Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — Page 2

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GO TO THE BOTTOM WITH THE COLIMA. Former Assistant Secretary to Have the State Portfolio—Floods Spread I>eath and Destruction in Texas— Details of the Death of Marti. Wrecked in the Pacific. R. S. Schwerin, superintendent at San Francisco of the Pacific Mail Company, Monday night received word that the Colima had been wrecked. Nineteen of those on board were saved. The Colima carried about forty first cabin passengers and the same number in the crew. The Colima was commanded by Captain J. P. Taylor and was an iron vessel of 2.906 tons. She was built in 1873 by Roach & Sons, of Philadelphia, and was owned by the Pacific Mail Company. The wreck occurred between Manzanilla and Acapulco. The Colima carried a very heavy cargo of general merchandise. A ship's boat containing five of the crew and fourteen of the passengers arrived at Mnnsanilla Tuesday. Assistant Superintendent Avery of the Pacific Mail stated that the Colima carried 192 people and only nineteen were saved. Most of the cabin passengers were bound through to New York. FOUGHT FACE TO FACE. Battle in Which Marti Was Killed and Gomez Wounded a Desperate One. Cable advices say the battle where Marti was killed occurred on May 19 near Bifos. The Cubans were divided into two bodies, under Gomez and Maceo. It was expected that they would leave San Luis for Bayamo. Learning this fact. Col. Sandoval, with 300 men, pursued them and encountered 700 of the rebel cavalry under Gomez at noon. In the first charge the Cubans rode down the Spanish advance, killing a sergeant and wounding or capturing an entire squad. Sandoval personally led the bayonet charge, and the Spanish heroically held their ground against the rebel horse, fighting the Cubans face to face. It is said that Marti, who led the advance, fell in the third charge, almost within the Spanish lines, pierced by seven bullets. Gomez then came to the front, and the Cubans made eleven successive fruitless attempts to break the Spanish lines and recov«r Marti’s body.

UHL WILL BE IN CHARGE. Successor of Mr. Gresham Not Soon to Be Selected. It is intimated in official circles at Washington that Secretary Gresham's successor in the cabinet will not be named for several weeks, and that in the meantime Assistant Secretary Ul.l will perform the duties. Grave international problems are pressing for solution, but the President has always taken such a deep interest in every detail of State Department affairs that a Secretary is not a strict necessity of the moment. Many names figure in the calculations as reasonable probabilities for Secretary of State. Don M. Dickinson is easily at the head of this, having declined the office at the commencement of the'administration; William C. Whitney occupies a place in the minds of many, while not a few believe that Bayard may be transferred from the court of St. James to his old imst as chief adviser of the President. SWEPT AWAY DEVIL’S RIVER. Entire Family Drowned in the Rush of Waters. In the terrible flood that visited the Devil’s River country in Texas last Thursday four persons met their death by drowning near Ozona. Two others belonging to tlie same family, were drowned, but their bodies have not been recovered. The victims were George Velasco’s wife and the latter’s two brothers and three sisters. They lived on the bank of Devil’s river, which rose thirty feet within thirty minutes and swept their house and the whole family into the raging torrent All the houses on the Prosser ranch, between Juno and Comstock, were swept away, and several families, numbering in all about twenty persons, are believed to have been drowned.

Confessed to Murder. John Carey confessed ill' Chicago hia connection with the unirdcr of Police Oflicer Duddles on the night of Jan. .‘5 last. His statement exposes John Roach as the actual murderer, with William Magee and Carey as his accomplices in the felonious act of burglary which preceded the murder and from which the murder was a reasonable and anticipated consequence. Noted Wood Carver Dead. Henry Liudley Fry, who ranked high among the wood carvers of the world, died Monday at his home near Cincinnati. He was 88 years of age. He worked on the decorations of the House of Commons and Westminster Abbey before coming to America. There is work of his chisel in nearly every royal house in Europe. Negro Murderer Lynched. At Ellicott City, Md., Jacob Henson, colored, under sentence of death for the murder three months ago of Daniel F. Shea, was hanged by lynchers. Henson’s feigned insanity was to have been introduced, which probably caused the lynchers to take the law into their own hands. No Release for Debs. The United States Supreme Court has denied the application of Eugene V. Debs, the strike leader, for a writ of habeas corpns. This is a victory for the Government. Woman Tnrns Highwayman. Sheriff Hancock, of Ava, Mo., captured the robbers who held up A. R. Turney, storekeeper at Rome. They were captured near Lead Hill, Ark. One of the bold thieves, and the one who appeared to be the leader of the gang, turned out to be a woman. Her name is Lydia Briston. Armenian Editors Are Arrested. A special from Athens says two Armenians, editors of the Journal Vatan, have been arrested there for blackmailing the Turkish minister and publishing articles insulting to the sultan. Baye It Injures Health. The Paris Journal des Debats makes a violent attack upon the importation of American lard into France, saying that it la sold as pure lard, defrauds the treasury and customs, injures pig breeding, deceives the consumer and is injurious to health. Says They Got the $16,000. Sheriff Leslie, of Leadville, Colo., believes that he has captured two of the three men trho robbed the Wells-Fargo express office of $16,000 near Cripple Creek several weeks ago. The men gave their names as Peter Barr and Jim StewArt- • .i

