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PtAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. .'.HdrQEMBY. ILLTFOT®. «*ME, MY BOY! DIE!" HEARTBROKEN CRY OF A DERCR'S FATHER. *Ttt« ITestsr* ttstfcettt la tttttfht* Hp** Street Car- Senator Morgan's Bill Cw* - MM Comment--Oakland, CaL, Ttmr.' '.jPrnW Commoowwl Coatlnicat, • Ballets t»r Lov» ARTHUR B. LAPARLE, son of M, B. XAparle, the wealthy Chicago whole­ sale liquor dealer, shot and in­ stantly killed his sweetheart, Miss Minnie Belle Allen, "at the residence of her father, No. 474 Warren avenue, Friday evening. Then, with a drunken curse upon his lips, he put a bullet into his own head, which th3 doctors at the County Hospital say must re­ sult fatally. Laparle was under the in­ fluence of liquor when he slew the woman he wanted to marry and he took her life because she would not Tun away with him, her objection be­ ing that he was too much addicted to the use of stimulants. The parents of the young- man, have both been sick for some time, Mr. Laparle's condition, be­ ing such that his friends were alarmed. The mother of the murderer, when ehe heard the news, fainted, and jt is wared that the shock may result fa­ tally. The father arose from his sick bed, went to the County Hospital, where his son lay on an operating ta­ ble, and, standing over him with finger outstretched, cried out: "Die, my bov! Die! It is better that you should not TWWmSKV Hi iMst atm lives were MierifimA wft the pe«t twelve hours, and If is that peace can only be purchased the sacrifice of many mor©. The riot­ ing began early, and the climax was reached when a body of strikers, num­ bering several hundred, marched to the Davidson works of the H. C. Frick Coke Company at, Connellsville, where men were working. Deputie J had been placed to receive them and opened fire. The strikers returned the fire and charged, driving the deputies and men from the plant. Chief Engineer Pad­ dock, of the Frick Company, ran up in the tipple of the works. The strikers followed, and shot him in the back of the head. They threw his body to the ovens, forty feet be'ow. They then tried to fire the tipple, but left when they saw the deputies returning with' a large force from Connellsville. Hearing of "Paddock's murder, hundreds volunteered to avenge his death. The pursuing- party overtook the strikers and opened fire. The strikers fired in return, but ran oh. Three strikers fell: one was killed instantly, shot through the body, and two others wore fatally wounded. An­ other of the strikers' was killed by a deputy at Bradford, a mile distant. Eleven strikers were caotured after the first battle, and the pursuing party kept up the chase until Dawson, seven miles distant, was reached, where fifty-three more strikers were captured. The law-abiding element had its way and the prisoner* were hurried to jail. WB&TERI& PHILIP M. ISENSEE, convtctecT 6f embezzling $60,000 public money while City Treasurer, was sentenced, to four years' imprisonment at New Whatcom, Wash. JUDGE CHETLAIN, of Chicago, has again postponed the date of Assassin Prendergast's execution to July 2 and fixed the date of the examination to determine his insanity as May 21. GEORGE BARKUS. an employe of the live after w^itting such^aWful Standard Oil_ Company orColumbUs, tiling as this!" Bandits In Chicago. : A GANG of seven highwaymen de­ tailed a North Halsted street (Chica­ go) car shortly after midnight Thurs­ day night, and made a bold attempt to rob the passengers. The robbery was planned precisely like a train hold-up in the West, and would have undoubt­ edly been successful had not two po­ licemen arrived on the scene just in time to rescue the passengers and cap­ ture four of the thieves. At the inter­ section of Halsted and Division streets is a street car switch. The gang pried the rails apart and then waited for the car to come along and be thrown off the track. Half an hour after mid­ night a night-car bound north was de­ railed, and when the conductor and driver left their platfoims to lift the -wheels on the rails the robbers made their attack. Four of them rushed into the car, where a dozen passen­ gers 'sat' dozing, and commanded them ' to hold up their hands, while the other thi ee stood guard outside. The three lookouts for the thieves saw two bluecoats coming and yelled to their companions in the car t> run, but , the officers were too quick for them, j The policemen drew their revolvers and entered the car from the front and rear, cutting off any avenue of escape, and told the four thieves it was their torn to throw up their hands. The gang were so amazed at the appear­ ance of the police that they raised their hands and surrendered without My further struggle. Bcfora la State Department -. JA WASHINGTON dispatch says: Sen* ator Morgan's bill for the reorganiza­ tion of the State Department has cre­ ated considerable comment. The pur- = poee of the bill is to take the foreign service and the department work out • Of politics: to provide an educational Sualification for appointment: to make : he service continuous: and to provide lor promotions. Admission to the serv- i ice is only to be obtained through an i examination by a board, to consist of , toe Commissioner of Education, two i professors of public law from leading S , universities and two officers of the de- ' f partment, to cover general history, I nistory of the United States, constitu­ tional and international law, political economy, geography, arithmetic, Eng- 1 lish language, and either German, I French, Spanish, Italian or Russian. j . BREVITIES. ' . J : British House of Commons has jfifesed the bill to carry out the Behfing Sea agreement. THE Exchange National Bank, of Eldorado, Kan., has been burglarized and $15,700 taken. HENRY C. PAYNE, the Republican leader and railway magnate, is seri­ ously ill at Milwaukee. WALTER WELLMAN and his Arctic exploring party sailed from Rotter­ dam, Friday, for Bergen, Norway. DURING