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VOL. XXVIII—NO. nil
COL l’MBI S, GKOKGIA : THURSDAY MORNING. JULY s, lssii.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Yesterday's • Proceedings of the House
and Senate.
A Spirited lIlHi'umlun of the I'rmlilonl Slid Norm*
of IIIn VptaOH—The Dcmoi'rat* Stanillnir I p to
Him—Senator Hrowu Prtnalu s Kiduitlon of
the Appropriation for tlic Chattahoochee Hirer,
Etc.
Washington, July 7.—The speaker laid
before the house 21 veto messages trans
mitted by the president yesterday. The
first message read was referred without
comment to the committee on invalid pen
sions, but the disposition of the next mes
sage vetoing the bill granting a pension to
Edwin M. Harrington consumed more
time. Matson, of Indiana, moved its refer
ence, pending which Holmes, of Iowa,
stating that reference of the bill would be
an end of it, moved that its consideration
bepostponed until Friday next.
Tlie motion being defeated—yeas 98, nays
121—Burrows, of Michigan, moved to
amend Matson’s motion, by adding in
structions requesting the committee on in
valid pensions to report the bill and mes
sage back on Friday.
Matson hoped that this would not e
done. He could see no good reason why
the bill should be singled out for a report
on Friday from among the number of
vetoed bills before the committee.
Jackson, of Pennsylvania, attacked the
veto policy of the president, who he de
clared was not actuated by any regard for
the worth and merit of private pension
bills. His reason for vetoing the bills was
not that they were unworthy, his reason
was apparent on the face of his message.
He was in sympathy with the party op
posed to the pensioning union soldiers, and
he did not propose that any union soldiers
should be pensioned if he could avoid it.
It was said that the president meant right.
He did mean right to please a certain ele-
m lit in the country, but not right to please
honest, loyal people.
McMillan, of Tennessee, said the present
president has signed more private pension
bills than any other president in the same
space of time.
Jackson—“And he has vetoed ten times
more good ones than all the othe presi
dents put together.”
Perkins, of Kansas, addressed himself to
the consideration of the pending message
and criticised the position taken by the
president that the government should not
assure its soldiers against quarrelsome pro
pensities or unprovoked assaults.
Matson thought that the messages
should be considered carefully. The gen
tlemen on the other side seemed anxious
to get at the president. The democrats
were determined that the president should
have fair play, and they would stand
by that position. [Applause.] it was no.
fair play to the president to undertake
upon hasty consideration to pass a bill over
his veto.
Bragg, of Wisconsin, said that there
seemed to be an idea in the house that it
was i he duty of the president to abdicate
his office in lavor of a majority of the com
mittee on invalid pensions. Whenever in
the exercise of the constitutional prerog
atives given him he examined legislation
to see whether or not it was provident and
wise, it was charged that be" had perpe
trated an outrage o i the America a pet pie.
He Braggi maintained that the presiucm
was honestly discharging his duty. When
in the exercise of his judgment lie sent leg
islation back to the uoase with his reason
for withholding his approval the house
snoL.ll act upon tile question, not with
demagogical speeches, but with judicial
and deliberate consideration, lie Braggi
was glad to find that at last there was u
man in the executive chamber who had
the nerve and the courage to place his
hand upon legislation when he thought it
improper, whether it were pension or rail
road legislation. [Applause on the demo
cratic side.] Congress had gone altogether
too fariu the way of pension legislation,but
there was a class of soldiers for whom
there never was a voice raised in the
house. They were the men who in April,
May, Jund and July, 1S61, filled the ranks
of the army, actuated only by patriotic
desires to sustain the national flag. Before
the house went further in pensioning the
dead wood of the army it should make
some provision for the men who went to
the front in 18lil. He sent to the clerk’s
desk and had read a letter from one of
these men who is at the Hampton soldiers’
home, commending his course in regard to
pensions, ridiculing t he policy of congress
and making use of such strong expressions
as to lead Browne, of Indiana, to inquire
sarcastically whether it was a veto message
l b .: was being read.
Burrows’ motion to instruct was lost-
yeas 109, nays 134—and the message was re
ferred to the committee on invalid pen
sions.
The next message was or.e vetoing the
bill granting a pension to Catherine Mc
Carthy.
Matson moved its reference to the com
mittee on invalid pensions and Browne
moved instructions requiring the commit
tee to report it, back on or before Monday
next.
Browne criticised the action of
the president and invoked God's
mercy on the man who had
the heart to veto a bill for the relief of the
widow of a man who died in the line of
duty to his country. He sarcastically re
flected upon the manner in which an ex
perienced soldier, a commander in chief
of the army, treated his comrades. His
excellency belonged to that class of men
w)io during the war were afraid of noth
ing but danger, but none stoood valorous-
ly armed, cap a pie, with vetoes in
his hand between the unfortunate soldier
and the treasury of the I'nited States, and
President Cleveland would go down to pos
terity as the great American obj ctor.
