St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 December 1895 — Page 6

£hc Jnbtpenbenl I W. A. ENBJLiKY, WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. El ...— — UNCLE SAM IS THE MAN CHEERING FOR WAR AT A MEETING FOR PEACE. Cleveland's Message Applauded in Spite of All the Speakers—Monroe Doctrine Is an Almighty Popular Bit of Sentiment-Canal Accident. Gotham Is Patriotic. The men in New York who are arguing Ie favor of a backdown .from the great principle of American liberty embodied in the Momoe t,UdT -J — advocate a miserable desertuTiVl^TKr. cutive at a moment when he has tafeiftF firm stand against greedy British encroachment, received an unlooked for and hearty rebuff at Cooper Union Monday night. It was a meeting called in the interest of peace at which Henry George, Ernest Crosby,the Rev. Dr. Lyman .1. Abbott, and others were advertised to make addresses. But peace was not within the walls of Cooper Union. A vast • throng of patriotic men and women, old and young, proud of American liberty and despising English arrogance,collected there ready* and determined to uphold with their sentiment the stand which the government at Washington has taken. There were others there, too. ready to applaud the overtures of those who claim the Monroe doctrine plays no part in the present controversy. But their applause was often unheard in the storm of hisses and catcalls that the remarks of the speakers brought forward. Every sentence uttered by the speakers was received with storms of hisses and men were on their feet in half a dozen parts of the hall at once endeavoring to lodge a protest against the sentiment expressed from the speakers’ rostrum. It proved that the vast majority in Nevi York are stanch supporters of the government. It showed that while there is no unreasonable desire for war, no petty jingoism, opposition to the government at Washington is regard cd by them as treason. A Blast of Death. Two were killed, five .others r.o badly injured they may die, and two others seriously hurt by a premature explosion of dynamite Monday on Sec. 14 of the Chicago drainage canal. All the victims of the disaster were laborers under the foremanship of Richard Powers. According to the statements of drainage canal employes the gang bad just comjdeted a drilling and had filled sixteen holes of the blast with 250 pounds of dynamite. Investigation indicated the accident was due to the carelessness or misfortune of John Bowen, a workman, whose duty it was to explode the blasts. Bowen had prepared for a blast by placing the electrical machine used in exploding the dynamite in the bed of the ditch. To test the machine he then inserted an explosive cap and turned away for a moment. Coming back ho pulled the lever and there was a terrific explosion. Oneafter another the charges of dynamite placed along the face of the rock blew up with reports distinctly’ heard at Joliet, seven miles away. The laborers were in a frenzy at the killing and mangling of their comrades ami. it is said, started after Bowen with the avowed intention of wreaking vengeance on him. Ik' was arrested by the drainage police before the mob caught him. however, and locked up. It is usual on the canal to give a danger signal before exploding a blast by heavy notes from a steam signal. No signal was blown Monday, however. Wall Street Rapidly Recovering. Wall street is rapidly recovering from Its scare, ami the feeling Monday was almost up to the normal mark. This was due to the receipt of early cables showing an advance in American stocks at Loudon and the action of the New York ClearingHouse Association in giving the clearinghouse committee of the Stock Exchange authority to issue clearing-house loan certificates to an unlimited extent. Only one engagement of gold for shipment was reported, and that was for only $250,000, by L. Van Hoffman & Co. The Phoenix National Bank deposited SIOO,OOO in gold with the subtreasury in exchange for currency. NEWS NUGGETS. A dispatch via Madrid, from Colon, Province of Matanzas, Cuba, confirms the report that Spanish troops have routed 4.000 insurgents on the Calmena River. One hundred of the enemy were killed. The first blow in the conflict between the United States and Great Britain was struck at Brooklyn Sunday, when a party of Irish-Amerieans and ten English sailors ended a dispute about Venezuela with a free tight. During an attack on a number of cars at Philadelphia. William 11. Matthews and Samuel G. Crossley, two motormen, who were in a mob of strike sympathizers, were shot, the latter probably fatally, by a policeman on one of the cars that was attacked. The cars were badly damaged. By an explosion of gas at Shoenberger's rolling mill at Pittsburg eight men were burned, one of them fatally. The men were working at the bottom of a blast furnace. When the gas exploded it forced Ilie hot slag which accumulates in the cupola over the sides. Before the men could get out of the way the hot metal poured out over them. S. M<-Dowell. aged 