Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Page 2

?hc BrntotrfliicSfittincl J. W. MeEWEN. Publl«her. RENSSELAER, - - • INDIANA.

THEY CUT AND SLASH.

SURGEONS USING THE KNIFE TOO FREELY. Horrible Rites of the Cree Indians—Grand Chance for Getting Big Money In Damages for Race-Horses—Terrible Disaster tn Russian Samara. Dangers of the Knife. Conservative physicians of St. Louis are contemplating a crusade against the incompetent wielders of the surgeon's knife, Many physicians complain that capital operations are being performed when there was nonnecessity forafiem. Of these operations liparotomy'Seems to have been the favorite of the amateurs. Dr. Ihomas O’Reilly, a prominent surgeon, has written a letter to Health Commissioner Homan in which be calls Dr. Homan's attention to the many deaths resulting from laparotomy. He characterizes the knife of the surgeon when employed In such operations to be fully as dangerous as that of the assassin, and in the name of humanity asks Dr. Homan to protect sufferers from this operation. RAN THEIR LAST RACE. Fourteen Blooded Horses Killed on the Rail. A train consisting of six cars loaded with horses left the Hawthorne track via the Great Western Railway for Ft Pant It was derailed by a failing draw-bar at Ftiliman Valley and four men were badly injured and a lot of valuable race horses were killed and maimed in such a manner as to make them useless for racing purposes. Three cars were overturned completely. and. catching fire from an overturned oil lamp, were burned up The injured men were taken from the wreck with difficulty, and their injuries dressed. One was so badly burned that his recovery is considered doubtful The horses killed outright were fourteen io number, twelve of which belonged to W. H. Roller and two ' to the veteran Jack Batchelor, they being all that he owned. Eleven were injured, they being the property of Louis Ezell, G J. Kelly and Pat Dunne ADDS TO THE LANGUAGE. Code of Commercial Nomenclature, Just Issued, Contains Many New Words. Ihe first volume of a code of “commercial nomenclature” was issued from the Bureau of American Republics Tuesday. ' Its 842 pages present more than 100,000 business terms, extending from “A” to “ma- , chines. Inclusive,” such as are apt to appear In commercial correspondence on the American continent and neighboring islands. ViFy few of the terms given are to be found ln dlstiojarles. the latest inventions even in electricity teing fully treated In the present work, 'lhe second volume, completing the alphabet, will be issued some time In July. The book, which Is the most elaborate work yet attempted by the bureau, and which has been in course of preparation for two years, will, It Is thought, be invaluable to persons engaged in business with countries to the south ol the United States*

KILLED TWO BOYS. Electric Storm and Cloudburst Visit a Pennsylvania Community. A cloudburst broke over Penn Valley, Pa., deluging the land and washing away entire fields of growing grain. The damage is worse than that Inflicted by the recent flood. The downpour of water was accompanied by a severe electric storm. Three boys, William and Eddie Loz and Charles Hunter, who took refuge under a tree, were struck by llxhtning. Eddie Loz and Hunter are fatally injured. William Loz will recover. A cloudburst, accompanied by hail and high wind, struck Ellsworth, Kan. Water on the main streets was from two to four feet deep, filling cellars and undermining buildings, ana a great deal of damage was done Damage to crops has been great SUN DANCE ENDED. Cree Indians Conclude a Three Days’ Performance of Torture. A special from Havre. Mont, says: The Cree sun dance has just been concluded here, after going on for three daya Every sheriff in the State had been Instructed to prevent the dance at any hazard,but there was no Interference here. ’J hree braves were hung up by thongs thrust into slits In their breast slashed by Little Eggs, the chief. All fainted before the ordeal was over. A young buck had slits cut In his shoulders, and to the inserted thongs were tied four buffalo skulls which he dragged after him. Eighty pieces of flesh were cut from his arms to be kept us tokens Child Wedding a Failure. The wedded life of Clyde Mann and 11-year-old Anna Zoller, of Fort Wayne, who were married at Goshen last week. Is not proving a very successful deal The bride's parents were opposed to the match and she not being of marriageable age it was necessary to call in William Johnston, a friend of the groom, wbo swore that she, Anna, was 18. On the strength of this they secured a license in Fort Wayne County and flew to Goeheh whereFquire Chamberlain married them. Johnson Is now in the Fort Way ne jail as a result of his perjury and Anna has been captured by her mother.

