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MANY ELKs INJURED.
The Floor Gave Way During Their Social
Session.

SGes1OHs
ATLANTIC CITY, n. J., July 10-The
social session rendered by the At
lantic City lodge to the visiting Elks
this evening ended in frightful dis
aster. Fully 100 persons were injured.
The session had just opened, and only
one of the speakers had been heard,
when, without warning, the building,
which had not been used for several
years, collapsed, and fully 1000 persons
were thrown to the floor beneath.
Many women, the wives of visiting
Elks, went down in the ruins. Fully
200 persons, who were on the first floor
and Immediately under the banquet
hall, were crushed beneath the timbers
and lay helpless,
An alarm was Immediately turned
in, and the city's force of 200 firemen
and every policeman in the city were
called to the scene as hospital corps.
The police ambulance and carriages
of every kind were utilized to convey
the injured to the hospital and to
their hotels.
When the police and firemen arrived
on the scene the excitement was so in
tense that they did not know where to
begin, The streets for blocks were
blocked. The air was full of anxious
inquiry for friends and relatives who
were thought to have been in the
building. Within few minutes the
police started to clear the space in the
immediate neighborhood of the
building and to place ropes around to
keep the crowd back,
In the meantime the firemen had
set to work to extricate the wounded
from beneath the mass of timbers,
and they were aided by the hotel
keepers and residents near the scene.
Every house was thrown open and
every available convenience was
pressed into service to carry them to
their hotels. Meanwhile the physi-
clan were on the scene and doing all
they could to aid the unfortunates.
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BARBAROUS.

AT Morenci, Mich, they have been
resorting to the methods employed in
the middle ages to ascertain the guilt
or innocence of persons accused of
withcraft; but the difference in the re-
suit was that the fellow would have
been killed without acknowledging the
crime-and by co6fessing he was given
his liberty. The dispatch states that
band of masked men took the person,
who was accused of heinous crime,
into the woods and strung him up to
tree until he confessed. He protested
his innocence twice after being pulled
up and let down nearly dead. The
third time they gave him fair warning
and told him if he didn't confess they
would let him hang until he was dead,
and he confessed and was ordered to
leave the country. This is queer just
ice, and it may satisfy a barbarous
community; but not one where ciyili-
zation prevails in The least. If he
were innocent he did what any sensi-
BILE man would have done, and saved
his neck by making false statement,
If guilty he should not have been al
lowed to escape free. But the facts
furnish no proof of guilt or innocence,
and it is strange that in Michigan
resort should be had to such medieval
methods. Torture was frequently used
in the dark ages, and it is the opinion
of historians that many acknowledge
crimes of which they were not guilty
to save themselves from the narrowing
pain of the thumb screws and rack.
This may be the case with the fellow
in Michigan, and almost any one in
his sane mind would have pursued the
same course to save his life. If this
had happened in the south, and had
been perpetrated puon some 1ustful
brute of a negro, the press of the
north would have criticised it severely
as further evidence of the savagery
prevailing there; but being in the |
north the associated press correspond
ent telegraphs it over the country as
proper manner of making fiend con.
fess to a horrible crime.
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MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
Ransom Stokes, of sunnydale, Near Seat
tie, the Victim.

