Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — Page 2

®ljfJsewotr«ticSciitincl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. Vi. McEWEN, ... Put.usheh.

ANOTHER EMBEZZLER

CARNIVAL OF THIEVERY IN CHICAGO’S CITY HALL. Pitiful Tale of a Teacher and a PupilAlien t the New Tariff Bill—Boy's Foolishness Cost His Employer 810,000 — Another Lynching. Nagl In Disgrace. Tuesday developed sensation at the Chicago city hall In the way of embezzlement by a city official This time Julius Nagl a brother of the Superintendent of the West Chicago Street Railway Company, Is the dishonest man. The amount of which the city was robbed by him Is believed to be less than 1600. The defalcation was made known to Charles Nagl about weeks ago and the matter was “squared” without prosecution by the embezzler’s brother coming forward with a check for sssl and leaving word that if further deficits were discovered he should be informed at once In order that be might make them good. All this was done without the authority of the Mayor, the Superintendent of the Water Department or the Commissioner of Public Works, so far as is now known, The development of Nagl’s 1 embezzlement, coming on the heels of the discovery of Connors' dlshi nestv. it is said, will be the cause of a thorough Investigation of all departments of the city government with a view of determining just how much crookedness is iu progress or has been completed.

CAUCUS MEN ARE DEFEATED. Tariff Bill to Go to House as Soon as Finished. Washington dispatch: The new tariff bill, which is being formulated by the Ways and Means Committee, is attracting the attention of the Democrats with a force second only 16 the interest formerly taken In the repeal bill. Many Democrats —ln fact, the majority—desire that before the bill is introduced it should be submitted to a party caucus. The result of such a step Is not a puzzle. Once before the caucus, the bill would emerge, but hacked and hewn beyond recognition and In a hopeless condition. Therefore, Messrs, liland, Culbertson and others bitterly oppose the caucus until the bill has been Introduced. The bill under a new rule may be Introduced before the session opens. That Is, It may be given to the clerk and printed. This will probably be done to give the Xtepubllcans ten days to prepare a minority report and also save as much time as possible. The bill is rapidly nearing completion and several subcommittees have about finished their work, but so far all details have been kept as secrets. As soon as all the sub-committee work is done the various divisions will be reviewed as a whole by the Democratic wing of the committee.

ARMS FOR RIFF TRIBES. Moorish Agent in New York Claims to Have Shipped 8,000 Repeating Rifles. Hassan Ben All, now In New York City, says he is buying arm 3 for the Riff tribes who are fighting the Spaniards about Mellila, Morocco. Ho Is responsible for tho statement that 8,009 repeating rifles have already been placed in the hands of the Moors and were used In the last heated engagement “I have just negotiated for 5.000 more.” said Hassan. “and I will myself superintend their shipment from Boston next week. ” Rifles of tho kind which he says he has already shipped cost at least S2OO apiece, and the purchase he claims Would entail an outlay of $1,000,000. Ben All was In charge of the Moorish‘features In the Midway Plalsance. His statement Is taken with a grain of salt, but it is believed that he has actod to some extent as the Sultan’s agent. Seized a State Building. The Sheriff took possession of the Washington State Building at the World’s Fair grounds Monday. He acted on attachment proceedings brought In the Superior Court, by the Union National Bank to enforce claims for $1,325. The State Commissioners held an account at tho Merchant’s National Bank. Tacoma. They drtw a check for {325 and a draft for SI,OOO on the account. but the bank bad suspended and payment was refused. The Union National Bank of Chicago had cashed the paper, and brings suit to recover the amount advanced.

“Fin Shooting” In Stores. Mrs. Anna Sslnnrton, ot Chicago, has heen awarded SIO,OOO by a New York court for the l<)?s of an eye in the dry-goods store of George Leboutllller. Mrs. Swlnaeton was making a purchase March'l2, 1889. In the store, when she was struck in the eye with a pin shot from a rubber sling by one of the cash boys The plaintiff charged thas, the proprietor of the store knew his cash boys were in the habit of shooting pins about the place, and took no pains to stop the practice. Burned to Death. The district schoolhouse at Coopervlife, two miles from Nunda, Livingston County, N. Y., burned. May Porter, the teacher, and Willard Johnson, a little pupil, burned to death. The teacher batlled heroically with the flames, but it is supposed that her clothing caught fire. The little boy was too small to get out tho window like the others, and perished with his young teacher. Negro Lynched by Negroes. i At Varner, a station on the Iron Mountain Railway, twenty miles south of Pine Bluff. Ark., a negro named Nelson, who a week ago. murdered another negro, was lynched, shot and his body burned by a mob exclusively of colored people, who broke down the jail, hung Nelson to a convenient tree, riddled his body with bullets, and then set fire to it Shot by a Masked Man. Two masked men shot ex-Alderman Geo. Thorpe, a wealthy citizen of El Paso, Tex., Saturday night Licked Up by Flames. Fires: At Regina, N. W. T. Twelve business buildings; loss, $70,003. At Duluth—Howard Lumber Company’s yards; loss, $30,000. At Ashley. Minn.—Seven business buildings; loss. $30,000. At Hamt roond, Ind.—Lewis’ icehouse; loss, SIO,OOO (Incendiary). Queer Sentence for Larceny. David Jennings has pleaded guilty to grand larceny at Richmond, Ind., receiving a sentence of two years in the penitentiary and disfranchisement for three pypF ; Bis Heart Was Literally Broken. > tester & Parker, of Toledo, Ohio, was femt dead at his home with his heart tyfcea. literally as well as figuratively Sptafclßg. for the organ was rent In twain, •ill sadden demise was the culmination of dKWCfaaed brooding over the misdeeds of Ida mm, ft B. Parker. [pppy.: w Small Cotton Crop. Tk* cotton returns of the Department of for the month of November tetfflM* a diminished harvest as compared WMfc tkat of MM. which was smaller than Ms last decade local estimates tmm *»•»'■ oss-fourth to three-foarlbs of

