Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — Page 3

Edward P. Honan, * ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law. Abatrada. Real Eatate. Loans. Will practice In all the court*. Office ora Paa* RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt. in. ium, looks and Real law. RENSSELAER. IND. Office upstair* in Leopold block, first atalra weat of Vanßenaaelaer atreet. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For Tha N. A. AC. Hy, and Renaaelaer W.L. AF. Co. Office over Chicago Bargain Store. Renaaelaer, Indiana. V . 11. Baughman. G, A. William*. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work. Loan,. Real Eatate and Insurance. Special attention given to collection, of all kind*. Office over “Racket Store.’* ’Phone 890. Rknmelakr, Indiana. J.P. Irwin 8. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. * ' 1 -S' Collection*. Farm Loan* and Fire Inauranoa. Oflee In Odd Fallow*' Block. KKNBBELAKB, INDIANA. R W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practice* in all courts. Special attention liven to drawing up wlHs and settling decedent's estate*. Office in county building, east aide of court house square. num ram. *. a. imua. marrt n. ivimi Foltz, Spitier & Kurrie, (Successor* to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law. Real Estate, Insurance Aberacts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books la the County. RENSSELAER. IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loan*. Office upstair* in Durand

Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Or. LB. Wxxkburn will give ipegUl iHmMini to pUwaMaofth* Bye, Bar, Now. Throat and Chronic Dliwim. Ha alao testa eras for «Usaaa Omn Tuimoaa No. 48. Raataaaaa Pnaai Me. •/. Rensselaer, - - Indiana, E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office OTer lines' Millinery store. Renasalaas. Oomaa PMa, ITT. Rismiim Paoaii tie. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICI AN ND SURGEON, Rensselaer, • - Indiana. Office up-stairs In Porsythe block. General practice of medicine, sorcery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night OffeiKasftWSaacr °“ p " ° a! W. W. MERRILL,-M. D. Hectic pmscbh and sun, RENSSELAER. • INDIANA. Ctirenle Diseases a Specialty. Office ’Phone 80S. Residence 'PhoneS4S --■— ■ ■ * - Dr. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anna Tsrflan Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OOTEOPARHIC PHYSICLANB.' Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ina. Hours: •to 19m; Ito 4:90p. m. H. O. Harris, XT. Harris, J. C. Harris, President Vlce-Pres. Caahlar. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Beartnc Certificates of Deposit issued on time. Ex* change Bought and Sold on principal cities, Notes Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans mads at 9 per cent We MUCH a Share sf Veer BeabMSS. H. L* . Brown, DENTIST. Office oyer Larsh’s drug store wujrar. aw’ / *S» Crown. Bar and Bridge \ Work. Teeth Without jjw I/A Plates, Without Pain. .. J.W.HORTOB .. te tsars hi •tKNsaaLAcn Teeth earefullr stopped with foM and other filling*. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered dally. Charges within the reaeh of all. OWIOS WeMITt OOURT MOMI, SoM W A.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

The AdanlnUtratlon and Wall Street. Wall atreet is still In the dumps and does not seem able to rally from the enormous decline In the quoted value of stock. The Napoleons of finance areturning their eyes to Congress to help them and the select members of the Finance Committee of the Senate are preparing a bill which la intended to be just what the Wall street- people want. Very seldom has Congress legislated entirely as Wall street has dictated, because what the stock jobbers ask for Is Just what the other people who pay the taxes don’t want, and won’t have if they can help It. As long as times are good in Wall street and there are plenty of lambs to shear, ths financiers make no demand for legislation, but when the crop of lambs have all been sheared and the bulls and bears undertake to strip the hides from each other, then the trouble begins and the President Is called upon to order the Secretary of the Treasury to “aiil the banks and prevent a