Conger, of Iowa, resented the language
used by the president as throwing slurs
upon the motives of congress and as in
sulting union soldiers.
Bayne, of Pennsylvania, took the same
view, and suggested that the democrats
who stood by the veto would have their
manhood severely taxed.
Cannon, of Illinois, read a statement that
while Cleveland was president there would
be no further pension legislation. There
were great questions in this country call
ing for the attention of the executive, yet
the president brushed them all aside and
appeared anxious to cater to nobody ex
cept that little solid knot that came from
the solid south. He wanted to get their
applause. They cast solid votes in the nom
inating conventions. There lie stood,looking
through a gimlet hole with a magnifying
glass, hunting for excuses, and heaping de
rision upon the heads of poor men who
lost their health in the service of the
country. That was statesmanship. Ap
plause on the republican side which was
received with answering applause and
laughter from democrats.;
“Oh! yes;” continued Cannon, "and still
you say that you will have to defend il be
fore November.” [Renewed applause on
tlie democratic side]. “The gentlemen
who are clapping their hands can't defend
it. they have the kind of constituents
who believe in it.” Applause and laugh
ter on the republican side], "\ou
will have to defend it be
fore November. These men. who are
entitled to their pensions, with their
friends and with public opinion and a
sense of justice, in this country, will send
a congress here which. ■* ,,, pass those
bills and other pension It union over the
president’s veto.” [Applause on the re
publican side.]
Matson drew a comparison between the
work of the republican and democratic
congresses for the purpose of pointing out
that nearly all the pension legislation of
importance had been enacted by demo
cratic congresses. Only a few days ago
the republicans had filibustered against
a proposition to raise money
for the payment of pensions.
The gentlemen in talking about
these vetoes forgot that nearly all of these
bills had been vetoed by a republican com
missioner of pensions years ago.
Weaver, of Iowa, thought that no dis
respect would be shown to the president
by immediate action on the veto, and he
therefore opposed its reference to the com
mittee.
The motion to instruct was lost; yeas
115, nays 128, and the message was referred
to the committee on invalid pensions.
The next message was referred without
objection, but a contest arose over the fol
lowing one, vetoing the bill granting a
pension to Sally Aim Bradley.
Matson moved its reference, and in or
der to shut oif debate, demanded the pre
vious question.
Gras ,'eaer of Ohio,who origin illy intro
duced the bill, desired some time to dis
cuss it, and upon Matson declining to yield
the republicans refrained from voting.
This broke the quorum.
A call of the house was ordered and the
doors closed. The house then industri
ously refrained from doing anything for a
quarter of an hour, w’hen further proceed
ings under the call were dispensed with,
and having shus completed the circle, the
house started out upon another one, the
republicans again refraining from voting,
when another call was ordered. The only
thing whicli prevented the completion of
a second circle was the hour of 5 o’clock,
when, under its previous order, the house
adjourned.
Senate.
Washington, July 7.—Berry, from the
committee on public lands, reported a bill
to donate to the town of Tampa, Fla., the
military reserve at that point for the bene
fit of the public schools. Calendar.
Plumb presented the petition of John A.
Kirkpatrick, a pension bill in whose favor
nad been vetoed. The petition was real
in full. He asks the senate to do him a
small act of justice and pass the bill over
the veto. It was evident, he sail, in ve
toing the bill the president had relin
quished his office ana made himself “mere
ly the mouthpiece of some quill-driving
slave of that circumlocution shop, the pen
sion office. If the president had read the
papers he never would have been so silly.”
He appeals to eongree against “the malig
nant injustice of the president.” Referred
10 the committee on pensions.
On motion of Edmunds it was ordered
that tlie senate meet at 11 a. ni., and for
the next six days, alter the call for and the
j disposition of resolutions, the time remain
ing until 12:30 shall be devoted to the cal
endar, beginning with the first case there
on. Every matter objected to shall be
I passed by, and debate shall be limited to
1 five minutes.
Tlie senate then resumed the cousidera-
! tion of the amendments to the river and
! harbor bill, the pending question being an
| amendment appropriating JISO.OOO for the
purchase of Sturgeon Bay, tlie Lake Miehi-
i gan ship canal and the Harbor of Refuge.
Spooner offered an amendment as a sub-
' stitute. It appropriated #15.090 for tlie
, purpose of making free of toll commerce
1 through the canal.. He explained that his
substitute did not recognize the canal
: company as owner of improvement. It
j simply contemplated what the original
act of congress contemplated making
I of this canal free to commerce, and
i it was to be done b.v reimbursing
to the senate, or what was the same
thing, the canal company, such sum of
J money as the secretary of state after care-
j till investigation should find to have been
I expended over and above the receipts from
[ lands and tolls.
