Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 August 1895 — Page 2

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PLYMOUTH, I SB I AHA. IS A DEAD DESPERADO BAD MAN OF TEXAS DIES WITH HIS BOOTS ON. Frizlitful Accident in a IJraddock, Fa., Furnace Train Kobhers Loot a U. I Flyer-Sad Fatality in Buffalo Harbor Drownings at Chicago. Terror of Texas Killed. John Wester Hardin, the terror of the Mexican brder, was shot and killed in the Acme saloon in Kl Paso. Texas, by Constable John Sllman. Sellman's son. who is on the police force, arrested a female friend of Hardin a few days ago, and Hardin threatened to run Selhnan out of the town. Monday night Sellman walked into the saloon with a friend. Hardin was inside, and when he saw Sellman he threw his hand to his hip iockot. In an instant Scllman's gun was out and a hall went era shin;: through Hardin's brain. Hardin had in his lifetime killed nine men and served eighteen years in prison for one of his murders. While in prison at Ilunterville. Texas, ho studb',1 law and was admitted to the bar on his release nearly two years ago. Several months ago he held up a faro frame in Kl Paso. Sellman is the officer who killed the notorious llass. outlaw, a year ago. Killed by a Wast. An explosion at furnace H. of the Carnegie Steel Company, at 1 raddock. Pant " o'clock Tuesday morning killed six men, injured ten more and destroyed S."".IHKJ worth of property. Five of the injured will die. All of the killed and injured were Hungarians, except James Harrison, the foreman. The explosion was due to a "hang" i the furnace, which suddenly loosened and dropped into the molten metal below, generating an immense quantity of pas so suddenly that it could not escape by the ordinary means and the explosion followed. The terrible loss of life was due to a jM'culiar cause. A few minutes before the explosion occurred one of the top fillers dmnjed a barrow of material into the bell of the furnace, which he had forgotten to raise. This clogged the top of the furnace and prevented the gas escaping. A gang of sixteen men, in chaw of James Harrison, was sent at once to the top to remove the obstruction. All were closely crowded around the hell of the fur.iace removing the material when thero was a terrific explosion and men, barrow, tools and material were hurled in all directions. Flames, deadly vases and smoke belched from the furnace-top, and then men fell as if shot. Only one man was killed instantly. Bold Train Kobbery. Union Pacific No. S overland liver, due in Omaha "Wednesday morning at 1J:'T. was held tip by highwaymen at some point between llrady Island and Rothenburg, Neb. The train left North Platte at 11 o'clock Monday night. The engine was out off by the bandits and sent forward while they looted the train. The engine went on to (lothenburg for assistance. The robbers blew up the express car with dynamite. While they were using the engineer to get the express car open the fireman ran off with the engine to Gothenburg for assistance. The country in the vicinity of the holdup is fairly well settled. All were heavily armed and i conflict is probable. K varies It by Death. Milton C. Merrill, night yardmaster of ;he Chicago, liurlington and Ojiincy Railroad at Chicago, by his own desperate act Monday night dissolved the injunction that Judge Chetlain granted his wife restraining him from inaiu-yijig any other woman or pretending to do so. He turned on the gas in his room and died by asphyxiation. Most novel, indeed, was the prayer of the petitioner, Mrs. Minnie Merrill, an invalid, who asked the court to enjoin Mr. Merrill from making good his threat to marry Mary Peetich. and the gossips of the corridors of the County Building had scarcely ceased discussing the court's temporary restraining order granted on the petition when the news of the defendant's effective p!an to escape service was brought to them. Four Lose Their Lives. Two loys, a young girl and a man were drowned in Lake Michigan at Chicago Monday. They were: Arthur H. Butler', 19 years old; Walter Puller, 17 years old; Florence Millard, 1" years old; Thos. Walsh, 35 years old. The Butler brothers went in swimming and Walter was carried beyond his depth by the undertow. Arthur tried to save him and Iwjth were lost. Florence Millard, daughter of William Millard, went in bathing with (J race Mihill. 17 years old. and a sister of Miss Mihill. aged 1. The waves carried, them beyond their depth. George Ii row o and Harry Duck managed to rescue the Mihill girls. Thomas Walsh was drowned while bathing. NEWS NUGGETS. The stockholders of the Commercial Bank at Milwaukee have decided to close the institution and go into liquidation. An attempt of a faction opposed to the priest of SS. Peter and Paul's Church at St. Joseph, Mo., to break up the services resulted in a riot. One man was fatally and six others seriously injured. The Chinese officials at Ku Cheng have positively refused to allow the American Consul, J. C. Ilixsm, and the British Consul, It. XV. Mansfield, opportunity to investigate the massacre of missionaries there. The Otis Elevator Company of Cleveland, dealers in horse feed, has closed its elevator, the reason assigued being the changed conditions by the use of bicycles and electricity instead of horses, which make it impossible to do business at a profit. Hamburg' dispatch: A boat containing twenty-live passenger was run down and sunk by the steamer Concordia, from Stade. Seventeen persons were drowned. Forest fires are raging in Southern New Jersey. Hundreds of miles have already been burned over, houses and live stock consumed, and it is feared there has been considerable loss of life. A bad wreck is said to have occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Road, about sixty miles from Jeffersonville, Ind., Morday morning. Four passengers and tie engineer are reported killed.

