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HKNTON. MISSOURI.
Tn new United States cruiser Colum
bia, on her trial trip, on the 23d, made
a speed of 4 knots, with natural
draught.
Admibai. Gervais will be delegated
by the French government to attend
the marriage of the czarowita to Prin
cess Alix of Hesse.
Tns Salvation army is to erect an
right-story headquarters in Xew York,
The building Is to be erected In the
feudal style modernized.
Quekx Victom.v rvlebrated her seventy-fifth
birthday anniversary on the
24th. She was born May 24. 1819. and
Bucceedei to the throne June 20, 1837.
As investigation by the house naval
committee of the armor-plate frauds
began, on the 23d, by a subcommittee
of five members three democrats and
two republicans.
' The president, accompanied by Secre
taries Carlisle and Gresham and Capt.
Kobley Evans, of the lighthouse board,
Brrived in Washington, on the 24th, on
the lighthouse tender Violet.
From inside sources It is learned that
Hawaiian Minister Thurston will not
return to Washington, but will accept
the portfolio of minister of foreign af
fairs in President Dole's cabinet.
Ei.eves HfXPRED persons in Xorth
Dakota have pledged themselves to pay
five dollars each per annum to insure a
fund of S5.500, to be expended in prose
cuting offenders against the prohibi
troy law.
It was reported, on the th. that Mr,
Labouehcre was to advance the capital
necessary to start an aggressive daily
newspaper in Dublin devoted to the
interests of the llealyite faction of the
Irish party.
Titb Presbyterian general assembly
at Nashville, Tenn., adopted a resolu
tion, on the 22d. enjoining purity in
the lives of church members, and con
demning those who violate the seventh
commandment.
Col. Frkpehick G. Skinner, one of
the editors of Turf. Field and Farm,
died, on the night of the 23d. at Char
lottsville, Va. He was a protege of La
favctte. bv whom he was taken to
France and educated.
Senator Morgan, chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, has not
lost sight of his Nicaragua cannl bill,
but frequently discusses the matter
with his colleagues. He expects to see
the bill passed by this congress.
IIev. Barton W. Johnson, associate
editor of the Christian Evangelist, of
St. Louis, died, early on the morning
of the 24th. of consumption, the result
of an attack of la Grippe. He was CO
years old and a native of Illinois.
The Pan-American Bimetallic associ
ation, composed of representatives f rom
the L mtcd States. South and t entral
America and old Mexico, met in con
gress in Armorv hall. Washington, on
the 22d, under the presidency of Col. C,
Fisk, of Denver.
Advices from Samoa to the lith are
that King Malietoa had given Aana
rebels until May 19 to lay down thtir
arms. 7f they refused he would attack
them at Atua. The government troops
were ready for action, and the rebels
seemed inclined to fight.
The
in the
number
I'nited
of commercial failures
States for the week j
ended on the srith.-as reported bv 11.
Dun & Co., was 1S3. its compared with
2.10 for the corresponding week of last
year. For Canada the failures num
bered 25, against 14 last year.
Mrs. U. S. Grant, accompanied by
members of the St. Louis Loyal Legion,
visited Ironton. Mo., on the 21st. where
the party viewed a monument com
memorating lien. Grant's first reception
on his receiving his commission as
brigadier general from President Lin
clon. The house committee on rules re
ported back a substitute, on the 22d,
for the Dunphy resolution authorizing
the house committee on naval affairs
to investigate the so-called armor-plate
scandal with which the Carnegie
works, of Pittsburgh, Pa., are con
cerned. The condition of Representative
Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, had so far
improved, on the 25th, that he ex
pected to be able to leave Washington,
on June 1, for Berkley Springs, Va.,
where he purposes remaining until he
has fully recovered. His physician has
no doubt of Mr. Simpson s ultimate re
covery. It was reported from Washington, on
the 24th, that in all probability the bill
admitting Utah to statehood would be
passed by the senate in the course of a
few days. The opposition that had come
from one of the eastern republicans had
been withdrawn, and he was said now
to admit the equity of the claims of the
territory to statehood.
Striking miners inaugurated a reign
of terror at Battle Mountain, near Crip
ple Creek, Col., on the 25th, by blowing
up the shaft house at Strong mine, and
casting 100 pounds of dynamite down the
shaft where eleven non-union men were
known to be at work. The deputy
sheriffs in charge were disarmed by
women and the strikers were masters
of the field.
Xewb from Hawaii received per steam
er Gaelic, arrived at San Francisco, on
the 21st, says that of the eighteen dele
gates elected to the constitutional con
vention which meets in Honolulu, on
the 30th, fifteen were born and recred in
Hawaii; two have been there since child
hood, and the eighteenth is a man of
long residence, thoroughly identified in
all his interests with the country of his
adoption.
Th British cruiser Blake, com
manded by Capt. William Des V. Ham
ilton, carrying the flag of Vice-Admiral
" Kir John O. Hopkins, K. C. B., com
. standing the noVln""Atlantio squadron,
: and the cruiser Tartar, commanded by
, Capt. Henry L. Fleet, dropped anchor
ia Boston harbor on the 23d. They
were the first British war ships to visit
. that port since the civil war, and lavish
entertainment for their officers was pro
vided y
NEWS AND NOTES,
A. Summarj of Important Event.
FIFTY.THIRD CONGRESS.
