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THE CURRENT MONTHLY PUBLIC
DEBT STATEMENT.
A. Net Increase In the Public Dehfc, [
Less Cash on Hand, of $6,603- !
030.58?A Net Loss of $22,000,i
. 000 in Gold?Great Falling Off in
the Revenue.
The debt statement shows a net Increase
of the publio debt, less cash In the Unite 1
atofo* Mar f>r OR RM
030.53. The Interest-bearing debt increasel
1 $460, the Don-interest-bearing debt decreased
8640.879.53, and the cash In
the Treasury decreased $7,243,450.03.
The balance of the several classes of debt
at the close of business. Mav 81, were:
Interest-bearing debt, 8635,041,340; debt on
which Interest has ceased since maturity,
$1,853,390; debt boarin? no interest, $380,016.330;
total, $1,016,916,560.
The certificates and Treasury notes offset
by an equal amount of cash in the Treasury
outstanding at the end of the month were
$621,123,445, an increase of $M88.650. Total
cash In tbe Treasury, 8783,283,264.77,
gold reserve. $78.693.267: net cash balance,
$39,161.068.83. Darin? the month there whs
a decrease In gold coin and bars of 822,124,641,
the total at the close being $148,067.816.
Of silver there vtm an increase of
$786,490. Of the surplus there was in th9
national bank depositories $16,939,421,
against $16,840,719 at the end of the previous
month.
During the month of May the Treasury
HStained a net loss in gold for export purposes
of $22,000,000. The movement still
mining Aflf fill ftf t\\Pk
VUUlLUUtra, uucui; nipiu^ vm %?% V* ?V - .
received by the bond Issue of last January.
While the Treasury is losin? eold bv export, |
It is also losin? it in Boston, Philadelphia and
New York by withdrawals in ordinary business
transactions. The gold is finding its
way into the banks. In most of the
cities of the West the Treasury 13 daily gaining
gold In exchange for legal tenders, ona i
day receiving $400,000 in St." Louis for
Unite 1 States notes delivered In New York
to the bank's credit. Gold received for customs
dues at New York during May amounted
to only 2.3 per cent., against twenty-eight
per cent, six mouths ago.
The falling off of ordinary revenues is .
causing more uneasiness in Treasury circles .
than the decline of the gold reserve. The re- :
ceipts for the eleven months of the current
fiscal year are $84,000,000 less than for j
the eleven monchs of the previous fiscal :
year. A saving of 813,000.000 in ex- :
pendltur^s over the corresponding period J
of 1892-3 brings down the differ
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WIIUU 111 iuuua U^UICO IV V 4.vvv,uuv, MW- r
' lng the fexcess of expenditures ?>irar receipts
for the eleven months of thU v^ar The *
greatest falling oft Is show!.' m customs. r
which have declined 866.000.0JC1. Internal ,
revenue also fell ofT $14,000,000. The great- ?
est retrenchment of expenditures is shown k
in pensions, a saving of $17,030,000 having
been effected In this item. Civil and mis- *
cellaneous expenditures show a decrease ot ?
$4,000,000. ' ?
The stated Treasury balance is $117,030,000;
on January 1 it was $93,000,000. On
January 1, however, the Treasury was le- ?
duced to a working currency balance of on)y ?
$9,000 000, the rest being sold and now the ;
Treasury has a working currency balance of a
14 ftflrt nnn Thn Trnasnrv situation, there- ,
fore, w considered more favorable now, even | 'i
with less gold than it held in January, than ,
at the beginning of the oalendar year, as its '
currency balanoe is four times greater than ?
ft . ;. it was then. ?
I- ! THE LABOTWOELD. *
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' Thx average age of iron puddlers is thirty- _
two. J
Thx hat making Industry is in a languish- p
ing condition. r
Ths railroads of the United States give TJ
employment to 898,000 men. l>:
Thb Boston hat manufacturers decided to E
reduce wages twenty peroent. ^
Rmuxftioh of operations at the Johnstown ^
(Penn.) Iron and steel works will give employment
to 5000 men.
Dev. HmbjsbtN. Cabsos, of Lynn, Mass..
has founded what he calls a "Labor Church* p
to advocate the abolition of the wage sys* ci
tem.
Labor organizations attach great fmpor
tance to the"victory won by the American w
Kailroad Union over the Great Northern CI
Bailroad Company. ?
It is said that there are more musical 0
unions In the American Federation of Labor ff
than under the jurisdiction of the National al
League of Musicians. c
About 100 Philadelphia boss bakers have aj
agreed not to patronize any flour merchants tc
dealing with the large bread factories of that a)
city, where bread is made at cut rates. s<
Eighty-nine trades unions of St. Louis re- P
a nest the American Federation of Labor and
ie Knights of Labor to bury the hatohet ?
and join hands in the political and economlo ^
struggle. B
' At Castle Eden, England, last month, 520 ?(
miners were fined 61.25 each for absenting i
themselves from the mines without giving
notice. They left to attend the funeral of a (1
workman who died from injuries received .|
the previous day. _
The newly elected officers of the Brother- b
hood of Locomotive Engineers are: Assist- F
iant Grand Chief Engineer, A. D. Youngson, ri
u- / -1?4-4^ - "CIi A- J Ay
UleadVII10, reoa., ^re-eiWLOu) ; xuai urniu ui
Engineer, T. S. Injjraham; Second Grand ii
Engineer, C. Hv Salmons. Grand Chief
'Arthur holds over. o
. The average number of working days in
various countries, according to the London "
[Engineer, is as follows: In Kuasia, 267; in ?
England, 278; in Spain, 290; in Austria, 295;
In Italy. 298; in B;ivarla and Belgium, 300; 11
in Saxony and France, 302; in Denmark, 8
Norway and Switzerland, 803; in Prussia,
805; in Holland and North America, 308; and
In Hungary, 312.
The London Times says that Lord Rosebery
offered to John Burns. M. P., the labor ]
lender, a position in the Government when
iMr. Gladstone resigned and again when Mr.