MQRTON DOESN’T LIKE IT* Object* to Having Hi* Meat-Inapec-f , / tion Methods Critiaed. Secretary *of Agriculture Morton and Dr. Salmon, chief of the bureau Of animal industry, are very much exercised over the attack made upon the effectiveness of the meat inspection service. The inspection provided for under the act was to meet the demands of foreign governments to which our meat was exported, but the authority given the Secretary was insufficient and Mr. Morton has tried to induce Congress to cure the defects. While the inspection separated the healthy from the diseased meat and prevented the exportation of the latter, the Secretary was not clothed with the power to compel the destruction of condemned meat, and this could be sold in the domestic markets. If the Legislatures of the States had taken steps to co-opernte with the department by providing for the destruction of carcasses condemned by Federal inspectors the inspection would have been rendered effective. But this was not done, and the Secretary appealed to Congress. Last December Congress passed in a modified form an amendment proposed by the Secretary to punish persons selling this condemned meat for food. The amendment does not go into effect until July 1. Meantime, however, the department objects strenuously to the intimations thrown out that the inspection as at present conducted in no wise protects the domestic consumers. The Secretary, without the definite authority of law, insists that he has accomplished much with reference to trichinae in pork. BISHOP HURST HAPPY. Money Raised for the First Building of the American University. Bishop Hurst, president of the board of trustees of the American University, which on Wednesday raised $150,000 for the erection of the first building, a hall of history, is very enthusiastic over the outlook. It is proposed to make the university a great American institution for the training and equipment of students for special and original research. The work is to be purely post-graduate, a college diploma being necessary for matriculation. The site of the university, costing SIOO,000, is located on the heights above Washington beyond the new naval observatory and Woodley, President Cleveland’s old country place. It includes ninety acres. Ultimately the plans contemplate twentynine buildings. The trustees estimate that it will cost $5,000,000 to start the university, and $10,000,000 for the full equipment. The funds are being raised largely by personal solicitation.

MAD RUSH FOR LAND. Scramble of 20,0. O People for 437 Kickapoo Claims. At and before noon Thursday 20,000 eager, greedy men and women rushed from Oklahoma City, Ok., pell mell into the little triangular reservation of the last remnant of the once powerful Iviekapoo Indian tribe, and jostled, scrambled and fought for the 437 claims that were opened to settlement by President Cleveland's proclamation. At night the majority of the Kickapob were homeless and without shelter, roaming about over the land which for a quarter of a century has been their kingdom and in which no pale lace had been permitted to gain n foothold. The majority of the bark homes built by the Indians are located in the uplands, far distant from the rich bottom lands which were allotted to them by the agents of the Government. Now they shelter the white man, who hmj-'tatejn possession of the upland as his HAS A MANIA FOR JEWELS. Remarkable Career of Samuel Costar Arrested in New York. Saipiiel Costar, or “Jew Sara,” who was arrested at New York, was identified by Mrs. C. H. Maillard as the man who robbed her flat of $7,000 worth of diamonds last March. The police say that in Milwaukee he robbed Gertie Peace of SI,OOO worth of jewelry; from Rose Carroll. of San Francisco, he stole $5,000 worth of jewels; from .Tennette Wannmaker, of Denver, he took jewelry valued at SI,OOO, and from Miss Florence McClellan, $2,500 worth of gems. In Kansas City, Chicago and New York he lias victimized many women and jewelers. Race for the Pennant. , Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg 28 20 8 .714 Cincinnati 30 20 10 .067 Chicago 30 19 11 .633 Cleveland 29 17 12 .586 New York 25 13 12 .520 Philadelphia 25 13 12 .520 Boston 24 12 12 .500 Baltimore 22 11 11 .500 Brooklyn 20 10 16 .385 St. Louis 30 11 19 .367 Washington 26 9 17 .340 Louisville 25 5 20 .200

