excited the people of that vicinity, and land that would not bring ?50 an acre ten days ago cannot be had at any price now. Thorough tests of the oil show it to he of the same grade and quality as tho famous Mecca oiL The Mecca oilfield is only fifteen miles from Nelson Ledges, and, as that oil has sold as high as SSO a barrel, and the farms in that celebrated field have brought from $200,000 to $400,000 each, it is little wonder that tbe people of Nelson are greatly wrought up over the discovery. Oil men from Toledo and Cleveland have examined the valley between tbe two ledges and expressed tbe opinion that a vast reservoir of oil underlies It, as the formation is tbe same as at Mecca. Oil men from Pennsylvania and Weitern Ohio are making big offers for leases, but farmers will not negotiate until farther developments are made on the SbenDan farm. Cuban Troops Inadequate. A Madrid cable from the Governor of Cuba Is published, iu which he confesses that his forces are Inadequate to quell tbe uprislug. Instead of the 12,000 troops be was supposed to have he has less than 8,000, which, even under normal conditions, cannot be considered strong enough, tho cavalry, which are most required, being especially weak. He adds that several irisHtgemtsliave yielded, and repeats that the rebellion is not spreading, but is confined to the country around Holquin, 300 miles from Havana. The towns of Holquin and Santiago de Cuba remain loyal Scalded to Death. One of the worst river catastrophes which have occurred for years took place on the Mississippi River at the head of Wolf Island, twenty-four mbe9 below Cairo and four miles below Columbus. Ky., at 7:45 o’clock Sunday morning. A flue in

tbe larbo&nt boiler of the steamer Ohio, a Cincinnati and Memphis packet; caused the rear end of the boiler to be blown out, and filled the entire deck cabin with steam and water. Nearly all of the deck hands and deck passengers were sitting about eating breakfast, when the accident occurred, and several of them wero almost literally cooked alive, Seven were killed outright WILL TELL OF 'MB MURDERS. Startling Charges In a Texa9 Convict’s Application for Pardon. An application for pardon has been made to Gov. Hogg, of Texas, by Charles Luttrell. sentenced to hang for murder. Luttrell made a startling statement In regard to the terrible butchery of women at Deulsou last spring, that will probably secure him a pardon or Commutation of sentence to life Imprisonment It is alleged that Luttrcll confessed that since 1878 James Brown, John Carlisle aiid "friends had killed 24S men In order to destroy testimony against them in murder cases. In 1878 dames Browr killed a stableman. John Carlisle was induced to kill another man named Sparks, and Tom Shannon, their latest victim, was an eye witness to both murders. There were many other eye witnesses, and Brown and Carlisle, being wealthy, started In to kill witnesses against them, and Luttreli’s confession is but a glimpse of the awful reality of the unparalleled series of crimes that cost 248 men their lives and the perpetrators millions of dollars. It will be remembered that Captain .Tames Brown shot and killed two police officers a,t Garfield Park, in Chicago, about a year ago, and was himself killed. TEN KILLED IN A YVREK. Defective Air Brakes the Cause of the Disaster. The south-bound passenger train on the C., CL, C. & St L. Railway, a fast vestibule train, was wrecked Sunday morning just as it entered the sheds at the Union station at Lafayette, Ind, the accident endiug ten lives and injuring as many more people. People at the depot were appalled at the terrific speed at which the tbain dashed across the bridge over the Wabash River. The headlight of the engine glared at them for an Instant as it came Into view around a short curve at the east end of the bridge. Then there was an immense cloud of dust, the rumble and roar of a swiftly moving irain, a terrible crash, and iben the cries for help of the injured and dying. The track from the depot west is up grade, and a sharp curve reaches from the depot to the bridge The down grade begins a mile or more west of the city, and the air brakes are applied as soon as tho grade Is reachod. so as to slow up for the bridge and the curvo at the station. The doomed train could be heard as soon as It reached the grade The air brakes had refused to work.

