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TICKINGS OF THE TELEGRAPH
OREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
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What is Going On the World Over.
Important Events Briefly Chronicled.
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Nisneters, Accidents and Fatalities
Three persons named Sternbloth, from
Hampden, O., father ased 60; daughter, 21,
and son, 16, lost their lives in the Raisor
Hotel, Chicago, through their ignorance of
gas and gas fixtures. They were found
dead, having been asphyxiated by gas es-
caping from an open je’.
By the collapse of a bridge at Eldon, Ia.,
Michael Murphy was Killed, three men fa”
tally and 12 severely injured.
fires
A> Fairchance, Pa., a small borough
six miles south of Uniontown, Pa., was
swept away by fire. Fully one-half the
business houses in the town now in
ashes, and many families are homeless and
in destitute circumstances. The fire was of
incendiary origin. The loss is estimated at
$£30.000, about half of which is covered by
insurance.
At Kings (ity, Mo., fire started in a bak-
ery Sunday night and before it was extin-
gui-hed £150 000 worth of damage wasdone.
A score of business houses were burned and
totally destroyed.
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Crime and Penalties,
At Evergreen. Ala., Wright Green was
sen enced to two years imprisonment for
challenging Samuel Coker to fight a duel.
This is the first conviction under the law.
which was passed in 1836.
At New York Maurice de Comollion,
Emeiie Alexander, a married woman He
afterward shot himself and died instantly.
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Washington News,
W. B. Hornblower’s
still hung up in the senate Committee.
The President has written expressing his
are
unable to attend the World's Fa'r before it
regrets that he and Mrs. Cleveland
is permanently closed.
Financial and Commercial.
The Treasury has closed up the Socorro
National Bank of Socorro, N. M., for con-
tinued and persistant violations Gf the na
tional banking laws.
The Wellman Iron and Steel Company o
Chester, Pa., has failed.
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Copitni. Labor and Industrial,
The Pennsylvania Iron Mills, Lancaster,
have closcd for lack of orders.
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Miscellaneous,
Thirty-six new cases of yellow fever and
two deaths were reported in Brunswick, Ga
on Thursday.
Patrick Kanaley choked to death by swal
lowing a sponge while on the operating ta-
ble at Syracuse, N. Y, An investigation is
being made.
A car containing $5,000,000 in gold arriv-
from San
Francisco on Friday. The car was guarded
by five armed men and the date of ship-
ed at New York Sub-Treasury
nent kept a secret.
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BEYOND OUR BORDERS.
The recent storm which swept along the
Atlantic coast we st of Guadulaja, Mex., did
35
years old. shot and dangerously wounded
nomination to be
Associate Justice of the Supreme Gouru is
] LATER NEWS WAIFS,
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Factory Inspector Watchorn, of Pennsyl-
vania says the reports received from his
deputies through the State indicate that
the condition of trade among manufacturers
is as dull as it has been at any time during
the year. with no prospects of a change for
the better.
At Springfield, O.. the great reaper firm
of Warder, Bushnell & Glessner, employing
1.200 men when running full, has made a
reduction in wages averaging 10 per cent,
Other large manufacturers there will, it is
stated, soon follow their example.
At Muncie, Ind.. Maring, Hart & Over's
window glass factories and the Whitely
Harvesting Machine works, employing 1,-
500 men, have resumed. Bail Bros.’ glass
factories and the Whii2 River steel mills,
employing 1,000 mer. here also, resumed.
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DISASTERS, ACCIDENTS AX7D FATALITIES.
Two seriously and ten wainfully injured
is the result of a collision; hetween an Illi-
nois Central coal train and the northbound
express train at Otto. four miles south of
kankakee, 11. The report that seven were
killed was incorrect, though some of the in-
jured may die.
‘| By the explosion of a boiler in a dye house
at Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Jahn Bean, H.Hol-
land, Miss Turner and Miss Azee were
killed.
Three persons were killed and five in-
jured in a collision on the Reading rcad
Trenton, N. J. The dead are James Taffer-
ty and James McKenna, both of Philadel-
phia, and an uakuown man. On a card
found in his pocket was the name of
Thomas Maher, Washington, D. C.
* Charles A. Wells.a millionare lumberman
of Saginaw, Mich , was drowned while hunt-
ing by the upsetting of his canoe on Bow-
string lake, Minn.
At Tottenville, S. I, a passenger train on
the Staten Istand Rapid Transit road cel
iided with a train in the station. Conductor
Frank Davis was crushed between two cars
and instantly killed and Brakemar Wal-
lace Bedell received internal injuries which,
it is believed, will result fatally.
At Birmingham, Ala, the boiler of a big
mogul locomotive, drawing a ireight train
on the Georgia Pacific 1aiiroad, exploded,
killing instantly Engineer William Mills
and Fireman J. W. Buchanan.