DEATH AWAITED THEM. Forty-five Russian Merrymakers Drowned in the River Jek. A terrible disaster Is leported from the Russian Government of Samara. A party of young people, numbering about seventy, •were returning from a fete on the River Jek. The boat which was carrying them across the water was leaky and overcrowded. When near Bugulme the boat sank. The drowning people, few of whom could swim, clutched frantically at each other In their efforts to keep themselves above water, and forty-five out of the seventy passengers were drowned. Priest Assaulted at a Funeral. While a funeral was In _projress In St Mary’s Polish Catholic Church lu Reading, Pa., the priest. Father Januskowicz, requested that all those present who were In arrears to the church leave the sanctuary. About 150 of the congregation arose, and, after knocking the priest down, left the house of worship. Verdict of Murder Against Bone. At ' Portland, Ind., Coroner White rendei%ftlfi?Vierdict of willful murder against Policeman Samuel Bone, who killeji Frap.k Guilds. Bone is in the Winchester -jail Valuable Bed qt Ore Discovered. An Immense body of auriferous ore lu one body, a mile wide by two long. Is reported to have been discovered between Rat Portage and Port Arthur, seventy miles south of the Canadian PaclAc Railway. Assays average $8 In gold and J 4 In silver. Geologists have expressed the opinion that the deposit may be from 8,000 to 10,000 feet deep. Killed by an Exploding Boiler. Tbetmller of a sawmill six miles south of Linneus, Ma, exploded Tuesday night. Two men were Instantly killed and two others will die from their injuries. Low Water in the boiler cansod r>e exoloeiom

PLAGCE IN CHINA. Awfal Scourge Carrying Off Celestials by the Thousand. China Is being decimated by an awful plague that is raging there Thousands of people have died from it. and full details of the alarming spread of the terrible scourge hare just been brought by the steamer Empress of Japan. The plague first made its appearance in Canton t.wards the end of April It Is similar to the great plague that raged in London with such direful effect In the sixteenth century, and is carrying off larze numbers of victims. From Canton it soon spread to Hong Kong, appearing there In May. Thus far it is chiefly confined to Chinese All business has been paralyzed by the plague, and most of the big steamship lines refuse to take either passengers or cargoes from Hong Kong. The symptoms of the disease are described as follows: Without any premonitory warning In the shape of a chill, victims are attacked with ? sudden fever, rising to 105 degrees or over. There Is much headache, accompanied by stupon In twelve or twenty-four hours a glandular swelling occurs in the neck or armpit. increasing to the size of a fowl's egg. being hard and tender. With or without the decline of fever, the patient sinks into a condition of coma and dies at the end of twenty-four or forty-eight hours. If six days is reached recovery is possible. In Canton there is scarcely a house that has not some one dead in it The plague commenced there in the Mohammedan quarters, and 100 cases are reposed dally. „■ EKASTUB WIMAN GUILTY.

The Jury Couples the Verdiet with a Recommendation to Mercy. Erastus Wlman, on trial at New York for forgery In the second degree, was convicted Friday afternoon. The court-room was half emptied when word was sent from the jury-room that they had reached a vercict Justice Ingraham took his seat on the bench and the jury filed In. Mr. Wlman did not look at them. He knew what the verdict must be. Several of the jurors showed more emotion than did the defendant “Gentlemen of the jury, ” said the clerk, “have you reached a verdict?” “We have,” said George Murray, the foreman. Mr. Wlman stood up The jury arose. “What Is your verdict? Do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty?” In a voice so low that It could be heard only a few feet away Mr. Murray said: “With sorrow we say It, we find the prisoner guilty, with a recommendation to mercy.” The indictment on which Mr. Wlman was convicted was for forgery In the second degree In forging the Indorsement of E. W. Bullinger to a .check for $5,000 made by R. G. Dun A Co., and drawn on the Chemical Bank. Mr, Wlman said to a reporter: “There Is nothing more that I can say. My case will, of course, be appealed. lam not guilty. I did not intend to defraud any one. I was persecuted, not prosecuted ” CROPS OF THE COUNTRY. Wheat Area Shows a Decrease of Over 3,000,000 Acres. The monthly crop report in the Price Current gives the total wheat area as 35,480,000 acres, against 38,501.000 last year, a decrease of 7.8 per cent. The decrease In winter wheat acreage is 5.8 and spring 10.1 per cent.; total decrease, 3,021,000 acres Condition of winter wheat 1.4 higher than last month, averaging 80.2, against 84.8 for May. Condition of spring wheat 90.7, against 86.4 a year ago. Present position indicates 305,000,000 bushels winter wheat, 138,000,000 spuittg. and total of 443.000,000, compared wlth'Thoman's estimate of production last year of 471,000,000, a decrease of 28,000,000. Area of oats,29,l3s,ooo,agalnst 29,910,000 acres last year, a decrease of 2.6 percent. Condition of oats, 88.7, practically the same as reported a your ago, indicating 716,000,000 bushels COXEY CARRIES HIS POINT. Actually Delivers from the Capitol Steps Remarks Intended for May 1. Jacob 8. Coxey and Carl Browno made their appearance at the Capitol In Washington Friday, and this time actually delivered the remarks which they were not permitted to make from the steps of the Capitol May L Coxey and Browne appeared before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, and for an hour and a half talked to the members of the committee on the Coxey bills for goods roads and no interest on bonds The arguments were in the usual stereotyped form. Coxey, a Washington dispatch says, was mild and gentlemanly in his language, but Browne did not malto so good an impression. MINERS WILL GO TO WORK. Representatives of 20,000 Strikers Meet In Pittsburg. After a long and hard fight the representatives of 20,000 miners In convention at Pittsburg by a standing vote of 89 to 31 Indorsed the acts of the Columbus conference. This ends the great coal strike,, and ' at once the sound of the pick will be heard once more In the land and idle thousands will ha+e work. The rate will be 69 centa Dissatisfaction and violence are features in many districts, especially In Indiana and Illinois. But the strike is broken. The National Gama. 1 The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows In the championship racst

