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wxm T:: ^r- T ' / ' ' rwg fflaittiUale* L VAN SLYKf, Editor mi Nbllsher. MoHgNRY, * - - - ILLINOIS. TRADE IS PICKING CP, REPORTS (ND1C PROVE! :ATE VAN (IE NT. •4': tu­ rn; r--. PNLGE BMIIMM lit CHICAGO ART-- ,fl»r •••••6rest«r than Reported m Year AJJO--Bu*i- nem Falluros on the Decline--Typhoid .. In New fork--A Statue to Sherman. *' IHHA Review oi Trade* B. G. DUN & Co.'s Weekly Trade tie-' #iew says: Reports from cities Indicate a general Improvement in trade. At Boston trade Js 4m the whole sat isfactory. Jobbing trade Is active »t Cincinnati, especially In pro­ visions, and at Cleveland Business compares ^PLVornhly on the whole with that of last year, though reaction and a light demand •ppear in Iron ore. At Chicago the vol­ ume of merchandise sales is greater than a jT*>ar ago, and diminished receipts ap­ pear in cured meats only, a fair increase In lard, cheese, and butter, a third in flour, corn, oats, barley, and hides, 50 per cent, in wool, while receipts of rye *re double last year's, and wheat and grossed beef four times last year's. Trade [0b Milwaukee is good, although collections lire retarded because farmers hold back their crops. At St Paul prospects are Hirlghtes-, and at Minneapolis business Ikas increased, as also at Kansas City. trade Is fair for the season *6 Omaba and Denver. At St. Louis Bt Is also stronger, and there is much confi­ dence as to the future, though the depres­ sion In the cotton regions is still felt. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number, JffS, as compared with totals of 319 last Heek; for the Corresponding week of last Sf«ar the figures were 297. • News in Bri^T. 'F - BIGHT mote cases of typhus fever Itave been discovered in New York. , HEDSPETH asserts that he can prove fh;' V alibi in the Glendale robbery case. j|v: • A FOUB-STOBT brick building in Kingston, N. Y., was destroyed*by fire, if/;. , - ,. * CLTFBS for re-election of President - ' Diaz are being formed throughout | V". .. Mexico. J FRANCE 'S last torp*M» boat made- h , vjwenty-thre^ and one-hal^ knots in a sea. jf G. MAOBATH, South Carolina's war '4* > Ck)vernor, is dying of apoplexy at W*" ' • Charleston. . 5 ?'• R'* " SEVENTEEN of the immense cotton jy? Mills in Canada have been gobbled up an immefise corporation. |,5, HENBY WELLCOME, an American, has ^4 • l>een installed Master of Fidelity Lodge •kg. -fx.- Freemasons, in London. V - A NEGRO who attempted, to assault a "'Z- i *%hite girl in Roanoke was taken from *.••.officers by a mob and hanged. JX:' . ' JAMES XJCTAIR, JB., eldest son of ex- £- », Senator Fair\b/*cl at his home in San £fy *, - IPrancisco of heart failure. \ FAMINE prevails among the 1,500,000 r**'-* •*$ "Inhabitants of the districts of Bijapur, |fe Bolgaum, and Dhahrwar, in India. EMIL H>MMEESTEIX, a noted forger ; C Recused of 142 different crimes, has been J Sentenced in Berlin to twelve years' im- ^ ' prisonment. ^ ' EIGHT liquor sellers of What Cheer, %"/ ^ Iowa, are on trial at Oskaloosa. Deal- " <*" crs at Janetown have been enjoined to |>*>- ' fttopselling. |^FA. PORTLOCK, the Burlington (Minn.) |v ^ * inurderer, has entered a plea of guilty . --4 - of manslaughter, and will get a sentence IfV' ft Of eight years. I' f' CHARLES WATEBBTTBY, the kidnaper I" . * %ho is confined in jail at Bridgeport, .. v Conn., made an unsuccessful attempt to jSA ' » Commit suicide. J/ .« MEMBERS of the Grand Army of tb# "" Republic are contributing for a statue •* •; Of General W. T. Sherman to be erected Washington. ? • FIFTY cases of typhoid fever have been £ discovered among a lot of xgeefitly fjgl, , landed emigrants in a single New York ^ - fenement-house. S A HEAVY snow-storm tangled the elee- f ^ ' ? trie wires in Boston, rendering them un- ?/• ' v 6afe for Use andl leaving the city in al- fe-O tnoet total" darkne T NW FTFLID OR^AR FJAJR«{F4+JR f-rw newspapers Sunday took place before Aid. Kobe. w He discharged si* of the ten prisoners. The others were fined $25 and costs each. They will appeal from the decision. ONE of the most diabolical pieces of train-wrecking that ever occurred in the West took place on the Chicago and Alton Road near Larrabee, Mot, costing three lives. The west bound limited ex­ press was sent crashing into a freight, both head on, by a misplaced switch. MARKET CLERK DAVIU HASTINGS, th« first of the Allegheny city, Pa., officials indicted for embezzlement to be tried, was found guilty of all the counts. He was remanded to jail for sentence. The "fcase of Mayor Wyman for embezzle­ ment and extortion will begin at once. ^ f AJ*-epidemic of grip prevails at Bur- gettstown, near Pittsburg, Pa., and the, residents are greatly alarmed. Of the l,0fi0 inhabitants it is estimated that ftilly three-fourths have been ill with the disease within the last four weeks. At Washington, Pa., 800 cases are re­ ported, many of them having assumed a dangerous aspect. In Pittsburg there are a great many cases, but the disease is not yet epidemic. The Hotel Royal, that well-known New York landmark which has stood for more than a quarter of a century at the southeast corner of Sixth avenue and Fortieth street, was burned to the ground and a large number of people were burned, suffocated or crushed in the ruins. At the time of the disaster there were nearly 150 guests in the bouse. Thfe hotel employes all told number fifty-five. The number of dead will probably exceed thirty. WESTERN. JUDGE AIKENS, at Sioux Fall, S. D., decided against