St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 June 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT? WALKERTON, ... INDIANA STOP BUYING SILVER. 1 THESENTIMENTOFMANY CONGRESSMEN. Exciting Scene at the Washington Inquest —California Bandits Rounded Up—Street Car Casualties at Dayton and Chicago— Many Appointed to Office. Oppose the Sherman Law. IN reply to a telegram sent from New York to members of both houses of Congress as to their attitude in regard to the Sherman law 122 have been heard from—lß Senators and 104 Representatives. Os this number 88 are in favor of the repeal, 25 are against the repeal and 8 are still undecided. Clerks Threaten Vengeance. A THRILLING sequel to the Ford Theater calamity was enacted Into Monday afternoon, when, for a time,

it looked as though an indignant and angry mob would seize Col. Frederick C. Ainsworth of the United States army and hang him to the nearest lamp-post. The brothers, fathers, sons, and other relatives and friends of

those recently sacrificed in thaGovernment death-tonp "Unsworth's life, who clamored fol „ a", the selfls it- had not ono O s tho possession and one of furors, Mi. H- Uv {tj of Washtbe most doubt that tho I r;™ I lynched him. The clerks consider I that, in his capacity of officer in charge, ( by ignoringthe dangerous character of ■ the building, Col. Ainsworth is responsible for the calamity, and that by his presence at the inquest he sought to intimidate witnesses whose testimony would be inimical to him. Appointments by the President. President Cleveland turned the wheel again Monday morning and

ground out another batch of appointments. The full list follows: James E. North, Collector of Internal Revenue for the district of Nebraska: Harry Alvan Hall. Attorney of the United ' States for the Western District of I Pennsylvania. Postmasters: Illinois— ' Willis L. Grimes. Batavia; Samuel P. Tufts, Centralia; Isaac Fielding, * Champaign; James S. Wilson, Mount 1 Carmel; John W. Potter. Rock Island. < Indiana—Joseph T. Dilley, Mitchell. Kansas—LouisSarbach. Holton:George

Van Cleave. Phillipsburg. Missouri ■ ■ Jacob D. Allen. Benton: S. W. Hurst, ' Tipton. Montana —John N. Harder, I Castle: F. W. Bueksen. Kalispel. South 1 Dakota—George C. Easier. Hill City. Many People Hurt. Car No. G 93 of the Ashland avenue I line, Chicago, in charge of Driver • Nicholas Janowski and Conductor John Olsen, left the track on the viaduct at , Sangamon and Kinzie streets Monday ' evening and crashed into the stone 1 curbing. The car ran *2OO feet down the thirty-eight-degree descent from the viaduct and was traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour when it was shivered against the stone curb-

ing. Half a bunded people WRyn oh tlio <*a r st'ffio'Hme of the accident. and of these one was perhaps fatally and a score more maimed and bruised. NEWS NUGGETS. JOSEPH BINN’S chemical works at Williamsburg, N. Y.. were burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Hobbs & Tucker, private bankers ! at Albany. Ga., have failed. Their de- I posits aggregated SBO.OM. John D. Rockefeller is reported 1 to have purchased the St. Luke's Hos- | pital property opposite his residence ' on Fifth avenue, New York Citv, for 1 $2,400,000. ' I Annie E. Murphy, or Doolittle, the 1 notorious woman forger, has been con- I victed at St. Cloud. Minn. The prisoner fainted when the verdict was announced. A motor car of the White Line Street Railway, Dayton. 0.. was struck and demolished at a railroad crossing. Martin Rudolph, an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home, was killed, and William Harkrider, the motorman, was seriously injured. Ten animals of a herd of blooded Jersey cattle belonging to Senator Red- J field Proctor, of Vermont, were found ! dead in their pasture, and a valuable ' bull from the herd of ex-Vice Presi- I dent Morton was found nearly dead: I and the belief is that the cattle were , poisoned. Six Australian boomerang throwers I who are en route to the World's Fair i and gave an exhibition at St. Louis, were all brought up in the police court the other morning. A negro gave them two bottles of whiskey. Two of the men quarreled over it and to settle the dispute began beating the two women in the troupe.