WESTERN LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 22 17 5 .773 Minneapolis 21 13 8 .610 Grand Rapids.. ..23 13 10 .505 Kansas City 23 11 12 .478 Detroit 21 10 11 ,476 Toledo 24 10 14 .417 Milwaukee 23 0 14 .391 St. Paul 21 7 14 .333 Bigamists Must Go. Bigamy in the United States by Canadian citizens is one of the subjects .to be grappled with at Toronto by the National Council of Women of Canada under the presidency of its founder, the Countess of Aberdeen. It has lately been decided thei;e that a married person who is a British subject resident in Canada, and who goes to the United States or any place out of Canada and there goes through the form of marriage with another person cannot be convicted in Canada of big’amy. This is the case even when no divorce has been obtained in the United State*. The countess and the ladies affiliated with her upon the executive committee of the National Council are bound to have the law amended if possible. Fierce Fury of the Winds. During a storm at Rockport, Texas, forty houses were blown from their foundations, and the Catholic Church and Commercial Hotel wrecked. Vessels in the bay dragged their anchors and three came ashore. The force of the wind drove the rain through roofs. Rev. Mr. Scarborough, of the Methodist Church, was internally injured. Half a dozen boats were blown ashore at Corpus Christi. Crops are utterly ruined along the Iverrville branch of the Aransas Pass road. Two bridges on the Aransas Pass near Yoakum and one at Kerrville were washed away. Reports place the rainfall at from two to three inches. To Run for Senator. ft is reported on what is apparently good authority that Secretary Carlisle is determined to make a hot fight for the Senate. His intention, a Washington dispatch says, is due to an expressed wish of the President. 1 Jail Burned by Lynchers. A letter from Rodney, Miss., says that the town jail wag fired by a band of lynchers at night and that a negro perished in the flames.

DANGER IN THE RIBE. Price of Wheat Max Prove a Calamity) to Bnsineaa. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “If wheat has been so greatlyj injured t>y the snow’s and frosts in Mayi that the sudden riae of 12 cents in two weeks is justified, the calamity will affectall business prospects. The markets do 1 not believe it, for stocks do not collapse, iron, leather, and hides still rise, and no holders o£ wheat would sell at 80 cents, a lower price than had been known at this season for thirty years prior to 1893, if current reports were credited. Some injury has undoubtedly been sustained, but our own dispatches do not show that it is really serious. The temper is to buy, regardless of visible requirements, in the faith that prices are sure to rise. Western receipts -of wheat for three weeks have been larger than last year in spite of storms and frosts. But the rise has practically stopped buying for export, as the similar rise did in April, 1884, which was followed by about the lowest prices then, ever known. Whether grain has been greatly injured or not, foreign markets will take early occasion to fortify themselves from other sources. The week’s 1 sales at New York ataounted to 155,000,-’ 000 bushels, nnd accounts of damage by frost and by insects are so mixed up that some traders infer the bugs must wear overcoats.’’ SAY SHE WAS POISONED. 31rs. Matthews Dies in a Graveyard and C. W. Winthrop Is Arrested, C. W. Winthrop, assistant superintendent of Laurel Ilill Cemetery, San Francisco, was arrbsted in connection with the mysterious death of Mrs. Jennie Matthews last Saturday. Mrs. Matthews died very suddenly while decorating the grave of her ehild. Her little daughter, by whom she was accompanied, said Winthrop gave her mother a bill, but he denied this statement. A chemical analysis of the woman’s stomach, however, developed the fact that it contained strych-. nine. Evidence is suid to have been found now that Mrs. Matthews had her life insured for $2,000 a few days before her death, and that Winthrop is deputized in the policy to hold the money in trust for her daughter, Minnie, a child 5 years old.

