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The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Kegalar Session.
The senate passed a bill on the th dividing
the salaries of railway postal c lerks into seven
grades varying from SK) to 81.803 per year.
Several schedules in the tariff bill were dis
posed of In the house the sessioa was brief,
and practically no business was transacted. A
bill was Introduced to limit the rates of sleep
ing cars to one-half of one cent a mile for lower
berths and one-third of one cent a mile for up
per berths.
Os the 11th the senate entered on the elev
enth week of the tariff debate and nineteen
pages of the measure were disposed of In
the house no business was transacted because
of the lack of a quorum.
A bilx. was Introduced by Senator Squire, of
"Washington. In the seuato on the 12th
for the free coinage of silver. The
wool feature of the tariff bill was
discussed In the house a bill was passed
Betting aside $100,000 from the fund belonging
to the estates of the deceased colored soldiers
Of the war for the purpose of erecting In the
District of Columbia a national home for aged
and Infirm colored people. The Indian appro
priation bill was further considered, and a bill
was favorably reported to restore to the pen
sion rolls the widows of Boldiers who had been
dropped because of remarriage, and whose sec
ond husbands have died.
On the 13th the wool section of the tariff bill
was discussed In the senate. Senator Sherman
'(O.) making a vigorous speech, against free
wool .... In the house a bill to disapprove of the
treaty heretofore made with the Vte Indians
for their removal to the territory of Utah waa
passed. The Indian appropriation bill was
further considered.
Ik the senate, on the 14th, bills were passed
to authorize the appointment of women as
public school trustees in the District of Co
lumbia, and for the development and encour
agement of silk culture In the United States.
The tariH bill was further discussed In the
bouse the time was occupied la considering
the Indian appropriation bill.
DOMESTIC
Forest fires in Michigan swept a dis
trict 1 mile wide and 5 miles long1 and
wiped out the town of Sagoda.
Ix a battle with striking1 miners and
officials at Lemont, Fa., three of the
strikers were killed and another fatal
ly injured.
Nineteen common wealers from the
state of Washington were sentenced
to ninety days in jail at Helena, Mont.,
for stealing a railway train.
Focr jocke3-s were hurt and two
horses killed in the handicap steeple
chase, the first of the season at Haw
thorne, near Chicago.
Ix Chattanooga, Tenn., the grain
warehouse of J. T. Thomas, Son & Co.,
covering nearly an acre of ground, was
burned.
Xear Talequah, I. T., an Indian des
perado killed a man. woman and boy
and was later shot by the son of his
victims.
Three young persons were drowned
by the overturning of a boat in the
lake at Vermilion, O.
IIexrt Hat and Charles Heusman,
members of the senior class at Beloit
college, were drowned while bathing
in Green lake near Elkhorn, Wis.
Sevex persons were overcome by
heat at Warsaw, Ind., and three of
them would probably die.
Mrs. August 2s old, of St. Louis,
whose husband essayed to beat her,
killed him with a baseball bat.
Four members of a boating party
were drowned by the capsizing of their
boat on a lake near Brewster, N. Y.
Coxet, Browne and Jones were re
leased from jail in Washington and
departed for the commonweal camp at
Bladensburg.
Mrs. Jaxe Shattuck, of San Fran
cisco, goes to prison for life for killing
her daughter's lover.
Strikers at Salineville, O., blew up
a railroad bridge. They were charged
by troops, who dispersed thera with
bayonets.
Flames in the lumber-yard district
of Dubuque, la., destroyed property
worth $500,000.
Sixteen horses were burned to death
in a fire in the rear of Uostetter &
Co.'s coal yard in Chicago.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 11th was: Wheat,
69,211,000 bushels; corn, 7,514,000 bush
els; oats, 2,764,000 bushels; rye, 205,
000 bushels; barley, 87,000 bushels.
After twenty-one years' close con
finement Arthur Winner and A. J. Mc
Nutt were released from the peniten
tiary at Leavenworth, Kan.
Strikers destroyed three more rail
road bridges in the Alabama mining
district.
