Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — Page 2

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WILLIAM SULLIVAN LYNCHED IN MICHIGAN. Disastrous Windstorm at Louisville, Ky.— gome Practical Joker's Meanness Causes Trouble—Scheme to Freeze Out Small Lumbermen—Sharp After Cattle Thieves. No Judge Nor Jury. William Sullivan, the farm band, who murdered Farmer Leech and Mrs. Leech at Durand, Mich., on Jan. 1, was lynched at Corunna, Tuesday. He was brought from Detroit at morning, arraigned, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for life. He was to have been taken there Wednesday. At night a mob was formed for the purpose of lynching the murderer. They proceeded to the jail, broke In the doors, and made their way to the cell where Sullivan was confined. A rope was quickly placed around his neck, and he was dragged to the door and out on the steps. The body was then pulled to the ground, where the maddened crowd trampled on the remains and mutilated them in a terrible manner. Then the clothes were torn from the corpse and the rope was swung over the limb of a tree, the crowd jerking It up and down. The murderer’s body was finally let down and dragged around the jail yard some time, aDd the crowd then dispersed. The sheriff made a show of resistance at first, but was overpowered.

HAVOC MV THE WIND. Louisville Swept by a Tornado and Many Buildings Damaged. Louisville, Ky., was visited by a tornado at 4 o’clock Tuesday morning. Many buildings, stores and residences were wrecked, roofs torn off and chimneys demolished. A number of people had narrow escapes from death by failing walls and flying roofs, but outside of a few bruises and broken limbs no one was seriously Injured. The tornado came from the west and was evidently of a local character, as no damago has been reported from points outside of the city. The heaviest sufferer from the storm is the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The wind struck their immense round house In the western portion of the city, and In an instant the heavy walls fell and the roof crashed in, burying the men at work on the engines beneath a mass of brick and iron girders. Heavy locomotives were blown from the rails and overturned. When the employes found the walls falling they rushed for the cinder piles and crouching In the excavations miraculously escaped death.

BIG LUMBER i R JST FORMED. Immense Timber Lands and Mill Plants In the Hands of a Combination. A great lumber trust has been formed by leading Canadian and American capitalists, and so quietly and successfully was the deed carried through that its groat import to various interests is scarcely yet realized even In the trade more directly concerned. Dennis Ryan, the St Paul capitalist. Is one of the men foremost In bringing about the combination, the various Interests of which surround the Lake of the Woods on the Canadian and American shores, and extend for many miles along tho principal streams tributary thereto. The principals In tho affair have personally Inspected the standing timber, the sawmill plants, and the shipping facilities, and at intervals met in Winnipeg to to discuss the situation. Small lumbermen will be frozen out, or practically so, as they will be at the mercy of the stronger concern. ALL LEFT THEIR KEYS. Telegraphers on the Northwestern Road Victims of a Hoax. Misled by a bogus order all the telegraph operators employed by the Chicago and Northwestern Road struck Tuesday morning. The trouble was soon adjusted by Chief Ramsay, of tho Order of Railway Telegraphers, who notified the men that the strike was not authorized by the organization and Instructed them to go back to work. The operators obeyed the countermand. Whore or with whom the bogus order originated is not known. It was over the wires at jO o’clock Monday "nlgnt. Chief Ramsey says ih'eralsno Immediate pfospect of a strike. rarnniitt e aofopi* rators was sent to notify the officers of the railroad company that the order had not called out the men. They believe the order was sent at tho instigation of an enemy of the organization. /<*». -» Cattle-Thieve3 In Jail. James Radcliffe, arrested in Texas, has been lodged in the Belleville, (Ill.) jail, and If the cattle-growers of Texas, representing an aggregate capital of 820,000,000, can accomplish It, Radcliffe, with John Hayes, his partner, who has been in jail for several months, will go to the penitentiary. The case against the two men Is the stealing of ten carloads of cattle from various members of the Cattle-Growers’ Association of Northern Texas, which they sold in East St Louia

