Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Page 2

H)egcmocrflticSf)itiiift "W. MoEWEJf, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - . INDIANA.

NOT A SUMMER FOOD.

UNPALATABLE FACTS ABOUT PORK. Spain Regrets tbe Firing on the Steamer Alliance—Big Trust Comes to Grief Our Columbian Bell Awakens Sentiment in Europe. Pork with Trichinosis. It is said at the Agricultural Department that there is no truth in the published reports that pork examined microscopically for export to Germany and France and found to contain trichinae is stamped by the inspectors as free from disease and eo transported and sold in interstate commerce trade. Early in February Secretary Morton ordered all pork found to be affected with trichinosis tanked, but-later it was decided that the present law did not give the Secretary this authority. The enforcement of the order was therefore postponed until July 1, when the new law goes into effect. It is doubtful if the new law will give the Secretary the necessary power, and it is probable the only relief must come through the local authorities unless the Secretary secures from the shippers of pork to Germany and France (the countries requiring the inspection for trichinae) voluntary agreements, such as have been made with shippers of beef, mutton, etc., by which the latter agree to tank such carcasses as do not pass the Federal inspection. If such a regulation is put in force, however, it is feared that the pork exportation to Germany and France will cease. ‘’The percentage of pork affected with trichinosis is so large,” said Mr. Salmon, “that if all the carcasses found to be affected went to the rendering vats the shippers' profits would all disappear.” The amount of pork exported to Germany and France averages from 5.000,000 to 7,000,000 pounds monthly.

SPAIN’S ANSWER RECEIVED. '■Jl'ull Disavowal of the Firing on the Steamer Allianca. The State Department has received from United States Minister Taylor at Madrid the complete and final answer of Spain to the demand of Secretary Gresham for a disavowal of the firing on the United States merchant ship Allianca. The document has been awaited for some time with interest, as it was one of the main subjects which Acting Secretary Uhl bronght to the attention of the cabinet at the meeting Tuesday. The answer is most cordial in tone and is expressive of the fullest disavowal of the course of the commander of the Spanish gunboat which fired on the Allianca. It is said to be entirely satisfactory to this Government, as it fully meets in letter and spirit the demands made. DUPLICATES OF COLUMBIAN BELL They Will Be Presented to Russia and the United States. The Columbian Liberty Bell Committee at New York is in receipt of a letter from Clifton It. Breckinridge, United States minister to Russia, in which he asks for a full description and photograph of the great Columbian liberty and peace bell for Mr. Berthauld, the Russian artist, who is charged with making a design of the “Bell of the Peace” that is to be presented, as the result of a popular move ment Of the people of Russia, to the people of France. MISSIONARY STATIONS RUINED. Chinese Rioters Destroy Much Property at Ching Too. Intelligence has been received that the French Catholic and English and American missionary property at Ching Too, capital of the province of Szeehuen, Western China, was destroyed by rioters. The missionaries are reported to be safe in the official Yamens. The province of Szechuen has been termed the “Texas of China.” Ching Too is the capita) city.

Taylor's Bondsmen Must Pay. At Pierre-, 8. I>., the defense in the •nit against ei-Treasurer Taylor's bondsmen attempted to show the defalcation to be in his first term by proving through his books that Taylor was charged with $250,000 in his own bank on Jan. 31,1893, and proving by a transcript of the bank account that he was credited with only $34,000 on that date, alleging that this constituted a shortage . Judge Gaffey ordered a verdict for the full amount claimed, $344,277.45. The defense asked a stay of sixty days to prepare an appeal. Millions for Public Works. The publishers of “Paving and Municipal Engineering" have gathered statistics from the city engineers of 300 cities of more than 10,000 population which show that more public work will be done during the summer of 1895 than ever before, the expenditures for paving, sewering, water works and bridges approximating $200,000,000, while last year less than ouefourth of this amount was expended.

