Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Page 2

gJjtJJcmocraticSeiitiitcl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 3. W. McEWEN, - - - Puiusher.

GETTING THE RANGE.

BRAZILIAN INSURGENTS DOING GREAT DAMAGE. Death of the Founder of Notre Dame—. Thieving: Circus Employes —Murderer Stone Is Prolific of Confessions—Ocean Shipments of Live Stock. Crano Is Hit by a Shell. The' London Times has th 3 following advices from Kio ‘do Janeiro: The armed steamer Crano, while leaving Rio, was hit by a shell and badly damaged. She reports that forty of her crew were killed. The insurgents have an abundance of munitions of war. Decisive action by Admiral Mello is expected shortly. The government is mounting guns on the city batteries. The Republica rammed the transport Rio do Janeiro, which was conveying 1,100 troops to Santos, and 500 of the troops were drowned. Admiral Mello confirms the truth of thts report. New York advices say six more United States merchant ships have been purchased by the government of Brazil for use as war ships. ’1 his gives to the Brazil Government ten new vessels. There was a rumor that Dom Augusto, a son of the Princess Leopoldina, the second daughter of Dom Pedro 11., was now on his way to Brazil and that if Admiral Mello succeeded a Prince of the House of Bracanza would be re-established on the throne of Brazil. Princess Isabella, the wife of the Comte D’Eu and Dom Pedro's he:r, is very unpopular, and if Admiral Mello made an attempt to restore the Braganza dynasty it is probable that he would seat either one of the two sons of I- abella or else Dom Augusto, who is very popular with all classes

STONE'S THIRD CONFESSION. Implicates Several Accomplices in the ITratten Murder. A special from Washington. Ind, says James Stone, the self-confessed murderer of six members of the Wratien family, has made another and third confession. He was taken from Jeffersonville penitentiary. where be had been confined to prevent lynching, to Washington at midnight Monday night and told his story of the awful crime to the grand jury. It Is said that he Implicated several other parties in the crime, whose purpose was robbery. As soon as he told his story he was rushed back to the penitentiary, and no a sensational arrests are expected at any moment. It will be remembered that Stone, in his first confession implicated five other men. In his second he said he did the bloody deed alone. In prison he devotes most of his time to shouting gospel songs and verses from the Bible. His cr.me has no parallel in Indiana criminal annals. FATHER SORIN’ DEAD. Founder of Notre Dame University Expires at South Bend. The Very Rev. Edward Borin. Supreme General of the Order of the Holy Cross and founder of the celebrated University of Notre Dame, died at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning at South Bend, lnd. As It became knoan that bis minutes were numbered, the priests ana professors of the university assembled at his bedside, and his last breath was drawn in the presence of .most of his friends and fellow-laborers. Fjr several weeks Father Borin had lain ill in his beautiful residence, “The Presbytery," which Is situated on an eminence near the Church of the Bacred Heart, overlooking the peaceful waters of St. Mary’s Lake Bright’s disease had fastened upon him. and though until recently be had been able to get about the university grounds, and even to drive into the city of South Bend, he knew as well as his physicians that bis death was not distant.

ROBBED BY EMPLOYES. Manager Bailey, of the Forepaugh Show, Said to Be Out 8100,000. James A. Bailey, qyftter ot the Forepangh show, has been robbed of about SIOO,OOO by faithless employes. The facts have been kept secret for some time, but finally leaked out. Joseph McCadden, Mr. Bailey’s brother-in-law and manager of the show, Installed his nephew as cashier shortly after the show went on the road last year. From that time, it is alleged, a conspiracy has existed, including employes in all departments, from the ticket wagon to doortendors and ushers, by which thousands were stolen. The robbery was not discovered until the end of the season. - DR. PARKHURST THREATENED. He Is Warned to Abandon His Crusade or Be Murdered. Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, of New York, declares that his life has not been threatened, and although he has not yet accepted the advice of friends, who insist that he should ' have a bodyguard, he has taken measures to protect himself. Dr. Parkhurst says that on Saturday he received a letter which not only said that he would be killed If he persisted In bis social crusade, but even told of the means that would be adopted In murdering him. Dr. Parkhurst would not say anything further about the contents of the letter.

Ocean Shipments of Live Stock. Secretary Gresham has written a letter to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce regarding the bill recently introduced by Mr. Cummings of New York, providing for a conference of maritime na-, tlons to consider the best methods of carrying live stock In ocean vessels. The Secretary replies that several governments have on occasions heretofore had correspondence with this country seeking to accomplish the very object which Is proposed In Mr. Cummings’ bllL The Secretary commends the bill. In Memory of Lafayette. The Patriotic Sons of America, of Chester County, Pa, will erect a monument to General Lafayette on the spot where he was wounded near Birmingham. Epidemic of Cranks. The New York crank crop was particularly abundant Tuesday. Nine new specimens were added to the list gathered In by the police on Monday. One of these was a woman who raised a disturbance In a church, while one of the male cranks ventured into the office of Superintendent Byrnes. A Foul Murder. At West Charleston, W. Va., A. Langston twitted John Fisher about a cowardly escapade. Fisher, who was drunk, turned upon Langston, stabbing him five times, causing death in a few minutes. Two in One Pulpit. The Bev. A E. Wright and his wife were Installed as pastors of the Unlversalist Church of the Reconciliation in Green Point N. Y. The unusual spectacle of a husband and wife, both regularly ordained ministers, being installed ,ln a pastorate attracted a great number of people May End the Strike. The English mine owners’ federation lias consented, at the request of the miners’ federation, to meet representatives of the litter organization and discuss the whole question of the strike without prejudice. Hitherto the owner* would dtscu«s only the question of a reduction of wage*