Officers were elected by the su
preme council of the Royal Ar&anum
in session at Detroit, C. W. Hazzard,
' of Monongahela, Pa., being chosen
regent.
Thf. supreme lodge of the Ancient
Order of Dnited Workmen began its
annual session in San Francisco.
A St. Berxard dog suffering from
hydrophobia bit five men and two
Women in Dallas, Tex., three of them
being fatally injured.
Five young women got into a fight
at Breeden, W. Va., with knives and
-pistols and Mrs. Lizzie Maynard was
killed and Jennie Morris mortally
wounded.
The national section of the Cadets of
Temperance held their annual conven
tion at Hoboken, X. J., delegates from
all parts of the United States being
present.
Chief Justick Reaslet decided that
the legislature of New Jersey could
not confer upon women the right to
vote for any public officers.
D. L. Ii ARK.XES8, dairy and food com
missioner of Wisconsin, died at his
home in Berlin of blood-poisoning.
The big mining strike has been set
tled, an agreement as to wages, to last
for a year, being unanimously adopted
by the conference at Columbus, O.
Bill Daltox's brother, Littleton, has
identified the remains of the bandit at
Ardmore, I. T., as those of the noto
rious and much killed Bill.
- A tomb lined with cement was un
covered in a mound at Egan, S. D., and
in the compartment were twenty-two
male skeletons averaging eight feet in
height. A rude altar nd many bronEe
titensils were also exposed.
Jakes Perry, a Virginia negro who
introduced smallpox into Knoxville,
Tenn., was killed by unknown persons.
Congressman Breckinridge is no
longer on the honorary roll of the
Union League club of Chicago.
The Isaac D. Smead foundry company
at Toledo. O., failed for S'250,000.
Isaac Hanks, of Rutland, Vt., was
fined 81,000 for causing the death of
his wife by starvation.
Attorney General Moloney rules
that women in Illinois may not vote
for trustees of the state university.
Eleven persons were injured in a
collision between two trains near Still
water, R. I., and the property damage-
was heavy.
Figures submitted to congress by
the director of the mint show an in
crease in the output of gold and silver,
and also show that the United States
still hold the first place in the list of
the gold-producing countries of the
world.
Lack of rain was injuring the crop
prospects in nearly all of the western
states.
Mrs. Henry L. Sweet and her 3-year-old
son were drowned at Duluth, Minn.
Mixers in Ohio were greatly dissatis
fied with the strike settlement and re
fused to accept it. In Illinois and In
diana the miners were preparing tore
turn to work.
An hour after having read to her
mother an account of a suicide by
hanging, Laura Corbett, of Baltimore,
killed herself by hanging.
An alliance between the Knights of
Labor and the American Bailway
union was formed In Chicago for of
fensive and defensive warfare.
At the closing session of the Na
tional Millers' association in Chicago
a resolution indorsing reciprocity was
adopted.
Almost the entire village of Grants,
Ore., was swept away by a flood.
Lars Christexsen, of Alma, Neb.,
fatally shot his wife and blew his own
brains out when the woman threat
ened to leave him because of his abuse.
The union stock yards, located at
Bennings, D. C, a short distance from
Washington, were burned. Damage,
S125.000.
Two brothers named Raymond from
Albany, N. Y., were murdered by cattle
thieves near Arbecka, O. T.
A negro that assaulted Miss Her
ring, a white woman, near Blackburn,
Ua., was captured by a mob and
skinned alive.
The miners in Indiana and northern
Illinois have rejected the compromise
6cale effected at Columbus, O.
The boiler of a sawmill near Lin
neus. Mo., exploded and two men were
instantly killled and two others were
fatally injured.
A hail and wind storm devastated
Sibley and Nicollet counties in Minne
sota. Strikers at Staunton, 111., stopped
freight trains and broke the seals of
all the cars to see if coal was being
carried.
Misers in the southern part of Law
rence county, Pa., were reduced to the
verge of starvation by the strike.
At Crawfordsville, Ind., a little girl
swallowed a screw and died. Hasten
ing to her assistance, a man fell from
a pump tower and was fatally injured.
