The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 10, 1897, Image 6

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| THE COUNTY RECORD; KINGSTREErS. C. ~ Louis j. bristow, Ed. & Prop'r. * , ??+mrn Trc MEWS EPi"T Ci.iiZED. Washington Items. Mr. Tillman precipitated an exciting debate in the Senate by his effort to have his sugar investigation resolution recalled from su committee. Special advices from Havana. Cuba, state that Mr. Calhoun will report to President | McKinley that every means, even the most extreme, should be used to stop the war in the island. Senators are said to have decided to oppose the Tillman resolution for an in aestivation of the charges that Senators have speculated in sugar stock. Senator Aldrich is ill from work and worry over the Tariff bill. In his absence Senator Allison had charge of the measure in the Senate. Speaker Reed has received a series of letters threatening to take his life. The j, 4 last one shows that the writer has arrived in Washington. He is not amenable to law. as the threats were made in an inclosed letter and not on an envelope or a postal card. The President nominated Miguel A. Otero !" for Governor of New Mexico and George W. Wallace, a relative of his wife, for !y Secretary of the TerritorV. & The President sent the following nomina-, tioDs to the Senate: William Haywood, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of the Legation and Consul-General at Honolulu, H. I.; William L. Penfleld, of Ine* diana, to be Solicitor for the Department f:? of State; John K. Thompson, to be Marshal for the District of West Virginia: John De i ," Haven, to be United States District Judgo for the Northern District of California. K. The Sultan has withdrawn his objections to the appointment of Dr. James B. Angel] V t Minister to Turkey. _ President McKinley pardoned Frederick J?. EUgar, wao rooea uie irauesineu s j ?" v tional Bank, Sew York Citv, in 1894 ol $17,eoo. 8pecial Treasury Inspector Hampton has reported to Washington that he was dis>v armed and driven off the steamer Biscayne jfr' ?b the Florida oast, as she was transferring arms and ammunition to the filibuster gr Dauntless. The arms were successfully f. v transferred. | Domestic. k Synuel L. Post, Jr.. one of the best-known (Tt\ v members of the Stock Exchange, New York I City, was stricken with a fatal illness while en the floor of the Exchange and expired in j fifteen minutes. j t The United States gunboat Princeton was launched at John H. Dialogue A Son's shipk yard. Camden, N. J. I The Japanese Minister at Honolulu oxpresses his dissatisfaction with Hawaii's reply to Japan's demand, and intimates that ne may return home unless the matter is: adjusted. Tenezuela asked Grover Cleveland to act r as her counsel before tne Anglo-Venezuelan arbitration tribunal. He declined. I*' The report of the Special Senate Committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the defunct Globe Savings Bank of Chicago shows that former Governor Altgeld was a heavy borrower under suspicious circumstances. The June crop report by the Ohio State ' Board of Vkgrieolture, shows that wheat prospects have increased four points since the last report, the present per cent, befc*35 -i't The Democratic delegates of the Fourth Congressional District met at Columbus, gri lad., to nominate a successor to the late Congressman Holman, and on the fourp' 'i teenth ballot F. M. Griffith, of Switzerland, Ifcrmkr:whe ?ma aulanfa^ Tito ( oaolnfinna PPftfflrmftd the Chicago platform and were specially 'y pronounced in favor of free silver 1 - The entire plant of Jones A Laugnlin, at |JFv " Pittsburg. Penn., has closed down, on ae3;, ~ .count of the strike, throwing 3500 men out M employment. Ryy Two men were killed in the collapse of a i . soap factory building at Fifty-flrst street and Twelfth avenue. New York City. The ,V. "victims are William Frazer, Brooklyn, and Jacob Jaeobson. a millwright. The archiBf ' tect of the building and contractors were ft. attested cm a ohargo of manslaughter. * f Thomas M. Early and Max Bernstein were i,. arraigned before United States Commissi: sioner Shields, in New York City, charged with Mealing several cannon from West Point. L ' Little Whirlwind, the Cheyenne murderer of the herder near Lame Deer Agency,in Kf' Montana, was arrested by Agent Stouch, Sfr, and this believed that the trouble there is at anepd. , & v Pour flree, three of them believed to be j.: Inoeadiary, caused great alarm in Key port, Sf.J. The silver Democrats of Kentucky held their State Convention at Frankfort and in*y dorsed the Chicago platform. Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary I of the Navy, formally opened the Naval WarCollege in Newport, R. I., with an ad- I y dress in which he appealed for a formidable I navy as the surest means of securing a permanent peace, 'i' George Kauffm&n, the son of a farmer in r Sterling, 111., was murdered and burned I A while guarding his father's granary from thieves. I. Hoffman, of the firm of Hoffman. Alex- I ?A* Con Fro f>oic n a UUUJL Or VUt, ViVVUiciO, VI v?u Amuviovv, Cal., wa9 found shot in hi3 office. The last * person to see him alive was probably his bookkeeper, Theodore A. Flgle. The theory of the police seems to be that of murder, although many circumstances point to suicide. The family of ex-Secretary Hoke Smith, f Atlanta, Ga., were saved from death by lire by being awakened by a dog. Captain Henry Komeyn, of the Fifth United States Inrantry. stationed at Fort UePherson, Atlanta, Ga., having reached the age of sixty-four, formerly retired from active service in the army. He left at once for Nashville, Tenn., where ho will have charge of the Chilean exhibit at tho Exposition. The steamer Allianca, which arrived at " % New York City from Colon, is detained at Quarantine for disinfection. She had yellow fever on board during the voyage, and a yellow lever patient was taken" from the ship. The Board of Aldermen, by a vote of 2C t - to 8, refuse to instruct Corporation Counsel Scott to begin suits to establish New York City's rights in the Sixth and Eighth avenut railroad lines. General Daniel Buggies,aged eightv-eight years, a native of Massachusetts, graduate 'of the West Point class of 1832, and a Confederate veteran of the Civil War. died at Fredericksburg, Va. General Buggies was V. \fooa Ir, 1W1ft UUiU IU AICIU'J, ?UI?W., ?.* *v*v. The Police Department had its annual parade in New York City, and was reviewed by Mayor Strong from the stand at the Worth Monument. There were nearly SOOO men in line, and Inspector McLaughlin was loudly cheered by the crowds of spectators. The annual convocation of the Grand Lodge of Masons of New York State was opened In the Masonic Temple, New York City. The Forest Preserve Board has bought 250,000 acres of Adirondack laud for the Sew York State Park at $1.50 an acre. The taste for matrimony is acquired, like the taste for olives. ; : -v - -M y ' v ; HiUT TiiiUMPfltJ UVER LAWj i An Ohio Mob Lynches Its Man Af- i ter a Battle With Militia. CULPRIT BEATEN AND HANGED. ! Citizens of I'rbana Killed and Wounded by Guardsmen Trying 40 rrowci a Colored Man Who Had Assaulted One of the Most Estimable Women in the City?An All-Night Struggle. Urban a, Ohio (Special).?Charles Mitchell, colored. who recently made u criminal assault upon Mrs. T. M. O. Gaumer, and had been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, was taken from the jail at 7.20 o'clock Friday morning by *a mob and hanged to the nearest tree. The jail had been defended through the night by the local militia company, who fired on tho mob at 2.30 o'clock a. m., killing two men and wounding eight others. Just before the shooting occurred a crowd i of a thousand people stood congregated j around the jail. It seemed certain that an | attempt would be made to take Mitchell ! from tho jail and hang him. The crowd ! was more boisterous than at any time since i the prisoner had been confined. There were j shouts and howls for the culprit. The mob ! had erowded into the jail yard and was ' pushing toward the jail. Captain George W. Leonard, in command of the militia, addressed the crowd and gave them three minutes to disperse. There was a general rush from the jail yard, but the crowd soon returned. When the shooting occurred an attempt was being made by the moo to enter inu | t'ail from tlie rear. The militia were in the all on the second floor and standing at the ^window. A man named Baker, of West Liberty, and another man, had sledge hammers in their hands and had broken the glass in the door leading to the hall from which the jail is entered. Suddenly the militia opened Are without warning and Baker feH back, crying, "I am shot." Volley after volley was flred, until as many as twenty rounds had been discharged into the crowd. There was a general panic, and the dead and wounded were carried in every direction in search of doctors' offices. After the smoke had i cleared away and the victims had been | identifled, the fatalities were found to be as follows: Killed?Harvey Bell, shot through the head; Upton Baker, shot throngh the body. Wounded?Dr. Charles Thompson, North Lewisburg, shot in the head; West Bowen, of Cable, shot in the hip; Bay Dickerson, shot in the shoulder; Dennis Graney, shot in the leg below the knee; Zack Wank, shot in the arm; Sherman 8. Deaton, shot in the hip; Ray McClure, shot in the arm; Ralph McComb, shot in the arm. The Springfield troops arrived as reinforcements at 7.10, and immediately marched toward the Court House. Angry citizens who were incensed over thek killing of their fellow-townsmen by the local militia at 2.80 a, m., were only further irritated by the appearance of