Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 37, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 May 1898 — Page 3

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The Monetary Problem.

THE QUESTION OF RATIO. .i'nn-nt .Uneed l William M. m, iirl fr Ihr ImMMUM l.arlli-r CvlMgt I. MM.

The quantity of gold compa-ed with :he a Will J used of tdlvcr to make u give amount of money ia culled the ratio between the two metal. This ratio it purely arbitrary ami depend entirely u-m the discretion of the law ..t. It is to le remembered that :,r .no-regale weight of the silver in ;( world is ubout Ij'i times greater than the aggregate weight of the goal in the world. This singular e-oiuc'denc ; ., led many to ipjx.se that tin- pn -railiuf ratios of the v arious uationsof ;.e civilized world are or.lained by nature. Winetallists do not base their in- . - nee that ti e mints of the IniUd Btatee ought to be open to the coinJ gold and silver at the ratio of j:teen to one upon any natural phenomena. They are in favor of sixteen Id oae because it is the establish d jatio now in existence under the laws (f this Mun!ry. and iijxm the faith of Icfc ratio the obligations of the gov- . riunent are predicated. The act of July 14, I-..'. under which every lxinl now outstanding has been i.ued, provides ll it the public debt incurred under (bat act shall be paid in coin of the vandard value of that date (July 14. i. A change of ratio would be in i. rogation of every contract now out--landing between the govt rnment and its creditors. No good reason con be given for a change which would require more silier to be put in the silver dollar than it i.i v. contains. The fact that there are tbOUl 4.' ItO.iKW.OOO of silier coin now duty as money at a ratio approxi ...ng fifteen and one-half to one nasi be duly considered. If the commercial value of silver bullion, which - w denied the rig!.: of mintage, is to )e the basis of a ratio, it would reonire all the silver coin in the world to ie reco.iied to eorresjsond w irh the new ratio, w hich would contract the world's money not less than ?-oo().Ou'V)'o. Sueh contra- t.on would lie of the same criminal character as the original detnone tat km of silver. It would rob the r for the bmefit of t he creditor. paraljM enterprise, and produce poverty and diatreaa. It i constantly rejected by the gold ti onom. lallists that the United States ne cannot maintain the parity between the two metal on the ratio of

tcen to one. and that, therefore, that ratio must be abandoned. The governit La nothing to do with parity r than to make equal laws. Parity between the different kinds of money in ireulatrou does not depend upon the ' t of the material of which they are i . It, but depends exclusively upon r relative function's. En ry full ll tender dollar will prrform the MM seriee. and is just as valuable as -y other full legal tender dollar iu lr i.lation. Nothing can make a difff r. nee in to value of full legal tender r.ey but a discrimination in favor of the coin of one metal and against the l oir, of t he ot her. If one k i nd of money ha Useful functions which another 1 of money docs not posess. Its ratal might, and almost certainly would, be greater than the money less favored by law. '!... - iceesrinn that tin silver dollar would be a .VMent dollar under free olnage at the ratio of sixteen to one nrl nates in falsehood and a desire to deti ivc. The I'niteel States has akd t iMiry notes from t '.me te time since ln and made them receivable for all public dues. Fvery one of tich notes, whieh was receivable for government . has at all times been at par with Qaia and government notes recefvubt for govern m nt dues never

parted company until a provision vp inserted in the legal tender repudi1 ng the jrreenbacks and refusing to receive them for duties on imports and interest on the pnbliedebt. Ther.- are nearly 500.nno.000 standard i r dolors, doing iluty as mwney on a par with gold, either in actual circulation or in eirvulntion by their representees, silver eertificntes. It js stated that this is because the amount of auch l.irs does not exceed 500.n00.ri00. Attention is called to what Secretary of I Treasury Sherman, the father of

the gold standard, said on this subject :n lh7'.": "The total amount of silver dollars eolrJ KoeeMbtff t. 17?. ur.ler the act of Feb'V a. 1871. was $tt.3iJfin. of whirh $13.Ö was in circulation, ar.d th- remain - Pr.3u3.ST., In the treasury at that time. Me effort has been snared to put this coin .r ulation. Owing to its limited colntfa K has hn kept at par: but its free a would soon reduce Its current value t Its bullion value, and rhu establish a tie silver standard." Finance Keport. , 14. The purchase anil coinage of silver bullion into standard dollars continued :. nt 14 years after this declaration of Secretary Sherman, and the amount l silver coin was increased more than tenfold without the slightest depreeia1'on in the purchasing power of the silr dollar. This statement of Secretary p 1 rman is cited localise it is one of the

