Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. -U □' • U" ' GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. BEKSSXLAEB, ~ - • INDIANA.

DRUGGISTS IN LIMBO.

MEN OF MORTAR AND PESTLE IN TROUBLE. Bell New-Yorkers a Fraudulent Preparation Awful Calamity Attends the Coronation Festivities at M oscow —Bast St Louis Appeals for Aid. _, . Nai'd Fifteen Hundred Druggists. An extensive raid is being made on New York druggists who are violating the United States patent laws by selling substitutes for phenacetine for the regular article. The heavy duty on the drug and the care smuggling fronirtsada has been prevented proved too great a temptation, and 1,500 druggists, sev-enty-five of whom are located in New York, succumbed to it. Cases are being brought against them in the United States courts. Dr. Cyrus Edson has brought two suits of $20,000 eaen against ten con-,, cerns at New Ydrk for ‘manufacturing and selling a sham aseptolin as a cure for consumption. Dr. Edson says instead of curing the disease it only tends to cause more suffering. Help Is Needed. East St. Louis has issued a. touching appeal for aid and the committee which prepared the manifesto estimated that 200 persons were killed and that the ninth ber of injured will foot up iu the thousands. It is known that a number of persons are still buried in the debris on the southwestern end of the island and in the ruins of the Hallesey Hotel, the Martell House, the Relay Retreat, and the Durant House. Street car traffic, telephone service,” and electric lighting facilities are entirely suspended. Men stand mute aud aghast at tie havoc that was wrought. All business is virtually suspended. Every one agrees that months will fail to reveal the extent of the tornado’s devastation in the Illinois town. From the surrounding country thousands of men, vfomen, and children flocked into the city to visit the scenes of ruin and death. Ail the Ixmdon papers have editorials or. the terrible disaster at St. Louis and all express their sympathy with the residents of that city. The Chronicle urges England to send some prompt and effective expression of sympathy. “It is quite certain,” says the English journal, "that if it had happened in England the sufferers would net wait long for sympathetic words or if necessary actions Sroni America.” Many Die in a Panic. One of the most terrible disasters that ever overtook the common jieople of Russia happened Saturday in Moscow, when over 1.000 persons were killed or received injuries from which they afterward died in a panic on Khodijnskoje plain, precipitated during festivities in honor of the coronation of the Czar. The official report places the number of dead at over 2,500. Most of these persons were instantly trampled to death, and "the spectacle presented. when the portion of the plain on which the stampede took place was cleaned of :the;SuryivorK was_sickeii.-.. Ing in the extreme. The crowd was awaiting the signal to dine at tables laid out of doors and the distribution of presents from the royal house when the disaster occurred. The immediate cause of it-was the pitching into the mid_st of-the douse throng assembled gifts, for which a wild scramble was made. The Czar has given orders that the sum of I.IXK) roubles be given to.each bereaved fiunily and that the victims be buried . iit.liis. ex-_ pease. standing of National Leacue. ’ Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cleveland ...20 11 Chicago 18 111 Baltimore .22.13 Washington .16 18 Cincinnati ..22 14 Brooklyn ....16 18 Philadelphia 22 14 New York... 14 21 Boston 20 14 St. Louis 11 24 Pittsburg . . .18 14 Louisville ... 8 27 Western League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Detroit 21 10 Indianapolis. 15 12 St. Paul 17 11 Minneapolis. 17 15 Kansas City.l7 13 Columbus ... 9 24 Milwaukee ..19 1J Grand' Rapids 7 23 The Business World. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Continued exports of gold, amounting to $3,900,000, are recognized as natural results of the borrowing and importing early in the year, but caused no serious-apprehension. There is a general conviction that destructive scheines will not succeed, although at present political uncertainties cause part of the business '-"Hurt niiytii bc dBM? time post pirovd nm-it the future is more clear. Markets for products are weak, rather than stagnant. The business -done. is. suiafi. but_.largely governed by the belief in large crops aud insufficient demand.”

NEWS NUGGETS.

A cloudburst broke over Seueca, Mo., at 4 o'clock Saturday morning, and in ten minutes the water in Lost creek swept through the city like a mill race, carrying away every structure in its path. Not a bouse in the district south of the creek is left intact on itsitohndations. T wentyfive persons were ’drowned. At the request of the Rev. J. O. Gary, pastor of the Methodist Church at Virginia, Minn., Gov. Clough sent a sherifFh posse to that town and broke up a prize fight. Mr. Gary received a notice signed “The Whitei.Caps, by the Secretary.” ordering him to make himself scarce at once or suffer the cbnsequeneesm,. Mr. Gary has made an appeal to the •authorities for protection. Messrs. Mersick and R. A. Brown, appraisers of the affairs of Peek Bros. & Co., wholesale plumbers at New Haven, Conn., with branch stores in New York. Chicago and Boston, who went into the hands of receivers last February, reported to Judge Prentice the total appraisal to be $876,502.95. The liabilities are about $600,000 The Northern Pacific liner Victoria hronght news io .Tacoma, JWash\.of Ihe plague on the island of Formosa and at Anping. The deaths at Anping number from ten to fifteen a day. —The disease is rapidly spreading

EASTERN.