In the senate, on In Slit, consideration at
the tarts bill tu resumed, the items In the
glassware. nd chins schedule, recurved at the
request of senator Aldricn. strain irolng over,
and schedule B, "Metals and manufactures of
steel," betas taken up,. Discussion of the first
Item, an amendment placing Iron ore on the du
tiable list, led to a dlsousalon which occupied
almost the entire day, It was then temporarily
withdraw to nllow Mr. Peltcr to offer on amend'
lent admitting Iron dt free of duty.
Which was rejected: Y, 4: nays. 40 in
tne house. In committee of the whole, a resolu
tion was Adopted declaring that the law under
wnicn the speaker had been docking salaries
of absent members had been repealed by subse
quent legislation.
Is the senate, on the Ed. eight Hrais of the
metal schedule were disposed of. the most lm
portnnt being that which puts Iron ore on the
dutiable list st the rate of 40 cents a ton. Mr.
Teller made s speech discountenancing the
practice of taunting democratic senators with
inconsistency, and declaring that the pending
Dili was better than any republican senator
had hoped to get In the house, after unim
portant general business, the legislative, judi
cial and executive appropriation blU was
taken up In committee of the whole.
In the senate, on the 23d. the feature of the
day was the speech of Senator Gorman Idem.,
Md.) in support of the tariff bill and in defense
ct the democratic position upon It. Only two
pages of the bin were disposed of In the
house, alter passing two unimportant bills, the
legislative, executive and Judicial appropria
tion bill was taken up In committee of the
whole, and the fourth day was devoted to its
consideration. More rapid progress was made
than on any previous day. There was a contin
uation of the adverse discussion of the civil
service commission,
IX tho senate, on the 24th. much time was
taken up by Mr. Hale's reply to Mr. Gorman's
speech In support of the senate tariff bill end
defenxe of the democratic party. The para
graph fixing the duty on tin plate at 1 !- cents
per pound, as In the house bill, was agreed to.
Other paragraphs of the bill were amended and
disposed of ...... In the house, consideration, in
commit tec of the whole, of the legislative, ex
ecutive and Judicial appropriation bill was con
cluded, and the bill was reported to the houe
and passed, nil the amendments adopted in
committee being rejected. As passed the bill
carries t.'l.lu.!.
Is the Senate on the 2Sth the nctui progress
made in the consideration of the tariff
bill was greater than on any previous
day. some thirty-live paragraphs having
been disposed of. The metal schedule
(C) was concluded with n reservation
of the paragraphs ns to lead, line and watches.
and the wool schedule (D) was reached In
the house. It being district of Columbia day.
the entire session wo devoted to district busi
ness, a night session being held for the consid
eration of private pension and relief bills.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Tils Rrst American congress of lib
eral religions societies convened in Chi
cago, on the 22d. to continue four davs.
M. BofRGEols was asked, on the 2:'.d.
by President Carnot of France to form
a cabinet.
The -Chilean government has or
dered all customs duties paid in gold.
B. F. Hi giiks. R. F. Weed and Charles
O'Brien, leaders among the common
wealers who stole a L"nion Pacific train
at Montpelier. Idaho, and run it toCoke
ville, Wyo., where they were captured,
were sentenced by Judge Biner. of the
United States court, at Cheyenne, Wyo..
on the 23d. to five months imprisonment
ia the Laramie county jail. Twelve
others were sentenced to four months'
imprisonment.
At 3 p. m. on the 23d the First na
tional bank of Longview. Tex., was
robbed by four men, resulting in the
death of one robber, named tieo. Ben
nett, and one citizen. Geo. Bucking
ham, and the mortal wounding of J. W.
McQueen and City Marshal Matt McEl
roy and the serious wounding of T. C.
Summers and C. S. Leonard.
Gov. Wkrts of New Jersev has signed
the bill which recognizes the state med
ical examiners and prevents anv person
or number of persons from practising
the so-called system of fuithcnrism,
mind-healing and laying on of hands.
C. 11. J. lAYI.oli. tne colored Kansas
man whose confirmation to K recorder
c f deeds for the District of "Columbia
h;is leen hanging lire in the senate.
was connrmcd in executive session, on
the 2Bd, the vote standing : to 15.
The yawl of the missing schooner
J.cm Ellsworth, supposed to have
foundered in the center of Lake Michi
gan during the recent terrible storm,
was recovered, on the 24th, near
Waukegan. 111.
An incendiary fire, supposed to have
been in revenge for sending Mansfield
valley rioters to jail, completely de
stroyed the Schutt Coal Co.'s store, at
Bridgeville. Pa., on the 2:ld.
The condition of Emma Juch. who
had been seriously but not dangerously
ill at Ann Arbor. Mich., was so much
improved that she was enabled to leave
for her home on the 2.ith. All her en
gagements for the present trip had
been canceled.
United States Coxsri. - General
Crawford at St. Petersburg has made
on exhaustive report to the state de
partment upon the new Siberian rail
road connecting the Pacific with Euro
pean Russia. He says the principal
sections will be completed within two
years.