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FOREIGN,
The Bamfurling collieries and three col-
f | lieries at Ashton, England, have resumel
work at the price paid before the strike,
Almost 4,000 men are employed:
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’ MORTUARY.
The Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff, regarded by
many as the greatest living authority on
ex: gesis and church history, died at his
. | home in New York City. Paralysiswas the
immediate cause of death.
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HARD WINTER
z PREDICTED.
8ix Reasons Given by a New York
Weather Prophet.
Loren Cushman, an aged farmer of Ply-
mouth, Chenango county, N. Y., has quite
a reputation as a reliable weather prophet,
and whenever he makes a prognostication
his friends regard it as worthy of credence
Mr. Cushman believes the coming winte:
will be an unusually severe one, and bases
his opinion on the following grounds:
First. the husks of corn are much thicker
3 than usual, and of a deep orange iint, in:
more damage than was at first reported. | stead of a light lemon hue. Second the
The inundations in the Tepic territory | hog's meit runs jagged, instead of smooth.
caused thousands dollars’ loss to stockmen
and farmers and entire villages were swept
away. The number of lives lost 18 now
placed at 150. Many bodies have already
been recovered and the search for the miss-
ing ones still continue.
Cholera is about stamped out in Ham-
burg. There have been 300 cases and 75
deaths in the Charleroi district of Belgium.
Four died on Wednesday.
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Manhattan Day. os
friday was Manhattan day at the World's
At the exercises at the New
Fair, Chicago.
Third, the goose bone taken from a May-
raised fowl shows larger and waiter spots
than customary. which resemble the canals
of Mars. Fou th, the crop of nuts of all
kinds is immense aud jthe squirrels and
chipmonks are laying in prodigious stores
early in the season. Fifth, the partridges
and woodcock are lighting in barns and
outhouses intead of trees, and ducks are
flying in U-shaped instead of V-shaped,
flocks toward the Sonth. Sith the green
frogs are changing their skins and are even
now seeking cool wells and springs for their
winter quarters. Mr. Cushman believes
_ | the coming winter will be the most severe
this country has experienced since the
winter of 1833.
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TES. BATTLE CREEK DISASTER.
York state building Mayor Gilroy, Gen.
Horace Porter, Chauncey Depew, John R. | Only Twelve of the Victims Identified
Fellows and Hon. Seth Lowe were the Thus Far.
speakers.
West.
The paid admissions were 290,317, much
Jess than the New Yorkers had figured. O
that number it is estimated abeut 75,00
were from the metropolis.
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Six Persons Injured.
Six persone were injured in a wreck on
Chicago
rgilroad in a dense fog at Monroeville. They
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
are:
Engineer Cowan, badly scalded; Fireman
Dailey, leg broken and internal injuries
Brakeman Frederick Hunt. badly injured
Agnes Booth read Joseph I. C.
Clarke's poem, ‘New York to Chicago,’ in
which Chicago was called the queen of the
The following victims of Friday's wreck
at Battle Creek, Mich., have been positively
identified: Frank H. Smith, leg amputat-
ed and since died, For. Plain, N. Y.;Charles
W VanDusen, Sprout Brook, N. Y., died
f | of injuries; Mrs. Charles W. VanDusen.
0 | Thomas R. Stringer. Port Dover, Ont.;
William H. Henry, East Greenwich, R. I;
Edwin I. Magoon, Warwick, R. I; Mrs.
Albert Bradley, Simcoe, Ont.; J.W. Beards-
ley, Watkins, N. Y.; Mrs. F. R. McKenzie,
Wisconsin; Miss A. W. Wortbman, New
York; James G. Worthman, brother of
above, 12 years old and only boy killed;
Thomas McFarvey, London, Can.
; There are now 15 unidentified bodies.
+ | The following are known to be ‘among the
may die; Bapgagemaster Stevens, caught | burned to death, but cannot be identified:
debris and probably fatally in- | Mrs. Evelyn A. Aldrich, of “dwardsburg,
Sher he 2 a > I 1 24 3 7} Mich: Mrs. A. K. Warner. Brockport, N,
Jured; Mrs. Anna Smith, Orb (JuCESOn, 1 Ys Mrs J. A. Wood, Odessa, N.Y.
seriously hurt; Nettie Wilson, Allegheny,
Pa., cut and bruised.
Eastbound train No. 4 collided with
which was standing on the
switch.
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FIFTY-FOUR P*OPLE DROWNED:
The List of Fatalities So Far Reported
of the Big Storm on the Lakes.
The Property Loss
$800,000.
Later reports from the great storm which
swept the chain of lakes last Friday tend to
Missing boats
increase the list of disasters.
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second section of westbound train No. 25,
Mounrceviiie
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THE FAIR WIDE OPEN SUNDAY.
Band and Organ uoncer.s, and All the
Big Buildings Open to Visitors.
