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ffilTERQ.GRESHAMDBAD
[The Secretary of State Expires Suddenly
in Washington City.
CAREER IN WAR AND PEACE.
Fatal Collapse That Surprised and
Shocked His Family and the Public?
J nin Ailment Was Acute Pleurisy
| Complicated With Fneuinonla and
Heart Failure.
j Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham
died at 1.15 o'clock a. m. in his rooms at tho
Arlington Hotel. Washington, arter anmness
of several weelcs. No death could be more
/quiet, more calm, or more peaceful. For
[two hours preceding dissolution there had
been no indication either of a pulse or heart
[beat. He lay during the time with his head
jesting on the arms of his daughter, Mrs.
Andrew.*, while his devoted wife sat by his
aide, his hands clasped in hers, his face so
turned that his last conscious gaze should
rest upon her.
1 And so the minutes dragged slowly on until
the end came. He was conscious to the
jlast. He suffered greatly during the preceding
forty-eight hours after the pneumonic
symptoms were complicated with his diseases,
?nd was only temporarily relieved by frenuent
hypodermio injections.
V But as the end approached his suffering
'disappeared, and ho passed away as quietly
as a littlo child sinking to slumber in the
|&rms of its mother.
C
"WALTER Q. GRESHAST.
[ The illness was due ohiefly to a severe cold
caught by the Seoretary while driving during
the unusually damp weather that has
marked the season in Washington. The
eold was aggravated by a chronic stomach
trouble and diseased kidneys, there being
hnwAvor nosvmDtomflof Brieht's disease. As
Boon as the physicians realized that the end
(was approaching, the heroio measures usual
jto such cases were adopted. Dr. Van Renapalaer
was called in and he performed the
operation of injecting normal saline. It was
without avail, for the patient sank rapidly.
|* A telegratn was sentrto Secretary Gresh m's
son Otto, at Chicago, informing him
that the end was near, and he hastened to
[Washington without delay.
* The announcement of the Secretary of
State's de^fch was immediately communicated
to President Cleveland, at Woodlev, his country
seat near Washington. He was greatly
shocked by the news, although It had been
expected for some hours.
Telegrams were sent to Secretary Carlisle
in Kentucky and Secretary Smithin Georgia,
and both hastened to Washington. The
peech-making campaign of the Secretary Qf
the Treasury was thus brought to a sudden
close.
MR. CRESHAM'S CAREER
His Active Life as Lawyer, Soldier, Jurist
and Cabinet Officer.
Walter Quintin Gresham was born on
Maroh 17, 1832, in an old-fashioned farm
house near Lanesville, Harrison County,
Ind., about a hundred miles down the Ohio
River from ex-President Benjamin Harrison's
birthplace. His parents were of Eng
lish descent. " His iatner, muiam
Gresham. was Sheriff of the backwoods
county, and he was shot to death
while attempting to arrest an outlaw. Walter
Greshain was at that time two years old, and
next to the youngest of a family of five children.
His grandfather, George Gresham,
had been one of the pioneer settlers of the
State. Walter Gresham's opportunities for
schooling were limited. In his boyhood
he followed the plow by day and studied
his books at night. His mother was
poor, but plucky, and she managed
the farm and kept the family together.- Walter
went to the "district school until he was
sixteen years old, and then he obtained a
clerkship in the County Auditor's office,
which paid his board and expenses and permitted
him to attend the Corydon Seminary
lor two years. He attended Bloomington
University for a year, and then returned to
Corydon, where he studied law in the office
of Judge William A. Porter. He was admitted
to the bar when he was twenty-two
years old. and began to practice law. Gresham
was a Whig in politics, and his partner.
Thomas C. Slaughter, afterward Judge
of the Circuit Court, was in 1856 a delegate
Jrom Indiana to the Philadelphia Convention
that nominated Fremont. Young Gresham
, began his active political career by .stumping
the State for "the Pathfinder." He was
nominated for the Legislature in 1860 as a
Republican, and was elected in a strongly
Democratic district.
When the war bijoke out Gresham was the
Captain of the military company in Corydon,
known as the Spencer Killes. He refused
a re-election to the Legislature and
enlisted as a privhte in the Thirty-eighth
Indiana Regiment. Almost immediately he
was selected a3 the Lieutenant-Colonel of
mat regiment, ne saw uis urai service ui
Bhiloh, and later he took part in the
Biege of Corinth. Colonel Gre9ham met
Grant at Yicksburg, and after the surrender
Grant and Sherman united in recommending
him for a Brigadier-General's commission,
which he received. While In command
?f a division of Sherman's army at Leggett's
Hill, before Atlanta, General G res ham
was shot in the knee, a wound from which
he never fully recovered. When Gresham
was ready to go to the front
again the war was ended and he
was brevetted Major-General and mustered
out of the service. He resumed the
practice of law at New Albany, Lnd. When
General Grant became President he offered
General Gresham the CoUectoTship of the
k Port of New Orleans, and subsequently the
| District-Attorneyship of Indiana. Both of
ft these offers were refused.
General Gresham twice ran for Congress,
P and was defeated by M*chael C. Kerr. He
accepted President Grant's appointment as
United States District Judge for Indiana
in 1869, and during the twelve years that he
held that District Judgeship not one of
his decisions was reversed. President
Arthur called him from the bench to become
a member of his Cabinet in 1833,
and since that time Mr. Gresham has been
a conspicuous figure in National politics. He
took the portfolio in President Arthur's
Cabinet left vacant by the death of Postmaster-General
Howe. Perhaps the most
noticeable incident of his career as Postmaster-General
was the exclusion of the
Louisiania Lottery Company from the use
of the mail. Near the close of President Arthur's
term, on the death of Secretary Folgor,
Mr. Gresham wus appointed Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr. Gresham, However, longea
for a return to the beach, and in the closing
days of the Arthur Administration lie \va.-i
appointed Circuit Judge to succeed Judge
Drummoud for the Seventh Judicial District.
