Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. *E. MARSHALL, Publisher. BBMSBELAER, INDIANA.

DEAD IN BARN RUINS

Three fatalities in a Chicago blaze. ■ ' • ■ 'T> Cn, Railway Company I.oaea Haifa Million la* Inspection Permits Xatry of Poor Teas—Spain Cannot ftacnre Alliance Against America. Fire Horror at Chicago. Three men were killed and it is feared that two more perished in a tire Saturday evening which destroyed the Cottage Grove avenue barn of the Chicago City, Railway Company. The dead are: Frank Orosby, towboy; William L. Elwell, gripman; Patrick Martin, conductor* Half a million dollars’, worth of cars and bnildi»«s and horses were destroyed. When the flames had given way to smoke there only the ruins of the great structure and its contents, shut in by a ragged piece »f wall that remained'standing here and there. The barns were among the largest owned by the - road, covering several acres of ground. .The main structure had a 130-foot front <va Cott age Grove avenue, •steading back 400 feet. Running south from the center of this building and making a “T” of the whole was an addition covering 200 by 100 feet. This wing was three stories high, and. in the extreme toothwest corner, on the second floor, was stored thirty tons of hay. It was in this hay the blaze started. Whether the fire was caused by a spark from an em>loye’s pipe, or on account of the crossing of electric wires, has not been ascertained. Spain Must Go It Alone. i Madrid advices say: The Spanish Government does not intend to adopt the tuggestions of the opposition nor yield to the popular clamor for an alliance with France and Russia. Spanish diplomacy has found out again that both these power* would accept Spain willingly on European and African questions, but neither Russia nor France would like to go l>epaad the "mildest and mdsf phitonic mediation between Spain and the United States In regard to the Cuban question. The Madrid Government will take no step to solicit European support as long as it can keep up appearances of friendly relations with the United States. But at the same time it will try to arrange concerted action by all the European powers pressure rpen the United States some B*y, if it should be necessary, to. let Spain I fettle her differences with Cuba on the understanding that-slie shall give to the European powers and the United States explicit official assurance of her intention to grant autonomy to Cuba immediately, pacification. and to Porto Rico as a sine Hua non of moral support of the European ’powers. Want Bad Tea Excluded. Chicago tea jobbers have, combined for rar on extensive quantities of poor and Adulterated teas which have passed through Port Huron and other central, lake pbrts, where flto'Gtivefmneut inspection is not suflivtonfly expert to prevent Imposition on the customs laws. The merchants claim they have conclusive evidence that tea which failed of. entry at New York and Boston has been taken into Canada, repacked, and entered through the ports named. "A petition has been forwarded to the Ways and Means Committee of Congress, asking that the only ports of entry for tea he constituted at Chicago. Xan Francisco and New York, where proper custom house regulations may be observed and enforced by experts. National League. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W L. W. L. Cincinnati ~53 2UBrooklyn . ~35 41 Baltimore . .49 24 Philadelphia .35 41 Cleveland.. ;49 25 Washington .31 39 Boston 42 32New York . .31 41 Chicago .. ..45 3<Mt. Louis.. .22 55 Pittsburg .. .40 34 Louisville .. .17 55 Western League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis .43 24 Detroit t. . . .36 30 BL Paul .-. ..44 29Milwaukee ..30 42 Kansas City .41 32Gr'd Rapids .2S 47 Miuneai>olis .42 33Columbus . .23 55

BREVITIES.

There were 495 fresh cases of cholera reported in Egypt Tuesday and Wednesday ■nd 419 deaths from that disease. A receiver has been asked for the Louis Baider's Sons Paper t.'ompatiy of Cincinnati. The assets are stated at SS4,<XM) and the liabilities $115,000. Dr. Barton I’itts., of y St. Joseph, Mo.. •on-in-Igw, of the late Dudley M.'Steele, is out with a letter making sensational charges against Judge Lazarus, of New Orleans; Vinton Pike, represents Chicago creditors, and other prominent person* who arejnterestod in the settling of the over $70,000 has been stltwiidervd by the lawyers, and that the hmfti wf.tlie capitalist will not get a «eMt«s|fai'H< big estate. Pitts is under •OTM.fAr'pummeling Attorney Pike. Park. N. J.. Sunday there were about 40.000 excursionists from Woodbury and surrounding towns. Aa part of their amusement Charles Ray unond, known as the “Boy Aeronaut." ascended in his balloon. Raymond cat loose the iHirachute and in his descent amused the crowd with acrobatic feats. When he was about 200 fee’t from the ground he lost his hold on the bar and fell to the ground. When pjeked up he was found to have a broken, arm, a dislocated knee,' nod internal injuries. Tlx doctors said he could not recover. The headless Itodies of Joseph Toppe[ and wife were fonud oit the Souther:. Railroad tfack, ten miles from Urn-nn*-(terg, Ky., Saturday morning. The linin'* be»d Mas severed from the mouth up. and I the woman's diagonally across the head. Tickets were found on the man wliiet ■how that they had been traveling on th* <joeen and Crescent route. A dispatch from Shanghai asserts that •wmors are current' there that Russia:; jealousy will prevent the contemplated ' cinit ot Li Hung Chuog to the L’nitetJ;, Mutes

EASTERN.