Mundella resigned. Mr. Burns declined on
fbotb occasions, giving as his reason that he <
was best able to serve the interests of worklngmen
on the outside.
8ix thou3 and-quarry men are employed In
the marblo quarries at Carrara, in Italy. J
There are more than 400 of these quarries,
which are situated in the sides of the moun- '
tains, above and back of the town. Dyna- 1
mite is used In operating the quarries, from
which 160,000 tons of marble are exported ]
jamtiflllv. much of whioh comes to America.
A convention of central organizations or
? railroad employes of the United States was
held recently in the Lenox Lyceum, New
York City. It lasted three days. Five hundred
delegates and the chiefs of the following
orders attended: Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, P. M. Arthur, Chief;
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, F. P.
Barcrent, Chief; Brotherhood of Trainmen.
S. E. Wilkinson, Chief; Order of Railroad
. Conductors, E. E. Clark, Chief: Order of
Railroad Telegraphers, E. G. Ramsey. Chief;
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Society, John R.
Wilson, Chief.
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DEAD BEFORE HANGED.
A 3Iob Tortures Its Victim to Remind
Him of His Crime.
A'.*? vider McCurdy, about thirty yean of
a-,'-. was convicted at Golden, Col., o? may.
I?.... He had brutally assaulted his 3tepbrutaer,
Charles Birry, wiom he char^jJ
with Interfering with his domestic happl*
' ness.
McCurdy was sentenced to throe years
in the penitentiary, but had not been taken
away yet. Early la the morulas; a moo
seized Alexander Kerr, the jailor, choked
him and made him give up his keys. Tueu
the loaders dragged MoCurdy from his call
to the jail lawn, where no wa3 tortured as ha
had tore are J his stepbrother.
McOur.ly died unaer the torture, but-his
body was hanged to a trestle over Clea^
Creek, it was cat down at 6 a. m>
Senator Patton, oi nnohlgan, Is a broadshouldered,
well-built, athletk} man, with a
line face and a handsome mustache. Like
Senator Dubois, to whom he bears a resemblance,
he has a swarthy complexion. These
two Yale men, together with Senators Wolcott
and Higglns, who are also graduates of
the college, have formed a little sooioty
jrMoh will hold monthly reunions.
THREE EUROI
rhe Emperors of Russia, Austria and
in Eu
FIFTY-THIRD CONFESS.
The Senate.
118th Day.?The Senato adopted a rosoluion
declaring that this Government will not
nterfere with the domestic policy of Hawaii
)r resard interference by others as friendly.
?Mr. Turpie introduced a resolution lookng
to the abrogation of the extradition
reaty with Russia. The lumber schedule
)t the Tariff bill was finished ; Mr. Sherman
ipoke in opposition to the bill.
119th Day.?The consideration of the
nnrifr hill was confined to two lonir speeches
>n the question of repealing the bounty on
ugar. The first of them was by Mr. Mandirson
and the socond by Mr. Peffer. Mr.
larris gave notice that he would ask the
Senate to sit later to train time.
120th Day.?Mr. Hill's resolution for open
ession of the committee investigating the
iugar Tru*t scandal was debated. The
ugar schedule was discussod during the reaainder
of the session.
121st Day.?Mr. Gray, as Chairman of the
pecial committee to investigate the alleged
iperations of the Suarar Trust, submitted
he second batch of testimony taken beore
that committee, concerning the exmination
of all the Democratic memera
of the Finance Committee.??
Ln agreement was entered into between the
Barters on the two sides by which a vote was
o be taken immediately on the pending
mendment to the su<?ar schedule, and the
ther committee amendments were then to
e voted upon, and this vote was to be fol>wed
by takinc up the tobacco schedule.
122d Day.?The sugar schedule of the
'arifif bill, as amended bv the Finance Comlittee,
was passed. The substitute North
iver Bridge bill was passed. The Senate
issed bills authorizing the Missouri River
ower Company to build a dam across the
fifttirniri River and the construction of a
ridge acros? the Monongahela River at
[omestead. Penn.
128d Day.?The tobacco schedule of the
ariff bill wa9 disposed of and the agricaliral
schedule taken up.
The House.
138th Dat.?Discussion of the bill to reeal
the ten per cent, tax on State bank cirilation
was continued.
139th Dat.?Senate bills were passed exsndlng
to other nations than Great Britain
1th which the United States may make
eaties relating to the care and protection
tthe fur seal the provision of the act to entree
the regulations of the Paris Tribunal
f Arbitration on that subject and to facili*
tte the entry and unloading of steamships
t United States ports. Speeches were
tade by Messrs. Brosius ana Henderson
against the repeal of the ten per cent, bank
is law. and by Messrs. Swanson, Tucker
ad Izlar in favor of repeal. An evening
jssion was held under the rales to consider
rivate pension and relief bills.
140th Day.?The speakers on the Brawley
tate Bank Tax bill were Messrs. Izlar, Les*r
and Meyer in favor of repeal, and Messra.
[all and Warner against it. The bill went
ver. 'The resolution concerning nou-inirference
in Hawaiian affairs was referred to
ie Committee on Foreign Affairs.
141st Day.?Debate on the bill to repeal
ie ten per cent, tax on State bank circulalon
was continued. The Senate bill was
assed, authorizing the construction of a
ridge over the Delaware River between
hlladelphia and Camden. A. Senate joint
ssolution was passed appropriating 810,*
DO to meet the expenditures caused by the
lvestlgation of the Sugar Trust.
142d Day.?The day was devoted to debate
n the State Bank Tax Repeal bill.
143d Dat.?The House concurred in the
enate amendments to the New York and
few Jersey Bridge bill. By a vote of 172
o 102 the House voted not to repeal the law
mposing a tax of ten per cent, upon the isues
of State banks and other associations.
A FARMER'S CRIME,
He Shoots a Farm Hand, His Mother*
in-Law and Kills Himself.
Maxon Miller, a farmer, who lived la
Cheshire, about six miles west of Cananiaigua,
N. Y., walked into his home and,
without saying a word, deliberately flred
:hree shots at the hlrerl man, E. G. Reish.