Collision of Trains. A bad collision is reported on the Northern Pacific Railroad, near Little Falls, Minn.,‘in which a postal clerk, an engineer, and a fireman lost their lives. Defaulting State Treasurer Pardoned. Governor Jodcs Issued a pardon to Isaac fl. Vincent, the defaulting State Treasurer | of Alabama He had nearly served out his term and Is In bad health. Mexican Counterfeiters Captured. A notorious gang of counterfeiters, who have been carrying on extensive operations in the City of Mexico, have all been captured by the police. Tired Quickly of Single Bliss. James E. Layton was granted a divorce at Goshen, Ind.. and within an hour had taken out a license to wed a pretty girl in the same town. Revolution in Peru. A special cable from Panama says that a revolution has just begun In Peru. Sealers Will Get Damages. At Victoria, B. C., Collector of Customs Milne has been instructed by the Ottawa authorities to pay the owners and masters of sealing schooners, as compensation for prohibition against entering Behring Sea In 1891, the sum of $74,634.

Sugar Bounty Bill Vetoed. Gov. Hogg, of Texas, has vetoed the act known as the sugar bounty bill. The act was Intended to enable the superintendents of Texas penitentiaries to accept from the general government the bounty on sugar raised on convict farms. Aiirald to Stand a Ran. The Citizens’ Bank of Minneapolis suspended payment Wednesday morning. The notice on the door says..the depositors will be paid in fulL The officials declare that the bank Is perfectly solvent and that the suspension is due simply to its inability to realize on its securities. There has been no run on the bank and tbe action was taken to project all depositors alika JMMMPBrobst Shot by a Tramp. Of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the head while atlemptIpj.tke atrat' Jr a gang of tramps. Seven Of them under arrest Brobst will recover, v

TO PROTECT MISSIONARIES. Presbyterian and Methodist Boards Fear she Effect of Enforcing the Geary Law. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions at Now York has cabled all Chinese missionaries as follows: “Exclusion act constitutional; notify stations.” This stop was taken aftor a consultation of the mission council, In view of possible dangers which might threaten American missionaries now in China in consequence of any retaliation which might he taken by tho Chinese. A letter has also beeu addressed by the board to each of tho missionaries explaining the situation and advising ihem to make no trips into Hie interior of the country without tuk ng proper precaution. Tho board will also send to each missionary an extra remittance to be used in case of emergency. The Methodist Foreign Missionary Society also met and decidf d io make a final appeal to the President and Cabinet against the immediate enforcement of the law and to recommend that a day he set aside as a day of special prayer that tho missionary interests in China might bo saved from disaster. A committee was appointed to confer with similar committees from other missionary societies to “arrange for such public expression on the part of Christian and humane people as is called for.”

VANDALS AT THE FAIR. Captain Roafleld Commissioned to Take tho Mischievous Robbers Dead or Alive. Jackson Park is infested with a mighty horde of petty thieves and mischiefmakers, and for tho first time in the long course of liia detective experience Captain Bonfield, Chief of the Columbian Secret Service, is about to promulgate an order demanding the capture of the offenders, said order to contain the clause, “either allvo or dead.” To that end ho has entered into a conspiracy with a learned scientist to spread a blighting disease by secret infection of tho food eaten by the thieves, to tho end that the World’s Columbian Exposition might bo rid of the army of “crooks” now at work in the great white buildings. All the vandals are old-timers, noted .for (heir persistence and boldness. They are all of English extraction, and while they have flourished for many years in tho big cities of England this is tho first time a detective chief has attempted to affect their capture. The army of toughs has Its representatives and emissaries In almost every urban and rural community in the country, for It Is nothing elso than tho pugnacious English sparrow.

TO STUDY PROHIBITION. A Canadian Commission to Report on Its Workings to Parliament. A commission has arrived in Topeka, Ivan., for tho purp so of examining into tho workings of tho prohibitory law. The commission sont by tho Canadian Government is composed of Judge llerbort K. McDonald, of Brockvllle, Ont.; Rev. Frederick McLeod, of Fredericton, N B.; G. A. Glgault, Minister of Agriculture of Quebec; uud Albert Horton, Secretary and steuo’rapher. L. W. Kribbs, editor of tlio Toronto Empire, is with tho party. The commission, according to a Topeka dispatch, will visit all the larger cities In the State examining the “joints,” “blind tigers’’ and other evasions of the law. and also take testimony showing the merits alleged to follow tho slriet enforcement of the law. Tills commission was appointed as a result of the petition of many thousand people to Parliament asking for the passage of a prohibitory law, and while here the commission will make diligent inquiry with the view of reporting back to Parliament their opinion on the subject

