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MOWER COUNTY TRANSCRIPT
WASHBURN A GORDON, Publishers.
AUSTIN. MINN
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL*
IN the Senate on the 7th the Railroad Land
Forfeiture and the Bureau ot Animal Industry
bills were further considered. The Chinese
treaty was ratified. A bill was introduced ap­
propriating 11,000,000 to provide more efficient
mail service between the United States and
Central and South America and the West In*
dies. Petitions from Illinois ottisens were
presented favoring the per diem pension bill
and opposing the admission ot Utah....In the
House the River and-Harbor bill (120,000,000)
was passed—yeas, 161 nays, 60. A bill was In­
troduced to amend the Civil-Service law, mak­
ing eligible for appointment without being re­
quired to pass the oivil-servlce examination all
honorably discharged Federal soldiers and sail­
ors of the late wir.
A BIU.was passed In the Senate on the 8th
Inereaslng the pension of soldiers for total dis­
ability to 978 per month. A memorial was pre­
sented from the New England Methodist con­
ference protesting against any treaty that
preoludes Chinese ministers of the Qospel or
Chinese delegates to religious conventions com­
ing into the oountry. The Railroad Land Forfeit­
ure bill was further considered. Mr. Voorhees
apologized for his harsh language during the
recent speech made by Mr. Ingalls In the
House the Mills Tariff bill was further dis­
cussed.
THB Railroad Land-Grant Forfeiture bill and
International Copyright bill were passed in
the Senate on the 9th....In the House the
Tariff bill was further discussed, Mr. Butter
worth (O.) speaking against the measure.
A BIU.was passed in the Senate on the 10th
to pay Ci9,000 to persons who aided in suppress­
ing Indian hostilities in Nevada in 18t». lis
were reported to prevent the employment of
alien labor on publio works, and the Pension
Appropr ation bill. Adjourned to the 14th....
In the House the bill appropriating $3,500,000
to supply the deficiency In the appropriation
for the payment of army and navy pensions to
Invalid windows, minor children and de­
pendent relatives and survivors of the war of
1818 was passed. The Tariff bill was further
discussed.
THE Senate was not in session on the 11th.
.... In the House Mr. Scott (Pa.) made a long
speech in favor of the Mills Tariff bill, and
Mr. Gear (la.) spoke against the measure.
DOMESTIC.
A STRIKE was begun on the 8th at the
Pratt mines, at Birmingham, Ala. One
thousand men were out.
WILLIAM SHOWERS, aged seventy years,
who was under sentence of death in the jail
at Lebanon, Pa, for the murder of his two
grandchildren, made his escape on the 8th.
MRS. WILLIAM WEBB and her babe were
burned to death on the Sth by the explosion
of a lamp at their residence at Fort Edward,
N. Y.
Miss NORA. HAYWOBTH, of Logansport,
Ind, was fatally burned on the Sth by her
clothes catching fire at a stove.
THB cat worm was appearing in great
numbers in the Ohio valley on the 8th,
causing farmers serious apprehensions.
AT Greshatn, Pa., on the Sth three burg­
lars entered the house of Mrs. Mary
Reynolds, who was alone, but she defended
Herself with a hatchet so effectually that
she killed one of the trio and put the others
to flight.
THE powder-house of the Colby mine at
Bessemer Mich., blew up on the 8th, killing
two men and fatally wounding five.
ROBERT G. HALL and David Vincent were
hanged in Philadelphia on the Sth for mur­
der.
THE High-License bill passed by the New
York Legislature was vetoed by Governor
Hill on the 9th.
PORTIONS of Northern Ohio were swept
by a cyclone on the 9th, farm buildings be­
ing wrecked and fences, shade tree's and
orchards leveled. No loss of life was re­
ported.
THE memorial services in respect of the
late Roscoe Conkling arranged for by the
New York Legislature took place in Al­
bany on the 9th, and a eulogy of the dis­
tinguished statesman was delivered by
Robert G. Ingersoll.
A FIRE on the 9th on Catodtin mountain,
near Middletown, Md., destroyed much
valuable timber.
THE Mississippi river was still rising on
the 9th, causing serious damage and great
alarm at Dubuque, la., and other points.
.The Qalena river had flooded part of Ga­
lena, 111.
THE Illinois Supreme Court on the 9th
denied a hearing in the cases of the Chi­
cago "boodlers," Messrs. Van Pelt, Ochs,
Leyden and Wasserman, and they would
have to serve out their sentences of two
years each in the penitentiary.
THE old employes of the Reading (Pa.)
railroad who struck and were discharged
issued a circular on the 9th asking for help,
saying that they were in extreme want.
THE National Association of Lumber
Dealers assembled in annual session on the
9th at Davenport, la., elected J. P. Smith,
of Fowler, Ind., as president.
PHILADELPHIA advices of the 9th say that
the operation of transplanting a rabbit's
eye to a human being had been successfully
performed in that city by Dr. Fox, and the
patient, Mrs. Shick, could see quite well
again.
