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The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
THE FLOORS FALL.
The Floors of the Historic
Ford's Opera House
Collapse.
Nearly Five Hundred Government En-
pl0yes in the Building at the Time
All Were More ar Less Injured
and Many Killed.

WASHINGTON. june 9.-The floors in
Ford's opera house on Tenth street, in
which President Lincoln was assassi-
mated. have just fallen ln About 40
government clerks were in the building
at the time. The first floor collapsed
through weakness caused by excavating
in the cellar. and IN IFS fall carried down
three floors and with them hundreds of
clerks
The dead and wounded are being
taken out by the tiremen and police 1t
is feared that hundred people have
been killed. The walls are still stand
ing. but every lioor is down. The build
ing had been condemned as unsafe for
some time. but sentiment kept II un-
changed.
The floors We're heavily loaded with
records and pension divisions of the
War Department.
Twenty eight clerks We're taken from
the ruins up 10 lo:lI IA. IN. The Emer
gency hospital is crowded with dead and
injured. The injuries are very severe.
being principally crushed. broken limbs.
and internal injuries. Eight dead bodies
have just been taken out of the ruins
The Secretary Of the navy ordered out
all naval medical officers stationed here
and has opened IA naval hospital to re
ceive the mildred.
1880 a. IN. 1t is feared there are
still eighty bodies in the ruins. Three
more bodies have just been taken out of
the ruins
| IA. III. Another body has Just been
rescued. This makes the number
known to be dead up to the present time.
eleven.
i2o p. m.-When the crash ca,,e there
were in the building i9G clerks. eighteen
messengers and twenty laborers. or o34
in all. Up to this time sixteen bodies
have reached the morgue.
op. m.-The number of dead re ported
up to this hour is twenty four. The
names Of forty nine injured have been
secured. but that. probably. is not near
y correct. as many were sent direct to
their homes.
The cause of the collapse is supposed
to have been the digging down under
the foundations for the purpose of
putting in an electric light plant. For
tunately the entire building did not col
/ lapse. As it was. only the front part
went down. leaving more than half Of
the floor space intact. Because of this
man. lives were saved.
The building has been used number
of years as a part of the Office of the Sur
geon General. 1t is strange coinci-
dence that the building should collapse
on the day that Edwid Booth. the
brother of the man who assassinated
Lincoln was buried.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
The Los. Was %. 500. 900

MINNEAPoLIs. June "a special to
the Tribune from Fargo, n. d., says:
At meeting Of the insurance men to-
day the estimated loss On the insured
property was placed at s2,5OO.OO and
81 100000 more on uninsured property.
Rebuilding has already commenced.
Mayor Smith presided at public meet
ing to-day and subscriptions were start
ed for the relief of the homeless. 4
committee was appointed to secure re-
duced rates for the necessary supplies
and building material. Previous reports
that the three children of Gilbert Fla
ten were burned is untrue. and only one
life is known to be lost and that is Of an
unknown man. The homeless are shell
tered in school buildings. and there will
be no suffering outside of the financial
loss. Contributions of clothing. etc.
will be most acceptable.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
The Worlds Fair-What 1t Means.

1t means that from May lst until
Oct. 3lst there will be on exhibition in
Chicago the triumphs of all the ages.
The rarest and choicest specimens of the
handiwork of man from the nations Of
the earth will be there to instruct and
delight.
That for six months Chicago will be
the most cosmopolitan spot on the globe.
That the American people will have
the wonderful opportunity of mlngling
with and observing the habits and
characteristics of the people of every ma
ton in the world.
That villages" of the different foreign
countries, constructed by and made up
entirely of people direct from sucq
countries. will he a most interesting
feature of the fair
That the American citizen. of what
ever foreign birth or parentage. may
carry himself back again to the land of
his origin by visiting and studying these
foreign villages.
That few days or weeks spent at
| the Worlds Fair will be worth years Of
travel.
That this is the grandest opportunity
the American people have ever had for
interesting study and pleasure. and
that trip to Chicago during the next
six months would be the event of a life
time.
The Chicago. Milwaukee Il st. Paul
Railway offers the best and most fire.
quent train service from st. Paul and
Minneapolis to Chicago. The only line
lighting it's trains by electricity. The
most perfect dining service and the
best sleeping cars in this country. Ask
your agent for tickets via The Milwau-
kee"-the Governments Fast Mail
Line. or address
J. T. CoNLEY.
Asst Gen. Pass. Agt..
st. Paul. MINI.
NoTE-Write for a c. NJ. i st. p
Worlds Fair folder. It gives full par
ficulars as to how to visit the Fair and
and what il will cost.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
lsOastlh'. Funeral.

