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SUNDAY AT THE FAIR.
Re Antnorities Hare Already
stalled tb8 KatM.
Fore-
A CONDITION, NOT A THEORY.
the Old Hudson Bay Steamer Beaver to
CO to Chicago.
BKKIOr.S CHAKGES ON NTKSE8.
JM In Michigan Forest Fire in New
.Tersey Another tee Broken
Other New.
: Ohicago, June 3. It would be just as
well for those persons and there are
hundreds of thousands of them in the
United States ; who are trying to bring
about the closing of the world's fair on
Sunday to bear in mind that the very
thing against which they protest is now
in full operation. The gates of the
world's fair are open every Sunday, and
hundreds of sight-seers go to it, they
being admitted readily on payment of
the established fee. The world's fair
directors have thus decided the matter
of Sunday opening while the whole
country, represented . by congress, by
great religious gatherings and many
other influential bodies, is still debating
the matter. It may well be asked : Are
the world's fair nutflorities justified in
forestalling the judgement of the nation
in this matter? There is little real differ
ence between the present arrangement
at Jackson park and that winch will be
in force if the fully erected enterprise
shall be thrown open to visitors on Sun
days a year hence. Because of this
action of the directors the question now
under debate by the whole nation is not,
"Shall the worlds fair be
open on Sunday?" but, "Shall. the pre
sent condition of Sunday sight-Beeing at
Jackson Park be changed after the for
mal opening of the world's fair?" The
worlds fair is open on Sunday. It is a
condition, not a theory, that confronts j
The rioneer Steamer Beaver.
Albany, N. Y., June 3. Robert
H.
Benedict, of Victoria, B. C, is in Albany
trying to form a company for transpor
tation to Chicago of the first steamer
that entered the Pacific ocean around
Cape Horn. He feels confident of the
euccees of his project. Benedict is one
of the owners of the famous steamer,
the Beaver, the first of her kind to leave
England, brave the dangers of the cape
d sail into the Pacific. This . was in
835. All her original machinery and the
ve oak timbers of her hull are as sound
the day the steamer passed out of the
Mulder's hands. Only one person who
me on the Beaver's maiden trip now
ives.
Hospital Scandals.
Cincinnati, O., June 2. There is a
big sensation here over, the death yester-
ay of a prominent' citizen at the city
hospital, having bled to death unat
tended. Last night, too, a patient at
the hospital committed suicide, leaving
note saying death was preferable to
Jhe abuse of the nurses. Charges have
teen made for some time past in the
ublic press against this hospital, alleg
Ig negligence, incompetency and im
morality. The principal charge was
vainst Mies Murray, of Philadelphia, in
barge -of XQft trained nurses' depart
ent. Theawperintendent was recently
ismissed on tDfs account. -
A Forest Fire.
Landing, N. J.,
May's Landing, N. J., June 2. A
treat fire started in the woods between
is place and Egg Harbor early yester-
y morning, and burned fiercely in a
luable tract of timber all day. About
'clock yesterday afternoon it was car
ed within one mile of Hammonton.
large force of men fought it all day
ith little success, and last night it de-
royed hundreds of acres of timber
pry hour. It was turned off from
ammonton by back-firing and plowing
fe ground on all sides of the town, but
8 now burning so fiercely that there
breat fear of the place being destroyed.
Michigan In the Swim. "
tband Rapids, Mich., June 2. Tha
Irst storm ever experienced here- oc
Jred last night. It was a reenter
udburst. -' Crops were destroyed for
me around, and the track of the Grand
bids and Indiana road - was washed
for three miles.
Storm anil Cyclones.
Chicago, Jane 2,-Advices give fur-
ther details of the loss of life and the
destruction of propertv bv storms and
rvolonea in the south west. Lott. Ter..
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reports a cyclone near Durango, which
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caused the greatest havoc, sweeping
everything before it, over a space of a
quarter of a mile wide and several miles
long. Houses were, utterly demolished.
Many people escaped injury by entering
cyclone cellars, but five or six are known
to be killed, and a number were injured,
some fatally. The effects of the rain
storms which have prevailed since Mon
day throughout Missouri, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Indian territory, and
which continue in many places are be
coming evident in the rising rivers. All
streams in this territory are rising rap
idly, and promise to exceed the high
stage of water recently recorded, where
it is not already exceeded. Enormous
damage has been already . done, and
much''greater is in prospect. The dam
age by rain and wind in the neighbor
hood of Texas has been estimated at
$500,000.