OUTBREAK OF RAIUES FEARED. Mad Dog in a Missouri Community Rites Children and Cattle. Near Ivahoka, Mo., Joseph Britton’s three children were returning from school a few evenings ago when they met a dog that was suffering from rabies. The animal attacked the children, all girls, ranging from 14 years to 10 or 11 In age, and bit them terribly In several places. The dog was foaming at the mouth and, after biting the children, ran through a lot of farm stock, biting a number of the animals, which have since died in the most terrible agony. Mr. Britton at once sent for a man namod Merchant, living at Mnnticcllo, Mo., who claims to have a secret remedy for the bite of a mad dog. This lie applied to tho wounds of -the children, and they seemed to get along very well, but the eldest girl, whlls returning from school a day or two later, In crossing a little stream, was thrown into tho most violent convulsions, atwlkUed in a short time In horrible agony. F'AIR EMPLOYES TO GO. Plans Now Permit and Finances Demand Discharges for Economy’s Sake. During the next throe weoks hundreds of employes of the Exposition company will he dropped from the pay-rolls. General orders were issued Thursday for a sweeping reduction of tho force of clerks, stenographers, draughtsmen, and other employes who have been drawing comfortable salaries from the Exposition for several years. This order is to bo put into effect as soon as posslblo, certainly not later than June 1. Auditor Ackerman’s last report showed that nearly 3,500 persons were on the pay-rolls of the Exposition company, aDd that the monthly pay-roll was something like 8225,000. It Is probable that the list of employes will be cut to 2,000. and perhaps less than that Invalidates the Dlvoroe Law. ft has just been discovered that the compiled laws of 1887 of South Dakota have never been enacted. This invalidates many amendments to this code passed by tho last Legislature. Among the amend-, incuts made void Is the divorce law. which changes the period off residence from ninety days to six months. A test case will be made at once.

To Continue Prof. Smith. < The trusteos of Lane Theological Seminary, at Cincinnati, voted to continue Professor Smith another year, and at tho same time accepted tbe forced resignation of Professor Roberts, who had been selected on account of his anti-Smith sentiments as leading representative of Cincinnati Presbyterians in tbe general assembly. Victory for Miners. A dispatch from Bellalre, Ohio, says: The Heathtngton Coal Company,the largest operator In the valley, has signed tho miners’ scale.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

, CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Prime.,.. $3.25 # 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 #7.75 SHEEP—Fair to Choloe 4.00 #6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 72 # .73 COBN— No. 2 44 # .45 Oats—No. 2 .32 # .33 Rye—No. 2 54 # .55 Buttkk—Clioioe Creamery .25 # .26 Eoos-Fresh 14 # .15 Potatoes—New, per bu 75 # gjs INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 5.25 @ 5.75 Hoos—Choice Light 3.50 # 7.75 Sheep—Jommon to Prime s.OO #5.50 Wheat -No. 2 64 # .65 Cobn—No. 2 White 41‘a# .42 V, Oats—No. 7 White .34 # .35 ' ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.25 H0g5..... . 3.00 #7.50 Wheat —No. 2Red 67 # .68 ; Cobh—No. 2 3914# .40)4 Oats—No. 2 32 # .33 Rye—No. 2 .55 .57 CINCIN^ATL. Cattle 3.00 #5.25 H0g5....... , 3 . w @7.25 5heep......... 3.00 # 6.53 Wheat—No. 2 F.ed : oe # .67 Cobn— No. 2........ 44 35 45 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 211)4# .'32*3 Rye—No. 2 .59 # .61 DETROIT. Cattle 3.30 ,# 4.75 Boos 3.00 # 7.75 SHEEP..... 3.00 #5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red oaw# .70W Cobn —No. 2 Yellow 42!-# .43 u. Oats—No. 2 White......;. 36 .1# .3713 TOLEDO. W heat—No. 2. 71 .7254 KiE BUFFALO.”" M ' s& ' 5554 Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 # 5.50 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 ® s.OO Wheat—No. 1 Northern 74W# .7534 No 2. Red 74t1# .75)4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 6654# .67)4 Cobn—No. 3. ,44 Oats—No. 2 White 34)4# .3.5)4 RYE—No. 1 54 ,5 6 BaBLEY-No. 2 64 #■ .66 BOSK—Uesa 13.75 #13.25 Mil b'i ; NEW YORK. ’ Cattle @ 5.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 8.00 bHEEP... 3.00 @ 7.00 W heat—No. 2 Red 79 @ .80 Cobn—No. 2 .52)4# .53)4 Oats—Mixed Western. .37 # .40 gUTTEK—Best .29 # .30 Poke—New Mess. 20.25 #20.75

ROBBING THE HUNGRY.