EASTERN. Edward E. Sterling, claiming to be a Chicago traveling man, is under arrest at New York, charged with stealing a gold watch and jewelry from a Newport artist. A lawyer at Hollis, X. J., who has been the victim of burglars several times recently has posted this notice in a conspicuous place on his house: "Burglars coming to my house will be regarded as coming on professional business and are required to pay a retainer." By the explosion of a large boiler in the paper mill and postal card manufactory of Wool worth & Co.. at Castleton. N. Y.. Wednesday, one man, James Lawton, the watchman, was kilied and another, the engineer, was so badly injured that it is believed he will die. Two new strikes were begun at New York Wednesday in accordance with resolutions passed by the Children's JacketMakers Local Assembly, I'm, K. of L., ami the Pautsmakcrs Iocal Assembly, demanding contracts for one year instead of six months. Altogether there arc something like 7.(K or S.fMMj persons thrown out of work by the strike, but the leaders assert that it will last only a few days. At Buffalo, X. Y.. the members 'of St. Albert's Koman Catholic Church have formally decided to secede and to establish an independent church. They will hire their own priest and run their own church without acknowledging the Bishop's authority over them. The decision was precipitated by the refusal of Archbishop Corrigan to remove a priest to whom they objected. The new church will be on somewhat the same lines as the independent Catholic church established by members of a Koman Catholic church in Cleveland last year. One person was killed and a score of others injured in a rear-end collision on the Camden and Atlantic Railroad in Camden, X. J., Thursday night. Marshall Johnson, aged C years, was burned to death. The injured are: I-ucy Buckman, Maggie Cannon, Mrs. Mary Glovers, James G rovers, Mrs. M. Johnson, Daisy Nahen. Carrie Quash, Matilda Quash, Mrs. Lizzie Watts, John Wilson. The rear of the excursion train caught fire and was completely burned. The train was the first section of fifteen cars, having tin board the parents and scholars of fourteen colored Sabbath schools from Camden. Philadelphia, and several counties in Pennsylvania. The headlight of the Atlantic City train was seen as it rounded the curve, and a panic ensued. A rush was made for the doors and windows, and children were thrown from the car to the platform, while others jumped from the windows. Responsibility for the wreck is not fixed. Crowding nine persons into a little pleasure craft hardly large enough for five caused the death of nearly all the party Sunday afternoon at Ocean City, Md. The drowned are: Lina Hall, aged 11); Lulu Hall, aged 14, sisters; Myrtle Stevens, nged ti; William Storr, aged 45; Laura Storr, aged 117. his wife; Ida Storr, aged 1(5, and May Storr. aged 14. Those who succeeded in reaching the shore were 11!-year-old Annie Hudson and Walter Hudson and William Hall, each about -O years old. The weather was so threatening that several persons cautioned Hudson, the skipper of the lxnt. to look out for squalls and stay near the shore. He did not take the advice, but headed his craft for the fishing grounds of Read's Islands. The capsizing occurred within lit Ml yards of the shore, and in water scv-n feet deep. Mr. Storr had only one hand ami was blind of an eye, but was an export swimmer. He succeeded in getting his two daughters on the bottom of the boat and was getting his wife out when the girls became scared, slipped off of the boat, grappled with their parents, and together the four perished.