STAND BY THEIR WORD. l’resbyterlam Demand That the World's Fair Be Closed on the Lord's Day. Tho second day's session of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Washington, was opened with devotional exercises conducted by the Rev. Dr. Smith, of Haitimore. The Rev. Mr. McCauley, of Dayton, Ohio, moved a reconsideration of tho vote of the first day on tho World’s Fair Sunday opening for the purposo of offering a substitute for that resolution going more into detail. Reconsideration was refused by an almost unanimous vote, and Mr. McCauley then moved to add the substitute to tho resolution, but the assembly refused to adopt It or to consider it. The resolution adopted the first day, by a rising vote, was a protest against Sunday opening, witli an appeal to tlio National Commission to interpose its negative, and that if need be the Pie3ident exorcise his authority to prevent It. -Lilly «i 1 Many violent deaths. Eighteen Victims to Factory Explosion and S-orms on Lake Erie. Six men killed, one lying at the point of death, three more badly injured and the big plant of the Charles Pope Glucose Company ruined, sum up tho disaster which befell the pretty littlo town of Genova, 111, Wednesday afternoon. The loss of life has been flguroJ up; the Joss in dollars and cents Is estimated by Charles I’opo to be $150,000, probably an excessive estimate. The cause was the explosion of a converter in the glucose factory. From the Conneaut, Ohio, harbor a tug and scow were carried out into the lake, and seven men and two women drowned. At Ashtabula the schooner Pelican foundered, and three of her crew wore drowned.

GOES INTO HYSTERICS IN COURT. Mrs. Busier Calls on Her Dead Husband to Rescue Her. At Guthrie. O. T., at the trial of Mrs. Ivusler, charged with the poisoning of her husband, Mrs. Kusler's mini gavoway. and she fell into a hysterical fit and continued to scream, rave, and struggle for hours. The scene in the court-room was one long to be remembered, as the woman writhed in agony and called upon her dead husband to come to the rescue. Physicians think she will die, and the prosecution has been dismissed. Siamese Attack French Troops. According to the latest advices the situation in the Mekong valley is becoming very grave. A serious conflict has occurred between tbe French Annamito garrison at Khong and the Siamese The French are reported to have been attacked by the Siamese A severe struggle occurred and a considerable number were killed on both sides. Several French officers were wounded, and one French officer. Captain Thoreaux, was captured by the Siamese. The ,Siamese Government repudiates all responsibility for the affair and declares that it has no intention of making war upon France. Tea Met with Death. Ten men are now known to have perished by a fire which destroyed Louis Sand's lumber camp, eight mlle3 northeast of Lake City, Mich., Saturday afternoon. Eight of them were killed by burning timbers while they were in the bottom of a well in which they had taken refuge. Kansas Town In Terror. There is Intense excitement in Cedarvillc, Chautauqua Countv, Kan., owing to the discovery that the Starr gang of desperadoes is camped a few miles south of there. The Starr gang is the remnant of the old Dalton band. A posse of fifty men, well armed, is guarding the town. Convicted of Murder. Jacob Brown, the negro convict who murdered Frank Nackin, foreman of tbe tanning department of tho Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., last August, was convicted of murder in the firs* degree. Pulls the Teeth of His ruplls. One of the school teachers at Windsor, Oat, has been sick and her place was filled by Adolph Girardot, a student of the Detroit college of medicine. Girardot noticed

that two or three of tho children had the toothache. This put a brilliant Idea Into htS'bead. He would relieve the scholars of their bad teeth and at the same time get tho benefit of a clinical experience. Alt hut two or three of tho fifty little boys allowed him to pull any teeth which be thought needed pulling. The teacher in the girls’ room was asked if some of her pupils might have their teeth pulled, and as she made no objection twenty-four little girls added to bis collection of teeth. When Girardot dismissed school for the day and went home he carried 125 teeth rolled up In a newspaper and exhibited lhem to hi 9 friends. Girardot was relieved from teaching the next morning, and a number of the parents of the children threaten to prosecute hlrn. SAGINAW FIRE SWEPT. The Pretty Michigan Town Sustains a Loss of *1,500.000. Saturday afternoon Saginaw, Mich., the metropolis of the Sagiraw valley, was visited by the worst conflagration in her history and one of tho most destructive which ever visited any city in the State. For three long hours the element licked up cottage homes and more elegant residences, lumbor piles and manufacturing plants with equal relish. The loss Is difficult to estimate, but will reach somewhere In the neighborhood of 51,500,000. '1 he extent of territory which was burned is about twenty-five squares, and includes largo portions of the sixth and seventh ward. This territory was swept nearly clean of every building. Besides this Edward German's big factory, employing 300 men, and one or two factories outside of this district were destroyed.