13. is in jail at Logansport, Ind., for heating bis mother, who is a widow 64 years old, living near Georgetown. Iler right thigh was broken. she was bruised ami cut about the bead ami neck, ami injured internally so that recovery is impossible. The outrage was committed because she refused to give the young scamp $5. It will be difficult to prevent a lynching when She dies. A club of bachelors was formed at Corrysville, Ohio, a few weeks ago, married men being denied membership and no women allowed. The young women looked over the personnel of the organization and have now instituted tin Anti-Mar-riage League. They are pledged not to permit attentions from the bachelors and to crush their club out of existence. Charles W. Raymond, ex-President, and Edward M. Raymond, ex-Cashier of the Middletown National Bank, Philadelphia, who were found guilty of misapplying the funds of the bank, were sentenced to seven years and five months

EASTERN. — The steamship Spree stranded Thursday morning at 5:10 on Warden Ledge, near Totland Bay. Efforts made during the day to float her proved fruitless. She had to remain on the ledge until the next tide, at midnight. Her passengers, who number about ninety in the saloon, remained on board. Erastus Wiman is a free man again, the New York court of appeals having sustained the opinion of the supreme court reversing the judgment of conviction and sentence of five and one-half years. Wiman was indicted for forgery, but it was shown that he was convicted and sentenced for overdrawing his account with R. G. Dun & Co. Five men were killed and six injured Wednesday morning by the explosion of a steampipe on the American Line steamship St. Paul while the vessel lay at her dock at the foot of Fulton street, North River, New York. The dead are: James Fawns, assistant engineer, of England; Manning, fourth assistant engineer; Robert Campbell, machinist, New York; :^l}'nm e, machinist, Hoboken; oi^auiel x^T'dlion, machinist’s helper, Brooklyn. The injured: Frank Vespers, third assistant engineer, Roxbury, Mass.; Andrew Heard, storekeeper, Scotland; Dunham, machinist, England; A. Fogel, cleaner, Scotland; Edward Wischcrt, engineer. At the time of the incident, shortly after 7 o'clock, there were thirty men of the crew in the tireroom and ten in the engine-room. The main steampipe, which is three feet in diameter, runs from the engine to the fireroom. It was this pipe which exploded. The main stop-valve was blown out. The accident is believed to have been caused by a flaw in the pipe. Preparations were being made for the sailing of the vessel at 11 o'clock, but fortunately none of the passengers was aboard the vessel. The officers say the necessary repairs will take at least a week. There was a panic in the New York stock market Friday. The President’s special message to Congress on the Vene zuehi affair had the effect of frightening the foreign investors -especially the English—in American securities. Before the Eastern markets opened cables from London evinced that there was a semi panic in the American department on the British Bourse. Stocks and bonds were thrown on the market regardless of the price and buyers were very few even at enormous concessions. At the dose of the exchange in Chapel court the ’'Yankees” were thoroughly subverted. Tito general list fell from 2 to <> points below the final New York quotations. In Wall street the effect of London's dosing figures was simply demoralizing. The important and active properties opened nil the way from 1 to 3 jioints off and up to . noon continued to fall. Each successive cable indicated still lower figures, and it was finally reported that many “jobb'-rs" on the London Stock Exchange had re fused to accept orders. Tne unfavorable news was coincident with preparations ' by the gold-shipping houses lor Saturday’s exports to Europe. The initial trading was highly sensational, and declines were made all along the line, extending to To per cent. A sinister feature was an advance in rates for call money to 15 per cent., collecting the calling of loans. Three failures were reported on the New York Stock Exchange and one on the Consolidate^! Exchange. Only one, that of S. S. Sands A Co., was of financial importance The railway mid uiiscella , neons bond market was also demoralized, declines ranging up to 15 per cent. It was rumored that a single house hail dumped $400,000 of Reading bonds on the market. ’Wisconsin Central trust re ceipt S'scored the extreme loss noted ami in the leading speeulatives the recessions extended to 11% per cent., in Kansas and Texas seconds, to 47%. Around 12:30 the selling pressure abah'd and iv coverios were made in the stock market from the lowest extending to 3 per cent. Bonds were relatively active. WESTERN. Ilans 11. Koehler, wine dealer at San Francisco, has failed. The liabilities arc $379,827. His assets consist of one suit of clothes. President Mayer, of the Baltimore and Ohio, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted, but