Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — Page 2

®lje HcmocrotitStntiiiri RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Pubusheb.

PERISHED BY FLAME.

SMALL FIRE CAUSES GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. finish of the 1,000 Mile Chadron-Chi-cago Cowboy Race —India's Action Will Force Immediate Readjustment of the Sliver Question in the United States. Four Lives Lost at a Saginaw Fire. At Saginaw, Mich., Tuesday evening, a two-story frame building, occupied as a millinery story by Mrs. Catherine Neumann, was destroyed by fire. The family, consisting of mother, three daughters and two sons, lived upstairs, and escape was cut off. The oldest son and one daughter succeeded in escaping. Mrs. Neumann was found near a front window so frightfully burned that death Is almost certain in a few hours When the firemen gained an entrance into a rear room three children .were found, Tilda, aged 20, Lena 15, and Frank 12. The boy was dead and the girls lived but a few minutes Their death was due to suffocation. The loss on building and contents will be about 53,500; partly insured.

THE WORLD TALKS SILVER. India's Action Regarding the White Metal Causes a Great Stir. In explaining to the India Council the bill providing for the stoppage of the free colnageof silver and other monetary measures, the adoption of which was announced Monday, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viceroy of India, said he hoped the Government would not be criticised for disposing of the important question at a single sitting. The keynote of the scheme, according to Simla advices, was rather to prevent a further fall in exchange than to raise the value of the rupee. The fixing of the provisional rate of exchange at 4s Id provided an automatic means of preventing the closing of the mints and the violent disturbing of exchange rates. The rate of exchange had been fixed high enough to relieve the Government of Its most pressing necessities, while it was well within the limits of the recent fluctuations. There should be no mistake, the Viceroy said, about the facts It is not proposed to substitute gold for the silver currency. No attempt would be made at present to fix a legal tender price for gold. When the ratio of value was mentioned it was only provisional. In conclusion, the Viceroy expressed the Government's sense of the gravity of the step It was about to take. The Importance of the action of the government of India in dropping the coinage of silver cannot be overestimated at this time. It was the only country, with the exception of Mexico, In the world, the mints of which were not open to the coinage of silver without limitation. It Is the general opinion that the closing of the mints of India against the free coinage of silver cannot fail to depress the price of that metal

BERRY WINS THE RACE. First of the Cowboys to Reach Chicago in the Race from Chadron, Neb. Covered with dust and with the perspiration rolling down his bronzed face and dropping on the neck of a jaded, mudbespattered bronco who could not be urged Into a trot, the winner of the great cowboy race rode up to the gates of the Buffalo Bill show In Chicago at exactly (1:30 o’clock Tuesday morning. Clad in a dirty white shirt, a pair of mud-covered yellowish jeans and wearing on his head a worn-out, limber-rimmed cowboy hat, John Berry, the victor, half tumbled from his saddle in front of Col. Cody’s tent, go weak and tired that he was unable to rise to his feet or grasp the proffered hand of Cody, who welcomed the little man who had ridden 1,040 miles and won a race that will doubtless be famous In history. Berry was hardly able to hold his head up and was supported through the crowd by two sturdy cowboys to the mess tent, where hb was laid upon the sofa and stimulants given him. The two horses Berry rode are owned by Jack Hall and were ridden alternately. Berry claimed that he had not closed his eyes for ten days, but his backers stated that he slept while riding.

Big Storm In Kansas. A terrific storm passed over Logan County, Kansas. A few miles south of Oakley it assumed the proportions of a tornado, blowing down several farm houses, stables, and outbuildings. It carried a school house fifty rods and then dashed It to the ground and broke it into kindling wood, scattering the debris for a long distance. Lightning struck and killed Mra George Beak four miles southeast of Oakley and also struck two houses In town. The rainfall was the greatest since the spring of 1892.

