The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, October 09, 1891, Image 2
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PENSION FIGOBIS.
The Commissioner’s Annual Be*
port to Secretary Noble.
About 30,000 Names Added tc
the Bolls Each Month.
The annual report of Commissioner Raum
the Pension Bureau, just submitted to the
Secretary of the Interior shows that on
Jane 30, 1891, there were 676,180 pensioners
home upon the rolls of the Bureau, being
138.216 more than were carried on the rolls
at the close of the last fiscal year. They are
classified as follows: Widows and daughters
of Be volutions tv soldiers, 23^ Army invalid
pensioners. 413,597; Army widows, minor
children, etc., 108,537; Navy invalid pen
sioners. 5449; Navy widows, minor children,
etc, 2568; survivors of the War of 1812,
7500; survivors of the Mexican War, 16.379;
widows of soldiers of the Mexican War, 6976.
Following are the number of pen-
rafoos of the several classes granted
under the Act of June 27, 1890; Army inva
lid pensioners, 97,131; Army widows, minor
children, etc-, 12,209; Navy invalid pension
ers, 3976, Navy widows, minor children,
ate., 1433. During the last fiscal year first
payments were paid uoon 131,160 original
■claims, requiring 331,391,538 for their pay
ment. This is an increase in the number of
oriemal payments over the year 1893 of
64.532. The aggregate cost, however, was $1,-
067.302 less.
There are 222,531 first payments of every
rdaacription, requiring 838,552.274. The ag
gregate annual value of the 670.163 pensions
on the roll June 31, 1891, was $89,247,200, and
the average annual value of each pension was
SI 39 .99. and the average annual value of each
pension under the act of July 27, 1890. was
S12L51. There will be a deficiency in the
appropriation for the payment of fees and
expenses of examining surgeons of about
The total amount disbursed on account of
pensions, expenses, etc., during the fiscal
▼ear, was $118,543,959.71, as compared with
9106,493,890.19 disbursed during the preced
ing fiscal year; so that it appears that 138,216
pensions were added to the rolls during the
jkcal year just closed, at an increased cost to
the nation of $12,055,069 as compared with
-the expenditures for the previous fiscal year.
'Pensions were granted m each of the last
Jour years as follows: 188S. 13,173; 18S9,
145.298; 1890, 151,658; 1891, 250.565.
It has been a prime object, says the Com
missioner, to put as many cases as possible
in train for completion. With this end in
view, 603,641 orders were made for medical
examinations, and 474,680 medical certificates
of examinations have actually been received.
The remarkable fact is disclosed that fifty
'Certificates were issued to men who served
from 161 to 476 months. It also appears that
of the 71,004 persons to whom pensions were
granted under tbs Act of June 27, 1890, 1163
were issued to soldiers who served six months
and under; 26,099 to persons who aarved
a year or under, and 44.!f05 to persons
who served thirteen months and over, and
and that the largest number of certificates
issued to any class was 4593 to men who
■erved thirty-six months. The age of the
greatest number of pensioners under both
the old aud new law was forty-seven years.
Daring the last year 20,525 pensioners were
dropped from the rolls for various causes,
and of this number 13,229 were dropped by
reason of death. It is estimated that 1,004,-
658 soldiers were killed in battle or died dur
ing and since the war. ( On June 30 last 124,-
750 of these dead soldiers were represented on
the pension rolls by their widows or other
dependents. There are about 1.208,707
soldiers of the Union now living, and of tbs
survivors 530,158 are now on the pension
rolls. There are, therefore, 688,549 survivors
who are not pensioned and 879,908 dead
soldiers not represented ou the pension rolls.
In concluding his report the Commissioner
says that on au average about 30,000 pension
certificates are being issued each month, and
that during the current year he expects that
aa many as 350,000 claims will be adjudi
cated, for which he believes the present ap
propriation of $133,473,035 will be amply
snflictent.
A WAlfc STREET SENS^jTQ]
^‘JJeifcCou” White Tries to Corner the
Corn Crop and Becomes Bankrupt.
EL V. White & Co., regarded as one of the
■Strongest firms on the New York Stock Ex
change, made an assignment to Charles W,
Gould, of No. 2 Wall street. Mr. White has
been recognized as a power in the financial
rid for the past twenty years, and his as-
imeut created a genuine sensation on the
cause of the firm’s embarrassment
was a gigantic speculation in corn engi
neered by the head of the house. He tried
to corner the country’s supply of the grain
jp^J^eptember and October delivery and
The enormous crop interfered. His lia
bilities are estimated at from a million and
a half to two millions.
He began his purchases when the price of
September corn was fifty cents. He con-
tinned buying until he ownel 10,009,000
bushels. The average price paid for the
corn was sixty cents, and at one time Mr.
White had a paper profit of $1,000,000 on
bis deal. Two weeks before he failed the
r ee for September was seventy cents. But
was a great load to carry, especially as
there were indications that the Chicago
gamblers would break their necks or prevent
firTWhite from unloading. A clique met
daily in Chicago at the Calumet Club to de
vise means of downing Mr. White.
The continued heavy receipts of corn at
Chicago from all centres materially assisted
them. Even the most secret steps on his
part toward unloading some of his
corn were detected and the clique,
aided by the big receipts, smashed
down the market. The receipts continued,
.nrl the attitude of the Chicago clique be
came so pronounced that it was apparent
that Mr. White could not withstand the
forces against him. The Septamber option
declined to 52V, L)f the 10,000,000
bushels he still held 8,000,003 bushels, and on
roost of this heavy advances had been made
by the New York banks. With the declin
ing market the banks refusea further loans,
and there was nothing to do but for Mr.
White to make an assignment. Ho tersely
- pot the situation thus;
“I have been largely long of corn, and in
dosing it out the depreciation, with the
calls for margins, which were unusually
heavy, exhausted my resources, aud
there was notning left but to stop and as-
**k n - ’ , , ,
Mr. White's chief trouble seemed to be
that he based his operations on the visible
supplr and aid not sufficiently regard
the supplies that were kept back by the
farmers.
WILLIAM L. SCOTT DEAD.
Tlic Pennsylvania. Millionaire Ex
pires Suddenly at Newport, R. 1.