the three months ended March 31, 29,292 immigrants landed at New York, against 49,6-6 for the cor­ responding period of last year. About 40 per cent, were Italians "and less than I per cent, spoke English. THE city of Cakland, CaL, has had many exciting events in its history, but nothing has occurred to compare jrith the turmoil caused early Friday morning by a regiment of 640 unem­ ployed men, which .left San Francisco Wednesday to ;'oin Coxey's army ___ . ^ Ind.,*; while working at* the pumping station went near a red hot stove and his clothing, saturated with gasoline, ignited and he was horribly bunn^U A FIRE in which three children.aged two, six and twelve years, lost 'their lives occurred at Calumet ft small sta­ tion on the Nickel-Plate four miles south of Hammond, Ind. The victitns were children of Edward Price, section foreman of the road. MRS. MARY ANTONIA CASTRO MA­ JORS, member of a California Spanish family, has begun suit for $50,001 for breach of promise in the United States Circuit Court at San Francicco against Harry S. Cowell, son of th# Santa Cruz millionaire lime king. THE steam barge, William JJ. Bar- num, laden with 55.000 bushels of corn, struck an iceberg and foundered about six miles from' Mackinaw City. The crew was rescued by the tug Crusader. Ice is flowing in the Straits, but it was not thought sufficient to do any dam­ age. The Barnum was owned by J. J. H. Brown, of Buffalo. The cargo is fullv insured and the boat partly in­ sured. BITTERLY opposed in both religion and politics, two Kansas City, Mo., factions came together in a bloody con­ flict at the polls in that city Tuesday. It cannot be statad which side is re­ sponsible for the affair, as the parti­ sans of each loudly charge the other with being the full cau e of the trouble. More than a hundred shots were exchanged between the combat­ ants in less than that many seconds, and when the firing ceased men were lying dead, dying, or injured on the pavement. The riot was the culmina­ tion of a bitter feeling which had been manifested bv actions and words ever since the polls opene 1 in the morning. The two antagonistic elements were solidly divided in their choice of candidates for Mayor. The aggressive support that each side gave to its candidate during one of the hot­ test campaigns ever known in the city engendered a strong sentiment. It was, therefore, in no amiable mood that the workers of the respective fac­ tions came together at the different polling places throughout the city, and that these workers came expecting trouble to occur before the day was over was apparent from the number of deadly weapons that were drawn when the first pistol-shot wa-D fired. The riot that resulted so fatally was the climax of a series of smaller riots that took place at other 1 points earlier in the day between the same opposing religious factions. to in a petition to the Brasilia* Government to withdraw its demand for the sur­ render of the insurgent Admiral de Gama, now a fugitive on a Portuguese man-of-war. THE Senate Committee on Public Lands has agread to report favorably Senator Kyle's amendment to the sun­ dry civil appropriation bill providing that any honorab y discharged soldier of the lata civil war, not now the own­ er of 16J acres of land, and who ha? not availed himself of the privileges under the land laws of the United States, may acquire title to 160 acres of land by making application therefor in person at any Government land office and paying the minimum price of $1.25 per acre. The law now requires a resi­ dence of six months on the part pf the ex-soldiers. . POLXTICAIT CONGRESSMAN JOHN A. CALDWELL, Republican, has been elected Mayor of Cincinnati by a plurality of 6,662. THE Iowa Senate has passed a House bill allowing the manufacture and sale at wholesale of intoxicating liquors in the State. PATRICK WALSH, editor of the Augusta Chronicle, has been appointed by Governor Northen of Georgia to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Senator Colquitt. . REPUBLICANS made gains in Chica­ go's aldermanic election on Tuesday, GOVERNOR TILLMAN WILL TAKE an Address to the Militia, He Declares that Unless the law Is Obeyed Ho Will Discharge JPe»ce C^Beer lid &onth Wo fear of Civil trtkr." "" A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says that while press and telegraphic censorship is no longer exercised by Gov. Tillman, the chief executive has assumed con­ trol of the police force of the State. He has issued a .proclamation under Section 519 of the General Statutes declaring munioipal police and con­ stabulary under his orders. The proc­ lamation is as follows: STATR OF SOIRFTT CASOMHA, ) X EXECUTIVE: CHAMBER, > COLUMBIA, S. ) Whereas, Section 510 of t he general statutes of this State declares that "the Governor shall have authority whenever in his judgment it shall be necessary to arm the constabulary, and In any emergency to assume the sole con­ trol of the whole or any pait of the municipal polioe In cities and incorporated towns, and to authorise the chief constable of the State or any deputy chief constable to command as­ sistance in the execution of process in sup­ pressing rtotB and preserving peace;" and. Whereas, It is made the duty of and the power is given said polioe to enforce the statute known as the "dispensary law," but that instead of obeying the requirements of said law the Raid police except in a few towns have been am obstruction and are active alders and abettors of those who are opposing and the body stands 42 Republicans '! , M n _ . . , _ , \ ' whereas, Under the same statute the power and 26 Democrats) instead of 08 to 30 |p given the governor to appoint constables for as formerly. Political lines, however, j the purpose of its enforcement; and W,™ not closely d»wj anA tb. Pjd; | tions of Assessor, Collector, Super- j officers and sedulously educated the public yisor, ami Clerk, in the various towns, I mind to resistance, causing