Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Page 2

Bljf gemorraticSe ntinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - Pubushdp

SHOW FOR JUSTICE.

CHETLAIN LOSES CONTROL OF PRENDERGAST. Reports of Pennsylvania Floods—To Look Into Armor Plate Frauds—Frenzied Action of Georgia Lynching Mob—Disastrous Explosloa. Away from Chetlain. I Some judge other than Judge Chetlain. of Chicago, will preside at Prendergast’s Insanity trial The lawyers for the State have made every move that legal Ingenuity could suggest In the direction of getting the case transferred from Judge Chetlain’s court to some other court. Every stratagem failed but one; that one was to apply for a continuance extending beyond the date which would mark the termination of Judge Chetlain’s term In the Criminal Court. The State desired, If a continuance was to b granted at all, that It should be until June 18. There was stubbornness < n both” sides An agreement was finally reached and June 11 was entered 'btf the record. In signing that date Judge Chetlain signed the death sentence of his connection with the case. As was subsequently shown. Judge Chetlain was not fully conscious of this at the time. READS OF HIS MURDER. John Crow Will Free the Xian Sentenced for Life for Murder. John Crow left 'Muncie, Ind., for Jackion. Mich., the other evening on an important mission. He said: “I an: going to free a man who has been in the penitentiary nine years and is innocent. I am supposed to be dead. In tho eye of the public I was murdered nine years ago this month near Big Rapids, Mich., and now a man named John Van Nlmmangs is serving a life sentence in the Michigan State penitentiary. My name is John Crow. Since that time I have not been aware that anything was wrong until a few days ago, when I picked up a Detroit paper and read an article about an attempt being made to secure the pardon of John Van Nimmanzs. who is in the penitentiary on the charge of murdering me." DEATH ALONE NOT ENOUGH. Georgia Lynchers Fire 600 Bullets Into a Hanged Negro. Near Arlington, Ga.. last Friday evening, the 14-year-old daughter of Washington fcmlth was assaulted by a negro while returning from school Mr. Smith came up on horseback and the negro fired three bullets Into his body and fled. Mr. smith died Bunday morning and the daughter is not ■expected to live. Sheriff IViik.ns captured the negro Sunday afternoon and placed him under a strong guard in the Miller County jail At 3 o’clock Monday morning an armed band of seventy-live meu ■ stormed the jail and took the negro to Bn Oak tree in tho public square. They hanged him to a tree and Cred 500 bullets Into his body.

FLOOD LOSSES CUT DOWN. Entire Damage In the Conemangli Valley Now Estimated at 8125,0110. As near as can be estimated the loss by the flood in the Conemaugh Valley will be $125,00J. The Pennsylvania Railroad’s loss is 150,000. The floods between Johnstown and Conemaugh are rapidly subsiding. Bridge No. 2, reported washed away, is Intact 'trains continue to run by way of Huntingdon branch, the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, and tho Southwest Pennsylvania, Around Williamsport the w’aters are slowly receding. It. Is now believed that the worst is over and no further damage will result from the flood, though it will be many days before the Susquehanna Elver will fall to its normal condition. SEVEN WERE INJURED. Boiler Explodes at New York and Crashes Through a Building. Seven persons wore Injured, two seriously, by the explosion of a boiler at 15lith street and Eagle avenue. New York. Tho boiler, which weighed three tons, was blown seventy-five feet Into the air and landed in a stable In Ann street, seventyfive fset away. It crashed through the roof and through two floors, landing among thirty horses. The boiler is said to have been defective and to have been reported as such to the boiler inspector a week ago. The boiler was used to run a drill in blastjlng rocks for the foundation of a mansion to be built by Ebling, the brewer. TO INVESTIGATE A SCANDAL. Armor-Plate Inquiry to Fall to the Lot of the House Naval Committor. The House Committee on Rules reported back a substitute for tho Dunphy resolution. ' The. substitute authorizes tho House Committee on Naval Affairs to lntbstt*uto the armor-plate scandal. A great mass of Information has been collected br the special committee, and ft is expected that this data will be called for by Chairman Cummings. and that all the persons connected ■with the 'manufacture of the defective plate will be summoned befcre the Committee. , ' < ———-.- BIMETALLISTS IN CONVENTION. Delegates Present from South and Central America and Mexico. The Pan-American Bimetallic Association, composed of representatives from the Halted States, South and Central America and Old Mexico, met In Congress In Grand Army Hall at Washington, D. C., under the gu dance of Col A G Fisk of Denver, Colo., president of the association. The purpose of the congress was to memorialize Congress to restore sliver to Its ancient right Bl a ratio not to exceed sixteen to one. ■William to Be a Guest of the Czar. The Moscow Gazette says that Emperoi Will am will probably be the Czar’s guest at the northern army maneuvers, which will be held around Smolensk. Judge Jenkins Condemned. Judge Jenkins was condemned by th< House Judiciary Committee by the adoption of the, Boatner report The resuß will be the introduction of bills to correc' the law so as to prevent a duplication o the Jenkins Injunctions and the offeilngol b resolution condemning his course. • , Julia Marlowe to Wed. Miss Julia Marlowe, the actress, is soot ternary Robert Tabor, her fdrtner leadinp man. A story to this effect was confirmed by Miss Marlowe herself in an Interview. Killed by the Cars. Ben Kltzman, aged 18, a son of Lewis Kltxman. a conductor on the Chicago and Northwestern Road, fell between two cars on the Milwaukee Road at Winona. Minn., end was cut In two, dying Instantly. Desperate Fight with Reds. At Roubaix, France, a desperate fight has taken place between the police and a mob of anarchists who were parading the streets and shouting uVlve I’lnternationale" and “A bas la France.” Banker/ Oppose Repeal. Tennessee bankers’ convention at Memphis passed resolutions opposing the repeal ot the State bank Ui la*

