Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. n ■ XEMBBBI.AEK, ■ » - INDIANA.

CROFTON MAY RETIRE

COMMANDER AT FORT SHERIDAN SAID TO BE UNFIT. *.* ■ <' Alleses Work of Enemies—lnsurgents Use Dynamite Near Havana —Duleists’ Deadly Work with Knife and Revolver—Business Outlook. 'r - :• . Col. Crofton Assailed. Col. R. E. A. Crofton. itliSommand of the Fifteenth infantry at Fort Sheridan, has been pronounced physically unfitted for active service by the post surgeon. Major Henry Lippincott, and his assistant surgeon, Captain Charles E. foodruff. Acting upon the report of the post '■firgeon. Major General Merritt, commander of' the Department of the Missouri, has forwarded a recommendation to the Secretary of War that the colonel be ordered before a retiring board for examination. For a long time matters at the post have not been running smoothly. Col. Crofton has been in ’several shooting scrapes with his subordinates." He declares he is as physically sound as ever, and says this latest move is the work of his enemies. • Havana Is Alarmed. Havana was startled Saturday night by two explosions. It was soon found that the stone bridges of Christina and Concha and the aqueduct Of Fernando Septima ■were the points that had suffered from the dynamite. The bridgesj.vere partially destroyed, and the pipes on the aqueduct, upon which the city is dependi ni for its water supply, were much damaged. It ca n no t- yet- be stated lio w ex ten sive ist he damage done or how long it Will require to remedy it. The dynamite was placed by ageiits of the insurgents. The greatest apprehension is felt on account of the secrecy and effectiveness with which the insurgents have been able to carry out the plan. Fever and ’Smallpox have brok-’ en out, which, in the unwholesome state' of affairs, threatens to become epidemic. Many are suffering from measles, and there is much intestinal trouble among the inhabitants owing to poor arid insuflicient food. The failure of the water supply under (hese conditions is a dire calamity. Deadly Alabama' Duel. At Hartselle, Ala., a desperate duel took place Saturday night between Monroe Jackson and J. W. Vest, resulting in the death of both men, who were prominent Populist politicians holding opposite views. Jackson and another man were drinking in Vest’s saloon and expressed views offensive to Vest, who ordered them out. On reaching the street Jaekson and his friend became involved in a difficulty and Vest went out to part them. As a result he and Jackson became involved in a wordy quarrel. Finally Jackson drew a knife and Vest a pistol an daterrible fight ensued. Vest wa,s out in the abdomen two or three times and Jackson was shot through the lungs, in the thigh and in the kidneys. Both combatants fought until .they could stand no longer, and bled to death soon after friends had carried them home. Vest had a wife and seven children, and Jaekson leaves a widow and six children. '

All Prices Quiet. R. G, Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Speculative reaction has not in the least changed the.busine.ss outlook. The fictitious prices made for wheat and cotton meant no good except for individuals, and the change to prices more nearly, in accord with actual relations of demand and supply only conforms to conditions which have been well known for months. "The attack' on stocks was so plainly artificial that its influence passed with the day. and neither in foreign relations nor in domestic business was there anything to justify alarm. The Government report is to wheat indicated a much smaller yield than' anybody really expects, but that has Become so much tbetule that the re - port had no real influence, and the principal effect was the serious depression caiised T>y large usrles-nr nntieipatiom ofthe report, which seemed to be thoroughly known in advance to some speculators." National League, Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore ... .28 lTPittsburg ...23 21 Cleveland .. ..2<> Itißrooklyn .;. .24 22 Philadelphia. 28 2Q_Chicago . ... .24 24 Cincinnati .'. .28 20New York.. . .20 27 Boston 25 WSt. Louis. ... .13 31 Washington, 23 20Louisville ...10 35 Weetern League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 2.5 14Milwaukee . .23 22 Detroit 2.5 ItJSt. Paul 20 20 Kansas City. 23 20G’nd Rapids. I<l 29 Minneapolis.. 23 2OColunrbus ...Iti 30

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Carnegie Steel Company of i’ittsburg, I’a.. has decided to bdild a SI.(MHI.(XX) addition to its extensive plant. A site has been selected above the Homestead mills for a large forging and finishing shop to forge heavy propeller and steamship shafts and heavy gun parts. The plant will be equipped with hydraulic hammers, presses and other machinery of the best class, making the establish--meat, it is claimed by the company, with’out a rival in the world. The intention is to be prepared in case of war to make cannon antTheavy ordinance of all kinds. The Carnegies attempted to buy the Bethlehem forging plant, but such a high price was asked that they decided to build. } At Chillicothe, 0., Thomatj/Wnite, after a brief quarrel at the Hotel Carson with Miss Edith McKelvey, his'’sweetheart, sh,ot her fatally and then killed himself. After nearly three years of existence, during which they have been bandied about from one court to another, the socalled Plankinton bank cases at Milwaukee were nollcd by.the district attorney. The Bank of Palmer, Kan., was broken into Friday morning, the Safe blown open and entirely destroyed, and the cash box robbed of $l,lOO. all it contained. The damage to the safe and building amounts to about SI,BOO. The burglars escaped.

