Ss TE TT roam ress Em — mS The town of Birsk, Ruseia. has been vis- BLAND COINAGE: | BriteSuuessomieians Youn 58 ATE TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS [wom ™%" "5% = =, 2) MBIAN FAIR NEWS ITEMS | NINE IN A WATERY CRAVE -— te HISTORY OF ITS PASSAGE <= —— Through Congress in 1878 and of the Cir- cumstances Leading to iis Enactmer:t. ——— The panic 01 1873 resulted in a very general discussion of the money question. One of the consequences of this: was the organization ot the Greenback party which maintained that the mere fiat, or declaration of the Government, was suf- ficient to make money otf that which otherwise had no value. The act of March 18, 1869, was passed for the pur- pose of strengthening the public credit. It pledged the Government to the pay- ment in coin, or its equivalent, of all obli- gations, notes and bonds except those where the law authorizing the issue stipulated that payment might be made in lawful money, which simply meant legal tender notes. This law was subse- guently the occasion of much adverse criticism, especially after the stoppage of the coinage of the silver dollar and the removal of its legal tender quality. The effect, ot course, was to make the Gov- ernment bonds pavable in gold coin. Early iu 1875 the act tor the resump- tion of specie payments, on January 1, 1879, became a law. This result was successfully accomplished. Secretary Sherman, in his report in December, 1877, said that in the work of refunding he had informed his associates that as the Gov- ernment exacted in payment for bonds their full face in coin, it was not antici- pated that any future legislation of Con- gress or any action of any department of the Government would sanction or toler- ate the redemption of the principal of these bonds, or the payment of the inter- est thereon, in coin of less value than the coin authorized by the law at the time of their issue, being gold coin. At the same time President,Hayes, in his mess- age, said he did not believe that the interests of the Government or the people would be promoted by disparaging silver, but held it should be used only at its commercial value. Congress, however, adopted on the 28th of January, 1878, a concurrent resolution, which did not re- quire the President’s signature, declaring their belief that all bonds of the Unite States were payable in silver dollars of 41214 grains, and that to restore such dollars as a full legal tender fr hat purpose would not be a vio’ tion of public f2ith or the riohts at the creditar On the 2d of March, 1877, the monetary commission appointed under joint resolu- tion of August 15, 1875, made an ex- baustive report. The members made di- verse recommendations. One suggestion was that the United States should re- monetize silver without regard $0 the future policy of Europe, and that a law should be passed fixing 1515 to 1 as the standard of relative value between silver and gold in this country. Others favored remonetiza- ‘tion on the basisof 16 to 1. A third opinion was that it was not expedient to coin silver dollars to be a legal tender currency, and that the introduction of silver as a currency should be postponed until the effort to secure the co-opera- tion of other nations had been faithfully made. Other members of the Commis- sion held that a double standard was an illusion and an impossibility, and declared that the proper place for silver in the monetary system to be that of subsidiary or token currency considerably over- valued bylaw, and a legal tender only within certain limits. They, therefore, advocated the coinage of silver dollars of B45 6-10 grains to be a legal tender for sums not over $20—and to take the place of all paper currency of less denomina- gions than &8 On the 5th of November, 1877, the House passed a bill introduced by Mr. Bland for the free coinage of silver dol- lars of 41214 grains full legal tender tor all debts, public and private. The Sen- ate amended itso as to limit the coin- age to not more than $4,000,000 nor less than §2,000,000 per month, all seignor- age or profit to accrue to the Treasury. A secticn was added at the suggestion of Senator Allison authorizing the Presi- dent to invite other nations to take part in a conference with a view to the adop- tion of a common ratio of gold and silver. During the extended debate on the meas- ure Senator Morrill, of Vermont, pro- nounced it a fearful assault on the public credit. It resuscitated the obsolete dol- lar which Congress entombed in 1834 worth less than the greenback in gold and yet to be a tuil legal tender. He thought that the