Mil. Gladstone's right eye was suc
cessfully operated on for cataract in
London on the 24! h.
On the 24th there were nine murder
ers in the Polk county 'jail at Des
Moines, Ia.
The banquet tendered to Admiral Er
ben. Capt. Mahcn and the officers of the
United States cruiser Chicago, by offi
cers of the English navy and amy and
distinguished citizens of Great Britain,
was held on the night of the 2 1th in
St. James' hall, London. Two British
ravul officers escorted each officer of
the Chicago to his allotted seat. The
officers were in uniform. The other
guests were in evening dress.
Ex-Gov. John L. Bkveridge of Illi
nois, in discussing the divorce suit be
gun by Kuehne Beveridge-Coghlan, his
granddaughter, against Charles Cogh
lan, the actor, cays in plain terms that
the Beveridgo family will take means to
punish Coghlan for his course toward
the girl.
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas populist, is a
very sick woman at Olathe, Kas. Dr.
Koby, of Topeka, and several physicians
from Kansas City have held a consulta
tion and her son Charles is with her.
She has sciatic rheumatism in her left
hip end leg and inflammatory rheuma
tism in her right hand.
The main factory of the Estep Glass
Co., at Marion, Intl., was burned to the
ground on the 24th. A gas pipe that
-cd the fires in the hot-oven burst,
causing a terrible explosion, and soon
covered the entire building with flames.
Loss, 810,000; fully covered by insur
ance. Blanche Mackey climbed out of the
window of her parents' residence in
Dubuque, Ia., on the night of tho 24th,
and eloped with True Spence, an elec
tric lineman. The father and mother
gave chase, but she outran them and
climbed into a waiting buggy, in which
was Spence, and they drove to Fair
play, where they were married. .
. Frank Staharp, of Lawrence Mon
ty, Ind., who ia under $4,000 bond to the
United States court for attempting to
bribe Juror Armstrong, in the Indi
anapolis national bank case, has skip
ped, leaving his bondsmen in the lurch.
On the 24th. in the federal oourt at
San Antonio, Tex., Jack Davis, a well
known citizen of Eagle Pass, was fonnd
guilty of attempting to bribe Bob Dow,
a customhouse official, to smuggle thir
teen Chinese into the United States from
Mexico.
. Tns police of Belgrade, Servia, have
discovered ft secret cartridge manufac
tory where ammunition for the Peabody
rifle, with which the Servian militia is
armed, has been turned out in large
quantities. It is estimated that 3,000,
ooo cartridges have already been set to
the provinces.
Michael Bash and wife, an aged
couple, started, on the 24th, from Clin
ton, Ia., in a road cart drawn by a
single mule for an overland trip to New
York city.
Gov. Flower of Xew York has velotrl
the bill prohibiting the display of for
eign flags on public buildings.
The 14-year-old daughter of Frani
Mueller, a farmer living near West
Plains, Xeb., was found by her lil"c
brother, on the 25th. fatally shot.
Pending an investigation. the communi
ty was disposed to hold the father re
sponsible for the crime, and threats of
violence were freely uttered.
The grand court of the I nited Com
mercial Travelers convened in Army
and Navy hall, at Cleveland, O., on the
25th. for a social session. A busing
meeting followed, and at night the vis
itors were tendered a banquet by the
local court.
African advices of the 20th state
that the British garrison of 200 men at
Fort Maguire. on Lake Yassa. repulsed
2.000 Arabs under the slave trader
Makanjira. The Arabs fled, leaving
110 dead. Makanjira surrendered.
Gen. Lord Frederick Roberts, for
merly commander-in-chief of the army
in India, will succeed Gen. Rt. Hon.
Viscount Wolscley in the autumn as
commander of the British forces in Ire
land. Francis kamacciotti. a foundling, 7
years old. has been declared legal heir
to $30,000 by the probate judge at Oinu
ha. Neb.
Hew I'F.iiRV Gokpon, of Emanuel
church. Boston has accepted a call to
Emanuel church in Geneva, Switzer
land. T. pk SorsA Rosa, the Portuguese
minister at Washington, was. on the
25th. appointed to the Paris mission,
the highest diplomatic position in
Portugal.
The Queen's Own Rifles, of Toronto,
went to St Thomas. Ont.. cn the 24th.
to join in the eelcbration of the queen's
birthday. George J. Wilds, United
States consul, displayed from the win
dows of his office an extra American
flag in honor of the day. Some of the
members from Toronto became angered
at the American consul's act and tore
the flag from its staff.
Svit for damages of S100.000 was be
gun in the United States circuit court
in Chicago, on the 25th. by the French
republic against the World's Columbian
exposition. The litigation grows out of
the French government's claim for dam
ages to goixls injured during the Manu
factures' building fire.
Anahi'ac Lodge. No. 141, Scottish
Rite Masons, held a lodge of sorrow in
the City of Mexico, on the 25th, in
menu ry of the late I!. T. Sanitz. of St.
Louis, who died of typhus at Zacateras
a week previous. The deceased leaves
a widowed mother in St. Louis.
Gen. Sin Donald Stewart and Gen.
