Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — Page 2

®!)c JlcmorraticScntiiicl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W McEWEN, ... Potilisheb.

FOUR MEN ARE HELD

TO ANSWER FOR THE WORLD’S FAIR HOLOCAUST. i Tryon Assumed the Blame for tlie Victoria Disaster—B7,soo,ooo tost in a London Fire—Flurry In the Wheat Market—Xo Editors' Passes. r - l placing th<g Blame. »- Responsibility for the terriblyJ<?§s of life "at U v tbe Wood’s. Fjii^on in© Afternoon of July in tho belief t®"<s Coroner’s jury, Whicn for six days listened to the testimony at the inquest, rests upon the shoulders of four men. and this quartette is held to await the action of the Grand Jury. Daniel B. Burnham, Director of Works at £he World’s Columbian Exposition; John B. Skinner, President of the Cold Storage Company; Charles A. McDonald. Secretary and Treasurer of the concern; Edward W., Murphy, Chief of tho Columbian Fire Department. Sixteen verdicts cover the list of dead who were either killed or died from in-, juries received at the Are. Ilerq 1* the list: Philip J. Breen, John Cahill, William Henry Denning, Ralph A. Drummond, James Fitzpatrick, Lewis J. Frank, John H. Freeman, James A. Garvey, Norman M. Hartman, John C. Mcßride, Bernhard Murphy, Burton Edgar Page, Charles W. Purvis, John A. Smith, Paul W. F. Schroeider, unidentified man. The verdict, which was agreed upon twenty-soven minutes after the jury was given the case, recites as follows: That (name of victim here inserted) died from injuries and burns received at a fire of the Cold Storage Building at the World's Fair grounds on July IU, IRiW, and we the jury llnd from the evidence presented that Charles A. McDonald, John B. Skinner, Daniel H. Burnham, and Edward W. Murphy he held to the Gland Jury for criminal negligence, and there hold until discharged by due course of law.

MOKE PEOPLE WANTED. World’s Fair Officers Squelch a Plan to Attract More Visitors. How to increase the attendance at the World’s Fair is the problem that is causing a great deal of worry, says a Chicago correspondent There is no use denying that the attendance is a great deal less than it should be; less, in fact, than it was in June. It was proposed that the editors of country newspapers bo invited to visit tbe fair free of expense, and the railroads offered transportation, providing tho Exposition would give freo admission. This tho officials have so far refused to do. “The Fair is advertised enough already." they said, and that settled the country editors’ passes unless they come through Maj. Handy’s Departpartinent of Publicity and Promotion. “Thero are 6,000 editors whom we would have brought here, ” said one of the committee. “We could have bad them all here In a week, and in two weeks they would have been at homo writing tho kind of stuff about this Fair that it needs to brace ■up the crowds. Tho railroads have agreed to do their share; our association will entertain them, and now the World’s Fair falls down on our scheme for the sako of a few thousand passes that would have Brought forty people for every one that was issued. The attendance at the Fair Isn’t more than one-quarter what it ought to be, and we are sat down upon in one of our most sensible efforts to increase It. Wo will bring those editors anyway and ’put up’ for them at tho gates if necessary. ”

WHEAT TAKES A TUMBLE. Hurry In Western Finances One of the Chief Causes. Thero was a great flurry in wheat Tuesday morning on the Board of Trade. London opened from throe to four points ofT, and this caused New York to he very ■weak. Then the unexpected flurry In "Western banks caused a fluctuation on the Chicago Board and wheat "broke from CO conts, Monday night’s close, to 66% cents the first hour Tuesday morning. Tho first drop was to 08% conts and later to 67% cents. Then there was a rise to 67% cents, and the next drop came down to 66% cents. For several days, says our correspondent, tho feeling has been heavy and the pit has been filled with “long” wheat. Still there was a feeling also that the financial stringency would not last long and lhat there would be a general rise in a short time. But when the news of so many failures began to come in from the West, every “long ’’sought cover.

IT WAS TRYON'S FAULT. Last Words of the Admiral to His Flag Lieutenant on the Victoria. In his evidence before the court-martial In the case of the battleship Victoria. Capt Bourke said that he bocarae aware of the danger of a collision almost directly the Victoria began to turn. He did not think that Staff Commander Ilawkins-Fmith had ever been consulted by Vice Admiral Tryon In regard to the maneuvers. Indeed, nobody had been consulted. When Vice Admiral Tryon hoisted his flag on the Victoria, It was customary to use a 30-dogree helm. Vice Admiral Tryon altered this to one of 28 degrees. Lord Gilford, Flag Lieutenant of the Mediterranean Squadron, was the next witness He testified that after tho collision Admiral Tryon said to him: “It was all my fault” Great Fire In London. A warehouse fire in London tho other night burned over an area of over 1,500 yards before the flames were extinguished. Thirty buildings were entirely destroyed. These buildings were occupied by more than twenty-five firms, who dealt in stationery. clothing, tea, wines, furniture. Imported goods, etc. The porters and their families living on the premises had narrow escapes. Many of them rushed to tho street in their night dresses It is expected that the loss will reach £1,500,000. The burned district is but a short distance to the eastward of the Bank of England, the Boyal Exchange, and the Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor.

