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y-. JINOIS INCIDENTS SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. «**!• Takae IDs Otm Awaalt m$ CaritavMa -- Hardin Owfht la » H»ritMk-Here«r Kacapes Ihrongh a Noisome Sewer. - - Sal ©Ida. (tportlai MM Com Hiram T. Lewin, a prominent Bloom­ ington saloon and sporting man of Cen­ tral Illinois, shot and instantly kil el himself. He hal been suffering from sciatic rheumatism for several years, and lately had been despondent and often talked of suicide. He had been conducting gambling-rooms, which Were pulled a few days ago by the Sheriff. The Grand Jury has just ad­ journed, and it is believed that several Indictments were found against him. He leaves a wife and one daughter, who is married. •.< One More Escape from Chester. There is either a game of hide-and- Iftftk going on at the Chester peniten­ tiary between the authorities and Con­ vict David Mercer, or else that man is putting all the territory possible be­ tween himself and the prison and is now somewhere along the line of the Mobile and Ohio railroad. At 9 o'clock Saturday morning the guard who ex­ amines the bars in the main sewer dis­ covered that they were cut, and that a pair of pipe tongs belonging to the plumbing department were lying be­ side them plainly indicating that an­ other escape was " about to be made. At the same time David Mercer, a Union County burglar, with two and a half years yet to serve, was missing. He is a plumber and knows all about the ̂ eweri and steampipes. It is evi­ dent that be had entered the sewer 'leading from the steam duct to the main sewer ana had cut the grating. This sewer stands at a temperature of about 120 and it was thought no man could pass through the steam, muck and filth he would have to encounter during such a trip. A reward of $50 was ottered for his recapture. Good Chanea for Fall Wheat Crop. Unofficial reports from the wheat fimt are to the effect that the plant from last falls sowing has so far es­ caped in.urv from freezing weather. Owing to drought the plant did not make a good growth d wing the fall, "but there is no reason why it should not come out all right with favorab!e weather in the future. The plant was well protected by snow dur­ ing the previous "cold snaps," but now it is onlv partly protected, and with excessively cold weather it may yet suffer. The opinion is expressed^ that not to exceed 25 or 26 per cent, of last year's crop has been carried over. Re­ tt ;rts from the southern part of the &tat3 are almost uniform totheefect that the peach crop will be a failure. The prospects for apple > and straw­ berries are good. M^pets, Wooes and Weds tai a Day. A particularly speedy marriage took 5lace in B1 .omington. The groom wa i ohn Hiler, who represents a Chicago music house, and the bride Grace Washburn, daughter of Mrs. Adrienne Washburn, of Bloomington. Friday afternoon he met Miss Washburn for the first time. The meeting was by accident. _ It was a ca-e of love at first sight. Hiler was invited to call that evening. He did so, and before he took his departure proposed marriage. The proposal was accepted and they were married next day at rwon at the parsonage of the Second Presbyterian £hurch. Hiler's home is at Grand Haven, Mich. Tr.iln Robber Hardin Captured. Joseph Hardin, the escaped train rob­ ber, after wandering about in the vicin­ ity of the Chester prison three days, was captured within three miles of the prison by a farmer, who ran a fork into him in a haystack. He was miserably cold and hungry, having endured gt eat suffering on account of the cold. He was terribly disappointed in failing to get beyond hearing of the prison whistle, which he heard every day, no matter how fast or far he 'traveled. He was lost, dazed, half frozen and half g'ad to get back to the oomforts of prison fare again. Fatally Beaten by Burglars. At Carlinville, burglars entered the store of L. H. Hall and in escaping were pursued b/ a night watchman, whom they beat into insem ibility. Upon recovering consciousness he identified his assailants as Frank Pecklington, an ex-convict, and William Yeargen and his son. Subsequent to thsir arrest search of their house revealed consid­ erable plunder. The watchman is probably fatally injured. Record of the Week. CHICAGO insurance rates have been advanced 25 per cent. Heavy losses cau-e i the move. HARRY MITCHELL was acquitted at Decatur of the charge of killing George Feuser, of Chicago, Jan. 14. J. F. MILLER, a young man of Free- port, committed suicide because his wife refused to live with him. ACTING GOVERNOR GILL restored Elijah Francis to citizenship. Francis has just completed a term at Joliet. MAJOR MCCLAUGHRY reflected se­ verely upon the critics of the abused policeman in a speech at Bloomington. GEORGE C. GRASSEL, one of the yearly settlers of Montgomery County, died M hid home in Hillsboro, aged 80 years. ^ GRANDMA SUSAN PAYNE, one of Cass County's oldest settlers, is dead. She lived in Cass County over thirty years. AT a special Rushville election it was decided to issue bonds to the amount of $2,000 to build a new school house. THE annual reunion of Freeport Con­ sistory was held at Freeport. The