Lord Wolscley were, on the 25th, ga
zetted fciid marshals. This is an ex
ceptional honor. There have only been
five such appointments previously, two
of the cpp.dntees being the prince of
Wales and the duke of Cambridge.
The American Baptist Publication
society began its seventeenth anui
vtrsary at Saratoga. N. Y..on the 25th.
Forty-nine new publications have been
issued during the year.
The firt consignment of the 20.000
tons of soft, coal ordered in Wales by
American concerns arrived in New York
on the 25th. The coal came on the
steamship Monomy from Cardiff.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Ix the senate, on ths 2dth, Mr. Hill
made a motion to place lead ores on tho
free list in accordance with the act'lon
of the last house, the declaration of tho
Chicago platform and the speech of Sec
retary Carlisle advocating that policy.
It received but two votes besides his
own. The dutv was fixed at three-
lourths of a cent per po-ind. The re
served paragraphs of the lhetal schedule
were then disposed of. . . .In the houte,
discussion of the bill to repeal the stnto
banlc tax occupied most of the session.
but the measure went over without ac
tion. Several bills of no general im
portance were passed.
The imports, exclusive of specie, at
the port of New York, for the week
ended on the 2'ith. were 85.0110. 87S, of
which SI, 050.453 were dry goods und
S4,ii54,420 general Merchandise. For
the corresponding week in 1S!3 the im
ports were 810,337.501, of which Pl.fi24,-
5S0 were dry goods and SS, 752,012 gen
eral merchandise.
The weekly statement of the associ
ated banks of New York for the week
ended on the 2(ith shows the following
changes: Reserve, decrease, 81,397,425;
loans, decrease, 8233,300; specie, de
crease, 8388,000; legal tenders, decrease,
51,511,100; deposits, decrease, 83,037,100
circulation, decrease; 837,ijO0.
Mrs. Cleveland and her babies re
turned to Washington on the 2tith.
During the afternoon the president and
.Mrs. Cleveland took a long drive out
to their country place. What their
plans will be for the summer was
matter not yet determined definitely.
The government -inspectors have
looked over the breakwater at the har
bor at Ashland, Wis., and found that
the recent storm caused damage esti
mated at 850,000. Thero is a fund of
110,000 available for repairs, which will
be nsed at once.
Gov. Pattisox of Pennsylvania, ae
companied by Adjt-Gen. Greenland,
visited the Clearfield coal region, on
the 26th, to make a personal investiga
tion of the miners' strike situation in
that district,
Rev. Edoab H. Gray, tho venerable
Baptist minister who was chaplain of
the United States senate at the time of
President Lincoln's assassination, died
in San Francisco on the 25th, aged 80.
The steamer City of Peking arrived
at San Francisco on the 20th, from the
orient, bringing intelligence that chol
era is epidemic at Canton, many deaths
occurring daily.
Ox the 20th the banks of New York
held JT7.00 1,700 in excess of the require
menu oi tne -o-per-ceni. rule.
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Comatonwnf.
There were twelve graduates, divided
equally between the sexes, from the
Boonville high school. The school
board has re-elected Prof. F. W. Ploger
as principal of the school for the next
term, and also elected the entire corps
of other teachers.
The closing exercises of the Cooper
institute, Boonville, was held the other
evening, Misses Stella and Cora Speed
being the graduates. This closes the
twenty-fourth year of this seminary,
and the most prosperous one of its ex
istence. The seventh annual commencement
exercises of the Joplinhigh school were
held at the Club theater, there being
nine graduates. A diploma from the
Joplin high school admits the holder to
the state university.
The commencement exercises of the
Macon public schools were held at
Johnson opera house. Nine graduates
of the grammar department were con
testants for a gold medal. The first
medal was awarded to Mary Stone and
tha second to Waldo F. Smith. This
contest was held the evening previous
to commencement.
Sew Postmanter.
Alliance. Bolllneer eountv. E. K. Stevenson
Vice J. H. Stevenson, resigned.
Cednr Creek. Tanev pnuntv. C. C Collinfl. Tire
J. 11. Deed"., resigned.
.mumi. uutier county, ueorge w. mil, vice
P. ti. Potillo. resiuned.
Abli. MtssiHsiuDl eountv. Mrs. J. J. Kennedy.
tico F. M. Holden, resigned.
'Jnrroll. Cnpe Girardeau county, Mary A.
Cean. vice M. W. Hntcher. resipned.
riontll. St. Louis eounty, J. K. Pitts, vtec
Eirhard Pitts, resigned.
Buckhart. Douglas county, S. M. Nelson, vice
3. A. Anker, resigned.
uu'uiiigton. Moddaru eounty, cindereuus
Koohs. vice C. L. Taylor, resigned.
Camden Point. Plutto eounty, W. P. George.
Tire Hcrtha Prior, removed.
Dora. Oznrk eounty, F. M. Francis, vice Anton
Fischer, removed.
.-Sallornn. Hutler county, G. M. Harmon, vice
M. A. Hnlloran. resigned.
Hartshorn. Texas eountv. W. J. Stephens.
viee H. Cole, resigned.
Leeds. Jackson county, M. C. Polfcr, vice I.
