Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Page 2

Slje JBcntorraticScnliiifl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. JCcEWEN, ... PunJKHBt

CASH OUT OF SIGHT.

ROTTEN CONDITION OF AN INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Three Killed end Cremated In a Rock Island Wreck Leavenworth'* Bridge Opened—Nearly Successful Plot Against the Csar’s Life—Short Texas Pastures. Looted and Wrecked. At the Instance of the present Board of Directors of the National Building, Loan and Investment Company, headquarters at Chicago, an investigation Into the affairs of that concern has been made and a report submitted to State Auditor Gore. According to this report the sum of 175,000 has been loaned on worthless securities, and peculiar business methods generally prevailed among the former officers of the company, some of whom have resigned. The National Building, Loan and Investment Society was Incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois In 1890 with a capital stock of *18,000.000. The offices of the society are at present on the fifth floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The concern has not done such an extensive business as the American, yet it would have been exceedingly prosperous but for the manipulations of directors. Last year O. G Kneale, who was a director of the American Building, Loan, and Investment Society In Its earliest days, got his grip on the National. His partner, William Smith, has disappeared, but the State Auditor hopes to find him and get back the money said to have been loaned on unimproved property. BURNED IN A WRECK. Shocking F»tj Befalls Three Men on a Rock Island Freight. Under the ashes and twisted Iron of what had been a passenger coach, a caboose and two freight cars, a wrecking crow found a few handfuls of human tones and the battered cases and wrecked works of two gold watches. Not a partlclo of flesh, not a shred of clothing, not another trinket of any kind was found to Identify the bones of those who perished pitifully In a collision and wreck closely followed by fire near Ltnwood. twonty-seven miles west of Kansas City, on the Union Pacific, at 5:30 Tuesday morning. One man Is known certainly to have perished In the wreck—J. H. Atwood, conductor of one of the trains, who met his death while bravely trying to warn his passengers of the danger. Two other men, stockmen, are missing and are believed to have perished, but this will not be definitely known until the Union Pacific surgeon has made a thorough examination of the few bones recovered from the ashes of the burned car. POISON IN THE FISH. Attempt Made on the Czar's Life at a Banquet. a On the 124th anniversary of the found-*, lag of the Imperial Order of St. George a grand dinner was recently given at Cracow, Poland, to all those who had been awarded the decoratjon. The Czar as the head of the order was present and partook of the banquet. The first course was but half consumed, and the Czar ordered that what was left be sent to the Nicholas Orphan Asylum, wfiere tho children also ate of the food. Later in the evening the the guests at the banquet, and the orphans were all taken sick, and an investigation revealed the fact that tho fish had been poisoned. The .sickness In the orphan asylum was officially attributed to cholera. NO GRAIN IN TEXAS. Stockmen Made Desperate by the Scarcity of Feed and Water. A dispatch from Fort Stockton, Texas, Bays conservative men estimate that 50 per cent of the sheep in that section will die the present winter, for there Is nothing for them to eat except dead grass. There is some water, but cowmen are fencing and guarding It The grass has been killed by the frost. The sheep men are moving their herds toward Mexico, and the cow men swear they will die be/ore the sheep will go over their range* Both •ides are armed and ready to shoot.

Across the Missouri. ' The new steel drawbridge which crosses the Missouri at Leavenworth, and which •was built at a cost of about 81,000,000, was opened Tuesday with Imposing ceremonies. The strength of the bridge having been tested In the presence of the public by having ten large locomotives on It at one time, a train of 100 cars entered Leavenworth over the new bridge, loaded with wheat, lumber, Iron, hogs and cattle, for Leavenworth mills, factories and packing houses, the value of the goods being more than 8100,000. Watch Company Falls. At Columbus, Ohio, the Columbus Watch Company’s property has been placed In the hands of Philip H. Bruck as receiver, upon the application of G T" Pfaff and Louis Unden berg, who say they are sureties upon about $60,000 of obligations the company must soon meet and it has no funds to meet them with, Ihe total assets of the concern are about $400,000; liabilities, •250,000. Burglars Burn an Old Man’s Feet. At Kenton, Ohio, burglars entered Solomon Pollard’s residence, tied him and his wife, ransacked the house and secured about 8100 In money and valuables. They tortured the old man by burning his feet with hot irons to make him tell where his money was secreted. His injuries are serious. i To Foreclose a 850,000 Mortgage. At Portland, Oregon, the Scottish-Ameri-can Investment Company brought suit against the Portland Industrial Exposition Company to foreclose a mortgage ol *BO,OOO. Thrown and Killed at East St. Louis. Boy Lowry, an exercise boy, was thrown from a horse at the East St. Louis race track and fatally lnjnred, his neck being broken. He died shortly after the accident occurred. He came a short time ago from Dodge City, Kan., where his parents reside Natural Gas Nearly Burns a Town. Fires nearly destroyed the small town of Bed Key, 'lni, Tuesday morning. The total loss Is estimated at $75,000, about one-third insured. The fire was caused by natural gaa There is no fire department in the town. New Bid for Cherokee Bonds. ( In the matter of the Cherokee bond sale the Impression Is that the Ohaddick option has expired. The bank of deposit was changed by him without authority from the Cherokeea A bid of par and 8100,000 Interest is now In the bands of the chief and will be submitted to. the Legislature, Wife Worth 810. A St Joseph; Mo., man, whose wife was killed by a train, has offered to settle with the railroad ‘ cotripany for 410. He says: •She was a good wife and her cooking could not be equalled In the State, She was worth all of that to me and I think you ought to pay.”

