Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 10, Number 51, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 13 March 1889 — Page 2

THE KAPPA NEE NEWS. BY G. N. MURRAY. NAPPANEE, : t INDIANA. Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. V. S. SENATE IN SPECIAL SESSION. It was announced In the Senate on the Stb that only executive business would be transacted during the remainder or the session. Mr. Blair presented tbe credentials ot Mr. Marston, appointed by tbe Governor of New Hampshire to flit a vacancy, and he was sworn in. Mr. Pruden, one of tbe President's Secretaries, delivered a message in writing (being tbe Cabinet appointments) and they were confirmed. The Senate was In session only six minutes on the 6th. No nominations were received and no business was transacted. Owing to tbe absenoe of Vice-President Morton on the Ttb, Mr. Ingalls was elected President pro tern, of the Senate, the oath of office being administered by Mr. Sherman. It was ordered tbat the President be notified of Mr. Ingalls’ election as President pro tern., and tbe Senate thereupon adjourned until tbe 11th. DOMESTIC. Hablan Turner and J. W. McVeigh, two well-known and highly respected citizens of Butler, Ha, (ought a duel on the Oth with pistols, the latter being fatally wounded. The will of James Flood was filed on the 6th at the county seat of San Mateo Count)’, in California. The amount of his estate was *17,000,000. The Farmers’ Union Mercantile Company of Livermore, Cal., assigned on the Oth with liabilities estimated at *145,000; assets unknown. The Michigan Legislature passed a joint resolution on the 6th amending the constitution to fix the Governor’s salary at *4,000, instead of *I,OOO as it is at present. August Ziska, aged sixty years, killed himself on the Oth at Clinton, la, because his daughter had bought an expensive dress. Three of the principal breweries of Rochester, N. V., were sold on the oth to an English syndicate for *3,ooo,ooo—five per ceut of the purchase money being paid. Three farmers living near Knox, Ind., were arrested on the Oth for systematically robbing freight cars. They had been carrying on their operations for some time. George W. Robinson, of Norwalk, 0., sold his Florida lumber interest on the 6th to a European syndicate for *350,000. Joseph McHenry, of Lima, 0., was back of a drift on the Oth setting a trap and Joseph Lewis took his hat for a rut and shot him dead. Three iron mills in the vicinity of Reading, Pa, shut down on the Oth because of the recent failure of the Reading Iron Company. The Willots Manufacturing Company of Trenton, N. J., owners of the largest pottery in the country, failed on the Oth for *300,000. The Mahoning National Life Association ofjGolumbus, 0., doing an insurance business on the mutual assessment plan, failed on the Oth, with assets of’ *30,000 cash and *31,000 in notes and accounts. The risks outstanding amounted to *10,000.000. Fifteen cottages were burned on the (itli in New Orleans. NKAr.Delafield, Wis., on the Oth Mrs. Ann Driscoll, aged fifty-five years, while insane decapitated her sleeping husband with an axe. Duke McLachlan, a young blacksmith, aged twenty-two years, and Cora Carnahan, the thirteen-year old daughter of ifie proprietor of the Detamore House at Paw Paw, 111., eloped on the 3d, and at a farm-house in Earlville on the Oth McLachlan shot the girl dead and then killed himself. The display of fire-works at Washington, deferred from the 4th until the evening of the Oth, were .said to have been tbe finest ever seen in that city. A set piece representing Harrison and Morton was so perfect that the portraits could be recognized at the distance of mile. Charles Binkley, a farmer living near Van Wert, 0., shot his in the face on the 6th and tore out both his eyes with a shot-gun which he didn’t know was loaded. Thirty-six students at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N. H., were expelled on the Oth for disorderly conduct Although nearly three hundred mad 1 dogs had been killed in Wetzel County, W. Va.. during the past month, the interior of the county was on the 6th reported as being overrun with rabid canines, and farmers considered it dangerous to go unarmed. J. H Baker, while making a public exhibition on the 6th of a self-acting fire escape at St. Paul, Minn., fell from a window of the Ryan Hotel and was fatally injured. A remarkable rich vein of silver ore was struck on the Oth near Aspen, Col. A number of farmers In Brule County, South Dakota, had begun seeding on tbe 7th. It was announced on the 7th that all the employes of the Metropolitan street car stables at Kansas City escaped from the recent fire, and no lives were lost, as at first reported. White Caps were on the 7th operating at fiuntingburg, Ind. One man had been severely whipped and others bad been warned. Aaron Ludwin, a milk peddler, and Charles Warfield, a colored barber, of Harrisburg, Pa., committed suicide on the 7th. J. P. MacGarrahan, a well-known journalist, dropped dead on the 7th of heart disease in a New York restaurant, where he had gone for breakfast He was forty-three years old. James Sutton, of Lower Hayden, Pa., committed suicide on the 7th because his school-teacher, Annie Egan, refused his attentions. Fabanta’b Theater at New Orleans was destroyed by fire on the 7th. The Muldoon Picnic Company lost its entire wardrobe and the Forepaugh Band lost all their uniforms and instruments. , At Rushville, Ind, on the 7th Perry Bennett, aged eighty years, fatally wounded his wife, aged seventy years, with a hatchet, and then attempted to kill his daughters. Bennett was a hard character. Carroll County, Ga., was on the 7th in the midst of a religious revival under the preaching of Jimmie Cook, ten years old. He claims to have been called to preaching In a vision. At Ireland, Ind., on the 7th Joseph Serwersheim was taken from his house and given thirty lashes by White Cape for refusing a warning to go to work. Judson Bell and Lee Wateon, noted desperadoes, were mortally wounded on the 7th while making an attack on the oamp of some railroad contractors near Cumberland Gap, Ky. The eolt Mascot, of the L. J. Rosa California stables, was sold in New York on the Vth for *30,000. The Minnesota House on the 7th, by a vote of 50 to SB, refused to submit to a vote 4f the people a prohibition amendment. Michael Pebbles and his Wife and two children were found murdered In bed In their home on Duck creek, near Paduoah, Xy„ on the Ith. Bobbery was we cause of she ortm*. , ..

