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SWUNG INTO ETERNITY. HOLMES PAYS THE PENALTY FOR HiJ BLOODYWORK. Meets Death Calmly?History of His Maui Crlmea-A Mama For Confession?Tin Most Prominent of Modern Criminals. Philadelphia, May 7.?Murderei TT ITT nr..J ? 1: ? ? IT TT JLLorixiitu vv . luuu^ctb anas ju. n. Holmes, was hanged this morning ir the county prison for the killing ol Benj. F. Pitezel. The" drop .fell al 10:12 o'clock and 20 minutes later h( was pronounced dead by the prison of ficials, Dr. Sharp and Dr. Butcher. ; The execution -was in every way entirely devoid of any sensational features. To the last he was self-possessed and cool, even to the extent of giving a word of advice to Assistant Superintendent Richardson as the latter . was arranging the final details. He died as he had lived, unconcernI" ed and thoughtless apparently of the 1. future, even with the recollection still ? vividly before him of the recent confession in "which he admitted the kill jjL ing of a score of persons of both sexKi. ?8 and in all parts of the country. He g! refused everything and almost his last K&-. words were a point blank denial of Km any crimes committed except the Re death of two women at his hands by P malpractice. Of the murder of sever111 members of the Pitezel family he denied all complicity, particularly of the father, for whose death he stated he was suffering the penalty. Then, with tne prayer of the spiritual attendants still sounding in his ears and with a few low spoken words to those about, the trap swung, and beyond a few incidental post mortem" details, the execution which culminated one of the worst criminal'stories known to criminology was ended. Herman W. Mudgett, better known aa H. H. Holmes, was one of the most conspicuous criminals of modern times and if the 'murder confessions' which he has written can only partially be believed, he was without a peer as a blood-thirsty demon. His recent inEgfjf/Mnious "confession," wherein he claimed to have killed 27 persons was disapproved, partly at least, by the ap pearance of several of the so-called victims; but Holmes' object in making the "confession" was realized?the obtaining of a sum said to be $7,500 and fei which amount is said to have been aettled upon the criminal's 18-year-old "** TT/1.' I ^ o" Vtox*o BOIL VV lillC? luo uuuigooivuij JLLC* v v served to increase the sensationalism of the case, the only capital crime for which Holmes had to answer was the f: killing in this city, on September 2, ; >, 1894, of Benjamin F. Pitezel, his fellow-conspirator. The murder was committed in the dwelling, No. 1316 Callowhill street. Holmes' conviction of murder in the first degree, the affirmation bv the Pennsylvania supreme court of the verdict and the recent refusal of Governor Hastings to grant a : respite are so well-known that a narration of these facts is unnecessary. I Holmes was captured in Boston, I Mass., in the latter part of 1S94, | by Owen Hanscom, the deputy superl intendent of police, upon the strength ' of a telegram from Fort Worth, Tex., where he was wanted for horse stealing and for other charges of larceny. 1- At that time officials of theJFidelity Mutual Life association, of .fnilaclei? phia, were hot on Holmes' trail for der irauding the concern out of $10,000 in connection with Pitezel's death, the . latter being insured for this amount, Ms. and as the accused believed horse stealing to be a high crime in Texas, ^ne voluntarily confessed to Deputy Superintendent Hanscom to theinsurIance fraud. He did not, for a moment dream that he was then suspected of the murder of Pitezel, and he came to Philadelphia without requisition papers. He expressed a willingness to IDe tried here on the conspiracy charge in preference to that of horse stealing at Fort Worth. Before leaving Boston, Holmes made this confession to Mr. Hanscom: "When I concluded it was time to carry out our scheme to defraud the insurance company, I secured a 'stiff' in New York and shipped it in a trunk to Philadelphia. I turned the check for the trunk over to Pitezel on the | Sunday nearest the 1st of September. x instructed mm now to prepare tne body, ano in three hours we were on our way to New York. Two days af\ ' ter the payment of the money t saw Pitezel in Cincinnati. I took the 1 three children to that city, where the father saw them. Pitezel agreed to go south, and he took one child, Howard. ) I took the two girls to Chicago because I had business there. We all met again in Detroit. Pitezel took the children and went to South America. During all this time Mrs. Pitezel ' knew her husband was alive, but she did not know he had the children. If she was aware of that she would insist "that the crecked business be wound up right away. In order to keep Mrs. Pitezel away from her husband I had to tell