ENORMOUS PRICES ASKED FOR FOOD AT THE FAIR. Eating a Costly Habit at the Fair—Sharp Devices for Extortion— Samples of the Charges Made-Leave Your Appetite at Home. Ozone Only Is Cheap. Chicago correspondence: If eleven beans « ost 40 cents the second week of the Fair und deposits are required for the return of egg shells, how long will it take boiled potatoes to bring $1 each? If one nibble of cheese and one of crackers can tell for 35 cents and rice pudding retail at 30, how long must a man with a big appetite and a moderate salary go hungry.’ If staff beef made on tho grounds is worth 50 cents a cut and skinny pie is sold at 25 cents an eighth, what will the average visitor take for his eating habit.These are some of the perplexing questions which now bother tho patrons of the Fair restaurants. Cnee within the fence there is no chance to slip out for a snack and the only alternative for the person with a stomach lhat needs daily attention is to choose in which particular language he desires to be released of his savings. There are French cases where it costs to sit down, and English taverns where the barmaids serve and guess at the bill; Polish resorts. with strange and deadly cocktails of benzine, absinthe, and vitriol; German victual houses with the fragrance of lusty boiled dinners, and the great casino when 1 thousands shiver in the lake winds and sit in amazement at the rates per plate. An appetite is an unnecessary adjunct, and to satiate such an uncomfortable thingat the 'World’s Fair grounds is simply an impossibility to a man of ordinary means. About all that is left for the person who has not a pocketful of money, and a big pocket at that, is to go down to the lake front any time he gets good and hungry and get filled full of fresh air and scenery. This is not a diet conducive to obesity, but it is better than losing flesh and many pounds sterling, which will result from an encounter with the average bill charged just for an average meal without any frills. It is not necessary to get into the realms of fancy dishes to be frightened out of a year’s growth by the

FORTY CENTS EOR DROPPING YOUR FORK.

gigantic proporions of the “Please pay the cashier.” .. , One of the guards—and tjiey are the wisest people of this generation— dn a moment of extravagance ot-dered a piece of pie and a cup of coffee, and nearly fell in a fit when he had to pay a half-dollar for the epicurean repast. When asked by a brotner guard why he did not eat a regular dinner, he replied: “I couldn’t; 1 only had $6 in my clothes. ’’ They Have It D nvi Fine. The restaurants have the problem of extortion figured out to a nicety. Visitors cannot get out of the grounds and get back on ihe same admission. That, of course, would be an injustice to the exposition company; so with the people inclosed in the stockudge, they must either curb their appetites or let the reins loose on their pocketbooks. One of the many pleasant devices for extracting money from tho man that is athirst and hungered is a neat little appendix to tho bill ot fare w.iich announces that cofiee Is 10 cents per cup and in the opposite corner the brief announcement that cream is 15 cents. The man who orders coffee is asked as lo whether he is used to taking cream when he Is at home down on the farm. Certainly he is, and he lolls back and thinks of the big Jersey cows and the cream that he sells his neighbors at 15 cents a quart When he comes to settle his bill, by dead reckoning, by latitude and lonuitude or by logarithms, he is generally 15 cents to 4 bits behind the official count. “Oh, I thought that ‘Cream, 15 cents,’ meant a glass of cream. '’ “No, it means cream for coffee.” If he is a wise man he pays and departs with an internal vow of bringing a ham sandwich in his pistol pocket for the morrow’s repast and drinking water frem the pale-blue tanks tha’ a e about the only tree things distribute,! around the grounds. If he is unwise and irate