CASSICS DICKERSON, a young farmer near
Seymour, Ind., while riding through a tim­
ber lot during a thunder-storm on the 9th
was struck by a falling tree, which killed
both himself and his horse.
THE seventy-second annual meeting of
the American Bible Society was held on
the 10th in New York. The cash receipts
for general purposes during the year
amounted to 9557,840 and disbursements
$506,453.
ENOCH MCMAHON, a wealthy farmer of
Madison County, Ind., and his hired man,
Mr. Treat, were burned to death in their
beds early on the morning of the 10th. Fire
caught from the stove.
AT the session of the Supreme Lodge
Knights of Honor at Cleveland, O., on the
10th L. A. Gratz, of Tennessee, was elected
Supreme Dictator.
ED BARRETT was burned to death on the
lOtJi at Henry Grove, Tex., in a fire that de­
stroyed twelve dwellings.
THE dam at Hamlin, Mich., went out with
the flood on the 10th, and two million feet
of logs in Hamlin lake went into Lake
Michigan, carrying with them seventeen
homes along the stream.
THE house in which General Grant was
born at Point Pleasant, O., will be taken to
the Cincinnati Centennial Exposition for
one hundred days.
CASHIER H. F. ROTOE, of the Willimantic
(Conn.) Savings Institute, was arrested on
the 10th on the charge of embezzling $35,
000.
As explosion of natural gas in St. faql's
Episcopal Cathedral at Buffalo, N. Y., on
the 10th caused afire which speedily de­
stroyed the building. The loss was about
$150,000. Several other explosions also oo
curred, creating a panic.
OFFICIALS in Chicago of the Burlington
ft Quincy railway stated on the 10th that
the recent strike of engineers on their road
cost the company about 92,000,000.
Iir a quarrel on the 10th at Caldwell, Tex.,
Ben B.
Hunt*
a
prominent saloon-keeper,
shot and killed Deputy-Sheriff Jack Farr
and a negro named Sandy Davis.
IN a fit of jealousy on the 10th Charles
Turner, a Pittsburgh (Pa.) merohant, shpt
his wife dead and then killed himself.
HENRT MORGAN and his ten-year-old son
were killed at Bradner, p., on the 10th by
a tree falling on them.
THB Department of Agrloulture at Wash­
ington in its crop report on the 10th says
that the winter wheat crop has deoreased
in condition greatly. Pennsylvania shows
a decline of 4 points, New York 16, Ohio 12,
Michigan 13, Indiana 0, Illinois 7, Missouri
2, Kansas 3. The general average is re­
duced 9 points, from 83 to 73.
ON the Nickel-Plate railroad at Winslow
Siding, Ind., sixteen cars were blown off
their wheels during a tornado on the 11th,
and at Wanatah, Ind., roofs, chimneys,
fenoes and trees suffered severely.
UNKNOWN persons on the 11th stole from
a hotel at Lexington, Ky., the cash-box
owned by William Riley, the Chicago book­
maker, whioh contained about 18,000.
MRS. ANN TTKK, of Wabash, Ind., over
one hundred years old, fell down cellar on
the 11th, receiving probably fatal injuries.
THIRTY stores and dwellings and the gas
works at Hot Springs, Ark., were destroyed
by fire on the 11th, causing a loss of 9150,
000.
IN a train collision on the 11th on the Le­
high Valley road near Ithaca, N. Y., sever­
al passengers were badly hurt.
MEMORIAL DAY was generally observed
in the South on the 11th.
BURGLARS entered the Pratt National
Bank at Pratt, Kan., on the 11th, while the
officers were at dinner, and stole $4,010.'
HIGH water at Rock Island and Moline,
111., had on the 11th caused damage amount
ing to about $100,000 and at Galena nearly
all the streets were navigable by boats.
WOODWARD'S coffin factory at Owosso,
Mich., was destroyed by fire on the 11th.
Loss, $100,000. Over seven thousand caskets
were burned.
DURING the seven days ended on the 11th
there were 193 business failures in the
United States, against 156 the previous
seven days.
IT was announced on the 11th that Dr.
Arthur Spahn would establish a hospital
at San Antonio, Tex., for the treatment of
hydrophobia by the Pasteur method.
A CYCLONE passed south of Freeport, HI.,
on the 11th, demolishing the brewery
buildings of Haegele & Roth, causing a
loss of $10,000, and ruining the brick resi­
dence and barns of William Brockhausen,
a few rods distant, causing an equal loss.
REV. GEORGE MCDUFFIE (colored), a mar­
ried man, who murdered another negro who
was courting a woman of whom McDuffie
was enamored, was hanged on the 11th at
Greensboro, Ga.
THE Mississippi river at Quinoy, 111., was
ten miles wide on the 11th. The farms
across in Missouri were inundated to the
bluffs and an immense amount of damage
had been done to the crops.
TEN persons were seriously injured on
the 11th in a smash up at the entrance of
Bergen Hill tunnel, near Jersey City, N.
J., and two of them were expected to die.
