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DEATH 'MID FLAMES.
Brave Milwaukee Firemen Plunged
Into a Seething Furnace.
Taey Fall with the Blazing Roof of tha
lavldson Theater, and Nine of Them
Are Tal'en Oat Dead A
Thrilling Rescue.
BBAYE ME.V PERISH.
Milwaukee, April 1 1. Nine firemen
met a horrible death in a fire which de
stroyed the Davidson theater on Third
street between 4 and 5 a. m. Monday.
The biff 6tone building1, which con
tained the finest playhouse in the
city and the Davidson hotel, was
burned to the gTound In tha
midst of a blinding- storm of rain and
sleet, and in the final crash of falling
roof and walls several companies of the
fire brigade were thrown from the top
story into the pit of the flaming' fur
nace. The disaster is one of the most
frightful that has befallen the city
iace the Newhall house burned down,
when scores of lives were lost. The
Davidson block was one of the most
imposing- in Milwaukee and the pe
cuniary loss of the fire is estimated at
between 300.000 and $350,000.
The following1 Is a list of the dead:
Third Assistant Chief August Janssen, 266
SUthth street; Frank McOurk, lieutenant
truck company Jfa s and acting captain No. 14.
SOT Park street; Fred Kroesschmuer, plpemao
ctoemical company Xa S; Capt. Archie Camp
bell, r the Dretoat Foley, 71 Twenty-seventh
street; Allle Rtea, company No. 3, killed by a
falling ladder; James C Freeman, lieutenant
company No. 4: Frank TClnne, chemical No. 4,
found in balcony of theater; Thomas Morgan,
iguie company No. 1; John Farreu, chemical
Ka t
Seven of the injured firemen were
taken to the Emergency hospital and
number of others were removed to
their homes.
Shortly after 5 o'clock, when the fire
was seemingly under control, the
theater roof, on which a score or
more firemen stood as they fought the
names, went down, and the brave men
were carried with it to the floor
of the auditorium below. Some were
extricated from the furnace of flames,
in which the whole interior was now
enveloped, by their brave and more
fortunate comrades, who risked their
lives to drag out the prostrate
forms of the dead and injured
men. Six or eight men were
soon brought out, and those who
were able to seak said there were ten
or more in the ruins, where living"
death awaited them. For these poor
fellows there was no chance. The
burning roof had fallen on them, and
they were roasted to death, if they had
not been killed outright in that terrible
pi tinge from the roof.
The most thrilling" experience of
all was that of John Crowley. ' For
several hours he was pinned beneath
the ruins, suffering bodily torture, but
brave and self-possessed all the while.
From 9:30 o'clock until 12:15 his com
rades worked to liberate him. It was
known that he had been buried, but the
firemen thought he must be dead or un
conscious until one of the men heard a
faint sound Putting his ear down he
listened and then shouted: "Who's
down there?"
"This is John Crowley," came the
faint reply. "I'm alive, but for God's
sake don't drown me. There are two men
cesd beside me, and Tom Morgan of
Ha. 1 is one of them."
A cloud of hot smoke drove the men
back, and, flames bursting forth, it was
necessary to pour in more water. The
faint cries of Crowley could be heard.
"For God's sake kill me in some other
way than by drowning. I can't stand
all that water. I'm lying on my back."
But the fire was soon put out and
fifty men, a special detail ordered by
Chief Foley, set to work to rescue the
brave fellow. Crowley grew weaker
and the men heard him say he could
not last much longer. Then came
a most dramatic incident. Wil
liam Crowley, a brother, appeared
with Father Haven, a Catholic
priest. The father bent down and
spoke to the imprisoned man. In re
ply Crowley said that the water was
nearly over his head and fast rising,
and asked that the last sacrament of
the church be given him, and there,
amid the steaming ruins, the dense
smoke and the charred timbers, the
priest administered the last sacrament,
and fifty men stood around with their
helmets off, all brothers, all comrades.
Catholic and non-Catholic.
The work of rescue was pushed by
detail of ten men working in five-minute
shifts, and they fought the stub
born timbers and beams like mad men.
