Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — Page 2

Sljc Jkmoiratfc Sentinel t_ 1. »>. W. McEWES, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - • • INDIANA

DEATH IN THE BLAST.

AWFUL WORK BY A PREMATURE EXPLOSION. Metropolitan Elevated Motor at Chicago Plunges to the Ground—Kansas Prodigal Son Makes a Dramatic En-trance-Sultan Orders a Butchery. Two Killed, Seven Hurt. Two men were killed, five others so badly injured they may die, and two others seriously hurt by a premature explosion of dynamite Monday on Sec. 14 of the Chicago drainage canal. All the victims of the disaster were laborers under the foremanship of Richard Powers. According to the statements of drainage canal employes the gang had just completed a drilling and had filled sixteen holes of the blast with 250 pounds of dynamite. Investigation indicated the accident was due to the carelessness or misfortune of John Bowen, a workman, whose duty it was to explode the blasts. Bowen had prepared for a blast by placing the electrical machine used in exploding the dynamite in the bed of the ditch. To test the machine he then inserted an explosive cap and turned away for a moment. Coming back he pulled the lever and there was a terrific explosion. One after another the charges of dynamite placed along the face of the rock blew up with reports distinctly heard at Joliet, seven miles away. The laborers were in a frenzy at the killing and mangling of their comrades and, it is Baid, started after Bowen with the avoided intention of wreaking vengeance on him. He was arrested by the drainage police before the mob caught him, however, and locked up. It is usual on the canal to give a danger signal before exploding a blast by heavy notes from a steam signal. No signal was blown Monday, however.

PORTE ORDERS A MASSACRE. Dispatches Announce that Zeitoun Is to Be Destroyed. A dispatch from Constantinople to the Frankfurter Zeitung, Berlin, says: “The porte has ordered Mustapha Remzi Pasha to attack with 10,000 troops and two batteries the City of Zeitoun, and to bombard and destroy it and to massacre the 12,000 Armenians in the city.” This order followed the receipt, of ap official dispatch from Zeitoun, which said that the Armenians there on Sunday Oast massacred all the Turkish soldiers imprisoned in the town. This probably refers to the 400 Turkish troops whe were captured by the Zeitounlis when the uprising first occurred, although it has been announced that all the soldiers, except nine Who were dead, had been released. WANDERING BOY RETURNS. Discloses His Identity Just Before Family Prayers. Seven years ago Solomon Romstead, the 19-year-old son of A. Romstead, of Franklin County, Kan., left home and no trace of him could be found. Thursday night a horseman, dusty and tired, rode up to the old homestead and asked quarters for the night. The stranger did not reveal his identity until just before the father was ready for family prayers. Then there was an affecting scene be- . tween parents and son. The young man had come frpm Oklahoma where he owns a fine farm. BURNED BY HOT SLAG. Eight Men Injured by an Explosion of Gas in a Blast Furnace. At Pittsburg, Pa., by an explosion of gas at Shoenberger's rolling mill, on 14th street, eight men were burned, one of them fatally. The men were working at the bottom of a blast furnace. When the gas exploded, it forced the hot slag, which accumulates in the cupola, over the sides. Before the men could get out of the way, the hot metal potired out over them. Bowman was badly burned all over the body, and the rest sustained severe injuries about their faces and hands. Two Men Injured. The worst accident in the history of the Chicago Metropolitan Elevated Railroad occurred Monday morning when a westbound motor became unmanageable as it neared the 48th street terminus and plunged to the ground, a distance of twenty feet. The motorman and conductor were injured. The motor car stopped at the West 48th avenue station, where several passengers were let off. Motorman Brady received the signal to go on, and when he applied the current the car started forward with a rush. Before he could apply the brakes and reverse the current lever the ear ran into the bumpers. The bumpers were broken and the car plunged downward. The front end of the motor landed in the street, while the rear wheels remained on the elevated structure.

