Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Page 2

JljeJlrnwaaticSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McETCEN, - - - Puelishd.

CAMPED ON HIS TRAIL.

STORY OF RELENTLESS COREAN VENGEANCE. End of the “Financial Napoleoa*’—Chicago Alarmed at the Spread of Small-Pox—To Dispense with the Smaller Custom Houses. A Tale from the Orient. Balzac or Gaboriau never wrote a more thrilling story of long pursuit and successful revenge than comes by the China steamer in accounts of the assassination In Shanghai of Kim Ok Kim, the Corean refugee It cccurred in a foreign hotel in the European settlement. and the assassin. Hung, was arrested and held for trial. Hung camped on Kim’s trail for six years is the hope of getting him outside of Japan. While in the pay of the Corean court he cultivated the acquaintance of Kim, who had lived at Toklo for several years under a Japanese name Hung induced a Corean exile, who owed Kim a large sum of money, to write offering to pay the old account with interest if Kim come to Shanghai. The Trial will probably" show that the court promised the assassin a big reward for removing a dangerous conspirator whom the Japanese government had saved from their vengeance for ten years. Kim was the ablest Corean who has come to the front since the hermit kingdom was opened to foreigners He spoke Japanese, Chinese, French and German fluently.

TO ABOLISH USELESS OFFICES. Proposed Plan to Do Away with a Number of Small Custom-Houses. Some legislation is probable during the present Congress looking to the abolition of the offices of collectors of customs at a, number of the smaller ports and the transferring of the business to the larger offices. It is asserted that the expense of maintaining the smaller custom-houses is unnecessary jiiid,many times results in actual loss of revenue on account of the Inexperience of officials. A bill Is now before the House Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department which proposes to discontinue the office of collector of customs at over forty of the smaller ports. Including Burlington. Iowa; Galena, III; La Crosse, Wis ; Grand Haven. Mich., and Rock Island. HL Assistant Secretary Hamblin reports that with the exception of Brownsville and Corpus Christi. Texas, there appears no objection to the, continuance of forty ports named. He also favors a more comprehensive measure authorizing the consolidation of some of the districts in the interests ot economy. The total receipts for the fiscal year 1893 at all the ports named in the bill, excepting Brownsville and Corpus Christi, were $5,097 and the expenses SBO,601, an excess ot expenses over receipts of $ 5,504. SMALL-POX IN CHICAGO. - The Health Department Unable to Care < for the Victims. is raging In Chicago, and the city and the county stand, for the nonce, helpless before the pest There are ten cases of the hideous disease in the county hospital and that great institution Is under quarantine. No patients can be taken into It; no patients can be discharged from it The small-pox, accoeling to a dispatch, is worse than at any time during this visitation and is increasing daily. For the first time the officials of the city and the county have become seriously alarmed, aud while every measure possible Is being taken to estop*the progress of the disease among the people the officers are really TmbarrasseS and there seems to be a disposition to stammer and halt among them. On all sides the situation looks black and it Is getting blacker every day. ? HENRI S. IVES IS DEAD.

The Railroad Wrecker Dlen of Consumption in North Carolina. Henry S. Ives the railroad wrecker, died near Asheville. N. C. at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday night, ot cnisumptlon. Ives had been In ill" health for months. Last winter he epent some time at Tampa, Florida. He was then a physical wreck. Ives was but 30 years of age, yet he had gained the name of being the wildest speculator and most unprincipled ra> cal that ever operated in railroad stocks. In 1882, when but 18 years of age, he was employed as spittoon clc»aner and sweeper In the New York office of Harper & Bros His rise was phenomenal, and his daring was equaled only by hfs criminality. He wrecked the fortunes of many men, several railroadsand his own; and by a career of wild dissipation ruined his own health. He came from Litchfield, Ct. Strong Box Rifled. Dr. A E. Evans’ box in the vaults of the Commercial Safety Deposit Company, Chicago, was robbed ot $4,270. How the robbery was accomplished neither the doctor nor the officers of the safety deposit company claim to be able to explain, suspicion fell on Dr. Evans’ office boy, Wallace Galbraith, and his friend, Richard I’arsona They were arrested Friday at Buffalo, N. Y. Shooting at Indianapolis. The law office of Miller, Winter & Elam, In Indianapolis, was the scene of a sensational shooting. W. B. Copeland, of Madison, Ind., shot Addison Q Harris in the arm, inflicting a painful wound. He also ■hot W. H. Bruning, of Madison, in ths face. Mr. Harris is one of the most prominent lawyers In the State and Is one of the Iron Hall attorneys. Children Crushed to Death. The celling of Riverside school, in Point 6t Charles, a Montreal suburb, collapsed. Three children were crushed to death and aevefal wounded. i -