At 11:30 o'clock Crowley's head was
free, and a shout went up that shook
the tottering side walls. Shortly after
his right leg was freed, but it looked
as if nothing could save the other limb.
Hut the firemen kept at work and in
side of an hour the man was pulled out.
He was perfectly limp and his face
wore a distorted look, showing plainly
the terrible agony he had gone through.
As he was placed on the stretcher he
opened his eyes and endeavored to smile
to his companions, but the effort was
too much and his head sank back. lie
was conscious, but he was unable to
utter a sound.
lie was placed in the ambulance and
taken directly to the Emergency hos
pital. When Crowley was carried into
the Emercency hospital his pulse had al
most ceased beating. Dr. Fox, assisted
bj Miss Jackson, the matron of the hos
pital, worked over him an hour before
he returned to consciousness. His pulse
jrradually quickened and at is o'clock
was quite strong. Dr. Fox say Crow
ley is suffering from the shock to hia
nervous system, but with good care will
recover.
Wont Storm In Kitty Year.
St. John, N. IJ., April 1 1. In over
b.alf a century a storm to equal the one
now prevailing, which began Sunday
night, cannot be recalled. All traffic
is suspended. All railroad communica
tion is shut off, the public schools are
closed and the streets are deserted.
All vessels in the harbor and all the
wharves have thus far ridden the gale
in safety, and no disasters are reported.
Death of a Railway President.
Richmond, Ind., April 11. William
Parry, president of the Cincinnati,
Richmond & Fort Wayne railroa.d, died
in tl.U fit- VJVf'
A GREAT STRIKE.
Fully 1,500 Mile of the Great Northern
Hallway Tied I p.
Helena, Mont., April 10. A general
strike on the Great Northern railway
extending from Larimore, N. D., to
Spokane, Wash., on the main line, and
from Havre to Butte, on the Montana
Central, was inaugurated at noon Fri
day. Nearly 1,500 miles of road are
tied up. The strike embraces all
classes of employes. Every conductor,
engineer, fireman, brakeman, operator,
clerk, shopman, section man, car re
pairer and coal heaver between the
points named quit work together and
the switchmen with the exception of
those employed in the Butte yard.
St. Paul, Minn., April 10. All union
men employed by the Great Northern
Railway company from Devil's Lake,
N. D., to the Washington state border
were on Friday morning sent an order
feigned by a committee of the American
Railway union, directing them to
stop work at
to resume until
wages paid prior
has been restored.
noon, and not
the old rate of
to August 1, 1S03,
Dispatches indicate
that the order has been obej'ed at some
places. At Helena the strike was in
augurated promptly at noon. The At
lantic express was dela3-ed there. The
mail car was detached froja the train
and sent ahead, but the passenger cars
were all left behind. A Great Falls
(Mont.) dispatch says all employes of
the Great Northern struck promptly at
noon.
The Sand Coulee coal train was
stopped on the railroad bridge over
the Missouri river. The west-bound
passenger train there is stopped on the
east side of the Missouri The men de
clare that mail trains will be allowed
to run, but they will not permit pas
senger trains to run. They say they
will not, however, permit any violence
or destruction of property.
When the president of the Devil's
Lake union received the strike order
from Hogan and Roy he conferred with
the men and they refused to strike be
cause the order was not signed bj
President Debs. A message was sent
him asking for instructions. The
eastern divisions of the line are not yet
imbroiled.
The officers of the union in Si. Paul
state that since last August, the wages
had been reduced all the way from 6
per cent, to 33 per cent, and that the
agreement with the engineers recently
made would be held void by them as hav
ing been made tinder a misunderstand
ing. Uniontown, Pa., April 10. Since
daj-light Friday rrorning the southern
half of the coke region embracing the
Leith, Oliphant, Browntield, Kyle,
Wynn and Redstone plants of the H.