E. V. Miner, of Indianapolis, broke
the world's 10-mile bicycle record,
making the distance at Louisville in 20
minutes and 54 seconds.
Fifty Coxeyites seized a fast freight
train at Fairfield. I1L
The National Association of Millers
of the United States in annual conven
tion in Chicago elected A. C. Lorning,
of Minnesota, as president.
American flag day was celebrated on
the 14th by the Sons of the American
Revolution of several states. The day
commemorated the 117th anniversary
of the adoption of the stars and stripes
as the national ensign.
Vernon Bros., New York paper
dealers, lost stock valued at S200.000
by fire.
In the state senate investigation it
was shown that New York police gave
protection to green goods swindlers,
and that millions of dollars were re
ceived by them for "protecting"
saloonkeepers, thieves and other dis
reputables. J. II. Day, suspected of incendiar
ism, was hanged by a mob at Monroe,
La.
United States marshals arrested
twenty-two Coxeyites for seizing a
train at Fairfield, I1L
The United States troops stationed
at Hartshorne and Alderson, I. T., be
gan the removal of intruders from the
Choctaw nation.
Ten carloads of Ohio militia were
sent to Sherrodsville, where striking
miners burned the depot and some
cars.
Dr. George M. Wagner and Civil
Engineer S. R. Lewis, attaches of the
government engineering corps, were
drowned while bathing in the Missis
sippi near FestuB, Mo.
Johasn Kacffmann. of Cramp Hill
N. J., murdered his wife and three
children and then killed himself. Pov
erty was the cause.
A. C. Tbaatman, the largest whole
sale grocer in northern Indiana, failed
at Fort Wayne for 8100,000.
James B. Carpenter was hanged at
Middletown, Pa., for the murder of his
father on December 11, 1603.
George Brock, aged 45, murdered his
wife and little boy and then killed
himself near Borden, Ind. The man
had become desperate from poverty.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Mas. Lois Tbitton, who was the last
slave sold at auction in New Haven,
Conn, (in 1825) is dead at the age of 05.
The Kansas prohibitionists met in
state convention at Emporia and nomi
nated E. O. Pickering for governor.
Congressional nominations were re
ported as follows: Illinois, Ninth dis
trict, R. R. Hitt (rep.) renominated.
Indiana, First district, J. II. Heming
way (rep.); Fifth, George W. Cooper
(dem.) renominated. Ohio, Eighth di
trict, L- M. Strong (rep.). Kentucky,
Ninth district, L. G. Pugh. (rep.).
The Rhode Island legislature unan
imously elected ex-Gov. George P. Wet
more to the United States senate to
I serve six years from March 4 next.
John T. Andrews died at Dundee, N.
Y., aged 93 years. He represented the
Steuben district in congress from 1833
to 1S37 and was believed to have been
the oldest ex-member of congress in
the state.
Rev. E. G. Robinson, formerly presi
dent of Brown universitj-, now pro
fessor of philosophy in the University
of Chicago, died in Boston.
The populists of Kansas in state con
vention at Topeka renominated L. D.
Lewelling for governor.
Lorenzo Danford was nominated
for congress by the republicans of the
Sixteenth district of Ohio.
Congressional nominations were
made as follows: Wisconsin, First dis
trict, Rev. A. S. Kay (pr.); Second,
John J. Sutton (pro.); Third, J. C.
Martin (pro.); Tenth, Rev. John Holt
(pro.). Indiana, Second district. J. L.
Bretz (dem.); Fifth, E. T. Baker (dem.).
Ohio, Seventh district, G. W. Wilson
(rep.) renominated; Eighteenth, R. W.
Taylor (rep.) renominated. Illinois,
Seventeenth district. J. A. Connolly
(rep.). Missouri, Second district, U.
S. Hall (dem.) renominated. New
Hampshire, First district, J. II. Whit
tier (pop.); Second, E. M. Blodgett
(pop.).
The Wisconsin prohibitionists in
convention at Milwaukee nominated
a full state ticket with J. G. Cleghorn,
of Clinton, for governor. The platform
favors prohibition, reform in naturali
zation laws, money issued direct to
the people, just pensions and the with
holding of state aid from sectarian
schools.
