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VOL. XXVIII-NO. 163
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 10,
1886.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
An Interesting Debate on a Vetoed
Private Pension Bill.
The I'rnMnt Bitterly Attacked by BUImt Kc-
y«hllr»ii»- Dcaorratlc Hynkfn 8I» Flj*ri*i
Tkst Show the Hypocrisy of Hepablirsa Pro.
IbMlona—'The Day la tb« Senate—Bowie's Noail-
■atton Rejected.
cause be was not in the same category.
He was not looking for votes,
but all the rest were. Tti- Imuse should
turn Its attention to bt-uiesB. If it did
not its statesmen would be here until the
last of August. This vituperation and
abuse of the president was all wrong and
he asserted his entire confidence in the in
tegrity o' the president and in his desire to
do his duty, and he reserved to himself the
right to approve or disapprove the veto.
Suppose that the members auit quarreling
ana turn their attention to the public busi
ness, Let them remember what they had
been taught by their mothers:
“ let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God has made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For ’tis their nature to.
But little children should not let
Their angry passions rise,
Their little hands were never made
To scratch each others’ eyes.”
(Laughter.)
Allen, of Mississippi, thought he ought
to apologize for discussing pension mate
ters, as he had been a confederate private.
It was said that confederates ought to
have thought of this matter of pensions
twenty-five years ago. He acknowledged
that at the beginning of the war he
had not given' the matter that due
consideration to which it had probably
been entitled. [Laughter.] He had been
quite a j’oung boy then, but along about
the third year of the war he began to think
seriously of it, and so much had he been
impressed with the fact that the course he
was pursuing would bankrupt the United
States government in pensioning the wid
ows of the soldiers he was killing, that
finally, gun in hand, he retreated across
five or six states with the enemy in his
front rather than slay the whole army.
[Laughter.] The contest had finally
come to a point that he said that he would
stay the whole army or give up, and he
laid down his gun like a man and went
home. He wanted to call attention to a
little incident which occurred when he
was on his way home. He had gone into
the war at the age of fourteen, and had re
mained four years, and he was pretty well
tired of fighting. There was another boy
with him as he was going home, who had
not been in the war so long,
and who wanted him to go across
ed unless there was a law authorizing iM|^he river in Alabama and fight with
wholly oblivious to the fact that congress Kirby Smith. He had had about enough
Washington. July 9.—Immediately after
the reading of the Journal the speaker an
nounced that the regular order was the
vote on the demand for the previous ques
tion on the motion to refer to the commit
tee on invalid pensions the message of the
president vetoing the bill granting a pen
sion to Sally Ann Bradley.
Amid a good deal of confusion Burrows,
of Michigan, on the part of the republi
cans, and Matson, of Indiana, representing
the democrats, endeavored to come to
Borne arrangement to prevent time being
frittered away with roll calls. It was finally
i agreed that the demand for the previous
’question should be withdrawn and that
[ Grosvenor, of Ohio, should be allowed
fifteen minutes to oppose the motion to
refer, with permission to some democrat
to reply, if so desired.
Grosvenor said that he desired to heap
no recrimination or condemnation upon
the president for his veto messages. They
were caused by a total misapprehension on
the part of the president of his relations to
the administration of the government. He
(Mr. Grosvenor) had read all the vetoes
coming from that prolific source of vetoes,
and he thought the trouble was that the
president understood that it was his duty
to examine carefully every act of congress
and if he was a member of congress would
not vote for the bill. He gave no sort of
consideration or weight to the fact that
the legislative branch of the government
had acted affirmatively upon it. The pres
ident acted upon the idea that the execu
tive had the right and it was his
duty to decide absolutely on every ques
tion. Another idea of the president’s
was that no private act should be approv-
\vas the law-making power and had the
right to confer a pension on anybody.
K Grosvenor then detailed the facts of the
special bill under consideration and com-
t mented on the fact, as he asserted, that the
! president had approved the Fitz John Por
ter bill on the very day that he had vetoed
the bill grafting a pension to Sally Ann
Bradley, the mother of tour sons, two of
whom nad died on the battlefield and two
of whom were in a hospital disabled.
Fitz John Porter would go on the pension
roll, while Sally Ann Bradl^’ would go to
the poor house, and this was the govern
ment which undertook to say that it was
dealing generously and liberally with its
soldiers. The house was paralyzed and
terrified by the veto of a single man. The
proposition was tyrannical in the direc
tion of absolute usurpation; in- the direc
tion of turning from its normal position
the congress of the United States, and
turning over the administration of the
generosity of the government to one man.
[Applause on the republican side.]
Matson merely remarked in his reply
that be had just learned that Jin the forty-
seventh congress a republican committee
of the senate had reported that the woman
ought not to be pensioned for the same
reason as the president said she ought not
to b<- pensioned. [Applause on the demo
cratic sid*].