panic.” Early in the fall of 1902, when the first big break in the price of stock* commenced, the eonditioiv,of the financial weather In Wall street was squally and the Secretary of the Treasurj, under orders from President Roosevelt, at once commenced to aid tfcf banka In every possible way. Bond* were purchased at an enormous premium, the price being virtually dice tated by the sellers. All the receipt* from internal revenue were deposited in the favored banks and allowed t* remain there, without interest, and tha vast snm of over $150,000,000 is now loaned to the banks, on which not on; cent of interest has ever been paid. All this snccor not being found enough to stem the tide of liquidation, tha banka were allowed to withdraw theii United States bonds, which they had deposited with the Treasury as security for loans, and In place thereof deposit city and railroad bonds. Th'.| allowed the banks to use the released United States bonds to Increase the-j circulation and thus to further inflate the currency. At the last session of Congress tha attempt was made to pass the Fowler asset currency bill and the Aldrich bli’. but the proposed legislation was dafeated. - Then a further cry of distress cam* from the banks and Secretary Shaw began the refunding of United States bonds, which has just been closed with an issue of over $81,000,C00 of 2 pu cents in exchange for a like amount of 3 and 4 per cents, the government paying the enormous premium to the banks and other bondholders of ovar $3,500,000 for the privilege of doing to. The statement is now made by Mr. Seligman, one of the principal Wall street bankers, that the administration is prepared to take further measures to relieve the money stringency, If such becomes necessary, to relieve ihe pressure in Wall street. President Roosevelt is officially quoted as favoring the financial legislation that the banks ask for and will issue a call for an extraordinary ms-

■ion of Congress, to commence Not. 9, for that purpose. All this shows tliat President Roosevelt has authorised more and greater favors to the batiks and Wall street than any President ever did and all the efforts of Republican newspapers to make it appear that Wall street la opposed to the President is not only absurd, but not betme out by facta. The spook that worries Wall street is Congress, for It is a notorious fact that at any session Just before a national election the politicians are on their good behavior and do not, as a rule, enact legislation that will be questionably received by the vottys. That President Roosevelt will recommend financial legislation to Congrun Is said to be assured, but whether Congress will dare to legislate further In the Interest of the banks and Wall street is problematicaL Trusts in Control. If President Roosevelt la re-elected next year it win be almply and solely because a majority'of the voters sincerely believe that he Is helping them to fight their battle with the trusts. So odious have the hundreds of protected trusts become, both In the eyes of consumers and Investors, that no man who openly favors them can hope to be elected to any kind of public office. It la not strange, then, that President Roosevelt la seeking to haT« the public believe that he la an enemy of all bad trusts—assuming that there are some good ones. But what did the President ever do to really injure great corporations? Although he began political life as a strenuous free-trader, yet he recently, under pressure from the Protective Tariff League, joined the standpatters and thus stands opposed to the mosn certain way of curbing the trusts and giving relief to the people, by reduc tng the tariff duties. As Governor of New York he called au extra session of the Legislature to pass amendments to the Ford bill to tax the franchises of the public service corporations. The amendments were prepared by the corporation attorneys, and were Intended to make the act unconstitutional. The courts have not yet, after four years of lost time, fully decided the case. It was the President’s voice that killed the Littlefield anti-trust bOl

In the last Congress and caused the passage of two sham anti-trust bills—the Elkins anti-rebate bill and the Department of Commerce bill, with Its bureau of corporations to give publicity to trusts. The facts that are slowly coming to light In regard to this new bureau should open the eyes of the voters to the real position of the President. on the trust question. In discussing ths “Present Statistical Outlook in Washington,” the correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce and Com*/ mercial Bulletin said of this new* bureau: ‘•qjjie work now laid out for this bureau is of a really thorough type, ajodl if It is pursued with vigor on the lines now suggested there will be a good deal of complaint in the near future when the methods now contemplated are actually jpplied. Pressure of the most strenuous sort will undoubted’y be brought to bear at the White 1 House. Just bow soon the department