more troops. Crowds gathered on the streets and greeted the soldiers, who are colored men, with hootings and all sorts of insulting remarks. Next mud balls were thrown at them. The fever of excitement raged more ^nd more fiercely. Women appeared on the streets in large numbers, and their presence seemed to be an incentive to the mob to avenge in some manner the outrage to Mrs. Gaumer. In the jail yard the Springfield men, who numbered thirty-six, and were under Captain Bradbury, found 2000 people. Mayor Ganson assured the militia that their services were not wanted; that the people were law-abiding and would assist him in preserving order; that the company could leave the court house yard, and when their 1 services were needed he would send for them. The Springfield company, without waiting for further orders, marched down Street to the depot without so much as the Sheriff seeing them. The local military company had previ- ] ously refused to serve longer, and went to ( the second story of the Sheriff's residence | to attempt to sleep. With no resistance offered, the crowd at ( once made a rush for the side door. Two strong and determined men kicked it down ; in short order and gained admission to the jail, the crowd following. There were j plenty of sledge hammers, chisels aud nm/^T><? nmiri) nnA the men UlUOi bUU19 OiUVUg ?MV va. V ?? went to work. Part of the crowd had previously forced themselves upstairs into the private apartments of the sheriff, and found the keys to the jail, which had been hidden. The crowd did not wait to unlock the door to Mitchell's cell, but burst the lock with a sledge hammer, and the door soon flew open. Mitchell was standing in his cell. He offered no resistance, and did not utter "a word. Some one in the crowd had a rope. It was placed over the neck of the victim and the crowd made for the door, Mitchell following at the end. In going down theeteps on the outside of the jail Mitchell fell down and the rope slipped off his neck. The crowd surrounded him, and he was kicked, beaten andjalmost I killed. The rope was quickly slipped over his head again, and a rush was made for a tree in the southwestern corner of the yard, in front of the Court House. The end was thrown over a strong limb, and willing hands pullod him up. The end was tied to the iron fence, and Mitchell was left hanging there in full view of several thousand people. The crime for which Mitchell paid the penalty was a heinous ono. He criminally assaulted Mrs. Eliza Gaumer, widow of the publisher of the. Urbana Democrat. He was arraigned, but his victim was too ill to appear in court. The man was taken to her home for identification. As he entered the door she raised herself on her elbow and exclaimed, "The brute! Hang him! How dare you face me, yot\ brute?" That night the jail was surrounded by a threatening mob that was held back by the Sheriff's posse and the local company of the Ohio National Guard. The Grand Jury was impaneled next day and Mitchell was indicted for criminal assault. Then the crowd was thrown off the trail by bringing Mitchell into court in a soldier's uniform. Mitchell was scared, pleading guilty, and was sentenced to the limit of twenty years. The trial lasted only a few moments, and Mitchell wanted * ?,.* r.onitantiorv nt Columbus IV (VI fcV IUV quickly, but when the car-iage drove up to the jail the crowd rushed in, trying to lynch him. Another crowd surrounded the depot. The Sheriff remained fortified in jail with his prisoner, while the militia patrolled the ground. Iowa Chooses the Wild Kose. The Iowa Legislature has chosen the wild i rose as the State Cower. All it. & O. Men In Uniform. It id probable that, in the near future, every employe of the B. & 0. will have a distinctive uniform. Train men are now neatly attired, but the receivers desire that each employe have either a badge, cap or suit that will identify him as a B. & O. man, Executed by Law. James Lewis, a colored man, who was recently convicted of criminal assault on MrsReidel, was hanged in the jail yard at Fairfax, Ya., in the presence of about fifty people. Lewis was quite cool, and walked to the gallows without assistance. v r;3 <#,- r StNiOK Mt'THCDIST S.'SHOP. l)r. Stephen M. Merrill, the Lawyer and Parliamentarian of the Episcopacy, Dr. Stephen 31. Merrill, the senior presiding Bishop of the Episcopacy, has come back from a tour of 6000 miles in the Methodist church. He thinks that this fact stands for a symbol of the wonderful breadth of 3rethodism and a sign of the work that falls to the lot of a bishop. Pk m W /Sft BISHOP STEPHEN* M. MEEBILL. Bishop Merrill is the lawyer and parliamentarian of the Episcopacy. His book on ecclesiastical law is the code in tho Methodist church. It was his work in the church literary world that brought to him the title of Master of Arts from the Indiana