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tntf PubII St ST. . Of FIRE. and fled. f' fSlfc TERRIBLE DISASTER TO SOUTH -qm-.,-PHKSAoa Cwrtt 8*rem* with Wrecks MHI C«t|WW faMM Pwoth Btoktn at Last •*-Wttnt*oto'i Fund* TM O^^taafctaMp ttkM SteuMr Missing. •ri C#i •' Barned by Children. A FIRE, which in peculiarity of origin ted features resembles the historic Chicago lire of 1671, oonaumed a largo, section o! the city of South Chicago Thursday tfterncon. Dry as tinder from the recent drought the buildings fed the flames like oil, and in two hours from the time the first alarm waa turned in twenty-five kc.es of the residence territory had been leveled to the ground and 1,00) people had been rendered homeless. Sixty thousand people stood by and saw the flames eating their way through the fairest portion of their oity without being able to arrest them for one In­ stant in their fierce onslaught. Al­ though no fatalities resulted, several firemen and householders were hurt i)S$r vV- p s, > • Shortly after 3 o'clock little Dora May, with another little friend, kindled a bonfire of email proportions in their back yard. A few minutes later, tued of their play, they brushed the em­ bers up against the fence with a broom, and threw a pail of water over the whole to squelch the flames. This wae the beginning which will be memorable in the history of South Chicago. Fire ate it® way into the fence ana from • the fence into the kitchen of J. L. Babb's residence. Here a gasoline stove exploded, and from there on until no fuel was left in its Cth the fire was u ncontrollabla, The • will reach $503,GOO. NEWS NUOQBTSFC THE Birmingham (Ala.) City Coun­ cil has voted to issue city currency. STUDENTS of the Indiana Normal School at Terre Haute have decided not to return unless President Paisons Is removed. . IK WALLACE & SONS, brass and oopper ̂, manufacturers at New York and An- Sfe * 8tm*a» have suspended. Their liabili­ ty ' - ties are $875,000; nominal aesets, %y $2,000,000. ; IT' • ' ALL the Eastern witnesses In thee case of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves, charg- ed with the murder of Mrs. Barnaby, ̂ have promised to attend the Doctor's second trial at Denver. MO*. Satolli ,haa-^tiB||iiftetii,;:Bev. WilHam p. Treacy, pastor of the Swedesboro (Pa.) Catholic Church, who was excommunicated for criticis­ ing his superior, Bishop O'Farrell. Rev. P. A. Treacy, brother of the Swedeeboro priest, whose removal from a pastorate at Burlington, N. J., caused all the trouble, has also been reinstated. A TERRIBLE battle occurred at Gil- borton, Pa., the other morning.. The ci tizens of Gilberton tore up the tracks of* the Schuylkill Traction Company because that company failed to comply with the borough ordinance. The eompany, with a large force, of men, JaH,\arj»ed,„ attempted to re-lay the 'tracks under the supervision of As­ sistant Superintendent Richard Amor. A battle followed, in which scores of shots wore fired. James Parfitt, aged 25. and William Hughes, citizens, were killed, and Evan Davis and Richard Amor, Assistant Superintendent of the company, seriously wounded. Will Connor was also shot in the hand and few*.;- • H WESTERN. v fji: •. m >;i : tlx C.,:' BREXT ANO, the Anglo-American pub- 4^4 Usher, has been fined £300,000 damages ti* •• costs at Paris for selling a cews- parer containing a libel upon the ex- < Minister to Hayti from Pranoe. ^ THE Dominion liner Sarnia sailed ^>£ ' x from Liverpool for Montreal twenty- f , six days ago, and has not been heard %' ^ from since. It is feared that scme- 'i*'r * has happened to the veeseL I'L' "~g| j THE boilermakers of the Chioago |pL , \ and Great Western road at St. Paul de­ li;' « V dined to accept the reduction to $2.90 88 a 0;>ns^<luenoe are not now jpS( f v; - working. Their places have been tup- HERBERT INGLIS, marine superfn- k\*. * tendent for the Cunard Steamship, and eight companions were drowned in the Nene River, near Sutton Bridge, | vt. England, while returning from an ex- |5- A"r : ' cursion. f\ A MOB of unemployed laborers at Denver, Colo., drove out of the trench .|VCseventy-five men who were working eight hours .at 3L20aday, with cries | :&% \ of "No starvation wages in free ft , ^ America." • I HEIRS next of kin to the late Daniel E. Crouse, who died at Syracuse, N. Y., v ,1 two years ago, are compromising with a ^•year o^d daughter by secret mar- fe! riage, whereby her ponkm will be ^">^•1,750,000. SEAMAN NILS NILSON cf the British ^ Vt®hip Dunsyne, who was reported to i<tv 4 have died at sea from consumption, H0* really died from extreme cruelty at the i>*s; , v hands of the mate, aooording to the ( crew s statements. MINNESOTA'S treasury is empty and ! the Treasurer is unable to pay the sal­ aries of State offioers. The State has ™ „ plenty of funds, but they are tied up in ® > " the eleven banks which have suspend- ed in St. Paul and Minneapolis. 4/- HEIRS of Norman W. Kittson, the St. J Paul millionaire, charge Jamee J. Hill « and the St. Paul Trust Company with • % • ' delaying settlement and attempting to : • wreck the estate in order to reap large profits in the way of executor's fees. w ItaE coast from the Capes of the Del- aware to Jjr"39ach,iectts is with *,;• yrecks, and. every vessel that oomes * into port tells aetory of death or djsaa- Jjr-1 ter from the great hlirrlcane which * • •' struck New York Wednesday night. fif.r Small vessels had little chanoe to live ^ through the furious storm. In all fea. , • twentv-nino lives are known to be lost, and forty-seven more persons are |V| f thought to have perished. , SPECTAL bulletins to the Tr^'na^ _ State Board of Agriculture state that thefe have been soaking rains through- out the corn district, and that in con­ sequence the condition of oorn, espe­ cially the late planted, has been greatly helped. The latter is now tasseling - and the ears have begun to form, and with reasonable weather until matur- : ing time it will make a fair crop. The early plant is regarded as^afe. / Two COAL miners were killed* at Bouse, Colo., by a wall falling in on - them. A STEAM mangle in the Hell Gate^ •team laundry at New York exploded and scalded nine people, three of whom, It is said, will die. JOHN A. EATON, for many years a leading Democrat of Kansas and recentr . ly defeated for the United States Dis­ trict Attorneyship, has declared his in- V. tention to leave the Democratic party /V *nd go with the Populist* BA8TERIC ; m t ' \ •i:. 