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hit letters ShdaL mannet Which tint nit to iMlfMnnMiti fifth on Hip u-- unhand jta'eV MASSACHUSETTS may be overstocked with women but such ia not the case tn the country at large. A census bulletin shows that in the United States there are 1,500,000 more male than female persons. BRAVE MEN KILLED. Two Firemen Their litres and oral Are Injured by the Collapse of the I of Burning Building In Omaha, tteb. OMAHA, June large furniture house of, Charles Shiverick on Farham street, burned to the i ground Saturday night, and the fire I was attended withthe death of Capt.

I C. D. Cox and Robert Ouray, of the fire department, and the fatal injury of Firemen Ben Morris, Charles Ellington, George Couller, C. II. Fringleand James Conley, of Scran ton, a bystander.

The loss on the building is $40,000 and the stock 1150,000. Ed Maurer's rcs- Tnwiiic are about seven thousand of the finest paintings in the world at the Art palace at Jackson park. Allowing fc Aqqv damaged visitor ten hours a day in this 000 building and one minute for the inspec- the progress of thc flre the west wall fell, burying the firemen in i the ruins. The fire was caused by I lightning in the worst storm ever experienced in Omaha. For six hours the rain descended in torrents and the tiou of each pointing it will take nearly twelve days of his time to see the entire collection.

A Fr man, Pharos Bell, has con- eeived the idea of building a big hotel Ug htolnff never ceasccL Telophone and among the branches of a grove of live i oaks in that state, lie is said to have thc backing of a syndicate of English sapitalists and to be so confident of the success of his novel scheme that he will begin work upon it immediately. THOSE Indians who have sold reservations to the United States are, as a whole, the wealthiest communities in the country. Commissioner Roosevelt, who has been looking into the matter, reports one tribe of which every man, woman and child has a revenue equivalent to the interest on $15,000 each. A NKW YORK electrician is building mn air ship which he claims will solvo the problem of aerial navigation beyond a doubt. He is so sure of it3 sncccss that he has already selected a name for it, the pegassipede.

Pegasus was the winged horse on which poets were supposed to ride to empyrean heights. AN European dentist is said to have had great succcs in curing toothache within five or six minutes, and often in less time, by applying one pole of an electrostatic machine to the troublesome tooth and the other pole to the body of the patient. In seventy-six cases thus treated by him only three are said to have been usatisfactory. FRANCES WOI.SEI.KY is the only child and heiress of the British general, Lord Wolseley, and before he would consent to accept a peerage he stipulated the title should descend to his daughter and hor favor seldom granted to the English there are a great number of Scotch and Irish peerages which descend in the female line. A REPORTER who has been at pains to corral the genuine Spanish method of pronouncing Eulalie's name divulges thc secret.

It is "Ay-oo-lah-lce-ah," with the first two syllables run together rapidly and the accent on the "lah." The infanta's name is "Marie-Eulalie- Francoise D' Assise- Marguerite-Robertc-Isabelle-Francoise de Paullie-Christine-Marie de la Piete." telegraph wires are burned out, cellars flooded in almost every part of the city, and it is roughly estimated that $100,000 worth of damage has been done to property. Heavy rains earlier in the day had pretty well filled the lowlands of Omaha and shortly after appeals began to come in to the police station for help from the rising waters in the northern I part of the city. The fire alarm was Bounded and several companies sent to the scene. Another force of firemen was assigned to the southern districts of the city, where a like situation prevailed. The firemen found many families in the second stories of their dwellings with a current as swift as the Missouri threatening to start their homes down thc river.

In many places the flood was 0 feet deep and rising with alarming rapidity. Firemen went to the rescue of the imprisoned people with everything that would float two persons. Shed doors were in demand, and in some instances prominent citizens came sailing down the middle of the avenues between the street car tracks on their parlor doors, hastily detached for the purpose of going for assistance for their families. Those residing in cottages in flooded districts were in the greatest danger, and many were forced to the highest point of any single story houses to avoid the rushing torrents. Hundreds of people lined the high grounds surrounding the inundated places to render what assistance was possible to those seeking shelter after being driven from their homes.