Long, of Massachusetts, suggested
that at that time the woman had a hits-
band living, and was also in the receipt of
a pension.
The bill and message were then referred
—yeas 122, nays 111.
Matters then proceeded smoothly, and
the messages were read and referred to the
appropriate committee without debate
or objection until the veto message on the
bill granting a pension to Francis Deming
was reached, when the republicans de
manded and were accorded half an hour
for debate.
Boutelle, of Maine, arraigned the presi
dent for what he characterised as his cru
sade against the veterans of the country.
He regarded the policy of the president ns
an open, clear, unmistakable announce
ment that the dem 'cratie party was op
posed to recognizing the services
and sacrifices of the men who gave
their lives or health in order
that this great nation might be preserved.
jn- The time had come when the democratic
party felt itself sufficiently firmly seated in
the saddle to utter its defiance and hostility
to the men who went to the front to save
the union in its hour of peril. He thought,
he could see the muse of history looking
at the grand procession of chief magis
trates, and he could imagine the expres
sion of ineffable disgust which would pass
over the features of the goddess of Ameri
can liberty when she should look upon the
panel upon which was depicted the present
chief magistrate sitting in his shirt
sleeves with his collar unbuttoned, per
spiring over vetoes of the paltry pension
bills of the heroes of the war. [Applause.] j
He then proceeded lo read from the
Record, to show that all legislation favor- [
able to the soldier had emanated from the j
republican party and had been passed by |
republican votes against the solid votes of j
the representatives ot the solid south, and I , , , . , , ,
against the almost solid vote of the demo- ? UC *J P n Pers, he had telephoned
cratie party. pension office, and had had no
Brum, of Pennsylvania, characterized j R" u ^ad
now
The
committee had been diligent. The president
had been negligent. Congress had been
just. The president had denied justice to
a citizen whose ease lie had never consid
ered. Romiser, he said, was justly entitled
fighting and did not wish to go and they
were arguing about the matter when they
saw an old gentleman coming across the
field, and waiting for them at the fence.
When he reached them he was very much
interested to know about the surrender
and about our institution. “I told him,”
continued Allen in a doleful tone,
“that our institution was gone. [Laugh
ter.] He asked me what I was going to
do. I told him I was going home. He
said, ‘young mar,, you are
right. You go home nnd
go to plowing. My experience is that
when you fight and get beaten you ought
to go to something else.’ Then he began
to philosophize ana he said: ‘Boys, this has
been a mighty bad war. We have lost a
good many of our best men. We have a
great many one-legged and one-armed
soldiers in our midst who can scarcely earn
a living, and a great many widows and
orphans. Society has been terribly de
moralized and our homes have been deso
lated and devastated. Boys, this has been
a terrible war, but we can stand
all this. The only thing terrible is that
some damned fools who have not made
much reputation out of the war will be
wanting to throw this thing up to us for
the next twenty-five years. [Loud laugh
ter.] I make no application of this inci
dent, but it does look like the words of
prophetic wisdom.”
The message was then referred without
objection.
The next and last veto message upon the
speaker’s table was taken up and laid be
fore the house. 'It was the message
vetoing the bill granting a pension
to Joseph Romiser, and as tills case is re
garded as presenting specially strong
features, the republicans determined to
make a fight over its reference.
McComas, of Maryland, who originally
introduced the bill, made an explanation
of it and analyzed the veto message of the
president. The bill, he said, had passed
both houses with unanimity. The presi
dent declared that the committee on in
valid pensions had reported that Romiser
had filed a claim for a pension
which had been rejected by the
pension office. There was no such
ease in the office. The president
said that Romiser had never filed a claim.
If this were true the committee was in
deed convicted of gross carelessness, and
doubtless the president made the state
ment to illustrate the loose methods of the
committee and his own accuracy in exam
ining these private pension bills. If this
charge were unfounded then the president
was convicted of still grosser carelessness,
because the report of the committee had
warned him that there was a case in the
office. He :McComas) had in his hands
the very bundle of pension papers in the
case of Joseph Romiser. The packet re
corded all the proceedings from the time
of tiling the claim 'll 1SI8 until its rejection.