Cordage Trust on the Hocks. In the United States Circuit Court at Boston, Judge Colt appointed John I. Waterbury, of Morristown, N. J., and William E. Strong, of Strong & Cadwalader, as receivers of the United States Cordage Company on petition of E. Rollins Morse, as representative of the creditors. It has been known for some time that the company was in financial difficulties. One Life Lost. The worst fire ever known in Freder* ickaburg, Va., occurred Tuesday morning. The Kingzie factory and Excelsior mill and six dwelling houses were burned. William Deshazo, epgineer at the Excelsior mill, was burned to death. Egan Is Formally Appointed. In the United States Circuit Court at Portland, Ore., Judge Gilbert signed an order appointing John M. Egan receiver of the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway and also an order allowing the issue of Receivers’ certificates to the amount of $750,000. Wilde Said to Be Insane. It is reported in London that Oscai Wilde, who was recently sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in Pentonville prison at hard labor, after having been convicted of gross indecency, has become insane Stands the Test. The new American Line steamer St. Louis left the Capes of the Delaware on her builder’s sea trial Monday morning at daylight. The result has been most satisfactory to builders and owners. The trip was for the purpose of putting everything in order for her initial trip. Hiot at Tallulah Falls, Ga. South Carolina excursionists to Tallulah Falls, Ga., engaged in a riot, and the town marshal’s throat was cut, the sheriff had his throat gashed and a deputy was seriously injured. At Cornelia a posse ran the rioters into a swamp and captured four of them.

| rtHW CROP REPORT SCHEME. Agricultural Department Organizing Correspondents in Every Township. A* scheme to make an important change in the system of crop reporting is about to be put into operation by the Agricultural Department. A correspondent will be located in every township, and he will be required to report promptly to the Department The plan will embrace only twenty States, ranging from New Y'ork to the innermost of the Central States, but these comprise 90 per cent of the wheat area. They include 1,389 counties, and the greatness of the scheme is apparent when it is taken into consideration that the number of townships in a county averages about fifteen. This will be used in conjunction with the system now in vogue, each set of reports acting as a check on the other. Steps looking to the organization of the new correspondents have been ‘taken, but the new plan cannot be put in operation before next year. The plan suggested by a committee of tbe Naplan was suggested by a committee of the National Board of Trade. Another plan, that of licensing all thrashers who are to be required to make the reports, has been under consideration, but it is not regarded as feasible by officials. The thrashers would have to be licensed by the State. This would cause a very material delay in transmittal. HONOR FOR A HERO. Funeral Services for the Departed Secretary of State. All honors there are for a dead soldier were accorded Wednesday at Washington to the remains of Walter Quinton Gresham. That surpassing tribute —a military funeral—all the nation can do for the very best of its sons in death, was paid him. The wheels of the Government at home and in the remote corners of the earth where it is represented by ministers and consuls, stopped still while the ceremonies of the burial progressed. Every official flag on the department buildings, on the far-away frontier posts, on post offices and on custom houses all over the United States fluttered at half-mast. The President and his ministers laid aside their duties and bore away the body to its last rest. The fondest wish of the statesman or soldier could ask no more. All through the ceremonies President Cleveland's gaze was riveted upon the ensket which contained tbe remains of his friend. Mr. Cleveland was greatly affected, and of all those in the great room hone showed, more clearly his depth of feeling. .* . , •:!'■ (i MEN OF PEACE NOW* Confederate and Union Ex-Officers Meet ut a Banquet. One of the most remarkable military reunions in the history of the world-oc-curred at Chicago Wednesday, when the most famous surviving generals of, the Confederacy met the most famous surviving generals of the Union armies at a banquet tendered by the Citizens’ Committee of Chicago. Two hundred and fifty men, many of them prominent in the nation’s history, sat down to the feast. Opposite Mayor Swift and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee sat Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet, the famous ex-Confederate chieftain. Gen. Wade Hampton chatted with Gen. John M. Palmer, and Geu. Butler, of South Carolina, pledged the health of Illinois’ faforite soldier, Gen. John C. Black. When the band payed “Sherman’s March to the Sea” the ex-Coufed-crate veterans led the applause, and when the inspiring strains of “Dixie” filled the hall the veterans of the Union responded with a hearty good will.

