Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Briggs heresy trial is said to have cost 850, CG0. Mrs. James G. Blaine, and Miss Blaine, sailed fo~ Enropc, Saturday. Tbe Spanish Princess Eulalia visited the World’s Fair, Thursday. A hot wave reached New Yorki Monday. Thermometer stood at 91 degrees. Forty four naval cadets graduated from the naval academy at Annapolis, Friday. Colored men refused to take the place of , white Strikers on the Kansas City & Gulf railroad. The Sandusky, 0., Savings Bank closed its doors Monday. Assets, 3300,000; liabilities, 5205,000. Two men were killed and two others mortally wounded at a primary election in Pincvlllc. Kv. Rev. R. S. Decncr, a popular Mr B. pastor of Batesville, Ark., was arrested, Bat—urday, for forgery. : A mortgage of 53,003,000 has been placed on the property of the Whisky Trust to secure an issue of bonds. Hell is situated just thirty feet below Chicago, according to the Rev. Dr. J. B. Brady, of Newark, N. J, Saturday the amount of gold in the tin i ted States Trea niry had dropped down to low water mark, 580.039,217. Five fesidenw o! northern Vermont have been arrested for smuggling Chinese into the United States from Canada. The Grant Locomotive Works at Cicero, 111., made a voluntary assignment, Tuesday. Cause, lack of working capital. Cash wheat dropped to €3 cents at Chicago, Thursday. The financial situation in that city, however, is surtly Improving. The New York Anti-Cruelty Society will prevent the proposed Spanish bull fight to be held in Madison Square Garden. Mrs. Frank Leslie has sued for a divorce from her husband, ’‘Willie” Wilde. She avers drunkenness and willful extravagance on his —. The addresses of Cardinal Gibbons in favor of the restoration of temporal power of the Pope have drawn a message of thanks from the Vatican. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of ;he Now York Elerald, was seriously inured at Paris, Thursday, by a fall from a :oach. His condition Is critical. Fargo, N. D., was visited by a most destructive conflagration, Wednesday afternoon. Half of the city was destroyed. The loss is estimated at 83,000,000. In the Federal court at Chicago, Thursday, an injunction againsf opening the World’s Fair on Sunday was granted, Judge Woods reading the decision. Georgo Walters, a rich Charleston. 111., farmer, and his daughter were caught on w trestle, Saturday, and jumped. The daughter was killed and the father dangerously hurt Before leaving "the Savoy Hotel, New York, the Princess Eulalia gave the manager of the hotel 8500 to be distributed among the servants who had been in attendance upon her. 2 Three chiefsof departments, eight clerks and five carriers of the Kansas City postoffice were booked Saturday ior decapitation. Been shooting craps, defrauding money lenders, etc. The run on the Chicago banks was met Confidence is in a measure restored, depositors getting their money as fast as it could be paid to them, the officials in some cases keeping the hanks open all night In order to satisfy the clamorous demands of uneasy creditors. Two masked men held «p a train at Nodaway, lowa, Thursday night. They ietached the baggage and mail cars, and compelled the engineer to spoil them down the track. Hereihey entered the baggage car, and on ljciug informed that It was only a passenger train, exclaimed: “We are after the Denver express,” and hurriedly disappeared.

FOREIGN.

Cholera has appeared iu many districts it Asiatic Turkey, and the people ure dying by thousands. The survivors are panic-stricken and are fleeing, spreading theepidemic with frightful rapidity. It is estimated that seventy thousand persons have fled from Bassora province alone.

WASHINGTON.

Congressman Taisney has discovered Bhutan Illinois veteran is drawing a penion for having corns. The Secretary of State has received notice of the intention of the Russian government to raise the rank of its mission to jn embassy. The President is reported to have told a member qf Congress that under no circumstances would there bo an issuance of bonds unless specially authorized by Congress. y~ Capt. Wm. M. Meredith voluntarily ■tendered his resignation, Monday, as chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, to take effect July 1. On that date he will go to Indianapolis to see his aged father and then proceed to Chicago, his futuro home. Capt. Meredith’s successor will be Claude Johnson, of Lexington, Ky., a friend of Secretary Carlisle, who is now serving as custodian of the bureau. Comptroller Eeklcs has been advised of the failure of the First National Bank of Brady, Tex. Tne bank was a small one, its capital stock being only 950,000. Secretary Gresham iias received no information from Minister Blount that warrants the conclusion that he is prepared to indorse all that has been done in Hawaii, and that he is now strongly inclined to recommend at least the establishment of a United States protectorate over the Hawaiian islands.

