Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, . • INDIANA.

SWEPTBY A TEMPEST.

WILD FURY OF THE STORM AT PITTSBURG. Advantage of Harveyi zed Armor Lost to This Country—Market Outlook for Cereal* in England—Farmer* Don’t Pay for Seed Grain. Storm at Pittabnrg. At Pittsburg three lives were lost by n stofm Sunday night and a score of persons were injured, while the property loss will foot up SIOO,OOO. At least twenty were injured more or less seriously'By Being; hit by flying debris. The storm struck the city about 10 o’clock and was’bver in about half an hour, but in that brief time death and widespread destruction was left in its track. The rain came down in torrents, and was accompanied by vivid lightning and terrific wind. Houses were unroofed, trees uprooted, and fences and outhouses demolished. So tremendous was the force of the tornado that the steamers Lud Keefer, Little Bill and Arlington were overturned, and many barges, coal boats and small craft torn from their moorings and sent adrift. Uncle Sam Was Scooped. Washington dispatch: The construction end of the Navy Department has at length impressed the higher powers of the administration that a piece of monumental folly was committed when the opportunity was thrown away of monopolizing the Harvey process of hardening armorplates for war vessels. As the matter now stands the United States is in the position of developing the ideas of Inventor Harvey and perfecting the most valuable of armor improvements and of neglecting to stipulate for the control of the process. No sooner, therefore, did this Government prove the great usefulness of the process than the inventor proceeded to sell it to all the great naval powers of Europe, placing each and every one on an equality, whereas this country should have held a distinct advantage over rival Governments. It may gratify the national pride to know that Uncle Sam now leads the world in excellence of its armor-plate processes, and also in the manufacture of projectiles. Six years ago this country was away in the rear. England Needs Corn. A London correspondent talked with several leading experts at the Baltic Exchange, the headquarters of the British corn trade, on the prospects of the British corn crop and the amount of American corn likely to be required. Some prominent brokers declared that the River Platte holds the key to the situation, and that reports from there promise a very large surplus crop of both maize and wheat. The Danube district also reports an immense crop, as against an abnormally small one last season, and the view generally expressed was that, however low the American prices may be, the Danube will undersell them. The British crop Is expected to be generally below the average, but brokers could not hazard an opinion on the probable amount of American corn that will be required. Last year the Imports of American corn Were only 25,507,755 bushels! This year there ought to be four or five times as much. Steamer City, of Sheffield Sinks. The steamer City of Sheffield, from St. Louis to Tennessee River, struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River back of Cairo at midnight Sunday and sunk. The water barely covers the boiler deck, and she lies straight and smooth and will be raised without trouble. Several hundred barrels of flour in the hold will be damaged. No lives were lost, and the passengers were taken off. The Sheffield had 100 passengers. The boat knocked a hole In her bottom twelve feet long, and filled and settled down smooth and square on a bar. Most of her passengers were asleep and knew nothing of the accident until morning. Blown Up by a Mine. The London Daily News has a dispatch from Vienna which says Trieste papers report an explosion destroyed the artillery barracks at Toula, Russia, and that 300 men were killed, including many officers. The barracks were found to be completely undermined. Many arrests have been made. Toula is the capital of the Government of Toula in European Russia.- It is on the River Oopa, 105 miles south of Moscow. It is a manufacturing city of 70,000 people. Cubans Meet Defeat. A severe engagement, it is reported from Havana, in Spanish official circles, has been fought at Ariliao in the Department of Santa Clara. It was officially announced that Lieut. Col. I‘alanca had routed the insurgents under the command • of lioloff and Serafin Sanchez. The insurgents left sixty dead and wounded cn the field, and twenty of their horses were killed. The trqops lost two killed and had eight wounded.

BREVITIES.