yfr Noted Possum Hunter Buried. Steven Ross, the greatest possum hunter in Ohio, was buried at Massillon Friday afternoon, after having lived to the age of 108. He was freed from slavery in Virginia and came here before the war. His ghost stories were celebrated, and he trotted half of grown-up Massillon upon his knee. He had a formula for cooking possum, an important feature of which was the mystic gibberish he uttered over the boiling snass, that was almost as famous as his talent for spectral stories. Though penniless and childless, he will be sincerely mourned. Crushed by a Car. Five laborers were injured—one fatally —at the Dayton, Ohio, Malleable Iron Works. The men were at work on a track between the buildings, when a car loaded with pigiron was pushed toward them, crushing them against the walls until stopped by the brakes. Warsaw Threatened by Floods. Warsaw, the county seat of Benton County, Missouri, is threatened with destruction by floods from the Osage Rives. The Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwestern passenger station is adrift. Missouri, Kansas and Texas tracks have been washed away in Vernon County. Master of Bxcheqtier Gone. George King, master of the exchequer of .Monitor Lodge, No. 68, Knights of Pythias, is missing from St. Louis, and along with him, it is reported, have gone $2,000 of the funds of the lodge. . Lost with All on Board. The.cmmt JSteamer Virginia Lake reports immense destruction all along the New Foundland coast. The schooners Victory, with twenty-two men, and Goldfinch, with fourteen men, have been lost. Several other vessels are missing. A boat named Peri Pampai was picked UP on the Grand Banks. ' Chicago Alarmed, , At Indianapolis Minerva D. Veimjlyea, Otto Carlson arid Melchor H. G. Gerde, of Chicago, filed application for the appointment of a receiver for the Fidelity -Building and .Loan Association, No. 4, • * ** - .

PRAISE FOR TERRELL. Secretary Olney Reports on Troubles in Armenia. The President on Thursday, in response to the Senate resolution of Dec. 4, calling for information respecting affairs in Turkey, transmitted a report by Secretary Olney, summarizing but not including the official correspondence and beginning with the massacres at Moosh in August, 1894. In substance the Secretary's report recounts all that has been done to protect American citizens against rioters; shows that, while their property has suffered in two instances, they have not been injured in person; quotes Minister Terrell as estimating the number of Armenians killed at 30,000. and after citing several cases wherein naturalized Americans have been oppressively treated states that proper steps- have been taken to secure indemnity in all cases and to protect our naturalized citizens in their treaty rights. Secretary Olney says the number of United .States citizens in Turkey is not accurately known, but there are 172 American missionaries scattered over Asia Minor and numbers of our citizens in business, besides naturalized Armenians temporarily residing in Turkey, and that probably the whole number of these persons is between 500 and (}OO. The bulk of this American element is found in the interior of Asia Minor and Syria, in quarters remote from our consulates, isolated and inaccessible, except by difficult mountain journeys. TO MAKE A NATIONAL PARK Plan on Foot to Create a Reservation on the Hudson. The Palisades commissioners of New York and New Jersey have taken action to preserve to posterity the wonderfully beautiful upturned ledge of rock along the western shore of the majestic Hudson. A bill has gone to Washington to be presented. The general scheme of legislation follows closely that adopted for the Chickamauga, Chattanooga and the Gettysburg national parks. The provision is to set apart a reservation within prescribed grounds, like that at Niagara, except that in this instance two •states, instead of two nations, are interested. The laying out of the park is to be done by a national commission, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior. The official name is to be the Palisades National Military Park. The land is to be ceded to the Federal Government. aue park will be under governmental control as to every offense committed, and persons who destroy shrubs will have to answer to the Federal courts. The appropriation ordered by the bill is $500,000, which sum is to bear all the expenses of getting the land and laying out the park and the salaries and expenses of the commissioners and their helpers.

