Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1894 — Page 9

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SECOND PART. if ESTABLISHED 1822. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 189 4 T W E LYE PAGES. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.

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THING OFTHE PAST,

The Fifty-Third Congress Is No More. Its Last Hours Are Absolutely Uneventful Political Disputes end Party Quarrels Laid Aside. GREAT CROWD ON HAND. Visiting Pyihians Witness the Closing Scenes. The President Congratulates Congress And Wishes the Members t Happy Vacation. 3Iem1er of the Cabinet (letting: Out t WimMnKliiii St-t-reliiry (irrxhaiii Aaked to Define Hit' Antl-nnrehlt l.sitv Mat of om i im t iona That Were .Not Continued Other AViihiiK ton Ne . WASHINGTON. Au-. 2S. The last day of -the second s?s.-i -u of the Fifty-third MiiKr-'fi w.n attcii'Icd by just a score of sonit-u's and a hrtv c meourse of peo11 who packed the Kallcries to their fullest capacity. Most of those who wnv in th galleries were ladies. There wer; al v ry many visiting Knights of Pythi is. The dipu.i mtie gallery was the only one which was not occupied. Even the allies of the galhries and the doorways swarmed wi:h visitors. On the floor there was an air of relief at the approaching close of the session visible on the faces and ia th-1 demeanor of those who have b.'en kept at their posts so lonx. Chaplain McCarthy, in a Ions prayer, included n t only the customary officers of th- government, the president and vie pr -si, le.it arid senators, but even the sen tt- j.agos a no" Vm venerable Isaac 1 lasse tt in his appeal for grace. Ail po!iii- al differences and party bickerings wti'o laid a-iJe for the time being, and those who a few weeks ago were hurling bitter anathemas at each other, were today laughing and joking wUh each other in the friendliest possible manner. A message was received from the house Immediately after the reading of yesterday's journal and then llr. liansuin of North Carolina offered the customary resolution to notify the president that the two houses were ready to adjourn. The resolution was agreed to an 1 tili vi'-e-p resident appointed Mr. Hansom and Mr. Manderson of Nebraska a committee; on the part of the senate. No other business of any importance was transacted and a recess was taken until 12:43 o'clock. At that hour the vicepresident announced that the senate was again ia session. A message was received from the hous- announcing the death of Representative George B. Shaw of Wisconsin. In th absence of the two "Wisconsin senators Mr. "White offered the customary resolutions of regret and the vicepresident appointed Senators Mitchell, Cullom. Davis, lioach and Kyle to attend the funeral. At 12:53 a further recess wai taken until 1:30 p. m. At 1:3) p. m. the senate was again called to order, and the committee appointed to call un the president announced that he had no further communications to make to congress. Resolutions of thanks were, tendered Viee-I'resident Stevenson and Senator Harris, president pro tern, and at 2 o'clock the vice-president declared the senate adjourned without delay. Old campaigners declared the death scene of the second session of the Fiftythird congress the most placid and uninteresting they had ever witnessed. SCENES IX THE IIOISE. Ilig Crowd in at the Death of the Lower Hod)". WASHINGTON-, Aug. 2S. Today the galleries of th-1 house were packed to overflowing with visiting Pythians and their families, drawn hither to witness the closing scenes of the dying session, which was to expire at 2 o'clock. The artendance on the floor was very light, however, the great majority of the members having already gone to their homes. The resignation of Representative Oates, recently elected governor of Alabama, to take effect Dee. 3, Was laid before the house. In accordance with the usual custom Mr. Wilson (democrat of West Virginia) offered a resolution, which was adopted without division, for the appointment of a committee of three members of the house to meet a similar committee of the senate and wait on the president and Inform him that congress was ready to adjourn and ascertain if he had any further communication to make. The speaker appointed Messrs. Wilson (democrat of West Virginia), Holman (democrat of Indiana) and Hepburn (republican of Iowa). The speaker also appointed the following committee to investigate the Ford's theater disaster: Messrs. Maddox (democrat of Georgia), Brookshire (democrat of Indiana), l'igott (democrat of Connecticut), Daniels (republican of New York) and Updegraff (republican of Iowa). Tre resolution to print comparisons of the new tariff law with the present law and the Wilson bill as It passed the house, was called up by Mr. Richardson (democrat of Tennesse-). The vote resulted yeas, 71; nays, 3. Mr. Johnson (democrat of Ohio) renewed his opposition and made the point of no quorum. As it was apparent that a quorum could not be mustered appeals were made from all sides to Induce Mr. Johnson to withdraw his point of oWer, but he refused. Mr. Johnson's opposition was that the comparisons proposed to be printed had been prepared under the direction of S.nator Gorman and were misleading. Mr. Warner ( democrat of New York) and Mr. Dearmond (democrat of Missouri) offered compromise amendments, but they were rejected. Finally Mr. Richa.'dson withdrew his resolution. The committee appointed to wait upon the president, consisting of Messrss. Wilson, Holman and Hepburn, reported that the president had no. further communication to make to congress. "The president also requested me," said Mr. Wll-