Ransom Stokes, of Sunnydale, Near Seat
tie, the Victim.
SEATTLE, July l1-Sunnydale, a
sparsely settled community about
eight miles from this city, has been
the scene of a fiendish and mysterious
murder. Ransom Stokes, the victim,
was middle-aged man, we'll educated,
and able to live without labor on
money he received from property in
the east, OF late he has been adver-
tising for wife, and on that account
was at the postoffice frequently. Yes
terday it was discovered that he had
not been for his mail for 10 DAYS, SO a
search was made. His house was
locked, hut ON looking through the
window it was noticed that things were
in confusion. The people knowing
that he was il the habit of bathing
every morning in little creek that
runs through the woods, some little
distance from the house, went there.
Nothing was found, but an odor was
noticed coming from the woods. A
scarce resulted in the discovery, about
100 yards from the house, in the dense
brush, of a large pile of logs, roots, etc.
Under one side were the remains of q
fire, which had burned into the pile
some distance. The stencil from this
heap was terrible, but one of the men
got down on his knees, looked through
the hole and discovered the remains of
human being. The coroner was i'm
mediately sent for, and returned there
this afternoon. He found that the fire
which had been set to the pile was in
tended to burn up the remains of Ran
som Stokes. The face, hands and
neck were scorched, but nothing more.
On taking the body from this place, it
was found that 10 buckshot had been
fired into the mans back, piercing the
heart and lungs.
Suspicion rests ON Fred Kindling
and Charles Kindling, two ex-convicts,
who were neighbors of Stokes, and
whom Stokes said he had ordered off
his place. The two men are under ar
rest, but deny all knowledge of the
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SALEM, July 11.-Another drowning
occurred in the Willamette river at
Salem today, about 100 yards from and
directly opposite the point where
Brown drowned Monday night.
Frank Carlson, Swede, one of crew
of hands engaged in floating logs down
the river to Oregon City. jumped from
springboard into the river and was
drowned before he could be rescued.
The board from which the leap was
made was one used by Salem boys for
diving. The loggers engaged in div
ingyfeats from the board with their
clothing on. At 11:30 A. N. Robert
Bailey and Frank Cole made the dive.
The unfortunate Carlson sprang from
the board, turning a double somer-
sault, and landing in the water, strik-
ing stomach first. He arose with his
head thrown back in an unnatural
position, struggled short time in the
water and sank.
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CUBA's NEW PRESIDENT.
Palma the Choice of the Revolutionary
Party,

Palma the Choice of the Revolutionary
Party.
NEW YORK, July 1O.-The last OF
the returns from the Cuban revolution.
ary elections all over the United States
on Sunday have been received here.
The formal announcement that Palma
was elected will be made today. A
committee will be sent to Central Val
ley to notify Mr.. Palma who, it is ex-
pected, will come here tomorrow to
open his headquarters.
Thomas Estreda Palma was born in
Bayamo, Cuba, July 9, 1885. After
completing his studies in Havana he
wenI to Seville, Spain, to read law,
and then returned to his native city to
practice. He was interested in Cuban
independence and rose to a command
ing position in the small but rapidly
increasing band of patriots who were
working to create the sentiment that
crystallized into the revolution of
1S6S-69.
When the war broke out Palma was
one OF the first to take the field. He
was elected member of the Cuban
congress later, and in the last years he
succeeded Cespedes in the presidency
of the republic of Cuba. II was while
he was holding the position that the
revolution collapsed. He was made q
prisoner on October 10, 1877, and by
order of the same General Martinez
Camyos, who is conducting the cam
paign against the present revolution
lists, was taken to Havana, whence he
was deported to Spain.
Palma went to Central America
after his release, and 13 years ago es-
tablished the college in Central VAL
ley, N. Y, which he still maintains.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
REAR END COLLISION.
Disastrous Accident on a Canadian Rail-

Disastrous Accident on a Canadian Rail-
QUEBEC, July "a very large pill
grimage from Sherbrooke, Windsor
Mills and Richmond left last night at
10 O'Clock for the shrine of st. Anne
de Beaupre. There were two sections
of train, one running a few minutes
behind the other. The first section
was standing at Craig's road station,
at 3 "A. NJ, taking water, when the
second section, passing the semaphone,
dashed into the rear of Pullman
coach of the first section, smashing it
to kindling wood, and killing, it is
said. everybody in that car, except the
Pullman conductor, who jumped.
Engineer Mcleod and Fireman Per-
kins, of the second division. were both
killed outright. The Pullman coach
was telescoped into the first-class cars
of the first section, killing number OF
passengers. Among the killed are
three priests. The number of killed
is now placed at IA, injured 81.
The dead are; Charles Bedard. mail
clerk; Miss Bedard, his daughter, Hec-
tor Mcleod, engineer; Richard Per-
kins, fireman.: Rev. Father j. L. Mer-
cier, Rev. Mr.. Cogan, all of Richmond.
Rev. Mr.. Dignan, Windsor Mills; Miss
Valine and aunt, name unknown: Miss
Thauauetall, of st. Joseph de Lewis;
Mrs. c. Aver, Danville: the two
Misses Delacourte, of Shefford: John
O'Farrell, of Richmond.
The wounded, who were taken to
Quebec for treatment, are: John Cad
iur, j. P. Cayer, Seraphim Cayer,
Joseph Cayer, Louis Cayer, all of
Danville: Virginia Sylvester, Hane:
Mrs. Francis Tostaine, Broughton:
Louis Goedette, Arthabaskaville Pat
rick McHugh. Copelon: Rev. Father
de Rossier, Broughton: Pierre Alard,
Richmond: Antonio Barrie, Artha-
baskaville: NJ. X. Quinlan, travelling
passenger agent, Montreal.
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CONJECTURES.