he will retain the office until his successor shall be elected. Mexico has granted a concession to George E. Detwiler, of Chicago, and Emil B. Barry, of Boston, to build a railway along the Pacific coast from Tehuantepec to the Guatamala frontier. They get bout $5,00(1,0(1(1 subsidy. In Denver, Colo., fire broke out in the Riche Block, a two-story building at Kith and Curtis streets. The stores of Estes Shoe Company. Babcock Bros., hatters and furriers, and Tucker Bros., furnishing goods, were gutted. William I*. Harrison, sen of Carter 11. Harrison, the late Mayor of Chicago, arrived in San Francisco from an extended trip to the antipodes. During his stay on the Samoan Islands over twenty-five individuals were devoured by the cannibals. By accident he escaped the same fate. The second floor of the Palace Clothing Company's big store on Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, collapsed just before noon Friday. Gale Walters, a clerk, is dead, and, a dispatch says, others may be in the ruins. The store is ti double front, and the entire right half of it collapsed from the fourth floor to the basement. The building is an old one, which was remodeled for the Palace Company's use. About forty years ago a wagon train loaded with valuable goods mid about SBO,OOO in gold and silver, en route from the-City of Mexico to the United States, was attacked near Rincon, Mexico, by a band of brigands and nil the members of the wagon train were killed and the booty seized. The robbers were overtaken a few days later by a detachment of sol diers and all were killed. The money and stores had been secreted by the outlaws and could not be found. Wednesday Rafael Yillegas was prospecting for mineral ten miles south of Rincon, when he came upon the entrance to a cave. He explored the cave, and found several sacks tilled with the money taken by the exterminated band of robbers. Never in the history of Chicago has such a storm descended upon the city as that which raged from Tuesday to Friday night. From Winnetka to East Chicago, and from the lake to the Desplaines River, the land was a vast swamp, interspersed here and there with miniature lakes, some of them a dozen feet or more deep. Steadily falling rain, amounting to over seven inches on the level, flooded the city and surrounding country, until the sewers became incapable of carrying off the water. Hardly an electric car line was running, the tracks being under from one to five feet of water everywhere; people in the suburbs were driven from the first floors of their dwellings to the upper stories; the furnace fires of hotels, residences and big manufactories were

extinguished by the waters which pene. I Irated to the collars; and the tracks of the steam railroads were in such a condition instructions were given to each engineer to make his way carefully through the low-lying country where the water is high over the rails. In the downtown district of flic city collars were flooded, and at many establishments valuable goods were in such danger of damage men were kept working nights removing them out of reach of the water. SOUTHERN. Governor M. J. Foster was renominated by the Louisiana Democratic State convention. The sugar bounty law has been declared to be constitutional by Judge Pardee in the I’nited States Circuit Court at New Orleans. At 9 o’clock Thursday morning, shortly after the day force numbering sixtyseven men had gone on duty at the Cumnock coal mines, six miles west of Raleigh, N. C., a fire-damp explosion occurred, killing, it is believed, forty-three men. • A largely’ attended convention in the interest of the Nieprauga Canal project opened at Jacksonville, Fla,, Wednesday, . with ox-GiMfcU^ P. Fleming presiding. The object of flm convention, which is the first of the kind to be held in two years, is to take steps toward inducing Congress to give increased countenance and support to the construction of the canal, and specially to emphasize the valuable results that would accrue to the Gulf States, and Florida in particular, by the successful currying out of the enterprise. WASHINGTON. Senator ('handler introduced n bill ‘‘to strengthen the military armament.” It directs the President to strengthen the military force of the United States by adding 1.000.000 infantry rifles, 1,000 guns for field artillery, and not exceeding S.IMX) heavy guns for fortifications. The sum of $1,000,000 is made immediately available for the purpose of the proposed armament. Capt, Isaac Bassett, the venerable as* sistaut doorkeeper of the Senate, died at Washington Wednesday afternoon, ('apt. Bassett, the "father of the Senate.” spent his entire career as a Senate employe. He enjoyed the distinction of being the secund page employed in tho chamber and the last official of that body eleeted by ballot, till subsequent offices being filled by appointment. The application recently made by the State of Washington tor salmon from the British Columbia hatcheries has lieca refused by tho department of marine mid fisheries. The rensyn assigned is tlpit it is not considered proper, considering the recklessness and carelessness of the I nitod States authorities in the matter of the waste and destruction of fish, that Canada should, out of her thrift, supply a competitor in the foreign markets. The House passed a bill authorizing the President to appoint a Venezuelan commission ami appropriating SIOO,OOO for expenses. The Senate did not take up the Venezuelan dispute directly, but Senator Chandler introduced a bill "to strengthen the military armament.