Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Page 2

Bljf democratic Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - PITLISHEB.

IN COCHRAN’S CAVE.

'HOW THE PHILADELPHIA MINT THIEF WORKED. .iFurloce Theater Fire at Canton, Ill.—Stern Talk to Senators—Flames Ravage nn Ohio Town—A Mlnneaplls Man In Serious Trouble. He Robbed the Mint. . Remarkable discoveries were made in the told stone bouse of Henry S. Cochran, the man who robbed the Philadelphia mint, at Darby. There were many secret hiding places between walls, concealed by trick panels, but the most surprising discovery was the last In the cellar of the pretty home of the man who robbed the gold vault at the mint was found a tunnel leading from the southwest corner of the cellar to the end of the grassy lawn overlooking Woodland avenue, and It was Intended to serve as a means of escape for the dishonest bullion guardian should he be surprised while at his crucible melting the stolen gold.

PANIC IN A THEATER. Materials Used in a Realistic Play at Canton, 111., Explode. The new Canton, 111., opera house was completely destroyed by fire Tuesday evening and In the excited scramble of tho panic-stricken audience to escape from the burning building one mau was fatally burned and as many as twenty-five other persons sustained burns and severe bruises as they were jostled and trampled upon. The Baldwin-Melville Company presented “Michael Strogoff.» About 9:30 o’clock some fireworks used in the play exploded with terrific force and blazing brands were hurled in all directions. Tho Inflammable material surrounding the stage quickly ignited and In an Incredibly short time the building was doomed to complete destruction. Panic seized the audience, who wildly lied from the burning building, but fortunately and most miraculously those in the parquet, dress circle and balcony escaped serious injury, though many were trampled under foot and seriously bruised. The actors were all burned, some of them quite badly. They had scarcely time to escape themselves and lost all their belongings The exploding fireworks were hurled into the second balcony and many of the people •there were badly burned before they could escape. The money loss Is fully 8100,000.

THE PRESIDENT IS ANGRY. Mr. Cleveland Getting Tired of the Delay in the Senate. Tho President Is angry, and the Senators are the causa Mr. Cleveland, according to a Washington correspondent, believes that patience has now ceased to he a virtue, and that tho time has arrived to settle the question physically. This will be done by a continuous session unless the antis In a very few days permit a vota In his speech at the Centennial celebration there was a sentence the significance of which was lost to all but a few within the sound of his voice. As ho reached the sentence ho turned abruptly from the crowd In front and faced the Senators. Ills face was clouded and very stern as he said: “If representatives who here assemble to make laws for their fellow countrymen forget the duty of broad and disinterested patriotism, and legislate In prejudice and passion, or In behalf of sectional and selfish interests, tho time when the cornerstone of our Capitol was laid and tho circumstances surrounding it will not be worth commemorating.” He paused for an Instant as he finished. Those who had heard him applauded, and tbon he the crowd again and finished his speech.

SLEW FIVE PEOPLE, Whole Family Chopped to Pieces by a Fiend Near Glendale, Ind, By far the most atrocious and sensational murder that has been committed In that section of the State took place Tuesday morning one and one-half miles west of Glendale. Ind. It was the slaughter of Dennison Wratton, a well-known farmer, and bis family, consisting of his mother, wife and two children. The deed was done by some one who knew all about the family and know that the women had no means with which to defend themselves, as the only man about the house was very sick and they were too far away from any neighbors to call help. No evidence that would point to the guilty parties has yet been secured, as they have thoroughly covered their tracks. The only weapon used. It is thought, was a hatchet, as all the gashes are very nearly alike. A pack of bloodhounds have been Scouring the Immediate vicinity, but have thus -far been unable to track down the assassins Patterson, Ohio, Is in Ruins. At 4 o’clock Sunday morning the flouring mill at Patterson, Harding County, Ohio, caught fire, and before tho flames could be checked over a third of the town bad been destroyed. Ten business blocks burned, six residences, the postofflee building and all Its contents, the total loss being 100,000, with but SO,OOO Insurance Household goods were all destroyed and a child of John Bamer Is missing

W. 8. Streeter Arrested. W. B. Streeter, vice president of the Insolvent Guaranty Loan Company at Minneapolis, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by J. H. Burke. The complainant charges the prisoner with having declared a dividend when the company was insolvent. Burke has posed'for some time as a financial reformer and has long been following up the Guaranty Loan Company. Whole Family Butchered. Benson Wrattan and family, six In all, living near Washington, Ind., were butchered the other night The victims were horribly mutilated. Failure at Bt. Paul. Mast Buford & Burwell, the big carriage manufacturing concern of St Paul, made an assignment Floods In Virginia. Advices received from Madison Courlhouse. Vs., say that the floods In that section have caused Immense damage to crops and fencing. Four large mills on the banks of the Eapldan Blver and three dwellings In the county have been washed away. Died in Their Beds. A small house in the Whitechapel district of London was burned the other morning. After the fire was extinguished a search was made of the ruins and the bodies of a man and four women were found. Fatal Collision on a Baee Track. Oscar Christenson, of Lanes boro. Mina, was killed In a collision oa the Tracy fair grounds track, between Kitty, a running horse, and a trotter from Pipestone, driven by E Link. Both horses were killed. It is alleged that Link was driving In the wrong direction and ran into Christenson. Fatal Explosion of an OU Tank. By the explosion of a pmrtly lllled oil tank at Canton, Ohio, haring a capacity °f Mty barrels, Henry Meilke. a foreman, was almost roasted alive and died three boon later. Eight workmen were severely burned at the wrcaght iron bridge com-

