Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 31 May 1895 — Page 2

HISTORY OF A WEEK

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political, KeigkMM, Social and Criminal Dolaga erf the Whole World Carefully Condensed for Oar Readers The Accident Becord. There has been no cholera at Mecca since May 23, an unusual thins: there. The Bennington has been ordered to Honolulu to relieve the Philadelphia. The Guatemalan government has made reparation for its treatment of Argle, the American whom it ill-treated in prison. The British commissioner at Honolulu has decided the claims of Walker and Rickard to British citizenship are unfounded. The Ranger, which was ordered several days ago to proceed to Guayaquil. Equador, to protect American interests while the revolution is in progress, has sailed from Panama. The bill reducing railroad fares in Michigan will be killed in the legislature. The Democratic state central committee of Kansas is in session. A free silver address may be issued. County conventions were held in Fike, Scott, Mason, Jersey and Christian counties. 111. All selected solid silver dclepatlons to the Springfield convention. La Salle county will send a silver delegation. Woodford county Democrats favor a gold standard. Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham died at the Arlington hotel, Washington, Tuesday morning at 1:15. There is an unconfirmed rumor among the diplomats at Washington that the Mikado of Japan is dead and the fact is being concealed. The Supreme Court has denied to Eugene V. Debs, president of the A. R. U., and the rest of the officers, the petition for a writ of habeas corpus. They must now serve their jail sentence. Tommy Ryan and "Mysterious Billy" Smith fought eighteen rounds at Coney Island Monday night. Police stopped the affair, and the contest was called a draw. Supt. Byrnes, head of New York's police department, has resigned on a pension. The body of Jose Marti, president of the provisional republic of Cuba, has been captured by the Spanish authorities and exhibited at Santiago. The Ohio republican state convention is In session. Banker St. John of New York has come out in favor of silver. W. N. Harvey, author of "Coin's Financial School," has accepted the challenge of Roswell P. Horr of New York for a joint debate on silver. Hot winds seriously damaged growing crops in Nebraska and South Dakota, It is claimed filibustering expeditions are being formed against Hawaii. The Geary Chinese exclusion law has been affirmed by the supreme court. The funeral of Hugh McCulloch, exSecretary of the Treasury, was held at Rock Creek Church Monday. The convention of railway trainmen in session at Galesburg, 111., declared in favor of supporting at the polls candidates Indorsing measures favorable to railway employes regardless of political affiliatoion. ' The Warren line steamer Sagamore, Capt. Fenton, arrived at Boston from Liverpool with her port bow stove in and otherwise damaged by collision with an unknown two-masted British steamer. Capt. Fenton says that when his vessel was 900 miles east from Boston light, during a dense fog, she came in collision with a strange steamer, the name of which he could not learn. At St. Louis, in view of several thousand people, Tony Heafle dropped from an ascending balloon. His body was crushed to a shapeless mass. Whether the tragedy was the result of an accident or of suicidal design no one knows. Heafle and a number of other young men and boys were engaged to hold the balloon while it was being filled with j gas. When the signal was given all ex- i cept Heafle released hold. He clung to the bar or was caught in the rigging and was carried up a distance of about 600 feet, when he dropped : Reports from Leavenworth nd other eastern counties in Kansas are to the effect that the ravages of the chinch bugs in wheat fields are creating great damage. In Leavenworth county, where the wheat crop has never been known to fail, farmers are plowing up their wheat and planting the fields to corn. Good crops of corn have been raised in Kansas that were planted as late as June 20, and it is believed that corn planted this late will yield well if conditions from this time out are favorable. Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle was the principal speaker at the Southern anti-free silver convention in Memphis. He defended the administration's financial policy. General Schofield Is being mentioned as a silver candidate for president. Joint silver debates are the order of the day. Chancellor Von Hohenlohe will soon retire from public life.t Nicaragua and Costa Rica are likely to become Involved in war over alleged violation of treaty rights by the latter. The Chinese Emperor has issued a proclamation blaming the incompetence of the Chinese officers for the result of the war. Seven villages were destroyed by earthquake in Greece and fifty people killed. In Coldwater, Mich.,- Mrs. Emma E. Barlow committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Claude Thompson, colored, was lynched at Dekoven, Ky., for attempted assault on a 13-year-old white girl. Union and non-union car workers at Indianapolis engaged in a riot but no one was seriously hurt. Mrs. Victoria Machen, widow of United States Senator Willis B. Machen, committed suicide at the residence of her sister, Louisville, Ky. Her health had been bad and suffering had unbalanced her mind. Senator Machen was appointed by Gov. Leslie and served one term. At Effingham, III., Katie Johnson, Maude Myers and Charles Wiley were drowned by the capsizing of a raft on which they were sailing. Sheriff Mullins, of Thurston County, Iowa, has been Indicted by the federal grand Jury for interfering with Captain Beck and his Indian police in the eviction of settlers from the reservation.

