The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, March 28, 1895, Image 1
VOL.' XVIII.
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BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1895.
SILVER AN IDEAL MONEY,
IT IS THE BEST CONTINUOUS MEAS
URE OF VALUES.
Gold Shown to
Bo Four
m—What
Time, m Subject
SilTor Hna Done
to Fluctuation—
for Mexico—The Metal* Compared
Their Merit*—Goldbug Delation*.
which is also a great advantage. Our
economic conditions are now better
than those prevailing in gold coun
tries. We have fewer failures, and
the- increase of traffic has prevented
our railroads from going into the
hands of receivers.” Will some one
kindly mention a gold basis nation
where the general condition is im
proving, exports increasing and no
no railroads going into the hands of
~ receivers!
Does justice require that silver be
remonetized on the old ratio of 16 to
1? Let us, bring this issue to a plain
test of facts right at the start, and to
that end Ibeg leave to take a case in
which I am personally interested and
which is but a type of many, thous
ands. My .home is in a town of kntie
2,000 people in the Wabash valley, in
a region singularly blest by nature in
climate, timber, coal, rock and water,
and with a soil fruitful in all the pro
ducts of the middle temperate zone.
There I own a little real estate, and
every fact herein given is within my
personal knowledge and can be veri-
ned by the records. Several years ago
the copnty bondfed itself heavily to
build a jail and courthouse and for
other purposes, and some of the bonds
are still due, and I as a real estate
owner must pay taxes thereon.
When this debt was contracted, a
$1,000 bond would have bought in
that tor, n 952 bushels of wheat. It
will today buy 2.326 bushels. It would
„then have bought 1,700 bushels of
corn. lt~wifl~today buy 8,000 bushels.
It would then have bought eight good
average farm houses. It will today
buy 20. It would then have bought
10 acres of first class land within easy
sound qf the courthouse bell. It will
today buy 20. And so 1 might go
around the list, for of all farm staples
pork is the only one sold at near the
old price, and that, as everybody
knows, is a purely aceidentet-and-term
porary matter.
Now,I respectfully submit the ques
tion to any honest man as yet untaint
ed by goldbug sophistry. Is not the
practical i esult iust the same iis if the
government had sent the army there
compelled those farmers and owners
of town property to pay $2 where they
had agreed to pay $1? And if this be,
as we believe, the result of legislation,
wherein it is morally qne whit bettor
than highway robbery; Nor is this
an extreme case. Wei have the official
facts in the federal census and the au
thorized statistics of the nation and
states.
O LDBUQ SOPHISTRIES.
I anticipate the answers. We are all
familiar with them. The first is that
invention has greatly cheapened pro
duction. This is a self evident false-
hood. There is not an implement now
GOLD APPRKCIATIOH.
Is it possible to dislocate silver from
its traditionary connection with gold,
to divest the mind of misleading .im
pressions due to the long habit of
quoting silver , in terms of gold, and
get a fair view of the metal on its mer
its! On this point I first present a bit
of history. In 1871 silver was as now
a commodity, and gold was the same,
for both were demonetized by the
greenback. Near the elose of that
year a ten ounce silver bar (no fiat, no
buying it up by government credit)
sold in New York city for $13.10 in
S old. Gold was at a Jower premium
mu some years after, so the bar of
silver was worth almost exactly $15 in
reenbacks. This would then buy
grecnoacKs. Tins would men buy in , . ,, . , ,
N«w York eity Oi bimhels of wheat, doling jam, ftll mamfld, known to.
‘‘16 of rve or 18 of com awd h*ve been in the mine at the time of
26 of-oats, 16 of rye or 18 of corn, and
likewise 80 pounds of cotton or 30 of
wool or 361 of bar iron. Today that
ten ounce bar of silver would sell, I
believe, $6.30, which would buy in
in New York city 11 bushels of wheat,
or 112 pounds of cotton, nearly twice
as inucn liar iron as in 1871, somewhat
less of rye, out* and jwrk, and some
what more of other things. On the
general average of 100 comrqoditjes
the purchasing power of uncoined sil
ver nas declined, as near as I can esti
mate it, 10 per cent. Now it is clear to
my mind that 10 per cent, is equal to
the cheapening caused bv increased
invention in mining and reduction
and by the general demonetization. It
would take columns of figures to
prove it but i also believe'ft to ne hue
that the smaller cost of producing
commodities, due to inventions since
1871, would with a stable money have
tx'en balanced, or nearly so, by in
creased consumption, and that as
measured by an ideally perfect oiv ab
solutely invariable standard commodi-*
ties have really cheapened but the
merest trifle since 1871. All the rest
w’hich appears in the nominal quota
tions is due to the 40 per cent increase
in the purchasing power of gold)
’’BUNDED BY SELF INTEREST.
