The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 15, 1897, Image 2
THE COONTY RECORD i
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EIHG8TREE, S. C.
LOUIS J. BBISTOW, Ed. & Prop'r,
10E TAEIFF BILL PASSES.
'
Ten Majority in the Senate For the i
| Revised Dingley Measure.
* FINAL VOTE WAS 38 TO 28.
t-% ' Party Llnti Broken?One Democrat, Mr.
? *,** McEnery, of Louisiana, and Two
Populists Recorded in the Affirmative
' ?Seven Silver Senators Declined to
Tote?In the Hands of the Conferees.
Washutotox, D. C. (Special).?The long j
and exciting struggle in the Senate over
the Tariff bill came to a close at a quarter
before 5 o'clock p. m., Wednesday, when
the bill was passed by a majority of ten.
During the whole day, despite the instense j
heat, the galleries had been filled, and '
Then the time for the vote drew near.mem- '
hers of the House of Representatives flocked
into the Senate chamber, filling the sofas,
and stood ranged along the wails back of
the seats of Senators. Speaker Reed and
Chairman Dingley were prominent among
those remained until the vote was taken.
There was no sort of demonstration at the
announcement of the result.
The scene in the Senate during the closing
hours of the debate was a remarkable
-one. The most striking feature of the debate
was the speeches of the Silver Republicans,
who, under the lead of Senator Teller,
took advantage of the occasion to eranhasize
more stronelv than ever their com- i
Iplete separation from the Republican
organization. While professing that they
were still protectionists, they declared that
tike tariff was no longer a political issue of
-the first importance. While they and the
Populists generally refrained from voting
on the bill, they called attention to the fact
that their votes could have been obtained
had they been needed to enable the Republicans
to pass a strictly party measure.
It was their contention that no tariff revision
could bring prosperity, and they
were determined that the Republicans
should pass just such a bill as they wanted,
so that the country could have an object
lesson. Senator Teller warred the Republicans
that they could not excuse any faults
in the bill on the ground that they were
forced to make conoessions, as he and his
colleagues had stood ready to support
them in passing any bill they might frame.
This is the vote on the passage of tho bill
In detail:
Yeas?Republicans?Messr?. Allison. Burrows,
Baker, Carter, Clark, Cullom, Davis,
Deboe, Elklns, Fairbanks, Foraker, Gallinjger.
Hale, Hanna, Hawlev, Lodge. McBrlde,
McMillan, Mason, Morrill, Nelson, Penrose,
Perkins, Piatt fConn.), Piatt (N. Y.), Pritchard,
Proctor, Quay. Sewell, Spooner, Warren,
Wellington, Wetmore and Wilson?35.
Silreritee?Messrs. Jones (Nev.) and ManDemocrat?
Mr. McEnery.
Naya-rDemocrats?Messrs. Bacon, Bate,
Berry, Caffery, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell,
Faulkner. Gray. Harris (Kan.). Jones (Ark.),
Xeoney, Lindsay, Mallory. Martin, Mills,
Mitchell, Morgan, Pasco. Pettus. Rawlins,
Bosch, Turner, Turpie, Vest, Walthall, and
BUvertte?Mr. Cannon.
Ktesrs. Allen and Butler, Populists; Fettigrew,
Stewart, and Teller, Silverites; Kyle,
Independent, and Heitfeld, Democrat, refused
to vote.
Pairs w?% announced between Senators
Chandler and McLaurin; Frye and Gorman;
G<ar and Smith; Wolcott and George; II
Haosboroughand Daniel; Hoar and Harris,
or Tennessee, and Thurston and Tillman.
An there was some difficulty about a pair
for Mr. Murphy, of New York, Mr. Aldrich
withdrew his vote and announced a pair
with him. Mr. Allison then made the formal
motion, whioh was agreed to, that the
OAeemfrA (noiof av? i+a omun/lmontc nnrl ocl*
for a conference with the House. Senators
Allison, Aidrich, Piatt (of Connecticut),
. Borrows, Republicans; Jones (of Nevada),
Sllvarite, and Vest, Jones (of Arkansas),
&WV- and White, Democrats, were appointed
M -conferees on the part of the Senate.
An analysis of the final vote ehows that
*he affirmative was cast by thirty-five Republicans,
two Sliver Republicans? Jones,
fc -oi Nevada, and Mantle?and one Democrat,
McEnery.
The negative vote was cast by twenty-five
f Democrats, two Populists?Harris, of Kan:
' sas, and Turner?and one Silver Republican,
i i* Cjumon.
These Senators withheld their vote?Allen,
Butler. Heitfeid, Kyle, Stewart. Topuiists,
and Teller and Pettigrew, Silver Republicans.