Asbury Fnivprfiltv. His ordination in the Episcopacy dates I from 1SJ2, and during the years since then I he has visited most of the foreign missions. His dress is of the old school?the high hat, straight up and down, and the coat of conventional ministerial black. His spectacles are cut into two parts, and he looks sometimes through the upper and sometimes through the lower. His summer work takes him from one end of the country'to the other. WORLD'S MODEL TOWN. Pullman, 111., TVIna a Medal at the Prague Exposition. George M. Pullman has received from Archduke llainer two magniflcent medals and a richly wrought diploma as testimonials of honor and merit in founding and building the most perfect town in the world. This distinction for the suburb came as a result of an exhibit in the international hygienic and pharmaceutical exposition In Prague, Bohemia. The archduke was the projector of the exposition. Pullman won against the settlements created by Krupp, the gunman, and Stumm, the great maker of stoel, land Baron von Ringhofer. The verdict of the jury was unanimous, finding that Pullman was without a peer in the matter of comfortable homes for worklngmen, streets, sewers, water system, shops, public halls, churches, grounds and the rules and regulations governing them. The verdict included the Pullman sleeping car. Big Fire In Alexandria, Vn. The greatest Are that has ever visited Alexandria, Va., broke out in Bryan's fertilizing mill, on the river front, and raged with great fury for about eight houra, causing a total damage of from $450,000 to *500 000 nnrtlv Insured. The entire block bounded by the "Strand," Duke, Union and Prince streets was Almost wiped out, only one warehouse with its contents being saved. A fierce wind was blowing, and for a time the whole town was threatened. Big Bank Defalcation. William N. Boggs, paying teller of the First National Bank of Dover, Del., is alleged to be a defaulter in the sum of 338,XX). The peculations are said to have extended over a period of ten years, and have been covered up by false entries that escaped the eyes of the Bank Examiner. Mr. Boggs had been employed in the bank for over fifteen years, and has always been regarded as perfectly honest and upright in all his dealings. Thrown From Her Wheel and Drownod. At Oarrison-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., Susan Duryea, the twelve-year-old grand-daughter of Samuel Sloan, President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, lost her life by an accident. She was riding her bicycle, lost control of it, and was thrown headlong into a small pond, which only a few days before had been deepened. She was drowned. Lloyd for Congress. Returns from the first Missouri Congressional District indicate Lloyd, Democrat, elected over Clark. Republican, by a plurality of 5000. The total voto cast was about eighty per cent, of that cast last November. Lloyd carried Hannibal, Clark's home, by 241 plurality, a Democratic gain of 206 over the November election: Starched to Death Singing. At Morristown, N. J., David Wilson, the colored man who murdered his wife a year ago, was hanged in tho jail yard. He walked to the gallows, apparently without fear, between the pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Church, who baptized him a day or two before, and the President of the Y. II. C. A. They were singing "I'm Going Homo to Die No More." * "No Transvaal for England." The Transvaal exhibition was opened at Berlin, Germany. Among the speakers was Professor Kirchoff, of Hatle, who said: "As formerly the cry went throughout Germany 'the French shall not have the Rhine,' 60 now the English shall not have the Transvaal." Boy Kill* His Two Sisters. The fifteen-year-old son of L. Schwartz, while attempting to unload a gun at Greene, N. Y., discharged the weapon, killing his two sisters. The bullot passed through the nock of one sister and struck the other just above the heart. The Brooklyn at the Jubilee. The armored cruiser Brooklyn sailed for England, where she is to represent the United States in the naval demonstration attending tho Queen's Jubilee celebration. Important Nominations. The President made the following nomnations: Ellis H. P.oberts, to be United States Treasurer; Conrad N. Jordan, to bo Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York; Lawrence Townsend, of Pennsylvania, to be Ministe:: to Portugal. Durable Steel Rails. Thirty years ago the B. & O. bought steel rails in England at a cost of $112 per ton in gold. Some of this rail is still in use on short branches and is in marvelously good condition. It is pear-shaped and was intended tQi use witn wooden splices. ; ' . , -A > vVf .X": ' . ^V<r- ' ' 4* V.. .b Wsmmii A Train Crashes Into a Coach Filled with Pleasure Seekers. MANY HURLED TO DESTRUCTION. A Six-Horse Tally-no Loaded Inside and on