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Freeborn County Standard from Albert Lea, Minnesota • 6

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Icmbarb INTERESTING "NEWS COMPILATION 9111 Mrs 4 4 fe gfe I 5 i ot tbe powe? desire amity States others Two Jebskymen who had been vic timized oat of ScOO By New York green goods men were foolish enough to re turn and attempt to get their moneyh rL but failed for the victims lost jl 50 additional barely eseaped with their lives and were finally sent to jail Tfrr nrvo the whole wax in which theepanese completely overran the north ern provinces ot China and reducedHiat empire of 4C0 000000 population to humble submissson only 500 apanese were killed in less than were frequently killed in a skirmish during our late civil war The pictures of ter rific battles aud' stubborn fighting which were cabled by the cor resnondents during the progress of the struggle must have been painted from the imagination It is quite evident that those orientals know what serious fighting ROM WASHINGTON Ix the United States the visible sup ply of grain on the 10th was: Wheat 49675000 bushels corn 11583000 bush els oats 8749000 bushels rye 127000 bushels barley 94000 bushels Richard Owner was formally in stalled as secretary of state the oath of office being administered by Chief Justice uller Justice Harlan of the supreme court swore in Judson Harmon as at torney general of the United States Throughout tbe country reports as to the condition of crops were favor able Ths exports of breadstuffs during May amounted to 111 809 697 a gain of $1000000 over Mhy last year or the last eleven months however there has been a falling off of over 852500000 Ths president issued a proclamation admonishing citizens against inter ference of any sort in the Cuban revo lution NOTRE PAE CELEBRATES iftieth Anniversary of th CathoMe UaL Hundred of Gpeete Notbe Dame Ind June The cel ebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Notre Dame marks an epoch in the history of educa tional work in the vtfest The 600 acre tract upon which the in stitution stands was purchased from the government in 1830 at 1125 an acre but it was over a decade later that through in stance of the bishop of Vincennes ather Sorin a priest of the congrega tion of the Holy Cross founded the university The buildings which have since been erected are right in number arranged in a half circle the seen ter of the group being the main building five stories in height and" surmounted by a dome whose apex is200 feet above the ground The commemorative exercises which Were inaugurated Tuesday morning will continue three days Among the hundreds of prominent guests who have responded to the invitations to participate are twenty five archbishops and bishops of the United States and Canada over 200 priests and numerous delegations of alumni and other friends of the institution The exercises of the day were 'com menced with the celebration of high mass in the chapel at 9 Tuesday morning by Rev William Henry Elder archbishop of Cincinnati The sermon was delivered by Archbishop Ireland of Paul The afternoon was devoted to an' inspection of the various courses and departments of theuniversity and in the evening the ex ercises of the alumni werq held in Washington hall iX TAKES THE OATH Olney QpsllOes a Secretary of State and Begine Work Washington Jana Mr Olney Monday became secretary of state suc ceeding Walter 'Gresham' 1 'Chief Justice uller who had come to Wash ington from Richmond administered the oath of office to the secretary in the diplomatic room at the state depart ment Mr Olney crime alorie'to the state department at 10:15 and after a few conversation' with Mr Landis? private secretary to the late Secretary Gresham he was joined by Assistant Secretaries Uhl Adee and Rockhill and received their con gratulations1 After waiting half an hour Chief Justice uller appeared ac companied by his daughter1 Mrs The moral of this is apparent The man whe permits himself to be swindled by greeqgood men is fortunate if he hasto uayimlyijoOQ for the experience' Heroes into the with the in tention of swindling others and find himself the victim of sharper rascals The Pomona (Cal correspondent of the New York Sun says there ais to day bat one of the men who worked far Sutter in the mine at Colomawhere on'January 24 184S James Marshall discovered gold That sur vivor is James Brown He is nearly 7d edrs of age and makes his home with a grandchild in Pomona valley He is the only man living who was present wnen Marshall washed the yellow grains jn the cam pt dough pan and he 'isjhe man who first tested the flaky (scales withfirj and going forth from the nty to the men at the millrace cried: i 6 discover some way to get rid of the tr mp nuisance Connecticut is import ing Poles and other foreigners for farm hands If farmers of New nn have to go abroad to find farm hands there is little excuse forthetramp and the best way to gut rid of him would be to invite him to the woodshed or the stone pile before giv ing him his breakfast Those Danbury Conn girls who "boy cotted all the young men who were not abstainers are beginning to regard boycotting as unconstitutional since the girls of other towns have bri gun to smile on their beaux They are talking moral suasion and will prob ably follow the old rule of marrying drunkards to reform them The boy cott or not would be "bet ter in the long run fl The sweet girl graduate in her white muslin and pink ribbons is on deck She is sure to tell us how to run the universe and remind us that although we have' been awfully wicked we still hare a chance to make our lives sub lime Yet who would dispense with the sweet thing? It is true that she knows a good many things that are not To but when she grows older she will be less ambitious to Sway the destinies mankind provided ahe is not car ried away with the craze for bloomers Twr late trouble between the United States and Spain growing out of the assault