• Ex Congressman W. L. Scott, of Pennsyl
vania, died suddenly before midnight at
Bewport, P-. I. He was taken there about
two weeks Itefore from his home in Erie,
Penn., suffering with acuta gastro
intestinal catarrh. It was believe 1 that
the climate would be beneficial.
'Mr. Scott’s de ath was sudden and unex
pected and wat due to repeated heart fail
ures, his gastric trouble being improved and
there being no organic disease. Mr. Scott
bad been ailing tor some weeks. His family
were notified and all were present at the
end. whicn was peaceful and painless. Hia
'.body was taken to Erie, Penn., tor burial.
Mr. IScott was born in Washington, D. C.,
July 2. 1828, of Virginian parentage. He was
early iett an orphan and in destitute circum-
Ctances. He began his career as a p ige in
the House of Representatives. General
Beoi. of Erie, Penu., who then
represente i that district in the House,
.Started linn as shipping clerk m
the lakes trade. Mr. Scott subsequently be-
ranie largely intere.-ted in the coal and iron
business and also in railroads. He married
the sister o: Frame D. Tracy, of the New
York Stock Exchange. in politics he
•was a Democrat and was elected a
member o£ i. Forty-ninth Congress.
Mr. Sc:tt v. as a.so a prominent patron of
tiie tur. ant. owned many goal race horses,
lie was a 13.rector of the Union Pacific. Laie
Shore, Northwestern aud Canadiau South*
~ ... wa . a gp^juafcor
Excuange.
THE HEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
The Butler County Bank of Millerstown,
Penn., owned by H. J. Hoyt, suspended pay
ment. The embarrassment created a panic
at Millerstown. and judgments were entered
against a number of residents.
F. W. Dux lap, a deputy flelinquent mer
cantile tax appraiser of Philadelphia, Penn.,
pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the
city and was sentenced to two years in the
Eastern Penitentiary.
The courthouse at South Atkinson.houses,
barns and bridges were blown down by a
i storm in Piscataquis County, Me., and Mrs-
’ Hall, of Orneville, was killed by a falling
chimney.
The contest of the $30,000,000 will of Mrs.
! Hopkins-Searles was commenced in Salem,
Mass. Mr. Searles said the first proposition
of marriage was made by his wife.
Plkup-o-pxeumoxia has again appeared
among cattle in New Jersey. Government
inspectors have been sent there to stamp it
out.
Ix the Hopkius-Searles will contest at
Salem. Mass., Mr. Searles testified that the
annual income of the Hopkins estate was
about $600,000. He and his wife received
forty-five per cent, each, which was deposited
in his name.
The monument of the Tammany regiment
on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Penn., was
unveiled with appropriate ceremonies.
Headed by a band the ninety survivors of
the regiment marched in front of the monu
ment. It stands on Hancock avenue, about
200 feet from “Bloody Angle,” where Pick
ett’s famous charge was repulsed. Ad
dresses were made by Colonel John R. Pel-
lows, an ex-Confederate; General Daniel E.
Sickles, General Martin T. McMahon, Gen
eral Ely S. Parker, Barlow S. Weeks, Com
mander of the Sons of Veterans, and Cap
tain J. M. Eliendorf.
The first instalment of nickel-steel plate
made in this country for actual use has just
been deliverea at Cramps’ shipyard, Phila
delphia, Penn. It is three inch protective
deck-plate for one of the triple-screw
cruisers.
Four huxdbed Smith’s College girls at-
j tended a woman’s suffrage meeting in North
ampton, Mass.
The religious sect of Schcenkfelders cele
brated at Clayton, Penn., the 127thanniver
sary of the landing of their forefathers in
this country. Besides the congregation lo
cated there there are only four in the coun
try, and all were in attendance.
The boiler of Berlin’s new sawmill at Bear
Creek, Penn , exploded, completely demol
ishing the mill and instantly killin? J. Eiva
Berlin, James Conger, and Charles B. Grove,
all well-known lumbermen.
A patixq vein of gold ore has been found
in Silver Lake Township, Penn.
Writs of quo warranto were issued
against the State Treasurer and State Sec
retary of Connecticut.
Water in the New Hampshire rivers is so
low that many of the mills can run only on
half time.
The public schools in Syracuse, N. Y.,
closed for a few days because of the phe
nomenal heat.
James Darling and Sandy Ferry, while
dynamiting stumps near Garfield Penn.,
were instantly killed by the premature ex
plosion of a cartridge.
Rev. Dr. S. D. Bttrchard, author of the
famous Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
speech during the Cieveland-Blaine Presi
dential campaign, died in Saratoga, N. Y.
He was born at Steuben, N. Y., September
Otb, 1812.
Ox the day following the accident it was
stated that eleven of the victims of the fire
works explosion in Newark, N. J., were
dead, and other fatalities were expected.
All the victims were Italians. „
Two freight trains came into collision
about two miles west of Hawleyville, Conu.
The engineer, William Day; the fireman,
James Gardner, and a brakeman, G. A.
Sprague, of the eastbound train, were
killed. They all lived in Hartford.
RaLroaiis, aai latterly
: the N.w £ork Stock Ex<
South and West.
The St. Paul (Mian.) public schools closed
during the latter days of September on
count of the heat.
A coxvict in the San Quentin (C:
Prison, named'Henry^gJker, killed!
coavictjis««^-#SS^RaUew
uto his meek, whiO*6#fing
England and Germany have priWcally
chosen sites for their buildings at the
World’s Fair, Chicago, lit England is to
erect a splendid structure on the lake shore,
where the stone pavilion in Jackson Park
now stands. Germany’s building will bQ.lp-
S fced either on the lake shore, near the Mex-
in quarters, or just south of the west an
nex to the Fine Art Palace, near the Mich-
gan and Ohio bufldfogs.' .
^-Rx-GrOVi;avor v Alblp.t P. Morehouse
committed suicide at his residence in Marys
ville, Mo. Several weeks before the Gover
nor was much overheated while driving cat
tle, and had been in a nervous condition ever
since. He was born in Delaware Connty.
Ohio, July 10, 183.3, and came to Missouri in
1856. He was a lawyer by profession.
The whole of the business portion of
Bradley, South Dakota, is in ashes. Nine
stores, the M. E. Church, a hotel and one
house were burned.
