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manufacturers operating from Bostons. It is reported ^hat the syndicate has secured control of every rod' mill but one either through leases or by contracts for the en­ tire output ' The American Kneipp Cure Company has purchased 106 acres of land in Mam- aroneck, N. Y., and will establish there a resort similar to the famous water cure at Woerishofen in Suabia. Plans have been made for the immediate construction of a main sanitarium building, costing $300,000, and the whole tract will be made into an ideal resort, with every lux­ ury and beauty. Father Kneipp's system of water cure has spread over this coun­ try with remarkable progress. Within the last twelve months more than 20,600 people have tried the treatment for all manner of ills. One of the latest patients is ex-Gov. Altgeld of Illinois. A Long" Island passenger train crashed into a coach containing a picnicking party of twenty-one young people on the Mer­ rick road near Valley Stream, L. I., Mon­ day afternoon. Of the twenty-one mem­ bers of the Alpha Delta Theta Society of Green Avenue Baptist Chnrch, Brook­ lyn, who Were on the coach, five are dead, two fatally hurt, and eleven others are more or less severely injured. Only one man had time to jump. The ..others were piled tip in the wreck. When the train steamed back to the scene of horror men and women were lying about, four of them already still in death and' fourteen others in-agony. Even after the dead and wound­ ed had been taken away human fragments were found among the shattered panels and twisted harness. - V THE PLAINDF.ALER G. A. K.\S PROUD YEAR J. VAN £LYKE, Editor and Pub. THE ORGANIZATION IS THIRTY ONE YEARS OLD. WORK OF OUR NAflONAL LAW. MAKERS. MCHENRY. K •-- ' ILLlf?OT® First Conceived ill Illinois, the Order .Has Had 8,000 Posts with a Mem­ bership of Over Half a Million-4' Death Making Inroads. { • (CHICAGO DEATH RATE A Week'* Proceedings la the Halls of Congress--Important Measnres Dis­ cussed and Acted Upon--An Impar­ tial Resume of the Business. jLOWER THAN EVER BEFORE RE. CORDED. A Famous Society The National Solons. After a long period of silence Senator Tillman of South Carolina startled the Senate Friday by a speech no less dra­ matic in its delivery than sensational in its allegations. He declared the public statements that Senators were speculat­ ing in sugar stocks, pending the settle*- ment of the sugar tariff schedule, were getting to be so persistent and forceful that it was a national scandal. He pre­ ceded his speech by presenting a resolu­ tion for the appointment of a special committee of five Senators to investigate the charges. The Senate then took up the tariff bill. The House did nothing. The Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds agreed to report favorably the bills for public buildings at Baltimore, Md.. to cost $1,500,000; Durham. N. C.. $125,000-; Mclveesport. Pa.. $200,000; Washington., Pa., $75,000; Wilkesbarre, Pa.. -$225,000-: Butte City. Mont.. $300.- 000. and Aberdeen. S. D.. $100,000. For the first time in niany years a mem­ ber of the United States Senate was Sat­ urday afternoon directed to take his seat as a result of statements made in debate. The Senator who offended was Mr. Mor­ gan, of Alabama, and the man tvho called him to order was Senator Hale, of Maine. Mr. Morgan was at the moment soundly berating Speaker -Reed • for his exercise of the one-man power in the House. The presiding officer at the time was Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, but after the spurt of indignation on the part of Mr. Hale was over, Mr. Morgan continued his speech declaring, lor 'the first time during the twenty years lie had served in the Senate, this was the only occasion on which he had been directed to cease debate and take his seat. He wanted the American people to know that ^uch. de­ mands were made at a time when the Senator so dealt with was defending the Constitution. The whole day was con­ sumed in a further consideration of the glass -rehedule. The Senate adjourned over Monday. The Senate made good progress on the tariff bill Tuesday, advancing to the im­ portant metal schedule. During the day the paragraphs covering marble and stone, china, glass, brick and tiles were completed, with a few minor exceptions! The Senator from South Carolina, John L. McLaurin, who succeeded the late Senator Earfcpwas sworn in at the open­ ing of the session. This establishes the personnel of the Senate as it will remain for some time--namely, Republicans, 43: Democrats. 34; Populists, 7; Silver Re­ publicans. 