-^ It directs the President to strengthen the military force of the I’nited States by adding infantry rifles, 1.000 guns tor field artillery, ami not exceeding 5,000 heavy guns for fortifications. 'I 'jf* sum of SI*UULLOOO is made imt. available for- <>••■ JeirpoHe ot the J” ’VOSCvT armament. FOREIGN, Rev. Joseph Cook is reported to be at Kobe, Japan, broken in mind and body. All the Puris newspapers which comment upon President Cleveland's message and the subsequent action of the I’nited Siat<s Congress support the stand taken by Great Britain in the mutter and protest that Monroeism is not and cannot be a principle of international law. A London dispatch says: A grave but inevitable consequence of President Cleveland's message upon the British- \ enezuclan dispute has arisen perhaps sooner than might have been expected. A meeting of prominent financial leade d who have important interests in the I’nited States was laid in a London banking office for the purpose of considering the advisability of united action in calling in their American credits. It is undoubtedly within the power of English capitalists by such a combined movement to deal America a blow which would, temporarily. be terribly embarrassing anti disastrous. It would, however, prove to a certain extent a boomerang, and this view had its influence tqion the majority of those who attended the meeting. The conference was private and it was not intended even that the fact that it took place should be allowed to be made public, MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.50: hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 55c to 56c: corn. No. 2,25 cto 26c; oats. No. 2. 18c to 20c; rye. No. 2. 33c to 36c; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs, fresh. 20c to 22c: potatoes, per bushel. 20c to 30c; broom corn, S2O to $45 per ton for poor to choice. , Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to 53.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to VLSO; wheat, No. 2. 63c to 65c; corn, io. 1 white, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 whHA 21e to 23c. If St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to ss.2s;^^' $3.00 to $3.75: wheat. No. 2 red, 6^ ° (t3c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 23e to No. 2 white, IGc to 17c; rye, No. sCy— C to 34c. , Cincinnati Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $.3.00 to $3.75: sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,64 cto 66c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,39 cto 41c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye. 37c to 38c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 62c to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,36 cto 38c; clover seed. $4.15 to $4.25. Buffalo Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $•”>.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, ,31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. Milwaukee M heat, No. 2 spring, 54c to soc; corn, No. 3,24 cto 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; barley. No. 2,31 cto 33c; rye. No. 1,35 cto 37c; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. New York —Cattle, s3.Oft to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 17c to 29c; eggs, Western, 20c to 23c.

SHIPS ^COLLISION. AMERICAN / eliner SINKS ANOTH- | STEAMER. But One Mag Issue—Drowned—Another Bond in Rew^Suintiui Plan Formulated forßevispße ^’President’s Request ®on e,^t4ic Currency Sj stem. The Aftnk a British Boat. JyM’ican line steamship Berlin, New ^i>O'is, from Southampton for ( apt. IM collided with and sunk the fr° m Southhampton for British shifl collided with and sank the Glasgow,^ Willowbank, Capt. Young, of Islo pt^whirty miles southwest of the tnOfhiiM^rtlaEd, at 3 o'clock Sunday of thiw n wa3 believed the whole crew Blake*. n i ne were drowned. 