made upon the American mer chant ship Allianca by a Spanish gun boat has been settled Spain has made frank apology expressing tie fullest disavowal of the conduct of the com mander of its gunboat The reply is entirely factory and pleasant re lations between us and the Dons are pow restored and will continue un til some other hot headed Spaniard raffles up the feathers of the bird of MUSTBE NEUTRAL President snrs Proclamation Regarding Cuba Washington Jpne The secre tary of state has formal communi cations to the attorney general and secretaries of the treasury: and navy directing them to take all necessary steps to enforce thelneutrality laws in view of the increased activity of the insurrectionists in Cuba and their sym pathizers in this country 1 Washington June The presi dent ha? issued the following procla Memphis Tenn June larg est meeting ever held in this country for the discussion of a single economic question convened lit the Auditorium in city Wednesday Certainly no such outpouring of men of all classes from the tiller of the soil to the representatives of "the? bench and the the merchant representing 011 political parties but at least one principle oj government al' policy? has ever seen in the south'rtf A Many States Repreaeutd' Twenty six states an territories were represented in Relegations vary ing from a half dozen a half thousand Jn themain' was a southern affair iieveryt state id Dixie being represented All the silver producing! states i also took part as did a number of the western states and one middle state On the plattojyn behind THE EAST Sths percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 8th were: 650 Boston 600 Chicago 585 Cleve i land 579 Baltimore 576 Cincinnati 538New York 514 Philadelphia L500 Brooklyn '472 Washington 432 St Louis 375 Louisville 167 i Whitelaw Reid arrived in New York from Southampton and soon after he received a telegram announcing the i death of his mother aged 91 "at her home near Cedarville Ths John Learned silk mills at Northampton Mass were destroyed by fire the loss being 3100000 ob seven weeks Mrs Lena Briden baugh of Gibraltar Pa has eaten nothing When she first refused food she weighed ISO pounds She now weighs scarcely 20 pounds Ox Lake Ontario the steam yacht Gilama capsized and Cap ohn Black burn Engineer Henderson and a rrfan named Donnelly were drowned Doha and Sadie Anthony Sarah BoSth and Rosa Rimer were drowned while bathing in Stump creek near Dubois Pa i A safe in the store of James Hutchings at Lowell Me was opened and cash stocks bonds and securities to the amount of $50000 were stolen Lizzie the 14year old daughter of "William Coleman of Osterville'Mass was shot and killed by Henry Ledetke who then killed himself Jealousy was the cause 1 iBES were doing "immense damage in various parts of Pennsylvania chief ly in the neighborhood of Oswayo Bradford Sharon Center and Watson arm In a freight wreck near Kane Pa nineteen cars were burned and one man was killed Mbs Lena BbidknhaugR who had taken no food for seven weeks died st Gibraltar Pa Her weight was reduced from 160 pounds to 35 pounds Walteb Least 50 years of age and a well known resident of Canaan shot and fatally' wounded his wife in a fit of jealousy and then shot him self Ln New York Sigmund Schneidler 36 years of age shot his wife fatally and then killed himself Jealousy was the cause The International League Press Clubs elected Louis Megargee of at the annual meeting in Philadelphia At Nashua the Milford sav ings bank closed its doors WEST AND SOUTH The death of Lewis who was appointed provisional governor of Alabama in June 1865 by President Johnson occurred in Montgomery While preaching Rev Granleaf Lee pastor of the colored Baptist church at Double Ala" died suddenly in his pulpit A mob lynched Collins (colored) in a swamp near Mayo la for at1 tempted assault on Jeanette Allen a voung white woman The Jumoer yarns pianin nun aau sash door and blind factory of Dewing Sons at Kalamazoo Mich were burneffi besides seven brick and frame stores the total loss being" $200000' A hubeicane 20 miles east of Perry 0 blew down twenty houses several persons were hurt The warship Raleigh was ordered to proceed at oncq to Key 5est la to watch for filibusters and see that no more" "expeditions "leave for Cuba with epntribandsor meh for the insurgents Coat miners of Ohio by a vote of 5091 to 4351 decided to accept the offer of the operators to go to work for fifty one cents per ton ibe destroyed the Santa round house and repair shops in Arkansas City Kan with all their contents the loss being 3100000 Br "order of Judge Spurrier'eyery sa loon in Des Moines la was closed who said that the provisions of the mulct law had not been complied with During the funeral procession of Mary McElligott going to the church at Mattoon ILL her mother Mrs James McElligott fainted anddied in twenty minutes Negroes various portions of Missouri met in Kansas City to form a permanent organization having for its object the welfare and advancement of the colored race Ln St Louis the Laclede and Mer chants' national banks consolidated Ed Evans of Pittsburgh Steve God dinger and an unknown man were killed in a wreck onthe Big our road at Sidney and George Brown of Latonia was fatally injured lames that started in the rear of the Calumet urniture store in South Chicago caused a loss of $100 000 The Iowa populists in convention at Des Moines nominated Sylvester Crane of Davenport for governor and a full ticket The platform denounces the decision of the supreme court on the income tax favors the free coinage of silver and a graduated state tax upon incomes also state inheritance tax A mob lynched William Johnson (colored) who assaulted the 7 year old daughter of Robert Schafner at Luf kin Tex In Quincy HL Susan Cook aged 105 years and the mother of sixteen chil dren was adjudged insane and taken to an asylum Ln eight months fourteen negroes have "been lynched in Lafayette coun ty la lor assaults