T. Atkins, resigned.
Mendon. Chariton eounty. Corlnnc Blakey.
Vice C. W. Welling, removed.
Swan. Taney eounty, H. J. Hinkle, vice M. W.
lli'i-ricli. resigned.
'i nornneld. uzurk eounty, F. M. Bloomea, vice
G. W. Peary, removed.
ullcv Kiilce. Dunklin county. W. L. Craig.
Vice W. J. Oxley, resigned.
NEW POST OFFICES.
Xefv. Adair eountv. Win. F. Mahood. uost-
muster.
Missouri Pre Delegate.
John A. Knott, president of the Mis
souri Press association, has named the
following delegates to represent this
state at the National editorial conven
tion to be held at Asbury Park, N. J.,
July 2, 3. 4. 5 ond fi: J. T. Bradshaw,
Lebanon Bustic; John W. Jacks, Mont
gomery City Standard; O. D. Gray,
Sturgeon Leader; Henry C. Bell, Potosi
Independent: Henry W. Ewing, Jeffer
son Uty tribune; Perry S. Kader,
Brunswick Brunswicker; John A.
Knott and Secretary W. M. Monroe, of
Tipton, were made members of the
delegation by vote of the Clinton con
vention. The First National of Sedalla.
Beeeiver Latimer is nearing the end
of his examination of the affairs of the
First national bank of Sedalia. G. G.
Thome, the government expert sent to
Sedalia by Comptroller Eckles. has fin
ished his labors and left for Washing
ton with the report of Mr. Latimer,
who is acting in the dual capacity oi
examiner and receiver. Beceirer Lat
imer declines to make public the nature
of the report, but gives out the ambigu
ous information that his duties as re
ceiver may require his staying in Se
dalia at least three weeks lontrer anr
possibly for twelve months.
The Schuster Assignment.
The failure of Adam N. Schuster, of
St. Joseph, a short time ago for 8500,-
100 premises to result in endless litiga
tion. Lastern creditors who were not
named in the deed of trust given to J.
W. Walker at the time of the failure,
and creditors who arc so near the bot
tom of the list that thev fear their
claims may never be reached are. pre
paring to bring suits against the trus
tee for the collection of their claims,
and. in some instances, the recovery oi
their goods. Nearly all these creditors
are eastern manufacturers.
Ia Trouble With I'nele Sam.
Charles A. Hancock, a school-teacher
of Harrisonville. Cass county, is in
trouble with Uncle Sam. He wrote let
ters, it seems, stating that he was en
gaged in raising money to pay the debt
upon the I hristian church, at Dallas,
Tex., and asking a contribution of ten
cents. 1 he number of answers he was
receiving, each containing a coin, is
said to have aroused the suspicion of
the postal department, who started ar
investigation.
A Plnno Contest.
A large audience was present at Har
jin college music hall, Mexico, the oth
er evening, to witness the sixth annual
piano contest. The prize was a piano
valued at 81.000, and there were nine
teen young ladies in the contest. Miss
Lee Jones, of Piano, Tex., was awarded
the prize. Miss Jones' selection on
which she won the piano was "Per
petual Motion," last movement of the
first sonato, by Weber.
EpwortU League Convention.
The annual convention of the Ep
wortU league of the Sedalia district was
held at Knobnoster. The district em
braces twenty-six churches, extending
from Malta lSend on the north to Eldo
rado Springs on the south, nearly all
of which were represented by sixty
delegates.
Missouri Episcopalians.
The fifty-fifth annual Episcopal con
vention of the diocese of Missouri was
held in St. Louis. Many prominent
members of the church were present.
Proved Belf-Uefense.
Win. Lloyd, who killed his step
brother, Charles Archer, in Scott coun
ty, was acquitted the other day. He
plead self-defense, and proved it.
To Work Among Colored People.
Rev. Hayes, a colored evangelist,
will make an effort to establish a mis
sion for colored people at Fifteenth
and tarr streets, St. Louis.
For tha Loss of m Leg.
Boy Wei ton, aged 10, was awarded
$2,000 damages at Clinton against the
Kansas City, Osceola & Southern Batl
way Co. for the loss of a leg.
An Elevator Falls.
An elevator with seven passengers
fell four stories in St. Louis, caused by
a rope breaking. Catharine Fleming,
aged CO, was badly injured. '
Appointed Assistant.
The attorney-general has appointed
William M. Draffen assistant United
States attorney tor tha western district
(if Missouri.
BENT ON MISCHIEF. ;
Aa Anarrhtst Mob of Striking Coal Min
or Demand the Release of Prisoners
and Organise and Arm for Their Rescue,
bat are Ueterred by the Presence of the
Mlllt la No Farther Trouble Appre
hended. La Sallk, 111., May 2S. From tha
present indications the strikers' riot
ing has only commenced and it points to
great disaster. The miners, though
very orderly in La Salle all day, are
but preparing for an uprising that will
undoubtedly result in slaughter to hu
man life and great destruction of prop
erty. When the committee appointed at
the mass meeting held in Turn hall
yesterday morning learned through
their attorney, David Ross, that the
two La Salle prisoners who were
lodged in the La Salle county jail were
to be tried in Ottawa, a notice was sent
to La Salle to that effect.