sens la dermlnjc It most d-Mrat.l at th present Juncture tu maintain arid cor ilr.u in uüo (he mass of our Kld coin ma well as the mass of stiver already coined. This is possible by a present suspension of th purchase and coinage of sliver. 1 am not aware thai by any other nit (hod It la possible." The BtanaVAIlitaai act remained on the tat ute book, and the purchase und coinage of nlv i r continued under it for more t ?. i. ti live year-, when it w.; r pealed, and the so-called Sherman act which provided for the purchase and aae l : the iir(ose of money of not less than 4,5imi,imm ounces of silver bullion eaeh month was substituted t iure tor. The amount of silver coin was largely more than doubled after Mr. Cleveland declared that there was no iKjssible way of inaintainiiig tin parity of tllverwitf! gold except by suspending t lu purchase and coinage of silver. Predictions of all the leading goldites in he land to lie same effect might be cited. They told the people evry day while the United States w as purchasing and coining silver that the limit had been reached, anil that if any more siieer was anlned the value e.f the silver dollar wemld fall to the e urrent price of eilver bullion. The fact that they hae made thee false prediction for more than M years, and continue to make them, must ba attributed to their lust of falsehood or their desire todeceire. There i. another gro: sl absurd falsehood nrkleh goldites oonstantly peaaah and teach. This also appears in the Warner letter, which is saiel to have been the tirst fiaancial doevment ever written for Mr. (leveland to sign. Mr. ( ieieland argued in timt letter that the Bland net must be repealed, or gold would be withdrawn, the volume of money unprecedeiitediy contracted, and the waives oi labor sealed down by their payment in depreciated money. To avoid doing l.lm an injustie-c thf preiise language he used in preelieting the results of the refu-a! to repeal thf Bland act will bequoted. He sa d: "ilold would be withdrawn to its heardInj, places, and an unprecedented contraction in the actual volume of ouroirrency wouM speedily take place. Saddest of all, in every work?ho;. mill, factory, store, and on every rnttfead a:.l farm, the wacet of labor, already deprtssod, would suffer till further depression by a scalirg down of the purehasins; power Sf v r y su-called dollar paid into the tends of toil." This is a faar spt cimen of the argu

ments against tin- restoration of the coinage laws of the early elaya of the repobUe. The hallucination which vud induce a president of the I'nited

j States to believe that unprecedented

coi.tiaction. ereatinj.' dear money, and the robbery of the uion r. by t he cheap money in circulation, could occur at one and the same time accounts for many of the absurd vagaries of tiht advocates of so-called "sound money." Hut strange aa it may appear, this ahsunl paradox has been iterated and r iterated by the so-called economists of our colleges. Um linaneia! n.ount banks ef the commercial pr -. .i:-i tl e p. iti' ! ..-iire-bribt 1 politician! for Um ia-1 ijeaurs. These examples of the false preellctions ef the goldit s have been cited toehow how little reliance can be placed upon their arguments against the imlasltad inlnaga 01 silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, because the stock ariruinent they always ue. when ilriven to the wall ly the force of well-known fact, is that the coinage ratio must be changed to correspond with the commercial ratio of the two metals. They seem entirely oblivious to the fact that under equal coinage the commercial ratio followed the coinage ratio without material ariation for thousand of I ears previous to Is?.'!. hile the mints were .jen ne one would sell his silver bullion or his gold bullion for a less amount of money than it would produce at the mint. It was inifKissible for either silver or gold to decline iti price below the coinage value, because there mi au unlimited market for it at that price. Nor could the commercial price of either of the metals rise to any appreciable extent aixve the ceinage value, because in that case its excessive price wouid be pronibitory and the demand would fall on t he cheaper metal until tin- romnnrcial price of the two metals was equalized. The Rnodc ndopted by the goldites for the ori -irpose of restoring the parity between the two metals, hut with the real object of increasing the elisnarity and eb stroying silver as a money

metal, is one of the iuot vicious as wi-ll as the most transparent humbugs inented to fool the M -ople. The slightest riflee-tion will show that the nonuse of a commodity destroy the eleniand and reduc the price. Would the pt ice of w he:; t be ad v.i no d i f every lody should stop eaing wtheat bread? Vet the goldites say that the way to raise the price of silver to a parity with golel is the utter disuse of silver and the use of gold alone. The Cleveland-Harrison combination excuse the breach of trust of which they were guilty in refusing to pay out silver accoreling to law and the contract with