Th% ^old hard truth is that on this
particular point the goldbugs are af
flicted with a delusion like that which
possesses a child or a green landsman
voyaging down a very crooked river.
Now the sun is on his right and now
on his left, at one time in the north
and again in the southeast, while
L by volunteer squads of mm-
hood. There Is hot an implement howl wn i v i.“ j vjfj. m nv <»n rrmnH B i m Tn « e ™ an £ other citizens who relieve each
m use on the farms of Indiana that J£0Q “ a nills move around him in A. other from time to time. The work-ra
.fii* irf; regular devil s dance, but to his eye the attended with m-ave »A»1 and the first
boat goes straight on. The lan
was not then, save possibly the twine
binder, then invented, but not in gen
eral use. The labor cost of farm pro 1
duce has not decreased by so much as
2 per cent. But suppose it were true.
Should the creditor nave all the gain
of an advancing civilization? Is not
the farmer entitled to at least one-half
of it? The goldbug argument on this
- point-is~setf-destructive;- They assert
that invention and <he consequently
increased production have cheapened
commodities 50 per cent. They next
assert that the enormous outpour of
the mityps has cheapened silver 50 per
'cent.*-Therefore, they say, silver is
not “honest money.” .If the premises
had smallpox, the conclusion would
never catch it—so far are they apart.
We kpow it to be'true that products
have cheapened 50 per cent, in terms
of gold; if it be also true that advanc
ing has cheapened silver in the same
ratio, is it not conclusive that silver is
the best possible continuous measure
jf values? Is it not, our enemies
tjjemselves being judges, tile ideal
money for which economists have'
sighed so long—the money which will
through all the changes of years, buy
most pearly the same amount of com
modities? Is it not indeed the only
money which works exact justice, en
abling the creditor to buy as much as
did the money he lent and Isompelling
the debtor to pay no more ? ^ «.
I maintain, however, that their con
tention as to silver is false. I insist
that of all products of human labor
silver is the most consistent in value—
„ that is, it bears hr purchasing power
‘ the least variable relation to other
TKHnmodities—and that gold is, by nat
ural law, as shown by geology and
- metallurgy, at least four times as sub
ject to fluctuations in value as silver.
Of this I will treat-later. Much is
* said of overproduction, especially in
wheat, but it has repeatedly been
proved that the world does not yet
iproduee all the wheat it .wants. ’ Our.
agricultural departmentNdiows that
'consumption of the grain has de
creased m this country, cheaper stuffs
being sv.bstituted, and in Europe there
are still 100.000,000 people who cau
not alford wneateh bread, but use rye,
oats and potatoes. Are we to suppose
that they do that for fun? No, the
world’s creditors have their grip on
■on the throats of the world's produc
ers, and the law is on their side. That
~ claim of theirs we sadly admit.
- STRONG POINTS FOR SILV
We hear much also of the competi
tion of Argentine and other lands, but
the fact is skillfully evaded that it is
the war on silver which has stimulat
ed the export from these countries.
The Argentine minister, Dr. Zeballos,
tells me that if the world's present
policy be continued his country will
shut out all American grain from the
Europeon markets within ten years,
and Senor Romero, Mexican minister,
in a written reply to my questions,
say*: “While it is true that the Mex
ican coin when converted into foreign
exchange has no other value than that
of the silver bullion contained in it, it
is also a fact that the difference ]
greatly encouraged.and increased the
export other products, and has also
greatly favored manufacturing, in or
aer to avoid the buying of exchange
to pay for imports from countries hav
ing a gold standard. The purchasing
power of the Mexican silver dollar has
not been changed in Mexico, so there
noT* stability i
The landsman
knows better, .and the child can be
taught better, and both will admit the
truth because they gain nothing by
self deception, but the goldbug's inter
est blinds him, and though convinced
by unanswerable figures he would
still deny the truth.
Our creditors have assumed, aaif it
primary truth, that while all
were a
other articles on earth are perpetually
changing in value gold alone is gifted
vith the great attribute of God—im
mutability. They have asserted this
so loud and long that they have come
Uvbclieve it themselves, and this radi
cal error has debauched all their po
litical thinking. In vain do we point
out to them that a bar of uncoined.sil
ver will exchange for nearly as much
as 30 jears ago, while uncoined gold
will exchange for 40 per cent qiore.
In vain do we provi
of all commodities
with silver, and that regardless of new
inventions or relative production.
SILVER THE MOST CONSTANT VALUE.
I would not rashly rush iu where
angels fear to tread and contradict sci
entific mrn who have made an ex
haustive study of the subject, but cer
tainly all the evidence in my posses
sion goes to prove that silver is the
most constant in value of all the pre
cious meia^p, and that gold is extieme
ty variable. I present a few reasons.
