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HONORING HIS MEMORY. INTO AN OPEN DRAW STUFFED BALLOT-BOXES BURNED IX THEIR BEDS. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS DEDICATION OF THE GABI11LD MK- HORLO. KBStri/rg or LOUIS FIRE. A PASSENGER TRAIN FAILS THE fUVilt. prvr INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCK&. jTWiirt Our Nolghbon Are Doing--MStt*rs . of General and Local Interest -- Mar- rte(ai and Deaths--Accidents and Crimea --Personal Pointers. is; ---New Illinois patents: H. C. Albee, 'Chicago, lathe; S. Bernstein, Chicago, water heater; J. Boyd, Elmhurat, making hatter; A. C. Brendecke. Chicago, oil ^finish for photographs; J. H. Brown, 3North Evanston, suspension link fdr books; J. Bums, Chicago, air-feeding device; J. J. Buzenbenz, Chicago, oil ijurner; J. B. Cornwall, Moline, wood ; split pulley, D. C. Creg'er, Chicago, pav­ ing compound, R. D. Curtiss, Chicago, •«ash faBtener; J. Dooner, Chicago, oii- tfcltering apparatus; H. Edwards, Aurora, tnachine for beading the ends of boiler itubee; C. H. Foote, Chicago, hot-blast «tove; G. 0. Garner, Hinsdale, sash bal­ ance; C. G. Goodhue. Chicago, timber •wtruetura for mines; H. C. Hall, Clinton, •%8ulky; G. B. Howland, Pontiac, grain meter; H. L. Jones, Geneva, corn har­ vester; J. H. Masters, Chicago, cable •igrip; F. D. Miller, Chicago, curling iron; "W. 0. Miller, Quincy, loop-forming ma- • •chine: G. H. Oliver and E. L. Brooks, •Chicago, bottle stopper; H. H. ZPerkins, Kewanee, husking pin; N. Propst. Decatur, clothes poander; A. H Itamey and F. D. Rollins, Aurora, in- „*haler; C. H. Rudd, Evanston, electric -railway signal apparatus; M. D. Ship- rnau, De Kalb, glove fastener; I. J. Jfctoner, Wanponsee, draft equalizer; R. H. Vanschaack, Chicago, 6how-case; G. "\V. Warner, Freeport, door-hanger; B. i*C. White and J. A. Boyd, Chicago, brick ;machine; W. Wainwright, Winchester, jbake pan. --Edward S. Wilson, the Democratic • nominee for State Tieasurer, was born in ,"Crawford County in 1839. His father was a farmer of Scotch-Irish parents, '"•f He studied law, was admitted to the bar .in 1861, and settled in Olney three years later and opened nn office. The past ten • year* he has paid more attention to -stock-raising and agricultural pursuits •than to the practice of law. He was ap­ pointed a member of the State Board of ' Live-Stock Commissioner* in November, 1887, and was removed by Gov. Fifer last s' winter. He is a prominent member of •the F. M. B. A. and a member of the Ex- >exutivc Committee of that organization. -The Hon. Tom Merritt has been de­ feated for nomination to the Legislature ' 4by the Democrats in the Forty-third Dis­ trict. A legislative session without the inimitable Tom Merritt, of Marion Coun­ ty, would be a novel affair. A letter from Salem says bit defeat "was due to a va­ riety of causes, among which is that he ; <ha8 b.een before the people as a candi­ date for either the State Senate or the lower nouse for more than twenty years, and many Democrats were eager for an •' opportunity' to relegate him to private i life, which presented itself in the can­ didacy of Holtslaw, a merchant, stock- dealer, and farmer. His votes against the Stock-Yards tect dairy product l>ulsory educat on which contributed to his defeat. "The „conspiracy bill, of which he was the au­ thor, was another element against him- _ --Judge Anthony, of the Cook County, Superior Court, has decided that a fire­ man is a trespasser when he enters a building to save property from fire. This curious decision was the outgrowth of a _ suit in the case of Freetorn Gibson vs. James Leonard, owner, and Louis Sues, occupant, of a building on West Lake % street, Chicago, in 1888, when the fire •< patrol was called to extinguish a fire in ,'j the place in question. The men used an elevator in tbeir trip through the build­ ing, and while doing so a weight fell and crushed Gibson's leg so badly that am­ putation was necessary. The elevator, it is claimed, was run in violation of the city ordinances, and for ten years prior to the fire had not been examined. Judge Anthony decided that the men were tres­ passers, and consequently Gibson could not recover for the injuries received. The case will be appealed. --Henry Hoerr, a farmer living between Peoria and Morton, was killed by light­ ning the other dav. He and a small boy took refuge under a small willow bush from a terrible storm of bail, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Hoerr's face was made perfectly black. It is believed the boy, although paralyzed, will live. --Peoria dispatch: John Spelman, * eldest son of Ed Spelman, one of Peoria's distillers and prominent in politics and Clan-na-Gael circles, is in jail here for eafe-robbery. TLe young man was cauaht in the act of rifling a safe. He had en­ tered two other stores during the night. Over $100 worth of gold pens and other other articles found on his person have been identified as p«rt of the goods stolen from a big jewelry house in Pekin a month ago. Spelmsm lived in Pekin with bis young wife and was supported by bis wealthy parents, who allowed him $1,200 a year. He confessed to the Chief of Police that he h id been follow­ ing the life of a professional burglar for two years and that in that time he had committed 200 robberies. "l --The third annual meeting of the i-f Cnited States Fonetic Company was hqld V at Chicago last week. The report showed a total expenditure of $1,S.">9, receipts fj f 1,410, and property on hand $3,7*0. A bill is now before Congress giving the \ company $5,000,000 for the establish­ ment of 100 schools in the United States for the purpose of teaching the new science of spelling. Four of these eohools are to be located in Illinois, the first one to be established in the United States being at Chicago. t --Governor Fifer was honored the other day by a call frqm a delegation from Chicago, consisting of Judge Pren- . dergast and others, who represented a !