Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1893)
[\NIC IN PENVEE. bPLE CO WILD AFTER [•heir wealth. ■ to Withstand the On r, Depositors—Speaker Crisp , he In Washington with His Loon.Hires "They will be Sub I Revision—Anxiety for Repeal L on State Hanks—A Oener L„ the part of the Illinois Cen krofidr The l^nle In Denver. ,hily jo.—The panic is on in [itli renewed vigor. As a re ’il German National bank* Imputation for stability of Lars standing’, the equally I >tate National, and the ex Ireiig l’eoples’ National failed it depositors stood m line In the Herman National, and by here was one long sea ol faces . (|,mn the street At the ,liner, where the .State Na vi lone1 done business, there l erowif of anxious depositors, people were relieved of their ,en at It o'clock notice was the door that the bank would because of a lack of ready xaraincr Adams this morning of the Union National, ial National, National Bank of r. State National and Uer onal. Herman National, just before •me, a notice was posted say Liors were closed temporarily, ee caused a distressing scene. 1 women down the long line in tears and wailing. The 1 the remaining banks in the renewed. Reliable people, ?ay there will be no more ns. 1’resident McNeil of the nk says his bank has paid out .min in the last thirty dhys. VS that the assets are twice as hr 'liabilities. shier of tlie German National illiiy to place securities and i rail in loans caused the sus if his bank. There has been it drain on the banks for sixty cer 81,000.000 has been paid s. The bank expected $300, lie east this morning, but it i.riie. The bank’s capital and .-.■wo, 000. It is expected to Tlie assets exceed greatly the fr, at tlie National Capital. Nfiiox, July 20.—Judge Crisp be in Washington before about . This probably indicates an on his part to practically tlie work of preparing com ists before his arrival at the " hen he gets here he will • have lus list ready, subject, e. to some changes, but com* the main, and the announce the committees may be ex ithin a few days after congress it is, of course, an erroneous i 'n that the financial legisla ted at tliis session of congress essarily come all from the com mittee. The only work for that ee is what relates to the Sher er law. The bill to repeal that necessarily go to the coinage ee. and if it should be amended ndment could .relate to coinage i not to banking. The proba '• however, that as a simple re stoppinj the purchase of sil er tlie Sherman law, will be re and that, whatever financial on iu addition to this is con ed will come later from the lee on banking and currency. 1 a vei7 strong feeling that any to include other legislation in e bill which repeals the Sherman 'v protract the first and post idefinitely the stoppage of the irehase. An earnest effort will ' to pet rid of the existing law to devise some system for na nirrency afterward. many of the leaders in ' anxious to have the tax nss repealed, but there will r of other propositions press believed that there will t ■lowing for a national sysl the old New York bank eh Horace White has adap esent national bank systi a-! " ltli the deposit of boi —w aucure meircur !t instead by a safety ,et!from a 2 per cent tax on lat.oa. A bill for this pur ’c introduced as soon as con at)d ^ is believed that it, similar to it, will be re comniittee, with relation itl Tnnthat Messrs. Morgan, llonn i if 'ier, Stewart and Wol st duct a filibuster in the sen vn. .e rePeal of the Sherman ■aid tw ooina£e attachment ® P^lie sentiment in dsactl ll'fflnia is as to ls senate °n tl}e part of the two to ®rs and Mr- Daniel dan nion 'r Persouai interests, and 'orthv exPressed in quarters to W tv,0r consideration, that, o“Ll e 'ViU Probably fight shei4ana?d resiat the repeal eecoinal1^"111*?? theX can f;ewCS,theywU1 not carry and th?,1 ?,the extent of fllibus and that \t ‘ent 01 nutnw nill 1 Messrs. Stewart and be deserted by the demo i- n jt.as been suggested le demnr-^ , - Deen suggestei IV office-‘ H2 eaucus, in whicl rs of the house will b shall h. uu‘“° “Vusu WU1 06 'Jncress e, “e'r on the morning meets. It is believed le mucus „nT v 11 is believei "ill not hV1 1 a s*i°rt one,am that ume 6 Tn“'e8sa,ry to hold i t a cha,it is only necessar ’^s wufy^retary. Th' X but a« i! -be tlle election of *r- Crisp wiiuf ally conceded natter will have n° opposition, 111 be easily disposed of Ithotioffit umposea o x hich therehb n!he, on,y ofticei p thp ^ be anv contef and it*U non^>Lrian<lser^eant'a* any that they wil he any contes a“y delay F*yratthe? are (treatl,/ • E®Ployes of th iltinns -Ai_lnterested in thes ^itions no',, “““ iu mes position* J.?-v control all of th tiajoriu. ba,1 bod-v‘ ^ is sal •tio <teJity,-rule wiU prevail i fnfth . !?.atl,on and hpon th ►ill aL^rsof thXTdcleg pend the chances of M Yoder and Mr. Johnson, both of whom are announced candidates for office. The friends of each claim that they have a'majority of the delegation. A Corporation With a goal. In appreciation of the work of the Illinois Central railroad since the tor nado the following communication was written and sent to Second Vice Presi dent Harrahan from the Sioux City Job bers and Manufacturers association. Sioux City, la., July 16, 1893.