FATAL FIGHT FOR A GIRL. Felice Delong Killed in a Duel nt Pittston, Pa. At Pittston, Fa., Felice Delong was stabbed to death by Giovanni Destacliio in a fight for a girl with whom they were in love. They were good friends until about u week ago, when they discovered they were in love with the same girl ami that she was encouraging both of them. Then they had frequent quarrels. During one of them both men drew stilettos. They wasted no time in preliminaries, but sprang at each other. At the first pass Delong’s stiletto flew from his hand. Destacliio struck at him and he dodged beneath the blade, but stumbled. Destachio buried the stiletto in his back as he rose and then four times in rapid succession plunged it into his buck. Delong fell dead at his opponent’s feet, and he, with one thrust, buried the stiletto in his rival's breast, left it there and lied. FINDS THE HIDDEN MONEY. Treasure Secured Forty Y'ears Ago Discovered by a Prospector. About forty years ago a wagon train loaded with valuable goods and about SBO,OOO in gold and silver, en route from the City of Mexico to the United States, was attacked near IHncon, Mexico, by a band of brigands and all the members of the wagon train were killed and the booty seized. The robbers were overtaken a few days filter by a detachment of soldiers and all were killed. The money and stores haiT been secreted by the outlaws and could not be found. The other day Rafael Villegas was prospecting for mineral ten miles south of the town, when he enme upon tiie entrance to a cave. He explored the cave, and found several sacks filled with the money taken by the exterminated band of robbers. DISEASE IS LIKE RABIES. Department of Agriculture Report on Peculiar Ailment of Cattle. Interesting now because of Germany's prohibition of the importation of American cattle is a report just issued by the agricultural department on the corn-stalk disease of cattle and investigations of a disease apparently identical with rabies. The former has caused heavy losses to Western cattle-feeders. The investigation shows conclusively that it is not a lung disease, is not communicable and is not even of a bacterial nature.

Men Were Parboiled. Five men were killed and six injured by the explosion of a steampipe on the American line steamship St. Paul while the vessel lay at her dock at the foot of Fulton street, North River, New York. At the time of the accident, shortly after 7 o’clock, there were thirty men of the crew in the fireroom and ten in the en-gine-room. The main steampipe, which is three feet In diameter, runs from the engine to the fire room. It was this flipe which exploded. The main stop-valve was blown out. The accident is believed to have been caused by a flaw in the pipe. Preparations were being made for the sailing of the vessel at 11 o’clock, but fortunately none of the passengers was aboard the vessel. From above the noise of the escaping steam could be heard the cries of the men who had been at work in the engine-room and injured by the explosion. The nature of the explosion was such that it rendered access to the locality extremely difficult. As quickly as possible the steam was turned off. Almost simultaneously four half dead men scrambled up the iron stairway leading from the engine-room and fell prostrate upon the port side of the vesel. They were hurried into the cabin and restoratives administered to them. Two other men terribly scalded were found in an almost unconscious condition lying near the bottom of the stairway, and were lifted up to the deck. As soon as the steam had cleared away sufficiently to render seeing the surroundings possible five men were found lying near in various parts of the compartment, dead. They had all been scalded to death, and their faces and those parts of the body which were not covered by their clothing looked as if they had been parboiled. Fearful Mine Disaster. At 9 o’clock Thursday morning, shortly after the day force numbering sixtyseven men had gone on duty at the Cumnock coal mines, six miles west of Raleigh, N. C., a fire-damp explosion occurred, killing, it is believed, forty-three men. Not a Dissenting Voice. ./ Friday, the Senate without a dissenting vote passed the House bill for the appointment of the Venezuelan commission. Not an amendment was pressed. Call Money 75 per Cent. There was a panic in the New York stock market Friday. The President’s special message to Congress on the Venezuela affair had the effect of frightening nt '• • ! »!•

