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J. YAW SLYKE, Editor and Pub KcHENKY. fSftSKSfi ILLINOIS IIHSULT "OLD (jLOET." IJANADIAN MILITIAMEN TEAR DOWN OUR FLAA P^' ^ j|ltrt«nu Moki at Cripple Creek--Bntte ^4 $??':•"" *• » Briber--Discovery of Another Hid- k.;_, 4^. s 4w»Cltjr-Fraaee HM »• »ww»»**- ' •**>• at Chtoaffo. p?-" fjP - S<*nrrlloaa Action of C*nnck»- t§/' -f .. THURSDAY night some members of |> * ;fche Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto, K . i-t Who were at St. Thomas, Ont., cele- 1, " *)' grating the Queen's birthday, delibar- g$> !-i), - iately tore down the United States P1' «s-5" ; flag from the front of Consul V V /Willi ̂ office aftd wantonly do­ te- ^ «troyed it. Lieut. Col. Smith, b *'-2v-' 4-eputy Adjutant General, apologized pf " 4.0 United States Consul Willis for the I - y^^ jwanton act, but Mr. Willis would not |r Y-4 Jaccept the apol gy, ani notified the |l 75;: ; . $L2ads of his department at Washing- f*t 4\< ' Hon and Ottawa. Several officers of t,i " %he queen's Own Regiment were eeon afterward, and denied the > ' joutrage. One of th m said: "If it ff; , *4' -bo true^it is certainly a most regret- -table occurrence, and can only be e,x- ^'% *** xjused on the ground that the perpe- >• \ 1 L trators must have been intoxicated." • J- > %dA private of the regiment, who was an • i *•'" V-, .aoye-witness, said: " Vcs, it is true; the 5 {American flag was: pulled down. After n, 'eupper forty of,the regiment, marc&el F"? <y, Up the street, when one espied the flag floating in front of a VA' k"* ^drugstore. Several went in and remon- §"i ' «Btrated with the proprietor for show- I# *7 «ing the American flag on the Queen's I-"'* •' - jbirtbaay. and ordered him to take it V? \" j ,.in. He refused, and immediately it tv pJ-Tvt was torn from its fastenings, and left " f "lying in the street. They, I am sure, S ' had no idea that it was the American % Consul's office, though." The incident , has caused a sensation in military cir- >, cles in the city. The matter ha< been brought to titie attention of the Do­ minion Government, and it has or- dered a rigid police investigation to 'i% learn all the facts and to locate the re- ' sponsibility. Killed In a Stalb ELEVEN men dead, with a report of £}•• other fatalities, marks the first day of fc/ active hostilities at Cripple Creek, Cola, though a pitch batt e has not yet /T* taken place. At 10 o'clock Friday morn- "t, ing eleven men started to wort in the ' , Strong mine on Battle Mountain. Short­ ly - ly afterward a large party of strikers blew up the shaft-house with pow- der, causing a loss of $25,000, and 1 , 4",, then dropped 100 pounds of giant ' . powder down the shaft, which was also i ' exploded, killing all the inmates. Not ^,sv & more thai $ 0 yards from the Strong ^ shaft house sixteen men who had been 1 , 'engaged to go to work in the Inde- J.'; ~ pendeDce mine were surrounded in i" <: their bunk-house, and, after a long )*-;• parley, agreed to surrender. Each V'.ono was armed with a rifle and a^race :V<-V of revolvers. .f:, J m Bntts II Ctfnvteted. THE special committee of the Senate ^appointed to investigate the charges of attempted bribery of Senators on ^the part of Charles W. Buttz, the : North Dakota lobbyist and ex-Con­ gressman from North Carolina, sub­ mitted a report to the Senate. Buttz is found by the committee to have made the attempt at bribery, despite hie denial, and Senators Hunton aitd Kyle are exonerated from all blame.- NEWS NUGGETS. tf * 3'V; . |K'J 1 W-' . Px*' S# * :&& CAIRO and other Southern Illinois towns were shaken by a light eart.ii qtake. i JOHN H. CAFFE, of Indianapolis, lad., threatens to bring suit against the Crown Hill Cemetery for burying two b:>dies in his wife's grave. THE Home has passed the legisla­ tive appropriation bill including the item for the civil service commission, which was stricken out in committee. THAT big race between the Midland Te rminal and the Florence and Cripple Cree'.c Railroads to see which could first reach the gold carop^ in El Paso County, Colorado, has ended in a draw. Each line is completed at terminal points two miles from Cripple Creek *"d Jx>th will be open for business shortly. % ^LAVJCHE MACKEY and True Spen­ cer, of Dubuque, Iowa, eloped on Tues­ day night. Miss Macke/refused $1,G€0 which her father offered her if the would stay at home. Her father and a re.ected lover bad Spencer locke 1 up for carrying concealed weapone. The next iDOxning the bride's father paid Spencer's See and blessed the pair. THE French Republic has begun suit in the United States Circuit Court for •100,000 aga'nst the World's Colum­ bian Exposition. , The, suit arises f/c m the fi e which destroyed the peristyle last Drc mber. Part of the roof cf Manufactures Building was burned and gotds belonging to French exhibitors, which had not been removed, were damaged. The exposition compar y re­ fused to pay the exhibitors any dam­ age. - • THE American archxologists who Went to the recently discovered hid­ den city in the Sierra Madre moan- tains have returned, and tell of an­ other hidden city live Spanish leagues north of the first city. The two cities at e connected by underground pas­ sages hewn out of solid rocK and it was while exploring cne of th# passages that the second city was discovered. It lies in a deep basin of the moun­ tains. and no ̂ exit except the under- jfround pa sage could be found. J. ZIMMERMAN, of Guttenburg, Iowa, has won his suit against the Mutual lire Insurance Company, of Wiscon- sin. