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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary * of tho Daily News.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 23d the House bill to
prohibit the making oí books or pools on trot-
ting or rlinning races, toot racing or base-
ball in the District of Columbia was
passed; also the House bill for the sale of
certain New York Indian lands in Kansas. The
International Copyright bill was then discussed
until adjournment The Honse passed
the bill giving a pension of $75 per month to the
widow of General Ricketts. Under the call of
States bills and resolutions were introduced.
The balance of the day was given to the con-
sideration of the River and Harbor bill in Com-
mittee of the Whole.
After clearing away some unimportant
business on the 24th the Senate resumed con-
sideration of the International Copyright bill,
iffhich, after debate, was laid over. After the
passage of several bills of a private and local
nature and an executive session the Senate ad-
journed In the House the Committee on
Elections reported on the Frank-Glover contest
from St. Louis in favor of Mr. Glover. The
House then, in Committee of the Whole, re-
sumed consideration of the Tariff bill. Mr.
McMillin, of Tennessee, spoke in favor and Mr.
Burrows, of Michigan, against the bill. When
the committee rose the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 25th a resolution
was adopted oalHng for copies of the reports of
Special Agents Beecher and Tingle as to the
alleged smuggling of opium from British Colum-
bia. The motion to refer the President's
message was then taken up and Mr. Voor-
hees addressed the Senate at length. At
the close of his address the conference
report on the joint resolution for a conference
of the American nations was non-concurred in
and a new conference ordered As soon as the
House met it went into Committee of the
Whole on the Tariff bill, and was addressed by
Messrs. Bynum, of Indiana, and Dockery, of
Missouri, in support of the measure. A night
session was held and the debate on the bill con-
tinued.
At the conclusion of ths morninsr hour in
the Senate on the 26th Mr. Ingalls took the floor
and gave notice that on Tuesday he would reply
to some remarks of Senator Vorhees in his
speech of the day before. The conference re-
port on the joint resolution to take part in the
international exposition at Paris in 1889 was
agreed to. The Senate then resumed consider-
ation of the Railroad Land Forfeiture bill,
which was finally laid aside, and
bills passed granting the right of way to
the Kansas City & Pacific railroad through the
Indian Territory; appropriating $100.000 addi-
tional to the public building at Wichita, Kan.,
and granting the Kansas Valley railroad the
right of way through the Fort Riley reservation
Adjourned until Monday In the House the
Senate bill passed for the relief of the Omaha
tribe of Indians in Nebraska and to extend the
time of payment to purchasers of lands from
the Indians. The remainder of the day was
given to debate on the Tariff bill.
The Senate vas not in session on the 27th
... Soon after the House njot debate on the
Tariff bill was resumed and continued into
the evening session, at which seventeen pension
bills passed.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Indian Agent Gregory, who was under
investigation by a Sonate committee, has
resigned.
Toe Supreme Court of the United States
has rendered an opinion in case No. 213,
the Missouri Pacific Railway Company,
plaiAtiff in error, vs. Patrick Mackey, in
error from the Supreme Court of Kansas.
The defendant was employed by the rail-
road company and was injured by the neg-
ligence of one of the company's engineers.
He brought suit and recovered damages.
The judgment of the Supremo Court of
Kansas was affirmed.
The President has approved the act for
a bridge across the Mississippi river at
Memphis; the act facilitating the prosecu-
tion of works projected for the improve-
ment of the rivers and harbors, and the act
granting the right of way to the Duluth,
Rainy Lake River & Southwestean Rail-
way Company through certain Indian
lands in the State of Minnesota.
Dr. McMaster, a veterinary surgeon,
was fined in Washington recently for
"docking" two horses* tails belonging to
attaches of the British Legation.
There was an unusually large attend-
ance at the President's reception on the
27th. Included in the throng were dele-
gates to a religious convention, the Boston
base-ball team, many of the ballet of a
theatrical troupe and most of the chorus of
an opera company. A religious crank who
informed the ushers that he was "owned
by God and the Bible" was denied admit-
tance.
The Postmaster-General has completed
arrangement with the Postmaster-Gen-
eral of Canada establishing a un form rate
of postage of one cent per ounce on all
merchandise, including grain, seeds, cut-
tings, bulbs, scions and ail grafts, and one
cent per two ounces of printed matter in
the mails exchanged between the two
countries and now known as third class
matter in the domestic mails of this couu-
try.
