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Important Intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Kezular Session.
the COth ult. the senate was not In ses
sion In the house the calendar was cleared
ct all pension and desertion cases which had
teen agreed to in committee.
Is the senate numerous amendments to the
tariff soaedulo were aered to on the 2d, one
being to make the repeal of the sufrar bounty
take immediate effect. A resolution was intro
duced for the appointment of a joint committee
of the house and senate to inquire into the
cause of the existing railway strike, but no
action was taken In the house a resolution
was passed directing the commissioner of labor
to investigate the question of the work and
wages of women and children. Adjourned un
til the 5th.
A iter debate for three months and one day
the tariff bill, amended to take effect August 1.
i;-y. passed the senate on the 3d by a vote of
"4 to a strict party vote, except Mr. Hill,
who voted with the republicans against the
measure. The populists divided their strength.
Kyle and Allen voting in favor of the bill and
l'eller and Stewart against it. The action of
the lorumittee of the whole In exempting the
salaries of United States julges and the presi
de nt of the United States from the operation
of the Income tax was reversed. Adjourned
to the !th The housewas not in session.
The senate was not in session on the 5th
In the house the tariff bill as passed by the
senate was reported. A bill to subject to state
taxation national bank notes and United
States treasury notes was discussed, but no
action was taken.
DOMESTIC
William Wilson, aged 23, and How
ard Sullivan, aged 16. were killed by
the accidental discharge of their guns'
while hunting near Alliance, O.
Five persons were killed by the ex
cessive heat at New Orleans on the 1st,
it being the hottest day ever known
there.
The Ocean Grove (N. J.) camp meeting-
was opened with the largest at
tendance in its twenty-five years' his
tory. The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the national league for the week
ended on the SOth ult. were: Haiti
more, .712; Uoston, .COT; Brooklyn,
.G-3; Pittsburgh, .614; Philadelphia,
.509; New York, .564; Cleveland, .549;
Cincinnati, .434; St. Louis, .431; Chi
cago, .327; Washington, 281; Louis
ville. .255.
Puisixg the six months of the present
year only 495 miles of new railroad
were built in this country. That is
less than for any previous half year
for many 3-cars.
Duitixo the fiscal year ended June
SO bounties were paid on sugar as fol
lows: Cane, Sll,216,304; beet, So5S,733;
sorghum, 310,926; maple, 5113,122; total,
S12.10S.0S5.
Jones &. Lacghlix's iron works at
Pittsburgh closed down, throwing1
4,000 men out of work.
IIakby Klixg, who claims the title
of the world's champion long-distance
walker, walked from New Orleans to
St. Louis, 723 miles, in seventeen days
anil five hours.
Frank Poxoxcy, aped 5 years, and
Rosa Frana, 10 years, were drowned in
Cedar lake at Cedar Rapids, la.
The coal trade and shipping1 inter
ests of Paltimord, Md., lost over $2,000,
000 by the coal miners' strikes in the
Cumberland region.
The town of Mogollon, Col., was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
The coinage of the United States
mint in Philadelphia for the fiscal year
ended June 30 shows a total of 378,
554.234.06. Michael and James Steine (brothers)
and Martin Terian were drowned
while bathing- in Lake Calumet at Chi
cago. Pkof. Moore, of Chicago, says the
month of June was 120 degrees hotter
than its normal temperature for twenty
years.
AccoO'TS with world's fair conces
sionaires have been finally adjusted.
The receipts from all sources show a
grand tota l of 33,987,602.11.
While insane as the result of a
quarrel with her husband Mrs. Merrill
ISaker, of Montgomery, Vt., hanged
her four children to bedposts.
The exports of manufactures from
the United States during May reached
515,199,402.
Eastern Arkansas and western Ten
nessee were swept by a windstorm of
unusual severity.
The railroad strike was cauisng
scarcity of food at many points. Cleve
land was threatened with a fresh meat
famine because of the stoppage of sup
plies from Chicago.
