Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — Page 2

l^eSrmocrQticSmlincl J. W. MoEWK.y Publisher. RENSSELAER, • - - INDIANA

RUIN FROM THE SKY.

WEST VIRGINIA SOAKED BY A CLOUDBURST. Creeks Oat of Bank, Houses and Bridges Demolished— English Crew Victorious—Canght in an ElevatorDeath of Dana, Rescuer of Grant. ?■ i i : ( ’ ‘ - - Cloudburst in West Virginia. A waterspout in the interior of Ohio •nfi Marshall Counties, . A a., caused great loss to property and a sus]H»nsion of railroad traffic ons of Wheeling on two railroads. Sunday night the rainfall in the interior was very heavy, and about 2 o'clock Monday. morning there was so much rain that, .it approached a cloudburst in volume. The various creeks, including rttig.aud JUittie Wheeling Creeks, Little Grave Greek, .lim's Itun, on the West Virginia side of the river, and Wheeling Creek, Wegee Creek and other tributaries on the Ohio side, sent out an immense amount of water. The water was speedily out of banks. Farm houses were washed from foundations, stock drowned, growing crops destroyed and many narrow escapes from death in the ragiug waters. Wheeling creek put out into the Ohio so furiously that npbound towboats were unable to stem the tide •ad had to tie tip below the city. The and Ohio bridge extends over the mouth of the creek and was soon seen to be in danger, as the water was carrying away the-foundation of the pier at-the portli side;. All cars and property of value were taken away and people warned of the danger. At 11:10 a. in. the east span we,lit dawn and carried with it the railroad bridge to the west, farther up the creek, the trestle work of the Wheeling Terminal road was carried • way and .1. X. Rosenberg, an aged eontractor, was carried down with the wreck. He Was rescued by spectators. Twelve miles below the city, at Mouudsville. the damage was quite severe. The steel bridges of tlie Ohio River and Baltimore and Ohio roads were carried away, the current being so swift that the Ohio River bridge was sent to the middle of the Ohio. Up Little Grove creek a hotel in the oil field was carried off its foundations, but «o lives were lost.

HE, SAVED GRANT’S LIFE. William H. Gunn, Who Spoiled an As* snssin'H Aim Is Dead. Wiliam 11. Gunn 'died in Newport. Ky.. Monday. He became famous nearly twenty years ago by saving General Grant fr uni an assassin's bullet. This occurred on the day the general arrived at San Francisco from liis tour around the world. Upon the arrival of the Tokio over 200,000 people were in waiting to welcome tile general, and upon lii.s resichIng a point where an address was to be delivered, Gunn, who was close to Grant, •aw the would-be assassin draw a revolver, and just as he was in the net of pointing it he struck the fellow's arm •nd Knocked the weapon from h s hand. Ot late years Gpn ha,J been a theatrical designer, aing of National Eenuiie. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L, \V. L. Cleveland .. .41 l'.H’hUadelplua .lilt It.", Baltimore . .41 21 Washington .110 10 Cincinnati . .4.1 24Brooklyn ....111 114 Boston ItS 21 Now York .. .21! .'lt! Pittsburg.. ,14 29St. Louis. ..11 11 Chicago .. ,'tit Louisville . .12 4N J Western League. Following is the standing ot the clubs In the Western League; W. L. W. L. Indianapolis .40 20St. Paul . . . .lilt 20 Detroit . . . .11l 2(t.\tilwaukee . .20 18 Minneapolis .10 27Gr’d Rapids .24 42 Kansas City .11 28('ohimbus . .22 44 Sons of Temperance Assemble. The fifty-second annual convention of the Sons of Temperance ot' North America began in Washington Tuesday at National Rifles Hall, which was, tastefully decorated with American and English flags. The convention was opened with devotional exercises, conducted by the chairman of the local committee of arrangements. alter which M. M. Eavenson of Philadelphia called.the business ses•ion to order mid the national division •ang "America.” Then the committee on credentials submitted its report. Routine business occupied the remainder of the day. Sire. Mart in's Awful Experience. With her left leg held with vise-like grip between the iron walls of tin elevator •haft and the ear Mrs. Emma A. Martin, of 1110 West Harrison street, Chicago, was compelled Monday noon to anbmit to the amputation of her foot by • sargeou. Because of the necessarily awkward operation a second amputation was made when she had been removed to her homo. On account of her age, which is 65 years, it is feared that Mrs. Martin will not survive the shock.

