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C. W. SIIF.KMAN. Publisher.
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Important Intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL
Kegular Session.
TH7. senate was not in session on the 10th....
In the bouse the District of Columbia appro
priation bill was passed and it was announced
thai the sundry civil appropriation bill would
be considered next '
The resolution by Senator Pefler for an ln
vet;Ura'.ion a to whether senators had been
speculating in Wall street was defeated In the
fcenatn on the 12th by a vote of 33 to 27. New
ton C. Ulunchard was sworn in as senator from
Louisiana to succeed K. D. White. Senator
1'efTer introduced an independent tariff bill
amending the McKinley law in various particu
lars. The seigniorage bill was further dis
cussed In the house the time was devoted
entirely to the consideration of a bill for al
lowing a street railroad company in Washing
ton to change its system of motive power.
Ox the 13ih the time in the senate was oc
cupied in discussing the seigniorage MIL Sen
u:ors Stewart and Lindsay spoke for and Sen
ator Dolph against it, holding that its
passage would destroy the existing equality be
tween gold and silver.... The house began con
suleration of the sundry civil appropriation
bill aud fair progress w as made.
Tue time on the 14th in the Unitedd States sen
ate was occupied in discussing the It land seig
niorage bill. A motion to reconsider in order that
the bill might lie opened to amendment was do-
feate.l lathe house the sundry civil appro-
priaiion bill was further considered, but no
action was taken. A bill was introduced pro
viding that r.o more than two persons shall be
appointed receivers for any corporation.
BY a vote ol 44 to 31 the Bland silver seign
iorage bill was passed in the senate on the
lath. The bill cow only lacks the president's
signature to become a law. A bill was also
parsed authorizing the building of a bridge
across the Missouri river near Sioux City, la.
....In the house a bill was -introduced to au
thorize managers of soldiers' homes to employ
medical officers other than soldiers disabled in
the service, as the law now requires. The
bunJry civil bill was further considered.
DOMESTIC
John T. Ilir.KR, who had married and
deserted seven wives, was arrested in
Chieago.
Rescued from a wreck thirty-seven
years ago, Frank Willis, of Manitowoc,
Wis., has just discovered his identity by
means of a locket.
At Atchison, Kan., the Missouri river
was cutting a new channel, endanger
ing property valued at 51,500,000.
The entire business portion of the
village of Omro, Wis., was destroyed
by fire.
Mrs. Lease told a Boston audience
that the women would solve the busi
ness depression if the men would mind
the babi4.
Unknown persons failed in an at
tempt to destroy the office of the Iron
clad Age, an agnostic paper at Indian
apolis. Mathias Ludatschka, who shot his
wife and her daughter near Frairie du
Chien, Wis., escaped lynching by kill
ing himself.
According to the government report
farmers have reserves of 114,000,000
bushels of wheat and 589,000,000 bushels
of corn.
Neab Marche, Ark., the body of a
young mulatto woman was found sus
pended to a tree. She had been lynched.
' Ekv. Alanson T. Wood, of Omaha,
Neb., aged 17, was stricken by illness
in church and died in a few moments.
Recent assays prove that the great
sand hills in the vicinity of Dnvan, Col.,
contain from one to twenty dollars'
worth of gold per ton.
Steel works covering 800 acres of
land and employing 8,000 men will be
removed from Johnstown, Pa., to Cleve
land, O.
Mayor Dennt, of Indianapolis,
ordered the arrest of labor leaders who
indulge in incendiary speeches to the
reemployed.
The J. R. Morin company of Cedar
Rapids, la., dealing in eggs and fruit,
failed with liabilities of $210,000 and
assets of $65,000.
Citizens of Greenwood, Ind., have
boycotted a saloonkeeper so thorough
ly that he cannot buy food, raiment or
water.
Explorer Welxmax was given a silk
flag by the National Capital Tress club
and requested to hoist it at the north
pole.
J. K. Stratton, a criminal for whom
the police of many cities have been
searching, was located in prison at
Huutsville. Tex.