EAST.'
The New York Board of Aldermen has
passed over Mayor Hewitt's veto the reso-
lution curtailing his power in the matter of
displaying flags on the City Hall. This is
the outcome of the St. Patrick's day row.
The Atlantic engine works at East Bos-
ton were burned recently. Loss heavy.
Clarke, Radcliffe & Co., dry goods com-
mission merchants, of New York, have
failed with liabilities estimated at $300,000.
F. B. Blake & Co., coal commission mer-
chadts of New York, have made an assign-
ment. Liabilities $100,000 to $150,000, of
which a considerable portion is said to be
due to banks which hold the firm's paper.
The high school building and the Unitar-
ian Church at Concord, N. H., were en-
tirely destroyed hj fire recently. All the
children escaped in safety. The loss was
$70,000.
Six laborers were buried in a trench and
killed at Yonkers, N. J., recently. A
water pipe burst, causing the ground to
cave in.
The machine and pattern shop of the
Delamater iron works in New York were
burned recently; lews $100,000.
Nearly every saloon in College Point, L.
Lf about fifty in number, has discontinued
the sals of pool beer. Labor organizations
insisting on the boycott.
The contention over the foreign flag issue
in New York City was removed to Albany,
where a bill was introduced in the As-
sembly making it a misdemeanor to raise
any foreign flag upon any building owned
by the State or by any city or village there-
in. The bill created a heated discussion
and was voted down—104 to 40.
General Abraham Merritt, a retired
merchant of Nyack, N. Y., committed sui-
cide in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
City, the other night.
Thb chemical paint factory of Henry
Woods, Sons & Co., at Lake Crossing, near
Natick, Mass., was destroyed by tire the
other morning. The loss .was ever $160,000;*
insured.
The birthday of the late General U. S.
Grant was celebrated in New York aud
other cities on the 27th.
The American flint glassworks strike
has been settled in a conference at New
York.
TUB WEST.
An explosion that pitched seventy peo-
ple into the air, throwing one man fifty
feet, wrecked seventeen large plate glass
windows, ruined $35,0(k) worth of clothing,
damaged a building 115,000 and caused a
stampede of hundreds of people form the
upper stories of tall buildings, occurred in
a basement on State and Jackson street,
Chicago, the other night. The explosion
was caused by two workmen, who had
broken a gas main without knowing it. No
one was killed.
Judge Gresham, at Milwaukee on the
27th, decided the suit of the heirs of the
late S. S. Merrill, general manager of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road,
against C. H. Price, for an accounting in
connection with Colorado land transactions
in Minnesota and Dakota, involving profits
supposed to be in the neighborhood of $1,-
000,000. The decision was in favor of the
defendant.
The Bank of Antigo (Wis.) was robbed
of $6,000 tho other day by some unknowu
person, who went into the back door while
the cashier was at dinner.
Benjamin S. Robbixs, the assistant
United States district attorney at Denver,
Col., recently attempted suicide by jabbing
a knife in his neck. He was in a fit of de-
lirium at the time. He was from Kentucky,
where he had been a State Senator.
The prison shoe shop at Chester, 111.,
was burned recently. Los?, £75,000.
By a collision between a freight 4 and
construction train near Birnam Wood,
Wis., the other morning, ten laborers ware
badly hurt.
A tornado, the second ono this year,
struck Pratt, Kan., on the evening of the
26th. Mrs. William Fisher was killed and
many others seriously wounded.
The Indiana Democrats have nominated
Courtiand M. Matson for Governor. Gruy
whs endorsed for tho Vice-Presidency.
Two cistern cleaners of St. Louis were
found dead in a cistern recenlly, having
been suffocated by choke damp.
Two convicts in the penitentiary at Jef-
fersonville, Ind., were terribly burned by
molten iron recently while attending to a
cu pola.
Anarchist Parsons' old paper, the
Alarm, of Chicago, has suspended publica-
tion.
Twenty survivors of the great Sultana
explosion of April 26, 1865, in which 1,700
Union soldiers lost their lives, held a re-
ception at Hillsdale, Mich., on the 26th.
