a
THE NEWS.
——
Isaac Pequa has been elected President of
the Central Pacific Railroad Company, in
place of C. P. Huntingdon, Bishap Fow.
ler, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, does
not think women will ever be admitted to
membership in the General Conference of the
church, Park Colliery, No. 2. at Park
Place, Pa., was burned’; loss, £150,000: par-
tial insurance, In the colliery were employed
seven hundred hands, An unsuccessful at-
tempt was made at a bridge near Oxford, 0O,,
to wreek an express train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad.
furniture factory, and dwellings at
Williamsport, Pa., were burned; loss, $75,000,
partially insured. Clark, wanted
in New York on some charge growing out of
the failure of the firm of Hunter, Clark &
Jacob, of which he was a member, was ar-
rested in Chicago.
Luppert's
SONG
Herman
over
fifty buildings, embracing the entire portion
of the city of Barry, in Pike county, Ill. The
loss is estimated at $200,000, Trouble {is
expected to follow the threatened strike of
the coke-workers in the Connellsville region,
Orders have been issued for starting up
the Belmont blast furnace of the
Iron and Steel Company,
Fire destroyed
Wheeling
The cotton mills in Augusta, Ga., have or-
ders sufficient to them to run
months, Major Wm. N. Evans, one of the
best-known bandmasters in the West, died at
Chicagoe,~——C, P. Huntington, H, E.
tington and Charles W, Crocker have resigned
from the directorate of the Central
enable six
entrench themselves in a strong
tion whereby the Southern
legal
Pacific Company
ehall pay the holders of Central Pacific securi-
ties the annual sum of $1,800,000 in dividends.
~Fire did $40,000 damage at South
ington, Mass,-———The steamboat Sea
running between Red Bank, N. J.,
York, ran ashore near the Atlantic Highlands,
The passengers were taken to Oceanic in
small boats, and from that place walked to
Red Bank, The Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts decided that a note given in pay-
ment of a bet on horse racing is illegal,
The right of way of the South Pennsylvania
tailroad will be sold as unsettled lands,
Guy T. Olmstead shot and killed Letter-car-
rier Clifford on the street, in Chicago.
Fram-
Bird,
Judge Butler, in the United States
Philadelphia, deci i ]
did not violate the | when it absorbed
Philadelphia st
of Denver, quashed the
fire and pe
Governor Waite,
Sugar
anda an
sume their duties,
facturing Comj
ders, Employes of the Swampscott Ma.
chine Company, of th Newmarket, N. H.,
applied to the
receiver for the company in
ourt for the :
Bre
cure $5,200 in wages several months ¢
—H. 8, Loucheim & Co.,
ers and brokers of Phi)
signment, ——Lieutengnt John
West Pointer and the military
Alexander, a
instructor at
ber’s chair at Springfield, 0. The machine
} ¥ ’ . *Grler re big
shops of the Columb
ing Railroad, at Columbus, O., were
James Mulien, a
Wis.
cide,
near Ressvyill
and ox
‘armer
murdered his wife ymmitted
All the Kanawha Valley
sumed work. Protessor Hartshorne,
Neweastle, Pa., was santen
the penitentiary. While playing
Mass, Henry Myers, aged
teen, was shot and probably
at Stoughton,
fatally wour
by George Mackintosh, a
Rev. Dr. Charles pastor
Mary's Catholic Adrian, Mi
treasurer © h Nati
ym panion,
oy Reilly,
formerly
League in America, has recedy
in Paris April 12
jssdoners, have unearthed a
ambling dens which the police had failed te
Cantains Chris Colleen and John Jour
numer «
Be,
nee and Bergeant John P, Boyle have beer
suspended and charges
them,
The mutilated body of
comparative stranger, was found about
miles from Fort Dodge, Ia. up the riverina
with timber
Provi-
preferred against
Charley Tiffany, a
seciuded spot grown over and
brush, Joseph H. Bourne died in
dence, He was sixty-seven years old, and was
one of the best known horti
England, and the founder of the Rhode Island
Hortieultural Society, Three yonng women
who represent the Rhode Island mille, started
for Washington from Providence to
before the Finance Committee of the
to protest against the passage of the
vislturists in New
Henate
Wilson
bill,
mils, ~The dead body of
aged twenty-three, youngest son
John Deatty, of Columbus, O,,
the banks of a ¢reek four miles from
pieville, a village in Ross county, —The ad.