The sessions of the Catholic summer school for 1895 were closed at Pluttsburg, N. Y. President Comity announced that building on the grounds would be commenced at once, and that an auditorium, together with cottages, would be completed for nest year's sessions. A number of South Dakota counties that furnished grain to furniers last spring are experiencing considerable difficulty in collecting the money due from many of the farmers. In some instances farmers who owe the counties for seed grain have completed their thrashing and left' for part# unknown, notwithstanding that if caught such action would under the law be deemed a felony. Printed lists of delinquents arc being secured, and they may lie nrrested. It is feared that war is inevitable between Peru and Bolivia. The trouble is strip of seaconst which Chili took from Peru and which Bolivia wants. A. Kuzar and his 4-year-old daughter perished in the flames which destroyed their home at Algonquin, 111. Mr. Kuzar had escaped, but went back into.the burning building to rescue bis child. A report from Cuba says that Maximo Gomez, the insurgent leader, died from consumption on July 3t. The Ocean View Hotel, on Hocknway Beach, was burned. Ail the 200 guests •re thought to have eseaped. 1,:..!;,. —_

EASTERN.

By the explosion of & large boiler in the paper mill and postal card manufactory of Woolworth & Co., at Costleton, N. Y., Wednesday, one man, James Lawton, the watchman, was kilted and another, the engineer, was so badly injured that it is believed he will die. Demetrius Ivallias Bey and his bride, who was Mrs. P. T. Barnum, have arrived at Bridgeport, Conn., accompanied by I'aure Tmont, of the French Embassy. Mr. Kalliaa went to the Union-Metallic Cartridge Company and placed a large order for ammunition for the Turkish Government. Acting nuder order of the Sultan, Mr. Kailias inspeeted the improved machinery used at the factory. Two new strikes were begun at New York Wednesday in accordance with resolutions passed by the Children’s JacketMakers’ Local Assembly, 155, K. of L., and the Pautsmakers’ Local Assembly, demanding contracts for one year instead of six months. Altogether there are something like 7,000 or 8,000 persona thrown out of work by the strike, but the leaders assert that it will last only a few diaya.' ' J At Buffalo, N. Y\. the members of St. Albert’s Roman Catholic Church have formally decided to secede and to establish an independent church. They will hire their own priest and run their own church without acknowledging the Bishop’s authority over them. The decision was precipitated by the refusal of Archbishop Corrigan to remove a priest to whom they objected. The new church will be on somewhat the same lines ns the independent Catholic church established by members of a Roman Catholic church in Cleveland last year. One person was killed and a score of others injured in a rear-end collision on the Camden and Atlantic Railroad in Camden. N. J„ Thursday night. Marshall Johnson, aged 6 years, was burned to death. The injured are: Lucy Buckman, Maggie Cannon, Mrs. Mary Grovers, James Grovers, Mrs. M. Johnson, Daisy Nahen, Carrie Quash, Matilda Quash, Mrs. Lizzie Watts, John Wilson. The rear of tlio excursion train caught fire and was completely burned. The train was the first section of fifteen cars, having on board the parents and scholars of fourteen colored Sabbath schools from Camden. Philadelphia, and several counties in Pennsylvania. The headlight of the Atlantic City train was seen as it rounded the curve, and a panic ensued. A rush was made for the doors and windows, and children were thrown from the ear to the platform, while others jumped from the windows. Responsibility for the wreck is not fixed.

WESTERN.