' A Canadian Cruiser
Ottawa, June 3. The protest of the
United States government against Can
ada constructing a revenue cutter for
service on the upper lakes has been of
little avail, and the keel of the vessel
which is to be of steel throughout, is
now being laid at Owen soqnd, on the
Georgian bay. The objection from
Washington wus based on the agreement
of 1817 between Great Britain and the
United States, one of the clauses of
which prohibited either country from
building a "vessel of war" on the lakes.
It has been discovered, however, that
this agreement was abrogated by Secre
tary Seward in 1S65, and consequently
the Canadian government will construct
the cruiser. Even had the treaty been
in force this government would have re
sented United States interference, . as
the new vessel is simply being built ' for
revenue purposes and the United States,
it appears, has ftt the present time four
vessels of this class on the lake, viz:
One each at Oswego, 'Detroit; Erie and
Milwaukee.
Getting; Heady.
Minneapolis, June 3. Preparations
for the interesting affair next Tuesday
are going on apace, the managers having
fully fixed upon the' programme of the
inaugural ceremonies. The new conven
tion hall will be filled to the doors with
delegates and visitors. There will be
music by a brass band and a chorus of
1,500 voices will sing such patriotic
music as cannot be construed into re
flecting partisan feeling. The addresses
will be delivered by Maj. McKinley, the
energetic tariff-lifter, and Mr. Depew.
There Is a distinctly festal character
about all this. The day to follow will
be one of toil and voting and of anxious
delegates growing hoarse with shouting.
People throughout the country will be
hiving around bulletin boards and jost
ling each other over tickers. But the
eve of the combat will be as festive and
joyous as a carnival. This is pleasant.
Even busy Mr. Harrison, down there at
Washington, will feel some polite in
terest in the proceedings that are to
follow. -
Not Lawfully Detained.
Laksing, Mich. , June .3 The Supreme
court has filed an opinion reversing the
conviction and ordering the discharge of
Aaron W. Hamaker, who was recently
convicted in the Jackson Circuit court
of attempting to aid a convict to escape
from prison. The statute makes it a
crime to aid in the escape of a prisoner
who was lawfully detained, and the
court held that the information did not
show that Donovan,, the prisoner whose
escape Hamaker attempted to aid, was
convicted of any offense known to the
law and therefore that he was not law
fully detained. Donovan is doing a ten
I years's sentence, having been convicted
in Ogemaw county 1887 of the crime of
entering a saloon in the night with in
tent to commit robbery. This, the court
says, is not a crime known to the law,
as no breaking was charged. Under this
state of facts Donovan will experience
but little difficulty in securing his liberty
also. ' ''
A Lake Steamer Soak.
Detroit, June 2. The steamers Brit
ain and Progress, both of Cleveland,
collided, this morning , at . the .mouth
of the Detroit 1 river. The Progress
sank immediately, but the; crew , was
rescued with difficulty. The Britain
was comparatively uninjured. ,..'
A Canoeist Drowned.
Pobt Jervis, N. Y., June 2.' Commo
dore C. F. Weeks, of the Brooklyn Canoe
Club, was drowned yesterday while at
tempting to shoot a dam across the
Deleware river at Laka waxen, Pa.
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FISH AND SNAKE STORIES.
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Reptiles Driven to High Lands and Take
Refuge in Willows.
HUNTERS HOKKIF1KD TO FINII THEM
Pastures Filled With Fish Which the
Farmers Gather by the Basket
Full Minor Mention.
Macomu, III., June 3. William Bar
ker, manager of the electric light and
gas plant of this city, together with
several companions, has just returned
from a hunting and fishing trip to
Crooked creek in the vicinity of Col war.
The entire region around Colmar, a way
station on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad between Quincy and
Galesburg, is one sea of water. The
water stood several feet high around a
line of willows which had been set out
for a fence. Barker and his companions
got into a boat and rowed up around the
trees in hopes of finding some sort of
game, when they were horrified to see a
huge snake drop into the boat. The
reptile was quickly dispatched, when
the hoys discovered that the trees above
them were literally alive with snakes ; a
mass of hissing, writhing reptiles, con
sisting of water moccasins, rattlers and
many other varieties. The thoroughly
frightened men began a fusilade with
their guns and in a short time they had
killed over one hundred big snakes.
Some of them were monsters. The high
water has driven hundreds of these
reptiles into the surrounding country.