5: vacancy, 1 (Oregon); total, 00. The House passed two minor Senate bills, but because of non-existence of com­ mittees could do no other work. How­ ever, a lively attack was made upon the policy of holding up appointment of com­ mittees until after the/ Senate finishes with the tariff. The Senate Wednesday made greater progress on the tariff bill than in any day since the debate opened, completing more than half of. the important metal schedule. Early in the day Mr. Tillman of South Carolina secured the adoption of a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the recent de­ cisions against the South Carolina dis­ pensary law. with a view to reporting such legislation as might be desirable. The Senate in, executive session spent some time in discussing whether confirma­ tions should be delayed because ,of the absence of a Senator opposing! them. Without settling the principle involved the Senate allowed the nominations to go over. Senator Turner objects to the confirmation- of these nominees because their predecessors were removed from office, which, he claims, was an unjusti­ fied procedure on the part of the execu­ tive. c The Senate again made good progress on the tariff bill Thursday, covering about ten pages of the metals schedule and al­ most completing it. The House proceed­ ings were enlivened by the attempt of Mr. Terry (Dem.) of Arkansas to secure con­ sideration. as a privileged matter, of a resolution for the immediate appointment of the committee on foreign affairs. It was ruled out of order and an appeal taken from the decision of the chair was laid on the table by a strict party vote. Several bills were passed by unanimous consent. The Frye bill to prevent collis­ ions on certain harbors, rivers and in­ land waters of the United States and the Senate resolution for the relief of the El Paso flood sufferers, amended so as to make the appropriation of $10,000 avail­ able out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Mississippi flood sufferers, were passed and the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill vas adopted. Pulmonary Diseases Make a Startling 1 Showing--Colored People More Sus­ ceptible than White--Babies Fare Well--Revenue Cutter Johnson Sold. HELD FOR SMUGGLING, W. T>. SMEDI.EY. wonderful performances. The race grew out of a hare and hound chase on the old style high, or ordinary, wheels back in 1880. That was on Thanksgiving Day, however, instead of Memorial Day, which has been the date of the race every year since. In the next year, 1887, cycling interest in Chicago grew marvel- ously. There were several fellows in the hare and hound chase of- the year before who had speed ambitions. They came together early in the spring and talked' about a repetition of the chase, but de­ cided that a genuine road race would be better sport. The first Pullman road race, as the event was then called, was the result. It was run on Memorial Day over the Pullman course every year after until 1894. Then it was transferred to the North Side and changed in name to the Chicago road race. It almost invariably happens that the rider who wins the race is an unknown. Me is usually some fleet fellow whose jpeed is underrated by the hand'icapper and who has the luck in not being thrown in any of the maaiy collisions that occur along the course. With the winner of the time prize, however, it isdifferat. -He is usually a rider of experience whose speed is known and has often been proved. X LEADING ASFIRANTS FOR THE OHIO GOVERNORSHIP. * The showing of the members of the (Western League is summarized below: " W. L. W. L. iiSt. Paul. ... .28 11 Detroit .... .16 19 [Milwaukee .. 23 14 Minneapolis. 16 23 ttndSanapolis. 20 14 Kansas City. 12 26 •Columbus ... 19 14 G'nd Rapids. 11 24 Sale of the Old. Andy Johnson. The old revenue cutter Andy Johnson uras sold by the Government at Cleveland to the Ohio naval reserve for $2,250. The old cutter will be used as a training ship for the naval militia. The Johnson brought considerably less than it had been * expected the famous old boat would sell for. She was appraised by the Govern­ ment officers at $5,000, which, was consid­ ered by some to be a low figure, as the cutter is in fairly good condition notwith- I! etamding her age. .. NEWS NUGGETS. The steamship Mississippi reached New iYork Tuesday with a hole in her quarter caused by a collision in midocean with the steamship Hekla. The accident oc­ curred May 27 during a thick fog. None of the passengers on either vessel was Ihurt. | Edgar Harris, a letter carrier at Bal­ timore, 32 years of age, living at 1724 Ashland avenue^ shot and killed his 12- year-old son George and his daughter Ada, wounded his daughter Ella, aged 0.4, and then turned the pistol on himself. iHe was crazed by his wife's death. s' ' A poem entitled "Our Boys," by Alice jS, Mitchell, of New York, author of j"The Liberty Bell," has been dedicated to Mrs. U. S. Grant and Mrs. Jefferson (Davis. The letters giving permission for the mingling of t3je two n§mes have been received from each of the ladies. " v At Caldwell, Ohio, L. C. Curtis' livery stable took fire Tuesday afternoon and in less than two hours one whole square was destroyed. The