WESTERN. Milwaukee brick manufacturers are arranging to form a trust. In the pocket of a man who was found iead on the railroad track near Springfield, Mass., was found the address: "James S. Edwards, 34 Dearliorn street, Chicago." James Rhodes steam sawmill in the Adirondacks, near Watertown, N. Y.. burned to the ground, with a large quantity of lumber. The loss is estimated at $100.000; no insurance. The Bald Ridge Investigation Company, of Springfield, Ohio, with about three hundred members scattered from New York City to California, is trying to secure the $ lOU.OUO.Ooy Holmes estate in England. A report reached Chamberlain, S. I)., that the notorious Bedderly brothers, who have long boon a terror to cattlemen on account of their bold and wholesale thefts of cattle, were lynched by a vigilance committee in Buffalo County. The Hotel Gfimry, Denver, Colo., filled with guests, was completely wrecked at midnight. Sunday, by an explosion. The floors and walls fell in a mass, carrying down the people who were in the building. The dbris was immediately ablaze. At Jl:öt a. m. twenty-four had been accounted for, six being probably fatally injured, and the rest less seriously. Shortly before the explosion occurred, the night clerk was heard to remark that seventy guests were in the house. The list of servants will not exceed ten, making a jMissible death listof fifty-six. Emmet t Divers, the negro who assaulted and killed Mrs. Cain near Fulton, Mo., a couple of weeks ago, was taken from the Sheriff about 1 o'clock Thursday morning by a mob at Fulton and hanget! to a railroad bridge. Divers was taken from St. Louis by Deputy Sheriff Buchanan, of Calloway County, and arrived at Fulton some time after midnight. Sheriff Buchanan left the train with his prisoner some disiance from Fulton and was proceeding with him in a carriage when he was intercepted by a mob of more than a hundred men. who forcibly took the negro and hanged him. An explosion and resulting fin Thursday entirely consumed the plant of the Peerless refinery at I'icdlay, Ohio, with ftHUMKl loss, half insured. A benzine tank first exploded from some unknown cause and in an instant the building was wrapped in seel hing flumes. Two still men, William Adams and William Bends, were probably fatally burned. Ten oil stills next caught fire and one after another exploded, sending flaming oil over the surrounding buildings and ground. Next two tanks of crude oil, containing 12,0t0 gallons, caught, sending up red columns of flame 1SMI feet into the air. A mammoth tank of MO.OOO barrels was lired into with a cannon. letting the oil run out, where it caught fire. MinueaiM.lis underselling Duluth nt the sou hoard by a full cent was the report received from the East Thursday by Duluth wheat shippers. The freight war from the Twin Cities has culminated in the

greatest slaughter of tariffs that the Northwest has ever known. The Soo Road is said to be carrying wheat to the seaboard at the rate of 11! cents per hundred pounds, or only 2 cents more than the lowest all-rail rate ever known to be made from Chicago to the seaboard. If the other Van Home road, the South Shore and Atlantic, makes the same comparative rate or a trifle lower from Duluth, wheat will go East by all-rail instead of lake and rail. The Pierre, S. D., court-room was crowded Wednesday to hear sentence pronounced on XV. XV. Taylor, the defaulting ex-State Treasurer. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced on him Tcylor in a low voice replied: "I have not." Jr.dg!? Gaffey then reviewed the case ami the different statutes bearing upon the crime. Ho considered the much-discussed section 1,00." void, and did not believe a two-year sentence was intended to cover such a case as this. He said that Taylor's worst crime was in attempting to force a compromise after gathering together all the State funds he could lay his hands on. A sentence of five years at hard labor was then pronounced. Frank Sweet's efforts having fuiled to separate Mrs. Alice Burr from her husband at Chicago Wednesday, Frank Burr, a printer, he shot her and a Mrs. Nichols, and then put two bullets into his own brain, killing himself instantly. Mrs. Burr was fatally injured, it is thought, while Mrs. Nichols received only a flesh wound. Burr and his wife have not lived happily together for some time. Sweet was a brother-in-law of the two women, his wife having tlied a short time ago. Lately he had been attentive to Mrs. Burr, and it is asserted that he sought every opportunity to persuade her to leave her husband. She was inclined to listen to him, but was kept from carrying out his wishes by the advice of Mrs. Nichols. Edward Clegg, Coleman Nockolds and Henry Cartenson. the young Englishmen who were arrested at Chadron, Neb., for fast riding and refused to pay their fines, after a couple of days spent in.the county bastile, their spare time being employed by sitting on a rock pile with a ball and chain attachment, finally got tired of the affair and paid their fines. They have, however, had prepared a communication to the