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A FLAT SUNDAY FAIR.
MANY EXHIBITS COVERED UP AND BUILDINGS
CLOSED. THE WORKINGMAN STAYS AWAY.
With perfect summer weather on Sunday
the World's Fair officials looked for a large
attendance. but it failed them. not over 50,-
000 paid admissions being registered. On
Baturday the attendance was 128,000.
In the Manufactures and Liberal Art
buildings the exhibits of all foreign nations
were covered up. This example was follow-
ed by many of the American exhibitors, and
on all sides muslin covered exhibits, barred
gates and ropes greeted the eye. In Ma-
chiagery hall and Agricult:zre building this
rule nlso avplied. While a great many
the State buildings were closed, vet those
that were open entertained quite’ a number
of peo le. A large number of people visited
the Art Gallery. Thousands of people visit-
ed the German village to drink beer. As a
whole, the people why visit the Fair of
Sunday are not the class whom Sunday
opening was intended to reach. The work-
ing classes have not taken advantage of it.
The Fair Directory Sunday night claimed
a the paid admissions for the day were
, 028.
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WEST VIRGINIA CELEBRATES.
HER HANDSOME AND HOMELIKE BUILDING AT
THE WORLD'S FAIR DEDICATED.
The broad piazza of West Virginia's
bandsome and homelike State building
sheltered a thousand persons from the
heavy showers of the warm June afternoon
on Tuesday,while another and larger crowd
thronged the rooms of the splendid struct-
ure, anxio ss to do honor to West Virginia
and her oiators on this, her day of dedica-
tion and the anniversary of the birth of her
Stateho:
W. N. Chancellor, president of the West
Virginia Board of World's Fair managers,
nalled the assembly to order and divine
blessing was invoked by the Rev. Paul De
Long, of Parkersburg. Mr. Chancellor then
made his address. He reviewed the work
of his board in West Virginia and compli-
mented the State upon its fine representa-
tion at the Exposition. .
General St. Clair, who rerresented Gover-
nor McCorkle, who ecald rot be present,
pu that although West Virginia is a young
tate, she has performed no small part in
the great work. the result of which ar- to be
teen in Jackson Park. He then dedicated
the building.
A. W. Campbell, of Wheeling, replied to
General St. Clair. He gave a splendid his-
tory of the State, from the time of her first
settlers to the present day. The program
concluded with a vocal solo by Minnie KE.
Smith, a popular West Virginia songstress.
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THE FERRIS WHEEL REVOLVES.
6.000 PEOPLE RIDE AROUND THE CIRCLE 250
FEET IN DIAMETER AND EXPERIENCE A
QUEER SENSATION.
Midway Plaisance was a moving mass of
humanity Wednesday afternoon when the
revolving wheel creation of George Wash-
ington Gale Ferris, of Pittsburg Fa, started
first for the 5,000 invited guests and then
for thousands of Exposition visitors who
had been patiently waiting to take a ride in
the monster circle of steel and iron. All of
the 5,000 invited guests were elevated slow-
ly to a height of 250 feet, and by a gradual
indescribable ' motion lowered through
space to the five platforms. Nobody was
afraid to get on board of the 36 cars, of 40
seats each, but some of the people experi-
enced a disagreeable sensation in the mo-
tion of the wheel. There was a peculiarly
novel, lurching rise and fall. combined
with a forward motion. which nobody has
ever been accustomed to on land or water,
silnp y because there is only on Ferris
whee!in the world.
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A CRITICISM ON JUSTICE FULLER.
& PREACHER SAYS SATAN COULD NOT HAVE
MADE A BETTER SUNDAY DECISION,
The Methodist preachers of Chicago at
their weekly meeting the other day decided
to keep up the fight against Sunday open-
ing. The Rev. P. 8. Hanson, although a
Baptist, had been invited to make an ad-
dress to the meeting, during which he ad-
ministered to the Chief Justice a palpable
slap in the 1ollowing language.
“I can imagine a personal devil squatting
like a black toad at the bar of justice itself,
and dictating the decision of the court; and
then after the judgment had been pro-
nounced, slapping the judge on the shoul-
der and saying: Well done, I couldn't have
written that better myself, ”’
_ These remarks were received with enthus-
iastic applause by the preachers.
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FIGURING ON A DEFICIENCY.
TMT SUNDAY CLOSERS PRESENT SOME MIGHTY
INTERESTING FAIR STATISTICS.
Judge Jenkins granted Wanamaker &
Brown and others leave to amend their hiil
recently filed against the World's Colum-
bian Exposition Company. The complain-
ants set up that the Fair contract has been
violated on four Sundays, when the averaga
attendance was 65.715 paid admissions per
day. This netted the defendant company
£32,857 5). while it is contended the receipts
must be 83,874 78 per day to realizea snm
sufficient to repay the Government the $1.-
829.120 of souvenir coins received under the
appropriation. It is charged that the direc-
ore of the Fair intend to reduce the rate of
tdmission to 25 cents ‘on Sundays,
which it is alleged would result "in
stil! further loss to complainants.
