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VALLEY CENTER JOURNAL. VOLUME I. THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily News. WASHINGTON NOTES.

Ir is considered not unlikely that the new cruiser No. 12, commonly called the Pirate, will be christened Washington. She will be launched from Cramp's shipyard about halve and the secretary of the navy will until then to decide on the name of the ship for the national capital or for Net: Orleans, Brooklyn or Pittsburgh. No matter what the ship is named, she will always be unofficially referred to as the Pirate. That title has stuck to her ever since an engineer officer nsed it one day in conversation with a party of newspaper correspondents.

It has been arranged that the ratifications of the sea treaty of arbition between United Satets and Behring, Great Dritain shall be exchanged at London instead of at Washington as originally contemplated. The change is made in order toexpediate final act of the negotiacions. The Son. Robert T. Lincoln, United States minister to England, has been empowered to act on behalf of the United States and Lord Salisbury will act for her majesty's government.

THE house committee on railways and canals has authorized a favorable report on Representative Dalzell's bill appropriating 810,000 to pay the expenses of a survey of a route for a ship canal to connect the waters Lake Erie from a point at or near Erie, with the Ohio river at or near Pittsburgh. T. JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, of Massachusetts, has been nominated to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to France. CONGRESSMAN ALLEN, of the house Indian committee, declares that the Cherokee strip cannot be opened before next spring, but that it will be done then. THE following is a list of senators who have been appointed to serve on the executive committee of the national democratic campaign committee: M.

C. Butler, of South Carolina: A. It. Colquitt, of Georgia: J. S.

C. Blackburn. of Kentucky: J. K. Jones, of Arkansas: W.

B. Bate, of Tennessee: C. J. Faulkner. of Virginia: David Turpie, of Indiana: Rufus Blodgett, of New Jersey; J.

S. Barbour, of Virginia, and R. Q. Mills, of Texas. SECRETARY FOSTER has sent to the house estimates for deficiency appropriations aggregating 8191,039 on acof the postal service submitted ogrite sixth auditor February and not heretofore transmitted to congress.

A PROCLAMATION of reciprocity with Honduras has been made public at Washington. THE public debt statement on May 1, shows a cash balance of a decrease of nearly 81,000,000 since April 1. This decrease is due to the heavy disbursements during the month and the comparatively light receipts. SENATOR MANDERSON has introduced a joint resolution requesting the president to take amicable measures to obtain from the Italian government a suitable indemnity for the injuries inflieted by the authorities of Italy upon Nicolina Mileo, a naturalized citizen of the United States, who, while on a visit to Italy, was imprisoned and afterward compelled to serve in the Italian army. THE conferees from the senate and house on the Chinese exelusion bill have reached an agreement on the basis of the bill as it passed the senate with certain important additions that were insisted upon by the house conferees.

As agreed upon the bill is practically a reenactment for ten years of the existing law with clauses providing for registration of resident Chinese and for suspension of bail in habeas corpus applications. THE treasury department purchased the other day $13,600 ounces of silver at $0.87230.8740. COMMISSIONER CARTER. of the general land office, will probably resign his office about the end of the present fiscal year. A BILL has been introduced in the senate entitled "A bill for the protecting of the silver mining industry." It provides that the secretary of the treasury in the purchase of silver under the pro visions of the act of 1890 shall purchase such silver bullion only as is produced from mines within the United States or from ores smelted within the United States.

SENATOR PEFFER'S friends fear that he will soon be compelled to abandon his senatorial duties for a time ard place himself under a skilled oculist either New York or Philadelphia. His eyesight is becoming more impaired every day and unless he submits to a course of treatment blindness may ensue. THE EAST. FERDINAND C. EWER, a clerk of the Corbin of New York, is missing $12,000.

Bankings By a naptha explosion in a New York flat two women lost their lives. Dr. Patrick Briggs and Mrs. Catherine Moore, aged 72, were badly burned. By the burning of the Philadelphia Times building Col.

A. K. McClure lost his valuable political library, which he has been collecting during the past fifty years, and which can never be replaced. HON. WHITELAW REID presided over the New York state republican convention, which indorsed President Harrison's administration.

Senator Hiscock, Thomas C. Platt, Chauncey M. Depew, and Warner Miller were elected delegates to the Minneapolis convention. AUGTSTUS KOUNTZE of the banking firm of Kountze died recently at the Providence hotel in Madison avenue, New York, aged 65 years. Mr.

Kountze was prominent and successful in cial affairs in western states York. The banking house of is the New York cor of many western banks. AN east bound was wrecked by a broker near Contesville, Both tracks were blocked. west bound mail train was due at the time and before it could be signalled ran into the wreck. The 1o- comotive of the latter train was thrown from the track and buried in an embankment.

Engineer Harry Shulz and Fireman Martin, of Philadelphia, were caught in the wreek and Martin was roasted to death, his body being almost unrecognizable. Shulz was terribly scalded. Several express cars were burned. By the burning of the Central theater at Philadelphia six actors lost their lives. WILL.

H. SMITH, the New York boxer, has agreed to fight Prof. John H. Hawlett, the world's only colored deaf champion pugilist, for 8100 a side, twelve rounds, on May 14 near Chicago, VALLEY CENTER, KANSAS, THE PRINTERS' HOME. The Childs-Drexel Home at Colorado Springs Will Be Dedicated May DENVER, May completion and dedication of the Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers at Colorado Springs on May 12, the sixty-third birthday of George W.

Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, is an event which has been looked forward to with a great deal of interest the world over, as it is the beginning of the life of the only institution of its kind in the world. During the session of the International union in Pittsburgh in 1886 George W. Childs and Anthony J. Drexel, the wellknown banker of Philadelphia, made an unconditional gift of $5,000 each to GEO. W.