LOYAL LEGION CONGRESS.

The seventh quadrennial congress of the Loyal Legion was called to order in the Chamber of Commerce at St. Paul, Wednesday. After an address of welcome by Mayor Wright and others, tho general session was devoted to the discussion of proposed amendments to the constitution, it has been pn p wed lo extend the memben hip limitation so as to includo naval and military cadets 'of the war of the rebellion, but by an almost unanimous vote tho proposition was rejected, as tho present constitution makes all such cadets who are in active service ineligible to become members. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Gen. Lew Wallace arrived Wednesday, and took part in the business of the meeting. The annual reunion took place at the Metropolitan Opera Honse. Addresses were delivered by Brevet MaJ. (Jen. X).

McGregg; Commodore George W. Melville, engineer-in-chief United States navy; Brevet Maj. Got. Wagner Swayne, Col. Thomas A. Livermore. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Capt. Epbriam A. Oitls, Brevet Brig. Gen. C. F. Mandcrson, Brevet Maj. Gen. Jacob I). Cox and Col. D. P. Dyer. - ,

TWO OF A KIND.

Snakes Galore latest From tlie Gas Belt, For several years a big snake has been reported as hibernating in Jay county, in the vicinity of the Jacob Gaunt farm, about twenty miles north of M uncie. This season the reptile bigger and longer than ever. A garty of <Gypsies camping in Jefferson towifthip. claim that it raided their camp one night, seizing a child. The mother, in pure desperation, attacked the reptile with a firebrand, and finally beat lt off. Last week it killed a calf and was in the act of swallowing its prey when the farmer and his two sons, armed with shotguns, appeared and opened battle. The snake disappeared in an adjacent swamp, not much hurt by the fusilade. Frightened Jay county farmers assert that it is forty feet long and big around as a barrel. In some neighborhoods there is no venturing out alter nightfall because of the general alarm. While a party of picnickers of Gas City, headed by Dr. J. C. Walker and wife, wero enjoying themselves at Rock Dam, two miles south on the Missinnewa river, where the water swiftly swirls over huge rocks, a huge blacksnalce suddenly appeared and was quickly killed. Almost instantly there was a rush of hissing, writhing, crawling snakes of every species, and the party fled In dismay. The snakes were estimated at not less than one hundred in number, and among them were two said to be twenty feet in length. A snakehunting party has been organized at Gas City. •

RUSSIAN EXTRADITION TREATY

Formally Proclaimed by President Cleve land to Be la Force. The Russian extradition treaty, which has been the subject of negotiations between the contracting parties for more than six years, which has been amended again and again, and which was threatened with defeat in its final stages, has at last been formally proclaimed, and will henceforth be the law of the land until it is superseded by another treaty. It is asserted m official quarters that, in spite of all that has been said about the treaty, it is similar in scope to all tho extradition treaties negotiated by the LTnlted States in recent years, although in practice it niav be that the administration of the articles will a different result, in view of the essential difference between thfe judicial systems of the two countries, which, in this case, are supposed to be more than usually divergent. The clause that has attracted most attention reads: An attempt against tho life of the head of either government, or against that of any member of his family, when such attempt comprises the act either of murder, of assassination, or of poisoning, or of accessoryship thereto, shall not be considered a political offense, or any act connected with such an offense.

"MORE FRIGHTENED THAN HURT."

Controller of the Currency Eckels said, Wednesday, that he had been watching New York and Chicago banks closely because a break there would be a serious thing, and that be was satisfied that tho New York banks and Chicago banks wero in strong condition. As to Philadelphia the same thing is true. .Senator Manderson, president pro tem. of the last Senate, said that he did not believe the situation to be nearly as bad as it looked, “Wo are,” he said, “more frightened than hurt; that is, there is not the foundation for as much alarm as Is felt.” Speaking of the prospects of repealing tbe Sherman law, he said: “The Sherman law canmot be repealed toy the next Congress, unless substituted by the free coinage of silver in some form. They may put more silver In the dollar, but free coinage will belhsistcd upon as a condition to the repeal of law.”