A greatly increased attendance marked
the last Sundy but one of the Official
World’s Tair season. The change in policy
on the part of the administration brought
cut the people in larger numbers than on
any previous Sunday. The e ecutive
officers had issued orders to run everything
on the wide open plan, the same
week days.
Concerts were given bv four of the Expo-
a8 on
te rd from at all points. Thus sition bands, an organ concert was given in
are being heard pe 4 i p Jostand Festival Hall and the Lineff Russian choir
far it is known that 41 people were lostand | 3, and pave the representation of a
10 vessels become total wrecks. Twenty- | peasant wedaing in costume. ‘lhe caravels
nine more are on the beach or water
logged; 13 of them will become total losses:
the money loss exceeds
To this list must be added two
schooners which have not yet been identi-
fied. It is likely their crews numbering
This will
make the total number of lives lost in the
To the financial loss must
be added not less than £500,000 for minoz
On steamers
$825.000.
six or eight each, were Jost.
great storm 54.
damages.
—Ix testifying in her own behalf in a
Adeline
Baltimore police station Mrs.
Wilder called upon God to smite her ifshe
had not sworn to the truth. The wor 8 had
scarcely left her mouth when she fell to
the floor unconscious, Twelve hours after-
wards she revived, but she is now a raving
maniac.
and nearly all the State buildings were
open. The foreign commissioners. bow-
aver, kept their places closed and tliere
was not much improvement in regard to
>xhibits. All the buildings were open un-
til 6 o'clock.
The electric fountains plaved at
and the illuminanions of the grand
was the same as on week days,
night
court
WORLD'S FAIR ATTENDANCE.
The following are the official figures for
the paid admissions to the fair:
May (month)..............0 00n.s 1,050.03
June (month). ceveessvecenes..on 2,675.113
July (nonth).................0 760,263
August (MNMONID) eaves vareaaes 026,286
September (month) ............... 4,658,403
October (to date)..........c.couvie. 5,127,619
Total, eis iecviic sen ans vans: 19,707,724
A FAST TRAIN OF DEATH.
Twenty-Seven Worlds Fair
Visitors Lose Their Lives.
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TWO TRAINS ON THE CHICAGO
AND GRAND TRUNK RAIL-
ROAD COLLIDE.
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Scores of Those Who Escaped Death
Maimed and Mutilated. Horrible
Details of One of the Most
Disastrous Wrecks of
Recent Years.
See
Twenty-seven heaps of charred, blackeneé
flesh—all that remains of what a few hours
before were men, women and children in
the enjovment of health and happiness—
rest upon the floor ot an improvised morgue
;n the basement of a furmiture store ip
Battle Creek, Mich. A mileaway in the
City Hospital are a score or more of human
beings with gashed bodies and broken
limbs. Add to this an engineer in jail and
a conductor under bond to appear and the
story is told in brief of the latest of railroad
horrors, and one of the most appalling in
its character of this or recent years.
The dead are:
Frank B. Smith, Fort Plain, N. Ye
E. T. Magoon, Providence, R. L
W. W. Henry, Woonsocket, R. I.
Mrs, Charles Van Dusen, Sprout Brook,
NY.
Nine men, eight women, one boy and
ene body, together with three human trunks
with limbs and heads missing, were burned
beyond identification.
One of the female bodies isbelieved to be
that of Mrs. W. W. Henry, of Woonsockett,
R. I. One of the male victims is believed
to be William Lewis Wilson, of Evanston,
{11., and another is supposed tc be J. W.
Beardsley of Watkins, N. Y.
The injured are: Ezekiah Davidson, Fair-
port. N. Y.; Miss Belle Wilhams, Lockport,
N. Y.: Mrs. Henry Bushnell, Brockport, N.
Y.; William Thompson, Woodstock, Ont.;
Frank Rogers, Woodstock, Ont.; Frederick
Wurtz, Rochester, N. Y.; Evelyn Wurtz,
daughter of above; Harvey Smith, Fort
Piain, N. Y.; Nellie E. Smith, Fort Plain,
N.Y.; Albert Bradley, Ont.; Frank Turner
Middle Smithville, Pa; John ©, Stewart,
Dalton, Ill; Jennie,daughter of above; Mrs,
Vance. Simcoe, Can., George Vance, Sim-
coe, Can., son of above; Joseph 8S. Archbeil,
Svansten, Ill., George Shakleton, Auburn,
N. Y.; Thomas J. Monroe, Auburn, N. Y.;
Mrs, Beardslee, Springfield, Ill; H. 8,
Williams Toronto, Can.; Maggie O'Brady,
Oswego, IN. Y.; C. F. Adams, Buffalo, N.Y.
FAILED TO OBEY ORDERS.
