midnight
This has prevented a panic . Brokers and bankers receive the tidings with consternation ; they dread the opening on the morrow . Many of them are in the crowd anxiously waiting for further details of the deaths of the controllers of railroad and industrial stocks . At midnight a bulletin announces that Senator Barker , who had been the staunch advocate of Bi-metallism until the recent session , and who had then voted with the Gold element , has been found murdered in his palatial home at Lakewood , N.J. His private secretary has also been killed , evidently because he had attempted to rescue his employer . Both have been stabbed . After this the only news that is posted is of a confirmatory nature . It tells of the development of the national wave of death .