This was an appointment for life.
He was a caudidate for the Republican
nomination for President in 1831, and again
in 1888. He received 111 vote3 on the first
ballot in th>; convention in 1338. His vote
rose to 123 on the third ballot, and then
dwindled to fifty-nine on the eighth and last.
He refused, it is said, the nomination by the
People's Party in 18*J2.
Judge Gresham announced his intention of
Toting for Grover Cleveland in the last Presidential
campaign. In his letter, dated October
27, 1892, and addressed to Major Bluford
Wilson, he announced that he thought a Republican
could vote for Mr. Cleveland without
joining theDamocratic party. When Mr.
Cleveland was elected ho offered him
first place In the Cabinet, and he beci
Secretary of State. Mr. Cleveland and
Gresham were old friends, having met in
White House in 1885. His course as Se<
tary of State has been in accord with
policy of President Cleveland.
Judge Gresham was married in 1858.
wife was a Kentuckian. They had two c
dren?a son. Otto Gresham, and a daugb
now Mrs. Andrews. Judge Gresham's ]
sopal appearance was that of a hands'
man. His bearing was soldierly and ma
He was broad and square shouldered, wi
figure that was athletic and symmetri
His hair was thick and of a whitish g
and he wore it combed back from his f
head. He was somewhat careless in his
tire, and apparently paid very little at
tion to it.
THE EPWORTH LEACUE.
Programme of the Second Internatii
Conference at Chattanooga.
The Second International Conferenc<
the Epworth League is to be held in C
tanooga, Tenu,. June 27-30.
The League was organized in Clevoli
Ohio. May 12.1800, Prior to that timet!
had been a number of Young. Peoples'
cieties in the Methodist Episcopal Chu
each, more or less, independent of the i
although generally having the same obj
in view. Delegates from many of t
assembled in Cleveland to try to harmo
or consolidate tuem an uuu one. as m
be supposed, the representatives were
tached each to his own society, and fi
time it appeared impossible to effect a un
but at last on the day indicated it
accomplished and the new organization
born and christened. This was within
pale of the Methodist Episcopal Chu
The next General Conference of that Chi
approved and adopted the organization
cave it official standing in the Church.1
Bishop J. N. Fitzgerald as its President.
The local organizations in the indivii
churches are called chapters. Of thes
ready organized and enrolled the numb
nearly 15.000, and the aggregate mem
ship in this one denomination is about 1,(
000 members.
The League is still spreading and grox
very rapidly, having organizations in 3
ioo, South America, England, Ireland, I
many, Sweden, Norway and Italy; als<
Japan, China and India.
The Second International Conference
the members and friends of the Epwi
League will be held in Chattanooga,
session will begin June 27, 1895, and <
tinue four days. It will embrace the Leaj
of all the Methodisms of the world,
programme is in the hands of the Gen
Secretaries of the M. E. Church, the M
Church South and the Canadian Metho
Church, namely, Rev. E. A. Schell, D.
Chicago; Rev. 8. A. Steel, D. D., Nashv
and Rev. W. H. Withrow, D. D.. Canada,
is emphatically a present day program
full ot the life and spirit of these stir:
times.
The general topio Is "The Methodisn
the Future." Under this general head
be discussed such topics as the follow
"What to Read," "How to Read." "Ed
tional Opportunities," "Entertainmec
"Visiting. "Church and League Offlct
"The Duty and Privilege of Giving," 41
Lost In Our Cities." "Spiritual Minist
"Christian Citizenship," "Membership
Children in the Church," "Junior Leagu
"Bible Study for Children," "How to
Men to Christ." and many others no
practical and full of interest.
3. If. FITZGERALD, PUE3IDENT EFWORTH LEA
There will also be department conterei
dailv for the discussion of the practical v
of the League in its several departme
Bishops Joyce, Vincent and Thoburn. ol
H. E. Church; Galloway, Hendrix, Fitz
aid and Hare-rove, of the M. E. Ch
South, and Sir McKenzie Bowell, Premie
the Dominion of Canada, are on the
gramme. These great leaders with m
other men of eminence, as well us n li
numbar of the talented and promising yo
workers of the various Methodisms cai
fail to make the discussion of the diffe
topics of the hicrhest interest and proQt.
The music will be a special, feature of
conference. It will be under the direc
of Professor Rowland D. Williams. ass!i
by the Park Sisters, of Boston, and a ch<
of 500 voices. An immense chorus of chilc
from the public schools of Chattanooga
also participate.
Sunrise prayer meetings will be held c
morning in the churc hcs and on Loot
Mountain.
Sunday morning will be devoted to
mons by the bishops and visiting minis
in the churches of the city and subu
Sunday afternoons there will be e
meetings in the largest churches addre
by eminent ministers and laymen.
The regular conference meetings will
held in the great tent, capable of seating
000 Deonle. where the opening sermon
b? preached by Bishop Galloway and
closing sermon and consecration servio
Bishop Joyce.
DE3S MUST SERVE HIS TERM.
Supreme Court Itefu6eft to Order a AVr
Habeas Corpus.
The United Slates Supreme Court, ir
opinion read by Chief Justice Fuller, deni
motion for an order for the issue of a
of habeas corpus filed by Eugene V. Debs
his associates of the American Rail
Union. They will have to serve the
tencea imposed upon them by the court.
The cases, it will be remembered, aro.'
the United States Circuit Court of the Nc
fern District of Illinois. Debs and others
obeyed the order of the court enjoining t
from further interference with inters
commerce and the carrying of the Uc
States mails.
They were brought before tho court
contempt and sentenced to from three t<
months imprisonment. The case
brought before the tho Supreme Court
motion for leave to Hie a petition for wr
habeas corpus, which was fully argue
Debs's counsel on the one side and Attor
General Olney on the other. Tho deci
of the Chief Justice sustains the action ol
court below.