"Hilly" Edwards, a well-known
sporting man, died at Hot Springs,
Ark., from injuries received in being
thrown from a buggy.
Postmaster William Gould disap
peared from Stony Brook, L. L, leav
ing a shortage of $15,000.
To secure perfect safety for its pas
sengers the St. Paul railway has adopt
ed the block signal system.
Senator Voolhees said in Washing
ton that he had no idea that the tariff
bill would become a law before the
middle of July and it might not be un
til August.
The bodies of the thirteen men en
tombed in the Gaylord mine near
Wilkesbarre, Pa., on February IS, were
reached by rescuers, but were beyond
identification.
The installation of Edward Douglas
White, of Louisiana, as associate justice
of the United States supreme court
took place in Washington.
Navigation on the Mississippi river
lias been resumed.
Mat wheat made a new low record
in New York, declining to 62 5-16 cents,
or l-16ta below the - previous lowest
record.
Because he was discharged, Jacob
Studt, a St. Louis carpenter, killed
Emil Wuensch. then took his own life.
Michael Altifilish and John Keg
ler, 15-year-old boys, were drowned
while crossing the river at Bellevue, la.
Is a saloon row at Cleveland, O.,
Michael Kennedy fatally shot John
Curamings and James McXamara.
Navigation on Lake Michigan was
resumed, being the earliest opening
ever recorded.
The health officials of Ohio were
alarmed by the spread of smallpox in
the stat.
M. O. Shcop, town tax collector, was
held tip by two highwaymen near El-
tur.n, 11L, and relieved of 400 in cash.
JohnBrecht, a farmer, murdered his
wife at Ravenna, Neb., and then killed
himself. Brecht had previously worked
for the woman he married, who was a
wealthy widow.
Cigarmakers formed a national asso
ciation at Washington, John Brown,
of Detroit, Mich., being chosen president-
The bank at Excelsior Springs, Mo.,
with a capital of f '50, 000, has been
closed. It was the city school district
depository and the failure will close the
schools.
Miss Alma Winters was frightened
to death by a fire which destroyed her
father's residence at Barrington, 111.
Navigation of the great lakes for
the season of 1894 will be open six
weeks earlier than for many years.
The plan to move the Manufactures
building from the world's fair grounds
to the lake front in Chicago has been
abandoned.
The Santa Fe depot at Woodward, O.
T., was robbed of over $ 10,000 by two
masked men, who overpowered the
agent.
The New York legislature passed a
bill making minor grades of hazing
misdemeanors and the infliction of
physical injuries felonious.
The Pittsburgh (Pa) board of educa
tion says that the five sisters of charity
who have been teaching in regalia in
one of the public schools will have to
step down and out.
The Ohio legislature has decided in
favor of biennial sessions.
Maj. Tuoma8'E. Rose. Eighteenth
infantry, known as "the Hero of Libby
Prison," has been placed on the retired
list on account of age.
By the overturning of a lamp at ter
home in Washington Mrs. Tattie Miller
Stocking, widow of CoL Stocking, of
Andersonville fame, was fatally burned.
Charles Thompson and his wife
were killed by lightning at Damascus,
Ala.
Rev. Dr. S. D. Notes, pastor of the
Second Reformed church at Kingston,
N. Y., dropped dead while in church
rehearsing a party for a wedding.
Fred Hill shot and killed P. IL
Geelan, postmaster at Big Springs,
Kan., because he would not resign his
position.
The Western Baseball league mag
nates met at Milwaukee and adopted a
schedule. The season will begin on
April 25.
Prof. Milton Whitney has been
made chief of a new division of the
weather bureau in Washington which
will study agricultural soils.
Walter Wellman and the American
members of his arctic expedition sailed
from New York on the Britannic.
Nuns who taught in the Riverside
school at Pittsburgh, Pa., have with
drawn because of the stopping of their
salaries.
Indian creek reservoir in Idaho
burst its banks and fifty houses in
Nampa were ruined and two lives were
lost.