City police were called upon at Pittsbung to eject unruly delegates at the prohibition party’s national convention Wednesday. The trouble arose over the motion of a silver delegate to substitute a I broad-ganger tor the single-issue man who had been chosen by the national committee for temporary chairman. He was howled down and the anti-silver crowd •cored the first Victory. Mr». W. H. Hanner, parachute per- I former and gymnast, was drowned In Back river Tuesday evening it Balti more, Md. She made a successful ascent

from Fairy Grove, an excursion kcsort onthe river six miles from Baltimore; It was her 22d birthday anuivereary, and she gpenaed-fiappy as a bird as she floated upward and kissed her hand to her husband and the cheering crowd of several hundred people below. Iff descending the parachute appeared to work well, but<she was 'too long in cutting loose and was over the river when she began to descend. As soon as she touched the water the parachute closed upon her. In her struggles to extricate herself she was drowned before assistance could reach .her. Miss Georgie Brock, beautiful, an heiress, and a society favorite on the West Side at New York, w as arrested Tuesday for the theft of silk dresses worth $3,000. which were taken from the houses of neighbors. In the same connection the police took into custody her sister Florence. They are the daughters of Henry Brock, president of the Brock Commercial Agency.l Georgie is 21 years old; Florence is only 12. The detectives searched for the trunk containing-the .dresses. They located it at a storage warehouse, and while they were there Miss Block 'entered and ordered it sent to' another address. The girl rt-aiiily gcvr’ rp tlie key to tlie polii'e, and when the trunk was opened all the stolen goods were found. Georgie Brock was phiFSd“und<'f~arrest. Thff~girT~crleff and accused her 12-year-old sister of the thefts. The latter's name was Flossie, and she said she stole the goods to wear at a ghost party. The elder girl is engaged to marry E. W. RobiuSfin, of Elmira, N. Y., and he said he would settle all the bills for the stolen goods. Both girls were held in SI,OOO bonds to the grand jury. Their'parents'arc-crushed by the disgrace, but claim it was only a child’s prank.

WESTERN.

the Republican congressional vention of the Eighth district ofMichigan. Congressman W. S. Linton was renominated for a third term by acclamation. A terrific hurricane and cloudburst struck Cairo, 111., at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday morning. Tin- extent of the destruction of property cannot ret ire ascertained, but it is known that at least a dozen lives were lost through the capsizing of the steam ferryboat Katherine. TTn the United StatasrCourt at Hannibal, Mo., the grand jury has returned an indictment against Crockett Ragsdale, formerly bookkeeper in the First National Bank, for embezzlement. His plea was not guilty, and a continuance was asked for. The total amount of Ragsdale's' shortage is not known, but it is, supposed to be about $15,090. The defendant is a young-man. and prior to the discovery of the embezzlement was highly esteemed. An indi ct men twa s - also retpru ed-aga Inst Clarence Gray, of Macon < 'it.v. who committed the same offense in the National Bank of that city. Gray entered a plea of guilty and was sehftmcetFTcrfivffTFars in the penitentiary. Four hundred and sixty-three dead arid 718 injured is the awful story of Wednesday’s cyclone. Time will swell the list. Though the sorrowin', work of the enumerators was but begun, Ulis table shows their grewso-me totals at midnight Thursday night: Killed. Injured St. Louis.. 250 300 En?t St. Louis ..150 300 Audrain (fount y, Md. ..... 15 25 New Baden, ill.. 13 24 Birkfierrf, lit 4 Manv Boyd, 1111 ..... :.. . 2 L R Irvington, 11l I "“--’sT Hoyleton. 11l „ 8 Many Mascoutah, 111. . 1 Many Jeffersoti'City, 111.. 5 Manv Fairfield, 111. 1 3 Warsaw. Ind. 2 5 Centerville, lowa . .1"?.... 3 S Pennsylvania 8 40 Total 463 718 Suitzel. of Shanghai, a friend of Li Hung ('h n ng. n rri ved niSa it I-’:-a iieisco on the last steamer on his way to meet!, the viceroy and escort him over England and through >this country on his return home. “When Li eoin.es back he is going to reform. China,” Mr. Spitzel said. “He is now stronger by far than ever he was with the-emperor, and the other people in power. It is his intention to build railroads all over China, build, a good navy, organize a splendid army, improve the coast defeiises. ftndt:-ftbove all, bring about a stronger centralized government. It is probable that the-other- viceroys will become simply governors of their provinces and subject to the central power. One thing that shows his present'prestige and power is the fact that while he is away everything is at a standstill and officials' —even the viceroys-—postpone important matters until his return.” Cloudburst, vivid lightning and destructive wind combined in a storm that struck Chicago Sunday night and swept with unparalleled fury the whole of the upper Mississippi valley. Trees were snapped off like stalks of wheat. Houses that stood iu the w ay of the storm were caught iu the grasp of a tempest more fierce than any that has visited the Chicago region •within the memory of man and were •tossed' 1-ikw tire phiythitvg» of -efiildrea into wreck and confusion. Slender wires that carried the messages of telegraph and telephone were stripped from the poles and left lashing the earth on winch-beat the deluge of water. The cities within one hundred miles of Chicago seem all to have suffered with singular equality from the ferocity of the stofm. Upon- Elgin the blow seemed rather heavier, but it was Chiefly because no other place presented so many chances. One man was killed in the ruins of ,u house that sunk like an eggshell under the blow of the hurricane. Other structures were unroofed, and bridges were damaged. Telegraph and telephone poles were driven level with the earth. Inimense damage was done to the beautiful little city. At Norwood Park, just on the border of Chicago, just added by annexation to the care of the city, the tempest fell with amazing force. Three houses in one row were lifted from their foundations and crushed beyond hope of repair. The families that had resided in them Were blessed with a good fortune that seems little more than miraculous in that they escaped death aud serious injury.