Top, Was Crowing the Ling Island ICallroad Tracks Near Valley Stream, L. I.?Coach Cat in Pieces?Bell Signal Gave no Note of Warning to Victims. Bhookltx, Y. (Special-).?A tragedy to chill the blood occurred Monday afternoon, when a tally-ho coach filled with merrymakers was struck by a Long Island Railroad train at a grade crossing near Valley Stream. Tour people were killed outright and another died soon after. Seventeen others were injured. Only two persons es capea injury in a party 01 iwem y-tnrw. From evidence of witnesses ai d the statement of the Coroner, the responsibility for its horror apparently rests upon the Long Island Railroad Company in its strange neglect in allowing the gong at the crossing to get out of order. The failure of this system of warning at the crossing was complete, according to the testimony of many witnesses. The dead, the dying and the injured were co-workers in the Greene Avenue Baptist Church, in Brooklyn, and all lived in the city. The dead are,- Dora Burtsch, twenty years old, killed instantly, her ! neck being broken and a large splinter of shattered woodwork having penetrated the skull; William Gilchrist Jr., twenty-one years old, killed outright; Winslow W. Lewis, nineteen years old, killed instantly, his skull being crushed; George F. Pashley, twenty years old, killed instantly, his skull having been crushed; Lester W. Roberts, twenty-three years old, killed instantly, his body being dismeml>ered. Those fatally injured are: Lawrence A. Barnes, Jr., skull fractured; Clara Stewart, skull fractured, left arm broken and head badly cut; Walter W. Wellbroek, twenty-two years old on the day he w is hurt, both legs broken and oni arm broken. The accident happened at Valley Stream, just about fifteen miles from Brooklyn. The Montauk Division of the Lonp Island Rail road runs inrougn ?auey nir;am, aim ia? Mineola and Valley Stream branch leaves that line there and shoots off to the north toward Hempstead. For about three miles after It leaves the Valley St ream station It runs through a wood. A quarter of a mile from the station of the Merrick road, which is the chief bicycle road on Long Island, crosses the sirgle track at grade. On three corners of :his crossing the wood is thick, and it is no: possible for persons traveling along the r?ad, either in vehicles or on foot, to see a train coming; nor is it possible for the engineer or persons on a train to see anything of the road until the train is right upon it. Though thousands of persons cross the track at that point every day, the railroad company maintains no flagman there, and the only "thing to warn the people is a bell on an oldfashioned "Look out for the locomotive" sign poet, which sometimes rings and which sometimes does not, and which, it is asserted positively, did not ring on the day of the accident. When the edge of a grove to the east was nearly reached little Harry Lewis, a small bey to the left of the driver, looked ahead and saw a man frantically waving his hands from the top of a furniture van that had crossed the railroad a moment before. The shout could have hardly reached them before the small boy from his vantage seat caught sight of the oncoming train from the north and cried to the driver: "Look out for that trainl Turn quick!" But the driver bad no time to turn. If he bad turned the coach would have reeled across the track. Instead, he threw a lash on the horses and they leaped in the air with the great lumbering coach behind. It was the work of a second and scarcely bad the horses crossed the rurtnest ran when the train, with its terrible speed, struck the coach. There was a scene of awful carnage. The coaeh and the holiday seekers were lifted into the air by the engine as a great bull would toss a child on its horns. The psople were scattered with the fragment) of the great vehicle, ground under tbo ridges of the cowcatcher, or dropped against the sharp sides of th^engine and train moving at high speed. The green trees and vines were stained with blood. The train flew like a ghost Sast the scene, scattering the evidence of estructkm for fully two hundred yards down the track to the east. Two bodies lay at the right of the track, cut and crushed almost beyond recognition. At the left was another body beheaded. And scattered between and heaped up in 5 laces were the ones who had escaped eath only to suner tne torments of pain. One woman, stripped of her clothing, lay vrith broken limbs near a little pile of the wreckage of the coach. Others, gashed and seared with wounds, were unconscious on the grass. The few who had escaped more serious injury were dazed and helpless. The ones who had been saved were in pitiful distress. For when the first relief arrived one young man was walking about in a frenzy of insanity. He did not appreciate the fearful situation. His brain had