Leaped to Her Death. Miss Emma Garrett, of Philadelphia, Pa, Who, with her sister, Miss Mary S. Garrett, had charge of the Pennsylvania blind children’s exhibit at the World’s Fair, committed suicide Tuesday evening by leaping from a window in the Briggs House Blood Freely Shed. In a saloon row at the Hunters’ Home, near Whiting and Sheffield, Ind, Tuesday, two men were killed, three men mortally wounded and the other two out of a gang «f seven landed in Jail In Sheffield. Started the Fire with Kerosene. Mra Jane McVery was fatally burned at Fittsburg by an explosion of oil, which she was pouring into the kitchen stove to start a fire. Her 3-year-old child was also terribly burned, but will recover. Two young lady visitors, Emma Dean and Minnie Hamilton, made narrow escapes from the flames. Killed by a Defective Scaffold. By the breaking of a scaffold used in the building of the Garfield Avenue Presbyterian Church at Columbus. Ohio, Thomas Fairchild, Joseph Leopold and William long were precipitated twenty -five feet Fairchild was instantly killed and Leopold jrobably fatally h.Jured.

FIRED ON THE FORTS. French Gnnboats Cross the Bar and Fight Their Way to Bangkok. Bangkok advices are to the effect' that, despite the most pacific assurances from the French minister, who undertook to stop the advance of tho gunboats and to arrange all differences, tho Comte and the Inconstante crossed the bar Thursday evening and exchanged shots with the Pakham forts. The two men-of-war then proceeded to Bangkok and anchored with the gunboat Lutln opposite the British legation. Another dispatch says that twenty Siamese were killed and fourteen wounded during the exchange of fires between the forts at tho mouth of tho Moinam River and the Freuch gunboats Comte and Inconstante. It is not the present intention of the department to dispatch an American war vessel to the scene of war in view of the fact that the American Interests in Siam are insignificant, boing confined to a snityll trade in teak wood. Nevertheless, it lormiaable proportions the Siamese maV make it very unpleasant sot foreign residents, including the few Americans there, as the hostilities are apt to bo characterized on one side by Iho summary proceedings known to semi-barbarous natloni If such a state of affairs obtains, the United States will not be without a vessel in Siamese waters. SESSION MAY BE LONG. - in— > Belief that Congress Will Not Adjourn Until Spring. According to a Washington correspondent, the belief that Congress, upon convening on Aug. 7, will remain in practically continuous session till next summer is becoming general Thero may bo a recess of a few days before the date for boginning tho regular session, hut it will ho only to allow the members to get their second wind after the extra session spurt When the proclamation was first made public nearly every member of . Congress then in Washington predicted that it would not last more than a few weeks. It is clear enough that, oven if the silver law is repealed, it can only bo done after a long and tedious dobato—a debate which will in all probability ran the gamut of financial legislation and tho history of coinage from the time of Adam to that of the international monetery conference of 1892. If tho Sherman law is removed from the statute books by tho time tho regular session begins in December most mbn will consider that the country is playing in great luck. There are more, however, who believe that December will roll around and still see no agreement reached.

TO AMEND THE BANKING LAWS. Comptroller Eckels Will Make Important Recommendations in His Report. A Washington special says that tho comptroller of the currency will, in bis forthcoming report, make a number of recommendations in tho way of amendments to the present national banking laws. The most important of these will bo tho ono authorizing tbe issue of circulation up to tho par value of tho bonds deposited to secure the same. It is probable that he will also recommend tho repeal of tho act which provides for the organization of hanks in small cities on tho deposit of $12,000 United States bonds. Ninety per cent, of the banks which have failed lately, the dispatch says, were of this character, having been established In many instances whore they wore not needed and in others by irresponsible poopla Couldn't Hear the Burden. The National Bunk of Kansas City, Mo., suspended payment Friday afternoon and is now in the hands of tho comptroller of currency. The assets will be between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, and the liabilities, between SBOO,OOO and $1,000,000. Tho depositors will he paid dollar for dollar, tho officials claim. President J. S. Chick said that tho suspension was duo to a steady withdrawal of deposits since tho beginning of the financial stringency which has prevailed throughout the whole nation during the last sow months. “A few minutes before tbe bank closed,” ho said, “there came a demand for $40,000. Wo could not stand another day’s run and so suspended. We had asked tho clearinghouse for help, ancj that fact was telegraphed to creditors and depositors out of town and caused the run to bo heavier. We asked for ample aid from the clearinghouse and received $35,000. The orders for currency came in so heavily that we could not possibly fill them. I expect the Comptroller will placo a hank examiner in charge. ”

A Stitch in Time. Visitors to tho Fair will no longer bo able to promenade on the roofs of Manufactures and Transportation Buildings. The Council of Administration has issued an order stopping the elevators which run to the roofs of the two buildings mentioned and the baiconlos and galleries of Administration Building will also bo closed to the public. This order was made upon a written report from Director of Works Burnham, who informed the council that he thought it unsafe to permit visitors to visit those places as they liavo done heretofore. The fire in the ColdFtorage Warehouse had its influence with Mr. Burnham, but the chief reason was to avoid a panic. The promenade on Manufactures Building is 250 feet high and there is no means of getting down except by the elevators. On one occasion there were 3,000 people on that roof. It took several hours to get them down. In the event of a panic, which would be created by even a slight blaze in the big building, there would be a catastrophe.