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the bondholders, by contending that such use of silver would tlestreiy the parity, and that the ouly way te ictore parity is to buy gold at any prie'e and twiv it to the government criiiitor,

e k arguments of tiie advocates of the i and keep silver in the vaults of the

y standard, which, like nil their I t rear ; . . '' hev cinim to have discov-

Ilt 1 apai PtSMdMI'S fclSCt Notes. CKMJMBM i i;x r.-iit snail raward every Sian BCCordlni to his wurk.-Mau 10.7 Till tlDCTION Includes ths three pans bles of judgment la this cliaptcr. '1 IIIK -tipokeii Tuesday Sftl riioon. Afrll i. A l 30 linrneaiair! .lur Ui last lion. 1'LACK The Mount of Olivet, where Jeaua stopped with His disciples ou hla way from Jerusalem to tetteny, UMKNI NOTlCsV I. The Parables of Judgment. This lesson is not a parable, but a picture und a prophecy, ll does not liken the kingdom of tjod to anything, but describe "the literal Son of Man, iu ilia literal person, at Ilia literal coming to a literal judgment," in that language-und picture form which cun most vividly and truly aipTQM to us tiut great real ity. II. The Seen 00 tbfl Daj of Judgment. Vs. 31-33. IL "When the Sou of Man." Jesus Himself, "shall come," refering to His gnat tinal coming "in ilia glory." Not iu a state of humiliation, as a man, poor, unknown, despised and rejected of men, crucified but iu His own true nature, divine, honored, uuil worshiped, the glorious King of kings and Lord of lords. "And all tha holy angels with him:" Instead of n few bumble followers. He will have a glorious retinue of the most noble and powerful and radiant beings in the universe, to be His atlcndatits, to execute Ilia will, to be His messengers with the speed of light. 32. "And before Him shall be gathered all nations:" The ptun is univalent to the whole human race. NeH only those who shall be alive at His coming, but all w ho have ever lived are embraced within the SOOpS of the Saviour's conception, ".shall separate them one from another:" Inte two, and only two we ll-eietir.ed classes. From the nature of things there win be only two -.; - All men either love tiod ;upn mcly. or they do not. They l.avu began the heavenly life, or they have not. There arc grades and degrees in each class, but there is a real ami wide distinction between the classes. 33. "And He shall set the sheep:1 Who represent the righteous, because the arc gentle, obedient, jieacefal, ready to follow their guide, affect ionate qualities whic h, vv lien shown by men toward Christ, w ill lead to righteousness "On His riaht hand:" The

place of honor. "Hut the goats:" Tlio goat la especially n repulsive animal, nnd so a tit lansg for wicked men; and in Hebrew there", is a simrle word which seems to designate the "geiat" and a "demon." III. The Judgment of the Tlighteons. Vs. 31-40. 34. "I'nto them on His rieht hand:" The sheep, the righteous. "Come:" )r:ivv near to your Uhler Brother to your PthT, to y our home, for here is the place for you. "Ye blessed of my Father" means exactly "My Father's blessed ones," denoting not simply that they have been blessed by Him. but that they are His. "Inherit:" Heeeive, not by pnreh or Tay labor, but by being e hildn n of (Jod. like (iod. and therefore heirs heirs of God. ami joint heirs w ith Jesus Christ. "The Kingdom:" The Kingdom of Heaven, in which saints reign over infinite forces and powers to make them minister to happiness and good. : M, "I was a hungered:" In the persons of His younger brethren. His earthly friends, who were His representatives. "Meat:" Food. "Took Me in:" To your hearts and homes. 17-M, "Lord, when saw we Thee a hungered," etc: The righteous stand amaed that the Son ef Man should BO overwhelm their trifling services with a glorious reward. Nay. they can hardly recollect any service at nil. 40. "Inasmuch as ye have done it untej one of the least of these My brethren," etc.: The bacorMt, the poorest, tha most despised of II is disciples, and those, with the least of His spirit and charncter. Moreover, "the least of these My brethren" Is not limited to t hrist:ans, but includes all whom we may help for His sake, as He has taught us in the parable of the food Samaritan. IV. The Judgment of the Wicked. Vs. 41-4Ü. 41. "Depart from Me. v cursed:" Those who are far fromOod In character are punished by being made tei live far from His home, his Heaven. His joy. His intimate friendship. "Into everlasting tire:" Fire that cannot be quenched or escaped. Not literal tire, for we cannot conceive of literal fire consuming a spirit, or a spiritual body even; but the words mean some punishment ns terrible to the soul as literal tire to the body. "Prepared for tb devil and Iiis an--l !:" The Kingdom was prepared for von. but the fire has been prepared for the devil nnd his aiiLTels. not for voir 4C. 41t. "For I was a hungered, and ye gaw Ma no meat." etc: n y sins of nvnlssloa are mentioned here; showing that the absence of good works, the