Vale Is Beaten. Yule -wa* defeated, hut not disgraced, Tuesday in the third trial heat tor the Grand Challenge clip at Henley-on-Thatpes. I.eander won by one and three«jttartor lengths, in 7:14. The record is 0:51. The race was one of the most •tnbborn ever rowed, and the vast crowd «t over 30.00(1 Englishmen was loud in praise of the plucky American men. Their Books Short $297,000. The Pittsburg city auditors have linixlt«d the examination of the books of exVity Attorney Miirelaml and his assistant. House, and report $297,000 unaccounted for ou the books. The examination was begun almost a year ago. j. v." /• ' Earthquakes in Cyprus. The steamer .Italia has arrived at Gebm, and reports that Larnica, island of Cyprus, has been suffering from earthqnske shocks since .Inly 1. A general panic is said to prevail and the government and military authorities have been •providing teuts for the affrighted people. Wheat Crop Is Short in Ohio. The Ohio crop bulletin shows that wheat has fallen off 4 points and is now only 45 per cent of a full average crop. This is due to the ravages of Hessian fly aund rust Tsmonli'hlbrnry to Be Sold. The Londpn Times announces that the Bari of Ashburnham has decided to sell the famous library of printed books and manuscripts formed by the late earl; Some portions of this library hare of Sate years been sold to the British and Italian Governments. Bis Gaa Well in Tennessee. A flow of gas estimated at 1,000,000 cubic feet a day was struck by the Burt OU Company of Ha.riman, Tenn., who were sinking for oil in Overton County. Bxcitement is running high in the oil Reids of north and middle Tennessee coun-

DEATH OF MRS. STOWE.

Pasiee Away at Her Home in Hartford, Conn. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the gifted authoress of * Uncle Tom’s Cabin’* and other works of world-wide repatation, died at her home in Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, without regaining consciousness. She passed peacefully away as though-into a deep sleep. By her bedside at the time were her son, Rev. Charles Edward Stowe of Simsbury; her two daughters, Eliza and Harriet; her sister, Isabella Beecher-IIooker; John Hooker; Dr. Edward x>. Hooker, her nephew, who was also her medical attendant, and other relatives. Mrs. Stowe began to fail in 1888. The first alarming symptoms of the breaking up of her faculties, mental and physical, showed itself at Sag Har-. bor, L. 1., in September, 1888. Her intimate friends and family knew where the trouble lay. but Mrs. Sttiwe’s condition was such that it was thought advisable to keep it a secret, and it was not until the following year that the truth was told in the public press, and was then not denied by the family.

MILITIA ON GUARD. Troops Called Out to Control the Cleveland, Ohio, Strikers. State troops have possession of a large part of Cleveland. Continued rioting at the works of the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Company on the part of the strikers led to the killing of one citizen Thursday afternoon. A nonunion workman, Albert G. Saunders, did the killing. The man killed was William Rettger, a striker, lie was shot through the heart. lie was lately employed by the Brown company, and joined the strike. Saunders was on a bicycle and was near the Brown works. So far as can be learned a mob of strikers were yelling "Scab” at him when he suddenly drew n pistol and fired into their ranks. Rettger received the bullet and died instantly. But for po’iee protection Saunders would have been lynched by the mob. The Mayor at ouee called upon the Governor for troops, and the local companies were ordered out. During the day the police charged the crowd several times, and cracked many heads. ELECTROCUTION IN OHIO. New Low Regarding Executions Goes Into EfFcgt,Commencing Wednesday the execution of the death penalty by hanging in Ohio becomes u thing of the past, -and the Buckeye State, following the lead of New York, will substitute electrocution, excepting so far as relates to persons already under sentence of death by the noose. The change has been brought about by a bill introduced in the upper house by Senator Jones and championed in the Assembly by Representative Reed. It provides that all murderers convicted after July 1 and sentenced to the death penalty shall be electrocuted, and infliction of the penalty must take place before sunrise on the day set by the sentence in court. The death chamber must be in the penitentiary. There is no other change in the provisions of the present law relating to death sentences.