August 10 lias been designated as
Itattle Flag day by Gov. Jackson, of
Iowa, who recommends its observance
as a public holiday.
Oex. Charles Ezeta, the fugitive
ex-president of the republic of Salva
dor, arrived in New ork.
The secretary of the navy issued an
order discontinuing all work at the
New York, Norfolk and Mare Island
navy yards, throwing 3,500 men out of
employment.
The public debt statement issued on
the 2d showed that the debt increased
S251.15G during the month of June.
The cash balance in the treasury was
C175,5S4,436. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to SS99.31S.3S1, against 338,09,476 on
July 1, 1893.
Twenty-four of Hogan's common
wealers had an involuntary bath in the
Missouri at Omaha, a boat capsizing.
The tenth annual convention of the
National editorial association opened
at Asbury Park, N. J.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 2d was: Wheat.
54,657,000 bushels; corn, 6,441,000 bush
els; oats, 2,577,000 bushels; rye, 257,
000 bushels: barley, 80,000 bushels.
Jamb Johnson (colored), charged
with committing a criminal assault
upon Mrs. William King near Guthrie,
Mo., was captured at Hillers Creek,
Mo., by a mob and hanged.
The use of postal notes by the gov
ernment has ceased and new forms of
money orders were put 00 sale at the
various post offices in the country.
Four churches at Greenville, Miss.,
were blown down by a tornado and
several persons were killed.
All the window glass houses, flint
glass houses, sheet mills and most of
the iron mills shut down at Pittsburgh,
Pa., and as a result nearly 80,000 work
men were idle.
During eleven months of the fiscal
year ended May 31 the total number of
immigrants arriving in the United
States was 288,020, against 430.210 for
the corresponding period of last j'ear.
The Vermont marble mills at Proc
tor, Vt., were partially burned, the
loss being over $300,000.
The government receipts for the
fiscal year ended June 30 were S290,
960,336; expenditures, 306,593,359;
against receipts of 5385,819,028 and ex
penditures of S3S3,477,954 in the cor
responding time in the preceding fiscal
year.
Henry Volger, a Syracuse (N. Y.)
night watchman, in a fit of jealousy
shot and killed William Strutz, a car
penter, and then put a bullet into his
own head.
Durixg the ten months ended April
SO, 1894, the whole number of immi
grants barred from entering the United
states was 2,102, of which 1,426 were
contract laborers and 653 paupers.
The total national bank circulation
in the country on the 1st was 3207,259,
307, showing an increase of S108.625
during June.
It. W. Blanch a rd. who disappeared
from Mentone, Ind., eight years ago,
returned. W. J. Studon, charged with
his murder, had previously committed
suicide in jail.
K. B. Qvaum, a Norwegian farmer at
Butler, S. D., became so worried over
crop prospects that he cut the throats
of his two children and then killed
himself.
Ikksdeega8t, the murderer of Car
ter II. Harrison, was found to be neith
er insane nor lunatic by a jury in
Judge Payne's court in Chicago and
he will be executed on the 13th unless
the governor interferes.
Music teachers of the country met in
sixteenth annual session at Saratoga,
N. Y.
The midwinter fair in San Francisco
can: to an end. Since the opening
day, January 27, the total attendance
was 2,140,154.
Nearly the entire town of Hudson,
Mass., was destroyed by fire, the loss
being nearly S750.000.
An explosion of fireworks at New
Haven, Conn., caused a loss of 3125,000
by fire among business houses.
By the explosion of gasoline at Louis
ville, Ky., Henry Zimmerman was
fatally hurt, his wife lost her life and
their little boy was badly burned.
Mrs. Maggie Brannum in a death
bed confession at Knoxville, Tcnn.,
implicated four men in a murder and
robbery that occurred four years ago.
Fire originating in an explosion of
fireworks destroyed the greater part
of the town of Honey Grove, Tex., the
loss being 3200,000.
The jury in the Shea murder trial in
Troy, N. Y., returned a verdict of mur
der in the first degree. Shea killed
Robert Ross last election day.