Accordingly the Spring Valley strik
ers called a mass meeting and passed
resolutions denouncing such action,
and requested that the prisoners be re
turned to La Salle for trial, stating that
if this be granted them they would re
main orderly. Otherwise they would
organize, arm themselves, march to Ot
tawa and liberate the men, even though
it be necessary to demolish the county
jail to accomplish their object.
This notice was sent to Sheriff Tay
lor at Ottawa, and the sheriff at once
answered them saying that the prison
ers would be tried before Squire Weeks
in Ottawa, and that he would be pleased
to meet them. This answer threw the
Spring Valley anarchists into a frenzy,
and a second mass meeting was held,
at which the miners decided to organize
and arm themselves and march to Ot
tawa and carry out their purpose.
Word was soon sent to the La Salle
and Peru miners and they will meet
the strikers from La Salje on the Peru
road between Spring Valley and Teru,
between 5 and 6 o'clock in the morn
ing. This news has greatly excited the
cities of both La Salle and Ottawa and
preparations are rapidly going on for
the worst.
In Ottawa the city is being patrolled
by heavily-armed men on horseback
and on foot. In La Salle the citizens
feel a safety in the presence of the
state militia.
Another report has just reached here
that Toluca has sent a well-armed del
egation, and that they are now in the
vicinity of Lttca, and will join the com
bined mobs from Spring Valley, Peru
and La Salle as they pass en route to
Ottawa.
DONE WITH DYNAMITE.
Eleven Men Murdered, a Shaft House
Blown t'p, and Deputies Disarmed by
Striking Miners at Cripple Creek, Col.
C'niPPLK Ckef.k, Col., May 25. Eleven
men killed, with a strong probability
that the number of dead will be in
creased when all is known, is the rec
ord of the first day of trouble here,
although real fighting has not yet
begun, as the deputies ore await
ing reinforcements before begin
ning active operations. At 10 o'clock
this morning eleven men started to
work in the Strong mine on Bat
tle Mountain. Shortly afterwards a
large party of strikers blew up the
shaft house with powder, causing a
loss of 825,000, and then dropped 100
pounds of giant powder down the shaft,
which was also exploded, killing all
the inmates. Not more than 300 yards
from the Strong shaft house sixteen
men, who had been engaged to go
to work in the Independence mine,
were surrounded in their bunk house,
and after a long parley agreed to sur
render. Each ojie was armed with a
rifle and a brace of revolvers. The
arms are now in the possession of the
strikers.
The deputies from Denver have with
drawn to a less exposed position, where
they will await reinforcements.
The strikers from their stronghold
cn Bull Hill can view the country for
miles, and all passes are guarded
by them. Every stranger is in
tercepted and not allowed to pro
ceed toward the town unless a
satisfactory explanation of his business
is given. No one is permitted near
enough to the seat of war to be in dan
ger, and the streets of Cripple Creek
and Victoria, as well as the passes, are
patrolled by miners carrying Winches
ters and revolvers.
The capture and disarming of depu
ties numbering eighteen was accom
plished by women, and ever since the
occurrence two of the women have been
holding high court in a saloon, where
the strikers heap congratulations upon
them.
Two wagons loaded with powder and
cartridges for one of the mines were
captured by the strikers, and their con
tents confiscated. Sara McDonald, su
perintendent of the Strong, Anna Lee
and Gold King mines, and Charley Rob
inson, foreman of Strong, are missing,
It is raining furiously, and any fur
ther move to-night is not looked for.
Deputies have been coming in quietly
all day, and it is thought an unex
pected move is anticipated.
Representative Jerry Simpson Better,
Washington, May 26. The condition
of Representative Jerry Simpson, of
Kansas, has so far improved that he
will be able to leave Washington June
1 for Berkley Springs, Va., where he
proposes remaining until he has fully
recovered. His physician now has no
doubt of Mr. Simpson s ultimate recov
ery. Shot and Killed His Cham.
Cleveland, O., May 26. Early yes
terday morning a fatal shooting oc
curred as a sequence of a drunken quar
rel among the nonunion employes at
the Standard foundry. The nonunion
men have been sleeping in a dormitory
at the foundry, and Thursday night
took to their apartment a large quan
tity of whisky, soon becoming wildly
Intoxicated. In the midst oi their bick
erings, Bernard Lange, of Detroit, drew
a revolver and fired point blank into
the crowd. The bullet struck Lange's
chum, Franz Labunde, also of Detroit,
inflicting a wound from which be died.
Burled la Bains Of a Collapsed Storage
warenouse.
Brooklyn, May 26. At 3:30 p. m. yes
terday a four-story brick building at
301 and 303 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn,
caved In. Fourteen men were at work
on the building at the time. One oi
them, Emil Rickson, of 358 Atlantic
avenue, was killed almost instantly,
The house was nsed as a storage ware
house by Latimer & Sons. After the
crash came most of the men succeeded
in escaping from the cellar where they
were working. Three men are still
unaccounted for and are supposed to
be burled in the ruins- -
A DISASTROUS WRECK. ,
km Kiprees Train Runnlag W,"M
The Knrlneer and Mreasan, Caught Un
der Thetr Loeomotlre, crnsnea u
Burned Oat of All Human Bemwance m.