In the pocket of a man who was found lead on the railroad track near Springfield, Mass., was found the .address: “James S. Edwards, 34 Dearborn street, Chicago.” James Rhodes’ steam sawmill in the Adiroudaeks, near Watertown, N. Y., burned to the ground, with a large quantity of lumber. The loss is estimated at $100,000; no insurance. Miss Jennie Lewis, a domestic employed in the family of Rev. George Moar, of Oakland, Cal., was shot and fatally wounded by a man supposed to be Louis F. Muhlner, a jilted lover. Dr. Arthur Hamilton, of Los Angeles, Cal., said to be a colleague of W. H. T. Durrant, the San Francisco murderer, disappeared in Chicago Tuesday night and left his wife penniless in a downtown restaurant. At the time of his disappearance Dr. Hamilton had in his possession $1,200 and jewelry valued at $1,500. According to a San Francisco paper the indictment against C. P. Huntington, the president of the Southern Pacific, for violating the interstate commerce law by issuing a pass, will be dismissed. Judge Morrow will be asked to dismiss the indictment on tXe recent ruling of the New York court in the case.- . A San Francisco paper says the heirs of Jose de Jesus Noe will soon bring suit to recover a vast tract of land near Golden Gate Park, known as the San Miguel rancho, The property involved is estimated to be worth $24,000,000. The suit will be based on the alleged illegality of the transfer of the land by Noe to William J. Horner in 1853. The Colorado Humane Society, through Secretary Thompson, has appealed ,to Gov. Mclntyre to issue a proclamation forbidding the, proposed Mexican bullfight at Gillet, in the Cripple Creek district, on Sept. 24. It is believed the Governor will exercise all the authority of his office, even to the extent of calling out the troops if need be to prevent the exhibition. Edward Clegg, Coleman Nickolds and Henry Cartstensen, British bicycle tourists, were arrested at Chadron, Neb., for fast riding, and were hued $1 and costs, a total of $5.70 each. Although abundantly supplied with money they refused to pay their fines and were committed to hard work on the streets. They would not work, however, but instead sat down under a load of hay. They will claim the protection of the English Government. By the alteration of brands it has been discovered that thousands of head of cattle have been stolen in Wyoming and run north into Montana, where they have been sold. In some cases two-thirds of the herds have disappeared. Small owners are the worst suljferers, and some of them will have to go out of the business. Stealing amounting to S3O,(XX) during the last three months has already been made certain of, and the amount is expected to be greatly increased when all reports are in. J. R. Irwin, vessel-owner and agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Fairport, died at his home in Pninesville, Ohio. Apoplexy was the immediate cause of death. Mr. Irwin was a man of great stature, remarkable for his appearance, but had suffered a general breaking down in health since January last. He was interested in tugs, shipchandlery, warehouses, and in fact everything in Fairport, and the growth of the place as a lake port during the past ten years was largely due to his energy and enterprise. Emmett Divers, the negro who assaulted and killed Mrs. Cain near Fulton, Mo., a couplp of weeks ago, was taken from the Slier iff about 1 o’clock Thursday morning by a mob at Fulton nnd hanged to a railroad bridge. Divers was taken from St. Louis by Deputy Sheriff Buchanan, of Calloway County, and arrived nt Fulton some time after midnight. Sheriff Buchanan left the train with his prisoner some distnnee from Fulton nnd was proceeding with him in a carriage when he was intercepted by u mob of more than a hundred men. who forcibly took the negro and hanged him. An explosion and resulting fire Thursday entirely consumed the plant of the Poerless refinery at Findlay, Ohio. With