Major McKinley spoke at the Coal
Palace at Ottumwa, Iowa.
W. H. Davis, who murdered his mother
and her alleged lover, James Arnold, at
Pueblo, Col., oecause they refused to give
him money with which to continue his
drunken spree, was executed in the prison
yard at Canon City, Col.
Fire destroyed the five-story brick build
ing of the Moorewooi Carving Machine
Company at Minneapolis, Minn., causing a
loss of about 8200,009. Twenty firemen
were hurt by the falling in of the top of an
elevator located in the rear of the burned
structure.
Ix Lewis County, Ky., near the mouth of
Kinniconick Creek, Thomas Carr, a farmer,
aged thirty years, cut the throats of his wife
and his mother-in-law. Than he cut his own
throat. His weapon was a large corn knife.
AU are dead. He was insanely jealous.
Dax Sullivax and Tom Johnson, mem
bers of a logging party. Were burned to
death in the forest fires near Hickley, Miaa.
The prairie fires in South Dakota were ex
tinguished by a heavy rain.
The Republic in State Convention of Ne
braska met at Lincoln and nominated for
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, A.
M. Post. For Regents of the State Univer
sity, H. P. Shumway and Charles Maple.
Riley Smart, a young man of Monroe
Township, Ind„died from the effects of being
stung in forty-two places by yellow jacks.
Osseo, Wis., has an epidemic of typhoid.
Almost every resident is ill. There have
been five deaths.
Hezekiah Raxkix, colored, shot Fred
Taylor, white, at Asueville, N. C. Acroivd
lynched Rankin promptly.
Washington.
The American Pomological Society held
its annual biennial session in Washington.
The eleven Division Sunerintendents qf
the Railway Mail Service held a meeting in
Washington to discuss matters of detail in
the improvement of the service.
United States Minister Egan notified
the State Department of Ealmaceda’s mi
cide. It was* a short dispatch and merely
stated the fact and that the deei was done
at the Argentine Legation. Tranquility
prevails in Chili.
The President on June 3 granted a par
don toRobert Sigel. son of Genera’. Si gel,
of New York, convicted of forgery and sen
tenced to six years’ imprisonment at hard
labor, the pardon to take effect at the ex
piration of two years and nine months of
actual imprisonment. A few rtavs aco the
President granted a full pardon “in view of
the extreme illness of the prisoner, an l
the fact that the term will expire in Decem
ber.”
The Ordnance Bureau of the Navy hassiic-
oeried in procuring the most ranid of raoid-
Hrhig guns in the wor d. The Dashiel four-
nch gun was recently tested at the Indian
Head proving grounds with the service-
charge of Brown pow ier, firing in salvos of
five rounds. The first five were fired in
twenty-six seconds, the second in twenty-two
seconds, and the third in seventeen seconds.
Commodore Ramsey, Acting Secretary
of the Navy, received a request that the
CushinT and Stiletto b* allowed to take
part in a race with the fleet steam yachts
Vamoose. Norwood and Javelin. Although
the naval officers feel confident of the ability
of the Cushing to bold her own in such a
contest, the request was not granted, as
naval vessels are not permitted to engage in
racing.
Accordixg to a census bulletin the real
estate mortgage debt of Kansas, January 1,
1890, aside from State and railroad land con
tracts. was $235,485,106. Of this amount
$167,145,030 is almost exclusively on farms.
The President aopointed ChaHes W. Erd-
man. of Kentucky, to he United States
Consul at Stockholm, Sweden.
Secretary Foster has awarded to Albert
Owen, of Trescott, Me., a silver life-saving
medal for hi« bravery in rescuing three men
from drowning near'Eastport, Me., on July
10, 1887.
Secretary Foster says it will take $2.-
000.003 to refund the excess of duties col
lected on hat trimmings, in accordance with
the agreement arrived at with the importers.
At the meeting of division superintend*
ent* of the Railway Mail Service in Wash
ington. a resolution was passed calling upon
the Civil Service Commission to adopt a
physical examination for applicants, in ad
dition to the mental one now in vogue.
Secretary Rusk, of the Agricultural
Department, says it has been found by ex
perts that women make better meat inspec
tors than men.
The Secretary of the Navy has designated
thirty-four British naval stations in different
parts of the world as places where salutes
may be fired by United States naval vessels.
The Army Board on Fortifications and
Ordnance made the following recommenda
tions to the Secretary of War, which have
been approved: That $30,000 be allotted for
procuring carriages for five-inch siege rifles;
that the Lewis depression range finder be
teste! at Fort Wadsworth, N. Y., and that
the Chief of Ordnance be authorized to make
a few of the new twelve-inch rifle guns forty
calibres in length.
Foreign.
Cstlian soldiers in Santiago are in revolt
at the bad food they receive. The British
Government has recognized the Provisional
Government of Chili.
Two passenger trains collided between Go
laczowry and Wolbrotn, Prussian Silesia.
The cars were shattered to splinters, and ten
persons were killed and many injured,
j In the House of Commons, Ottawa,
1 Canada, the opposition impeached another
member of the Government; the Postmaster
General, Hon. John Haggart, who is ac
cused of participating in the profits of a
Government railway contract and agreeing
to the firm’s subscribing to Government elec
tion funds( charged to the firm’s profit.
The Western and Brazilian Cable Com
pany has just laid a new cable between San
tos and Pernambuco. The cable steamer Sil-
vertown is about to lav a cable from Per
nambuco to the Island Fernando do Norouha
and thence to St. Louis, Senegal, Africa.
Russian troops are being steadily moved
westward; Russia is said to be meditating au
entrance into Rumanian territory.
The festivities in celebration of the resto
ration of peace in Chili passed without polit
ical disturoanee.
Ix Oito Prefecture, Japan, 3000 cases of
dysentery are reported, with 700 deaths.
The King of Belgium has received Henry
M. Stanley’s resignation as Governor of the
Congo States. The post has been refused by
a German officer of colonial experience, now
in Africa.
An express train running between Burgos
and San Sebastian in Spain came into col
lision with a combined goods and passenger
train. Fourteen persons were killed out
right and many others were injured.