Per Per _ W. L. c*nt. W. L. cent. 11 .W New Y0rk..34 31 .433 Phlledelp’e2B 14 .MT St. Louie. ..36 27 .tit 805t0n.... .81 16 .660Olnclnnatl.il 38 .34# Cleveland..3s 16 .610 Chloazo ~14 30 .813 Pittsburg .38 18 .6'»WaaUngt'nlt 33 .304 Brooklyn.ta 17 .603 Loul»vflh..lO 34 .337 WBBTBBN LBAGUB OAMDS. _ , Per Per <l. Il’ k. eent. W. L. cent. Sioux City .83 9 .780 G’dß»t>lda.l» 38 .404 KMiMCy.37 14 MO Indian’ n'UatS 37 .400 Toledo2B U .861 MUwaukee.lO 34 .2(4 Minn p ile .23 20 .624 Detroit... J 2 31 .27#

Chief Justice of England Dead. London cable: Lord Chief Justice Coleridge Is dead. He was unconscious for a few hours before his death, which was painless His son Bernard will succeed him in the peerage. It Is announced that Baron Ruasell will succeed Lord Coleridge as Lord Chief Justice, and that Sir John Rigby Will become a Lord Justice of Appeal lu place of Baron Russell Robert T. Reid, now Solicitor General, will become Attorney General, and Richard B. Haldeman, M. P.. Solicitor General Ditched Their Engine. The 500 Coxeyltes who seized r. Unlo Pacific engine at Julesburg, Col, and attempted to make up a train to carry them east were thwarted by the accidental ditching of their engine In switching. They then determined to seize the regular eastbound passenger train from Denver, but it was held. Fifty deputy United States marshals have been sent to arrest the Coxeyltes should they seize a train. Assets Have Dtsappeaned. W. W. Brasie, assignee of the National Co-operative Building and Investment Association. of Denver, says the concern will not p« / 1 cent on the dollar. In August. 1892, W. A Hemphill, after examining the books of the concern, reported that its assets were $121,000. When the assignment was made there were $71,000 liabilities and no asseta Assignee Brasie says he cannot find out where the money went. Plot of the Beds. The Washington Post publishes an exjtosure of a plot which bad for Its object the destruction of the Capitol and perhaps other buildings According to the story, the plot was formed at the time Coxey’s army was on the march. The Post says: “The prime mover in the anarchistic plot,

that la, ths Washington end of IL was Honors Jaxoo. He come from Chicago, and Is still in the city. He Is a professional Indian. In Chicago he has been a disturber for years. At the time of the Haymarket riot he narrowly escaped being arrested as a principal conspirator, and was shadowed by the detectives for a long time after that most memorable affair. Jaxon is a half-breed of unknown tribal origin. Be was one of Louis Riel's lieutenants In the Canadian rebellion some years ago. The man has done some little newspaper work, and has frequently passed himself off as a reporter on the Chicago Tlmea PERMITTED TO HANG HIMSELF. Incendiary at Monroe, La., His Own Executioner Before a Great Mob. For six or eight weeks past Monroe, La., has been stirred to a white heat over fires of an Incendiary origin. Although efforts were made to discover the firebugs they escaped detection until the other day, when, after the burning of some small buildings in the outskirts of the town, bloodhounds were put on the tracks of a man who had evidently left the burning building, and the dogs followed the trail, finally running down a man named Day. who was arrested and confessed. The jail was broken open and he was taken some distance from town, escorted by a crowd of 400 to 600 people. Day said he knew bls time bad come, but besought his captors to allow him to execute himself. After some parleying this was granted. Day had the rope which was nrjund his neck flung over, the Itmb of a tree, where It was securely fastened, then he climbed the tree and jumped from the first branch, breaking his neck. His body swayed to and fro. while a shout wont up from the crowd, which had become silent during the preliminaries. The spectators at once dispersed.