The populists of South Dakota in
convention at Mitchell nominated
Isaac Howe, of Spink, for governor.
Republicans and populists combined
in Tennessee on candidates for the
supreme bench.
FOREIGN.
Muley Hassan, sultan of Morocco,
died suddenly at Tadla and it was be
lieved he was poisoned. His son had
succeeded him.
S. F. Frank, a Pole, who had been
a resident of Buffalo, N. Y.t for
twenty-five years, was seized when on
a visit to his native country and sent
to Siberia.
Sir Matthew Baillie Debie. chief
justice of British Columbia, died at his
home in Victoria.
An earthquake at Grenada and Al
mere, in Spain, destroyed a number of
buildings and killed several people.
Canada has apologized for drunken
soldiers tearing down the stars and
stripes at St. Thomas and will punish
them.
The steamship Faraday left Wool
wich with 1.000 miles of the deep sea
cable which is to connect the buoyed
end of the new commercial cable be
tween Ireland and Nova Scotia.
A fire at Yamagata, Japan, de
stroyed 1.200 houses, and thirteen peo
ple lost their lives during the con
flagration, t
Seoul, the capital of Corea, was cap
tured by the rebels and the king was
a refugee.
Property valued at more than 81,
000,000 was destroyed by fire in Pan
ama. The cholera was said to be spread
ing in Russia, China and Turkey.
By the capsizing of a boat off the
coast of Ireland fifty harvesters, on
their way to Scotland, were drowned.
John Duke Coleridge, lord chief
justice of England, died in London,
aged 63 years.
Patrick Drohan, Rory McDonald
and James Sullivan were killed and
three men injured by an accidental
explosion of dynamite near Coteau da
Lac, Quebec.
LATER.
Ix the United States senate on the
15th an amendment to the tariff bill to
leave the duty on wool the same as in
the McKinley bill was defeated by a
vote of 29 to 37. The bill providing
for the deficiency in the appropria
tions for the government printing office
was passed, and the post office appro
priation bill (SS7.23fl,59'J) was reported.
In the house the Indian appropriation
bill was again considered. At the
evening session private pension bills
were discussed.
Ahdul Aziz has been officially pro
claimed sultan of Morocco. European
powers may not recognize him.
Ebastus Wiman was found guilty of
forgery in New York and remanded
for sentence. Clemency was recom
mended hy the jury.
At a, wedding feast at Suffernville,
111., John Macori shot and killed two
men, the result of an old feud.
There were 232 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 15th, against 216 the week
previous and 313 in the corresponding
time in 1S03.
An incendiary at Monroe, La., taken
from jail for execution by a mob, was
permitted to hang himself.
The populists in state convention at
Jamestown, N. D., nominated a full
ticket with the name of Edward Wal
lace for governor at the head. Walter
Muir was nominated for congressman
at large.
Mrs. Irene McKek died at Geneva,
Ind., aged 104 years. She was born in
New York in 1790.
A detailed report of damage by the
recent flood in the northwest places
the total loss at over 82,000,000, the
loss to the Union Pacific railway alone
in Oregon being 81,500,000.
In two days the bodies of eleven per
sons were found floating in the Mis
sissippi river between St. Louis and
Cairo, I1L
Woman suffragists at Kingman, Kan.,
arrayed Editor Brown, who opposed
thera, in a gown and paraded him
through the streets before a brass
band.
The backbone of the great miners
strike was considered broken, many
strikers having accepted the compro
mise scale.
Explosions in the Franziska mines
at Korwin, Russia, caused the death of
ISO miners.
The populists made the following
congressional nominations: Illinois,
Fifteenth district, J. M. Grier. Ken
tucky, Ninth district, John G. Blair
Maine, Fourth district, C D. Chapman.
C0MPK03IISE.
Proposed Settlement of the Trou
bles of the Strikers.
Gov. Altgeld's New Order Substance of
tbe Agreement Beached at Columbus,
O. How the Miner Have Re
ceived the News.