' The American berk Jofta D,’tfrMt’fr, from New York for Zanzibar, is' iuhore at. Pitt slpi rg, J 'a., juryon ly forty TSonw WTO *£*•“<*• mttlon that if he returns the stolen money ta •h*n b< lined and not imprisoned. If

the court agrees to this it will raise a. vigorous protest from the people. A rainstorm that proved to be the-most destructive that has visited Western Pennsylvania for years swc'pt over Pittsburg and surrounding country Wednesday night. It was practically,a.gtoudburst. It is estimated that the Jp|?,will reach sl,OOO.odb. The weather bun.-int officials report 1.77. inches of rainfall during fifty minutes. * The storrrt edmirtg so early ip the evening doubtless saved many lives, as few people had retired. No lives are thought to have been lost. The most damage was done over in the AlleghenyButcher's Run district. Houses on Howard street were floatetFaway and ruined. In South Pittsburg, all the houses along West Carson street wore flooded' 1 arid many of them moved .from’their foundations. • Every cellar on: Main afreet- contains front four to eight feet of wafer. The massive stone wall that .fgjTounds the Allegheny cemetery 'on the Butler street side, which was built; to stand a deluge, was swept away. '’'St/ifies weighing many. tons were flashed I Kc‘ross i ßittler street, where they crushed housed like, eggshells. ~, ■_ ■

WESTERN.

Denver was plunged in darkness Sunday night by the burning of the Consoli-’ dated Electric Company’s East Side station. The loss ''between SIOO,OOO and $200,000. ’ . Henry Dnnic.s and wife were drowned in the Republican river at Franklin, Neb. They, in comp-try with others, were wading in the river, when they stepped into a hole. Daniels- was an expert swimmer and labored hn.fl to save his wife, but became exhausted, and both went under. Both bodies were recovered. Specials to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette report having thunderstorms mid rains. At seviial places there was loss of life and property from lightning. Near Portsmouth, Ohio, five persons took refuge in a shed, which was struck by lightning, killing W. E. Dudent and Willard Brown and injuring J. I*. Brown, Arthur Brown and Joseph Estep. Saturday Miss, Dells Hutchinson, of Humboldt. Kan., mysteriously disappeared. Wednesday night her body was found in the Neosho river with a large stone tied to it. Suspicion at once pointed to Jake Rogers. It was known that he had purchased poison on the day she disappeared. He was the last person seen With her. Rogers is in jail. t Ghicag* hoai_iraj,ll4 degrees Tuesday, Humidity, arch-oppressor, joined hands with high temperature and prostrated man and beast j n the streets, increased the death rate among infants and old persons and tortured those who labored under the sun s glare in stuffy factories. While no dea*l’s from sunstroke were reported, there were many prostrations, and of tlj£ yktini- are said to be in a serious condition. Charles Stark, the Springfield, 0., murderer, was captured in a box car at liurbin by Chief of Police McKenna, Defective John Hynes, Bailiff IVill Johnson and Officer Jvsis asleep 'and the flash of the darlTTiifU iern awakened him. Before lie had' time to escape lie was handcuffed. He said that he achidebtaliy shot his wife, and, shot Louis Lanterman, the barkeeper, iii self-defense. Mrs. Stark is still alive, but her recovery is impossible. July 4 the inmates of the Cincinnati infirmary were treated to green apples, lemonade and other luxuries. The inmates drank and ate too much, sickness followed and eight inmates have since died from the effects of the festivities oil that dhy. as follows: Barbara Batters, aged 53; Henry Holldier, 74; Marut' Thornby, 70; Edwin White, 90; Gerard Voqderspeck. 75; William Hare, 08; Join: McDermott. 55 Mrs. M, L.. Bassett, 05. All were infirm as well as aged? ‘ John W. Lanehart, formerly Gov.’ Altgeld’s law partner and member "of- the Democratic State Central Übnirinftee, died front an attack of peritonitis at Chicago Thursday morning. Mr. Lanehntß was a native of the. State of Ohio. He was born thirty-six years ago in the town of Bellville, near Cincinnati. As an attorney Mr. Lanehart made corporation law a subject of, special attention. Mr. Lanehart was the refognizeiUleadcr of German Democrats on the North Side of Chicago. At 2:30 o’clock Monday morning tire was discovered in the boiler-room of the Merchants’ terminal elevator, at 1 St. Louis. The large building was quickly enveloped in flames. About thirty minutes after the tire broke out a 200-foot smakestack fell, narrowly missing a number of firemen below. Twenty minutes after this the west wall collapsed. John F. Ryan, president of the company, estimated that the loss would be at least $500,000. The elevator contained many thousands of bushels of grain. Further disorders occurred at the Brown Hoisting nnd Conveying Works at Cleveland Wednesday moruing. The strikers and their sympathizers attacked the nonunion men while the latter were on their way to work. In numerous cases the non-unionists were beaten with clubs and felled to the ground. U. W. Jackson, one of the unfortunate men, who was attacked by a crowd of union men, received no less than fifteen kuife cuts on the face and body, and had three ribs broken. For a time the police, who were greatly outnumbered by the rioters, were unable to cope with the mob. 1 lie officers on duty around the works weic finally reinforced and succeeded in driving the enraged strikersback and r selling the non-union men. Tw£ companies of militia have been ordered under arms. Over a score of victims were claimed Thursday night by the Cuyahoga river at Cleveland. A flatboat ferry used by ore handrbrs capsized at 7 o'clock, and of the twenty-five men and boyS known to have been on board only four escaped by swimming to the shore. The boat was crowded to a dangerous limit. When part Way across the stream the tug W. Cushing and the steamer Aragon were seen coming down the river. Nearing the wash of the steamer some of the people at the bow attempted to turn Hack and a panic followed. The frail shell was capsized and the occupants dumped ia a struggling mass into the river. Most of them sank like lead. While the search for. the bodies was going on a disgraceful scend occurred between two undertakers. They pounced on 'to one of the bodies arid fought like demons. While the fight was going on the two got near the edge of the dock and were in danger of falling into the water with the body between them. Both*thereupon released the corpse nnd it rolled back -into the -river. .The Jit<lign:ition of those present was unbounded and both the undertakers left.itye ss-erje.