CHILDS. A. J. DREXEL. the union.

This formed the nucleus of a fund which the union subsequently decided should be known as the "ChildsDrexel fund," to be added to until a sufficient sum should be attained to build a home for printers. The building is four stories in height with basement, built after the style of architecture known as Renaissance, and has been erected at about $60,000 cost. It has a frontage of 44 feet by a depth of with a wing in the rear of the north end 40 by 20 feet. At one end there is a round tower which adds to, the imposing appearance of the structure. There are porches around each end tower on the line of the first and of the second story, and the main entrance is reached by a broad stairway with a massive balustrade on each side.

The exterior decoration is very handsome, and the interior has been arranged view to provide the greatest amount of comfort. Some of the rooms on the sec ond floors will be magnificently fitted up, notably the Childs and Drexel parlors, the San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and d' St. Louis rooms. A room furnished by Typographical Union No. 21 will be a model of elegance and characteristic of the state from which it comes.

The entire furniture, mantels, curtain poles, brackets, will be made of California redwood, and the set consists of a high-back chair, a folding-bed and other elegantly upholstered furniture. In the center of a round table is a gold plate, oval in shape, upon which is inscribed "From San Francisco Typographical Union No. 21, to the Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers, May 12, The Childs parlor in the north the building is fitted up in el rant style. A handsome picture Mr. Childs, valued at $1,000, hangs upon the walls in the Childs parlor.

The Drexel parlor is fashioned somewhat on the same order as the Childs parlor. The Inter Ocean room on the second floor square, lower corner, will be fitted proprietor of the Chicago Inter Ocean and in keeping with the adjoining rooms. THE "RIPPER" CONVICTED. The Jury in the Deeming Case Return Verdict of Guilty and Declare the Fiend Sane. MELBOURNE, May jury in the Deeming case returned a verdict of guilty and added that the prisoner was not insane.

When the trial was resumed the central criminal court this morning Dr. Springthorpe, the last witness for the defense, related Deeming's explanation of how his wives had disappeared. Deeming said that while he and his first wife were living at Rain Hill, near Liverpool, a man named Ben Young had told him that his (Deeming's) wife would leave him for £50. He paid the money and his wife left him. He supposed that Young had killed her while he (Deeming) was coming to Melbourne with his second wife(Miss Mather) for whose murder he is now on trial.

His second wife, Deeming said, confessed that she was already married and she left him in Melbourne, because she was afraid of being implicated in the murder of his first wife. Deeming is noted for being a notorious liar and the above is a specimen of his ability in that line. The fact is that the wife murderer here led the police to notify the Liverpool police of their suspicion that Deeming had murdered his wife and children at Rain Hill. It will, therefore be seen that his statement relative to his second wife leaving him from fear of being implicated in the Rain Hill murder is without single grain of truth. Killed By a Cyclone.

KINGFISHER, May disastrous eyelone, destructive alike to and property, gathered to the southwest of this city at about 7 o'clock last night, and passing around to the east disappeared in a northeasterly direction. Two fatalities are already reported, and it is feared that the loss of life will prove much greater. F. A. Bidwell and his son, who had recently located on a claim five miles northeast of the city, were caught by the storm and the son was instantly killed.

The father sustained injuries which caused his death shortly after. Bidwell and his son came here recently from York and had just completed the work of building a home and planting a crop. The rest of Bidwell's family started from York this evening to join him. Fatal Wreck. ROCHESTER, N.

May a west bound Central Hudson train was taking water at Churchvile station morning another freight train, bound" west, dashed into the caboose. A number of cars were thrown over upon the east bound east bound train ploughed the track, and a minute later, an pile of wrecked cars. W. H. Jones, of Buffalo, the engineer of the east bound train, was instantly killed, and his fireman, F.

Richardson, was slightly hurt. The wreck caught fire from an oil car and the body of Engineer Jones was burned crisp. Rainmaekrs Drive Away the Clouds. LAREDO, May rainmakers have been at work again and an hour after using a large amount of explosives not a cloud was to be seen. Those who formerly were firm believers in the efficiency of the method for producing artificial rain, are beginning to relieve it is a humbug.

Philadelphia's Ballot Law Upheld. PHILADELPHIA, May decision was rendered today by the supreme court sustaining constitutionality of the Baker ballot reform law passed by the last legislature, which will go into operation at the next election. FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1892. CONGRESS. SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April the senate yesterday business Mr. Coke addressed the senate in favor of the free coinage of silver, basing his remarks on Mr. Morgan's resolutions on the subject. Mr. Daniel also spoke on the same subject.

At the close of Mr. Daniel's speech the army appropriation bill was taken up. A long debate ensued, but no action was taken. The presiding officer laid before the senate a communication from the president in response to Mr. Teller's resolution as to an international conference on the silver question.

The communication was read. Mr. Morgan said that he desired to debate the communication before it went to the committee. He asked that it be printed and laid on the table for the present. So ordered.

Adjourned. WASHINGTON, April the senate yesterday after routine business the army approprialion bill was taken up, the question being on striking out the house proviso which prohibited payment for the transportation of troops an supplies for the army over any of the unbonded lines owned, controlled or operated by the Un ion Pacific or the Southern Pacific systems. After a long speech by Mr. Morgan the house proviso was stricken out. The bill was then passed and the house adjourned.

WASHINGTON, April resolution of fered by Mr. Jones of Arkansas for the payment of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations for their interest in the lands in the Indian Territory (the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation) was laid before the senate yesterday. Mr. Allison spoke against the resolution. He said that if this sum was paid it would make a precedent for the payment of the further sum of seven millions.

