THE NEWS, ————— Chief Arthur, of the Locomotive Engineers, has arrived in San Francisco to adjust the difficulty between the engineers and the Southern Pacific Railway Company. ——A coroner's jury at Butte, Mont, put the re- sponsibility for the loss of life at the recent explosion in that city on the Kenyon Com- mercial Co., and the Butte Hardware pany. Several millionaires own property in these companies, —— Will Ward, the section band, who killed four men asd wounded two south of with Lom. others near Miilican, twenty miles Bryan, Tex, and attempted suicide morphine, has been lodged in jail at Bryan. The convention of the woman suffragist: was continuel in Atlanta, Ga.——Dud Eilis, a farmer of Aurora, Mo, while insane kiiled his wife, child aad bimssit - R R. and Pat MeTigue, who ars neighbors prominent farmers near Russellville, Ky, had na diffloulty over a law suit about It resulted in Lamb emptying the contents of Lamb and some land, a shotgun into MeTgue's left side, —Mulli- han. Elliott, Roy and Harris, charged with being the lynehers of Barrett Seotr, ths de- faulting ex-treasurer Holt county, Ne. braska, were released on $2 000 bounds by the county judge, who decided that not enough evidence had to charging the prisoners with murder first degree, C. G. Schnellers’ frame building at Catasa qua, Pa., used by the Union Foundry Machine Company as a pattern shop, was de- of been produced warrant in tie and stroved by fire. Sechnellers' loss is £2000, £30.000. — Chancellor MeGill has at the in- stance of Heary Johanson, of Rahway, N. J., granted a temporary injunction the Johnson Railroad Signal further parting with any of Safe robbers rifled the safes in its assets, - Piace Pet: L. and secured £10.00) worth of gold rings, scrips, diamonds, buildings in Costicook, Ma. by fire, of the Exeter Nationa! Bank, of Concord, N. H., who was found gulity of embe was sentenced to five years in state's prison. His defaleation wrecked the bank, Christian Zindlinger and her twin children were burned to death a: their home ia Phil- adelphia. ——A deficit of two thousand lars was discovered in the Postmaster Phillips, of Borlington, N. J. Two men were killed and others seriously in- jared by the explosion of a boller in Danver, Moses Avener, one ofthe A, RK VU fendants, was disc cup in Clough was sworn in as Govern gota. W. 8. Stratton has shipped from the ous Mine, x ’ Creek district, one hundred tons of ' ete, —— Twenty were des: royed Zioment eM rS, dol- accounts of de- harged by Judge Gross. Chicago, ——Lisutenant Governor r of Minne. fam- Independence in the Cripple ore, which is expected to yi ald $1,000,000 at the smeiter works in Denver, Some of the ore is rich tellurium, which runs $30,000 in gold less, af ton, —James McCan mem! of the firm of Me & fo Pittsburg, died in Philadelphia, in his e first year. Heart disease was the Lis death, —— The shareholders of t Commercial National Bank, of Denve rmer andiess, Johns ghty- aotitled of an asec men? —e While attempting to John N. Walsh at Canal and Ad killed by an explosi workmen were pipe leakage, when a slight explosion cen ed, —— Mrs, L Niles, 0. Charles using a eandie examinin abme “ide in Jr., { Lima, ymmitte] sul M. Hughes eashier of the First National ex- Bank charge of O., was arrested ono a misappro- wiating funds, Firebugs are again f 8 ing uneasiness in and the fire of that town bas been increased Waynesboro, department ~ Joseph Greenhut, president of the Whis- key Trust, and E. B tbe First National appointed receivers of Awrence, a directo Bank, of Disti waiyjknown as the Trust, —— The railroad war in the West ing and Cattle Feeding Company caused the price ol slit coal In Chi drop to £20 a ton, ~The will ol James Fair disappeared from the county office in San Francisco, —— Mes, U. 8. Grant received and shook bands with a large num. ber of the members of 8 Confederate zo to Cr clerk's veteran association in Atlanta, ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE to be chosen heir to the Siamese throne, studying at Ascot College, Eng. Ex-Senator Reagan, of Texas, ed his reappointment as a member of the Lone State's Railroad Commission, Govoxer, Wanixa, New York's new street cleaning commissioner; is cleaning the streets, nnd in