THE POLITICAL FIELD BLAND AND BOIE9 ARE IN THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT. Free Sliver to Bute at the Chicago Convention Maine Republicans Loyal ts Beed II la AinrM That Re Would Not Accept the Vice Presidency, Nrw York, June S. Th Journal' Washington correspondent says: Free sliver, 1H to 1, and the overthrow of Carlisle In Kentuoky, and Incidentally the disappearance of any ohance of a third term for Cleveland, la the iabjoot on ev ery lip. Democrat already begin to tnlk of a ticket at Chicago Nowhere In It doubted that free silver sentiment will rule at the convention. The only qneetlon la, "How far will It go" Will It be Inveterate and o the silver limit and deolnre for the free coinage of silver, lo to If Or will It mod ify the silver expression to ae to prevent a rnllt, and, while meaning fine silver, 1H to 1, to oouoh the expression thereof ai to leave an eionse for a self resneotlna Bold. bug to atny with the party:' These are the two queries now racking statesmen as thpy converse. The general Tlow In that middle gronnd will be avoided and that a platform of ni ter free silver will be the outcome. Free Uver, 16 to 1, It la expected, will be ant forth with emphasis at Chicago and be the war ory of an nnterrlfled Demoo raoy In the campaign to come. Bo much for platforms. When candidate! are mooted, promi nence It given to the mimes of both Bland and Boles. Knob of the free silver oenturl ona hat hit adherents. Among mere look ers on who care for neither faction sen timent appears equally to divide. Some any Boles, some say Bland. Kaoh will have a vigorous following at Chloago. The free silver news from Kentuoky and else where hat vastly advertised and promoted the olalms of both gentlemen. Some there be who argue for Botes that he has carried Iowa and would again. Borne even argue that free silver Repub lican, suoh as Dubois and Carter of the senate, would support a Demoorat of the Boles tribe If Teller were named for vloe president. This Is to be discounted, as It Is the Dubois-Carter Toller plan and hope.ehould they bolt at all, to put np a platform, " Free silver, 16 to I, and protection," this lnttar with a big P. They would hardly go In with Boles or any Democrat who was for low tariff. Bay They Need Bland. Bland's supporters argue that Missouri Is now a Republican state. Thnt situa tion must be fnoed, they say, and they need Bland to faoe It with. Being a na tive Kentucklan, they say Bland would run like a scared wolf on the Dark and Bloody Ground, and being a Southern man, they argue, he would win back Maryland, a feat beyond the reach of Boles. So the argument wagt. But on very hand Bland and Boles are heard from. The gold standard Democrats have ploked np some oourage and declare that tbey will utilize the two-third rule to prevent the nomination of an avowed free eulnage ticket. The talk of compromise It also heard among the leaders of the op posing factions. In this connection the names of Colonel William H. Morrison of Illinois and Campbell of Ohio are beard. Each has the confidence of both elements of the party. In their behalf It Is asserted that their great popularity In their own states would make them among the strong set candidates the Democrats oould name. It Is olalmed that Morrison especially would command the confidence of the eastern Democrats to a greater extent thany any other western man In the party. One of the whispers of polltlos, and one generally blown about, It that Cleveland will have a letter read In tbe Chicago con vention. It will say that he, has never been for a third term, doesn't want and wouldn't take a nomination. It will alto deal at length with flnanoe as a question, declare uncompromisingly for gold, tell the Democracy that destruction awaits It If It persists In Its free silver 16 to 1 course. Knowing men and those who should know say that this letter has already been written and will be probably In the hands of Vilas In Chloago to be read at nomina tions art made and before any balloting It bad. It la not understood to ba a bid for a third term. But wiseacres declare that Cleveland looks forward to the possibility of a nomination four years from now, In 1900, and that this letter Is Intended to pave tbe way. Thoy point to bis letter on tariff at the end of his first term and declare he will now try to do with a letter on finance, declaring for gold what he did eight years ago with tariff as tbe In spiration. Reed Won't Have Second Plaoe. Washington, June 8. Congressman Aldrlch of Chloago, Mr. Bead's recognized manager In congress, makes the following declaration: "Without entering Into tbe question at to whether the vice president It or la not to be considered a promotion for a roan holding the position of sneaker of the house of representatives, I oan say with authority that Mr. Bead la a candidate for the nomination for tha presidency, and for that alone. "Ba will cheerfully abide by tha de cision of tbe convention as regards that oandldaoy, but under no olroumstaiioe will he aooept the nomination for tba vloe presidency. He does not want It and will not have It His reasons are bit own, and of them I osanot speak, but It It becomes Beoesaary after tba convention meets suoh measures will ba taken as will preolude the consideration of Mr. Bead's nam In connection with tbe vice presldenoy. He Will give the nominees cardial support, at be always hat dona. Beyond that he will insist on exercising bis prerogative of de clining a nomination be baa not sought and does not desire," Maine Loyal to Reed. Bangor, Ma., June 3. Tbe Republican state convention for the nomination