St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 52, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 July 1896 — Page 2

THE HURRICANE. Lord of the winds! I feel thoe nigh; I know thy breath in the burning sky; And I wait, with a thrill in every vein, For the coining of the hurricane. And lo! on the wing of the heavy gales Through the boundless arch of heaven be sails. Silent and slow, and terribly strong, The mighty shadow is borne along. Like the dark eternity to come; .While the world below, dismayed and dumb, ... , . , Through the calm of the thick, hot atmosphere . Looks up at its gloomy folds with fear. They darken fast, and the golden blaze Os the sun is quenched in the lurid haze And he sends through the shade a funeral ray— A glare that is neither night nor day, A beam that touches with hues of death The clouds above and the earth beneath. To its covert glides the silent bird, ■While the hurricane's voice is heard Uplifted among the mountains round, And the forests hear and answer the sound. He is come! ho is come! do ye not behold His ample robes on the wind unrolled? Giant of air! we bid thee hail! How his gray skirts toss In the whirling gale; . . How his huge and writhing arms are bent To Clasp the sone of the firmament. And fold at length, in their dark embrace. From mountain to mountain the visible space. Darker -still darker! the whirlwinds bear The dust of the plains to the middle air; And hark to the crashing, long and loud. Os the chariot of God in the thundercloud! Yuu may trace its path by the flashes that • start From the rapid wheels wher’er they dnrt. As the fire-bolts ruip to the world ladow, And flood the skies with a lurid glow. What roar is that? 'tin the rain that breaks In torrents away from the airy lakes. Heavily poured on the shuddering ground. And shedding a nameless horror round. Ah! well known woods, and mountains, and skies. With the very clouds!- ye are lost to my eyes. I seek ye vainly, and see In your place The shadowy tempest that sweeps through space, A whirling ocean that fills the wall Os the crystal heaven and buries all. And I, cut off from the world, remain Alone with the terrible hurricane. —William Oulkm Bryant. SIX CENTS A DOZEN. She lives on Forquer street a bright faced, smiling little Italian woman. Her husband Is out of work, and s.m is fighting the w dt from th*: door, part ly by being foster-mother for n baby of six months, and partly by flnishlttg boys' pants for G cents a dozen pa r. I could not believe it at first -It seem * ed impossible that anyone cotlid fisk human fingers to toil for s > Utile, but ! then, flesh and bio h1 Is cheap, and we must have bargains! • •••••• There is a small cottage a miserable hut it seems t > an American eye. In one of the sunniest valleys of Southern Italy. The humble roof shelters live people—the father, a dark-browed, but kindly man of steady habits; his wife, not very neat nor very enlighten. 1, but eminently pious; a daughter. 14 years of age; a son, of 12, and a diminu five old woman—called by courtesy, a child—of 5. To-day there is a commotion within, for to-morrow the priest will pass on his regular round of vlslta tion, and the house must be set tn order. And, indeed, It Is fairly clean; for despite not very cleanly Instim ta, things can scarcely got so bad In Italy as with us. To begin with, the cottage stands by itself, and tumble down as It is, the fresh breezes and the > ft perfumes of the little garden, and. above all, the genial Itai an sunshine, keep it free from the dreadful conditions one day's carelessness breeds in Forquer street. And now the house Is tidied. The little basket of fresh eggs Is ready. Flowers deck the tiny place, the best holiday attire is put on, and at last in the distance the reverend man of God appears. He enters the humble door, pausing on the threshold to bestow his blessing, and In its now coat of whitewash, the little hut seems worthy to receive it. The due rites ere performed, the eggs laid In the attendant’s basket, and with words of peace the priest rises to depart. But no. there is another matter. Will the ; father hear of it? Ana then the Ims i band tells that they are going to Aun r I lea. He has heard wonderful tales of I that far-away country and it is never hard to get bread there. They have longed to go for many months, ami now a cousin has offered them a loan for their passage-money it will be easy to repay It, once there—and before the father comes again they will be gone. Will he not give them a special blessing this time? Oh, It would not be for always. When they had grown rich, they would come back and live out their old age in dear Italv Nevertheless the aged man, who loves them, lets fall a tear, and his voice trembles when, with uplifted hands, be Invokes the divine sanction and blessing upon their long journey. Castle Garden! What dreadful noises! And still they can feel the throb of the great ocean steamer's heart, and they sway on the stable land as if still on deck, but no time must be lost. Chicago, the great hearted city of the .West, is to be their home, and again their journeying is resumed. But at last they are here. And what a greeting! The rain is drizzling down into the dirty gutters, already full to overflowing, the streets reek with foul odors, and the room they are to call home is not by Itself, ami there Is no place for a garden. They are the twelfth family under the single roof-