ABANDONED AT SEA. Magnificent's Captain and Crew Rescned After an Exciting Night. Tho steamship Aucblon. from North Sydney, N. S., for Montreal, arrived at Quebec, having on board the captain and crow of tho barque Magnificent, of Liverpool, which was abandoned at sea. The Magnificent encountered very bad weather and the vessel sprang a leak, an accident rendered tho pumps useless and. the crew had to abandon tho vessel. They put to sea in their boats and during the night the wind increased to a gale. On tho next morning, after a night of horror and suspense, the square-rigged ship Ingo, of Norway, bore down and took the men up. They were later put on board the steamship. The Magnificent was a wooden vessel of 1,284 tons, built at Quebec lu 1873. Sho was worth SO,OOO. DIDN’T KNOW SHE WAS FREE. An Aged Missouri Negress Sues for Services for Twenty-four Years. Edio Hlckatn, an aged negress, Is the plaintiff lu perhaps tho most remarkable case ever tried in (lie courts at Boouvllle, Mo. She Is an old ex-slave, and brought suit against her mast?r,.Joseph Hickam, for 85 a month wages as a family domestic for twenty-four years, during which time she claims to have been kept in Ignorance of her emancipation The suit was instituted in 1889 for 81,400, and resulted In a judgment In her favor for S7OO. Tho defendant appealed to tho Kansas City Court of Appoals, which remanded t'ae case to the Circuit Court of Cooper County,’which now renders a decision for the defendant A moticn for a now trial has been lilod. Trade Depressed by Money Uncertainties. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: St cks rally from extreme depression, hut business shows no subst initial improvement. The distribution of products to final consumers is rather less encouraging, though tho weather has been generally moro favorable and at some points helps retail trade. Wholesale buslnes's and speculation show each week more hesitation with regard to tho crops next full, the responsibilities of tariff changes, and money uncertainties. Some lurge failures and many of minor Importance show the effects of Increasing stringency In money markets, and while money Is comparatively easy at Now York the pressure atother points has Increased. Almost everywhere collections are slow, and doubt about tho future affects new undertakings, although the present volume of trade based upon past orders is remarkably large Tho Treasury Is In a stronger position than for some weeks past, hut exports of gold have notably Increased. The extraordinary hank failures In Australia, involving deposits already amounting to more thau $420,000,000, of which over $125,000.000 was due to British depositors, cause much realizing on securities and merchandise. the effects of which are felt in American markets.