What he thought, therefore, ought to be done was to recommit the whole subject to the committee on Indian affairs, and he would make that motion at the close of the debate. After considerable discussion, and without disposing of the tion, the senate adjourned till Monday. WASHINGTON, May the senate yesterday numerous petitions were presented against legislation for the closing of the world's fair on Sunday. After a short discussion of the petition matter the calendar was taken up. Among the bills passed was one fixing the price of lands entered under the desert land laws at $1.25 per acre.

After an executive session the senate ad- journed. HOUSE. WASHINGTON, April the house yesterday Mr. Blanchard gave notice that on Monday next he would call up the river and harbor ap propriation bill. The house then went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill.

Mr. Blount explained the provisions of the measure. It appropriated $1,584,025, being coo less than for the current year and $553,541 less than the estimates. After a long discussion unanimous consent was given that general debate on the bill should close after two hours' debate Wednesday. The committee then rose, on motion Mr.

Geary, the house agreed to the request of the senate for a conference on the amendments made by the senate to the Chinese exclusion bill passed by the house. Adjourned. WASHINGTON, April the house yesterday by unanimous consent (the Walker expunging resolution still blocking the way of the regular order) the houe went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic and consular appropriations bills. Mr. Hooker of Mississippi paid a high tribute to the success of American diplomacy.

It wag the diplomacy which settled the Chilian difficul ties and the Bering sea controversy. Fortunately for the country, it had in the position of secretary of state a man of such large and diplomatic ability that he had settled these questions by diplomacy. Mr. Blaine had shown himself to be a great statesman by the manner in which he had treated these questions. When a man came to be the premier of this government, he was not a partisan representing a party.

He was a statesman representing the country. Mr. Hitt of Illinois, offered an amendment to restore to $7,500 the salary of the minister tc Venzuela, the committee having cut it to $5,000 No quorum voting, the committee rose and the house adjourned. WASHINGTON, April unanimous sent the house went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill yesterday. The pending question was on Mr.

Hitt's amendment restoring to $7,500 the salary of the minister to Venezuela. No quorum voting, a call was ordered. Although 192 members respond ed to their names, the quorum vanished on the vote on amendment. Mr. Blount moved that the sergeant-at-arms be directed to bring in the absentees.

This was carried, and the sergeant-at-arms sent his deputies to Benning's race track in search of absentees. The deputies were able to see and enjoy the races, but were unable to see any missing members until after the last race was finished. As it was evident that no business could be transacted the house finally adjourned. WASHINGTON, April waste of time in yesterday's record. No business of importance was transacted, and ex-Speaker Reed, during a colloquy with Mr.

Bailey of Texas, declared that the present house was a laughing stock for gods and men. Speaker Crisp acted as police justice and the dignified representatives of the people served in the capacity of jurors, Before this august tribunal twelve offenders. were arraigned by the sergeant-at-arms, charged with having absent without leave Thursday, and thereby being in contempt. They looked upon their trial as a farce and joked with the jurors while awaiting the verdict. Nor were they in error as to the outcome.

The jurors were lenient and the prisoners were all acquit ted. Nothing was done at either the day or evening session and the house adjourned. WASHINGTON, May the house Saturday, although Mr. Hitt of Illinois was not successful in restoring the salary of the minister to Venezuela, by clever tactics he succeeded in restoring the mission to Denmark. He did this by allowing the Democrats from the northwest, where Danes and Scandinavians constitute a large portion of the population, to do most of the talking.

Then the New Orleans imbroglio presented itself, through the diplomatic emergency appropriation. The president was subjected to much adverse criticism for his action in paying the Italian indemnity out of the emergency fund But as the emergency fund is in the nature of a secret service appropriation, it cannot be definitely stated how it is to be expended. The amendment offered by Mr. Chipman of Michigan, prohibiting the use of this money in the settlement of claims of foreign countries. was passed over.

Adjourned, WASHINGTON, May the house yesterday the free binding twine bill was passed, and a bill was passed appropriating $150,000 to enable the president to fulfill the stipulations contained in the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed Feb. 29 and April 20, 1892, in regard to the tribunal of arbitration at Paris. A bill was passed to pension the survivors of the Black Haw Cherokee, Creek and Seminole wars. The house then went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic and consular biil. Without action upon the bill the committee rose and the house adjourned.

MILL AND FACTORY. are produced by the million. COLUMBIAN ECHOES. THE production of brandy in California in 1891 was 1,470,525 gallons. MERIDEN, is the foremost city in the world in the manufacture of plated silverware.

said that during 1891 more than $3,000,000 was invested in the state of Maine in new manufactories or the improvement of those already established. OXFORD county, turns out nearly all of the spools on which the thread of this country is wound. The spools are made from white birch timber, and they VICTORIA, Australia, has made a world's fair appropriation of $100,000. GREAT BRITAIN had added £35,000 to its world's fair appropriation, making it now £60,000 or approximately 000. IN the government exhibit will appear all the relics, which are obtainable, of various Arctic exploring expe ditions.

APPLICATIONS for space in the exposition buildings now aggregate more than 4,000,000 square feet, a little over one-third being from foreign applicants. NMUBER 15. FERDINAND WARD has been released from Sing Sing prison, after having served over six years for complicity in the defalcation in the Marine bank, of New York. As soon as Ward left prison he went to Connecticut to see his eightyear-old son. His wife died about three years ago.

He will have to begin life over again, as he declares he is penniless. Ward does not think that he will be arrested again on the indictments pending against him. He had served his term and thinks the law should be satisfied. He that he would rather remain in Sing Sing than to have toto Canada to escape arrest. THE WEST.

