People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — Page 6

THE SILVER DEBATE.

Qyunfbiu of the Olmihlob In the United State* Senate. On the Uth Mr. Pu«h (dem., Ala; spoke In •Wfniui.l. to the repeal bill. He said It .was *» determined and unalterable purpose of the nfVanents of repeal to stand upon their consfcthwof public duty and fidelity to their jttrtges to the people whom they represented, and who bad honored, hem with their confidence ox the vital question, until their physical ttieasth was exhausted. Hit Teller <rep., CoL) resumed his speech tißtint the repeal bill. He asserted, and he betisred it could be demonstrated, that if it had aot been for a preconcerted effort in the money center of the country to prevent it, the Ist of September would have seen better times in the finances of the 'Cwmtry than the people were experiencing today. The calling of congress did not relieve Ikes country; in fact, the condition became worse from the time congress was called In extnmrdmary session. Mr. Teller said he would .atsome other time give to the senate his conception of the cause for the recent distressed condition. In his opinion it was due to legislative misconduct.

Mr. Teller next directed himself to stock operations. A New York paper had published dady for some time the depreciation in value of Mocks or the destruction of values occasioned My the Sherman law, as the paper said. The paper had finally got the amount up to 5700,000.000. in his opinion a great many stocks were selling on the market today for more than they were worth. Ho ofied Northern Pacific, which he said had taßen from 70 to 17. It was said all the great owners connected with it unloaded when It was JR. That company had 1280,000,000 of indebtedness: 475,000,000 held in Germany: a great amount owned in Holland and England. He then instanced Erie stock. Me did not suppose anybody pretended tost Erie would ever pay out He next referred to Reading. Did any intelligent man believe that any of those three great concerns mere solvent? Did not everybody know they wore insolvent? This disturbance did not come 6m the Sherman law. It came from the mis--xniditct of officials. Mr. Teller said Redid not mean to sav criminal misconduct ■Sat that they did not deal fairly with their investors. It behooved congress, he said, when it.came to legislate upon this subject to find site cause of the evil, and, if within its power, to remove the evil. Mr. Teller then yielded to a motion to go Into •executive session, saying that he had reached a point where he could quit for the present and Ste would take up another branch of the subject some other dav. On the 12th Mr. Mitchell (rep., Ore.) spoke in opposition to the repeal bill. He said that the totidamental problem to be solved was: “Are me to become a nation of monometallists, and iTso. whether gold or silver monometalllsts?" Xto denied that the Sherman act had been the cause of the panic. The causes leading up to U were in part world wide and their -origin not in this country, but in specu-. hative dealings between London bankers and ■toe people of South America, whioh resulted (through the Argentine bankruptcies and the feH Rf securities) in bringing ruin to the doors of the Barings and other moneyed institutions. The same causes—overtrading and land speculation brought bankruptcy to Australia. These great and unexpected shocks to the business world caused a sudden hoarding, not aJone of gold, but of gold, silver and paper; a general calling in of loans on the part of bankers, a refusal not only to make new loans, but to extend old ones, while general distrust seized upon •very financial community. These were mrae of the causes which, in his judgment, initiated the panic, whose storm center had passed from South America, Australia and certain European countries, and which so recently -spent its fury In the United States, and the Sherman act had no more, in his judgment, to do with it than had the man in the anoon or the recent fan-tailed comet The fear of tariff revision and of the inauguration of a free trade policy had .also had muoh to ■do with the panic. The trouble was in a large measure started by the banka New York bankers nudged the chamber of commerce --eff the city of New York and the metropolitan {press. The chamber of commerce, in turn, gave the cue to boards of trade and chambers of otanmerce throughout the country. The howl -started in perfect unison—all inspired across the seas and finally the thing got away trom them, proved a boomerang, and the banks suffered along with the rest Mr. Mitchell devoted some time to showing that it would be imposslTMe to secure international bimetallism. > Mr Hawley (rep., Conn.) declared himself la jlhe pending bill first, last and always. Therfc’wkb one general statement which had ' been iterated and reiterated until he was tired - of tt, and that was that there was somebody wbo believed in the total destruction of half of the currency of the world. It was a terrible misstatement Everybody knew that silver had been used these thousands of years with gold. Every body 1 Scbbw that although Great Britain was the vaaaanpion monometallist nation, the people of that country carried more silver money in their Ipock?ts than the people of the United States •did. All senators expected to continue the -average amount of silver money. In reply to a •question by Mr. Mitchell Mr. Hawley said he thought legislation in regard to silver neces o*ry in order to carry out the views advanced •by him, but now he wanted the Sherman law -repealed.