order to let no mud increase under his feet worked his force on Sunday, No one seemed to object to this, as the re- freshing change in affairs is rather a sur- prise tothe regular New Yorker. Rev, Epwarp Davis, of Oakland, Cal, res cently illustrated a sermon on “Eternal Judgment” by assuming the character of Ricbard IIL and quoting in a dramatic man- per the famous soliloquy in the first scene and also in the fifth act of the play, The preacher's acting was realistic, There was a big audience, Priace Volkouski's name, as well as that of Nathan Haskell Dole, lias been mentioned in connection with the proposed chair in Har. vard College to be devoted to the Siavonie tongues, Prince Yolkouski fs a Russian no. blemen who stands high in the estimation of the Imperial Government, a man of some reputation as a philologist, and a warm ad voeate of the beaurosraey of the empire. Tuoxas W. Palmer, of Detroit, ex-United Slates Senator, ex minister to Spain and president of the World's Falr Commission was fn Baffalo recently, accompanied by William A. Moore, one of the leading oll. zens of Detroit. They ‘went to eall upon their old college mate, Judge Charles Deck. with, The three entered the University ol Michigan nearly 50 years ago, and they have been warm friends from that time to this. On February 1st salaries of all employes of the Florida Central and Peninsular Rail road will bo reduced 10 per cent. “The reason given for the cut is the falling off in earnings due to the destruction of the crange erop by the freeze, Bome of the train men ¢hroaten to strike.” The President Sends a Message to Congress. BONDS NEEDED AT ONCE. Business Disaster Should Be Averted at Once~TIime for Patri- otic Duty—-The Retirement of Currency Notes Urged. To the Senate and House of Representatives, In my last annual messagas I commended to the serious consideration of the consideration of our National finances, and in connection with the subject indorsed the plan of currency legislation which at that time seemed to furnish protection against impending danger. ‘This plan has not been approved by the Congress. In the mean time the the Congress situation has so threatening that I derm it my duty to ask at the has Government such | as will restore coufiienos soundness and avert universal distress among our people, Whatever may be the merits of the outlined in my annual message as a re; for ills then existing and ns ! against depletion of the go! then in the sasury, I am now that its rece present advan plexity necesciintes legislation, With natural resources unli and productive sires whose activity and fair opportunity to a and greatness, our progress chec by a ial needless disr nor should they engende perity. It 1s hardly ment conirouts one in any in our ian addy v i the aot stage of additic fluancial ked flaanc disputed that this predioa- to-lay. Therefore, no us ¥ Free responsibis | tha MAK~- ) id fail to in bonestly and sincere ve the situation, BU CCee iw un- Artis nship, dministration to An resist tion of mitting « disastrous It is also of we approach the study « sented as free as p 4 ¥ the Td ini real trouble which lack onstantis ing abilit to pay its o Ths lack ¢ ten: out ot harrassme Governme gold, poss ure ture a The ment fale be jase mans certain that ean mu cradit : Government, Tae moet dang of the situs mentionad, which tb thus obtal Government oblig benefit of those who ft abroad, or whose hoard it at hon We have on millions of curren ment. for which when presented and in fact redeemed and paid in gold they shall be reissued, Thus the same notes may do duly many times in drawing gold from the Treasury ; nor ean the process be arrested as lone as private parties for profit or others see advantage in repeating the operation, lars in these notes have already been redeemed in gold and notwithstanding such redemption they are still outstanding. Since the 17th day of January, 18M, our sminded interest-bearing dett has been {i- ;rensed $100,000,000 for the purpose of oie taining goid to replenish our ¢oin reserve, 090,000 sach—one in January, and the other in November, As a result of the first issue, there was realized something more than $58,000,000 ia gold. Between that issue and the succeeding one in November, comprise