MUST HAVE A PASS BEFORE YOU CAN EAT

he makes a rumpus, only to have the head waiter come around with a contemptuous air and do a simple problem in arithmetic for him while those who have been through the mill titter aloud at the individual who does not know that 10 and 15 are 25. Many people do not care for soup or a course dinner, but those who are incautious enough to order soup pay for the same at the rate of 25 cents a throw and think that they have received two doses, on settlement. Good old corn beef and cabbage fluctuates between 40 cents and half a dollar, while a tiny dish of Boston’s pride with a small chunk of Cincinnati's principal industry is worth 35 cents without a sprig of parsley to garnish the dish. Then, too, the beans furnished are of a small and inconsequential growth, resembling BB snot ra’her than a vegetable product. It can be easily figured up just what a good, comfortable meal will cost the average man who has no secondary appetite or who has not burdened himself with , a false one by the use of liquors, which one of the bills calmly declares are 35 cents a gulp. ulienne, 25 cents; roast of beef or gigot de presale, 75 cents; flageolets pois, ton a e a 1* American, 50 cents; coffee, demi-tasse, 10 cents; total, SI.OO.

True, thl« is not the average price, bul it’s near It; and the moral is, don’t eat. Bring your appetite back with y«o. Save It 63 a curiosity to show your friends, as a relic that was saved intact from the forty thieves. You may grow’ thin if you attend the Fair often or for an extended period, but either forget your digestive apparatus or take a lunch and crawl off by some lagoon when you eat it. Complaints concerning the extortion practiced were so long and loud that President Higinbotham disguised himself and made a personal Investigation. He found these restaurants to be regular robbers’ roosts, and the officials have now decreed that the extortion must cease. In a previous letter I said you could see the fair for 50 cents. So you can, but you can’t monkey with a World’s

SOME RESTAURANT TRICES.

Fair restaurant for anything like that amount. Random Fair Notes. The attendance at the fair on May 3 was 31,274. The workmen employed on the Algerian village are on a strike for back pay. Ons of the Arabs who took part in the riotous outbreak in the Arabian village was sent to the Bridwell for thirty days. There is mourning in the Javanese camp at the Fair, news having been received of the death of the Sultan of Solo, the Javanese ruler. Albert Beck, in charge of the Austrian exhibit, “tipped” a man who transferred his goods to him. The man was a customs officer and Herr Beck was arrested. The order against smoking on the grounds has been countermanded. It was the bugaboo of the Columbian Guards, who each averaged enforcement of the order ten times a minute. Two months ago “Count” Heinrich von Bludzen was arrested in New York City for a series ot audacious swindles. He was tried in court and released. He has just been found in a World’s Fair restaurant, acting as a waiter. During the next three weeks 1,500 employes of the Exposition Company will be dropped from the pay-rolls. General orders have been issued for a sweeping reduction of the force of clerks, stenographers, draughtsmen, and other employes. Uncle Sam doesn’t stand very high at the Fair. Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Frank E. Stanloy was denied admission when he showed his badge and sa : d he had been sent to examine a cigar factory in the Plaieance. He was told to buy a ticket “like any other guy.”

SHOCKED TO DEATH.

The Infamous Murderer of His Child Wife IJies In the Electric Chair. Carlyle W. Harris, convicted of administering poison to his child wife, was electrocuted in Sing Sing prison at

12:40 o’clock Monday afternoon. Thus the last act in one of the most noted and intricate murder trials on record is closed. Young Harris had been a medical student and played the role of a fast youth at Ocean Grove when he was first in-

CARLYLE HARRIS.

troduced to Mary Helen Potts. The rest of the story is easily summed up: Clandestine meetings, a secret marriage, an illegal operation twice performed to hide the fact of their union, discovery by the girl’s mother and a demand lor a public marriage, procrastination by Harris, and finally the preparation of some headache pills for his young wife which caaised her death by morphine poisoning. Harris

showed no concern at her death, and refused to allow her to be buried under his name. Suspicion was aroused, trial and conviction followed, Gov. Flower refused a pardon, and the executioner’s chair ended a base and blighted life. The fact that Harris spent his last hours preparing a written statement of his innocence is in keeping with his character,and

only shows his remarkable powers of secretiveness and self-control. It was natural that he should wish to preserve the name of his family from utter obloquy and to sustain his mother’s unwavering faith in the innocence of her bov. The saddest scene in this remarkable drama—more tragic far than that which ended all in the death-room Monday—was that in which the mother, after having fought off death for a year with all the intensity of a mother’s love, stood before her son’s prison cell to say a last farewell. Few mortals come to know the anguish of such an hour. The Harris tragedy is only one of a class which must continue as long as there are men who look upon women as flowers to be plucked and flung away, and as long as there are women left to be deceived.