C. Friek Coke compan-, the Martin and
Fairchance plants of the Fairchance
Furnace company and a number of
small plants have been completely over
run by a mob of strikers estimated at
from 1,500 to 2,000 men. They have
made the most successful raid in the
history of the strike and as a result not
a workman can be seen nor is there a
wheel turning at any of the above
works. They drove nearly 1,000 men
from their places and made that many
coke ovens idle.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Many Obstacles Keportecl In the Way
or
Iiuiuea Improvement.
New Yokk, April 1. R. G. Dun &
Co.'s week.y review of trade saj-s:
"Business improvement meets many ob
stacles an J is scarcely as distinct as it has been
iu recent week-. Strikes have checked the
improvement in building and some other trades,
and scarcity of coke has caused the closing of
Borne iron works, while a strike of all bitumin
ous coal miners is ordered and may prove
serious. More favorable crop reports than
were expected, which Justiry larger hope for
next fall, have arrested the upward tendency
In priced of products. The renewal of sold ex
ports occasions much disquietude, but the
gradual exhaustion of goods in the htiuJs of
dealers makes the consumption of the people
mure distlncly felt ana apparently larger, and
this demand increases with the gain in the
number of hands at work.
"It cannot be said that the uncertainty as to
the future has materially diminished, but there
is evidently a growing Impression that
there will be no important legislation on
the currency or the tariff. This impres
Blon, whether erroneous or not. influences
tne action of many. On the whole, though
progress is still obstructed by uncertain
ties, it has not been arrested. The most
cheering sign Is the decrease in importance cf
commercial failures, for though one mortgage
loan concern has failed with liabilities of 5,Soo
ouO, the liabilities in all commercial failures for
the tirst week of April were only S'i.l'JO.S of
which iJO,5J7 were of manufacturing and 1.
or trading concerns. The failures this
week have teea ilt u the United States, against
lfc7 last year, and 3 in Canada, against last
week."
THIRTEEN ARE LOST.
Ulut-oKe Company Kuiployes liellrved
to II Cremated.
liUfFAi.o, X. Y., April 16. There is
little doubt left that thirteen, and per
haps more, of the employes of the
American Glucose company, whose
works were burned Thursday night,
were cremated in the fire. All day
long women were coming to the oiliee
of the company reporting men a
missing. At 10 o'clock Fridaj
night there were thirteen men
who had not been home since 5
o'clock Thursday nijrht All these men
were laborers and worked on the upper
floor of the main building. It was in
this building that the fire started, and
this building was consumed first. The
street in front of the morgue is crowded
with crying women who fear their hus
bands and sons perished in the fire.
The tire was so intensely hot and the
ruin of the main building is so com
plete that it will be twenty-four and
perhaps forty-eight hours before the
work of searching the ruins can begin,
tietn 87,000 Damages from a Hank.
Sioux Citv, la., April 1C In the dis
trict court Henry Hefner, a live stock
commission merchant, got judgment
against the National bank of Sioux
City for 17,000 damages for malicious
prosecution. Officers of the bank caused
Hefner's arrebt because of some trouble
over an $500 draft. The criminal
charge was dismissed without prosecu
tion. iov. Altfreld In Danger.
Si'ringfiklu, TIL, April 16. Gov.
Altgel's physician, who is with him at
Uiloxi, .Iiss., admits that his ptUent :
shows s;,-r.t.n:s of locomotor ataxia.
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DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.
The Famous Jurist Expires Some
what Unexpectedly.
He Succumb to n Attack of Pneumonia
After a llrlef Illness A Sketch of Ilia
Career and Service In the Cause
of Law Beform,
A JURIST GONE.
New York, April 10. David Dudley
Field, the distinguished jurist, died Fri
day at his home, 2 Grammercy place,
of pneumonia. Mr. Field arrived from
Italy only last Wednesday on the
Columbia. He had gone abroad to
take Christmas dinner with his
only child lady Musgrave, and to attend
the twenty first birthday celebration of
her eldest son, Dudley Field Musgrave.
His daughter is the widow of Sir An
thony Musgrave, who was governor of
Queensland, Australia, when he died.