7^... , \ THE big Havemeyer sugw refinery ABrooklynf employing 4,000 men, and trascting about fifteen thousand per- Bonp dependent on them, resumed work aftsp a few days' shutdown. It had beett expected that the works would Hot Wpsume for several months and the Mews was received with great re­ joicing. „ • A CAKRIAGE containing five persons struck by the east-bound flyer of the Lehjgli Railroad at a crossing two th of Leroy, N. Y. All the AT St. Louis Grain Exporter H- C, Haarstick received $40,000 in gold from Europe for wheat shipped. He de­ manded and received the coin because of the high rate of exchange. JAMES FILDES, a oonvict at the Northern Indiana Prison, was engaged in loading a train with lime in com­ pany with a number of other convicts and they assisted him to escape by cov­ ering him with lime in one oi the cars. When the train pulled out Fildes went with it. When a safo distance from the prison he left the oar and is still at large. „ E. U. DONALDSON, late of Kansas City, Secretary of the Union Trust Company of Sioux City, Iowa, Presi­ dent of the First National Bank oi Marion, Kan., and of eleven Iowa banks, has flea, probably to Mexioo. According to the claims of the receiv­ ers and assignees of the different in­ stitutions with which he was oonnected j he has taken $800,000 with him. CHARLES E. NELSON, a young book­ keeper at Portland, Ore., died as the result of a wound in the back received from a charge from a blank cartridge in a sham battle. Nelson was Second Lieutenant in his militia company, and was charging the gatling gun of the enemy after -the plan of the Weldon raids in the civil war. The firing was promiscuous, and it was not known who fired the fatal shot. HOLCOMB farm, six miles southeast of Jackson, Mich., which was the scene ten years ago of the celebrated Crouch murder, was the scene of an incendiary fire, when Dan S. Holcomb lost his fine residence, two barns, 600 bushels of wheat, thirty-five tons of hay, and bug­ gies, wagons, harness and 'farm tools generally. The loss is about $10,000; insured for $8,000. The , house had been clpsed thiee weeks. THE sensational developments in con­ nection with the failure of the Indian­ apolis National Bank have finally led to the arrest of President Theodore P. Haughey, of the bank; his son Schuyler, President of the glue companv; Francis A. Coffin, President of the Indianapolis Cabinet Company, and his brother, Percival B. Coffin, treasurer, aijd Al­ bert S. Reed, bookkeeper of the latter concern. President Haughey is charged with embezzling bank funds and the others with aiding and abetting him. They are each placed under $5,000 bond. PEOPLE who saw the "Old Home­ stead" Friday night at McVicker*s, in Chicago, missed Cy Prime and his quarrel with his old-time friend, Seth Perkins, over a game of checkers. The quaint New England "boy" of three- quarters of a oentury had gone after his last armful of wood. He had had his last tussle in the snowbank with Seth and the two "boys" had been separated and reconciled for the last time. When the final curtain wae rung down on the old-fashioned play and its pathetic touches of home life George A. Beane. who played Cy Prime, had just died of apoplexy in his dressing-room. He tooK his part in the first act, but in the last, where his best work was done, he did not appear. As in the acting "Cy" and "Seth are chums, so it wae in the death scene, which was tragedy instead of comedy. "Seth" was with "Cy" when the latter wae stricken with death. He placed him in the chair, from which he never arose, and the little act which had been nightly laughed at by the people in the theaters turned into a scene which wae realistic and emotional when "Cy" raided his eyes to "Seth" and told him he was dying. Apoplexy had once before threatened Mr. Beane, and when he cried out to Walter Lennox, who on the stage is " Seth Perkins," the-actofrgucseed the end had ooma. . SOUTHERN. IN a drunken row at Paducah, Ky., W. F. Woods killed his 19-year-old son by hltttng him on the neck with a beer glass. A MAN was killed mid several persons seriously injured by a panic in a church Clarksville, Tenn., caused by mis­ chievous bovs lyjder the church pound­ ing on the floors. A MAST was killed and several per­ sons seriously injured by a panic in a church at Clarkville, Tenn., caused by mischievous boys under the church pounding on the floors. THE will of Dr. Hamilton Griffin, probated at Louisville, Ky., bequeaths nothing to his stepdaughter, the re­ tired actress, Mary Anderson-Navarro. All the property goes to his wife, and at his death to his four daughters. WASHINGTON. AN abstract of reports of banks made to the Comptroller of the Currency on July 12, compared with that of May 4, shows a decrease in in­ dividual deposits of $193,000,000, in loans and discounts of $197,000,000, in Bpecie of 821,000.000, and in undivided profits of $13,000,000. SENATOR VOORHEES, of Indiana, Chairman of the Finance -Committee, opened the silver battle by addressing the Senate in a lengthy argument in support of his silver-purchase ces­ sation bill. The speech received unusual attention, and, according to a Washington dispatch, was con­ cise and ably delivered. Near­ ly every Senator was in his seat. Many members of the House occupied the sofas in the rear and the galleries contained the largest crowd of the ses­ sion. The presiding officer was obliged to threaten to clear the galleries in or­ der to repress the applause called forth by Mr. Voorhees' affirmation of alli­ ance to Cleveland and other strong points. . THE Senate Finance Committee has at last responded Ho the pressure of public opinion and done something, of, not to tewM^tn wain ftwiwy b« aod tlx MM to u Mreby dMind to M the poHsr of ftho Usltod SIMM to MBtlBW the two of both «oM *ad •Ur«r m stsatsrd money, sad to ooln both iroVd and stlvsr Into money of sr«d •quml latrhMte tad nefctaiMbie of the parity In y»lne of the coiaa o< the two meUte and the equal pow«r of every dollar at tUtti&MJifttfemliketMdlnttnptyaMftt ef MM*. the effi hereby further dswurod tbst the lorenu&ent ifcoald be steadily directed to t&e eatabUehment of iaeh a safe tyatem of btaeteulat& aa will wtn- tata at all times tb« eanal power of every dcl- lar coined or leaned by the United States In the market* and In th* payment of debta. FOREIGN. "THE troubles growing oui~M the fighting between French and Italian workingmen employed at the salt works at Aigues Mortes, Franoe, threaten