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/ , • \ : ' V - * V ~ 1 , % J ', " 4 2" • t, *- [amdcalct SAtor mi PuMltlwr. ILLINOIS w111 'Jif TIMES NEAR. -iF-^rv SANWERS DELIGHTED AT TT** / APPROACH OF GOLD. Y T © • K d d y -- T » N e a l K o u i l * ioVernor by Ohio Democrats-- After Yommm Dojr -for Deeer- ; • • . • • " • • ' • • sv if: i >SWSi Si £ •• V ( !/ \ V «v» $• #.v* & *> S».f II'" t/1*- . The Tide Hu Turned. a million in yellow gold ai" [Chicago Friday morning, with Br of a million more to follow ay; and a few hours later the J employes of the express corn- i Were rolling packages contain- i equal amount more on trucks will head for the First Na« •tonal Bank, where the preceding •760,000 went. Haif a million besides will come in a lew days for the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. A million ©wo for the same institution will fol­ low. Armour & Co. get a con­ signment of *500,000. The Bank of Nova_ Scotia will receive $250,- 000. This shining flood of money Was due in Chicago inside of two weeks. There are $3,000,(100 in it. And it is not the last of the Hood, either, in the opinion of the bankers to whom it is consigned--the delighted bankers, it might be said, for in this new and suc­ cessful call upon the strong-boxes of Ix)ndon for money to add to our circu­ lating medium they tee far-reaching effects. Steamers arriving at New York bring consignments from London •ad Spain. _____ Xeak for Governor^ THE Ohio Democrats, at their State oonvention held in Cincinnati, nomina­ ted Lawrence T. Neal, of Chillicothe, for Governor. The nomination was made on the first ballot. Colonel W. A. Taylor, of Columbus, was nomina­ ted by ncclamaticn for Lieuterant Gov­ ernor. John W. Sater, of Darke, was nominated for Supreme Judge. B. C. Blackburn, of Coshocton, was nomina­ ted for State Treasurer and John P. Bailey, of, Putnam County, for Attor­ ney General, both by acclamation. "The platform adopted 'ignores the sil- ^er question, save to reaffirm the na­ tional platform. It favors national .banks being permitted to issue cur­ rency to the par value of the bonds de- jDOsited. t f* -" , rs========= K ' *N£WS NUGQETS. .'"V- ksk&. * . ONE HUNDRED armed men will build • town in the Cherrokee strip and make it a oourityB^at in spite of Government orders. ATTORNEY GENERAL MOLONEY, of Illinois, has decided that railroads are n )t compelled to build stations at small towns. A. D. BAKER, proprietor of the South Blind (Ind.) Wagon Works at Misha- Waka, has made an assignment. Lia­ bilities, $120,000; assets, $55,600. NAT PARKER, supposed to be from Chicago, #ras found dead in bed in a Minneapolis hotel. Death is supposed to have been caused by morphine. HEALTH OFFICER JENKINS, of New York, reports that he has discovered cholera bacilli in the caee of one of the passengers on the btaamship Kara- mania. THE Indianapolis Cabinet Works has passed into the hand} of a receiver. The concern was indebted to the sus- Guded Indianapolis National Bank for 30,000. ROBERT H. COLEMAN, the Lebanon (Pa.) iron king, has made an assign­ ment. The liabilities are $5,000,000 and the assets $10,000,000, but they cannot be realized upon. ARMED guards are stationed at pack­ ing houses at Fresno, Cal., since Sun­ day's fire there. Anonymous letters faave warned the citizens that men are Organized to burn property in Fresno. THE Cadwallader Flouring Mill at ~ "ia, Ohio, was blown up by boiler osion, and C. Davis, Secretary of mill, and Fred C. Myers, book- fer, being in the office over the en- room, lost their lives. THE woods all along the north shore of Lake Superior, from Two Harbors to Grand Portage, are afire and burn­ ing fiercely. There "are only a few settlers in the district, and the great­ est loss will be to standing pine. CHARLES G. EDDY, one of the oldest railroad men in the West, and until six months ago Second Vice President of the Reading system, committed suicide Thursday night by shooting himself in the head in Washington Park, Chi­ cago. His friends are unable to assign any reason for his act. A CONTRACT has been let to D. G. Klrschbaum & Co., of Denver, to com­ plete canal No. 1, in the Colorado irri­ gation pcheme, for $1,023,000, the work to be done in eighteen months. The canal will be eighty-six miles long*, starting at a point near Canon City and running eastw ard to a paint just below Colorado Springs. CLARENCE M. DOW, the son cf the Denver banker, is again in the hands Of the army authorities and ii now con­ fined at Fort Houston. Young Dow enlisted about twelve months ago to •scape Millie Price, the actress, his divorced wife. A month ago Dow pro- Cured a leave of absence* and went to San Franciec ), met a voung lady of Oakland and married her. His deser- ti*n followed, and he and his wife went to Texas, whore he waa recognized and thrown into jail. 1*1, • THE British Government is said to M.V * ^ alarmed at the prospect of the re­ ft:, P®al of the Sherman law by the Ameri- '/ •:. can Congress and to be discussing'the i.. ^ , advisability of proposing that if the fc'ir United States will continue purchasing jft ' - W silver free coinage will be resumed in 3?4 » ' ^ ^ India at the ratio of 24 to 1. |T T ' The First "National Bank of Nash- grille, Tenji., has closed its doors, Its ft. ' -individual deposits amount to $1,005,- 507. The City Savings Bank, of the K", ! * same city, has decided to (suspend pay- • ..