Death from Yellow Fever. A special from a lumber dock fifty miles from Brunswick, Go., announces the death of Alfred J. Biddle, master of the Amerlr can barkentine Anita Berwind, from yellow fever. V. S. Marshal Recovering. United States Marshal J. W. Brown, who was shot and seriously wounded In a battle with moonshiners In Hardin County, Tennessee, Is slowly Improving. Roasted Her Child. Anita Sanchez, a Mexican mother, became angry at her 8-year-old daughter and forced her Into a large baker’s oven. The inhuman woman then lighted a fire and the child was roasted to death. Fort Wayne Paper Suspends. The Daily Press, of Fort Wayne, Ind., has suspended publication, after an existence of four years. It has been a losing venture from the start. Fitzthnm Electrocuted. John Fitzthum, the Buffalo murderer, was electrocuted at Auburn, N. Y, on Monday afternoon. Army of the Potomac. The twenty-fourth annual reunion of the Army of the Potomac was held in Boston Tuesday and Wednesday. One of the most Interesting events connected with the twenty-fourth annual reunion of the Society was the dedication of the statue of Admiral Farragut in Marine Park.

lowa Woman Fatally,Hurt. Mary Muth, of Monona, lowa, jumped from a moving train in Mason City, lowa, and had her left leg crushed so badly that amputation was necessary. She will probably die. Missouri Fatalities. William Cummings, a farmer near Stansberry, Ma, and three of the family of John Doyle, are reported killed by lightning Wednesday afternoon. Found in the River. Charles Trost, who left home In Dubuque, lowa, last Tuesday to pick berries, has been accounted for. His body has been found in the river. ! Cannot Move the Capital. At Woodland, Cal, Superior Judge Grant has decided in favor of Sacramento and against Fan Jose in the State capital re-

DEATHS FROM POISON. Bt. Louis Police Suspect a Young Woman of Killing Her Relatives. Mrs Charles Stewart, daughter of John McKibben, aho died at St Luke’s Hospital. St Louis, under circumstances strongly indicating that he had been poisoned, also died Thursday afternoon. Mrs. J. C. Briggs, another daughter, is very 111, and the sickness is pronounced the same as that which resulted in the death of father and sister. The story, briefly outlined. Is that Mrs. Biggs visited her father's house and took dinner there. Mrs. Stewart prepared the meal, which consisted of s< up, boiled cabbage, canned corned beef, bread, butter and tea. Almost immediately after dinner those who partook of the repast were taken violently sick, all of them vomiting freely and complaining of sore throats and mouth and of excruciating cramps. McKibben’s family consisted of his wife, the two daughters, Mrs. Wetzel, and a younger daughter named Maud, who is about 19 years of age. Owing to marital troubles, Mrs. McKibben does not live with her husband, but resides with her daughter, Mrs Biggs. Maud McKibben refused to eat any of the dinner and Is the only member of the family who was not taken sick. It is said the police have evidence to the effect that she bought paris green a few days ago. The family is well to da Jealousy of her sisters has been a marked trait of Maud’s character.

EDMUNDS TALKS ON SILVER. Says He Is in Favor of the Repeal of the Sherman Law. Ex-Senator George F. Edmunds, while speaking in New York the other day of the present business depression, was asked

what he would do to help the present difficulties. He said: “I have no legislation to propose beyond the repeal of the Sherman law and the return to the monetary laws which existed before 1873. When we passed the Sherman act something had to be done. A crisis was impending. I voted for the measure and am willing to take my share of tho “responsibility, although I

EO. F. EDMUNDS.

was not personally in favor of It A canvass showed us that if we did not pass the act the silver men would pass a free-silver bill. I believe now that if we had let the crash come the country to-day would have been more comfortable.” The Senator said he is not in favor of annexing the Hawaiian Islands, and thought the Russian treaty would do.

OLNEY WILL DO NOTHING MORE. Knows of No Further Steps for the Government to Take. There is little likelihood of the Government taking any furiher steps In the World’s Fair Suuday opening matter. Attorney General Olney said to a Washington correspondent that he did not expect to do anything more. “I don’t see what can be done,” he added. “Unless .something new Is presented I should say that the matter is settled.” Tho Methodist Church, which threatened to withdraw its exhibit because of the Fair being open on Sunday, has decided not to do sa This decision was reached at a secret meeting of the official* representatives of the Methodists held in the office cf Dr. Edwards, editor of the Northwestern Advocate, in Chlcaga • TWO MILLION LOSS. Conflagration Caused by a Small Boy Playing with Matches. Eighty dwellings, six grocery and general stores, two churches, tho railway station and round bouse, were destroyed by a fire which swept the village of Gibson, directly opposite Frederlckton, N. B. The fire started shortly before 2 o’clock, and Is believed to have originated from a little boy playing with a toy pistol and matches in his father's barn. Ono hundred and thirty families were rendered homeless and are sheltered in the hotels and private houses of Gibson and Frodericktan The loss is very heavy and falls on mechanics and laborers. The destruction of property will amount to 82,000,000, with very small insurance.