The village of Whittlesley, Wis., was
completely wiped out by a forest fire.
As a result of the increase in the tax
on whisky Cincinnati distillers ad
vanced the price of spirits three cents
a gallon.
In a dash at Paterson, N. J., Fred
Royce lowered the quarter-mile bicycle
record to 29? seconds.
The railway strikers were growing
more desperate on the 5th in Chicago
in their determination that the efforts
of the railway companies to resume
traffic shall fail. At the stock yards
they defied the authorities, wrecked
and burned railroad property and
looted freight cars. Gen. Miles an
nounced that no more leniency would
be shown the strikers, and federal sol
diers were ordered to shoot if inter
fered with hereafter. At other points
in the west some trains were moving,
but with much irregularity. In Min
nesota the backbone of the strike was
broken, all trains centering in St. Paul
having resumed service.
At Jeffersonville, Ind., a drunken
negro cut the throats of Emmons End
rich and his wife, an aged couple
against whom he had a grudge.
Albert Kent and Mrs. Golden were
drowned in the St. Joe river while
rowing near Fort Wayne, Ind.
Col. James M. Van Hook shot and
killed Anton Schaefer at Charleston,
Ind., in a quarrel over a woman.
In reply to a request from Gov. Alt
geld that federal troops be recalled
from Chicago President Cleveland said
their presence was necsssary.
At Warrensburg, Mo., Lear Knob
noster, who had been separated from
his wife for some time, went to her
home and shot her and then shot him
self. Seven of the world's fair buildings
in Chicago were destroyed by fire.
David Anderson, a spectator, lost his
life and others were seriously injured.
Twenty-six persons started out from
South Haven, Mich., on a small
steamer for a three years trip around
the world.
In the music teachers national con
vention in New York Albert A. Stan
ley, of Ann Arbor, Mich., was elected
president.
Samuel Coates and his daughter
Sarah were killed by the cars near New
London, la.
In a quarrel at Sheboygan, Wis., Au
gust Schulke and Frederick Carl were
fatally stabbed.
At the internal revenue office in
Peoria, 111., the record for a single
day's business was broken, the amount
of whisky tax reaching 3239,100.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
James Lamont, of Rockford, was
nominated for congress by the pro
hibitionists of the new Ninth district
of Illinois.
The prohibitionists of the Thir
teenth Ohio district nominated Dr.
George W. Dunn, of Tifiia, for con
gress. Wisconsin populists nominated a
ticket headed by D. Frank Powell, of
La Crosse, for governor. The platform
declares strikers and boycotts failures,
and urges universal cooperation.
Judge Joshua Riddle, presiding
Judge of the county court fifty years
ago, dropped dead at his home in Wells
Tille, O.. aged 85 years.
Nebraska prohibitionists in conven
tion at Lincoln nominated a full state
ticket. E. A. Girard was named for
governor.
Ex-Gov. Edwin B. Winans, of Michi
gan, died from heart disease at his res
idence near Hamburg, aged 68 years.
In the Nineteenth Illinois district
the populists nominated Rev. II. M.
Brooks for congress.
James Sullivan, aged 41, political
editor of the Chicago Tribune, died
suddenly in the parlors of the News
paper club, of which he was president.
Kansas democrats in session at To
peka put a full ticket in the field, head
ed by David Obermeyer, of Topeka, for
governor.
The Michigan populists in conven
tion at Lansing placed a full ticket in
the field, headed by Dr. A. W. Nicholls,
of Montcalrn, for governor.
Edwin C. Bingham, of Cheshire, was
nominated for governor by the Con
necticut populists.
FOREIGN.
Daniel Shehan made a deathbed
confession that he and not his brother,
who is now in prison in London, at
tempted to blow up the parliamentary
buildings in 1885.
An agreement was made in Paris by
which a new company having a capi
tal of 60,000,000 francs will complete
the Panama canal.
The remains of the late President
Carnot, of France, were deposited in
the Pantheon after one of the most re
markable civic and military displa-s
in the country's history.
