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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1896)
M v I i i N 1 esSH it fahnfine democrat SUCCESSOR TO CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT ROBERT B GOOD - Epitok Titor VALENTINE NEBRASKA STORM OR THE COAST TREMENDOUS GALE RAGES OH THE ATLANTIC Three of the Robys Crew are Drowned and Five are Rescued After a Terrible Battle with the Elements Other News Items Atlantic Coast Sorm Lewes Del At daybreak Sunday morning the American schooner Luther ARoby from Sehiverie Nova Scotia for Philadelphia with a cargo of plaster struck near the point of Cape Ilenlopen while a terrible northeast gale was pre vailing The force of the sea was so great that the vessel pounded to pieces on the sands before the life saving crew could get a line to her Three of the crew lost their lives and five were rescued after an awful experience with the elements One of the killed lost his life by being struck by the main mast when it fell Suicide of a Treasury Messenger Washington Dillard F Ragland a messenger in the Treasury Department appointed from Goliad Texas committed suicide 03 inhaling gas He was to have been married in Atlanta soon to a young woman from Dallas Texas but for some reason changed his mind and rather than tell his intended that he was not yet in a position to marry he killed himself The circumstances of the suicide indicate that the act was not premiditated Cattle King Killed Ardmoke I T Wyatt Williams a former catttle king well known in Chi cago St Louis and the west was mur dered on Main Street in cold blood by Bud Watkins a half blood Indian aged 2 1 years The murderer was cap tured and lodged in jail Great excite ment prevails but a speedy trial is prom ised and lynching is likely Wyatt leaves a widow and four Public sentiment is strong against Watkins Castles Remain in Jail London It is not thought probable that bail for Mr and Mrs Walter M Castle of San Francisco who were re manded to Holloway jail on Tuesday last charged with stealing furs from deal ers in this city will be applied for before he case comes up again at the Marl Iborough Street police station for fear of prejudicing the case The Castles will therefore remain in jail until they appear dn court Two Can Play at That Game Maijion Ind The two natural gas companies of this city have entered a combination and advanced rates 33 per cent Consumers in South Marion to the number of 500 have united to oppose the old companies and will get gas at a much lower rate from J S Wise a leading manufacturer C Five Dead at Danville Pa DANVHtEjPa Threeadditional deaths making five in all have resulted from the boiler explosion in the Montour rolling mill In all about fifty persons were more iriore or less seriously hurt The cause of the explosion is not known but it is sup posed to have been due to low water in the boiler Reception to Miss Barton Washington Miss Clara Barton the head of the Red Cross Society was given a welcome on her return to Washington from her trip to Turkey by a reception in her honor at the Shoreman Hotel It was an informal affair and a number of her -friends turned out to greet her Starved Herself to Death YouxGSTOWN Ohio Mrs Henry Grundy a rich widow aged 50 died as the result of starvation Her husband re cently died and she afterward attempted suicide She refused all aid and would not take food drink or medicine Spanish Soldiers Mutiny Madrid A dispatch received here from Manilla says that a company of native soldiers at Mindanao an island of the Malay Archipelago and second largest of the Philippine Islands has anutined and killed its officers New Strawberries in Market Benton Harbor Mich Otto Wild a prosperous fruit grower near town brought ripe strawberries to market the other day lie has a new variety that will ripen good fruit during September and early October His Sleep JKudely Interrupted EWMAy 111 Burglars tried to enier the Newman Bank but in their efforts to effect an entrance the nightwatchman was aroused from his slumbers and fired at them with a Winchester frightening them away Young GirrBurned to Death Marion Ind Ivy Harrell a 12-year-old girl living at Hanfield was burned to death She was alone in the house and it is supposed her clothes ignited from the natural gas fire in the grate Fatal Collision in Austria Vienna An express train from Italy collided at Auer in the Tyrol with a train filled with recruits No further details have been received but it Is feared there has been heavy loss of life Peru Jnpan Treaty Ratified LiiiA Peru At a secret session the Peruvian Congress approved of the treaty -of-friendship and commerce between Peru and Japan Dutch Transport 1ost St Sebastian The Dutch transport Haramario has been lost off the coast of Spain She was last reported off Finis- lerre Apostle Thatchers Name Omitted Salt Lake At a conierence of the jMormon Church all the authorities of the tChurch were sustained with the excep lion of Apostle Moses Thatcher whose name was omitted from