People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — Page 6

To con RESPONDENTS.

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Tin? favorable reports as to the sanitary condition of Hamburg are reassurin* to the people of this country. D«. James H. Kirkland, professor of latin of Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., hasbeen elected chancellor to succeed Dr. K. G. Garland, retired on •ccount of age and infirmity. n '1 i” Tweb-eye is a peculiar crystallization •f quartz. Formerly very rare and costly, large deposits have been found Jn the western states, and in South Africa, so that many common articles are now made of it. A boyal commission of England on tuberculosis has almost completed experiments to show the effect on the jmeat of bacteria inoculation on the live stock. It is expected that the final report in autumn will result in a material change of laws governing the importation of cattle. Nothing in horticultural hall excites more comment than the top of the cocoanut tree from Lake Worth, Fla. Its attraction rests in the fact that the Buts are among the feathery fronds just as they grow. There are in the aame exhibit some cocoanut trees just starting from the nut.

Boup creek, McDowell county, W. Va, is a remarkable stream. The creek passes a hamlet called Vivian, and about a mile below returns, runs around a tract of land about a half mile wide and then passes under itself. This freak is caused by the lay of the Sand, which sinks spirally. Commenting on the fact that it costs Uncle Sam $750 a shot to test cannon plate and guns, the Laramie Republican arrives at the very plausible theory that if the tests are successful it will cost some other power more than that to fool with your Uncle Samuel. Recpectful treatment comes high, but wo must have it

Among the many Russian articles of Me and beauty now imported to this country are girdles for feminine waists. They are, like the most Russian ornaments, gorgeous to the last degree. The girdle itself is made of cloth woven with threads of gold or silver. The buckle is usually a large metallic affair bedizened with Byzantine decoration. All the principal actors in the Panama scandal are confined to their beds. Hertz is dying at Bornemouth, in England, Ferdinand de Lesseps is mentally and physically a wreck. Charles de Leneps is in the hospital at St Louis, If. Marius is in the infirmary of the Ifelnin prison, and ex-Minister Baihut Is in the hospital of the prison of Etampes. Portland cement, according to the Sanitary Plumber, has been put to a new use. /it is now substituted for the Bore expensive rubber and asbestos preparation for packing steam joints; Erom extensive practical trials this cement packing is found to be quite as efficient as the others hitherto employed, and its cost is only one-tenth tthat of the others.

Mbs. Stanford, when thanked refoently for the great work done by her husband and herself in founding the university at Palo Ato, said: “Do not -call it a kindness on our part; we •ehonld not be thanked, for the reason 'that we had to sacrifice nothing. If we had made a personal sacrifice to enable ns to build the university we anight conscientiously accept your gratitude. ’’ Almost the sole hereditary trade in ■the United States is that of the deepwater pilot. At most of the important •ea ports oilotage has been confined for generations to a few families. The Delaware pilots congregate at Lewes, where they have lived these many generations. To be a deep-water pilot in Delaware is to be a man of consideration, with houses, lands and portable goods ashore, a snug home, a well-clad family, and local honors of various sorts. According to a recent showing of the military equipment of Europe, the kaiser’s country leads the world in the size of its military establishment, having increased from a mobilizing strength of 1,300,000 in 1869 to 5,000,000 in 1892, positively the most elaborate military display made by any of the European military powers. Next to Cfermany’s strength is that of France with 4,350,000 men; Russia is third with 4,000,000, Italy next with 2,236,000 and Austria next with 1,900,000. A hew vegetable is about to be introduced to the people of Sta tes "through the department of agriculture. It is the root of the calla lily, which resembles somewhat in appearance the ordinary Irish tuber, with the addition of a few fibrous roots that have nothing to do with the qualities of the articles as an esculent. So prolific and palatable is the root of that plant that their propagation in many parts of the, United States may reasonably be looked forward to as an agricultural indusfay of the future. Chief Constructor Hinchbqbv at the Washington navy yard has made a -calculation showing the enormous force -of the blow that the Camperdown dealt wpon the Victoria. He says the Cainperdown has a weight of 10,600 tons, and was moving at a rate of ten knots per hour, or 16.8 S feet per second. This ■would give an impact-of 46,900 foot tons delivered by the sharp ram ofjthe Camperdown. That is equivalent to the bkw that would be struck by d railroad train consisting of six Pullman cars drawn by the heaviest of loceMfetives; •ay one of 120 tons running (ft a speed fifty miles an bone, w