EASTERN.

Stephen J. Ingalls has confessed to setaleven fires in Gloucester, Mass., one of which destroyed the Bass Rock Hotel entailing a total loss ex“fndred and eighty cans of dyna*bont » ® lle b * low Lilly, mh.afternoon with frightful resu.2 ,3* ? ead Injured are: Mike Hcnwnoskl, dead. Fatally injured: An- I '-■ torn© Btibie; Grego r io UB Schikl. Gabriel Augonostti, r rank Smith (colored), Peter Jackeon (colored). Hamuel Walters. The men were at Contractor Mc-

Mannt on the Pennsylvania Railway and were getting ready to make a blast when there was a premature explosion, blowing u|p 180 cans dynamite and burying the seven men beneath a mass of sand and rock. Tbe .steam shovel, .which stood on 1 the track, washurled twenty feet away. Captain John G. Bourke, Third Cavalry U. S. A.,, died Monday at the Olyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia, where he had been under treatment ter about three weeks. Captain Bourke was 53 .years old. He was stationed at Fort Ethan Alien; Vermont. He leaves a widow and three daughters. His wife was with him at the time of his dqath. but the three daughters were at their home in Burlington, Vt. Captain Bourke had a brilliant record As a gallant soldier. He enlisted as a private in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry in 1862 and took part in the campaign of the Army of the Cumberland under Rosecrans and Thomas. He was awarded a medal of honor ter gallantry at Stone River. At the close of the war he was appointed by President Lincoln a cadet-at-large to the West Point Military Academy, from which he graduated, in 1.8(59. He saw much service in Indian warfare, and was mentioned in general orders for gallantry in engagements with Indians. ’ He was a member of scientific societies in France, England and the United States, and wrote much upon anthropology and folk lore. One of his most valuable monographs upon th# medicine men of the Apaches was published by the Smithsonian Institution. His most popular books, “On the Border With Crook,” “An Apache Campaign" and “The Snake Dance of the Moqui.s." have had editions In New York and London. Three thousand Harvard men, encouraged by the phenomenal event of a Harvard victory, fought 100 policemen in the streets of historic old Cambridge Wednesday night. It was the biggest riot that the university has ever seen. The moment it was known that Harvard had won there was a roar. Then all was pandemonium. In half an hour there was on foot the biggest celebration ever known at Harvard. __The whole city was a blaze of red fire, fireworks lighted up in every _direction, and the evening was made hideous With the blasbFof atKousaTicLgianT’ horns. The police, anticipating trouble, were out Jn extra force. The majority of the Harvard men were armed with revolvers find delivered a running volley, firing into the air. Clay Stone Briggs, a student from Galveston, Texas, was arrested, and t here_was a mad rush of 3,000 enraged students to the rescue. Arthur T. Pilling, a student from Washington, was the first to tackle an officer. He was promptly knocked down. Goldwait ll.' Dorr, of Orange. N. J., a student, jumped on another policeman. He. was seized, and arrested'. Many policemen and studetftSTeceived wounds. Finally the police were victorious, and the three students were dragged into the station house. For an hour 3.000 mad students surrounded the station clamoring for the release of their comrades. The chief of police and prominent citizens addressed the students and urged them to disperse'. The students paid little attention to the officers and refused to retire until the three men who were arrested were released on bail. They then departed, cheering as they left the police station the three heroes mounted on the shoulders of the mob.

WESTERN.