of a candidate for governor assembled In the elty halt The great auditorium was com pletely filled with tbe delegates and spec tators, and In every respeol It was one of the most entbustaatlo gatherings of Re publicans in this state since the Blaine oanipalgn. Hon. J. H. Manley, chairman of the state committee, called tbe convention to order, and after the reading of the call and Invocation by Rev. Dr. Field of Ban-, gor Mr. Manley Introduced at temporary chairman Harold M. Bewail of Bath. Mr. Bewail was received with hearty applause, and be addressed the convention. When the routine business had been concluded and Governor Cleaves bad ad dressed the convention upon state and na tional Iseues, Judge Savage of Auburn presented the name of Hon. Llewellyn Powers of Boulton at a candidate fur gov ernor In a vigorous and eloquent speech and moved that the nomination be made by acclamation. Before the motion was put ths nomina tion was seconded by Colonel Fred N. Dow of .Portland and by Bertram L, Smith of Patten. The nomination was then made by acclamation, and great en thusiasm was manifested. In national atTuIrs the resolutions advo cate tbe restoration of ths policy of protec tion taught by Lincoln, Illustrated by the signal prosperity of tbe country for HO years and rounded out by the rooiprooity f Blaine, a pulley adapted to tn busi ness of the country and sxljnsted from time to tine to changed conditions. The flnanoial plank Is as follows: "We are opposed to the free and unlim ited coinage of silver, except by Interna tional agreement, and nntil such agree ment can be obtained we believe that the present gold standard should be main tained." A vigorous foreign policy Is urged: also restriction of Immigration and just ad ministration of pension laws. The platform closes with a declaration of loyalty to Thomas B. Heed, thanks to the Maine members In congress and a pledge of hearty support to tbe candidate -for governor. Republicans Win In Oregon. Portland, Or., .Tune . Returns from the elections In Oregon are coming In alowly. From present appearances the leg islature will be Republican by a large majority. The Republicans have 18 hold over senators In the legislature, the Pop ulists 8 and tbe Democrats 1. Ths Repub licans, therefore, will hHva to elect only 4 senators out of 18 In order to have a ma jority In the senate. The state oentral com mittee claims 6 out of the 18, leaving on ly H senntora to tbe Populists and Dem ocrats out of a total of 8i. It Is conceded by the Democrats that Bean (Rep. ), for supreme judge, will have at least 8,000 plurality. Senator Allison's Candidacy. Chtoaoo, .Tone 8. A dlspatoh from Dee Moines says that Senator W. B. Allison has chosen .1. N. Baldwin f Council Bluffs to present his name at the St. Louis convention, and this Is said by pol Itlolans to remove all doubt of the Iowa man remaining In the field. When the Iowa delegation was making np, It was at Senator Allison's request that Mr. Bald win was selected from the Ninth district. Mr. Baldwin la a personal friend of Mr. Allison and Is one of his most enthusias tic admirers. Connecticut Democrats, Hartfohd, June 8. The Demoeratlo state oentral oommlttee has completed Its programme for the state convention, which Is to be held In the auditorium In this city .Tune 10. The convention will be opened at 10 a. m. by Clinton B. Davis, chairman of the state oommlttee, and Melbert K. Carey of Kldgetleld will pre side. The state committee will meet at Hotel Heubleln at S p. m. Tuesday, June D, and In the evening tbe county and con gressional dlstrlot caucuses will be held. Joshua P. Levering For President. PlTTSBURo, May The national oon Tentlon of the Prohibition party placed In nomination for president J. P. Levering of Baltimore and adopted the gold stand ard. ST. LOUIS' TORNADO. Nearly Mix Hundred Lives Lost and Vast Amount of Property Destroyed. St. Louis. June 8. It Is known that the number of persons who were killed In the terrible tornado whloh passed over this olty and vicinity will reach nearly 000. The following are the flgures given: St. Louis Killed, 800; Injured, U00. East St. Louis Killed, 800; Injured, SOO. Near Centralis, Ills. Killed, 43; In jured. 85. Breckinridge, lilt. Killed, 8. Near Mount Vernon, Ilia. Killed, 6; Injured, 80. Near Mexico, Mo. Killed, 18; Injur ed, 84. Near Vandalla, Ilia Killed, 18; Injur ed. 86. Tbe financial loss by the storm of Wednesday night Is variously estimated at all the way from 16,000,000 to ii0,000, 000. That the former figure Is too small Is certain, and tbe latter Is not much too high. The telegraph companies also come In for their share of tbe loss. Not a wire was left standing In St. Louis. The streets in the district most affected are a mass of broken poles and tangled wires. Tba lost to the telegraph companies It estimated at 100, 000. Tower Grove park represents an annual expenditure of too, 000 for nearly 80 years, and contained many gifts of valuable bronzes and marbles. Sbaw's garden con tained nearly f 1,000,000 worth of botanlo al specimens. The extent of the loss In these parka la not definitely known, but It Is said to be enormous. Tha wind seemed to take the form of a tornado rather than that of a cyclone, the wrecked buildings showing none of the twisted Irons and girders whloh usually mark the track of a rotary windstorm. The general trend was from southwest to northeast. . The following Is a list of some of the more Important buildings demolished: In SI Louis, women's part of jail. Waters-Pleroe OH works, destroyed by Wind and Are. ; - Cupple's block, partially destroyed. ' Chappelle Chemical company. . Hohiokle Harrison Iron works. ' St. Loult Refrigerator and Wooden Gut ter oompany. United Elevator. ' Leggett & Myers' new tobacco manu facturing plant, partly built, the finest In the west. In Kast St Louie, Vandalla freight house, 86 dead. National hotel at stock yards. ' Tremont House. Martelle House at Belay crossing. De Wolfe cafe, directly cross front tha Relay depot Hazel Milling company's mllL The Horns Cooperage works. i, ' Baltimore and Ohio roundhouse. Standard Oil works, last bi. Louis branch. 