been Jarred out of consciousness by the shock, and he was crying out meaningless words in a pitiful, choked voice. The sufferings of the wounded were terrible to witness. One poor fellow asked to be put out of his misery- at once/ At least 200 people were' gathered at the scene in less than ten minutes. The sight of the dead and the moans of the wounded would have been enough'to soften the heart of a stone, but yet heartless ruffians were there who robbed the dead before the very eyes of a big crowd of witnesses. A deputy sheriff from Inwood was there, but he did nothing to protect the dead and the injured from these scoundrels. For nearly two hours the victims lay there in the full glare of the sun. Indians on the War Path. A report comes from Helena that Cheyenne Indians have gone on the war path in Southern Montana, and that they have murdered several settlers and killed five United States cavalrymen. This report is not credited by officers of the War and Interior Departments, who have received no such news. Cnban Men-of-War. It is said that the Cuban Junta has informed the President that on the day of the signing of a recognition resolution they will have four well equipped men-of-war flying the Cuban flag. Mosquito Bite an Accident. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has decided that the bite of a mosquito is an accident, and that the United States Mutual Association is liable for the $5000 accident insurance policy on the life of a man whose death was the result of a m osquito bite. New Feed for Burses. At a recent horse show in Boston a box of American Beauty roses costing $1 each was sen1: by a lady admirer to a mare named Bu. i, and the blosioms were fed to the fair ret.. lent, who nibbled them with a relish, .?- - . . - t*' \ a ^ I DECORATION DAY. Paradea and Memorial Services In Honor I of the Dead Heroes. Memorial Day was generally observed In "Washington. The Senate adjourned over for the day and the House held only a flfteen-niinute session. All the departments and the business houses were closed and the day was given up to patriotic observance and tributes to the heroic dead. The bronze statues of the Nation's heroes on land and sea in the Government reservations and parks were shrouded in the flags under which they fought. The most imposing ceremonies were held in the national cemetery, at Arlington. The exercises there were made particularly memorable by the presence of President McKinley. Exercises were subsequently held at the Amphitheatre. Among the distinguished guests on the stage besides the President were Vice-President Hobart, Secretary of State Sherman, Senator Allison and the delegates to the International Postal Union. Services were also conducted in the Sol diers' Homo Cemetery, at tne tomD 01 ueneral John A. Logan, and in the Congres sional, St. Elizabeth's, Oak Hill, Holy Hood and all of the other cemeteries in and about Washington, where the Union dead found resting places. A noticeable feature of the exercises was the great inroads the past few years have made in tho ranks of the veterans. In several instances the bands outnumbered the posts they were escorting. Battle Monument, at West Point, wds dedicated on Memorial Day aad passed into the hands of the Federal Government. The splendid shaft was erected in memory of the officers and men of the regular army who fell in the late war. The ceremonies incident to the dedication were held in a temporary amphitheatre of light timbers and bunting, in the form of a semi-circle and #pen all around. Associate Justice David J. Brewer, of the Supreme Court Of the United States, was the orator of the day. The monument was presented to the army by Brigadier-General John M. Wilson and was received by Lieutenant-General John M. Schofleld. retired, on behalf of the army, who in turu presented it to the general Government. Russell A. Alger, General and Secretary of War, received the shaft for the Government, and after his speech a National salute was flred and the band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The Memorial Day of the war veterans began in New York City with the parade of the Grand Army posts and ended with the exercises in the Metropolitan Opera House. In the interval between these events 10,000 persons gamerea m untni s iuiuu iu ?jiness the ceremonies there, under the auspices of U. 8. Grant Post of Brooklyn. The procession was the shortest New York City has ever witnessed in honoi of Memorial Day since the great rite was established. The Memorial Day exercises held at the Metropolitan Opera House in the evening were largely attended. They consisted of vocal and instrumental music, a short address by Mayor Strong, who presided, and an oration by General George B. Loud. Business was suspended almost entirely in Brooklyn. There was an Immense outpouring of people to the