The districts from which families were removed from their homes were in the vicinity of Grace, Clark, Twenty- fourth and Nineteenth streets on the north, and along Costcllo and adjacent avenues on the south. THE British admiralty has just adopted the new wire-wound, quick-firing, six-inch breech-loading gun for the navy. The new weapon forty calibers long and weighs seven tons. 11 will fire nn elongated projectile weighing 100 pounds a distance of over four miles. It is such a quick-firing gun that at a long range when fired with cordite it has three or four shots in the air at the time.

AN OLD BANK ASSIGNS 'THE Columbian stamps are really engravings, and form thc third especial issue of stamps in the country. The first of these was a fifteen cent stamp representing the landing of Columbus, which was issued in 1809, and the second commemorated the 1870 centennial by a souvenir envelope, with a shield-shaped three-cent stamp in the corner, having at the top the figures 1776 and at the bottom 1870. A PECULIAR suit was recently settled in the courts at Iron Mountain, Mich. An Austrian resident of that place some time ago sent money and a ring to his finance in Austria, telling her to coma to America and get married. She for that purpose, but met another man whom she fancied better than her old lover and maiTied him.

The disappointed lover sued the husband to restore $70 and the ring, and secured judgment for that amount. Hermann Scliuffiicr of Chicago Forced to Senior l'urtner MlBSlllg. CHICAGO June 5. SchafEner the oldest and largest private bankers in the west, did not open their doors in the Title and Trust building Saturday and the news that the institution was insolvent was soon the talk of the town. To excitement came the report Mr.

SchafEner, one of the best known men in Chicago and one of the most popular of the Jewish race, could not be found, the result of the report being the rumor that the banker had become insane over his troubles or had taken his own life. The banking firm made an assignment in tho county court at 10:10 a. m. In the absence of a statement by thc as- signes it is given out, but not authoritatively, by those concerned that the liabilities of the concern will 1 not exceed and that the assets more than cover the amount. Mr.

Scbaffner's family have offered reward of $500 for information as to the missing man's whereabouts. The bank had been in business since 1878. Herman Schuffner and A. G. Becker composed the firm.

The bank transacted but little deposit business. Its specialty was the handling of commercial paper. In this way tho firm is reported to have handled in the last year $35,000,000 worth of paper. The assignment was made, it is said, from the fear that when the fact of Schaffner's disappearance became public there would be a run on the bank. UNCLE SAM has become the victim of a.

new game on the part of the emigrant. He ships from the port of do markation as a sailor before the mast, and immediately deserts on arriving at an American port. lie thus evades tho head tax exacted by the government, and escapes tho examination imposed by immigration laws. During the recent naval review in New York harbor about 300 foreigners inserted themselves into our midst in this fashion. KILLED BY A TEXAS CYCLONE IT is believed, says the Scientific American, that there are five times as many insects as there are species of all other living things put together.

Tho oak alone supports 450 species of insects and 200 kinds make their home in the pine. Forty years ago Humboldt estimated that the number of species preserved in collections was between 150,000 and 170,000, but scientific men now say that there must be more than three- quarters of a million, without taking into account the parasite creatures. Onus street car line in Philadelphia has been experimenting with a storage- battfci'y electric car, and the Press announces that the results are entirely satisfactory. The car runs at the rate of eight miles an hour, except on sharp and steep grades, where it runs ifour. It looks as if the problem of transit without the use of dangerous pverhead wires would be finally solved.

If a etoi 'age battery can now be steadily run at a speed of eight miles an hour, it seems only a question pf a time when mechanical genius fvill be able to increase the to tea or'twelve miles on the levejh After Living for 100 Years a Negro Per- IHIKIH lit a Furious Other Victims. HOUSTON June 5. Spanish Camp, in Wharton county, 20 miles from the railroad, was struck by a terrible cyclone Friday night. Numbers of houses were unroofed and destroyed. In tho village Josh Wilkins' house was blown down and two of his children killed.