WANT TO RETALIATE.

Information comes from Germany that certain interests there are petitioning the Reichstag for on increase of duties upon certain products of the United States. The American interests thus assailed are conferring freely with members of Congress at Washington, and urging upon them the propriety of framing a bill for a modification of the McKinley tariff. Many of these members agree that if duties on American products are to be increased in Germany they will oppose any reduction of duties on German products imported into the United States.

HE WAS SURPRISED.

Layton Daugherty, of Ladoga, found an oyster in his soup at a church festival and he raised such a commotion over the unexpected find that it brought him in collision with other parties, and in revenge ho wont out and cut the harness belonging to a man in attendance. He was arrested and fined, and upon taking an appeal to the Circuit Court he was again lined and sent to jail. Patents were issued to Indianians,Tuesday, as follows: Jacob Barrow, Windfall, assignor to J. ft. Moore, Muncle, oil burner; William Harvey. Indianapolis, carpet stretcher; Joseph S. Hill, Lafayette, tower wagon; George E. Miller, Peru, necktie; John J. Minor, assignor of onehalf to W. R. Teeters. Fort Wayne, automatic boiler cleaner; Joseph W. Netpery, assignor to Indiana Manufacturing Company. Indianapolis, conveyor; Robert E. Poindexter, Indianapolis, corn splitting machine; Marion G. Reynolds, Elwood, gas regulator.

Tired Turks.

The Turks who are on exhibition at the World’s Fair do not have a surfeit of the luxurious ease of which their nation is proverbially fond. They are employed most of the time carrying people about in palanquins, and sometimes the burden proves onerous. One who, with a companion, was thus transporting a corpulent woman was heard to murmt r: -Accursed am I, and I kick my bones - for the day that I first her.rd of Columbus.” !

OHIO REPUBLICANS.

State Convention at Columbus Renominates McKinley. Letter of Senator SliermHD on the Duties of ) the flour. The State Republican convention of Ohio met at Columbus, Wednesday afternoon. After prayer by Rev. Mr. Moore, tfife temporary chairman, Gen. Charles Grosvenor, delivered *w address, landing the McKinley 1)111 as a marvel of wisdom, and attributing hard times not so much to the silver problem as to the apprehension that the Democrats will proceed to carry out pledges in regard to upsetting the protective tariff. Protection and reciprocity. General Grosvenor declared, amid great cheering, were the twin coursers of American, prosperity. He then arraigned the Democratic administration at great length for its indecision and tack of liraness in following h financial policy that would restore the confidence of

WILLIAM M’KINLEY, JR.

the country, and closed with a tribute to the Harrison administration, indorsed the Legislature and Governor McKinley’s State work, praised Sherman and Foster and spoke of personal controversies as contemptible and the penalty as political (loath. The following letter to the convention from Senator Sherman was then read; To the lion. Charles Grosvenor: ■ My Dear Sir—Your letter of tho 30th ult. is received. It was my purpose to attend the State convention, but I am detained by business engagements that l can’t well avoid. Still, if I could be of any service to the Republican party by attending tbe convention I would Ignore all personal Interests and go to Columbus to consult and advise witlr the Republicans of Ohio. As you know. I have scrupulously abstained from any interference tn the selection of candidates and the announcement of the principles of our party, as 1 believe this duty can be best performed by the delegates assembled In convention from all the counties in Ohio, for -the concurring opinion of these delegates is a far wiser and safer guide than tho advice of any one of them. Fortunately our party is not now divided as to either candidates or principles. Public opinion seems to have concentrated in favor of tiiose seloeted two years ago, all of whom have proven that they were worthy of the confidence reposed in them. The public policy of the State and Nation ■ is already engrafted in our laws, and I believe has the approval and sanction of the people of Ohio. Governor McKinley is an honored representative of this public, and justly commands the confidence, not only of the people of Ohio, but of the United States of America. Whai We aeod most in Ohio is a wise revision of our laws levying State and local taxes so as to secure just andi equal taxation on all property of every kind in Ohio. Next to this we should secure to labor and laboring men every advantage and opportunity for education, employment, and happiness and comfort which can be conferred by law. Ohio, from its location, population and condition, ought to be, ana I believe now is, one of the most prosperous States in the United States. This great Republic, though but recently devastated by a destructive war, is now the freest, strongest, and best governed country of the world. It is the ‘.ype and model to which liberty-loving men of all nations look, in the hope that : hey and their countries may be able to 'ollow our example. Much of the good we now enjoy is the work of tho Republican party. The policy of our party has preserved and strengthened •.lie Union; it has made us a free people, in *aet, as well as in name; Lt jias demonstrated the strength of a popular government resting upon the equality of men, nnd has proved that each generation in a Republic can furnish, by election from the people, great men, greater and wiser than rings or emperors, to administer the highest functions of tho government in peace aud war. The Republican party has furnished a host of these, among whom Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant may be named as examples.