WASHINGTON,

A Washington physician has placed an ice water trough for dogs in front of hie residence. Francis .1. Kieckhoefer, accountant in the Department of State, who was dismissed last October because of a shortage . in his accounts, has. been, arrested. charg- ‘ ed” with h a ring embezr.led-$37,466.55. Representative Joy, of St. Louis, drew a resolution which Speaker Reed permitted him to call up in the House Thursday morning, and which %ir. Joy will endeavor to have introduced in the 1 Senate. It follows: “Be It resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives; in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be and lie is hereby authorized to lend the Mayors of the cities of St. Louis and East St. Louis, under such regulations and restrictions as he may deem proper, a sufficient number of tents to temporarily shelter such citizens of said cities as may have lost their hotnee by the tornado.’’ The House adopted the resolution authorising the Secretary of War to afford temporary relief to 'St. Leais sufferers. The St. Louis hbrror was the theme of a touching and eloquent prayer by Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the Senate,

at the opening of the session. “O, God,’’ he prayed, “we stand aghast at the awful tokens** of thy power and' majesty. The earth is. shaken and trembles and the foundations of' the hills are shaken.” Divine mercy was invoked for the stricken city of St. Louis, succor for the maim-' ed attd afflicted, strength and aid to those ministering relief, and protection from another Visit a tion of divine wrath. most topic of conversation among the memberk of the House was the St. Louis tornado. Members stood about in groups and discussed the horrible details. The St. Louis members, Messrs. Cobb, Barjholdt and Joy, and Mr. Murphy, of Illinois, who lives, in East St. Louis, were almost frantic with anxiety.

FOREIGN.

Paderewski has_been compelled to cancel his engagements in England because" of nejvous prostration. He attributes his illness to hard work and the? impressible women worshipers who annoyed him during his American. tour. Emperor Nicholas Alexandtovitch, autocrat of all the Russius, and Empress Alexandra Fe.odarovffa.lJweie_.jfiohLninly. crowned Tuesday in the Cathedral of the Assumption at Moscow with the utmost ceremony and in accordance with gU the religious forms and ancient rites, , Au official dispatch Jo Rome from Canea, Island of Crete, says fresh disturbances occurred there Tuesday. The people were panic-stricken and . communication was interrupted with adjacent! villages. Families of Mussulmans and Christians are believed to havbSfeeen killed. Prof. T. D. Seymour,, of Yale College, has received a letter from R. B. Rlchard’son, director of the American school at Athens, who is conducting the excavations at Corinth. Mr. Ridhnfdson says: “We have found some graves witU a d ozon or more vases “of *-a very a ncien t style, Seine of the very oldest hand-made affairs of interesting shape. We have also found the ancient city in several different places. -Mti- one-of -these—we ha ve found a pavement of a Ip-ond street. In another place we strike the original level at a depth of about twenty-five feet, and _right__here we arc daily finding large and small fragments of old Corinthian vases. In a well we are finding quantities -of -red-figured--ware. -We ha ve found a fpw pieces of sculpture, the best of which is a Dionysian group of Dionysus, Pan Mid a nymph, all without heads. The figures are about half life-size; The walls that we find in our trenches are good and old. jmt the great depth gives, us great trouble.”

IN GENERAL.