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TO BE COVERED ON THE SABBATH.
The commission who have control of the
Methodist Episcopal Church exhibit at the
World's Fair passed resolutions directing
that the. exhibit be not uncovered on the
Sabbath, and calling upon all Methodists
who have - xhibits at the Fair to take like
action. The exhibits cannot be witudrawn.
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A DECREASE IN ATTENDANCE.
The attendance at the Fair for the week
ending June 17 was 723.796. Tor the week
end nz June 24 it was 703,000. a daily aver-
age of something over 100,000. With pros-
pects of reduced rates and fine weather the
coming week the attendance is expected to
increusé.
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WAXT 1,000,000 PEOPLE ON THE FOURTH.
Excursions on all railroads andja magnif-
icent ratrioiic program are being arranged
for Jnly 4. The desire is to get 1,000,000
people on the grounds that day.
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CHOLERA MAY NOT COME,
Bays Surgeon General Wyman, Though
There is Yet Plenty of Time.
Five persons died of cholera in Montpelier,
France, on Saturday.
A dispatch from Washington says: Sur
geon General Wyman of the Marine Hos-
pital service, referring to the outlook for
cholera in the United States during the
present summer said:
*‘We have an even chance of escaping the
tholera altogether this year. Should it ar-
Five it will certainly not become epidemic.
Its non-apyearance thus far proves that no
germs have lived over the winter in this
country, as it was feared might happen.
The prospect now is much better than I ex-
pected it would be at this time. However,
it should not be forgotton that the disease
did not reach the United States last year
until August. There is plenty of time for
trouble yet. If cholera should get a foot-
bold in this country it would be quickly
stamped out.”’
Married School Teachers Eounced.
By an edict issued by the St. Louis schoo!
commissioners all married teachers in the
public schools have been dismissed. Nearly !
100 teachers were let out.
LATER NEWS WAIFS,
FINANCIAL AXD COMMERCIAL,
Comptroller Eckels has been officially in
formed of the failure of the following Nat-
ional banks: The fi National Bank of
Kendallville, Ind.; the First National Bank
of Santa Anna. Cal.; and the First National
Bank of Whatcom, Wash. He has ordered
Bank Examiner Packard to take charge of
of the Kendallsville bank.
At San Francisco the Pacific bank has
closed. The Peoples Home Saving bank,
under the same management, has also gone
down.
At Greenville, Mich., the City National
bank has suspended.
The Cataract bank, Niagara Falls, N. Y..
the largest bank in Niagara county, closed
its doors.
The New York clearing-house committee
authorized the taking out onFriday of £450,-
000 in clearing-house certificates. The total
now outstanding is £5,350.000.
The East Side bank, Los Angeles, Cal.,
opened its doors again on Saturday morn:
ing. This is the first of closed banks to re:
sume. A feeling of confidence has return:
ed. The other banks will open in a day or
two except the City bank, which is in the
hands of a receiver.
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CAPITAL AXD LABOR.
A compromise has been effected and the
lumber shovers' strike at Tonawanda, N.Y.,
is at an end.
Fifty contract laborers were detained at
Ellis Island, N. Y. harbor, and eight other
immigrants who arrived on the Fuerst Bis-
mark, and refused to answer questions, will
be sent back to Germany.
At Zanesville, O., the strike at McCoy &
Thompson's mines has been adjust d, the
miners resuming work to-day at the old
price of 65 cents a ton.
The farm laborers of Kansas are organiz-
ing a union so as to place themselves in a
position to demand better wages. They are
now receiving from $15 to £20 a month and
want their wages raised to $3). It is be-
lieved that the Populist farmers will indorse
the plan as a matter of course for the farm
hands comprise the poorest paid class of
laborers in existence.
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MORTUARY.
Congressman Mutchler died on Friday,
at home in Easton, Pa. The deceased was
a member of congress from the Eighth dis
trict, comprising Carbon, Monroe, North
hampton and Pike counties. He was born
in Northhampton Pa., Dec. 21, 1831. He
received an academic education and was
admitted to the bar. He was a member of
the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Fifty-first
and Fifty-second congresses, He has taken
an active part in the affairs of congress ‘and
was prominent in State politics.
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PERSONAL,
The Infanta Eulalie sailed on the La
Tou-aine from New York for home Satur-
day. She expects to revisit the “United
States next summer.
Mrs. U. 8. Grant and Mrs. Jefferson Davis
met by accident at Cranston’s Hotel, West
Point, N. Y., and-had a long and’ cordial
conversation.