Near Elba, Ala., the charred re
mains of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Thomas
were found in the embers of their home.
A passenger train on the Oregon
Short line was ditched near Mountain
Home, Idaho, resulting in the death of
the fireman, mail clerk and U-ree
tramps.
Sixteen houses were wrecked and a
large number of barns and other build
ings were destroyed by a cyclone on
the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma.
Frederic Gebhard, of New York,
whose wealth and admiration for Mrs.
Langtry brought him prominently be
fore the public some years ago, was
united in marriage with Miss Louise H.
Morris, a celebrated belle and heiress
of Baltimore, Md.
The barn of Isaac Catanch at Rush
ville. Wis., was burned, and he and
twenty-two cows and two horses per
ished in the flames. '
Richard Pcrtear (colored), who
murdered Christian Ehler at Strouds
burg. Pa., escaped from jail, but was
chased by a mob, caught and hanged.
Gov. Waite with a body of state
troop attempted to forcibly install his
new apDointees on the fire and police
board in Denver. He was met by an
armed force of police and deputy sher
iffs, and a bloody affray was barely
averted by the arrival of federal troops
and the intervention of prominent citi
zens.
Frawk Juc, lacking railroad fare,
walked 125 miles to answer a summons
as a witness in a liquor case in the fed
eral court in Chicago.
Nearly 2,000,000 bushels of grain,
loaded in vessels, are held in Chicago
because insurance cannot be secured
until April.
Charles Goode celebrated his 100th
birthday at Platteville, IlL
Chixq Ming Lee was under arrest in
Chicago for importing Chinese actors
and embezzling 155,000 from the theater
in Midway plaisance during the world's
fair.
Fire in the old Athenaeum building
in Chicago drove the audience from the
Schiller theater and did damage
amounting to 8130,000.
Three bandits, supposed to be Mex
icans, robbed the stage coach running
between Sherwood and Ozena, Tex.
The interior of the Pickwick club
building, the handsomest in the south,
was destroyed by fire at New Orleans,
the loss being $173,000.
The census bulletin on manufactures
in the United States shows the total
number of manufacturing establish
ments to be 355,401, against 253,853 in
1880. The capital was $6,124,475,3(M$;
miscellaneous expenses, $630,944,058;
aggregate of the average number of
employments, 4,771,812; wages, 2,282,
823,265; cost of materials used, $5,158,
868.353; value of products, $9,870,107,624.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The seventh annual convention of
the National Republican league will
commence at Denver June 26.
Rev. Gideon Potter, a pioneer Bap
tist preacher, died in Owen county,
Ind., at the age of 106 years.
At the charter election in Michigan
the republicans were successful in the
majority of instances where party
tickets formed the issue.
Harriet W. Potter, of St Joseph,
Mich., will soon wed Hawaiian Minister
Thurston, whom she first met at the
world's fair.
Minnesota republicans carried a ma
jority of the municipal elections.
Thk populist members of congress
have organized a campaign committee
and opened headquarters in Washing
ton for the purpose of sending out doc
uments and other literature among the
people.
A new political organization was
formed at Pittsburgh, Pa. It will bo
known as the people's progressive
party, and is intended to amalgamate
and unify all the reform parties now in
existence.
John T. Ford, who was proprietor of
the theater in AVashington where Pres
ident Lincoln was asssassinated, died
in Haiti more, aged 65.
TnE Kansas republicans will hold
their state convention on June 6 at
Topeka.
James F. Izlar (dem.) was elected
congressman from the First district of
South Carolina.
Indiana prohibitionists met at In
dianapolis and nominated a full stato
ticket with William Taylor, of Vermil
lion county, as secretary of state. The
platform favors protection to American
industries, government savings banks,
pensions for disabled veterans, equal
suffrage, and denounces contract prison
labor.
The Rhode Island republicans in con
vention at Providence renominated I).
Russell Brown for governor and also
reuominated all the present state of
ficers. The platform rebukes the dem
ocratic policy in regard to Hawaii and
its attitude on the financial questions
and severely criticises its pension policy
and tariff legislation.