I. oshcs by Fire. Fire broke out late Thursday night in the village of Mount Sterling, Ohio, and before it was controlled had destroyed the business part of the village and several residences It was discovered in J. M. Clark's grocery in a building owned by F. C. Alkire. In this building was also the Central Hotel It was completely destroyed; also the frame building adjoining, occupied by Miss Chidester, and residence occupied by James Allen and wife, both owned by Alkire. The residence of Mr. and Mra J. M. Clark and millinery store of Mra. Clark were both burned to the ground. Twelve business houses and three dwellings, about onethird of the town of Leonardsvllle, Kan., were wiped out by fire Thursday afternoon. Those who defeated the proposition to bond the town for $3,000 for water-works a year ago were the only ones who lost by the fire. Gallup, N. M., came very near being entirely consumed by fire. The loss is estimated at about $20,000, while the insurance will not amount to over sio.ooo. Death of Senator Stanford. Senator Leland Stanford died at his home in California Wednesday morning. He had been ill some time. His death was due to a complication of organic troubles. He was in his usual health Tuesday and took a drive around his stock farm and retired shortly after 10 o’clock. He made no complaint during the day regarding his health. Shortly after midnight his valet entered his bed-room and found his master dead. The. news of the Senator’s death was speedily sent to his business assocla es and friends. The body will be embalmed.

Mechanics Meet in Detroit. The Junior Order of United American Mechanics held its annual meeting in Detroit This is the fortieth anniversary of the order, which was founded May 17, 1853, in Philadelphia. The State of Pennsylvania alone has 924 lodges, with a membership of about 200,000; Indiana, 20 lodges; Illinois, 40 lodges; Maryland, 04; New York, 120; New Jersey, 179; Ohio, 315, and every State in the Union is represented by from 20 to 500 lodges. To Defend Their Interest*. Sixty Kansas farmers, representing 30,000 acres of improved lands, bought of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway and affected by the Government suit to forfeit the company’s grant, met at Abilene and engaged counsel to defend their interests. Should their land titles be lost it wlil sweep away the savings of twenty years for most of them.

Base-Ball Record. The standing of the clubs of the National League is shown by the following table: , W. L. 9c.l W. L. Philadelp ia.3l it .6461 Baltimore . .23 25 .479 Boston3l 17 .640 Washington 22 20 458 8r00k1yn....30 18 .OTsjCinoinnati. .22 26 458 Cleveland... 24 19 .558 St. L0ui5...20 2« .435 Pittsburg.. .25 24 .510 Chicagol9 27 .413 New Y0rk...24 25 .490iLoulsville .. 9 30 .231 Lower Rates to the Fair. The Great Northern Thursday announced another $lO cut in rates and the Northern Pacific at once followed suit. This places first- class rates at $25 and second-class at $lB between eastern terminals and north Pacific coast points. Northern Pacific rates from Portland and all Puget sound points to St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth are $25 first-class. Will Establish a National Board. In New York, at a special meeting of the Academy of Medicine, the quarantine committee appointed some months ago was authorized to take steps for tho establishment of a national board of health. Big Diamond Robbery at Lansing. Forepaugh’s circus was in Lansing, Mich., Friday and the city was overrun with

crooks and sneak thlevea A big haul was made on Charles Piella’s jewelry store. Three men entered the store. While two engaged the attention of the proprietor and clerk the third removed from a show case a tray containing $1,600 worth of diamonds. All three made their escape before the loss was discovered. No clew to, the piepetra’ors Is yet leported. Numerous other thefts are reported. BOY THIEF COMES TO GRIEF. A Lad 11 Years of Age Robs a Safe and Sustains Fatal Injuries. A robbery and the serious injury of a boy created no little excitement in Silver Plume, Col. Mrs. Thomas Roberts and her son Harmon. 11 years of age. went there from Dodgeville, Wis., twg months ago, and the lad secured employment in the millinery and jewelry store of A. Rapin. The boy had become thoroughly acquainted with the place and attempted to rob the safe while the Rapins were eating supper Saturday night, but Was discovered in thu acu He escaped with 865 and ran up the side of a mountain near by, but was chased and soon brought down. He declared he had thrown tho money away In his flight. In iho morning his mother accompanied him in search for the missing gold, and while on the very top of the mountain and near a precipice he made a break for liberty by attempting to slide down the steep incline. The distance is about 103 feet His injuries will doubtless prove fatal.