ing a period of about ten months, nearly $103,600,000 in gold were drawn irom the Treasury. This made tho second Imus necessary, and upon that more than $58,000,000 in gold was again realized. Between the date of this second issue and the prusent tine, cov- ering a period of only about two months, more than $68,000,000 of gold have beeu drawn from the Treasury. These large sums of gold were expended without any cancellation of Government ob ligations, or in any permanent way benefit. ing our people or improviag our pecuniary situation, The financial events of the past year sag- gest {acts and conditions which should cere tainly arrest attention. More than one hundred and seventy-two millions of dollars in gold have been arawn out of the Treasury during the year for the purpose of shipment abroad or boarding at ome. While nearly one hundred and three mil. Hons of this amount were drawn out during the first ten months of the year, a sun ug- ting more thea two-thirds of that amount, being about sixty-nine millions, was drawn out during the following two months, thus indicating a marked aceeleration of the depleting process with the lapse of time, The obligations upon which this gold has been drawn from the Treasury are still out. standing and are avallable for use in repuy- ing the exhausting operation with shorter intervals as our perplexities accumulate, Conditions are certainly supervening tend ing to make the bonds waloh may be issaed to replenish our gold less useful for that purpose, An adeqnate gold resaryas {5 in all olrenm. stances avsolntely mscential to the npholds ing of our public eradit and to the mainte nance of our high National eharacter, I cannot wee that the diffsranses of opinion concerning the extent to which silver ought to ba colupd or need in our earrency shonld {ateriere risk the as of thoss Shioss uty 0 revtify evils now apparen our finnncial situation, the question of he insixtel upnn ds to sliver or bimetallism, a proper solution of the question Now pross. ing upon us only requires a recognition of gold as wall as silver, and a concession of its importance, rightiully or wrongfully ac- quired, isn basis of National eradlt, a nooss. ir the honorable discharga of our obligations payable in gold and a badge of solveney. I do not understand that tha real friends of silver desire n condition that might follow in aetion or neglect to appreciate the mean- ing of the present exigenoy if it should re- sult in the entire banishment of gold fron our financial and currency arrangements, Besides the Treasury notes, which cer- tainly should ha paid in gold, amounting to nearly £500,000,000 <here will fall due in 1004 £100,000,000 in bonds Issued daring the last year. for which wa hava received gold, and in 1907 nearly 2609.000,000 of four par cent, bonds fssusd In 1877. Shall the payment of thess obligations in rold he repudiated? If they are to be paid in such an manner as the preservation of our National honor and National solvency de- alty mands, we should not destroy, or even im. peril, our ability to supply ourseives with gold for that purposes, While 1 am not gllver nnd while 1 i recognized to such an extent as is consistent with floancial safety and the preservation of National honor and eredit, I am not willing to gold entirely ban ished from our currency and finances, To avert such a consequence, I believathorongh and radical remedial legislation should be yromptly passed, [I therefore beg the Con- gress to give the subject immediate atten tion, In my opinion the Secretary of the Treas vry should be authorizad to fssus honds the Gov it for the purpose o! procur- ing and maintaining a sufMal { re nt gold serve and the redemption asd cancellation uniriendly to desira to sen it Hees ol ram ‘reasury notes jssuwd for the paurchass r under the law of July 14. Ya should ba relisaved from th ou issuing bonds to procure to be | sdintely and repeatedly drawn out on t + obligations for purposes not relisted to the benailt of our Government Our neopis, The principal and interest of these bonds piuyable on their facs in hey should be sold oaly for iis represontative, and ba now probably be diffiealty in favorably « posing of bonds not containing the stipula- tion, 1 suggest