She is living In East Grinstead in Sus
sex, about 20 miles from London. He
then traveled about on the continent
and took the steamer from Genoa for
home.
He had been at his home at 2 Gram
mercy place since his return, and was
thought to be in good health for a man
of his age 8'J years. He was taken
with pneumonia Wednesday night He
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.
had expected to spend his summer
among the Berkshire hills, where he
was born. He was engaged in
writing his autobiography. Only last
Wednesday he remarked: "My one
great ambition is to have my codes
adopted all over the world. They are
written and published. It is only a
question of time when they will be ac
cepted." Mr. Field's estate is valued at be
tween SoOO.OOO and tl.000,000. The
property is unimcuinbered. Mr. Henry
M. Field, his brother, said that the
bulk of his estate will be hel 1 in trust
for the grandchildren until they be
come of age.
When the news of Mr. Field's death
became known Mayor Gilroy ordered
the flags on the city hall displayed at
half mast, and the flag over the Law-j-er's
club in the Equitable building
was also lowered. Judge Prior, sitting
in part I of the court of common pleas.
Judge Hookstaver, holding a special
term of the court of common pleas, and
Judge Giererich in part 3 of the court
of common pleas, adjourned court
when they heard of Mr. Field's death.
Mr. Field was born at Haddam, Conn., and
was educated at Williams college. He studied
law, was admitted to practice when -3 years
old and began bis legal career in this city. He
was chlelly known as a public man for his
labors in the cause of law reform. Having
been appointed in 1&47 by the legislature
of his state a commissioner on practice and
pleadlug, he took an active part in the prep
aration of a new code of procedure He was
intrusted by the state In 1657. as president
of a commission, with the tabk of preparing
a political code, a penal code, and a civic
code, containing the entire body of the law.
Mr. Xoyes undertook the penal code and Mr.
Field the analysis of the political and civil
After many drafts and eight successive reports
had been made the ninth and final report was
submitted to the legislature in February.
Mr. Field rewrote the civil code eighteen times.
All these law reforms occupied most of his
time for eighteen years.
Other states followed the example of New
York. These codes have been adopteu by near
ly all the states and, in substance, by England
and her colonies. An international code was
next drawn up. Working with the Law society
In Kcgland, be drafted a code which was after
ward published.
Mr. Field made his first public speech In 1M2
at Tammany halL Two years later he began
to rally the anti-slavery remnant of his party
to oppose the annexation of Texas None
was more active on the side of free
Join during the Missouri compromise and
the Kansas-Nebraska difficulty. He at
tended many conventions and always spoke
against that portion of his party which
upheld tho slave trade. Mr. Field was a dele
gate to the peace convention during the last
months of the Buchanan administration. To
his Influence and that of Horace Greely, at the
Chicago convention la 16). the nomination of
Lincoln waa largely ascribed. After the war he
objected to military rule in the south and
argued many celebrated cases against the
constitutionality of military commissions. -
In 1873 he attended a meeting at Brussels,
which resulted in the formation of an associa
tion of economists, legislators and law
yers from all parts of the world for
the reform and codification of the laws
of nations. The object being to substi
tute arbitration for war In the settlement of
disputes. Of this association he was chosen
president. In the latter part of 1K73 Mr. Field
made a tour around the world, being received
everywhere with the highest honors permis
sible to a civilian.
In 187t5 he voted for Mr. Hayes, but being
convinced that Mr. Tilden was duly chosen by
the people be acted as counsel on the democrat
ic side before the electoral commission. That
same year Mr. Field was sent to congress. Aft
er that he cave little time to public affairs.
Mr. Field was a member of one of the most
noted families of this country. Justice Field
of the United States supreme court and Cyrus
Field, father of tho ocean cable, were his
brothers.
She Want a Pension.
London. April 10. The Chronicle
says that ex-Queen Liliuokalani has
become convinced of the hopelessness
of her case and is said to be willing to
advocate the annexation of the Lla
waiian islands to the United States
with a view of obtaining the pension
which President Harrison advised. A
petition to that effect is being prepared
for submission to I'resident Cleveland.