CREMATED IN THE WRECK Ann Arbor Train Runs Into a Sink Hole and Three Men Eos- Their Lives. Three more deaths have been added to the long list of those recently caused by railrujrtTdlsastors in Michigan. The unfortunates were members of the crew of a freight train which ran into a sink hole three miles north of Hamburg Junction. The dead are: Charles Beaulieu, engineer; George Alberts, fireman; Thomas Mulligan, brakemun. Ihe catastrophe was rendered more horrible by the taking fire of the train and the consequent incineration of the bodies of Beaulieu and Alberts. The corpse of Mulligan has been recovered. The spot where the disaster occurred is at the mouth of a deep cut overliung with trees, which renders it impenetrably dark. The soil of the place Is loose and sandy, making the construction of a firm roadbed a matter of no Inconsiderable difficulty. Recent rains have caused a large - washout at the place, and that night the sink-hole had settled ten or twelve feot The train, which was a fast freight on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway, was traveling at tlie rate of fully thirty miles an hour when it reached the scene of the disaster. The track was clear, and in the darkness It was Impossible f. r the engineer to possess even an inkling of the danger by which he was menaced. As the train left the gully the eaglno plunged without a moment’s warning into the pitfall, and turned completely over, killing the occupants of the cab instantly and burying them in a mass of wreckage The trainmen In j the caboose were thrown to the floor, bdt ! quickly scrambled to their feet and ran to j the assistance of the engineer and fireman. ! Even before they reached the front of the i train a sheet of flame had wrapped the ! wreck of the engine and precluded all possibility of approaching it. Oil from the broken tank spurted over the engine and was blazing fiercely in an instant. The fire quickly communicated itself to the rest of the train and before long almost every car was on fire

TRADE IS DISTURBED. Wheat Breaks from 65 1-2 to 64 1-3 Cents anil Closes Heavy. The scare among the wheat shorts which existed as the regular session of the CUieago Board of Trade closed Tuesoay. when 65J4c was bid for December, boiled over on the curb a few minute* after and subdued the fierceness of the bull i re, but not until some unfortunate shorts with too slender margins had paid the session had closed. The chief cause of the advance was the report of the prospective speedy repeal of the silver purchase. Those reports appeared to have been based upon good substantial grounds, but a change hud occurred Wednesday morning In the manner of looking at the probable effect of repeal upon the price of wheat It will posssibly revive the general trade of the country.it was admitted, but It will make wheat none the less over-plentiful, and unless either the receipts become smaller or the foreign demand more urgent It can have no lasting influence upon the value of wheat, it was argued. With that view, prevailing, not only In Chicago but apparently at the other centers of wheat speculation in country, the market opeqed weak with sellers of December at from 65?j|c to and a generally downward tendency during the first hour and a half of the session. Chicago receipts on Wednesday were 134 cars; a year ago €32 cars were received. Minneapolis got 404 cars and Duluth 410, making together 874, compared with 740 for the corresponding time a year ago. The Liverpool niarkot was quoted steady at ; t d advance for American wheat.

MANY WILL HE DROPPED. Closing of the Fair Will Stagnate Labor Circles Somewhat. From present indications the closing of the World’s Fair will not be as productive of hard times to tho thousands of people who hait5 r been empioyod at Jackson park and by the various companies affected by tho exposition as many have supposed. There has been a general impression that the closing of the gigantic enterprise would throw thousands out of employment who would have little saved from their summer’s earnings and practically no prospect of work during the winter months. That many will be left In this condition is probable, but there is every reason to believe that the number will be exceedingly small compared with the total number who have been at work for the Exposition Company, the concessionaries, and tho allied Interests outside the grounds. Indeed, It is said that the workmen thrown on the market will make no appreciable difference In the condition of affairs. At least 3,050 men who now find employment at the World’s Fair grounds will probably be out of work by Jan. L The reduction In tho working force of the Exposition will not bo Immediate In most of tho departments, but the men will be dlsponsod with gradually. Big Pacific Mail Steamer Grounded. Tho City of Now York went ashore on Point Bonita in 6nn Francisco harbor Thursday afternoon, lust as she was starting on her voyage to China and Japan. Bhe was under a full bead of steam. Tue fog was very heavy. As soon as the ship struck there was a scene of wild confusion. The 1,200 Chinese In tho steerage sot up a howl that could be heard half across tho Golden Gate. Captain Johnston was wondorfully cool, however, and he and his officers soon restored order. Ihe tugs took off the two cabin passengers and all tho Chinese, but they could do nothing to dislodge tho vessel, as she was hard and fast. The captain had tried to go out what Is known as the Inner passage and in the thick fog had gono too near the rocka A fearful tide was running, which carried him on tho rocka When she struck the compartments were closed, but she soon had eight feet of water. Most of the cargo will be a total loss. Experts put the value of the vessel and cargo at a halfmillion dollars. Of treasure she carried $191,290 for China and Japan, of which three-quarters were Mexican dollara There is no Insurance on her.