FOREIGN.

, a ■ . .a tk > , < , • Carlos EzeU ej-jiresideqt of San Salvador, narrow J escaped death at Sart*' ■Francisco at/tat' hands of PedW Jimnes, a Salvadorian, who jxnnted a pistol W liitf, head and pullei the trigger, but the.wea*' •pon failed to explode. A dispatch from BuluwM.ro to the London Daily Telegraph ay ya that 1.5U0 friendly natives have joined the revolt in Matabelelaud. The news received ut Bulawayo from Salisbury is very bad. It Is said that rhe camptires Mashonas •re visible close to the laager andtfeat an attack H expected. . .. • t ■ A dispatch received at Athens from Crete says Use Turkish authorities there

gradually extending the military zone and occupying tew positions daily.'Many excesses a~e being committed Jt>y. the Turks.- A patty of Christian* who ventured to enter the So-called military zone were murdered by the Turks. An attempt was made at Paris to assassinate President Faure Tuesday. The president had gone to irnngchanips to review the troops. He had no sooner entered thfefield when u man in the crowd stepped forward and fired twice with a revolver at him. The shots did not take effect *s4ie would-be assassin was at once arrested, lie’declared that he had only fired a blank cartridge, and that he had".no intention of killing the president Atl}eii£ dispatch: The Turks have massacred a .number oi-Christians in the, Cretan jtrovinees of Sphakia, Retinio and Jlydoma.. They have also destroyed sevral villages with theif - vineyards. ■ Under the-pretekt of recovering jhe bodies Of the iMtvkisKJailote Who were killed on fate shore a body of Turkish troops tried to advance to Apokoron. They were twice repulsed by the Christians. Tfcie military authorities are acting contrary to the wishes of the Vali arid the instructions received from Coiistantir nople. .-The-•Mussulman population ils working actively with the. Turkish army, with-the usual vexatious results. Seven men"and two .women who were engaged as harvesters, have’been massacred at Kostnni. Reports come in giving an account, of fighting and pillaging lit five Other villages. These have rendered the ' Consuls and the native Christians pessimistic regarding the possibility of making peace.

The greater portion of the labors of Mr. Breckinridge, Minister to Russia, during life last year, ass revealed by the published foreign relations of the United States, seem to have fpuowed an instruction from the State Department to protest against the practice of th» Russian Consuls in the United Stales of ref using to vise passports of American citizens going to Russia if they happened tp be qf the Jewish faith. At this point where the, publication closes he fias obliged/to bluntly inform the Russian Government that the Unjted Stages could not aetjuiesee in the operation of such foreign tribunals in the United States. Mr. Breckinridge’s presentation of the case was fortpally ap,proved by Secretary Olney. Another important subject considered was the absolute insistence of the Russian Government upon its rights to punish any Russian who falls, into its power lifter becoming a citjWn of the United States or any/ jothor country. The correspon denee —on this subject w::»;'sb^epifit<Sl as to lead Minjster Breckinridge to complain to Secretary Olney that Prince Lobanow’s note to him had,been lacking in pourtesy. As the matter stands the Russian G'qvernnientjrests firmly in its right to punish Russians tvbo become United States clli; zens if they return to Russili. Meanwhile' Mr. Bieekinridge prudentfy suggests that pioper warning be given to R usqia nsji at nr.; 1 i zed i n th c Uui ted States to keep away from Russia.

IN GENERAL.

