Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Page 2

Stitjcmocralic Sentinel J. W. McEWEN, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA.

DEMAND FOR PENNIES

PHILADELPHIA TURNING OUT 150,000 DAILY. Wind, Snow, and Sleet Do Immense Damage at Chicago-Her Firemen Have One of the Most Stubborn Fights of Their Lives. Stamping Out Coppers. There are 750,000.000 one cent pieces outstanding at the present time, nud :il the Philadelphia mint the daily output has been 150,000 pieces. The government apparently derives a profit of sl.-00 a day on this coinage, the seigniorage being at the rate of nearly 80 per cent, of the face value of the coins. This profit disap]>ears. of course, when the coins are redeemed. Since August last there has been au exceedingly heavy demand for one cent pieces. Treasury officials attribute it to the growing custom in dry' goods establishments and other business houses of marking down prices from round figures, which practice naturally requires a good supply of pennies for making change. The Treasury Department has received one order for'! .000.000 pennies from a cigarette manufacturer, who proposes to put otre penny in each package of twenty cigarettes, selling the package for 5 cents, making the cigarettes cost a fifth of a cent apiece. HAVOC OF THE STORM. Chicago and Vicinity at the Mercy of the Elements. One of the most disagreeable storms in the annals of weather bureaus descended on Chicago late Monday afternoon. It rained, it snowed, and between times sleet pelted down pitilessly. Untold damage was caused by the elements. When night came the downjwur of the mixture of snow and rain and sleet came heavier and the wind, which was gusty in the afternoon, rose to a gale. The streets, the pavements and sidewalks were Hooded to a depth of three inches with slush. The storm made the pavements almost impassable; street car traffic was seriously interfered with; trolley lines were broken with the weight of the snow; telephone and telegraph wires were borne down, broken and crossed until half the wires in the city were made useless by midnight, and communication with the outside world was entirely cut off except at long intervals. Ends of broken trolley and other electrically charged wires dropped into the streets to the positive danger of passers. Numbers of accidents of this sort were reported from various parts of the city, and flic operation of trolley lines in the outskirts of the city suspended early in the evening on many streets. Then, too. the lake was lashed to a seething caldron, and it seems a miracle that many bouts were not lost at the harbor entrance, as a two days’ storm bad driven them all to that end of the lake, and snow obscured the harbor lights. i* TO BOOM THE WEST',

Transmississippl Congress Begins Its Annual Session nt Omaha. Three hundred delegates were present Monday at the opening session of the transmississippi congress at Omaha, which was presided over by ex-Delegate to Congress George Q. Cannon, of Utah, who was elected president of the congress at the St. Louis gathering last yeur. The general object of the congress is the promotion of the welfare of the West, and under this head a vast number of questions have been scheduled for discussion and action. Among those are the irrigation of arid lands, the improvement of waterways and deep-water harbors, the construction and maintenance of levees on the Mississippi and its tributaries, discriminations in transmississippi freight rates, the necessity for a national bankrupt law, the restriction of immigration, methods for the relief of agricultural depression, the project for cable communication with Honolulu and the admission of territories to Statehood. CHICAGO FIREMEN BUSY. Have Two Ugly Blazes to Fight at the Same Tipie. Fire completely burned out the interior of the five-story building at the southwest corner of Wabash avenue and Randolph street, Chicago, Monday night shortly after 11 o’clock. Eight firms occupied the building, which is owned by A. S. Trade. The loss will aggregate $150,001). Though the blaze was confined to the Trade building, the firemen had to make one of the stubborn battles for which the Chicago department is famous. The gale was blowing fifty miles an hour, and in every direction were enormous stocks of goods stored in inflammable buildings. A second lire in Hnymarket Square at the same time did several thousand dollars’ damage. He Wanted to Buy the Midway. F« A. Riley, a well-known New York stock broker, went with his wife to see the Atlanta exposition. He suddenly developed a desire to minister to the spiritual welfare of the denizens of the Midway and began preaching -religion to the couchee couchee girls. Then he wired his New York bankers for a lot of money, announcing that he was going to buy the Midway. He was placed in charge of physicians Taylor’s Bondsmen to Be Sued. J. L. Lockhart. State commissioner of public lands of South Dakota, who has been appraising the lands turned over by defaulting State Treasurer Taylor to secure the State against his thefts, has completed his work. The aggregate value of the land is $75,000, and with cash turned in by Taylor leaves $140,000 deficiency for the bondsmen to pay. They will be sued. Found No Arms on Board. In view of the statement from the deputy collector of customs at Lewes, Del., to the effect that a thorough search had failed to discover arms, ammunition or men on board the Joseph \V. Foster, the Secretary of the Treasury ordered the vessel released. Mansfield Remembers His Lines. Richard Mansfield opened his theatrical season at Philadelphia, presenting "‘Beau BrummeL” It was Mr. Mansfield's first appearance slned his long illness with typhoid fever. Rothschild Brothers Fail. Rothschild Brothers, dealers in furs and gloves, at Chicago, made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors, naming Edwgrd B. McKey. the real estate dealers, as assignee. The liabilities are about $40,000; assets are scheduled at $75,000. Real Estate Dealer SlainA report copies from the Nez Percea reservation In Washington that A. F. Hughes, a real estate dealer, has been killed in a dispute over a contested quar-ter-section. If trqe. this is the first fatality attending the opening of the reserva’dou. .-j , :