Direct disobedience of orders on the part
of a Chicago and Grand Trunk engineer
and conductor, both of whom have seen
long service with the company and were
regarded as model empleyes, was the cause
of the tragedy. A Raymond and Whit
comb special train of eight palace cars filled
with Eastern fo'k, who had been taking in
the sights of the World's Fair, left the Six-
tieth Street station of the road at Chicago
at 8.15 p. m. as the first section of the night
express, known as No. 6. The train wasn
charge of Conductor Burt N. Scott and En-
ginecer Harry Woolley.
All went well until Battle Creek dept
was reached. This was at 3:37 a. m, From
here to the railroad yards, a distance of a
mile and a balf, there isa double track.
When the Witcomb special came to a full
stop in the depot, the night operator hand-
ed to Conductor ~cott two copiee of an order
for the train to proceed to the double truck
east of Main street, about a-half mile dis
tant, and there await the passing of the
westbound Pacific exoress, known as No. 9.
This train which was nearly three hours
late, was composed of 13 day coaches and
two baggage cars. Most of the day coacines
had seen many years serviceand were in
poor condition to withstand a collision,
Everyone of the fated number -was packed
with Eastern people. themajority of whom
taking advantage of the low 1ates were on
their way to take in the last _week of the
Exposition.
‘I'he Pacific express was in charge of Con-
ductor John Biid and Engineer Gilbert
Cranshaw, both of whom had received or-
ders at Lansing to lookout for the eastbound
train onvthe double track and were accord-
ingly on the alert.
After receiving orders at the Battle Creek
station, Engineer Woolley proceeded up the
double track, but ivstead of stopping in ac-
cordance wi h his instructions until the
westbound express had passed, he continued
on and entered again on the single track. He
hardly gone more than an eight of a mile
when the headlight of the Pacific express
was seen coming around the slight curve
behind the telegraph office of the railroad
yards. 1t was speeding westward at the rate
of 40 miles hour.
There was no time to apply air brakes or
reverse levers. The engineers and firemen
of both trains jumped for their lives, and a
second later the giant locomotives came
together with a crash that could be heard a
baif mile away. .
‘With feartul force the engine of the special
plowed, nearly half way into that of the ex-
press, driving it backward into the baggage
ar, and the latter in turn into the day
coaches behind. The shock was so terrific
tbat the first four of these were completely
‘elescoped, the first coach cutting throngh
‘he second and the second into the third,
like a flash of lightning, the roof of each
pussing over the heads of the sleeping pas-
sengers and sweeping them in a mass to the
north end of the cars
To add to the horror the wreck took fire
from thelstoves or lamps, and as the flames
mounted up, the groans and shrieks of the
maimed and injured were succeeded by
heartrending, agonizing cries and ajpeals
for help from the scores imprisoned by the
heavy timbers, or held down by the seats
and iron frame work.
The travelers on the special, nearly all of
whom had been shaken out of their berths
by the shock, poured out of the cars, but
before the fury of the flam s they were al-
most powerless to render any assistance,
except to the injured in the fourth car.
The City fireman promptly responded to
the alarm and after extinguishing the
flames commenced the gruesome work of
recovering what remained of the victims,
the police taking care of the valuables and
keeping the crowd at a distance.
After a thorough search of the debris was
made and it was certain that no more bodies
remained, the freight car containging the
charred remains was backed down to the
city depot and its contents transferred to an
undertaker, a wrecking crew set to work,
the debris again sorted and burned and left
nothing but a heap of ashes to tell the
story of one of the most awful holocausts
in the history of railroading.
BLAME IT ON EACH OTHER.
Engineer Woolley and Conductor Scott
of the special train, were arrested at Battle
Creek, Mich., on warrants sworn out by
Prosecuting Attorney Clark. caarging man-
slaughter. Scott was released on $3,000 bail.
Woolley could not secure bondsmen and
was locked up. 2
Scott says he gave the engineer a dupli-
cate of the order he received and supposed
he understood it; that he af.erwards wen
into the baggage car and did not know that
the engineer had gone over the siding an
taken the single track until the collision
occurred.
Wolley claims that when Scott hance!
him his orders he said No, 9 basgoue
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through and the dispatcher is crazy about
us not getting out of here. He asked me if
1 was ready to go and 1 asked him it he
was sure No. 9 Lad gone throuch.
He said ‘yes, ste has.’ After
I1gotinto theyard I ssw a head.ight. |
thought at first it was the switch engine, but,
ina moment | saw that she was coming tou
fast. 1 shut the throttle and reversed mv
engine. My train came to a stop and was
standing still when No. 9 struck my engine.
I was thrown against the tank and my side
was hurt. I askea my fireman after the
wreck if he remembered what Scott said
to me. He said hedid. He told me that
No.9 bad gone through. I saw Scott after
the wreck. e was much excited. las ed
him in regard to the order asain. He mut-
tered out something and said be thought
that No. Y had zone.”
EXTRASESSION OF CONGRESS
SIXTY-FIRST ‘DAY.
