Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Page 2

SljeJemorreticSttitint! RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W McEWEN, - - Pubushxk

JAP SHOWS FIGHT.

RESENTS INTERFERENCE OF AN AMERICAN ADMIRAL. i ■ Covey's Army Soon to Mobilize Sensational Charge Against an Alabama Judge —Nicaraguan Troops Driven from Binefields—The Marion Worsted by Storms Onr Flagship Threatened. Passengers of the steamer Arawa, which has just arrived at Sydney, N. S. W„ assert that a subject of Japan was recentlyarrested In Honolulu for a trivial offense and placed in jail. He escaped and swam out to a Japanese war ship The authorities appealed to the American admiral, askiug that he demand the surrender of the Japanese The commander of the Japanese war ship refused to give the man up and threatened that if the American admiral boapded his ship he Would give him a half hour to leave, or if he refused the American flagship would be blown out of the water. According to the story of the passengers the escaped prisoner was unmolested. BRAZILIAN WAR ENDS. Rio Janeiro Wild with Joy at the End of the Long-drawn Strife. The Brazilian war is practically over and the Cause of the Insurgents is lost. There is much rejoicing in Rio de Janeiro at the culmination of the struggle which has continued so many months with no object seemingly but to hamper business and destroy property. The rebel forces, have surrendered unconditionally, almost without firing a shot. The officers of the in-urgent fleet have taken refuge on board French and Portuguese war ships One French vessel has put to sea with many of the rebel officers on board. It is said that Admiral da Gama Is on board the British war ship Sirius The Insurgent war ship Aquldiban Is not In harbor. Admiral de Mello. was salsa to the Emperor and to President Fonseca and President Peixota He now proves false to Admiral da Gama. Where he and his vessel are now is not known.

BRITISH IN CONTROL Collision Between Armed Bands in the Streets of Blueflelds. English troops have taken possession of Bluefields and patrol the streets at night Although affairs are quiet at present, they have taken a seriodS turn, and a speedy settlement Is doubtful. The British cruiser Cleopatra is still lying at anchor off the bluffs outside of the harbor, and will, within a few days, be •relieved by two smaller vessels The Nicaraguan Government has yielded to the demand of the commander of the British ship and ordered all the native troops out of Bluefields. Ever sluco the arrival of the Nicaraguan ships in the seaport town a bitter feeling has existed between them and the native Mosquito Indians. Whenever it was possible a fight would be brought about between the rival natives, and the other evening a street fight took place between several men of both sides TO MARCH ON THE CAPITAL. - • io .. California Unemployed Men Organize a Regiment for Lobby Purposes. „.3he Industrial army movement Is causing considerable of a sensation in Los Angeles Cal Over eight hundred unem--ployed have organized a regiment and expect to Join their comrades from throughout the Western States in March and march bn Washington with Coxey’s army. They sent a delegation to the city council Monday night to obtain railroad transportation to Washington. General Frye, commander of the army, has sent a notice to Secretary of War Lamont of the moving of the army. A demand is made that Lamont order rations issued to the army from various- posts and provide transportation. General Frye significantly says that the army will number 3,000,000 by the time It reaches Washington and Intimates that it will be just as well to accede to Its requests.

TO IMPEACH A JUDGE. M. B. Talley Is Accused of Aiding in the Boss Murder. The grand jury at Scottsbora Ala,, has reported a bill recommending the impeachment of Judge M. B. Talley, of the Ninth Alabama Circuit, accusing him of aiding and abetting the Skelton boys in murdering Banker R. a Boss on Feb. 4. When the Skeltons started In pursuit of Ross Judge Talley telegraphed to the operator at Stevenson, for which point Rost was destined, not to let Ross get away, and when the Skeltons had killed Boss they wired Talley that “Boss Is dead: none of us hurt” Ross’ friends had wired him from Scottsboro thathlslifo was In danger and Talley endeavor to Intercept the message. Failing in this he sent his dispatch. CAUGHT BY A TYPHOON. United States War Ship Marlon Laid Up as Yokohama. The United States man-of-war Marion, which should have been well on her way to San Francisco, is at Yokohama undergoing extensive repalra The steamer Gaelic, which arrived a few days ago, brought the news that the damage was very serious. Two days after the Marlon left Yokohama •he encountered a terrific typhoon in the China sea which nearly wrecked her. She rode safely through the storm and tailed back to Yokohama in a battered condition. It Is estimated that she will be in the dock for at least two months. Mrs. Stocking Burned. Mrs. Pattie Miller Stocking of Washington was so badly burned by the overturning of a lamp as she was lighting it that she can scarcely survive Mrs. Stocking was the widow, of Colonel Stocking, one of the heroes of Andersonville, and the daughter of the late Associate Justice Milter, of the United States Supreme Court. Express Trains Collide. The Montreal express, north bound, and the Quebec express met In a head-on collision at Capleton, near therbrooke, Que. The engineer of one of the trains and a train-hand, who Was in the cab with him, were killed. None of the passengers aas seriously injured, and none of the cars left the track. Q Shuts Down Its Works. At New Haven, Conn., the Candee Rubber Company has shut down its works. An overstock of goods is the eau.-a assigned. Fifteen hundred employes are thrown out of work. • Scalded to Death. * Thomas Lavin, a convlet sent from Rockford* to the penitentiary at Joliet, Hk, for one year, was scalded to death by the bursting of a new steam trap which was being tested. Lavin was a machinist and With another convict was standing beside the trap. The other convict was not hurt. Lavin had but three months more to serve. - i - Clear Water at St. Ignaoe. 1 Astrong gale Bunday morning carried •way the ice in the Straits of Mackinaw, and, at Might there was nothing in sight from St. Ignace, Mich., except open water. Several fish shanties and nets were destroyed, but no serious damage is reported.