SOO,OOO loss, half Insured. A benzine tank first exploded from some unknown cause and in an instant the building was wrapped in seething flames. Two still men, William Adams and William Bends, were probably fatally burned. Ten oil stills next caught fire and one after another exploded, seuding flaming oil over the surrounding buildings and ground. Next two tanks of crude oil, containing 12,000 gallons, caught, sending up red columns of flame 200 feet Into the air. A mammoth tank of 30,000 barrels was fired into with a cannon, Jetting-the oil run out, where it caught fire. Minneapolis underselling Duluth at the seaboard by a full ceiit was the report received from the East Thursday by Duluth wheat shippers. The freight war from the Twin Cities has culminated in the greatest slaughter of tariffs that the Northwest has ever known. The Soo Road is said to be carrying wheat to the sealward at the rate of 12 cents per hundred pounds, or only 2 cents more than the lowest all-rail rate ever known to be made from Chicago to the seaboard. If the other Van Home road, the South Shqre arid Atlantic, makes the same comparative rate or a tr i tic lower- from- JAuiuth, wheat will go East by all-rail instead of Jake and rati-. 1 The Pierre, S. D., court-room was crowded Wednesday to hear sentence pronounced on W. W. Taylor, the defaulting c-x-State Treasurer. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not he pronounced on him Taylor in a low voied replied: “I have not.” Judge Gaffey then reviewed the case and the different statutes bearing upon the crime. He considered .the mueh-diseussed section 1,005 void, and did not believe a two-year sentence was intended to cover such a case as this. He said that Taylor’s worst crime was iu attempting to force a compromise after gathering together all the State funds he could lay., his hands on. A sentence of five years at hard labor was then pronounced. Frank Sweet's efforts having failed to separate Mrs. Alice Burr from her husband at Chicago Wednesday, Frank Burr, a printer, he shot her and a Mrs. Nichols, and then put two bullets into his own brain, killing himself instantly. Mrs. Burr was fatally injured, it is thought; while Mrs. Nichols received only a flesh wound. Burr and his wife have not lived happily together for some time. Sweet was a brother-in-law of. the two women, fate wife • having "short' time ago. Lately he had been attentive to Mrs. Burr, and it is asserted that he sought every opportunity to persuade her to leave her husband. She was inclined to listen to him, hut was kept from carrying out his wishes by the advice of Mrs. Nichols. Edward Clegg, Coleman Nockolds and Henry Carteuson, the young Englishmen who were arrested at Chadron, Neb., for fast riding and refused to pay their fines, after a couple of days spent in the county bastile, their spare time being employed by sitting on a rock pile with a ball and chain attachment, finally got tired of the affair and paid their fines. They have, however, had prepared a communication to the British Consul stating their version of the affair and asking for redress from the United States. The protest has not arrived at the State Department, and if it should be received it is probable ■ they would he promptly informed that the department vvould take no action in a case where a municipality had punished any one for violating a police regulation. American bicyclists frequently are arrested in England for violation of local police regulations.

SOUTHERN.

Ex-United States Senator Sam Bcdl Maxey is reported dying at Eureka Springs, Texas. He is over 70 years of age. A New Orleans linotypist has established a new record by setting nnd correcting 81,041 ems of agate type in eight consecutive hours. At Raymond, Miss., the Grand Jury returned indictments against Monroe and Buck Terrell, two very old men, Thomas Brock, Con Brock and Skipworth for the murder of Mcßae in July last The engine and baggage car of the north-bound passenger train on the Cotton Belt Railway were ditched Thursday night at Stamps Station, Ark., and Engineer Eighme and Fireman Dean were seriously, perhaps fatally, wounded. John Johnson, colored, was hanged at Mount Sterling, Ky., for killing Policeman Charles Evans on June 15. Johnson’s neck was not broken and he did not die for twenty-five minutes after the trap was sprung. Nearly ten thousand people witnessed the hanging. Just before daylight Friday morning a double loghouse near Arlington, Tenn., occupied by Mrs. Callie Harrill, her two grown daughters and a son, was burned to the ground, and Mrs. Harrill and the girls perished in the flames. The son, who occupied a room in the rear of the building, barely escaped with his life. It is thought the women were drugged, ns loghouses burn very slowly, and' they should have awakened in time4<Kescape. The remains were burned to a crisp. Near Morgantown, W. Vn., John Black and sous were thrashing Tuesday when the boiler of the machine exploded, killing three men and injuring four others. The killed are: John Spotsuagc, Curtin Ammons. John Blair. The injured: Ross Blair, John Spotsnnge Jr., Leroy Wade, William Ammons. Curtin Ammons was struck by a piece of the boiler and literally torn to pieces. His legs and feet were found under the barn. All of Blair’s clothing was torn from him except his shoes. Rufus Buck. Sam Samson, Meoa Judy, Lucky Davis and Albert Stake were lodged in the United States jail at Fort Smith, Ark. AU arc young men who have in ten days made a criminal record for themselves which is almost without parallel in the Indian Territory. They murdered John Garrett, a negro deputy marshal, about ten days ago. They are charged with assaulting four women, robbing two stores and holding up three individuals. They robbed a stockman named Calahan and kill'd a negro boy who was with him.

FOREIGN.