Buchanan, the Wife Poisoner,Hesenten
Tho New York Court of Appeals, at Alb
ordered that Dr. Buchanan, tho wife ]
oner, be electrocuted during tho week
ginning Monday. July 1.
Chief Judge Andrews reviewed the <
saying that there was uo appeal to
United States Court, and sentenced B
auaii to be electrocuted during tuo i
beginning July 1.
"Poor Farms" Schemes a Succes*.
A report has been sent out by Suporint
ent J. W. Kjelgaard, of tho New York
Committee 011 Vacant Lots, saying thn
new p!au for Kirin.; quarter-acre |.lo
ground to the unemployed poor is a .-u .*
Tho embryo farmers, according to th
port, are enthusiastic, and work early
late at their gardens.
New York Dark at Noon.
An intense darkness wa* caused thro
out New York City about noon by ah
storm cloud. Lights were lit all over
town.
William Dcemer, the soldier who s
thousands of lives in the Mexican Wa
preventing the explosion of a powderat
Chapultepee, isliviug in Bethlehem, P
where he washes windows and polishes <
knobs for a living. He receives a small
sion.
v'-.- ,V *. '..V.yUi-v
s CHIEF BfflES RETIRED.'
the , ,
:re- '
fjlQ
The Head Policeman of New York City
His J
iiii- Placed on Half Pay.
iter, J
per
y! THE REFORM BOARD SUPREME.
th a
leal.
ray,
ore- By Unanimous Vote of the Police Commis'
a*- sloners the Famous Detective Leavei
tenthe
Service With an Allowance of 83000
Per Annum?Served Thirty-two Years
?Inspector Conlin Acting Chief.
>nal After more than thirty-two years' service
'" DaIi'aa nar?o?4manf rtf WflW Vrtrl?
? of Chief of Police Thomas Byrnes was, at his
hat- own request, retired from active service and
placed on the pension roll of the department,
ind, ' "
I .
Jpj. THOMAS BYBKES.
^ 1 ?
j jn with an annual pension of $3000. His retirement,
so far as the official record shows,
? of was entirely voluntary, but it was known to
everybody at the Central Office that in ap,on_
plying for retirement he had yielded to the
jues desire of the new reform Police Board.
Tho At the same time Inspector Peter Conlin,
eiS the only Inspector of Police at present in the
servioe, was temporarily detailed as Acting
,(U9C Cjhief of Police.
,II*' The Board also retired Captain William
ji C. F. Berghold, Detective Sergeants Timothy
Golden, Michael Crowley and Charles Kush,
rinir Rnci p?ilce Surgeon Dorn, and refused to res
tire Captain Joseph B. Eaklns, against whom
- charcres have been ordered.
Captains Cortright, Brooks and McCulvl*"
lagh were detailed as Acting Inspectors, and
?: a Police Civil Service Board was appointed,
1? ? to consist of Acting Chief Conlin. Acting In,
spectors Cortright, Brooks and McCullagh,
'The aa<* ^aPta*n Smith.
7'ot THOMAS BYRNES.
LOS "
Sketch of tin Ex .Chief and Famons Det?cless
t,ve'
Thomas Bymes was born in Ireland o'n
June 15,1842, and came to this country with
his parents when hut four months old. He
was appointed a patrolman on the New York
police force on December 10,1863, after receiving
his discharge from Ellsworth's
Zouaves, with whom ho had served in the
war.
Five years Byrnes patrolled. Then he became
roundsman,, and in the following yeat
(1869) Sergeant. ' On July 1,1870, he was
made Captain and assigned to the Twentythird
Precinct. He was called to Headquarters
on March 12,1880, to take charge of the
detective bureau.
' The immediate cause of that promotion
?l was his successful campaign against the
- burglars, who, in the fall of 1878, robbed the
$7 Manhattan Savings Bank of 83,000,000. The
!' bank was in Byrnes's precinct, and he look
up the pursuit of the band of burglars?the
strongest and most cleverly organized that
had ever worked in any city?with a persistency
and skill that finally won its reward.
To Byrnes was given the teak o! reorganizing
the detective force. He began by establishing
an office in Wall street on the daj
otje. of his appointment, and by making FultoD
street the dead line against crooks, below
aces which none of them was allowed. If one
rork ventured nearer the financial center he was
nts. arrested on general principles. His plan
' the worked well. Wall street has been safe since
:ger- from the kind of robbery the police can preurch
vent. It brought Byrnes his reward too. He
r of testified before the Loxow Committee that it
pro- bad broucrht him a cool 8350,000 at least
mny through "opportunities" afforded him by
arge Jay Gould and others.
ung Iaspector Byrnes became famous for his
mot management of the detective force, and had
rent Lis rested there he would have been a very
unique personage in police history, He
the drove thieves and rascals into exile under an
tion iron rule and a rigid system of account kept
sted with all malefactors, which bore sood fruit
irus for the city. But on April 12, 1892, he sueIren
ceeded Murray as Superintendent, and hit
will troubles began.
From the first he was not in accord with
?ach the Police Board. The history of his chiefcout
taincy has been a record of pulling und hauling
between him and the Police Commisser
sioners, to which even tho Lexow Committee
iters business did not put an end.
irbs. The story of the committee is well remom ass
bered. It disclosed great corruption in the
ssed Police Department, but failed to smircli
Superintendent Byrnes personally. His testil
be mony on the stand, with his acknowledg10.
ment of his wealth, acquired through his
will services to the wealthy, made the dramatic
the ending of the investigation.
e by The retirement of Superintendent Byrnes
'is unquestionably the victory of Dr. Parkhurst
s career as a reformer. While it is
true that the Superintendent was in a position
which allowed him to make his departlt
ot ure practically a matter of his own will, and
it will appear as such in his record, the
present state of public opinion is undeniably
l an the reason for the revolution in the New York
ed a Police Department, ot which the end of
^ Byrnes's public career is but an incident.
and
The National Game.
way
sen- The May cold snap was very trying to the
pitchers.