STEAD’S BLUNT WORDS. Cumin red Language Before the Woman’s Club at Chicago Make* a Stir. Woman held their breath and looked at each other with trepidation while such .stinging and plain words as they had never heard before outside of whispers were uttered by William T. Stead And when he said that women of riches and talents who wielded them not In behalf of their less fortunate sisters were more disreputable in the eyes of God than the worst woman of scarlet In. Chicago's vilest street, the startling sudsclty of the statement evoked such a medley of hisses, applause and startling evidences of amazement that for two hours after he left the hall the women were constrained to talk in secret at what he had said While the dazed conditirn into which the London editor’s bluntness had thrown the throng still existed, Mr. Stead went hut. It was said then that If he had not gone just when he did he would have been asked to go, but a little later the women began to Inquire if there were not, perhaps, a little something In wbat he had said after aIL “I do not know how he can be reached, but a man who would wantonly insult the best and purest element of Chicago society as he has done should be compelled to leave the city.” This was the comment of Mrs. W. J. Chalmers In speaking of the address. It was before the representatives of women’s clubs that Mr. Stead appoared in Recital Hall, where women were gathered at the behest of tho Chicago Woman’s Club to confer as to plans to aid the suffering poor women and children of the clly. The hall was filled. Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson presided. MILKED THE COMPANY. Petition for Removal of Northern Pacific Receivers. / Silas W. Pettit, of Philadelphia, General Counsel of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, has filed before Judge Jenkins, In the United States Court at Milwaukee, a petition for the removal of Thomas F. Oakes, Henry G Payne and Henry G Rouse, the receivers of the road, alleging that they are parties to a conspiracy to defraud the company, and that therefore their places should to declared vacant and other persons substituted for them. In support of his petition Mr. Pettit presents detailed statements of the way In which he declares tho Northern Pacific Railway has been robbed and Its directorsenrlched which throw Into the shade any of the achievements of the famous Fisk and Gould manipulation of the Erie Road. Mr. Pettit shows how tho Directors of the rojid, who were all evidently close students of the “Mikado,” took upon themselves the role of “Pooh Bah,” and that, as Directors of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, they bought from themselves miles of branch lines of railway that were absolutely worthless to the Northern Pacific, at a profit to themselves of millions of dollar* Within one year from the time these directors obtained control of the company they had saddled upon It branch lines of road and Increased its bonded obligations over 160,000,000. ' Not one of tho properties so acquired has ever earned the Interest upon Its bonds, and some of them have cost the Northern Pacific Company millions to maintain. The ] etltlon avers that tho stockholders represented by tho board of directors have a rauso of action ngainst the late directors, including Oakos and Ralston, for the various transactions set forth. "t— WILSON BILL TO PASS IN JANUARY. Speaker Crisp Thinks Hard Times Will Then Be Relieved, Speaker Crisp, In an Interview at New York the other day, said ho thought the Wilson bill would pass tho House In January, though there might be some sow amendments. His idea was that tho hard times might bo relieved stmowhat when the Wilson bill became a law. Ho thought the present depression was owing to overspeculation and a general panic to liquidate. “Will not the Wilson bill loavo a deficit of $50,000,000 annually?" he was asked. “It Is Is difficult to tell,” ho replied, “because the matter of a deficit Is merely specillatlve. On the basis of the present Importations into this country It has been calculated that tho deficit will bo about $50,000,000i When the Wilson bill becomes a law the groat reduction In the tariff may increase to a wonderful extont tho Importations and thereby increase tho revenue. The present tariff Is no criterion to judgo the opjratlon of the Wilson bill, because the McKinley tariff Is prohibitive on many articles. Increased Importations will naturally Increase the revenue, though the tariff may bo much lower."

