Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 7 November 1893 — Page 3

WmM FOUL. XURDER OF MAYOR RAftlZISOS OF CHICAGO.

Shot Down in His Own House Without Warning.

Awwln Swrrenlflers to the PoliceWorld's Fair City la Mourning Heart-Bending' Crime.

Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago,

assassinated at his own home In that

city, Saturday evening. Three of the four shots fired by the assassin took effect in the body of the Mayor. One bullet entered the abdomen, another pierced his body to the right of the right nipple, plowing its way through the axillary region, and a third lodged in the palm of the left hand. After the assassin had completed his work he turned back to the door, the butler of the Harrison household at his heels, ted across the lawn and cut of the gateway leading to Ashland boulevard, north on that thoroughfare to Adams stret, and east on Adams street out of sight. Forty-five minutes later Patrick Eugene Prendegrast, excited, out of breath, and

CABTKB H. HARRISON. nting from bis long run, bounded up e steps of Desplaines Street station, and, sanding a revolver across the desk to Serfeant Barber, admitted the crime and was oeked up for it. Shortly after dinner, Saturday night, ike Mayor, feeling fatigued, laid down on in ottoman in the dining room of the mankm There had attended him at the meal William Preston Harrison, Miss Harrison, ale daughter, and Miss Annie Howard, his tfflanced wife. All of these, save the Mayor himself, lad repaired to rooms above. There were two servants in attendance, Mary Hansen snd Maggie French, when, as near as any oe can approximate the time, at 7:15 f clock the door bell rang and. the former ti the two servants named went to the loor. Standing between the glass and Rorm doors, his hat pulled down pretty well over his eyes, was a stranger. "I want to see Mayor Harrison," he Aid, in response to the servant's inquiry. Mr. Harrison is sleeping," answered fee girl, "and cannot be disturbed." "But," insisted the caller," I must see atm. I have important business with the Mayor and cannot be put off." The girl insisted that she could not Moose the Mayor, but advanced the opinio that he would of his own volition awaken in half an hour or so. The caller tad barely gone before tho Mayor did awake and began to walk about the loom and around the dining table, with his hands folded behind him, as was his kabit when in. a meditative mood, b answering the bell the second time Mary found the same stranger, and again faeide the storm-door inclosure, She bade him enter, and, as she admitted him too the threshold and turned to call the Mayor, she states that the latter had already walked into the hail and was approaching the door. The stranger doffed Mi hat and with extended hand was walking toward the Mayor. The latter had accepted the proffered greeting as Ihe girl closed the door of the servants' loom in the far end of the hall after her. Five minutes must have elapsed after the stranger had been admitted, Mary states, when she heard three shots in rapid succession. An instant latter a fourth shot was fired. This shot was discharged on ihe lawn, and was aimed at Mayor Harrison's butler, who, after the first shot was ired, divined the truth, and grabbing

FRENDZR6A8T THE ASSASSIN. its own revolver made for the hall jast as the assassin had leaped out of the house and was making for the street. Seeing that he was being pursued, the murderer turned about on the butler and fired one shot. The bullet flew wide of its mark, as it was dark under the shadow of the trees and shrubbery, but the butler returned the fire, which proved equally Ineffective. Preston Harrison, son of the Mayor, was soon at the side of his wounded father, who said "I'm shot, get a doctor' Dr. Foster, who lives, a half square distant, was hastily summoned and made an examination, during which the patient bore up heroically but said he was doomed so die and called for his affianced wife, Mist Annie Howard, but that lady had already become irresponsible from grief and excitement and the Mayor shortly expired without peeing the one for whom