Paris Reds Rampant. Friday was tho one hundred and fourth anniversary of the fall of the Bastilo, and the Paris anarchists, ever active, seized the opportunity and on the walls and other places about the city posted revolutionary and Incendiary placards calling the people to arms and revolt. They say that another ’93 is needed to give the people justice. These bloodthirsty evidences that tho dangerous classes are active alarmed no one. but the police were busy all day tearing the obnoxious placards down. The wellknown anarchist resorts were also closely watched.

Eight in One Grave. The funeral of tho unidentified dead from the fire in the World’s Fair cold storage building took place in Chicago Friday morning. There were in all eight bodies, which were placed in one grave. The ceremonies were held at the church by the Rev. Father Hischen, and at Oakwoods, where the Interment took place, the Protestant services for the dead were read. The bodies were buried In a lot given by the Oakwoods Cemetery Association. Base-Ball Record. The standing of the clubs of tho National League is shown by the following table: W. L. ?>c. W. L. so. Pktladelp’ia.43 23 .C 52 Ft. L0uie,...30 35 .462 Bostons. ...42 24 .636 New Yorks .30 36 .455 Plttsbures..Bß 29 .567 Chicagos....29 86 . 446 Clevelands. .54 26 .(67 Baltlmoree.,2B 36 .438 8r00k1yn5...35 30 .538 Washl’gt’ns.2S 40 .403 Gtacinnatls.32 34 .485 Louisvllleß..lß 37 .327

Bad Charge for the Girls. Misses Arwlld and Florence Van Drubb were arrested at Alliance, Ohio, charged with stealing SIOO from a house where they were employed as seamstresses. Two Miners Killed. An explosion of gas in the Pettlbone mine at Kingston, Pa, killed Robert Hughes and George Kestner and injured four ethers. Heroes’ Day at the Fair. Flags drooped at half-mast Sunday at Jackson Park. Above white domes and gilded spires the gay banners of twenty nations hung listlessly about their staffs

Over the serene, triumphant beauty of the city lay a somber pall Inside the wide gates of the main entrance at Sixtyfourth street stood a black, sodden heap of embers. Silently, solemnly, it told a story which came near to the heart of each one who entered. Even outside the walls the spell had fallen. Blatant, shrill-voiced men crying their shoddy wares had lost something of their usual vigor. Their cries were less sibilant, their importunities less insistent. It was Heroes’ day, and the last open Sunday of the World’s Fair. Brave men who had met awful death in the line of duty had been laid to rest. To their memory the day was sacred. For the reliel and support oj those left bejjjpd the people met. The’ day, was extremely warm up to noon, when a drenching rain fell, and then the sun shone with intense heat Because of these unfavorable conditions the crowd was not as large as was expected, but it is believed the amount realized for the families of tho dead flropiea from the World’s Fair will eSceod $50,000, "J". ..

* SWINDLERS CAPTURED, Obtained Merchandise Without Paying for It and Broke Invoice Laws. At Hartshorne, L T., United States Postoffice Inspector 51 C. Spooner and W. C. Houko effected an important arrest under the charge of fraudulent usos of tie mails, They will turn over to the Federal Court at Fort Smith Elliot Johnson, J. ,0. Johnson, W. It Johnson, and Hales Johnson, a father and three sons, who have for several months styled themselves the Johnson Trading Company. Colonel Spooner, who has been at work upon the case for some timo, states their plan of operation was to obtain merchandise wherever possible without payment in advance, convert the goods into cash without regard to invoiced cost and neglect to pay for them. They maintained no place of business, disposing of tbelr goods to tho Indians Kansas City, Bt. Louis, and Chicago houses are their principal victims, to what extent is not known. Complaints other than that of the postoffice department will be filed against them.

JUMP TO THEIR DEATH. Burglars Vault a Fence to Avoid Pursuers and Fall Down a Cliff. The little town of Westfield, N. Y., was rulded \>y two desperate burglars. After they had robbed a number of small stores they were discovered In C. J. Bannister’s grocery. They were headed off from escape by the night watchmen from tlio rear and jumped through tho glass front. Thoy ran toward Chautauqua creek, and, evidently believing they were to secure the seclusion of a grove, vaulted a low fence. Instead of lighting in a grove they were precipitated to a hod of rocks iu the creek, fifty feet below. Their dead bodies were found In the morning. One of the men bad hls back broken and his skull crushed. A notebook in his pocket contained tho name “Thomas Fitzgerald. Sandusky, Ohio.” His pockets wero filled with razors, knives and cigars.