William Eustis Russell, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, died Thursday morning (it B. F. Dutton's-eamp nt St. Adelaide, Pabos, Quebec. He went to lied Wednesday etenihg as well as ever, so far as 's known, apd was found,dead in bed in the morning. Heart disease is thought to ih;jve bi-en the cause. His brother, Col. Harry E. Russell, and Col. Francis Peabody. Ji-., were with him, the only other occupants of the camp. . American farmers may be confronted with another t-nublesonie weed somewhat similar to the Russian thistle in its destructive 1 extent unless immediate steps are taken to check the further progress of tumbling rimstard. Tumbling mustard has bepn most obnoxious in tjte Canadian Northwest provinces during the last five years, ami recently has been reported, fropi nine different localities,in the United St a tes,So ,£a r t lie _yre ! has been confined to a small area in this country. It is especially likely to be contained in. timothy-seeil; a large proportion of yrhieh :s grown in the Xioux Valley of tlie eastern part of South Dakota. The ty.eed has not yet infested this valley, bitt the statement is made that if it should spread in these fields for two consecutive yca-s it would probably ruin tlie timothy-SOcd industry of the entire section. Statistician l>ord, of the Treasury Department, Ims been asked by a Chicago inquirer if thv wheat brought into the United States trom Manitoba and shipped out ngniu s included in the year's total exports. According to the Chicago party this is an important proposition, and he advances th? statement that she wheat brought in from across the border during the last fiscal year aggregated 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 bushels, against next to nothing in previous years, and that it is of value to the trade to know all about it. Mr. Ford says the Manitoba and Canadian wheat is kept separate front United States wheat, merely going through the country in bond anil not being included in the year’s total of export. According to the treasury figures the total is omy a, little over 2,000,000 bushels anyway, instead of over 10,000.000, as stated by the Chicagoan. Manitoba wheat, if it went into our home consumption. would have to pay 20 per cent, duty, ejual to about S cents a bushel. ExiWs for the year in wheat and corn aggregate 125,000,000 bushels, against 143,000,000 bushels two years ago.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago'—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75: l.ogs. shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 54c to 55c; corn, No. 2,27 cto 2Sc; oats. No. 2, ICh to 17c; rye. No 2. 30e to■32c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c: eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; new potatoes, per bu-diel, 25c to 40c; broom corn, common to choice, $25 to SSO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light. s3.txt to $3.75; sheep. common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,53 cto 54c: corn. No. 1 white. 20c to 2Se; oats, No. 2 white, lSc to, .19c. St, Louis.—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No, 2 n d, 54c to 56c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c: oats. No. 2 wnite. 16c to 17c; rye. No. 2,28 e to 30c. A; * Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50- x lfl>;$4.00: 1 wbtyit. No. 2,56 cto 58c; corn.- No. 2 mixed-, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 17c • tol9c; rye. No. 2. 26c to 28c. ’wfroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hoss, $3.M c to $3.75: sheep. $2.00 to $3.75: wheat. No. 2 red. 58c to OOg; earn. No. 2' ycilo-w, 27e to 29c: oats, No. 2 wbite, 19c to 21c;- rye, 31c to 32c. Toledo— Wheat. No. 2 red. 58c to 60c; corn. No. 2.yellow, 27c t0,28c: oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 18c: rye. No. 2,30 cto 32c; clover seed, $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 55c to 56c; coru, No. 3,26 cto 2-8 c; oats. No. H.white, 18c to 20c: barley. No. 2. 29c to rye. No. 1,31 vto 32c: pork, mess, $6.25 to $6.75. Buffalo—Cuttie. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4,00: sheep. $3.25 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 rial. 63c to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. New. York—Cattle. $3.00 to $4.75: hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; jdieep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 rod, 63c to G4c-; corn, No.-2. 32c to 84c: oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; butter, creamery, 11c to 16c; eggs, Western, 12c to 14c.

HOSTS OF BAPTISTS.

YOUNG PEOPLE’S UNION MEETS IN MILWAUKEE. Ten Thousand Members of the Denominational Society from All Parte of the Continent—Sunrise Devotional Services—Membership Over 100,000 Prominent Workers Present. The sixth international convention of the Baptists’ Young People’s Union of America—the Christian Endeavor of that great and powerful denomination —was held in Milwaukee. Delegations nnd scattering visitors from every State in the Union; as well as from Canada, were in

attendance, Illinois sent fully 5,06 t); Wisconsin 3,000 outside of Milwaukee; Indiana, 2,000; lowa, 1,000; Ohio/ 2,000; Michigan, 2,900, and other States in proportion to their diatunch. Canada sent from 2,000 toSS,000 visitors and del-

SECT. WILKINS.

egates. The event brought’to Milwaukee probably the largest number of distinguished Baptist divines and representative members of the denomination, male and female, that has ever been brought together in any one city. Promptly at 10 o’clock on the opening day the international convention was called to order in the great Exposition

PRKSIDENT CHAPMAN.

building,, .fiexU tq_ the Coliseum in Chicago the largest convention 'auditorium in America. It has a capacity of 15.000 and was filled to the doors half an hour before President John H. Chapman rapped for order. This was speedily securetl • rind 'devotional exercises, consisting of the reading of a chapter from the scriptures,

EXPOSITION BUILDING, WHERE THE CONVENTION WAS HELD.