MYSTERIOUS BALLOON. Aerial Ship, with Passengers, Sweeps Fast Over Winnipeg. A mysterious balloon, with occupants, passed over Winnipeg, Man., Wednesday evening. It was at a great height and traveling so fast that it was soon out of sight. A month or so ago the Hudson Bay officers were requested by the English Government to notify the chief factors at their various northern posts regarding the north pole balloon expedition of the explorer Audree. This notification, widely published, and the appearance of the mysterious balloon caused people to speculate whether this was Audreo’s balloon. It was going due west. Local papers have sent dispatches to all western and northern points and hope to get some information regarding the balloon and its occupants. More than $3,000 Received. The Cuban army sanitary corps in New Y’ork has received in subscriptions up to date more than SI,OOO, and 00 per cent, of this amount was donated in 2-ceut stamps. A splendid showing this is of American generosity and practical sympathy in four weeks’ time. The Cuban army sanitary corps was organized to till the place of a Red Cross society on Cuban soil. The Spaniards have their hospitals comparatively well looked after by corps of nurses from Spain. Up to the time that the Cuban sanitary corps was organized the only trained nurses ever seen ill the insurgent hospitals, improvised in some old, damp church, or hid away among the miasmatic vapors of the Liipata swamps, or concealed in the torrid recesses,of a mountain gorge, were" those ba’tlent and over sacrificing Angels of mercy whose lives have been wedded to the .church and (lie alleviation of human suffering. While ’ the Sisters of Charily are doing all they can for the sick and buttle injured in the Cuban camps, their work has not been the most successful, because of the lack of the proper remedies and appliances, and the almost total absence of surgical instruments. Surgeons have been few, and the wounded many, and supplies scarce, and the sick ever increasing. The Cuban war organization known as the junta, though correctly called the “delegacion,” was formed to provide material to prosecute the war, and ao much of its time and attention were taken up in the purchasing nnd sending of arms and ammunition to Cuba that hospital stores were overlooked and neglected. The headquarters of the society, which are known ns the Cuban Army Sanitary Corps, are at 81 New street, New Y'ork,

Kaines law la Working Well. The actual number of excise permits issued by Deputy Commissiotier Hilliard of New York up to Wednesday is 7.421. About 1.(100 drinking places have been wiped out by tin Baines law. The lager beer saloons are the heaviest losers by the law, being tinulde to pay the SBOO tax. Hundreds were shut up, and so wprp most of the little Italiau,■'PrencbfaiftL Hungnrihri cases, in the quarters there- are; colonies oC'.those nationalities.It is paid to be oniyya finest ion of time when they will nil close, for their customers wir pot .idfcfc lheir meals jyhere they pfn'uot get wihe.„ Tn JBrookiyti, and Coney.'-lblanfl where thb fax hj’ s({so, a very Milall 'proportion 'pf'MuilfOr,.dealers have dropped out:' A» gleftt' majority of the liquor dealers hadCftteCiV able to pay the smaller tax. The Law and Order Society people have been-disappointed. Baby Grhnted Wjpaltl* in Court. ilargart-tha' old, was preseut'tip court in Brooklyn TlpoSday when she was declared an .lielroKs to $45.4)00 in real csItte and in bapk. The baby cooedd *nd laughed and was the recipient of in-v numerable kisses and embraces by tpc friends of Mrs. Mayor, who held up the tittle one for admiration. She was torn eight -months and two days after the death of her father Interior Customs Abolished. The abolition of Mexican customhouses in the interior went into effect Wednesday, and hereafter these establishments will exist only on the frontier and at the ports. Chicasroans Are Desnerate. In Chicago, ex-County Commissioner S. Albrigh and the West Siders are

organizing a White Cap society to protect themgelves against the "long” and "short" men and the thugs of the city. Tar, feathers and lynchings will figure in the* program and the city is promised a duplicate of the famous regulation committee that made San Francisco respectableH>j terroxjziujf the thugs. “The business of Chicago is ruined by these holdups,” said Mr. Albright to a reporter. “New Y'ork, tit. Louis, Cincinnati and other cities order theirMraveling men to go right through the city and not to stop; people are afraid to come here to buy. On the West Bide there is an organization of volunteers who will from now on patrol the streets every night and when we find men continually loafing around we will warn tliem and if that warning is not obeyed something will happen. It inny be only tar and feathers, or it may be that the thugs will disappear forever from his favorite haunts; our families must and shall be protected; we wish to be law-abid-ing, but this wholesale robbery must be stopped. Our men will be at the police courts to fight the aldermen who make u business of interfering nnd standing between the law and the law-breakers of their wards: we will teach aldermen that they are not elected to promote hold-ups. Every day new men are signing with us and soon every block on the West Side will be patrolled, day and night. YVe have the money to hire men for the day time, nnd our men arc not particular how they handle a man caught trying to rob or hold up. We mean to break up the various gangs of thieves and drive the men who are known to have bad reputations out of town.”