SECURITY OF THE MAILS. Interesting Information In Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell’s Report. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell. In his first annual report, says that during the last fiscal year 1,181 persons were arrested for violations of the postal laws. Of these only 454 were postoffice officials, a small number when compared with the total number of postal officials, which on June 30 last was upward of one hundred and eighty-five thousand. Of the cases determined 380 resulted In conviction and fifty-four in acquittal Fiftyfour accused persons were discharged on preliminary hearing; proceedings were dismls-ed or prosecutions abandoned In twenty-three cases, and In twentyone grand juries refused or failed to Indict Seven of those arrested escaped from custody, five forfeited their bail, aud one,died while awaiting trial There were 228 burglaries of postofflees, against 203 in' tho preceding year. This crime is growing. While the entire number of arrests fell off 225 from the totil number made In tho preceding year, the number of burglars arrested increased twenty-live. During the year there were 5,546 complaints of losses In the mails, of Which one-half were of the rifling of letters or packages and the other half of tho absolute loss of letter or package and contents. In 2,557 cases no loss was found to have occurred and in 1,846 cases the complaiffts’ were well founded. In a largo number of cases the missing articles wore traced and found. In thirty-five complaints It was found that the articles claimed to have been sent had not been mailed at all.

LOSS OF THE ALEXANDRIA. Fifty-six of the Fated Ship's Survivors Reach New York. Tho steamer Seneca, which has arrived In New York from Havana, brings Capt. Hoffman and flfty-slx survivors of tho Illfated steamer City of Alexandria. Five of the ship’s crew were lost and also six colored stevedores. Capt. Hoffman states that they sailed for Matanzas Nov, 1, at 5:30 o'clock p. m, with a strong north northeast wind and rough sea. All went well until about 5:40 o’clock p. m., when an explosion took place. Capt. Hoffman, who was in the cabin, rushed on deck immediately and found a, mass of flames in the hold, fore and uft. All hands were called to quarters, and an attempt made to subdue tho flames. It was soon apparont that the ship was doomed. Five boats were lowered in charge of tho officers, purser and chief engineer. The purser’s boat got entangled In some gear and swamped alongside the steamer. The purser .and four others were lost. Several men were picked up by tho other boats The force of the explosion was so territic that the fore hatch was blown into the water. Some of the colored stevedores were blown overboard with It The steamboat kept going aboad until opm., making some fifteen miles, when tho firemen were compelled to abandon tho fire-room and the steamer was beached on Jurlcka Shoal, thirtaen miles from Havana. The vessel is a total loss.

JEREMIAH RUSK ILL. Ex-Secretary 6T Agriculture Submits to a Critical Operation. Ex-Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah M. Rusk, three times Governor of Wisconsin, and probably the most picturesque politi-

JEREMIAH RUSK.

ter, but General Rusk is said to have passed successfully thoouzh the ordeal and to bo resting quietly. Dr. Hamilton said he believed General Rusk would recover, as he had gained strength since the operation had been performed.

BILL NOT RECOGNIZE MELLO. President Cleveland Declines to Consider Him u Belligerent. Secretary Gresham has received a dispatch from Minister Thompson at Itlo de Janeiro stating that Admiral Mello, the insurgent loader, has asked that the United States recognize his rights as a belligerent. After a conference between Secretary Gresham and the President Minister Thompson was Instructed to say to Admiral Mello that In the opinion of the government he had not been able to establish either a political or military organization which entitled him to the recognition he asked for. and that it would not be granted. Secretary Gresham added that the position of the United States In the present controversy was that of an Impartial observer. Groat Britain, through Its embassador, has urged the United States to exert Its mediating influence between the conflicting elements in Brazil in order to bring to a speedy close the internal strife which has been In progress in that country for some months.