CAST UP BY THE WAVEB.

Bodies of Drowned Sailors Arc Washed Ashore. Death in the pitiless, stormy waters of Lake Michigan came to the sailors and disaster and destruction to the ships that braved the elements and set out from port in the teeth of the gale of Tuesday and Wednesday. Wreckage from a number of boats has been washed ashore at various i>oiutß on the lake, and while it is not positively known that any boats have been lost, four bodies were washed ashor# Wednesday morning on the beach near Sarnia. Nothing is known there of any boat having gone ashore and it is imssible that the bodies are those of fishermen who were lost in the gale. Battered and stormworn boats came into Chicago port bearing evidence of their struggles with the gale in disks swept clear of everything that offered any resistance to the wind and waves. Wreckage supposed to be marked “Corning” came ashore near Charlevoix, Mich., and the owners of the barge Ida Corning, Corning & Ryan, were fearful for the fate of their boat and its crew until informed by telegraph that it had tied up at Bay City all, right. Half a dozen boats were wrecked along the Michigan shore at various points, but so far as kpown may be released from their perilous positions, and no lives have been reported lost. The life-saving crews were kept busy going on perilous missions of mercy, full of danger and hardship. RAVAGE OF FLAME. Fire at Chicago Causes a Loss of Over Half a Million. Fire at Chicago Thursday destroyed two-big blocks owned by Warren Springer, ate up the plants of twenty firms, threw 700 persons out of employment and caused a loss of SOOO,OOO. The fire burned for three hours. Four hundred women and girls on a sixth floor were in danger at one time of being out off by the flames, but they were saved by the presence of mind of a policeman, and heroism of Chris Olsen, the elevator conductor. The firemen were threatened by the frequent falling of the tall walls'and by explosions of oil. They had several runs for their lives, with narrow escapes, but they luckily came through unscathed. The buildings were equipped with automatic sprinklers, but these were as helpless as garden sprinkling pots to stny the fire. There were also two fire walls, but the flumes passed these barriers as easily as though they were but lath. Chris Olson, when tine fire broke out, knew his duty and stuck to his post until every man and woman in the building had been landed safely on the ground. Five trips of the elevator to the top floor were necessary to carry all down in safety. Other means*uf escape was out off by tire and smoke. SOAKED IN oil AND BURNED. Slaughter of the Queen of Corea and Her Attendants. Chinese papers by the steamer Empress of China are bitter in their attacks on the Japanese authorities in Corea, whom they blame for tiie murder of tlidjjneen They assert that Japan is a nation pretending to be civilized, but it is the most barbarous on earth. The Queen was hung up by the hair and, after being otherwise abused, tied hand and foot, soaked in oil and burned in she rear of the palace, her remains being reduced to ashes, so that all trace might be lost. Thirty attendants of the Queen, it is alleged, were butchered, their corpses being left about the palace. When the palace was attack/ 4 ed, of some 1,500 guards on duty only six remained at their posts, and they ware quickly dispatched. According to Chinese reports, there were fifteen women of title in the court, the Queen, her mother and ISO ladies in waiting. They were nearly all soaked in oil and burned, while the men’s throats were cut.

MORE MARINES NEEDED.