Mr, "Teller (rep., CoL) said he knew what Aerators who talk about being bimetallists mean. They have never taken a single step leading to bimetallism, and they never will. TFMs is a fight for the preservation of silver as money among the nations of the earth, and there is not a man in this chamber who does not haow it Follow Great Britain if you want to. My allegiance is to our own people—to the people of my section and to the people of the ■ country at large I will devote my time to their interests, and no labor, no sacrifice, no ■ooutumely that can be put upon me will “phase” me in my opposition to this damnable MOL Sir. Hawley replied to Mr. Teller by saying Shat if after two or three or four months it •ahould appear that repeal of the Sherman law wraa going to desolate the west and the east it “would be quite competent for congress to modify its action, and it would be very likely to do so. On the 13th Mr. Shoup (rep., Idaho) spoke ■ against the unconditional repeal of the 'purchasing clause of the Sherman law. “ Hocepeal the Sherman act would be to remove •she United States from the head of the nations which produced the precious metals; it would be to contract the currency to such aa . snukeat that the government would be com•jpefled to issue flat money; it would be to set tack the progress of the western states and rain thousands of workmen. He would op'poaewith all the vigor of which he was capable the repeal of the Sherman law until some '< tatter substitute was adopted. Mr. Dolph (rep. Ore.) reiterated some state- > snents to the effect that the business disturb- ■»■**« were due to the threats of hostile tariff legislation, and proceeded to argue against the ftce coinage of silver and vigorously criticised those senators from the silver states who had Attempted to make this qnestion a sectional rate. dJn the 14th Mr. Daniel (dem., Va.) made an ■argument against the repeal bill He said he * taought to the discussion of the subject profound sympathy with every class of his fellow- - citizens who had been smitten with an evil Gnancial dispensation. It would be unwise to i»I the -Sherman law produced the panic. Tbo date of its lncipiency cannot be traced to any - set of local legislation. It began in South America, where there is no Sherman law. It swept over Great Britain, a gold standard country, Where there is no Sherman law. The panic swept on to Australia, where the people ■ are the richest people in the world per capita, atare there is no Sherman law. The panic got ' *> Austria, Italy and India, and is now going all «*er Europe, without -the dreaded presence of The republican party is delighted to attribute tta panic to the Sherman law in order to escape ; responsibility to the tariff. The McKinley ! sought the sheltering arms of the Sherman - flaw. The gold monometallism are delighted to hide behind it the work of their ownshands. The bankers are interested in seeing the Sber maa act repealed so that new bonds may be isaued os which they can base currency, «*'«*» why I oppose the repeal of »

the Sherman law now, after haring opposed its passage in 1880. My answer is this: “Is there a man who, having a patched coat, would throw it away in the dead of winter befpre he has got a new one?” Do the supporters of the repeal bill propose to restore the conditions existing at the time of its passage? O, na The BlandAllison act—a democratic measure—was repealed by the Sherman law, but the repeal of the Sherman law will not restore the BlandAllison law.