r DOWN TO THE BOTTOM. Never Before Was the Wheat Trade So Paralyzed. j - Never in the memory of the oldest traders on the Chicago Board of Trade has the wheat market been so paralyzed as it Is right now. The bears have all they want. Traders dare not buy and the feeling of uncertainty is so strong in | the ring at the wheat pit as to make l the body of them feverish and wild. There seems no hope of reaction—no prospects for a permanent bracing of the and there is not an expert on the floor, bull or bear, that has the hardihood or the courage to predict. The market Is as If It bad been hit In the head with a hammer, and seems unable to recover consciousness. Opinions differ as to the cause of this remarkable movement, that in a few months has carried wheat down to a point that has not been equaled In nearly seventy years. The decline has acted like a debilitating drug on the spirits of the traders. Money has been made by the bears, but quick action has been a thin? almost foreign to the board except In one or two instances that came with a sudden drop in prices and as sudden a readjustment from purely incidental causes. The trend of the market has been and Is that way still—downward. About the only ones who are losing money by the conditions, however, are the speculators. as very little actual trade Is done by the farmers. PERISH IN THE SEAS. StoutrVeasels and Creyvs Succumb to the Fury of the Gale. Tip to nightfall Friday the furious gale had driven eight vessels on the beach at Chicago, and ten sailors were known to have peirished. The vessels were the schooners Evening Star, G G. Mixer. Myrtle, Lincoln Dall. Jack Thompson, J. Loomis McLaren, Mercury, and Rainbow. The Myrtle alone lost six men. At Milwaukee the M. J. Cummings went ashore and seven men were lost The G G Barnes was lost, but her crew escaped. At other points, from Milwaukee around to Ashtabula, 0., twelve vessels were driven ashore, but there was not great loss of life. The gale was furious and long continued, and every harbor held boats’ which had put In for shelter, while outside each port there were many at anchor, the attempt to enter being too dangerbus; Still others went trp or down the lakes uni dec bare poles ’Wfote the screaming wfndj their crews krfowlng no rest or safety. The ’ catastrophes oft Chicago and Mllwaus kee were witnessed by of people, and some of the sailors perished within a few feet of shore. Thlb was the worst storm known on the lakes In years, and it came with a suddenness that caught many unprepared, and with no forewarning from the Government signal service. The full list of casualties will not be known for several days.

FINED FOR CONTEMPT. Chicago Election Commissioners Assessed 81,000 Each for Their Contumacy. To pay a fine of $1,1)00 and to remain in jail until such fine be paid was the penalty Imposed by Judge Chetlain on Election Commissioners P. H. Keenan. A. TV. Hutchings, and Henry Schomer for refusing to obey tho court’s order to submit to inspection by tho grand jury the ballots cast at tho April election in the twenty-second precinct of the Twenty-ninth Ward. Chicago. The proceedings werd dismissed as to Chief Clerk W. A. Taylor, because It had been shown that'ho had no authority over the ballots The respondents were not in court and an order of commitment was at < nee Issued and sent to Sheriff Gilbert, Instructing him to arrest the contumacious Commissioners and lock them in jail. The absence of the Commissioners from tho court-room was Intentional. They did not appear because they expected an unfavorable decision and wanted to be arrested. By this procedure they ceuld at once make application for release on a writ of habeas corpus and thus bring their cases before the Court of Appeals. Royal Commission Commends. A London dispatch says: The British Royal Commission to the World’s Fair at Chicago has just issued its report. It Is decidedly favorable to the exhibition. It gives an excellent description of the exhibits, and concludes by saying: “It 1 la Impossible for those who did not visit the exhibition to understand the enthusiasm which pervaded It and the genuineness of Its character. It would be an easy matter to criticise Its shortcomings, but it is undeniable that It was a courageous inception, splendid In execution and successful in its results” In all previous exhibitions tho exhibits have been almost the sole attraction, and It has suffice! If the buildings furnished suitable shelter. The great feature of the Chicago fair was the unique arrangement of the frame of the picture. Enormous sums wero lavished upon the splendid temporary palaces. Concerning the part taken In the fair by Great Britain, the report says that Great Brltalu had less to gain by tho exhibition than any of her rivals, yet If she had not taken a i romlnent part It would have been extremely disastrous to her trade.