After discussion the substitute was agreed
to and the amendment as thus amended
j was agreed to.
! The next amendment on which any
question was made was the one reducing
tue appropriation foi the I'hoetawbatehie
i river, Florida and Alabama, from #15,00(1
to #7500. Pugh argued against the amend-
j incut, and il was rejected, the item remain-
I ing at #15,000.
I Brown argued against the amendments
1 reducing the appropriations for tlie Chat
tahoochee river, in Georgia and Alabama,
from #20,000 to #10,000, and that for Flint
river, in Georgia, from #20,000 to #10,000.
Both amendments were rejected.
Pugh argued against the amendment re
ducing the appropriation for the Black
Warrior river, in Alabama, from *75.000 to
#50.000, and the amendment was rejected.
George argued against the amend
ment striking out the item of
#50,000 for l he Big Black river, in
Mississippi, and moved to add a proviso
that the state of Mississippi should first
cause the bridge over the Black river south
efthe Mississippi and Meridian railroad
to be so constructed as not to obstruct nav
igation. George’s proviso was agreed to
and the committee’s amendment was re
jected.
The river and harbor bill was temporari
ly laid aside.
The chair laid before the senate a mes
sage of the president vetoing the bill
authorizing the construction of railroads
through the Indian reeeri ation
in northern Montana. The mes
sage was • rend. It states
that several similar bills had been pre
sented to him during the present session
ant! had received his reluctant approval,
but he hud hoped that each of them would
he the last of the kind presented. This
bill invited a genera] invasion of the In
dian country. Il did not sufficiently guard
against an invasion of the rights of tile In
dians. nor was he satisfied that tlie legisla
tion proposed was demanded by any exi
gency ot the public welfare.
Daw is moved to refer the bill and the
message to tile committee on lndien af
fairs. and he desired to go with this re
markable message section of the
treaty which had affected the president so
sensibly. The committee which had re-
ported'the bill had, he said, thought that
It was regarding the rights of the Indians.
That article was in these words: "For
the purpose of establishing traveling
thorough fares through this country
and to better enable me
president to execute the provisions of this
treaty aforesaid, the nations and tribes do
hereby consent and agree that the l ulled
States' may in the countries respectively
occupied and claimed by them construct
roads of every description, establish a line
of telegraph and military posts, use mate
rials of every kind found in the country,
build houses' for agencies, missions, schools,
farms, shops, mills, stations, and for every
other purpose for which they may be requir
ed, and permanently occupy as much land
as may be necessary for the various pur
poses above enumerated, including tlie use
of wood for fuel and land for gr i dug, and
that the navigation of all lakes and streams
shall be forever free to citizens ot the
i’nited States.”
The motion was agreed to and the bill
and message were referred.
The senate resumed consideration ofthe
amendments to the river and harbor bills.
Harris mid Whitthorne argued against
tlie amendment reducing the aojrroprla-
tion for Cumberland river above Nashville
from #100,000 to #50,000.
McMillan defended and explained the
action of the committee.
The amendment was rejected.
Harris argued against the amendment I
striking the item off'2500 for Hiawassee i
river, Teun.
McMillan defended it, remarking that
the senate was taking on itself the respou- j
sibility for an appropriation not recom
mended by the committee on commerce, |
nor asked for by the board of engineers.
The amendment was agreed to.
Pugh argued against the amendment re- !
ducing the appropriation for the Tennes
see river nt Mussel Shoals from #350,000 to
#250,000.
McMillan defended the amendment. He
stated that the total amount already ex
pended on this work was #2,574,000. Tlie
amount necessary for its completion was '
#1,470,000, and the amount which could be
expended for the ir xt fiscal year was esti- j
mated at #5,500,000. The committee had
agreed to recommend 53 per cent, of that
amount. The amendment was agreed to.
I Pending the consideration of an amend-
j ment reducing the appropriation for the
| Kentucky river from #250,000 to #100,000,
: the senate adjourned till 11 o’clock to-
| morrow.
Tlie Ailjoiiniilirllt iil't'rinifross.
Washington, July 7.—Morrison to-dav
| said that the Bate of adjournment of con-
I gress depended upon Randall, that if he
cared to cal! up his tariff bill lie could do
it and thus prolong the session. Randall
said that he was not responsible for his
tariff bill, he had performed his duty when
he introduced it, and it remained for tlie
war’s and means committee to take such
action as it saw fit in the matter. Edmudds
said to-day that he feared the day of ad
journment would be nearer t lie first of
August than the 20th of July.
Presidential Nominations.
j Washington, July 7.—The president
j to-day nominated to be postmasters, John
I T. Erwin, Washington, Ga.; F. M. Sexton,
| Hazelhurst. Miss.