THE FORTY-FIFTH STAR. “Old Glory’s" Blue Field Ha« a New Star Added. Saturday, foi the first time, the flag of the United States \va. floe.ted with fortyfive stars on its blue field, indicating the admission of Utah to the sisterhood of States. General orders issued by the War and Navy Departments prepared the way for the change, and for several months past the flngmakers have been busy in placing a now star on the flags in stock. From economical considerations the old army flags will not be retired at once, but will be replaced only as they are worn out in service by the new ensigns. In the ease of the naval flags the change was more easily made, for all of these flags are made at the New York and Mare Island navy yards, while those on hand on shipboard may be readily altered by the expert saiimakers. GETS $30,000 IN DAMAGES. Miss Casey Is Awarded This Sum from the West Chicago Company. At Chicago, .Miss Margaret Casey, one of the victims of the Harrison street bridge disuster of July 29. 1891, was ;;iven a verdict of SIO,OOO from the West Chicago Street Railroad Company in Judge Freeman's court. Miss Casey was on a Taylor street ear going west ovei the Harrison street bridge on the d,ay of tlie accident, when a pole about twenty feet long, used for turning the bridge, struck the ear, killing a Miss Rierdon r.rnl terribly injuring Miss Casey. The polo struck Miss Casey in the abdomen, making n transverse cut fifteen inches long and tearing away all the muscles on the left side.

Chicago’s Patriotic Victims, Summarized police reports in Chicago show the following results of the glorious Fourth: Ini Killed, jured. Cannon 1 4 Crackers 7 Powder 4 Stray bullets 1 4 Revolver .. 9 Total 2 28 Injuries classified: Face 8 Hand <; Fingers torn off ....... 4 Eyes burned 1 Leg <; Breast .... .. 1 Neck l Back l To the above list might be added the names of several thousand patriotic Americans whose hurts were not reported to the police. Made 11l by German Pork. A cable from Berlin to the New York Journal says that soldiers of the One Hundred and Fourth Infantry, quartered in the barracks at Chemnitz, are suffering greatly from trichinosis. They were made ill by eating German pork. Big Fire nt Galveston, Texas. Galveston, Texas, had a $150,000 fire Thursday afternoon. The line sheds, extending from pier 24 to pier 28, -burned, together with contents. A.train, of twenty-six empty freight cars on the truck were consumed. Awful Crime of n Drunken Man. At Winnipeg, Man., William Warren, while intoxicated, cut his wife's throat and gashed her face and head terribly with a razor, and then drew the weapon across his own throat Massacres iri South Africa. Massacres of white people in Matabele-. land continue. Powerful chiefs are joining the insurgents. Premier Spriggs predicts a rising of the natives in the colony.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 54c to 55c; corn. No. 2, 2<ic to 27c; oats. No. 2,15 c to ltfc; rye. No. 2,29 cto 31c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, froth, 10c to 12c; new potatoes, per bushel. 25c to 40c; broom corn, common to choice, $25 to SSO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 53c to 55c: corn, No. 1 white. 2(ic to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c. ! St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 so $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 59c to {slc; corn. No. 2 yellow. 24c to 20c; oats. N'b. 2 white,’dsc to 10c; rye, No. 2,27 c to- 2j)c. : • Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50: hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep,. $2.50 to $4.00; yritent/ ‘No. 2. r!sc to fiOc; corn, No. 2 faMAI; 2Se‘to'Sfte; o\us. No' 2 liiixcd,' lfc to'TDe; Yye. No.-2, 33c t6 = 35e.'' Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75;. sliwp, ...$2.00 .to - $3.75." wheat. No. 2 rcd,.3to. ; i» .59 v; . ooru,.. r N>. 2 yellow, 20c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 18cto'20c; rye. 29c to 31c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red, 58c to 00c;' goto. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oa<d, No. 2 while. 15c to l-7c; rye. No. 2,2 th to 30c;' clover seed. $4.20 to $4.30. Milwaukee —\\ heat. No. 2 spring, 54c to 55e; corn, No. 3. 2(ic to 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; barley. No. 2,29 cto 31c; rye, No. 1,29 cto 31c; pork, mess, $0.75 lo $7.25. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; bogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 03c to 65c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 31c to 33c; outs, No. 2 white 21c to 22c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to s4.<)o; wheat. No. 2 red, 05c t*o 07c; corn. No. 2, >l3c. lo 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; butter, creamery, 12c to 10c; eggs, Western, lt)c to 13c.

REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN SONG Hanna, Put the Kettle On, We'll All Take Tea.