will really begin to show its hand in the matter of trust investigation cannot be certainly predicted, but those who are In position to know say it will not be until after the next Presidential election. As a matter of fact, a good deal of time is needed for the organization of the work and for laying out special lines of investigation. All this will consume many months, and Secretary Cortelyou Is too tactful a man to weaken his strategic position by opening fire in a Presidential campaign, if there would be any danger of hurting his party thereby. It will, therefore, be a good while before there are any definite results of the inquiries of the Bureau of Corporations.” Is there anything in this statement to frighten the trusts? Is it not clew that this new bureau will give the trusts two years more leeway—two years more license to squeeze the people and extract money from their pockets—two years at $1,000,000,000 a year? And what then? Publicity. That’s all, and mere than all, for it la entirly optional with the President whether any of the facts gathered by this bureau are ever published or not But the facts, when published, are intoned to serve only as a basis for “conservative” antl-truat legislation some time in the dim and distant future. President Roosevelt fighting the trusts? He is their best friend. He, as no other living man, knows how to tickle them and at the same time make the multitude, who sees hla fierce face and vigorous gestures, believe that he is mauling the life out of them. The trusts have great need of Just such a man at this juncture to save them from the Wrath of an outraged y»ople. It is a part of their game that Wall street and the trusts are to be against Roosevelt this year. Next year when the campaign is on it will be found that the G. O. P. is getting financial support from its old-time friends —the trusts.—Byron W. Holt.

Alger and Thnreton Reciprocity. When a speaker of either political party Is Invited to Detroit, he Is treated to the best there is In that ancient western city. There Is, too, a certain exhilaration about the atmosphere of Detroit that has led many ora tour to fall Into hyperbaton and this count for the extraordinary hyperbole indulged In by ex-Senator John M. Thurston In that city. He said: “Blind as bats in Jhe serene sunshine of his success, they have swarmed In the darkness and flung their puny ink-blots at the shining splendor of his stainless shield. But the country knows, and the world knows, and impartial history will declare, that the war administration of Russell A. Alger stands first In all annals of recorded tlma.” With the taste of the embalmed beef still lingering in the minds of “the boys” and remnants of the coat of whitewash that was laid on so thick that the “stainless shield” of Alger and Corbin are still encrusted with It, we certainly have no record to match it The Thurston utterances must be attributed to the lavish entertainment that the General had with his usual prodigality poured out to bta old friend, the ex-Senator. Thurston, though filled up with the Detroit atmosphere and other things, knew ha could not lay It on too thick for Alger and he just “let ’er fly.”

Xrea Trast Prosperity la Waning.

Moreau, Jr.—Papa, they don't bit* any more. Moigan, Sr» —Never mind, nonj they’ll get hungry again after awhll* —Philadelphia North Americas.

CHECKED IN GHOWTH

CROPB ARE HELD BACK BY LACK OF BUNBHINE. Corn in Particular Delayed bjr Law Temperature and Much In Hunger of Frost Before It la In Condition to * Harvest—Rains Stop Harvest. , a The weather bureau’s weekly summary of crop conditions is as follows: This is the third consecutive week of abnormally cool weather in the northern districts east of the Rocky Mountains. Moro favorable temperature conditions hare prevailed in the Southern States. A large part of the Missouri and portions of the upper Mississippi and Red River of the North valleys have suffered from excessive moisture, while drought prevails in the central and upper portions of the Ohio valley, central and southern Texas, and in portions of, Florida and Oklahoma. Throughout the northern and eastern portions of the com belt the weather has been too cool for maturing corn, which is unusually late. The crop lias, however, generally improved, especially in the central and., western districts, the outlook being promising in Kansas. In the northwestern portions of she corn belt, including Nebraska, lowa, Wisconsin and portions of Missouri and Illinois, there is urgent need for warmth and for the most part sunshine. Drought in the upper Ohio valley has materially lessened the prospects for com in that section. Rains have further checked the progress of the spring wheat harvest in the Dakotas and Minnesota.. In the central and northern Rocky Mountain and north Pacific coast districts spring wheat harvest has progressed under favorable conditions. Oats in shock and stack have been injured by wet weather in portions of the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys. Cotton lias made rapid growth throughout the cotton belt, and in portions. of the central and western districts and eastern North Carolina complaint of too rapid growth is quite general, rust and shedding being also reported in the central and eastern districts, while heavy rains have caused injury in portions of North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana an<l Arkansas, Little picking has been done in South Carolina, Florida and Texas, a “first” bale having been ginned In South Carolina on the lltb, four days later than the average.