Resorts ofthe Bth from the towns through the northern and western portions of Maryland gave accounts of a severe earthquake shock. At Westminster a number of women were badly frightened and rushed paniostrlcken from their houses. The eighteen-year-old wife of Charles Honald was found dead on the floor of her home at Elkhart, Ind., on the Bth. Foul play was suspected. A suspension of payment was announced on the Bth by the Bufford Sons’ Lithographic Company of Boston, whose liabilities were estimated at SIOO,OOO. Samuel Gaskins (colored) was hanged on the Bth at Camden, S. C., for the murder of Betsey Clark, a colored girL The Camden Point Female Orphan Asylum at Platte City, Mo., was destroyed by fire on the Bth. but all the inmates escaped. A. W. Busby, a prominent citizen of Gate City, Ala, was shot and killed by an unknown assasin on the Bth while sitting athis fireside. L. O. Desfaroes & Cos., of New Orleans, who lost a number of coal barges in the storm of August last, assigned on the Bth, with liabilities of *144,000. Officials of the Government on the Bth arrested in Conway County, Ark., Martin Thorp and William Garner, leaders of the most extensive gang of counterfeiters in the Southwest An immense sum of bogus money, cojn prising *5, *lO and *3O imitation gold pieces, was also secured. The business portion of Slater, Mo., was destroyed by fire on the Bth. John Huntington, of Cleveland, 0., one of the original members of the Standard Oil Company, conveyed by deed of trust to a board of seven citizens on the Bth *300,000 worth of gilt-edged six per cent stock, the interest of which is to be used for charitable purposes. John Peek's stables on the Florence stock farm ucar Three Rivers, Mich., were burned on the Bth, together with uiue finely-bred horses. William Grssler, of Fostoria, 0., a glassworker, In a fit of jealousy on the Bth shot and killed his wife and then took his own life. Thomas C. Cooper, wholesaler of flour and provisions at Albany, N. Y., failed on the Bth for *IOO,OOO. A fire on tho Bth at Louisville, Ky., destroyed three business buildiugs, causing a loss of *465,000. Annie Roche committed suicide by hanging on the Bth at Ida, Minn. She was in love with Lee, recently hanged for murder. Earthquake shocks were"felton the evening of the Bth in Reading, Hitrrisbnrg, Carlisle and Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania. Crockery and wiudows were rattled violently, but no damage was done. Dennis McCarthy, an idle fellow of Portland, Conn., was whipped by White Caps on the Bth" until he proiniscd to stop beating his wife and give her proper support. At the convention of Railroad State Commissioners in Washington on the Bth it was stated that over 6,000 active, strong men were cither killed or maimed for life during the year 1888 while coupling cars. The best part of the village of Wabash, Neb., was swept away by flames on the Bth. The farmers near Still Pond, Md., were on the Bth losing a great many cattle by cerobro spinal meuiugltis, which was prevalent there. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in tho United States during the week ended on the Oth aggregated *1,047,765,404, against *1,034,700,509 tho previous week As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the iucreaso amounted to 13 3. At Kansas City on the Oth William E. Bell, cook in J. C. Christensen's restaurant, fatally shot the pioprietor and then killed himself. Boone Stores, a son of Bev. C. S. Stores, of Little Rook, Ark., accidentally shot and killed his young brother on the Oth while they were playiug with a rifle. Durino n row iu a New York saloon on the Oth William Tracy tried to shoot John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, but was prevented by the crowd. The excitement over the gold fields of Lower California was somewhat subsided on the 9th, and reports were freely circulated that land companies started the boom During a quarrel on the Oth Joseph Russell, of Auburn, N. Y., shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. Two young children were left orphans. Oje hundred female employes of the Engle cotton mills at Madison, Ind., struck on the Oth for a reduction of the hours of labor from eleven and a half to ten a day. An Immense meeting of fanners was held on the Oth at Lima, 0., at which resolutions opposing tho use of Chicago meat were adopted. The General Assembly es the State of Arkansas passed a bill on the Oth prohibiting non-residents from hunting in that State. By an accident on the Mount Auburn cable road at Cincinnati on the Oth thre® persons were fatally injured. ™ The Burlington road on the Oth established In Chicago a voluntary relief fund for its thirty-eight thousand employes. Thomas Love, of Frederioksburg, Va., accidentally shot and instantly killed his young wife on the oth while fixing his revolver. Advices of the Oth say that a party of five French travelers—two women and three men—had been murdered in the Yellowstone National Park by Indians. A fire on the 10th did damage to the amount of *IOO,OOO In Htgh street business property at Columbus, O. By a vote of the Inaugural Executive Committee on the Oth it was decided to devote the surplus (*35,000) in relieving the poor people In and about Washington by investing the sum iu real-estate securities and expending tbe interest for their needs. At Augusta, Ga, on the 10th Judge Snead’s ton-year-old son, while playing with a revo ver supposed to he unloaded, killed two colored boys. The Bartholomae Brewing Company’s plant, the largest in Rochester, N. Y., and valued at over *3,000,000, was on the oth transferred to an English syndicate. The North Wheeling (W. Va I glass-works, employing two hundred hands, shut down on the Oth on account of slack business. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland left Washington for their home in New York on (he Oth. --THe members of President Harrison’s Cabinet took the oath on the Oth and were duly Inducted into office. Sidney Bartlett, aged ninety years, and said to have been the oldest practicing lawyer in the United States, died at his home in Boston on the Oth. Ma L V. Williamson, the wqll-known Philadelphia philanthropist, died on the Oth from a stroke of paralysis, aged eighty years. It was estimated that he had given fifteen millions to oharity during his life. Diana Douty, of Charlton, Mass., celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her birth on the 7th. Her health was good. Mrs. Elizabeth Sands, of Baltimore, celebrated her one hundredth birthday on the 7th. She was in good health. Captain Erickson, the eminent engineer, died at his home in New York City on the night of the 7th. Memorial services in honor of Bev. Henry Ward Beecher were held in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, on tho evening of tho Bth, it being the second anniversary \>f his death. '