VIGILANT CROSSES THE OCEAN. The American Yacht Makes Fast Time and New-Yorkers Rejoice. There was great rejoicing among the members of the Now York Yacht Club when the report that the Vigilant had passed Tory Island. Ireland, was posted on the bulletin-board of their Madison avenue club house. The voyage of the Vigilant Is one of the most remarkable in point of speed ever made by a sailing vessel and while under her present yawl rig she can hardly be classified as a single sticker, her time will bear 1 close comparison with the records of American clipper ships and racing schooners in their palmiest daya She was 14 days 13 hours and 50 mlnuzes In crossing. The fastest trip over made across the Atlantic by a yacht was In 1869, when the Amerl- | can schooner-yacht Sappho sailed froth Staton Island to Queenstown light In 12 days 9 hours and 24 mfnut-. In the great race In 1866 for $90,000 between the American schooner yachts Henrietta, Fleetwing, and Vesta, the Henrietta made the voyage from Sandy Hook to the Needlee, Isle of Wight, in 13 days 21 hours and 55 minutes—an average of nine and one-half knots for 3.106 miles. PHELPS 18 NO MORE. Ex-Minister to Germany Succumbs After a Long Illness. William Walter Phelps died at his residence at Englewood, N. J., Sunday morning after recognizing the different members of his family who were at his bedside. He realized that his end was drawing neat and bade them all good-by. Though known for many years as a representative Jerseyman, Mr. Phelps was born in New York City of a New England family which traces its ancestry back to William Phelps, a brother of John Phelps, who was Oliver Cromwell’s private secretary. He has been a very prominent man in political and diplomatic circles, having been Minister to Austria under Garfield, and Germany under Harrison.

Widow of the Pathfinder Sued. A suit in equity was filed In the United States Circuit Court at Los Angeles, Cal, by Loren Jones, of New York, against Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of General Fremont,• the pathfinder, to restrain her from collecting mouey from Congress for the seizure of land by the Government belonging to her husband. The complainant avers that the land seized by the Government In California was heavily mortgaged by Gen. Fremont and that the property was foreclosed. The complaint severely criticises Gen. Fremont’s business methods. Ashland Babies on Parade. Ike Saner held his annualf'baby parade at Ashland, Ohio, the other night No town In the State has anything like it Seventy-five babies In cabs, ornamented with flowers and evergreens, were pushed up and down Main street by children, headed by Saner, with Frank Hammond’s twins. People, came fifteen miles to witness the scene. The Indomitable Bill. Evidence tends to show that Bill Dalton was concerned In the robbery of the Longview (Cal) Bank recently. The bank officials have Identified the greater portion of the money, some SBOO, found In Mra Dalton’s valise, as that stolen from them. Located in Mexico. Through letters received at his home, J. C. Thompson, the absconding cashier of the First National Bank of Sedalia, Ma, has been located in the City of Mexico. It is thought he Is trying to make amends and return to bls family. Damage by Wind. Considerable damage was done at ard, Oklahoma, by a small cyclone. B. a Rlchley’s house was blown down and his 10-year-old child fatally Injured by falling timbers

MARKET QUOTATION.

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ARREST THE RIOTERS

FEDERAL MARSHALS AT MOUNT OLIVE TAKE FORTY. T Seventh Regiment Fills Striker* with Fear >nd They Offer No Resistance to Officers —Guilty One* Being Apprehended Wherever Found. Cowed by the Troops. Among the coal-mining districts which refused to abide by the Columbus agreement was Mount Olive. 111. Strikers there interfered with the running of coal trains on a road which is in the hands of a receiver, and threatened other lawlessness. Deputy United states marshals from Chicago went down to enforce order, but were routed Saturday in a pitched battle. Governor Altgel’d then orderel out the Seventh Regiment. I. N. G., and the troops reached the scene Monday morning. Then the marshals revenged themselves on the strikers. Forty arrests were made, and the troops took charge of the prisoners. It is expected that fully as many more will be apprehended. Almost without exception the miners arrested are non-English speaking Slavs, Huns, Italians and Germans. The miners were frightene 1 even before the arrival of the boys in blue. In the morning a largely attended meet.ng had been held and a telegram had been sent to Governor Altgeld asking him to have the troops called home and agreeing to surrender all the prisoners that had been taken fr. m United States Marshal Br.nton and his deputies Saturday night. Those who were foremost in the assault upon the marshals were now in mo 4 abject fear of the troops. They knew enough to be aware of the fact that in interfering with a government official they had committed a grave offense. Deputy She iff Henry Hillier has State warrants for more than one hundred additional strikers. He has a large force of deputy sheriffs with him, and he will prosecute the search until he is satisfied that every man in Mount Olive who intimidated train crews or interfered with traffic in any way has been arrested. It is feared that many of the guilty will secretly leave the city. After the troops arrived and pitched camp in the yard of the Zion Evangelist Church, the real work began. Marshal Brinton had United States warrants for the f ur men whom he and his deputies had under arrest for a short time on Saturday. He also had an order from Judge W. O. Allen, o' the United States District Court at Springfield, to arrest everybody who could be identified as having aided in the rescue t f the four prisoners on Saturday evening. “If you want to make some arrests.” said Colonel Colby, “I have some men ready to take care of them. This was addressed to Marshal Brinton and Acting Sheriff Hillier. By this time the old-fashioned board fence around the churchyard bore a wall of humaeity. The deputy marshals and deputy sheriffs had been carefully watching the faces of the men along the fence. Among them was an old man with a sneer on his face, and in broken German he was mocking the commands of the officers of the guard. Two deputy marshals walked out to where he was standing. One got each side of him and he was made a prisoner. He protested against his arrest, but he was hurried back to the west side of the churchyard and placed in care ot the guard. “I’ll never forget that fellow,” said Marshal Brinton. “For an instant last Saturday evening I was of the opinion that he was the instrument by which I was to be ushered into eternity. In the thick of the flgh’t, when we were trying to retain our prisoners, he shoved a revolver into my face and hold it there long enough for me to feel its muzzle grating against my teeth. How it happened I do not know, but one of the deputies managed to knock the gun from his murderous grasp. I am sure that this action saved my life." Rapidly the prisoners were brought in, and as familiar faces appeared the mob of women around the fence jeered at the soldiers in a frenzv. The prisoners are in jail at Springfield and Carlinville.