her that he was here and there, traveling from one city to another." This was the first of a number of alleged, admissions that Holmes subsequently made. In fact he acquired a nenehant for makinc "nnnfasainns" that surprised the Authorities. The insurance officials had good ground for believing Holmes had murdered Pitezel and the three children, so when the prisoner arrived in Philadelphia 1 he was urged to make another "conL fession." And he did so without any I' hesitation, but it varied somewhat | from the one ha made in Boston. It graphically narrated how the body was substituted for Pitezel in the Callowhill street house, and its identification by^Alice Pitezel as that of her father a week afterward. Holmes also related how the money was received from the insurance company and its ubsequent division between Mrs. Pitezel, Jeptha D. Howe, the St. Louis lawyer and himself. It was in this , "confession" that Holmes accused Howe of receiving $2,500 for his share in the transaction. Howe was indict' ed for conspiracy, but recently the case against him was dropped. Soon after Holmes was brought to Philadelphia, Detective Guyer visited him in the county prisonin relation to the finding of the body at 1310 Callowhill street on September 4, 1894. After an hour's conversation with the wily Holmes the detective emerged from the prison with a "confession" which the accused said that the body was not that of Pitezel, but was substituted to defraud the insurance comL pany. A week later Holmes hoftored A Guyer with another "confession." m "Mr. Guyer," he said, "that story 1 I told you about the substituted body is H not true. It is the body of Benjamin F. Pitezel, but I did not murder him PI or his children. On Sunday morning September 2, I found Pitezel dead ?: ' ' in the third story of the Callowhill street house. I found a note in a bottle, telling me th at he was tired of life > and had finally decided to commit suicide. He requested me to look after the insurance money and take care of r his wife and family. I then fixed up the body in the position it was found. 3 These children you speak of are all right. They are with Minnie Williams in London. _ I gave Howard to r Minnie Williams in Detroit and T sent Alice and Nellie to her from Toronto. Thev met Miss Williams in Niagara ' Falls, and sailed for Europe from New ^ York." Between this time and his 5 trial for conspiracy to defraud the in' surance companies to which he pleaded guilty, Holmes made many other " "confessions," but they differed very ' little from those already given. Each time he pretended to tell the truth, but he sedulousy avoided doing so. Nobody believed what Holmes said about Pitezelj^afcb'fie would not say anything"7I13out the children, except that they were all right. In his many interviews with District Attorney Graham, Holmes persisted that the three missing Pitezel children were with Minnie Williams in London. He even persuaded Mr. Graham to have an advertisement in the shape of a cipher puzzle inserted in a New York paper, for the purpose of bringing Minnie Williams and the little Pitezels back from Europe. The district attorney placed little' faith in what Holmes told h;m, but the adver- ( tisement was published as a sort of , last and hopeless effort. When the ' bodies of Nellie and Alice Pitezel were unearthed in Toronto, Holmes j denied having killed them. When , Howard's charred bones were located in a superannuated stove in Irving- ; ton, Ind., Holmes calmly denied any j knowledge of the lad's death. When ; the murders of Minnie Williams and j her sister were discovered. Holmes said Minnie killed Nancy in jealous 1 frenzy, and he buried the body in i Lake Michigan. He vigorously de- ( nied having put Minnie to death so as ] to secure her property. The disap- . pearance of Emily Cygrand was traced to Holmes, but the criminal said , he knew nothing of the girl's fate. The partially consumed bones that i were found in the Chicago "castle" < are known to be those of some of j Holmes' victims. About the last time ! that Holmes was taken to the district ( attorney's office to "confess," Mr. j Graham lost patience with him. Holmes gave a repetition of his pic- ( turesque falsehoods. He actually ] gave the district attorney a veritable ; "jolly" about the Pitezel family and , Minnie Williams being still alive. ] The scene that ensued was extremely , dramatic. Mr. Graham said: "Holmes, you are an infernal lying j murderer. I will hang you in Phila- ^ delphia for the murder of BsDjamin { Pitezel." s tt_i ?4;ii ?:*v. v,: JTlUlUULeS UCI'TU W<J5 a bill VY1 til lii LLl i and he said: "I defy you. You have no evidence to prove me guilty." Mr. Graham looked with disgust and determination at Holmes, and said: "You will surely hang in Philadelphia for murdering Benjamin Pitezel." The trial and