The Argentine Government, as a measure
pf economy, has abolished its Legations at
Vienna, Lisbon, Berlin and Mexico, which
will effect a saving of $100,000 a year.
Abundant harvests are reported from
most of the Turkish Provinces, espefcially-
Irom those in Asia Minor. It is estimated
that the tithe revenue will exceed that of
any previous year by 500,000 Turkish pounds.
; A Chinese fleet has been dispatched to the
scene of the recent disturbance, and China
nsks Franca to suspendactifllMili.tke matter.
MAD RUSl FOR ROM
Exciting See^s at the Opening
of Eastefti Oklahoma.
Boomers Pourliver the Line
Pick Ouiliheir Farms.
and
A dispatch from Guthrie. Oklahoma says;
At noon Eastern Oklahoma was thrown
open and fully 60000 persons entered the
reservation from tli west and south. The
wildest of scenes w*re enacted and several
persons were shot.
Two colored men filled in a fight at Langs
ton, the shooting ofa woman who attempted
to cross the border before the alloted time
and the drowning »f two men in the Cimar
ron River were theprincipal events reported
in the great rush or the Oklahoma lands.
The population o* Oklahoma increased
20,000 in one day No country in the world
has a record qf ant such sudden growth.
That morning th« settled area of the Terri
tory numbered S.O^O KJ acres and the popu
lation was 60,000. Between noon and sunset
1,->00,000 acres wW added to the area, and
the population is tow 80,000.
All along the lire during the morning the
scene was one of treat excitement. People
foot, peoole onhorseback, people in bug
gies, in wagons, nun, women and children,
were gathered in froups a short distance
apart. The scene rt 12 o’clock, when the sig
nals were fired, was one never to be
forgotten. Out fr»m the line and acrosslthe
rolling prairie bo-semen shot like missiles
from a catapult. Covered wagons filled
with people rushed up hill and down dale,
and hundreds of horie-stakers on foot started
valiantly forth in search of the coveted
claim.
ThApent up excitement found vent in the
firing of revolvers aid rifles, shouting and
singing and cracking of whips and furious
dnviug and runniig. The horsemen, of
course, had the advtntage over every other
man m the race an: most of the racers were
horsemen. The nan who had pro
ceeded to the border on a prairie schooner
■with his family left the schooner, family
and one horse on tie border and mounted
the other and bacc m> a horseman. After lo
cating his claim he vi.1 return and direct his
possessions to bis new home. Men
who came with nothing but
money purchased saddle horses,
ponies, mules or anv kind of an animal that
would carry a ma:, while others rented
them. .Some of the more desperate cowboys
mounted steers, and the latter, joining in
the stampede, carrie. their riders to the in
terior, while others were unceremoniously
unhorsed, or unsteered, not far from the
border.
A pistol shot fired by an army Lieutenant
the signal for die w-aiting crowd at
race for
_ svin, of Cl
ly in dishonest practices,
le at Ottawa by a vote of eigET^F 1 ^ 9
to 104. The House was divided on Mr. j
Giroard’s motion for the adoption ot t,a0-i
majority report, exculpating Langeviu,
wr : , -j?2~yied by a vote of 101 yeas to
eighty-six'nays.
The Chinese Government has advised the
British Foreign Office that it has offered
compensation to the Powers, has punished
rioters, and can preserve the peace in China.
TEN LIVES EOR ONE.
An Extraordinary Scene in a South
Carolina Court.
In the Laurens County (S. C.) Court of
Sessions occurred the trial of “Jim” Young,
Allen Young, Munroe Young, Henderson
Young, John Adams, “Lige” Atkinson,
“Tom” Atkinson, John Atkinson aud
“Jack” Williams, for the murder of
Thoruton Nance,all colored. The jury retired
and in three hours brought in a verdict of
guilty with a recommendation to mercy to
alt. Piedmont <s the name of a colored
church iu Hunter, near Mouutville, on the
Georgia. Carolina and Northern Railroad.
Un the night of August 5 last, service was
held at Piedmont, aud Edmond Nance, an
old and respectable colored man, with his
wife and four sons were of the congrega
tion. When the service was over the worship
ers dispersed to their homes, but the band
of murderers were on hand, though
they had not been __ in the church.
It seems that John Nance had made
improper proposals in writing to
John Atkinson's wife, and the husband, with
his brothers and friends, was thirsting for [
vengeance. They waylaid the Nance family ;
aud left Thornton Nance dead in the road ;
and Samuel Vance shot through the lungs, i j
John Vance escaped.
Judge Hudson overruled a motion for a
new trial. Then the ten prisoners stood ud j
to receive the death sentence—eight in a line !
in front of the railing and two m the dock j
behind, it was a remarkable sight. Asa :
body, they appeared far above the average !
in intelligence. “Lire'’ Atkinson and tae ,
Adams boys are handsome mulattoes. The j
Judge pronounced the sentence that they all I
be hanged on October 23 next. The prison
ers showed no emotion, but as the Judge c-ou-
cluded there was a wail from the spectators.
It was from the wife of Perry Adams. She
was joined by another, aud finally they were
taken out by constables. The wives, chil
dren and parents were grouped together on
the public square as the condemned men
passed back to jail in charge of the depu
ties.
FATAL CELEBRATION.
Three Men Killed and Twenty-five
Wounded at Newark. N. J.
A horrible accident occurred at an Italian
' celebration in Newark. N. J.. bv which three
persons were killed outright and twenty-five
persons seriously, and some of them fatally,
injured. The residents of the Italian quarter
in Boydeu street celebrated a festival which
is known as St. Roro’s Day. in a three-story
house. No. 23. Chinese lanterns, decorations
I of all kinds and a shrine were among the
1 outdoor attr.tctiori-*.
Among the novelties provided for the en-
! tertaiument of tue celebrants was the ex-
! p.osion of a lot of dynamite inclosed in a gas-
' pipe. This niece was fired about 10:45
i o'clock, th * oiople be.ng groups i in close
1 proximity to the cas-ripe. The explosion
I came wita the most violent effects. Scarcely
i had the detonation died when the air was
| filled with shrieks, cries an i groans of pain
i from a quarter of a hundrei people, who had
| been torn and wounded bv the powerful ex-,
| p.osion.
i fhe se-n» was oua of terror aud contusion
as the terrified people rushed wildly around
| not knowing where to go. iv ord was tale-
i phoned to the Second Precinct.* A squad of
I men was dispatched to the scene, and all
i four patrol wagons were di-patcaei to the
spot. Tney were kept busy u itil long after
' mi inight iu removing the wounded to the
1 different hospitals.
