Ligonier Banner., Volume 28, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 January 1894 — Page 2

@he Tigoniey Bann 1e igoniey Banner, LIGONIER. : : TNDIANA 0 T P ST A BB MIR R L ISN ST BMYTe Ao s TaEe khedive of Egypt has presented the national museum iln Washington with seven mummies, all covered with the queer inscriptions such as the ancient' Egyptians were wont to use to convey their ideas.

. Ex‘SENATOR EDMUNDS practices before the United States courts, chiefly the supreme court, utilizing in this way perhaps six months in the year. For the benefit' of his daughter’s health he spends a large part of each winter in Florida. ) Se L

A CALIFORNTA man’ has invented a mast and sail rig for his safety, bicycle which he. now uses in all his riding. His mast is ten feet high and the boom eight feet long. With good handling the inventor says a speed of twenty to thirty miles an hour can be obtained.

TaE official record of the New York state senate says that it is composed of fourteen lawyers, four merchants, three real estate dealers, a florist, a contractor, a doctor, a banker, a builder, a salesman, a clerk, &n accountant, an editor- and one gentleman— Senator Donaldson, of Saratoga countyv.

IrriNois has been hard -put to it. for local names, and congruity has been amusingly disregarded. Joppa is in Massac county. Antioch in Lake; Alhambra in Madison, Andalusia in Rock Island, Eden in [Peoria, Bolivia in Christian, Golconda in Pope, Medind in Stark, Palermo in Edgar and Zuly'ip Warren. ) oo ) :

* GEX. JUBAL A. EARLY, it is said, has at length severed his ofticial conneetion with the Louisiana Lottery Co., after serving it, by the use of his name and his supervision of the ‘“‘drawings,” for sixteen yvears. He is now nearly eighty years old, and lives at his old home in Lynchburg, Va. The lottery has been driven.out of the country. -

AccorpiNG to the state board of health of Michigan, the -statistics of sickness have demonstrated the law that generally influenza (la grippe) is quantitatively related to the atmospheric ozone—the more ozone, -the more influenza, and the law that remittent fever is inversely related—the more gzone, the less remittent fever.

EIIGHTEEN hundred horses. are about to join the unemployed in Providence, R. 1., by reason of a.change in motive power by the Union Railroad Co., of that city. Eighteen times eighteen handred scarcely represents the army of horses that have ceased to pound the hard pavements of American cities since electricity came into general use ‘as street car motive power. Lo

PENNSYLVANIA is one of the chief industrial states of the union, and an official report’ of strikes for 1892 show that there were twenty-six strikes in that state, of which dthree were successful, four succeeded in part and nineteen totally failed to accomplish their object: The -number of persons directly engaged was 4,585, while the number involved was 7,414, e

O~NE of the best traits in Pros. Tyndall’s character is little known. He was one of the most charitable men in the world. So far as his rather small means allowed he never let a case of distress go unrelieved in-whatever station in life; but he had a horror of appearing in subscription lists. As he accompanied every gift with the anxicus message, ‘“Don’t say who it is,” his generosity always passed unacknowledged.

. AMONG the proposed novel exhibits at the -coming Midwinter falr in San’ Francisco is a mammoth scales of justice, - designed by Edward M. Greene. The figure of justice is 150 feet high and the cross beam of the scales she holds in ‘her hand is 300 fect long. Each scale is a car capable of holding fifty people, who may be carried to a height of 288 feet. The whole arrangement is to be manipulated by machinery placed beneath the base of the statue. ) .

AT an Abilene (Kan.) social gathering, the other day, the time-honored custom of allowing the men to desert the parlor for a smoking room and a cigar after lunch was reversed. 'The men received no such invitatien from the host but the ladies of the party one by one disappeared until the gentlemen were alone in the .parlor wondering what <was uppand how on earth to pass the time. It'was soon announced that the ladies had gone up-stairs to chew gum and talk over the fashions and would be down in an hour or so. _

Miss CHARLOTTE W. HAWES, of Bos-

" ton, is making an effort to have the ® church bells of that city rung in the interests of the musical education of the people. ° Perhaps the most famous charm is that in the tower of Christ church, Salem street, which was presented te the church by the citizens of " London in 1744. These bells were formerly rung in the old English . fashion, " and when Gen. Lafayette visited Boston in 1824 the city authorities had the bells putiin order, and they rang out a musical welcome to the great Frenchmeat. " ¥l