NEAL ON THECTCMP, Opens the Democratic Campaign In Ohio at Newark. Lawrence T. Neal, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, made the opening speech of his campaign at Newark Thursday. His audience was large, delegations being present from Columbus, Janesville, Mansfield, and many other cities. t Mr. Neal’s speech was mainly an attack jon that system of tariff which he was I pleased to term McKinleyism. Mr. Neal said that the Sherman silver law and the McKinley tariff jaw underlie the want of confidence, which Is the cause of the trouble, and gave It as his belief that prosperity can only be obtained by adherence to the Democratic faith in tho matter of both currency and tariff reform. “The purchasing clause of the Sh6rman silver law,” he said, “must be repealed, and the Democratic party stands committed not only to Its repeal but to tho unlimited use of both gold and silver as money. The Democracy of Ohio has reaffirmed the declaration and I give it my personal indorsement.” Mr. Neal then expressed tho opinion that “the greatest foe to the prosperity of the people is McKinleyism,” He said: “Solong as the Federal system of protective taxation Is continued we can have no general and permanent prosperity In this country. To regain such prosperity we must apply the ax to the root of the evil with earnestness and vigor, and forever destroy the McKinley method of taxation.”

RAGING FOREST FIRES. Northern Wisconsin Is Suffering from a Terrible Visitation. The report of toe burning of Marshfield, Wis., by forest fires was exaggerated, but Northern Wisconsin Is one smoldering furnace. The lino of fires ravaged tho forests between Marshfield and Lake Superior. Where they will end no one can say. Unless there Is rain In Northern Wisconsin soon even greater disasters than have already occurred may he expected. Many families are homeless and destitute. As yet no one has been able to confirm tho reports of losses of life, but that some settlers have boen cut off by the flames and killed Is very probable, Bo far all who have been reported as missing, however, havo been located. Many persons escaped death only after adventures of a most thrilling character, and some of the stories of the refugees are dramatic. The fire Is the greatest since that of *B7l. The extent of the damage canuot be estimated owing to tho fact that the fires have cut off telegraphic communication with most of the smaller towns. On timber the losses are tho heaviest, and Frank McMillan, of the McMillan Lumber Company, In an lntcrviow said the loss to Wisconsin forests would probably amount to between 55,000,000 and a vnst amount of pine as well as hardwood timber, covering a land area which even those most familiar with tho forests of Wisconsin cannot estimata

' HOSTS OF WOLVERINES. Xlicy Royally Celebrate Their Day at The Colnmbian Exposition. Michigan had a multitude at the Fair Wednesday. Tho people canto in by every train and boat, and from tho nethermost back yard to the last structure in the State row It seemed a majority of the folk present wore tho yellow ribbon with tho Stale’s name flying down Its center. Pennsylvania had a jam and Wisconsin nearly equaled the host, but with no attraction save the Governor and Ills loyal proclamation to his constituency Michigan turned out and filled the grounds from fence to lake front, The total, 1(10,000, did not rc-eh the enormous figures scheduled on the recent fete days, hut it nevertheless is a fact that nearly 100,000 Michigan people registered and reported at the Stato Building. Each train of the half-dozen lines from tho two peninsulas was loaded to standing and the single boat which brought tho Governor’s party from St Joseph had on deck 2.500 souls. From tho south and from the north whonce it takes nearly two days to make tho journey, tho host came, and never did a governor of the State see so many of his kin as faced Governor Rich Wednesday.

Will They Catch Them? Several days have passed since the New York express was held up in the cut near Kessler’s Station, Ind., days of unremitting, vigilant effort on tho part of the most skillful detectives of the railroad and express companies’ service nnd of amused contemplation on tho of the peoplo of northern Indiana, and the boldest, most determined, most desperate band of train robbers that ever operated east of tho Mississippi river are still at largo. They are not at large, but their liberty is not freedom. They seem to be within a circle the circumference of which Is growing less with the relentless persistence of the cylinder of tho Inquisition born in the mind of Poe- The cordon of police, private watchmen, and railroad detectives, which at first Included tho whole State of Indiana and much of the contiguous territory, has been drawn closer. It Is now narrowing down upon tho northern part of Noble County. Rome City is the center of It, and the bandits are believed to be In It

