Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 December 1895 — Page 3

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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. CBEDIT IS THEIR CLUB HOW LONDONERS HOPE TO WORST THIS GOVERNMENT. Financiers Considering the Advinability of Realizing Cash-Some Kntertaiu Fear as to the Final Kesult Wall Street in a Mighty Uproar. May Call iniTheir Credits. A London dispatch says: A grave but Inevitable e..iis im i;ce of President Cleveland's message upon the ISritishVenezuelan dispute has arisen perhaps cooncr than might have been expected. A meet ing of prominent financial leaders who have important interests in the Tinted States was held in a Loudon banking office for the purpose, of considering the advisability of united action in calling In their American credits. It is undoubtedly within the nwer of Fnglish capitalists by such a combined movement to deal America a blow which would, temporarily, be terribly embarrassing and disastrous. Jt would, however, prove to a certain extent a lwioinerang. und this riew had its influence- uion the majority of those who attended the meeting. The conference was private and it was not Intended even that the fsct that it took place should be allowed to be made public. Panic in 'W nil Street. 1 There was a panic in the New York toek market Fiiday. The President's locial message to Congress on the Venezuela affair had the effect of frightening the foreign investors especially the Fnglish in American securities. Before the Lastern markets opened cables from Ix'iidon evinced that there was a semipanic in the American department on the liritish Bourse. Stocks and bonds were thrown on the market regardless of the price and buyers were very few even at enormous concessions. At tho close of the exchange in Chapel court the "Yankees" were thoroughly, subverted. The general list fell from 1 to (I points below the final New York quotations. In Wall street the effect of London's closing figures was simply demoralizing. The important and active properties opened all the way from 1 to 'A point soff and up to noon continued to fall. Fach successive cable indicated still lower figures, and it was finally reported that many "jobb'-rs' on the London Stock Exchange had 10fusod to accept orders. The unfavorable news v, coincident with preparations by the gold-shipping houses for Saturday's exports to Europe. The initial trading Tras highly sensational, and declines w ro made all along the line, extending to -t', per cent. A sinister feature wan an advance in rates for all money to ." per cent., collecting the calling of loans. Three failures were reported on the New Y'ork Stock Fxchango and one on the Consolidated Exchange. Only one, that of S. S. Sands & Co., was of financial Importance. The railway and miscellaneous bond niutkt was also demoralized, declines ranging up to per cent. It was rumored that a single house had dumped S400.iOO of Heading bonds on the market. Wisconsin Central trust receipts scored the extreme loss noted and In the leading speculatives the recessions extended to ll's per cent., in Kansas nnd Texas seconds, to 47 'L. Around 12:20 the selling pressure abated and recoveries were made in the stock market from the lowest extending to 3 per cent. Bonds were relatively active. Collapse of a Unilding. The second floor of the Palace Clothing Company's big store on Nicollet avenue, Minneniolis. collapsed just before noon T"rilay. dale Walters, a clerk, is dead, nnd, a dispatch says, others may be in the ruins. The store Is a double front, end the entire right half of it collapsed from the fourth floor to the basement. The bmMinST is an old one, which was remodcled for the Palace Company's use. Axk Now for Gold. ' President Cleveland sent another mesfage to Congress Friday in which he requested immediate legislation to protect the gold reserve, stating that immediate demands threatened to greatly deplete, if Hot to entirely wipe it out. A revision of the currency system is also asked, and lie requests that no adjournment be had until these had two measures are accomplished. Senate In as One 31 an. ! Friday the Senate without a dissenting Tote passed the House bill for the appointment of the Venezuelan commission. Kot an umcudincnt was pressed. NEWS NUGGETS. Iter. Joseph Cook is rejKrted to be at Kobe, Japan, broken in mind and body. Cardinal Satolli has received the red Bkull cap, the insignia of his new ollice. Governor M. J. Foster was renominated by the Louisiana Democratic State contention. An official dispach from Zeitoum says that the Armenians there, on Sunday last, massacred all the Turkish soldiers imprisoned in the town. Federal officers have arrested at St. Louis, Kansas City and Paola, Kan., the members of "a dangerous gang of counterfeiters and seized $01,000 in bogus $10 silver certificates. Mexico has granted n concession to George K. Detwiler, of Chicago, and Frail 1$. Barry, of Boston, to build a railway long the Pacific coast from Tehuantepee to the Junta ma la frontier. They get Wit $.1,000,0(10 subsidy. William P. Harrison, son of Carter II. Harrison, the late Mayor of Chicago, arrived in San Francisco from an extended trip to the antipodes. During his stay on the Samoau Islands over twenty-five individuals v ere devoured by the cannibals. By accident he escaped the same fate. Frastus Wiinan is a free man again, the New York court of appeals having lustained the opinion of the supreme fourt reversing the judgment of conviction and sentence of five and one-half fears. Wiman was indicted for forgery, but it was shown that he was convicted ind sentenced for overdrawing his aetount with K. G. Dun & Co. In Denver, Colo., fire broke out in the Riehe Block, a two-story building n IGth and Curtis streets. The stores of E.stcs Shoe Company, Babcock Bros., hatters nnd furriers, and Tucker Bros., furfciahiEff goods, were gutted.