the foreign inventors —especially the English—in American securities. Before the Eastern markets opened cables from Ixmdon evinced that there was a semipanic in the American department on she British Bourse. Stocks and bonds were thrown on the market regardless of the price and buyers were very few eveu at enormous concessions. At the close of the exchange in Chapel court the "Yankees” were thoroughly subverted. The general list fell from 2 to G points below the final New York quotations. In Wail street the effect of London’s closing figures was simply demoralizing. The important nnd active properties opened all the way from 1 to 3 points off and up to noon continued to fall. Each successive cable indicated still lower figures, and it was finally reported that many "jobbers” on the London Stock Exchange had refused to accept orders. The unfavorable news was coincident with preparations by the gold-shipping houses for Saturday’s exports to Europe. The initial trading was highly sensational, and declines were made all along the line, extending to 4% per cent. A sinister feature was an advance in rates for call money to 75 per cent., collecting the calling of loans. Three failures were reported on the New York Stock Exchange and one on the Consolidated Exchange. Only one, that of S. S. Sands & Co., was of financial importance. The railway and miscellaneous bond market was also demoralized, declines ranging up to 15 per cent. It was rumored that a single house had dumped $400,000 of Reading bonds on the market. Wisconsin Central trust receipts scored the extreme loss noted and in the leading speculative!) the recessions extended to 11% per cent., in Kansas and Texas seconds, to 47%. Around 12:30 the selling pressure abated and recoveries were made in the stock market from the lowest extending to 3 per cent. Bonds were relatively active.

MIGHT PROVE A BOOMERANG. Bfitlsh Financial Leaders Talk of Calling in Their American Credits. A London dispatch says: A grave but inevitable consequence of President Cleveland’s message upon the BritishVenezuelan dispute has arisen perhaps sooner than might have been expected. A meeting of prominent financial leaders who have important interests in the United States was held in a London banking office for the purpose of considering the advisability of united action in calling in their American credits. It is undoubtedly within the power of English capitalists by such a combined movement to deal America a blow which would, temporarily, be terribly embarrassing and disastrous. It would, however, prove to a certain extent a boomerang, and this view had its influence upon the majority of those who attended the meeting. The conference was private and it was not intended even that the fact that it took place should be allowed to be made public. BACKS TIIE PRESIDENT. Congress Rallies to the Support of the Monroe Doctrine. The House passed a bill authorizing the President to appoint a Venezuelan commission and appropriating SIOO,OOO for expenses. The Senate did not take up the Venezuelan dispute directly, but Senator Chandler introduced a bill “to strengthen the military armament.” It directs the President to strengthen the military force of the United States byadding 1,000,000 infantry rifles, 1,000 guns for field artillery, and not exceeding 5,000 heavy guns for fortifications. The sum of $1,000,000 is made immediately available for the purpose of the.proposed armament. BIG BUILDING COLLAPSES. At Least One Man Killed by an Accident in Minneapolis. The second floor of the Palace Clothing Company’s big store on Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, collapsed just before noon Friday. Gale Walters, a clerk, is dead, and, a dispatch says, others may be in the ruins. The store is a double front, and the entire right half of it collapsed from the fourth floor to the basement. The building is an old one, which was remodeled for the Palace Company’s use. Death of Captain Basset*, Capt. Isaac Bassett, the venerable assistant doorkeeper of the Senate, died at Washington Wednesday' afternoon. Capt. Basgett,. the “father of the Senate,” spent his entire career as a Senate employe. He enjoyed the distinction of being the second page employed in the ’chamber and the last official of that bodyelected by ballot, all subsequent offices being filled by appointment. Cleveland Sends Another Message. President-Cleveland sent another message to Congress Friday, in which he Requested immediate legislation to protect the gold reserve, stating that immediate demands threatened to greatly deplete, if not to entirely wipe it out. A revision of the currency system is also asked, and he requests that no adjournment be had until these two measures are accomplished. Fighting to Be Forced. Havana advices say: Campos will make desperate efforts to break the power of the insurgents. He has determined to force the fighting because of urgent orders from Madrid. Barnato Seeking New Fields. A personal representative of Barney I. Barnato, the famous Kaffir mining operator, has arrived in New York, his purpose being to look over the Cripple Creek district.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3,50 to $5.50; 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. 25c to 26e; oats, No. 2,18 c to 20c; rye, No. 2. 33c to 36c; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, S2O to $45 per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75;. sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,63 cto 65c; corn, No. 1 white. 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 61c to 63c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 17c; rye, No. 2,32 c to 34c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2,39 cto 41c. Detroit—Cattle, ’52.50 to $5.00; bogs, $3.60 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 63c to 65c: corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; Oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye. 37c to 38cv Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 rod. 62c to 64c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27e; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,36 cto 38c; clover seed. $4.15 to $4,257 ' Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs; $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70cjto 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 23c. - Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 54c to 55c; corn. No. 3, ,24c to 26c; oats. No. 2 White, 18c to 19c; barley, No. 2,31 cto 33c; ryO. Nb. 1; 35c to 37c; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. New, York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c: oats, No. IBwhite, 22c to 23c; butter, creameiv, 17c to 29c; eggs, West ern, 20c to 23c.