Marrow Escape.
r.....r i.n 1A Mav 27. TblS
morning about S o'clock one of the most
disastrous wrecks known in mo awij
r, t,. ii.uimnn Ar Ohio railroad oc
curred near Pine Grove, two and one-
half miles east of Kockwooa, . v
the Pittsburgh division of that road.
The ill-fated train was me nen
. llf.ln,iirli B-rnreM. which left this
place at 1:30 this morning with two
l- adm. a ntnbination eX-
irjfiuai .....
press and mail car and several day
coaches. .
tv. woll filled with
aV daw VVUV ss v -
passengers, and the train was running
. 1 1 l. n c
at the rate oi sixty miiea u
Suddenly, without a moments warn
ing, the engine dashed into a largo
landslide, sending it in a twinkling
down Into the creek, wnere it. uu .'.
Tt, .nmUngiinn mail and exnress and
the regular express cars crashed into
the engine with terrtnc iorce, auu .
few minutes were on fire. The coaches
with their precious burden of passen
gers were jammed together, but did not
loavn i Via iwifib. tn which fortunate oc
currence is due the fact that there were
none of tho passengers Injured.
As soon as the train quieted from the
concussion, the passengers rushed to
the piled-tip "nd burning express cars
where they round .Messenger oium. u.
tbe I'nited States Express Co.. strug
gling to escape from his car. In a mo
ment he was rescued dui not, uum n
had received serious injuries about the
head and body and probably internally,
Dill it is tnougm lie . iTtu.n.
't' 1, n nnKconmii-a then turned their at
tention to the derailed engine below in
the creek, and were norrinen to una no
signs of the engineer or his fireman.
Vn .fl Inner, marv hours thev con
tinued their search, until at last they
found the crushed and dead Dony oi
Fireman Ilhinehart under tne locomo
tive. One of his feet was entirely
burned off.
('nntirminrr tbpir search thev came
across bits of the remains of the unfor
tunate Engineer Nicholson. These
they gathered up and put in a bucket,
the rest of his body having been en
tirely consumed by fire.
Messenger Stohl wos taken to Balti
more, where he lives, on train o this
afternoon. The remains of Engineer
Nicholson and Fireman Khinehart were
taken to (Uenwood, Pa., where they
leave families.
All traffic was suspended for five or
6ix hours.
TIME TO APPLY THE BRAKES.
The Leaders of the Great Coal Miners'
Strike Trenildlns at Its Magnitude and
Awful I'nssiltllltirs.
CoiXMnrs, O., Mav 27. Secretary Mo
Brvde said vesterday that the miners'
strike had assumed a very menacing
condition toward the industries of the
country, and. in his opinion, it was high
time the fast train on both sides got to
gether and settled it. There was more
money lost everv day by reason of the
idle mines than all the profits on the
great railroad contracts which ar
blocking the settlement put together.
'It is not our fault," said he, "that the
strike is coutinued. We have been or
ganized and ready to negotiate as a
body since the strike began. The opera
tors cannot act ns a unit for some rea
son." President John McBride received a
letter from a brewing company at
Terre Haute, Ind., in which an offer
was made that if coal was allowed tc
be mined for the company they would
pay ?-00 per week into the treasu ry ol
the I'nited Mine Workers besides pay
ing the scale wages.
A brewing company at Massillon. O.,
made a piteous appeal. They had been
getting their coal from a private bnnlt.
It is now closed. They have but little
coal, and can get none. If their cool
ing and ice-making machines are
stopped such an enormous expense will
be put upon the company that it will
bankrupt it.
President McBride left for Spring
field last evening without taking any
action in these cases. He calls atten
tion to the fact that the rioting miners
at Cripple Creek, Col., are gold and sil
ver miners, and do got belong to the
coal miners' union.
GLUTTED STREAMS.
The Rivers Emptying Into Paget Sound
Fall and Banning Over.
Seattle, Wash., May 27. The hot
weather of the past few days melted the
mountain snow and glutted all streams
flowing into Puget sound. Skagie river
is higher than for fourteen years, and
is still rising. At Mount Vernon busi
ness is suspended. The whole lower
part of the town is flooded. Fifteen
square miles of the farming land
around Mount Vernon will bo
under water before night, and
crops will be inundated. Skagit
delta, more than ten square miles,
is under water and so is Olympia march.
Hamilton, Avon and Sterling are inun
dated ind it is said 3 miles of the Great
Northern tracks has been washed out.
Practically all the farming lands in
Skugit county is under water. The mills
and the electric-light plant at Mount
Vernon ore shut down. The Snohom
ish and Stillaguemish arc rapidly ris
ing and damage is feared. Tho Green,
White and Puyallup rivers are bank
full, and the Northern Pacific bridge at
Stuck Junction is in danger.
