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IMMENSE SHEET IRON TUBS CRASH
THROUGH FIVE STORIES.
TWO MEN BURIED IN THE RUINS.
The Building, Which Was a New One,
Was Almost Keady For Occupancy.
Thirteen Workmen Kgcape.
Five enormous tanks, each contain¬
ing 13,000 gallons of water, fell five
'Stories through the new building of
David S. Brown & Co., soap manufac¬
turers, at Twelfth avenue, Fifty-first
and Ffty-second streets, New York,
Thursday morning, burying two men
under thousands of tons of debris.
The body of William Frazer, forty
years old, a surveyor in the employ of
the Otis Elevator Company, was taken
from tl e ruins sometime afterwards.
Jacob Jacobson, a carpenter is mis¬
sing.
The place was nearly ready for occu¬
pancy. The tanks were to have con¬
tained soap fat. They were put in by
the Cotes Iron Works, of Cotesville,
Penn.
Alexander Brown, the brick con¬
tractor; Henry F. Kilburn, the archi¬
tect, and Hamilton, inspector for the
iron works contractors, were arrested
charged with homicide.
The five tanks shot through the five
floors like a stone dropping through
so much space. There were fifteen
men in the building at the time of the
accident. They were scattered around
the factory. There was not a- second’s
warning of the fall of the tanks. They
had been filling with water for testing
and were nearly full.
The tanks were eaeh 13x13 feet
square by 20 feet in height. They
were made of sheet iron and were a
quarter of an inch thick. To prevent
the water from bulging their sides,
stout iron bands had been placed in¬
side of each tank.
The fall of the tanks carrying with
them five floors of iron and woodwork
was heard for several blocks around.
At the fall of the tanks they carried
down iron girders and beams a foot in
width and four inches in thickness,
snapping them as if they were pipe
stems. There was no stopping, as
they struck the floors in succession, so
enormous was the weight of the tanks.
All the men who had been inside the
building were got together and count¬
ed. It was found that two were miss¬
ing. They were Jacobson and Frazer.
A wrecking firm undertook the re¬
moval of the debris. At 4 o’clock Fra¬
zer’s body was partially uncovered and
three hours later it was taken out.
Coroner Fitzpatrick said that it was
probably the bulging of the tanks
which had caused the dislodgement of
the walls and caused the fall of the
tanks and floors.
A SENSATIONAL PRAYER
Offered Up By Chaplain in the Illinois
iitate legislature.
The chaplain of the Illinois house of
representatives, Rev. David G. Brad¬
ley, opened the session of the state
legislature Thursday with the follow¬
ing prayer: Thy
“Almighty God, we seek pres-
ence an d blessing at the beginning of
another day’s diligent labor. Help
us, pray Thee, in the discharge of this
day’s duties. Help these men to re¬
member the poor, tax-burdened people
of this great state.
Contract, we pray Thee, the capa¬
cious maw of penal reformatory, char¬
itable and educational institutions of
Illinois. May they learn to be con¬
tent with less money and may we re¬
fuse to worship a golden calf, refuse
also to worshfr) gold in any other form.
Forbid that jmy foreigner visiting our
shores shall ever again have occasion
to write:
“Money, money, is all their cry;
Money’s the total sum.
Give us money or else we die;
Oh, let the money come.”
“And we will give Thee praise.” and
The prayer created a sensation
was greeted with enthusiastic applause.
Missouri Congressional Election.
The election in the first Missouri
district for a sudeessor to Congress-
mail Giles, deceased, resulted in fayor
of J. T. Lloyd, demoerrt, by a plural¬
ity of 5,516 over Clark, republican.
COLLINS SENDS IN RESIGNATION
And Governor Bloxliam Recommends Its
Acceptance.
A Tallahassee, Fla., dispatch says:
State Treasurer Collins has resigned
and J. B. Whitfield, ex-clerk of the
supreme court, has been appointed.
Collins has for some time contem¬
plated resigning, but was talked out of
it. His resignation, if accepted, saves
the state $20,000 expenses of trial.
When Governor Bloxham notifiod
the house of Collins’ resignation, it
was with a recommendation that it be
accepted, and the house impeachment
•committee was ordered to go before
the senate and withdraw the articles
of impeachment.