The- fish ' stories that now pour
in from this neck of the woods
are equally ' marvelous. One farmer
found his ' pastare full of buffalo
fish one morning and gathered a bushel
baBket full. Another native captured a
huge cat-fish that weighed' over one
hundred pounds. Fishing is all the go.
The small streams are full of the choicest
kinds of fish.
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St. Louis, June 4. The convention
came tor order at the appointed hour.
The permanent organization was affected
by chosing Hon. George L. Converse of
Ohio, president ; Horace Davis, of Call
torma, senior vice-president, with an
additional vice-president from each state,
and an executive committee on the same
basis; and secretaries D. H. McAdam
and J. C. Broadwell. Mr. Converse, on
assuming his duties, thanked the con
vention for the honor conferred, and
then, reverting to the objects of the con
vention, declared the building of the
Nicaragua canal was as necessary as the
casting of the cannon or the bnilding of
ships in the time of war, and for that
reason, as well as being a commercial
necessity, the government should have
control of so great a waterway, which, it
is felt, should be constructed at once.
These remarks were received with great'
applause. The report of the committee
on resolutions indorsed the canal as feas
ible, and recommended government as
sistance, with protection secured to the
government interests. It recommended
investment in the canal company's se
curities to the American people, and di
rected the appointment of two commit
tees, one to visit each of the great na
tional conventions of political parties to
secure the indorsement of government
control of the canal. The report was
adopted. Then, after an address by
Rear-Admiral Ammen,. and the usual
resolutions attending the closing ' of a
gathering, the convention adjourned.
Sidney Dillon's Illness. ,
New York, June 2. Sidney Dillon,
president of the Union Pacific railway,
who lies critically ill at his residence in
West Fifty-seventh street, continues to
grow gradually weaker. , He is greatly
emaciated and cannot even tnrn in - his
bed without assistance.' The only nour
ishment which he takes is a ' preparation
of fermented milk, "but how mnch of its
nutritive quality ia assimilated the at
tending physicians are unable-to deter
mine.' Both the nerve and noscular
forces of the patient are Idaily becoming
diminished. His mind0 remains clear,
bnt he does not speak of business mat
ters. ' It ia eleven weeks today since Mr.
Dillon was last down town, and for five
weeks he has been confined to his bed.
Fe",,1,'nt' "trengtn.
Minneapolis, June. 4.-Thirteen
j states have instructed their delegates to
, cast tneir votes at Minneapolis
cast their votes at Minneapolis for the
renomination of President Harrison.
These are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland,
Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina,
; Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas,
i These states will cast 290 votes in the
' convention. The president would lack
1 155 of a majority if he had to depend on
! them alone. But in the 31 states that
1 have given no instructions there are
Harrison delegates as earnest and as
j firm as those froui Indiana and Illinois.
'The nninstrncted delegates number 598.
, It is gratifying to find that the custom
of instructing delegates has so far fallen
! into disfavor that nearly two-thirds of
j the delegates are free from such dicta
! tion. All schemes to stampede the con
: vention for Secretary Blaine are now
i practically abandoned. The promoters
j of these plots admired Mr. Blaine, but
j they admired themselves more. They
hoped to j promote personal aims by
' creating confusion in the republican
i ranks. They desired to create enmitv
between tlie president and Mr. -Blaine
in the hope that an open quarrel might
ensue which they could turn to account.
The sincere friends of Mr. Blaine ac
cepted his letter of declination in good
faith, and bestowed their support on
the president under whom he has served
with so much distinction. Mr. Blaine
has done well to respect this course, and
in so doing has followed the dictates of
honor as well as courtesy.
Strike in Okanogan.
Spokane, June 4. News of a rich free
gold strike on the Similikamen river,
about a mile and one-half south of the
British line, has reached this city. The
mineral is found in quartz ledges which
stand out like huge reefs against the side
of the bluff trending north and south
and being exposed, showing the ledge to
be 300 feet wide. H. Ballard of Con
conully, a well known engineer, arrived
in the city IasL night and gave an ac
count of the discovery. He said that
the ledge was bonded to F. W. Dunn
about 30 days ago, but the reports of
value did not reach Conconnlly until a
few days ago.' Seventeen claims have
been located and large numbers of men
are going to the scene of the strike daily.