Piano-Maker Knabe Dies. Ernest Knabe, the noted piano manufacturer, died Tuesday afternoon st Baltimore. Balm for a Broken Heart. At Findlay, Ohio, In the breach of promise case of Emma Martin against Dr. Lorenzo Firmin, the jury returned a verdict In favor of the plaintiff for 11,000. The peculiarity of the case lies In the fact that the defendant is 03 years old and was only recently married to a young woman. Strike May Spread. An officer of the A. R. U. says that the first move made by the Great Northern to hire non-union men will be met by a strike on the Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific lines, thus blocking absolutely all traffic . ;Vt ■< - b•' A ■ One Million Loes. The plant of the American Glucose Company burned Thursday night at Buffalo The loss will be about $1,000,000, The Insurance is KBMOOI All but twelve of the sixty men employed In the building at qhrht have been accounted for, It is feared that they are in the ruins Russell Sage to Appeal. The papers are being prepared in the appeal Of Bussell Sage from the verdict assessing him in dsmages to the tune of $2«.for making a target of Bookkeeper Laidlaw when Norcross, tl.e anarchist, attempted io blow the financier to pieces with a djaamlte bomb

DECREASE IN FAILURES. Favoaablw Progress Has Been Interrupted, but the Outlook Is HopefoL R. G. Dun &■ Ca’a Weekly Beriev of Trade says: Business Improvement meets many obstacles and Is scarcely as distinct as It has been in recent weeks. Strikes have checked the improvement in building and in some other trades, and scarcity of coke has caused closing of some Iron works. while a strike of all bituminous coal miners la ordered, and may prove serloua More favorable crop reports than were expected, which justify larger hope for next fall, have arrested the upward tendency in prices of product! The renewal of gold exports occasions soma disquiet, but the gradual exhaustion of goods in the hands of dealers makes the consumption of the people more distinctly felt and apparently larger, and thia demand increases with the gain in number of hands at work. It cannot be said that the uncertainty as to the future has materially diminished, but there is evident a growing impression that there will be no important legislation on the currency or the tariff. This impression, whether erroneousjor not, influences the action of many. On the whole, though progress is still obstructed by uncertainties, it has not been arrested. The most cheering sign is the decrease in importance of commercial failures.

LAKE ERIE DRAINED OF FISH. Many of the Ohio Companies Are Seeking New Fields. A few days ago nine carloads of fishing nets, a small tug and other fishing appar- ' atus were shipped from Sandusky to a point near the Lake of the Woods, on the boundary line between the United States and Manitoba. The shipper was the Sandusky £ompany A whijb is compose! of the combined fish companies of that city. Lake Erie is said to have been drained of fish, there being too many fishermen for the stock. Nothing but soft or the least desirable fish remain and the company goes north under the belief that great quantities of whitefish and sturgeon are to be had with comparative ease. It is said that other fishing companies along the north coast of Lake Erie will soon follow suit, returning to Lake Erie when cold weather sets in in the North. None of the Toledo companies will go this year, but will probably do so If Lake Erie should not make a better showing by next spring. DEATH OF SENATOR VANCE. The Distinguished North Carolinian Passe, Away at Washington. Senator Vance, of North Carolina, died at his residence, Na 1726 Massachusetts avenue, Washington. D. C., at 10:40 o’clock Saturday night. He had a stroke of apoplexy In ths morning. He had been suffering for some time from paralysis and a complication of diseases, but the end was sudden and unexpected, as he was regaining his health and It was thought was on the road to recovery. He was compelled during the winter to leave the Senate and ga to Florida. Here he grew ao me what better, and in view'of the struggle over the tariff he returned to Washington. He was a member of the Committee on Finance, but took little or no part in framing the present tariff bilL His last appearance In the Senate was eight weeks aga

