Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Page 2

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HATS OFF TO A RAJAH

'HE DIVIDES HONORS WITH CITIZEN TRAIN. Uncle Sam Loses the Behring Sea CaseNo Compromise Bill Will Suit Cleveland —Train Held Up—Chair Pushers Strike at the Fair. Big Event at the Fair. The Maharajah of Kapurthala was the attraction at the Fair T uesday. George Francis Train was the side-show, aud no two attractions under one tent ever dre w euch a crowd on this earth or any other. The one was robed as some Imperial Cmsar or as a well-tailored Solomon, and the other was loud In a raiment of spotted white, with a plnned-up rent in his trousers which all but spanned the circumference of his rounded thigh. From a dais decked with slashes of royal purple and voluptuous with a reckless abundance of rich oriental stuffs the Indian country king smiled upon 100,000 upturned faces. When ho had done his rival arose, and from an eave of the Administration Building swore literally and figuratively ho had snatched the Exposition from everlasting ruin, and 10,000 men yelled bravo at the citlzon.

WILL USE THE VETO. President Won't Approve a Compromise Silver Bill. Washington dispatch: A close political and personal friend of the President, one whose duty brings him Into dally communication with him on financial matters, and who may therefore be understood te fairly represent tho President’s position, was asked wbat he thought the President would do should Congress pass a compromise bill instead of unconditionally repealing the Sherman purchase clause, lie promptly and very earnestly replied; “Veto it. Tho country peed have no doubt of that. He believes that unconditional repeal is the only thing to euro the country of its financial ills. But, lot me tellyou, the President has no idea of being compelled to use his veto, lie believes, every one who is not frightened by the cry the free-silver men believes, that the clause will he unconditionally repealed.” liOBBED THE PASSENGERS.

Masked Men Go Through a New Orleans Pacific Express Train. The south-bound passenger train on the New Orleans Pacific Railroad was held up by eight masked men three milos south of Munsfleld. La., at S o'clock at night. Tho men boardod the train at Mansfield Junction, and when It had pulled out somo distance they began holding up the passengers. Only a small amount of cash was secured. No attempt was made to rob the express or mail cars. It Is thought the bandits wore frightened off before finishing the job. They jumpod from the train and escaped In tho darknoss.

England Is Victorious. The decision of tho Behring Sea tribunal of arbitration has been handed down. Tho first four points of article 6 are docided against the United States. A close senson is established, to begin May 1, and to continue until July 21. This close season shall be observed both in the North Pacific Ocean aud In Behring Sea. A protected zone is established, extending for sixty miles around the islands. Pelagic sealing is allowed outsldo the zone in Behring So a from Aug. l. t The use of firearms in sealing Is prohibited. Uncle Sam Is practically knocked out by tho de dslon, and John Bull gots almost everyth! ig ho sought.

Guests All Escaped. T6e Tubbs Hotel at East Oakland, Cal., was burned. • There were 110 guests In the hotel, ail of whom escaped safe'y, but with only such property as could be easily carried in the hands. Perhaps $390 worth of furniture was saved. The building was a four-story frame structure, erected about 1870, and was one of Oakland’s oldest landmarks. Its original cost Is said to have been 8110,000, and the furniture was probably worth 8100,000 more, bath fairly covered by insurance

Chair Boys Strike. Between four and five hundred college boys In the employ of the Columbia Wheel Chair Company at tho World's Fair struck Tuesday. The strike is tho result of the company’s attempt to reduce tho pay of the boys. In violation of the expressed conditions upon which they were hired, and unless the claims of the chair-pushers are recognized the difficulty is likely to be taken into court for settlement.

Quiet Restored in Bombay. The religious riots that prevailed with greater cr less Intensity In Bombay tor three days past have ended. The Mohammedans and Hindoos, whose smolderine animosity was kindled into flame through religious holidays of both sects falling upon the same day, have been awed by the display of force made by the authorities and order provalls everywhere. Mr. Buchanan Sentenced. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan was sentenced at New York Monday to die In the electric chair In the week beginning Oct a Buchanan was convicted of killing his second wife by slow poison In order to obtain her fortuao. Ho afterward remarried his first wife, who had obtained “ divorce from him.