THE Colorado republican convention instructed its delegates to the national convention at Minneapolis to oppose by every honorable means the nomination of any man for the office of president or vice-president of the United States who is not known to be heartily in favor of the enactment of a law providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. EVERY It -411 in the LaCrosse, district used down to remain so until tar labor troubles are settled. Two thousand men are out of employment in consequence. SEVEN hundred feet of the world's fair manufacturer's building at Chicago was blown down, involving a loss of time in the raising of the structure of several days. The wind the time of the occurrence was blowing at the rate of forty miles an hour.

THE following state ticket nominated Ohio republicans: was, seeretary of state, S. M. Taylor; for supreme court judges, William Spear and J. F. Burkett: for supreme court elerk, Josiah B.

Allen; for member of board of public works, E. F. Lybarger; national convention delegates are William MeKinley, J. B. Foraker, A.

W. Bushnell and Mr. Kahn. INDIANS at the Crow Creek agency refuse government money because they distrust their agent. BRENDON and Burlington, have been excited over several mysterious disappearances.

ADJUTANT GENERAL. KENNEDY, of Colorado, has been elected department commander of the Colorado and Wyoming Grand Army of the Republic. PLATINUM has been discovered in the hills at a point about twenty-five miles west of Rapid City, S. D. Among some specimens of ore recently brought to the city Dr.

Whitney found a piece of white quartz carrying what appeared to be horn silver. He at once pronounced it platinum and confirmed his opinion by the usual acid tests. S. S. LOEWENBERG and his wife were found lying dead in a room at St.

Paul, having evidently been suffocated by gas. Investigation of the premises showed that the key in the gas jet did not work properly and that in turning off the gas it was very easy to turn it on again. THE national convention of Brewers' employes has petitioned Gov. Fifer, of Illinois, to pardon the anarchists. THE people of Johnson county, Wyoming, have passed resolutions condemning Gov.

Barber for his action during the recent troubles. JUSTICE M. V. MONTGOMERY. of Michigan, who was appointed by President Cleveland to the bench of the supreme court the District of Columbia, resigned his position to take effect October 1, 1892.

THE first Buddhist cremation in this country took place at Los Angeles, when the body of Byron Adonis one of the most advanced adepts of the Circle of Theosophists or more speaking, Buddhists, was incinerated at the crematory in Rosedale cemetery with the ceremonies attending a Buddhist funeral. CATTLEMEN of Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah have league. SEVERE eyelone southwest of Kingfisher. killed two persons the other dav. THREE men were killed in a wreek on the Louisville, New Albany Chicago railroad near Otis, Ind.

GEORGE: CASSADAY and W. Hanna, horse thieves. believed also to have been implicated in Colorado bank robbery he several years ago, have been captured by the authorities Uintah county, Wyo. a lively shooting affray. The pair had taken refuge in an isolated seetion known as Star Valley and Deputy Sheriff Calverly and posse started in pursuit.

Cassaday was only captured after a hard fight, in which he was wounded, but not seriously. Deputy Sheriff Calverly was also wounded. ADVANCES looking to a compromise between the stockmen and rustlers Wyoming have been made by representatives of Johnson county. THE SOUTH. RUFUS JENKINS, a deposed pastor aged 70, was taken from his house near Knoxville, by fifty Whitecaps and cowhided so brutally that he is expected to die of his injuries.

Jenkins had deserted his wife for another woman. When summoned to leave his home he fired upon his assailants, who in turn fired upon him, set fire to his dwelling and then treated him as described. THE Scotch Irish society of America met in Atlanta, other day. W. T.

SHARMAN, the only witness in an important murder case at Denison, was shot to death an unknown assassin while in bed. The case in boy which he was a witness grew out of an old feud and he is the twentieth victim. He had received a number of warnings that his life was in danger. DISTRIBUTION of food to the Rio Grande famine sufferers has been made. THE celebrated Fair Lawn stables, the property of Smith McCann, at Lexington, were entirely destroyed the other day by fire.

It was one of the finest stock stables in the United States and cost over $15,000 to erect. There nineteen horses in the stables and were burned to death. Among vere two full sisters of Phil valued at 85,000 each, two Wilkes fillies and a Robert colt. There was no insurance on the horses. The property was insured for one-half value.

The total loss amounted to $35,000. The fire was the vork of incendiaries. WHILE picnicing on Chickamauga creek, Chattanooga, three members of the middle class of the high school were drowned. They are Wenel Sanders, son President Newell Sandope ders, Miss Bettie Cheney and Miss Blanche Barr, the latter the daughter of a prominent attorney. All the vietims are 16 years of age and belong to families who are among the most prominent in Chattanooga.

THE Nashville, jail was successfully entered and Eph Grizzard, a colored man, charged with committing an assault on Miss Bruce, of Goodlettsville, was taken therefrom and hanged from the Cumberland river bridge A MOB attempted to take from the jail at Nashville, four men charged with assaulting two young ladies, the Misses Bruce. After a determined stand the crowd was dispersed. MASKED men took Lymon Purdle, the negro murderer, from the county jail Elizabethton, N. and hanged him from a tree. The evidence against Purdle was conclusive.

The negroes believed him guilty, but were greatly excited over the lynching and it feared there may be trouble. SHERIFF LUNA, of Seary county, toto who has held that position for ten years, went to Texarkana recently company with a friend named Hollis. Money which Luna furnished was spent most lavishly. His bondsmen caused his sarrest. Hollis was also arrested and on person was found nearly a thousand dollars which he had taken from Luna.