DEFIES THE GOVERNMENT. Dundy Will Not Permit Federal Interference in Nebraska. At Omaha, Judge Dundy declared himself to a certain extent on the Pender Indian troubles'when be dismissed Sheriff John Muilin in the Federal Court. Tbe Sheriff of Thurston County was recently indicted by the grand jury for alleged interfereuce with Captain Beck, of the Indian police on the Winnebago reservation. He had come down to surrender himself and have his trial at once. Judge Dundy told him to go home and stay there until be was sent for. The judge declared that he did not intend to sanction interference of Federal officers with Stnte authorities when the latter were doing their duty in serving legal papers. MAIL IN PNEUMATIC TUBES. New York Syndicate Proposes to Establish Rapid Transit. At New York, at a meeting of the rapid transit commission, a communication signed by J. P. Huntington, Henry Cews, Edward Lautcrbach and others was read. It set forth that they desired to form a corporation for the distribution of mail, parcels, etc., to various points of the city by means of pneumatic tubes, and wished to know what arrangements could be made to run the tubes through tbe tunnel on the proposed routes.

Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: . Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg 35 23 12 .057 Brooklyn 28 17 11 .007 Cleveland 34 20 14 .588 Cincinnati 34 20 14 .588 Chicago 30 21 15 .583 Philadelphia 31 18 13 .581 Baltimore 28 10 12 .571 Boston 28 15 13 .530 New York 32 15 17 .409 Washington 33 13 20 .394 St. Louis 35 12 23 .343 Louisville 31 0 25 .194 WESTEKN LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs offhe Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 29 21 8 .724 Grand Rapids... .30 18 12 .000 Minneapolis 28 16 12 .571 Kansas City 30 -- 14 10 407 Milwaukee 31 14 17,. .432 Toledo 30 13 17 .433' Detroit 28 12 16 ,429 St. Paul 28 10 18 .387

Noble Man’s Brilliant Career. A cablegram received at the British embassy at Washington announces the death of Lord Gough, the hero of India and father of Hugh Gough, first secretary of the embassy at Washington. General Gough entered the army March 20, 1&K8. He was made a lieutenant in 1849, a captain in 1857, a major iu ISSB, a lieutenant colonel in 1807, a colonel in 1875, a major general in 18S5 and a lieutenant general June 5, ISS9. Lord Gough was the most prominent military man England has produced in late years* He went to India as captain of the Grenadier Guards, but showed such marked ability that he was eventually made commander-in-chief of all the forces in India. Among some of the engagements in which he participated and for which he received honorable mention and medals may be mentioned the siege and capture of Lucknow. For his services in India parliament twice thanked him, raised him to the peerage and gave iiitn the unusual honor of a permanent annuity of £2,000 ($10,000), which should go not only to himself but to his sons and his sons’ sons. Further Resistance Useless. The four largest coal operators in West Virginia have resumed mining with good Sixty new men went to the fields FKdffj*/ahd the coal shipments from Bluefields aggregate 215 cars. It is stated

that tbe leaders. Lawless and Webb, are much disappointed by the action of the United Miners' convention at Columbus in refnsing to order a strike covering the entire region now supplying West Virginia orders. The old men are returning to work, feeling that further resistance is useless. Most of the Virginia soldiers have left Pocahontas.•» ”37 ' ' —* STILL ON THE, RISE. Trade Booms in Sympathy with Cotton and Wheat. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade “More far-reaching than any change during the past week, if really, warranted by facts, is the continued rise in prices of wheat and cotton. Real scarcity of either would affect all business. Happily there is still room to hope' that tales of injury are greatly exaggerated, although there has been some evidence, during the week that both the great crops have suffered more than at first appeared.. Other changes are almost all favorable ■ and some highly encouraging. Labor troubles are clearly less threatening. Monetary conditions are satisfactory, and the substantial increase in the commercial demand is a good sign. Exchanges through the clearing houses have been greatly inflated by speculation, and at this time last year were cut down by the coal strike and’ toward the end of May, 1893, greatly reduced by bank failures, but for the week exceed last year's by 19 per cent, and fall only 5.0 per cent below those of 1893, while the daily average for May is 26.9 per cent larger than last year, but 7.1 per cent less than in 1893."