Printing Bank Notes. Employes of the Buroau of Printing at Washington are working overtlmo In order to supply the Increased demand for national bank notea Burglars Wanted Time. Burglars pried opened the front door of Hartlngton’s jewelry store on the principal street of Columbus, Ohio, and carried away fifteen gold watches. Blaze at Jamestown, N, D, Fire at Jamestown, N. D , destroyed the Capital Hotel and nearly a dozen adjoining buildings. The loss is $15,001. Secures a Divorce and Gives a Banquet. William Moore, 80 year 3 old, a millionaire knit goods manufacturer, of Cohoes, N. Y., has secured-a divorce at Sioux Falls, 8. D., on the ground of desertion. Ills wife fought the case, and when the result was known Moore gave a banquet at the Commercial Hotel. Insult to Uncle Sam. At Niagara Falls, Ont, It has been ascertained that in addition to destroying American flags during the recent demonstration by the Odd Fellows, the coat-of-arms was torn from the office door pf the United States Consol and cannot be found. More Banks Go Under. At Nashville the American National Bank has suspended payment, and the Safe Deposit and Banking Company has taken advantage of the sixty-day notice. The Cald«H County Bank at Kingston. Ma, and he Exchange Bauk, of Polo, have closed heir dcora A Yellow Fever Scare. Upon the official announcement of two deaths front “pronounced yellow fever,” In Pensacola, Fla., at least 1,500 people left the city, and quarantine being at once declared by Got, Jones of Alabama, no Penaacola passengers wore allowed to stop In

WAITB FOR CONGRESS. Expected Business Improvement Haa Not Yet Come. R. G. Dun & Co's Weekly Review of Trade says: The long desired mooting of Congress, a President's message which fully answered expectations, and the arrival of $13,280,000 in gold from Europe, with {10,000,000 more on the way, have not brought the improvement many anticipated. 6tocks are stronger, but failures continue; so does the closing of industrial establishments; idle hands multiply and silent shops, and the disorganization of domestic exchanges Is even greater than a week ago. There has been no startling crash, but the formal failures of banks are becoming more com mon. The machinery of exchanges has almost stopped. The root of the trouble Is that over $131,000,000 of deposits had been withdrawn within two months from part of the national banks and probably 8177,000,OQQ , frpro all, .besides unknown sums from savings, State, and private banka A premium oT I to. 2 per cent. Is paid for gold and 3 to 4 per cent, for currency. The Government Is printing {1,250,000 bank notes dally. The clearing-house has issued 85,000,000 more certificates and the hope is that confidence may bo revived and hoardings unlocked.

OUTLAWS ARE SHOT DEAD. Bloody Battle Reported Between the Meachims and Alabama Citizens. Information concerning a battle in Clark County, Ala., between citizens and the Meachim gang, who murdered Ernst McCorquedale last Christmas, is that thirteen of the Meachim gang were killed outright, and six citizens wounded. Among the slain is Jim Burkett, the murderer of McCorquedale. The Meachim gang has been put to flight, but the citizens are pursuing them and swear they will exterminate them. There are 150 men in the Meachim gang who are outlaws and have long terrorized the country, being part of the old Sims gang. The fight took place near Coffeyville, between the citizens of Coffeyville, Thomasville, Whitley. Jackson and other near-by towns. The trouble originated from the killing last December of Ernst McCorquedale, a prominent citizen and merchant of Coffeyville.

DOG SAVES HIS MASTER'S MONEY, Outwits Three Masked Highwaymen Who Had Waylaid George Rohen. George Rohen, of Chemung County. New York, had an exciting encounter with three masked highwaymen sevoral miles from Bhamokin, Pa. Itol.ea had a small spaniel with him. Two of the highwaymen threatened to shoot unless their victim delivered up his cash. Rohen threw the wallet containing $2,000 to the other side of the rpad aud before the footpads could reach it the spaniel took the treasure between his teeth and ran Into tho bushou skirting the highway. The footpads started in pursuit of the dog, firing their revolvers as they ran, and Rohon was soon left alone. At the expiration of two hours the dog came back with the money. NO MORE SOUVENIR POSTALS. Sale of the Cards Stopped by Government Officials—Cause of the Action. One thousand or more World’s Fair souvenir postal cards were stopped at the Exposition postoffleo Friday and thrown out of the mails Inspector Fleming, of tho l’ostofiflco Department, lnfonnod tho Exposition officials that tho sale of the cards would have to be stopped or somebody would go to jalL The postals are sold from the nickel-in-the-slot machines, and two of them go for a nlclceL The cards are also under size, and people who sell them are liable to prosecution on two charges, mutilation of the cards and selling them for more than tho regulation price.