’Nearly all the silver is produqed from
deep lodes—great fissures extendin
to unknown depths iu the earth, cause
by primal convulsion? and filled prob
ably by mineral rising in a sublimat
ed^ state.- A true fiss.ire veia once
well opened is a permanent property
and the supply therefron\ is. as a rule,
tolerably reguUr. Such mining is in
every sense a legitimate business, and
even if there is an immense yield for
a few ye;\rs it makes but a trifling dif
ference because of the vast stock al
ready in the world.
Gold, otf the other-hand? is largely
the product of placer, gulch and oar,
of washing iu gravel oeds and picking
nuggets from apparently accidental
deposits. In suen mining there is no
certainty, and hence a gold famine
like that in the early part of this cen-
tuBy is followed by a gold glut like
that of 1850-60, and that in turn by a
gold famine. It is'true that there are
permanent and reliable lode mines of
old, but enough of the others to pro-
uee great variations. Let gold be
quoted in terms of silver, and all men
would soon recognize that it is the
more variable in value.
And if any reader thinks that the
gold basis will broaden to fit the needs
of commerce let him consider these
facts, given by the eminent staistician
Mulhall: “In 1800 the international
commerce of the world aggregated but
$1,510,000,000, less than the exports
and imports of the United States last
year. In 1840 it was but $2,865’,000,-
000, when all the world had but 4,515
miles of railway and ocean shipping of
but 10,482,000 tonnage. Today the
world has 384,000 miles of railway,
over 41,000^000 tounage of ocean ship
ping, 14 intercontinental ocean cables
ana an international commerce a lit
tle in excess of $18,000,000,000. But
credit currency supplies the defleien-
cjr.” Unfortunately true. Credit
has expanded far beyond the sustain-
of the gold basis. ^And
FIFTY WIDOWS WEEP.
FIVE TIMES FIFTY ORPHAN CHIL-
, OREN CRY.
of whom
ut the:
onged to the A. O. U. W., and were
insured for $2,000 each.
The Light of Sixty Live* Blown Oat hy One
Terrlflo Bleat In Rock Mountain Mine,
Wyo- Searching For the Dead.
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Evanston, Wyo., March 21.—An
explosion occurred at 6 p. m., yester
day in the Rocky Mountain Coal and
Iron Company mines, No. 5, at Red
Canton. Up lo noon today fifty-nine
deaths were known to have resulted.
Those killed on the outside by ~ flying
timbers were:
James B. Bruce, foreman; O. Malt,
by, superintendent of motive power;
E. Cox, head carpenter; Wm. Sell
ers. Jr., James W. Clark, all married,
and Jerry Crawford, single.
The following have teen brought
out: Willard, James I jamb,
Fred Morgan, married, and S. Clay
and W. H. Grieves, single.
The large force of men is nqw at
work to recover the bodies of the fol-
A Cabinet Meeting In W*.Kington to Con-1
•Ider the Situation.
Washington, March^O.—The ]
pect of serious complications wt
pros-
rnich
threaten the United States through
irobable European encroachment on
Venezuela and Nicaragua hasassumed a
phase of such danger to the principle
aid down in the Monroe docurine that
a special cabinet conference was held
at the White House this afternoon to
consider the subject! There is no
doubt whatever that these subjects are
considered by the President and Sec
retary Gresham as of much greater im-
impdrtance to this country than the
llianca incident or the recall of Min
ister Thurston, and must be handled
with unusual delicacy and with the
tnowledge that a misstep may plunge
the Government into embarrassing
complications with not one but sever
al of the principal European nations.
The Conference was attended by
the President, Secretary Gresham
the explosion: Wm. Morris, John T.
Clark, Jas. Clark, Wm. Langden Sr.,
David Lloyd, John T. Martin, George
Critchler, Jlion Thetey, John Lester,
Wm. Wagstaff, Chas. S. Clark. Jas.
Hayden, Matt Silta, Walter Miller,
Samuel Hutchinson, John ’Dexter,
Henry Burton, Samuel HalseyrTho-
mas Booth, Ben Coles, Samuel Bates,
Thok Hutchinson, Isaac Johnson,
John Lamar, Angel Demiodv, Bap
tiste Julion, John Feme, John llarley,
Matt Johnson. H. A. Sybon, Wm.
Pope, John Wilkes, Chas. Kasola,
Gus Kasola, Aaron Butt, Wm. Wee-
dop, Jas. Hutchinson. Wm. Sellers.
Sr., Hugh Sloan, Henry Sathren. and
the following unmarried men: Albert
(‘ark: Wm. Graham,'MaralraT Lirag'
den, John Morris, David W. Lowey,
Geo. Hydes, John G. Locke.