FOREIGN. The City of Vera Cruz is nearotiatiner

I n Inon r 1 AAA AAA A Macao dispatch confirms the news that a republic has been proclaimed on the island of Formosa. A dispatch from Athens says gold exchange is rapidly falling. Ten days ago it stood at 86 and now it is at 72, and likely to fall still further. The report that the United States is to act as arbitrator between France and Venezuela In the matter of the dismissal of the French minister is denied at Paris Formosa refuses to be annexed to Japan and has declared her independence. Queen Victoria has knighted Henry Irving, novelist Besant and the poet Morris. London capitalists who had agreed to buy the Rawhide mine at Sonora, Tuolomne County, for something over $1,000,000, have secured an extension of time for thirty days by depositing a forfeit of $5,000 and agreeing to a heavy advance on the original purchase price. POLITICAL. The Tennessee legislature will meet in extra session to consider legislation submitted by the governor and not reached during the regular session. Ex-Congressman Bryan addressed a monster meeting in Memphis in reply to Secretary Carlisle. The New York Democratic editorial association declared against free silver. Scretary Carlisle is being boomed by the anti-free silver democrats for president. FIRES. Fire started in Janasch Bros.' meat market at Gaiien, Mich., and before it could be stopped destroyed ten buildings, all In the business part of the town, south of the railroad. Loss about $15,000, the only insurance being on Prince Bros.' stock, $2,000. Dr. Peck fell from a roof and broke an arm. Bold, Ellis &Co., wholesale stationers In Montreal, were burned out. Loss. $50,000. Flames in the Kansas penitentiary did $10,000 da mace. CASUALTIES. Robert D. Sowers, 26 years old, fell from a fourth-story window of the Erie hotel in Chicago and was instantly killed. Sowers was an oil inspector for Henry McKinney, near Nashville, Tenn., accidentally killed two sisters. A rifle discharged prematurely. While practicing on a bicycle .at Swanville, Pa., John Lossie, the station agent, fell against a passing train and was killed. Louis Penne, agent at Cleveland, O., for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was drowned by the capsizing of a boat. A South Chicago electric car crashed into a wagon containing five persons. The wagon was demolished, one woman was killed, another woman probably fatally Injured, and a third slightly injured. Two young men were slightly hurt. At Owasso, Mich., David C. Hood's 2-year-old son drank carbolic acid and died. Bill Fields, a mule driver, and Neal Brandle, a miner, were killed in a mine accident at Birmingham, Ala. In a Cincinnati Southern freight wreck, caused by a broken axle, near Danville, Ky., Thursday night, Stanley Davis, from Chattanooga, and D. R. Stokes, a negro from Georgia, both tramps, were killed. Five other tramps were slightly wounded. At Pratt mines, near Birmingham, Ala., a train of tram cars going up a long slope broke loose and ran back down at fearful speed. William Fields, who was on one of the cars, was dashed off and mashed to death. Neal Brandie, a mine boss, was run over and died from his injuries. Two mules were killed and a dozen men narrowly escaped death. CRIME. Mareau Carroll, a merchant of Iowa City, Iowa, has disappeared and is charged with beiajf a defaulter to the extent of $6,000. At the Troy Presbyterian church In the Nicholasville, Ky., district George and John Montgomery, brothers, and Arch D. Riley fought with pistols, Riley being killed and George Montgomery fatally wounded. Many persons narrowly escaped while the shooting was going on, as the church yard was -filled with people. At Moorehead, Ky., Marshal Moorehead and two deputies in a fight while attempting to arrest William Sturgill, a noted desperado, riddled him with bullets. Mrs. Carrie Alexander, 43 years old, the wife of a junk dealer in Chicago, attempted to kill her 18-months-old girl and herself in a horrible manner. The deed was committed with a bread-knife having a blade a foot long. With this she cut her baby's right wrist, dividing the arteries and almost severing the hand from the arm. Then she cut her own left wrist in the same manner. Mother and child were taken to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where they arrived unconscious from the loss of blood. A panic was created in a colored people's church In Orange, N. J., by a young woman, who fired two shots from a revolver at a faithless lover. In a quarrel over a game of pool at Evansvllle, Ind., John Horner struck John Smith on the head with a cue, causing his death a few hours later. Despondent from continued illness, Edward Downing, of Lexington, Mich., rode to Lake Huron and drowned himself. In 'Ashland, Wis., Mrs. Thrush and Casper Emmert were held by Judge Foster to answer at the next term of Circuit court to the charge of murdering Mark Thursh. Deputy marshals had a fight with Zip Wyatt's gang of outlaws in Woods county, Oklahoma Territory. Wyatt was wounded and his horse was killed. Peter Barr and James Stewart have been arrested at Leadville, Colo., on suspicion of being two of the three men who robbed the Wells-Fargo Express office, near Cripple Creek, of $5,000 several weeks ago. The jury In the Callahan case at Kalamazoo, Mich., after being out twenty-five hours, disagreed, and the case will be retried. Callahan is charged with attempting to murder WHHam Wir-lrxvlfo rif PlimflT. Mlnll ' last fall.

LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

CHICAGO. Cattle Common to prime. $1.75 .15 Hogs 3.00 4 Sheep Good to choice.... 1.75 . g5 Wheat No. 2 May 75 Corn No. 2 May 52 70 25 .78 4 53 .29 MVa 12A .57 .85 .36 Vis .65 .52 32 Oats 294 Rye 63 Eggs 11 Potatoes Per bu 40 BUFFALO. Wheat No. 2 spring S2Vi5 Corn No. 2 yellow 59 Oats No. 2 white 35M. PEORIA. Rye No. 2 64 Corn No. 3 white 51 Oats No. 2 white 32 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 2.00 i Hogs 4.45 4 Wheat No. 2 red 83 , Corn No. 2 521,i Oats No. 2 29 , MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 spring 76 Corn No. 3 54 , Oats No. 2 white 32 . Barley No. 2 .48 , Rye No. 1 66 . KANSAS CITY. Cattle 2.50 5. Hogs 4.10 4. .75 ,65 MV .53Vi 29 Vs 76 .54 Vi 32 49 67 Ms 75 50 Sheep 3.60 5. NEW YORK. 75 Wheat May 78 Corn No. 2 57 Vi Oats No. 2 32 Butter 7 TOLEDO. 78 58 33V4 18 Wheat No. 2 SO . 80 V4 54 31Jj Corn No. 2 mixed 54 Oats No. 2 mixed 31 MISCELLANEOUS. State Treasurer Phillips, of South Dakota, has floated $98,000 in school bonds, sufficient to put the schools in good shape. Owing to the death of one of her crew from yellow fever the Mexican Prince has beeen detained at quarantine in New York. Cubans in New York at a mass meeting agreed to contribute one-tenth of their weekly wages to aid the insurgents now fighting the Spaniards. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds has decided that the pension claims of a mother at the date of her soldier son's death cannot be rejected solely on the ground that he did not contribute to her maintenance. Prof. Chamberlain, for thirty years chairman of theology of the Irish Reformed Presbyterian Synod, Is dead. Lawton Hathaway & Co., lumber dealers at Detroit, Mich., assigned to J. M. Longwell. At Peoria, 111., the Manhattan, a distilling and cattle feeding distillery, and Hanover, independent, shut down. The Great Western, trust house, has reduced its capacity from 3,300 to 2,500 bushels a day. The wheat boom drives up the price of bread in Kansas. English capital will buy the Rawhide mine in Sonora, Cal. Capitalists of Alabama have formed a $100,000 company to mine gold along Santa Creek. Temporary organization of the Pueblo and Silver Cliff railroad company was effected at Pueblo, Colo. The capital will be $500,000. The general assembly of the Presbyterian church has declared for unfermented wine for the communion service. The Mexican minister denies that the export duties proposed by Mexico on silver and gold are discriminating against American capital. He says the scheme is to distribute equally between all the silver producers of Mexico the present taxes, which now lie on some classes of miners Judge Ricks of Ohio has decided that municipal bonds issued without a popular vote are worthless. Many millions of dollars are involved in the decision. The Presbyterians are to raise $1,000,000 for the different missionary societies. Justice Field will not retire from the supreme bench while Cleveland is president. Polish Catholics of Joliet have quarreled with their pastor, who has been removed to Chicago and the church closed. The Citizens' Street Railway Company of Elkhart, Ind., is in danger of losing its franchise because of a failure to construct a line in the specified time. Mrs. Sophia Peterson, of St. Joseph, Mich., has sued Mrs. Elizabeth Vandervere for $20,000, alleging slander. Mrs. Vandervere