massm ■■ '-JEf Ex-Preside: t Clkvkl* xd entered on his practice as a New York 1 iwyer on the 7th. General 8r ion Came ion celebrated the ninetieth anniversary ot his birth on the Bth at the old Cameron man don in Harrisburg, Pa. The Womar’s Suffrage League has arranged for a National c invention of womans' suffrage leagues, tol >e held in New York April 27 and 28. R. W. Townshend, of 3hawneetown, 111., member of Congress fr >m the Eighth district since 1878. died in Washington on the Oth of pneumonia. He v -as forty-nine years of ago, and leaves a wife and two children. POREI IN. King Milan on the ttth abdicated the throne of Servia in favor of the Crown Prince Alexander, wh was proclaimed King. The new ruler is only thirteen years old. „ The Minister' of New ‘ outh Wales was defeated on the question c f protection on the Oth and resigned. Sir Henry Parkes would form a free-trade Cabin t Henry ft Lacroix, wholesale saddlery at Montreal, Can., failed oe. the Oth for *2oj),000 The Cuban sugar cro > for this year was on the Oth estimated at five hundred thousand tons, a large increr se over last year. It was stated on the Ith that upward of $1,000,000 had been subs cribed by American boodlers to defeat the anti-boodle bill in the Canadian Parliameu S, which would keep out American fugitives. General Legitime se ct a telegram to the European governments on the 7th announcing that the rebellion in Hayti had been crushed and dema ding recognition of his government The Parnell. Commission held a short session in London oc the 7th. An exFenian named Colemr.n testified that he had received £I,OOO from the English Government for acting as a spy in America. An Austrian ship laden with petroleum, became ignited on the 7th and exploded in the harbor of the French island of Bone. Four of the crew were saved and nine perished. Dr. Tanner, membei of Parliament for Cork, who was arrested for violating the Crimes act, was on the 7th sentenced to three months’ imprisonment , It was reported on the 7th from Samoa that the German oorvet Olga had bombarded Mataafa’s oamp. '’he captain of the man-of-war protested, but seeing his pretest disregarded he opened fire on the Olga, when the Olga directed a torpedo at the American ship, blowing her up with all hands. Advices of the Sth ay that the damage done by a recent snow-storm in Switzerland was enormous. Thous mds of splendid firs were destroyed and several old inns and bridges were ruined. The seventieth anniversary of the entry of Count von Moltke ir to the army was celebrated at Berlin on tle Sth. Ail the royal families of the empire sent messages of congratulations and prese its to the Count. The immigration into Canada lost year reached 49,168. Statistics publishe< l In Germany on the 9th showed that 3,500,0 )0 emigrants had left Germany since 1871, of whom 2,000,000 came to America. Mr. Meier, the four der and manager of the North German L oyd Steamship line, died in London on the 9th. The Salvation Army of London completed a building on the Oth ’or destitute women in the locality of tie 'Whitechapel murders. A party of one hunt red and seven American pilgrims arrived 11 Genoa, Italy, on the Oth from Marseilles. It was said on tht Oth that a Montreal (Can.) man had paten )ed a process for making ioe by which he cl limed a year’s supply could be manufacture