OPERATORS WILL HAVE TO PAY.
Springfield, 111., June 13. The gov
ernor on Monday about 4 o'clock issued
an order withdrawing the First regi
ment from Pana. This action was
taken on recommendation of the
sheriff, who, with Hugh Bayle, as
sistant adjutant general, had consult
ed both with the strikers and the local
miners and concluded there was no
danger. The adjutant general has
shipped fifty rifles to Peoria on requi
sition of the sheriff.
Gov. Altgeld has issued general or
der No. 9, which somewhat modifies
general order No. 7, which has caused
considerable criticism. The new or
der reads:
"It Is not the business of soldiers to act as
custodians or guards of private property. The
taw authorizes them simply to assist tbe civil
authorities In preserving the peace, quelling
riots and executing the law. Whenever troops
have been or may hereafter be ordered out and
an owner of the property feels It necessary to
have it guarded, he must do so at his own ex
pense, and In such case troops should be sta
tioned near enough to promptly quell any dis
turbance If one should occur "
The last clause is the added one. '
The Columbus Compromise.
Columbus, O., June 14. Members of
the national executive board met Tues
day and prepared a circular letter to
be sent to the miners in Ohio, western
Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois.
The letter is quite voluminous,
and enters into the history of the
compromise and the reasons there
for. The board calls attention first
to the fact that at the Cleveland con
vention the miners decided to hold no
more conventions, but to leave the
future policy of the strike and the mat
ter of the compromise wholly in the
hands of the board and the district
president. An account of the meeting
of the executive board and district
presidents in this city last week, at
which time it was agreed to effect a
settlement on the basis of a compro
mise, is given.
The board then recites the advan
tages which the miners have gained
through the agreement adopted by the
joint conference. In the first place,
they have succeeded in doing away
with the ironclad agreements which
have previously existed in the Illinois
and Pittsburgh districts, and which
have been a great detriment to the
interests of the miners and the organ
ization in those fields. They have
also remedied a crying evil in cer
tain sections in Ohio growing out of
the truck-store system. At these places
6crip has been the only circulating me
dium among the miners and they have
thus been prevented from paying dues
and becoming members of any organi
zation. Under the agreement it is pro
vided that at such places the balances
due to miners at the end of every two
Weeks shall be paid in cash instead of
scrip.
The board also calls attention to the
fact that the miners have violated the
injunction of the national officers not
to destroy or molest property, but on
the contrary have resorted to acts of
lawlessness which have resulted in
calling out the national guard in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois. The seriousness
of the situation alone, they say, was
justification for a settlement on any
reasonable basis of advantage to the
miners.
Coal Diggers Displeased.
Columbus, O., June 15. The mining
rate agreed upon by the joint confer
ence of operators and miners in this
city last Monday will not be indorsed
by the strikers in the Hocking valley.
The feeling against its acceptance has
been intensified by President A. A.
Adams, of the Ohio district, who re
fused to sign the scale, addressing the
malcontents at various points in
the valley and urging them to organize
against the settlement.
President McBride and the other
officials expect a radical change in
sentiment as soon as the circulars ex
plaining why they consented to a re
duction in the scale for mining are re
ceived and understood by the rank and
file of the miners. President McBride
reiterates the statement that the
miners will accept the situation and
return to work within a reasonable
time.
Spring Valley Men Rebel.
8prin'Q Valley, 111., June 15. The
miners of northern Illinois will hold
together as Aim as bands of steel. All
thoughts of accepting the Columbus
compromse are now dispelled. At a
delegate meeting here Wednesday aft
ernoon, at which at least 10,000 miners
were represented, it was unan
imously voted not to dig a ton
of coal until the operators restore last
year's prices. They adopted resolu
tions calling on the executive board of
the miners union to resign and de
manded an election for officers at an
early day.
McBride Hanged lo Effigy.
Pittsburgh, Pa., June 15. President
McBride was hanged in effigy at a
mass meeting of strikers at Hays
Crossing, near McDonald, on the Pan
Handle railroad. Three thousand men
attended a meeting at McDonald and
denounced their officers for compromis
ing at 69 cents.