has filed a counter suit for $25,000, charging Mrs. Peterson with aleniating the affections of her husband. William Price, a prominent business man of Champaign, 111., is dead. George Laibel and Miss Annie Nelson, midgets of the Mrs. Tom Thumb company, were married at Minneapolis, Minn. Gold has been struck in paying quantities at Renville. Minn. The military surgeons, in session at Buffalo, elected officers, Louis W. Reed, Norristown, Pa., being chosen President. Next year's meeting will be held at Philadelphia. The saddlery hardware manufacturers at Pittsburg failed to effect a combination, but will try it again in a couple of weeks. An agreement was made to slightly advance prices. Secretary of War Lamont has been officially informed that the Indians in Arizona are restless, and that a feeling of insecurity prevails. Strengthening of the military posts is urged. The Rev. Anna Shaw advocated at San Francisco the placing of women on the Police Boards of large cities, alleging that it would result in the material suppression of immorality. The great Walnut Creek dam, near Phoenix, Ariz , which was washed away in 1890, is to be rebuilt at an estimated cost of $350,000. There is a big boom in the car building industry. Valuable gold deposits have been discovered in Brown county, Ind , The Michigan legislature has passed an anti-treating law. The Illinois penitentiary is not making any money in its convict workshops and a legislative committee has recommended that no more industries be added. The long overdue French steamer La Gascogne has arrived in port, an accident to her machinery was the cause of the delay. . The ex-Confederate veterans met in reunion at Houston, Texas. General John B. Gordon, Miss Winnie Davis and other prominent southerners wers present.

DECIDE TO UNITE.

SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS FORM AN ALLIANCE. Our Neighbors to the South Will Be Powerless No Longer If Threatened with Force from Europe News Notes by Cable, Washington, May 27. New treaties of far-reaching importance have recently been made between Nicaragua and Honduras, and official copies have been received in Washington. The treaties have been under negotiation for some time and were finally put into effect by proclamation the 15th of last month. They are the first practical step toward the formation of a Central American nation out of the several small republics Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Salvador and Cost Rica. The first treaty forms a defensive alliance in case of foreign war and offensive alliance against common enemies, and it obliterates commercial frontiers so that foreign goods once admitted to one country are free to enter the other. An express provision is made against the possibility of war between the countrieu by an article requiring differences to be adjusted by arbitration by sorr,e government on the American continent. Article 53 is the one looking to the union in a single nation, and is as follows: "The high coniracting parties solemnly declare they cannot and will not consider as foreign the other Central American countries, and they will labor constantly to maintain the family bonds and the greatest cordiality in their relations, making a common cause with them in case of war or difficulties with foreign countries, and mediating in their international relations. To this end the present treaty