I at a cost of seventyfive cents. A passenger train on the Transcaspian railway was thrown t orn the track on the 10th in a tunnel near St. Petersburg, Russia, and fifty persons vere killed and injured. Famine prevailed oi -the Oth to a distressing degree in the and strict of Winterberg, Bohemia. Twenty-fc ur villages in the district were almost ent rely without food. Advices of the Oth f :om Hayti say that in a recent battle the so: ces of Legitime captured Grand Saline, in ssacred nearly all the people and looted the town. LATEST NEWS. It was announcud c n the 11th that contracts for the construi tion of new war vessels, embodying the vtest approved ideas of high speed and he; vy armament, would be let within a few m nths by the Secretary of War. Robert Neal and S< nnie Lawrence, of St Mary’s City, Ind., war drowned in the river there on the 11th. A boiler in the Cle -eland rolling-mill at Cleveland, 0., exploded on the 11th, killing I two men and badly injuring twelve other persons. The issue of stands :d silver dollars from the mints for the w< ek ended on the Oth amounted to -871,35( and for the corresponding week last year the issue was *391,564. The North Carolina legislature adjourned vine die on the 11th. J. L. Adams, a youn : defaulter of Atlanta, Ga., was on the 11th < ying from voluntary starvation. He had p ssed twenty-five days without tastinr food < f any kind. Clifton Hall, the amous winter resort at Lakewood, N. J., i as destroyed by fire early on tbe morning of the 11th. The inmates escaped in the! night-clothes. The story of the r order of five French tourists by Indians in Yellowstone Park was on the 11th said to be . hoax. Six thousand weav ars employed in fifty different mills at Fall River, Mass., went on a strike on the 11th fc r higher wages. Queen Victoria on fie 11th approved the appointment of Sir Julian Paunoefote as Minister to Wf shingtc n. It was stated on the 11th that during February over flvb thous od negroes left North Carolina for fie Wes; and Southwest, and farmers were experle ncing difficulty lu securing help oi accoui Sos the exodus. The Indiar i Legislature adjourned fine die on the lltl It wt 3 found after adjournment that set iral bill; passed over the Governor’s veto were < sfeotive, and would therefore fail o beco ie laws. Advices of tfie lit i from Zanzibar state that the blocl ids of (he Zanzibar ports had not had the e eot to stop the importation of arms, whic i was still carried on largely. Judge Cabi:y, Solicitor, and Mr. E. B. Youmans, Chi if Clerk® of the Treasury Department at Washington, handed in their resignations n the 11th. The will of the late Isaiah V. Williamson, of Philadelpl a, was : dmitted to probate on tfie 11th. Th estate was valued at *9,000,000, and *1,00) ,000 wai given to charity and the remaihd r was < evised to the grandnephews and grand-n eoes of the deceased, shore and sh re alike Navioatio: on the pper Mississippi river opened on tb a 11th. The Presid jnt sent he following nominations to the Unitec States Senate on the lltfi: Thomas W. Ps mer, of Michigan, to be Minister to Spain; ohn F. Swift, of California, to Japan; Jr in D. Washburn, of Massachusetts, to wltzerland; George Tiohenor, of .Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasu 7, The nominations were referred to the appropriate committees - r 1