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin decided that companies which do not ho.d certificates to do business in Iowa cannct enforce contracts with Iowa eitizens. r > Tnis damage by the recent fiords in rfenneylvania U estimated at $5,000,000. THE Grand Council of the United Commercial Travelersx>£ America l«- f»nits atmual session in Cleveland F vl- ,;||A8TEWi, HBAVY rains have swollen all the f jver^i and streams of Western ennsylvania 'to floodtides. Bo its, | bridges, houses, and other property have been destroyed. Ten lives have been lost already. The cellars of all the business and dwelling bouses along the banks of the streams are under water and people are moving their goods to upper rooms. Some of the timid left their houees seeking titaoes of safety on higher ground. PWtpfthe Exposition Building at Pitt*- Is inundated and the league base- •Iwiy the Peni»ylvania Jt^alltcad between Altocma and Johnstown. The lott to the Company will amount to ti,000,000. Bridge No. 6, which was washed away during the Johnstown flood of 18Si», wa< swept during the Johnstown flood of 1889, was swept down again. Several miles of roadbed and track were de­ stroyed. To AVOID an expensive receivership, such as its greater air cestle exemplar, the Order of Iron Hall, lias been tot­ tering under, the Order of Tonti, with headquarters in Philadelphia and many members there and in the West, made an assignment to the Land Title and Truet Company and Francis Shunk Brown, the order's attorney. This ac­ tion is a legitimate outgrowth of the transparency imparted to Tonti s big financial bubble by the levy­ ing of a debi^t assessment of $525 on each member's senior and maturing certificates two or three days ago. Less than a week preceding that ttme Tonti's maturing certificates vere (without shadow of equitable justifica­ tion, to be sure) yielding $!,00fteach on a maximum of $350 paid in seven years before. It was simply the old game played over again of robbing the lat­ ter-day members to pay dishonest ac- euTmtlations t> the "first come first perved" ones. There are several hun­ dred members rof the Order of Tonti in Chicago. ' WESTERN. between G&'irgft Mamey and Jim Smith, two farii^rd, at Chris­ topher,1 Ma, Sm th w4i stabbed six times through the lungs and will die. E. ROSEWATER, editor cf the Omaha Bee, was called in the Criminal Court to answer to the charge of having pub­ lished a criminal libel concerning Mrs. Sophia Bennett. After the reading of the information Mr. RoSewater plead­ ed not guilty. -Judge Scott, the Judge in chartreof the criminal section of thd court, announced that as there had been tr uble between Editor Ro?e- water and himself, and the editor might not think the trial impartial if conducted before him, he woald- $ssign the ca-e to another .ludge. ' * "ro-'v' i A BOLD attempt was made at Tower, Minn., to lynch Harry Siee, a Duluth land attorney.' The settlers have aU leged that Duluth attorneys were makf ing contests a&ainst their homesteads filings either to tevy blackmail or to force them to give up their claims td wealthy lumbermen. Mee has been interested in many of these contests; The crowd took Mee and Morrison, put ropes around their necks and would have strung them up but for the inter­ vention of Mayor Shepard, who in­ duced the crowd to desist. Mee and Morrison were dragged to the depot and put on board the train for Duluth. Mee's injuries are seriousr. HORSE slaughtering on an extensive scale is soon to b? entered upon in the vicinity of Portland, Ore. Horses are too plentiful oat in that section of country, and a, low estimate places the num1 er of half-breed wild hordes in Oregcn. Washington, Montana, Nevada and Idaho at 2,000.0iKj head. For these ani­ mals no market can be found and they serve to keep down the price <*f good stock. Now these horses &r& t» be cleaned out, and. a company has been formed that expects to reap large profits fronLPthelr destruction. This company is to build large abattoirs near t'ortland ani there kill the ani­ mals. The Mesh will be rendered of its oil, and the lesidue, with the bones and hoofs, will be made into a fertil­ izer. The bid?e, that also have a mar­ ket value, will be salted, and the hair will be used for upholstery work. A portion of the meat will be compressed for use as chicken food. THE firot play to bo presented by the company now being organized by Mr. Joseph Brooks, which is to appear dur­ ing all the coming summer at McYick- er s Theater, is by Mr. Fi ank Reina', entitled "An American Heiress." It is a powerful work, its characters are etrongly emotional and the heai t in­ terest is consistently carried through from beginning to