DeSteuers* appeal for a continuance, and the famous divorce case will have a speedy hearing. C. C. DUNS, of Minneapolis, has sold to Ckicago men 640 acres of pine and timber land In Jackson County, Wiscon­ sin. The price paid was $17,500. ANDBEW COCNTT, Mo., farmers offer $200 reward for the death ot^a, beast re­ sembling a panther, which has killed and injured a good deal of stock. A BILL to determine the sessions of the Circuit and District Courts of he United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin was passed by the House. Two MEN arrested at Ottumwa, Iowa, had a great scheme to make money. They threatened to blow up widows un­ less they responded to a graded assess­ ment. AT the regular monthly banquet of the Daughters of Rebecca at El Dorado, Kan., forty persons were poisoned by drinking coffee. None of the cases will prove fatal. JOSEPH HAMEL of De Soto, Mo., shot and killed his tenant, William Beatty, because the latter refused to return some fanning implements that Hamel had loaned him. THE will of Moses Hopkins was ad­ mitted to probate at San Francisco. His estate of $4,000,000 is divided, three- fourths going to his widow and the rest to other relatives. W. H. MAUNSELL, Ada, Minn., Stenographer, was arrpstecr-sn a charge of forging Judge ^KUs' name to a bill for shorthand work in the Norman' County (Minn.) Court. A SCHOOLBOY at New Albany, Ind., took a dynamite cartridge to school with him. It exploded, and the pos­ sessor, together with several school­ mates, received seveye'iqiuries. THE hanging oL-€liarle^jA. Benson, of Leavenworth, Kan., for 4he murder of Mrs. Mettman, did not take place. A stay of proceedings was granted instead, pending an appeal of the case to the Su­ preme Court. AT Chicago a Fort Wayne passenger train, running thirty miles an hour crashed into a Thirty-first street cross- town car filled with passengers. Eleven passengers were injured and one killed. It is feared four more will die. OVEB 500 new wells have been con­ tracted and stakes driven in the ilont- pelier, Ind.,* oil field. Derricks are springing up like mushrooms. Con­ servative men think the field is in a fair way to rival the Lima, Ohio, fields. THE town of Kokomo, Ind., has ac- ISAAC LANSFORRI, of Peoria, 111., ac- cePt€<1 the Chicago Gas Company's $10,- cused of criminally assaulting Maggie i Reed, aged 14, shot himself dead before i he could be arrested. J ' CliEBt'RNE COUNTY moonshiners have killed off an entire Alabama family be- ' cause they were Government witnesses ; in a case against them. j A STATE meeting of Subtreasury Farmers' Alliance Democrats, held at Dallas, organized the Jeffersonian Dem- 1 cratic party of Texas. j PETBOLEUM has been struck on the Assam railway, in India, at a depth of 650 feet. At last accounts the well was pouring forth 700 barrels daily. THEBE is a rumor in Paris that the Russian General, Von Hafsord, who •was thought to have committed suicide, was a victim of Nihilists instead. G. P. A. HEALY, the veteran painter, has left Paris to return to Chicago, bringing with him a full-length-portrait of the Due d'Aumale for the World's Fair. THE dead bodies of two Americans have been found in an adobe hut near El Paso. The murder is thought by some to have been committed by~rene- gade Indians. ANOTHBB revolution is imminent in j®razil; three ministers have handed in ^Bieir resignations. The feeling against the Government in some sections is reporter1!, mcro scr rorfba aro develop­ ing, aad the people throughdut that sea* tion are greatly alarmed. - AT Memphis, Tenn., a fire broke but in Rosin & Hurst's auction store, No. 322 Main street, and in three hours the entire block was in flames, with most of thp buildings burned to the ground. The burned block is in the very heart of the city, and the buildings were largely wholesale houses. • The loss will reach $1,000,000. _ ' ". #OLITICAU ' ' BLAINE emphatically nies the report that he is about to re­ sign from the Cabinet. ALL of Gov. Boyd's old appointees are taking hold under the new regime, and the Thayerites are gracefully with­ drawing. THERE ls a rumor afloat that Post­ master General Wanamaker is to be sent to Paris to succeed Whitelaw Reld as Minister, and that General James S. Clarkson is to take Mr. Wanamaker's place. REPBESKNTATIVE JOHNSON,, of North Dakota, has written a letter to the President urging the appointment of ex-Congressman John M. Langston (colored), of Virginia, as Judge of the Court of Claims. MB. BLAINE is not a candidate for the presidency. He makes this official an­ nouncement in- a letter to Chairman Clarkson of the Republican. National Committee, the opening paragraph, of which is as follows: "I am not a candidate for the presidency and iny name will not go before the Repub­ lican National Convention for the nomi­ nation. I make this announcement in due season. To those who have ten­ dered me their support I owe sincere thanks and am most grateful for their confidence." ME. BLAINE DRAWS OUT. is N6T NOW A CANDIDATE FOR I PRESIDENCY, Bu Ytaritial "titter of Withdrawn! 8#A* to Chairman Clarkson-Varloi* Vlew« aa to Mow It Will Concern Other POMI- Candidates--Political Gossip* Effect of the Declaration. Blaine is not a candidate for the Pres­ idency. He has made this official an- nounceuaant in the following letter to Chairman Clarkson, of the Republican National Committee: WASHINGTON, IX C. Hon. J. & Clarkson, Chairman of the Re­ publican National Committee. DEAR SIR--I am not a candidate for the Presidency, and my name will not RO be­ fore the Republican National Convention for the nomination. I make this announce­ ment In due season. To those who have tendered me their support I owe sincere thanks, and am most graceful for their confidence. They will, I am sure, make earnest effort In the approaching contest, which Is ren­ dered especially Important b?