SWEPT BY A FLOOD. Wall of Water Rushes Down a Nebraska Valley. A torrent of.roaring water swept down the Medicine valley in Frontier county, Neb., Sunday, carrying death and destruction In Us path. Curtis lake burst its banks, and the accumulated drainage of thirty miles of territory rushed over hamlets and farmJaflds lying in its path. It is believed several lives have been lost. StoOkville, seven miles down the Medicine creek, which is the outlet of Curtis lake, hud 250 inhabitants. The people nt Cambridge, where the Medicine flows into the Republican river, were far enough away to escape death, although'they may lose property. At Curtis a title roller mill was destroyed and much railroad property damaged. Heavy rains for several days were followed by a cloudburst, and the (jam nt the lake could not stand the pressure. Down tbe valley many farm dwellings and outbuildings were swept away. SEA SERPENT OUTCLASSED. New-Yorkers See a Hideous Thing with a Long Red Tongue. A strange animal is said to have made Us appearance in the May bog, six miles southwest of Palmyra, N. Y., and the neighborhood is greatly excited. Men who dnim to have seen it say it looks like an alligator, but has two long tusks. When excited the creature opens its mouth and shoots out a long red tongue with great rapidity like a snake. Twentysix men stayed up all night watching for it. They allege it came out from cover at 4 o’clock, uttering hideous noises. All of the men were armed, but only one had the courage to shoot. He says he hit it, but the bullet glanced off as if it had struck a hard shell or impenetrable bide. The animal makes its appearance only at night, retreating by day to the swamp. BIG WAR MAY BE RESUMED. French and Japanese Ships Cleared for Action—Alarm at Shanghai. A special dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette from its correspondent at Shanghai says that alarming rumors are current at Shanghai. It is stated that a renewal of hostilities is imminent. The viceroy of Formosa is said to have rebelled against the Government of Peking. The Japanese ships are reported to have been cleared for action, and the French ships nt Tamsui. Formosa, are also said to have been prepared for fighting. In addition, rumors of Russian intervention are current at Shanghai, and steamers have been ordered to Tien-Tsin with provisions in view of the probability of Russian hostility.

FOUND DEAD IN THE ROAD. Major William Hardiman, of Kentucky, Killed by an Enemy. Maj. William Hardiman, one of the oldest and wealthiest men of Lewis County, Ky., was found dead in the road with three rifle balls in his body. Suspicion points to another wealthy resident of the county as his assassin, as the men had been deadly enemies for years, and the man under suspicion had openly declared years ago that some day he would kill Maj. Hardiman. Beck Indicted for Polygamy. At Salt Lake, Utah, John Beck, a prominent anil wealthy Mormon, was indicted by the United States grand jury for polygamy. Mr. Beck is president Of the Beck Bullion Mining Company. This is the first arrest since the manifesto against polygamy was issued by the church’s authorities four years ago. Many Inventions Patented. Nino hundred and eighty-seven patents were issued last week at Washington. This is the largest number, with two exceptions, issued in any week since 1891.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Catlie, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2,51 cto 52c; oats, No. 2,29 c co 30c; rye, No. 2,00 cto 07c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18e; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 45c to 00c; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 7c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; ksheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,83 cto 85c; corn, No. 1 white, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No, 2,49 cto 51c; oats, No. 2, 2Sc to 29c; rye. No. 2,67 cto 09c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,85 cto 87c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 2,71 cto 73c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs. $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 85c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 53c to 54c; bats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, 69c to 71c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2,07 c to 09c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 1 hard, 84c to 85e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 5Sc to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 3,51 cto 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 31e to 33c; barley. No. 2, 50c to 52c; rye. No. 1,05 cto 07c; pork, mess, $12.50 to $13.00. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 38o; btftter, creamery, 14c to 19c: eggs. Western, 12c to 14c,

THEY MET IN PEACE.

ANIMOSITIES OF WAR BURIED AT OAKWOODS. Bine Join* with the Gray in Dedicating a Monument and Decorating Boldiera’ Gravee—American Heroea All— Funeral of Secretary Gresham. Former Foes in Reunion. Memorial Day in Chicago was like nothing in the history of nations. It sent in the same line the victor and the vanquished, each with garlands for its own army of dead, with the uncounted thousands from the heart of the city to Oakwoods cheering for the memory of heroes, of friend or foe. It was the first time since the first shot that waiTiors from the North and cavaliers from the South forgot entirely revengeful bitterness by such a kind of public demonstration of unity. It marked an epoch. The multitudes heard upon the same winds plaudits for the men who died for their country and the yell which led the hardest and bravest enemy that ever faced fire. They stood with bared heads in the presence of 6,000 graves of victims of their own Douglas prison or shouted in salvos of patriotism at the sight of the thinned ranks hunting the humble mounds marked by a flag. It was this unique feature that brought to the city a crowd which barely found standing room in the stretch of territory dedicated to the ceremony. Thursday the surviving veterans of the two mighty armies which for four long yearn faced each other in bloody strife