IN A BOX.
llow So mo Public-Spirited Citizens of Maysrllle
Beeami’ Involved for SRLuiul.
Maysville. July 7.—Iu April last a
“citizens’ committee,” representing
some twenty-eight solid, enterprising
Maysville gentlemen, ent-red into a writ-
1 ten contract with C. P. Huntington guar
anteeing to furnisn and vo ure foi him
the remainder of the right of way lor the
Maysville and Big Sandy railroad lrom
Ashland to the Campbell county line,
provided he would build said road within
two years. The several counties along the
i proposed route have indorsed the action
of these public-spirited men by voting a
' subscription of #79.000 to the capital stock
; of the said railroad, which sum, by the
terms of the contract, is to be used by the
i “citizens’ committee’’ in purchasing the
right of way.
Mason county, on the 12th of June,
voted n subscription of #50.000. So far, so
good: but these gentlemen now find them-
1 selves in an embarrassing situation. Most
I of the said subscriptions are not available
until after the road is completed, and the
j estimated cost of the right of way is
#92,000, which will leave a deficit in the
subscriptions of #13,000. Of course this
public-spirited “citizens’ committee” at
the start did not expect to be called upon
to advance a single doilar, much less 1 e
| out of pocket several thousand, pro bone
, publico. They have found out that it
takes cash to secure the right of way, and
j just how to obtain the requisite money
without great trouble and ineouvenince to
' themselves is puzzling them. As one way to
t relieve them of this embarrassment, they
have asked the city of Maysville to sub
scribe #60,000 to the road, upon the express
I condition that all of it shall be redeemed
and canceled except so much of it as equals
i;i amount the deficiency remaining after
the subscriptions from all other sources are
exhausted, and such deficiency if ai.y.
shall he the actual amount of the city’s
subscription. The guarantors claim that
in this the city would be merely lending
them her credit to enable them to raise
sufficient ready money, and that as a mat
ter of fact the citv's subscription would not
in the end exceed the deficit of #13.MX).
The proposition was only made known to
the people on Friday, and is even now the
subject of hot discussion on every hand.
The election will he held next .Saturday,
but enough is now known to predict tlie
defeat ol' the proposition in its present
shape.
THE LAKE SHORE STRIKE.
Tie 1 Ilcjtririm, l'i
ill fur a share
Itmrnl:. •
Chicago. July 7.- -The Lake Shore com
pany continues to move freight without
opposition from the strikers, although
every train so moved lias a guard of armed
detectives. Almost every one in the town
of Lake sympathize with" the strikers, and
the new men, detectives and reporters,
come in fora full snare of abuse. An ex
tensive boycott has been inaugurated
against all of the men who go with the
trains, and ot a tradesman in tin vicinity
of the stock yard will accept pat ronnge from
them. Haifa dozen rej oners w In, w. nt to
the groceries, saloons and restaurants mi
I2<1 strict, were informed that they coaid
buy nothing, as a boycott hail been made
in the vicinity. Some excitement was
caused at the'yards, shortly after noon,
by th" moving of Lake Shore trains by tlie
packing nmisc employees. Sticks and
rocks w ’c t •’! ow ii. but i.o one was struck.
Til.. - . ::.e : ... win chased In the
pohec. -in no arrests will iiuale.
Joseph s;u."P'. Srin.a. k and I'li.r
Sevcski. tnip.m.sS of I lie McCormick
Reaper works, who engaged in the riot
May !, in w.V h four men were killed and
from which l)u mnre serious events of the
dav following obtained impetus. w< re ar
raigned for trial la fore Judge Garnett this
morning. Each is specially indictid for
assault with intent to kill and some (let ply
interesting narratives w ill come out hi the
evident 1 e. The trial was begun at 2 o’clock, 1
some slight trouble being encountered iu
securing a jury.
tirii/iiiir I.mills.
Little Rock, Ark.. July 7. Ail Indian
territory special says: "Negotiations are
in progress for the leasing of nearly all tin-
available grazing land belonging to the
Osage, i’oncn. Pawnee and liter Indians In
this territory.” The parties who desire
the lease are cattlemen from Kansas,
Texas, and elsewhere. The land in ques
tion embraces several million acres. The
recent rulings of the courts olthe District
of Columbia In relation to the inuepeiident
position occupied hv the t’herokees, is
held to apply to all the tribes named, they
having obtained their lands from tlit*
Cherokees, ami iu nee their right t" le isc
lands can not be questioned. The price
will be only a lew cents per acre.
A tdttnil Itrnkcr Fail**.
New Yoke. July 7.—The failure of W.
IL Bead, cotton broker, is announced 'his
morrdnir on the cotton ( >' 1 ok • 1
h! 1 t > h • -h * .