EXCITEMENT IN THE WHEAT PIT, CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE, WHEN JULY WHEAT JUMPED UP TO 83 CENTS.

will be submitted to their consideration, inviting them to subscribe to it as a common contract American treaty until the arrival of the day "when they shall be incorporated in a single nation." Still Believe lu Crlspi. Rome, May 27. The elections in Italy yesterday resulted In an overwhelming victory for Premier Crispi. Returns from sixty-six districts show the following elected: Ministerialists, 61; Constitution opposition. 14; Radicals, 4; Socialists, 5. Yellow Fever in Cuba. Washington, May 27. Advices from Havana are to the effect that the situation in that city with reference to yellow fever is unchanged. Dispatches from Santiago say that in that city all regular hospitals are crowded and that in the country thereabout many hospitals have been improvised, which are also full. Will Not Act as Arbitrator. Paris, May 27. The report that the United States is to act as arbitraror between France and Vennezuela in the matter of dismissal by Venezuela of the French minister is denied. Confirms Formosa Dispatches. Lisbon, May 27. A Macao dispatch received in this city confirms the news that a republic has been proclaimed on the island of Formosa. MARSHALS ARE DISCHARGED. Whisky Tvust Distilleries at Peoria Still Guarded. Peoria. 111., May 27. The deputy United States marshals from Chicago who have been guarding the Distilling and Cattle Feeding distilleries, left today. Regular watchmen were sworn in this morning to take their place. Representative S. Shaffer, of Chicago, author of the house bill to prohibit feeding of distillery slop, is in the city today. He says the house will do nothing about the matter until it comes to them from the senate, and the house commitee, which made the investigation, will not make a report because the senate committee report is substantially what theirs would be. Fatal Fire in Racine, Wis. Racine, Wis., May 27. The residence of Alexander Horlick was badly damaged by fire yesterday, and Mrs. Arnold Robens, mother of Mrs. Horlick, was fatally burned, the result of a gasoline explosion. Mrs. Robens had lighted a gasoline stove, when the explosion occurred, the flame striking her on the face and hands. Both eyes were destroyed, and, as she is 75 years of age, the injuries will prove .fatal. She is a pioneer of the city, and prominent in society. The damage to the house will exceeed $3,000. Crusade Against Bucket-Shops. Quincy, 111., May 27. The grand jury indicted all the bucket shop and commission house proprietors, including J. W. Christy, Frank T. Evans, and A. L. Kull, who are Chicago operators with branches here. There are ten indictments and the grand jury threatens to follow up by indicting the owners of buildings in which bucket shops are operated under the act passed by the legislature in 1SS7. Mount Vesuvius Is Actlv. Naples, May 27. Mount Vesuvius is in an unusual state of eruption. The seismic instruments in the vicinity are must active.

ST. LOUIS READY FOR WORK.