SexaTE—The joint resolution for citizen-
ship in the Cherokee outlet was passed and
provides that all citizens of the United
States above the age of 21 years who are
actual resiients on the strip on October 21.
1893, and have been such residents for 3C
days prior thereto, shall be entitled to vote
and hold office at the first municipal eiec-
tions for the organizatior of aty, village
and town governments. Mr. Lodge, Repub.
lican. of Massachusetts, called up his reso-
lution for an amendment of the rules. The
necessity of a power to close debate has
been. he said, recognized of late years, in
the House of Commons and in the Ameri-
can House of Representatives. These twa
great representative bodies were today. ow-
ing to that reform. able to transact busines:
according to the will of the majority. The
practice under the old rule had come te be a
vital question in the Senate and he trusted
that there would grow out of the debate on
the silver act a proper reform of the Sen:te
rules. After some prolongation of the
session, the Lodge amendments to the
rules went over until to-morrow and the
silver purchase repeal bill was taken up,
which was debated until adjournment.
JousE—The bill extending for six months
the time within which Chinese may be al
lowed to register under the operation of the
Geary law was passed in the House to dav
with little or no opposition. The bill defines
Chinese laborers and Chinese merchants,
makes mandatory photographic identitica-
tion, requires marsha's to carry out orders
for deportation, jailing Chinamen without
bail pending the execntion of deportation
writs, and excludes Chinamen
convicted of any felony from per:
mission to register. The Cox bill
for the better control of national banks was
then taken up and after remarks by Mr.
Cox for and Mr. Cannon against it, the
House, without disposing of the measure
adjourned,
SIXTY SECOND DAY.
SexsTE—The debate on the silver repeal
bill was continued until adjournment.
Houvse—In the House to day a bill dis-
pensing with proof of loyalty in the cases
of persons who, before the war, were enti-
tled to pensions or to bounty lands, wus
objected to by Mr. Burrows, Republican. of
Michigan. as far as the pension clause was
concerned. Thereupon Mr. Oates withdrew
the pension clause and the bill was passed.
Then came up the proposition for the better
control of national banks, and it was agreed
to without even a division. It provides that
no national banking association shall make
any loan to its president, vice president,
cashier, directors or any of its clerks tellers,
bookkeepers, agents, servants or other per-
sons in its employ until the ‘proposition to
make such a loan. stating the amount, terms
and security therefor, shall have been sub-
mitted in writing by tbe person desiring the
same to a meeting of the board of directors
or of the executive committee,and approved
by a majority of those present constituting
a quorum, but only to the amount now al-
lowed by the law. The House then ad-
journed.
SIXTY -THIRD DAY.
SexaTE.—The debate and deadlock on the
silver repeal bill was continued, and after
a series of speeches the senate took a recess
until 10 o'clock to-morrow.
House. —The New York and New Jersey
bridge bill was passed. The bill amending
the revised statutes relating to fees and
offenders against the United States, it estab-
lishing a uniform fee for naturalization of
aliens by United States Circuit and District
Courts, preventing the abuse of judicial
process. and providing that the defendant.
when arrested for violation of the United
States law, shall be taken before the nearest
officer qualified to give the defendant a
hearing was passed. The house then. after
ome unimportant business adjourned.
SIXTY-FOURTH DAY.
SExaTE.—The silver bill wrangle was
continued again to-day, and after an excit-
ing session the senate adjourned for the
ay.
House — Without disposing of any busi-
ness the house proceeded to pay its tribute
of respect to the memory of the late Wil-
liam Mutchler, of Pennsylvania. Eulogistic
addresses were made and then¥as a mark of
respect to the memory of the deceased, the
house edjourned.
SIXTY-FIFTII DAY.
81 raTE.—The senate session to-day was
main.y of an executive nature, no business
of inuportance being transacted in open ses-
sion,
Hovse.—The hoase passed a salary de-
ficiency hill appropriating $335.000 and the
bill to remit half the duties assessed against
exhibits sold at the World’s Fair, or those
now on exhibition there, which may go to
the California Midwinter Exposition and
be sold there. no other business of any
importance was transacted when the house
adjourned.
STXTY-SIXTH DAY.
SenaTE.—Nothing of importance was
done in the -enate today, the silver repeal
bill being still Jon debate. After a short
executive session the senate adjourned.
Housk.—In the honse to-day routine busi-
ness was considered and several small bills
were passed.
A GAIN IN BUSINESS.
It Is Not Grea‘, But Indicates That the
Hopeful Outlook for the Future is
Well Founded.
R G. Dun & Co.'s ‘‘Weeklv Review of
Trade,” New York, says: There has been
much gain in hope and a little business.
Assurances that the repeal bill will soon be
passed have again been accepted by traders
as reasons for buying things speculative at
higher prices; and with money abundant
on call—288,000,000 having been received in
this city within 10 weeks—speculation in
stocks and products has an unusual stimu-
lus and would expand even more but fo:
cont:nued embarrassments of industries.