IRISH HORSE MON DERBY.
•Galtee More Secures For His Owner tlio
Sum of $30,000.
The derby of 1897, derby stakes of
i < 5,000 sovereigns, ($30,000) Mr. J.Gubbins’ was won
at Epsom, England, by
brown colt, Maltee More.
Thousands of people watched the
race and interest was more intense,
perhaps, than on former occasions.
This time the favorite won. Betting
on the Irish-owned horse, Galtee More,
was at odds three to one.
FAURE IS RESERVED.
French President Withhold* HI* View*
On Monetary Question.
A Paris special says: It is learned
from an authorized source that the let¬
ters of credence presented to Presi¬
dent Faure by Senator Edward O.
Wolcott, of Colorado, and his col¬
leagues of the United States monetary
commission, designate them as minis¬
ters plenipotentiary to France, Great
Britain and Germany, with the mis¬ I
sion in concert with the United States
ambassadors to those countries to dis¬
cuss monetary questions and come to
some agreement on bimetallism.
President Faure carefully avoided
making a statement to them at the
audience which he accorded to the
commissioners at the Elysee palace
on Wednesday last, which might be
interpreted as a promise to take any
steps in the matter. Before the com¬
missioners left the palace he invited
them to share his box at the raee for
the grand prix de Paris.
No doubt the government of France
is friendly to the American nation,but
nothing tangible will be done beyond
the expressions of sympathy and the
assurance that the matter will be se¬
riously studied.
IN MEMORY OF AMERICANS.
Cuban Sympathizers Hold a Bousing;
Meeting In Washington.
A large crowd gathered at the Na¬
tional theater at Washington, D. C.,
Friday night to attend the Cuban
meeting in memory of Americans who
have sacrificed their lives for Cuba.
Speeches were made by representa¬
tives Swanson, of Virginia, and Green,
of Nebraska, and others.
Mr. Green declared that not only
should the belligerency resolution be I
passed by congress, but Spain should
be given so many days to take her sol-
diers from the island.
He made light of the probability of
war with Spain, and said that if she
declared war against the United States
3,000,000 swords would spring from
their • scabbards i * -j ready -, to , right n and -i xi the
v, blue and -l would march together . ,,
gray
to the music of “Dixie.”
-r> Resolutions , .. adopted i , -j calling i. • for n
were
a prompt recognition of Cuban bell.g-
erency and arraigning all who make
the -honor and glory of the nation
and the demands of the people sub-
servient to the interests of the Spanish
bondholders and the sugar trust.”
WHITE FACED DEATH COOLY.
Ascended the Scaffold Nonchalently Smok¬
ing; a Cig;arette.
With a cigarette the in his mouth, Hen¬
ry White, murderer of Police Offi¬
cer William Jackson, cooly descended
into the yard of the Muscogee jail at
Columbus, Ga., Friday to pay the
. death penalty "for his deed.
The ypuug man was more composed
than any member of the party which
escorted him to the gallows.
Not once did he show the white
feather during the long hours of the
last day of his confinement and at his
death the culmination of his wonder¬
ful display of nerve was reached. He
made no speech—simply bade those
about him “goodby. ”
The trap was sprung at 1:32 and at
1:42 White was pronounced dead.
His neck was not broken.
DURRANT HANGING POSTPONED.
Judge Gives Attorneys Permission to Ap¬
peal From His Decision.
j dore A San Durrant Francisco will special says: Theo¬
not be hanged on
next Friday.
His attorneys have gained for him a
new lease of life for four months at
least, and the condemned man made
merry in his cell when he heard the
cheerful news.
He had become resigned to his fate,
when information was received at the
prison that Judge Gilbert, of the
United States circuit court, had grant¬
ed his attorneys permission to appeal
to the United States supreme court
from his order previously made deny¬
ing the application for a writ of habeas
corpus.
UNLOADED THE GUN,
But In Doing So a Young Boy Kills HU
Two Sisters.
At Greene, la., the 15-year-old son
of L. Schwartz, while attempting to
unload a gun, discharged the weapon,
killing his two sisters. The bullet
passed through the neck of one sister
and struck the other sister just above
the heart.