Big American Liner Starts on Hot Ocean Test Trip. Philadelphia, May 27. At 11:45 to-day the pioneer of the modern American merchant marines, the giant steamship St. Louis, cast off her hawsers at Cramps' shipyard and started down the Delaware river on her Initial ocean voyage. As the big steamer pointed her nose down the stream she was greeted by all kinds of craft in the river, the noise being simply deafening. This was continued until the St. Louis had passed League island, the extreme lower end of the city. The St. Louis is the largest vessel that has ever sailed down the Delaware river. She Is In command of Capt. Wm. C. Randle, and the crew of 100 men who sailed away with her to-da will take the big vessel on her init al voyage across the Atlantic. The St. Louis will anchor to-nfght at Reedy Island. To-morrow morning between 2 and 4 o'clock she will weigh anchor and run down to the capes where her compasses will be adjusted and the trial trip will be on. It is expected that she will remain at sea from four to five days and then go to Nev York. The contract for the St. Louis calls for a speed of twenty knots an hour, but It Is thought that she will easily surpass this speed. TO REMOVE THE BAN. Effort to Be Made to Reconsider the Boycott of Union Seminary. Pittsburg, Pa., May 27. The ninth day's session of the 107th general assembly attracted more than the ordinary number of commissioners for this late day. The word had been passed to the conservative leaders that the liberals were moving toward the repeal of their pet measure, the boycotting of the students of Union seminary. To this end Moderator Booth has been besieged by some of the influential friends of the seminary, and It is understood the plan is to reconsider the vote of Wednesday which placed the ban upon that institution. The report of the standing committeQ on theological seminaries was read today by Dr. F. C- Montfort of Cincinnati. William I. McEwen of Pittsburg waa announced as the chairman of th $1,000,000 memorial fund committee. An overture calling attention to the "flagrant violation of the Sabbath by congress," on the last Sunday of its session and asking for an expression of condemnation by the general assembly having been presented, an answer In accordance with the request was reported and adopted by vote of the assembly. The answer carried with it a recommendation for a petition to congress, praying against a repetition of this act. CAPTURE A MAIL ROBBER. Federal Officials Make an Important Arrest at St. I-iOuls, Mo. St. Joseph, Mo., May 27. Since January 1 letters containing money destined to points along the Union Pacific railway have systematically disappeared, and although the government bad its shrewdest detectives at work on the case they never discovered the guilty man until Saturday, when suspicion was directed to Samuel F. Holliday, chief of the letter force of the St. Joe office. Shortly before daylight yesterday morning Inspector George Sutton went to his house and placed him under arrest. In his clothing was found a part of the money stolen from letters the day before. Holliday confessed, and said he had robbed the mails since January in order to support an extravagant wife. His method was to steal money letters, open them, and after taking out part of the contents reseal them and send them to their destination. He has secured several thousand dollars, and the department has spent over $3,000 in trying to capture him. MURDERED BY A FIEND. Six-Year-Old May Shannon of Cohoea, N. V.. Assaulted and Slain. Cohoes, N. Y., May 27. Anna May Shannon, a pretty little blue-eyed 6-year old daughter of John Shannon of this city, went upon the street to play with some companions. Some time later, three boys, playing near the Hudson, say a body floating, partially submerged. The body, which was that of the little Shannon girl, was dragged ashore. There was a gaping wound in the right temple. The body was taken to an undertaking establishment and the coroner ordered an examination. Physicians found the poor little creature had been brutally assaulted. The body presented a frightful appearance. Grasshoppers Worry Farmers. Green Bay, Wis., May 27. Grasshoppers and army worms have made their appearance in great numbers in this vicinity. It was thought the recent frosts had killed the pests, but this is a mistake, and farmers are seriously worried. Silver Convention for Memphis. Memphis, Tenn., May 27. The Central Bimetallic league of Memphis has issued a statement to the public calling a free silver convention for Memphis for June 12 and 13, which they hope will offset the results of the recent convention-

TRADE SITUATION.

DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE. MARKETS. General Improvement Is JToted The Injury to Wheat by the May Snow and Frosts Did Not Amount to Much, According to Latest Advices. New York, May 27, R. G. Dun & Co. 'a weekly review of trade says: "If wheat has been so greatly injured by the snows and frosts in May that the sudden rise of 12 cents in two weeks Is justified the calamity will effect all not believe It, for stocks do no collapse, iron, leather, and hides still rise, and no holders of wheat would sell at 80 cents, a lower price than has been known, at this season for thirty yeans prior to 1893, if current reports were credited". Some Injury has undoubtedly been sustained, but our own dispatches do not show that it is really seriously. The temper is to buy, regardless of visible requirements, in the faith that prices are sure to rise. Western receipts of wheat for three weeks have beem larger than last year In spiteof storms and' frosts. But the rise has practically stopped buying to? export, as the similar rise did In Aprils 1884, which was followed by about the lowest prices then- ever known. Whether grain, has been greatly injured or not,, foreign markets will take early occasion, to fortify themselves from other sources. The week's sales here have amounted! to 155,000,000 bushels, and accounts of damage by frost and by insects are somixed up that some traders infer the bugs must wear overcoats. "Corn rose 3 cents during the week,, though much of the corn killed may be replanted. Pork rose 50 cents per barrel, lard 5 cents per 100 pounds, and; oats 2 cents. Cotton also advanced cent during the week, with sales of 1,556,200 bales, current estimates putting the decrease in acreage at 13.5 percent and the crop at 7 350.000.. Even this, with the known commercial audi spinners' stocks, would give the world for the year and a quarter to come moreAmerican cotton than it has ever consumed in a year and a half. "Purchases of dry goods in the belief that prices must rise have kept the textile mills fairly busy, but the demand for cotton seems slacker on the whole, and print Cloths are a sixteenth weaker. "Failures this week have been 207 la the United States, against 183 last year,, and 23 in Canada, against 28 last year." LETTER FROM CLEVELAND.. Addresses the Democratic Editors of New York State, New York, May 27. The two daysstay of the Democratic editors came toan end with a banquet at Delmonico's.. The banquet hall was taxed to its full capacity, covers being laid for 250. Colonel William Brown played the role of toast master. After the banquet Colonel Brown, in a witty speech, introduced John A. Mason, who thanked the Democrats of Gotham for their hospitality to. the visitors. Mr. Mason then read a letter from President Cleveland, which evoked tumultous applause. After expressing regret at his inability to hepresent, the President, in his letter;, said: "When a campaign is actively on foot to force the free, unlimited, and independent coinage of silver by the govermment at a ratio which will add to our circulation unrestrained millions of socalled dollars, intrinsically worth but half the amount they purport to represent, with no provision or resource to make good any deficiency in value,, and when it is claimed that such a proposition has any relation to the principlesof Democracy, it is time for all who-mp.y in the least degree influence Democraticthought to realize the responsibility.. "Our party Is the party of the people,, not because it is wafted hither and. thither by every sudden wave of public popular excitement and misconception, but because while it tests every proposition by the doctrines which underlie Usorganization, it insists that all interests should be defended In the administrate tion of the government without especial, favor or discrimination. "Our party is the party of the peoplebecause in the care for the welfare of all our countrymen it resists dangerousschemes born of discontent, advanced! by appeal to sectional or class prejudices, and re-enforced by the Insidious , acts of private selfishness and- cupidity. "Above all, our party Is the party of the people when it recognizes tb tmxA that sound and absolutely safe money is the life-blood of our country's strength and prosperity, and when It teaches that none of our fellow citizens, rich or poor, great or humble, can escape the consequences of a degeneration of our curre.-icy. "Democratic care and conservatism dictate that if there exist inconvenience and hardship, resulting from the congestion or imperfect distribution of our circulating medium, a remedy should be applied which will avoid the disaster that must follow in the train of silver monometallism." Letters of regret were also received from Secretary Lamont, PostmasterGeneral Wilson, Oscar S. Strong, and ex-Recorder Smythe. Then Toastmaster Brown introduced Senator Hill as "the Democrat who stands for all that is pure and grand in Democratic politics." The Senator was accorded a perfect ovation as he rose to speak to the toast, "Democracy." Heavy Rain In NebraskaOmaha, May 27. Rain fell In many parts of the state last night and continues to fall in the western counties to-day. At North Platte an inch of rain fell In an hour. Polk county received a drenching. Crop prospects are materially Improved. Six Years for an Ex-Judge. Springfield, Ohio, May 27. Ex-police Judge Charles E. Morris, who stole by a series of straw mortgages $10,000 from the Citizens' Building and Loan association, was arraigned, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years In the penitentiary. For a George B. Shaw Memorial. Eau Claire, Wis., May 27. A movement has been inaugurated by members of the Knights of Pythias to erect a memorial to the late George B. Shaw, of this city, who filled the position of supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the world.