The records showed that the pension offi
cer found that though Romiser was se
verely wounded by a niinnie ball passing
through his head and face, because lie was
not mustered in, the officer was-constrain
ed to respect the claim. When the
president's veto came to the house
declaring that there were
j but the gentlemen on the other side of the
I chamber had taken advantage of the dis-
| cusslon to attack the president and tha
; democratic party and to charge that they ,
! were opposed to grantiug pensions. Noth'
ing could be farther from the,
truth. During the entire eight years of
Gen. Grant’s administration only M2 pri
vate pensions were granted. . During the
forty-seventh congress, which wnsropubll- {
can in both branches, only 151 private pen
sion bills were paused; but during the leal
(the forty-eighth) congress, which contain
ed a majority of democrat* in this horapji,;
and when- the gentleman from Indians, 1
(Matson) wae chairman of the committed'
on invalid pensions, there were 552 of sue he
bills passed and became laws, an#
during this * congress, since Der i
cember last, congress had passed 66$'
private pension bills, of which 575 ha#
either been signed by President Cleveland
or had become laws without his action.
He had vetoed about nineiy private pen
sion bills, but thirty-three more had pass
ed Rnd become luws during his administra
tion up to this tjuic than were passed dur
ing the years' of Cfrant”s administration.
Gen. Black, commissioner of pen
sions, had granted over 110,000 . cer
tificates to pensioners since lie assumed
tile duties of his office, being ten per cent,
more than had ever before been issued by
any of his predecessors during the same
length of time. The treasury of the United
States attested the effect of Gen. Black’s
increased efficiency in the administration
of the pension office. Payments to pen
sioners .luring the fiscal year just ended
exceeded those of the previous fiscal year
by #3,600,000, but notwithstanding this in
crease in pension payments there had
been a net reduction of expenditures
during the past fiscal year of over *10,000.-
000 as compared with the fiscal year of
1865. Excluding pensions the reduction of
the ordinary expenditures for 1886 as com
pared with 1885 amounted to >24,500,000.
This statement was from the treasury de
partment. Springer asserted that the pen
sion office had been, previous to General
Black’s administration, run in the interest
of the republican party. During the
last presidential year the number
of claims of applicants for pensions
considered by the examining surgeons in
certain states was very significant. In
Maine, a contested state", there were 773
cases considered in each congressional dis
trict. In Massachusetts, reliably republi
can, where no special political efforts were
required, the number so considered was.
only 291 in each district. In Pennsylvania,
reliably republican, there were only 332
considered in each district, but in Ohio
where there was a great contest, the num
ber was six hundred and five in
each district. In Indiana the number
considered was 821 in each district, while
in Illinois, reliably republican, the num
ber so considered was only 460 in each hli
trict. Thus it would be seen that wifore
there were great political contests during
tho last presidential year the business of
the pension office was concentrated to
the neglect of worthy appli
cants who happened to reside
in a state reliably republican or hopelessly
democratic,
Matson, of Indiana, said that an attempt
at this tim* to pass the billl without refer
ring it to the committee on pensions would
result in a vote to sustain the veto, because
there were gentlemen on the democratic-
side who were not satisfied to vote for the
bill without the veto message
j having been considered by the
1 committee. He was in favor of the bill:
i he believed that it was right. He believed
• that this man ought to oe pensioned and
j he thought the president was wrong, and
: when he had made up his miud to that
I effect he was not afraid to sav so. He a.s-
' sured the gentleman from Maryland ' Mc
Comas) that the bill would receive early
consideration of the committee.
The bill was referred.
This cleared the. speaker's table of veto
messages.
The house then resumed consideration
of the general deficiency bill and by a vote
of 124 to 86 confirmed the action of the
committee of the whole in agreeing to the
amendment making an appropriation to
| meet t he Fox and Wisconsin river claims.
A stormy scene then ensued over an
amendment granting to the house and sen
ate employes one month’s extra pay. The
| house was in great confusion, which was
i increased when Reagan said that the
I amendment had been tampered with and
I made to include official reporters and the
i capitol police. He stated that the amend-
! nient as agreed to in the committee had
I not included those employes.
Hepburn, of Iowa, who had originally
i drafted the amendment, stated that no
i change had been made in it, and Reagan
admitted that he must have been mis-
I taken.
The opponents of the amendment failed
i to secure the yeas and nays on its passage,
; and the amendment was agreed to. They,
' however, secured a roll call on the motion
j to reconsider and lay on the table. The
j latter motion was agreed to—yeas 116, nays
191. So tlie amendment remains in tiie
j bill. ,
| Pending further action the house took a
j recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session
!|to be for the consideration of pension bills.
papers that citizens of the United States
aro confined in Mexican dungeons withaut
trial for alleged offense^against the laws
of Mexico, and that their final trial hns
been postponed without cause, and re
quiring the United States government (if
such statements are found to be true) to
demand a trial of such persons, nnd their
humane treatment during their confine
ment, and to make provision
for their defense and relief
from confinement when no sufficient
cause for detention is found ; also request
ing the president to institute negotiations
with the government of Mexico for a con
vention to secure fair trial without unnec
essary delay of citizens of the United States
who may he charged with violating the
laws of Mexico. As the basis for the reso
lution Call sent to the clerk’s desk and had
read adispatch from Chehuahua, published
in the New York Herald, stating the case
of Morkley, station agent of the Mexican
Central railroad company. The resolution
went over.