he was must solicitous in his last mo ments. The assassin U a ns carrier, aged about twcnty-fvo. Ho claims thathi Mayor hud promised him a position ai corporation counsel as a reward for hte influence in his ward, as he had alwayf been for Harrison, and that the position had been given to another. Ho shot the Mayor in rovengo for what he considered unfair treatment. Close questioning by the police would seem to indicate that Prendergast is mentally unsound, but nol sufficiently unbalanced to escape the law'i avenging hand. Corporation Counsel Kraus said in an Interview, Sunday: ''I have had some experience with this man Prendcrgast. I regard him as crazy, but not too crazy to hang for what he has done. Shortly after I was appointed corporation counsel this Prendergast began writing me threatening letters in red ink. He warned me that 1 had better get out of mv office, as he wanted the place foi himself. At first I paid no attention to the man, as he seemed about half crazy, and I did not give his letters a second thought. One day, recently, Prendergast came to my office and took a seat just outside my private office. I heard he was out there, and thought I might as well go out and send him away. He then told me that I must resign as corporation counsel so he could get the place. To humor him I told him that a good lawyer could not afford to give up a lucrative practice for the position, but he Insisted that he wanted the place. Then I told him all right, he could have it, and asked him if he wanted me to resign right off. 'Oh, no.' he replied, 'you seem to be a pretty good fellow, so don't be in any hurry about resigning.' Carter Henry Harrison was born near Lexington, Ky., on Feb. 15, 1S25, and may be eaid to have inherited his taste for political life. His great-great-grandfather was the ancestor of President William Henry Harrison, his grandfather a cousin of Thomas Jefferson, and he himself a cousin of John C. Breckinridge. His political career has been confined to one term in Congress and he was serving his fifth term as Mayor of Chicago at the time of his death. Mr. Harrison spent the summers of 1874 and 1875 in Europe with his family. He was elected Mayor of Chicago in 1879,1881, 1883, and 1885. Against his own desire he was nominated for Governor of Illinois in 1834, and during the fall of that year conducted a most energetic and brilliant canvass which resulted in cutting down the Republican majority of 37,033, enjoyed by Governor Cullom to 13,500. Mr. Harrison was married on April 12, 1835, to Miss Sophy Preston, who came from a distinguished Southern family. His wife dying in Europe in 1876, he married in 1883 Miss Marguerite E. Stearns, daughter of one of Chicago's oldest and most respected and wealthiest citizens. The second Mrs. Harrison died in 1886,

MUSEUM FOR CHICAGO.

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Marshall Field Will Give SI. 000,000 and George M. Pullman S 100, 000. One million dollars cold money will be given by Marshall Field to the museum which is to be the outcome of the World's Fair. Mr. Field names conditions which willSbe easily compiled with. They are simply that 1503,030 more be subscribed and that the stockholders of the World's Exposition subscribe 12,000,000 of their holdings, which represent an investment of 15,000,000 but are worth much less. The biggest stockholders never expected to realize anything on their investment, and they have already expressed a willingness to turn over all the stock they have. The trustees of the museum have no doubt that a majority of the $5,000,000 of the. World's Fair stock will be turned over to them. As to the $500,030 to be raised before Mr. Field's munificent offer is secured, $100,009 has been unconditionally subscribed by George M. Pullman. The balance, it is said, will be raised in a few days. Giving the Clerk a Tip. Detroit Free Press. The swell hotel clerk felt that he had taken his guest's measure very accurately as the newcomers set down his basf by the counter and reached for the register. 4 'What are the prices of your

rooms r inquired the stranger.

Two dollars and upwards."

Two dollars and downwards you

you mean, don't you?" inquired the guest meekly. "No, sir; it is just as I said. If you want cheaper rooms you will have to go elsewhere." The guest was as serene as a May morning. , "On what floor are your $2 rooms?" he asked. "Top floor." "Anything on the roof?" The clerk looked surprised. "Of course no t." ''Where are a; your high-priced .oms?" "On the lower floor." "You don't go up from the $2 rooms to get to them, do you?" "Certainly not." "You go down from the $2 rooms to get to them, don't you?" The clerk began to catch on.

Yes, sir," he said. "If you"

That is to say interrupted the

guest, "your prices are $2 and downwards. Give me the best you've got in the house," and the clerk bowed so low that his diamond stud was thrown completely into the shadow. The Handle on the Gup. Kate Field's Paper. It takes the "well-brought-up" child to discover the hidden meaning of things. The other evening, at Mrs. E 's, in K street, somebody was showing a picture of an artistic loveing cup which had just been presen ted to a famous actor by his professional brethren. One of the party remarked that it had always been a marvel to him why a loving cup should have three handle. "I can account," said he, "for one handle as belonging to the lover and the other as belonging to the beloved; but the third handls " The shrill voice of Mrs. E 's youngest, who has seen two elder sisters pass through the marriageable period, piped out: 1 'That's for the chaperon.'1

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HOPE FOR HAGGARD. Fresh Material For South African Romances.