-Knent for sixty days. TUe assets are | ->f. •|!®,4fo9anddepo,its$40,7^. " SF " EASTERN. fr- * V. , ' AT Lancaster, Pa., hundreds of acres ;fl tobacco were ruined by hail. "" ATTORNEY GENERAL HENSEL, of f'.\' \ Pennsylvania, has refused the writ of * * *' %uo warranto requested by certain Citizens of Gettysburg to deprive the toolley lines of its franchises on the battle-field, and decided all the points Involved in favor of the trolley com- 000, representing part of the assets of the Northwest Guaranty Loan Com­ pany, of Minneapolis, which became in­ solvent in M*y. , THE report of the administrator of the estate of Father Mollinger, the Pittsburg, Pa., faith cure priest who died a year ago, was filed Friday, In­ stead of leaving an estate valued'at sev­ eral millions of dollars, as everybody supposed, the total assets are $84,076.11, which after deducting debts and ex­ penses are reduced to $64,530.64. A monument to cost\ $1,000 will be erect­ ed to his memory.' "WBSTERNT INSURANCE rates in Iowa twre been raised 10 per cent* FIVE men who were found guilty of •violating the prohibition laws were sentenced at Pembina, N. D., to pay $200 to $500 fine and serve four months in jail. A MONSTER golden eagle attempted to carry off Joseph Maynes near Tole­ do. The bird had lifted Maynes, who weighs 151 pounds, from his feet three times, when a companion came to his assistance and the eagle was captured. At Omaha a masked man boarded a motor train in the north part of the city and covered the motorman, con­ ductor and two passengers with a big revolver. He secured several quarto of nickels from the conductor and es­ caped. ¥ It is now said that the failure of the Indianapolis National Bank was caused by the queer transactions of President Theodore H. Haughey. He is alleged to have made unsecured loans amount­ ing to $858,000 to relatives and church friends. THE Nebraska Wesley an University, at Lincoln, has a new Chancellor, Dr. Isaac Crook, lute President of the Uni­ versity of the Pacific. The election was the result of many hours' deliber­ ation on the part of the Board of Trustees. SOUTHERN? VIRGINIA Populists in convention at Lynchburg nominated Edmund R. Cooke, a prosperous farmer of Cumber­ land County, for Governor; J. Brad Beverly of Fauquier, for Lieutenant Governor, and W. S. Gravely of Henry, for Attorney General. STEPHEN WELCH and his wife were arrested at Alexander, 100 miles south of Wheeling, W. Va., for moonshining. Welch escaped from the officers and Mrs. Welch was captured and confined in a house in the town. Later a mob of her sympathizers surrounded the house, and opened fire on the guards. Over twenty shots were exchanged be­ fore the officers surrendered and the woman was released. Three of the mob were wounded, it is thought fa­ tally. Thev were carried away by their friends. More trouble is ex­ pected. FOREIGN. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is se­ riously ill with nervous prostration. NEARLY one-third of the town of Port Louis, capital of Mauritius, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is over 1,000,000 rupees. THE report of the London Board of Trade on the loss of the steamship Naronic last February concludes that she nuut feave collided with an iceberg IN GENERAL A DISASTROUS flcod prevails in the Canadian River owing to the heavy rains in the Pan Handle country. Two hundred and eighty feet of the Santa Fe Railroad bridge at Purcell, I. T., has been washed away and the river is rising. No freight can be trans­ ferred either south or north, and all the road's passenger business has been transferred to the 'Frisco from Texas points. It is reported that many set­ tlers in the bottom lands will suffer heavy losses. FOLLOWING is the standing of Hie dubs of the National League: . w. Lt »cU w. L. Boatona. ...et as .wnndmutia.it 45 PMiadelp'iatS* 8ft StliBt LoTlta....40 45 Pitts bor*a. .44 M .*14 m Cleveland*, .SO si -tat Cbicacoa u 63 New York* .43 44 .404 WaiU'rt'u.n EB Brooklyn*...43 49 .4B6 LomlsTOles.-SS Kt MESSAGE TO CONGRESS THE PRESIDENT OON8IDER8 FINANCE ONLY. M» IMWI tkm ISuncdfatt* aad Vnwail* Haul Bepwl of the Sherman Lew, aad Holds It Principally Responsible Tor the . Piiwirt Alarming Business Sltyatlen Text of the Document. President Cleveland's mes age to the LIIId Congress, assembled in extraordi­ nary session, is comparatively brief. The message is special rather than general in its character, and is limit3d to the necessities of the financial situ­ ation. Mr. Cleveland insists upon .the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law, and he attributes toit principally the ills with which the country is now threatened. The document in full reads as follows: To the Congress of the Untteji States: Ihe existence of an alarming and extraor­ dinary business situation, involving the wel­ fare and prosperity of