THIS IS ONE NATION.

Eagle’s Screams Arouse American Patriots. LION MUST KEEP OUT. Congress Votes to Sustain the President. , Bill Passed Giving Him Money and the Commission—American People, Regardless of Party, Uphold Grover in the Enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine —Nothing Since the War Ha. So Deeply Stirred Thia Nation— The British Press Is Insolent and Furions.

Washington coriespondence: Congress is with the President in the ■upport of the Monroe doctrine, and the American people are with Congress. The House of Representatives without dis•enting voice has passed a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for an American judicial commission to ascertain the true boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela. This is the beginning of the

A SURPRISE FOR THE LION-DIDN'T THINK THE ELEPHANT AND TIGER WERE BROTHERS.

lb. VMM Sta'es. P„ sMrat and London.-From the London Times eS ° f Congiess « ive additional importance to the dispatches between Washington

first step in carrying out the assertion of Uie Monroe doctrine as a principle of the international code. Leaders of all shades of domestic difference in Gpngrcss agreed as one man in supporting' the President. It has been the taunt of the British press and the belief of the anti-American public abroad that in the assertion of the Monroe doctrine at this time the President was “playing politics.” It will shortly be apparent abroad that in sapport of the right of Americans to rule America there are no parties in the United States. This is a nation. The action of the House, fresh from the

BRITISH BOUNDARY LINE CLAIMS IN VENEZUELA.

people and expressing their sentiments, raises a crucial issue for the British Government and brings up the question sharply whether it will fight or back down. The Anglomaniacs in the United States are neither numerous nor formidable enough to cause this country to back down. Congress has indorsed the President and the people will indorse Congress. The Monroe doctrine will be asserted both in letter'and in spirit. It will be declared for this time and for all time that it means America for the American republics and no monarchy in America. The European powers must content themselves with partitioning and dominating Europe, Asia and Africa. This Western Hemisphere is the home of the republican form of self-government; and if war breaks out the British monarchical flag will have to depart from Canada and the West Indies and South American Guiana. Great Britain having refused to submit her claims to disinterested arbitration, the United States-proposes to go a step farther in the controversy and inquire for her own future guidance as to the justice of those claims. Nor is this unprecedented. We have a right to know the facts. We do not attempt to decide, but it* is our privilege to ascertain the truth, and thus we shall be able to judge whether Great Britain’s refusal to submit her title to investigation is well founded. All nations exercise! the right of intervention In matters that are likely to affect their own interests or interfere with the clearly defined policy they may have pursued toward their neighbors. Leaving the Monroe doctrine entirely out of the question, we are quite as much justified in pursuing the course recommended by the President as Russia is to interfere with the plans of the English in Turkey, or En-