Edmunds’ resolution was agreed to, and
tlie senate at 12:45 went into executive ses
sion. Immediately after the doors were
closed an order was made, upon motson of
Senator Ingalls, that the public should be
excluded from the upper corridors, lobbies
and committee rooms, which order was
carried into effect at once. This resulted in
closing the offices of the associated press
and the. Western Union and Baltimore and
Ohio telegraph companies and tlie eject
ment of all reporters from their quarters
in the senate wing of the capitol.
The case of John Goode, nominated to
be soilicitor-genernl and adversely reported
from the judiciary committee, was taken
up and Riddleberger made a long speech
in favor of the confirmation. Hoar and
Mahone replied at considerable length,
and Riddleberger followed them
again. The burden of the debate was the
tissue ballot in politics. Edmunds said he
had letters which inculpated Goode in a
dicker for confirmation. These letters
stated that if he was confirmed certain of
his republican subordinates would be re
tained. • The letters were demanded
by Riddleberger, but Edmunds declined
to produce them. Riddleber asked that
t he final vote be postponed till to-morrow,
and assent being refused, he made two or
three dilatory motions. A vote was taken
at 6 o’clock, resulting in Goode’s rejection
by 25 to 28. Thereupon the senate ad
journed.
Another Pension Itill Vetoed,
Washington, July 9.—The president
to-day sent to the house of representatives
a message vetoing the bill granting a pen
sion to Daniel H. Ross. Ross had an ap
plication for a pension pending before the
pension bureau, but he died last February,
and this bill is vetoed on the ground that
if it became completed legislation it might
is- prejudice the claim of Ross’ widow.
cratie party of the house, the party which
was opposed to centralization, stood by
humbly and said to the president, “Not my
will, but thine be done.” He continued to
berate the democrats, which he did in , . . , , , , , • • ,
such an energetic manner as to call forth 11 Pension because he had been inspired
rounds of applause and laughter from both • u .. spirit ot the nunut'
sides of the house. He denounced
them as paltroons, who exonerated their '
president whenever lie chose to slap them
in the face and spit upon them. The action
of the house reminded him of the play of
Hamlet. [Laughter.] He would substi
tute for the young prince a young cour
ageous man of nerve, President Cleveland,
and for poor old Polonius, the poor misera
ble cowards of the democratic party.
[Laughter.] Cleveland—“Do you see yon
der cloud that is almost in the shape of a
men of Concord aud Lexington. There
were many precedents for tbe bill. The
very first congress had passed a bill pen
sioning the minute men of Concord and
Lexington, and George Washington, un
like President Cleveland, had approved it.
Thomas Jefferson, the father of the demo
cratic party, had signed a bill granting a
pension to men who had never been mus
tered into tlie army, and Andrew Jackson
had signed a similar bill. Abraham
Lincoln in a like ease had said
camel?” . Democratic congress-^- the | ‘bat he would .^inquire whtdher a man
mass! and it is like a camel indeed!” Cleve
land—“Methinks it is like a weasel.”
Democatic congress—“It is like a weasel.”
Cleveland—“Or like a whale.” Demo
cratic congress—“Very like a whale.
had been mustered in, but only whether
he had done his duty, rApplause.] If
members of congress could not rise above
party feeling and go with Jackson, Jeffer
son and Lincoln and Washington, let them
[Laughter.] “And so this executive of j go with Cleveland and send hack this poor
L J .. i ... in smniw wnn hnn nevftr reupivod a rinllnr
yours;” continued Brumm, “has only to
"point out the shape or form and the
democratic party is down on its marrow
bones, saying : ‘As thou wilt and not as I
wilt.’ ” [Laughter.]
Hill, of Ohio, made an argument to
show that' the democratic party had tlie
credit for much of the pension legislation
of the country.
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, bespake for the
president decent respect and decent speech
soldier who had never received a dollar
of pay, who had scars the bullet
left and who had twenty-five years of
neuralgia for serving his country. Every
man who thought that the fathers of ’he
democratic party were instinct with tlie
heroism of Concord nnd Lexington would
vote for the minute-man of 1861 who got a
bullet in his head when on his way to join
tlie boys in blue. [Applause.]
Burrows of Michigan also vigorously
He did not know wkdt tlie pending bill ' assaulted tlie ■ eto, and maintained that
was about. Its merits had not been pre
sented, but tlie iiouse had resolved itself
into a political meeting. Gentlemen must
understand that before the election came
the people would forgi t all these speeches,
so they might, r' serve their campaign elo
quence for awhile. He could speak be-
there was no reason why the bill should
be referred to the committee.