that the bonds ba issued in denominations of twenty and fifty dollars and their maitiplies, and that they bear in. terest at a rate not exceodiag three per ¢ per anna m., I do not gon able fifty present s hnmilise ot or gold be- gold or muse thers would wld be t fn TY 46 why they should not be pave. ir date, We ol Iargns amounts to ligations, and loag « The Secretary of ba pe y the MIS ror eration si on der existing laws conid be sosited by National banks as sacurity for culation, and such banks should al- *uiRtion to issue eir of these or any br other bon 4 f » 1 standing in « iin ti lowed to ROTO ¢ SEO when 1% Treasu io ) ienom! an npwaris jesus a th Niiver cortifleates of $10 and u vat on of g wards should the provisions | i be ex bodied in our a complete re inl condition, ot interfers with any bave sug AW we . i § oy at ins in waring obligations 10 the not terest-bearing legal tender Ia point of fact, however, tiiess notes burdened us with a Iarge load of inter. and it is stili aceamainting he aggregate ints fssae of bonds, the proceeds o conditute the remerve those notes, amounted anuary 1, 1805, and annual charges for jterost on theses bonds and thoss lssaed for 1 same purpose daring the last year will be £9.145,000, dating from January 1, 1885, While the canecsilation theme notes sould not relieve us from the obligations al- on their account, these tires are given by wa suggesting that their existence has not en free from inter st charges, and that the longer they are outstanding, jo lging from the expeciensse the iast year, tie more expensive they will pars Of ra- 4 rest original which in gold for the pa to $70.3 # nt of J the $ of fig- Of of In conclusion, I desire to frankly confess my reluctance to issuing more honda in present ofreumstances and with no better results than have lately followed that course, I eannot, however, refrain from adding to an insurance of my anxiety to co-operate mvith the present Congress in any reasonable measure of relief, an expression of my de- whieh furnishes a hope for improving the situation wr checking a suspicion of our declination sr disability to mest with the strictest honor lho National obliga fon. Grover CLEVELAND, The Executive Mansion, Jan, 28, 1845, sms ss —. WORK AND WORKERS. sn hii The Riverside Iron works at Benwood, W. Va , was placed in operation jn all is de tartments, affording ment, The $2,000,000 plant of the Ohio Steel Company, at Youngtown, to begin operations this week. About 500 men wil Le employed, The Buckeye Glass Company, at Martin's Ferry, Oblo, yesterday succeeded in getting a number of non-union men past the strikers’ pickets and into the works, About 500 employes of the Union Pacific Rallway, between Council Bluffs and Chey- sane, were aid off, and the men at the Se. dalia shops wero put on hall tima Agents from the new Michigan coal flald are said to have offered Ohio micers 85 conts a ton for mining-—au advanes of 33 cents over the rate paid by the Ohio oper ators. It is reported in Chattanooga, Teanesses, that the United Leather Company will move | » tannery, the largest in the world from there to Filntstone, Georgia, the cause being heavy taxation, Two thousand miners employed in the con! mines of BL Clair county, Illinois, are hreatening to go on strike for a highm sonle of wages, as the scale, it is said, is not oqunl to that paid in Central and Northern Lilinols, - ol Assrohists Expelled From Switzerland, Eighteen Italian anarchists of Lugano, one of the three capitals of the santon of Tieino, ho in nit fet hgiged in smile. sya 5,000 men employ. iw [HE ELBE SUNK. in the North Sea, OVER 300 LIVES LOST. Only Twenty-One Persons Known to Have Been Saved-The Sur- vivors Nearly Frozen-Life- boats Swamped. steamer Elbe, for New York via Southampton, has been sunk io coi- The North German Lloyd Captain Yon Gossel, from Bremen lislon with the British steamer Crathie bound from Rotterdam for At the of sending this dispatch the exact loss cf has it Aberdesn, time fe that £4 was is unknown, bat report The dis surred belore dny- light at a point some thirty of I The fi Lowestoft enormous, peter oc miles from the Hook from ish flsbing ports, lispateh was received haat it was reported MnCKs Later dispatches t reg bad