The Republican party has established a policy which has secured America for Americans. It has protected ail industries impartially. It has secured to labor 'ts highest rewards, not only in wages, but in opportunities and advancement impossible in other countries. It has secured us a sound currencv, the highest financial credit, general prosperity and an unexampled growth in wealth. Intelligence, invention and development, It has cared for the patriotic soldiers of the war. their widows and orphans, not only by honors and sympathy, but by liberal pensions. Compared with the empty and fruitless promises of its adversaries, the Republican party has engrafted its policy in the acts and executed them, and now points to the history of Its deeds as the best evidence of what It will do in the future, while a Democratic party and a Democratic President can not agree upon or formulate a single affirmative measure of public policy, andean not even agree upon how ana where It will or can attack any measure of the Republican party. It relies upon temporay discontent, the slumbering animosities of the Rebellion and the corrupt agencies of the city of New York; ——:- — Under these circumstances it should be the pride and glory of the Republican party in Ohio to take the lead in the coming election, to revive the latent energy and enthusiasm of the olden times, to bury out of sight all the petty divisions and dissensions inseparable from political strife, and with courage and hope to advance our National honor, as in 1863, with our principles emblazoned on every fold, with pride in what we have done in the past and with confidence that the patriotic people of the United States will rally to our support wherever a free ballot and a fair count Is permitted by the ruling powers of the Democratic party. Very sincerely yours; JoHsr Shebman. After a lively contest Harry Daugherty, of WashingtonU. H., was elected permanent chairman. The platform committee was then appointed with instructions to report atß;3o a. m„ Thursday, after which the convention adjourned. Thursday's session opened with prayer bv Rev. Mr. Holmes, following which Harry Daugherty, the permanent chairman. was Introduced and spoke briefly. At the close of Mr. Daugherty’s speech the Duke of Veragua, present In Cplumbus as the guest of the iaigest city In the world bearing the name of the great dls-

eovercr. entered the hall amid great applause and was given a seat of honor near the stage. J ust at ; this juncture the connia|te the re-nomination of Wm. McKinley for Governor of Ohio, by acclamation. A committee at one» notified the Governor and escorted him to the hall. His entrance was the signal for terrific applause. When quiet was restored he spoke at great length, from which we make the following extracts; UOVEKMOI; M’KIXLKY’S SPEECH. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention—l accept the nomination which you have unanimously tendered me, andi thank you for it. Ft is an honor to have it thus oiicred; it is a duty to accept it. I might justify myself in declining th 3 honor; I could not In declining the duty. I lie honors I have already had, with the one yon have just bestowed, only increase my sense of obligation to the Republicans of Ohio, and make their summons my pleasure and duty. Republicanism wifl have a severe test ip Ohio this year. This State is the coveted field of tbe opposition: they will center here, but with unity, harmony and courage our party will triumph over ail. We do not wait Tor the enemy to form their lino and challenge us to contest. We challenge them early up- ri evory issue wild upon every line of controversy, State or national which divides us. -Tne national administration has done nothing thus far except to create in the minds of business meii a deep distrust. The financial situation, which for the most part has prevailed since the 4th of M arch, has uot been iraproved, nor has the financial stringency been relieved by anything the national administration has said or done. The Democratic victory of 1892 has not been able to bring the better times promised. It has not been able to maintain the good times which were enjoyed everywhere in this country on the day of the victory. What will the Democrats do with the tariff? We can only wait and see; but the waiting, and anxiety, and uncertainty is paralyzation. Certain it is they will make wool free, and thus strike down one of Ohio’s great agricultural products. Tin-plate mnst also ha made free, and the new and splendid enterprises for making black sheets and tinning them must be crippled financially, the millions of capita! invested imperiled, and the thousands of workingmen driven from employment, or forced to work at reduced wages. Sugar will have to go from the list of free articles to tho list of tariffed articles, and cheap sugar again made dearer to the masses. Notice has gone forth that not only Is the tariff to be revised, but that the pension list Is to bo revised. War Is to be waged upon the pensioners of the country. No honest man will object to a purging of the rolls of all who are unworthy there. Every case must rest upon its own facts. Ido not object to unworthy men being stricken from the roll—if there are such—but I do object to the impression which in some quarters is being made, that this whole pension business is a fraud. We want no coin dollar which does not measure up to full 100 cents in value, and we will never return to a paper dollar Issued by State authority, resting upon uncertain and doubtful securities. The pledge of the Republican party that gold and silver shall be maintained at a parity, the one with the other, must be sacredly kept. The Government must not suffer any taint to be put upon Its creditor financial honor. THE PLATFORM. The Republicans of Ohio, by their delegates in State convention assembled, declare as follows; 1. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles adopted by the National Republican convention in Juno, 1892. 2. We indorse and commend the administration of Benjamin Harrison while President of tho United States as eminently patriotic. 3. The peoplo of Ohio have a just pride in the administration of the affairs of this State by Governor William McKinley, Jr. We heartily indorse his administration. 4. We indorse the action of the last General Assembly in providing by law for the protection of railroad employes, by compelling the use of automatic couplers.