de­ crees of the Scottish rite from the fourth to the fourteenth, inclusive, Were conferred. THE McDonough County grand jury is after druggists for illegally selling liquor. Seventeen have been indioted. There are from six to seventy counts against each man. CHARLES M. UTTER, a wealthy and well-known Rockford manufacturer, was knocked down by an electric car and dragged about one hundred feet.' His injuries are serious. THE coal mining company at Mowe- aqua has struck a lower and better vein of coal which it will work on in the future. JOHN HOFFMAN, of Kellerville, near Quincy, is dead. He was a resident of Adams County for fifty-uve years, and was the father of nineteen children, thirteen of whom are active and prom­ inent citizens in that vicinity to-day. WHJXJS Otto and Amos Mecum, brothers, residing at Carmi, were hunting near town their horse became frightened, and, the lines becoming wrapped around the gun, it was dis­ charged, the shot blowing off the top ofOtto's racing Wu. HiR*T,an old resident of Chi­ cago, died of paralysis. AT Deeatus, Charles C. Wilson, aired 26, died of typhoid fever. THE Farmers and Merchants' Bank has been organized at Assumption. THE Aurora City Council let the con­ tract for forty-six miles of sowers. MRS. JOHN CONERUS, aged 48, and Mrs. Mary Perlee, died at Fairbury. CITIZENS of Greenville, at an elec­ tion, decided to erect a $20,000 school- house. MARSHFIELD LULL, one of the orig­ inal machinists in the Elgin watch fac­ tory, is dead. CITIZENS of Freeport wfll raise a fund of $1,500 to fierht the proposed sewer tax recently levied. THE Insurance Superintendent holds that the fraternal benefit act is not in­ tended to kill insurance societies. REV. Da. R. W. PATTERSON, one of the tatria.chs of the Presbyterian Church, died at his home in Evanston. DISCOVERING why the jurors in a city railway case changed their verdict. Judge Hanecy, of Cnicago, sent several to jail. STEPHEN B. DENNAN, a well-known old Rockford citi/ea who served three years during the war, died at the age of 57 years. THE Postal Telegraph Company has completed arrangements to build a line from Freeport to Dunbar, connecting with the main line. AN infuriated Newfoundland dog frightfully lacerated the 4-year-old son of Police Lieutenant O'Hara, of Chi­ cago. The child may die. AT Peoria James Allison Glenn was found guilty of assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to the Joliet penitentiary for seven years. FIRE destroyed the residence and entire contents of Benjamin Brown, near Vandalia. One or his children barely escaped being cremated. ADOLPHUS ADCOCK was found guilty at Aurora of attempting to kill his sweetheart, and was sentenced to eight years in the Joliet penitentiary. AT Clinton, the grocery store of Gal- laher Bros, was close i by the Sheriff in favor of several Chicago creditors. Liabilities are $20,000; assets, $10,000. AT Litchfield a vein of coal 6even feet nine inches was struck at a depth of 532 feet. The city is wild with en- thusiam. A new mine will be sunk at once. DAVE MERCER, the convict who es­ caped from the Southern Illinois peni­ tentiary by way of the sewer, was re­ captured and returned to the peniten­ tiary. LEGGNARD BROS.' mammoth steam brick works at Barnico will begin operations April 2. Between four and five hundred men and boys will be em­ ployed. THE Secretary of State has granted a charter for the incorporation of the Springfield Humane Society, for the prevention of cruelty to children and animuls. ANTHONY TESH was arrested on sus­ picion of trying to wreak a train near Olney. The engineer saw the tie on the track just in time to prevent an accident. SUPERVISOR DAVIDSON, of Hurricane tswnship, Fayette Co jnty, while fell­ ing a tree was Btruck on the head by a falling limb. It is thought that he cannot recover. THE Whitebreast Fuel Company, owners Of the coal mines at Dunferm­ line, have contributed $750 to the re­ lief committee of that place to aid the starving miners. ACTING GOVERNOR GILL has issued a requisition for the extradition of James B. Hill, arrested at Buffalo, N. Y., on the charge of robbing Minnie Havens, of Chicago, of $225. THE Rev. J. W. Lessman, pastor of the Second German Lutheran Church, Detatur, has received a whitecap let­ ter. He believes it was written by some dissatisfied membar of his flock. THE general merchandise store of F. H. Eulitz at Huey was burned; Loss, $6,000; insurance, $4,700. The resi­ dence of J. M. Skaggs, two miles south­ east of Danvers, was burned, with all its contents. Loss, $10,0C0. C. C. SHOGER, a one-legged night operator for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company at Na- perville, had a terrible combat with two burglas, who entered the ticket office by breaking in a window. As they crawled in Agent Shoger pounded thom with a chair and defended him- telf as valiantly as he could, but as he only has one leg he was soon overpow­ ered. He was bound and gagged and left on the floor of the waiting-room while they broke open the safe and took the contents, $23. JOHN SULLIVAN, who met with such a horrible accident at a portable saw­ mill near Quincy a week ago, is still alive. His lel't arm was taken