British Consul stating their version of the affair and asking for redress from the United States. The protest ha not arrived at the State Department, and if it should be received it is probable they would be promptly informed that the ilopartment would take no action in a case where a municipality had punished any one for violating a police regulation. American bicyclists frequently are' arrested in England fur violation of local police regulations. IsouthernT The engine and baggage car of the north-bound passenger train on the Cottoll Belt Railway were ditched Thursday night at Stamps Station, Ark., and Engineer Eighme and Fireman Dean were seriously, perhaps fatally, wounded. John Johnson, colored, was hanged :;t Mount Sterling, Ky., for killing Policeman Charles Evans on June 15. Johnson's neck was not broken and lie lid not die for twenty-live minutes after the trap was sprung. Nearly ten thousand people witnessed the hanging. Just before daylight Friday Morning a double loghouse near Arlington. Tenn.. occupied by Mrs. Callie Ilarrill, her two grown daughters and a son, vas burned to the ground, and Mrs. Ilarrill and the girls perished in the flames. The son, who oe-cupicd a room in the rear of the building, barely escaped with his life. It is thought the women were drugged, r.s loghouses burn very slowly, and they should have awakened in time fo escape'. The remains were burned to a crisp. Near Morgantown, XV. Ya., John Black and sons were thrashing Tuesday when the boiler of the machine exploded, killing three men and injuring four others. The killed are: John Spotsnage, Curtin Amnions. John Blair. The injured: Ross Blair, John Spotsnage Jr., Lcroy Wade, William Amnions. Curtin Amnions was struck by a piece of the boiler and literally torn to piece's. His legs and feet were found under the barn. All of Blair's clothing was torn from him except his shoes. While the mail train on the Pensaeola and Atlantic Division of the Ixiuisville and Nashville Railroad was bowling along between Bonifay and Carryville, Fla.. Friday night, some heavy object struck the headlight, smashing the glass and knocking the banner off the lamp. The oil caught fire and in an instant the front of the engine was in flames. The engineer reversed the lever so suddenly that the cars bumped together with great force, injuring several passengers and derailing the engine. By hard work the flames were extinguished, and then the engine was examined. It was found that a buzzard had struck the headlight and can seel the trouble. The bird was found wedged in the headlight with the feathers burned off and thoroughly cooked, and was only removed by using a crowbar. It is supposed the glare of the headlight at-trae-ted the buzzard. The accident cost th road several hundred dollars, and tra'.Hc was delayed five hours.

FOREIGN. Count Ito has a verteil a crisis in the Japanese Cabinet by resuming his duties as Prime Minister and accepting the title of marquis, offered him by the Emperor. The Sofia correspondent of the London Times telegraphs that M. StamlioulofT's grave has been desecrated, the police arriving just in time to prevent the exhuming of the remains. The condition of the crops of Europe i.-s reviewed in the report of the European agent of the Agricultural Department for August. It shows fair e-rops in most of the countries except Great Britain. A bloody battle is reported in British Honduras between native' Carlbs and negro workmen building a railroad for English planters. Between five and six hundred negroes were killed and almost as many injured, while the Ca ribs had dos iqioii ÖM) killed and twice as many wounded, some mortally. A census of the British Parliament just assembled shows that only 1JIO out of UJS are new members. As to occupations, 1Ö0 are lawyers, IYI manufacturers, SS mechanics. 10 professors in universities, .'II journalists, Li skilled laborers, 1! brewers, distillers ami wine merchants, 4l army and navy officers in active service, Ml! gentry, peers' sons und peers' brothers. The New York World says: "The Novedades, an organ of the Spanish Government, makes the official announcement from Madrid that Spain will h-ive 1 Til ',-7,! soldiers under arms in Cuba by Se'pt. Z. When those re-enforcements arrive there will be 745,-72 regulars ami SO,OU0 volunteers. The regulars are classi

fied as follows: Fifty-nine thousand nine hundred infantry. 3,870 cavalry, l.SW artillery. 1.4 1.1 engineers. Ü.700 marine infantry, (To military police', 4,400 civil guards, 1,1?- guerrillas. A semi-official note has been published at Paris stating that tuberculosis is shown to exist in New York State, and that New York e-attle have been refused entry into Connecticut, and also that anthrax is ravaging New Jersey herds, while a serious disease, believed to bo Texas fever, has been disceivered in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The note then proceeds: "These facts fully justify the measure taken Feb. IM of checking the import of American cattle into France, and are the best reply to the criticisms this measure evoked."