The democratic platform does say: “Repeal the Sherman law,” but it also says: “Repeal the McKinley law.” But would senators repeal the tariff law and leave the treasury without revenue? Would they repeal the Sherman law and leave the country without silver money? Ido not doubt the repeal of the Sherman law would have some beneficial effects in many directions. It would give some immediate ease to business and transactions partly through the hurrah which would be made. Commerce would revive, but the revival would be temporary. If the declaration in the Voorhees substitute were changed into legislative provision (as suggested by Mr. Walthall last week) I would vote for It, and ths Sherman law would be repealed without another hour of debate. What, is international conference wanted to settle the silver question? The American senate is the place to settle it. As to the president, I supported him loyally in three campaigns and expect in many a day of battle yet to bear his colors and defend bis cause. I shall not pay him the tribute of « courtier and flatterer who would say: “Behold a brave and honest man who has convictions.” But I will show him an American senator had also his convictions and is brave and honest enough to be true to them. Not for a class, but for all the people: not for a section, but for the union; not for a special interest, but for the whole do 1 feeL On the 16th Mr. Lindsay (dem., Ky.) spoke in support of the repeal bilL He called attention to the fact that the bill contains not a word looking to the discontinuance of silver coinage under existing laws, and that it leaves unimpaired the provisions of the act of 189 u for the coinage of silver in the future. He characterized as most extraordinary the position taken that we ought not, bad as the law is, to repeal it until it is known what further legislation in the interest of silver the president will propose. To the common mind it would seem that the best thing to do with a bad law would be to repeal it, and to a business man it would seem that the best thing to do with a losing transaction would be to abandon it The question in the president’s mind had been whether the country could afford to continue its purchase of silver bullion. Replying to Senator Pugh’s recent speech, he said he had read the president's message in vain to find the evidence ' upon which the senator rests his belief that the president dogs not intend to keep faith with his party and the people. Mr. Lindsay announced that he would accept no amendment to the pending bill which tolerates the further purchase of silver bullion On the 16th Mr. Allison (rep, la.) spoke in favor of repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the german law. He made the point that for sixteen years, up to 1892, no political party had gone before the people favoring the free coinage of silver or the destruction of gold as the measure of value. The law of 1890 was a temporary law. It was an experimental law also, In one sense Nobody believed at the time that it would stand long upon our statute books. It is just as plain as the noon-day sun that if we go on purchasing silver and putting it in the treasury as bullion, it is only a question of a few months (or a few years at most) when we will fail to redeem our obligations in gold; and then we will be at a silver standard. He continued:

“I want to repeat my belief now, that all history discloses the fact that when you make even a small divergence between the established ratio and the true commercial ratio, the result Is disastrous. I undertake to say that it is utterly impossible for us to deal with this question of ratio at this time. The ratio of 29 to 1 would be an increase of ratio because we have known the price of silver to change by 20 per cent in a single day. The moment the action of tho India council was known silver went down 20 per cent In the next week it went up 15 per cent How, then, can we make a ratio that will measure the value of all debts and all credits on the basts of the bullion value of sliver? Tho situation in India has changed the situation here. We are trying now to keep up the price of a thing that will go down below the cost of production, whatever that may be. “If we continue the silver purchases we uphold the British policy in India. The inevitr" able effect of what we are doing here is either to uphold or to destroy or impair the ability of England to maintain its policy in India If we cease to purchase silver it will be impossible, in my opinion, for England to carry out that policy and it will become an .utter failure. "If this government will undertake the policy of an international agreement between silver and gold I believe that that policy will be accomplished, that within a brief period we will be able to restore the parity between the metals and practically to rehabilitate silver. My belief is that if we are to have an International agreement we must make It appear to the nations of the world that we ourselves do not mean to take care of silver."

DEATH OF MILTON HAY.

Close of the Busy Career of One of the Foremost Lawyers of Illinois. Spbingfield, 111., Sept. 16.— Hon Milton Hay, one of the oldest citizens of Springfield and for many years a leading attorney, died Friday, aged 76 years. He had been in failing health for several months, a sufferer from Bright’s disease. He was brought home from Mackinac, Mich., two or three weeks ago in a feeble condition, and it was then quite evident that*, the end was near, though his death was unlooked for at the time it occurred. Friday afternoon he was sitting on the lawn talking with his daughter and had just eaten some ice cream, when he expired suddenly in his chair.

[Milton Hey was born in Fayette county, Ky., July 3, 1817, and emigrated with his father's family to this city in the year 1832, Until coming of age he worked for his father, attending the common schools at intervals and receiving such education as these schools afforded at that time. He studied law in the office of Stuart and Lincoln, and was licensed to practice in 184 ft He began practioe at Pittsfield, Pike county, ana there practiced his profession until the year 1858, At one time he was associated In law practice with Gen. John M. Palmer, again with Senator Cullom, the firm being Hay & Cullom, and for several years was senior member of the firm of Hay, Green & Little. He was twice married, his first wife being Catharine Forbes. She died in 1867, leaving two children. In 1861 he married Mary Logan, oldest daughter of Judge Stephen T. Logan. She died In 187*, leaving two children—Kate, now Mrs. Stuart Brown, and Logan, who now resides in this city. He was elected to thie constitutional convention In 1872 from a district composed of the counties of Logan and Sangamon, and although not of the dominant parity in the convention was made chairman of the committee on revenue, and also served on the judiciary committee. He actively participated in all of the proceedings of that body and in forming the new constitution, which was subsequently adopted by the people. In 1874 he was elected as a representative of Sangamon county to the legislature and acted as chairman of both the jiwlieary and revenue committees of that body. He was one of the committee of five appointed by the legislature .to revise the laws of the state, and their work was adopted at an adjourned session of the legislature. In 1885 he. with others, was appointed by Gov. Oglesby to revise the revenue code. The work of this committee, however, was not adopted by the legislature to which the report was submitted.] Samuel L. Copeland has been arrested at Sioux City, la., charged with being one of the two men who robbed the National bank at Moorhead, Minn., June 27, of $4,60&