to •involve grave international complica­ tions. It. is not alone that the popular indignation at what the Italians con­ sider a gross breach of international comity is finding vent in demonstra­ tions that are evidently intended to co­ erce the Government into demanding an apology from France for the attack upon Italians and the payment of in­ demnity to compensate the families of those Italians who were killed. Riots directed against Frenchmen have oc­ curred in many of the provincial towns, and the situation is considered exceed­ ingly grave. ACCORDING to a semi-official an­ nouncement made at Rome Tuesday evening, "Admiral Brin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has instructed Sig. Ressmann, Italian Ambassador to France, to inform the French Govern­ ment that in view of its spontaneous dismissal of the Mayor of Aigues-Mor- tes, the Italian Government, appreciat­ ing the friendly disposition thus shown ana placing complete confidence in the efficient and impartial ac­ tion of the Frenoh magistracy for the punishment of the guilty parties, is nappv to be able to oonsider tem the incident satisfactorily closed." The Italian Government is taking steps to punish the officials who are held re­ sponsible for not preventing rioting in Rome. The Paris correspondent of the London Standard says: "The con­ sequences of the Aigues-Mortes affair are making themselves felt in every town where bodies of Italian working- men are employed. The excitement is growing intense in the Italian Colony of Maraeilles." IN GENERAL THE steamer Monowai, which called Friday afternoon, carried among its passengers a party of seven young lady missionaries from Ohio, who go to Honolulu to work among the natives. THE following officers have been elected by the Sons of Veterans in convention at Cincinnati: Commander- in-chief, Joseph B. McCabe of Boston; Vice Commander-in-chief, R. P. Omer, fpAT W stur«£ ANTI-SILVER. ' Spfif.imam «1 tlw OiitaiUal Outflow HlnSd frw th* Totes of tfco Coa|nMloatf P*«|H*edf SotatlMlM Stf a 43t«at Question. Debate In Congroaa. Silver-tongued orators in Congress have spoken for silver and agalmt sil­ ver. Some have not spoken at all, while still others, not silver-tongued, havo talked and have said nothing of interest to the public. Many of the speeehes made during the two weeks' debate have been of such length as to be tiresome; and no paper except our esteemed contemporary, the Congres­ sional ReCord, has cared to print these speeehes in full. From the columns of this more or less interesting journal we extract the following from the efforts of some of the prominent debaters: ! Senator Voorheoa' Plan. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana (Dem.1: TVe are confronted by a law without precedent or j parallel In American history; & law -which for I months past had been the theme of all tongnes I and pen*, and in wlioee name financial panic, alarm, and distress had been Invoked, and for | whose repeal thle Congress has been convened, j Aa a firm, unfaltering believer In bimetal- | llsm, I voted against the paeaage of the Sher- , man act, and for the same reason will vote for j its repeal. The question has been aelcad wheth­ er a vote should be given for Its unconditional repeal or whether p- substitute must be tereed . up n. I would at once eradicate this con- j fessed evil front the body of our laws, with no other condition than my right and free agency to support and to secure, in connection with its repeal, or i fterwnrd • by an independent measure, aa the suc­ cess of Its immediate repeal--the urlraary | duty of the hout^-msv at tne time dictate, a . sonnd financial system, embracing the ootaage I of sliver on sn equality with gold. In making : this statement I only repeat the declaration \ of the Chicago platform. The banks intensely | realise that the present supply of government ; bonds for banking purposes must be verjr ; largely Increased within the next five years or they will be forced to commenoe winding up and retreating from the theater of action on j which they nave so long appeared. I stand : against the existence, the increase or the per­ petuation of the national debt for purposes of national banking and call upou the millions who constitute the great army of the laborers to take notice of this IBSU© frotn'ttils time on--an issue that will not down-att any man's bidding. I do not expect - the govern meat ever to abandon a national currency, though it would abandon the sys­ tem of national banks. The great value of State bank money is, and ought to be. mainly local. It will Increase the home circu­ lation and the home accommodation of everv agricultural community on American toll. In the meanwhile it should be the duty of the Federal Government to Issue its own unas­ sailable notes by retiring much of the present outstanding currency, and also by the pay­ ment of its debts, and to Issue them in amounts equal to the requirements of trade ae nearly ascertained as possible. Those who live to witness the adoption of this policy will look upon the safest, ttrongest and most bene­ ficial system of iinance ever before known in American history. It has in it the elements with which to aooompllsh these paramount and indispensable features of all sound finan­ cial legislation: 1. A sufficient volume of currency at all times, Btate and national, on practioally a specie basis, guaranteed also by public honor, with which to transact the growing and ex­ panding business developments of the coun- 2. The absolute denial and destruction of all power in the hands of Individuals, corpora­ tions or syndicates to cause fluctuations In the amount of the different currencies In cir­ culation, thus rendering panics and business distress impossible for the future. 