HAMPTON.

pledged anew their faith in a common country and a common flag beside the pallid shaft which marks the eternal camping ground of fallen soldiers who pined and died beside the great Nortllfym lake, brave and uncomplaining of merciless civil war. It was a scene long to be remembered, and may be regarded as the final epitaph upon the tomb of sectional strife and sectional estrangement At Cottage Grove avenue and Thirtyfifth street, then at the outskirts, but now In the heart of this city, a stockade was built during the civil war and named Camp Douglas, and there many thousands of Confederate prisoners were confined between the years 1802 and 1565. The men held there under the restraints which befall captives of war had spent their lives in the balmy climate of the sunny South and the rigors of a Northern winter told upon them severely. As a consequent 5,000 of them were liberated by death and were buried in Oakwoods cemetery at Cottage Grove avenue and Sixty-seventh street. It was to the memory of these thousands who died in a military prison in an enemy’s country that the monument was dedicated by their comrades and opponents in arms on the spot where they lie buried. It is the first monument to Confederate dead erected in the North, the event was perhaps without a parallel in history. It does not appear that anywhere else on the face of our round globe within a period of thirty years after the

CONFEDERATE SHAFT AT CHICAGO.

close of a bitterly fought war, the vanquished have ever before erected a monument in the memory of their comrades in arms in the heart of the victor’s territory. Especially has the sight ever been witnessed of the victors heartily joining the vanquished in doing honor to the valor of the vanquished dead. Gen. Wade Hampton delivered the dedicatory address. THE D,AY IN NEW YORK. Grand Army Parade Reviewed by Prominent Officials. Veterans of the Union army in New York city celebrated “the day of the dead” under favorable conditions. The

parade of the Grand Army members starting from the Plaza at Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street showed sadly the ravages which thirty years have made in the ranks of the volunteers of 1861-65. The reviewing stand at Twenty-fifth street was occupied by exPresident Harrison, Gov. McKinley, Gov. Morton and Mayor

LEVI P. MORTON.

Strong. While reviewing the parade Gov. Morton was overcome by the heat and fainted. Memorial Day in Washington. Decoration Day in all the great national cemeteries which belt the capital and in which so many thousands of the Union dead lie buried was commemorated by appropriate exercises. For the first time in several years, the weather was clear and beautiful. The absence of the President and his cabinet, escorting the remains of Comrade Gresham to their resting place in the West, deprived the day of some of its expected features. The numerous Btatues of heroes of the war in the public squares of the city were draped with flags and hung with wreaths and garlands. All the public departments were closed. At St. Louis. Memorial Day was fittingly observed in St. Louis. The Grand Army men were out in force. All were decorated with nosegays and the national colors, and the sound of music could be heard from long before noon. Flags floated at half-mast from many staffs and the general appearance of the city indicated that the observance of Memorial Day was increasing rather than decreasing. Specials from points in other States are to the effect that Mamorial Day was generally ob•aiYefc

shadow of the monument just dedicated in honor of the valor of those who had given their lives for the Confederate cause. It was a most remarkable juxtaposition. In the early hours of the day Federals and Confederates had joined in the unveiling of a monument to the 5,000 Confederates who had died in the military prison at Camp Douglas; the ex-Confederate Association had strewn on the graves of the Union soldiers buried there a mass of flowers brought from the ground over which they had fought less than a generation ago, and the Union veterans had placed upon the graVes of their fallen comrades in the other cemeteries about the city the flowers which grow in our own latitude. Almost the echoes of the volley fired over the Confederate burying ground by the first regiment of State militia and of bugle blare could be heard and “taps” were still sounding, and the smoke from their rifles was still floating over the

LONGSTREET.