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FIRES,
The Murray & Nichols ‘drug and spice
manufacturing plant, Chicago, burned. One
man perished in the flames and four others
were badly burned and injured.
At Leonardville, Kan.,, one third of the
village. Loss, $30,000; partly insured.
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FOREIGN.
At Melbourne, Goldsborough, Mortz & Co,,
‘bankers and merchants have suspended
payment. Their liabilities are £2,500,000.
They are expected to resume business short-
ly.
JUDICIAL.
The State of Washington’s anti cigarette
law has been declared unconstitutional by
the United States Circuit Court.
A DEATH DEALING CYCLONE.
Fifteen Persons Killed and Many More
Fatally Injured.
A terrific cyclone swept over Williams-
town, Jefferson county, Kansas, Thursday
night. It took in a scope of country half a
mile wide and about six miles long. Not a
house, barn or tree was left standing in its
path. Eleven dead bodies have so far been
discovered, and it is known that at least five
more were kil'ed.
The dead are L. F. Evans, Emery Evans,
Mrs. John Hutchinson, Samuel Kincaide,
Walter Kincaide.L. M. Grim. Harry Grimes,
and two children, Eva Kincaide and Samuel
Stewart. Those fatally hurt are James
Baker, William Goepfert and Mrs, Goep-
ert
. The desolation was awful. and the hunt
with lanterns over the wind swep: spot for
the dead and dying commenced. It was 1
o'clock Friday afternoon before the last of
the dead bodies were found. The strip. of
country swept by the cyclone is left as bar-
ren as’a floor. In Williamstown school
house were found the dead bodies of the
Kincaid family, consisting of father, mother
and four children. The voungest child is
without its head, it being blown or cut off
and carried away by the wind. One of the
children were tound three miles from the
house. At Arthur Evan's farm everything
is destroyed. Evans ran into his basement
but was found dead three rods from the
house in the tie!d. .
At the Hutchinson farm seven head of
horses were killed. Some of the horses were
blown a quarter of a mile away. In the
cemetery at Williamstown the monuments
are all blown away, and some of the base
stones were blown many rods,
A MISSOURI CYCLONE.
St. JoseeH, Mo.—Reports from : Hamilton
and other points show that a ¢yclone passed
over the country on Thursday. At Con-
ception the house of John Doyle was torn
down and Dovle and his wife and an old
man who lived with them were killed. The
ald man’s head was severed from his body.
Senator Stanford Buried.
“he funeral services of Senator Leland
stamford were held Saturday on the grounds
of Stanford university, at Palo Alto, Cal,
and the remains were placed in the family
mausoleum. The services were simple.
Bishop Nichols read the burial service of
the Epigcopal church. Rev. Dr. Stebbins,
pastor of the First Unitarian church of San
Francisco delivered an address.
Base Ball Record.
The following table shows the standing of
the different base ball clubs up to date:
Ww. L. Pet. w. L, ret,
Philadel’a 30 17 .638|Baltimere 23 24 .4¢9
Boston.... 30 17 .658/Wash’'n... 22 25 .488
Brooklyn. 29 18 .617|Cincin’ti.. 22 26 ,458
Clevel’nd. 23 19 .548/ Chicago... 19 26 .422
Pittsburg. 25 23 .521|St. Louis.. 19 26 422
New York 24 26 .490|Louisv’le. 9 29 287
LIZZIE BORDEN NOT GUILTY.
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A CELEBRATED CASE ENDS.
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The Jury in Her Case Finds Her Inno
cent of Her Parents’ Murder.
At New B dford, Mass.,, on Tuesday af
ternoon the jury in the Borden murder
case returned a verdict of not guilty. At
4,35 the jury signaled they were ready to re
tarn to the court room, and with a rush
officials and eager, interested =pectators hur-
ried to t'se scen®. Amid supyressed,intensa
excitement the jurors filed into the room.
Then tlse clerk, as is the custom, called upon
the prisoner to look upon the jury and
LIZZIE A. BORDEN,
raise her hand. Lizzie Borden arose tremb-
ling and tottering, and it was with difficul-
ty she gained her feet,but when once stand.
ing she appeared as firm as a rock. Her
white face was turned calmly toward the
men who held her fate in their keeping.
‘‘Gentlemen, have you agreed upon a
verdict; what say you Mr. Foreman?’ Be-
fore the Judge had finished speaking the
foreman had replied: ‘Not guilty.”