Springer said lie would not discuss the
pending bill and the veto message of the
president thereon, except to call attention
to tlie fact that it was vetoed in the pen
sion office ill 1832 bp Commissioner Dudley,
IN THE SENATE.
| UiihlU-lM-rurr's lteiiolutiou for ('onshlcrlmr Nomi
nations With J>|M*a [Inors Unit'd Out on n I'olnt
; of Order—(haute's Nomination Rejected.
Washington, July 9.—After the pre-
! sentation of the usual variety of petitions
the senate took up Riddleberger’s resolu-
' tion, ottered yesterday, to have the exeeu-
! tive session of to-day held with open doors.
Harris made the point of order that the
• resolution proposed a change of the rules
■ aud that proper notice of it had not been
give . ' ,
Rimbebcrger conceded that tue point of
order might ; .y, but lie had merely
wanted m call .. .eution to the mutter, ami
he was g ling to do so on every occasion
that presented itself.
The chair sustained the point of order
and the resolution was laid mi the table.
Sewell, from the committee on pensions,
presented a report in the case of the vetoed
bill granting a pension to Margaret D.
Marrliand, widow of Commodore Mer-
1 chmid. The committee repeats its
former report in tlie case ana recommends
the passage of the bill ovet the president's
objection. Referred.
I The time for considering the calendar
I having expired, Edmudds moved that tiie
, senate go into executive session.
I McMillan who has charge of the river
[ and harbor bill, reviewed the course of tlie
bill thus far, aud gave notice that he would
ask the senate to finish it to-morrow. He
: moved that a vote on the passage of the
bill be taken at 5 o’clock to-morrow.
Several objections were made, and then
McMillan announced liis intention <o ask
the senate to sit to-morrow tili the bill
; was disposed of.
Hoar offered a resolution calling on the
president for information ns to tiie seizure
or detention in any foreign ports of any
American vessels, and the prtWt or u.-
leged cause»therefor, and what < llhrt have
been made to provide redress Ibrsuoh
seizure, and to prevent their reuarcnco.
j The resolution went over.
Call offered a resolution calling on the
[ president, to direct the American r< pro-
:u:ti.ti\! i. Mi-ico ’iu. 7c
A BIG HAUL.
llurtrlar* Work n Post Hfllrc Tor Nearly Twenty
Thuioatiiil Hollars' Worth of Stamps.
Minneapolis, Minn., July 9.—Thepost-
oifice was broken open last night and
robbed of >20,000 in money aud stamps.
There is no clue to the thieves.
The lobby of the post office was open all
night and the safe blowers had no diffi
culty in opening the stamp window where
one man crawled through and opened the
door from the inside. The safe was near a
window, but as the glass was painted they
could not be seen from the street. The
work was that of professionals. They
drilled a hole four inches into the safe
between the hinge and combination
and then picked the lock. The postmas
ter estimates that there was about *23,000
in stamps in the safe, and of this amount
*18,000 were taken away, they having
left *'2300 in one cent stamps. All the cur
rency that was taken in after 5 o’clock,
amounting to #100, was taken. After the
I robbery they made their exit through tlie
office door and took the mail carrier’s
I horse and Rickey, Middleist & Taylor’s de-
; livery wagon and carried the boodle off.
i As near as can be ascertained the robbery
was committed between 1 aud 2 o’clock.
I The office does not employ a watchman.
I From the looks of the stamp department
• they left in great haste, having left several
; fine steel drills and a large sledge hammer
and pick axe ; also, a silk handkerchief
with a mark on it, which will be a clue for
the detectives. At the time of the robbery
a heavy rain was falling, and there was
not a policeman that could be found any
where in the neighborhood. The robbers
came to St. Paul and left the horse
and wagon which has been found by the
' police.
Un '(liainre.
New Yohk, July 9.—The stock market
opened moderately firm this morning, but
the day’s business was very dull. At the
i opening St. Paul was Uie most active.
Favorable crop news; I lie announcement
that the Chicago aud Atlantic had signed
the passenger pool, and the statement of
President Benedict, that his proposition to
the Central Traffic Association would lie
accepted; stories that the Pacific Mail has
accepted Huntington’s proposition
about the subsidy, and the chronic
report of earnings, gave the (mils
new hopes, and under the leadership of
the Pacific Mail prices advanced steadily
until after 1'2 o’clock, when buying ex
hausted itself and the market was extreme
ly dull and prices yielded slowly, but in
the last hour tiie market rallied and closed
steady. The filial prices generally show
declines, though none of the active list are
down more than fractional amounts.
Sales, 187.000 shares.
Serious TrouN.r Aufirl|iii(eil.