LIKE HARNESSING OF NIAGARA.

The Des Moines Rapids to Be Made to Work. Progress has made one more stride, and one of the greatest schemes of the century is well started toward realization. The contract for the proposed developments of the Des Moines Rapids water power has been signed and work will soon begin on the canal and power station which is to give to Keokuk and the surrounding country power which shall turn the wheels’ of industry as they never turned before in that locality. For moi e than twenty-five years it has been the dream of engineers and others to harness the immense natural power of the Mississippi River as it flows over the rapids at that point. Many surveys have been made and many plans drawn, but for some reason _oj other the matter was dropped in every instance until two years ago, when Capt. James Anthony, an able engineer, took the project in charge. Then it began to assume practical form. The scheme is to confine the water as it flows over the rapids in a wide canal, and use it in the operation of turbine water wheels, which in turn shall operate dynamos for the generation of electrical energy, which is to be transmitted by wires to the surrounding localities. The Illinois shore is to serve as one wall of the canal. Beginning at the mouth of Larry’s creek, near the Senora stone quarries, a wall similar to that of the government canal at this point is to be built. This wall is to be 20,000 feet in length, with an average height of 17 feet, being 13 feet 4 inches high at the head and 24 feet high at the lower end. the: e being a natural fall in the river of 13 feet 4 inches in that distance. At the head the canaßis to be 1,238 feet wide, and the width is to be gradually reduced toward the narrows, where it will be 400 feet. The wall will then parallel the shore for some distance, then the cmal will gradually widen to 1,485 feet. At the head of the canal a permanent ice boom of solid masonry 1,812 feet long, 10 feet high, and with an average width of 8 feet, is 19 be built. It will extend 100 feet beyond the outer wall, and will be 675 "feet above the end of the wall. At the lower end the canal is to be closed with a dam 930 feet longextending out from the shore, 24 feet high, 51 feet at the base and 5 feet at the crest. Extending out from and at an angle of 45 degrees with this dam will be the foundation for the power house, which will be 200<eet long and 80 feet wide. There is to be a capacity of 20 turbine water wheels, each developing 387 horse-power, capable of operating dynamos generating by the direct current system 27,000 electrical horsepower: At each side of the power house will be thiee flood gites, each 20 feet wide, set between solid masonry piers 26 feet high, with a 40-foot base and 10-foot crest By opening these gates the canal may be emptied in 12 hours. The working head of waler

will be 11 feet, and so vast is the capacity of the canal should the flow into it be cut off the plant could be operated 36 hours with the supply on hand. It is estimated that this improvement will coet $500,000. It is intended to have the canal completed and in working order by January 1, 1896,

THIS REVOLUTION SUCCEEDED.

The Government of Salvador Overthrown by Rebels. After a i evolution of but a month’s duration the government of Salvador has been overthrown and the President. Gen. Carlos Ezeta, has fled the country. The Vice President, Gen. Antonio Ezeta, brother of the President, and the priucipal general of the government army, was killed about three weeks ago, but his death has been kept secret until now. Had he lived, it is safe to say, the outcome of the revolution would’ have been different, for up to his death the government had everything its own way, and its enemies could make little progress with the rebellion. The leader of the revolutionists is Gen. Rafael Gutierez. and it is believed that he will assume the Presidency. Gen. Ezeta, who is now a fugitive, became President in IW-0, when he was successful in overthrowing the Government of Gen. Menandez, whose ar-

CARLOS AND ANTONIO EZETA.