MR. CARNEGIE’S OFFER. He Is Willing to Give 8300,000 to the Poor of Pittsburg, A letter has been received in Pittsburg from Andrew Carnegie, addressed to Robt. Pitcairn, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who Is associated with other prominent citizens on the relief committee to provide work for the unemployed. Mr. Carnegie offered to glvo. If the people of Pittsburg will contribute an equal sum, $5,000 a working day for two months. This means a contribution from Mr Carnegie of nearly $300,000. Mr. Carnegie says: “You know my views about almsgiving, and how often I have written and said that of every thousand dollars spent to-day in socalled charity SOSO of it had better been thrown into the sea. But the business condition In this country, and especially In Pittsburg, creates a temporary emergency In which money can bo beneflcialiy devoted. not to giving alms, but to giving worthy men work who are Idle through no fault of their own.” Knights of Labor Growing. Eeplying to the statements that the report presented at the recent General Assembly of the Knights of Labor show that the order Is rapidly going to pieces, the Executive Board has Issued a statement setting forth that the organization is in a good financial condition, that the membership finished the last fiscal year with a fair Increase and that the personnel of the order Is as good, if not better, than at any time In Its history. Tho development of the organlzaticm. It Is stated, will be vigorously pushed durlDg 1804. Austin’s Mayor May Go to Jail. The Mayor and City Council of Austin, Texas, are in trouble. The district judge recently held an old issue of city bridge bonds illegal. The Council passed an ordinance making an appropriation to pay the Interest on the bonds. They claim they did it to protect the city’s credit, but Indications show that the district judge looks at the matter Id the light of contempt of his ruling, and may send them; to jail Lops Off Mrs. Mary Lease’s Head. Governor Leweillng of Kansas has notified Mrs. Mary Lease that her services were no longer needed as President of the State Board of Charities, apd without ceremony chopped her official head off. The real cause for her removal was her famous interview several weeks since when she declared that all the Populist leaders, from the Governor down, were boodlers and thieves. What Colorado Farmers Want. At the Farmers’ Alliance meeting a| Denver a resolution was adopted asking Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 for the construction of reservoirs and other Internal Improvements' ■ The Wages of Sin, Death. ■ For the second time within two days George W. Leighton, a real estate dealer, who la said to live at Home City, a suburb of Cincinnati, attempted Unsuccessfully to eommlt suicide at Chicago Friday night fly taking poison. Leighton's first attempt

waa made Thursday sight at the Grace Hotel, Clark and Jackson streets, where be was staying. The second attempt was made at the Stafford Hotel Pacific avenue and Van Buren street. Each time Leighton was discovered before It was too late, and restoratives were applied. At the Connty Hospital the physicians said Leighton wonld probably recover. Mr. Leighton Is a prominent citizen of Cincinnati and It is supposed the cause for bis attempt at suicide may be found In dispatches from Cincinnati which announce the prospective Indictment of six prominent men of that city who are charged with fraudulent real-es-tate deals In connection with the Cincinnati Widows’ Home* Among the names mentioned is that of Mr. Leighton. RUN OUT WITH SMALLPOX. Man with the Dt»ni) Driven Into the Streets by Chicago Police. After being run out of \Vest Pullman by the police of that Chicago suburb, and out of Kensington by the police on duty there, after riding on the electric and cable roads from Kensington to Chicago during an hour of the night when traffic Is very heavy; after walking the streets of Chicago all night, G W. Sever walked Into the health department the other morning displaying a well-developed case of smallpox. He Informed the officials there that unless he was given treatment and a place of refuge he should place a card with the word “Smallpox” on bis back and wander about the streets again until he found some one to care for him. Sever was taken Into the private office of the Commissioner of Health, hungry, weary, footsore, and weak from his sickness. The officials sent out for food for him and shut him out from the general throng, after which he was sent to the small-pox hospital. Sever Is 58 years old, with a family In Michigan, and has beon having hard luck since the hard times set In. GUILTY THE VERDICT. Carter Harrison’s Assassin Most Expiate —HU Crime with llla Life. Death is the penalty dereed against Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast for the murder of Carter H. Harrison. Tho last word of awful accusation was uttored by A 8. Trude at noon Friday; an hour later the Judge charged tho jury, and sixty-two minutes after Prendergast’s fata was committed to twelve of his peers a verdict was returned, which read: “We, the Jury, find the defondant, Patrick Eugene Prendergast, guilty of murder. In the manner 4Snd form as charged In the indictment, and we fix his punishment at death. The assasiln did not falter at the announcement of his doom; ho bent his head slightly. and, touched bis forehead with tho tips of the fingers of his right band, then his breast, next his loft and lastly his right shoulder—making the “sign of the cross”—he mumbled the words, “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. ” Later, however, he collapsed completely, and In his cell was overcome by the most abject terror.

OPPOSES THE BOND ISSUE. Grand Master Sovereign Issnes a Highly Sensational Address. General Muster Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, before bo left Philadelphia for bis home In Des Moines, Issued an address to the Knights throughout the country appealing to them to protest against the proposed $200,000,000 government bond Issue. In closing his address Mr. Sovereign says: “I am in receipt of lotters from the cotton regions of the South and from agricultural districts In the West, declaring that tho Issuing of interest-bear-ing bonds by the National Government will bo considered sufficient provocation to Justify a call to arms The Issuing of bonds is an outrago upon a liberty-loving people And should brand with eternal Infamy every name connected with the disreputable transaction.” ANNA WAGNER NOT GUILTY. Such Is the Verdict Rendered by the Indianapolis Jury. . Anna Wagner, whoso trial at Indianapolis has been going on for nearly a month and who was charged with the murder of throo children and the wife of Charles Kooster, bocuuse she was In love with Koester, was acquitted. Tho verdict was greeted with uprourious applause and Anna Wagner, after hearing tho words that set her free, gasped and fell to the floor unconscious and remained In that condition for twenty-five minutes. Anna Wugner was the domestic in the Kooster family and tho method employed by her for causing the death of the Koestcrs, as alleged by the prosecution, was slow poison. California’s Terror Breaks Loose. Chris Evans, of ,Evans und Bontag, notorious outlaws and train-robbers, escaped from the county jail at Fresno, Cal, at 6:30 o’clock Thursday night Mrs. Evans was in jail with her husband, and when a keeper and waiter appeared with a lunch, the bandit and his wife leveled pistols, and compelled him to open tho doors, the waiter also turning to assist the outlaw. Evans met the City Marshal on the way out and shot himthrough the tody. The wound is considered fatal, Evans ran toward a newsboy with a horse and cart, chased tho hoy out jumped into the vehlclo and drove rapidly northward. It is supposed he was met by friends at tho outskirts and helped on his way to freedom. Mrs. Evans remained in the jalL New Mayor Sworn In. In the presenco of a brilliant assemblage which filled the council chamber to Its extreme capacity, John P. Hopkins was formally inducted into the office of Mayor of Chicago Wednesday n.^ht