The sawmills of the Ft. Madison (Iowa)
Lumber Company were destroyed by fire
on the 27tli. Loss, $45,000.
TnE cannon ball train on the Burlington
& Missouri River railroad was wrecked
near Alma, Neb., on the 27th. Two passen-
gers were killed and quite a number in-
jured. The mail and express cars with
tbeir contents were consumed.
The crops of Minnesota and the North-
west generally are reported to be in a very
backward and doubtful condition.
Over 1,000 feet of the snow sheds near
Mullan tunnel, on the Northern Pacific
railroad, in Montana have been destroyed
by fire.
THE SOUTH.
TnE rumors current North about yellow
fever iu South Florida, are said to be false.
There has been a mild type of fever at
Plant City all winter, resembling yellow
fever, but the disease has terminated, the
last case being convalescent last week.
Ed Hall, colored, was abusing his wife
recently at Osceola, Ark., when she fled to
Frank Warren's place. Hall demanded
that she be driven out and Warren refused,
wben Hall produced a shot gun and blew
Warreu's head off.
The trouble at Bessemer, Ala., over the
lynching of Hardy Posey, a negro, was
much exaggerated. At night on the 25th
matters had quieted down, but considera-
ble alarm existed.
Judge T. B. Mackibben, of Campbell
County, Ky., was found dead in his bed at
Newport, O., recently, with an empty
chloral bottle at his side.
Elias A. Ries, a Baltimore electrician,
has filed patents for heating dwellings by
electricity. His idea is said to be ent rely
new. The heat is produced by secondary
or transformed currents.
R. F. Sullivan, agent for James P.
Cooper, representative of foreign bond-
holders of London, was indicted for selling
Virginia coupons at Harrisonburg, Va., re-
cently. During the term of the circuit
court at Harrisonburg 100 suits against
parties for offering coupons in payment of
State taxes were tried.
The other night eleven masked men went
to the home of Ellis Young, a witness for
the defense in the Hamilton-Gambrell case
at Clinton, Miss., and called him out, when
they tied him with a rope and severely
beat him. He wTas told that he was
whipped for lying about Roderick Gam-
breil.
James Swafford, aged thirty, was min-
ing coal at Dayton, Tenn., the other morn-
ing, when a piece of slate weighing ten
tons fell on him, crushing his body into a
jelly.
The Texas Prohibition convention at
Waco was largely attended. Delegates to
the National convention were instructed to
vote for Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey,
for President, and Dr. J. B. Cranfiil, of
Waco, for Vice-President.
wnitelet, a notorious desperado and
train robber, has been captured near
Libertyville, Tex., by officers after a brief
fight.
Near Richmond, Ky.f the other day
Arch Stolta, a farmer, committed suicide
by taking 4%Rougb on Rats." His brother
William, seeiog the corpse, took the re-
mainder of the poison, leaving a note say-
ing he wished both to be buried in the
same coffin.
genera?
Tns creditors t*f Colonel Maple&on, the
London operatic manager, have accepted
an offer of $2,500 in settlement of all his
debts.
DuRiNft the last fortnight the American
donations to the National League :have
amounted to £2,000. The donations of the
home branches of the league in the same
time reach £387.
Tee report of the committee of the French
Chamber of Deputies, which considered
the Panama lottery loan proposal, recom-
mends that permission be immediately giv-
éú to the company to issue' the loan, rfnd
expresses confidence in the early comple-
tion of the canal.
The Loudon Chronicle announces the ap-
proaching marriage of Mr. Joseph Cham-
berlain to Miss Endicott, who met and
formed an attachment to the Birmingham
statesman during his visit to the United
States.
.Advices from Labrador state that seal
and other fishing there the past winter was
extremely go«d.
The British Parliament has refused to
pass the Irish County Government bill to
second reading.
The directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul Railway Company have elected
General Mana>g.:r Roswell Miller president
to succeed the late Alexander Mitchell.
Conflicting reports were current on- ihe
25th regarding Hon. J. G. Blaine's health.
Walker Blaine emphatically denied that
his father was in any way sick, and said
that he went to Europe for pleasure and
not for the benefit of his health.