ADVOCATES OPIUM TRADE. English Government Favora It for, Business Reasons. In the House of Commons Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, liberal member for the Barnard division of Durham, made a motion attacking the report of the opium commission and the opium trade generally, and demanding that the Indiau Government suppress it. Henry Fowler, secretary of state for India, strongly opposed the motion. The suppression of the opium trade, he said, would deprive 1,250,000 poor peasant growers of their entire livelihood and create a great deficit in the Indian revenues. The motion was defeated by a vote of 176 to 59. FLYING MACHINE A SUCCESS. Langlex"’* Invention Travels a Thousand Feet in a Recent Test. A Washington letter says: The Langley flying machine flew a distance of 1,000 feet at a test down the Potomac a few days ago. The machine is now propelled by storage batteries placed under the wings and moves independently of any control from the float from which the flights are made. It is now believed that the machine will fly a great distance. Prof. Langley lias already spent more than $50,000 in experimental work, and he believes that before long he will be able to build a practical machine. AH Records Broken. Thursday was the most notable day in the history of the Chicago wheat pit. Over 250,000,000 bushels were traded in, and the price touched 82 cents. The country crowd have won the market, and all efforts of the professional traders to hold them back have failed. John C. Schwartz failed during the day. Over $1,000,000 in margins was paid in. Strong foreign buying orders assisted the countrymen to keep the price up.

Is a Notorious Swindler. S. 11. Taggart, the Johnson County, Mo., farmer who was swindled out of $8,500 by two men who pretended to purchase his farm, has identified the two men arrested for the crime. A detective has identified tlxe chief swindler as J. H. Hamilton, a notorious confidence man, known in every American city. His companion has not been identified, but is thought to be a Chicago inan. Russia Showing Her Hand. It is stated that the Russian Government has declined to agree to the military occupation of Corea by the Japanese forces and demands that the Government at Tokio recall the garrisons stationed there. Wheat Scarce in Kansas. A serious condition confronts the millers of Kansas. Many of the small mills throughout the State are shutting down because they caunot get wheat, owing to the recent rise in price. Are Made Knights. Henry Irving, the actor; Lewis Morris, the poet; Howard Russell, the correspondent, and Besant, the novelist, were made baronet's by Queen Victoria upon her 760; birthday.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 7614 c; corn, No. 2,52 cto 53c; oats, No. 2,29 c to 30c; rye, No. 2, C6c to G7e; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, ear lots, per bushel, 45c to 60c; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 7c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 8014 c; corn, No. 1 white, 55c to 5514 c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 3414 c. St. Louis—-Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00: hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2,67 cto 69c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; kheep, $2.50 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2,84 cto 85c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 3214 c; rye, No. 2,74 cto 76c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c; rye, 69c to 71c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 wfhite, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2,69 c to 71e. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 1 hard, 83c to 85c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 59c to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c. Milwaukee —"Wheat, No. 2 spring, 76c to 77c; com. No. 3,53 cto 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley, No. 2, 49c to 51c; rye, No. 1,67 cto 6Sc; pork, mess, $12.00 to $12.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs,' $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to SOc; com, No. 2, 58e to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 38c; butter, creamery, 13c to 19c: eces Western. 13c to 14c.

W. Q. GRESHAM DEAR.

SECRETARY OF STATE PASSES AWAY IN WASHINGTON. All the Family Present Except Otto, the Son—Heroic Life and Character of the Man—He Dies the Victim of Overwork. End of a Noble Life. Walter Quintou Gresham, Secretary of State, died of pneumonia Tuesday morning at 1:15 o’clock at the Arlington Hotel in Washington. All hope of his recovery was practically abandoned when a sinking spell occurred shortly before 6 o’clock Monday evening. The most powerful heart stimulants known to medical science, nitro glycerine and digitalis, were injected periodically, and an infusion of normal saline solution was made through an opened vein in the arm. He recovered slightly, but owing to severe rigors shortly before 11 o’clock ho began to fail rapidly, and his vitality began to ebb. The three physicians saw that the end was near, and at 12 o’clock withdrew to the ante-room, leaving in the sick chamber only the members of his family, Mrs. Gresham, her daughter, Mrs. Andrews, and son-in-law, Mr. Andrews, and the nurses. I p to that time lie had been conscious and talked a£ intervals, llis words were full of bravery. He fully appreciated his