The measure now goes to conference,
> where the disagreements between the two
bouses will be adjusted. This work will
devolve upon eight members of the Senate
Finance Committee and eight members of
the House Committee on Ways and Means.
THE NORTHWEST DELUCED.
Floods and Tornadoes Do Enormons
Damage.
. , f Reports of damage and loss of life by a
storm that was general como from parts of
North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
It had its origin in the Lake
*T Superior region. ?
'f V The total loss oflife Is hard to estimate,
however, as conflicting stories keep coming
in. So far as known fully twenty-live
lives have been lost.
The damage to property cannot be esti}[
mated, bat it will undoubtedly be eonsiderr
ably over $1,000,000. Reports received
from towns along the St. Paul and Dulutk
Railroad stated that all streams were rising.
The tornado swept through Aiken
,. County, Minnesota, cutting a swath through
tv' / the woods, leveling the trees and every!GfeV
' thing else in its path. It struck the town
of Glenwood, and several people were killed
there. The list of dead at that place so far
as known is as follows: Toliff Lavan, Anna i
Morrow, eight years old; Mrs. Samuel Morrow,
Samnel Morrow, Oswald Morrow,
Robert McGowan and an unknown man.
William Norrls and wife were also reported
killed. A one-year-old baby had a leg and
arm broken.
Two men, William Sargent and Charles
Wilson, are known to have been killed in a
wreck on the Great Northern near St.
Cloud. Four others are thought to be
burled under the cars. The train ran into
a washout and was ditched, twenty cars
? \ and engine being piled up.
Forty million logs have broken away in
St. Croix Lake, and the water rose twenty
* feet, flooding the entire country. People
tied to higher ground. The crops are
rhined.
Straight River at Faribault rose fifteen
feet in ten hours, and is near the danger
line. Two wrecks are reporto 1 on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul road and
?' four people were killed.
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-ficult to tell a woman's age?
He?She always acts as if it was.?
Itichujoml Dispatch.
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GBEAT STBKE OP MDIBBST
The United Mine Workers Obey the
Order to Quit Work.
REPORTS FROM STATES AFFECTED.
Folly 100,000 Men Go Oat on the First
Day?In Ohio Alone It is Estimated
That More Than 65,000 Quit Work
?Spring Valley Men Eager ;For
the Fray, Though 111 Prepared.
fV>T dhln ^SnAct.ill ?Tha craat
strike inaugurated under the direction
of the officers of the Uuited Mine
Workers of America has begun. As far as
known there has been no hostile demonstrations.
The miners have been cautioned
by their leaders not to use any dblawful
means to secure the success of this strike
for higher wages.
Reports from cil parts of Ohio show that I
practically all th^ mines In the State are j
closed. Some of the miners in the Jackson |
and Shawnee districts are still working.and
will remain in the mines for a few days to
await the action of the Pittsburg district.
Owing to the fact that many mines have
been working on very short time, some of
the districts of Ohio present scenes but little
different from those of the past few
months.
Generally speaking, the miners are in
poor shape to stand a prolonged strike, and
if the suspension continues for any length
of time their want will result in making the
situation very serious. Many of the Ohio
operators express a willingness to pay the
scale demanded by the miners provided the j
increase in made in the Pittsburg district. |
AJ1 the Ohio operators ask is that the nine- |
cent differential in favor of Ohio bo maintained.
Reports indicate that the strike order
has been generally obeyed, except In West
Virginia, northwestern Kentucky, and the
Danville (111.) district.
Cleveland, Ohio (Special). ? Reports
from the mines operated from this point
indicate that ninety per cent, of the 75,000
miners who are under direct orders from
Cleveland have thrown down their tools,
and that the larger part of the remaining
ten per cent, have decided to quit work.
Never before In the history of mining in
Ohio have Cleveland operators confronted
so great a strike as the present.
Chicago, 111. (Special).?Despatches from
various points in Illinois and Indiana indicate
that the strike of coal miners is widespread.
A despatch from Bloomington, 111.,
says that the miners of the McLean County
Company decided to go out in obedienoe to
the general circular calling for suspension
of work. There is no dissatisfaction, and
the strike will be purely sympathetic. The
miners receive fifty cents per ton for dig
glng second vein coal and sixty cents for
thLid vein.
Representat ves ofithe mines at Riverton,
Barclay and Spaulding got together and
unanimously decided to join the general
strike. At f)awson the miners also decided
to quit work, and the movement is expected
to spread through the Springfield district.
President Knight of the United Mine
Workers for Indiana, In an interview at
Terra Haute said that the Columbus report
to the effect that 373,093 men will be
involved In the strike Is a gross exaggeration.
He estimates that the total number
of miners that will be Idle will be between
110,000 and 125,000.