families that have only one, two, or nt the most, three rooms to call their own—as long as they can pay the rent Their own single room tenement is the front one in the basement, and Is eighteen feet long, eleven and onehalf feet wide, and seven and onehalf feet high. Ami yet some people are so extravagant that they real y believe It is necessary to the health, for each individual In a room to have 500 cubic feet of air space for his own particular use! For this one room our friends are to pay $3.50 per month. Here the five must live, eat and sleep, with the smell attending washing and cooking omnipresent. Is it any wonder the good wife hopes their fortune will soon be made, so that she may feel the soft air of Italy again? But some way, the fortune comes slowly. In the summer time, indeed, the father is so fortunate as to secure work on the streets, and his wago* of $1.25 per days seems princely, until he finds with what ready facility money slips away even from an Italian In Chicago. The boy is soon Initiated by his comrades into boot blacking and paper selling, and in the early fall the elder daughter goes into a tailor shop where sho sits all day over work that is taking all the youthful vigor and beauty out of iter, and worst --r all. the poor mother moans, sho and Jeers now at the old. simple life in Italy, ami manages to pass half the night she doesn't know where, or with whom. Her wagos are not making them rich, either who said money was easy to get in I'hlcago her wages are only $1.50 a week. Ami her son he curses and drinks and refuses to go to confession. Even her husband, so good and pious in Italy, doesn’t seem to care any more for what the priest says, and often comes home drunk. Oh. why did they come to America? And the one room gets dirtier and dirtier, while they become poorer and poorer. Winter comes, ami the father Is out of work. Then the mother visits the tailor shop and comes home with an armful of boy’s pants to finish for which she gets d cents per dozen pair, if she vt irks hard she can make eight n. p xsioiy twenty four routs a day. Truly, a fortune Is easily made In Chicago* But the depths are not yet. The husband, taking p.aMi’rn after bls neighbors, thinks they mlg’ • take a lodger or two; and they make their appearance the next night two lowbrowed, vlchms looking countrymen, whom five yearn in Uh!c»go have bru tnllzrd, and the desperate mother Eimlder* when she >.. . * the glan they bestow ti|xin her daughter now 1”, and all Innocence well night stamp l out of her. Then, by and by. sho g s v •* up h. v, and sits and broods dtv al'cr day with an ominous look In her ci <. wj en ,by tie । ri-m Yt Sv- •» i year old daughter. M Vat Chirac ’ Is I there fur In r? • •••••• Morning pu-rs! T ill -ill Tribune, News! AH nb^’t the urd-T and suicide! Paper. sir? And < r S tlans ami phllauthr ipls’s read and I shudder and then ils:» s the mar< r ias an every day oc nrrouce, a poor Italian women, “In a temporary fit i f Insanity," has killed l r litth* ' . ar old daughter, stabbing h r to the a art with a knife, and thou, with the * r weapon, she cut her own thr a*, The reporter says there *■ em>.! c> ■ • "no special reason for her ma In’o." And mothers exclaimed over the lack of maternal Instinct among the poor ard then went shopping, and were s blind they could not see the b'«”4 that cvcry w hero stained the r<a 1; a<b g. ; mems expos I for sale! And the Recording <4 wr ■ down the word Murder’ Tut M after an Italian name; and opposiie many thousands of names, r speeLiblc and re 1 vered on earth, he wrote: ’ Innsmm'h | ns ye did it not to one of the leas: of these, ye di 1 It not to me.” Then a i.reat city „ ailed to j ■ ment, ami the verdict upon U r was this: "She mnkoth her poor a ropr c. -h nn-i a shame, compelling them to live In conditions under which it Is lmp >s> ’da to be pure. Because of her w >rs p . f money, and ‘because of men’s b! »>d and for the violence of the laud, of th>j city, Hitd of all that dwell therein, the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer IL’”—Kam’s Horn. How Edison Learned to Tell Stories. “It seemed like a waste of time.” said a geo’lenian who pass. 1 an evening with Mr. E<V.s >n In Norwalk, Ohio, recently. “to hear Mr. Eli- .n filling off story after story, an 1.1 -tnanding of all his acqualntan. , s to tell him more, when lie knew how much Information we might have received from him. I filially askei] him h-*w he got to be- sm-h a story teller. ‘AVell,’ he replied, ‘when I was quite a young man I was a telegraph operator during the war. I was stationed at St. L >uis, which was a sort <>f distributing point for a large district. and when we would get our batch of stuff off. and we still had several hours to put In, I used to get pretty tired. Then we would begin to call up the operator at the other end of the line and gossip with hitr., I always liked stories, and If Chicago had a good one he would wire it to me. Thon I would send that off to Louisville and New York and Cincinnati, and hear them laugh over it by wiring back, “Ha, ha,” over the wire. In this way we would get all the best stories there were going, and we would always write them out for the day men. It got to be a sort of passion after a while, and Jias stuck to ‘ me ever since.’ ’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Telegraphs in the United States. । This country has 1.0(10,000 miles of 1 telegraph wires—enough to reach forty times around the globe.

