Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 December 1894 — Page 3

PNEWSfTHEWEEK

President Cleveland hasguiieon a hunting trip to the vSout.lt Carolina coast. Edward U. Curtis. lit j».. was elected mayor of Uoston, Mass., Dec. 11, by i,i ui lurality.

Outlaw Jim Morrison ami hisigang are nking a small reign of terror in tin-coun-try near Birmingham. Ala. •i'1'liR JlfiV. .1. W. Morris, a Baptist minisor. lias been arrested at Binningham... charged with counterfeiting.

Tin

report of Japanese atrocitiescommitted at Port. Arthur arc discredited in lrploiiiutiir circles at Washington.

Miss Mary Stewart, Sherman, daughter nf the Ohio Senator, was married in Washington to .lames I. MacCallum.

C. A. liIixt, the self-confessed murderer of Miss Ging at Minneapolis, was arraigned. Dec. 17, and pleaded "iiot.guilty." hnva':) Supremo Court decided that tho mulct, liquor law had not succeeded the prohibitory law as the general law of the State.

Dr. Carver, the champion wing shot. *as beaten in the lirst of two matches by 1.. (iriinm, who missed hut. four birds In 100. (Mayor Hopkins Jias promised to support the reeonimendatior.s of the Chicago Police Commission for a non-partisan poi«! force-

Henry Bier, a prominent broker of New Orleans, has been indicted for perjury, [rowing out of the sale af a street raiiiray franchise.

The A'ew York Police commissioners save reinstated Captain Creedon who ra^-suspended, Dec. 1.", because of hi- tesimony before the. Lexow column tee.

T.'.e Diamond Jil Company of Ohio, tllicll proposes to compete with the itamlard Oil Company. has been iucorlorated at Toledo. It is a combination of inuniberof strong concerns. SMr. Andrews, the distinguished artist. painting a life size portrait of Senator I'oorheeS, which will ih presented tu ihe IW Congressional Library when ihe itiiiding is completed. •lohn Worthy, of Chicago, ('resident of ii Commercial Loan and Trnt Company, lied at New York, Dec. r.\ of Mood poiotiing, induced from a carbuncle which •as removed by a surgical operation. The Kev. Dr. \V. W. yd is reported to lave said at a Baptist ministers' meeting a St. Louis, that, the University of Chiago was founded in blood und must fail. A man named Bruinugn was assasstaied at his residence near I'aris, Ky.. fucsday night. lie was called to his loor and shot down. There is no clew to he identity of the assassin.

Kight persons were sent, to Chicago, rom Mt. Vernon, (.).. Dec. ]'i. to take 'astour's treatment for hydrophobia. All 'to bitten by a mad dog lat week. The o.vn of Alt. Vernon will pay ali expenses.

A Chicago undertaking linn is reported have, stolen coffins they have used dnrkg the last five years out of country Vaveyards in Illinois, Indiana, Michig.au lid Wisconsin, and. after relitting. resold lieui to country firms. JThe Boston Transcript kept, a re.cord of I'Otball accidents during the last season, about eleven weeks. Three players Bern killed, one was paralyzed. one beVaniP insane and nearly fifty others wen: iijured, some seriously.

Representative Taylor will make a trong effort to have Congress pass a bill ir the erection of statue of Robert Dale 'wen ou the grounds of the Smithsonian :istitution. A bill for this purpose has assed the Senate twice, but failed the,, .misc. Mrs. Fly. of West Bethlehem, Pa., sufred from an unaccountable earache, rcatment. resulted linally in the removal seventeen roaches from nap ear, dead nd alive. Mrs. Fly is deaf in that ear nd cannot, account for the vermin which a le a nest, of her auditory apparatus

Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, is seriously I aim has been advised by his physicians litit he is in immediate danger of conimption, which is hereditary in his fain

Mr.-Hopkins will be taken to Phiia•Ipliia soon for treatment by a noted if.'ciuiisti if his con.t it ion sufficiently im"oves. In tearing down an old building, at rauklin. la., workmen found in a corner one a tin box containing ?lu.(KX) worth I Lee county, Iowa, railroad bonds in a ood state of preservation, worth a good iauy thousands of dollars, although alost worthless at the time of their issue, irty years ago. Three sharpers hailing from Little ock. Ark., have successfully duped sev*1 of the lea-ding citizens of Bronson. ,an, to the extent of f-.VUOO with terriirial rights for a new patent washing Mpound of which they claimed to be fitprictors. The same territory was sold 'pca'.edly to the unsuspecting victims. •iybu Cronin was hanged at. ilartford. °n:Dec. 18, at 1 a.m.. for the murder