Cheer after cheer broke out upon the
stillness of the afternoon. The court re.
frained from any attempt at suppressing it,
and it was some minutes before all became
silent again. y
The prisoner withstood unusually well the
strain upon her, although there were many
signs of the mental anguish she auffered
preceding the announcement of the verdict,
When the words “Not guilty’’’ were., pro-
nounced the tension was removed. Thenthe
little woman fell into a vacant chair and
quick as lightning her face changed from
llor to a deep red hue. Then she tient her
De sis her hands and resting on the rail-
ing in front of her, silently wept, The re-
action had come. When the Court ordered
her to arise, so that she might be discharged
without delay, she heeded nct the Judge,
apparently not hearing him. Her head still
remained on the rail, to all appearances in-
animate, Sheriff Kirby, who sat near her,
touched her arm. When she arose it was
feared she must drop back again fainting,
but she managed to stand, with her face
bent low, while the clerk pronounced the
formal words which gave her freedom.
‘The District Attorney then entered a
nolle prosse in the other two indictments of
murder against Lizzie Borden and congratu-
lated Ex-Governor Robingen, attorney for
the prisoner, upon the result of his labors.
Immediately upon adjournment the jury
expressed a desire to take the hand of Lizzie
Borden and Governor Robinson was the
first to congratulate her, and even he, the
trained attorney. colild not repress his
emotion.
could only weep. Lizzie was led into the
Judge’s room and a reception was given her
by citizens of Fall River and New Bedford,
who cordially shook her hand and congrat.
ulated her.
“At 5 o'clock she returned to her FallRiver
home in a carriage. accompanied bv her
friend, Mrs. Holmes; her uncle, John V.
Morse; her sister Emma, and ex-Governor
Robinson. Lizzie was the first to descend
the court house stairs to the carriage. Her
face was flushed, her lips were trembling
nervously and she appearel more excited
than at any time since her arrest. All who
wished passed by the carriage and shook
hands with Lizzie, and many kissed her
hand. There were three cheers for the ac-
nitred girl and as the carriage disappeared
rom sight the flutter of a little white hand-
kerchief was seen as a parting salute from
her. ;
Details of the Crime.
The eldest victim of the crime was Andrew
J. Borden, a capitalist of Fall River, Mass.,
who was seventy years old. The other vie-
tim was his second wife, stepmother to the
prisoner. She was considerably younger
than her husband, who married her when
Miss Lizzie was about four years old.
She was a large, fleshy woman. There
were two daughters, Lizzie and Emma.
Emma was out of town on the day of the
murder, which took place on August 4, 1892.
Emma called her stepmother ‘‘Abbie.” but
Lizzie did not call her anything to her face
or speak to her at all. She quarrelled with
her five years ago because her stepmother
induced her father to clear a piece of prop-
erty of debt and give it to his wife's sister.
Miss Lizzie was born in 1860. She and her
sister had $5000 in cash or in mill shares or
in each form, This their father had given to
them.
At the time of the murder all the mbmbers
of the family were ill, and this led to the
theory that they had all been poisoned. A
drug clerk was said to have sold prussie acid
to Miss Lizzie, but it was a case of mistaken
identity. No poison was found in the bodies
of the victims.
On the morning of the day of the murder
Mr. Borden had been on his business rounds
and had come back. Mrs. Borden was
dressing to go out. Bridget Sullivan was up-
stairs washing windows, The old man went
to sleep on a lounge in the sitting room.
not already dead, and Lizzie Borden, ac-
cording to her own story, went out to the
minutes. She passed her father in going
.out, and stopped to stroke hishead. All this
was between half past ten o'clock and ten
minutes past eleven o'clock in the morning,
in a disagreeable side strect, a semi-tene-
ment neighborhood “with small shops in it.
It was in the heart of the city, in its business
art.
The wife had sant the servant to wash the
down stairs dining-room windows. At four
or five minutes before 11 the servant went up
to her room%o lie down. Shebad been lying
there ten or fifteen minutes when Miss Lizzie
called to her from down stairs in a voice
suggesting alarm or terror. She is reported
to have seen Lizzie in the kitchen, who said
either ‘Father's dead; go for doctor’ or
“Father's hurt; go for the doctor.” The
servant will clear up this confusion as to
what was said.
The servant. Bridget Sullivan, went and came
back and was sent outto get a Mrs. Russell.
When she returned again Dr. Bowen was
there and had been preceded by Mrs. Church-
ill, a neighbor, whose windows looked close
ppon the Borden house. These visitors saw
the father’s body. Mrs. Churchill said somo
one should notify Mrs, Borden. and Lizzie re-
he Rev. Mr. Buck, her pastor, |
The wife continued dressing, if she was s
barn in the yard and stayed there thirty
marked that she tnougnt sae heard her mower
come in. The neighbor and servant went up
and discovered the d2a1 woman. Both vie-
tims had been brutally chopped about the
bead and face. Lizzie Borden was suspected
and placed under surveillance irom the mo-
ment the crime was discovered. Finally. the
District Attorney want hafora tha 3rand Jury
and declared that he had sufficient evidence
to convict her. fo she was indicted, arrested,
and has béen confined in jail ever since,
until Tuesday, when she was acquitted of
all charges against her, and is now a free
Wo Lan again.
