Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR + UBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, e Evening Star Newspay mn} 8. H. KAUPPMANN, Prest ne New York Offics, 49 Potter Building, ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the city by carriers. ~a their own necount, at 10 cents eWeek, or $4¢. per month. ‘at the counter Bem each. By wall—anywhere, tm the United States oF —postage prepaid—0 er mon! Saterday Quintupte Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; With foreign postace added. $3.00. (Entered st the Post Office at Washington, D. C., Bs_s0c0: 8 mail matter.) £7 All mall subscriptions must be paid in advance, Ristes of sdvertisinc mae known on application, Che Zvening Star. Vor 84. No. 20,900. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1894-TWELVE PAGES TWO CENTs. | COLONEL AINSWORTH Gossip as to Further Military Pro- TIS THOUGHT THERE WILL BE NONE A Court of Inquiry Was Ordered Just After the Disaster. BOT If WAS DISSOLVED The ground this is ‘the failure of the civil authorities, after prolonged hb int tion, This view of the case is strengthened by the records of the War Department in this particular case. They show that a military irvestigation of the affair was ordered and that it was suspended almost before it was Started, in order that there should be no interference with the civil investigation then in progress. The military investiga- tion was entirely discontinued a few later, and it was determined that no ther action would be taken by the War De- <a, chief of the record and pension office, ‘The Court Dissolved. On the 22d of June of the same year the Secretary of War issued the following or- der: “In the matter of the military court of inquiry, appointed June 10, 1893, to investi- Sate the conduct of office of Col. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the record and pension of the War Department, so far as it have had any coanection with or bear- upon the disaster of June 9, at the ‘ord’s Theater building, and to express &n opinion as to who is responsible. “Since the foregoing court was ordered, cfvil authorities of the District of Co- by a coroner and a legally chi #2, ve investigated thi ‘ord’s Theater buii roe ascertaining cause o! same fixing the responsibility therefor, and the lures under the civil law are still in i ge 8 Ewe Fires im Three Days im an Omaha Building. OMAHA, Neb., June 1—Fire, which was Started at 8 a m in the printing office cf Fred. A. Manger on South 13th street, caused a loss of $25,000. Manger’s loss is $8,000, and the Columbia Clothing Com- pany’s loss is $10,000. The damage to th iyire two uights cee ; ; its ago in the same buildi: @id considerable » and the insurance FIRING GUNS. Great Interest in the Test at Sandy Hook Grounds. SANDY HOOK, N. J., June 1—Great in- terest is being shown in the test firing of the rapid guns here today. The test is to be for rapidity only. Two Hotchkiss, one Driggs-Schroder, ome Sponsal and one Maxim-Nordenfeldt gun will be fired. ‘These are all six-pounders. In addition to the six-pounders, one Skoda three-pounder will be tested. It was expected that the Seabury six- gun would also be tested today, but im not yet ready. pa ETS DYNAMITE AT ATLANTA. Explosion of a Bomb Near a Private House. ATLANTA, Ga, June 1—A dynamite tomb was exploded at midnight almost un- der the home of D. C. Wall on Walker street. Wall is a railroad engineer. The side of the house was shattered, but no one was injured. A narrow alley separates Wall's house from the Methodist parsonage, occupied by Rev. K. H. Eakes. ‘The ib was thrown from the street and it fs a question as to which house it ‘Was intended to wreck. —_—_- Sensatio: ‘mused in Boston. BOSTON, Mass., June 1—Rev. Dr. J. 1 Lansing of the Park Street Church, this city, has created a furore by the charges of police corrup‘fon in this city, which he made at the New England Moral Reform Club meeting last night, and if he carries gut his promise in the matter Boston will have a sensation that will rival that cre- sted in New York by Dr. ORDNANCE DISCHARGES THE SUGAR TRUST REED’S SILVER VIEWS CUT OFF BY FLOODS|FLoops IN COLORADO Completion of Big Guns Ends Work For Mechanics. More Dismissals to Follow Unless Ap- propriations Are Made—Several Rumors at the Yard. Twenty-eight machinists and helpers were conversational bitterness seems not to be warranted by the facts. Work in the been slacking up for some twelve 13-inch guns ordered the Navy Department ten have been the remaining two are upon the lathes in an advanced stage. All the the men ar to pay them for performing no work. There was, substantially, no pro- ductive work for them to perform. The Star man did not get this information from the foreman or the officers, but from the those who shall go. He must, however, base his decisions upon the efficiency records of the men, and he with the lowest degree of excellence shall be dismissed first. Although there is an opportunity for the foreman to show preferences, it is not thought by the workmen with whom the reporter talked that any have been shown im the matter of the late discharges. The