Provisional President Dole was to
be declared president of the Hawaiian
republic without the formality of a
vote in order to circumvent the royal
ists. As A result of the assassination of
President Carnot European govern
ments will take united action against
the anarchists.
Signor Bandi, of Leghorn, Italy,
was stabbed to death by an anarchist
because of articles denunciatory of the
fraternity which had appeared in his
paper.
Henry Thompson drowned himself
at London, Ont, and Miss McKechnie,
to whom he was engaged, took poison
he had given her.
A placard found in Paris threatened
President Casimir-Perier with death.
Four hundred men were killed in a
battle between Circassian settlers and
the Druses in Syria.
President Ca6imir-Perier's message
was read in both branches of the
French parliament. He declared for a
single term.
Many lives were lost and great de
struction of property caused by an
earthquake at Yokohama and Tokio,
Japan.
A thousand rebels were killed in a
battle with Brazilian government
troops.
A ferryboat which was crossing the
River Thiess near Tokay, Hungary,
was capsized and 100 persons were
drowned.
A FIRE destroyed over 1,000 houses
in the village of Honmara, Japan.
Newspapers in Rome disclose a plot
by anarchists to destroy the heads of
several European governments.
The wholesale grocery firm of Ebr,
Blain & Co. at Toronto, Ont., which
annually turned over 31,500,000 worth
of business, was forced to wind up.
Twelve thousand square meters of
workshops at Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine,
France, were destroyed by fire, th
damage amounting to several million
Francs.
LATER.
Strikers in Chicago applied the
torch to between 000 and 700 freight
cars, many of them loaded with coal
and furniture, and destroyed switch
towers and toolhouses. The firemen
were unable to subdue the flames ow
ing to the interference of the strikers.
During the riots three people were
killed.
John Tits.vokth, a Green Ridge
(Mo.) farmer, killed his wife by firing
four shots into her body, and immedi
ately afterward blew his own brains
out.
It was estimated that 75 per cent, of
Chicago's factories would have to close
on account of the embargo on fuel and
supplies.
Anticipating a spread of the strike
to that city. New York police have
been recalled from vacations and or
dered to suppress any attempt at vio
lence. Members of the American Railway
union in Peoria, 111., where thirteen
railroads center, have refused the
order of President Debs to strike.
John Gridley, of Milwaukee, aged
about 14 years, was accidentally shot
and instantly killed at the bovs brig
ade camp on Beaver lake.
Adolpu Orendorf, an insurance
agent of Cincinnati, was lured into a
house and fatally assaulted by a col
ored family.
Twenty bridges near Hot Springs,
S. I)., were washed away by a cloud
burst, and railroad tracks were badly
damaged.
Ehle Allen, of St. Paul, who killed
John H. Clapp in a quarrel over a
woman, ended his life by shooting him
self at Lake Minnetonka.
Lee Richardson, of Chicago, aged
13. rode a half mile backward on a
bicycle in 2:43 1-5 at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
the fastest time on record.
In the house of lords a bill was in
troduced calculated to bar anarchists
out of England.
Striking miners at Spring Valley,
111., looted the company's store, carry
ing away a stock va.ued at 340,000.
No business of importance was
transacted in the United States on the
6th, and an adjournment was taken
until the 9th. In the house the bill for
the state taxation of greenbacks was
passed by a large majority. The point
of interest in the day's proceedings
was the taking of the tariff bill from
the speaker's table and its reference to
the committee on ways and means.
Several unimportant bills were passed.
The evening session was devoted to
private pension b'lls.
loart of the prolamine.
APPLIED THE TOUCH.
Indendiarism Rampant in Chicago
Railway Yards.
Hundreds of Cars and Other Property
liurned by Strikers Losses Will Reach
Over 81,000,000 Strong Force of
Military In the City.
WILD SCENES IN CHICAGO.