gland in regard to the conduct of Rnaaia in China and Korea, or Russia, France . and Germany in relations between China and Japan. Europe la Breathless. The’contents of the message have aroused the people of continental Europe as nothing in the second half of this century has done. Great Britain is astounded, according to her own papers. Many of them are insolent and truculent in their comments, and it is evident that the President’s utterances fill them with iincuncealed fury. One of them says that “the epitaph of the Monroe doctrine has been written in the Venezuelan correspondence.” Another sneeringly says that “the invocation of the Monroe doctrine is irrelevant,” and that it is “not a principle of international law, because England has not recognized it”—as if nothing were international law which did not have England’s assent and sanction. The London Times declares that England will not admit the pretensions put forward by President Cleveland. The Times then proceeds to argue that the Monroe doctrine has never been recognized as international law and quotes Ix»rd Salisbury’s admission that any disturbance of the existing territorial distribution in the Western Hemisphere by any European State would be highly inexpedient. Other organs of British opinion take the grotifid that if the “President should seriously declare that the United States would enforce the decision of the special commission, and such a preposterous contention was sustained by the American Congress and people, there would seem nothing left to Great Britain but to teach the United States-a-needed lesson.” And more bluff to the same effect. There was a time early in this century when English statesmen and English papers scoffed at the protest of the United States, then a feeble n'ation, against the searching of American ships by English war vessels and the removal of seamen on the pretext that they were King George's subjects. 'This protest was denounced as “impertinent.” “The right of search” was claimed to be a part of “international law” as defined by Great Britain. But after the war of 1812 England, silently revised her ideas of international law and dropped out “the right of search” of American vessels on the high seas. She

will revise them again in regard to the Monroe doctrine before this controversy is ended, and will admit that the Monroe doctrine does form a most important part of international law as far as matters regarding the American Hemisphere are concerned. Across the channel the sentiment is scarcely less serious. France and Germany, both having interests on this continent, view the message with undisguised alarm, as encroaching on their rights. They ev,en go so far as to suggest that England alone is .in poor shape to handle the husky young republic, but that if

there were concert of action by the interested powers in denying the Monroe doctrine there would be no difficulty in ex ploding the bubble, which, however, has caused many a continental statesman considerable loss of sleep since it was sc vigorously promulgated. The situation is briefly that the attitude of the President is approved by the people of the United States, that the members of both houses of Congress realize this and that there is a manifest intention on all hands to pronounce to the world that this country is dominant on this continent and that her word “goes.”

The Comic Side of the News.

An Oswego girl has been arrested for embezzling SII,OOO. The new woman seems to be a few laps ahead of the old man. A New York paper has an editorial on “How to Humanely Kill Kittens.” Why not kill them just as you murder the English language? The Sultan’s curiosity is getting the better of his judgment. When the allied navies begin to play the shell game he'd better keep out of it. Mrs. Margaret Mather-Pabst probably will return to the stage: let us hope that Mr. Margaret Mather-Pabst will retire from - it now forever. Camphor has been cornered and prices have more than doubled lately. Somebody is laying up treasures where moth and rust doth corrupt. The New York Sun suggests that “toothbrush” ought to be “teethbrush,” perhaps. Perhaps so; but how about eyesglasses, fingersbowl, feetball and hairscut?

BASSETT PASSES AWAY.

Venerable A**iat*at Doorkeeper of the National Senate la Dead. Capt Isaac Bassett, the venerable assistant doorkeeper of the Senate, died in Washington Wednesday afternoon. Capt. Isaac Bassett, the “father of the Senate, ’ spent his entire career as a Senate employe. He enjoyed the distinction of )>eing the second page appointed in the chamber and the last officer of that body elected by ballot, all subsequent offices being filled by appointment Capt. Bassett was born in Washington seventy-six years ago. His father was Simeon Bnssett, who came from Milford, Conn., and his mother was of Irish birth He was a protege of Daniel 'Webster, who secured the appointment of the boy,

CAPTAIN BASSETT.