djeetitatioa Of love, or Ih dominion of selfishness, disqualifies man for blessedness, and is suflieicnt. even without positive crimes, to exclude him from lb aven. 44. IS. "W hen saw we Thee a hungered." etc.: Like the righteous, they were unconscious of the WfaBt of what hey had done. They bed looked at the outward good they had done, and not at its motives.

First Loss of Life Inflicted Upon Our Gallant Navy by the Spanish. UNDER THE GUNS OF A MASKED BATTERY.

c,nir contentions, is in cbrec. opposi tion to existing facts. Mr. rieveland. after his election and before his inauguration, on February 24. ;s5 addressed a letter to lion. A. ' V irner and others, then representatives, in e ongres. request ine; an immed at repeal of the Mead-Allison act ? 'oviding for the purchase of not les t(nn S7.ooo.ooo nor more than $4.000.000 ' 'th of silver bullion per month to be :ned into standard dollars. In that "t.er among other thintrs, he said:

f hv-e -hat

you corur irlrh me aM

ered that the unlimited use of gold and the nonuse ef siiver w ill make an equal demand for loth and maintain the parity. If they were Indicted as private parties would be for breach of trm-t in surrendering the option f thnir employers as the government's option was surrendered to the bondholders, would a jury nOfajH them on such an nbsurd pretext ? Hnn. William M. Stewart, le Silver Knight Watchman. IMnrf for I'nrtj lHtles.

Keep party politics out of the wax In

the treat maior.:y of our fallow citj-1 soe. -Huffalo Tims.

fi nmi matten. riio..se right, and Ged will helpyoti to do right. A covetous h. iri is like rharDoh' lean kine. it eh vonrs nil. Melancholy 4s Minded hope, hunting for her 4t r. happiness. Meditntin? n wickedness, is c.i.eway to fall in love with it. Charity doe not consist in calling error truth and truth error. Icnornnee of the teaching of the J.:b!e bss mad many men its eoemiea. The testimony of a geod conscience Is worth more than nM the flattery in the world. Item's Hora.

Att.icke.l m slo.rt Kung, the Wllislow . Itliialilea anil live of Her HUH Mnhatng Crew KIIIimI Uj a Shell Hanl Keeue hy llo tluilaou The killed autl M'ouuiIchI. Kiv West, Fla , May 13. America's

lrt dead fell Wedtvadaj In a tierce and bloody combat off l ardenas, ou the north e-oust ef Cuba. Five men were blown to pieces und tiw were wounded ou the torpedo boat Wiuslow. The dead are: Worth Ihnjlojr. ensign. John Vac ear , oiler. John Daniela and John MecU, both first-class tlremen. Josiah Tnnnell (colored), cabin oook. The wounded are: B, B. I ox. gunner inati'. 1) Mrlvi'im. quartermaster. i Patterson, Bremen. F Gray. Lieut. J. B Bamadon. The battle lasted 15 minutes. It was batWOOn the torpedo b..it Winslovv. the auxiliary tug Hudson, and the gunboat Wilmington on one side, and the 1 ardenas butteries und four Spanish vnnbontaon the other, The Wlnalow a the main target of the cuciuy and was put out of see via. The other dmerloah vessels were not damaged, except that tha Hudson's two ventilator, were .slightly scratched by living hrapnel. The enemy's loss is largely conjectural. One of their gunboat-, caught lire and the men of the Hudson think it .iiik. The llann-s spread to the barrack, and swept away several siuail warehouses auel for a time the whole water front seemed to be ablaze. The Hudson's crew also believe that two Spanish torn kbont destroy ere were disabled, but they admit that their estimate of the damage is largely guesswork, as the action w as too sharp for outside observations to be made. The Winslovv was within .'.äOO yards of the shore when the shells struck her. HOW ah eani" to be so nlOS v;i told by bf commander, I.icut. John Bernndon. Ha said: We w ere making observations when the enemy opened lire em us. The Wilmington ordered us to go in und attack the gunboats. We went in under full steam, and there s the result." He was on the Hudson when he said this, and with the tinal words he potatadtoa bnddl oi Anaeriwnn Bay 0 the deeb near by. I nder the Btnr and Stripes were outlined five rigid forms. The story of the Bfhfe, as told by the Hudson's men. is as follows: I The Winslow. the Hudson, the btaebine and tb Wilmington srer among the shis oif Cardanas on the blockade, the Wilmington acting as ihnrship. The htnchlne bay about 1 1 miles out. the Wilmington . 'I.. yards and th Winslow and Hudson, being small boats, were stationed close iu, ou w hat is called the inside line. At 8:45 o'clock yesterday morning