end. "The scenes of the play are in Paris and Naples, and I never," said Mr. Joseph Brooks, "was so > infu ed with enthusiasm as wheu I first read the play. It is the strongest drama that has come under my obser vation in years. The person­ nel of the company will consist of the b;;st, m.st prominent artists to le found in this country; ii fact, it will be a star compaay of acto. s and actre ses. The enterprise i s under the entire su- pervinonof Manager J. H. McVicker. Every detail will be looked afte • by him personally. Mr. Aueustus Thomas' Bociety correay, 'New Blood,' will be [ prodi ced immediately following the 'An Amei ican Heiress.' " Affalw fo investigate the armor-plate scft&daL A great mass of taformatto* has been collected by the ineul com* mittee. and it is expected that this data will be called for by Chairman Cumm ngs, and that all the persons connected with the manufacture of the defective plate will be summoned be­ fore the committee. THE Treasury experts have corn- completed their work of calculating the equivalent ad valorem rates of the compromise tariff bill as compared with the eouiva ent ad valorem rates of tha McKinley law and these of the Wilson bill, which 6how the following averages on each of the schedules and for e ch of the two bil s and the exist­ ing lawi^i'v'-v," 7 1 * Present Senate Wilton • LFTW. Chemtca'*. teef&Atefr ells and paints 81.81 Earth, earthenware, and g a?swnre S1.3S Metals and maaatactnres Of 5<U3 Wood Kttd mannNtotares , of.... M.6# 8nnr ltw Tobacco and manufact­ ures of 117.89 Aftricnl viral products and provisions SS.21 Spirits, wines, and other ' beverages 69.90 Cotton manufactures M.itS Flax, hemp, and jute and the manufactures of *"5.03 Wool and manufactures of U8.62 SUk and nilk good*. M.*6 . . . „ ^ .00 63 fSSfSS bill. ML41 87.83 bttL 38.00 IU7 34.2ft 35.08 22.82 39.59 22.61 28.43 105.93 91.S8 23.62 21.58 6H.98 40.02 ea«9 88.4J »UK ana unit (TOOOF ...... PJUP SffirCg;??."?-':0"1?:: ® Averige?X'^.,X.......... 49.6 32.41 41.13 46.90 20.38 39.12 86.79 30.61 99.7H 45.13 19.10 »98 86.62 ViUU lonn M tk* Breal Like*. Hen Drown in Sight of Tbqat sands of People. V tmlble Dluttcr Wron|ht by the Tremen­ dous Storm--Human Lim IMI and AmrtMB T«asels Reported Wrecked at Tartotis Points--Greatest Harrloane In Many Vears Sw<M»ps Uke Kleblgan-- Shipping Toeaed Above--Crops In the Northwest Injured. FOREIGN. ANARCHIST EMILE HENRI, author OF the Hotel Terminus explosion, was guiKntined at Paris. ADMIRAL DA GAMA, leader of the Brazilian insurrection, is f-aid to have gone"to Europe to interest prominent Sjrsons in favor of a monarchy in. razil. ^ THE six French anarchists, Codina, Cerezuela, Sogas, Beanat, Villarubia and Mir, sentenced to death after hav-j ing been convicted of complicity in the attempt of Pallas to assassinate Cap­ tain General Ma tinez Campos and of bjingr concerned in the Li ceo Taeater bomb, tragedy, were executed at 4 o'clock Monday morning oatside the citadelji* .Mont Juich. r Drowned like rata la - • cellar. Drowned while a great city lddked on and wrung her hands in an agony of helplessness. Drowned even as their bleeding hands reached up from the waters aod clutched the cruel sea wall Drowned before the eyes of 100,000 people massed along the shore and housetops. Drowned because the im­ perial city of the lakes has a life-eav- ing service that would be unworthy of a seacoast village. Eleven lives lost and half a score of vessels wrecked SOUTHERN. AT Green Bay, Ala., Silas Gilfillan, a well-to-do young merchant, he ir- ing- a report of the death of his fiancee, Miss Lewit-, of typhoid fever, of which she had been ill, walked her home, and on the front s eps bew out his brains. The girl was alive, but the shock of the suicide will probably cause her death. THERE was a sensation at a meeting in Lexington, Ky., of the Confederate Veterans' Association and its auxiliary, called to arrange for the d 2c oration of Confederate graves. Mrs. M. A. Har­ rison, member of the auxiliary, and wives of other leading citizens, made addresses in whi h they s$id they would not place a flower on the c rave of a single Confederate unless the as­ sociation expelled Col. Breckinridge. The meeting adjourned in confusion. IN a collision in the Btmdipg flock tunnel on the Newport News and Mis­ sissippi Valley Kailway, twelve miles east of Princeton, Ky., seven men were killed outright. The wreck was be­ tween extra freight No. 603, west bound, and the bridge _ train, in charge of Conductor Hill. Hill was out with his train and expected to take the siding just east of the tunnel, be sent a flagman ahead and was backing up with a boarding car in frOnt. He had followed the tiagihan too closely,, and just a* he entered the tun­ nel Engineer Jones with the extra freight reached the. other end, his train going thi ty miles an hour. The engine crashed into the boarding car, in which were the doomed me.t, and plowed almost through it, choking up the tunnel with the debris. A singu­ lar circumstance noted is that all of the men had thf ir heads crushed *nd with two exceptions were almost unin­ jured in any other