HARRISON'S AIDES. Hie President Sends His Ust of Cabinet Appo itments to tho Senate and They Are*Promptly Confirmed—Blaine, Wlndom, Proctor. Tracy, h’oble, Wanamaker, Mill or and Husk to Preside Over the Virion Departments Biographical Sketches of tho Appointees. Washington, March 6— President Harrison sort the following nominations for the Cabinet to the Senate: Secretory of State—James G. Blaine, of Maine. Secretary of the Treasury—William Windom, of Minnesota. Secretary of War—Redfleld Proctor, of Vermont. Secretary of the Navy—Benjamin F. Tracy, of New York. Secretary ofthe Interior—John W. Noble, of Missouri Postmaster-General—John Wanamaker, of Pennsylvania. Attorney-General—W. H. H Miller, of Indiana. Secretary of Agriculture—Jeremiah Rusk, of Wisconsin. The nominations were confirmed in a tenminute session of the Senate. CABINET BIOGRAPHIES. JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE. James Gillespie Blaine, the Secretary of State, is not unfamiliar with the duties of the off ce, having held it under President Garfield. He was corn in Pennsylvania in 1880, aqd on attaining his majority removed to Maine and became an editor. He served four years in the' Legislature, two of them as Speaker of the House, and in 1863 was

elected to Congress, serving until 1870, and being Speaker of the House from 1860 to 1874. In 1870 and in 1880 he was a prominent candidate for President He was elected to the Senate in 1877. He served as Secretary of State in Garfield's Cabinet, retiring upon his death. In 1884 he was nominated for President, but was defeated by Grover Cleveland. Again in 1888 he was urged for the place, but against his wishes. WILLIAM WINDQM. William Windoin, Secretary of the Treasury for the second time, was born in Ohio

in 1837. He was admitted to tho bar and became prosecuting attorney in his native State, and in 1853 removed to Minnesota, where he was elected to the Thir-ty-sixth and the four subsequent Congresses, taking an important part in the management of Indian affairs. In 1870 he was appointed Senator to fill an unexpired term, and vas afterward electecTfor two terms. He was a

candidate for the Presidential nomination In the convention of 1880, and was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in President Garfield’s Cabinet He retired at Garfield's death and was again elected to the Senate, and .since the expiration of his term has been engaged in business in New York City. REDFIELD PROCTOR. Redfleld Proctor, tfie Secretary of War, has been Governor 'of Vermont, and IS at

Rutland. His ability as an executive officer has been tried in numerous ways, and in it he has never been found wanting. JEREMIAH M. BUSK. Jeremiah M. Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture, is a native of Ohio, where he was

born in 1830. In 1835 he went to Wisconsin, entering po 1 i t i o s by being the successful candidate for several county offices. In 1862 he was a member ofthe Legislature, and in the same year went to the war as Major. He served until the close of tfie war, and was brevetted Brigadier-Gen-eral for meritorious services at the battle of Salkehatchie. In 1866 and 1808 he was

elected Bank Comptroller of Wisconsin, and in 1870 was sent to Congress, where he served three terms. He afterward served three terms as Governor of Wisconsin. JOHN W. NOBLE. John Willock Noble, the Secretary of the Interior, who represents the Soutfi in the