. A body supposed to be that of George Adam Weber, of Peoria, 111., was found floating in the Hudson River near New York City. C. C. W-allin, who came to Chicago in 1£35 and organized the oldest'tanning establishment in the city, died Tuesday at the home of his sou Thomas, at the age of 92 years! Besides a widow, who is 82 years old, the deceased, leaves a host of children aud grandchildren. In .the First Oregon Congressional District, Tongue (Rep.) has a plurality'~oT seventy Complete returns have been received from all counties in the district, and from all but three official returns are in. In the Second District, with official returns from five counties missing, Ellis (Rep.) has 452 plurality. After having repeatedly threatened to kill his entire family, John Walter, of Chicago. shot and fatally wounded his two stepdaughters Wednesday night. The shooting was the result of a quarrel over some property that belongs to Mrs. Wolhas for a long time wanted her to deed to linn. At San Diego, Cal., the jury has disagreed; in t he suit ter SIOO,OOO for alleged libel broughteby Dr. J. pTTlearne against M. H. de Young, proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle. The jury stood 6 to (5. The alleged libel connected Hearne’s name with the murder of Amos J. Stillwell in Hannibal. Mo„ eight years ago. Wayne Bowman, aged 73, living near Vigo, <)., Wednesday night hung crape on the front door, went to his room, put on his best suit of clothing, and hanged him- ’ self. firstening the-rope to the top of the door. His body was found by his son, Leaman Bowman. The old man was despondent over the death of his wife, which occurred some time ago, and once before attempted suicide. Four safe robbers forced their way into the Cafeteria lunch room, 46 East Lake street, at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday night, and, after binding and gagging the two watchmen, attacked the vault in which there was several hundred dollars. They worked on the steel doors over an hour and then escaped with their booty. The scene of this latest piece of criminal daring was within 200 feet of State street, in the heart of the business district. A chemical analysis of the stomach of Miss Mayne Worrall, the wealthy young English woman who died suddenly at the Palape Hotel, in San Francisco, has failed to disclose tlie presence of poison. The physician who made the examination says Miss Worrall died from natural causes. In accordance with a cablegram received from the young woman's father in London the funeral was held and the body was interred in Cypress Lawn Cemetery.

Because he was not paid Iris wages an employe of Wood Bros.’ circus at Chicago cut one of the main guy ropes of the big tent Wednesday night. The lofty center pole swung to one side, the-tent partly collapsing. Three trai>cze performers fell thirty feet and two gasoline tank lights dropped at the same time, exploding as they struck the ground. There was a stampede among the 1.100 persons who filled the seats about the circus ring. Charles Camm. 8 years old. of 703 West Ohio street, who was burned about the head, was the only person injured. tvorn out with the trials of life. Mrs. Anna Kock threw herself into Mud take, near the Chicago bridewell, Monday evening, dragging- her 10-yeur-old son with her and carrying her 3-months’-old baby on her arm. The baby and herself were drowned, and the boy. after a few moments’ struggle in the water, was rescued by some older boys who were in the water bathing fifty yards away. The woman bad quarreled with her husband over a slight punishment of the boy for running away from school. -About a year ago she was confined in the detention hospital for one month, as her mind almost tailed. A slight improvement prevented a trial for insanity, but her mind hud* I never been right since that time. I ’ Chicago wheat prices oscillated Monday I with the eccentricity Of a short pendululn I In an old-tashioned clock. The effect waa | that of making one of the wildest markets I of the yen ft, July wheat opened with a ’ aush ut from 62% cents to <12% cents, and

in a ahort time was crowded donfn to 61% cents. Bull efforts were soon redoubled, however, and an! exciting fioom sent the cereal to 63% cents, or a rise of 2 cents above the lowest price previously made. This, coming upon the total advance of 7 cente a busbelmade last week, indicated the possibili?y of a further rise of a considerable amount., July elosed Saturday from 61% cents to 62. One of the primary upward “boosts” given the market was due to Thoman’s crop report snowing a deterioration of 11 per cent in the condition of winter wheat during the month of May in the six principal States of its growth. The report indicated also a probability that the spring whbat crop would-be 75,000,000 bushels Smalled than that of the year before. To add to tjie situation news from the foreign markets was that they were all higher.

FOREIGN.

Butter-making In one minute, with economy aud with many valuable safeguards from disease, as compared with the oldfashioned churning system, is something that United States Consul O’Neill at Stockholm tells of in a report to the State Department. This is done by a simple machine known as the radiator invented by a Swedish engineer ahd described and illustrated by the Consul. It makes the butter directly from sterilized milk. The machine has been in use several months and promises to revolutionize butter-mak-ing. Pretoria dispatch: At a special meeting of the executive council it was decided to release John Hays Hammond, Col. Rhodes, George Farrtrr and J. W. Leonard, the leaders of the Johannesburg reform committee, upon the payment of a fine of $125,000 each, or in default, fifteen years’ banishment. London advices say: The conditions of their release were the same as imposed upon the pt her reformci's. United States Vice-Consul Knight at Cape Town. South Africa, reported by .cable to the State Department that the imprisoned reform leaders had been released. The cablegram wgs as follows: "Reform leaders released. Fined £25,000. No banishment.” This finally closes the Hammond incident. The town >of Giianabacoa, just across the bay from Havana, Cuba, was considerably excited Monday by an insurgent band burning various public buildings at a point in the suburbs known as Cucuranao. The band exchanged shots with the government pickets. The insurgents made unsuccessful attacks upon the government outposts at Gabriel, Ceiba de "Lagua and various points along the Pinar del It,o trocha, burning adjacent houses in their retreat. The government is hurjiedly re-enforcing the old military trocha from Moron to Oiego de Avila in the hope of preventing Go‘me2 from, reinvadiog the central provinces with fresh insurgent forces from the East. Patriotic Spanish merchants in Havana, Cienfugos and other Cuban ports are raising funds to buy a!nd present to the Government a new ironclad. Tbe subscription already exceeds $850,000. Taking as his starting point the official announcement of the annexation by France of Timboo. the principal place in the Djallon country, a district larger than the State of Pennsylvania aud quite as fertile, United States Consul Strickland, at Goree-Dakar, has made a most interesting report to the State Department upon the dange.rs threatening the United States trade with Africa, owing to tire" rapid extension of the colonial possessions of the European nations. Ho shows how the French,, by the imposition of a discriminating duty Of 7 per cent, against foreign goods, have monopolized the markets of the French coforiies and have thus crushed out the lucrative and growing trade which the United States already enjoyed in that part of the’ world. He says that the process has now begun of fortifying perhaps th® whole continent of Africa against us by protective taritts; for if one nation can even now do it with effect, the remainder will in time have to in order to, equalize things among themselves. ' '