field of peace, as the cortege of the dead Secretary of State filed in through the gates into the cemetery. It was a remarkably fitting climax to the remarkable ceremonies which had just closed that the remains of the man who claimed the allegiance of both the North and the South should be deposited there, the keystone to the arch of re-ce-mented friendship whose visible sign had just been unveiled there. For as a soldier he had won the respect of those who fought him; as a jurist he had gained the love of the common people, and as Secretary of State in a Democratic administration ho had commanded the support of tire people of the South as well as of the North. The special funeral train arrived from Washington in the afternoon. The procession was formed, headed by the escort of honor, consisting of the troops of all arms from Fort Sheridan. These were followed by the honorary pall-bearers, and next came the funeral ear with the active pallbearers walking on either side. Next rode the members of the late Secretary’s family and the Presidential party, and in the rear of the cortege brought up the members of the Loyal Legion, G. A. R. veterans, judges of the courts. State and municipal officers, civic societies and citizens. The entire line of march was crowded with people who respectfully bared their heads as the cortege passed. Arriving at the cemetery chapel, the casket was removed from the funeral car and borne within by eight sergeants of marines. The services conducted by the Rev. S. J. McPherson, of the Second Presbyterian Church, were impressive but simple, consisting merely of scriptural readings. There was a hymn by the choir and prayer. Tho remains were temporarily deposited in the receiving vault of the cemetery. No salute was fired, the ceremonies concluded with “taps.” The train had been held and the Presidential party returned to it and at once started on the return trip to Washington.

Officially Declared Winner of the Chicago Road Race. Homer Fairmon, of the Chicago Cycling Club, was declared the winner of the road race from Chicago to Evanston and return, a distance of about twenty miles. Edwin Fry, who came in ahead of him,

was disqualified, the judges having decided he had not covered the full course. Fairmon’s time was 54:36. George Emerson, of the Englewood wheelmen, won second and the time prize, his time being 52:14. Reports say the race was woefully mismanaged. Frederick M. Richt, of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, won the annual 25-mile road race over the Irving-Milburn course in New Jersey. The finish of this great Memorial Day event centered down to a sprint between him and the Paterson man, Standever, and Richt won hnndr somely In 1:14:30.

WITH MILITARY HONOR.

Secretary Gresham's Remains Teas* porarily Deposited in s Vault. Without ostentation, ah befitted his Ufa among bis people, but with the military and civic accompaniments which ran even foot with his achievements as soldier, jurist and statesman, the remains of Walter Q. Gresham, general in the Union armies, the judge of the Federal courts and Secretary of State of the United States, were temporarily laid to rest in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, Thursday afternoon amid the flower-strewn graves of his comrades in arms—graves decorated by the hands of men who had fought them on many a bloody field—and in the

LEAVING THE STATION.

THE VAULT AT OAKWOODS.

FAIRMON IS FIRST.

HOMER FAIRMON, THE WINNER.

SANK BY THE SCORE.

COLIMA VICTIMS OVERTAKEN BY DEATH WHILE ASLEEP. , Latest Reports Swell tile List of Loss to 16 .—The Vessel’s Boilers Burst Fifty Miles Off the Mexican Coast-* Nineteen Were Saved. Had 182 Persona on Board. Only meager and unsatisfactory advices have been received regarding the founder ing of the Pacific Mail steamer Coiima at Manzanillo, Mexicq. The officials of the Pacific Mail in San Francisco persisted in the statement that they had received no information of the wreck of the steamer, and they tried to discredit entirely the statements of the disaster. Several dispatches have been received by the Merchants’ Exchange and by private shipping firms ail confirming the tale of the ocean tragedy, and varying only in the minuteness of the information conveyed. Capt. Pitts of the steamer San Juan telegraphed that he picked up a boat containing nineteen persons, fourteen of whom were passengers and five members of the crew of the Colima. The rescued boatload was taken to Manzanillo and the steamer San Juan started out again in search of other boats from the Colima, tho presumption being that the balance of passengers and crew was afloat in other boats. The Colima's Boiler Burst. The latest intelligence regarding the disaster received was in cipher message to a San Francisco shipping firm containing the statement of Third Officer Hansen, who was in charge of the boat picked up. Hansen stated that about 11:15 at night as the Colima wns about fifty miles from Manzanillo, and between that port and Punta St. Almo, an accident occurred to her machinery. Hansen had not time to investigate the trouble, but believed a boiler had burst. The Colima was put about, but began to sink rapidly. A scene of wild confusion followed. One boat was lowered and most of the others swung out, but so far as Hansen knows the boat he commanded was tho only one which got clear of the sinking ship. It quickly foundered, and to avoid the suction Hansen's boat quickly pulled clear, and the night being dark, it was impossible to tell whether the other boats got away from the ship or not. If these boats only got clear away tho calmness of the sea aqd the low, sandy beaeli twenty miles distant would enable them to make a safe landing in a few hours. As the passengers were all asleep Hansen fears very few escaped. One hundred and sixty passengers and crew are still unaccounted for. The Colima was a single-screw propeller with iron hull. She was built in 1873 at Chester. Pn., by John Roach & Sons. Her tonnage was 2,909.64 gross, 2,143,85 net, her horsepower 1,100 and her speed eleven and one-half knots. This was her one hundred and twenty-ninth voyage to Panama. She carried about 2,000 tons of cargo and was valued at $103,000.