For 3 miles square everything is wrecked. Three miles from town Mrs. Simmons was killed and Wash Jenkins, a colored man over 100 years old, was caught beneath the ruins in his cabin and crushed to death. All the residences and outhouses on tho Montgomery plantation were blown away and several persons hurt, but none killed. Depositors Will lie Great Losers.

NEW YORK June 5. has been figured out that there is due the public from the National Bank of Deposit $938,000, and that its assets are a little short of $1,100,000, which means that the stockholders of the bank will receive fifty cents on the dollar. NAME A TICKET; Iowa Make Nominations In Del Moines Resolution! Demand That the Liquor Law Be Maintained and Strengthened. DES MOINES June The prohibitionists met in this city yesterday in state convention with nearly every county represented. A.

W. Coates, of Perry, presided, and Rev. Jerry Johnson, of Howard, acted as secretary. The following nominations were made: For O. Aylosworth, of Des Moines.

For Lieutenant A. Rood, of Keokuk county. For Judge of tho Supremo A. Harvey, of Polk county. For Superintendent of Public Instruction- Miss Bollo H.

Mix, of Des Moines county. For Railway H. Glllotto, of Polk. Rev. J.

D. Wells, of Butler, read tho platform and resolutions as prepared by the committee, as follows: Tho prohibition party of Iowa, In delegate convention assembled, recognizing God as tho sourco of authority and power and His law as tho foundation of all civil law, re- alllrms the Cincinnatl'platform' of 1892 and declares: I. That tho paramount Issue In state ana national politics at this timo is tho annihilation of the trafflc In intoxicating drinks. With this issue arc inseparably associated all of the moral, political and economic questions of the day, tho problems arising therefrom dopendlng for solution upon united, aggressive and progressive political action. That to ylold to tho proposition for resubmission, local option or the mulct systom not only imperils the present prohibitory law, but offers nothing good instead and exhibits a do- sire on tho part of the originators of all such schemes to got rid of prohibition in any form and all responsibility for its support Thot tho prohibitory law of Iowa should lie maintained and strengthened by provisions for enforcement by stato power in localities where It is persistently nullified or criminally neglected.

Wo condemn all connection of tho national government with tho liquor traf- I flo and its receiving revenue therefrom as guilty complicity In the greatest crime of tho ago 4. That we regard the recent rapid growth of the saloon power in this state, culminating in tho most daring, desperate and devilish I tempting the most wanton destruction of prop- erty and tho wliolcsalo murder of law-abiding citizens with their wives and i due in large measure to tho highly culpable example of tho chief executivo of the state in i his persistent opposition to tho prohibitory law I and to the criminal indifference of many stato, county and municipal officials to this law and their own official oaths. 5. That thc pharmacy law as amended in lSTO has led to intolerable abuses, which call for tho restoration of the rigid restrictions existing previously to such amendment and such others as may be found necessary. 6.

That tho Iowa railroad legislation of 1883, vindicated by an experience of four years of successful operation, showing that low freight rates established by lawaro more remunerative to tho railroads and more favorable to other industries than high rates arbitrarily flxed by the railroads themselves, should now bo supplemented by legislation reducing passenger fares to a maximum of two cents per mile, and providing for thc taxation of railroad property upon a basis of equality and justico to all interests. Interstate commerce should be regulated by laws as strict and equitable as the railroad laws of Iowa. 7. That tho money of the country should consist of gold, silver and paper, to bo issued by the general government only in sufficient quantities to meet the demands of business and give full opportunity for tho employment of labor. To this end an increase in the volume of money is demanded and no individual or corporation should be allowed to make any pro 111 through its issue.