Telegraphic Clicks.

The jury in the case against Frank Hauck for killing John Murphy at Duluth, Minn., returned a verdict of manslaughter in the first degree. The building at New York, coiner of Broadway and 44th street, used as barracks by the Salvation Army, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $125,000. The schooner Booth Bros, sank off Atlantic City, N. J. The crew of nine left the vessel In a yawl and were rescued by a steamer twenty mile 3 at sea. Mrs. Kncx who, together with her husband, Bobert J. Knox, was recently Sentenced to Imprisonment at the City of Mexico for forgery, has been pardoned by President Diaz. The search light display by the naval vessels in New York harbor did not take place owing to rain and fog. Fifty thousand people had assembled to witness the display. i Cornelius Vanderbilt is about to double the size of the building now occupied by the Bailroad Men’s Club of New York, defraying /the entire expense himself, at an estimated cost of about 480,000. From Spain comes a report of the drowning of twenty people. A religious procession 7 was crossing a pontoon bridge and the structure collapsed. The disaster occurred near Santa Eulalia, Province of Saraeo-sa.

TOWNS ARE SUBMERGED

GREAT LEWISTON RESERVOIR BREAKS ITS BOUNDS. Seventeen Thousand Acres of Water Loose in the Miami Valley—Bridges, Railroads and Crops Destroyed—Loss Will Be *1,000,000. Were Warnea In Time, The west bank of the great Lewiston, Ohio, reservoir, covering 17,000 acres and known as the second largest artificial body of water in the world, broke with a thunderous roar as the result of the heavy and almost Incessant rainfall of the last week. The break had been anticipated and every effort made to prevent a catastrophe. A ser.es of temporary dams, causing dead water, and which are likely to give way, are all that stand between Miami Valley towns and a Johnstown disaster as far as a loss of property ts concerned. Already many buildings have been swept away. Over 25,000 acres of land and Lewiston and Newport are partially submerged. There have yet been no fatalities, as the people have had ample warning. It is reported that the water has, despite the Series of dams, reached Sidney, and partially engulfed that city. The great-

est fear exists. The damage will be enormous and nothing, it seems, can stop the flood. When the rupture comes the temporary dams will be swept away and the tiood will sweep everything before It. The property loss it is estimated will be over $1,000,000. Hundreds Will He Ruined. An Urbana correspondent says: The water came rushing down in a flood ten feet deep and three miles wide, completely submerging the country around and carrying everything in its way. The big covered bridge 150 feet in length was swung completely round and then torn lojse and swept away. In the course of the flood stood the houses of Jack Smith and William Devault, and a largo number of tenemens houses and squatters’ and bachelors’ homes. All of these are submerged, though fortunately everybody managed to escape lrom the danger. People fled in-iterror from their homes, while the rushing flood came on down the valley, taking everything before it. The lirst town along the course of the flood is Port Jefferson, where the dam throws the water into the Miami Canal. A portion of the town is low and it was badly flooded. Quincy, Logansville, Degraff, Piqua, Troy,. and Dayton are also in the course of the flood. The artificial bank of the reservoir is five miles around and most of-the way fully twenty feet above the land, and the bottom of the reservoir itself is at least ten feet above the immediate country below. The water averaged ten feet deep over the w hole reservoir, so some idea can be formed of the great volume that came rushing down on the country below. The Lewiston reservoir is looated five miles northeast of Huntsville, Logan County, and contains 12,000 acres of water. Hundreds of families left their homes and fled out of the reach of the coming torrent.