JAMES T. HINMAN, who was assistant
postmaster of Grand Rapids, Mich., and
was indicted in 1876 for stealing $1,318, was
arrested in Donaphin County, Kan., on the
11th, after having been a fugitive thirteen
years.
Miss ELLEN B. MINER, an insane patient
of the Harrison County (O.) Asylum, com­
mitted suicide on the 11th by jumping from
the roof to the ground, a distance of sixty
feet.
THE Southern Baptist convention met in
annual session in Richmond on the lltb.
IN Washington on the llth the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections de­
cided that Senator Turpie, of Indiana, was
entitled to his seat.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CONGRESSMAN OUTHWAITE was renomi­
nated on the 8th by the Democrats of the
Thirteenth Ohio district at Lancaster.
THE Colorado Prohibition convention met
at Denver on the 8th and elected delegates
to the National convention.
THE Michigan Greenbackers met on the
8th at Lansing and elected delegates-at
large to the Cincinnati convention.
THE New Hampshire Republicans met in
Concord on the 8th and selected National
delegates who go to Chicago uninstructed.
The platform denounces the Adminstration
at Washington for its tariff policy, its
pension policy, and its "pretense" of civil
service reform, and denounces the Demo
cratic party for identifying itself with the
interests of the liquor dealers throughout
tte country.
THE Republicans of Michigan held their
State convention at Grand Rapids on the
Sth and elected Robert E. Fraser, J. K.
Bois, W. Q. Atwood (colored) and F. B.
Dunston as delegates-at-large to the Na­
tional gathering in Chicago. The resolu­
tions declare for the protection of Amer­
ican industries, arraign the present Ad­
ministration for its selfish and sectional
tariff policy, and urge the delegates to use
every honorable means to secure the nomi­
nation of ex-Governor Alger for President.
DELAWARE Democrats convened at Dover
on the 8th and elected delegates to the Na­
tional convention. The platform favors
Cleveland's renomination and indorses the
Mills Tariff bill.
THOMAS RYAN was renominated for Con­
gress on the 8th by the Republicans of the
Fourth district of Kansas, in session at
Emporia.
THE Republicans of the Fourteenth dis­
trict of Illinois on the 8th renominated J. H.
Rowell for Congress.
GENERAL GEORGE DIBBRELL, who served
many terms in Congress, died on the 9th at
Sparta, Tenn.
THE Eighth Ohio district Democrats on
the 9th nominated A. R. Rolins, of Cincin­
nati, for Congress, and in the Sixteenth
district they nominated J. B. Owens.
THB Republican State convention of Wis­
consin was held at Madison on. the 9th.
Governor Rusk was urged for President,
and a platform demanding a protective
tariff was adopted. Senator J. C. Spooner,
H. C. Payne, H. O. Fairchild and H. C.
Adams were chosen National delegates,
and Henry C. Payne, of Milwaukee, was
elected chairman of the new State Com
mittee.
GEORGIA Democrats convened at Atlanta
on the 9th and chose as delegate-at-large to
the National convention Pope Barrow, F.
G. Dubignon, Albert Cox and Washington
Dessau. The platform indorses the admin­
istration of President Cleveland, and the
delegates were instructed for him.
JOHN R. GORDON, chairman of the State
Democratic Central Committee of Indiana,
died on the 9th at Greencastle, of pneu­
monia.
REV. DR. LTMAN ABBOTT, of New York,
was on the 9th called to the pastorate of
Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn.
THE President on the 9th nominated Rob­
ert B. Roosevelt, of New York, to be Min­
ister resident to the Netherlands, and Law
son V. Moore, of Texas, to be Consul at
Lyons, France.
THE Republicans of New Jersey met at
Trenton on the 9th and selected Senator
Sewell, ex-Congressman Brewer, G. A.
Halsey and Senator Griggs as delegates
at-large to the National convention.
strong protective platform was adopted,
and the delegates were instructed to sup­
port William Walter Phelps for President.
KANSAS Republicans held their ptate
convention on the 9th at Wichita, and
Griffin were j^eotedtyi dclegatpi-at-larg.
to Chtqagfr. The1 sentiment ol the cptwtri
tion was ddQidedly in favor of JJlain&
THB Democratic Stat© convention'of Ala*
bama, held on the 9th at Montgomery, re­
nominated Governor Seay by acclamation.
THB Michigan Union Labor party met, at
Lansing on the! 9th and chose delegates to
the National convention who favor General
Weaver for President-
THB State Temperance convention in ses-'
sion at Atlanta on the 9th decided to nomi
nate Prohibition candidates in every coun­
ty in G&rgia pledged to vote for statutory
prohibition.
IN Vermont on the 10th the Demoorats
nominated Ozro Meacham for Congress in
the First district and George W. Smith in
the Second distriot.
ON the Hfob the Tennessee Diemocrats met
at Nashville and selected deliagates-at
large to the Sit Louis oqnvention as follows:
A. M. Looney, John R. Godwin, H. H. In­
gersoll and John p. JJrown. The platform
indorses President Cleveland's Aministrfe
tion and favors his renomination.