Cait. Frank E. Browxell, who
achieved fame at the commencement of
the war as the avenger of the death of
Col. Ellsworth at Alexandria, Va., died
at Washington, aged 53 years.
FOREIGN.
A thousand arresis were made as the
result of the discovery of a plot to kill
the heir to the Corean throne.
A boiler in a mill at Sombra, Onta
rio, exploded, and Mr. Cornell, the en
gineer, and three of his children, who
had brought his dinner, were killed.
The war is practically over in Brazil
and the cause of the insurgents is a lost
one. The rebel forces have surrendered
unconditionally, almost without tiring
a shot.
A number of participants in the late
revolution in Costa Rica took a steamer
from Port Limon for New Orleans.
Twenty-three prisoners were shot at
San Jose.
Passenger trains collided at Caple
ton, Canada, and Conductor Cowan,
Engineer Duffie and Fireman Mcpher
son were instantly killed.
The schooner Mary Brown was lost
off Banks Island, B. C, and eleven per
sons were drowned.
Kino Humbert, of Italy, celebrated
his 50th birthday in Rome.
President Peixoto, of Brazil, has is
sued a proclamation decreeing amnesty
for the rebel sailors and soldiers who
surrendered unconditionally.
The British house of commons reject
ed the amended address in reply to tha
queen's speech that does away with the
house of lords.
In an attempt to destroy a church in
Paris the anarchist who exploded the
bomb was blown to atoms.
Hawaii may cede Pearl harbor to
England in the event of the United
States proving unfriendly to the Dole
government.
Two 6TEAUERS collided and sank in
the straits between Bengalis and Cogal
in Asiatic waters and fifty persons were
drowned.
After spending fifty years in a Chi
nese prision Mariano Gantaano, aged
117, was released.
LATER.
The United States senate was not in
session on the 16th. In the house the
army appropriatioa bill ($23,077,284)
was reported. Mr. Cumraings (N. Y.)
introduced five bills affecting the ad
ministration of naval affairs. The sun
dry civil appropriation bill was further
considered.
Mrs. Mart Sheets died at Union,
O., from a paralytic stroke, aged 101
years 1 month and 1 day.
There were 264 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 16th, against 248 the week
previous and 190 in the corresponding
time in 1893.
Mullins fc McClain's cold storage
warehouse at Omaha was burned, the
loss being $100,000.
John Hart was hanged at Rockford,
111., for the murder of his two sisters,
Mary and Nellie, on September 5 last.
He protested his innocence to the last.
Cashier Crawford, of the American
national bank of Springfield, Mo., was
arrested on a charge of embezzling
$10,000.
In her trip from New York to Queens
town the Cunard 6teamer Lucania
made an average of 2L73 miles an hour.
Maggie Powers, aged 17, of Cincin
nati, donned male attire in order to be
come a tramp. She was arrested in
Indianapolis.
It was said that Minister Porter had
resigned the Chilian consulship in order
to run for congress from Tennessee.
The Arkansas democrats will hold
their state convention at Little Rock
June 27.
In the annual boat race between the
crews of Oxford and Cambridge over
the Thames course in London the for
mer won.
Jerry Harlbeck was hanged at
Charleston, S. C, for the murder of
Constable IlazeL
Liankauf & Straus' wholesale dry
goods store at Mobile, Ala., was de
stroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000.
According to a bill introduced in the
New York legislature only the Ameri
can flag may fly from public buildings
in the state.
The populists of Oregon have nomi
nated Nathan Pierce foe Governor.
Four highwaymen held up two po
licemen, shot a citizen and robbed a
store in Chicago.
Gov. Waite, of Colorado, agreed to
submit his altercation with the police
board to the supreme court and to
abide by the decision. This determina
tion ends the prospect of bloodshed
which for two days kept Denver in a
fever of excitement.
MARTIAL LAW.
The City of Denver the Soon of
Warlike Demonstrations.