Hornets at a Funeral At Plainfield, N. J., a funeral train was thrown into the wildest kind of disorder by a nest of hornets. The hornets swarmed out, and in an instant they had fastened on the horses and their driver, stinging them viciously. With a howl of pain the driver threw away the reins, jumped to the road, and dashed into the woods. The horses, mad with pain and blinded by the terrible stings, made a dash and collided with the carriage in front. The hornets clung to them until their fury had been spent, and then men who had jumped from their carriages got near enough to hold the maddened animals. First Geary Act Victim. The first Chinaman deported by the Geary act was shipped away from San Francisco Thursday on the steamer Rio de Janeiro in accordance with the recent decision of Judge Ross, of the Southern District Court Surveyor of the Port Kilbourne made out a passage voucher for $35, payable by the United States. Killed by a Vicious Bull. Near Bath Gate, N. D., Samuel Hillis. was killed by a vicious bull while leading the animal with a stick and ring attachment The stick broke, when the brute turned upon him striking him over the heart, tossing him in the air and killing him instantly. Buried Treasure. Ed Barker, of Taney County, Missouri, found near his home a lot of buried treasure, gold and silver, amounting to $1,500 The dates on the coins ranged from 1858 to 1863. It is supposed that the money was buried during the war. Chinese Stopped at Niagara. At Niagara Falls, Ont, the Canadian customs authorities stopped a Chinese named Bert C. Lee, wife, a white woman, and two children from entering the counFire at Milwaukee. Fire at Milwaukee destroved v L. J. Peti v & Co. 's salt sheds and damaged the plant of the Northwestern Sleigh and Carriage Company. The t< tal loss Is SIOO,OOO.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 25 @ 525 Hogs—Shipping Grades 890 @ COO Sheep—Fair to Choice 8 00 @125 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 62 @ 68 COBN—No. 2 Ss)4@ 89)4 Oats—No. 2 2i>4@ 25)4 RYE—No. 2 46 @ 18 Buttbb—Choice Creamery 21)4® 22)4 Eoos—Fresh 13 @ 13)4 Potatoes—New, per bn 65 @ 75 „ INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping soo @ i 75 Hogs—Choice Light 3 60 @ 5 76 Sheep—Common to Prime 3 00 @ 3 50 Wheat—No. 2 P.ed 63 9 M Cobn—No, 2 White: 10 @ 11 Oats—No. 2 White 25)4@ 26)4’ „ BT. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 @ 500 Hoos 3 00 @ 5 76 Wheat—No. ?R d 58 @ 69 Cobn—No. 2 35 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 28)4® 21)4 RYE-“-No. 2. 18 @ 50 „ CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 75 Hogs 3 00 @ c 00 Sheep 300 @ 160 Wheat—No. 2 Red 55 @ 67 Cobn—No. 2 g.... 11 @ 15 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 24 @ 26 Rye—No. 2. is @ 50 „ DETROIT. Cattle 300 & 1 75 Hogs ; 300 @6 00 Sheep 300 @3 75 Wheat—No. 2 r.ed 00 @ 61 Cobn-No. 2 12!6@ 13)4 Oats—No. 2 White, old 80 @ 30)4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 60 ® sl~ Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 11, @ n)4 Oats—No. 2 Wute 25 @ 25*4 Bye—No. 2 15 @ 17 „ BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... s 50 @ 500 Hogs—Best Grades 4 00 @ 6 7S Wheat—No. 1 Hard 60 @ 71 No. 2 Red 62 @ 61 „ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 68 @ 59 Cobn—No. 3 38)i@ 30)4 Oats—No. 2 White so @ 31 Rye—No. 1 is @ 50 BABLEY-No. 2 64 @ 56 POBK—Mess 12 25 @l2 75 _ NEW YORKCattle 3 60 @ 5 25 Hogs. 300 @7OO Sheep 300 @l5O Wheat—No. 2 Red 71 @ 72 Coen—No. 2 18 @ 19 Oats—Mixed Western 32 @ 34 Buttes—Creamery 19 @ 22 POBX-tfew Mess... U 50 @ls It

GUNS AT THE BIG FAIR

TOOLS OF WAR ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR EXHIBITS. Even Apostles of Peace Feast Their Byes on the Terrible Krupp Gun—Great Progress In American Ordnance—We Are Behind In Small Arms. They Catch the Crowd. World’s Fair correspondence: The great Exposition was conceived and is being carried forward with a view to show the development of the world’s inhabitants in the arts of peace. It is essentially an exposition of the industries, the arts and literature, the mechanics and all other fields of expansion in human endeavor. Its whole scope and purpose is to glorify the peace, prosperity and welfare of mankind . And yet there are no more popular or eagerly sought for exhibits in the whole Exposition grounds than those which illustrate th edevelopment of the science of war and the improvements made in the last quarter of a century in all the implements and appliances of death and destruction. Men who have never heard more than the discharge of a fowl-ing-piece will stand by the hour and look at the huge steel monster cannon which represent the development in the science of ordnance in the past twenty-fives years, and women who would shriek at the sound

