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THE 54TH? CONGRESS. ROUTINB OF KIOU8B AHD 8ENATB BRIEFLY CHRONICLED. Summary of Bill and Resorptions Presented and Acted Upon TOT H0T78X The house committee on immigra tion Friday authoriztd favorable :re porta on bills introduced by Repre sentative Corliss, of Michigan, and Mahany, of New York. Mi. Corliss bill was drawn for the purpose of pre venting persons residing in foreign cqontry from competing wit laborers in this country. It is especially aimed at , Canadian labor. Amendments adopted exoept from the provisions of the bill' persons who come' to teach new arts or industries and sutlers and employes of Teasels navigating the great lakes. ' Mahany 's. bill provides a compre hensive set of rules for the restriction of immigration and was reported with several minor amendments The house also, by a vote of 60 to 44, refused to pass a bill to give Alaska a delegate in congress. It passed a bill to authorize the free importation of foreign exhibits for the Nashville Centennial exposition. ' , After , a debate continuing for over four dfljys, the house, Saturday, by a Vote off 157 to 81, passed the bank ruptcy" bill, reported by Qeneral Har rison from the oommittee on judiciary, and managed by him throughout the debate. V . It is substantially what is known as the Torrey bill. Although the debate was supposed to be nnder the five minute rule, upon amendments, the house-indulged several members be yond that limit while they expressed their views upon the measure. These were notably Mr. Hepburn, who op posedtbe bill, and Mr. Orosvenor, Mr. Bartlftt ancT Mr, Dingley, who advo cated its passage. Action upon the Jbill was cod fined altogether to the second section, which dtfinjkl the aotsof bankruptcy. Pending the oossideration of the bankrncy bill, Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs oalled up and the house passed without a division, the bill passed by the senate appropriating $75,000 to defray the""expensea of the oommittee to be appointed under the recent treaty with Great Britain to de termine the claims for damages by the soizure of alleged Bearing sea poach- ers. ' '. . The house at 5 :15 o'clock adjourned. Monday was suspension day in the houso under the rules, and a number of private pension bills and other bills of local character were passed. The Contested election case of J. O. Kit by versus Jo Abbott, from the sixth district of Texas, was reported from the elections committee No. 3, declaring Abbott, democrat, the sitting member, entitled to the seat, and it was agreed to. Mr. Bontelle, of Maine, called up the naval appropriation bill and a?ked that the house non-oonour in the senate amendments and agree to the confer ence. In the course of the consideration of this matter there was something of a scene. Mr. Quigg, of New York, call ing Mr. Bontelle to) order on the ground that he was reflecting upon the senate's action by . his comments. An animated colloquy followed be tween the speaker and Mr. Boutelle, the former explaining the philosophy and necessity of the rule, and the lat-J ter contending that he bad not vio lated it. ; Mn Sayers, of Texas, moved to con cur in the senate amendment, reducing the number of battleships from four to two, and, with the amendment' pend ing, the matter went over until Tues day by unanimous consent. A bill was passed under suspension oi toe ruies tonus protection 01 Amer ican yacht owners and shipbuilders.) i A resolution introduced in the house Monday by Mr. Pickler, of South Da kota;, setting aside Wednesday, the 6th, and Wednesday, the 13th, for the consideration of the private pension bills which failed to pass for want of a quorum, was presented by Mr. Hen derson, of Iowa, as an order Tuesday, from the committee on rules. Mr. Henderson stated that there were 405 private pension bills upon the calendar and it was to got rid of these that the oommittee on rules proposed the order. 7 Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, opposing the adoption of the order, said the general pension laws were very liberal. He a ' Jl Al A : it.' i l:i crmoiBeu tut) bcuou ui, iud iutuiu pension committee in reporting bills defining classes of pensioners not in cluded -within the terms of the general law. It was intended, Mr. Crisp said, that the invalid pensions oommittee should consider oases within the spirit 'of the federal law, but excluded by its letter. ! The resolution was put to it vote and declared carried yeas, 172; nays, 55. The question of concurring in the . senate amendment to the naval appro priation bill reducing the number of new battleships to be authorized from four to two was called up by Mr. Bon telle. and Mr. oayres addressed the house in favor of his motion to concur. -. After further debate 'Mr. SayreV motion to concur in the senate amend xnent reduoing the number of battle ships from four to two was rejected yeas, SI, nays 141. Mr. Bontelle moved that the senate's request for a conference be concurred in and it was agreed to. The house at 4:15 p. m. adjourned until Wednes day. !