1 Kast St Lonls elevator. Creeoent elevator. Ohio and Mississippi frolghthouse. Louisville and Nashville fralgbthouse, Chloago and Alton frelghthouso, Kast end of Eada bridge. Relay depot Another Missouri Tornado. Seneca. Ma. Jnna a a b,pn ... eompanled by a oloud burst of rain, bat truck tblt plaoe. Twenty-five bulldl ngt mraoaea oy me twisting wind at id a dozen others were awent from thai. r ..... datlona by the deluge of water. At 1 east vi iitgo won lust. . A Postal Appointment. Washington, June 8. C. a Keen of Maine has baan anruilnt-wl .kl.f f pnlntment division In the fourth ati use ou postmaster general omoe. Played Pokar la a Poorhouae. There has been a pronounced i rtand taken njrainfit c-amhlimr in a...t k'ra at Portsmouth recently, n le fire, ana ponce department have be en or dered to abandon card nluvim? ,,, . full grown poker game has been broken up nil uie uiunnary. It appears that several At tha receive small peimious and oti (era earn a trine occasionally lor tobaoc o money by outside work. Thev have In ui. k., losing most of it to gome of th eir fellow uiuui-iuiiams wno are smile d in the manipulation of the cards. TW crackers and grains of ooff ee at chip ana piayea in tue basement ol : the build iuir. A noker frame in a -v., ,.,., might be considered suBlcie otly unusual to be worth permitting to proceed at a curiosity, but Superinteo d ant llL.rxb.ou thought not and placed Uoe participants Under discipline. Culunil jus Uispatch. A FAIR PROPHETESS. WHILE SHE TELLS FORTUNES HER HUSBANO SEEKS SEPARATION. Mrs. Qnlmby Personates a Oypsy Princess at the Festival For the Aid of Insur gents Mr. Qulmby gays She Made Him Wash DKies. Moi nt Vebkon, N. T June 8. The prettiest corner of the Cuban fair In Madi son Square Garden, In New York, Is occu pied by "Princess Marguerite," who tells fortunes. A red and white striped tent stands on the rocky ledge of an arttfloial glade. Within alts the ''rinoesa, " beau tiful and picturesque. e has been the Bttraetlon of the fair. Dollars have ponred Into her lap In return for her rose colored forecasts of the future. She sits smiling and serene, an Ideal gypsy queen. But she has forsaken her husband, her baby boy and her home to act the pnrt "Prlnoess Marguerlta" Is Mrs. Edward Qnlmby of 19 North Prospect avenue, this city. Her husband la handsome, tall and blond. Her boy la blue eyed and winsome. Her home was a luxuriously furnished flat In the heart of fashionable Chester bill. She occupied a good social position. She has oast all this aside that sbe might sit In ber tent at the fair telling fortunes to the crowd. She says, with the air of a martyr, that It is for "Cuba libra." Her husband believes ber action a eaorlfloe to vanity and love for admlrntlon. Her husband forbnde her appearing at tbe fair. Hut ahe snapped her fingers at Teddy and became Prlnoess Marguerlta. Ha went to the fair and pleaded with her to return to him. She said, "Poor Ted dy!" and laughed at him. Now he has begun action for a separation. His lawyer. Stephen J. Stillwell of this city, accompanied by a process server, went to the Cuban fair on Monday night and served Mrs. Qulmby with ths paper. Not only does he want a separation, but also the oustody of Eddie, tbe baby. Mrs. Qulnihy, four years ago, was Miss Marguerite Jeanness, the belle of Chester hill, petite In figure, with lustrous brown eyes, pink cheeks and rose red month, delicate Grecian none and prettily outlined oval face set In a frame of glossy black. waving hair. She painted prettily, sang aweetly, played tennis and danced grace fully, and her conversation wat witty and entortalnlng. ' Had a Brief Courtship. Then Qulmby, tall, handsome, easy go ing and Impressionable, met her. A month's courtship and they were married. A year or so later their baby was born. Thoy have lived happily, attending social functions assiduously. But after the ad vent of the baby Qulmby yearned for the quiet of bis hearth. Mot so with bis wife. She still kept up the round of teas, oard parties, receptions and balls. He aocompanied kvr, but usually under protest He wanted her to remain at home with him and the baby.' Many bitter quar rels arose because of It. In bis complaint her husband says that at various times between A(J1 6 and May 11 of this year Airs, uunnuy usea anusive language. struck and threatened to kill him. She left Eddie, the baby, alone In the house under look and key for more than two hours at a time and almost starved the oh I Id, he declares Further, he states that .the refused to cook his meals and made I lm wash the dishes. He alleges also that she corresponded with men In no way re- In 1d to her, refusing to desist, although be requested ber to do so, and she anted as .though she was In love with "another m an." In fnot, he says, the told him the will. Who Milt "other man" la the com pi tint docs not state, and neither he nor M rs. umniby win tell. The Church of the Ascension, to whloh sh and her husband belonged, bad a fair last January. It was here she made her flrvt appearand at a gypsy fortune teller. Then, as now, she appeared as