way. WASHINGTON. rn>: Pan-Amer can Bimetallic As­ sociation, composed of representativ ?s | from the United States, South and Central Ameri a and. Old Mexico, met in Congress is Grand At my Hall At Vvashington, D. C.. under the guidance cf Col. A. C., J"isk of Denver, Colo., president of the association. The pur- po=e o£ the congress was to memoria- li'.e Congress to restore silver to its ancient right at a ratio not to exeojd sixteen to one. THE House Committee on Rules re­ ported back a substitute for the Dun- phir reeeki;ion. The substitute author- MARY ANDERSON is now engaged i writing her personal memoirs. Sh will give for the first time tlfe reasons which induced her t£> retirt^1 irom the t tage. FARNHAM POST, of New York, which was suspended from the G. A. R. for adopting resolutions declaring that the pension laws were abused, has been reinstated:. Mies JULIA MARLOWE, the actress, is soon to marry Robert Tabor, her former leading mai. A story to this effect was confirmed by Miss Marlowo herself in an interview. THE North German Lloyd Steamship Company i* to build four or five bteam- ers to be the fastest in the world. The neyr vessels a^e to be similar in con­ struction to the Majestic and Teutonic, about the same size, but with speod greater than either the Campania or Lucania, of the Cunard Line, which ar J now the greyhounds of the ocean. A NEW postoffice has been added to the off c al record. For twelve-years no postal official had bcen^ncav it. Re­ cently ah unusual quantity of mail was stamped Eh renter j-, An., and an in­ spector was orderel to find the office. He succeeded afte • traveling a week by boat through the Colorado Canyon. Jesus Daniel, the postmaster, con­ temptuously Kicked over a barrel when Inspector Waterbury called and seve­ ral hundred packages were displayed. Many were registered and contained valuables that had reposed intact from two to seven years. When Daniel wanted stamps he went down to Yuma and bought them.like any ordinary cit­ izen. THE clubs of the National and West­ ern Leagues stand as follows in the championship race: Per Per L. cent. • i)' : W. L. cent. «• .1 * CtasbiiM#.u 12 .47-1 8 .MJTXcw Yoritil.li 8 Bt. i^ouls...U 8 .U67: liOuiBvillea H 11 JWtChica-JOS... 8 12 .'floiWasblutt'a 8 f WESTBBN LEAGUE OA1CSS. Per . W. L. cent. W. Sioux City.i* •• .!•«> GrdRapldslJ Kanoas G'vM 8 .«l-*l.Mii wa'kees 5 M ii"«;'p'lisl' 8 jtl9|Turi1aa'p'ls 8 Toledo* U 9 .••IDetroits... 6 R G. DUN & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: The obstacles to improvement do not les en The strikes of coal inin«rs and c >k# workers have not ceased, but havd caused tbe stoppage of nuuieruui work< and-em- bnrrassment to some railroad'. The <;ou- fen nce at Cleve.and exhibited much angry feeliti.' and wider differences than had be* n expected and seems to rentier agree­ ment luore distant Proceedings In tbe btuate do not ludicnte that tbe latest form of tariff revision ha« made speedy final ac­ tion more probable. Yet the recuperative 'lorce of the couutry Is so great that ob­ servers are constantly amazed at the vol­ ume pf business transacted, the tonnHfco beta? transported, the number of works re­ suming operations, and the general sound­ ness of trade, notwithstanding influences wjticit'ta any x'ler laoJ would produce dire disaster. COLLISION oar M BRBAK WA"ljia. W. Clevelands.17 Pbilalelu'a 17 fitr.Hburas.l'J rtsltiisiore. .11 Bostons If bctAMUrn*..!! .A62 .407 .V4 •V« .12 ) Per L. cent. 14 .4u2 8 . 8 » li .331 le . 13 as a result of gross negligence. This is the reoord Chicago had to face the morning after the storm. Sweeping down from the north across the lake with terrific force, the hurri­ cane hurled itself upon Chicago, de­ stroying life and strewing the shore with wreqks. Ten men met death in the lake and nine lumber schooners p went down in the path of the storm. • From daybreak to nightfall ther^ was nothing but death and disaster, mis­ ery and suffering. Beginning on Thursday evening with a capful of wind, the storm increased7 in strength and finally swept with all the fury of a hurricane on the strug­ gling shipping caught on the boiling waters of the lake. All day long the storm raged, says a dispatch, and. it was not until late at night that the wind dropped sufficiently to allow the distressed schooners to en­ ter . the harbor. From Glencoe to; South Chicago the shore was strewn? with wreckage. Twelve fishermen; were rescued by a volunteer life-sav-| ing crew from the government pier/ The same crew rescued seven persons^ from the bumboat at the north pier. - Tugs assisted in snatching sailors irom sinking vessels. Others were dragged ashoL-e as they floated in on spars or in the shattered hulks of their own ves­ sels. Nearly 100 persons were in im­ minent peril of their lives, yet all but' ten were saved. With the lee shore so near, there was little chance for the vessels caught in the storm to run before the wind. The only thing they could do was to reach the port for shelter. Many vessels failea to do so and the loss resulting from the storm is calculated to amount to several hundred thousand dollars. Fury of tbe Gale. Like 4 wild beast howling for its prey, the north wind arose and swept across the lake with a fury that knew no bounds. It caught the waves in its mighty grasp, hurling them high into space and lashing them into foam that made the air white, as if. a sheet of snow had been dropped from the MARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common t«> Prime.... Ott Iloos--shipping '"trades 4"©>i SHEEP--F*IF to Choice... • 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Ked CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. ? UYE--Xo. 2 liurxER-- Choice Creamery EOGS--Fresh POTATOES--Per bu INDIANAPOLIS. C A TTLF--Shipping HOGS-- CDolce Ll«ht KHEtr--Common to Prime 'WHEAT--No. 2 K«d COBN--XO. 2 White.....