then 11 years old, as a page. During the subsequent sixty-four years of service he became messenger and finally assistant doorkeeper, or assistant sergeant-at-arms, the latter two offices being identical. His duties practically embraced overseeing the housekeeping of the Senate, the seating of the members, and, in cases of emergency, the actual work of the sergeant-at-arms. Early in his career as assistant doorkeeper he calmly faced a drawn revolver held by the elder Saulsbury, Senator from Delaware, who ha J been ordered arrested for disturbing the Senate. Senator Saulsbury, however, was coaxed out by colleagues and avoid-

ed being taken into custody. He usually introduced those who bore messages from the President or the House of Representatives, and participated in otlier like formalities. It was also his custom to sign all caucus calls for the party in power.

TOSSES EGGS AT AHLWARDT.

Jew Baiter’s First Lecture in America Punctuated with Odorous Missiles. An educated bigot landed on our shores last week and will make frantic efforts to turn the people of the United States against the Hebrew race. His name is Herman Ahlwardt. He is a member of the German Reichstag and is known the world over as the Jew-baiter. He is the leader of the anti-Semitic party in Germany and has served three terms in prison for talking too freely. He is 50 years old—old enough to know better than to come to this country to set in motion an organized movement of persecution. He says he comes here on the invitation of prominent men in Milwaukee and New lork, but he will not give their names because he thinks it would hurt their business. He insists that he is not a villain. His first tirade against the Jews was delivered in Cooper Union, New York City. There were 150 auditors. It became evident before he had spoken 100 werds, that there were more Jews than Christians present. It also became evident that the Jews were greatly excited. While in the middle of a senteifte in whidli he hurled invectives against the Jews a little man sprang to his feet and squeaked - some thing in Hebrew at the rate of 1,000 words a minute. Before the police knew what the little fellow was about he had thrown two eggs at the foreigner, who dodged them neatly. The little disturber of the peace was terrified by his own audacity, and crushed a third egg in his hand just as five gigantic policemen fell over each other in their anxiety to grapple with him. “I come to this country,” he said, in an interview, “for the purpose of uniting the working classes of this country against the Jews. The Jews do not produce anything by their own hibor; it is their sole desire to acquire the results of the labor of others by trick and by fraud. I hold that the Jewish spirit is corrupting the

HERMAN AHLWARDT.

Gentiles. Labor is oppressed by the Jews, and its fruits are being absorbed by them. I will explain all this more fully in my lecturel I hope that I will be able to'arouse the anti-Semitic feeling in this country, which I am told is vigorous, but only in its infancy. I shall deliver twen-ty-one lectures and remain in America three months. My desire is to put a stop to the rise of Jews in politics and literature. We must enact laws stopping the progress of the Jews. In Berlin to-day the Jews own 47 per cent, of the real estate and on the othe.T 53 per cent, they hdd mortgages.”

ASKS NOW FOR GOLD.

PRESIDENT SENDS ANOTHER MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Urges Revision of the Finance*, and Requests that No Recess Be Taken Until Gold Reserve Is Protected— Immediate Action I* Sought. Text of the Message.Z The following message was sent to Congress by President Cleveland Friday: To the Congress: In my last annual message the evils of our present financial system were plainly pointed out and the causes and means of the depletion of government gold were explained. It was therein stated that after all the efforts that had been made by the executive branch of the government to protect our gold reserve by the issuance of bonds, amounting to more than $162,000,000. such reserve then amounted to but little more than $79,000,000, about $16,000,000 had been withdrawn from such reserve during the month next previous to the date of that message, and quite large withdrawals for shipment in the immediate future were predicted. The contingency then feared has reached us, and the withdrawal of gold since the communication referred to and others that appear inevitable threaten such a depletion in our government gold reserve as brings us face to face with the necessity of further action for its protection. This condition is intensified by the prevalence in certain quarters of sudden and unusual apprehension and timidity in business circles. We are in the midst of another season of perplexity caused by our dangerous and fatuous financial operations. These may be expected to occur with certainty as long as there is no amendment in our financial system. If in this particiflar instance our predicament is at all influenced by a recent insistence upon the position tve should occupy iu our relation to certain questions concerning our foreign policy, this furnishes a signal and impressive warning that even the patriotic sentiment of our people is not an adequate substitute for a sound financial policy. Of course there, can be no doubt in any thoughtful mind as to the complete solvency of our nation, nor can there be any just apprehension that the American people will be satisfied with less than an honest payment of our public obligations in the recognized money of the world. We should not overlook the fact,* however, that aroused fear is unreasoning and must be taken into account in all efforts to avert public loss and the sacrifice of our people’s interests.