- i y THS 8XVATB. - - Ben Tillman and Dave Hill crossed ifQtrfoin the eenate Friday to. he great amusement of the senators' and galleries. Senator Tillman took the floor early in the day and dunked that brick ha had been carrying in his pocket for Senator Hill. Indeed he chunked a pocket full of bricks at the Now Yorker, and. Mr. Hill responded with vigor. -The fightTr lasted -nearly four hours and was altogether the fan? nirst display seen in tho senate this season. Whil stinging words were exchanged, both men kept in good tem per. The men washed over all tho soiled linen of tho demrcratic party to the -reat amusement of the repn t,bcaia. After all it was a display of buffoon ery, which was dragged out so long and was so thoroughly undignified that the entire senate was dirgusted with the performance. Mr. Tillman declared that if the democratic platform1 in 'Chicago -was not made to suit his views, he would take his hat and get out of the party. He did not know where be would go. He could not go into the populist party, but he would get out of the democratic party, for such action would mean that it was dead. Hill replied that he would bo found (n the democratic party whatever be its platform, and that he would hold Mr. Tillman to 'his promise not to go into the populist party. 'If you keep on the way you are go ing," interrupted Mr. Tillman, "you'll soon land in the republican party." While Mr. Hill was replying, the silvery-beaded Stewart, of Nevadu, whispered something to Tillman. Mr. Hill pointed at them, scornfully and announced that Mr. Tillman was al ready receiving instructions from a populist. 'Do you wish us to understand that you whispered all of that to the sena tor from South Carolina?" asked Mr. Hill, with a supercilious smile, and again the senate roared. Mr. Stewart arose mightily in his wrath to explain what he had whisper ed to the South Carolinian. Mr. Hill at first refused to allow him -an in terruption, but Mr. Stewart exhibited much wrath, and the New Yorker smil ingly yielded. Mr. Stewart made" a five-minutes' speech on the tariff, the sflver question and a little of every thing he knew without onco referring to what he had said to Mr. Tillman. His earnestness caused senators and spectators much amusement, and be fore he had concluded everybody, in cluding Mr. Hill and Mr. Tillman, were convulsed with laughter. Final ly he sat down. . Mr. Hill continued for two hours speaking on every subject of a politi cal nature that has been discussed in years, every few. minutes being inter rupted by Mr. Tillman, who, in one of his interruptions, when Mr. Hill was defending - Mr. Cleveland, declared that since Mr.: Cleveland had been in the white house the New York senator had had no more power than a boot black; that Cleveland had appropriated all the power of tho government. Mr. Hill declared himself against silver, but said he was a democrat above all things, and condemned Carlisle severely for preventing the election of Senator Blackburn in Ken tucky, i As Mr. Hill concluded he turned to Mr. Tillman and asked : "Will you bo satisfied with a repe- tition of the platform of 1392. " "No," responded Mr. Tillman,?' jumping to his feet, MI want 16 to 1 or bust." Mr. Tillman went on to contrast the two democratic leaders,' Calhoun and Cleveland, and said that Calhoun stood up for the people at large, while Cleve land was the exemplar and tool of the money classes and represented 03ly the almighty dollar. He sneered at Mr. Cleveland's veto of small pension bills, while he turned over $10,000,000 to one Jew. (Laughter.) Mr. Tillman declared that Mr. Cleveland has no financial policy ex cept that of Senator Sherman, and said that Secretary Carlisle and Senator Sherman had exactly the same notions: Whenever he mentioned Carlisle he meant Sherman, for they were inter changeable, except that the one was honest to his friends, .the bankers, while the other had 'proved treacher ous to his party. "If silver' coinage were established by congress," he said, when he got on another stack, "there would