loss is fully $50,- 000, with insurance for only half. The Grand Hotel, P. F. Yohe, dry goods, Cur­ tis' livery stable and three saloons were consumed. Incendiarism is suspected. This is the second bad fire there within thirty days. A 10 per cent, cut in wages, affecting all men not under the amalgamated scale, was ordered at Jones & Laughlin's American Iron Works at Pittsburg. As a result the open-hearth workers and some other employes, in all about seven ihundred, refused to go to work. The 'firm employs nearly three thousand men. The strike will probably cause a shut­ down of the entire plant. A race war is in progress in Lee Town­ ship, Pope County, Arkansas, in which itwo or three men have already been killT led. or fatally wounded. The trouble began Sunday night,' when a gang of three or <four negroes attacked two white men. Monday night One of the negroes, William Gaylord, who had participated in the riots, was taken from his home by a mob and after being stripped was tied to a post and beaten to death. The whole county is stirred up over the affair and further outbreaks are looked for at any moment. Princess Troubetzkoy, formerly Amelie {Rives, is in a private sanitarium at Phil­ adelphia suffering from nervous prostra­ tion, the result of overwork;-V Isaac Hoffman, of Hoffman, Alexander & Co., wholesale clothing dealers, was ifound dying in his office at San Fran- (eiseo with two bullet wounds in his head. !He expired on the way to the hospital. I David Wilson, the colored murderer jwas hanged at Morristown, N. J., Thurs­ day morning. Wilson murdered his wife in a. tenement known as "The Foley," . June 6, 1896, by chopping her to death Pfc Jlrith an ax. EARTH IN A QUAKE. Slight but Distinct Shock Causes Alarm in Many States. A distinct but slight earthquake was experienced Monday throughout the South Atlantic and Middle Southern States. It is stated at the Weafter Bu­ reau at Washington that the direction of the wave was from s-outh to north, but re­ ports received from various sections are conflicting. Savannah, Ga., was the fur­ thest point south at which the tremor was felt, while the northern boundary of the wave was middle Maryland. West it was felt as far as Ivnoxville, Tenn. The disturbance seems to have been most severe in the Appalachian Mountain re­ gion. The shock was felt in Cincinnati and suburbs. The printers ran out of the Times-Star office. Occupants of other buildings were alarmed and at Coney Isl­ and, Chester Park, the Zoological Gar­ dens and elsewhere there was conster­ nation among the holiday crowds. At the lagoon on the Kentucky side there was a panic among several thousand peo­ ple on the grounds. The waters in the la- gon were so rough that the life-saving crew went to the relief of those out in the electric pleasure boats. At Ivnoxville, Tenn., two distinct shocks were felt. Sev­ eral large buildings were badly shaken and two chimneys fell. In Charleston. W. Va., the earthquake was felt all over the city. In many buildings the furni­ ture was moved by the vibrations. The people were panic-stricken and many ran out of the large business houses think­ ing the buildings were about to tumble down. The vibrations were from north to south and lasted fifteen seconds. A distinct shock was felt in Louisville, Ivy., but no damage was done. The shock perceptibly shook Asheville, N. C. Hundreds of occupants of buildings ran into the streets. At Indianapolis many persons felt' the shock. Visitors to the court house tower thought the building was falling and hurried down. ? JOHN R. M'LEAX. PAUL J. SORG. < brevetted a brigadier, was made depart­ ment commander. The work of organiz­ ing in 1867 and 1868 went forward with great enthusiasm. By the end of 1868. there were about 100 posts in the State. The fame of the new order in Illinois and Wisconsin attracted the attention of Pennsylvania, New York and several oth­ er Eastern States, and it was extended to their borders, charters being given by the department of Wisconsin. The chief -post in Philadelphia is working undt>r a char­ ter signed by Department Commander James Iv. Proudfit. This i.s true of posts in other States. There are now over forty Grand Army departments, and there have been as high as 8,000 posts, with a membership of near­ ly half a million. The birth of that order resulted in bringing into existence the Woman's Relief Corps, which has a mem­ bership of nearly 200,000. The two or­ ders have expended for charity many mill­ ions of dollars. They have led in patri­ otic education and demonstration; they have led in suggesting and in agitating for the establishment of several of the national homes and the establishment of all of the State homes; they have exer­ cised much influence in pension legisla­ tion, sometimes unwisely, but in the main wisely and justly, and they have given us Memorial Day, with its beautiful and inspiring