5. We favor biennial sessions of the General Assembly. 6. We favor the policy of full and adequate protection to American labor and industries. 7. Wo condemn the bill passed by the Democratic majority in the House and Representatives of the last Congress, and the present avowed policy of the Democratic party to place wool on the free list. 8. We Indorse the policy of the National Grange, that all tariff laws shall protect the products of the farm as well as the products of the factory. 9. We believe in a free ballot and a fair count. T7~ 10. We demand the enactment of laws that will protect our people against the influx of tne vicious and criminal classes and the importation of laborers under contract to compete with our citizens. 11. We adhere to the Republican policy of granting pensions to the wounded and disabled Union soldiers and sailors of the late war, and the widows and orphans of such as are deceased. 12. We favor honest money, composed of gold, silver and paper, maintained at equal value, and under national and not State regulations. 13. We denounce the avowed purpose of the Democratic party to repeal the prohibitory 10 per cent, ta* on State bank issues. The ticket fn full as nominated is as follows: Governor—William McKinley, Jr., of Stark county. , Lieutenant-Governor—Andrew L. Harris, of Preble county. Treasurer of State—William T. Cope, of Cuyahoga county. Attorney-General—John K. Richards,of Lawrence county. Judge of Supreme Court—Joseph P. Bradbury, of Meigs county. Member of Board of Public WorksFrank J. McCullough, of Logan county. Dairy and Food Commissioners—Frank P. McNeill, of Miami county.

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AUSTRIA

The floods continue to cause great destruction in the province of Bokowina l The river Czermosz Wednesday evening burst through the temporary dams, which had been erected to stay its devastating course, and snbmerged the town of Wlschnitza. The town has a population of about four thousand, and many of these were drowned In the flood, while rows of houses were demolished by the rushing waters. Thousands are homeless and the loss of property le very great. The number of persons known to have been drowned at Wischnitza is twenty-one. At Radutz the streets are inundated and eight houses have been destroyed.

ANOTHER ROYAL VISITOR.

Among the passengers who arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu on the steamer, Gaelic. Tuesday, was His Highness, the Nawab of Rampur, who accompanied by a large suite, is making a tour around the world. The Price Is seventeen years of age, and is having his education finished by the British government, after which he returns to govern Rampur, In Hindoostan. He is to Visit Ibe World’s Fair at Chicago.

ON ANOTHER STAGE.