THE KAISER'S PROXY.
Duke Ernst Guenther Will Visit the
Fair in September.
Emperor William, of Germany, has selected
to represent him at the Columbian Exposi-
tion his brother-in-law, Duke Ernst Guen-
ther, who expects to come to the.United
Stafes in September.
DUKE GUENTHER, OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
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The official titles of this imperial represen-
tative are: Ernst Guenther, Duke of Schles-
wig-Holstein, Heir in Norway (he belongs to
the first branch of the first line of the House
of Holstein, descended from Christian I.,
King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the
Fifteenth Century), Count of Stormarn and
the Ditmarshes, also of Oldenburg. He is
the only brother of the Empress of Germany.
Just before he sails for America he will cele-
brate his thirtieth birthday.
The Duke is Colonel of the Schleswig-Hol-
stein Hussars, and, though too young to
have achieved renown in war, he dotes on
the military. He is not attracted by polities,
and court life has few charms for him. But
he is one of the finest horsemen of Germany,
owns a fine stud, is foud of the turf and fre-
quents the Union Club, the swell jockey club
of Central Europe. He was a close friend of
the late Archduke Victor Moritz Carl Franz
von Ratibar, who was President of the club.
He has large estates, and as the brother-in-
law of a powerful monarch ranks high in the
nobility “of the Empire, yet he pufs on no
haughty airs. Rather, he is.noted for sim-
plicity in manners and for his democratic
tastes. He is far from being effeminate, hav=
ing a robust physique, develo by athletic
ing at college and army discipline. He
“seems to enjoy what some would call the
y
hardships of a soldier's life, and loves out
door sports.
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THE COLUMBIAN BELL.
The New Emblem of Liberty Success-
fully Cast at Troy.
The Columbian Liberty Bell was cast at the
Clinton H. Meneely bell foundry, Troy, N.Y.,
in the presence of a large number of people.
It was originally intended that Mrs. Cleve
land would touch a button at Gray Gables,
whereby electrical apparatus at the
foundry would be set in motion releas-
ing the metal from the furnace ; but Mrs.
Cleveland was in poor health and could not
venture out in the stormy northeast gale
which prevailed at Buzzard’s Bay. The
metal was therefore released by Miss Eu-
genia, daughter of Clinton H. Meneely. At
8.15 o'clock the molten metal started from
the furnace, and seven minutes later bub-
bled up from the mouth of the mould, and
the casting was over. The bell weighed 18,-
000 pounds, and will be rung for the first
time at Chicago on July 4. It will measure
across its mouth 7l¢ feet. On the broad
band around the mouth will be found
in raised letters this inscription : ‘Proclaim
Liberty Throughout the Land Unto All the
Inhabitants Thereof.” On its face will be
seen: ‘‘A ‘New Command I Give Unto You,
That Ye Love One Another,” while on the
opposite side of the bell will be found the
maker's name. On its crown may be read
the inscription: “Glory to God in the High-
= and on Earth, Peace, Good Will Toward
en.
It is estimated that 100,000 persons have do-
nated some bit of sacred or significant recollec-
tion tothe bell's composition—a coin, a metal
heirloom of somesort, abit of ore, atrinket, or
sometreasured lovetoken. All ages arerepre-
sented. Old copper kettles, buttons from the
coats of Hessian and American officers, metal
ornaments made by Indians of New Mexico
long before the Old World ever dreamed of a
new and undiscovered, continent on this
side of the water, bits of gilver from Texas
and Mexico, gold cord fromthe uniform of
some gallant general, and a thousand and
pus other things were fused into the National
ell.
Among the many interesting things con-
tributed and which are a part of the bell
are these: The pen with which Governor
Cornell signed his name to the bill giving
women the right to vote at school meet-
ings in the State of New York: a part of
the chain used by George Washington
when surveying the State of Virginia; a
clipping from the silver snuff box which
be presented to Bushrod Washington upon
the latter's appointment to the Supreme
Bench of the United States ; the silver bands
which encircled the gavel used by the pre-
siding officer in the Long Room, Fraunce’s
Tavern, April 30, 1789, at the organiza-
tion of the Sons of the American
Revolution, and again at the organiza-
tion of the Daughters of the Revolu-
tion; the ‘first dollar. contributed to
the Russian, famine relief fund ; the first five
dollars received in orgarizing the Daughters
of the American Revolution; the flintlock
from the musket used by Thomas Jefferson
when a boy ; the copper kettle in which his
porridge was cooked when a child ; part of
the gold chain which was worn by the
‘‘Washington of South America’ —General
Bolivar ; the last Washington medal struck.in
commemoration of the one hundredth
anniversary of the inauguration of George
Washington, a medal given td a colored
soldier of the Army of Virginia for bravery
Bn the field of battle ; some nails from the
room in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of Independence; the silver
spoon of John C. Calhoun, and a number
of silver coins of old and rare date.