Commission Honors Its Chief. Magnificent beyond all its predecessors of the World’s Fair year was the banquet tendered President Thomas W. Palmer by his colleagues of the National Commission at the Auditorium Hotel Wednesday night In point of decorations Chicago, and that means America, never had seen anything so gorgeously beautiful. In all Its appointments the dinner was perfect; the sreeches which followed the coffee were full of wit and Interest; the guests were all personal friends of that “jolly good fellow” In whose honor they broke bread. Four Were Killed. A pitched battle took place near Two Medicine creek, on the east slope of the Bockle3 near Kalispell, Mont, between five train robbers who held up the Northern Pacific passenger train near Livingstone and the Blackfoot Indian police under United States Marshal Jackson, In which three of the robbers and one Indian were killed and another so badly wounded that he will not live. I Coming Into a Rich Inheritance. It is said on what appears good authority that Marcos Flood, of East Otto, N. Y„ and bis sister, Mrs. Margaret Hilllker, of Glenwood. have fallen heirs to $1,000,000 each, a fortune left by James G. Flood, of California, who was their undeBattle with Moors. The battle fought about the trenches before Mellila, which resulted in the death of Gen. Margallo, who commanded the Spanish troops In the first battle about Sid I Qmrltch, has caused a profound sensation

In Madrid. The engagement was commenced by General Ortega, who, at the head of the re-enforcements sent to Mellila, drove the Moors from the trenches they had occupied In front of the Spanish fortifications. The Moors fought desperately and with the crealest courage Many of iho Spaniards wore killed, and among them was the unfortunate Gem Margallo, who only forty-eight hours previously exposed his troops to a second defeat by sending a mere handful of men to the onslaught of the tens of thousands of Moors. Tho Spaniards nere amazed at the courage shown by the Moors In face of a terrible tiro the Moors charged recklessly forward until they managed to approach within twenty yards of the forts, driving tho Spaniards Into tho trenches before ihem and cutting the telephone and telegraph wires which had been erected in order to keep up communication with the outlying forts and trenches. It is rumored that there has been serious loss of life on both sides The situation of tho Spaniards Is said to be growing desperate and additional efforts are to be put forward to hasten the dispatch of re-enforeemonts to the front. The Moors were lead by priests

MAY SUFFER FOE COAL. Railroads Have Not Hauled Any Into Chicago and the Supply Is Low. Except for the comparatively small amount shipped in this summer by the lake transportation lines, no coal has been brought. Into Chicago for several months | past. Tho railroads have been taxed to ! their utmost to handle the World’s Fair | passenger traffic to the exclusion of almost | all oilier business, and tho hauling of coal, j which in other times has been such an imj portant Item of business at tills season of the year, has been for the most part abandoned. As a consequence of this condition of affairs coal dealer* are extremely short and their yards are almost entirely empty of coal, so much so In fact that the question of where fuel Is coming from, should a cold spoil set in, Is already a serious one. TRADE HOPE RETURNS. Stocks Go Up and Business Prospects Are Revived. R. G. Dun & Co. ’s Weekly Review of Trade sums up the situation as follows: Fort Is lu sight after a long and stormy voyage, and the prospect of a‘speedy end of the struggle over repeal has brought bright hopes to business. Stocks climbed rapidly for three days, banks relaxed restraints, commercial loans are more freely sought and made, and reports from all quarters show the. prevalence of moro hopeful feeling. This of Itself tends to prod uce some revival of consumption and of Industry which, nevertheless, has made but moderate progreis as yet. It is still too soon to expect much effort in trade and manufactures, and though monetary obstacles are 10 a large extent removed there si ill remain oilier legislative questions which create uncertainty. Baptized an Engine of War. At San Francisco. Thursday, in the presence of a great crowd assembled to witness the event, the battleship Oregon was launched from the ways. Gov. Pennoyer and lils staff, representatives of the army •and navy, and civil officials of the general government were present, but the most Important personage In that great throng was Miss Daisy Ainsworth, representing the State of Oregon, to whom was accorded the honor of christening the first vessel of her cluss constructed on the Pacific coast