* reason Of FOREIGN. MOBS in Barcelona, Spain, are threat­ ening vengeance for the execution of the anarchists in Xeres. YrxG Yu CHCEX, one of the Chinese revolution leaders, has been captured, and his life will be forfeited. THE suffering from famine in Russia has somewhat decreased since sledge travel on the snow has become possible. WORKMEN repairing a vessel at Glas­ gow were precipitated by the falling of a scaffold, resulting in fatal injuries to three. THE German Government has turned against the socialistic" circles of the country, and is waging wstr on the hordes of anarchists. THE railway through Kopperstahl, Austria, has been obstructed by an avalanche of snow which ̂ will take a month to clear away. t J HEBB NEUMANN, senior partner of the banking firm of Hariz <fc Co., of Pots­ dam, has absconded, leaving debts on the boerse estimated at 1,000,000 marks. HEBB LANG, assistant cashier of Okester's bank at Mannheim, has ab­ sconded after having, it is alleged, ut­ tered forged bills to the extent of 250,- 000 marks. , AT Landsberg, in Upper Silesia, a crowd of Russiah emigrants, while en­ deavoring to cross the frontier, were fired upon by Russian gendarmes, and several were killed. DAILY orders, prohibiting the trans­ portation of grain from one district to another alarm Russian merchants, who fear that they are a prelude to the con­ fiscation of their stocks. IN GENERAL [>00, and it is expected that gas pipes will be laid as soon as the weather permits. The company is required to supply Ko­ komo with gas at 5 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. JAMES COCCH, a pioneer settler of Chicago, and owner of the Tremont House property, died from injuries which he received by being thrown from a street car and run over by a truck at Lake and State streets. Mr. Couch was 92 years old. JAMES DONOVAX, of St. Paul, held for burglary, John Wilson, a Chicago (ramp printer, another alleged burglar, and Chester Bell, a boy under sentence to the Reform School for burglary, broke out of the Eau Claire, Wis., jail and are hiding in the woods with officers seeking them. THOMAS HARTFOBD of Auburn Park, a Chicago suburb, was fined $10 and costs by Justice Caldwell for disorderly Conduct. Hartford's son was recently killed by the cars, and since then he has been drinking heavily. He threw him- Belf in front of a Western Indiana train at Eighty-first street, but was pulled out by an officer be(gre the train reached him. AT Des Moines the Iowa Columbian Commissioners met in joint session with the Senate and House World's Fair cotn- | mittees, and the conference was ad­ dressed by Chief W. I. Buchanan, who spoke upon the scope of the Exposition SPANISH Republicans have been pro­ hibited from holding meetings in honor of the Spanish Republic of 1873. THE foundries at Hamilton, Ont., were reopened with a force of non-union molders in place of the striking union men. THE British bark Lizzie Bell, bound for Victoria, was damaged at sea by fire, and has had to discharge her cargo at Coquimbo, South America. THE steamship Indiana, under the" American flag, has It ft Philadelphia £or Russia, with a cargo of provisions con­ tributed for,the famine sufferers. ENGLISH papers say that the action of the United States against Chill has per­ manently estranged the whole of Latin America from us, and that the occurrence marks an epoch in the history of the two Americas. THE work of removing the Eider's cargo is^arried on day and night by re­ lays of men, but nothing can be done without the aid of divers, who have to hook on the line to every bale of cotton, as the cargo is all under water. POSTMASTEB GENERAL WANAMAKER has issued an order giving money-order facilities to all postofflces where the compensation of the postmaster reaches $200 per annum. Taking the States*of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and In­ diana as a basis, this order of the Post­ master General will not only double the present number of money-order offices but give an excess of about 25 per cent, in addition. MARKET REPORT8. 0# JAMES GILLE8FIE BLAINE. CHICAGO. CATIXF,--Common to Prime.... 53.50 bitter and fighting may occur at any mo- a8 a whole, as Well as upon the Agricul-1 flirnl T\ono r+tnonf in r>n i/inlny A a n n tural Department in particular. As an Iowa man his address is believed to have Impressed upon the legislative commit­ tees the importance of a liberal appro­ priation. tnent. WILLIAM JOKES and Perry McKnight "Were run down by a railroad train near Hopkinsvillc, Ky., and fatally injured, j GLADSTONE ha^sent a letter to Sijfr SOUTHERN. William Vernon Harcourt in which he ! * |>ays a high tribute to the late Duke of j THE remains of Bandit Fitzsimmons, Cijirence and Avorulale. , who suicided at NJ^*^ Orleans to avoid Gov. MELLETTE, of South Dakota, ' hanging, will be cremated, has appointed ex-G«v. Edmunds, J. | • WARRANTS are being issued for lead- Pepper, a leading ..Russian of Eureka, King lumbermen in Minnesota. They are and Co!. Jeffries of Pierre as a relief charged with constituting a trust commission to receive and forward con­ tribution* to thu Russian famine suf­ ferers. EASTERN. K, I THE, verdiet of the jury in