NOT A SOUL ON BOARD. Abandoned Schooner Ashore at Newburyport—Crew Believed to Have Been Lost. The schooner Jennie M. Carter, bound for Philadelphia with a cargo of pavingstones, went ashore at Newburyport, Mass., without a soul aboard, and it Is believed the entire crew has perished. When first seen her sails were In ribbons and her jibboom and bowsprit were gone. Her rudder was "’also missing aud the vessel was drifting at the mercy ot the terrible seas toward Sand Beach. In half an hour she struck and was soon pounding herself to piece! When she was boarded no one was fonnd aboard. A large threemasted schooner is ashore at Salisbury Beach, and two bodies have been washed ashore. BIG STRIKE BEGUN. Great Northern Road from Larimore to Spokane Tied Up. , A general strike on the Great Northern Railway extending from Larimore, N. D.. to Spokane, Wash., on the main line, and from Havre to Butte, on the Montana Central. was Inaugurated at noon Friday. Nearly 1,503 miles of road are tied up. The strike embrace! all classes of employe! Every conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, operator, clerk, shopman, section man, car repairer, and coal heaver between the points named quit work together, and the switchmen with the exception of those employed In the Butte yard. Blow at Breckinridge. The Now Albany Presbytery took action in the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal and adopted resolutions to be presented at the general assembly, which meets at Saratoga next May, asking that mon of dissolute and immoral habits be excluded from the national councils. Mello Takes Rio Grande City. Dr. Silveira Martine, the Brazilian revolutionist at Montevideo, received a telegram saying that the insurgent forces under Admiral de Mello have occupied Rio Grande City. St. Lonis Millionaire Dead. The richest man In Missouri, John T. Davis, merchant prince and owner of the largest dry goods trades in the Country, died In St Louis Friday of kidney disease. McKsne’s Last Hope Gone. Judge (Lacombe, of the United States Court at New York, has denied the writ ot habeas corpus asked for in the case of John Y. McKane.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 CO & 5 00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 @ 6 60 Sheep—Fair to Choice 300 @6OO Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 @ 62 Cobn—No. 2 38 @ 39 Oats—No. 2 32 @ 33 Rye—No. 2 49 a 6i Butteb—Choice Creamery 23 @ 24 Eggs—Fresh 11 @ 12 Potatoes—Per bu 60 @ 75 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 ot @ 450 Hogs—Choice Light 3 00 @ 5 28 Sheep—Common to Prime 3 00 @ 4 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 58 @ 66 u Cobn—No. 2 White....; 39 & 40 Oats—No. 2 White 36 @ 36W ST. LOUIS. 1. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 so Hogs ;.... 300 @ t 2.1 Wheat—No. 2 Red 66 @-.. 6614 Cobn-No. fit 35J40 8&« Oats—No. 2 33 gt 34 Rye—No. 2..; 49 @ 51 CINCINNATI Cattle 300 @ 4 M Hogs... 300 @5 25 Sheep ... 3 00 @ 5 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 56)$@ 67'4 COBN—No. 2 40'6@ 4116 Oats—Mixed 36 @ 36 Rye—No. 2 34 @ 66 6 DETROIT. Cattle 3ot @ 4 so Hogs. sot @ 6 60 Sheep 3 00 9 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 58 @ 6814 Conx—No. 2 Yellow 41 @ ,4: Oil s—No. 2 White 37 @ 38 TOLEDO. H Wheat—No. 2 Red 59 @ 60 Cobs-No. 2 3814@ OiTe— No. 2 Mixed 34 (« 34J3 BYEv-No. 2.. 60 @ 62 BI FFALO. Bjtry Cattle—Prime Steers.. 360 <S 576 W heat—No. 2 Red». 60 @ 61 Cobs—No. 2 Yellow 43 @ 44 Oats—No. 2 White 38 @ 3814 „ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Nd. 2 Spring 57 @ 68 Cobs—No. 3 39 @ 3014 Oats—No. 2 White 34U@ 361 a Rye—No. 1 48 @ 50 Babley—No. 2’ 66 @ 57 POBK—Mess 12 50 @l3 60 NEW YORK. Cattle 300 @6 oe Hogs. 3 7* @ 6 00 Sheep ; 300 @6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 @ 66 Cobh— No. 2 44 @ 46 OATS-White Western 39 @ 44 Butteb—Choice. 24 @ 26 Pom— Mem 14 00 @l4 to

MADELINE IS WINNER.

JURY GJVES HER A VERDICT FOR $15,000. Notorious Pollard-Breekfnrldge Breach of Promise Case Is Ended at Last—SmallPox Epidemic Is Not Abating in Chicago— Pest House Overcrowded. Jury Strikes an Average. The Pollard-Bre?kinridge trial in Washington is ended at last and Madeline Pollard has a verdict for $15,000 against the silver-tongued Congressman from the blue-grass region. The jury rendered its verdict after having been out a little over an hour. The fury took fifteen ballots before reaching a conclusion. The difference was mainly over the amount of damages to be granted, and there was but one man on the jury who favored the defendant. On the first ballot one juror voted for the defense and hung out for a time, but his colleagues

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thought he dic| it more for the sake of argument than because he was strongly in favor of Col. Breckinridge. A number of ballots were required to reach a compromise on the amount of damages to be awarded. Two or.thiee jurors wanted to give the full amount of $50,000, while the others thought that merely nominal damages would serve to express their opinion that the Congressman had treated Miss Pollard shabbily. Col. Breckinridge, according to a dispatch, was very cool after the verdict had been rendered. He declined to speak at that time lor publication, as did his attorneys. Mi-s Pollaid was somewhat excited, but not hysterical, while awaiting the result, and broke into tears when she heard it. She declined to be interviewed, and her attorneys said that she was anxious to efface herself from the publje sight as far as possible, now that the case had ended. Congressman Breckinridge will appeal the case, and in the meantime will go to Kentucky and demand a re-election as a “ vindication." The Verdict I» Announced. At 4:35 there was a rush toward the court-room. Judge Bradley and the jury entered at one door. Col. Breckinridge, his son and Col. Phil Thompson, his attorney, by the other. There was some delay in waiting for the other parties. Every one knew the jurors had not come in to ask for instructions, because they carried their