11. M. S. in the drived upon the scene at 7 o’clock ■ ami picked up a waterIt sighted the Berlin, soiled the crew of one of‘ •boats which had lost eon•r in the heavy sea. Later line officials telegraphed umi ns follows: "The Red Berlin from Antwerp for returned here with its bow damj|^ by a collision with the WillowbanWwhose crew was saved, and are J the Berlin, including the captaih s wife. But the Falmouth pilot on tne M iilowbank. who wont below to save his clothes, was drowned.” I New Financial Plan, Washington, D. C„ dispatch: Fifty millions of additional revenue to be raised by an increase of custom duties; deficiencies in revenue to be supplied by interestbearing treasury certificates, sold for greenbacks and payable in coin: long-tim ■ 3 per cent bonds to protect the gold regreenbacks redeemed in gold to bo Kept intact in tne reserve; national banks to be permitted to issue circulation up to Aipar value of their bands: tax on circui^S»’on to be reduced to G or % of 1 per cZilf; the minimum capital of national banks to he reduced from $50,000 to $25,000 or less. This is the Republican financial program as agreed upon by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives within twelve hours after the l’n•ident’s message was read. Rux»i i Wilkins' Up. The St. I’etersburg N >voe Vremya says: "If it conies to a war between Great Britain and the I’nited States the former will have to encounter internal as well ns foreign foes, lor the Irish are not likely to look passively at such a conflict. In that event England’s affairs in Turkey and the far East will not wear so favorable an tispect, and there would come the hour of bitter retribution for the past upon whieh Englishmen pride themselves. forgetting that successes gained by guile and force are never enduring.” The Bourse Gazetti remarks: "The only honorable means left for England to extricate itself from the affair is a vote of censure against the Marquis of Salisbury, and a new cabinet might be able to rectify the blunders of its predecessors.” <Hiio Militiamen (Jo to Cub i. A K.j Wi st. Thi . dispnt. h sais: \.>t“w ihstnndlng the enrdou of Spanish uarOtlips about Cuba, three til l. Isterim: ex,ie<litious have reeently lauded. Ae,ord ing to advices received here one of these expeditions was lompused of members of the Fifth Regiment. Ohio National Guard. They accompanied their command on an exclusion to the Atlanta exposition and there deserted and made their way to Cuba. They joined Gomez in Santa Clara on Sunday. Their leader was Sergt. Arthur Burge. Company K. He was accompanied by L. Sehwan, Company II; John Harris and Clifford Smith, Company C; and five others. The Ohioans were warmly received by Gomez, and Burge has been commissioned captain. BREVITIES, The Philadelphia street car strike will be settled by arbitration. Fire in a hotel at Bluefield, W. Ya., resulted in a monetary loss of $50,00(1. one man's life, and the severe injury of several others. While skating on Lathrop Lake, seven miles west of Denver, Charley Jones, aged S, fell through an airhole in the ice. His brother Robert and sister Maggie, aged 21 and 20 respectively, and Ida Ball, aged 16. attempted to rescue him, and all four were drowned. A. D. Thurston, who in 1886 organized the Order of Railway Telegraphers at Clinton, la., and was its grand chief for seven years, is at Clinton, Mo., police headquarters there with his wife and six children destitute and cared for by the city. He is helpless from rheumatism, and while en route overland to Springfield narrowly esi-aped drowning while camping near a small stream. The United State cruiser Boston, which has been undegoing repairs at the Mare Island Navy Yard for the last four mouths, went to sea Friday on a trial trip. The Boston is the oldest of the new White Squadron. One hundred thousand dollars has been spent on its repairs. Its battery has been rearranged, upper works strengthened, and its protection deck newly sheathed, and its engines overhauled. Albert Neoland, a photographer of St. Louis, who is said to have three wives, was arrested at St. Joseph, Alo., when about to many another, Miss Grace Woodward, a girl of 17. Neeland's last victim, whose maiden name was Alary Hull and who had been deserted, arrived from St. Louis and put a detective on her husband's trail. He was surprised in the company of Miss Woodward. Neeland is said to have two wives living somewhere in Illinois. He is in jail. A cabinet meeting was held at the M hite House Sunday afternoon and a decision reached to make arrangements for another sale of bonds for gold at the earliest practicable moment. An officer of the treasury was selected to go to New York at once to confer with the bankers and make arrangements for the new issue. In playing about the room the ‘ yearold child of Joseph Koehler, a well-to-do farmer near Upper Sandusky, knocked a loaded shotgun off a table. The gun discharged. striking Mr. Koehler and causing an injury that resulted in death. Twenty-nine miners lost, their lives Friday in the Nelson mine, Entry No. 10, near Dayton. Tenn., by tin explosion of fire damp. The explosion was succeeded by a terrific crash, which indicated the roof of the passage through which they had entered had fallen in. No avenue us