BBYAN AND SEffALL : Democratic Candida'es Nominated at Chicago. SILVER THE SLOGAN. End of the Most Remarkabe Convention in History. More than a Dozen Contestant for the Honor of I'ohij the Nebrunku Orator’s Rnnntnu Mute-Com,,„ra-lively Little Interrat Taken in the Selection of the Ticket’* Tuil—gcn* ntor Jones Succeed* Horrify us Chairman of the Democratic Notional Committee. William Jennlnga Bryan, of was notninntod for the »»<-.’SiTT(?WW *** t- " Domocrntle national cotnenU am" sce.H^ <.r the O ihh-nt •vmbushiMn. Jhe result whs re u hr*l Eridny afternoon on the fifth billot. When the result of the deciding ballot was announced the vast concourse thu‘ filled the Coliseum burst into a storm of cherring and applause that made tin- great ghders of the building tremble. Smudiug on chairs and climbing on one another's shoulders, the people jelled and shrieked and waved hats, cam s sod haadk Tchlofs. Swept away by such enthusiasm, nearly al! the delegate* joined in the wonderful demon* strtition, whether t!u> had voted for the "b«'y orator of the Platte" or not. Shortly ln'*ure 11 o’clock Thursday morning the convention came to order. RvU*lli«>n tineg like a nail a.<r.c the great body, and 2”. si” pt ap'e ranged the sloping hill* that ov«T:<a->k>sl tin* arena to watch the Litt!. ■ : the ar <ti; -g giants. The silver ‘ «4er» entered n ilh light and bnoynn* •■>*;». The faces of th** gold Ic id-r* grim, grAve and defiant. The nnnagrrs of the several rniL.l iX «.-re ma-shMsn;; their T*’ ■ Anrrn n *r wai if - * ("..airn.an Whip* was be c«aM w <l) .peak, and bamk I » the gavel over t »«ws# Ilk-herd I con of I nc .* V. oho annuli I that the cwKiniine. o«inn* wa. ready I n*p rt. and ‘ *;k- ' to C.« ptalC ro S<- »- ? V r'j, % V:. - ■ aV ■ - ll mlffer report The platform as rep ru»l by the com | taHite dc<ur>-v for the trw and nn-itwit -4 cwsnsge of . Ivor at tb«- raS.-fd 1 • t • I The ... e Os t- .1. .a tk-.e of . Irna.mv L .\au • >’ Unks to U d. ;»tac*h.f ! ■ ; ,r .tie gS. -‘e* A tariff f.»r rev-we . Jcmxr. kd a* i the .!■ -..ir t!i s mac., that » rev.aa: of the M Kciky taw wo.sld K* d-.a.troas to the country An tn< . r-:- fax fir. ;• hH-hrcd far. to Iw cf». t I by CPlMPUtiur.ii az-dnu-nt Sym.