Danyii.: M., July 9.—The striking
miners ul Grape creek are still in a state of
intense excitement over the report that
negro miners arc to tie imported from Ken
tucky to take their places, and it is their
intention to keep the substitutes from go
ing to work. Persuasion w 11 be used first,
and if that fails, force will be re-sorted to.
Tlie negroes are already oil their wav nnd
will arrive this morning. Sheriff Tuttle
has thirty-five deputies at the creek who
are under orders to quell any disturbance.
The strikers are determined that no one
except theniseives shall work the mines,
and serious trouble is anticipated.
Tlie Last oft ho liana.
Shoals, Ind., July 9.—Sam Archer was
convicted of murder in the first degree last
January, being charged with complicity in
tlie brutal murder of Samuel A. Bunch on .
the Util of July, 1882. He was according
ly hanged to-day. He was the last of the
gang of the numerous and notorious
“Archer gang” of thieves and murderers.
Two brothers and their father were
lynched and the others met violent deaths
ill various ways.
A Murderer IIunsod.
New York, July 9. Miguel Chacon, a
young Cuban, who killed his paramour
while attempting lo :.hiot her husband, i
was hanged this morning in the yard of
the toombs prison at 7:10 o’clock.
The Hill Vetoed.
Washington, July 9. —Th : president has !
vetoed the hill providing It r.i public build- |
ing at Dayton, Ohio. The president docs
net mil k the public business of the city is
i-igc enough to '..uiiant die expenditure.
Hot and Parohing Blasts Play Havoc in
the Wheat Belt.
Wmen of Fiery Wind—Ilskots Dried l|i, Vegeta.
Hon Destroyed and People In a Panie—Looking
fiir the End of the World.
St. Paul. Minn., July 7.—People in Da
kota thought the world was coming to an
end yesterday. The Intensely hot weather
of the past week culminated in a regular
oid-fasnioned Indian summer. The air
was as hot as from a baker's oven. Birds
flew about wildly and beat their lives out
against the trees in their frantic efforts to
escape unseen danger. Horses and cattle
broke from their fastenings and plunged
into streams and would not be moved. At
many places in Dakota and Iowa the mer
cury lias been up to 100 degrees since the
4th. Tuesday was tho hottest day ever
known in Minnesota, the mercury ranging
from 84 to 96 degrees, with an average of
85 degrees during the day. At midnight
the thermometer stood at 83 degrees. The
simoon in Dakota was severest at Ashton.
A hot blast.
At four o’clock yesterday morning the
people were awakened by a roaring noise
and oppressive heat, which almost stifled
breathing. On going to the door your cor
respondent was driven back into the house
by hot air from without, which felt like
tfiat from a furnace or oven. There were
at the time heavy dark clouds in the south
west, from which direction the wind came.
STRICKEN WITH PANIC.
Fear seized upon the people that a bad
cyclone was forming, and they began to
congregate in the neighborhood of the cy
clone cellars. Many lathers and mothers
on awakening and feeling the heated air,
seized their children from their beds and
rushed in the street, believing that their
homes were on fire. One citizen describes
his fear that the earth was being precipi
tated into the sun. A farmer living eight
een miles northeast of here, who was on
his way to town, states that it was compar
atively cool when he started out, but was
soon struck by a hot wind which he could
not face. The prespiration oozed from
them in large drops. The hot wind lasted
about half an hour,and the temperature was
120°. Your correspondent has lived there
nearly five years, and has been out when
the mercury stood lOOdegreesin tlie shade,
but never before experienced such heated
atmosphere as that of this morning. Had
this wind continued for two or three
hours there would not have been left a
vestige of living vegetation, and it is doubt
ful whether animal life could have with
stood it. As a general rule the nights are
very cool, and this freak of nature is a
mystery to every one. The hot wind was
immediately followed by a cool breeze, but
now, at 9 p. m., the mercury stands at 100
degrees in the shade. Farmers and mer
chants generally are feeling very blue over
the gloomv prospects of crops, as this
makes tlie sixtli day of excessive heat.
LIKE A SOUTHERN SIMOON.
A special from Pierre says: “Pierre citi-
! zenB have just passed through one of the
I most remarkable and thrilling freaks of
! the elements ever experienced in this see-
j tion. For the last three days tlie mercury
| has averaged about 103 degrees, but last
| night capped the climax. About 9 o’clock
the western heavens were suddenly illumi-
I nated, aud in a few moments wind swept
down the streets, blowing down several
! houses and doing ot tier damage. The wind
! was red hot and people were compelled to
, seek shelter in cellars to avoid
I the intense and suffocating heat,
i The wind continued until four
j o’clock this morning, and at two o’clock
• the thermometer registered 105 degrees.