ordnance officers could not countenance such @ proceeding, and tality should be his dismissal would be but the question Teo Extend the Protection of Seals. Chairman McCreary of the House foreign affais committee says that the bill pasted by the House today and heretofore passed by the Senate to.carry out the decree of the Paris tribunal is to supplement diplo- matic negotiations now going on with Rus- sia and Japan. The bill extends the pro- visions of the decree of the Paris court of arbitration over such countries as have an interest in fur seals. With the bill passed today and a successful termination of the it negotiations with Russia ie eae it eee that every coun- ig any interest or property in the seals will be Swift to Have a Hearing. Socialist Swift, who led a -commonweal army to Washington from Boston, will be given a hearing by the House committee on labor, of which Representative McGann is chairman. Swift is a native of Ohio, has taken degrees at Williams and Johns Hopkins, and will preach to the committee doctrines similar scheme es to the nationalistic of Edward Bellamy. commerce today. Senator Morgan address- ed the committee and took part in the dis- —_-_o—___—_ A Short Stay. the Ford’s Theater disaster, recently appointed a laborer in Jerry Simpson Leaves. Representative Jerry Simpson left Wash- ington yesterday for Berkeley Springs, where he will remain until recovered. He was so weak that he had to be carried aboard the train, and was accompanied by Representative Pence of Colorado, ————_+o+____ Coimage in May. The monthly statement of the director of the mint shows that the total coinage of the mints of the United States during the month of May, 1804, was $0,120,450, of which $8,445,450 was gold, and $675,000 was silver. The silver coinage was entirely of half dollars and quarters. ——\_-o+—_____- Treasury Receipts. National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, $562,645. Government receipts from internal revenue, $154,218.65; customs, $340,000.43, and miscellaneous, $95,107.84. ——__ 2+ __ Personal Mention. Mr. Joseph Nimmo, jr., of this city yes- terday received the degree of LL. D. from the University of the City of New York on the occasion of its sixty-second annual commencement. ——$————__ 2 _——_— An Appointment. Secretary Gresham has appointed Mr. Pendleton King of Guilford county, N. C., chief of the bureau of archives and indexes, State Department, to succeed Mr. Haswell, ed. Mr. King took charge of the George H. Donnell of Mississippi.was to- day appointed chief clerk of the census bureau at $2,500 per annum. James H. Wardle of New York, whom Mr. Donnell succeeds, has been transferred to the pen- sion office. ———__+-e+__. Changes in t ‘Treasury Department. According to a statement sent to the Senate today by the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the changes made in the Treasury Department between March 4, 1898, and April 19 of the present year, there were 740 appointments; 72 re-appoint- ments, 358 promotions, 160 reductions, 272 tions and 565 removals. Representative DeWitt Warter Be- fore the Senate Committee. HE WiLL NOT TALK OF HIS TESTIMONY The Wire Manufacturer Expected Here on Monday. MR. McPHERSON’S STATEMENT Representative John De Witt Warner of New York was before the Senate sugar in- vestigating committee for an hour today. He took @ very decided stand, when the tariff bill was before the House, in favor of free sugar and the change made in the bill in that direction, while the bill was under consideration in the House, was made un- der his leadership. There have been news- paper stories published to the effect that efforts were made in the interest of the sugar trust to have him desist from his op- Position the sugar schedule, and Mr. Warner questioned as to the truth of these stories. He refused, however, when he left the committee room, to divulge the proceedings in committee or to state what replies he had made to questions as to the influence of the trust. Senator Gray, as chairman of the commit- tee, also declined to attempt to give a sum- mary of the testimony, saying that the re- Port of it would be published soon and that any synopsis would be unfair. The ae adjourned ove weet Mon- day to aw @ sppearance of a witness from a distance. The Wine Mannfacturer Expected. ‘The witness expected by the committee on Monday is Walter Gaston of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who is the wire manufacturer who hes been represented as having overheard the conversation at the Arlington Hotel last March between certain United States Sen- ators and members of the sugar trust. Mr. Gaston has expressed a willingness to appear before the committee and tell all that he knows. He will be asked to give the names of the Senators and members of the trust who were reported &s having par- ticipated the conversation. Then the persons w! names he may give will be next called. These have already been print- ed in the newspapers, but the committee want Mr. 