• meeting of Germans and Scandinavians of the Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and 'j German Reformed Church, and in case the Governor shall call a special session £ of the Legislature they ask that he shall 1 f include in the call the subject of elimi- ; nating from the statutes of Illinois con- earning education the provisiona thereof ' which violate parental and personal rigbts. The Governor told them be would y take the matter under advisement. --Special dispatch from New York to the Chicago lierald: Seven boy a, aged from 1 to 14 years, got off a train at the Grand Central Station early this morning. Two men and a woman were with them. Thev were from St. Joseph, a little vil­ lage of Champaign County, Illinois, ami were bound for the Pasteur Institute at 178 West Tenth street. Every ore of the seven boys had been bitten by a dog which developed a violent attack of rabies and died two days later. The children were playing with a crowd of others in the village etreetR when they were attacked by a mongrel puppy three months old which had the freedom of the town. The following children were bitten: Marshall Gallion, a boy of 1'2. bitten on the left hand ; (the Shreve, 11 years old, bitten on the left wrist and hand; Win. McCullom. 0 years old, bittt-n on the rifibt arm; James McCullom, "William's brother, bitten on both arms ; Chas. Kates Hardy, 11 years, bitten on the fingers of the right hand ;'rhurlow P. Hart, it years, bit­ ten on the little finger of the right hand ; Floyd Harvey, 4 years old, bitten on the riglit arm. Dr. I. T. "Purcell, the local physician of St. Joseph, cauterized the wounds of the children, and telegraphed to Dr. Gibier, who is in charge of 1he Pasleur Institute here, that he had seven hydrophobia patients, and wanted to know on what terms the doctor would receive tbem. Dr. Gibier telegraphed back that they would be treated regardless of their means. A subscription was made ujramong some of the families and relatives of the children in the town, and James McCullom, the father of two of the boys, and J. Gallion, the father of the eldest of the seven, with Miss Martha Mead, an aunt of another lxiy, started East with the little band that night. One of the little boys was chosen as the first subject. His right side was bared just above che hip and a hypodermic injection of the weakest solution of the virus was given. The left side treated in the same way. The boy let out one or two screams as he felt the pricks of the needle. One by one the others received the injection. Some of them were badly scared. Floyd Har­ vey, the baby of the lot, a bright lit­ tle fellow in dresaos, took it like a little man. The l?i6t of the boys to be inocu­ lated was young Gallion, the eldest of them all. He was so thoroughly frightened that his father had to come and help bold him. He had be­ come so wrought up that he yelled at the top of his voice wh'on the doctor first painted his skin •with the disinfecting solution. None of the children have developed any symptoms of tho disease yet, and Dr. Gibier says that there is no danger now. They will be inoculated with stronger and stronger virus for the next, two weeks, when their treatment will be complete. --Weekly crop bulletin of the Illinois weather service: The temperature of the week has been above the normal. An average amount of sunshine has neen reported. Kendall, Pope, Hamilton. Clark and Coles Counties report an excess of precipitation. Throughout the re6t of the Stat® the rainfall was below a seasonable average. Extracts from observers' report: Bond County--The week was favorable for farm work. Corn coming up nicely. Rainfall, .91 of an inch. , Clark--Corn about all planted, a great deal of it being cultivated once or twioe. It is in fine condition. Prospects of a good hay crop never better. Wheat and oats making a fine showing. Rainfall, 2.23. , , Clay--Corn planting all done. Stand general­ ly good. Wheat heading out well; ^generally getting in fine condition. Rainfall, 1.55 inches. Coles--Conditions generally favorable. Rain­ fall, 1 .55 inches. Fulton--Crops doing well. Franklin--Corn about all planted. Oats, wheat, and meadows look well. Strawberries ripe and plentiful. Rainfall, 1.05 inches. Hamilton--Too much rain ; ground too wet to work. Corn planting retarded. Oats doing wfll. Ground too wet for wheat. Fruit still falling off; berries pron,iie well. Rainfall, 2.47 Inches. Henry--Very little rain dining last weak. Corn backward and grass light. Oats looking well. Rainfall, .40 inch. Iroquois--A favorable week for farming. All crops doing well. Rainfall, .HI inch. Kendall--Weather past week favorable. Rain­ fall, 1.26 inches. Lake-- All crops growing rapidlv. leaves on . trefes two-thirds grown. Rye' heading out. Rainfall, .8 inch. Menard -- Many fields of wheat arc being plowed for other purposes on account of the disastrous work of tho Hessian fly. McHenrv--Early planted corn is up and a good stand. Very little replanted. Vegetation ef all kinds advancing with great rapidity. Rainfall, .31 inch. Marshall--Corn planting over. Not coming up very well. Some farmers are plowing their corn. Oats, meadows, and pasture looking well. Rainfall, .34 inch. Logan--The warm weather of last week was e favorable for growing crops. Rainfall, .55 inch. Pooria -- Conditions generally favorable. Rainfall, .lflin^h. Perry-- The ground is geiting dry very fast, but it is very hard. Wheat heading out; it is oil.'(• well. Corn not all planted. Oats need rani. Kaiufall, .^5 inch. Oats not doing so well, a small insect Bottom farms on the Ohio covered /, and will delay jflKRcrop or ruin it. ,86 inch. \\ heat bei about over. 15 >ainfall, .71). Sangamon--Excellent wc eian fly dnmaglng wheat Imdlv, Stephenson--Rye leading "out. all planted. Wheat lo iking well. Condi' very fitvorablc Rainfall, .