Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — Page 2

tfreghroonrotugnttinel J. W. MoKWKX, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA.

MARTIN IS TO BLAME.

-PENNSYLVANIA SHERIFF IS SEVERELY CENSURED. Coroner’s Jury Decides the Killing of Miners at Lattimer Was Unjustifiable—Planned to Kill Nicholas —Big Wire Combine Formed. Verdict on the Deaths. The coroner’s jnfy which investigated the death of the striking miners at Latti*ner, Pa., after an hour’s deliberation rendered the following verdict: “That from the circumstances of the case and the evidence offered, the said Clement Platock and others came to their death by gunshot wounds on Sept. 10, 1897, at the hands of Sheriff James Martin and his deputies, and in this way we the jury do all agree; nnd we, Phil J. Boyle, Thomas T. Thomas, Barton Preas and Peter McKiernan, of this jury, do further say that the said Clement Platoek, with others, was marching peaceably and unarmed on the public highway, that they were intercepted by said Sheriff Martin and his deputies nnd mercilessly shot to death; »nd we do further find that the killing was unnecessary and could have been •voided without serious injury to either person or property, and we find finally that the killing was wanton and unjustifiable; but in this we, George Maue and F. J. Mac Neal of this jury, do not concur; and we the jury do further say that there was such strong suspicion of unlawful violence at the hands of person or persons unknown to this jury as to make this inquest necessary.”

PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR. Socialists Tunneled Under a Street in Warsaw. It has leaked out from official circles in Warsaw, Poland, in such a manner ns leaves no room for doubt that there was a deliberate nnd determined plot against Emperor Nicholas at the time of his recent visit to that city. Its success was only frustrated by accident. Before the •rrival of the imperial party a number of persons supposed to belong to the German socialist party undermined Norvy (Sviat, the principal street in Warsaw, between the governor general’s palace and the royal castle. The work had approachfed completion when the conspirators became apprehensive of a collapse of the Toadway, and called in several Polish masons to build supports. The masons, whose suspicions were aroused, notified the police, and 130 arrests followed. SAGE MADE HIM A MURDERER. Double Crime Due to Ungovernable Tem per. Wallace J. Christian, a contractor at Middletown, N. Y., in a fit of rage over « slight misunderstanding, shot and instantly killed Horace F. Pritchard of New York. Then Christian turned his pistol on Thomas Manning, a constable of "Wurtsboro, and shot him twice, mortally wounding him. The crime took place in front of Christian's cottage in the grounds of the Sullivan County Club, near Wurtsboro, and before the eyes of his wife. The murderer escaped to the woods and has not been arrested.

BIG WIRK COMBINE. Corporation with $30,000,000 Capitul About to Be Listed. A $30,000,000 corporation for the control of the manufacture of plain awl barb wire and wire nails is on the point of completion in New York, if it has not already been completed. The stock of this gigantic corporation is to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where it promises to become one of the leading industrial properties, taking rank next to *ogar and tobacco. Won’t Use Gold Seals. Got. Leedy and other Kansas State officers refuse to longer use gold seals on cflfeial documents. A full supply of silver aeals was ordered, because they would be more in harmony with the principles of last year's campaign. The seal in which the impression of the official or great seal of state has been made on public docuJments has for years been of gold leaf ■bout two inches in diameter. Heretofore white ribbon has been used, but this, too, la abolished and gold ribbon is used in connection with the silver seals, making « 16 to 1 contrast. Sent by the Vatican. Archbishop Charles Hryniewieski, deposed and exiled metropolitan of Wilna, in Russian Poland, has been appointed an apostolic visitor to the United States, and is charged with the special mission of examining into and adjusting the relations of the Polish Catholics in the United States to the church at large. The importance of this appointment is only second to that of Cardinal Satolli in 1892.