Philadelphia Kennel
Philadelphia Tattersall,
The show promises to be the best ever given
in that eity, as the list of entries is unusually
of General
{iiiles.
nual dog show of the
Clab opened at the
dogs, many of them champions or prize win-
pers in their classes, Major J.W, Bickham
editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal, is dead
ce
WITH AXE AND RAZOR.
Father Killed by Mis Wife and Daughter---Pamily
Quarrel the Cause
J. F. Willis, of Homer, Ga., was killed by
his daughter Lillian and his wife, The news
of the tragedy did not leak out for several
days until on son Francis, 11 years of nge, told
it to neighbors, Daughter and mother were
both arrested and given a preliminary trial.
The boy testified that his father came home
from work after dark and called for his sup.
per. After beginning to cat his meal a diffi.
culty arose between his father and mother,
but the former sat down before the fire, when
Lillian, » girl about 15 years of age, struck
him with the axe, cutting a gash in his skull,
Willie threw back his head and the mother
took the axe from the girl and eut him across
the throat with it. Willis died a Tew minutes
later, ig
The girl says she struck the blow with the
axe after having cut her father's throat with
@ razor, while Willis was choking her mother
to death, Her plea was that she did the deed
to save her mother's life, The jury, after be.
ing out for some time returned a verdiet of
not guilty,
PRESIDENT'S VETO
He Withholds Approval of the
Bland Bill.
LOOSELY DRAWN MEASURE.
it Would Rob the Treasury of
Gold and Would Retard the Re-
vivalof Business Prosperity
in the Country.
The President sent to the House
sentatives a message vetoing the Bl
seigniorage bill,
The President vetoes
that it is loosely drawn and
he bill on the gr
would
our gold.
The vet
within the 10 days given
message was sent 10 Congres
by the constitution,
Sundays are not ine
There is no question
of the veto.
without my approval
titled **An act directing
silver bullion held
My strong
posed legisiation
, IY ©
responsi
hold forbids the
desire, and inexorably
bh is die
i) ir res
nothing she
leaner i
at this time
8 lower “ia
Forum
ron
i rh
ir hase
iestroy
faith
. ia
ten
it distressing plight »
INTRINSIC VALUE
“5 8 parity in
estimation and con { the people
use our money in their dally transactions
Manifestly the maintenance of this par
. and in th
factod by these Treasury notes
timation of the hol if the same, by givit
to such holders, on their redemption,
coin, whether it is gold or silver, which thes
prefer,
It follows that while
oir to be paid on sac
the Secretary of
Treasury, the exercise of this discretion,
opposed to the demands of the holder, is
ler
in terme the law leaves
h rede
If both gold and sliver
Are
supply our people a safe and stable currency,
Such necessity has been repeatedly
conceded in the platforms of both political
under which the bullion now on
purchased, This law insists upon the “main-
dollar at all times in the markets and in the
payment of debts.”