he Hudson, under ( apt. Newton, was

taking euillldl Bf iu Diana I 'ay pars und Poenere bnjr, just outside Cnrdenna, ao close to ahore, that she fronndnd, but floated oil' easily into the shallow vv ater. At half past 11 o'clock tb Wilming

ton sooke the Hills .ii ;illd the Will-

a slow and assigned them to duty, tb Winslow to start to the eastern shore

off Cardenas bay and the Hudson to

the western shore, while the Wiliuing ton took b0 station in imd-channel

This work occupied two hours. Noth

ing was discovered on either slum-

and the Is.nts were approaching

each other on their return when a pud

of smoke vvus observed oil shore at

( ardenas, and a shell whistled over

them. The Winslow was on the in

side, nearer the shore. The Hudson

and the Winslovv repute I to the Wil

mington and orders came promptly

to go in and open ire. but the Span

iards had not waited for a reply

to their first shot. The (ardenas

harlMir shore bad already become one

dense elondof sin ike. Shot with flashes

of lire, and an avalanche of shells was

bursting toward the tittle Winslovv

This w as '.'-or. o'clock, and for M min

utes the tiring continue 1 from tin

shore without cessation, but none of the shots had at t but time found their

mark, though they were striking dan

gerously near. Meanwhile the Hudson's two six pmndcrs were banging away at i

terrific rate. How manv of the tor

note boat's shots took effect is net

known. The tirst twooftb Hodaona

hells ''11 short, but after these two

ever one loaned straight into the

Bmoke-clooeled shore. The Spaniards

aim In the meantime was improving

and it was presently seen that tw

empty barks hud been anchored eff

sh ire as ratnres. It w as T. mtn ates

before three o'clock when a foui-incl

hell struck the Winslovv on tlie star

hoard beam, knock im.- OUl her forward

Ik r and sl a r board engine nnd ei ipp

Ing her steering gear, but no one was

Injured

bleut. ! i nd. oi was standing

wuteliinir the nattlewith calm inter

est auU direction bis men as coolly as

if th9 were at target practice. B the one pounder umidships st..d llus.n Hurley, the oiler, the twolirinu o ami tlie fOOk. Tb littls boat gasped and throbbed and rolled helplessly from side to side Lieut, licruadoti did not stop for an examiuution. He knew his boat was uncon troll able. Tbc lludaon was a short distance away still pounding away will her ftUBU. -she was liuiled uud asked to take the Winslovv in tow. It was u vital moment, (iuin roared from shore uud sea. Lieut. Scott, in charge of the Hudson s aft gun. sat on a box and smoked u cigarette us he directed the tire. t apt. Newton Mood near Lieut. Meek at the forward gun and watched

its workings with unmoved interest

Chief Kuirinecr Cutehin never missed

is bell. A group of sailors was mak

ing ready to heave a line to the Win-

slow, and Kusign ltugley and his four

men stood on the port side of the hitter

vessel waiting to receive. A vicious

fire vvus siuiriiiLr about them. The

Spaniards seemed to have found the

xuct range.

There was a momentary delay in

heaving the tow line and Ensign Lag-

ley suggested that the Hudson's men hurry.

Heave her," he called. Let her

come; its (retting pretty vv arm here. "

The Una vvas thrown uud grabbed

by the Winslow's men. (iriiny with

sweat and powder, they tugged at it

mil drew nearer foot by foot to the

Hudson.