The Manitoban (Government is negotiatr-
ingforaloan of $1,500,000 to complete the
Red River Valley road aud cover the de-
ficit.
The Pennsylvania. Massachusetts and
Arizona Republican conventions have
chosen Blaine delegates. The Texas dele-
gation will stand divided.
Serious prairie fires are reported at sev-
eral places in Manitoba.
A dispatch from Nancy says a riot broke
out there on the 26th, a mob of Boulanger-
ists attacking the students' clubs with
stones and other missiles. A number of
policemen were injured before quiet was
restored.
Parnell recently expressed himself as
confident of Irish home rule in the near
future.
Queen Victoria left Berlin for London
on the 26th.
Emperor Frederick was reported much
better by his physicians on the 26th. His
appetite was returning aud his recovery
was thought probable.
The Servian ministry resigned on the
27th, but a new one was at once formed.
Business failures (Duu's report) for the
seven days ended April 26 numbered for
the United States, 193: Canada, 30; total,
223; compared with 1Ü5 the previous week
and ll'l the corresponding week of last
year.
Six murderers were executed on the
27t.h, all for separate crimes—three at F.ort
Smith, Ark., one at Anderson, S. C., one at
Orangeburg, S. C., and one at Leonard-
town, Md. Five of the culprits were
negroes.
The Pope has issued a decree condemn-
ing the plan of campaign and boycotting in
Ireland. The . Nationalists declared they
would treat it with contempt.
Prince Bismarck has declined the title
of Duke on the ground that he is not in a po-
sition to support the dignity.
The estimated revenue for Canada (Sir
Charles Tupper's budget) this year is
$36,000 000, and the estimated expenditures
137,000.000, showing a probable deficiency
of £1,000,000 for year ending June 30 next.
THIS LA'jlJBST.
There was a wreck on the Pennsvlvania
&%New York, near Olean, N. Y.. recently,
resulting in the serious injury of about
twenty passengers.
Clearing house returns for week ended
April 2S, show d an avcra-. e decrease of
2.6 compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the decrease
was 3.3.
Three women and a man were drowned
by the upsetting of a canoe in the Stillagna
marsh, Washington Territory.
Three men, names unknown, were upset
in a boat at Detroit, Mich., recently ,and
drowned.
The floor of a buildiug at Rushylvania,
O., gave way during a school exhibition re-
cently and 400 persons were precipitated to
the basement. Two persons were killed
and ten seriously injured.
The South End Bank at Columbus, O.,
has suspended, supposed temporarily.
A petition to Governor Oglesby, asking
for the pardon of Anarchists Fielden,
Schwab and Necbe, now imprisoned in the
Joliet penitentiary, is to be circulated by
certain labor organizations of Chicago.
The Senate was not in session on the
28th. The House contined Ü13 discussion
on the Tariff bill.
The steamship Yorktown and a dyna-
mite cruiser were launched at Cramp's
ship-yard, Philadelphia, on the 28th.
The ship Smyrna wa3 sunk in a collision
with the steamer Motto in the English
channel off the Isle of Wight on the £9th.
Thirteen persons were drowned.
The London money market was quiet
and prices firm during the week ended
April 28th. The German bourses were
steady. The Paris Bourse was dull with
prices steady. *
A f.re occurred on the 29th in the build-
ing 403 and 405 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn.
Edward Smith, owner of the building, lost
$40,000; Mr. Stovers, dry goods, $100,000.
Other losses amounted to $60,000.
Heavy rains of the 28th caused serious
overflows in North Texas and the Indian
Territory.
MeX'can troops have had two more en-
gagements with Yaqui Indians. In the
Tejibampo mountains twenty-one Indians
were killed, and near Agua Caliente seven
were killed and fourteen taken prisoners.
It is stated that the action of the Propa-
ganda of the Holy See regarding Ireland
was taken spontaneously and not at all at
the suggestion of any representative of the
English Government. The Pope approved
the Congregation's action without in any
way entering into the pending political
questions between England and Ireland.
The Weser Zcitung reports that Kuntz
and Tappenbeck's expedition to the interior
of the Cameroons (Africa) was recently at-
tacked by natives and that two officers
were severely wcrunded.