IN GENERAL Obituary: At Damascus. Ya., General J. D. Imboden. the Confederate cavalry leader; at Philadelphia, Peter F. Kothermel, the historical painter, 78; at Elkhart, Ind., William Cox. 74; a: Galena, 111., Mrs. Kireus Murray. Ü0; at Appleton, Wis.. Burnett II. Mills, 'Jo. Acting Attorney General Conrad decided the appointment of Matt Itansom as Minister to Mexico was illegal, on the ground that the salary of the office had been increased by Congress $.",000 while Mr. Itansom was Senator from North Carolina. The decision was based on a question raised by Auditor Hok-omb in declining to pas:; favorably on Mr. Hansom's vouchers for salary and expenses. IX. G. Dun & Co. say in their ilevir w of Trade: "It is a belated season; a frozen May set ever.' ' ing back. The heavy business whiel ought to have been done in May and J.ne was pushed into July, so that the midsummer decline, due in July, comes in August. With this in mind, one is not surprised to find the shrinkage from July to August rather more conspicuous than usual. The disappointing crop reports Saturday, though evidently distrusted, lessen confidence in regard to the future of trade, even while some speculators gain by tliem. Back of all doubts is the fact that the industries are doing better than anybody could have expected." A question of great interest to Canada was asked in the House of Commons by Mr. Price, who inquired if the Government was aware that the present exclusion of Canadian store cattle had caused and was causing severe loss in some of the agricultural districts, and whether the restriction can be removed. The president of the Board of Agriculture. Walter Long, replied, saying that as late as July 10 eases of cattle suffering from pleuro-pneumonia had been found among cargoes coming from Canada, and the Government in consequence must maintain the restriction placed upon such cattle. Mr. Long added that the Government was e'ommunicating with the Government of the Dominion of Canada on the subject. Although passengers arriving at Victoria, It. C, by the Oriental liners agree that cholera is working frightful havoc in Japnji, the newspapers eif that country contain no reference to the devastation of the plague. This is probably due to the fact that the disease finds its victims ehielly among soldiers recently returned from the front, and the Government, therefore, takes advantage of the law relating to the press censorship to its fullest extent. According to officers of the Victoria, and the more recently arrived Empress of Japan, the military has suffered a loss of thousands during the last feumouths and the principal stations in Japan are at present converted into great hospitals. The Formosa expedition has proved especially disastrous. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P. XV. L. cent. Cleveland 101 tK .18 tfSl Baltimore Ml r 3." JJ1." Pittsburg i7 ."8 SI) .rys Chie-ago !0 2V 44 .."5 Cincinnati !l f2 42 ..Vitt Boston I 51 42 .MS Philadelphia ... . 1 51 42 .54S Brooklyn id 50 4." .52!. New York f5 47 4S .40." Washington .... S7 SO 57 ,'iWt St. Louis US 32 (u; .o2; Louisville 01 22 00 .242 Wl'.STKUN I.KAT.rK. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per I. XV. L. cnt. Indianapolis .... 05 ill 34 JM2 St. Paul 'X, 5(i 30 .5Sf. Kansas City. .. . 0O 55 41 .572 Minneapolis.... 01 40 45 .521 Milwaukee 0 47 40 .4S0 Detroit UK 43 I .417 Terre Haute OS 40 58 .40S Grand Kapids... 00 33 (U) .3.-t3 MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $.'.7." to J?f..."; hogs, shipping grades, SjsS.OO to ..".LT; sheep,,fair to choice, $J.r0 to $1.00; wheat, No. li red, iTc to (7c; torn. No. 2, IlSc to ::0e; oats, No. H, l!0c to Jlc; rye, No. '2. 41c to 40c; butter, choice creamery, ISc to UOc; eggs, fresh, lie to Ute; potatoes, new. per bushel, .."(. to 4."c; broom corn, Illinois, poor to choice $."." to $lOO per ton. Indianapolis (,'attle, shipping, $o.OO fo $r.."0; hogs, choice light, .Si.OO to ".1-" ; sheep, common to prime. 2L!.00 to $.'.7ö; wheat, Xo. If, tlTie to (I7c; corn, Xo. 1 white, ÖOe to MSc; oats, Xo. 1 white, 20c to 27c. St. Iiouis Cattle, $::.0.0 to $.O0; hogs, :;.. to $.".00; wheat, Xo. 2 red. title to (57c; corn. Xo. 2 yellow. J5.V to ö(c; oats. No. 2 white, 10c to 2c; rye, No. 2, 40e to 41c. Cincinnati Cattle, $.i.r0 to ?r.."0; hogs, ..".(MI to $.".; sheep, $2.00 to 5?t.t)0; wheat, l'o. Ü. (ISc to 70c; corn, Xo. L mixed, ;J7c to :i0c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24 e; rye, Xo.'2, 4."c to 47c. Detroit -Cattle, $2.."i0 to $(100; hogs, Jft.tK) to $Ö.2Ö; sheep, $2.