Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 43, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 February 1895 — Page 2

i i President Cleveland Urges Con-J gress to Act. | . | \ S ¢ ‘ He Sends a Special Message In 'Which He Asks That the Treasury Be: Relieved by the| Issuance of : ! Long-Terin Bonds. WasHINGTON, Jan. 29.—The president #sent to both houses ¢of congress Monday a message oa the financial situation, aubstantially withdrawing hig support from the plan outlined in the Carlisle bill, and outlining the only, policy which seems | to him now possible to maintain the gold- reserve. Following is the main portion pf the message: . . The M¢ssage. e : In the openl_ng\ "..‘or the message the: president refers to his recc;‘gxmen ations on theé currency guestion to congress in his annual message and sheir unfavorabie reception, the changed condition of affairs and the preient » exfstence -of ¢ an emergency Wwhich = demanded. prompt legislative action to restore confidence in our figjancial soundness and avert business disaster and universdl distress among our people. He states his gonviction that additional or different legislation from shat recommended in his.annual message 18 aow demanded. The |progress of a people whose internal resources are 80 limited and energies so vigorous should not e checked - by “afalse financial policy and he%.dlc'ss disregard of sound monetary laws.” The president then emphasizes | the duty of our law makers, “‘untrammelled by the prejudice of partisanship,” to ‘‘since¢rely attempt to relieve she situation." ! : | " Due to Lack of Confidence. The real trouble which confronts us consists m'a lack of confidenc¢ widespread and constantly increasing in the continuing ability or disposition of the government to pay its ob=ligations ingold. This lack of confidence grows %o some extent out|of the palpable and apparent embarrassment attending the efforts of the government under existing laws to precure gold and to p greater extent out of the impossibility of either. keeping 13 in the treasury or canceling obligations by its expenditure after it is obtained. b The only way left open to the government for procuring gold |is by the fssue and sale of bonds. The |only ' bonds that can be issued were authorized nearly twenty-five years ago and are not well calculatert to meet our present needs. | Among ot °r disadvantages, they arg made payable in ecoin instead of specifically (in gold, which, eoin existing | conditions, detracts largely and in An . increasl}ng ratio from their desirability as investments. It is by 'no means certain that bonds of this description cannuch longer be disposed of at a price creditable|to the financlial charac-~