Ptandinsr of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 91 38 Washington. 59 G 9 Baltimore .. .88 38 Pittsburg ... .57 71 New Y0rk...81 47 Chicago 57 72 Cincinnati . .74 55 Philadelphia. 54 75 Cleveland ...69 59 Louisville ...51 7G Brooklyn ...60 69 St. Louis... .28 100 Farmer’s Awful Deed. John Becker, aged 44 years, attended tservices at the church in Breda, lowa, Sunday afternoon with his family, spent the evening brooding over some financial affairs, althongh he was a wealthy farmer, as farm wealth goes, and some time in the night shot and killed his wife, his nx little children and himself. Moustapha Bey Goes Home. Officials at the State Department at Washington have been surprised to learn through private sources that Moustapha Bey, the recently recalled Turkish minister, sailed for ‘Constantinople from New York. Riedy Locked Up. Kx-Polieeman John Riedy of St. Louis, the defaulting treasurer of the Police Relief Association, who has been missing lor three weeks, has surrendered to the authorities. Telegraph Operators. Marcus Mullen and Claude Hurd, who, as telegraph operators, transmitted fictitious mining stock quotations from Kansas City, Kan., to two “dynamite” bucket •hops in Kansas City, Mo., have been arrested on bench warrants and placed under SSOO bonds each. Gold Found in Arizona. Authentic information is at hand that Ithere hi a great discovery of free milling gold ore in the Chocolate Mountains of Yuma County, A. T. The rush there is atarted and tents, stamp miffs and people are arriving at Yuma from up the river bound for there. , v ,, ■££ji£& 4 * “ ~i ß**-,

TROUBLE BREWING IN HAYTI. Malcontents Threaten the Peace of the Black Republic. The political horizon in the black republic (Hayti) is again becoming very cloudy. Under the regime of Hyppolyte, the late president, who ruled with a firm but brutal hand, the uneasy spirits were kept to some extent in check, and suspects were either punished by imprisonment or at once exiled. The new president, Tiresias Augustine Simon Sam, is not a man of the same caliber, either mentally or physically, as his predecessor, and the constant disagreements with his ministers, the unjust and corrupt administration of his dependents, and, above all, the terrible depression from which the country has been suffering during the last twelve months, have combined to rouse the populace into a state of ferment, which unless promptly quelled will have serious results. WRECKED SAILORS RETURN. Crew of Lost Whaler Brought Back from Japan. The American schooner Progress arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., thirtytwo days from Yokohama, having on board nine members of the crew of the American whaler bark Cape Horn Pigeon, which was wrecked on a rocky coast eighteen miles from Hakodate the night of July 13. The Cape Horn Pigeon, Captain Scullion, left San Francisco early in the season for a whaling voyage in Japanese waters. The first part of the season was successful, and when the bark was wrecked she had 1,000 barrels of sperm oil and a lot of whalebone in her hold. Her officers and crew escaped in small boats, with no effects save the clothes on their backs.

SHORTAGE OF RUSSIAN WHEAT. So Small Is the Crop that There Will Be None for Export. But little wheat will be shipped from Russia during the season of 1897-98 for the simple reason that there is little available for export. The failure of the wheat crops in Austro-Hungary, Roumania and Bulgaria has brought buyers into Russia from those countries and the wheat will go to them by rail. How much of this wheat Russia can afford to let go is a question now being discussed. While hints are thrown out that the export of cereals may be altogether prohibited, it is believed these have n<J foundation and that the Russian Government will never again make the Mistake it did in the famine year of prohibiting exports. FORMING A WINDOW GLASS TRUST Organization with a Capital of $20,000,000 Being Perfected. Representatives of window glass manufacturers from all parts of the country have been in session at Pittsburg for the purpose of completing a plan by which the window glass manufacturers of the country will be formed into one orgunizution, which will be known as the American Window Glass Association. The new combination represents a capital of $20,000, and includes all of the principal plants of the United States. The output of the consolidated concern is estimated at $10,000,000 worth of glass a year.

Was to Be Used for Patients. Efficient work by the New Orleans fire department in face of the attneks of a mob enabled the department to save the main portion of the Beauregard school building. Only the annexes of the structure were reduced to ashes. The alarm was sounded at 12:30 a. m. After a mass meeting of citizens held Wednesday night a riotous crowd gathered around the building and openly threatened that at the first opportunity they would fire it. Sister Agnes and a number of sisters of charity, together with help from the hospital, had been putting the building in order for the reception of yellow fever patients. The school board, meantime, had removed from the building every desk and other article of furniture and the hospital people had moved into the building cots and other necessary adjuncts. Surgeon Bloom of the hospital, the sisters and others had been warned that they would better leave the building. They did so, and threaded their way through n dense crowd of panic-stricken citizens. Then a small force of police was ordered to the scene. But the mob, bent on incendiarism, was sharper than the guards, and while the police were engaged in attempting to quell the riotous crowd in front of the building men with a five-gallon can of oil proceeded to the rear and soon had the building in flames. An Official Statement. An official statement has been issued in Madrid showing the numbers of men and the quantities of munitions of war sent to Cuba and the Philippine Islands during the insurrections which are in progress in those quarters. Between November, 1895, and May 1897, the Spanish Government sent to Cuba 181,738 soldiers and 0,261 officers, of whom forty were generals; 212,542 guns, 320,400 kilogrammes of powder, 92,088,070 cartridges, 10,712 swords, 91 cannons, 12 mitralleuses and 29,500 shells. Since the outbreak of the present revolution in the Philippines the government has sent 27,050 soldiers and 881 officers, of whom 9 were generals; 43,100 guns, 24 cannons, 24,910 kilogrammes of powder, 21,720,585 cartridges and 30,604 shells.