off at the shoulder, a piece two and one-half inches square taken out of hiB skull and several of his ribs were cut off near the spinal column. The most re­ markable feature of the case is that he is conscious and converses intelli­ gently with all who visit him. Before the physicians sewed up his back and side the air inhaled and discharged by his lungs escaped in large volumes through the wounds. .SPRINGFIELD'S new City Hall was thrown open on Wednesday night, and the Mayor's reception was attended by thousands of women and men. The fifty-seven rooms were illuminated, handsomely furnished, and decorated with flowers which perfumed the en­ tire structure. Mayor Kramer wel­ comed the guefcts in a brief and appro­ priate address, expressing his gratifi­ cation over the effoi ts of the citizens, which have resulted in furnishin? the city with a respectable place of "busi­ ness for city affairs, and a place to which strangers and visitors can be in­ vited and entertained. Responses were made by Judge S. P. Wheeler, Attor­ ney J. Otis Humphrey, and others, all in jolly good humor. GEORGE DOVER, an old resident of Leroy, committed suicide. He leave* a wife,and two children. L J. JENNINGS, of Tower Hill, com­ mitted suicide presumably because of trouble with t le Commissioner of Highways in regard to a road ordered across his farm. THE Rockford . German Lutheran Church fight was renewed when F. Sadewater, the' former church treas urer, brought suit against the old Board of Trustees f >r amount he claims to have paid out of his own pocket for church bills. AT Chicago Officers Moran and Healy were indicted by the Grand Jury for the shooting of Swan Nelson, an inoffensive man. ERNEST VON KIESENBERGER com­ mitted suicide in a Springfield board­ ing house by shooting. The suicide was a German about lid years of age, and had been in the city about six months. Nobody knows where he came from, as he has t >ld conflicting stories. *1 r,;; v. jT Hiftf fDdr"DRMtfW6or THE HWY JW A MY P O C K E T , T n t W i r i m C«liH6 ̂ TH£ THiifc THV W The fJ£l- S°5W $lC.HT0f Ttvtf OlKffER RWL. fHEUty.*.. v£ cvwed THtf IT NTFER SAW ovjof WIN* OR. DESFYFUF* ETRORC, wJ5HO^A/OF/V^JS5{K^6ytoTH£9m or BPEgp^*Tof F£UJ^ ^E^oiKifcR 1>U. ^ jj^t/T YW SCC V£ SAT«y»E0TH*>CH NO WT5/\I0 WE TKOTTHTIHFC«WF«YVFCVIP TJE A O W£ fW5 AS**? THE T\R'ff,V«£Stf**«> fn^TRADi: 'fijtO WE VotfQ^OSlfCRAll^DlbTHE PAM- ^ J 1 l>5 VT^At Got iT Too.Tfrv B*T, O WE Wcu -r.- •-vC AUtfft «KTHCV«T, Jyt PA3f*£NT1A*0 I i«ST>XUtTI.E *U- ^ * /yo Tut VtrfCR fy'L «$ trtPTt WiU. TFT' O£PLKDFT»T*FOMF OJ/ CRTJWTYRCITHE RP«>R A Wq fv( jCWMYWirf A*0 urn one COToIhiik $VT IVc PLFCHTYTMT IT >5K'T FOA I VOTEDDAIOC^ANC JVJR TOH»PT£ VSNRCD DEMOCRATIC,AND YOU SEE THE CNANTT HAS R'A L9TOF/HBK«IT OF THE OIHUM PAJL AV toLE.fiwT tkt Wop(XHi»o jvMO TH^GAia! B to "THt D«NWta PALI.HALFC Wft OA THE. TO TALK OH TARIFF. THOSE WHO WILL SPEAK IN THE . bdleitloiu Point to m LOBK AND Anlm*T«d Dtacoasloa--Mur of the Gbw«t 8pe««h- M OattTCMd Um. flomr AtttapHMl Iqr Oatoldcn. SOUTH IN THE SADDLE JUSTICE WHITE A RADICAL CONFEDERATE. EX. AOs Appointment to Um SvpraaM Basel* Ballaved to HIT* BMB HAD* for the Pnrjtot* of Nullifying His Opposition to the Tariff H11L Both Foot In tha Trough. lo naming Senator White as Justice Blatchford's successor on the Supreme bench, Mr. Cleveland has once more surrendered himself and his party to the South, says a Washington corre­ spondent. While all admit Senator White's judicial fitne3S for the high office to which he has been appointed, there is a great deal of bitterness among the more radical members of Congress from the North over the mat­ ter, and there are some who attribute to the President anything but worthy motives in the appointment. The fact is pointed out that Senator White was one of the strongest oppo­ nents of the tariff bill, and that, urged by his constituents he openly declared his intention of voting, and working against it unlets sugar was left upon the taxable list. Recently Senator White's opposition became so serious and formidable that the sponsors of the bill began to question whether the measure could bj passed unless he was placated in some way. The rejection of Peckham, it is declared, gave Mr. Cleveland the opportunity to get Sena­ tor White out of the way, and ho availed himself of it with a rapidity that surprised even the Democrats. There is no doubt, either, but that in the appointment Mr. Cleveland in­ dulged himself in the pleasure of a little private revenge. It was a hard slap at New York, which now finds itself for the first time since 1806 with­ out a Representative on the Supreme bench. This would teem to have been revenge enough even for a man of Mr. Cleveland's caliber, but he had the still greater satisfaction of getting back at the Republican Senators for opposing Hornblower and Peckham, for White is one uf the most Southe: n of the Southern Democrats. By his own acknowledgment he served in the Confederate army and was actively en­ gaged in the efforts to destroy the llnion. To the Northern Republicans this is a bitter affront, and they do not hesitate to say so. This is the first instance in which a Confederate soldier has been appointed to