The Press., 1891-01-22

W0 SuAl1 uaNC oONCAuA OA uhSCo bSo' OOAAA- ing up two or three years hence.
 | told the senator I did not know wheth- or the silver would or would not come here. I said that by way of optimism and hopefullness. I hope 1t will not. I hope if these things become laws we shall not be hurt as we fear but we may. There are some laws of finance, as there are laws of morals and ethics that cannot be viola ted. You may think you make money by violating them, but you do not Ill the long run they avenge themselves.
 Now, say l hope my country Is not go Ing to suffer but I believe 1t will suffer eventually under legislation like this.
 SATURDAY's and Sundays storm of snow sleet and rain made thin but sufficient spread for good sleighing, at the same time coating heavily the trees, telegraph wi'es, etc., with ice. In many places much damage was done by breaking of lines and wires. In different cities accidents occurred from the crossing of electric wires and the fall of wires into the streets The mayor of Hartford, where the ice was particularly heavy, averted damage by ordering the stopping of all electric dy- namos Before this was done Postmaster Kinney had a narrow escape. About o'clock Sunday morning he was awakened by a loud buzzing in his telephone ending with a sud- den sharp ringing of the bell. His telephone hangs at his bedside, and he arose intending to answer the supposed call. Before he reached the instrument, however, brilliant white light flashed through the top of the telephone case to height of foot. The major realized at once that the ice-storm had crossed his wire with an electric light wire, and that there was danger. His first fear was of fire. There was slight column of blue smoke arising from the aperture in the top of the telephone case, and he put his hand over the top of the case at distance of two or three inches to ascertain if there was heat un- derneath. He is confident he did not touch tho case, but he received shock which felt a if it would wrench his left arm from his bod1 coming through the second finger of his left hand, which still shows the blister of the fire. The next performance was the fash ing up of another blaze, which continued for perhaps two minutes, during which time the major and his family were looking for rubber cloth or other non-conductors with which to fight the enemy. The blaze soon died out, having burned out all the fusible metal in the telephone case. Finally, by using rubber pistol case as 6 glove, one of the telephone wires was disconnected from the instrument and further danger averted. Major Kinney has an impression that if he had been about a second quicker and had had the telephone at his ear when the first flash came that he would have had no further use for the phone.
 Had ~ Grmdge tO Pay.
 Miss Elaine Goodale, supervisor of edu- cation at the Pine Ridge agency, has made a report to the Indian office in which she gives her version of the battle of Wounded Knee. She was not an eyewitness of the fight but says her information was obtained chiefly from Indian prisoners who engaged in it and half breeds who were present and from parties who visited the battle field several days after the encounter.
 She says: The testimony of the sur vivors of Big Foot's band is unanimous on one point, namely that the Indians did not deliberately plan a resistance. The party was not war party, according to their statements, (which believe to be true) but party intending to visit the agency at the invitation of Red Cloud The Indians say that many of the men were unarmed. When they met the troops they anticipated no trouble. There was : constant friendly intercourse between the soldiers and the Indians, even women sha king hands with the officers and men. The demand for their arms was a surprise tc the Indians, but the great majority of them chose to submit quietly. .Ghe tepees had already been searchcd aud Urge numbe, of guns, knives md httclle's c 'nfisca eG when the searching of th,. ps"s,,s ol tn, men was begun. The wcmen say thp they too were searched for their knivt, (which they always carry f,r d m stic pur poses) taken from them. X humber o the men had surrender d their rfi.s an, cartridges when young man (who is de scribed by the Indians as 8 good for moth ing young fellow) fired one shot. Thi called for volley from the ttoops, and tn firing and confusion became general"
 Miss GoodaIe does not credit the state ment that women carried arms and patric ipated in the fight. The weight of testi mony, she says, is over whelmingly agaius this suppositlon. There may have beer one or two isolated c sss of this kind bn there is no doubt that the maj ority of tn women and children as well as many un armed men and youths had no thought c anything but flight. They were pnrsue up the ravines and shot down indlt crimi nately by the soldiers. Miss Goodale say HI COuCAu61Ou 10 lS ludt OU0 ( the officers called out, don't shoot th squaws,' but the men were doubtless to much excited to obey. The killing of tn women and children was in part unavoida ble owing to the confusion but I thin there is no doubt that it was in many case deliberate and intentional The Sevent cavalry, Clusters old command, had an ol grudge to repay"
 
 Springfield, Massachusetts, is the suh ject of four-psge supplement accomps nying Harper's Weekly published Januar 21st. The article will be copiously illus trated from drawings by Charles Graham giving views of the public buildings an other prominent attractions in the city.
 Capt. Pratt of the Carlisle Indian schoc has theory that the solution of the In dian problem is to. be found in distributin the race among OUT own people, which h. claims has been successfully tried wit 1 100 studonta whO have 0ona ouk iron