Cabinet was born in Ohio fifty-eight years ago. He was a fellow student of President Harrison at Miami College, studied law, and settled at Keokuk, la At the outbreak of the war he entered the cavalry service, rising to the grade of Colonel, ana was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General at its close foE-jneri-torious servioea, We then settled in St Louis, where he was

made United States District Attorney by President Johnson. This he 1870, since which time he has been in private practice. JOHN WANAMAKER. John Wanamaker, the Postmaster General. is 51 yearn old and a native of Phila-

delphia He was reneral secretary of he Young Mien’s Christian Association, and in 1861 went into the ololfiing business. His business prospered, until now he has the largest store in America, in which the system of profit-sharing is in successful operation. Mr. Wanamaker was a member of the Centennial Board of FI-

nance, and has been prominent In various public and benevolent movements In Philadelphia, but his first marked political serv-

the head of his party in that State. At present he is a farmer, although he practically controls the output of all the marble quarries of that State. He was chairman of the Vermont delegation to the convention which nominated Harrison, and cast its vote solidly for Harrison in every ballot His present residence is at the town of Proctor, which was founded by him a number of years ago, and which is situated a few miles from

toe was In the recent campaign, for which he rendered valuable assistance. He is largely interested in and is a director of many important business enterprises, but finds time nevertheless to do a great amount of religious and charitable work, bringing to this the same business principles which have made him the master merchant of the country. w. h. h. miller. William Henry Harrison Miller, of In-

di an spoils, the new Attorney-General, is 48 years old, a native of Augusta, N. Y., and has been the law partner of President Harrison for ten years, coming from Fort Wayne, whern he had been in practice for eight years Close relations have always existed between tfie President and Mr. Miller, Mr. Harrison placing Eeat reliance on his dgment and learnsr. Aside from their business relations,the Harrisons and the

Millers have always been the closest personal friends BENJAMIN T. TRACY. General Benjamin F. Tracy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., the new Secretary of the Navy, was

born fifty-eight years ago in Oswego, N. Y 7, studied law, and In 1853 was elected District Attorney of Tioga County, being re-elected two years later. In 1861 he was Bent to the General Assembly, and the following year recruited two regiments and went to the front as Colonel of one. He served honorably through tfie war, afterward resuming the prac-