the Supreme brench, and it is not an edifying spec­ tacle. Not only are Southern principles in the saddle at Washington, but the cap­ ital is overrun with out-at-the heel Southern office-seekers. In looking over the list of changes and the names of persons affected as they are pub­ lished in the daily papers, I have been struck by the fact that the clerks who are reduced and discharged are almost entirely from the Northern States, while those who are appointed or pro­ moted are almost entirely from the South. An investigation from the records demonstrates that this is true in more than IK) per cent, of the cases. The old and experienced clerks from the North are being turned out of the departments in droves, and those whose tervices cannot be dispensed with are having their salaries reduced, while new and inexp3rienced persons national issues were sharply discussed and the Republicans carried the city by over 1,200 majority, electing their candidate to the Territorial Legi la- ture. It is now believed lhat Utah is safely Republican on national issues, and the Democrat^ at Washington have lost all interest in the question of statehood for Utah. Mny I*st AU ; Washington correspondence: The indications are that the tariff discussion in the Senate will continue for two, three or even four months. The average newspaper reader, if he has not watched the progress of tariff discussions in the past, will wonder, perhaps, how eighty-five Senators will manage to consume three months in tariff debate. If each Senator had an entire legislative day allotted to him, with the privilege of speaking from 10 o'clock in the morning until 6 in the evening, the debate would last but lit­ tle longer. And there are some Sen­ ators who will not speak to the bill at aU. Yet it would not be difficult to prolong the debate through the whole ensuing summer. To balance the Sena­ tors who do not speak, ^ there are some Sena­ tors who speak on every possible occasion, and some other Senators who are often called to their feet by questions --whose knowledge of SENATOR BHKK- tariff matters makes *A!t them a constantly consulted authority. The best authorities on the tariff are not always the men who say most about It in public. A great many of the cleverest speeches delivered on the floor of the Senate are not written by the men who deliver them, and the au­ thority for many another is the pri­ vate teci etary of the Senator or a RTIII of Democratic Mitral*. A reduction of twenty per cent. In the scale of wages within the year bears eloquent testimony to the evil influence of Democratic ascendency. This is not all due to a single issue, such a-s the tariff, but to the general policy of the Democratic party and the terrible doubt, and uncertainty con­ cerning the future so long as a Demo­ cratic adm'ni-tration is in j ower. Nor is it due t) one branch of the govern­ ment alone, but to the government as a whole--the administrative and legis­ lative branches combined. It caunot be fairlv said that a single thing has yet been done by the admini tration to win the unqualified confidence of the people. Its dipl >macy has been childish, showing such an absolute ig­ norance or foolish disregard of prece­ dents as to create astonishment and dismay, f<r reliance on the old em­ ployes and the files of the State De­ partment ought certainly to have pre­ vented some lollies which have caused a general i-ense of humiliation. r>en in details of domestic adminis­ tration. where there ought to be no room fpr errors, some very serious blunders have occurred: and it is the combination of all these blunders, the general impression of insecurity which they diffuse, that has done the mischief, the effects of which are always felt first bv the wage-earners--the clasiB least aole to bear them. There is a feeling abroad that the people made a great mistake in 1892 in electing Mr. Cleveland and a Democratic Congress. It is felt now, when it is too late, that the peopla acceptei the totally im­ aginary estimate of a few enthusiasts con -erning the wisdom and statesman­ ship of the President, and that in pur­ suing thi* will-o'-the-wisp the^v blinded themselves to the legitimate conse­ quences of Democratic doctrines. It is not a single feaiure of the political situation that mu t be held responsible for the evils which have come upon the country, but the whole situation, which cannot be partially remedied until the election in November.--Baltimore American. Wheat and Silver. Wheat and silver are going down hand in hand. The reason for this is that the country which produces the surplus which fixes the value of whea' is on the silver basis. It takes only about one half as much gold to buy a given quantity of wheat in India as it formerly did. and the price at which wheat can be bought in India deter­ mines the market price in Liverpool. While wheat has not fallen in India as measured by silver, it has fallen near­ ly 50 per cent as measured by gold. Russia, which produce.