A terrible accident occurred at Victoria, B. C., Tutwlay. A sham fight and review was to take pla<;tT aCMaeauliiy Point, near Esquimanlt, and crowds were making their way there by every route. All the tram cars were packed. Two cars left Government stfeet with more' than TOO jiebpte? The fifst gi7t safely:over ,Poiut E 1 lice , bridge, which crosses Viff toria. arni. When the other was about half way over the middle span of the bridge, about 150 feet in length, gave way and the car plunged ■‘into the water 100 feet below. The ear was completely submerged, and all pn board were drowned with the exception of some of those who were standing on the platform and who/ escaping injury from the falling timbers, managed to save themselves by using the floating ruins ,of theTjridge and thus got ashore. Sixty bodies.had been recovered at 10 o'clock at night. Only a few of them, however, have been identified, Vl ar has again been declared against the Chicago-St. Paul railtoads by the Lake Michigan Car Ferey Company. About two weeks ago the latter agreed to test ore Chicago-St. Pa ul rates to the basis -of 60-eeuts-per-100-poumls-first-class, the same as charged by the railroad lines. Wednesday, however, the company notified Commissioner Midgley, of the Western Ereight reissue a tariff on the basis of 50 cents? per JOO pounds first class, Chicago to St, Paul, This.is the sarug tate as charged by the Lake Superior steamboat lines, which have always enjoyed the privilege of a 10? cent differential below the all-rail rat,e. The latter insist on charging a differential of 5 cents below the rate of the car ferry line, and will, no doubt, at once meet the action of the car ferry line by issuing a tariff on the basis of 45 cents per 100 pounds first class, Chicago to St. Paul, and as the Lake Michigan car ferry’s policy now is to make the same rates as the boat lines, rates will soon reach rock bottom. The Chicago Great Western is determined to meet any rate the Faithorn car ferry may make, and this will compel all the other ChicagoSt. Pau! lines to do likewise. To aggravate the situation, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, which runs a transfer boat line across the lake, announces it will make the same rates via Mackinaw as are made by Faithorn’s Lake Michigan car ferry line, and it is understood the Kewaunee route, which also runs a car ferry across Lake Michigan, will insist upon making the same rates. The Canadian Pacific is blamed for the trouble brought upon the Chicago-St. Paul line by the Lake Michigan Car Ferry Company; The TSftet IT4Tcnd3 outlet to St Paul and Minneapolis upon the Soo line, which is controlled by the Oanadian Pacific, and without its co-operation could not issue any through t ariffs between Chicago aud St. Paul.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 59c; corn, No. 2,27 cto 28c; oats, No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye, No. 2,34 cto 35c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 16c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; . potatoes, per bushel, 12c to 20c; broom corn, $25 to SSO per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, ,64c to 66c; corn. No. 1 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 )vhite, 21c to 23c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 59c to 61c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,34 c to 36c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50: hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,65 cto 67c; corn, No. i 2 mixed, 29c to 30C; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 358 to 37c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4,50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65e to GGe; corn, No. 2 yellow. 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 -white,- 20eto'22c;’ rye, :’S4? to 36c. Toledo—Wheat,. No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; com. No, 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to. 20c; rye. No. 2,35 cto 37c; clover seed, $4.50 to $4.55. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 3,28 cto 29c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley. No. 2,31 cto 33c; rye, No. l t 35c to 37cj pork, mess, $6.00 to $6.50. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3,00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00;' wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75i hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheap, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, Western, lie to 13a. > ■ ’

MILWAUKEE STRIKE.

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE ON RECORD. Street Cars Are Rnnnlng oti echedule Time, but People Refuse to Ride, Out of Sympathy for the Strikers or Fear of thb Boycott. Business Tied Up.

NE cannot help being impressed with a condition of affairs thpt will lead almost an entire community to voluntarily undergo the disi-om forts of stage coach days for the purpose of helping workingmen win a strike, yet that has been the situatibn in Milwaukee for more than a

week.—Thff-employes—of-tire Tfilwn-tikc-e-Electric Railway Company are at variance with the corporation and' quit work two weeks ago. The company secured men to run the cars and the strikers offered no interference in the running of them. The cars ate going ,ofi schedule time, but they are empty, for the people sympathize with Ute strikers and »refuse to ride. The street railroad syste®/ of Milwaukee is one of the best in the country. The employes in the past have been picked men. If a conductor or motorman was found to be a drinker, "or wanting in qualities essential to satisfy the public, he was discharged and a courteous, sober man took liis place.—The force eame to be recognized as a body of gentlemen. In their tidy uniform, thoroughly disciplined, always courteous and accommodating to patrons, it is not strange that they made the people their friojids—men, women and children, in all ranks. When, therefore, the 1,000 employes went on strike, on account of a reduction in wages’ and for other causes, men and women manifested their sympathy 'in etery way. Several picnics have been field and* enough money realized so give the strikers the necessities of life. But the refusal to ride in the cars is the most remarkable feature. As before said, the company is operating all its lines on regular time, but the cars carry no passengers. The strikers brought several hundred busses from Chicago and ate carrying on a regular line of traffic. In spite of the fact that it takes a bus from two to three times as long to make a given distance as the street cars, the busses will go along with h«avy loads, while the_car going in the same direction will not have to exceed a half dozen passengers, and more likely will not have two.