New Baby in Full Control. Baby Ruth’s little sister Is behaving very much like an ordinary Infant these days. Tho fact that the President of tho United States Is ready to leave Senators and Representatives at any moment to soothe her to sleep when she is tired of staying awake or to extract the unclasped safety from her tender flesh doesn’t seem to have the slightest effect upon her. It doesn't matter to her whether her papa has been up half the night to save the country, and has just fallon Into his flrst nap; if she wakes and feels lonesome she will Immediately set up a yoll that will bring papa to his feet and an anxious look to his face In the twinkling of an eye. It Is true that she has a nurse, and a very capable one she Is. But G. C. often beats the nurse by a full length In a rush for the cradle when the blessed infant gives the signal. Lumber Piles At laze. Fire started at West Bay City. Mich., In John Welch’s lumber docks and before It was got under control tt had destroyed 2,500,000 feet of lumber. Balling. Hanson & Co., of Grayling, and Fisher & Ca, of Bay City, were the owners. There Is no doubt that the fire was of Incendiary origin, as two explosions were heard just before the fire started. ao rLlt Her Own Funeral Pyre. The Insane wife of Frank Ogden of Republic, 0.. ignited her own funeral pyre and committed suicide. The unfortunate woman, who formerly was an Inmate of the asylum, saturated her clothing and bed with kerosene and then lying down as If to sleep applied a match to the Inflammable material and an instant later was enveloped In flame. Base-Ball Record. The standing of the clubs of the National League Is shown by the following table: W. L. T?c.| W. L. Vo. Bostons. ...81 36 .692;0Inclimatls.56 62 .05 Plttsbnrgs. .72 46 .610 Baltimore*.. 65 66 .456 Phlladelp'ia.6B 49 581 ChlcagOS.,. .63 63 433 Clevelands.. 64 52 .652^ 8t. Louis... .62 69 .430 New Yorks. .63 66 629 i LoulsvUlee..45 67 402 Brooklyns.,62 67 .62l|Washl’gt’ns.39 82 .322 Klo de Janeiro Has Fallen. Official advices received at Washington from United States Minister Thompson at Uio de Janeiro state that the city has fallen Into tne bands of the rebels, and that the Government of Brazil Is overthrown. Thieves in Queer Places. Into the temples the usurers went in the days of old to ply their questionable callla*. and now It comes to pass'that Into the

places made sacrod by the gathering of the champions of every creed that claims a votary men with lamblike faces and nlmblo fingers have gone and departed with other people’s property. Into the bosom of the very elect of all tho faiths that flourish, or try to flourish thieves, cold-blooded, callous, hopeless thieves, have gone and filched money, jewels, books, a typewriter and other articles from men who. with “grave, becoming and sublime deportment, m<.et for such a mystical occasion”—as Goldsmith said once of men similarly engaged—were occupied during the past week at the Art Palace In Chicago in presenting their theses on the proper plan to pick a path to paradise. In a word, thieves have Invaded the parliament of religions.

CASHIER BAIN AN EMBEZZLER. Confesses to the Directors of the Home Bank That He Lost In Speculation. The Homo Bank, at New York, has been robbed of 510,185 In bonds by Its cashier, Howard L. Bain. Bain has confessed to the directors of the institution that he lost the money In speculation in Wall street Tho discovery that the bonds had disappeared from tho safe was made three weeks ago. The dclfalcatlon was kept quiet, however, until It leaked out through an unguarded statement of an officer of the bank to one of the depositors. Bain has not beer, arrested. He sent In bis resignation, but was not discharged. He was bonded for $15,000 by the Fidelity Casualty Company. The latter has agreed to pay the full amount of Its bond to the bank. Tho rest of the defalcation, $1,185 has been made good by the directors. AWFUL MURDER AT DETROIT. Head and Face of the Victim Hacked Beyond Recognition. At Detroit a horrible murder was committed some time Tuesday night at the dock at the fqot of Randolph street. Tho head and face of the victim are hacked and battered almost beyond recognition. Although it bad rained hard during the previous night traces of the bloody crime wero everywhere. A big pool of blood lay near the bead and the surrounding stones were sputtered with bloodstains. Pieces of clotted hair adhered to a block of stone, as If the unfortunate’s head had been jammed against It to make his death sure. The man was dressed In sailor garb. There is no clue to tho murderer. 11. G. Dun A Co."g Review. R G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review oi Trade says: J Returns frpm every part of the country show improvement. Hopeful feeling prevuils%s money grows abundant at speculative centers and somewhat easier for commercial purposes. Weekly failures have declined about half In number and more than half in amount of liabilities. The number of establishments reported as resuming work—thirty-one wholly and twenty-six in part—still exceeds the number closing—thirty-threo the last week, besides ten reducing force—so that the bands employed have somewhat Increased, The number of unemployed Is still very large. Business Is pulling itself together, and even the crop report has caused little depression In stocks.