Present StrcngthNot Sufficient to Meet Demands of Increased Nuvy. 001. Charles Heywood, commanding the marine corps, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy, makes a strong appeal for an increase in the enlisted strength of the corps to meet the additional duties imposed by the increase of the navy. Col. Heywood estimates that 1,500 marines on shore are needed for the protection of millions of dollars’ worth of Government property in their charge, a number 500 in excess of the marines now engaged in that duty. In addition to this, it is estimated that about 450 more men will be required for the new vessels now under construction. DEATH TO SIX HUNDRED. Holler and Magazine Explosion on n Troop-Ship at Kin-Cliow. The Empress of Chinn, just arrived from the Orient, reports cholera practically extinguished in Japan. All the Asiatic coast, when she sailed, was looking to Kiu Chow, whbre'n combined boiler and magazine explosion on the troop ship Rung Pai sent 000 men to death. The boilers were old and unserviceable* and ordinary caution would have prevented the catastrophe. Armenians 31 list Assist. The Armenian Catholieos has received a reply to the communication which wad recently sent to the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, M. De Nelidoff. It.is as follows: “The Armenians of Constantinople are now reassured. They are threatened with no danger. In the provinces, however, there ure regrettable conflicts, which in most eases were caused by the Armenians, who were instigated by their revolutionary committees. The result is terrible revenge upon the part of the Turks in the shape of horrible massacres of Christians. The Sultan has sanctioned the scheme for reforms submitted by the three great powers, and. preparations are now proceeding to carry them out To this end it is necessary that the leaders of the people should persuade the latter to desist from revolutionary attempts, to abandon tue idle hope of foreij,n intervention, to put a stop to all disturbances and to co-operate in the reestablishment of universal peace, in improving the situation, and in the introduction of the new order of things.” The administration at Washington will not take part in any joint action with European nations to compel Turkey to keep its promises to institute reforms. Neither will it assist in splitting up that country in the event of the Sultan failing to keep his promises. Such was the decision reached at the Cabinet meeting Tuesday. The situation was then thoroughly discussed. Minister Terrell’s course was pronounced perfectly satisfactory and American interests will, it is believed, be competently looked after by him. Mothers and Children Put to Death. Col. Fernando Figueredo, the Cuban leader of Tampa, Fla., is in receipt of a letter from Havana giving details of atrocities said to have been committed by Spaniards in Matanzas province. Col. Melino, who commands a Spanish regiment. recently encountered the advance guard of Gomez’ army in Matanzas and was defeated. While soldiers under Melino were in retreat they met a group of women laud ..children near a little town called Cayopino. As the soldiers passed one of the women made a sneering remark about the Spaniards. The remark was overheard by the soldiers, and so enraged them that they fell upon the women and children and butchered every one of.Jhem. There were ten. women and about a dozen children in the group. The commander will likely be court-martialed and be made to pay the extreme penalty. Are Illegally Detained. Four citizens of New York, Geraldo Doiucueon, Severiono Galvez, Branlie

Pena and Anthony M. Ruiz, claim that they are illegally held on board a British man-of-war at Nassau. They are accused of planning a military expedition to (Juba and protest their innocence. The news comes in a letter written by Ruiz to a friend in Brooklyn. When, with his three friend?, he arrived at Inagua. the commander of the British warship Partridge, he writes, sent a force to take them on board and carried them to Nassau. At the time of writing they had been in Nassau more than two weeks, but their case had not come up for trial. GO WILD OVER DEBS. Thousands of Men Greet Him at Chicago. When Eugene V. Debs stepped from the train Friday night that took him from Woodstock to Chicago he faced one of the most remarkulde throngs of men ever brought together. There were 10,000 workingmen crowded into and around the big Northwestern depot. They cheered, roared, sang, laughed, cried, Hiid groaned. They stamped up and down the platform, surged against the coaches, swayed to and fro, brushed aside the policemen there to hold them in check, and, in fact, went wild with the enthusiasm they were worked up to at the sight of the man they call their hero and martyr, and who hud just been released from jail, whither he was sent by the Government of the United States for contempt of court, in disobeying strike injunctions. Debs has been placed in many strange positions, but he can never forget his reception in Chicago on his return from the Woodstock jail. For fifteen minutes after the big train readied the depot there was no sign or semblance of order in the mnss of struggling men. Finally a path was cleared for the band which came with Debs, arul it squeezed its way outside the depot and started to move south across the bridge. Then the marshals shouted aguin, and the parade was fairly under way to Battery D. wherea grand ovation was tendered the liberated leader. HEAVY GOLD EXPORTS. Last Saturday's Shipments Aggregate $3,000,000. Gold withdrawals Friday for shipment amounted to nearly $5,000,000. This reduces the reserve to approximately $82,000,000. The week's record of withdrawals from the treasury gold will nearly equal the big week last winter immediately preceding the lust bond issue, but the conditions then and now are entirely different. Last winter a panicky feeling prevailed on Recount of the uncertainties involved. The money centers were disturbed, funds were being locked up and interest rates were high. The situation was so threatening that a syndicate of bankers and moneylenders was enabled to exact extortionate terms for coming to the government's relief, the syndicate realizing a net profit of slo,i{po,poo tq $12,000,000 of the transaction, According to the calculations ofl Senator John Sherman. PORTUGAL’S MINISTER DEAD. Senhor Angusto de Seguira Thedim Passes Away at Washington. Senhor Angusto de Seguira Thedim, Portuguese minister to the United States, died at his residence in Washington of congestion of the lungs, after a short; ill ness. Senhor Thedim had been a sufferer from consumption for a number of years. He had a sudden and violent hemorrhage Sunday evening, but rallied and his physicians had hopes of his ultimate recovery, but Wednesday evening he grew suddenly worse and from that time sank steadily. His wife was at his bedside when he died.

