People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — Page 6

HUNDREDS SLAIN.

JL Ship Load of Dynamite Explodes at Santander, Spain. Three Hundred Citizens Killed and Ove* 400 Wounded—Many Buildings Blown Down-Fire Follows and Completes the Ruin. HORROR ABROAD. Santander, Spain, Nov. 7.—By the explosion of a ship load of dynamite Friday night hundreds of persons were killed and half of the town destroyed. Crowds were on the quay watching the vessel burn when suddenly her dangerous cargo blew up, instantly killing the daring fire fighters and spectators. scattering parts of the burning boats all over the city and wrecking many buildings. Fire followed the explosion, which many took for an earthquake, and before it could be checked half the town was in ruins. In the excitement the number of dead was placed •at 1,000, but 300 is probably nearer the ■correct figure. Among the dead are the governor of the province, the prefect, the chief of police and two judges. The marquis of Pombo is missing and it is believed he is among the dead. London, Nov. 7. —The Madrid correspondent of the Standard in his report about the Santander disaster says that after the explosion terror-stricken crowds on the wharf rushed off in the maddest disorder, trampling each other <lown and carrying panic into the city. The burning debris set fire to the railway station at Solarcs, 13 miles distant from Santander. Fifty private houses on Mendos and Vigos streets were destroyed by the flames. In addition to these losses, several important public buildings and valuable archives were burned before any headway could be gained on the fire. Among the victims were the civil governor, several judges, the captain of the port, his daughter, the colonels commanding the troops and gendarmes, several government official, officers, magistrates, policemen, soldiers and Marquis Casatombo. Official telegrams state that many bodies have been recovered from the bay of Biscay and from the ruins The material losses chiefly consist of the great number of houses burned and which are valued at £500,000. According to official telegrams the latest accounting shows that 300 persons were killed and 450 wounded.

The scene following the blowing-up of the steamer is almost indescribable, and the effect of the explosion of these 480 cases of dynamite will hardly be believed The power of the explosive shot tons of iron into the air, where it mingled with the burning fragments of Mie steamship, tug and wooden quay, as well as with the mangled bodies of hundreds of the unfortunate people who were hurled upward at the same time. r Over the adjoining buildings tottering with wreckage fell a shower of iron followed by huge pieces of wood and the remains of human bodies, and above all dropped flaming splinters which set fire to hundreds of buildings, causing a acene of panic similar, one would imagine, to the one which would have succeeded the bursting forth of a volcano at the water’s edge. The force of the exploding dynamite caused sueh a concussion that in addition to shaking hundreds of buildings .off the’r foundations it actually sunk .'.a hundred small craft in the harbor -in -addition to setting fire to a large number of other vessels and starting • conflagrations upon several of the larger ships, including the Alfonso -XII., which vessel qjvught fire so suddenly and burned so fiercely that forty of her crew lost their lives on board of her.

; The effect of the explosion upon the inhabitants of Santander was bewildering. For some time after the disaster they were positively stunned with dismay and then followed a panic daring which 100 people are reported to have gone stark mad, while the vast majority were so paralyzed with fear and shock that they were incapable of moving to the assistance of the dying or of making any effort to extinguish the flames, which sprung up from a mass of buildings and which be<an to spread with the most threatening rapidity. The quay and promenade close to the scene of the explosion presented the most sickening sight ever witnessed. Mangled and blackened corpses were scattered here and there or were in heaps in many cases upon the wounded and dying, whose fearful shrieks of agony filled the air and struck terror into the ■hearts of those who after a time summoned sufficient courage to venture near. Over 100 are said to have been precipitated into the sea by the explosion, ■•and there beneath this hail of blood, wood and iron they met death with the crews of the unfortunate steamer and 'the tugboat which was about to tow diet into the bay. On board the tugboat were many citizens of Santander, who were taking part in the work of rescue. All of them have disappeared forever. A train from the province which was just arriving at the railroad station when the Cabo Machichaco blew up ■experienced the force of the explosion, was wrecked and set fire to and the majority of its passengers were burned to death before any assistance could be 'furnished them.

ORIGIM OF A BIG BOSTON FIRE.

Xouthful Incendiary in Jail Confessea to Having Set It. Boston, Nov. 7.—Louis A. Wright, an 18-year-old lad of Newton, Mass., now tin jail as an incendiary, has confessed 'to hairing set the big fires in Boston 'last spring which so startled Boston and -caused a wholesale jump in insurance crate*. His fires included the Hecht building, the Ames, Lincoln, Brown, Durrell and other buildings burned in the so-called Lincoln street fire, besides ■sundry other buildings. His work Cawed a loss nt pcopurtyr of <3,000,000

COUGHLIN AT THE BAR.