Princess Mrirgunrlta. Some one Interested in tbe Cuban fair taw her then, was much lm pressed with her beauty and vivacity, and when thei Cuban fair was opened the wat asked to assist She aooepted. Must Have Her Way, Her busdand was averse to her doing any suoh thing. He couobed his objection In strong language. She merely shrugged ber pretty shoulders In reply. On the even Ing tbe falroaened Mr. Qulmby returned home at usual from .New Sfork. Tbe flat was dark. He lighted the gas. He taw an envelope tied totbeohandeller. He caught It hastily and tore out the contents. It was from bis wife. It read, "Baby and I have gone to Trey." Qulmby crushed tbe letter in bis hand and did not believe It He went to the Cuban fair and found bar there. She and her baby were stopping with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. William .leanness, in West Forty-slgbth I treat New York. H asked her to oome b vme. She refused, says. Me as tea for hi t child. Again the refused. But there sis I whiteness about hit oom pressed Hp t a determlnaftioB about ber husband's eye s, that made Dor iremDie a unit. r he consented to let Dim tatje luiuie. He lid. The baby Is sow with bis folks In Roc tester, having been taken there by bit tlste r, Mrs. rJoranton. v Wi ten seen by a reporter, Mrs. Qulmby said: "I will tell you no. I win let my husbi ind tell you. You see mm but stay, I ma w as well tell you myself. Well, tbe whole tremble nt that my husband Is pig- heads. J, and, to be vulgar again, I'm not to be ' bossed. ' He said I oould oome here at first. Then be reconsidered and said I oouldnt Well, I bad ordered my costume and gbeen my pi omlee. What coaid I do but what I did Mr husband Is down here every ndght He wants me to go back to live In Mount Vei Vaon. I won do It J can't give it up; I sen making more mon ey for tbe fair than any one else. My hus band . must let me' have my way or our ways separata. "What's that? Coon thestagel Oh, dear, nol I know I aan a beautiful dancer. but I have got heart trouble, and It would be like taking my lltfe and my skirts In my hands, don't you know. I'oan'tsay any mora " London Times' Letter From Cuba, London, June 3. TTie Timet this morn Ing publishes some lt'ng Havana letter whloh dwell upon the Incapacity ana in eetloo of tbe Spanish commanders In Cu ba. "Everywhere," The Timet' oorre spondent says, "the Spanish onicers seem perfectly content If tbey oan only bold the ground they stand on." Ha alto tells a ludicrous story of finding a superior offl oer on the line of the new Inerenehmenta across the Island sitting In darkness, be cause, when his quarters were lighted a few nights before, the rebate fixed three I hots through bis window. "This military k laptltude," the correspondent oonoluaes. 'Ma the key of tbe situation. Allot she at tlvlty, lnltlatWe and resource seem to be on the side of the rebels." ROBIN IN THE RAIN. Listen to that soaring strain! It Im rubln In the ruin. Bittinif thtr-e aluft, aloft. Underneath hit leafy roof, Pouring from hU throbbing throat Koto upon fetwtatio uote. Rapture In tbtt nwift rvfraln kobin In tha nun I Hearken to tha song ha aing. Tiny cborwter with wingNl "After all the grief and gloom THrife'bWr blue the ski tag will bloccs; fur all the cloudy woa Erth with gladder gold will glow; . Juy will triumph over paiu"- .jbln In the ruin) dinvus booliard In New Orluau) Tiuietf-Dein' KATE FIELD DEAD. the llrllllent Woman Journalist and Lec turer Passes Away In Honolulu. Cricaoo, June . H. H. Kohlsaat proprietor of tba Chloago Times-Herald, received a cable message dated Yokohama and signed by Lorrln A. Thurston, ex minister to the United States from the Sandwich Islands, which said, "Kste Field died at Honolulu May 19 of pnen- nonla." Kate Field was born In St Louis In 840. She was the daughter of Joseph Field, an actor, whose parents, Irish ixlles, brought blm to the United States when he was a boy. The Field family, looordlng to the earliest historical rec ords, came originally from Warwickshire, England. Kate wat educated In semlna- 'TY IL KATE FIELD. rles In Massachusetts. Her father con tributed humorous sketehes to bis brother Matthew's psper. the Nw Orleaas Pica yune, and Kate wrote ber first artlole for the paper whon she was 8 years old. She was fond of musioand tbe stage and want ed to become an opera singer. Hhe was taken to Italy by an English Indy when the was a little girl. Walter Savage Lan- dor took a fancy to her, gave her lessons in Latin and bequeathed her an album of ancient drawings. She wrote reminis cences of Landor for Atlantlo Monthly. In 1874 Miss r leld made her debutes an actress at rJootn s theater in "fag Wofllngton," She had an attack of stage frlsht, from whln.h she did not recover un til the last act While on another visit to Kuglnnd sbe brought out a one act oom edy entitled "F.xtremes Meet" which ran three months. he contributed an artlole on the telephone to The Times and sang through tbe then novel Invention to Queen VlcVirla. From 1 inii to 18 she was the head of a woman's co-operative dress association In New York which turned out a failure. Miss Field published In Washington for several years that bright periodical known Kate Field s Washington, and It wat upon tbe suspension of this publication a few months ago that she left the united States In search of health In the south i isles, where she met ber death. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Summary of the Proceedings of Senate and House. Washington, May 28. In the senate yesterday the beer tax amendment to the filled cheeso bill was defeated. The But ler bond bill wns dlscutsed by Mr. Elklns and others. In the house the senate amendment! to the general deficiency bill appropriating money for the French spoil tion and war claims was agreed to. Washington, May u. A resolution authorizing the secretary of war to send aid to the people of t Loult was passed In both bouses. The resolution wat promptly approved. In the senate the de bate on the Hutler bond bill was contin ued, Messrs. Daniel and PefTer speaking In favor of the measure. In the bouse the contested election case of Johnson against Stokes was considered. Washington, May 80. In the senate yesterday the bill to repeal the free alco hol seotlon of the Wilson tariff law and the frdlt brandy bill were passed. An agreement was reaohed to take a vote on the Butler bond bill on Tuesday. In tbe bouse there was a protraoted contest over the ,Tohnston-8tokes contested eleotlon casa A partial agreement wat reaohed on tbe naval appropriation bill. Washington, June 2. In the senate yesterday reports from several conference committee were received. The Indian ap propriation and Butler bond bills were de bated. In the house In the contested oas from the Seventh Virginia dlstrlot It was decided that no legal eleotlon had been held. Various bills were passed under sus pension of the rules. Washington, June 8. In th senate yesterday the tyutler bond bill was passed by a vote of 82 to 25. Mr. Morrill spoke on the Dingley tariff bill. Incidentally re ferring to the antlbonding measure, In the house tbe river and harbor bill was passed over the president's veto by a vote of 830 to HO. Tbe contested eleotlon case of Mltohell against Walsh from tbe Eighth New York dlstrlot was decided In favor of Mr. Mitchell, the Republican contestant Hannls Taylor Meets the Prince. London, June 2. Tbe Prince of Wales held a levee at which United States Em bassador Bayard presented In the diplo matic clrole Hon. Hannls Taylor, United States minister to Spain, who is in Lon don for tbe purpose of seeing bis family aall for New York this week. In tbe gen eral circle Mr. Bayard also presented Mr. A. Conkllng, Mr. llanatilbson, Mr. Dong las (jrant Hev. Livingston Sobuyler and Mr. George Cook. General Markets. Nsw Yoaa, June .-FLOUR-Stats and western weak and nominal; city mills patents, l.a,ai -": winter patents, yi-oVai.75; elty mills clears, 14-OfnH.lS: winter straiiihu, U.a6ft;t.lU, WHtAT-No.1 red declined sharply under floe crap news, weak cables and liquidation, but rallied on heavy clearance; June,SJf4c4 July. Sitiaaai!. COKN Sa.t sold off under big receipts and sympathy with wheat; July, &hi43Jc.; Sep tember. 34Hu3194c OA I S No. x dull and easier: track, white, state, 23&27c: track, white, western. Sialic. POKK Dull: old to new mesa, family, tluiatu.26. LaKD Weak; prime western steam, UDi nominal. bUri KR-r-rm; state dairy, lOSl&c; state Creamery. UtflfrVsc CHKfcSE Steady; I tats, large, SH4SWcl small. 4-!i7He. Etttis-Firm; state and Pennsylvania, 183 UHc: wulorn. Vill2lc ttUUAK Raw dull: fair refining, 3Hci ceo- trlfngal. W teat, tltc.: redaed easy; crushed 63c.: powdered. 6 &-1SC. TURPENTINK-Steadyat Bi!XHc. MOLASSES-Dull: Kew Orleaua, ttil7c KlL't-yuiou uoueaiic, 3tac-i Japan, 43 USc. TALLOW-Steedy; city. 3l!4c.; country, i CKftlc. HAY Easy; shipping. ToaT&o.; good loehcioa. suaaic. They Disagreed. Langloy Don't you think Jiick treat things altoeother too seriously r tifttbfr Not much! He took that (5 bill I was kind enough to loan him luat mouth aud ha trcitcd it a a joke ever tinea Detroit Free Press. Wales' Yacht Wins. Londou June 8. Tba Prlnoe of Wales' cottar Britaunla won tha race fee th larger yaoiiit la the Harwich regatta TRAMPLED TO DEATH AN APPALLINQ 0I8A9TEP. AT THE CZAR'S CORONATION. The List of TMtail May Heaek Three Thon- sanri ritlful scenes la Connection With Rescue of the Injured and Removal of the Dead. Moscow, June 1. The disaster on the Hodynsky plain, caused by a panlo among the vast crowd In attendance all the free feast given by the ctar, la' constantly gain ing In proportion a tha Investigation by the authorities continue. These are made under difficulties, at the recovery of tha victims was eonduotod by hundreds of volunteer, and many were carried away before they were enumerated. Many ad ditional deaths of th Injured who ware carried way are occurring, which are only added to the enumeration after sometime. It I now said that th fatalities will amount to between 8,000 and 8,000, but It la impossible to ascertain accurately the extent of the disaster. An offlolal statement places the rf'mber of dead re covered at 1.88A and the seriously or fa tally Injured at 880. BnV contrast with this offlolal statement" here are 1,289 corpses lying at the cemetery, h'des the many dead and dying that are ,own to have been removed from the 111 fated field by friends. Mam For the Dead, A requiem mass was said on Hnnday In a chapel of tbe Kremlin, at whloh tbe otar and ccarlna and all tbe members of th Imperial family attended. The city la filled with grief stricken crowds. It Is a striking evidence of the vast multitude who took part in tbe fete that there were large number who were totally unaware of th number of Uvea among them that bad been crushed out and who proceeded with tbelr merry mak Ing throughont tbe day without having grasped the fearful proportions of th dis aster. Thonsandt of person are crowding to the Hodynsky plain searching for rela tives and friends. Tb work of Identifica tion Is most difficult both oa account of tha large number of victim and the tram pled, torn and mutilated condition ef many of tha corpse, sob ol which are crushed quite beyond the