Eastern papers mention the name of
President Cleveland as probable can
didate before the Democratic conven-
tion next year. 1t is yet premature to
name prospective candidates for 1895,
but there may be indications which
may lead some to form a probable
conjecture. Mr.. Cleveland has occu-
pied the position of executive of the
nation during two terms; but these
have not been continuous, and there
was an interval of four years between
the first and second official service.
This may be construed as an effort to
defeat the precedent, which has here
tofore been considered the unwritten
law, that no president shall occupy the
position for third term. There is no
question that Mr.. Cleveland was
strong man in 1884, and probably no
other candidate could be elected. He
was still strong in 1892; but in 1895 a
more available candidate can be pro-
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The Sam francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle gives
the following note Of warning to Cali
fornia; "The Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company has entered into
a competitive warfare with the Pacific
Mail and the Canadian Pacific steam.
ship companies for the freight busi-
ness between the orient and the
western world. Big cuts have been
made in flour rates, which must be met
by the Pacific Mail or California will
suffer. China and Japan have re-
Gently afforded good markets for
California -four, but if the
steamship companies of the north offer
lower freights than the Pacific Mail,
the chief supplies of the orient will be
drawn from Oregon and Washington
hereafter. Perhaps tramp steamers
might be chartered to help the situa-
ton, but our chief dependence must be
upon the Pacific Mail so long as it
works in combination with the occi-
dental and oriental line"
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4 NEW SOUTH.

Since the war there has been quite
q revolution in the south regarding
the propepeconomic policy to be fol-
lowed. When slave labor planted and
hoed the cotton, and prepared it for
market free trade was the popular doc
trine; but during the last few years
manufacturing industries have been
inaugurated, and those engaged in
these industries see the benefits OF
protection, The antagonism towards
the Republicans of the north have
held the people of the south aloof from
any coalition with them, and they
have naturally been attracted to the
Democracy. This has made what has
been termed the solid south; but there
has been change very recently, and
it is expected that they will fall into
line with states in the north demand
ing tariff on articles. The facts ad-
duced in support of this opinion are
that the legislature of Florida passed
a resolution in favor of maintenance
of the Mckinley duties on certain OF
the products of that state, that Texas
demanded retention Of the Mckinley
duty on wool, that Tennessee, Ala
bama, and Georgia sent delegations to
congress to request that the Mckinley
tariff on iron, coal, marble, and other
of their products be left unchanged,
that Louisiana strove for a perpetua-
tion of the Mckinley bounty on sugar,
and that Mississippi asked for the
addition of a new article-cotton-to
the dutiable list Unfortunately, these
states were as anxious to do away with
protection to all northern products as
they were to retain it for their own.
Subsequent events have taught them
that tariffs cannot be made wholly Sec
tiona1. Indeed, the sectional feeling
sesms to be in rapid decadence through
out the south. Therefore, there is
good reason to accept the opinion
of some leading men that in
all the southern states in which
there shall be semblance of honesty
in elections Republican gains will be
made at the next election. From this
it is apparent that the issues will be
squarely fought, and that the country
may expect fair and full decision
at the ballot box next year on the ques-
tion of protection or free trade as the
policy, without votes being
controlled by local or sectional preiu-
dices.
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BRIGHT PROSPECTS.