conviction followed. The district attorney endeavored to prove during the trial, through Detective Guver that Holmes, also killed the Pitezelchildren, but Judge Arnold, before whom the case was tried, declared this to be irrelevant. Guyer had unearthed the murder of the children after a prolonged investigation />Am m r\r> mool nro a ni?anQi*orl aiiU tUV wviUiilV/li TT I'MikU ITIM ^ to prove that Holmes also committed these crimes. Holmes embraced the Catholic faith when it became evident to him that he must hang, and Rev. Father Dailey ministered to his spiritual wants. Throughout the trial and subsequent imprisonment, this archcriminal maintained a nonchalance that was remarkable. Herman Webster Mudgett was born in Gilmanton, N. H., May 16, 1860. Value of Farm Animals. According to statistics published by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, says the Iron Age, the aggregate value of farm animals in the United States has declined very materially in recent years. At the present time the value of these animals is $755,580,597 less than it was in 1893. The decline is more particularly observant in the case of horses. Taking a the five years from 1890 to 1896, it is e shown that horses increase in number d until 1893. In 1892, however, their A Vvnr?rt r\ frtll o v? 1VI 1 QQ^ if #s. vaiuc uc^ttu iu iaii uu, auu iu jluvu iv 3 was not quite half that of 1892, show- I ing an aggregate decline in this respect t of about $500,000,000. This deprecia- I tion is attributed in the main to the in- I troduction of trolley cars and bycicles The high cost of fodder, howev- b er, after recent seasons of drought, is p also given as a contributing cause. J The value of mules since 1890 has fall- p en nearly $80,000,000, or not far from 1 half the total existing value of these d animals in the United Sates. On the d other hand, milch cows have increas- r ed in number, while the average value C of these animals has advanced steadily b within the past few years. The increase in the value of milch cows last t year, as compared with 1894, is$l,300,- b 000. Oxen and other cattle decreased i n numbers more than 2,000,000 in 1895, 1: while their value increased on an aver- I ages $1.80 a head in the same period. I A decline is noted in the numbers and b value of sheep in the last three years, s the decrease in value aggregating b about $60,000,000, and the falling off in numbers of these animals last year r being nearly 4,000,00U. Swine, in t 1895, declined 3 per cent i.i number c and 15 per cent in aggregative value, 1 the total decrease in the value of swine i? in 1895 being: nearly $33,000,000. It t is expected, however, that the enor- b mous corn crop of last year will have b a favorable effect upon the next statement of farm animals, the tendency "v to an increase in numbers and value a being already observable -?Times and j Democrat. c Deed of a Fiend. L Madrid, May C.?At Alosno, prov- t ince of Huelva, last evening, some n miscreant set fire to a building in p which a dance was in progress. Six v persons were burned to death and c many were injured in consequence. "\ c Liberia is the only more ir less c civilized country where clocks are al- s most entirely dispensed with. The t sun rises at. (5 a m and cpfo at 6 p. m. throughout the year, and is vertically overhead at noon. \ d Douglas Jerrold was sometimes r witty at the expense of his wife. He d once told her, when she was no longer s young, that he wished wives were like 1 bank notes, so that one of forty could 4 be exchanged for two of twenty. t A HOUSE BLOWN UP. Shocking Cacaatrophe In thw City of CIn" ( clnnatl. Cincinnati, May 5.?What may prove to be the most disastrous calam- 1 ity of the year occurred in this city last night, when a five-storv brick building, filled with people, completely collapsed and fell, a conglomerate mass of brick and shattered timbers, burying the unfortunate inmates be- i nea'th its ruins. i Tf io i m nncci Kl a to MV VlOW ITianV f persons have been killed, some plac- ( ing the number >as high as forty, oth- s ers as low as fifteen. No accurate 1 statements can be eiven on this point c until the debris shall have been cleared 3 away, which will certainly taue all c night. ] The building was situated on the I east side of Walnut street, just south e of 5th, the lower floor being occupied 1 by Drach's saloon. The upper apart- d ments were rented out to lodgers. Peo- p pie for several blocks around where the disaster occurred were startled by a a most terrific explosion about 7:45 e o'clock. A fire alarm was instantly c turned in. and in a few moments half r the fire department of the city was b upon the scene. The work of rescue J was immediately begun, a force of men taking the front while a second corps 5 went to the rear of the building, which a opened into an alley. The