Failed to Get a Home. • Over 1,000 ex-boomers passed through Kansas City en route to their homes in all parts of the country from the Cherokee strip. A more tired and disgusted lot of men was never seen together. Thoy had gone to the opening unprepared for such a tremendous rush as occurred, and wero mainly those who had deponded on tho trains to take them Into tho strip, but tho trains wero outdistanced by the horsemen and wheelmen, and they got to tho heart of tho promised land only to find every claim pre-empted and every town lot gone, Result of the Storm. Over 00,000 baskets of peaches lay In warehouses and on docks on tho Michigan sldo of Lake Michigan Sunday and spoiled. They were bound to Chicago and were to havo been brought over by the dozen steamers running across the lake. But the big storm effectually prevented those boats from leaving port, and with no other means of gottlng the fruit to its destination there was no alternative and tho good fruit spoiled. Soveral steamers, from Detroit around Chlcagoward, were beached in making or leaving harbor. Lima People Anticipate Smallpox. The Lima, Ohio. Board of Health held , session to consider tho matter of taking some means of protection against smallpox, which Is traveling that way from Muncle, Ind., where It has- been epidemic for several weeks. It was doclded that all chlldred In tho city be vaccinated without delay. Means of prohibiting persons from tho lnfocted towns fn m entering the city were discussed, and very severe measure! may be resorted to to keep persons fleeing from tho epidemic out of Lima. Must Get Off ’Mellcan Man’s SolL At Sun Francisco United States Commissioner Heacock decided what was considered to be a Chinese test case. Wong Mat, a member of the firm of Bow, lvee & Co., of San Jose, Cal, was landed In the United Statos last June. Before that time he was employed at menial labor for two years. It was contended that, be being once landed, he was entitled to remain. Tho commissioner hold otherwise and ordered him doportod. The case will bo appealed. Wrong Body In the Collin. The Washington, Pa., Presbytery attended In a body the funeral of Rev. J. & Marquis, D. D., of Amity. When they reached the house they found that a stranger’s body had been shipped front Chicago Instead and no funeral was held.

MARKET QUATATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 26 ® 5 60 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3 75 $ 6 50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 25 $ 4 15 Wheat—No. 2 Spring C7js@ 68ji Cobs—No. 2 40 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 25 ® 26& Bte—No. 2 44 ® 46 Butteb—Choice Creamery 26 ® 27 Egos—Fresh 14Hst 15*4 Potatoes—New, per bu 70 @ 8) INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 oo @ 4 so Hogs—Choice Ligbt 4 00 @630 Sheep—Common to Prime 3 oo @ 3 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red oo ® 61 Cobs—No. 2 White 42 ® 43 Oats—No. 2 White 28 @ 29 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 @ 6 oo Hogs 6 oo @ 6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 ® 62* Corn—No. 2 38 @ 39 Oats—No. 2 26 ® 27 RYE—No. 2 41 @ 43 CINCINNATL Cattle...., 300 @ 500 Hogs 3 oo @ 6 25 Sheep 8 co @ 4 00 Wheat—No.-2 Red 60H@ 6U4 Cob*—No. 2 43 ® 44 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 28 @ 29 Rye—No. 2 t 8 ® 50 DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 ®4 60 Hoos 3 00 ® 6 00 Sheep.. s 00 ® 3 so Wheat—No. 2Red 67 ® 68 Corn—No. 2 44 ® 4414 Oats—No. 2 White, old ‘M%® silat TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 66H@ 67J4 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 4214® 43!4 Oats —No. 2 White 23 @ 29 Rye—No. 2 47 & 43 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Spring 73 ® 74 Corn—No. 2 46 ® 47 Oats—No. 2 White Rye—No. 2 50 ® 62 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 60 ® 61 Corn—No. 3.. . 3614® 3714 Oats—No. 2 White 26 ® 27 Bye—No. 1 42 ® 43 Barley—No. 2 51 ® 62 Pork—Mess 14 25 @l4 75 NEW YORK. Cattle 300 ® 6 00 Hogs A 325 ® 7 00 BHEEP 325 @4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 74 (4 75 Corn—No. 2. 6214® 631* Oats—Mixed Western 37 ® $8 Butter—Creamery 20 ® 27 Fork—New Mess it 00 @l7 75

A NATION’S JUBILEE.