causes of the deprecia- tion of silver were permanent. The fu- ture price might move one way or other, but it must finally settle at a much lower point. Nothing less than national will and power could mitigate its tall. Sen- ator Wallace, of this state. offered an amendment providing that 100,000,000 should be coined in silver dollars within three years, and then coinage should cease if bullion should be more than 8 per cent. below par. The amendment was defeated. as were others offered by Mr. Blaine and others to approximate the proposed silver dollar's value to that of the gold dollar. An amendment of Sen- ator Chaffee providing for the issue of certificates of not less than $10 in ex- change for silver coin deposited and re- deemable in the same was adopted. All the Senate amendments were con- curred in by the House. Presi dert Hayes vetoed the bill. He said the silver dollar authorized by it was worth 8 to 10 per cent. less than it pur- ported to be worth, and was made a legal tender tor debts contracted when the law did not recognize such coin as lawtul money. The effect would be to put an end to the receipt of revenue in gold, and thus compel the pavment of silver for both the principal and interest of the public debt, which would be a grave breach of public faith. If the country was to be benefited by silver coinage it could only be done by the issue of silver dollars of full ‘value, which would de- fraud noman. A currency worth less than it purported to be worth would in the end defraud not only creditors, but all en- aged in business, and especially those ependent on their daily labor. The bill was..however, passed over the veto According to Mint Director Leech, the stock of money on hand January 1, 1878, just before the new silver legislatiop commenced, was: Bold. ..................000.. 0. Legal tender Treasury notes. National bank notes............. ...$229,000,000 .. 346,681,016 391 321,672,508 Total ......... ce... L0BSE 53,02 Thus it is seen our currency was en- tirely a gold currency—a currency based on gold. No silver coins (except change money), nor silver notes, were in circula- tion. Our stock of gold was increasing rapidly and enormously. The gold coinage of our mints aggregated in the six fiscal years commencing in 1873 and ending in 1878, §254,802,134. Ample facility was provided for the issue of additional car- rency by the provisions of the national banking law, the only limitation to the amount of bank notes which the banks could issue being the bonded debt of the United States necessary to secure circu. lation, at that time $1,832,259,310. Such was the monetary situation at home when we entered upon the era of silver legislation. Abroad the situation was not propitious for silver. Commencing with the demonetization of silver in Ger many in 1873. and the melting down anc sale by that empire of 1.081.724,80¢C marks ($257.454.000) in silver coinc. fol bad closed their mints to silver coitiage until 1878—when this country com menced the purchase and coinage o: silver —not a single mint in Europe wa: open for the coinage of silver for indi viduals. — ite TRADE LOOKING BETTER. A Healthier Tone Follows the Demoral- ization of the Past Week in the Speculative Market. R. G. Dun's Weekley Review of Trade says: Demoralization is speculative mar- kets has been followed by a more healthy tone, and hopes are tixed on the ships bringing over §11,000,000 gold and on the extra session of Congress which will begin on Monday. Several of the largest and boldest operators at Chicago have been crushed under nork barrels, but the instant increase of foreign purchases convinces the markets that the disaster has brought a certain measure of relief. The monetary strigency which at last crushed speculations in wheat and hog pro ducts, has been caused in part by their pre- vention of exports and their absorption of enormous capital in carrying unprecedent- ed stocks of production which if sold in time to foreign consumers would have brought gold enough to avert much evil. With the great surplus of wheat brought over from previous years the country will be able to meet all demands, even though the crop proves small enough to justify a considerable advance from previous prices, With a great crop of corn almost assured, unusual accumulations of pork and hog products would be safer on the ocean than in Chicago warehouses and more helpfulto the country. Stocks at the lowest pointthis week averaged little more than 341 per share, but it is yet a long way down to the prices of 1877, averaging at the lowest $23 per share, and the contrast between