be an ef fort by the shylocks to foreclose their mortgages and thus reap the fruits of their roguery. They are now swallow ing us by degrees and I would prefer to be swallowed all at once, like jJonab, and be done with it." (Laughter.) "The senator from New York," Mr. Tillman continued, "asked me what I was going to do with South Carolina at Chicago. I will say this to him. I expect to do my level best as a demo crat to keep my party back out of the woods of republicanism, and to throw off all the slough and rottenness that it has accumulated during the last three years. But if boodle is to win at Chi cago, .then I am willing to take my hat and bid the senator from New York and all like him a long farewell." This sentence was declared in such a ludicrous manner as to provoke a gen eral laugh throughout the chamber. The debate came about . while Can dler's torpedo boat amendment was under discussion. Devoting only a few sentences to the amendment, then leaving tho question of ships, Mr. Till man said he would follow the prece dents set in the discussion and talk of the financial question "in answer to various speeches made at various times and places, by various men, Borne sen ators and some not." He proceeded to criticise one of the speeches made some time ago by Mr. Hill in defense of the administration in issuing bonds, and characterized Mr. Hill's argument on that point as the "tyrant a plea for necessity." j The naval appropriation bill, which has been nnder consideration in the senate during the entire week, was PtMCd Saturday and now it will be for a conference committee to reconcile J the disagreement between the two houses. The chief of these disagreements is the reduction of the number of battle ships provided, for. 'The house fixed tho number at four, the senate at two. The ships are each to cost $3,750,000, exclusive of armament' : The discussion during the day was over an amendment offered by Mr. Chandler, appropriating $4,000,000 Jot twenty additional torpedo boats. Speeches were made in support of the amendment by Senators Hawley and Lodge, and against' it by Senators Wolcott and Gorman. .When the vote was taken the amend ment was defeated by a vote of 39 to 23. The farther amendments made by the committee to the provisions for the increase of ; the navywere agreed to. The bill was finally reported from' the committee of the whole to the sen ate, where all the amendments were agreed to in bulk, except those special ly reserved. Mr. Hale offered an amendment which was 'agreed to, directing the sec retary of the navy 'to examine claims against- the government for damages sustained by contractors in building war ships since the 1st of January, 1891, on account of the delays that were not the fault of the contractors, but were due to the action of the gov ernment, and to report at the next ses sion of congress. The bill was then passed without division. At 5:58 p. m. the senate adjourned nntil Monday. Two yea and nay votes were had in . the senate Monday, the result of which was significant as an indication that there is not to be any undue haste .in passing appropriation bills and forcing an early adjournment of congress. The first vote was on a motion made by Mr. Turpie, of Indiana, to pro ceed to the consideration of the Du pont election case. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, who, as, chairman of the committee on privf leges and elections, has parliament-, ary charge of the subject, pro tested against this action on the part of Mr. Turpie as discourteous to the committee, and as something un precedented in his service in the sen ate. Opposition was also made to Mr. Turpie's motion as an obstacle to the passage of appropriation bills ; but nevertheless the motion was .carried by a majority of one thirty-two to thirty-one and the Dupont case was taken up. It was, however, laid aside soon afterward, 'under the terms of a compromise previously arranged. The river and harbor bill was then taken up, but it had again to give away to Mr. PefFer's bond resolution. The J a tier was laid before the eenate at 2 o'clock p. m. as the unfinished busi ness and Mr. Frye, having charge of the river and harbor bill, moved that the senate proceed to the considera tion of that bill. The motion, was de feated by eleven votes twentyreight to thirty-nine and the bond -resolution was proceeded with. v Mr. Hill speaking against it until 5 o'clock p. mi., when the senate adjourned until Tuesday. LESSEES FINED. The State f?ets $2,500 as a Result of the Convict Hearing. Governor Atkinson has passed