Minnesota and Wisconsin Suffer. The great storm wbich.Bwept over Minnesota and Western Wisconsin Tuesday night was the most severe since the cyclone of April 14, 1886, crushed elghty-slx lives at St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, So far as reported only four people have been killed, but tbe loss to buildings, crops, .hfldges and -railways, by wind, hall,' lightning and flood will foot up at least $500,009. The downpour of rain for a given period was the greatest known. The storm broke in the region of Fergus Fulls, Minn, .about 3 o’clock in the afiernoon and swept central, eastern and southern Wisconsin. Insignificant creeks grew from placid streams to raging, muddy torrents Railway traffic Is In a state of utter demoralization, Over an area of twentvfive miles the worst effects felt and on the Chicago linos the washouts have been particularly severe,'

The National Game.' The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand MVoHows In the champion- 1 ship race: _ Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Clevelands.l7 i> .778 Brooklyns..ll 1* ~7« Baltimore. .16 7 .69rlNewYorSs.il 13 .tea Plttsburirs lS 7 Bants...Vi It: .117 Phtladeln'an 8 'JWil.onlsvllles 8 13 .316 Bostons... .11 10 .'8 iChioaeos ... B 15 .'les Clnoirinatl.il 11 .BaulWashlnct’n 3 22 .12j WESTBBN LEAGUE GAMES. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sionx City. 12 6 .7t<J Gid Rapt dell 12 .bo, Toledos 14 « .MBllndlau’p’ls 7 14 .333 Kansas C‘vll. . 7#'“;j.67J'Ml[wa’keea 4 8 .333 Minne'p’llsll 8 J7J|Detrolts... C 14 ,3ut) Fishplates on the Track. Tramps made an attempt to wreck a night express train on the Boston and Albany Road, neat' Cordaville, Masi, by piling a ton of fishplates on the track. The train was going at the rate of forty miles an hour when It struck the obstruction, and went through without serious Injury, only the locomotive'being' damaged. . ■ Judge T. S. Wilson Dead. At Dubuque, lowa, Judge T. a Wilson died Wednesday. He was born In Ohio 81 years aga Wilson was appointed Judge by President Van Buren. He declined the Democratic nomination for United States Senator In 1888. Killed by a Thug. Officer James Hartnett was shot and fatally wounded while trying to.arrest a negro thug at St Joseph. Ma Awful Fate of Seven Men. Possibly the worst wreck the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southern Railroad has had for years occurred In Standing Rock tunnel, ten miles east of Princeton, Ky., Saturday

morntßf Extra freight train Na *O2 In charge of Conductor Kinkle, ran Into tbe work train 1 , whlch~wa* graveling near Dawson, in charge of Conductor HilL Midway In the tunnel Conductor Bill and six gravel men were killed outright and several slightly injured. Engineer Jones, of the extra freight, saw the danger just In time to jump and save his life. The cause of the wreck was due to either the carelessness of the flagman of the work train or to Conductor HilL who was killed. The flagman was left at Dawson, two miles away, to stop trains until the work train could make the siding, and he claims he gave orders as he was directed. When struck the work train was backing through the tunnel to make a siding a few yards teyond. The extra freight running twenty-five miles an hour, dashed into it. completely demolishing four or five cars of the work train and the engine and several cars of coal of the freight Many of the trainmen had miraculous escapes from death, and the accident happened so quickly that no one save the engineer and his fireman left their train. They were on the train before they saw it and their escape seems miraculous TONTI ORDER ASSIGNS. Liabilities Up in the Millions, and Said to Have 81.200,000 in Assets. The Order of Tontl has gone the way of the Iron Hall, the Earnest Workers, and other bubbles The executive committee of the order assigned at Philadelphia to the Land Title and Trust Company and Francis Shunk Brown, the order’s attorney. Although the assets are estimated to be in the neighborhood of $1,200,003, the liabilities cannot be approximated. President Clausen had ext ected the blow, when, upon his election to the presidency, he began to examine the flimsy state of the bubble, He found that there were $529,000 of matured certificates outstanding, with others rapidly approaching maturity, and with no cash to pay them without a draft on the reserve fund. He saw that in two years the order would be called upon to pay out $7,000,000, and that the very best it could do would be to have 13,000,000 to meet the demand. The order’s attorney said a large assessment would not stand the test of law, and so the Supreme officers decided that the only thing to do was to make the assignment. ;OG i, STRIKE DEPRESS IT. Yet Trade Shows Remarkable Soundness *• In Spite of. Them. R. G. Dtm & Ca’s Weekly Review of .Trade say st, •; . , , v The obstacles to Improvement do not Lessen. Tho strikes of coal miners and coke tvorkers have not ceased, but have caused the stoppage of numerous works and embarrassment to some railroads The conference at Cleveland exhibited much angry feeling and wider differences than had been expected and seems to render agreement more distant. Proceedings in the Senate do not indicate that the latest form of tariff revision has made speedy final action more probable. Yet the recuperative force of the country is so great that observers are constantly amazed ut the volume of business transacted, the tonnage being transported, the number of works resuming operations, and the general soundness of trade, notwithstanding influences which in any other land would produce dire disaster.