the list The ac tion against Thatcher was for failing to take counsel before accepting the nomi nation for a political office Apostle Thatcher was the Democratic candidate lor the United States Senate last year Gen Tjfochu Dead Tours France Gen Troohu fended Paris until it wa3 surrenijeipa to jthe Germans is dead 7 Bradstrcets Review New Tork liradstreets says Colder weather continued heavy receipts of cot ton and wheat and other influences have stimulated the demand for staple goods at various points but the volume of trade remains moderate without material change from a week ago The Pacific coast reports increasing ac tivity in wheat the noteworthy feature being a cargo of wheat exported to India Total exports of wheat from both coasts of the United Stales and from Montreal flour included as wheat continue to at tract attention in view of short supplies in Kussia India Argentine and Australia The domestic wheal crop is more likely to approximate 500000000 bushels this year than only 40000000J the general inter pretation of the Government wheat crop report There were 219 business failures in the United States reported last week There were 37 business failures reported from the Canadian dominion for the week Another Beef Embargo Feared Indianapolis Ind From inquiries made here it developed that the German Government is making on its own ac count an investigation of the health of American cattle possibly with a view of again placing an embargo upon American beef The state board of health received a letter from the German cousul at Cin cinnati asking for a detailed statement of how much if any tuberculosis existed among the cattle of Indiana The letter also wanted to know what measures were being taken to weed out or prevent the disease and stated that the German Gov ernment had last year expended over 400000 in stamping out tuberculosis among German cattle Bacteria Preys on Worshipers Indianapolis Ind The state board of health has been investigating a re markable state of affairs existing in what is known as the Bock Lane neighborhood in Johnson County where 75 per cent of the population have suffered at some time during the past year from typhoid It was found that all of those who had been ill had been attendants at the Bock Lane Church where there is a well from which the worshipers have been in the habit of drinking A microscopical ex amination of the water from this well shows it full of bacteria and a chemical analysis shows the water to be badly poisoned The well has been condemned and closed Secretary Olney at Work Washington Thursday was Secre tary Olneys first diplomatic reception day for three months yet there were only three of the corps among his callers Senor Calvo of Costa Rica Senor Romero of Mexico and Senor Andrade of Vene zuela The latter spent half an hour in close consultation with the Secretary and it is supposed the discussion concerned generally the negotiations relative to the boundary controversy and particularly the last move in British Guiana author izing the building of a British railway through the disputed territory which threatens if pushed to disturb the present satisfactory status quo Dreams of Wealth Vanish San Francisco Christian Soil and John R Green the prospectors who dis covered a quicksilver mine on a portion of the shore near the Cliff House will not be as wealthy as they expected Believ ing the deposit was located ton property subject to entry they fileU a mining notice Scarcely had they dontithis when they found that the land was a part of the military reservation which is beyond reach of the laws regarding mining claims They now hope that the Govern ment will allow them to develop as much of their claim as lies between the lines of high and low tide Saloons in Peril Arcola 111 The third attempt to burn a saloon in Areola occurred early the other morning when the restaurant adjoining M J Lynchs concern was set on lire The flames were extinguished however but with little damage resulting A large roll of rags saturated with coal oil was found in the vicinity where the fire originated Two weeks ago a barn in the rear of the Lynch saloon was fired This tire was followed by an at tempt to destroy W It Stulls saloon The saloon keepers have offered a large reward for the capture of the fire bug Joliet Steel Works Close Joliet 111 The works of the Illinois Steel Company have been closed owing to a scarcity of put orders About 3000 men will be thrown out of employment It is not expected the works will be closed for any length of time as many inquiries are being received for round lots of steel billets for delivery the first three months of next year The prices bid are not up to the idea of the sellers but as buyers show a disposition to advance them it is expected that a good many orders will be booked early in November so that work can be resumed Charged With Embezzlement Milwaukee E T Washburn secre tary of the South Arm Lumber Company has been arrested on complaint of W S Morgan as president of the company