CRAZED BY RKLIGIOX Indiana Revivalist* Neither Preach Nor Sing, but Find Many Convert*. South- Putnam County. Indiana. In in the throes of the most remarkable revival ever held in the State Tbe meetings began about February 1, but until this week no great attention was attracted outside of tbe Immediate neighborhood ot the church. John and Charles Scott and Miss Anna Huffman are in charge of the meetings. Tbe former came from Harrodsburg, Indiana, and the lady from Illinois. They are very ignorant, and are operating in an Ignorant locality. They adhere to no denomination, but claim theirs is tbe only true religion. They neither preach nor sing, but pray long and loud. They cure the sick, heal the halt and lame and assist the blind. They operate by the laying on of hands, and claim they are the only true agents of the Lord. Whether they be Impostors or sincere, they have awakened a tremendous sensation in this vicinity. Their subjects, or victims as some term them, go into trances, in which they remain for hours with eyes set and arms extended over their heads, all the time muttering a sort of gibberish. ADRIFT AND STARVING. Forty Days Spent on the Ocean in a Helpless Vessel. St. Johns. N. F., dispatch: The steamer Briscoe, now nearly forty days out from Queenstown to New York, Iles about sixty miles off Cape Race in an utterly helpless condition with her crew of twenty-three men and four stowaways starving for lack of food and perishing from want of fuel. Such is the report made by her lifeboat crew, who arrived at Cape Race at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon In search of assistance after a twenty-four hours’ sail In the open boat. Tbe exposure nearly caused the death of those aboard, owing to the severe frost experienced Monday night The boat was manned by the chief officer and four seamen. They tell a gruesome tale of the condition of the unfortunate steamer. The vessel’s decks are nearly awash, and she can neither steam nor sail. Her rudder was carried away early In the battle with the sea, and for forty days the Briscoe has been the plaything of the elements.

CATTLE BARONS GONE. Opening of the Cherokee Strip Breaks Up the Last Stronghold. Twenty-five years ago Texas sent its first herd of cattle over the trail northward. Two decides ago 700,000 head came up from tbe great ranches of the Lone Star State to seek a shippin; station In Kansas, The ranch history of the prairies dates from that time, and a marvelous One it la With the coming spring It will end, for the opening of the Cherokee Strip last fall sent the cattle out of that richly grassed to stay. The ranch fences have been torn down, and all winter teams have been busy hauling the debris to the railway stations for shipment to the grass lands of New Mexico or the upland ranges of Wyoming. The cattle have been pushed on westward and southward and they will not go back. The cattle baron who ruled with a despotic power over tbe prairies has been defeated by “the man with a hoe,” and agriculture is usurping the dominions of the cowboy. SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT. More Business and Larger, Production by Industries. According to Dun. R. G. Dun & Co’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Evidences of present improvement in business multiply, but confidence in future Improvement does not seem to increase. There Is more business and a larger production by industries, far the season has arrived when greater activity is necessary if dealers’ stocks are to be replenished, and those who cannot make calculations beyond a few months are the more anxious to crowd as much trade as they safely can into these months. Undertakings reaching beyond a short time are not made with greater freedom and, in spite of a larger present Remand, prices ot manufactured goods tend downward.