IN GENERAL.

Fatty degeneration of the heart was the cause of Frank Mayo’s death. An agreement has been made between this Government and Mexico for a daily international registered mail-pouch exchange between St. Louis. Mo., and the City of Mexico, to go into operation July 1. ...The wi'slcrn cycloncs of the last month have caused a sudden demand for window glass apd stocks at the various selling agencies in the West have been greatly reduced. TlitTunexpectedYletnand haaencouraged the independent factories in the West, as well Us those in the Pittsburg district. Factories with 218-pot capacity are in operation at New Kensington, Wilmington, Del.; Norristown. Pa.: Dunkirk, Alexandria and Pendleton, Ind., and Ithaca, N. Y. The second annual reunion of the Mexican Veterans’ National Interstate Association was held at Lexington, Ky. Tbos. H. Clay, grandson of Henry Clay, presented a gavel to the association made from ash grown at Ashland, his grandfather’s home. He said his grandfather was opposed to the annexation of Mexican territory and that oppo»ition cost him the presidency. Miij. Samuel L. McFarih, of Logansport, Ind., addressed the veterans on the history of the association, and when he sal’d he hoped another war would come which would free suffering Cuba the old soldiers cheered lustily.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, snipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair, to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 58c; corn. No. 2,27 cto 28c; oats. No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye, No. 2,33 cto “4c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs,-fresh, 9c to 11c; potatoes, pec bushel. 15c to 25c; broom corn. 2c to 4c per lb for common growth to fine brush. 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, 60e to 62c; corn, No. 1 white, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. * ’ St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red,'6oc to 62c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25e to 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,31 c to 33e. Cincinnati —"Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50: sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2. 63c to 64c; corn.’ No. 2 mixed, 28e to 29c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 2Oc to> 21c; rye. No. 2. 35e to 37c. Detroit —Cattle. $2.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 63c to 65e; corn. No. 2 yellow. 26e to 28e; o'ats. No. 2 white, 21C to 23c; rye, 35c to 36c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red, 64c to 65c: corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,35 cto 36c; clover seed, $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring. 57c to 58c; corn, No. 3. 26c to 27c: oats. No. 2 white, 19e to 20e; barley. No. 2,30 eto 32c; rye, No. 1,33 cto 35c; pork, mess. $7.00 to $7.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to 1 $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75: sheep. $3.25 to tf>4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 68e to 70c: corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4 25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. Nd. 2 red, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 2, to 34c; J*t», No. 2 White, 22c to 23c; better, creamery, 13c to 16c; eggs, We»4«rn,<xic to 16c.

HOW THE CASH WENT.

THE FINANCIAL LEGISLATION OF CONGRESS REVIEWED. ¥ Mfi Cannon Says the Appropriations Were Small and Economical, While Mr. Sayres Says They Were Enormous and Profligate. As Viewed by Both Sides. Chairman Cannon, of the House Appropriations Committed and ex-Chairman Sayres Thursday made public a joint statement concerning the expenditures authorized by this Congress, discussing them from the Republican and Democratic ■tandpoints respectively The total appropriations for the session, including permanent annual appropriations, is $515,759,820.49. Mr. Cannon’s statement begins: “The appropriations charged to this session iifclude $119,054,1(50 undrir the permanent laws, of which amount $50,000,000 is for sinking fund apff $30,500,000 for interest on public debts, or $3,355,614.40 more than was included at the last session of Congress in the statements of appropriations, arid is on account of the Increase of $162,1/15,400 in the bonded indebtedness of the country by the present administration up to February, 1895, the interest and sinking fund charge on account of the later bond issue of SIOO,000,000 in February, 1896, amounting to $4,400,000, riof being included in the estimates of permanent appropriations. v Increase in Public Debt. “The increase in the principal and interest bearing debt of the country under the present fidmiriistration amounts - to $262,3J5,400, which entails annual interest charge of $11,492,016, and to meet the sinking fund obligations the further sum of $2,623,154. “During the administration of Mr. Harrison the principal of the interest bearing debt was red uced $258,192,900 and tn e annual, interest charges “The regular annual bills, including deficiencies, as passed by the House made a reduction in. the submitted by the executive.of $26,083,191.67;