first per- n sons who appeared upon the scene en- p tered the alley and came up to the rear of the building, where the piteous d cries and moans of a female were the p only ev'dence of life beneath the k wreck. These cries came from the eel- g lar. It was utterly impossible that I any persons on the other floors could n have escaped a horrible death. In h addition to the victims who are buried v beneath the building it is estimated A that fully one hundred people have t< been more or less injured bv the con- a lussion, falling electric wires and n fragments of shattered glass, stone tJ and timbers. il Twentv of those injured on the a streets were taken into the Gibson n House just across the way and their e wounds dressed. Among these was L Chief of Police Joseph Pugh, of Cov- 1 ington, Ky, who reports a most mirac h ulous esiape. He was just in the act n :>f entering the saloon, in fact, one C foot was upon the door sill when he Wjis startled by the flash of a burning ? slectric wire overhead. He sprang c backward, when almost simultaneous- D ly the explosion occurred and he felt the ground leave his feet. He was S) blown almost into the middle of the r( street. p Three persons whose names cannot ? be learned were injured slightly in a passing street car, and several ladies in n mother car were prostrated from the y shock. A New port, Ky, car, which p wras near the scene, met with a remark- ^ ible experience. It was suddenly ^ wrought to a standstill by a fearful shock and an immense mass came r( irashing through the roof. This t| sroved upon examination to be an ircn n loor from the cellar of the building. v which by some strange freak of the ex- 'al jlosion had been blown through the a] 'ailing debris and up into the air. A ^ nan named John Neibel, of this city, " lad just left the spot where it fell and jr walked back to the rear platform. No Sl >ne was hurt. r A Brown street car was smashed al- (j* nost into fragments. There were forunately no passengers on board and he conductor and motorman escaped ? vith slight injuries. ? The explosion was caused by the J' gnition of a gasoline tank. Adolph ? )rach, proprietor of a saloon on tne ' ower lloor, had recently placed a jasoline engine in his cellar for the r; jurpose of generating his own gaso- Yl ine fuel. Best authorities agree that he commutator of the engine had mrned out, setting fire to a tank of rasoline. The building was seen to hake for an instant and then cave in. Ln instant later only an indiscriminate nass of ruins remained. The walls of he buildings adjoining on either side emained in tact. The streets all , Lround the block are literally covered ? nth pieces of glass. It is almost im >ossible to push one's way tnrough the r* hroxig of excited thousands gathered ibout the place as late as midnight. ,, lundreds of anxious inquiries keep JF he tele ph ones busy and the hospitals md morgue are besieged with callers, ^ ager to ascertain the identity of the ^ lead and dying. The identified dead and the injured o far as known are as follows: Dead, I. A. Davis, travelling man, Hamil- cc on, Ohio, has wife living in Tryon, Pj J. C.; Adolph Drach, proprietor of sa- v oon. Four bodies not yet identified. The injured are: H. E. Hunwick, st lookkeeper; Joseph Spriggs, colored tor tor; C. S. Wells, clerk; Sidney W. tc ohnson, barkeeper; W. D. Crosby, v< taper hanger ;|Wm. E. Cook, clerk, se Lvondale; J. L. Ward, race horse . nan, Toledo; Barbara Huddfelman, iE iomestic; John McCarthy, of Cincin- h: tati Wharf Company; Pete Burns, m ,narie3 opnio. ut tne injured it is elieved several will die. ^ Several more victims are yet beneath he rains and everything possible is s* >eing done to recover the bodies. M R. A. Fricke. of Norwood, was to lave left for Philadelphia to-night, tr le is known to nave left his valise in ^ )rach's saloon early this morning. As ai le has not been seen since the explo- fc ion his friends fear that his body is ce luried beneath the ruins in the cellar, tr A pathetic incident in the work of ?* ecovery occurred when by digging ai hrough an a j joining wall the firemen ame upon Jofin McCarthy, who was 9 ying upon his back helplessly pin ti oned. McCarthy was released after he hardest labor, he himself assisting ju lis rescuers by giving them directions iow to proceed. Near where McCarthy wa3 found rere three other victims, among them th , woman and a child, who have not ret oeen laicen rrom me ruins. The pitiful moans of the mother and cr ries of the little one, begging her mo- tt her to come to her, stimulated the *s rave feilows who are working with hi [light and main to save them. Two triests, Fathers Tiernan and Kelly, ?ere conspicuous for their efforts at p onsoling those beneath the ruins. iVhile leaning forward to administer of onsolation to an unfornate who was ai rying