EXPLAINING THE WORKING OF THE HOTCHKISS

t! a pistol will peor curiously into the muzzles of these monsters and with a shudder turn away. All these people are apcstles of peace, yet thoir keenest appreciation and greatest curiosity is expended upon implements of war. It is a strange paradox, but it is eminently characteristic of the race. We are born of a fighting race of people, of battle-giving fathers and of enthusiastic flag-waving mothers, and tho human instinct so inspired is not to be suppressed by simple emblems of peaco and prosperity. If we have no

THE OLD AND THE NEW.

opportunity to fight we like to look at the things people do fight with when they get a chance, and hence it is that the war department exhibition in the Government Building, the battle ship containing the naval exhibit, the German and French ordnance exhibits in the Manufactures Building, the English naval models and the rapid-fire ordnance which they exhibit in the Transportation Building, the Spanish, Italian and Austrian military exhibits, and finally the great Krupp gun pavilion, are to thousands of people the chief points of interest on the Fair grounds. Throws a Ton Twelve Miles. Naturally the American exhibit is the most complete, though the Krupp exhibit is the most startling to the plain untutored child of the prairie. The human mind can conceive of 10inch guns, 206-pound projectiles, armor plates of twelve inches in thickness and all there simple things of warfare, but when it comes to a gun which requires 500 pounds of powder, which carries a projectile which weighs a ton from ten to twelve miles, that is an instrument which makes the mouth open involuntarily. The Krupp gun does that; Tho spectacle 'of the big gun, which weighs 12-1 tons, with its massive and complicated carriage cr mount, as it is called, is really Vreat. One stands at the base and looks upward at an angle of 45 degrees to get sight even of the under surface of tho gun. Its- known enormous weight, the tremendous machinery of its surroundings, the awful energy of steam and electricity to work its functions and bring its awful power into service is calculated to appall the human mind. People caunOt fail to

A MODERN MORTAR.

wonder what would bo tho effect of the explosion of 500 pounds of the new high-power powder, the instantaneous propulsion of a ton of metal starting on its jou'ney of twelve miles, and, wondering, they almost involuntarily shudder and clap their hands to their ears. Tie biggest gun in the American exhibit is the 12-inch breech-loading loading rifle made at the Watervliet arsenal for coast defense. This gun is not mounted for the reason that no carriage has yet been made for it, but it has tremendous interest for the crowds at the Fair. The people gaze at it, they crowd about it, they pat it with their gloved hands, they 6tudy its intricate machinery and then they turn away with gratified looks, take a glance or two at the stars and stripes and mentally observe,“Let Uncle Sam’s enemies come on, and let them come all at once.” • Old and New Death Dealer*. Those in charge of the military exhibit made a happy hit when they placed side by side an ordinary sixpound brass cannop, used in the Mexican war, and a modern thirty-two-Doundar rapid fire gun of the Hotch-

kiss type. The old Mexlo&n war gun oould throw a shot about 1,200 feet and oould be fired oaoe in five minutea if its crew waa active. The new thirtv-two-pounder Hotchkiss Area thirty shots a minute and emphasizes its usefulness in a blaze of death and destruction at a distanoe of from two to four miles. These rapid fire guns are of all calibers, the lighter ones are for field service and the heavier calibers are for siege and fortification oj e rations. The same class of gun, too, is used in the navy and is there known as composing the rapid-fire battery of the ship. In the groat field of small arms the exhibit is illimitable. The varieties

A REBEL TORPEDO.

are so great, the course of development so varied, that if one tries to enter this field of investigation he soon finds himself in a maze. In the American exhibit there is every small weapon from the earliest musket to the latest magazine rifle. But in all small arms the foreign governments are ahead of the United States. We can beat the world in the manufacture of high-power ordinance, both in point of cost and efficiency, but we have not yet reached that