CONGRESS ADJOURNS—THERE IS JOY AT HOME AND ABROAD.

they tcere invi'enscd- by- the Senate $22,920,442.30, and as they became laws they appropriate $10,036,624.06 less thrifi as passed by the Senate, $12,283,818.24 more than as they passed the House, and $13,374,373.43 less than the estimated requirements of the aHliiliiistration. Excluding Rivers and Harbors. “The regular annual appropriations, including deficiencies, made at the last session of Congress amounted to $383,636,806.97, and included no river and harbor bill. Excluding tbe river and harbor act passed at this session, the regular.annual bills :is passed by the I louse appropriated only $373,505,082.25, or more than’ $lO,000,000 less than was appropriated by the last Democratic Congress.” • Mr. Cannon criticises the Treasury Department because it has expended $7,3 < i,440 for the present year in collecting the revenue from customs estimated at $165,000,000; whereas" for the last fiscal year, 1892, under President Harrison’s administration there was collected under the McKinley tariff act $177,452,000 of customs revenue at a total cost of only $6,607,517. Tfie 'biirsnFStablishHig- sala+'ies,- instead of the fee system, for officers of the United States courts, he says, will stive sl,o¥O,ooo annually and minimize frivolous and malicious prosecution, and special attention is called to the fact that Congress made no increases of salaries or employes in the Government department.

Table of Appropriations. The following table of appropriations is given: . Fifty-first Congress .. . $988,4171183 34 Fifty-second Congress. 1,027,104,547 92 Fifty-third Congress, ... 989,239,205 69 Fifty-fourth Congress —• first session ......... 515,759,820 49 The revenues for three fiscal years of the Harrison administration ending June 30, 1892, are given as $1,150,631,214; expenditures, $998,132,501; for the two complete fiscal years of Cleveland’s administration, revenues, $611,112,094; expenditures, $723,720,578. Mr. Sayres, in his statement, says of the total appropriations for the session: •This sum exceeds the appropriations made during the last session of the Fiftythird Congress by $18,751,299.83, and those of the first regular session of that Congress by $23,529,135.46. It is less than the appropriations by the second session of the Fifty-second Congress by only $8,744,538.72, although at the latter session $39,352,494.85 more was appropriated for pensions than at this session. It is more than those by the first session of the Fifty-first Congress by $21,303,57T.84, and $25,464,040.80 less than the appropriations at the second session of the Fifty-first., “Tlte Senate, organized This session by a combination of Republican and I’opulist votes, placing the control of committees in the hands of Republicans, by its amendments to appropriation bills as they passed the House, proposed to increase the total $22,920,442.30. By conferences between the two HoitSes this aggregate increase was reduced to $12,283,818.24. “The appropriations made at the second session of the Fifty-first Congress exceeded those made ab the first session of the same Congress by $46,767,612.64, or nearly 10 per cent. If the same proportionate Increase should be made at the next session. then the appropriations will not be less than $565,000,000.” Contracts authorized by this session he estimates as follows: Rivers ami harbors. $59,616,404: public buildings, lighthouses and revenue cutters, $1,406,000; defenses and armament, $4.195.076: new warships, $13,900,<nX); District of Columbia, $125,000. Total, $78,241,480. i In conclusioiuMr. Sayres says: “If the present Congress had rigidly refused authority for additional contracts ami had appropriated only to meet the immediate or .fiscal year requirements under existing one*, the next Congress and administration would have been in a position to largely reduce appropriations and expenditures. and the administration of the government could easily Ifftve returned to an economical method of expenditure. This, however, has not been dope, ami the majority in Congress must be held responsible for this grave dereliction in public duty.” > '

MARION BUTLER.