Mr. Ballard said that he has often driven
over the ground, and about a year ago
broke out some rock from the ledge and
carried it to Conconnlly, intending to
assay it, but he thought that the ledge
was too large. "If it had been a ledge
three feet wide," said he, "I should have
tiatjti it" Tha nmnwli ia Bust.- nt awuii
ana is tne subject of much discussion
Fruit Shippers Complain.
Yakima, June 4. The Northern Pa
cific railway company complains that
Yakima fruit shippers are not particular
enough about the packages in which
they ship their fruit aid other products.
To this a shipper replies that- last year
he shipped a crate of watermelons to
friends in Montana. He pait several
dollars for the melons, had a new and
strong shipping crate built, put up the!
balance of his money and mortgaged
several years of his life to pay the trans
portation charges, and then waited
patiently to hear encomiums on the ad
mirable qualities of the Yakima - water
melons. One lone watermelon arrived
at its destination. , There was no crate
to it and it was cracked, and passed by
the brakeman and railroad employes on I
account of being unwholesome, and so, I
in line with the officers of the Northern
Pacific, he would advise shippers to nse
more precaution. They should thor
oughly investigate the good qualities of
the various safes, procure a time lock,
and then take their chances.
A Raid on Sacramento. '
Sacramento, , June . 3. Excitement
runs high in the Chinese quarter. Yes-
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formed Chief Rogers that 40 highbinders
were enroute to this city, from San
Francisco, to avenge the murders of
Tnesday night. ' They left San Francisco
by steamer and are' expected to arrive
this morning. From a reliable source
it was learned that the self-constituted
avengers -are members of ' a big high
binder society, and have sworn to kill
the promoters of last Tuesday's murders.
The peaceable Chinese are leaving the
city, fearing violence at the hands" of
the new comers.. The .local highbinders
are arming themselves and are prepar
ing to give battle to the intruders. -'. '
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The Birkenhead Disaster. . .
Prague, June 3. The frightful roll of j
casualties in the disaster in the Birken- (
berg silver mine increases. It ia now j
known that fully 400 miners lost their ,
lives. Many bodies were burned beyond j
recognition.' The accumulation of gas
in the mine greatly interferes with the
work of removal of corpses, and it ia be
lieved that the work of rescue will not
be completed inside of a fortnight. '.
WHOOPING UP BLAINE.
As tiie Contest Nears the End it Deepens
In Interest
FACTIONS ' BECOMING EXCITED.
Some Very Harsh Things are Being said
by Men on Both Sides.
NOX-I'aKTISANS FEAK KESILTS.
Blaine's Friends He Forced Him
Into the Position of a Passive
Candidate.
Minneapolis, June 4. If another
letter is not forthcoming from Blaine
within thirty-six hours it is impossible
to predict what the convention will do.
The intensity of the situation may be
understood when it is stated that repre
sentatives of the associated press are
questioned every hour 6y anxious party
leaders as to whether any declaration
has been made, or is expected, at Wash
ington from Blaine. The contest is
growing in interest hourly. Men are be
coming unduly excited. Factions are
begining to say harsh things. Non
partisans are beginning to fear the re
sults of the campaign, which ever wins.
Either by or against his will Blaine's
friends have forced him into the position
of a passive candidate, and the Harrison
people are not unnaturally saying many
caustic things about the secretary's
position, insisting that good faith will
compel him to write another letter of
declination.
The Blaine leaders are working hard
to bring about a break to him from Har
rison instructions in hope that it will be
accepted as a precedent by other in
structed delegations, with the result of
further breaks to the man from Maine.
Wherever possible this will be helped
along by the argument that Harrison in
structions were only given on the sup
position that Blaine would not be a can
didate, and that the strong Blaine senti
ment in their state will now justify them
in ignoring the instructions given under
these misapprehensions.
Among the conspicuous figures in the
Harrison headquarters this morning
I were those of Powell Clayton, of Arkan
I sas ; R. C. Kerens, of Missouri ; W. O.
Bradley, of Kentucky ; H. Clay Evans
ton, and ex-Governor Warmoth, of
Louisana.
- There is a contest as to the right to
seats at the national republican conven
tion, in the third North Carolina district,
where two factions have chosen dele
gates. This makes contests in three dis
tricts. . Want the Pheasants.