stago when we can arm an Individual soldier as can most of the countries of Europe. Wo have a bettor display of rapid-fire guns for field and shipboard service than any or all of tho countries of Europe combined. Wo have a moro notablo torpedo exhibit than any European country, and when it comes to tho manning of ships in war and the equipment of swift cruisers, we are away ahead of anybody. The battle ship alone is a wonderful study and impresses even the most experienced of naval and military mon. In the matter of military equipment for troops in tho field there is less progress shown by far. From models oxhibited in tho Federal Building there is no apparent change in methods of transportation and mothods in the quartermaster’s and commissary departments. Nor is there any great change in the military system on the tentod field. The soldier’s tent is the samo old canvas tout. Tho litter which carries him from the field is the same old litter. Tho canteen which be fills at the muddy stream is the same old canteen. Tho kettle in whioh he makes his coffee and tho oven in which he bakes his bread are tho samo old kettle and the same old oven. They may make guns which carry twelvo milos and use 500 pounds of powder, but they have never yet made a camp-kettle that will turn chicory and rye into coffee and plaster boans into palatable fcod, and so when the private soldier visiting the Exposition gazes upon tho enormous progress made in the implements of destruction, he cann< t be blamed for marveling as he does why something more has not been done for the protection

of the Bcldier’B health and comfort and the general welfare of his stomach.

Telegraphic Clicks.

The First National Bank of Hammond, Ind., has suspended. Juan Burger, 13 years old, died at Kokomo, Ind., from cigarette smoking. The W. H. Livingston Company, of Sioux City, dry goods, has assigned. Debts, $45,000. Sharptown, Ind., was visited by a cloudburst which destroyed crops and drowned herds of live stock. Sarah T. Bolton, who wrote “The Union Forever” and “Paddle Your Own Canoe,” died in Indianapolis. Denver’s City Council has appropri. ated $15,000 for the purpose of employing idle men at work on the streets. Gov. Renfrow, of Oklahoma, has ousted the regents of the Agricultural College, charging malfeasance in office. Theophilus Racine, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was thrown against a steel point in his barn floor by restless horses and killed.

The Lebanon, Pa., Trust and Safe Deposit Bank has failed. It has a capital of $50,000. It is believed the suspension is temporary. The Nebraska Wesleyan University, at Lincoln, has a new Chancellor, Dr. Isaac Crook, late President of the University of the Pacific. . Archbishop Redwood, of Welling ton, New Zealand, who will attend the Catholic Congress at Chicago, has arrived at San Francisco.^ There is a piratical craft cruising in Long Island Sound, and for some tune past the crew aboard of her have been robbing vessels, stripping yachts and committing all sorts of depredations ai farm-houses and cottages along the shore. Employes of the Cincinnati and Bedford Railroad tried to tunnel under the Evansville and Richmond Road ai Bedford, Ind., because the latter would not grant permission to cross their tracks. The hole was filled by the opposing road and litigation will ensue.

GREAT LOSS BY FIRE.

DISASTROUS BLAZES OCCUR IN MINNEAPOLIS. Three Simultaneous Fires Destroy Many Big Mills and Wipe Out Over a Hundred Dwellings of Workingmen—Two Lives Reported Lost. Over a Million in Ashes. Minneapolis has experienced the most disastrous conflagration of its history, the loss from which will reach a million and a half dollars. Two fires, presumably the work of incendiaries, broke out within a short time of each other. The first fire broke out in a stable in the rear of the Cedar Lake Ice Company house, and soon spread to the ice-house proper. From there, fanned hy a quick breeze, it spread to Clark’s box factory. and then destroyed the boiler works of Lintges, Connell & Co., including a $27,000 riveting machine the only one west of Chicago. Lenhart’s Union Wagon Works were totally consumed. Also a quantity of lumber belonging to various firms. The Cedar Lake Ice Company loses $5,000; Clark's Box Company, $30,000; Lintges, Connell & Co., $60,000; Union Wagon Works, $15,000. On this there is a total insurance of about half. While this fire was at its height an alarm was turned in from the lumber district at the other end of the island. Boom Island, as the place is called, was a mass of wood and timber piles belonging to Nelson Tenny & Co and Backus & Co. This was blazing fiercely, and fanned by a brisk wind the flames soon spanned the narrow stretch of water and began eating their way among the big sawmills and residences in the vicinity of the river bank. One after another the planing-mills of the Wilcox Company, the Chatterton mill, the Backus mill, the Hove mill, Smith & Corrigan, and Nelson Tenny &, Co. felt the blast of the fire and were either totally destroyed or badly damaged. The flames left a path of blackness through Marshall street and were prac-

VIEW OF MINNEAPOLIS FROM ST. ANTHONY'S FALLS. (The district burned over is on Nicollet Island, just north of the bridge in the foreground extending north beyond the second or Hennepin avenue bridge.]