- JIN discussing the economic aspect of - preventable diseases it has been shown by Prof. V. C.. Vaughan, of New York, thatthis country suffers from typhoid . fever alone every year a loss of not less than §64;000,000, while the loss of life anntally amounts to not less than 50,000 and the number of sufferers from the malady to 500,000. lln addition there is the drug. nursing, doctor and undertaker bill to be paid. Where there is a pure water supply there can be no typhoid fever. This is a fact that has been demonstrated over and over again. An impure water supply is one of the most extravagant of wastes. . TuE newly-elected president of the Swiss republiec is an old union soldier boy. His nameis Emil Frei He was g young man when he first came to America to study American institutions, after being liberally”educated at Basle and Jena. When the war brolke out he was on an Illinois farm and at - once became a private soldier in an Illinois regiment. His military education in Europe then became valuable to him, for at once he was made a sergeant, then a second lieutenant and finally a first lieutenant. In 1862 he resigned his commission, went back to llinois and recruited a company.

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FROM WASHINGTON.

JoserH DoNJoN, who has been writing threatening letters to prominent public men, was arrested in Washington. ’ ) )

Ix the United States the visible supply of grain on the 26th was: Wheat, 79,866,000 bushels; corn, 6,932,000 bushels; oats, 5,811,000 bushels; rye, 609,000 bushels; barley, 2,511,000 bushels. IT was shown by a statement prepared at the post office department that during the last fiscal year the total number of pieces of mail handled in the country was 5,021,841,076,0 f which 2,401,810,175 were letters. o

~ 'THE new rules adopted for the army provide for the giving of commands with a whistle. V “ It was said that American Minister Thempson had recognized the Brazilian insurgents as belligerents. THE senate committee on foreign relations began its investigations into the Hawaiian imbroglio. » : '~ Tue death was announced of George W. Savage, United States consul at Dundee, Scotland. - Ix the year 1893 the mileage of new railway-track id the United States was 2,630, being less than for any year since 1878.

Tue annuai report of the supervising architect of the treasury for the year ended September 30. last shows that during the year the expenditure for the erection of ' mew. ‘federal buildings amounted to $4,126.159. i L

“It was said that the commissioner of patents proposed malking public the names of rights that have lived their Seventesi years., . . L

DISTRIBUTION of American warships in foreign waters is said to be to encourage respect for the United States.

' THE EAST. . JBexgayin T. Biees, ex-governor of Delaware, died at - Middletown. He ser_ved_ two terms in congress from 1868 to 1871. - ‘ ArLBERT HAaGeER & Co., importers of laces in New York, failed for $150,000. AN appeal was made by the mayor of Philadelphia for aid for 50,000 unemployed workmen in ‘that city. THE death of Mrs. Ann Stimson occurred at Hancock, N. Y., at the age of 106 vears. _ T ‘ At Danville, Pa., the Mahoning Rolling Mill company went into the hands of receivers with liabilities of $340,000. " TrOMAS C. PLATT was made receiver of the New York & New England railroad. - . ‘ HENRY AND JOSEPH MAXNLY and George Cronk died at Plattsburg, N. Y., from privation§ experienced in trying. to walk on the ice from Saranac Lake to Tupper Lalce. FlrEs in New York destroyed property worth £475,000 and cost the life of August Miller, a fireman. - o In Philadelphia Samuel Hellner, a dealer in anthracite coal, failed for §500,000. o Five stations were:robbed by burglarson the line of the'Pennsylvania’s New York division, money and tickets being taken. NEAR South Hampton, N. Y., a whale 75 feet in length was kjlled. THE new Moulton block at Providence, R. I, was burned, the loss being $200,000. One man perished. AT Trenton, N. J., the United States Cordage company was organized with a capital of $34,000,000. ' FirTY-sEVEN men indicted by the New York grand jury for election frauds were arrested. : _ AX offer was made by Andrew Carnegie to assist the needy in Pittsburgh, Pa., by giving $5,000 a working day for two months. " )

AT a foreclosure 'sale J. Pierpont Morgan, representing the New York Central, bought the New York & Northern railroad for $4,000,000.

WEST AND SOUTH.