The Sofia correspondent of the London Times telegraphs that M. StamboulofTs grave has been desecrated, the police arriving just in time to prevent the exhuming of the remains. The condition of the crops of Europe is reviewed in the report of the European agent of the Agricultural Departrneut for August. It shows fair crops in most of the countries except Great Britain. A bloody battle is reported in British Honduras between native Carihs and negro workmen building n railroud for English planters. Between five and six hundred negroes were killed and almost as many injured, while the Carihs had close

upon 300 killed and twice a* many wounded, some mortally. A census of tha British Parliament just assembled shows that only 190 out of 668 are new members. As to occupations, 150 are lawyers, 54 manufacturers, 88 mechanics, 10 professors in universities, 31 journalists, 12 skilled laborers, 19 Brew - ers, distillers and wine merchants, 46 army and navy officers in aetive®serviee, 146 gentry, peers’ sons and peers’ brottlcrs. - ; ; ' ‘ " . ':■* . ; ~ Constantinople dispatch: The Vali of Saloniea* telegraphs that a Bulgarian baud, numbering about 1,000 men, attacked the village of Janakli. in the district of Kirdjali, and burned 290 houses. The Bulgarians are also said to have killed twenty-five of the inhabitants of Janakli. The Vaji of, Adrianopje has sent a similar dispatch, but thinks the accounts of the affair are probably exaggerated. The New York World says: “The Novedades, an organ of the Spanish Government, makes the official announcement from Madrid that Spain will have 156,272 soldiers tinder arms in Cuba by Sept. 5. tVhen those re-enforeements ar“rivo there' wiUBeTO,272 regulars"arid 80,000. volunteers. The regulars are classified as follows: Fifty-nine thousand nine jifindred infantry, 3,876 cavalry, 1,803 artillery, 1*415 engineers, 2,700 marine infantry, 976 military police, 4,400 civil guards, 1,152 guerrillas. A semi-official note has been published at Paris stating that tuberculosis is slioyn to exist in New York State, and that New' Y'ork cattle have been refused entry into Connecticut, and also that anthrax is ravaging New’ Jeusey herds, W’hile a serious disease, believed to be Texas fever, has been discovered in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The note then proceeds: “These facts fully justify the measure taken Feb. 24 of checking the import of American cattle into France, and are the best reply to the criticisms this measure evoked.”

IN GENERAL

Fred Filgiano, absconding cashier of the Grand Trunk Road, who pilfered $17,000, has been arrested at Hamilton, Out. A question of great interest to Canada was asked in the House of Qommons by Mr. Price, who inquired if the Government was aware that the present exclusion of Canadian store cattle had caused and was causing -severe loss in some of the agricultural districts, and whether the restriction can be removed. The president of the Board of Agriculture, Walter Long, replied, saying that as late as July 10 cases of cattle suffering from pleuro-pueumonia had been found among cargoes coming from Canada, and the Government in consequence must maintain the restrictmn placed upon such cattle. Mr. Long added that the Government was communicating with the Government of the Dominion of Canada on the subject. Although passengers arriving at Victoria, B. C., by the Oriental liners agree that cholera is working frightful havoc in Japan, the newspapers of that country contain no reference to the devastation of the plague. This is probably due to the fact that the disease finds its victims chiefly among soldiers recently returned from the front, and the Government, therefore, takes advantage of the law’ rc lating to the press censorship to its fullest extent. According 'to officers of the Victoria, and the more recently arrived Empress of Japan, the military has suffered a loss of thousands during the last few months and the principal stations in Japan are at present converted into great hospitals. The Formosa expedition has proved especially disastrous. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League; Per P. W. L. cent. Cleveland ......101 63 38 .624 Baltimore 91 56 35 .6K> Pittsburg 96 57 39 .594 i Chicago 99 55 44 ,551 Philadelphia .... 92 51 41 .554! Cincinnati 94 52 42 .553 Boston 92 50 42 .543 Brooklyn 94 49 45 * .521 New Y’0rk ...... 94 47 47 .500 Washington .... 86 30 56 .34?) ! St. Louis 98 32 66 .327 i Louisville 91 22 69 .242 1 WESTERN I.EAGUK. The following is the standing of the clubs iu the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis 95 .61 34 .642 St. - Paul 95, 56 39 .589 Kansas City.... .96 55 41 .573 Minneapolis 94 49 45 .521 Milwaukee 96 47 49 .490 Detroit 97 47 50 .485 Terre Haute 98 41 57 .418 Grand Rapids. ...99 32 67 .323