Thrown in a Theater. A dynamite bomb thrown by alleged anarchists Into tho midst of a crowded theater Is the latest outrage and disaster to be recorded In Spain. While the performance was proceeding In Barcelona and the enjoyment was at Its height, two dynamite bombs were suddenly hurled from the topmost gallery Into the midst of the stalls on the floor of the house. One of the dynamite bombs exploded with a terrible report which shook the theater to Its foundations, and which scattered death, wounds and destruction upon all sides Fifteen persons were killed outright and many others injured. Refused One-Half Million. Chicago special: The makers of No-To-Bac, the guaranteed tobacco habit cure, lately refused a syndicate offer of one-half million for their business No-To-Bac Is an absolute guaranteed cure for chewing, snuff-dipping, and cigarette smoking. It Is sold by nearly all the druggists In this country and Canada. Made by the Sterling Remedy Company, Box 21, Indiana Mineral Springs, Ind. . Chicago office, 45 Randolph street They print a book called “Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.» Every tobacco user should read it Mailed for the asking.

Steamer Burlington Is Sunk. The steamer Burlington, with two barges, sprang a leak when ten miles off Sand Beacb, Lake Huron. Sbe was picked up Immediately by the steam barge Tempest, which started to tow her into Sand Beach. The Burlington sank just as she got inside the piers. The Burlington was an old-timer, having been built in 1857, and was owned by C. H. Bradley, of Bay ; Clty. She was valued at 517,003. Steamers Collide. The steamer Thomas H. Smith was sank Sunday morning off Racine by collision with the steel steamer Arthur Orr. The accident took place at 3:30 o’clock in the morning. The crew of the Smith at once took to their boaM and were taken on board the Orr. A dense fog prevailed. The Smith was worth $17,000, on Insured. Crops Fall Below Kzpeetotlona. The returns of the Department of Agriculture for the month of November do not Indicate a high rate of yield, bwt po at rather to a diminished barvaMsaeestparad With that of IMI which was itm sbwa aey

ln the last decade. The causes of the light yield have been heretofore reported, vit, drought, excessive moisture la some sections and the ravages of the Insect enemies of the plant, and some other causes of a minor nature. Local estimates vary In range from one-fourth to three-fourths of a full crop FOUGHT WITH A CRANK. Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland, Resists a Demand for 950,000. A crank attempted to take the life of Myron T. Herrick, Treasurer of the Society for Savings, at Cleveland, and after a terrible fight escaped. He shot once at Herrick, and threatened to blow up the place with dynamite if he was not at once given $50,000 in cash from the vault Herrick seized tho hand that held the revolver and struck the fellow in the face, staggering him. The man recovered In an Instant and they clinched. First one was down and then tho other. . Chairs were overturned, tho table upset and books scattered from one end of the apartment to the other. Finally the intruder seized his revolver, leveled it and fired. The bullet passed through the lower edge of Herrick’s vest on the left side, grazing the skin. One of tho great windows stood slightly open, and the man mounted a chair, just as the clerks and watchman appeared at the door. '1 hero was a rush toward him, but he leaped through the window to tho sidewalk below, startling men who wore working in the street He ran like a deer, waving the smoking pistol, and disappeared as thoroughly as if the earth bad opened and swallowed him.

BUSINESS 18 BETTER. Demand for Manufactured Products Is Increasing. R. G. Dun & Ca’s Weekly Review ol Trade sums up the situation as follows: 'i he turn of the tide has come. Since tho elections there has been a direct improvement In buslne s and particularly in manufacturing. There Is some increase In actual transactions and much of the tone of business. Mon of all parties feel that there is ground for greater confidence, the silver question being put definitely out of the way, and the chance of disturbing action In other respects being lessened, while tho right of tho people to rule their rulers has been vindicated. While It Is yet too early to look for great changes, there is already a distinct improvement In the demand for manufactured products since the action on the silver bill, some Increase In the output of pig Iron and In sales of wool in tho building trades In several cities, and the failures for iho week latest reported show lower liabilities. In brief, the recovery which began when the silver repeal bill passed continues v Ith Increased strength. BIG FIRE AT FORT WAYNE. Academy of Music, Aldlne Hotel, and Gazette Office Burned.