possibility of recognition and almost beyond aemblaao to humanity. Tbe majority of killed were persons from outlying village, though the clothing of some Indicated that they were persons of wealth and distinction, Tbe bodies of a number of women clad In silks and fin linen were among those found. Tbe full force of police and firemen Are oaring for the dead, pulling oodles from heaps of tbe killed and Injured and rang. Ing them on the gronnd, which I covered for hundreds of yards with groups of 10 and 80 begrimed, bloodstained and disfig ured corpses, among which th agonised friend of th missing wander In a painful effort to Identify them. Th Injured who were mixed with the dsad suffered terribly from thirst and tbe fever caused by their unattended Injuries. The force at work on tha plain discov ered th mouth of a disused well In th middle of the field, the plank covering of which bad given way In the mad rush of yesterday morning. In the well there were 80 dead bodies, and wedged in among them and held down by tbelr weight were found two men alive and comparatively uninjured physically. But tbe terror and the hideous surrounding of the night bad proved too great a strain on their mind, and thsy were raving maniac. Origin of the Disaster. Various versions as to th origin of th stampede and crush are onrrant, but th one to whloh most oredeno I attaohed la to the effect that the wagons laden with the 600.000 souvenir wbtob were to be dis tributed among the people were proceed Ing to the Hodynsky plain, followed by a multitude of eager peasant, wben tbe at tendant, with a view to pleasing the peo ple, threw a number of tbe souvenir among tb crowd. Thar was a wild scramble toward th point whsre they fell. Tha new spread like wildfire up and down th throngs of expectant peasants that the distribution had commenced, This resulted In a headlong, pellmell rush for tbe booth where tb distribution of souvenirs was to have been made later. Tbe arrangement which It was Intended to make to keep th crowd In order dur ing tbe distribution bad not been eom pleted at that early hour, and tb force on hand was powerless to stem th tld of tha on rusb of humanity. Wbat added greatly to tbe gravity of ths disaster was th olrcumatanoe that the booth were surrounded by dltohea. Tb foremost person In th oncoming crowd fell prostrate la these dltobe, and th peo ple following speedily trampled them to death. Otbert stumbled ever their bodies and met the same fate. And so th horror grew. The pressure was so great upon tb Idea of th booth from Mi struggle of tb mas of mad humanity that tbey gavt way, and hundred of people wet f oread Into them through th broke wall. One mounted gendarme neat tea booths wat literally crushed to death, together with his rearing and plungiag fee. There were no ILngllea people mat American among tb victim. Many ef those who came for the eat attest had al ready left the olty, aad la any eveet tour 1st attended tbe let only in tba after noon, the disaster ocomrrlng la the fore noon. Vary few of the vietlna, H Is an nounced, belong to tb wall to do olsisoa. Nearly all ar msujtka ef Cos seats, and Urge proportion of th dead at woman and children. Tb our aad czarina, after attending the requiem mas la the chapel of Kremlin, paid a visit to tbe Injured (urvlT- ors In th hospitals, pasting from oot tt cot and addressing word of sympathy and comfort Both of tb Imperial pair wen deeply affeoted by tb eoenea of sufferlcs, tbey witnessed. The ludaa Baler. The present rnler of the Sudan wa sometimes spoken of as the Muhdi. Mo hammed Ahmed, the Mahdi, died June, 1885, a victim of hit dissolute mode of life. He- nominated aa the Khalifat el Mahdi (or Mahdl'a succes sor) the Caliph Abdullah, the horror of whose rule have been so vividly por trayed by Blatin Paaha. The caliph is a Baggaxa of dark chocolate colored com' pie lion, with a long; and prominent nose. He wears a short beard, cut ac cording to the Moslem custom. Owing to his sensuous mode of life he is now extremely stout He is unable to read. His palace at Obdunnan is crowded with slaves, eunuchs and young boys. who wait upon him, and his wive num ber some hundreds. New York Times. ' This is the latest fad with the worn en of the smart set In appearance it resembles ordinary scarlet flannel of fairly good quality. It is prepared by some secret process known only to the manufacturer, so that it emits a deli cious perfume, a small piece serving to soent every article in a bureau drawer. It is sold by the yard, but is only to be had of the man who mattes it aud who is in Paris, but will forward it by mail. The perfume is said to be far more en during than any of the sachet oxtminoD- ly in use. New York World. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Thursday, May . Tb Standard OH Oompany Intone1 to abandon Cleveland. Edward Perg committed suicide la bit cell in tbe Tomb, In New fork, by hang ing himself with bis neck tie. Sibyl Bendersnn of New York was rob bed of 18,000 worth of jewelry whll trav eling on an Italian railway. Dr. Bullman, th star witness at Mr. Fleming' trial. In New York, testified that Mrs. Bits told him that she had been poisoned. He also (aid that arsenio killed ber. Georglana and Florence Block, accused of robbing wealthy neighbor, left New York secretly. Other robberies were re ported, bringing the total valuesbf th ar tlole stolen up to $4,000. Four Ppanlards attacked tbe Cuban fair at Madison 8qnare Garden, In New York, by throwing brickbats through tbe win dows. No one at th fair knew of It, and tb assailant fled wben pursued. Friday, May . Emll Zola was again rejected