EASTERN A Lewisburg (Pa.) hotel-keeper cleams to have been cured of rheumatism by a handkerchief blessed by Schlatter, the Colorado healer. Charles Durchek. a student at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., was taired and feathered by fellow students for Btealing from their rooms. According to a New York dispatch, the Clan-na-Ciael is raising regiments in that city and at Chicago. Cincinnati and otiier places to fight for the liberation of Ireland. Steve Brodie, the bridge-jumper, has challenged Herr Ahlwardt, the Jewbaiter, to a twenty minutes debate, agreeing to forfeit ?." if he does not prove that the Jews are a benefit to this country. William A. Ambrose, the absconding city solicitor of Altoona. Pa., left a i,tM,fMNj shortage in his accounts. Of this amount the city loses ?ll!.";H and the building and loan associations of which he was solicitor :?1J.H0. Intelligence reached Philadelphia on Tuesday night that on Sunday the German ship Athena, from New York fo' London, with a cargo of naphtha, exploded off Cape May. Fourteen lives were lost, including the captain. The first and second mate and four of the crew were rescued by the British tdiip Tafna and brought to Philadelphia. The mystery of the disappearance of Ahxandcr Houston. Louis Bechtold and Frederick Fisher, the three hat finishers of Yonkers. N. Y.. who went en a fishing trip to the Jersey shore, under the Palisades. Sunday, was sol veil Tuesday night. Their bodies were found at the bottom of the Hudon ltivcr at the foot of Park street by employes of the Waring hathop. An upturned boat, a broken oar and a hat were picked up a short distance from Ludlow. The hat was identified as that of Fisher. Joseph Wood, with a crew of men. grappled for the bodies, and at 11 o'clock they sueeeedi-d in bringing Bechloid's body to the surface-, and soon the other two bodies were recovered. It is supposed that while attempting to make a landing the boat was capsized. Belated ships are arriving at Philadelphia bearing evidences of the terrific gale along the Atlantic coast. The Briti.-h tankship Mexieano came in badly damaged. Capt. Tait stood on the bridge of the ship without sleep for seventy-two hours. The British tramp steamship Marian, Capt. Grahl. from Bilbon. Spain. Nov. arrived with cabins flooded, everything movable washed from the de ks. two of the lifeboats stove in, sails carried away and otherwise damaged. Capt. Davis, of the British tank steamship Le Coq. in port from Barry, rcjiorts experiencing heavy east-northeast gales. The tank steamship Megunticoak, from Philadelphia for Tampa, Fla., with coal, returned to port in tow of the tug Meher, leaking badly. The Pacific Mail steamship Newport, which arrived ia New York quarantine, brought word that on the inornir.g of Deo. 11$ she fell in with the disabled steamer Claribel, of the Atlas Line. The Newport passed a line to her, but later the Claribel eiist it off and signaled to the Newport to proceed and report to the owners of the Atlas Line on her arrival in New York. Five men were kiiied 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 Kiver, New York. The dead are: James Fawns, assistant engineer, of England: Manning, fourth assistant'' engineer; Hubert Campbell, machinist. New York; George Williams, machinist, Ilohokcn; Daniel Met Million, machinist's helper, Urooklyn. The injured: Frank Vespers, third assistant engineer, Itoxhury, Mass.; Andrew Heard, storekeeper, Scotland; Dunham, machinist, England: A. Fnjrel, cleaner, Scot land; Kdward Wischert, engineer. At the time of the accident, shortly after 7 o'clock, there were thirty men of the crew in the tireroom niul ten in the engine-room. The main frtoanipipo, which if three leet in diameter, runs from the engine to the tireroom. It was this pipe which exploded. The main stop-valve was blown out. The accident is believed to have ben caused by a Haw 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 i-ay the necessary repairs will take at least a week. The great strike of Philadelphia motormeu and conductors of the Union Traction Company began early Tuesday morning, and all lines of the company were practically tied up. President Welsh says hundreds of men are applying for work. Several cars were derailed. The sentiment of the public is clearly with the strikei.4. The company employs about G.OtM) men, two-thirds of them members of the Employes' Association. The demand of the men is for a working day of ten hours with $- pay, reasonable time for meals, protection from the weather and recognition of their organization. Before the strike in Philadelphia was twenty-four hours old, the city was all but in the hands of a mob. The strikers took but little part in the violence, the rowdy element doing all the damage. The police were utterly unable to cope with the mob. From early morning until dusk, as each branch line made desperate efforts to start, howling mobs surrounded each car, stoned and hooted the inotormrn and conductor, smashed the windows, cut the trolley ropes and wreaked all iossib!e destruction. Then the attempt was abandoned. Many persons were injured by Hying missiles, and complete reports will include fatalities and thousands of dollars' worth of valuable property destroyed.