ter.of our government. | o . A Most-Dangerous F,eatuLe. The most daugerous and irrltabing feature of the situation, howeyer, remains to be mentioned. It is found in the means| by which the treasury is desppiled of the {gold "thus obtained without cdnceling a single government obligation and solely -for ithe benefit of those who ind profit in shipping i abroad or whose fears indude them to hoard it at home. We have outstanding about!$50),000,000 of ‘currency aotes pf the government, for which gold may be mwanded, and curiously enough the law requires that when§ presented and. in fact, redeemgd and paid .in gold they shall be reissued. /| Thus the samé notes may do duty many times in drawmg golfil from the treasury, nor can/the process belarrested as long as private parties profit or otherwise see an advantage in repeating the operation. " Redeemedl But Not Retired, More than $300,000,000 in these notes have already been redeemed in gold and, notwithstanding sudh redemption they are all still outstanding. | Since the 17th day of Janu‘ary, 1894, our bonded interest-bearing debt has been; increaged $100,000,000 for the purpose of obtaining gold, to replenish our coin reserve. "Two issues were made, amounting to §50,600,000 each—one in January and the other in November. As a result of the first ssue there was realized something more than §58.000,000 in gold{ Between that issue and the pucceeding one fin November, comprising a period of about len morths, nearly $103,000,000 In gold was drawh from the treasury. ‘This made the| second issue necessary, and wpon that ‘mere| than §58,000,000 in gold was again realized. | Between the date of this gecond issue and the present time, covering a period df only about two months, more than $69,000,000 in gold has been drawn from the| t®easury These large sums ! of gold were expended without any cancellation of governme¢nt obligations or in any permanent way ben¢fiting people or improving-our pecuniary situdgtion. @ ; ! The financial ¢vents o™he last year suggest tects and condipipns which should certainly synest attention.| More thian §172,000,000 in gold has. been drawn out of the treasury during she - wyear for | the purpose of shipping abrcad or hoarding at home. While near- | lya §108;000,000 [of the same was ~ drawn | out during the first }en months of the year, a ! sum aggregating/mord than two-thirds of that siount, being ahjout $69,000,000, was drawn out Auring the following two months, thus indicatng' a_marized dgeceleration of the depleting orocess with thellapse of time. : Simple [Process of Looting. ' The 6bligations upon which this gold has been drawn’ from the treasury dre still out- ! sanding and arp available for use in repeat- | rey e exbatsting < operation ‘imh., shorter | heervals as oyur perplexities [actumulate. Conditions are dertainly .superyening tending to make the bonds Wwhich may be issued to replenish our gold less useful for that purpose. : i . An adequate gold reserve is in all circumstances absolutely essential to the upholding of our public crefdit and to the mdintenance of our high natiomal character.. Our gold reserve has again |reached Sl{gil a stage of dim- | jnution as to require its speedy reinforcement; The aggravations that must inevitably follow spresent |conditions and methods will eertairly lead tq misfortune and loss not -only to our national leredit and prosperity and to financial enterprise, but to those of our peopleé’who seelt employment as a means of livelinrood and to those whose onky capital is their daily labof. o “ ‘ 1t will hardly 'do to say that a simple increase of .revienue will' cure jonr troubles. 1 The apprehension now existillg and constantly incrcasing as to our finr-flncial ability does not rest, upon a calculationl of our/ rev- | enue. The timp has,passed when the eyes of investors abtoad and our people at home were fixed upojn the revenues p: the govern- " wment. Ch:‘xgige conditions t’;Eve_ attracted their attention to the gold of thie government. fnere need bg no fear that we cannot pay our current expenses with such money as we have. o P S i A Slap at the Silver Men, "Miere is now| in the treasuryla comfortable surplus of morg than $63.000,000§ but it is not gold and therefpre does hot meets our difficulty. 1 cannot see| that‘ di“erenceés of opinion concerning thie extent to |which ' Bilver ought to be copined or used hi‘our currency shou ldinterfere with the couhsels of those . whose duty it i$ to rectify evil§ now apparent in our financial situation. They have to consider the question of national ¢redit and the conscquences ‘that will follow: from ‘its collapse. ! ] ; While I am|not unfriendly.to* silver and while I desire [to see it recognized to such an extent as is donsistent with financial safety and the préservation of national honor and credit, I am npt willing to see gold entirely banished from our currency and finances. To avert such a ¢onsequence I believe thorough and radical remedial legislation should be promptly pasgsed. 1 thereforel beg the con- . gress, to give |the subject immediate attenMo o 2k sl ; Wants More Bonds Issued. In y op;niop the secretary df the treasury ghould be authorized to issue bonds of the govermnent for the purpose of procuring and maintaining 4 sufiicient gold reserve and the redemptipn and cancellation of the United States legal-tender notes and the _treasury notes/issued for the purchase of silver under the law pf July 14, 1890 =We should be ~ selieved from iWflfiflng i‘pmceu-ot‘m_\lw Img bonds to procure gold to be immediately and repeatedly drawn out on these obligations mrgw ot related to the benefit of our - 'he principil and intercst jof these bonds ~ should be puyiible on, thoir faee in gold; beouuse y should be Bold only for gold or its TR L satad Whore’ wobld Simow. 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pay if we meet our obligations and long bonds are most salable. The secretary of the treasury might well be permitted at his discretion to receive on the sale tt bonds the legal tender and treasury notes to be retired and of course when they are thus Jetirefl or re‘deemed in gold they should be canceled. : ‘These bonds, under existing |laws, could be deposited. by national banks as security for eirculation, and such banks should be allowed to issue circulation up to the face value of these or any other bonds 50 deposited, except bonds outstanding bearing only 2 per cent. interest, and which sell in the market at less than par. National baxik? should .not be allowed to take out circulating notes of a less denomination than $lO, and dghen such as are now outstanding reach the treasury, except for redemption and retirement, they should be canceled and notes of the denomination of $lO and upward issued in their stead: Silver certificates of the denomination of $lO and upward should be replaced by certificates of denominations, under $lO. As a constant means for the maintenance of a reasonable supply bf gold in the treasury our duties on imports: should be paid imgold, allowing all other dues to the government to be paid in any other form of money. : ' Urges Adoption of the Plan. I believe all the provisions I have suggested should'be embodied in our laws it we are to enjoy a complete reinstatement of a sound financial condition. They need not interfere with any currency scheme providing for the increase of the circulating = medium through the agency of national or state banks slnce they can easily be adjusted to such a scheme. Objection has been wmade to the issuance of interest-bearing obligations for the purpose of retiring the non-iaterest-bearing legal-tender notes. : ’ In'point of fact, however, these notes have burdened us with a large load of interest and it is still accumulating. The aggregate interest' on ‘the original issue of bonds, the proceeds of which in gold constituted the reserve for the payment of -these notes, amounted to $70,326,250 on January 1; 1895, and the annual charge for interest on these bonds and th‘ose,iss@yed for the same purpose during the last year will be $9,145,000, dating from January 1, 1895. ’ -While the cancellation of these notes would not relieve us from the obligations already incurred on their account, these figures are given by way of 'suggesting that their existence has naot been free.from interest charges and that the longer they are outstanding, judging from the experience of the last year, the more expensive they will become. In conclusion, I desire to frankly confess my reluctance to issuing more bonds in present circurastances and with no better results than have lately followed that course. I cannot, however, refrain from adding to an assurance of my anxiety to cooperate with the present congress in any. reasonable measure of relief 4n expression of my determination to leave nothing undone which furnishes a hope of improving the situation or checking a suspicion of our disinclination or inability to meet with the strictest honor every national gbligation. GROVER CLEVELAND. The Executive Mansion, January 28, 1895.