upon white women 1 It was decided by furniture manu facturers at Rapids Mich to raise prices on account oX increased cost of materials taels land ofCuba Is now the seat of serious fivil dUtvraance accompanied by armed resistance to the Authority established government (of paln a with which tbe United States are and to remain jigtbe terms cd peacexand and 1' the laws of the United urohlbit their citizens as well as all being within and subject lo their jurisdiction from taking part in such disturbances adverse ly to such established government by accept ing or i exercising commissions for warlike service against It" by procuring others to en list for such service by fitting out or arming or procuring to be fitted out and armed ships of war for such service by augmenting the force of any ship of war engaged in such csrvion and arriving In a uort of the United States and by setting on foot br providing Si or preparing the means for military enter prises tobe carried on from the United States ff against the territory of such government fe therefore in recognition of the laws aforesaid ana in cusc narge oi ine ooiigauona of the United States towards a foreign power and as a measure of precaution and to tbe end 'j that citizens of the United States and others githln its jurisdiction may be deterred from subjecting themselves to legal forfeitures and penalties Grover Cleveland president of the Jgsi United States of America dobereby admon tsh aU such citizens and other persons A to abstain from every violation of the laws 4 hereinbefore referred to and do here by warn them that all violation of such '4m laws' will be rigorously prosecuted: and I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with ex ecution of said laws the utmost diligence In preventing violations thereof and in bringing 1 to trial and punishment any offenders against tbe same testimony whereof I have hereunto set my band and caused the seal of the United States to be fixed at the city of Washington this twelfth at day of June in tbe year of our Dora one thou sand eight hundred and ninety five and of tha independence of the United States of America the one hundred and nineteenth Cleveland the president: Olney Secretary of Reports to the navy department are? effect that the Raleigh will sail for Key West to day and will patrol the waters between lorida and Cuba as carefullv as possible The cam against the filibusters is to be a vigorous one The Raleigh ij will be supported by a number of revenue cutters and in addition to this steps will be taken ashore to prevent the fitting out of expeditions The Spanish Minister De Lome is mani i festly pleased with the vigorous action of this government as the Spaniards tiave all along contended they had more to fear from America ympa thizers than from Cuban revolters JEBWJPaoySttVBB 4 1 JL Host of Thom Assemble at Memphis Tenn 'I Opening of ths Big Twenty Six States and Territories Are Bep Senator Turpiu Chair The Speeches tlJA 8ENATQB DAVID TU1OTE4 the chairman distinguished' as semblage including not less' than' a round dozen senators and'as many gov ernors and ex governors with a sprink ling1 of Congressmen and lesser politic al lights Object of the Convention Senator Harris of Tennessee a clear cut statement "of the objects of the convention He it was called by' the Central Bimetallic league of Shelby county a strictly non partisan organization composed of republicans andA populistsv Its doors were thrown open ri to every American citizen who honest ly believed in the propriety' the advisability and" the necessity of the rehabilitation 'of silver kThfeirt doc trine is bimetallism" They hold that a democrat can be present and partici pate in its delibera tions without impairing 'his' fidel ity to hisWown'? partya organiza tion and 'the (same is true of repub licans and populists 'whose party fealty cannot be impeached because of their open advocacy of free coinage are here concluded the senator a band of freemen to" consider this all absorbing question which no con fronts the American people iJrVe are here to consider the1 coinage question and that question A Welcomes the Delegate (CoL Cassy Young extended1 the usual greetings to1 the andsaluted as the ad vance! guards of i a to overthrow1: a power tmore ruth less and rapacious jand'ijnore "hurt ful to human happiness and prosperity than anydespot that 'ever shackled liberty and'oppressed mankind 4 Senator Tnrple Permanent Chairman After CoL had finished his speech' was received with fre quent bursts of applause the con vention Senator (David Tnrpie of In diana was announced as the permanent chairman 1 qllowing is a synopsis of his speech: Senator Tnrple began by fieclartng that coined money has always been'anlyet Is (nlt self thing of value and this value lx of two kinds nietilllo bullion value and the monetary1 worthier legal value latter Is always a matter la zthei bullion value isoneot estimation arid ppjnloua He de clared tlhat "mere "always Tpen kid always would be a differenievbetween £he commercial or bullion: the! two metals and tbe legjd or coinage value Ac cording to the test of thfe enemies of bimetal lism that the legal Value Jot bleed money must be 'the or bullied value ofthe mfetal thnre is not and ccngotU? an honest dqUay efe fiber silver 7 Cofitlhuing heusaldv anparity are two words much used in thia and have experienced similar forrthes It Is proposed by us te restore' stiver iuu coinage parity is spoken of as an invin cible Ho whas parity been main tatned from 1TB to 1835? 