tice ui law, uuu in 101 U was rnaue uiuum States District Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In 1881 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Appeals and served one year. In 1883 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Justice ofthe Supreme Court ot New York, and later was chairman of the convention which nominated Warner Miller for Governor. heavy’ failure. Tbe Reading (Pa.) Iron Works Forced by Stringency in tbe Trade to Suspend Payments—Liabilities, over 51.000.000. Beading, Pa, March 6.—The works of the Reading Iron Company were closed Tuesday. The firm has given notice of the suspension of its payments and called a meeting of its creditors to be held at the Philadelphia offices Thurso day. The concern is one of the largest of its kind in America .and dispenses in wages in this city every , year over *1,000,000. The first judgment against the company was by the Reading Railroad Company fpr *140,000. The cause of tfie failure is generally attributed to the stringent condition of the iron trade. About 2,500 men are employed in the works in Reading. There are three rollingmills, a steam forge, a large machine-shop and foundry, a rail works, and one of the largest pipe and flue mills in the country. The works were originally owned by Seyfort, McManus ft Cos. The firm failed some years ago, and the creditors then organized and decided to continue the business under tfie title of the Reading Iron Works. Philadelphia, March 6.— lt was said Tuesday afternoon by a bank president that the Reading Iron Company has sold a large amount of paper within the last sit months, and that some of the Philadelphia banks are very heavy creditors. The liabilities ore said to be about *1,000,000. Os this *OOO,OOO consists of funded debt, and tfie balance (*400,000) is due to various parties, mostly for material purchased at various times. A stockholder of the company said: “I think that the plant is worth *1,500,COO. Ido not know just what our liabilities are. January 1 the company had *500,000 of mortgage bonds outstanding. Anew mortgage for *600,000 was made and bonds were issued. Os these *500,000 were issued to retire the old bonds and *IOO,OOO to acquire additional property. The company owns about seventy acres in Reading and valuable propertv in this city. We did a large business and twoyears ago were in very good condition. We put our money into the business as fast as we made it A large business was formerly done in piping nat-ural-gas wells, and tfiis has fallen off considerably during tfie last year. ’ PASSED AWAY. Death of Miss Mary L Booth, the WellKnown Editress of Harpers’ Bazar. New York, March 6.—Miss Mary L Booth, editress of Harper’s Bazar, died Tuesday. [Miss Booth was 58 years old. She had conducted the Bazar since its foundation in 1865, and had contributed largely to general literature. Her translation of Martin’s History of France is highly regarded By oritlca. She was very popular in literary circles. The chronic disease which terminated her life had afflicted her for several years, but developed acute symptoms only five weeks ago.] < a m LOST AT SEA. Four Sailors Drowned by the Wrecking of a British Vessel on the Pacific, Port Townsend, W. TANARUS., March 6.—The British bark Port Gordon, loaded with general cargo from Liverpool for Puget Sound ports, was wrecked last Wednesday forty miles south of Cape Flattery, and four seamen were lost. The wrecked vessel was valued at *60,000 and the cargo at *90,000, fully' insured. The cargo' was owned by Balfour, Guthrie ft Cos., of Portland. Mary Washington’s Grave. .Fredericksburg, Va, March 6.— Citizens of this city held a mass meeting to consider the rumored sale of tfie land in which lies buried tfie body of Mary Washington. Resolutions were adopted denouncing such sale and pledging the people of the city to erect a monument over the grave. Mr. Shepherd, owner of tfie land, denied that he had taken any steps whatever looking 1 to the sale of tfie property, and had authorized no such steps by any other person. In addition he voluntarily gave a sixty days option for the purchase of the land for *3,500. A Fund for Plgott’s Children. London, March 6.—Mr. Laboucbere hat written a letter suggesting .that a fund be started for the benefit of Pigott’s poverty* strioken children, and accompanies the suggestion with a personal subscription of £SO. Several other gentlemen have signified their willingness to contribute to tht object, and it is likely that a considerable sum will be raisod. m m m Standard OU Schemas. Jamestown, N. Y., March 6.—A special t the News from Pittsburgh says the Standard Oil Company has gone to producing oil, and that the large purchases at Lima and Find, lay, 0., are being followed by great deals in Western Pennsylvania, the intention being to monopolize production os it now doe buying and refining. Millions of dollars art being invested. At Natchitoches, La., Saturday night Dr. Coffins was shot and killed by Wiffianc Palo. The shooting was done in self-d® fence.