who charges Washburn with embezzling 65626 It is alleged that Mr Washburn obtained the money by drawing on the companys funds in bank through checks made payable to himself The checks are said to have been issued between July of last year and the following March Great Fire in Eucador LisrA Peru The great fire at Guay aquil Eucador has been finally subdued It is estimated that the amount of the loss will reach 30000000 The insurance amounts to 2500000 Thousands of per sons are left homeless by the fconflagra tion The custom house and its contents have been destroyed The fire is believed to have been caused by an incendiary May Have a DueL St Louis A special to the Republic from Washington says Rumors are in the air to the effect that Senator Black burn may challenge Logan Carlisle to fight a duel because of Ihelatters recently printed card in which he declared it would be more of an honor to hold a joint debate on the financial question with a negro than with Blackburn A Baric Wrecked Queenstown A steamer just up in here reports that she passed a large vessel floating bottom up Ihe bark Sea King was totally wreeked and five of the crew drowned Bishop AYalker Promoted Buffalo N Y Bishop W D Walker of North Dakota has been elected bishop of the Episcopal diocese of West Bra New York Lost with All Hands Liverpool An unknown schooner has been lost off Holyhead and her crew of five men were drowned V Chili Faces a Crisis New York A Heralds Valparaiso Chili dispatch says The Minister of Finance held a lang conference with the man agers of the banks and heads of im poitant business houses with the view o devising means to stay the commercial crisis which is imminent Many foreign hank managers have urged that the measures adopted by the Government te res tore normal financial conditions were wholly inadequate They declared the only means of solving the crisis was the announcement by the Government that it would maintain the gold conversion law at all hazards Overruled by Spain Washington It has been officially made known to the State Department that the Spanish supreme court at Madrid after due consideration has found that the proceedings of the naval court mar tial which convicted the prisoners taken from the schooner Competitor of being filibusters and sentenced to death was erronerous Further than that nothing is known officially but as this information is so far confirmatory of the original press dispatches on the subject it is assumed that as therein stated the case has been remanded for another trial before a civil court as is guaranteed by the Gushing protocol Trilbys Author Dead London George Du Maurier the artist and novelist and author of Trilby died at 280 on the morning of the 8th His end was painless and he passed away surrounded by friends For days he had been hovering between life and death On his deathbed to a friend who referred to his success of Trilby he said -Yes it has been successful but its popularity has killed me at last One of his frieuds present at his death said He died al most as tragically as Svengali He was taken off by an affection of the heart at the zenith of Ins popularity This was complicated by an affection of the lungs Sixteen YearOld Murderer St Joseph Mo Ezra Rasco has been arrested for the murder of Mrs Baumley at Arkoe The self confessed mur derer is a 16-year-old boy whoso father is a neighbor of Baumleys Young Rasco says he went to the Baumley house to net a pail of water and entered the house He made some remarks that angered Mrs Banmley She then forced him out of the house and locked the doors Rasco broke into the house pursued Mas Baum ley to an upper room and beat out her brains with a stove leg The jail is closely to prevent lynching Wasnt the Cheery Tree Washington A sad reminder of the wrecks wrought by the recent tornado comes in the destruction of one of the most precious relics that adorned the his toric grounds of Mouut Vernon a mag nificent magnolia tree that was planted by George Washington and has withstood the gales of a century This tree planted in the very year of the death of the father of his country presented a most exposed front to the storm and suffered badly in the general wreck An effort will be made to revive the grand old magnolia Beaten by Church Members Kansas City A Guthrie Oklahoma dispatch says Rev Lang an evangelist who has been holding a revival at Seward twenty miles south of here on the Santa Fe delivered a sermon in which he de clared all women who dance are im moral Mr Lang was chased to the Santa Fe station by fifty enraged church members At the station his face was beaten almost to a jelly by two farmers and a number of women Subsequently he was rescued from a coat of tar and feathers by a Santa Fe train crew Georgia election Tragedy Atlanta Ga Wednesdays election caused a murder and lynching at Mount Junction in Screven County Gus Will iams a populist negro struck a ticket out of a negro voters hand The Demo cratic negro struck Williams for his in solence and