3. Every dollar in circulation, whether gold or silver, State bank paper or United States notes, on a strict parity and interchangeable with every other dollar, thus securing to the for tb^ggopleto » «ft«r money there and let somebody else, mad tbst per- we haven , store ooofldoaoa. that is wanted; take baok to the money and let it people will take the banks pay s son deposit it, ana then somebody else pay it. Ton have got to keep the money of this country turningover almost dally er you will have a panic. There is not mooe? enough in the country. I pointed it oat bars in lift, and showed the statistics to prove that there at some proper time road WtatTI t£en said) ANDfc 8E«Hr REPR6-<; Oar Satloaal Ij»w-M*kars aatl Wla*4nhsr ',«te Goad of tt* ] Protfuasd. and Acts* «T|»a. Vice Commander-in-chief, K. P. Omer, people the benefits and advantages of both a of Illinois; Junior Vice Commander-in- currency and a national currency cir- chief, C. k Wilkinson, of Cincinnati. THE Irish Catholic Benevolent Union of North America has elected these officers: President, E. C. Flannigan, of Philadelphia; First Vice President. J. J. Behan, of Kingston, Ont.; Second Vice President, Mrs. Kate Rilev, of Toledo; Secretary, S. J. Sauson. of Phil­ adelphia: Treasurer, Michael Glennon, of Norfolk, Va. a FOLLOWING is the standing of the dabs of the National League: VT. L. »o.| W. L. Vc. Bostons. ...10 .707iOinclnnatls.44 U .474 Pitteburgs. .M> 40 .6S>6 Baltimoro-*..t& M iM Phllade]p'la£7 41 682;St Louis....41 $s Mi Clerelanda. .64 42 JttS.Chicaeos 41 M .414 New Yocks. .63 4ft .686 LonlsTilles..87 67 Brooklyns..4S 60 .4V0IWashi'gt'ns.iH 66 A43 R. G. DUN St Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: There is a rift in tbe clouds. Faint and yet definite aigaa of Improvement are all the better bacauae they come, sot from poeelbljr dalnslvc hopes or from foreign Aid, bus from the good mam and the wonderful Ifceaperative powsr @f Ute people them*elves. Business is trying to go ahead without watting for Washington. Imported gold--$0,000,000 or more daring the week--does not go to the right spot, but the people are creating a botaa-made currency for themselves by using certified checks In paying hands, selling local ac­ counts and purchasing grain and cotton. 1 be bank circulation has increased 12.000,- 000, but the decrease on deposits of na­ tional banks alone from May 4 to Jnly 11 Was $193,180,588, and daring tbe last month withdrawals have also been heavy. Little money cotnee bock as yet from timid hoards, and the paralysis of ex­ change is nearly as complete as aver, but that very fact tushes each MCtioa aad city into relying more ou ItseU and less on Clo^ertament and Wall etreet. Many con- C-es'i'ifi u>e facing or e'iosSng, but resump­ tions are now becoming somewhat fre- • euent, and In the very shrinkage of pro­ duction men «ee evidence that demand must soon ovart ake supply. Wheat drags near the lowest figures ever known. In spite Of decrease In visible supply, for. though western receipts are not large, stock on band Is far'beyood the power cf specula­ tors to carry with markets In theli f>r?s3nt condition. The movement of oorn Is decidedly targe, with crop prospects Im­ proving. money at home and abroad. 4. The settlement of the vexed question of silver money at once and forever by authoriz­ ing it to form its portion of the specie basis required by the Constitution for every char­ tered benk to the Union; by recognizing it when defining the powers of the State to make legal tender money, thus making the use of silver coined into money as Imperative as it was nseful to the great body of the people. 6. The total and complete overthrow of tbe dangerous centralization of the money power now existing at ft few money centers and In the hands of a few individuals by giving to the people of the States the right of home rule on the subject of money, ana thereby securing to them & reliable, nonfluctnatlng home circu­ lation. No Question of Sectionalism. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts (RepJ. Mr. President, any man or party In the Eastern States who should desire to have the value or the purchasing power of the dollar increased In order that the value of debts, or that as­ sured and permanent incomes might be in­ creased, or in order that speculation In gold Or in credits might be rendered more profit­ able, would be hurled from power and burled In infamy by the swift and righteous indigna­ tion of the whole people of those States. The prosperity, the power, the happiness, the rapid growth of the Northwest and the South are as dear to the people of New England as their own. What they want, what they de­ sire and strive for, Is not an appreciating standard of value, but an unchanging standard of value, so far ae the lot of humanity will admit. Appreciation and depreciation osn be ascertained and provided for. But, to use the expressive phrase of Mr. Balfour, "money is the record of obligations extending over long Serlods of time." And it Is an injury, it is estrnctlon to any community which has risen In civilization above the pirate stage, when that record is liable to uncertainty or is the subject of speculation or gambling. If the people of the Northeast seem to the peo­ ple of another part of the country to be contending for anything likely to bear hardly upon them, it is because they do not see or anticipate such & result, and not because tliey desire it or are indifferent to It. I do not believe that any large number of the people of the Northwest desire the de­ struction of property, Impairment of credit or any Injury whatever to the people of the Northwest. Their ambition is toaoqnire prop­ erty; their hope is in the establishment and maintenance of credit. They alwavs ha' e de­ pended, and for a long time in the future must depend, for these things on a close alliance .Mice geople whose children they are, with the tr.t cs whence they came, and with communi­ ties from whose institatlcna they have mod­ eled their own, and with whom in the great and glorious future they must live or bear no life. Chief among the resources of the West is its alliance with a wealthy and prosperous East. The wealth of the East most perish but for its alliance with a wealthy and pros­ perous West. No Time for Contraction. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado (Bep.) Whim the papers yesterday and the day before an­ nounced that the banks were unable to furnish the farmers of Indiana and Minnesota and the Northwest with even the currency suffi­ cient to move their grain, do you mean to tell us that confidence is to oome baok If you will only unconditionally repeal the Sherman act? Will it bring confidence back to the railroads, who see diminishing earnings week sfterweek, earnings which will diminish In a still greater ratio In the months to oome, wltn a poverty- strioken people unable to get their currency from tbe banks, aud with the prioa of their grain constantly decreasing? Is It to bring confidence tack to them? Will it bring confi­ dence to the millions of people in the fttr Northwest, who have »een their principal in- MARKBT REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.... $3 26 Boos--Shipping Grades.. SHEEP-FI ' ~ 8* $ S 70 A 8 00 S eik*g» 88 @ "Ko-2 No. 2 46 a EB--Choice Creamery..... 