His figures are as follows: In Pennsylvania,
22,000; in Ohio, 25,000; in Indiana,
8000; in West Virginia, 20,000, and in Illinois,
35,000.
Sprixo Yallst, HI. (Special).?Good order
has characterized the conduct of the
striking coal miners. The leaders will use
all means at their command to Induce the
men to commit ncf violent acts. The men
number 4000, one-half of whom are nonEnglish
speaking. Apprehension of trouble
comee from what the foreign miners
may do toward the close of the month.
There will be many families on the verge
of starvation if a.'#l Is not extended them.
The county authorities will give no more
than $4 a month to the families of the
miners, and many of them will not get any
aid. If the suspension extends beyond four
weeks there will be destitution among twothirds
of the miners in this section. At
Ladd, a village near this city, the miners
are already applying for county aid.
The strike sentiment is so strong that it
is believed these men, masons, mechanics,
blacksmiths and carpenters, will be forced
to get In line. There is no section of the
West which goes into the fight to a man as
have the miners of the Spring Valley district,
and none are so desperate.
The miners of this city anticipated the
general strike order three days before it
was issued from Columbus, and at a mass
meeting placed themselves on record to
dig no more slxty-three-cent-a-ton coal
after July 2. In every coal strike Spring
VaLey maintains its old strike reputation
of being the first out and the last in.
I> diaxapolis , Ind. (Special).?The prediction
of the officials of the United Mine
workers ur^tiuiuuuu mm iuv v. I
derod would be generally responded to in
j Indiana was realized by the abandonment
| of the mines in all the coal districts except
| the county of Clinton and one mine in
Green County where colored men are employed.
At Brazil the block coal miners
hac. a large mass meeting, and unanimously
endorsed the action of the meeting
which decided to strike.
So intense was the feeling that a request
by one miner that he be allowed to prop up
his room, which was left without proper
supports was refused. There seemed to be
the heartiest accord among the miners in
taking the step. The few who at first deserted
were persuaded easily to join the
3trike.
As a rule the strikers are not well prepared
for a protracted struggle, for few
of them have earnod wages of which anything
could bo saved, and the majority, notably
those having families, are in debt.
The "mine owners believe that the strike
will not be attended by any lawlessness.
Pittsbcbg (Special).?Meetings of coal
miners were held all over the Pittsbnrg district
on July 4. Most of the men seemed to
be in line for a strike. The miners in the
Clfarfleld district have agreed not to strike.
Senator Mark Hanna, of Ohio, is now paying
the best wages in this district. He
gives his men sixty cents a ton for all coal
mined by them, while other operators pay
only fifty-four cents a ton. The iron-clad
contract, by the terms of which ten per
cent, of the miners' wages is retained by
the firm, and forfeited by the miners in ease
they ftrike, in in vogue at the Senator's
mines.
A Boast of Vermont.
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> eriuuilicis V.AOILU U1CU UVUhV ?V MV |
from tuberculosis than any other iu New j
England.
Well-Known Railroad Man Killed.
Henry E. Stone, who had been General
Manager of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad and President of the
Chicago Telephone Company, was killed at
his summer home at Nonquitt, Mass., by an
explosion of fireworks. He was setting off
the fireworks for the amusement of his
children.
l>eatli In French Floods.
The recent floods in the South of France
are the worst that have occurred since
1S75, It is believed that fifty persons have
been drowned in the Department of Aueh
alone, although the inhabitants were
v. nmed of the impending disaster.
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! A LAD FALLS 1500 FEET.
J He Went T7p With a Balloon Clutching a
Sandbag and Met His Death. I
An adventuresome six-year-old boy In
Oakland, Cal., lost hl3 life through his desire
to go up In a balloon. Charles Conlon,
an amateur aeronaut, was advertised to as-1
eend In a hot-air balloon at Blair's Park '
and descend by a parachute. He had only J
a trapeze bar from which his parachute
was slung. On the side of the balloon were '
several sandbacs suspended by cords.
Young Bertr&nd Hill, a son of Chauncey
Hill, a Los Angeles architect, saw the Inflating
of the balloon and other preparation.
No one noticed the boy in the hurry
and excitement of cutting loose the ropes; I
but the crowd was horrified, as soon as the |
balloon rose clear of the earth, to see a lit- j
tie boy clutching one of the sand bags. He
was fully thirty-five feet above the aeronaut,
and there was no way of reaching him.
Apparently he shouted to the child to
hold tight, but it was plain the little fellow
was getting bewildered and dizzy. Groans
of horror came from the men and screams
from the women and children as, when the
balloon had reached a height of about 1500 ,
feet, the child was seen to fall.
Women fainted and men wept as the body i
came whirling down. It struck nearly a |
mile from the park. It is believed the i
boy was dead before the body struck the !
ground.