AMBASSADOR BAYARD PRESENTED. Conveyed to Windsor by Special Carriage, Where He II Received with Ceremony. The Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, the first American Ambassador t> Great Britain, has presented his credentials from the American Government to the Queen. In accordance with the usual custom that obtains in the case of Ambassadors a state carriage was furnished by the British Government to convey Mr. Bayard from his hotel to the railway station. Upon his arrival at the station he was received by Gen. Sir Christopher leesdale. master cf the ceremonies. Mr. Bayard was conducted to a special saloon carriage in waiting for him. In which he traveled to Windsor. A state carriage awaited his coming at the Windsor station and Mr. Bayard who was accompanied by his wife, entered it and was driven to the castle, where, after the usual formalities, he presented to her Majesty the letters appointing him as the representative of the United States at the Court of St James.

Hundreds <>t Sailors Lost. The British twin screw battleship Victoria. flying the flat of Vice Admiral George C. Tryon, K. O. 8., commander of the Mediterranean station, was sunk in eighteen fathoms of water off Tripoli Friday afternoon, and at least four hundred of her officers and crew went down with her. The disaster was due to the fearful bungling of either her own officers or those of the battleship Compertlown. She was run Into head on by her companion ship, and In less than a quarter of an hour she had disappeared. Leroy I’ayne Falls. Leroy Payne, the liveryman of Chicago, failed for 8250,000. His assets are estimated at 5750.000. Mr. Payne was prostrated by the failure of his business and has been confined to his bed since from the effects of ft. lie holds a nlnety-nlne-yeur lease on the site on which his stable is located, and the recent Increase in real estate figures have made it a very valuable holding. The business will not be suspended or interrupted. Mr. I’ayne expects to be able to clear the present incumbrances and resume business again. Talse Unfair Advantage of Poor Lo. Parties at Purls, Texas, from tho Chickasaw Nation say that merchants In that country are doing an immense business on the strength of the leased district money, which is soon to be paid. They are buying claims at a heavy discount, and paying for them In goods on which they make the neat little profit of 25L i per cent. The charge is made that there is a ring connected with tho payment, and that persons in official positions will secure 5 per cent, on all claims thus purchased.

Trade Still Dull. R. G. Dun & Ca’s weekly review of trade says: The Improvement expected from the issue of c earing-house certificates, thus utilizing credits instead of cash in local dealings, lias not been realized.' Other cities, especially at the West, have not taken similar measures to relieve the pressure, and the demand for money from the interior continues unabated. Saved the Pieces. Andy Muldoon, an oil well shooter, was hauling 200 quarts of glycerine to Guffey Station, Pa, The wagon was overturned and an explosion ensued, which left nothing of Muldoon and his horses but shreds of flesh. Murder at a Miners' Dance. During the progress of a dance at a mine north of Hartshorn, I. T., Riley Decker, an .engineer in the mines, was shot and instantly killed by Marlon Halley, a miner, during a dispute involving a woman and a horse. Won by Boundless. The colt Boundless, owned by J. E. Cushing, of St Paul, captured tho tenth American Derby at Chicago, Saturday, winning $50,000, in 2:36; St Leonards second, Clifford third. Fifty thousand people saw the race. Remarkable Escape at Muncie. At Muncie. Ind., an electric street-car crashed into a livery rig driven by Frank Leadbetter. The buggy was smashed and Leadbetter was thrown Into the street-car. where he alighted uqbarmed in a seat

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

„ CHICAGO. ' CATTLE—Common to PrimefS 25 @ 5 75 Hoos—Shipping Grades 3 co @ 660 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4 0) @5 00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 61 & 65 Corn—No. 2 40 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 30 ® 31 Bye—No. 2 47 @ 49 Butter—Choice Creamery 19 @ 20 Eggs—Fresh 12 @ 13 Potatoes—Old. per bu 60 & 70 - INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE—Shipping 3 25 & 525 Hogs—Choice Light 350 @650 SHEEP—Common to Prime 3 00 @ 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 @ 62 Corn—No. 2 White 40 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ 35 • ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 @ 6 21 Hogs 3 00 & 6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 60 @ 61 Corn—Na 2 37 @ S 3 2^ tb y, No - 2 29)6 „ CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 oo & 5 25 Hogs 3 00 @ 6 50 Sheep 300 @ 5 00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 59 @ 60 Corn—No. 2 40 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 33 @ 34 Bye—No. 2 54 @ 55 „ DETROIT. cattle 3 00 @ 5 00 Hogs... 300 @725 Sheep 3 00 @ 4 25 W HEAT—No. 2 Red 65 @ 66 Corn—No. 2 Y-1 ow 40 @ 41 Oats—No 2 White 35W@ 36)6 TOLEDO. Wheat—No.-2 65 @ 66 Corn—No. 2Y' llow 41)6® 42)6 Oats—No. 2 White so @ 30)6 KYE 52 @ 54 „ BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 350 @ 550 hogs—Best Gra es 400 @6 75 Wheat— No. 1 White 71)6@ 72)6 No. 2 Red 69 @ 71 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 63 @ 64 Cobn—No. 3 37 @ 39 Oats—No. 2 White 34)6@ 35)4 Rye—No. 1 58 @ 60 Barley—No. 2... 57 @ 59 Pork—Mess 19 00 @l9 50 „ NEW YORK. Cattle 3 50 @ 5 75 Wheat—Na 2 Bed 71 @ 73 Cobh—No. 2 49 @ 50 gats—Mixed Western 36 @ 38 Pom—New Meas 19 75 @2O 25