's own Senta kote again taking up branch of the inquiry, they think, would be a better foun- as See se oe aR anyiting: yet or that In boy yaterapen A to- day Representative Warner not sustain the published Riety. Saat influential mem- bers of his party ipterceded with him in behalf of the sugar interest to suspend his fight against the protection of that in- yi ag ie , he ‘nol isplay any knowledge of ‘influences to thet policy which supported the reports that the aemeiet desired to protect the sugar What Mr. McPherson Says. Senator McPherson in referring today to a publication in @ New York paper, to the effect that speculation in sugar stock had been continued in his name by his after the tariff bill became a contro- for | Versy in the Genate ; ce, . , said: “I think the criticism) a g little unjust, considéting the facts: “My son bad..purs, chased 500 shares of stock for investment on February 8, which, it will be remem- bered, was immediately after the House of Representatives, as a body, had practically decided. against a sugar tax. He -sold it, however, on the 16th of the same month, and while another purchase of this stock was afterward made inadvertently, and not intentionally, the stock was ordered sold at once, and did not come into his posses- “oheplaining this last transaction, Mr. M z saction, Mr. Mc- Pherson stated that when his health be- came impaired last fall he transferred various of his interests, including certain stocks, to his son. He said that the young man had made the first purchase in Febru- ary, after disposing of certain railroad shares, as an investment, but tiring of them had disposed of ther within a week. Again on the a Cros ppd aang se in the news- papers cal a sugar stocks, the son had consulted him about the ad- visability of the purchase of some of this and that a telegram orticring another installment had been written, but the Sen- ator, beginning at that time to realize that sugar would versy in the Senate, had advised it the transaction, and had supposed that the telegram ing the order had been de- stroyed. It appeared, however, that it had been sent, that the purchase was made on the 24th on the strength of it. Mr. McPherson was very much surprised when he learned of this pufthase and im- prerin pl a directions that the stock be disposed which was done. He said the only way he can account for the sending of the telegram is that it must have gotten mixed with other dispatches dnd letters, and was probably taken to the office by the ser- vants while he and the son were absent, as belong, that the order was not to be * ry j Bank Note Circulation. A statement by the controller of the cur- rency shows the total amount of national bank notes fm circulation May 81, 1894, ex- clusive of national bank notes, amounting to $84,337, a decrease for the month of May of $587,613, ‘The circulation, based on United States bonds on May 31, 1604, was $180,- 518,248, an increase for the month of $12,- 7 The circulation secured by lawful money on deposit amounted to $26,631,434, @ decrease ;during May of $600,351. ‘The amount of registered bonds on deposit on May 381, 1894, to secure circulating notes Was $201,251,500, and to secure public de- posits, $14,636,000. —_—_-2—_____ Thrown From His Horse. A telegram received at the War Depart- ment this morning says that Second Lieut. Lunsford Daniel, sixth cavalry, died last night from injuries received by being thrown from his horse in Yellowstone Park yesterday morning. Lieut. Daniel is a na- tive of Georgia, and was appointed to the army from the ranks. He was stationed at Fort Yellowstone. Wyoming. —_———__ + e-- _ -____ The First Concert, The Marine Band will play in the grounds south of the Executive Mansion tomorrow afternoon for the first time this season. The concert will begin about 6 o'clock, and will be followed by others every Saturday dur- ing June, August and September, ., Increasing Fighting Power. The acting secretary of the navy has ap- proved the recommendation of the naval stability board that the sister ships, De- troit, Montgomery and Marblehead, be arm- ed with nine five-inch guns each instead of arrangement, but the effective fighting power of the ships is proportionately much greater. ——_—___- e+ ___ Total Coinage. The total coinage of the United States mints for May was 2,919,545 pieces of the value of $0,120,450. Of this amount $8,445,- 450 was in gold coin, and $675,000 in frac- tional silver. a Called Today. Mr. Potter Palmer of Chicago wag among the President's visitors this morning. He called in company with Secretary Gresham. How They Are Regarded by Silver and Anti-Silver Men. Mr. Bland Opposed .to: Uniting the Silver and Tariff Questions—Cau- tion Among the Republicans. Mr. Reed’s interview in the Fortnightly Review of London, advocating a freer use of silver, has attracted much attention in congressional circles. The plan suggested by him for an agreement among nations to use silver and to fix discriminating tariff rates against countries not using silver has been specially open to comment. * “What. Reed for silver?” said Represent- ative Bland, the silver leader, when told of Mr. Reed’s Fortnightly article. Then Mr. Fland laughed heartily, and read the arti- cle, “Mr. Reed concedes our