New YORK. June 9.-The funeral ser
vices over the remains of the late Edwin
Booth took place this morning at The
Little Church Around the Corner"
from which 30 many actors make their
last exit. The editice was crowded to
the doors with men eminent as actors.
artists, men OF letters and men Of affairs.
who came to pay their last respects to
the famous dead. Everything connected
with the funeral was most simple.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
VOTING SIX HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
safegnar,i, ssinst Fraud Employed at
City Elections In Florence.

Wy L'e''i"h' IN Florence
Nowadays when almost all the ma
tons OF the world are discussing the
adoption OF The Australian ballot system
people little realize that such ideas are
not as new as they seem Wei nlgh
SIX centuries ago III the city OF Florence
was organized system OF voting resem-
bilng IN Its -ential principles the ballot
recently adj i'ted. Inl- Is not mere hear
say either. Tor a historian who lived at
that time. :sa"vt1:l Villain. has given Us
fu!! account OF It,
ne CITY 81 iorelce had be2un TO IRE
OF the arrogance and brlbilg methods of
the nob!cs ai'oHt the Year los, SO II de-
cldei to pass l. - ~ wAieA TAR cleo
tons might De hei'. .ie city was gov
erned by 81 pr'"f-. elected Tor a term
OF two months No". II was decided by
IN assembly 'A"t td"#" pripis. together
with tW1 pr" ..tct-i tfoi.l eacn ot
'he s;% ant rlrfa - i)reIce. sho.ld come
together aaI iAa..t II ilSi II al the cltl
zt'4> i55tse III } = ~ t.sa III Fer.
onc@ that E.t.' :. a..i EEes lE of the o..tc@
q l.IT
hi3 ~ ";;s l.i''.i .'s'te .is2i - a com
cij 0. - 81 - lf!hclrI t.A'ers aha
'Wl.t' iAH" 81 t-.. =. :, VII" Voted on
eaeh G@At i'3.+t1-E ne sntes were
collected hy s.% @'.sa &aa tl~creet
monks iaeF e3t.siste. ut %nte and
black BEANS 80. i -. - BACK Beans
to elect l c;i.hsi't&te. lne counting was
done secretly H. Il Iborlng room by
the monks, a>ld l--'' re M was iint.leal-
ately announced to the assembly. who
proceeded % vote "n TIE next iiilne
" hen the Wno.e list Aaa tnus been
gone ihrou&4. All t4ose VII" We're eject
ed had tneir names written to@etIef
o;l a large scroll and aiso edch nilne
written separate. On IL little sIip these
little slips We're thrown INTO bag. And
then comes a quaint custom. The large
scroll was i:Hit in the sacristy OF the
convent OF t,r Frat fredlcatori
The bags. Oh" Tor each once III the
government. We're put III d strong chest
that was locked. ;sn the three Keys that
could open It ~efe gwen, one to Frat
Conversl ii r't..ao. o-ie to the capltano
or general g iAp florentlne army anu
one to the - 'rl>tE of the frati Mlnorl
The chest, i I Was stored IN the sacrlsty
OF the latter iaen!ia.
Ii Is seen eoW re.isiea asiy all hItosr:
aid ballot LIZ stuf1lnS WIS ssof PED. 40
tlorentine. Il" matter how nuch he
'iatea The m"ll..". "na.s' care 10 easAhh'
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
An ODpressiVe Feeling.