?e fn Anson, of Chicago, ho3 struck out but once
thi$ season.
(lishem
Foutz deposed Grlflln from the captaincy
state ?* t'le Brooklyns.
ilted Cincinnati is playing the best ball of the
Western clubs against the East,
for McCarthy seems to be the timely hitter of
) six the Boston team this season as he was la3t.
J ? At Cincinnati, Pitcher Rhiues knocked
it of ^itc^er Stein senseless with a pitched ball,
d by Boswell won tho first full game ho pitched
ney- for New York, and that too from the Plttssion
burSsE
the Carey's fielding at first base is great. Ho
una SUYCVl HH5 umiliuviv iu.?v.uvig w
wild throws.already.
iced Bannon is hitting like a house aflre, anil
aav may be considered a fixture on the Now York
' ' team in place of Burke.
." The cry for pitchers is one that will never
dte out. The supply will always coutinue
smaller that the demand.
:a30,
tl,e Hawley, of Pittsburg, is given credit for doueh
in&? more successful balking than all the
,veok other League pitchers combined.
Long, of Boston, leads the League in home
runs up to date, and he also has the lowest
ilelding average of any short stop.
end- Of all slow pitchers Malarkey, of Washingf,.
ton, is the slowest. He seems to have nothing
but time. Before he sends in a ball he
t the seems to spend several moments in silent
's '?f prayer.
' Ewing is once more a prominent llgtiro in
"7 baseball. The success of the despised Cincinnati
team is due to him, an I the former
idol of the metropolis is now lie hero of
Porkopolis.
Tlio best pitching Hud of the season is
ugu- unquesuouuuiy youag ?milieu, 01 iuc viu?c- |
eavy laud. team. He is improving steadily ami
has very little to learn now.
Quite a string of pitchers aro using fielding
gloves this year. Nichols, Stivetts, Wilaved
son' Cuppy, Malarkey and Kennedy all
r by wear mittens while in the box.
mine ) There is another new player in Leaguo
ean., | ranks that will beer watching. Catcher
loor- | Donahue, of the Chicagos, Is said to be ao
pen- i artist in blocking off runners at the plate or
i i*ose plays.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
WaihJnirton Items.
Secretary Gresham's body was exposed to
public view at the Arlington on the evening
following hie death. A guard of honor,,
composed of Messrs. Emery, Faison, Chilton,
H. T. Smith and Biddle, of the State Department,
remained beside the coffin all
night.
The involution in Ecuador assumed so
threatening an aspect that the Navy Department
cabled the commander of the United
States ship Ranger to proceed with his vessel
to Guayaquil.
Domestic.
BECDBD OF THE LEAGUE 0LTJB3.
Per Per
Clubs. Won. Lost. rtt. Clubs. Wop. I/wt. flt.
Pittsburg..21 8 .724 Boston.....13 12 .520
Cincinnpti.20 11 .645 Sew York.13 13 .500
Chicago.. .19 12 .613 Brooklyn.. 11 16 .407
Clevelapi.lS 12 .600 St. Louis..11 20 .355
Phtladel.. .14 12 .533 Wash'ns'n. 9 18 .333
Baltimore. 12 11 .522 Louisville. 5 21 .192
a large demonstration in ravor oi souna
money took place in Philadelphia.
Mr?. Curtain, of Baltimore, Md., killed her
daughter and herself.
The American Baptist Union held its
eighty-first anniversary convention in Saratoga.
N. Y.
Cashier Griffin, of the Park Bank, Albany,
N. Y.. confessed to stealing $18,0U0 from that
institution.
The Presbyterian Assembly at Pittsburg
adjourned to meet at Saratoga Springs. N.
Y., next May.
General James B. Swain died in his home,
at Sing Sing, N. Y., seventy-five years
old. He was one of the earliest associates
of Horace Greeley.
Ferdinand Harris, a colored butler em- *
ployed by M. C. D. Borden, in New York
City, was murdered by two unknown men.
Edward A. Griffin, cashier of the Park
Bank, Alt>any, N. Y., confessed to a defalcation.
Grand Army posts and patriotic societies
were represented at memorial services in a
number "of churches and cemeteries in New
York City and Brooklyn.
George Montgomery killed Archibald Biley
while coming out of church at Versailles,
Ky. Biley had wronged his slayer's sister.
John A. Morris, the millionaire capitalist
and turfman died on his Texas ranch, aged
fifty-eight. He was worth $20,000,000.
The Jefferson County Grand Jury at Louisville,
Ky., refused to indict Fulton Gordon
for killing his wife and Archie Brown, son ol
the Governor of Kentucky.
Secretary Carlisle discussed the currency
problem before a Bowling Green (Ky<) audience.
Bather than endure the reproach of living
upon his wife's earning, Louis Kraemer
killed himself and his daughter, two years
old, at Chicago.
The State Department of Education rules
that nuns may not teach in the public schools
Ul JLUAtlS. v>aLilUllU L1UU3 UttVC UtJ^U UUUUUUling
free schools la Southwest Texas.
Solomon H. Mann, accused of wronging
and causing the death of Loretta Hannlgan,
his typewriter, was fatally shot in New York
City by the dead girl's brother, David F.
Hannlgan.
Frost has not seriously blighted the great
Northwestern wheat crop.
Johann Tranquilini, one of the witnesses
of the death of Crown Prince Rudolph of
Austria, died in Ward's Island Insane Asylum,
New York City.
At New Orleans, La., Mehalia Ebbinger,
eleven years old, was run down by a trolley
car and her body was cut in Ave pieoes.
At Clinton, Ky., Mrs. Victoria Machen,
widow of United States 8enator Willis B.
Machen, killed herself by shooting herself
through the head. Mrs. Machen had large
landed interests.
It was announced in New York City that
some one who wished to remain anonymous,
had given a central building, to cost about
$250,000, to the New York Univereity.