argument,” said Mr, Bland, “but he offers us a remedy which we will not have, The great agricul- tural classes who are behind silver will never consent to a tariff war which will close the markets of Europe to our agricul- tural products. That would be the effect of Mr. Keed’s proposition. There is no need of uniting the tariff and silver questions. They are wholly independent. If the Unit- ed States will coin silver {t will foree En- gland and other foreign countries to recog- nize silver without threatening them with discriminating tariff duties. They must sell | us their goods, and if we insist on offering them silver, it will soon become their in- terest to make silver valuable. We must &ccomplish the end at home, and not adopt Mr. Reed's plan of going abroad and secur- ing free silver by threats of high tariff. It is probable that his main desire is not so uch to ald silver, but to establish higher protective duties against European coun- tries. Bland was asked if the silver element of the west and northwest would accept a Reed's views as a gain to the silver 182. “They will not,” said Mr. Bland. “We are not asking Mr. Reed to admit our argu- ments, but to admit our solution. Instead of that ne admits all we have claimed as to the imperative need of a larger use of silver, and yet he manufactures a silver- tariff solution we will never accept.” Mr. Burrows’ Opin: Representative Burrows said: “Mr. Reed's article is very timely. There bas been much misrepresentation as to the attitude of the republican party on silver. They are not for gold alone, nor for silver alone, but are for both gold and silver. The only ques- tion is how to secure that free use of both metals, If it can be accomplished by mu- tual co-operation among nations, with a defensive tariff alliance against non-silver — nations, that may be the best solu- n. * Mr. Burrows was asked If such tariff reci- pects among silver-using countries would @ surrender of the protective doctrine. “By no means,” said he. “A fair meas- ure of protection to American industries, would be maintained even with those coun- tries using silver, and there would be added Protection against non-silver using coun- tries. No one would suggest a reciprocity equivalent to free trade.” Representative Tracey (N. Y.), the demo- cratic anti-silver leader, voiced the views of that element. “Mr. Reed's plan is wholly impracticable,” said he: “There is no eco- nomic conection between tariff and silver. If England does not want silver she cannot be made to want it by threatening her with discriminating tariff rates. Mr. Reed might as well have proposed to force Eng- land to use silver by sending rioters among her ple. His plan amounts to a threat of elving England trouble if she does not accept silver. The proposition is a novelty, but nothing more.” - *\ epublitceans Cautious, Representative C. W, Stone (Pa.), @ lead- ing republican of the colnage committee, voiced the caution prevailing among many republicans as to accepting the new de- parture suggested by Mr. Reed. Mr. Stone said there would be little division on his side as to Mr. Reed’s first proposition of uniting the nations for a freer use of silver. But he was not ready to admit that such a union was worth having if it cost a sur- | the valley. render to reciprocity or other step destruc~ tive to the protection of American indus- uy. ——_- +e + THE STORY NOT CREDITED That the Pre: it is Angry With Secretary Carlisle and the Senate. The statement published in one of the New York papers this morning that Presi- dent Cleveland is angry with Senator Gor- man and the Senate in general, and with Secretary Carlisle on account of the situa- tion in which the tariff bill has been placed, and that he is expected to give some public expression to his anger, which will probably be followed by the resignation of Mr. Car- isle, is treated in Washington, both at the Capitol and elsewhere, as too absurd to be seriously considered. It is said that it may be readily enough assumed that Mr. Cleve- land is not pleased with the result thus far of the attempt at tariff legislation, but ail those who are in a position to form an opin- jon as to his sentiments and purposes treat as absurd the idea of his feeling any such resentment as indicated by the story. In a general way, it is understood to be his de- sire that Congress should do the best they can in the matter as soon as possible, the element of time being regarded by him as important. According to the genemal un- derstanding, he is not particularly fled because of a duty being put on’ sugar, which he regards as a proper revenue arti- cle. —____ +e + -—_- DIPLOMATC POLITENESS. The Supply of the New Siamese Minis- ter Early Tested. Marquis Yohta, the newly appointed Si- amese minister to the United States, called at the State Department this morning to have Secretary Gresham escort him to the White House, in order that he might pre- sent his credentials to the President. Ar- rangements to this effect were made yes- terday. but, through some oversight, the President was not informed. It therefore became necessary to postpone the function, but the change was made too late to notify the Siamese envoy at his hotel, and he appeared at the State Department promptly on the hour agreed upon, arrayed in all the glory and splendor of his oriental court dress. Profuse apologies were made to him, which he accepted with true diplo- matic grace. He will be received by the President at the earliest opportunity with full honors. 