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condition and spoke words of hope and cheer to his stricken wife and daughter. Sometimes hfs mind wandered slightly nnd went back to the days of long ago, recalling incidents of life and happiness in the springtime of his life. He spoke, too, of his absent son and his private secretary, Mr. Landis, whom he loved as a son, and who, like his son, was speeding to his bedside, all too late. All through the long night of his pain the dying statesman had called nnd asked for the coming of the man who was flying eastward with all the speed steam and steel could bring him. but it was not to be. The shadow of death was upon the father’s face when Otto Gresham saw it. He reached the bedside too late. The Secretary of War tried to arrange for a special train from Pittsburg to bring the young man on, but as the result proved, no flight could have been swift enough to cover the distance in time. Just before the physicians retired he ceased speaking, though he appeared to be conscious. Airs. Gresham sat at the bedside smoothing his fevered brow and occasionally reading to him from Bible passages which lie loved. As the end approached his pulse became hardly perceptible. Gradually bis eyes glazed and closed. Mrs. Gresham, with noble nnd heroic fortitude, continued to read the words of the gospel to her departing hus-

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band. Her daughter and son-in-law stood with bowed heads at the side of the couch. At 1:15 o’clock his breathing ceased; a peaceful shadow passed over his pale countenance; his pulse flickered, and the sorrowing family were in the presence of death. One of the nurses conveyed the news that the end had come to the physicians in the next room, and they in turn brought it to the watchers in the reception room. President Cleveland was immediately notified. Pneumonia Causes Heath. Four weeks ago Mr. Gresham was attacked with what was looked upon as a light attack of pleurisy, but it refused to yield to treatment, spread from one lung membrane to tiie other, and finally developed into severe pneumonia. His condition after that time was extremely critical. His heart action became enfeebled, requiring the constant administration of the most powerful heart stimulants. One or the other of his physicians, Drs. Johnson and Prentiss, or both, were constantly with him. His pulse reached 160, and was so feeble that it could barely be counted. But for the stimulants, he would have died. Nitro glycerine and strychnine were given continuously, hypodermically, together with digitalis and whisky. He was able to take no nourishment save in a liquid form—principally milk punches—and the whole effort of the physicians was directed toward sustaining and strengthening him. The right pleuralic cavity was filled with the effused fluid, and the lungs compressed so us to make breathing impossible. Mrs. Gresham’s devotion to her husband during his illness was of the most tender, patient and faithful character. Although physically slight, she displayed, so said pne who was in the sick chamber several tines a throughout the Secretary’s

illness, remarkable endurance and nerve.' For four weeks she hardly bad her clothes off. Night and day she was at the bedside, snatching an hour or two of sleep when she could on a lounge in her room. She seemed determined to fight off death. “If he dies,” she said many times, “I lose all.” With patience and devotion she ministered to his every want, giving everything her personal attention, and trying to cheer and brighten him when he was peevish and fretful. The utmost persuasion was required to induce her even to lie down. Sunday she grew so faint from sheer exhaustion that she reeled and would have fallen had not one of the nurses caught her in her arms.

CAREER OF JUDGE GRESHAM.

His Father Was Sheriff of an Indiana County. Walter Quinton Gresham was born March 17, 1832, near Lanegville, Harrison County, Ind. The Greshams are of English ancestry. His father, William Gresham, was sheriff of the county, and was killed in the discharge of his duties when Walter was but two years old. In his boyhood young Gresham did the usual work of a farmer’s son and studied his books at night. His education was gained by the hardest kind of work and self-denial. He went to the district school, and when he was 10 years old he had an opportunity to attend the Corydon Seminary. He got a clerkship in the county auditor’s office, and this helped him to pay his board and school expenses. After two years at the academy he spent one year at the Bloomington University. On his return to Corydon he secured a place in the county clerk’s office. There he studied la w un-, der the direction of Judge William A. Porter. He was admitted to the bar when 21 years old and began practice at once. Two years later he was stumping his district for John C. Fremont, the first presi-i dential candidate of the Republican party,' with which organization Mr. Gresham had always allied himself until 1892, when he declared himself a believer in the Democratic party. In 1850 he married Miss Matilda McGrain, a pretty Kentuckian, whose parents moved to Corydon when she was quite young. < On the eve of forming a law partnership at Indianapolis, destined to lead to fortune as well as fame, he read Lincoln’s call to arms and paused in his negotia-i tions. The Union was in danger. Republican institutions were on trial. If such; as he placed self before country what! would become of the country? Young Gresham grew more and more serious, and never having served in the militia passed all his leisure in studying military tactics. His young wife, not yet 22, with a girl baby two months old and a boy of 3 tugging at her skirts, knew what was in the mind of her young husband, and watched him with fear in her heart. Sumter was fired on in April. The following September Gresham felt that his hour had come. Personally brave, ho was a bit, of a coward when his wife was concerned, for he knew what a sacrifice she would make in giving him up to probable deatli.i Gresham commanded a division marching through Georgia and was terribly w r ounded at Atlanta. He was carried off the field and conveyed to Nashville by a roundabout way to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy. Thirty miles of the journey were made in an ambulance. Imagine the agony to the man who had had an inch and a half of bone shot away. So fearful were the roads that the stone had to be cleared away before the ambulance could proceed, and then it was at the risk of the general’s life. Mrs. Gresham met her husband at Nashville, Strangely enough, as she arrived at the door of the St. Cloud hotel Gen. Gresham was carried on a stretcher through the back door. It was a tight for life. Their next move came to a sudden halt in New Albany. The wounded man could go no further, and thus the Greshams became residents of Louisville’s Indiana suburb. For ten