(>7. Schn yler--Decided improvement. Weather more seasonable than preceding week. Rain­ fall, .67. ' --The tenth annual report of the Rock Island Hoad shows gross earning of $17,- 039,000.8!), and operating expenses and taxes of $42,475,067.31, leaving net earn­ ings of $5,103,993.58. The total net in­ come is $6,500,933.72. Interests, rentals, and dividends amounted to $6,451,- 382.76,, leaving a surplus for the year of $49,550.96. For 1888 there was a deficit of $974,234.22; showing a difference of over $1,000,000 in favor of 1889. --The Auditor of Public Accounts has issued a statement of the condition of the forty-two banks in Illinois doing business under the Slate laws, showing the total amount of their resources to be $60,881,000, and their loans and dis­ counts to be $42,348,0'J0. They have a total capital stock of $0,396,000. The savings deposits are $12,813,000, and in­ dividual deposits $24,578,090. This class of bankt is increasing in the State, and their reports generally show them to be doing a safe and prosperous business. --A year ago the police arrested Dolpb Richardson, a member of the Salvation Army, of Bloomintrton, for singing loudly npon a public street He was find $5 under an ordinance which stipulates that all public meetings shall be quietvorder- ly and peaceful gatherings. Richardson appealed the case to the Circuit Couct, which has reversed the judgment. The city then appealed the case to the Appel­ late Court, which has sustained the judg­ ment of the Circuit Couit. The Appel­ late Court decides that a gathering of the Salvation Army is not a "public meeting" in the sense in which the term is used in the ordinance, being merely a gathering of people attracted by curiosity, as a gathering at a fire or an accident. --The collections of internal revenue at Peoria for the. month of May were $1,987,039.82. Total tax paid on gallons, $2,179,403. Total packages exported, 670. --Henry Raab, the Democratic candi­ date for Superintendent of Public In­ struction, is a native of Germany. He came to this country in 1876 and settled in BelleviUe. He was nominated for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1882 by the Democrats, and was elected. --Some arrests are likely to be made at Chicago for violation of the alien labor law. v --George M. Stovrs, a son of the late Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago, has been adjudged insane by a iflta York Court. > --Lincoln dispatch: New developments continue in the. election-bribery cases, and additional interest is added to the proceedings. Of twenty-two indictments returned fifteen arrests have been made and six pleas of guilty entered. The minimum punishment, three months in jail, disfranchisement for five years, and costs of prosecution, has bean adminis­ tered in each case. Gov. Fifer has accepted the resigna­ tion of Edward F. Leonard,, of Peoria, as BOW REPUBLICAN MAJORITIES ABB OVERCOME IN ALABAMA. gMM T)«teiU of th« White Man's Method* of Carrying Elections--South Carolina's Unconstitutional Restrictions of the Franchise Roll Up Democratic Majori­ ties and Deceive the Colored Voters. [Washington special.] The Democratic methods of converting an immense Republican majority in the black districts of Alabama were ventilated in the House Tuesday in the discussion of the contest of J. V. McDuffie, Repub­ lican, against L. W. Turpin, The certified returns give Turpin a ma­ jority of 13,153, while McDuffie was graciously allowed a total of only 5,025. This occurred in the Fourth Alabama District, which has a colored population of 153,893 and only 32,824 whites. The proportion of white voters to colored is a trifle over one-fourth--that is, white voters, 6,500; colored, 27,000. In 1874 the district gave1 over 14,000 Republican majority, but a few years later the Democrats had matured their plans for cheating the colored | people, and by fraudulent and illegal methods a Demo-# crat has been returned to Congress* ever since. In the present case ballot-boxes were stuffed before the polls were opened, and in some places stuffed boxes were substituted af­ ter the polls closed for those in which the ballots had actually been deposited by the voters. In Lowndes County the in­ spectors were appointed at a certain time according to law, but a few days later Turpin visited the county and secured an entire change without authority of law. He caused colored Republicans who could not read or write to be substituted as election officers in place of intelligent men who were satisfactory to the Repub­ lican parly, so that the Republicans prac­ tically lind no representative add frauds were easily perpetrated. When McDuffie undertook to take testimony in some parts of the district he was driven out by threats of violence. The Democratic, officers of the law declined to guarantee his protection, and as one murder had been committed in Turpin's interest, Mc­ Duffie thought prudent to leave. The majority report in the case of Mil­ ler versus Elliott, from^he Seventh South Carolina District, was submitted to the Longstreet succumbed to the hot Bourbon fire. Lieut. Gefc. A. P. Stewart was present and approved of Gen. Long- street's course, but Stewart Baid he was no politician, never had been, ond did not intend to be, but he indorsed Long- etreft's letter, although he (Stewart) would not write one, but the balance were to follow with letters sustaining Longstreet." . THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY. [Pram the Philadelphia Press.] The two strongholdi of the Democratic party are the solid South and New Yurk City, and Tammany Hall is the life and soul of New York City Democraoy. In both these neighborhoods the sway of the Democrat, j Democratic p*rty is complete, and hence it is only just to look to these localities for evidences of the party's spirit and to find the results of its rule. What Tam­ many Hall has been in t he past is written in the political records of the conntrv. What it is to-day can be judged from the men who are the leaders of tbat organiza­ tion, and whom the New York Pout tabu­ lates according to character and ohcupa- tion as follows: Convicted murderer. 