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 50 @ 600 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 @ 6 60 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 25 <3 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red <so @ 61 COHN—No. 2 34 @ 3J Oats—No. 2 29 <3 30 Rye—No. 2 ; 45 @ 46 Butter—Choice Creamery 26)4@ 27)4 Eggs—Fresh 22 <3 23 Potatoes—Per bu 50 @ eo INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 00 <a 5 25 HOOS'-Choioe Light 3 00 <3 5 60 Sheep—Common to Prime 2 to <3 3 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 66 <3 67 Corn—No. 2 White 35 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 White 31 <3 32 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 co @ 5 00 Hogs 300 <3 5 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 (3 68 Cobn-No. 2 34 @ 344 Oats—No. 2 18 (3 29 Pork—Mess 13 2J @l3 75 CINCINNATI. Cattle 300 @ 5 00 Sheep.. . 2 00 <3375 Wheat—No. 2 Red 68H@ 69)4 Corn—No. 2 so)4@ 3714 Cats-No. 2 Mixed so <3 31 IIYE—No. 2 52 @ 64 DETROIT. Cattle . 3 00 ® 4 75 Hogs 8 00 a 6 60 SHEEP... , 200 @3 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red eo (3 61 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 38 @ 39 Oats—No. 2 White... siu@ 32 „ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 60 @ 61 Corn—No. 3 Yellow 3c @ 37 Oats—No. 2 White 29 t 3 29*4 Rye—No. 2 , 50 @ 5214 „ „ BUFFALO. * Beep Cattle—Good to Prime. 260 @5 25 hogs—Mixed Packers 4 00 (3 560 , Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1 71 @ 72 No. 2 Red 62)4(3 63)4 _ , , MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 0 Spring 68 @ 69 Corn—No. 3. 34 @ 34)4 Oats—No. 2 White 29 <3 30 Rye-No. 1 47)4(3 48)4 Barley-No. 2 is a 50 Pork—Mess 12 26 @l2 76 „ NEW YORK. Cattle... 300 @550 Hogs 3 7) <3 ft 00 SHEEP.. 2 26 @3 26 Wheat—No. 2 Red 66)4@ 67W cobn-no. 2. s.® jr* Oats—White Western 85 @ 40 Buttkb—Choice:'. 25 @ 28 Pobx—New Mess 13 79 @l4 u

REPORT ON HAWAII.

MINORITY CHARGES VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. The Republican Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee Say President Cleveland Overstepped His Powers Tariff Will Precede Other Legislation. Unworthy the Nation. Washington correspondence: The minority report cn the resolutions presented by Chairman McCreary on the day Congress adjourned as a substitute for the Hitt resolutions has been finished. It was prepared by Mr. Storer of Ohio, and isgigned by Messrs. Hitt, Harmer, Blair, Draper, and Van Vorhis of New York. It is very voluminous, and goes in detail into the whole history of Mr. Blount's appointment as commissioner paramount and tho churse of the administration, it reads in part: When President Cleveland was inaugnra’ed. March 4. lsox. the Hawallans were under the control of a republican goveri ment recognized, »ot only Dy the United States but by every civilized nation. This government was in name provisional, but was, in fact, to rtirnin In existence for an Indefinite period, until the time when terms of union with the United States shou’d hive been agreed npon. The Minister Plenipotentiary of the Un ted States to Hawaii was In person at his post and the Senate of the United Mates was in session. The President sent to the Senate the name of Mr. Gresham as Secietsrv of State, and that body, March 5, confirmed the appointu ent* It wrs at that t Ime publicly stated, though as yet not officially known, that James M. Blount started fio:u Washington March 7 on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands with verbal secret Instructions from tho President. If this be trne, his snbscquent written Instructions, not made public until November last, must have been forwarded to Mr. Blount after his departure from Washington. aB they bear date March 11. The treaty sent to the Senate by the outgoing administration Feb. 14, was withdrawn bv the President March it, between the time of Mr. Blount’s departure and the date of his wrltt n Instructions. Then follow copies oT the instructions to Mr. Blount, with Mr. Cleveland s greeting to President Dole. Tho narrative then proceeds to re ate Mr. Blount's action in hauling down the American flag and the investigation which he made. It then discuses at length tho President s power to appoint a diplomatic officer arme 1 with powers given to Mr. Blount without the consent of tho Senate. The report goes on: This covers all that is needed to show how the President Ignored the plain language of the constitution. He has assumed to appoint of his own volition, without the advice of the senate, a diplomatic officer with paramount powers. To try to argue that Mr. Blount was not a diplomatic officer of the United States, but only “my represmtative, is Idle.” There Is no ground of debate now whether the present Hawaiian Government was rightly or wrongly established nearly twelve months ago. The Issue Is directly before the House whether to api rove and commend the course of the present administration as db-closed by himself. If a President, without the consent of the Senate, can send a paramount diplomatic officer to supersede a minister, leaving the latter only routine duties, he may do It in Great Britain or In Germany as well as in the Hawaiian Islands. That officer, according to the President’s apologists, is only the "President’s commissioner” and not an officer In the diplomatic services of the United States. The san- e right asserted hereto appoint an ambassador under the name of a commissioner would allow the President to appoint any agent of his own without conference with any other branch of the government to exercise judicial functions paramount to Judges already In offleo by and with the Senate's consent. After a review and consideration of the oonrse of this administration as appears from its own records, the minority of your committee have no hesitation In recommending the adoption of the following substitute for the resolution reported by the majority: “Whereas, Executive comunications to Congress disclose that the executive department has been furnishing to a MinisterTlenlpotentary of the United States *ecret instructions to conspire with the representatives and agents of a deposed and discarded monarchy for the overthrow of a friendly republican f overnment, duly recognized by all the civilzed nations to which said minister was accredited, and to which hlB public instructions pledged the good faith and sympathy of the President, the Government and the people of the United States."Resolved, That It Is the sense of this House that such Intervention by the executive of the United States, its civil or military representatives or officers, without authority of Congress. Is a dangerous and unwarranted invasion of the rights and dignities of the Congress of the United States, and a violation of the law F of nations, and further “Resolved. That the manner of such -attempted intervention by the executive and methods used are unworthy of tho executive department of the United States, while the confessed intent of such Intervention Is contrary to the policy and tradition of the Republic and the spirit of the Constitution.”