the loco­ motive explosion case at St. Clair, Pa., by which five men were killed, lays the responsibility upon the Reading Railroad Company. ASSIGNEE GOTTLD has filed a state­ ment of the finances of the Field- liindley concern. Secured liabilities are $1,073,895; unsecured, $1,077,846; nom­ inal assets, $1,917,986; actual assets, $39,326. THE hearing in the cases brought •gainst Pittsburg (Pa.) newsdealers by REV. GEORGE W. KILDOW, a theo­ logical student at Columbia, 8. C., cut his throat in the preschce of his young THE* Supreme Court of Texas held that receivers of railway companies were jiot liable for damages resulting in death. FRANK TYLER, a well-to-do farmer- of Arkansas, ahd his wife were crushed to death while attempting to repair an out­ building. LOUISIANA lottery /non at Boston have been indicted,, and the"" UniteS States Court at that point wilL carry on an active fight against the class. SPOTTED FEVER is raging near Dain- gerfield, Texas. Five deaths have been Hooi--Shipping Grades SHEEP--Fair to Choice WHKAT--No. 2 CORN--No. 2 OATS-- No. 2 " KTK--No. 2 Burj Kit --Choice Creamt*rjr CHKKSK--Full LTeam, ilatk....... ROOM -- Frea}) :.... POTAIOKS--Car-loads, per bu'.'.". INDIANAPOLIS. CAITI^E--'hipping HOOK--Choice Light. bHKKP-- Common to Prime WHF,AT --No. 2 lied * COBN--No. 1 White... OAT*-- No. 2 White bT. LOUIS." CATTLE Hoes WH AT--NO. 2 Bed. CORN -No. *2 :0A 8 --No. 2 EKE-No. 2 CINCINNATI." CATTLE Hoos bHKKP WHEAT--No. 2 Red. « OKN--No. 2 OATS--No it Mixed DETROIT."" CATTLE. HOGS BHKKP WUJIAT--No. 2 lied I OBN--No. 2 Yellow.. OATH--No. 2 Whit* TOLEDO. W HKAT--New CORN--No. 2 Yellow OAIB--No, 2 White Kra BUFFALO." BEEF CATTXR Li VK Hoos WHEAT--No. l Hard ' COBN--No. 2 MILWAUKKfc" WHKAT--No. 2 Spring COHN--No. 3 OATH--No. 2 White. Urn--No. 1 BAULKY--No. 2 VOKK--Mflfll, NEW YORK. CATTLE Hoos BHKKP •'**-"" WHEAT--No. 2 Red... CORN--No. 2 OA I S--Mixed Western Burr EH--Creamery. Met* 3 90 3.00 • SO .40 .78 .28 .12 .24 .30 @ 5 .73 (ft 6.00 @ 5.50 «* .07 @ .41 d« .:ib O ;e; .3 ) 0 .n <» V5 <3, .35 !.23 m 5 00 U 50 @ 4.73 i 00 ict 5. *5 .88-4® .8.1*4 ,3y m >4i .32)$® .33}$ TO (A FTFI 5.0!) 38 .32>2(# <012.25 3.90 & 5.C0 8.00 &H.75 4.CO © 6.50 1.04)4 .40 # .51 .36 & .37 M 9 -ai iU6 elO.7* the industrial and financial policies of the Government being at stake. The popular decision on these issues Is of great moment and will be of far-reaching consequences. Very Bincerely yours, JAMES G. BLAIX* In speaking of his withdrawal Mr. Blaine said: "I don't suppose any man who has once sought the office can truthfully say he doesn't care for it. I confess I would like to be Presi­ dent, tiut I will never again risk my health and life in seeking it. The office of Secretary of State is a broad enough field for me dur­ ing the rest of my pub­ lic career." Democrats agree with practical unanimity that Blaine not being in it, nothing can pre­ vent President Harrison's renomination, and Republican Congressmen are mostly of the same opinion. Members of the administration naturally will not dis­ cuss the situation for publication. JTAVOBITE SONS TO THE FRONT. While no one in Washington, writes our correspondent, questions that the ultimate effect of Mr. Blaine's declina­ tion will be the re- nomination of Pres­ ident AHarrison, the i m m e d i a t e r e s u l t will be to start up all the favorite son candidacies. Sena­ tor Cullom's expec­ tation of a 'Cullorn delegation from Illi­ nois, with some sup­ port from the new States in the North­ west, has already been set forth, and it is said the Illinois Senator will now A *. CUI-LOAI. start in as an avowed candidate and will have his name presented to the Minne­ apolis convention. Senator Allison has not got to this point yet, but in the end he will probably give the Iowa delegation permission to name him. Gen. Alger, in spite of Michigan's divided electoral vote, is a full-fledged candidate. He may. try to rally all the disaffectedcanti-Harrison elements around him, and look for votes in New York and the East as well as in the South. It is more than probable that ex-Speaker Reed will take advant­ age of Mr. Blaine's declination to seek a NeHv England delegation for himself. Mr. Eeed really has the Presidential ambition-and wants to get in training for a nomination. The only possible candidacy that excites much attention is John Sherman's. Mr. Sherman himself is a s t a n c h s u p p o r t e r o f P r e s i d e n t H a r r i s o n ' s a d m i n i s t ration,. But Senator Sherman's col­ leagues say he has a no- JOHN SRERMAN. tion that the course of legislation on sliver and the tariff may make him an available candidate. Some of the Ohio politicians of the Repub­ lican faith who have been here during the last week have in c6mmon with everybody else been discussing <he question as to whether or not Mr. Blaine would withdraw. The nomi­ nation of Mr. Sherman at Columbus in January left some ill-feeling on the part of the Foraker people to the admini­ stration, and it was gen­ erally supposed that a gr. at and interesting fight between Foraker and Sherman for the J- B- FOHAKER. delegation to Minneapolis would be in­ evitable, with McKinley only secondarily in the "race. The opinion lately ex­ pressed by the Ohioans shows that the bitterness between the factions has been decreasing. The Foraker men, who have been quietly organizing since the recent Senatorial contest to control the Ohio delegation to Min­ neapolis, are bad­ ly broken up over t h e a n n o u n c e - ment. They a * e knocked out of tkp