Low Rates n Winner. The first fair test of tho drawing power of excursion rate 3 to the World’s Fair from long distance points occurred Wednesday. The Erie ran an excursion from Ohio points, all of them over 300 miles from Chicago, and 277 excursionists took advantage of tho rate. Needless to say, the excursion was extremely satisfactory to tho Erie, for it netted about 83 per train mile. Any Chicago railroad which averages 81 per train mile is making monoy. It is only tho rare exception which approaches tho S 3 mark. Antioch College Teachers Resign. Thero is trouble at Antioch College, the famous institution twelvo miles west of Springfield, Ohio, founded by Horace Slann tor the coeducation of the sexes. Three of the prohiinent professors have resigned wttltin the last few weeks—J. R. Hammond, Eddyton, N. Y., professor of Greek; G C,„ Wilcox, Lundburg, professor of chemistry; and Mrs. Ella S. Sholdon, Sparta, Ohio, professor of German. It is claimed a difference of opinion regarding the government of tho institution is the cause.

Money Markets Less Stringent. R. G. Dun & Co’s Weokly Review of Trade says: There is a somewhat better tone in business because money markets ure a little loss stringont. But it cannot be said as yet that there is any distinct improvement. In every direction unusual. conservatism prtvuils, orders tiro relatively small, the volume of business is restricted, and a waiting policy rules. Her Husband Stole the Babe Away. While walking in Goodaie Park, Columbus, Ohio, wheeling her six-months-qld baby, Mrs. Edward ReeSo was astonished to meet her husband with a woman on his arm. She upbraided him, whereupon he soized the baby from tho carriage and ran uwuywith it. She appealed to the police to help her find tho child. Will Have Cavalry. Kansas' Stato Military Board has authorized Adjutant General Artz to organize and equip two companies of cavalry. One of these will be stationed at Vassar and the other at Moridan, both within easy call of Topeka. l’oplar Men's Popular Action. Tho National Poplar Manufacturers’ Association. in session at Louisville, decided not to increase the price of poplar lumber. Canal Work Stopped. The Nicaragua Canal Construction Company is out of funds and has stopped all work. Lynched for Assault. Robert Larkin, colored, was lynched at Ocala, Fla., for criminal assault.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 25 @ 5 60 Hogs—Shipping Grades 300 @ 6 25 Sheep—Fair to Choice 400 @ 4 75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 65 ® 66 Cobn—No. 2 40 ® 41 Oats—No. 2 29%@ 30% Rye—No. 2. 60 ® 61 Butteb—Choice Creamery 19H@ 20% Eggs—Fresh 13%@> 14% Potatoes—New. perhrl 160 ® 2 25 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 335 @ 6 00 Hogs—Choice Light 3 50 @ 6 25 Sheep—Common to Prime 300 @ 4 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 ® 60 Cobn—No. 2 White 40 ® 40% Oats—No. 2 White 33 ® 33% ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 @ 5 00 Hogs 3 00 ® 6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red ci ® 62 Cobn—No. 2 38 @ 39 Oats—No. 2 28 @ 28% Rye—No. 2 42 ® 44 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 00 ® 5 00 hogs 3 00 & 6 25 Sheep 3 00 @ 5 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red, co @ 00% Cobn—No. 2 41%«3 42% Oats—No. 2 Mixed si ® 32 Rye—No. 2 ; 53 @ 55 DETROIT. Cattle.: 3 00 @ 4 75 Hogs 3 00 @ 700 Sheep 300 @ 4 00 WHEAT —No. 2 Red 66 ® 67 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 42 ® 42% Oats—No. 2 White 34%tgt 35% „ TOLEDO. Wheat—No.,2 65%@ 66% Cobn—No. 9 Ve1i0w.....:. J . 41 ® 42 Oats—No. 2 White 31 ® 32 Bye 61 ® 63 BUFFALO. Cattle —Common to Prime.... 3 60 @6 50 Hogs—Best Grades 4 00 @ 6 60 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 74%@ 75% Ne. 2 Red 69 71* MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 63 @ 63% Cobn—No. 3 88%@ 39% Oats—No. 2 White 31 @ 32 Bye—No. 1 61 @ 62 BABLEY—No. 2 64 @ 66 Pobk—Mess..:. 16 75 @l7 25 „ NEW YORK. Cattle s so @> 25 Hogs 300 ® 700 Sheep 3 00 ® s 25 Wheat—No. 2Red 74 @ 75 Cobn—No. 2 49 ® 50 Oats—Mixed Western 37 ® 39 Butteb—Creamery 20 ® n Pobi—New Hen 19 » T 6

OLD SOL’S WARM RAYS

THEY FALL ON PEOPLE IN VARI. OUS LOCALITIES. High Temperature Causes Great Discomfort in Chicago and at the Fair—Electrical Storing and Cyclones Reported— Crop# Are Greatly Damaged. Scorching Weather.