It should be made a legal tender for the payment of all pul.lic and private. Its volume should be lixed at a per capita and made to increase with our increase in population. b. That this should be a government people, by thc peoplo and for tho people; nenco we favor- the extension of the suffrage to all properly qualllled adult persons, regardless of add to sex, and the making of all offices elective by that tne votu of uo wlien practicable, in- I 1 eluding United senators. We are op- i posed to hasty uud indiscriminate uaturaliza- tiou of foreigners.

9. That the civil service of the state and na- tion should be conducted on business principles, nil appointments and promotions merit and removals for cause. 10. That we demand the repeal of tariff duties upon the necessaries of life and that tho tariff revenue be limited in amount to the necessary expenses of the government II. That we arc opposed to any diversion of school funds for the support of denominational schools and in favor of the maintenance and improvement of our public school system.

12. That we demand tho enforcement of existing laws for the suppression of trusts and trade combinations, with tho enactment of further legislation to make them effective. 13. That, while we would restrict Immigration to those worthy to become citizens, wo believe that this country should continue to bo the refuge of the onprcssed of all nations: hence wo favor tho repeal of the Chinese exclusion act known as the Deary law and the abrogation of tho recent treaty with Ilu.ssiu.which practically provides for tho surrender of political refugees. 14.

That we favor stringent legislation for the suppression of dealing in options on the necessaries of life. 15. That wo favor the establishment of postal savings banks and a postal telegraph, with reduction of letter postage at the earliest practicable day to one cent per ounce.and extension of the free delivery system to the rural 10. That wo stand for the most rigid economy in local, state and national affairs consistent with a just discharge of the of government to its defenders and creditors and the proper performance of Its functions. 17.

Thai we pledge the prohibition party of Iowa to carry out the various reforms upou which public opinion has been for some time pait agreed, but which the parties now and recently in power seem incapable of bringing about: and with this end In view we invite tho cooperation of the progressive elements of all parlies; pledging ourselves to practical uud loyal work for tho best interests of tho whole peoplo. Delegate George Gilchrist, of Mahaska, offered the following with the indorsement of the committee on resolutions and it was adopted: We view the persistent and unlawful efforts of the managers of the Columbian exposition, especially tho local directory, to open the gates of tho fair seven days of the week, after having accepted money from the government with the express understanding that the gates be kept closed on the Sabbath, uud in direct violation of. a law enacted by congress closing the gates on that day, as anarchistic In conception and rebellious in character and is deserving the condemnation of all true American citizens; therefore, Resolved, That the prohibition party of Iowa, in state convention assembled, do most em- phaticullv protest against such action and that we ask President Cleveland to use tho power vested In him to enforce the law of congress to prevent this sin against high Heaven and rebellion against tho government of tho United States; also, that the openiin; of the lown state building on thu Sabbath duy is deserving of the condemnation of all Christian citizens of the state and a stain on the proud escutcheon of our civilization. LYNCHED. Died in the Dentist's Chair.

LANSING June Charles H. Fisher, a prominent North Lansing woman, died in the dental chair Saturday noon. Dr. Ralph II. Clark and Dr.

Frank N. Thomas treated her at hor house, crivingr hor chloroform tc tho pain. She was made unconscious and six teeth were extracted. Oao Wai Killed. CHARLESTON, 111., June Walters and his daughter Nellie jumped from a trestle near here to get out of the way of a Clover Leaf train.

The girl was killed and Wulters seriously Injured. A Colored Brute Suffers from a Mob's Vengeance, at Decatur, from and Action of the Mote Denounced by Gov. Altgeld, Who Offers a Reward for the Perpetrators of the Deed. DECATUB, 111., June Sam Bush, the negro arrested near Windsor early Friday morning for outraging Mrs. Vest, of Mount Zion township, was lynched at 3 a.

m. Saturday. There were threats heard early Friday evening, but a scout sent out by the officers to Mount Zion returned with the information that the people were quiet and had no intention of coming to Decatur. Nevertheless a guard of twelve men was put in the jail and an extra force of men was put on duty outside. About 500 curious people stood around thc jail all night, though most of them thought no serious attempt would bo made to tako the prisoner out.