King Lebengula and His IinpM Routed with Great Slaughter. A dispatch to the London Daily News, Wednesday, from Ft. Victoria, South Africa, says that the Matabeles have been routed, and that the intense anxiety which has so long'existed is now relieved. All the advancing columns had a share in tho skirmishing on the march, which was necessarily slow. On Friday the Matabele Impi opened a determined attack upon the majority of Major Force's column. The fight was vigorously sustained, but the Matabele could make no impression on the white forces who held a position in the Laagaer. The Matabele were moved down on ail sides and finally were com pelled to retire with heavy loss. Fresb Impis resumed the attack the next day, Maj. Forbes and tho combined columns being then within a few miles of Euluwayo. The blacks fought with bravery, as was expected of them, but in face of the machine guns and unerring rifles of the whites they could never get within striking distance. THE END OF ALL

Funeral of Mayor Harrison at Chicago. With the solemn pomp and imposing ceremonies befitting tho interment of the former chief magistate of the World's Fair city and his pitifully dramatic fate, Carter H. Harrison's body was escorted to Graceland cemetery, Wednesday, by an immense throng of sorrowing citizens. Tenderly the remains were borno from the black-draped and flower-scented corridor of the City Hall, where they had rested in state, and placed in the funeral car. Through the great crowd that had gathered to see the murdered Mayor's last leave taking of the scene of his ardent labors in behalf of the city he loved, the black car slowly passed and took its place in the waiting procession. As it drew into line the march was taken up and the thousands who had gathered to do honor to the dead moved slowly through the crowded streets, with banners draped and to the sad music of the funeral march. From the center of the city the great procession marched across the river and to the beautiful Church of the Epiphany, near the late executive's home. All along the line of march the people with sad faces and bared heads, watched tho somber columns, At the church a throng as great as that which had been about tho City Hail was gathered. A peculiarly pathetic reminder of the dead Mayor came into view immediately following the threat black golden hearse a thoroughbred mare, saddled and bridled, but riderless. In many a labor riot, or fierce election contest, thousands of people had seen the dashing Mayor press forward on that same thoroughbred into positions of danger few public men would dare to go. To see the noble looking animal led ionesomely behind the hearse of her master was a sight that not many witnessed un moved. After the services at tho church an immense cortege followed the remains to their last resting place. SOME DRAWBACKS. A Thanksgiving: Proclamation With Num. rous Reservation and Recommendations. Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, Wednesday, at Salem, issued the following unique Thanksgiving proclamation: 1 do hereby appoint the fourth Thursday of the present month as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessings he has bestowed upon this commonwealth during the present year. God has indeed been most beneficent to our State and Nation. And yet unjust and ill-advised congressional legislation haying made gold alone a full legal tender money has so dwarfed and paralyzed business that the bounties of Providence are now denied to hundreds of thousands of people within the national domain, who not only are without employment but also without the means of procuring food, raiment or shelter. While, therefore, the people of Oregon return thanks to God for His goodness, 1 do most earnestly recommend that they devoutly implore Him to dispose the President and Congress of the United States to secure restoration of silver as full legal tender money in accordance with the policy of the fathers of the Republic, whereby our Industrie may be revived and honest toilers of the land may procure their daily bread, not as alms, but as the reward of their labor."

POTTER PALMER'S DONATION.

He Will Give 9200,000 to Erect a Wo nan's Memorial Hull ding. Potter Palmer has given $200,000 to build a Woman's Memorial Building on the lake front. This fact was announced by his wife as the crowning end of the closing ceremony in the Woman's Building at the Fair, Tuesday. They gift so completely nonplussed the board of lady managers that for more than a minute the audience was hushed. Then the enthusiasm broke out with a wild huzzah. Those on the stage rushed to Mrs. Palmer and grasped her hands and fell upon her neck. The scattering men cried "Bravo!" and for five minutes the sepuichral sadness of the funeral occasion was loudly broken for the benefactor and shouts for his wife. It has now become quite the fashion to be princeiy generous toward the people, and Chicagoans are beginning to cry long live the commercial kings.