1 Tried for murder and acquitted........... .... 1 Indicted for fe!oi)ious assault 1 Indicted for bribery 1 Professional gamblers 4 Former gambling house or "dive"' keepers.. ... 5 Liquor dealers. 4 Former liquor dealers 5 Sons of liquor dealers. 8 Formers pugilists.; .. 3 Former "toughs"...'.. ........ 4 Members of the Tweeed g*Bg. 6? Officeholders 17 Former officeholders ,t. . ... 8 Former car conductors. Former pla sterer Former navy yard caulker. • Former carpenter Lawyer Nominal lawyers............ .V'. Favored city contractors... ,v« As tho Post is a Democratic paper, this classification may be considered as cor­ rect and authoritative. It is, so to SDeak, an ibside view of one of the most power­ ful Democr .tic organizations in the Northern States by a paper which knows, or ought to know, the composition of thflf party with which it trains. Without this organization, which is led by convicted criminals, gamblers, liquor dealers, pu­ gilists and toughs, the Demoer.itio party would be powerless in the leading State in the Union, whose vote is decisive in national politics. What the spirit of Demoeracy is in the Southern States, when the party has un- Hoa-e Committee on Elections, Tuesday, ' disputed control, has been recently shown by Chairman Rowell. The report iB I in » compilation of the State Treasurers ' who have defaulted and the amounts they have stolen. The table is worth repeat­ ing in connection with the revelations now being made concerning Tammady Hall. It is as follows: epo the #t«fftng. th somewhat sensational in that at tbe very beginning it declares that the entire South Carolina registration and election laws are unconstitutional. The basis for this declaration, as stated iu the report, is that the State law imposes a number of restrictions upon the exercise of the right of suffrage which are in conflict with- the State Constitution. Whereas the Constitution deprives a person of the right of suffrage only upon conviction for murder, felony, dueling i nd treason, the State law prohibits the exercise of the right of suffrage by persons who weie entitled to register in 18S1 and neglccted to do so; by those who moved into the State and neglecjted to register at the first ensuing regis­ tration; and by those who sold their registration certificates for a valuable: consideration. The report states that a number of negroes hnve been compelled bv poverty, while waiting the maturing of their cotton crops, to negotiate their certificates to traders, who immediately send them to political headquarters, with the result tbat the negroes are perma­ nently disfranchised. The report recites the facts that in cer­ tain precincts what amounted to an edu­ cational test (and, therefore, an ^illegal test) was imposed by lettering the ballot- boxes which were separated in the onse of each office, and that voters were de­ ceived by an intentional shifting of the boxes, so that the judges of election were able to throw out all of the ballots cast in the wrong boxes. There was also, say^ the report, evidence of ballot-box ~umming up it is found that, position most favorable to the jber, tbe contestant Miller f 757, while if the law is his majority will reach State Treasurer Churchill, of Arkan­ sas. shortage $ 80,522.04 State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, shortage 400,000.00 State Treasurer Vincent, of Ala- . bama shortage 243,148.91 State Treasurer Tate, ot Kentucky, shortage 247,028.50 State Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana, shortage £27,000.00 State Treasurer Nolan, of Missouri, , ' shortage .'.-v 32,140.00 State Treasurer Hemingway, of Mis­ sissippi, shortage 315,000,00 State Trt'Asuror Archer, of Mary­ land, shortage 200,000.00 Total shortage *2,345,144.45 These two illustrations of the spirit which controls the Democracy and the results which follow its undisputed rule are worth placing in conjunction so'that they may be studied together. If it were not for the power which Tammany HhII wields by means of the corrupt and ig­ norant yoie in New York City, and the power the Southern Democracy employs through fraud and force, the Democratic would be ns dead to-day as tho old al and Whig parties are. It sur­ vives, not by the inherent strength of A VtaMMMt House Ablaze !a *3he Hlgkt --Sleeping Inmates Rendered Uaooa- sciouH by Stnoke and Only Rescued by the Firemen's Heroic Exertions. St. Louis dispatch: The building 1633 Franklin avenue, the second floor of which is occupied as a tenement by several families and the lower floor as a pawnshop, was discovered to be on tire at about 3 o'clock in the morning. The (ire started on the second floor and burtv- ed for about hair an hour before it was discovered. When the alarm was turn ed in tho fire was well under way. As soon as the,fircmen arrived a stream of water was turued on tho burning build­ ing, but no effort was made to. rescue the occupants un­ til loud screams from the second floor indicated that there were help less people inside. The firemen entered and found the family of George Wolf struggling in the smoke and flames in the two front rooms. Mr. Wolf was frightfully burn­ ed and was lying helpless on the floor. His wife and two children were also burned, and his father, an old man nearly 70 years of age, luid been smoth ered to death in his bead. Charles Hauss, who occupied the rear apartment with his wif£ and child, had just left to go to work and his wife, and little son wero caught in the flames. Mrs. Hauss could have escaped, but her little boy was so frightened that he ran under the bed, and in the frantic moth­ er's efforts to savo her child she was dan­ gerously burned. The child was found in an unconscibus condition but the mother is able to speak. Tho injured were all taken to the dispensary. Wolf is not expected to live. The re covery of his two children is also doubt ful, though Mrs. Wolf may pull through. * Following is a list of'casualties: OKORGK WOLr, 33 years, badly burned. • ANNUS Wor.r. his wife, burne-dabout the head, neck, shoulders and arms, probably fatally. II AKHV Wow. 9 years. WALTER Woi.r, 4 years. MRS. MAHY HAUSS. burned about head and arms; serious. L'ttle son of Mary Hauss badly burned. After rescuing the inmates the lire- men tiiftiod their attention to extin­ guishing tho flames, which succumbed iu it short time. The damage will amount to 910,000; insured. Preside** Harrison, Members pt tk» Cabi­ net, u« Many Other Distinguished Statesmen 'Participate. Ci.EVJtLAXD, Ohio, May 31.