TELLER ADMITS SHORTAGE.
Boggs Writes Directors That He Is $38,-
OOO Behind In Accounts.
While the directors of the First Na¬
tional bank at Denver, Col., were in
session examining accounts of William
L. Boggs, paying teller, who bad been
in their employ fifteen years, they re¬
ceived a letter from him saying that
he was $38,000 short and had left
town.
He gave details of his irregularities,
which had extended over ten years.
The loss will not affect the bank’s de-
poistors nor the solvency of the bank.
LYNCHING STATISTICS.
There Were 141 In the United States Sine©
January, 1896.
Incidental to the ITrbana story, the
New York World prints the statistics
of lynching in the United States since
January 1, 1896. It is shown that
there were 141 persons lynched in
1896.
Of these lynchings 131 occurred in
the south and ten in the north, eighty-
six were negroes and fifty-five whites.
The World’s list for 1897 shows that
there have been forty-seven persons
lynched so far this year.
“BOOM” TOWN OF TENTS.
PICTURESQUE SCENES IN THE INDIAN
TERRITORY.
Great Increase In Hayden’s Population
When the Ex-Slaveg of the Cherokee
Tribe I' ecelve 18*800,000 From the Gov-
eminent-Kiclies of the Osittfo Nation.
The most interesting town in the
Indian Territory and one of the won-
ders of the year, writes a correspon¬
dent of the Chicago Record, is Hay¬
den, where the Government has been
paying off the Cherokee ijreedmen. A
few weeks ago it was only a postoffice,
with one store and a blacksmith shop.
In a few days it became a busy town
of 4000 people, mainly colored. The
one intent of the population was to re¬
ceive checks from the Government of
which they are the beneficiaries.
When the Cherokee Nation libera¬
ted its slaves during the Civil War a
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HAYDEN BEFORE THE PAYMENT.
treaty , was arranged , , between , them and
tbo Government that the freedmen
sbould be received mto - hat Nation as
clt ‘ff a “ d lold la " d ln C0 ““ 0U
'V tbe 1 Cherokees. When t the , Cher-
?, kee st viP was sold the Indians forgo
the provisions . of the treaty and wanted
p, Clmms • le gave mon $ a fjT„ ,00,000 ’!V to the ? freedmen , 0,ll 1 °
and it v/as tne distribution ot this
* large n that , brought , * , the , t people ,
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°t.t Hayden ie 1 1, is . twelve , * miles . T from « +1 the
raih ,/ ad and the gathering “there wa8 nll
]loused in teats fo was no time
to make * permanent dwellings if there
]lad been an inte nti 0 n. The Indians
and freedm3n were acoompanied by a
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large number of fakirs, who bad the
most enticing devices for the money
to bo paid out. They put up a “Mid¬
way Plaisance,” where all sorts of
games were in progress. Then, to
swell the crowd, there were hundreds
of business men who have been sell¬
ing goods to the «freedmen for months
on credit, trusting in the coming of
this auspicious time for their pay.
The total number of freedmen on the
rolls was over 4500, and each share
was worth $188.74. The payment was
made by family, and on account of the
tangled relationship of a race that was
so lately slaves, the making of the
rolls proved to be a tremendous task.
The identification of the members of
the families was no less onerous, for
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they all look alike to the stranger. The
public school is one of the unknown
factors of Indian life in this section
and there are few who can read and
write.
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The camp has been the most
in the history of the Indian Territory
payments. In former cases there has
been always a larger attendance of the
tough element which has made the
nights hideous. Here the nights be-
come wild about the midnight hour
and then the “fellows” who want to
cut a dash are in their element. Then
it is that the Alkali Ikes are ready to
go out and shoot a few holes in the at¬
mosphere without warning. Girls with
red ribbons in their hair are here, and
they “do” the town of tents in the
most approved fashion, while the old
folks are having a shouting prayer
meeting, after the manner of the col¬
ored folks of the South. The brethren
from Oklahoma are numerous and they.
a.'-' usually of the sort that has the
nSoney-makiiig craze well developed.
There is an attempt to keep gambling
off the grounds, but with small suc¬
cess.