■ Placed on Trial a Second Time for Cranin'. Murder. Chicago Nov. 4.—Daniel Coughlin j was placed on trial Friday morning in Judge R. S. Tnthill’s court for alleged complicity in the conspiracy that encompassed the murder of ; Dr. P. 11. Cronin on May 4, 1889, and the work of securing a jury ! was begun. This is Coughlin’s second trial for the same offense. On the former hearing, it will be remembered, he was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was granted a new trial by the supreme court on the ground of incompetency, because of prejudice, of several of the jurors. I The attorneys in the ease arrived Boon after 10 o’clock. For the state there appeared State’s Attorney Kern, Assistant State’s Attorney Bottum and Kickham Scanlan. who has

DAN COUGHLIN.

been retained as special counsel. The defense was in the charge of Daniel Donahoe and ex-Judge Russell M. Wing. The defendant was not brought into coupt until the lawyers were ready to proceed. He was brought over from the jail by Bailiffs Curley and Cool. Coughlin looked in splendid physical condition. When the court adjourned at 1.2 o’clock ten talesmen had been examined by the state’s attorney, of whom nine were excused for cause, each hav ing admitted that he held an opinion amounting to a prejudice as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, to whom he could not give a fair and impartial hearing. One juror, John E. Parr, a painter, of 107 Morgan street, an Englishman by birth, answered Mr. Bottum’s questions satisfactorily and was accepted temporarily by the state. A notable feature of the session was the fact that of the ten talesmen examined five were Irishmen, all of

whom, confessed to a prejudice so strong as to disqualify them as jurors. In view of the answers given by the talesmen the prospect is that the trial will be long. The trial will be very tame compared with the exciting event of four years ago. So crippled is the prosecution in the matter of witnesses and evidence that when the state closes the court may take the case from the jury and order an acquittal. Such a result is looked for by the defense and would not surprise the state. Many of the important witnesses for the state in the former trial are dead and the whereabouts of others are unknown, and the difficulty of securing a conviction is recognized. Their testimony, of course, remains in the record, and this will be put in by the state by placing the official stenographers on the stand and having them identify the documents containing the testimony as the official record of the. case, but this at the best will be unsatisfactory. The few witnesses who are available will be sworn and examined. Not a single new witness will be examined, however, State’s Attorney Kern being absolutely without a particle of additional proof to Vhat presented by the state at the previous trial. The ruling of the supreme court in granting the new trial will also seriously embarrass the state in its presentation of the case. The Murder of Dr- Cronin. I The crime for which Daniel Coughlin is again placed on trial was the murder of Dr. P H. Cronin. Dr. Cronin was prominent in Irish societies and had incurred the enmity of Camp 20, Clan-na-Gael of which Coughlin was a member. On the night of May 4. 1883, Dr. Cronin was enticed from his home on North Clark street by a message that a man had been injured in Patrick O’Sullivan's icehouse in Lake View. Prior to this time O'Sullivan had made a contract with Dr. Cronin to attend any of his men who were injured. It was Saturday evening when Dr. Cronin entered the buggy drawn by a white horse. Not having returned by the following morning. T. T. Conklin, with whom Dr. Cronin lived, notified the police and a search for the missing man was begun. A few days later the police discovered the blood-smeared cottage at 1872 North Ashland avenue, which was only a few steps from O'Sullivan's residence.

The search for Dr. Cronin’s body was continued and on the afternoon of May 21 sewer workmen found the body of the murdered doctor doubled up and jammed in a manhole at the northeast corner of Fifty-ninth place and Evanston avenue, Lake View. About this time it was discovered that the white horse which had driven Dr Cronin to his death had been secured from P. Dinan’s livery stable on North Clark street, near East Chicago avenue, and only a few steps Iron? the police station where Coughlin was attached as a detective. It was also learned that Coughlin had made arrangements for the horse, which was supposed to have been driven by Cooney, "the Fox,” who has never been arrested.