Johnny had been misbehavins while
his mother was away, and on her return
she talked very soberly to him about it
telling him that God was always with
him and saw all he did. Johnny left
his mothers room with ii depressed look
on his face ami WAS going away from
home when his dog ran after him
Johnny turned aronnd desperately on
the dog. crying out. You go back-it's s
bad enough to have God tagging after
me all the time."-New York Tribune
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
The Grand Central

Railroad station, Chicago. is being fitted
up for hotel purposes during the worlds
fair. This magnificent fire proof struct-
ure located at the corner of Harrison
street und Fifth avenue in the ve.y
heart of the city, will devote the .3rd. ith
and 9TH floors to this purpose. 1t will
be run on European plan: each room
will have hot and cold water. electric
lights and be steam heated. The office
and ladies' parlors. ETC., will be located
on the third floor and the building will
be supplied with all modern convent
ences. There will be from 100 TO 100
rooms for guests.
This acquisition to the hotel facilities
OF Chicago will be appreciated by those
who wish to be safely housed in a fire
proof building. conveniently located It
self Those desiring accommodations can
secure them by addressing Mr.. 7. p.
Clifford. the manager, at Chicago. The
hotel will be opened May 18th. 1893
The Grand Central station is the Chic
ago depot Of the Northern Pacific rail
road wisconsin Central .division) and
by taking that through car line to the
worlds fair city. visitors will avoid the
discomfort Of transfer OF themselves and
baggage through the city. From this
station trains run direct to the Worlds
Fair grounds during the day.
CHAs. s FEE.
G. p. Agt. n. p r. r.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10

ALEXANDRIA, June 9.-There were
sixty deaths from cholera at Mecca yes
terday.
PARIS. June 9.--Five choleric deaths
occurred yesterday at Coffee.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10

This remedy is becoming SD well
known and SO popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song Of
praise. \ purer medicine does not exist
and it is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all
diseases of the liver and kidneys. will
remove pimples. boils. salt rheum and
other affections coused by impure blood.
Will drive malaria from the system and
prevent as well as cure all malarial few
ers. For cure Of headache, constipation
and Indigestion try Electric Bitters.
Entire satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. Price 30 cents and 81 per bot
tie at John Wright's drug store.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
Dead Sure.

Johnson-When | die. know my
death will casta gloom over the comlnu
nifty
Thompson--Undoubtedly. You re the
laughing stock of the place. YOU know
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
PHYSICIANS.
0R. X. Ii. Redo.
u PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office at ". +. Sayages' Drug Store.

0R. +. F. FISH.
PHYSICIAN SURGEON AND OBsTETRICIaN.
(Arat. Wundarzt und tiehurtsheferD Office at
W. +. Sayages' Drug Store.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10

ALDERMEN.
First Ward-H. W W.lMcIItire. y. Z. Serrenson
Second Ward-Tho.. Glib, ". II. Builard.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10

METHODIST Church corner Eleventh and
Psasant streets Services at lila IN. and :s0p. M.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings.
Rev. F. g. Boylan, Pastor.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10

rs. Whitney.
u DENTIST.
Main Street over Stockgrowers National Bank
Work guaranteed and at reasonable prices.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10

PRESBYTERIAN Courch Corner Main Street
and Montana Avenue. Services Sundays at II
am. and 30 pm. Rev. Jno. Dunlap, Pastor.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10

EPISCOPAL Emanuel Church cor. Palmer and
Eleventh streets. Services Sunday at II am. and
SPIN. Holy communion first Sunday in each
mouth after morning services.
Rev. j. Pritchard, Rector.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
POSTOFFICE REGULATIONS.
MAILS CLOSE.
Northern Pacific Time Table.

LEAVE MILES CITY GOING WEST.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10

CATHOLIC Church of the Sacred Heart Corner
of Main and Tenth Streets. Services first lad
third Sundays of the month. High Mass at
10 am. Sunday School at 2 30 p. m. yespers
and Benedction at Z 30 pm.
BAPTIST Church. corner Tenth and Palmer
Street. No pastor.
Post Chaplain L. Newton Ritner breaches once
each month aud conducts devotional service
every Thursday evening, beginning at 10
o'clock. During mid-winter these services
are suspended.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-10
SOCIETIES..