99H<S -Fresh 12>s® ;*OB8--New.per bu .... 65 ® --Fair to Choice.... WHEAT--No. 2 Spring.... COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2.. BTE--No. 2 f UTTEB--Choice GKJS--Fresh POTATOES--New, per bu........ im>lANAPOti& CATTLE--Shipping Ho<}«--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime WHia.T--No. i Bed COBM--No. 2 White OATS--NO. 2 White.............. ST. ix)uia CATTJUE HOGS WHEAT--No. I Bed CORK--No. 2 OATH--No. 2 yh No, a. CATTLE. Hooe SHEEP W hkx-s--NoVs Red,........ Coaw--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Miami ;........ BTE--No. a, DETROIT. CATTI.8....... Hooft. SHEEP...;. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COKN No. 2 OATS-NO. 2 White, old....;.... TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBK--No. 2 lellow OATS--No. 2 White BTB--No. 2. BUFFALO. CATTXE--Common to Prime.... Hoos--Best Grades WHEAT--No. L Hard No. 2 Bed MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring........... CO*M--No. 8 OATS--No. 2 White.............. BYE--No. 1 BABLET--NO. 1.. PORK--Mess MEW YORK. CATTI.II..... ; HOGS SHEEP... WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--NO. 2... OATB--Mixed Western BUTTEB--Creamery.. 6 » 6 00 3 75 dustry stricken down by the existing "condl- ch the passage it?? M3*0 66 ̂ tlon of affaire, and which the passage of this resolution would entirely obliterate? Will it bring them confidence? Those people. Mr. President, law-abiding and orderly, ask, under the protection of the flag, to be permitted to earn their living and to carry on an Industry which the law his recognized sinoe tbe founda­ tion of the republic. * iTciiator from Mas­ sachusetts tells UB that we want first uncon­ ditional repeal, and afterwards some measure will he enacted for the recognition of silver. You say to those people, already almost home­ less. with the roof of their cabin gone and pov­ erty before them, "If you let us knock ont your foundation stone and obliterate all trace of your home and the place of your habitation, In tbe time to come, after we have bad con­ sideration.. we will build you a stone-trout boMfc" Now, Mr. President, confidence will not thus be brought back. Locating the Responsibility. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri (Dem.}. Mr. President, I confess that the people have lost oonfidenoe; but in whom? In the financiers, "tbe gold monometalistB. who are undertaking to fasten their iniquitous and oppressive and robber system upon the toiling millions of this country. Confidence has been lost In the banks that made this panic to order, who cut and hedged and rolled It in to suit themseli^s, mmI two it MOtp^d from their dutches and Is playing sad havoc with them and with all the people of the United States. It passed beyond their oontrol. and the people have lost oonli- denoe In them. What Is the result ( The peo­ ple co to the banks to draw out the money that Is in the banks, and when they have drawn out 10 or lfi per oent. of the liabilities of tbe banks they have absorbed all the money In upon confidence, and that the moment you destroyed that you .bad a collapse. X was called an inflationist then, a silver orank. "I Woald Act." Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts (Bep.). The Senator from Missouri (Mr. Vest) yester­ day said, in referring to the condition of the silver States, that if we were to have legis­ lation to close the mills of New England every' Senator from those States would be here ready to offer the most bitter resistance. Mr. Presi­ dent, the mills of New England areclcwednow. There is no need of further legislation. At this moment, with the exception of two mills, there is not a spindle turning in the city of Lawrence, and they employ l'J.COO hands. There is only one mill going In the city of Lowell, and they employ over 20,000 hands. There arc over 30,000 people eut of employment at this moment in only two of the cities of the Commonwealth that I in part represent. Multiply it by ten and you ret some idea of the distress that rests upon tne State of Ma«#a«li« setts. Multiply it by 100 and you get some idea of the distress pervading the Northern States, and when there is such a bllciit rostim? on the industries of my own State, and of all the other great industrial States of the North, for one I have no mind for party politics or for delay. I simply ask for action. I believe It is the highest duty that the Senate can perform to take the quick­ est possible action. It seems to me a case, Mr. President, to which I may apply the words of a very distinguished predecessor of mine, Mr. John Qulncy Adams, I would not deliberate; I would act." vf hiplft were 1^Bt*yrlt\p Thlf IftlMthing Cflwlgfald aflonttng creamery............ ^ V J "Jpr* " . ™ wmyiwm | «ew Mepi^•»» * . _ey in the United States, and there Is no monev that ly els# can getfor any purpose. Tbece jnoMjr enofljth In this conn try; M# Palmer for Repeal. Senator Painter (Dem.), of Illinois, argued in support of the repeal bill. It could not fairly be asserted, he said, that the President did not favor the use of both gold and silver as the, standard money of the country, nor did it fol­ low that, because the President had failed to, say a word in reference to bimetallism in his recent messaae to Congress, he would disspJ; prove of legislation providing for coinage of: both metal" that would be of equal exchange-j able and intrinsic value. He expressed thefi opinion that the croat majority of the Amer­ ica* people would not only approve but would lapturously applaud legislation that would establish and maintain tbe bimetallism of th© Chioago convention. He believed, however, that In the present state of the market it vtts beyond the power of any finite mind to fix the ratio of silver to gold, because the market value of silver was in a state of chronic fluctua­ tion. The present ratio should be adhered to, th-* Sherman law repealed, and the use of silver coin encourafte 1 by judicious laws, and then the influence of events upou the relative val­ ues of the metals might be calmly watched,'; with the hope that by the use of effective' means the country miglft at no distant day!, reach the point where both gold and silver'i could t-e coined and used without dHfcrimina--* tlon between them. • > • 5 The