To some extent this failure on the part of citizens to patronize the more rapid mode of transit is due to fear, but the percentage of loss from this cause is very small when comparefi-with those who do not ride on account of sympathy with the strikers and a desire to help them “down the company.” Three-fourths of the citizens of Milwaukee are working people, and every one of them is on the side of the strikers. Even those who are not working people, the business men in the outlying wards, have to affect a feeling of sympathy for the strikers, whether they feel it or not, lest the boycott be extended to their business,. To run counter tp, the prevailing sentiment in their section would mean to ruin them and therefore they are even more strong in their utterances than the working class., Nor is their fear without reason. The boycott is being vigorously prosecuted, and any one who. through necessity or otherwise, takes a street car is a marked man. Women and even children will urge anyone taking a car to wait and take a bus. ’ A“ReHnirßable“Boycott. The boycott is even extended to those merchants that sell anything to the company or wfio do business with it in ’My. way. In the neighborhood of the barns

EXPRESSMEN REAP A HARVEST.

noLa particle of food can be purchased, as it would be as much as a merchant’s business is worth to sell to the company. The wife of a baker in the northwest -part of the city was so jndiscreet as to ride down town in one of the cars, and since that -time the bakeshop has been free of customers. Some of the sympathizers with the strikers go to a great deal of personal discomfort. Workmen who have work to do several miles out of the city will walk out in the morning and back in the evening rather than patronize the street cars and their connections. If the thing keeps up much longer any one seen speaking to one of the members of the Board of Directors of the street car company will be liable to have the boycott placed on him. No one who has not come in conflict with it can have any idea of the strength of the grip which the strikers and their sympathizers have on the business of the city. .Within a day or two several manufacturers were notified that some of their employes had been seen riding on the street cars, and if this was repeated a boycott would be placed on their goods. They heeded the warning and now see that their men either walk or patronize the busses. Not a thing can the company buy* in the city for the subsistence or comfort of the new men whom they have to feed in the’ barns. Wholesale grocery firms do not dare sell them any supplies. The new men wanted some washing done. The company gathered up the soiled clothing and sent it to five different laundries and in each instance it was refused. Finally it had to be sent to ChrcagoT Tlie Idea of the strikcrsAffd their sympathizers is to isolate the street cars until the company comes to terms and takes the old men back. The Prince of'Wales gave a dinner party at which were present all of the ambassadors of foreign powers in Loadon, the ministers of the government, many exministers, the archbishop of Canterbury, Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley and other prominent personages. Will Derby, of Knoxville, Tenn., who killed his chum, Elija Cross, and threw him in a well, confessed the crime and was given a twenty-year sentence. They quarfeled about a drink of water, and the murder was a mystery for weeks. One kind of the medusae baa, ft is said, eighty ears. • -J i

DEATH OF GEN. FAIRCHILD.

Distinguished Citizen of Madison,Wis., Passes Away. ' ~ Gen. Lucius Fairchild died in Madison, Wis., Saturday evening at 6:50 o'clocia Gen. Fairchild had been in failing health for a year, and some months ago suffered an attack of the grip, after which he grew isteadHy weaker. He was bornDee. 27, 1831; in what is now Kent,-Portage-Coun-ty, O. In 1846 the family moved to Wisconsin, locating in“ Madison. When 17 years of age the young man made a trip ■to California actoss the plains on horse*back. Six years later he returned to Madison with 1 considerable property. He went to the war soon after the firing upon Fort Sumter, and came home a brigadier general, losing tan arm in the service. Gen. Fairchild was elected Secretary of State of Wisconsin’Soon after Ms return’

GENERAL LUCIUS FAHICHIL.D.

from the war, end in 1865 was made Governor. He was re-elected in .18(57 andlß69and in 1572 was appointed._cam_ sul at Liverpool. In 1878 he left Liverpool and was promoted to the position of consul general at Paris. Later lie served as minister to Spain. He returned to Madison in 1882 and in 1886 was elected department commander of the Wisconsin Grand Army of the Republic and the next year was made commander-in-chief of that body. He was married in 1864 and leaves three daughters. The funeral was held Tuesday attefnoon, and the remains were interred with military pomp. Gov. Upham and his staff participated, together with a provisional regiment made up of the-Light Horse 1 squadron and' the First light battery of Milwaukee and two companies from eadh of the four regiments of the Statp.

TWO NEW BISHOPS.

Sketches of the Two Men Chosen by the Methodist Conference. After a hot fight lasting nearly all day the ~Methpdist__geueinX conference at Cleveland broke the deadlock and elected Chaplain McCabe and Dr. Cranston bishops of the church. Dr. McCabe pulled through by a majority of only eight votes, but I >r. (’ran st on,on (he eighteenth and last ballot, had thirty to spare. Dr. Earl Cranston was born June 27,-.