Almost at the same instant another

four-inch shell shrieked t brougb the

smoke that burst direct 1 y under them.

l ive bodiS Went whirling tbroiigh t he

air. Two of th group were dead when

thev fell Boele Barley nnd Firemen

Daniel The young ensign was liter

ally disembow led and the entire lower

portion of the fireman's body was torn

away. 1 lie other t iircc died within a

few minutes.

A flying piece of shrapnel struck

Lieut. Bernndon la tb thigh end mit

au ugly gash, but he did not know it

then. With the explosion of the shell

the hawser parted ami the Winslow's

helm went hard to the star board, and with her steering gear smashed the torpedo boat tlouudcred in the water at the mercy of the ciiemy s tire, which

never relaxed.

The lire of the Americans was of the

usual persistent chaneter and the nerve of t he men w as marvelous, liven alter the W inslow's starboard engine and her steering gear were wrecked the little boat continued to pour shot

Into the Spaniards on shore until ehe was totally dianblod, THE DEAD OF THE WINSLOW. Kouialnt of the I allen llrroc 1 an I n-

ilerlaklnic I -a i hl Uh nimi I In Hoy

Went Ulteil hy Thousand. Kky W I.HT, Fla.. May lit. Tin: Win

slow's dead are now lying at an under

taking establishment. They were taken there in a rough wagon, still

covered by the Stars and Stripes. The

rude conveyance was followed by a

large crowd and all day long the doeirs

of the shop have been surrounded by

Large gather! nf.

Naval olUccrs, marines ami sailors

came there to look upon the faces of

their dead comrades. Some of the

bodies show tearful wounds.

Lnsign Itagley was literally torn to

pieces Ills l.oiiy will he cmlialiiied and shipped home.

Oiler Varvcs bed his throat cut open

by a sharp pie.. of the shell, which

apparently severed his windpipe ,is if

slashed with a razor.

Fireman Daniels hail his left shoul

der ripped up and the right side of his

head torn open.

The bodjf ot Tunncll.the colored cook,

shows no wounds.

Fireman Mccks was hurt in the groin. No orders for the disposition of the

bodies have yet been issued.

I MM.

Three Persons, and Perhap3 More, Perished in the FlamesBodies Burned to a Char.

THE LOSS WILL REACH HALF A MILLION.

rha Klre Orl-utt In Nit adilm Bro.'a Toy ami Klreaurka I'.atalillaliinenl, an lral lo Iii KaailhiK llarilware Cfe Nallunal Mall Paper t'o. and th llralnenl A AriuslroiiK Sxol silk l o. I'll 1 1. a i o I. I'll I a. May If, Three per aons are known to have lost their lives, and it is reared that others muy haw perished, in a tire which originated iu the wholesale tOV and bee WOT establishment of MoCaddea Broa, flf Market stre-et, aleuul IIa. m. The iMxliea of the three pel sous who were burned to death are s badly charred that even the sex can not lie learned. There were about UM persons employed in the? ,Mci adden store, and nearly all tnanage-l to make their escape before the flumes reached the upper floors. The three Inidics were found on the se-cunel fliMirof the burned structure )n account of the inllainBiabla nature of the contents, tlm big six-story structure was a muse ol flames in less than half uu hour. The tire spread quick ly to t be building OH th ciist occupied by the Leading Hardware GOV i and the big building on the west occupied by the National Wall Paper Ca, and tb Bralaord A Armstrong Spool Silk Ca The tire department sent in lour alarms, and in about one hour the fire was gotten under control. The Met 'adden bullelinjr was completely destroy, -.1. and the other two were badly damaged. Th eai Ire stoatc of th wall paper company and that of Krai nerd & Armstrong is rendered worthless by smoke and water. The dennefa to tha stock of the Heeding Hardware 'o. ia nominal, but the loss ou the building amounts to about 8.VI.O0O. The lire i supposed to have originated em tha second lloor of the MoCuddOB llroa. building. Th flame knnned jnlkly to th upper Soor cutting oir the escape of the employes in the Upper portion of the building iu less than five minutes. Ther' vvus a wild rush for tlie elevator und stairways, and it is thought that not mora than sis. persons at the outside, and p. islblyonlv the three whose hexlica have already bee recovered ',,Ht their lives. The total loss will reach a Unit 1600,000, well covered i lanurune.