The cost 8f the bell, delivered in Chicago,
is $6500 ; caretaker for one year, about $500
expenses of the committee for printing, post-
age, etc., about $1500; total cost. $8500.
The bell will be carried to Chicago by a
special train.
The World’s Fair at Chicago is the present
destination of the bell. After the mission of
the bell in Chicago is ended it will begin its
travels through the world as the missionary
of freedom and liberty.
Echool Law Unconstitutional
The school law of Massachusetts cot pel-
ling Catholics to send their children to the
public schools was declared unconstitution
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4 HOST DREADFUL DISASTER
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OVER 400 ENGLISH SAILORS #
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On the Warship Victoria Find a Watery
Grave. Fatal Collision of Two Navel
Monsters. Great Excitement
and Sorrow in England.
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The English battleship Victoria, flagship
of the Mediterranean squadron and the
pride of the British navy, was run into off
Uripoli on Friday by tae (Camperdown,
Captain Charles Johnstone, and eank in 15
minutes. The water poured into the Vic-
toria so rapidly that the rew was not able
fo cut loose the small boats, and about 45) of
the crew of 611 men were drowned. includ-
ing Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon, K. C.
B., and 20 other principal officers, .The
Camperdown was also seriously damaged
but there is no menance to her safety.”
The squadron was maneuvering at the
time an the Camperdown’s ram struck the
Victoria squarely. Her officers instantly
ordered the collision bulk-heads close d to
confine the water to the compartments into
which the Camperdown’s ram was shoved.
While atte upting to do this the big ship
burned over, and carried them down. and
inly those who left the instant the collision
occurred were saved.
Rear Admiral Albert H. Markbam, of
the Trafalgar, the flagship of the Rear Ad-
miral in the Mediterranean, has telegraphed
to the Admirality from Tripoli, Syria, as
follows:
*‘] regret to report that while maneuver.
ing off Tripoli this afternoon the Victoria
and Camperdown collided. The Victoria
sank in 15 minutes in 18 fathoms of {water.
She lies bottom uppermost. The Camper-
down’s ram struck forward of the turret
on the starboard side. ' Twenty-one officers
weré€ drowned. Two hundred and fifty-five
men were saved. The injury to the Camper-
down has not yet been fully ascertained, but
it is serious and will recessitate her going
on dock for repairs. Ipropose to send the
survivors to Malta.”
Of the principal officers of “the Victoria
only Captain Bourse, Commander Ottley
and the fleet surgeon were saved. On re-
ceipt of the news the Queen immediately
ordered a postponement of the state ball ac
Buckinghum Palace Friday night. .
The Victoria was a twin screw battleship
of 10,470 tons and 14.000 horse-power,
mounting 15 guns. She had on board 611
officers and men and 107 marines. Vice
Admiral Tryon, whose flagship she was,
was ore of the oldest officers of the British
navy and received several decorations for
meritorious services. He served in the
naval brigade before Sebastopol and in the
trenches was wounded in the winter of
1853-4.
The squadron appears to have been ma-
neuvering, probably within a space of three
miles, leaving a small area for each vessel to
move in. A misreading of signals may
have caused the accident,
The street in front of Admiralty building
at London is crowded with an anxious
crowd who are constantly arriving on foot
‘and in all sorts of vehicles, demanding de-
tails of the terrible disaster, or asking the
whereabouts of some members of the offic-
ers, staff or crew. The latter were chiefly
recruited in Plmouth and Portsmouth, but
the officers belong to good families all over
the country, and consequently thousands
are in mourning. The latest réport says:
‘‘The battle shipVictoria, flying the ensign
of Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon, was en-
gaped in naval tactics off the coast of Syria,
with the battle ship Camperdown, also of
the Mediterranean squadron, Thursday
afternoon, when the weather was bright
and the sunshining. The two ships were
going through their maneuvers withina
distance of three miles of each other. which
gave each ship but small space considering
the reaction of the tide.
rBudasniy the Camperdown: was carried
toward the Victoria by the tide in.a rapid
way before the Victoria could steam ahead,
or the Camperdown commander obtained
control ot the vessel she struck theVictoria,
the Camperdown ram striking the flag ship
in the neighborhood of the foremost ‘star-
board terret. At the moment of the collision
the commander of the mperdown was
heard to give orders to reverse the engine,
but the tide was so strong as to carry the
vessel! further into the entrails of the Vie-
toria.' The big ship tore along aside of the
other, cutting an immense hole in her that
extended over several feet.