1840,. at Athens, O. His education was obtained at the Ohio University at Athens. He became after leaving college a traveling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and served in that capacity until the breaking out of the i war. He enlisted in

bishop cranstox. the United States service and rose to the rank of captain of the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In consequence of that service he is now an honored member of the military order of the l Loyal Legion of the United States in the Ohio commandery. His service in the church after the war was in the Ohio conference until he was transferred about 1880 to the Colorado conference, where he beoame a prcsiding elder. In. ISB4. upon' the election of Bishop Walden, Dr. Cranston was chosen to succeed Bishop Walden 'as one of the book agents of the Western Methodist Book concern in Cin cinnati. He has held that position until now. Dr. Cranston has always held ahigh rank as a pulpit orator. Charles C. McCabe, D. D., was born

Oct. 11, 1836, in Athens, O. He entered the Ohio conference in 1860 and was stationed at Putnam. In 1862 he became chaplain in the One Hundred and Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the battle of Winchester, Va., in June, 1863,

While looking after the wounded on the_ field, he was captured and taken to Libby prison, where he remained a captive for four months. After his release he rejoined his regiment at Brandy Station, but, with broken health, was sent back to the hospital at Washington. After the war he re-entered the regular work of the ministry and was stationed at Portsmouth, -In 1866 him into the service of the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1868 the board of church extension asked that he might be appointed to aid Dr. Kynett in building up that cause. For sixteen years he traveled through the length and breadth of the land and saw the work advance with unexampled prosperity upon every side. In 1884 he was re-elected missionary secretary. Through.Tiis matchless inspiration and efforts a cry of “a million for missions,” once a prophecy, is now one of the brightest facts in the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Notes of Current Events.

The first payment on the part of the London and South African syndicate, which has purchased the entire street railroad system of the City of Mexico and suburbs, has been made, the amount being $825,000. Sir Charles Tupper, premier of Canada, has made an appeal to the electors of the Dominion over his own signature. He calls upon the electors to exercise their calm judgment and decide between the Conservatives and the Reformers. Dr. William J. Scott, for years the leading member of the profession in Cleveland, is dead, aged 74 years, after a brief illness. He had held professorships in various medical colleges, and had been president of the State Medical Association. While delirious from long sickness, Ralph Wiley, aged 16, living with relatives at Pendleton, Ind., arose from his ■bed and ran -from the hnttsfts-bareheaded and'barefooted, to the railroad track, and there was run over by a freight engine and killed. When Paderewski was a struggling music teacher and got his first engagement to play in a fashionable salon for a fee of twenty dollars, the hostess, who was delighted at his playing, said to him as he was about to leave. “You must allow me to send you home in my carriage.’ But Paderewski would stand no patronizing. “Madame,” he replied, “my carriage Is at the door.” All men, If they work not as In a great taskmasters eye, will work wrong, work unhappily for themselves and you.—Carlyla.