J HURSDAY morning Old Imi Sol got U P and made immediate preparations * to cook the earth and all those who could not afford to wear seersucker coats and straw hats. He had played a hot game the previous day, but he didn’t like the appearance of the silvery column in the thermometer. It was not enough to suit his taste, and he set out Thursday to pour such sweltering rays downward that poor humanity gasped and fainted from the effects of the heat. In Chicago the mercury climbed to 92 degrees up in the Auditorium tower, but that was the coolest spot in the city. Down on tho streets the thermometer showed 97 degrees in the shade, and no one dared to calculate what the heat was where there was no shade. The sun beat down upbn the shining pavements and radiated heat from the hot stones. Plate glass windows and white walls reflected the glare upon tho heads of the hurrying crowds. Men with cork helmets and men with high hats sufferod alike, and the summer girl with mulle sleeves complained as much as the apple woman with a heavy shawl. There was a breeze. It was sandladen and hot. At every street corner the wind swept the dirt from the pavements and hurled it into the eyes of wayfarers, begriming moist faces and blinding the vision of sight-seers. Strangers in the city suffered the most. Men stopped in the middle of the street to clean the grit out of their eyes, regardless of cable trains and noonday traffic. Street etiquette was forgotten. Stylish men were seen coatloss, hatless and breathless. Several people dropped exhausted by the intense heat, and tho patrol and ambulance wagons were in frequent demand. Popular report made it the hottest day in six years, though the statistics wore against that idea. Tho sun wont down, but the heat remained, and not until near midnight did relief ccmo. A seYere thunderstorm then reduced the temperature several degrees. During the day visitors to Jackson Park carried parasols and palmleaf fans. They needed them, too, for the thermometer touched the highest point yet reached in World’s Pair weather. Five cases of prostration from heat were treated at the emergency hospital. Hot Everywhere. From telegraphic reports the extremely warm weather seems to be pretty general throughout the country. Severe electrical storms are refiorted in many places. At Kalamazoo ightning struck in ten places, including the First Prosbyterian Church. Wheat, which is being harvested in Michigan, was laid low in many fields by hail and cornfields riddled, and fruit is also badly damaged. Cyclones visited Waterloo, lowa, Elmwoo4, Neb., and other points, and groat destruction to crops is the result. The mercury at Milwaukee reached 95 in the shade. Three’ cases of sunstroke are. reported there, one of which was fatal. The thermometer registered 94 degrees at Des Moines, 98 at Indianapolis, and 102 at Knoxville, Tenn.

CONDITION OF CROPS. Reports on Spring Wheat, Corn, Oats, Potatoes and Pastures. In its crop report this week tho Farmer’s Review says that very little Bpring wheat is being raised in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. The few counties where it is raised in the above States give a very indifferent report. Of these Nebraska sends in the greater number of re-i ports. There the greater number report the condition as poor. In some localities the crop was seen to be doing so badly that it was plowed up and the ground planted to corn. Some counties report a complete failure. In lowa spring wheat is doing well, two-thirds of tho correspondents reporting good, and the rest fair. In Wisconsin the crop averages about fair, whioh means less than a full crop. It is making rapid growth' and in some counties is ready to head outDrv weather is the cause of the low average. In Minnesota the condition is poor on acoount of drouth. In Dakota half report condition bad; the rest of the reports are equally divided between fair and good. Cobn.—Com Is generally good in all the States covered by the report. In some places the crop is estimated at 80 or 90 per cent, of average, while in other counties the yield is’ expected to belabove a fnll average. In Kansas and Nebraska rain is needed. Oats.—Oats are in condition about the same as com in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, lowa, and Wisconsin. In Kansas most of the oats have been out. In about half the counties the yield is good. In the rest the yield is poor, the crop avlng been cut short by rust in the milk stage of the oats. In Nebraska the condition is generally poor, and some fields have been plowed up. Potatoes.—Potatoes are promising well in niinois, Indiana, OMo, Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri, lowa, Wisconsin and Dakota. fu Kansas mo-t of the reports are favorable, but some give fair and pour. In Nebraska the reports are about evenly divided between good, fair, poor. Rain is needed for the development of the crop. Potato bugs are doing some damage. PAstubes —Pastures are good in most of the States. In Nebraska they only average fair i n account of drouth. In -Minueseta the Sass is so dry in many townships that the rmers are fearful of i e*tractive fires being accidentally starred. In nearly all of the States a few counties report pastures dried up. The general condition Is, however, good. Overflow of News. A. L. Jones & C!o., grocers at Syracuse, N. Y., have failed for SBO,OOO. THESwiss Government has suspended the coinage of £, 1, and 2 franc* silver pieces. There have been 704 deaths from cholera in the south part of France since May. The death sentence of Wm. Hartley, of Shelby County, Tenn., who was convicted of murder, has been commuted to life imprisonment. In response to the demands of England the Sultan of Turkey has ordered the liberation of all the persons convicted at Angora of sedition. An inch of rain fell in an hour at Aberdeen, S. D., and the storm covered a wide extent of territory. The rainmakers get credit for thej’ain.