Cannot Afford to He Senator.
Washington, April 10. Senator Dix
on, of Rhode Island, has returned to
Washington after a short absence.
Many of his colleagues express regret
that he has determined not to be a
candidate for reelection. SenatorDixon
says that he intends to resume hisprac
tie of law, which has been interrupted
during his career in the senate, which,
he says, he could not afford to extend
for another six years.
Maachnsetts .Ilea May Mill Treat.
Boston, April 10. The house hits de
feated the bill prohibiting treating in
places where ."jquor is sold.
LOCKOUT IN CHICAGO.
Jt Fails to Throw a Many Out of Work
aa Was Anticipated.
Chicago, April 14. The big lockout
ordered by the Central Building league
for yesterday was inaugurated. It was
said that from 75,000 to 100.000 mem
bers of the building trades would
be thrown out of employment.
The reports at . the headquarters
of the unions failed to show even
1,000 men out of work in consequence
of the orders of the employers. The
men placed the figures at about 700..
On the other hand, the bosses claim
that something like 10,000 men were
locked out There is vague talk of a
pavement to bring about arbitration,
Tut no names are given.
Columbus, O., April 14. President
John C MeHride, of the United Mine
Workers of America, was interviewed
on the question of what assurance the
executive board had that the order to
strike April 21 would be obeyed
by the men. He answWed in substance
that the matter had been carefully can
vassed by the districts, previous to the
present meeting of the national body,
and that there was no reason to doubt
but what every member of the miners
union would be bound by the edict of
the convention. He said that beyond
the membership of the union thousands
of miners in Maryland, Michigan and
other states where there was no state
organization the men would strike
from sympathy, and the executive board
already had assurance to that effect.
At Thursday's session of the United
Mine Workers' convention the scale
committee recommended that when the
strike should be inaugurated the pur
pose should be to restore the old scale
in existence at the beginning of the
present year; that is to sat', Ohio
miners will
demand 70 cents a ton.
Indiana
0
cents, Illinois miners
cents and Pennsylva
Pittsburgh district, 79
50 to CO
nia miners.
cents. The scale in all the other states
is based on the prices of these states
and is governed by competitive and
mining conditions in each of the sev
eral districts. The resolution also pro
vided for the restoration of all the con
ditions that existed between employer
and employes at the beginning of tho
present year. The report of the com
mittee was received with cheers and
unanimously adopted.
John McBride introduced a resolution
pledging the miners to obey the law
during the forthcoming strike, to com
mit no depredations, and if necessary
to assist in protecting property. The
resolution was received with cheers
and adopted.
SWEPT OUT TO SEA.
Sailing Craft Driven from Shore by tha
Atlantic dale.
New Yokk, April 14. The storm
which began to level things along the
Atlantic coast Tuesday night is
gradually losing its cyclonic nature,
although the wind is still sweeping
down the coast with considerable
force. In this city and on the direct
coast line the furj- of the storm was
spent by dawn, but in the wake
of the cyclone, which is slowly
passing out to sea, the weather
continues sufficiently rough to
cause well-founded apprehension for
any unfortunate vessels which may be
in its track. It will be days before the
full extent of the loss of life and prop
erty can be determined. Perhaps the
fate of some of the smaller craft,
which were off the coast during the
height of the gale, will never be known.
Certain it is, from the meager number
of arrivals at this port since the storm
began, that a fleet of sailing craft
has been driven out V sea or forced to
fly before the tempest under bare
poles and to be tossed about at tho
mercy of the waves. All that is knotvn
now is that two more vessels, in addi
tion to the two which were wrecked
Wednesday, have been reported cast
up on the coast, and that more lives
have probably been crushed out during
the night
Reports from places on the Long
Island coast say that eight persons who
were at sea in three j-achts are miss
ing and are believed to be lost This
increases the Dumber of victims from
the storm to more than twenty-five.
READY TO BE HANGED.
tight Alabama Murderers Waiting for
the Noohc. with Six More in Jull.