Found Murdered.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 27. The
dead body of an unknown man, neatly
dressed, was found on the Vandalia
tracks west of this city. There were
two frightful gashes across the throat,
each five inches long, a deep knife
stab under the right jaw bone, two
deep cuts in the right ear and a severe
fracture of the skull at the back of the
head. About the spot where evidences
of a fearful struggle. In his right hand
the dead man clutched a pocket-knife
which he had evidently drawn to pro
tect himself from his murderous assail
ants. Chairman Wilson Mast Lears Washing
ton for Season of Beet.
Washington, May 38. Chairman Wil
son of the house wsys and means com
mittee will leave Washington tfisweek
for a brief season of rest. It is feared
by bis friends that Mr. Wilson return eu
to Washington too soon after Ma let
serious illness. He had not fully re-
coverea nis sirengxn wnen he left the
south, and since his arrival at the cap
ital he has become somewhat Mr..i,.
ened as a result of his efforts in bring
ing up tne arrears oi nis correspond
ence, and in other ways looking after
ths affairs of his dUtrist,
CORRUPT TURKISH OFFICIAL,
two American Traveler Fea
Brilliant Exception te tha Bale.
, Ths eormptibUlty of the Turkish
official is almost proverbial; but suoh
Is to be expected in the land where!
"the public treasury" it regarded as
"sea," and "who does not drink of it,
as a pig." Peculation and malversa
tion are fully expeetsd in the public
official. They are necessary evils-
adet (custom) has made them so. Offices
are sold to the highest bidder. Tha
Turkish oflScial is one of the politest
and most agreeable of men. He Is pro
fuse in his compliments, but he has no
conscience as to bribes, and little re
gard for virtue as its own reward. YTm
are glad to be able to record a bril
liant, though perhaps theoretical, ex
caption to this general rule. At Koch
hissar, on our way from Sivas to Kara
Ilissar, a delay was caused by a rather
serious break in one of our bicycles. In
the interval we were the Invited guest
of a district kadi, a venerable looking1
and genial old gentleman, whose ac
quaintance we had made in an official
visit on the previous day, as he was
then the acting caimacam (mayor.)
His house was situated in a neighbor
ing valley in the shadow of a towering
bluff. We were ushered into the sel
amluk, or guest apartment, in com
pany with an Armenian friend who
had been educated as a doctor in
America, and who had consented to act
as an interpreter for the occasion.
The kadi entered with a smile on his
countenance, and made the usual pic
turesque form of salutation by describ
ing the figure 3 with his right hand
from the floor to his forehead. Perhaps
it was because he wanted to be polite
that he said ho had enjoyed our com
pany on the previous day and had de
termined, if possible, to have a more
extended conversation. With the usual
coffee and cigarettes, the kadi became
informal and chatty. He was evident
ly a firm belijver in predestination, as
he remarked that God had foreordained
our trip to that country, even the food
we were to eat, and tho invention of
the extraordinary "cart" on which we
were to ride. The idea of such a jour
ney, in such a peculiar way, was not to
be accredited to the ingenuity of man.
There was a purpose in it alL When
we ventured to thank him for his hos
pitality toward two strangers, and
even foreigners, he said that this world
occupied so small a spaie in God's do
minion that we could well afford to ba
brothers one to another, in spite of
our individual beliefs and opinions.
'We may have different religious ba
liefs," said he, "but we all belong ta
the same great father of humanity;
just as children of diffjrent complex
ions, dispositions and intellects may
belong to one common parent Wa
should exercise reason always, and
have charity for other people's opin
ions." Century.
System In Cannibalism.
A French paper publishes a letter
from M. Augoaard to Cardinal Ledo
chowski, the superintendent of the
Roman Catholic propaganda, giving
extracts from a report of a priest
named Allaire, who lately visited some
of the villages on the right bank of the
River Tbange in Africa. According to
the father's letter, cannibalism pre
vails to a frightful extent among these
people, it even being u custom to bring
slaves to market in order that they
might be sold like butcher's meat.
People who were unable to purchase a
whole slave bought an arm, or a leg.
or a head, as the caso might be, and
marked off with a piece of white
chalk, and when the whole of the un
fortunate victim had been selected ho
was killed, and the portions as chosen
distributed among the dealer's cus
tomers. Buffalo News.
I'ne of Cold Cream.
A chemist, speaking of the frequency
with which women annoint their faces
with cold cream, says that in no in
stance should it be used except where
the face has become roughened by the
wind, and then applied only for a night
or two. That it gives an" oily look to
the face and has a tendency to' enlarge
the pores of the skin. That if the skin
needs a tonic cocoa butter or cocounut
oil thoroughly rubbed into the skin
morning and evening, after having
bathed the face in warm water, will
improve the complexion in a verv short
time and will not raise the small crop
of hair that is almost inevitable with
the nightly use of cold cream. Chicago
j ournai.
A I'erverted Word.
Yeast I learn Bacon broke his lee on
the ice last week.
Crimsonbeak Yes: he had to have
his leg set.
"That's very sad."
"Yes; and to-day he had a set back."
"Mercy! did he break his back, too?"
Yonkers Statesman.
Not Alarmed.
Strutrcrlintr Artist At the kiIk rm
pay I would soon starve to death.
Dealer Veil, ven you are det, I gan
sell ycur bicturcs vat I haf at a food
profit.--N. Y. Weekly.
THE MARKETS.
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