for aid, Father Tiernan was truck by a falling tile and badly ^ hough not seriously hurt. M v< An exchange srys that a fellow in a p< tear by town who couldn't spare one v< lollar and a half a year for a newspa- w >er sent liftv two cent stamps to a iu lown East Yankee to learn how to n< top a horse from slobbering, lie got ai lis receipt and he'll never forget it: w 'To stop your horse from slobbering le each him to spit." A SOLEMN WARNING. SENATOR VEST DENOUNCES THE DOMINATION OF OFFICEHOLDERS. LTnleHH the Chicago Convention is Untrammelled by the Power of Federal Patronage, He Will Not Regard it an Democratic?Investigation Ordered. Washington, May 7.?By the decisve vote of 51 to G, tlie Senate today naugurated an investigation, to b son ducted by the Senate Committee >n Finance, into the facts and circumitances connected with the sale of Jnited States bonds by the Secretary >f the Treasury during the last three rears. The six adverse votes were :ast by Senator Caffery of Louisiana, Faulkner of West Virginia, Gray of Delaware, Hill of New York, Mitchill of Wisconsin and Palmer of Illilois, all Democrats. The resolutions lirecting the investigation is very ex>licit. The debate had been animated, and it times sensatioDal, throughout the arly hours of the day. Mr. Palmer's pposition to the resolution and his ' eference to "snap conventions" irought on a heated colloquy with 1 Ir. Vest and Mr. Cockrell. 4 IT AL ' l.-ii ? 1 x suppuse mis reauiunuii, saiu 1 Ir. Palmer, "because J regard it as > n illegitimate means of procuring 1 naterial to affect and inflame the mblic mind." t The Senator went on to say that he ] id not suppose any Senator, except 1 ossibly the Senator from South Da- ] :ota (Pettfgrew,) questioned the inte- < rity of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1 'he Secretary's judgment, perhaps, { light be disputed; the correctness of 1 is acts might be questioned, but there ' ras no question of integrity involved. ' Ir. Palmer reviewed the platform ut- i Frances of the parties. Citing the old < dage, "the world do move," Mr. Paller said the country had moved since ? tie platform declaiations of 1892 and ; ; was evident that the financial planks < t Minneapolis and Chicago would s ot satisfy the people in the coming 1 lections. In mentioning Mr. Cleve- 1 ind's return to the White House in j 893, Mr. Palmer said the President ad called to his aid "that able states- < lan, that pure and honest man, J. G-. ] Carlisle." ; Mr. Palmer asked if free silver ' rould bring about a fifty cent, sixty 1 ent, seventy cent, eighty cent or ' inety cent dollar. Mr. Butler, (Pod . of North Carolina) ] lid he would answer the question by 1 ?J:? t u w? < cauiijg lruLLi ck apccuu uj uouauvi [ill, known as the Elmira speech. Ie was proceeding to read at much ' ingth Mr. Hill's early views on the letals, when Mr. Palmer refused to 1 ield no longer, saying: ''I asked a ! lain, distinct question, to which I j ave received a great amount of 5 and, and I decline to yield further." \ At another point Mr. Palmer refer- . 2d to the cowardice of candidates for ! ie Presidency and for Congress in 1 ot being specific in their financial ' iews, and in this connection 1 he Sentor had an article read from the desk ! rraigning Governor McKinley for is "Janus-faced" attitude on finance. * And yet," added Mr. Palmer, "all * idications point to the fact that the ? lbject of that criticism will be the 5 epublican candidate for the Presisncy." 6 A Senator across the aisle whisper- t 1 to Mr. Palmer the substance of the ulletins from the Indiahapolis con- r Bntion, whereupon Mr. Palmer add- B 1: "In fact I understand that the f pposition to him has broken down." j Mr. Palmer was drawn into a hot j )lloquy with the two Missouri Sena- s >rs, Mr. Vest and Mr. Cockrell. The s >rmer wanted to know what Mr. Pal- ( ler meant by a reference to "snap a mventions" favoring silver. 4lT moon " wtnlted M>_ Palmflr inventions held last year in Missou- ' and Illinois." "What was the 'snap' feature of the linois convention?" "An unnecessary convention is a nap' convention," declared Mr. Palter. "These conventions were called ?commit the Democracy in advance > the free silver dogma." Mr. Cockrell answered sharply that ie Missouri convention was one of te most representative gatherings rer held. It was called because the emocracy was being misrepresented id an attempt macfe to commit it to Did. Mr. Vest declared that the Missouri mvention was a response to the peo le. The people led and, added Mr. est, "the people assembled in consntions and any man who tries to op them will be crushed. Manhood id decency will no longer permit us ?stand here and be accused of adacating 'unsound money,' and of as-j imbling 'snap' conventions." At this point Mr. Vest branched off ito a sensational recital of