If Legal Points Do Not Prevent tho Gates Will Not Be Closed. The Eiboeck rose ution to refer Ihe Sunday opening question to the local directory for disposition occupied the attention of the Judic ary Committee of the National Commission at a recent session. Tho session was behind closed doors. The committee was making an exhaustive inquiry into the question before it, especially tho legal phase or it. “If the committee finds that it has the authority to refer the Sunday question to the directory,” said a member of the commitieo. “it will undoubtedly do it. A 6 far us the individual members Of both the National Commission and of the local directory are concerned, the majority of each body seems to be in favor of opening the gates of the Fair on Sunday. This being the ease, if there is any possible way of opening the gates—that is, of doing so legally—it will be done. ” I>r. Tulmage's Backer Fails. John Wood, a Brooklyn furniture dealer, who is the chief lieutenant of the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage and supposed to be the financial pillar of the Tabernacle, made a general assignment. His liabilities are heavy, and the assets will, it is said, barely reach $50,000. Depressed business and tight money was the cause.

HELEN P. HARRIS.

How the World Wai-n. Insurance rates at Sioux City have been advanced. The Standard Oil Company is putting in a SIOO,OOO plant at Sioux City, lowa. H. A. Weston, an old-time newspaper correspondent stationed at Washington, is dea 1. The Cincinnati police captured J. B. Adutt, the Austrian forger, who escaped from custody at Chicago. The National Museum exhibit from Washington was damaged somewhat on the return trip from the Madrid exposition. Theodore Booseyelt will continue to serve as a member of the civil service commission, having withdrawn hit. resignation. Bishop B. J. Smith, aged 80, of the Mennonite Church died at New Fads, Ind. He had been a prominent Bishop in the church since 184 ). T. M. Eaiir and T. 11. Holland, coffee merchants who failed, were arrested at New York chaged with selling coffee on which they had borrowed money. George D. Ca' en, one o; the wealthiest and best-known citizens of St. Louis, died in Philadeh hia, where he went for treatment a complication of ailments. A Mbs. Worthington, wife of an artist on a Ssn Francisco newspaper, eloped with Henry Bradley. They quarreled, and Mrs. Worthington shot and mortally wounded Bradley. Fifty skilled workmen in the thirty-three-inch bean: mil: of the Carnegie Steel Works at Homestead, Pa., threw aside their tools and quit work. They refused to accept the reduction stipu* lated in the new scale.

THE MIAMI VALLEY.

MAY OPEN ON SUNDAY.

TEN MEN WERE KILLED

DISASTROUS WRECK ON THE BIG FOUR RAILROAD. fast Passenger Train Leaves the Track and Crashes Into the Depot—All the Trftlnnaen Met Death at Once—Others Killed on the Platform. Brakes Wouldn't Work. Ten men were killed and six wero seriously injured by a disastrous wreck on the Big Four Bailroad at Lafayette, 'lnd., at 1:30 o’clock Monday morning* The dead are: E. D. Meyers, a mall clerk of Cincinnati. A. R. Chadwick, mail cleik, Cincinnati. Jesse H. Long, mall clerk, Lebanon, Ind. Express Messenger McMahan, of Cincinnati. C. 8. Cahill traveler, Indiana. Otto Jesselson, Alhambra Hotel, Chicago, passenger going to train. Mike Welsh, engineer. Indianapolis, a Mclnnis, fireman, Urbana, Ohio. Charles Myers, bus driver, Lafayette. John Lennon, driver mail wagon, Lafayette. The injured are: Lottas Burganhole, Milwankee, Wls. William Place, Frankfort, Ind. Jeff Reese, Kempton, Ind. Richard Jone 9, Pontiac. 11L Lewis Leffler, Fowler, Ind. Richard Jones, Logansport, Ind. The accident occurred at the depot on a sharp curve and was caused, It is thought, by the failure of the air brakes to work while the train was entering the city on a sharp downgrade. The engine and three cars, including two mail coaches, one express car, and a combination smoker and baggage car, loft the track while running at a terrific rate. The ladies’ coach and three through sleepers did not leave the track. All the trainmen were killed.- None of the passengers was injured. As the engine left the track it struck and instantly killed three men standing on the platform. They were Otto Jesselson, who had purchased a ticket and was waiting to board the train; Charles Myers, a bus driver; and John Lennon, who was in charge of the United States mail wagon at the depot. The dead that lay under the immense pile of wreckage were not removed for three hours after the accident, a wrecking train being necessary to do the work. High bluffs rise on the west bank of the Wabash just opposite the city, and there is a long and steep grade at that point. The ill-fated train must have been a mile up the grade from the river when the engineer discovered that there was something wrong with the air, for the vigorous whistling of the engine for brakes could be heard when the train was still a mile west of the city. The engineer’s desperate efforts to stop the train was shown by the large amount of sand Jhrown by him on the bridge thiough which the train came just before the fatal crash. The speed by that time had increased so terrincally, however, that its control was beyond human agency. With almost light-ning-like speed the monster engine dnshed around the turves and across the long : bridge, although the man at the throttle had reversed the machinery, and immense streams of fire were being dashed from the driving wheels running in opposite direction to that of the swiftly flying cars that followed. Just after leaving the east end of the long bridge over the Wabash the tracks describe a semicircle, at the midway point of which she Union station is located. When the engine struck that sharp curve it lelt the track, followed by the cars in an awful swirl, and they piled upon each other 101 feet away, after crashing through train sheds and bringing down tons of ■ structural iron to add to the teirors of the Bituat|on.