Ee then walked over to where his mother-inlaw,
Mrs. Ward, was sitting and shot her
twice, both balls taking effect.
Miller then, shot himself In the forehead
and died in a few minutes. His wife escaped
to some neighbor*, where she in a frantio
manner related the story of her husband's
crime. Every one in the neighborhood |
hurried to the scene, where they saw Mrs
Ward lying in a pool of blood, but still alive,
and Miller lyin.i? dead in tae back yard
Reish had escaped any Berious Injury, only
one shot having taken effect, and that one
In the left arm.
Reish says that Miller had been absent
from home for several months, and that the
family had no intimation of his being in the
nelgliporhood. The reason lor committing
the deed is said to be jealousy.
MILLIONS SWEPT AWAY.
Many Lives Lost in the Fraser River
Flood.
Four million dollars will hardly cover the
loss by the Fraser River flood in British
Columbia. The waters continued rising,
and as the warm weathor continues melting
the snow in the mountains there
was no immediate prospect of relief.
One prominent railway official
rhinks the loss of ltfe will reach
100. Bridges, trestles, tunnels and
tracking along the Canadian Paciflo have
gone. From Prevelstoke to the sea, 330
miles, the railway is new a watery waste.
The last point above Vancouver which can
aow be reached is Ruby Creek, eightytwo
miles distant. Thence all is water.
Masqul Mission, Chilliwack, Hatzle
and Lanffley Prairies, and
the towns of Harrison, Centreville,
Langley, Chilliwack and Mission are all
under water, and not a farm building is left
Standing. Fully ten thousand cattle have
perished. Telegraph and railroad services
are completely demoralized.
One raft was found with the bodies of a
man and woman and three children strapped
to it, and seven bodies wore found floating
ting'.y.
'EAN RULERS.
Germany, Arbiters of Peace or War
rope.
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LATER NEWS.
Two children of John Long were burned to
death in a fire at Duko Centre, Penn.
HExnr B. Cleaves, or Portland, was renominated
for Governor at the Maine Republican
State Convention hold*at Lewiston.
Stbieebs in Indiana burned bridges and
tried to blow up a trainload of troops ; there
were reports of lighting at Farmersburg,
Indiana; two rogimerts started from Baltimore
to the Cumberland coal regions ; an
I agreement was reached between the Colorado
miners and the operators.
The drought in Nebraska and Arkansas
was broken. Kansas millers reporf gloomy
crop prospects.
The House Elections Committee decided
the contested election case of Watson vs.
Black from the Tenth Georgia District, in
favor of Mr, Black, the contestee.
The President sent the following nominations
to the Senate: To be Consuls for the
United States, Alexander C. Brice, of Iowa,
at Matanzas, Cuba; Perry Barthol, of MisHnrm
nnv WllHom .T
lard, of New York, at Hull, England.
Attorney-General Olney filed, in the behalf
of the United States, a claim against
the estate of the late Senator Stanford, for
the sum of $15,000,000.
Tiie Italian Ministry has resigned ; there
was a personal encounter between two Deputies
while the Budget was under discussion.
Frank Bradford, a prisoner confined in
the Albany County Jail on a charge of intoxication,
leaped, with suicidal intent,
from the highest or fourth corridor to the
stone floor below. He died two hours later
at the City Hospital. Bradford comes from
a highly respectable family in Bennington,
Vt., and was a well known elocutionist and
a prominent Mason. The late General
George G. Bradford was his brother.
West Point cadets gave a brilliant exhibition
of gunnery. They made a bull's-eye
shot with a sea-coast battery piece and a
450-pound shell.
Fire completely burned out the largest retail
dry coods store in Woonsocket, R. I. It
was owned by A. J. St. Onge. The Unity
brick block was also badly damaged. Loss
$45,000.
Govebxob Richaeds has forbidden the
proposed sun dance ot the Creo Indians at
Great Falls, Montana.
Five Chinamen wore killed by an explosion
of gasoline In a laundry at Portland, Oregon.
Ohio Republicans foet in State Convention
at Columbus and declared for a speedy
restoration of silver as a money metal. The
ticket nominated was: Secretary of State,
Samuel M. Taylor, Champaign County :
Judge of Supreme Court, John A. Shauck,
Dayton; School Commissioner, Oscar T.
Corson, Guernsey County; member Board
of Public Works, Charles E. Groce, Circleville.
Hes. Cleveland, accompanied by her two
children, a nurse and a maid, left Washington
in a special car on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, for Gray Gables, Mass., to spend
the summer there.
8en*ators Vilas, Smith, Gallinger. Blackburn
and Patton have been appointed a committee
to receivo petitions and give hearings
on the existing industrial distress.
Gctieeef.z has been proclaimed Prosldent
of Salvador after an exciting day and night
in La Libertad, during part of which time
American forces were in charge of the
town.
The Brazilian insurgents have been defeated
by the Government troops in Santa
Catharina and Rio Grande do Sul.
The golden jubilee of the Young Men's
Christian Associations was celebrated in London.
KILLED THEIB CEELDBM.
Then Carl Seeger and His Wife Took
Their Own Lives.
Carl Seeger, his wife aud thefr four children
were all found dead iu their home at
Berlin, Germany.
8eeger was a master painter, and at one
time was well-to-do, but has been unable to
colleet money due him for work and became
despondent. Mrs. Seeger was greatly cast
down by her husband's financial embarrassment,
and, judging from the evidence in tho
hands of the police, the couple determined to
kill their four children, nineteen, thirteen,
ten and seven years old, and then commit
luiolde.
Procuring some cyanide of potassium tho
parents placed the poison in tho food of tho
two older children, from the effects of which
they died in a short time, though the eldest
son apparently made a despenito struggle
before death relieved him of his agony. The
other two children, one a girl, were, for
some unexplained reason, hanged by their
parents.
After killing the children It is supposed
that Seeger gave some of the poison to his
wife, and immediately after sho swallowed
it placed a rope about her neck and strangled
her.