After ten months of lawlessness, with a record of killing three mon and 1 -- u several. .iT,rrrr~WaJ•' the ’ California bafidit. has been mortally wounded and jailed at Visalia, and hundreds of men are in pursuit of his partner, Evans, who abandoned his gun and took to flight, after being severely wounded. Peter Zauker. Joseph Maul, Mrs. — Burn and Mrs. Martin went out to the two-mile crib at Chicago in a row-boat. While at the pier, after the others had returned to the boat. Mrs. Martin attempted to step in and capsized it. The men succeeded in righting the boat,

but in the meantime the two women drowned. Gen. James A. Hall, of Damariscotta. Me., died suddenly on a train between Syracuse and Utica, N. Y. J. H. ROGERS, of Marshalltown. lowa, took poison upon the reappearance of a cancer, -which he supposed had been eradicated. Cardinal Gibbons, in an interview, declares himself in favor of opening the World’s Fair on Sunday. He says Catholics believe the Sabbath to lie not onlv a day of rest and religious obgervance, but also a day on w hicli innocent recreation is allowable.

EASTERN. Application has been made for a receiver for the New York Concert Company, which runs the Casino. The liabilities are $480,356. Potter & Potter, publishers of the New England Magazine and other publications at Boston, have failed, with liabilities of about $100,1.0 ’. Moody Merrill, a j rominent Boston man, is mysteriously missing, and his friends and creditors are extremely anxious to know his whereabouts. Aekoxavt Chas. Richmond’s parachute failed to work at Ticnton, N. J., and he fell 3,000 feet into a pend and was drowned. His home was at Springfield, 111. The Canal Street Bank at New York has decided to go into voluntary liquidation. because o' the re u.-al of the Shoe an 1 Lt ather Bank to act as its clearing agent. The tasting of the Coiu nbian Liberty Bell, which was to take place on Thursday ut Troy,N.Y., has b< en indell- । nitely postponed, owing to the break- ! ing of the edges of the mold. Du. Briggs t borts all h's Bresby- : terinn fr ends to <emain in the follow- । ship, and rally around Professor Henry P. Smith for the battle in the General I

Assembly at Saratoga next year. Morris Sewerin, doing business as । Edward Simon A Bros., trunk manu-1 facturer, at New jork, baa been closed j by the sheriff. His I'abilities nr© about ! r zx I — A..— ) Midi ;

$250.0 0 and actual assets $200,000. I "l proclamation asking guest* nor .vo.trr> hem • G.o o the money has to be paid over to the head porter. which is the same as giving it to the nnwrletor. Tin: National Bank o redemption I and the National Bank of Commerce, I two of Boston's most conservative i financial institutions, have been worked ( by a professional forger to tho extent i of $11,40.’. Josiah B. Kendall, a Poston teal estate dealer, has failed. His liabili-j ties are $279.4 if , while the assets are | value I at S33J 00 and a disputed claim ; against the 80-ton Water Po ver ( om- : puny for sll,O m. Without debate and with but one j

disst nting vote the House in the Massachusetts Legislature passed a bill to revoke tho charier of the Hay State Giu Company, unless its issue of $4,500,( It t i watered stock le cam e’ed. Stansbury J. Willey, of Wilming-j i ton, Del., Supieme Master of the Ex- j chequer of the Knights of Pythias, is I ’ to be expelled from the order, and pro- ' , ceedlngs, both civil and rimlnal, are •to be begun pguinst him. The order ’ has lost -80,000, al told, through hie : operations.

i The immense coal trestles and iron . storing she Is of the Philadelphia and I Reading, at Buffalo, were almost de- ; stroyed by fire. The iron sho I contnlno 1 ! about (0,000 tons of anthracite coal which continued to burn fiercely. Nearly I 100 coal cars were destroyed. The fire ! was started by a spark from a lo onto j । tive. Loss, ssoo,coil; insurance un- I I known. Tho stables of the Winnipeg, I I Man., Street Railway Company were I destroyed by the. Sixty-one horses , perished, Loss, $20,000. WESTERN. Abraham Bailey, grain commission