I Passengers who came in from Montana on
| the.Northern Pacific.say the air was almost
! unendurable. If a hail'd was thrust out of
i a car window the rushing air felt like
j blast from a furnace. The trainmen had
their faces blistered and swollen by the hot
I air.
[ THE FREAKS OF THE THERMOMETER.
I The letter from Ashton was referred to
j Observers Lyons and McGinnis, and for a
j moment both were amazed, and at first
; neither could believe it possible that the
i thermometer had reached any such
1 altitude as 120 at four a. m. With an
| eagerness of two scientists they be
gan to seek to account for it. Mr.
| McGinnis was inclined to believe that it
I was similar to tlie terrible Sahara Desert
[ simoon, which, like this hot air storm, is
; accompanied by a dark cloud, and seems
not only to be hot but deoxygenized so that
it acts on tho lungs almost like carbonic
acid or devitalized air. Sergeant Lyons as
sented to this partially, but suggested that
it might have been tlie heat from a huge
meteorite. Both agreed that it was one of
, the mysterious weather dispensations of
Divine Providence which could not be
predicted.
BAROMETRIC DISTURBANCES.
There were grant barometric dis
turbances in the region at the time, and all
Dakota was very much heated but this
blast, they thought, was like a tornado, in
asmuch as at the first signal station at
Huron, sixty miles away, the greatest heat
of the day was 101 degrees, up and down
■ tlie Missouri river in Dakota, as far north
as Bismarck, is noted for intense heat in
summer, but the highest thermometer ever
officially reported was at Fort Sully,
June 20th, 1876, when it rose to
111 degrees. But this was in the middle
of the day. Tlie hot Wave at four a. m. can
only be regarded as a phenomenon, almost
unprecedented in this latitude and cer
tainly unaccountable. The extreme heat
experienced in St. Paul extends through
out the northwest, i! being three degrees
warmer in Duluth on Monday than in New
Orleans. Along the Missouri Valley grass
is drying up and crops are withered and
dying. Farmers are alarmed lest prairie
fires should break out in tin-grass and de
stroy the remaining crops. Wheat in Min
nesota, Dakota and Wisconsin has already
been severely injured by the drought.
THE NEW SOUTH.
#10,000 furnaces at Sheffield, Ala., or.e at
South Pittsburg, Tenn., one at Calern,
Ala., aud two in Sequatchie Valley,
Tenn.; a Bessemer steel rail mill at
Chattanooga; cast iron pipe works, to cost
#300,000, at the same place; a |600,000 dry
dock and shipyard at Newport News, Va.,
and a #2,500,000 English company to min*
coal in Kentucky.
The amount of capital, includ
ing the capital stock of the incor
porated companies represented by the
new manufacturing and mining enter
prises organized or chartered at the south,
and in the enlargement of old plants and
the rebuilding of mills that were destroyed
by fire during the fi-stsix months of 1886
aggregated about #63,618,200.
ZJFACTS FROM FOREIGN SHORES.
The Klet'llun Returns In Orest Britain—The
Fannins Canal Loan—The Karaite* of Cholera,
Etc.
London, July 9.—At 4 o’clock this after
noon the lories had elected 263 candidates,
unionists 54, Gladstonians 133 and Parnell-
ites 70. The tories say they are confident
of electing 320 candidates.
The tories have won Chippenham, Wilt
shire, and Malden, Essex, from the liberals,
Lord Henry Bruce defeating Barrister
Fletcher (Giadstonian) in the former and
C. W. Gray heating E. B. Barnard (Giad
stonian) in the latter. These two acces
sions make the total union gains thirty-
three. The tories are to-day carrying every
thing by sweeping majorities. Tne
unionists to-day succeeded in retaining
Inverness borough, re-electing Robert
Bennatyne Finlay; Fairshire, where they
selected James William Barclay ; Falkirk
borough elected W. H. Sinclair, and Hart
ley Liverpool, where they re-elected
Thomas Richardson. M. Conway (Parnell-
itej has been re-elected for North Leitrim
and F. H. Gill (Parnellite) for South Louth.
France.
THE PANAMA CANAL SCHEME.
Paris, July 9.—De Lesseps hus request
ed Prime Minister DeFrycinet to withdraw
the Panama canal lottery loan bill, but he
reserves the right of appealing to the pub
lic to subscribe to a fresh issue of Panama
canal shares.
A SURE WAY OF ATTRACT NO ATTENTION.
In the chamber of deputies to-day a
man who is supposed to be insane fired a
shot from a revolver. The bullet passed
close to the head of the president of the
chamber. The man was arrested. When
questioned as to his motive he said he
wished to attract the attention of the
public to his misery.
Italy.
THE RAVAGES OF CHOLERA.
Rome, July 9.—Cholera returns for to
day are Brindisi, 127 new cases, 78 deaths;
Latino, 52 cases, 22 deaths: Fontano, 47
cases, 41 deaths. Minister Grimaldi is vis
iting and succoring the sufferers.