SUNDAY CLOSING OF THE FAIR. The Action of the Directory Wu Practically Unanimous. The World’s Fair will be closed Sundays during the remainder of the Fair g>riod. Such is the decision of the oard of Directors, declared by the emphatic vote of 24 to 4. When it became apparent by actual admissions that the general public did not care for Sunday opening, that it required the attendance of fiver 10,000 employes to wait upon the pleasure of about 40,000 visitors, the question was considered purely from a business point of yiew and it was decided that “the interests of the public are not promoted by keeping the Exposition open on each and every day of the week,” and that the gates should be closed. The sole reason for closing the Fair Sundays is a financial one, as Director Hutchinson stated. The directors found that the people did not want it open and would not attend Sundays, and so they closed. The closing resolution tells the whole story and sweeps with it the promise to repay the United States the amounts received from the souvenir coin appropriation. The resolution reads as follows: Whereas, The Board of Directors heretofore, to wit. on May Id, ls»3, adopted certain resolutions providing lor the opening of the Exposition on Sundays in response to urgent appeals from persons and organizations representing a large majority of the public as well as stockholders of this corporation, and also In accordance with a resolution adopted by the City Counoil of the city of Chicago, representing the financial interests of said city in said Exposition to the amount of ?3,000,000; and. Whereas, Said action of the Board has been sustained by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the right and power of the Board of Directors to control the physical administration of the Exposition Sunday as well as other days of the week has been upheld by the final decree of said court; and, Whereas, It now appears from the actual admissions that the general public do not manifest a desire that said Exposition should be kept open to the public each day of the week, and it further appearing tlia if the Exposition Is kept open Sunday it will require the attendance of more than IC,OOO laboring men and women, the employes of the Exposition, and others, including tbo curators and clerks of the exhibitors, and while the Exposition authorities can give its own employes one day of rest each week it seems impracticable for the exhibitors and others to provide such day of rest for their own cleiks and employes : ans, Whereas, It further appears that the number of laboring men and women whose services will be necessarily required to keep the Exposition open Sunday is disproportionate to the number of visitors on said days, and therefore the interests of the public are not promoted by keeping the Exposition open on each and every day of the week; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That all the said resolution so adopted the icth day of May, 18M, and the amendments to the rule relative thereto adopted said day, save and except the prices of admissions, be and the same are hereby rescinded, to take effect after the ICth inst.

ARMY BILL PASSED. The Measure Forced Through the Keichstag Aniid Exciting Scenes. According to cable advices the army bill was forced through the German Reichstag amid scones unparalleled. The speeches were rancorous; the opposition bitter and unyielding; the excitement intense. The Emperor himself was in the parliament house and was fuming with unbridled rage because his royal pleasure was not acceded to with more celerity. The Government had hoped that the final passage of the Emperor’s pet measure would be merely formal, and that the Reichstag would close in time to enable the swaggering war lord and his ministers to congratulate each other at their luncheon over their great triumph. But they were mistaken. The enemies of the bill fought to the very last and exhausted every means to harry the Emperor and his advisers. The passage of the bill is an event of much importance. Aside from the dramatic interest which attaches to the Emperor’s victory, and the humiliating concessions made to the foreign and church elements in order to muster a majority, the now law has other aspects of interest. The demand for its passage was based upon earnest and seemingly sincere representations that German security demanded it. Without this law, which gives more men for.the army, it was claimed that Germany would not remain first in her military resources. It was broadly asserted that without it she would slip backward, outstripped in the race, and become second in importance as a European power. If the Government view is correct Germany will now step to the front with renewed strength and greater- resources. At the same time watchful rivals, guarding their own interests, will measure the new strength of the German army and take measures to outdo it. Thus the race will continue as it has been going on until, financially exhausted, overtaxed, burdened with military service, the people will become impatient and will inaugurate —perhaps in blood—a new order of things. Or, perhaps, the dream of peaceable disarmament of the great powers may h 9 realized.

young Baptists Cheer. The convention of Baptist Young People, in session at Indianapolis, went wild when,the announcement was made that the World’s Fair gates were to be closed on Sunday. They were engaged in prayer meeting at the time, find shouted and cheered until they were hoarse. The morning session was entirely occupied with the discussion of missionary topics, and the afternoon was devoted to a symposium upon the lesser federation of the union. At 4 o’clock thirty State and provincial rallies were held in.various parts of the city, where matters pertaining to the State federations were discussed. The board of managers announced that Toronto had been chosen as the place for next year's convention. How the World Wags. Tom King, an Oklahoma horse thief, has been captured and turns out to be a woman. The embarkation of Lord Derby is considered to mean the end of Canadian Tory government. Thomas Seaton, of Bolivar, Pa., was bitten by a copperhead snake, and physicians despair of his life. Trustees of the De Pauw University in Indiana fear that bequests may fall $1,C00,000 short of calculations. Engineers who have surveyed the Pan-American railroad route declare the proposed enterprise is feasible. While attempting to save his drowning son John Vick, of Detroit, was dragged down and both men perished. Anti-Semite mobs in Yalta, Russia, beat and killed many Jews and plundered their homes of everything of value. A branch of Schweinfurth’s “heaven” has been established at Lexington, Ky., and the citizens are very indignant. s Striking coal miners in Kansas are becoming desperate, and have assaulted men who are working. Bloodshed is feared. J. J. Bush, cashier of the defunct Elmira National Bank, has been arrested on the charge of falsifying the books. Mrs. Mahamuel, of French Lake, Minn., was found dead in the road. It is thought she was killed by a party of revelers. Lightning set fire to Lee’s planingmill at Wilkesbarre, causing its total destruction. The loss will amount to $30,000.