prayer nnd led by a chorus of 700 voices, were conducted by Rev. E. W. White o£ the Tabernacle Church. The services concluded, A. W. Drake, presi-

dent of the Milwaukee Union, delivered the address of welcome in behalf of the local organizations and addresses were also made in behalf of the municipality. A response for the board of managers of the international

union and the delegates eame from Rev. E. M. Poteat, of New Haven; Conn. The preliminaries over, General Secretary Dr. Frank L. Wilkins, of Chicago, presented the annual report, of the board of managers. ' In it he referred to the fact that tlie total membership of the organization exceeded 100,900, one and all young people enthusiastic in the work of the church. He pointed out that the Baptists allowed great liberty. Every church was left to its own discretion as to how its young people should lie organized. There were over 3,500 Christian Endeavor societies in the denomination; but the 'fact that the Baptists were largely enlisted in the interdenominational fellowship of Christian Endeavor did not preclude their having a young people's denominational society of their own, and the fact was that a denmninatiou that numbered 4,000,000 adherents in America had, perhaps, more reason than other denominations for maintaining such an organization. He went back to the first

organization of the union in Chicago in 1891, when 3,000 delegates were present. and commented upon the phenomenal growth of the society. The address was lengthy and repeatedly applauded. Its adoption was moved and seconded by Rev. Dr. Alexan-

J. F. TYRRELL.

der Blackburn, of Cambridge. Mass., and Rev. W. W. Landrum, of Richmond, Va.. and was carried unanimously. Some idea of what the leaders of the assembly undertook may be gathered from the'fact that each day's work began nt 6:30 in the morning anil euded about 10 o'clock at night, with almost continuous sessions throughout the'day. When the eq'pyention was not in session at the exposition ball the various churches of the city 'wore utilized for meetings, eneh one ’of wOiich was iu charge of some promi■riertt dninister or layman, and transacted business of importance to the body ot Baptist Unionists. Even when the convention was occupying the great hall these side meetings were kept up. The subjects tjented of embraced every religious and social and moral theory of life. The men who, spike were known throughout the length and breadth of the land its deep thinkers and.fearless exponents of wh-it they deem the right. The addresses delivered and the subjects discussed comprised all that is worth study nnd reflection in theology, sociology and metaphysics. After the work of the convention wns over the delegates nnd visitors made ex“ curaions to Lake Winnebago, Devil’s lake. Dells of the Wisconsin. Epworth League Grove at Ludington, Mich.; Racine, Wis., and Chicago. i > , In,.<iiicleut times bones were collected from the battlefields, ground to powand used to fertilize tha '-ind.

Distinguished Son of Massachusetts Kxpires Suddenly of Heart Disease. .Ex-Goy. William E. Bussell of Massachusetts died suddenly at the camp of B. F. Dutton at St. Adelaide, Pabos, Quebec. Gov. Russell, accompanied by his brother, Col. Harry E.', Russell, and Col. Peabody, Jr., arrived there only the day previous in search of rest. He had run down in health after the trying scenes at the Chicago convention, and his friends urged ujwn him the necessity of a rest in the backwoods, ami be accepted the invitation of Mr. Dutton to go to his beautiful Canadian camp.

On reaching St. Adelaide the ex-Gov-ernor appeared in good health and spirits, and the evening was spent in a social way and in preparation for a fishing trip the next day. He and his companions retired early. Col. Russell was the first to arise, and when he called his brother he received’no Answer. He then attempted to arouse him by shaking him, whereupon he discovered that life/had 'flown. The position of the body and the expression on the dead man’s face showed, tbit his death was painless. William Eustice Russell was: born in Cambridge on Jan. 6. 1857,, within the Shadow of the university from Which he was in 1877. He received his early training in the public schools of Cambridge, in which he preparpd for Harvard College, entering that institution in 1873. Mr. Russell’s political affiliations had always been Democratic. In .1886 Mr. Russell was elected Mayor of Cambridge by a large, majority. He held the reins of government in the Mayor’s’ chair for three terms. Mr. Russell Was married to MissTMargaretSwair, daughter of the late Rev. Joshua Swann, formerly of Cambridge, on June 3, 1885. They had , three children—two sons and one daugh_ter. - In 1888 he Was nominated for Governor. but was defeated by Gov. Ames. He was nominated again in TBB9 and ’fas elected over Mr. Brackett by a plurality of S'OOO. In 181)1 he was successful over Charles 11. Allen, of Lowell, by a plurality of 7,500. In 1892, the presidential year, he defeated William H. Haile by a plurality of 2,500 votes, while Benjamin Harrison carried the State by a plurality of ,30,000. He retired from office at the epd of his third term and resumed the practice of Jaw.,

There are nearly 2.000,000 of Ger-HMitJS-Fesiding..ln-tfieCzar's-iloin in i o n s? Their condition during the^ reign of Alexander 111. was anything, but enviable. Ilis Pan-Slavic policy purposed their complete Russification and the suppression of all German institutions, privileges and religious worship. The Teutonic element of the Baltic

provinces, which by_gducation and wealth preponderated in commercial and political relations, with sorrow and resentment awaited its doom. Schools and academies where for centuries only German had been the language of instruction were Russifieds Preaching in the tongue of the Fatherland was prohibited, er-at least more or less restricted. Dorpat, tile famous German university, received Russian professors who were not fit to teach in any language, and a simular status threatened the colleges.