the condition and earnings of railroads now and then, is greater than the difference in rice. Bank failures have been almost as num- erous this week as for either of the two preceding weeks, but fewer have been of more than local importance, In anxious efforts to fortify themselves, banks through- out the country have locked up a large amount ot currency and the depositors who have drawn their accounts are also keeping out of use many millions, As the entire circulation of bills of less than £5 each, is but $71,000,000 while the depositors in sav- ings banks number nearly 5,000,000, the withdrawal or the mere withholding of accustomed deposits by a considerable pro- portion of them would put out of the mar- ket much of the small notes, The demand for these is so great that shipments of silver in many cases have been gladly received, and the difficulty of getting currency for paying employes causes a premium for cur- rency in many cases ranging as high as 2 per cent. The vo.ume of domestic trade indicated by railway earnings is but 6 per cent. small- er than last year and clearings at the chie! cities show a decrease of 15 per cent outside of New York. Failures during the week number 436 in the Upited States against 160 Just year, and 34 in Canada, against 24 last year. The West contributed most largely to the number of failures, 237 being reported from that sec- tion. In the Kast there were 153, and in the South 46. There were three failures or $1.- 000,000 or more. THE BUSINESS BAROMETER. Bauk clearings totals tor the week ending Aug. 3, as telegraphed to Bradstrees, are as follows: New York.............. §587,602,522 D 26.5 Boston ..:.. ee 84120628 D 9.5 Chicago 76,804,238 D 21.6 Philadelphia .. . 66,520,867 ID 4.7 BE Tame. rs 16,088,971 I 36.0 Baltimore. ... 14,176,762 1 1.7 San Francisco . .. 13,180,826 D 16.8 Pittsburg. .,... ......... . 12/141,506 D 14.5 Cincinnati. 9,320,000 D 20.7 Cleveland .............. .. 4,630,141 D 9.8 Totals, U. S........ Lees $073,880,753 D 9.7 "Exclusive of New York 386,278,231 D 18.5 iindicates increase, D decrease. LOOTED TEE STORES. Unemployed Men in Colorado Rob Busi- ness Houses and Hotels. A dispatch from Denver, Col., says: the State Board of Charities has assumed con- trol of the hundreds of hungry and penni- less men who are coming from the moun- tains and surrounding towns. Secretary William Broadhead is in charge of the *‘un- employed labor camp,” and the State has placed 3,000 tents at his disposal. Four companies of infantry have been placed under arms. Nearly 2,00) hungry men were fed yesterday at public expense. The fact that Denver is caring for these people has resulted in bringing many tramps to the city, men who would not work under any circumstances. Denver is suipping the penniless men East as fast as possible. The men are loaded into box cars and dumped at Missouri river oints at the rate of $6 railroad fare per ead. While the principal interest centers in Denver, the condition here is nothing as compared with that existing in the small mimng towns within a radius of 150 miles. In these places the miners or tramps have looted the stores, hotels and business houses in many instances, leaving the merchants nothing but bare walls. Finding themselves bankrupt, robbed and penniles¥, the iner- chants have fled, leaving the grass to grow in the streets where but a few short weeks ago prosperity reigned and peace hovered. THE CIRCULATION STATEMENT July Shows a Biglncrease in the Amoun’ of Money in the Hands of the People. The circulation statement issued a Washington shows the amount of gold and silver coins and certificates, United State notes and national bank notes outstanding August 1 was £1,611,099,017, an increase during the month of July of $17,237,606 The increase during the last 12 months was in round figures, £90,000,000. The per capits circulation, based on an estimated popula: tion of 67,066,600, August 1, was $24.02. Of the $2,123 997,668 of the general stock of money issue i, the amount as stated is in circulation, leaving $512,869,632 in the treasury. The principal changes during the montt were an increase of £13,176 241-in gold coin, a decrease of $5,395,990 in gold certificates, 1 decrease of $4,080,000 in currency certificate of 1872. and an increase in national ban} notes of $5.453 483. PUBLIC DEBT FUND. There Was Less Than Half a Million De- crease During July. The public statement for the month of July shows the aggregate of interest and non interest bearing debt July 31 to be $961,121,016.23, a decrease of $311,089.50. The cash balance in the Treasury is £117,887,567.