Cool weather has affected tobacco unBavorably in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New England; elsewhere the crop ha* made satisfactory progress. The general outlook for apples is not promising. Special Reports by Btate*. Following are special telegraphic bulletins for nearby States: Illinois —Ample rainfall In most sections; soil in good condition, considerable fall plowing done; corn advanced, but crop still backward; fear* entertained that much crop will not mature unleaa frost 1* late; threshing oats continues light yield; marked Improvement In pasture*; second crop clover making rapid growth, large crop to be harvested for seed; potatoes yielding below expectations; apples continue dropping; outlook unfavorable. Indiana —Precipitation ample in south, deficient elsewhere; temperature deficiency quite decided; threshing wheat and oats In north section continue*; no Improvement In yield; early potatoes yielding light; late potatoes promising; corn greatly Improved, but with most favorable weather balance of season full crop Is not expected; apples promise light crop; all growing crops need warm rains. Ohio—Cool and very dry: drought serious In central and south, and gardens, potatoes, tobacco, apples, pastures, buckwheat, forage crops, and corn much affected; late corn prospect very poor and deteriorating In most of Btate; yield of wheat, oats, and barley poor to fair; plowing for wheat checked; late potatoes promising In north; tobacco cutting begun; apples affected by drought;” grapes ripening; peaches very light; pears fair; large crop of plums, but some decay. Michigan—Cool, moderately dry weather forwarded completion of oat harvest and field work, but checked growth of vegetation, especially corn, which Is backward; beans, late potatoes and buckwheat fairly promising; sugar beets making fine growth; plowing advancing rapidly aud rye seeding begun; apples fairly promising. Wisconsin—Corn two to four weeks behind average, and should frost occur liefore last of September little sound corn will be harvested; some oats In northern sections yet to be cut, elsewhere grain harvest completed and threshing under way: potatoes doing well; good crop anticipated; tobacco harvest begun; good crop; apples light crop, quality good; blackberries heavy crop. Minnesota—All grains rut In south but flax, which Is nearly ripe; three good days In south for stacking and some shock threshing, but much wheat, oats, and barley not dry enough to thresh; damp, cloudy, and cool weather In north has delayed ripening and harvesting of wheat and oats; corn needs warm weather to mature It before frost. lowa —Week unseasonably cold, cloudy, and moist; stacking and threshing retarded and some oats damaged In shock; corn has made some progress, but there Is urgent need of warm, dry weather for normal development of early and late planted fields; pasture* good; early apple* abundant; late potatoes snow Improvement. Nebraska —Cool, wet week, unfavorable for best growth of corn; early fields In roa*tlng-«ar stage, late fields need warmer weather; very llttte stacking and threshing done during week because of excessive rain; some Injury In shock reported from a number of southeastern counties; hay and pasture! excellent; fall plowing begun In sontk half; apple crop light. Kansas —Corn fine; early about made In south, late tassellng and silking; threshing, haying and plowing progressing In west, but stopped by rains In central and east portions; mnch damage to wheat and oats In stack and shock by dampness; grass flue; third crop of alfalfa fine and ready to cut; apples promising In south, poor In north.

Told ta a Pew Uom. The Transvaal’s output of gold for March eras 230,000 ounces. George Ayers and Tom Woodson, Bristol, Tenu., were frightfully injured while Masting coal. v G. 8. Bailey, Mountain Park, O. T., killed W. Brown. Quarreled over proposed removal of the town. A Chicago undertaker threatens to drive his hearse up to a debtor’s door every day until he receives his money for a cotfln furnished the man’s mother. A mob in Henderson, Texas, released a negro after preparing to lynch him. Judge promised that grand jury would take up the negro’s case at once. He U charged with criminal assault. Mrs. lL C. Bcott. Richmond, Va., while on a car near Cincinnati, was slightly wounded by a bullet which passed through a car window. She wan able to continue her journey. No clew. Mrs. Lassie West of San Francisco, Cal, failing to receive expected money from relative* in Denver, bought a coffin. Mid cremation fees, and drank chloroform. Physicians think she will live.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Made Almost Penniless by Series es Trades—Sermon at Fnneral Displeases Mother—Accused of Blackmailing Plffit-Blg Coal Deal at QraziL B. F. Zell, of Eugene, purchased the Collett farm of 701 acres last May for $42,000. He shortly afterward told rt to Lorenzo Platt, of Chicago, taking in part paymeut the Alabama Hotel of that city for $25,000. A few days ago a man offered to trade. Zell 5,000 acres of farm land in eastern Tennessee for the hotel. After the deal had been completed Zell went South to look at his farm, but when he got there he was surprised to find it covered with the town of Huntsville and that his deed was worthless. The hotel, however, had in the meantime been sold again and the owner ha* A clear title, Zell has been made alrnoat penniless.