Colfax, Wash., June 4. Several
sportsmen of this city are at work upon
a proposition to introduce Chinese
pheasants into Whitman county. The
plan is to secure several pairs of these
birds from Oregon, and build a yard for
them where they will be cared for and
allowed to increase until a sufficient
number is secured, when they would be
turned loose and protected by law until
snch time as it was thought tney were
thick enough, when they would be pro
tected in their season, the same as other
game birds are. They are very numer
ous in Oregon and are one of the finest
i of birds. The pheasants are as large as
'an ordinary chicken, with very white
meat. It is estimated that the cost of
procuring enough of the birds to make
the start and making a yard to take. care
them in would be about $150,
.
. All the Marks of a Blluard.
. Cheyenne, Wyo., June 6. A storm
having all the marks of a midwinter.
blizzard raged here all day Saturday. A
blinding snow fell, which was piled by
the wind in great drifts.. The snow was
over eight inches deep on the' level.
Traffic was suspended. The storm was
general throughout the 'state,, and will
cause a severe loss of cattle. .....
Highest of all hi: Leavening Power. Latet U. S. Gov't Report.
An Old Mine Sold.
Spokane, June 6. A deal was con
summated in this city, on Saturday by
which W. P. Haskell, one of Spokane's
most prominent citizens, will acquire for
himself and an eastern syndicate one of
the most historic,, largest and richest
mining properties in the United States.
In fact it is the first mining property of
which there is any record in what is now
the United States. It is the old Copper
canyon, in the wilds of New Mexico, but
which is now only twenty-two mile
from a railroad that has recently pene
trated the heart of the . country from
which the Montezuinas extracted fabu
lous wealth lone before the advent of the
Spaniards.': The history of this, the first
scene of mining operations in this coun
try, is quite interesting considering the
great proportions to which the mining
interests have grown from the time the
ancient workings were in successful op
eration until the present day, when so
much interest of the same nature centers
around Spokane. The Copper canyon
was worked in A. D. 1540 at the time of
the Spanish invasion.
The Mississippi Still Ittaing.
Chicago, June 6. Advices to the asso
ciated press show that the Mississippi
river is rising at and above St. Louis.
The probability is that it will not begin to
fall until after, the June rise', and it is
giving cause for grave apprehension when
that event takes place. The Arkansas
and other rivers in the southwest where
recent heavy rains have fallen also con
tinue to rise, and threaten further des
truction to property. Means are being
taken to warn the inhabitants of any
sudden break in the levees, so that they
may Wee to places of safety.
Wants to iilve Forever.
Walla ' Walla Statesman. We should
like to live long enough to find out the
true secret of Charles A. Dana's unre
lenting and unvarying hostility to Grove r
Cleveland. Various surmises have heeu
hazarded, but it is not believed that the
reason has ever been stated; Dana is so
bitter and so persistent in his assaults,,
that we' might almost believe that
Cleveland had done him some great
favor,' though there' is nothing in
Cleveland's publieoaretr to support such
a theory.
A Terrible Tornado.
Vienna, June 3. The Agram-Brod
mail train was wrecked by a tornado
near Nowska station last night, and the
passengers had a fearful experience. .
Suddenly complete darkness fell upon
the traiu. The enginees and fireman
crouched upon the floor of the engine.
A terrific gust lifted the engine, weigh
ing 70 tons, and five carriages, and threw
them over an embankment into a cut.
half fall of water. The station at Nowska
was converted into a hospital for the in
jured, 23 in number. ,
Dynamite In Chicago.
Chicago, June 3. A morning paper
says the police have dicovered a carefully-devised
plot to blow up the Mc
Gregor boiler factory, whose men are on a
strike, with non-union men filling thoir
places. Wires were strung to a point at
the rear of the factory running to a room
recently taken by three men. Jn this
room were found a largeqnantity of dyn
amite and an electrical apparatus for ex
ploding it.
Washonts and Washouts.
Pitttiil'rg, June 6. Heavy rains in
Pottsville, Reading and Scanton Satur
day amounting to a waterspout in some
places and in others accompanied by
hail, did mucn damage to crops and
caused washonts on the railroads, which ,
have blocked traffic.
. A Farmer Found Dead.
Albany, Or., June 3. Daniel Houck,
a well known farmer, living near Tan
gent, was found dead this morning about
8 :30 o'clock, lying in a barnyard, where
he had been milking cows. No marks
of violence were visible, and it is sup
posed he died from heart failure.
Robbed the Stage.
Billings, Mont., June 3. The Bill
ings and Great Falls stage was held up
by masked men yesterday, and the treasure-box
and mail taken. The passengers
were unmolested . The robbery occurred
on Painted Robe hill, near Museel Shell
river. ;''
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