Montgomery, Ala., April 14. The
four negroes who murdered Mr.
Grant a prominent citizen of this
county, have been found guilty. Alex,
Joe and Wilson Woodley are sen
tenced to hang and Jack Gabriel to the
penitentiary for life, Jim Calloway,
another, was sentenced to be hanged
several days ago. There are now eitfht
condemned prisoners in the jail here
to be hanged within three months.
There are six other murderers to be
tried and it is thought at least three
of them will hang.
ROBBED OF $2,500.
A Cowboy Make a Raise in a Hanking
House at Crawford, Neb.
Chadron. Neb., April 14. At 3:40
Thursday afternoon, while Albert
i'hipple, cashier of the Crawford Hank
ing company of Crawford, Neb., was
alone in the bank a stranger attired in
cowboy garb entered, ' and shoving a
six-shooter in Whipple's face demanded
money. Whipple pave up all the cash
on tho counter, amounting to about
(2.500. The robber then compelled
Whipple to enter the vault and then
locked him in, where he was found
twenty minutes laUr by the president
Hold Kobbcry of a Hank.
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 14. A tele
phone message received at police head
quarters states that during the tem
porary absence at noon .of the clerk
and cashier of the Wallace Exchange
bank, at Heaver f alls, a thief who
had gained an entrance to the cellar,
cut a hole through the vault floor and
robbed the vault of 8:1,500 in cash, mak
ing good his escape.
Farmers Alarmed by Drought.
London. April 14. The five weeks
drought in England, Germany. France,
Austria and Poland is causing much un
easiness to farmers in those countries.
A BIG PLxVNT BUKXEJ)
The
American Glucose Works
Buffalo Destroyed.
in
Tbe I-oss It Estimated at More Than
81,000,000 Several Men Are Iladly
Injured, and It I Feared Soma
Have Perished.
IN ASHES.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 14. The great
plant of the American Glucose compa
ny, which also has extensive works at
Peoria, 111., and which is controlled by
C J. Hamlin, the famous trottng horse
man, and his sons, burned Thursday
night The loss is considerably over
tl, 000, 000; insurance, (585,000.
The plant of this company was situ
ated on the Hamburg canal, Scott,
East and West Market and Perry
etreets. There were four immense
buildings of brick, ranging in height
from eight to eleven stories. The fire
started in the main building, which
was used for making the glucose. The
buildings burned were the power and
feed house, the refinery and the store
house. The Buffalo city fish market
was also burned.
The fire was discovered in the dynamo-room
of the main building shortly
after 7 o'clock, by the engineer. Ho
gave the alarm and he and his fireman
rushed out In ten minutes the whole
eleven floors were on fire and flames
were bursting through the windows
and darting lrom the roof.
There were perhaps 125 men at work
Thursday night It will not be known
until a census of employes is taken to
day whether one man or fifty
were cremated. It is known that
some of the men escaped by a
fire-escape, and some of them on
the lower stories jumped into the canal.
A great many of the men at work
on the upper floors were ignorant Poles
and Germans. They may have been
burned and they may not It is impos
sible to tell now. Tbe chances are,
however, that several men were burned
to death.
So far as known four workmen and
three firemen are injured. These are:
3ohn Young, a workman, hurt about tha
head and face; two Poles, cannot speak Eng
lish, names unknown, both severely injured,
one has both legs broken: John Stein, work
man, severely burned: Chris Lang, fireman,
leg broken by a fall: Louis H. Schrader, a tl re
man, badly burned; Joseph Webber, a fireman,
burned and injured.
The fire was one of incredible swift
ness. The building- was full of inflam
mable materials, acids and the like used
in the making of glucose and starch,
and the fire spread from top to bottom
in a few minutes. In fifteen minutes
the entire main building was a mass
of flames. In twenty minutes the
walls began to fall, and they fell at
frequent intervals until inside of forty
five minutes there was but one corner
standing. The main building was con
nected with the power and feed house
by an elevated bridge over Scott street
The flames crept across this and ig
nited the feed house.
