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Another Cold Wave Strikes the Northwest.

GREAT SUFFERING IN MANY PLACES.

A Family Fr07.cn to Death in Kansas—A Mau Killed aud Several Persons Injured ly FHIIIIIK on Icy Cuicago SL(LralkM.

MRKtTlSY OI'T OF SIGHT.

ST. PAUI,, Winn.. Feb. 3.—It snowed and bio wed in Minnesota all day and the disappointing news was received at 9 o'clock Thursday night that another intensely cold wave is sweeping down from the north. At that hour it was 44 degrees below zero at Swift Current, 40 lielow at Havre, 34 below at Fort iiuford and 20 below ut Helena. There is a shortage of soft coal in Minneapolis, with small prospects of getting a supply till some time next week. Railway traffic is demoralized, no trains being on time. East-bound trains on the Ureal Northern and Northern Pacific are from twelve to twenty-four hours hue.

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The Dull Season.

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Frozen to Ueatli.

TnncKA, Kim., Feb. 3.—The full effects of the recent cold wave in this county were not known until Thursday morning. James Mitchell, wife and one child were found in their home, a dilapidated frame house 7 miles north of this city, frozen to death. Neighbors had passed the house Wednesday, and observing no signs of life assumed that the family had gone from home. Thursday morn'ng a neighbor, noticing that Mitchell's cattle had not been fed, went to the house, when he was shocked at finding the three bodies dead and frozen stifT, with but a thin qnilt over them, all the covering there was in the house.

More Stio\v«IIieg In Colorado. SII.VF.RTON, Col., Feb. Asnowslide occurred Thursday morning at tho Galena Queen mine on Cement creek. The engine and buukliouse, occupied by three men, were carried 100 feet down the mountain side. The men escaped with slight bruises. The Rio railroad is blocked with slides.

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CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Icy pavements and streets as smooth as glass and constantly wet by the drizzling rain caused at least one death Thursday, while hundreds suffered injuries of a more or less serious ch:it\e.-tc.r. Perhaps never in the history of Chicago were the sidewalks so absolutely impassable, and pedestrians took to the middle of the streets and tramped through half-frozen mud and slush, which gave a footing but little better than the glaring flagstones on either side.

Joseph Sampson fell and fractured his skull, dying later from liis injuries. Several others are known to have suffered fractured limbs from falls. The drizzling rain, which froze instantly on anything it touched, worked great damage to the telegraph companies.

Worst of the Season.

MII.WAEKEK, Feb. 8.—The worst blizzard that Milwaukee lias experienced in several years set in here early Thursday morning, and by noon

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Cranberries, Celery, New Figs,

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Dates, Raisins. Prunes, Apricots. Nectarines.

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car travel was nearly at a staritstm. Although most of the passenger trains ware provided with two locomotives, all of them were behiud time.

MENOMINEK, Mich., Feb. 3.—A terrific snowstorm raged all day and continued unabated until nlglit, with the thermometer 20 degrees below zero. There is fully 2 feat of snow on a level in Alain street, with drifts in places 4 to fi leet high.

LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb. 3. Reports from ranches in this vicinity are to the effect that the blizzard of the last two days has been most disastrous to sheep aud cattle, and it is feared that the worst is yet to come. In some sections the snow is 1S inches deep, and if it contiuues to lie on the ground the loss of stock will be large.

Farm Hand Frozen to Death. CHARI.EYOIX. Mich., Feb. 8.—The mercury reached zero Wednesday night. Over a foot of snow covers the ground. Henry Crostick, a farmhand, is reported frozen to di-ath.

Kweaped Death in a Blizzard, CIIEISOYGAX, Mien., Feb. 3.—A party of four lost on the ice turned np about midnight, having walked S miles in eight hours in snow 3 feet deep. They had a close shavu in the bliz/.ani. -a.