Wheat has risen ic. helped by heavy
foreign purchases, and in spite of better
crop prospects corn is stronger, Pork has
been lifted so far that anotuer collapse is
feared by some. Petroleum has been ad-
vanced lc and speculators are supposed to
be utilizing alleged bombardments of Rio to
increase the value of coffee.
With these goods there are some not so
good. Renewals of maturing notes to a
larger amount are forced upon the banks
here, though practically all the clearing
house certificates have been retired, here
and at Boston. Imports are for behind
those of last year and the accumulation of
goods in bond ig unusally large, so that cus—
toms as well as internal revenue receipts
decrease heavily. The root of the difliculty
is the decreass in consumption of all kinds.
In thas respect the week has brought uc
p rceptible change. ?
Tke volume of domestic trade has been
slowly increasing lor some weeks as re-
poris from other cities indicate, and in all
comparisons the fact that trade increased
in September and October last year should
be kept in mind.
I'he failures last week number 346 in the
20
United States against 210 last year, and
in Canada against 25 last year,
MARSHAL M’MAHON DEAD.
The Great French Soldier Who Was
President of the Republic.
Marshal McMahon died at Paris on Tues
jay morning. He had been seriously ik
for about a week, but rallied on Saturday
and it was thought that hewould recover.On
Sunday, however. he suffered a relapse and
gradually grew weaxer until the end came.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Marie Edme Patrick Maurice de MacMa-
hon, duc de Magenta, was born at Sully,
July 13, 1-08, deriving his descent from an
Irish family who risked and lost all for the
last of the Stuart kings. He entered the
military service of France in 1825 at the
school of St. (yr; was sent to the Algerian
wars in 1830; toek part in the expedition to
Antwerp in 1832; atta el to the rank of cap-
tainlin 1833 and after holding the po-t of aid-
de-camp to several generals and taking part
in the ascault of Constantine, wasnominat-
ed major of tout chasseurs in 1840, lieuten-—
ant-colonel of the foreign legion in 1842,
colonel of the Forty-tirst of the line in 1815,
ind general of brigade in 1853. When, 1m
1855, Gen. Canrobeit left the Crimea, Gen.
McMahon was selected by the emperor to
succeed him in eommand cf a division, 2n i
when the chiefs of the allied ar-
mies resolved on assaulting Sebasto-
nol, Septemter §& they assigned 10
Sen. McMahon the perilous post of carrying
the works on the Malakoff. bor his brildant
wiceess on this occasion he was given the
grand cross of the legion of honor, and in
856 was nominated a knight grand cross of
he bath. He took aconsp:cuoas part in the
ltahan eampaign of 1839 received the baton
of marshall and was created duke of Ma-
zenta in commemoration of that victory.
On the breaking out of the war with
Prussia. » arshal McMahon was entrusted
with the command of the Firstarmy corps,
whose headquarters were at Strasburg. On
August 6, 1870,the crown prince of Prussia
attacked the united army corps of Me-
Mahon, Failly and Canrobert:drawn up in
sosition at Woerth, McMahon had under
nim 50,000 men 1n all and occupied astrong
jefensive position onthe slopes of the
Vosges; but the French line was turned by
ihe Prussians at two points, and their left
ind ¢ nter broken, notwithstanding a des-
serste charge of cavalry which was orderea
oy McManon as a last resort, McMahon re
sired on the following dv to Saverne, next
0 Toul (13th), Rbeims(21st) and Rethel
22d). On the 30th his forces were again
jefeated by the Prussians, being driver
back from Beaumont beyond the Meuse,
jear Mouzon, He was chief in command
it the battle of Sedan. September 1, but re:
soived a severe wound in the thigh at the
rominencement of the engagement, where-
apon the command devolved upon Gen
(Vimptien who signed the capitulation. Mc-
\'ahon was made a prisoner of war and
Kareyed into Germany
faving recovered from his wound, Mar-
thali McMahon left Wiesbaden for France
\arch 13.1371, and was nominated the fol
lowing month commander-in-chief of the
irmy at Versailles. He successfully con
jncted the seige of Paris azainst the com-
mune and ably sssisted M. Thiers in re
srganizing the army. In December, 1871
Le was requested to become a candidate tc
represent Paris in ‘he national assembly
but he refused to accept the nomination.
On M. Thiers resigning the presidency of
the republic May 24, 1873, he was elected tc
the vacant otfice by the assembly. anc
formed a conservative ministry. Novem
ber 19, 1873, the assembly entrusted him
with the exercise of power for seven yeéars.
A prolonged crisis was peacefully; brought
0 a close on December 14, 1877. The sen-
atorial elections of 1879 gave the Republi:
can party an effective working majority in
the upper chamber. The cabinet was at
once pressed to remove the most conspic-
uous anti-Republican generals and officials,
but Marshal McMahon refused to be a party
to these measures and on January 30, 1880,
resigned the presidency, beingsucceeded by
M. Grevy.
NATIONAL CAPITOLS,
This Government Has Had Nine Seats
‘ of Governmant.