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coats and hats. The jury had been out only one hour and twenty-eight minutes. There was an intense silence. Five minutes passed before Attorney Carlisle, representing Miss Pollard, entered. Judge Bradley requested the people to refrain from uemonstrations. Then the verdict of $15,000 for the plaintiff was announced. There was no expression of approval or disapproval from the crowd. Col. Breckinridge himself rose to make a motion for a new trial and the court adjourned. There was nothing but expressions of approval and regrets that the amount was not larger among the few Senators in the Senate chamber when the bulletin was announced to them and rapidly passed around the chamber. Since the verdict was rendered the theatrical managers have redoubled their importunities, and several telegrams came td Miss Pollard offering her astonishing sums to go upon the stage at once. Her friends decline to give the names of the theatrical managers or to discuss their offers, saying that no attention will be paid to any of them. Ask Congress to Take Action. Hardly had the verdict in the Pol-lard-Breckinridge case been rendered when a meeting of prominent Washington women was called to take action regarding the case of Col. Breckinridge. Representatives of several feminine organizations met at Willard’s Hotel, and, after an interesting conference, adopted resolutions calling ..upon Congress to consider the qualificationsbf Representative Breckinridge for membership in that body.

PEST HOUSE CROWDED.

A Most Serious Condition Affairs Exists in Chicago. One hundred and twenty-six new cases was the small-pax record in Chicago for the last week as shown by the books jnt the Health Department. Twenty-five of these were reported on Friday;, twenty-three on Saturday. Eleven, had I een discovered up to ”4 o’clock Sunday., and the department declares the disease is still spreading. One hundred and eighty-six patients, says a dispatch, are in the pest house, several are in the “suspect" ward of the County Hospital, and a number are ! quarantined in private houses because ' there is no room in the city's hospital, | No more women or children will be re- i moved' from infected houses unless 1 some extra provision is made for their care. The Department of Health, by its officials and inspectors, declares itself unable to meet the emergency' and prevent the further spread of the disease unless fnrther facilities are provided lat once and the people of the wards most affected co-operate in reporting naw ca-es as soon as they arise.

The most serious condition of affairt has been found jjn the southwest portion of the city, enpcc.ally in the Ninth and Tenth Wardi Dr. M. Brand, the inspector, found three persons dead in their houses Sunday, and two similar cases on Saturday. The people living in the houses had concealed the existence of smallpox until death came and they were compelled to call in the undertaker. He notified the Health Department and Dr. Brand was sent to investigate. Went to School and to Church. “It would not be well to give the addresses,” said the doctor wnen he was asked about them, “but they were.in families where the people had been passing in and out, the children going to school, the family attending church and going about as if small-pox were an every-day affair. That seems to be nothing extraordinary, either. I have had a number of cases where the first word we had of them was from the undertaker. Generally we find one or two new cases in the house with the dead body, but the isolation of such cases is not enough to stop the trouble, JjecjusQ wg are called in alter the harm has been done. *• 4 “Another thing, and the most serious obstacle, is the opposition to vaccina tion. The Poles especially seem to re. gat d inoculation with fear as a thing to be dreaded. It is next to impossible to persuade the residents of the district to protect themselves and their neighbor from contagion. As a result the condition of things here is serious and something’ought to be done at once if they aae not to be worse. “Here is an. example of the way the disease is scattered: I was called in to. examine a patient in a house. I found a little girl already dead, another sister in the first stages, and the father, who was a butcher, attending to his shop every day. There had been no attempt to isolate him. He sold fresh meat to hundreds of people in that neighborhood, and it will be . strange if some of them do not come down sick. To make matters worse, the sanitary conditions in the district are very bad. Not an alley in the Ninth or Tenth Ward is paved, and almost all of them are filled with trash.”

TO RESIST COXEYITES.

lowa’s Governor Orders State Militia Under Arms. Nine companievof the lowa National Guard in the western part of the State were under arms, ready to go to Council Bluffs in case their presence was needed, to prevent lawlessness and disorder on the part of Kelly’s Western industrial army. Governor Jackson, according to a Des Moines dispatch, received a te egram from the Sheriff of Pottawattamie County, asking him for troops to preserve the peace and prote :t property. The Governor at once ordered Company I, of the Third Regiment, lowa National Guard, at Council Bluffs, W. E. Atkinson commanding, to report to the sheriff for duty. The company numbers forty men, and is one of" the best in the State. A short time afterward N. M. Hub-, bard, Jr., of Cedar Rapids, attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, arrived in Des Moines and hurried to the Capitol. He represented to the Governor that the trunk lines of railroad which touch Council Bluffs would be unab’o to protect their trains and other property from the invaders. He feared that the 000 desperado men in Kelly's army would capture trains on some of the east-west roads running into Council Bluffs and run them wild eastward, possibly causing wrecks and disaster. Gov. Jackson ahrioffheed his intention of preserving 01 tier and preventing the capture of any .trains in lowa, and in company with iM r. Hubbard started for Council Bluffs in a special train over the Chicago and Northwestern. Before leaving Gov. Jackson telegraphed to Adjutant General Prim, who is in Cherokee, to report for immediate duty and through Maj. J. R. Prim issued orders to the following companies to assemble at their armories and await marching orders: Company G, Third Regiment, Creston, 40 men, Capt. W. J. Fuggan; Company 1, Third Regiment, Bedford, 65 men, Capt. M. Miller; Company K, Third Regiment, Corning, to men, Capt. A. B. Shaw; Company B, Third Regiment, Villisca, 45 men, Capt. S. P. Moore; Company M, Third Regiment, Red Oak, 42 men, Capt. J. W. Clark; Company E, Third Regiment, Shenandoah, 40 men, Capt. 0. L. Shaffer; Company L. Third Regiment, Connell Bluffs, 40 men, Capt. W. E. Atchison; Company L, Fourth Regiment, Sioux City, 50 men, Capt. W. A. Kirk; Company H, Sioux City, bO men, Capt. J. A. Haley.