Over in the Osage portion \ of the
territory ever member of the tribe is
wealthy. The men are handsome and
the squaws are not bad-looking. They
are few in number and are deereasing
every year. Now there are only 345
voters in the tribe and they are the
recipients of the bounty that might
well make a prince happy. The tribe
has 1,000,000 acres of laud and about
$9,000,000 in the United States Treas¬
ury, on which the interest is $400,000
a year. This is paid every three
months and it amounts then to $54 for
each man, women and child in the
tribe. Of the $400,000 one-tenth is
set aside for education and the chil¬
dren are all sent to school. They go
to Catholic boarding schools and are
not allowed to get the apportionment if
they are not in school. The Indians,
too, have a large amount of rent from
their land, which they lease to the
cattlemen for cash.
Frequently the leading men go Fast
on a visit and travel in Pullman
as do other luxurious Westerners.
They take their families to Europe and
have for their servants white men and
women who are tempted by the prince¬
ly wages to forget that they are the
superior race. While fullbloolds wear
in the council chamber, and soinetimes
on the, street, the full robes of the In¬
dian warrior, for the most part they
are dressed in the ordinary fashion of
the whites. One of the wealthiest
men, who by the way has twelve chil¬
dren, lives in a house that is the equal
of any city residence, having cost$10,-
000. It has all the improvements of
plumbing and heating and is as com¬
fortable as could be desired.
The Osage nation is ruled by a coun¬
cil of fourteen members which is
chosen once in two years and which is
in continuous session. It meets when¬
ever there is anything for it to do. The
present council wants to draw from
the fund in the national treasury a
sum equal to $000 for each member of
the tribe and spend it’ in beautifying
the lands of the nation, in building-
roads and in erecting public buildings.
They promise that the money shall be
used to good advantage, but it is
doubtful if it will be allowed. The
elections are like those of other states,
except that the electors go up to the
judges and announce their choice of
members of the council. No ballots
are used. The lands of the Indians
are separated by a strip of public do¬
main about a quarter of a mile wide
and this cannot be tilled. This tends
to keep the Indians from quarreling
and makes the courts of the nation
comparatively free from business.
The ambition of many of the fron¬
tier white men to become rich has led
them to marry squaws of the Osages.
They can do so, if the woman is willing,
without any other formality than the
paying of $20 for a license. This does
not give them any part of the trust-
fund distribution, but* their children
are so entitled and some of the
thus married are wealthy from the
start that they got in this way. The
whites of course are in favor of draw¬
ing out of the National Treasury the
money for improvements, as each mem¬
ber of their family will get a share.
The fullbloods, on the other had, are
somewhat jealous of the movement,
and prefer to let the United States
keep the cash and pay them, only the
interest.
This money came from the sale of
the Indians’ former homo in .Kansas,
which was in the best part of the
State. They seem to have made a
good trade when they took the Gov¬
ernment’s offer and sold out. Instead
of being paupers they are among the
Nation’s richest people, and if they
are successful in getting the additional
amounts that they are asking they may
have it within their means to make
great advances in civilization.
The fears of many, when the terri¬
tory was opened to the settlers, that
there would be frequent outbreaks of
the Indians and consequent scalpings
have not been realized. The Indians
having sold their lands to the whites
seem to have made up their minds that
they are on honor to behave themselves
and they do so. They keep on their
reservations and any wrong doings the
that are reported are usually of
harmless order.
It is plain that they are taking on
the customs of the whites, and some
Kansans who went down to the terri¬
tory to fleece the poor redskin at one
of the pay days, taking with them
about $300, had to send home for
money to pay return fare. They made
up their minds that the Indian is not
qnite such an unsophisticated individ¬
ual as he is purported to be in the
pages of Fenimore Cooper.
The one thing that they cannot break
themselves of is the habit of begging.
At all the_ stations squaws and chil¬
dren sit, waiting for victims. The pa¬
pooses will be shown for a nickel and
for a quarter there will be a circus
performance.
HUCE ROCK OF MYSTERY.
Connecticut’s Great Bowlder, Lurgest in
the United States.