GEN. WEST.
Tlie Vice President nil Hie'84 Ben. Butler Ticket
Askeil lo Ban far Congress.
Memphis, July 7.—Gen. A. M. West,
vice president on the B. F. Butler green
back-labor ticket ill 1884, passed through
the city to-day. Gen. West is being im
portuned bv the d- mocrats and green-
backers. mostly tiie latter, in different
portions of the second Mississippi district
to run for congress against Hon. J. B. Mor
gan, the present incumbent and demo
cratic nominee, and Gen. J. It. Chalmers,
who will run on the independent ticket.
Gen. West lias a large following of demo-
era tic-green backers around Holly Springs,
his immediate home, but Mississippi in
the past lias suffered too much to divide
her democratic forces in the face of the
enemy. The regular nominee will bs
elected. Gen. West has not yet announced
whether he will accept the call to become
a candidate.
ATLANTA'S LATEST SENSATION,
It* Industrial Ornnth
t'ui't a rcr
Minna ID thi’ Mm
] Baltimore, July 9. — The Baltimore
Manufacturers’ Record of to-morrow in
its semi-annual review of the industrial
growth of the south shows that during the
first six months of 1886 there have been
added to the numher of manufacturing
and mining enterprises in the south, 30
ice factories, 40 foundries and machine
shops, 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 8 miscel
laneous iron works, 17 electric light cran-
j panics, 7 agricultural implement factories,
70 mining ami quarrying enterprises, 11
carriage and wagon factories, 8 cotton
■ mills, IS furniture factories, 15 water
works, 29 tobacco factories, IS flour mills,
! L’kX lumber mills, including planing
! mills, sash and door factories, etc.
I In addition to which there
j was a large number of miscellaneous
enterprises. Among the leading entor-
] prises established during the past six
months were the Alabama furnace coui-
I pany, with #1,000,000 capital, composed of
leading Pennsylvania iron men; (lie *2,-
; 00(1,000 DeBardalehen coal and iron com-
| puny, to build furnaces in Alabama J two
Two Bar* Thai Sell lij the quart Closed by tho
| Polire—The Olllrer* Knjuined and the Selling
| (hies On.
Atlanta, OA..July9.—When the retail
I liquor licenses expired in this county on.
i June 30th several wholesale licenses were
still in force, some to run three months,
! The Kimball Iiouse company secured an
interest in one and opened a loom for the
: sale of liquors and beer by the quart.
I One other firm did likewise,
j To-day the police closed these
places up and great excitement was
created. Thousands of men congregated
■ about the Kimball house to discuss the
'matter, Application was made for an in
junction restraining the police and a tem
porary order was granted for a hearing on
i the 17th. Meantime selling has been re
sumed.
THE DROUTH BROKEN.
It a i ii Falling In the Sun-Burnt Srrtlon of AA r is-
Cllllsill.
Chicago, Julv 9.—An Evening Journal
special from Milwaukee says: “A rain
storm set in early this morning, and there
| are promises of good showers. Rain is re-
| ported in many parts of tlie state, and
; there arc hopes that the great drouth is at
an end. in many parts of tile state there
has been no rain since May 15th, and the
1 crops have suffered terribly. So far as can
. be learned, all tlie forest fires that have
i raged in the northern part of the state for
i some days past have been extinguished.”
BROKE THE FAITH.
Tin 1 si. .1pit Satiimiiiiaii la tin- Guti'ltcs of tlie
Law Alia in.
St. Joseph, July 9.—The grand jury for
tlie June term of the Buchanan county
criminal court have returned 104 indict
ments, most of which arc against saloon-
men who are charged with selling liquor
without license and with violating the
Sunday law. About a year ago all the
saloonmen in St. Joseph were arrested on
the same charge and tlie court let them off'
with a fine of *10, under promise that they
would observe the law in future, but now
as they have broken the faith the court, it
is believed, will impose the heaviest fine
possible.
Protested Hi* Innocence.
Knoxville, Tenn., July 9.—Jack Lam
bert, a painter by trade, was executed at
Charleston, N. C’., to-day in the presenceof
several thousand people for the murder of
Dick Wilson twenty months ago in Jack-
son countv. Lambert had been drinking
heavily the day of the killing, and had a
1 grudge agaiuet Wilson. Lambert left a
statement protesting his innocence and
charging another party with the murder.
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i.li.luti'
Mobii e, July 9.—M. D. Wickersliam,
nominated for" state auditor, and G. M-
Duskin, nominated tor associate justice of
the supreme court by the republican state
executive committee at Birmingham yes
terday. state that they were not consulted
and are not candidates for these or any
other offices.