M'KINLEYS MOTHER HURT.
The Outing of the Presidential Party at
Canton, Ohio.
President and Mrs. McKinley, accom- i
panied by Judge Day, assistant Secretary'
of State, and their personal friend, Mrs. I
Ella Buckingham, returned to Washington !
after a pleasant visit of forty-eight hours, |
including the Fourth of July, with the j
President's mother at Canton, Ohio.
There was no demonstration, owing to j
the request of the President, whose desire j
in going to Canton was to pass a quiet
period with his mother and other relatives.
The pleasure of the visit was marred
slightly by an accident which befell the
venerable mother of the President. While
walking across the front piazza Mrs. MoKiuley
tripped on a piece of matting and
fell forward, striking her face on a chair.
The President sprang to assist her, and
found that a considerable gash had been
cut in her forehead.
The wound was dressed and the patient
is as comfortable as could be expected. She
regards the accident more lightly than do
any of her family, bearing her pain with
the Spartan-like calmnoss of her nature.
The accident was the only disagreeable
feature of the trip, and it was not regarded
as serious enough to interfere with the departure
of the President and his wife.
DEFICIT CUT DOWN.
Imnnrlntlnni in Antlcloatlon of the Xew
Tariff Duties Increase Kecelpta.
The fiscal year of 1897, which closed June
30, left the United States Treasury in good
condition to begin the new year. When Secretary
Carlisle sent his annual report to Congress
last December he estimated that the receipts
for the year would be less than the
expenditures by 661,500,000. The year closes
with a deficit of little more than $20,000,000.
On the books of the department on
July 1 It is apparently 822,036,526, but when
the official figures for the year are made up
the deficit will be little if any more than
820,000,000.
This condition of affairs so muoh more
favorable than Secretary Carlisle had expected
has been brought about almost entirely
by the importations of dutiable goods
since early in March in anticipation of the
imposition of higher duties in the pending
Tariff bill.
In the month of June the excess of receipts
o.ver expenditures was $10,236,595,
a tremendous main compared with the large
deficiencies if previous months. The
available cash balance which, on the last
business day in May, was $231,993,501, was
rm .Tnivi #237.452.199. The withdrawals
of golci for shipment abroad have been
more than balanced by a gain in demand
notes.
Tragic Ending of a Boat Bace.
At the rowing regatta on the Charles
River, Boston, Mass., the most exciting
race was the senior eight-oared contest, in
which the Riverside crew won by six feet
over the Millstreams of Chelsea. After the
Millstreams had returned to the boat-house
whurf, the coxwaln, H. Sadler, of Chelsea,
alighted, and just as he was entering the
boathouse fell to the floor and expired almost
instantly, his death being due to
heart disease aggravated by the excitement
and heat of the day.
Sixty Soldier* Drowned.
Torrential rains have fallen in Roumania,
causing the rivers to rise and in some cases
to overflow their banks. Lake Bratisch
became badly swollen, and fears were entertained
that it would overflow. A temporary
embankment was built to guard
against this, but the waters burst out and
deluged a part of Galatz. Sixty soldiers
and many women and children were carried
away by the torrent and drowned.
Great damage was done to property.
Ominous Revolt in India.
The uneasiness caused by the recent
killing of officials and the rioting of the
natives at Chitpur, India, continues, although
outwardly everything is now quiet.
Spies inform the police that further outbreaks
are being organized. Isolated assaults,
especially upon European ladies,
continue. The native casualties doling
the recent riot are said to have been very
1the number
of'killed* at 6O0T"* r
Edhem Pasha Resigns.
Edhsm Pasha, Commander of the Turkish
army in Thessaly, has resigned. He gives
as the reason for his action that he cannot
guarantee the discipline of the army under
the proposed arrangements for the conclusion
of peace with Greece. His resignation
is believed to be merely formal. It is
thought that it is tendered in accordance
with instructions he has received from the
war party.
, The Fourth in Europe.
The Fourth of July was celebrated by
Americans in the important capitals of Europe.
The distinguished Americans i a London
held a banquet at the Kensington
Palace Hotel, wbese Colonel Hay, Mr.
Reid, Bishop Potter, and others spoke.
Ambassador Porter presided at a bi.nquet
of the American Ciiamber of Commerce in
Paris, and General Draper held a reception
at Borne.
Largent Congressional District.
Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, represents the
largest congressional district in the United
States in point of population.
[ Coinage for r Month.
The June monthly statement of the Director
ofthc Mint shows the coinage at the
mints of the United States to have t een as
follows: Gold, $2,110,547; silver, 61,856,754.
minor coins, 6175,051. Total, 64,132,352.
In addition to the domestic coinage there
were coined during June 6306,140 for the
Government of San Domingo. These pieces
contain thirty-five per cent, of silver and
sixty-live per cent, of nickel and copper.