TARIFF WILL PRECEDE.

Other Legislation Will Await the Passage of the Wilson Bill. A Washington dispatch says that it is generally agreed among Democratic Senators that the financial question will be allowed to remain untouched in the Congress until the tai iff bill shall bo disposed of. Senator Voorhees replied to a question concerning his silver bill that no effort whatever would be made to press it until the tariff bill should bo out of the way. Then, he said, the bill would receive attention and he thought it would prove the solution of the problem. He said he felt confident that after Senators and members had an opportunity to examine it they would see its merits and put it through both licu-es before adjourning. Representative Bland has also said recently that he did not expect to try to get up his free coinage bill in the House until after the disposal of the tariff There is jpore or less talk of Secretary Carlisle's suggestion favorable to the issuance of bonds to provide for the Government deficit, but that with other financial questions will probably go over unt’l after the tariff question shall he settled There is a general feeling that primarily, the tariff is of greater importance than any other que tion at present, and the belief is gaining ground that there will be a great effort to providtrfor the deficit in connection with the tariff hill in some way without issuing bonds. It is known that the silver men who approve bonds have practically, appealed their cases from Congress to the country, and they will be prepared to use a vote for bonds against any man who does not favor silver, and to make the war all the fiercer on account of bonds.

MILLIONS OF IDLE MONEY.

New Fork Associated Banks Still Accumulating Cash. The New York Financier says that the surplus reserve of the associated banks of New York has now reached the enormous sum of The official report of the clearing-house shows an increase in the reserve of $2,877,375 fcr the five business days ending De«. 30. The actual cash on hand, composed of $106,316,400 in specie and $101,708,200 in legal tenders, amounts to $207,424,600. To an ordinary mind this sum is almost inconceivable, but it becomes plainer when it is known that if it was all in gold eagles and if one man was to attempt Jo count it, he would be more tharf three years and six months going through the operation, if he counted one gold piece a second and worked for five consecutive hours each day. Wbat to do with the surplus cash has become a problem which is'more intricate than the famous fifteen puzzle. Tiae banks are making no money, and it more than probable that at least one bank will shortly go into liquidation on account ofj the unprofitable business which it is forced to carry. The aggregate deposits of the clear-ing-house hanks is over $500,000,000, and the Grain for the hast week amounts

to *7,590,100. Money continues to flow to this center in an unabated stream, the increase in cash being *4,774,900, of which *1,795,700 was in specie and •2,979,200 in legal tenders. Loans were expanded *1,319,900 and the circulation was contracted *144,600. It is quite probable that Congress will authoriz» a bond issue in the near future, and there is no doubt that the New York banks will take a large portion of the issue. The averages, as exhibited in the statement, compared with the same time last year, are as follows: Dec. 30, 1893. Dec. SI, 1892. Loan* ten,ft e,«ou $4.17,722.000 Specie 106.316,400 75.968,300 Deposits 506,457,«W 444,588,400 Circulation 13,111.900 5,554,000 Total reserve $'.07,424,600 $117,9%, 900 Reserve required 126,409,450 111,147,350 Excess of reserve 80,815,150 6,839,550

GLOBE THEATER BURNS.