—J. T. Harrahan, Vice President Illinois Cen rnu Railroad, Chicago: Dear Sir—On Thursday evening, July 0, one of the most disastrous storms ever known in this region devastated Pomeroy, la. A catastrophe like this paralyzes the emo tions by its horror and stuns the intel lect by its awfulness and the contrast ing impotence of man. But it is on such occasions that the sympathies and characters of men and communities are tried and proven, and in Pomeroy's great affliction it may still be consid ered fortunate in that it was on your line. The man who at-such times is quick to think and steady to act for the succor of his suffering fellow creatures is counted a hero, and because a great corporation, which is supposed to have no soul, has shown itself, from the president down to the humblest offi cials, singly and collectively, to have all the attributes of heroism and gener osity, shall we withhold the tribute due the action. 1 he dreadful visitation of death and suffering which nature inflicted, with no mitigation for for previous standing or condition, obliterated, the barriers and restrictions of daily life and brought back, by the universality of the sympathy they created, a feeling of the kinship of the human race, but in all the munificent aid and assistance tendered by the surrounding country and communities,' your road was the direct force and medium through which relief was promptly and effectively conveyed. In the burial of the dead, the care of the injured, the transporta tion of nurses and physicians, the for warding of supplies, the Illinois Central has been prompt and generous to a de gree that is extraordinary. The fact that the work of a great railway is done through a multitude of brains and hands did not, as is often the case, dis sipate the effort, but seemed to give better results because of the command of more varied resources. The people all along your line will need to bear the Central in grateful re membrance for all time to come, and we, personally, are pleased to testify to the appreciation of your noble course by the people of Sioux City generally and the Jobbers association particular* ly. Very truly yours, James V. Mahonet, James F. Tot, Secretary. President. An Abundant Harvest In Sight. Washington, July 21.—Secretary ilorton, who has left for Detroit, where he is to spend a few days before going on a vacation into the woods of northern Michigan, gave a glowing ac count of the crop prospects before his departure. Secretary Morton spoke of the general condition of crops through out the country and said that there was every indication of an abundant har vest. Corn, hay and oats, he thought, would be produced in unusually large quantities, and large supplies of these productions would be shipped to for eign countries. The secretary said his department at present was trying to compile accurate statistics of production and consump tion of beef in the United States. On no meat, he thought, had the feeders lost so heavily during last year as on beef. This, he thought, was due in part to increase in the consumption of pork. -'.Talk of mutual dissatisfaction be tween President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle has again found its way into print. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press tells a long story with abundance of detail of what friends of Mr. Cleveland say about the president’s disappointment and lack of confidence in Carlisle. A careful inves tigation into the matter discloses no such state of affairs at this time. It is commonly believed that there was at one time a decided difference of opin ion between the two men as to the pol icy to be followed to accomplish what they both desired to bring about. Mr. Cleveland has a way of driving at things in a direct out of hand fashion, while Mr. Carlisle, having a distinct ively judicial mind and a long training in congressional life, where things are not always got for the the demand, is more diplomatic and conservative in his dealings with public affairs. Chicago's Great Calamity. Chicago, July 19.—The coroner’s jury investigating the World’s fair cold stor age calamity reached a verdict yester day. The jury held to the grand jury the following people: D. H. Burnham, director of the works at the World's fair; Fire Marshal Edward Murphy of the World’s fair fire department; J. B. Skinner, president of the Hercules Iron company. The verdict is as follows: We, the jury, find that Jlie deceased came to his death from injuries and burns received at the fire of the Cold Storage building at the World’s fair grounds July 10, and we, the jury, find from the evidence that Charles A. Mc Donald, John B. Skinner, D. A. Burn ham and Edward W. Murphy be held to the grand jury for criminal negligence, and there held until discharged by due course of law. Fire Marshal Murphy was apparently much affected by the result