Daniel. Coughlin, Patrick O'Sullivan and Martin Burke were finally tried and convicted of murdering Dr. Cronin in the Carlson cottage and were sentenced to life imprisonment at Joliet. O’Sullivan and Burke • died in confinement and Coughlin was finally granted a new trial. John F. Beggs and John P. Kunze, who were also tried for murder, were acquitted, and Beggs died a short time later. Kunze is still living in Lake View and, aside from Coughlin, is about the only prominent actor in the great crime who has not died or left the city.]

HALF A BLOCK BURNED.

Incendiary Fire st Elizabeth, N. J.—Store Saturated with OU and Proprietors Ar. rested. Elizabeth, N. J., Nov. 7.—Half a block of business and tenement houses ou Union square was destroyed by fire at 2 o’clock a. m. Monday. Seven families barely escaped with their lives. The goods in the stores of Louis Binkier and Jacob Beloski, Polish Jews, who occupied one of the buildings, were found saturated with oi_ The two men are under arrest, charged with setting the buildings on fire to obtain the insurance. The loss was 520,000.

THE EXTRA SESSION ENDED.

Congress Adjourns on Friday—Resume of Its Work. , Washington. Nov. 6. —Both branches of congress, in special session, adjourned sine die at 3 p. m., on Friday. President Cleveland’s nomination of Mr. Hornblower, of New York, for the United States supreme court was held off until the last moment and was finally defeated by inaction. At the extraordinary session sixteen joint resolutionsand seventeen bills became laws. Three of these joint resolutions were signed Friday and nine of the bills. The last propostion to become law was the joint resolution amending the act approved April 25, 1890, relating to the admission of articles intended for the World’s Columbion exposition. Other bills signed Friday were as follows: Transferring the model battleship Illinois to the state of Illinois as a naval armory: donating abandoned cannon to the G. A. R. at Pittsburgh, Pa.; act amending the Geary Chinese law; to regulate terms of the United States circuit and district courts in the state of South .Dakota; increasing the number of officers of the army and navy to be detailed to colleges; to regulate the fees of the clerk of the United States court for the Indian territory; amending an act to provide for holding terms of United States court in Idaho and Wyoming' amending section 2324 of revised statutes relating to mining claims: providing for the construction of steam revenue cutter for service on the great lakes, and an act in regard to the world’s fair prize winners exposition to be held in New York city. Additional important bills which were signed by the president during the extra session included the famous silver bill repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. Also the following: Authorizing acknowledgements to the various foreign governments who participated in the commemoration of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; for the reporting, marking and removing of derelicts; act in aid of the California Midwinter International exposition: act to extend the time for completing the work of the eleventh census: act amending the act to repeal timber culture laws; several bills relating to the Cherokee outlet, and a bill to settle the Mormon church fund.

LET ALL GIVE THANKS.

November 30 Set Apart as a Day of I'raycr and Gratitude. Washington, Nov. B.—The president on Friday afternoon issued the following Thanksgiving day proclamation: “By the president of the United States of America—A Proclamation: “While the American people should everyday remember, by praise and thanksgiving, the Divine goodness and mercy which have followed them since their beginning as a nation, it is fitting that one day in each year should be especially devoted to the contemplation of the blessings we have received from the hand of God, and to the grateful acknowledgement of His loving kindness. “Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of the present month of November, as a day of thanksgiving and praise, to be kept and observed by all the people of our land. On that day let us forego our ordinary work and employments and assemble in our usual places of worship, where we may recall all that God has done for sis and where, from grateful hearts, our united tribute of praise and song may reach the Throne of Grace. Let the union of kindred and the social meeting of friends lend cheer and enjoyment to the day and let generous gifts of charity for the relief of the poor and needy prove the sinceritv of our thanksgiving. “Witness my hand and the seal of the United States I have caused to be hereto affixed. “Done at the city of Washington on the third day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-three and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and eighteenth. “Grover Cleveland “By the president: Walter Q. Gresham, Secretarj’ of State.’’

TRIED TO ROB A BANK.

A Once Wealthy and Prominent Resident of Kansas City in Trouble. Harrisonville, Mo., Nov. 6.—Thomas H. Edwards, once a prominent republican politician of Kansas City, Mo., once assessor of that city by appointment and twice assessor of the county by election, lies in the county jail at this place charged with attempted bank robbery. Reentered the First national bank of this city about noon Friday, and finding Cashier Houston alone assaulted him. Houston managed to secure his revolver, when Edwards, who was unarmed, and who seemed to be acting under a sudden impulse, ran out of the front door only to fall into the arms of two citizens who were passing. He was at once taken to the county jail. Edwards was at one time reputed to be worth a million dollars. He was successful in politics and in real estate speculations. When the boom burst a few years ago, however, his luck turned and one bad investment following another, he wound up his business in Kansas City a year or more ago a ruined man.