0y law In the same manner weshall establish and maintain the same parity this parity by law we have a voucher" the fact bf inbre than a centurys' malntenance Parity and ratio ae handsome names elegant ynonymsojhbat hostility to stiver which Its enemies would prefer to disguise" In the vernacular oi the single to day parity means ho mord silver: rutio'means nothing but gold" They have put silver under duress I would makedt free as before loss of our gold the departure of our gold will as some opponents say bring about depression Yet gold stayed with ua from the beginning in usual quantity and propor tion until" 1873 when ceased coining sliver? rom 1878 uatll 1978 "while sliver was not coined gold touched ariow ebb' When in 1878 we began to coin silver again gold re turned in lrgerrsums tban ever and stayed and increased us Since we ceased the Coining of silver in 1893 1894 5 gold has left us of gold has'recomtndnaed Surely this was not caused by free stlvsrrcoinoga Experience teaches us in this way the i lesson that thebest way to" keep both is tb coln and use 'both "on terms of equality It is certain that tn rtnbt Thls'debt is deemed to be in i extlngulshabli In "gold'" that XDfty be It is certain tnat it De verjfgreatly increased if Jt be pay ubleln gold only 1 faith of thrf'SdVbcnteor a single gold standard Is compounded of" one truth and one pernicious that coined tandard dol lars should be of eq ual value is true but that "tuetal iv them must be of equal bullion value is a fallacy so contrary to our common sense and eferlenbe that it cap notbe much aided by tprophecysLet usas bimetallists remember that we are Americans citizens the 4 great 'republic dealing calmly and deliberately with our owniblghest Interests (Let "wj of faith hud hope Letus go With manly (hearts without fear believing la all confidence that the silver snd gold dollar of our mints the money of the past" sound tried and true shall also be and remain the money of the future" Mr Delmar'Is Heard" Alexander Dclmari tf California was Intro duced and proceeded to address the conven tion Hersaidthptthfl only monetary prin ciple tpbn which all parties unite was sta bility and that he believed could only be brought about by a restoration of the ah n'r! zilnfure lawn tit the renubllc The fact that 95 per cent of the exchanges of tbe world were transacted with checks and bills Of ex change proved that "metallic coin both gold and silver was Inadequate to measure the carity of exchange He continued: DAY Publishxx ALBERT LEA MINN JUDGE JUDSON HARMON THE the men who thirty years ago deliberately de stroyedjoae half of Iha soam support upon which the stupendous superstructure of the commerce contracts and expectations depends? And what now shall be done to fur ther patch that tottering system? Concerning this last suggestion our minds are already made up your verdict is determined The law must be restored" The speaker then gave a history of the dif ferent monetary commlsslops and in summing up said: day all the nations of the west and all the people of Europe and Amer ica both born and unborn are committed pot only te the payment of past obliga tions but also to the conduct of' future transactions upon tbe basis of a stock 'of gold coins which at the present time does not ex ceed £750005000 and which is chlefy deposit ed In banking establishments liable to be con trolled by pud as mpny people suspect actual ly subject to the control of a private syndi cate of continental financiers sordid conspiracy arose out of the is sue 01520 bonds and the decision of tbe rench court of cessation It gave rise te the Latin monetary union It precipitated the demonetization of silver in Germany and other states It surreptitiously altered the British mint code and In a similar manner and by similar means 'lt i scandalously altered the American mint coda It munificently re warded all those who promoted Its objects It mercilessly attacked all who opposed them It rbbbed this country of million It Influenced politics and still Influences it Ithas" grown Yloh enough to 5000000 to the Bank of England £80000000 to Italy and £20000Q000 each to Austria and the United States It controls our foreign exchanges It has plunged the commercial world into a long train of disasters and ptands ready to repeat the achievement" want any more of this? or one say no decidedly pot Let us put an end to it let us restore the law and it anything furthef Is needful let that" too be Candidate Sibley Speslu 1 A recess was 'taken until p' in and the night session was presided' over by Senator Stewart of Nevada Congressman Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania who is the heading sllverlte candidate for the presidency" was In troduced and addressed the convention at con siderable length Among other things believe that there are going 1 to be two parties at the coining election One df them will be the monometalllsts and the other the American people in their majesty The gold standard has been erected many times before Once Aaron erected a golden image but it was not a success and once Nebuchadnezzar set himup said whoever refused to bow down and worship it should straightway tie cast jnto a fiery furnace and burned up Without meaning 'to make any invidious rii 'comparisons 'respectfully refer you over let ter to Gov Stone of (Mississippi There were three men who "refused to worship this image and Nebuchadnezzar ordered the fur nace to be made straightway seven times hot ter and had these men cast in but they walked upright amid the flames and came out bHghter and happier than' ever There are a good mariy Nebuchadnezzers in this" worid yet but they don't out much uf a figure If yon 'will just read along a little further you will find that Nebuchadnezzer fou(ud hjs level all right or seven'years he te eat grass We sil 'ver people have all the logic and 'all the law onour side if icy Positions secretary bf the treasury spoke to you In this hall the other day want to quote Mr Carlisle when he said that the de monetization orhalf the money te the world meant misery and unhappiness for half1 the people of the world Thfei 'John "Carlisle was the tribune ot the people: now he is the high priest of the temple of Mammon Mr Carlisle the pleljian "and Mr Carlisle the aris tocrat are two very different kinds of peopleBut I don't want to complain of Mr Carlisle' Every word he said about the demonetization of silver has come