The Connecticut Legislature has
been considering the purchase of the
State of Cochegan Rock, located mid¬
way between. New London and Nor¬
wich, and said by many persons to be
the largest bowlder in the United
States. It is eighty feet long, seventy-
eight feet high, contains about 70,000
cubic feet of stone, and is estimated
to weigh 10,000 tons. It is unques¬
tionably a relic of the glacial period,
and was deposited in its present rest¬
ing place very many centuries ago.
Connecticut, says the New York
Herald, has long been a famous stamp-
ing ground for the geologist and
paleontologist. Almost everybody who
is at all familiar with ancient birds
and beasts remembers wbat is known
to science as the Connecticut sand-
stone footprints, footprints of birds so
gigantic that it appalls one to think
what they must have been like. Espec-
ially around Montville are there many
mute evidences of the glacial period,
the stone of Cochegan being the most
notable.
This stone has been studied by the
most famous geologists of the United
States, but none of them has ever been
able to state with accuracy just what
variety it is. The strangest feature is
that in appearance and in grain it is
totally unlike any other stone found in
Connecticut or New England, this lack
of resemblance extending to other and
smaller bowlders, which were also evi-
dently deposited on Connecticut soil
by glaciers.
Indian tradition says this stone was
for centuries used as a council block
by the rm men of Connecticut. Tl*
first white man to own the land upon
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BOCK OF MYSTERY.
which it stands was Samuel Chapman,
and he, in 1762, sold it to Joshua Baker.
It has changed owners several times
since then, its present proprietor be¬
ing Alexander Atchinson.
The surface of the bowlder, as
smooth in some portions as ifithadbeen
operated on by a prehistoric worker
ih stone, shows fantastic shapes and
traces. Many persons have supposed
that all this was the result of the
storms of centuries beating upon it.
Careful examination proves, however,
that these factors had little to do with
the present appearance of the bowlder.
To the scientific eye the marks of the
glacier are clear and distinct. It is
the ice that made this strange carving
and produced the almoilt polished extends sur¬
face. Just how far the rock
into the ground has never been ascer¬
tained.
Seals and Sand Storms.
You say the sealers on Pribyloff
Islands catch the females when they
go out to sea to feed. That is not so,
as they never go out to feed. As for
the pups dying on Tolstoi rookeries
from the loss of their mothers being
killed at sea, that is not so; they are
killed by sandstorms. Tolstoi is the
only rookery that is affected by sand¬
storms, and only one part of it, and at
this particular part is the only place
where dead pups are found.
It would be something to the credit
of the company if they would build a
board fence, like a snow fence on the
plains, for about 500 yards on Tolstoi
rookery. It would save the lives of
thousands of pups.—San Francisco Ex¬
aminer.
Mad© a Cm*iou9 Legacy.
A curious probate suit has come up
in the English law courts. An old
gentleman, lately deceased, left a half¬
million dollars to found and endow a
church on the condition that every
Sunday, before service, the w'hole of
the thirty-nine articles shall be read
by a clergyman outside the church
door. Disinherited relatives are con¬
testing the validity of the will.
A Keligious Duty.
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Mamma Hen—“Where are you go-
in’?”
Hortense—“Oh, just for a little
spin, uiamma. ” (reprovingly)
Mamma Hen — “I
should think you would stay at home
and help your mother scratch up that
new onion bed that Neighbor Peaseley
set out this morning.”
’ STRONC WORDS ON GREECE.
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lion Former Great American* Clmmpioned
Her G'au*e.
The debate on the Greek question
in the House of Representatives, at
Washington, which began January 20,
1824, and continued for a week with
slight intermission, was a memorable
one. It was opened by Mr. Webster,
who supported his resolution in one
of the greatest of his speeches. In
the course of it, referring to the fear
expressed in some quarters that the
sending of an agent or commissioner
to Greece in an. official capacity
might result in enbroiling the United
States in war with Turkey and be
resented by the Allied Powers, Mr.
Webster said:
“Does not the land ring from side
to side with one common sentiment
of sympathy for Greece and indigna¬
tion toward her oppressors? Nay,
more, sir, are we not giving money
to this cause? More still, sir, is not
the Secretary of State in open corre¬
spondence with the President of the
Greek Committee in London? The
Nation has gone as far as it can go
short of an official act of hostility.”