A QUEER STATUTE. But the Supreme Court Says It Most Stand. Wednesday the Supreme Court decided that the McCabe election bribery law, passed by tho last Legislature, is constitutional. This law' provides that any bribed voter is privileged to obtain judgment against the man who is guilty of the bribery in the sum of $300. The case involved was that of Charles Reedle against Peter Schoonover, appealed from Warren county. In the November election of 18W) Schoonover was a candidate for clerk of the court and is alleged to have purchased Boodle's vote for $10. The latter obtained judgment in the lower court for the $300 allowed by the McCabe law, and the Supremo Court atlirms the decision. Denver business men say tho outlook i improving.

THE EXTRA' SESSION. The Senate convened, Saturday, at the i expiration of the rocess. at the usual hour.

Speeches were made by Messrs. Wolcott, Sherman and Gorman. Then the voting on amendments began. The first was the Perkins amendment. It was defeated yeas, 30; nays, 41. Mr. Berry offered an amendment providing for the revival of the Bland-AHison act and spoke in its support. Mr. Voorhees opposed tho amendment. "You all admit that this is a pernicious law," Mr. Voorhees proceeded. "Even its distinguished author, with a manliness that does him honor, admits that the experiment failed which he hoped might have succeeded. The opportunity will be given for freer, fairer, more deliberate action on propositions embodied in amendments than we have in connection with this bill. The Senator from Ohio announced here today that I had opposed an amendment which he had contemplated, authorizing the issue of Government bonds. I did for the reason that I am opposed to all amendments of this bill." Mr. Voorhees said he hoped to have a vote at 2 o'clock Monday, and certainly not later than 4, on tho bill. Mr. Berry's amendment for tho restoration? of tho Bland-Allison law was rejected by a vote of 33 yeas to 37 nays, the highest vote any amendment received. Mr. Allen's amendment for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 was rejected 31 yeas to 41 nays. Mr. Blackburn's amendment was rejected 28 to 42. Mr. Stewart's amendment, inviting the republics of Central and South America to join the United States in a convention, was rejected 32 yeas to 41 nays. The first section of Mr. Squires' amendment was rejected 20 to 42 and the second section was withdrawn. An amendmdnt offered by Mr. PefTer was rejected yeas, 7; nays 53. Mr. Allen's amendment was lost, the vote being 28 to 41. Mr. PefTer offered an amendment, which as voted down without resorting to a roll call. Mr. Harris did not otter or ask a vote upon his amendment, Mr. Pascoe otfered an amendment, which was not road but was ordered printed, with the understanding that it could be offered on Monday. The Senate then went into executive session, at the expiration of which a recess was taken until Monday at 11 a. m. The Senate, Tuesday morning, was opened with prayer. Mr. Pugh called up House bill regulating time of holding courts in South Dakota and it was passed Bill extending time for final payments on desert lands was passed. Mr. Blackburn offered the following resolution, which was agreed to: "Resolved, That the committee on rules be instructed to inquire and report to the Senate what revision of and amendments to the rules, if any, should be adopted to secure a more efficient and satisfactory disposition of the business of the Senate." The Senate, at 1:30 p. ra., went into executive session, after which it adjourned. In tho -House, Tuesday, 250 members were present when Speaker Crisp dropped the gavel. After the reading of tho journal Mr. Cummings secured unanimous consent for the consideration of the Senate joint resolution transferring the model of tho battle ship Illinois at tho World's Fair to the city of Chicago. Without opposition it was agreed to. At 12:50, while Mr. Oatea was speaking, Mr. Cox, of North Carolina, tho secretary of the Senate, came into the House bearing in his arms the repeal bill. Georgo B. Smith, the assistant doorkeeper, escorted Mr. Cox down the center aisle. Tho Speaker rapped for order. "The gentleman from Alabama," said the Speaker, "will suspend for a moment while the House receives a message from the Senaee." All eyes were turned toward the two figures in the main aisle. "I am directed by the Senate," said Mr. Cox, his words racing and tumbling after each other, "to inform the House that the Senate has passed an act to repeal a part of an act approved July 14, 1890, entitled an act directing the purchase of silver bullion and for other purposes, with an amendment, to which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House." Mr. Livingston asked unanimous consent to proceed to the consideration of the repeal bill, but Mr. Bland vehemently protested and said the bill should take its regular course under the rules. A debate between Mr. Reed and Mr. Dockery over the expenditures and alleged misdeeds of the Fifty-first Congress ensued. A debate on the bankruptcy bill followed. Bill to aid tho World's Fair prize winners exposition at New York was favorably reported. At 5:17 the House adjourned. In the Senate, Wednesday, Mr. Berry reported a bill for the construction of a railroad through the Hot Springs reservation, which was placed on the calendar. Mr. Hill offered a resolution to amend the rules and prevent endless filibustering, which was referred to the committee on rules. Mr. Hill also offered a resolution, which was referred to the committee on rules, providing for an amendment to the rules to authorize the presiding officer to count a quorum present but not voting. Mr. Hoar sent up to the clerk's desk a bill and a memorial which he asked to have read. Mr. Turpie objected, retaliating upon Mr. Hoar for a similar objection the day before. Mr. Hoar appealed to him to withdraw his objection, but Mr. Turpie insisted upon preserving the "parity of courtesy." Mr. Hoar said the bill provided for the appropriation of $50,000 for the relief of the sufferers from the recent storm in the Sea Islands, on tho coast of South Carolina, and that the memorial had been prepared by Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross society. At tho request of Mr. Butler Mr. Turpie withdrew his objection and the memorial was read. Consideration of the Chinese exclusion act was resumed and Mr. Dolph addressed tho Senate in defense of the Geary law. At ?:55 p. m. the clerk of the House of Representatives appeared at the bar of the Senate and presented tho bill, repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, and announced the concurrence of tho House in the Senate amendments to the same, A few minutes later tho Vice-President annexed his signature to the bill. The Senate soon afterward adjourned. The House session, Wednesday, was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Kagly, tiie new chaplain. The Speaker laid before the House, House BUI No. 1. with Senate amendments. Mr. Wilson moved to concur and demauded the previous question. Mr. Bland said he had hoped that tho measure could be considered in the regular way. Tho area in front of the Speaker's chair became crowded with members and the aisles were choked. Mr. Bland continued to speak and advocated further delay. Mr. Wilson stMl demanded the previous question and tho vote was then taken on the motion to concur in the Senate amendments. Tho motion carried by a vote of 1V1 to M, Tho House at 4:10 adjourned.