tically stopped by the big brick structure of the Minneapolis Brewing Co., although their loss is put at SIIO,OOO. Situated as it was, directly in the path of the flames, with wooden buildings on one side of it and a blazing lumber yard in the rear, it seemed as if this magnificent edifice costing $500,000 would be added to the long list of property destroyed. But Providence camo to the aid of the exhausted firemen and frightened citizens. The wind changed. It no longer blew from the south, but sprang up from the east and north, wafting large cinders and embers across the river, jeopardizing valuable property on the noith side. The citizens, however, were on the alert, and a reception in the shapo of a bucket of water awaited any spark that found a lodging. All along Marshall street and through that entire section are small frame houses occupied by laboring and sawmill hands. They went like tinder when the flames first struck them, but the residents had ample time to move their belongings. In all 112 houses were destroyed. Although a general alarm was turned in, the entire city department proved inadequate to the occasion and aid was asked from St. Paul. That city promptly responded and sent over two steamers and a hose cart that did excellent service. The fire on Boom Island was burning fiercely at a late hour at night, and the only hope seemed to lie in letting it burn itself out. For a while it looked as though all of northeast Minneapolis would bo destroyed, but by the concentration of the department the furthor progress of the flames was checked. There were several accidents caused by spectators attempting to run on the logs and falling in. Two lives are reported lost and a number of persons sustained serious injury. A conservative estimate puts the total loss at $1,500,000 and the insurance at $900,000. The principal losses are as follows: E. W. Backus & Company lose 60,000,000 feet of lumber, worth $750,000, two sawmills, and barn, making their total loss about $1,000,000. J. F. Wilcox, planing mill, $50,000. J. B. Chatterton, sawmill, $15,000. Lintges, Connels & Company, boiler works, $60,000. J. R. Clark & Company, box and ladder factory, $50,000. Nelson, Tenny & Company, sawmill and lumber, $40,000. F. F. Lenhart, carriage works, $15,000. George W. Higgins, wood yard, $5,000. Cedar Lake Ice Company, ice houses, SIO,OOO. Miscellaneous losses on dwellings, barns, etc., $75,000. Hundreds of people are homeless and many of these are the recipients of charity, having saved only the clothes on their backs.

SUIT AGAINST BRECKINRIDGE. Miss Follard Seeks Heavy Damages for Alleged Breach of Promise. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia suit has been filed for $50,000 for breach of promise against Representative W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, by Madeline V. Pollard. The plaintiff charges, according to a Washington correspondent, that in April, 1884, when she was 17 years old and a student at Wesleyan Female Seminary at Cincinnati, she was met on the train traveling from school to Frankfort, Ky.,, by W. C. P. Breckinridge, who made her acquaintance on the plea of his knowing her family, and that, she was flattered by his attentions, knowing who he was and regarding him as a very prominent man, and that on Aug. 3,1884, he came to see her at the seminary and got permission of the president for her to dine with him, and by wiles and artifices and protestations of affection subsequently took advantage of her youth and inexperience. She avers that he got her completely under his control. The allegations filed go at great length into relations which existed between the plaintiff and Mr. Breckinridge, as she charges, until recently. The birth of two children (who died) and the premature birth of a third child are alleged as a result of this intimacy. She further alleges that after the death of the children she came to Washington, and he promised to marry her as soon as it would be proper for him to do so in a sufficient time after the death of his wife. From time to

time, she alleges, the date for the marriage was postponed until on the 18th day of July she avers Mr. Breckinridge wrongfully and injuriously married another woman, Mrs. Louisa Wing, who was then a resident of the city of St. Louis. The plaintiff in the case was for some time an employe in one of the departments in Washington, but shortly after the death of Gen. Sherman was dismissed, it is said, for the making of a derogatory remark respecting the dead General. The announcement of her engagement to Mr. Breckinridge and the subsequent breaking off of that engagement and Mr. Breckinridge’s marriage created a sensation in the capital.

SEVEN BURNED TO DEATH. Many Persons Perish in a Small Chicago Hotel. Shortly after 7 o’clock Monday morning a fire, which cost the lives of at least seven persons, started in the little Senate hotel on Madison street, near the corner of Fifth avenue, Chicago. The dead are: Mrs. Coons, Bertha Coons, aged 7, Charles Coons, aged 9, Godfrey children, and two unknown men. There were over a score of guests in the hotel. The flames spread so rapidly and the exits were so inadequate that the inmates were unable to escape. The little hotel was situated on the two upper floors of a three-story brick building. The fire started on the second floor, midway, near the stairs leading to the floor above. Mrs. Ahrens and her daughter Annie slept in room 20 in the front part of the third floor. They discovered the fire first. The other twenty occupants we re flying about, seeking an avenue of escape. Annie and her mother groped their way through the stifling smoke to the window and stood out on the sill. The crowd below yelled to them not to jump. With desperation the women clung to the frame-work, keeping as far out as possible, while the smoke and flames burst through the windows, around them. Although badly burned they retained their position until the arrival of hook and ladder company No. 6. A ladder was raised and they were rescued. A man whose identity is unknown next reached the window.