GRAVITY OF ITALIAN RIOTS.

Uu .Mimt I hi !. He fore live Siniiheruf the Killed ml Wounded la . iti alasOi Homr, May 12. It will probably be sany dnys before ont is able fully to estimate th gravity Ol the- riots throughout Italy and the; number of killed and wounded. Tlie two auppressed papers, the Radical Secolo and the Bepublionn Italia del Popotoi of Milan, were undoubtedly chie!ly reaponsiblc for t he riots there'. Th latter journal has beim in th habit .for some years, of giving its subacribers Christmas gifts of revolvers and batch. ! s. t he latter inscribed in the M i lanes,- dialect with the miit.s ' Daili al tronco." vStr''te at tho trunk. ) The regular subscribers were mostly priests. It is. said to-night that all tho socialist editors throughout tue- eountry hnee been or will be arrested and detained until order is restored. Evidence accumulates that railway men were chiefly responsible for tho risineja. Th order calling them under ii rms, is expected to have a good deterronl effeet.

A SUSPICIOUS APPEARANCE. yeteansm Murder of an Agni .triimr -The WafSrS Htory A Warrant fur Her Arrrnl.

American Hur Ship II. on hard I n k tha

Capital of I'orto Kleo. liOMiov. May bl The livening News

Of this city yeaterdny published a dis

patch from New York eeyiag a cable

message received from 1'ort-au I'riiice,

Hay ti, says that the American war

ships are bombarding San Juan do

I'orto UO0 ami adds that t he fortiti. i-

tions of that place are rapidly crum

bling under the lire of the American fleet.

SET A TRAP FOR OUR FLEET. Whan tha Trigger was Sprung They llal I aught a Tartar lanntg to the Knanijr.

Kliv Vksi-. Kla. . May 1.1.- It is now known that the American boats made furious havoc with Cardenas harbor and town. The captain of the Hudson said; "I know wc ilest royed a large purt of their town near the wharves, burned oncof their gunboats and I think lest roy cd t w o ot her torpedo destroyers. Wc were in a vortex of shot, shell uud sun kc and could not tell accurate-iy, (.tit we saw one of the boats on lire und sinking soon ufter the action ..'im. Then a large building Mar the nbnrf, i think tha '.arracks. tOOb liie. and many Othf iiuildings were soon burning. The fjpnnish harl masked batteries on nil ikataof an, hidden in bnalti and beiliind houses. They sei a trap for us. s s.miii us we got witliir t-:ige of l heir butteries they would move inein. 1 thinr then guns were held pieces, our targe bo its could not get into the I..... iw.tn na nn ueeiinnlof LhA

liallow water."

Milan. M. . May lt. H V. I. Laaaa flen, a fnraM w, sued aboat ", living (j tailcs southeast of Milan, was beaten, to death with a lti-poiind east iron post maul. His wife, who is about M years of age. was t be tirst to give t lie alarm, and her story is that aliout midnight She discovered eight men in the hoiiso ami t bat they dealt the death-blows. Neighbors this morning made diligent search for footprints about the premises and could H ml none. A warrant has been issued for the urrest ef fie wife. THE WINDWARD ARRIVES.

I'vary' Polar Kiprilltloii steamer Arrives at "W York Aftrr a I'rotraf tetl Vojag,-.

Si vv Yoiifc. Muy 1 The steamer vflndward from London. Miireb 1 ll, was sight id off the High binds at ititt a. in. The Windward in the vessel that carried the Jmkson-Iliinns-vvorth expedition on its voyage t the polar region. The ste-atner WfJ eently prenented by Mr. HaraMWorth to dent K K. I'eary. The passage fr.cn liondon has been so n!ow that thcr. had been some anxiety felt for her safety.

WOOL STOREHOUSE BURNED. Ill leeeenl 4tanehs BsHetaai i nunied Vrtlimldr ( ontPiitH lle.l roynl or D iniaKfil "l bv III Ani.ovku. Maas,! May 1- -A large three-story stone building id llalliirdvhIc, used as a wool storehouse by Jaunib.vn Leteyoy, of It.ston was burned ibortly after noon yesterday, together with ii number of nonnesting bulldinga. Th.- bnildlngi oontained wool re I at i.. t ween ::.VI,000 and .'KMI.OOft M0l Of t be stock wus destroyed or Ladly ilauiuged, loss nearly JU KI,')').