The Democratic Editors' Association of
New-York State held their annual dinner at
Delmonlco's. New York City. President
Cleveland sent a letter on sound money, and
speeches were made by Senator Hill, Controller
Eckels and others.
Seventy thousand children took part in the
Brooklyn Sunday-school parade, and were
reviewed by ex-President Harrison and Prince
Francis Joseph, of Battenberg.
The Presbyterian General Assembly, in
Pittsburg, Penn., committed itself to the
cause of prohibition, and resolved to raise a
$1,000,000 Reunion Fund.
Forelffn Notes.
Spaniards in Santiago de Cuba say the
rebel leader Gomez died from a wound received
in battle.
The body Jose Marti, late President of the
Cuban rebels, was disinterred, identified and
reburied fcy the Spanish authorities in Cuba.
A Japanese war fleet arrived at Formosa
and fighting was expected.
The torpedo boat built at the Germania
wharf at Kiel, Germany,'for the Turkish
Government, was making her trial trip to
Eckernfoorde when her boiler exploded. Six
of the crew were instantly killed and fourteen
were mortally injured.
Italy's elections appear to have increased
Premier Crispi's strength.
Bismarck has declared himself a bimetalfist.
At London a verdict of guilty was returned
against Oscar Wilde, and he and Taylor, an
accomplice, were each sentenced to two
years' imprisonment with hard labpr. Oscar
Wilde's hair was cropped and he was put in
stripes.
America's warships will be the swiftest at
the great naval display at Kiel, Germany.
Henry Irving, the actor, Walter Besant,
die novelist, Lewis Morris, the poet, and Dr.
Wlllam Howard Russell, war correspondent,
have been accorded the honor of knighthood
an the occasion of Queen Victoria's birthiay.
In the trial of the Hyams brothers, Araerisans
in Toronto, Canada, for the murder of
Willie Wells, the jury disagreed.
The Emperor of Austria has finally accepted
the resignation of Count Kalnoky, Imperial
Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Queen Wilhelminia and Queen Regent
Emma returned to The Hague, Holland,
from England.
Formosa a Republic.
Formosa has declared herself a republic
Her flag will be a yellow dragon on a blue
ground. The Governor, Chang Ting Sung,
has been made President. Formosa was
ceded to Japan by China in the Shimonoseki
treaty.
A New York Village Burned.
Fire destroyed a large part of the business
portion of Angelica, N. Y., Including six
stores, a newspaper office, barber shop, photograph
gallery, two lodge rooms and Seiver's
Opera House. The loss Is about $100,000.
'
IVIoro World's Fair Dividends.
The announcement is mado in Chicago
that more dividends aro to bo paid to
Word'? Fair stockholders. They have already
received ten percent., and the additional
return on tho investment will amount
to two and and one-half per cent. Since the
close of the Fair claims have been reduced
iroin 500 to fifty.
A New Atlantic Kecord.
The Canard steamship Lucania has es
tablishod a new Atlantic rucord. She covered
29S7 knots at aa average speed of 22.01
knot*nu hour. The best previous record,
held by herself, wa-' 2! 89 knots
Ilnwuii WunlHl 5110 Honied Toads.
H. I'. Wood, the Hawaiian Consul at San
Diego, Cal.. received an order from the Commissioner
of A.^rieuituro and Forestry oi
Hawaii for 500 horned toads, to be used on
the island to destroy a bug that is eating
everything in sight. The Commissioner
wrote that a lot of toads had been imported,
but that they required water, which was not
always handy, while the horned toads need
no water and are equally expert as bug I
catchers. Consul Wood, therefore, advertised
for horned toads, offering to pay SI a
dozen for them.
Guatemala I'uta Soldiers to Work.
Fifteen hundrod Guatemalan soldiers have
been mustered out to work on railroads. {
A GBEAT BISE IN WHEAI
Speculation Has Been on a Scale <
Unprecedented Magnitude.
COTTON ALSO TAKES A JUMF
Operators All Over the Country Hat
Been Baying Heavily and Unfavorab
Crop Reports Caused a General Bisel
Prices?The Trend of the Markets He
and In Europe Is Upward.
The wheat markets in New York and Chicaj
have been a speculative Vesuvius sending \
molten lava, burning cinders and red-h
stones, with the bears running for their Uve
Prices shot up 2% to 4 cents a day. Wh<
July wheat touched 80 cents in New York tl
brokers on the Produce Exchange gave
ringing cheer. The speculation of late h
been on a scale of unprecedented magnltud
In three days the sales at the New York Pr
duce Exchange have reached 102,000,0
bushels. In Chicago the dealings we
much heavier. Operators all over the cou
try have been buying heavily, and the whe
market has been a sort of El Dorado f
many an obscure trader In the West.
The rise was due largely to untavorab
crop reports, but It was partly traceable
the general bull craze in this countr
Everybody thinks everything is going,u
Liverpool, which has been trying to resi
the advance, threw up the sponge ai
marked up its prices 2 to 3 pence. Glasgow
staid and stolid as a rale, was in the thro
of speculative excitement Paris was big]
er. The foreign houses were buying in Ne
York quite freely.
Aiter July wheat had reached 84 in Ne
York a reaction came, and prices tumbli
several cents.
Bradstreet's, the Commercial Agencj
mouthpiece, stated that the world's visit
stock of wheat had fallen off within a we<
5,438,000 bushels, the most bullish stateme
In regard to this matter that has been mai
for many months. Chicago was selling ca:
wheat freely to St. Louis, Toledo, Milwauk
and Kansas City. The Government week
report said that the winter wheat crop hi
been damaged. The temperature at t)
West and Northwest was high, a cold wa
having passed eastward, and throughout tl
grain country the thermometer was in u
fifties. A stream of despatches from tl
West said that considerable damage hi
been done, and the bullish sentiment sprea
Corn and oats also advanced in sympatl
with the other grains.