JUST MISSED A FORTUNE. Largo Sum of Money Sent to St. Louli Swindlers 'Which They Did Not Got. Now that J, B. Breeding bas been arrested In Bin Antonio, Texas, charged with the forgery of tho Wells-Fargo Express Company money orders, it has been learned that If tho swindling firm of ’1 rend, Smith & Foster had been allowed a few days it would have reaped a fortune. There are about 300 registered and ordinary mall letters ut the Sb Louis postofflee addressed to the firm, and these letters are known to contain drafts and currency amounting to $20,000, but not one was delivered. The funds at tbe postofflee are remittances from banks to which the firm sent Its forged money orders for collection. Johnstown Flood Recalled. The reservoir In the Allo.-heny Mountain: at Kittanning Point, six miles above Altoon, on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, broke early Monday morning, and the flood poured down upon Hollidaysburg. The break in the darn Is fifteen feet wide. A mighty volume of water is behind tho breast . A Pennsylvania locomotive was sont down to Hollidaysburg. six miles, to warn tho people. It was a wild race with tho flood. When the people of several towns heard the news there was a panic. An earlier report of danger had put tbe residents on tho lookout They fled for safety and awaited developments. The reservoir Is used to supply city of Altoona with water and the break Is In one section. Victim of the Oil Can. Mrs. Annie Komentzky and her 2-year-old babe wete fatally burned at their home in Pittsburg by the explosion of an oil can. The woman poured oil In tho stove to start the fire and the explosion followed. Russian Nihilists Again at Work. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that four bombs were found near the Imperial Palace. An enormous number of arrests have resulted, tbe prisoners being of all classes of society. Dr. Meyer Found Guilty. The New York jury in the case of Dr. Henry Meyer, who Is accused of having poisoned Ludwig Brandt, rendered a ver--dlct of murder In the second degree. ■ i. Charged with Embezzling. Clarence Schulte, father of eight children. was arrested at St. Louis on a charge of embezzling 14,000 from the J. 11. Rottmau Distilling Company.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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LIFE TERM FOR MEYER

NEW YORK POISONER CONVICTED OF MURDER. Career that Throws the Records of Newgate in the Shade—How His Murders Were Plan' and Executed—Fiend In Human Form. Story of Font Crimea Told. Dr. Henry C. F. Meyer was convicted in New York of murder in the second degree, punishable by imprisonment at hard labor for life. His crime was a long series of murders for the insurance on the lives of the men marked for victims. Tne testimony at the trial revealed only a portion of what is alleged to be a career of crime unmatched in the records of the Newgate calendar and unrivalled even by the most gruesome imaginings of Edgar Allan Poe. The number of people said to have been sacrificed by Meyer is not known, hut the indications are that a score of imen and women have been his victims. Meyer is supposed to have poisoned his first wife, his own child, an alleged wife in Toledo; Henry Gildeman, of Chicago: and Ludwig Brandt He is also under suspicion of having administered poison to his second wife (Gildeman’s widowl, in Chicago; an old woman in Chicago, and Mary Neiss, now the wife of Carl Muller, alias August Wimmers. The Wimmers and Mullers were the most important direct witnesses against him. Meyer was born in Minden. Prussia, about forty years ago. He began to

DR. HENRY C. F. MEYER. [One of the worst criminals of the age.]

practice medicine in Chicago in 1878. He got into trouble there over the suspicious death of his first wife's son after he had married the widow of Gildeman. He was arrested, but was discharged for lack of evidence. About 1888 be married his present wife, the daughter of a man named Gressen. Soon after this Meyer was arrested on the. charge of forging his father-in-law’s name to a heavy life insurance policy. He was tried and acquitted. During his detention in jail, Meyer made the acquaintance of Ludwig Brandt, who, like himself, was locked up on a charge of forgery. Brandt was the son of a General in the Norwegian army. When beth had been released, Meyer resumed his practice in Chicago and employed Brandt as his collector. In P9l Brandt was insured under the name of Gustav Maria Joseph Baum for large amounts. Brandt agreed to help Meyer in making a little mon y out of the insurance companies. Brandt was to feign sickness, a corpse was to be secured by tho doctor and passed off as that of Brandt. Btandt s death was to bo reported and certified, and when the insurances were collected the spoils were to be divided.