A WAREHOUSE BURNED.

Fire Causes Considerable Damage at the Illinois Penitentiary. Joliet, 111., Nov. 6. —A warehouse just outside the walls of the Illinois state penitentiary took fire at 11:20 a. m. Friday. The fire started in the middle of the building in the broomcorn stock, and from there went to the chair stock, where the fire wall stopped the flames from going into the box lumber stock of Selz, Schwab & Co. The state’s loss will be about <7,500, with no insurance. Selz, Schwab & Co.’s loss by water on the lumbei' will be about <4OO, fully insured. There was no excitement among the convicts inside the wall and they did not know a fire was so near them. A lot of convicts working in the building and outside rallied to the aid of the officers, doing good work in saving the stock. Warder l Allen had about $1,500 worth of household goods of his own stored in the building and ex-Warden Dement bad some goods stored, which were destroyed.

CHOSE A HORRIBLE DEATH.

A Man Throws Himself Before a Train and Is Killed. St. Louts, Nov. 6. —J. W. Kaname committed suicide Thursday morning by throwing himself in front of the fast Chicago train on the Illinois Central just after it had pulled out as Highland, HL The engine was within 10 feet of him when the man east himself across the track and grasped the opposite rail. In an instant his body was torn and mangled and life left him forever. II is body was cut in two al the waist. He leaves a wife and nine children.

OUR FLAG FIRED ON.

The Honduraa Govern men t Inesite th* Stars and Stripes. La Libektad, Honduras, Nor. B. Honduras fired upon the Amerieau flag Monday morning. By the alleged orders 6f President Vasquez and the express command of the commissioner of the port of A mapala seven cannon shots were fired after the Pacific mail steamship Costa Rica, flying the stars and stripes, as she steamed away because she refused to surrender one of her passengers to the Honduras government. United States Minister Baker was on board the Costa Rica at the time. The passenger about whom the trouble arose is Policarpo Bonilla, who recently led the revolution in Honduras, but was defeated by Gen. Vasquez. He then fled to Nicaragua, and with 3(16 of his adherents joined the army of President Sacasa, who was engaged in an attempt to quell a rebellion. Bonilla had decided to leave Nicaragua. He therefore sailed from Corinto for Guatemala on November 4 on the Costa Rica. American Minister Baker and more than 100 other persons were his fellow passengers. They arrived Sunday morning at Amapala, a port of entry of Honduras on the Pacific coast, and at 2 o’clock in the afternoon the commander of the Port Villila demanded that Capt Dow should surrender Bonilla. Seven shots were fired after the Costa Rica, although she flew the American flag. None of the shots struck her, however, but it is feared the steamship City of Panama, of the same line,which was lying in the port, may have been injured, because the firing continued for some time after the Costa Rica was out of range.

BANKERS SET FREE.

A Milwaukee Judge Bolds That the Grand Jury Was Illegal. Milwaukee, Nov. 8. —Sixty-seven indictments, returned against wellknown Milwaukeeans by the two grand juries which have been investigating the bank and other failures are null and void. This is the result of a decision by Judge Johnson in the circuit court Monday afternoon when he ‘dismissed Eugene S. Elliott and F. VV. Noyes, directors of the defunct Plankinton bank, who had been indicted for embezziement by both the first and second grand juries and who instituted habeas corpus proceedings to secure their release on the last indictments. The indictments which Judge Johnson’s decision has thrown out are as follows: Frank A. Lappen, 14; William Plankinton, 8; F. T. Day, 9; Charles L. Clason, 5; E. S. Elliott, 5; F. W. Noyes, 5: William H. Monsen, 3; John B. Koett'.ng, 10; G. C, Trumpff, 3, and Judge J. G. Jenkins, s—total, 07. The attorneys for the indicted bankers went into court and contended that the indictments found against their clients were null and void because the jury had no legal existence when they were returned—that is, that the term of the jury expired with the September term of the municipal court and that, therefore, the jury had no authority to return indictments on the last day of the October term. Judge Johnson promptly decided in favor of the bankers, saying that it was clear under the statutes that the point made by the defense was well taken and that the jury had no legal existence when it returned the indictment He ordered that the prisoners be discharged at once. District Attorney Hammel threatens to have the bankers arrested on complaints issued by depositors, but up to a late hour no arrests had .been made.