son, "to congratulate the house and senate on the close of their labors and to wish the Individual members a happy j and prosperous vacation." J At 2 o'clock the speaker, with a bang j of his gavel, declared the second session

of the Flfty-third congress adjourned. Great cheering greeted the announcement. TIIKY WILL TAKB A rtKST. Mrmbfm of the (nliinrt Goinst Out of A nahinRton. WASHINGTON. Aug. 29. Nearly ail thj members of the cabinet are preparing to take advantage of the adjournment of congress to secure vacations. It is probable that within a very short time Washington will be almost deserted by higher officials of the government. Secretary Heribert is away already making a tour of inspection of the government navy yards and stations along the north Atlantic coast. Secretary Lamont's respite will be with his family at Bayview, Long Island, and all that prevents Secretary Gresham from arranging to temporarily put aside the business of the state department is that there are a few troubles, mie foreign questions demanding his presence here for a while at least. He will shortly, however, take a vacation, which will be spent in part in fishing. Attorney-General Olney will spend his vacation In and about Boston. He has decided that it is too late in the season to open his summer residence at Falmouth, Mass., and so with Mrs. Olney, who is now in Peters borough, N. H. He will remain quietly at his Boston home during the three or four weeks he expects to be absent from Washington. He hoies to be able to leave here today or tomorrow. Secretary Carlisle has made no arrangements for a vacation and it is expected that the administration of the new tariff act may keep him hero for some time yet. Secretary Smith will spend ten days or a fortnight in Georgia. He has just returned from a short vacation at Ocean City, Md., and will leave again early next week, probably Monday evening, for his state. He will visit at 1kUi Atlanta and Athens, where his family return H last Monday. Georgia democrats expect hi:n to make several siceches while in Atlanta. Postmaster-General Bissell dispose 1 of a good deal of current business yesterday and left last night for Buffalo, where Mrs. Bissell returns from ivenncbunkport, Me. lie will spend all of his vacation in New York state and exigents to resume his duties at the postoiüco department during the first week of October. During most of his absence First Assistant Jones will be acting postmaster-general. Secretary Morton of the agricultural department will spend Iiis vacation in Europe. He has planned to leave ia the mill lie of September and his itinerary includes a visit to Germany, England and France. He will be accompanied by n;s eldest son and will be away live or six weeks. Mr. Pabney, the assistant secretary, will be the acting secretary during Mr. Morton's 'absence. SAYS IT IS YlCIOtS. ItooneTflt Denounce One of ConKreHii)!in IIjiiuiu'm M(Mum. Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt today, in an interview on civil service matters, said that the commission was now on far better footing than ever before. This was due to the fact that the commission, under legislation pushed by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and Senator Cockrell of Missouri, hereafter would have its own force of clerks instead of being dependent on clerks detailed to it by the several government departments. The civil service commissioner denounced the Bynum bill for the reinstatement of the democratic railway mail clerks, dismissed prior to the classification of the railway mail service under the civil service system in lSSi), as a thoroughly vicious partisan measure, saying: "If it should become a law it would be a precedent for the enactment of similar measures whenever a change of administration took place. It is introduced purely in the interest of the spoils-monger and is a "thoroughly .vicious bill in every way." "Then," Mr. Itocsevelt went on, "I wish to call attention to the recent decision of the attorney-general which permits solicitation for political purposes by letter in government buildings. If this opinion holds the commission must Immediately request the passage of a law to prohibit such solicitation. The commission has always insisted that solicitation for political purposes was Illegal whether done in person or by letter In a government building It was owing to this interpretation, that we were able to very nearly break up the practice during the last presidential campaign, and as the aftermath of that campaign we have procured th conviction of two government officials, one a postmaster in Ohio and the other a deputy internal revenue olTicer of Kentucky, but we have never had a case tried in the court where the accusation was that the solicitation was by letter." THE DISAI'I'OIXTEU ONES. Lint of the Nomination That Were Xt Confirmed. The following is the official list of nominations rejected by the senate during the session Just closed: Associate justices of the supreme court of the United States. William D. Hornblower, Wheeler II. Peckham; consul, Benjamin Lenthier, Sherbrooke, Quebec. Collector of customs. Edward J. Taylor, for the district of Niagara, N. Y. Surveyor of customs, J. Scott Harrison, for the port of Kansas City, Mo. Registers of land