Meyer persuaded Brandt that it was necessary to the success of the plot that Brandt should pose at the husband of Mrs. Meyer. A marriage ceremony was actually performed on Feb. 11, lb!)2, and Brandt called at tho in-

MRS. MARY MEYER. [Wife of the convicted poisoner.]

surance offices and had his policies made payable to his “wife.” 1-our or five days later Brandt and the Meyers went to New York <with a man who then used the name of August Wimmers, who had served two years in Joliet for using the mails in the distribution of fraudulent matrimonial advertisements. L'aum. or Brandt, began rapidly to fail in health. It is charared that he had been dosed by minute but continuous doses of antimony. On March, 1892, Brandt died. Dr. Minden gave a death certificate, statim? chronic d-sen-tery as the cause. Ihe widow applied for her insurance money with such indecent haste that the suspicions of the companies were aroused. Wimmers and the Meyerccuple scented danger and left town in a hurry. The doctor and his wife were heard of after that at Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, Detroit and S uth Bend. Ind. Detective H. G. Julian, of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, was detailed to run down the criminal. It was a long and difficult chase. Meyer changed his name and his icsidence so often that he continually threw his pursuer of! the The chase lasted some twelve months, and finally ended in t:e capture in Detroit.

An Air Ship for Use in War.

The celebrated inventor of the Maxim gun, one of the most formidable of modern war weapons, is engaged 1 in trying to perfect an ao ial vessel tor use in warfa e. By means of this he hopes a besieging party may sail over an enemv’s defenses and from midair shower down dynamite bombs or other explosives, blowing fo-tilications itato atoms without the slightest risk. David Dudley field’s Handwriting. The handwriting of the late "l avid Dudley 1- ield is said to have been so illegible that few compositors could translate it. It is said that compared with it Horace Greeley’s sc.eeds were copper plate. P. A. Sage, a San Francisco grocer, committed suicide by hanging.

FLOOD'S WILD SWEEP.

KEYSTONE STATE THE SCENE OF A DELUGE. Horror* of the Johnstown Flowd May Be Repeated Williamsport, Lock Haven and Other Towne Are Under Water—Several People Drowned. Great Damage Done. Furious floods have broken loose throughout Central and Western Pennsylvania and already great damage has been done. They are sweeping down every valley, carrying destruction to villages, hamlets and cities, and the loss to property of all kinds wili be enormous. Several people have been drowned and it is feared that there will be great Ices of life, as the floods are the worst that have occurred in this State since 1889, the year of the Johnstown calamity. The beautiful city of Williamsport that suffered so severely in 1889, is threatened 1 with destruction, and people fear that the horrors of five years ago may be repeated in the Susquehanna Valley. Steady rain pouring down for three days swelled all the streams, and numerous cloud-bu’ sts along the tributaries of the Susquehanna River have caused the streams to overflow their banks. The great lumber boom near Williamsport broke. There were 175,000,000 feet of logs in the boom, and they rushed down the river and will be a complete loss. The Susquehanna River has been rising steadily according to dispatches. Nearly the entire business portion of Williamsport is under water. The Western Union Telegraph office, which is situation < n comparatively high ground had three feet of water on the floor, and the telegraph operators were forced to abandon their instruments and seek a ptace of safety. Passenger trains on the Pennsylvania Road are only running as far as Dewart, and no trains are running over the Northern Central Railroad between Williamsport and Elmira. * Williamsport Under Water. At one o’clock Monday afternoon the water in the river had reached a height of thirty-one feet above low water, one foot highe • than the disastrous flood of 1 889. The entire city is under water, which ranges in depth from four to twenty feet. All the logs of the boom have been swept away, as well as many sawmills and houses in the lower part part of the city. Not a telegraph ortelephone wire is working out of the city, with the single exception of a shaky long-distance telephone wire which was placed at the disposal of the Associated Press correspondent. The loss has already reached more than a million dollars, and, the dispatch says, unless relief soon comes, it will be three times as much. The boom at Lock Haven broke and 15,00:1,000 feet of logs have been lost. The Upper Linden boom also broke. It contained 10,000,030 feet of logs, and they have gone down. There are about 150,000,000 feet of logs in the main b om and half as many more in the city mill-ponds that may go on a twenty-five foot flood. There has been no telegraphic communication with Lock Haven since 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, at which hour the telegraph operator was driven from his office by the rising flood. The flood there is very high, and between Eellefon'e and Rising Springs two spans oi one of the railroad bridges were carried away. There is a sevenfoot flood in Lycoming creek, and at Rising Springs the water is eighteen inches higher than it was in 1889.