--The roar of cannon and the cheers of 50,000 people welcomed President Harrison and Vice-President Morton to Cleveland to participate in the unveiling of the monument to the memory of the late President Garfield. The monster dem­ onstration at the untoi depot, however, crowned the triumphal entry Into the city. Th^ first to greet the President was ex-President Hayes. The President shook hands with him and several other gentlemen, and was then escorted to his carriage. As the President stepped into his car^ riage there was a mighty roar. In ad­ vance of the carriage doing escort'duty were the cavalrymen of the First Cleve­ land troop in their black and yellow uniforms. Behind them ih the first car- party Feder fr fo;£AiiizMtion< We hear of"a more tliofough ori tion being effectel Ibr th#vl party. \Yo suggest that it be iii :ion, among others, of r«< masses. We have a good ori uow, but it does not go into fields and shops enough. We nee cbinery that will run smoothly, should include working people more than it does. The editor, and official of the countv, the lawyer and aspirant for office ean do good (work organizing, but let | - - -j them keep modestly in the shade a little j B'rai<i until they get others to working. They j get most of the positions and fat, and j :an afford to see others run the machin- »ry. Send good shop people and farmers to the conventions. Get the active busi­ ness man enlisted. He seldom asks sffice, bat would, if asked, go to the conventions. He is methodical and valuable. Do not send all of one church jr society or army post to run things. Give general recognition and thereby sreate general interest. > See to it that all glasses are represented on the tickets nominated for State offices. Tbe veter­ ans have the love of the people and will naturally get the majority of the places. Be sure they come from the great indus­ tries, and once in a while recognize tbe boys who were too young to see military service. Shut out the fellows who never do anything unless their names are on the ticket. They deserve nothing. Ours is a working party and workers are worthy. Get back to the school-house canvass. The opposition will beat us on a still hunt. We thrive best in the full sunlight. The people love the principles of the Republican party and only vote other party tickets for spleen at negleot or something of 4hat kind. They are particularly sensitive of any one set to run things. The fact is well known that the strongest men in the opposition are there bac iuse they were set aside for less deserving men in most.. cases.--Iowa State Register. principles, but through the corrupt in liuence of Tammany Hall and the oppor­ tunity for fraud the Southern Democracy has gained through force. The self-respecting mgn who act with the Democratic party jihould consider the results ot' tbe dominance of that or­ ganization as illustrated in New York City and in the Southern States. In the the first, the sickening revelations of cor­ ruption, which are being made from day to flay in tho inv:stigation in the Sheriff's office, and, in the te ond, ths euormous defalcations of State Treasurers, are not accidents. They are fruits Of the spirit t govern the parly. Is it not time for -respecting men to ask themselves if PUBLIC DEBT_STATEMENT. During the Month of May the Debt Was Reduced 98.001,871. Washington dispatch: Following is tho public debt statement just issued: INTKREST- BKARINO DKBT. Bonds at 4V4 por%*ent ^ $110,323,450 Bonds at 4 per cent 0tKl,«59.15J licfunditig certificates at 4 per cent Navy pension fund at 51 per cent Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per. cent 100,083 14,000,000 64,63.1,512 i Principal Interest K92.112,090 8,372.955 f 8 XM 41.047 Total. DEBT ON WHICH 1NTER158T HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal «1,834.103 Interest... * 140,436 Total. tl, 973,801 DEBT BEARING HO INTEREST. Old demand rind legal tender notes .•. Certificates of deposit. Gold certificates Silver cert ifleates Fractional ourreney.* 'less •S.835.- U.J4, ('M iniated as lost or destroy* ed Principal......... TOTAL DEBT. Principal.. Interest.... Kt46.T3T.458 9,8.15.000 130.T88.799 394,656,N03 8.013,010 ... 788,048,950 ..11,582.885.308 M77.391 Bow Longstreet Became a Republican. Murat Hal stead wr.tes : The .truth about Longstreet's politics has been communicated to me in a private letter from a Southern friend, and, obeying the injunction as to the secrecy of the name of the writer, I give the letter, which is very interesting and valuable, in full: "As your articles on General Longstreet have been widely copied, it occurred to me you could publish some more facts about •Lee's Old War-horse' that would great­ ly interest tbe public, bu| don't use my name. First, about how Longstreet went into the Republican party in 186f»-(57. Gen­ erals John B. Hood, Joseph Wheeler, A. P. Stewart, and others, were in Long- street's office in New Orleans, soon after the war, wben the advisability of accept­ ing the reconstruction measures of Con­ gress was discussed. It was decided that it was the wisest thing to do, and as they agreed that General Lone- street was