VERMONT Democrats' met at Montjtalier
on the l|0th and nominated G. C. Schutlsff
for Governor. The following delegates-at
large to the National oonventlon Were
chosen: W. H. H. Bingham, J- D. Hanr&i
han, J. H. Senter and Martin ftoddard.
The platform indorses President Cleve.
land's Administration and urges his re­
election.
THE Demoorats of Maryland convened at
Baltimore on the 10th and elected A. P.
Gorman, Gannon H. Hunt, L. V. Baugh
man and John B. Brown as delegatcs-at
large to the St. Louis contention. The
platform indores the President's' Adminis­
tration and' instructs the delegates,to cast
their votes solidly for his renomination.
THE Democrats of the Fiftn Ohio district
on the 10th renominated George E. Scaey
for Congress.
COMMODORE NORMAN W. KITTSON, one
of the wealthiest men in the Northwest,
died suddenly on a railway'train, nefcr Rob­
erts, Wis., on the 10th while returning
from Philadelphia to his home in Minneap­
olis. He was seventy-flVe years of ag«.
IN the First district of Tennessee the Re­
publicans on the 10th nominated Alfred A.
Taylor for Congress.
THE Michigan Democrats mot at Grand
Rapids on the 10th and chose J. M. Weston,
George L. Yaple, M. H. Chamberlain arid
Peter White as delegates-at-large to the
National convention. The resolutions
adopted indorse the administration of
President Cleveland and his tariff policy,
and favor his renomination.
WILLIAM SPENCER, aged seventy-six
years, and Mrs. Mary Shaw, aged seventy
two yoars, were married at Shelbyville, 111.,
on the llth. Tho. groom has been married
four times and the bride five tinies.,
THE NOW York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the llth.
FOREIGN*
AT a Nationalist meeting in Sligo, Ire­
land, on the 8th resolutions were passed
condemning the Pope's political interfer­
ence and pledging allegiancc to Parnell's
leadership.
CRICKETS were devastating Algeria on
the 8th,' entirely destroying vegetation.
Their dead bodies were creatiug a pesti­
lence and interfering with the running of
trains between Constantino and Batna.
ADVICES of the 10th from British Colum­
bia say that afire at Ononac destroyed
1,095 houses and thirty livos were lost.
ARCHBISHOP LYNCH died at Toronto, Ont.,
on the llth, of congestion of the lungs. He
was the first Archbishop of the archdiocese
of Toronto, being consecrated November 20,
1859.
JOHN DILLON, the Irish member of Par­
liament who was among the moBt active in
carrying out the plan of campaign and in
advising tenants against the payment of
rent, was convicted in Dublin on the llth
of violating the Crimes act and sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.
BY a fall of a rock on the llth in a mine
near Stassfurt, in Prussian Saxony, eight­
een persons were killed and many injured.
ADVICES from Paris say a Bteamer was
sunk in the Seine on the llth and fourteen
lives were lost.
ADVICES of the llth from Rio Janeiro
state that the Brazilian Chamber of Depu­
ties has passed a bill for the immediate
abolition of slavery.
LATER NEWS.
A SIX, DAYS' walking match ended at New
York on the 12th, and was won by Little
wood, with a score of 611 le
THE Wisconsin Supreme Court on the 12th
decided that a saloon eaper who sells liq­
uor on Sunday is not guilty of maintaining
a nuisance.
THE Democratic members of the ways
and means committee on the 12th decided
to consent to an extension of the debate on
the: Mills .tariff, which was to have dosed on
the 16th, to the 19th.
Is the race for the championship the fol­
lowing ba*e ball clubs were in the lead at
tne clos) of the games payed on the 12th:
National League, Chicago Western Asso­
ciation, Omaha American Association,
Cincinnati.
COUK COMMISSIONER FYAN at Milwaukee
on the 12th dec.ded that Paul Grottkau, the
notorious socialist, wi 1 have to serve a year
in house of correction for inciting riot
Grottkau was sentenced May, 1887, but his
case was appealed and delayed so
that he was not committed until
April 5, and his attorneys held that
his term of puaishment commenced on the
day of sentence, but tha court decided
otheiwise.
ZEPHYR DAVIS (colored) was hnng at Chi­
cago on the 12th for the murder, in Febru
ary last, of a white girl named Maggie
Gau?an. Davis was hung on the same gal­
lows on which the anarchists were swung
off, and was the first colored person execut­
ed in ook cou ty.
ELEVEN business housss at Blunt, Dak.,
were de.troye I by fire on the 12ta. The
[Oss was estimated at 970,000.
ON the 13th, M. McG Dana, pastor of
Plymouth Congregational urch. St. Paul,
tendered his resignation. Dr. Dana was
president of the State Board of Corrections
and Charities.
AT Ishpoming, Mich., on the 12th, in the
Cleveland mine, a tram car loaded with
orb.was carelessly dumped into a haft,
ki ling August l'urnquist and seriously in­
juring E. J. Sifley.