THE DEBS TRIAL. : Taking of Téstlmony fieglns—Evidenco,of the Witnesses. : Cuicago, Jan. 29.—The hearing of evidence in the trial of the American Railway union officials was begun in Judge Grosscup’s court Monday morning. Wallace Rice, a reporter and member of local union No. 356 at Pullman, was introduced. Rice told of the proceedings of the A. R.-U. convention of June 12 to 23 last, the plan of the prosecution being to show that the conspiracy began with that convention and that every step taken by the convention and its officers was a link in the chain of conspiracy. He gave an outline of Debs’ opening address, as presiding officér, in which he declared that the organization would become so strong that no corporation could assail it and it would be able to dictate its own terms. When the Pullman strike and the condition of the workingmen there were brought to the attention of the convention, ®Debs made a speech in which he denounced the Pullman corporation. On the 21st the board of directors reported in favor of giving Pullman five days in which to arbitrate, unddr penalty of cutting out his cars from all the railroads. After the adoption ¢f this resolution Mr. Debs said that if any railroad attempt-~ ed to enjoin the union from interfering with the Pullman cars the entire system of tbat road would be tied up. On the evening bf June 26 the strike was inaugurated at a general mass-meeting in the Empire theater. The principal witness called in the afternoon was O. W. Myron, who occupied the stand for two hours. Atthe time of the strike Myron was an Illinois Central switchman, and took an active part in organizing branches of the A. R. U. among the yardmen of the Illinois Central and other roads. In reply t» Mr. Walker’s cross examination he testified that on the 26th of June he got an order signed by Debs under the seal of the A. R. U. instructing him to call out the Illinois Central men. He then narrated at length his trips to the suburban railroad yards and his methods of enfgrcing the order. The government’s counsel aimned to prove, through the testimony of‘this witness, that a conspiracy then exigted, and that Myron’s actions were 0 be taken as those of an official ot the AR,

He said that he had never made any report of his actions to the officers or directors of the American Railway union and that he had acted on his own responsibility. This was a serious blow, to the government’s case, as it will be necessary for it to prove that Myron acted under orders from the men on trial, or his testimony is of no value. : SR

C. S. Darrow) for the defense, argued that, as the wi>ness had test'fied that after receiving/ the order he had acted on his own responsibility and did not report to the directors, the latter could in no way be held responsible for the witness’ actions. He further argued that Myron's interpretation of the order was foreign to the case, and asked that the written order alone be oftered as evidence. The matter was taken under advisement. Myron’s testimony will be resumed to-day.

¢ SPRINGER'S BILL. > A Financial Measure Combining the \President’s Recommendations. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—1 n the house Monday Mr. Springer (dem,, Ill.) introduced a bill designed to carry out the recommendations of the president in. his message to congress., The bill . provides for the issue of 3 per cent. bonds payable in gold, fifty years after date; for the redemption and cancellation of legal tender and treasury notes; allowing national banks to issue circulation to an amount equal to the par value of the bonds deposited; for the retirement of silver certificates in denominations larger than $lO and for the issue of small notes in their place, and requiring payment of all import duties in gold. : | / A Farmer Murdered. ; SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 29.—The Yody of Irwin Myers, a farmer, who left his bome southwest of here Manday morning, was found this evening by Charles ‘Van Dorn, a school teacher, hanging over a fence with a bullet nole in: the ‘head.. Myers’ horses and wagon were found near by. Myers was an officer of au ussociation of farmers organized to proseeute trespassers and the sup position is that he eame across 4 gang of trespassers and was killed by them.

THE ELBE DISASTER. s a} ! ; 1 fay 2 ‘Wreck of a Passenger Steamer in the North Sea. - Survivors Are Few—Number of the Missing 1s 31 4fThesStor; a 8 '{.‘old by the Rescued Ones — Elbe’s Crew Criticised. : LoxpoN, Feb. I.— The loss of the North German Lloyd steamship Elbe, with nearly 400 lives, was the absorbing topic of conversation and comment in all circles Thursday morning. The latest information as to the number of lives lost places it at3l4. At least that is the number missing, and there is very little hope entertained that any of these will eventually be heard from alive. j . . Story of the Disaster. The Elbe left' Bremmen on Tuesday afternoon. The few hours of the voyage before the disaster were uneventful, At 4 o’clock Wednesday morning the wind was blowing very hard and a tremendous sea was running. The morning was unusually dark. Numerous lights were seen in all directions, showing that many vessels were near by. The captain ordered, therefore, that rockets should be sent up at regular intervals to keep out of the Elbe’s course. It was near 6 o'clock and the Elbe was some 50 miles off Lowestoft, coast of Suffolk, when the lookout man sighted a steamer of about 1,500 tons approaching. He gave the word and as a precaution the number of rockets was doubled and they were sent up at short intervals. j. :

The Collision.

The warning was without effect. The steamer came on with unchecked speed, and before the Elbe could change her course or reduce her speed, there was a terrific crash of the collision. The Elbe was hit abaft her engine room. When the small steamer wrenched away, an enormous hole was left in the Elbe’s side. The water poured tnrough and down into the engine room ih a cataract. The: room filled almost .instantly. The engines were still and the big hulk began to settle. - The passengers were in bed. The bitter cold and rough sea had prevented an early rising, and none except the officers and crew on duty was c¢n deck when the ship was struck. .