Fifty-eight Cent Dollar. Mr. Cox, of Tennessee (Dem.). I have lis­ tened with a great deal of pleasure to the gen­ tleman's argument. He has stated that the silver dollar is worth to-day Sic. Mr. Darter, of Ohio (Dim.) Fifty-eight cents. Mr. Cox. Well, 66c. Now, the question is, do you know of any man in the United States who has sil­ ver dollar* that he will sell at that price, 66c? Mr. Harter. Certainly not, under present con­ ditions. But I know every man who has a silver dollar Mr. Cox. One moment, please. Does not the SKc silver dollar buy just as much of the products of this country as any other dollar? Mr. Harter. To that I answer yes. But that is not the point. That is the present condition under limited coinage, but you arc proposing to change it. In further answer to my friend from Tennessee, whom I regard as aa authority on his side of this sub­ ject, I say to him that while it is true to-day, the very morning that you have by your law established free coinasc in this country, then It ceases to be true, ana that every dollar In existenoe which is now held up to its full nominal value by our present law will sink to 68c. the bullion value, as soon as your law be­ comes operative. Impossibility of Bimetallism! Mr. Harter, of Ohio (Dem.). I say to my friend from Louisiana, without a miracle we cannot keep both gold and silver coin In cir­ culation at any fixed ratio. It Is as much tbe law of God as if it were written between the oovers of the Bible. You cannot do it with­ out a miracle, and miracles must originate on high, not on this floor. Your legislative en­ actments cannot accomplish it. I say to-day It would be more easy for Congress to secure bimetallism under free coinages that Is, keep ooth metals in general circulation at a fixed ratio, no matter how high or how low the ratio --than to discover perpetual motion. We oould Just as easily mix oil and water. We could KO out to the Soldiers' Home Cemetery over there and clothe the dried bones of the dead with flesh, put seeing eyes into their sightless sockets, and erect from their remains living, breathing men, ae readily as we oould keep the two metals in general, circulation under free coinaRe at any ratio whatever. And how then, can we do it, as proposed here, at 16 to 1? Why, this morning, If the ratio or 16 to 1 were fixed as the basis of your coinage, a dollar of silver would be worth 68 oenta. The Evolution of Currency. - Mr. Hendrix, of New York (Dem.). It Is no new thing, sir, in the history of money evolu­ tion for the more desirable currency to dom­ inate. When the Australian used to send some slabs as the medium of exchange; when the Fiji Islander used red feathers for liis cur­ rency; when the Roman used his oxen; when in the early ante-Roman days in Ireland fe­ male slaves were a medium of exchange--in the use of eggs, in the use of iron, in the use of tin, in the use of zinc, the process of evolu­ tion worked out the inferior and worked In the superior article. One by one have these mediums oi exchange been discarded and a higher level reached. The world has advanced Step by step; and the preference of the world to-day, from barbaric Africa to highly civilized England or America, is, between silver and gold, for the more precious of the two metals. When you gentlemen begin to quarrel, you must quarrel with the foroee of evolution. - A Texan Appeals to Shakspeare. Mr. Bailey, of Texas (Dem.). But, gentlemen, yon deoetve yourselves as to the temper of the peopla on this subject If you tannine that yos i oan pacify them by shallow declamations about a dishonest dollar. If the present silver dollar Is not an honest one, the people are willing to make it so, according to any reason­ able provision that can be proposed, and all tlier ask of you to-day is an opportunity to fairly test the matter. Will you aeny them thlsr Dare you do so In the faoe of your plat­ form? If you do, then when von come again to ask their confidence and their support they may answer you with the bitter words of Mao- betn about the weird sisters; "And be these Juggling fiends no more believed. That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to oar ear. And break it to our hope." Tbe California Reason. Mr. Bowers, of California (Bep.). I asked a man who was working for me, and who, as soon as he learned of the run on the banks, rushed down to get his money, why he did it. He did not want the money. He replied: "I don't know how it looks to you. Bowers, buti to me it looks like oorky times ahead. I am afraid of Congress, if it knocks out silver, stops coining it. they have got money cornered sure." And that Is what toe happened. And when you, gentlemen, ask -why yon can not get money to do business, it Is because it is oor- neredl That is the plain English of it. It was only necessary to send a ft w millions out of the country, lock up a few millions in bank vaults, the proper notices in the wcess, and the stocking oould be depended on. to oomplete the corner. England Is Financial Heaven. Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois (Rep.). I under­ stand you to say that the oondition of Eng­ land under Its financial arrangements and of the English people Is better to-day than that of any other country on tbe globe. Mr. Harter, of Ohio (Dem.): I did say so. Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois: I'oes the gentleman mean to say that tbe condition of the laboring classes or England is better than that of the laboring classes of America? Mr. Harter: I say that the laboring man's condition in England to­ day, compared with the laboring man s condi­ tion in. the State of Ohio, from which I come, is as much better (owing to the ruin wrought by this same silver question, however) as a berth in heaven is superior to a cot In purga­ tory. A Massachusetts Illustration. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts (Bep.). Some of the speeches that I have listened to on this floor on this subject make me think of the boy whose father was a clergyman, who was asked bv another boy If his father ever preached any of his old sermons. "Oh, yes," he said, "but ho does not boiler In the same place." Tbe argu­ ments daring this debate are the same old arguments which have often been refuted by abler tongues than mine. The only difference is that the speaker does not "holler" inthe same plaoo. Ortqp Oompletea ODa ffeslk' Washington oorrsepoadenoe: A~ The &nnoaneament of tho •tending' and select oozomitteee of the House haa been made by Speaker Oricp. Mr. Springer it digplaoed fro«i the chair­ manship of the Way* andVf>atm Com­ mittee fy WMUBttfl. WUaon, of Virginia. MrTfioImantyftMXM ' Sayerts, of Texas; and Bland nil the head of the - Ooinaga Qoaomittae. Mr. Springer is made Chataftan drl* Banking and Currency Committee. The chairmanship selections were none of them surprising.. In fact all of therm have been predicted with reasonable certainty fer m<Jre than a week. The change in the leadership of the Ways and Means Committee was part of tne administration's plan, and even Mr. Springer's warmest friends gave up all hope of hie retention before Congress convene*! The same may be said of Mr. Holman as Chairman of the Appro- priatione Committee. The two eommittees having to deal with the currency attractedtne great­ est interest, and their standing was eagerly inquired for by hard money men and silver men alike. The reten­ tion of Mr. Blaud in the chairmanship of the committee en coinage, weights and measures was generally expected, since the House toolc up the silver ques­ tion for itself and left the oommitiee with nothing &t preeent to do. The majority of the committee appears to be on Mr. Bland's eide, but by no such overwhelming majority as when Gen­ eral Tracy and Mr, vTilliams made XMaca of OMIIWI Washington eonespondenoe: • > i *' "t* A L\ gKHrfngabout the JL JL Capitol that the present extraordinary session of Congreea ' may oome toan ex " about the middle L_ September. Thia appears to be based upon confidence in feSlilCa the possibilities of ? * a compromise being ... ^ [entered into within \ that period upon _,the financial qixm- '* i*tton. Nearly all important legisla­ tion accomplished in recent years has been the result of v. '« V "t W1U1AM L WlLSOKf the fight almost alone in the last Con­ gress.. The Banking Committee con­ tains a large contingent of mem­ bers who have not served on it before, but has somewhat the appearanoe of being made up to report in favor of a repeal of the tax on the circulation of State banks. The known opponents of such a -measure are Mr. Sperry, of Connecticut, and the sir Re­ publican members, making seven out of seventeen. Mr. Warner of New York, Mr. Johnson of Indiana, and Mr. Cobb of Missouri are counted as opponents of repeal, but Mr. Warner favors removal of the tax under certain conditions, and it is possible that the other two gentle­ men and the chairman, Mr. Springer, may foster it. The other six members are from the South and are undoubtedly in favor of repealing the tax, among them being Judge Culberson of Texas, who is considered one of the strongest members of the Hou&a. Kake-Up of Committees. The four most important committees are the Ways and Means, Coinage, Weights and Measures, Banking ana Currency, Appropriations and Foreign Affairs. They arc made up as follows: Ways and means--William L. Wilson. West Virginia; Benton McMillin, Tennessee; H. O. Turner. Georgia: A. B. Montgomery, Kentucky; J. R. Whltimr, Michigan; WT Bonrke Cockran, New York; M. Bterens, Massachusetts; W.J. Bryan, Nebraska; C. B. Breckinridge, Arkan­ sas; W. D. Brnom, Indiana; J. C. Tarsney, Missouri; T. ll. Reed, Maine; <T. C. Burrows, Michigan; B. E. Payne, New York; John Dai- tell, Pennsylvania; A. J. Hopkins, Illinois; J. H. Gear, Iowa. Coinage, weishtw and measures--R. P. Bland, Missouri; Charles Tracy, New York: A. B. Kll- ore. Texas; J. F. Epps, Virginia; W. J. Stone, Sore. Texas; J. I . Epps, Virginia; W. J. Stone, Kentucky; J. M. Allen, Mississippi: J. H. Bank- head, Alabama; Isidore Raynor. Maryland; M. D. Harter, Ohio; H. A. Coffin, Wyoming; W. A. McKeigban, Nebraska; C. \r. Stone, Pennsyl­ vania; W. N. Johnson, North Dakota; Nelson Dingley, Jr., Maine; Willis Sweet, Idaho; A. Hager,Towa; J. Frank Ala rich, Illinois; J. L. Rawlins, Utah. Banking and Currency--W. M. Springer, Illi­ nois; Louis Sperry, Connect lent; N. N. Cot, Tennessee; S. W. Cnbb. Missouri; D. B. CuU berson. Texas; W. T. Ellis. Kentucky; J." E. Cobb, Alabama; J. D. Wamer, New York; T. L. Johnson, Ohio; J. A. Black, (Georgia: U. T. Do NOT strain your relations. •mm Baugen, Wisconsin; 11. N. Johnson, Indiana. Appropriation*--J. I>. Payers, Texas; W. C. P. Breckinridge, Kentucky; A. M. Dockcry, Missouri; Barnes Comptou, Maryland; J. H. O'Neill, Massachusetts; L. F. Livingstonc Georgia; J. E. Washington, Tennessee: fe. M, Robertson, Louisiana; E. V. Brookshire, In­ diana; J. R. Williams, Illinois; W. J. Coombs. New York; D. B. Henderson, Iowa; W. Cogs­ well, Massachusetts; H. P. Bingham, Pennsyl­ vania; Nelson Dingley. Jr..Maine; W.W. Groat, Vermont; J. O. Cannon, Illinois. Following are the chairmen^of othex committees: Elections--O'Ferrall, Virginia. - Judiciary--Culberson, Texas. Foreign affairs--McCreary, Kentucky. Interstate and foreign commerce--Wise, Vir. ginin. Rivers and harbors-- Blanohard. Louisiana Merchant marine and fisheries--Fithlaa, 1111. BOlS. Agriculture--Hatch, Missouri. Military affairs--Outhwaite, Ohio. Naval affairs--Cumndngs, New York. Postoffloes and post wads--Henderson, North Carolina. Public lands--McRae, Arkansas. Indian affairs--Holmaa, Indiana Territories--Wheeler. Alabama. Railways and oanals--Catohlncs, Missis­ sippi. Private land claims--Pendleton, West Vir­ ginia. Manufactures--Page, Rhode Island Mines and mining--Weadock, Michigan. Public buildings and grounds--Bankbead, Alabama. Pacific railroads--Rell 1 y Pennsylvania Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River--Allen, Mississippi. Education--Euloe. Tennessee. Labor-MoOann. Illinois. Militia--Forman, Illinois. ; . Patents--Oovsgt, New York. Invalid pensions--Martin, IndllMb Pensions--Moses, Georgia. Claims--Bunn. North Carolina. War claims--Btltahoover, Pennsylvania District of Columbia--Hsacd, Missouri. Revision of tbe laws--£UIs, Kentucky. vggsr™~ *° • Expenditures tn treasury department--Bar- wig, Wisconsin. Expenditures in wag department--Montgom­ ery, Kentucky. Expenditures in navy department--McMillan, Tennessee. Expenditures in poetoflloe department--* Oates, Alabama. Expenditures in interior department- Turner, Georgia. Expenditures in department of Justice-- Dunphy, New York. . Expenditures tn department of agriculture- Edmunds, Virginia. Expenditures on public buildings -- Crain, Texas. Library--Fellows, New York, * Printing--Richardson, Tennessee. v :,': Civil service--De Forest, Conneetient.,^^- El ection of President and Vloe President-- Fitch, New