REPUBLICANISM TO BE REBUKED

The Democracy Is tlie party of the people. Its purpose has ever been to advance their Interests. It may have had its errors of procrastination and its sins of omission. But the sins of commission against the pimple of this country have ever rested with the Republican party and with its ancestors of the Know-Nothing, Whig aud Federalist parties. During the ninety-six years in the government of this country, 6inee party lines have prevailed, Democracy has been in control sixty years. They have been years of the fullest prosperity Business depression has come in rare Intervals and then from natural and not from the government causes. The depression that now prevails, however, flows from the efforts of the McKinleyites, partly successful, for making the rich richer and the poor poorer through tlie successful demands for a tariff that could benefit corporations and the manufacturers only. ■ It Is now Sought to place at the head of this nation the tool of the coal barons, and of the iron kings, who dictated the tariff of 1800 for their own personal advantage and for tlie subjugation of labor. In this brazen endeavor it Is in the logic of Republican consistency and of supreme selfishness that for a captain In the McKinley campaign such an unscrupulous leader should be selected as shall be under tlie complete domination of the iron interests—Mark Hanna, eff Cleveland. Are the people ready for such a surrender? We can understand the feeling of unrest that prevails from causes having their origin with the very leaders that arfe no)v rushing McKinley to the front. But the people, will revolt against the recurrence of the McKinley, the Carnegie, the Cameron, the Quay, the Foraker, the Elkins, and the Platt dictation that is intrenched behind the movement to put another Ohio timeserver in the Presidential chair.

He Ha 9 Spoken. Soothed and sustained by the presence and advice of his backer and trainer tliq oracle of Canton lias at last op’d his ponderous jaxys and emitted a delpliie utterance on the currency question. It was when a delegation from Evansville, lud., with brass bands, tin horns and other outward evidences of enthusiasm had been admitted to tbe slnipe. When silence had been secured Mr. Hanna turned on the calcium light, tlte apostle struck his right hand into the bosom of his frpek coat, rose upon his toes, slowly settled back upon his heels, cleared his throat and began to open his mouth. The delegation stood entranced. Mr. Hanna turned on another limelight. There was a raucous, grating-sound, a buzzing as of concealed machinery nnd then these never-to-be-forgotten words: “My countrymen, there is another thing the people are determined upon, nnd that is that a full day’s work must be paid in a full dollar.” That was all, but it was enough. The oracular lips had been unsealed; the dumb had spoken; the mandarin had decreed that twelve should constitute a uozen and that the multiplication table was not inconsistent with republican institutions. It was a day of sweetness and light in Canton.

Groveling at Mark Hanna’s Feet. No more remarkable spectacle has ever been witnessed in this country than Is presented in the prostration of the Republican party—an organization which was once and still claims to he the champion of liberty—at the feet of a self-constituted autocrat, who has never been, in any sense, conspicuous In the counsels of the party; who was unknown a year ago outside of the narrow commercial domain in which he has achieved the fortune which renders him puissant, and who has set out on a purely “business’’ basis to acquire a President of the United States.— Kansas City Star. No Inspiration to Enthusiam. Enthusiasm for McKinley is lacking everywhere outside Ohio. The leaders, from Platt to Lodge, fail into line, as a matter of course. Bu: the average Republican doesn’t relish the success gained by the silent mill of Ohio. He realizes that while old “bosses’’ may have been sent to the rear, a new boss has forged to the front,'and that Republican sucebss next Xove:u.H*r means Hanna rule, with all 1 that it Tnplies. No wonder that thinking itepublicaus are hot jftsplr'ed by their Presideatiaf ticket—" Boston Globe. 1 ' " Chickens Coining Home to Roost. It Is the irony of fate. The Republicans made Utah a State for ihe express purpose of having it give them two Senators, one Representative and three electoral votes. Yet in the very first Republican conveutiou in which Utah ever participated as a Stare one of her Senators, her single Representative and half her delegation have abandoned the party, repudiated its platform and joined in a bolt—New York World. Statesmen Conspicuously Absent. The most notable feature of the Republican National Convention was the conspicuous absence of statesmen of great abilities, attainments and achievements. The man of greatest power in the convention and who represented the nominee was a successful money maker. The McKinley campaign was run by money makers od