all our people, has con­ strained me to call together in extra session the people's representatives in Congress, to the end that, through a wise and patriotic exercise of the legislative duty with which they solely are charged, present evils may be mitigated and dangers threatening the future may be averted. t Onr unfortunate tinanolal plight Is not the result of nntoward events nor of conditions IFxssr a p«smoaio «tti a bearint la favtwot eaeh an snaacwMBt so long a* we are willing to ooo- tlnue ear attempt to accomplish the sesnlt single-handed. Resulted In a Leek of Confidence. The knowledge in business circles among our own p onfe that our Government can not make its flat eQuivalent to Intrinsic value, nor keep inferior money on a parity with superior money by its own inde­ pendent efforts, has tesulted in such a lack or confidence at home in the stability of currency values that capital re­ fuses its aid to new enterpriser while millions are actually withdrawn from the channels of trade and commerce to become idle and unpro­ ductive In the hand* of timid owners. Foreign investors, equally alert, not only decline to pur­ chase American securities, but make haste to sacrifice those which they already have. It does not meet the situation to say that apprehension in regard to the future of our finances is groundless, and that there is no reason for lack of confidence in the purposes or power of the Government in the premises, The very existence of this apprehension and lack of confidence, however caused, is a menace which ought not for a mo­ ment to be disregarded. Possibly if the under­ taking we have in hand were the maintenance of » MpeoiSff known quantity of silver at a pari­ ty with go d, our ability to do so might be esti­ mated and gauged, and perhaps, in view of our unparalleled growth and resources, might be favorably passed upon. But whan onr avowed endeavor is to maintain such parity in regard to an amount of silver increasing at the rate of fifty millions of dollars yearly, with no fixed termination to such increase, it can hardly be said that a problem is presented whose solu­ tion is free from doubt. The people of the United States are entitled to a sound and stable surrency and to money recognizee! as euch on every exchange and in every market of the world. " Their Oovernme&t has no right to Injure them by finRnfcial experiments opposed to the policy and practice of othei GUNS AT THE BIG PAIR TOOLS OF WAR ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR EXHIBITS. mlM- fc. ATI .m .Ui .998 .266 .350 R. G. DUN & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says; demoralization In the speculative mar­ kets has been followed by a mere healthy tone, and heavy Imports of gold Inspire hope that the monetary troubles may abate. The week has been one of sur­ prises. Enormous liquidation in wheat brought the lowest prices ever known. The crash of the pork ring took nearly 110 ftrom the nominal price of that product in an hour and caused several failures for mill­ ions each. Extraordinary depression in stocks, and a slaughter which included some of the best, were quickly followed by a bear panic and sensational advances. Meanwhile In the money markets there has come a singular sense of relief, not­ withstanding an actual increase in pres­ ent embarrassments, almost amounting to a paralysis of exchsnge between the chief commercial cities, and of many industrial works, because 2 per cent, for currency falls to secure #hat is needed for the pay­ ment of wages. Hopes are nevertheless fixed on the ships bringing over 811,000.000 gold across the sea, and on the axica ses­ sion of Congress. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLK--Common to Prima.... |>ag HOGS--Shipping Grades........ 8 00 SHEEP--Fair te Choice s oo WHEAT--No. 2 Spring BV COEN--NO. 2 8S OATS--No. 2. 24 RYE--NO. 2.. 45 BUTI'EB--CHOIOE CREAMERY..... 19} EGOS--FRESH 13 POTATOES--New, per bn so INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLS--SHIPPING A 25 Hoos--Choice Light 3 60 SHEEP--Common to Prime s 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Red. 64 CORN--NO. 2 WHITE 30 OATS-NO. 2-White ... U fcl. LOUIS. CATTLE TOO HOGS..... 9 00 WHEAT--NO. 2 RED 60 COBN--NO. I 3J OATS--NO. 2 23 BYE-*-NO. 2. , 43 CINCINNATI. , CATTLE 3 00 Hogs j 00 SHEEP 3 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed " 64 COKN-- ND. 2 "* 42 OATS--NO. 2MIXED 23 BYE--Xo. a. 49 DETROIT. * CATTLE 8 M J.1008* 3 uo KHEEP 3(H) WHEAT--No. 2 Bed, CO COBN--NO. 2 F OATS--NO. 2 WHITE, OLD..! 34 TOLEDO;" WHEAT--No. 2 Red.... M COKN-NO. 2 YELLOW 40 OATS-NO. 2 WHITE ;;; . BYE-NO. 2 " BUFFALO.'" Ptlra®- -• • ».60 PRESIDENT CLKVEIJ <® 4 75 & 0 00 3 ' appears by a bill in equity before (lite Supreme Court of Massachusetts that there are already claims for $3,000,- •#0«ff*iwrt securitie« ralued at flOO,- HOGS--Best Grades WHEAT--No. 1 Hard No. 2 Red „ MILWAUKEE.' WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COEN--No. 3 . . OATS--No. 2 White RYE--No. 1 BABLHY--No. 2 * POBK--Mess CATTLE NEW Y0'^" Hoos SHEEP wheat-NO. affect*; ";•••• COBW--No. a* .. esfc^'.vr* & 6 00 @ 6 