Sparks from the Wires. Jared Benson, a pioneer of StPaul, Minn., is dead at the age of 72 years. I Philip Merkel, a carpenter, was j killed at Quincy, 111., by tailing from a building. John Massa, a hotel proprietor at Illiopolis, 111., fell from a boat and was drowned. WETTER’S<«ircus was damaged $lO,. OCO by a winiand rain storm at Canalport, Ohio. Charles Richards, a farmer, was killed near Vincennes, Ind., by a bursting grindstone. Gen. Frye, the commonweal leader, was refused permission to hold a meeti ing in Cincinnati. The City Council of Mu catine, la., has fixed the saloon license at SI,OOO under the new mulct law. Miss Pearl Manuel committed suicide at Elgin, 111., by taking cyanide of potassium. No cause for her action is known. Health officers of Illinois met at Springfield and formed an organization calculated to improve their general efficiency. All employes of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad have been requested by the company to submit to Vaccination. James Talbot, administrator of the Davis estate, has commenced action to l recover stock in the bank at Butte, ■ Mont M valued at $1,000,000. I Julius Schwabacher, son of a rich : dsstTer at Peoria, 111., caught in the i act of committing a burglarv. has been declared insane. ■ Data concerning the identity of movements of anarchists in possession of the French Government is to be given other countries. Cincinnati authorities forced food down the throat of Father O’Grady, the murderer of Mollie Gilmartin, who I was starving himself. i Efforts are being made by promoters of the exposition at Atlanta, Ga., to secure the Government building used at the World’s Fair. Frank Belt, after being terribly beaten, was robbed of SBOO nearßaberton, Ohio. Five men are under arrest i charged with the crime. For killing his unfaithful wife, Wiil--1 iam McKeill paid the extreme penalty I of the law at Mobile, Ala. i A warrant has b:en issued for : Bookkeeper J. J. Kean, of the Harlem : Fiver Bank at New York, on a charge i of having embezzled $19,000. j The Knights of Honor at their Cin- : cinnati convention decided to refer the question of a 'mitting women to the Older to the subordinate lodges. Frank Goodale, a well known jockey, was thrown from the horse Judo- e I Payne at I.ouisvi le and trampled 'to ■. death by the horses following him. j Strikers at Massillion, 0., have he- ' gun a system of relief on the theory that the strike will not bo called off. ' The seventy-five striking miners who have been at Elmwood, 111., trying to induce men there to strike' have given up the buttle and gone home. Mrs. Math,da A. Patterson, of Chicago, has petitioned Congress to appropriate $5,000,600 to purchase lands on which to settle unemployed thousands. Ben Kilzman, aged 18. son of Conductor Kilzman, of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road, fell between two cars at Winona, Minn., and was killed.

PROBE FOR A BRIBER

SENATE HEARS A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR INVESTIGATION. Senator Lodffe A»ks the Appointment oi • Committee to Look Into the Tariff Scandal—Sensational Stories of Rottenness Are Afloat in Washington. ' Inquiry I« Demanded. The alleged attempt to bribe Senator Hunton, of Virginia, and Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, to vote against the tariff bill has aroused great excitement in Washington. The matter was taken up in the Senate Wednesday morning when Senator Lodge introduced a resolution authorizing the appointment of five Senators to investigate charges of attempted bribery of Senators in connection with the pending tariff bill, and also the

charges in a long article published in the Philadelphia Press Monday morning containing allegations J relating to the inL fluence of the g sugar trust upon 3 tariff legislation. He asked for the immediate consideration of the res-

SENATOR LODGE.

olution. but Senator Cockrell of Missouri asked that it lie upon the table until the following day. ♦ Rumors of the use of money to influence action one way or the other on the tariff bill have been in circulation in Washington at various times during the last few months, but heretofore have received little attention. It is learned definitely, however, that certain Senatorshave received in-

timations that a money consideration could be secured for their votes against the tariff, though whether the alleged briber had any authority for the promise is a matter of some doubt. The negotiations apparently have gone no further than intimations to the clerks of Senators Kyle, of

South Dakota, and Hunton, of Vir ginia. These intimations came from a North Dakota man who is known as a lobbyist on several schemes. He was formerly a member of Congress from the Southern States and was identified with the so-called carpet-bag government.