a business basis for a business purpose. Its managers were as ignorant of statesmanship as schoolboys, and knew no politics above the manipulation of primaries and conventions.—* St. Louis Republic. Labor Is Offended. There is such a thing as a labor vote In this country, and it cuts an important figure in a Presidential election. It Is not a vote to be offended openly and deliberately, at any rate. Among tbe persons who took a prominent part in the proceedings at St. Louis was Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin. He was reelected National Committeeman from his State, in accordance with the wishes of Mark Hanna, so it was stated in the newspaper dispatches at the time. Now it Is reported that Mr, Hanna Is very likely to give added evidence of his approval of Mr. Payne by apjiointing him a member of the National Executive Committee. Mr. Payne is probably as objectionable to organized labor as any man in the country. As manager of the Milwaukee Street Railway Company he fought stubbornly to crush out organization among his employes, refusing under all circumstances to recognize the right of those who worked for his company to belong to a union. Conferring honor' and position on this man, who Is a bitter enemy of unionism, Mr. Hanna will find to be a poor way of making votefi for bis candidate among workingmen. The Same Idea as In 1892. There are other interests at stake beside those of Mr. McKinley’s millionaire friends who have grown Insolently rich over McKinley’s outrageous protection ideas. Once Mr. McKinley’s extravagant ideas were sat down upon by the American people. The issue will be tried again and if we mistake not the temper, the same emphatic treatment will be given him this fall.—Burlington Gazette.

D How Teller and McKinley Differ* There is a significant contrast between the action of Senator Toiler, who lias severed his relation with his party because he could not agree with its position on the silver question, and with that of Mr. McKinley, who will accept the nomination for the Presidency on a platform which he sought to defeat.—Philadelphia Record. Gold Cxporta and McKinleyisin. “European gold was flowing toward us,” said Temporary Chairman Fairbanks in describing the “high-water mark” of McKinleyism in 1592. We give him the credit of not knowing that the net exports of gold from this country to, Europe in that year reached the enormous total of s3B,o7o,s3C.—Springfield Republican. Owned by the Plutocrats. If ever a party was dominated, controlled, owned bodily by money rings and plutocratic combination, that at St. Louis takes the cake, so to speak. Any hard-working, toiling son of the nation who follows its flag deserves no sympathy whatevevv—Arkansas Gazette. AVasres and Votes, i If every man votes for McKinley whose wages were raised during the existence of the McKinley act, anil every one votes against him whose wages were lowered, he will not carry a single one of the manufacturing States.—Kansas City Times. Cheering to Democrats. There Is nothing in the nomination of McKinley that should not cheer the hearts of Democrats. It was the McKinley idea and the McKinley platform that defeated the Republican party in 1892. It will be McKinley that will lead It to defeat in 1896.—Peoria Herald. Will Not Grow Upon the People. It is our best judgment that McKinley will not grow upon the people in the fierce light of the campaign. Ills election means another siege pf tariff tinkering, and the people do not want any more legislation on this subject for some time.—Nashville American. Combining Colors. It is not given to all to detect as many shades of colors as that Swiss ribbon manufacturer who is said to be able to discern 2,700 different, shades; therefore the following suggestions Which he makes may be useful: Black combines well with almost all colors, except those which are so lack--1 ing in brightness as to be too nearly like it. Black and pole pink, blue, yel- . low, green, red, lavender and even rather dark shades of blue, clear brown and green are excellent combinations. Brown combines well with yellow, gold and bronze if it is the shade of brown which lias brightness. It is effective also with black and with certain tones of green. A chocolate-and-mdlk brown combines well with old rose and the dull shades of pink. Very dark green is effective when brightened by linings of narrow trimming of pale blue. A. medium shade of green unites well with old pink. Brownish greens look well with bronze and copper color. Dark blue may be brightened by lines of bright, rich red, by lines of old rose or of clear yellow. Blue of the “electric” and “cadet” varieties is best combined with black or with figured silks in which the same shade predominates. Never turn the misfortunes of others i.ntn ridicule.

WHAT IT ALL COSTS.

PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS TAKE A PILE OF MONEY. Total Expense of the National Convention at Bt. Lon is Probably Between 93,000,000 and *4,000,000Where the Money Goes. An Enormous Expense. Few people haTe any idea of the cost of a great national convention. Time was when SIOO,OOO would have been thought a pretty high figure. In the old days, when Baltimore was the great national convention city, and half the delegates were represented by proxies from Congressmen and others in Washington, and when the convention met in theaters or hails and the members and Tisitorg lodged in low-rate hotels and boarding houses, no doubt conventions were held at much less cost than even the half of SIOO,OOO. But things are vastly different nowadays. Millions now figure where tens of thousands were onee thought big. Col. H. L. Swords, sergeant-at-arms of the Republican national committee, estimates the total cost of the St. Louis convention at over $3,000,000. First of ail should be counted the straight expenses of the convention, borne by the Business Men’s League of St. Louis. These expenses amounted to about $130,000 at Minneapolis in 1892. The cost of the hall alone at St. Louis is not far from $73,000, including cost of repairs after the tornado. Other bills to be fooled by the Business Men’s League

COST IN SILVER AND GOLD.

include the expenses of the sergeant-at-arms of the convention, various printing accounts, the cleaning of the hall, its lighting, fees for police and tire protection, big postage bills, and a thousand other things. Take 3,000 men as representing delegates, alternates and their following, add the assistant sergeants-at-arms, the doorkeepers and the messengers, in all about a thousand, and the newspaper correspondents and reporters, and the total shows 4,000. If each one of these men spends SIOO in addition to his railroad fare —and this is a very small average—the total reaches $400,000. Include the expenses borne by the telegraph companies and the big press associations in getting ready to spread the news, the total expenses of the Business Men’s Lengue and those directly interested will not be a cent less than a round half million of dollars. Allowing 100,000 as a fair estimate of the.number of strangers thronging to the convention city, and railroad' tickets alone for such a crowd mean something like $750,000, and $300,000 a day follows for board and lodging. The cost of maintaining headquarters, music, decorations and literature cannot come under SIOO,000. This is not all, however, for neither the expense of sending the news from St. Louis to the thousands of daily papers in the various States nor the cost of the thousands of private telegrams—a smaller, but still a considerable sum—has been counted in. It is not easy to estimate either of these sums, but it is not going too far, perhaps, to assume that all the expenditures due to the convention used up almost $4,000,000. If the $4,000,000 were to be paid out in dollar bills, and these bills were to be made into a carpet, it would be 1,000 feet long and GSO feet wide, covering an area of about fifteen acres, and the capitol -at Washington, if placed in the middle of the carpet, would appear like a toy house set on a big rug. Four million dollars in gold piled in a pyramid four feet each way at

FIFTEEN ACRES IN DOLLAR BILLS.

the base would be five feet high. Four million silver dollars would make a pyramid ten feet square at the base and fifteen feet high. The cigars smoked by the crowds, allowing five cigars a day, which is not too many, for each man would make a pile of 70,000 boxes of cigars, and this pile would be about two and one-half miles high. Arranged in a tier of five boxes, side by side, the pile would be about 262 feet high, or within twenty feet as high as the top on the Liberty statue that stands on the top of the cap itol’s dome. Placed end to end, 3,300,000 cigars would reach 248 miles—or almost gs far as from St. Louis to Chicago. At an average of 81-3 cents, three for a quarter, these cigars would cost $291,666.

FOES OF THE FARMER.

Army Worm and Grasshopper Have Begun Their Season's Ravages. The worst enemies the AVestern farmer has to contend with arc the “army worm” and the grasshopper, which have already commenced their season’s work of destruction. Indications are that the damage done to crops by them this season

THE LOCUST AND THE ARMY WORM.

will be greater than at any time since the plague of 1801. Reports from Illinois, Missouri and Indiana tell of terrible destruction wrought. The grasshopper is a great lover of mint, and from Michigan, where the great peppermint farms are, there come harrowing tales of the damage done. All efforts to combat the army worm have proven futile. Its mode of disappearance is as inexplicable as its mode of existence. After ravaging a section for months it suddenly disappears about Sept. L

CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

Notable Gathering of Southern War Heroes at Richmond. Richmond, Ya., vu filled last week with Confederate veteran* for their sixth annual reunion Tuesday and Wednesday, and for the corner stone laying of the Jefferson Davis monnment Thursday, and probably there were more ex-Confeder-ates there than will ever assemble at one place again. Many looked upon it as the last great rally around the stars and bars. The decorators had been at work a week, and the buildings on the principal streets

RICHMOND WELCOME EX-CONFEDERATES.