There are fifty widows and fully 250
orphan children in the camp today as
the result of the disaster. There is
no fire in the mine and the work of
recovering the dead bodies is proceed
ing as rapidly as possible and will
probably not be completed today. The
interior of the mine is badly wrecked,
caved in many places and full of foul
air. All the buildings at the mouth
of the mine were wrecked. The en
trance to the mine is by vertical pas
sage into the side of a full, not a per
pendicular shaft and the workings are
very extensive. No explanation of
the disaster has as yet teen discovered.
The work of recoving the bodies
f ;oes steadily on, nightand day, rusheJ
orward b
^Secretary CarllsTe, Attorney Geiieratpa^fgB»Blir%Xhe city over whi<
Olney and Secretary Lament. It last-j tornado passed. » that for the
ed several hohrs, but Mr. Lamont | P* rt inhabited by the poorer
withdrew after a brief attendance.
Mr. Gresham took with him to the
White House the official copies of
much of the recent correspondence on
>oth the Venezuelan and Nicaraguan
situations, and.he remained, with Mr.
Cleveland sometime after his col
eagues had left. It cannot be learned
whether any additional information iu
the matter readied the State depart
ment today, but it is said that Mr. Bay
ard has failed to arrange the Mosquito
troubles with the British Government
in a matter satisfactory to the United
States.
Great Britain^ ultimatum to Nica
ragua demandi ng an indemnity for the 1
expulsion of Mr. Hatch, the British
consular agent', from Bluefields, and
the report mat a British warship is on
ler way to enforce the demand, is the
'atest known serious piuse of the diffi
culties growing out or the Bluefields
affair, and as action by this Govern
ment may involve a new construction
of the Monroe ^loctrine, it can be seen
Yow slowly and carefully the Presi
dent and his advisers are obliged to
Teel their way to prevent any possibil
ity of blunder, or to neglect any ad
vantage that might weaken the politi
cal censorship which the United States
Government holds over the South
American and Central American Re-
>ublics.
In the Venezuelan affair the United
States Government finds itself optxised
to such strong adversaries as Great
Britain, France and Germany, with 1 iron.
attended with grave and the first
group of miners unlBfentured to
brave the gas, fire da^mind crumb
ling wall's were overcome and had to
be rescued by others. The terrific
force of the explosion in finding vent
at the mouth of the slope, blew the
heavily timbered, shed over the mouth
of the slope and over the passageway
leading out to- the tipnlpi, clear into
space, mowing down the lops of the
power house, tipple shed and other
buildings at the mouth of the slope,
more effectually than chain shot could
have done.
A little boy who had come to the
mine with a horse and buggy to take
his grandfather, Henry Burton, home
at the close of the day’s work was driv
ing over ithq slope near it mouth on
the public highway at the moment of
the explosion. He and the horse and
buggy were thrown almost perpendi
cularly in the air, fully twenty-five
feet and all fell in a heap into the
mouth of the slope, where the buggy
was demolished. The boy was picked
up unhurt and the horse, an hour la
ter, was rescued not much hurt appar
ently. although'badly signed and stun
ned. The shock of the explosion was
felt for miles around and was distinct
ly heard at Evanston, seven miles
The Rocky Mountain camp, general
ly designated as the Central Pacific
mines, has two mines, Nos.. 5 and 6,
with one mine face, making two sep
arate mines with 150 feet pillars separat-
ingihem. This leaves No. 6 unharmed,
but deprires the company of .one half
of its capacity. This is the third dis
astrous explosion in this vicinity. In
1881 No. 2 mine. Rocky Mountain, ex
plodecT, killing thirty six Chinese and
four white men. In the spring of
1886, in Union .Pacific mine, No. 4,
thirty-six men were killed.
Newell Beeman, the manager, ar
rivCd from Salt Lake tonight and has
tened to the mine.
The scene about the riiine l&st night
ngf
Tl:
and today was hcart-sickening. The
air is filled with the agonizing screams
of fifty widows and 250 orphants as
they gathered about and saw the di*
torted features and mangled remains
of father or husband, son or* brother,
or realized at last that there was no
hope to see their loved ones rescuet
alive from the mine’s cruel depths.
Help
from
ept
idei
ing power
that’s what’s the matter with the coun
in price* apd wage*, ^y. J. H. Browning.
and subcor have teen tendered
all sources. The mules that
were in the mine were killed as were
the men, eyidently by the force of the
concussion, and are removed as fast as
they can be reached.
The explosion blew out or loosenei
all the timbering and supports, ant
cracked and Shattered the walls ant
roof of the interior of the mine, so
that the search for the dead is attend
ed with great peril. The work of re
covering the dead become* more diffi
cult,as the working parties advance
toward the seventh level, where it is
thought the thirty-eight men who have
not teen found were gathered to await
the coming of the last man trip of the
day which was to take them to the
surface.