EignrT men held up a-train on the Union Pacific at Seminole, I. T., and the mail and express car and the passéngers were robbed of all their valuables. ’ . ; )

TaE policemen of Ironwood, Mich., arrested for stealing goods sent to destitute miners, were convicted. : . JouN A. NicHOLLS died at Blackshear, Ga. He represented the First Georgia district in the Forty-sixth and Fortyseventh congresses. . : A THIEF at Marshall, Tex., knocked down the express messenger and stole £€B,ooo. o ) %

Gov. WAITE issued a call convening the Colorado legislature in extraordinary session January 10. i :

CiNcINNATI was flooded with aluminum dimes of the date of 1893. This was the first counterfeit ever made of aluminum . | o

AT Sioux City, Ta., Farmer Pira, who killed two confidence men, was wildly cheered upon acquittal. SEVERAL printing and engraving firms at -SBan Francisco, Cal.,, were burned out with a loss of $350,000. -

C. H. ANDREWS, a millionaire railroad, coal and iron operator, died at Youngstown, 0., aged 69 years. THE doors of the Bank of Greensburg, Kan., were closed, with liabilities of $68,000. . SILVER was discovered near the town of Shafter, Tex., in.a district which contains several abandoned miues which were worked a century or more ago by the Spaniards. : : IN Milwaukee Rich & Silber, one of the leading dry goods firms, and the A. W. Rich Shoe company failed, the total liabilities being $331,000. Urox application of the trustees for the bondholders three receivers were appointed for the Santa Fe railroad. The liabilities are said to be $240,000,000. SLOAN ALLEN, a regro, was hanged and burned by a mob near Wests, Miss., for the:murder of Ben Nabors, his employer. : . A moßlynched Calvin Thomas, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Sellers at Bain: bridge, Ga. ' TrACY ¥. AND OsCAR BINGHAM, sons of Biskop Bingham, and John AshJander were drowned while skating on a creek at Riverdale, Utah. Tue first womsdan in Indiana to take advantage of a décision of the supreme court permitting women to practice law is Miss Stella Colby, of Crown Point. : ; {IN Cincinnati the Banner Brewing company went into the hands of receivers'with liabilities of $275,000. _THE death of Almon Root, in his 100th year, occurred at Whitewater, Minn. ; = L Assia=2ES were named for six Milwaukee concerns, with total liabilities 0f5,499§000. fow Sl G TEMPERANCE workers in Indiana propose to begin a crusade to forcesaloons ot of residence sections. ng

IN Chicago a million dollars is needed by the Central Relief association and agents will endeayor to secure it by subsecription. i AN injunction was issued by Fudee Jenkins, of Milwaukee, restra.inirfg the employes of the Missouri Pacific railway from ‘‘combining and conspiring to quit the service of the road.” Itis. the first order of its kind, it is said, ever issued in the United States. " 1N Louisville P. 8. Schwartz, a crank, tried to kill Mayor Henry S. Tyler but was disarmed before he could use his weapon. : | ; et FIRE destroyed all but a schoolhouse and one dwelling at Gaylorsville, 0., and homeless villagers were being cared for. : i v ToLEDO capitalists were projecting a system of electric; roads to connect the cities and towns.in northwestern Ohio. o WARRANTS were to be secured for the arrest of Pugilists Corbett and Mitchell to test the Florida law. - Zuummm;\*, the bicyelist, won prizes valued at §20,000 durihAg the year Johnston’s winnings were $13,000. Tue richest colorgd man in the south, Thomy Lafon, died in New Orleans, He left property valued at $500,000. Brcause she'asked him to stop drinking liguor William Beyers fatally shot his mother at her home in Booneville, Ind. RS

" MEL BALDWIN shot his mother-in-law, Mrs.. William Vants, and then killed himself at Linnox, S. D. :

Pae San Francisco Bridge company failed f0r*%238,000. j

IN Chicago a deficit of nearly $3.000,060 was reported in the city finances. THE Louisiana State Lottery Company after a residemce of twenty-five years has bought an island at Honduras and will operate a second Monte Carlo,

Ix one day ten eloping couples from ‘as many points in Kentucky arrived in Jeffersonville, Ind., and were married. Tue governor of Kansas has removed Mrs. Mary E. Lease from the presidency of the state board of charities. JAMES J. CorßerT and Charles Mitchell were arrested at Jacksonville, Fla., to test the law in the state in reference to glove contests. Tue doors of the Cass county bank of Atlantie, la., were closed. : FLAMES swept away an entire block of buildings in Hillsboro, Tex., the loss being $275,000. . IN her home at Duncan, Ky., Mrs. Thomas Ransdall was: burned to death with her three children. = ¢

In Indianapolis cheers greeted the verdict of the jury which found Anna Wagner not guilty of poisoning the Koesters. ' “ . MACK SEGARS (colored) . was lynched by a mob at Brantley, .Ala., for an ate tempted assault upon a young lady. Firr wiped out the village of Lawrenceville, IIL . ‘A SOLDIER’S pension cannot be at~ tached for debt, says the attorney general of {ansas. R

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

THERE was no truth in the report that the city of Rio Janeiro had fallen and that I’resident Peixoto had resigned in favor of Admiral Mello. A LADY has left 100,000 francs to the Institute of France in Paris as a pri‘zé to the first person who, within ten years, communicates with a celestial bodv and receives an answer.