UNCLE SAM WAKES UP. United States Authorities Claim that a Treaty Was Violated. President Cleveland and his Cabinet, at their meeting Friday, gave their attention to the Blueflelds, Nicaragua, incident. It is said that no definite line of action was determined upon, owing to the absence of full details, but the Information from Minister Baker, the American representative in Nicaragua, is expected soon. - For the present the State Department wllL content Itself with gathering the full details of the alleged landing of the British troops at Bluefields. The diplomatic course will be to ask Great Britain, through her foreign office, why troops have been landed and by what authority a British force occupies any portion of the Mosquito coast Farmer Bums a Steer to Death. Anthony Beck, a wealthy farmer neat Lebanon, Ind., became enraged at a steer for tearing down a fence and driving it into a pen he poured coal oil all over it and set it on fire, burning the animal to death. The Grand Jury is investigating the affair. Will Not Found a ’Frisco School. Philip II Armour denies that he intends to give 1500,000 to found a school for manual training In San Francisco, similar to the Armour Institute in Chicago. Dyer Depot Robbed. It is reported that the Michigan Central depot at Dyer (Ind.) station was robbed of a large amount of money the other night. Louis Kossuth Very Weak. Turin advices say Louis Kossuth has suffered a relapse and is very weak.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... ts 50 @ 5 00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 @ 5 00 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 25 @ 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 57 @ 68 COBH—No. 2 35 @ 30 Oath—No. 2 30 @ 31 Rye—No. 2 45 @ 57 Butteb—Choice Creamery 21 @ 22 Egos—Fresh ;. 15 & 16 Potatoes—Per bu so @ so INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 oo @ 4 75 Hoos—Choice Light 3 00 @SOO SHEEP—Common to Prime 200 @ 3 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red.., 55 & to Cobn—No. 2 White. 35 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ 33 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 ©SOO Hpos 300 @ 6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 54 @ 66 Cobn—No. 2 33)4© 34)4 Oats—Na 2. 31 @ 32 Rye-No. 2 ' 47 @ ,48 CINCINNATI CATTLB 3 00 ©450 Hogs 800 @ 5 25 Sheep 2 00 @ 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red to @ 57 Cobn—No. 2 88 @ 38)4 Oats—Mixed 33 © 34 Rte—Na 2. X. 62 @ 54 DETROIT. Cattle 300 @ 4 60 Hogs 300 @SOO Sheep 200 @325 Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 @ to Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 37 @ 38 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 32 @ 33 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 58 @ 59 Cobn—No. 2 36)4© 37)4 Oats—No. 2 White ~ 80 @ 31 Rye—Na 2 11 49 © ti , BUFFALO. ♦ S Wheat—No. 1 Hard 71 ~@ 72 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 4(%@ 4114 Oats—No. 2 White Bye—No. 2 ... 63 © 55 „ MILWAUKEE. -Wheat—No. 2 Spring 69 @ 69)4 Cobn—No. 3 35 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ 33 Rye—No. 1 .- 47 @ 48 BaBLEY—No. 2..., . 52 @ 54 POBK—Mess 11 25 ©ll 75 NEW YORK. CATTLB 300 @4 75 HOGB s 75 © 5 60 SHEEP,.... 2 00 @3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red .... 63 @ 64 Cobh—No. 2 44 @ 46 OATS—White Western. 89 @ 48 Butteb—Choice 22 @ 23 Fobs— Mees.. 13 25 ©is »

COUGHLIN IS FREE.

DECLARED NOT GUILTY OF CRONIN'S MURDER. Wild Scenes la Judge TnthUl’s Court When the Announcement Is Made The Prisoner la Dazed by HU Good Fortune— Jury Out but Six Boon. Ends a Famous Case. The second trial of Daniel Coughlin on the charge of complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin came to a close Thursday in Chicago, by the unexpected return of a verdict of acquittal Dan Coughlin, after nearly five years ot imprisonment, was declared a free man. By a verdict of his peers he was declared innocent of conspiring to cause or participating in the murder of Dr. Cronin. Few expected that

DAN COUGHLIN.

the verdict would be what it was, and no one anticipated that an agreement would be reached in so short a time. It was eight minutes to 11 o’clock in the forenoon when Judge Tuthill had concluded his charge, and at twenty-five minutes to 5 o'clock in the afternoon the jury filed into court and through Foreman Holsman handed its brief verdict to the Judge. Thus it took them less than five hours to deside one of the most noted

CARLSON COTTAGE AND SURROUNDINGS, AS IT APPEARED IN 1880. (1) CARLSON COTTAGE (2) CARLSON RESIDENCE. (3) O'SULLIVAN'S BARN. (4) O’SULLIVAN’S HOUSE.

criminal cases In the history of the: country—a case which tcok over four tnonths for the recounting of its incidents and bloody details, and which took able and brilliant counsel seventeen days to analyze and explain the testimony. It was no wonder that those who listened were astonished.