WESTERN. Cincinnati press fee'ders have struck for an advance of $1.73 a week in wages. A Cincinnati church janitor who was caught robbing the contribution plate committed suicide. The Michigan Central Railroad is planning to build a $-1,0(10.000 bridge across the Detroit Kiver at Detroit. An assignee has been appointed for the Norwood Park Company at Cincinnati. The assets are placed at $100.000 and the liabilities $0,470. Cripple Creek is excited over a cablegram saying that Barney Parnate, the London "Kallir King," is about to visit the Colorado mines. (Irace Episcopal Church at Detroit has a female surplice choir. The ladies wear black skirts, white and black capes end mortarboard caps. The body of Alexander Krell, whose piano factory was burned at Cincinnati with n loss of over $100,000, was found In the cellar of the ruins. Judge Cartwnght, Republican, has been elected to the vacancy ou the Illi

nois Supreme bench from the Sixth Judicial District to succeed the late Judge Bailey. Sylvester Johnson has been awarded a verdict for $,",UOO damages against the city of Ashland, Wis., for the loss of an car, sustained while driving on a defective highway. Frederick Wilhelm Johomme Bcese, of Flyria, Ohio, celebrated his loot h birthday. He re.;ds without glasses, is in excellent health, works every day. shaves himself and never employed a physician in his life. Fred Ilosfoi d. .10 years of age. a wholesale and retail coal dealer at Burlington. Iowa, committed suicide Monday morning by jumping from the upper story of the Burlington elevator, a distance of K'.O feet. His big business inteiests h:-d overtaxed his mind, rendering him insane. Lewis Krekel, an old man of Burlington, Iowa, disappeared from his home a mouth ago. Monday his body was found badly mutilated, and with the throat cut, lying in an utilised well. The coroner suspects foul play and is investigating. The deceased carried a large life insurance. The German National Bank at Lincoln, Neb., has failed. The liabilities, including stock, are $lN0.ooo; nominal assets, $UO.OUO: deposits. $-10.000. The failure started a run on the Lincoln Savings Bank, whh h has availed itself of tho sixty days' notification law against withdia vvals. Two pieces of lead pipe packed with gunpowder were mailed to George M. Pullman and Philip D. Armour Monday morning at Chicago. Two lives were saved by tho action of the postal authorities and the warning of the niiii suspected of sending the infernal machines. The mere Kliding of the lid of cither of the boxes containing the lead pipe would have been sufficient to cause an explosion and ihe selected victims would have been blown to pieces. S. A. Owen is the man who gave warning, and the postal authorities believe he also planned the mailing of the bombs. Following is a list of those most seriously injured in a railway wreck at Milton. Ohi. Monday night : Joel Borschcr. Lima, Ohio; Miss Kosa Baroiigh, Custer, Ohio: Mrs. B. G. Doty. Custer, Ohio; Miss Mary Lance, Custer, Ohio: Mrs. F. A. Balmor, Custer, Ohio; Matthew Blausius, Custer, Ohio; John Bruch. Custer. Ohio; Charles Blausius. Custer. Ohio: Charles Seaman, Custer, Ohio; John Bdtn, Custer. Ohio: Fngincer Clark Iloyt, Lima; Fireman Osniau, Lima. No one was killed. Twenty-live persons injured loss seriously th. n those named above were able to go to their homes. Fireman Jas. Osniau is very seriously injured and it is feared that Kngiucor lloyt's injuries will prove fatal. Says the Chicago Post: Jaunty and flippant is Capt. Michael J. White, of the Seventh Regiment, L N. G., and driver for John Sextn & Co., although imprisonment in the Chicago avenue station on the charge of murder might be conducive of gravity if not of fear. While lriving off the north end of Slate street bridge Friday evening While ran into and killed John I. Harvey, a clerk for Truax. Green it Co. White did not stop to see how badly hurt his victim was, but whipped up his horses, as the plice claim. Later, when the police heard that it was one of John Sexton & Co.'s wagons which ran over Harvey, and went to that firm's barns. While cheerfully volunteered information as to the identity of all the other drivers, all wing one of them, O'Neil, to be locLed up Saturday night ami held by the coroner's jury without bail. Not until he was directly charged with the crime did he admit it.