San Francisco Is Well Fortified. The United States engineers in charge of the fortifications of San Francisco are directing a survey of the shore line on the south side of the bay nnd Goldeu Gate from Black Point to Point Lobos. The purpose of the survey is to accurately locate the forts for the information of the War Department. Army and navy officers think the harbor defenses are now sufficiently well advanced to stand off any fleet that Spain or Japan could put into action and they are strong enough with the assistance of floating batteries of the Monterey and Monadnock type and with the aid of torpedoes to make a splendid fight against the best fleet England would be likely to send there. Seventy Drowned at Fiume. A special dispatch from Vienna says that seventy persons were drowned as a result of the collision at Fiume between the steamer Ika, a local passenger vessel, and the British steamer Tiria, which was leaving that port as the Ika was entering. The latter sunk in two minutes, and in full view of thousands of people who crowded to the piers. Great Surgical Operation. A wonderful surgical operation has been performed by Drs. Parsons and McCaughan of the Children’s Hospital at St. Louis upon 9-year-old Lillie Stamenius. They constructed for her a palate and a nose and upper lip. Her face was deformed and the surgeons saw but one way to remedy it; that was an operation, which was none. German Torpedo Boat Sinks. Torpedo boat No. 26 has capsized and sunk near the first lightship off Cuxhaven. Eight of her crew, including her commander, Duke Frederick William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, were drowned. Had an Organ in Hia Clinrch. Rev. C. S. Sapulding of Franklin Grove, charged with the offense of having an organ in his church, was reprimanded by the Illinois Free Methodist conference. Peary’s New Plans. Lieut. Peary, the arctic explorer, while to Philadelphia said: “In addition to se-

curing the big meteorite I '«id .he plans for next year's expedition, and when 1 leave again, which will be about the end of next July, It will be to remain up there until I reach the pole or lose my life in the attempt if it takes five years to accomplish this object. Next summer I shall take my vessel up to Sherard Osborne fjord and make that place my base of supplies. On the last trip 1 made arrangements with the Arctic highlanders, a tribe of Eskimos,, consisting of 230 men, women and children, known as the most northerly tribe of human beings on the earth, to put in this coming winter obtaining bear, seal and deer skins for our clothing, and in securing all the walrus meat they can for dog food. I have singled out eight young men of the tribe, with their wives, canoes, dogs, sledges and tents, to accompany me to Sherard Osborne fjord, which is about 300 miles farther north than their present abode. My party will consist of a surgeon, possibly another white man and myself, the rest will be Eskimos. The latter know how to drive dogs; they can go hungry and know how to get food. The conditions under which I shall make the coming expedition are of the most satisfactory character. The American Geographical Society has assured $150,000 to meet all expenses and I have been given five years’ leave of absence. I shall probably buy a new ship for next year, though we may use the Hope again. Mrs. Peary will not accompany me. lam quite sure I shall succeed in reaching the pole.”