■ Aiorchant at Duluth, has disappeared. V. L. Gilliland, of Linesville, Da., committed sui dde by taking laudanum at Alliance, Ohio. Burned-gut Fargo residents and . business men are already beginning the work of rebuilding. W. W. Johnson A Co., of Cincin- j nati, are reported to have withdrawn i from the whisky trust. | The prospective yield oj Kansas wheat ' is estimated at 25,000,000 bushels, or 33 ! per cent, of a full crop. i John D. Nicholas, formerly em- । ployed on several Chicago newspapers, , committed suicide at Denver. The Bradstreet-Thurber Company's furniture store at Minneapolis was burned, causing a loss of $1(30,000. Henry Schmidt was arrested in St. Louis, for annoying Mis-, Julia Uhlbicht by persistent proffers of marriage. Reports from Miner’s Delight, the , new gold field in Wyoming, in lit ate the ’ finding of large bodies of free milling ore. Tur. new gold discovery in Fremont । County, Wyoming, is reported to exceed . in richness ihe deposits found in Cali- ( fomia. M estern counties of Kansas are now overwhelming the Adjutant Gene:al for t cannon to use in rain-making experiments. I Moodington, Ohio, was destroyed by a cyclone. Mrs. Mary Smith was i killed and a number of persons inijured. The Loyal Legion, a quadrennial congress in St. Paul, Minn., he’d its reunion. Archbishop Ireland delivered an address. 4 The suspension is announced of the ; Bank of Spokane Falls, Wash. It has a

paid-up capital of $150,000 and a surulus of $125,000. Jesse J. Phillips has been elected' to succeed the late Supreme Court I Judge Seholfield in the Second Illinois j Judicial District. Ex-Gov, Chase of Indiana is one of j those indicted in connection with the | wrecking of the Greentown Bank- one i of the Dwiggins system. Filly 1,2(W doctors from all parts of ; the country were present at the open- § ing of the session of the American Med- ' ical Association in Milwaukee.

I At a wedding in Hartington, Neb., ) | John Keoch killed Henry Lansing. ; Friends of I ansing threaten to lyn hi Keoch, who is in jail at Hartington. Tre latest move in the whisky trust war is the refusal of Samuel Woolner, at Peoria, to deliver goods from the warehouse on the orders of the trust. At the convention of the Sixth Division of the National Association of Postal Clerks in Lincoln, Neb., C. A. Guthrie, of Chicago, was elected President. Charles Miller, an East Chicago (Ind.) hotelkeeper, has disappeared. He took with him a valuable team of