HURI) LYNCHED BY A MOB.

Taken from His Cell at Wartburg, Tenn., anti Strung Up to u Tree. Charles Hurd, the negro who murdered Jasper I>. Kelley, a young white man, ten days ago, was taken from the jail nt AVnrtburg, Tenn., and lynched. A mob of 200 masked men gathered three miles from the jail and marched in fours to the prison. The negro was taken from his cell und a rope placed around his neck. Ho was dragged to an oak tree, 100 yards distunt where he was swung up. A Moonshine Raid. United States Marshal Kilbourn and three deputies made, an extensive raid on moonshiners in Wise County, Virginia, just over the Kentucky line, destroying a dozen illicit stills, with a capacity of 2,000 gallons. In a fight between the officers and moonshiners three of the latter were seriously wounded. Civil Service Reform League. The annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League will be held In Washington Dec. 12 and 13. Ex-Sec-reatry of the Interior Carl Schurz, tho president, will deliver his annual address on the opening night, and a reception will be given the next evening. Golden Gate Well Protected. The battery of dynamite guns which stretches along the bluffs south of Fort Point for nearly a mile below Sail Francisco is now ready to deal out destruction to any invading navy that may appear within three miles of the Golden Gate. Hayward Must Hang. The Minnesota Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the lower court in the Hayward case. The date of execution will be set by the Governor later.

BREVITIES.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 55c to 56c; corn, No. 2,27 cto 28c; oats, No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye, No. 2,30 cto 37c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 21c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth 4b choice green hurl, 2Vie to 4c per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00 sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,63 cto 65c; corn. No. 1 white, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00: hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 60c to 62c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,32 c to 34c. Cincinnati—Cuttle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, Ole to 66c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21e to 23e; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43e. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 63e to 64c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, 39c to 40c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2,38 cto 40c; clover seed. $4.35 to $4.45. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheet), $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 360; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to ‘34c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 56c to 57c; corn. No. 3,28 eto 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 19e to 20e; barley, No. 2,35 cto 36c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 39c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 16c to 24c; eggs, Western, 21c to 24c.

WIPED OUT BY FLAME

EXCELSIOR BLOCK, CHICAGO, TOTALLY DESTROYED. Aggregate Loaa Will Reach $621,000 —Plant* of Twenty Firms in Ashess3oo,ooo Blaze in W'oolen Exchange Block—Many Firemen Buried. Burned Like a Tinder-Box.

rIRE at Jackson and Canal streets, Chicago, destroyed two big blocks owned by Warren Springer,* ate up the plunts of *1 \ \ twenty linns, threw \ 700 persons out of V \1) employment and / caused a loss of S<JOO,OOO Thursday J afternoon. The fire . —burned forthree Jtours. Four huu- ' \ ■ dred women and girls on a sixth floor