Extended the Loan. Arrangements have finally been compleied for an extension for three months from Oct. 1 of the loan of $2,500,000 made by tho Speyer syndicato to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. The Reading receivers are to provide us additional securi y $500,000 collateral trust bonds, but are to make no payment of money on account If there is a further extension of ibe loan at the end of throe months more security will be required. Swift to Avenge. A special from Zanzibar states that a Second Lieutenant of the Italian dispatch vessel Staffeta was murdered by Somalis, at Merkah, on tho main land, forty-six miles west of Magasda The Staffeta subsequently bombarded the town, which contained about 3,000 inhabitants, and then landed sailors and marines who killed several of the Somalis concerned In the murder. All the Somalis In the place were disarmed. Cush and Cashier Gone. The Rainwater-Bradford Hat Company at St. Louis has been forced to make an a-slgnment by the diseovory that L. J. Silva, tho cashier, lias embezzled over SIOO,OOO of tho concern's cash. The liabilities aro $175,000 and the asset* $200,000. Silva has disappeared. Saved His Friend but Not Himself. At Can on. Ohio, Michael Watkins, aged 22 years, a mirier, saw a huge lump of coal descending from .the roof. lie pushed a companion, Walter ‘McCarty, out of the way, but could not escape himself. He was probably fatally crushed. She Has Her Way and Her Coachman. Mildred Hill, tho 19-year-old daughter of George T. Hill, a New York dry goods merchant, and Frederick Mansfield, a young Englishman, a driver, were married after a courtship conducted clandestinely. Six Hurt at a Fire. Six men were badly injured, one or ti probably fatally, at a whisky storage warehouse fire in Pittsburg Friday, which lapped up nearly a million dollars’ worth of property. Mills Closing Down. Owing to a falling off in American orders the mills In Armagh, Ireland, that weave the superior kinj of damask aro running on short time.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... to 50 ®6 75 Hogs—Shipping Grides 4 (0 @ 7 00 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 25 ® 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 04 & 65 Cobn—No. 2 as @ 39 Oats—No. 2 29 & 31 Rye—No. 2 ah «a no Butter—Choice Creamery 2754@ 2854 Eggs—Fresh 20 ® 21 Potatoes—Per bn 55 ® 65 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle- Shipping 3 0“ @ 6 26 Hogs—Choice Light 4 00 ® 6 75 Sheep—Common to Prime 2uo @ 3 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red ss @8 69 Coen—No. 2 White 31 (g> 40 Oats—No. 2 White aau® sou ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 ® 5 25 Hogs.... 400 ® 6 60 W heat—No. 2 Red pi ® 62 COP.N—No. 2 37 @ 38 Oats—No. 2 20 @ 27 Barley—lowa 59 ® go CINCINNATI. Cattle : 300 @SOO hogs 3 00 ® 6 60 Sheep.. 200 @375 Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 ® 6254 Corn—No. 2 39 ® 41 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 28 ® 30 Rye—No. 2 60 @ 62 DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 <3 * 75 Hogs 3 oe @1 6 50 BHEEP 3 oO @ * 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 63 <<« 64 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 44 ® 42 , Oats—No. 2 White 31 ® 32 TOLEDO. W HEAT—No. 2 Red 635£@ 6454 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 38 ® 39 Oats—No. 2 White 29 & 31 Rye—No. 2. 47 ® 49 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 70 <ai 71 Corn—No. 2 Y'ellow 42 ® 43 Oats—No. 2 White 35 ® 36 Rye—No. 2 50 ® 52 MILWAUKEE. W heat—No. 2 Spring.. ’ 59 ® 60 Corn-No. 3 8754® 38)^ Oats—No. 2 White au ® 31 Rye—No. 1 48 ® 49 Barley—No. 2 64 @ 68 Pork—New Mess 16 60 @l7 25 „ NEW YORK. Cattle 300 ® 6 00 Hogs 3 75 @ 7 25 Sheep 2 25 @ 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 70 @ 71 Corn-No. 2 4654® 475* Oats— Mixed Western 34 ® 36 Butter—Creamery 25 ® 28 Pore—New Mess. 20 26 @2O K

ANTI-SILVER WINS.

VOORHEES* BILL FINALLY PASSES THE SENATE. Long and Desperate Contest Concluded as Mr. Cleveland Disired—Twenty-three Republicans and Twenty Democratic Senators Voted for the Measure. ■ Mi: . End ot the Fight. Unconditional repeal Las carried the day in the United States Senate. At 7:20 o’clock Monday night the Voorhees bill was passed by tne decisive vote of 43 to 3k. It was the same repeal majority of 11, indicated when the voting began three days before. It remains now only to rec ncile minor differences of phraseology between the Senate and the House, and, this being done, Pres'dent C'eveland's signature will make the repe :1 I*lll a law. The last scene in the tenate was devoid of excitement. The:' was a lack of that high tension which had existed up to that time. Senators knew pe.fe-.tly well what was coming, and they awaited the recording of the final vote as a matter of formality. The real victory had been won when the silver men surrendered last week, and this last act was merely the formal expressi .n of that surrender. At 7 o'clock the Senate galleries were still crowded, although it was long past the usual time of adjournment Efforts had been made to take a recess, but Senator Voorhees. wearied with delays, insisted that the Senators should keep their seats until the final vote was taken. The silver men kept up their speeches until the last. Senator Stewart had the last word. When he took his seat Vice President Stevenson directed the clerk to put tho bill on its final passage. It was read for the last time, and then the roll-call began. Not a Senator on the floor took the trouble to keep tally on the call. They answered mechanically to their names. There were no surprises as the roll proceeded. Men answered just as they had voted on the early amend,ments. The Southern silver Senators held together to tho last. The Votr* In Detail. The detail of the vote follows, tho Democrats being printed in small capitals, Republicans in italics, and Populists in Reman: FOB THE REPEAL. Aldrich, R. I. Lodae, Mass. Brice, 0. McMillan, Mich. Caffery, La. 51 cPherson, N. J. Camden, W. Va. Manderson, Neb. Carey, Wy. Mills, Tex. Cullom, 111. Mitchell, Wis. /Oari.s,,Miun. Morrill, Vt, JHron, K. J. Murphy, N. Y. Dolph, Ore. Platt. Conn. Faulknep., W. Va. Proctor, Vt. Frye, Me. Quay, Pa. Gallinger, N. 11. Ransom, N. C. Gibson,"Md. Sherman, O. Gorman, Md. Smith, N J. Gray, Del, Stntire, Wash. Hale. Me. Stockbridge, Mich Hawley, Conn. Turpie, Ind. Higgins, Del. Vilas. Wis. Hill, N. Y. Voorhees, Ind. Hunton, Va. Washburn, Minn. Lindsay, Ky. White, La. against the repeal. Allen, Neb. Kyle, S. D. Bate, Tenn. Martin, Kan. Berry, Ark. Paeco, Fla. Blackburn, Ky. Peffer, Kan. Butler, S. C. Perkins, Cal. Call, Fla. Pettigrew, S. D. Cameron, Pa. Power. Mont. Cockrell, Mo. Pugh, Ala. Coke, Tex. Poach, N. D. Daniel, Va. • Shoup, Idaho. Dubois, Idaho. Stewart, Nev. George, Miss. Teller, Col. Harris, Tenn. Vance, N. C. Irby, S. C. Vest, Mo. Jones. Ark. Walthall. Miss. Jones, Nev. Wolcott. Col. The following pairs were announced, those in favor of repeal being given first: Allison, lowa, and Mitchell. Oregon. Chandler, New Hampshire, and White, California. Wilson, lowa, and Colquitt, Georgia. Gordon, Georgia, and Morgan, Alabama. Palmer, Illinois, and Hansbrough, North Dakota. The analysis of the votes and pairs shows: For. Against. Democrats 22 10 Kepublicans 20 13 Populists 4 Totals 48 37 Prom this it is apparent that both parties were badly divided. The Democratic Senators were almost equally divided on the final vote, although the administration has tho satisfaction of knowing that it had a majority of one in the vote of its own party.