2 Local Pensions Granted. Among the pensions granted yesterday were the following: District of Columbia—Original widow's, &c., Gertrude W. Carr. Maryland—Original, James T. Slover, Oxford, Talbert county; renewal, Edward Buckman, Raltimore; increase, John Hare, Grantsville, Gerrett county; reissue, Peter Jenson, Baltimore; original widow's, &c., Joseph H. J. Rutter (Father), Baltimore; Surienna Purnell, Berlin, Worcester county. Virginia—Original widow's, &c., Mildred Hudgins, Mathews, Mathews county. o- Postal Savings Banks, Senator Turpie of Indiana today introduc- ed a bill providing for postal savings de- positories. The bill authorizes the Postmas- ter General to designate at least one post office in each county to receive deposits of not less than $5 nor more than $100. Noone person is to be allowed to deposit more than $00 per year. The money thus re- ceived is intended to be deposited in the treasury of the United States and to be loaned by the United States treasury to bafiking institutions, the depositors to re- ceive interest at the rate of 2 per cent per annum. Vancouver and New Westminster Surrounded by Water. OVER 2,000 FAMILIES MADE HOMELESS Great Damage to the Canadian Pacific Road. GOV. PENNOYER’S TRIP VANCOUVER, B. C., June 1.—The Fraser river rose ten inches at New Westminster yesterday and last night. The water was three inches above tne highest historical mark. ‘The flood fs still rising. From points further up the river come reports that the river is nearly two feet higher than has ever been known. Fraser Valley for 4 hundred miles has been inundated. So great has been the de- struction that ocean steamers passing in through the straits San Joan, de Fuca, are now encountering floating roofs of houses and barns and innumerable carcasses of hogs, sheep and cattle that have passed out of the river with other debris from It is estimated that over 2,000 families are homeless and that a property Joss of fully $3,000,000 has been caused. Steamers from the rivers and Puget Sound are stil being pressed into the work of rescue. Though no lives have been lost | during the last two 8, there have been | many narrow escapes and thrilling ex-| periences. Many families have been driven | from ‘their houses. One steamer brought 307 settlers from Westminster late night. Among them was the family of a rancher) fhom near Langley. The man had built a strong raft upon which he took his en- Ure family and ten blooded horses. They were rescued in mid stream after having been afloat for ten hours. At many points there is great destitution among the unlucky settlers who have fied from their homes. At the Salmon river set- tlerent, where the water is ten feet deep on the flat, many families are huddled to- gether on the highlands, and living on one scanty meal a day. The rescuing steamers have neglected them to care for others who are in greater danger. At Hatzic, the steamer Transfer sailed up over farms and fences, over the Hatzic bridge and the dyke and tied up to the rails of the Canadian Pacific railroad track, sev- en miles from where the river formerly ran. The Transfer secured the wife of Rancher McDermott from the roof of her floating house. Her hi , who had falled in his efforts to rescue her, was found later ir a small skiff. A big school house, from Nicomen Islan lt, floated by New Westminster last night i1.- Both Vancouver and New Westminster are cut off from outside world. Even the telegraph is not to be depended upon, as the wires have been constantly in trouble. Eyery effort is being made to relieve the flood sufferers, but the means are utterly inadequate to meet the demand. repairing its tracks. The flood is breaking it, however, faster than they can possibly mend it. The result of the flood, it is seen, will be | Fe to utterly stop all farming operations along the Fraser ‘tlver for this season, and the result will be a fearful trade depression in the cities of New Westminster and V; couver, which depend entirely upon aad cultural products for their support. PORTLAND, Ore., June 1—Gov. Pennoy-. er, who-has been stumping eastern Oregon for the populist party, arrived here last evening, being the only person arriving front that section for several days. He walked some distance down the Union Pa- cific Ine, and made a perilous trip of forty miles in a skiff down the raging Columbia. He said the roadbed of the Union Pacific for forty miles is practically destroyed. Destruction of Conconnully. SPOKANE, Wash., June 1.