North Carolina’* Populist Senator and Father of the Bond Bill. Marion Butler, the Populist, who Is father of the bond bill passed by the Senate, is in Congress by grace of the sovereign State of North Carolina. Senator Butler Is Matt W. Ransom’s successor. He was made Senator in 1895, and this was a climax of a career which began on a North Carolina farm. Mr. Butler was born in 1863. Hi# mother prepared him for college. The University of North Carolina graduated him in 1885, and then he began to be a Igwyer. He studied for a short time and then was called honie. He was the first born, nis father had died, and, he must take care of the farm. He sowed and reaped and between times he looked after the education of his brothers and sisters. In addition, he taught at

SENATOR MARION BUTLER.

a neighboring academy for three years. Then he branched out. In 1888 he joined the Farmers’. Alliance and bought a newspaper—the Clinton Caucasian. His ideas suited the alliance, even in that early day, afid Butler was sent to the State Senate. Here he was leader of the rural forces and introduced all their reform mehßtres. The alliance made him fts State president in 1891 and 1892. He be-

came the principal organizer of the People’s party. His greatest success was his carrying out the 'campaign of 1894, at which his party was triumphant and for which his reward was the toga. Senator Butler is a trustee and member of the executive board of the University of North Carolina.

THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.

Three Men XV ho Are Candidates for the Honor. With the Republican nomination disposed of, the attention of the country will be directed toward -Chicago,_wLere_ihi Democratic convention will meet .July 7 to place in nomination candidates sot President and Vice-President and adopt a platform. Who the nominees will be is a matter- of conjecture, but, a press correspondent says, there is no longer any doubt that the platform will deciare for the free coinage Of silver. The silver element will control the gathering and will doubtless dictate the nomination. Whether they select an out-and-out silver man for President or take a milder one—solid silver with a gold lining—will depend upon circumstances thaUcanhoTbeToreseeur The present probabilities favor Horace Boies, of lowa, but there are other strong candidates, such as William R. Morrison of Illinois, Richard Park Bland of Missouri, James E. Campbell of Ohio, Claude Matthews of Indiana, and Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina. All of these are too well known to require even a brief biography. Mr. Campbell is the distinguished ex-Governor of Ohio, who defeated Foraker and was himself defeated by McKinley and Bushnell. He is about 50 years of age. Claude Matthews is the farmer-statesman who since 1892 has been Governor of Indiana and has distinguished himself as an able executive. Benjamin R. Tillman first came into national prominence when as Governor of South Carolina he introduced the dispensary laws which placed the liquor traffic under the control of the .State. He has since gained notoriety by his erratic course in the. United States Senate.

The Old Idea of Electricity.

When people speak to-day of the “electric fluid’’ and the “electric juloe,” they ai'b only carrying out the idea, common a generation ago, that electricity was not only a fluid, but a liquid, which flowejl from point to point as water flows. That, at any rate, was the theory held by one good old lady. This story is told by an operator who now "works” one of the press wires in New York: I learned telegraphy, as I suppose most boys do, by setting up a “sounder” at home. I had it on a shelf by the kitchen window. The battery stood in a corner under a table. The wires from the battery to the sounder were full of kinks, as they always are, to take up the slack wire without cutting it. .One day thq sounder would not work at all, and I got out of patience. Then my good old grandmother, who had been watching me, said: “John Henry, you let me get nt it a minute. I'll make it go, if there’s any go to it.” She put on her big silver-bowed ape? taeles and looked it all over. Then she crawled under the table—forgetting all about her rheumatism—and carefully straightened out all the kinks and loops in the wires. Such a satisfied smile as she wore when she got up! “There, John Henry,'.’ she said,. ‘I don't believe but what it will work all right now. You try it and see. You’ hadn’t ought to expect that electric fluid to run through anything so crooked as them wires was.” The funny part of the story it that "it did work all right.” In straightening the wires the old lady had probably pulled one of them a little uny through the zinc l in the battery, and so had ipade the connection: but she insisted that all that wits necessary was to get the kinks out of the wires.

YEAR OF DISASTERS.

LOSS OF LIFE HAS ALREADY BEEN VERY GREAT. Storms, Fire and Flood, Have Sent Many Human Beings to Fearful Deaths—St, Louin Was the Scene of the First Horror of 1896. % May a Dark Month. Disaster has been a of th? .current year. With but five mbnths to iti Credit,lß96 has written a record of destruction that will stand. It cannot be surpassed. Fire, flood and high winds havqjjeen the principal causes of calamity, and it is impossible that these could have been foreseen or their results avoided. Two. or three mine horrors that have accounted for as many hundreds of deaths may be properly charged to the of the owners anti operatives. The great weight of misfortune, however, could not have been shifted by human agency. One diinnot' empty a swollen with a tin dipper pr whistle down a hurricane. St. Louis was the scene of the first horror of the y#ar. Compared with the present black misfortune that ,rpsts on the city it : was as nothing. Jan, 3 a great srflock of fireworks stoibd.Tit 309 North Second street exploded. The building and adjacent strucutres were ruined, and some six persons were killed outright or suffered such injury they died later. Thir-ty-two were seriously, although not fatally. hurt. Early in February a great storm Whipped the easterli United States coast. The greatest loss was to property ou shore, as The warning had been fluttering from signal stations so long in advance that the sailor men had hugged the docks. Four or, five vessels frere destroyed. Hundred’s of houses and.other buildings were wrecked. In the State of New Jersey the damage was the heaviest. Bridges and buildings of all kinds were destroyed. Bound Brook, a small town near, the ocean, wits flattened as if some monster road crusher had trundled over it. The loss of property was great, the fatalities comparatively few. , ■ ', .