of the in vestigation. “I think it unjust and uncalled for,” he said. "I was neither negligent nor was I guilty of misconduct at the fire. ” President Skinner said the verdict was ambiguous. The fire department and ourselves cannot both be guilty in this case. It must be one or the other. There was no order of arrest made following the verdict. All four men will be asked to furnish bonds tomor row, however. The evidence on which Director of Works Burnham was held to the grand jury is that he was aware of the faulty construction of the building and still permitted it to be occupied within the exposition grounds. Skinner and Mc Donald are held because they built the building, and Murphy because evidence was given that he did not fully investi gate the fire before sending the men into the fatal tower. Murphy himself swore that the men were already in the tower when he arrived, having been led up there by Captain Fitzgerald. CARLISLE IS AT WORK QBTT1NO READY FOR THE COM INQ CONGRESS. * '•ets rad Fleam «■ tha silver Qess Uon Being Prepared at the Treasarr' Department—Belief That There Wilt be a Bitter Straggle Over the Matter. Washixgtok, July s: —For two week* to oome affaire will be ia a neb uloua condition regarding financial legislation by congress. Mr. Carlisle is expected to be at his post to-mor row, but he will declare no polioy for the administration other than the re peal of the Sherman law until the President arrives. Mr. Cleveland’s conclusions are not known. The President seems to be enjoy ing himself on the salt water with fishing excursions much in the condition of a man who knows that he is soon to be subjected to a Bevere ordeal. He is not without means of communication with the out side world, and there is not the slight est doubt that he is digesting the sit uation thoroughly. On the assembling of the extra session of congress it is expected that the President will pre sent a message. Secretary Carlisle has had in the course of preparation data upon which to frame an intelli gent statement of the needs of the country, viewed from a democratic standpoint. ‘^umnauio Kuvujo Ul LilC BllU atlon which has been commented upon quite frequently of late is that repub lieana are making the same arguments for the repeal of the Sherman law that Mr. Cleveland is expected to make; in foot, there ia no difference so , the views as to what should bo done to improve the condition of things. Members of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet are preserving a discreet silence. Kv-Speaker Crisp is expected in Washington about the 5th of August. His original intention was to be at the national capital on the 25 th of July. It is evident that he considers his election to the speakership sure, and that he wishes to take advantage of all the time possible in order to pre pare his committee lists. Mr. Crisp will do nothing without the advice and consent of the president. Presi dents propose, but members dispose; and, whatever program may be agreed upon at headquarters, it is believed that there will be a terrible amount of work to whip the rank and file into line. New York seems to have the call in the prominence of its delegation over others in the house. Congressman Tracy and Representative Cockran are being advanced for leaders in the cru sade on the floor against the Sherman act. Mr. Cockran is a Cleveland man now, whatever he may have been at Chicago, and the only question to be decided by the administration is where to place him in order to profit by his availability. He has been suggested for the chairmanship of the ways and means committee, of which he was a member of the last house, but this important position is not given to me teors but to men of training, experi ence and proved.ability in the affairs submitted to that committee. Mr. Cockran may remain a member of the ways and means, and in all likeli hood will be chairman of the com mittee on banking and currency. He will have nothing to do with the silver question directly in this place, but it will give him a standing on the floor, where his acknowl edged talents will be given every opportunity for display. The wheel-horse work of the house will be assigned to such men as Wilson of West Virginia, McMillin of Tennessee, Turner of Georgia, Breckinridge of Arkansas and Bland of Missouri. There were 434,000 ounces of silver offered for sale to the t easujy depart ment yesterday at prices ranging from $0.7150 to 73 cents. Seventy-five thous and ounces were purchased at '$0.7150, the balance being declined and the same rate tendered. This makes the total purchases of silver for the month thus far 1,023,000 ounces. Comptroller Eckel** Views* | New York, July 80.—Comptroller of Currency James H. Eckels was a guest of his predecessor, ex-Comptroller A. D. Hepburn, at dinner at the Union League club last evening. The affair was stated by the distinguished diners to be a purely social one, given as a compli ment to the new comptroller and for the purpose of enabling him to meet the New York bankers, The gathering of so many of the leading financiers of the country, and the presence in this city of the comp troller of the currency, attracted much attention, and the meeting between Mr. Eckels and the bankers was re garded more as a conference on the monete.