: CONVICTS IN THE ARMY. Frenchmen Condemned for Crime Have a Hard Time of It. A very painful sensation has been created in Paris, and will no doubt extend throughout the country, by the report of a court-martial just held at Tunis. Before recounting the facts, it is requisite to explain that there exists in the French possessions in North Africa a special body of troops, technically described as “compagnies de discipline,” and dubbed in military parlance by the quaint appellation of Biriht. This force is composed exclusively cf bad and incorrigible characters. Conscripts who, when the time comes for their incorporation in the army, happen to be serving a time of penal servitude are not sent to the regular infantry, but to these disciplinary companies; and noted offenders in the line regiments at home or in Algeria are also drafted into the penal corps. The punishments are of a peculiarly severe and inhuman description. Having said this much, I proceed to lay before you a statement of the case from the pen of a noted supporter of the Government, Sc nil tor It mie. lie savs; “A soldier of the Third African oattallon, Chedal by name, has met his death from ill treatment. The minister of war ordered an inquiry, which led to a lieutenant, a sergeant and a corporal being brought before a court-mart’al. They have just been tried and unanimously acquitted. Chedel, who was in a bad state of health, was locked up in a cell where the temperature stood at 50 degrees centigrade, or 122 degrees Fehrenheit. He was deprived of water. He was. moreover, subjected to la erapaudine tliat Is to say, Uis feet and hands were tied together behind his back. In addition a gag was placed in his mouth. First, a common tent peg was used for the purpose, and then a tent peg with a handkerchief wrapped around it. Finally a stone was forced into his mouth. These horrors were not denied. The judges examined the surgeon of the battalion and asked him what Chedel had died of. The question strikes one as a lugubrious joke. The accused urged in their defense that the gag was a usual punishment In the battalion by direction of the commanding officer. The offense of the man thus barbarously tortured to death was an attempt to desert.— London Standard. He Forgot. For years rhe property owners in a certain section of Chicago had been clamoring for a street paved with asphalt. They organized themselves into an "improvement dub” and held several meetings. I'e:ith ns were circulated every spring and mass meetings wore held every winter. The most enthusiastic and persistent agitator owned a corner lot, and he lived on the adjacent lot. Wlhmi the workmen actually ln'gan to pave the street with aspiiali he was so pleased ilia: ho bought elgars for them. The sheet of asphalt in iront of ills earner lot was finished on Wednesday, on Fi ;<iay a gang or men proceeded to dig out a large slice of the asphalt and then to excavate a deep trench which led to the center of the corner lot. The president of the improvement soc iety witnessed this piece of vandalism, and, rushing to the house of the enthusiast, loudly demanded the reason. “I forgot to put in a service pipe from the gas main,” was the explanation given. “Why didn't you connect it with the main on the side street?” asked the president in indignant tones. ‘‘Why, I didn't ■think of that,” and he hurried to stop the work. But the damage was done. The Old-Fashioned Way. People in Chicago have become so accustomed to the steel framework of a modern office building that any exception to the general rule of construction attracts instant attention. An old building was recently torn down in Madison street and a new one was begun on the site. This new building is to be temporary, for the owner lias plans for a modern office building, which be cannot carry out for several years for good and sufficient reasons. The new building had not risen a story when it became the object of attention. Pass-ers-by stopped, gazed up at it for a minute and said: “Look at the wooden beams.” The second story made the construction more conspicuous, and people declared that the building department in the city hall should look into It, for it was not built to conform to the building ordinance. In fact, several such'complaints were made to the building commissioner. lie inspected it thoroughly ami said that the construction was not only within the ordinance, but was safe, strong and well done. “Only,” he added, “it's old-fash-ioned.”—Chicago Record. Earthquake at Sea. A severe earthquake at sea was experienced by the schooner Mary Buhne, which arrived at Port Townsend, Wa^h., from Oonolaska a week ago. The captain says that on Oct. 24 the sea was smooth as glass, when'sudden1y the vessel reeled and shook violently, the water was uplifted, and for almost two minutes the schooner was strangely shaken by the odd disturbance of water. Next day the vessel passed through a large area of apparently muddy water. Fuseli's Opinion. Probably no two artist • ever criticised each other more severely than did Fuseli and Northcote; yet they’ remained fast friends. At one time Fuseli was looking at Northcote's painting of the angel meeting Balaam and his ass. “How do you like it?” asked Northcote, after a long silence. “Northcote,” replied Fuseli, promptly, “you're an angel at an ass, but an ass at an angel!”