Apropos the recent centennial celebration
of the founding of our federal capitol in
Washington, it is interesting to recall that
t his government has had nine different seats
of national legislation since the heroes of
1776 threw off the English yoke. The cities
of Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.; Lan-
caster, Pa.; York, Pa; Princeton, N. J;
Annapolis, Md.; L'renton, N. J.; New Yorz
city, and lastly Washington, have all in turn
served as the home of congress—the visible
center of tlie government and the sanctuary
of its laws.
During the Revolution the sessions of
congress were held at the most convenient
points permitted by the e%izeneies of the
war—the temporary capital being moved
about as occasion required. Under the old
regime of the continen al congress, and
later under tha articles of confederation the
same rivalry existed among the 13 states for
the honor of having congress sit within
their respective territories as were exper-
ienced after the constitution was adopted
and before the present federal city was
located in its present situation, on the banks
of the Potomac.
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A Big Fire In New York.
One of the most destructive fires New
York City has seen since the great fire of
1858 occurred Wednesday evening. The fire
:xtended from St Raphael’s Roman Catho-
ic church on Fortieth street, west of Tenth
ivenue, to the north side of Forty-second
treet. The loss will amount well up into
she millions.
The fire started about 8 o'clock in the
boiler house of Wilhham Campbell & Co.,
wholesale manufacturers of wall paper at
)12 West Forry-second street, It gained
rreat headway before it was discovered
ind spread to the adjoining buildings occu-
pred by Nevins & Haviland, also wall pa-
| er manufagturers, on Tenth avenue. Both
rms were entirely burhed out. Other
i uildings destroyed were 505 West Forty-
recond street, occupied by Dr. Leighton;
8 West Forty-second street, occupied by
J. Wheelihan; the St, Raphael’s club house,
220 West Forty-second street, a dwelling;
337 West Forty-second street, occupied by
P. Van Buskirk; 524 West Forty-second
ttreet, occupied by Arthur Short; 526
> est Foruy-second street, occupied by M.C.
auirr,
‘The loss sustained by Campbell & Co. is
estimated at $2,000,000. Messrs Nevins &
Haviland lost £175,000 and George A. Shar-
tey & Sons §250,000.
THE FAIR CLOSES OCT. 30.
Though Visitors Will be Permitted to
See Buildings Torn Down.
The announcement made by the Council
of Administration that the Wor'd's Colum-
bian Fair at Chicago would not be formal-
ly closed October 30,but would remain open
as long as the weather permits and the peo-
ple want to come, does not mean exactly
what it savs. Nobody expected that the gates
would be abandoned the moment the cur-
tain dropped on the White City, and it will
certainly drop October 30, and nobody ex-
pects that people who wish to enter the
grounds to watch the buildings being torn
down and exhibits moved away will be de-
nied that privilege if they are willing to pay
for passing through the gates, That is all
the resolution adopted by the Council of
Administration means, The Fair has ng
official recognition by Congress after Oct.
30 and the exhibits will, many of them be
on their way from the grounds as early as
5 0'c ock the morning of the 31st inst.
TRENTON'S BATTLE FIELD
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AN IMPOSING MONUMENT
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Dedicated. The Governors of Righy
States Participate in the Ceremonies.
—_——
The Trenton battle monument was dedi
cated at Trenton, N. J., on Thursday. The
Governors of many states participated, ane
an impressive military display was one op
its features. The monument commemo-
rates the encourter of Gen. Washingtor
with the British and Hessians in 'Irenton
on December 26, 1776. It was upon this
occasion that he braved the ice to cross the
Delaware.
Aronnd the monument 30.000 people
were gathered to witness the exercises. The
dignitaries present included Govs. Flower, ot
New York; Pattison, of Pennsylvania; Ful
ler, of Vermont; Reynolds, of Delaware;
* Rus-ell, of Massachusetts; Werts, of New
Jersey; Morris, of Connecticut and Brown,
of Maryland.
The “first statue unveil'd was that ot
Blair McClenachan, presented by the Phila.
delphia City troop, Capt. J. Lapsiey Wilson
making the address. Then came the statue
of John Russell, presented by Massachu-
setts. Gov. Russell being the speaker.
The Governors of New Yorgz, Pennsylva-
nia and Connecticut made presentation
speeches for the tablets given by their
States.
The shaft, Roman Doric in style. is of
white granite. 1t towers 135 feet in the air
and is surmounted by a bronze statue of
Washington, 13 feet high and is the gift of
New York State. Its summit will be ac-
cessible by means of an electric elevator.