by tb Frenob academy. Tba Methodist general conference la Cleveland adjourned tin dla The Prince of Wale formally opened tbe annual military tournament In Isling ton, England. Th csar received tbe congratulation of foreign envoy la tb thronareom ef th Kremlin palace. In Moscow. In Ntw York Judge Wheeler handed down a decision upholding she Joint Traffic aaaooiatlon' agreement Arohle MoCarter, an Aaterloea sn- glneer, says he wa robbed and HI treated by offlolal o! cnoota, colomela. The Presbyterian general stsimbly 1 Saratoga voted to refer tb Presbyterian building question to a special committee. Th New York ttato civil service torn- mission put th Kale special agent and about SOO other positions la tb ootneeti- 11 re olas. Samuel Coodey, alia Jobn Heenafl, long term convict at Sing Slag, eeeaped from tb prison by swimming daring thunderstorm. Tbe cutter of the flagship Nw York defeated th cutter of tb Clnolanatl by five boat length after a botly eontastid t of four mil In a rainstorm off Ban dy Book. Saturday, May so. Professor Sir J. Russell Reynold, phy sician In ordinary to her majesty' house hold, died In London. Th president sent to tb hone of rep resentative a metsaa disapproving ths river and harbor appropriation Mil. "A Life ef the Otar" was produced, at tbe Grand theater, Moscow, before th emperor and a distinguished aadlenoe. Thomas A. Edison has begun to perfect th machinery whloh will mak hi won derful new light of commercial vakie aad good for domeatlo use. It 1 stated on good authority that aa Important filibustering expedition ba landed on th coast near Trinidad, prov ince of Santa Clara, Cuba. President Cleveland bold a oonfereae with member of tb senate foreign rela tions commute on tb Cuban situation and Insisted that there was no reason for Intervention at present The fight between , Peter Maber and Frank Slavln did not take plaoe at Long Island City, a advertised. A polio lus- tloc, by a olever soheme, prevented the fighters from appearing In the ring. Monday, Jaae 1. Smallpox 1 said to be raging In Mono castle, Havana. Senator Allison expressed his belief that congress would be able to adjourn this week. Fire destroyed tbe livery and boarding table at 810 and 831 Kast Fifty-third street New York. Forty horeee perished In th names. Tbe Cuban filibustering steamer Ber muda, which was ohased away from Cuba while trying to land men and arm for th Insurgent, arrived In Philadelphia. Minnie Ehrmann, 4 years old, was kill ed by a trolley oar In front of her father's bome In Brooklyn, making tbe on hun dred and forty-ninth victim in that olty. A thief, supposed to be aa agent of tb Spanish government seeking tnfermaMea, ttols tb mall box containing tbe letters of Treasurer Guerre of tb Cuban Junta In New York. Soott Jackson, tb murderer of Pearl Bryan, wa removed from Newport ay., to tbe Covington jail for safe keeping by order of Judge Helm, who considers tb Jail at tb former plaoe unsafe. Teesdey, A'oae m. Sopbronia Beauregard wa found dead la a Springfield (Meat.) hotel, and It la supposed b wa mardend. Th registration paper at tb flltbu- terlng steamer Bermuda were revoked by tbe British consul la Philadelphia. Plan have been filed for a building to Columbia col legs la IHsw York to a oaiv ed t oollege of chemistry. It will oot $400 000. Emperor Franolt Joseph addressed tb Austrian delegation en th aMltode of tM trlpl allien oe toward tb eastern ques tion. A cholera riot took place la Cairo, la whloh the governor of tb city was wound ed, and th polio war compelled to tre Into th mob. Bnlt was begun by tb Tabernacle Bap tilt cbnroa, en rJeooad aveoua, New York, to recover 110,000 alleged to be ae front Joha D. Roekofeuor ea a sappeeed gift Herman Eak, a New Jersey farmer, wa found on th track of th Rerltan River railway with a bullet wound la bl head and hi band cut off. He died aad la sup posed to bar been th vlotlna of robber. Wednesday, Jae a. A filibuster expedition sailed from Mo bile with the ptwaeee, It is Mid, ef captur ing a Cuban seaport William Barnes Bstneat, a mllllenalr octogenarian of Philadelphia, and Miss Mary Osgood H teams of Ntw York war married. Tha annual oonveatioa of tb grand lodge of Masons of the state of New York was begun In tb Maaonlo tempi la Nw Xork city. On hundred and forty-Bin atadeat ware graduated from the law dspmrtmant of the New York university, alx women being In tb elaea. Mist Julia, daughter ef Vlos President etevenson, married In Washington Ksv. Marvin D. Hardin. Presided and Mrs. Cleveland were among th guest. A dlspatoh from Bavaaa says Captain General Weyler ha already tent to tb American consulate General Lee's exequa- toi as United Stats consul general. It was stated In court that tbe defense of Mr. Flaming, on trial for th murder of her mother, Mrs. Bllaa, la (iw York, will b that Mr. Bliss wa a habitual as- senlc eater and committed sutotd. After the rags used in the manuf ao- tura of paper have been ground to pulp caustic lye is mixed with the product in order to reduce the email. hard particles that are found In the pulp, and which, if hat, would make knots in tbe paper. Men are so constituted that everybody undertake what he sees anotner suc cessful in, whether he has aptitude fur U or act 4joeUMi FONDLED HERCULES. THt GIFTED ELEPHANT TRAINER RE LATES HIS EXPERIENCE. Bed aa Idea Be Wa Bora Par the Bus!