Boston’s Famous Play-lloase a Prejr to Flame* for the Second Time. Fire at Boston originating in the Globe Theater. Monday night, caused tile destruction of the theater and nearly all the other buldings in the square bounded by Washington and Essex streets, Hayward place and Harrison avenue. The total damage is not known, but will reach into the millions. The fire was discovered in the coatr room of the theater, and in fifteen minutes the entire building wa3 in flame 1. The building is so loca ed that it was impossible for the firemen to enter it, or to reach the flames except tn one side, and in the rear was an old section filled with old buildings which would go very quickly if once ignited. Across the' street from the tneater a-e three largo hotels, and almost a panic existed among the guts's, for at this point Washington street is not more than forty feet wide, and the heat from the theater fire was intense. Fifty fire engines Eoured water upon the flames, but so ai d was the fire to get at that no perceptible effect could be seen. At 2:10 there were five explosions of considerable force, which scattered the embers of the fire skyward and threw down the wall between the theater and the store next south toward Essex street. The whole block seemed doomed, and in five minutes the square bounded by Hayward place,"Essex,street, and Harrison avenue was a solid mass of flames. The theater building covers 15,510 square feet of land. In this square thcie are fifteen buildings besides the Globe Theater on Washington street. The explosions were caused by the calcium tanks in the tty%»ter. At 3 o'clock the fire was control by the falling V a groat party wall which served to smother the furnace within the eiuare. inhere was still the danger of the explosions, but anxiety was soon allayed\in that respect. There is not a building of the dozen or more in the square that is uninjured and with only ihree or four exceptions not even the walls will bo saved. Among the largest losers by tho fire are the Bryant & Stratton Business College: R. T. Almy & Co., retail clothing: Thcmas White & Co., Flinn & Mahoney, European agents: S. C. Chase & Co., rubber goods; Hotel Pierpont; Burleigh's trunk store: A. T. Regan, shoos: Leacho's sewing machine parlors, Willcox & Gibbs, sewing machines: A. F. Robinson & Co., and others. Tho Globe Theater is the second theater of that name on tho same site

TOOK A FIRM STAND.

United States Action as to Brazil Prevented European Interference. What might have been a serious international ccmplication growing out of tho Brazilian troubles is now regarded as having been practically settled by the firm attitude of the United States in the matter. The sharp rebuke administered to Admiral Stanton for saluting the insurgent flag and the massing of armored cruisers off the Brazilian coast have certainly had a more important purpose than the mere desire to maintain an indifferent neutrality between Mello and the republican government of Pre.ident Peixoto or the protection of the private interests of American citizens. A Washington dispatch says that Secretary Gresham was advised some weeks ago that there was something more behind the plans of Admiral Mello than the disccn'ent of a few naval officers, and that unless shrewd diplomacy were used the United States might become involved in hostile relations with seme of the great European powers. It is well recognized by the friends of the Brazilian Republic in this country that Admiral Mello stands for the monarchical element in Brazil and that he has been endeavoring to secure tho support of some of the great powers in overturning the republic. Monarchist circles in Paris and some of the other European capitals have been in a flutter of expectancy regarding Mello's movements, and it is declared they have been looking to the young son of Count d’Eu, who is the grandson of Dom Pedro, to become the head of the restored empire.

THE INDIAN TERRITORY.

Governor Fishback Thinks It a Nursery of Crime and Lawlessness. Gov. Fishback, of Arkansas, has published an open letter to President Cleveland relative to the condition of affairs in the Indian Territory. The Governor believes they afe such as to cause the gravest alarm, and that they may result disastrously to all the States in the Mississippi valley. He believes the Territory to be a very hot-bed of crime and lawlessness and the rallying place for all the desperadoes in the country. He says “a very large percentage of the bank and train robberies which take place in the West are organized or originate in the Indian Territory. * * * During the past twelve months there have issued from the States of Arkansas, Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma Territory sixty-one requisitions upon Indian Territory authorities for fugitives.” Another evil which Gov. Fishback thinks is due to the evil doers who flock to the Territory is the demoralization of the Indians. Associating with criminals, they themselves, in a short time, become wholly corrupted and ready for any lawless act. Finally Mr. Fishback says this state of things “suggests the very serious question whether the time has not arrived for the Federal Government to assert its right of eminent domain over this portion of the national territory.”

FIFTY MILLIONS STARVING.

National Congress at Lahore Asks the Government to Succor Them. The resolutions adopted by the National Ind an Congress declare that 50,000,000 of people are on the verge of starvation, and urge the Government to take immediate steps to succor them. The resolutions adopted by the Congress also recorded the deep regret of the members at the hasty enactment closing the mints, which it was claimed further burdened the people with taxation and disconcerted important trades and industries, notably the cotton-spinning industry. In addition the Congress emphatically protested against the exchange of compensation to undomiciled European or Eurasian employes and banks. The next Concress will meet at Madras.

CHICAGO'S WOMEN.