The Transfer Made. The final step was taken Wednesday in the proceedings by which the United Stales becomes the owner of the Cherokee strip. Tho number of acres ceded is 0,022,764 and the price to bo paid for tho same $8,595,736; and it i 3 hoped to have everything in readiness for tho President’s proclamation on Sopt. 15. Will Prophesy No More Storms. Professor Wiggins, the Omaha weather prophet, has letirod and will venture no more opinions as to prospective earthquakes, floods or cyclones. One Man Dead, Another Dying. A serious shod! ig affray occurred at Gauley Bridge, W. V., which resulted in the death of one man, and left another dangerously wounded. Killed His Wife’s Traduecr. At 1 leasant Plains, Ark., Prof. H. L. Thorp shot and instantly killed Thomas U. Mason for slandering his wife. Dear Experience. William Patterson, a wealthy farmer of Lima, Ohio, was fleeced of $3,500 by a fanning mill agent.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Mine.... $3.25 & 6.23 Hoos—Shipping Grades 3.0 u @ 7.75 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 - @ 6.00 WHEATr-No. 2 Spring 71 @ .72 CORN—No. 2 42 & .4214 Oats—No. 2. 20 @ .30 Rye—No. 2 59 @ .61 Butter—Choice Creamery 20)4® .21*4 Egos—Fresh 13 @ .14 Potatoes—New, per bu 90 $ 1.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.23 @ 5.00 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ s.oo Sheep—Common to Primo 3.00 ® 5.00 Wheat—No. v 66*4® .6754 Corn—No. 2 White 425i@ .4354 Oats—No. 2 White 35 @ .30 ST. LOUIS. Cattle s.oo @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.50 Wheat—No. 2 lied 68 @ .69 Corn—No. 2 .39 @ .40 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Rye—No. 2 55 .57 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 ® 5.25 Hogs 3.00 & 7.75 SHEEP 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 70 & .7054 Corn—No. 2 4554® .4654 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 34 @ .35 Rye—No. 2 63 & .65 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.50 Sheep 8.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 71 & .72 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 44 -@ .45 OA'IS—No. 2 White 3754® .38 ,'4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 71 @ .72 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 45 & .46 Oats—No. 2 White. 32 U(gf ,3354 Rye 60 @ .62 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 3.50 @5.50 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @7.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard .76 @ .78 No. 2 Red 7554® .70V, MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Soring 6854® .6954 Corn—No. 3 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 White 3554® .3654 Rye—No. 1 Gl @ .63 Babley—No. 2. 61 @ .62 Pork—Mess 20.75 @21.25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 6.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 8.21 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No 2 Red 80 @ .81 Corn—No. 2 r 61 @ .62 Oats—Mixed Western 36 @ .38 Butter—Creamery 22 @ .24 Pork—New Mesa 21.25 @21.75

VISITORS TO THE FAIR.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THEIR COMFORT IN CHICAGO. The Railway Depots Where Thousands of Strangers from All l’arts of the World Will Arrive—Some Information as to Lodgings, E c. In the World's Fair City. Chicago correspondence:

rmT7rni|ir] HE person livingoutside of Chicago who 1 I visits the World’s _|j II Fair for a single day —lplil only, will find everything arranged lor P&-1 his comfort and congggSl ffj venience. All railroads coming to the 1 tBSm city will land pasJMi'l sengers at the terafSjbfe minal station at tho jr vjjKi Fair for ten cents in I if addition to the regujf ij lar railway ticket. I L&jg&sHere hand baggage k 0 checked, abound toilet

rooms, lunch counters, telegraph offices, and desks for writing. The Columbian gnards will direct tho visitor to his State building, where he may deposit his extra valuables. Ho may eee the great show, take a terminal train for his depot at nightfall, and return home within twenty-four hours, all at a cost

of faro, ticket of admission, lunch, and a trifle for a guide book or souvenir. Those coming from a distance, however, and those who wish to thoroughly inspect and enjoy the Exposition for a week or a month, should exercise considerable forethought. It is possible for such to formulate a pleasant and economical system of procedure, provided they know what to do and how to dolt. Unless they ai rive at night—in which case a stop at some hotel will be advisable—they should d*‘Vole the first day to the securing of a settled abiding place. That care off their minds, they are on a footing with the native-born Chicagoan, and are independent of restrictions of time and metnod of realizing Ihe Fair, as of the exactions of of the harpies, who will strive to extort double prices from hurried or uniformed strangers. Chicago’s Great Depots. There are six great depots in Chicago. The Northwestern is the only one located in the North Divsion of the city. Trains arriving here bring passengers principally from Northern Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin and other points lying along the route of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. This depot faces east on Wells stre et, and a walk across the river and four blocks south, brings the visitor to the very center of the city. The Union Depot is the only one located in the West Division. Here Beveral linos center —the Chicago, Burlington and Qnincy, which runs through Illinois, lowa and Missouri; the Ban Handle, bringing in mostly passengers from Indiana; the Milwaukee and St. Paul, crossing Illinois, Wisconsin and

Minnesota; the Alton and St. Louis, cutting southwest across the State to Missouri; and the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne, which takes in Indiana. Ohio, Pennsylvania and the Eastern States.

GRAND CENTRAL LEPOT.