Williams fired at his assail ant but missed his aim and shot and in stantly killed Engineer Middleton of the Central Railroad an innocent looker on Bystanders took Williams and lynched him and riddled his body with bullets Forest Fires in California San Francisco The forest fires about Pasadena are growing The Echo Mountain Hotel and Mount Lowe Rail road are surrounded and are in danger of being burned The Lowe observatory is as yet safe but may not live through tho tires which are almost bevond control Gen George H Sheridan Dead Washington News has been received of the death at the Soldiers Home at Hampton Va of Gen George II Sher idan for years a notable figure in politics lie had a fine record as a soldier 3IAIIKET QUOTATIONS Chicago Cattle common to prime 350 to 523 hogs shipping grades 800 to 375 sheep far to choice 200 to 350 wheat No 2 red 60c to 08c corn No 2 22c to 23c oats No 2 10c to ISc rye No 2 34c to 30c butter choice creamery 15c to 17c eggs fresh 15c to 16c potatoes ner bushel ISc to 30c broom corn common short to choice dwarf 25 to 00 per ton Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 io 500 hogs choice light 300 to 375 sheep common to prim 200 to 350 wheat jSo 2 07c to GSc corn No 2 white 23c to 25c oats No 2 white 19c to 21c St Louis Cattle 300 to 500 hogs 300 to 375 wheat No 2 70c to 72c corn No 2 yellow 21c to 22c oats No 2 white 15c to 17c rye No 2 34c to 30c Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 475 hogs 300 to 375 sheep 250 to 350 wheat No 2 74c to 76c corn No 2 mixed 26c to 27c oats No 2 mixed 17c to 19c rye No 2 39c to 41c Detroit Cattle 250 to 500 hogs 300 to 375 sheep 200 to 350 wheat No 2 red 71c to 72c corn No 2 yellow 25c to 27c oats No 2 white 19c to 21c rye 3Cc to 38c Toledo Wheat No 2 red 72c to 73c corn No 2 yellow 23c to 23c oats No 2 white 17c to 19c rye No 2 3Sc to 39c clover seed 530 to 535 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 03c to 07c corn No 3 22c to 24c oats No 2 white 19c to 21c barley No 2 30c to 30c rye No 1 86c to 38c pork mess 325 to 075 Buffalo Cattle 250 to 475 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 200 to 350 wheat No 2 red 74c to 75c corn No 2 yellow 2Sc to 29c oats No 2 white J3c to 25c New York Cattle 300 to 500 hogs 300 to 425 sheep 200 to 375 wiicat No 2 red 71c to 73c corn No 2 28c to 30c oats No 2 white 21c to 22c butter creamery 12c to 18cveggs West crn 14c to 19c OP A GREAT STATE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF NEBRASKA Laura Berdolen of Fremont Ends Her Life by Talcing Chloroform A Love Affair Thought to Have Been the Cause for the Act 9 Ends Her Trouble by Suicide Laura Berdolen a domestic employed at the Ruwe Hotel at Fremont committed suicide by taking chloroform She did not answer when called by the clerk Sunday morning The door to her room was locked and there was no sound irom within The door was broken open and she was found lying on the outside of the bed with her face buried in the pillows A four ounce bottle half full of chloro form and the odor of the drug which pre vaded the room presented unmistakable evidence of suicide The cause of the act is thought to have been a love affair with a railroad man She was about 21 years of age a graduate of the Fremont high school and had spent two years in he Wesleyan University at Lincoln She was a brilliant scholar Her mother who lives at Fremont is partially demented and the girl may have inherited insanity from her MARKET FOR NEBRASKA GRAIN Great Quantities of Live Stock Will Be Fed in the State James Schulz of Yutan brought in and unloaded at Wahoo 432 head of cattle off the range near Gordon which with 16S head he now has on his farm he intends to feed this winter Forty seven thous and sheep are to be shipped to that place from Colorado this fall and are lo be dis tributed around through the county where they will be fed this winter A large crop of everything that grows in this section was raised this season and feed is plentiful N B Berggren who owns a large farm near Wahoo will feed 18000 of these sheep Some will be sent to Valpariso and other places throughout the county The first consignment has already arrived to the number of 3500 which were placed on Berggrens farm Beats His Wife With a Hatchet C Joe Pinkava a farmer living near Crab Orchard Gage County beat his wife with a hatchet Leaking her skull in several places and mangled her body badly Doctors say she will not live After the assault Pinkava ran to his neighbors borrowed a revolver stating after secur ing it that he would shoot himself He ran for the woods and fired two shots at a tree It is not believed that he killed himself as no trace can be found of him Parlies are in pursuit Family troubles seem to have been the cause of his action Later Pinkava cheated the law by ending his own life His body was found swinging from a tree in a grove on E B L fflins farm about a mile from the scene of his crime In the work of self destruction Pinkava had suffered an aw ful death He had made two attempts