TVith the clos’ of hostilities in Chili the
United States trade with that country has
l>een resumed. South American steamers
will now land at ail the Chilian porta.
was
Choctaw City to start in the
the new country.
When the signal shot was fired it was ex
actly 12 o’clock, according to central
standard time. The crowd had ranged
up as closely as possible to the line
until they looked right into the eyes of
the soldiers who were there to see
that no one got in ahead of time.
The tali young Lieutenant galloped along
the line of waiting settlers aud told them
that the signal for starting would soon be
given. When he arrived at a point near the
centre he drew his revolver and rapidly dis
charged its six loads into the air.
The first report had no longer rung out
when the great crowd commenoed to move.
It was a Derby that is simply beyond de
scription. There were blooded Kentucky
racers,Texas bronchos, mules and ox teams.
Everybody applied the whip and spur,
aud many were the catastrophes, although
none of them was serious. It was a race that
few men want to undergo more than once,
and the man who reached a claim and found
it unoccupied was lucky indeed.
Every man going into the country carries
a gun and a whisky bottle, and many are
going to their death.
A crowd of nearly ^000 that was in camp
Topee started in a body for the new
seat of Chsndler. They declared
for the survey to
rill take the town b;
11 in this they wi
fcoining section. The
town have orders
kjvould
and bio
lade.'
At Langston i
excited. The t
camped near byl
pmtterings were 1
Ciffiarron City
.' «d by S-jaU.'rav „
fo. the lanufif P ro Jj
Messiah.
At the Sac and
side the crowd was'
eral men were kille
Agency on the east
[ry turbulent, and sev-
during the morning.
Along the line whisk^j^tand bottle*-were
plenty and manyTfi 0 • were intoxicated. The
one hundred deputy marshals and hand! xl
of soldiers were anal e to do anything with
the crowd. The numoer of women on horse
back was remarkably large, and fully twen-
S per cent, of the clfitns will be secured by
e fair sex.
In Guthrieeverythng was deserted. Stores
are closed and do'-to-s, lawyers, preachers
and everybody bas gone to the new El
dorado. The boomer bought so many sup
plies that a provisim famine now exists.
Hundreds of men wto arrived on the mid
night train could not get conveyances and
are walking to the liie, while scores slept in
the streets.
One girl of twenjy-one from Winfield,
Kan., walked ben mil's on foot to establish a
claim. A colored wiman with a baby in
her arms and leadirg a six-year-oid boy,
walked fifteen miles and secured a claim.
One woman of sixty-five went on
horseback, and tw> women rode on
with little children in horses behind them.
There are C000 people in town, and the worst
kind of a scramble foi 1 the 2000 lots is going
on. At the northern tounty seat, the survey
is not completed, and 10,090 people are being
beld at bay by soldier. The crowd will at
tempt to capture the ti*wn site.
The reservations or Pottawatomie, Shaw
nee, Iowa, Sac and FVx Indians amount to
1,287,000 acres. Partlof the land is prairie,
part in timber ana nuch broken, and not
over half of it is hu-.e -. for farming. The
reservations lie directly east of
the settlement pa: r of Gk adorra, and
are divided into two counties, with
320 acres reserved a. he centre of each for
the county seat-. 1 The location of
the county seats is on poor broken
ground, timber j underbrush and
rocks, with absllutely no water.
Both towns have beenbamed. The one that
is to be the county ^at of the northern
county is Chandler, nfned for the Assistant
Secretary of the Inteilor, and the southern
town is Tecumseh. Hj D. Baker, of Okla
homa City, has alrady been appointed
Postmaster of the corahg town of Tecumseh.
A careful man estimates the number ot
actual settlers who tent into the Indian
lands on the opening c iv to be close to 20,-
000. Of these it is est natei that 10,000 will
settle in the new cit is and towns which
will spring up. The ither 10,090 are men
and women "who wai; farms. The total
number of acres whiqi
open to settlement is
into tracts of 1G'3 acre
to 5900 people, and
not less than 5910
have been thrown
30,003. Tnis, divide!
each, will give farms
the result is that
in
others will
connection vs
DROWNED IN THE HUDSON.
Three Men. One W
Go Down Of
iman and a Child
Low Point.
Three men, one wo: an and a lictie girl
were drowned in the I idson River, opposite
Low Point, twelve m
keepsie, on a recent af
all Poles and were stra gers in the locality.
They hired a boat at Hampton to row
across the river at Lot
Point. (Vhen about
George Welton.
il sank immediately,
ung to the caosized
one hundred varus ir<j|i tne east snore Um
boat overturned, and
except one man, who
boat, but he let go lid sank before help
coiiid reach him. Uni one body, that of a
man, has been recover; d.
son and two part
em
iustry
ployed as de-
of New Eng-
THE LABOR WORLD.
COD fishermen talk of a union.
Chicago has over 890 letter-carriers.
The girl spinners have united at Lowell.
Toledo (Ohio) working girls have organ*
! Ized.
Passenger engineers work six hours a
| day-
Great Britain has 58,000 women trade
unionists.
London buttonhole makers get thirty-five
cents a day.
The Labor party polls 68,000 votes in New
South Wales.
Shirts are made for ten cents each in San
Francisco, Cal.
A $430,000 cotton-mill is to be run at
Riverside. Ala.
Over 2030 men are at work on the Chicago
World’s Fair Park.
Colored cotton-pickers’ strike in the
South was a failure.
Over 150 colored miners deserted Iowa
for Indian Territor f.
Women in California canneries get from
$I.16to $1.90 per week.
The wages of shopgirls in London begin
at from $35 to $40 a year.
Log-cutters on the West Branch of the
Susquehanna are organizing.
Chickamagua (Ga.) Coal and Iron Com
pany will build 203 coke ovens.
The woo-iworkers are spreading their or
ganization to big Western cities.