the greatest liring Con­ federate next to Lee, it was thought best Longstreet ehonld lead off in an open letter on the subject; and then Wheeler, Hood, Beauregard, Hays, and others should follow suit on the same line. Then Gen. Longstreet wrote that famous letter urging the Southern people to accept the situation, and unite with the North in the upbuilding of the country and obliterating all vestiges and traces of the war, so far as sectional pas­ sion was concerned, and have a real, sin­ cere national 'love feast' and a restora­ tion of the 'er* of good-feeling.' etc. Whereupon the Bourbon editors savagely swooped down npon Longstreet with a ferocity unequaled in abuse. Wheeler had interlined and made marginal notes on Longstreet's letter, but all these Gen- a member of the Historical Bond, and i erals 'went back' on Gen. Longstreet, and appointed Judge W. L. Groes, of Spring- j was left to 'treadthe wine-press alone.' ^^Itha vac^cv. \ M these army colleagues of Gen. ontinue to support a party the whos; rule is so demoralizing? but Not a Doughface. Sickles is a Democrat and od standing in his party. Sheriff of New York, consider that being re him a doughface iot twenty-five years ago. in MllBHlt ion Day address at Boston Gen. HttHe3 spoke of the nse o1 Confederate fl'^s at Ki^hnondt saying: "I am unmoved by the ra%of or hatred toward the men V tie. i But 1 am an Ameri Union soldier and f* love And I say here, as I will say that for Americans there is --the flag of Lundv's Lane Champlain and Lake Erie leans; ' the flag of Scott and Mc and Perry and Jackson; t of Lincoln and Hancock; the Grant, tbe flag of Washington, the flag deserving of honor from Americai It i6 the only flag which should float ove" this broad land. It is the flag that rep resents right, an4 in all our charity let us not forget the difference between right and wrong." If sll Democrats would speak as General Sickles speaks, and act as he acts, there would not be a recur-, rence of the Richmond foolishness. Total tl.59l.W2.309 Less cash items availa­ ble for reduction of debt $445,601,909 Less reserve held for- redemption of U. S. „ uotes 100.000,009 644.601,900 Total debt less available easli items tl.045.760,690 Net cash in the treasury 36,901.791 THE MEMORIAL BUILDING. rfage were President Harrison, ex-Presl- dent Flaye9, the Hon. Amos Townsend, and Mr. D. P. Eells. In the second carriage were Vice-President Mor­ ton, ex-Gov. Foster, Mayor Gardner, and Gen: Barnett. Secretary Windom, Mr. Lee McBride, tho Hon. R. C. Parsons, and L. E. Holden were seated In the third carriage, and in the fourth were Postmaster General Wahamaker, Mar­ shall Ramsdell and Mr. M. A. Hanna. Attorney General Miller, Georee H. Ely and S. T. Everett occupied the fifth car­ riage, and Secretary Rusk, the Hon. William McKinley. Jr., and the Hon. D. A. Angler tho sixth. At Bond stree't the escort wheeled and led the distinguished yisitors up to and along Euclid avenue past decorated blocks and residences until the home of Mr. Eells was reached. The party then disbanded. President Harrison and Marshall Ramsdell, the guests of Mr. Eells, alighted and tne other carriages rolled away to the various houses where the occupants were to bo entertained. Gen. W, T. Sherman arrived later in the day and was the guest of his nephew Henry S. Sherman. Maj-Gen. Schofield of tho army is being entertained by Mr. William Cliisholm. At noon the procession started toward Lake View cemetery, five miles away. The cemetery was reached at 2:30 o'clock, and there was thunder of can­ non as President Harrison's carriage neared the head of the procession and passed under the triumphal arch span­ ning tho cemetery gates. President Harrison and Gov. Campbell occupied the first carriage. Behind them were- ex-President Hayes and Vice-President Morton, and In the next were Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Maj.-Gen. Schofield, Major McKinley, and Secretary Rusk. In the other carriages were members President Garfield's cabinet and numerous Senators and Congressmen. The parade surpassed in numbers and appearance anything eyer seen in Cleve­ land. The military and the masonic bodies wero massed in front, and the Seterans and civic societies followed. ver forty bands were interspersed through the procession, which, although the men marched twelve abreast, stretched out for a distance of three Debt less cash in the treasury Juuel. 1800 I>ebt less cash In the treasury May 1, 1890 . ..tl,009,858,899 1.015,5:20,rro 0.061.871 Decrease of debt durins month....I Decrease of debt since June 30.1889 67.787,722 "ASH IN THE TREASl'KV AVAILABLE FOH UK- niTCTION or THE PUBLIC DKBT. Gold held for goldsecurltles actu­ ally outstanding • "ver held for silver certificates .dually outstanding d States notes held for certi- tes of deposit actually out- diiiir fijr matured debt and unpaid currency.: 190,768,398 249,066,083 9,865.000 10,301.555 t>70 Over 100 Miles for a Dentist. "When I hear a man talk aliout dentistry," said Mr. Fuller, "I am re­ minded of my experience in Nevada. "I had the toothac he. I liad it bad. It ached days and it ached nights, and it woke with nie in the mornings. The miners did what they could for me. They tried to dig the tooth out with their jack-knives and pry it off, and what J suffered under their manipula­ tion ho tongue can tell. It was furi­ ous. One day they suggested that I put some acid iu it that they used in testing rock, and I tried that and it eased it for a few hours, when it began with redoubled fury. If we had pinch­ ers we would have had it ont, but I de­ cided it no go, and I had to give in and look forward to tramping to Austin. "On the morning of my leaving I found a man who was going up with a pair of cattle and a pair of wheels. I went along with him, sick and weak from lack of sleep. It was 150 miles to Austin--live days and nights of travel. For five days and nights I suf­ fered. I walked most of the time, rode some on the wheels, slept at night on the earth with a pile of sand scooped up for a pillow; had awful dreams; was exhausted by pain and worn to the bone. At last- I struck Austin. De­ spairingly I hunted for a dentist. There was none. Finally I found a doctor who had an old pair of tooth-pinchers. He sat me down on a soap-box in a grocery store and he went for me, and, as it seenled to me, after two hours of agony, he pulled that tooth from its socket and I rose for the first time in many days happy in relief. Since then I have never looked a dentist in the face without thanking God for their dispensation and that I am surrounded by them."