fight b y the loss of a candi­ date. The Foraker following unques­ tionably had a s t h e i r o b j e c t t h e nomination of B l a i n e o r a n y - JMTEWAH RUSK. body to beat Har­ rison, and the effect of the withdrawal at this time may allay the bitter con­ test promised over the election of dele­ gates. Blaine's withdrawal is exciting poli­ ticians all over the country, and both Democrats and Republicans are express­ ing themselves freely as to the out­ come. As to Senator Allison, a Des Moines correspondent sends a telegram, saying "There is no one here who is in position to speak for Senator Allison, but it is known that when he was in Iowa during the campaign he spoke in terms of high praise of the administration of Presi­ dent Harrison, and expressed himself as favoring his renomination. His friends In this city say they think that there Is scarcely any question that Senator Altl- son will give Harrison cordial support1 for the nomination, and that Iowa will igo to Minneapolis ready to vofe for him for renomination." A prominent Minnesota Republican says: * "It Is difficult to foretell what the Republicans of the State w i l l d o u n d e r t h e c h a n g e d c o n d i t i o n wrought by the publica­ tion of Mr. Blaine's letter, but Mr. Blaine's withdrawal will proba­ bly add quite a number to those wlio favor the r e n o m i n a t i o n o f t h e T President. Judge Gres- _ ham has always been *" Q" GKESHA* very favorably regarded by the Minne­ sota Republicans, and it would not be surprising should a very large propor­ tion, If not a majority of them, transfer their allegiance to the distinguished jurist, now that Blaine is no longer a possibility. " Henry C. Payne, Chairman of the Wisconsin Republican State Central Committee, said that If a new man is to be nominated it may be Secretary Rusk. Since it became generally understood that Blaine was to decline, Rusk's name, he says, has been very prominentiy men­ tioned in the East, and now with Blaine's possitive withdrawal many of Blaine's strongest supporters, he thinks, will favor Rusk. Some of Senator Cullom's friends on being interviewed expressed; themselves as being confident that the Illinois Sen­ ator would receive the solid backing of ,J»i8 State at Minneapolis, and would be the leading candidate before the conven­ tion. One of the Senator's supporters offered to bet $500 against $200 that Senator Cullom would be nominated at Minneapolis and $250 more that he would win his bet. Senator McMillan, of Michigan, said: "General Alger is now a candidate for the Republican nomination and will go into the contest with the solid delega­ tion from his own State, with support from many other States and with a stronger following than many people and better chance of success than most people think for." It is the unanimous opinion among Republicans at Indianapolis that the letter takea_ Blaine entirely out of the question afe a Presidential quantity and leaves/the President with a practic­ ally clear field for the party, nomination. BBDOBBISESSEapMMMMMa •fry •MANY F0UKD DEATH. YiPXIMS OF THE HOTBL ROYAL. * -rM]- FIRE NOT COUNTED. * ttSsteVlKvi-es Are IOO-Lowest Estimate* A.*e Thirty Beneath the Kuln*--Bodies Being llunted--There Were 13C sr 14u uoiel. •#- .> ,6anu in *«.* Ttirllllng' Storlea of Escape* A Are began in the Hotel itbyal, tk Aew York, at the northeast corner of Fortieth street and Sixth avenue, at 4 o clock the % other morning, and caused the loss of many lives. - It. swept through the building like lightning. Thejguests had no warning of their dan­ ger until awakened by the ' kling of the flames and by the sufToc smoke. They rushed to the halls _,1 were driven back by the fire that even then was buring through the walls and doors of their rooms. They ran to the win­ dows. There was but one stationary fire escape. Not all the* rooms were furnished with the rope escapes that the law requires. Because of almost criminal slowness in sending out the alarm there were no firemen with ladders to aid the frightened people when they came to the windows. Numbers leaped out. Five were killed instantly outside the walls. Dozens were hurt. There were 165 or 175 persons in the hotel when the fire started/. Not all their names arc known, because a thief stole the register when the fire first broke out. But even the register would not tell the story, for many of the tran­ sient guestB at the hotel were of the kind who register under aliases* The list of dead is not complete, nor will it be for some time. The walls fell in, and the bodies of those burned are under the debris. It may be that the dead will not number more than twenty. They may number twice as many. The list of missing telegraphed numbers forty. A large proportion of these per­ sons are probably safe, though they may neyer be publicly accounted for. With five corpses in the morgue, eighteen per- sons recorded as injured, forty as miss­ ing or inquired for, and fifty-two as known to be safe, there are fifty persons still of whom nothing has been heard <rf one way or another, if there were 165 in the house. & 4.50 £» a.00 & .81 37 .31 79 & 4.75 (0 5.0J 5.2 .40»4v<« 3*2 & 4.75 4.6) <(C, 6.25 .92 .41 .32^0 Minor Medical Mention. DK. HAMMOND reports that dtfring the past ten years seventy men have died suddenly. from thejiwaln of running after street cars. / ATLANTA, Ga., claims to have the most interesting natural curiosity in a man 122 years- of age. Hiram Lester was 7 years old when this country was born and has a son 70 