"All this happened so unexpectedly and
with such lightning velocity as to complete-
ly baffle all attempts to close the water-
tight compartment on the left of the ship,
the uninjured side. Eye-witnesses report
that the vessel was nearly cut in two, and
every one below deck at the time perished.
None of them could have reached the deck
after the collision. as they were : either
drowned or stunned by the ‘inrushing wa-
ters. The vessel sank within 15 minutes af-
ter being struck in 80 fathoms of water.
‘‘Admiral Tryon was on deck atthe time
of the collision, but refused to leave his
ship and went with her to the bottom. The
wonetary loss is estimated at £430,000,”
A dispatch from Windsor says that the
Queen was completely prostrated when the
dispatch announcing the disaster wag read
to her.
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MONSTER BATTLE-SHIPS,
The Victoria was a twin screw steel bat.
fle-ship of 10,470 tons, 14.000-horse power,
340 feet long, 70 feet beam, built ‘at’ New.
castle, completed in 1890, hull cost £612,522,
machinery £112,333, turret and barbette,
compound armor, two 111-ton guns in tur
tet and one 10-inch mounted in a barbette
aft; the turret and barbette had 18 inches of
compound armor. Her listed speed was
16.75 knots. She had one lofty military
mast of steel carrying gun platforms. The
Camperdown is also a first-class twin screw
battle-ship of 10,600 tons, 11,500-hors¢
rower and carring 10 guns, \ hair
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THE VICTORIA’S MODEL.
ONE ON EXHIBITION IN THE TRANSPORTATION
BUILDING AT THE WORLD'S FAIR THAT
cost $40,000,
WorLDp's FA1r, CHICAGO.—The most con.
epicious naval exhibit in the Transportation
building is a model of the ill-fated warship
Victoria. It occupies a commanding position
in the main aisle, and for the special con.
venience of visitors a double stairway with
brass railings has been erected in front of
the model. The model cost £40,000, is 2
feet in length and magnificent in design
Everything is shown in perfect design and
material to the. great torpedo net from stem
to Sern v =H
The flags on Victoria House and t an-
adian and New South Wales hie on.
have been at half mast in respect to the
memory of the late Australian Commis.
sioner fisher, and later for Mareschal de
Oliveira, of Brazil, but the flags will remain
at the mourning height for many days
on account of the catastrophy to the Brit.
ish navy.
SHOT BY MOON SHINERS.
‘J. 8. Marshal Brown Mortally Wounded
and Deputy Gardner Killed.
News comes from Memphis, Tenn., that
United States Marshal J. W. Brown and a
number of deputies were fired upon in Mec-
Nairy county by the moonshiners they were
hunting. Marshal Brown was mortally
wounded and Deputy Marshal Gardner was
killed. Marshal Brown is one of the lead-
ing citizens of Tennessee and one of the
most popu'ar men in the State.
BUSINESS IS FAIRLY GOOD,
Yet Great Caution Prevails. Trading Is
Somewhat Hampered, but Relief
is Exp cted.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of
Trade” says:
The improvement expected from the is-
suance of Clearing House certificates, thus
utilizing credits instead of cash in local deal-
ings, has not yet been realizel. The failure
of banks at San Francisco has led toa he avy
demand from every quarter, $1,500,000 hav-
ing been sent in a single day. Distrust of
weaker banks was avoided by the applica-
tion of the Bank of Commerce for $1,000,-
000 certificates and $2,350,000 were issued
Thursday, but the pressure for rediscounts
for interior banks is beyond the ability of
New York to meet. Thes Secretary of the
Treasury has given notice that he will an-
ticipate payment of interest July 1. amount-
ing to §7.500,000 but only £1 800,000 is on
bonds held by banks, which will be im-
mediately disbursed. The volume of tr: de
is certainly reduced by monetary stringen-
cy. Bank clearings outside of New York are
declining materially in comparison with
last year, .
In some de artments of business orders
for merchandise ure deferred, ‘since there
is no assurance of ability to carry the goods
until they are sold. while in other depart-
ments orders are not received because the
future is distrusted. The effect on the great
industries ee been less thus far than might
have been fearec, as most-of the works are
emploved on orders bcoked before the
trouble began. but many works are now re-
ducing the number of hands and . others
must soon suspend operations unless the
prospects become clearer. In the iron busi-
ness no improvement is perc eptible and pig
is as low as’ever and while finished pro-
ducts are still in fair dema nd, prices are ex-
ceedinzly low. 3 i
At Cleveland trade is fairly good and col-
lections better, except for iranufactures,and
the banks are well fortified. but money is
close. At Cincinnati sales of boots and shoes
for the year thus far equals last year's, and
the dry goods trade is fair, but stringency
makes collections close. Chicago reports
1.0 distinct improvement in trade. though
July settlements will soon release large
sums and an easier market is expected. Col-
lections are very slow, while orders for
goods are fairly large for the dull season.