several encounters, are filled by men in manv instances resultlng in bloodshed between constables and J • • r . Illicit whisky sellers producing intense ex­ citement and danger to the peace and welfare of the State; now Therefore I, Benjamin R. Tillman. Governor of the State of South Carolina, do issue thi-* my proclamation giving full and official notice t® the municipal authorities of every city and incorporated town in the State of South Caro­ lina and to the police and marshals thereof that under the powers given me by said section 61i> the emergency contemplated has arisen and does now exist and that I do hereby as­ sume such control of the whole force of munic­ ipal police and marshals of the several cities and incorporated towns of the State. They are hereby ordered to enforce all laws on the statute books, together with all municipal or­ dinances and orders from municipal authori­ ties not inconsistent with the purposes of the proclamation. As soon as the emergency which is now upon us shall no longer exist! will relinquish control and restore the former status. B. R. TILLMAN. Governor. J. E. TINDAXL, Secretary of State. Are Not Ready to Obey. As far as Columbia is concerned, the dispatch says the proclamation has created great excitement. The Mayor when asked about it said that he had referred the whole matter to the City Attorney, who is now considering the question. Chief of Police Kadelitfe says that he awaits orders from the Mayor and will not act otherwise until instructed by him so to do. who do not belong to the leading party. ' ~FORBIGLI •' % . »- . PEACE has been restored in Samoa, an armistice having been arranged be­ tween the opposing forces. THE British House of Commons has adopted a motion for a Ibcal legislature for Scotland. A similar body will be asked for Wales. J • • PATTI and Nicolini are reported to be at odd^, and a divorce suit may be the result. The diva is said to have cut down-her husb. n l's allowance. MAJOR HENRI L.E CARON, the British Government spy who Ac­ quired such world-wMelmd unenviable notoriety In the investigation of the charges against the late Charles Stewart Parnell some years ago, died Sunday at London from an internal tumor, with which he had been af­ flicted for some years. THE North German Lloyd steamship Ems, Capt Beimkasten, from Bremen j ^ -r -7 - | I.VV4 "J ****** OW l/V UW, March 17 Mid Southampton March 18, I For the fir.it time since Friday Gov, for New York, long overdue at the lat-1 Tillman went to the State house Tues- ter port, was towed into Fayal, Azores Islands, Monday by the British oil-tank steamer Wild Flower. The Ems has her propeller-frame broken. Her Fa- loon passenger list embraces twenty- four names, among them Mr. and Mrs. day. He was accompanied by John Gary Evans, reform candidate for Gov­ ernor. The citizens neither tried to hurt nor molest him, as many people thought would be the case when he appeared on the streets again. He is Charles Dahlgren and Compte del Bor- J not going to be hurt in Columbia, but SOUTHERN. ghetto. The Bteerage passengers num­ ber some thing over a hundred. The agents of the company have instructed Capt. L. Stoermer, who is ip command of the Kaiser Wilhelm II., to call and tranship the passengers for New York. The Kaiser Wilhelm sails from Genoa. It will be necessary to send a ship to Fayal with a new rudder f take the place of the broken oi St to IN GENERAL his action in assuming control *>i all the police in the State has created great indignation. The 400 or more troops remaining in the penitentiary were, by orders of the Governor, marched up to the State house. Tney were formed in line before the build­ ing and addressed by the Governor. The Governor said: "The dispensary law is on the stat­ ute books. I, as chief executive, have •worn that the laws of this State shall be respected, and, so help me God, I will exert all the powers ol my office to see that the law is obeyed." The Governor was severe in his con­ demnation cf the militia companies that have refused to obey orders. "Over at Darlington," he said, "these $ to ;oin Coxey's its journey to Washington. A hursday night every man, woman and child in Oakland was on the streets, the riot alarm was sounded, the Gover­ nor was asked to call out the National Guards, extra police and deputy sher­ iffs were sworn in and armed -with rifles. Only a rash word or an un­ lucky shot was required to precipitate a conflict which would have resiilted in the extinction of this branch of the in­ dustrial army. But the word was not uttered, nor the shot fired. THE Hicksvi'le (Ohio) postoffice was ted of $4,000 in cash and stamps. MRS. CORNELIA FRANCES COSTER, Itfio recently died at New York, left a SSSS'viV4 her entire fortune 2 *1.000,000 be devoted to buildine a *»auBoleum m Woodlawn Cemetery • INTEREST in the Ardlemont mystery 1ms been revived by "Scott," the mis- •ing witness to the murder of Lieut. Hambrough, surrendering to the Lon­ don police. Monson, who was accused at the murder* escaped on a verdict of ^Sfeot proven.'- 'M AW* • ' EASTERN. ",.LS Fsrrz KLOETZER, a Dolgeville (N, Y.) shoemaker, killed his wife and fours? children at his home and then commit­ ted suicide. He had been out of work for a long time and despondency is supposed to have led to the deed. For weeks he had been selling off his fur­ niture piece by piece to pay for bread lor his family. The bodies of the entire family of six were found stretched on a few blankets in a back bedroom. THE record of Wednesday in the strike of the Pennsylvania ooke- wwrkers wiil be written with blood. At THE Arkansas Supreme Court de­ cided that the law demanding a State license of traveling insurance agents is unconstitutional. R. D. WALSH, County Commissioner at Rockport, Texas was killed by B. S. Weir. The difficulty was about the occupancy of a house. The slayer is at large. A MANUFACTURED ice palaee is to be built in Baltimore, to be opened June 1. Skating will be had the year round. It will resemble in construc­ tion the < ns constructed in the Cold Storage Building at the Worlds Fair. IN the embers of a watchman's shanty on. the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road near Denison, Texas, the i body of an unknown man was found with his skull crushed. He.hai been murdered and the cabin fired to con­ ceal the crime. * LEWIS J. RATLIFF was killed at Howards town, Ky., by a man named Mahoney. Ratliff went to Ma'fibney's distillery early and quarreled with the owner, who struck him a feurful uattlk--snipping blow in the head with a hatchet. The ! Hoos-choice Light '.'