years of age. IN a small village in France a woman died in labor. There was no physician present, but a knowing priest performed an operation by which he brought a living chil'd Into the world. This exhibition of presence of mind and expertness, result­ ing In the saving of one life was, how­ ever, contrary to man-made law. So the priest had to be arrested and convicted for illegal practice and was fined fifteen francs. The States of this Union are already loaded down with just such leg­ islation, and the only reason why It Is not regarded as a 'general nuisance is because it is not as punctiliously en­ forced as in France. FBENCH physicians report a curious and almost unexampled disorder in a woman only 21 years of age. She looks as though she were 70. She Is said to have "a decrepitude of the cutaneous* system." In other respects she is doing quite well. The wrinkling of the skin and aging of her countenance began soap after she received a great fright, and would therefore seem to be due to a sort of paralysis of nerve centers which control the nutrition of the skin of the face. No treatment thus far tried has been of any service to * improve her appearance, and her mental condition is suffering from worriment over it. MB. KENNAN, who braved indescriba­ ble hardships of ail sorts in his travels all over Russia, says: "The vilest stuff I ever tasted was a stew offered me by Prince Djordjadzi while I was his guest in the Caucasian Mountains. It was made from the feet of cattle, including the hoofs. The taste and smell-^of • the stable pervaded the dish." J4r. Kenrian says that reindeer moss is "very nutri­ tious, but too hard of digestion for the human stomach. The Koraks feed it to the reindeer, and after he has partly di­ gested it they kill the aniqaal and take It for their own food. It tastes slimy and clayey, but it Is heartily relished by those who like it. TESTS of human endurance, which have rather more of sensational than practical and useful influence, continue to be made--doubtless because some­ body finds it possible to make some­ thing out of it. In London a fasting match was won by Mr. Jacques, who lived without food for fifty days, thus breaking the record. He lived on air and eleven gallons of water. In De­ troit half a dozen men tried to go a woek without sleep. Only one of them suc­ ceeded. Another went five days, and half of them three days. It is reported that fhey were not apparently harmed by the experiment. In New York three men did over 1,400 miles on bicycles In six days, the first covering 1,468 miles with only twelve hours' sleep.--Dr. Footo's Health Monthly. * . Gems of Thought. UNXiTTCKY is»the man whose bread .is buttered on both sides. e BEWARE of excessive concealment that provokes malicious guessing. To BROOD over the past is to misspend the present, and to jeopardize tho future. MARRIAGE is a lottery, and young hus­ bands frequently draw prizes--in baby carriages. VU.LGAR wealth is a repellant thing, but it is entitled to the forbearance, at least of vulgar povorty. THE question of the hour seems to be, Where will the sockless I Jerry Simpson put his salary as Congressman? IF you wish to scald your husband, or wife, as the case may be, procure cold water and heat it before using it. THOSE who expect to read their title clear to the better land should be able to produce a record of good deeds. IMAGINATION and memory seem to conspire against some people by swap­ ping functions at critical junctures. WHEN a man Is too lazy to walk around a mud-hole, he should not be commend­ ed for bravery in walking through it. WHEN doctors disagree they do not forget to charge for the time they spend in the argument that precedes disagree­ ment. An Effectual Remedy. He--"There is a certain young lady deeply interested in me, and while I like her, you know, still I never could love her. I want to put an end to it .without breaking the poor girl's heart. Can you suggest any plan?" She--"Do you call there often?" He--"No, indeed. Not any oftener than I can possibly help." She--"CaJl oftener. "--New York Truth. THE -old-fashioned "Talma" Is being revived. It is a long and deep cape, fit­ ted over the shoulders and cut on the biets, and nearly five yards around at the bottom. persons in the house. It is probable that nearly all of these fifty escaped. The flames seemed to break out of the whole roof at once and their glare lighted the street like day. There were one or two frantic persons at every window in the house. They held out their hands appealingly. They It aned out and over the sills, clutching at the air. Here and there was a cool cue, probably a dozen in the lot. They knew enough to use the rope fire-escapes that were in the rocms and clambered out and slid down them. Here and there a man or woman leap d upon a window sill and stood a moment and then sprang wildly off. Two men dived head first from the third floor on the fortieth street side. One fell flat on the pavement and was pickt d up with every bone in his body apparently broken. The other struck sldewise on his head and that was smashed and crushed shapeless. Two women leaped from one window on the third floor on the same sid£. They had stood a moment clasped in each other's arms. They jumped still clasped together. They fell apart, one dead, one unconscious on the pavement. From the same window leaped two men. One shrieked wildly as he cut through the air. He did not move after he fell, and he was dragged away dead. His companion landed on his feet and