- 57 a decwease of §4,574,722.81, Thegold re serve is $99,202,933 and the net cash balance $18,684,6834.57. The total cash in Treasury is $732 64.,707.17.The receipts for the month of July were $30,¢05 776.19 and the expend tures $39,675,886.60. In June the receipts were $30,983,821.25, and the expenditure: £20,266,451.30. ae ~'I'auk single fare excursions to the World's Fair, recently started are said by the railway officials to have proven a great er success than anticipated, referrer : BOTH FROM HOME AND ABROAD. What is Going On the World Over. Iniportant Events Briefly Chronicled. -— Covital. Labor and Industrial, At Asbury Park, N. J., the Univers] Shirt factory, Sterner & Son, at Bradley Beach, which employs 300 hands, has shut down. The report that William Tinkham & Co.'s mill in Burrillville, R. 1.. had shut down is untrue. The mill is yet running five days a week. The Cleveland, O., Rolling Mill Company has closed its plate, wire and rod mills and steel works, throwing 3,000 men out of employ.nent. Lack of orders is the cause. The United States Watch Company, Bos- ton, hus resumed work at their factory at Waltham with a full force after two weeks’ vacation. The operatives, both piece and day hands, were notified of a reduction of 13 per cent, in their pay during the present stagnation only, with the promise when times improve the old wages would be re- stored. There is trouble among the hat factories of Orange and Orange Valley, N. J. The cause is stagnation in Western trade. Some shops have already closed, and others are about to follow suit. Not one is working to its full capacity. The closure of these shops would thro w 3 000 operatives out of work. An official notice has been issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad company ordering a cut of 10 per cent. im wages of all employes in the commercial department of the road whose pay exceeds £50 per month. The fall in the price of coke to $1.60 pes ton has moved the H. C. Frick company to post notices at all their wor. s in the Penn- sylvania coke regions announcing the basis of payment to be $1.75 per ton hereafter. At Youngstown, O., the receivers of the American Tube and Iron Company paid the employes in full for their services upto the time of the shut down. Notices were posted to the eflect that commencing Aug- ust 7 there would be a reduction of 10 per cent. in wages of all employes, including the office force. It is expected the plant will start up next Monday, and those reporting for duty at that time will be understood as accepting the reduction. A similar reduc- tion was ordered at the plant at Middle- town, At Boston, Mass., the American Rubber Company's works cioced down on account of dull trade. New England cotton millsare algo continuing to close down. At Massillon, O., Russell & Co.’s agricul- tural and engine works, employing 300 men will close for an indefinite period about August 13. It is declared statistics from fifty-seven trades in New York show 36,000 idle men in New York and that that is only a portion of the city’s unemployed. The Muncie, Ind., sheet mills which have been idle for some time began work again with 350 employes at work. The Indians iron works employing 700 men, will resume in a few days. Besides paying $6,000 wages in gold, the Carpenter Steel Company of Reading, Pa. announces that it will put in operation in sa few days 12 new crucible furnaces. -—— Financial and Commercial. The Seven Corners bank at St. Louis, Mo. , has assigned. Business at all the New York savings banks was going on as usual Thursday. The excitement is all over. Depositors evidently feel assured tnat their money is perfectly safe. At Naima, Idaho, the First National Bank has failed. The El Pago, Texas, National Bank has suspended, The First National Bank of Birmingham. Ala., has closed. . The Waupaca County National Bank of Waupaca, Wis., has closed its doors, During the past three months $3,800,00¢ worth of fine gold has been received by the Bank of California as the product of Cali fornia’s gold mines and smelters. The decrease of the earnings of the West ern railroads for July, as compared with the June earnings, is estimated at $500,000. le Cholera Advices The whole family of the sheriff of the vii lage of Ewyk inthe province of Geldorland, Holland. was stricken with cholera Wed- nesday. One of the children died. Loxpox—The Rome correspondent of the Central News Agency says: ‘‘Since the out break of cholera in Naples more than 100, 000 residents have fled from that city. There were 52 new cases and 28 deaths Sunday, 4¢ new cases and 27 deaths. Monday, and 18 new cases and six deaths Tuesday. Several cases of cholera have oc_uarred in Rome." Loxpox—There have been 6,666 deaths from cholera in Mecca, and 2313 in Jedds since the present epidemic broke out. OpEssa.