..!.*!"!! R. G. DUN &, CO.'8 Weekly Review of Trade says: Tbe more active tone In business Is due to several causes, tlowly, but jet quite perceptibly, the force nt work Increases. 'J he advent of spring compels the dealers • . , , to replenish stocks, and the aggregate of I band-box soldiers, these soldiers turned orders, If smaller than usual at this sea- I politicians, pranced all over the coun son, is distinctly larger than tn January or February. Except In speculative markets, prices do not recover, and in some instance* have gone lower, but the absence of sensa­ tional records inspires hope that the bot­ tom may have been reached. Business, though small, is exceptionally cautious and safe, and its slow gain is more en­ couraging than a heavy expansion. Fail­ ures for the week number 238 in tbe United States, against 160 last year, and thirty in Canada, against twenty-eight last year. A COMPANY with a 000,000, with which it seeks to harness the power of Niagara, was incorporat­ ed at Albany Wednesday as a subsi­ diary to the Cataract Electric Com­ pany to use the canal banks under the State contract recently signed. The name of the proposed corporation is the K rie Canal Traction Co. It is to produce, purchase, sell and distribute power in the form of electricity or otherwise, for the propulsion or traction of boats and v ssels upon the Erie canal; to lay, build ana erect all machinery, i-torage batteries, conductors and other apparatus of every kind incidental to the said business, and to furnish, sell and distribute along the line of the canal and in the cities and villages ad­ jacent thereto power for any purpose incidental to the said business. Tbe location of the principal business offices is the city of New York. Thcmas Piatt is one of the directors of the new company. - MARKET REPORTS, try and sent for re-enforcements to bar­ rooms and whisky men, but they have never fired a shot at a single constable and they did not want to find them." The Governor did not fear civil war. "It will not come and cannot come," he said, "because the people are in the Eaddle and intend to remain there. One man told Mr. Yelldell here that he came from Edgefield, my own coun­ ty, with a shotgun to kill me Friday capital of $4,- night. I will not mention his name. Threatened men live long, and I have never felt uneasy. "This riot is political frenzy. I shall not budge an inch from the stand that I havo taken as the people'e Governor. You may imagine from this that I am goin^f to aggravate the trouble, but I am simply going to uphold the law. I could not have done what I have unless I controlled the railroads and the tele­ graph line. From this day the con­ stables shall watch the policemen and report to me whether they are doing their duty, and if they do not obey my CATTLE CHICAGO. -Common to Prime.... $3 60 HO<;K-- Bhippirg Grades. SHEEP--Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE-NO. 2 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery .... Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--Per bu INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Bhippini « 00 9 00 •2 M #1 •0 93 a 4 75 s 00 & 5 25 <f* 6S % £ » #1 48 <9 10* TO infuriated man then dragged Ratliff's lifeless form41 short distance and plac-; ing his neck across a iog, completely severed the head from the body. Rat­ liff leaves a widow and teveral chil­ dren. Mahonev is a quiet and peace­ able man and has never been in trouble. EDUARDO R. GONS"AF>EFT, Manning Davis and Jim Upkins, Federal con­ victs, were hange 1 at Paris, Texas. The crime for which Goneales paid the death penalty was the hiurder o^ John Daniels, a singing school teacher, in Blue County, Choctaw Nation, May If, 1SJ»3. Manning Davis' crime was the mvirder of J01 n Roden, a neighbor, JJe>\ 26, 1891. The crime for whicjx Jim i Vkins yielded up his life on the , ga!l< ws was the murder at Ardmore, ! I. 'i\,!- ept. 6. 1 u;l, of his *tev-daighter.. WASHINGTON. THE Agricultural Department has just completed the dibtribution of 9,(WO,000 packages of teeds. The ap­ propriation for the present fiscal year was $135,400. * A DELEGATION of letter carriers ap­ peared before the House Postoffice Committee in advocacy of the bill pro­ viding for a salary of $1,200 in cities where the postal revenues exceed ftdpo,ooo. PKJ£8IDENT CLEVELAND ha* refused ft-^joar-old SHEEP--Common to Prime. WHEAT--No. 2 Red. COBN -No. 2 White... OATS-JJO. 2 White BT. LOUIS. CATTUC Moos.. WHEAT-NO. 2 Bed.. COBN--NO. 2 ..',,...1" OATS--No. 2........ RYE--NO. 2.... CINCINNATI. CATTLE HOGS,,. SHEBJ? WHEAT--No. 2 Red.. COKK--No. 2 „•» OATS--Mixed B*E-NO. 2 DETROITI ; CATTLE HOGS,.,. SHFEP WHKAT-NO.4 Bed;............. COB»--No. 2 Yellow OATS--NO. 2Mixed „ TOLBfcO* WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBM--No. 2 ..AY* OATS--No. 2 Mixed RYE--No. 2 ...I BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. * Red COBN--No. u Yellow OATS--No. 2 White BEEP CATTLE- l'rirne S M1LWAU WHEAT--No. 2 Spring., i. COBN--No. 8 OATS--No. 2 White RYE--No. 1 BABT.ET--No. 3 PORK--Mess. .. NEW YOBK. CATTI,B. Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. t Bed. COBN--NO. 9 OATS--White Western.......... BUTTEB--Choiee POBX--Mess.. Iro its » 00 <£5 00 2 (o «« 3 76 M & 64)6 ITViia) 88 Hi 34FE «00 & 4 80 % s ® 4 60 & 6 X & 4 00 w s 00 s 00 9*0 t 00 s 00 sto p8 >«2 « 42 «« 37 4 00 & 40 3* # 4 H n 6 00 ^ 3 n » si 42H 88* 6 76 57 @ M 87 «# W 84^0 M* 49 M - 66 U 29 t 00 • 75 *00 64 46 M tt IS 36 in V in n so 00 0 « S 2 orders and if the authorities do not co­ operate with me I shall call the Legis­ lature together, and we will have the power given the Executive to remove those men and appoint others who will obey the law." At this point Mr. Early a cousin of Mr. Norment, who was killed by State Constables, yelled out: "Why don't you obey the law yourself?" This created a big commotion in the crowd. One of the Governor's sym­ pathizers yelled out "Shoot him!" and both factions rushed up. The Gov­ ernor called for silence and Chief of Police Radcliffe jumped off his horse and grabbed Early, commanding order, and took him away. As the Governor finished his speech there were deafening cheers from his troops. An order was then read to the troops commanding them to return to their homes and extending thanks to the gallant and patriotic soldiers and citizens who, at a moment's notice, dropped their various avocations and to respond to his call. / ; APRIL ELECTIONS. ft* Otmncllmanl* the only defeated by the city vote, _ _ has been a narked increase in the Peo­ ple's party vote. Chicago, 111. -- Republloans made gains in Chicago's alderihanic election, and the body st inds 4 i Republicans and 26 Democrats, instead of 38 to 30 as formerly. Political lines, however, were not closely drawn, and the posi­ tions of Assessor, Collector, Super­ visor, and Cleric, in the various divis­ ions, are filled by men in manv in­ stances who do not belong to the lead­ ing party. At Galesburg the election was a landslide for the Citizens' or Tem- Serancj ticket. Every aldermanic can-idate on the citizens' ticket was elect­ ed. In Springfield the township and city election was a victory for the Re­ publicans, who marie a clean sweep, electing all their township officers and every one of the eight Aldermen to be chosen. The town election in Aurora was non-partisan, as it has always been. The straight "citizsns' ticket" was elected. In Quincy, Mayor John P. Mikesell is re-elected over Samuel Harrop, Democrat. The Democrats elect three Aldermen and other city officers. Das Moines--The Republicans elect­ ed their city ticket by majorities of from 1,000 to 1,500. They also elected eight of the nine aldermen. *At Keo­ kuk the city election passed off quiet­ ly, the Republicans electing their can­ didate for assessor and throe alder­ men. The Democrats secured four aldermen. At Dubuque the Democrats elected their entire city ticket and all the aldermen. Milwaukee, Wis.--Reports indicate that the Republicans have gained all over the State. Of the four candidates for Circuit Judges, Clemenson of the Fifth auu Marshall of the Sixth were returned without opposition. John C. Koch has been re-elected Mayor of Milwaukee and the entire Republican city ticket goes in with him. The Re­ publicans captured twenty-six out of the thirty-six Aldermen. Detroit--Returns from the municipal elections throughout Michigan show: In Saginaw the Democrats elected the Mayor by forty-six plurality. Repub­ licans elect the other officers and all save one Alderman. In Bay City Dem­ ocrats elect Reco.der and two Alder­ men. Republicans won in St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Kalamazoo, Adrian, Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Cadillac, Big Rapids, Jackson. At Holland Demo­ crats elected the Mayor. Lansing Dem­ ocrats elected city officers except Mayor and gained control of the Common Council. At Marshall the victory is narrowly divided. Grand Haven Re­ publicans get the principal offices, ex­ cept Marshal. At Muskegon the Re­ publicans gained. St. Paul, Minn.--The Republicans carried the cities of Fergus Falls, Albert Lea, and St. Peter. The Demo­ crats were successful at Wabasha. The liquor people carried nearly every city and village in which an election was held. The majorities for license were: Fergus Falls, 189; Albert Lea, 153; Blue Earth City, 32; Farmington, 53. Hastings, Neb.--Republicans made a clean sweep, electing every man on the municipal ticket by majorities ranging from 600 to 700. \ Spring Hill, Kan.--At the city elec­ tion here women were elected to fill all of the municipal offices, including Mayor, Councilmen and Police Judges. WHEAT AND FRUIT. Heports by Special Correspondents from Twelve States. Reports have been received by the Farmers' Review from its special cor­ respondents in twelve States, as to the injury done to wheat and fruit by the recent severe cold weather. The dam- aga to wheat is small in the aggregate, but very bad in some localities where the plant had made rapid grqwth. The disaster to fruit wa* widespread, the States where the trees were m st for­ ward suffering most. In the northern sections of a number of the States the larger fruits were saved, for the rea­ son that they had been held back in development. WHEAT. In Illinois the crop as a whole has certainly suffered considerable from the freeze, though how much damage has been done cannot be told till a period of warm weather develops the uninjured wheat. In some counties it froze to the ground, but may be all right. , In Indiana the damage appears to be less than in Illinois, and most of the correspond­ ents report the outlook good. Some fields where the plant had jointed are reported killed. In a few counties it is estimated that the crop will be cut down a third. These sections are not numerous, and the general condition for the State i* fair. in Ohio the general condition remains from fair to good. The late freeze did damage main­ ly on clay lands, but in many sections the snow covered and protected the plant. The fields that look bad from the effects of the cold will doubtless recover, being uninjured at the roots. Michigan wheat shows little effect of the freeze. The crop was hurt some bv the cold, but in most counties the plant was either