an or der imposing fines aggregating $2,500 upon the three companies for viola tions of the lease contract as brought out in the recent investigation.' In addition to this penalty, which must be paid into the fetate treasury by the 15th of July or lay the companies affected liable to a forfeiture of their lease contracts," the governor has Col lected of the -penitentiary management $3,200 in fines for escapes within the past few months, making a total of $5,700. It was expected during the progress of the investigation that several of the whipping bosses and superintendents in the employment of the lessees would be removed by order of the governor on account of the damaging testimony brought out against them, and this would in all probability have been the case, but to escape the consequence the offending officers found it conven ient to hand in their resignations short ly after the conclusion of the hearing. Penitentiary companies Nos. 2 and 3 are in good financial condition, and the fines imposed upon them will doubtless be promptly paid. Company No. 1 is, however," in finan cial straits, being in the hands of a re ceiver, and it. is possible that the state will have further trouble with it. -,, Companies No. 2 and 3, those of Capt. J. W. English and Mr. W. B. Lowe, were not found directly culpa ble; but the fines assessed against them were on account of the treatment of the convicts which had been sublet by them to Company No. 1 at Cole City. A GRAIN CONGRESS. Prominent Cities Represented at the Meeting In Charleston. The opening session of the grain congress of the south and west was held is Charleston, S. C, Wednesday morning. President McGahan, of the Charles ton Chamber of Commerce, presided. Augusta, New Orleans, Louisville, Chicago, Savannah, Brunswick, Tampa, Mobile, Wilmington, Minneapolis, Kansas City and other cities were rep resented. Mayor Smith of Charleston, made the address of welcome; -tendering the freedom of the city. ' President Elliott, of the Coast line, Colonel Killebrew of Tennessee, Breedlove Smith of New Orleans, Inglebart of Chicago, Knott of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, Purse of the Savan nah freight bureau, and others made brief responses. A committee on' or ganization and credentials was ap pointed. ....: I : ; i Wobbt and the grave digger get on well together. . ASSASSIN'S BULLET ENDS TIIBl EXISTENCE OF SHAH OF PERSIA. THE The Murderer Disguised as a Woman Meagre Details of the Tragedy. - Secretary Olney, at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon,' received the following ea-' ble message from United States Minis ter Alexander McDonald, at Teheran : - Tehebajt, Persia,. May 1, 1896. Olney,' Secretary of State, Washing ton : The shah, visiting the shrine near the city today for devotion, on enter ing the inner jiaetnarr ' was ahot -by 1 an'&fisassinl'difijriiuied as a -womanl the bullet entering the region of the heart. The shah expired in a few minutes. The regicide is a revolutionary fanatic There is great distress, but the city is quiet." ' Shortly after the receipt of the news of the assassination. Secretary Olney sent a cablegram to Minister McDonald saying that the president directed that sincere condolence be tendered and that abhorrence of the crime be ex pressed to the government of Persia and the family of . the shah. Nasr-ed-Dine,' the assinated mon arch, was born July 17, 1831. He was the son and successor of Mohammed, and succeeded to the throne Septem ber 10, 1843. Just after the commune of Paris, Nasr-ed-Dine made a tour of Europe, and the educational advantages derived from his -travels resulted in the institution of a more liberal ad ministration of the government on his return to Persia. ' The New Shah. The new shah is Mouzaffer-ed-Dine, who was born March 25, 1853. His official title is Marza Valeahd, or heir presumptive. He has five sons, of whom the eldest is Mahommed Alimir za, and five daughters. The assassination of Nasr-ed-Dine by a-fanatio becomes a greater source of regret from the fact that his extend ed travels had taught him a degree of religious tolerance surpassing most eastern potentates. . The records of the state department contain many communications attest ing the shah's leanings toward liber ality and justice In one particular instance where an American Christian, under the protection of American mis sionaries, was shot at Oroomiah, Per sia, in 1893, the shah sent his son and heir apparent to investigate the matter on the complaint of United States Min ister: McDonald. - The Persian prime minister