—The government is closing all schools in the south of Ru-sia on account of the prevalence of cholera. Twenty doctors have gone to the Caucasus, 14 to Kieff and 10 to Podolia. fhe Crime nnd Penalties, At Greenville, Ill, in a jealous rage Douglas Davis fatally stabbed his wife and cut his own throat, dying instantly. John Jackson invited his brother-in-law John Padgett, to his home at Greenbrier, Ark., last night, and when the latter arriv- :d be shot four times at him, killing him without giving and warning. Jackson sscaped but will be lynched if captured. No cause is known for the kiliing. SE Fires Ex-Vice President Morton's fine new arn at Rhineback, on the Hudson, near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was destroyed, together with 100 Guernsey cattle and farm horses, by fire. Loss. $100,000. BEYOND OUR BORDERS. Sir Edward Grey, parliamentary secretary of the Foreign Office, definitely announced in the British House of Commons that the ited by a most disastrous conflagration. One hundred and eighty houses were burned, seven persons were killed and a large num- ber were injured, Among the buildings destroyed were the city ball and the Catho- hic church. LATER NEWS WAIFS, CAPITAL AND LABOR. Goon News From THE Wrst,—Business among the factories in Racine, Wis., is commencing to brighten up a little. For the past month there have not been more than one-third of the factories in operation, and those which have been running have been working on short time, Monday morning the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company which employes 800 men started ‘up a part of its shops and began with 200 men, put- ting more on in the course of two weeks. The J. I. Case Plow Works will start up in three or four days with a fuil force of 400 men. The Fish Bros.” Wagon Company have started up working eight hours a day with areduction of 20 per cent in wages, Other factories which have been closed will start up next week. Pottstown, Pa., manufacturers have noti- fied their superintendents to employ here- after no Hungarians or other foreigners, but only American workmen. About 1,500 Swedish “furniture workers disgust d by the shutdown of the factories have left Rockford, IIL, to return to Swed- en. The mills of the Bibb Manufacturing Company, Macon, Ga., bave closed down. They have been working two-thirds time for some weeks, Six hundred people out of employ ment. At Philadelphia, the worsted goods factory of John Bromley & Son have closed. Three thousand employes are affected. Doak & Son, worsted manufacturers, and John Blood & Son, hosiery manufacturers, have also closed down, throwing 1,300 hands out of work. ee DISASTERS, ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Melville Lamb and James H, Kirby, pop- ular young men of Jerseyville, Ills, went bathing Sunday, at Alton, Ills.,, and were drowned, At Detroit, Mich., two Italians, Charley Tirro, and Giovanni di Sconza, were drown- ed while bathing near the head of Belle Isle Sunday morning. James Smith, a 13 year old boy, was drowned at Des-Chree- Shos-Ka by falling from the landing. A triple drowning occurred in Red Lake river, one mile from Grand Forks, N. D. John Bualgick, aged 13, Joseph Bulgick, aged 11, and Debold Cole, being the victims. Thd boys were bathing, two engaging ,in a swimming race, and both went down. The third attempted their rescue in v ain, losing his own life. Three people were instantly killed at Dellwood, one of the summer resorts at White Bear lake, Minn. The party con- sisted of E. W. Newstrom of White Bear village, Mrs, E. P. Clouse and Mrs. J. P. Nordstrom of St. Paul. They attempted to cross the track in their buggy as an empty passenger train was backed rapidly past the station, but were run down: er CRIMES AND PENALTIES. Walter E. Shaw was hanged at Houston Tex., for murdering his mother and aunt on March 31, 1892. On the gallows he made a speech, cursing all his relatives, living and dead. At Trenton, Mo., Joseph H. Howell was hanged for murdering Mrs. Nancy Hall and her seven little children. He prayed all morning and on the scaffold told thesheriff that all he had to say he hadsaid in a book, which would soon be published. W. J. Allen, editor of a newspaper at Texarkana, Tex., was shot and killed in a quarrel by John J. King, judge of the Coun- ty Court. el FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The