Frye’s Army Splits in Twain. Vandalia, Ill.—General Frye and his arm camped here last night. Ever since their arrival here the men argued strongly that they could make no headway walking, and many of them being sick and worn out from their long journey declared they would go no further on foot. It appeared the men censuied General Frye for not making a greater effort to get transportation, and this morning they voted by company to throw General Frye overboard and elect a new general more in sympathy with their ideas. The vote showed a very slight majority in favor of retaining General Frye. Then the men opposed to following General Frye openly declared they would go no further with him. Shortly before noon General Frye started on the National road east, followed by about 200 men. The remaining 156 held a caucus and decided to seize the first Vandalia freight train east and ride as far as possible.

Vinette's Armv Is Arrested. San Bernardino, Cal.—ln response to a call from Colton for help Sheriff Booth,with forth-eight deputies armed with shot-guns, went to Colton to arre st the second Los Angeles regiment of the army of the unemployed. After quietly leaving this city the army under Captain Vinette marched to Colton and during the night took possession of a Southern Pacific freight train. The engineer side-tracked his train and refused to haul the men. Upon the arrival of Sheriff Booth and pcsse, the army was ordered to get off the cars, whicn command they refused to obey. The town hose cart was then drawn out and water from the city waterworks was turned on the men. They did not leave, however, until the army was placed under arrest to a man. Coxey at Massillon. J. S. Coxey, the leader of the commonweal of Christ, who so suddenly disappeared from the ranks of the army at Addison, Pa., on Thursday, made his appearance in the streets of Massillon Saturday morning. Mr. Coxey arrived there Friday night, and was driven directly to his home. When questioned about his commonweal, he answered that it was a glorious success, and that Washington would be reached without trouble of any kind. To Be Vaccinated or Quarantined. The Indiana State Board of Health passed an order demanding that the Indianapolis Board of Health publish an official order that every person in the city be vaccinated immediately or submit to be quarantined. Alex. S. Paris, 16 years old, who forged the name of Agent C. Bryan, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, at Cincinnati, and secured $675, was brought back from San Francisco.

SINK IN THE STORM.

MANY VESSELS WRECKED ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. Ship* Founded to Pieces In ths Sight oi Men Who Can Render No Aid—New Jersey Towns and Railroads Softer. Sea Hath Its Perils. A Score of Lives Lost For two days last week the whole Atlantic coast from Boston to Balti* more was in the clutches of the worst storm since the never-to-be-forgotten blizzard of 188®, and not only the coast, but all the States north of the Carolinas and east of the Allegheny Mountains, including the whole of New York State, sucked in the icy blasts and drew them as far as Buffala It was a terrific strife of the elements, and did incalculable dajnagq to life and property tKrdughout the most densely populated part of the country. For twenty-four hours the winds of the ocean rushed furiously past Sandy Hook, up through Hell Gate, at the rate of sixty-nine miles an hour. This would have been disagreeable and dangerous if the wind had no companions, for such a wind nat only, wrinkles the sea and makes it turbulent and perilous to ships and their burdens, but it has power enough t> overturn buildings, to uproot trees, and to play havoc with the means of human communication. But the wind was not alone this time. It was accompanied and assisted by snow and sleet, which made it bitter cold. Together these three swept the sea and the land,covering the habitations of men with an icy veil, heaping the earth high with a blanket of snow, playing witn mighty vessels as children play with whittled boats, lifting them high on the crest of a mighty wave and then plunging them into an abyss of churning waters and crushing them there; breaking men's limbs and beat.ng their lives out against the jagged rocks, hurrying through the streets of cities, as a mountain torrent plunges boiling through a narrow gorge, tearing down telegraph poles as if they weie toothf dcks, twisting thick and heavy wires ike cotton thread, and withal roaring and howling in hideous triumph, like the myriad devils bf a nightmare. In some respects this storm was more dreadful and disastrous than the blizzard which paralyzed New York six years ago. That was fiercer, but it did not diffuse itself over so great an area. Thursday every foot of ground east of Buffalo was covered with thirty inches of enow, which had been falling for more than twenty-four hours. Nearly every telegraph and telephone wire in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware was torn down by the fury of the blast. New York was practically isolated. Baltimore, Boston. Philadelphia and Washington were in a similar plight.