-y situation and the prospective measures for its relief than as a purely social meeting. As Mr. Hepburn is not a member of the Union League club, the dinner was given in the name of Henry W. Can noil, president of the Chase National bank, and Fred D. Tappen of. the Gal latin National bank. President George B. Williams of the Chemical National and president of the Clearing House as sociation, presided. Comptroller Eckels, in response to a few words of welcome from his host, Comptroller Hepburn, said: “When I accepted the invitation to be present this evening it was that I might indulge myself in the personal pleasure of meeting some of the repre sentatives of the great financial institu tions of your city. I did not then, nor do I now, intend to make a formal ad dress, but there are one or two things that may not be inappropriate to the time or occasion. “The condition which confronts the American people requires thoughtful attention of every citizen who has at heart the interest of the country. It is not a time of panic, because we have ! passed the period in our history when ! a panic is a possibility; but it is one of | slow liquidation, the result of undue speculation and unwise financial legis- j lation. Nothing is to be gained by | taking on a fright that is unwarranted by the immediate past or the immediate future., What the American people ought to do in the midst of the failures that have occurred is not to give way to uncalled-for alarm but to study the character of the institutions that have failed; the causes which have produced them and the localities in which they have occurred. After such a study let them view the solvent institutions everywhere about them and the conclu aton that mnst irresistnbly follow la that the legitimate life of the country is not threatened, but instead, it will come out of the 'present turmoil the stronger for having passed through it. “ In conservative business circles the failures have been few cither in bank* ing or other lines, llad banking at sucli times is dangerous and must in evitably bring disaster upon those who engage in It. The present stringency has simply hastened the closing of some banks, because they were inherently weak. Others hove closed as a result of having kept alive the operations of speculators in the extreme west and in portions of the south. The art has not been discovered of making something out of nothing and the financier who stakes his all upon an unbuilt city reaching out into the waste places of the earth, must bring about the ruin of his own kindred Institutions which have' trusted in him and pinned their faith to assets yet unborn. “Disasters have fallen upon the spec ulative institutions of boom cities of the states of Washington, California, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri, which have in turn injured solvent ones, but the states of New England and the east and the middle states, and those of the northwest not less than of the south, have thus far escaped; and, why? Be cause the foundations upon which they are built is rock, and not sand. Such a review as that I have indicated can not but result in quieting the fears of the timid and encouraging those who have thus far maintained an unswerv ing faith in the speedy coming of bet ter times. It ought to check those who invite disaster by withdrawing from solvent institutions the money which depositors cannot possibly use. “The people are hoping and asking much from the banks of the country. In turn the hanks have the right of considerate treatment from the people. Let those who have long transacted business with the banking institutions have sullicient confidence in them to know and feel that if in years past they have proved safe, that they are likely to do so in the present emergency. Runs upon hanks but destroy the in terest, which othertvise would b« pro tected, and those who indulge in them cause to coirio about the thing which they say they wish to overt “in conclusion, permit mo to say that I indulge neither in extravagance of speech or suggest a course to be fol ■lowed by the .banks, but the steps through the past stress have been such as to commend them to the good wishes of the public. They have displayed a courage that has met every emergency and the financial condition of affairs on the part of the banks has been a con stant source of inspiration to all the country. ” Complaint* From Postmaster*. Washington, July 20.