TflE 1VE WSOFTHE WEEK Pittsburg had a big fire, Friday. Loss, 1350,000. Said that there are 200 pension spies working about the country. Clarksville, Tenn., confederate monument dedicated, Wednesday. Typhoid fever has broken out among the convicts in the Ohio penitentiary. The Georgia Legislature met Thursday. It will remain in session fifty days. The su leading wholesale drug houses of St. Louis have entered into a trade combine. A Mayor will bo chosen by the city council of Chicago to serve until an election can be held. A movement is on foot to consolidate all the sewer pipe manufacturing concerns of the upper Ohio valley. Th Rev. Mr. Haddaway, chaplain of the House of Representatives, died at Washington, Thursday. "Fritz" Emmett, the actor, was placed in jail in New York on complaint of his wife, who alleges abandonment. Henry Menzle, while playing "ghost" in the graveyard at Egg Harbor, N. J., Thursday night, was shot and dangerously injured. One hundred thousand dollars Is to be deposited with the sub-treasury at St. Louis to bind the purchase of Cherokee bonds by the English syndicate. At Dallas, Tex., Charles Hampton fell into a cotton seed crusher at the elevator and was ground to a pulp. One leg was thrown out on the roof of the building. The big Pittsburg fire of Friday was caused by the explosion of a barrel of whisky in the warehouse of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company. Eight persons were seriously injured. Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of ex-United-States-Attorney-General Garland, committed suicide at her home in Washington by shooting herself, Friday morning. She was thirty-four years old, and s thought to have been insane at' the time. The City of New York, outward bound for China and Japan, left San Francisco at 3:30 p, m., Thursday, and an hour later ran upon tho rocks in the Golden Gate under a full head of steam. She will probably be a total loss. All hands escaped. Rev. Edward Bagley, pastor of the Christian Church of Washington City, was chosen to succeed the late Samuel Hadaway as Chaplain of the House, Tuesday night. Mr. Bagley is aged twenty-eight and is said to be a very boyish looking young man. Tho remains of Carter Harrison were borne to the City Hall, Tuesday, there to lie in state. Dense crowds thronged the streets and sidewalks for blocks around the Carter Harrison mansion on Ashland boulevard and witnessed the start. In the main it was not a fashionable multitude, but it was such a one as the famous Mayor best liked to move among and speak with. Near Sedalia tho skeleton of an Indian chief has been unearthed in a fair stato of preservation. An old stump of a tree which had grown over the grave indicated that the body had been buried there several hundred years ago. On each side of the head, on what are supposed to be the ears, but which look like old pieces of leather, there were five coils of gold wire. POREIQN. The Spanish trouble with the Moors at Melila have assumed a serious aspect. The Brazilian insurgents are said to be on their last legs. Peixoto is rapidly gettine the upper hand in tho contest. There is no disguising the fact that considerable uneasiness exists in Europe at the present situaiion of the powers, and this uneasiness is increasing as the nature of the Franco-Russian alliance becomes known. END OF TIIE FAIR. The World's Columbian Exposition a Thing1 of the Fast. The official life of the World's Fair has ended. Monday evening was to have been one of gaiety and dazzling brilliancy, but the death of Mayor Harrison changed all that. Tho meeting at Festival hall during the afternoon was brief. The audience was detained just long enough to hear an earnest prayer by the Rev. Mr. Barrows, a few explanatory remarks regarding the change of program by President Palmer, the reading of an appropriate speech by President Higinbotham and the resolutions of sympathy concerning Carter Harrison's untimely end. These resolutions were read by H. N. Higinbotham, president of tho World's Columbian Exposition, who began in a clear, firm voice which grew husky and trembled for a moment with emotion when a certain passage in tho resolutions was reached. Mr. Harrison and Mr. Higginbotham had been long associated. The Fair was declared closed by Thomas W. Palmer, president of the National commission, in tho following words: Jt was intended to close this Fair simultaneously with thesoundof this gavel, the tiring of artillery and tho lowering of the liag. All that has been changed by the sau circumstances which bring us together now. I announce that when the sun sets tho closing will bo markeJ only by a salute and the hauling down of tho flag. When that takes place I declare, in obedience to tho act of Congress, the Exposition has officially closed." THE MIDWAY CLOSED.