AWFUL DISASTER.

Two Section* of • “Big Four” Pa**enger Train Collide Near Kankakee, ni—Seven Persons Killed and Many Injured. Mahteno, IIL, Sept 19.-*-The second section of Big Four express, No. 45, south bound, crashed into the rear end of the first section at 9:30 o’clock Monday night Seven persons were killed and twenty severely injured and it is probable that many bodies are buried under the wreck. The disaster occurred near this place. The engine of the second section ran clear through one sleeper and two coaches. Not all of the bodies, it is thought are yet recovered, as the wreckage is piled about the tracks in such a manner that the small wrecking force has not been able to make much impression on the mass. In the confusion it has been impossible to secure the names of but two of

the dead. These are Chris Kimmel, of Dayton, 0., and David Jackson, of Cynthiana, O. The injured so far as known are: Albert Jay Sholter, Ripley, 0., bad cut face and head, probably fatal; George Brackney, Wilmington, 0., limbs crushed, probably fatal: C. B. Wisehart, Frankfort, 0., internal injury: William Evans, Powellton, W, Va., internal injury; Miss Sallie Evans, Powellton, W. Va, Internal injury; Mrs. Chris Kimmel, Dayton, 0., head and body injured; L. H. Blonton, Cincinnati, fatal; James W. Brown. Wilmington, 0., internal and head; Mrs. James W. Brown, Wilmington, 0., internal injury; Olive Patton, Carmel, 0., body bruised; Emily Templen, Sinking Springs, 0., head and body; J. W. Means, Chester, S. C., slightly injured back and head; Blanche Belleson, Sinking Springs, 0., limbs badly bruised; Anna Cowells, Lower Albany, Ind.; Jessie Morse, Cincinnati, badly injured internally; Emma Gallatin, Columbus, 0., back and limbs bruised; Mtrs E. Gallatin, Columbus, 0., limbs bruised; Miss Libbie Jackson, Cynthiana, 0., I internal and other injuries, probably fatal; J. W. Foster, Springfield, 0., scalp wound and eye gouged; Mrs. J. W. Foster, ribs broken, internal and probably fatal.

The first section of the train carried one Ohio & Mississippi sleeper for Louisville, Ky., one Ohio & Mississippi chair car for Greensburg, Ind., five day coaches and baggage and express cars. It had run down tho road to a point two and one-half or three miles south of Manteno when a lpcal train which was preceding it at some distance slowed up and the flagman on the local was sent back up the track to intercept the on-coming first section of train No. 45 from Chicago. The engineer on the first section obeyed the signal and at once drew his train to a standstill. The flagman of the first section of the through train in turn started to the rear, but the second section of the train was following along so near that he had gone but a few yards when around a sharp curve in the track the headlight of the following train appeared. The first section w r as now at a standstill and the locomotive pulling the second section had not in the least lessened its full speed of 35 miles an hour. The curve in the track, behind which the train on ahead was not visible, was much too near the doomed coaches to allow the engineer of the approaching train to diminish his speed noticeably. The frantic flagman, seeing the train coming on with a great rush and hissing of steam and trembling, jumped down the steep embankment just in time to save himself from death. The engineer, upon observing the danger as his locomotive rounded, the curve reversed his engine, seeing the hopelessness of any attempt to check the speed of his train in so short a distance, and realizing the danger, he jumped from his cab down the embankment, and his fireman followed him.