ceremonies. Wisconsin is the possessor of the post that has been in existence without inter­ ruption the greatest length of time, Wil­ liams, No. 4, of Berlin. From 1868 to 1875 nearly all of the Gpand Army posts in the country died off an overdose of politics. It was along in 1879 that the order began its resurrection on a new foundation, rigidly excluding pol­ itics and demanding utter non-interfer­ ence with religious beliefs. On that foun­ dation it grew more rapidly than it had at first. It sprang forward like a fright­ ened fawn under Commanders-in-chief Major Merrill of Massachusetts, Paul Yandervoort of Nebraska, Col. R. B. Beath of Pennsylvania, the one-legged drummer boy, Johnny IvounUc of Ohio, Gen. S. S. Burdett of Washington, Gen. Faircliild of Wisconsin, Capt. Ilea of Minneapolis, Major William Warner of Kansas City, Gen. R. A. Alger of Michi­ gan, Judge Veazey of Vermont, Adjutant John Palmer of New York and Col. A. G. HEAD OF THE SUGAR TRUST. W eissert of W lsconsin. Since then the order, from natural causes, has ceased to increase. It has been growing smaller rapidly; it will con­ tinue to speedily, grow smaller. A .fair sized army corps--14,000--will have died by Sept. 1 next. Ten years from now there will not be one-third as many posts and members as there are to-day. Fif­ teen years from now there will scarcely be more than one post in a county. Twen­ ty years firom now one or two posts iti the State will answer. Twenty-five years from now the Grand Army of the Repub­ lic will be only a memory. Since Weissert, in 1892, there have been at the head of the national organization Capt. Jack®Adams of Massachusetts, Col. Tom Lawler of Itockford, 111., Col. Walk­ er of Indianapolis and Major Clarkson. Illinois has'the honor of having had at the head Gen. John A. Logan two or three years; Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, two years; L'awler, one. While CMarkson is now a resident of Nebraska, he was an Illinois soldier, thus giving the State four com mander s-i n-ch ief. Pennsylvania has had three--Wagu^s, Beath, Hartranft. Among those who held the high station when the order was first on earth are Gens, Logan, Hurlbut,1 Sur­ geon Grimshaw, Gen. Cal Wagner and Geh. Hartranft. Gen. Devens of Massa­ chusetts was in at the new birth. National encampments have been held twice "at Indianapolis, one each in Phila­ delphia, New York, Washington, Boston, Providence, Portland, Me.; San Fran­ cisco, St. Louis, Columbus, O.: Pittsburg, Milwaukee, Louisville, St. Paul.-' .The next session will be held at Buffato the last week in August.^ At the thirty-first department encamp­ ment of the;order in Wisconsin, at Eau Claire recently, probably not to exceed a dozen of the men who belonged to the Grand Army in 1866, when the first de- been abroad until he took the trip which ended so unfortunately. From his own explanation, Scruggs brought over presents for relatives and friends and neglected to declare them. It seems a case of inexperience and bad counselors, and the old gentleman said he would gladly write his check for $10,- 000 if he could wipe the whole affair off the slate. Scruggs and Langhorn went to London to dispose of the European rights for the manufacture of the arithmometer, a cal­ culating machine. The sale was made to English capitalists, and Scruggs, as pres­ ident and treasurer of the company, sign­ ed the contracts and received $200,000. Having completed his business, he bought a few watches, rings and pins to present to relatives and employes. He was told that it is customary for Ameri­ cans to bring in articles for their own Whitelaw Reid has accepted the post of special United States ambassador at Queen Victoria's jubilee. Observance of Memorial Day was gen­ eral throughout the country, and every­ where the exercises were of impressive character. Pleasant weather prevailed at most places, and in most instances the affairs of the day were under direction of the G. A. R. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "People are actually doing more business than they realize. They reckon by values, but these are much lower than in any previous year of pros­ perity and leave little ma»gin for profits. In quantity there is almost-as-much busi­ ness being done as in the years of great­ est prosperity, and though the increase in population would call for a material expansion the comparison is not discour­ aging. The recovery is slow, hesitating and gradual, but more has been done on the whole in May than in April, while re­ turns of April showed the volume of busi­ ness only 10 per cent smaller than that of the best year heretofore. Yet hesitation is doing its work every week, and multi­ tudes are waiting because of possibilities at Washington who ought to be filling the demand for labor and the products of labor." RICHARD M. SCRUGGS. use or intended for presents without de­ claring them and paying duty