In three days Luna spent over 82,000 of the county's money. GENERAL. THE annual report of the Union Paeffic railway submitted to the stockholders at the a annual meeting shows for the year 1891: Gross earnings, 687,738, as against $20,438,208 in 1890. The surplus earnings were $7,846,451, against 87,274,759 the previous year. Proceeds from other sources make the total income $10,442,521.

Dedu ing total charges, a balance of $1,910,390 shown, which is an increase of $23,698 over last year. Mr. LYLE, counsel for the murderer, Deening, has made another application for a further postponement of the trial. THE Ottawa house of commons refused to put binding twine on the free list. The verdict of the jury in the Ravachol case at Paris has occasioned much surprise, but it is the general consensus of opinion that the "extenuating circumstances" part of the verdict was due entirely to the fear of the jurors that the prisoner was condemned to death they would fall victims to anarchist vengeance.

THE European press highly censures the Paris jury for the verdiet in the Ravachol case. THE Melbourne, Australia, Standard says that Deening has confessed to his lawyer and the doctors who examined him that he committed the majority of "Jack the Ripper" crimes in the Whitechapel district of London. MME. NORDICA, the singer, has been badly hurt by being thrown from a carriage in London. THERE was a strong suspicion among the officers of the German army stationed at Halle that were being approached by socialists with a view to weakening their allegiance to the government and an unexpected search was made of the barracks.

The result verified the suspicions, for in the men's quarters there were discovered a number of socialistic manuscripts setting forth the wrongs under which the soldier labors and calling upon them to join the socialists in effecting a reformation of the body politic. In the house of commons Mr. Clark's motion in favor of local government for Great Britain and Ireland was rejected by a vote of 74 to 54. A RECENT fire at Tokio, Japan, destroyed 5,000 houses. MAY day passed without any 1 trouble from the anarchistic element.

The parades in Paris and London were devoid of interest. AT the quadrennial methodist conference the demands of the lay delegates were granted and they were permitted to occupy seats together. MR. YATES CARRINGTON, the well known animal painter, is dead. DEEMING, the notorious murderer, said to have committed the Whitechapel murders, has been guilty.

His plea of insanity was disregarded. A SPANISHE vessel bound for Albucemas, a island fortress and sailing, prison settlement in the Mediterranean, belonging to Spain, while off the coast of Morocco, became becalmed and drifted shorewards. A number of pirates, seeing her condition, boarded and looted her. While the pirates were landing their spoils a breeze sprang up and the captain clapped on all sails and headed for Gibraltar, where he arrived safely. THE alarming reports concerning Gen.

J. S. Clarkson's health have been greatly exaggerated. THE LATEST. TOPEKA, May eve ning a cyclone struck the farming community of Tevis, a village on the Missouri Pacific, ten miles southeast of Topeka.

A farmer named Paxton was killed, and John P. Heil was badly injured. The house of James Mitchell, farmer, was demolished and Mitchell fatally injured. Mrs. Mitchell escaped, but their five children are all seriously hurt and one is now dying.

The house of Philip Lux was demolished, but the family escaped by taking refuge in the cellar. The residence of Charles Thrasher was blown down, and Thrasher badly hurt. Thomas Brooks' house wa: destroyed and all of the family more or less hurt. An unknown woman who had just moved into a house which had long been vacant, was killed outright when the house was demolished. The house of Joseph Hurd was blown down and Mrs.

Hurd was killed. James Plaxton's house was carried from its foundation and wrecked, and Plaxton was instantly killed in the fall of the timbers. The other members of the family escaped. Swan Anderson, 2 farm hand, was hurled against a stone fence and killed. In Auburn township much property was damaged, but no lives were lost.

The Pleasant Valley school house was demolished. A number of children had taken refuge there from the storm, but they all miraculously escaped death, though some received severe injuries. INDIANAPOLIS, May occurred yesterday in various cities throughout the state. The results show Democratic gains in fourteen towns and Republican gains in sixteen towns. NEW YORK, May Washington dispatch affirms that John R.

McLean is in the city, and that last night the Cincinnati Enquirer's Washington correspondent sent to his paper a dispatch to the effect that, with ex-President Cleveland's consent, William D. Vilas and Don M. Dickinson are at work trying to secure for Chief Justice Fuller the Democratic presidential nomination. In New York the promoters of the May convention protest against Hill are said to refuse to give up their convention, and here is the stumbling block. The argument said to have been used was that to nominate Cleveland would require western support which was not forthcoming.

CHARLESTON, S. May the counties in this state held conventions yesterday. A few of them instructed for Hill, but a large majority sent uninstructed delegates. METHODISTS IN COUNCIL. The Twenty-fourth Quadrennial Conference Opens at Omaha -Lively Debate on the Status of Laymen.

OMAHA, May twentyfourth quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal church was called to order at Boyd's opera house yesterday morning by Bishop Bowman, and Dr. David S. Monroe was elected permanent secretary. The entire morning session was devoted to a discussion of the proposition to select delegates separate from the clergy. During BISHOP BOWMAN.

the discussion of the resolution to seat lay delegates by themselves, separate from the ministerial delegates, Dr. John Lanahan said wished congratulate the laymen upon this demand. He had always believed that the laymen had been at a great disadvantage in sitting among the ministers in the conference. He believed that the laymen would have more influence and power the conference by being seated separately. He believed that the ministers would be pleased to have the laymen seated separately if they wished to have it so.

Mr. Amos Shinkle, of Kentueky, vigorously combatted the idea of separate seating. Mr. H. Murry, of Pennsylvania, a lay delegate, said they were glad to do honor to the ministers, but they wanted to be seated by themselves for the influence it would give them in the conference.