Passengers in a Panic.

The shock and crash roused everybody. The steerage was in a panic in a moment and men, women and children half dressed or in their night clothes came crowding up the c¢ompanionways. They had heard the sound of rushing water as the other steamer backed off and had felt the Elbe lurch and settle. They had grasped the fact that it was then life or death with them, and almost to a man had succumbed to their terror. They clung together in groups, facing the cold and storm, and cried aloud for help or prayed on their knees for deliverence. The officers and crew were calm. For a few moments they went among the terror-stricken groups trying to quiet them and encouraging them to hope that the vessel might be saved. It was soon apparent, however, that the Elbe was: settling steadily. The officers were convinced that she was about to founder and gave orders to lower the boats.

Took to the Boats.

In a short time.three boats were got alongside, but the seas were breaking over the steamer with great force, and the first boat . was swamped before anybody could get intpjit. The other two boats, lowered at-about the same time, were filled quickly with members of the crew and some passengers, but the number was small, as the boats held only twenty persons each.

Experience of the Survivors.

The boat carrying the twenty-two persons who were landed at Lowestoft put off in such haste from the sinking steamer that nobody in it noticed what became of the other boats. The survivors believe. however, that they got away safely. They say that they tossed about in the heavy seas for several hours |before they sighted the Wildflower. The little smack bore down on them at once and took them aboard. They were exhausted from excitement and exposure. Several of them were in | a state of " [collapse and had to be carried and dragged from one boat to the other. Miss Anna Buecker, the only woman in the party, was prostrated as soon as they got clear of the Elbe. She lay in the bottom of the boat for five hours, with the seas breaking over her and the water that had been shipped half covering her body. Although her her physical strength . was gone, she showed true pluck, however, and did not . utter a word of complaint and repeatedly urged her companions not to mind -her, but to look after themselves. Hoffman’s leg was hurt severely while he was changing boats. The survivors cannot say. too much in praise of the Wildflower’s crew, who gave. thiem every possible attention. e

S Americans Aboard, : Among the passengers on board the ill-fated Elbe and who are supposed. to be lost were the following Americans, ' Mrs. Anton Fischer, Washington, D. C.; John B. Vinche. St. Charles, Mo.; Mrs. M. C. Connors, South Dakota: Messrs. Wix, Schnell, ‘Dueren, Ernst and Hearen, all of New York city: Jacob Frank, Buffalo, N. Y.; Mrs. Sophia Rhodes and son Eugene. Washington, D. C.: Mrs. Louise Kuhn, New York eity; Mrs. Anna Hoffman and son Henrwy, Grand Island Neb.; Messrs. Lockhart and Islaub, New York city: Ernst Maseberg, ' Louisiana; Kurt Klein schmidt, Helena. Mont.;: John . Garlicher *Winona, Minn. 3 - | . No Hope.

| The tug Dispatch returned to Lowes toft, having proceeded 45 miles in her search for any persons who may have been fortunate enough to get away from the Elbe in the missing boat or by clinging to wreckage. The Dispatch reports that nothing whatever was seen of either boats or wreckage. The storm is now raging more wildly than ever and it is impossible that any small boat. can have lived in the heavy sea, or if it should have weathered the gale that any of its occupants can have survived exposure to the bitter cold until this time. L ‘ Fifteen fishing smack which have been cruising near the spot where the Elbe lies, arrived at Lowestoft Thursday afternoon. Not one reported seeing any signs of the wreck or the pasgengers. Their reports banish the last hope of finding the second life boat. . Btatelhent from the Crathie. ' The owner, at Aberdeen, of the steamship Crathie, which ran into and sank the Elbe, has received a brief telegram from the captain at Madsluis, stating that tlie Craghie's, bow was terTibly crusfied by the impact -of the wvessel with the Elbe, atid that the

Crathie was in a sinking condition when she reached Maasluis. The captain was below at the' time of the collision, the mate being in charge of the vessel: The latter has made a statement to .the captain that he has no knowledge whatever as %o the identity of the vessel with whieh the Crathie collided. His own vessel was so terribly damaged that its condition called for the undivided attertion of the officers and the entire crew, all of whom had to bend their energies to saving their ship and their own lives. o " Might Have Been Saved.

Mr. Carl Hoffman, of Grand Island, Neb., who is among'the saved, refute this statement by making-the assertion, in addition to his statement already published, *that if the vessel which’ came into collision with the Elbe had stood by the sinking ship a majority of her passengers might have been saved, as the Elbe stood :g‘-_perfecbly still. for many minutes after the impact. In fact she remained motionless until the” water which was pouring into her hold caused her to lurch violently, after which all was confusion on board. Prior to this, however, /discipline was maintained and there could have been no difficulty in transferring the passen- | gers in an orderly manner. . ° {

Elbe’s Crew Criticised.