Chicago, July 7. Instead of declar
ing Chicago under martial law Friday
morning as was expected in some
quarters United States army authori
ties held off for the time being and
told Mayor Hopkins to go ahead and
e.ee what be could do towards preserv
ing order. Mayor Hopkins consulted
with his advisers until 11:30. Then he
wired Gov. Altgeld demanding five
regiments of militia.
Gov. Altgeld at once ordered out the
First and Third brigades. The First
brigade is composed of the First
and Second infantries. Troop A,
Battery D and the Seventh infantry,
all of Chicago. The Third brigade
comprises the Third and Sixth regi
ments, from Elgin, Ottawa, Blooming
ton, Rockford, Streator, Freeport, Ga
lena, Sterling, Dixon and other cities.
Three hundred extra policemen were
sworn in, increasing the police force
to 3,300. There are in the neighbor
hood of 1,000 deputy United States
marshals in active service, and half
that number of deputy sheriffs. The
Leavenworth regulars, 300 strong, and
those from Fort Bradj', 150 strong, ar
rived Friday morning. The force
available in the city Friday night was
therefore roughly as follows:
Militia S.ooo
Police 3.i0
Regulars 1.000
Deputy sheriffs 6"0
Deputy marshals ......l.uuo
Total S.0UG
Detachments of the regulars did serv
ice in several parts of the South side,
but maintained their camp on the lake
front as a reserve.
Some of Friday's Kvents.
The following abbreviated sample of
events of the day show the temper of
the strikers:
From Brighton Park to Sixty-first
street the yards of the Pan-Handle
road were Friday night put to the
torch by the rioters. Between 600 and
700 freight cars have been destroyed,
many of them loaded. Miles and miles
of costly track are a snarled tangle of
heat-twisted rails. Not less than
3750,000 possibly a whole 81,000,000 of
property has been sacrificed to the
caprice of the rioters.
The long lines of cars were simply
left to burn as they might. Hundreds
of these cars were loaded with anthra
cite coal, and as the woodwork burned
away great beds of the burning
coal were dumped on the rails.
These coal heaps will glow with in
tense heat for days yet and wher
ever they touched the rails the steel
was twisted and warped and coiled
inextricably. The damage done
to the tracks in this way cannot be
calculated.
Counting in the lossof tracks, signal
systoms and block houses, one or two
small stations and the like, the esti
mate of 81,000,000 loss is a low one. At
least 200 of the cars were loaded with
anthracite coal, worth five dollars a
ton not less than 815,000. There were
also twenty cars loaded with meat and
a dozen or more others filled with val
uable furniture. These the rioters
looted.
S. R. Ritchie, a special policeman of
the Fort Wayne and also a deputy
marshal, was stoned and pounded near
ly to death by the strikers at Forty
seventh street.
Herbert Letters, a Burlington striker,
assaulted W. J. Lehman, who was go
ing to work 8nd was accompanied by
his wife. Letters had Lehman down,
whereupon Mrs. Lehman took her hus
band's revolver and shot Letters dead.
Then, woman like, she fainted.
In an attack of the strikers upon a
passenger train at Kensington William
E. Anslyn. a striker, was shot and
fatally injured by Gerald Stark, a
special officer of the Michigan Central
railroad. Stark also wounded Frank
Udess, a striker.
Late in the afternoon a gang of over
200 men overpowered the watch at the
north end shops at Pullman. They
entered the buildings and walked
through them, but detectives discov
ered what the plans of the strikers
were and reported them to Superin
dent Middleton in time for him
to get protection and thus frus
trate thein. These plans, as
reported, provided for an at
tack upon the shops a,t three points
the north end, the water tower and
the gas house entrances.
The Building Trades council of Chi
cago on Friday night decided to en
gage in a general strike in support of
the American Railway union in case
the demand of that organization for a
settlement of the strike by arbitration
is not'speedily granted. The council
represents 25,000 organized men, and
controls nearly every buildiog indus
try in the city.