Action on the Compromise.
Dispatches report action on the pro
posed new scales as follows:
Accepted at upper Des Moines (la.) district
by miners and operators; at Monown. Pa., by
operators: Osltaloosa, la., by miners and oper
ators: lieattyville, Ky., by miners and oper-
tors; Jackson county, O., by miners and op
erators. Kejected at Fuirbury. 111., by miners; south
ern Iowa by miners and operators: at La
Salle, 111., by miners; at Washington. Ind.. by
miners; at Terre Haute, Ind., by the miners;
at Spring Valley. 111., by the miners.
Denver, Col.. June 14. The coal
miners' strike in this state does not tp
pear to be nearing a settlement. Over
800 men employed in the Crested Butte
mines decided to strike until the
schedule of three years ago is restored.
This will compel the coke ovens at
Cardiff to close down.
Strikers Manifest Their Disapproval.
Pittsburgh, Pa., June 15. A half
dozen men began work Wednesday
morning clearing out the mines of the
Imperial Coal company preparatory to
start next M onday. They were attacked
by a mob of 500 strikers, who drove
them from the minesand fired at the en
gineer. They then went to the company
store and drove out the clerks and
helped themselves to eatables. After
leaving notice that they would kill
anybody who started to work at the
69-cent rate they marched to Moon
Run. The company has appealed to
the sheriff for protection.
Ohio Bridges Burned.
Mabsillon, O., June 15. Two bridges
on the Wheeling & Lake Erie railway,
not 25 miles away, were destroyed by
miners Wednesday afternoon. Tele
graph wires were cut, and an impor
tant railway system paralyzed. The
action was brought on by the move
ment of coal by that company.
AMERICAN RAILWAY UNION.
Its First Annual Convention
Assembles in
Chicago.
Chicago, June 14. The first quad
"ennial convention of the American
Railway union assembled at Fisher's
hall, 82 East Lake street, at 10 a. m.
Tuesday, and, a few minutes later, ad
journed and repaired to larger quar
ters, Ulrich's hall at North Clark and
Kinzie street. It was in Fisher's hall
that the organization was first formed,
and the leaders felt at home when they
came within its doors. Less than a year
ago the first union was organized with
a mere handful of men. To-day there
are 422 flourishing, prosperous unions
with a total membership of 124,379 in
all the states and territories of the
country.
The object of the convention is to
organize all railroad organizations un
der one management, which shall
govern the entire working force of
tbe roads- Switchmen, brakemen, fire
men, engineers and conductors are all
included.
Chicago, June 15. The American
Railway union on Wednesday decided
to affiliate with the Knights of Labor
in the movement to improve the con- i
dition of the laboring men ef the coun
try, and resolutions favoring an al
liance as far as possible between the
Knights of Labor and the American
Railway union were adopted.
NAMED A TICKET.
Action Taken by the Wisconsin Prohibi
tion Convention.
Milwaukee, Wis., June ltt. The state
prohibition convention nominated the
following 6tate ticket:
Governor, J. (3. Cleghorn, Clinton; Lieuten
ant governor. Ole B. Olson. Eau Claire; secre
tary of state. T. J. Vanmeter, Lafayette; state
treasurer, William Johnston, New Richmond;
attorney general, E. W. Chafln, Waukesha;
state superintendent, F. L. Eaton. Milwaukee;
Insurance commissioner, Thomas Edwards,
Ashland: railway commissioner, John W.
Evans. Waupaca.
The platform favors prohibition, re
form in naturalization laws, money is
sued direct to the people, just pensions
and the withholding state aid from
sectarian schools.
Nominations for congressmen were
made in several districts as follows:
First district, Rev. A. S. Kay, Brod
head; Second district, J. J. Sutton, Co
lumbus; Third district, J. C. Martin,
Mineral Point; Tenth district, Rev.
John Holt. The balance of the con
gressional nominations will be made
by district conventions. The platform
calls for woman suffrage, postal sav
ings banks, that all money shall be is
sued by the government, and that im
migration be restricted.
A STAGE HELD UP.