Drive* Mother Pram Bier. During the funeral of Albert D. Selby at Richmond, his mother, Mrs. Mary Frame Selby, a well-known writer and thinker who believes there is no death, took offense at the remarks of the clergyman, Rev. Allan Jay, who referred to her son as dead. She left the room and caused a scene. Not believing in secret orders, she would not attend the services held by the Knights of Pythias or accompany the remains to Waynesville, Ohio, for interment because a committee of Masons was in charge. Suspect Trie* to End Life. Fred Hess, aged 24, son of a wealthy farmer of Whitley County, tried to escape arrest by shooting himself twice in the head before the officers could wrest the weapon from him. He is suspected of sending a letter to the Walter Lewis Carriage Company, of Goshen, demanding $3,000 under threat of blowing up the factory. Hess is likely to recover, but says he will try again. He is under bonds of SI,OOO at Columbia City, and $2,000 at Fort Wayne to answer to similar charges, Big Coal Deal Completed. The merchants and manufacturers in the Co-Operative Coal Company, most of the stockholders residing at Chicago, and the Andrews Coal Company disposed of their coal lands and mines in Clay County to the National Coal Company of Detroit, Mich. The Andrews company was the oldest coal company in Clay County. P. D. Andrews, now deceased, sank the first mine in the county on the ground where the First National Bauk in Brazil now stands. Mother Wield* Horsewhip. Mrs. Nellie Ashton created a sensation on the street at Branchville by horsewhipping W r illiam Carney upon the charge of insulting her daughter. Both families are wealthy find prominent and Carney was her prospective son-in-law. The whip used was a rawhide and the victim’s face is badly cut. Plung-a Beneath a Train. George W. Gouser, of Kokomo, former Deputy Secretary of State, committed suicide in Indianapolis by plunging beneath a train of Big Four cars. He first slashed his throat with a razor. Worry over financial embarrassments caused the act. Brief State Happenings Lafayette will hqve a labor day celebration Sept. 7. Mrs. Julius Luesig of Hammond was fatally burned in a lamp explosion. Newport wants some one to open a new addition of building lots, as there are more people who want lots than there are lots. William L. Wilson, Sr., a hardware merchant of Valparaiso, died, aged 88 year*. He served four years m county treasurer. Henry Jones, 10 year* old, Was frightfully burned by an explosion of gasoline at Frankfort. His mother was burned about the arms. William Uednion, aged 45, was shot and instantly killed by Alexander Humphrey at Terre Haute. They quarreled about a woman. Humphrey was arrested. City Marshal John H. Williams of Indianapolis shot and killed William Feldbuscli iu a duel on the river. The marshal had a warrant, issued on the complaint of Felubusch’s wife. Miss Maude Brown, a young woman of .Washington, 18 years old, was appointed a rural mail carrier. She is probably the first woman in the State to be named as a mail carrier. Dr. John White wHI succeed Dr. Noyes as the head of the department of chemistry at Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute. Dr. Noyes goes to the new Department of Commerce at Washington. West Hammond is apparently at the mercy of a murderous incendiary, who sets fires to buildings only where women and children live. Six buildings have been burned during the last few weeks in a mysterious manner. William, the 18-year-old atm of Attorney W. H. Pennington, assaulted his mother with an ax because she would not grant him permission to drive the family horse to a picnic. Mrs. Pennington is only •lightly injured, but the *on was arrested and put in jail. By the completion of the Dayton and Western traction line into Richmond Indianapolis and Dayton, Ohio, are joined by a continuous line which is one of the lofigfer* in the world. It not only links Ohio and Indiana, furnishing many important connection*, but it will be one part of the trunk line that will eventually connect St. Louis and New York, wRh branches that will touch Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and other important points. George Allen, 20 years old, an employe of an ice plant In Lafayette, had both legs cut off at~~the hip by a Monou passenger engine and died at the hospital soon after.