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 3t}c to 39c; oats, No. 2,20 c to- 21c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 45c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 35c to 45c; broom .corn, Illinois, poor to choice, $55 to SIOO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,65 cto 67c; corn, No. 1 white, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 66e to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 10c to 20c; rye, No. 2,40 c to 41c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, 44c to 46c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24e; rye. No. 2,45 cto 40c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to s<>.oo; hogs> s3.o# to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; w-heat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; outs, No. 2 white, 20c to 27c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, GGc to 67c; corn, No. 3,37 cto 39c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25C; barley, No. 2,42 cto 440; rye, No. 1,45 cto 47c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; butter, creamery, 10c to 21c; eggs, Western, 13c to lie.

SEVEN ARE DROWNED.

SHOCKING END OF A SUNDAY’S OUTING. Driath by Explosion and Fire—Affair* in the World of Trade-Strange Cause of a Mishap on the Kail—No Job -for Ransom. - Tragedy at Ocean City. Crowding nine persons into a little pleasure craft hardly large enough for five caifteed the death of nearly all the party Sunday afternoon at Ocean City, Md. The drowned are: Lina Hall, aged 19; Lqlu Hall, aged 14, sisters; Myrtle Stevens, aged 6; William Storr, aged 45; Laura Storr, aged 85, his wife; Ida Storr, aged 16, and May Storr, aged 14. Those who succeeded in reaching the shore w’ere 12-year-old Annie Hudson and Walter Hudson and William Hall, each about 20 years old. The weather was so threatening that several persons cautioned Hudson, the, skipper of the boat, to look out for squalls and stay neartho shore. 110 did not take the advice, but headed his craft for the fishing grounds of Read’s Islands. The capsizing occurred within 200 yards of the shore, and in water seven feet deep, Mr. Storr had only one hand and wars blind of an eye, but was an expert swimmer. He suqpeeded in getting his two daughters on the bottom of the boat and was getting his wife Out when the girls became scared, slipped off of the boat, grappled with their parents, and together the four perished. Buzzard Cutises a Railroad Wreclc. While the mail train on the Pensacola and Atlantic Division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was bowling along between Bonifay and Carryville, Fla., Friday night, some heavy object struck the headlight, smashing the glass and knocking the banner off the lamp. The oil caught fire and in an instant the front of the engine was iu flames. The engineer reversed the lever so suddenly that the cars bnmped together with great force, injuring several passengers and derailing the engine. By hard work the flames were extinguished, anti then the engine was examined. It was found that a buzzard had struck the headlight and caused the trouble. The bird was found wedged in the headlight with the feathers burned off and thoroughly cooked, and was only removed by using a crowbar. It is supposed the glare of the headlight attracted the buzzard. The accident cost the road several hundred doliurs, and traffic was delayed five hours. Late Season Makes Decline. R. G. Dun & Co. say in their Review of Trade: “It is a belated season; a frozen May set everything hack. The heavy business which ought to have been done in May and June was pushed into July, so that the midsummer decline, due in July, comes in August. With this in mind, one is not surprised to find the shrirlkage from July to August rather more conspicuous than usual. The disappointing crop reports Saturday, though evidently distrusted, lessen confidence in regard to the future of trade, even w'hile some speculators gain by them. Back of all doubts is the fact that the industries are doing better than anybody could have expected.” - Fifty May Be Dead. The Hotel Gumry, Denver, Colo., filled with guests, was completely wrecked at midriight, Sunday, by an explosion. The floors and walls fell in a mass, carrying down the people who were in the building. The debris was immediately ablaze. At 3:30 a. m. twenty-four had been accounted for, six being probably fatally injured, and the rest less seriously. Shortly before the explosion occurred, the night clerk was heard to remark that seventy guests were in ttye house. The list of servants will not exceed ten, making a possible? death listoif fifty-six. Ransoip’a Appointment la Illegal. Acting Attorney General Conrad decided the appointment of Matt Ransom as Minister to Mexico was illegal, on the ground that the salary of the office had been increased by Congress $5,000 while Mr. Ransom was Senator from North Carolina. The decision was based on a question raised by Auditor Holcomb in declining to pass favorably on Mr. Ransom's vouchers for salary and expenses. Not There for His Health. A lawyer at Hollis, N. J., who has been the victim of burglars several times recently has posted this notice In a conspicuous place on his house: “Burglars coming to my house will be regarded as coming on professional business and are required to pay a retainer.” Dies In the Acid. A Chicago and Northwestern passengei train Friday afternoon ran through an open switch near Aurora and into some freight cars loaded with sulphuric acid. One boy was killed by the fluid, and another probably fatally injured, and four others bndly hurt.