Mr. Webster’s reference to the
correspondence between the Secretary
| of State and the chairman of the
j London Greek Committee was based
on a letter written to the American
j Minister in England by Secretary
Adams, enclosing one to the cliair-
man of that committee. A copy of
the former letter had been furnished
| to the House of Representatives. In
j \ it United Mr. States Adams could explained not give why Greece the
j the “active aid” which had been re-
quested, without becoming involved
jin J letter war Mr. with Adams Turkey. invited In the same
further
j | communications from the chairman of
the London Committee, giving such
information as he might receive from
the theatre of hostilities,
i n the course of the debate Henry
Clay, then Speaker of the House
0 f Representatives, left the chair and
delivered an impassioned speech in
f avor G f Mr. Webster’s which resolution, in'
1 the of he said:
course
j “Are we so Rambled, so low, so
; debased, that we dare not express
our sympathy for suffering Greece,
that we dare not- articulate our de¬
testation of the brutal excesses of
which she has been the bleeding
victim, lest we might offend some
one or more of their imperial and
royal majesties?”
The debate ended as so many other
debates in the House before and
since have ended. Nothing was done
at that session, and the jiroposition
to authorize the President in his dis¬
cretion to dispatch a commissioner
to Greece was not renewed. In his
next annual message, dated Decem¬
ber 7, 1824, President Monroe in¬
formed Congress “that the. cause of
independence, of liberty and human¬
ity continues to prevail” in the strug¬
gle between Greece and her oppress¬
ors, and that “the success of Greece,
when the relative population of the
contending parties is considered, com¬
mands our admiration and applause,
and that it has had a similar effect
with the neighboring Powers is obvi¬
ous.”—New York Tribune.
PLEA FOR THE BIRDS.
Their Destruction | is Endangering the
Forests and Orchards.
A plea for the birds is being widely
disseminated in the form of a circular
which contains some earnest words
from Mrs. Caroline B. Hoffman, local
Secretary of the Massachusetts Audu¬
bon Society. Mrs, Hoffman tells the
often-told story of the mother heron
w lucU ^ killed when brooding to
obtain , the white aigrette which is her,
decoration at that time, and of the
cruelty of sacrificing the mother bird
and her little ones for the gratifica¬
tion of feminine vanity. The Florida
heron, she says, is annihilated.
She bases her plea in this circular
more particularly upon the practical
ground of the great injury to plants
and forests by creatures so useful in
destroying insects. She says: “Al¬
ready in the southern lands of Europe
are the forests perishing in a frightful
manner, and not less are the orchards
in danger, for against the increase of
injurious insects there is no remedy
when the little birds are missing. And
no land in the wide world is safe
against this horrid destruction. ”
Quoting foreign criticism of bird-
decoration, she continues: “How for¬
eign lands think and write about it a
newspaper from Tokio, Japan, will
best show. It says: ‘It is not enough
that the Europeans compress them¬
selves with steel and whalebone; they
also demand for adornment our beauti-
ful and useful birds. J >>
She concludes: “Equally guilty of
this barbarous custom is every pur¬
chaser of these birds, martyrs unto
death. ‘May these words meet with
the right reception; may women at
length reflect and acknowledge that
there is something better, nobler, more
to be desired, than this foolish style,
which is bought w ith the blood and
life of creatures fashioned by the God
of love. May American women coma
to the front and be the first to do away
with this brutal practice.
“Everywhere oi, r orchards, our fruit
trees, are crying out to be delivered
from, insect pests. Competent wit¬
nesses testify that all over the country,
within a generation, birds have dimin¬
ished in a most rapid manner and tha
injurious insects have made headway
jn the same degree. Setting aside all
sentiment, the destruction of forests,
orchards and fields ought to be suf¬
ficient to deter women from indulging
jn this murderous practice.’'— New
York Ledger.
Development [In Trottera. ^
Robert Bonner mentions the strik¬
ing fact that when he bought his first
trotting horse in 1856 only nineteen
horses, living and dead, had trotted a
mile in 2.30. Now there are more than
13,000 in the list.