Meanwhile the city fish market just
across the street caught fire. Five
firemen were sent inside to fight
the flames, and a number of
streams were turned on the roof.
The building was a lonr, low
brick structure, and the firemen
made a good fight to save it but a por
tion of a blazing wall fell on it and
started the roof to burning fiercely.
The firemen inside did not know of
this and no one told them. The conse
quences were that in a few minutes tha
roof fell in and buried the five firemen.
Two of them escaped with no other in
juries than a few bruises.
The feed house was completely de
stroyed, the walls all having fallen by
10 o'clock. The refinery and the store
house went next and by 1 1 o'clock there
was nothing left of the mammoth es
tablishment but a few tottering wails.
For a great many years the Ham
lins held among' themselves the secrets
of the processes and made millions.
Then they were sued by a man named
Williams, who claimed to have discov
ered the prooess, and the secrets all
came out. Since that time there have
been many glucose works started.
GOLD GOING ABROAD.
Treasury Officials, However, Are
Not
Alarmed by tlie Shipments.
Washington, April 14. The secre
tary of the treasury has received notice
tlitit about $-2,000,000 in gold coin would
tje reqaired for export next Saturday,
about half of which would be drawn
from the treasury and an equal
amount from the New York banks.
It is the opinion of the treas
ury officials that this shipment is
the beginning of the usual spring
exportation and that shipments are
likely to continue for some time. This
fact however, is not regarded as a
cause for alarm. The net gold in the
treasury at the close of business Thurs
day was f 10.,903.5:J'J. Last year at this
time the gold exportations were abnor
mally heavy, reaching $19, H:9C4 dur
ing April and f 10,914,317 in May. In
June they had dropped to 2,711,220
and in July to $174,212.
For a fiureau of Interstate Hanks.
WTAsmxGTON, April 1. Representa
tive Sherry (Conn.) has introduced in
the house a bill to establish a bureau
of interstate banks. The bill is a mod
ification, in some important respects, of
the national banking act and is de
signed to meet the demand for local
currency in the south and west by af
fording a more profitable and accessi
ble basis of circulation than Cnited
States bonds.
I.arce Carriage Factory Hurned.
Cincinnati, April 14. The Sayres
Scoville carriage factory on Colernin
avenue burned Thursday night Only
the walls are lef t standing. Stock, ma
chinery and all the contents of the
building are a total loss. The building
was of brick, four stories high and 100
feet long. The fire originated in the
paint shop from some cause unknown. J
Loss, 50,000.
Dean Hammond, of St. Louis, Dead.
St. Louis, April 1. Dean W. O.
Hammond of the St Lox'.is law school,
one of the most noted of comtnon law
exponents, is dead.
THE CAUCUS ACTS.
Ilonae Democrats Take Important Action
on the Ounruiu Question.
Washington, April 10. The strug
gle over the adoption of the new rule
to secure a voting quorum was resumed
when the house met The republicans
made a preliminary stand against
the approval of the journal. As
soon as it had been read Mr.
Uoutelle jumped to his feet and
objected, and when Mr. Dockery moved
its approval, the republicans sat silent
in their seats. Upon the announce
ment of the vote, 10o 0, Mr. Uoutelle
made the point of no quorum and
the roll was called. The republicans
refrained from voting, and the result
155 to 1, showed that the democrats
were twenty-three short of a quorum.
Mr. Dockery then moved a call of the
house, instructing his side to vote
down the motion, in the hope of C.e
Teloping a democratic quorum. Hut
again the democrats failed to get a
quorum. The motion for a call was
defeated, 140 14. The democrats were
still twent3"-five short
The prospect of a quorum was hope
less, antl, as it had been decided to call
a democratic caucus to consider the
rules, Mr. Dockery moved an adjourn
ment, and at 1 o'clock the house ad
journed. Washington. April 16. After a
heated session of two hours aud a half
the democratic caucus Friday after
noon decided by a vote of SO to 44 to
instruct the committee on rules to re
port a new rule to ascertain and record
the presence of a quorum, whether vot
ing or not Practically all the demo
cratic members ol the house attended
the caucus.