SIGHTS IN A BIG TOWN.

SOME PLACES OF INTEREST IN CHICAGO. The Great Meat Packing Industry and How It Is Carried On at tho Stock Yards —Lumber Yards Along the River—City Prison, Etc. Garden City Gossip. Chicago correspondence: Southwest of the business center of Chicago lies a vast district given over mainly to industrial interests and to the homes of the humble artisan. There are no imposing mansions, few stretches of greenness, and the picturesque is not present, but the visitor determined to “do" the city thoroughly and well will be surprised at the amount of information to be gleaned and practical benefit derived from a glimpse of this section, which has a great bearing upon the social and commercial growth of the World’s Fair metropolis. The South branch of the Chicago River winds its way through the district in question, and influences its character to a large extent. It is not impossible for an energetic talker to prevail upon some of the owners or captains of the numerous tugboats which ply the stream to allow a free trip from the mouth of the river as far

south as they run. A great panoramic view would be the result. Docks, slips, quarries, tanneries, brick yards, the extensive wood and coal wharves, the old canal inlet, the starting point of the mammoth drainage ditch, which is to cost millions of dollars before it is completed, and mix the waters of Lake Michigan with those of the Gulf of Mexico would in turn greet the beholder. Tho immensity of Chicago’s commerce will not bo wondered at after such a voyage is made, and the variety of water craft to be seen, from the mud scow to the new whaleback grain steamer, pretty thoroughly display the best talent ana ingenuity of the modern ship-builder. A like profitable trip may be made on the Blue Island avenue street cars. These pass the West Division water works at 22d street, immense shops devoted to the manufacture of agricultural implements, boilers, machinery and malleable-iron castings, and the celebrated lumber district of the city as well. Here the visitor will find the great central lumber distributing point of the Northwest, guarded by' fire

entrance TO THE STOCK YARDS.

boats, covering miles and miles of river frontage, and giving employment to many thousands of laborers. Just , beyond the terminus of the car line lies one of the model workhouses of tho country—the city bridewell —the correctionary prison for the punishment of light crimes and misdemeanors. In system, and interest this institution fairly rivals the noted State penitentiary at Joliet. Its cell houses are built on the very latest plans for perfect ventilation and general utility, and its workshops give occupation to a motley throng well worth studying as truly representative members 01 the unfortunate classes of society.

The Stock Yards. Another interesting point of importance is the Chicago Stock Yards. Thousands, almost millions, have come from all over the world to visit this center of the cattle industry, probably the largest and finest in its line in existence. They are accessible by way of the South Halsted street and the State street cable cars. Meat packing is the basis of Chicago’s prosperity, for it is the oldest of all the city’s industries, the first lot of cattle ever packed in the

county being slaughtered in 1832. -They numbered on that occasion some 250 head, and cost $2.75 per hundred weight; about 350 hogs, costing $3 per hundred weight, being slaughtered and packed at the same time. years later, the city received in twelve months no fewer than 7,059,355 live hogs, 1,382,477 cattle, and 335,810 sheep, since which time the proportions of the hog product of the country handled by Chicago have kept on increasing. In 1891 the estimated value of all cattle handled was over $239,000,000, while 278,044 barrels of pork, 362.109,199 pounds of lard and 57,189,677 pounds ®f wool were shipped away. An inspection of these yards, which