Beanlt or Gov. Walte's Quarrel with City
Official State Militia OppoMd by
Armed Police, Firemen and
Deputy Sheriff.
FEDERAL TROOPS CALLED TO THE SCENE.
Denver, Col., March 17. Gov. Waite
with a body of state troops on Thurs
day attempted to forcibly install his
new appointees on the fire and police
board. He was met by an armed force
of police and deputy sheriffs, and a
bloody affray was barely averted by
the arrival of federal troops and the in
tervention of prominent citizens.
This critical situation has been
brought about by the determination of
Gov. Waite to oust the two members of
the fire and police board, Jackson Orr
and D. J. Martin, for protecting gam
bling houses, and to place in office
their successors, S. D. Barnes and
Dennis Mullins. Messrs. Orr and
Martin, having obtained from the
district court an injunction restrain-
GOV. WAITS.
ing Gov. Waite from forcibly removing
them, were determined to resist to the
utmost. Whereupon the governor de
cided to ignore the court entirely and
called upon the militia to assemble.
IKs orders were to proceed to the city
Vall and take it by force if necessary.
The city officials accordingly kept
the entire police force at the city hall
all day under orders to resist the sol
diers if attacked. In addition several
hundred of the toughest citizens, many
of whom have records as man-killers,
were sworn in as deputies by Sheriff
Burchinall and placed in the city hall
as reinforcement of the police depart
ment. Each deputy was armed with
two six-shooters aud instructed to use
them in case of necessity. The police
were armed with shotguns in addition
to their clubs and revolvers.
It was a most exciting day. Early in
the morning the militia, constituting
the First regiment Colorado national
guards, began to assemble at the
armory and the Chaffee light artillery,
consisting of three Gatling guns and
six ten-pounders, were put in readiness
to march.
At 2 p. m. 200 militiamen marched to
the city halL planted two 12-pounder
guns and two Gatlings, and demanded
a surrender of the two members of the
fire and police board who refuse to be
removed. The city hall was occupied
by armed men and the windows and
roofs of adjacent buildings were crowd
ed. The streets held thousands of men
and women.
Brig. Gen. Brooks approached the
curb in front of the hall and was met
by a committee from the chamber of
commerce, who asked for time that a
conference might be had with the gov
ernor. Committees from the same body
waited upon the members of the police
board, sitting in their office under
the strong protection of the police,
and also upon the governor. The gov
ernor refused to alter his determina
tion to fire upon the city hall and take
it by force. The deposed members of
the police board declined to withdraw,
and at 6 o'clock, when it was learned
that bloodshed would be inevitable,
the chamber of commerce men gave up
all hopes of a peaceable solution of the
difficulty.
At the critical moment, when all ef
forts of leading citizens of the town had
failed to get either side to back down
the governor called upon Gen. McCook,
commander of the department of Colo
rado, and the matter of preserving
the peace went into the strong hands
of the federal government. Gen. Mc
Cook had been prepared .for just such
an emergency and the troops at Fort
Logan, near this city, were in readi
ness to march. He wired them to come,
and a special train awaiting such an
order soon brought five companies of
regulars to the scene.
At 8:45 p. m. the governor withdrew
his forces and issued the following
proclamation:
"All companies of the national guard of Col
orado are hereby noticed to be In readiness at
the Inspection armories to respond to call to
come to Denver, which will be issued Friday of
this week. Davis IL Waitc, Governor.
"DENVER, CoL, Thursday. 9 p. m."
The withdrawal of the state troops
from the scene of action was the result
of a conference between Gov. Waite
and Adjt Gen. Tarsney, at which it
was decided that it would be impossible
to take the city hall with the force
at hand without great and unneces
sary loss of life.
Gen. McCook announces that he will
preserve the peace absolutely and will
permit no armed or other interference
with the regular course of law. This
is equivalent to leaving the old board
in peaceful possession of the fire and
police departments until ousted by the
courts.