Manufacturers in nearly all portions
of the country have increased the
wages of their employees, and In some
instances industries that have been
closed have been reopened. This is
very encouraging, and the people are
hopeful of the future. OF course the
rise in the price of wages has not been
very large, but it is enough to lead all
to believe that the worst times have
been suffered, and there is change
for the better. 1t is more noticeable
at present because of the distressful
times through which the country has
passed during the last few years, and
as the trend is toward improvement it
may be expected to continue in the
same direction. Every indication
points to the fact that there is gen.
eral revival Of trade all over the world,
and the United States is simply feeling
the beneficial result the same as other
nations. But it will take long years,
under the present ratio of improve
ment, for the business of the nation
and the wages of laborers to be where
they were before the election of 1892.
Democrats will be inclined to credit
the revival of trade to the operation of
their economic policy; but this cannot
be true, as reports from Great Britain
and other commercial, nations are un-
usually encouraging and the world at
large appears to be entering upon an
era OF prosperity. During Republican
administrations the United States
could stand alone without being de.
pendent upon the volume of business
in other countries; but when free-trade
prevails all nations must come down to
q common level, and one will be the
reflex Of the other as regards business
prosperity.
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Chicago's New Industry.

CHICAGO, July 9.-Boy farming has
suddenly become great industry in
Chicago. The last legislature made
some amendments to the act concern
ing dependent children. As the law
stands, every training school for boys
is to get $40 a month from the county
for every hoy committed to its care,
and this, whether the county board
has agreed to it or not. Training
schools for boys have agents out hunt
ing up boys who can be brought with
in the wide definition the statute gives
of dependent boys, or parents who are
willing to get rid of their boys. The
result is a ten-fold increase Of alleged
dependent" boys. Commissioner
Cummins said today: ''There is a
profit of about So month to the school
on each boy. A profit of S. month
is $50 a year, and if school can hunt
up 1000 boys it can make $50, 900 profit
out of the county. AS the boys are
committed until they are q, each be-
comes profitable investment,
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cured. Whether from party disaffec-
tion, or otherwise, the present admin

tion, or otherwise, the present admin
istration has been very weak, and is
very unpopular with the people. The
party has accomplished little or moth
ing, and cannot bear the criticism is
will receive. If Mr.. Cleveland is the
candidate it will be placed on the de-
fensive, and he will be the subject of
attacks as much rs the organization.
But the nomination of Mr.. Cleveland,
we believe. cannot be accomplished.
even if he uses the patronage under
his control with that end in view. He
has antagonized the leaders by
many ARBITRARY acts, and it will
be impossible for the national
Democratic convention to con-
solidate on him. Hill is still the
pet of Tammany, ,and that organization
has by no means lost all its power or
influence. Then there is German and
others who will not support him; but
will do everything possible to defeat
his nomination. Perhaps they have
presidential bees buzzing in their bon
nets, and, aside from opposition to the
views of the executive on national
questions, have personal ends to sub
serve For these reasons there is not
much prospect of the Democratic ticket
being headed by Grover Cleveland, but
the issues upon which the campaign
will be contested will be the princi-
pies upon which the Republican and
Democratic parties have stood for
many years, and it is very probable
that the people will decree that the
country be restored to the former pro-
tective policy.
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THE oRATOR IN POLITICS.