— horses and a considerable! sum or money. Otho Stevens, Mrs. Emm| Morrow, and Luther W. Turner were drowned near Spring Yalley, Minn, llfeir team plunged into Deer Creek, fepgetdng their carriage. Zimri Dwiggins has been, indicted by a special grand jury at Kokomo, Ind., charged with embezzlement in connection with the collapse of the Greentown Bank. Amelia C. Edwards, who is said to have been a female lobbyist of the Minnesota Legislature, has sued Senator Henry Keller, of Sauk Center, for SIOO,OOO damages for assault. July wheat reache 1 63 cents on tho Chicago Board of Tra io Thursday, an un arallelel price. It was cents per bushel lower than ever known since the Board of Trade was formed! ' A rich vein of lead ore has be4n discovered at Galena, 111., while meOjwere sinking a well for a creamery.* The creamery company Haims Mineral rights, and litigation will fol!ow| ; The Edinburg (Ind.) sturoti worts I closed and will not resume onwations. i It is in the possession of the a trust.” i The Edinb irg cabinet woiks w® close I lor six months, owing to duU^’ 8 * ° r trade. ,Jr , 1 , r. i . . large । Gov. Boies has api olnto^» ln . t ho 1 de’egation to represent lo»^t3B»b., ; convention to be held at ; to discuss the plan for I of railroad from ? y "Tfe’ representatives miners held an executive consultation 1 in Pittsburg, han., but failed tol reach a conclusion and adjourned toj meet Monday. Both sides are BtubboiS). but there is no bitterness. ’ •Julius Balke, a pioneer h i the ■ bllllard-tabhx manufacture, died i'ues- । day a' Cincinnati, aged 63 years He had just returne 1 from Europe, wl ither i he went to r. cover his health. He was one of the founders of tho Brunsvick-Daike-Cullender Company. Tim Duke of Veragua and party reached ('olumbus, Ohio. Thursday, and were received by the Mayor. In the afternoon there was a parade of 1.1,000 school < hildren in honor of the Duke, and in the evening he was the auest of the Columbus Club at a banquet By a vote of two to one the ("nited States Court at Chicago has decided to ■ grant an Injunction closing tho gates of * । the World's Fair on Sunday. Judges i Woods and Jenkins’ were in favor of ' i Sunday closing, while Judge Grossrup ■ rend a dissenting o; inion. Lieut. Gov. Damils has started aj fight on tho railroads running from Kansas to Chicago because of the excessive rates < barged ; assengors. Ho advocates the organization of an array I of 30,00” Kanaans who will boycott the j railroads and keep sway from tho Fair. I F.x-Licut. Gov. Felt, Republiean, indorses tho scheme, and an effort wll 1m« made to keep the j cople from Chi- । i ago. Fargo in it^ hour of need appeals to I the American people for aid for its hundreds of destitute citizens, bo widespread and ke« n is tho tress that the centribut on» fn-m North and Houtb Dakota are only a drop in the bucket People w^o owned homes have no shelter except that hastilv provided them by the people of Fargo. Their donation* cannot last more than a day or two. Clothing, i food, building material, and carpenters • are earnestly desired. The total loesis i ' now placed at $.3,5(>0,(K 0, with Jl.gi t,i 000 insurance. Near Lemont. HL. in a conflict Frl- < day between strikers and employes of । the drainage canal six or mote men were killed and a score wounded. Theie were two battles, both being caused by ' the colored workmen, atmed and led by the couti actors, bring into crowds, of strikers ftom Lemont and Lockport who were marching unarmed to Romeo