by shooting himself in the head His left eye was shot out and a glance shot had been made near his left temple His face was badly beaten probably having in flicted the lacerations with the butt end of the revolver Indications are that as the shooting proved unsuccessful Pinkava secured a piece of wire from a fence tied it around his neck climbed the tree fastened the other end of the wire to a limb and jumped to his death Uses a Knife Freely in a Fight Joe Price the young man who stabbed George Stadler at Cedar Creek was lodged in the county jail atPlatttsmouth Stadler is lying in a precarious condition with five knife wounds in his body He is resting easy but the physician says he may yet have a relapse Staddler had fallen to the ground when Price first stabbed him and the knife was plunged into his back four times while he was held on the ground by his murderous as sailant The quarrel arose over the pay ment of a keg of beer After the stab bing Price drove away to the farm of Fritz Wegener where he has been work ing xi was mere mat ne was bended Uses an Ax in a Fight Fred Rhender a firmer living a few m les southwest of Craft ii was arrest d on the charge of striking Claus Koewetter on the head with an ax RoewetUr was attempting te take forcible possession of a road scraper on Rhenders premises when the latter who had been chopping wood ran at him striking the back side of his head with the flat side of the ax knocking him unconscious The bleeding was profuse but the wound is not thought to be dangeious Rhender got a continu ance till October 20 giving 500 bail Fnctory Receiving Sugar Beets The first shipment of beets to the Nor folk sugar factory from the vicinity of Fremont was made last week F F Brown Co have a force of men at work digging beets and will get them out as soon as possible Other beet growers are also preparing to ship The crop is well matured and it is thought that the most them will meet the test of 12 per cent saccharine content and 8 per cent coeffi cient of purity Caught in a Revolving Shaft As Dillard Monk a young man living near Belgarde was working about a threshing machine his clothes caught on a tumbling rod and he was whirled around with frightful velocity tearing every shred of clothing off him and breaking his leg between the knee and the hip and mu tilating him in a teartul manner At present he is resting easy with fair pros pects of recovery Go Through Herman Stores Burglars visited Herman the other yiight They forced an entrance into Wal lace Bros dry goods store and helped themselves to clothing dry goods and groceries The amount taken cannot be estimated They also visited Truebloods grocery but secured little but coffee The butcher snop owned by William Rutledge was also visited and 3 secured 255 Plenty of Corn in Sight One hundred and five cars of were shipped from Wausa during tember All 01 last years corn grain Sep- crop grown there is still in the crib and the new crop which is the best ever grown ithere will also be cribbed and held for a traise in price Three Men Hurt Three men were more or less seriously Injured in a railroad wreck that occurred at Fremont on the Union Pacific road All are stockmen and were riding in the caboose of a freight train It was a rear end collision BUKGIiAR PKOOF SAFE BLOWN Eqnlc of Shelby Loses a Large Amount of Cash The safe in the Bank of Shelby which was snpposed to be burglar proof was blown open at 2 oclock on themorning of the 7th and 3100 stolen The job was neat and could only have been done by experts By force of the explosion pieces of steel were hurled through both vault doors and the floor was strewn with pieces of the safe brick notes andcheckt Insane Woman Meets Death Mr- Elizabeth Falley an aged inmate of the Asylum for the Insane at Hastings fell from the third story window at a late hour the other night and died from the in juries received She got out of her room by taking the hinges off the door Then going into the main hall she pried the window cleats off with a piece of a broom handle and took the window out After tying a blanket to the iron bar she tried to escape by dropping from the blanket to the ground A coroners inquest was held and the verdict was that she came to her death while trying to escape by drop ping from the third story Beekeepers Association The twenty eighth annual convention or the North American Beekeepers Associa tion was called to order at 1015 oclock in the Stata University chapel at Lincoln on the 7th by President Root of Medina Ohio Twenty eight delegates responded to roll call A piano solo by Master Johnnie Heath aged 13 son of H E Heath of Lincoln was followed by the invocation of the divine blessing The convention then go down to regular pro gram business and listened hrsttoapaper by Hon E Whitcomb of Friend whose subject was Importance of Watering io the Apiary Spencer Gets Ten Years E I ward E Spencer who was chargeu with the murder of John Ricker and found guilty of manslaughter was sen tenced to ten years in the