Terrible Work of the Storm. The work of the storm along the Jersey coast was something terrible. Furious gales of wind and monstrous seas wrought havoc and destruction. Buildings, trees, telegraph and tele- , phone wires, railway tracks, embankments, wharves and fences all yielded to the destructive fury of the elements. Above it all stands out the loss of human life. Many vessels, large and small, were wrecked. The crews of the Sandy Hook, Sauan and Long Branch life-saving stations yut Qj.it to the assistance of the disabled vessels as soon as they were reported ashore, but it was not known when the first dispatches were tent out that a single life had been saved, as the furious sea running and the blinding snow prevented any effective work upon the part of the life-savers. Atlantic City suffered considerably. Waves dashed over the board walk, and at times this famous attraction was threatened with being carried out to sea. Gen. Earl’s hotel, says a dispatch, the Normandie-by-thp-Sea, is likely to be totally wrecked. At Galilee the ocean is undermining St. Peter's Church, which the tide will also probably bring down. In Morris, Bergen and Warren counties roads were impassable. Trains on railroads running into Jersey City and Hoboken were all delayed. The meadows between Jersey City and Hoboken and Newark are several inches under water and nothing is visible except telephone and telegraph poles. At Bayonne many boats and boathouses were washed awav. At South Amboy a partially erected house was blown down, and at New Brunswick electric light, telegraph and telephone wires were levels Ito the ground. Incalculable damage was done to the fruit'crops. The peach crop suffered particularly, and it is feared that the entire crop will prove a failure. Farmers throughout the State will be heavy sufferers.

Wrecked Off Milwaukee. A. little yawl biat, nine feet long, drifted to the beach, teveral miles north of Milwaukee, bearing the unconscious form of Capt. William B. Wood, the only survivor of the schooner Island City. The other two men who comprised the crew of the lost boat were undoubtedly drowned when the boat went down. Capt. Word was so nearly dead from exposure that 1 e barely managed to crawl to a farmhouse near the shore and then became unconscious again. He arrived in the city in the afternoon and told the story of the loss of his boat. ' Overflow of News. A severe snowstorm prevailed in Western Minnesota. An incendiary, fire destroyed 5,030 bales of straw at Anderson, Ind. Fifty-two Samoans'have arrived at San Francisco for the Midwinter Fair. Fifty Alabama court officials have been indicted for making fraudulent returns. T. & W. R. Carnahan’s dry goods store burned at Findlay, Ohio. Loss $70,000. The German Reichstag has adopted the commercial treaty negotiated with Uruguay. At Buffalo, N. Y.. two white men and four Chinese were arrested for smuggling. J. D. SCRINGER was arrested at Benton Harbor, Mich., charged with embezzling SIOO. Congressman' Hermann was renominated by the Republicans of the First Oregon District. At Brinton, Fa., three men were killed and fourteen injured by the premature explosion of a blast. Mrs. Mary Vineyard, an old settler of Eastern Indiana, was killed by a Panhandle passenger train at Florida, During a wind-storm at Siloam Springs, Ark., the house of John Simpson, living one and a half miles from there, was blown away and W. S. Simpson, a brother, killed. E. D. Smith was arrested at Laramie, Wyo. It is alleged that Smith embezzled S6OO of Government funds while he was postmaster at Jewell, Kas. The prisoner was taken to Topeka.

OUT OF THE PARTY.

Senator David B. Hill, of New York, Break* Away from Daanoeraey. Washington dispatch: Not since the dags of the silver debate last "fall has there been such a

crowd in the Senate as was present Monday to listen to Senator David B. Hill, of New York, on the tariff question. The Senator did not begin until 2 o'clock. The galleries were crowded to their utmost capacity. The public ‘galleries were all ’filled: the diplomatic too, was crowded, and the