truet Mri Carlisle told you when he was herethat the wages of everybody had been increased monometallism about 51 per cent 'It that way in my country! ifty thousand in iGbio and Pennsylvania had nlnp cents a bushel taken off their wages about the day "that Mr' Carlisle 'spoke te you here in Memphis 'Why they tell that wheat oat of which to jmakebread was lower than it ever was and yet more people starved to death for the lack ofthia low priced wheat than ever did before jTarltT Hu Nothing to Do with IL a tell you that cotton and wool are cheaper than they ever were yet there is A greater army ot tramps walking up and down our highwaysand our bywaysjtdlduy in tatters and rags for the lack this' same cheap cotton and wooL They tell the farm er down east that what he needs to make times better is a higher protective tariff In certain parts of the west they tell him what he' needs prosperous is free trade 'You have to give this tariff question as a medicine according to locality Now the fact of the 'matter is the tariff hM nothing to'do'rwlth monetaryipanicsr it's About' time tha people gave ita loug ncededrest and I believe they re going to do it There' were two monetary panics under a high tariff and two under a low tariff and' think this shows the tariff has nothinglo" do with the ossenta iz i nM Pays His Respects to Mr Cltfvaland president says he is afraid the silver dollar will depreciate but the only way the dollar can depreciate is for prices to rise Tills to by the president that he is afratd prices will rise It the if president would divide fils anxieties more equally between the persons who produce the wealth of the country and the tew who absorb" it" he 'would make a better chief executive Thd magnificent patriotism of Mr Rothschild who al though an alietirwM'wining tOj'Come to this country and save jt fpr the (paltry considers tion which the pepjpl'iof the United States lost and 'which 'galped is worthy of note as is also the magnificent? pa triotism tit Mr 'Cleveland in thus helping to save the'eijunty? But if two men: could tesve the coantry they could also it 1 ttwtU Vlo in must win thft 18 1896 We don't wlh 'it then it Wifi 'betdo lzte': There wBlbe two uvenuea open tUkthez people afte? re5 One will be rfpudlajLoPRnl the other revOW tion and both I drejd the English were to land in New York you would help to' drive them out you? The Englishare in New York now they have beentor years Will you'irlve them out party lines have tobe dropped? When we can together on broa lines: when country means' more (than party we will win the" 1ZJ7 Thomas of Colorado then addressed the 'convention It was 11 when Mr Thomas Concluded his speech and the con vention adj our ned till 10 this morning OH IO PROH I ITIO TICKET I Convention Declares for the ree Coinsc of Sliver at IGtolW Spring field 0 June Thepro hibitiort state convention practically completed Its labors "Wednesday after noon 'but did' noj adjourn" "until the ratification meeting' at night jThe financial plank is as follows: The money of the country should all be ef Yuli legal tender issued directly to the people bn Ample security in' such the may demand and to ail? at a uniformrate of Interest Tft this end tbe government should establish Jreal national banks ta it floes post offices wherever convenience of the people demands Until such financial sys tem can be established we favor free andjun llmlted coinage of silver and gold at tee ratio of 16 to 1 as temporary relief 1 The following 'ticket was named: RfS Thompson for States tenaton govemdf Seth Ellis of Springboro Warreh' countyr lieutenant governors general Bates of Columbus: auditor A Caton Coshocton county: treasurer Hawkins Steuben ville supreme court judge John Moore jVcAn supreme court David Spicer 1 3 county board of public works James Benjamin Zanesville A THUNDERBOLT Lightning Kills a Woman st a Michigan i Camp'meetlng June 13 Light ning struck one of the tents of the Methodist camp meeting at Ravenna Wednesday instantly killing Mrs Bur leson of Vayland Her sister Mrs Hillard of the sajne town wta 'terribly shocked and cannot live son was also SvruCK' UUU vcrAiyly burned about the hips may re cover' Sixteen others in' thf tent were knocked down" and more or less injured The tent was 'torn into pieces by the bolt Rich Gold Strike 'Guthkie June 13 A courier has just come in from the new gold fields and reports the finding of gold in paying quantities The principal workings are in the hills at the head of Boggy creek about fifteen miles souiheast pf Arapahoe It is now said that gold" "can" be found the hills from the head of Cobb creek" in the Caddo county to the eit line of Greer county a dis tance of about 45 miles sf Give Up Sioux alls SD June Horner Stewart attorneys for Tayibr the defaulting ex state treasurer and his bondsmen together with Benedict brother in law are (J in the city They authorize the state ment that Taylor will return tn charge of friendsQnside of ten days chat they 1 4 considered further flight useless ana further that the uncertain fate of Taylor is killing his parents who are aged 1 To Claszlty the Printers Washington June 13 Arrangements have about been perfected to place the employes of the government printing officeKinder the classified service RuLms will have1 to be( formu lated' in regardJ( force to bejk employ edwith 'every' session of congress upon the Congressional Record Upon the adjournment of' congress the compositors on the Record will be dropped' They yvill continue in the eligible'nst forgone' year and ipon the reassembling of congress can ipply for reinstatement within that time 1 Another Big Mill Tor Joliet Joliet HL June 13 Superinten dent Charles Pettigrew of the Illinois Steel company is going to erect a large construction mill in this city on a twenty acre 'tract of land owned by the company just south of the present works This mill will be( built at a cost of about $1000000 and will em ploy over 1006 men Milwavkee une( 13 Charles Bule