Then Seeger made preparations lor killing
himself. Taking the rope with which he
had strangled his wife, ho placed the end
with the noose around his neck, fastened tho
other end to a door-knob, and, with the aid
of a chair, passed the middle of the rope
over the top of tho door. When he had
done this he kioked the chair from under
him and strangled.
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LOSS OF LIFE AND MUCH DAMAGE
IN C0L0BAD0.
A Cloudburst at Pueblo Fills the
Night With Horror?A Large Pari
of the City Under Water ? The
Railroads Cut Off From the Town
?Other Cities Suffer.
A dispatch from Pueblo, Col.,says: The
cloudburst which sent a vast torrent of water
down the valley and into this city, caused
many deaths and rendered widespread destruction.
The work of rescue had just begun whea
a recurrence of the flood caused a suspension
of the work, and it was feared that
many bodies whioh were washed away and
under debris would never be recovered. The
list of the dead and missinf? compiled shortly
before midnight was as follows:
Dead: Dave Rafferty, steel worker; Josephi
Coppa, smelter; body reported seventeen
miles above town and another two miles
knlrtnr TTnn T.aa ft OhfnMfl ln.iinflrvmn.n
drowned In the cellar of his laundry.
Hissing: J. Vandever, William Bush,
Harry Burch, Mrs. Williamson, Josie Hurt,
an infant, and five others reported by different
families.
Grave fears were expressed for twelve
families of squatters on an island down the
river. There was no means of reaching these
people.
The catastrophe, similar to the Johnstown
horror of four years a go and remarkable
from having occurred on the same day, utterly
prostrated the citizens and paralyzed
business. The property loss will be about
$600,000.
Both the Arkansas and Fountain Elvers
continued to rise rapidly, and rain fell in
torrents. But for a light here and there the
city would have been in darkness.
The entire business district from the bluffs
to Fourth street was inundated, the water
standing upon the Union Depot platform to
the depth of a foot. Hundreds of families
were rescued during the night. The electric
light stations, the gas works and telegraph
and telephone offices were rendered useless.
The levee broke in a dozen places. The
Arkansas River brought water from the
west, Dry Creek from the northwest, and
the Fountain Irom the north. All went out
of their banks durine the night.
No trains could enter or leave the city In
any direction. Reports from the West Indicated
that the railroads had been very
badly damaged. The new Hue of the Florence
and Cripple Creek road was badly washed
oat.
At noon several people were known to
have been drowned. Traffic on the Pike's
Peak Railroad at Manitou was entirely suspended
for the first time in its history, by
reason of great damage to the roadbed. The
Rio Grande and San: a Fe railroads were seriously
crippled at many points by washouts,
rock slides and washed away bridges. The
damage throughout the State was very great.
Three spans of the bridge across the Arkansas
River at Nepesta went out at 9 o'clock
a. m., and there were indications that the
whole bridge would be destroyed. There
was a big washout between Colorado Springs
and Colorado City, and there was danger
that the shops and the depot in the latter
city would be damaged greatly.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Bessemer, the Inventor of the steel process
which bears his name, has made 810,000,000
out of the invention.
Govebnob Altoeld, of Illinois, Is said to
be afflicted with a disoase of the spine, and
It is not expected that he will live his term
out.
Mas. Agnes Ibwin is to become the dean
of Radcliff College, as the Harvard annex Is
now called. Mrs. Irwin is about sixty years
old.
Onlt three of 'the United States Senators
are of foreign birth. Walsh was born In
Ireland; Pasco in England and McMillan in
Canada.
Lobd Robebeby's dairy farm in Buckinghamshire,
England, comprises 1400 acres, on
whlcn he keeps 120 dairy cows, 800 cattle
and 1000 sheep.
At the royal wadding in Coiurg, Queen
Victoria spoke nothing but German, no matter
what the nationality of the person she
was talking to was.
Senatob Jones, of Arkansas, is the nightingale
of Congress. He is a member of a
church choir and his bass solos are the feature
of the services.
Kino Humbebt, of Italy, will soon undergo
an operation for canoer of the throat. It
is said tnat hlis case is similar to that of the
late Emperor Frederick, of Germany.
B. P. Hutchinson, "Old Hutch," who is
now a small operator on the Chicago Board
of Trade, lost 63,000,000 in speculations during
the past five years. His son is a millionaire
banker.
Eupebob William Is honorary colonel-inohlef
of twenty-seven regiments belonging
to various oountries of Europe. He has to
have a complete and distinct uniform outfit
for every regiment.
When Governor Noithen, of Georgia, retires
from the executive chair he will become
Chancellor of the University of Georgia. He
Is by profession a teacher, and is recognized
as an educator of marked ability.
Fbedebiok MacMonnies, the designer of
the famous fourtain at the World's Fair, has
taken a contract for 3100,000 to carve two
groups for the soldiers' monument at Indianapolis.
He has four years to finish them.
Sib Patbick Sullivan, of Sheboygan,
Mich., wbo was knighted by the Klnz of
Sweden for writing a book on "Turnips as
a Universal Article of Diet," has just taken
out a patent for a bicycle made from com
husk palp.
BOTH BOYS DROWNED.
A Nine-Year-Old Lad Tries in Vain
to Rescue a Younger Brother.
A nine-year-old hero was drowned at Lancaster,
Ponn., and with him his little brother,
whom he strove helplessly to roscue. The
children were Willie and Jimmle Stock, sons
of Frederick Stock. Together they went to
bathe in the Conestoea Creek, about 6
o'clock p. m. Neither of tho lads could
swim, so thoy kept close to the shore, paddling
about ill glee. Soon Jimmie, the younger,
ventured out a little and quickly got
beyond his depth. He shrieked for help.
Willie went bravely to the rescue. He seized
hold of Jimmy, and then the boys struggled
to get back to shallow water.
"Hold fast to me, Jimmy. Til save you j
we'll be all right," gasped the older lad,
while the water was nearly rising over them.