Clem Bolt, the Fort Wayne incendiary who started tight fire* in one night and had the people panic stricken a fed weeks ago, escaped from the Richmond asylum the other night. j C. C. McMorria’ drug store nt Hall was wrecked by dynamite. McMorria says he knows of no reason for such treatment He claims hie stock and buiMing wten damaged about f 1.090.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, The United States frigates Congress and Essex were ordered in commission for service against the bey of Algiers. The Connecticut Legislature offered a bounty of $lO on every ton of hemp raised in that State for three years, and fxempted from taxation the land op which It was raised. Inquiries were made at Washington by many wealthy European families regarding the permanency of the government there, the continued European wars making them desirous of emigrating. Uneaslnese waa felt for the White House wood supply, and an advertisement waa published in Washington that “any person who has from 50 to 400 cords of wood to dispose of, and will deliver it in the city of Washington, may hear of a purchaser by applying to John Qardiner, President’s rquare. The feller will be accommodated with a longtime delivery.” PEVENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO. Negotiations were begun by England and the United States for reopening commerce with the British West Indies. A coach pulled by two kites waa one of the attractions at the Ascot races in England, the King being present aa a spectator. The Inclined plane as a substitute for canal locks was tested on the Morris canal in New York, twenty minutes being required to overcome an elevation of eighty feet on a plane 1,000 feet long. FIFTY TEARS AGO. England and Spain began negotiations for the abolishment of slavery in Cuba. Secretary of the Treasury McClelland began an investigation of alleged frauds In the purchase of Indian supplies. Twenty thousand strikers at Stockport, England, resumed work on being granted a 10 per cent increase in wages. James Buchanan, newly appointed minister to England, and afterwards President, was given an ovation at New York on his sailing foF London. What was declared to be the hottest weather ever known in the United States was experienced in New York City, an average of 100 persona dying daily for nearly one week. FORTY YEARS AGO. All ice in the city of Philadelphia waa confiscated by the government for us# in the Union army hospitals. A panic was caused on the New York stock exchange by a rumor that President Lincoln had died suddenly. Jefferson Davis issued an appeal to rebel officers and soldiers to return to their commands at once, in thp “most dark hour of the South.” One hundred and twenty-three of Morgan’s captured rebel raiders were smarted from Cincinnati for the Pennsylvania penitentiary at Harrisburg. Confederate officials threatened retaliation because tha United States had sent them sick and wounded rebel soldiers ia exchange for sound Union prisoners. THIRTY YEARS AGO. Valencia was surrendered by Carlists to Spanish government troops. The Spanish insurgents at Cadiz surrendered to the government troops. Gen. Ben Butler defended the notoThreate were made at Washington to free Cuba unless Spain kept its promise and freed the slaves in Porto Rico, rioua congressional salary grab by declaring that it did not increase but “equalized” the pay of members who passed it. twenty Years ago. The Nil# overflowed and destroyed a large part of the Egyptian harvest. Proctor Knott was elected Governor as Kentucky by 45,000 estimated majority. Four of the Cork dynamiters were sentenced at Liverpool to penal servitude for life. Wall street was excited by a rumor that a New York bank had refused Jay Goold’a check in payment of a $3,000,000 loan. English physicians at Alexandria, Egypt, were mobbed by relatives of cholera victims, who attributed the epidemic then prevailing to the presence of “Christiana.”

TKJC TKAKS AGO. Congress met in special session to consider financial legislation. Ths Irish home rule bill was reported la the British commons. Nancy Hank* waa driven a half mil* la 1.02% by Budd Doble at Buffalo. Gladstone announced in the British commons that no adjournment would be possible until the Irish home rale bill woe pasted. —~ ~ A bill for the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law was introduced la the House of Representatives by Wilson sf West Virgin^. Got. Altgelaof Illinois wss urged by labor men to call a special session of the Legislature and provide employment for the thousands of idle men in the State. A congressional caucus to consider financial legislation was informed by the free silver Senators that unconditional repeal of the Sherman silver purchase act was impossible. President Cleveland sent a message to Congress in which ths financial distress of the country was blamed to the purchase of silver end lack of confidence, end urging the immediate repeal of the Iherman purchase law.