subse quently informed McDonald that im perative orders had been issued to have exemplary punishment inflicted upon those who had committed the deed, and to take every possible measure for the protection of other Christians who Mr. McDonald forwarded the entire correspondence to Secretary Gresham, stating that it was the request of the American missionaries that the shah's assuring letter should be published for the benefit of their friends at home. v , The Details Very Brief. ' ' The details which have reached Lon 'don of the assassination of the shah are of the briefest character. As the shah was entering the inner court of the shrine of Shah Abdui Azim, the assassin, who is eaid to be a Sayyid from Herman, named Mollah Besea, delivered the fatal shot. The shah was attended by his chief physician, Dr. Tholosean, and other physicians. The assassination caused much alarm. Prince Niab-es-Saltanes, the third son of the shah, retired to his palace at the request of the government. The heir to the throne, Muzaper-ed-Din, is at Tabriz. He will leave for the capital as soon as possible. A possible reason for the crime is that there has been much discontent for some time owing to the dearness of provisions, partly caused by the ex cessive issue of copper coins. The shot was fired as the shah was entering the shrine and the wounded ruler was at once conveyed to his car riage and taken with all speed to the palace, where he died two hours later. The murderer was arrested. It is be lieved that he had accomplices. STREET CARS TIED UP. Milwaukee Employes Strike For an . v - Advance in Wages. Street railway employes, at Milwau kee, Wis., inaugurated a strike Mon day morning for an advance in wages and recognition of the union, result ing in the tie up of every line in the city. -Over 1,200 men are out, includ ing conductors, motormen, electrical workers and barn men. There are not more than nine cars running on all lines in the city. The strikers assem bled around the barns and power house J and hooted men at work. The American Federation of Labor passed resolutions indorsing the strike. and the affair may result in a general Mu7 a .a. ra AU WUluli UiliUU labor is employed. The' strike is looked upon as a serious matter in la bor circles and developments are eager ly awaited. . , CONSUL. LEE TAKES THE OATH. WlE Leave for Cuba as Soon as lie , r Gets Instructions. General Fitzhugh Lee took the oath of office and executed his bond as con sul general to Cuba at Bichmond; Va., Thursday. The general expects to get ' his final instructions from President Cleveland in a daj or two and it is ' probable that he will go to Havana next week. The general seems to be ! in excellent health and rays he does not feel any uneasiness on . account of the climate of the islands. He thinks that if he takes good "care of himself be will be as well there as at fcomef CONVICT GOODS Made the Subject of a Bill in Con gress by Representative Gardner. Representative Gardner, of New Jersey, from the committee on labor, has submitted to the house a favorable report on the Sputhwick bill to protect free labor and the industries in which it is employed from the "injurious ef fects of convict labor' by confining the sale of goods manufactured by convicts to' the state in which they are produced. ' " An amendment was adopted exempt ing ananuf actured a agricultural pro ducts from the restrictions imposed. There is no disputing the fact, the re port says, that -the question of the em ployment of 50,000 convicts in the sev era! pn eral prisons and peniteutiariesin the Tllnited States is one of great impor tance, and that its satisfactory - solu tion requires the exercise of the sound est judgment and the wisest counsel on the part of those whose duty it is to legislate on the subject. "It is not designated by this bill," the report says: "to attempt to inter fere in the slightest degree with the right of each state to employ its con victs and to dispose of the product of their labor in any manner, by any sys tem or plan that may appear wisest and best to its citizens. All it seeks to accomplish is to confine the retult) of the operations of such system, so far as possible, within the state limits and to prevent resulting evils, whether necessary or otherwise, from extend ing to and injuriously affecting the citizens of those other states which which elect to make different dispo sition of the time and labor of their, prisoners. "Some states have in a great meas ure protected their own enterprise from the unequal competition of their prisoners, and send