Edgar Slade, aged seventy-five years,
and William McClellan, his grandson,
aged three years, were recently found
burned to death. They lived on a farm
about three miles from Chatham, Ont., and
it was supposed they were out burning
brush.
POLITICAL.
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Indiana Democrats Meet in Convention aud
Name Their Leader#—New York Repub-
licans—Other Political Pointers.
Indianapolis, April 27.—The Democrats
of ludiana met in mass convention this
morning in Tomlinson Hall. The maiu
floor was reserved for the delegates, while
the galleries and lobbies were crowded
with spectators and friends of the various
candidates.
The convention was called to order by
Eph Richardson. The committee on per-
manent Organization reported,.recommend-
ing Charles T. Jewitt, of Florida, for chair-,
ihan, and William A. Peeíé, Jr., of Marion,
secretary; Daniel W. Voorhees, ot Terre
Huute; Davis Turpie, of Indianapolis; John
G. Shanklin, of Eyansville, and , John H«
Bass, of Fort Wayne, for delegates-at-large
to the National convention; Presidential
Electors-at-large, Thomas E. Cobb, ol
Vinceunes, and John E. Bamtf, of Terre
Haute. The report of the comm.ttee was
unanimously adopted.
Nominations for Judges of. the Supreme
Court were called ic\r. VV. E. Nebluck, oí
Vincennes, was nominated from the -First
district without opposition. George V.
Howk. of Floyd Couuty and Hugh McMul-
len, of Dearborn County, wfere nominated
from the Second district. The ballot re-
sulted in Mr. Howk receiving 922 votes and
Mr. McMullen 3 /9. Mr. Howk was declared
the nominee. For the Fourth distiict. Al-
len Zollars, of Fort Wayne, and William
H. Carroll, of Grant County, were placed
in nomination. Mr. Zollars received an
overwhelming majority,
William R. Myers, of Madison County:
Courtiand C. Matson, of Putnam County;
W. D. Bynum, of Marion County, and Wil-
liam Steele Hólman, of Lawrence burg,
were placed in nomination for Governor.
At the close of the call of counties, Mr.
Myers gained the floor and moved that the
nomination of Mr. Matson be made unani -
mous. This was done amid loud cheering
and Mr. Matson was called £o tbe platform,
where he thanked the delegates for then
action and presented to them the issues
that would claim their attention during the
coming campaign.
The nomination of William R. Myers, of
Madison County, for Lieutenant-Governor,
was made by acclamation, for which Mr.
Myers briefly thanked the couyention.
Robert W. Myers, of Monroe County, war,
nominated for Secretary of State by ac-
clamation. For Auditor of State, Hugh
Dougherty, of Wells County; Charles A.
Munson, of Allen, and Eli W, Brown, oí
Whitley, were nominated. The ballot re-
sulted: Dougherty 4-12, Munson GM, Brown
118, James 112. Mr. Munson was declare^
the choice of tho convention and his. nom-
ination was made unanimous.
For Treasurer of State, Thomas B.
Byrnes, of Evatisville, wras nominated by
acclamation and John W. Kern, of Howard
County, by acclamation for Reporter ol
the Supreme Court.
Hon. William H. English, chairman of
the committee on resolutions, submitted
the platform, which was adopted.
new york repulllicans.
New Yokk, April 26.—The Commercial-
Advertiser says: Sine? the election of the
first del,elates to the Republican Natioual
convention the contest over the choice ol
Presidential candidates may be said to
have fairly began. The delegates so far
elected are O. G. Warren and Senator John
Laughlin, of Buffalo, and H. H. Warner
and William Hamilton, of Rochester, II
the other thirty-three Congressional dis-
tricts elect delegates with the same prefer-
ence as these gentlemen, as appears likely,
Chauncc3r M. Depew will have the solid
delegation from New York behind him in
the convention on the first ballot, anyhow.
The next conventions to bii held are the
Twenty-eighth district at El my ra, aud the
Fourteenth district at White Plains. It
seems quite certain that the Fourteenth
will send two Depew men to Chicago, and
Judge Robertson, ono of the delegates,
may present Depew's name to the Chicago
convention. The Elmyra district is in
doubt. The New York City district con-
ventions will be held on May. 11.
new jersey democrats.