INDIANA STATE NEW

Nkasr Anderiwn, Farmer Henry ftiaaaman was killed by a sunstroke whil# ' pitching hay. * V IIPK j Fourth-clam postmaster appointed , the other day' for Indiana: Miss Belle j Fountain, Selma, Lawrence comity, i vice Cyrus--E. Nichols resigned. A dost office has been established at ' Earnest,- Fayette county, and John B. Sacre commissioned as postmaster, j The sheriff at Andersen has offered SSO for information leading to the conviction of any one participating in a prize fight in that county. * -; 1 One of the main buildings of the Kokomo wood 'enameling works,' the largest factory of the kind in America, burned the other evening, throwing 150 men out of employment. . ; At Indianapolis three of the principles of what is known as the “White . Star’’ gang of burglars have been arrested, and with them is a young man whom the police are trying to identify. J Woo Gay, a Chinaman from Troy, 6., died at Connersville, the other night, from cancer of the arm. He came to America twenty-eight years ago from j Canton, China. His last wish was to !he buri6d here. He said “America is good-enough for me.” Thomas Rodgers, of the Irondalc,--rolSng mill, of Anderson, left for Chi« A, cago. the other day, to have a mudstone f applied to a wound he received on his ! hand by a mad-dog while in the Fan- ! Handle depot at Cincinnati some days 1 ago. Rodgers' hand is in bad shape. George D. Clemmons, of Muncie, a leading carpenter, contractor and j builder, is mysteriously missing, and his family and many friends are great y grieved. He has been unsuccessful in i business, losing about SIO,OOO during the past ten years. R. W: Reinhart and Miss Tillio King, of Michigan City, were to have been married. The bride's wedding gown was in readiness, the clergyman had been engaged, the bridal feast had been prepared, when Reinhart mysteriously disappeared. The young lady is nearly prostrated with grief. Information received by the Terra Haute police the other morning from Guthrie, Oklahoma, states that Sheriff Hixon was indicted and held in $5,000 bond for allowing Ellsworth Wyatt, of j the Dalton gang, to escape. Wyatt was captured near Terre Haute last winter by Terre Haute officers, and the ' capture created a great sensation at the i time. Sheriff llixon took the prisoner back to Oklahoma and allowed him to escape. A Lake Shore news agent named Beyer, jumped from the train, about a mile out of Goshen, the other afternoon, and was instantly killed. lie imagined some one who had gotten off at Goshen had robbed him, and intended jumping off and coming back to investigate. The Bedford Stonequarries Co., of Bedford, the largest producers of oolitic limestone in the world, have made an assignment to Wm. L. Breyfogle, one of the company’s largest creditors. Inability to realize in time to meet maturing obligations was given as the cause. After an appraisement of the business, the quarries will be continued and all contracts filled. Great excitement was occasioned at Anderson, the other morning, by the finding of a dynamite bomb lying on the floor of county auditor's office iu the courthouse. The deadly machine was of copper, globular in form. Why it was placed there and who did it is a profound mystery. Auditor Allen reI moved the bomb to the street, where it ! was viewed by hundreds. The body of Walter Dresser, the boy loprano drowned in the Wabash river at Lafayette, has not yet been re- ■ covered. As the little minstrel entered 1 the water just previous to the fatality he was singing “Nearer, My God, To , Thee.” i Ferdinand Buesing, aged 9, a son of j Calbert Buesing, residing near Laporte, was drowned in the mill race by going : beyond his depth. The body has been recovered. At Reefsburg some enemy saturated,, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Isenhoff’s bed with : chloroform, but this state of affairs was ! discovered just in time. | The body of an unknown priest was i found in St. Joseph river, at Goshen; $l6O was found in the unknown's i clothes. | Mrs. Roland Kyle, of CrawfordsI ville, a bride, quarreled with her hus- ! band, took a dime’s worth of morphine ■ and can not recover. j Silas Owen was taken to Brrzil for i shooting a man named Biggs in the i neck. It was a cowardly act. Biggs I has since died, and Owens was placed | in the murderers’ cell to await the action of the grand jury. Great excitement prevails in Clav City, and threats of lynching are indulged in. Biggswas much liked, while Owens had but few friends. Wm. Ransdell, a clerk in Beck's grocery store, Lebanon, was bitten on the hand by a tarantula while handling bananas. Immediately after being bitten he was placed under the influence of liquor. He is in a serious condition, but will probably recover. Two hours after Ransdell was bitten a nest.of the tarantulas was found in the bunch of /bananas, and near two hundred young ones were killed. John Costello, 29 years old, who had his right hand mashed whil6\ coupling c&rs at Muncie several days ago, died a few days later of lockjaw at the home of his brother in Noblesville. He was married and lived at Indianapo'is. . The case involving the constitutionality of the fee and salary law was appealed to the supreipe court the other day. In the assignment of error'- the | attorney general says that the court j below erred in overruling the demurrer to the relators petition, and in overruling .the demurrer to the alternate e writ to which action of the court the appellant excepted at the time. Calvin S. Peters was gored to deaA by a bull on the farm of his uncle near Elkhart, where young Peters was visiting. The post office at Penobscot, Montj gomery county, will be discontinued after . uly 15.