The failures for the week number, for the
United States 273, and for Canada 14, or a
total of 287 as compared with 347 last week
and 190 for the corresponding week of last
year,
THE BUSINESS BAROMETER.
Bank clearings totals for the week ending
June 22, as telegraphed to Bradstrees, are
as follows : .
New York......... ..... $600,297,495 D 4.
Boston ........0u. 81,756,886 D 6.f
Chicago... «.v.uue 80.442,169 D 18.(
Phi'adelphia ..... 72,152,528 1) 13.
Bt. Lonis:ice cess 21,964,578 D 1.¢
Baltimore. , . 14,208.710 Y 10.
Pittsburg. i... ..ooonine 13,643,517 D 10.¢
San Francisco econo... 12,004204 D 4.¢
Cincinnati......... verse 11,6045700 D.20.¢
Cleveland..oc eevee ecenre 5,628,315 Del2¢
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Totals, U. S............$1.033.309,822 D 6.t
Exclusive of New York 433,012,327 D 10.:
(I indicates increase, D decrease.) -
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SENATOR STANFORD DEAD,
The End Comes While Hele in Bed and
: NoOne Is Near. .v
Senator Leland Stanford died Wednesday
night at his couniry seat, Palo Alto, Cal. He
was iu the best of health the day beiore and
took a drive around his stock farm and re-
tired after 9 o'clock. He made no complaint
during the day regarding his health. About
midnight his valet catered his bed room
a: d found his master dead. Lately his limbs
became much affected and a week ago he
was hardly able to move about without as-
sistance. He said he suffered from gout, but
that the hot treatment he was undergoing
would cure him.
his Senatorship before long. The body will
be embalmed.
The following is a condensed outline cf
the deceased Senator's career: .
Senator Stanford’ was born at Watervliat,
Albany coanty. March 9, 1824; admitted to
the bar, and began practicing law at Port
Washington, Wis. In 184% he was married
to Jane Lathrop at Albany, N. Y. In 1850 he
removed to California and engaged in min-
ing in 1852. In 1860 he was a delegate to the
National Republican Convention that nom-
inated for President Abraham Lincoln, of
whose nomination he was an earnest advo-
cate. He was elected Governor of Califor-
nia in 1861; elected President of the Central
Pacifie Railroad Company in 1861,and drove
the last spike of the Central Pacifi+ Rail-
road at Promontory, Utah, in 1869. He was
elected United States Senator from Califor—
nia in 1884. He laid the corner stone of
Leland Stanford, Jr., University in 1887.
which he opened in 1891. ;
Various estimates from time to time have
been made of Senator Stanford’s wealth. It
has been placed by many as high as $20,-
000,000, and even $30,000,000, and again
there have been those who have leaped all
barriers and placed his wealth at $70,000,000.
In these times, and considering his interests
in the Southern Pacific system, the great
Palo Alto and Vina ranches, his city and
country residences, it is difficult to arrive at
what he actually was worth.
The residence at Palo Alto, with its exten-
sive ands, 1s undoubtedly the finest of
its kid in California, and perhaps there is
no country house in America in all respects
so fine. 1tis here that the Senator has
spent most of his ti e since his return from
Washington. , In his residence there and in
Ban Francisco are pictures and statuary
that have cost hundred of thousands of
dollars. He has lived like a king, traveled
by special car and with a whole retinue of
attendants that has astonished even the
richest men of the Old World,
Mr. Stanford matte the beginning of his.
great fortune out of the Union and Central
Pacific, of which he, together with C. .
Huntington, Fred Crocker and Mark Hop-
kins, were the original incorporators,
treet va eae 2
COWBOYS HUSTLING.
Some Are Traveling Night as Well as
. Day. ;
Doc Middleton, Stevens and Gillespie,
three of the cowboy racers to the Chicago
exposition passed through the suburbs of
Ponca, Neb,, on Monday, they having gain-
ed a lead over the others by riding the-
whole of two nights.
Doc Middleton had the misfortune to.
lose his best horse at Coleridge, where he-
strained ene of his hind legs.
The remainder of the horses seem to be
in good condition, but are beginning to show
a loss of flesh. During the first six days
they have traversed 400 miles and are be-
ginning to increase their speed as they ad--
vance, Stevens is endeavoring to save his.
horses by traveling half the time on foot,
2 this way he proceeded fortymiles on Sun-
ay,
ya rd
—A WOMAN saved an exoress from wreck.
on the Illinois Central by flagging it before
the train dashed around a curye onto a.
burning trestle. The passengers presented
her with a well filled purse.
-—A MAN in Chicago walked through an
open window while asleep, ant falling to:
' the pavement below was ki led.
He would have resigned”
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