CHAOS IN GUATEMALA. Insurgents in Possession of Chomperico and San Felipe. A letter from the City of Guatemala lias been received. The writer declares that everything, at the time of writing, was in a state of chaos. Barrios, he says, has lost his head from fright, and in a delirium of terror is imprisoning and shooting all who evince the slightest leaning toward the insurgent cause. Loans are collected by force and death is the penalty for refusing financial assistance to the dictator. Barrios himself is in constant fear of assassination. Two hundred soldiers sleep in the palace day and night, and he is constantly attended by a guard of picked men. A Plucky Woman. The announcement that the widow of Dr. Rizal, the massacred leader of the Philippine revolt, was in Philadelphia arranging a filibustering expedition, created widespread interest among Cuban patriots. General Emilio Nunez, when seen a few hours after he arrived in the city, after leading a successful filibustering expedition to Cuba, spoke enthusiastically of the courageous woman who plans systematic patriotic support with a desire for revenge of her husband’s death. General Nunez said: “Dr. Rizal was a wonderful man, with great intellectual ability, combined with the highest courage and patriotism. He was the life and soul of the Philippine revolution. Its inception was his work and the active campaign was under his immediate direction. Grave mistakes were made at first from a mistaken idea that the Spaniards could be met in pitched open battle. Advices were sent from Cuba upon guerrilla warfare, and they are now in a fair way to win their struggle.”

Fatal Fire in Toronto. While fire was destroying the Musee Theater at Toronto, Ont., n team of horses attached to a large fire engine took fright and ran away with the engine, with fatal results. The engine was getting up steam and was thickly surrounded by people. The horses plunged madly into the crowd, killing one boy and injuring ten persons, some of them possibly fatally. The flames made rapid headway, and before the fire was got under control the Musee, or Bijou, Theater, where the actors were preparing to give nn entertainment, was completely destroyed. Rogers’ furniture warerooms and factory adjoining were damaged. The loss will be about $50,000. British Victory Assured. According to special dispatches from Simla, the British, who captured Badmanai pass, held by the Haddah Mullah, with a large force of Mohmands and Shlnwaris, have pushed on from the pass, and without opposition have occupied Jarobi, the village and headquarters of the Haddah Mullah, who hns fled. It is believed that the capture of the village and the flight of the priest will break the back of the opposition of the tribesmen to the further advance of the British. Steamer Ethelgonda Saved. News hns been received in New York of the saving of the British steel steamer Ethelgonda, which went u shore in the harbor of St. Luciti, West Indies, last June. The Ethelgonda is a 2,100-ton vessel, and at the time of the accident was bound from Buenos Ayres with 4,000 bnles of wool consigned to Boston merchants. The vessel was putting into St. Lucia for coal the afternoon of June 4, when she ran on the rocks and was abandoned. 'Washington Mortgage Law Ib Void, The Supreme Court of Washington State has handed down a most important decision, declaring that the new mortgage law passed by the last Legislature is unconstitutional. Will Wed Prince Esterhazy. The announcement that Mrs. Lily Langtry will marry Prince Esterhazy is confirmed.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Cliieago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butler, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; new potatoes, 50c to GOc per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shiopuig, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.03 to $4.50; sheep, common to choice, $->J>O to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,94 cto 90c; corn, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24e. St. Louis—Ca tie, $3.00 o $5.50; ho-ru $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2,98 cto $1.00; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27e to 28c; oats, No. 2«\vhite, 21cto 23c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. Cincinuati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 2lc to 22c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 48c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; .hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 48c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; clover seed, $3.35 to $3.45. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 3,29 cto 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1,48 cto 50<barley, No. 2,40 cto 45c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 winter, 96c to 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. New iork—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; sheep, $3,.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn, No. 2,33 cto 35e; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 18c to 19c.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

- THE POPULAR DRIFT. In undertaking to make an estimate of the political situation throughout the country this year it must not be forgotten that, despite tlie raising of false Issues by the Republicans, and the enormous expenditure of money on their behalf by the \illionalre trusts and monopolies, the Democratic candidate for the presidency. William J. Bryan, polled over six and a half million votes, and that McKinley had only about 200,000 more ballots than his opponents combined—an exceedingly small margin, indeed. With the Republican tariff fiasco and the bunco “sound money” game, it is safe to say that at least one out of ten of those who voted outright for McKinley are thoroughly disgusted to-day. Were a vote to be taken in the Union to-morrow, the Democratic party would be found with very good majorities even in the States which .were most thoroughly deceived last year. New York State itself cannot be relied on for the Republicans this year, although McKinley did carry It over Bryan by 208,000 last year. They are decidedly nervous about keeping control of the Assembly, essential as that is to their legislative dominance during the development of the greater city government. Not only is there the likelihood of the Democrats going to the polls with their old-time enthusiasm, but there is every reason for expecting a very large percentage of their regular political opponents to “go fishing” on next election day. There has not, In fact, been a more marked revulsion in popular political feeling in recent American experience than there lias been right here during the past twelve months.—New York News.