front on South Halstad street just beyond Thirty-ninth street, and which have so interested the gaze of the world-wide tourists, will strike the average beholder with wonder. They comprise a city in their area and environment, the enormous business done centering in some four - hundred acres of ground. The yards are divided off into sections so as to include 3,300 pens, 1,800 of which are covered, provision thus being made to handle 25,000 head of cattle, 14,000 sheep, and 150,000 hogs at one time. They contain twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of water troughs, fifty miles of feed troughs, and seventy-five miles of water and drainage pipes. Five artesian wells, having an average depth of 1,230 feet, afford an ample'supply of water. There are also eighty-seven miles of railroad tracks, all 'tne’ great roads having access to this vast market. » The entire cost of grounds and improvements was over four millions of dollars. The meat packing industry is carried on in immediate proximity to the Stock Yards. The extent of this interest may be imagined from the fact that a single business controlled by one of the great packing firms of the city occupies seventy acres of floor space and employs 3,500 men. The Stock Yards are open to visitors at all times, but a person wishing to view the workings of the packing houses, can, on application, be furnished with a guide,

THE CHICAGO STOCK YARDS,

usually a workman, in the establishment visited. The traveller in remote and unsettled districts who purchases a wholesome and convenient can of prepared meat, the villager who receives daily a consignment of pork, beef, or mutton, fresh and refrigerated, have the great packing industry to thank for it all. It is possible to follow a cow or a hog from the pen into which it is driven at morning to the shapely loins of meat it forms a few hours later, by keeping it company and passing from section to section of the systematic handling it receives. The cattle are driven from the pens at the Stock Yards to the slaughtering houses. Here one swift blow dispatches the animal, and moving hooks catch it up, with scores of other carcasses following. It is cleaned, given a bath in a steam vat to remove bristles, quartered, its various portions sent to particular apartments, and then placed in the cooling houses. Equal care is taken in the shipment of the meat, clean refrigerator cars being used, which deposit Chicago beef, pork, or mutton in New York City within forty-eight hours after the cattle are received at the , Chicago stock yards.

Nineteen persons were prostrated by heat in New York Tuesday. Two BLOCKS of frame buildings burned at Findlay, Ohio, causing a loss of $20,000. The Citizens’ Exchange Bank, of Grant, Neb., hap closed its doors, the State Banking Board taking charge. Rates of ssl first class and $33 second class, St. Paul to San Francisco, were announced by the Great Northern. About 180 miners in the Gem and Frisco mines in Idaho have gone on a strike. The miners demand equal wages for skilled and unskilled labor. The Lane County Bank of Eugene, Ore., assigned. The officers say depositors will be paid in full. No statement of the liabilities has yet been made. The death is announced at New York of Mareschal Jose Simeao de Oliveria, of Brazil, President of the Brazilian Commission to the World’s Columbian Exposition. Justice Beach, of New York, grant* ed Frederick Blanc a decree of absolute divorce from Elizabeth Blanc, the “Baroness.” She is enjoined from the use of his name.

A STEADY improvement in the condition of labor is shown by the report of a sub-committec of the Senate Committee on Finance on prices and Wages for fifty years. It has been learned that Ralph E. Gaylord, who left Omaha, Neb., sixty days ago, and who was thought to have been insane, is in financial distress. He has probably fled to escape his debts. David Bryant, a street-car driver, was savagely kicked and beaten by Francis McCarton. a sergeant of police, at New York. McCarton was intoxicated and in citizen's clothes. He got into a quarrel on a street car with the driver and caused his arrest. A police-

IN THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER.

man of the court squad finally jumped in between Sergt. McCarton and his victim and the latter's life was saved. The man’s screams were agonizing and penetrated to the court-room, causing excitement there. At Flat Prairie, Texas, the negroes held a big Emancipation Day celebration and a row started between two factions, one led by George Laplin and the other by Adam Watson. Knives and pistols held full sway for half an hour, both sides fighting fiercely. Many on both sides were badly wounded. Watson was riddled with bullets and knife wounds, while Sandy Laplin and three others on that side were killed.

Currencies Condensed.

SLAIN BY A CYCLONE.