A few lives were saved because of
the time of explosion. The miners
quit work at 6 o’clock and it is custo
mary for them to be near the entrance
and come out just as the whistle blows.
A number had come out and some had
just left thejentrance to the mine slope,
away from the working tunnel, when
the explosion occurred, thus escaping
death.
Sixty men perished in the disaster,
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BY A -TORNADO,I
. O. U. Y
A FRIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR
A DIPLOMATIC SENSATION.
SISTER CITY AUGUSTA
i big Fish in their net.
Many High Fallon oa<jnl*
Into Cam*.
Nrw York, March 20.—The indict
ments handed in by the Oyer and Ter
miner grand jury yesterday numbered
ten. Six were against present police
officials and four against former mem* {
terf of the department Eight of the
bench warrants were executed fay
erintendent Byrnes this afternoon.
The indicted officials are: Inspector
William W. McLaughlin of the detec
tive bureau, Captain Jacob Seibert of
the Union Market Street station, Cap
tain Murphy of the West One Hun
dredth Street station, Captain James
K. Price of the McDou gal Street sta
tion, Captain John J. Donohue of the
West Twentieth Street station. Patrol
man Henry Schill of the Leonard
Street station, ex-Captain William S.
Devery, cx-Ward man Edward Qien-
non, ex-Wardman James Burns and
another member of the d a pftrtn r H > nt,
whose name for the present is with-
maiority of the house* ruined were I lie a„'
II U .toT one#, as U-
this evening, W ith the exception of
ex-Wardman Burns and the ex-police-
hot yet in custody, all the
NO. 29.
THE FIREMEN BUR
A tragedy at a disastrous fire
IN TOLEDO.
FortnnnUlj Nobody wo* KllUd—Twenty
t - ■
House* Utterly Destroyed and Twenty
Other* Badly Onmn^d—Total
Thirty TbdUMtttd Dalian
Augusta, Go., March 20.—At 9
o'clock this morning Augusta was
visited by the most destructive wind
storm, or cyclone, since 1878. The
cyclone came from the southwest with
but little warning, and in less than a
a minute had passed over the city into
South Carolina. In its track there
lay'destruction and houses, were utter 1
ly wiped from their foundations and
sent in all dirctions, over housetops
that were not touched by the bounding
circular wind. Strange to say there
were no fatalities, though in many
instances roofs were carried away
while the occupants were left unhurt
The
small one story
section of the city over which the tor
which the
most
class of
whites and negroes.
The path of the tornado is a mile in
length from the first place it struck to
that where it finally rose and passed
over. The path was in the shape of
an S, and the tornado struck about
every quarter of a mile, making
four descents and rebounds,but the se
cond one was perhaps the worst. This
was on Gm nett stret't, between 8th and
9th .streets. The first two house blown
down were two small ones on the-out-
skirts of the city. The tornado then
rose and came down again on Gwinett
street. The house of Willie Sims, the
great colored jockey, which is a rather
iretentiousune, was the first to suffer.
It was twisted about and
carried away, doors blow
WnlUofUteBwmtaw 1
Ml Us
Toledo, O., March 17.—A disastrous
fire, attended by heavy lore of life, oc
curred in this city this morning. Three
men lost their live*, two being in
stantly killed. Nine others were more
or lees injured, one of them, John
O’Leary, a machinist, it is thought fa
tally, She list of dead is as follows:
R H. Bohlman, 56, painter, mar
ried- seven children - skull crushed
and internally injured-
J. J. Preston, car inspecto? 1 ) mar
ried, six children ; back broken and
skull crushed. :.
John Bowen, 18, a spectator; skull
crushed and iilternally injured •
The injured are: •
H. F. Howard, general foreman
Eastern division, back bruised, face
cut, slightly burned.
John O’Leary, machinist; legbrokett,
arm crushed, skull fractured; may die.
Patrick McDonough, fireman; skull
broken.
car repairer;
painter; leg
men not yei in custody, ail the men
mentioned surrendered themselves at ,
police headquarters between 9 and 10 [ r
o'clock. Inspector McLaughlin was , * n ( * r ® enbUr gt
tlie first to put in an appearance. He I cut-
was followed in short order by Cap- ^ 1 l nnierT ? iaj }*
tains Seitert, Price, Murphy and 1)^
tm and Patrohnan Benin. Ex-CMp-
tain Devery and ex-Wardman Glen-
non came a little later. SuperintSn-
dent Byrnes personally served bench
warrants and turned the prisoners
over into the custody of Inspectors
Williams andJMcAvoy.
At 10:30 the superintendent directed
the two inspectors to take their prison
ers to the district attorney’s office. In
spector Williams took Inspector Mc-
car repairer; head
| shoulder sprained.
* Henry Cerding,
bruised ‘and cut.