were in danger at one time of being cut off by the flames, but they were saved by the presence of mind of u policeman. The firemen were threatened by the frequent falling of the tall walls and by explosions of oil. They had several runs for their lives, with narrow escapes, but they luckily came through unscathed. The Springer buildings were occupied by manufacturing concerns, and the flames spread so rapidly that the occupants had barely time to seize their books and a few personal belongings and escape with their lives. The buildings were equipped with automatic sprinklers, but these were as helpless as garden sprinkling pots to stay the fire. There were also two fire walls, but the flames passed these barriers as easily as though they were but lath. Feathers and oils and inks carried the fire from floor to floor and from end to end of the big, blocks with lightning speed, and in half an hour the whole Canal street front was ablaze. This front presented a surface 184 feet long by seven and eight stories in height. A halfhour later the Jackson street side, 164 feet deep and seven stories high, was

spitting lire from every window. So much valuable property adjoining was threatened that the tire department turned out with thirty-live engines, the largest number called into use at a single fire in five years. The fire broke out frbout 3 o’clock. Three hours later there was little left of the two Springer buildings but parts of their walls, and their contents were all burned or lay in hot heaps of debris in the basements. Less than SSOO worth of property was saved by the occupnnts. When it became known that hundreds of women were in danger in one of the tall buildings the crowd wanted to make a rush for it, but was kept back by a detail of police from the Desplaines street station. Officer Thomas Brennan had gone into the building und had prevented a fatal panic by barring the stairway with iRs stalwnrt figure until he could reassure he frightened women and send them down the stairs in platoons. Even then some of them fell and bruised themselves in their hurry to escape, but as they poured out of the doomed building the crowd sent up a shout for the women and the gallant oflicer who had saved them. Oil Explosions. It was reported that the basement under the rooms occupied by the Sliober & Carqueville Lithograph Company was filled with oils, and the firemen worked in constant fear of an explosion. Fortunately when the explosions came their force spent itself upward. The loud reports were followed by a cloud of timbers and debris flying toward the upper floors, which fell back into the seething pit without injury to firemen or spectators. Many of the floors were filled with printing presses and other heavy machinery. As the supports were weakened by the flames the machine’s broke through the floor and went down to the bottom with crash after crash as they struck each succeeding floor and landed in the basement iu jangled masses of rods and wheels. As the flames spread from onfc section of the buildings to another, and floor after floor gave way, the noise resembled a battery of artillery in action. Then falling walls added their thunders to the occasion. The first section to tumble was the sixth and seventh stories of the EXecisior Block on Canal street. A warning crack and a shout from the crowd sent the firemen flying for their lives. The wall fell half way across the street and sent bricks with sufficient force to have killed tbe firemen, who escaped the danger by barely a second. The next section to fall was on the north, but it struck the Wilson building and went through the roof without a rebound. A little later three upper

EXCELSIOR BLOCK BEFORE THE FIRE.

stories of the Jackson street wall toppled outward and across the street, but it had been expected, and the firemen were out of the line of danger. Edward B. Gallup, manager for Mr. Springer, put the loss on the seven-story Excelsior Block, 175 to 183 Canal street, at $225,(XX) to $250,000; that on the eightstory block at 171 to 173 Canal street at $75,000, and that on the No. 10 building on Clinton street at ,$25,000. He intimated the insurance would come near the value of the buildings. The property of the tenants in the buildings was all heavily insured. The origin of the fire is n mystery, although the supposition of employes about tho Emmerich feather renovating institution was that a gas jet by accident communicated its flame to some of the chemicals used in the denning of feathers r.nd that aa explosion followed which filled

that floor with flame. The blaze spread rapidly and caught the woodwork that surrounded an air shaft in the corner of the floor, and which ran from the basement clear to the roof. It served as a chimney for the flames to leap to the floors above. The burning wood fell to the floors below and started the blaze among the material stored on them. In-fifteen minutes after the first spark of tire was seen, the seven stories of the Excelsior Block were blazing like a furnace. Breaking out in the afternoon of a raw, snowy November day, just as the first travel from the Union station to suburban points was about to begin, the fire created a tremendous sensation among the dirty ways of Canal street, in the dark depths of the station, and in the Springer buildings themselves, where hundreds of men, women, girls and boys fled down the narrow stairways for their lives, and, finding themselves safely in the streets, laughed and clapped their hands for the joy of safety. Then they watched the shell pass more quickly than any building of its size in Chicago has ever burned before since 1871. The character of the interior construction of the Springer buildings has always been condemned by the wage earners of the West Side and feared by the firemen of the city department. SIX FIREMEN DEAD. Horrible Results of Another Fire In a Seven-Story Building. At 9:30 Friday morning fire which was the cause of death and the loss of property worth $500,000 broke out in the fourth story of Kuh. Nathan & Fischer’s new building, the Dry Goods and Woolen Exchange, at 215 and 217 Van Buren street and 270 and 278 Eranklin street, Chicago. The flames burst through the windows all along the front of the building, and in an instant the whole structure was a mass of curling fire. Jumping from the upper windows, a number of people were dashed"’upon the pavement and sustained fatal injuries. Hanging between life and death, a score or more of shrieking, screaming girla clung to the window casements of the building. With lightning-like rapidity engines and hose carts surrounded the blazing structure. In a twinkling every fire escape in the building was alive with helmeted firemen bent on saving the live*