MRS. IDA A. JORDAN, of Indianapolis, Ind,
on thJ 12th administered a fatal dose of
poison to her four year old child and then
cut her own throat with a razor.
ON the 12th, the levee, of tho Mississppj
south of Alexandria, Mo., broke in several
pla-es, and the town was completely inun­
dated. The river is now fully eev miles
wide at that point, and the damage to stock
and residences is not to be calculated.
ON the 18th the Disston saw works,
Tacony, Pa., were destroyed Pgr fire
ing a loss of$300,0Q0, and throwing
2,000 mcn out of employment,
at
caus­
nearly
W I N AND RAIN.
These Elements Causing: a Great Deal of
Damage Just Now-Rushing Waters at
Rock Island Carry Away a Costly Bulk­
head—Fulton, ill., inundated by Water
—The Sny I.evee at Quincy In Danger—
Cyclone at Freeport, III,
ROCK ISLAND, 111., May 12.—The bulk
head of the Moline and the Government
Water-power was forced out by the water
yesterday afternoon and swept out
into the main channel, carrying with
It 1,000,000 feet of logs belonging
to the Rock Island Lumber Company,
valued at 915,000. The wharf and the
warehouse of the St. Louis St. Paul
Packing Company was also carried away.
The total loss is estimated at 9100,000. The
river is still rising, and causing much anx­
iety consequently, and hundreds of fami­
lies on the lowlands aro moving out of
their houses.
FULTON, III May 12.—This city is coin
pletely surrouhded and partly inundated by
the Mississippi. The river is now eight­
een feet nine inches above low-water
mark, and is still rising at the rate
of nine inches in twenty-four hours. In
June, 1880, the river was never nineteen
feet ten inches above low-water mark, and
this year it will probably exceed that height.
Four miles above the city the river is six
miles in width and is flowing swiftly over
improved farms. Farmers have no grass,
and are removing their cattle back from the
river for pasture.
QUINOY, 111., May 12.—The river here is
nearly ten miles wide, hundreds of farms
being submerged to a depth of several
feet. The Sny levee below the city
is weakening in places and a large
force of men are at work night and
day to avert the threatening calam­
ity. Foundries and factories along the
levee have been forced to suspend. The
St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern has
abandoned trains north of horo. The water
is still slowly rising.
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 12.—The river is
still rising and is higher than at any time
this season. At West St. Paul the situa­
tion is becoming critical, and should the
rise continue it must result in consider­
able damage. Above tho Wabasha street
bridge, near Fairfield avenue, there are
a number of small houses entirely sur­
rounded by water. The current is not swift
here, and foot-bridges have been construct­
ed to all the houses, except one, which can
only be reached by boats. About twenty
five or thirty families have already
been compelled to move, and it is
almost certain that many more will be
obliged to follow. The Bohemian fiats are
again floated to a depth of five or
six foet in some places, and present
a worse aspect than before. Tho
tenants have moved out of most of the
houses near the Chestnut street station,
and the water is above the windows. The
Omaha switch, running across the flats, is
totally submerged, and has been aban­
doned. Two or three shanties alongside
the tracks are pretty badly demoralized,
being partially turned over and nearly de­
stroyed.
HOUGHTON, Mich., Mav 11.—Over a mile
of the track of the Duluth, South Shore &
Atlantic railroad between this place and
Baraga is covered with water from eighteen
to thirty inches deep. All traffic has been
suspended.
A WHIRLWIND'S WORK.
FREEPORT, 111., May 12.—The particulars
are reaching this city of the destruc­
tion wrought in the country by a
cyclone Thursday night. It took
its rise near this place, and
following the course of the Yellow creek,
passed easterly in the direction of Bailey
ville and Pecatonica. The revolving, cone
shaped funnel of the dark cloud was
plainly visible here. The Yellow Creek
Brewery, owned by Haegele & Rothe,
was almost ruined, tho malt-house
and ice-house being torn to pieces. The
residence of Mr. Brockhansen, near by,
was overturned and his barn was de­
stroyed. Two farmers, names unknown,
were seriously injured. The damage to
fences and other property is large.
POWDERLY'S CAUSTIC LETTER.
The Master Workman of the Knights of
Labor Arraigns Wrangling Congress"
men.
PHILADELPHIA, May 13.—General Master
Workman Powderly in a letter to this
week's' Journal of Labor, referring to tho
petitions of the Knights of Labor for a
Government telegraph, which were pre­
sented to Congress some time ago, and to
the fact that no action has been taken on
them, says:
It is now about time to
ask of our members
to begin to muke Inquiry as to why their
representatives remain inactive, so that
it may become known before next elec­
tion who is to blame for the delay.
A few days ago two prominent mem­
bers of the United States Senate, the
most dignified body of legislators In
the world, wasted hours and days of time In a
bitter wrangle over the dead past. They acted
the part of resurrectionists and gnawed, in
woltlsh fashion, over the bones of dead men.