—The atten tion of Acting Postmaster General Jones was this morning called to a number of complaints of postmasters which have appeared in the newspa pers, reflecting upon the Postoffice de partment because of noncompliance with their requests in the matter of allowances for letter carriers, etc. Mr. Jones said a large number of offices throughout the country were actually in greut need of additional carriers and other facilities for carrying on the work of the office, and while it would afford the department pleasure to com ply v\ith these requests, yet, as a mat ter of fact, it was powerless to do so, owing to the insufficient appropriations. Last year the appropriation, which should have been increased in propor tion to the increasing volume of postal business, was increased only #500,090, which was #150,000 less than tho in crease allowed for the previous fiscal year. The department, while thus hampered by short appropriations, will try to do the best possible with those in hand without favor or discrimina tion. A Dark Day for Denver. Denver, Colo., July 20.—Never in the history of its commercial life did the Rocky Mountains have such a state of finances as now prevails in Denver and throughout Colorado. Yesterday morning it was hoped that the banks could weather the financial storm and be in a position to cope with all de mands made upon them today by their depositors. This hope, unfortunately, was dissipated by the announcement in quick succession of the failure of the National Bank of Commerce, the Union National bank and the Commercial Na tional bank. In the attending excite- j merit it is almost impossible to secure a ■ statement of the assets and liabilities of each bank, and this information may not be given out until later in the day. The depositors in the different banks have become almost completely panic stricken and long lines of people are pushing and crowding each other to get access to the paying teller's windows of the dozen remaining banks that they may secure their money on deposit To add to the excitement the failure of the McNamara Dry Goods company, with liabilities of #2tS0,0O0, was announced. The amount of assets were not stated, hut is believed to more than equal the liabilities. The failure was precipita ted by the filing of an attachment for #71,780 in favor of the Union National bank. This attachment was served at 1 oiclock this morning, and shortly an other attachment for #20,847.74 in favor of the Colorado National bank was served upon the company and the doors were closed. The dry goods company had a large amount of money outstand ing on credit, and on account of the stringency of the money market were unable to collect from country custom ers and thereby make their credit good at the different banks. Tribute to Kansas Women. Chicago, July 31.—In the assembly room of the women’s building yester day Mrs. Eugene Ware of Fort Scott, Kan., gave an address on what the women of Kansas are doing today. The women of her state could not hare chosen a better or more earnest advo cate than Mrs. Ware, who closed her address by comparing her sisters with the Israelites of old. inasmuch as they are a peculiar people. She reviewed the history of Kansas from its birth as a state, and dwelt upon her sufferings from storms, grasshoppers, strange pol iticians and cranks. In words well chosen she told of the battles fpught by early Kansas women against pov erty, and concluded with a tribute to the Kansas woman of today and her daughter, whom she spoke of as a girl in whose hair is imprisoned Kansas sunshine and whose eyes reflect the bine of Kansas skies. SAYS MONEY LEAVES. EX-SENATOR HENDERSON OS MISSOURI TALKS. CM|tm Most Repeal Uwut Taw— Gives Soma Iitomtlni Point* Ri> |*rdlD( tk* Karly Catalog ol alive*— Baplr to Colorado. N*w York, July 2# —Ex-Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri has sailed for Europe, where he will meet hie family and enjoy with them a short vacation. A good many things have happened in the silver agitation since ex-Senator Henderson wrote his now famous letter to Secretary Carlisle at the beginning of the present month, lie was quite willing before sailing to talk about them. “I look,” he said, '-for the uncon ditional repeal of tho purchasing clause of-the Sherman silver law within a month from the assembling of the ex tra session of congress. The silver men perceive the revolution In the public mind upon this subject • and, however eager or ardent they may be in behalf of sliver, it is my judgment that, in the hone of inaklnir some sort ot a compromise that will leave them no worse off than now, they will consent to the repeal of this clause of the present law. My pur pose in writing the letter to Secretary Carlisle was to issue a warning against any compromise upon this question. It is utter nonsense for Colorado or any other state to attribute good times in this country to silver, be cause the government of t|ie United States never coined silver in any largo amount until 1878. From 179», when the original coinage act was passed, until ls73, the coinage of silver in dollars amounted to only 88, 000,ooa From 1793 until 1853 when the Hunter coinage act was passed re lating to the coinage of subsidiary sil ver coin, there had been coined ni sil ver only 878,000,000. It was perfectly well known that mors than one-half the silver coined up to that time was used by silversmiths and had