office, Henry W, Long, Gainesville, Fla. Postmasters, Jonas S. Hays, Owega. N. Y.: Tread well B. Kellum, Babylon, N. Y.; Thomas II. Marlon, Herkimer, N. Y.; George F. Van Dam, TompkinsvLlle, N. Y. The following nominations were not confirmed and failed by reason of adjournment: United States district judge for the eastern and middle district of Tennessee. James D. Porter. United States attorneys, John W. Beekman. for the di3trlct of New Jersey; William L. Marbury, for the district of (Maryland. Collectors of internal revenue. Geo.yj; W. Wilson, for the district of Flonfa; A. Augustus Healey, for the First district of New York. Collectors of customs, David G. Browne, for the district of Montana; James W. Ball, for the district of Yaqulna, Ore. Indian agents, Thomas B. Teter. for the Hall agency, Idaho: Marshall Petit. Klamath agency, Oregon. Supervising inspector steam vessels, John Ii. Galway, fir the Eighth district. Postmasters. John Beard, Danville, 111.: James A. Purdy. Ottawa, Kas.; Charles H. Trousdale. Monroe, Lo.; John H. Hieok. Flint. Mich.; John Murray, Port Huron, Mich.; Alfred A. Guck, 'Lake Linden. Mich.; J. H. Hamm, Ponca. Neb.; Alfred D. Tinsley. Sioux Falls, S. T.; George H. Islaub. Ogden, Utah; John D. Tyrrel, Pomeroy, Wash. The Antl-Annrehlst IUII. Secretary Carlisle today wrote a letter to Representative Go'.dzier of Illinois in response to a letter from that gentlemen asking the secretary for definition of the terms "alien anarchist," as used In the

Hill anti-anarchist bill, which has passed the senate and doubtless will be brought up in the house soon after congress reassembles. Secretary Carlisle writes: "The bill, it seems to me, quite clearly specifies the classes to which Its provisions apply, and if it should become a law the principal difficulty which the executive and Judicial officers would encounter would be in determining upon the evidence whether a particular case des or does not come within any of those classes."

Fun THEATEll DISASTER. Joint Committee Will Investigate It In orrniHer, The joint committee of congress to examine into the liability of the government for the Ford's theater disaster will not dl any business until the first week before the assembling of congress in December. It has been arranged that about the middle of November the members of the committee will return to Washington and begin the investigation with a view of having the report ready when congress meets in December. A senate committee has already made an investigation, and it was upon the report submitted by Senator Manderson that the senate inserted in the sundry civil bill appropriations of $3.000 each for the families of those who had lost their lives in the disaster. It is the intention of the committee to investigate and make recommendations not only as to the families of the dead, but for those who wore injured, if the liability of the government is established. Am to MiKur llonntle. The secretary of the treasury has decided that under the terms of the new tariff bill payments of sugar bounties on claims already riled cannot be legally made. Sec. 10S2 of the new act provides, among other things, that "hereafter it shall be unlawful to issue any license to produce sugar or to pay any bounty for the production of sugar of any kind under the act approved Oct. 1, 1S90." It is not denied that perso.is who haw filed claims for sugar produced during tne last year may not have a just claim against the government, the only contention being that under the terms of the new law it is made illegal for the secretary to pay them. Even if the claims have been allowed by the department they cannot be liquidated. It is presumed, however, that all producers having claims for bounty will prosecute them in the court of claims. I'ardoiiM iMiinl 1y the President. The president granted the following pardons before leaving Washington: W. S. Parker, sentenced in Kentucky to two years' imprisonment and fined for counterfeiting; James Larrimer, sentenced in Illinois to one year for passing counterfeit mney; J. W. Stalins, sentenced In Illinois to two years for embezzling letters (to restore citizenship); Charles Hampton, sentenced in Utah to nine months' imprisonment for adultery (to restore citizenship); Joseph C. Johnston, sentenced in Minnesota to thirteen months' imprisonment for introducing whisky in the Indian country (commuted to two months); John Roody, sentenced in Texas to five years' imprisonment and fined for manslaughter (commuted to one year). WimliinKlun tionaip. BUREAU OF THE SENTINEL, WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 29. David Murr of Paoli, private secretary to Representative Bretz; Robert Mitchell of Salem, private secretary to Representative Brown, und W. C. Williams of Salem, house employe, have roturm-d home. Murr sold his paper, the Paoli News, and Sept. 15 he will take a clerkship under Pension Agent Spencer at Indianapolis. LEAVING THE COUNTRY. Several Thoiinnl "eirroei tn He Transported to Liberia Yearly. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 29. J. It. McMillen, president of the International immigration society, states that a contract has been closed with an African steamship company for the transportation of 5.0'K) colonists annually to Liberia. The society proposes, for a certain stipulated price, to furnish transportation of 5,000 colonists annually to Liberia. The society also proposes, for a certain stipulated price, to furnish transportation and three months' provisions for the colonists. He says the government of Liberia proposes, in order to encourage this settlement of its territory, to give to each colonist twenty-five acres of land and the necessary implements with which to till it. The headquarters of this society will be here as will also the general purchasing offices. Mr. McMillen says the first steamer will leave early in October and will touch along the Atlantic coast as far as New Orleans. From there it will go direct to Liberia, touching at Havana. Cuba. GOOD CROPS IN INDIANA. nut Farmer In Severn! AVestern State Will Sutler. CHICAGO, Aug. 29. President Lyman J. Gage of the First national bank has received reports on the condition of the crops from nearly every county In the states of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and North and South Dakota. These reports were made by bankers In the several counties, and are believed to be absolutely accurate. The reports of the condition of the crops from the government and other sources were so conflicting that President Gage determined to have a canvass made himself for Uie guidance of his bank. The states of Indiana, Ohio and Missouri were not covered at all, as all agree that thei yields in these states will be above the average, though there will be bare spots in some localities. Mr. Gage's conclusion, from the reports. Is that , there will be suffering in western Kansas and Nebraska, where the crops practically have been a total failure, and the farmers will require assistance from the outside to enable them to get through the winter. A MODERN MIRACLE. Iloy Prny for Ilellef from a. Paralytic Stroke und In Cured. QUEBEC, Aug. 29. A large party of Michigan p'lgrims arrived a few days ago at this place by boat f-.nd immediately proceeded to the shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre. Father Theodore, who was In charge of the party, reports a miracle which took place during the celebration of the holy mass. A boy, whose name could not be learned. was suffering from paralysis of the arms. He prayed with great fervor and suddenly moved hi3 arms and hands. The Detroit pilgrims visited the principal points in town, the historic monuments and the plains of Abraham. They left last night for the West by the steamer Montreal.

ABE PROUD OF HIM

Mr. Wilson's Constituents Give Him an Ovation. Carried on the Shoulders of Enthusiastic Democrats. HIS NOTABLE ADDRESS In Accepting a Renomlnation for Congress. New Act Will Lead to True Tariff Reform. Tlie Country Known nnd lllatnry Know Where to I'lnee the I'urMal Failure to Redeem the Pledges of tls 1" rl ' Vm-rleij l'eople Arounnl lift .to the Deadly Menace Which Protection HcRCt to a Free Government. MATtTINSBUTtG, W. Va., Aug. 29. The Hon. W. L. Wilson was nominated here today by the most enthusiastic convention that was ever held in the Second congressional district. Upon his arrival from Washington he was seized by the enthusiastic democrats, who were at lhe train to receive him, and carried bodily to a carriage in waiting and hauled by "hand to the Central opera house, where the convention was held. His reception amounted to more than an ovation. The convention, was the largest ever held in the district and by far the most enthusiastic. Mr. Wilson, after being introduced, spoke as follows: "The honor to which you summon me today is not a new one for me to receive at your generous hands. Ho many times has it come to me in the past never coldly or grudgingly that I should vainly stek for new and stronger language In which to assure you of my Increasing gratitude for your approval and support. But if fitting and sufficing words are slow to come I beg you not to doubt that I am more deep.y moved and more affectionately touched by your affection today than I have ever been before. That action comes at the end one of the greatest and monstrous struggles that has marked our political history, and it comes in such a way to stamp with your approval, as constituents and democrats, the services which your representative was called upon to render for the supremacy of democratic principles and the fulfillment of democratic pledges. It is no mock affectation, for nothing could be more blameworthy or criminal on my part on this occasion, but the simple candor Which is due from me to you when I say that but for what seemed a duty and a call growing out of that struggle, I should gladly ask at your hands an honorable discharge from further publics, service and permission to take my place once again in the -ranks of the militant and ever-faithful democrats of the Second congressional district. "In other campaigns I have accepted this trust at your hands with a full knowledge of the labor and strain required for a thorough canvas's of so large and so stoutly contested a district as our own, but always with confidence in my ability to mett that labor and strain. Today I cannot have that confidence, and in view of the large and dangerous drafts made upon my strength and health. I shall be constrained to ask at your hands some remission of the labars of pulblic canvassing, whioh I have heretofore so greatly enjoyed. I shall not. however, be a drone In the approaching contest, and shall spare no effort to meet personally, if not upon the hustings, as many of the people as I can. "Fellow-citizens, this is enough for n.e to say of a jersonal nature. There are other thoughts that fill your mind3 today. Boundless as is your kindnes3 to