The Recretary of the Treasury has, there.
fore, for the best of remsons, not only
promptly complied with every demand for the
redemption of these Treasury notes in gold,
but the present situation, as well as the letter
and spirit of the law, appears plainly to justi.
fy, if it does not enjoin upon him a continua
tion of syah redemption,
CONDITIONS PRESENTED,
The conditions I have endeavored to pro
sent may be thus summarized:
First—The Government has purchased and
now has on hand safMeient silver bullion to
permit the cobnage of all the silver dollars
necessary to redeem, in such dollars, the
Treasury notes lssued for the purchase of said
silver bullion and enough besides to coin, us
gain or ssigniorage, 556,166 681 additional
standard silver dollars,
Second There are outstanding and now in
cirenlation Treasury notes lssued In payment
of the bullion purchased amounting to #152.-
951,240, These notes are legal tender in
payment of all debts, public and private, ex.
copt when otherwise expressly stipulated
they are receivable for customs, taxes and all
sublie dues; when held by banking associa.
ons they may be counted as part of their
Iawful resorves, and they are redeemed by the
government in gold at the option of the hold-
ers. These advantageous attributes were dos
liberately attached to these notes at the time
of their Issue, They were fully understood
our people, to whom such notes have been
distributed ae currency, and have inspired
confidence in their safety and value, and have
undoubtedly thus lwducsd thelr continued
and contented use ne money instead of anxi-
ety for their redemption.
Having referred to some incidents which I
*
deem relevant to the subject, it remains for
me to submit a specific stutement of my obe
jections to the bill now under consideration,
HIS OM ECTION TO THE BILL,
This bill consists of two sections, excluding
one which merely appropriates a sum suffi.
cient to carry the act into effect, The first
section provides for the immediate coinage of
the silver bullion in the Treasury which rep-
resents the so-called galn or selgniorage or
which would arise from the coinage of all the
bullion on hand, which gain or selguiorage
this section declares to be 856,156,681,
It directs that the money so-colned or the
cortificates jssued thereon shall be used in
the payment of public expenditures, and pro-
vides that if the needs of the Treasury de
mand it, the Becretary of the Treasury may,
in his decretion, silver certificates in
excess of such coinage, not exceeding the
amount of seigniorage in said section authors
ized to be coined,
The second section directs that as soon as
posaible after the coinage of this selgniorage
the remainder of the bullion held by the gov-
ernment shall be coined into legaltender
standard silver dollars, and that they shall
be held in the Treasury for the redemption
of the Treasury notes issued in the purchase
of sald bullion,
Fhe entire bill is most unfortunately
gtructad., Nearly every sentence presents
certainty and invites controversy as to
moaning and intent. The first pection is
ecinlly faulty in this respect, and it is
remely doubtful whether its language
the consummation of its supposed pu
HEAT
TWO
FAULY
m led to believe ti
this
for the cotuage of the bullie
gain, or seigniorage,
standard silver dollars, ¢
tively nothing in the
inage into any descripti
now suthorized under the
I suppose this sectd
the needs
money faster than
134 actually be 00
CRs
suver certificates |
issuance of sue
unt of selgniorage as shat
which weuld not represent an «
int 1
Fhe debate
PYREUrY,
this section
‘ gp
faruest anc p
y jis obi
clionr that the pros
RITRERM ENTE
t ana un
IY is nothi
chara teria
1" 2)
If t
indicate th
these certificates,
character as silv
or existing
all pu
this
WOrtRnt ross
setion 1 shall
ns the
werniend as heretofore
rion of the ho
PrOvIs
it for
T'ressary
phew wil
1 that this scheme
dangerous, As an ultin
sperntion Treasury notes which are
er for all debts public and private,
are redeemable in gold and silver
tion of the holder, will be replace
silver cortiflcates, which, whatever ma
their chametor and description, will
none of these qualities, In anticipation «
this result, and a» an immediale effect, the
Treasury notes will naturally :
value and desirability,
The inact that gold can upon
them, and the further fact that their destra
tion has been decreed when
Treasury, must tend to thelr withdrawal
from general cireulation, to be immediately
presented for gold redemption or to Ix
hoarded for presentation at @ more conveni
ent season. The sequel of both operations
ill be a large addition to the silver currency
n our circulation and a corresponding re-
duction of gold in the Treasury,
The argument has been made that thes
things will not occur at once because a long
time must elapse before the coinage of any-
thing but the seigniorage ean be entered upon,
It the puysical effects of the execution of the
second section of this bill are not to be real.