The amount Which it was intimated Senator Kyle could receive was $14,000, and SI,OOO was to be retained by the man making the negotiation as a Commission. Mr. McFarlane, clerk to Senator Kyle, says the matter never went any further than an intimation. He promptly informed Senator Kyle. The character of the man who is said to have made the intimations stamps the whole affair with the seal of condemnation. It is scarcely possible that any ryndicate of persons who could control the amount of money necessary in ot der to make an attempt to purchase votes would intrust it to the man who made the intimation to the clerks of senators Kyle and Hunton.

How Fourteen Lives Were Saved.

The following circumstance occurred at the Cape of Good Hope: In one of the violent storms that often occur there a vessel was forced on the rocks and beaten to pieces. The greater part of the crew perished miserably, as no boat could venture to their assistance. Meanwhile a planter came from his farm to see the wreck, and knowing the spirit of his horse and his excellence as & swimmer, he determined to make a desperate effort for their deliverance, and pushed into the thundering breakers. At first both disappeared, but were soon seen on the surface. Nearing the wieck, he caused two of the poor seamen to cling to his boots, and so brought them safe to the shore. Seven times did he repeat this perilous feat and saved fourteen lives, but, alas! the eighth time, the horse being much fatigued and meeting with a formidable wave, the gallant planter lost his balance and was overwhelmed in a moment. He was seen no more, but the noble horse reached the land in safety.

Very Old Bank Notes. The oldest bank notes are the “flying money” or “convenient money” first issued in China, 2697 B. C. Origina'ly these notes were issued by the treasury, but experience dictated a change to the system of banks under government inspection and control. The early Chinese “greenbacks” were in all essentials similar to the modern bank notes, bearing the name of the bank, the date of the issue, the number of the note, the signature of the official issuing it, indications of its value in figures, in words, and in pictorial representations of coins or heaps of coin equal in amount to its full value. and a notice of the pains and penalties for counterfeiting. Over and above all was a laconic exhortation to industry and thrift: “Produce all you can; spend with economy.” The notes were printed in blue ink on paper made from the fiber of the mulberry tree. A Chinese bank note issued in 1399 B. C. is said to be preserved in the Asiatic Museum at St. Petersburg.

A Strange Phenomenon.

The most singular aerial phenomenon in the world is the Fata Morgana, a sea mirage seen off the coast of Calabria and between Italy and Sicily. It presents the phantoms of cities, houses, temples, palaces, and ships, sometimes inverted, occasionally at an angle. The phenomenon has been known for many ages, and formerly occasioned great and widespread alarm, being regai ded as an evil omen that betokened some general and severe calamity.

Effective Baptism.

At one of the smaller cities of New England there was an Episcopal church which had two mission chapels, comrrionly known as the East Ena Mission and tne North End Mission, from the parts of the city where they were respectively located. One day the rector save. out the notices in his most distinguished high church tones, as follows; “There will be a service at the North Fnd Mission at 3 o’clock, and at the Fast End at 5. Children will be baptized at both ends.” —Boston Transcript.

Odds and Ends.

No soap was made in England until 1521. The railrdads of this country employ 33,136 locomotives. Japanese children are taught to write with both hand-. About twenty-two thousand vehicles pass over London Bridge every day. The membership of the Ancient Order of Foresters is upwards of 850,000. The most ancient coins are of elec: trum—four parts of gold to one of silver. The Thames pours forty million cubic feet of water into the sea every hour.

THE NATION’S SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our Ifational Law-Makers and What The, Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed. Discussed and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. The Senate occupied Its time Wednesday In considering tariff bill amendments 'the House passed the bill for the validation of affidavits jnade before United States commissioners ita all land entries. Mr. Marsh, of Illinois, severely denounced the practice of the Akricul ural Department ot collecting and publishing statistics of crops, upoa speculators a ere enabled to manipulate the grain and cotton msrseta His apuendment to strike out the para. Enph providing for the publication of monthly crop repbrts Was defeated. Mr. Wilson, of Washington, offered an amendment appropriating SBOO to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue . experiments in the production of Itpmji and flux in «tho State of Washington. Atr.-ed’ to, ..Mr. Coffeen offered an.- amendment. which was adopted, including the sheep scab, pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculosis and other diseases of animals, which the secretary is authorized to investigate. Mr. Hainer proposed an amendment directing the President to enter into correspondencewith the authorities of Great Britain for the abrogation or modification of the law which requires cattle , iryportpd into Great Britain from this country to be slaughtered at the port of entry, and prevents them from being carried to other parts of the kingdom. Agreed to. Mr. Pickier offered an amen meat increasing the appropriation for the purchase, propagation. and distribution of seed from $130,000 to $160,000. Agreed to, An amendment was agreed to providing that after May 1 the Secretary of Agriculture shall distribute all the seeds on hand, giving preference to those persons whose namesand addresses have been furnished by Senators and Representatives in Congress, and who not before, during the same season, been supplied by the department.