(0 to $:t..0; wheat, Xo. 2 red, 70o to 71c; corn, Xo. 2 yellow, ;:0c to KV; oats, Xo. 2 white, 20c to 27c; rye. 44c to 40'. Toledo-Wheat, Xo. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 4UO to 41e; oats. No. 2 while, 2.h' to 21c; rye. Xo. 2, 4.V to 40e. HufTalo Cattle, $2."0 to $0.00; hogs, $:t.00 to $."V.2."; sheep, $.'1.00 to $.'!.7ö; wheat, Xo. 2 red, ,72c to 7.'c; corn, Xo. 2 yellow, 4oo to 41e; oats, No. 2 white, 20o to 27c. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring, 00c to 07c; corn, Xo. II, o7c to UOc; oats. Xo. 2 white, 2le to 2.V; barley, Xo. 2, 42c to 41c; rye. No. 1, 43c to 47c; pork, moss, $0.00 to $0..r0. New York-Cattle, $.'U) to $0.00; hogs, $1.00 to $.".2."; sheep, $2.r.O to $o.7."; wheat, Xo. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 47c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 28c to ,?0c; butter, creamery, 10c to 21c; eggs, West ern, 13c to 14c.

SWEPT BY A TEMPEST.

WILD FUftY OF THE STORM AT j PITTSBURG. Advantage of Harvcyized Armor Lost ; toThis Country-Market Outlook for Cereals iti England-Farmers Don't Pay for Seed Grain. Storm at Pittsburg. At Pittsburg three lives were lust by a storm Sunday nibt and a seore of persons were injured, wbile the property lo-ss will foot up SlOO.WO. At least twenty wore injured more or less seriously by beiu;: hit by Hying debris. The storm struck the city about 10 o'eloek and was over in about half an hour, but in that brief time death and widespread destruction was left in its track. The rain eanie down in torrents, and was accompanied by vivid lightning and teirilio wind. Houses were unroofed, trees uprooted, and fences and outhouses demolished. So tremendous was the force of the tornado that the steamers Lud Keefer, Little Hill and Arlington were overturned, and many barges, eonl boats and small craft torn from their moorings and sent adrift. Unele Sam Was Scooped. Washington dispatch: The construction end of the Navy Department has at length impressed the higher powers of the administration that a piece of monumental folly was committed when the opportunity was thrown away of monopolizing the Harvey process of hardening armorplates for war vessels. As the matter now stands the United States is in the position of developing the ideas of Inventor Harvey and perfecting the most valuable of armor improvements and of neglecting to stipulate for ihe control of the process. No sooner, therefore, did this Government prove the great useful ness of the process than the inventor proj eeeded to sell it to all the great naval i powers of Europe, placing each and every one on an equality, whereas this country should have held a distinct advantage over rival Governments. It may gratify the national pride to know that Uncle Sam now leads the world in excellence of its armor-plate processes, and also in the manufacture of projectiles. Six years ago this country was away in the rear. Knglatid Needs Corn. A London correspondent talked with several leading experts at the Baltic Exchange, the headquarters of the British corn trade, on the prospects of the British corn crop and the amount of American corn likely to be required. Some prominent brokers declared that the River IMatte holds the key to the situation, anil that reports from there promise a very large surplus crop of both maize and wheat. The Danube district also reports an immense crop, as against an abnormally small one last season, and the view generally expressed was that, however low the American ju ices may be, the Danube will undersell them. The Pritish crop Is expected to be generally below the average, but brokers could not hazard an opinion on the probable amount of American corn that will be required. Last year the imports of American mm were only 25.r(7,7.V bushels. This year there ought to be four or live times as much. Steamer City of Sheflield Sinks. The steamer City of Sheffield, from St. ! Louis to Tennessee Itiver, struck an ob struction in the Mississippi liiver back of Cairo at midnight Sunday and sunk. The water barely covers the boiler deck, and she lies straight and smooth and will be raised without trouble. Several hundred barrels of flour in the hold will be damaged. Xo lives were lost, and the passen- ! gers were taken off. The Sheffield had , JOO passengers. The ln.at knocked a hole ; in her bottom twelve feet long, and filled 1 ami settled down smooth and square on a bar. Most of her passengers were asleep j and knew nothing of the accident until moruing. Blown Up by a Mine. The London Daily News has a dispatch