traveling agents of their penitentiaries into other states to dispose of convict-made goods at prices that utterly defy competition from those who employ free labor. It is evident that this is a wrong which should not be permitted to continue if a remedy can be applied." The report asserts that nothing less than the enactment of such national legislation as will effectually prohibit the interstate transportation of prison made goods will be found efficacious. The oommittee believes that the bill reported will be found such remedy for the wrongs complained of as is within the power of congress to apply and is desired alike by all capital and labor. WAS A BOMB That Kxploded in the Home of Gen. eral Weyler. Advices from 'Havana state that a dynamite bomb caused the explosion in Captain General Weyler's palace, and not a gas engine, as reported. The noise was - tremendous and caused intense excitement in the palaco and vicinity. The general and his officers rushed about giving orders. Even Weyler himself left the room greatly excited. Only one person was hurt, and he only- slightly. The others escaped miraculously. The -whole palace shook from lhs force of the explosion. Clouds of dnst blinded all persons inside, and many windows were broken. The bomb de stroyed the partition wall of the j;.r.L cipal counting room and broke two safes. The occurrence is the general ti-p e of conversation. It is believed to have been the , work of laborers.- The government says anarchists did it, and the police are making a diligent search, but no arrest has been made yet. Strong measures, , it is said, will be adopted to prevent a repetition of sim ilar aits. BUCKET SHOPS WON. J udge Decides They are as Legal as Boards of Trade; Judge Horton, at Chicago, has de cided that bucket shops are as legiti mate as the board of trade and quashed the eleven indictments against W. A. Skebel and ten others, charged with being proprietors of or employed in bucket shops. "The board of trade does a whole sale business in wheat dealing," said Judge Horton, " and what are called the busket shops do a retail trade. There is absolutely no difference in their methods of operation and the statute which makes the board of trade business legitimate does the. same for the, lesser dealers, who conduct the same kind of trade. While I believe personally it is all nothing but gamb ling, the law allows it and the courts are powerless." The remaining 210 cases against people who have been indicted for the same offense will be called Monday next and will be thrown out of court in the same way.' The' grand jury wholly ignored Jndge Horton's decis ion and immediately issued 149 more indictments - against proprietors of bucket shops. ALABAMA POPULISTS Sold Their Convention and Name a Ticket. The populists of Alabama at their conventional Montgomery nominated Congressman Goodwyn, of the fifth district, for governor; J. A. Bingham of Talladega, for treasurer ; W. 8. Foreman for auditor; W. M. Wood, of Cullman, for superintendent of ed ucation, and A. Harris, of Chambers, fcr commissioner of agriculture. The secretary of state and attorney general are left for the republicans to 'fill up a ticket, which will be done by their committee. Iv-Bussia the principals in a duel par take of breakfast before fighting. UNDERTAKERS BUS Y DEATH DEALT BY A GASOLIXK . . EXPLOSION. A Building Fall of People Blown to Atoms In Cincinnati. At 7:45 o'clock. Monday evening a terrific explosion occurred in ' Adolph Drachma saloon, on Walnut street, be tween Fourth and Fifth streets, and immediately opposite the Gibson bouse, Cincinnati. - - j , The building, a five-story brick, was shattered to. splinters. I. -- The cxploaiot-shook-lrg4uiHing- for squares', while hundreds of win-, dows in the Gibson house were broken and plate glass windows on both sides of Walnut street, the entire length of the square, were shattered. Scores of pedestrians were knocked from their feet, while there were dozens of run-away teams in thevicinity. Several electric cars were . blown from the track, and not less than' twen ty lady passengers on different cars fainted away and were carried into the Gibson house and adjoining places. The electrio light, telegraph, tele phone and trolly wires on the iquare were torn down and, of course, the ex plosion was followed immediately by darkness. A general alarm of fire brought the police and fire department to the scene. Flash lights were rigged up across the street and ' the rays thrown on the ruins, j A cloud of smoke enveloped the busiest night dis trict of the