ized until far in the future, this may furnish
a strong reason why it should not be passed
so much in advance, but the postponement of
its actual operation cannot prevent, the fear
and loss of confidence and nervoul preosu-
tion which would immediately follow its pas-
sage and bring about is worst consequences,
i regard this section of the bill as embody-
ing u plan by which the government will be
obliged to pay out its scanty store of gold for
no other purpose than to force an unnatural
addition of sliver money into the hands of
our people, This is an exact reversal of the
policy which safe finance dictates, if we are
to preserve parity between gold and silver
and maintain sensible bimetallism,
We RSve sow outstanding more than $338 .
000,000 in sliver certifoates issued under ex-
isting lawe, They are serving the purpose of
money usefully and without question. Our
gold reserve, amounting to only a little more
than #100,000,000, is directly charged with
the redemption of #346.000,000 of United
States notes, When it is proposed to inflate
our silver currency it is a time for strength.
ening our gold reserve instead of depleting it,
1 cannot conceive of a longer step toward
silver monometallism than we take when we
spend our gold to buy silver certifioates for
circulation, especially in view of the practical
dificulties surrounding the replenishment of
our gold,
This leads me to earnestly present the de
sirability of granting to the Secretary of the
Treasury 8 better power than now exists to
issue bonds to protect our gold reserve when
for any reason it should be necossary, Our
currency is in such s confused condition and
our financial affairs are apt to assume at any
time so critical a position that it seems to me
= Bhd
ate re
hinvye
§
apprecats in
be realized
1 am not insensible to arguments in favor
of coining the bullion selgniorage in the
Treasury, and I believe i could be done safe.
ly and with advantage if the SBecreticey of the
, had the power $0 wie bonds at
a Sem a hry i saat,
tution now suited
to the protection of the Treasury.
I hope u way will present itself in the near
future for the adjustment of our monetary
affairs in puch a comprehensive and conser-
vative manner ag will accord to silver its
proper place i our currency; but in the
meantime 1 am extremely solicitious that
whatever action we take on this subject may
+ such as to prevent loss and discourage.
ment to our people at home, and the destruo-
tion of confidence in
rent abroad,
our financial manage
IVELAXD,
(rROVER (3
5 . 1894,
Execurnive Mavsiow, Mi
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS,
BENATE.
Bérn Day, Alfred Holt Colquitt's
death was announced to the Senate this morn.
ing by Mr, Gordon, the colleague of the desd
few touching words he
sounted the services of the dead sen-
rin field, in * and in his
resolutions of regrets
offered at the
Mr, Colquitt's
of the Mount
at 12.15
senator
politi domestic
ransacked no hn
ly after the
services over the
{ Benator Colquitt,
In the Senate a joint resolution
Mr. D abrogating the
treaty Mr. Peffer intro-
repealing all laws granting
t
waadrgd
Mra
clays and disap
ad MoGarrahan bill
orang hour wa
i passage of
t, and
proceedings
passage at arms ie
Mr. Reed, For four
i agains the ap
® the
veral times ge
appeals fron
the gr
nade
Progress
JR EO
ere
vilese a
Viiege. as
irtiish the reasons
When the
» snw fit
onda _—
sday Dex
Prose
NINE BURNED TO DEATH.
streyed Their Home
News
WwW. Va
The residencs of
has just been received in
John Witt, al that place,
ind and with it
children and a servant
was burned to the gre were
srenatod eight sma
girl named Mary Hendricks,
The details of the fire are horrible in
extromne,
Mre. Witt, her twin babes and six other obil-
dren, ranging in ages
Mary Hendricks, the servant girl, were sleep
ing alae in the house, At an early hour Mrs,
the house was enveloped in flames,
frightenad woman ran from the house but re.
children, The flames, which had spread
however, and she was foread to give up, and
barely escaped with her lie,
The neighbors were quickly aroused and
made herofe efforts to save the nine occupants
of the building, Nothing was seen of the Int-
ter, and it is supposed that all were suffoca-
od by the smoke before the flames reached
them. The house was completely destroged
and in the ruins were found only the charred
bones of the eight children and the servant
girl, which were gathered together and will
ail be buried in one grave,
The cause of the fire was a defective flue,
Mr. and Mrs, Witt are prostrated by the ter
rible calamity which has befallen them and
it is feared they will lose their minds,
MURDER IN A BANK.