The Deadly Work of One Lone Highway,
man in the West.
Wagoner, I. T., June 12. Saturday
afternoon a lone highwayman, Levi
Sanders, a desperate Cherokee char
acter, held up a stage on the road be
tween Fort Gibson and Talequah,
where the big Cherokee payment was
in progress. He made the passengers
get out and secured 70 and some jew
elry. One man was shot throtigh the
lungs and was left in a precarious con
dition. The robber then left, going
toward Talequah. On the way he
shot and killed an Indian boy who
was herding cattle, and took his horse
and again took to the road, where the
robber came upon two wagons. He
shot into one of the wagons and killed
a woman. The men began shooting at
Sanders, who was finally shot literally
to pieces.
A MONARCH DEAD.
Morocco Rnler. Saltan Muley Hassan
Foully Murdered.
Taxgier, June 13. It is now known
that Sultan Muley Hassan died sud
denly June 7 at Tadla, between Mo
rocco and Casa Blanca, Advices re
garding the death of the sultan 6ay
that he suffered from fever for four
days previous to his death and that he
died while giving orders. Some time
before his death the sultan began
vomiting and continued to suffer in
this manner until he expired. It is
added that symptoms of his case point
to poisoning.
Corner Stone Laid.
New York, June 16. The New York
Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution laid the base stone of a
monument at Dobbs' ferry, designed to
mark the spot where Washington had
his headquarters in 1783. The monu
ment will stand in front of the old Liv
ingstone house in which the Yorktown
campaign was planned, and in which
the American and British commanders
arranged for the final evacuation of
American soil by the British and op
posite which the British sloop .of war
fired the first salute ever given by
Britain to America. Vice President
Stev.ro son made the principal address.
Panama's Big Fire. i
Colon, June 10. Panama was on
Wednesday visited with a large con
flagration, 150 dwellings having been
reduced to ashes. First stories circu
lated were greatly exaggerated.
WILL HELP BUSINESS.
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The Ending of the C oal Strike Will Uav
That Effect.
New York. June 16. R. G. Dun
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Co.'s weekly review of trade, says: j
The strike of bituminous coal miners will
end Monday wherever the authority and ad-'
vice of their general organization can end It,!
and there is little room to doubt that the coal'
famine will then begin to abate. Some time,
must elapse before supplies of fuel will ena-
ble all works to resume that have no other rea
son for suspending production. 1
"At New York boot and shoe shops have
stopped, but shipments from the east are 10 per
cent, larger for June thus far than last year.'
The demand is mainly confined to low-priced
goods, and has recently been more narrow Tor
women's shoes.
"The woolen mills are closing rapidly. It Is
asserted that scarcely any have orders to
occupy them beyond July 1 In men's
wear, but in the demand for dress goods
a somewhat better tone Is perceived.1
The New York and Philadelphia markets
are dull, and at Boston a slight decline
is seen in prices, with a large sale of ter-:
ritory wool at 30 cents, scoured. West
ern holders appear to be expecting higher
prices than can at present be realized In east-
era markets. Wheat is only a fraction higher,
the exports and ordinary consumption for the
year having already exceeded the government
estimate of last year's crop by 124,000,000
bushels.
"While business is narrow it is comparative
ly free from losses by failure, for the liabilities
reported in failures for the first week of June
were only $2,507 .228, or which $476,118 were ot
manufacturing and $1.H72.261 of trading con
cerns. The aggregate liabilities thus far re
ported In failures in May were but $13,514,760,
of which $5,146,025 were of manufacturing and
$6,912,302 of trading concerns. The number
of failures this week has been 232 in the
United States, against 813 last year, and 40 In
Canada, against 34 last year."
Bradstreet's says:
' "Of more Important eastern cities the only
one noting an improvement Is Pittsburgh,
where sales have been stimulated by warmer
weather. At Philadelphia the textile indus
tries report a sluggish demand. In the
south there are live cities at which
merchants are said to have en
Joyed some improvement in busi
ness. Jacksonville declares collections are
better, and at New Orleans and Memphis the
demand for staple goods is increased In grocer
ies and dry goods. Nashville regards the out
look for the fall improved, but admits rain is
needed. At the manufacturing centers, At
lanta and Augusta, mills are reported fairly
active. Needed rains in southern Texas are
said to have stimulated demand from jobbers
at many points.