Citizen's national band, of Muncie, Ind., suspended. The assets are claimed to be twice the liabilities. The San Antonio (Tex.) National capital stock £100,000, failed. The West Side bank, capital 100,000, and the People’s Savings bank, St. Paul, Minn. suszended. bank, The depositors of the suspended Citizens’ Savings and Loan association, of Akron, O., decided to allow the bank to reopen and pay depositors in 3, 6, 9, 12 and15 months from date of opening, September 1, . i CHOLERA ADVICLY loME—Between noon Friday and noon Saturday 21 cases of cholera and 13 deaths have been reported in Naples, and three new cases and one death in Rome. The disease hae broken out in the garrison at Soolina. iis FOREIGN, Official announcement is made by Rear Admiral Hamann, of the French fleet, that the blockade of Siarn was raised Thursday afternoon. Sh gr the FIRES, At Princeton, Minn., the National bank building, a hotel and some business houses, loss 000; insurance partial. re - PENSION EXTENSION. Timz2 in Which Proofs Can Be Furnish» ed Now Runs to Oct. 10. Judge Lochren, pension comnissioner, has extended until October 10, 1893, the period within which pensioners whose pensions have been suspended may make proof of their right to receive them. The commissioners says in regard to the order: “It has been thought that because of the persistent misrepresentation by certain classes of newspapers and persons of the action and intention of this bureau many pensioners may have been misied and dis- couraged from presenting such proofs as they could furnish. or frem asking for medical exanunation. I have, therefore, concludzd to extend the time within which pensioners already notified, bat perhaps misled as I have indicated, may tate steps to retain their pensions, it they are in fact ev titled to them.” re ries Base Ball Record. The following table shows the standing of he different base ball clubs up to date: . Pet. Ww. 1. ret. .674 Cincin’ti.. 40 45 471 Boston.... 5 Philadel’a Pittsburg. 50 34 .535 Baltimore 37 47 .430 Clevel’nd. 46 32 .590 Chicago... 34 48 .417 Brooklyn. 41 43 488 Wash'n... 31 52 .369 New York 41 43 .488:Louisv’'le. 26 46 .351 31 .631 St. Lonis.. 40 45 .471 ° AN ABNORMALLY SMALL ATTENDANCE, AND EVEN THE M'IWAY PLAISANCE WAS COMPARATIVELY DESERTED SUNDAY. All entrances to the Exposit'on grounds were open Sunday during the nsual hours, but the crowd that passed through the gates was extreme! nall. The Fair was open, but in nam There was no music in the main grouu t thousands of booths and all ot the restaurants were closed. Ther. were no services in Festival Hall and the few stragglers who wandered aimlessly about the vast park soon tired of the quiet and made for the Plaisance. Here mauy places of aminsement that were open to the public last Sunday were closed to-day, ow- ing toa lack “of patronage. The theaters however, were fairly well attended. owing, perhaps, to a reduction in the entrance fee. Ling 0 WORLD'S FAIR OFFICERS FINED, FOUND GUILTY OF CONTEMPT IN CLOSING THE GATES ON SUNDAY, Judge Stein. of the Superior Court,decided that the World's Fair directors and officers who had been greatly responsible for clos- ing the Exposition gates Sunday, Jjuly 23, violated the injunction granted in the Clingman petition, and were consequeritly guilty of contempt. He ordered that Direc- tors Gage, Hutchims an, McNally and Kerfoot should be fined £1,000 each and stand com- mitted to jail until the tine was paid. Director General Davis's fine was $250 and Victor Lawson's $100. After the decision the at- torneys for the defendants moved for an appeal, and Judge Stein granted it, putting the defendants under bond in the meantime THE WORLD'S FAIR DISASTER THE WGRK OF IN- CENLIARISM. In connection with the grand jury inves- tigation into the cold storage warehouse holocaust, a local paper prints a sensational story to the effect that the fire that resulted sodisastrously to human life was of incendi- ary origin, the incentive being a desire to cover up a wholesale theft of goods stored in the warehouse. The story goes that for three weeks previ- ous to the fire the big house was systemati- cally looted night after night by a ring com- posed of certain crooks on the outside and certain parties on the inside. FAIR OPEN EVERY SUNDAY. THAT PROSPECT DUE TO INABILITY TO HAVE THI CONTEMPT APPE:L HEARD BEFORE THE END OF OCTOBER. The bonds of the World's Fair officials found guilty of contempt of court by Judge Stein, were filed, thereby suspending pro- ceedings pending the action of theApgellate Court. The case in which the parties are held to answer