A great deal of adverse comment is caused by the fact that of the twenty persons saved from the Elbe, fifteen of them belong to the ship’s crew, and that the boat in which they saved themselves contained only one woman and no children. Attempts have been made by some of the survivors to aecount for this, but in no case in a satisfactory way. Even the solitary woman who was saved was not originally taken into ihe boat, but was picked up in the water after the boat had pushed away from the sinking ship, greatly against the wishes of some of the occupants of the boat. : Mr. Vevera said in an interview with a Daily Graphic reporter: ‘‘The passengers saved were few. enough in comparison with the number of seamen. They wanted to keep me - out of the boat. but I jumped down on their heads. otherwise I should not be alive”, ' Hoffman’s Experience. * In an interview survivor Hoffman made this explanation: “I heard the captain’s’ orders to send women and children to the starboard side. I have been used ta obeying orders as I have been under military discipline. So I even let my boy go, although he had got into the boat with me. It was the engineer who took him out, and ‘significantly,” the engineer is still alive.” The Elbe’s course at the time »f the collision is given as south-southwest and her speed as 15 knots. The other vessel' ‘was seen approaching about 2% points off the Elbe's port bow. She was showing green anrd masthead lights and was steaming apparently west-northwest. She ought therefore to have ported her helm and passed under the Elbe’s stern. ,

ADMINISTRATION BOND BILL.

Features of the Measure as Agreed Upon by the Banking Committee. :

WAsHINGTON, Jan. 31. —The administration banking bill will be reported to the house from the committee on banking and currency in a mueh amended form and with a non-commit-tal recommendation that it. be considered. The bill will be reported to the house Friday with the president’s message. The amendments which ‘the committee have recom_\guended to the administration bill arz as follows: The bonds, which by the original bill were payable fifty years after date, are made payable at the pleasure of the United States after ten years from the date of their issue, and are due fifty years after date. The section which requires the legal tender notes and treasury notes when| redeemed in gold to be canceled and not reissued is amended by adding the following, offered by Mr. Russell: “Provided, That the amount of such United States notes and treasury notes which may be canceled and retired shall not exceed in the aggregate an amount equal to the additional circulation taken out by national banks after the passage of this act.” : Section 3 of the act is amended by adding, on motion of Mr. Haughen, the following: ‘‘And in lieu of all existing taxes every association shall pay to the treasury of the United States, in the months of January and July, a duty of one-eighth of 1 per cent. each half year upon the average amount of the notes issued to it by the comptroller of the currency.” The fourth section of the bill, which provides that national bank notes of less denomination than $lO shall be retired and canceled, and an equal amount in denomfnations of $lO and wupward shall Dbe. issued in their places, and that silver certificates now outstanding larger than $lO should be retired, and the silver certificates of denominations of less than $lO should be issued in their stead, was stricken out, as was section 5, which requires duty on imports to be paid in gold coin onty. Mr. Walker moved an additional section,.to .be known as section b, which was agreed to as follows: g

*Section . That from and after July 1, 1895, 10 per centum of the cash reserve required by law shall be kept in coin or coin certificates, and not less*han half’ of such coin or coin | certificates shall be in gold°coin or gold | certificates, and such reserve required . by law shall be kept in coin or coin | certificates in amount increased by 10 per | cent. of the whole cash reserve required to be | kept by them on atfi after the first day of each | quarter of the calendar year until the whole : cash' reserve shall be in coin or coin cer- ! tificates, and not less than one-half of such ! cash reserve shall at all times be in gold coin ! or gold éertificates.” ]

- FAVOR THE IDEA. - i New York and Chicago Business Men fiika ' the President’s Proposition. . ; WABSHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Senator Hill ' (dem., N. Y.) on Tuesday presented resolutions of the chamber of com- ' merce of the city of New York on the ! subject of the national finances. The ! resolutions, which declare hearty con- | currence with the recommendationsiof ' the president of the United States,’ were read and referred to the finance committee. : . i

- CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—A telegram signed by all the bankers in this city has been sent to Senators Palmer and Cullom and Congressman Aldrich urging the immediate passage of a financial bill in conformity with the -president’s recommendations, and declaring that such action is demanded by the business interests of the country. A message of like import signed by prominent merchants was also telegraphed to the same gentlemen. s Another Senator Elocted, OrLympPlA, Wash., Féb. 4.—The action of the republican caucus of Thursday ‘night was formally ratified Friday in session of both houses of the legislature when Congréssman John L. Wil son, of Spokane, was elected United States senator to fill the existing vacancy caused by the failure to elect a suecessor to John B. Allen two years ago. The vote stood: Wilson (rep.), 80; J. H. Wescott (pop.), 24. _ b s Denth of John Rerio. Corumsus, Ind., Feb. 2.—John Reno \qied; in this city yesterday. He \ggq one of the: first train robbers in the United States and was a daring indis viddals 0 e L