Moslicr Ket-nsed on Put],

OMAHA. Neb., Feb. The Bee'i Lincoln special says (.'. \V. Mosher, president of the Capital national bank, was released on 810.000 bail. A pcti'ion is in circulation among depositor v-T the bank asking the court to puuifih Mosher by fine only, on condition of his immediately putting up $40,000 to pay off claims of needy depositors and $150,000 to the bank assets.

Mine Explosion at Wllkesburre. WII.KESIIAHRK, Pa., Feb. 3.—An explosion occurred in Conygham shaft Thursday afternoon. Nine men were severely burned, and two of them will die. It is said the accident was clue to leaving one of the main doors open in a gangway road. This caused an accumulation of gas, which became ignited from the naked lamps in the hats of the miners.

Thurston in tho l.euil.

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 3.—Although John M. Thurston secured the republican caucus nomination for United States senator, he failed of election at noon. On the joint ballot of the legislature he. received every republican vote, but no others The ballot resulted—Thurston, 01 Greene, 50 Boyd, 3 others scattering.

Killed His Itooininatc.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 3.—About 7 a. m. George Caldwell shot and killed .lames Kelly, with whom he was rooming. The men were printers from Chicago in search of work. No cause is known for the shooting. Caldwell lias not been captured. The wife of the murdered man is said to live in Micli-

Burned to Death in Kft).

IJAI CITY, Mich., Feb. 3.—Mrs. F.lisabeth Small, a colored woman, aged 'J7 years, was burned to death in her bed Wednesday morniilg. She had a romantic history, having fled from slavery in Virginia in 1S43, and being one of t'.te first refugees to escape into Canada. Her later years were filled with kind acts in behalf of her

Kiln Over in a Switch Yard. KKOKUK, la., Feb. 3.--A St. Louis & Northwestern train ran over and killed L. W. Taylor in the Mount Pleasant (la.) yards Thursday. Taylor wari 70 years old.

VOL. VII-NO. 117. ORAWFORDSVILLE,INDIANA, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3.1893.

NO PROTEST.

England Makes No Complaint On the Hawaiian Question.

NO WARSHIPS WILL BE SENT THERE.

She Practically Approves Annexation, and I. Sure ller Subjects Would Be Sufo Uuiler American Protection—Situatlou ut AVu.lilnifton.

GLLEAT BRITAIN SATISFIED. LONDON, Feb. 3.—In the house of commons Thursday Mr. Ellis Asli-mead-Bartlett (conservative) questioned the government as to the advices it had received from Hawaii, and further desired enlightenment as to what the British government intended to do in the matter. Sir Edward Grey, parliamentary secretary of the foreign office, replied in effect that the information received by the government generally agreed with the cable news published in the newspapers. He added that the government, as at present advised, did not intend to send warships to Honolulu. The government considered that tho lives and property of British subjects in Hawaii were safe under American protection. [Cries of "Hear! Hear!"] Continuing. Sir Edward Gray said that it

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was possible that, a British warship on the way from Acapulco, Mexico, would touch at Honolulu, as she was going to Esquimalt In conclusion, Sir Edward declared that there was no foundation whatever for the report that the British government had made a protest to the government at Washington regarding the Hawaiian islands.

Speculation at the Cnpttnl.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. Forty-eight Vcurswill probably settle the drift of the administration's Hawaiian policy. Within that time the commissioners will arrive with their proposition, full advices will have been received from Minister Stevens, and it is expected that the regular steamer will bring to San Francisco news a week later than that which the commissioners brought. If the advices which are expected to reach San Francisco on the steamer due to-day show that the provisional government is being maintained it will be a strong argument in favor of granting the request for annexation. Another steamer is due next Tuesday, and if that should bring supplemental news that the islands are tranquil and satisfied with the change f'o president will probably feel justified in transmitting to congress his recommendations, along with the facts on which they are based. "Will Hear the Queen's Statement.