*.,, 'OATH-NO. 2 White........ .... BT. LOUIS CATTLB... Hons ...... WBEAT--No. 2 ftod...: ......' COBS-- NO. 2. i.. OATS--So. a*. r CATTLE...... v,.^. HOGS ,-I. SHEKP.,, WHEATS-NO. 1 Red.;.. COH.V--KO. 'iMfied.;. . HOGS SHEM- WHEAT XO. 2 Red CORK--No. * Yellow... OATJf--No. 2 Mixed TOLEDO. , WHBAT--NO. ? Bed ii • COBK--No. 2 Yellow ii. OATS--No. 2 Mixed lit K-No. a....,.. WHBAT--No. 1 Hatd COBM--No. 2 Yellow OATB--No. 2 White Rte WCLWAUKEB. WHEAT--No. 2 SPRING COBS--No.» OSTS-NO. 2 White.............. BAB LEY--Xo. 2 R » E--No. 1.'. 1'OBK-Mess. NBW YORK. CATTLE Hoos BHKEP W ht*T --rNo. 2 Red CORN--No. ®.......j OATK--Mixed WMMIB BUTTEB--Best... ;.4V K0G8 StftlC «!••«.. 0(H & 6 OH & 4 74 & 6 25 nwHUi wmw and -!•- r it <mk ifcm caldron of boil;n? water. Waves pounded the beach with tbe force of •team hammers, washing away por­ tions of the chore. As the storm increased in fury the tug captains found it ditlicult to Dring their boats into the harbor, the mosi powerful tugs in the Chicago fleet wi unable to breast the storm and bri their tows into the river. The no: breakwater, however, afforded protection for the schooners, and boats anchored in a long line off city. Then the storm became so violent that the tugs were barely able to live in the sea alone- and the situation be­ came serious for the anchored fleet. The anchors lost their hold on the bottom, and many of the boats settled steadily toward the shore. In a vain effort to better tha situation eome of tbe captains made a little sail and tried to make the harbor, but they were driven through the anchored fleet, crashing into other vessels, carry­ ing away spars, rigging, and smashing large holes in the other boats. One schooner, the Myrtle, whose captain had tried to sail out of his bad posi­ tion, had all its spars and rigging car­ ried away and was finally sunk with all on board. Another boat, the schooner Jack Thompson, crashed into the Rain­ bow, causing the latter to capsize, and being finally driven on the beach her­ self. The Evening Star,having dragged her anchors, went ashore wiiu ihe Thompson. - How Six Brave Men pied* t The sinking of the Myrtle WBB the most terrible event of the long after­ noon of horrors. Before the eyes of 10,000 men and women that lined the lake shore from Thirty-sixth to Thirty- eighth streets this craft went down, carrying six men with her. For an hour the crowds on the railroad tracks in Groveland Park and on the neigh­ boring housetops watched the waves steadily carrying the boat toward shore. No help came. Men ran wildly back and forth in a vain effort to find assistance. When 400 yards south of tftie Government pier the Myrtle grounded and her anchor ca­ bles became taut. Two "minutes later a wave that lifted her ten feet into the air tore the anchors loose, the wind caught the tattered foresail, it bellied to the gust, and the Myrtle was fairly heaved out of the water. The six men on board waved their hands frantirally. Suddtmly their signals ceased, and they huddled together around the broken mainmast. An old woman knelt on the tracks in front of Thirty- sixth street station, and prayed in a shrill, penetrating voice that silenced for an instant the curses of the frantic men about her. An instant later an _ fcfflff#*- fa* years and caused great 'ort boyffan.--Decorations of the re­ cent Catholic meeting were blown down to-day, and the arches aerqM the nearly fell. On the lake ia tre- r-rr! 5 XLNDING THE WRECKED LI*E-BAVKRS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPR*- SENTATIVE3. Oar jfnlifml U»-lbken and What Ttm$h i Am Dolus for the Good of tte (VmatryU. , Tturlooa Mowrares Frepowd, DiMwaMMll- -' aad Acted Upon. / Doing* of Ccflcrafi 'a Senate on Monday combined a EluC~- tah Investigation of bribery charges Krlth Its tariff talk, and no work was done of taach importance- Almost immediately1 upon assembling the House went into com­ mittee of the whole on tbe legislative, ap­ propriation bill. Mr. Hayes offered an amendment which declared that the sec­ tion which allowed the docking of mem*, tiers' salary had been heretofore repealed. Mr. Dearmond, of Missouri, made a point Of order against the (intendment; The chairman (Mr. Richardson) sustained tbe point of order. Mr. Hayes ap­ pealed from the decision of thfr Chair and the chairman declared the nnys had It. Onlr a bare quorum voted. Roll-call was demanded, and the decision of the Chair was overruled by 89 to 102. !The question was then nut on Mr. Hayes*' iunendment declaring the statute repealed which authorized the serieant4at-arms to {Leduct from the salary of members toe absence. It was agreed to--118 to 84. •Mr. Dockery gave notice that a yea and 31 ay vote woald be demanded on the f.mendment when tbe bill was reported |>t he House. The House adlourned. The Eenate disposed of seven pava* graphs of the metal Fchedole Tuesday, at- , . T ter eight hoars of debate. The debate was mendous sea was running. In the city marked by quite a numi-er of in- many more,accidents were reported. terestina clashes between the Repub- Kewaunee.