NEWS NUGGETS.

New York has a case of yellow fever. The pntient arrived from Havana. Tom Wilbur, aged 91, committed suicide with a razor at Norwich. N. Y. A report reached Chamberlain, S. D., that the notorious Bedderly brothers, who have long been n/ferror to cattlemen on aeeount of their hold and wholesale thefts Of eattle, were lynched by a vigilance committee in Buffalo County, Charles Kiser, of LebaiJ mi, Ind., fatally shot his wife Thursday night. He hns been kept awake by dogs that came into his yard. Mrs. Kiser hearing the dogs gos up and went out in the yard to drive them away. M.uutime Kiser got his gnu and shot Mrs. Kiser instead of the dogs. Eight men were killed and ten seriously hurt by the premature explosion of a blast near Meluiffy, Pa., on the Pittsburg and Eastern Railway. At Stineville, Ind., David On 1 rose and Charles Deck fought n duel with knives, the outgrowth of an old feud between families. Deck is dying uud Culross is in a dangerous condition. The Humane Society will preveut the advertised bull fight at the Atlanta Exposition if possible. The North Carolina Raibond has been leased to the Southern Railroad for a period of ninety-nine years. The census of Massachusetts shows a population of 2,495,345, an increase of 553,204 over the figures for 1885. Prof. William Spencer Curreli, Professor of English at Davidson College, N. C.„ has been elected to the chair of modern languages and English in Washington and Lee University.

ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.