ANSWERS HIS CRITICS.

OO*. Sttceld DnUiw Be Acted In AceordMe« with What gee no Ml to Him to Be HU l*u*y and Ha. No Regret*. c Chicago, June 30. —Gov. Altgeld arrived in Chicago Thursday morning from Springfield. He will remain for some days, his purpose, as he explained it, being to transact private business of pressing importance. His secretary, who came along, brought with him a valise filtad with congratulatory telegrams all parts of the country. A.-jpood many people called at the governor’s office on the fourteenth floor of the Unity building in the forenoon him for pardoning the three men who cams home from Joliet Monday evening. The governor submitted-to an inter view during the afternoon on the subject of pardoning Fielden, Schwab and •Neebe. He spoke in a deliberate, judicial tone. He showed no resentment in his manner, and even when he condemned his critics most severely there was not a single trace of ahimation in his words. At times, however, h« looked unusually grave, as if the criticism of hundreds of influential tjewspapera was a difficult burden tc bear. He was asked what he had to say to the criticisms of the newspapers ojL&i* action, and retorted with an obKCT*Fiition that the criticism so far had been mainly abuse. . j “Why abuse?” he was asked. Replying, he said: “Well they leave the merits of the case entirely alone Generalities are though, to be sufficient and nothing like a care- j ful, unprejudiced review of my facts and arguments is anywhere attempted In most ■ cases, too, my critics have no knowledge of the facts, and probably none of them ha. studied the case siffflciently to make his opinion of great importance. How many of them have referred to what Chief Ebersold said about ; there being nothing in this anarchist business, : and how many of them referred to his state- ] ment about Sehaack being desirous of forming new societies and stimulating public excitement? “Then, again, my critics have avoided oil reference to the manner in which the jury that 1 convicted those men was impaneled. Nothing : is said of the declaration of those jurors that : they were prejudiced, and it appears to be ! taken for granted that it is a principle of American jurisprudence that men who are the viotims of a popular outcry are 1 not entitled to a fair trial. I hold it a sacred duty to insist that even the abandoned criminal is entitled to a fair and unprejudiced trial when arraigned- before the bar j of public justice. I hope the time will nevet ■ come when any other principle than that of ; honesty and fair play wUI prevail in the courts ol America.” Gov, Altgeld paused for a few minutes and seemed to he thinking hard. Then ! he continued: "My unfriendly critics laid no stress on the fact that the state never found out who threw \ the bomb, nor, in fact, anything about it The : state was never able to prove that the fellow who did throw the bomb had ever heard any of these men talk or had ever read anything they gpd written. Neither was it proven that he had ever heard of them. Not a single scintilla of evidence was brought out and no connection was made between the bomb thrower and the i men who were pardoned. “Those who have been so full of angry and hostile criticism ignore rational considerations entirely. In short they ignore the merits of the case and shut their eyes to the truth rather than admit that they possibly had taken a wrong view of the question. Instead of discussing the case calmly, logically, reasonably and in the spirit of Intelligent fairness, the critics grow wild, fierce and frenzied, and la that mood say things that they will probably be sorry for when cool, good sense reasserts its reign. “The reasons I gave for signing the pardon have been published, and they must stand c ir fall by themselves. To those persons who ascribe mean motives in an act of public ehar. acter I have nothing to say; , they suffloisntly answer themselves. My reasons have been given to the public. .If they are good they will stand; if they are not good they will fill. I simply have dpne what I believed to be my duty, and have nothing further to say. I. dp not care who commends nor do I care whe condemns my action.” In reply to a statement tliat many people believed that the pardon was all right, but that it was impolite to state his reasons so bluntly, the governor said: “1 do not believe in turning anybody out of ’ the penitentiary without giving good and subsubstantial reasons for so doing. In this case I considered such a course absolutely essential.” “What sort of an investigation did you make before deciding to grant the pardons’” “I read all the briefs it, the case and read all the documents submitted during the trial. I sent to Ottawa for the short-hand transcriptions of evidence, and I read them many times carefully. 1 neglected no opportunity to fully acquaint myself with the case.”