It was no use, and In a few minutes the two,
locked In each other's embrace, went down
before the gaze of several young companions
who were watching tnem from the
shore. The bodies were recovered.
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LYNCHED IN COURT.
Disgusted "With tho Proceedings
Against Two Murderers.
Ed. Hill and George F. Parker, murderers,
were taken from tho jail at Colfax, Wash.,'
nnd hanged from the balcony of the Court
House.
Hill killed Lnngford Summers at Garfield
nearly two years aj*o, anl after a trial which
cost tho county nearly '539,000 he was lound
guilty of assault aud soutuucod to two years.
His ease was pending on appeal.
Parker was being trio-l for tho murder of
A.. B. Cooper, at Pullman, last October, and
tho jury sitting in bis caso watched the
lynching from a room in the Court House.
The mob awoke Jailer Newcorabor, and,
ou plea that they had a prisoner to look up,
got in tho jail. They took his keys, put ropes
around the necks ot the murderers, led thorn
to the second story of the Court-House and,
without any parley, dropped them off tho
balcony. Parker's arm caught in the rope
find wus jorkedalmost from its socket. Hill's
neck was broken.
Five war ships were sold out of the service
by the British Admiralty a few weeks aero,
being unfit for further employment. One
was a woodon battle ship built sixty years
ago. Three of the others were also wooden
ships, and one was an lion troop ship. i
j THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
Dr. Mart Putnam Jacobi and other advocates
of woman suffrage addressed the Suffrage
Committee of the Constitutional Convention
at Albany, N. Y.
The annual review of the police took place
In New York City.
Business men held a meetinc: in Carneprle
Hall, New York City, to denounce the income
tax feature of the Tariff bilL Nearly
1500 wera nrftsent.
Five rapid firing guns were experimented
with by ths Ordnance Department at the
Government Proving Grounds, at Sandy
Hook, N. J.
General Neal Dow spoke at the opening
of the Temperance Congress at Prohibition
Park, Staten Island, N. Y. I
Three masked burglars broke into a farm <
house near Bridgeton, N. J., bound and (
gagged the Misse3 Jones, two old women
who occupied it, and by threatening to hang
them compelled them to show where their
money was hidden. The burglars secured J
about 8700.
Cab works in Laconia, N. H., worth $100- (
000, were burned.
South and West.
Reports from the lower Kanawha Valley, j
West Virginia, stated that there was a brisk
fall of snow there, the thermometer falling J
to th irty-flve degrees. In Greenbrier County
corn, potatoes, etc., were frozen.
Andrew Drioht and B. Landry were j
killed at New Orleans, La., by falling from j
the top of the Newcomb College dormitory,
and Arthur Stanley, who fell with them, was
fatally injured. The cornice on which the
men were working gave way. They fell ,
sixty feet.
Frank Ballard, colored, was lynched (
near Homer. Tenn., for attempted assault j
on a white girl.
J. W. J. Morgan, a white man, was hanged (
at Greenville, S. C., for the murder of his 1
father-in law. <
Jeff Crawford, colored, who murdered J
W. P. Blackburn, white, of Eethesda Town- c
ship, S. C., and who was sentenced to be i
hanged, has been lynched by a mob. Hardy ,
Gill, colored, was taken from the jail in
Lancaster. 8. C.. and lynched. He assaulted
th<5 wife of James A. Clark. At "Dublin, ,
Gn., a mob entered the jail, bound and
gauged the jailer, took a colored man accus3d
of assault, tied him to a tree, and shot
him dead.
The riotous strikers held fall sway at
CannolUbtfrif, Ind. They tore up the
Evansville <fc Terre Haute Railroad tracks,
ditchnd cars, ruined railroad propprty right
and left. They built rough fortifications,
and the news that the militia was coming
made them very ugly. They wore flvo hundred
strong.
Fifteen business houses and twenty residences
in Ottumwa. Iowa, were destroyed by
fire. The worst result was the death of
James daymour, a dwarf boy, the fatal injury
by smoke of one man and the serious
injury of three others. The loss is estimated 1
at $225,000. A spark from a locomotive is
supposed to have started the blaze.
Striking coal mtner3 burned bridges and
Interfered with coal trains in West Virginia
and Ohio. Four minors were shot from ambush
at Powellton, W. Va., while returning
from work. At Farmersburg in a skirmish
between tUe troops and the strikers four of
the latter were killed.
Steele & Walker, grocers, at St. Joseph.
Mo., failed with liabilities of $700,000 and
assets of about $1,000,000.
Jealous Joseph Lozanskl killed his wife
and committed suicide in Toledo. Ohio. At
Kansas City, Mo., W. L. Marsh snot his wife ]
and daughter in a court-room and tried to
kill a constable. Mrs. Marsh was fatally
nun.
Gbeat damage has been done by floods at l
Portland, Oregon; much of the business part t
of the city was placed under water.
Washington. .%
The Senate confirmed the nomination of
John A. Sullivan to be Internal Revenue
Collector for the Second New York District.
The United 8tates cruiser Columbia
scraped the river bottom on her recent final
acceptance trial and received some injuries.
The National Lutheran Home for the Aged
at Montello, near Wlnthrop Heights, Washington,
was inaugurated. The house is surrounded
by a tract of thirty acres, the gift
of Mrs. Sarah Untermehie, of Wasnington.
The cottage plan has been followed.
An official statement of Secj ary Carlisle's
connection with the sugar trust schedule of j
the Tariff bill was issued. He helped the j
Finance Committee put it in proper form, (
correct a blunder and write a provision re- j
lating to the resiprocity treaty with Hawaii. t
8enator McPherson explained that a careless r
servant was the cause of his buying 500
shares of Sugar.
The Korean Legation In Washington received
a cablegram from the King's palace at
Seoul, saying that the rebels had gained possession
of Chunlato, the southern and chief
of the eight provinces of the kingdom, that
the lives of all foreigners were in danger and
that the presence of a United 8tates war
ship at Chemulpo without delay to protect
Americans was urgently requested.
Secretary Herbert returned from his
trip to the Pacific coast.