00 rax--Ke delated to our natural resources; nor is it traceable to any of the afflictions which fre­ quently check national growth and prosper­ ity. With plenteous crops, with abundant promise of remunerative production and manufacture, with unusual invitation to safe investment and with satisfactory as­ surance to business enterprise, suddenly financial distrust and fear have sprung np on every side. Numerous moneyed institu­ tions have suspended because abundant assets were not immediately available to meet the demands of frightened depositors: surviving corporations and individuals are too content to keep in hand the money they are usually anxious to loan, and those engaged in legiti­ mate bn fines s are surprised to find that the seourities they offer for loans, though hereto­ fore satisfac ory. are no longer accepted. Values supnosed to be fixed are fast becoming conjectural, and loss and failure have Invaded every branch of business. The Silver Parchaee law. I believe these thlnzs are principally change­ able to Congressional legislation touching; the purchase and coinage of silver by the general government. This legislation is embodied in a statute passed on the 14th day of July. 1$>0, which was the culmination of much agitation on the subject involved, and which may be considered a truce, after the long struggle, between the advocates of free silver coin age and those intending to be more conservative. Undoubtedly the monthly purchases by the Government of 4,500,(W0 ounces of silver, forced under that statute, were regarded by those interested in silver production, as a cer­ tain guaranty of its increase in price. The re­ sult, however, has been entirely different, for Immediately following a spasmodic and slight rise the price of silver began to fall after the passage of the act, and has since reached the lowest point ever known. This disappointing result has led to renewed and persistent effort in the direction of free coinage. Meanwhile, not only are the evil effects of the operation of the present law constantly accumulating, but thejtesult to which itB exe­ cution must inevitably lead is becoming pal­ pable to all who fti/e the least heed to financial subjects. This law provides that in payment for the 4,f00.001 ounoes of silver bullion which the Secretary of the Treasury is commanded to purchase monthly there shall be issued Treasury notes redeemable on demand In gold or silver coin, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, and thtft >- aid notes may be reissued. It is, however, declarod in the act to be "the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals up­ on a parity with each other upon the present Jegai ratio or such ratio as may be providert oy law." This declaration so oontrols the action of the Secretary of the Treasury as to pre­ vent his exercising the discretion nominally vested iu him, if by such action the parity be­ tween gold and silver may be disturbed. Man­ ifestly a refnsal by the Secretary to pay these Treasury notes 1q gold, if demauded, would necessarily result in their discredit and de­ preciation as obligations payable only in sil­ ver, and would destroy the parity between the two metals by cs abiishinga discrimination in favor of gold. Up to the 15th day of Jnly, 1893, these notes had been issued iu payment of silver bullion, purchased to the amount of more than $147,- 000,000. While all but a very small quantity of this bullion remains uncoined and •without usefulness in the IWeasury, many of the notes given in its purchase have been paid in gold. This is illustrated by the statement that between the first day of May, lH'J.', and the fifteenth day of July, 1893, the notes of this kind issued in payment for silver bullion amounted to a little more than fifty-four millions of dollars, and that during the same period about forty-nine millions of dollars were paid by the Treasury in gold for the redemption of such notes. Drain Upon the Gold Reserve. The policy necessarily adopted of paying these notes in gold has not spared the gold re­ serve of jlong ago sot aside by the Government for the redemption of other notes, for this iund has already been subjected to the payment of new obligations amounting to abont Jiiw.i OU,O:IO on account of silver pur­ chases, and has, as a consequence, for the first time since its creation, been encroached upon. We have thus made the depletion of our gold eany, and have tempted other and more ap­ preciative nations to add it to their stoeK. That the opportunity we have offered has not been neglected is phown by the large amounts of gold which have been recently drawn from our ^'Treasury and exported to in­ crease the iinancial strength of for­ eign nations. The excess of exports of gold over its imports for the year ending June ;KI, ls'J3, amounted to more than eighty-seven and a half millions of dollar*. Between the first day of July. lHD'i, and the fifteenth day of Jnly, 189a, the gold coin and bullion in our Treasury decreased more than one hundred and thirty- two millions of dollars, while during the same period the nilver coin and bullion in the Treasury increased more than one hundred and forty-seven mill­ ions of dollars Unless Government bonds are to be constantly issued and sold to replenish our exhausted gold, only to be again exhaust­ ed, it is apparent that the operation of the Silver Purchase law, nov.