America’s Greatest Actor Passe* Away. The Death of Edwin Booth After a Pw trected Illne*a at New York city. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, died a New York at 1:17 Wednesday morning At the time of his death he was unconscious, in which condition he remained since Sunday. When tbe end came Mr* Edwina Grossman, the tragedian’s daugh ter, had her hand clasped in that of hei father. Aronnd the bed stood Mr. Booth’! brother-in-law, Superintendent Magonigle, of the Players’ Club, Mr. Grossman. William Bispham, Charles E. Carry). The only other persons present in the chamber were Dr. St. Clair Smith and the nurse. Edwin Booth was born in Belaire, near Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 13, 1833, and was

EDWIN BOOTH.

the son of Jnnins Brutus Booth, the elder, an English actor who obtained his reputation, however, mainly in the United States; he was named Edwin Booth out of compliment of his father’s friend, Edwin Forrest, and Thomas Flynn, both great actors. Although the elder Booth at first objected to his son going on the stage he did finally consent, and the young man’s first appearance in any part occurred in 1849 at the Boston museum, when he appeared as Tressel in “Richard III.” He made a success in this small part, and from that time forward no question was raised as to his continuing on the stage. In 1851 he took the most important step in his dramatic career up to that period by playing “Richard III” in place of his father who had been taken suddenly ill. This performance gave him at once the reputation of being an actor of unusual promise. In the latter part of 1852 the cider Booth died while on his way from New Orleans to Cincinnati. Mr. Booth’s great career is well known to the country, and his wonderful powers have boon appreciated and generously rewarded by his thousandsof adraifers, who will regreUand sincerely mourn his death. Mr. Booth’s first serious Illness came on April 3,1889, when be wa9 stricken with incipient paralysis while playing in* “Othello,” in the Lyceum theater in Rochester. The last four years of his life have been passed in comparative retirement in New York, and his friends have noted with pain the steady and unchecked decline in his health during that period. At no time has there been any well-found-ed hope of his recovery.

ROYALTY AT CHICAGO.

The Spanish Infanta Arrive* and la Enthusiastically Received. The World’s Fair city welcomed the Infanta of Spain just after noon, Tuesday. Thousands of cheering people lined the sidewalks, particularly in the neighborhood of the Board of Trade. As the carriages containing the royal party passed rapidly along, preceded by a cavalry escort, the Princess could be seen, attired Id an unpretentious light gray traveling costume, seated beside her husband. She was smilingly bowing her acknowledgment of the continuous volley of applause that swept along the thoroughfare. The special train bearing the Princess made a good run through the night from Pittsburgh to Chicago. The Princess retired early and slept well. She had a cup of chocolate in her private room at 8 o’clock in the morning and did not rise until 10 o’clock. The Prince and the Duke and the Marchioness were out of their state-rooms early, and all said that their first night’s experience on an American railway train was a surprise to them. The Princess was entirely recovered from the fatigue of yesterday. At 11 o’clock breakfast was served in the Princess’s car. The members of the suit© breakfasted in the dining car. A delegation of Chicago citizens, headed by ex-MayorWashburne and Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, Spanish consul atChicago, met the train at Grand Crossing at 11:45 and entered the sleeping car Scotland. Commander Davis then presented them to the Duke and Secretary Don Pedro Y Jovcr. The train arrived at union station at 12:06. The party were driven direct to their hotel the Palmer House, where gaudy Spanish flags and brilliant stars and stripes decorated the rotunda in honor of the royal guest. All the riches of the floriculture department of the World’s Fair were drawn upon to adorn thesnite to which the Infanta was assigned. It is said that Dr. McGiynn, instead of being on his way to Rome, as reported, is doing penance in the Trapoist monastery near Lexington, Ky.

A SHOCKING DEATH.

Sapione Martello was suddenly killed by electricity in the penitentiary at Dannemora, N. Y., Tuesday. The murder for which M artel lo died was committed on the evening of March 5, 1892, in Saratoga, when he cut the throat of another Italian, named Giovanni Parrelio, and stabbed him In six other places. Jealousy was the cause.

Contracta were signed, Tuesday, for the erection of a large factory - for the manufacture of glass tableware at Ingalls. The concern will employ two hundred men and will begin operations in September.

EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.