A. W. DRAKE.

The Czar and Czarina have returned to St. Petersburg, Mrs. John IV. Mackey has been summoned from Londou to Rome on account of the critical illness of her father. Li Hung Chang, special envoy of the Emperor of China,, arrived in Paris and was welcomed with military honors. It is runiored on the Paris bourse that the Rothschilds will issue in Paris a Russian loan for 1,000,000,900 francs (?200,000,000). Harry Askin, a manager of theatrical enterprises of wide reputation, has filed a petitiou in insolvency. No schedules are given. Jones & Laughlin signed a special steel scale with the Amalgamated Association at Pittsburg and will continue in operation. They employ 4,500 men. There arrived in New Orleans thirty Chinese boys in charge of Rev. Huie Kin, a Presbyterian minister, who has charge of a mission in New York, where they go to be placed in school, and after receiving a preliminary education will enter college. They are sons of prominent and wealthy Chinamen. Milton L. Ely, said to tie one of the most noted bandits of the West, has lieen captured at Moberljr, Mo., by William Pinkerton's detectives. Ely is wanted especially because of his connection with the express ear rolibery nt Ottumwa, In., Jan. 12, 1895. on the Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy Railroad. There is danger of a wafer famine In Boston and considerable alarm is felt by, Water Commissioner Murphy an<i City Engineer Jackson because of t w large and .unaccountable increase in tne use of water during the last three months. The rainfall i.n the last six wccKg h-m been very small,,and tbe water commission has issued orders to the people of the city to cut down their consumption. According to what is considered reliable authority, u controlling intefesf In the Detroit Railway, a sysiem undir the R'-ednt-fttW > '‘dMW«ricWi l , has W'Wi'sold by Henty A. 'Kvf’HftK' proprietor of the system, to R. T. Wilson, of New York. Mr.’ Wilson now owns jurist of the stock of the Citizens’ Railway Comp.iuy, a.ul a consolidation of the roads armler .ird management is now anticipated.

The apparently mysterious way in which newly formed lakes. (Kinds, canals, etc., become populated with fish was discussed, by some of the members assembled at n recent reunion of the Piscatorial Society at the Holborn restaurant. Londou. More than one of them considered tlmt tills urns effected by birds which had been feeding on fish spawn elsewhere, and which, alighting on these new waters, dropped aume of the spawn from thdir bilii.

EX-GOV. RUSSELL DEAD,

Germans in Russia.

Notes of Current Events.

Fish.

FOR ANOTHER CONVENTION.

Gold Men Issue an Address to the , " Voters of the Country. Democrats wljo believe in a gold standard have issued a call for a national gathering of the members of their wing of the party for the purpose of putting a' gold Democratic ticket in the field, The call w,as given out for publication by the members. of the executive committee of the gold Democracy of Illinois. The call is issued by th; Illinois Democracy which advocates the cause of the yellow metal to the gold Democracy of the other States. In part it is ns follows: “A national convention convened under the eonstituted authority of our'p.'.rty has just closed its session in the city 61 Chicago. It.entered upon its work by violating all party piecedents in the rejection of a distinguished Democrat as its temporary' presiding officer; It deprived a -1 sovereign State of a voice in its deliberations by unseating withoiit cause or legal justification delegates elected withmll the regularity known to party organization. It refused to indorse the honesty and fidelity of the prestent Democratic national administration. .it adopted a platform which favors the free and unlimited coin•hge of’ silver by this country alone at the ratio of 16 to 1, and thereby it repudiated a time-honored Democratic principle which demand? the strict maintenance of a sound and stable national currency. Finally, to mdke it still plainer that although in nam< it was not in fact a Demsocratic convention, it nominated for President one who is not in his political convictions, and has not always been (even in his professions, a Democrat. “This has made such a crisis, both for the natibi^anß idle Democratic party,-that sound-money Democrats at onee must decide what political action they will take for the protection of the honor of ,tlie nation, the prosperity of the people and the life and usefulness of the party. The sound-nioney Democrats of Illinois have fully made up their minds that a new Democratic national convention should be called for tMe earliest feasible day to nominate .Democraticiciindidatcs for President and Vice-President and adopt-ap platform of Democratic principles* “We hope,” continues the “that out of the responses tb this public statement of the views of the Illinois Democracy there can be gathered so much of the judgment of the leading sound-money Democrats of the United States as can be formulated into a plan of action.” The call is signed by the “.Executive Committee of the Honest-Money Democracy of Illinois ”

ABOUT PAST CONVENTIONS.