The crash came then, and the loco- i motive drove ahead with mighty foi ce i into theheavy sleeping-car,smashing the 1 framework of its rear end into kindling ; wood. The sleeping car was in turn | driven into the day coach next forward, which gave way more completely, its timbers being lighter. This coach and the coach just forward of it were almost completely demolished. All of the three cars were crowded with people, more than half of those in the sleeper having retired for the night The passengers were thrown from their berths and from their seats. Some were crushed under beams and between the broken, grinding timbers of the wrecked cars. Awful confusion and fright prevailed. People from farmhouses in the vicinity heard the crash when the collision i occurred. Twenty men were on the scene within half an hour and began helping uninjured passengers and trainmen in the work of rescue. One brawny fellow, whose hat had blown off and who hadn’t stp—nm.jr.uj was the fiilnator Teller, of Colorai the right oijone of them. On the c< ETJhPV? a the sleeparjp* * . made in pla He craw ■ satioual style, just and found h he were talking to an the bianke al. It may be sunnif The uppei ihat when Mr. Teller rtSk the bh<3 Chlef acto1 ’’ in fact 1 Having^ sf ctor ’ in the most drama his way i h the session it had go passengers ipon his colleagues, w] into the br they agree with him and chiidrene.penize the bpfiiesty of rendered unconscious "by \ W/v ! had partly recovered their wits and j were drying The men were hunting for a way OTit The passengers were helped out of the windows that had been broken and were told to remain together and be as brave as they could until doctors, who, the train people assured them would soon arrive from Kankakee, came. All of these persons were hurt severely. They could not join in the rescue j work. One woman staggered about for a jnoment and fell to the ground. A little girl fell sobbing on her prostrate form. Having got the living out of the 1 death-trap the rescuers went back and brought out four ghastly bodies, two of , them women. The two coaches that ; were crushed presented an awful sight to the rescuers. They carried or helped out sixty people, two of whom were stone dead.

Samuel L. Copeland has been arrested at Sioux City, la., charged with i>eing one of the two men who robbed the National bank at Moorhead, Mian., June 27, of 14,600.

WORK OF FIENDS.

I Unknown Ken Harder an Indiana Farmer, Hl» Aged Mother, Hi* Wife and Two of HU Children—A Third Child Fata Ur Injured—Bobbery Their Object Blood, hound* Placed Upon Their Trail. Washington, Ind., Sept. 20.—A farmer came galloping into Washington Tuesday to announce that six murders, all in one family, had been committed early that morning in Harrison township, Daviess county. This section of the county has been long notorious for its disrespect of all law. It is 9 miles from this city. The tragedies had occurred at the farm residence of Denson W rat ten. A neighbor had called at the house to inquire after the condition of Mr. Wratten, who had been in bed with a violent case of typhoid fever. He saw the side door open leading into the farmer’s sitting-room. In the middle of the floor, with the blood still oozing from several deep gashes in her head, lay the body of Mr. Wratten’s aged mother. There was evidence that she had engaged in a terrible struggle with her assassins. The walls were bespattered with blood and several pools were on the floor. Both hands of the old lady were nearly \ severed at the wrists. She had held on to her leather sack containing several : hundred dollars of pension money until her clutch had to be broken with blows I from the robbers’ weapons. This money j is supposed to furnish a motive for the crime.

Near the body of old Mrs. Wratten was the lifeless form of her daughter-in-law, who had apparently stood by the side of the elder woman and fought the murderers until she received the fatal blow that cleft her forehead, splitting the skull to the crown of the head. A sharp hatchet or ax had been used, and there were several deep gashes in the shoulders and arms of the younger woman. Two little children were found in a corner of the next room behind the bed with their heads chopped. One, a girl of 15 years, was not dead, but unconscious. A 3-year-old baby was found in its crib. The entire family had been butchered. On the floor beside the bed was the body of the typhoid patient with his throat cut and head nearly severed. Two of his fingers were cut nearly off, showing that even in his weakness the sick man had attempted to combat with his assailants. The murders were probably committed with a hatchet, and entrance was made through a window on the porch, which entered the room of the grandmother. Inspection of the premises showed the footprints of three men in the barnyard and it is believed a party of tramps did the work. The murder was probably committed early in the night, for when an examination was made by physicians they stated that, from the discoloration ot the skin, the blows must have been made ten or twelve hours before. Various theories have been advanced, and the most probable one is that the perpetrators were after money which the old lady was supposed to have, as she had been receiving a widow’s pension for many years, and was thought i to have from SI,OOO to 53,000 secreted j around the house. The contents of the drawers were turned out on the floor and the whole house seemed to have been ransacked, but in their hurry they overlooked $33 sewed in the dress of the younger Mrs. Wratten and $7.00 in the bureau of the room which the older Mrs. Wratten occupied. While the coroner went to the house to take evidence the neighbors for miles around gathered and with several scores from the city formed a hunting party and started to scour the country for the murderers. Word was sent to Seymour for the bloodhounds used there in tracking thieves. They arrived Tuesday afternoon and were taken to the house in the country and set on the track of the robbers.