The president and the secretary of state before taking any action will give heed to any protest or remonstrance which may be made by the representatives of the deposed queen. She will be given just as full an opportunity to present her side of the case as is afforded the annexation com-

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missioners. It may happen that Mott Smith, the minister here, will be the medium through which both cases are presented to the state department. He is the representative so far of the queen, but the provisional government may have chosen him for it.-, representative also. Whether annexation will follow or not the administration will undoubtedly recognize the provisional government, because minister Stevens, in whom it has full confidence, has already done so.

Annexation Grows Iti Favor. The more the subject is discussed the less there is in favor of a protectorate. In any event that would be only a halfway measure, pending annexation, and the time seems an good for annexation as for protection. At the cabinet meeting Tuesday a protectorate was discussed as a temporary expedient, in case Inter information showed that the islands were disturbed again or that the conditions did not sustain the provisional government in its desire for immediate annexation. But neither the president nor his advisers favored a protectorate as a permanent policy. The same views are held in congress.

If the president and his advisers, who include leading congressmen of both parties, as well as members of the cabinet, find that later developments seem to justify annexation the path will be clear. The president will send in his recommendation for congress to accept by resolution the offer of the provisional government for annexation, with possibly the outlines of the plan of government which tli«

United States should impose. No one thinks that Hawaii will be fit for statehood until well into the next cejtury.

Will Re a Modlflvd Territorial Form. What the presidont will recommend is in all probability a modified territorial form. With Hawaii's position as a naval and military outpost of this country recognized in the system of government provided, congress can impost. a.ny conditions it may see fit. A commission to visit the islands is also one of the possible recommendations. In what the United States does the assumption from the beginning wi'l be that its interests in Hawaii beir.g paramount, and the Hawaiians having formally asked to be annexed, other nations have no interest in that question any more than they had in the Louisiana purchase, by the admission of Texas or the acquisition of California. The interests of their citizens on the islands will be guaranteed and this is held to be all that any of them can ask.

There are no grounds for the tnlk that in order to secure possession of Hawaii this country would enter into trades with other countries regarding other territory in the Pacific ocean, ocean. The suggestion that Germany, as the price of its consent, would demand the withdrawal of the. 1'nited States from Samoa will never be entertained.

SHORT SPECIALS.

Mrs. Catherine Robinson died aX Oskaloosa, la., Thursday, aged 102 years. John Black, of Pulaski. 111., jumped from a moving train aud had his head cut off by the wheels.

Sam Smith, a 19-year-old negro, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala.. Thursday for the murder of Isaac Burger nine months ago.

Martin Foy has been sentenced at Ballston, N. V., to be electrocuted at Dannemora prison during the week beginning March 13.

While II. Cushman's 4-year-old daughter was playing with matchcs ut her home at Oskaloosa. la., her dress caught fire and she was burned to death.

A man answering the description of Sullivan, who is charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Leech at I)urand, Mich., has been arrested at Belle River, Ont. 1. N. Fairchild, arrested in Chicago for embezzling S4,000 from the Northern Pacific railroad in Minneapolis, Minn., was bound over in §2,000 to the grand jury in Minneapolis.

All the mines of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Weste-n Coal company in the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys, Pa., employing about 13,000 persons, have been put upon eight hours per day.

The recent rich find of iron near Waucedah, Wis., is onland near the Appleton mine at the mouth of Pine creek. The laud is owned by a company in which Jesse Spalding, of Chicago, is the principal stockholder.

RATIFIED.

The Senate, In Kxecutlue Session, Confirms the Treaty %rlth France. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The senate while in executive" session Thursday afternoou ratified the French treaty, but the ratification was not made public. This is the treaty that was brought to this country by Mr. Reid, late minister to France, and which was acted upon by the senate some months ago and rejected. The matter was referred to the committee on foreign relations, and in its report to the senate the committee recommended expunging from the treaty small crimes and misdemeanors. The embezzlement clause, it is understood, has been permitted to stand.