At just 2 o'clock twenty-five men come on a rush up Wood street. They were quiet, without masks, and moved in a solid body. They forced their way through tho crowd and knocked on the door of the jail. Deputy Sheriff Midkiff and Special Officer Foster sat just inside and refused them admission. One blow from a sledge crashed in thc wooden door, and the two officers were surrounded by twenty-live armed men.

The keys of the jail were demanded, but both officers declared they did not have them. The men then went to work with sledge hammers and chisels on the outside door. It was of solM cast-iron an inch thick. Twenty minutes elapsed before it was forced. Meanwhile the crowd of Decatur people stood outsido quietly.

No one seemed to care much. There was no talk of resistance and the officers were not upbraided for making no more objection. When the first door was opened another one of' steeljbars held them another twenty minutes. There was only an occasional yell, and altogether it seemed to be a quiet attack on a jail. Thc next bars across the corridor were forced, and with them a lock that opened all the cells.

A frightened negro inside pointed out Bush's coll. Three men rushed iu and found it apparently empty. They jerked over tho mattress, then lifted it up and tumbled out thc negro. He had crawled inside. All day Friday Hush shook with fear.

Now he seemed cooler than at any time before. "Gentlemen, you arc killing an innocent man," he said. He was dragged ttp into thc jail office. So many men stood around that it took five minutes to pull him through the crowd to the street. All this time Rush said nothing, but the crowd yelled excitedly.

News of the attack on the jail seemed to have spread over the town, and 1,500 people were there. In front of the jail is a telegraph post. A drive towards that was made, but the lynchers finally went to one about 000 yards away, on one of the most prominent corners in the city, and directly in front of tho courthouse. An arc light made the street intersection as light as day. A rope made of halter straps had been put around the negro's neck.

When thc crowd stopped tit the foot of the pule the victim asked for time to pray. The men said: "Give him all the time he wants." He knelt down on the bricks and began to pray in a sing-song way, calling on Jesus to come and take his soul and forgive the men who were murdering him. He did not beg or cry as ho had done when first arrested, but to make up his mind he must die. and prayed disconnectedly full ten minutes, while a thousand people crowded around as close; together as they could be. There were si-Je jests, and not a single soul seemed impressed with the awfulness of the scene.

Finally the spectators began to get impatient. A man had climbed half way up the pole and stood in the glare of the light all the time. "Cut that short," he said; "he gave those women po Others took up the cry. "Hang him; he's prayed enough." "Let him go," was yelled. The rope was passed to the man on the pole, he put it over a guide wire, and the crowd pulled.

The negro's now naked as tho day it was born, swung up into sight 4 feet from the ground and fell back. The negro uttered no sound. A few in tho crowd groaned, while others yelled. Then a hack was driven into the crowd against the protests of the cab-man. The negro was told to stand up on it.

He refused, whtsn half a dozen hands threw him up and then held hiin while the rope was tied to the cross arm on the pole. Tho hack then driven away aud the body foil with the man's toes not 3 from the ground. It was then just 11:07 a. m. Two doctors walked up and held the pulse, and pronounced him dead in two minutes.

The neck was not broken. The body was cut down by Coroner Bendure at 3:40 a. m. The rope was cut up and divided among the crowd arouud. The Mount Zion men left for home as soon as thu negro was pronounced dead.