We have men in this order who wore the gray
uniform on the battle-held over twenty years
ago. We count among our members those who
wore the blue. I ask of these men, the private
soldiers of the late war who are members of
the order, If they do not believe that the war is
over? Do they not believe that it should be laid
away forever? Do they not believe that the
living issues of labor reform are ot more im­
portance to-day than the musty records
of the past? Is it not preferable to provide
comfort and happiness for the liv.ng of to-day
than to dig up the dustpf the brave men who
fought each other over a score of years agot
Write to your Senators and Representa­
tives. Tell them that you do not approve
of the present war against the welfare of
the Nation which they are waging. Tell them,
you want peaoe. I would ask of those who
fought in the Union and Confederate armies
to write to their Representatives and Sena­
tors and tell them that many years
iago you finished up the job that
they are now discussing, and that,
as their employers, you will have no more
quarreling over the matter. Ask them what
they are going to do on the real issues of the
day stir them up on the telegraph question and
find out why they do not pass ttie bill. A
short time ago the House of Representatives
ceased business and put a boycott on
legislation. Was that what you sent them
there for? Did you instruct them to1
inaugurate a dead-lock in the United
States Congress? Write to them and say
that the next time they have a few days
to spend in a dead-lock, to utilize the time in
passing the Telegraph bill oall their^attention
to the fact that a million citizens have affixed
their signatures to petitions asking of them not
to drink braudy and quarrel, but to act on the
telegraph bill."
Turpie' Will Hold His Scat.:
WASHINGTON, May 12.—The Senate Com
mitteo on Privileges and Election, held a
meeting yesterday to consider the Tur­
pie case. After an hour's considera­
tion, the committee came to the
unanimous conclusion that the de­
termination of the Indiana House
of Representatives, under the par
ticular circumstances of this case
of the title of its members' to their
seats is Conclusive upop! the Senate
and therefore that the persons 'who voted
Jn the election of Senator must be conclu­
sively presumed to have been entitled to
vote and, consequently, that Senator Tuf
pie must be held to be entitled to hia
*eat
FAILURE IN 'FRISCO.
The Great Commission Hons* of WHlMns
T. Coleman A Co. Assigns, with liabil­
ities of •8,000,000 Cause of the Col­
lapse.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8.—The assignment
of the old established commission house of
William T. Coleman & Co. yesterday caused
a big sensation among merchants. A cir­
cular issued by the firm declares that press­
ing demands for money forced them to sus­
pend in brder to save the creditors, and that
the liabilities of 92,000,000 are covered by
assets of 94,000,000. One of the causes of
the failure is given as an investment
of 92,000,000 in borax works which they had
negotiated to sell, but the sale of which
was spoiled by the proposal to put borax on
the free list. The assignment was made to
L. L. Baker, of Baker & Hamilton, agri­
cultural implement makers, and Louis
*OSB, president of the Alaska Commercial
Company. The firm declare they can
pay 100 cents on the dollar if
they are given a little time. The causes of
the failure will oe deeper than given in this
circular. During the last five years the
firm has branched out and tried to control
the trade in dried fruits, nuts, salmon and
borax. Coleman retired from active
management several years ago and
the business had been run by Frank
Johnson, a young man of Ferdinand
Ward's stripe, who indulged in large spec­
ulation. He had so much success that he
believed his luck could not turn, but last
year he lost heavily in fruit and salmon.
Experts place his losses in the big salmon
corner that he engineered at $200,000. The
borax speculation would have been a good
one if the firm had larger capital, but every­
thing put in was dead money and when
they tried to realize they failed. The finish
ishingblow was given to the firm by the
Nevada Bank, which held a call loan for a
large amount, and in pursuance of the re­
cent policy, demanded immediate settle­
ment. The demand was met, and the as­
signment took place. Of Coleman's personal
integrity no one has any doubt, but his
friends say he has been to blame in allow­
ing others to manage the speculative busi­
ness under credit given by his name. Cole­
man would never accept a public office
from the Democratic party, to which he be­
longed, and the only position he ever held
was leader of the vigilantes that hanged
tho murderer of Editor King and
cleared this city of ruffians and ballot
box stuffers in the early days. Last year
Dana, of the New York Hun, proposed Cole­
man as a candidate for the Presidency,
and devoted many articles to the subject.
Coleman is still in the prime of life and is
a large man of fine presence. He has given
up his costly residence, but his wife has a
large fortune in her own right.
The banks mentioned as creditors aro the
Bank of California, the Bank of British Co­
lumbia, the Nevada Bank and the Bank of
British North America. The firm is in­
debted to the Bank of California to the
amount of $190,000, of which $130,000 is
secured. It is estimated that the firm
owes the Bank of British Columbia
P100,000, the Nevada Bank $220,000 and the
Bank of British North America 9100,000. It
is said that of the whole amount of Colo
man & Co.'s indebtedness one-half is in
this State and the other half in the East,
the greater part of the latter being held by
New England banks.
The founding of the firm of William T.