Thk Duke of Fife started life with
an enormous fortune, to which he has
Bteadily added. Everything that he
touches seems to turn to gold. Stock
In a London trust company, purchased
by him some years ago at 30 a share,
is now quoted at 9,000 a share.
TnoMAS Coitrtxey and Rebecca
Fruits Stivers,, of Crawfordsville, Ind.,
have just married each other for the
third time, which, of course, has neces
sitated two divorces.
Moss grows thickest on the north
side of hills, and a sun-exposed tree
has its largest limbs on the south side.
LYNCHED.
Mob Cap to res an Escaped Marderer and
Hang Him.
Btroudsburo, Pa., March 17. Rich
ard Puryear (colored), who several
weeks ago killed Christian C. Ehler
and tried to murder the entire Ehler
family, was lynched by a mob Thurs
day morning. By some means Puryear
had secured a stick, with which he
pushed back the bolt of the cell door
during the night, and the outer
door being unlocked through care
lessness on the part of some one he
gained access to the hall of the jail,
lie tried to force his way out through
an upper window, but failed. He next
accreted himself in the bath-room and
waited until the sheriff should come in
in the morning.
About 7 o'clock Thursday morning
as Sheriff Kry es unlocked the door of the
jail to take breakfast in to the prisoners
and stepped into the corridor he no
ticed that the outer door of Puryear's
ceil was unlocked. At the same time the
prisoner jumped from his hiding place
and sped out of the open jail door, closed
it quickly and locked the sheriff in.
He then went out through the kitchen
of the jail building, and running across
some vacant lots was soon outside the
borough limits. The sheriff shouted
and attracted the attention of his
wife, who unlocked the door and set
him free.
A general alarm was at once seiit out
and an immediate pursuit of .he es
caped murderer was begun. As he had
but a few feet the start of his pursuers
there was no possibility of his getting
away. The desperate man swam Mc
Michaels' creek, closely followed
by a big negro, who caught him
just as he landed on the op
posite bank. Puryear resisted, but
the bight of a revolver in his captor's
hand caused him to yield. He was
then brought back across the creek,
where he was seized by a crowd th&t
had gathered. Some one in the mob
had a rope, which was quickly at
tached to the limb of a tree, and will
ing hands swung the desperado up.
From the time he escaped froii the jail
till he was hanged only nineteen min
utes elapsed.
DEATH OF AN AVENGER.
Francis K. Urownell, Who Killed CoL
Kllaworth'a Assassin, 1'asses Away.
Washington, March 17. Francis Ed
win Brownell, a man whose name be
came a historic one during the late re
bellion, died in this city at 10
a. m. For some years Mr. Brownell
has been a clerk in the pension
office here. Mr. Brownell gained
his fame in the earliest days
of the civil war by avenging the
assassination of CoL E. E. Ellsworth,
the famous commander of the Ells
worth zouaves, at Alexandria, Va. The
incident created a furore at the north
and fanned into intensity the blaze of
patriotism then sweeping over the land.
Brownell was a private in the Ells
worth zouaves and was with a that com
pany when it went to Alexandria, Va..
the day after the ordinance of secessioa
was passed. Mr. Jackson, proprietor
of the Marshall house in that city,
hoisted the confederate flag over
the building. CoL Ellsworth went
to the hotel and hauled it down. When
on the stairwav he was shot dead by
the proprietor, Jackson, who in turn
was promptly shot and killed by
Brownell. Brownell was awarded
a medal of honor by congress for bis
act. He was also presented medals
and other tokens by citizens of Troy,
N. Y., New York city, Boston and
Providence.
Brownell was 53 years of age. During
his fatal illness he talked in his de
lirium of his efforts to disclose the con
spiracy of the Knights of the Golden
Cirie, which he investigated while act
ing as assistant to the provost marshal
general of St. Louis. He was a mem
ber of post 28. G. A. R, of Chicago, and
of the commandery of the Loyal Legion
of Washington. He filled a clerkship
in the pension office at the time of his
death.
PASSED BY THE SENATE.
Tbe Seigniorage Kill Now Lacks Only the
Executive Signature.