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seats set apart for the families of the President and Vice President were also occupied. Outside the halls the corridors were thronged with visitors anxious to get into the galleries, and thej stood in long lines awaiting their turn. C)n the floor of the Senate were fully fifty memlers of the House of Representatives, all anxious to hear what the Senator frtm New York had to say upon the tariff question. Mr. Hill’s speech was dirappointing in that it made no definite announcement-as to his purpose regarding the final vote on the tariff bill, if such a vote is ever reached. It wai expected that he would attack the President and some of the views of the administration, and it was also anticipated that he would violently assail the chairman of the Finance Committee and the members who had directed the formation of the tariff bill. The Senator met the expectations upon these points, for the opening paragraph of his speech contained a direct reflection upon the President. Later along he criticised the Hawaiian policy of the administration and paid his respects to Secretary Gresham with the declaration that the Secretary of State was not a Democrat. Eventually he around to Mr. Voorhees and the Finance Committee, and he pitched into the Chairman in rather pointed language. His remarks in this particular were not such as are calculated to create harmony between the opposing factions on the Democratic side of the Senate regarding the pending tariff bill. Senator Hill is criticised even by some of his friends for having indulged Buch a course at so critical a time. Mr. Hill read his speech from printed proof slips, though he appeared to need the copy only for occasional guidance, his delivery being as free and natural as if he was speaking extemporaneously. His voice and pronunciation were such as to render every sentence distinct and forcible. He was frequently interrupted by applause. The main portion of his speech was an argument against the income tax, and it is regarded as unusually strong. Few of the Democratic members, however, believe that the income tax provision will be stricken out. The Senator clearly intends to vote against that provision of the bill, and it ij now understood that he will vote against the entii-e measure if the income ttx is retained in it. In view of this fact it is reasonably certain that Senator Hill may be counted among the opponents of the bill upon its final passage. That is the calculation by the frjer.ds of the measure since hearing his speech. Mr. Hill’s speech on Monday marks the beginning of a critic il period in the history of the pending tariff legislation.

AHEAD OF LAST YEAR.

Wluter Wheat Crop In Various Sections Make? a Good Showing The condition of winter wheat on the first of April, as reported by the statistician of the Department of Agriculture, averages 86. per cent, for the entire country, last year the average being 77.4. In 1892 it was 81.2 and 96.9 for the year of 1891. The corresponding average for rye is 94.4 per cent. The averages of wheat for the principal States are as follows: Kentucky, 83; Ohio, 9u; Michigan, 83; Indiana, 90; Illinois, 87; Missouri, 88; Kansas, 72; Nebraska, 85; lowa, 87. The average date of seeding in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys t was late, owing to the dry weather. In general, however, the conditions cf soil were not unfavorable to planting and germination. Very little damage is reported from the Hessian fly, and that only in sections of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. The weather from seeding time until recent cold waves swept over the country, except in cases hereafter noted, has been very favorable to the growth of the plant. In the Eastern, Northern, and Northwestern States snow covering has afforded protection in addition to that of a mild temperature. The returns in regard to the effects upon wheat resulting from the recent cold spell are not so satisfactory nor so conclusive as desirable. The injury to the crop is considerable, if not great, but the comments of the correspondents accompanying the report would seem to indicate that the full extent of the damage was n< t fully determinable at date of transmission. In the Eastern and Northern States the damage was comparatively slight. In the Southern Atlantic and Southern States the damage is marked and decided, with perhaps the exception of Texas. While in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky the injury from frosting is considerable, the extent of same is contingent on future meteorological conditions. The returns indicate that freezing to the ground was quite prevalent, especially on low and rich moist land, but with roots left untouched, or at least alive, with good prospects of recuperation on the recurrence of favorable weather. In the States of Kansas, Nebraska and California the impaired condition of the crops has not resulted so much from the frost as from cold weather. High winds are also noted by Kansas correspondents as one of the Causes of unfavorable conditions.

PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION.

i Gives Notice That the Behring Sea Act Is a Law and Must Be Observed. President Cleveland has issued the I following proclamation: Whereas, An act of Congress, entitled “An act to give effect to the award ren. dered by the tribunal of abltratlon at | Paris, under the treaty between the Unit. I ed States and Great Britain concluded at I Washington, Feb. 29. 1892. for the purpose I of submitting to arbitration certain quesi tlons concerning the preservation of the fur seals,” was approved April 6, 1804. [Here ihe act is quoted In fulL] I Now, therefore, be It known that I, Grover I Cleveland, President of the United States of America, have caused the said act ; speedily to be proclaimed to the end that its provisions may be known and observed; I and I hereby proclaim that any person guilty of violation of the provisions of staid act will be arrested and punished as therein provided; and all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo will be seized and forfeited. i In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the I United Hates to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 10th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight , hundred and ninety-four, and the independence of the United States the one hundred and eighteenth. I t. .v Gbover Cmvrcand By the President: Walter Q. Grisham, Secretary of State

THE NATION’S SOLONS.