UNCONDITIONAL REPEAL End of the Great Debate in tha Senate.

Many of the exhibitors on tho Midway have desired to continue for at least another month, tho majority being under contract to go to California for the Midwinter Exposition, but Tuesday night tho executive committee of tho Fair ordered it closed and the director-general promulgated the order. Jackson Park, tho World's Fair grounds proper, will be open, but midd ay never again. All gato entrances to tho palisade will be closed, also the entrance to it from tho grounds proper. Concessionaires cannot continue business. From Wednesday morning no one will even be allowed to walk through the famous Midway Plaisanco without a special pass.

VdrtyThrft For, ThlrtyTiro Agalasl Sensational Scenes. At 7:26 p.m.,Monda7,by a vote of 43to3S, the Senate, after one of the most remarkable and memorable parliamentary battles of a generation, passed the bill unconditionally repealing the purchase clause 61 ' the Sherman silver law. The end wu reached at the conclusion of a continuous session of fourteen days, after sixty-OM days of debate, during which five volume of the Congressional Record had been filled with speeches. The closing day of the great struggle was one of intense excitement. The galleries were flacked to the (Joors, every seat in the Senate waa occupied and the walls were lined with.. Representatives from the lower branch of Congress. The aegis of Senatorial courtesy was no protection in the last moments. Gray-haired men inflamed by tht fiery passions that always characterize the close of a bitter contest, did not spare each other. Senator Morgan, with words that fairly burned, heaped his denunciation on Senator Voorhees, the leader of the administration forcos, and Senator Wolcott, the Colorado hotspur, concluded a fierce philippic against Senator Carey with the Spanish proverb of "Sancho Paw za;" that "it was a waste of lather to shave an ass." Senator Jones, with an emphasis that will never be forgotten by those who heard him, warned those about him that the end of the fight marked but the beginning of the battle that would be waged before the people. Senator Stewart had the last word. When tho white-bearded Nevadian, look'ng like an ancient patriarch, sank back in his seat. Vice President Stevenson for the last time announced t hat the bill was before the Senate for amendment, it took almost ten minutes to call the ral and arrange the pairs. When the Vice President announced the vote, 43 ayes, 32 nays, Mr. Voorhees straightened up to; his full length. It was a personal victory for him. I now move,', said he, with a note of triumph in his voice, "that the Senate adjourn until to-morrow at 12 o'clock." PRECAUTIONS AT WASHINGTON.