wjt feld 3 of age whose parents live at" 790 Ninth avenue was burned to 4 death while trying to explode a fire cracker' new "united states attorney general Aqbrey Secretary Lamont: also came from the war depart ment and the party which had been chatting in the office repaired to the diplomatic ad joining and the oath was administered to Mr Olney The secretary then re ceived the bureau chiefs of the state department and settled downat once to the routine of his office 1 Washington June 13 Hon Judson Harmon was Tuesday jnoming sworn in as general is Commission as attorney gen eral was mad put and (Sent to the state 'f department before a 10 Secretary of State blney: called at the Arlington shortly before 10 and escorted Judge Harmonto the white housewhere they remained half an hpuriwitl the president Secretary Olney then Mr Harmon to the state department where hewas formally presented his commission The oath of office was administered by Justice Harlan of (the supreme court HA BMON IS Nev Attorney Glvee Expression to inancial Views i Washington June The new at torney general has views upon the financial question and believes there is no impropriety in expressing them He made a speech on at the banquet given in Cincinnati March 4 to Representative Bellamy Storer and the opinions there expressed were reit erated by the new attorney general He said: want the American dollar to" be just as good as anybody eise's dollar and with teat qualification I care what it is made of But in the present situation it seems to be mere folly to talk about tee free coinage of' silver The only way we float tee silver we now have is by attaching an implied greenback to every dol lar or in other words by tee government promising to redeem it with a gold dollar if necessary to keep the two equal Of course there is a very narrow limit to govern ment's ability to do that besides I know vt no reason' why it should do LU 3 there were free and unlimited coinage ot sUver the government "could not keep the two metals on a parity very long and tee result would be by tee law of money teat has been settled from tee time teat man has had money tie gold would all disappear and there would baste" the situation1 should change it might be that silver and gold would be of equal steadi ness io value! so that both might in a measure at least be used as money would' be possible as has been tee case in the history of the world that silver might at' sometime have more necessary qualities of money than gold! of that nobody can say But it has noj now and (therefore it eannof be used as money without a limit and side by side wltigold How soon the situation may change nobody'Can you believe in" having an international conference in regard to the Blit we cannot tell exactly how an International agreement might affect it It would to a certain extent but until govern" ment can control the daws ot trade there is a limit to the effect which international agree ments could have over 'MINE RS AG CE PT THE RATE Uig Coal ight in Ohio at Last Brought to Columbus June 12 The vote of the Ohiominers as: to whether they would accept or re ject thet proposition of the operators to pay fifty one cnts for screened coal pei ton for mining resulted: "i or acceptance 091 against 4351" ho state officials say in their circular Monday to the miners of'Ohiol i will thus see" teat the provisional agreement made between tee operators and your" delegates June 1 1895 has been ratified and by tee popular vote' oi tee dlsif let This iqjikes the1? agreement valid Locals will govern themselves accordingly and wlli resume work under the provisions ot said agreement must be borne in mind that 1 distasteful as tee terms of the agree ment are we have hopes of its being only tri Try to Better Their Condition Kansas City Mo June In 're sponse to a call from Silas Harrison about 300 citizens from all over the Tstai assembled' in Turner hall for the purpose of a per manent organization which will have for its object the welfare and advance ment of the colore8 race iBrAwers Conventtati at Milwaukee Milwaukee tnie i f3 National association convention (ws called to order Wednesday morning by President George Obermann Thurs day the ill take place and in the evening a banquet will be tenaerea oy tue to the visiting delegates' Under Vie Civil Rights Act Chicago June Edward Alex ander a i colored lawyer recovered a verdict of $100 damages from Herman Schiepanunder rthe civil rights act Sth ie pan kept a restaurant and refused to serve Alexander 1 agefeA1 van'ced 1 Chicago June The Crane com pany of this city manu facturers of pipe fittings and brass good? in theSworld have announced to its 2300 employes that their wages would be increased 10 $er cent "being a restoration of the which pre vailed early in 1893 1lHonturas Amends Ban Juan Del Norte June The Honduras government has paid to the United Stated somewhere about $30000 in gold in settlement of the claim of Mijs Renton for the murder of her husband 1 1 lx Chicago the supreme lodge of the Ancient Order of UniteffiW orkmencox? venod in annual session THE doors of the Bank of OcostaWash were closed In Illinois the long drought was broken by copious rains which fell throughout the state Leading republicans of Kansas who favor the free coinage of silver were ariced to meet in Topeka on June 25 In St Louis eight persons committed suicide during the first ten days of June The oldest banking house In Indian apolis the Bank of Commerce suspend ed business At St Louis Mich Mrs Herman Becker 34 killed 1 her two chil dren aged 4 and 5 and then took her own life She left a letter saying that she was sick and so were the children and they must die Replies to a circular letter sent out to 130 democratic editors of Ohio show that ninety favor free silver and the other forty are divided in their views John Chubby and Alex white (ne groes) charged with mUrder were lynched st Ke no The Cassidy Packing company at Mankatq Minn made an assignment with