to hold a lonferenee. A warranty has been issued for the arrest of J. ■ Locker, a contractor, who was one of the leaders. At midnight, as a result; of tho critical situat on. and in response I to telegrams from the sheriffs of Cook, Will, and DuPuge bounties, Gov. Alt- : geld ordered Hie Second and Third Kegim. nts of the Illinois National Guard to the scene of the trouble. Four: of those who were wounded will probably die. SOUTHERN. Dr, McGlynn, it is now reported, has not tailed for Rome, but is in retreat in the 1 rappist monastery near Lexington, Ky. D. B. Loxeman, the heaviest retail dry goods dealer at t hattanooga, has tiled a deed of trust to protect his creditors. His liabilities are placed at $150,(.00. M. A. Lawrence and a Mr. Oden-I heimer had a diflleulty at Spartanburg, ! S. C., in which the lie was passed, and | it was deciiled to settle the n after on ' the field of honor. Lawrence was shoU^ in the right leg, and the wound is comw sidered serious, < ' WASHINGTON The Treasury Department has cnshei® the warrants for the Choctaw-Chicka-T i saw land claims, amounting to $3,- 1 OOO,” HI. Tut: extradition treaty between the j j I nited States and Lussia has at length ' I been ratified by the formal exchange of i I notes between the two governments. I Citizens o' Washington. D. C., are | preparing to observe the centennial ani niversary of the laying of the corner- ' stone of the Capitol Building, Sept. 18, । 1793. Secretary Hoke Smith says that if allotment of lands to Indians in the 1 । Cherokee Strip is improperly controlled I | by speculators, a new allotment may be ; i made, which will delay the opening of j । the strip. The Ford Theater Building at Wash- i j ington, I). C., used a‘S an annex to the j i Pension Department, collapsed without I warning, Friday, while over 500 clerks I end laborers were inside. The first es- । timates were that from fifty to seventy- ' five people met death. The accident 1 was due to criminal carelessness. Workmen were excavating under the building for an electric lighting plant, . and supports were not provided. The President made a large number 1 of appointments Thursday, among them |

being twenty to the consular service. The principal appointments were: Murray Vandiver, of Maryland; internal revenue collector for the district of Maryland. Joseph G. Donnelly, of Wisconsin, consul General at Neuvo Larado, Mexico; Van Leer Polk, of Tennessee, Consul General at Calcutta; Parshall Thatcher, of Michigan, Consul at Windsor, Ont.; Alex. B. Rosenthal, of New York, Consul at Leghorn, Italy; Win. H. Jacks, of Indiana, Consul at London, Ont.; Pulaski F. Hyatt, of Pennsylvania, Consul at San lago de Cuba; Jacob A. Child, of Missouri, ( onsul at Hankow, China; Louis B. L’eltaliata, of Maryland, Consul at Messina, Italy. POLITICALThe Ohio Republican State Convention at Columbus renominated Governor McKin'ey by acclamation. Gov. McKinley’s n uno was presented by Co'. Bob Nevins, of Dayton. and seepnded by Senator J. W. Nh ho's.of Belmont. There were no other nominations, and the Governor was declared the nominee, amid a scene of wild enthusiasm. A committee was appointed to conduct him to tho hall, and a few moments later he made his up; earance. He was greeted with cheers, prolonged for several minutes. He commenced his address by accepting tbo nomination, and expressed bls gratitude and appro, iation. The old <lgk«l whh nntnotl entire, and the platform adopto.t .levle. o<» r.„ ,1... !,o«»ent. 1 InrilT