Sliver Sentiment. The “decline of the silver sentiment,” which the advocates of gold apparently take so much pleasure in talking about, Is truly a very peculiar phenomenon. A glance at the history of the monetary reform movement will show just how rapid and extensive this decline has been. In 1870 the question was made a political Issue, and Peter Cooper, who represented the cause, received 81.740 votes. That was a small beginning, but the seed germinated. Four years later, in 1880, the contest was renewed at the polls and monetary reform received a vote of 307,300. The sentiment had “died out” to the extent of quadrupling the number of Its advocates. In 1892 there was another bnttle of the ballots in the cause of reform In the currency, and the friends of the movement made a record of 1,041,028 votes. Another “decline” increasing four times that of 1880. But in 1896 came the tidal wave. The Democratic party nominated William J. Bryan for President on a strong bimetallic platform, and the silver sentiment “declined” again and registered the fact of its fallen condition by casting a vote of 6,508,081. Judging by the past, the Republicans can easily figure out a continued “decline in the silver sentiment” that will place a Democratic President, a friend of the people and an advocate of bimetallism In the chair in 1900.

Injunction, Then Murder. The more light there is thrown on the shooting of the coal strikers at Hazleton, Fa., the blacker this deed of cowardice and cruelty appears. Only two of the murdered men were shot with their faces toward the riflemen; all the rest of those poor fellows were shot in the back. Nothing but a frenzy of uncontrollable fear or a deepseated malice to deal death among the miners could have resulted in such a showing. The refusal of the commanding officer of the militia now maintaining martial law at Hazleton to allow warrants to be served on Martin and his deputies will tend to Increase the feeling of bitterness and to deepen the Impression that there is no justice to be found anywhere for the poor man. That government by injunction has resulted in wholesale murder is nothing more than might have been expected. A radical reform In the matter of arbitrary rule on the part of Federal judges must be Inaugurated if serious trouble in the near.future is to be avoided. Constitutional rights cannot be trampled on with impunity, and there can be no doubt that the results, as manifested at Hazleton, have set the people of the United States to thinking seriously.

Not \\ hat the Platform Demanded. The Republican national platform, after denouncing the Wilson tariff as a breeder of deficiencies, demanded a tariff that “will furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the government.” The Dlngley law is the answer to this demand, and it starts with a deficiency of $14,000,000 Its first month. But for the money in the treasury as the result of the Cleveland bond sales it would be bankrupt and unable to meet the current expenditures of the government.—Pittsburg Post. All Goes to the Trust. Dlngleyism lays its heavy hand on every breakfast table in the land. The protectionists tell us that the sugar duty is a duty for revenue, but as a matter of fact, not a single cent of the increased price the people are paying for sugar under the new tariff goes into the hands of the Government as revenue. Every cent of it goes as extra profit to the sugar trust. The people are taxed, not to support the Government, but to further enrich an already bloated monopoly.—Minneapolis Times. i Too Much Prosperity Cry. The truth is that the prosperity rooter is getting to be almost as much of a bore as the calamity howler. In some respects he can make an even bigger nuisance of himself. We do not believe—we do not think there is any sensible man In the country who believes—that the change is anywhere near so great as some of the metropolitan papers are trying to make out that it Is. We believe that they are injur-

ing the cause of prosperity by putting up claims that are so ridiculous that anyone can see there is nothing in them.—Peoria Herald. Cleveland’s Honesty. Rockefeller is not the only rich man who is having trouble with the assessors. Grover Cleveland, who was such a stickler for the “honor of the nation” that he bonded this country for $200,000,000 to buy gold to keep up the Action that “coin” means gold, has returned a schedule to the authorities placing the value of all his holdings at the modest figure of $130,000. It is but justice to the champion of honor and honesty to state that he did not make oath to this statement, but this omission on his part makes him subject to a fine of S2OO. Some statististically inclined person has made the following estimate of what Grover Cleveland is actually worth: Saved in twelve years $300,000 Present value of Gray Gables.. 250,000 Horses and carriages 15,000 Boats, yachts, etc 3,000 Furniture . , 5,000 Present Value of Woodley 150,000 President value Princeton, N. J., home 40,000 Furniture 5,000 Personal property and other real estate 428,000 Stocks and bonds 000,000