The Burlington, Santa Fe, St. Paul,
Northern Pacific, Great Western and
Lake Shore roads were the only ones
to run regular passenger trains Fri
day. The Pan-Handle and Pennsyl
vania made vain efforts, and the Alton
gave up in disgust. The Western In
diana blockade tied up the Erie, Grand
Trunk, Monon and Eastern Indiana
and the Wabash only moved one train
out. The Michigan Central and Illi
nois Central were blocked at Kensing-
A family with a record of twenty
five cooks in two and a half years finds
comfort in the assurance of a purveyor
of servants that three months is to be
regarded as a long stay for a cook.
Nurses and housemaids-are less subject
to change, perhaps, because their work
is more agreeable.
"It is not usual to see pleasure car
riages drawn by spike teams," said a
citizen, "but I saw the other day for
the first time a pleasure vehicle, it
was a break, drawn by three fine
horses driven abreast. It was a strik
ingly handsome turnout.
totKtrrwi'w
- I month
REACHING OUT.
The Strike Rapidly Spreading Toward the
Kant.
Cleveland, O., July 7. The meet
ing of local railway men to consider
the question of striking lasted until
nearly daybreak and ended in a prac
tically unanimous decision ' to go out.
Committees were sent to the various
yards to inform the men of the action
taken and to notify them to quit work
at 6 a. m. At that hour every man
obeyed the order, and there is not a
freight wheel turning in the Cleveland
yards. Passenger trains have not yet
been interferred with, and the strik
ers say they will be permitted to run.
Detroit, Mich., July 7. Every rail
road in Detroit was tied up after 10:30
Friday night in accordance with the
action of the joint meeting of repre
sentatives of all the local brother
hoods. All the railway fire
men, switchmen, yardmen, brake
men and freight handlers in the
city went out. The engineers and con
ductors did not strike, but it will be
impossible to operate trains, as the en
gineers will not work with non-union
firemen. The Michigan Central, which
had heretofore been free from the strike
locally, is tied up. The night trains were
not sent out and twenty engines were
sent to the roundhouse. At the union
station a Detroit, Lansing & Northern
train already made Bp, was the only
train which went out. A Detroit,
Grand Haven & Milwaukee train draw
ing a Chicago & Grand Trunk Pullman
car, also left the Grand Trunk depot
without molestation.
Terre Haute, Ind., July 7. Grand
Master Sargent of the firemen has re
ceived word that the strike fever is
moving south. At Memphis the fire
men report ' that great pressure
is being put on them to go
out. The firemen are particularly
solicited because if they go out
the engineers will not work with
the non-union men who take their
places. The situation here is not
changed. The Big Fur local em
ployes are still out, but trains are run
ning. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois
will run all of their day passenger
trains. Many of the Vandalia shop
men are out but the train service is
unimpaired, although officials are do
ing the switching.
New York, July 7. All vacations in
the police department have been
stopped by order of Superintendent
Byrnes, and all members of the force,
from captain down, who had left the
city on their vacations, have been
summoned by telegraph to return
forthwith.
Buffalo, N. Y., July 7. The pres
ent indications are that Buffalo is se
lected by Mr. Debs as the next objec
tive point to tie-up. With two such
railroad centers as Chicago and Buf
falo embarrassed trafllc between the
west and the east would be seriously
impaired.
San Francisco, July 7. At Phoenix,
A. T., Judge Hawkins, of the United
States district court, lias issued an or
der placing the Atlantic fc Pacific road
in Arizona in the charge of United
States Marshal Meade, and conferring
upon him all the power to operate it.
Little violence has been done along
the line, though nearly 100 men have
been arrested by the United States au
thorities. The action was taken at
the instance of the receivers of the
Atlantic fc Pacific.
Little Rock, Ark., July 7. Gov.
Fishback has issued a proclamation
calling upon all officers and others in
authority to'arrest Vhe leaders of the
strike, if in Arkansas; and if in anoth
er state the proper warrant should be
sued out to bring them to the scene of
their crime for speedy punishment.
Peoria. 111.. July 7. The switchmen
in the Peoria fc Pekin union yards
have voted to remain at work and han
dle all freight. They say they have 110
grievance and will not go out.