I. o. &. T. Star of the West meets at Masonic
hall every Thursday evening.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01

THE circumstances attending the as
sa.sination of Mayor Harrison of Chi
cago present striking analogy to the
murder of President Gnfi I'D, The
assassin's mental condition, the pretext
for his hideous deed, his method of exc
cutting his murderous purpose, are pain
full reminders of the misei able wretch
whose unspeak lble crime is still fresh in
the memnry of the people Of this ma
ton. The cutting down of a person in
private station is an offense that ex-
cites natural feeling of horror in
every human breast. But the assassi-
nation of man occupying high pub
lie office is blow which every order
loving citizen instinctively feels is lev
eled at himself, and so he resents it with
q deeper resentment than is kind ed by
a murder of a person in private life.
Such will be the feeling the assassina-
ton of Mayor Harrison inspires
throughout the length and breadth of
this laud. The act of Prendergast is
an unwelcome indication of the extent
to which violence, as a means of re-
forming alleged abuses or righting al
legged wrongs, has been inculcated and
adopted in this land of freedom. The
murder OF Mayor Harrison, the at
tempted murder of Manager Prick, both
Indicate the progress of the teachings
OF auarchism. They both justify the
recent action of the courts of New
York in sentencing TO imprisonment
one whose incendiary harangues were
egging men on to just such deeds of
violence as that which year ago at
Pittsburg and this just now at Chicago
have shocked and astounded mankind.
Prendergast may be lunatic, but for
his lunacy, like that Of Guiteau, there
is one only adequate remedy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01
The Long Agony Ended.

The senate on Monday passed the
voorhees, bill repeating the purchasing
clause OF the Sherman act. Amend
ments of various scope and character
were offered, but all were voted down
by majorities more or less decisive.
The collapse of the compromise scheme
vas complete and served to hasten, to
some extent, action upon the main
question. The debate in the senate
Immediately following the failure of
compromise developed the fact that the
scheme which had been formulated was
favored by Secretary Carlisle, and that
its main features were in his hand
writing. 1t is further intmated that
the presidents decisive stand against
compromise was taken only after it was
known that the republican repeal SEN
ators would vote against compromise
Of any kind. Very likely these reports
do the president injustice. The peo-
pie will prefer to believe that he had
stood inf xibly by the position he had
assumed in his message and in his let
ter to Governor Northen.
The vote on repeal was as follows:
Republicans - Aldrich, Carey, Cullom,
Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Frye, Gallinger,
Hale, Hawley, Higgins, Hoar, Lodge,
Mcmillan, Henderson, Morrill,, Plat,
Proctor, Quay, Sherman, Squire, Stock
bridge, Washburn-23. Democrats -
Brice, Gallery, Camden, Faulkner, Glib
son, CONAN, Gray, Hill, Hunton,
Lindsey, Mcpherson, Mills, Mitchell
(Wisconsin), Murphy, Ransom, Smith,
Turpe, Villas, Voorhees,, White Louis-
iana)-2O. Aggregate Affirmative vote,
As. Those voting nay were: R.publi-
cans-Cameron, Dubois, Jones of Ne
vada, Perkins, Pettigrew, Power, Shoup,
Teller, Wolcott-9. Democrats-B
Berry, Blackburn, Butler, Call, Cock
rell, Coke, Daniel, George, II irris, Irby,
jones of Arkansas, Martin, Pasco,
Pugh0 Roach, Vance, Vest, Walthall-
10. Farmers Alliance-Allen, Kyle,
PETER, Stewart A Total negative
vote, 32. The following senators were
paired: Michel. of Oregon, republican,
with Allison, republican; Chandler, re-
publican, with White of California,
democrat; Colquitt, democrat, with
Wilson, republican; Palmer, democrat,
with Hansbrough, republican; Gordon,
democrat, with Morgan, democrat.
The record of the voting is an anom-
ally in politics. The democratic party,
at it's national convention in Chicago,
had vehemently denounced the Sher-
man act as a cowardly makeshifL"
and declared for its "speedy repeal"
Mr.. Cleveland, in his public addresses
before the election, in his inaugural ad-
dress, and in his message converting
congress in extraordinary session, had
put forth the repeal of the Sherman act
as the initial measure of the democratic
administration. To the effects of this
law the president was attributing all the
financial and industrial woes that have
befallen the country during the past six
months. Ii the administration had a
policy, and if that policy possessed one
distinctive feature, the repeal OF the
Sherman act was the firs expression OF
that policy and its most distinctive
feature. And yet the voting in the
senate shows that if the president had
been dependent upon his own party for
the carrying out of his policy, he would
have suffered most disastrous defeat.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01