[The former was Vice President and commanded the army. He was killed. The latter, the President, Is a fugitive. bitrary methods had reduced the country to a condition of ferment and excitement. Strong- efforts were made to oust Gen. Ezeta from the position he had gained, but without success, and eventua'l ■ the Salvador Congress met and ratified the choice of the army. As soon as the country was once more tranquil Gen. Ezeta and his brother, Antonio, who was made Vice President, directed their energies to promoting the advancement of Salvador in every direction, and succeeded in placing it in an enviable position. New roads were made and new parks opened, telegraphs were constructed from state to state, telephones from city to city—in short, the whole administration was one of progress. However, the risks of one-min power are as great for the ruler as the ruled, and Gen. Ezeta has not escaped the fate which so commonly befalls autocrats.

A DARING SCHEME.

To Link Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Representative McCleary, of Minnesota, who is a member of the committee on rivers and canals, has laid the foundation of a scheme to connect the Gulf of Mexico with Hudson bay. Mr. McCleary proposes that the United States and Canadian governments carry out the project together, His plan is to have the survey made by way of the Minne-ota river, whose headwaters and those of the Red River of the North nearly join through Big Stone and Traverse lakes. In high water boats of considerable size have crossed from one lake to the other and it would not require a very large canal to connect the waters of' the Red and Minnesota rivers. While the difficulty of connecting the Red and Minnesota Rivers is not great, it is claimed that the rapids in ttfe Winnipeg River have always discouraged the Canadian government from the undertaking. There have been several conventions of citizens of northern Minnesota, North Dakota and Winnipeg looking to the opening of the Winnipeg, River, in the hope that they might find a short water outlet to the seaboard. Each of these conventions ha? been confronted with the obstruction in the Winnipeg Fiver, but Mr. McCleary thinks that if the United States should take some steps toward opening up a channel on this side of the boundary the Canadian government might bo inclined to take some action looking to opening the Winnipeg River.

A RADICAL INNOVATION.

To Elect Federal Senators by the Ballots of the People. A Washington dispatch says: The utter incapacity of the Senate, as demonstrated in its treatment of the tariff bill, has led to a scheme changing the manner of choosing this co-or-dinate branch of Congress. As now constituted, these officials are chosen by the Legislatures of the different States. As pioposed it is meditated to have them voted by the State at larges the same as the commonwealth officers are selected. In the House of Representatives Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, reported favorably a resolution to amend the constitution to allow the Senators to be voted for directly bv the people. The House of Representatives of the Fifty-second Congress passed unanimously such a resolution. The necessity for the passage of such an amendment to the Constitution has increased rather than diminished since that time. Indeed, each year adds to the strength of the argument that the Senate should, by a change in the mode of it; election, be made more sensibly responsible to the demands and voice of the people than heretofore. The present Congress has greatly intensified this feeling, and the change seems to be demanded by every consideration of propriety and justice.

The Result of Vaccination.

Mrs. William J. Garrity, of New York City, is violently insane as the result of being vaccinated three weeks ago. immediately following vaccination, she began to manifest unmistakable signs of insanity, and her condition has become such that she. is now in Bellevue Hospital.

Getting Into Focus.

Old Sol “Been complainin’ about the cold, eh? Well, then, how do you Lko this?”

Y. M. C. A. GOLDEN JUBILEE.

A Great Organlßatloa’* Fiftieth Birthday Appropriately Celebrated. The most important international assemblage lately held in either hemisphere was that of the Young Men’s Christian Association, which has just

closed in London. This coming together celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the par:nt organization and the gold.en iubilee was ushjered in not only with appropriate ceremonies but by the deliberation of a representative body c?mp<Leed of dele-

GEORGE WILLIAMS

gates from the whole world. The United States sent one of the strongest delegations, as a matter of course, but England also was impressively represented, while all the countries of Europe, excepting Turkey, had eminent men to speak for them. Over 1,000 delegates, besides nearly 4,000 visitors, participated. The event had been anticipated in a series of advance preparations for the past two years. The preliminary call had been issued since last year by the International Committee now located at Geneva, Switzerland. It is three years since the first steps were taken at Amsterdam, Holland, for the celebration by the appointment of Gustave Tophel, Chairman: Edward "Barde, Vice Chairman: Jean Billon, Secretary; Frederick Bonna, Treasurer: and twen-ty-two other gentlemen, representing every civi ied nation. Great as was the representation of the United States, it was but typical of every land. The American delegation of over one