ASKS NOW FOR GOLD! PRESIDENT SENDS ANOTHER MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. Urges Revision of the Finances, and Requests that No Recess Be Taken Until Gold Reserve Is Protected— Immediate Action Is Sought. Text of the Message.^ The following message was sent to Congress by President Cleveland Friday: To the Congress: In my last annual message the evils of our present financial system were plainly pointed out and tho causes and means of the depletion of government gold were explained. It was therein stated that after all the efforts that had been made by the executivo branch of the government to protect our gold reserve by the issuance of bonds, amounting to more than $162,000,000. ■ such reserve then amounted to but little more than $79,000,000, about $16,000,000 had been withdrawn from such reserve during the month next previous to the date of that message, and quite large withdrawals for shipment in the immediate future were predicted. The contingency’then feared has reached us, end the withdrawal of gold since the communication referred to and others that appear inevitable threaten such a depletion in our government gold reserve as brings us face to face with the necessity of further action for its protection. This condition is intensified by the prevalence in certain quarters of sudden and unusual aj prehension and timidity in business circles. We are in the midst of another season of perplexity caused by our dangerous and fatuous financial operations. These may be expected to occur with certainty as long as there is nd amendment in our linn uvin 1 xv IC in this j>:i ri icuhi r instance our predicament is at all influenced by a recent insistence upon the position we should occupy in our relation to certain questions concerning our foreign policy, this furnishes a signal and impressive warning that even the patriotic sentiment of our people is not an adequate substitute for a sound financial policy. Os course there can be.no doubt in any thoughtful mind as to the complete solvency of our nation, nor can there be any just apprehension that the American people will be satisfied with less than an holiest payrmnt cf our public obligations in the recognized money of the world. We should not overlook the fact, however, that aroused fear-is unreasoning and must be taken into account in all efforts to avert public loss and the sacrifice of our people's interests. Cure for Recurring Troubles. The real and sensible cure for our recurring troubles can only be effected by a complete change in our financial scheme. Pinding that the executive branch of tho government will not relax its efforts nor abandon its determination to use every means within its reach to maintain before the world American credit, nor will there be any hesitation in exhibiting its confidence in the resources of our country and the constant patriotism of our people. In view, however, of the peculiar situation now confronting us, I have ventured t<> herein express the earnest hope that the Uongress, in default of the inauguration of a better system of finance, will not take a r> cess from its labors before it has, by legislative enactment or declaration, done something not only to remind those apprehensive among our people that the resouTces of this government and a scrupulous regard for honest dealing afford a sure guarantee of unquestioned safety’ and soundness, hut to reassure the world that with these factors and the patriotism of our citizens the ability and determination of our nation to meet in any circumstances every obligation it incurs do not admit of question. 1 ask at the hands of Congress such prompt aid as it alone has the power to give to prevent in a time of fear and apprehension any sacrifice of the people’s interests and the public funds or the impairment of our public credit in an effort by executive action to relieve the dangers of the present contingency. GROVER CLEVELAND. SENATE Is AS ONE MAN. Passes the Bill for a Commission Unanimously. Neither the bluff and bluster of British financiers no" the threats of “Wall street operators moved the United States Senate from what it deemed its path of duty Friday. Republicans and Populists joined with Democrats in giving the strength of unanimous supi>ort to the President, who, it was conceded, had but performed his loftiest duty in setting forth in forcible words the concrete sentiment of the American people in his recent message on the Venezuelan boun. dary dispute. The House bill for a Venezuelan commission passed the Senate by a viva voce vote, and not one voice was raised against it nor a single amendment urged. It was openly and bravely stated on the Senate floor that concerted action was being taken by the money ipagnates of England to bring pressure to bear to set aside' the threatened investigation proposed by the President through the story that nothing but party politics b-mi prompted the President’s-action; and it was also proclaimed that Wall street, while the debate was in progress, had been flooding the Senate chamber with telegraphic messa^ps proclaiming ihe-— direst panic on. record if the Senate insisted upon adopting the House bill. But the. Senators woe not to be intimidated. And Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire'! took' occasion to serve notice on the money poueiM of London, who seemed to b» striving to create a panic by disposing of American securities, that the patriotic sentiment of the United States could not be influenced by such a course, and that the people of this country should stand up to the last for what they believed to be the right. Congress would do its duty, no matter what the financial operators of AVall street might do. Violinist (proudly)—The instrument J shall use at your house to-morrow even-. Ing, Mein Herr, is over 200 years old. Parvenu—Oh, nerbr mind that. It isgood enough. No one will know the difference.— Harper's Bazar. Maud Do you really love Tom? Madge—Oh, no; not in tihe least. Maud— Then, w hy are you going to marry him? Madge—Oh, he's such a good fellow I couldn’t think of letting anybody elsfc ^et him.—Boston Courier. —-»-— »/