EXCELSIOR BLOCK ON FIRE.

imperiled above. Catching its breath, the spellbound crowd gazed upward as one of the girls, driven to frenzy by the choking, blinding smoke, leaped in midair to what appeared certain death. A fireman’s strong arm extended from the fire escape was almost wrenched from its socket as he caught the flying human figure. A second later another girl threw herself headlong. But no protecting arm saved her, and, turning over and over, she fell to the sidewalk below, a mangled, bleeding mass of humanity. After the fire was entirely under control and while the firemen were on the first floor of the structure, throwing water on some still smoldering flames, the second and third floors suddenly gave way and crashed on the first, covering the firemen. Captain Louis Feine, of fire company 2, and the lieutenant and four pipemen of the same company were buried beneath falling floors of the building.

WOULD RETIRE GREENBACKS.

Secretary of the Treasury Declares His Policy in a New York Speech. The address by Mr. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, at the annual dinner of the New York Chamber of Commerce was a plea for the retirement of the legal tenders. He took the ground that no change made in our currency system will afford relief unless it provides for this retirement, as the circulation of the legal tenders has a tendency to drive out of use and out of the country the very gold in which the Government is compelled to redeem them. His exact language was this: “No change that can be made in our currency system will afford the relief to which the Government and the people are entitled unless it provides for the retirement and cancellation of the legal tender United States notes. Anything less than this will be simply a palliative and not a cure for the financial ills to which the c.ountry is now subject.” He added that “no other Government in the world is required to supply gold from its treasury to discharge the private obligations of its citizens.” Notes of Current Events. A Sister of Charity in St. Vincent’s Asylum, St. Louis, has been appointed a notary public. The Choctaw Legislature has rejected the Dawes commission proposition to accept lands in severalty. Joseph Kilgore and John Jones were killed, and John Handley fatally wounded in a street duel in Birmingham, Ala. Two pretty New York women are going to Atlanta in a twenty-foot rowboat. They are making the voyage to win a bet. Five theaters on the Midway at the Atlanta fair have been closed on account of immorality. The proprietors were fined SIOO each. A Salvation Army invaded a Muncie, lud., theater and changed the variety program to a religions service. Four converts were made. Details of the loss of the Italian hark Brom Carlo off Cape Horn by collision with the British ship Condor, show that only four of her nineteen men were saved. The trials of the notorious Scatterfield whitecaps have begun at Anderson, Ind. Another attempt to kidnap Miss Hudson, the State’s principal witness, has been frustrated. Retail druggists of Kansas City will manufacture all the patent medicines consumed by the local trade in order to fight those manufacturers who supply patent medicines to department stores. Assistant Secretary Reynolds, of the Interior Department, has decided that where a pension has been obtained fraudulently the attorney procuring the pension is not entitled to the foe and must refund it. Citizens of Thompson Township, Ohio, are being terrorized by a lioness and two leopards, which escaped from a circus some time ago and traveled from Marion County. Many sheep and calves have been killed. Farmers go to their field work heavily armed. Travel after night has beenentirely stopped. A hunting party will be organized.

WORK OF CONGRESS.