THE EPWORTH LEAGUE.

Thousands Attend the International Assembly at Cleveland, O. Cleveland, 0.. June 80.—Event train brings large delegations from all sections of the United States to attend the first international conference of the Epworth league, which opened in Music hall at 2 p. m. Thursday. The prospect now is that the expectations of the committee of entertainment will be rualized and that 10,000 people will be in attendance. Delegates are now registered from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Texas and Utah. The great gathering was called to order by Wilson M. Day, of this city, who bade the visitors welcome to the city in which the Epworth league was founded. Mayor Robert Blee also extended a cordial welcome on behalf of the city. The greatest applause, however, greeted Gov. McKinley, who in his particularly happy manner welcomed the delegates on behalf of the state of Ohio. Responses were 'made by Bishop Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal church; Dr. A. Carman, of Canada, and Bishop J. N. Fitz Gerald. This ended the afternoon programme. The convention will last three days.

Doomed to Disappointment.

Fostoria, 0., June 80.—The aj~ ! praisers in the affairs of Hon. Charles Foster have completed their work and Assignee Gormley will file his reDort to-day. Enough has leaked out to warrant the assertion that if there are any of the creditors who have withheld their signature from the pa petagreeing to take 50 per cent, for their claims, in the hope more, they will be doomed to a sad disappointment. The assets have dwindled down very much under the searching investigation of the appraisers and a big surprise awaits the creditors when j ilia repo -t is made public.

RIOTS IN PARIS.