I Albert Kleiner, at South Windsor, Oct. ,189,'i. The execution of'Cronin was iniresting from the fact'that it was the rat one conducted with the new autoutic gallows, the invention of Warden fooill ridge. The machine worked to election. It is said that the Democratic minority tlie Indiana Senate will refuse to recogthe action of the Republican Senate iucus In appointing the standing coinlittees. They hold that it is an estab sliwl rule that the committees shall be ppointed by the Lieutenant Governor. It 'supposed that the rule will be set aside. *„upen session when the Senate convenes, 'the meant,line the committees appolnt'by the caucus, or the Republican mem'fsat least, will proceed to carry out the togramme as laid down. 1'Jie annual convention of the National

N Service Reform League, convened at Neago, Dec. 12. Carl Schurz, president 'lie league, made an address reviewing

course of the present administration, criticising its shortcomings. Mr. ciiurz thinks the cause of civil service form has advance 1 under Mr. Clevebut was very severe upon Secretary ''lisle and .losiah Quincy, Lirst, assistant ^rptary of State, for their disregard of IVII service rules.

^w.einber 14 was a dramatic day in the

edhigs

of the long drawn out Lexow

^'•stigaiion at New York. Police Caprecdon while on the stand confessed 't he had paid Jl.l.txX) for his place, and

Police Commissioner Voorhis got jj^of it. Soon after he had loft the I

stand in tears, ho was suspended JJfOi the force by the police commissioners rccommendatlon of Supt. Byrnes. The

Lexow cuininiiioe had promised Creedoi Inimnnitv from punishment, and whet the action of the

naiisj,

ners and thi

s«il»':t inteiident. Knnwn they wi summoned to appear hefnie the comiite, •ind were permitted ive the reasons f„i recdon Mispnnvjnii. They testified tha

n, lon

of his appointmeni'

had sworn that l,e had not, paid irione •or his position. They accordingly sn.s. perilled hi,n for perjury. Supt. Byrne' agreed to liis inlluence for Creedoi,'. r«*siur:tt iur:.

FOREIGN,

Thure is a politi.'ri! crisis in liaiv. p.-..,-Iiaineii', bus been nror. irueil. Prerniei ri^pi. it, is hou'.'iit, intend* to retail power at all hazards. 1 he .lapane- have landed an army oj V.-.-MiU men near Takhu. only eighty m'ilej from Peking. A deiachment has aNi, occupied IMICIIOU. seventy-live miles north of Port Arthur. TheChinese are retreating, and if is expect,eii that the Japanese armies will combine

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attack on

Peking. The .Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs attempts to justify the massacre o," Chinese af-er the capture of Port Arthur by stating that, it was caused by th* treachery of Chinese soldiers who disguised themselves in citizens'clothing and continued to kill the Japanese soldiery at etery opportunity after the occnpation of the town by the Japanese forces. Japanese officials do not attempt to deny the atrocities reported, but. excuse them.

THE EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.

A commission has been appointed to investigate the damage sustained by the cathedral in the earthquake of November

It is claimed that the building, which cos: iL'.ooj.or.o to erect., has been damaged from SmuiOO to |:i00,U(K). It, is also said that the crack in the, earth is more than three miles In length, from the cathedral in the Plaza Mayor to the suburban town of ilaudalupe.

FATAL Fll.ll I

Howen Killed in a I gilKtiV Knrouiit er.

Andrew I'.ow.n. the piigi!l*iC'was' killed in a prize tight, with Geo. Lavigne, at, New Orleans, Friday night. Dec. M. Bowen was knocked senseless in the eighteenth round and never regained consciousness Bowen was terribly punished after the fifth round but. took it gamely, though sporting men say he was "not in it" at. anytime. After hi* "knock out" Bowen

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was conveyed to his home, wi.eri' lie died at7:ira. m. Saturday morning. After his death Lavigne and tiie ollicersofthe Auditorium Club, uiuler whose ausfiices thetiL'ht was conducted, WITH arrested. Lavigne was admitted to bail in $10.0.0. The otlfr-rs In Jj.iwi. DutTy. the referee, and Spitzfaden. were the only ones to furnish bonds. Lavigne. Billy Murphy, Sam Fitzpatriek. .1 im Hall. Martin Murphy and George Considine were sent to j-ii.

MilK INCOME TAX LAW.

£?oviMon» I'or lt»* Kn rorccninzit Ajiprovotl by .Serrot.'kry CarliKle.