* considerable v> heat for export, is also a silver coun­ try. As wheat can in the two principal countries of export be purchased with Bilver at its constantly receding valua­ tion. wheat producers in gold countries are compelled to ac-ept the reduction or hold on t > their wheat. Either of two causes will cause a change in the direction of the wheat market. Should there be a crop failure in both India and Russia w< eat would rise tempo­ rarily; should there be legislation looking to the restoration of silver to its old place as money, wheat would VICE PRESIDENT BTIVKK80K. President of the Senate^ SENATOR MILLS. tariff expert who is called into consul­ tation. It is noted of some Senators that they are never reaoy in debate unless their private secretaries or their committee clerks are at their elbows. One member of the Senate Finance Committee, now in political retire­ ment, made his reputation in the House of Representatives on a tariff speech which was written for him by a well- known newspaper & \ /WC; V correspondent, af- .'A, terward clerk of the Committee of Ways and Means. This ... Senator always had ^ some ore to prompt him when ne was making one of his stately tariff speech­ es, for Senators on the other side of the chamber had an unpleasant way of cutting in with questions he could not answer and throwing him off his his oratorical feet. Kew Heady Debater*. There are few ready tariff debaters In the Senate and the running discus­ sion of the Wilson bill will be confined to five or six men. The other Senatoi s will guard local interests and make set speeches. The Senators who will be heard most frequently from day to day are Vest, Mills, Jones of Arkansas, McPherson and Harris on the Demo­ cratic side; Aldrich, Allison. Sherman, Teller and Lodge on the Republican. These are the men who will debate pending amendments seriously and to the enjoyment of the benate and the galleries. There are, however, few Senators who will not make set speeches on the Wilson bill. Each of them con­ siders it a duty to his State to tell how he stands toward rotection,and why. from the South are being shoved into ri,e permanently. One of these ca ses THOIN n ONOA QQ TOAF AA IW^AIKIA In TKA . r chance for all the orators,for the Sen­ ate-never attempts to shut off the pre­ pared oratorial ef­ fort as the House does. And all of their places as fast as possible. In the Pension Otiice and the Treasury this is particularly true. It is openly charged that Secretary Carlisle s entire private establisnment --coachman, footman ani house se - vants, his horses and carriages, and even his blooded Kentucky thorough­ bred, driven by his son, Logan Car­ lisle, on Penns <. lvania avenue - are all paid for directly out of the National treasury. The rotund Hoke Smith keeps & colored man on the Interior Department pay-roll at $6 0 a year to Secure the services of his wife as cook to tickle the palata of the Georgian ep­ icure. Turn where you will about Washington and you are confronted with Southern supremacy or Southern mendicancy. Jt is the South again in the saddle and at the trough, and it has got there with both feet in the stirrup3 and in the fodder. A<* to Utah. The Democrats are not in so much of a hurry about granting statehood to Utah as they were. The Democratic platform of 1892 declared in favor of "the ear y admission of -11 territories having necessary population ani re­ sources. " Utah is the only territory ifoo inei>i°1K whi^h has develoiwd in population and fresources sufficiently to entitle it be- x >--• ~ y< nd question to admission to the llnion, and yet the Democrats are hold­ ing back. They have np question about population, re ources, or polyga­ my, but they are in doubt a. to whether I tih is going to be a Democratic State. The House has passed a bill admitting Utah, but the Senate hangs up the bid by Senator Ger­ man s advice, for fear that Utah may tend two Republican senators toWa h- ington. Some recent events in Utah , have confirmed the Democratic fear.--. He left a letter to the young girl to : The Kormom have always been pro- whom he was betrothed, Rosa Ziegler, tectionists. Thoy believe in home in- tilling of his intention to c mmit sui- ; du try and they do no. believe in the eide. It appears that they had quar- Wilson bill. Siuce that bill has been reled, and also that he had lately been under discussion Salt Lake Citv, which discharged . been I egarded as safely Demo- was working. - . ; T- C * fcratic, has held a campaign in which is in our own hands. The United States cou'd enter upon a policy which would leave European nations no al­ ternative but a loss of trade which is vital to them or the remonetization of 6ilver. As there is really but a small surplus of silver bullion in the market, any movement to create a greater use for it would cause a rapid rise.--San Francisco Call. & The Knffllah of It. The great advance which was ex­ pected to follow on the success of the Presidential silver lepeal bill has not come, ani while men are still counting up the disasters which the policy of his predecessor has produced, tney have no certainty that public interests are out of the clutahes of corrupt poli­ ticians.--London (England) Morning Post. The prompt settlement of the tariff question in the United States is a mat­ ter of vital importance from the point of view of trade revival. We referred the other day to the position of the new tariff bill before the House of Rep- resentatiues, and we are now pleased to hear that the prospects of the meas­ ure becoming law with reasonable speed are improving.