-orby f-r t\('”!<.tn* ! 1- is 4«*m. led that <n ppr -pr -• -sr save- 1 > 3 Pot H ■■ b;!: pr .t £ p. .. n. t ia contempt . . appr-red The I’. .tie raHro-id refimdlng b>l! is dewaua L rise third term des » op: * .!. and t!.. b * ! Tie phnfi r o-j-lu' L t-c re;> rt for t!:c min. r;ty na. r- Jby J H Wade >f <»!..•, .nl t n- g. } people r sa l Incred, brif r,> ,r .T. *'* vcSe fain’ The indorsement . ’ the Democratic a !n;.n t rat ion whi h >.-nnt r Hill hi 1 made a ! <» ag fight for tn tin p.m tt.e ou res e lutions, brought down a yell Irons the g dh r * N- w A >rk ’ !-g ■•■ t «• .J : nave: their \p>. T •> was Irsw: f Sooth Chur >*d the great <T bate in 1 **lia!f of free* coinage. Senator Jonct followed Ti’knnn. T -ante Sena- r Hill, who Ugm - p “I am a Democrat, ns. I Sout’i Caroima with a!! her power cannot drive me out P 1 v We nr In r>* to unite, not ■ D< n; -rn •' >, ; f we cannot a A ■- -e •ne Hi ■ aystemS of pher nirnoin | know, in.looj that it is i.ic u.ij t; (1 . majority that we care not ' ! - v I 1 : b:;t I <nr \ ■ 1 m ^' ht well do away with ail international agreements.” , Sl "'■ l " : ’vt' of enthusiasm f r ■ ■Okrt.—.m.sr W ; !n j } try!Hl r ,( 1 h - v brilliant V-J' '' A >!1 “f the platform. »» iit’U tho u’lci’p \v*m ti’ii d i .i . . "nmshptl the* con.t*i •Il Pfl i■ > tllP Ff "1 ? v- « e » a 'l l"’ to adon* thl V. •° f th ° wa^b^^^ ^'si^rZri Alabama .. \eas.Xay«. Arkansas . in ' ’ v *. ‘ l,r l< California . i ls “ ‘ I '•■•li.ia. . . 22 .. Colorado..., g ici k'*' l ’! '' Connecticut ’ i-'id 1 ’ 4,! “ I>. la ware i 8 .. Elorldn . ”■ 5 '■! ‘.‘‘""xv I vania ... "1 Georgia "ok Lsland 8 > 18 ■ Illinois . as ' ‘ m I>uk, ’Ui s Indiana ... V, 30 " HA ” lowa 0,5 ’’ r- t X ? S * { J •• Kanans .. 20 " v a 1 $ ’A Kentucky 2C " vi^! ln , nt Ai 8 Louisiana ... p; > v ' 11 '•> Maine o if) w ”,5 J Maryland .... 4 p. c V I X ^hibi ■ • 1-— Massachust’s. 3 ‘>7 wb "V*" 1 A 24 Michigan ..J 28 " Ar.? 1 "" 0 ’« -Minnesota .. u ii A b Mississippi .. is • ■■■■ ‘ I •’ Missouri 24 ’ ‘ v‘t.V ( I’ I ''' « " Montana « , . -Mexico. . 5 .. Nebraska .... 18 ’' T ’'" * " Nevada.. " Indlau rer "" b ” N^Tr^ totals 628 301 •One not voting. “ ‘