SOUTHERN. A cavern which surpasses the famous Mammoth Cave has been discovered ixi Fdnionson County, Kentucky. The entrance is only two miles from the month of the Mammoth Cave. The expected duel at New Orleans between Congressman ltoatiir ami Major Ilcarsey has bctn tin hired off. Kaeh gcntlciiuiii has taken back all the mean things he said about the other ai.d --xpivssed regret for the trouble between them. Chief Justice T. L. Snodgnss, of the Tennessee Supreme Court, Monday morning lired two shots at John K. l'easoly, a prominent lawyer of Chattanooga, ene of which tok effect in the arm. Mr. Beasely is seriously hurt, but not fatally. WASHINGTON. President Cleveland returned to Washington with live dozen ducks, live geese, thirty-two partridges ami four brant. The national anti-saloon conference was called 1o order at Calvary Baptist Church. Washington, by N. F. Yowles, president of the anti-saloon league of the District of Columbia. Sixty-six organizations are included in the league. The object of the organization is to bring about the abolition of saloons by h-gislatioii. A mass meeting in the interest of the league was held at the First Congregational Church. Capt. Isaac Bassett, the venerable assistant doorkeeper of the Senate, die! at Washington Wednesday afternoon. Capt. Bassett, the "father of the Senate," spent his entire, career as a Scnalo employe. He enjoyed tho distinction of being the second page employed in the chamber and the last o'licial of t list t body elected by ballot, all liubseijucnt offices being filled by appointment. The House passe! a bill authorizing the President to apjMiint a Venezuelan commission ami appropriating $100,000 for expenses. The Senate lid not take tip the Venezuelan dispute directly, but Senator Chandler introduced a bill "to strengthen the military armament." It directs the President l strengthen the military force of the l'nit-l States by alling i.ooo,ooo infantry rille, 1.000 guns fr li Id artillery, ami not exceeding r,000 heavy guns for fortifications. The sum of $1,000,000 is made immediately available for the purpose of the proposed armament. The President Tuesday transferred the whole Venezuela ii controversy to Congress, transmitting, with a vigorous message on the Monroe doctrine, the correspondence between Secretary Olney and Ambassador Bayard and the British Government, ami the Marquis of Salisbury's reply declining t arbitrate the question. Parts f the President's message ring like a call ti arms. Ills promptness in transmitting the Venezuelan correspondence to Congress ami his evident desire to have quick attention thereon was prompted in a large measure by the belief that England and Venezuela were secretly negotiating for a diie'tt settlement of their differences. - The long Iooki-d for report of Secretary Carlisle was sent to Congress Monday afternoon. The riort as a winde is one of the most elaborate and thorough ciositious of the business of the financial

branch of the Government that hav been I

made to the public in many years, and it 'is especially valuable for the 'Memlcd ob servations unlor the healing "The Condition of the Treasury ami the Curron y." As forecasted in press dispatches. Secretary Carlisle holds that the sit-tation !:es not require legislation for raising additional revenue by taxation at present, lie estimates a deficit of S17.hm.ih) th current fis-l year, emling .July 1, is:r, and a surplus of $7,('00,0u0 at the ;:d of the year next- following "upon tln assumption that the progress now being made toward the restoration of our usual Mate of prosperity will continue without interruption." FOREIGN, Nicaragua has dis.-ontinued i's h-pa tioii at Washington as a measure enoujy. The .Ai-u-rh-an liner Indiana -ollideil with a British steamer n-ar Livrpoid and v?-s beached to save the lives of the passengers. Li Hung Chang has s-nt a message the Ameri an people' asking them to send more missionaries to China and promising to protect tlici;, A caravan comprising 1.2ÖO men. vliie en rute from Lldoma. Madagascar, was attackel by Chief Massai's followers while passing the ia tier's kraals. Over l.ooo of the men with the caravan were killed. Justice Barnes, of the Lomlon Court of Probate and livrce, has made absolute the divorce do-r-e in favr d .Idin Rogers, of New Vork. against his wife. Wilhelnone Rog-rs, better known as Minnie Palmer. Sharehol lers of the Bampie lu P'up'. at Montreal have liscovrod that nearly $2.