Pittsburgh, July 7. The non-arrival
of passenger trains over the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad
from points west of Fort Wayne caused
much excitement at Union Station.
For the first time passenger service
from the west was seriously interfered
with.
The feeling among the trainmen in
Pittsburgh has undergone a great
change and the indications for their
joining the boycott are very strong. It
is believed that the events of the next
few hours will mean much to this city.
St. Paul, Minn., July 7. A general
order for a strike on the St. Paul & Du
luth road was issued at 11 o'clock.
Every switchman in the yard had quit
his post by noon. Thursday this road
discharged a number of switchmen who
refused to handle cars from the tied
up roads between St. Paul and Minne
apolis. General Manager Plough was
waited on and asked to reinstate the
men, but refused to do so unless the
men handle all cars.
Springfield, Mo., July 7. At a meet
ing of the shop men employed in the
shops of the Kansas City, Fort ScoM &
Springfield railroad, it was decided to
strilte in sympathy with the Pullman
boycott. About 500 men went out.
Washington, July 7. Senator Allen
(Neb.) introduced in the senate a res
olution for the appointment of a com
mittee of five senators, not more than
two of whom shall be of the
same part', to consider the ad
visability or necessity of government
ownership of railroads and telegraphs
and to examine the existing troubles
between employers and employes, and
discover what legislation is necessary
to prevent strikes and lock-outs in tua
future.
HAP AND HAPPENING.
Fink Percheron horses sell for twelv
dollars a head in the far northwest.
The Kansas university is excavating
a tunnel under its various buildings
through which all of them will be
heated.
Herschell SMiTn, of BrookvHle, Ind.,
is sixteen j-ears old, six feet five inches
high, and growing at the rato of an
inch in six weeks.
Workmen boring an artesian well in
Louisiana struck a maple log in a sound
Btate of preservation five hundred and
forty fet below fcha surface. .
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ALTGELD PROTESTS.
He Thinks the Presence of Federal Troop
an Invasion of State Rights.
Washington, July 7. In a long tel
egraphic dispatch addressed to the
president late Thursday night
Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, loudly de
manded the withdrawal of the federal
troops from Chicago, insisting that
th eir presence there was an in
sult to the people of the state and
an invasion of the rights of the
state to control, without outside in
terference, its internal affairs. Ila
held that there was no necessity for
the presence of federal forces in Illi
nois, and intimated that when, in his
opinion, the necessity arose, he would
notify the proper authorities in the
proper way.
He claims that it is not soldiers that
the railroads need so much as it is men
to operate trains", and that the condi
tions do not exist in Illinois which
bring the cause within the federal
statutes, a statute that was passed in
1881, and was in reality a war measure
He continues:
"The question of federal supremacy Is In no
way involved. No one disputes it for a moment.
But under our constitution federal supremacy
and local self-government must go band in.
hand, and to ignore the latter is to do violence
to the constitution.
"To absolutely ipnore a local government la
matters of this kind, when the local govern
ment Is ready to furnish assistance needed
and is amply able to enforce the law. not
only insults the people of this state by Im
puting to them an inability to govern them
selves or an unwillingness to enforce the law.
but is in violation of a basic principle of our
institutions.
"As governor of the state of Illinois I protest
against this and ask the Immediate with
drawal of the federal troops from active duty
in this state. Should the situation at any time
get so serious that we cannot control it
with the state forces we will .promptly
and freely ask for federal assistance,
but until such time I protest with all
due deference against this uncalled-for reflec
tion upon our people, and again ask the imme
diate withdrawal of these troops. I have the
honor to be yours respectfully.
John P. Altoei.d.
"Governor of Illinois."
The President's Keply.