liabilities of $100000 The death was announced of Isaac Hart who was the oldest active mer chant in Cincinnati at the age of 8 years Hailstorms swept tnq centrai ana northern parts of Iowa doing great damage to crops At the age of 74 years Charles Gof frie at one time one of the best known musicians in the world died at ruit valle CaL Brown Bbuneb "bankers at Me tropolis made an assignment with liabilities of $90000 assets 3150 000 Tv Aims nearly wiped out the village of Geneva Ind The friends of silver representing twenty states of the south and west began a convention in 4 Mem phis Tenn with Senator Turpie of Indiana as chairman Ohio prohibitionists in convention at Springfield nominated betn Lius 01 Springboro for governorand Thompson of Springfield for United States favors the free coinage of silver and woman suffrage While in bathing Dotson the wealthiest merchant in Scott county Ya was drowned ma ill President Debs of American Railway union and Elliott' the Pennsylvania director of the union were taken to the jail at Woodstock Til to serve their sentences "of months Obdebs were issued by the chief of police of Youngston 0 for the closing of all places of business hereafter on Sunday OREIGN INTELUGENdEi: Shanghai advices say that all the persons connected with 'the English rench and American missions" at Chingtu had been massacred neither men women nor children being spared Thb Hawaiian government appointed William Castle as minister at Wash ington in place of A Thurston lx Rome the new Italian parliament was opened with great ceremony by King Humbert in person any negroes who'1 were induced to go from south' from the state of Durango Mexico "were dying asjthfey were in a most unhealthy section' Some 300 workmen 'lost' their lives in a fire in the mines at Gegingoltes "Ger many" Vactiita entered the Thaddeus gal lery in London and mutilated a life zed portrait of Gladstone lames at Meriny Hungary de stroyed 320 houses and several persons lost their lives I The death was reported of 'Charles Benedict' of States consul at Cape Town Africa At Newmarket Germany a statue to Martin Luther was unveileda ADViCES from Shanghai say the loss of property asa result of the receqt rioting at Cheng Tu and other cities amounted to several million dollars In Madrid preparations twere under way to have 40000 troops ready to sail for Cuba in August to aid in putting down the "revolution LATER NEWS The Wisconsin federatidn 'of labor the 13th adopted series of resolutions denouncing States' supreme for Itadecisldn id dollar stasjaaicT for wheat in the St Louis marlret" the 13t' It consisted bf a car joad of the first pew wheat bf the 1895crop raised in jMis souri and graded as No 2 red jWhile this wheat was of such excellent quali ty is is understood the yield when threshed was only 10' bushels to the acre where at least 20 bushels had been looked for THEhome of John'" Harry Sa lem Mowas visited a mob of white caps numbering about Part of mob forced its way into the upper halL Harvey at once killing' Joseph Nelson Thenbe went to window and fired again at a manin the' yard wounding He off by his friends The supreme court of Illinois the 13th filed its opinion in the case of the peo ple ts the Distilling and" Cattle eed ing Company The judgement of ouster entered by the lower court is affirmed The effect of this decision will be to break up the whisky trust: President Cleveland the 13th signed an order prepared by the civil service commission whereby about 2500 posi tions in the government printing office are put within the classified civil ser vice 1 alling eeiling in a school rooiri at Evanston HL tbe 13th severely in jured three of the scholars rederick Pate a colored aeronaut was killed while making an assension at Marcellus Mieh The balloon had ascended a short distance and then stopped Tate became frightened and dropped out catching for a moment in a tree and then fell to the ground Two of his ribs were driven into his lungs' A 8 formerly "bookkeeper for Inman Swan Co of New York city was arrested for forging the name of the firm bypvhotn be was employed Worthless amonntiriff' tot over 3100 000 has been floated Moore was prominent in church matters and was superintendent of a Harlem Sunday school I Tub celebrated Merritt Rockefeller case which has been on trial at Du luth Minn for some time waadecided the 13th? The jury after deliberating 5 hours brought in a verdict against1 the Standard Oil king for 3940000 Ax unsuccessful attempt was made the 13th to wreck the Louisville and Nashville pay car between Visalia and sow be teoughtbt the man or Osklawn Ky STERN JUSTICE ratal Negro "and Two nt Hl riends Stain by Mob LrvE Oak la June I3 Three more negroes have been lynched in Lafay stte county for an assault upon a white woman The woman is Miss Jeanette Alien 18 years old and the belle of Lafayette county riday morning about 3 Miss Allen was awak ened by a noise in her room As she moved her arm she was clutched by a negro iwhqm she recognizedas JJill Collins one of heir employes She screamed: and the negro fled After a chase lasting all day riday he was captured Ai Collins' was identified by Miss Allen but while preparations were being made to lynch him he escaped All Saturday and Saturday night he was'pursued The chase led through 4 the phosphate region where negroes are numerous' and two of friends attempted conceal him These two negroes twere shot by the pursuers and their bodies placed on the railroad track where they were cut to pjeces by passing trains? gollins was recaptured arly Tuesday morning He was taken to the scene of the sttemptedzUnme and notices sent out for people to gather to aid in lynching him A great crowd as sembled at noon Sunday He was taken to the of river where he was hanged and hisfbody riddled with bullets The corpse was then tut down with stones and thrown into the river In eighteen months four teen negroes have been pUv vVUcav AU 1 aiiXcL UC VUUUIJ'IU assaults upon white woman Tm