TWO LTVES LOST

K-'iital KxploRfon ol llollers in a Cot I ou I'ress at Vlcktburg Mist. VicKsmiiO, Miss., Feb. 3.—The boilers of the Planters' compress exploded Thursday morning at 11:Bn. instantly killing Engineer James (.'aider and Pressman Joseph Finichi. mortally wounding William Clifton, colored and wounding and bruising eleven others, all negroes: eight, however, but slightly. The press was in great danger from fire for a time. The press contained at least 10,000 bales of cotton at the time. Loss, about SS.000 insurance, f'2,000. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

Itcmains to Be Itenioved.

RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 8.—It has been determined to remove the remains of Jefferson Davis from New Orleans to Richmond for interment May 30, confederate memorial day. Lee Camp Confederate Veterans was given chargo of the arrangements for the occasion.

Iletttty Found Guilty.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3.—The jury in tho case of Robert ,f. Beatty, charged with being an accomplice in the Homestead poisoning, brought in a verdict Thursday forenoon of guilty on all six indictments. Tho jury was out only seven minutes.

Stoic from a Saving)) Ilnnb. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8.—Dr. Lancaster Drew, secretary and treasurer of the Central Savings Fund, Trust & Safe Deposit company here, disap peared Wednesday, and it is now dis covered that his accounts are short some 810,000.

Sentenced lor Ufo.

DAM.AFL, Tex., Feb. 3.—The jury in the case of Dr. l{. II. Jones, charged with killing Capt. W. G. Veal in the confederate headquarters during the confederate reunion in October last, assessed his punishment at a life term in the penitentiary.

Holes Tor Secretary of Agricult ore. NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—A special to the Press from Des Moines, la., says: "President-elect Cleveland has tendered Gov. Boies the position of secretary of agriculture. The governor has the matter under advisement."

Child Scalded to Death.

ROCKFOKD, 111., Feb. 8.—The 3-year-old sou of Raymond Putnam, of 108 Sayre street. Tell into a tub of boiling water Thursday and was scalded to death.

OVER THE STATE.

lelegrapliio News from Various Towns in Indiana.

Indiana Southern llo»pltal. INDIANA 1*01,IS, lnd., Feb. —A petition signed by twenty-five citizens ot Evansville for an investigation of the management of the southern hospital for the insane, located there, was filed with the legislature Thursday. This is the newest institution of liie kind in the state. Charges of mismanagement and cruelty to patients are made against Dr. Thomas, the superintendent. Trustee. William Rahm, Jr., is clv rged with taking a contract for hauling and excavating and boarding his teams at the expense of the state. Trustee Dr. Wert?, is charged with running a drug store in Evansville for the purpose of supplying the institution with drugs at his own prices. 0M Death of (Jon. T. \Y. lleniiettT

RICHMOND, lnd., Feb. 3.— Gen. Thomas W. Bennett died in this eitv Thursday, aged 01 years, lie held the positions of captain, major, colonel and major general successively during the late war and was a member of the military commission which tried aud convicted the notorious conspirators Bowles, Milligan and Horsey. lie was state senator, mayor of Richmond, governor of Idaho (appointed by President Grant) and United States congressman from Idaho. In 1S72 he canvassed Oregon and California for Grant's reelection. He was intrusted by the government with many important Indian offices.

Facts Point to Murder.

SOUTH BEND, lnd., Feb. 8.—Coroner Varier held an inquest Thursday on the death of Lewis Johnson, who died in the hospital hero. Johnson was found unconscious near the Lake Shore tracks on January 29. He was last seen early that morniug in Joseph Siefert's saloon. The testimony of physicians shows that the death was caused by injuries inflicted by some sharp instrument. It was supposed by some that the injuries had been received by falling from a train, but the evidence is against this. The inquest is still open for further testimony, but the facts point plainly toward murder.