—Further par- ticulars from the terrible flood which de- stroyed the town of Conconnully, Wash., have been received. In addition to the flood in the creek a cloudburst occurred, increasing the volume of water into a rag- ing tcrrent. Everything was swept before the. flood. Trees, houses and rocks came down upon the beautiful flats, where they lodged, forming a jam fifteen feet high in Places. Nothing is left except parts of seven bulldiggs. When the flood was with- in a half mile of the town It was seen, and every one fied to higher land. A. cer of Walla Walla was struck by the drift and carried to the lake, where he was rescued. A. W. Tullock, a druggist, was carried down stream 200 yards, and landed in a jam, where he was taken out alive after the water had subsided. Outside aid is necessary. The loas is com- plete, as there was no chance to sa erty. Even those who put their high ground lost’ everything. SSeS: QUIET IN NICARAGUA. Disposed to Accede to the Demands of the United States Government. ‘The Secretary of State has received a dispatch from United States Minister Bak- er at Managua, containing information indicative of a desire on the part of the Nicaraguan authorities to comply with the demands of this country as a result of the Bivetields affair, Minister Baker said that Consul Braida’s exequatur had been re- stored, and that everything was now mov- ing smoothly in that quarter. He also cn- nounced that Torres,the governor of Rama, who sheltered the murderer of the Ameri- can, Wilson, had been di from his ottice and that similar action will be taken, he has been assured, in the case of La- cayo, the Nicaraguan commissioner, now in Bluetieids. ‘rhe Nicaraguan authorities were, he as- serted, following every clew looking to the apprehension of Arguello, Wilson's murder- er, though the chances are slim for hig cap- ture. Our Government Impatient. it is understood that Minister Baker's dispatch is in response to instructions that he inform, the Nicaraguan government that the United States’ patience in the whole Bluetields matter was getting near the danger limit and that something must be done, and that quickly. His instrac- tions further directed him to say that Tor- res must be punished for participating in the Wilson matter; that Lacayo should also meet with punishment, and that it must be done at once. The result of this stand by the United States is seen in Minister Baker's dispatches. + os A ROUMANIAN COLONY. It May Be Founded on a 200,000 Aere California Tract. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 1.—The Call says that S. J. Kline, a Roumanian, Is con- cluding negotiations for the purchase of 200,000 acres of land belonging to the Mitch- ell estate, in Mercedes county, and that if the deal is carried through 14,000 Rouma- nians will settie in California as colonists. These persons are of German descent and live in Bessarabla. They are dissatisfied with the arrangement whereby bia was ceded to Russia and desire to get away from Russian rule. —_ + The Receiving Ship Richmond. PHILADELPHIA, June 1.—The receiving ship Richmond, in tow of the United States cruiser Atlanta, passed in the Delaware ce} at noon t & ships py My Fag route New 3% Island navy yar, Where she will take the place of the receiving ship St. Louis Destruction Osused Throughout the Btate Only One Fatality Thus Far Has Been Reported — Running of ‘Trains Delayed. DENVER, Col., June 1.—Platte river con- tinued to rise until 3 o'clock this morning, and a raging torrent is likely to continue pouring through the city. Colfax and Jerome Park were flooded at 11 o'clock last night, and the persons liv- ing on the low ground had to vacate their houses very suddenly. The railroad em- bankments were washed away in places, and bridges were badly damaged. The loss will be very greai. In Jerome Park and vicinity 175 families were driven from their homes and are encamped on higher ground. As many more families living on the river bottoms in this city also fled to higher ground. Edward Whitman, a boy, fell into the torrent and was drowned. No other fatal- ities have been reported. It will be several days before trains can be run on schedule time on any of the roads entering this city. The Denver and Rio Grande railroad is running trains to Colorado Springs, owing to a bad jut Just below there. The Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island railroad trains using the Rio Grande rail- road tracks are consequently cut off. The Santa Fe rajiroad fares still worse,its tracks being washed avay in many places in the Arkansas valley. It is sending trains on the Rio Grande via Trinidad. * The damage to the mountain roads by the floods is the heaviest experienced in this state. The Joss on business alone reaches $15,000 a day. The South Park branch of the Union Pa- cific is under water from Wheatland to Pine Grove, a distance of thirty miles. The pipe factory, five houses, the railroad tracks and all the city's railroad bridges at Boulder have been washed away by the flood in Boulder creek. Poverty Flats are submis No lives were lost. The Sunset branch of the Gulf railroad and the Mountain road are entirely gone. Mining Camps Swept Away. The towns of Crisman and Salina, mining camps in Boulder canon, the former six and the Jatter nine miles from Boulder, have been wiped out of existence. They had a population of about 200, who are