penitentiary by Judge Ramsey at Nebraska City Other sentences were passed as follows Chas Ferguson five yeais for the larceny of some harness belonging to a farmer near Palmyra Quiller Beck convicted of stealing hogs five years Henry Webber who dug out of jail a few days ago but was recaptured and brought back pleaded guilty to the charge of daylight burglary two years Old Soldier Drops Dead A J Williams aged 61 dropped dead on the sidewalk at Battle Creek He was an old soldier and was born in Underbill v t lie joined the Twentieth Wisconsin Infantry in July 1S62 where he served till the close of the war He moved from South Dakota to Madison County in 1879 The funeral was be conducted by the Battle Creek Grand Army of the Repub lic The remains were interred in the Union Cemetery He leaves a wife and five children Crushed to Death in a Well At the farm of Ed Keller eight miles southwest of Rushville Wes Kirchner 20 years old lost his life in a well The well was curbed down only fifteen feet from the top Kirchner was at the lower end of the curbing on a temporary platform repairing it when the well caved in Neighbors went to work at once to dig him out and reached his dead body the next morning His skull was crushed and it is supposed death was instanta neous Polk Countys Mortgage Record Polk Countys mortgage indebtedness for September is as follows Seventeen farm mortgages filed 16115 nine re leased 10900 two city mortgages filed 5950 one released 195 seventy chattel mortgages filed 40745 fifteen released 1427 A large share of the chattel mort gage indebtedness is caused by the large number of cattle the farmers have bought to eat up the large crop of surplus corn the coming winter Falls Twenty Feet Superintendent James Edmunds of the Beatrice Electric Company was seriously injured while working upon the com panys line at that place While at the top of a twenty foot pole it broke with him letting him fall upon the brclc pav ing His head was badly cut oae arm broken and one leg badly bruised He will recover New Electric Light Company It is stated upon good authority that a new electric light company has been formed in Beatrice and that a franchise will be asked for at the next session of the city council and that immediately upon the granting of the same work will begin upon the new plant The organ izers have ample funds to carry out the project Helping Sick Farmers Members of Workmen lodges at McCool Junction and Fairmont plowed thirty eight acres of ground for John Collins and James I Jackson farmers living near the lormer place both members of the Work man order who owing to sickness could not get their ground plowed and winter wheat sown To Reorganize a Bank S C Smith and ex Senator PaddocK the former the cashier and the latter a heavy stockholder in the Fi st National Bank of Beatrice have left for the east wheoe it is expected arrangements will be made for a reorganization and is believed that the establishment will soon be opened again Dressed in Stolen Goods A negro named Brown was arrested in Hiawatha recently and a 0 tt 400 worth of clothing shoes etc s oien from Sou der Bros at Foils C ty about two wi eks ago were found in his possession When arrested he was with a young woman and dressed from head to foot with the stolen goods Westons Fire Department Weston has purchased a chemical fire engine and organized a volunteer fire company of thirty members This is the first move Weston has ever made in the line of fire protection though Hie town is 18 years old The town hiis had but one serious fire during all that period Fatal Fall from a Wagon William Clements was killed by a fall from a mail wagon at Araphoe Valley County Mortgage Record Yalley Countys mortgage record for the month of September is as follows Six farm mortgages filed 4118 nine sat isfied 7292 eight town mortgages filed 950 two satisfied 596 seventy four chattle mortgages filed 25674 forty five satisfied 5l587 Postoffice Safe Blown The postoffice at Glenville a small sta tion twelve miles southeast of Hastings was robbed Sunday night The safe was blown open and 230 in cash secured be sides many stamps The job was a smooth one and no clue was Ielt to work on MAMMOTH PARADES GOLD AND SILVER HOSTS CHICAGO MARCH OF The Mightiest Demonstrations Ever Seen Upon This Continent Tens or Thousands in Iine Viewed by Half a Million City Suspends Business A Memorable Day Friday was the twenty fifth anniversary of the burning of Chicago and the day was commemorated in that city by two of the greatest political demonstrations ever witnessed in this country The day was given to a mammoth procession of gold men and at night an army 20000 strong of those favoring silver marched the streets with flaming torches and lusty shouts for their candidates Over G0000 men on foot on horseback on floats in carriages al of them directly identified with the industrial and com mercial activity of Chicago occupied the down town streets from 10 oclock in the morning until 415 oclock in the after noon Some of