JOHN P. KUNZE. MARTIN BOURK

The cheers came naturally from the throats of friends of the accused. When the verdict had been read, says a Chicago dispatch, there was a full minute of silence. Then a man, who stood near John Kunze near the west wall, shouted, “Three cheers for Daniel Cousrhlin.” The yell which went up so excited Judge Tuthill that he leaped to his feet and commanded the bailiffs to lock the doors. But some one was to quick for the court. The words had Hardly fallen from his honor's lips when'a cheer rang through the building from the crowd in the corridor. Acain and again did the walls echo the yells of the men both inside and outside the court-room. Coughlin seemed dazed until a well-known member of the society to which the prisoner used to belong grabbed his hand and muttered his congratulations. All this time “Big Dan” seemed to be in a trance. Suddenly he pulled himself together and turning to the jury which stood smiling upon him reached out his hand and with deep emotion expressed his thanks to the juro.-s. The man who had just been given his life release had started with Officer Carolan for the jail to go through the formality, of a legal release when some one shouted, “Dan, here is your wife.” The big ex-detective turned hastily and saw coming through the crowd the pretty litt'.e woman who had stood by trim as few women have stood by men. For the first time since the trial began he exhibited feeling. The tears came into his eyes and one of the

JUROR CULVER. PATRICK O’SULLIVAN.

most affecting scenes ever witnessed in a courtroom was then and there enacted. He took the weeping and halftainting woman-in his arms and embraced her with a show of affection which was pltifu’ to see. Then he rushed away crying, “I will be with my Maggie in an hour's time.” Mrs. Coughlin could only sav: “Oh, my husband: oh. mv husband. 5 * Up to this time none of the attorneys in the case had been seen. Mr. Donahue cams in just as his client was leaving the room, and a shout went up for him. Mr. Donahoe almost shook Dan Coughlin’s hand off as he congratulated him. He was more excited, evidently, than the man who had just been acquitted. Coughlin, was then taken to jail, where he was formerly released, and one of the most sensational criminal trials in the annals of the country was at an end. Trial Which Xs Now Ended. The conspiracy which culminated in the murder of Patrick Henry Cronin on the

night of May 4, KM in Lake Flaw vu consummate* at a time when La Caron was Mstltßtag la a British court, betraying the Irish causa This fact added interest in the crime in England, and the London datliea devoted columns to the murder. Dr. Cronin was a prominent physician of Chicago. For‘years he had practiced in tbe city. He was one of tbe leaders in Irish social circles, the aggressive head of a faction of the Clan-na-Gael bitterly opposed io the “triangle" In poser. On the night of May 4. 1889. be was lured from his home in the Windsor Theater Block. May 22 bis mutilated body was found in a catch-basin at tbe corner ot North 59tb street and Evanston avenue. Foul play was feared. T. T. Conklin, with whom tbe Doctor lived, was convinced that his friend bud been murdered. Dr. Cronin's friends in tbe Clan-na-Gael were loud in declaring that he had been decoyed from his borne and foully dealt with. The oath administered to tbe members of the society was such that tbey did not at tint dare to venture explanations. Being pressed, they told tbe story of the conflicting factions of tbe Clan-na-Gael and the enmity to Dr. Cronin. The only clew which the police had to start with in unraveling the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Dr. Cronin was a card left in his office by the man who enticed him to his death. This card bore the name and address of Patrick (Fgulllvan, iceman in Lake View, also a member of Camp 20 of the Clan-na-Gael. The man who took the Doctor away on May 4 said that one ot the employes of the iceman had been Injured, and as O’Sullivan had made a contract with Dr. Cronin to attend any of his men who were ill Or should meet with accident the Doctor readily assented to go to Lake View. O’Sullivan, the man said, was out of town. The Doctor got into a buggy drawn by a white horse which the man bad in waiting, and the last man who saw the Doctor alive was Frank Scanlan, who talked with blm while he was sitting in tbe buggy In front of his home at 4d6 North Clark street. Sunday morning, May 5, three men on a hunting expedition found a trunk half filled with cotton saturated with fresh blood In a clump of bushes by the roadside In Evanston avenue, near Sulzer street. Frank Woodruff was arrested for horsestealing on May 9. He told a story of having driven a wagon that hauled the trunk containing the body of Dr. Cronin. A general order was Issued from the police department to look for a white horse that was onton the night ot May 4. It was discovered that Patrick Dinan, a liverystable keeper in North Clark street, near the East Chicago avenue station, had sent such a horae out. The description of the man who called for the horse on the night in question was found to correspond with that given by Frank Scanlan and Mrs. Conklin of the man who took Dr. Cronin from his office Further developments brought out the fact that Daniel Coughlin, a detective ot the East Chicago avenue station, had hired the horse for the man. The same day that Dr. Cronin’s badly decomposed body was found In the catch basin, Capt. Schuettler beard of the Carl-