Cure for Recurring Troubles. The real and sensible cure for our recurring troubles can only be effected by a complete change in our financial scheme. Pending that the executive branch of the government will not relax its efforts nor abandon its determination to use every means within its reach to maintain before the world American credit, nor will there be any hesitation in exhibiting its confidence in the resources of our country and the constant patriotism of our people. In view, however, of the peculiar situation now confronting us, I have ventured to herein express the earnest hope that the Congress, in default of the inauguration of a better system of finance, will not take a recess from its labors before it has, by legislative enactment or declaration, done something not only to remind those apprehensive among our people that the resources of this government and a scrupulous regard for honest dealing afford a sure guarantee of unquestioned safety and soundness, but to reassure the world that with these factors and the patriotism of our Citizens the ability and determination of our nation to meet in any circumstances every obligation it incurs do not admit of question. I ask at the hands of Congress such prompt aid as it alone has the power to give to prevent in a time of fear and apprehension any sacrifice of the people’s interests and the public funds or the impairment of our public credit in an effort by executive action to relieve the dangers of the present contingency. GROVER CLEVELAND.

SENATE IS AS ONE MAN.

Passes the Bill for a Commission Unanimously. Neither the bluff and bluster of British financiers nor the threats of Wall street operators moved the United States Senate from what it deemed its path of duty Friday. Republicans and Populists joined with Democrats in giving the strength of unanimous support to the President, who, it was conceded, had but performed his loftiest duty in setting forth in forcible words the concrete sentiment of the American people in his recent message on the Venezuelan boundary dispute. The House bill for a Venezuelan commission passed the Senate by a viva voce vote, and not one voice was raised against it nor a single amendment urged. It was openly and bravely stated on the Senate floor that concerted action was being taken by the money magnates of England to bring pressure to bear to set aside the threatened investigation proposed by" the President through the story that nothing but party politics had prompted the President’s action; and it was also proclaimed that Wall street, while the debate was in progress, had been flooding the Senate chamber with telegraphic messages proclaiming the direst panic on record if the Senate insisted upon adopting the House bill. But the Senators were not to be intimidated. “Why,” said Mr. Teller in his strong, forceful speech, “every Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade in the United States, except in New York, favors upholding the President’s action and the insistence upon the principles of the Monroe doctrine. Suppose stocks do go off, this country need not be disturbed.” And Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire, took occasion to serve notice on the money powers of London, who seemed to be striving to create a panic by disposing of securities, that die patriotic sentiment of the United States could not be influenced by such a course, and that the people Of this country should stand up to the' last for what they believed to be the right. Congress would do its duty, no matter what the financial operators of Wall street might fio.

A Fireproof Saie.

An Important result attended a test made by order of the Reichsbank—the German Government’s banking establishment—with a safe constructed of cement with steel wire placed in between. The question to be decided was whether It is practical to build vaults of this material for safety against Are. A safe was placed upon a pyre of logs drenched with kerosene, which, after being set on Are, kept the safe for half an hour exposed to a heat of about 1,800 degrees of Fah., that is, a heat in which Iron will melt. Two hours after the safe was opened and the contents—bilk, paper, draft blanks and a maximum thermometer—were found to be absolutely uninjured, and the maximum thermometer showed that within the safe the temperature at no time during the test rose above 85 degrees.