(HM).(xm of the bank's funds has been invesb-d without authority of the dire -tors and accounts have been overdrawn $ 1.. loo.ooo. The ilficial statement of the vintage of Prance fr 1S0. shows the total production to have been 2'i.OSS.ooo h-ctditres. a r'lu tio:i of 12.3(5.". 000 hectrolif res from last year's product, and d l.ol 4,000 from the averag.' of the last t'ii years. All the Paris newspapers whih e'mment upon President Clevela nil's message and the subs-pient action of tho I'nitcd Stntis Congress support the stand taken by Great Britain in the mutter ami protest that Mnroeism is not and cannot be a principle of international law. A dispatch from Mos-ow to Berlin says that a conspiracy against the life of the Czar has been unearthed there. The dispatch adds that a number f bonds have been seized, and that several men and women, including a prominent nihilist leader, have been arrested in connection with the plot. The situation in the Island of Crete is serious. In the attack by a strong Turkish force on the positions occupied by the Christians at Vryse twenty-four Turks were kilh d and thirty-six were wo;inlel. The Christians had live killed and (ight wonmled. At Ali-aiiiio the Turks massacred three men, two women and five children. The Pari - eorrespomlent of Ihe Iondon Pall Mall Giuette telegraphs Monday afternoon that he is in a position to state that M. Fa 11 re, president of the French republic, will resign before March next. He alls that a fresh family scandal has been unenrthe! in cnncction with the President's family. The corrcsp; md-'nt also hays: "Daily hnulrels of newspapers express disgust at the campaign of slander; but there is nt an arthle among them which tloos not instill the venom of calumny." The Pall Mall Gazette intimates that the secret fund ef 200.0m francs which the Klysce palace expended upon the press was nol wisely distributed. IN GENERAL. And now St. Imis wants the Dem cratic national couveutioii. Delegate Tomas Kstrada Palma. Minister Plenipotentiary to this country of ('ul).ns revolutionary Assembly, left Nov York for Wasltingtoti. lie will probably open the Cuban Legation in Washington, for which a house has been rented. He will confer with Congressmen ami Senators before presenting his crctlontials t President Cleveland. Secretary (lonzalo d .uoshi. of the Cuban revolutionary party, will be secretary of the Cuban Legation. Sentiment in this country seins to be very generally in favor of President Cleveland's position uion the Monroe dctrine. Tin? inessag' was warmly received by Congress, ami many Governors have commended it. In Lomlon the message createil a profouml sensation. Neither the press nor public seemel able to appreciate its full scope. It was characterized as "a remarkable do-unient." and the Times taid it "was read in London with blank astonishment." MARKET REPORTS, Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $.'$.."0 to $."i..0: hogs, shipping grades. $:i.00 t .$:;.7."; sheep, fair to choice, Jj.öO to .o.7."; uheat. No. li red, öde to 57c; corn. No. L ;!.".c to IM-; ats. No. '2, 10c to 17c; rye, No. II. ."Mc to i!7c; butter, choice creamery, iMe to li7e; eggs, fresh. Hie to 'SW; potatoes, per bushel, J0e to i0c; broom corn, $J0 to 00 per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, .$o.00 to $1.50; hogs, choice light, $'A.il to $.".7ö; sheep, common t prime. 11.00 to ?.'l.7ö; wheat, No. li, (51c t tUIc; corn. No. 1 white, "lie to liSc; oats, No. li white, lilc to lTh St. Louis-Cattle, $.1.00 to ?Ö.LT; bog. $.'$.00 to S.1.7.".; wheat, N. li red, (li- to tVoc; corn. N. Ii yelh.w, Ii.: to IMe: oats. No. L white, Bio to 17c; rye, No. li, 31c to 3oV. Cincinnatl-Catth to ?L."iO; hogs, $3.00 t $3.70; sheep. $2.00 to $3.70; wheat. No. li, K 5c to (!7c; corn. No. li mixed, Ü7c t liS-; oats. N. li mixed, HOe to lilc; rye. No. 1, .' to 41c. Detroit -Cat tie, $2.50 to $.".00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.7."; sheep, $2.