A Mount Carmel (Penn.) mine uses an
ox instead of a mule to draw cars.
A glass factory at Baltimore, M d., has
been closed by a strike of 150 boys.
The Standard O 1 Company’s cooperage
shops at East St. Louis, III., employ 450
men.
Girls are now largely
signers in the textile indu
land.
In Japan every workman wears his em
ployer's name, business and address printed
on his back.
English railway managers claim that in
creased wages to employes have decreased
the dividends.
The sailmakers of Liverpool are agitating
against the use of sewing machines in the
stitching of sails.
The International Congress, called to dis
cuss the causes of accidents to workmen, met
at Berne, Switzerland.
The third annual convention of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Railroad Conduc
tors met at Louisville, Ky.
Five thousand girls employed at a lace
factory in Venice, under the patronage of the
Queen of Italy, receive seven cents a day
each.
In New York State 116 labor organiza
tions, comprising 31,191 members employed
in different occupations, have reduced their
hours of labor in 1893.
In Texas the colored cotton pickers have
formed au organization, a rule of which says
they shall not pick cotton under $1 per hun
dred pounds and board.
The United Wood Carvers decided not to
co-operate with the Amei ican Workingmen’s
Defense League in commemorating the exe
cution ot the Chicago Anarchists.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers and
Brotherhood of Telegraphers in Chicago have
been amalgamated. Tnis action was taken
in accordance with the dec ision of the Na
tional convention of the first named body.
One of the strongest professional trades
unions in the United States is the Dentists’
Protective Association. After due warnine
the doors were closed when the membership
had reached about li030. Every man paid iu
$10, making $50,003 at the start.
United States Minister Conger, at Rie
de Janeiro, advisee all those who entertahi
the idea of emigrating to Brazil to change
their minds. He says that for unskilled la
bor there is no prospect in that country but
disappointment and suffering. For peopl<
who do not speak Portuguese there is abso
lutely no prospect of employment, and very'
little for those who do.
ifl
AGED TRIPLETS HONORED.
ople were very
^gang of cowboys
pheir anger, aud
erv side. From
indrSa Presbyterians
preacher, started
led bv their modern
V. Matlbiuv jmd- Xtorig-gnMrt-
Gelebrate Thetr Birthday.
Torrington, Conn., has had the distinc
tion of honoring William Allen Grant, Mat
hew Anderson Grant and David Augustus
Grant, in all probability the oldest triplets
in the world.
The old gentlemen are remarkably well
preserved for persons of the advanced age
of seventy. Tney appeared at the reception
tendered them by tne business men of the
place, sang some old hymns with wonderful
fervor and seemed to enjoy the occasion
very much.
The Grant brothers were born in Torring
ton, Conn., September 23. 1821, and have
always lived there. They are steady, sober,
industrious men. They are the offspring of
Augustus and Amelia Cone Grant.
General U. S. Grant was a direct descen
dant 61 the same stock, being a cousin of the
now faiTous triplets. The Adventist preach
er, Miles Grant, is also a cousin. The family-
descended from the original English settlers,
coming to Dorchester in 1630 and then set
tling in Windsor, the parent of this colony
coming to Torrington.
The triplets have all raised families. Dan
iel lives with his second wife and had two
children—a son and a daughter. The son
was killed in a railroad accident; the daugh
ter is still living. William likewise lives
with his second wife and has two children.
Matthew is still living with his first wife and
has one daughter. All the children live in
that vicinity.
A peculiar circumstance is that three of
the cousins, children of the triplets, were
born within a period of six weeks.
The exercises in honor of the Grants’
birthday were formally opened with a musi
cal programme and the singing by the
triplets of the olden time songs as snug half
a century ago, after which there were
speeches. Alter the completion of the exer
cises, which took place at the Opera House,
a reception was given at a neighboring
hotel.
William and Daniel look much alike, and
are often mistaken, one for the other. They
all have light gray eyes, white hair and
bronzed and weatherbeaten countenances,
and look uncommonly well for men seventy
years old.
d sappointed. When —
this is taken the fact t at of the 800,OX acres
ready for settlement, at least one-eighth is
unfit tor cultivation it can readily oe
seen that there will bemuch suffering in the
new lands.
es south of Pougk-
moon. They wvra
FATAL FIRE IN CHICAGO.
An Entire Family ot Six Persons Suf
focated to Death.
A fire ear’y in the morning in a three
story brick building at Nos. 543 and 551
Sedgwick street, Chicago, 111., the upper
stories of which were occupied by a number
of families as living apartments, resulted in
the death of seven people and the fatal in
jury of another.
The dea l are: John Sehulk,mechanic,age 1
! forty-five years; his wife, aged forty-two
! years, and their tour children, Cynthia.aged
J seventeen; Annie, aged fifteen; John, aged
twelve, and James, aged eight.
The fire originated in the rear of the first
floor, which was occupied by William
Keafitz as a bakery. it is thought to have
caught from one "of the bake ovens. It
spread to a sued iu the rear in which was a
quantity of hay and straw. From tnis it
ran up the rear stairway and into the sleep
ing rooms of the people ou the second am
third floors.
Tne front rooms on the second floor were
occuoiel by John Rondo, his wife and two
children, all of whom escaped without in
jury. The rear was occupied by Mr. Keafitz
the owner of the bakery, and two bakers,
Reginstein and Roseufield.
TaeHeholk and Burns families occupied
the rear of the tnird floor.
Burns and wife and three of their children
were rescued by tue firemen. Keafitz and
his family escaped from the second floor by
means of a ladder. When the rooms of th-
Bcholk family were reached it was foun ;
j that all were unconscious. Airs. Sckon: died
: before the patrol wagon arrived, Tne
family were smothered, not burned V death
The financial loss is insignificant.
ners have been sn-estei at Chicago for see
ing for $40 to $125 eat “town lots in lull
v.ew of tue World’s Far,” said lots having
been discovered to ••• ’^nner the outlaying
waters of Lake Mich’z*^-
The tobacco crop of Tennessee is the larg
est that has been known for many years
It was the intention to hold a grand Confed
erate reunion at Carksville, Tenn., or.