A dispatch from Springfield says that Gov. Altgeld has issued a proclamation denouncing thc lynching as a cowardly and diabolical act, as murder, and as a blot upon the fair name of the sfyite. Ho declares the men who were engaged in it must be punished and offers a reward of 8200 each for their apprehension and conviction. IN A twenty-Six BURNINQ MINE. la a Mexican Men Perish Colliery, EAGMC PASS, June broke out at 4 o'clock p.

m. Saturday In the Fuente coal mine on the line of the Mexican National railway, on tho banks of tho Rio Escondhido river. About one-half of the miners were working near the main tunnel and these made their escape, leaVing twenty-six of their number to perish by the heat and smoke and from the poisonous gases, which spread like lightning to every portion of the mines. There are twenty-six chambers in the mine, and tho dead miners are supposed to bo well to the front of tho mine. At 12 'clock Sunday one body had been recovered from the, seventh chamber, and shortly after another, fearfully scorched and blackened, was brought to thc surface.

The tenth chamber has been reached, and men with ropes tied to their bodies, to effect their rescue if overcome by heat and smoke, are fighting their way to where tho bodies of their dead comrades arc lying. Superintendent George Spencc ventured in too far and was overcome by heat and smoke. He was i prostrated, but was rcscused. It is bc- lieved that to-night the mine will be cleared of the heat and smoke, which at present it is impossible to cope with, and that all the bodies will be recovered. I Large numbers of tho friends and i relatives of the unfortunate miners aro I gathered at the mouth of tho 'mine mutely awaiting the recovery of the bodies of their sons and husbands.

When a body is taken out there is an outburst of grief, and a look of quiet resignation and deep grief appears 1 upon'every countenance. Hundreds of 1 people from Eagle Pass and Picdros I Negras have visited the scene, and tho i smoke still issuing from the airshafts i impresses on all the folly of hoping any of thc men may be taken out alive, All thc miners employed were Mexicans and most of them leave destitute families. It is reported that all tho I parties responsible for the management of the mines have been placed under arrest pending an investigation of thc causes of the disaster. This is tho first great disaster in the history of coal mining in Mexico. i PERTSHED BY FIRE.

HOME HELPS. CHICKEN seasoned with celery, sage and a very little onion, salt and pepper, has a fine fiavor. BARLEY and beans are nice, seasoned, with a small portion of some fowl: salt, pepper, after washing and soaking them in water all night. OIIANGE WIIEV juice of one orange to pint of sweet milk; heat slowly until curds form; strain and cool. This is nice for the sick.

POTATOES, corn and combined, with seasoning of salt, popper, little cream or butter, and a pinch of sugar, give a good fiavor when stewed. Failure In Jollot, ill. JOI.IET, 111., June old veteran stone company of Sanger. Moody Steel made an assignment in favor of their creditors, with assets aggregating 8177,700 and liabilities only $53,000 The bulk of the liabilities aro with the bank, which are more than secured by trust deeds. The firm was compelled to assign because they oiuld not get money to go ahead with their business and could not soil their stone.

The government owes them $85,000, which they cannot get, with the banks pressing' them for money they wero forced to surrender. FOR HER LIFE, I.lKftte norden Placed on, la churged with the Morder of Her Vather and Stepmother, NKW BEDFORD, June trial of Miss Lizzie A. Borden, charged with tho murder of her father and stepmother, August 4,1802, was begun at 11 a. m. Monday.

After nine hours of rigid examination a jury was The defendant was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. She manifested a coolness that approached indifference to the proceedings. LTho double murder of Andrew J. Borden and his wifo took place In this city shortly before noon on 1892. The body of the old gentleman was found on a sofa in the parlor of tho houso and that of Mrs.

Bordon In a bod chamber on the second floor. Death in both enfcos had been caused by repeated blows of somo heavy, sharp instrument on tho face, nock and head. Although Mr. Borden was worth half a million dollars, there is no evidence to Indicate that robbory had boon tho motive of the crime. No plate or money or any of tho valuables of the mansion wore mcsHlng, nor had a slnglo thing boen removed from tho bodtos.