minimi Many dispate sking bin had resc However, tivmet Sates, United THE From the details now at hand it is learne that the EF. be was proceeding ni her usual rate of i fhe was Do gaie, speed an i Keeping ‘he ordinary jpokouts, tidgh. was dark, butt Suddenly the forward look on the E be reported to the officer on dec that the Jights of a sie immer were close aboard over the port bow Before the courses of the Ei be could changed so ns to sheer her off from the ap proaching steamer the latter struck her abalt the going Just engine. room, thie sticking her nose almost through the hall o the Eile. For a Elbe on ber nose, but then her engines wen she had made, Az she dil so the water rushed into the E be in a torrent and sbe Legsan immediately to settle, The most energetic efforts on the part of the North German Lloyd Steamship Com. pany to find any additional survivors of the disaster to the Eibe have proved unsucoess* ful, and it is probable that the twenty per’ sons landed at Lowestoft, on the northeastern corner of Suffolk eounty, England, are all that aro now living of those who were on board the Elba when she was in oollision with the British steamer Crathie in the North sea, The officers of thas Notth German Lloyd have given for publication the following fig ares as the total number of persons on board the Elbe: First-cnbin passongors .........ccvievvine Second eabin.......... Steerage, ......... OMonrs ANd OrOW. ..o..ccovinssnvncnsesy 148 18 31 187 EERE R ARR R RRR EE ran ' Total....0R DOBId. cocoon vrreninnsiniss By LioBh sivsceavicansnnnssnansnnnnsnnrsnvss 34 ss nn IIIs Miss Kare Fixro, the well-known Wash. ingtonian, and George Riddle, the elocution. ist, who are the niece and nephew of Mra il. Banford, of Newpor:, R, 1. are contest. ing the latter's will, Mrs. Sanford having leit n large slice of her e<tate to a friend. and ION M. EAnxgrr CAn¥ot, the second son of the Inte President of France, has beea elected 10 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. SENATE Tuinry-Eront Day, The reading of Presi. dent Cleveland's message on the financial situntion formed the most interesting feature of the United States Senate, Most of the day wis taken up by the passage of the House Lill, with Benate amendments, disapproving an agreement with the Southern Ute Indians, providing for their removal from 10 Utah, Tinry-Nixtit Day, — President Cleveland's financial message bins again started the cure rents of sen iment on the financial question iu the 8 nate, Mr. Maanderson, of Neuraska, presented a compromise pl Ia reply . Mr. Teller, of Colorado, s the significant declaration that no such compromise legls- ation could effected at this session of Longress, Fortier Day, —Inthel much feeling was expressed sions on the financial man urged the Benate irom the Finanes Comp f framing a bill, he dec ared, tie. Mr. Bherman arraigned cates of free silver for pushing paral, zing legi he Colorado Bye De d States Senate the question, Mr, to discs. Bher- the subject ere the 1 Was hopeiers, jitlee, {ASK Ly reason of a the adv lemands to the point of He as«erted 1 uid reac imple Hor Dresent emner- on present em suey © bonds such that smMyings in the governme WAS also hail inistiatd od bist uh Banking order was A special 1 iat ryt fy Hepreseniativ fie matler was 8 ric our wa« devoted Latlroad Wil iebate on the ————— DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Tare American Hotel at Florence, Ala . Was destroyed by fire, No lives were Jost, Tur Red River line steamer Nab F. Doteh, #lruck a snag and sank fourteen miles below A'exandria, La. No lives were lost, Two children of Johh Raybeck, at Dayton, Key., were killed by the explosion of a ear of coal ofl, and a third was fatally burned. Drownlee & kaw mill at Deuray, Michigan, was wrecked by a boiler ex vas plosion aud Frank ( ollain, the engineer was killed Murs. Many Hoor, a widow, and ber 3.vear. vid ehild were found frozen 10 death at Ww ar. saw, Ind. They lived in a single room, and when found were without fuel Myrtio Towsend, aged 18; Elsie Hughes, 13, and George Cro sty, 18, while skating at Green Bay, near Fort Madison, Iowa, broke through the ice and were drowned, A tornado struck Covington, Tenn. blew off the top of the court Louse