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2 red, (57c to tUc; corn. N. 2 yellow, LIn- to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22-; rye. 37- to 3S Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red. .V to 0(V; corn. No. 2 yellw, 20 to 2Sc; oat. No. 2 white, 10-1 20-; rye. So. 2, 37c to 3Sc; clover seed, $1.10 t $4.2.". BuiTal-Catlle, $2.."0 to $.".2."; bog, $3.00 t $l.0O; sluep. $2.."0 to $3.70; wheat. No. 2 red. 70c t 73-: corn. No. 2 yellow. 32c to ;!3c; oats, No. 2 white, 22- to 2L Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring, ."e to r7c; corn. No. 3. 20c to 20c; oats. No. 2 white. 1S to 10c; barley, N. 2. .'lie to X3c; rye. No. 1, 3Te to 37c; pork, mess, $7.73 t $S.2.". New York-Cattle, $3.00 to $.".2."; hogs, $3.00 to $t.oO; rdieep, $2.00 to $3.."0; wheat. No. 2 red. 50c to 70c; corn, No. 2, 3.3c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamer-, 17c to 20e; eggs. Western, lie to 21c.

STORM AVAS A DELUGE

CHICAGO AND SUBURBS GET A DRENCHING. December Itain Ilccord lirokcu and Streets Flow Iike liivcra-Stoleu Wealth Found in a Mexican Cave Fearful Mine Disaster. City Under Water. Never in the history of Chicago has such a storm dcscendcl upon the city as that which rajriHl from Tuesday to Friday night, l'rom Winm-tka to Last Chica' , and from the lake to the Dcsplaiwcs ltivcr, the land was a vast swamp, interspersed here and there with miniaturo lakes, sojjo of them a doen feet or nntw elcep. fMeadily falling rain, amount ii;. to over seven inches on the h-vel. lluoded tho thy and surroiindinj; country, until the sewt rs became incapable of carrying ff the waler. Hardly an electric car line was running, the tra k& being under from one to live feet of water ever where; people in the suburbs were Iriven from the tirst Moors d" their ;vIi!iigs to tho upper stories; the furnace tin's if hotels, residences and big manufactories were extinguished by the watrs which penetrated to the cellars; and the tracks of the steam railroads were in i uch a condition instructions wer' .uiv-n to eaii engineer to make Ins way carefully through the low lying outitry where tho water is high over the raiis. Jn the downtown district 'f the ity cellars w re llooded. and at many establishments valuable goods were in such lang-r of damago men were k-jt working nights 1 moving them out of ra h of the water. IJooty of Ltntidits Discovered. About forty years ago a wagon train loaIed with valuable go.ls and about in gold and silver, en route from the City of Mexh-o t the Cnitcd Stab, was attacked near Kim-oii, Mexico, by a bainl d brigands and all ihe nn iubers of the wagon train were killed and the booty seized. The robbers wer overtaken a few days later by a detachment of soldiers and all were killed. The money and stores had been secreted by tin outI laws and could not be found. Wclnesday I Itafael Villegas was prosp- ting fr min eral ten miles south of Itincon. when le; came upon the tntiancc to a cave. II! explored the cave, ami found several tacks liil'l with the money taken by tlnj e-xterminatcd band of robbers. . BREVITIES, President Mayer, of the Ualtimore and Ohio, has resigne! and his resignation has been aM-eptcd. but h will retain tin ollice until his successor shall bo elected. The liennett Natbmal P.ank. of New Whatcom, Wash., which wa.s l:rc'd by a sudden run to suspend Xov. 5, with aggtv gate liabilities of .fJSl.eRH.l, has rpeiicd for business. At 9 o'clock Thursday morning, shortly after the day force nunil-rii:g sixtyseveu men had gone on duty at the Cmuno k coal mines, six miles west of Kalcigh, N. ('.. a lire'-damp explosion curred, killing, it is believed, forty-three men. 1'our workmen were fatally injured and nine others badly hurt at Midvalley colliery, Shamokin, Pa., by tin wrecking of a runaway work train. A dozen other workmen savel themselves by jumping into th' brush while the train was dash ing down a steep grade. Theodore Iambert was hanged in the. Camden, N. .1.. jail Thursday niorniu Lambert, murdered William J. Kaiser, a wealthv linker of Camden, on 1 . -I. Willi another colored man. named Tosiah Stevenson, he was caught burg larizing Kaiser's house, and shot lo i-s-c;ipo caiituiv. The steamship Spree strnnde! Thür day morning at r:lU on Warden Ledge, near Ttlanl P.ay. Efforts made iuring the day to lloat her proved fruiih-ss. She had to remain on the ledge until the next tile, at midnight. Her