1'roReent ion ICcMts.

NOHI.HSVIU.E, lnd.. Feb. 3.—In the trial o'f the McDonald will ca.se the plaintiffs rested Thursday eveuing and the defendant will begin the introduction of testimony this morning. Alpheus "Snow, witness to the will, testified that the signatures were all forged. Malcolm McDonald, the son, and Miss Jessie McDonald. granddaughter of ex-Senator Mcdonald, plaintiffs, testified they were familiar with the testator handwriting ami that his signature to the will was not, genuine. v'-'V. i.eKUhttivc Proceeding*.

IsmANAI'OI.IS, In.l., Feb. 3. -The senate after much discussion Thursday killed two measures introduced bySenators Kopelke and (.organ intended to put the fee and salary law on a constitutional basis. The house railroad committee unanimously agreed to report favorably a bill creating a state railroad commission. It provides for the appointment by the governor of three commissioners to hold office for four years. rc-SS'r.OV

Newspaper .Men Meet.

INDIANAPOLIS, lnd.. Feb. 3.—The Indiana Democratic Editorial association met hAe Thursday aud reelected officers. After considerable discussion a resolution was gotten through indorsing Isaac P. Gray for a cabinet position. Another resolution was passed indorsing the bill pending in the legislature to restore the patronage of state institutions to the governor.

Nearly Killed (he Tramp.

MUNCIK, lnd., Feb. 3.—Joseph llardesly, an old pioneer resident, nearly beat a tramp to death Wednesday night with a shoe hammer. lie caught, him dragging his wife from the house because she refused to furnish him with an overeoat after supplying liiin with a meal. When turned over to the authorities the tramp gave his name us George McCarthy, from Cleveland.

Another New Kallroad.

VALPARAISO, lnd., Feb. 3.—Surveyors are at work on new railroad to pass through this county, to be called the Indianapolis, Logansport A Chicago. Cincinnati, Indiana and Chicago capitalists are at the head of the enterprise. Trains are expected to he running by September first.

l,ooktn£ for a Hunawny AVIf**. MUNCIK, lnd., Feb. 3.—George Sturgeon, of Jamestown, O., is in town in search of his runaway wife, who last June left his home and four children, going away with a man named George Constant. Itocently he heard she was living in or near Muneie with Constant*

Wholesale Notion Dealer Auslgnw, INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., Feb. !). —William Pufiiu, wholesale notion dealer, made an assignment Thursday for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities, $35,000 assets, $37,500. The. Indiana national bank is a preferred creditor for £25.009, and Ambrose P. Stanton for.?5.78.'

Surplus Word* May Be Ined. INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., Feb. 3.—in a suit for infringement ot copyright Judge linker, of the United States district court, decided Thursday that surplus words used in setting forth the fact (hat a map is copyrighted do not vitiate the copyright.

Will Never Upturn.

OiuoKNTow.N, lnd., Feb. 3.—Dr. Frank Glass, a physician of this place, has disappeared, lie loft, a note to his wife saying he would never return. :No cause for his leaving is known.

Indiana Prinon Investigation. NEW ALBANY, Iud., Feb. 8.—The evidence given Thursday at the prison investigation was mostly cumulative, nothing new of importance being brought out.

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The Vacar.oy on tho Supreme Bench Fillocl by the President.

A iOlCRAT IS GIVES THE PLACE.

Si*th Ol.trlct.

SI UPKIM-'. AT TUK NOM1S TTIOS. WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.—One of the first judicial appointments made by Mr. Cleveland was that of Howell K|munds Jackson as judge of tho 1'nited States circuit court for the Sixth judicial district: one of the lust- judicial appointments made by President Harrison was that of Howell liMmunds Jackson to the supremo court, bench. The nomination creates surprise.

A (tare CIIKI1.