YOUTHFUL SOLDIERS.

Growing Movement to Establish Military Drill in the Schools. The movement lately inaugurated to train boys in the public schools in military tactics is meeting with great success. The boys have named themselves the American Guard, and those of New York and Brooklyn on Memorial Day paraded to the number of 10,000. All over the country the military drill movement is meeting with favor, and the schools in most of the cities, as well as in many of the smaller towns are getting into line in favor of the innovation. The question has become one of national im. portance, and lias already been.taken up In Congress, as well as in the Legislatures of most of the States. The Grand Army of the Republic is really behind the movement to give some soldierly discipline to the lads in the public schools throughout the country. Although the national movement is a new one, military instruction in the public schools has long been practiced in some cities. In Boston the system has been thoroughly worked out, probably, and there the “Boston School Regiment”

MARCHING TO THEIR OWN MUSIC.

numbers about 1.500 uniformed boys. In New York and Brooklyn the movement is making rapid strides. The American Guard has been formed from the battalions of the public schools, and each battalion has its number and place in line. As in Boston, they turn out on special holidays, and have been the feature of more than one big parade of real soldiers. In Washington, Cincinnati, Columbus. Des Moines, Omaha and scores of other smaller cities and towns the idea is making headway. That military drill is popular among the schoolboys is evident to anyone who sees the lads at drill. They willingly give up part of their play hour to take part in it, and the competition for officers’ positions is keen. One has but to look at the air of pride with which these youngsters wear their neat little uniforms to appreciate their feelings. In most of the schools only the larger companies are uniformed and equipped, and there are one or two companies composed of the smaller and untrained boys, which correspond to a drill squad, from which the ranks of the regular companies are recruited.

Notes of Current Events.

Two big claims against the Stanford estate have been compromised. Frank Scott, dry goods merchant, failed at Leavenworth, Kan., for $23,800. Frank Jones, of Chill, Ind., is in a dying condition from lockjaw caused by shooting himself in the hand. A young socialist, charged with writing threatening letters to the King of Saxony, is under arrest at Dresden. The body of the son of Pastor Davis, of Sodus Point, N. Y., was found in Sod us bay, as predicted by a fortune, teller. The Guatemalan Government has made reparation for its treatment of Argle, the American whom it ill-treated in prison. Aquilla Roberts, 91 years old, died at Deputy, Ind. He was the oldest member, of the Methodist Church in the State. Seven men were killed and twelve in-; Jured in an explosion on the Turkish tor-1 pedo boat Destroyer, which is being built at Kiel.