WaILE boating on the riveratliama, N. S. W., a pleasure party was carried out to sea and wrecked in the surf and seven persons were drowned. ci . I~ France the wine crop this year.is estimated -at 1,225,000,000 gallons, against 650,000,000 gallons last year. Its value is §250,000,000. ' :

IN British trade a heavy decrease is shown by the yearly review of .a London paper. Imports fell off £17,500,000. BRAZILIAN authorities = imprisoned Capt. John Andrews and three of the crew of an American schooner. :

Tae Matabeles killed Capt. Wilson and forty men, who were pursuing King Lobengula in South Africa.

Dr. PAssAU and Dr. Kohn, lawyers, and Herr Pick, a bank clerk, fell over a precipice mear Vienna, Austria, and were instantly killed. : MiNers named Faulkner, Lois, Savage and Tuttle were drowned in the Symonds-Kaye gold mine near Halifax, N. S. Sl

LATER NEWS.

CI,ASSIFED returns show that in 1893 there were'in the United States 3,226 manufaciuving fuilures, with liabilities of ¥164,707,449; 10,683 failures in legitimate trade, with liabilities of $35,527,896, and 392 other failures, including brokers and speculators with liabilities of 36,662,735, s

> DURING a heavy fog at Amsterdam, Hoiland; twenty persons fell into ‘the river and were drowned. Tae total duties collected at the New York custom house for 1893 amounted to $115,371,728.69 ecn merchandise valued at $218,350,234. /In 1892 the total from duties was $128,744,125.27 on merchan-. dise valued.at $247,556,846. -

FamLures and suspensions of all kinds in Louisville, Ky., for the year 1893 aggregate 140, resulting in actual liabilities of $4,027,353.54.

At Broadway, Va., a negro named Edward Williams was publicly given 100 lashed.

CHARLES BANEKS (coldred). was executed at Warrensburg, Mo., for the murder of Isaac Palmer, another negro, on August 29, 1892. lowa is overrun with tramps, who resort to force if a pitiful story does not bring food and shelter. L :

GEORGE A. BUCKLEY, laf§ crank, attempted to kill Gov. Renfrow, of Oklahoma, because he was not given an official position. 5

THE exports from Havana to the United States during the year 1893 were: Tobaceo, 142,413 bales; cigars, 63,539,000; cigarettes, 6,390,000 bundles, and sugar, 106,517 tons. ’ ;

PaTrRICK LUGENE PRENDERGAST was found guilty in Chicago of the murder of Carter Hurrison and the penalty was fixed at hanging. . .- Lol j Rr. HonN, WirLriam Ewarr GLADSTONE, prime minister of England. celebrated his 84th birthday. The oceasion found him in the best of health and spirits. e 4 During the. absence of their grandmother Lena West and Landon Bailey were burned to death at Sedalia, Mo.

R. G. Dux's weekly review of trade says: ‘‘Starting with the lafgest trade ever known, mills crowded with work and all business stimulated by high Hopes, tne year 1893 has proved, in sudden shrinkage of trade, in commercial disasters and depregsion of industries, the worst . for fifty years. 'The year closes with the prices of many products the lowest ever known, with millions of workers seeking in vain for work. and with charity laboring to keep back suffering and starvation in our cities.” e .

ROUSED HIS IRE.

Prendergast Cut to the Quick by a Lawyer's Words. :

Attorney Trude’s Denunciation of Carter Harrison’s Murderer Brings Him . ; to His KFeet with Wild and Emphatie Denials. : . = R e g .

DRAMATIC SCENES IN COURT.

CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Thursday was the last day of argument in the Prendergast case. Mr. Trude for the prosecution had not coinpleted when court adjourned. g , Prendergast trembled, fretted and then turned livid with rage while A, 8. Trude dénounced him before the jury. Th¢ crowds that packed the courtroom witnessed a remarkable dramatic scene. Again and again the man who shot Mayor Harrison shouted defiance to the attorney, and when the court adjourned at 5 Q'clock Attorney Wade said, despairingly: ‘““Prendergast has done more to-day to hang himself than all the witnesses and attorneys put together.” - H e

Mr. Trude had been confining himself to the law for some time, but at 4 o’clock he began a description of Mayor Harrison’s last acts. = With the pistol used by the murderer in his hands he was describing the manner in which Prendergast went to ‘the Harrison residence, and, animated by malice, fired the two shots, Prendergast k;’ept moving nervously in his chair until, when Mr. Trude was telling how the mayor fell to the floor a smile passed over his face. Mr. Trude. quick to catch the efféct. of this unseemly mirth, said, still pointing to where he sat: “These are the statements which are made to you about this man, whose face now wears a smile of derision and contempt—" " ‘ - Prendergast could bear the stinging remarks no longer. He sprang from his ‘seat, his face livid with rage, his eyes blazing, and lifting his left hand as high as he could he shouted: I was not animated by malice! I swear before high heaven that I was not animated by malice. If lam hanged you will be my murderer!” =~

The juryméa-and every person in the courtroom started. Two.bailiffs pulled the prisoner back into his chair. But the sudden btuirst of passion had exhausted him. He sunk down and in a few moments was as pale as the wall by which he sat. He trembled and put his hands over his eyes, completely ex‘hausted. In a few moments Mr. Trude again attacked the prisoner, stating to the jury that Prendergast was acting when a little while before he made the outery. : : - “I’d do the same thing over again,” said Prendergast. iR “#But, Mr. Prendergast,” continued the attorney, addressing the prisoner, “while you were in jail you didn’t say that to the doctors.” :

‘““Yes; but ask Dr. Spray——" retorted the prisoner. He was interrupted by the judge, who ordered him to remain quiet. iy |

-~ Mr. Trude, continuing, described the scene in the county jail when the funeral of the mayor passed up Dearborn street and said: ‘‘The other prisoners, deprived of #their liberty, but with still a sense of justice in their breasts, yelled: ‘Hang Prendergast!’”

~ “They were friends of Harrison whom he had pardoned out of the bridewell,” interpolated ‘Prendergast. A few moments later he shouted at Trude: “You're. a coward! You ought to be hanged!” o ?

- When Mr. Trude returned to the scene of the murder he described how Prendergast, when interrupted by the coachman, pointed the pistol at the latter. =

“It’s a lie,” said the prisoner. “1 never pointed the pistol at any man except Harrison.” : Said Mr. Trude: ‘Ah, see, gentlemen, how well heremembers now what took place then. The law says no insane man can do that. If I live under an . insane delusion whatever takes place is never known, gentlemen of the Jjury.” And, turning to the counsel for the defense, Mr. Krude said: ‘‘Show me

an ‘authority'and 1 will read it to the jury, wherever a man committed an act of murder.” : ;

Prendergast again interrupted with a snarl, as he said: “Prove malice if you can.” : ; ““Under the influence of his delusion show me an authority where any man was ever able to tell a word that he said or a thing that he did, and I will read it to the jury.” : Since the opening of this famous murder case there have not been enacted such scenes as marked Thursday’s proceedings. Prendergast had given up his habit of- interrupting counsel and witnesses ‘and for a week had sat without a murmur of objection. This, however, was too much for him, and he broke in with the interruptions which it was evident impressed the prisoner’s lawyers as being to his decided disadvantage. : i

For Robbing a Widows’ Horme.

CINCINNATI, Dee. 80.—Sensational reports have come from the grand jury this week over the investigation of the loss of £63,438 from the treasury of the Widows’ home. The grand jury has not yet reported, but it is given out on good authority that J. D. Mac Neal, W. B. Burnett, Powell Crosley, F. J. Mitehell, W. A. Thompson and George M. Leighton have been indicted as principals and accessories for obtaining money under false pretenses. i - Perished in the Flames. . HARRODSBURG, Ky., Dec. 30.—Thomas Ransdall, a well-to-do farmer living near here, awoke to find his house in flames. He jumped out of bed, carrying his baby with him. at the same time calling to his wife to wake their three children, who were sleeping upstairs. Mrs. Ransdall went to follow his instructions, but the house: collapsed, and she and the three children perished. 'The house and contents were a total loss. They were valued at about $3,000. The father is frantic with grief and is now almost a raving maniac. e '

Three to H't;ng on the Same Day. Paris, Teg., Dee. 30.—1 n the federal court Judge Bryant sentenced Manning Davis, a white man; Edward Gonzales, a Mexican, and Jim Upkins, a negro, to be hanged on Friday, March 30, 1894. Davis and Gonzales were convicted of murder and Upkins of assaulting a wonran. ; ' Drowned in a Nova Scotia Mine. Harirax, Nova Scotia, Dee. 80. — Four miners named Faulkner, Lois, Savage and Tuettle were drowned in the Symonds-Kaye gold mine, 10 milcs,‘ from Halifax. A blast broke down the wall of the mine and let in the figm ~’