A Cashier Killed for Refusing to Obey 8 Demand
for Money.
A man entered the branch office of the Ran
Francisco Bavings Union on Market Street and
presented a note 0 Assistant Cashier A, Hor
rick, stating that the bearer should be given
money or he would blow up the place with
dynamite, Upon Herriek’s refusal to comply
the man drew a pistol and fired, The first
shot went wide of its mark and Herrick fired
in return, but missed, then the follow shot
again, The bullet entered Herriok's head,
onusing instant death,
The miirderer was enptured after a lively
chase and sald his name was Frank Dore.
man, He was taken through a demonstrative
erowd to the jail.
FIVE LIVES LOST:
Powder Works Blown Up With
Terrific Force,
ONLY 2 WORKMEN ESCAPE.
Eleven Thousand Pounds of Ex»
plosives Demolish the Entire
Acme Plant In Black's Run,
Near Hulton, Pa. Probably
Due to Carelessness.
Ten thousand pounds of dy
ok's
Pittsburg, at 7.20 A. M., and
who knew anything about it
namite blew ug
the only persons
were seattered
The dead are: William aged 28
Mrs, Belle Arthur,
of William Arthur; Sadie
sister of Mm, Arthur
Allegheny
Artin
nged 27 YOurs,
Bemaley, aged 21
Years, Charles
rs, of
the
injured, and died in the West ]
Hospital,
)
Foreman Willlam Mooney
19 wears, sister of
of the dynamite
Epinter Mat
and mon
house, was injured by a flying
engineer, Bradley
packer, although near the
injured. They
ran Winds
empty nitro-glyoer
mpsed and fallen
thus saved fron
which eame down
nearly a
The Acme
minute,
Powder W
four
botton:,
About 100 yards
Wore
use, whero the
warding house
» Hon wis |
» boned
iebiris the 3
rer DIUTAd Drom tm
peer jurad, becuus I
Mooney's warning, He saw the fire croes
t and
The ea hE
E.
ward the building.
t of the ravine,
SITKA'S CASTLE BURNED.
£ Building About Which Clustered Many Traditions
of Russian Splendor
Steamer advices
the
from Si
fm 23 mn ~
famous Barmnofl
»d on March 17th by a fire
origin, and that its onls
Slates Commissioners Roles
capped with dim
A i% hus
jity
Casi
days of the Russian 1
Grovernor sought to while
tie winter by reproducing s«
the gayetios of court life in 81. Petersburg
Was a massive long bullding perched high
upon a steep hill and approached only by a
It took
saranoff, who built iit
long stairway, He name from Gos
early in
and whose memory survives for the erueltios
of his rule and the pomp
the century
roundings,
Rich furniture and costly plate once adorn.
od the castle and princes
and princesses of
the blood have helped to cast a glamor of
romance over the old pile. But many
dies are associated with it as well, and the
Alaska touriet is told how in the carly days
two shots rang out in its reception hall just
as the beautiful Princess being
foreed into a marriage with an old poble
through the false report of her soldier lover's
death, and the returning youth and the maid
who loved him fell at the altar in each other's
arms,
rage.