. FOR ARBITRATION: Prominént Labor Leaders Indorse the - - Amended Olney BilL : ‘WasHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The arbitration bill, drawn by Attorney General Olney, as amended by the house labor committee at the suggestion of representatives of labor organizations has been submitted to the house by Mr. Erdman (dem., N. J.). The accompanying report submits letters from F. P. Sargent: and F. M. Arnold, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen; P. 'M. Arthur; Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; D. L. Cease, W. C. Edens, Brotherhood of Locomotive Trainmen, and W. V. Powell, of the Railroad Telegraphers order, and one from Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, endorsing the Dbill. - Commissioner: Wright says the bill as reported contains all the vital principles which Mr. Kernan and himself proposed in the bill they prepared. It gives employes an. opportunity to be heard when feceivers are in control of roads upon the question of reduction of wages and the condition of their employment, should changes be sought by the receivers. The bill in'no sense aimsat compulsory, arbitration. The rights, privileges and prerogatives of both' labor and capital, Commissioner Wright says, are thoroughly protected. lle continues:

“While it will not solve the labor problem nor prevent strikes entirely, it will, in, my opinion, do as much to steady the forces involved and afford a powerful and even effective balance wheel in interstate controversies. In the interest of suecessful railroad operation, which must be preserved in order to have our industries properly ‘carried on, 1 trust congress may. approve the unanimous action of your. committee, which.has so promptly responded to the calls made upon it.””

IN PERI}.. 2 |Otficers of the American Warship Concord fo ' Captured by Chinese. LoxpoN, Feb. 4.—A dispatch from Shanghai says a telegram has been received there from Chin Kiang stating that a party of officers from the ‘American worship Concord landed at Chin Kiang for the- purpose of shooting game. They shot a Chinaman by mistake. The populace became infuriated and attacked and carried off the whole party. The. commander of. the Concord sent an armed force of blue jacketsand marines to rescue them at all hazards. IFurther news in regard to the affair'is anxiously awaited. ; . WasniNaToN, Feb: 4.—The reported kidnaping of the officers of the United States ship Concord at Chin Kiang in China reached Washington at too late an hour to permit it to be inquired into in naval or diplomatic circles. Up to 10 o’clock Sunday night no news on the subjeet had been received ©by any of the government officials. The news will cause a profound sensation, and, unless later reports show that the captured officers are at liberty, other vessels will probably be hurried to the scene. Knowing the condition of the Chinése at the present time, and the way in which they are likely to ‘deal with prisoners; there will be great anxiety until the. safety of the party is assured. |

l. . GOLD STAYS AT HOME. | New York Shipments Show a' Heavy ! : Abatement. ! l NEw Yorg, Feb. 4.—No gold was | | taken out Saturday except - for the use: ' of jewelers and dentists, and none was}| {returned. Uncle Sam is now master} .of the financial situation. That Wzillé; , street takes this view 'of the case is . E shown by the fairly active stock | i market and by continued firm prices in | i all kinds of securities. The exodus of | { gold was much lighter than was antici- | i pated Friday, and only a little over. a ; million dollars was shipped. Itisvery ! doubtful if even this would have goné ; had the steamship La Bretagne sailed 1@ little later than it did. .As it | was two firms tried to get the gold off i the steamship, but were unsuccessful. | The actnal exports of gold from the | l port of New York for the week ending : Saturday, as officially reported at the ! custom house, were $7,286,490. | I WASHINGTON,. Feb. 4.— So far as ! Washington is concerned the financial | “ flurry is over. It became known here | Saturday that the administration had ! been successful in its efforts to nego- | tiate a loan of gold in Europe. The- ! statement is made in high quarters

i that the loan may be f0r.5200,000,000 in- | stead of for $100,000,000. - The foreign | houses are willing to talke $200.000,000 | on terms which will make the interest ! rate not more than 3¢ per cent. and . perhaps less. . g ;

" HURT IN A WRECK. , , Bix Persons Badly Ihjured, Near New=“ton, 11l : ; Newrox, 111., Feb. 4.—A train was wrecked near here Sunday night. Six people are reported hurt, but as far as known none was killed. o | The wreck was on the Indiana & lilinois Southern railroad, and was caused by detached ties and a defective joint. ! The train. was a combination freight and passenger. Tive cars, including ' a passenger coach, tumbled down a 15foot embankment. The Ford Dramatic company was on board. Following is a list of the injured: C.!G. Ford, arm | hurt; G. M. Adams, injured internally; D. W. Seecrist, badly bruised; T. H. | Hand, injured about head; G. W. Jackson, left foot crushed; Harry Fahrnes, | ‘head bruised and arm injured. It is miraculous that nobody was killed. All of the women were badly shaken | up, but none sustained injuries of a serious nature. T : |