sank down and fell over. He writhed about on the pavement just a moment. Then he leaped to his feet and dashed off across Fortieth street. He was not seen again. Probably his name or his alias is in the" list of missing. The fate of those who fell could be seen by those who clung to their places In the windows, and made some of them hesitate to follow. Some who leaped escaped unhurt. Some of them turned and shouted to the others to hold their places and not to jump. The excited crowd in the streets shouted "Jump!" and "Hold dn!".in turn. The ladders reached only to the third floor at first. One that touched the fourth floor was put up finally, and men and women were carried down that. JBut there was no help for the unfortun­ ates on the fifth floor. Little could be seen of them from the street. The smoke that came from the lower floor seemed to rise to the top and hang there like a great cloud. Occjsionally a gust of wind would clear It away for a moment, and forms could be seen hanging from the windows. Tho people there screamed to the firemen, but their cries were not heard. In the excitement on the other floors every one seemed to forget that there was a floor not reached by the ladders. Once,'when the smoke cleared away, a woman was seen to dive headforemost out of a window on the top floor. Her companion, a man seized her skirts. They held a moment, and then slipped from her. She fell on the balcony. The man climbed out of the window, hung from the sill, and then dropped. A rope escape was hanging from the window under him, and he man­ aged to seize that and checked the force of his fall. He landed on the balcony beside the woman's body. Picking her up, he climbed on the ladder and was coming down with it. A policeman took the body from him. He leaped then 1 himself from the ladder and dashed across the street. He was W. L. Har­ mon. He was nearly suffocated, but was otherwise unhurt. This couple were the last that got out of the building. There were no more faces at the windows. In­ deed, it was not possible that any one could be in the building and be alive. Tho whole house was a mass of flames. " The building was a lire-trap, Chief Bonner ea.d. The lightning rapidity wkh which the flames ate up the inte­ rior, and the readiness with which the walls fell down go to prove the state­ ment. The New York Building Bureau was stricken dumb by the disaster. to Masculinities. A NEW finger ring is of seven fine gold wires. IF any love is blind it is a mother's love for her only son. TAKING a gentleman's arm, and vice versa, is going out of vogue. THE latest feminine fancy is steaming tho cheeks for the complexion. FOR eyery foot of stature a man should weigh twenty-six pounds. THE devil never falls out with a man who is well pleased with himself. YOUNG women are not allowed graduate from German universities. A DOSE of cod liver oil can be nicely disguised in a swallow of tomato catsUp. THERE IS no particular harm in riding a hobby, if you do not take up the whole road with It. "HERE js another idle shattered," said the young man whose father informed him that he must go to work. IN giving, a man receives more than he* gives, and the more is in proportion to tho worth of the thing given. THE first court ever convened in Ten­ nessee was held by Andrew Jackson un­ der a sycamore tree at Elizabethtown. WM, JACKSON, of Ellsworth, Me., has lost six wives within the past fifty-five ye^rs, the last having died a few weeks since. "THPRE! that explains where my clothes line went to!" exclaimed an Iowa woman, as she found her husband hang­ ing in the stable. THE SEMTE AND H0US1| WOBK OF PUR NATIONAL ~ • F . ./ MAKERFS.. : R ' Proceedings or the Senate and House it TtepresentAtlTes -- Important MemturM , Discussed and Acted I'pon-CltJ oI tho SBwbMII. . : : " - * ;'/'^y . " 6 The National Sole** ̂ In the Senate, on tlio 8tb7 »' bill was r+»~; ported and placed on the • alendar for t!** construction of a boat railway at TIMS Dulles and Celito Falls and Tq$ Mile Rapids of the Columbia River and for the improvement of Threa Mile Rapids (appropriating 92,860,356). Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Cor»i* inerce, reported a bill to repeal Ihe uct quiring life-saving appliances on stearnerfe so far as it applies to the carrying of line projectiles and. the means of propelling them on steamers plying exclusively on any * of tl»& lakes, bays, or sounds of the United States, and it was paesetf. The Senate then went Into executive sei- sion. When tho doors were reopened th® Senate resumed consideration of 4he bill, providing for .the public printing and blndfe Ing, and tho 'distribution of public docu­ ments. Without disposing of section 77, which had given rise to a good deal of disfe cusst n, the Senate adjourned. On the 0th the House ante-ed /i&tlveljK upon the legislative work of tWP session and in the brief space of fivo hours mora practical business was transacted than fit:.' any previous day of the Congress. The Pre^i- ldent's message with Its various sug tions and recommendations for leglslatidp • was referred to the various appropriate - / committees without even a single contest over the question 6f jurisdiction an1 r-'a- terial progress was tiiade in the considera­ tion of the Military Academy appropriation-/'.'