Superintendent Stuot, of the Immigration
Bureau, Treasury Department, took
steps to prevent alien contraot laborers from
taking the place of striking miners in the
coke and coal regions of Clearfield and Connellsville,
JPenn.
The cruiser Baltimore was ordered to
Korea to protect American interests. The
State Department heard that there was danger
of an uprising of natives.
The Second Assistant Postmaster-General.
J. Lowrie Bell, resigned to become General
Traffic Manager of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey.
A Court or Inquiry was ordered to fix the
responsibility for the grounding of the cruiser
Columbia.
The President nominated Charles Neilson,
of Maryland, to be Second Assistant Postmaster-General,
vice Lowrie Bell, resigned.
Lieutenant Holcohbe testified that some
of the blow holes in the Carnegie armor
plates were six inches in diameter and that
one such, plugged, can bo found below the
Monterey's water line.
Pnrfttfrn.
Bbioaxds entered the house of Mgr. C.if*
nro, at Acquaviva, province of Barl, Italy. 1
They murdered the prelate's father, ninety
years old, and the coachman, who tried to
defend the household, and wounded a maid
servant. t
At Sofla the military flred three times on ?
the mobs, wounding many persons. j
Dn. Wekehle, the Prime Minister of <
Hungary, has tendered his resignation to ?
the Emperor Francis Joseph.
Civil war has broken out In Bulparln. {
Two battalions of troops have rebelloa and ?
demanded the reinstatement of 31. Stambu* e
loiT. They have fceen joined by the cen? i
ctarmes in an attack on the troop3 wao have (
declared for Prince Ferdinand. | J
Advices nave reached London of a serious I
rebellion in Manchoorin. f
At London, United States Ambassador
Bayard sure a dinner to the officers of the
cruiser Chicago.
Tur River Sacrre, in the Province of LerIdn,
Spain, swollen by recent heavy rains,
suddenly swept over the Seo de Urgel road, /
destroying an inn and a warehouse. Fifteen
bodies have been recovered. It is believed
that fifty people were drowned.
Thousands have been made homeless by
the Hoods in British Columbia. The property 1
)o?? in Frasiir Valley alone is estimated at j ]
$3,000,000. j ,
Tjie thirteenth international Y. M. C. A. <
conference opened with a service in ^Vostminster
Abbey, London. <
The Government forces of Salvador wero t
defeated, General Er.eta and 600 troops be- <
ing killed. President Ezetn has resigned. t
Hawaii sent a steamer to Neckar Island to
post her flag and assert her authority.
Some peasants found a shell on the Glern- <
t?igh Artillery range, at Tralee, County j
Kerry, Ireland, and tried to open it. Tho j
shell exploded, killing three and seriously
wounding four. j
Jcbh.ee sermons In connection with the
Y. M. C. A Conference were held in 1400 i
churches in London and Its suburbs, and f
also throughout Great Britain. The Conferenco
elected SirGeorge Williams, the founder t
of the assooiatlon, Its permanent President, c
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P1TB WAIFS POIWEE
THEY ATE SLAB ROOT AND
DIED IN GEEAT AGONY.
Fifteen Inmates of the Catholic Home
Near Tarrytown, N. Y., Struggled
for Possession of the Deadly
Growth ? Ten of Them Survive
After Violent Convulsions.
By the unfortunate eating of a poisonous
foot, which they thought was sweet flag
root, Ave little boys in the Roman Catholic
Bisters' House of Mercy, about a mile back
of Tarrytown, N. Y., were killed and half a
dozen more were made critically ill.
The name3 of the doad are: Richard
Powers and John Donnelly, twelve years
old, and James Forrestal, John Callahan and
rhomas Pasmore, ten years old.
These boys were in a company of fifteen
r>r twenty who went out for play in the
fields. While watching some laborers digring
a trench for draining purposes, young
Donnelly saw what he supposed was some
sweet flag root and told the other boys of it.
rhey all began eating of it and enjoyed
their feast. A. couplo of hours later all the
toys wno had eaten of the root were talten
111 with violent pains about the heart. This
wholesale illness greatly alarmed the Sisters
in charge, and they sent in haste to the village
for all the doctors they could find.
The physicians saw at once that the boys
must have swallowed some kind of poison,
md antidotes were given without delay.
Some of the boys were affected in a much
greater degree than the others by the poison,
jnd the doctors devoted their greatest energies
to saving these.
The boys, according to the physicians,
:ould not have swallowed the poison long
jeforethe antidotes were administered. One
)f the physicians, after examining the matter
romited by the boys, said that he thought
hey must have eaten a vegetable known . ?*
ilag root. The doctors remained at the
lome all night, working to save the lives of
he boys.
The Ave boys fatally poisoned died within
l short time of each other. The other boys
vere soon out of danger.
One of the lads said the finding of the
'oot was accidental. As soon as the finder
asted ir he shouted : "Here's something
Ine, boys?flag root."
Then they all made a rush for it, and tho
act that there w as not sufficient to go around
s the only reason why all were not killed.
Those who died ate greedily of it.
It was not moro than an hour after tho
inding of tho first root when the boys who
lad eaten the most of the roots became very
ilck. The Sisters at once be^an to give what
imple remedies they could think of to roieve
the boj-s, but soon saw toat it would be
tecessary to send for the ph3*8lcians.
Coroner Apgar, of Pe?kskill, wasnotifledof
ho death of the boys, and at once impanelled
l jary in order to hold an Inquest. He
lirected that an autopsy be mada upon the
>ody of each of the boys.
The autopsy showed that they died from
jaralysis of the heart. Powers, Donnelly,
md Pasmora were orphans. The fathers of
Callahan and Forrestal live in New York,
rhe Mother Superior directed that tho boys
>e buried at the expense of the institution.
)na of tho doctors who examined the root
hought it was a species of "slag" root.
STKIKEKS RAMPANT,
Labor Disturbances Break Forth at
Many Points.