letter sounds odd for a name but there is a distinguished family in Belgium whose name is no more and to less lx rance if a structural defect in a bicycle causes an injury to the person using it the manufacturer is legally for damages The lace and ribbons imported In this country one has figured out cost one half as much as the support to all tho churches country But lace and ribbons are also means of grace The British government declines to give its adherence to a plan to compel American commercial travelers in Eng land to pay licenses It fears that this country might make reprisals in which case both countries would suffer alike Br means of a recent invention the blind are enabled to write with fa ci I Uy nsing the ordinary Boman alpha bet The indention is described as a friinjrwi metal plate with square per forations arranged in parallel lines in side of which the stylus is moved in the letters cat financiers lose money as well Hs little ones but as their purses are longer do not get out so soon1 The late multi millionaire air of California engaged in a wheat deal a short time before his death and the ic nf hi wheat has just been closed put at a loss of more than 32000000 Thx famous Tich borne claim which for years has excited the attention of all England has at last been disposed of The man who claimed to be Sir Boger Tichborne seeing that there was no hope of establishing his "claim "hx admitted that he is an impostor His real name is Arthur Orton and he is the son of a butcher yet he suc ceeded in deceiving many people DEBS TURNS UP HU Condition Indicate He Was on a Taken to Woodstock (Chicago June Eugene Debs surrendered to Marshal Arnold at 11:15 Wednesdaymorning? He en tered the office accom panied by Lester Hubbard a popu list labor editor of this city with whom 'the of the American Railway union left the Monadnock building Tuesday under promise of re turn at 4 The appearance of both Debs and Hubbard indicated to the marshal that neither had slept much during the night and he doubtedthe story they told The marshal put Debs op a couch in the jury room to rest until he was taken to the depot at 5 and put on the train for Woodstock in charge of Chief Deputy Logan? He told the marshal this was the first time he had broken his word to any man and he felt the disgrace keenly al though he would not admit he had been intoxicated His: condi tion however spoke for itself'" Martin Elliott the Pennsylvania director of the American Railway union "reported tothe marshal Wednes day He left for Woodstock jail at 5 In care of Chief Deputy Logan George Howard th a A RU vied" president who did not want to serve his terrn vwith hie former colleagues was taken by Marshal Arnold Wednes day evening to the county jail at Joliet SHOT OR REVENGE Two Stories Toll of the lab Chapple Tragedy at Omaha Omaita Neb June 12 A dispatch was sent from this city Sunday to thg effect that man named Chiapjfle called at the residence of ames Ish Saturday evening ostensibly to re pair seving machme ti While there he made indecent pro posals to Mrs lish a prepossessing young woman and followed it up with an attempt' to assault her' According to the dispatch Mrs Ish procured her revolver and shot Chapple who after the first shot drew his own revolver in self defense but Mrs Ish also secured this and emptied its con tents into body When the shooting was qver Chapple wa found to have been killed Later developments show the tragic affair it is alleged? to have been a murder by Mg Ish began se he be lieved "his wife false' On body were found AevgralrIetters from Mrs Ish showing her to be in love with Chapple She denounced these letters as forgeriesMr Ishwas ar rested Monday for the murder?" Ish in an" interview admits committing the murder 'but did "'not think a jury would convict 'himwhen the facts be came known GoTMatthawa foif Sllfer La Porte Ind June In answer to the question: you favor the free coinage of silver by the United States independent of tfie action of any other Gov Matthews said that he believed in the United States taking the initiative to bring about 1 a aedy agreement ot refusal commercialnations as to the coinage of silver arid failingin this he favors the independent coinage by the United? States of the silver product of this country excluding for eign bullion No Maitacre at Cheng Ta New York June The following cablegram of date from Rev Sykes at Shanghai has been re ceived at the office of the Methodist Missionary society in this city: ut Cheng Tu Missiona ries all Th6se said Dr Baldwin the re cording secretary of the society official and while c4nfirmlng reports of property loss should set at rest the rumors of the piatsacre of missionaries There was no massacre" Respited at theLaL Minute' Butte Mont June Clay Pugh who was to have been hanged Tuesday for the murder of Chauncey West a railroad conductor was respited until July 1 by Gov Rickards pending an appeal to the supreme court taken al most at the last moment St Long Trip London June 13 The American line steamer St Louis Capt Randle from New York for Southampton passed the Scilly islands at 7:45 Wednesday The time of the St Louis on this voyage will be about seven days and two hours Miner Resume Work Cleveland June 13 A special from Glouster 0 to the Press says: Two thousand miners went to work in the Sunday Creek valley Wednesday morning They based their action on the fact that half a loaf was better than no bread ttad expressed the be lief that better wpges would soon pre vaiL I 2 Murdarer of a Orient Djeclarad Insane Paris June 13 Vm mb Amelot who murdered the Aubdeoglie on May 11 by shooting him 1 with a revolver will not tried for her crime bhe having been officially declared insano Epitome 1 JA1 4 fit 9 1 1 i jgnlf A tfL tatt 1 A Ca fi 4 1 I 1 is 1 3 SnlHmi flnii Sail 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8t 1 9 10111213 1415 116171819 20 4 23 24 2526 27 30 T7 7 111 iTrtTTttnfK.

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