Blhtr Democrat* Prepare for th* Campaign of iB6O. The Democratic silver conference In session in Washington adopted a program and platform, and issued an address to the people of which the following are the principal points: i At a conference between a number of Democrats from different States who attendefLthe non-partisan convention recently assembled at Memphis, Tenn.. for the purpose of promoting tlio cause of free stiver cofhage. wbtch conference was held after the adjournment of the convention, a committee consisting of Senators Jones of Arkansas, Turplc of Indiana, and Harris of Tennessee was and authorized to Invite representative Democrats from the several States to meet them at Washington for consultation, with the view of securing co-operation and concert of action among those Democrats throughout the Union who believe In adhering to the cardinal Democratic policy of actuAl bimetallism. Disclaiming all right to bind any person by our utterances, but profoundly conscious that the Democratic party to-day confronts a crisis the most momentous In Its history, and fraught with far-rcuchlng perils to the people and the country, we are assembled as Individual Democrats to take counsel together, and for the undisguised purpose of Inaugurating and promoting a thorough and systematic organization of the Democratic masses, so that they may go forward as one man with a resotute purpose to rescue the old party founded by Thomas Jefferson from plutocratic domination. Therefore, with this object iri view, this convention of American Democrats, composed of representatives from twenty-four of the leading States of the Union, makes the following declaration on the monetary question, which has been forced Into the leading place among the Issues of to-day. The well-known arguments In favor of bimetallism at a ratio of 10 to 1 follow, and the document declares the Democratic party the champion of that bimetallism from Jefferson to the present time. The eharge that the act of 1873 was passed by fraud 1* reiterated, with the claim that falling price* aTe thc'Tesult of the appreciation of gold. The document then says: ''The Democratic party is the.fradltlonal friend and champion of bimetallism. Its strength and power and popularity have been largely built upon It* steadfast opposition to the demonetization of silver and Its record of unwearied effort to restore It to Its historic place as a full money metal equal with gold. The effort at this late day to make it par excellence thechampion of gold mono-metallism, the enemy of the policy It has upheld, nud the defender of the crime It has denounced. Is an effort to dishonor its record, its promises,, and its principles.” Proposed National Platform. Duty to the people requires that the party of the people continue the battlo for bimetallism until Its efforts are crowned withBuecess.; thereforaJie-It. - .. -.—.1—Resolved,'"Ttnrt tirenretiidcra tic party,“Tn. national convention assembled, should demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold Into primary or redemption money at the ratio of 10 to 1, without waiting 'for the action or approval of any otherr nation: that it should declare its Irrevocableopposition to the substitution for a metallic money of a panic-breeding, corporation-cred-it currency, based on a single metal, the suppi)' of which Is so limited that It can be cornered at any time by a few banking Institutions In Europe and Ameiic a. That It Bhould declare Its opposition tothe policy and practice of surrendering tothe holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by the law to the Government of redeeming such'obligations In either silver coin or gold coin; that It should declare Its opposition to the lssuingof interest-bearing bonds of the United States In time of peace, and especially toplacing the treasury of the Government under the control of aiiy syndicate of bankers, and the Issuance of bonds to be sold by themat an enormous profit for the purpose of supplying the Federal treasury with gold tomaintain the policy of gold mono-jnetallism. With a view to securing the adherence toand readoption of the Democratic financial' policy above set forth, by the Democratic national convention to be assembled In 1896, and of the nomination of u candidate forthe Presidency well known to be In heartysympathy therewith, we hereby pledge our TButnat- Co-operatf(Tfr, aart "urgently recom■ffieffd to““oiff"T>emoernTTd~ brefliren"Tn~arr the States to at once begin and vigorously and systematically prosecute the work of ft thorough organlzatlon. -

LONDON’S PARKHURST.

He Is Rev. Dr. Buss, and He Is Now Vißitintr America. The Dr. Parkhurst of Loudon, Rev. 'Septimus Buss, is now on a visit to the United States. For twenty years he hasbeen engaged in the interest of reform,, the regulation of tlio sale of intoxicants occupying most of his attention. He ispresident of Sion College, and as vicar of Shoreditch, a London parish of 125,000* population, he is vested with nearly all off the* powers which Mayor William L. Strong possesses, excepting the privilege of appointing municipal officials. “I have been interested in the reform, movement to regulate the sale of intoxicants for twenty years,” said Dr. Buss. “Since our vigilance committee was formTd we have taken a more determined’ stand and have several times come intoopen conflict with those opposed to us—they are called publicans. The English*

REV. SEPTIMUS BUSS.

f, - - ■ ' a license law differs considerably from thiv American. We have two laws—one that has reference only to Loudon and the other to the provinces. The laws are in reality a law and an amendment to a law. Subsidiary acts relate to Sunday closing, selling to children under 13 years of age, etc. “There rtre several Sunday laws. In London saloons arc closed from 11 to 1 o’clock, open from 1 to 3, then closed until early evening, after which they remain open until 11 o’clock. Different laws Aver» enacted for Scotland, Wules and the Islo of Man. \f Ireland the five most populous cities are exempted from the provisions of the Sunday dosing law «~ “The American impression that our Suudny law works satisfactorily is erroneous. It is continually and openly violntod. The police, ns u rule, are in league with the publicans. Police drink at prohibited times and in prohibited nbiees."

News of Minor Note.

Southern Railway ami Steamship Association lines have decided not to cut rates. * A child of Mrs. Anuie Seeley, whowas being taken to a New York free disDvusary, died in a street car. .. 4