The flames were already scorching his almost nude body and he jumped to the stone pavement. He wa3 picked up in an unconscious condition. When the firemen arrived ladders were raised and the woik of rescuing the imperiled inmates systematically began. For some, hemmed in by flames, overpowered by smoke and with all egress shut off, the rescue was too late, however. The firemen found dead bodies rather than living ones. The bodies of six persons wei e recovered and several still living were carried to surrounding drug stores. Lieut. Humanson was the first to reach the third floor. The brave fireman was cheered by the crowd and climbed through a window. The bodies of the unfortunates lay near and one after the other he lifted them out. All the patrol wagons from the South Side were summoned, and drove rapidly to the hospital with the injured. The fire is said to have started from an overturned stair-lamp. Many of those killed and injured were World’s Fair visitors, and, as tho hotel register was burned, it is feared the list of dead here given is not complete.

Currencies Condensed. Geoege Shiras, a Pittsburg pioneer, is dead. Ex-Vice President Morton and family have gone to Germany. Senator Brice, of Ohio, who has been ill at Washington, is recovering. John Parker fell from a third story scaffolding at Norwalk, 0., and was killed. The National Bank of Fort Scott, Kan., which recently suspended, will resume business. The sealing schooner Helen Blum and a crew of twenty-five men has been lost in Behring Sea. Lois Fuller, the dancer, who has been in France for two years, has returned to New York. McLeod Bros.’ elevator at Marietta, Kan., burned with (.0,000 bushels of wheat. The loss is $50,000. W. G. S. Keene, a prominent shoe manufacturer of Lynn, Mass., committed suicide by drowning. At Chester, Pa., the largest steamboat in tho world was launched. She will ply on the Fall River line. Mrs. Henry C. Myer, of Galveston, Texas, ended her life by poison. Her husband is a prominent attorney. Prof. A. B. Orr, of Chicago, has been elected President of the Southern Indiana Normal College at Mitchell. Richard Kamin. of Sandusky, Ohio, is under arrest on a charge of - pounding his daughter to death with a club. A quarantine has been declared against Pensacola, Fla., by Birmingham, Ala., owing to the yellow fever scare.

Tom Ricketts and Robert Miller, residents of Parnell. Mo., were run over and killed by a Chicago and Great Western train. S. H. Boyd, United States Minister to Siam, has not tendered his resignation, but it is believed he will soon be relieved of official cares. It is rumored that W. H. Clough, Vice President of the Great Northern Read, has resigned to accept a position with the Northern Pacific. The Broadmiore Land and Investment Company at Colorado Springs. Col., has failed. The assets are $500,(0). and the liabilities $260,000. The prosecution has closed its case in the trial by court-martial of Paymaster Sullivan at Vallejo, Cal., and the examination of witnesses for the delene© has begun. Johnston. Buck & Co., cf Ebensburg, Pa., conductings banks at Ebensburg, Carrolltown and Hastings, have closed their doors. They say they have plenty of assets, but cannot meet demands for currency. A black beetle has made its appearance ir Wayne County, Inch, of about the same shape but far more destructive than the Colorado potato bug, from the fact that it attacks almost every species of vegetation. The rafters on a Methodist Church building at Round Head, 0., collapsed, letting four carpenters to the ground, a distance of forty feet. Two of the men, Oliver S. Wagner and Clarence Morrow, were fatally injured.

BATTLE HAS BEGUN.

IN THE HOUSE AN ORATORICAL CYCLONE OPENS. Many Representatives Give Notice that They Intend to Deliver Speeches on the Snbject of Finance —Senate Is Relieved from Hasty Action. The Extra Session. Washington correspondence:

THE plan suggested by the anti-silver men by which to get i the silver question “on”

in the House has been agreed to, and tho battle can be said to have begun. Congress has settled down to debate with a degree of * expedition almost in its his!il tory. The action of „the House on tho r silver question relieves the Senate H majority from any ■ ‘ hasty action. The program in the