Review of the Field of National Legisla
tion.
A liood Pros blent ini Urcurd —Wind Congress Has i
l(ono anil H«ii* Owiitteil In lln — fHistrartinn KrnM
the Republicans— I’hfJ- Have mil liens ’ I,nan i
Enough la tlie (‘old,
Washington, July 5.—The present ses-|
sion of congress is so near its end that no :
more general business will be done. The
fiscal year of the government closed with
the last day of June. The democratic ad- i
ministration has been in power sixteen ]
months. The two houses of congress be
ing of opposite politics, tlie tendencies of j
both parties have had opportunity to show I
themselves. It is a convenient time to ,
take stock of the political situation.
administrative reforms.
Concerning tlie work of the administra
tion, it can be said that it has instituted
without making a fuss about it, a great
number of needed reforms and economies,
and that it has carried on the business of
tin country honestly and efficiently and in \
a very conservative spirit. The prophe
cies of republican lenders and the fears of |
republican voters that a democratic ad-
muiistrutiou would make wild work with
the financial and other in;.rests of the
country have been ludicrously disappoint
ed, The management of the treasury has
been in every respect admirable; its finan
cial situation is very much stronger than
when Mr. Cleveland came into power, and
l he revenues have been more thoroughly
and honestly collected auh the general |
work of the treasury carried on with bet- j
ter system and greater accuracy than for 1
some years past.
REFORMS IN THE DEPARTMENTS. I
The state department has looked vigi
lantly after the rights of American citizens
abroad, and as recent developments show
has successfully endeavored to secure the I
removal of commercial restrictions on |
some parts of our commerce. In the inte
rior. Indian aiul pension departments
abuses have been checked and stopped, and
so far as bad laws permitted, the mon
strous maladministration which had ex
isted in the land office for many years and
which made that place the stronghold of
greedy corporations, has been remedied.
No one can pretend that tlie whole work of
necessary administration reform has been
completed. This is not possible with
out the co-operation of congress, and the
republicans controlling the senate have
played the game of obstruction very skill
fully and unscrupulously. But enough has
been accomplished by the administration
to prove both its will and capacity and to
show that if both houses of congress were
democratic the country would be greatly
benefited by more effective reforms.
THE PENSIONS.
The honest and courageous attempt of
t he commissioner of pensions to adminis
ter the pension Jaws brought upon him
a prolonged and vexatious investigation
by republican senators, who at the
same time, with curious disregard of a law
in a law-making body, passed hundreds of
special pension bills which have no war
rant in the general laws. Those are the
bills of which the president vetoed so
many. The senate had the indecency even
lo send nearly a hundred such bills to the
president at one time, putting upon him
an impossible labor in the time—ten days
-in which, under the constitution, he can
retain bills for examination.
REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTION.
The cry of the republicans in the can
vass of 1884 was that if the democrats were
allowed to eo ne in they would do too
much—they would carry the country to
the dogs. The complaint now is that they
have not done enough. They have cer
tainly omitted to do some things which
needed doing, and which, no doubt, they
would have done had they controlled both
houses. But the skillful and unscrupulous
obstruction of important measures by the
republicans in the senate shows that, no
matter how active, determined and united
the democrats might have been in the
house, their measures would have been
defeated in the senate. They have cer
tainly not been a harmonious party in the
house, but if they had been that would not
have helped them, as many instances,
some related above, prove.
THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS.
What is to the credit of tlie democrats is
lhat they have done no harm and have al
lowed the republicans to no no harm, and
they have shown in the administration and
in congress the disposition to deal honest
ly with tiie people’s affairs. That they have
shown a cert am lameness or unskillfulness
in administration is undoubtedly true, but
that is because they had been out of power
for nearly a quarter of a century. The
habits of a minority, of an opposition
party, had grown upon them. But, after
all, no one who remembers the coming
into power ofthe republicans in 1 sill can
say that tlie democrats in 1885-11 have
show n themselves less capable or less skill
ful than the republicans 'when they first
took power.
LESSON’S OF HISTORY.
It Delirious to recall that in 18iil-i>2 it
was tie- democrats, long in power and cor
rupted and made insolent by their long
reign, who haughtily sneered at the repub
licans as imbeejics, ridiculed their mis
takes. inisri presented their purposes and
obstructed, so far as they wro able, their
work. Precisely the slum insolent and un
scrupulous spirit now distinguishes the re-
" I'liev si eik of Air. Cleveland
re" me same tone and in
,.ids which tlie democrats a
’ ' ago used toward Mr.
i ’.Lillet. In 186! tile dem-
aVed hemselves before the
• i ristiicnitic, the wealthy, the
refined, tin educated people, and the
"black republicans" wen mere scum.