parks and various suburban resorts and to the vantage points from which to view the parade, which, as usual, was the special feature in the celebration. With the exception of a perceptible thinning out in the ranks of tne veterans, the demonstration was the equal of any of its predecessors. In accordance with a time-honored custom, tho column was formed along the streets converging on the fountain in Bedford avenue at the east,end of the town. The memorial structure on Boston Common, in honor of Colonel Robert Gould 8haw and the colored' men of the Fifty-j fourth Massachusetts Regiment, who fell at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in 1863, was dedicated on Decoration Day. Colonel Shaw enlisted in the Seventh Regiment of New York City in 1861, and it took part in the parade in Boston. An IcAmense assembly joined in the ceremonies of Decoration Day at the National Cemetery at Vicksburg, Miss. In accordance with a custom of years a delegation of Confederate veterans took offerings of flowers to the cemetery in the afternoon and scattered them over the graves. ( At Chattanooga, Tenn., graves 01 i4,wu Union soldiers burled In the National Cemetery were decorated with elaborate ceremonies. Captain J . H. MacGowin, of Washington, delivered the oration. An immense throng of people were present. SPAIN'S BUDCET STATEMENT. Revenue and Expenditure*, and Plans to Meet War Expense*. 8enor J. Navarro Reverter, Spanish Minister of Finance, in the budget statement to the Cortes, estimates the revenue at 8170,473^802 and the expenditures at 81G8,656,114. In order to provide a revenue to meet the extraordinary budget the Minister of Finance proposes to raise a loan with Almaden quicksilver mines as security and t< obtain navigation dues to the amount of twelve millions. In order to meet the increased expenditures and the ninety-two millions required ' to meet the interest and for the redemption of the late loans guaranteed by the customs, a temporary surtax of ten per cent, on all taxes except land has been proposed. By this means it is expected that twenty millions will be obtained. The Colonial Department will contribute thirty-two millions of the balanoe and forty millions will be raised by a loan on the proposed petroleum monopoly, giving the exclusive privilege of dealing in this product during the next twenty years. Should the Colonial Department be unable to pay its share of the increased expenditures it is calculated that a portion of another loan can be obtained by a proposed monopoly on explosives. Forecasts a Hot Summer. Douglass Archibald, who was formerly employed in India in the British meteorological service and who visited San Francisco recently en route to the East, where he is now located, forecasts another hot summer for the Northern hemisphere, great masses of ice in the Atlantic indicating an early polar spring. The abnormal heat is attributed by him to solar conditions, which he represents have been unsettled since the maximum period of sun spots in 1893. Craze for Private Roof Garden*. Dealers in Chinese lanterns, awnings and i other goods of that kind in New York City reDort that the craze for private roof gar dens has created the greatest demand for their goods that they have ever known. Grows Lettnce to Sell. John E. Garrell, residing near Wilmington, N. C.. is reputed to bo the most exten- i give single grower of lettuce in the South. He expects to ship North this season from j 8000 to 10,000 barrels of this salad maker. State Dispensary I.aw Void. A decision was filed by Judge Simonton, in the United States Circuit Court, at Charleston, restraining the State of South Carolina from preventing the sale of liquors ! brought into the State. This decision, if ] sustained, it is said, will render nugatory th9 State dispensary law. i - i Minor Mention. Germany makes paper horseshoes. ! No almshouses in New South Wales. Greater New York has 712 newspapers. Arkansas has an ex-slaves' association. It costs fl an acre tg Irrigate in Egypt. . j * I WISH EABfflET FiLll." Prime MinisterCanovas and Colleagues. y Have Resigned, CUBAN FAILURE THE CAUSE. I Crave Situation Created Nominally by Tetuan's Cox on Comafs Ear, Bat Real1 r by the Failure to Settle the Cuban Question?Wheels of the Governmenfi 1 Hocked by the Attitude of the Liberals. M ideid, Spain fBy Cable).?The Spanish { i Preraier, Senor Cancvas del Castillo, has offered to the Queen Regent the resignation of the Cabinet. This step has been taken ow- <1 Ing to the Uinicuity tne ministers ,-i; encod in carrying on the Government, in | riew of the Parliamentary situation caused h7 the refusal of the Liberals to take part yin the deliberations of the Cortes, The attitude of the Liberals is due tb the personal encounter between the Duke o* . ^ Tetuan, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Frofessor