WORST FOR OVER FIETY YEARS-

The Dismal Record of 1893 in the Con- ’ mercial World. ;

NEw Yomrg, Jan. .—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: ‘ " Starting with the largest trade ever known, mills crowded with work, and all businéss stim- | ‘ulated by high hopes, the. year 1893 has proved, ‘ in sudden shrinkage of trade, in commercial ‘ .disasters and depression of .industries, the worst for fifty years. Whether the final re- § sults of the panic of 1837 were relatively more -severe the scanty records of that time ‘ do not clearly show. -The year closes with ' prices of many products the lowest ever known, with miliions of workers Ixs‘éel«:ing in | vain for work, and with charity laboring to keep back suffering and starvation/in all our cities. _All hope the new year may bring brighter days. but the dying year leaves only« a dismal record. The review of different : departments .of trade given exhibits a. collapse of industry and business which is ' almost without precedent.. The iron indusgl : gusizined a weekly production«of 181,551 tons | nig May .1, but by October 1 the output had fall. ‘en to 73.895 tons, and the recovery to about 100, - | 000 December 1 still leaves 40 per cent. of the force unemployed, °"Over half the woolen man.ufacture is idle, and, excepting, a brief recovery in November, has been ever ' gince new wool 'in May, for all sales at the three chief markets in the eight months have ' been puv 106,705,460 pounds, partly for specu- ' la.tioni. the price having fallen 20 per cent for | fleece’ to the lowest point ever known, against | 212,330,003 pounds in the same month last year. | Sales of cotton goods are fully a quarter below ' the usual quantity. . » |

Thle small advance attempted in boots and | sho?s a year ago was not sustained, but with | prices as low as ever the shipments of boots and ghoes from Boston are 24 per cent, less than last year in Decembter, and though ~i,nl November the decrease was but 10.8 per cent. | it has been ‘22 per cent. for the last four! months. Not only manufactured goods as 'a.! whole, but the most important farm products | are so low that producers find little comfort. Official and other reports give the notion that : the crops of last year were so short that famine prices could be’realized on purchases. Enor- ! mous stocks were bought and held with the aid | of banks till heavy receiptsin thespring caused ! a collapse of wheat, porkand cotton pools. Dis- : astrous failures helped to produce the alarm, which soon made money impossible to get, but even at the worst hour of the panic prices were | scarcely lower than they are now. ; Monetary anxieties appeared to cause the panic and became epidemic when doubts were raised in April about redemption of treasury | notes in silver. - Western banks had given reason for distrust by c¢onnection with real estate, produce and stock ventures. Deposits in national banks alone decreased in five months mnearly §300,000,000. Purchases_ for cons imption shrunk 'so much, so many hands were out of swork or earning reduced wages, and business of all kinds was 80 reduced that the circulation of idle money became. the greatest ever known, €xceeding §200,000,000 in New York. The transaction through all clearing houses outside New York in January were 125 per cent. larger than last year and 6.5 larger than the first quarter, slightly larger in the second quarter, 3.7 per cent. smaller in the third quarter and 22 per cent. smalier in the last quarter, Clear evidence of the shrinkage in different branches 'of business is afforded by answers already received to several thousand circulars requesting figures of sales during the last baif of 1893 and 1832. Returns of textile goods show sales amouning to §543,843,875 this year, against §70,347,882 last year, a decrease of 37 per cent. ‘lron -returns thus far aggregate §£40,858,18), agaiust §65,320,921 last year, a decrease of 38 per ‘cent.; reports thus far of jewelry show a decrease of 29 per cent.: of furniture, 26 per cent.; of dry goods, 20 per cent.; of hats, 19.5 per cent.; ot hardware, 19 per cent. ; of shoe manufacturers, 18 per cent; and by dealers, 8 per cent., and of clothing, 10 per cent. o ; It is curious that the only trade showing an increase is in groceries, the.aggregate sales being 1 per cent. larger than in the last half of 1892. In thirty-seven ‘years covered by the records of this agency the number of failures has only once risen a little above 16,650 in a year, ' fn 1893 the number reported has been 16,63).. The aggregate of the liabilities in all failures reported has in six years risen above $§200,000.000 and this year the strictly commercial liabilities alone have .exceeded $331,422,939, the liabilities of banking and financial institutions have been §210,956,864, and the liabilities of railroads placed in the hands of recéivers about §1,212,217,898. : As all reports hitherto have been to some extent erroneocus through inclusion of failures not strictly commercial, the classified returns stow 3,226 manufacturing failures, with liabilities of $164,707,449: 10,683 failures in legitimate trade, with liabilities of 85,527,806, and 302 o ther failures, including brokers and speculators, with liabilities of §36,662,735. The average’ of liabilities in manufacturing is - §50.000; in legitimate trading, §B,OOO, and other failures, $ll,OOO. : e

NOT AFRAID OF THE COURTS.