The Academy of Music at Fort Wayne, Ind.. occupied by James Geary’s museum and theater, was entirely destroyed by lire Saturday night. The last of tho audience had just left the house when the fire broke out. The actors had difficulty In saving tlioir property. The Aldlne hotel was burned and the Gazette office so badly damaged that the newspaper will ba Issued from the News office. Tho Academy was built twenty years ago. and for the first ten years was the only theater building in the city until succeeded by the Masonic Temple and since then has been given over to museum purposes, with seating capacity of 1,000. It was owned by Ronald T. McDonald and Judge R. S. Taylor. After u hard struggle the other buildings In tho square were saved, and tho fire was under control at 3 o’clock In the morning. Tho total loss was SIOO,OOO.

cal character in the West,has been dangerously ill at his home near Vlroqua, Wis.. for several days. The members of his family became alarmed and summoned Dr. Hamilton, formerly Surgeon General of tho United States, from Chicago, and after a consultation with local physicians an operation was performed upon tho ex-Secre-tary. It was of a dangerous charac-

Call It a Claim. The committee recently appointed at Indianapolis by the Supremo Lodge of Knights and Ladles of Honor to examine Into the condition of the books of exBupreme Treasurer Mcßride has made a report and finds that a shortago of nearly $16,000 exists. The committee chooses to call it a “claim” against Mcßride, and that It is the result of merely bad bookkeeping. Tho report exonerates E. D. Macbeth, laie cashier for Mcßride, of all responsibility for the shortage. The shortage, according to the hooks of tho order, dates back eight years. Fatally Hurt by a Tame Deer. J. O. McKeehan, aged 70 years, while walking over his farm near Knobnoster, Johnson County, Mo., noticed three deer quietly grazing in his wood pasture. Knowing that they were tame and supposing them harmless, ho was walking by them when he was attacked and thrown down by an old buck, and had several bones broken and was otherwise Injured Internally. He managed to reach the house, hut owing to his advanced years }iis recovery is not as all probable. 1 Chemical Bank Dividend. Comptroller Eckels has ordered the payment on Dec. 1 of a 20 per cent, dividend to the creditors of the Chemical National Bank of Chicago. This payment will dispose of 70 per cent, of tho liabilities, and Is regarded In the Comptroller’s office as a remarkably excellent showing.

Robber Found Dead. The body of the notorious bandit and outlaw, Jasper Gordon, was found hanging to a tree near Liltle Rock, Ark. His body was riddled with bullets. It was generally believed that he was one of tho Iron Mountain train robbers. Mine Strike in Parliament. Samuel Woods, member of the House of Commons from tho Ince Division of Lancashire, has moved the adjournment of the House for the purpose-of calling attention to the case of the striking coalminers

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 50 ® 6 oo Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 @ 6 25 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 25 @ 3 50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 62)4@ 63)4 COHN—No. 2 39 @ 40 * Oats—No. 2 29 @ 31 RYE—No. 2 46 ® 48 Butter—Choice Creamery 27?4@ 28'4 Egos—Fresh 20 ® 21 Potatoes—Per bu so ® go INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 00 @525 Hogs—Choloe Light 400 @ 6 25 Sheep—Common to Prime 2 oo @3 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 57 @ 5714 Cohn—No. 2 White 38 @ 88)4 Oats—No. 2 White 30!j@ 3114 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 oo @ 5 50 Hogs 4 oo & c oo Wheat—No. 2 Red 58 @ 59 Corn—No. 2 34 @ ss Oats—No. 2. 27 @ 28 Rye-No. 2. 44 @ 45 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 oo @ 5 00 HOGB 3 00 @ 6 50 Sheep 2co @ 3 oo Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ 5954 Corn—No. 2 39 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 30)4@ 3114 Rye—No. 2 62 ® 53 DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 75 Hogs 3 oo @ 6 25 Sheep 200 @ 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 @ 62 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 38i4@ 3954 Oats—No. 2 White 3114® 32)4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 @ 62 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 39 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 White 29 @ 31 Bye—No. 2. 49 & 61 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 67 @ 68 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 43 ® 44 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ 85 Rye—No. 2..; 62 @ 54 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 57 @ 68 Corn—No. 3 37 @ 89 Oats—No. 2 White 29 @ 31 Rye—No. 1 46 @ 48 BaBLEY—No. 2 52 @ 63 Poke—New Mess 15 25 @ls 75 NEW YORK. Cattle 300 @ 625 Hoos 3 75 @ 660 Sheep a 25 @ 3so Wheat—No. a Red 67 @ 68 Co**—No. 2 46)4® 47)4 Oatw—Mixed Western 35 @ 96 Rt-TTEE—Creamery 28 @ 29 max New Mess u 35 @l9 »

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

BACK TO HER THRONE

QUEEN LILIUOKALANI TO L„ nESTORED. Au Examination of the Case Has Convinced Secretary Gresham that a Wrong Was Committed the Queen of tho Sandwich Islands. Says ’Twas a Conspiracy. Queen Liliuokalani will bo restored to her throne in Hawaii, if she has not been restored ere this. P riday afternoon President Cleveland s Cabinent held an unusually long session, and as a result of the discussion it was decided to give to the Dress the recommendation made by : Secretary Giesham in the Hawaiian matter to the President. Minister Willisiamved in Honolulu on Monday last, it ,g supposed, and as ho had in his pcc ket instructions in conformity with tie lecommehdations of Secretary Gres! tain, which have been approved by thf President, it is probable, says a Was linglon correspondent, that by this ,ime the provisional Sovernmeni hai been deposed and the lueen has reas sorted authority over the islands. At first other I lembers of tho Cabinet opposed this nethod of settlement. They declared lie restoration of the Queen would be unpopular, and that it would be an unf irtunate thing for the administration f it adopted this policy. But grad lally the Secretary’s presentations of tho question won over not only the o her members of tho

SECRETARY ARY GRESHAM.