House was definitely fixed by the adoption of the order introduced by Representative Bland. The time will be devoted exclusively to the consideration of the silver question under the rules of the last House governing general debate. Notwithstanding the apparent lack of interest in the discussion manifested by members, the number of applicants for recognition on the Speaker's list demonstrates that the period alotted to the debate— cloven day's under the general rules and three days under the five-minute rule—will be all occupied. There are at the time this is written between ninety and one hundred names enrolled by the Speaker, tho great majority of whom probably expect to talk the full hour allowed bythe rule. There are a number, however, who have stipulated for shorter periods, generally twenty minutes or half an hour. If it appears that the time for the debate will be too short to accommodate all who wish to speak, night sessions will be held to lengthen the period. Rules for the House. Since the House entered upon the discussion of the silver question, under an order which will not exhaust itself until the close of next week, the probability that the organization of the House by the adoption of rules and appointment of committees would not be completed for two or three weeks has changed into almost a certainty. One of the members of the majority of the committee, when asked about tne prospects for action on the rules, said that until the present order of the House had expired there was no need of rules. It was not possible to break in upon the silver debate with one over the adoption of the rules, even were the new code ready to be reported. So. in his opinion, the committee would not be in a hurry to prepare their report. The member further remarked the probabilities were that the rules of the House in the Fifty-second Congress which had been referred to the committee for consideration would not be materially changed; in fact, he expected but few changes of any nature from the system under which the last House was directed.

Secretary Carlisle spent an hour or two with Speaker Crisp in his room at the Capitol, and they' probably touched upon the sul t :ct of rules in the course of their conversation. Nothing could be more natural than that Mr. Crisp should solicit an opinion from his predecessor in the Speaker's chair, and especially from one who won such high reputation as a presiding officer as did Mr.Carlisle in that position,and any suggestions the Secretary saw fit to mako would doubtless be most carefully considered by the committee. There is but one rule about which any general interest attaches—tho one, governing closure. The best obtainable opinion is that there will be no radical change from the rule in force in last Congress which gave the House power to end debate or prevent filibustering upon any proposition whenever the majority so desired. Routine Proceedings. Thursday, the only business transacted by either house was the reading of the journal. The Senate adjourned until Monday noon. Senator Voorhees Monday introduced In the Senate his hill authorizing the is3ue of national bank notes ti the full value of bonds deposited. It is acrornpanlod by a letter from Secretary Carlisle recommending its passage as a measure of Immediate relief, and saying it will add $19,000,000 to tho circulation. Keferred to the Finance Committee. The Senate passed the House joint resolution for the payment of the employes of the two houses at tho present session, and also the House resolution providing for a celebration of the anniversary of the laying of the corner-stone of tho Capitol. When the ‘ House met Speaker Crisp announced the following committee appointments: Enrolled Bills Messrs. Pearson (chairman). Bussell (Georgia), Latimer. Hines, Hager. Adams, and Gillett (New York). Accounts Messrs. Busk (chairman). Paymer. Tale. Mutchler, lkert. Wells, Post. Wright (Massachusetes). and Marvin. Mileage Messrs. Lynch (chairman), Strait, Pendleton (Texas), and Mahon. Tho silver debate was then resumed. Mr. Boatner (Dem.), of Louisiana, making the initiative speech in favor of free coin ago. After prayer and the reading and approval of the journal Tuesday, before a small attendance of members, Mr. Burrows. of Michigan, offered a resolution giving Charles E. Bolknap the right to contest the seat of George F. Blchardson, from the Fifth District of Michigan. Mr. Blchardson. the sitting member, asked that the resolution he laid over till Wednesday, and It was so ordered. The silver debate was then resumed, Mr. Hutchison, of Texas, concluding his remarks in favor of free coinage of sliver. Mr. Cockrell surprised the Senate by vigorous opposition to Mr Voorhees’ bill. ’1 he President sent to the Senate the following nominations: Charles H. Page. Collector of Customs for the district of Oregon; Jefferson A. nuff, Judge of Probate In the county of Grand. Utah.

Overflow of News. Lizzie Topel was struck by a train at New York and killed. Six miles of the Southern Pacific track is under water near Tucson, Ari. The bank of Marston, 'Larsen & Davis, at Lake Crystal, Minn., has suspended. The Pioneer Pottery Company at Wollsville, Ohio, has failed, owing $100,000. Forest F. Ford, of Bellaire. Ohio, has been sued by Miss Emma Simpert. of Cleveland, for $25,000 for breach of promise. The President has pardoned Peter J. Claasen. the wrecker of the Sixth National Bank of New York, of which he was President. While robbing a potato patch near Brilliant, Ohio. John McDonald and Charles Justis were shot, the latter fatally, by Lewis Downer, the owner of the place. The families of the men are starving. Gen. James A. Walker and J. C. Wysar, opposing counsel in a big railroad suit at Newburn, Va.. came to blows. Finally Walker stabbed Wysar in the neck and cut him in the shoulder and cheek. Wysar got a gun and tried to kill Walker, but was prevented from doing so.