YELLOW FEVER SPREADING.

Discouraging Reports Received from the City of Rrunswick. Washington, Sept. 20.—The yellow fever situation at Brunswick, Ga., is constantly growing worse and there seems little hope now of averting a*' yellow fever epidemic. A telegram has been received from E. D. Murray, surgeon of the United States marine hospital service, addressed to Dr. Wyman, stating that twenty cages of yellow fever are now under treatogmat.’Bi, BfJinswlck and that there was Jo hood tl orl Monday. He believes > ’ Jig-f g, ( is no need of more physi- , .I ’ and states that volun“not be welcome at this m, none It. ler are . nurse s from abroad as severe he fever pervades every in- moth entity and a siege of six weeks ed it WEB seems inevitable. A local )e - Remed-7 ice .f <*> be opened. The 1 in turi e ® a^r “° not seem to t»e '| e j- nervous or panic-stricken, tic own O l ien t destitution will be met jat the bdontributions. 10, -® l, Ki a Michigan Jurist. Or Q| Q 7’ Mich., Sept. 20.—Eight lis ,i Albert Miller was stricken with paralysis. He died at an early hour Tuesday morning. Judge Miller was born in Vermont in 1810 and came to Michigan in 1830, located in Saginaw county in 1832, and has since lived in the Saginaw valley. He built ■£he second sawmill in what is now Bay City. He was one of the first members of the Presbyterian church, and hast had more to do with the development ol northern Michigan than any person now living. Ho was 83 years of age.

MINIE BALLS.

The duke of Cambridge, who is commander in chief of the English army, has never smelt powder except at a review, and is not likely to if he can help it. lie was a major general at the age of twenty-six, thanks to his good fortune. Sergt. Prokop Doqobirnko, a Russian soldier, committed suicide lately because a young girl would not marry him, but instead called him an “old man.” This was more than the giddy fellow, who was not much over ninety* - nine years of age, could stand.

THE “BIG FOUR” DISASTER.

The Revised List Show* Eight Dead and A boat Eighteen Wounded Criminal Negligence Charged Against Trainmen. Kankakee, HI., Sept. 20.—Eight persons killed and eighteen injured is the record of the “Big Four” collision at Manteno, IIL Three more deaths may yet be added to the list. The list of injured is about the same as already published. The revised list of dead is as follows: Charles Dickendasher, Columbus, O.; Miss Minnie Dugan, Lower Albany, Ind.: David Jackson, Cynthiana, O.; Christ. Kimmel, Dayton, O.; James W. Powell, New Vienna, Q; Mrs. Mattie Scholter, Ripley, O.; Jake Simper, Columbus, 0., and L L Sweet Louisville, Ky. Daylight brought little mitigation of the horror of the accident. It increased the list of the dead by one and the responsibility of those to whom were intrusted the lives of the passengers on the train. Monday night there was talk of a heavy curve in the track, of blinding clouds of dust, and of lights that could not be seen. Dawn showed many things. It showed a stretch of track straight as a taut bowstring and bedded with dustless road metal. It brought to light the testimony of a man who saw the lights on the rear of the ill-fated train, and with jt came the ugly rumor of an engineer asleep at his post and a flagman negligent of his duty.

Train No. 45 leaves Chicago in two sections, ten minutes apart Each train is made up of mixed sleepers and day coaches. Ahead of the first section Monday night was train No. 23 of the Illinois Central. A Tittle south of Manteno No. 23 got a hot box and had to pull up. A flagman was sent back to flag the approaching No. 1 section of train 45. The signal was observed and this section stopped. Oliver C. Duncan, brakeman of this section, says he swung off his train and went back to flag the second section. Section No. 2 of 45 was pounding along behind at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, but the brakeman claims he had time to go back quite a distance. He says that he signaled the train. His alleged signal was not heeded and the second section tore down upon the rear of the train ahead.