Casper Becker, painter; head and
shoulders cut
T.'C. Laurer, tmek foreman; neck
sprained, head cut.
The dead, except John Bowen, were
employes of the Wabash Railway,
constituted the company’s fire
hinges and window sashes forced in.
Across the street five* small houses
were so completely demolished that
there was no trace of them except a
few bricks from the chimneys and
foundation posts.
, A square-further, at the corner of
Summer and 8 streets a small house
had the entire end taken out, leaving
the interior expose like a scene in a
theatre 1 ! Persons were in the house at
the time eating breakfast, but they es
caped unhurt. Outhouses in the yards
were lifted and carried off several
squares.
Three hundred yards further
situated the large fiour mill of
& Co. It isan-immense four
the chimney. I liughlm, ex-Cphtin iWy, Cptoin I
Inspector McAvoy took Captain Dono
hue, Captain Murphy, Captain Price
and Patrolman Schill. The party left
headquarters by the Mott street en- J
trance. The court of Oyer and Ter
miner met at 11 o’clock today. The
district attorney read out the names of
the police officials indicated. They
W.
lin,
Cai
me ponce omciais indicated. They i rr".
ve: Inspector William C. McLaugh-
lin, ex-Captain William 8. Devery, IP
Captain John J. Donohue, Captain M.
on is
Miller (
story
building, covered enteirely with sheet
rile the mill was not hurt'
Tement of the claim of Great Britain |
to certain Venezuelan territory is the
main cause for alarm, and to this is
added the prospect that Germany will
send warships to collect a large amount
of money guaranteed German coh-
tractors for the construction of the
Central Venezuela Railroad. France
and Belgium - have a common ground
for action disturbing to tire peace of
TEeimie'Sbuth AmericfiirRen
namely: The expulsion of the Freach
and Belgian ministers from that coun
try. Both Governments have protest
ed against the expulsion, and France
will send a naval vessel to take their
envoys home.
The Monroe doctrine and its ramifi
cations contain ample authority, it is
said, for the United States to display
an active interest in the threatening
attitude of Great Britain and Germany
and while the probable action -of
France and Belgium does not seeming
ly come within the scope of the doc-
trine r it ss understood tote the belief
of the Government thgt all four of the
Powers Involved wHF join issue "in op
position to the United States to secure
their several ends, and such amalga
mation is' likely to beget a desire on
the part of all to extend their domin-
urns. •
The conference at the White House
today was necessarily of a strictly se
cret character, bu
on _ "
tion-waaagreed on.
wind itself it proved a target for
from the ruined
house
away
the mill. The force of the missile shat
tered the iron, and the side of the large
one. Scantlings and boards ate)
E ced the iron sides of the mill till it
the appearance of &' frontier fort
after an attack by Indians. In front of
i •* *• * * * Q ^ 1 _ *11 _ 1 _a f ** *
Miller txTvJo s miit an electric
pole was blown down and the wires
were crossed with telephone wires,
which grounded and struck a mule,
instantly killing him.
Several hundred yards further to
the northeast the wind came down
again and demolished one-half of the
round house of the Central Railroad.
One of the locomotives in the shop at
the time was badly damaged, and the
tin roof of the remaining portion of
the building was stripped like a peeled
orange. The roof of the Perkins
Manufacturing Company was also
carried away. The paint shop of
Central Railroad car shops was sprung
and thrown badly out or plumb; one
[side of its foundation being blown
away. Across Calhoun street from
this two small houses were demolished.
On Fenwick street, near the South
ern Railway yard, a house in which
five people were was blown away,
leaving nothing but the flooring, and
t character, but it "is learned toniglltj yet no one was hurt In all about I
good authority that no definite ac-J fort} houses were badly damaged and |
rv- wtus- u frwoArl $ I tWCTltv Utterl
Captain
j. Murpny, captain Jacob, Siebert ex-
Captain John T. Stephenson, Captain
Edward Carpenter (retired). Captain
James J. Price. Ward man Heniy W.
Schill, ex-Wardman Edward J. Glen-
no n and Jas. Burns.
Judge Ingraham fixed Inspector
McLaughlins bail at $20,000, Captain
Murphy’s at $10,000, Captain Skbert’s
from a yard a quarter of a mile 6 n
came sailing through the side of lU^OO, making 911,000 m all.
ill Th« forr-jR of th*n,i«*ite nhat- O^nnon the ex-Wardman’a, bail was
flexed at $10,000. Ex-Captain Steven
son and ex-Captain Carpenter were
not on hand up to noon but they were
expected at any moment After bail
had been fixed in each case, District
Fellows stated that lie would
on the fljpt Monday in April move the
cases for trial; am asked the court to
set a day for pleading. Judge Ingra
ham then fixed Thursday next for the
indicated men to plead.