Mr. J. Lay Field, of Philadelphia, said that there was no thought of arousing, antagonism between the laymen and the ministers. The desire was to create: a closer union BISHOP FOSTER. by placing the laymen where they could do the most for the interest they represented.

Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate of New York city, said the object of giving laymen representation in the conference was not to increase the size of the body, but to secure the assistance of the laymen in the framing of the laws of the church. Had the laymen been given a fair chance to exercise equal power with the ministers? Dr.

Buckley thought not. Dr. Lewis Curtz, of Chicago, said that it was simply a question of privilege for the laymen and not of compulsion. If they wanted to sit by themselves the ministers could not do less than to grant their request. F.

H. Root, of Buffalo, a layman, spoke in opposition to the separate seating scheme. Evans, of Colorado, stated that somebody had evidently been scared before they were hurt. There seemed to be a little apprehension that they were not all members of the same church. He could not understand why the ministers think it wise to condemn a thing just because it was proposed by the laymen of the conference and hoped the ministers would see that there was danger in voting against the resolution.

After a long debate, during which many amendments and counter motions were made, the conference decided to allow lay delegates who so desired to select seats separate from the ministerial delegates. On motion of Dr. Pula section of the hall was set apart moat lay delegates and then the choice of seats by lots was commenced. This lasted until 7:30 in the evening when the conference adjourned before the drawing of lots had been completed. SUSPICIOUS SEALING VESSELS.

Instructions That Have Been Issued By the Secretary of the Navy. WASHINGTON, May secretary of the navy has issued instructions to the naval and revenue marine vessels assigned to enforce the modus prohibiting sealing in Behring sea. These instructions differ from those of last year in three important particulars: First--Any vessel found sealing in Behring sea is to be seized whether or not she has been previously served with notice. Second- The mere presence of a vessel in Behring sea having on board a sealing outfit is cause for seizure. Third--Persons on board the vessels seized are to be sent as prisoners with the vessel to suffer the penalty of the law.

Under the British law all persons killing or aiding or abetting in fur seals in Behring sea are punishable by a fine of £100 and imprisonment at hard labor for six months. Under the American law they are subject to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 81,000. Three Killed. WESTVILLE, May north bound freight train on the Louisville, New Albany Chicago railroad went through a bridge one mile north of Otis early this morning, the engine and eight cars going down. The bodies the engineer, fireman and brakeman, who were in the cab, are buried in the water beneath an immense mass of wreckage.

Traffic has been abandoned north of Otis. The killed are; Engineer John Murray, of Michigan City, who leaves a wife and children; James Bowen, fireman, single; Elmer Brown, head brakeman. Vilas May be a Candidate. MILWAUKEE, May has been definitely settled that when the democratic state convention meets next week to elect delegates to the national convention, Wisconsin's representatives will be instructed to voter solidly for Cleveland, but should there come a time when the tide swamps their candidate the delegation is to throw its vote to William F. Vilas, ex-secretary of the interior.

The latter is in no sense a but there is a strong feeling Mr. Cleveland is to candidates, head the democratic ticket, Wisconsin's "favorite son" will enter the race. Free Irrigation at Denver. DENVER, May 60,000 citizens of this city are receiving water from the Citizens' Water Co. free.

This is the result of a bitter fight which has for months been going on between the Citizens' Co. and the Old American. Both companies have been fighting for various street franchises for some time and the feeling has grown very bitter. Recently the Citizens' learned that the American was furnishing water to their customers at half price, and the former company announced until further they would charge nothing. The fight will be a long and bitter one.

"SEVEN Able Letter From United States Senator Sherman. The Fallacies of a Visionary Publication Shown Up in Detail -Review of the Financial System and Policy of the Government. The following letter from Senator John Sherman on the "Seven Financial Conspiracies," should be read by every voter. It is plain and convincing. The letter is dated Mansfield, 0., October 12, 1891, and addressed to Mr.

Charles F. Stokey, Canton, 0., who sent Senator Sherman a copy of Mrs. S. E. V.

Emery's pamphlet called "Seven Financial Conspiracies which Have Enslaved the American People." Senator Sherman replied as follows: Some time since this wild and visionary book was sent to me, and I read it with both amusement and astonishment that any one could read It with approval or be deceived by its falsehoods. The "seven financial conspiracies" are the seven great pillars of our financial credit, the seven great financial measures by which the government was saved from the perils of war, and by which the United States has become the most flourishing and prosperous nation in the world. The first chapter attributes the civil war to an infamous plot of the capitalists to absorb the wealth of the country at the expense of the people, when all the world knows that the civil war was organized by slaveholders to destroy the national government and to set up a slaveholding confederacy in the south upon its ruins. The "Shylock" described by Mrs. Emery is a phantom of her imagination.

The "Shylocks of the war" were the men who furnished the means to carry on the government and to put down the rebellion, and included in their number some of the most patriotic citizens of the northern states, who, uniting their means with the services and sacrifices of our soldiers, put down the rebellion, abolished slavery, and preserved and strengthened our government. The Arst of her "conspiracies" she calls the exception clause in the act of February 21, 1832, by which the duties on imported goods were required to be paid in coin in order to provide the means to pay the interest on our bonds in coin. This clause had not only the cordial support of Secretary Chase, but of President Lincoln, and proved to be the most important financial aid of the government during the war. Goods being imported upon coin values. it was but right that the duty to the government should be paid in the same coin.