cannot take precedence on the Appellate Court calendar and at the earliest possible time will not be called be- fore the end of next October. It is there- fore the opinion of leadinglawyers that the commissioners will be compelled to open the Fair every Sunday from this time on ill the close. Red] CANNOT STOP DANCES. Secretary Masters, of the National Associ ation ot Dancing Masters, Boston, Mass., has received irom Secretary Edmonds, of the Executive Department of the World’s Fair, a letter stating thatthe oriental dances in the Midway Plaisance are characteristic of the nations represented, and cannot be be stopped under the contract made. EEN —City Eprror King of the Philadelphia ‘Press’ figures that it would take 23 years for a person to see the World's Fair if he gave an average of three minutes to each exhibit. The Midway isnot included in the computation. —TaE world's fair is now half over, and the total paid attendance for the first three months number 7,000,000 persons. The paid admissions to the World's Fai Sunday were 16,066. A———— et fy eee— DISASTER ON THE RAILS, Collision or a Lake Shore Express and Freight Train. Train No. Y of the Lak Shore railroad left Cleveland. Saturday night for Chicago on time. Thetrain was composed of three coaches, three baggage cars and five sleep- ers. Iu left I'remont, O.,, 10 minutes late and was running at a high rate of speed fo Toledo. When the train wasabout 10 miles out of Fremont, at a small station calied Lindsay, the sleeping car leit the track and crashed into a freight train that was wait- ing on a siding for a passenger train to pass The first part of the train got by in safety, but the sleeping Icars rolled over the ties some distance and finally, swerving from their course, hit the engine {of the freighi train with tremendous force. The sleeping cars were practically reduced to kindling wood, and that any one escaped is a miracle The following persons were killed outright. I. Lafferty, engineer of the freight train, Elyria, O; Charles Spang brakeman of the freight train, Clayville, N. Y; Porter Rob- inson, of the sleeping car Buffalo, residence unknown. The following persons were seriously in: jured: Prof. B. H. Emerson, of Amherst College, Gloucester, Mass., will die; Porter Pelmonn, of the sleeping car Orinoco, will die, residence unknown; J. B. Hamilton. Pittsburg, Pa., injured internally; Bruno Kniffler. Cleveland, O., injured about the head; A. H. West, Chicago; Porter Stevens, residence not know; James Ryan, center tielder ot the Chicago Base Ball Club, badly cut about the head and body; M. ijreiss catcher of the Chicago Base Ball Club, badly cut about the head. Many people who were buried in the wreck were not seriously injured. Their hurts consisted principally of bruises and scratches and it was not a hard task to free them from the heavy beams that held them tc the earth The only theory is that the rails spread and left the heavy sleeping cars down on the ties. The remainder of the train passed the bad spot in safety, but the sleepers were well filled with people bound to the World's Fair and the added weight was too much for the poor spot in the track. The freight engine was totally demolished and rolled over on its side from the force of the col- lision. ner Tp eee A SWEEPING PENSION ORDER. Evidence to Be Required as to the Cred: ibility ofall Witness Affidavits. Commissioner Lochren has issued an order requiring evidence as to the credibil- ity of witnesses to affidavits residingin cities of 20,000 or more inhabitants. Hitherto the credibility of witnesses re- giding in towns of less than that number of inhabitants has been obtained from the postmaster of the town, but there hus been no step taken to ascertain the credibility of witnesses in {he large cities. —Tne Chicago grand jury made no report on the cold storage disaster at the World's Fair and Marshal Murphy, Director Burn- ham, Charles A. McDonnell and John B. Skinner were not indicted. —_—— —Gov.TiLLmax of S. C., has become in~ censed at the rough usage accorded to his dispensory spies and states that he will arm them and instruct them to shoot whenever necessary. EE ATID TWO ARE MISSING. —stfpes A Yacht on Liake George Laden With 2¢ Eastern Pleasure Seekers Strikes a Sunken Pier and Goes Down. — pre Friday night a pleasure party, while going to a dance at the lower end of Lake George, near Troy, N. Y., suffered a terrible disas- ter. The steam yacht Rachael, owned by D. W. Sherman, proprietor of the Pearl Point House, Lake George, was conveying 28 people up the lake. The little vessel was turned toward the One