months Gresham did not leave his bed. After he got out of bed he was five years on crutches. He went into the war a stalwart of 28; he came out a wreck. Six years later, at the age of 34, he found himself lamed for life, with an impaired constitution. In President Arthur’s cabinet he filled first the post of Postmaster General and then of Secretary of the Treasury. Judge Gresham made his first mark as a jurist in the decisions he gave in the intricate Wabash Railway case. The road had the backing of the greatest corporation in the country and the case was defended by the ablest counsel that could be secured. Judge Gresham’s opinion was so fearless and at the same time so just as to gain the admiration of the whole country. Judge Gresham was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in both 1884 and 1888. In 1888 he received 111 votes on the first ballot; his vote rose to 123 on the third ballot, and then dwindled to 59 on the eighth and last. The People’s party in convention at Omaha July, 1892, practically offered Judge Gresham its presidential nomination, which he refused. Judge Gresham was considered the ideal candidate by the Populists because of his lifelong opposition to tyranny, oppression and injustice of any sort. Judge Greshjam’s final departure from the party at whose birth he had assisted came ip the last campaign. He announced his intention of voting for Mr. Cleveland in a letter dated Oct. 22, 1892, and addressed to Major Bluford Wilson, who was solicitor of the treasury under Grant. After Mr. Cleveland’s election Judge Gresham was offered the premiership of the cabinet and accepted. He was appointed Secretary of State Mareh.4, 1593.

MEET IN PITTSBURG.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Reports Presented Covering the Work of the Year—Matrimonial Swindler in the Toils—Silver Conference Adjourns—Damage by Frost. Churchmen in Session. The 107th general assembly of the Presbyterian Church was held in the Third Church in Pittsburg. There were nearly 600 commissioners present when the opening hour arrived. The preliminary services were begun by prayer by Dr. Robert N. Adams, of Minneapolis. This was followed by scripture reading by Dr. Wm. N. Page, of Leavenworth, Kan. After music Dr. George Norcross, of Carlisle, Pa., read a passage from* the scriptures,' followed by prayer by Dr. IV. H. Roberts, the stated clerk. Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Booth was elected moderator. Reports of the various boards of the church were presented to the assembly. The report of the board of freedmen’s missions showed receipts from churches, Sabbath schools, societies and individuals

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exceeding those of the year before by $5,270.27. The debt this year is $22,351.56, which is $4,000 less than last year. The number of schools was decreased during the year and the salaries of teachers were reduced on an average about 10 per cent. The total contributions exclusive of $14,658.87 for insurance, was $173,050.16, and expenditures, $162,704.10. The board of publication and Sabbath school work reported contributions nearly $4,000 in excess of last year. The board was enabled to keep in the field eighty-three permanent missionaries and to appoint twelve auxiliaries who labored during the last summer. Through the agency of its missionaries it organized 1,504 schools and reorganized 254, and by the stimulus and aid of its grants it effected the organization of 58 additional schools. Into these schools 5,455 teachers and 44,004 scholars are reported to have been gathered. It is also reported from the schools established during the last fiscal year 50 churches have already grown. It distributed gratuitously more than 17,357,000 pages of tracts and periodicals and 35,958 volumes of Christian literature (exclusive of Bibles). It closed the year with a balance of $25,961.92. The report of the board of relief for disabled ministers and the widows and orphans of deceased ministers shows a deficit of $6,526.81 for the year. The board of home missions received last year $934,259.75, exceeding last year by $33,193.13. The board of foreign missions reported that 43 new missionaries have received commissions from the board and gone out to the several fields assigned them. The gifts from churches for the year have decreased $8,626.50; from woman’s boards, $14,064.27. and from miscellaneous, sl,302.66. The total expenditures for the ■year were $790,844.76, as against $995,921.70 for the preceding year, being $19,036.94 less than the expenditures for the year ending April 30, 1594. The board of education reports a larger number of recommendations received than during any previous year in its history. The total number of candidates recommended was 1,075, of whom 43 were declined. The church erection board reported that during the year there have been reported to the board as completed through its aid, without debt, 182 churches and manses, the total value of which is .nearly $560,000. The permanent committee on temperance reported that during the year about 1,000,000 pages bearing on the subject of temperance have been distributed, and applications are on file for 400,000 additional pages. The report discussed the temperance question at length.