New Youk, April 20.—A special from
Newark, N. J., says: The Democratic
eaders have practically décided upon the
slate for delegates-at-large to the St. Louis
convention. The delegates will be Gover-
nor Green, ex-Governor Abbott, Senator
Blodgett and ex Senator Ridgway. Sena-
tor McPherson will be on the grounds in
Cleveland's interests, and to help prepare
the tariff part of the platform. It is hoped
that the election of Abbett and Blodget*
will heal the factional difficulties, as thev
i *■
have been sworn enemies. But they will
not go as a unit, for Abbett is anti-Cleve-
land, while Blodgett is supposed to fuv« r
the President. It is believed James Smith,
Jr., of this city, will be the chairman of
the convention at Trenton.
sherman men.
Mansfield, O., April 2G —The Republican
Congressional convention of the Four-
teenth (Senator Sherman's) district, at
Shelby, to-day, renominated for Congress
Charies P. Wickham and selected Hon.
Sidney S. Warder and Hon. Henry C.
Hedges, Sherman's old law partner, as
delegates to the National convention.
Strong Sherman resolutions were adopted.
maine rfpuel1üans.
Bangor, Me., April 26.—The Republicans
of the Fourth Congressional district nom-
inated W. C. Boutell for Congress by ac-
clamation and Fred A. Powers, of.HouHon,
and Benjamin B. Thatcher, of Bangor,
delegates to the Chicago convention. The
resolutions strongly indorse Blaine.
Congress and the Campaign.
Washington, April 26.—With ali of the
expedition possible Speaker Carlisle docs
not now think it probable that Congress
will adjourn before the middle of August.
One month at least after the meeting of
the National convention will be dovoted to
the making of campaign speeches. The
record of the last Congress was larger
than any which preceded it. It is expected
the record of this Congress will surpass
them ail. The Civil-Service law forbids
the campaign committee from assessing
Government officials to raise campaign
funds, but the franking privilege still
exists and "parts of the Congressional
Record" can be sent to every cross roads
free of cost, except to the taxpayers of the
country who pay for the carrying of tho
Government mails. A very considerable
portion of the speeches to be delivered
will never be heard in the House. They
will be "printed upon leave," and as Mr.
Browne, of Indiana, said to-day: "The
figures in them are for homo consumption
only." .
GRANT'S BIRTHDAY.
General Sherman and Others Celebrate
by a Banquet at Oeimonieo's.
New York, April In commemoration
of the anniversary of the birthday of Gen-
eral Grant an elaborate bauquet was given
at Delmonico's last night. The arrange-
ments had been made by Goe^ral W. T.
Sherman and about 150 persons were
present, all parties and all ranks being
represente^.
General W. T. Sherman presided over
the first table. On his right sat Chauncev
M. Depew, the orator of the evening, and
on his left Mayor Abr*m &•-. Hewitt. The
others at the table were General William
Mahone, General W. H. Seward, son of
Lincoln's Secretary of State"; Hon. Georg
W. Childe, Cyrus W. Field. Rev! John R.
Paxton,* Edwards Pierrepout, General
C. B. Comstock, W. C. Andrews,,
Samuel Sloan, Captain W. W. Pax-
ton and Albert Bierstadt. Among
others present Were: General Fitz:
John Porter, Colonel A. Louden Snowdeiv
of Philadelphia, D. O. Mills, General
Stewart L. Woodford. General W-ager
Swayne,„Colonel Robert &. lngersoll, Elliot-
F, Shepard, Hon. Elihu Root and Herman
C. Armour.
Letters of regret were read from General
Joseph E. Johnston, Colonel John T.MoSby*
General James Longstreet aud General
Fitzhugh Lee.
General Sherman, after an appropriate
address, introduced Mr. Depew, who de-
livered a brilliant oration. He compared
and contrasted President Lincoln and Gen-
eral Grant and said that each.was neces-
sary to the success of the other and both
to the restoration of the Union. No other
soldier was so fitted for the work to be i
done in the field and no other man than
President Lincoln would have had the
masterful staiúina to withstand the de-
mands of the country for Grant's with-
drawal The speaker touched upon the
generous recognition of General Sher-
man's great abilities evinced by Gen-
eral . Grant and of Grant's interposi-
tion when President Johnson wanted to
puéish those who had been in rebellion. In
view of the association of his name with
the Republican Presidential nomination,
the following sentence from his speech
seemed significant : "It is a notable fact
that though we are the only purely indus-
trial nation in the world, wo have never
selected our rulers from among the great
business men of the country. x\nd the
conditions and prejudice of success present-
insuperable obstacles to such a choice."