citv. preventing the fire- men and police from working for .some time. - ' . -.:" j . The building was occupied on the ground floor by two saloons. ? Adolph Drach's on the south, Louis Fey's.on the north. The upper floors were liv ing rooms. The building was twenty five feettfront and ran back sixty feet. The explosion tore the entire struc ture from between the adjoining build ings. on. either side as neatly as itcould have been accomplished by workmen. All that is now left is a mass of brick, mortar and torn timber, over which the roof rests in a slanting position. The explosion of a gas machine earned it. . Only a few days ago Fey had a machine placed in a rear room and made his own gas. j . , " Death Dealt by the Wholesale. It seems impossible to believe that any one was in any part of the build ing at the time is now alive, but stories differ as to the number of men who were in Drach's saloon. William Caplip, a New York travel ing man, left Drach's five! minutes be fore the explosion. : At that time he says fully thiity people j were in the place. In Fey 's saloon there were ten or fifteen more. Both saloons were first-olas9 resorts and patronized by beer drinkers. They were always crowded, especially at the! hour when the explosion occurred, j That forty people were killed is not considered a wild estimate. Should it exceed that number considerably would surprise none. ' ' j On the second floor over- Drach's ealoon Drach's family livod. Drach himself had been ill and, only a few days ago brought his wife and 'one child in from a suburb to live. Unless they were out at tho time, they were all certainly killed. Fey lives in a suburb and it is said is at home, although he has not been heard from. Above his saloon were rooms occupied by his employes, and no one in any one of them escaped. U-trrc's barber-shop, immediately u j .iuing Fey's on the north, was badly i. maged and customers were cut on the hands and faces by flying glass. , Theodore Fucart's fnlqon, immedi ately adjoining DrccYn, on the south, was also badly damaged land numer' ous customers were 'cut by glass and injured by the shock. It Was a Weak Building. - The building was but a slight struc ture and not calculated j to stand a heavy strain. It had no independent side walls, the rafters for the different floors being supported by the walls of the buildings on either side. When the crash came these timbers were torn from their moorings and crashed down ward. Neither of the side wall?, which supported these, floors, was materially injured. I . I The roof was supported . by these same walls. It too fell through, cov ering the mass of dead and injured and drowning secret agonies that will ever remain untold. On the top fl ior, over the Fey saloon, on the north side were still hanging, after the concussion and crash, pictures of those whose firms lay below in the ruins. Various estimates are made upon the loss of life, all of them more or less vague, because of the fact that the work of exhuming the bodies is neces sarily slow. It is almost certain that at least twenty persons were -killed. A fair estimate places the number caught in the falling building at from sixty to seventy-five. At Jeaat twenty-five people, and perhaps more, the. exact number may never be known, were mangled, crushed, burned and scalded to death. A Later Account. T A rpecial of Tuesday from Cincin nati states that there is but little doubt now that the number of fatalities re sulting from the explosion in Drach's saloon will reach twenty. Seven are now dead, ten are known to be miss ing, and of the injured Mrs. Drach is lingering between life and death. The greatest horrors of the affair, it is feared, are yet to come, i The building inspector, after a close inspection of the rear wall of the building, which was left standing, and of the walls of the buildisgon either fiM ol tbe mini, pronounced tbgm all dangerous and the authorities ordered the firemen and polios to leave the wreck, The rescue work will not be resumed until tho walls are propped up and made-absolutely safe. So far as ascer tained 1 he casualties are : Dead Eollia A. Davis, of the Co lumbia! Carriage "Company, Hamilton, O.; Ado'phns Drach, proprietorjotthe saloon i Felicia Drach, his" five-year old daughter ; C. a Wells, 46 Harri son street ; Ella Singleton, of Zanes- t ville, domestic for Drach ; .Mamie Ken nedy, domestic in Fry's family; John , McCarjhy, clerk, 512 Channing street Id jured Willard E.V. Cook, clerk wakr works department, broken arm; Dracb,! aged three, compound - com- prefsed fracture of rip:ht arm and lace rated scalo: Oltra Drach. AdolnV widow, coutu&iCB of head and legs; H. E. Hanwick, bookkeeper, 15 East 7th street, right shoulder dislocated. Peter,Bnrnp,horeo dcnler.Gano alley, se vere contusions of body. Chas. Spilley, teamsUr, 175 East Pearl street, con tusion jr.f head and arm. Sidney W. Johnson, bar-keeper, Fifth and Cul berson, street, scalp lacerated. Bar bara Hud teelmann, domestic for Louia Fry, eyes injured. Joseph Spriggs, porter,! 