Violence marked the continuance oi the
abor strikes in many sections of the coun;ry,
and a review of the situation for one
lay showed that tho struggle was growing
nore serious as the contest between the
workmen and capitalists progressed.
McKeesport, Penn., was in the hands of a
vild mob of tube-work strikers. Thev drove
vorkmen from their factories, burned tip)les
and other property, and held undisputed
iway over the country rouud. They had
hree cannon, and for a time retained possession
of the mills and other property of
iieir former employers.
A desperate fight occurred between a
iheriflTs posse and coal strikers at the Little
3oal Mines, near Pekin, III. T wo were killed
md half a dozen wounded. One dead
jody, several men on the verge of the
prave, a number of others injured,
$30,000 worth ?o! property absoutely
destroyed and many homes made
lesolate, was the result of an attempt made
)y the miners of the Peoria district to close
:he mine operated by the Little Brothers in
razewell County, a mile or more back of
SVesley City. Edward Blower, of Bartonrtlle,
married, was shot in the side of the
leek and killed instantly.
Governor McKlnley has sent 1200 troops to
Eastern Ohio, where strikers are stopping
railway traffic. The commanding general
jelieveg that the men will fight at at least
>ne point.
A mob near Harmony, Ind., stoned a Vanialla
freight train and instantly killed the
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snginuer rnuu tnu.
The presence of troops quieted the riotera
it Frostburg, Md., but just before the solilers
arrived the house of ft working miner
yas blown up with dynamite.
A call for aid came from Round Pound In ]
he Cherokee Strip. Men were tearing up
railroad tracks and threatened to kill any- '
jody who attempted to repair them.
A battle between the army of deputies and J
fold miners near Cripple Creek, Col., was
i verted at the last moment. The men said 1
hey were willing to surrender to the mili- J
;ia, and the deputies concluded to awnit the 1
omtng of the troops. .
Neither the coal operators nor the miners 1
ook kindly to the suggestion of the National
Committee of the United Mine Workers that
iach mining district settle the strike for ltlelf.
!
Tne importation of new men into the coke
region of Pennsylvania Increased and bid
.'air to defeat the strikers.
Judge Emery Speer, who once made n de:ision
unfavorable to organized labor, refused
at Macon, Ga., to require engineers to
ivork thirteen hours at a stretch, saying the
policy of the '.aw was to improve the \-onlition
of the laboring man wherever possible.
OREGON ELECTION.
The Republicans Win With Their entire
State Ticket.
A dispatch filed at Portland, Oregon, on
he day after the contest, said: The most
txciting election in the history of the State
ias just taken place. Lord (Republican) for
Governor, la elected by a plurality of <
>000. The entire Republican State ticket
s probably elected with the possible
sxception of Irwin, for Superintendent of
Schools. The Legislature will be very close i
ind the Populists may hold tho balance of
>ower in the Senate, thoughthe Republicans
:laim they.will have a majority in both
louses.
Hermann (Republican) is elected to Congress
from the First District with from 1000
:o 2000 majority. Ellis (Republican) is in
the lead in the Second District.
TO STOP UP SHOT HOLES,
The Devise of a Marine Engineer
Which Meets Approval.
A devise for stopping up shot holes In war
ressels. invented by a marine engineer named
Douglas, and accepted by the British Government,
has been tested by the Unitod
States cruiser Chicago.
It resembles a parachute with a rubber
;over supported by steel ribs. It is pushed 1
hrough the hole made by the shot. when, it 1
>xpands and clings close to the outside of
ho vessel, preventing an inrush of water. i
Captain Mahan and Lieutenant Com- i
nander Clover, of tho Chicago, are much
pleased with the device, and Lieutenant
iowles, naval attache to the United States
Embassy, has sent a specimen of it to the ;
N'avy Department at Washington.
English Capital After Our Watches.
The local stockholder* of the Elgin (III.)
National Watch Company were notilod
by President Avery that an English synlicate
had made au oiler of S7.00J 000 for
he plant, and that three-fourths of the
wnsrs of stojk had agraed to sell.
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TEMPERANCE
WHAT BUil WIIL no.
Rom will scorch and sear the J.rain,
Rum will mad the bwirt with pm'n ;
Rum will bloat the flesh with fire
And eternal thirst inspire.
Rum will clothe with ra^s your hack,
Make you walk a crooked track ;
Change your meat to naked bones
And to wrath your gentle toues.
Rum will rob you of all sense.
Rum will rob the purse of pence,
Rum will rob the mouth of food
And the soul of heavenly good.
Rum the jails with men will All,
And the dungeon's gloomy cell;
It rouses passion's deadly hate
And pours its curses oe'r the State.
Rum the Christian's love will cool,
Make him break the golden rule;
TJII.,,1 ki.
JLfUUU 1113 3UUl IV CilUl n WiuuJ
And to evil turn his hands.
?F. S. Williams, in Home and Country.
1 DBUXKABl/s WILL.
The following is a -will by a drunkard oi
Oswego, N. Y.: "I lenve to society a ruined
character and a wretched example. I leave
to my parents as much sorrow as they can in
their feeble state bear. I leave to my
brothers and sisters as much shame and
mortification as I could bring on them. I
leave to my wife a broken heart?a life of
shame. I jeave to -uch of my children poverty,
ignorance, a low character, and u remembrance
that their father fllle.l a drunkard's
grave."?Christian Inquirer. ?
BRANDT DSOPS FOB CHILDBED.
M. D. Arnould, a candy manufacturer,
was brought before the Board of Health, of
New York City, to make explanation concerning
brandy drops, which he had manufactured
and sold to school children. Coneplaint
was made against him by the Gerry
Society. A chemical analysis showed that
six of the candies contained as much brandy
as an ordinary ' cocktail.'' Mr. Arnould
stated that he badpiven up the manufacture
of the drops, but that others were manufacturing
them. The Commissioners will do all
they can to prevent the manufacture of
these intoxicating droos.?New York Witness.
TESTIMONY OF SHE AGES.
Thou shalt not drink wino or anything
that may intoxicate.?Budhist Commandment.