Comment can hardly elucidate the sig
niicance of the record of the vote in
the senate. If president, or party,
in the carrying out of much-vaunted
policy, has heretofore, since the foun-
dalton of the government, been de
pendent upon the minority for success,
it is not within our recollection.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01

THERE are tricks in all trades, and
it will generally be found that the
trickster appeals to the avarice or other
selfish passion of the public. AS an il
lustration of this, we may cite the re-
cent advertisement of a New York
firm that ii had bought the stock of a
bankrupt concern to the amount of
$2 600, 900 and would offer the goods at
forly-seven cents on the dollar. 1t turns
out that its purchases amounted to just
$64l 3S, and it is probable that its al
legged marking down was as exagger-
ated as its reported purchases. Bar
gains are no doubt to be found by all
who know values and watch the mar
kets, but they are more often offered
through the advertisements of conserv-
alive houses than in the Intentionally
misleading and seductive circulars of
mercantile sensationaists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01

FROM 1870 900 TO 5000 people are
daily visitors to Central Park, New
York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01

mixture in season and thoroughly have no
complaint to make OF their potatoes rotting:
Appes are plenty enough for local use, aud
there have been some shipped away.
E.O Mann is to feed more sheep than
usual this winter. 49, Mrs. Il o. Mann is
sick. - Mrs. G. w. Flagg is gaining
slowly. = G. A. Clough had a fall re-
Gently, breaking one of the bones in his
right wrist and dislocating it generally.
- Jerome Farrar, a soldier of the late
war, died Saturday morning of softening OF
the brain. - The visitors to the White
City have returned. - Quite number
took in the excursion to Boston last week.
NJ. ID. Laporte and wife were away
on "A visit last week. - The church at
West Brookield is being painted, which 1t
very much needed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01

HardWlcK.
Ten tickets were sold here on Tuesday
last for the Boston excursion.
Wallace l.. Dow has received the ap-
polntment of postmaster at East Hardwick
A plank sidewalk has been built con-
Meeting Meader's block with G.. 5. Cobb's
block-a great convenience.
Dr. s. e. Darling has purchased the
Goodrich lot on the west side, and is putting
in the foundations for a house TO be erected
next season.
1t is reported that Emerson Brush has
purchased the interest of his partner, DIR.
w. S. Curtis of West Randolph, in the
granite business here.
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph McKeage are spend
ing afew weeks with relatives and friends at
their former home in Canada about ninety
miles north of Sherbrooke.
DIR. A. M. Ward attended church for the
first time since his injury last winter on
Sunday, October %. He is able to walk a
little with the aid of crutches.
The town at its meeting last Saturday in
structed the selectmen to lay out and build
the proposed road connecting Mackvile
with Buffalo road junction near the branch
railroad crossing OF the road to Woodbury..
II. G. Swerdfeger, we understand, has
engaged a tenement in the Gallagher house
recently purchased by j. j. Campbell, and
will occupy it when the sale of the mill
property is completed and possession given
the purchaser.
The town, at a meeting on Saturday, au-
thorized or instructed the selectmen TO sell
OF remove the hearse house from its present
Site as they might deem best for the public
interest, to facilitate the erection thereon Of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-29
How the Queen Travels.

When the president of the United
States travels he often goes by special
train, but the rights of other travellers
are respected, and the presidents
"spe cial" is merely sandwiched in be-
tween regular trains. The Christian
Union says that it is serious affair for
railroad officials in England when
Queen Victoria travels. First, there is
the special, which must be faultless in
every particular - runniug-gear, ar
rangement and care of furniture, APP
parel of attendants, perfection of SER
vice. But all this is slight in compare
son with the disarrangement of business.
No train on branch line connecting
with the main line must pass within
two stations of its connection. Just
before the train starts, pilot engine
starts and travels ten miles ahead of
the train. Between this engine and
the train covering the whole distance
travelled are men provided with hand
signals and decorators. In addition to
these precautions, no engine or train is
permitted to move in advance of the
of the royal train for one half hour be-
fore that train is due. The queen will
not travel at faster rate than thirty
miles an hour, which is about half as
fast as the fast English expresses
travel. The queen pays $50, 900 year
for the special trains that convey her
and her suite there and back on her fire.
quent visits to Sc tlaud.