Canadian Jubilee Stamp.
The Canadian jubilee postage stamp Is
to be printed in >Tew York.
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CHRISTIAN ENDEA70RERS1
I
Two Mammoth Meetings Open the
Convention in San Francisco.
THE ATTENDANCE ENORMOUS.!
The Convocation Caller, to Order WltH
"The Consecrated Cobbler's" llaminei
?Welcomed by Calll'orniaua?BecauM
of Large Number of DelegatV ln At'
tendance Meetings Held ln Two PlacesSan*
Francisco, Cal. (Special).?The great
Christian Endeavor Convention opene^
Thursday in Mechanics' Pavilion an^
Woodward's Pavilion. At Mechanics' ad
audience of 8000 gathered. Addresses oi
welcome were made by Mayor rhelan,Lieutenant-Governor
Jeter and Rolla V. Watt,
Chairman of the Local Reception Committee.
"Father" Clark, the founder of the movement,
delivered the main address, in which
he outlined the work of the year and the
growth of the Endeavor movement. During
the past year, he said, he had traveled
40,000 miles among more than a score ol
countries in behalf of Christian Endeavor.
CH11IST1AK rXDEAVOHEK OFFICERS.
After his address he formally opened the
convention by striking the railing in front
with a shoemaker's hammer which was
used by William Carey, styled by Sidnej
Smith "the consecrated cobbler." Then
he called upon the audience to repeat at
successive strokes of the hammer tht
words:
"The world for Christ."
"The Nation for Christ."
"Myself for Christ."
The annual report was then submitted
K.? TrtSn Willis Woo.. no ssi.l
that the organization now included 50,717
local societies and a total membership of
8,000,000 persons. Pennsylvania still led
with 3113; New York, 3019; Ohio, 2333;
Illinois, 2013; Ontario, 1783; Indiana, 1387;
Iowa, 1336, and Michigan, 1071. These latter
figures did not include the junior societies.
the intermediate societies, or the
senior and mothers' societies.
Am ong the junior societies Pennsylvania
also led, with 1397; New York, 1288; Illinois,
993; Ohio, 970; California, 551; Indiana,
519; Iowa, 518; Massachusetts, 517.
this ending the list of States with more
than 500 junior societies enrolled. The
junior badge banner, given to the
State that had made the largest
gain in junior societies during the
year, was first presented at Montreal to
New York, and at the three annual conventions
since that time to Pennsylvania,,
but this year it went to Ohio. The other
junior badge banner, first given to the District
of Columbia at Montreal for the greatest
proportionate increase in number of
junior societies, and held successively by
Delaware, Assiniboia and Mexico, passed
"from Mexico to Spain.
Commenting on this last item, the Secretary
.said that he wished the banner might
be carried by way of Cuba, and be a:i emblem
of liberty to* the island.
Among the foreign nations England had
8925 societies, Australia, 2121; Scotland,
433; Wales, 311; India, 250; Ireland, 169;
Madagascar, 93; France, 68; 3Iexico, 100;
Japan, 66; West Indies, 63; Turkey. 41;
China, 53; Africa, 52; Germany, 32; and so
on through a long list, with a total of 7910
societies. In addition, all Canada had S330
societies. The badge banner for the greatest
proportionate Increase in number of societies,
which Oklahoma first secured at the
Minneapolis convention, which then was
taker: by Manitoba, New Mevico, West Virginia,
Aksiniboia, and which is now held by
Scott md, fell into the hands of the loyal
Endeavorers on the Emerald Isle. India
was very little behind Ireland. The other
banner/the one given for the largest absolute
gain in total number of societies, is for
the fourth consecutive year held by England.
President McKinley sent this message:
"My best personal wishes for the success of
your convention." The message was
cheered and then the benediction was pronounced
by the Rev. George F. Pentecost.
At Woodward's Pavilion the Rev. Howard
B. Grose, of Boston, presided, and among
the speakers was tho Rev, 800 Hoo Nam
Art. a Chinese, who read tho opening
prayer.
OKLAHOMA BRUSHING UP TO COME IN.
No Other Territory Ever Gained In Population
So Fimt.
It is probable that Oklahoma and the Indiun
Territory will soon bo admitted to tho
Union as one State. No other Territory
ever gained population so fast, and if tho
proposed new State were admitted now it !
would outrank fifteen of the present States j
in point of numbers. It is believed that i
there are G50.000 people In Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory, and the number is
increasing very rapidly. Of the 650,000
peope in these "Territories 550,000 are white
peop.e. There are G0.00C individual farm
owners and 40,000 persons engaged in other
occupations. It is natural that this great
population should clamor for Statehood, especially
since Congress has conferred if
upon several Territories with not one-flfth
as much population as Oklahoma has.