The Cleveland fortune... .$1,790,000 Admitting that this may be somewhat in excess of his property, there is a marked discrepancy between $130,000 and $1,790,000 which the assessor of Mercer township, New Jersey, has a perfect right to investigate. With the examples of Rockefeller and Cleveland before them, is it any wonder that the plain people are beginning to believe that there is more or less justice in the talk about “the classes and the masses.”—Chicago Dispatch. Hanna’s Fight in Ohio. He wants to be elected Senator and he will leave no stone unturned that has a vote under it which he can control. If he is defeated this year it will be because the Foraker men stayed at home, as the Hanna and Sherman men did when Senator Foraker was a candidate for Governor against Campbell. This is the condition of things, plain and distinct. If Marcus A. Hanna whips the Foraker men into line it will be one of the most masterly displays of political power ever made manifest in the United States.—Cleveland Plaindealer. Natural Result of Hingleyism. Retaliation ngainst the Dingley tariff was to be expected, and appears to be coming from various directions. The president of the Argentine republic recommends to the congress there that duties on petroleum,' plows and other agricultural implements, timber and boots and shoes, which are largely imported from the United States, be radically increased. This would be a fair return, he thinks, for the treatment given the chief products of Argentine in the new United States tariff.—Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

Most Uninviting Of Gold Regions. Yes, there are tons of gold in Alaska, and here and there one in a thousand or so may win fortune, but the great mass of those who are tempted by the stories of tons of gold to be found in the Klondike fields will be fortunate if they ever get back to their homes, even with utterly shattered health. The gold is there, as it is in many other States of the Union, but of all the gold fields of the world the most uninviting for the adventurer is the Klondike region.—Philadelphia Times. Ring-Ridden Pennsylvania. The appointment of the notorious Dave Martin to the position of Secretary of State in Pennsylvania, made vacant by the enforced resignation of his predecessor, looks like another example of the sort of polities that flourishes in that ringridden commonwealth. They seem to have become callous to this sort of thing there, so they will probably be able to put up even with Dave Martin, Secretary of State.—Boston Herald. Political Pith. The people are handling more money now than they did a while ago, because the new tariff law compels them to pay more for the necessaries of life. —Manchester (N. H.) Union.

There is a gradually but steadily growing impressing that' as a President Mr. McKinley is, to borrow an expression from the vernacular of the street, a , “four flusher.”—Wheeling Register. The Ohio gold Democrats will have no trouble in securing enough names to their petition to get the ticket on the official ballot. Mr. Hanna’s machinery is in perfect working order and can execute commissions of that sort AVith neatness and dispatch.— Washington Post. It is a mistake to suppose that the salary of a Senator—ss,ooo a year—will not support him and his family in comfort. In fact, since tariff bills have been at the front it is said some Senators, by strict attention to business, manage to save four or five times as much as their salary.—Louisville I’ost. There seems to be no good reason why Secretary John Sherman should speak in this year's campaign. He has already said more than he can atone for or explain in the rest of his natural life. Anything he might say now ’would probably be an extension of his iniquities rather than apology or reparation for the past.-Cincin-nati Enquirer. So far from increasing the revenue, the Dingley monstrosity seems to have dried up the sources of revenue. So that, although avo have had half a year of .Republicanism, although the Republican Congress has met and adjourned, the country is still face to face with »the dangerous condition which the advocates of McKinley and high protection pledged themselves to remedy.—Atlanta Constitution.

DEATH OF “BUCK” KILGORE.

Former Congressman from Texas Expires at Ardmore, I. T. Judge C. Buckley Kilgore, ex-Congress-man from Texas, died at Ardmore, I. T„ after a short illness. Mr. Kilgore was born in Newman, Ga.. Feb. 20, 1835. In 1846 he removed, with his parents, to Rusk County, Texas, where he received a common-school education. He served

"BUCK” KILGORE.

in the Confederate army, first as private, and by successive promotions reached the grade of adjutant general. He was wounded nt Chickamauga, and in 1864 was confined as a prisoner in Fort Delaware. He was admitted to the bar after the war, and in 1575 was a member of the Texas constitutional convention. He was a presidential elector in 1880 on the Hancock and English ticket, and in 1884 was elected to the State Senate for four years, and in the following year was chosen president of that body for two years. He was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses as a Democrat. “Buck” Kilgore achieved greatness in a single night while in Congress by kicking down the .door which Speaker Reed had caused to be locked so that he could hold a quotum while it was being counted. That brought him universal notoriety and immense popularity on the Democratic side of the house.