Washington, March 17. The Bland
seigniorage bill passed the senate by
a majority of 13. The vote was by roll
call, and resulted in 44 yeas, 31 nays.
The bill passed just as it came from
the house.
The vote in detail was as follows:
Yeas Allen. Date, Berry, Blackburn, Blanch
ard, Butler, Call, t'ockrell. Coke, Colquitt.
Daniel. Dubois. Faulkner, George, Gordon,
Dansbrough, Harris, Hunton. Irby. Jones
(Ark.). Kyle, Lindsay. MeLaurin, Martin. Mills,
Mitchell (Ore.). Morgan, Pasco, Peffer, Per
kins, Pettigrew. Power, Pugh. Quay, Rin
som. Roach. Shoup, Stewart, Teller, Turple,
Vest, Voortaees, White. Wolcott. Total, 44
Nays Aldrlch. Allison, Brice, Caffery, Carey,
Chandler, Cullom, Davis. Dolph. Frye, GaUin
ger. Gibson. Gorman, Hale. Uawlcy. Htggios,
Lodge, McMJllln, McPherson, Mandersen,
Mitchell (Wis.), MorrllL Murphy. Palmer,
Piatt, Proctor. Smith, Stockbrldge, Vilas,
Washburn, Wilson. Total. 3L
SILVER MEN TO MEET.
Preparations Being Hade for the Conven
tion at les Moines March 1 and 1.
Dks Moines. Ia. March 17. Arrange
ments are being made for the inter
state meeting of silver advocates to be
held in Des Moines March 21 and 23.
Ex-Uov. St John and Gov. Lewelling,
of Kansas, and Gov. Waite, of Colorado,
are expected to be present and de
liver addresses. Already delegates
from Montana, Nebraska, Colorado,
Kansas and Missouri have secured
rooms at the hotels. Delegates are
also expected from Alabama, Georgia
and many other southern states.
FIFTY LOST IN A COLLISION.
Steamers Sons; Guan and Alnjr Hoo Lost
in Asiatic Waters.
Vancouver, B. C, March 17. Orien
tal advices which have been received
here announce that a disastrous colli
sion occurred recently in the strait
between Bengalis and CagaL Two
steamers, the Song Guan and Aing
Hoo, collided while going at full speed.
Those on board the Song Guan
jumped into the water and were picked
up by the crew of the Aing Hoo. Hard
ly had they reached the wreck when
both steamers lurched and went down
About fifty people were drowned.
A ROMB THROWER'S FATE.
Tries to Blow Cp a Paris Chareh, But fs
Killed HlmselC
Paris, March 17. A dynamite out
rage involving the death of the alleged
anarchist who threw the explosive mis
sile was committed Thursday afternoon,
inside tbe chief entrance of the famous
Church of La Madeleine. In addition to
killing the bomb-thrower, a number of
people who were in his vicinity at the
time of the explosion were more or
less severely injured.
About the house mentioned a loud
explosion was heard inside the church.'
A crowd of people immediately rushed
to the church and in a short time the
Interior of the church and the Place de
la Madeleine were in a Btate of great
confusion and excitement.
The people who were the first to
rush up the steps leading frosa the
place to the main entrance of the
church succeeded in entering the build
ing and found it filled with smoke, and
from the inside could be heard the
shrieks and groans of apparently a
number of wounded people.
Near a small door on the right of the
main entrance the people who were
first to enter found shattered hu
man remains. For a time, owing
to the smoke and excitement, the
people who made this discovery did
not dare to penetrate any further. As
the smoke cleared away and the peo
ple regained their presence of mind, it
was seen that the remains were those,
of a man who was terribly shattered by
the explosion. Upon the body of the
man who had been blown to pieces
were found a number of papers and a
portrait of Ravachol, the executed an
archist. When the smoke had cleared away
and examination was made of the
premises, it was seen that the bomb or
infernal machine, which bad apparent
ly exploded prematurely while in pos
session of the anarchist, had done but
little damage to the church.