Coleman dates back to 1849. Since that
time the house has taken the foremost
place in the business interests of the
coast. It has agencies in Astoria, Ore.,
New York, Chicago and London. It
also acts as the agent for a large
number of manufacturing and producing
establishments, and for the principal sal­
mon canneries of the Pacific coast. The
shipping department is the agent for sev­
eral linos of clippers to and from Australia,
China and other ports. The business of the
firm is said to amount to $14,000,000.
PASSED BY THE HOUSE.
Under Suspension of the Rules the XUver
and Harbor Bill Goes Through The
Negative Vote.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Immediately after
the call of the Stages yesterday Mr. Blan
chard (La.) was recognized by the Speaker
and moved to suspend the rules and pass
the River and Harbor Bill. He explained
that the bill had been increased
by $25,000 since its consideration in
committee of the whole, the appropriation
for Cleveland habor having been changed
from $75,000 to $100,000. After a half-hour's
debate the mot-ion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill was agreed to—yeas, 161
nays, 69. The negative vote follows:
Auderson (la.). Ermentrout, Lyman,
Anderson (Kan)Fuller, Matson,
Arnold, Gear, MeAdoo,
Aikinsoa, Gest, Merriman,
Baker (111.), Grout, Osborne,
Belden, Hall, Perkins,
Bliss, Heard, Peters.
Blount, Henderson (Ia.)Phelps,
Boutelle, Henderson (NC^PIumb,
Brower, Henderson (I(L)Post.
B:umm, Hiestand, Reed.
Buchanan, Hitt, Rockwell,
Buckalew, Holman, Rowell,
Bynum, Holmes. Scull,
T. J. Campbell, Hopkins (111.), Sowden,
N. Y.) Hovey, Spooner,
mdler, Johnston (Ind.),Steele,
Cannon, Johnston(N.C.),Stone (Mo.).
Cheadle, Keane, .T.D. Taylor (O.),
Cooper, Kerr, Whiting(Mass.),
Cowles, La Follettc, Whitthorne,
Dulzell, Laird, W lliams,
Darlington, Lehlbaeh, Yardley—09.
Datgley,
DROWNED BY A CLOUD-BURST.
Kansas Family Carried Into the Arkan­
sas River by a Fearful Flood.
WICHITA, Kan., May 8.—A fearful cloud­
burst is reported to have taken place near
Maize, about fifteen miles west of Wichita,
at!G o'clock Sunday morning, An eye wit­
ness describes the rain as coming down in
torrents, washing away a number of
houses and mOviug others from founda­
tions. A house in whioh a family named
Rqckby lived was picked up by the floods
and carried into the Arkansas river,
where it sank, drowning Rookby, his
wife and two children* A number
of narrow escapes are reported. The wa­
ter from the cloud seemed to come straight
down, and could not have been thicker
had it found its source from a lake in
the air. The bodies of the Rockby family
have not been recovered and probably
will never be, as a bo^y once in
this Arkausas is seldom recovered, as the
clpthing is soon filled with the constantly
dri.ting saud. The scenes, at the time oi
the catastrophe were awful, and the amount
of damage will be very large. A great many
head of horses and cattle were also
drowned.
Glgantlo Scheme to'Run Prices of Oil U{
and Choke OfT All Competition.
NRW YORK, May 8.—The World has 8
special from Titusville, Pa., stating that
the Standard Oil Company has millions oi
barrels of oil accumulated and stored
in hidden tanks, this being a gigan­
tic soheme to force prices higher. A
shut-down in the oil regions was to stop
the market supply and raise the value over
production, and not until the price
leached 91-25 and the tanks have beei
emptied will the wells be operated again
The ruinous effect of the Standard'!
manipulations, wherever its hand has beet
feat on pipe lines, ^ks and wells scat
tejred tbrovghoqt the oountry, is to ?hqfc«
•ut all competition.
STRIPES FOR BOODLERS.
Chicago's Crooked Rx-OfflelaU Matt 'D».
Time" at Jollet-The Baprene Otvt
Befnses Them Aid.
OTTAWA, 111., May 10.—An opinion in the
boodler case Oohs et al. vs. The People*
was filed in the Supreme Coort aid it af­
firms the decision of the lower oowrk
The decision wap rendered by Chief
Justice Sheldon. It
took twenty-seven
pages of closely-writ­
ten foolscap to review
the whole case. Triv­
ial erroas were found
in the trial records,
but not enough to
justify a reversal of
the judgment. The,
Chief Justice says of
the trial record:
"The course of the
people's counsel on the
trial was not free from
censure. There was a
harshness of bearing.
and intemperanee of JUSTICE SHEUJON.
language toward tbe defendants, whioh it is not
pleasant to witness in a record, and which,
should never be sssumed and indulged in
against a prisoner on trial. There may perhaps
be some excuse in the oircumssanees of th&
case. Defendants' counsel themselves were
not faultless in thrusting at tbe people's witness
the question: "When did you commence steal­
ing from the company by giving false weights
and measures?.' This was provocative of cor­
responding language in return from the other
side toward defendants.