--Yorkshire (En­ gland; Herald. The main cause of the dullness in trade is the disappointing character of the United States market for linens. That part of the world is the best cus­ tomer by a long way that Belfast knows or has the pleasure of dealing with, and it has been the experience of our merchants and manufacturers here for some time that the United States has not been exhibiting a healthy financial condition.--Belfast Irish News. It Is All That's Virion*. If the McKinley law was "the robber tariff," what in the name of all that's vicious Is "the Wilson bill?" It has robbed the kitchens and woodsheds and coal bins of 2,000.000 American homes and continues* in thn ltiiiinoaii /Minneapolis Journal* ^ the Senate speeches8ENATOR will undoubtedly be delivered on the Senate floor. There is no such thing as "leave to priiit' in the Senate. The order of the speech-making is in the hands of the Vice President. He may recognize whom he pleases. Mr. Stevenson will follow hi* customary rule in the tariff discussion. Where several orators from each side of the Senate expect to speak, he will arrange to recognize them alternately--flrtft a Dem( crat and then a Republican. The name* of those who are to be recoghb ed are entered cn a little slip of paper, which the Vice President has on the desk before him. This slip of paper tells him who is to make the first t-peech, and twenty other Senators might address the Chair in opposition to the gentleman whose name headed the list and Mr. Stevenson would pass over them alL If a Senator wishes to speak at length he must make arrange­ ments in aidvance with the presiding officer. Clerks Preparing Data. The Senate clerks are in the midst of a heavy siege of work. Petitions and memorials for and against features of the Wilson bill are being received. Benj. Durfee, the tariff expert of the finance conynittee, has several thou­ sand of these in his room, all jacketed and prepared for reference. The Senate discussion on the tariff is considered of more importance than the debate in the House, because the Senators are supposed to be much more independ­ ent of executive in­ fluence, and, in fact, t h e y h a v e s h o w n their independence in d e a l i n g w i t h t h e President's nomina­ tions. And, moreover, when the House was PSITATOIT MORRILL discussing the tariff there were two great possibilities that the Wilson bill would not reach the I There Is very little doubt in the minds of any of the Democratic Sena­ tors that the debate may be prolonged for several weeks. Republican Sena­ tors are anxious to delay the vote in the hope that influences may be brought to bear which will defeat the bill al­ together. They have the precedent of a three months' debate allowed te the Democrats when the McKinley bill was under discussion, and they have little doubt that the Democrats will be will­ ing to accord them the same privilege of discussing at length the Wilson bill. Under the rules of the Senate debate can be prolonged by a stubborn mi­ nority tiom. the beginning of a session until its close, for the purpose of preventing the passage of an ob­ noxious measure. Once in the his­ tory of the Senate it adjourned with­ out the transaction of any business be­ cause, the membership being divided equally betwt en the two parties, the Democrats would not agree that the vote of the Vice President should be cast to elect a Republican secretary and other offices. This is one of the few instances in which the power to filibuster in the Senate has boen used to prevent action of any kind. . No Attempt to Filibuster. It is a notable fact that no attempt was made to prevent the passage of the McKinley tariff bill by filibuster* ing. In the s ima way Republican Senators will offer no objection to the o f t h e ilso'n bill after they have had a good opportunity to debate it and make it, if possi­ ble, so unaccept­ able to some of the Democratic Sena- RJRNATOR LODOK tors that it will not command the nec- sary majority when it is put on pas­ sage. Several Republican Senators said, just before the vote on the Mc­ Kinley bill was taken, that two, and possibly three, Democratic votes could be had if they were needed. The Democrats who were said to be available for the passage of the McKinley bill at that time are still members of the Senate, and the vote on the Wilson bill ought to show how much truth there was in the state- ments^maie by the Republican Sena­ tors four years ago. But, unless the Repub­ licans believe that they can defeat the bill on a straight vote before that time expires, it is pretty certain that the d i s c u s s i o n w i l l l a s t three months. There may be propositions from the Democratic close debate SCHATOa ALLlSONand ^ fix a time for a vote. Undoubtedly the chairman of the Finance Committee will arise in his place on four or five occasions and appeal to Senators to come to some agretmont by which an early vote can be had. That little ceremonial was performed by Mr. Voorhees with fre­ quency during the discussion of