me, it Is something beyond kindness to me which has gathered this great convention and great assembl ;g-e. The conjgress which adjourned vesiterday was charged by the people with a duty clear, unmistakable, transcendant to secure from the grasp of private and selfish hands the power of federal taxation; to lift from the backs of the American people that burden of tribute to privilege and monopoly which under thirty years of republican legislation had grown constantly heavier until it far exceeded their legitimate and necessary taxation for the support of government; 'o reclaim and make forever sure that heritage of American youth which is the true meaning and priceless boon of democratic institutions, equal opportunity in a land of equal rights. This wa.s the inspiring mission which the democratic party had long sought from the 'American people, power and authority to perform To this mission the Immediate representatives of the people gave themselves earnestly and faithfully. In that work they were at all times cheered and encouraged by their great leader, who for eight yeare, in defeat and vlc'rv. handled in the movement for tariff reform. While he scrupulously abPtainod from Interference with the work of. those Intrusted with tha reform legislation, he was insistent, in season and out of season, in urging that the pledges' on which he had come into power should be fulfilled in the letter and the spirit, and that he blessings of reduced and Just taxation (should be fully and honestly secured to the American people. "In this great work your own representative, thanks to your kindness in granting him a long public service, was assigned an important and mot arduous part. No man could fitly undertake to frame a revenue bill for a nation of 70,000 people unsurpassed in worth and in the magnitude and variety of their industrial and commercial Interests, to purge monopoly from that system, .to replace class exaction by public taxation, privilege by equity, to lighten the burden of the people, to secure larger rewards for their labor and freer play for their industry, without being appalled by th greatness of the trust committed to him, end the thickening difficulties in the way Of its successful performance. No man could worthily approach such work without putting away from: him any petty personal ambition and any selfish concern for his political future. No ;nan could hoie for any measure of real success who was not willing to dedicate to such a task every power of body and mind, with an humble Invocation for strength and wisdom from the unfailing source of strength and wisdom. "I cannot claim to have risen to the full night of this duty, but I have never faltered In the belief that you, my friends and constituents, expected and desired me to enter upon my work in this spirit to persevere to Its close. I knew that you were tariff reformers without reservation. I knew that the democrat of West Virginia were not protectionists. Hut even if I had known otherwise I should not have gone t! aside one step from what was to me the clear pathway of duty to all the people. You know, for you have fol lowed with watchful interest th i varying history of our attempt at tariff

reform. You have followed with rising hopes and hearty approval the action of the house of representatives in the framing and passing of a measure bearing the badges of democratic principles, and fraught with promised benefits to all the people. You have followed with waning hopes and angry disapproval the tedious and tortuous passage, of that bill through the senate, and seen that despite a nominal majority in that body the great trusts and monopolies were still able to write their taxes, as they had done under republican rule, in some of its important schedules. The burden upon you is the same whether they use a democratic or a republican, as their amanuensis. But the wrong to you is infinitely the greater when those who bear the commission of your own party, thus prove faithless to its highest duties. "I need not reel to you the succesive steps, the material and baneful alternations through which the bill quietly p.issed into law w-ithout the signature of the president, who was elected upon the issue of tariff reform tnd who anticipated as the signal triumph and historic achievement of his administration the privilege of aflixinff his name to a genuine and thorough reform bill. "You know by what Influences this was brought about. The country knows and history will know where to put the responsibility for our partial failure to redeem our pledges to the people, and our partial failure to dislodge the great privileged interests from our tariff. I am not sure that this very failure may not be the harbinger and assurance of a speedier and more complete triumph of commercial freedom than the smooth aftd unobstructed passage of the house bill would have been. The American people are aroused as hardly anything else could have aroused them to the deadly menace which protection begets to the purity and the very existence of free government. They have seen a single great trust empowered by our tariff laws to control the production and sale of a necessary of life, parceling out the country with its partners and using its law-made wealth and pwer to thwart the best efforts of the people to reduce their own taxation. They have seen it hold up congress for weeks and have heard its representatives boldly declare that there would be no tariff bill in which