CELEBRATION OF THE CAPITOL’S CENTENNIAL. Anniversary of Ihe Laying of the Corner Stone at Washington a Memorable Event — Civic and Military Parade and Patriotic Speoc lies— Histor lea 1 . Observed with Poinp. The centennial anniversary of the laying of the corner-stone of the Capitol was celebrated, solemnly and impressively, on the broad plaza that stretches out from the west front of the Capitol. On« hundred yt are before, to tho day and hour Washington, tho first President of the republic, as grand master of the Free and Accepted Order of Mascns, wearing an apron and sash woven by the wife of Lafayette, laid the foundation stone of the great marble pile that it is now the admiration of the world. The ceremonies wc e as simple as those of Sept. 18, 1793. ana fully as impressive. Then Mar ter Mason Georgo Washington laid the corner stone with all tho pomp and detail of the Masonic ritual. The services consisted of three principal features: First, a civic, military and naval parade, followed by appropriate ceremoni-s at the Capitol, and, third, an evening entertainment in and about the Capitol, consisting of a reception or Martha Washington party in the rotunda of the capital, under tho auspices of the Dames and Daughters of the American Revolution, with representatives from all the States and Territories; an illumination of the building and grounds, and u grand vocal and instrumental concert at the east front of the Capitol. The program at the ( upitol was as follows: Adress, President Grover Cleveland; oration, William Wirt Henry; address, for the House of Representatives, Speaker Charles Crisp; address for tho Supreme Court of the United States, Chief .Justice Fuller; address for the Dislrict of Columbia,

UNITED STATES CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON, EAST FRONT.

Hon. John W. Ross of the Board of Commissioners. The corner stone of the original building, which remains undisturbed where it was laid with imposing Masonic rites by Master Mason Georgo Washington, on tho ISth of September, 1793, is located under tho Law Library, in the basement beneath the rotunda. No record has over been found of tho impressive ceremonies attendant upon this function, and no really authentic aocount can he given of the books, paEers, jewels, or lecords that may have een deposited within that stone. Tho building, as we now see it, with its massive wings, noble dome and unoqualled expanse of marble terrace, began with what might well be termed a small beginning, and has been over a century in course of construction, and yet is not complete. Tlie Burning of tho Capitol. During the war with England was witnessed tho burning of the Capitol. August 14. ISI4, one of the most tragic events in all American history. The invaders under Gen. Ross and Admiral Cockhurn, Hushed with victory, made their way to tho Capitol. .Several volleys wore tired through the windows and a regiment of red coats marched upon the iloor of the House of Representatives. now Statuary Hall, with fifes anil drums, playing the British Grenadiers. The passageway between the two wings was formed of boards—pitch pine at that. These were, torn from their places. The library of Congress was sacked of its hooks' and papers, which wore scattered over the floors. Tho great paintings adjoining the Senate chamber, in which the Supreme Court now sits, were cut from their frames with sabers, and the whole mass of combustible material set lire. Tile citizens who looked op from without with blanchod facSs and beating hearts suddenly beheld a mass of flame and smoke pouring from the windows of tho Capital, and heard

STATE HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA. [The first National Capitol.]

the British shout in brutal triumph as they watched the flames and sent army rockets through the roof to make air for tho fire. In a short time the great structure was everywhere ablaze and apparently doomed to destruction. The wooden corridor and the interior work were already a victim of the flames. The British waited only long enough, to see their work well under way, when they left the blazing Capitol and marched up Pennsylvania avenue to apply the torch to ,other public buildings. Had they waited the Capitol would have been hopelessly destroyed, but they had not been gone more than ten minutes when a heavy rain fell, which continued all evening and quickly put out the fire. Hopeless as the destruction seemed at flrst it was found on investigation that the foundation was standing, and Latrobe began to erect walls on it. Latrobo was succeeded by Bulfinch, the architect of the Boston State House, in 1817, who carried through his designs and reported their completion to Congress in 1827. So far the Capitol had cost the government $2,433,814. It was not until 1850 that Congress made provision for the addition of the Senate and House wings, as they now stand. Previous to that the House of Representatives held its sessions in the chamber now known as Statuary Hajl, and the Senate met in the room now occupied by the Supreme Court. As the membership of these august bodies increased with the growth of the nation, the necessity for more room be-

came apparent, and then it was that the comprehensive conception of to-day was born or brought into light. Changes were made in many respects, improvements and remodelings, the present cramped library-room added, the new dome built, and, in short, botween that date and the present, with the exception of a few months during the civil war, the process of rebuilding —practically rebuilding—the Capitol has been going on. The corner stone of the extensions, or the “enlarged building,” as it was described at the time, was laid by President Fillmore, July 4, IPSI, at which time Daniel Webster, then Secretary of State, delivered a characteristically grand and appropriate oration. Mr. Thomas N. Walter, another Philadelphian, was selected to be the architect, and held the position until 18C5, when Mr. Edward Clark, the present incumbent, was appointed. No one ha s ever attempted to classify or characterize the sty le of architecture of this wonderful building as to plaee it among any of the recognized ancient or modern types. In fact, it is composite, or rathor, of itself peculiar and alone. Prof. Goldwin Smith described it “as a most majestic and imposing The total cost of the entire structure up to this writing cannot be positively stated, but the figures given in the appropriation bills up to recent date show that quite $20.1.00.000 have been expended upon it since its erection was begun in 1701.