the silver-purchase-repeal bill at the special session of Congress. But this is done chiefly to con­ vince the country that the Democratic Senators are not prolonging the dis­ cussion willingly. Great pressure will be brought to bear by the representa­ tives of business interests to nave the debate brought to a speedy termina­ tion, so that the country may know what business conditions it has to meet. In deference to their demand, the Democratic Senators will make dem­ onstrations at regular intervals appar­ ently looking to a termination of the discussion, but ideally with no hope that the Republican Senators will respond to their appeals. The Republican Sen­ ators will assume very willingly the re­ sponsibility for postponing the vote on the Wilson bill until every chance of defeating it has been exhausted. MOVABLE SIDEWALKS. A Company Haa Been Formed to Conatrne& One In Chicago. A company has been formed in Chi­ cago to build a movable sidewalk in the city like that in operation at the World's Fair. While elevated rail­ roads serve well there generally, in certain business quarters the streets are • so crowded that the erection of tracks is impossible, and here it is pro- poied to utilize tha movable sidewalk. Thus, it is hoped, a ready communi­ cation may be established between hotels, theaters, railway stations, etc. These sidewalks will be elevated about fourteen feet above the streets and operated probably by electricity. The entire width of each structure is planned to be occupied by one fixed platform and two m ivablo ones, that adjacent to the fixed platform to be run at a rate of three miles per hour, and that most remote from it at the rate of six miles per hour. By walking in the direction of motion the rate of progre s can be increased over that of the platform by an amount equal to the speed at which a passenger may walk. Inasmuch as the movable side­ walks are eontinuous and always in motion, there need be no delays in waiting for cars, nor can there be any danger of collision or other accident i which result frcm the running of inde­ pendent trains. MURDERER SHOT TO DEATH. Joseph Dick Suffers the Extreme Penalty According to Creek Law. Joseph Dick, a full-blooded Creek Indian, wa* shot to death ten mil.'s west of Eufala, I. T., for the murder of another Indian named Grey. A few minutes after 4 p. m. the sheriff went out and selected a spot for the execu­ tion. He placed a small box against a tree and returned to jail and beckoned to the prisoner to fol­ low him. Dick straightened him­ self up, looked around at the ten guards surrounding him, and leisurely strolled out to the place of execution. He took a seat upon the box, and. this proving unsteady, he arose and jammed it down solidly and then again sat upon it as coolly as though be were taking his seat to be photographed. A red handkerchief was tied over his eyei and a piece of white paper pinned over his heart. Not a muscle of his face or hands moved. Two of the guards took position twenty-five feet distant and both fired at the w.iite spot, killing Dick instantly. LIVES LOST IN A FIRE. LONG FIGHT IS ENDED BLAND'S SILL FINALLY _ ^ THROUGH THE HOUSX. Filibusters Kaka Their Last stand, tart AM Deadlock Is Broken and tha >ora«e Coinage BOlaa Am--ded 167 to 13ei The MLwoortan Victor loos. The long struggle in the House over the Bland bill for the coinage of tiMi silver seigniorage and the silver bull­ ion in the treasury wes ended Thurs­ day by the passage of the bill by* vote of 167 to 130, a majority in favor of the bill of 37. The special order to bring the bill to a vote was adopted by a bare quorum immediately after the House convened. This broke the oppo­ sition of the filibusters and they wen powerless to do anything further to place an obstacle in the way of the bill. All the amendments offered ]'to the measure by its opponents were de­ feated, the one which polled the most votes being Mr. Outhwaite's amend* ment to strike out the second section. The following is the vote in detail on the final passage of the bill, the Dem­ ocrats being in roman, the Rapublt* cans in tfcUic» and populists in SMA£|» CAPS:;:'- ' ' • • TEAS. Enloe. . Morna. Kpes. MosSaT Fithiia, Mui-rmg, Formaa, ; NeiH, Ffuixton, KEWLAHUS,, Fyan,, Paschal, Geary, Pattersok, * , Good sight, Payntar, Gorman, Pearson, s Grady, PENCK, IF Gresham. Pendleton Cnfe Hall (Mo.). Pendleton **• Hammond. (W. Va), - Hare. Pirkltr. Hnrtmon, Pott, J Hatch, Prloe, Heard, ltelttv. 1< enderson(N a Rlcharda (Olfa§ ,Hepburn, Riohatdaon i*_ Abbott, A i'MV?*. . Alderson, Alexander, Araol<\ Uallev, RAKEU (Kan.) Punk head. REIX (Colo.) Bell (Texas), Berry, Black (Oa ), Black (UL), Bland. Boatner, BOEW iii-'rirr 'Oa!.), Branch, B'k'ridae (Ark.l.__ , Br'k'ridge (Ky), Hermann, Brctz. Brookshfre „f?T v : ik r:%5i Broderick, Brown; - Bryan. Bunn, Bynnra, Cabaulaa, Cauianettl, Cannon <CaL), Caruth, asw&. Clarke (Ala.). Cobb (Ala.), Coekrall, Coffeea, Cona. Cooper (Fla.), Cooper (lad.), (MMM, ' Holman, Biehardnon Hooker (Mae.), (Tenn.). Cooper (Texas), Ma Hadson Hunter, Hutchaaan, Jones, KEM. Kilgon, Kribbo, Kyle, Lace f, L«aek • - Latimer,' Lay ton, . Lester, Lisle, IilTlocston, Lttcat, Madtf Mag Cox, Crawford, Culberson. Curti* (Kan.), Davey, DAVIS, De A riaond, I>ensoa, Dinsmore, Dockcry, Donovan, Ihmiittle, Ouriorow, Edmunds. Ellis (Ky.), Marsh, Marshall, Martin (Ind.), Met 7cartr(Minn)Tnrner (*i McCreary (Ky.i.Tqrpl*, Ritchie, Bobbins, Rnsaall (Gfcfe Savers, Settle? Shell, ? Sibley. SIMPSOX, SnodgraM,1 * IE3SS. « Stockdale, jt* Stone (Ky.liv ;.