Stndeat* Create Trouble » Row with Getvlerme* Owe at 4*o Beathi Result, While a Number of ’^felteons Are Wounded—The Prefect of Police Forced to Resign. ‘ t , Paris, July 4. — On Saturday last an affray occurred between the police and a number of students in the Latin quarter. The trouble commenced when the students, having freely dis-'. cussed in the cases the. Condemnation of; the organisers of Le Bal des Quatre Arts, determined to make a demonstration against Senator Berenger, the Anthony Comstock 'of France, who instigated the prosecution. They formed a great. procession and started for the Rue de Anjou, the senator’s residence an the other side of the water. A row with" the police occurred in which jl young man was killed. Sunday evening they marched to the house of M. Loze, prefect of police. Their tune was now changed to “Assassin, assassin, fgsassin, conspuz Loze, conspuz Loze, conspuz.’’ They made several assaults on some persons, attempted to interfere with the procession, but the police made no move against them. Monday afternoon they proceeded to the chamber of deputies, where they renewed their expressions of hatred for Loze Camille Dreyfus, a'radical deputy, came out and addressed them from the steps of the palais bourbon. He proposed they should send five representatives into the chamber, which they did. The students have the advantage over the workingmen who make demonstrations, as they have fathers who are senators,, deputies, prefects and so on. Finally Dreyfus returned and announced that Loze had resigned. Th}j students then marched proudly away. At 9:30 o’clock Monday-2,000 students surrounded the prefecture of police, jeered - the officials and threw stones through the windows. Several were wounded in the fight which followed at 10:15 p.m. The cavalry was called out to drive the students from the neighborhood of the Palais de Justice and the prefecture de police returned to thfir barracks after the mob had retreated to the Boulevard St. Germain. The mob then hurried back along the Boulevard St. Michel and across the bridge to the Boulevard du Palais, between the , arms of the river. The students smashed with their clubs and a heavy piece of timber the massive doors of the Palais de J ustice and knocked the glass out of all the windows within reach. The police hastened to the spot and charged, with drawn swords. The rioters overcame them, tore their swords from their hands and drove them back to Dieu. Several policemen were cut severely with the swords which the students had taken from them. Paris, July s.— Riotous demonstrations continued Tuesday by students at St. Germain des Pres and in the Rue Jacobnear the Hospital de la Charite. The police were unable to disperse the mobs. Eventually a large detachment pf cavalry charged and scattered the students. Omnibuses and tram cars were stopped by the mobs, the passengers were turned out and the vehicles upset. One man was killed instantly in the Rue de la Ilarpe, a narrow street leading off che Boulevard St. Germain. On the Boulevard St. Germain, Quai Voltaire and the Rue St. Peres traffic has been suspended. The Rue St. Peres has been barricaded. Pedestrians are stopped and maltreated. The Charity hospital has been surrounded with cuirassiers to keep off the students who threatened to attack the building. The ministry of public works, the marine department and the Ecole des Beaux arts are guarded by military. Skirmishing is reported intermittently from the Rue St. Jacob, the Quai Voltaire and the Place St. Germain. At 10:30 the students had possession of a dozen streets between the Boulevard St. Germain and the Seine. All shops, banks, and even many cases were closed. People barricaded their front doors and put up the shutters of the lower windows. In the crowd of women the etudiantes of the Latin quarter were conspicuous in new spring dresses and did not keep out of the most dangerous places. A mob assembled at the Palace St. Michel and tried to rush over the bridge to the Boulevard du Palais, which runs between the two buildings. They were met and driven back by a body of cavalry. They retreated fightingdown the Boulevard St. Michel. Many students were trampled or cut, and several cavalrymen were wounded by flying stones. At 11:30 the whole district between Rue St. Peres and the College de France, two blocks east of the Boulevard St. Michel, was In full riot. Troops of cavalry and squads of police were stationed in every street. The students , held their ground, stopping and upsetting all vehicles. Scores of carts and carriages were set on fire. The keenest anxiety is everywhere apparent. Gen. Saussier, military governor of Paris, has prepared the garri—rison for the worst. The names of twenty men severely injured in the riots of the night have been reported. At 1 o’clock the reports from the Latin quarter said that most of . the windows were broken, the lamp posts were lying across the streets and broken furniture and half-smashed vehicles lay strewn over the pavements.

No Special Grand Jury.

Decatur, 111., June 30.--Judge Vail in the circuit court on Thursday withdrew the order for a special grand jury in the Bush negro lynching qase. ; He said that in the language of Fielden at the memorable Haymarket meeting, the law had been resisted, stabbed and throttled in Macon county.

Burglar Anderson Punished.

! Columbus, 0., June 30.—Jim Ander- ' son, the notorious burglar, who has committed crime in. every large city in the state, and always escaped convic- ! tiou, has been sentenced to five years’ j mprisomn^ol^

DIED FAR FROM HOME.

Amihtmy t. the Well-Known Banker and Ir ii. Saeemmb* to m Attack es Apoplexy at Cariebad. Ger- ' many. 1 New York, July 1. Anthony J. Alrexel, the great American Banker, died on Friday at Carlsbad, Germany. A private dispatch received at the banking hone of Drexel, Morgan & Co. iq Wall street at 1 o’clock announced the sad event, and a similar dispatch was received by Drexel & Co., of Philadelphia. When the information contained in them was made public it created a sensation. Both cablegrams were signed by Daniel B. Hoskins, son-in-law of minister to Germany Runyon. Mr. Hoskins is staying at Carlsbad, where Mr. Drexel was taking the waters for a kidney complaint. •' As soon as the startling announcement of the millionaire banker’s death was received telegrams asking for .further information were sent to Mr. Hoskins, Minister Runyon and Mr. Drexel’s nephew, who is traveling with