It Was iii Boston.

“Mad dog!” Mad dog!” yelled u small boy. !No cry can collect a erbwd quicker. In a moment an excited throng were gazing from a safe distance at, a poor, miserable little pup, howling and struggling on a doorstep. “Kill him! Shoot him! Don’t let him bite you!” shouted half a dozen at once. Just as the excitement was at its height, a typical Boston girl walked deliberately through the crowd and approached the dog. She raised her eyeglass and surveyed him calmly. Then she spoke: “I judge from the attiturle of the animal and from the anguish of his cries that the door is closed upon his tail. Open the door immediately.” She was obeyed. The dog trotted away Avith a tail decidedly the worse for wear. The crowd dispersed, and another mad dog scare had been nipped in the hud.—Shooting and Fishing.

Military Ballooning.

Some experiments in military ballooning: have just been made in France. Five balloons were released from the Esplanade des lnvalides in Paris, the aeronauts in charge having been previously instructed to pass over a radius of twenty miles of country supposed to be held by an enemy, and then to descend as closely as possible to Combs la Ville. One of the balloons descended within a mile of the desired place, and two others at a point somewhat more distant from it.

Exposure to Sunshine.

Apropos of the effect of exposure to sunshine destroying microbes, Mrs. Percy Frankiand, in Longmans’, notes the interesting fact that exact experiments conducted in the Lake of Geneva to ascertain by means of photographic plates the depths to which the sun’s rays penetrate, showed that they did not reach beyond 553 feet, at which depth the intensity of the light is equal to that which is ordinarily observed on a clear but moonless night.

This and That.

A girl with a talent and taste for it should learn to play the piano, but lacking these essentials it is a foolish waste of time and money to cause her to spend two or three hours a day for four or five years drumming out piano studies. She— Papa has had bad luck lately, and says that if you marry me now you must take me just as I am. He— Ah! my angel, he does me injustice; I am not one of the selfish, inconsiderate, now-or-never kind. I can wait. —New York Weekly.

CLOSE OF AN EPOCH.

END OF THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. Oration and Song: Give Way to Prayer and Dirge at the Finale of a Joyous Season— Exercises Held in Festival Hall—Last Day Shrouded in Gloom. Now a Reminiscence. The end came at sunset on Oct. SO. The great Columbian Exposition faded as quietly and sadly as an autumn day, and when the belching cannon had sent a score of shots to heaven and pelted the domes anJ pinnacles with a million echoes the giant had died. Silverthroated chimes tolled the knell, murmuring fountains sang the roquiem, white clouds hung as the shroud. The night stole on, the breakers slept, the lagoons grew as calm as painted ponds, the lights blinked < ut and it was over. It passed as gently as the withering of a summer rose, to leave a memory as sweet as tbe fragrance of an incense pot. The mighty organ groaned and wept, the preacher prayed, the whizzing pulleys ceased their jangle, the rattling wheels hung silent, the throttles were choked. The waning moon looked down at midnight upon a wilder net b of beauty awaiting the assassin's ax. Columns, towers and turrets, portals, peristyle and palaces, Dianas, mermaids and heroes, archers, Neptunes and pyramids, sculptors’ groups and artists’ panels, treasures of genius and marvels of brain, all stood mute at the altar side, awaiting the torch to make them ashet. It was a sight sadder than a funeral and as melancholy as a winter forest. The wind sent shafts to the marrow and rattled grewsomely in the withered loaves and frosted boughs, and from end to end the fairy acres were as somber as the valley of the shadow of death.