MET AN AWFUL DEATH.

An Invalid Fatally Burned in a Bath of Blazing Alcohol. Chicago, Nov. 8. —Literally cooked in a bath of blazing alcohol, Mrs. Mary Lasinski of 21 Wade street received injuries Sunday morning which resulted in her death later in the day. She died after hours of fearful agony. For a long time past she has been an invalid and, after sundry other means of relief had proved useless, she determined to try the effect of alcohol baths. Her first experiment was Sunday morning. As she stepped into the bath she slipped and in so doing splashed the liquid over the edge. A stream of it ran over the side and reached the lamp beneath the bath by which the alcohol was heated. In an instant the flame had crept into the bath and before the ill-starred woman realized what had happened she was up to her waist in living fire. The flames mounted and wrapped themselves round the upper part of her body. She shrieked for help and struggled to escape. In her haste she slipped buck into the bath, and by the time she could escape from the furnace she was burnt from head to foot She ran from the room crying aloud in her pain. The burning alcohol clung to her skin and she fell writhing to the floor. At last she fainted from the a £ OD .Y ar *d when assistance arrived she was so badly injured that there was no hope of her recovery. Almost every particle of skin had been burnt from her body and every movement enhanced her torture. She died an hour or two later.

Rise in Rivers Proves Beneficial.

Pittsburgh, Pa., D»ov. B.—The slow but steady rise in the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers enabled the shipment of about 1,000,000 bushels of coal in light river craft Monday afternoon and evening. There are in this harbor awaiting shipment to points on the lower Ohio river between 25,1'00,000 and 80,000,000 bushels of coal.

FOUR MILLIONS INt GOLD.

Big Shipment from the New York Assay Office to the Philadelphia Mint. New York, Nov. B.—The sub-treas-ury has shipped to the mint at Philadelphia $4,000,000 in gold bullion, which will be coined into eagles and half-eagles. The shipment was the balance of $10,000,000 ordered sent some time ago. Six millions was sent two weeks ag<x The bullion left the assay. office shortly after 8 o’clock. The bullion was packed in boxes of Various sizes, one of the packages weighing 450 pounds.

IN BEHALF OF SILVER.

Aa AddreM by United State* Senator* afad Representative* and an Appeal by President Warner of the American Bimetallic League. Washington. Nov. 7.—The populist members of congress, including senators and members of the house, have issued an address appealing to the people to take up the silver cause, a synopsis of which is here given: . Tbe address begins with the statement of the aggregate debts of the world and of the gold and silver in existence, calls attention to the fact that the arts require almost the total gold production, and says the decrease of the volume of this metal caused by hoarding has caused it to appreciate 40 to 50 per cent The address continues: •"The repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act destroys silver as money of ultimate redemption and reduces that metal to credit money to float only by redemption in gold. The 11,100,000,000 of paper and silver now in circulation must rest upon less than 1100.00J.000 of gold in the treasury as available for redemption. The only reason for demonetizing silver was to enhance the value of gold and obligations payable in money. It is further proposed to sell bonds of the United States and buy gold to strengthen the reserves in the treasury. National banks will use the bonds for banking and issue their notes, upon which tbe people must pay interest, as well as on the bonds.” After reviewing the silver legislation since 1873, it is asserted that the secretary of the treasury surrendered the option to pay in silver to the exporters of gold witbout cansideration, and then proclaimed that the Sherman act was driving gold out of the country. The address asserts in effect that the Sherman act interfered with the establishment of a gold standard, and that the New York and London bankers and the present administration in the United States and in the Gladstone government in England conspired to force its repeal, saying: “The president issued a jail for an extra session of congress in which he attributed the panic which he himself had aided to create to the Sherman act ” Referring to the contest over the repeal bill in the senate, the address says it continued until the gold power and federal patronage could induce a majority of that body to submit to executive dictation. The gold press in every commercial center teemed with misrepresentation, insult and abuse of the unpurchasable defenders of the people. Banks, boards of trade, and the commercial press demanded a vote without debate. The power of money was felt on every hand. Intimidation and threats of personal violence loaded the malls of senators. The document ends with an appeal to the people to study the question, and with this “trust no man who once betrayed you. Put no faith in any president who assumed dictatorial power. Do not be overawed or intimidated by Wall street and the power of the national banks. When the people rise in their might, intrigue, cunning usurpation, bribery and corruption will vanish before them.” The paper is signed by the following: Senators—W A Peffer, John P. Jones, William M. Stewart. James H. Kvle, William V. Allen. Representatives—John Davis, William Baker, H. E. Boen, John C. Bell, W. A. Harris. T. J. Hudson, Jerry Simpson, Lase Pence, O. M. Kem, W. A. McKeighan. The Bimetallic League. Washington, Nov. 7.—Gen. A. J. Warner, president of the American Bimetallic league, has issued “an appeal” to the people on behalf of silver. After dwelling upon recent anti-silver legislation, it continues: "No claim more ridiculous could be made ; than that the addition of from J3.0J0.0X) to $4,000,000 of standard money to our volume of currency monthly produced money stringency and brought on a panic. The bottom cause of the panic was the shrinkage in prices necessary to conform to the single gold standard, and the necessary consequences of the establishment of the single gold standard must be—after a possible temporary expansion of more credit—a still further and more rapid rise of gold and a corresponding fall in prices. There is no possible way to retain gold in this country but to bring prices down to the level of prices of other countries, so that gold will tend toward and not from the United States. Prices, therefore, must scale down and debts scale up, as gold raises in value. All products of labor must fall and eventually wages of labor must go down also. This is inevitable with a single gold standard.