from Vienna which says Trieste papers report an explosion destroyed the artillery barracks at Toula, Itussia, and that "00 men were killed, including many oiliccrs. The barracks were found to be completely undermined. Many arrests have been made. Toula is the capital of the Government of Toula in European Kussia. It is on the ltiver Oopa. 10." miles south of Moscow. It is a manufacturing city of 70,000 people. Cubans Meet Defeat. A severe engagement, it is reported I from Havana, in Spanish otlicial circles, I has been fought at Arillao in the Depart- : ment of Santa Clara. It was ollieially an nounced that Lieut. Col. I'alanea had routed the insurgents under the command of IJoloff and Sera tin Sanchez. The insurgents left sixty dead and wounded i n the li-'Id. and twenty of their horses were killed. The troops lost two killed and had t ight wounded. BREVITIES. The sessions of the Catholic summet school fur ISO.- were closed at IMattsburg. X. V. President Conaty announced that building on the grounds would be commenced at once, and that an auditorium, together with cottages, would be completed for next year's sessions. A number of South Dakota counties that furnished grain to farmers last spring are experiencing considerable difliculty in collecting the money due from many of the farmers. In some instances farmers who owe the counties for seed grain have completed their thrashing and left for parts unknown, notwithstanding that if caught such action would under the law be deemed a felony. Printed lists of delinquents are being secured, and they may be arrested. It is feared that war !s inevitable between I'eru and ltolivia. The trouble is over a strip of seacoast which Chili took from IVru and which Holivia wants. A. Kuzar and his 4-year-old daughter perished in the Üamcs which destroyed their home at Algonquin, III. Mr. Kuzar had es 'aped, but went back into tho burning building to rescue his chil l. A report from Cuba says that Maximo Gomez, the insurg'iit leath-r, died from 4-onsumptic!i on July III. The Ocean View Hotel, on Kockaway Ilea eh, was burned. All 1 bo 2(H) guests are thought to have escapel. Settlers along Lake Samis, Wash., rcprt that there is an unbroken line of forest tires from llclfast to the lake, destroying timber and rendering the atmosphere almost suffocating. All game is being driven from the hills to the lakes and water courses, and deer are almost domesticated.

ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.

ßllvcr Democrats Trcparc for thft Campaign of IStXJ. ; The Democratic silver conference in session in Washington adopted a program and phi t form, and issued an addres to the people of which the following ar tho principal points: At a conference between n number of Democrats from li:Ter;Mit Statt-s who tX tended the mn- '.rtlsan convention recent ly assembled nt Memphis, T.-.m.. for tl pui-posa of promoting tliu eau.se of frt-o sll ver coinage, which coiifcre'.u'e we bebt after the adjournment ef the convention, committee conflating of S'natra Jones of Arkansas, Turplo of Indiana, and Hnrri3 of Tennessee was appointed and uuthorized to Invito representative ltemccrutH from tb several SStnn-s to nn-et them at Wuüuirigtoa for consultation, with the view of securing co-oprratlon and -neert of action among those Democrats throughout the I'ul.in who believe In adln-ring to the ardinal Democratic policy of r.etijal bimetallism. Disclaiming all rlht to Miil any person by our utterances, but profoiiTi-üy i onsclous that tho Democratic, parry to-day cnfront a crisis the most :uiuen.Mis In Its history, and fraught with far-reaching perils to th people and the country, we are ussembled as Individual Denio.-rats to take couu&cl together, and for the undisguised purpose of Inaugurating and promoting a thorough and systematic organization n the lH'mocutie masses, s that tli y may go forward as one man with a resolute purpose, to rescue the old party t'oamb-d by Thotnaa Jeffer son from plutocratic domination. Therefore, with this obj- t in view, this convention of Ai:iri.;:ti Demoi-rats. c'!iiosei of representatives from tw'ity-f.t!r of tho loadin;; Stats of the t'nio;!. mak-s the following d'el:i ration on tho monetary piestlon, which has hvn forced into ihe Ic-ndiziff place ninonir t!:' issues of to-day. The well-known aruni-nts in favor of bimetallism at a ratio of 1; to l follow, and the (ioeuiiicnt ! -lares the D. iuoenrtic parttr the champion of that biin.-ia'.INm from Jefferson to the present tim. The eburgo that the act of lvT.'J was pa.wd by fraud is reiterat-d. with tl.