THEIR*' FURY AROUSED. Enraged Milwaukeeans Threaten Dire Vengeance Against Villainous Chlnameu Accused of Horrible Crimes Against Little Girls—The Innocent Victims of Their Depravity Testify Against Them—Laundries Wrecked by n Mob. Milwaukee, March 11.— The examination of the two Chinese lanndrymen, Hoh Deng and Sam Yip Ja, charged with enticing little girls to their dens and ruining them, began Monday morning. The names of at least twenty victims are known and their ages range from oto 13 years. Three of them told their stories in court Monday. So shocking and revolting are the disclosures that a strong feeling against all the Chinamen in the city has been the result. Forty policemen were called out to guard the two prisoners to and. from the jail A crowd of 3,000 followed, hooting the prisoners, but not attempting any violence. Ten of the little complaining witnesses were in court accompanied by their mothers, and the Bight was a painful one. Some of them are little mites whose baby faces, one would think, would touch the heart of even a Chinaman. They sat up firmly in a row, and under cither circumstances it might have been amusing to see them raise their hands whenever they wished to leave their seats or to make any request. The firs* witness was a little girl of Iff years. She went on to (he witness stand czging, and, although she was quite composed most of the time, her testimony wasinterrupted by occasional fits of weeping. She began to visit tho laundry of Hoh Dengon Fifth street in February, she said. She and another little girl were invited into the laundry of Hoh Deng, who, after they had been there a little while, took them to another room, and after taking liberties with them allowed them toleave. The witness said that she visited the laundry again ait Hoh Deng's invitation, and she also saw him at the laundry of Sam Yip Ja, on Fourth street She visited the latter place three times, and. the Chinamen took liberties with her on theoccasion of each visit Hoh Deng endeavored to ingratiate himself with her and the other children by giving them small amounts of money—ten or fifteen cents at a time. He also gave the witness a pair of skates, a paint-brush and a pair of bracelets to induce her to come again. The little girl stood a long cross-examination very welL A bright little girl of 0 yeais testified tosimilar abuse. She said she did not want to tell what had taken place before "all these people,” and it took a great deal of coaxing to get her story. The Celestial had. given her five cents to purchase hersilence. Sometimes he gave the girls- " Chinese candy to quiet them.” They went to the laundry always after school. She told how Hoh Deng had treated hw companions, and she told in detail all that had happened on each of her five visits to the place. These and similar stories were told by the little girls, the details beingsuch as can not be printed. The examination had not been concluded nt the time court adjourned last evening. The testimony against them, however, is of the strongest possible character, and they will undoubtedly be held for triaL The feeling against the Chinese is growing in bitterness os the enormity of their crime is being revealed by the testimony in court. Shortly after the [noon adjournment of court a portion of the crowd, which had. been lounging about the vicinity of the city hall all the morning, disappointed an the failure to catch a glimpse of the Chinese under arrest, proceeded to take vengeance upon the laundries of the Celestials located on the right hand side of Chestnut street, between Sixifi and Seventh streets, and on Vliet street. , At tfie former place thecrowds smashed the windows and raised general havoc with the premises, causing the almond-eyed heathen to flee in mortal terror. At the Vilet street wash-shop thecrowd contented itself with squirting filthyliquid by means of a garden hose over the piles of washed and unwashed garments, doing probably more actual damage to the property of the lauudryman than, on Chestnut street, where it was mainly to the building, which belongs to Ch. Sindorf. Demonstrations were also made against tfie proprietors of laundries on tfie corner of Twelfth and Walnut streets and on Fond du Lac avenue, near Fifteenth, but a couple of officers who were dispatched from the W'jst side force on duty around the city hall arrived in time to quell the disturbance throughout that district The reports of the work of the mob were much exaggerated at the time in some portions of the city, and some of th* proprietors of laundries were greatly alarmed. Ring Shoe, whose place is on the earner of State and Forty-first streets, 'and John Ling, who owns an establishment on the comer of Jefferson and Huron streets, visited their places of business Monday morning, but on bearing of the demonstrations of the angry citizens closed up their laundries and concealed themselves. It is reported that they have fled the city and that others wiU follow them. Crowds of men and- boys thronged the streets in the vicinity of the Chinese laundries last night and smashed in several doors and windows before the police could arrive and disperse them. An unlucky celestial fell into the hands of tfie mob and he would have fared badly but for the courage of one policeman who protected him until assistance arrived. Late at night th crowds disported. President Harrison Makes Four Important Appointments. Washington, March 12.—The Presidenthas sent to the Senate to-day tfie followingnominations; Thomas W. Palmer, of Michigan, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to* Spain; John F. Swift, of California, to b® Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Japan; John D. Washburn, of Massachusetts, to be Minis--ter Resident and Consul-General of th® United States to Switzerland; George C. Ticbenor, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury vice Isaac H. Maynard resigned. In the executive session of the Senate the nominations received were referred to th® appropriate committees when completed. None of the nominations were confirmed. It was generally expected that the nomination of ex-Benator Palmer, of Michigan,, would have been immediately confirmed, but it is explained that this rule applies only to sitting members of the Senate and that* ex Senators take the usual course. Immigration Statistics. New York, March 13.—The forty-second annual report of tfie Board of Emigration. Commissioners, as prepared for the Legislature, shows in substance that during th® year 1888 the total number of passenger® from all foreign ports landed in Castle Garden w r as 370,823 (287,856 males and 183,066 females). The nationalities chiefly represented were: Irish, 44,800; English, 38,355; German, 78s--145; French, less than 0,000; Russian, 83,053; Swedish, 37,034; Italian, 48,927; Australian,. 10; Chinese, 5. Os the total number of immigrants 67,518 were under 15 years of ago,. 205,505 over that age and under 40, and 37 v--700 over 40 years.