them were millionaires some of tliem day laborers many of them employers and thousands of them wage earners This was tho composition of what was admittedly the largest best managed and the most successful parade ever witnessed in the city It was Chi cagos own day the twenty fifth adver sary of the fire of 1S71 and the quarter centennial of the upbuilding of the city Ten oclock was the hour designated by the Chief Marshal as the time for the movement to begin The hands on the watch of the artillery officer represented an acute angle He nodded to the gunner in charge of the battery section The twelve pound Napoleon spoke Chief of Police 3adenoch spurrcl his horse The great procession was in motion The step was in quick time and 15000 men w ere continually in the line As fast as they reached the point of dismissal they were hurried away The slightest delay was prevented The distance cov ered by each man in the actual line of march was three and one half miles his marching time was one hour and twenty minutes while five hours was the time required for the procession to pass a given point Sixty Thousand in Iine By actual count these were 57733 per sons in the procession Of these 52231 were on foot 2274 were on horsebavk and the others were distributed on floats in carriages and on bicycles On the floats were 9S0 men in carriages 370 the bands numbered 1430 men all told and 240 rode in tally ho coaches From the stock yards came 7G0 mounted men One hundred and eight cyclists acting as couriers were in line while the police numbered 150 Eighty five brass bands and forty fife and drum corps furnished the music Business firms represented by banners numbered 120 while political clubs marched in the col umn Among the wheeled vehicles were 178 carriages 111 floats thirty seven tally ho coaches and one electric motocy cle One of the principal features was the living flag formed by veterans carrying colored umbrellas in such position as to- represent the stars and stripes These men were heartily cheered all along the route and when they reached the stand occupied by John R Tanner in front o the Great Northern Hotel the enthusi asm was immense and the cheering loud and continuous The old Tippecanoe boys were too infirm to march but they made a brave display in their thirteen car riages SILVERS GREAT SHOWING Twenty Thousand Bryan Enthusiasts Celebrate Chicago Day The silver men owned Chicago Friday night Twenty thousand of them tramp ed through the business center with Torches aflame red fire burning and cheer ing wildly for Bryan and Altgeld They filled TattersaJIs building to hear free silver speeches and crowded around the score of stands which were built at street corners to take care of the overflow They formed persons groups ranging from fifty to 200 in all parts of the district and discussed the financial issue until mid night and long after the cnble cars had stopped running shouts for Bryan and Altgeld woke up sleepers in all parts of the city So far as numerical strength was con cerned the silver parade was outclassed by the gold parade of the afternoon but in enthusiasm and noise the Bryan men led the McKinley men by a large majority From the moment Grand Marshal Tol man gave the order to march until the procession broke up south of Tattersalls the cheering yelling and hurrahing was continuous and every cheer for Bryan was echoed by another from the throng which bordered the line of march The sympathetic enthusiasm of the spectators was one of the principal features of the demonstration and women joined with the men in cheering for the free silver champion By actual count there were 2154S men and women in the procession on foot horseback on floats and in wagons and carriages Over 500 women and girls took part in the parade and there were several hundred boys who carried ban ners and were members of fife and drum corps It was an old fashioned torch light procession with some lime lights and hundreds of transparencies and ban ners The silver men were short of bands for almost all union bands in the city had been engaged for the afternoon procession and they were compelled to make up the deficiency with fife and drum corps but they were strong on horses and the men from the stock yards made a good showing in their saddles A West Side silver club caught the crowd by shouting We love Hark Han na nit No Yale dudes in these ranks was painted in bold black letters on a transparency and others were Bryan Brain and Brawn against Bonds Boodle and Bluster News of Minor Note Frank McCarty William Harrison and E Creelman desperate criminals dug a tunnel under the walls of the Sacramento Cal county jail and escaped George Ward aged S4 of East Sagi naw Mich is missing at New Orleans and the police fear he has met with foul play He went to that city to attend the carnival N O Hopkins formerly prominent in Missouri politics where he represented Atchison County in the State Legislature for three terms died in California at the age of 72 r 4 fe X 4sr 4 r r Jt At w