- l:d'n that falling price are the r s ;It -f the appr im ioa if Kold. The (iiK-iiim :it tin n nays: "Tin- 1 ou.-crutIc party is the traditional 'friend ami champion of bim't:i!liM'i. Its t n-n't h and power and popularity have boon l;ir.s.' ly built upon it steadfast opjiositc-n to the tota-üiolirutlon of silv.-T and its record of unwearied effort to restore it to its historic piae as a full money m'tal Mpial with ;d. T!ia effort at this lat ':y i i iiütke i; pal 'X-eiiene tho clixiUipion of tcoM iii'i:o-iiu-I;('.!isi'i. tho fncmy of th' pediey it has nplu id. and the defender of the crime it has loiio:;ncd. Is au effort to Ikdionoi- its record, its promises, and its prineipUo." Proposed National Platform. Duty to the poopU' rcp.i!ivs that the party Of the people -.iiMmic the battle for bimetallism until its Horts are crowned with 6ucc ss; tlierefore.be it Ilesoived. That the Democratic party. In national convention ass-Ti:b!-d. should demand the fr-' and unlimited 'iiiage of Kilver and gobl into primary or i'denipt!on money at the ratio .f 10 to t, without waiting for the a !ion or approval of any other nation; that it should ieclare its irrevocable opposition to tin- substitution for a metallic money of a panic-breeding, corporation-credit currency, b.iscd on a single metal, the supply of which Is s limited thut it earn bo cornered at any tiu:e by a few banking institutions in Kuropo and Amerha. That it should leehiri? it-s ppositton to the policy and pr:;-tie if surrcmlerlng to the holders r the obligations f the United States the opii.-n n st rvt-J Ly the law to tho (oV'U-Timelit of redevliillifj SIH-ii ot!iKitjons In A. crrhcr silv r oiu or gold coin; thut it should declare iis opposition to the Issuing of inl'rsi-bearing bonds of the United States in time of peace, anil especially to placing the treasury of the ;ovenmu-iit under the c.ntrol of any syndicate "f bankers. ar.d th IsstiMiice of bonds to be sold by them at an ei!r:uo'is pro tit for tlt' purpose of supplying the Fi!cr:.l tn-a.-'iiry with gold to m;:iutnin the policy of gold m.mo-nietallisnu With a view to securing jSh- adherence to ami read tpii- i if ti;o Dci:i'cralir financial policy ab-ve set fartii. by th' Detnoeratto natton.-il con out ion to 1k assembled in l8Jft. and f the noiiiinnl ion r a c.iiililate for the I'resid'ticy well known to ha in hearty sympathy tin-'rewit h. w' hereby pledge our mutual co-oor:i ion. and urgently recommend to our Democrats' brethren in all the Stab's to at ;' Ugin ;.nd vigorously and systeie.atie.-illy prosecute the work of a. thorough organi.at ion. LONDON'S PARKHURST. lie Is Kev. Dr. Iiusf, nn l lie I rtow Visiting America. The Dr. Parkhurst of London, Iter. Septimus Kuss, is now on a visit to the United States. I'or twenty years he has been engaged in the interest of reform, the regulation of the sale of intoxicants occupying most f his attention. He is president of Sioti College, and as vicar of Khoreditch, a Lomloti parish of 125,000 population, he is vestel with nearly all of the powers which Mayor William L. Strong possesses, excepting the pririlege of appointing municipal ofltcials. "1 have been interested in the reform movement to n-gulate the saIo of intoxicants for twenty years," said Dr. Buss. "Since our vigilam-e committee was formed we have taken a more letermined stand and have several times come into open conlliet with those opposed to us tney are called publicans. The Knglish i:kv. sKPHMfs r.rss. license law lifi'ers considerably from thtv American. We have two laws one that has refcrciM-o only to Iondoii nnd the other to the provinces. The Ihws arc in reality a law and an amendment to U law. Subsidiary acts relate to Sunday dosing, selling to children under YS years, of ng etc. "There are several Sumbiy law. In linden saloons are closed from 11 to 1 o'clock, open frtn 1 to ,1, th't closed until early evening, after which they remain open until 11 o'clock. Different laws were cna-t'd for Sittland, Wah'S and the Isle of .Man. ! Ireland the live most populous cities are exempted from tho provisions of the Sunday closing law. "The American impression that ourSunday law works satisfactorily is crronous. It is continually and openly vbdatcd. The polie as a rule, are in league with the publicans. Police- drink nt prohibited times and in prohibited placet?." News of Minor Note Southern Kailway znd Steamship Assoiation lines have decided not to cut rates. A child ')i Mrs. Annie Seele.r, whowas. being taken to a New York fr?e Deutary, died in n street car. 4