Cabinet but the President himself. Tho Secretary’s letter is based upon ; what he describes as ’‘the full and imj partial report” (submitted by J. H. ; Blount, Cleveland's special commis- ' sioner to the Hawaiian Islands. Secrej tary Gresham declares that the follow- ; ing facts aro established: Queen Liliuokalani announced her Intention Saturday, Jan. 14, lull), to proclaim a new constitution, but the opposition of her ministers induced her to change her purpose. At a meet- ; lng In Honolulu late the afternoon of that day a so-called committee of public safety, consisting of thirteen men, a majority of whom, Including five Americans, were aliens, was appointed "To consider the situation and devise ways and means fori the mcintenance of the puhlio peace and tile protection of life and property." This coiinuttee met the 16th or the forenoon ■ f the loth and resolved among other things that a provisional government be created, “To exist uqtil terms of union with the • United States of America have been negotiated | and agreed upon." u'he committee addressed | a letter to John I). Stevens, the American j Minister at Honolulu, stating that the lives and property of the people were In peril, and appealing to him and the United States forces at his command for assistance. On receipt of this letter Mr. Stevens requested Capt. Wilts, commander of the United States steamship Boston, to land a forte. The well-armed troops were promptly landed and marohed through the quiet streets of Honolulu with two Gatling guns to a public hall, just across the Btreet from the Government building and in plain view of the Queen’s palace, j The Protest Was Prompt and Vigorous. The governor protested against the act as an ! unwarranted Invasion of Hawaiian soil and reminding him that the proper authoilties had never denied permission to the naval forces of the United States to land for drill or any other proper purpose. About the same time the queen’s minister of foreign affairs sent a note to Mr. StevenH asking why the troops had been landed, and informing him, that the proper authorities were able and willing to afford full protection to the American Legation and all American interests in Honolulu. Only evasive | replies were sent to these communication^. I Then the committeo entered the government building after first ascertaining that it was unguarded, and one of their number, a citizen of the United States, read a proclamation declaring that the existing government was overthrown and aprovisional government established in its place to exist until terms of union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon." No audience was present when the proclamation was read, but during the reading forty or fifty men, some of them indifferently armed, entered the room. The executive and advisory councils, mentioned in the proclamation, at onco addressed a communication to Mr. Stevens. informing him that the monarchy had been abrogated and a provisional government established. On receipt of this letter Mr. Stevens immediately recognized the new government, and In a note addressed to Sanford B. Dole, its president, informing him th it he had done so. The Queen was informed that the provisional government had the support of the American minister, and. if necessary, would be maintained by the military force of the United States. | Secretary Gresham concludes: The earnest appeal to the American minister for military- protection by the officers of the provisional government after it had been advanced shows the utter absurdity of the claim I that It was established by a successful revolu- | tion of the people. The government of Hawaii surrendered its | authority under a threat of war until such time only as the Government of the United States, upon the fact being presented to it, should reinstate the constitutional sovereign and the provisional government was created "to exist until the terms of union with the United Stat -s of America has been negotiated and agreed upon.” A careful consiueration of the acts will, I think, convince anyone that the treaty which was withdrawn from the Senate for further consideration should not be resubmitted for action. Our Government was the first to recognize the Independence of the islands and should be the last to assume sovereignty over them by force and fraud. • .

Stevens Is Surprised. Augusta, Me., dispatch: John L. Stevens, late United States Minister to the Hawaiian Islands, was shown the

press dispatch announcing the report of SecretarvGresham to the President upon the affairs connected with -the Hawaiian revolution. Mr. Stevens read it carefully and said: “The posi•tion to which Secretary Gresham has iseen fit to commit himself is so extraor-

JOHN L STEVENS.

dinary, so void of a real foundation of truth, so calumnious of the living and the dead, that I have no extended reply to make at this time. I prefer to let time and events and history decide as to the issue the Secretary has raised against the Provisional Government and the aspersions he sees lit to cast on the deceased Captain of the Boston, the officers under his command, and myself. The way the United States Minister and the officers of the Boston discharged their responsibilities at Honolulu in January was more than covered by Secretary Bayard’s instructions, approved by President Cleveland, of July 12,1887." Sure to Result in Bloodshed. Indianapolis dispatch: When the news of the action of the Cleveland Cabinet in reference to Hawaii was carried to General Harrison to-night he was inclined to doubt it, and said he did not think the President would announce a policy, except in a message to Congress. “But in any event, whether or not,” he said, “I do not want to comment on Mr. Cleveland's acts.” General Harrison continued: “The Queen can-

not resume her throne, I believe, without bloodshed, and it remains now to see whether the United States service will be used to establish her in power again. The question of annexation is one of deep interest to America, and will be handled, I have no doubt, by the newspapers and the people in a patriotic manner.”