and demolished a dozen residences and a score of barns and outhouses, The damage is $30,000, A nEan-xxp collision oceurred on the East River Bridge, near iis Brooklyn side in which three passengers were injured, one seriously. Traveling was suspended for ap bour and a balf and the footways and wagon roads were packed with pedestrians William Killoy and George Gates, of Fai Haven, died of exhaustion at Lake Salton stall, near Now Haven, Conn,, while atte pt. ing to make their way through the brokes loa. Their frozen bodies were discovered ye ing near tho edge of the Lake, They had been fishing and broke through the fee, A Lanark soction of scaffolding surrounding the top stories of Fort Dearborn building, » 12-story building in course of erection in Chi cago, was blown across the street by a vio. lent gust of wind, smashing the plate glass windows of soveral stores and injuring eight pedestrians, ous of them, H. IL, Erwin, fa tally, A dispatoh from Teli City, Ind, says that the compleio report regarding the loss of Ii ¢ by the sinking of the styamer Sate of Mis. sourl, piace the lows of life at 18, This in. oltides the cabin crew, the oarpenter, one 5 PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of News Gleansd From Various Parts f the Btate decided in Wilker, The Jeddo Tunnel Ca invor of the tunnel Barre, The House amended the Gobin $0 f 1 we for ser Vile J I Wernersville Asyi fs 10 pro arate nye if Norristown and hinstown god Farmers met at J eke for to foreign Luliding associations 101 lefrauding them, President was i carry their cau Al a imorality at I meeting of the Co {arrisbu 1 § a rout fe thea point omnmiltee investigale the £ » aovn le : whois wey d 3A FLT Be uarges against Aor i 3 Ang YY erpers ville Asyiuns Hyphant, closeq itv 8 Bale uperinlend aisr the trust ¢ my any nent and Cashier Stone exzlemenut and forgery. yrved an Was arresied ¢ PORTE emt 1 PY fan g It is reg that the famous Je be settled ihe total atstinence societies of the Beran ; i a1 ton Boman Catholic Dik fo pM TY i Esherite Evangelical Association 3 f the vicinity of Dellef Waller Harvey made an atten r-da-law, al West ( THE MAFIA AGAIN. nieione, a larg shoe n of the wea thiest Italians The letter demanded that he g +. in the same section of the Sate as and place $21 sid m ons 0. the hind a tree roods, which wo bo known Ly a red mag haoging i Limbs, It teed, stated that the woods would be closely and advised tha: no po ic» be It thr -atened assassi. nation in case the po.doe were notified, ught to the scene, but the lics and appeal {or protec. Mostelone was very much frightened, lecided to the i nally places the mailter in bands of tion. The police and better elass of people think it is a genuine letter, and that the Mafia which has been «lent since the uprising of 1801, bas again sprung into ex sience, The Mafia is a secret oath-bounl society, whose members are pledged, on pain of death, to obey any order of their superior officers and to execute any death sentence passed bry the society. The high-hand d course of this society, which was charged with the asassination of Chief of Police David C. Hennessy, who bad been active in prosecuting its members, led 10 an uprising of the people of New Orieans on Saturday, March 13, 1801. A band of citizens went to the county jail ani took therefrom eleven Sicdian prisoners and exe. cated them. The uprising was precipitated. by the failure of a jury to conv.el, notwith. standing clear evidence of participation on the part of the prisoners la the sssassination of Chiel Hennessy, st ——— KILLED IN A COMEDY. A Pisiol Pointed in Amateur Theatricals Proved to Be Loaded. News of a sensational tragedy eascted ip Chambers county, Alabama, jast across the Georgie line, has reached Logrange. A T Davidson was killed by his brother Will. The two, with their sister, Mrs, Jones, and a Mrs. West, wont from Lafayette, their home, to Daviston, to give a musical entertain. ment, The two Adams boys were giving a com. ody in which a pistol was to figure. William drew the pistol at the proper time and pull. od the trigger. He wag horrified to see his brother drop, and when it became kuown tion, No one scomed 10 know how the pistol
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