The track was straight, and is straight for miles each side of the spot, yet it was not until the headlight of No. 930 gleamed upon the rear coach of the train ahead that Engineer Ames reversed his lever. As he did so be jumped. His fireman stuck to his post. What happened then is soon told. Driven on by the ponderous weight of engine No. 930, backed by momentum, those two heavy Pullman cars simply came together. Caught between their mammoth mass was the little day coach, and the day coach went to pieces. It was annihilated. The roof was flung off bodily, aiift one side fell out, but of the remainder not a piece the size of a man’s hand could be found. All the dead and all the injured were in the coach that was demolished. There was no telescoping of cars; engine No. 930 is a bit bent and the rear sleeper has lost its roof, but nothing else was damaged. It was only the one ear that suffered, and of the people in it not one escaped injury. They were caught and -crushed. Eight were tortured to death. f After the collision the crews of both trains vanished as they had never been. Among railroad men in Kankakee the belief is.openly expressed that the engineer of the second section w#s sleeping at his post. At any rate, according to the statement of Flagman Duncan, given above,, no attention was paid to his signal. Duncan’s story is corroborated by Ms conductor, W. B. Tanner, one of the oldest employes of the Big Four systemy especially, that portion of it which: declares that his signal was not heeded'.

J. T. Tamscott, fireman of the engine pfclling the second section, flatly denies all this. He says no light was sent hack and that the first section had no business to be where it was. He said: “The first section sent back no light. It wag due in Kankakee ten minutes before the time when the accident took, place and we never thought of its being just ahead of us. When we approached Manteno I saw Ames, my engineer, step to the side of the cab and lookout. I also looked out and saw. a. little red light ahead that seemed to.me to be a»turned switch light I had no time to jump. The next minute we struck the car ahead at us. The engineer jumped, hut I stuck by the engine-and came out all right” Coroner Willman, of Kankakee county, in which Manteno is situated, impaneled a jury and began, taking testimony Tuesday afternoon. The two engineers and Fireman Thometz were the only persons examined so far, the inquest having been, adjourned until this morning at 9 o’clock. The evidence so far as given, tends to.show thait the cause of the wreck was the lack of bright-red lamps on, the rear of the first section of train No.. 45.

FLOODS IN VIRGINIA.

Village of Crlglersvllle and Four Luge Mills Swept Away.. Washington, Sept. 20.—Advices received here from Madison Courthouse, Va., say that the floods in that section have caused immense damage to i crops and fencing. Four laarga : mills on the banks of the RapI idan river and three dwellings in tha j county have been washed away. The j village of Criglersville, on Robinson | river, is almost swept out of existence. Many narrow escapes have been made, toot so far no lives are reported as lost.

Sent to Italy.

Washington. Sept. 20.—The president has nominated James Van Alen, of Rhode Island, to be ambassador of the United States to Italy.

STUE[?]ENDS OF THOUGHT.

Good pay inspires a poet. Poverty is hereditary. Health is Hope’s best tonic. A million dollars means a million cares. Fragrance is the invisible beauty of flowers. The finer the church the greater the congregation’s vanity. * If ambition tapers off at the top it would be Tees dangerous. W'hat a man thinks depends largely on what be eats and drinks.

CONFESSED.

Flrena* La ÜbcnJ* “»« Story of the Mineral Range Train B®W>«ry-Mo*t of the Gang Captured ana the Stolen Money Recovered. ' Calumet, Mich., Sept. 19.—G e&fe La Liberty, a locomotive fireman lately discharged from the Duluth, Sou til Shore & Atlantic railway, has been arrested, supposed to be the man who handled the throttle on Engineer Shuler’s engine at the time of the tram robbery Fridav. He is to have made a confession implicating King and his companions, and also Express Messenger Hogan. La Liberty told the officers that the money was contained in a trunk which he shipped from Houghton to Marquette Saturday morning. The trunk was found by the officers, but the money was not there. The officers now feel that they have the right men and made no mistake in holding King and his companions. D. W. Hogan, the express messenger, was arrested at 1 o’clock Sunday night at his boarding house in this city. La Liberty’s confession shows that he covered the engineer and fireman while the others looted the train. King smashed the express car door with a sledgehammer; Chellow and Butler rifled the safe and the rest carried away the plunder. He implicated Express Messenger D. W. Hogan, of tfie Mineral Range train, which was robbed, whose arrest followed at Hancock.