The End Conies in Woe. There were no pageants, no long lines of gorgeous tlcats, no noisy processions. Neither bombs nor mortars rent the sky, nor were sizzling rockets loo.ed. There were no merry banqueters, no concerts, no jubilees. The trumpeters vho heralded the Fair were silent, and the thousands who sang the patriotic hyms a half year ago were hushed. The flaming fagots that flared under the ribs of the gilded dome were unlighted. Thei'e were no epics read, no striding meters un. oiled, no majestic bars blown by tho wind. There were no chapeaux, no epaulets, no gathering of the nation's great. No orators scaled the heights with congratulatory eloquence, no gonfalon fell at the signal of a potentate. All the fete's became funeral pyres; rejoicing hymns were burned to songs of sadness, and triumphant strains were dropped to death marches. Tears ran where smiles were wont and sorrow filled breasts where pride was due. Pity for the end became grief for the calamity and all the thousands mourned the tragedy which ended the grandest event of four wonderful centuries. Fate had been cruel and in its unkindness had added a piteous death as the climax. Thus the sadness of the end was twofold and the great Fair went out under a double cloud. The final function was in Festival Hall. President Palmer held the center of the line of honor, and on either side were President HigiDbotham and Director General Davis. Behind them sat distinguished men, whose hemes make a circuit of the earth. After an invocation by Mr. Barrows and an ad-' dress by Mr. Higinfcotham, President Palmer formally executed the edict of Congress. Simple in the extreme were the closing acts. Tho war ship and revenue sloop loosed their guns and all about the grounds rolled the roar of the last act. Sailors were stationed at each flag mast, and when the first shot echoed to the shore the halyards were drawn and the emblems of sixty nations were furled. The streamers on tho staffs of honor in the main court came down to earth, tho droam was ' over and the World’s Columbian Exposition became a memory.

Overflow of News.

P. H. Brown, a banker of Portland, Me., is dead. Lady Henry Somerset sailed for England on the Teutonic. Col. R. D. Frayser, banker and lawyer of Memphis, Tenn., is dead. Nathan Strauss, a New York merchant, committed suicide by shooting. W. S. Routh, of Fergus Falls, Minn., is under arrest on a charge of bigamy. In ten years Bo ten has erected 17,920 new buildings at a cost of $116,603,159. The failure of J. Jacolucci, the Italian banker of New York, was due to leases at poker. Geo. Baker was found murdered at Browning, Mo. Five bullets had been fired into his body. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the order of the A. .O. U. W. was celebrated at Independence, Kas. C. H. CONWELL, a cattle man, shot and killed C. H. Creed in a quarrel over a deer hide near De Beque, Col. Fully a third of the corporations of Illinois have failed to make the affidavit required by the anti-trust law. John Gannon’s residence at Pittsburg was destroyed by fire and two children, aged 4 and 9 years, perished. In a freight wreck at Harrisburg, Pa., four tramps were crushed to death. They were riding in a box car. London discount rates rose, owing to a scare over the Indian loan and the shipment of gold to America. Naval officers are inclined to think Admiral Stanton was warranted in saluting Admiral Mello at Rio. W. J. Keeley, a New York diamond broker, is under arrest, charged with stealing S9OO worth of diamonds. Fire at Willamette, Tenn., destroyed the breeding stables of J. B. Ewing, and twenty horses were burned. H. G. Gray was arrested in Philadelphia, and will be taken to Chicago to answer to a charge of bigamy. Owing to the prevalence of smallfox the schools of Muncie, Ind., will remain closed by order of the Council. Capt. H. H Siverd was murdered at Winfield, Kas., while arresting a man charged with running a “joint.” Mr . J. N. Lawson, who was caught in the big prairie fire at North Enid, O. T., died in great agony at Kremlin. The banking house of Pedro Martin & Sons, at the City of Mexico, has failed. The liabilities are $1,100,000. O. H. Brockway, in jail at Lincoln, Neb., charged with wife-murder, attempted suicide by poison. Prompt medical attendance saved his life. C. P. Huntington says that there is no truth in the report that the Morgan Steamship Company will sell the steamer El Rio to the Brazilian Government. Richard Tate, the Kentucky State Treasurer who absconded with $700,000 six years ago, has been arrested at Yuma, Ari. A reward of $25,000 was offered for his arrest.

BIG LOSSES BY FIRE.