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hundred, headed by John Wanamaker, Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, General Secretary Richard S. Moss of the National Committee, Secretary R. R. MeBurney of New York, Rev. George A. Hall, New York’s State Secretary; Luther D. Wishard, Secretary National Committee. G. N. Bierce and E. L. Shuey, representing Ohio. Geo. Taylor from California, Rev. Dr. A. H. Scott of Perth, Ont., and others as eminent in the work, went to bespeak this country's aims in the conference. The place of meeting was Exeter Hall, one of London’s most imposing public edifices. The assemblage was in session lor over a week, and its deliberations included measures for the beginning of a crusade that is designed to spread the movement in every country. And not least among its historical features was the presence, as an honored delegate, of the man who founded, fifty years ago. the first Youog Men's Christian Association, George Williams. He is now the wealthy head of the house in which he clerked at the time when he began his organizing propaganda in a little ro im in London with a few of his fellow clerks. On the opening day of the conference. the Committee on Credentials went into session, and the certificates in all languages were duly approved. The following evening at 7 o’clock there was a reception of delegates at Exeter Hall proper. which was decorated with the-emblems of all nationalities for the occasion. The official welcome came from 8 to 9 o clock in the evening, when the venerable George Williams received the tributes and courtesies of all the visitors.

THE “MODEL TOWN.”

Deplorable Condition of Affairs at Pullman, 111. The condition of affairs in Pullman. 111., is calling for investigation in all directions. Four thousand men are idle there, having struck against a reduction of wages t > the starvation point The entire town of Pullman is private property. The Pullman Company owns not only the lots and houses, but the streets and alleys, school-house sites and parks. Not a dollar’s worth of what, in other towns, is public property has ever passed out of the ownership of Mr. Pullman's c irporation. Not an acre in Pullman has been dedicated to the public use. The “model town” is not a town. It has no town organization nor officers. It is managed by the private corporation, and it is taxed as a farm or manufacturing plant is taxed. It is a peculiar institution in this respect. The officers of the private corporation can fence up the streets and alleys and evict the sch ols frc m the school buildings if they shall so determine.

BRECKINRIDGE’S OPPONENT.

He Is 44 Years Old, Unmarried, and Has Always Lived in Kentucky. W. C. Owens, who is waging such a desperate fight against Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge in old Kentucky, and

may defeat him for Congressman, is a native of Scott County, Ky.,where he has always lived. He is 44 eyears old, unmarried, and a graduate of Columbia College Law School, New York City. In 1876 he was elected to the

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Kentucky Legislature, where he remained five terms. He was a delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention in 1892. He has for several years been looked upon as Breckinridge's successor.

Telegraphic Clicks.

Hill and Parker, in jail for murder at Colfax, Wash., were lynched by a mob. H. R. Woods, a Cripple Creek, Coh, business man, was kidnaped by striking miners. Lieut. George S. Harrison, Tenth Infantry, is dead at Fort Mary, N. M. He graduated in 1892. Mrs. Burchard has been released at Huron, S. D., on the ground that she was justified in shooting her husband. The resignation of E. Ellery Anderson as receiver of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railway has been accepted. Horatio F. Lillibridge, president of the American Biscuit Company, died suddenly at his residence in Minneapolis. Ex-Judge John M. Broomall, whose bj eech in Congress on the civil rights bill has become a classic, died in Media, Pa. - The farm and well machinery plant of R. R. Howell & Co., of Minneapolis, was completely gutted by fire, entailing a loss of SI3U,UOO. The insurance ia small.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’! Capital What la Being Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Of and New Ones Considered. The Senate and Honse. The debate on ihe wool schedule made no visible progress In the Senate Wednesday. A bill to disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the southern Ute Indians for tbetr removal to the Territory oi Utah and providing for settling them on lands under the severalty act was passed by the House. At 12:40 p. m. the Indian appropriation bill was taken up. Delegate Flynn, of Oklahoma, obtained the adoption of an amendment waiving the restrictions to the sale of lands owned 1n severalty by Indians over 21 years of age so far as applies to the citizen band of Fotta w atom les except when such Indians are residents of Oklahoma. An amendment was offered by Mr. Holman Increasing the appropriation for support and civilization of the Apaches. Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas and affiliated tribes on reservation* from SOO,OOO to SIOO,OOO. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, offered another amendment Increasing the appropriation for Shoshone Indians In Wyoming from SIO,OO >to $15,003. At 4:35 the House adjourned. ’ • •