Yoifc. Y*tllatlon and aeonstles--Shell, South Carolina. „ Aloohollc liquor traffle--English, New Jer- /rrigatioH of arrld lands--Cooper. Indiana. Immigration and naturafciation--•Gelseen- balner, is«w Jersey. FIVE persons were struek by light­ ning during an electric storm at Deni- son. Tax. -• compromise and the outcome of confer­ ence committees. Those persons wno hold to the opinion that adjournment is possible in September sav that Mr. Vest's proposition to provide for free coinage of silver at a ratio of 20 to 1 will be passed by the Senate and ultimately will become a part of the bill for uncon­ ditional repeal of silver purchase, which, it Is expected, will be passed by the House. The likelihood of a veto by President Cleveland of such a measure has thus been discounted by the be­ lievers in an early adjournment. They argue that it would be impossible to rally a two-thirds vote in either branch to pass the measure over a veto, that nothing could be accomplished, so far as the financial situation is con­ cerned, by Congress remaining in ses­ sion after such a veto was received. It should be added, however, that the more experienced watchers of politiOal events place no confidence in these pre­ dictions. Routine Proceedings. . House committees were announced Mon- day by Speaker Crisp Wilson I* at tbe bead of ways and means. Springer of banking and currency and Bayers of ap­ propriations. The silver debate was con­ tinued. A large audience assembled to listen to Mr. Breckinridge, of Ken­ tucky. Mr. Powers spoke for the Wilson bill. Hooker against it. Ceo per thought it inexpedient to adopt free coin­ age at tbis time, and Mr. Sperry took tbe opposite view. Mr. Cox advocated free coinage and Mr. Little spoke in opposition. Other speeches were made at the evening session. Eenstor Morrill ad4res!=ed the Senate at leneth la advocacy of the repeal of the purchase clause of the Sherman silver bill. The Honae met at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning and the silver debate was opened at once by C. W. Stone (Rep) of Pennsyl­ vania, who spoke for repeal Mr. Dalzell (Rep.) of Pennsylvania and Mr. Covert (Dem.) of New York pleaded for uncondi­ tional repeal. Mr. Fitch (Dem.) of New York followed in the same line. Mr. Hatch (Dem.) of Missouri, in speaking In favor of free coinage, advocated a caucus of tbe Democrats of the House and Senate to in­ terpret the Chicago platform--every man of whom would pledge "his life, foktunq. and his sacred honor" to abide by the de­ cision. Among the bills introduced in the Senate was one by Mr. Pasco (Dem.) of Florida as a substitute for tho minority bill of tbe Finance Committee (proposing silver coinage at 20 to 1). The substitute proposes a commission of three citizens of the United H$tes to ascertain and report before January, 1894. the intrinsic relative value of gold and sliver, and that on such report the Secretary of the Treasury shall fix and determine (he ratio. The President sent to the Senate tbe following nomina­ tions: Joshua E. Dodge, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Attorney General, vice W. M. Maury, resigned: G. M. Brumby, of Louisiana, to be Register of tho Land Of­ fice at New Orleans; C. P. Johnston, of Louisiana, TO be Receiver of Public Mon­ eys. New Orleans; William D. O'Toole, of Washington, to be Register of the Land Office at Seattle. Washington; L J. Wooten, of Delaware, to be Aeent for tb« Indians of the Nevada Arency In Nevada. Also a number of recess appointments, including the Collector of Customs at New Orleans and a half-dozen Postmasters. Tbe Vice President announced In tbe Senate Thursday the appointment of the Committee on tbe Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the laying Of the Corner-stone of the Capitol las follows:' Senators Voorhees, Sherman I Ransom* Chandler, - -WhltF, Squire and I Martin. Tbe House Joint resolution, mak­ ing tbe act of May 14. 1690. as to town j sites, applicable to tbe Cherokeo Out­ let, was reported back to the Com­ mittee oh' Public Lands with an amend­ ment requiring; thetrustees who are to be appointed to' r>e residents of the ter­ ritory of Oklahoma at the time of their ap­ pointment, and an effort was made by Mr. Berry (Dem) of Arkansas to have It passed, but objection was made by Mr. Manderson (Rep) of Nebraska and the bill was placed cn the calendar. The sliver debate was then resumed in tho Senate, aa ain» in the Bousa Currencies Condensed. THE Finney County Bank of Kansas was deliberately looted by the offioers. A BLOCK of buildings burned at Tex- arkana, Ark., causing a loss of $40,000. BANKER KINKAID, who disappeared at Mound City, Kan., leaving debts of $200,000, has reappeared at his home. BURGLARS cracked the safe in the Missouri Pacific freight office at Ne­ braska City, Neb., and secured $4,000. THE Irish Catholic Benevolent Union met at Pittsburg and decided upon York, Pa., a6 the next meeting place. THE Southern Distilling Company, of Dallas, Texas, has filed a chattel mort­ gage to eecure claims aggregating $68,500. JOHN BOYD and George Terry resisted arrest at the hands of a sheriffs posse at Winslow, Ark., and Boyd was shot dead. FRED STODDARD was arrested at Kalamazoo, Mich., charged with cash­ ing a check for J350 in Toledo, Ohio, intended for another man of the same name. J. B. BRUNER, treasurer of the com­ bined Masonic lodges of Omaha, Neb., is alleged to be $1,200 short in his ao- counts. IN several counties in Illinois the deadly anthrax is spreading rapidly among the cattle. The situation u s e r i o u s . . . . . WESTERN KANSAS politicians want the capital removed from Topeka to their section. McPherson is tne town suggested. THE Flack and Osterholt families tried to settle a long-standing feud at Bascom, Ohio, by a fight. Two of the Osterholts were fatally injured. CHARLES BAKER was instantly Httefl by lightning in Logan County, Kan. LEWIS BOWEN, a teamster, was bur­ ied alive by caving sand at Ffndlay, Ohio. When disinterred ten hours later he was dead. ST. Loins merchants have asked Senator Cockrell to withdraw opposi­ tion to the measure to permit banKS to issue currency. TREASURY offioers have received an appeal from distinguished Frenchmen asking closer trade relations with the United States. THE National Bank of South Penn­ sylvania at Hyndman, Bedford County, closed its doors. The liabilities are »AAO,«X); assets, *450,00^, , < ? v . - " • , v -.A + t - .4m. V , 51 i, -.V. k./