Otherwise the duties would have been constantly diminishing with the lessening purchasing power of our greenbacks. If the interest of our debt had not been paid in coin we could have borrowed no money abroad, and the rate of interest instead of diminishing as it did, would have been largely increased, and, the volume of our paper money would necessarily have had to be increased and its market value would have gone down lower and lower, and probably ended, as Confederate money did, in being worthless as rags. This exception clause saved our public credit by making a market for our bonds, and was paid by foreigners for the privilege of entering our markets. As for the national banking system--the second of her is now conceded to have been the best form of paper money issued by banks that has ever been devised. It was organized to take the place of the state banks which at the beginning of the war had outstanding over $200,000,00) of notes, of value varying from state to state, and most of it at a discount of from five to twenty-five per cent.

It was absolutely necessary to get rid of these state bank notes and to substitute in their place the notes of banks which were secured beyond doubt by the deposit of United States bonds, a system so perfect that from the beginning until now no one has lost a dollar on the circulating notes of national banks. The system may have to give way because we are paying off our bonds, but no sensible man will ever propose in this country to go back to the old system of state banks, and if some security to take the place of United States bonds can be devised for national bank notes, the system will be and ought to be perpetuated. The third "conspiracy" referred to is contraction of the currency. It has been demonstrated by official documents that from the beginning of the war to this time the volume of our currency has been increasing year by year more rapidly than our population. In 1860 the total amount of all the money in circulation was $435, 000,000.

when our population was and half of this was money of variable and changing value. Now we have in circulation $1,500,000,000 with a population of 64,000,000 and every dollar of this money is as good as gold, all kinds equal to each other, passing from hand to hand and paid out as good money not only in the United States but among all the commercial countries of the world. Our money has increased nearly four-fold while our population has only doubled. The statements made by Mrs. Emery about the contraction of our currency are not only misleading but they are absolutely false.

She states that in 1838, 000,000 of our money passed into a cremation furnace and in 1870 $78,000,000 was destroyed. Now these statements are absolutely false. What she calls money in these paragraphs was the most burdensome form of interest-bearing securities, treasury notes bearing 7 3-10 per cent. interest, and compound interest notes. These were the chief and most burdensome items of the public debt.

They were paid off in the years named, and were never at any time for more than a single day money in circulation. When issued they were received as money, but as interest accrued they became investments, and were not at all in circulation. These statements of Mrs. Emery are palpable falsehoods, which if stated by a man would justify a stronger word. It is true that in 1866 Mr.

McCulloch, secretary of the treasury under the administration of Andrew Johnson, wished to bring about resumption by contraction, and a bill was passed providing for a gradual reduction of the greenbacks to $300,000,000, but this was very soon after arrested, and the greenbacks retained in circulation. I was not in favor of the contraction of the greenbacks, and in the very speech that she quotes in which I described the effects of contraction and the difficulty of resuming was made against the bill providing for the reduction of greenbacks. The next "conspiracy" to which she refers was the first act of Grant's administration "to strengthen the public credit." A controversy had existed whether the 5-20 bonds could be paid in greenbacks. I maintained and still believe that by a fair construction of the loan laws we had a right to pay the principal of the bonds as they matured in greenbacks of the kind and character in existence when the bonds were issued, but I insist that it was the duty of the government to define a time when the greenbacks should be either redeemed or maintained at par in coin, that this was a plain obligation of honor and duty which rested upon the United States, and that it was not honorable or right to avail ourselves of our own negligence in restoring these notes to the specie standard In order to pay the bonds in the depreciated money. This idea is embodied in the creditstrengthening act.

The 1fth "conspiracy" of what she calls "this infernal scheme" was the refunding of the national debt. This process of refunding is regarded by all intelligent statesmen as a measure of the highest value, conducted with remarkable success. At the date of the passage of the refunding act, July 14, 1870, we had outstanding bonds bearing 5 and 6 per cent. interest for about $1,500,000,000. By the wise providence of congress we had reserved the right of redeeming a portion of this debt within five years and a portion of it within ten years, so that the debt was, in the main, then redeemable at our pleasure.

It was not possible to pay it in coin and it was not honorable to pay it in greenbacks, especially as that only could have been done oy issuing new greenbacks far beyond the volume existing during the war, and which would at once depreciate in value and destroy the public credit and dishonor the country. We, therefore, authorized the exchange, par for par, bonds bearing 4, and 5 per cent. interest for the bonds bearing a higher rate of interest. The only contest in congress upon the subject was whether the new bonds should run five, ten and fifteen years, or ten, fifteen and thirty years. I advocated the shorter period, but the house of repsesentatives, believing that the new bonds would not sell at par unless running for a longer period, insisted that the four per cent.

bonds should run for thirty years. Greenbackers like Mrs. Emery, now complain that the bonds run so long and cannot be paid until due, are the same people who insisted upon making the bonds run thirty years. It required some ten years to complete these refunding operationsof which the larger part was accomplished when I was secretary of the treasury- and they resulted in a saving of one-third of the interest on the debt. So far from it being in the interest of the bondholders, it was to their detriment and only in the interest of the United States.

The nex: "conspiracy" complained of is the alleged demonetization of silver. By the act revising the coinage in 1873 the silver doliar, which had been suspended by Jefferson in 1805 and practically demonetized in 1835 and SUS: pended by minor coins in 1853 and which was issued only in later years, as a convenient form in which to export silver and the whole amount of which from the beginning of the government to the passage of the act referred to was only. 88,000,000. This silver dollar was, upon the petition of the legislature of California and upon the motion of her senators and unanimous vote of both houses of congress, without objection from anyone, dropped from our coinage and in its place substituted the trade dollar containing few more grains of silver. A few days after.

wards, silver having fallen rapidly in market prices, congress restored the coinage of the silver dollar, limiting the amount to not exceeding 81,000,000 nor less than $2,000, 000 a month, and under this law in a period of twelve years we issued over 400,000,000 silver dollars, fifty times the amount which had been coined prior to 1873. And now under existing law we are purchasing 51,000,000 ounces of silver a year; sQ that what she calls the demonetization of silver, has resulted in its use in our country to an extent more than fifty-fold greater than before its demonetization. In spite of and growing out of the increased supply of silver and the cheapening process of its production, it is going down in the market and is only maintained at par with gold by the flat of the different governments coining it. Now the deluded people belonging to the class of Mrs. Emery are seeking to cheapen the purchasing power of the dollar in the hands of the farmer and laborer by the free coinage of silver and the demonetization of gold.