KILLED AT A GRADE.

THREE DEAD AND TEN HURT AT A CROSSING MASSACRE. Grand Trunk Train Crashes Into a Chicago Street Car at High Speed—Passengers Are Ground Beneath the Wreck in Awful Agony. Trainmen Blamed. Another was added to the already long list of Chicago grade-crossing horrors the other evening when an incoming dummy train on the Grand Trunk road ran into a Halsted street open car at the 49th street crossing. The car was crowded with men and women, most of whom were returning home from work. Thomas Perkins and Margaret Murphy, of Chicago, and Grace Hunt, of La Salle, were killed and terribly mangled, while ten others were seriously hurt. The street car was south bound. There were forty-six passengers on board, many of whom were standing on the footboards and others between the seats. The car was in charge of Conductor Frank Barnett and Driver Charles Statuecker. When it reached 49th street there was a long freight train passing west. There is a network of tracks at this crossing and the street car men have always looked on it as a dangerous point, When the freight train had passed, however, and the gates were raised by the towerman, George Barnett, it was taken as a signal that the crossing was cloar and Statuecker whipped up his horsos and started across the tracks. At the same time

THE CRASH AT THE CROSSING.

Conductor Barnett, who had gone ahead of his car, motioned to the driver to come on. The approaching passenger train was concealed behind the outgoing freight train. Barnett in the watch tower saw the passenger train and realized that a collision was imminent. He at once lowered the gates, but he was too late, for the street car was already on the tracks and the passenger was only a few feet distant. The latter was running at a lively rate of speed and crashed into the side of the car, whi,ch was turned around and then thrown thirty feet through the air. Few of the passengers had any warning of the accident. Those on the footboard nearest the passenger train saw it coming and jumped in time to save themselves from injury and perhaps death. But the majority of those on board were carried with the demolished car and they fell to the ground together, many injured and others dead. The car, broken into many pieces, buried those who had been riding in it, and, as the passenger train plunged ahead, there were cries of agony from the victims under the wreck. The dead were at once taken to the county morgue and the injured were placed in carriages. and driven away. The passenger train was in charge of Conductor John Kern, Engineer E. W. Jones and Fireman James Campbell. Both engineer and fireman, together with the conductor and driver of the street car and the gateman, were placed under arrest. Many who were on the car said that the accident would never have occurred had the watchman and conductor of the horse car attended closely to duty. Severe censure was heard against "Conductor Barnett. As he ran ahead to see if the way was clear he went only to the first track, it is said. Here he could plainly see the freight pulling, out to the west, and amid the din of whistling locomotives he could not hear the warning signals of the approaching passenger engine. The latter train was on the second track, and had Barnett gone ten feet farther, eye-witnesses say, he could have seen the danger.

Mob Attacks an Alliance Meeting. A largely attended meeting of the Pope County Alliance at Cove, Ark., was broken up by a mob and a i*ainstorm of bullets was fired over the heads of the crowd. John T. Miller, a member of the last Arkansas Legislature, was addressing the meeting at the time. The report states at the first fire from the enomy every man in the crowd stampeded. Mrs. Ida Duncan, however, had the presence of mind to mount a box and call to the fleeing men to stand their ground, even in the face of death. But the men kept on running, leaving the woman to hold the fort alone. James Webb was hit in the eye with a stone. Efforts are being made to arrest the assailants. Notes of Current Events. George Williams killed Andrew Ryan at Omaha in a quarrel over a girl. The Glen House at Mount Washington, N. Y., burned with a loss of SIOO,000. A CONGREGATION of 5,000 persons heard Father McGlynn preach at Port Richmond, S. I. Gen. Edward Jardine, who served gallantly through the war, died at New York, aged 69 years. Starr and Wilson have been landed in jail at Fort Smith, Ark., after a narrow escape from a mob. The North American Saengerbund decided to hold the next saengerfest in Pittsburg in July, 1896. Four French war ships are now at the mouth of the Meinam, called there by the trouble with Siam. John Powell, living at St. Johns, while working in a wheatfield, was instantly killed by lightning. Commander Lyons, of the Monongahela, has been found at fault in the collision with the Speranza. E. P. Johnson and Miss Mary Grehan, of Lexington, eloped to Jeffersonville, Ind., and were married. Members of the Citizens’ Insurance Company of Cincinnati started to move for parts unknown, but were caught. In Yalta, Russia, anti-Semite mobs beat and killed many Jews and plundered their homes of everything of value. Peace in Paris is considered but temporary. The mobs are waiting a favorable opportunity to break out again. Striking coal miners in Kansas are becoming desperate and have assaulted men who are working. Bloodshed is feared. Federation of the railway orders was effected at a Pittsburg meeting, but engineers were excluded from membership. Secretary Smith received a letter from Chief Jones resenting interference in the execution of condemned Chbctaws. __

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS MEET.