There is an impression to the
effect that the day of the political ora
tor has gone by, says the Globe Demo
crat, and that public opinion on cur
rent issues is nodded and directed by
other means. 1t is true that the news
paper has become the most important
influence in that respect, and that the
spoken word is not so widely potent as
it was in the days of Webster and
Clay. or of Lincoln and Douglas: but
it is not true that the people have
ceased to give attention to speakers
who are able to instruct and entertain
them. Secretary Carlisle has just
demonstrated in Kentucky that an ora
tor who understands his business can
change the views OF voters and reverse
the drift of popular sentiment. When
he entered the recent campaign, the
cause that he represented was at de-
cided disadvantage. and the speeches
that he delivered-plain. practical, i'm
pressive presentations of the facts in
the case-turned the tide in his favor
and made it triumphant. He knew his
subject thoroughly, and he knew how
to talk upon it in pleasing and con-
vincing way. The people listened to
him and believed what he said because
he spoke TO them candidly, intelli-
gently and seriously. A like effect
II !, taTTI n
claiming the same things through a
newspaper.
The number of men now in public
life in this country who are capable OF
performing that kind of service is not
large, but there are eno1gh of them
to refute the proposition that political
oratory has lost its power over the
masses. John Sherman's financial
speeches are of the same general char
acter as those which Carlisle made in
Kentucky. McKinley's speeches on
the tariff are of similar order of ex-
cellence. Reed has style that is al
ways interesting and effective: and
Harrison is equally pleasing and forci-
BILE in different way. There are 9TH
ers that might be named to prove that
when man is master alike of his sub
iect and Of the art Of discussing it
clearly and vigorously he can cause
changes opinion and win victories
against apparent odds. The people
are honest and anxious to do what is
right and best; and the orator who is
able to guide them to proper conclu-
sions can count upon their due appre-
citation of his efforts. They are not
much Influenced by the ordinary dem
agogue or the average stump-speaker,
because he has nothing to say that is
of any real assistance to them, and his
manner is apt to be one that lacks
honesty and straightforwardness; but
when the orator comes along who is
evidently sincere and fully qualified to
give useful information, they flock to
hear him, and his speeches sway their
minds and shape their actions in de-
gree exceeding that of any other
method of instruction and solicitation.
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Drowned Himself.

SALEM, Or, July 9.-Mort Brown,
aged 80 years, unmarried. disappeared
last night, and this morning his coat
and vest were found on the bank of the
river. Search was instituted and
shortly after noon his body was found
close to the bank on the bottom in a
few feet of water, he having committed
suicide. He was out of work, of a mo-
rose disposition and had been drinking
heavily. He quarreled yesterday
with his mother and sister with whom
he lived, and had threatened several
times to end his life.
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TELEGRAPHIc.
BLooD.sTAINED CUBA.
Both Spaniards and Insurgents Claim
Victories.

Both Spaniards and Insurgents Claim
Victories.
HAVANA, July 10.-General Navarro
is pursuing the insurgents under Gar.
zon. who were recently defeated near
Minasdaiquiti, province of Santiago
de Cuba, with the loss of many dead
and wounded.
Marabi, the insurgent leader, at the
head of 1900 men, has compelled
Major Sanchez, with 400 men, to re.
treat. The insurgent leader surprised
the Spanish troops at Cacao, near Jig
uani, not far from Bayamo, province
Santiago de Cuba. The troops made
gallant defense, but Major Sanchez
lost 20 killed and wounded and retired
to Santa Rita. <The loss of the insur,
gent is said to have been much
heavier.
General Gssco has had three days
fight with insurgents in Sierra Macs.
ira. The insurgent lost great many
killed and wounded, and the Spanish
captured a quantity of arms, ammuni
tion and horses. Further details oi
the fighting have not been received
San francisco has arrived from Spain
with 22OO troops, and steamer Antonit
Lopez with 2500.
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SIX BURNED TO DEATH.
Fatal Fire in Livery Stable at De
troit.

Fatal Fire in a Livery Stable at De
troit.
DETROIT, July 10.-At 2 this morn
ing fire was discovered in the liver,
stable of G. F. Case, Al West Congress-
street, four-story brick. All the EN-.
ployes were lodged and fed in the
building. On the fourth floor were
sleeping accommodations for 25 men.
How many occupied the beds last
night is not definitely known, but five
burned bodies are at the morgue await
ing burial and one other person is
missing. There were many narrow
escapes and heroic rescues by firemen
and the police.
The following are the victims: John
Shaw, driver, 35 years old; John Bow
man, second cook. aged 20; Thomas
Webb, painter, aged 55; Charles Davis.
hostler. aged %; James r. Shaw,
harness man, age 81; Edward Hughes.
barn man, missing.
Eighty horses stabbed in the base
ment were gotten out, with the excep-
tion of G. A. Groves Ethel G., valued
at $1,000, and one of less value.
James Cummings, aged Is, a stable
man, reached window Of the top
story, but, overcome by the smoke and
flames, fell ehead1ong to the street.
He was badfy injured, and may die.
The total loss will reach sl00, 600