now home- less. Many placer mines are ruined. The total loss In and around Boulder is $500,000. has had no communication with H 4 i 6 i 2if ae a8 i i if i 5 Hy ire i g g i A if to save their property. The Williams canon is rushing over Mineral Water Park, leaving gravel in place of Tons of earth ply ditch has been broken. This ditch sup- piles a large territory and cannot be repaired until the harvest. Fountain Qui has overflowed its banks. The residence of John Herrington at Colorado City fell into the stream and was instantly demolished. Chicago creek and Clear creek at Colora- do Springs are raging torrents. Tel poles and trees are going down before the flood and thousands of dollars’ worth of property has been destroyed. Many mines —. been flooded and tunrs.. y«ve caved —_————_ DETAINED UNTIL TODAY. The Vigilant Finally Sets Sail for Scotland. NEW YORK, June 1.—The yacht Vigilant, which left the Erle basin yesterday morn- ing, bound for Glasgow, and anchored off ‘Campiow, inside of Sandy Hook, on account of the stormy and thick weather, left her anchorage at 12:46 this morning and re- sumed her voyage. Toward midnight last night the wind, which had been from the east all Gay, changed to the westward and the fog lifted. Capt. Jeffery at once gave orders to weigh anchor, and the bronze yacht was soon outside of Sandy Hook on her way across the ocean. At 5 o'clock this morning the Vigilant passed Fire Island with all sails set and going very fast, the wind blowing from the west about twelve miles an hour. ————_— STRIKERS APPLY FOR WORK. They Find That Their Places Have Been Taken. FROSTBURG, Md., June 1.—Fifteen of the strikers who formerly worked tn the Xckhart mine applied for their old places, but found them filled by other miners. ‘Thirty more of the strikers of this mine cannot get work for the same reason. Wm. Myers, Wm. Morgan and John Kreitzburg were appointed a committee at f@ meeting held in Eckhart mine yesterday by the miners who have been working dur- ing the strike to walt upon President Mayer of the Consolidation Coal Company, Satur- day, to ask for fifty cents a ton for mining coal. The committee are not members of the United Miners. At Hoffman mine about forty strikers ap- plied for work, and were told that their places were filled by other men. Some of them were offered work in Ocean mine. which has been idle for weeks. -_~—_- - OPPOSED TO THEIR WORKING. Utah People Want Smith’s Industrials to Move On. SALT LAKE, Utah, June 1.—The advance of Smith’s so-called industrial “army” reached here yesterday afternoon. They stopped at the village of BP suntiful and ob- tained transportation from the citizens. Smith, with the main cvlumn, arrived here late last night. Some of the men have ex- pressed their intention of stopping here and obtaining work on the large gravity sewer being built. The home reserves object to the men having work, and a number of their leaders called upon the city authori- tles yesterday afternoon and requested that they be protected from Smith and his vasion. They were informed that under the order of the court there could be no inter- ference with them so long as they violated no law. These home reserves were particu- larly active and enthusiastic on having the injunction dissolved so that these men could come into the city. Commonwealers Pat Of. TOPEKA, Kan., Junel.—Ex-Adjutant Gen. Artz and an army of thirty commonwealers attempted to get out of Topeka last night by boarding an eastbound freight on the Santa Fe road. The railroad empioyes re- fused to move the train and finally drove ———$»—__ The telegraphers’ convention finished its labors at Denver yesterday. The proposi- tion to organize state divisions was voted down. The next convention will be held in St. Louis on the third of May, 1895. them —_—_ TALK ABOUT SUGAR Senator Manderson Discusses the Beet Sugar Industry. AN AMENDMENT HE WILL OFFER The State Bank Tax Repes! Bill in the House. IT IS FURTHER DEBATED A large horseshoe of roses rested on the desk of Senator Proctor of Vermont when the Senate met at 10 o'clock today in honor of his birthday. Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts presented a petition from the “New England industrial army” asking legislation which would guar- antee work to the unemployed. Mr. Hoar Stated that the petition, which was but one of many of a similar character presented to Congress, was worthy of consideration. He moved that a special committee of five be appointed to investigate the matters set forth therein, but withdrew it upon the Suggestion of Mr. Cockrell of Missouri that it should first go to the committee on rules’ It was so referred. On motion of Mr. Pettigrew, a bill grant- ing additional lands in the Hot Springs to the Berry Hospital was taken from the calendar and passed. It was within five minutes of 10:30 when the morning business was finished, and Mr. Hill of New York therefore made no effort to get up his reso- lution to instruct the bribery throw open its doors to the joree without prejudice, as resolution to bring E. J. Edwards, one of the contumacious witnesses, to the bar of the Senate for