Other speeches were made by General
Mahone, Colonel R. G. Ingersoll, Judgo
Pierrepont-, General Noble, of Missouri,,
and others.
FATAL WRECK.
A Fatal Wrcck oil tho Burlington Road in,
Nebraska.
Omaiij^, Neb., April 2$.—'There was quite
a serious wreck on the Burlington & Mis-
souri River two miles from Alma, Neb.,
about six o'clock yesterday morning. The
smoker, day car aud Kansas City Pull man
were precipitated into Rope creek, which
had been Swollen by rains that had weak-
ened the bridge. The engine, baggage aud
express cars passed over safely. The .en-
gine broke loose from the others. The ex-
press car turned over and caught firo and
burned. The baggage was all burned.
The mail was soaked, and the smoker
and day car, telescoped and broken in
pieces, are now lying in the bed of the
creek. Twelve persons in the day car and
smoker were badly burned. The dead are:
S. A. Towns and wife, Grand Rapids, Mich;
Mrs. Towns was taken out of the crcck
alive, but died at Alma; C. E. Eaton, Lin
coin, a traveling man from Kansas City, is
not expected to live. Conductor Odell was
severely cut on tho head and internally
iujured; a brakeman was cut on the
head; Edward Defenbaugh, of Adelphi,
O., was seriously injured; M. C. Kirby, of
Montreal, was cut on the head. The
wounded are ail at Alma, ktid all doing
well, except Eaton. An inquest will bo
held to-day.
THE GASOLINE STOVE.
A llnlldingr liurned and Two Persons Cre*
mated at TopeAa by a Gasoline Explo-
sion.
Topeka, Kan., April 23.—At 4:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon Mary McLaughlin,
aged six, daughter of James McLaughlin,
tried to light a gasoline stove but had no
sooner applied the match than an explosion
occurred and she and Annie Evans, agel
nineteen, a domestic, who was standing
near, were enveloped in flames. Every
effort was made to save the two but with-
out avail. The house belonged to A. D.
Campbell and was occupied by his family
and that of McLaughlin. The coroner
viewed the charred remains of the victims
last night but no inquest will be held. The
position in which the bodies lay indi-
cated that the servant had desperatelv
tried to save the little girl. Mrs. Mc-
Laughlin, the mother of the little girl, was
badly burned and lies in a critical condi-
tion. She ran out of the house enveloped
in flames. When the explosion happened
she attempted to return to tbe house to
rescue her child, but fell exhausted to the
ground. The house was a new ¿ne and un-
finished. . The partitions were paper and
temporary. The whole house seemed to be
on fire at once from the start. It was well
furnished. There was no insurance, and
the loss to the owner, Campbell, will ex-
ceed $2,000.
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VEXED BY VOORHEES.
An Alleged Scheme to Defeat the Springer
Oklahoma BilL
Washington, April 27.—The House Pub-
lic Lands Committee at their meeting yes-
terday morning ameded Senate bill 10SQ by
attaching the Public Land Strip known as
No-Man's-Land to New Mexico, instead of
Kansas ana for a land office to be estab-
lished in the strip and the appointment of
i register ai*d receiver. This is the Voor-
hees town site'scheme and the parties back
of it think they are throwing the public off
the track by this amendment. Their pur-
pose is to'pasé it through the House as
amended and thus get it before an accom-
modating, conference committee, where it
will be juggled into its original form as it
passed tho Senate, which Attaches tho
Publict Land Strip to Kansas. Of course
the ulterior object of this conspiracy is to
defeat the passage of the Oklahoma bill,
bat Mr. Springer and the other friends of
this latter measure are folly advised of the
facto and prepared to thwart this scheme,
which is being engineered by Senator
1 Voorfeeeo and other ~
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Miller, Freeman E. The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1888, newspaper, May 3, 1888; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183559/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.