their interests were not protected and they have realized the final fulfillment of that b.wst. When the sugar trust thus challenges the American people to a contest of strength its days are numbered, its temporary triumph is its speedier and more compete overthrow, and with its overthrow will vanish its sister brood of monopolies that are strong through its supjujrt. "But, my friends, there is another and a brighter side to this picture. With all its manifold failures, its final retention of many protective duties, its objectionable sugar schedule, and its excessive duties on cottons and woolens and metals, the new bill carries In it very substantial relief to the people, and must be accepted as a substantial beginning of thorough and progressive tariff reform. It means cheaper clothing, cheaper pottery and many other necessaries for the people. It -means freer and larger commerce with those nations that buy our farm products and consequently larger and better markets for our farmers. It means a transfer of some of the burdens of government from what goes out for the daily purchase of the necessaries of life to that which comes in over and above the amount needed for such purchases. If we denounce some of its duties and rates it is because what may be much lower than the duties and rates of the McKinley "bill are yet enormities in a democratic bill. But. as the president well said, we have obtained a vantage ground from which we shall continue to shell the camp of monopoly. The day of mad protection is over in this country; McKinleyism will disappear as a dark and hideous blight from our statute books. The fight will go on. not, may be, in such a general engagement and protracted struggle as we have just passed through, but that steady and resistless pressure that will take one after another of Che strongholds of privilege, until all shall disappear before the advance of public opinion and public emancipation. "I have dwelt at some'length upon these phases of our tariff struggle which are naturally and properly uppermost in the mind of every genuine democrat. We have a right to confess our own shortcomings as measured by the high standard of our own principles and professions. We (have a right to hold our own faithless servants to that responsibility which duty and party fidelity placed upon them. But all this does not imply dissatisfaction with our own party as a whole, or distrust as to Its meanings and intentions. If the closeness of the vote in one house of congress gave ojportunity for a few to combine against the people and against all the rest of their party and abstra'ct its faithful efforts to redeem Its pledges, the overwhelming mass of the democrats in the country are subject to no just criticism. They have kept the faith. They have "been true to their principles. We may ourselves denounce or bitterly condemn those that failed us in this fight. We are not therefore subject to condemnation by our opponents. If we have done less in the way of relieving the people's burdens than we had hoped and promised, they would have done nothing at all. If we have anywhere uncovered a trust and found it too strong for our complete dislodgment In the first attempt, we have never failed to find them sturdily and solidly arrayed for its defense. The weapons with which monopoly has fought us they have forged and tempered and supplied. The entrenchments and fortresses behind which privilege has shielded itself from our attack they have bullded for it, stone by stone and stronghold by stronghold." HE WANTS DAMAGES.

Annandale Sacs the Government for Knlne Imprisonment. MONTREAL, Aug. 29. Hugh Annanda'e has a grievance against the government of the United States. He was arrested for one Peter Arnot while in a hospital in Baltimore in the next bed to Arnot and; the latter being wanted by the English police for embezzlement. Annandale was arrested as corresponding to the description given. Each of the two had been put into a special ward as suffering from mental aberration. Annandaie says that on his arrest he was prohibited by the police from any communication with friends and acquaintances. After five days detention he was dulv delivered to the officers from London, taken to Liverpool, and on his arrival there he was confronted by Mrs. Arnot. who, by the time, had not got evidence of the death of her husband, and at any rate could declare that Annandale was not Arnot. The United States consul at Liverpool sent Annandale out to Canada, furnishing him with a passage and funds to strat him out in work again. Annandale's father was a Montreal man. He has applied by petition to the American government for compensation, but so far without any result. He has now got lawyers to enter suit for $10,000 damages. The I'njnat strike nt YVuKe. Advantage is being taken of the general depression of business and scarcity of employment by many manufacturers to force a reduction of wages in resuming their business operations. This i3 most unjust and must lead to early troubles between employer and employed In the future. The manufacturers did not increase the wages of labor when the

(McKinley bill was pissed "that largely increased their protection, and also largely increased The cost of the necessaries of life to be paid by the workmen, and they cannot therefore with any reasonable grace insist that a reduced tariff that fully protects the difference in wages here and abroad compels a reduction of wages. Philadelphia Times.