MEMBERS OUTLINE WHAT WILL BE DONE. Borne of the More Important M eas urea to Be Introduced by Senators and Representatives—The Ship Canal Project to Receive Attention. Capital City Chat. Washington correspondence:

THE coming session of the new Congress promises to be full of interesting work for its members, and from first to last |«l will hold the attenjfa tion of people gengßSi orally. With a ‘■Uj view of getting advance information t h e writer has made inquiries of a number of the nrovum-- distingui shed members of both ■FjlYj houses for a fair I II I" outline of the pros|ll * peets for legislation of interest to

toe people. Answers made to these inquiries by Senators and Representatives substantially' agree in the main in two things. One is that the revenues of the Government must be increased. The other is that the outlook for general legislation is poor. The session promises to* be one of inactivity, enlivened by stage plays in the interest of parties and Presidential aspirants. While there is general agreement that the revenues should be increased the manner of providing this increase promises to make a conflict between Congress and the President right at the start, for many Republicans insist that the revenue bill shall be drawn on protection lines, and there is an intimation of a possible conflict and even deadlock between the President nnd Congress on this question. The principal subjects singled out for tariff protection are lumber and wool. There are suggestions also of an increased tax on beer for the purpose of increasing the revenues. Cuba, Venezuela and the Monroe doctrine promise to furnish sufficient material for discussion and for resolutions. The Nicaragua Canal, a railroad pooling bill and the Union Pacific situation will Jeceive attention, as will also the pension juestion. An effort will be made to deprive the Commissioner of Pensions of Ihe right to cut off pensions arbitrarily or ':o reduce their allowances. It looks as if he questioii of retiring the greenbacks, if pressed by President Cleveian 1. as it probably will be, will overshadow in importance the silver question. It may be made one of the leading issues in the next campaign. Oil the whole, very little legis'ation of importance may be expected

EFFECTS OF CLOSING CHICAGO BARBER SHOPS ON SUNDAY.

from the coming session of Congress. Fortunately the party strength is so divided between the two houses and the Executive that very little dangerous or disturbing legislation need be feared. Treasury Stock Is Sinking. Recent withdrawals of gold for export by New York bahking houses have reduced the balance in the treasury to $89,439,039, which is about $11,000,000 betow the lawful reserve, and witfiin $14,000,000 of what is considered the danger point. The bullion in the vaults is valued at $54,088,730 and the coin was $88,073,048 before the withdrawals of Saturday, of which $50,338,739 represents outstanding gold certificates. This leaves a margin of less than $30,000,000 in coin available for the redemption of greenbacks and other United States notes. All the mints, have been working steadily through the summer coining gold with the hope of escaping another such emergency as occurred in February, when coin had to be borrowed from trust funds to redeem notes and replaced with bullion. The shipments of gold last week amounted to $3,207,000, and it is expected that they will reach $5,000,000 this week unless something unusual happens to affect exchange, it is believed, too, that the flow eastward will continue at the rate of $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 a week during the remainder of the year, and after the first of January, when dividends are payable, it will be even greater. The best authorities anticipate a depletion of the treasury gold to $50,000,000 or $00,000,000 before Feb. 1, unless some action is w taken to stop it or replenish the reserve by the sale of bonds. No aid tan be expected from the public revenues. The deficit is piling up larger and larger every month. The exports in October were only $12,000,000 in excess of the imports, while Urey were $23,033,135 in excess during tlie corresponding month last year. For the ten months of 1895 ended Oct. 31 the balance of trade in our favor was only $31,119,749, while during the corresponding period in 1894 it was $90,001,396, and this difference is not sufficient to settle balances in Europe and meet mercantile obligations. Assistant Secretary Curtis went to New York last week to confer with the bankers of that city concerning this situation, and he was advised by every one that it would be necessary for the treasury to issue another loan in order to maintain the Government credit until Congress takes some action. The same syndicate that has been supporting the treasury all summer and manipulating exchange so as to prevent the withdrawal of gold is willing to come to the relief of the Government again on much better terms than they demanded last February, but stipulates that action be taken at once before public confidence is unsettled aud the reserve is reduced bejow the danger point. They agree to furnish $25,000,000 In gold coin in exchange for $20,000,000 par of 4 per cent, bonds, and it is believed the President will accept their offer without taking the risk that he did early in the year, and then call upon Congress for.permanent relief. The New York bankers told Mr. Curtis that while the Government can place bonds at the rate of 3 per cent, now it will be compelled to pay at least 3% per cent, if the reserve is reduced below $60,000,000, and if the administration gets into the same fix as it was in last February he will be compelled to make anoth-

er contract similar to that made then wtt& the Morgan-Belmont syndicate. Carter’* Two Hat*. The Hon: Thomas H. Carter, the member of the United States Senate from. Montana and the chairman of the Repub-

can National Committee, wears two hats. The change is made when he crosses the 88th meridian of longitude. One is of the broad, sombrero kind, about the complexion of a ■ dun-colored mule, /, and carries around \ the crown outside a strap of leather, which may be tightened or let out to accommodate the