ANTHONY J. DREXEL.

him. A confirmatory dispatch was re-! ceived at 2:15 p. m. The message stated that Mr. Drexel had a slight attack of pleurisy, but recovered and was then seized with apoplexy, from which he 1 died. j The announcement of Mr. Drexel’s death occasioned the greatest sorrow 1 among both bankers and the general I public here and in Philadelphia. The members of the Philadelphia banking I house, presuming on the authenticity ! of the report of Mr. Drexel’s death, said that the death of Mr. Drexel will not affect the business of that firm. Mr. Drexel, it is said, made provisions for the inevitable some years ago, and his money, or the greater portion of it, will remain in-the firm. His interest in the firm of Drexel & Co. is estimated to be more than $10,000,000. Mr. Drexel is said to have arranged his affairs more than two years ago. Mr. Wright, one of the managing directors of Drexel, Morgan & Co., cabled J. Pierrepont Morgan, who is now in London, the news of Mr. Drexel’s death, and says that Mr. Morgan will go at once to Carlsbad and with Mr. Harris, who accompanied Mr. Drexel abroad, will make preparations to have the body brought to this country. The body of the dead financier will be placed in the Drexel mausoleum in Philadelphia, where other members of tlie family rest. This mausoleum is one of the finest in the country and was built about twelve years ago. Mr. Drexel’s fortune, estimated at from $20,000,000 to $35,000,000, will remain in the family, but it is said that he frequently expressed the intention of leaving substantial donations to the Drexel college in Philadelphia, which he endowed with $2,000,000, and the home for printers at Colorado Springs, which he and George W. Childs jointly endowed.

Mr. Drexel was one of the most prominent bankers of this country. He was at the head of the firm of Drexel & Co., in Philadelphia, and was a partner in the New York house of Drexel, Morgan & Co. and the Paris bank of Drexel, Harjes & Co. The banks in which he was interested also maintained close business relations with J. S. Morgan & Co., the London bankers. The various Drexel banking houses have always been money-furnishing establishments. They have conducted a careful and conservative business in supplying the capital for private and corporate undertakings, and have in the course of their history engineered successfully many financial operations of far-reaching interest. Anthony J. Drexel always took a deep interest in the affairs of these establishments, and much of- the success which they enjoyed has been due to his sagacity and keen Business instinct. Mr. Drexel had a quiok perception, and his ability to at once comprehend the chief bearing of the proposition at hand enabled him to promptly exercise his judgment. M>\ Drexel was the son of Francis Martix Drexel, a native of the Austrian Tyrol, who to avoid one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s conscriptions came to this country and settled in Philadelphia. The elder Drexel founded the great banking house of Drexel & Co., in Philadelphia, in 1837. The Paris branch was founded in 1868, and the New York house—Drexel, Morgan & Co. —in 1871. Anthony J. Drexel was born iu Philadelphia in 1826, qnd during the greater part of his life was at the head of the bank in that city founded by his father, having been identified with that institution ever since he was 13 years of age. His brother, Joseph W. Drexel, who was the leading spirit in the New York house, died in that city in 1888. Both brothers were illustrious examples of wealth combined witli whole-hearted, practical philanthropy.

Another for Yale.

New London, CoDn., July I.—Yale won the great boat race, crossing the finish line five lengths ahead of Harvard. The time was: Yale, 25:01}<f; Harvard, 25:15. The race was a terrific one. At the start Yale pulled thirty-six strokes and Harvard forty. On the third mile Harvard pulled thirty-eight strokes and Yale continued the steady thirty-six stroke. The rapid stroke of the Harvard was too much, and at the critical period Yale was comparatively fresh and able to make the big spurt which sent the. Yale colors past the line % winner

CLEVELAND YIELDS.