October 1, to raise funds for the erection of a
Confederate monument, but the farmeri
were so busy with the tobacco crop that i|
was decided to postpone it until October 15.
SUICIDE OF DALIACEDA.
Chili’s Ex-President Blows Out
His Brains at Santiago.
A Short Sketch of His Eventful
aud Turbulent Career.
Valparaiso, Chili, was thrown into wild
excitement by the story that ex-President
Balmaceda bad shot himself through the
temple in his room at the Argentine Lega
tion, in Santiago, at 8:33 on a recent morn
ing. There was great rejoicing at the capi
tal, and the streets were illuminated that
night.
Balmaceda attempted to escape from the
country in disguise after the surrender of
Santiago. The police were soon on his track.
He found every avenue of retreat cut off
end was obliged to return to the capi
tal. He arrived at the Argen
tine Legation and no one was
permitted to see him except the Argen
tine Minister and Senor Urriburia. AL^iy
plans of escape were suggsSDd, tat.
Balmaceda hesitated about essaying
any of them. He continued in
an extremely nervous condition, fearing the
vengeance of the Junta. Senor Urriburia
finally advised Balmaceda to give himself
up to the Junta. Balmaceda retired at
midnight apparently undecided as to what
he should do.
A pistol shot was heard in his room the
next morning by Senora Urriburia, who
notified her husband. Urriburia went after
Carlos Walker Martinez before he entered
Baimacela’s room. The door was broken
open. The body was lying on the bed, un
dressed. and a gaping wound was in the tem
ple. The corpse was still warm. Balmaceda
held the revolver tightly in his rignt hand.
As soon as the news spread through the
city jrreat crowds of people gathered about
the legation. Their excitement amounted
to frenzy. Domingo Torro, Balmacela’s
brother-in-law, aud Arrieta Melchor Corleta,
the Uruguay Minister, hastened to the le
gation
The Junta, upon receiving the news, im
mediately issued a commission, whi-h com
prised Carlo Walker Martinez, Senor Mel
chor, Senor Concho and Judge Aguerro of
the Supreme Court. They viewed the body
at the legation, and then drew up a proces
verbal certifying to the mode of Balma-
ceda’s death. The German Minister, Gut-
schmidt, an old friend of Balmaceda, also
viewed the fallen leader’s body as it lay at
the legation.
Balmaceda left a letter to his mother and
a statement intended for publication. He
declares in the latter that during the past
eight months he had acted with the
firm conviction that he was right, and that
he had no one in the army whom
he could trust. He believed that his
generals were false to him, that they
continually deceived him, and tnat had they
obeyed his orders the battle of Concon
would have been won by them. He de
clared that his heart bad been with Chili;
that he sought to rescue his country
from foreign domination and to make
her the first republic in America.
He expressed regret that he did not take
Minister Egan’s advice, conclude peace, and
retire from the country. His wite, he says,
gave him $2509—all the money he had iu his
possession. Balmaceda also wrote Senor
Urriburia, saying that himself aloue was re-
soonsible for his death.
Sketch ot His Life.
Juan Manual Balmaceda was bora in
Santiago fifty-one years ago. He was care
fully educated for a priest at Santiago. As
soon as bis academic studies were completed
his turbulent and active nature drove him
into politics. He joined the Club de la Re
forma, in Santiago, aa organization com
posed of hot-headed young men who wanted
to overthrow the Chilian Constitution of
1S30. He was a fine orator and became the
club’s foremost leader.
At twenty-eight Balmaceda, who was al
ready distinguished throughout Chili, was
elected a deputy to the Congress. He served
five terms wita credit wd was the
champion and idol of^Wje great
Liberal party. -President JHrata ' rkane
.u.i .'j or of Fortiun Affair^, in
1885. Tne next jflMlIHKeda was elecrA'i
President of the an overwhelm
ing majority. Fears the country
enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and he
was "the most popular man in Chili.
His policy changed, and as the time drew
near for his re-election, Balmaceda de
termine! upon a coup d’etat to make
himself master of Chili. He dismissed
his able ministers and formed a cab
inet with the unpopular Sanfuentes
at the head. Baimaceia next an
nounced Sanfuentes as a candidate tor the
Presidency. Quarrels with the deputies
followed." Ministers were removed, restored
again, and the civil war that has just ended
was finally brought about.
GALES IN ENGLAND.
Several Vessels Wrecked and Great
Injury to Crops.
A dispatch from Berwick-on-Tweed,
Northumberland, England, announced that
a furious gale has been raging there and that
several vessels have been wrecked. Only
one life is reported lost. Much damage has
been done to the harbor, which has recently
been so much improved. The crops through
out the borough have suffered severely.
Several yachts have been sunk at Llan-
fairfechan. Heavy floods prevail in the Ed
inburgh district. A number of pleasure
boats have been destroyed at Porto Bello
and the pier has been damage!. Railway
bridges at Penicuick and in the Esk district
have collapsed, and traffic is interrupted
and in many cases suspended.
In the River Mersey much damage has been
done to shipping. At Blackpool, Lanca
shire, houses have been inundated and a
great amount of damage has been done to
the crops. Reports from several sections of
North Wales show that the storm has flooded
the valleys in that section of the country
and that the farmers have suffered severely.
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TEE NATIONAL GAME.
The Cleveland Club has released Pitcher
Beatin.
Ewing is now New York’s most reliable
pitcher.
The St. Louis Club has released Catcher
Darling.
\ iau has of late been Cleveland’s only win
ing pitcher.
Browning, of Cincinnati, is troubled with
a lame throwing arm.
Ti ard. of Brooklyn, may cover second base
regmarly next season.
The Bostons say the Louisville grounds are
the finest to play on iu the Association.
Wilmot and Pfeffer carry off the bulk
of C hicago’s base-stealing honors.
| Pitchers Barr and voung Clarkson have
j been released by the New York Club.
Foutz. qf Brooklyn, seems to have re
tained considerable of his former pitching
skill.
No money is to be spared to make next
season s Cleveland team as strong as anv iu
the land.
M ithoct Rusie and Buckley the New
York team would have been a sorry spectacle
this year.
The most reliable pitchers in the country
to-day are Rusie, Nichols, Mullane and
Hutcninson.