VICTIMS OF A DEATH TRAP. Three Liven Lot in cvr York ÜHfilt Shop." NEW YOItK, Aug. 29. Fire did awful work in the tenement house district of the East Sido this morning. The flames broke out in a six-story "sweat shop" at 22G Blvington-st. Three men lost their lives and a fourth, a fireman, is dying. At 31 Ooerick-st. a six-story tenement was burned, a dozen families were driven out panic-stricken and $17,000 damage was done. The Riving-ton-st. house was occupied almost solely by sweat shops. The second floor was used a-s a synagogue and a portion of the third lloor as a Hebrew school for boys. It is claimed that nobody lived in the house, but there were at least eight men in buildirtg when the tire broke out. If they were watchmen, as it is claimed, they did their work badly, for three of their number are dead and a fourth cannot be found. He ran away when the alarm was sounded. The dead are: JIEHICO LEKIVE, eee.l fifty-three. JOSEPH LERIVK, aged eighteen. , ELIAS LERIVE, ag-ed sixteen. Injured : TIMOTHY COLLINS, fireman, hurt Internally; will die. The Bivington-st. fire occurred nt 2 o'clock. Its origin is unknown. As the flames burst from the building a man was seen to rush from it and run in the opposite direction. Several persons called after him. but he paid no heed and was lost sight of. The flames started in the- tailor-shop of Fabricus Levine. Soon after the fire began Levine's watchman, Herman Egerson, was climbing down the fire escape. When he got to the first floor he Jumped to the ground. He was followed by three others, who came from different floors. Long before the first engine reached the place the building was wrapped in flames from the ground floor to the roof. The building was dangerously l-xated, being in the center of the Hc-hrew tenement district, with tall, crowded tenements on cither side. Three alarms were sounded. Ladders were set tip against the burning building, but they only reached to the third floor. It was supposed , that everybody was out. but a youth of eighteen years old appeared on a floor, enveloped with flames. The people belowshouted encouragement to the lad. but could not reach him, and the crowd lielow watched as the boy seemed to be roasting alive. Fireman Timothy Collins attempted to rescue him. He had gone up the ladder but a few rounds when the boy climbed over the t scape and dropied. Twice- he turned in the air before he fell squarely on the shoulders of Collins. Down both went to the inivement, the hoy was killed by the fall. ' The fireman was unconscious and injured internally by the fall. He will probably die. The firemen worked from the roofs of buildings on all sides and succeeded in confining the liames to the orte building, but this was gutted completely. After three hours work the firemen entered th building by the roof. In the shop of Joseph Svha.ckman, the room from which the lad had jumied to death, the firemen found the bodies of the men. They were lying side by side on a little tailor's bench and had evidently been asleep when overcome by smoke. They were father and son and the boy who Jumped was another son. The man was about fiftythree years old, the boy about sixteen. Both bodies had been scorched by the flames, but the faces were recognizable. The three always slept on the shop. The damage to the building was about $6.0oo. The tenants each lose about $TiO0. Fire marshal will investigate the origin of the fire, as its cause seems shrouded in mystet y. While this fire was In progress three alarms were pounded for another in a five-story "double-decker" tenement at 31 Goeriek-su The fire was decidedly suspicious. It originated In the hallway beside the door of Josephine Keana, a boarder in the janitor's family on the first floor. The entire building was soon enveloped in flames. All the tenants escaped uninjured. The loss will not exceed $17.000. There is talk of incendiarism and an Investigation will be had in the ca.se also. SKVEXTEKX FAMILIES HOMELESS. The Little Town, of Yeaper Completely Wiped Out. MARSIIFI ELI, Wis., Aug. 23. The Port Edwards train arrived here today bringing additional news of the burning of Vesper. The town is completely wiped out, entailing a loss of about $150,000, as follows: About nine million feet of lumber and the large saw and planing mill belonging to the SherryCameron lumber company, seventeen dwelling houses, two box cars end the depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway and three box cars of the Port Edwards, Centralia & Northern railway. The stock, lumber and mills of the Sherry-Cameron company is reported to be fully insured. The fire that wiped out Vesper has been burning in that vicinity the last two weeks, but at no time did it have a threatening appearance. The high wind drove It beyond control, and like a whirlwind it; broke over the little place in such fury as to render all attempts to save property useless. Seventeen families employed in the mills are homeless, and as the timber contiguous to the town burned up the place will never be rebuilt. A relief train was made ud, but could come no nearer than a mile beyond the doomed village, the flames overlapping the road further on. The Sherry-Cameron company commenced operations there eighteen years ago, and two months ago finished the season's cut, since which time there has been in operation the planing mills employing between forty and fifty men. ELECTRIC CAR ACCIDENT. Several Prmona Injured In a Collision at Chicago. CHICAGO, Aug. 29. An electric car collided with a passenger train on the Chicago & Northern Pacific railroad this afternoon at the Forest Home crossing. Three persons were seriously injured and a number of others were badly shaken up. The injured are: JOHN BRIGCxS. left leg crushed and injured internally. E. H. KEYS, badly Injured about the head and body and deep cut on head. Mrs. MARY BURNS, cut about the head and body. The cause of the collision was the refusal of the brakes of the electric car to work. The motorman. Briggs, was una'ble to prevent the car from running upon the crossing and smashing into the train. Dentroy-ed bt Fire. BUTTE Mont., Aug. 29. The town of Ellis was practically wiped out by fire this morning. Flames broke out in Logan's livery stable about 3 o'clock and spread rapidly Eight or ten houses were destroyed, including two hotels, butcher siiop and several saloons and stores. Many people will be without 6helter tonight.