- in force, leads in the direction of the entire substitution of silver for the gold in the Government Treasury, and that this must be followed by the payment of all Government obligations in depreciated silver. At this stage gold and silver must part company, and the Government must fail in its established policy to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other. Given over to the exclusive use of & cur­ rency greatly depreciated according to the Standard of the commercial world, we cenld no longer claim a place among the nations of the first class, nor could our Government claim a performance of its obliga­ tions, te far as such an obligation has been imposed upon it, to provide for the use ef the people the best and safest mqAey. - If, •• mmr ef Its friend* «laiin, »llv« Meat civilised states, nor is it justified in permit­ ting an exaggerated and unreasonable relianee on our national strength and ability to Jeop­ ardize the soundness of the people's n;oney. This matter rises above the plane of party pol­ itics. It vitally concerns every business and calling and enters every household in the land. Harmful Effects to the Wage-Earner. There is one important aspect of the sub­ ject which especially should never be over­ looked. At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuation of values; but the wage-earner--the first to be in­ jured by a depreciated currency and the last to reoeive the benefits of its correction--Is prac­ tically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and con­ tented capital. This failing him, his con­ dition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortunes of oth­ ers nor hoard his labor. One of the greatest statesmen our country has known, speaking more than fifty years ago, when a derangement of the c^rreEcy had caused commercial distress, said: "The very man of all others who has the deepest interest in a sound currency and who suffer by mischievous legislation in monetary matters is the man who earns his dally breed by his dally to L" These words are as pertinent now as on the day when t .ey were uttered, and ought to im­ pressively remind us that a failure iu the dis­ charge of our duty at this time must especi­ ally injure those of our countrymen who labor, and who, because of their number and condition, are entitled to the moBt watchful care of their Government. It is of the utmost importance that such relief as Congress can afford in the existing situation be afforded at once. The maxim, "He gives twice who gives quickly," is di­ rectly applicable. It may be true that the embarrassments from which the business of the country is suffering arise as much from evils apprehended as from those actu­ ally existing. We may hope, too, that calm counsels will prevail, and that neither tlie capitalists nor the wage-earners will give way to unreasoning panio and sacrifice their property or their in­ terests under the Influence of exaggerated fears. Nevertheless, every day's delay in re­ moving one of the plain and principal causes of the present state of things enlarges the mischief already done and increases the re­ sponsibility of the Uvvernment for its exist­ ence. Congress Invoked to Act Promptly. Whatever else the people have a right to expect from Congress, they may certainly demand that legislation condemned by the ordeal of threw years' disastrous ex­ perience shall be removed from the statute books as soon as their representatives cad legitimately derJ with it. It v.-as my purpose to summon Congress in special session early in the coming September, that we might enter promptly upon the work of tariff reform, which the true interests of the country clearly demand, which so large a majority of the people, as shown by their suffrage, de­ sire and expect, and to the accomplishment of which every effort of the present' administra­ tion is p,edged. But while tariff reform has lost nothing of its immediate and per­ manent importance, and must in the neaf fu­ ture engage the attention of Congress, it has Beemed to me that the financial condition of the country should at once and before all other subjects be considered by your honor­ able body. 1 earnestly recommend the prompt repeal of the provisions of the act passed Jnly 14, lH:m, authorizing the purchase of silver bullion, and that other legislative action may put beyond all doubt or mistake the intention and the ability of the Government Apostles of Peaoe FeMt Their oe the Terrible Krnpp Gun--Great Prog­ ress la American Ordnance--We Are Be- hind In Small Arms. They Catch the Crowd* World's Fair correspondence: The great Exposition was conceived and is being carried forward with a view to show the development of the world's inhabitants in the arts of peace. It is essentially an exposition of the industries, the arts and literature, the mechanics and all other fields of ex* pansion