In addition to Quinn, Staley and Stovey
have resigned with Boston's League C.ub for
next season.
Pitcher Baldwin, of Pittsburg, won
eleven straight games from the Pittsburgs
and then lest one to the Bostons.
Kelly, of the Boston League team, is no
longer the idol of the baseball world. His
name is scarcely ever mentioned. ;
Radford's luck still clings tobim. Ho
will once more be a member of a champion
Boston team, just as he was wav back in
1883.
__ Pebeau, of Cleveland, and Bassett, of
New York, are the only League third base-
men who are accepting over ninety chances
in 100.
In Boston the memory of George Wright!
is so enshrined in the 'hearts of old-timers
that his work is still made the standard for
all short-stoD?-
The star system has received a crushing
blow this year. Hereafter man who play
ball will be the “stars,” and not men who
have played bal 1 .
In Lynch, Gaffney. McQuade, Hurst and
Emslie the League has the finest and most
efficient staff of umpires it ever had. It
would be hard to excel.
Ten of the New Yorks have not made a
home run this season, six of them have yet to
make a triple and five of them are without
a double to their credit.
KirTKiDC?E,of Chicago, is one of the quick
est-throwing catchers playing ball. "With
him behind the bat. runners generally hug
their bases pretty tightly.
Suarott, the clever New York L?ague
pitcher, who broke his arm early in the sea-
son, says he is all right now and will be able
to nitch as well as ever next vear.
• I
Young Taylor, who dwells on Staten
Island and has the making of a great pitcher,
has signed with New York. The boy pitched
a grand game against tho Pittsburgs.
Anson’s friends are shocked at the old
war horse’s recent work. The great captain
is unquestionably getting old and stiff, and
ho does not handle grounders so well as of
old.
The most remarkable feature of the
League season has been tho inexplicable and
absolute let-Iowa of the New Yorks in bat
ting. No team iu the League has been bat
ting so weakly.
The luckiest man in baseball this year has
boon “Buck” Ewing, of the New Yorks,
WJhat other player in the profession could
have-.iitiwa about $700 par month for doing
practically nothing?
At Carson, Nev., Ralph R. Stanley was
killed at a baseball game oy being struck on 1
the neck by a ball. He fell on his knees,-
arose, tried to run, but pitched forward on'
his face and died in three minutes.
Germon, the popular little
pitcher, won twenty-six of
gomes lie pitched for Buffalo,
y-^ar. This in a record unequaled ,bf anv
^ any igajp^exceptjKutohmson. of
A ivtLL-KNOWN plaj^vright has presented
to Captain Anson, of the Chicago League
team, a plan to write a play founded on
baseball, just as Boucicault’s “Jilt” is on
horse-racing, and has suggested, that Anson
play the hero. He says tnat Anson seemed
to tall in with the idea.
NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
imutes.
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the thirtv-threa^
alo, N. r.,
Per
Won. 7/0*4. r*.
Chicago.. .81 48 .623
Boston.... 79 50 .613
New York.68 54 .557
Pkilade!...67 62 .519
Per
Won. Lott. et.
Cleveland.60 72 .455
Brooklyn..55 73 .430
Pittsburg. .55 74 .426
Ciucia’ati..49 81 .377
AMERICAN ASSOOIATION RECORD.
Per
Won. Lott. et.
Boston....S3 S9 .693
ci* - . Louis. .83 48 .634
Baltimore.63 59 .535
Athletic...68 63 .519
Per
Won. 7,o*f. ot
Columbus.61 72 .459
Milw’ke3..58 71 .450
(x»ui»ville..50 79 .388
VVash’gt’nril 86 .323
NINE MEN KILLED.
Crashed to Death in a Railroad
Collision in Pennsylvania.
A terrible wreck occurrei on the Pitts
burg and Western Railroad at McKim’s Sid
ing, Penn., a station a short distance on the
other side of Zelienople, Butler County.
At this point a work train with a force
of fifty men was engaged in putting
down a new track. About eight o’clock
this train got out of the way of a freight
tram going west, but the crew did not know
that a second section was following five
minutes later. The work train again
pulled out on the main track, and the
men were engaged in throwing off dirt
when the second section struck the work
train with great force. Cars were piled
up in a shapeless mass. The engines were a
mass of broken iron and wood, and the hot
steam and boiling water poured over the un
fortunate ones caught in the jam. The train
men and laborers who were not injured began
at once to assist those imprisoned in the de
bris. The head of an Italian was found twenty-
feet away from the body. Engineer John
Houghton, who had bravely dene his best to
stop his engine, attached to the freight train,
was found”wedged in broken and shapeless
iron. Bv 11 o’clock the bodies of eight
Italian laborers had been taken from the
wreck aud laid beside that of Engineer
Houghton.
There were at least twenty men injured,
several of whom cannot recover. All of the
bodies were terriby mangled and disfigured.
Engineer Hougnton was the only American
killed. His home was in Allegheny.
It is said that a mistake was made by the
trainmen, wno did not correctly intenret a
signal, and that led to the accident. Ail the
trains were delayed, but the large force of
men at wors soon cleared the track.
A LONDON BANK ROBBED.
From $750,000 to $1,2."0,000 Said
to Have Been Taken.
An important bank robbery has taken
place in Lon Ion, England. The institution
that has suffered is the London and West
minster Bank, Limited, 41 Lathbury, E. C.,
an important establishment having over
fifteen branch houses in that city.
The money stolen consisted of a Mrge par
cel of bills remitted from the country banks.
The thief or thieves gained access to an
apartment near the main entrance to the
bank. This apartment was easy of access
from the street.
It is currently reported that the amount
proien is not less than 8759,00(3. and it may
amount to as much as $1,259,000.
Notice of the robbery has oeen sent to the
police cemres throughout the British Isles
and on the Contiuent, and the sailing of
every passtnger v-*ssel is being
watched. Notice of the robbery
has also been sent to all the banks upon
which the bills were drawn, but the police
theory is that no attempt will be made to
change the bills in that country, but that the
thieves will have recourse to the Continent,
where the presence of so many wealthy
travelers from England and the United
States makes such transactions easier than
in that country.
The original draft of the State constitu
tion of Wisconsin is missing from the
archives of the Secretary of State's office.
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