-' aeas ef Animal Training, and Fox Awhile everything Baa Smoothly, hot Bow Be Stick to Bhtnoceroeo. "Did yon ever fondle an elephant fat aoologioal garden?" asked tha mad with the lop shoulder as he looked around on the group which had been smoking and talking. No one ever had, and he was Invited to give his experienoe. "Up to about ten years ago," he said as he snHled down, "I had an Idea that was born for an animal trainer. With elephants as my particular specialty. I never went to New York, Philadelphia or Cincinnati without going to the boo and fondling the elephant. Many and many a time I have astonished tbe keep ers and raised a great row by walking right up to an elephant and shaking hands with him, as it were. And thoy really took to me. When that big, had elephant, Tippo Said, of the New York aoo was killing his keepers and smash ing up things, I entered his den and pulled his ears and patted his trunk and got np suoh a friendship between tut that he couldn't bear bo Jet me go. " "Well, what nextr" asked the man with the cat's eye ring on his little fin ger. "I got stuck on myself as a matter of course. I wanted to be an elephant trainer and do with the big beast what no other trainer had ever dared try, but somehow I oould nevor strike a job. That didn't prevent me from see ing the elephants at every opportunity, however, and keeping in touch with them. One day I got around to Phila delphia and was told that an elephant oalled Hercules bad been in bad humor for a week or two. They had him chain ed to the floor and his keeper daren't go within ten feet of him, while a man stood in front of the cage and warned the publio to keep at a safe distance. I'd seen the beast a dosen times before, and on two ooeaaions he had lifted me up on his bank with his trunk. I am sure he knew me on this occasion, but he gave me no greeting. " But you were determined to fondle him just the same?" queried the oat's eye man in a vinegary roioe. "Of course," replied the narrator. It was an occasion I had been longing for yoars. I wanted to show a profes sional trainer what I could do in the way of pacifying and humbling an ugly elephant, but for half an hour they watched me so closely that I had no show to get at old Hercules. The time came, however, and I slipped into his eage and walked right np to him and began to speak loving words and oareM his trunk. Gentlemen, exouse these two tears the first I have shed for years but my emotions always overcome me at this stage of the game. " "What are you crying about? ' stern ly demanded the baldheaded man in the big rooking chair. At the reoolleotion of what occurred then and there. I hadn't fondled that miserable critter over three fondles and hadn't time to feel oonoeited over my smartness when he picked me up and waved me aloft and threw me slam bang against the planks of his cage. But for the quickness of some of the coo folks in coming to my rescue I'd have been a dead man in another minute. They handled me ont o' that with hooks, and the beast was so mad at my escape that he broke one of his tusks off in banging around. People a mile away oould hear him scream In his raga Everybody said it was a wonder how I escaped with my life. My left leg and loft arm were broken, my spine injured, a kneecap loosened, and I didn't get over spitting blood for a year. I was in a hospital in Philadelphia for 207 days before I oould walk out Gentlemen, here are two more tears. May I depend on your gen erosity to exouse them as before?" "What you sniveling about now?" shouted the baldheaded man as he turn ed on him. "More recollections, sir. I was no sooner able to be out than I was arrest ed, tried and oonvicted on the charge of fondling an elephant, and the judge gockod me t28 and oosta. The whole affair cost me 9428, saying nothing of my sufferings and lost time, " "And after that you left the elephant training business alone?" "Yes, after that," replied the lop shouldered man in broken tones, "I let np on elephants and gave my whole at tention to rhlnooerose. Excuse my seeming conceit, gentlemen, but I am tbe only man in the world who can make a rhinoceros stand on his head and spin about like a top. He also plays 'Home, Sweet Home' on the aooordion at my bidding and will sit cross legged with a pair of spectacles on and pretend to read the good book which our moth ers taught us to respect " There was silence for a long minutd after he had finished. Then every man rose np and called him a lop shouldered liar and a horse thief and left him to enjoy his own -miserable society. De troit Free Press. Beading the Newspaper "What a newspaper reading people we are I" said Mr. Goalim. "It seems as though everybody reads newspapers. In an elevated oar the other day I saw a little child less than a year old whloh was reading a newspaper, or which seemed to be. The father had been read ing the paper really, but the baby, sit ting on its father's knee, had clutched at it, and finally the father placed it in ths child's little hands, and it sat there, holding the paper in front of itself; and looking at it soberly, and now and then looking np at its father, and all this so pleased a gentleman with a gray mus tache, who sat opposite, that when he got up to go out he chucked the baby gently under the chin and smiled at it as he passed. "New York Sun. a. XaJilng Title "Your play is good enough, " said the veteran manager after he had read it through, ' 'but it needs a better title than 'Sticketh Closer Than a Brother. ' With such a name as that it won't draw. " "How would 'The Mustard Plaster' do?" suggested the struggling artist anxiously. London Tit-Bit. Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet, to spin your wordy f abrio in the street While you are emptying your colloquial pack the fiend lumbago jump upon four bact O. W. HoLmcav
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