FIFTEEN PERSONS PERISH IN A KANSAS TORNADO. A Fearful Storm Sweeps Over a Section of Country in the Kansas Biver Valley— Many Killed, Some Fatally Hurt and Others Seriously Injured. Work of a Windstorm. One of Jhe most destructive cyclones that ever visited Kansas swept over the section in the vicinity of Williamstown Wednesday night, completely devastating a strip of country about two miles east and west of the town, and killing instantly fifteen people. The storm was preceded by a heavy rain and its • approach from the northwest was heralded by a sudden darkening of the skies and the terrible rush of the wind. In the path of its destruction nothing remained that could be at all recognized. Trees were twisted up; fields of grain were completely wiped out; hedges were completely stripped of foliage; stock was killed and horribly maimed, and houses and barns and all buildings were swept out of sight. The list of killed is as follows: EVANS, L. F. EVANS, EMERY. GRIMES. L. M. GRIMES, MARY, and two children. HUTCHINSON, MRS. JOHN. KINCAID, SAMUEL. KINCAID, CLARA. KINCAID. SADIE. KINCAID, WALTER. KINCAID, EVA. KINCAID, WILLIAM. PETERS, W. F. STEWART, SAMUEL. Three others were fatally hurt and a score more or less injured. The bodies of all those killed were shockingly mangled. Mrs. Hutchinson’s arms and legs were found in a tree a mile from the house. Eva Kincaid’s head was severed from her body. Samuel Stewart and L. M. Grimes were carried 300 hundred yards in different directions and mutilated almost beyond recognition. Stewart’s body was cut in two as if by one stroke of a great knife. The strip of country swept by the cyclone is left as barren as a floor. In Williamstown schoolhouse were found the dead bodies of the Kincaid family, consisting of father, mother and four children. The youngest child is without its head, it being blown or cut off and carried away by the wind. One of the children was found three miles from the house. At Arthur Evans’ farm, a quarter of a mile northeast of Williamstown, everything is destroyed. Evans ran into his basement, but was found dead three rods from the house in the field. Mrs. Evans also took shelter in the basement, but escaped with her life. At the Hutchinson farm, which was northeast of Williamstown, r Mrs. Hutchinson lost her life and Mr. Hutchinson was slightly injured. Seven head of horses were killed here. Some of the horses were blown a quarter of a mile away. In the cemetery at Williamstown the monuments are all blown away and some of the base stones were blown many rods. Fully thirty horses were completely demolished and the little village of Williamstown wiped out of existence. The storm was only about six minutes in passing. At Winfield many small houses were destroyed and a number of people injured, two fatally. The Episcopal Church is completely destroyed. The Babbitt Hotel and Thompson block, a three-story building, are badly damaged and the plate-glass front of the First National Bank was blown out. The west wing of the courthouse was also blown away. Emporia also suffered from a windstorm but to a lesser degree.

FOUR HUNDRED LOST.

The British Battleship Victoria Is Sunk Off Tripoli. A most terrible, calamity befell the great British twin screw battleship Victoria, flying the flag of Vice Admiral George C. Tryon, K. C. 8., commander of the Mediterranean station. She was sunk in eighteen fathoms of water off Tripoli Friday afternoon, and at least four hundred of her officers and crew went to the bottom with her. The disaster was due to the fearful bungling of either her own officers or those of the battleship Camperdown. In broad daylight, during a maneuver, she was run into head on by her companion ship, and in less than a quarter of an hour she had disappeared in the waves, carrying with her all on board. Twenty-one officers, including Vice Admiral Tryon, are reported drowned, and the great fighting ship lies a useless wreck, bottom side up, beneath the waves. The disaster is one of the most horrible, as well as one of the most disgraceful, that have ever befallen the English navy. The Victoria was a battleship of 10,470 tons and 14,000 horse-power and mounted fifty guns. The Camperdown is also of the Mediterranean fleet and is a slightly smaller boat than the Victoria. She is of 10,600 tons and 11,500 horse-power. Tripoli, near where the collision happened, is about seventy miles from Damascus. It has a small harbor,which is so shallow as to be notoriously unsafe. It is supposed that the Victoria found a lack of sea room in putting about as- the Camperdown came on, ana the latter boat hit the flagship squarely on the starboard side with her ram. The Camperdown was moving under a high steam pressure, and the effect was such as would have been made with an ax on a plank. The plates of the Victoria just forward of the turret were torn apart and a perfect flood poured into the hold of the flagship. She began to sink immediately. The engines of the Camperdown were reversed at once, but not before she had hit the Victoria a second time and completed the work of destruction. Every effort was made to save the ship, but the Victoria settled so fast that this was seen to be impossible, and the men, losing all discipline, cast loose the small boats and attempted to reach the Camperdown. Only three of the boats got free of the suction of the sinking ship. The rest were overturned and many of the occupants of these were drowned with the men who were cooped up in the battleship beyond all chance of rescue. Vice Admiral Tryon is said to be one of those who went down with the ship. The Victoria hardly moved forward after the blow. The water poured so rapidly into her engine-room that the fires were extinguished before the engineer had time to act. Some of the officers and crew managed to get out of the suction caused by the sinking vessel, and were rescued. Among those lost is Vice Admiral Tryon. The first reports of the disaster stated that about two hundred men had been drowned, but later dispatches show that the loss of life was far greater, not less than 400 of the officers and crew of the Victoria having gone down with their ship.