WASTE FOR NINE MONTHS GREATER THAN IN 1892. H*nj Concern* Forced to the Well end Several Others Preparing to Go Out of Business—toss Is Already *26,000,000 More than hast Tear. Insurance Companies Quit. Fire losses in the United States during the first nine months of 1893 were •26,840,000 greater than for the corresponding period of 1892, and not less than a dozen strong companies are preparing to go out of business between now and the Ist of January. Low rates, heavy losses and onerous State legislation are driving capital into safer and more profitable fields of employment. The active companies have paid out over $9,000,000 from their aggregate surplus funds thus far this year and the January statements will show an enormous shrinkage in the securities held by the companies. It has been one of the toughest years in insurance annals. The fire waste in this country from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1 footed up $121,832,700, a monthly average of $13,537,000. The loss during the corresponding nine months of 1892 was $94,992,350, a monthly average of $10,594,700. For the corresponding period of 1891 the loss was $98,960,670. If the percentage keeps up during November and December at the same rate as during the preceding ten months the total waste from flame for the calendar year will approximate $162,500,000. The loss by months with comparisons with previous years is as follows: 1893. 1892. 1891. January *17,968,400 $12,664,900 $11,230,000 February.... 9,919,900 11,914,000 9,226,600 March. 16,662,360 10,648,000 12,640,760 April. 14,669,900 11,968,800 11,309.000 May 10.427,100 9,486,000 16,660,398 June 16,344,960 9,265,660 8,687,628 July 12,118,700 11.630,000 9,692,200 August 13,222,700 1 ‘,145,300 9,055,100 September... 10,608,700 7,879,800 10,668,200 T0ta1..... $121,832,700 $94,892,360 $98,960,670 Many Companies Fall. The total number of sound insurance companies doing business now, foreign and homo, is about 225. They actually paid $84,0C0,000 in losses last year, against $81,000,000 in 1891. There are in addition an unknown and decreasing number of wildcat companies which insure anything that will pay premiums, and that never pretend to pay losses. Since Jan. 1, thirty-five tired, weak, or wildcat companies have gone to the wall. Not less than $100,000,000 is invested in the stock of fire insurance companies. This amount of money is pledged to indemnify owners of property worth nearly $17,000,000 against loss, and last year the premiums paid for insurance footed up about $163,500,000. The statistics for 1893 have not been brought down to date, but the aggregate of value of property insured and of premiums paid runs above rather than under 1892.

WINTER IS IN SIGHT.

Prof. 'Wiggins Turns Loose a Cold Wavs from Bow River Valley. Prof. Wiggins, the Canadian earthquake and cyclone man, went into his annual fall spasm the other day and instructed the chief of the weather works to give a pull to the cold-wave lever, with the result that the first chilly snap of the season was turned loose upon the country. The wave was hitched up at Calgary, in the Bow River valley, a grazing district near the foothills of the Rocky mountains. Snow came down from the mountains and at Calgary the fall was three inches. From that point the wave traveled southeast through Manitoba, Montana, Dakota’, Nebraska, Kansas, and Northern Texas, where it wheeled about to the northeast and made headway through Missouri and up through Illinois. Continuing it skirted the western shores of the lakes and had fun with the half-breed population north of Lake Superior and south of Hudson’s bay. Freezing In lowa and Nebraska. News that freezing weather prevailed in lowa and Nebraska drove the farmers home from the World’s Fair, and many of them have since rolled their pumpkins into cellars. It was snowing in some parts of Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana, and while the cold was loss severe eastward, it made its way north of the Ohio River to the Atlantic, where it was swallowed up in a rainstorm which ha 3 been drenching the coast from Halifax southward for nearly a week- Edmonton, the «piost northern point on the continent from which intelligence is received at the weather bureau, sent word that the thermometer registered 30 degrees above zero, just 10 degrees colder than in Chicago; Battleford registered 24 degrees, Qu’Appelle 14 degrees, Winnipeg 22 degrees, and Minnedosa, a town in Manitoba, was shivering at 10 degrees. The points above mentioned are north of the international boundary line and above the forty-ninth parallel. Bismarck was the coldest town in Uncle Sam’s country Tuesday morning. The mercury flew down to 18 degrees above. At Morehead it was 26; St. Paul, 28; Des Moines, 32; and Valentine, Neb., 20. The wave was felt at all points south to Arkansas and- Tennessee. The little lakes in Wisconsin. Minnesota, the Dakotas and Manitoba all bear a thin oovering of ice. Pelicans are leaving their breeding grounds at Shoal Lake, Man., and flocks of wild geese are making day and night hideous with their screeching as they travel southward for the winter.

Prominent Women Arrested.

The women White Caps who whipped two girls at Osceola, who were supposed to be of easy virtue, were arraigned and pleaded not guilty. The case was continued on recognizance of S2OO each. Those under arrest are: W. Bierhart, Mrs. Heald, two Mrs. Osbornes, Mrs. Everett, Ben Osborne and three boys named Kerr, Osborne and Browne. Mrs. Heald is the wife of the president of the Polk County bank, and a leader in an Osceola church and several societies, and the other ladies are wives of prominent business men. All are members of the local W. C. T. U.

Telegraphic Clicks.

Two prisoners escaped from the county jail at Lima. Ohio. Two MEN were caught robbing the postoffice at Albuquerque, N. M. W. W. Fairbanks, a bridegroom of two days, disappeared at San Francisco. , The Appleton Mills at Lowell, Mass., have resumed operations, employing 2,000 men. t Hundreds of people are out of employment and suffering for food at Pottstown, Pa. Bishop H. C. Potter will take a trip along the Mediterranean. Mrs. Potter will accompany him. Gen. Schofield, in his annual report, recommends a reduction of the term of enlistment to three years. George M. Storrs. son of Emory Storrs, who has been in a New York asylum, has regained his sanity.