Comas, a Liberal Senator',, on '; } May 21, when the Duke slapped the face of a the Senator after a heated debate on the vafa Morgan belligerency resolution adopted by the United States Senate. ?? - - . - ^ SE503 CASOVA.8 DEL CASTILLO. The real reasoo of the fall of the Cabinet 2? was the failure of the Canovas Government : i to settle the Cuban difficulty. Respond- ;v\? tility for the safe conduct of the Govern- \ zaent now falls upon the Queen Regent, *;* , , whose dilemiAi is distressing. Like tbS^JS majority of her subjects, the Queen folly ,"*? comprehends that any change In policy and N'A Government must be dictated chiefly byv < colonial and international considerations, Her Majesty knows beforehand that the V' gravest significance will be attaohed at. '<J home and abroad to her decision. C ie of two things she most do. She may keep lienor Canovas as Premise '^ With his Conservative Cabinet, Intact or modified, and kf ; Gen. Weyler In Cuba to persevere in his pr esent policy, with tbmjfts ample means recently voted by the GortaL jVv * Or she may call upon Senor Sagasta to . form a Liberal Cabinet, In which Seaor ' . f Moret probably would be Minister of > Foreign Affairs, with opportunity to follow his well-known inclination to coma to an understanding with the United States; Senor Mauca, the great home . ruler, Minister of the Colonies; Marshal Lopez Dominguez, War Minister; 8paltt>#HBH best financier. Senior Gamazo, Minister of t Finance, and which Cabinet probably would G send Marshal Campos to Cuba with fuffU Ever to conciliate the insurgents and-. Hlists by establishing more radical hums than Senor Canovas contemplated and thus disarm the United States. e UNITED STATES NOT AFFECTED. \ % Secretary Sherman Thinks Our Relations T , With Spain Will Not Be Changed. . ' -n r fQnuiltll Affletal ? VI AOaiilUAV^ | A/ w? ^wyw??i*/r M ? and diplomatic circles in Washington warn 'd greatly interested in the news from Madrid that the Canovas Ministry has at lastS .'v fallen. It is accepted as a foregone conclusion "vl that Senor Sagasta, the great Liberal lead- * er, will be called upon to form a new Cab- .vj? lnet and to assume the responsibility of un> * u1 dertaking the settlement of the Cuban que*- -Ofl tion, involved as It is with possible compli- i cations with the United States. Secretary of State Sherman voiced vriiot w undoubtedly is the general opinion wnensKH| he said that the relations between the Gou?fv ernment of Spain and the United State? / would not be changed by the retirement of , Canovas. The general opinion of publio men aa#?VP[ officials is that any change in the 8panlsk &?? Government mu.st make for peace, its occurrence being directly consequent upon ' the disastrous failure of the attempt to J% keep Cuba by war. Canovas hassubmittott^H a new scheme of home rule for Cuba so liberal as to meet Secretary Sherman's ap- * proval. Minister De Lome's recall from Washington Is confidently expected- A change of ministry probably would be " urged by Spain as a reason for delay in pending negotiations with America. SOLID SHOT AT THE VALENCIA. .Jll The Ward Line Steamer Fired on by a ' , '' Spanish Cruiser. The Ward Line steamer Valencia, which .'*<21 has arrived at Clenfuegos, Cuba, report? an exciting experience while off Quanta* namo Bay. The Spanish crniser Beina Mercedes signailed to the Valencia to display her colon. . As the Valencia did not immediately com*' .JS ply, the Relna Mercedes fired a blank shot, 1 which was followed almost immediately by ' ? a solid shot, falling out of range. The Ya- / lencia then displayed h': colors. It is understood that the United State? Vice-Consul at Santiago de Cuba has lodged a, formal protest against the act of the \ cruiser. Captain Quesada left Havana to ,1 Investigate the affair, which has serious' aspects. The Spanish Government has disavowed responsibility for the action of the cruiser Reina Mercedes In firing upon the Ward V. line steamer Valencia. . >, Jgjfi JtxSn Two Disowned In the Hudson. . '' jiji Mrs. Helen Wheattiey, of New York City, tJ lumped from a high cliff at 197th street in- ? to the Hudson Elver, In an effort to save lier daughter Helen, six years old, who had _fli [alien from the embankment into the ^$0 water, and both mother and child weld ' - drowned. They were attending a picnic. Crimes of an Insane Letter Carrier. , Edgar Harris, nn insane letter carrier, shot and killed two of his children at his ^ home in Baltimore, Md. He then seriously ' wounded his eldest daughter, Elia, and*.< afterward shot himself through the head, - * Inflicting a dangerous wound. The children1 ' ^ killed are George, ten years old, and Ada,j six years old. ^ Losses by the Floods. Experts estimate that the losses restrtUt . ! ng from the recent floods In the Mississippi] ' 1 falley will aggregate about $13,000,000. 3 Jh i