BLOWN TO ATOMS. Fatal Boiler Explosion in a Planing-Mill at Muskoegon, Mich. MuskEGoN, Mich., Feb. 4.—The battery of two boilers in Gray Bros.’ plan-ing-mill exploded at 9:30 Sunday night with a force that shook the entire city. The boiler house, engine-room and dry kiln were completely wrecked. John Johnson, the watgchman, was in the en-gine-room and was blown to atoms, nota trace of his remains having been found. The loss is estimated at $12,000, with no insurance, and thirty men are thrown out of work. The plant was built two years ago at a cost of $40,000. Wil Not_lnvite Indian Troubles. WasHINGTOX, Feb. 4.—The president has sent a veto message which js of general application to all grants of rights of way to railroads through Indian reservations. The reason giyen for the veto /is that these tribes have heretofore gaused trouble, and to put a road through their lands without their consent may oceasion new outbreaks, T “Envoys Sent Back. i WasmnNeToN, Feb. 4.—A ' dispateh from Hams}*m?x& S;atfés that fiéne Chinese _peace envoys havée bien Bent biek uni@fifi%fieg@wmflw& tfiéf“&ififiéiefi"@ - of their credentials, .. & & Ea

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. & e et e, ¥ o . .HURRY-UP AND BY-AN D-BY.o - Hurry-up met By-and-by : + Twining Howers one day: Hurry-up was very grave, ‘ By-and-by was gay. 2 “ Wait a little, friend,” he satd, ‘& “Come and share my play." G But the other did not pause, *“I must work,” said he; . o ~ “Work until my task is done, ) .~ And my mind is free.¥ : a 1 * Work will wait,” quoth By-and-by, 51t down here with me. : “ I'shall labor pretty soon : When this wreath is laced, There is time enough for toil, : Why this foolish haste?®"” i : Hyurry-up said, walking on: > “Time's too dear to waéte:" By-agdiby saw Hurry-up _ Once again, they say; ! 1 Saw him sitting at his ease In the bright noon day: . Blossoms grew about his feet, X And lLis alr was gay. By-and-by, with brooding eyes, Looked out tothe west, | - » : Hurrying down the dusty road Anxious and depressed, - While beneath his nervous feet ) Faded flowers he pressed. ‘ Queer,” he grumnbled, as he went Scowling on his way. A “How luck favors Hurry-up! s . Fate'is queer, I say.”’ i And he does not understand . “Suchis pluck’ glway., { ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Youth's Companion,

A JOLLY JACKDAW. Amusing Story of a Decidedly Intollectual ; Feathered Pet. - Our little jackdaw is dead, but little. as he was he has left a big gap behind him in the héuse. Sometimes we fancy we hear histheery “squawlk,” and we find ourselves listening for'the pattering of his little black toes in the passages or in the house. i 755 His life was short, but as merry as mischief could make: it. Mischief was his one guiding metive from morning: to night every day thatthe lived, wuntil death; which might have let such a little jokester alone, gave him fits and stopped his pranks. He eame” to us when he was quite young, and when we had to ram food down into his interior to the accompaniment of choking,: gurgling and squawking. e was given as a present to the children, and for the first few days he belonged to them. -After that we all belonged to him. We boughta cage when we knew that he was coming. It wasin the perpendicular canc style of architecture. Jack lived inside for a day or two, until he knew better, and then when he found that tlie world outside the wicler walls was so much bigger than the one inside, he rcfused to use it except as a dormitory. When he had once passed up the garden steps into the wonderland of the house, wvhere the big-and little men and.women. lived, he sternly and stubbornly declined to enter the wattle door again until ‘the last thing L. SR e : | e s /’ ] "““t‘%“ 3 .‘_,,.m,;:- ?r ek - e Lo Bt i / ) \~\ o e .

JACK'S BREAKFAST.

at night, when he wastired and sleepy, and all the big suns and moons were extinguished. Ie did not mind sitting on the roof of the cage, and occasion-’ ally he would open the door and look round to see that his sleeping sperch was in order; but he would‘ké@p_ his wary little "'eyes upon thesentrance,. and if anyone tried to close it, out he would scramble in a‘fury of beak and claws, and fight for freedom. . If all jackdaws possessed the same mechanical genius as Jack, no church tower would be safe.. A glance of ‘his keen little eyes, black beads set in gray-blue circles, and he would understand all the details of make and mechanism. He found out how everything was made, so that he could nnmake it. If onel thing fitted into another, he would set to work to! unfit it. He discovered; with disgstrous results ta table covers and carpets, that corks could be extracted from ink bottles. " He studied ‘the sewing machine, until he knew ex-’ actly how to stop its beneficent carcer. He would remove some portions of the machinery from one place where it was needed, and locate it somewhere else where it could do nothing, and sometimes he would snap the, thread nr rush the spindles ‘off. DBut perhaps ‘his greatest pleasure in life was to get hold of things that people wanted most particularly, and to hide them: A dog hides the bone because he thinks ‘he may wantitagain, but Jack secreted ‘things simply beeause he thought other people might want them. - . : But perhaps the most wonderful thing about our little black pet was his strength of mind, his power of X\?and the determined way in which e ors dered his daily walk of life. He slept in his cage on a Janding, and at seven o’clock he would be awake, waiting for the servants to come and take him downstairs. If they were late he would: grow impatient, stamp about, and try to open the door. Directly he was released he would rush to the beetle trap, lift off the coverand have a look round the inside to see what sort of sport there had*been during the night. Then he would start his breakfast; bectle after beetle was picked up and swallowed, sometims as many as forty or fifty. : : After breakfast came the bath. A large round metal basin was kepton the grass plot in the garden, and filled with water. When the weather was cold, the children raised the temperature with hot water. S