t iar»ii. ’ J FOREIGN. ' Cholera Is reported to be spreading tjin Asiatic Turkey. । .Edward Henry, for eight years tho Paris manager of tho Remington TypeJ writing Company, is rej orted to have I' disnpiHvtro L The Pope has sent a message to the Catholic bishops of the I nited States upholding the opinion of the majority of i the American episco. ate on the school question. James Gordon Bi \ni rr. proprietor o, tl.o New A oik Hera d. was dangerously njured on Wednesday in Paris. W! an ho fell from a conch on which ho whs riding and was so severely hurt tnnt medical attention was at on e required. His condition crowing worse. Doctors Fob n and Ledent i ; erb-rmed an operation, w th a m. w of relieving him. but hi* condition Is now daDgerI ous nnd the doctors declare Hat it is | critkal. IN GENERAL Thi Travelers' Protective AssociaI ticn has elected the*” onieors: President. John A. Lee. St. I m is; Recrctarv, Lewis T. Lebeauine, St. I ouis. Mus. Frank Leslie, who was to j have sailed for Europe, ha* postponed j her trip because the decision in her dtvoren suit against Wild® has not yet । been rendered. J. A. Edson has been promoted to i General Superintendent of the Cotton Belt Hoad, vice \\. B. Doddridge, reeenUy appointed General Manager of the Missouri Pacific. Tbe whisky trust !as > xecutod a k mortgage for O H!,o n< In favor of the jpcntrnl Trust Company of New York to mBVO the new inwue of t on-l > notlior the directory. John Smith of Lindsay, Mat Norris of Stoics Bay, Robert Mowatt of Hepworth, and Henry Whitfield of Medford, । towns in the vicinity of Toronto, Ont., were drowned Tuesday night by a rowboat springing a leak and sinking. Following is the standing of the clube of the National League W. 1.. Fc. w L. Fc. Pittsburg » 13 ■-■n New York is 1* .500 Pbllxltlp'la.’.! l.t .fl* Washington it 1* Brooklyn.. 21 14 .g<> Cincinnati in .■ 444 Beaton . « is Jt>s Chicago 14 20 412 Cleveland 16 l < .N. St Louts 13 to Aja Baltimore 1# IT Jtb Louisville . 4 22 .15* The first ac epted expression since he was suspended for heresy by the General Assembly of the l'r« sbyterian Church is the letter published m tho Evangelist, a religious newspaper which may be regarded as an organ of the Briggs wing of the Presbyterian Church. In his letter I>r Briggs tays 1 no one should fepl obliged to retire from tho Presbyterian Church on account of the decision of the last Assembly. A minority of the church, he says, has violated the constitution and overridden the -afeguards of Presbyterian law and precedent. The majority i should rally and use every lawful ■ metho 1 to undo the damage which has ' been done to the fair fame of Bresby- ’ terfanlsm. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Catti.e— Common to Prime f) 25 '6 6OT : Hogs— Shipping Grade* « <»• (5 7 00 i Sheep— Fair to Choice. .. 4 <0 5 so 1 Wheat— No. 2 Spring C 5 @ 6>5 Corn— No. 2 . ... 3* ;ij Oats— No. 2 23 30 Rye— No. 2 v* e 50 1 Butter— Choice Creamery IS.^csS ; Eggs— Fresh 13)t@ 1454 Potatoes— New. per bu 70 iS 60 INDIANAPOLIS. LCaTTLE— Shipping 325 550 IlloGs—Choice L ght 3 50 @ 7 00 I SHfcrp—Common to Prime 3 On jl 4 50 LjWHEaV. No. 1 .. rer cn'J Ji— Wb ^ Ldvis;^^ “ , a 00 5 oo ra Rw HEAT-No. 2 Red 63 <ls 64 CORN—No. 2 36 <1? 87 i Oats— No. 2 27 & 28 । Rye— No. 2 '• 62 53 : CINCINNATI. • Cattle 3 oo c® 5 25 I HC G< 8 CO e<) 6 60 I Sheep 3 oo 5 50 i Wheat— No. 2 Red 62’2^ 6354 I Corn— No. 2 40 et 42)a | OATS—No. 2 Mixed 31 6$ 32 Rye-No. 2 57 ® W DETROIT. Cattle 3 oo @ 5 on Hogs 3 no @ 7 50 SHEEP 3 00 4 25 Wheat— No. 2 lied 65 @ 66 Corn— No. 2 Yellow 40 @ 4t | Oats— No. 2 White 34 35 TOLEDO. 1 Wheat— No. 2 C5U@ GS 1 ^ 1 : Corn— No. 2 Yellow 38 ei 39 i Oats— No. 2 White 30 31 i Rye 52 @ 64 BUFFALO. ; Cattle— Common to Prime.. 3 50 @5 50 | Hogs —Best Grades 4 no 7 25 I Wheat —No. I Hard 73 @ 74 No. 2 Red 67’i@ 685 j MIL WAV KEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring 63 @ G 4 Corn— No. 3 35 @ 36 OATS—No. 2 White 32 cs 33 Rye— No. 1 51 @ 53 Barley— No. 2 57 na 69 Pork —Mess 20 09 @2O 60 NEW YORK. Catti.e 3 no @ 5 76 Hogs • oo i® BfO Sheep 3co <g) 6 oo Wheat— No. 2 Red 73 @ 74 Corn —No. 2 47- @ 48 Oats —Mixed Western 37 (& 89 I Butter —Creamery 18 66 21 i PoßK—New Mess 21 00 @2l 50