THE NATION’S SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed. Discussed, and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. The Senate Wednesday resumed Its talk on silver. It was apparent to all that the unconditional repeal men felt in blgh feather. In the House, after the transaction of some minor business, the debate upon the bankruptcy bill was resumed, and occupied the full time. Thursday was quiet in both houses. The Senate continued talking about silver, though it was conceded by all that the only thing necessary to end the tiresome discussion was an opportunity to submit the repeal hill to a vote. The House was inactive except, for some minor transactions, awaiting the return from committee of the new tariff hill. It Is reported that a rough draft of the proposed hill has been submitted to the President. Senator Peffer’s amendment to the Bilver bill, which was to restore the law of 1837 for free coinage alike of gold and silver, was voted on Friday afternoon and lost, the vote standing 28 yeas, 39 nays, and ihen the everlasting talk was resumed. The House had several squabbles over two resolutions, and twice attempted to take a vote without a quorum, and then adjourned until Monday. The Senate resumed its session at 11 o’clock Saturday morning, with fifty-two Senators present. 'I he urgency deficiency bill was taken up and passed. The joint resolution offered by Mr. Cullom of Illinois, transferring the piodel battleship Illinois to the State of Illinois as an armory for the naval militia, at the close of the World’s Fair, was passsd. The repeal hill was then taken up, and Mr. Wolcott addressed the Sonato. The Senate passed the Voorhees bill repealing the Sherman law at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday evening by a vote of 43 to 32, there being five pairs not voting. This result was reached after an acrimonious crossfire of vituperative talk, alleged to be debate, lasting all day. No othej business was done by the Senate. The morning hour in the House expired without action, and the debate on the bankruptcy hill, the special order, was resumed- Mr. Broderick, of Kansas, antagonized the bill, and Mr. Ralph, of Massachusetts, supported it. Mr. Culbertson, of Texas. Chairman of the Judiciary Committee: spoke in opposition. He concluded about 4 o’clock, He was followed by Air,.. Di.nglpy.; At 4:30 the House adjourned. The Senate is taking a rest after its exhausting struggle with stiver. All day a bare quorum was all that could he mustered. The House hill providing for the time and place of holding Circuit and District Courts In Sou h Dakota was passed. The Senate bill extending the time for final payments on desert' land entries was amended to extond the time of payment for one year instead of three. aDd to make it apply only to entry men who were unable to pay. As amended the hill was passed. A resolution authorizing the Committee on Agriculture and Foresty to continue during the recess the investigation on the state of agriculture, authorized by resolutions of April 19, 1892, and March 3, 1893, was agreed to. In the House the Senate joint resolution transferring the model of the battleship Illinois at the World’s Fair to the city of Chicago was agreed to. The hill to remit the duties on the ammunition imported for the use of the navy during the troublo between the United States and Chill was passed, and debate was then resumed on the bankruptcy bill

LIVING LANTERNS.

How the Deep Sea Is Lighted by Its Finny Inhabitants. Away down in the dark depths of the ocean there are living lanterns that are borne about to light up the darkness. A queer tish called the “midshipmite” carries the brightest and most striking of all these sea torches. Along its back, under it, and at the base of its fins there are small disks that glow with a clear, phosphorescent light like rows of shining buttons on the young middy’s uniform. In this way it gets its name “midshipmite,” by which young sailors in the navy are often called. These disks are exactly like small bull's eye lanterns with reg-i ular lenses and reflectors. The lenses gather the rays and the reflectors throw them out again. There is a layer of phosphorescent cells between the two. and the entire effect is as perfect as if made by some skillful optician. Many other fish have “reflectors.” many have “lenses,” but the “midshipmite” is the only kind that has such splendid specimens of both. The fish is so constructed that when it is frightened by some devouring sea monster it can close its lenses and hide itself in the darkness. It can turn its lantern off and on at will, and then it is always “filled” and ready when wanted. Another marine animal has a luminous bulb that hangs from its chin, and thus throws the light before it to warn it of the approach of enemies. Still another upholds a big light from the extremity of the dorsal fin. Others again have constant supplies of a luminous oil that runs down their sides from the fins, making a bright and constant light all around. Most of the jelly-fish are phosphorescent. The:e live far down on the very floor of the ocean, where it is always dark and gloomy. The dwellers in ’ these watery depths are provided with lights of their own shining bodies and fins, which illumine their home with a strange though no doubt cheerful glare.

Scarcity of Walnut Timber.

There is a steady demand for walnut timber, and purchasers are scouring the Atlantic coast region in search of large trees. While metallic coffins, usually called caskets by the undertakers, have displaced walnut coffins, the wood is increasingly applied to other uses. The trees are scarce in most parts of the East, and many are jealousy guarded against ax and saw.

Live Rattlesnakes for Sale.

Live rattlesnakes are sold for $1 a. snake by peddlers in the streets of Southern California towns. Buyers are found among persons who want to tan the hides for various uses, and each buyer can kill his snakes in the manner that he regards most conducive to the preservation of the skins’ colors.

How the World Wags.

Martin Coyne, a hotel bootblack of Boston, has fallen heir to $4,000 by the death of a New York uncle. A mimic battle between British marines and sailors at Halifax, N. S., was witnessed by 10*000 persons. Horace Hill, arrested for the murder of Anna Wiese at Marshaltown, la., was discharged from custody. A San Francisco company has contracted with Chinese brokers for 30,000 coolies, who will be sent to Central and South America. The storehouse and hackle department of the cable flax mills at Schaghticoke, N. Y., were burned. Loss, $60,000: well insured. Mortgages aggregating $629,000, given by W. C. and N. T. Depauw and the Depauw Plate Glass Company, were recorded at Louisville. C. H. Devore, an oil well driller, was robbed at Parkersburg, W. Va,, and placed on a railway track. One hand was cut off by a train. A city council investigating ' committee severely arraigned officials of the South Boston House of Correction for abuse of the prisoners.