son cottage By his command Detectives Hyatt and Lorch were put in charge of the place and presently thera were reports that “Big Dan” had been seen there a short time before the murder in company with John P. Kunze, Patrick Cooney, alias “Cooney the Fox,” and Iceman O’Sullivan. The following day, May 24, 1889, Coughlin was arrested. May 29 Patrick O’Sullivan was taken into custody and June 15 Martin Bourk was behind tbe bars. A mass of evidence was collected. The amount of testimony to be heard Was so great that the coroner’s inquest, which commenced June 4, did not finish Its labors till June IL From their known associations with Coughlin, Beggs and Kunze were held for trial Beggs was Senior Guardian of Camp 20 of the Clan-na-Gael, and presided when the vote was taken to expel Dr, Cronin from the order on the ground that he was a British spy. Little Kunze was held on the testimony of Saloon-keeper Nieman, ”ho Identified him as having been with Daniel Coughlin in his place at 11 o’clock tbe night of the murder. Tho State was Inclined to believe that Nieman was mistaken. Hts description of the man answers In every detail to Andrew Foy, but at the time Kunze was arrested and put on trial Foy’s connection with the case, as sworn

WHERE DR. CRONIN’S BODY WAS POUND.

to by bls wife, was not known to the police. The trial of Coughlin, Bourk, O'Sullivan, Beggs and Kunze was begun Aug. 39, 1889. It was finished Dec. 16 and the verdict sent Coughlin, Bourk and O’Sullivan to the penitentiary for life, put Kunze therefor three years and turned Beggs free. The finding against Kunze was never enforced, because Judge McConnell, who presided at the trial', entertained doubts that the man was guilty as charged. And it was with the greatest disapproval that the punishment of the convicted ones was received. Everywhere it was felt that the authors of such a dastardly crime should receive the full penalty of the law, and they doubtless would had .it not been for Juror John Culver. He it was who day after day for almost a week, while the jury was dellberr atlng, voted to save Coughlin and the other two, and he It was who finally did save them. In January. 1890, the convicted men were sentenced. Attorney Daniel Donahoe on behalf of O’Sullivan made the first request for a new trial, but while the matter was pending O’Sullivan died. '1 hen Coughlin’s application was made, and before it was disposed of both Beggs and Bourk died. The new

JOHN F. BEGGS. COONEY “THE FOX."

trial was granted “Big Dan” Jan. 20, 1893. and he was put on trial the second time Nov. 4 last. ■Of the houses of Great Britain 2,700(000 have been built since 1840,

METHODISTS MAKEUP

TWO GREAT DIVISIONS OF THE CHURCH FRATERNIZING. After Just Fifty Yean of Ettrangemeat the Norther* and Southern Branches Berta to Exhibit Symptoms of a Desire for Reconciliation. Hold a Ix>re-Feast. For the first time in half a century the two great branches of the Methodist Church in America—the Methodist Episcopal Church, by which name the Northern body is designated, an? the Methodist Church South—have come together in a love-feast. This has just taken place in St. Louis, and is especially noticeable as having taken place in that city, because there the passions aroused by the civil war ran high and with unusual virulence. It is specially significant as showing the growing strength of the fraternal feeling between the bodies, which may yet lead to their organic union. The question on which the once united Methodist Church of the United States split was that of slavery, and the tama lines that marked the seceding States in the war marked the division of the church. But this question, while always a cause of dissension in the denomination, and condemned by the laws of the church, had been tolerated for years, because the church recognized that under the laws of some of the States the emancipation of slaves was not always possible. Hence it contented itself with occasional fulminations on the subject of slavery, but did not debar the owners of or dealers in slaves from membership. These expre:sions pleased the Northern sentiment, and while the South did not go into ecstasies over them, it took the matter quietly as long as its pet institution was not menaced.

DUraptiou of the Conference. This good feeling was rudely shattered in the General Conference of 1844 and the secession spirit which later threatened to disrupt the nation made itself painfully manifest. The conference, which was held in New York, was required to take action on an appeal frem the Baltimore conference. The case was that of the Rev. Francis A. Harding, who had been suspended for failure to manumit slaves belonging to his wife, the Baltimore conference holding that the laws of Maryland permitted such manumission. The General Conference upheld this decision. The decisive case, however, was of Bishop James A. Andrews of Georgia. Bishop Andrews had married a Georgia widow, whose former husband, among other possessions, had left her several slaves. When the Bi-hop married he secured these slaves to his wife by a deed of trust. The connect! m of a general superintendent with slaveholding caused- a profound sensation in the N< rthern church, and it was claimed that this relation would infract the provision forbidding the General Conference to destroy the plan of the itinerant General Superin' e idenc.y, since it would be impossible lor a slave-holding B'shop to preside over the Northern conference. The solution o’ the difficulty was for Bishop Andrews to dispcse of his slaves or resign his office. The first he would not do, because cf his deed of trust; the latter his people would not allow him to do. Division Decided Upon.