19 Harrison street, face, and arms binned. J. B. Ward, race horse owner,! Toledo, left knee lacerated. .Missing Ligtfoot, and an un known 'man, Fewportmen, said to have entered Drach's saloon ; William Lauth, barkeeper for Drach f Barbara Stein kamp, Louis Fisdick, John McGarvey, C. F. Andreas, presfdent of the An dress Meara Wall Faper Company J John Beers, James Grant, of Newport; William Car r, a brick- layer. OUR PUBLIC DEBT. Interest Bearing Debt IncreasesCash, in the Treasury Decreases. The debt statement issued at Wash ington Friday afternoon shows a net increase in the publio debt, less cash; in the treasury, daring April of $5, 915,416.62. The interest-bearing debt increased $513,671, while tbe cash in the treas ury decreased $1,551,037.02. 1 The balances of the several classea of debt at the close of business April o rv il- J T l --1 t. J ,3 - LA $412,312,140; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,651,790; debt bearing no interest, $374,414,400. Total $1,218,378,330. j ; The) certificates and treasury notes offset by an. equal amount of cash in the treasury outstanding at the end of the month were $560,594,253; af de crease of $2,315,000. The total cash in thejtreasury was $868,799,550. The gold reserve wa$ $100,000,000.- Netr cash balances, $170,090,CG0. In the month; there was, a decrease in gold coin and bars of. $3,439,250, the total at the! clsse being SlG8,416,4r9. , Of silver 372. ' there wasau increase of $1,655, iOf the surplus there was in na- tional bank depositories $26,038,590, against $27,010,933 at the end of the, preceding month. QUEKN OP SP.UX M ay. Outline the Policy Tow ird Cuba in Ufa Coming Speech. Theiqueen of Spain's speech to be delivered at the opening vt the-Span-ish oorjtes at Madrid on Monday, May 1 1 t ll i. crnofajl f Anilina A Sift ti itrtW the Cuban policy oL iho government. It is-awaited with considerable inter est a? Washington, . especially as in formal assurances are believed to have been given to the administration that Cuba is to be tendered al most as great a degree of autono my in purely domestic t flairs as the dominion of Canada now ! ejoj8 in its relations with Great Bri tain, j The reform measures for the civil government of Cuba, promul gated by the royal decree of March 15, 1895, which were not promptly put into operation because, as it is claim ed, the! present revolution prevented the necessary local elections being held to! provide the officials named in the decree, are expected to be enforced without farther delay, now that elec tions for tbe cartes have ostensibly been held throughout Cuba in the Past , -w. monthJ BLKCKLKY FOR THE SENATE. He 1' ves a Free Show ana An4 noancei Himself. Ex-Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley, of Georgia, has announced his candi dacy for the United States senate. The opera bouse, Atlanta, and was received with applause. It was, a small audi" ence, but it vras appreciative. The announcement appeared to b0 the secret of a free lecture which the former chief justice of Georgia had. announced in the daily paperi buu oj posters personally uumiu uted. He stated early in his ad dress that be had rented the thea ter, had contracted for the ad vertising and had made all the ar rangements himself, and would per sonally bear all the expenses. This ha said was to gratify a life-long ambition which be had felt to run a . complete show himself. The " lecture was advertised as mystery, and it proved to be one, un til the Tannounced statement of hid candidacy came. MQNEV FOB UNCLE 8A3I. Carlisle Instructs Depository Banks to Send in $3,000,000. Secretary Carlisle has called on tho depository banks in New York to pay into the treasury $3,000,000 deposited in those banks, in payment of the last government bond sale, and which has remained there up to this time. This action lis taken because of the weakness of interest rates in New York and tho strength of foreign exchange. It is (2sss in n hope to prevent ibresti CBca goiQ exports,
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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