Nearly Erery Country on the Globa Bepra*; , sented at Montreal. The twelfth international convention of the most magnificent religious society ever brought into existence —the

REV. DR. CLARK.

China, Japan and Africa and Australia, are represented. A society purely local to the place of its organization, Portland, Me., until the fall of 1881, it now has twenty-two thousand societies and a membership closely approaching a million and a half. It knows no denomination for clergymen, representing no less than twenty-five evangelical sects will speak , from its platform during this meeting. Among those were some <of the most noted religious workers of the present day. Rev. Dr. Clark, the originator of the Endeavor, arrived on the opening day

DR. CLARK'S HOUSE AT PORTLAND, ME., BIRTHPLACE OF THE ORDER.

from his trip around the world, and was enthusiastically received by the thousands in attendance. Owing to the immense number of delegates and the utter impossibility of securing an auditorium large enough, lor their accommodation two programs were carried out in as many meetings, one in the Government drill hall and the other in a large tent on the parade grounds directly opposite. The sessions proper were preceded by a meeting of the Executive Committee at the Windsor Hotel, and five preparatory meetings in as many of the largest churches were held in the evening. The formal welcome proceedings took place in the drill hall and were attended by fully 15,000 people, the great hall being packed to its utmost capacity. A number of the French Canadians took exception to speeches and remarks made by two of the delegates concerning Catholicism, and, although the convention disclaimed responsibility and immediately withdrew its sympathy from the delegates who had given utterance to the objectionablo remarks, the indignation was so great among those who felt themselves agrieved that a riot was almost precipitated. There was no direct collision, although the police were called upon and had a hard time dispersing the riotous crowd. They charged a number of times and had to use their batons freely, with disastrous results to many of the rioters. In the melee a colored delegate to the convention from one of the Southern States, name unknown, was seriously hurt. A number of arrests were made. The convention next year will be held in Cleveland.

NORTHMEN IN CHICAGO.

Long Looked For Arrival of the Viking Ship—Now at the Fair. Trailing bohind a gunboat, the brave Norse sailors in their sturdy viking ship reached Chicago Wednesday afternoon. Their long voyage over perilous seas and through beating storms is at an end, and the great populace of Norway has executed its pet desire in relation to the Columbian Exposition. The viking ship, which preceded the Columbus caravels originally over the Atlantic, lias followed them through the canals and down tho lake and is now safely anchored near the more modern examples of mediaeval naval architure at the World’s Fair. The boat arrived off Van Buren street about

THE VIKING SHIP.

3 o’clock, and here Mayor Harrison gave Capt. Andersen apd his gallant crew the freedom and hospitality of the city. In half an hour the journey to the Fair was resumed, and at 4 o’clock the great muscles of the sailors plied on long oars drove the boat to the pier. The Director General welcomed the crew and gave the men a luncheon on his launch. This was followed by a reception in the Administration Building. A reception to the officers and crew of the Viking was given at Central Music Hall Friday evening. Norwegian singing societies with a membership of about 300 took part and prominent speakers were heard. The proceeds go toward paying the expenses of the crew while in "Chicago and the surplus will bo sent to aid the home for old sailors in Norway. Bri&flctg. The Bank of Florence, at Florence, Col., closed its doors. A cable car ran away at New York, near City Hall Park. It dashed through a jam of teams, and seven horses were killed or badly injured and five wagons were wrecked. Gen. Louis Coriel, the present Governor of the state of Jalisco, will be promoted to the position of Divisional General of the Mexican army and appointed Secretary of War. The British steamers Elba and William Balls were in collision at midnight thirty miles off the Humber Estuary on the east coast of England. Both vessels were so badly damaged that they sank. All hands were saved. When Mr. Hitchcock, the new superintendent of the Kansas State Reform School, took possession of the institution he was immediately deserted by the subordinate employes. He also found the boys in almost open mutiny. A Frenchman said at a dinner in the City of Mexico that English-speak. ing people were cowards and liarsCol. Crew Read challenged the French, man to a duel. Two shots were firedbut neither of the duelists were injured. An attempt was made to assassinate M. Pobiedonoszoff, a member of the' Russian Council of the Empire and of the Tribunal. An ex-seininarist named Ghiaziptof tried to stab the minister with a dagger at his residence, but was placed under arrest.

Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, was held in Montreal. Over fifteen thousa n d delegates were present, and every State and territory of the Union, all the ’'-provinces of Canada, England, nearly every country of Europe, as well as India,