--A heavy downpour of licans and Democrats. The question or rain ended in a stowstorm, which con- civil service reform was given full sway tinued for several hours. Racine.--Trees were blown down and fences (and outbuildings suffered con­ siderably. Kenosha.--Trees and signs were blown down and cellars flooded. Clinton Junction.--Snow fell for six hours. Hall Mid Bain la Dllnofab Rockford.--The thermometer drop­ ped from 96 degrees at noon Thursday. From the hottest May day known in twenty years it fell nearly to the point of frost. Flurries of snow felL Springfield.--A veritable blizzard in the House, the occasion being the amendment 10 strike out the paragraph In the legislative appropriation bill providing for the civil service commission. It gave opportunity for some "tirring and not a few amusing speeches. The amendment was ! adopted by a vote of 100 to 71 amid great • Democratic applause and Republican cries I Of "Spoils." No other amendments of anjr Importance were made In the bill, the only One-* adopted being to correct the totals of ' a few amendments. In th© earlier pr©- ; coedlngs the resolution providing for an Investigation of tho alleged armor plate frauds was adopted. A test vote was taken lr the Senate Wednesday, and to the surprise of many struck , this city. The thermometer, ! the tariff was not tabled. In the House which registered 86 degrees, fell to 40 i discussion of the civil service commission degrees m sixteen houre. Washburn--The hail was exception­ ally large and damaged the growing crops considerably. Tuscola.--Farmers are alarmed for the safety of their crops. Marshall.--Considerable damage was done to growing crops. / Effingham.--Great fears are felt for the crops and fruit. Bloomingtoa.--A change of 50 de< -SVaS; (CLINGING TO THE WRECKED SCHOONER BAIN Illinois Central engine crept down the I grees in the temperature took place tracks from the south pushing a Hat [ here in less than twenty-four hoars. CAPSIZIKO or *H» B4TUR BOAS a o» *.<*> .«** <» ' W « 63 ' » 8S M & hi nn,<& 3 tO ® * V> 4 00 & 5 25 3 00 & « « 61 «<• «3 0 40 & 6i . A3 1 00 4 00 3 00 M ST i. «4 A419 @ # as ^ 4 oo li u> % 64 87 H 06 97 SI 43 *3 •1 Mtt ax 88 M 80 00 elonds. The heavy rack above fled Swiftly before the hurricane, as if a mighty hand had pushed aside the play thing of aa hour. Leaping madly, like giants in anger, the tremendous waves came on, wrestling with each other and dashing their sheets of foam up­ ward. Leaping, roaring, tumbling, surging, the seething waves went on their course, climbing over each other i harbor. It car. On the car was a brass mor­ tar charged and ready for action. The crowd drew a long sigh of re­ lief, and cheered the life-saving crew lustily. The engine stopped, but no attempt was made to tire a line from the mortar to the doomed Myrtle, now less than 300 feet from shore. The life savers left the tear and ran to the shore with lines. They ran aimlessly back and forth. One or two mighty waves tossed the Myrtle against the break­ water. Twice she bounded back like a toy boat. It was after the second of these rebounds that the six men on board jumped to the water. A wave swept the craft over them. It filled and settled slowly. Before the eyes of 10,000 people men and boat sank vout of sight. The men were seen no more. Crow .Is Saw Seamen Drown. The news that lives were being lost, that ships were being tossed about like chips, that the harbor was filled with wreckage, and that human beings were clinging to the masts of their dis­ abled vessels spread through Chicago like a flash. In les3 than an hour from the time the report was sent to the offices of the newspapers the ..lake shore from Lincoln Park to South Chi­ cago was lined with sight-seers, old and younpr. All braved the terrific gale, which blew them about like feathers, in their eagerness to catoh a glimpse of some sinking ship or the figure of an unfortunate reaman hang­ ing limp and almost lifeless tb the, rigging of his boat. Field glasses and telescopes were; brought into re tuisition and whenever one was found it < owner was surround-; ed bv a crowd. Ever and anon a groan would escape the sympathetic gather-^ in?. "Oh, why don't more men go oute to those poor fellows," was what almost! every woman said a * she heard some especially awful news. f It was estimated that at one time not? less than 100,000 persons were lined along the lake shore from north to south. The Randolph street viaduct, was a magnificent vantage ground, as it overlooked the center of the inner Wind lu Michigan. Hillsdale.