The Preehjent I.Uten* to Oie Demand for p|„.__ _ ~ * « the Date of It* AeeembUng at An rust 7 Instead of h September-Pail Text of His Proclamation—He Peels Certain of the Repeal of the Sherman law. Washington, July I.— After carefully going over all the details at the cabinet meeting the president issued a proclamation Friday afternoon caUing an extra session of congress, beginning August 7, 1893, as follows: “Executive Mansion, Washington, D. CL, June 36, 1893.—Whereas, The distrust and apprehension concerning the financial situation which pervade all business circles have already eaused great loss and damage to our people and threaten to cripple our merchants, stop the wheels of manufacture, bring distress and privation to our farmers and withhold from our workingmen the wage of labor; and “Whereas, The present perilous condition ie largely the result of a financial policy which the executive branch of the government find* embodied in unwise laws which must be executed until repealed by congress; “Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, in performance of a constitutional duty, do, by this proclamation, declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both houses of the congress of the United States at the capital in the city of Washington on the 7th day of August next, at 12 o’clock noon, to the end that the people may be relieved through legislation from present and Impending danger and distress. “All those entitled to act as members of the Fifty-third congress are required to take notice of this proclamation and attend at the time and place above stated. "Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at the city of Washington on the K>th day of June, in the year of our Lord, one eight hundred and ninety-three, and independence of the United States the onshundred and seventeenth. “Grover Cleveland.” The determination to call an extra session had hardly been announced ere there was a hasty departure from the white house; and shortly after 4 o’clock the president was en route to Buzzard’s Bay to join Mrs. Cleveland. Beyond fixing up certain western appointments no other business was transacted, it being the desire of the chief magistrate to give as much time as poosible to the preparation of his message to congress, besides recuperating from his Work since the inauguration. It is understood that the president will transact oqly the most urgent public business while at Buzzard’s Bay, and what official announcements are to be made will be given out at the executive mansion in Washington. The determination to call the extra session the first week in August, instead of the first week in September, it is understood was only definitely arrived at at Friday morning’s cabinet session after giving full weight to the numerous telegrams received from all parts of the country urging this course. And the consideration which caused the president to change his mind was foreshadowed in a remark made by one of his cabinet officers two days ago that if the president received reasonable assurances that there was a likelihood of a prompt repeal of the so-called Sherman purchase law he might be disposed to call congress together earlier than he had announced. It is inferred from the fact that the president has done so that he considers he, has obtained the assurrances, which he desired. Developments make it appear that the disturbances of values arising from the uncertainties of the situation grew so alarming that Mr. Cleveland at last was compelled to acknowledge that “the unexpected contingencies necessitating an earlier meeting of congress,” which he spoke of in his celebrated interview of June 5, had arrived. The action of the British government in India brought matters to a crisis. Previousto that startling event Mr. Cleveland had manifested a firm determination to adhere to his plan of calling congress in September. After the suspension of silver coinage in India the president resolutely declined to speak further about his intentions until he should be prepared to act, and each of his cabinet officers maintained a similar silence. It may be stated, however, without violating confidence, that from the day when the announcement of the action of India was made the president took steps to keep himself forewarned through the press dispatches of the slightest approach to panic in the money market, and was prepared at any moment to take the course which he has now adopted if it seemed to him that his so doing would in any way tend to allay alarm and restore public confidence. . When on Friday he found telegrams on his table not only from the eastern and middle states, but also from the south, and even from some of the silver states, urging that congress be called together at the earliest day possible, to end the uncertainty, he determined to delay no longer; but even in taking this action the president took steps, as far as he could, to prevent its being known before the stock exchanges closed so as to avoid any appearance of exercising undue influence on ths stock market. The action of the president apparently meets with the commendation and approval of most of the members and politicians now in the city, and the opinion is almost general that the Sherman act will be repealed. The proposition is not refuted, probably for the reason that the free silver men, who will conduct the fight against repeal, have few members now in the eity. The free silver men, however, will oppose any attempt to repeal the Sherman law with all their strength. The fact that the mines in the west have been closed will be used as a weapon with which to force any wavering member in their ranks back into the fold.

Negro Murderer Shot.

Fort Smith, Ark., July I. — Joe Bird, a negro, was shot at Wilburton, I. T., at 11 o’clock Friday by the Choctaw authorities. When all was ready for the final scene the executioners placed him in position. A circle about three inches in diameter was painted in wmte. immediately over his heart. The sheriff with a rifle stood 15 paces away. He took an unerring aim and as he fired the negro murderer fell backwards dead. The Choctaws holding arms gave utterance toa most unearthly veil and the tragic scene was over. Bird’s crime was the brutal muiier of hia wife