in human endeavor. Its whole' Bcope and purpose ie to glorify the Eeace, prosperity and welfare of man-ind. And yet there are no more popular or eagerly sought for exhibits in the whole Exposition grounds than those which illustrate the development of the science of war and the improve­ ments made in the last quarter of a century in all the implements and ap- Slianoes of death arid destruction, ten who have never heard more than the discharge of a fowl- ing-piece will stand by the hour and look at the nuge steel monster cannon which represent the development in the science of ordnance in the past twenty-five years, and women who would shriek at the sound 'ktejjrg* 13M old Mexican w»r(mi eotrid thro* a ahot about 1,200 feet and pould be flred onee In five minutes if ite crew tnw? actlte. The new tkirty- two-pounder Hotchkiaa fires thirty Bhota ft minute and finphmiitfifi its use* fulness in a blaze of death and destruc­ tion at a distance of from two to four miles. These rapid fire guns are of all calibers, the lighter onen are for field service and the heavier calibers are for siege and fortification operations. The same class of gun, too, is used in the navy and is there known as composing the rapid-fire battery of the ship. In the great field of small arms the exhibit is illimitable. The varieties A REBEL TOIIPEOG. are so great, the course of development so varied, that if one tries to enter this field of investigation he soon finds him- eelf in a maze. In the American ex­ hibit there is every email weapon from the earliest musket to the latest maga­ zine rifle. But in all small arms the foreign governments are ahead of the United States. We can beat the world in the manufacture of high-power ord­ inance, both in point of cost and efficien­ cy, but we have* not yet reached that • n I I H i l f l I g W.'-f r'js m EXPLAINING THE WORKING OF THE HOTCHKIS& of a pistol will peer curiously into the muzzles of these monsters and with a shudder turn away. All these people are apostles of peace, yet their keenest appreciation and greatest curiosity is expended upon implements of war. It is a strange paradox, but it is eminent­ ly characteristic of the race. We are born of a fighting race of people, of battle-giving fathers and of en­ thusiastic flag-waving mothers, and the human instinct so inspired is not to be suppressed by simple emblems of peace and prosperity. If we have no I'M. tjAHlCHtw S*T» HM frVfa TIMtS IjMttorm snct Hint THE OJYD AMD THE H*W. opportunity to fight wo like to look at the things people do fight with when they get a chance, and hence it is that the war department exhibition in the Government Building, the battle ship containing the naval exhibit, the Ger­ man and French ordnance exhibits in the Manufactures Building, the Eng­ lish naval models and the rapid-fire ordnanca which they exhibit in the Transportation Building, the Spanish, Italian and Austrian military exhibits, and finally the great Krupp gun pavil­ ion, are to thousands of people the chief points of interest on the Fai? grounds. Throws a Ton Twelve Miles. Naturally the American exhibit is the most complete, though the Krupp exhibit is the most startling to the ?lain untutored child of the prairie, 'he human mind can conceive of 10- inch guns, 200-pound projectiles, ar­ mor plates of twelve inches in thick* nese and all those simple things of war­ fare, but when it comes to a gun which requires 500 pounds of powder, which carries a projectile which weighs a ton from ten to twelve miles, that is an in­ strument which makes the mouth open involuntarily. The Krupp gun does that; The spectacle of the big gun, which weighs 124 tons, with its massive and complicated carriage or mount, as it is called, is really great. One stands at the base and looks upward at an angle of 45 de­ grees to get sight even of the under surface of the gun. Its known enorm- to fulfill its pecuniary obligations in money j ous weight, the tremendous machinery tries6"8 teco,fnltecl by a l oivdized conn- of its surroundings, the awful energy ^ j of steam and electricity to work jts functicns and bring its awful power into service is calculated to appall the human mind. People cannot fail to A Friendly Wasp. A gentleman becoming annoyed by the persistent buzzing of a wasp about his head, knocked Ft down with his newspaper. It fell through an open window upon the sill apparently dead. Only apparently, for a few seconds later, to the observer's astonishment, a large wasp flew on to the window sill, and, after buzzing around the injured one a second or two, began to lick it all over. After this treatment (which may have won^er what would be the effect of the been u kind of massage) the sick wasp eXpiosion of 500 pounds of the new seemed to revi\ e, and his friend then j high-power powder, the instantaneous dragged him gently to the edge, | propuision of a ton of metal starting on -• --ji won_ shud,- ears. The biggest gun in the American exhibit is the 12-inch breeclx-loading * I IM J ' loading rifle made at the Watervliet I his bi«^\e little wasp ^;ted like a good ; arsonai for coast defense. This gun is . amaritan, who found a man half-| no|. mCunted for the reason that no as MODERN MORTAR. stajfe when _ we can arm an in­ dividual soldier as can most of the countries of Europe. We have a bet­ ter display of rapid-fire guns for field and shipboard service than any or all of the countries of Europe combined. We have a more notable torpedo ex­ hibit than any European country, and when it comes to the manning of ships in war and the equipment of swift cruisers, we are away ahead of any­ body. The battle ship alone is a Won­ derful study and impresses even the most experienced of naval and military men. In the matter of military equipment for troops in the field there is less progress shown by far. Prom models exhibited in the Federal Building there is no apparent change in methods of transportation and methods in the quartermaster's and commissary de­ partments. Nor is there any great change in the military system on the tented field. The soldier's tent is the same old canvas tent. The litter which carries him from the field is the same old litter. The canteen which be fills at. the muddy stream is the same old ttanteen. The kettle in which he makes his coffee and the oven in which he bakes his bread are the same old kettle and the same old oven. They may make guns which carry twelve miles and use 500 pounds of powder, but the.v have never yet made a camp-kettle that wi:l turn chic­ ory and rye into coffee and plaster beans into pilatable fcod, and so when the private soldier visiting the Exposi­ tion gazes upon the enormous progress made in the implements of destruc­ tion, he cannct be b'amed for marvel­ ing m he does why something more has not been done for the protection THE EXTRA SESSION.' CRISP AGAIN CHOSEN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. the Meeting Xs the Twelfth ICxtnohUssry Session In the History of the United Hates--New Faces and *New Committees • b* the Scostc, Eta, • • j*-* A ̂ Democratic Cangi itl$, • * v N response to the proclamation of Pres­ ident Cleveland,Con­ gress has, for the twelfth "time in the his­ tory of the United States, assembled hi " extraordin a- ry" session. The tension marks a m i l e s t o n e i n American history, i as it brings to­ gether for the first _ time in thirty r^H..we«ni< yearj a congress -•fiiuwr.,, that is Democratic in both branches, supported by a Democratic Presi­ dent. Asidefrom this political revolution, which took definite expression on its assemblage, this Congress is brought together by circumstances of unusual moment. The whole country is looking to it for relief. Business interests are standing still, and in seme Cases prostrate until Congress affords relief. It is seldom that Senators and members have come together with a feeling of graver re­ sponsibility than that which is felt and experienced on all sides at the present time The session opened with prayer by the Senate's new chaplain, Mr. Mil- Burn. Its two principal officers, Mr. Cox, the new Secretary, and Mr. Bright, the new Sergeant-at-arms, also represented the changed political complexion of the body. All the com­ mittee clerkships underwent political change during the extra session in March, mid most of the appointees '• ' f :v:.S: ii „ 4- SPEAKER CVJPN of Jt»e c«»il #ar' of the soldier's health an&tjomfort and the general welfare of his stomach. under the former Secretary and Ser­ geant-at-arms have only had their offi­ cial decapitation postponed,not averted. There were very few preliminaries be­ fore the serious business of Congress began. The Senate committees had already been chosen, and the organiza- ! tion with new officers was complete. In the House Speaker Crisp again j>re- 1 sides, according to the unanimous ac- i tion of the Democratic caucus. The only change in the House organization was in three minor officers--doorkeeper, sergeant-at-arms, and chaplain. Ex-Con- ' gressman Snow of Illinois became the new sergeant-at-arms of the House, i after a close contest in the Democratic I caucus, in which he beat the old ser- geant-at-arms, Mr. Yoder, by only one vote. The first business after the Senate was called to order was to administer the oath of office to three Senators and to Mr. Cox, the new Secretary of the Senate. The Senators who took the oath are Mr. Perkins, who succeeds Senator Stanford; Mr. Pascoe, of Flor­ ida, who has been re-elected after serv­ ing ad interim under a gubernatorial appointment; and Mr. Quay, of Penn­ sylvania, who was not present during tne last extra session, and so has not yet qualified. As soon as notice was received from the House that it had organized, the proper committee was appointed to wait upon the President and notify him that Congress was ready to receive any communication he may care to make. This called forth,the message explaining the Pres­ ident's reasons for convening Congress in special session. Routine Proceeding's. Except the seating of Geo. F. Richardson, Democrat, from the Fifth Michigan district, over Charles E. Belknap. Beoublican, the IIou e transacted no business of importance after the opening session, but adjourned until Thursday. The Senate was in ses­ sion Wednesday only twenty minutes and a considerable part of that time was occu­ pied by the Chaplain in an eloquent eulogy of the late Senator Stanford of California. The only Item of business transacted was the reference to the Committee on Appro­ priations of the House joint resolution to provide for the payment of sessional em­ ployes of the House during the present extraordinary session. ' preliminary moval to a place of safety for further treatment, and then carried him there, ittle wasp actec who found a dead," "bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine," and '"brought him to an inn and took care of him." A Murderer Suicides in ti Coffin. Henry Merrill, aged 60, of Wardner, Idaho, who murdered a man last June, was found dead in a coffin the other day. Ho crawled into the casket and after lying down put a bullet through his brain. Uv-l rUt a k. t . .iji* ^ , Some Grangers Know This. A wonderfully good imitation of maple sugar may bo made by flavoring ordinary brown sugar with an extract of hickory hark. It is said, to be almost indistinguishable from the genu^aa. under rajAd gna «! t a i - i J . • ' * carriage has yet been made for it, but it has tremendous interest for* the crowds at the Fair. The people gaze at it, they crowd about it, they pat it with their gloved hands, they study its intricate machinery and then they turn away with gratified looks, take a glance or two at the *taro and stripes j and mentally observe, " Let Uncle Sam's enemies come on, and let them come all at once." Old and New Bestli Dealers, Those in charge of the military ex­ hibit made a happy hit whe* they placed side by Bide an ordinary gix- pound brass cannon, used Jn jth© Mexi­ can par, a&4 & jpodern tj^^-two- Telegraphic Clicks. THE First National Bank of Ham­ mond, Ind., has suspended. JUAN BURGER, 13 years old, died at Kokomo, Ind.. from cigarette smoking. THE W. H. Livingston Company, of Sioux City, dry goods, has assigned. Debts, $-15,000. SHARPTOWN, Ind., was visited by a cloudburst which de3troyed crops and drowned herds of live stock. SARAH T. BOLTON, who wrote "The Union Forever" and "Paddle Yoiir Own Canoe," died ih Indianapolis., DENVER'S City Council haa appropri­ ated $15,000 for the purpose of employ­ ing idle men at work on the streets. GOV. RENFROW, of Oklahoma, has ousted the regents of the Agricultural College, charging malfeasance in of­ fice. THEOPHILUS RACINE,of Fort Wayne. Ind., was thrown against a steel point in his barn floor by restless horses and killed. THE Lebanon, Pa., Trust and Safe Deposit Bank has failed. It has a cap­ ital of 150,000, It is believed the sus­ pension is temporary, . THE Nebraska Wesleyan University, at Lincoln, has a new Chancellor, Dr. Isaac Crook, late President of the Uni­ versity of the Pacific, ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD, of Welling­ ton, New Zealand, who w»i attend the Catholic Cangress at Chicago, has ar­ rived at San Francisco. TOERE is a piratical craft cruising in Long Island Sound, and for some time past the crew aboard of her have been robbing vessels, stripping yachts and committing all sorts of depredations at farm-houses and cottages along the shore. EMPJJOYES of the Cincinnati and Bedford Railroad tried to tunpel under the EvaaeviUe and Richmond Read at Bedleed, Ind., because the latter would not groat permission to cross \heir tracks. The hole ^as filled by the oppoeUff Pood and litigation will ensile. Note# of Current Events. ' BOILERMAKERS at Bay City, struck for a nine-hour work-day. A RECEIVER was appointed at Denver for the Hamilton Loan and Trust Com- pany. J. A. BALLARD'S express barn and twenty-one horse9 burned at St. Paul. Less, $20,000. OFFICERS of the Indianapolis Bank of Commerce have decided that it shall reopien in sixty days for busi­ ness. VICE PRESIDENT STEVENSON was accorded an ovation at Grand Forks, S. D., where he arrived from the Pacific ccast. LENA ECUBERT, 6 years old, of Mas- silloh, O., played with matches, set her clothes on fire, and was burned to a crisp. THE O'Brien wagon works at Lafay­ ette, Ind., have been closed because 165 men refused to accept s 10 per cent, re­ duction. THE failure is announced of Sulz- bacher, Gitterman & Wade, New York woolen importers. The firm was rated at $1,€00,000. A-LONE highwayman, operating in a country road in Kansas, has held up and robbed several persons. His vic­ tims were nearly all farmers. THE works of tho American Rubber [ Company at Cambridgeport, Mass., have closed down for two weeks, throw- | ing 1,700 operatives out of employment. A BLOCK of wooden buildings burned at Yonkers, N. Y., causing a loss of $100, COO. CROCKER, FISH & Co., millers at Minneapolis, have filed an assignment to tho Minneapolis Trust Company. Their assets and liabilities run about $200,000. NEARLY 30,000 spectators flocked to the bearch at Asbury Park, N. J., to see the fourth annual baby parade. About 500 babies were Vheeled into line. PORTER LANNIER, a convict in the Ohio penitentiary, beat John Louders, a citiEen shop foreman, into insensibil­ ity with a pur of tongs, inflicting dan­ gerous wounds. . '• 1 •m