HARD TO EXPLAIN.

Results of the Election a Surprise to Washington Politicians. Washington dispatch: The result of the election was received with surprise by all political parties here. The unexpected happened in so many instances that in no case were the predictions of Democrats, Republicans, or Populists fully verified. The chief surprise of the Democrates arises, not from the fact that they were defeated, but that the defeat was so general in all doubtful States and the Republican majorities so overwhelming. Expressions from nearly all the prominent Democratic leaders at the capital several days before election showed that the Democrat) were preparing for defeat in those States where the free coinage element is strong and the disappointment over the passage of the repeal bill intense, but it was hardly expected that in the “sound money” States of New Yorkand Massachusetts the Democratic majorities of the past would be so ruthlessly mowed down and the careful efforts oi perfect organization avail so little. Despite this all the prominent Democratic leaders unite in ascribing the general defeat throughout the country to two causes. The dissatisfaction of the agricultural elements over the financial question and the widespread apathy of disappointed office-seekers who have failed to realize the fruits of the last Democratic victory. In lowa the defeat of Boies is important, not in that it means a Republican Governor in that State and a Republican United States Senator next winter, but that it practically removes Boies from the list of Western candidates for the Presidency in ’96. The President did not show that intense interest in the returns that would have indicated a confidence in Democratic victory. Early in the evening the President went to his country home instead of remaining at the Executive Mansion, as is usual on election nights, and the returns he received were only those of suff cient importance to be telephoned out to Woodley by Private Secretary Thurber as the latter received them from the telegraph wire at the White House. Gov. Boies Is lie signed. A dispatch from Waterloo, la., Governor Boies’ home, says: Governor Boies takes his defeat philosophically. On account of his illness he was notapprised of the result until next morning. The Governor manifested no surprise, and said that personally he had no feeling of regret, though for his party he had hoped for a different result.

CARTER HARRISON’S ASSASSIN.

His Trial Will Come Off During tlie Bast Week of November. Eugene Joseph Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has been very quiet, except for the first few days, since his arrest, and has refused to answer any questions. Instead of being the criminal hero he expected to become he finds he is despised by all. The prisoners, his fellows, have been outspoken in their denunciations of him, and he knows their sentiments well. This general feeling of abhorrence had its effect on Prendergast, and after a few days’ incarceration he lost much of the fierce look and speech of madness which he betrayed on his arrest. When the physicians appeared to make an examination of him the other day he was perfectly quiet, and refused to speak further than to answer necessary questions. He was subjected to a most elaborate physical examination. His head and body were measured, his eyesight tested, and his heart and lungs sounded. The physicians at the end refused to give the results until they had consulted together. And, in anv case, they said, the trial was the only proper time for them to speak. Prendergast was brought before Judge Dunne for examination. His lawyers asked for thirty days’ postponement in which they might call witnesses from a distance. The case was set for Nov. 27. This proved satisfactory, and Prendergast was taken back to his cell. The defense will be insanity, and the prosecution will endeavor to prove that Prendergast is not insane.

Telegraphic Clicks.

Comptroller Eckels has authorized the National Bank of South Pennsylvania at Hyndman, Pa., to reopen for business. Frederick P. Young, formerly of Springfield, Mo., confessed at Denver, Col., that he had been a thief for twenty years. At Buck Creek, Ind., Edward Cool ended a carousal by shooting Luke Lowe and Obadiah Haller and cutting his own throat. J. K. Payne, who had informed on a number of illicit distillers in Winston County, Alabama, was riddled with bullets by unknown men. Twelve highwaymen who robbed a mail coach and plundered the passengers near Rome were surprised in a farm-house and captured. George C. Lesquereux, son of the well-known geologist, was arrested at Columbus, Ohio, for concealing in his house goods stolen from freight cars. Capt. “Jack" Adams, Commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., who has been seriously ill in Chicago for several weeks, has arrived at his home in Lynn, Mass. The annual report of the Mississippi River Commission contains estimates aggregating $4,420,0C0 for carrying on the works under its charge for the fiscal year 1695. Clark K. Royce, ex-Treasurer of the Veterans’ Home Association of California, was sentenced to seven years in the State prison at San Francisco for embezzlement.