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But a Toothsome Morsel for' the Fashionables. Mrs. Vanderbilt's Reasons for Wanting a Divorce ARE SURELY SUFFICIENT If This Story About Her Husband Is True. Ho Becomes Infatuated' -wltH a French Beauty, Preaonln Her with 40,000 Francs VVliich He Won on m. Harr, aad Then Place Her In a Magnificent EitnblUbiitent .Near Par la, and AIIowa Her Menials to Wru- the Same Livery nt That AYorn by III IVlfe' Servo uf. NEW TOPJC. Aug. 23. The statement in a morning- raper that Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Is about to begin reparation for divorce proceedings has not, it is alleged, created surprise In circles where the relations of the pair havebeen known. That they have not lived harmoniously the last two years ha been the gossip of fashionable circles for some time. The crisis In their affairs?, according to the Commercial "Adverser of today, was reached Immediately after the running of the Grand Prix de Tarls. June 17 of this year. "Mr. Vanderbilt," says this authority, "won 40,000 francs on the race, and almost immediately after receiving his winnings was introduced to a woman, well known for her beauty and numerous following among the lights ia swelldom. This person was Nellie Xeustrater. She fascinated tho millionaire, and as an evidence of his appreciation of her company he presented her the 40,(K0 francs so openly that several friends saw the ususual occurrence and remonstrated with him. The story of how he fitted up a magnificent establishment for her in Paris and subsequently gave her a residence at Deanville, with servants and every luxury she desired, Is true. It shocked and surprised the Ameri'an, residents of Paris, but Mr. Vanderbilt was so open in his attention as to puzzle everybody. On.? of the most Furprisinr thing? he did was ti allow the servants of Nellie Xfustrater to wear the Fame livery as that worn by Mrs. Vanderbilt's servants. This fact has leen noticed and commented upon, by every' ierson who her and her equipage in Paris and DeanVille. The Vanderbilts, according to another afternoon paper, have lived apart t-inre early last spring. Mrs. Vanderbilt has spent the summer in England at an extensive estate on the Thames near London, which had been rented for her, while Mr. Vanderbilt has Frcnt .is time in Paris. It is alleged that, wh.en som. time ago, a tentative agreement of seiaratlon was reached, Mr. Vanderbilt agreed to settle ujxn his wife $10.000,000. Mr. Choat AVn Iletlelent. ALBANY, X. Y.. Aur. 29. Jo.-eph It. Choate of New York, president of the constitutional convention, was askej today if it' were true that he had len retained to prosecute a suit f r divorce which. It is alleged. Mrs. V. K. Vanderbilt will Institute, refused to confirm or deny the statement, saying: "I never tell my private affairs to the prss." EUhu Boot denied that he hid been retained by any one of the Vandorbilts in divorce proceedings. ITS LABORS NEARLY ENDED. Strike Conimlnalon Complete Ks Ci a in i ii n I iw ii of M l ( neaaea. CHICAGO. Aug. The strike commission completed its examination of witnesses to day and adjourned until tomorrow. At that time an opportunity will be given for the introduction of some rebuttal evidence, and it is thought probable that no more testimony will ha heard. The witnesses today were residents of Blue Island, where much of ihe rioting occurred. Hut few of them gave testimony of importance. V. D. Fuller, the Bock Island railroad agent at Hlue Island, said that he had attndd a meeting at which Vice-President Howard of the A. It. U. called George M. Pullman vile names. "Howard said Pullman should be hanged." said the witness, "and declared that he would help to do the job if somebody would make the motion." N. It. Saunders, a merchant, said he had heard Howard make similar remarks at a meeting of strikers. Saunders also swore that Howard had advised the men to "kill any scab that tries to go to work in the strikers' places." Other witnesses testified in a similar strain, and about forty were examined. The majority of those called declared they knew nothing about the strike and were excused. SHE WOULDN'T MARRY HIM. Therefore lie Cuts Her Throat and Then Kills Himself. BONHAM, Tex., Aug. CO. A horrib! double tragedy occurred here last night. A man named E. D. McNitt, who has lost both legs and one hand, has lived In Bonham for a year past ana has earned a living by peddling candy on the street Before coming here he lived with a family named Martin in Arkansas. Martin and his wife eeparated. and Mrs. Martin cttne to this city with her three children. McNitt followed her and tried to get her to marry him, but rhe persistently refused. McNitt finally became half crazy with jealousy, and last night he procured a room in the hous-s where Mrs. Martin lived. This mornins Mrs. Martin was found on the flour by her bed in a pool of blood with her throat cut from ear to ear. and by her side, with one arm around her waist and In his other hand a bloody razor, lay McNitt with a great gash in his throat and also dead. On a chair near by lay an ax. It U supposed that McNitt entered the room, struck the woman with the ax. then pulled her off the bed. cut her throat with the razor and ended til owa life with, the same instrument.