as on arti­ cles intended for sale. The penalty for smuggling may ,be anything from a light fine to a fine of $5,000 and imprisonment for two years. i fmrrrrn H, O. Havemeyer Tried for Contempt of the United States Senate. Henry O. Havemeyer, who has been on trial for being in contempt of the United States Senate, is the king of the sugar industry in America. He is the last re­ maining prominent man of the family that has accumulated untold wealth by the.re­ fining and sale of sugar to the American peopile. He is the chief heir of the mill­ ions. that have been earned by the family of Havemeyers, Which started its wonder­ ful career in New York City in 1802 in a dingy house in Vandam street. There were two poor immigrants of the name who boiled sugar in the basement and lived on the ground floor. The sugar was sold a-t small profits. The two immi-, grant brothers were frugal and industri­ ous. Their business grew legitimately, and they enlarged it. When the brothers died they left a comfortable business to the sons. F- C. Havemeyer, Jr., one of the sons, not only understood the sugar business, but was a graduate of Columbia Codlege, too. When he reached his ma­ jority he took in his cousin. Henry O. Havemeyer is the' sou of F. C. Have­ meyer, Jr., and the business has thus been carried down for three generation*. Each generation has „ enlarged it and brought it nearer and nearer to perfec­ tion. Henry O, Havemeyer's whole life has been given up to the business of sugar refining. His brother, the late secretary, lived much abroad. Henry O. lived in the factories and in the trade. He has been the ruling and governing spirit of the bus­ iness, and 4t was to his genius and fore­ sight that -the existence' of the trust, with its vast trade and its stupendous depen­ dencies, is due. The story of the sugar industry in this country is the story of Mr. Havemeyer. His personality has been absorbed in his enormous business. Turnbull painted the four best his­ torical pictures in the Capitol rotunda. The suite, war and navy building was begun in 1871 and cost $10,000,000 to complete. The hall of the. House of Represen-, tatives is the largest assembly room in the world. The Congress of the United States lias met annually iu Washington since Nov. 17, 1800. The Crawford bronze door of the Sen­ ate wing weighs 14,000 pounds and cost nearly $57,000. A marble column surtnounted by a statue of Lincoln stands in front of the district courthouse. The new naval observatory at Wash­ ington Is one of the finest scientific plants in the world. •»- General Winfield Scott fathered the soldiers' home, which was established by Congress in 1857. I t costs about $100,000 a year to run the White House exclusive of the Presi­ dent's salary of $50,000. The columns of the eastern portico of the cap it o,l 'ate each solid blocks of sandstone thirty feet high. The Rogers bronze doors at the mala entrance of the capitol tell the history of Columbus and cost $28,000. The treasury building was completed in 1S69 at a cost of $8,000,000. It is the largest government department. The bronze propeller of the famous flagship, the Hartford, was cast into the statutes of Admiral Farragut. King Otto of Bav'aria is now permitted to stroll about the palace grounds, but there is no hope of the restoration of his mind. Archduke Franz Ferdinand d'Este, heir to the throne of Austria, who was suppos­ ed to be dying of consumption, is recover­ ing in Southern Tyrol. >, Captain Scriven, United States military attache at Rome, has been appointed mil­ itary attache at the American embassy in Constantinople also. Henry B. Cheatham, the colored man who was recently appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, owns much property in the District. S. H. Bowers, author of "Sherman's March to the Sea," secured the passage of an act by the Iowa Legislature, making the wild rose the State flower. Admiral Canevaro, commanding the fleets of the powers off the coast of Crete, was born in Peru, of a Genoese father. His brother is Peruvian minister to Italy and France. Gen. Nelson A._ Miles will be present at the Queen's jubilee as the military repre­ sentative of the United States Govern­ ment. Ambassador Hay <vvill be the dip­ lomatic representative. MrSi Julia Ward Howe celebrated her seventy-eighth birthday at Boston Thurs­ day. At Washington, Pa., Tuesday morning the entire works of the Novelty Glass tympany, including two factory build­ ings, Were destroyed, involving a loss of $70,000, partially covered by insurance. Seventy-five men are thrown out of em­ ployment. It has just leaked out that the output of (wire rods in this country has been cor­ nered. The work is believed to have been accomplished by a syndicate of wire nail An important and far-reaching new Russian law forbids the carrying of trade by sea in foreign vessels and under any but the Russian flag between all Russian