Then followed a detailed account of where the trunk was left along the lino of the Mineral Range road, and a special train and some officers Were sent after it. They found the trunk, and on its arrival at the Houghton national bank it was opened and found empty. On La Liberty’s information $14,000 was recovered by the officers, it is claimed. The empty condition of the trunk is accounted for by the suggestion that the money was stolen a second time from the robbers themselves. The men now under arrest ares A. S. Cannon, of Hancock, a youngs man of good family, whose trunk was used to carry away the money: John Ling, an athlete; Chellew, a saloonkeeper, of Negaunee: Michael and John Shea, saloonlsts here: Tom Winters, baggageman: Moses Lojgtln, brakeman on tbs train robbed; D. W. Hogan, the messenger ot* the robbed car; Ed Hogan, saloonist; W. Shoup, hack driver, and a man named Butler, an habitue of Chellew’s place.

AN AMERICAN DOLLAR.

A Proposition Offered in the Senate ftyr Senator Stewart of Nevada. Washington, Sept 19.—At the opening of tbesenate Senator Stewart (rep., Nev.) submitted an amendment to the silver repeal bill, authorizing the president to invite the governments of the republics of Mexj ico, Central and South Amer- ! ica, Hayti and San Domingo to s join the United States in a conference ■ to be held in Washington within four | months from the passage of the act to j; secure the- adoption of a common silver !■ coin( which, shall be a dollar of not more j: than 383.13 grains, nor less than 359.91 : grains of pure silver) to be issued by I each government, to be a legal tender in all commercial transactions between the citizens of all the American states. The amendment proposes |an innovation as to the charac- ! ter of the conference in that it | provides that the action of delegates shall be binding upon the government which sent them. When the common coin is agreed upon each government represented at. the conference shall open its mints to unlimited coinage for the benefit of depositors of silver bul- ! lion.

FOREST FIRES STILL RAGING.

Ashland Overhung by a Cloud of Smoke— Valuable Timber Burned. Ashland, Wis., Sept 19.—The city is overhung by a heavy pall of smoke, and a bad forest fire is burning south of the city along the line of the Wisconsin Central road, within a mile of town. Fires are also raging in the direction of Bayfield. On the Odana reservation andiin the White river district, according to the reports of land hunters, who- have explored the skirts of the burned district, several settlers have been burned out, although all efforts to obtain the names- of the persons whose homes have been destroyed have proved fruitless. The destruction of the pine on the reservation, however, has been enormous, and Capt. Day, one of the pineland hunters who has viewed the burning forest, estimates that no less than 75,000,000,feet of pine on the reserva- . tion were burned, causing a loss to the government of at least $630,000.

FOR PAID-UP PENSIONS.

.Plan. of Congressman Hudson to Settle Claims ot Pensioners in Full. ; Washington, Sept. 19. A bill proposing the settlement and payment in ! full of pensions growing out of the late j war of the rebellion has been intro- | duced in the house by Representative Hudson (Kan.) It provides^' : that any pensioner may surrender his certificate and receive in, full ■ payment of ail claims against the government on account thereof, ten times, the annual payment thereon. This, act shall not apply to the obliga* - tioas of the government toward minor' children of deceased soldiers*, now on, the pension rolls. Widows and minorchildren of pensioners who, shall surI render their certificates under this act : shall not be entitled to receive anjj other pension.

A Fisheries Congress.

Chicago, Sept 19.—An international congress of people interested in fisheries and fish culture will be held, hero beginning October 16. This iaeludea the study of every form of life iia tha waters of the globe that is or has, been the objec|, of industry. There are five general sections or divisional-fishery laws and administration, the science in relation to fisheries and fish culture, methods of capture and distribution, fish culture, the world’s fisheries. Each section has its own presiding officer. v M. B. Seanlan, a Boston commercial traveler, was drugged, perhaps fatally assaulted and robbed of SBOO by cvcvka at Niagara Falla.