--The hailstorm took in a strip about two and a half miles wide, and there is scarcely a pane of glass left in the houses in its course. Much damage was done to crops. Traverse City.--The severest storm in tbe memory of the oldest inhabitant raged here, icy sleet and rain caused suspension of outdoor labor and much damage was done. Grand Rapids.--A lively flurry of snow fell and the thermometer regis­ tered 36. At Cadillac live inches of snow fell and the temperature was 32. Elk Rapids.--The schooner Mineral State, loaded with pig iron, was scut­ tled alongside of the pier in order to prevent her from pounding to pieces. Cyclone In the Hoosler State. Laporte.--Henry Spirgel"s barn was demolished and the owner, who was standing therein, was killed. At Wells- boro a freight car was blown across the main track of the Baltimore and Ohio Road in front of an incoming milk train and a bad wreck resulted. Peru.--Reports from the country show groat destruction. South of this city a large brick schoolhouse and five barns were leveled. In this city a large flouring mill was unreofed and trees and smaller buildings were damaged. Muncie.--The storm blew the roof from the warehouse at the Port Glass* Works and badly demolished a large tent that was occupied by some of the was resumed, and several times durinit the day th® question wa* disposed of only to break out a moment later In another place. Tho appropriation for commissioners and clerks of the Civil Service Bureau having been stricken ont, the next paragraph, providing for the •transfer to the Civil t'ervlce Commission of clerks from tho departments was also stricken from the bill The. House refused to strike out, however, the appropria. ion of six thousand dol­ lars for traveling expenses of civil Service examiners. Another amendment .made to the bill gives the Secretary of the 'I reasury discretion In the tem­ porary appointment of clerks to 'wind tip tbe accounts of the divisions pro­ posed to be abolished, instead of taking them from the classified service. Prior to going into committee of the -whole tbe House passed the Senate bill amending an act to provide for the sale of ithe remainder of the reservation of the confederated Otoo and Missouri Indians In the States of Nebraska and Kansas. I be House adjourned at 5;05 o'clock after get­ ting half way through tbe legislative bill The Senate on Thuraday Interviewed E. J. Edwards, of the Philadelphia Times, author of the "Holland" letter, in which jbribery anent \he sugar tariff was charged, ^ihe examination was secret. The House ent latp committee of the whole to con­ sider the legislative appropriation bill.- and Mr. Richardson was called to Ithe chair. There was an unsuccess­ ful effort to amend the i ension paragraph so as to strike our, the 8200,U00 appropriation forste-ial investi­ gation of. alleged frauds. Mr. Aldeison tried to have struck out the provision for .'contingent expenses of the Civil bervice Commission, but was voted down. Mr. ]6tone offered an amendment striking out the provision for assistant attorneys Mto defend the Government ugainst >war claims, and it was defeated. Finally ' the bill was reported to the House Sep­ arate votes were demanded on Mr. Hayes' resolution declaring tbe laws repealed au-. thorizing the docking of members' sal­ aries for absence, and on the amandment striking out the appropriations for the civil service 'J he Hayes antl-docklng amendment was defeated--yeas, 104; nays. 127. The amendment of Mr. Enloe striking out the appropriation for the civil service commlasion was lost--80 yeas to 158 nays--amid Kepubllcau applause 'I he legislative bill was then passed The House bill to incorporate the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias was passe*. A resolution was adopted setting aside Saturday, June 23. for eulogies on the late Representative Houk. of Ohio, 'ihe House then, at a few minutes past 5 o clock, ad­ journed. Senator Kyle's Hawaiian resolution and the tariff were tangled up Friday, and the tariff came out a little ahead. The sched­ ule on several articles was changed, and the Senate bill is several pages nearer completion than before. At tbe conclu­ sion of the morning hour in the House the House went Into committee of the whole for consideration of private bills. Mr. Springer gave notice that the first thing Saturday be would call up the Brawley bill for repeal of the State bank tux law. The entire afternoon was consumed in a discussion of an omnibus resolution from the Committee on War Claims, groun- lne together thirty-seven claims for cotton, etc.. aggregating 91,040,000. Half the time was taken up In „ discussion on a point of order asrainst tbe grouping of so many bills in one resolution. The only business transacted durinz the day was the of a bill for the reltfff of Thomas R Rsed. At 5 o'clock the com­ mittee rose and the House took a recess. Tbe evenlnz session was devoted to tbe consideration of private bill* as if