“Will the people of this country consent forever to carry on business and pay debts by a constantly-increasing money standard in order that the debt-owing and money-lending classes may unjustly possess themselves of the earnings of others? A determined tight has been made in congress by the friends of a just money standard against the enactment of a measure fraught with more injustice to the people of this country than any other in its whole history. It is believed that no severer blow was ever struck at the rights and interests of the people since our government was established than that which subjects them to the domination of a money combination extending to both sides of the Atlantic ocean. The decree that the people of this country shall have no money that does not promise gold on demand, while- the gold is nearly all locked up in the vaults of a few great treasuries and banking firms, ought to beenough in itself to arouse the people to a sense of the danger that threatens them. This is a question that involves the very existence of the institutions on which the republic was founded. If not of civilization itself. ‘•The question now goes back to the people; it is for them to say whether they will succumb to the demands of a power alien to the eons.itution and subversive of their rights: whether they will permit their property to be filched from them by being scaled, down to conform to an altered money standard, while debts and taxes are correspondingly increased, or whether they will rise in their might and defend their rights and interests as becomes a free people. “The power is in their hands to right the wrong if they will but use it. The lines are clearly drawn. Shall the money power or the people, control this government? Shall this country control its own financial policy or shall it be subject to the dictation of foreign nations or of home and foreign combinations of capital! Shall the money standard be gold alone, with a paper currency issued.by innumerable banks and regulated, by no principle but their own interests, or shall it be the constitutional standard of gold and silver with the issue and regulation of all paper currency by the general government? “Tbis-question is pre-eminent-above all others and rises above mere party considerations. There can be no issue but this until this has been finally settled and settled rightly. It requires no prophet to forecast that, under the single gold standard and with the last source of supply cut off, pr ices must continue to fall, industries stagnate and indleness. want and misery fill tine land.” “The remedy must be sought at the ballotbox. Catechise every candidate for a legislative office apd pledge every candidate for congress to work and vote for the restoration of the constitutional standard of money, with the coinage of both metals without discrimination against either, and the issue and control of gaper money by the government of the United rates. -Retire every representative who has been unfaithful to his trust, and elect cnlv true and tried men to represent your interest in the grea t struggl - now before us.”

IMPERSONAL BREVITIES.

Two FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD girls hflVe passed the entrance examination to Yale college. Boys at Racine, Wis., fly a kite ten feet high hy seven wide, which carries a tail eighty feet long. The last lineal descendant of the author of “Robinson Crusoe” is a pauper, seventy years of age, nearly blind, and in receipt of outdoor relief. After riding on a carrousel at Alexandria, La.,.recently, an aged colored woman dropped dead. Physicians pronounced her death due to the excitement.

SWIFT IS MAYOR.