Temperance is a tree which has content*
ment for its root and peace ior its fruit.?
Arabian Maxim.
Bodily enjoyment depends on health and
health depends on emperance.?Thares, of
Greece. 640 B. C.
Strength of mind depends upon sobriety,
for this keeps reason unclouded by passion.
?Pythagorew, of Greece, 580 B. C.
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus?pernicious.
inflaming wine, that weakens botU
body and mind.?Horner, of Greece. SOOB. C.
Look not upon the wine when it is red,
for .it-. Inat it llkfl .1 sornont und sHnir.
eth like an adder.?King Solomon, 1015 E. 0.
It is good neither to eat flesh nor to driuk
wine, nor anything whereby thy brother
etumbleth or is made weak.?Paul the Adostie.
50 A. D.
While the intemperate man inflicts cviJ
tipon his friends, he brings far more evil upon
himself. Not only to ruin his family, but
also to bring ruin on his own body and soul,
is the greatest wrong that any man can
commit.?Socrates. 46'J B. C.
The man who drinks intoxicating liqnov
puils up his own root, even in this world,
Dig up thirst by the roots, that the tempter
may not crush you again and again, as tho
stream crushes the weeds.?Bukha Sakya,
Hindoo, born 627 B. C.
THE MODEBN JU Jtf ERXAITT.
Commander Ballin?ton Booth. in a recent
number of the War Cry, referring to the
licensed liquor traffic andthe saloon, writes.
' It has long been a mystery to me, both in
my private and official capacity, bow any
municipal or State governmont can hope to
regulate the city or commonwealth witn any
degree of advantage or prosperity or any anticipation
of inculcating morality, chastity, t
or justice, while the saloon and the open'
traffic of liquor is allowed full sway and protection.
Their work is avowedly baneful
and destructive. It has been proved Incontestably
that the business of five saloons in
any locality will occasion more real permanent
harm than the fervent efforts of five
churches will accomplish good. While the
sale and use of liquor is encouraged, our
homes will continueto be blighted, our youth
debased, our civil happiness robbed, and our
public prosperity thwarted. Has not the
argument 'Drinking in moderation.' long
since proved weak and threadbare in the
li?ht of the devastation, misery, and scourge
brought through the fiery cup to multitudes H
in our midst?
'Am I accused of speaning strongly/ I H
will speak less so if any one reading thesd H
lines can tell me that no relative or acquaint- H
ance of his has ever been brought unaer tae H
shadow of this curse. Oh, as men among
men. as stewards of God, and as Soldiers of Hj
the Cross, there is but one tiling left for us to
do in this matter, and that is to vow present
and eternal abandonment, and war against, Bg
this modern Juggernaut." H
THE COST OF ONE DEI>'8, "
Some men are so made that the mere taste H
nf liquor will kindle in them a raging thirst BE
for more.
A doctor and his friend were once talking H
together in front of a saloon when a master Bn
mechanic, a man of amiable and excellent
character, a flrst-clnss workman, full of H|
business, with an interesting family, respected
by everybody and bidding fair to be
one of the leading men of tho city came up MM
lo them and laughingly sai.l Kg
"Well, I have just done what I never did |R
before in my Jife."
"Ah. what was that;" 9H
"Why, Mr. ? had owed mo a WU for
work for a Ion? time and I dunne-l Llm for |H
the money till I was tired, but a minute ago EH
I caught him out here, and asked him for
the money 'Well,' ho said. Til pay it to
you if you'll step in here, and get a drink
mo ' ?vnsniil I. 'I tieyer drink?
never drnnk in my life.1 'Well.' he replied,
Mo as you please : if you won't drink with HB
m?*, I won't pay your hill?that's all!' But 19
I told him I could not do that. However. Hjj
finding he would not pay the bill, rather BH
than lose the money. I just went in and got
the drink." And he laughed at the strange MS
occurrence as be concluded.
As soon as he had finished the stqjy, the
physician's companion. an old, discreet, BB
shrewd man. turned to him. and in a most
Impressive tone, said Nvj
Sir, that was the dearest r'rlnk that ever
crossed your lips, and the worst bill you
evr collected."
Aud terribly did time verify that prcdie- ^9
ilou. In less than twt?lv<> months he was a
:'onllrmed. disgraced sor. a vagabond in soeiety,
a curse to those who loved him. a MB
ioathineand a shame wherever he wont. At BH
last he died a horrible rttath in an infirmary
from a disease produced solely by mtoxica- Ha
tion. Jg
'EiTPEEASCE SEWS AND NOTE'. KB
Lord Bramwell says : '"Saturday is pay-^^H
day, drink-day. crime-day."
Eght per cent, of the Welsh manibsrs of
Parliament are teetotalers. 9RH
Even a brewer one hundred years flgo
wrote: "rhrouirh drink there are half i
million homes to which happiness nevct
comes." 9BM
Of the Clt paupers in the Edinburgh poor HH
house not one w:is an abstainer, and 407 admittcd
that their poverty was due entirely
to intemperance.
Four million four hundred and twenty- IH
eight thousand have been convicted o! H&
drunkenness and <1isorderliness ia Loudon
in a quarter of a century. BHj
Dr. Clara Shaw, of the Chicago Central W.
C. T. U., has begun a series of scientific HB
temperance lectures in the Christian En- flRfl
deavor Societies of Illinois.
The statement was recently made in tho
German Reichstag that there are 11,000 persons
in hospitals in Germany who are suf- ^H|
fering with delirium tremens.
That whirlwinil of the Lord, of twenty
years ago, has not yet spent its lorce but is^HB
still sweeping on. A part of it is embodied
in the Y^ung Peoplo's Society of Christian
Endeavor. Let us thank God and take new^^H
courage.?Mrs. G. H. Bead. agS
According to an estimate mado by a prorn-HH
inent liquor dealer, the United States Sen-^^B
ate, if it extends tho honding period. is^HS
practically giving the liquor men S1.G7
tfvery gallon of whisky upon which tho bond-^H|
ing period is extended to eight years. HH