The Senate resumed its alleged discussion of the tariff bill Thursday. Ten minutes after meeting the House went Into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation bill. An amendment by Mr. Pickier appropriating $5,003 for artesian wells at Pine Ridge. Rosebud and Standing Bock agencies was agreed to. An amendment by Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, raising the salary of the superintendent of Indian Schools from $2,500 to J 3.000, was defeated by 86 to 94, after it bad been the cause of hot words and almost a fight between Mr. and Mr. Maddox, of Georgia, who were kept apart by the Sergeant-at-arms. The old sectarian question In connection with the Indian schools was raised by Mr. Gear,, who offered an amendment providing that “it Is the purpose of this act that no money herein appropriated shall be paid for education in sectarian schools, and the Secretary of the Interior Is hereby authorized and required to make all needful rules and regulations to prevent the use of said funds In sectarian schools." A point of order whs made against this amendment by Mr. Tracey on the ground that it changed existing law and the Chair sustained the point. The House at 4:56 adjourned. Considerable progress was made In the tariff discussion In the Sanate on Friday. '1 he dulless of proceedings In the House was pronounced. An event somewhat out of the ordinary wan a personal explanation by Mr. Richardson in reply to allegations made In a Washington newspaper that he had been using bls position as a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia to further the Interest ot an overhead trolley syndicate to whom he had sold real estate Indirectly. He denied the charge In toto. the Indian appropriation bill was again considered and a rule adopted to brlhg it to a vote. The section ot the bill providing for the sale of certain State bonds crellted to the Indian trust funds was struck out on a point ot order after a sharp debater At five o’clock a recess was taken till eight o’clock. The night session was devoted to private pension bills. 'lhe Senate. Saturday, continued Its Investigation of the sugar scandal and consideration of the ta-lff bill. The House decided that the Indian Warehouse sbould remain in New York, instead of being removed to Chicago. General sentiment was in favor of its removal, and on the score of economy that was a desirable measure. But the bill authorizing it was in the nature of new legisiatlop, and under the rules of the House this was not permitted. The Indian appropriation bill was amended providing that the Pueblo and .Tacarilla agencies, in New Mexico, should be abolished and consolidated with tbo Southern Ute agency in Colorado. An amendment was offered by Mr. Coffeen, of Wyoming, providing for the appointment of a commission to negotiate with the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians for the sale of certain of their lands. Agreed to. The Indian school at Mount Pleasant. Mich., 150 pupils at $l5O a year, was provided for Instead of 100 pupils at $167. The bill was passed, 157 yeas to 33 nays, and at 4:40 p. m. the House adjourned. The Senate on Monday, with the mercury at 81. entered upon the twelfth week of the tariff debate. Several schedules were disposed of. A fight was started over Mr. Hill’s proposition to put coal on the free list, and the amendment was lost, 7 to 51. Mr. Durborow’s bill authorizing railroads to sell “joint Interchangeable 5.000-mlle tickets’’ was passed by the House. The Senate bill, granting a right of way to the Eastern Nebraska and Gulf Railway Company through the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservation in the State of Nebraska, was passed, and Mr. Hatch’s anti-option bill occupied the balance of the session. In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr. Aldrich attacked the antl-optlon bill. Afterward, the tariff bill occupied the time. The bill to amend the act for the relief of the civilization of the Chippewa Indians In the State of Minnesota passed the House. The bill provides that the pine lands of the White Earth and Red Lake reservations and other reservations, when the Indians upon It have been allotted lands In severalty. shall be surveyed, examined and appraised to the amount of at least 100,000 acres, after which they shall be offered for sale. The House bill authorizing the Pittsburg and Mansfield Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River at the cltr of Pittsburg was passed. There was also passed a House bill to donate certain lands belonging to an abandoned military reservation to the city of Newport. Ky.. for a public park.

Deities Made to Order.

It is possible for any Chinaman, or even any Chinese woman, to become a deitv by paying for the honor. A few years ago a rich and devout Chinese lady died in Soochoo. Her friends thought that an apotheosis was no more than her due, and communicated with the priests, who interviewed the gods on the subject, and discovered that the God of the Left Little Tee Nail bad no wife. The old laiy was accordingly married to his godship, and is now'enrolled as the “Godde s of the Left Little Toe NaiL” The honor cost the old lady’s estate over $5,060.

Manchester’s Library.

A new frre public library, to contain 80,000 volumes, is building in Manchester. This will give the citv a total of 420,000 volumes, housed in five libraries, for free public use.

This and That.

One pound of cork will support a man of ordinary size in the water. In the Chinese Empire 400,000,000 people are struggling for existence. ’t’HERE are stars whose diameters are greater than that of our whole solar sysic n. It is saicT’the Congo Free State has decided to construct a telegraph line rom Bowa to Lake Tanganyika. An explosive with power equal to that of high-grade dynamite is being made in Germany from a preparation of common hemp. Judging from the way they fight with their m uths. there is nothing the matter with the champion pugilists’ wind. When the postage stamp was first resolved upon the postoffice authorities issued a prospectus, and offered the sum of $2,500 for t.he best design and plan for a stamp. Itjis said that no fewer than 3,703 designs were submitted by the “artits. men of science, and the public generally," to whom the propoal Was addressed. The penny stamp came first, and in July, 18i0, a two penny stamp was issued, and subsequently a complete series ranging in value from a half-penny to five shillings. I