Bad Record of Failures.
The report issued by Bradstreet's shows
that the record of business failures throughout
the United States during the past six
months is not ns favorable as was antici- '
pated nt the close of the first quarter of tile
current calendar year.
A New Style of Hat.
The Prince of Wales has started a new
type of hat, based on the model of the
fluffy leaver, with broad, curled brim, ol
many years ago.
To Rescue Fie "Word Professor.
The Arkansas State Teaehers' Convention
has limited the use of the title of
"Professo-" to teachers in colleges and
universitie
Pennsyl vania's Array of Paupers.
- A Legislative rtommittee puts the num- '
ber of paupers in Pennsylvania at 20;000.
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A CASTIL1AN GOVERNOR.
fflruel A. Otero, Who t? Now Chief Executive
of New Mexico.
Miguel A, Otero has been installed as {
5overnor of the Territory of New Mexico^ i
Governor Otero is of pure Castlli&n bloody .1
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Ho nrsi OI nis ract; wuo uus uu?u ^
gubernatorial chair of New Mexico. He is'
horoughly American in every way. His'
idjcation was obtained at the 8t. Louis
i
MIOCEL OTEBO,
(The young Ca?tilian Governor of New ;
Mexico.)
Cidversity and the college of Notre Dame. 1
Governor Otero is thirty-eight years old,
and the youngest of New Mexico's gov- 1
eruors. He is married, and he and his |
wife and one child will occupy the oldest .
ofllcial building on the Western hemisphere. j
It Is a palace?300x150 feet?and was >
erected 310 years ago by the King of Spain j
as the palace of the viceroy of the Spanish j
Empire.
BROUGHT DEATH TO SCORES. |(
Appalling Number of Fatalities Accom- !
pany the Hot Wave in the West.
A week of terrific heat in the Central ]
W sst ended in a tornado, which swept over
Kontucky and Southern Illinois. The
country had not had time to recover-from
the terrific hot spell of the week before,
and in consequence the suffering in all sections
has been very great. The number of '
deaths that can be dlroctly attributed to i
the heat is very large and those prostrated 1
an beyond computation. In very many
caies manufacturing plants have been
closed on account of the weather. I
Kentucky suffered from the most intense
heat wave experienced in its history. *
T1 roughout Indiana the heat has been almost
as great as in Kentucky.
dere is a list of deaths and prostrations
in various cities: Chicago?Sixteen dead, ,
flf:y prostrated. Louisville. Ky.?Ten
dead, twenty prostrated. Indianapolis?
Tiro dead, twenty prostrated. Oshkosh,
W s.?Two dead, four prostrated. Ouincy,
111.?Two dead, five prostrated. Toledo,
Olilo?One dead, ten prostrated. Milwaukee?Four
dead, twenty prostrated. Racine,
Wis.?Two dead, five prostrated.
Dubuoue. Iowa?Two dead, nine prostrated.
Elkhart. Ind.?One dead, five prostrated.
Bloomington. HI.?Three dead,
flf :een prostrated. Olney, III.?One dead,
two prostrated. Elwood. Ind.?One dead,
th *ee prostrated. Burlington. Iowa?Two i
deid, eleven prostrated. Cedar Rapids, i
Iowa?Two dead, nine prostrated. Appleton,
Wis.?Three dead, eight prostrated.
Fifteen other cities?Thirteen dead, seventy-four
prostrated.
BOSTON GlttL IS MISSING.
Grace Stevenson Left Her Home on Beacon
Street, on April 26.
Sraee Stevenson disappeared from her
heme on Beacon street, Brookline, a suburb
of Boston, Mass., on April 26, and since
that date her parents have received no info:*matiop
concerning her.
3he is the daughter of James Stevenson,
tha millionaire real estate operator and
owner. She is twenty-five years of age and
very pretty. i
The disappearance is the most remarkable
ever occurring in the city. On Monday
evaning, April 26, she left her mother,
brothers and sisters at her home, and was
seon to board a Reservoir car bound into
th 3 city. 8he said she was only going out
fo:: a few minutes. No trace of her has
best. found since.
Prairie Fire in a City.
A spectacle unique for a city was furnished
at Cleveland, Ohio, when a strip of land a
quarter of a mile in breadth took fire and
th s flames hurried on to the lake. It looked
exactly like a prairie fire. A tangled mass
of underbrush extending along the Gordon
es :ate, from St. Clair street to the lake,
took fire and jeopardized the existence of
an entire block of twenty houses. The fire
department had to fight the flames as
prairie fires are fought, by digging trenches
ard banking up the dirt as a protecting
wi Jl. Thousands went out to see the peculiar
sight.