"West and northwest few, if any, evidences
of improvement in business are to be perceived,
except those telegraphed from Omaha, Chi
cago and Detroit. Activity at the Nebraska
metropolis is showing itself in increased de
mand for money. Recent advices are that
wheat and oats crops in that state will be
small, but that of corn heavy.
"There is no improvement from the depres
sion and dullness characterizing general trade
at Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and St.
Paul. At Portland. Ore., floods are subsiding
and goods are being moved. In the valleys
small fruit crops will be lost, owing to lack of
transportation. Trade at San Francisco is fair
only, the wheat export business being at a
standstill.
"Gross earnings of 127 railroads for May
reflect heavy losses to the transporta
tion interests because of the coal strike and
the general business depression. Earnings of
t9,332 miles of railroad In May aggregated
$36,154,548, a decrease of 17.7 per cent,
from the May total last year, the heaviest
decrease from last year shown in any
month so far this year. For five months
126 roads earned $179,KU1.07. a decrease of 14.2
per cent, from the corresponding total a year
ago. The heaviest decreases are among east
ern and central western companies, due to
heavy losses of coal traffic The combined earn
ings of ten prominent coal-carrying companies
show a decrease from May last of 41 per cent.
WIMAN CONVICTED.
The Jury Finds Him Oollty of Forgery
Sentence Is Deferred.
New York, June 16. Erastus Wiman
has been found guilty of forgery in the
second degree. The maximum penalty
for the offense is ten years in state
prison. Under the recent laws passed
by the legislature the minimum pen
alty has been abolished and Mr. Wiman
ma be sentenced to a term of impris
onment from one day to ten years.
What the verdict would be was al
most a foregone conclusion from the
character of the evidence and the
charge of Judge Ingraham. and es
pecially that part of his remarks bear
ing upon the lengths to which the
greed of money carried men, bringing
them through disastrous speculation
to the point where they are tempted to
use the names of others to obtain
money.
It was evident the moment the fore
man, George Murray, of - the Hotel
Sherwood, stood up that Erastus Wi
man's doom was sealed. The face of
the prisoner's old-time friend was
blanched, and as he attempted to speak
the words that should announce the
finding of himself and associates his
voice grew husky, his lips quivered,
tears welled into his eyes and he was
forced to defer what he had to say
for some time, until he could thorough
ly command himself. Then Mr. Murray
announced that the jury had found a
verdict of guilty, but recommended
the prisoner to the mercy of the court.
The customary formalities were then
gone through with, such as polling the
jury and the request to suspend sen
tence. The latter was granted, Mr.
Wiman's lawj-ers having until June 20
to argue motions.
Meanwhile Mr. Wiman had been sit
sing as one suddenly overwhelmed and
utterly broken by the knowledge of a
great calamity. When the force of the
blow had somewhatspent Mr. Wiman's
sons and friends gathered close about
him and gave him their sympathy,
counsel and suggestions.
Deputy Sheriff Brown, who had
lingered near from the moment the
jury retired for deliberation, received
a nod from Wiman. and the two left
the courthouse for the tombs together,
and there Erastus Wiman, reputed a
millionaire a year ago, slept in a fel
on's cell Friday night.
It is said seven ballots were taken by
the jury and on the first ballot the re
sult was: For conviction, 7; not guilty,
8; doubtful.2.
" Floaters" in the Mississippi-
St. Louis, June 15. A great num
ber of floaters are being found along
the river south of St. Louis. In the
last two days eleven have been report
ed found at different points between
this city and Cairo. One body was
picked up at Windsor, two at Sulphur
Springs, one at Bushburg, four at
TwinHollows, one at llorine and two
at Rush Tower. Some of these are
supposed to be the Coxeyites drowned
by the upsetting of a big raft ten
miles below here during the night
succeeding Gen. Kelley's departure
from St. Louis. :
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