Judge Ingraham, before adjourning
court, recommended the speedy dis
posal of the charges against the mem
bers of the police department 4 ‘There
is no reason for* delay.” he said.
“These cases should be tried at once.
They should be taken up before the
summer vacations. ”
The police board today suspended
Inspector McLaughlin, Captains Sie-
Donohue, Murphy and Price and
Patrolman Schill from duty wad
directed the superintendent to asa
other officers to the command of
precincts which the suspended captains
were in charge of, and also to tne de
tective bureau. ,
— ' - ■ ■
A Tragedy of the Flame*.
New York, March 20.—In his heroic
resulted so disastrously to than.
The round house is located at .the
foot of South street It was a sub
stantial brick structure with a capacity
of twenty engines, and contained six
locomotives when the fire broke out
The flames wejre first seen in the cupola
that surmounted the root shortly after
clock. An alarm was tele
city fire department, and in the
meantime the yard company got one
stream playing on the blase, which
made its way to the roof. The
i of the buildihg were believed to
be secure, and the brave fire
E ared closely in toward the 1
more effectively to combat
spreading flames. It was seen that the
roof would soon fall, bat no danger
was apprehended from that source un
til, to the horror of the spectators, the
southwest wall, weakened by the de-
ion of the frame supports that
connected it with the roof, was ob
served to tremble and suddenly fall
out on the volunteer firemen.
Before the majority of the men could
realize their peril the heavy wall was
down on top of them t burying them
under a heap of smoking debris. All
but Bowen, Preston and ]
quickly taken out. Thu two* firs*
were completely covered by the
Bohlman was a little morefor-
tuuate. From out of the smoking heap
the mangled bodis of Bowen and Pres
ton were taken. They were beyond
the need of human care. Bohlman was
still alive, though unconscious, hat he
succumbed to hi* injuries shortly af
ter being taken home.
A dozen surgeons were quickly sum
moned, and prompt assistance was ren
dered the injured. O’Leary the m*-
chinist, was still unconscious, andat
one time appeared to be sinkiiig. tie
rallied temporarily, but it iu not
it he can recover. When the
ci^y firemen' answered the'
they saw that there was immi
nent danger of the fire spreading to
the Wabash elevator and the repair
shops, which stood close by. ThejoAJ
house was also menaced, but ly uTi
I the flames were held '
particular
Three Day* Fighting In Limn.
New York, March 20.—The Herald’s
Barraco, Peru, cable says: The rebels
and the Government troops lihve teen
battle in. Lima for threi
days. The attack by the rebels under
Chief Piercia. assisted by Durand,
Ore and others, began about 4 o’clock
Sunday morning. All communica
tion with Lima has been cut off and it
U impossible to Iqari* the strength of
either force. All reports are based on
rumors and speculation. It is known,"
however, that there was heavy cannon
and musketry fire. Sunday and Mon
day. This continued almost without
cessation until sundown of Monday.
Two distinct explosions were heard on
Monday, but the place where they oc
curred is not known. There was a re
newal of firing at 5 o’clock Tuesday
morning and it continued for six
hours. It is reported that the firing
then ceased, so as to permit the con
tending forces to care for the dead and
wounded. The reports from Lima are
of necessity meagre. From one source
it is reported that President Caceres
holds the palace, the principal plaza,
Fort Stacattlima and Exposition
square! It is also reported that he has
closed all avenues cf approach to the
city with armed forces. There is an* 11
other report that a detachment of re
tels entered (he city but are hemmed
in by Government troops. It is also
reported that the rebels are awaiting
reinforcements which are expected
to ret^ch the suburbs of Lima to-night.
The- rebels, it is said, have posted
8,500 men this side of Lima and will
attempt to break through the ranks of
the Government troops at once. So
far as known the houses and buildings
stopped
ning since Saturday. Foreigners liv- ]
ing in this village are endeavoring
organize an urban guard to-,
property from looters who attempted I
to commit depredations on Monday
night
twenty utterly destroyed. The loss is
variously estimated, but it is conserva
tively placed at $30,000. *
Augusta 8eems.to.be the only place
struen by the wind. Persons who saw
it say that it looked like a whirlwind,
and that itrosc and fell like a rubber
ball. The noise was like that of many
freight trains running over a long
bridge. The width of the path was
warned his elder son, told him the
house was on fire and look out for his
mother. _ Mrs. Kurtz waa quickly
damage. Peiliaps seventy r live people
were rendered homeless by this morn*-
ing's wind. *
PhiUip Sju” George Cooke.
Richmond, Va. , March 20.—News
has just teen received here of the
death -in Detroit of Gen. Philip St.
George Cooke, the father of the late
Gen. John R. Cooke, of this city, and
Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart, of Staunton, the
widow of the famous Cavalry chief.