This nomination, sent to the senate Thursday, was one of the few on record—if not the only one—in which a president named a man outside of his party for a place on the United Slates supreme court bench. Mr. Harrison has chosen democrats for tho circuit courts, and the courts of appeal, but it has been the unwritten law that the appointments to the highest court in the land should goto members of tho party to which the president belonged. Much has beeu brought to the attention of Mr. Harrison. however, to recommend Judge Jackson. Only Wednesday Mr. Justice ltrown ot the supreme court called at the white house and urged Judge Jackson's selection. ('"fiend* AmmiK l(opuI1 leant.

Before Justice Brown came to the supreme court he was on tho district bench in Detroit, and his district was a part of the cirouit over which Judge Jackson had jurisdiction. Although opponents in politics the two judges were warm admirers of each other. Kx-Solicitor General Taft also had much to do with the selection. When he was recently appointed to the court of appeals liis duties took him to Cincinnati, which is a part of Judge Jackson's bailiwick. Another personal faotor of strength forjudge Jackson was the friendship of the marshal of his court, who happened to be a brother of President Harrison. Mr. Carter Harrison has been here for the last week as a guest of the president at the white house. It is natural that the marshal of Judge Jackson's court should have fnllv informed his presidential brot her of the good features of the appointee.

Max Not Be Confirmed.

A question has arisen as to the confirmation of Judge Jackson. The senate has a distinct republican majority which may not be Inclined to accept Mr. Harrison's nomination of a democratic supreme court justice. Indeed, this feeling is already being expressed by senators, and dispatches are being sent to loading republican organs severely reflecting on the lack of party judgment by the president.

TennettRe* Men Surprised.

It is stated that Mr. Jackson has made a fine circuit judge, and that no doubt is wntertaiued as to his making a good justice. The appointment was a great surprise to the Tennessee, delegation in tlie house. The two ropuhliean members felt sore fiver the selection of a democrat and a state's right man, but when asked as to Mr. Jackson's persoual fitness conceded that his character and abilities were all that could be desired. The selection was politically no more pleasing to sonie of the democratic representatives, who recall the fact that Judge Jackson was a leader of the element which made a warm but unsuccessful fight within the party in favor of the payment of the state debtj dollar for dollar, substantially as demanded by the bondholders, These men said, however, that the new judge was strong, clean and abb?.

The nomination came as a great stirprise on the senate side and was received while the senate was executive session. There will be no comment made on the floor, but tho republicansgathered about and dUcn^sed it. With the exception of a few who think the president should have appointed a republican the nomination was well received. lie Wilt Accept.

NASHVIU.F,, Tenn., Feb. 8. —Judge Howell K. Jackson is at home and is holding court in Nashville. Soon after the news of his domination reached the city he was seen, and said he would accept the appointment if confirmed He further said he had no information from President Harrison that he would tender him the appointment. Judge Jackson has been the recipient of congratulations from citizens, irrespective of party, since the information reached I the city. 1 Kltefrh of l!i I,He.

Hownll ftiimumlfi Jackson was born in Paris, Tenn., Apr!! K. 1R32. received a

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A SPECIAL MESSAGE.

The I'reHlileut I'ntiiU Out the Nc«'d of Action Itegarritng Canadian Truffle. WASHINGTON, l'eb. !!. President Harrison sent to the. house on 'Ihursdav his message dealing with the subject of the importation of foreign goods into the I'nited Stutes across the Cana-': dian border under consular seal. The president discusses at length the treaty obligations which affect the subject growing out of the provisions of article :iu of the treaty of Washington.