At tbe Lenten services, which were'
to have taken place at 4 o'clock, a large
number of people would have been
present, and the police expressed the
opinion that the dead man intended to
explode his bomb in the midst of the
crowd of worshipers.
There were but few people in the
church at the time of the explosion as
the hour was too early for the Lenten
service, but they were so alarmed that
they set up a chorus of cries and
groans, which led everybody to believe
that the explosion had injured quite a
number of them.
The door by which the bomb-thrower
must have entered the church, accord
ing to the police, was the cause of his
death. This door opens and shuts with
a heavy swing, and it is believed that
the bomb-thrower, pushing upon the
door and having the bomb upon his
person, forgot or did not know of the
strong swing of this door, and, in clos
ing, it struck him and exploded the
bo ml).
The corpse of the bomb thrower has
been removed from the church to a
morgue. After it arrived there Dr.
Alphonso Bertillon made an an
thropometrieal measurement of the
body and found that it coincided
with the anarchist Pau wells, who was
an intimate friend of the anarchists
Bastard and Paul Reclus. A number
of rivets similar to those used by skin
dressers were found on the body, and
Pauwells was a skin-dresser. When the
corpse was lifted up to be taken to the
morgue it was found that one of the
bands tightly clasped a revolver. Both
hands were badly injured. The bomb
was filled with nails and rivets which
literally ripped the abdomen of the
anarchist into shreds.
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.
Capital Invested and Value of Product of
Its Manufactures.
Washington. March 17. Statistics of
manufactures in the United States, ac
cording to the figures from the census
of 1S90, make a showing for northwest
ern states as follows:
Illinois Establishments, 2d,4KJ; aggregate
capital, S02, 004512; value ol products, t9JS,640,
Sd Iowa Establishments. 7.440; capital, 177.513,
097; products, 8rJ5,04ii,183.
Michigan Establishments. 12.127; capital,
1262.4 12,241; products, 277. Si6. 70a
Wisconsin Establishments. 10,417; capital.
124(5.515,404; products, 1243.546.164.
Indiana Establishments, 12.334; capital,S132,
405,360; products, f22iS2i,012.
Ohio Establishments, 28.673; capital, 1402.
793.W19; product. W41.6S8.0tH.
Nebraska Establishments, 3,014; capital. t37,
669.508; products, f96.037.794.
The total number of manufacturing
establishments in the United States is
reported as 3.55,401, as against 253,552
in 1SS0. The summary of totals gives,
the following figures for 1S90: CapitaL
$6,121,475,S05; miscellaneous expenses,
$63O,944,05S; aggregate of the aver
age number of employes, 4,771,
812; wages, $2,262,823,205; cost of
materials used, f5,15S.86S.353; and value
of products, $9,870,107,624. The con
tribution to the wealth of the country,
it is stated. Is more elearly shown by
deducting 5,158,869,S53, the cost of ma
terial used, from the value of the prod
ucts. This leaves $4,211,230,271 as the
increased valuation of the raw ma
terials. Flro Destroys a Bis; Clubhouse,
New Orleans, March 17. The in
terior of the Pickwick club, the hand
somest in the south, was destroyed by
fire Thursday morning, and only the
walls remain. The building was.
erected in 1883 at a cost of $130,000, ex
clusive of the site. The furnishings
cost $40,000, which does not include
oostlv naintincrs and statuary. The
combined loss on building, furniture,
etc., is $173,000; insurance. $130,000.
Murder Over at Debt.
Grafton, W. Va., March 17. At
Tyrconnell, some time ago. James A.
Robinson failed and sold his farm to
II. A. McDonald, with the under
standing that Uobinson was to live on
the place until March 15, and if he raised
enough money to pay back what
McDonald had paid on the place could
keep the farm. He did not do this, and
was moving out when a quarrel arose.
Kobinson shot McDonald, killing him.
Robinson barricaded himself in tho
house. Finally, a posse forced tb
door, when the murderer shot himself,
dying instantly.