- ->»<•• Strait, '•"«*; ,*«: Swanaon, , Street, » -V Taylor (Iud.JL , ;S "< "1 Terry, • 1 Tucker, Tamer (Ga.)S* 'K ' - McCuIloch. McDannold, McDearmon, McGann, MCKKIGHAH, McMillin. McN&gy, Mcltae, Meridith. Money, Ellin (Oregon), Montgomery, NATS. Tyler. eadock. Wheeler (Al^kX Whiting, Williams OIL), Williams ISM Wilton (WaaS, Wise, Woodward--Mft Page, Gardner, .. Gefssenhainer. PrrleSi*, ( f i l l e t (N. Y.), Philip. Golrtzier, Griffin, Grout, Haqer, Hauter, Haines, Harmer, Hart or, llaugen, Hayea, Ifemer. Pay, Peed, Peybum. Pobtouo* Ryan, SoheraerhoHfc, Scranton, Shaw, Adam* dr.). Aldrich, Apsley, A very, Habrook, Baker (N. ILK Barnes, Barwig, Peblen, Beitzhoovsr, Blair. Boutette, Brlckner, Brasilia, Burrowe, Cadmus. (yaldwell. Campbell. Cannon (111.), Causey, Chickmrinff, Clancy, { obb (Vo.) Cog » well, Compton, Coombs, Cooper (Wis), Cornish, Co u sine. Covert. Cumminga. Curtis CN. X«> Jtalzel. Danielu Defo eat. Dingle*. Dollivert . I>rapei\ Dunpii Erdm* KveretJ Fieldeif .FMcM Funic, The bill as passed was in the nature of a substitute for the original text of fche measure. The changes do not affect the mat^rial features of the bill, which provide for the coinage of the silver seigniorage in the Treasury, the issue of silver certificates therei n if need be, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in advance of the coinage, and thereafter the coinage of the remainder of the bullion as fast as practicable, and the issue of silver certificates thereon to take the plae* of the Treasury notes issued* under the Sherman act, which are to be re­ tired and canceled as rapidly as the coinage takes place. The changes made in the substi|ut3 simply make spe­ cific the fact that'-the seigniorage fe^to be coined, and that this bill shall notw- fect the redemption of the treasury notes under existing law. An analysis of the vote by which the ]{enderson(TlX'i Shemum, Hitt. Sickles, Hooker iN. YJ Somen, Hopkins (111.), Sperrjr, -- Hopkins (Pa.), Stephenson, Hulick, Stevens. Hull, Stone, C. W. Johnson (Ind.), Stone. W. A. Johnson (N.D J.Storer, Johnson (Ohio),Stratus, Joy. Kiefer Lapham, Lockwood, Loud. Loudrnglager, Lynch, ~ Magner, Motion, McAlen. McCaU, McEttriek, McKatg, Meikltiohn. Mercer,. Meyer, Mutchler, O'Neill, Oathwaite, Strotui, Talbot (Mdj|i Tawtity, f . '• Tracey, Wad*wwikT^ Walker. Want***, Warner, M'attfh, Wells, '..^4 Wet>er. Y S: Wheeler (QLL . (U.), Wotwter. Wriehtatmsaj, • ; :>% bill passed shows that J 41 Democrats, 19 Republicans, and 7 Populists (total 167) voted for it, and >0 Republicans (total 13U) voted and 50 Democrats against it. Horn* for Feeble-Minded Children at V Ine- land, H. J., Completely D< atroyed. Two lives were lost and a score placed in imminent peril bv a fire which consumed a portion of the State Home for Feeble-minded Children at Vineland, N. J. The victims were J. H. Sage, the engineer of the institu­ tion, acd his wife, who acted as laun­ dress. The fire was discovered in the basement of the handsome three-story brick structure known as "The R b n- son Memorial Cottage." Sixteen help­ less and well-nigh idiotic children slept on the lower floors, and for a time it seemed as if nothlug short of amiraclo could possibly save them. Loss on the building and contents, 920,(X0. Tne cause of the fire is a mystery. GEN. HARRISON is expected to make Pergonal Paragraphs. THE official announcement is made of the ietrothalof Princess Josephine of Flanders to Prince Charles of Hohen- zollern. THE late W. B. P. Fort, of Wayne County, North Carolina, was born and reared on property granted to his an­ cestors by George III. HENRY H. FAXON, of Quincv, Mae** police force, is a millionaire. He serves without pay and devotes his energies to enforcing the liquor laws. THE Czar of Russia recently said that his highest ambition in this life was to treat his subjects tl^at hi^tcnc would speak of 4 him as the PMnK Monarch. dge is the only palty who does THE Duke of Cambridj member of British royalty who dc not pay postage on his letters; his po­ sition as Commander-ift-ehief of tMfe army exempts him. JESSIE TALMAGE SMITH, Dr. mage's eldest daughter, is noted among her acquaintances for her outspoken opinions. She is without hobbles and is fond of home duties. FOLLOWING the example of George Eliot, George Sand and George Float­ ing. Mrs. C lairmonte. who is coming into prominence as a novelist, oaU* herself "George Edge-ton.1* THOUGH the King of Siam has a pal­ ace which he can submerge in the sea at will he prefers to enjoy an internal bath of intoxicating beverages. He U slowly drinking himself into his graved WILLIAM HOWE, the c.debrateA American artist, now resident in Pari* was once a win iow trimmer ia a dry goods hou.-e in Grand Rapids, Miclw lie alse held a similar position in St. Louis, where he found a friend wh# advanced him money with which to iysssi ii