personal istory. He spoke of the order just tade public by which this adminisation extended civil service reform. . was one of the tenets of this school lat the patronage of the government lall not be used to influence politics, f [r. Vest went on to tell of the Presijnts removal of United States Dis- . ict Attorney Benton of Missouri, /hen he (Mr. Vest) first read this mouncement he started immediately >r Washington and asked "His Ex- t sllency" what had led to the perpeation of this outrage, the removal ^ ' a man of unimpeachable character id ability. The President brought it a newspaper paragraph, charging olonel Benton with pernicious ac- c vity. He had shown the charges to ^ i unfounded and the President was ist enough to revoke the order, after ving to the public a letter openly j during Colonel Benton against any . irticipation in politics while serving lb government. 2 Mr. Cockrell interrupted at this point ^ i ask as the recent Michigan Demo atic convention at Detroit, declaring . iat Federal ollicials had gone there i delegates instructed for silver and id voted against silver. 1 Mr. Vest, proceeding, said he referred [ i the President's letter to Colonel enton warning him aginst 'dabbling' v l politics because this administration : : la*e had given its whole intluence id power to influence tho political ntiment of the people, to influence tese so-called ''snap" conventions. .r. Vest referred to the Nebraska condition, where hesaid "ollice holders, ( istmasters, collectors of internal ie- t iuue, their lungs lilied with the air c hich came from the treasury," were , l control. The Senator spoke of Cabi- ' el ollicers speaking about tho country id added that he had "not heard a hisper of critiscism from 'His Excelmcy.'" Mr. Vest next turnel his attention to the recent Michigan Democrtic State convention, reading from an article writ^n by one of the delegates who had participated "in, that shameful scene." The article detailed the action of "backsliders" and "traitors," who had been instructed for silver and voted against it. The Senator said he had many letters from men <^f high standing including some of those chosen to the national convention detailing the circumstances of the Michigan convention as a "shame and disgrace to American public life." After further denunciation of the influence brought to bear on conventions, Mr. Vest closed with a startling declaration as to his own pos ition. "I am a delegate to the national convention," said he, "an unwilling delegate, chosen by mv people, and I serve notice now that if that convention at Chicago is to be made up of office holders, to stifle and prevent the exprcs lion of the will of the people, then it is no Democratic convention to me. The Democratic party is the party of honorable expression, not of Federal patronage/] Wliat Makes the Silver Craze. Some of the advocates of the gold standard pretend to be entirely ignorant of the cause that has brought about the "silver craze," as they con- ; temptuously designate the demand for the remonetization of silver. If these advocates of the gold standard would take the trouble.to read the latest "Monthly Summary of the Finance ( and Commerce of the United States," prepared by the bureau of statistics of the Treasury Department, they would probably learn tnec&use of the "silver :raze." This publication gives figures bearing upon the evils of the single *old standard which all the eloquent and intellectual dexterity of Secretary 1 Carlisle can make to appear contrary to his declaration in 1878 that the demonetization of silver was "the greatest crime of this or any other age." The very first thing this volume of 1 Dfficial statistics shows is that the three years just passed Mr. Cleveland s pres- < snt gold standard administration have spent more money than was spent any : three years since the year after the war, when the army of the United 3tates was reduced to a peace footing. It shows also that the excess of expen- 1 litures by the Government in these piping times of peace for the three years 1 just past was $139,306,870. We are 1 thus steadily going to the bad at the rate of $3,800,000 per month. Up to 1 kpril 1 the excess of expenditures for the first quarter of 1896 is $5,216,243,- < 36. And let's see how the store of gold ind silver of this country is faring un- i ier the gold monometallic system, with its gold reserve and hired syndicate to keep gold from going abroad. The three months of January, Feb- 1 ruary and March of 1896, the figures Df imports and exports show that we aave lost in gold $53,642,992, in silver, ?30,758,204. Here is a contraction of 1 metallic cnrrency alone of $84,401,196. ; We are also informed by this interestng and timely volume thac there has .1 all forms of circulation been a decrease of $60,978,550 since February 1, L896. Things were much better under . he former Cleveland administration. 