This depot fronts on the Canal street, at the corner of Adams. A walk of four, squares east on the latter thoroughfare leads across a bridge to the business center. The Illinois Central Depot is on the lake front, and in addition to housing traffic from the State after which it is named, tak s in passengers of the Michigan Central Itoad from Northern Indiana, Michigan and Canada. At the Dearborn depot arrive the trains of the Grand Trunk, the V’abash, the YVestern Indiana, ami the Alchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Bailroads. It is located at £olk and Dearborn streets. The Grand Central depot is at Harrison street and Fifth avenue, and is the terminus of the Northern Pacific and Baltimore and Ohio Baiiroads. The Michigan Southern depot faces on Van Buren, just west of Clark street, and the Michigan Southern anil the Bock Island and Pacific lines discharge their passengers here. These last-named four depots are all situated in the South Division, all face tbn business center,

and are within half a mile of the large hotels and of the points where the various street, elevated and cable cars have their down-town terminals. State and Madison streets is a corner well worth keeping in mind as the chief center of Chicago, A visitor arriving at any of these depots and meditating a sojourn here should, first of all, check his hand baggage, which may be stored for twentyiour hours at ll» cents per parcel. Inquiry at the depot Bureau of Information will elicit courteous response. Should a conveyance be needed, a printed card in the same will give the legal fares, which are fifty cents for one mile in a one-horse vehicle, and double the amount for a two-horse one, one hundred pounds of trunk and twenty-five pounds of hand baggage being carried free. All baggage may be safely left at the depot until the visitor is settled in his new home, when his landlord will take his checks and send for the same, at a cost of about twenty-five cents a trunk. How to Find Lodgings. 1 The question Of finding a temporary domicile is now the all-absorb-ing one. There are any amount and all varieties of hotels near the business center, but high charges and great ciowds go along with them. There are, too, near the Fair grounds, new and large hotels which charge only $3 per .lay, or, where four room together, only sz; $7 boarding-houses, $1 lodgings, and. even 20 cent restaurants. The advantage gained, however, by be-

THE UNION DEPOT.

ing just at the Fair gates all the time are somewhat visionary. There is turmoil, rush and discomfort. Many of the new hotels are frail structures, many of the lodgings and restaurants are overcrowded, and the sensible visitors will find quite as reasonable rates and far more home-like ac-

commodations away from the heterogeneous throng that will continually crowd the immediate vicinity of the Pair. The Fair grounds are some seven miles from the business center. Between these points are numerous quiet,

THE NORTHWESTERN DEPOT.

pretty streets, where arrangements for board and lodging may be made, and in the North Division, just across the river, still more reasonable charges prevail. The West Division, however, comprising the largest section of the city, broad as it is long, affords a still better choice. It embraces a majority of the homes and population, is less crowded, and the visitor making it his objective point for a temporary residence, will probably be more speedily and satisfactorily suited than elsewhere. With this section in view as a prospective place of residence, he will find many hotels which are quite reasonable in their charges, and furnished rooms without number. Taking Madison street as the central line, and proceeding, say, half-a-mile west of the river, north and south are safe, quiet residence streets, well built up. Here a person can secure almost any kind of accommodations, from an elegantly furnished suite of rooms down to one apartment with two beds in it. For a pleasant, comfortable furnished room, the charge should not exceed $1 per day, or $5 a week, and with board in the same house, about double that

MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DEPOT.

amount Rooms quite comfortable are to be found as low as $3.50 per week, and as restaurants are numerous and good on many West Division business

thoroughfares, the visitor may get a 25-cent substantial meal, and add trimmings for a dime and a halt additional. Ten dollars a week ought to cover the board and lodging, and cover it quite satisfactorily. Some iff&y make an objection to lo-

ILLINOIS CENTRAL DEPOT.

cating “so far” from the World’s Fair grounds. Distance, anywhere within the city limits, is a trifling edhsideraticn, however. The seven-mile rides to and from the Fair should be a pleasure instead of a bugbear, as they afford the visitor daily the choice of a delightful journey by land and water.

THE CHINESE QUESTION.