There wore so far as Is yet known, but two persons besides Uorden and his wifo on tho premises when tho murdor was committed. Theso were Bridgot Sullivan, a domestic and Lizzie Borden, tho younger of Mr. Bordon's two daughters. Tho first alarm was givon by Lizzie, who ran out into the yard and called for help. She was inspected chiefly bocauso of certain discrepancies between hor statements to the polico as to the circumstances under which the bodies were found.

A brother-in-law of Bordon named Harrington also testified that for ten years thero hnd been almost constant disputes between the daughters and Mr. and Mrs. Uorden. They had been allowed KU0 a year each, and had been given property worth in the aggregate about They were dissatlsllod with this, Harrington said, and thought they ought to have more. Miss Uorden moved iu the best society, and wanted money to "hold her end up," as Harrington expressed it.

Thc theory of tho prosecution is that it was the purpose of Lizzie Bordon, by killing Borden and his wife, to inherit one-half of tho estate. Bearing on this point information wasfurnishod the police to the effect that Mr. Uorden was about to make a will, The police consider the information reliable. No will has boen found since his death and he is believed to have died tate. It is said that Lizzie Borden knew he was about to make a wilL Before the tragedy Lizzie Borden llvod tho humdrum life of a small placo.

She once taught a Sunday school clnss and was bright but sedate. Sho made an extended tour of Kuropo two or three years ago.1 THE PRESIDENT TALKS. Flames Destroy New York Tenement-, the Lose Their Liven. NEW YOKE June persons were killed at a fire that began just about midnight Saturday night in tho five-story Hat house at 138 East Forty- I third street, half a block from thc Press Club fair. They were: I William Ben to, a stenographer: Mrs.

Ilento his wife: Elsie Benie, his sister, aged Helen Wctmore Uietz, his niece; Edward Pugsley, a young man who roomed on the top floor. All these were on the top floor when the fire was discovered. All the flats in the house were occupied except the third, and there the lire began. It i broke through the roof in a minute, mounting the stairway shaft, and illuminated the whole neighborhood. From 188 and the houses on each side men and women in their nightgowns and bare feet ponircd into tho street.

From the fourth floor Charles II. Bjorwall, with his wife and four children, escaped, the father by the tiro escape and the others by thc steps. A Miss Boylston who lived on the fourth floor was also got out in hysterics. All these, as well as the people from thc adjoining houses, were sheltered in the conservatory of church music at across the street. Here Mrs.

Bente, the mother of the stenographer, his sister, who and Mrs. Dietz, were among the the two adjoining each found that seen nothing of their visitors of the refugees from houses, met, and the other had the Bent.es and night. The fire was easily controlled, but before it was put out and within ten minutes from their arrival the Bremen had long up to the front windows of tho building and were beginning a search. It was nearly 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning before they found thc five bodies. FREDERICK T.

DAY ASSIGNS. Fresidont of tho 1'lnnlclnton Hank Huld to Own SfiOO.OOO. MILWAUKEE June 5. T. Day, president of the l'lankinton bank, has made a voluntary assignment to William II.

Motnsen, cashier of tho uank, who furnished bonds in the sum of $800,000, with Charles F. l'fister, George B. Miner and Willis A. Meyer as sureties. Mr.

Day's nominal assets are placed at $000,000 and his liabilities at (500,000. So far tfhc examination of his assets has been only cursory, but it is believed that enough can be realized from them to meet all his debts. In doing this, however, his large private fortune will bo utterly wrecked. Reckless banking methods are said to have been the cause of Mr. Day's failure.

END OF HOMESTEAD CASE. lie Will Call Congress to Meet In Session Next Declarations on tho FlnuniUI Question. WASHINGTON June president said Monday evening in reply to a direct question that he intended to call an extra session of congress not earlier thun the 1st nor later than trie 15th of September, unless unexpected contingencies should necessitate an earlier meeting. Thc president further said: "While there has been no mystery or secrecy in regard to my Indention iu this matter I think It nut amiss that our people should be Informed authoritatively that the time is at hand when tholr representatives in congress will be called upon to deal with a linanclal condition which Is the only menace to the country's welfare and prosperity. It is well for tho peoplo to tako up the subject for themselves, and arrive at their conclusions as to tho merits of a linaucial policy which obliges up to purchase Idle silver bullion with gold taken from our reserve.