EXTRA SESSION SURE.

Finance and Tariff Engage the Attention of CongTC3B. The recent Hurry in financial circles has revived the talk of an extra session, says a Washington dispatch. Before leaving for the West a lew weeks ago Vice President Stevenson intimated that Congress would convene in September, and Mr. Cleveland has since stated to a couple of members of Congress that the extra session would be called between the Ist and 1; th of that month. This information was repeated to Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, who called upon the President on Friday, and Mr. Outhwaite now entertains the opinion that the Fifty-third Congress will be In session continuously from September until the following June, barring the usual holiday recess in December. It is deemed probable that financial and tariff legislation alone will be sufficient to engage Ihe attention of Congress until long after the December recess. The two questions will doubtless be considered as part of the same general problem, and to that end several of the administration leaders are already at work upon them.

DON’T BOTHER THE PRESIDENT

Mr. Cleveland Find* It Necessary to Establish a F,ew Rules. The following has been issued by President Cleveland for publication: Executive Mansion. It has become apparent after two months’ experience that the rales heretofore promulgated regulating interviews with the President have wholly failed in operation. The time which under those rules was set apart for the reception of Senators acd Representatives has been almost entirely spent In listening to applications for office, which ha ve been bewilderingin volume, perplexing and exhausting in their iteration,ana impossible of .remembrance. A dne regard for public duty, which must be neglected if present conditions continue, and an observance of the limitations placed upon human endurance oblige me to decline, from and arter this date, all personal Interviews with those Beeking appointments to office, except as I. on my own motion, m3y especially invite them. The same considerations make it impossible for me to receive those who merely desire to pay their respectß, except on the days and during the hours esjieclally designated for that purpose. I earnestly request Senators and Representatives to aid me in securing for them uninterrupted interviews by declining to introduce their constituents and friends when visiting the Executive Mansion during the hours designated for their reoeptlon. Applicants for office will only prejudice their prospects by repeated importunities and by remaining at Washington to await results.

DEATH OF MRS. C. M. DEPEW.

She Passes Suddenly Away at II ;r Home Suntliy A ternoon. Mrs. Elise Hegeman Depew, wife of Chauncey M. Depew. died at her residence in New York City at 12:30 Sunday afternoon. Although’ Mrs. Depew was known to be seriously ill, this sudden termination of her illness was not expected by her family and those who were most intimately connected with her. Her condition showed no material change Saturday, and early Sunday morning the turn for the worse came. During the last two years Mrs. Depew has been an invalid. She never entirely recovered from an aha k of the grip that she had during the epidemic two years ago. During tue nt festivities at Fort Monroe, attendant upon the visit of the foreign warships, Mrs. Depew made a trip to that place in the hope of improving her health. This expectation was not realized, however. She became much worse and was brought home feebler than when she left . Kotos of Pur-pa 1 : Kvp-O.'. ' Mount .Etna shows signs of eruption. Nicaraguan rebels have cap!tired the cities of Granada, Masaya and Savaria. President Cleveland decides, not to reassemble the Monetary Conference until November. The Hocking Valley Brad has arranged to enter Detroit over the Flint and Pere Marquette. W. W. Tracy, of Illinois, is in the lead for the Presidency o. th? Ilepublican National League.