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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 + -7- —- / r rO II i I Sr] 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 , sura ° 1 r , °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 7, 4 f\ I tsMi/t l \ I a fl i tl ‘fQ ! V st si sssi TYPES OF THE CAMr. 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 i m '■ Pi -A- . a,.. ’4* ,v* w a--7 r r / ^ fen*-*- " v ..... HAYDEN DURING THE FAYMENT. 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. _ orderly 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 A ij M m* 7/ '"'A 7 7/16 iv* /'«*/ •/hi ff % oa 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. —— ***^fe. r- — ^ \k-i ^ ~ ■'£T-= ^ 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. • "* ■ 1 .....' 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.