Dirty, Tired and Sore.

The story of the rush into the Cherokee Strip of men and women seeking homes or town lots already has boon told. That great strip of territory which Saturday morning was comparatively a wilderness by night of the same day was covered with a hundred thousand people locating farms or staking out |,tjpwn lots. It was a stirring spectacle, but it had also its pathetic features. Thousands who made the rush are now returning to their homes partly because they could not get farms or town lots and partly beeauso when they got their land they were disappointed in it. This was but natural. There was not land enough

to,go round, certainly far from enough good land. Still others aro stranded. They neither have the land they hoped to get nor the money with which to get back, so chat they are in danger of becoming a burden upon the now communities, where farmers can get nothing from the land for a year to come, and where there will be no work in the towns. Those who succeed in returning will fare better than many of those who remain and \vho will find it difficult to get food and wator. Southern hot winds are drying up all vegetation. Prairie firos aro consuming the grass. Sand storms are raging. Nearly every claim in the strip is contested and sanguinary personal encounters are liable to ensue. Thieves and thugs are infesting the now towns. The land is anything but a Canaan. To add to the miseries and disappointments of the rushers it is stated that those who started at the lines with their papers found when they reached tho county seats that “sooners” in collusion with the soldiers had arrived before them and grabbed everything worth having. They had picked out the host lots and farms, and wero already on tho ground when the pooulo came up. This is certainly outrageous. It is a fraud which ought not to be tolerated.

RAILROADS IMMENSE BUSINESS

t onstant Streams of llunr.\nlty Pouring Into Chicago from AH Side**. At all tho Chicago railroad stations a steady increase in passenger traffic was reported. Sunday tho Pennsylvania Company's Columbia express was divided into nino sections, each heavily loaded. This was an unusual occurence for tho first day of the week. This train c mos through from New York and Philadelphia. Monday is generally a lighter day than others of the week, but Monday's arrivals were perceptibly larger at the Union depot as well as at all stations than those of a week ago. Tho St. Paul Road brought in an extra from tho northwest of eighteen cars. The Northwestern Road was compelled to split one train up into three sections, and all others were taxed to their utmost. The Michigan Central brought in 115 cars, averaging fifty passengers to the car. Two specials came from Jackson, one of thirteen cars carrying (>47 passengers. These two trains alone carried about 1,000 persons. The 11:10 train out for New York and the east was in two sections, one of six cars and one of eleven. The 4:20 train out had fifteen ears. All of these were well filled. No “dead” coaches are hauled either way. The Illinois Central’s Dubuque and Cairo trains were in two sections each, the southern train especially being unusually heavy'. The Big Four’s 5:45 train came in in three sections. Dearborn Station was filled with people as usual. One train on the Erie was in seven sections, one on the Wabash in two, one on the Monon in three, and another on the Monon in two. The Grand Trunk brought in two specials from Michigan at 8 and 8:45 in the evening. The Baltimore and Ohio landed 350 passengers from Philadelphia and other Eastern points directly at the Fair grounds from a speoial train. At 11:15 the New York train reached the depot in five sections. Between 3,000 and 4,000 were brought in that day by this read.

AGAIN FIRE ON RIO.

Rebel Fleet Bombards the City—Details of the Event Meager. A dispatch received at Paris from Rio Janeiro by the Brazilian legation says that the insurgent fleet resumed the bombardment of the city Monday at noon. Heavy firing was continued for several hours. The bombardment lasted three hours. The forts replied with great effect. The steel cruiser Republic, the fastest of the Brazilian naval vessels, forced a passage across the bar and after a severe fight with the forts got away to the south. She is supposed to have started to Santos for the purpose of blockading the port. Immediately after the bombardment the Aqniban, with the rest of the insurgent fleet, sailed southward. The fleet Is expected to blockade shortly ail ports south of Ri'> Janeiro.

NINE PERSONS DEAD.