.Just so. now the republicans assume airs id’
superior intelligence, greati r n tint-incut,
Wealth and cull lire, and sneer at the demo
crats a- mere ru!!’scroll'.
NOT Mil: run I'KOI'I.K's INTERESTS.
I m the whole, it must he said these re
publicans have not yet been long enough
“out in the cold." They have not repented
of their party sills. They need, for their
own saki'. and still more fur the country's
sake, to lice ;n tile desert some years long
er. They are a skillful, unscrupulous,
eager minority, and may by and by play a
useful part us an opposition. But tlie spirit
they* have shown during the long session of
emigre sought to lead tlie American voters
to the determination to keep them in the
minority for at least four or six years more.
They are so far, thinking not ol the coun
try, hut of themselves.
tlie part ot the room traders and some
Chicago representatives to depress prices
of grangers on unfavorable reports, but
after a slight decline the market became
strong and was well sustained all day. The
prevailing opinion was that the unfavora
ble reports had been exaggerated. London
helped to hold the market up and gave
considerable character by buying
freely of the leading stocks. Well
known brokers claim that the reduction
of the sterling rate will cause an outflow of
stocks and bonds instend of gold. There
was some sales of large blocks of stocks,
but they were readily absorbed, but they
did not check the rise. During the after
noon there was a general upward move
ment, the room traders changing over to
the bull side of the market ana the closing
prices were near the best of tlie day and
generally higher than last night's closing
prices. Sales 232,000 shares.
FROM FOREIGN SHORES.
Severe Shod, iifKiirtluiuake In S|mln—The Purlin-
meiitur) Elections, file.
London, July 7.—The latest totals of
members elected are : Conservatives 231,
unionists 47, Gladstonians 115, Parnellites
55. The Full Mall Gazette, commenting
in an early afternoon edition on the re
turns, says the liberal defeat is now de
generating to a route. Yesterday's defeats
assumed tlie proportion of a catastrophe.
The last hope ofthe Gladstonian vote in
the counties has failed. English counties
are going unionist. The counties of Som
erset. Warwick, Hereford, Derby, Denbigh
and Shropshire, in which centres the ag
ricultural vote, have returned conserva
tives.
Scotland continues Gladstoniun. Numer
ous county polls have not yet been taken,
but it is impossible to reverse the defeat of
the government. The unionists are confi
dent of an ultimate strength of 370 against
300. The conservatives arc certain that
with a compact phalanx of 300 members
Lord Salisbury will forma purely conserva
tive ministry.
S|itiin.
A SEVERE SHOCK OF EARTHQUAKE.
Madrid, July 7.—A severe shock of
earthquake was felt at Malaga to-day. The
heat in this city was so overpowering to
day that the cortes was compelled to ad
journ before reaching a vote on the budget
estimates.
Italy.
DEATHS FROM CHOLERA.
Rome, July 7.—The cholera returns to
day are as follows : Venice, 2 new cases, 1
death ; Brindisi, 189 new cases, 71 deaths ;
Lateno, 70 new cases, 20 deaths; Sanvito,
32 new cases, 4 deaths; Fontana, 70 new
cases, 34 deaths.
THE LAKE SHORE STRIKERS.
Tine Curse the Head 1 ini!y <,f an t'nfnrtunute
suitehuian.
sailors, who climbed upon the steamer, de
serting their boat at the first shock. The
Gazelle went ahead a short distance and
the captain then sent a boat to the rescue
of the party struggling in tho
water. Mr. Wilson and Mrs.
Lord were picked up unconscious.hut Mrs.
Wilson was drowned. Mr. Wilson was
taken from tho water unconscious, and for
a short time it was feared that he would
not recover, which he finally did, only to
become distracted over the tragic fate of
the young wife he wedded only a few
months ago. Mr. Wilson is confidential
man to P. I). Armour, and is one of the
chief men in Mr. Armour’s office on La
Salle street.
The Amount Iteturneil.
Philadelphia, Pa., July 7.—The total
amount of loan certificates returned to the
office of the Chesapeake and Delaware Ca
nal company, up to this afternoon, is
#1,97(1,648. (if legitimate outstanding loans
there are #1,993,750, so that this leaves only
#17,102 to lie accounted for, or about #625,-
000, including the fraudulent issue, accord
ing to the fugitive treasurer’s figures. The
directors are very anxious that the
holders of this surplus will make a return
of their certificates without further delay,
thereby facilitating the work of the ac
countants in clearing up the intricate af-
fairs ofthe company. From allthebonds
that have been turned in the directors have
not been able to detect a single fraudu
lent one. This gives some plausi
bility to tlie theory that they are held
by people who are unwilling for some
reason to return them. If this is the case
interesting developments may follow after
the amount of the legitimate outstanding
loan is balanced.
TRIAL OF THE BOYCOTTERS.