Members of the Cabinet Discuss the Derision of the Supreme Court. The Chinese question occupied the entire attention of the Cabinet at its meeting Tuesday. Before the Cabinet meeting Chief Justice Fuller, who dissented from the decision of the Supreme Court, called at the White House and had a brief talk with the President. Subsequently the Chief Justice had an interview with Secretary Gresham. It is understood the conclusion reached by the Cabinet was that the law could not be enforced, for the reason that there is no money available for that purpose. The act only carries an appropriation of. SIOO,OOO. Secretary Carlisle showed that not more than $16,0»0 of that sum remained. It was estimated that it wiuld cost to deport all the Chinese now in Iho country, who have not complied with the law, more than $0,000,0(10. It is evident the administration was surprised by the decision, and the situation is perplexing. With the constitutionality of the law settled, it is embarrassing not to be able to enforce it, but in the absence of the money for the expenses of deporting the Chinese there seems to be nothing that can be done. If the Chinese would simply accept the situation and comply with the law it would simplify matters, but the impression is that most of them will not do this, but will resist as long as possible.

As to the expense of enforcing the law, it is not by any means sure that if Congress were in session the money would be appropriated. W. W. Rockliill, Chief Clerk of the State department, who has correspondents in the Chinese diplomatic service, and also a number of American friends in that country, says he has not heard a word concerning retaliation, and, furthermore, that there is hardly a likelihood such action will be considered, much less taken. Secretary Carlisle has received many telegrams asking for a suspension of the operations of the law for at least six months.

Walter Besant’s Maxims.

It is a part of the sage to make maxims. I have lor some time suspected that 1 have arrived at the period of life when the sage is at his lest, and I have now therefore tiied my hand at a few useful maxims, writes Walter Besant in the London Queen. Here they are—a mixed and miscellaneous lot. Of course the sage at this time of day must he cynical in order to be popular. I hope some of thess are cynical enough. Those on riches seem—to a partial parent—to bo maxims really worthy of the most Eastern—the most Himalayan—of sages. Out of ten men nine are born to work for the tenth. Resolve to be the tenth. Without trampling the cleverest cannot get rich. Dives is never an example, because nobody considers himself really rich. If you cannot become rich, remember the many miseries of the rich. The consolation of those who fail is to depreciate those who succeed. He who foresees never acts. The greatest things are done by the greatest fools. Wise men never attempt anything. When you lose a leg begin at otue to practice with a wooden one. Men's motives aic mercifully hidden by their shirt fronts. Observe moderation in all things—especially in virtues. The best way to make a man honest is to make him ashamed of being found out. There may be pride even in confessing mistakes. Everybody says that gentle birth is an accident, and everybody treats it as an achievement. The most charming attribute of friendship is the right of candor.

A Famous Coroset.

The famous diamond coronet comb which Louis XIV. gave to lime, de Montespan, after all its wanderings and strange experiences, has at last fallen into the hands of Mrs. William Waldorf. Astor. she wore it in her lovely silken hair at the ijueen’s draw-ing-room a few days ago. Mrs. Astor seems to have a love ot' collecting old jewels worn by famous women. I wonder if she believes in that gem superstition which reads that jewels contain genii that work a good or evil influence on the person who wears them. The price paid for the gem was something .'ike 5100,010. How many little hungry mouths (hat would feed.

SLAIN AT THEIR WORK.