Olga was
The Speaker Appointed to Bucoend Colquitt Without
Bolivitation or Expectation,
Governor Northen, of Georgia, bas ap-
pointed Speaker Charles F. Crisp to succeed
the late Renntor Alfred H. Colquitt, Not a
word has passed between the Governor and
the Speaker and the latter's name had not
even been prosented formally to the Gove
armor,
Charles Frederick Crisp was born on the
20th of January, 1845, in Sheffield, England,
where his parents had gone on a visit, but
was brought back by them to this country the
year of his birth, He received a common
school education in Georgia, and at the out
break of the war joined the Confederate
Army, serving until May 12, 1864, when he
was taken prisoner of war. At the close of
the war bo read law in Americus, his present
home, and afterward was admitted (0 the
bar, He has boss on the bench and a mem-
ber of the General Assembly in his State,
In 1883 he was elocted to the Forty-Bighth
Congress, and has serves] in that body ever
since, He was olocted Bpeakor in the Fifty.
second Congress and preselected at the open.
ing of the Filty-third,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitome of Hews Gleaved from Various Put; of
the Stats,
What promises 10 an exciting contest he.
tween the two J 2 f Lapecamer (x
was precip by the appointment by Judge
Livingston avid FE. Mayer to fill 8 vacancy
Ini OnIerh BGI
{ Allg
: mig
srubker, who is in
fornia,
The rep
which will »
Auditor General Greg,
ready for distribution,
places the total receipts f your at £13.-
wt %15428
raua,
igs Anns MeGinley,
i him, James O'Don-
be a wealthy Iowa farmer, had
in ehureh on Easter
woman told the priest
nent was made without
of Lycoming
Fiate Conven-
to vote for
ar Gov
1 body was taken from the Gay.
where ihirfeen miners were eh
BYEIN
Commas
Baer, Eminent Gry
Knights Tempiar of Pennsylvania,
in Pittsburg,
Fier it aid. has decided
Beaver, it is sald, bas decided
or Congress
ided to place
saint Prothonotary
ave de
recently avowed that he
#t Judge Clayton's
1G BRI
Radl-
ole #40 in
furnished
the Navy Department in re
Ter Homestead employees who
ie for the Govern-
& Cu
not sustaining
by Secretary Herbert
their
Congressional
say that
wi £ to prove assert. ons
before a COG ~
Appearing
Lsoorr:, of Seranton, fell head-dong
# of an air shaft 150 feet deep and
«d with slight injuries,
k Gus & Ol Company was or
, With Hon, J. H. Holt
W at Spow Shoe
resident,
Twrxry«rwo residents of Laurel Gap, whe
lost relatives and personal property when a
car of dynamite exploded six yoars ago, have
begun suit for damages against the Philadel-
phia & Reading Ballroad Company,
Gomann Evaxs, at one time a prominent
citizen of Seranton, was found dead in a
prison cell in that place, death resulting from
alcoholism,
A caves at the Indian Ridge Colliery car.
ried with it the east and west tracks of the
Lehigh Valiey Raliroad, cutting off all traffic
between Shenandoah and Delano,
Tax Grand Jury for Lackawanna County
has reported that the Soranmton court is
structurally weak, and that the roof is likely
to tumble in at any moment,
Tuene i= a possibility that a sew exchange
will be organized by dissatisfied members of
the Pittsburg Petroleum Stack and Metal Bx.
change,
miss camisnsse os III ccssasmssmine
DROPPED FROM A BALLOON.
An Jeresast Fell 1500 Feet Into the Lake and
Was Drowned,
An immense crowd gathered at Cannes,
France, to witness a balloon ascent by Aeron.
aut Wilton, who is well known In Amerion.
No oar was attached to the balloon and Wilk.
ton ascended hanging to a rope. When 1,500
feet high the ballon was caught in a current
of mir that carried it rapidly seaward, It was
apparent that Wilton could not control the
valve at the top of the balloon which, had it
been opened, would have allowed the gas to
escape and the balloon to gradually descend,
For some unexplainable reason the aaron
aut let go his bold of the rope from which he
was dangling and his body shot down nto
the sea with frightful velocity, The accident
oovurred in full view of the spectators and a
nitmber of women fainted away. A number
of pleasure boats hurriedly made their way to
the place where Wilton bad fallen, and after
death must bave hoon almost instattancous,