they were flying before the hur- Three miles out, op^t Imost impossible foil* ricane. Three miles out, opposite the lake front, a long line of gigantic waves rushed along in a solid m^ss, with a great, white sheet of foam crowning them. Boreas blew upon them and caught the sheet, scat­ tering the glistening, watery crys­ tals in the air, the force of the shower almost beating the waves into submission. But the waves behind im- pe led the waves before: the advancing lidges swelled in all their strength, like hoary, white-haired monsters, and with a tremendous crash beat them* the pedestrian to make his way. Hats by the dozen were blown far out into the harbor, bat undaunted the women folk a* well as men remained chained to the awful scene. CUHOIHO TO A BAH hands at "work building machines for tto Whitely Reaper Company, whose factory was recently destroyed by fire Valparaiso.--Two young women were prostrated by lightning. Ohio Feels the Storo*. Nor walk.--Several cows wereklRed while standing under a cherry tree. In the north part of the city much w iiio iivai damage was dooe to fruit trees by the port of Milwaukee, is a big and stanch hail. At Chicago Junction the school * « v • i ^ A»f in kiifMinir AAnfAininff 40l I t- Ahnl AT*s wno FURY OF THK OAU EL8K.WHBEK. Six Persons Go Down with a Schooner In Milwaukee Harbor. Milwaukee, Wis.--On the beach of Jones' Island, just south of the mouth of the river and in the harbor of the *00 I TO • 00 18 '« 40 1* . @ 5 00 & * Ml ( H i f m so UK drv, and out in •elves against the breakwater. Tho j twenty feet of water, with her masts {>ier »*(K)d bravely, and Korea* wa» j standing straight up, with ckse-reefed oiled. Over leaped the waves, licking ' spars, is another vessel. In the rigging le breakwater MI if eager of the foundered schooner is a dead woman lashed to the halyard.-, and up above, on tbe cross-trees, is an unconscious sailor, who will be dead before morning. O! their late com­ panions f»"ur are dead and one alone survives. This Is tha story of a May day, a May ttay such as was sever be­ fore known in the history of this city. It was a day with a raging gale that played a varied accompaniment of rain, sleet, snow and hail. Oshkoeh. -- Wednesday the ther- mometer registered WO degree# in this Jhc tone of the breakwater as IT eager to bury it forever. Floods of water dashed over the structure like catar­ acts. Inside the breakwater everything seemed quiet and peaceful, but there was a dangerous swell, the water mov­ ing up and down like a sail bellying under a strong wind. Outside ( the breakwater, where the shore was vir­ tually unprotected, the waves spent t^eir fury and fled back only to gain fresh strength to hurl themselves later at th* Mine sy«\, JUI aloxut the like building, containing 4(Hi t cholars, was struck by lightning. One teacher and several scholars were hurt by falling timbers. Montpelier.--The cyclone near he did more damage than was at first r«j fiorted. Littlo Martha Daso, who was njured, is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore, who were hurt, have little chance of recovery. Another who may be numbered among the victims is Mirs. George Mercer, and possibly her 3 months old babe. At Pleasant Lake the cyclone swooped down and caught up two pleasure boats, together with immense quantities of water, and dropped the same in the town, one 'toat iaaflUaf on tha roof of a hot«i» > . ^ ; S'iSE The Bluntest Dog in the World. The biggest dog ever known was a St Bernard named Plinlimmor, shown at an English dog show in 18fe6. He stood thirty-five inches high at the shoulder and weighed 214 pounds. Plin- limmon is now in this country, or, at least, was brought to America directly after being exhibited, having been bought by an American gentleman at a price so large that it is said he never would tell what it was. : : The Only Clock in the World. In the year 760 A. D. Pope Paul I. Bent the only clock in the known world as a present to Pepin, King of Franoe. - Bits of Thlnvs. IT Is estimated that 13,000,000 human beings have perished as a result of earthquakes since the year 1603 B. C. THE sect of Jains, in India, are the champion long-distance fasters. Fasts of from thirty to forty days are very common, and once a year they abstain from food for seventy-five days. ALUMINUM is now to be used for en­ graving in place of stone or steel. It is claimed that.besides the advantage of lightness, an aluminum plite v.ill fur­ nish f-,000 impressions, against fcO to 300 from a steel one. IN water in which decaying vegeta­ bles have been infused the microscope discovers things so minute that 10,0^0 of them would not exceed in bulk a grain of mustard, though they are ««p- piied with organs as complicated at those of a whale. LEAVES of the Talipot palm in Cey­ lon sometimes attain the length of twenty feet, with a width of eighteen feet. They are used by the natives in making tents. The leaves of the double cocoanut palm are often thirty | feet long, while those of the Inaja 1 palm on the banks of the rivers of 1 Brazil are sometimes fifty feet long and "WVotwelvafoetwJda! FCR