Thirteen electric lights will shed ‘heir radi-
ence upon the darkness every night. There
are four cabinets on the base of the pedestal
—“The Continental Army Crossing the
Delaware,’’ presented by Pennsylvania;
“The Opening of the Fight,” by New York;
“The Surrender of the Hessians,’ by Con-
necticut, and an historienl bronze tablet
presented by the Society of the Cincin-
nati in Ne w Jersey. The monumant and
site cost $60,000; the Governmént glving
£30,000.
The parade was the handsomest demon-
stration of the kind ever seen in New
Jersey, .
EFFECT OF HARD TIMES.
Reports From 684 Industrial Firms
Show 101,763 Men Outof Work,
And a Weekly Loss of $1,202-
851.36 in Wrges Within a
Year.
The “American Economist’ New York,
has reports from 684 sample industrial es
tablishments in all the 44 différent States.
They report that they had employed on the
5th of November, '92, 169,423 men, and on
the 2d of September this year only 67,660, a
cut down of almost two-thirds. The same
firms were paying out in wages last year
$1,762,288 30, a week; they are .now paying
but $519,436 94 a week. The returns from
the e establishments alone make the fol-
lowing showing: :
Decrease in labor since November 5, 1892
£04 per cent.
Decrease in wages since Ndvemcer 5, 1892,
69 per cent.
ecrease in business since November 35,
1842, 47 2 per cent,
Number of hands out of work 101,763.
The loss in total weekly wages $1,202,951,-
Average decrease in the rate of wages
$2.35 per week.
The 66 establishments which report from
Pennsylvania show a decaease in the num-
ber of men em ployed from21,977 to 9.710;and
a decrease in their wages from $218,693.62 to
$81.592.24, to the workingmen of over
$134,000 a week. Ohio's (6 returns show a
shrinking in men employed from 28,838 to
7 483 and a weekiy dror in wage earnings
from $284,035.76 to $9,059.62, or over $214,-
000 a week. In \est Virginia 26 concerns
are heard from which now employ 2,389
men; last year they gave employment to
6.132. Their weekly wages now are $16,-
416.54; last year they earned $34,656.70, al-
most four times as much.
—— eee eee
SIX MEN KILLED.
Dense Fog at Wellsville, Ohio, Causes a
Terrible Railroad Wreck.
Six men dead and two badly injured are
the results of a collision which took place
Tuesday morning between the first section
of the New York and Chicago Limited of
the Pennsylvania railroad and a freight
train at Wellsville, O.
A freight wreck at Beaver Falls, Pa,
necessitated the diversion of the traffic on
the Fort Wayne road to the Cleveland and
Pittsburg route. The Limited was bound
east. As the train was passing through
the Wellsville yard at a speed of 30 milesan
hour it collided with a freight train, which
was making up in the yard. Signals, it is
said, were set which should have warned
the Limited, but the dense fog prevented
them being seen in time to prevent the ac-
cident. It is claimed that the freight train
people did not know of the Limited being
due and that no fiag was put out, as there
should have been.
The following is the list of the dead:
G. D. CaroTHERS, pilot, Ravenna, O.; kill-
aloe engi Al
scalded; died in So feghsay, Pay
ELMER J CcKsoN, his son, fireman. Allegheny,
legs broken, lower limbs crushed; died
Re a ters
CE, 8 S
Philadelphia, O., both a
ed internally; died while on the
ARS Bospisal 3 rb
LEX, FrazIER, Bellevue, Pa., baggasceman
badly scalded and hurt tr 2d at
West Penn hospital.
Ep. FowLER, train electrician, Chicago, both
legs crushed; died at West Penn hospital.
One man, Daniel Coughanour, the engi-
neer of the freight, was badly hurt by jump-
ing, and a porter on the limited had one
arm badly bruised.
Chicago’s Greatest Day and Crowd.
Seven hundred and fif y-one thousand
human souls! Seven hundred and tifty-one
tbousand souls pathered together within
little more than 640 acres—that is, little
morethan a square mile,
Dealing with large numbers it is difficult
for the human mind to gra.p their signifi-
cance. This mighty throng at Jackson Park
last Monday, centered within little more
than a square mil», numbered more souls
than are in various states of the Union. Let
us run through the list of those which are
under 751.000 for the sake of the significance
i illustration:
olorado. 420.000, Connecticut, 746,000;
Delaware, 169,000; Florida. 392,000; Idaho,
85,000; Maine. 662,000; Montzna, 13.000;
Nevada, 46,000; New Hampshire, 377,000;
North Dakota, 183,000; - Oregon, 314.000;
Rhoue Island, 346.000, South Dakota. 399.-
00). Vermont, 333,000; Wyoming, 61,000.
It is not p obable that within this gener-
at on, at least, the like of this gathering
will be seen.—Chicaen Times.
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A Big Battle Reported.
A pitched battle has been fought en the
ibicui in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande
de Sul. The Insurgents defeated the troops.
of Gen. Castilho. One thousand soldiers.
are reported to have been killed or wound-
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