are almost hidden from view behind Confederate and national colors. When tbp convention of former Confederates was called to order Tuesday in the great Auditorium building, erected especially for this occasion, Gen. Gordon faced 10.000 persons, mostly grizzled veterans. There went np such a shout as lias not been heard since the Southern army was winning battles in the war. Gov. O’Ferral! delivered an address of welcome and Mayor Taylor welcomed the visitors to the city. In the evening the Confederate Memorial and Literary Society tendered a reception to Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her daughters at the former White House of the Confederacy, now the Confederate Museum, There were also bivouacs at the various camps. The reunion ended Wednesday evening with a reception by the Governor of Virginia, a reception to Mrs. Davis Sad her daughters by the Sons of Veterans, and bivouacs in camps. Thursday the corner stone of the Jefferson Davis monument was laid. The great parade was headed by a band of 1,000 uniformed children, and there were 25,000 men on foot and horseback. In the parade were the Worshipful Grand Lodge of Masons, escorted by Commandf’l'y of St. Andrew, K. T.; Governor of \ irginia and staff, with a corps of cadets ns escort; the military, commanded by Brig. Gen. A. L. Phillips, of Virginia; the orator of the day, Gen. Stephen D. Lee; Davis Monument Association, and Mrs. Jefferson Davis and family. At the site for the monument Bishop John C. Granbery. of the M. E. Church, south, offered prayer. The Grand Lodge of Virginia laid the corner stone, and Gen. S. D. Lee delivered the oration.

DYNAMITE FOR TORNADOES.

How a Government Scientist AVould Destroy Death Dealing Clouds. “Fifty years 1 hence not a big town in the Southwest will be without a tornado trap,” said I’rof. 11. A. Hnzen, of the weather bureau, the other day. “The time bus arrived when serious attention must be given to finding means of defense against these whirling storms. As the socalied cyclone belt becomes more thickly populated, disasters from this cause will grow more frequent. My belief is that any town in that region would be rendered safe against tornadoes by a series of lookout stations extended in a line from north to south, so as to interpose a barrier on the danger side —i. e., the west side, from which the revolving storm invariably comes. This barrier would be made effective by means of a system of dynamite bombs connected with the stations by wires. It would not be necessary to keep guard all the time, but the men appointed for the purpose would only go on duty when warning was received from the weather bureau that conditions were favorable for ‘cyclones.’ On seeing a funnel cloud approaching the operator would simply wait until it got near enough and theu touch off the cartridge which would blow it to smithereens. “What reason is there for doubting that such a method would be successful? Do we not know that waterspouts at sea are sometimes dissipated and reduced to harmlessness by the firing of guns from threatened ships? A wnterspout is nothing more nor less than a marine tornado. Occasionally they have been seen to run upon the land and transform themselves into ‘cyclones.’ If the tornado were not destroyed by the dynamite explosions, it Would be likely to be deprived off so nnich of its energy as to be rendered incapable of doing harm. The cost of maintaining such systems of defense throughout the cyclone belt would not amount in 500 years to the $10,000,000 which the recent calamity is said to have cest St. Louis. “Money ought to be appropriated by Congress for studying this strange and little understood phenomenon. It is most important that we should learn about the mechanism of the tornado—a meteorological disturbance capable of destroying $lO,000,000 worth of property in teu minutes. All we know at present is that the energy of the ‘cyclone’ must be electrical. In no other way could the destruction caused by'it be accounted for. It is always accompanied by a severe thunder storm. The weather bureau report says that during the St. Louis tornado the ‘electric display was exceeding brilliant, the whole west and northwest sky being an almost continuous blaze of light. Intensely vivid flashes of forked lightning were outlined in green, blue and bright yellow against the duller background of never-ceasing sheet lightning.’ Evidently, then, it is necessary that we should find some means of dissipating tlio electricity with which the destructive funnel cloud is charged.”

X RAYS SAVING CONSUMPTIVES

Tests Full of Hope, Though No Definite Results Yet Assured. Andrew Gorgon, of Chicago, bound to die with consumption, has had dye weeks’ treatment with the Roentgen ray. The physicians declared the boy’s case .hopeless, treated by ordinary methods. They promised to watch the progress under the new, weird influence. This they have done. They are not prepared to state positively that the disease has dually found its cure. Some of them are forced to the conclusion that the result has been wonderful. One signs bis name to the declaration that the effects “so far are but little short of the marvelous." They are all conservative. They speak only of the changes actually recorded and waive final judgment until the patient shall have been subjected to the new discovery for a second period of five weeks. This is the first case iu all the world where the ray has been applied to a hnman being and regular clinic reports kept concerning the results. It was cabled from Lyons a week ago, with the flourish which usually attaches to any scientific discovery on the, oilier side, that Prof. Hortet had destroyed the germs of tuberculosis in tlk* lungs of a guinea pig. It was also announced in Loudon that the same breed of bacilli had been slniu in the same way when exposed ia ‘Jve culture tube.j