Gen. Cooke was born near Leesburg,
in this State, June 13, 1809. He grad
uated from West Point in 1829. Dur
ing the civil war Gen. Cooke was in
the Federal army, and was opposed
by his own son and Gen. Stuart, his
sou-m-law, both of whom were on the
Confederate side. This division be
tween father and sou caused
^feneral alarm
, —t —*1-", - “j dint of numbers
endeavor to pave his wife and children I’Jil succeeded in saving the
John Kurtz was burned to death in the] grounding property. x
four story tenement 168 25th *tre~ [ The round house was completely
this morning. Kurtz, with bi',* 1 !®’ I wrecked, and the six engines rendered
two sons and daughter e | practically useless. The loss is eati-
second floor of th* imflding. f^en Uiated at from $75,000 to flOO.OOO, and
Kurtz reached the street door, just be-1 ■ beij eTe d to be fully covered by in-
fore 3 o’clock, he discovered the vesti-1
bale ablaze. He dashed up-stairs,
’ Th« Armonlon Outrago*.
London, March 20.—A special re
porter of the Daily News reports on
nis inquiry into the Armenan outrages.
He says: “There is abundant and
unanimous evidence of the bloodiest,
mosfapendiahly premediated and dam
nably perpetrated massacre of inno-
cents. Thu *1 intend to prove out of .
the mouths of the perpetrators them
selves.” The correspondent sends from
the Russian frontier, under date of
February 28, the story which he him
self elicited from a Turkish non-com
missioned officer. This officer, acting
under orders, shared in the slaughter.
He described the revolting horrors at
great length. “He has now left the
the correspondent, “and
tenants, aroused by
shouts of Kurtz, had preceded her.
The occupants of the third floor jpuifod
the roof, crossed to the adjoining
house and escaped in safety. Two
sisters named Schamp found escape
cut off. The firemen spread a tarpau
lin under their window and Both
women dropped into it without injury.
Tony Ketcham, an insurance agent,
who roomed on the third floor, jumped
from the front window and fell on the
sidewalk, with nearly every bone in
his body broken. He died at the hos
pital at 2:30. Two of Kurtz’s child
ren jumped
window and
jured. After the fire was
army,” says . _ „
, , . has field to Russia, where he is L
from the second-story | cu t©<l by the infinite horror of hi* own .
were not seriously ; **- * ■• • - ’ •- ’ * J ——
ju
Kurtz's body was found on
way leading to the roof. He had evi-
an es-|dently attempted* to follow his wife
trangement, which was not heard un* and son tb the roof, but was overcome
ously in-1 thoughts and is dying sorely and rep-
put out idly, j questioned him three hours in
the stair- the ureaenoe of responsible witnesa 1
■ m
the presence of responsible
was deeply impressed with his resigned
melancholy and invincible despair.
til just before the latter’s death about
four years ago. About that time Gen.
Philip St. George Cooke came on here
and a perfect reconciliation tool/place.
The son entered the Confederate army
as an officer in a North Carolina regi
ment. He was a brave and fearless
soldier, and at Gettysburg received
a wound in the head, which came near
proving fatal. The elder Cooke en
tered the Federal army as a lieutenant
in the 6th infantry. He waa in the
Black Hawk and Mexican wars. Dar
by the smoke. His clothing was burn- never
from his body and his head burned |
to a blackened, charred lump.
A TrUngnlnr KUUng.
Toomsuba, Miss., March 20.—A
triple killing occurred at Kewanee, a
small station on the Alabama Great
Southern Railroad, this afternoon.
Ben and Allen Pringle, brothers, aged
respectively 27 and 35 years old. and
James Britton, aged 80 years old, re
newed an old quarrel at a meeting,
He said that throughout the fighting
lever heard of a single soldier be
ing wounded, muchlemldlled.
an .
ing the Kansas troubles of 1856-57' he and one of the Pringle boys shot Bnt-
headed the cavalry expedition into ton in the bowels, mortally wounding I agent andl sheriff
dad the regular | him. Britton then shot both of the I the train for thte
Pringle boys, killing them instantly J suddenly shot
The nlen exchanged four shots each, j He dropped to
A~ tragedy between there men haft (once, having I
Kurds were killed, however, ]
ly in the earlier days of the i
SnieMn Undnr Ante*.
Winnsrobo, S. C., March 20.—
Thomas P. Hoffmax, aged 26 and re
cently agent and operator at
Ga., committed suicide at his 1
Blythewood, this county,
o’clock this afternoon. He
arrested on the charge of the <
of 957 of
Utah. He commanded the regular
iral cavalry of the Army of the
Potomac during the late war. Gen.
Cooke is understood to have been
quite well off.
! been anticipated for some tizfiK