cov­ ered by snow or so backward in development that it escaped. In Kentucky the damage to wheat is consid­ erable. The plant was growing rapidly under the effects of the warm weather in March, and when the cold name it caught the plant at stage of growth where it is easily injured. The crop has been cut short, but how much no one can tell at tuis time. In Missouri the wheat is reported injured in some sections, and In others only retarded. Its general condition Is fair, and it does not now appear that the aggregate damage was great. In Kansas some of the wheat that had been closely pastured is reported so badly kilted that it will have to be plowed up. Some wheat on old ground is reported hurt by drouth and wind. In most of the counties, however, the outlook is favorable. In Nebraska wheat has been damaged some by high winds and late freezing, and the gen­ eral condition is poor. According to reports not more than half a crop will be harvested in some of the counties. £• In Iowa little damage is reported, and ftj the counties that raise winter wheat the outlook ls^euerally good. Beralt of the Contest In Various Munici­ palities "Return? collected by the Associated Press giving the results of the munici­ pal electioni throughout the oountry are as follows: Cleveland, Ohio--Returns from Ohio towns show Republican gains. Wapa- koneta elects the first Republican taayor in years. At Bellevue and Bu- c.vrus, usually Democratic, the Repub­ licans held their own fairly well. At Columbus the Republicans elect Bigger (Rep.) police judge and two-thirds of the councilmen. Youpgstown elects Miller (Rep.) by 2,000 majority. The Canton Republicans elected their ticket by 500. The Republicans elect everything at Alliance by a plurality averaging over 700. At Dayton the Democrats elect the ticket by over 800. The Republicans carried everything at Lima and Hamilton. At Cincinnati the vote on Mayor is: Cald­ well (Rep.', 26,072; Miller (Dem.), 11,- 855; Horstman (Citizen), 19,912; Peo­ ple's, 255; Prohibition, 79. On the rest of the ticket the vote averaged: Re- gublipans, 28,000; Democrats, 14,000; itizens, 15,000. Official returns from about one-half of Cleveland show that the Republicans have won. Returns from Northern Ohio towns show Re- n Wisconsin most of the counties escaped any great disaster, but in some the crop ap­ pears to be seriously retarded. It 1b hoped that the development was not so great at the time of the freeze as to make the Injury permanent. FKWTT. Nearly all kinds of tree fruit In Illinois have been killed. The late blossoming apples have escaped and some of the small fruits. The stme is true of Indiana and Ohio in a smaller degree. In MWihlg&n most of the fruit seems to have escaped with the exception of peach­ es and strawberries. I»« Kentucky the fruit is quite generally killed. In Missouri great injury nas resulted. In Kansas, peaches and plume are killed, but In many counties apples ap­ pear to have escaped. In Nebraska the dara- a«e has been considerable. In lows end-Wis­ consin the injury to fruit Is not believed to be great. • Sticking Close to Home. A looal paper of Moravia, CayUga County, N. Y., says that George Bu- more, a prosperous farmer, who has been a resident of that town nearly eighty years, has never been outside the township. The well-known villages of Cortland. Homer, Genoa and Aurora are within ten miles of Moravia, but Father Dumore has never been in either one of them. He has a brother and a sister who have lived eight miles from his farm for over sixty years and he has not seen either of them for for­ ty-five years. A neighbor of Dumore's, Nathan Tuthill, 74 years o'.d, has lived at Moravia fifty years and was never inside the village tavern or postoffice. He has lived half a century in one house and never slept or ate a meal in any other house. He never tasted liquor, beer or tobacco and never wrote a letter or signed a note or other obli­ gation. Another neighbor of Dumore's is Seth R. Webb, aged 83 years, who has been town clerk for fifty-four con­ secutive years.--New York Tribune. SIX MEN HUE SHOT. RIOT AND MURDER IN THE COKE Six Men Dead and a Dosen Mortally Wounded m the Beanlt of One Bay's Rioting --Scores of Strl))^* Tried for Murder. ; "y'H Pltcbed Contests UViugtit. Wednesday was an exciting day ot riot and bloodshed, of reckless disre­ gard of law and property in the Penn­ sylvania coke regions. Nearly 10,000 striking coke-burners, according to a dispatch, are marching from place to place destroying the machinery at the coke ovens and driving the workmen away. They are armed with sticks, old muskets and revolvers, and unless they are promptly subjugated more bloodshed will certainly follow. Fayette and Westmoreland Counties from Uniontown almost to Greensburg have been converted into a vast battle­ field. At night armed sentries are picketed on every hill top. Their fig­ ures as they shift their rifles from shoulder to shoulder stand out darkly against the sky. Below them on the hillsides glow the long rows of coke ovens with their canopy of half-lumi­ nous smoke. A few workmen skulk from place to place in mortal terror of being brained by some blood-thirsty striker hidden away in the shadows. The valleys and fields are sprinkled with camp-fires, around which the striking coKers are bivouacked. All day long parties of them, led by wild- eyed, unkempt Huns, have bean parad­ ing from mine to mine, wheedling or coercing the workmen into joining their ranks. Six M>n Kitted Outright. Six men were killed outright Wednes­ day and a dozen more seriously if not fatally wounded. The rioting began early, and the climax was 'reached when a body of strikers, numbering several hundred, marched to tho Davidson works of, the H. C Friclf Coke Company at Connellsville, where men were working. Deputies had been placed to receive them and opened fire. The strikers returned the fire and charged, driving the deputies and men from the plant. Chief