■JI ) WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

A recess was then declared until S o'clock At the night acssion. in the preaence of fully 23.1HX) people, the nominating speches were made, and there was a repetition of tin- exciting scenes of the afternoon. The Bryan enthusiasm continued. The galleries went frantic at every mention of his num. . and the wild dotnonatration of the afternoon was duplicated when he was place I in nomina tion by 11. T. !-•« . of G< rgi.i. an I sec oud.-l by W. (' K • ..f North Carofina. George Fred WdhnnK d Ma".u htip-tts. and Thomas J. K<-rn.in of I. lisinmi. Senator \ st pkhcl t: M-s .tu.a;) in Uotninn’ on. an I G > . (»*. ■ rm, .ver of Kan tag sceonde.l the nominal ion. The name : of (»or dnnde Matthew* ~f Indiana vva* ;»?. s< hied by S;u!--r Tarp •' ”f h"l am. and *■ <o*id *1 by Del gate I'rippett of 1' >b>r >. 10. i'lel Wk *e <>( low.» p’.a >■ j B >* in r a, >-.t ■ . nr 1 the W.iterl <> • islcstsian >ove| a m-g )!ic»*:it ovation to th< ' M .. \\ .. M if ray. a y* e g n z.in fr N jov >. nho■■ ! • B < !• -.1 e..'; i*:..!| ■.\| • * Carson I ike 4:4 • iv, . <bmoustra *er J.e Ida A ' 4 Iv ‘ ky w * p! )■ -d ” *v : :• ■by .1 S K> , bril!, tut K : .-;!or. a -4 ■-.1. : \ by G. • S- i .1 ,' W i \ irg 1. hi n ) W. W d Cahf. ri: • ■■ 4 M< Lem :’l» • ■ V * e.• p, . H ; ■ I*. . ri. * d the ftu k- '«* S'.ft A» the akjo.ir nm.-r*. ba ( an 5»o«r after > re. lr g *. G r. . 1; 1 |^*n .-omp- ’e l f lb bl! t* £ ‘ 1 .rt- th» cA-% fb A fv. I Lre rh. ■ ■ : I to order Frwlvy m -mug Th* I. ’.?■ came i„ 41 ctly At >7 is e W t. of d-riG .•■ ! t rue;,* •, *. . ir b - Dr Gr* • ■• I prv ■ - rt ) r mrfu W I -, tl o n- . .1 that the eonar, <• ' on *b. call of f^r n -mv v ’I Mr Hirrc. f « Gov. It ! -rt L I' u- .n Tbb widem-e that Bw.’yh v- y » ‘ 1 . and by the I !,»i> drew s cry ,-,f «;< :£nt from the Mlver t: *■ J I*4 ‘ J >. *me gat a «a- tig mg ... ... 1 9r ..- x .... ff I. ... ... Mr M vtUasly d the lh.tr. t of C dumlm a.-. n d ! It M ■ I I 1 d<» !» ■ M of t>r, —- ,

J — I i ■'’/ ■ ' ■ ■ " • 4’' ? ! / f .f/' MINE WHIN BRi AN > NOMINATION WAS ANNfM VCEB.

tiajue of Sy b >l’ ' ■ •i . : L’r- .m. . Stea ,i fan ... f.iwo;p as toe convention sb >wed up after the first ballot has rarely been equaled in a national •uvention. I util the roll was nearly finished there were thirteen of them and somebody put in an extra vote for Hili. That made f urb-vti and their relative - niority in p >ur of strength was as folI ws; I’.' 3 Bryan, l’a't:' >n, Boies, B: ok 1 >[ T.. aa. THIn an. Pennoyor. Teller, S'. ..cisori, it :"c;|. Caniplxd! and Hill. The wnwniiaa proc, ch d to bailor, with the following r> suit: FIRST HAl. lot. Bland P naojor 10 Bryan I n o I'iHn an 17 Pattis-n '.'o Russell 2 Boles 88 <'ampbcll 2 Matthews 37 Hill 1 McLean 53 Teller S Blackburn 83 X-t voting 185 Stevenson 3 Sin ( >XI > BALLOT. Bland 2*l Matthews 34 Bryan 107 Pennoyer ... .... 8 Pattison 100 Stevenson 10 Black 'll lelicr 8 Boles 87 Hill 1 McLean 53 THIRI> BALLOT. Bland 291 McLean 54 Bevan -lit Matthews 34 i Blackburn 27 Stevenson 9 Pattison lb 111,1 ■ ■ * Boles 3<l Not voting toFOURTH BALLOT. j Bland 341 Blackburn 27 Boies 38 McLean 4. | Bryan 2oj Stevenson . Matthews A> Hill .... 1 Pattison V 6 Not voting .161 On the fifth ballot Bryan received 580 votes, 4S more than the required twothirds. The convention did not decide F riday night who would be placed on the ticket with Bryan. The body had hardly been