TERRIBLE WRECK ON THE BIG FOUR NEAR MANTENO, ILL. Three Sleepers Telescoped by the Bear Section Crowding Into the ForwardTwenty Persons Injured—Victims World’s Fair Visitors—A Scene of Horror. Tito Trains Collide. Nine people were killed and twenty injured by a fearful rear-end collision between two sections of the Big Four train, known as No. 45, near the village of Manteno. a few miles north of Kankakee, on the line of tho Illinois Central Railway. A special train left Chicago at 9:20 o’clock at night over the line of the Illinois Central railway, but conducted by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company. Tho train was in two sections and was fillt d with World’s Fair visitors from Indiana and the Southeast. At 10 o’clock the first section stopped at Manteno, a town of 000 inhabitants forty-six miles from Chicago. It is reported that the fiagman did not go back the proper distance to signal the other half of the train, approaching at a high spaed. The locomotive of tho rear section struck the roar of the sleeping ear ahead when going at tho rate of almost a mile a minute. The eugineer saw the impending calamity and jumped with the fireman after doing everything possible to check the speed of the engine. Doth wero badly bruised, but escaped with their liVes. The three rear sleepers on section No. 1 were telescoped, the powerful engine of the second section driving its way into them, and every person in the crowded cars was killed or injured. Scene of Horror. The scene about the accident was one of almost infinite horror. The engine plowed its dreadful way literally through tho bodies of sleeping men and women. Blood besmeared tho iron and wood of tho shattered cai s, that taking on tho force of the locomotive added to the disaster. The night was dark and the shrieks of the injured and dying mingled with the hiss of the steam from the broken boiler. The Eassengers on the coaches of the train ehind escaped with nothing more than a shock, which in somo cases. was sufficiently severe to throw them from their sleeping berths. Many of them dressed and hurried forward to assist in the work of rescuing the unfortunates who were still pinioned in the wreck. They were hardly on the ground before the residents of Manteno had reached the spot. Houses near the place of the collision were hastily thrown open,.and oaeh became an .improvised hospital. Several physicians were on tho cars and they passed among the wounded, alleviating with the few resources at their command tho sufferings of the wounded. Sheots and table cloths were torn into bandages and wounds skillfully dressed while brave and kindly women ministered to their wants with coffee hastily prepared and with cups of water. Help Arrives. Somo of the trainmen hurried to Manteno and then wired to Kankakee and Chicago for assistance. A dozen physicians from Kankakoo arrived at the scone of tho wreck as rapidly as as they could be convoyed in a hurriedly made up train. As soon as the injured were rescued from the wreck they were taken to Manteno to be cared for prior to their removal to Chicago. The arrivals wero timely and their efforts much appreciated by tho terror-stricken passengers, many of whom, otherwise uninjured, were suffering from tho suddenness of the shock and were going about wringing their hands and crying. Tho cries of those who were caught by tho broken timbers and twisted ironwork of tho shattered sleeping cars were pitiable and t ho work of getting them out attended with tho utmost difficulty, so thoroughly had tho engine dono its work of destruction. As tho labors of the relief party proceeded, deal and dying wero found mingled with the sometimes unconscious bodies of these whoso lives wore providentially preserved. The worst of it all wus in tho rear car, where the ponderous locomotive had struck with unchecked force. But so tremendous was the impact that each of the three rear couches contributed its quota to the list of casualties. Several wore hurt by being hurled from up] o • berths to (he Boor below, who oseapqd further damage, but all these were able to bo about, and somo of thorn aided afterward in the work of me cy. The wreck was tho worst that has on urrod on tho Illinois Central system for twenty years. Several of the injured are- beyond recovery, and it is probable ihat tho list of futalitios will be swelled to fourteen.

How the World Wages.

Bismark is worse again. Cholera is üba'ing in Italy. Exchange in India is steadier. Leather tanners are to form a combine. Prague is practically in a state ol si: ge. War has been'waged with the Wyoming rustlers. Erie won the pennant in the Eastern base-bill league. COAL diggers in the north of France threaten to strike. The Argentine-Chili boundary treaty has been approved. The street ear companies of San Franc bo are to be consolidated. The Crescent Athletic Club, of New Orleans, will go out of business. Six notorious shoplifters have been captured Uv Cincinnati police. Patrick Shea has been held to the grai d jury at. Chicago for killing Edward Ford. Colorado silver men are figuring on establishing a State silver bullion depository. Boilermakers at St. Louis, on a strike for two months, have declared the strike off. George W. Curtis, who committed suicide at Chicago, left a note asking t j be cremated. Officers of the United States cruiser Chicago were entertained at Havre by the Mayor. A transcontinental railroad passenger rate war has been brought on by the Southern Pacific. Residents of Stevenson County, Kansas, report that the crops are" a failure and help must be given. George M.. Roe, cashier of the Reform Club, of New York, has disappeared with SI,BOO belonging to the club. Edward Simmons, of Buffalo, a ticket broker, is in jail on a charge of forgery and receiving stolen railroad tickets. With the report of Supervising Architect O'Rourke as a text, Chicago congressmen will urge evacuation of the federal building.

STEWART ROUSES ’EM

HIS CURIOSITY CAUSES GREAT EXCITEMENT. Want* to Know How Many Senators Own National Bank Stock—Saya He Doesn’t Own Any Silver Mines—Crossed Swords with HUL A Monkey and Parrot Time. Washington correspondence;