•The appalling spectacle of official corruption
which the evidence presented could not but
have aroused and evoked expressions of indig­
nant feeling. We can not find cause in the con­
ducting of the trial for a reversal of the judg­
ment."
CHICAGO, May 10.—The Illinois Supreme
Court has affirmed the judment and sen­
tence of tho Cook County criminal court
in the county boodle cases. This
sends ex-County Commissioners Van
Pelt, Leyden, Ochs and Wasserman and.
ex-Warden Varnell to the State peniten­
tiary, where their criminal associates, ex
Commissioners Wren and McClaughrey,
are already serving their sentence of two
years. Ex-Warden McGarigle, another of
the gang, is an exile in Canada. In the
case of Ed. McDonald, another of the gangr
the Supreme Court has yet to take action.
OGLESBY AND THE ANARCHISTS.
The Governor of Illinois Tells Schwab
and Fielden Why He Commated Their
Sentences.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Warden McClaugh­
rey, of the Joliet (Hi.) penitentiary, is in
the city. He was asked if he found the An­
archists under his charge hard to oontroL
Said he:
Not at all. They work cheerfully and
well. Schwab is a hard worker 1 so are
Fielden and Neebe. The Govevi- was at
the prison a short time ago and saw them.
His talk with them was characteristic. He
explained why he extended executive clem­
ency to them and the difficulties that had
been in his way. He told them he felt
that if he allowed them to go to prison for
life they would learn to have abetter ap­
preciation of our Government that they
would come to realize that when persons
came to this country and tried to overturn
our customs and laws there was enough
patriotism in the American people to crush
them in spite of hell."
What did the Anarchists say to that?""
"They listened quietly and said they
guessed the Governor was right."
INTER-STATE COMMERCE.
A
Favorable Report to Be Made on the
Amendment Extending
the
sion's Powers.
ComSiia—
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Th© Senate com­
mittee on Inter-State Commerce has ordered
a favorable report upon an amendment to
thp sixteenth section of the Inter-State
Commerce law, which section now
provides for a summary proceeding,
mandatory or other process by United
States Circuit Courts sitting in
equity to enforce any lawful order
or requirement of the commission. As to'
the matters which under the constitution
require trial by jury, it is proposed that
the commission or any person interested
may apply in a summary way to circuit
courts sitting as courts of law. The amend­
ment makes provision for the speedy trial
of such causes, and provides that on the
hearing the findings of fact by the com­
mission shall be prima facie evidence.
Forest Fires in Two States.
BALTIMORE, Md., May 10.—A special from
Middletown, Frederick County, Md., says:
One of the largest fires that has ever raged,
on Catoctin mountain is burning. Great
damage is being done to valuable timber,
fencing, cord-wood, etc. -The fire extends
some three or four miles in length and pre­
sents a magnificent spectacle.
CHATHAM, Mass., May 10.—A heavy forest
fire is raging in South Brewster and doing
much damage to valuable wood land, also
threatening small settlements lying in its
track.
To Succeed Beecher.
NEW YORK, May 10.—It has been practi­
cally settled that Rev, Dr. Lymann Abbott,
who has been temporarily in charge of
Plymouth Church, will become the perma­
nent pastor. At a joint meeting of the ad­
visers committee and the officers of the
church and society, held at the house of
John Chaplin, in Pierrespont avenue
Tuesday night, a resolution was unani­
mously adopted declaring it advisable for
the church and society to issue a call to
Dr. Abbott.
An Elevator Falls.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Maty 10.—Shortly before
8 o'clock yesterday morning Joseph Robler,
Charles Miller and John Zart were work­
ing in Ham's brewery, taking down ioe on
the elevator. They were just ready to go
down with a very heavy load when the ele­
vator gave way and fell to the bottom of
the sixty-foot shaft, carrying the unfort­
unate men with it. Robler and Miller
were killed and John Zart badly injured.
Cyclone in Ohio.
CLEVELAND, O., May 10.—A cyclone
passed over portions of. Northern»Ohio yes­
terday afternoon. Considerable damage
was done to farm buildings, fences and
orchards, but no loss of life is reported.
At West View, Lorain County, trees two
feet in diameter were twisted off. At New
Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, shadei
trees were blown down, windows broke»
and chimnays demolished.
Flax-Mill
Burned.
KBNOSHA, Wis., May 10.—Tuesday night
the flax-mill owned by Messrs. Lewis &
Miller and stored with 26,000 bushels of
barley,' owned by the M. H. Pettit Malting
Company, burned to the ground. The loss
on the building and machinery was 93,500
noi insurance. The barley was insure^ for
917)000. The fire was the work of an in­
cendiary.
.•! I A Speeoh That Is in Demand.
IVASHINOTON, May 10.—The House fold­
ing-rooms has orders tor 75,000 copies of
Burrow's tariff speech, whioh are to be
sept out for use in the campaign. Re
qu|ests have been reoelved from twenty
4ye States for copies pf the speech.,