CROP REPORT FOR THE WEEK.

Exceptionally Cold Weather Brought with It Widespread Damage. The crop bulletin for the week issued by the department through the Chicago office says the exceptionally cool weather has been very unfavorable for most crops and widespread injury has been done by frosts which have been general throughout the northern and central portions of the country and as far south as the northern portions of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. The damage to the grape crop has been especially heavy in New York and Pennsylvania, and fruits generally have suffered in all northern and central districts. Corn has suffered seriously; much replanting will be necessary, and where not injured by frosts its growth has been cheeked and the plant yellowed. Cotton has also suffered much from the unseasonably cold weather throughout the cotton region; its growth has been retarded and cold nights have killed a part of the crop, in the Carolinas and Georgia rendering replanting necessary. Spring wheat is reported in excellent condition and has not been unfavorably affected in North Dakota. Winter wheat suffered injury from frost in Indiana and Missouri; in Illinois the crop is less promising than heretofore, and no improvement has been experienced in Kansas and Nebraska. More satisfactory reports are, however, received from Arkansas, Tennessee and Michigan. Some tobacco has been planted in Tennessee and Kentucky; plants are small but plentiful in Maryland. The reports by States follow: Illinois—Frozen corn and potatoes slowly reappearing; garden truck permanently killed; fruit materially injured, except in extreme southern counties. Some corn replanting begun; wheat outlook unfavorable, heading short and uneven and damaged much by Hessian flies and chinch bugs. Indiana —Frost injured fruit to some extent; also wheat and other cereals on bad lands. Oats, grass, clover and timothy doing fairly; replanting corn in many places that was damaged by cutworms. Wisconsin—Grapes and cherries killed.; apples injured; small grains in same condition. Crop conditions good. lowa—The only irreparable injury by frost has been suffered by grapes and small fruits. North Dakota—Frost has badly damaged oats, flax, barley, millet, gardens and fruits; wheat or corn not affected to any extent. South Dakota—Vegetables, fruits, vines and some early flax destroyed. Corn and potatoes damaged, but will recover with rain and warmth. Michigan—Frosts have greatly damaged grapes, strawberries, garden truck, corn and potatoes. Cherries, plums, pears killed in many parts. Apples and peaches have suffered but little. Wheat, grass and rye are generally improved. Nebraska—Small grains have declined in condition and need rain badl>. Much corn up and but little affected by drought. Minnesota —Wheat, oats and pasturage in excellent condition; other crops more *r less damaged by frosts.

BOGUS SIREN’S SNARES.

Matrimonial Swindler Falla Into the Hands of Uncle Sam. With the aid of matrimonial publicstions and the photographs of a pretty girl a dozen or more men who wanted to

ARNOLD’S “DECOY.”

brown mustache, aged 31, and formerly tended bar at thp Palmer House. His arrest was hastened by a.letter received from H. H. Warner, a dealer in groceries and farm produce at Sedan, Mmn. wanted to marry, and in-serted-®|i advertisement in paper. Arnold answered it, .representing himself as a young woman frith an alP erfect character and a cruel aunt, SIO,OOO worth o 1 vacant: ,eity~lots, a yearning for the sample joys of a country life and a deep-nxited prejudice against living lmChicago. The letter was signed Clara S. LeClaie,” and with it-he enclosed a photograph of a charming girl, a copy of which is given herewith. These pictures Arnold is said to have secured by the hundred from a photographer. " • The second letter from Arnold, wfth’ the photographs inclosed, brought back! a promise of marriage. The third letter contained a request for S3O to pay car fare and some minor expenses incidental to a wedding in Sedan. Warner had been dealing in country produce too long to get caught in a game like that, aqd he sent the letters he received to the Chicago police. ' - W ■•'- • ‘ ‘ - vFfc Arnold had rented a lock box, and Inspector Christian watched it till he cams to get his mail. He was taken before United States Comhiissioner Humphrey and sent to jail in default of SI,OOO bail. Arnold is married, and has one child. He

THE REAL “CLARA LE CLARE.”

was arrested for the same offense five years ago and fined SSO.