"One does not need the eye of a llnanclcr to see that this gold thus substracted from the government's stock is eagerly seized by other nations for tho purpose of strcngihonliiK their credit at our axpensc. It does not neod the art of statesmanship to detect the danger that awaits upon thu continuance of this operation. Already the timidity of capital is painfully ap- pivrent, and none of us van fall to see that fear and apprehension In monetary circles will ultimately bring suffering to eTery humble homo In our land. "I think that between 'now and the meeting of congress much depends upon the action of those engaged in tlnanclul operations and business enterprises. Our vast national resources and credit aro abundantly Hulllclcnt to Justify them In the utmost faith and confidence.

If Instead of being frightened they aro conservative, and if Instead at gloomily anticipating immedialo disaster they contribute their share of hope and steadiness, they will perform a patriotic duty and at thc sumn timo protect their own interest. The things just now needed arc coolness ana calmness in linanclal circles and study and reflection among our people." TRAGEDY IN ILLINOIS. Wifo and Counter Charges of Murder, Against Frlek iirul the (Strikers Dropped. PiTTSiiuHCin, June 5. the charges of murder against II.

C. Frlck and others of the Carnegie Steel company officials as well as the Pinkerton detectives havo been dropped in court. In turn, all of the strikers, who had been arrested and as yet untried, have been released on their own recognizance. This virtually ends all of the Homestead cases in connection with the big strike of last year. Killed Ills Family anil Himself.

.8 Juno 5. coroner's jury in the Hoy tragedy met Saturday morning at New Haven. The jury rendered a verdict that Mrs. Hoy and the two children, William and Portia, came to their deaths at the hands of John Hoy. who afterward cut his own throat.

Tho jury were of the opinion that Hoy did not take his own life until some time Tuesday morning. Testimony was taken before the jury which led to the belief that Hoy was crazy when he committed the deed. Ha was subject to fits, of temporary A Citizen of I Kills Hit uud lllinsdll While Insane. BHACKVIM.K 111., June 6. on Sunday evening, in thc western part of Braccville, in a house, a sight was discovered which made the hardest hearted turn away sick and horrified.

Seraphim De Median, a Belgian and a miner, and his wife were the subjects. The wife was lying across the bed dead, with a great gaping wound from a shotgun iu hor right breast, while a babe, not over 4 mouths old, was at her breast as if just taken from a crib near by. On the opposite side of tho room lay De Median with his brains blown out by the same instrument of death, which was found lying beside him. Tho first to come upon this horrible scene was a boy la years old, son of Mrs. De Median, who had.been working in a field near by itnd came to tho house for supper.

He gave thc alarm to neighbors, and soon the houso and yard were filled with incomers. Nothing but circumstantial evidence could be obtained, but everything pointed to the fact that De Median first shot his wife and then, to, escape the punishment of tho law, took his own life. De Median was thought to be partially insane for some time before tho crime, but no violonco was mado known to anyone in town until Sunday night, when the boy stated that some time ago his stepfather had said that he would some time shoot his wife and then kill himself. Coroner Ferguson was called, but the jury were unable to determine anything beyond the mere fact that both were killed and that the murderer and suicide was De Median. Kxpense of tho Tirlggt Trial.

WASHINGTON, June Dr. Bartlett, who was chairman of tho, local committee of arrangements for the general assembly, is of the opinion that the estimate made by some of the commissioners that the Briggs ease from beginning to end cost the general assembly about W0.000 is nearly correct. State OHIcors Acquitted. LINCOLN, June supreme court of Nebraska on Monday, by a vote of two to one, acquitted the state officials, against whom hnpeuohment proceedings were brought Chief Justice. Maxwell was the dissenter,.