alterations in Senator Carter’s head. That is the hat he wears in Montana, - where he is one of the boys, drinks his whisky straight, chews plug tobacco, greases hi* boots and uses double negatives and other forms of bad grammar. But as he crosses the 88th meridian this hat is folded up carefully and tucked away in the pocket of his gripsack, so that he may resume it when he reaches the same point on his next journey westward. At tjie same time Mr. Carter folds up his frontier manners and lays them aside to keep until they are needed again. His other hat is a sleek and glossy example of the stovepipe variety, cut after the pattern of that which the Duke of Marlboroughwore at his wedding. This he only wears in the East, when Ije puts on a bold face, white shirt, and his manners are those of a prosperous New York banker. While he wears this hat he shaves and has his boots polished every day, he abstains from, chewing tobacco, smokes expensive cigars, and his vocabulary is gauged to the Boston standard. But opije in awhile Senator Carter gets tired of the frills and formalities thaJ go with his silk hat and 1 takes a night off. He releases himself entirely from hie eminently respectable obligations and relaxes all over. He gets out his old dun-colored hat, puts on a common-looking overcoat, dulls the polish upon his boots with a wet towel, shoves his necktie around under his ear. musses up his hair and whiskers and his shirt, gets a big plug of tobacco and leaves the gilded halls of the Holland, Waldorf and Fifth Avenue hotels and goes to a cheap chop house where you can buy a plain but wholesome dinner for 40 cents and most of the patrons eat with their knives. I met the Senator there the other evening' and to my inquiry he responded: “Yes, by gosh, I’ve been high-toned as long as I can stand it and I’m laying off tonight.”

SUNDAY SHAVING LAW INVALID.

Decision by a Chicago Judge that the Law Is Class Legislation. Judge Gibbons, of Chicago, in a carefully written opinion, holds that the Cody law, making it a misdemeanor for a barber to shave a mail on Sunday, is class

legislation and invalid. This is the result so far of the fight waged by Chicago barbers against the law. The case will bo reviewed by the Supreme Court next. The Judge, in the course of his opinion, said: “The basic question of this case is, Can the Legislature single out any one calling or avocation, which in and of itself is not harmful to others, and make it the subject of special legislation. It can not be urged that barbering is a pursuit inimical in itself to the health or morals of the community as it has long been recognized as a handiwork that very materially ministers to the cleanliness and comeliness of the human family. “In truth, we find that this occupation was known to man long before many of the learned professions found a place in human economy. The prophet Ezekiel said: ‘And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head find upon thine beard.’ The courts cannot take cognizance of the moral aspect of the case, even though a seventh day of rest seems to be established by divine decree or natural necessity.”

SINGULAR RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

Elevated Train Crashes Through a Station and Falls to the street. A remarkable accident occurred about two weeks ago in Paris, by which an engine and tender were precipitated from an elevated platform at the Montparnasse station. The train rolled into the train shed at a rate of about thirty-five miles an hour without being able to arrest itsel, crashed through the bumpers at the end of the track, as well as the front wall of the station, and after traveling about forty-five feet tumbled into the street-be-low, the engine fairly on its nose. Fortunately at this moment the air brake was put on and the rest of the train was prevented from going over. It was to this circumstance that the 123 passengers in the coaches owe their lives. As to the engineer and fireman they were saved by being thrown from the engine at the first shock and the only fatality, strange to say, that resulted from the whole affair, was the killing of a merchant in the street below' by the fall of a block of stone detached from the wall by the shock. The cause of the accident —quite the most singular in French railway annals —is attributed to a defect in the han£ brakes, which, strange to say, are always used on French trains, save in cases of emergency, when the air brakes are called into play, aud in this case the air force could not be applied quickly or effectually enough.

The Undertaker in the Antipodes.

We see in a daily paper that an undertaker in a country town not a hundred miles from Launceston announces that he lias supplied a long-felt want in the district by securing a hearse of she latest design, and is now prepared to carry out his work on terms to w suit these depressed times. That, as our contemporary remarks, is not at ail bad in the way of grim humor, but it is hardly equal to that of the gentleman who advertised, “Why live and be miserable, when you can be comfortably buried for three guineas?” Medieval knights often took a volun-! tary oath that they would never spar* the life of »» eorroy. i

T. H. CARTER.