The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided that the elders were the constituted authority to employ a pastor. The case was that of the Christian Church at Neiper, Mo. Henry Kunkle, residing at Camden, Pa., quarreled with his wife at breakfast and shot himself through the head. His father killed himself in the same manner eight years ago. The store of Sam Harris, the largest retail furniture dealer in Pittsburg, Kas., was closed by creditors. An indiscriminate credit business and poor collections are the cause. Liabilities, $30,000. The Slow Waiter (who has been tardily delivering dinner to a guest) —“l’m afraid I. can’t give you any watermelon, sir. Those we got ain’t ripe.” The Guest—“ Never mind. It’ll be ripe by the time get you here.”—Chicago Record. McSwatters—“You say that he’s no poet; how do you know?” McSwifcters—“Why, man, he can’t get his poems published anywhere but in the magazines!*—Syracuse Journal.

BOMBS IN A THEATER.

DASTARDLY ANARCHIST OUTRAGE AT BARCELONA. Infernal Machines Thrown from the Gallery Into the Midst of the Large and . Fashionable Audience Fifteen Persons Killed—Wild Struggle to Escape. Deed of a Dastard. A dynamite bomb thrown by alleged anarchists into the midst of a crowded theater is the latest outrage and disaster to be recorded in Spain. The Liceo Theater, cn the Eambla de Capuchines, the Italian opera house, in Barcelona, was filled the other night with an audience estimated to have numbered about 4,000 people. The opera “William Tell” was being performed for the first time after a long interval. While the performance was proceeding two dynamite bombs were suddenly hurled from the topmost gallery into the midit of the stalls on the floor of the house. One of the bembs exploded with a terrible report, which shook the theater to its foundations and scattering death and destruction upon all sides. The second bomb, happily, did not explode, having fallen in the lap of a lady. For a moment the Liceo was filled with smoke and dust, falling glass, and plaster, which caused a horrible rattling din, which increased the feeling of terror and wild panic which animated the vast audience. The terrified crowd, fearing that at any moment another bomb might be thrown into their midst* completely lost all sense of control; all regard for women and children seemed to vanish, and there was a mad rush for the doors. Men and women fought with each other as they crushed weaker ones beneath their feet in the effort to escape from the dynamite shaken theater, leaving the wounded and dying behind them, tended < nly by a few of the braver heads, who remained faithful to their dear ones. In this mad rush many old people and children were severely injured through being trampled under foot, while others were severely bruised and crushed by the crowd. Tho stalls presented a terrible sight; the part where tho bomb exploded was a mass of splintered wreckage.

Fifteen Dead Bodies Found. When the wreckage was in some degree cleared away there were found fifteen dead bodies, of which six were those cf men and nine the corpses of women. The bodies of the unfortunate ladies lay close together, their brightcolored evening dresses, laces and jewelry, gloves, hats and other finery drenched with blood and torn in the the most fearful manner. It is reported, soon after the examination of the dead, that a largo proportion of the killed belonged to one family who had taken a number of tickets, it is presumed forming a theaterparty in henor of the birthday of one of those lying there shattered to death by the anarchist's bomb. The stairs and corridors were next searched for dead and wounded people who fell victims to that terrible rush for the doors which followed the explosion. Upon the stairs and in.the corridors three persons were found dead and a large number of seriously injured people were picked up. Throughout the night the theater was surrounded by a crowd of people who were with difficulty kept back by a strong body of police. Immediately after the explosion all the houses inhabited by suspected anarchists were searched and several arrests made. Gen. Campos, soon as he was informed of the outrage, immediately wired to Madrid, and government messages monopolized the wires for the remainder of the night. Among the dead is an American named Figueras.

BODIES WERE MUTILATED.

Belief that the Crews of the Wrecked I Steamers Were Run Down by Some Boat. Owing to mutilation of many of the bodies from the Philadelphia-Albany collision on Lake Huron it is now believed that the yawl containing twen-ty-four members of the combined crews was lun into by seme pa sing steamer. No sea was running from the time (he lifeboats left the sinking Philadelphia until it was picked up by the life-sav-ing crew from Point aux Barques station, and yet the .-kails of some of the victims are crushod and all are more or less bruited. | The Albany was bound from Chicago ' to Buffalo, and the Philadelphia from Erie to Duluth. Both were running under check on account of the dense fog hanging on the water. Fog signals were being exchanged i egularly with their whistles as the stet mers felt their way through the fogbanks. When the boat 3 came together the sharp iron prow of the Philadelphia struck the Albany forward of the second gangway, or about one-third the way back from the bow. The Philadelph.a cut in nearly five feet and then hung there. The lake was nearly quiet, only a slight swell from the recent gale running. Capt. Angus McDonald at once realized that his ship had received a mortal blow and requested Capt. A. E. Huff to have the Philadelphia take the Albany in tow, with the hope of beaching the steamer or at least reaching shallow water, where the wreck might he raised. This was done and the Philadelphia startod for the shore, which was some ten miles distant/ Water poured so fast through the break in the Albany's steel plates that after some ten minutes Capt. McDonald ordered his men to abandon the ship, and they were all safely taken on board the Philadelphia. Up to that time Capt. McDonald supposed that the Philadelphia was not seriously damaged, as she had struck - his steamer head on. The Philadelphia continued to drag the sinking Albany shoreward, but half an hour after the collision the Albany reeled and then went to the bottom bow first. By this time the Philadelphia was seen to he in the greatest peril, and the two lifeboats were launched. The crews were evenly divided between them, the two captains going in one with most of the officers, while to the other were allotted most of the common seamen. The two boats pulled away from the sinking steamer a few minutes before she followed the Albany.