3y the persistence of Democratic ConiwaecmAn i an f tA t*ti 11 fVio jl^OOIUCU UlAiUlCUU lt\J bug TTiil VI lilt >eople this government had taken very lecided steps toward the restoration of ilver. During the four years of Mr. Cleveland's first administration more ilver was beine added to circulation mder the Bland-Allison coinage act han ever before. Under that law, compromise and nake-shift as it was, gold came back md this country was in a fairer way or a genuine return of prosperity than t has ever been at any time since .873-74, when the coinage of the standard silver dollar was dropped. Here ire the figures: First four years of Cleveland's first administration, under t silver coinage law: Excess of reseiplsover expenditures, $378,934,95851. Three years of Cleveland's second id ministration, during which the last restige of legislation friendly to silver >r providing for silver coinage had >een repealed: Excess of expenditures >ver receipts, $140,759,698.60. These are the figures that make the 'silver craze," aijd it is astonishing hat some of the gold standard advo:ates fail to understand them. These igures also explain the large number >t business failures that we are having low. The only salvation for this :ountry is for the majority of its peoile to get the "silver craze" and restore he white metal to its former place in >ur financial system. This alone will >ring peace, plenty and prosperity to ?ur now impoverished country. When his is done, then, perhaps, the blind fold bugs will understand the cause oi he "silver craze."?Times and Demoirat. ' . | Another Advance Made. The Keelevcure has been introduced ntotheSt. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, ild. Tne good Sisters realize that in he Keeley cure is found the only hope or those addicted to the liquor and norphine habits, and have made a jontract with the Keely Institute of Maryland bj> which the Keeley treatnent shall be administered at their hos)ital by regular physicians instructed >y Dr. Keeley. This is another argunent proving that the Sisters of Charty occupy the front place in the care >f the diseased and in .the service of uffering humanity. The treatment vas adopted four years ago by the Jnited States government and is used it the National home. Proving so eficacious the treatment is now given it Fort Leavenworth Post, to the olli:ers and enlisted men of the regular irmy. During the past two years the States of Maryland, Minnesota, Coloado, Louisiana, N^rth Dakota, Wis :onsin and others have by legislative inactments provided that indigent iquor and morphine habitues be given he treatment. The Keeley Institute of South Caroina continues its good work at Coumbia, and any information desired nay be had by addressing that instiute or drawer 27. Two men intoxicated and driving a arge gray horse hitched to a wagon oaded with dynamite were arrested in rViilmantic, Conn., the other day vhile driving at a gallop. The trustworthy cure for tlie Whiskey, )pium and Tobacco Habits is administer>d at The Keeley Institute of South Carina. For further information adiress rhe Keeley Institute, or Drawer 27, Jolumbia, S. (J. I HTELLIGE^T PGOPLK Dj not feel flattered by the methods of those who seem to tliiak they can bally them Into baying. Most people know what they want a great deal better than the merchant knows. They know too what their means are and what to pay for their goods without extravagance. Knowing all these things perhaps they do not know the place where they can buy to the best advantage and would be Rlad of a hint where to go. We can only say we do our best by all and invite buyers when looking around not to overlook us. Kea l below a few of our mtiy reasonable of ferlngs: Good tomatoes 2 pound can9. 60c dozen, 5c can. Good tomatoes 3 pound cans, 75c dozen 7c can. Green corn at 6 1-4,10 and 12 l-2c can. Green peas at 8, 10. 12 1-2 and 15c can. Peaches In cans at 8,10.12 1-2.13 L7, 20 25 and 30c can. Potted ham and tongae at 5c can. Lard, compound, 50 pou-d cans, 6c lb. Lard, compound, 20 pound cans, $1 25 san. Lard, compound, 10 pound cans, 75c can, Best lard, 50 pound cans, 7 l-4c pound. Best lard, 20 pound canJ, 91.60 cai. Best lard, 10 pound cans, 90c can. Finest Irish potates in barrel sacks SL.15 per sack. Bett cream cheese, 15c pound. Dried apples, 5c pound. Evaporated apples, 8, 10 and 12 l-2c a pound. Good starch, 5c pound or 25 pouuds for 11.00. littuuary h jap inz puunu uars, o, iu auu 12.1-2C bars. Tol'et soap from 25c dozen up. Matches 5 and 10c dozen, 50; and 91.00 a gross. Ping tobacco in 10 pou nd coddles 21c a pouod and upwards, less than coddy 25c pound and t up. Good smoking tobacco at 18c pound, pipe with each pound. Fine fresh fruit jams in 1 pound ca s, 10c ian. Biscuits in boxei of frocn 20 to 23 pounds proin 4 1- 2 to 7c pound. - Raisins from 5c pound anl up *ard.