Engineer Pad­ dock. of the Frick Companv, ran up in the tipple of the works. I'he strikers followed, and shot him in the back of the head. They threw his body to the ovens, forty feet below. They then tried to fire the tipple, but left when they saw the deputies returning with a large force from Connellsville. Hearing of Paddock's murder, hun­ dreds volunteered to avenge hia death. The pursuing party overtook the strikers and opened fire. The strikers fired in return, but ran on. Three strikers fell; one was killed instantly, shot through tho body, and two others were fatally wounded. Another of the strikers was killed by a deputy at Bradford, a mile distant. Eleven strikers were cap­ tured after the first battle, and the pursuing party kept up the chase until Dawson, seven mi e* distant, was reached, where fiity-three more strikers were captmed. The law- abiding element had its way and the prisoners were hurried to jail. Scott dale is the center of the trouble. All the meetings have been held there, and the residents are being terrorized almost hourly by parades of the mad­ dened strikers. Some of the American laborers have expressed themselves as willing to work under the old scale, but the Hungarians are not only unwilling to accept the terms offered them by the employers but they are driving all of the Americans away from the ovens. The delegate convention called Tues­ day wa-i stormy from beginning to end. Some of the men wanted a strike at all the works, others at the works not pay­ ing the Frick scale, while still others wanted to declare the strike off until the organization can be completed and the men better prepared for a battle. The convention broke up About 2 o'clock. Before adjournment the radicals pushed through a resolu­ tion declaring a general strike. The demand is for 90 cents per 100 bushels for mining and an advance of 12 per cent, on the Frick scale for all other work. When the convention adjourned the delegates were sent back with in­ structions to urge all the men who are out to remain firm and to work dili­ gently to extend the strike. The Frick and W. S. Rainey com­ panies are most seriously affected, jrtainey was among the first to ask the sheriff for protection, and his belliger­ ent attitude has brought the ill-will of the strikers down upon him. The con­ cerns affected are the Oliver and the Cambria iron companies and the La- mont and Moyer works. Men from ne ghboring plants began gathering in the vicinity of Oliver,and at 8:30 over 1,000 men had collected. There is a large contingent of Amer­ ican workmen and a few foreigners at Oliver who are not in sympathy with the strikers, and they refuse to go out, One Slav ran into the company's store and asked to be protected. Then the great mob gathered around the store and attempted to go in and Gfet the man. The deputies on guard brought their Winchesters into position for action and threatened to Bhoot if the men tried to force their way into the store. The mob yelled and hooted and threatened to burn the store or blow it up if the man was not given up. Serious trouble was imminent, and to avoid it the company officials told the Hun to go with the strikers. He did so, and the strikers left at once, march­ ing toward Leith and Brownfield, the biff Frick works, where the men are working and do not want to strike. They were headed by a drum corps, and created much excitement as they passed through Uniontown. Nearly all were Slavs. The Leith men had placed pickets in town, and when they saw the strikers coming back to Leith, half a mile distant, informed the men, giving them plenty-of time to get out of sight. Telecraphle Clicks. THREE persons were injured by the explosion of a bomb in a restaurant in Paris. CORBETT will demand Jackson's $10,- 000 as a forfeit if the negro refuaas to fight in America. TROUBLE has arisen in settling the differences between the Union Pacific Road and the Western Immigration pool. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND, of St. Paul, addressed the Loyal Legion of New York on ' The Duty and Value of Pa­ triotism." AN angry mob of 2,000 attacked the Queen's Own, the crack regiment of Toronto, while t n parade, and a serious fight ensued. IN the Senate a bill was passed per­ mitting horse-racing iji the District of Columbia, but prohibiting pool-selling and book-making. SEVEN persons were killed and sev­ eral seriously injured by jumping from the windows of a burning hotel in Frankfort-on-the-Main IN the Pollard case at Washington Judge Bradley administered a stinging rebuke to people who attend the trial out of morbil curiooitv. THENAr S0LON8. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE­ SENTATIVES. Onr Kattoaal lAw-Mnken and Wba* Vfcey Are Doing for the Good of thsCsoby^' •arione 'Measures Propoeed. Mmwnt ^ .. Aeted Upon. ti-vj Dotage of Chwgiwfc'< ° The principal interest In the Sewkt Monday centered in the speech of Penal Voorhees, chairman of the Committee on Finance, who thus launched the tariff question upon the sea of renatorlal debate. In the House for five hours roll; call followed roll call In an end- les$ attempt to brlnst tho filibuster \ against the O'Neill-Joy contested election •; case to a close, but at no time was the y House able to muster a quorum, and the r fluht WHS finally abanqoned for the day. a Just before the Houte adjourned Mr. Pat­ terson gave notice that upon reassembling- ft he would ask the House to sit In contlna- " ous session until the case was decided; i, 170 was the hlprh-water mark touched on 1 any roll-call. This is nine short of a quorum. After nearly three weeks of filibustering S tbe O'Nelll-Jojr contested elec.Ion case was finally disposed of Tuesday, when Mr. i Patterson. Chairman of the Committee - on Elections, informed the House ; that be proposed to insist upon the consideration of the pending election ' case until a vote was reached, some of the v members who have been dodging suddenly \ decided to