passengers. wh number about ninety in the saloon, remaiiHMl 011 board. St. John's. X. I. dispatch: The const steamer Virginia Lake reports immense destruction all along the coast. The schooimrs Victory, with twenty-two men. and Goldlinch, with fourteen nun, have been hist. Several other vessels are missing. A boat named Peri Pampai was picked up on the Grand Hanks. It is believed to have belonged to a foundered French vessel. Senator Chandler introduced a bill "to strengthen the military armament." It dire-ts the Presid-nt t stivngtln-n the military force of the United States by adding LMK,0H infantry rifles, l,mni guns for held artillery, ami not exceotling 5.000 heavy guns for fortifications. The sum of $l.lMiO,IHX is male iinme.liately available for the purpose of the propositi armament. The application ree-ently male by the State of Washington for salmon from the Pritish Columbia hatcheries has been refusel by the d-partm'nt of marine and fisheries. The ivason assigm-d is that it is not considerotl proper, considering the recklessness and carelessness of tin? United States authority's in the matter of the waste and d'struction of fish, that Camnla should, out of her thrift, supply a competitor in the foreign markets. A largely attended nvontion in th interest of the N'narauga Canal project opened at .lacksnville. Fla., Wednesday, with cx-Gov. F. P. Fleming presiding. The object of the convention, which is the first of the kiml to be hchl in two years, is to take steps toward inducing Congress to give increasel countenance and snipiort t the onst ruction of the canal, and specially to emphasize the valuable results that would accrue to the Gulf States, and Florida in particular, by the successful carrying ut of the enterprise. Hans II. Iehler. wine lealer at San Francisco, has failed. The liabilities are .'J70,SJ7. His assets consist of one suit of clothes. Congressman Woolman. of Chicago, has introduced a bill pndiibiting tho adulteration of beer and ale ami providing line ami imprisonment for violation of its provisions. A Cincinnati man claims to have inrente'd a biycle that goes a mile a minute. Fvaoralcd potatoes is the latest Minneapolis industry, and it bids fair to solve the problem of overproduction. The sugar bounty law has been declarol t be constitutional by Judge Pardee in the United States Circuit Court at New Orleans. George I. Horton, manager of the Purton Stock Car Company, has filed a ieti. tion in insolvency at Hostou. Iiis liabilities are $117,000.

ASKS NOW FOR GOLD:

PRESIDENT SENDS ANOTHER MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. tiroes Iicvitdon of the Finance", and Itcqucats that No lecccss IIcTakjr Until Gold Kcstrvc Ih 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 f our present financial system were plainly poiii'od o-it :.i:d ll:o causes and iiiea:;s of the hph l n of government gold wire cxphumd. It wa therein stated that after :-:l the efforts that had been made by the cxn-utivo branch of tin- government t pri : t our gold reserve by the issuance of bonds, amounting to more than Slt,"J. Uhmi. sm li reserve then anior.nl! to but littlmore than .ST'.M mi.ikm. aho-at 1.hx.000 had be-n withdrawn from su.'.i reI serve during the month next previous t 1 the date d that message, and juite largf withdrawals for shipment in the ;:maoliate future were pi-di-i 1. The contingency then fv :. re-.i lias rea-h-cl us. . ml lh withdrawal of g;;d since t lit commun'n-ation referred to and others that appear inevhable tlireaten sr.ch a d--pleiioii in e'ir government gold reerviiv.i brings us lace to fa.v with th.' necessity ef further action for iis pro;, ction. This condition is inteii-il'cd by the prc-vah-nce in certain jnartrs of sudden and nnr.s inl :ij pre.cn s;.n and timid. ty -n business circles. We r.r' in the mibt of another season of perplexity caused by o".r l:n:geruj and fatuous liuaneial operations. Those may be cxp-ete! to occur with -rtainty as long as there is.ni amendment in our linancial syst-m. If i.l this p:irti-u'ar instance our pri"l:eanu nt is at all iiillacueed by a recent insistence up-n the position we should iM-cupy in our 1 elation to certain questins concerning our foreign policy, this furnishes a signal ami impress!. warning that even the patriotic