contempt. Mr. Frye (Me.) asked the Vice President wi or not the proceedings in refer- ence to the contumacious witnesses had — pee ange thy Fahd the district attor- ey under w. Mr. Stevenson replied that they had been so certified. Mr. Hill asked unanimous consent to con- sicer a joint resolution by the yesterday, giving the Secretary of War au- thority under the last sundry civil appro- priation act to institute condemnation pro- ceedings to secure certain lands near the battlefield of Gettysburg. Judge Dallas, he explained, had just held that the language of that act was not broad enough to war- tant condemnation proceedings. Mr. Cockrell (AMo.) objected, insisting that the resolution should go first to the com- mittee on military affairs, and it was so re- ferred. The Sugar Schedule. The tariff bill was then laid before the Senate and the great battle over the sugar schedule began. The McKinley law Taw sugars on the free list, imposed 1-2 cent duty on refined sugar and gave a bounty of 2 cents to the sugar growers. The House bill repealed the boun! Pleced all sugars, raw and refined, free list. The first bill reported specific duty of from 1 cent to to iblic, It went id Mr. Dolph's i I ij? a Late schedule go into effect January 1, 1895, the rates being #4 per cent ad on all sugars, raw and refined, on oi cent additional on sugars above 16, standard, with an additional one-ten' 1 at pound on sugar cpt os eee ay ab ‘secon as Mr. Jones had formally the compromise amendment. The schedule, he said, was the schedule of the bill. It contained both | sweetness and light. It seemed to pervade the whole bill. The bill could not be touched without The Senate had il the cane fields of Nebraska, but in the com- mittee room. The saccharine principle, as it impregnated all nature, feature of this bill. Mr. Manderson jed to argue In favor of protection and for the sugar-growing industry of the coun- try. consumption of sugar in the United States was enormous, he said. Al- most 5,000,000,000 pounds of raw sugar haa been consumed last year, representing, If grown and refined abroad, a grand total of $182,000,000 to be paid to foreigners. Free sugar would mean the immediate destruc- tion of the beet sugar industry and the jual extinction of cane sugar produc- tion in the southern states. If properly protected, he prophesied that before 1905 beet sugar production would have so de- veloped in the north and cane sugar in the south that the United States could supply the full consumption of the United States, Beet sugar growing offered an important tinuation of the sugar bounty? enthusiastic over the prospect. great boon which they asked Congress to save them. Every acre planted in beets meant twenty days’ labor to 4 man. Beet Sugar Production. No country in the world, Mr. Manderson said, was so well adapted to produce beet sugar as the United States. Beet growing ultimately would displace cane growing. Cane contained 13 per cent of saccrose crystalline sugar, sorghum but 9 per While beets gave from 15 to 19 per cent crystalline sugar. Mr. Manderson that in fostering the growth of beet cane sugar any obligations exist tect the refiners. There was no conn he declared, between the sugar-grow the odjous sugar trust. He cared the one and everything for the other. He ceeded to describe im detall the manner which beets were grown and the methods of their conversion tm the factory in’ sugar. He sketched the development of beet-sugar, production in a ae under the bounty system adopted in Germany, Aus-: tria-Hungary, Russis, Holland, = Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Canada. Engiand, not to be behindhand, was offers. ing a bounty in her colonies. The total pro- duction of came sugar in the world 2,900,000 tons, and of beet sugar 8,770,000 tons. Cane sugar had always been protect- ed in this country up to 1890. In 1889 the production under the duty was 287, the annual product had grown to 550,000,- 000. With this comparatively small pro- duction, compared with the enormous con- sumption in the United States (about 5,000,- 000,000), it was, in his opinion, to give a bounty and pay directly out of the treasury ten or even twenty million a year as the industry developed than for the peo- ple to pay in duty in indirect taxation from fifty to seventy-five million dollars. Will Offer a Substitute. Mr. Manderson gave notice that at the proper time he would offer as a substitute for the sugar schedule of the bill the bounty provision of the McKinley bill, continu- ing it in force until July 1, 18%. He at length in support of the consti- tutionality of bounties, quoting exteusively court decisions, y the de- cision of Justice Miller. *. “If Congress were to give @ bounty,” in- quired Mr. Caffery (La.), “to a farmer or manufacturer, do you contend. that- ihe courts have no right to inquire whether the bounty is given for a public or private use?” “I do,” Mr. Manderson; “the de- cision of Mr. Miller is conclusive on that il i Li iu HPAL the bounty question, tained gd that A obligation there was ®' gation on Congress not to be guilty of re- Pudiation, not to tear down vested rights,