FATAL MINE EXPLOSION.

Five Men Killed and Many Injured at Johnson City, 111. By an explosion of black damp in the Williamson County coal mines, located at Johnston City, 111., Friday morning, five men were killed and several others suffered painful burns and bruises. The machinery of the shaft was badly wrecked. A quantity of gas had accumulated in an entry 200 yards Bouth of the big shaft during the night, and upon the arrival of the men who were at work at that particular place it was ignited from tie limps worn by the miners upon their caps. Shortly after the descent of fortyfive men into the pit a terrible explosion occurred, blowing the cage that was resting at the bottom of the shaft fifty feet upward and sending a volume of smoke and gaseous vapor whirling and hurling out of the mouth of the shaft. In an instant all of the machinery vyas stopped. A signal from those at the bottom told the engineer that there were some below who were uninjured. The work of rescuing the imprisoned men began at once. Nearly all the Americans employed in the mine did not go to work at morning, having detlded to attend a picnic. But for this fact the death list would have been much greater.

AMAZON OF THE COAL FIELDS.

Mrs. Martin McCrone, a Heroine of the Pennsylvania Coal Strike. Mrs. Martin McCrone, the general of the Amazon forces, who so severely troubled the troops when she led her forces against them, is the heroine of the big coal strike in Pennsylvania. Mrs. McOrone is the widotv of an Irish miner and she knows all about strikes. She passed through the great strike of 1877 and understands hoAv to get the men out of the

MRS. M'CRONE.

mines and to keep them out. Mrs. MeCrone believes that the best method of succeeding in inducing men to strike is for the women to parade before them and shame them into joining the movement. She has her own ideas about coercion. She says that Avith “white people,” or those who can speak English, moral suasion is all that is necessary. On foreigners she would use force. “You have to beat it into them or stone them,” she naively says. Her forces consist of thirty women, Irish and Welsh, who are well drilled. These are often re-enfpreed by Hungarian and Polish Avomen, who, while not understanding what is going forward, are ready to lend their strength to the cause blindly.

POSTOFFICE SAFE BLOWN.

Michigan Robbers Secure $1,500 and Some Stamps at Omer. A party of bandits at an early hour Friday morning blew open the safe in the postoffice at Omer, Mich., and carried away about $1,500 in money and a quantity of stamps and valuable papers. The robbery occurred a few minutes after the village night watchman had passed the building in Avhieh the postoffice is located. At that time he noticed nothing unusual, but about twenty minutes later he was startled by a muffled explosion in the direction of the postoffice. The noise was heard by other citizens, and they hurriedly made their way into the building. The interior of the office was littered with the ruins of the safe,and papers. So quickly had the robbers worked that when people arrived at the scene of the robbery they had utterly vanished. Entrance into the building had been effected by prying open the door with chisels.

Sparks from the Wires.

Mrs. Nornnin J. Column, wife of Norman J. Column, ex-Secretary of Agriculture, is dead at the family residence at St. Louis. „ f Maximo Lipeno, one of the most noted men among the Metis of Manitoba and the North West,-died suddenly at Ills home at Winnipeg. It is reported that John Cudahy, the millionaire pork packer of Chicago, who is owner of several thousand acres of land near Florence, I,os Angeles County, has in contemplation the turning of this land into a sugar-beet plantation, and the erection of sugar-reduction works

FIRE SWEEPS AN OHIO TOWN.

Bain bridge Ravaged and Two Citizeoa Boned to Death. The village of Bainbridge, Ohio, was almost completely destroyed by fire resulting from an explosion of gasoline. Many persona were made homeless. An entire square containing most of the prominent business houses, several handsome residences and the Methodist Church was entirely destroyed. The fire started in a bam in the rear of Perrin Brown’s general store, by two little boys who were playing with ignited matches. The flames spread rapidly and communicated with the main buildings. Beardsley’s drug store adjoining was next ablaze and with the limited means at hand for fighting fire it passed all bounds and became uncontrollable. In the midst of the excitement a terrible explosion occurred in the drug store, and Mr. Beardsley, who was inside endeavoring to save some of his property, lost his life in the ruins. His brother-in-law, Thqmas Higgins, who went to his rescue, was unable to get cut, and was burned to death, while several others were more or less injured, but none fatally. There was a hard wind blowing which fanned the flames to greater fury, and getting a fresh start from the burning oils and chemicals in the wrecked drug store, the fire leaped from house to house until it was evident that the entire town was doomed. A message was sent to Waverly and to Chillicothe nsking for aid, and both fire departments promptly responded. The best that could be done was to prevent the fire from being communicated to the other squares and the flames were soon under control. But two houses were left standing on the square. The estimated loss is SIOO,OOO. '

MISSING CASHIER.