President Cleraland Declare* Hk loUilim to Call the L»w Maker* Together. Tbe President said, Monday evening, in reply to a direct question by a representative of the Associated Press, that he Intended to call an extra session of Congress not earlier than the Ist nor later than 15th of September, unless unexpected contlngeneies should necessitate an earlier meeting. The President further said: “While there has been no mystery or secrecy in regard to my intention in this matter I think It not amiss that onr people should be informed authoritatively that the time is at Rand when their representatives in Congress will be called upon to deal with the financial condition which is the only menace to the country’# welfare and prosperity. It is well for the people to take up the subject for themselves and arrive at their own conclusions as to the merits of a financial policy which obltges us to purchase idle silver bullion with gold taken from our reserve. One does not need the eye of a financier to see that this gold thus subtracted from the government’s stock is eagerly seized by the other nations for the purpose of strengthening their credit at our expense. . "It does not need the art of statesmanship to detect the danger that awaits upon the continuance of this operation. Already the timidity of capital is painfully apparent, and none of us can fail to see that fear and apprehension la monetary circles, will ultimately bring suffering to every humble home in our land. “I think that between now and the meeting of Congress much depends upon the action of those engaged in financial vast national resources and credit are abundantly sufficient to justify them to the utmost faith and confidence. If, instead of being frightened they are conservative. and if, instead of gloomily anticipating Immediate disaster they contribute their 9hare of hope and steadiness, they will perform a patriotic duty and at the same time protect their own interest. The things just now needed *re coolness and calmness in financial circles and study and reflectiou among our peoplft”

ICTORIA AND MARGUERITE.

Contribution of the Queen* of England nnd Italy to the World’* Fair. The individual exhibit of Victoria, Queen of England and Ireland and Empress of India, arrived at the World’s Fair grounds Monday morning. Along with it came the indivldnal exhibit of Marguerite, Qneen of Italy. These valuable additions to the attractions of th* “White City” were bronght from tbs safety deposit vaults where they have lain since their arrival In Chicago on a big dray drawn by*• horses in gold-monnted harnesses guided by a driver dressed fn royal livery. Theowagon was decorated with the royal colors of Great Britain and Italy. Under an escort of twelve Columbian guards the wagon was driven to the Women’s Building, where Qneen Marguerite’s exhibit was unloaded and placed on exhibition. From here the wagon went to the fine art gallery and Qneen Victoria’s contribution was taken from the dray and deposited in the galleries *of that building. Queen Victoria’s exhibit consists of a great variety of fine tapestries, some of which have hung In the royal palace for centuries. These are of great value and have their safety guaranteed by a bond of 8100,000. The exhibit of Queen Marguerite consists largely of laces. Some of them are centuries old while others are of modern make bnt from ancient patterns. The process by which they were made and by which their texture is rendered practically indestructible was for many years a lost art. It was but recently discovered and is only known to the lace makers employed in the royal household. Consequently the exhibit Is almost priceless in value. The laces were loaned to the exposition by Queen Marguerite aud a bond of 8190.030 w?s given guaranteeing their safe return at the close of the fair.

NEARING THE END.

Gladstone Aging Fast bat His Energy le Unabated. London cable dispatches of Sunday to the New York Times assert that Gladstone is aging fast and that he is himself aware that his end is near. When be rises in the House he seems like a ghost, and his enemies treat him with a respect that shows that they believe each speech may be his last Reporters find his utterances harder am) harder to take, but with extraordinary tenacity he insists on directing the fight for home rule fn person, and often remains after his colleagues at night sessions. He is reported to have said on returning home in the small hours of last Wednesday morning: “I can never go through the hot nights of July.” But his energy and vim remain unabated despite his own premonitions and the forebodings of his friends. *

UPERFLUOUS CADETS.

West Point Will Graduate Fifty and Thera Are'Bnt Forty-Fire Vacancies In the Army. The West Point graduating class, - . ch will leave that institution ‘Jtufe 13, numbers fifty. There are but forty-five vacancies in the line of commissioned officers to which these young men are eligible. Tha cadets will all be commissioned as Lieutenants, however, to await vacancies in the service as they may occur.

NDIANA'S "BLACK HOLE".

i- Elbert G. Bowen, of Wabash, Monday, filed a suit for 910,000 damages against Miami county for fmprfsonment fn the “black hole” under tho court house at Peru, used for jail purposes. Owen hired a livery rig at Wabash one year ago and drove to Peru, where he became intoxicated. He was arrested for fast driving, aact waa lmprisonod in this jail, which has been repeatedly condemned by tho local and State health authorities. There he remained for two months. He alleges that during that time his health was impaired, ana In consequence he hi now a confirmed Invalid.