The Jury Finally ('iinqileleil ami I he Cu
fur the People.
Opened
publicans,
and his cab'
tiie snv"
quarter of a
Lincoi.. a. .
oerats uisp
public as tii
( Strainer Si 11 hi.
Watertown, N. Y., July 7.- The steam
er Oconto, of tiie Northern Transportation
line, struck a lock at Fisher's landing on
the St. Lawrence river, about 7 p. m. yes
terday and sunk et I o'clock : iiis morning.
She wns loaded wi'ii hall'a million feel of
lumber. Passengers numbering fifteen
and her < rew of twenty-eight persons were
taken ofi'm life boats and will lie eared for
at i’i dier's binding.
I Inn
Chicago, July 7.—Among those over
come by the intense he.it of yesterday was
Lemuel Close, one of the imported Lake
Shore switchmen. While riding beside a
top break he fell between the oars and
was: ground to a shapeless mass. The body
was allowed to lie as it fell until an ambn-
innee came for it. In the vacant lot ad
joining the tracks where the
body lay a large number of the
wives and daughters of the striking
switchmen or their sympathizers collected
and cursed the remains. The deceased
hud only been here a few days. His home
is at Delta, Ohio, where he leaves a wife
and three small children. He had been in
the employ of the company for thirteen
years as a freight brakeman. The weather
to-day is greatly improved and at. last there
has been a let-up on the almost intolerable
heat of the last few days, which reached
the maximum yesterday of 9|-
in cool shade. At the signal office, at six
o’clock this morning, the mercury stood
78 degrees, it continued to fall rapidly all
the morning, being only 71 degrees at nine
o'clock. The sudden fall is attributed to
the fact that at 5:30 o’clock the wind,
which had been blowing steadily from tlie
south, vered around suddenly to the north
west.
A SAVANNAH SENSATION.
A l’rum!iH>nt Klee Healer Ni’gotiutus I,nuns un
Heine. (leceipls .mil SuddenI) skips till’ ( It).
Special to Enquirer-Sun.
Savannah, Ga.. July 7. A considerable
sensation was produced here to-day by tlie
announcement that W. T. Owen, superin
tendent of tin Planters’ Rice mills, had
left the city under suspicious circum
stances. An investigation shows that
Owen had been obtaining money from the
hanks on bogus rice receipts since last Jan-
uurv. The loans negotiated by the broker
with whom lie entrusted tlie business and
who considered the receipts genuine and
the rice on hand, amount to #21,00ft ob
tained from the difi't rent hanks here. The
National Bank of Savannah made a loan
oil some of these receipts, but after a short
time culled it in. The money was paid by a
loan oil the receipts being negotiated by
another bank. They were all call loans.
This was frequently done, Owen always
putting up an additional margin and meet
ing t he interesl. Owen left the city June
28. Not returning in several days and
hearing nothing from him. an investiga
tion was made by the directors, resulting
in tlie above discovery. Ilis whereabouts
are unknown. Hi* was popular, well con
nected and bore an excellent reputation.
THREATENED BY A MOB.
Ih, UiP .11 iirili’rcr \Ulilmun liiinu Ir Ilis
self Inllii'li’d m.iincl.
Atwihii), III.. July 7. Twenty-five men
under the lead of * he sheriff stood guard
around tilt home of Henry Wildinaii last
night. There had been so much talk dur
ing l In- day of lynching, that a strong guard
was dt emed a wise move in the interest of
law and order. Last evening the news was
given out that Wildinaii was sinking fast,
anyhow, and the mob would be only cut
ting death out of a job, as Wildmun him
self would welcome death in almost any
form. This morning he was refreshed af
ter a fair night's rest and asked for
a slate and pencil, "sorry, very
sorry." were the first words lie w rote, re
ferring to the murder of his wife. He is
willing and anxious to die, and begged his
nurse to give him a pistol in a stand drawer
and let him finish the job. The wounded
mail has been unable to take nourishment
since he cut his throat. The water given
him to drink runs out at the wound.
I'll less matters mend he will litterally
starve to death for but little stimulation
can b" given to him by injection.
1 Sit,I ,111,1 I it;,! Il lit.
Clin ago. July 7. Mr. and Mrs. Kverett
Wilson and Mrs. Dr. s. Lord went riding
inn boat in charge of two sailors last eve
ning. At 9:20 o'clock the\ were off Taylor
strd 1 will’ll their craft was rmi into by I he
excursion steamer Gazelle. The party was
thrown into the water, e.Mi I ting t ,ie
New York, July 7.—At the boycotters’
trial to-day, during the progress of the ex
amination of candidates for jurors, Thus.