; brought to order before a motion to ndi jmirn was offered, and the delegates gladly posip.med the task of completing the ticket to the tit th day. Ihe convent.on met Saturday for its Inst day s wors depleted in members, tired in l>oi|y and mind and lisihos in spirit. There were no eager thousands in the gall, rtf s to on oarage ambitious speakwith nppl.i ise. Among the delegates 'here wa ; no desire to punctnale the day's pro.- ediugs with pyrotechnics. The convention d. i n.u get under way until after 11 “* I* k. ne delegates wore slow in arriving and .lie public apparently had bad a s itliei •ney of eonvenlion amuseiren: The smalli m crowd of the week, probably less baa a.iMSJ, was ranged on ihe shelving sides of the amphitheater. >-.tad n. c < y delegates from the East : > iriy al' h 1 I d -parted. Silver delegates wore nbcent by ’he score, leaving the del- . <a’:>»ns tn p < k fur them a vitv-presidon- • >1 • col late ;t of the mas; of uneernty. 'The small attendance was due to ' 1 k f hiteri s*. There was no limitation " ■ •- -o ■' • b Bes re tiio eon- | 1 - 4 1 1-as ■> Senu’or Ben Tin- j I mart f Srpa <‘arol:na pried open the I . .♦ with b. - famous piu-hferk and nl1 *‘a I . : w ‘ ■ w ■ I *o -n:er. Ln detail, be . •-1 a motion, which was pii'sed, ' . ’ ‘ . - •■rd to t■ e public Witlk * : ; ti. T ins w.*.s re> eive 1 with : mu T enthusiasm. I" «pp .n •pparent lack of enthusiasm • c ' ~ «n l place Would have I ■ : m>*al>b- convent.ou strug- • :4 A ' ’ • e:i ovs-rs'i’.dowe I by o .• : .1 is n d ne b. f Thirteen can- . 1. > I 1-1 11. : . 1:11 :c n; Wil- ’. am* if M i .. |i arv ti«. Mcl.* an of Ohio, 1 i o of N > ■! t iiroi iia. Ettbian of 11U- *. T- - s ■ of < u g. n, Sewall of Ms ' s v I'cnnsyl.aula. Bland of M ••. !» -I of V rg nia. Boies of I u B’ i* . ■ .rti "f Kentucky. Harrity • New Y k • d I’att s 11 of Vetinsylvr.t. 1. N ■ i.in i • >ns scarcely were com* I w b 1 « *:i•’ranah began and the . .* tu. y nirrowed down t<> Sewall M ! ia. Everyiiudy expected a :: ,;l‘ ■ Ci the fifth ballet, blit before • ill a a fin -b. d a telegram was rend g M D-aa's uitiidiawnl and the ■ , is mi le that Sewall be de- •• I t? • r. rn .ee by a ■. I.amation, and it .. .* । o*. The chairman laid down his , - ■ ———

_ 1' '.I ■ I > m -ratic national con- j , V e. .1 es J s :’G MUS Over. JONES IS CHAIRMAN. democratic National Committee Selects Him as Its Leader. Semi’"r James K. Jones was elected chairman of the Democratic national committee. The now chairman was called in and made a speech, saying he was deeply sensible of tiie honor, ami accepted the p. <itinn I * cause of the interest he felt in the cause of silver. The members from tho g : 1 States did not generally attend tiio m •: mg. although there were some ! notable excepHons. Mr. Harrity was there, having the proxy of E. C. M all of Wiseonsin. An interesting feature of th? meeting was the fact that the temporary j organization was presided over by Mr.

Harrity. a gold s indard man. Among the gold States not represented were Maryland. Massachusetts, Minnesota, .New Hampshire. Now .Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. Mr. Bryan was present during th ? greater portion of the time the committee was in session. During the long French war two : old ladies in Stanraer were going to the kirk, the one said to the other: “Was it no a wouderfu' thing that the Breet- | ish were aye victorious ower the French lin battle?” “Not a bit,” said the other old lady, “dinna ye ken the Breetish aye say their prayers before ga’in into battle?” The other replied: “But canna the French say their prayers as weel?” The reply was most characteristic: “Hoot! jabering bodies, wha could understan' them?”

DEATH IN THE WRECK AWFUL HEAD-END COLLISION AT LOGAN, IOWA. I'-aat-Bound Flyer on the Northweat’ ern Crashes Into an Excursion Train —Twenty-eight Persons Are Killed and Fifty-one Injured.