Cotton also astonished people far ai
wide. The sales at the New York Cotton E
change in one day reached the imposing a
gregate of 329,300 bales, which beats an
thing that the Exchange has seen In a mon
of Sundays. Prices made a jump in one di
of 20 to 21 points at New York, 19 to 21
New Orleans, and equal to 16 points in Li
erpool. Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, Bal
more, Augusta, St. Louis, and New Orlea
advanced % to 3-16 cent. The receipts at t
ports were light, the exports were liberal, t
weekly Government report was bullish, ai
a big cotton firm issued a statement to t
effect that the acreage will show a deorea
of 133* per cent. At Fall Elver, Mass., prl
cloths were active and advancing.
MUCH M'CULLOCH DEAD.
The Ex-Secretary of tbe Treasury Pau
Away at Hl? Home Near Washington
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Hugh 1!
Culloch died, a few days ago, at his count
home, near Washington. The cause of dea
was a general breaking down of the syst?
due to extreme age aggravated by lu
trouble. Mr. McCulloch was in a comatc
ncah m'ctoloch.
state when death came. His two sons, o
daughter and a grandson were at his be
side.
Hucrh McCulloch was born in Kennebun
Me., December 7, 1808. In March, 1865, <
the resignation of William P. Fessenden, JJ
McCulloch was appointed by President Li
coin Secretary of the Treasury, at whi<
time the Government was in great flnanci
embarrassment. Secretary McCulloch he
office until March 4, 1869. From 1871 t
1878 he was engaged in banking in Londo
In October, 1884, upon the resignation
Walter Q. Ore?' im, he wa3 again appoint
Secretary of tl Treasury, and continued
office until he expiration of Preside
Arthur's term. March 4,1885, being the on
man except the late Mr. Windom that h
held that office twice. Since his resign
tion he has resided in Washington and <
his farm in Maryland.
The Labor World.
Carriage and wagon makers report thi
their trade is fair at present.
Reports of advancing wages come fro
every section 01 me uuuuirj.
Miners in the vicinity of Scranton, Torn
are discouraged over the outlook.
The annual convention of Railway Tf
egraphers met this year at St. Louis, Mo.
An organization of skilled employes of tl
steel plants of Pittsburg has been formed.
Business has begun to boom ail over tl
country, and the tendency of wages 13 upwar
Reports of increase of wages have becon
numerous. The news columns every di
have additions t} the list, which has alreac
reached imposing proportions.
The four thousand employes of the Was]
ington Mills, of Lawrence. 5lasa., are gettf
more pay.
Colored men will henceforth be
to membership in the Industrial
ThjHrtbjittnip miners' strlka^jjM
a defeat for flie men. Morar
Th* flftMn thousand /coke worters
WesfJniSStlvanla? dvo recoivod a
per tent adfSfcce. ,,
Th? on ami of f "35 given six an
ha'f .'ruwn Ian,Js at Bushey p;
fnr t0 tho workinS classes of T
dkronr^ a UOminai rcntal ot ?20 1
nu:fiy. 7,
mttie.son the Whcoling division
All ttjtmoj'c and Ohio Railroad are in J
thcr'Baltljhri. fi'hh strikers threaten violen
?P^jy?%Mg|iou of tobacco workers rep
V 0?Jtti6ouri, Virginia, Kentucky, N
Yetr^aSiV^Vr ^erSe* met Ut ^ou's a *
(la<2^2w-gtx Brooklyn (N. Y.) Labor orga
Twentfcgye formed what wul De known
ratlonilEnijere' Trade and Labor Cirole.
the Qon? g^retary aheehan, of the Broth
Onma| B^ilroad Trainmen, in his addri
hoo? wWwhurg (111.) oonvention said t
at the Cf strike was unjustifiable.
trades strike at St. Louia,
?W]?boBt 12,000 men were involved, w
whlobkd off. the bricklayers having resum
d?eUl% their former wages. Tho strike t
22.
\ ,
I A MOVUMENT TO KEY. I '
' * Tribute to the Composer of " Tlie Star **
Spancled Banner."
Unhonored by his countrymen, beneath _
Of the soil of his native country in the cemetery Tll6
of Frederick City, Md., have lain for many
years the ashes of Francis Scott Key, whose
hymn, "The Star Spangled Banner," has
been the inspiration for thousands of heroic
'i 1 A
f*ANCl? SCOTT KEY HA*Y TAYl.0* KEY The
le BOA* AUtftllt ? ?" !
[n j
WHEBE FBAN'CIS BCOTT SET IS BITE TED. dr<V
at ti
01 deeds. At last a movement is on foot to flftj
. erect a suitable monument to his memory. pass
'6 The Key Monument Association was or- deai
t0 ganlzed In June, 1891. It has raised so far ' sem
y* about $2000 for the object ic has In view, bou
P; and now appeals to the country at large for uc<
s* funds. As especially appropriate to the day t
ld and In keeping with the spirit, the commit- pat<
v< tee selected National Flag Day. June 14, as a mai
time when the children all over the land and m0r
all patriotic citizens generally should for- dre<
lW ward contributions to the fund. Governor the
Brown, of Maryland, sent an appeal of this <j<
character to the Governors of all the States. iow
ad The remains of Francis Scott Key were con
, removed some years ago front Greenmount doi
13 Cemetery, Baltimore, to their present rest- <.<
,1.e Ing place. Plain head and foot stones alone
mark the grave. This neglect by his coun- resj
i?' trymen is due, perhaps, not so much to lack sjst
of patriotism as to the fact that thousands
are not aware of the movement now on foot, >j<h?
f6 and have not been asked for contributions 0f
to the fond. the
tie jun
70 LYNCHED TWO YOUNG MEN. cur
I1? /in minola Mob Feared Governor Altgeld the
kg Wonld Pardon Them. con
id A mob whioh had been in possession of ^hi
d? Vermillion County's jail at Danville, HL, for
jeveral hours succeeded In finding two am
id young men, John Halls, Jr., and William T
Boyce, in their cells, and took them outside ln 1
g- and hanged them for assaulting Miss w?!