Edwards stated that he was prejudiced
against the boycotters because of
articles in a socialist German
paper which so threatened tiie jurors
who convicted the accused in the Theiss
boycott trials. Judge Barrett caught the
answer and he said sharply: “It is clear to
me that the article in question has had the
effect to intimidate jurors, thereby inter
fering with the administration of justice.
I shall direct the district attorney to pro
ceed at once against the paper in ques
tion.” it £ii
“We have already done so,” replied As
sistant District Attorney Colfellows.
Editor Schewitch, of tlie Volkes Zeitung,
is the writer referred to and is to he prose
cuted for criminal libel. The jury box
having been filled, the district attorney
opened the case for the people.
Airs. Landgraf, a widow, had been
persecuted by the Bakers’ union. Before
the strike she had a good business. The
profits of her business were.#1500 annually.
The Bakers’ union destroyed all this. Her
wnskmen were satisfied with their wages,
but went out upon the fiat of the union. The
widow now had not one stove to serve
with bread, and she had been forced to
sell her horse and w agon to pa her rent
and to furnish herself with bread. In the
name of labor the. widow had been con
signed to helpless poverty. The union, the
speaker said. Imd won tlie noble knights
to reduce the family to beggary. Now the.
laws’ turn had come ami tlie intn who had
molested the law should suffer the penalty.
Widow Landgraf was t iien placed as the
first witness, and her testimony up to tlie
time of adjournment was on the line of
the facts indicated in the opening for the
people.
A Fire In h.illii'.
Galveston, July 7.--A special to tlm
News from Dallas Shys: Yesterday morn
ing a fire, supposed to have been caused by
a piece of burning paper thrown through
a window, broke out in the upper story of
the Jones building, on Main street. In a
few moments the upper floor, occupied by
Meyer & Hew itt, dealers in religious hooks
and tiie printing of the “Labor Bun,”
“Evening Herald” and “Yolkisblatt,”
was in flames. Tiie firemen succeeded
in confining it to this floor,
but a large stock of the Western
Ncwspupsr union on the ground floor was
badly damaged by water. The loss to the
Western Newspaper union is estimated at
#ti(KX), insiiiani’-.’ on stock #5000. The loss
to the Volkeshlatt is #200. while the Even
ing Hi raid's loss in nominal. The Labor
Sun loses #2000. The imilding was dam
aged to the exti nt of #VH0. The total loss
i-#23,000; total insurai..’ *13,000.
A Vrr) Im|ioi'liiiit lii’iii.
New York, July 7. Frederick Louis
Thompson, aged 15. son of Rev. Howland
Thompson, a colored minister mid mem
ber ofthe legislature at Montgomery. Ala.,
was held in #1000 hail in Yorkville police
court to-day to answer tile charge of burg
lary, having broken into a restaurant in
east Seventeenth street and stolen about
#30 worth of old coins ami which were
found in his possession. The boy ran away
from home and wns arrested for petty lar
ceny in ^Brooklyn hist month. Hi was
begged on'and given in charge of Rev. It.
L. Parry, a friend of Ii is father's w’lio in
tended sending him home, but tile boy rail
away again.
Mitxni'll ItcTiivil II Neil Trial.
S-r. Lons, July 7. Judge VanWagniier,
of the criminal court, to-day over-ruled
the motion made recently fry Maxwell's
attorneys for a new trial. As soon as tlie
prisoner shall have been sentenced, an ap
peal will be taken to the supreme court.
If this shall prove unsuccessful the case
will be taken to the I'nited States supreme
court on the ground that the state law
which allows the prosecution more chal
lenges of jurors than the iMcnse is uncon
stitutional.
To He GmiiIpiI Full Aiiini'slj.
Ottawa, Out.. July 7. All tlu* half-
breeds now in tlu- Stony Mountain peni
tentiary lor participating in the recent re
bellion, are to be granted full amnesty bv
the government, and are likely to be re
leased before the end of the month. Of
the Indians it is said it is hardly likeh that
Big Bear will be allowed to have his lib
erty.
A Hamlet Htirneil.
Milwaukee, Wis., July 7.—The entire
hamlet of Home was burned at 1 o’clock
this afternoon, including a saw mill, a
planing mill, live million feet of lumber, a
store, boarding house and the dwelling of
Win. Vanhoeser. The loss is £ 150,000, in
surance *50,000. The woods are on tire and
further particulars cannot Ih- obtained
I lie ( lu'Mi|n'iiki' ami Ohio.
Xkw York, July 7.—The comparative
statement of the Chesapeake and »>hio
railway for the month of May show* gross
earnings for ISSii, 1885, vJ 17.11 J -
an increase of .*00,180. Tlie operating t x-
penses for lsSd were .*210,051; 1885.
an iner« ase of *40.050. Surplus to. WSe,
*(i7,'2.T>; 1.\S5, * 17.100 an increase of •2l>.l , Jl.
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