BIRDS HELP FARMERS.

Evidently Natnre Knows How to Take Care of Her Business. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, chief of the division of ornithology of the Agricultural Department, has analyzed the contents of the stomachs of hawks, owls, blackbirds, meadow larks and other birds of North America, which are supposed to be strikingly beneficial to or injurious to the crops of farmers. The stomachs of over 7,000 birds , taken at different seasons of the year have been alrendy analyzed and tha contents determined, while some 12,000 are still unexamined. The results in some cases have been remarkable, showing that popular ideas regarding the injurious effects of certain birds were wholly mistaken. This has been found to be especially the case with hawks and owls, for the slaughter of which many States give bounties. Pennsylvania in two years gave over SIOO,OOO in hawk and owl bounties. Examinations of the stomachs of these birds proved conclusively that 95 per cent of their food was field mice, grasshoppers, crickets, etc., which were infinitely more injurious to farm crops than they. It was found that only five kinds of hawks and owls ever touch poultry, and then to a very limited extent. The crow is not as black as he is painted by the farmer. The charges against the crow were that he ate corn and destroyed eggs, poultry and wild birds. Examination of their stomachs showed that they ate noxious insects and other animals, and, though 25 per cent of their food is corn, it was mostly waste corn, picked up in the fall and winter. With regard to eggs, it was found that the shells were eaten to a very limited extent for the limeThey eat ants, beetles, caterpillars, bugs, flies, grubs, etc., which do much damage. Bulletins are also being prepared on the cuckoo and other black birds, king birds, meadow larks, cedar birds, thrushes, cat birds, sparrows, etc. In many cases popular ideas are found to be untrue. In the case of the king bird, killed by the farmer under the impression that he eats bees, it was found that he ate only drones and robbed flies, which themselves feed on bees, and which destroy more bees in a day than the king bird does in a year. The king bird, therefore, is to be encouraged rather than slaughtered.

DEMANDS OF BIMETALLISTS.

Silver Conference Issues an Address to the People. The Salt Lake City bimetallic convention has adjourned. An address was issued to the people of the country, setting forth the claims of the States represented, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, and the territories of New Mexico and Utah. The claim is made that the people of these States, irrespective of party affiliations, present themselves almost ns a unit demanding the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio -of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold, with full legal tender functions ac-' corded to each and no discrimination against either. The address continues: “The monetary system of the country was . founded not upon gold alone, not upon silver alone, but upon both silver and gold, at a certain ratio to each other, with no limitation upon the coinage of either and each standing upon an equal footing before the law. The system was founded by Hamilton, sanctioned by Washington and Jefferson, its wisdom and justice' questioned by no one until the year 1873. In that year, without notice to the people, the standard silver dollar was dropped from the coinage system of the country, and every debt therein existing, public and private, aggregating thousands of millions of dollars, was made payable in gold alone. Against this monstrous injustice the members of the new party are pledged to labor.” The following executive committee was chosen: Colorado, E. B. Light; Idaho G. V. Bryant; California, H. W. Langenour; Montana, F. T. Merrill; New Mexico, T.’ Bradford Prince; Oregon, Sydney Dell; Washington, W. C. .Tames; Wyoming, F.’ W. Mandell; Utah, R. C. Chambers. The Manchester Corporation has offered to assist the ship canal by foregoing £72,000 of interest which is due on the city’s £5,000,000 loan until traffic improves. t The steamship Campania, which sailed from Liverpool Monday, has $1,000,000 in bar gold aboard for the Belawnt-Mor-gan syndicate.

marry were made the victim* of a Chicago bartender who has a record for this sort of thing. The swindler, whose name is C. G. Arnold, was arrested fthe other day by Post Office Inspector George Christian. .He is a neat-looking fellow, with a light-