The Liberty Bell Cast.

The Columbian liberty bell has been cast at the Meneely bell foundry in Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Cleveland did not press the electric button *which was to release the metal from tile furnace, allowing it to run into the molds. There was some misunderstanding in-making the wire connections at Gray Gables.

PARDONED THE REDS.

GOV. ALTGELD SETS THE ANARCHISTS FREE. Schwab, Fielden and Neebe Are Liberated from the Joliet Penitentiary After Nearly Seven Years’ Service—The Governor Scores the Courts. Prison Doors Flung Wide. The Chicago anarchists, Schwab, Fielden and Neebe, have been pardoned out of the Joliet Penitentiary by Gov.!

Altgeld. The news of the pardon caused the most profound surprise at Joliet, according to a dispatch, but it is said to have been' anticipated in Chicago py the friends of the imprisoned men.' Schwab, according to the Joliet corre-

MICHAEL SCHWAB.

spondent, has been looked upon as one of the most dangerous men in the horrible conspiracy that led up to the Haymarket massacre; Fielden was always considered al misguided but honest man; and Neebe was looked upon as one of August Spies’ misguided tools. It would! have caused no surprise to have pardoned Neebe. In extending executive clemency the Governor seems to have; acted without conference with or advice from anybody of influence or authority. The act is his alone, apparently. The pardon message contains 17,000 words. The Governor, takes the ground that these men did not have a,

GOV. ALTGELD.

fair trial and that the court was prejudiced. He scores Judge Gary and Chief of Police Bonfield severely. Schwab, Fielden and Neebe were sentenced to State’s prison on the charge of complicity in the Haymarket massacre on the night of May 4,1886. The details of the trial are too well remembered to demand recounting. Spies, Fielden, Parsons, Fischer, Lingg,

Schwab and Engel were sentenced to death and Neebe, whom many thought innocent, to fifteen years in the penitentiary. The case was carried up and fought' with great desperation in the Supreme Court of Illinois by the prisoners’ lawyers, but

the court finally adjudged the verdict correct in law and the sentence of the court was carried out in respect to Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Neebe. Louis Lingg killed himself horribly with a fulminating cap in the jail on the day preceding that set for the hanging. A determined attempt to secure a commutation of sentence was made before the execution. It was joined in by many, especially in behalf of Parsons, who was well known and popular, ana it might have been granted if that wild fellow had consented to recant in his faith. But he refused to do so, and Gov. Oglesby was obdurate in refusing

to grant a commutation to any who did not weaken. Spies, worn as his friends say by long confinement, consented to admit his error, but 'Oglesby, considering ■Mm the leader, would give him no mercy. Fielden and Schwab

OBOAR W. NEEBE.

made sentence was cut down to life imprisonment. Spies, Parsons, Fischer and Engel were hanged from the same gibbet in the north corridor of the jail in Chicago, on Nov. 11,1887. They were buried on Nov. 13 in Waldheim Cemetery, where a monument in their memory has just been unveiled. The others were quickly taken to Joliet Penitentiary. For the last three or four years strong efforts have been made to secure their pardon, and an amnesty association was formed in Chicago, which has worked unceasingly to this end. Many petitions were presented to Gov. Fifer during his term of office praying for executive clemency in the case of these men, but he refused to listen to the appeals. Unveiled Tiielr Monument. Sunday afternoon, in Waldheim Cemetery, near Chicago, a stately monument to the memory of Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Engel, and Lingg, the executed anarchists, was unveiled. It rested on the same spot which marked their several graves. President Schmidinger, of the society which erected the monument, delivered an address, reciting

ANARCHIST MONUMENT.

matters of interest in connection with the movement. About 3,000 persons witnessed the ceremony. The monument was draped in the red which the organization so fondly clings to as an emblem of its order, and the men, women, and children who were grouped around the monument wore red in profusion and talked of “martyrs to the cause of human rights. ”

SAMUEL FIELDEN.