FOUR DIE IN NO. 539.1 GRISLY RECORD OF ONE ROOM AT THE PALMER. Revivalist Moody Holds a Novel Service— Complicated Sunday-Closing QuestionBusiness Circles Recovering Tone—Cordage Trust Not Killed —Are Given Offices. Suicides' Room. Four persons have committed suicide at room No. 539 of the Palmer House, Chicago. Two others have been found in the same room overcome by gas, tut who eventually recovered. One of these shot himself a weak later in New York, "while the other declared when ho

came to his senses that was glad he didn’t succeed in putting an end to his life. The four people who ended their existence in this famous room were not victims of anj' accident. They left behind them proof sufficient to convince their friends that death was courted and they in each cast went out of this life Ly moans of gas. People have committed suicide in other rooms of this hotel since it was built, lut no other instance is recorded wherein more than ono person died in this manner in the same room. Hvan|g4*ltam in a Circus Ten*. , Beneath the undulating canvas of tho big Forcpaugh circus tent on tho la.k«* front at ('hienuo, KvangeHst t. Dwight 1.. Moody stood Sunday morn-

ing. and to the multitude of people gathered si out him he told the old, old story. It was a novel situation, both for the preacher and tie <ongr - gation. In every dii ection were the implements of tho circus and its । rattle and dash and excitement. From the menagerie tent adjoining came occasionally tho rumbling sound of a lion s suppressed roar, mingled with the trumpeting of an elephant or the sharp bark of a hyena. Behind the vast concourse of listening humanity wore housed tho horses, those trained to tricks, and unused, as also were the other and wilder animals, to music not pro luced b/ a bras-i^banl. “Nearer, My God, to J hee, ung by tlnui-unds of earnest voices, was no.v to the captive creatures. And perhaps it was’ the novelty that in a measure subdued tho roar- an I si ricks ami barks t! at seem ut othi r tin es never to be entirely absent from inside those canvas wa is. Fully 15,P00 people were present. I ncte s itn'« Servant . Thu President has made the following iqipointments; ei.i'.on G. < gwlhi.i of Louisiana, to be I’'l'm> Auditor of thi Trexarv for thePoMo.lk c liopartnvn’ . B.st, iphiis O. Randall of Ala ania. to m> <olnetor of Internal Revenue for the District Alabama; Charles E. Gorn an of Kh< de Island, to be Attorney <>f th" I nited Mates for the D.strict of Rhode Island; Nor oroc I N liobmson of Louisiana, to be Assistant solicitor, f the i rcasury. I’eter II Pern, t of In Hanai oils, Ind.: Joshua Hutchins, of Athens Ga., and i lem V. Rogers of Indian 1 eriitory to be appraisi rs of the value of houses lends, or Iniproventcnta oecuI *''* n ruder <>r imamhorlzed persons within t. e ( iieroke-outlet, undirthe provisijj of tae ret of < onar -ss. approved March 3, To to consuls of the United Mates: Warner h. Ktnkead of Kentucky, at South Ilaji tji In_• . Norfleet Harris of Alabama, at Leeds l.t g ; Lucien J. «».kerof Alabama a i o r ic Ireland; Marcelhi- L. Davis of Arkatisa • at frlnlda t. West Indies; Lars S. Renna of lowa at Rotterdam. Tho Netherlands; EdJ r dJ’ownes of Connecticut, at Amsterdam I he Net h-'ilandn. I’nn:. I W Maia t i of North Dakota to be bontr.r. Australia. - Carri k • Truat Kr<tr’:iniz it ion. New Yohk dispn'ch: Tho long delayed plan of cordage trust reorganization is out at last. Th> re arc to bo u . 00.100 6ier • ent. 1 onda authorized, of which $1,00(1,(100 arc to be reserved. The $5,00 ',O (i arc to be issued 11 85 and w 11 be underwiitten by c.< ■’ *nrs at I'd. The preferred stock wi 1 be asked to c< ntribute 2>'i iwr < ent. and the common stock 10 per cent, in cash, receiving therefor new pieferred stock. Tlie stockholders have Ihe option of un• ndering s'i per cent, of their stock in lieu of the cash contribution. Tbe bon 1 issue will m r e ti an provide for the outstanding obligations, while the $3,000,000 derived from the assessments will provide an ample working ca ital. It is also j ro os. d to reduce the interest iharge- of more than $400,000 a I year to alKiut $3('0,000. Wh.si’ sit I. >w Kates. IL G. Dun A- Co.’s weekly review of trade says: i,i< severe depre-sio s < f a week ago. which culminated in tight money and ; numerous failures, has le ui followed by ■ some re.iovery KepoTs that definite acj tl< n by Congress on the money question । has been assured have done much to cause I the better feeling. But tbe stringency at Chicago and elsewhere has forced realizing on the unprecedented stocks of wheat, so that the lowest prices < ver knoAn have been made here and at the West. This has helped extorts and In other respects monetary conditions are distinctly more favorable. Though no radical change in underlying conditions has occurred there is more ho; efulness and some recovery from tbe extreme condition of credit. Still Not Settled. Sunday closing of th • World’s Fair now stands in th s condition; Judge Stein, of a State court, granted an injunction to restrain the auihoriti. s from closing; the United States Court of Appeals, by Judges Wood and Jenkins, granted another to res rain them from opening, Judge Grosiscup T’Kiof .1 si-til co "Fiill«t granted an order staying the latter injunction temporarily. Within a few I days Justice Fulbr will call in other ; Judges and the matter be finally settled. Einbe-z. e - Arrested. Henky K. O’Brien was arrested at i Akron, 0., charged with embezzling ■ $l,lOO from the American Wringer Com- ’ pany of Port Huron, Mich The Louisville Evening Post has been bought by Bichard W. Knott, for thirteen years on the editorial staff of the Courier-Journal, B. S. Veech, President ' of the Farmers an 1 Drovers’ Bank, John M. Atherton, the distiller, and others. Ex-Gov. Alpheus Fedch was reelected president of the Michigan State Pioneer Society at its nineteenth ani nual meeting in Lansing. The Marquis of Barbola was taken with a fainting attack at Columbus, Ohio, and was restore I with difficulty, Lieut. William P. Bay, U. S. N., commander of Ihe United States coast survey steamer McArthur, committed suicide at Mare Island Naval Hospital by cutting his throat. Lieut. Bay was transferred to the naval hospital a short ' time ago suffering from nervous prostration.