Steps were at once taken toward securing a division of the church and its property. The South demanded a proportional share of the capital, assets, etc., of the Book Concern, and this division was generally assented to as equitable by the Northern conference i. Owing to the opposition of a few, however, the United States Supierne Court had finally to decide the question, which it did in favor of the South. A call for a convention of Southern Methodists was then issued, and in May, 1845, delegates from all tae slaveholding States assembled at Louisville, Ky. Here an organization was effected, and the first general conference decided upon for May, 18 i 6, at Petersburg, Va. Since that time the organition has steadily progressed in strength and riches, although the war somewhat impeded its progress. It has now about 12,000 churches and the same number of clergymen and nearly 1,500,0jd communicants. Bishop Andrews continued actively engaged in the ministry until his death in 1872. May lof that year he preached in New Orleans; the next day he died suddenly of heart failure. He was 77 years old.

WHEAT IS A DRUG NOW.

Farmers Holding Back with the Hope of Obtaining Higher Rate*. The Chicago Herald publishes, under the caption, “Wheat Is a Drug,” a three-column article, bristling with statistics, tending to show that the present low price of wheat is the natural result of the prevailing financial depression, assisted by overproduction and the holding back of marketable supplies of the farmers. Interviews wit n bankers and merchants are also cited, the trend of their views seeming to indicate that the effect of existing conditions on finance are not great, but are directly attributable to the law of supply and demand. The position taken by the Herald is extremely bearish, as will be seen by the subjoined excerpts: Wheat is prostrate in all the markets of the world. For weeks it has been a drug at prices unprecedented since speculation in farm products began. It has sunk below all low marks, refused to respond to bullish influences, and gone begging at quotati- ns taken to be under the actual cost of production. Theories that crop products, like articles of manufacture, had an intrinsic value under which they could not long be sold, have been exploded, and wheat has continued to fall. How long this condition of depressed prices will last is a question that interests American farmers, who devote 35.0 0,0(X) acres every year to cultivating the cereal to merchant in the land, and, incidentally, to speculate the world over. Alter analyzing all the influences that have contributed, and there are any number of them, it would appear that a new level tumble is about to be established for wheat, beyond which it is not likely to rise except by the boldest manipulation, and then’only for brief periods. Tnere are speculators who believe that those good old days when $1 a bushel was the rule will never come again, and that sev-enty-five cents may be looked to as the future top-notch quotation. These men are by no means bears, for they concede that wheat cannot hover long around the depressing figures of to-day. They have ransacked the statistics of the world, and claim to have discovered that the cheap product of Russia, India and the Southern hemisphere, which has lately turned an almost inex-> haustible supply into the markets of Europe, will finally drive the American crop out. Exposed to that fatal competition, they argue that wheat raising will some day become an American

question, U> be treated without reference to the export market, andon the theory that Europe will be supplied frozp the fields that skirt the Baltic, from the rich plain sos India and from South America. It may be said that this-gloomy view is not shared by the professional bull, who, with ail his buoyancy, offers no promise of an early return to prosperous prices. It is conceded by all speculators, as well as by those whose interests are greater than margin profits or losses, that wheat declined during the panic through sympathy with other stocks and commodities. It would be unreasonable to expect it to stand firm and alone in the general collapse that carried everything else down, but the decline cannot be charged exclusively to the panic, nor is its continued prostration, after other st.cks rallied, explained by those who point to that as the cause of prices prevailing now. The acreage and the yield of wheat in the United States was less in 1893 than for any year since 1860, and yet the farm price, 52 cents, was far below that of previous years. .It is undeniably a iaet that the tremendous overproduction of 1892 and 1891, which left a larger visible supply than the country had ever known, is responsible in a measure for the present low quotati ns. Statistics of visible supplies, acreage, yield and farm prices from 1886 to 1893, inclusive, are then quoted, an analysis of which follows: In 1885 the acreage fell to 34,189,246 and the yield to 357,112,00.) bushels, but the farm prices reached 77.1 cents. From that time back to 1880 the acreage never fell below 36,393,319, and the lowest yield was 380,280,000 bushels. The farm price ranged from 64.5 cents in 1884 to 110.3 in 1881. Only twice since 1880 has the United States crop fallen below the figures of 1893, and that was in 1885, when the farm price was 71.1 cents, and in 1881, when the yield wa580,280,009, and the price at the farm 110.3. In 1887, with a visible supply of 61,885,500, the high and low price record was 74 i, 7 B i, and the Herald reasons that the present phenomenally low prices are not unreasonable in view of the glutted condition of the principal wheat-producing sections, and that the fact of the cereal being worth less than the actual cost of production will but tend to divert the present acreage to the production of some more profitable crop. It is said, as an instance, that of the 23,000.000 bushels raised in Michigan, only 9,00 >.OOO have been brought to market. These figures may not be correct, but the impression is general that farmers are housing a greater reserve now, in anticipation of higher quotations, than they have ever held back. Mysterious arrivals at Duluth, Minneapolis and other heavy trading points to the north, seem to add weight to these suspicions. Board of Trade men, however, are agree! that bettar times are ahead, and that the effect of these low prices is, by no means, as disastrous as might be supposed.