->. Segirs50,75, ?1.03, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.06 i box of 50. Lots of other good* in stock just as jheap Get a copy of our piice list, its mighty Intdres ing readiog and will show ?ou how to Siva m >aey on your purchases WELCII & EASON, UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS, L85 and 187 Meeting and 117 MaiketSs., CHARLESTON, 8. O. A $25 Cooking Stove f WITH A COMPLETE OUTFIT *0* o^rnrsr $12.00. Delivered to your railroad depot, all freight charges paid. Read thJfc description carefully. This splendid Cooking Stove is No. 8; has four I inch pot holes; 16x16 inch oven; 1$ inch tire box, 24 inches high; 21x2* inch top; nice smooth casting. I have had this stove made for mj trade, after my own idea, combinlsf all the good points of all medium priced stoves, and leaving out objectionable features. Beyond all doubt the best No. I Cooking Stove made, for the pric?. Fitted with 2 pots, 2 pot covert, 3 skellets, 2 griddles, 3 baking pau, 3 joints of pipe, 1 elbow, 1 collar, 1 inter, 1 scraper, i caice poiisu, 1 inn tea kettle, 1 shovel. We want to make customers and friends in every part of the South, for the purpoM of introducing our business to a?w people, and to renew our acquaintance with old friends. We will ship this splendid Cooking Stove and the above described wan to any depot, all freight oharfM paid, for only $12.00 whea the cash comes with the order. Tkis stove is a good one, well made, aad will give entire satisfaction. Our illustrated catalogue of Furniture, Stovea and Habj Carriages mailed free. Address . T_. T" & - i.ID3ETTj ?<. , !{koaj) fitkkcr, aitoubta, I MMHiWUb. II il I ill III WW SPR -A. n n. o u a OJ NEW < Ar LLTHE 14J9 till 1445 Wii'i Strut. O J : LlXri <>' N i V se ll>f 4 'J ) ) AVD G'J vll'ttlS-5 iKUni' Dnr /soo >s /*LoruMG. c ?... tr * ^ .? /f QJD \ gUKt'K rs, A'e Invito a!l cliw< l> uers cj vi ?i.n; Irj A.I1 xoods orlote.1 of us a.ui.itiuu-4 C> fraa of charge inside of tin Stu.i dqailityyou may dosii i m o for quotations. 1 "THE OPPOSITE GciAND COLUMB Delightful Results. LETTEh FROM JUDGE ; BALDWIN, OF MADISON, ;GA. Dr. W. Pitts, Thom-soa, tia. Dear Sir:?Alter havi ig snu^bc iq vain for various remedies for thi Ills jf teethlni I triad yoir C irmlna ivi with mo it satisfactory add dp tig total results. It b pieaa'mt to take asauagod pal a and produces reiU without stupor. No pareDtsboald oe without it during t ie teething pen ?i wao has once tried It, lor it to Indeed a <na*io medial ae for cable*. V^ry respectfully, JUOiK d. W. BALDWIN. For sal# by; ? THE MURRAY DRU\J GO., Columbia, 3. O. i' | la th?M <?fi ?f TALL TALK < * i Actual Acfflerementa often Mem to b?ti dj?-1' i" i count, but alter all actual ac*ikvkmkxti are i iH i the only things that count. i i"i It Is easy to talk In QentralTcrr^taboutOw i ini menu of PIANOS, but?be more spedlo? i] THE MATHUSHGK: Tit |reit liHtlara Faiarits. < i Established 80 years. 80,000 sew to an. < , i fold by us for tt years. Mot* then Tahulle i 111 fat?aU4 ImproTomeate? Patest Kepeatlng ietlei. Patent Sounding Beart. Patent Inning Pli Bailing. < Patent Improved Agraffes. < ; i; Patent left Step* V One of tke only twe Ranee made eoaaMe 1 1,1 (every part) In lta own Victory. One ef t*e 1,1 test made In the U. 8. Sold tower than any1 111 ether High Grade Piano. Qneproflt onlyfre* i1 Maker to purchaser. WUT1 US. LUDDEN k BATES, iiTiinrii, ?A. S Preparation tliat can c<OTpar?B ?? with Hilton's Life f orth0.^ H and Kidneys, In the ?JJJ?ess H SI of Its action and the certai*JJ H m ot Its effocta, In the relief i xiinywfSSEB H m Bic^ yzaw t? sWetomach, ntcf appeti? B H etc., and as a regulator in m M Habitual Constipation.A few B 19 doses wllUeU something oMte* S"ld wholesale bv The Marray Drag Co.f COLUMBIA, 8. C. MACHINERY. ENGINES, BOILERS, S&W MILLS, CORN MILLS, ROLLER MULLS, BRICK MACHINES, PL INING MACHINES and alt trials of w wiw'irnl i< iD*ciiln*ry. Also Shafting, Piliiwt, B>x*h ?f.. I *m ttib General aynut (?r TALBOTT & SONS, THE LIDDELL COMPANY, WA'I ERTOWN ENGINE COMPANY, H. B. SMITH MACHINE COMPANY, and can furnish full <*quip ueut in the above lioes at factory prices. V. G. Badham, COLUMBIA, S. C. OSBOHNH'S AMD V Bohool Of SliortlXMud AUOCMTA. OA. Mmtmi honka ?J AoiuJ >n?fn?M tnm tw ?f MUrtKf. IuImn pspari. oll*c? nmin ud rooil IM< 8?mi far kAna*<rm?Jf UlutnUdT Milhit*. B?H iliiiiwttM INGJ^ e e 111 e nt 3- Q O D S HUB" 0 11 hi ju : so. o.v, )i vH 5 N )?V liilVi Ol'tfiNED *r > o ) -i -u : v i uLXi of in >ICS ?fAl"*. Jpu-INISIIVJ OS A.ND; 7|)f ATTINOS. JL1M, ;. n ir it ir ,v;it? c? <H f) < i > < . te i l-.iiur-t tfill ot) -leiiviral >a st?ix ousUfci of avetv prim ir lilir-i it Hues. vVrl~.n us fer/ iuspejcfuil/, tLUii," ri?Mr.<Ai Milr ?. IA, 6. C.