‘Grand Master Sargent Says He 1s Willing 5 to Be Made a Victim.

TerRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan., I.—Grand Master Sargent and Secretary Arnold of the Brotherhood of Firemen were served on Friday with notices of the temporary injunction granted‘by the United States court at Milwaukee against ordering and sahctionine a strike on the Northern Pacific road. Mr. Sargent said: » -

_“The restraining order will not influence my action in the least. I will continue to do business at the same -old stand and by thesame niethods. Not that I caré to go .to-jail pr get into a squabble with the United States cburts, but if there must be a victim upon whom to make the test I might as well be the man®as any one else.” ’ : .

Mr. Sargent insists that the receivers will vet see their blunder in bringing this proceeding. **The men have not yet received a definite| answer from the receivers as to tlte schedule. It was . the: intention if the answer was not satisfactory to appeal to the court which appointed the receiver, and failing there to take a vote as to whether they should continue at work on the schedule proposed. Therefore a strike is far off and the injunction proceedings premature. 4 :

A telegram was received saying that Chief Wilkinson, of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, would leave for St. Paul, where a counter petition would be filed in the United States court abveo. A meeting of the executive officers of the six Dbrotherhoods which are in the federation has been called for January 4, to be held pxjp_ba.bly at Chicago, at which the general question of the relation of the courts to the employant of men on roads in the hands of rTeceivers will be considered.

MRS. LEASE INDIGNANT.

Writes a Leiter to the Governor of Kansas Concerning Her Dismissal.

TorPeEKA, Kan., Jan 1 - Mrs. Lease has written a very sarcastic letter to the governor in which she claims she was not granted even so much consideration as is accorded the vilest criminal—the right of self-defense. She says she was an employe of the state and not a personal hireling of the governor. Mrs. Lease signs herself as president of the board of stste trustees and president of the board of charitable institutions. : . NOT A MAN ESCAPED: Report of the Massacre of Capt. Wilson’s Force by Matabeles Confirmed. Loxpon, Jan. I.—A dispatch to the news agency here from Cape Town says that native runners arrived at Fort Salisbury bringing confirmation of the reports of the annthilation by the Matabeles of Capt. Wilson and the force commanded by him. The runners say that Capt. Wilson was surrounded by the Matabeles on Decémber 8, and that not a single man of the British force escaped with his life. o Col. W. W. Reed, a prominent lawyer, committed suicide in Atlanta, Ga.

- HIsPOOM. It Is Announced to the Murderer of Carter Harrison. The Jury Returns a Verdict of Guilty and Fixes Death as His Punishment— / How the Assassin Received ; /’ & the News. : e /-‘ E VOTED FOR DEATH. , , CrICcAGO, Jan. I.—Attorney ~ Trude finished his argument for the state.in the Prendergast trial about noon on Friday. ‘At the opening of the afternoon session Judge Brentano delivered his charge to the jury. The list of instructions was a long one, and they favored the prisomer. At 1:25 p. m. the jury retired to consider the evidence.: At 2:29p. m. they returned and preseated the following verdict: e "We, the jury, find the defencant, Patrick Eugene Prendergast, guilty of murder in manner and form as charged in the indictment, and fix his penalty at death.” e The prisoner’s strength seemed to have failed him. During the morning: and while the judge read the instructions he sat like ‘one exhausted. Part of the-time he covered his eyes with a' ‘black handkerchief. ‘I was praying,” he said afterward to his brother. His