y- Laura Barnett. From midnight, when the J?*'
th mob first made Its appearance at the jail
ay doors, there was a determined struggle to f*?'
iu lynch the men. For hours they battled 1101
T- against heavy oaken doors and iron bars in
dettance of Sheriff Thompson and his assistas
ants. The mob openly declared that they (
he thought Governor Altgjld, of Illinois, would
pardon the men if the law was allowed to ! Am
ad take its course.
be At 2 o'clock a. m. Sheriff Thompson sent .
for Judgs Bookwalter, of the Circuit Court,
at who addressed the crowd from the jail cor- nat
ridor. He made an earnest plea to let the ball
law take its course. at r
"We will give these fellows a heavy sen
tence and they will get their just dues," said Bus
the Judge. "The law will give them heavy ra?j
sentences.'* One of the leaders replied:
"Yes, we know the jury will convict them evc
r and give them a severe sentence, but Gov- 8er
ernor Altgeld will pardon them out. He re- jQt<
cently pardoned three brutes you sent up C.J
ith from Champaign County for twenty years, ?rd
,m and he will pardon these men. If any other Jol
man ttan Altgeld was uovernor we wouia
n8 not lynch these men. But we are deter- the
mined he will never have a chance to turn P*1
them loose." A
' I want you men to quit this place at wa!
once," resumed the Judge, but the mob oth
would not listen. The Judge then left the &0r
place. The mob as?ain began work to get at Go
the prisoners at 2.30 a. m. At 3.15 the mob 1
secured both of the prisoners and started 163
for the bridge where the girls were attacked- ger
The men h id ropes about their necks and E
they were marched through the main streets bal
to the bridge. . mo
The ropes were fastened to the bridge rail- A
ing, and the young men were told tc jump, fac
Tbey refused. Men seized each of them and Ha
threw them over the rail. The ropes were Coi
fifteen feet long, stout and well tied. After ing
about ten minutes life appeared to be ex- qui
tinct. The faces of the meu were not cov* flel
ered. The bodies were cut down at 8 o'clock Du
and taken to an undertaker's office. - 152
anc
KILLED HERSELF AND BABES. JJ
Qui
1 The Myaterloui Disappearance of Mrs.
Notzen, of Omaha, Explained. OQ(
The bodies of Mrs. Ida Notzen and her twc ^
ohildren have been found la the Missouri ^
River. They were firmly tied together with Mc.
a stout rope. It is believed that Mrs. Notzen
bound the bable3 to her and then leaped into CO
the river. ,
Thi? clears a mystery that has been hang- Thi
? lag Are since last fall. Mrs. Notzen was a
lie prominent school teacher at Omaha, Neb. f
id- "When she disappeared she left letters saying *
that disappointment at not obtaining work wai
that she expected had driven her to suicide. at 3
Mrs. Notzen belonged to one of the best etj
families in Omaha. She was a bright woman. *
[r> with a strong interest in educational mat- fr0
ters. Her life was heavily insured, but pay- ~
uh ment has been resisted until now because of
fal the insufficient proof of death.
ill DOTY MARRIES A NATIVE
m.
of The American Consul at Tahiti Gives Hlf
ed Friends a Surprise.
The American brig Galilee, from Tahiti,
ly brings the information that Jacob Lamb Doty,
as United States Consul at Tahiti, has married
a" a native woman of the island. Consul Doty
)n
ho a n l trarq hftpn regarded as an eccentric
fellow byhls acquaintances, who will not be
surprised at his latest step.
Mr. Doty began his official career about
at ten years ago as a page in the House of Rapre3entatives,
and through Influence at Wash- . m
ington secured from President Cleveland, ^
early in his Administration, the appointment X
l-( of Consul at Tahiti.^^^^^^^^^?g^g j jjjfj
sl_ llee, the ceremony
no waiving1 iu r" "* '
i good stock of cocoanutiJFand taro root.
Lost XTrp-~^ the Gravana. E
iy The Or?^ana. a Spanish steamer, was w
ly wrecj? off the Philippines and 163 persons m
j..?uwned. T
hJf * "
Earthquake K11U Fifty.
tted Fifty persons havo been killed and one
:ion hundred and fifty Injured by an earthquake 0j
at Paramythia. Nearly every house in the
I in town was destroyed. Paramythia is a town ?n
are of 5000 inhabitants, in the Province of 9j.
Epirus, which is a part of Albania.
of
ec
be?l Choked to Death on Pot Pie. of
At Port Wayne Hattie Philabnum. aged
ark A , watched her sister make a beef pot pie. ni
eil- The little one asked for a little bite and it was ut
an. given her. She choked, and iu spite of the
efforts of her sister in less than ton minutes Co
0j the little one was dead of^hemorrhage. ot
nil e
ce Models of Warships.
re. The fine models of United States warships ^
ew t'xmoueu at ino ? oria s * air are being pre- ho
ew pared for shipment to Atlanta Cotton Expo- r
sition as part of the exhibit of the Navy De- qc
ni- partment. js
as ' ii-i
Aluminum Instead of Steel.
or. The vreight of the French cavalry saddle *
3ss will be reduced nearly three pounds by the
substitution of aluminum for steel in por- bal
tioas of the tree and stirrups. gei
in
'a& A Cold Summer Predicted. 1
ec* An Eastern weather prophet says that
>e" there will be frost in the United States every tor
month thia year, except July. gta
===== v
FEENCfiSTEAMER LOST;
m
i Boilers of the Dom Pedro Ex-j
plode and She Sinks.
HUNDRED PERSONS PERISH.1
' 0
m
< Passengers on the Wrecked Vessel:
IVere Emigrants for ?oath America?