WANTS THE CITY HALL SITE.

Cook County Commissioners Make a Big Demand on Chicago. At the next meeting of the County Board of Cook County the first gun will be fired in a long legal battle, the duration of which will probably not be measured by the present generation, when County Attorney Judd presents an order for the Board's approval making a formal demand upon the city of Chicago for the possession of the city hall property. City officials are at present inclined to consider this as a joke, or, at best, a bluff on the part of the County Commissioners. It is thought that the latter have an object to gain, the nature of which is not yet apparent. Attorney Judd said, according to a dispatch, that the county’s intentions were serious. “I shall,” said he, “ask the County Board to pass an order making the demand on the city merely as a necessary legal formality. The city will, of course, refuse to comply, ana then I shall file a bill for the county. It will probably come up in the Circuit Court. I expect to get a decision and carry the case before the Supreme Court in the October term of this year. “I am of the opinion that the county hes a legal right to the land. As for compensating the city for its building, t> at is another question, but I don t think the courts will think it necessary. This is not precisely a question of equity or justice, you see. Neither side wid be robbed, whichever wins, because the two municipalities are practically the same. The city pays seven-eighths of the county taxes, and the issue only concerns the best use of the people’s money and the people’s property. The talk is already started by some of the County Commissioners as to the disposition of the City Hall grounds when they get them. A 45,0.0,009 building for county purposes, with an in fiosure in which is to be the jail, is one of the projects discussed. Corporation Counsel Rubens thinks the legal aspects of the suit are not worth worrying over. He thinks it would be fortunate for the city if the county won the suit, for the city could then enter into negotiations with the United States Government to exchange property on the lake front for the custom house block and thereon erect a new city hall.

SHOT DOWN AT THE POLLS.

Politicians Fight with Pistols in On© of the Wards of Troy, N. Y. One man was killed and three others seriously wounded in a fight at a polling booth of the third precinct of the Thirteenth Ward, at Troy, N. Y. Among the watchers at the polling place was Robert Ross and his brother Willidm, both of them being there in the interest of the Republican party. There was also there a well-known character by the name of “Bat” Shea. About 1:30 o'clock a gang of at least fifteen strangers stood waiting to vote, while men whose names were on the poll-list, both Democrats and Republicans, were crowded away. Robert Ross objected to this, and had words with Shea. A dispatch says that the trouble began *in the polling booth, where a crowd of repeaters, headed by Jeremiah Cleary and Shea, attempted to vote. When the vote was challenged the men went outside and immediately started an argument with the Ross boys. Suddenly the crowd surged forward, and in an instant revolvers were drawn and shots fired. Robert Ross fell to the roadway and his brother William cried “I’m shot.” Then the firing ceased as suddenly as it had commenced. Before a surge :n could reach the scene Robert Ross was dead.. William Ross was shot in the neck just below the base of the brain and will probably die. John McGough is dangerously wounded, while Shea’s wound is not considered serious. He is under arrest. Cleary escaped.

Newsy Paragraphs.

The Wisconsin State Fait will be held in Milwaukee Sept. 17 to 21. Second hearing of the Franklin will contest has commenced at Nashville Tenn. Edward Needy, of Butler, Pa., was killed by a boiler explosion while drilling aw oU w«U.