sentiment of our people is pot an :it!ejuato substitute for a sound iinam-ial polity. (If ciurse there an be no do'iltt in any thoughtful mind as to the complet solvency of our nation, nor can there he any just appn-hensjon that the Atner'n-an pc.p! will be satisfied with less than an honest payment f our publhr obligations in the re'ognizel nion y of tin world. We should md overlook the l'a t, however, that aioiis-d f ar is unreasoning and must be taken into account in all efforts to avert public loss and the sacrifice of our p-op!es interests. Cure for Hccurrins Trimbles. The real ami sensible cure for our recurring troubles an only he effe-tel by a complete change in our lln;i:i'-iai Jciuine. Pentling that the executive branch of the government will not relax its efforts nr abandon its determination to use every means within its r a h : maintain befor' the world American -redir. nor will there be any hesitation in exhibiting its nlidence in the resources of oar country nnd ihe' constant patriotism of 'ur people. In view, however, of the peey.iiar sitr.ation how oonfrnting us. I have venture I to hei' in express the arnosl l.op; that the Congress, in default f the inauguration of a better system of finance, wiH not tak a miss from its labors be for it ha--, by legislative enactment or declaration, done something n t only to ivminl those apprehensive among our pe.p!e that thresources of this government and a scrupuloüs regard for hoii-st dealing afford a sure gu;:rante of umpicstiomd safety and sojindness, but to reassure llie world that with these factors anil the pa t riot ism of our citizens the ability and lett -mi '.nation of our natin to m-et in any circumstances every obligation it incirs 1. m.t admit of truest inn. I ask at th hands of Congress such prompt aid as it alone has il:' power tojrive to prevent in a time of fear and appndieiisioii any sacrifice of the people's interests :iml the public funds r the impairment of our public credit in an effort by executive action to roliev' the ilasigTi of the present contingency. GttovLTt cli:t:i.am. sknati: is as oni; man. Passes the Dill for a Cotumisnioiil' 11a ui in oust. v. Xeither the bluff and blu-tc r of Pritish fmam-iers no" the threats of Wall street operators moved the United States Senate from what it h-enn-d its path of duly Friday. Republicans and Populists joined with Demo. -rats i:i giving the strength of unanimous support to thPresident, who, it was rmii-olt-il, had but pi rfonued his loftiest duty in setting forth in forcible words the eor.cri-to sentiment f Ihe American people in hi rnt message üi the Voimzuckui boundary dispute. The House bill for a Venezuelan cmmisMon passcl the Senate by a viva vmc vte, and not one voice was raided against it nor a singh amendment urgel. It was openly ami bravely s'ated n theSenat 11 or that n--rted action w:t being taken by the niotiey lyagnati's of Fnghind to bring pressure lo bear to set nsi! the threatened investigation proposed by the President through the story that nothing but parly poliths had lU'onipt-! the Ptesiibnt's action; ami it was also proclaimed that Wall street, while the debate was in progress, bad biH'n Hooding the S-nate chamber with t'hgraphie messages proclaiming tho direst pani' on re-orl if the Senate in-sist-l uiKiii atlopting the House bill. Put the Senators wer' nd t be intimidat-l. And Mr. Lolg of Massa husetts, and Mr. Chamller. f N-w Hampshire, tk occasion t serve notice on the moiiev powers f "Linlon. who semed t bo tst living to create a panic by disposing of American securities, that the patriotie sent iinent t the Fnitel States i-ould imt be intluenceil by sinh a course, and that the people of this country should stan-1 up t the last for what they believed to b the right. Congress would do its duty, 110 matter what the financial operators of Wall street might do. Violinist t proudly) The instrument I shall use nl your bouse to-ntorrw even. lug. Mein Herr. Is over II) years obi. Parvenu (Mi. never inind that. It i good enough. No one will know the difference. -Harper's Pazar. Maud Io you really love Tom? Madge-Oh, no; not in the least. Maud riien. why are you suing to marry bini? Madge Oh. lie's such a good fallow I couldn't think of letting anyb nly els et him. Itostou Courier.