Fred McConnell Who Looted the Amblii. Ind , Bank of SIO,OOO. Fred McConnell robbed the Bank of Ambia, Ind., of SIO,OOO and disappeared. Whither he has gone no one knows. He is a handsome man, 26 years old, and was popular with a wide circle of acquaintances in Ambia and other Indiana towns where he had lived. His bearing was such that he inspired general confidence in all who came into business contact with him. Three years ago he went to Ambia and served as bookkeeper at the Farmers’ elevator, owned by.F. H. Dix-

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on, whose bank he robbed. A year later he became cashier of the bank and was married to Miss Sally Moor, whose parents live at Goodland, Ind. McConnell’s parents are honored residents of Michigan City. The books of the bank, as investigated by State Bank Examiner Milllken, show that the actual amount taken by McConaell in cash was $9,279, nnd there f.re outstanding accounts on which he is supposed to have made collections which will swell his embezzlement to over SIO,OOO. McConnell is 5 feet 8 Inches high, weighs 155 pounds and is fair complexioned.

SAY STRIKERS WERE UNARMED.

Evidence at the Coroner's Inquest in the Lattlmer Affair. Coroner McKee of Hazleton, Pa., Thursday afternoon began the inquest into the deaths of the score of striking miners who were shot by a posse of sheriff’s deputies at Lattimer. A two hours’ session was held, during which a score of witnesses were examined. District Attorney D. A. Fell of Luzerene County was there, and H. A. Fuller of Wilkes-Barre appeared for the coroner; State Chairman Garman, John McGahren and B. H. Laughlin for the prosecution, and George H. Troutman of Hazleton for the deputy sheriffs. Dr. Thorodovieh, Secretary of the Austro-Hungarian consulate at Philadelphia, and R. D. Coxe, attorney for the consulate, were also present. Nearly all the testimony adduced was a repetition of that brought out at the hearing of the deputies at Wilkes-Barre. Most of tie witnesses were foreign strikers who were in the march halted by the deputies’ deadly fusillade. All declared that none of the strikers was armed; that Sheriff Martin pulled a revolver on them, but no one attempted to take it from him; that no violence had been offered that official, and that the miners had no intention of making an unlaAvful demonstration.

TO WORK FOR THEGOOD OF ALL.

Edmunds Talks of the Objects of the Monetary Commission. The monetary commission resumed its sessions in Washington Thursday, with ex-Senator Edmunds presiding. Several of the members addressed the commission on financial topics. These discussions will be private, as they are mainly f*r the purpose of bringing out every phase of the monetary question. Ex-Senator Edmunds said concerning the scope and purposes of the commission: “Naturally and necessarily it may be supposed that no particular plans or changes in the laws would at present either be agreed upon or even proposed, but rather that the first labors of the commission would be devoted to ascertaining the existing condition of things, as affecting all interests of the people, and what evils or dangers now exist. The people of the Avhole country may feel sure that the commission will do nothing and recommend nothing that is intended to advance any interest or class at the expense of any other, whatever may be the public opinion in respect of the wisdom of what the commission may finally suggest to be done.”

WAR SHIPS FOR HAWAII.

United States Prepared to Checkmate Any Move by Japan. Uncle Same does not intend to be caught napping in HaAvaii. Notwithstanding the denials of Japanese officials, the administration is suspicious that the wily Japs meditate some sort of a coup. There is a feeling in Washington that the Japs deny too a igorously and protest too much. At any rate, orders Avere sent to the gunboat Wheeling, at Mare' Island, to proceed without delay to Honolulu. The YorktoAvn is already on her way to the HaAvaiian capital. It Avas originally intended that the cruiser Philadelphia should return to the United States very soon, but now the understanding is that the Philadelphia will be kept nt Honolulu till the Japanese cruiser Naniwa leaves that port for Japan, as it is reported she is about to do. The Japanese may not be meditating action, but the administration thinks it wise to be on the safe Bide. 1