THE NATION’S SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Uw-Maktn and What They Are Doing for the Good ot the CountryVarious Measure. Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Cpon. Doings of Con grass Tbs President transmitted some additional Hawaiian correspondence to tbs House Thursday morning. The Senate bill to amend the act to establish the Smithsonian Institution was passed. The conference report on the urgency deficiency bill was presented by Mr. Ayres and agreed to. Mr. R chardson, ot Tennessee, from the joint commission on expenditures In the executive departments, called up the bill to reform the method of accounting and auditing In the customs department of the treasury. The bill abolishes the office of Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of Customs The discussion over the bill took a wide range and was participated in by Messrs. Baker. Henderson. Hepburn. Cannon and Dockery. Tbs bill was passed. The House then went Into committee of the whole for the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill and, after debate, adjourned. The Senate in executive session confirmed a lot of postmasters in Kansas, Illinois. Michigan and lowa In the House Friday, after transacting some business of minor Importance, the Houre wont into Committee of the Whole for further consideration of the District of Columbia bill. In the course ot debate Mr. Kilgore denounced the District nress as subservient to all jobs in the District to plunder the Treasury. At 3 o’clock the debate closed and voting took place on various amendments Without completing the consideration ot the bill the House took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be devoted to private pension bills The night session was devoted to the passage of individual pensions and at 10:23 the House adjourned. In the Senate Mr. Peffer introduced a resolution for an investigation Into the Senatorial sugar speculation. The Bonse bill authorizing a bridge over the East River between New York and Long Island passed without objection. A bill was passed appropriating $200,000 to pay the damages resulting to persons who went upon the Crow Creek and Winnebago Indian Reservation in South Dakota between Feb. 17 and 27, 188 i Then came up the Bland seigniorage bill as unfinished business, which occupied the rest of the day. The House completed the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill Saturday, and passed it after defeating the final 'effort of Mr. de Armond to reduce the share of expenses of the District to be borne by the geneeral government The debate was devoid of all general interest. After an unsuccessful effort on the part of Mr. Sayers, chairman of the appropriation committee, to reach an agreement as to the limit of the general debate on the sundry civil appropriation bill, the House adjourned.

Tuesday in the House was devoted entirely to the consideration of a bill relating to the extension of the time for allowing a street railroad company in Washington to change its system of motive power. The debate rapidly drifted into a discussion of the merits of the cable and the underground electric system, and it was boldly charged that the General Electric and Westinghouse Companies, which held stock In almost all the overhead trolley lines, bad retained all the prominent electric engineers in the country and would not spare money to prevent a practical demonstration of the feasibility of the underground electric road now in operation at Buda Pesth and for a short distance on the outskirts of Washington. To prevent this Mr. Wall proposed to restrict the motive system to be used by the Metropolitan Road to underground electric. No conclusion was reached. In the Senate Senator Gallinger presented nn. amendment intended to be proposed by him to the tariff bill providing that the act shall become operative, so far as importations from Canada are concerned, only by proclamation of the President. The proclamation is to be Issued npon conditions specified. Senator Peffer Introduced an independent tariff bill in the Senate amending the McKinley law in various particulars. His resolution for an investigation as to whether Senators had teen speculating in Wall street was defeated in the Senate. proceedings in the Senate Tuesday were ot an extremely uainterostlng character. Without the intervention of any morning business, except the presentation of a few petitions and the introduction of some unimportant bills, the Senate took up the discussion of the seigniorage bllL Senators Stewart and Lindsay spoke in favor and Mr. Dolph suoke In opposition to it. holding that its passage would destroy the existing equality between gold and silver. Mr. Stewart was unwilling to have the bill amended, for he believed that. to return it to the House would be fatal to It Mr. Stewart delivered a silver speech along the line of fits wellknown theprles. No definite action was taken. The House began the consideration of the bill making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses ot the Government, and fair progress was made. Only three amendments of any importance were adopted, one appropriating $43,500 for lighting Hay Lake Channel, another of $64,000 for the public building at Buffalo, and another of $30,000 for repairing the postoffice at New York. The latter was fought by the Appropriation Committee. The only other amendment of importance was one made by Morse (Rep, Mass.) to cut off the appropriation fcr the Interstate Commerce Commission. This amendment was overwhelmingly defeated.

Leprosy in the West Indies.

Lepers are very plentiful in Jamaica, and they mix with the people without let or hindrance, plying all manner of trades and vocations, even to selling fruit and cakes on the public street, and keeping butcher shops and bakeries. The Governmant has provided a leper hospital at Spanish Town, which ordinarily shelters a hundred or more lepers. But there is no restriction, on their coming and going as they please. Leprosy is fearfully rife throughout the West Indies and in many parts of Central and South America, and the authorities in almost all the various countries are lax in the exercise of control over the sufferers from the disease, and it is allowed to be spread unhindered.

Trucks.

A scheme is broached in Germany of employing electricity to move heavy trucks and drays. This is merely a development of the electric carriage idea, which has been successfully used in that country for several years.

Facts.

Co-operative agriculture thrives in France. Manchester, Va., uses tramps in chain gangs. Syracuse students have human bone cane handles. Over 90 per cent, of Tennessee labor is native born. Galveston handles every year 700,000 bales of cotton. The city of Caracas, Venezuela, had a population of 50,000 in 1810 and 70,000 in 1891. The Philadelphia Board of Health has refused to declare consumption a contagious disease. Since 1840 the world’s production of meat has increased 57 per cent, that of grain 420 per cent. In China the edible dogs are known by their bluish-black tongues. They never bark, and are very laciturn. Four millions and a half are slaughtered annually. To ascerrain roughly the length of the day and night at any time oi the year, double the time of the sun’s rising, which gives the length of the night, and double the time of setting, which gives the length of the dayl