SEVEN MEN KILLED BY A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Destruction of the Pope Company's Glucose Factory at Geneva, 111., with a Loss of 8150,000 on Property—Mystery of the Accident. Blown to Atoms. There was an explosion in the CharlesPope Glucose Works at Geneva, 111., Wednesday afternoon, costing the lives of seven men and a loss of $150',010 tothe owners of the plaDt. It will never be known how the accident happened. The only man who could tell the tale was buried beneath a mass of worthless machinery and timbers. His name was August Jansen. He hal an assistant in the person of Victor Andersen, but simultaneously with the powerful explosion Andersen was blown out of a third-story window, and when picked up was a corpse. The complete list of the dead is as follows: Alfred Anderson, married, and had four children. Fred Strom, married, and had two children. Lars Echutz, married, but left nofamily. Victor Andersen, unmarried. Christian Ehmund, unmarried. Andrew Kelbcrg, married, but left nochildren. / August Jansen, body not yet taken out;, was married; had been in this country hut a short time; wife and children still living in Sweden. In the face of this death list but one employe of the works suffered any injury of consequence. He was Andrew Pierson, and was struck on the side by a piece of wood and fragments of flying brick as he tried to escape through a window. His right arm was broken and his body badly bruised. The Cause a Mystery. It was about 2:20 o’clock in the afternoon when the explosion happened. The report was heard all over the town, and when it became known that the Charles Pope Glucose Works, the main industry of Geneva, had blown to pieces, the population gathered, in short order, to render all possible aid. That portion of the building which suffered was the southeast end, in which was all the machinery. The building was three and a half stories high, and the entire side was blown out on to a line of freight ears that stood on a side track. The village lire department was got out, but was not needed. The remaining seventy-five or eighty emplo3 T es of the works were armed with picks and shovels, and the work of re overin g the bodies begun without delay. These were all iound near each other and taken across the narrow little street to tho office of the local lumber company. Charles Pope, the owner of t':e plant, said that the works had been in active operation for twelve years and had never before met any accident of even the most trivial nature. He said it was almost impossible to place any estimate on h s loss. He carried a heavy fire insurance policy, but nothing on accidents. ItescninT the Victims. The work of rescuing was very dangerous, owing to the falling timbers and walls. The sight which met the gaze directly after the explosion was appalling. The mangled forms of the workmen were pinned to the walls and pieces of machinery in various portions of the wrecked building, presenting a most ghastly spectacle. The fact that so many workmen escaped is attributed to the lucky circumstance that nearly ail were employed on the lower floor at tho time. The explosion took place in the big copper boiler or reservoir known as the “converter,” located in the centra! portion of the fourth floor. In this copper boiler the first stages of conversion of the starch in the sugar of glucose into glucose takes place. A solution of muriatic acid and water is forced into the starch under a pressure of twenty-five pounds of steam. The boiler had been been in use for four years and was regarded as safe.

DEATH BY THE FLOODS.

Fourteen Lives Lost Through the Inundation in Ohio. The storm of rain and wind which began in Northwestern Ohio at noon on Monday and continued almost without cessation until Wednesday evening, produced a flood unprecedented in the history of that part of the State. Thus far fourteen lives have been lost, great damage has been done to shipping, and the loss to other property will amount Into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. In Cleveland every sewer wa3 pouring a torrent into the river. The water was away over the river’s banks. The torrent was seeking the nearest way to the lake, and a half dozen lumber yards in its course could not bar the way. Whole piles of lumber were carried along on the streets and swept into the lake or lodged against the abutments of bridges further down. The tracks of the Valley and the Cleveland, Canton $ Southern Railroad Companies were submerged io the depth of ten feet and all traffic was suspended, as was work in a score of factories in the flooded district. Owing ito shaky bridges traffic was suspended on all railroads running east. While great crowds were watching the flood the first disaster happened. Capt, Stanley Flannigan and Michael Leblonde were going down the river in a rowboat used to peddle milk along the docks. When near the mouth of the raging stream one of Leblonde’s oars broke, and the men were at the mercy of the waters. They were quickly carried out into the lake by the rushing stream. Seven men manned the lifeboat and pulled away toward the east pier of the breakwater, toward which point the boat containing Flannigan and Leblonde had drifted. When the life savers were well out of the mouth of the river an oar broke, and in an instant the corklike vessel swung about to toss upon the angry waves. The men in the lifeboat were totally helpless, and before assistance of any kind could be rendered their boat was overturned and all the men were thrown into the water. Four of them succeeded in catching hold of the overturned lifeboat, where they hung on until they were rescued in a terribly exhausted condition. Four of their fellow life savers were tossed about so mercilessly by the wild waves that they were unable to swim back to the lifeboat, and after vainly tattling for a few moments with the elements they were overcome, and the battle of life had to be given up. The nan es of the heroes who lost their lives in attempting to save others were: Chester Simons, John Johnson, Nicholas Servas, Albert Currier. The life savers who were rescued were brought ashore by a tug. Flannigan and Leblonde were drowned before the lifeboat capsized. J?even Drowned Conneaut. A distressing accident also occurred at Conneaut. about sixty miles east of Cleveland. The tug Valter Richardson, the dredge Continental, andascow were anchored at Conneaut harbor Tuesday night. The creek rose rapidly, and at 5 o’clock next morning the scow was carried out into the lake with the tug. In cutting away from the rcow the tug’s wheel was disabled, and Ihe tug washed ashore. The crew was saved. The dredge was carried into the iake and immediately capsized. There were seven persons on board, two of whom were washed ashore on the wreckage.