gone out of the country. “In the sixty-two years, in which not more than 884,000,000 in silver was coined, the government coined about 8000.000,000 in gold. Gold was much more abundant as a circulating medium among the people than silver. I can not now remember having seen a silver dollar for twenty years previous to the passage of the Bland act in 1878. As I have said, all tha silver that the sil versmiths could utilize had been taken out of the country. This argument cuts both ways when I soy that the country did not enjoy large pros perity until after the demonetization of silver in 1873. Everyone knows that gold went to a premium of 380 in war time and that between ,the out break of the war and 1873, when silver was demonetized, the margin between gold and currency steadily narrowed. For several, years before the war, be ginning, indeed, with the panic of 1857, times were very hard. The trouble then, however, was not that the country did business upon the gold standard but that confidence had been abused with'the depreciated cur rency of cross-roads banks. It makes no difference what the form of depre ciation, the same evils will come about. If a government maintains two cur rencies the depreciated currency will stick and the good will leave. A de preciated currency was the cause of the panic of 1817 and other panics may be traced to the disposition of the gov ernment or of the people to trifle with laws of trade that are stern and tiiat insist upon a normal enforcement.’' ALL DECLARE FOR SILVER, Democratic Editors ot Missouri In Line Against the President, St. Louis, July 33.—Several days ago the Chronicle addressed a circular letter to the democratic newspapers of Missouri with a view of ascertaining how far those which supported Mr. Cleveland last year now synmathizo with his policy of discriminating against silver. In an editorial com ment on the replies to the queries the Chronicle says: In over sixty letters received, each ' one representing an influential demo cratic newspaper, there is not one in favor of the gold basis or the cessation of silver coinage. Only two are for any limitation whatever of the coin age, and these are for “the free coin age of the Aineriean product." All 'the rest are squarely and uncompro misingly in line with Mr. Bland for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver. Without any exception what ever they denounce contraction to the gold basis as ruinous to the West and South, and declare their intention to resist it. Padded the pnjr Roll*. Kansas City, Mo., July 32.—A special from Topeka says that the Santa Fe management has just unearthed exten sive frauds on that division of the road included between Topeka and Chicago; The frauds, it is said, have resulted in a loss to the road of 817,000 a month. The conspiracy is far reaching in its ramifications, and included, it is said, various officials, from assistants to the division superintendent down to the section bosses. The scheme was to psd the pay rolls with the names of fictitious men and to divide the amount thus secured among the various con spirators. When the last pay car went out notice was sent ahead that each man must apply in person for his money. It is said that the number of persons who sent word that they were too ill to go down to the station to get their money was astonishing. Detec tives have been put on the case and sensational arrests are expected* soon. AmoskM* siuu to Close Temporarily. Boston, Mass., July 8a The Amos keag mills, which will close for the month of August, according to a vote of its directors at Manchester, N. H., employs 8,000 hands. It has a pay roll of $33.~>,600 a month and nses 6,000,000 pounds of cotton a week. Other mills are likely to follow suit. The Amoskeag mill is the largest pro ducer of manufactured cotton in the world._ Jumped rats a Well. Lincoln, 111 , July 30.— Christopher Spllker is the name of a German shoe maker whose love for a Sangamon street young lady was not reciprocated. On account of this he has been drink ing hard of late and wound up his spree by plunging into a neighbor's XfelL He was still alive when fished Mil »nil will OPINIONS or FINANCE. BestneisMo* With Varying Opinions ** la , •to Como* of tho Scnroltr of Money. Si. L°m», July si.—A dally paper which ha* already made Itself a repu tatlon for the wholesale interviewing turned loose a corps of report, re the other day with a view to getting the opinions of the business wen of St. Louie as to the cuuso of the financial depression. In only one detail wee ; there much unanimity of opinion. Most of these Interviewed said that there was very much less stringency than generally reported and that there was no falling off In their buslnes* returns at all commensurate with the pessimistic utterances of public men. Several representative business houses reported a slight inorease iu receipts for June, over June of 1893, and very few spoke of any falling off. The general opinion was that the worst ad been seen, and that money would soon become plentiful in the