Horrors of the Disaster. The overland flyer on the Chicago and Northwestern road crashed into a heavily laden picnic train near Logan, lowa, forty miles east of Omaha, early Saturday evening. Twenty-eight people were killed and fifty-one injured, many of whom will die. 1 wenty-four of the dead are identified and the others are so badly mutilated that identification is hardly possible. Lhe list of the injured is a lengthy one. It contains twenty-eight or more names of persons who were seriously hurt, danso, to a groatcr or less degree. In addition there were at least fifty, if not a greater nunilaw, who received injuries of a minor nature, ‘rhese consiste 1 of bruises and cuts or slight, disflgurements which will practically amount to nothing. A considerable number also wore shaken up severely, but beyond this w<uo uninjwroo. 'l'hn* was especially the ease among the passengers who occupied the cars inirne'bately behind the one which was demolished. 'I he scene of wreck and death occurred i.i a piece of dense woods about three miles west of Logan. Both trains came together head on while traveling at the rate of fifty miles an hour and was caused by Engiru-er Montgomery of the picnic train mistaking orders. He should have waited <m the siding at Istgan until the passenger train and the fast overland flyer had passed. He oniy waited long enough for the passenger to fly by and then pulled out on the main track with the throttle wide open and a fall head of steam on. The crash came so quickly that Montgomery had barely time to jump. The excursion train was composed of seventeen passenger ears, loaded with 1.500 men, women and ch’ldren, mostly from Council Bluffs and Omaha. They were making merry, singing and shouting. The weight of the excursion train and the speed of the> freight made the wreck a fearful one. The two engines were completely demolished and the first two cars of each train telescoped. The work of death was wrought in the first conch of the excursion train. In this were nearly 100 people and but a few of them escaped without injury, i here was no warning, and with the wreck of the ear came death or dangerous injury to almost every occupant. All of the isciches were badly shaken up, but . 'no dead were confined to the first passenger coach. FIVE KILLED. Death Ends a United Workmen Picnic in Chicago, A Wisconsin Central excursion to Sehil- > r I‘ark Sunday, under the auspices of the Ancient Order of United Worknyu, ot 1 hiengo, was attended with dis Going out one section of the- truin'u as bourdrd by roughs, who beat and robbed ■ae conductor and the engineer. Returning in the evening a section es the t/'JT < omprising thirteen conches crashed into two traitw of empty coaches at Altenheim and was wrecked. In this collision tive passengers were killed, five seriously nt* jured, ami many more slightly hurt. Ths S' no of the accident was near the Madison street crossing. Just before the pas- • nger train, south bound, reached the station it is stated the station agent had thrown the switch to allow a north bound freight train to proceed on its way, and it is said that through some mistake or neglect there was a failure to close the switch, THOUSANDS CHANT IN UNISON. Christian En leavorers Numbering; 4,600 Sing. A sight never before seen on this contineut and probably not to be seen again l y the present generation of men, was witnessed Sunday evening at the capita! of the nation. On the historic eastern steps, where the Presidents of this country, one after another, have stood to deliver their inaugural addresses, a trained chorus of 4JMJO men and women raised their voices for an hour in songs of praise to the Great .Master. Beneath them stood an assembly of 40,000 or more members of the Society of Christian Endeavor from al! parts of the Union. On the outskirts of this assembly of Christians stood 10,000 citizens of Washington, and beyond were ranged innumerable carriages filled with mon ami women. During this sublime service the Great Statue of Freedom on the dome, nearly 300 feet above the heads of the multitude, was ablaze with the luster of a set; ting sun. The capitol of the nation, which have radiated tM great Events es the union for over I**) years, had never been tfie scene of such a ceremony. This service of song was the crowning gio?? ■ pf the great religious convention in AVas]!I ingtoh. It w.ir rhe one event of the meeting which possessed an interest to allmen, whether viewed as a great spectacle or as an outburst of religious fervor. It had been looked forward to for months. It will be remembered by those who saw it forevermore. FIERCE FIRE IN NASHVILLE. Property Valued at $300,006 Is Destroyed by Flames and Water. Sunday afternoon one of the most important Mpiares in Nashxille, Tenn., was almost totally destroyed by fire, only- four buildings standing and their contents aro damaged. The fire originated in the fivestory building of the Rosenheim Company, bisecting the square and having an L reaching to Cedar street, and from this communicated to all the buildings on tho square. The losses to buildings and stocks are estimated to be from $300,000 to $500,000. The fire was difficult to control. the heat intense, and two firemen were injured, but not seriously.

Bernard Nellis was shot and killed by John Adler at St. Paul. Adler seems to be crazy, having a notion that everybody is trying to insult him. The men had soma trouble last winter, and words passed before the shooting. Adler was arrested. He had tried to do some promiscuous shooting before killing Nellis, saying everybody that passed was jeering at him and insulting him. Frank Frick, of Shelbyville, Ind., made some remarks derogatory to the character of a young woman and was fatally beaten by Joshua Walton, who escaped.