Hundred Island House and was gliding toward the landing when the passengers were thrown forward by a sudden shock. In the dark the vessel had run upon a sunken pier, and before assistance arrived {rom the shore it sank with all on board. Jt was only a few minutes after the shock when the yacht careened to one side and went down in 18 feet of water. Theshriek- ing, struggling passengers battled for life in the darkness. Women threw up their arms and sank beneath the surface, and when brought ashore life had led. Deeds of he- roism were performed by the men. When all in sight had reached the shore, it was learned that nine persons all women except a youth of 19, had sunk to watery graves. As soon as possible un attempt to recover their bodies was made. After strenuous efforts all the bodies were broughnt to the surface, but two were missing. The following is a corrected list of the drowned. Miss Hattie Hal, Brooklyn; Miss Bertha Benedict, Montclair. N. J; Miss Edith Hard- ing, Hoboken, N, J; Miss U. M. Burton, Jersey City; Mrs. J. H. Mitchell, Burling- ton; KE. C. Miteoell. Burlington; Miss Lizzie Curley, Burlington; Miss Ciara Black, Bur- lington; Miss Lizzie Clark Bridgeport, Conn. Lightning Killed Two. At Brooklyn, N. Y., while Fred Zeigling, Jizzie Topel, Ernest Topel and John Maher were returning from East New York they were struck by lightning. Zeigling and the girl were instantly killed and Maher was severely shocked. The father of the girl, Ernest Topel, received a shock on the leg. Grain in Burcpe Goes Up. In consequence of reports from New York showing an advance in the price of wheat, the prices of grain at Berlin have generally risen from £ to 1 mark. MARKETS. PITTSBURG. THE WHOLESALE PRICES ARE GIVEN BELOW, GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED. WHEAT—No.1'Red.......§ (2@3$ 63 No.2 Red............ 0. i 60 61 CORN—No. 2 Yellow ear... 51 52 High Mixed ear.......... 48 49 No. 2 Yellow Shelled 465 47 Shelled Mixed...... 42 43 —No. 1 White 37 38 No. 2White........ 36 37 No.3 White......... 34 33 ixed............. 32 33 RYE—No.1 ......... 54 55 No. 2 Western, New..... . 52 53 FLOUR—Fancy winter pat 4 00 4 25 Fancy Spring patents.... 4 20 4 45 Fancy Straight winter... 3 65 3 90 XXX Bakers.......... : 3 00 325 Rye Flour 3 50 375 HAY—Baled No. 1 Tim’y.. 1650 17 00 Baled No. 2 Timothy..... 15 00 15 50 Mixed Clover. ........... . 113.00 13 00 Timothy from country... 20 00 22 00 STRAW — Wheat.......... 6 50 7 00 Oats. ce 7 50 8 00 FEED—No.1 Wh Md T 17 00 18 00 Brown Middlings........ 14 50 15 00 Bran, bulk...... .........., 14550 15 00 DAIRY PRODUCTS. BUTTER—Elgin Creamery 23 25 Fancy Creamery......... 17 19 Fancy country roll....... 12 13 Low grade & cooking.... 8 10 CHEESE—Ohio fall make.. 9 10 New York Goshen........ 10 11 Wisconsin Swiss....... .. 14 15 Limburger (Fall make)... 1 12 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. APPLES—Fancy, # Fair to choice, @ bbl.... 20) 250 BEANS— NY & M(new)Beansi@®bbl 2 00 210 4 Lima Beans. ........... POTATOJES— Fancy Rose............ ait 250 2 25 Choice Rose. ........: «200 22 Sweet, per bb.... ......... 4 50 5 00 POULTRY ETC. DRESSED CHICKENS— Spring chickens § lb..... 16 17 Dressed ducks @#1h....... 10 11 Dressed turkeys @ t..... 15 16 LIVE CHICKENS— Spring chickens........... 30 50 Live chickens @ pr s 70 75 Live Ducks § pr... . 45 50 Live Turkeys $#h....... . 6 7 EGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh. .. 14 i5 FEATHERS— Extra live Geese # ..... 55 60 No 1 Extra live geese b 48 50 Mixed.................... 25 35 MISCELLANIOUS. TALLOW—Country,®b... 4 5 CO ra 4 5 SEEDS—Clover...... 8 2 8 50 Timothy prime.. 210 22 Blue grass oe 140 170 RAGS—Country mixed. 1 AONEY—White clover. 37 18 Buckwheat.............. + 10 12 MAPLE SYRUP, new crop. 60 1 0G CIDER—country sweet#bbl 5 00 5 50 BERRIES—per quart Blackberries ......... 8 10 Raspberries black.... 8 10 Lo 13 15 Te Huckleberries. . “INCINNATI. FIOUR— ...........:..... . WHEAT—No. 2 oe RYE-—No. 2........... CORN—Mixed...... DAIS. ..o. EGGS... BUETER x. ..n0 cid ilue, FLOUR, iio dod dde inns T0@ $4 25 WHEAT—No. 2. Red...... 65 66 CORN—No. 2, Mixed.. . 47 48 OATS—No. 2, White........ 31 32 BUTTER—Creamery Extra. 20 28 EGGS—Pa., Firsts = 15 16 NEW YORK, Wa FLOUR—Patents............ 200 4 60 WHEAT—No 2 Red... 69 70 RYE—Western....... 57 50 CORN—No. 2............ .e 47 48 OATS—Mixed Western..... 30 31 BUTTER—Creamery..... y 15 90 EGGS—state and Penn... .. 14 15 4 85to 5 00 4 00to 4 75 3 00 to 3 50 200to 3 00 6 00 to 6 50 20 00 to 40 00 head.... SHEEP. 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