Notes of Current Events.

The bodies of two unknown men who had been murdered were found near Pawnee, O. T. Several passengers were slightly injured and Fireman Avery killed by the wreck of a train at York, Ala. Owing to a dispute about unpaid taxes the University of Minnesota is offered for sale to the highest bidder. Daniel Weymouth, while out on a frolic a t Civalburg, Ala., fell into a coke furnace and was burned to dee tb Over 500 witnesses have been examined by the grand jury at Washington, Ind., in connection with the murder of the Wrattens. Milton Ferrand and Benton Kent broke up a religious meeting at Willow Grove, 0.. and stabbed Benton King to death and fatally assaulted Ike Norton. The assassins escaped.

SIR JOHN ABBOTT.

The Venerable Ex-Premier of Canada Dcceased. Hon. John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, ex-Premier of Canada and a leading authority on commercial law, who died recently at Montreal, was aged 82 years. He was a native of St. Andrews. Quebec, and after gaining a reputation as a lawyer was chosen to represent Argenteil in the Assembly of United Canada. He continued in office after confederation In/1867,

THE LATE SIB JOHN ABBOTT.

but after the Canadian Pacific scandal retired to private life in 1873, reentering Parliament in 1880. In 1887 Sir John Macdonald invited him to join the cabinet as a minister without portfolio. The Governor General, in 1891, after Macdonald’s death, called upon him to form a ministry, and he therefore became premier. He drafted the insolvency act of 1864 and several other important bills, and was regarded as one of the most skillful lawyers and statesmen to Canada

A PECULIAR BIRD.

The Ryre-Ta lied Goatsucker, a Native o\ Colombia. The lyre tailed goatsucker,a branch sf the order Passeres, is a native ol Colombia, and is notable for the ex-

LYRE-TAILED GOATSUCKER.

with the exception of a few chestnut spots scattered irregularly upon their necks. The goatsuckers, so called ou account of the belief that they suck the mammae of goats, are found in all parts of the world, but more abundantly in South America. They hide by day, but toward sunset they pursue their insect prey. They build no nests, but deposit their eggs on the bare ground or on slight concavities. There are numerous kinds of goatsuckers, the one of which we print an illustration being the most remarkable.

A MOTLEY CROWD.

The SoiiepDre Fair, India, One of the Piet* uresque Sights. One of the most marvelous sights in India is the Sonepore Fair, held at Bengal each fall. The fair lasts a week, and perhaps during that time there assembles the most varied and picturesque crowd seen anywhere on earth, with the possible exception of the traders at the great annual mart of Nijni Novgorod, Russia. Thereare thousands of horses and ponies collected for sale, hundreds of ele-

A PANIC AT AN INDIAN FAIR.

phants, camels, rhinoceroses, tigers and every animal procurable in India. The fair teems with devotees, sightseekers, fakirs, mendicants and merchants until it is packed into a hotbed of disease. In such a motley collection of men and animals are of hourly occurrence and fatalities are frequent. Often an elephant breaks loose and, getting scared, commits great ravages down the, tightly packed streets and by-ways between the bazar booths, trampling people to death. At the close of the fair comes bathing day. Then hundreds of thousands of devout Hindoos flock to Sonepore to wash away the sins of the year by bathing in the sacred waters of the Ganges.

England has no monopoly of “grand old men.” Good and great Marshal Canrobert, kneeling in the Chapel of the Invalides, when his fellow veteran MacMahon was brought home to his last rest under the same roof with Napoleon, furnished a splendid example of endurance amid the world’s rough usage. Canrobert is eight-four, and the last of the French Marshals. He has seen his fellow campaigners in Algeria and those by whom he fought side by side at Magenta and Solferino depart one by one; yet he lingers, as if unwilling to surrender the baton which represents such historic memories.

I’eople should never go in the early morning to get boots and shoes fitted. In the latter part of the day the feet are at their maximum size. Activity and standing tend to enlarge the feet. If people .would remember this rule there would not be so many complaints of shoes when .worn being tight which, when fitted, seemed so comfortable.

traordinary development oi. the outer tail feathers. A 1 - though the bird is by no means large, the total len gt h of an adult male lyre.tailed goatsucker is nearly three feet. The treneral color of this species is the mottled dark and light brown which is universal among the goatsuckers, but is diversified by a band round the neck of rich chestnut. The primaries are nearly black,