A Republican Chosen to Succeed Carter Harrison. Chicago. .Nov. B.—George B. Swift was elected m?y or P ro tem - al the re «* alar meeting cA * he city council Monday night The V Tran ff le between th® republican and aidermen was settled during the tx, a y by an agree-* ment that Aid. McGillen k e - permitted to preside at the regular that his rulings of Saturday should .not be challenged and that the mayor-elect should not qualify until Thursday. In return for these concessions several democrats agreed to vote for Swift? ; The agreement was fully carried out At precisely 11 o’clock a. m. Monday Chairman McGillen called to order the adjourned session of the council. More I than one-half the seats were vacant j The decision of the republicans to remain away from the morning meeting was apparent. Not one ors them appeared, and after a call of the roll showed no quorum present, an adjournment was taken until 5 o’clock p. m., McGillen ordering the sergeant-al-arms to arrest the absent aidermen and force their attendance. Hearing this the republicans, who were holding a caucus, locked themselves in a room at republican headquarters, and no one was allowed to enter or retire until all danger had passed. When the adjourned session was called to order at 5 p. m. the chairs of the republican aidermen were still vacant. Chairman McGillen called on the sergeant-at-arms to explain why the order to bring the absentees to the council chamber had not been obeyed, and that official said that he had been unable to find a single member. Hearing that l they were at republican headquarters in caucus, he had attempted to secure admission to their presence, but it was denied him. No quorum being present, the chairman adjourned the council until the hour for the regular session, 7:30 p. m. At 7p. m. the republican alder men who had been in caucus since morning, left the headquarters in the Title and Trust building and marched io the city hall and took their seats in the council chamber. There were thirty-seven of them, Aiderman Epstean, of the First ward, having held aloof from the caucus throughout the day. It is be who is credited with having cast the blank ballot for mayor pro tern, on Saturday, which has been the cause of all the trouble. He took his seat a few minutes after the arrival of the republican aidermen at the council chamber.

The clerk at 7:35 called the roll and each of the sixty-eight aidermen answered to their names Before this the time had been taken up by leaders of both parties in conferences with each other, and the democrats, apparently realizing that there was no further chance of defeating the election of Alerman Swift for mayor pro tern., crave evidence of their intention to yield gracefully. After the rollcall Aiderman McGillen (dem.) was elected chairman, on motion of - Aiderman Kent (rep.). The chair announced that the unfinished business before the council was the election of a mayor pro tern., the ballot of last Saturday not being conclusive since Mr. Swift had one less vote than a majority. Tellers were appointed and the council proceeded to ballot. The candidates were Aiderman McGillen and Aiderman Swift. The resultof the ballot showed that sixty-nine votes—one more than the legal number —had been cash One aiderman had voted two ballots folded together, one for McGillen and one for Swift The vote stood: Swift, 50; McGillen, 19. Chairman McGillen denounced such methods and ruled that another ballot should be taken. This resulted: Swift 62; McGillen, 5; blank, 1. Chairman McGillen thereupon announced the election of Aiderman Swift as mayor toserve until the successor to be elected at the special election called for December 18 should have qualified. Mayor-Elect Swift was escorted to the ehair, and in a brief address expressed his thanks for the honor conferred npon him and the peaceful outcome of what seemed might be a serious matter. The council then passed a switchtrack and sidewalk ordinance, postponed the meeting in memory of the late mayor to a week from Thursday, and adjourned to meet at 7:30 o’clock Thursday evening, when Mayor-elect Swift’s bond will be approved.

MUST LIVE CHEAPER.

Pennsylvania Workingmen Discuss Methods of Economy. Newcastle, Pa., Nov. B.—Delegates from twenty labor organizations in this city met Monday to discuss some method by which the workingmen could live cheaper. The wages of the men have been cut down from 20 to 40 per cent, and it was the sense of the meeting that landlords, grocers, butchers and other merchants should make some cut in prices. A cooperative scheme was strongly urged at first, but it was decided to appoint one member from each organization represented, the whole to constitute a committee whose duty it will .be to visit the merchants and make a canvass to see which firm will make the greatest discount to the workmen represented by the labor organizations. It was decided te select one grocer, one butcher, one clothing man, etc., and throw all the trade to them, provided, of course, that they will make a reasonable discount In case this is not done the men will start cooperative stores.

CRUSHED TO DEATH.

Front of a Building Falls at Rankin. Pa. —One Child Killed and Another Fatally Hurt. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 3.—Sunday evening at Rankin, near Braddock, John 11. Richards, aged 14 years, and his sister Alice, aged 5 years, children of James Richards, were walking past a new brick tenement house in process qf construction on Braddock avenue. Without warning the entire front of the structure fell out into the street John was instantly killed and Alice fc hilly injured. The children were rotun.irn; home from Sunday school.