Their Dctltatlon U u Great bm That of the Men. Though much has been written about the destitution of Chicago workmen, comparatively little has been said about the condition of the women of that city, and yet their suffering and desire to get work are quite as great, Hundieds Desiege every shop looking for positions as clerks; as many more answer the few advertisements which appear for domestic help. All of them, when questioned, have most pitiful stories to tell. One woman spoke to a reporter a 3 follows; “My husband is a laboring man, and we have five small children. We have lived for some time in the basement at No. 323 West Chicago avenue, where we paid *4 a month for very poor quarters. When my husband got out of work the landlord b3came afraid we could not pay the rent, but we have done so for four months. Now my husband goes out every day looking for work. He don't find any and the landlord asked us to move out, fearing we could not pay him. But we raised the money and offered it to him. Instead of taking it the landlora sent a man to the heuse, who put me and the five children out of the house, and then threw our furniture upon the sidewalk while my husband was away. Speaking of the situation a leading Chicago merchant said the other day: “There is no question about it, the women breadwinners of Chicago are infinitely worse off than the men. In spite of the large sign I have posted on my office saying that no help is wanted, I have every day at least 200 women who beg for something to do. They are for the most part inexperienced in any line of business, but they come to the retail stores ir. hope of finding positions. Not a day passes that Ido not assist some of these applicants to tide over some of their necessities of the moment, for many of them confess to me that they are responsible for the livelih od of their families, and some of them a e in extreme destitution. On beualf of the many unemployed men. women and boys in the city "the Protective Agency, 828 Opera House Building, has issued an urgent appeal to farmers and others who may need help about their premises to give employment to the worthy ones among these people. Many of them will gladly work for their board, as hundreds of tnsrn are now sweeping Chicago’s Streets in return for a soup-house ticket. Inquiries made to tne agency at address given will be promptly answered.

WHEAT AND STOCK.

The Condition of Both Is Reported M Generally Oood. Reports have been received by the Farmers’ Review from its correspondents in twelve States, on the condition of winter wheat and farm stock. Winter Wheat—Tn Illinois the crop seems to be in fair condition. In some counties It Is yet small, having made little growth In the fall, on account of the exceptionally dry weather. It is. however, well rooted and healthy as far as can be ascertained. Unless some disaster overtakes it, the crop as a whole will be a good one. In Indiana the general ontlook Is good, in spite of the fact that In some sections the ground has been freezing and thawing, and the snow covering has been insufficient. In Ohio the general condition Is good, though In many counties it Is small on account.of late sewing. In Michigan a large part of the crop is oovered with snow, and its condition can only be guessed at. It is supposed to be In from fair to good condition. In Missouri the crop looks well considering the very dry fall and winter. In Nebraska rain Is needed. The condition Is variously reported as fair and good. lowa reports little winter wheat sown. Where it has been put In It is quite generally reported as good. Snow covers it In some counties, so that its condition o- nnot be certainly told. In Wiscomsin the crop is in fair to good condition, and has been well proteoted by snow through most of the severe weather. It Is still covered with snow to such an extent that little danger exists. Farm Stock—ln Illinois Inrm stock Is looking well. Among the hogs cholera is prevailing In some counties In Indiana feed la reported as plentilul and stock In good condition. In Ohio the general condition is reported good. Stock in Michigan looks well in spite of the poor condition of the fall pastures. Stock in Missouri is reported in exceptionally fine condition, and those animals being fattened for market are making rapid gains. lowa reports feed plentiful and stook doing well Fodder Is plentiful in Wisconsin and stook, as a rule, looks fine. The general condition is good. Minnesota reports stock as good and healthy. The same condition exists in the Dakotas.

Notes of Current Events.

There are 100 cases of grippe at Weatherly, Pa., a town of 3,000 inhabitants. Charles Collins, wanted for murder and robbery, was arrested at Freeport, Pa. W. J. Foust, assistant postmaster of Thornton, Texas, was arrested for embezzling $750. Richard Fittenreiner, an electric light lineman, was killed by a falling pole at St. Louis. John C. Alton, found dead at Osceola, lowa, is supposed to have been killed by tramps. Martin Finn, a farmer, was waylayed and murdered while going home from Falmouth, Ky. Roy Shubert, a Belmont, La., boy, was blown to pieces by the explosion of a box of dynamite. The village of Brantford, Ont., is under water, owing to a sudden flood in the Grand River. Five whites and nineteen Mexicans have been killed in a race war near Cherrillos, Mexico. Populist members of the House will urge the adoption of a- graduated tax upon all big estates. William Hawley, a burglar, committed suicide in the New Jersey penitentiary at Trenton. FOUR men were probably fatally hurt at Derringer, Pa., in a fight between Austrians and Poles. Farmer Pira, who killed two confidence men at Sioux City, lowa, was wildly cheered on acquittal. Clark Francis, aged 16, of Beatrice, Neb., broke through the ice in Blue River and was drowned. James Collins, of Covington, Ky., kicked a Newfoundland dog, and was so badly bitten that he will die. George Astley, of Springfield, Mo., was shot a,nd killed at Wichita by John Keefe, a farmer, who surrendered. At meetings of the railway employes of the Lehigh Valley system, reports of another strike were emphatically denied. Chauncey H. Andrews, the millionaire railroad, coal, and iron operator, died at Youngstown, Ohio, after a long sickness. Eight convicted White Caps at Jackson, Miss., were pardoned by Governor Stone, who urged them to become good citizens. C. K. Carson, collector of the Oregon Improvement Company, was arrested at San Francisco, accused of embezzling $4, COO. Israel McLish, a prominent Choctaw, was shot and fatally wounded by three assassins near White Chimney Mountain, I. T. Willard P. Holmes, Kansas feity, Mo., president of a suspended bank, was arrested on a warrant charging him with fraud. Farmer Gottholtz, near New Castle, Pa., essayed to come down the chimney as Santa Claus. It took an hour to dig him out.