President Harrison has carefully refrained from anything iu the wav of criticism, and there is not. even an indirect characterization to which Canada or Great Britain could take offense. In its substantial features, however, the message is a clear exposition of the complicated traffic arrangements along our northern border anil of the treaties, laws and regulations surrounding them. A synopsis of its important parts is as fol.ows:

One ot lie.' ni:u:i feiillu'es to which Mr. 1 l:urlsoil calls attention is 1 lie Injustice by wlltctl srooits ariiviiiu: n! 'auadlui ocr-tui ports ute sealed ami sent across liie border into the United States without customs inspection1 until they reach their point of istin:ition. lie shows'., that ttie same yeods when ttioy nrrivr at New Vorti, Uoston or any American portlia\e to submit to a rigid Inspection, and he therefore-. advises congress that the pre^eni systeiv: shows faioritisni to Cant-.diiiii tnutsp'irlati.m routes and seaports against those of out- own country.

Another essential feature of the message is thai v.-hic-h points out the unfairness existing in trafllc originating iu onu point in li,e UnitedSlates and crossing Canada for delivery al another point lu the United States This con-.: cerns the entire question of shipping goods from the. east lo the wesi and from the west lo the east As the geographical position of Ontario is such that ihe shortest lime between New York and Chicago is across that portion of Canada The president points out the consular seal is a device Inviting fraud and sublet to abuse in transit. Is supposed that the cars are seated, tonl thus' guarded f»mi intrusion white going across Canadian territory, but ilie president points out that they may he readily opened and largo Quantities of dutiable goods ln-.ty be put into tho oars without detection.

MONEY FOR A ROAD. BUREAU.

Tlie Agricultural A ppropriutlon mil I'roviftes 810.000 to Kstatill.il Out*. WASHINGTON, Feb. S. Representative Durborow (111.) has secured the insertion in the agricultural appropriation bill of an item appropriating -510.0011 for tho establishment of a road bureau., 'l'he ne'.\ bureau is to be placed under ti.e. direction of the agricultural department. The object of it is to spread knowledge regarding the building and maintenance of good ro ids. An expert on roadmaking will le placed in charge of the new bureau, and it will be his duty to prepare and modify the road laws of the various states with a view, if possible, of establishing a national law to control the roads, or rather to induoe the states to adopt uniform laws on the subject. There is wide-, spread interest in this subject and while the proposed appropriation is small It will serve as an entering wedge and Mr. Durborow looks forward to great results therefrom. .,w"v :y_

SUFFOCATED.

A Tomtf Girl Lose. Her Life In I-'trc nt Columbus, O. COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 3.—Fire Thursday partly destroyed the Osborne building, occupied by a large number of firms and manufacturing establishments. The building is valued at S'Jt),000, »nd was damaged to the extent of #0,000 insurance, $10,000. The Stallman & Starr trunk factory occupied one section of the four Hours and met a loss of 812,000. on which there is an insurance of SO,000. Other firms lose in the aggregate about S10.000. Mary Taylor, aged 17, who was employed on the third floor of the building, was suffocated, and the remains were not found until after the lire hud been extinguished. Mary Burnet, unother girl, escaped death by leaping from a third-story window to tho roof below.

ANTI-OPTION IN THE~ HOUSE.

Opponont. of the Bill Will Fight IIli AH Allowable Weapon.. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The opponents of the anti-option bill got their heads' together and determined to light the bill by every method in the house. Taylor (111.), Boutner and Cnmmings were selected as a special committee to lead the filibustering fight as soon as an effort was made to take the bill from the speaker's table. They began a dilatory fight by demanding that the bill be considered In committee of the whole. Taylor says tha opponents of the bill find themselves much stronger in the hott/e than when the bill passed, and tltev do not believe the bill can get a twothirds vote. They will fight it by every method known to parliamentary law.

Til* Llttln Rork Bank.

blTTl.B ROCK, Ark., Feb- 8.—The suspension of tho First national bunk iu no way affeoted the other financial institutions of Little Rock The utiijials of the institution have, prepared a statement showing the total liabilities as per books 81.08S. I'}: In the re-, sources are included discount, bills receivable S717,B23, bills of exchange 8157,717, United States bonds -•q-io, 100, premium bonds 9!!0,j00 aud reai estate banking house a_nd safe deposit 10,