Chicago's HAcerrt Gathering Was Not the Most Memorable in History. The largest number of ballots ever taken iff a Democratic national convention was in that of J.BW, at Charleston. Fifty-seven bailots were taken' without result, When an adjournment was had to Baltimore, where Stephen A. Douglas yvas nominated for President,-seceding, delegates, from the Southern States nominating John C. Breckinridge. In the first three contentions held by the Democratic party the candidate for President was nominate-i without opposition, Andrew Jackson, in 1832 nnd Marti*! Van Buren in 1836 and 1840. In 1844 nine ballots were required, Van Buren having a clearmajority at the start, bitt not -two-thirds, the nomination falling to Polk, with Va.i Buren receiving but tgn, and Cass, his chief opponent, but seventeen. In 1848 Lewis Cass was nominated on the fourth I.allot, receiving more than two-thirds. In 1852 there vere fortynine ballots. Cass was the leading candidate, with Buchanan second. Dougina third and Marcy fourth. On the fortyninth ballot these dropped out and Franklin Pierce was nominated. In 1856 Buchanan and Pierce started pretty close together, with Douglas third, and on the ninth ballot Buchanan was nominated. In 1864 Gen. McClellan was nominated on the first ballot. lii 18GS Seymour was nominated on rhe twenty-second ballot. In 1872 Greek y was nominated on the first ballot, reviving (188 votes; Bayard, 15; Black, 21, ami Groesbeck, 2. In 187 G -Tjlden ii ns Tunninhteil nn the, second ballot. Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Hendricks of Indiana, Bayard of Delaware, and Hancock of Pennsylvania were also voted for, Headricks having the second largest vote and Hancock third. In 1880 Hancock was nominated on the second ballot, though ho and Bayasd stood very close together on the first ballot, their votes being 171 and IG3 respectively. In 1884 there were two ballots, Cleveland having a commanding lead on the first. Bayard, Thurman, Randall, McDonald, Hendricks, Carlisle, Flower and Hoadley were also voted for. Mr. McDonald's vote <>n the first ballot was fif-ty-six and Hendricks’ one. On the second ballot Hendricks’ vote was forty-five aud McDonald's one. In 1888 President Cleveland . wai nominated by acclamation. In 1892 he wus nominated ou the first ballot.

AGES ON THE PRESIDENCY.

Comparisons Showing the Relative Youth of Nominee Bryan. William J. Bryan, who is only 36 years old, is the youngest man ever nominated for the presidential office by one of the great parlies, and if successful will be the youngest man ever elected. The favorite decade in life from w!»’:ch to choose a President has been the sixth. Thus their ages ran in this wise: Washington, ssi; Jefferson, 57; Madison. 57; Monroe. 58; John Quincy Adams, 57; Van Buren, 54; Lincoln, 51; Hayes, 54, and Benjamin Harrison, 55. The Presidents above 60 nt the time of their election were John Adams, 61; Jackson, 61; William Henry Harrison, 67; Taylor, G 2, and Buchanan, 6.5. Those below 50 were Folk, 49; Pierce. 48; Grant, 46; Garfield, 49. and Cleveland. 47. Mr. Cleveland was 55 at his second election. The Vice-Presidents who became Presidents were at their election the following ages: Tyler, si: Fillmore, 48; Johnson, 50. and Arthur, 50. Mr. Bryan is ten years younger than Gen. Grant when he was nominated, twenty-five years younger than John Adams and Jackson, and thirty-one years younger than the elder Harrison, who was the oldest ma-, ever yet nominated for President,- though lie holds the age oxer James Buehnnan by only two years. The ijd'ntftitufion requires the President to be 35. so that Mr. Bryan just skips over the boundary line.

News of Minor Note.

George I.ani.'tlic New York millionaire, is dead, aged's3 years. Joseph A: Smiler, a farmer, was killed by lightning near Hutchinson, Kan. Herr Robifs. the African explorer, died nt his residence nt Rebecca Hertsmcn, nged 4 years, daughter of a merchant of Marion, Ind., hns died from burns received while playing with a bonfire, which ignited her clothes. Three robbers, who posed ns detectives, and enforced their demnnds with pistol and club, entered n house at 245 West Forty-second street, at New I’ork, forced. Joseph Miskn and Edward Settle to give tip SI,IOU in money and SI.IKK) worth of jewelry, and escaped with their booty.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. “ ’ r Judge Helm Pronounces Sentence on Scott Jackson's Accomplice—lncreased Demand for Iron and Glass »-Goods-Discovers His Mother. Walling Must Hnng. Alonzo Walling, accomplice of Scott Jackson in the murder of Pearl Bryan, was sentenced to hang Aug. 7. Walling, smiling and defiant, was taken from the Covington jail by* Sheriff Plummer ijnd Jailer Bitzer, and driven in a surrey to Newport. On their arrival they found a. crowd of several hundred surrounding the court house, but there was no demonstration. .ludge Helm at once overruled Col. Washington’s motion for a new trial, ami ordered the prisoner to stand up. Walling, his face flushed, falteringly arose. Judge Helm .-aid: “Have yod Anything to'say why judgment should not now be pronounced against you?” Walling replied with choking voice: “I will ask my attorney to spetik for me.” Col. Washington said: “If I can't, argue fully. I desire to say that there is do evidence - in this case justifying the conviction of this man.” Here Col. Washington sat down angrily. Judge Helm then said: “It is the judgment of this court that you be taken from here to the Covington jail and there coflfined until the 7th day of Ajigust. and then brought from there to an inclosure at. the jail yard in Newport, and there by the sheriff be hanged by the neck until yon shall be dend, and may God have mercy on your soul." Walling turned pale and sat down. A moment later he was on his way back to Covington.