..' bill. Several measures were the subjects' of discussion, but no definite settlement bff any was made. In the Senate Finance Committee, the free-coinage bill was not discussed at great length, arid when it came to a vote in reporting the bill to the Senate adversely It was at once apparent that there had. been some change in the views of certain Senators since the last Congress. The vote stood 7 lo # in fa« • vor of <the adverse report Although adversely reported, the bill was * placed on the calendar of the Senate, where It can bo reached. In deference to Its friends, and it Is understood thrft Sena­ tor Stewart will insist on Calling It up In the Senate at an early day. The Peffer bill, proposing to loan Government funds to the farmers of Iudiana, did not,receive a single favorable vote. In the Senate, On the 10th, Mr. Squire, from the Committee on Public Buildings, reported a bill appropriating §500.00) f:ir a public building at Seal tie. Wash. Calendar. The joint resolution as to the payment to the State of West Virginia of her proportion of the direct tax was again takentip in the morning hour, and after debate went ovqy without action. The bill providing Tor the . public printing and binding and the distrt- hutlon of public documents went over with*- out action. JWr. Gorman presented the ere- . dentials of bis "colleague, Mr. Gibso%--j Oath of, office was administered ts " him by the Vice President. After a brief executive session the Senate ad­ journed. The event in the House waa the report, of the Bland free-coinage bill by • he Committe on Coinage, Weights, and Measure. The action was not one that In­ volved debate, as the bill merely went on the calendar to be taken up in tho < rder of its consideration. The House also ordered an investigation of the Pension Bureau, f* managed by Commissioner Ltaum. A mil - concerning control of national banks occu­ pied the balance of the session. In the Senate, on the 11th, th> bill to amend the law as to the coasting trade on the great lakes was passed, Mr. Vilas giving Ihe following explanation of Ms object and effect: The eharige which It makes in the existing law consists sipiply in requir- . ing the owner, agent, or master of a ves­ sel touching at any intermediate port, in the course of its journey on the lakes, to make a statement of the quantity and na" ture of goods delivered or shipped aft that. port. Its object is simply to preserve among the various lake ports statistical information of the business done at these.ports. Tho bill appropriat­ ing $203,000 for a public building at Chey­ enne, Wyo., was passed. The, i rinting bill . went over without action. Adjourned till^ the 15th. In the House, the old parties came in. for a scoring by Jerry Simpson. The principal question was the appointment of messengers. Mr. Simp­ son's speech was interrupted by frequent cries of "Put him on the roll." "Amend the resolution," and "He saved the Union," but . the'speech of the gentleman of Kansas had the effect of overwhelmingly defeating the resolution. The military academy appro­ priation bill was taken up And consumed the remainder of the day. •,S !; r;i ^ V " * 4 M • J8 .- -v6,£ ; "r • Death to tne Octopus! There is every reason to believe that the existence of the Louisiana lottery will cease with the expiration of its present charter in 1894. The published statement of John A. Morris, who ha* long controlled the operations of that gigantic concern, enjoying also most of its ill-gotten revenues, seems to be conclusive that the directors of the company would not accept the constitutional amend­ ment pending before the voters of the State for the renewal of the lottery franchise, even though it should be adopted. The decision of the United States Supreme Court, upholding the validity of the anti-lottery postal law, was a death-blow to the Lou­ isiana company. The extent of its scheme compelled it to depend for its receipts on more than local patronage, and its success was impossible with­ out the use of the postal facilities of the country. The statutes of the several States imposing punishments for the traffic in lottery tickets might be avoided or rendered ineffective. But the exclusion of the lottery's business from the mails iWatal to its Hopes for further lease of life, with­ out regard to the action of the people of Louisiana. Morris, who is a shrewd man, has been quick to appreciate the sweeping effect of the court's decision. He gives further evidence^ of his perspicacity by wisely a ban.' doning a battle in which victory, if achieved, would be barren of profitable result. With the death of the New Orleans octopus there is al­ most positive assurance that another giant lottery enterprise will never again flourish in the United States. The destruction of this systeni 6f robbery is good for the morals of the people. Admitting that here and there a small investment of money in . a lottery may once in a great while bring large returns does not lessen the evil. There was a great deal of truth in the observation of Horace •Jroe^y: "A sad day in any man's life is that, on which he comes into possession "f a dollat which he has not honestly earned." Short and Spicy. If is one of the blessed privileges of old age to give in first in a quarrel. Wlieii youth will not give in, olcPage- should. A VERDICT of 91,000,000 has been affirmed by a Montana court against the "Last Chance Mining Company. Prophetic name! WE are informed that Kyrle Bellew's hair has become quite gray. If this be true, the larger portion of that actor's gray matter is on thq outside af the skull. TIIE fact that a judge recently fell Jead while charging a jury has not" aad any appreciable influence upon ihe way lawman* charge their clients. •m