The Senate again wasted a day. Thursday. in a bootlei-s fight over tariff bill amendments. Am >ng the bills favorably reported in the House was one by Mr. Chlckering, of New York, from the Committee on Railways and Canals, to inquire into the feasibility ot constructing a ship canal from the Hudson River to the great lakes. Concerning the agricultural appropriation bill Representative Herman offered an amendment raising the appropriation for irrigation investigations from SB,OOO to $25,000. It was defeated. An amendment was adopted authorizing the Secretary of the Agriculture to investigate the nutritive value of food products: also an amendment providing for the introduction of ramie, a Chinese plant resembling silk; also an amendment providing that persons who should knowingly publish a false weather forecast or warnings should be fined not to exceed $50(1 or imprisonment not exceeding ninety days or both. An amendment was also adopted authorizing the Secretary oi Agriculture to inquire as to the feasibility of displaying weather signals from postal cars. At 5 o’clock the consideration of the bill was concluded and. the committee of the whole having risen, the bill was favorably reported to the House, and the previous question being ordered the bill was passed in spite of Mr. Marsh’s efforts tc recommit

SENATOR KYLE.

The Senate Friday decided to Inaugurate longer hours, commencing Monday, and then settled down to real work on the tariff schedule, disposing of eleven pages—more progress than has been made in three weeks. The House found a filibuster on its hands, caused by a motion to consider appropriation bills running counter to private bills. The legislative, judicial and executive appropriation bills were taken up, after an agreement to close general debate at 5 o’clock, and to adjourn over Saturday, was reached. But little progress was made in real work. Mr. Boatner. of Louisiana, gave notice that he would offer an amendment to deduct pay of members for nil time they were absent without leave, except in case of sickness. Adjournment was taken until Monday. The Senate on Monday combined a sluggish investigation of bribery charges with its tariff talk, and no work was done of much importance. Almost immediately upon assembling the House went into committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation bill. Mr. Hayes offered an amendment which declared that the section which allowed the docking of members’ salary had been heretofore repealed. Mr. Dearmond, of Missouri. made a point ot order against the amendment. The chairman (Mr. Richardson) sustained the point of order. Mr. Hayes appealed from the decision of the Chair and the chairman . declared the nays had it. Only a bare quorum voted. Roll-call was demanded, and the decision of the Chair was overruled by 89 to 102. The question was then put on Mr. Hayes’ amendment declaring the statute repealed which authorized the sergeant-at-arms to deduct from the salary ot members for absence. It was agreed to—llß to 84. Mr. Dockery give notice that a yea and nay vote would be demanded on the amendment when the bill was reported to the House. The House adjourned. The Senate disposed of seven paragraphs of the metal schedule Tuesday, after eight hours of debate. Tho debate was marked by quite a number ot interesting clashes between the Republicans and Democrats. The question of civil jervlce reform was given full sway In the House, the occasion being the amendment to strike out the paragraph in the legislative appropriation bill providing for the civil service commission. It gave opportunity for some stirring and not a few amusing speeches. Tho amendment was adopted by a vote of 109 to 71 amid great Democratic applause and Republican cries of “Spells.” No other amendments of any importance were made in the bill, the only ones adopted being to correct the totals of a few amendments. In the earlier proceedings the resolution providing for an investigation of the alleged armor plate frauds was adopted.

The biggest dog ever known was a St Bernard named Plinlimmor, shown at an English dog show in 1886. He stood thirty-five inches high at the shoulder and weighed 214 pounds. Plinlimmon is now in this country, or, at least, was brought to America directly after being exhibited, having been bought by an .American gentleman at a price so large that it is said he never would tell what it was.

In the year 760 A. D. pope Paul I. sent the only clock in the known world as a pi« sent to Pepin, King of France.

It is estimated that 13,009,000 human beings have perished as a result of earthquakes since the year 1606 B. C. The sect of Jains, in India, are the champion long-distance fastens. Fasts of from thirty to forty days are very common, and once a year they abstain from food for seventy-five days. Aluminum is now to be used for engraving in place of stone or steel. It isclaimed that.besides the advantage of lightness, an aluminum plate will furnish 8,000 impressions, against 80 to 100 from a steel one. In water in which decaying vegetables have been infused the microscope discovers things so minute that 10.0J0 of them would net exceed in bulk a grain of mustard, though they are supplied with organs as complicated as those of a whale. Leaves of the Talipot palm in Ceylon sometimes attain the length of twenty feet, with a width of eighteen feet. They are used by the natives in making tents. The leaves of the double cocoanut palm’ are often thirty feet long, while those of the Inaj’a palm on the banks of the rivers of Brazil are sometimes fifty feet long and ten to twelve feet wide.

The Biggest Dog in the World.

The Only Clock in the World.

Bits of Things.