Cheerful News for Labor. The Weatherall Rolling Mill Company of Anderson, met its employes Saturday and asked them to return to work at once, promising to pay them whatever the new scale called for when the manufacturers sign it.' The men refused to go to work. The company is rushed with orders si.ml wants to get its plant in operation as soon as possible. All flint glass—bottle and jar—houses in the nation closed down last night, the rules of the Flint,Glass •Workers’ Assbciation requiring all men to stop work for the summer season. The market -w-rnshod ami the-prices nre.ndvanccd. The manufacturers have forwarded a petition to the workers’ convention in session at Alton, 111., asking them to permit ,the workers to return to their fires Aug. 1, instead of Sept. 1, as is the rule. In case the request is granted all plants will resume at that time. The past year has lieen a most prosperous one ip this department of the glass business, and it is one of the, very few industries that has not suffered a reduction of wage's in the past few years. The Wright Shove! Company of Anderson posted a notice that they Would advance the wages of the polishers and grinders 5 cents on the dozen. This will mean about 75 cents a day to the Workmen, The increase was made unsolicited, and was a great surprise. The company’ states that the business of tile firm is heavier now than for years.

All Over the State.

Miss Pearl Sheppard, living at Everton, Fayette County, was riding in a buggy with her brother George, He had lighted a cigar iiiid threw a match in the baggy, which ignited his sister’s clothing. He quickly lifted hey from the vehicle, ami, by tearing her clothes off and then wrapping her in his coat, he extinguished' the fire, bus not until the sister was fatally burned. Wednesday afternoon there was a shooting affray in a cross-roads village in Sullivan County, ten miles from the County seat, in ~which, vJiai'les Bell, ft .saloonkeeper, was instantly killed by young Clemens, who is a son of a minister. There were a dozen or more spectators and after Bell had fallen they made a rush to arrest the murderer, but he held them at bay with two revolvers mid escaped nt his leisure. Frank Oldhnm, aged 56, an inmate of the poor farm, left for Cripple <’reek - Saturday nignt with 85(H) in his pocket and good clothes. Before he was reduced to poverty he purchased' a Cripple Creek patent. It him some distance from the big finds. Thin disease overtook him and he came East. Ilis brothers left him at the pofiit of death. He received notice Saturday that 812.001) had lieen deposited for the transfer of his ten acres. Thomas Rockwell, aged 78, arrived at Muncie from Wabash Tuesday eu route home to Fort Recovery, O. He met Benjamin Smith and asked to be directed to n hotel. Smith led the old man east of the city to the Lake Erie and Western Railroad bridge, robbed him and left him senseless for the train to mangle, Rockwell recovered, called for help and was rescued just in time.. An hour later the police arresteil Smith, who was at once identified. The contest between the saloon men and the Good Citizens’ League at Terre Haute resulted in two assaults on members of the league. Franklin Porter, a Vandalia employe, was struck and badly injured while in his ottii’c by a saloonkeeper named Reedy. Edgar Harkness, who filed two affidavits against saloonkeepers, refused his brother John's request not to appear ns a witness, whereupon the latter Knocked him down. The Good Citizens’ League has filed charges against both assailants. The last two conventions have wrought distress for at least two persons in English, who hud th? l additional misfortune of having been born shortly before those events. Elmer O.ayton, an enthusiaßtic Republican, inflicted his newly boru son with the euphonious nmno of Abraham Lincoln Ulysses Grant William McKinley. But John Vaughn, a Democrat, not to lie outdone, stylwl his latest calitiqn Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson James Monroe William Jennings Bryan. The boys are said to boar the strain very well. In a brawl at a pimtic at' in wliicn he was not a participant, Charles Gamble of Taswcll wiik fatally Injured. He was struck on tne head with a bottle and his skull crushed. Fire Tuesday night broke out on the second floor of the greut Lielwr brewery plant at Indinilapulift. Frank Hotiltiger, night watchman, was badly burned by an explosion of a barrel of shellac. Twenty thousand barrels of beer were ruined by destruction of the ice plant. The entire loss may reach SIOO,OOO. The syndicate. which operates three plants, carries over SGOO,tHH) insurance. An unknown tourist, claiming to hnil from Ohio, met with a frightful accident in Anderson Sunday morning. He attempted to board n passenger train ont of the city. The train was going fastei than he enlcu.atcd and he was thrown I head first to tne ground, alighting upon his face. > At Clay City, while l f rof. T. T. Grinlcy wns preparing to nmke u balloon nsceiiHion. one of the latae poles used in supporting the baiioon during its iuHation fell to the ground. Clyde' Obofholtke, 11 years old. *<►“ <' f I,w postmaster, mid Herschel Griffiths were .instantly killml. Ben Elrod will die and Millard Woods injured. . .