face was pale and his lips quivered.. ' When the verdict was read, and as ; the word ‘‘death” reached the prisononer’s ears he raised-his righfp haxid:: slowly and made the sign of the cross. | His eyvelids closed for an instant, there 1 was a slight tremor and that wasall. | He betrayed no otlier motion of ’Wh‘a,t.'{ what was passing in his mind. The ! people . simply looked at the pris- | oner: Not a person whispéred. | All at once the full force jand | mea-‘ping‘ of the verdict struck theni Every face showed a trace of sympathy for the man whose fate was decided. . A life sentence was the most that the friends of the Harrison family had ever hoped for. 'A. 8. Trude's face expressed sorrow. Attorneys Wade and McGoorty looked disconsolately at each other. Some person near the-<door passed the word downstairs and in a moment the. waiting crowds knew the sentence.. Thése persons had all come there with a feeling of resentment. against the prisoner, but they made no demonstration when the word finally reached them. The verdict met with their approval. That was all. The jury was polled and each member announced that this was and is his’ verdict. When the last man of the twelve had made this declarationfithe-‘-prisoner’s jiw dropped a little He was immediately taken back to his cell in the county jail. His attorney, Mr. Wade, made ‘a motion for a new trial, the ‘crowd left the court room and the celebrated case came to an end for the time being. o It was visitor’s day at the 'jail and many persons were there when Prendergast came back to his eell. The news ‘soon spread to the jail and everybody wanted to see the condemned man. He had borne up with some firmness, although’it was plain that his body was weak. When he reached his cell he fell heavily upon his bed and a watech was set over him. He refused to see or speak to any person. e After a few minutes the assassin sat upright. He had somewhat regained his composure and was gloomy and silent. In a short timne John Prendergast, the prisoner’s brother, arrived a%t the jail- He was announced by - Clerk Price,. and fiendergast said hoarsely: ‘“Let - him come in, I want to see him.” The meeting between the brothers was painful.’ They shook hands silently and neither spoke for several minutes. Then John said: ‘‘Don’t lose hope, Gene; we'll do all we can for you.” The assassin bowed ' his head, but made no reply. Later he talked quietly to his brother for some time. During the evening Messrs. McGoorty, Essex and Heron called upon their client’ and talked to him in a manner calculated to cheer him up, bat their efforts did not appear to have the desired effect. The awfulneéss of the ' sentence seemed to have cowed the assassin and to have broken his spirit. . - Richard A. Wade, chief attorney for Prendergast, was sorely disappointed over the verdict. He said: i e

“I never felt so bad in my life. It wasn’t right to return such a verdict. Why, it’s an outrage on human justice that a poor, insane boy like that should be executed. I will bank my life on it that that boy will not be hanged. - The jurymen are a lot of cringing sycophants. I *have. and will produce evidence: that one of them perjured himself in order .to get on this jury. He said that he was only slightly acquainted with Mayor Harrison, but I will show that he not only knew the late mayor but was an applicant for office. I thought it was a good jury. all made vp of business men, but I don’t believe they ever considered the evidence in the case at all I have made a motion for a new trial and I think we'll getit. This is a mortal blow at expert testimony in insanity cases. It is a case of wealth against misfortune.” SR Dispatehes from various cities show that theleading newspapers of America almost universally approve of the finding of the Prendergast jury. A Washington dispatch says that Vice President Stevenson commended the sentepce. e s ‘lt took just sixty-three minutes for the jury to reach a verdict. After the foreman was elected there was some discussion on the case. It is understood that but two ballots were necessary, one as to the guilt or inhocence and the other as to the punishment. The jurymen agreed among themselves, however, that no one of them was to talk about what-shad occurred in the jury room. Carter H. Harrison -was murdered on Qctober 28. On December 29, just two months ‘and one day thereafter, sentence was passed on: the murderer. | L s

KANSAS SHERIFFS PROTEST.

Fifty ot Them Meet and Object to the Governor’s Tramp Circular. o

TorPEkA, Kan., Jan. 1.--A meeting of about fifty sheriffs of Kansas was held here, at which a strong protest was made against Gov. Lewelling’s tramp circular. It was declared to be an open bid for tramps and thugs to come to Kansas and pillage the people; that the tramp question arose above party principles; it was a matter peace officers were compelled to deal with. Many- tramps go to Gov. Lewelling every day to beg. His contributions run from three to five dollars a day. FOUND DEAD... ..~ Two Ladies Succumb to Heart Disease in i Philadelphia. : e ° PHILADELPHIA, Jan. I.—Mrs. Jane Sloan, aged 50 years, and Miss Sarah Lavery, aged 30 years, were found dead in the parlor 'of the former’s lodging‘house. The women had not been seen since last Saturday, when Miss Avery went to call upon Mrs. Sloan. Coroner's Physician’ Sidebotham held an autopsy and d?covered that each had died from dropsy due to heart disease. Richard Spruce, botanist ang trav--eler, died at Malton, Engiand. %e was Sgemsald. 0 T & GG

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