A bi-alc.unun oa the Chieijro & Alton locked three- murdoi-outt tr.injp in a re friorator-ear. Tiiey have uu ice way of doing things on that Hue. Ueoemou is ouro;ia;uy. Jiven in suo,h conservative ptuces us Milline:' stores there have bosu several bolts of ribbon.

Both the White House and Senate Chamber Guarded Against Cranks, Murderer Prendergast's incoherent ravings against President Cleveland and United States Senators were a source ol much comment among Senators, Tuesday. The additional fact is now developed that the Senators have been terrorized for tht last six weeks, not only by Prendergast but by an army of letter writers, who have threatened to assassinate Senators Individually and blow up tho Senate with iynamite. Letters of this kind were received by Senator Hill, of New York, Senator Mills, of Texas, and Quite a number of others. They were di&posed at first to treat the letters lightly, as the emanation of harmless cranks, but as the missives became more threatening in character, steps were taken to prevent personal . assault on the Senators, and also to guard the Senate chamber from the depredations of cranks. The pagos were warned to maintain secrecy, as thero was no desire to create a needless scare. It is the first time, so far as is known, that any such precaution has been taken in either branch of the American Congress It appears also that there has been much uneasiness at the White House as a result of threatening letters during the past six weeks, A short time ago two uniformed policemen were stationed on tht marble portico leading to the frontdoor, the first time in the recollection of the officials of the White Hou3o that blue t coats and brass buttons had been seen guarding the entrance to the executive mansion. As a further precaution an officer was stationed at the top of the first landing, where a narrow passage way leads to the private office of the President. Heretofore these halls have been open to all comers and uniformed ushers have been the only ones to take precautions against dangerous intruders. It is be-

lKtbClS f ? lHW LPUb tug vw ----- cials declined to say anything on the subject when inquiries were made. The let ters from Prendergast to the Scnatora

ident thatit is thought that Prendergast wrote direct to the White House.

SMALLPOX AT DUNKIRK.

Health Authorities Are Not Taking Xec sary Precautions. Secretary Metcalf of the State Board of Health has received a communication from the secretary of the Dunkirk Health Board which states that very little or no precaution is being taken there to prevent the spread of smallpox. When Dr. Metcalf left there a few days ago he was under the impression that tho local authorities would be able to suppress the disease and did not concern himself seriously about the single case, as thero had been but few person? exposed to tho infection. The secretary of the Dunkirk Board informs him that a meeting of the County &nd City Health Boards was called but tho meeting "took on a political turn and nothing was done.'1 Dr. Metcalf will make a trip to Dunkirk to try to get the local boards to do what is in their power Lo suppress the disease. PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER.

ITlve Persons Drowned In an Electric Car Casualty. An electric car, Wednesday morning, Dlunged off the Madison street bridge at Portland. Ore., into the Willamette river. heavy fog was prevailing and the draw vas open for tho passage of steamboats. The car contained about fifteen passengers, ten of whom escaped by jumping, ut the remaining five wore drowned. Two of the bodies that have been recovered have not yet been identitied. Tho resident of iho road, conductor and mo.or in an are under arrest. The vegetarians have another mite )f encouragement in the recent itatemcnt of a musical writer, who vlleyes that fine vocalists are rare in :ountries where iish and meat diet jrevail, and that the voice deprecU; ttes as families grow rich and in ircae the amount of meat consulted.