--Lewistoicn Journal. rallable for reduction tdebt t 445,601,908 IIK8EKVK FUNH. HeW1 for redemption of Tutted States not* s. acts Jail. 14, 1875. and July 12. 1882 1 100,000.000 UNAVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OK THE DEBT Fractional silver coin.4 22.002.152 Minor coin tW9,77:J Total Cert ificates held as cash Net cash balance on hand... Total cash in tbe treasiiry as shown by treasurer's general account. ;t 038,362,171 ELBOW-©REA8E name, and it is nevertheless the the carpet swee] in this country. hath an honorable iot to be derided, plothea wringer and |r are very popular FOR PURE FOOD. A Substitute for All the Ellin Favorably Reported. Washington dispatch: Senator Pad­ dock has reported favorably from the committee on agriculture a substitute for all the pure-food bills which have been introduced in the Senate. The bill provides that there shall be organized in the Department of Agriculture a food division, whose chief shali receive 83,000 per annum and shall be charged with the duty of procuring and having anal­ yzed samples of food or drugs sold in any State qr Territory other than where manufactured. The introduction into any State or Territory from another State or "territory of any adulterated food or drugs is prohibited under pen­ alty of fine and imprisonment. Any drug shall be deemed to be adulterated when it differs within the knowledge of the seller from tho standard of strength. <iuality, or purity laid down in the United States pharmacopoeia or other standard works or when its strength or purity falls below the professed stand­ ard under which it is sold. THE STATUE. miles. The special trains had brought 50,000 people to the ccmctcry gates and the crush about the monument was ter­ rible Ex-Presidont Hays, president of the Garfield Monument Association, made the opening speech, and the oration was delivered by ex-Governor Jacob D. Cox, dean of the Cincinnati law college. A chorus of 500 voices sung patriotic airs. After the regular exercises the Knights Templar held brief services hnd a national salute was fired. The Garfield memorial stands on the bluff overlooking Lake View cemetery. Its foundation is 100 feet above the level of the lake, three miles distant, and it rises to a height of 180 feet. It is an imposing structure, conspicuous for miles in all directions, while in­ ternally it is the most magnificent mor­ tuary temple on this continent. Artist ically considered, it has few if any su­ periors in the world. BOUGHT A WIFE. Curious Marriage of an Old ChlnapiaA and a young Girl. Kansas City (Mo.) dispatch: Chung Sing, a wealthy Chinese physician, 60 years oH, has just been married to Ah Gin, a pretty Chinese girl IT years of age. Chung Sing became a widower eighteen months ago and sent to San Francisoo for a wife, paying 3'iOO for her to her deputy father, or guardian, her parents residing in China. The ceremony performed was according to the Chinese custom. Three Gallant Yonng Generals. Maj. Gen. Miles was the guest o! Gen. G. Pennypacker, at Philadelphia, during the. reunion of the Loyal Legion. In the national army there wer€ three young generals w ho at the clost of the war became officers iu the army. These were Gen. Miles. Gen. McKenzit and Gen. Pennypacker. The last named was the youngest of them, in deed, the youngest general in the army Gen. McKenzie, who was woundec badly, often succumbed some years ago to the strain consequent upon his injuries and sufferings. Gen. Penny' packer, who was wounded seven times in eight months, has been enabled by at unusually strong constitution toendur* for twenty-five years a daily martyr­ dom inflicted by a rebel bullet which, as he led his brigade over the ramparts of Fort Fisher and planted the Unios colors on the works, crushed the bon« and severed the main nerve of his leg. Each one of the three would probablj have gladly exchanged all his fame foi the good health which they took init tho war.--New York Tribune. M in • Fri(htr«t lljllf* Accident »t Man frwwbto An KagS» neer's Carelessness. San Francisco (Cal.) dispatch: In * frightful railroad"a< cident twenty-nine people have lost their lives. The local train connecting at Oakland with the ferryboats from San Francisco ran through an open drawbridge over San Antonio Creek at Webster street, Oak­ land. The yacht Juanita had jast passed through the draw when the train appeared, going in the direction of Alameda. The drawbridge keeper endeavored at once to close the bridge. but it was too late, and the engine with the tender and the first car, which waa filled with passengers, plunged into tho creek, which was'here quite deep. Engineer Sam Dunn, when he saw that the bridge did not close, reversed the lever, but the momentum of the en- cine was too great to allow him to stop the train in time. The weight of tho * «ngino and the first car broke the coup- igs and left the other two cars o? the train standing on the track. The sec­ ond car ran about a third of the way across the foridue and stopped, but tho jar was sufficient to break open tho front of the car, and many of the pao- | sengers were thrown into the water. The first car, which had followed tho engine to the bottom of the muddy es­ tuary, soon rose, and such of the {Sassen- gers as liad escaped were picked up by the yachts and small boats which gath­ ered at the scene. The trainmen and the rest of the passengers set to work to help the rescuers, and when the wreck- ing .train arrived from Oakland the car ; was drawn into shallow water and small boats began dragging the creek for tho " bodies of the victims. The top of tne passenger coach was cut open as soon as i t was raised above | the water and the work of removing tho ; bodies commenced, ten being taken out in quick succession. Three women and three girls were taken from the water alive and removed to the receiving hos­ pital. Another young lady died soon . afttr being taken from the water. The news of the accident created In­ tense excitement In Oakland and thous-r ands of people flocked to the morgue and o the scene of the wreck. At tho morgue bodies were laid out as soon aa received to await identification. The body of E. P. Robinson, which was among those taken from the hole cut in the roof of the car, was among the first removed, and was taken "charge of by Coroner Evers. The bodies of six men and two women were brought in soon after, some of the bodies being at first lert at the receivin* hospital, where the injured were also taken. In a short time thirteen bodies lay on the ,, floor and on the marble slabs of the morgue awaiting identification, and heartrending scgnes were witnessed as friends came forward to claim their dead. The list of tho identified 19 as follows: MARTIN KELLY. Oakland,AssistantOblet Wharfinger for the State. A. H. AUSTIN of Austin ft Phelps, 6a> Francisco. MISS FLORENCE AUSTIN. MRS. BRYAN O'CONNOR, widow of the do> ceased member of the firm of O'Connor, Mof* " fatt & Co., San Francisoo. J. R. IRWIN, sewing machine agettVOak- : land. E. R. ROBINSON. Pan Francisco. j LUIGI MALT F.ST A. San Francisco. ' "• Capt, JOHN DWYEIt. Sacramento. ^ V MR. WILLIAMS, San Francisco. , - * * H. W. AU LD fcolored). Honolulu. Tho two MISSES K IE UN AN, San IW elsco. H. M ALTER A, San Francisco. The experience of the passengers la the first coach, as related by those who fortunately escaped, was horrible in tha e x t r e m e . F . F . F i n l c y , o f S a n F r a n » ' f , cIsco, one of the passengers, told graphic story of the disaster. "We J, /j left the city," he said, "on the " r 1:25 train for Alameda on the narrow- . guago. I was seated on the front seat * ' t. j of the first car, facing the engine. All -" went well until just as we approached " the drawbridge crossing San Antonio creek. As we drew near to the bridge It seemed to me the draw war open and that a fearful accident was mevitable. Just then a man jumped frotn tho engine Into the water, and then came a crash, A horrible crush­ ing of timber and snapping of heavy iron-work followed, and at once con~* sternatlon previiil^d In the car. Tho;* .< ?;;>;• next thing I knew I found myself blindly groping for the door, which I fortiial i nately found and opened. WJier H found myself on the platform I gradually • norkcd my way by climbing and hold- ' v ing on to the front of the car to th® . roof, which I had just reached whets'. that end of the car rose out o* / , the water, and quite a number of peopl»^ " ^ escaped in this manner, principally: women and children. The car was abou* . two-thirds full when we left the wharf. ! /; and I should judge there were at least fifty people in it. There was a fearfu* outcry when th* car began to fill, but ' v this was almost immediately hushed in . ? .• one long final wail of despair." " % James Dunlap, who was tending th$< ^ bridge at the time of the accident,said*. ^ "I was in charge at the time and had just opened the draw to to allow the yacht Juanita to pasj,-i;'p through.' I was in the act of moving the draw back into place when the up. "Q train from San Francisco came along. .., '4 That is all I know about It." He de­ clined to answer the question if it waa . v not rather unusual to open the draw : just at tbe hour when the train wasdue. The water over which the bridge it * , built is an estuary of San Francisco bay. ; A strong current runs in the stream. wbich at the point of the accident is ||| about 3<M) feet wide and twenty feet deep, A passenjrer train crosses the bridga . "/ every half hour during the day and , when the bridge is open the keeper is supposed to signal by hoisting a red flag. The bridgetender says tho ilf danger flag was properly set iu the cen- t- ter of tbe track when the bridge wai 1 opened for the yacht Juanita to pass. • vi* It is known that the engineer ana fireman both escaped. It seems proba­ ble that the terrible accident was due to the carelessness of the engineer. It is now know that there were forty* eight people in the car that weiit dowm Of these nineteen are known to have es* caped with their lives, making the proh* able number of,, the killed twenty-nln^ •; J lis •^1 Sale of Original Package* Legal. Augusta (Me.) dispatch: The Supremo court has announced a unanimous de­ cision in the Burns "original package** ease, reversing the decision of Judge Whitehouse. The opinion is drawn by the chief justice and concurred in by Judges Walton, Virgin, Emery, Libby% and Foster. It says: "The case of Gus Leisq et al. TSi. flamlin, just decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, on full con' sideration seems to clearly settle tho question and to require us to reverse the rulings below and sustain the law ac­ cording to the respondent's contention* The opinion of a majority of the judge* sitting in that case appears to be very elaborate and exhaustive of the ques­ tions involved, and mar commend itself to many as containin* the better con­ clusion. Our obedience Is due, how­ ever, to the judgment which prevails-- not that onr statute is unconstitutional, for It prohibits only*the unlawful solo of intoxicating liquors--but iia later*, preta tion must be consti tuttaoal. castions tuftalaed.'!. / i L.Wt