People on the Spanish Coast Saw th<s
Disaster and Saved Twenty-seven
Lives?A Pltlfal Sea Tragedy.
be French steamer Dom Pedro, bound
Oarril, Spain, has been wrecked off Cape
rubedo, on the west coast of the province
ralicia. An explosion of her boilers was
jause of the disaster. One hundred and
persons, according to the last report, /
0 drowned, but a part of her crew and
e of her passengers were saved.
tie Chargeur Reunls, of Havre, France,
ch company owned the wrecked steamer
i Pedro, received a despatch conflrmthe
report that 105 persons were
arned.
tie crew of the Dom Pedro numbered
'-four. The vessel shipped forty-one '.-.'j.v
wngers at Havre, twenty-eight at Bor- .
ux and seven at Pasages. The pas;ers
were mostly emigrants who were
nd for Brazil and the Argentine Bepubhe
Chargeur Beunis also reoelved a dee:h
saying that Captain Crequer, the com- '
ider of the Dom Pedro, and twenty-six
abers of the crew were saved. Two huni
emigrants were awaiting the arrival of jr.j
Dom Pedro at Carril.
he London 8tandard published the fol- ,
ing particulars received from Its Madrid
espondent concerning the wreck of the
n Pedro:
The Captain of the Dom Pedro was lost. Vj
i survivors were saved mainly by local s 1
dents who went out in boats to their asance.
Twenty-four survivors have arid
at Carril and others at Villagarcia.
!se confirm the statement that the boilere
the wrecked vessel exploded. Many of
passengers and members of the crew c:
iped overboard when the disaster oo- ja
red and tried to swim ashore. The gunt
Macmahon has been sent from Marin to
scene of the wreck. Advices reoelved ,
Arm tne report tnat iuo uvea were ion.
rteen of the passengers were French,
en Italian, six Swiss, two Brazilian, one v
man, one Alsatian and one a native of the
;entlne Republic."
he French steamer Dom Pedro waa built
878, at Havre, by Forges & Chantiers, and ' ,
i owned by the Ghargeurs Remits a Paris.
lavre. She was bark rigged, registered . vi
D tons gross, 841 feet longjtnlrty-nine feet :' /
adth of beam, twenty-two ieet depth of
d, 1300 horse power, and had five com-' ?$
tments. -r '
5HIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. I 2M
i Bushnell, of Springfield, Nominated
For Governor. *
sa Bushnell, of Springfield, was noml- ? i
ad for Governor of Ohio on the sixth
lot by the Republican 8tate Convention: ' p
lanesvilie. There were eight candidates.
ihnel was the seventh candidate in the
a at the start.
he convention was one of the largest that
r responded to the call of the party mana?.
Five thousand persons were paoked
3 the Memorial Hall State Chairman J. *
Bonner, of Toledo, called the meeting to . i-yk
er and introduced United States Senator ':^a
m Sherman, who delivered a lengthy (3
iress. After Senator Sherman's speech, . convention
adjourned antli eight o clock, . '
it the evening session Senator Sherman :
3 chosen for:Permanent Chairman, and ' "
er temporary offlcors were made perma* ', $
it The names of seven candidates for
vernor were presented to the convention.
'he first ballot resulted as follows: Nash,
, Poe. 148; Keifer. 74; Bushnell. 58; Bar,
86; Harris, 56; Hoyt, 176. and Nevin. 60,
lushnell received 509 votes on the sixth . ;
lot. The nomination was made unanl
3a S. Bushneli, who Is a wealthy manu-i
turer, la the eldest sou of Daniel and
rriet Bushneli. He was born In Oneida)
inty, New York, September 16, 1834, mov- , ^
from there to Cincinnati, Ohio, when
te a small child. In 1851 he went to Spring
d, In which place he continued to reside^
ring the war he was Captain of Company E,! h.
d 0. V. L, which company he recruited,!
1 served as its Captain in the Shenandoah|
ley, under the command of (General Hun?| ! i
, in 1864. In 18S6 he was appointedi
artermoster-General by Governor For?i
sr, where he served f6ur years. He was,
i of the delegates-at-large to the National:
ivention in 1892. Politicians said that ht?( .
ninatlon was a victory for the Forake*)
ment and a set-back for Governor William:
Kinley. J
VERNOR LIPP1TT INAUGURATED. "'A
J 1 ySS
s Twenty-seventh Chief Executive of
Rhode Island Installed. 1
!harles Warren Llppltt, of Providence,; i
3 inaugurated Governor of Rhode Island,
Newport Governor D. Russell Brown, the.
Iring Executive, marched with his staff
m his hotel to the State House, where the
* ^
chables waubkx lippitt.
*
lection Committee announced the result of
le April election, and the State officers
ere sworn in with the usual accompanllents
of booming of cannon and music,
he parade followed and was reviewed by
te new Governor and other dignitaries.
Fromlnent People.
The Bishop of London has joined the ranks
' the woman suffragists.
Jules Verne, the French novelist, though
his seventy-ninth year, works for five or
x hours a day. ;
One of the German Emperor's recent presits
to his sons was an exact model In clay
the battlefield of Sedan.
The Chinese Emperor rises at 4 every
orning and studies English and Manchu
.ill c
LLll if) >Y uou uw yiwaioaw.
The chemist Bunsen, famod for his disveries
in spectrum analysis and a hundred
her scientific matters, is in his eighty-fifth
ar.
Prince George, of Greece, has the distincui
of having saved more lives at the risk of
; own than any other member of a royal
use.
The illuminated manuscript copy of the
apels set to Gladstone by the Armenians
said to be finer than anything in tn?
Itish Museum "
'hllip D. Armour, the Chicago packer, Is a
tim of dyspepsia and lives on bread and
Ik. Occasionally he allows himself a
ced apple for breakfast as a great indullce.
Jalllngtoa Booth, Comraander-in-Chlel of
Salvation Army In America, and his wife,
;e renounced allegiance to Queen Viola
and become citizens of the United,
tes. _ _ j