• * T he offered a resolution that a committee be appointed to discover how many Senators owned stock in national banks. This resolution was a tremendous success in the line intended by its author. It was about such a success as one might expect in pulling out tho insides of a piano with a garden rake. Before the general grasp for breath hW subsided, Mr. Stewart proceeded to rub salt on the wound he had caused by Saying he was sick and tired of Wall street men and New Y6rk papers charging that tho silver advocates owned stock in silver mines. He himself hadn't owned any in fifteen years. But ho had an awakening suspicion that a good many Senatorial opponents of silver owned stock in national banks, which would be benefited by repeal, and he thought what was sauce for the goose was just as good a dressing for duck. He had discovered in some musty old tome a long-forgotten law that no person who owned stock in the United States bank, which Jackson broke up. could hold a seat in Congress. If the principle of this law was good then, it was good now; and ho wanted to know just how many Senators’ interests were hampered by this silver legislation. If the number whose facos showed astonishment. chagrin, or alarm was any indication. Mr. Stewart’s shot had winged about four-fifths of his colleagues. Senator Hill was the first to lino up in battle array. With a flush that crept up over tho bald spot until it disappeared in tho fringe of hair behind his oars, tho New-Yorker, shaking what the Honorable Tim Campbell culled his “long, acqnitive finger” at Stewart who glared truculently, denounced the resolution as an outrage, and demanded that the heel of senatorial disapproval crush and bruise its head. “Whosobusiness is it,” Mr. Hill asked, “what Senator or who owns any investment, provided he is lucky enough to have it and come by it honestly.” He could not believe that Mr. Stewart offered that in good faith. Mr. Stewart boat a tattoo on his desk with his fingers and was visibly disturbed at tho tone and vigor of Hill’s remarks. Ho was just coming down tho main aisle to make a furious reply when Mr. Hawley, who had boon all the while writing a letter, suddenly shouted, “I object!” Stewart turned in his testy way and glared, but Mr. Hawley said he objected to further discussion. “Well, object,” said the man from Nevada, “but I give notice that 1 will have all tho time I waut tomorrow.” And so the matter drags.

Routine Proceeding*. In the Seuato Tuesday morning Mr. Squire, of Washington, gave notice of ii substitute which he Intended to offer sot tho bill to repoal tho silver purchaso act, and It was road In full. It pormlts tho deposit of silver bullion by Its owuers and the coinage thereof Into standard silver dollars, of which ho Is to rocclve only the amount corresponding to Its commercial value. The coinage Is not to exceed 54.000.000 a month, or! 500.000.000 in aIL The dollars are to be legal tendor. and no certificates are to be Issued. The bill to repeal the silver purchase act. was then taken up, and Mr. Voorhees spoke at length, urging a vote. Mr. Dubois of Idaho, opposed. Senators Hoar. Platt. Teller and Motts also took part Tho II .use transacted no business. The Federal election law caused a skirmish tn the House Thursday, but no action was taken. Senator Daniel, of West Virginia. occupied tho time of the Senate In a carefully prepared argument against tho repoal of the Sherman law; he spoke to crowded galleries and a good Senatorial audience. During tho course of his speech many mombers of tho House came Into the chamber and took seats In the rear of Senators’ chairs, or stood aealnst the wall. When tho routine morning business was concluded Mr. Stowart. of Nevada, moved to take up his resolution for a commltteo to Investigate whether Senators were interested In national banka Mr. Voorhees' counter-mo-tion to proceed to the consideration of the repeal bill was agreed to on a viva voqo vote which was quito unanimous, and Mr. Stewart sat down. Friday In the Senate was occupied by the advocates of the repeal of the Sherman law. Tho speech of Senator Lindsay of Kentucky, which was his maiden effort In the Senate, and his defense of Secretary Curllsle. whoso successor In (he Senato ho Is, was received most attentively. Tho deadlock In tho affairs of tho House In order to prevent Mr. Tucker from reporting the hill repealing the Federal election laws to the House continues.

The First Train.

In 1790 Nathan Reed built tho first steam read wagon in America. Four vears before Symington, 'in England, had mounted a coach body on thor-ough-brace springs,and in|lM)3 Trevithick put a coach bjdy in a frame, attached a boiler underneath, connected a cylinder with cog wheels and thus brought together the component parts of a modern traih.

Wives of Famous Men.

Nero kickod his wife Poppa?a, to death. Tea. dyspepsia and a scolding wife made Hazlitt’s life a burden. Lessing married a widow with four children and mado them a good stepfather. Moliere. at the age of 40, married an actress of 17, and soon separated from her. The married life of the famous Palestrina was long and unsullied by domestic clouds. The married life of Lord Nelson was made miserable by his infatuation for Lady Hamilton. Horace Vernet, the French historical painter, was twice married and both times happily. Verdi married young, winning a charming Italian girl, who made his home ideally perfect. Dr. Sir Hugh Smithson married a Percy heiress for love and became Duke of Northumberland. Abraham’s married life was rendered miserable by the jealousy his wife, Sarah, had for Hagar.

IHAT gay but balky band of patriots, the Senate, has been the center of interest for some time now, and occasionallv in its silver debate sparks fly as from flint and steel. The other duy Senator Stewart, of Nevada, started the fun. With a manner indicating that he was loaded for bear and ready to kick, when the Senate chamber was unusually full,