CONDEMNED TO DIE.

THE SLAYER OF CARTER HARRISON MUST HANG. Prendertut la Found Goaty of Harder «» Charged—Jury Alter One Hour’. Deliberation Decides He Is Sane—Mokes the Sign of the Cross. Death the Penalty. The Prendergast trial ended in Chicago on Friday, and death is the penalty decreed against the slayer of Carter H. Harrison. The la3t word of awful accusation was uttered by Attorney A. S. Trade at noon; an hour later the Judge charged the jury, and sixty-two minutes after Prendergast's fate was committed to twelve of his peers a verdict was returned, which read: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Patrick Eugene Joseph Preddergast, guilty of murder, in the manner and and form as charged in the indictment, and fix his punishment at death.” The assassin did not falter at the announcement of his doom; he bent his head slightly, and. touching his forehead with the tips of the fingers of his right hand, then bis breast, next his left and lastly his right shoulder — making the “sign of the cross”—he mumbled the words, “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” The trial was begun Dec. 6 and occupied just twenty court

ASSASSIN PRENDERGAST.

days. Two months ago and a day from the time Patrick Eugene Prendergast committed his crime the death watch was set at his call to remain with unremitting vigilance until he is led to the scaffold. There was an impressive silence in the court-room when the verdict was brought in. Few of those who were in the court-room when Judge Bientano gave his instructions to the jury had left, for there was a general feeling that the jurors would not be long in arrivingi. at a verdict. It took the Judge twenty-five minut:s to read his instructions, the jurors standing while they were being given. The instructions concluded with forms of verdicts to fit every possible conclusion at which the jury could arrive. These, together with all the letters and papers which had been introduced in evidence, were handed to Bailiff Busse, who led the jury to one of the jury rooms adjoining the court room. At the same time the prisoner was taken back to the jail to await the deliberations of the twelve men who held his fate in their hands. Judge Brentano retired to his chambers, and the lawyers and visitors at the trial, among whom were a large number of ladies, remained in their places or gathered in groups to discuss the outcome. An hour after the jury retired Bailiff Busse was informed by the jury that they were ready to appear in court. He immediately notified the judge and passed out through the covered passageway leading to the jail to notify the officials there to bring the prisoner into court. Those in the court room knew when they saw the bailiff pass to the jail that a verdict had been reached. At once all conversation ceased. The jurors with grave faces filed in and took their accustomed seats. The judge took his place on the bench. The prisbnefr, "pale and anxious, was brought'in by 1 Jail Clerk Price. “Have you agreed upon a verdict?” inquired the judge. Most of the jurors bowed assent; some of them answered audibly. “Hand your verdict to the clerk to be read,” and Juror Sutter, who had been chosen foreman, handed the folded document to Clerk Fitzgerald. While the clerk in measured tones read the verdict every ear was attentive to catch its fateful words. Scarcely was the reading concluded when Clerk Price and Bailiff Busse, who stood on either side of the prisoner, started with him toward the jail. They had nearly reached the exit from the court-room when the Judge called them back that the prisoner might be present when the jury was polled. To each juror the clerk put the question: “Was this and is this now your verdict?” and each, as his name was called, robe and answered, “It was and is.”’ When the last answer was given the prisoner, supported by the two officials, was taken back to jail. “You, gentlemen of the jury, are discharged from further duty,” said the Judge. Mr. Wade made the usual motion for a new trial, which the Court directed to he entered, and the Prendergast trial was at an end.

TO FIGHT A THISTLE PLAGUE.

A Bill Introduced In Congress Appropriating 51,000,000. A bill has been introduced in Congress for the appropriation of $1,000,UOO to be expended in the extirpation of the Russian thistle, which is described as “the most pernicious member of the vegetable kingdom.” The Russian thistle was carried to North Dakota by some Muscovite immigrants in the feed of grains and plants which they imported. It has spread over both Dakotas, in Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin. Whenever a brisk autumn wind, blows from the northwest or west its seed is wafted across vast belts of territory On the downy growth which it produces. It scatters everywhere, and is a universal nuisance and pest. The descriptions of the plant are almost sensational. From the main stalks new offshoots project in all digestions, and from these offshoots, as they ripen, further stems fextend, like the cactus growths, until a single thistle is as big as a sod cabin. It is a more destructive pest of agriculture than all other plants and all insects combined. It covers the ground, shading the young crops and absorbing, with superior suctional force, the moisture and all the sources of nutrition in the soil. Men and animals are compelled to Wear sheetiron bootlegs in passing through the thistle fields in order to protect themselves from its pricks, which are not only painful but as poisonous as the sting of a wasp. In Siberia the thistle hah driven farmers entirely away from many hundred square miles of fertile territory, has choked up the irrigating canals, and has made the highways impassable for man or beast.