Silver and gold should be used and maintained as current money, bait only on a par with each other and this can only be done by treating the cheaper metal as subsidiary and it only as demanded by the use of the people. The seventh "financial conspiracy" is the pride and boast of the government of the United States, the restoration of our notes long after the war was over to the standard of coin: in other words, the resumption of specie payments. This measure, which has met the violent opposition of such wild theorists as Mrs. Emery, has demonstrated its success in the judgment of all intelligent people, not only in the United States, but in all the countries of the world. There is no standard for paper money except coin.

The United States postponed too long the restoration of its notes to coin standards. Since it had the courage to do this under the resumption act, on the first day of January, 1879, we have had in the United States a standard of gold with coins of silver, nickel and copper maintained at that standard by the fiat of the government, and paper money in various forms, as United States notes, national bank notes, gold certificates, silver certificates and treasury notes all at par with gold. To call this a or an "infamous plot" is a misnomer of terms which will not deceive any intelligent man, but it is rather the glory and pride of the United States that it not only has been able in the past thirty years to put down a great rebellion and to abolish slavery, but to advance the credit of the United States to the highest rank among nations, largely increase the currency of the country, to add enormously to its productive interests and to develop the resources of the mine, the field and the workshop to a degree unexampled in the history of nations. Intelligent people who reason and observe will not be deceived or misled by the wild fanaticism and the gloomy prophecies of Mrs. Emery.

Temporary conditions growing out of the failure of any portion of our crops will not discourage them; the exaggerations of the morbid fancy will not mislead them. A candid nation of the great financial measures of the last thirty years will lead people to place what Mrs. Emery calls "the seven financial conspiracies" as the seven great, wise and statesmanlike steps which have led the people of the United States through perils and dangers rare. ly encountered by any nation, from a feeble confederacy with 4,000,000 of slaves and discordant theories of constitutional power, to a great, free republic made stronger by the dangers it has passed, a model and guide for the nations of the world. As for Mrs.

Emery's criticisms upon me personally, I do not even deem them worthy of answer. She repeats the old story that I was interested in the First National bank of New York and gave it the free use of the people's money, a plain lie, contradicted and disproved over and over again. I never had the slightest interest in the bank, direct or indirect, and, as the public records will shnw, gave no favors but treated it like all other depositories of public money and held it to the most rigid accountability, nor have 1 in any case derived the slightest pecuniary benefit from any measure either pending in or before congress since I have been in public life. Very truly yours, JOHN SHERMAN. HOW TO INDORSE CHECKS.

First, of Course, Get Your Check, and Then Cash It Immediately. There are several ways of indorsing a check for deposit. Some simply write their name across the back without specifying that the proceeds are to be paid to anybody in particular. This is the least desirable of any way, for a check so indorsed passes from hand ta hand like a bank note, and if it be lost in the mail or stolen, it may be cashed by the bank upon which it is drawn as if the check had been originally drawn to bearer. Moreover, when a check is once indorsed in blank, that is by the payee simply writing his name across the back, the payment cannot be restricted by any subesquent indorsement.

For example, it would be useless for the bank where the check is deposited to indorse "pay to the order of such and such a bank," naming its out-of-town correspondent. Such an attempt to restrict the payment of the check would not amount to anything after the first payee had indorsed in blank. A very favorite way to indorse a check is "for deposit only to the credit of.13 This is good enough as far as it goes. The trouble is that such an indorsement transfers the title to the cheek: to the bank where it is deposited, and if it be followed up similar indorsements as it passes from bank to bank on its way to its final destination, the title is transferred at every stage. Now, the check having reached the bank on which it is drawn, it is paid, and the money starts on the return trip.

If at any point on the way back a bank should fail with the money in its possession that money would go in the general fund to be distributed pro rata among the creditors. if the original holder of the check were to indorse it in this way, "collect for account of" or "collect for my account," "then these words would operate as a notice to all concerned that the original holder had not parted with his title to the check, and that all subsequent holders were agents for the purpose of collecting only. after the check had been. cashed and the proceeds on the way back, any bank should fail with the proceeds in its possession, the original holder can follow the proceeds of his check and compel the receiver to pay over the amount to him in full. It is worth while noting that checks should be cashed promptly.

This is a case in which it may truly be said that delays are dangerous and sometimes fatal. The bank may fail, or the drawer may fail, or his funds may beattached in some legal proceeding or the drawer may die. Massachusetts is probably the only state in the union which provides by act of legislature that a bank may pay checks for a certain time after the death of the of Commerce. Sweet Solicitude. Husband -My dear, the air is very damp to-night.

You'd better wear your furs. Wife--I have them ready. Husband--And tie your boa on closely. A little exposure often to sore throat, and sore throat leads to diphtheria, a most dangerous disease. Wear your thick rubbers, too, and good thick shoes, and warm gioves; a warm vail.

be too careful and, my love, I think, you'd better wear when one's life insurance is in arrears, and yours is. -N. Y. Weekly..