Mr. Bland (Mo. ) presented a resolu
tion directing the sergeant-at-arms to
carry out the provision of section 40,
chapter 2, of the revised statues by
which deductions from the salaries of
members should be made for every
day's absence, except on account of
sickness. This was in accordance th
the action of the judiciary committee
earlier in the day. It was unanimous
ly adopted.
Mr. Springer (I1L ) brought forward
the rule which he introduced some
time ago, framed on the lines of the
old rule drawn some twelve years ago
by J. Randolph Tucker, of Virjriuia,
which provided that members who de
clined to vote when their names were
called should be brought to the bar of
the house, and after being given an op
portunit3' to vote upon the pending
proposition, in case of reiu?al should
be recorded as "present but not vot
ing." Mr. Pendleton (W. Va.) offered a res
olution directing the committee on
rules to formulate and present a rule
to ascertain and record the presence of
a quorum, whether voting or not. Mr.
Outhwaite (O. ) suggested a different
method of accomplishing the same pur
pose. Speaker Crisp took the floor and
made a vigorous speech, pointing out
the deplorable position in which the
house found itself on account cf con
tinued and persistent absenteeism.
Quite a number of speeches were
made in opposition to any and all rule.-;
looking to the counting of members
who refused to vote. Messrs. Kilgore
(Tex.), ISryau (Neb.). MeMillin (Tenn.).
Wheeler (Ala.) and Williams (111.) led
the opposition.
Mr. Cummings (N. Y. ) made a speech
against the proposition to count a
quorum, at the conclusion of which he
sent up to the desk an amendment to
the title of any new rule which should
be reported for this purpose so as to
make it read: A rule to nominate
Thomas Rrackett Reed for president of
the United States."
Mr. DeArmond (Mo.) offered a reso
lution expressing it us the sense of the
caucus that the committee on rules
should prepare a new rule for ascer
taining the presence of a quorum and
also some method for compelling the
attendance of absent members. Mr.
McCreary (Ivy. ) moved to refer all the
resolutions to the committee on rules.
The motion was lost o'J to 05. Mr.
DeArmond's resolution was adopted by
a two-thirds majority SO to 44. This
completed the work of the caucus.
TO THE Oi-D RATE.
Judze DonUy Krstorpt Former Wages
of
I n Ion Pacific Men.
Ojiaiia, Neb., April 10. Ju'.ljre Dun
dv has ordered the wages of Union Pa
cific employes restored to the old rate.
This applies to all the employes
of the Union Pacific whose salaries
were cut last September. The order
directs the receiver to restore the
old wage schedule so far as it
relates to the men represented
by the petitioners and others similarly
situated; and in cases where, the men
receive less than $;; per month, the in
creased pay shall commence on the first
day of March last, and in all cases
where the men receive SiiO per month
or over the increased pa- shall com
mence on the first of the present
month.
The opinion rendered in connection
with the order is a very extensive one,
covering the entire history of the wage
troubles on the Union Pacific road and
the hearing before Judge CaldwelL
Judge Dundy declares that Judge Cald
well, in his famous order, misstated
facts, and did so maliciously.
Sixteen Miner Killed.
Uklgradb, April 16. An explosion
caused by fire-damp occurred in a coal
mine at Czuprija Thursday. It is known
that sixteen were killed, and it is prob
able that the removal of the debris
piled up by the explosion will disclose
the bodies of others.
Killed K:cl OtUr.
Dimming, N. M., April 10. Jack Red
ding and David Harper, owners of the
celebrated Don Cabazos mine in old
Mexico, became involved in a quarrel
here Thursday and shot and killed each
other. These make five deaths of own
ers of this property which seems to
carry with it a strange fatality. Only
one owner survives, ail five having met
violent deaths.
Kicked to Death by a Horse.
Howard City, Mich., April 10.
George Uelyer, aged 19 years, li'.-ing in
Evergreen township, was kicked to
death V a horse.
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