Jack would get up on the rim and walk round and round half-a-dozen times before plunging in. Then he ‘would paddle about a little, and at last: he would sit down, duck his head and splash the water all over him by splashing his wings vigorously.. When he came out he ' looked like -a little drowned creature, or like the Jackdaw ‘of Rheims after the curse had worked. From the first he made up his mind where his drying ground should be. This was on the landing at the top of the stairs in front of a mirror. Here he would preen and arrange his plumage. . : i ' ‘Then during the morning he visited the different rooms and helped with the painting and drawing. The sewing machine, too, had to be looked af‘ter, flies and wasps.had to be hunted. 'He killed and swallowed wasps by the 'score, but he dréw theline at daddy-long-legs. If one came in his way he

would nip it and" then carefully insert the squirming bunch of legs between the leaves of a book, put it down with one foot, and leave it there. Dinner was an institution for him, and he knew the dinner bell as well as anyone in thé house: There was 2lways a chance of making a sudden swoop upon some choice dish.! A stewed or a fried tomato, or a beakful of -red currant jelly, or a slice of hot.juicy mutton, trailed aeross a clean tablecloth, was always excifing, and aroused the enthusiasm of the big and little men and women, who always cried ‘‘Oh, Jack!” but-who never beat him. ; g

Then in'the evening, when he was getting tired, and the lamps were lighted, he would get on the back of his mistress’ chair, tuck his head into some place in his back, and: go to sleep.— Westminster Budget.. . ° :

; WHAT A GIRL CAN BE. Things That Go to Make Up the CharacR oerur.Bo'nnle Lassie. : - Cheerful, but never boisterous; hapPy, but never thoughtless, our bonnie lassie is the peacemalier; the universal helper,” the sympathizer, the active worker. of her home. ‘Whatever is ‘wanted she can supply; and she ean do all that is needed for the comfort of everyone. She is eyes to the blind, feet to fghé lame, hands to the incapable. -If anything is to be doneé for grandmamma, it is she who does it. When mother is ill, it is she who waits .on her, who looks after the little ones and does -the housekeeping. Loving, unselfish,; energetic,. industrious, she has no ambition outside the circle of home and its affections; and she does not pretend to intellectual merit. -She: adores her mother, anél lives in perfect peace with her sisters—which dpes not prevent her giving her whole" heart to her lover, nor make her less than helpful and . tender to a ‘comparative stranger. She is.of the most perfect type of a womanhood content to live in. the shade of home and-a strong man’s ‘love.. Wherever she “goes she will carry peace and create happiness —her influence will be ever essentially pure and gentle.—Christian Work. <. . ROGUE ELEPHANTS. .

One of them . Had a |Terrible Grudge . .. Against Watch Towers. :

- The complete history ‘of rogue elephants would make aun interesting chapter. They séers to have decided to avenge man’s wrongs against their kind. - Some yearsago one rogue actually took possession of a stretch of country in India forty: miles wide by onehundred long, and in a businesslike way proceeded to demolish everything in or about it. The animal rushed into the . villages, toolt huts mpon his tusks and tore them apart; .or tosseg them until they fell in splinters.. I chased the people away, or killed them whenever it could, or, standing by the wrecked houses, it ate theé grains and stores. <. Sy S S :

‘This elephant seemed remarkably in‘telligent. It entertained in particular @ grudge against the watch towers. or scaffolds. -~ Whenever this rogue saw one, he would creep - slyly, spring at it, push it to the ground and kill its occupant. e 2N ;

A famous rogue eiephant -named! “Mandla” was owned by a rith man near Jubbulpore in central India. Suddenly it began to develop the characteristics of a ‘‘rogue,” and attacked human beings wherever seen. It killed them socruelly ‘that it became widely known as ‘‘the man-eater.” Ile was finally destroyed by an organized effort of English army officers, . =

Another famous. rogue. took possession of a public roadand attacked every passer-by. Suddenly darting from the jungle, it would rush up to an ox-cart, seize the driver with its trunk, and disappear. Repeated raids of this kind so terrified the people that a large tract of land was to all infents and purposes deserted; but finally an English hunter determined to rid the country of the rogue. By /careful inquiry he found - that the-elephant always . seized the. driver, and if there were two carts in company,. it chose the' driver of the last. So he arranged two ox-carts, putting a dummy driver upon the second,” while upon the first ivas -a stout. bamboo cage in which the hunter was to . sit rifle in hand. -When all was ready the two ox-carts started, one day, followed by the hopes and best wishes of the community. The fatal district was soon reached, and, about half-way down the road, there came a ‘crash, and the monstrous elephant, dark and ugly, dashed upon the party. Making directly for ,the last- cart, with .a vicious swing' of its trumk, it, seized on the dummy man and made off, receiving as - it went a shot from the cage... But the oxen, alarmed [ 'by the uproar, ran . away, leaving the road and taking to.

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