market. The views on the silver questlou are very diverse,, although of tho gentle men interviewed quite a majority ridi culed free silver as a^anacea for flnan- '•#> olal ills. night on' the heels or these ninnlDe expressions comes the report of the re* torder of deeds showing an Increase of over 980,000 imthe consideration money in real estate deals rocordml last weelc as compared with the second or indeed* any week in July of.1893. The figures are quite a surprise, but afford much gratification in real estate circles. Work on the large buildings in the city continues rapidly and neither the building nor the real estate interests are depressed, as they should be if financial exports are correct in their summaries of the situation generally. There was a great sensation on Sat* urday when It was reported that the secretary of five large building also* elatlous and a real estate operator on a large scale had been detected in em bezzlement if not forgery, and that he had skipped the town. The latter por tion of the report was premature, ae he spent the following day at his own home. What the final outcome will be of the numerous investigations now being had into his accounts and busi ness methods is not known, but it has transpired that he has been borrowing money for some time at a high ft, rate of interest from the same shylock whose exorbitant rates of inter-, est expedited the ruin and suicide of the late assistant city treasurer. The scandal in question has done good rather than otherwise, for it has1 led to a series of inquiries being made which has re»iilt**d in nrovmg the sununy utidsuengui of the numerous building associations of the city. The street car returns for the second quarter of 1NU3 show the great popu larity of electric roads. The total number of passengers carried in tbs city during the three months was 3(1, 180,7*5, with receipts In excess of gl,000,COD. The quarterly totals aro Increasing ran d'y and are now almost as large as were the annual returns In the old days of horse cars. The Mis souri or Olive street road carried more than *,000,000 passengers, and every1: road with a down town terminus car ried more than a million. ' It is announced semi-ofHcially that the new Union depot will be finally finished, this coming winter. About 400 men are now working on the struct ure which appears to be nearly com pleted. The bulk of the work now to be done is in the approaches and tho track and switch laying, together wlthi inside finishing of the depot buildings proper. Work on the root of the sneds with their enormous span is vary difficult iu the hot eun, but fortunately great progress was made on this during the spring and the im mense area and even acreage of glau . U well. nigh, complete. WILL BLOCK THE 8BNATS. Heneter Janes Threaten* It tf Uncon ditional silver Kcpanl Is Attempted. Nsw York, July 80—Senator John P. Jones of Nevada is in the city ar ranging for the free silver convention at Chicago Aug. 1. The eenetor eeys a repeal of the Sherman act cannot pats the eenate unlett a substitute in offered satisfactory to the champione of silver free cninsva "I om if I wish,” continued the sens* toiy “tie up the sen* ate front now until th» terms of Its members expire. If we gel tired of talking at motion to adjourn, to go into executive session, or, indeed, any mo tion at all will con* tlnue the delay.” “But what if a SKNATOB JOXXB, closure is attempted?" ’‘There is no more chance of ft closure than there was during the federal elections bill fight in the fifty* first congress. The gold men must coma to us.” * 8am Woods’ llsjtr. Kaitsas Citv, Kan., July SI.—Drug* gist Connolly, before whose store Law* yer Johnson was shot last night by Banker Little, in an interview tonight stated that Johnson had made a con fession to him some time ago which cleared up the mystery surrounding the assassination of Sam Woods, the noted populist leader, which took place some two years ago in Stevens county. It will be remembered 'that. Sam Woods was the leader of one of the factions in the noted Stevens count* ty seat feud. During the trial of ft ;i ease at Hugoton in which Woods waa. interested, he was shot while standing at the door of the court house. James. Brennan, an old enemy of Woods, waa arrested for the crime but was not tried because of the impossibility of procur* - ing a jury. Connolly states that John son confessed to him that it waa he (Johnson) who fired the fatal shot, enA not Brennan. * AFTER ANOTHER NEORO> Report that a Colored Miscreant Waa Lynched Near Birmingham, Ala* Birmingham, Ala., July 19.—A poase has been searching since Saturday night in and around Brierfield for • negro who, it is reported shot and killed two women near Brierfield. The posse sighted the negro near Calerft yesterday afternoon and fired a dozen shots at him, but ho fled to a dense swamp and escaped. The camp was surrounded last night and the belief is general that the negro was captured and lynched before day light. '1 he cause of the murders is said to have been >oth assault and robbery.