Fs»b. 10, in Madrid, several residents of the town were killed and much property destroyed by the explosion of an aerolite. The sky traveler went into fragments just over the city with the deadly destructive effects of many bombshells. In one factory, which was immediately below the center of the explosion, nineteen workmen were killed. J)f accidentj/In mines, there have been three in this country marked by great sacrifice of human life. In South Carolina ISO men were killed. This was followed by the caving in of a Tennessee shaft, which resulted in the loss of thirtyseven lives; Sixty men were killed as the result of a gas explosion in the ’Vulcan mine at Newcastle. Colo. Seventy-six workmen in n Grecian stoue quarry were tilled' by rhe blowing up of the-magazine? wherein was stored their giant powder. Au explosion of gas in a mine in Wales killed nineteen' men and seventeen more were buried by the falling earth which was loosened by tl*e explosion. A great flood that eame down the Oequabuek S alley in Connecticut. March 1, swept''awJjTrfnHße<lK'o'fTfrO'rrsTTTijfs'VTf-dol-lars' worth Of mill property and houses and drowned many persons. Similar floods in eastern New York and other Connecticut streams entailed property losses jiggregating several .millions. March 28 a cyclone left a trail of death and ruin across southern Illinois. Alton was a heavy sufferer. April 19. northern Ohio was visited by a cyclone. The loss in Sandusky County was great. Fewpersons were killed. Cripple Creek, the wonder mining camp, was destroyed by fire the latter part of April. On the 25th of the month the fire broke out and destroyed nearly all the business part of the city before it was quelled. The damage was about $1,500,000. .Four days later the remainder of the town wit| wiped out. The total loss was nearly $2,500,000. May 4an explosion of gasoline in a business block in Walnut street, 'Cincinnati, wfecked two buildings and killed eleven persons. More than twenty were seriously injured. Five days later fires at Ashland. Wis., destroyed five lives anil many buildings and lumber. May 11 forests in the southern part of New Tersey burnedl The flames swept over great areas of Cape May and Atlantic Counties. Houses and barns and live stock also burned, but no loss of human life was reported. The cyclone season opened May 13 with windstorms fin Wisconsin and Illinois. The principal damage was to crops, buildings and animals. In the two States six deaths only were caused by the storms, so far as is known. The wind in this section was but a zephyr compared with that which blew at Sherman, Texas, May 15. This was a true cyclone, and in its path was the local baseball grounds, wherein were gathered a thousand or two people of Sherman and neighboring towns. More than 100 were killed and several times the number were injured. The day following Scioto, 111., a small town near Bushnell, was wrecked by a hurricane, and May 17 Kansas towns suffered similarly. Sabetha, Kan., was the most heavily injured. *lt was a mass of ruins. Afterward came the windstorms in Michigan, and the northern Illinois cyclone, which had not exhausted its fury in lowa. Another and less extensive cyclone passed over southern Illinois. Thirteen persons were drowned at Cairo by the swamping of a steamer, which lay in the path of the wind. The next day but one St. Louis was in ruins. From May 13 to May 27 it is probable that 1,200 persons lost their lives in the storms which have raged in a radius of 450 miles of Chicago. The property losses will aggregate upward of $75,000,000. 'ln the cyclone excitement three otjrer disasters passed almost unnoticed. Blue Island, 111., nearly lost its place on the map as a town. Fire destroyed thirty-six houses and business blocks May 17, On the same day the schooner Ayer and steamer Onoko collided off Racine. Five sailors were drowned. A weak railway bridge at Victoria, B. C., permitted a loaded passenger car to fall through. Nearly 100 persons were drowned. As was said, the year has lived less than half its term and there is time for the tale of calamity to grow.

Sparks from the Wires.