DIGGING UP THE DEAD

FIVE hundred bodies of cyclone VICTIMS RECOVERED Weeks Will Have Passed Before thfj. Full Extent of'the Calamity Ia : Known—Whole Country Offers Help —List of Dead by Towns.. , Cities as Graveyards. The full extent of the havoc wrought by storms which swept over portions of Illinois and Missouri cannot be known for several days. In many places telegraph wires are down, and com,munication with these points cannot be had at the time this is written. The reports so far as received show the storm td~have been widespread and fatal to a degree never before kadwn in the history of the cduntry. In St. Louis alone the angel of death only knows how many victims he gathered unto himself when he rode into that city Wednesday night on the wings of the wind. Not for days, if ever, wjll TTjenw-nf-vActiius-lie complete. Nearhr half of St. Louis is a burial ground, and across thwriver in East St.- Louis rhe dismantled, wrecked, and demolished structures seem to cover a single grave of uncounted dead. They’ are being 'counted one by one as the masses of shattered brigk, stone and lumber are cleared but in all probability the exact number of. those whose lives were crushed out by falling walls or who met their fate under the waters of the raging Mississippi will never be known. Appended is a careful and conservative estimate of the killed and injured—based-en the- most reliable information obtainable: Killed. Injured. St. Louis . . .250 300 "Ejist St. LliplT;.... r.-‘;.. 150 ——2 so Breckinridge. 11l 2 . .. Brinker Station, 11l ■. 8 30 Carlisle. Pa 2 Columbia, Pk, . I——ls1 ——15Fairfield, 11l 1 ... (iratiot. Mo. 4 ... Harmony. 111. 2 ... Lancastiy. Pa ~'... 1 ... TMascoulinir THU- . . r —-I Near ('entralin, 111, .... 43 35 Near Jefferson'City, M 0... "4 ... Near Mount Vernon. 111.. . 6 1 20 Near Mexico, Mo '■ 5 13 Newark. (> 1 Near Vandalia. 11l .. „ 1-3 15 New Madrid. 11l 7 30 New, Baden. 11l . . 8 13 Richfield. 111. 4 ... Rushville. 111. 4 26 Total .514 750 Value of Property Destroyed. Neither call the total value of property destroyed be given. Estimates in the various papers'vary from $t0,000,000 to $35,0110.01 Mt. It is not likely, however, the diimagi 1 wjjl be over_sls,ooo.ooo. On this vast loss there is practically nd insurnwfv and little salvage. There are probably not 100 people in St. Ixjuis who carried cyclone policies, and they were of the better class who were not the ones to suffer. It is the common people who are inoniiring to-day. mourning over the biers of their loved and lost, and over the total annillflation of w.hht few worldljt goods they owned. The damage to the hall in which the natio.mil Republican convention is to lie hellT’ was slight as compared-with other JjL_.beaig con fl nod la rgely to the carrying iivvnj- of part of the roof and- in monetary value willsnot exceed .$5,000. St. Louis is looking after its own. The moneyed men of the t’oWn have put their hands intotheir p<>ekc>ts. aud will go deeper, as the occasion, demands. At a public meeting the day following the storm $15,000 waft raised. and., that amount was more than doubled within twenty-four hours afterward. The woes -<il’.4-h.e- woundedmuLhameless have stirred the great henrt of the country to its depths. St. I a >u is ist lie stri<• ke n child of - the nation, and offers of aid have been tendered from every quarter. ..Congress passed a joint resolution directing the Secretary of War Io place at the disposal of'the Mayors o* the stricken cities a sufficient number of tents to provide for the temporary necessities of the homeless and to Tender stTC-lt aid as might be un his power. Tbdre are eight or ten boats used in lite Mississippi- river improvement which are able to render assistance, and these were ordered to, the scene of the disaster. The Mayors of all large cities, presidents Of Boards of Trade and commercial clubs telegraphed offers of assistance. Gov. Stone ordered militia to St. Louis to protect the stricken people and their scattered property, and Gov. Altgerd sent two companies to East St. Louis fffhe Mayor of that city believes at pres-■enUUHiT-thewiitside help will not be needed. The offers that have poured in on him have been tentatively declined. It shows a commendable spirit of self-reli-a'tice and courage, but as the needs of the people are revealed this aid may beJOund necessary to meqt them, and its acceptance will not detract from the city’s dignity* The dead will be buried and some may lie forgotten: new buildings will take the place of those that lie level with the .streeta_lj>.-dn.v...and. the_snmkc of. the city will soon destroy the newness thereof, but the memory of that visitation of wind will never fade from the minds of those who witnessed it. TO AID ST. LOUIS. Mayor Swift Calls a Special Meeting; of the Cliicntio Council. Mayor Swift on Thursday sent" out a call for a special meeting of the Chicago City Council for the purpose of considering what might best be done to aid the stricken city of St. Louis. Chief Swenie of the fire department said t'hat no call had been made on him from the tire de partment of St. Louis, but that of course ' he stood ready to aet when one was made. All the city officials were deeply concerned over the catastrophe which had befall,ett St. Louis, ami expressions of willingness to aid in every way were heard on all irides.

BISHOP.M’CABE.

A business block at Burket,. Ind., collapsed. One man, Joseph Condor, was killed and four others were injured, one fatally. dlov. Morton has signed tho.bill of Assemblyman Austin authorizing an’ increase in the New York I>olice’ force of 600 patrolmen. < •:>. John Echols, of Louisville, died at Maunton, Ya. He was C. P. Huntington’s Southern I'Cpreseutative, and was vice-president ajpl receiver of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The whole Sawyer family, consisting of father, mother and grown-up son, were discovered in their home, a mile east of Ava. Mo., murdered. Robbery appears to have'lteen he motive. A. C. I’utmini, president of the Chadt ton Banking Company of Chadron, Nelli which went into a receiver's hands recently, was arrested for receiving money when he knew the institution wns insolvent.’ Miss Marj- Isabella Stewart, the youngest daughter of Senator Stewart, was married to Francis Lithgow Payson, son of Francis Payson, of N\w York, at Senator Stewart’s residence in Washington. ' >

News of Minor Note.

WORK OF CONGRESS.

THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the ProreeHiny in the Legislative Chain- , bers at Washington—Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. The House Tuesday by a vote of 1-65 to 69 passed the bill for the repeal of section 61 of the present tariff law providing for a rebate on used in the arts or medicinal compounds. Anamendment was attached providing for a joint commission to consist of three members from each bouse to examine and report on all questions relating to free alcohol at the next session. The Senate amendment to the general deficiency bill, excepting the French spoliation claims and claims under the Bowman act,' were disagreed to and the bill sent'to conference. . Another partial report on the Indian appropriation bill which-left only- the-question of sectarian schools and the old scttlersUelaims still ip dispute, was adopted. Tariff and' finance each came in for a share ofc consideration in the Senate. Early in the day Mr. Sherman succeeded in having the filled cheese bill taken up,..whereupon Mr. Dubois offered an amendment adding 75 cents a barrel to the tax on beer. On the question of adopting the amendment the debate became general, Senators Mills and Gray supporting and Nelson, Aldrich and Vilas opposing it. The bill was displaced by the bond bill, which was advocated by Mr. Pritchard and opposed by Mr. Lindsay. A bill wap passed to pension, at. 575 a month, the widow of Gen. George E. Spencer, at one time United States Senator from Alabamnw 1 The Senate Wednesday defeated the proposition to increase the beer tax 75 cents per barrel by the The House spent almost the entire day discussing the Senate amendment to the general deficiency bill appropriating sl,027,000 for the-payment of about 700 French spoliation claims, $548,000 for 325 war claims, T found to be due under the Bowman act; $174,000 for the payment of what is known as the Chautauqua claim for the construction of an ironclad steam battery in 1864, and about SIO,OOO for ■lndian supplies furnished in 1873 and 1874. The vote was close, but the friends of the claiins carried the day—lJl to 97. All intereat in the House proceedings was overshadowed by the St. Louis horror. A resolution ..was passed directing the Secretary of War to'place at the disposal of the Mayors of the stricken cities n sufficient nuinber of tents to provide sor — the temporary necessities of the homeless and to render such aid as might bo in his power. Mr. Barthfild, of St. Louis, who ’saw~Secretirry’ Lamont, said there were eight or ten boats used in the Mississippi I'iyeiLi&lPja'vement which might be able to render assistance, and these will be ordered to the scene of the disaster if neces'sary. When the House resolution was received in the Senate authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents and render aid to the Mayors of St. Louis and East St. Ivouis Mr. Palmer, of Illinois, asked iniimsliate consideration. Mr. Vest, of. Missouri, interposed the suggestion that while it might seem ungracious for him to interpose objection, yet, in view of inte reports showing the usual exag geration attending the first hours of -calamity he did not consider this action necessary. The people of St. Louis, he said, could take care of themselves, and, although the resolution could po no harm, yet he deprecated the tendency to rush impulsively to Federal sources for relief. Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, said he fully sympathized with this view, although the resolution, being here, it should be acted on, and made joint instead of concurrent. Mr. Cullom, of Hfinois, said he felt from the hytest repprtsjliat there was no occasion for the passage oTthe relief resolution, and that the respective States would lie able to take cane of their people on both sides of the river. Y’et, a,s the House had acted, Mr. Cullom urged that the Senate should give-itsiissent. He added' that he was still in doubt and worried over the situation on the Illinois side. The resolution was amended* to be joint instead of T*oncurreiif, tlitis requiring presentation to the President, and was thetr adopted. The House later agreed to the Senate amendment, which makes the resolution joint instead of concurrent. The Joy resolution fpr the relief of the St. Louis sufferers reached the President at 5 o'clock and was signed by him ten minutes later. In the Senate Friday the bills repealing the law relating to rebates on alcohol used in the arts, and amending the law concerning the distilling of brandy from fruits were passed. > The latter authorizes the exemption of distillers of brandy made from fruits from the provisions relating to the manufacture of spirits, except as to the tax thereon. The House spent almost the entire day debating the Jofln.st on-St okes con tested elect ion ease_ from the Seventh South Carolina district. Tile Republicans were badly divided. Those who favored seating the contestant. Johnston, who ran on a. Populi«t-Re-publican ticket, finding themselves slightly in the minority when the voting began, inaugurated a filibuster which lasted until the conference report on the naval appropriation bill came to the rescue, atyl th< House recessed before final action was taken. Johnston's partisans wpre outvot-’ ed—los to 95, and 103 to 99—the fir»t vote being on the minority resolution declaring Johnston entitled to a seat, the second on the majority resolution declaring him not entitled to it. An effort will be made to reconsider.

Largest Sailing Ships Afloat.

The British ffill-rlgged ship Somali, one of the most colossal sailing vessels alloat, hss just reached New York from Calcutta in command of Captain Hannoy, and manned by a crew of thirtynine men. The Somali registers 3,336 tons and spreads 15,000 square feet of canvas. It is consigned to James Parker & Co., who say it is the largest British soiling ship now afloat. The hull of the Somali is of steel. Under full sail it left Calcutta ou Jan. 2 last and made the trip *ln 116 days. Captain Hannoy said the voyage was without incident and the weauier favorable throughout. It brings 7,000 tons of general cargo, which will Ue .discharged, at Erie Basin.

How to Clean Black Silk.

The French method of cleaning black silk is very simple and the results very satisfactory. The silk is thoroughly brushed and wiped with a cloth, then laid on a board or table and well sponged witli hot coffee that has been strained through a. piece of muslin. The silk is sponged on the side intended to show. Jt is allowed to become partially dry and then ironed on the wrong side. The coffee removes the shiny look and . does uot leave the papery stiffness produced by other Ihjuids. The silk appears thickeried by.Ufls process. Try it upon a necktie and yon will be surprised at the results.