Aged Couple's Strange Death.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Le Cluse, both
nearly seventy years old, were found dead
in their home in Bayport, Long Island.
Their little granddaughter found the bodies
sidle by side in kitchen. Whether it was
murder, suicide or from natural causes has
not been ascertained. There were two cuts
on the man's face and perhaps he was
stricken by heart disease while shaving ana
ths shock killed his wife.
Workmen Blown to Atoms.
Thile a gang of workmen were excavating
on the line of a street railway in Lexinjrton,
Ky., one of them struck what appeared
to be a piece of pipe, but which
prjvedto be a sixty-four-pound dynamite
cartridge. A fearful explosion followed,
and five of the six colored men in the gang
were blown to atojis. The other was so
bally injured that ne cannot recover.
Big Pennsylvania Tree Cat Down.
The largest tree in Pennsylvania was cut
down a few days ago. It was on the farm
of Fohn Pownall, near Christiana, and close
to the ruins of the famous riot house. The
tree is supposed to have been 300 years old,
anl measured between eight and cine feet
ac -oss the stump. About three-fourths of
an acre of ground were covered ly its
limbs. There were twenty-seven cords of
wcod secured from it.
Three Killed by Lightning.
During a severe storm the residence of 8.
E. North, four miles east of Larimore, North
Dckota, was struck by lightning, and
North, his wife and three-year-old child
were ?.illed. The only member of the
family that escaped was a flfteen-montholcl.
child.
Europe Demands Turkey's Consent.
Acting upon Instructions received from
thoir respective Governments, the Ambassadors
of the Powers presented & collective
note to the Turkish Government demanding
a cessation of the obstruction of the
pe tee negotiations.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. ^Sg
Washington Item*.
Brigadier General H. C. Merriara has beea 1)
assigned bv the War Department to command
the Department of Columbia, head- !
quarters In Vancouver, Wash.
The President decided to spend most of, I
his vacation at a summer hotel on Lakdi.vigr
Champlain. Several members of his official' .PL
family will accompany him. .
The Senate adjourned without transacting
any business out of respect to the
memory of the late Senator Harris.
President McKinley decided to revoke the
order of President Cleveland, Issued last^ ??]
February, reducing the number of pension,
agencies :.n the United States from eighteen1
The Tariff bill was returned to the House, *
which r on-concurred in the Senate
amendments, agreed to the conference &
asked for by the Senate, and appointed
Gunboat No. 8 was put In commission,
and is now known as Helena. A change In*
the commander of the monitor Terror wae
In the Senate, the Deficiency Appropria-. ^ fa
tlnn hill was considered, and amendment! ' "yf
were agreed to providing for representation fi
of the United States at the Paris Exposition
of 1900. and appropriating $600,000 for the .' .v
rebuilding of the immigrant station on Ellis
Island, New York Harbor.
The Comptroller of the Currency received 8
Information of the fallnre of the First ? -.
tlonal Bank of Nason, Texas. Bank Ex- jjj
amlner Johnson was pladed in charge. The
bank bad a capital of $50,000. and at the
date of it.-i last report its liabilities amount* .^58
ed to about 830,000.
The Sar Francisco and the Raleigh have "-48
been orde red to Tangier for protection of ' f>
American citizens from annoyance in Mo- i
rocco.
The Pemte Foreign Relations Committee
renorted a resolution empowering the. i;
President to "employ such means or exercise
such rower as may be necessary" to 'Z
force Spain to settle the claims of two
naturalized Americans for arrest in Cuba.
Domestic.
800E0 or THE LEiOCS CtOEJ.
PC- Per
omt)^ T.Mf. f no1". TCii *./???. , Jn
Boston....45 16 .79* irooklvn.M 38 .468
Cinoiunati39 19 .67: ?hlladel..30 35 .461 *}
Baltimore. 39 21 .650 Louisville 25 85 . .417 4
J?ew York 37 23 .617 Chicago .. 26 37 .413
Cleveland 32 29 .525 W*shing'n23 36 .390 /
Pittsburg. 29 S2 .475 St. Louis.12 50 .194
Six masked men killed 150 head of sheep J :
with rifleshots on the ran^h of Mrs. Kate
Welch, near Canyon City. Oregon. The < 'J
residents of the place threaten vengeance.
Women demanded and secured the right
to vote at a meeting of Wasningtonvilla
CN. J.I citizens to determine upon the <}ae*>
tion of building a new school house. The .
new school will be built. j 7*S'
Thomas H. Merritt was shot dead in Lex- $
ington. Ky., by Jacob P. Harris, while with
the latter's wife.
Mrs. Arthur B. Payne, of Brookline,
Mass.. died In the dentist's chair of Dr. P.