help make a quorum. The re- ; suit was a vote In which a quorum was shown and the case was taken np. This action was BO sudden and unexpected that , eveuXjhe eomtestee in the case was absent •. from the House at the time, So quickly was It disposed of that when he finally came In he found that he was no longer a Congress- ; man. In his absence he had been unseated ; and Mr. O'Neill had been sworn in as the : rightful member from the North St Louis district. The House then immediately proceeded with the consideration of the English-Hilborn case, two hours being al­ lowed for debate. The resolution declar­ ing Mr. Hllburn elected was lost by a vote- Of 83 to 136. The quorum failed, and a truce was then declared for the night At 8:30 p. in. the House adjourned. Ihte Sen­ ate talked tariff. In the House, on Wednesday, tbe motion to pass the seigniorage bill over the Pres­ ident's Yeto was defeated. In the contest between Messrs. Hilborn and English for a seat from California. Mr. Hlltorn was beaten. The Senate continued its debate, with the tariff bill as the subject. The Senate Thursday considered, with­ out final action, several minor matters, and continued tbe tariff debate. The urgent deficiency bill, appropriating some­ thing over 81.000,000, was passed by the House. James Tzler, elected to succeed Mr. Brawley as Representative of the First South Carolina District, took his seat. The- Senate bill to give effect to the award of the Paris tribunal, prescribing regula­ tions for the protection of fur seals in Behring Sea. was passed. Bills were passed authorizing the construction of bridges across the St Louis River between :: Wisconsin and Minnesota at .Duluthand ' Gjosse Point After the deficiency wa«. disposed of the consideration of the post- office appropriation bill was resumed. Only one amendment was adopted setting aside $30,000 for the establishment of star routes to new postofflces. The Senate does not appear to relish its own pudding, for on Friday the tariff de­ bate was delayed by lack of a quorum. The House went ahead with appropriation bills again. First, however, a bill author­ izing the city of Hastings, Minn., to con­ struct a wagon brlge across the Missis­ sippi River was passed. A bill to increase the amount of lands in the Yellowstone Park Reservation now leased for hotel purposes from ten to twenty acres was passed. Mr. Hendersjn sent to the clerk's desk and bad read an appeal to Congress against the further extension of second- class mail privileges. More than 250.000.- 000 pounds of second-class mall matter was carried by the malls last year, it •aid; 5.402 news publications were started last year, and the efficiency of the mail service was crippled by tho limitless quun- y titles of second-class mall matter carried. Mr. Loud, of California, opposed the amendment on the ground it would swamp the department It would cost the United States, be declared, fl0.000.000 annuallv. Mr Loud offered and advocated au amend­ ment to increase the appropriation for railroad transportation from $25,500,000 to $26,000,000 on the ground that the former sum would prove inadequate. It was de­ feated. The evening session was devoted to pension bills. AH the Boy Saw It. A Detroit business man was making some purchases at a Woodward avenue fruit stand the other evening when he saw a street gamin take an orange and coolly saunter off. There was no occa- sion to raise a row about it, but the* gentleman felt it his duty to follow the bov and observe: "I saw you hook that orange, my bov; it isn't of much value, but if yon begin in this way where will you end?" "I never took it," he stoutr ly replied. "Oh, but I was looking full at you." "I say I never took it, "There it is in your pocket. Thats a ball." "Let me see. Oh, well, he sputtered, as he worked the orange out, "this is alius my luck. I never git hold of anything on the sly but some great, big duffer comes along arid wants his whack. Here's your half, and now its only fair for you to steal some peanuts and divide."--Detroit Free Press. A Striking Coincidence. A pushing medical gentleman who- had only been a short time in practice was fetched from his Sunday sch<ol devotions by the beadle. The doctor took up his hat, f aid a short prayer, and the service went on without him. Nobody pretended to have seen the in­ cident, though everybodv wondered; who was in tro ible or whether the doctor had revived an old form of ad­ vertising. A little while afterward the beadle, with the softest step, went to the pew of the chief undertaker in the parish. A short whispered con- > sultation, and away w nt the man of bl&ck* As lie put on his ovorcoat to > follow the doctor a broad smile passed over the whole congregatia^Wj^ pool Mercury. ^ Quinine. :v tfcfcC .;;f' During the last six years the impor­ tation of quinine in various forms has been reduced over one-half, and the monthly returns now Bhow a steady decline. During the same period of time the retail price, of quinine has been reduced almost as much as the. importation. FACTS IN FEW WORDS. ' i ' l v:f 4 ON the Alps vinegar is made of milk: whey. THERE are 115 missionary schools In. Basutoland, with 6,923 scholars. THE United States issued four thou­ sand million postage stamps in 1893. CONGRESS adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag on June 14, 1777. THE leaves of a tree in Dutch Gui- 5 ana are so rough that they are used as sandpaper. THE wedding rinsr Is worn on the left hand because, in symbolism, the right hand is authority, the left obedi- ^Pos'PAii Ga^rds were first issued May 1, 1873. The first year's sales were 81.- 079,000, while last year over oOO,003,000 were sold. THEKE are fifty-two canals In the United States having a total length of 4,468 miles. China alone excels this country in its canal mileage. THE psHch was at one time a poison­ ous almond. Its fruity parts were used to poison arrows, and for that nurnosa it was introduced into Persia. ; J