! SCORES MEET DEATffi AWFUL DISASTER AT THE NA-' TIONAL CAPITAL. Ford's Old Theater Collapses—Over Fiv®, Hundred Government Employes in the' Ruins—Hardly a Man Escaped Injury-,’ Intense Excitement and Confusion. Awful Scene of Death. Death visited tho national capital Friday in its most terrible iorm and reaped a mighty harvest. Ford’s Theater. where a littlejver a quarter of a century ago a tragedy startled the nation, was the scene of the Hack angel’s vis.t. Without a moment’s warning the building collapsed, and 500 Govern-,

ment clerks and a cellar full of laborers were buried in the'awful mass of w eck-; age which was piled in the cellar. The front half of all three floors fell, carrying everything to the bott m. For a moment all was svill. Then th© air was split by the shrieks and groans of tbe fr ghtened, woun el, and dying’ hundreds who, like a mass of worms, struggled, twisted, and fought to fre© themselves from ore another and from heavy iron beans and timbers and furniture and government records which pinned them to their places. The people in the neighborhood were fqr the mo* ment stunue 1. The h iror of it all had robbed them of tl eir sen es. Then in a > few moments, but what to the wretches i pinioned in deaths embrace ’ the truth burst upon tirufr^befud-

> ' ————— —— I 1 'iff 081 FORK S THEATER. die 1 bra ns, and they joined their cries with the unfortunates within the collapsed bu Iding. Then, dividing, some rushed for help, some ran to the sinkhole of death itself to lend their hands, while others, with selfish regard for. their own safety and curiosity, stood where they were to look upon the scene. WitV the speed of the e'ectric messenger the news seemed to fly from man to n an throughout the city, and by the time the first ambulance reached the street that fronte 1 the theater the thoroughfare was choke! with people. It was like I reading into a mob to get through the crow 1 to ihe building, for many there had fathers, husbands, brothers, boas and sweethearts in th© wreck, nnd they fought to retain the places they had game I and fought to get nearer. Meanwhile the cries of the wretches within the trap—for it was but little else—were becoming weaker. Many whose voices had blended with the re-t nf, o—* >— • ■-> j had fainted from fatigue. Some in their terror jumped from the third story windows and were crushed into a mass of lifeless pulp on the concrete below. At the time this dispatch was sent ost it was impossible to tell how many had been killed outright, but the number was conservatively placed at sev-enty-five. Manj- others will die. Awful Tmg e <> IFebrU. The tangle of stuff inside of the building that bad to be cleared away in getting at todies was terrible. Girders, bricks, beams, desks, furniture, all were inextricably piled together. Several hundred men were at work clearing away, heedless of the danger that menaced them from the possibility of falling walls. It was a difficult as well as dangerous task, but there was far less confusion than one would, have expected. Men turned pale and sick at the horrible spectacle presented by the injured. General Schofield promptly ordered two troops of cavalry irom Fort Meyer, just across the river, and two companies of infantry from the Arsenal to the scene of the disaster. The Secretary of the Navy also ordered out all the naval medical officers stationed there, and opened the naval hospital to receive the injured. The Commandant of the navy yard was ordered to render all assistance in his power, and every hospital in the city was called into requisition to care for the wounded. Cause of the Accident. An investigation of the cause of the accident discovered that it was apparently duo to criminal carelessness. A number of laborers were at work beneath the fiist floc r excavating, for an electric riant The building rested cn underpinning and the earth, and as the earth was dug away the pressure of the building rested on the unsupported beams of the first floor. The weight proved too much, and the floors collapsed and fell into the excavation, burying the laborers an 1 clerks beneath The building was acquired by th© GOVemincnv eomv vvuve <*o^ ot its historical associations, and, although it had been condemned as unsafe and unsuitable for the purpose for which it was occupied, sentinu nt kept it unchanged. The floors were heavily loaded with the records of the pension division of the War Der artment. Th© clerks employed there were all men. Attachments have been served upon all pro; erty of the Northern Pacific Elevator Company in North Dakota, on claims aggregating $400,090, brought at the instance of banks in Montreal, Minneapolis and Duluth. There are fifty elevators belong ng to this company in North Dakota. Denial is made at the Department of State of the story that the British Ambassador has demanded reparation, pecun ary ana I y apology, for the arrest of the mate of the British steamer Nigretia at New Orleans on May 5. It is admitted that the subject is a matter of correspondence. The Bev. Hugh Hawes’ life of Sir Morel Mackenzie has been published intact, despite tho efforts of tho Empress Frederick to suppress the pare concerning Mackenzie’s tieatment ol Emperor Freder.ck.