PULSE of the PRESS

Opinions of Gresham. The administration of the State Department under Secretary Gresham will be regarded by the historian of the future as equal to any.—Milwaukee Journal In each of three fields—war, the bench and the cabinet, as soldier, jurist and secretary—he attained a distinct and enduring fame.—Grand Rapids Democrat. One of his best characteristics was hostility to the growth of corporation influence in political affairs, and to this was due most of his strength with the masses. —Buffalo Express. Personally Mr. Gresham was probably, the most democratic man that ever occupied the State Department. He was mors accessible than any of his clerks. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As a soldier he was brave, faithful and knightly; as a cabinet officer he established beyond question the qualities of efficiency and integrity; as a judge he was just and pure, holding the scales of justico without partiality.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Republicans cannot bnt believe that his uncertainty of political faith was unfortunate and that he was in error when he cast his lot with the Cleveland administration, but he can be credited with honesty and a desire to do his duty.—DulHth News-Tribune. A man has died who has deserved well of his fellow citizens. The Secretary of 6tate was a brave soldier and a just judge, jin his later career many of his countrymen find things to disapprove, and find other things that stamp him with the same patriotism that won him fame in bygone years.—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, i There are those who were closely attached to Secretary Gresham and who were cemented to him by years of personal .friendship, fvho will feel that a light has gone oat of their lives, and that grief has come in to sit where hope of the future of the dead.statesman had held its place and joy at his suceess-was genuine and tho outgrowth of appreciation and true sympathy,—New i Albany Ledger.

i n: .an .-jy; j . >■ Utah's New Constitution. The Utah constitutional convention provided for no'lien tenant governor in the list of State officers. Utah should provide for such an emergency, so that when the ■people elect officials representing one party or policy there will be some one to slip jn when a Governor dies and carry on the work as it was begun.—Chicago Inter Ocean. A glance at the new constitution which is to be submitted to the people of Utah In November will suffice to show what a tremendous advance Is in Store for womanhood in that territory when if shall become a State. Not Only is the Federal statute prohibiting polygamy confirmed, .but woman suffrage is established at one sweep.—Chicago Herald. The constitution which is to be submitted to the people of Utah in November prohibits polygamy, as do all the States; It provides for woman suffrage, as does Wyoming; it does away with Jury system, as does Michigan, and it does not provide for a lieutenant governor, in which it is like Delaware, .Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine and some other States. It incorporates some new features in trials by jury, providing for petit juries of eight persons, six of whom can render a verdict, except in criminal cases, when a unanimous verdict is required to convict. The constitution provides for a school system that is comprehensive, and If well carried out will give the new State a high rank in educational matters. —Chicago Record.

The Russian Squeeze. If Japan was about one-fourth the size of Russia the latter wouldn’t be offering it any adyice.—Chicago Tribune. Japan, like Cuba, may not have the sympathy of the United States Government, but both have the cordial sympathy and good will of the American people.— jNew York Advertiser. Russia is inclined to crow over what It regards as a diplomatic victory in forcing Japan to agree not to demand any of the Chinese mainland. It is hard to see -wherein the victory lies, for Japan was clearly made the victim of bulldozing by three of the most powerful nations of the world.—Kansas City Star. Russia’s tender regard for “those principles on which rests the concert of civilized nations,” and her agonized fear lest Japan, by violating them, should imperil the progress of civilization in the East, almost make one forget the part Russia took in the dismemberment of Poland and her more recent treatment of the Jews.— New York Times. . The Lion’s Grab. ( It will be England’s next move to cultivate an impression that the Monroe doctrine is a theory and not a condition.— Washington Star. The savage is not far beneath the skin of this Christian nation. The instinct that leads England to enter up judgment without arbitration, to refuse mediation and to chastise the quaking antagonist is the instinct of the aborigine.—Chicago Post England’s conduct in the Nicaragua matter is arrogant and cowarcUy, but it is characteristic. It is the course she has always taken in dealing with f sihall nations. She is a swaggerer and a bully except when the other party is a country of her own size.—Globe-Democrat. If this method of procedure should take place between two individuals, one a big |man and the other a little boy, we should apply epithets to the big man that would not be flattering. Why should not the same methods of justice exist between nations as between individuals?—Boston Globe.

The Comic Side of The News

Cincinnati ice dealers are at war and rates have been cut in two. But of course ■that cuts no ice here. Advices from New York say that the peach crop has been frosted. Is Chauncey M. Depew safe? One of Gov. Morton’s aides is said to • carry a sword which cost $4,006. Me probably cuts quite a dash with it. Chicago dispatch: Milwaukee claims to have been supplying Chicago with bronchol beef lately. It looks like a horse on us. Michigan has gone back to hanging as a punishment for murder in the first degree. This may properly be called a late noose note. f Miss Violet Armstrong bid in John L. Sullivan's trunks at Jacksonville the other dai’ for SIOO and now finds they are si) large she can’t wear them. -