"Executive Mansion, Washington. July
6. 1191. Hon. John P. Altgeld. Governor of
Illinois. Sprinufleld 111.: Federal troops were
sent to Chicago in strict accordance with
the constitution and laws of the United
States, upon the demand of the post office de
partment that obstruction of the mails should be
removed, and upon the representations of the
judicial officers of the United States that
process of the federal court could not be exe
cuted through the ordinary means, and upon
abundant proof that conspiracies existed
against commerce between the states. To meet
these conditions, which are clearly within
the province of federal authority, the pres
ence of federal troops in the city of Chicago
was deemed not only proper but necessary,
and there has been no intention of thereby in
terfering with the plain duty of the local au
thorities to preserve the peace of the city.
"GKOVER CLEVELAND."
VOTED ON TARIFF.
The Senate Takn Final Action on the
BUI.
Washington, July 5. In the midst
of intense excitement at 10:41 Tuesday
night, having been debated for three
months and one day, the tariff bill,
amended to take effect August 1, 1S94,
passed the senate hy a vote of 34 to 39
a strict party vote, except Senator
Hill, who voted with the republicans
against the measure. The populists
divided their strength. Senators Kyle
and Allen voting in favor of the bill
and Senators Peffer and Stewart
against it
Senator Hill in a brief speech said
that in his opinion the bill imperiled
the possibility of permanent democrat
ic success in any northern state for
many years to come. As between a
populistic income tax on the one
hand and a republican tariff law on
the other, he chose the latter as the
least of two evils. As between per
nicious class legislation fraught with
dangerous consequences to the coun
try on the one hand and simply high
tariff taxation on the other, he pre
ferred to endure the latter, at least for
a brief period.
Calls of 'Vote:' "Vote:" kept com
ing from the democratic side and at
10:25 o'clock the clerk began to call
the roll.
Vote on the Final Passage.
The detailed vote on the final pas
sage of the bill was as follows:
Yeas Allen. Bate. Berry. Blackburn. Blan
chard. Caflery, Call. Cockrell. Coke. Daniel,
Faulkner. George, Gibson. Gorman. Gray. Har
ris, Hunton, Irby, Jarvis. Jones (Ark.). Kyle,
Lindsay. McLaurin. Martin. Mills. MitcheU
(Wis.). Morgan. Murphy. Palmer, Pasco. Ran
som. Roach. Smith. Turpie. Vest. Vilas. Voor
hees. Walsh, White 33. ,
Nats Aldrich. Allison. Carey. Chandler,
Cullom. Davis, Dixon, Dolph. Dubois. Frye,
Gallinger. Hale, Hansbrough. Hawley. Higgins,
Hill. Jones (Nev.). Lodge, McMillan. Mander
son. Mitchell (Ore.), Patton. Peffer. Perkins,
Piatt. Power. Prottor, Quay. Sherman. Shoup,
Squire. Stewart, Teller. Washburn 34.
Analysis For the bill Democrats. 37; pop
ulists. 2. Against Democrats. 1; populists. 2;
republicans. 81.1
REDUCED TO ASHES-
World's Fair Buildings at Jackson Park m
Prey to Flames.
Chicago, July 7. A year ago the
Court of Honor of the fair "White
City" stood in unrivaled splendor upon
the shore of Lake Michigan, and thou
rands reveled in its beauty. Thursday
night it passed away in fiery splendor,
and thousands mourned its fall. This
morning nothing but smoking ruins
mark where on Thursday the Adminis
tration building. Machinery hall, the
Agricultural building and the Manu
factures building stood outlined against
the sky.
The fire broke out shortly after 6
o'clock and though speculation is rife
as to its origin nothing is definitely
known, but it is supposed to have been
incendiary. It was first discovered in
the southwest corner of the Terminal
station, whence it spread rapidly. It
seemed as though everything con
spired to help along the work of de
struction. The buildings were like
tinder, there was a scarcity of water,
and confusion reigned supreme.
The fire was discovered by several
boys at 0:15 o'clock in the southwestern
corner of the first floor of the Terminal
station. When first seen it was but
an incipient blaze, and the boys en
deavored to stamp it out for several
minutes. They were unsuccessful,
however, as the fierce gale which was
then blowing from the southwest
fanned the fire, and before an alarm
could be turned in the fire had reached
the second story of the building.
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