Ex-United States Senator O. I’. Stearns of Minnesota died at San Diego, Cal., where he had gone in search of health. Edwin B. Fitler, ex-Mayor of Philadtfphia, and a member of the well-knowe firm of cordage manufacturers bearing his name, died at his home in Philadelphia, aged >l. Charles L. Simmons, of St. Joseph, Mo., who was given as one of the missing in the St. Louis disaster, is safe in Baltimore. He was in St. Louis at the time of the storm, but was not injured. The Garfield statue, the gift of the Fairmount Park Art Association, was unveiled at Philadelphia with imposing ceremonies. The unveiling was done by Henry Garfield, a son qf the late President. During his visit at Pfauneusel, near Potsdam, Emperor William was accosted by an escaped lunatic. The man was seized before he could do any harm, but the Emperor is said to have been greatly •erturbed. - .

ANDERSON’S ESCAPE.

How a Real Estate Dealer’s Preeeacw of Mind Averted a Disaster. A circus trick seldom seen Out of th» sawdust arena was performed by Mr. ‘W E. Anderson, a St, Louis real estate a few days ago. It narrowly averted a collision and probably saved a man’s lifej although Mr. Anderson himself was painfully though not seriously injured, in the fray. Mr. Anderson is considered to be the crack horseman of St. Louis. He i» the owner of a fine saddle horse, a spirited animal, with wtfich he is on the mostl intimate terms. A few evenings ago he rode out est Park, as is his daily custom. Theanimal was in high feather and Sped lustily along one of the narrower driveways of the park. Suddenly Mr. Anderson noticed a bicycle rider scorching toward

WHEELMAN WHIRLS UNDER THE HORSE.

him. There was no time for clearing' away, and a collision seemed With rare presence of mind Mr. Anderson gave his horse the spurs, lifted him upj by the bridle and made him stand on his hand legs. The scorching wheelman, scarcely realizing the danger he was escaping, passed underneath horse and rider unharmed. It was a remarkable spectacle for those who were lucky enough to be near. But the horse careened in some way, and Mr. Anderson's left baud was' broken ip. the middle. It will be some time before he will be able to use it again. The inspiration of the moment and the’ instantaneous obedience of the animal to its master’s touch saved the wheelman’s; life, or at least his limbs, for a moment; later he would have run into the cantering horse. .

GENERAL WARNER.

Man Who Inspired the Bolt in the Prohibition Convention. Adoniram Judson Waruer, the president? of the Bimetallic- League,who inspired the bolt of the silver men in the Prohibition national convention, has written a few books, on the financial problem. In TBS 2 lie pii b fished **Scra rces and V a hie—of Money7 r lihd in 1887 “Appreciation of Money.” He is an all-round man. He, was a captain at the beginning of the; war in a regiment from Ben'nsylvania! and was rapidly promoted to lieutenant; colonel, colonel, and finally brevet briga-

ADONIRAM J. WARNER.

diet general. He took part in most of th* engagements of the Army of the Potomac* and was wounded at Antietam. —After; — the war he read law and was admitted to! the Indianapolis bar. He moved, to Uhia to conserve his coal and railroad interests, and it was from that State that he went to serve his country in Congress. He sat, as a Democrat, in the Forty-sixth, Fortyeighth and Forty-ninth Congresses and! was appointed on many important committees of these Congresses. Gen. Warner is a Virginian by birth, and is 62 years old. He graduated from Beloit, and was ‘ at one time principal of the Lewiston, Pa., Academy.

CAUGHT A HOBO.

These Two Old Maids Don’t Need a. Man Around the Hquse. The village of North Rose, N. Y., was excited Monday when Mary Jane Hurleyj and her old maid sister, Sarah Ann Hur-; ley, tramped in from the country an unkempt tramp, around whose neck! was a rope, while his arms were bound; together behind his back. The hobo wastaken to Justice of the Peace Oakes, wboj was eating breakfast. He suspended thej meal to inquire into the cause of the tumult 'in front of his house; It 'appears that the tramp, who was wending his weary way from Port Glasgow to North Rose, stopped for the night in Hurley’s barn. The two old maids

CAPTURING A HOBO.

live alone three miles from North tlose.l and do weaving for a living. They own! a farm of two acres, and keep a cow andl some chickens. Monday morning the tramp got up and began milking in a tomato can. He was seen by Mary, Jane, who was coming with a pail on the same errand. She sneaked up behind the tramp, pulled him over backward and held him fast until her sister, in answer to screams, came out to see what was going on. The tramp was tied securely, his] hands pinioned behind his back, while a, piece of clothesline was wrapped his neck, by which he was led to town by; Mary Jane, the other sister following* armed with a horsewhip to keep the pris-l oner in order. The tramp said he meant no harm in sleeping In Hurley’s barn nor in milking the cow. He claimed to be Patrick Flynn* a potter from Catskill, on his way to Ak-, ron. O'. The amazons insisted that Flynn< be made an example of. They shuddered to think how he might have burned up the barn. The tramp was charged with petit) larceny, disorderly conduct and vagrancy*