H. Hemenway. in the Hotel Pelham. Bo?ton.
The Medical Examiner exonerated-.
the dentist, saying that Mrs. Payne should _ '
have told him she had heart disease. '
The law recently passed by the Muse a- "VjJ
CUUBPltS liWI9iatum UIUUIUIUUK vg
Ing of birds' feathers for purposes of orna-, #
raent Is likely to be enforced, accord!*? to JO
Police Commissioner Martin.
The miners' strike became general on the /]
Wheeling fW. Va.1 division of the Baltka
more and Ohio Ballroad. ,
The Grand Jury In New York City foandjSS
na indictment against Martin Thorn amfj^H
Augusta Nack for the murder of WiUlamjS -...
Guldensupne. The nrinclpal witness against-~ij ' .
them was John Gotha, the barber, to whom'] "'?
It is alleged Thorn told the story of tbA, 3
killing at the Woodside house, and ?z* <CT;,
plained how the murder was done.
Judge Barnard, of the Snnreme Court, .'.^B
gave Mrs. James Winnie, of Milton, jnd$-.' J
ment against Dr. J. W. McCormac. of, :-|
Poughkeepsle. N.Y.. for 825.000. The I attar's
son, Paul, a bicyclist, collided with w?&m
Winnie's horse and caused tho animal to JhB
run away, throwing her out, and injuring ><
her badly.
Two men weH killed and several in- <i ->
inred in a mine explosion near Embrew-;?!
viile. Tenn.
Sydney Laseelles. alias "Lord Beres--$
ford." is again In trouble. Warrants are!
out for bte arrest in Fitzgerald, Ga., where ';?1
his recusations are said to amoont to about :
110.000.
The Bflssissippi Fiver at Minneapolis, ^
Minn., is within six inches of the highest .sL
mark reached in the unprecedented floods.
of April last. Between 4000 and 5000 men
are out of employment as a result of th#.
necessary closing down of the saw mills,
and there will be heavy losses on logs if the. yfj?
rise continues.
Three hundred residents of Wappingert
Falls. N. Y., were poisoned by eating ham ?
that had absorbed poison from a copper .<
Misses Pauline Widlar and Bl&nohe Had- s
son. daughters of families who move fn*|^H
fashionable circles, were drowned while
bathing at Maple Glen, a summer resort on
Lake Erie, Just east of Cleveland, Ohio. .^3
About 200 National Democrats mef^j|^^|
State Convention in Des Moines, Iowa,
nominate a State ticket. A letter was read". ?
from ex-President Grover Cleveland. Na- >a
thaniel French, as Temporary Chairman, -jl
made the principal address. "
The coal-miners' strike increased, and
United States deputy marshals were sent to -*j
the mines in Jefferson County, Ohio., giving *
rise to fears of a rioi.
In New York City. John Gartha told the
police that Martin Thorn confessed to him r
thru he murdered William Guldensuppe, 1
butchered the body and was helped by Mrs. WjtO
Nack in disposing of it.
The United States torpedo boat Dapoot
was speeded in the bay off Newport, B.
under her three boilers, for the first tima,
And her work was something marvelloua. ' ^
the stokeholes were closed, and, wire 'jl jm
steam pressure of 225 pounds, she mad* 40
revolutions, driving her through the waiet y-HS
at a speed of 30.83 knots. She had seventyfive
men on hoard working on various parts,
which added greatly to her weight. jj
Two men died from excitement produced , j2
by viewing fires. Dr. L. H. Hoi brook, of
Revere, Mass., was one victim, and Melvin. >38
Woodward, of Laoona, N. Y., the other.
The National Educational Association ?tdj
met at Milwaukee, Wis. ^^9
Nellie Burns, six years old, was killed br |
a trolley cpr of the Brooklyn Heights Bail- ..
road Company. The motorman became in- ' ^
sane.
The Tax Commissioners of New York City : ^
filed their report with the Board of Aldermen,
showing figures calling for a 2.03 tax
rate this year, a reduction of nine Dolntt 'yH
from 1396.
Miss Louise Imogen Gulney, poet and 74
boycotted postmistress at Aunurndabv >5
Mass., has resigned her office.
Foreign.
A cable despatch from Lisbon, Portugal,' v/jf
savs that in commemoration of the fcor
hundredth anniversary of the departure of
Vasco de Gama for the Indies the Geogra- . ,3
phical Society has opened the new Geographical
Institute!
Owing to the drought in certain parts of ' *
Australia it will be necessary to/impost *
thousands of tons of California wheat. The ^
colonies affected by the drought^ are New -?f
South Wales and South Australia. ,'%r
A cable dtepatoh from Paris p^ves the de- 2
tails of Suicide of four hiromen In 4 >
crowded'quarter of the French capital. jy
Lo?d Salisbury received the United Stales
Monetary Commissioners, in Londog,. -!
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