SENATE ANQ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Oar National Law-Makera and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. The Senate was engaged in discussing the Wilson bill Wednesday. It will be weeks before the debate is closed, and every member kill be given a chance. Mr.Reed held the House at bay for an hour and a half on a motion to discharge the warrant issued to the Sergeant-at-arms during the fight over the contested election cases to arrest the absentees TheRepublicans, under his leadership, refusedto vote, and the Democrats, being unable to muster a quorum, yielded to an adjournment Both sides of the chamber showed a good; attendance when the Senate met Thursday. Daring the transaction of the routine morning business Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment relative to marriage and divorce, which was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The urgent deficiency bill was taken up. and the last paragraph, Co provide for uniformity In the letting of government contracts for supplies at Washington, gaverise to considerable discussion, as did alsothe paragraph for the printing of an abstract of the eleventh census. Mr. Manderson moved to strike out the clause, as he argued that the abstract would be but a duplication of tbe digest already ordered. The motion was agreed to and the bill as amended was about to be put on its final passage when the hour of 1 o’clock arrived and the question went over, while tbetariff bill was laid before tbe Senate. When the House adjourned late in the afternoon it was still tn a most distressing tangle. The rule which the committee on, rules brought in, imposing a fine of $lO for every refusal of a member to vote, was the cause of the trouble. No business bad been transacted. , Very few Senator! assembled Friday to listen to the tariff speeches. The struggle over the adoption of ths new rule to secure a voting quorum was resumed when the House met. As soon as the journal had been read Mr.'Boutelle lumped to his feet and objec ed. and wben Mr. Dockery moved its approval the Republicans sat silent in their seats. Upon tbe announcement of the vote, 105 to 0, Mr. Boutelie made the point of no quorum and the roll was called.. The Republicans refrained from voting and the result. 155 to 1. showed that the Democrats were twenty-three short of a quorum. Mr. Dockery then moved a call of the House, instructing his side to vote down the motion in the hope of developing a Democratic quorum. But the Democrats failed to get the quorum. Tbe motion for a call was defeated by 140 to 14. The Democrats were still twenty-five short The prospect of a quorum was hopeless, and. as it had' been decided to call a Democratic caucus to consider the rules. Mr. Dockery moved an adjournment, and at one o’clock the Bouse adjourned. Owing to the death of Senator Vance neither Senate nor House transacted public business Monday. Resolutions of respect to the memory ' of the distinguished North Carolina statesman were unanimously adopted. Appropriate resolutions were also adopted in honor of the memory of General Henry W. Slocum. One of the new measures submitted to the House was H qu<s?um-counting rule. It Is understood that the rule provides for ascertaining a quorum by counting members present and not voting and {dso for fining members who. absent themselves from the House. The House Tuesday by an overwhelm* Ing vote decided to adopt a quorum-count-ing rule. Neither undue excitement nor tumultuous scenes marked the crushing of the old legislative barriers. The parliamentary wheels then began moving again. A regular gorge of committee reports., blocked by the recent filibustering, were presented under the call of the committees Tbe House then, on motion of Mr. McCreary, went into committee of the Whole to consider the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill. After speeches by Mr. McCreary in support of and Mr. Hitt (Republican) adverse to tbe bill, tbe House at 4:40 adjonrnqd. There was a very slim attendance of visitors in the galleries when the Senate met. The bill to create the southern judicial district of Texas and to fix the time and place for holding courts in tbe southern,, eastern, and western districts was passed. The Senate went into executive session at half-past one o’clock. Twenty-! five minutes afterward tbe doors were reopened, and Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, asked that the resolution to consider the Chinese treaty in open session be laid aside, when Senator Morgan will return tn the Senate. This was agreed to.. Senator Smith, of New Jersev, made an earnest speech, which was devoted entirely to an attack on the income tax; At the conclusion of Mr. Smith’s speech tbe Senate adjourned.

Population of the Ocean.

A striking view of the vastness and variety of the population of the sea has recently been furnished by the results of explorations made by a committee of the Zoological Department of the British Association in that part of the Irish sea surrounded by the Isle of Man. . Out of 1,000 species of marine animals collected, 224 had never before been found in that region, 38 were previously unknown as inhabitants of' British waters, and 17 were entirely unknown to science: indeed they were animals whose existence had never been suspected. If such discoveries reward a few weeks of searching in so minute a speck of the sea, how many volumes would? be required to contain a list of the-still undiscovered inhabitants of the great', ocean?

A Song Wins a Battle.

Instances are recorded where the; tide of battle was turned by a song. One case occurred November 6,179 z, when the French under Dumouriez encountered the Austrians at Jemmapesy in Belgium. The day was going dead against the French when Dumouriez ran out to the front and raised the “Marseillaise.” Forty thousand voices instantly took up the chorus, and in-, spired biy the magic of the battle song,, the French rallied and fell so furiously upon the Austrians that the tide of battle was completely turned and victory given for defeat.

Fires Two Bullets at Once.

A retired French naval officer has Invented a rifle which is capable of firing two kinds of explosive bullets at once.

QUAINT BITS.

Lotteries in England were abolished in 1826. | The first harp was a tortoise shell, with a string tied across it. The French census shows a total of 390,000 foreign work people. ' AN .Egean piece of the year 700 B. C. is the oldest coin in the world. I The wall flower in floral language signifies fidelity in misfortune. | Something like 32,000 varieties of goods are manufactured f rom wool. I Chimneys were first put on houses of more than one story in Italy in 1347. I A spider’s eyes are not in his head, but in the upper part of the thorax. ' The earliest reaping hook was the I lower jaw of an antelope lashed to a , stick. | I The fashion of serving fish before meats began, it is believed, as far back ajß 1562. Japan, according to a new census just completed, shows a population of 41,089,940. France is the only great country which does not show an increa?e in population.