The Sicret,ary of the Treasury h»* tipproved the regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the enforcement of the collection of the income tax under the late tarilT act. Under the regulations provided and approved. pursuant to law, every citizen ol the 1'nited States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residing ur doing business in tho United States, who has an annual income ol more th i'iJi'X) shall make a full return of the same, verilied by his oath, to the collector of internal revenue of the collection distiict in which he resides, or if not a resident of the district in which his business or property from which his income is received is situated, on or before tho first Monday in March of each year. The lirst. return under the law shall be made on or before the lirst Monday In March. ISiCi, and shall include all income from every source received in tho year lislM. from the 1st day of January to the 3lst day of December in said year. Guardians, trustees and all persons and corporations tiding in any fiduciary capacity are required to make similar returns fiir nil minors, wards or beneficiaries for hom they act.

The allidavit attached to the list must he subscribed and sworn to by the person making the return, and is to the effect that the affiant has included in said return all gains, profits and incomes from every source whatever received by him or to which he is justly entitled for that year, and that he is honestly and truly entitled to make all the deductions entered on his return, and that, he has trulyanswered the interrogatories set forth on said blank form. When completed and dulv verified bv the oath of the person rendering the same, the return must, be delivered, by mail or otherwise, to the collector at any time between the first day of January and the first Monday of March each year.'

VOORHEES FOR FREE SILVER.

Senator Yoorhees has issued a statement. favoring lie free coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1. A Washington dispatch. Dec. 1'-'. says that the Senator's course in the matter has aroused surprise and indignation among Indiana Democratic Representatives. Ihey say that Yoorhees is not sincere, and that, his course in the. matter is for the purpose of securing Populist support in his race for Senator, two years hence. Outside of Indiana circles the Senators course is ridiculcd.

INDIM.4 STATU IWS.

A line bed of aluminum clay has been •liscovered near Bnshville. Ihe new K. of Hull linssiaville ivas dedicated on the evening of Dec. J:.'

I he, ilson McCulloch fruit jar and Mottle works at Marion were destroyed by lire. Dec. n. Loss on buildings. Si0.000.

Miss Pearl Camley. of Frankfort, has ••inbarked in the undertaking business •ind is now able to conduct a funeral in a satisfactory manner.

I'A-Gov. Gray, now United Sta tvs Minister to Mexico, returned to Indianapolis. Dec. 1.'.'. being called home by the serious illness of bis sun Pierre, 1 he Seymour street, railway has been sold to ,1. s. Crump, who will tear up the iracli and remove the entire plant to lUmbtis, to be used in extending his lines that city.

The American Federation of Labor at •Is session at Denver. Monday, decided to remove tin' headquarters from New York lo Indianapolis. John McBrido. of Coumbus, O., was elected President for the ?nsuirig year.

William Screiber, tho defaulting cash or of he First National Bank of Columbus. sent to to the Prison South for twelve years some four years since, has ticen pardoned by Gov. Matthews'. The jirosecuting attorney and other prominent :itlzens petitioned for the paruon.

At Straw's Mills, near Jeffersotiville, Dec. Alphonso Smith and William flilIon met with a terrible accident while blasting rock to locate a well. While smith was tamping the blast, there was a premature explosion. Smith's head was blown off, falling thirty yards away. Hillon received fatal Injuries.

The "ghost'' of a fiiler is said to be lunting a school house at Frankfort. SuDcrstitious people believe the spook to lie the spirit of a carpenter named Kntreiin who was killed while the building was wing erected. Ho was a lifer during the ivar. and is now supposed to be giving lightly serenades in the school building.

While a farmer named Ott was killing logs. Wednesday, near West Franklin, an incle concluded to have some fun with IHt's six-year-old son. and he caught the ittle boy and held him over the barrel tilled with hot, water, used in scalding the 'iogs. The child slipped from his grasp, .'ailing into the scalding water. The remit was terrible, tho lad being so badly scalded that his eyes fell from their sockits. A messenger was sent for a physifian. but he returned with a faith-cure loctor. who con hi do no good. The iad lied.

Frank Leonard.residing near Hammond, las undertaken the development of the umber interests of what is known as the iypress swamp, located west of Decker's itation. It is a body of Government, land, laving between the White and Wabash rivers, and comprises about 1.S00 acres of R-ell-timbered land, not, a stick of which tias ever been cut. Mr. Leonard a few months ago purchased all tho standing limber, which consists of red oak. ash, cum sycamore, and other valuable kinds. spur from the Kvansville «fcTerre Haute railroad has been built from Deckers, six miles out, into the swamp. Mr. Leonard snow putting in one of the finest sawaiills in southern Indiana.

John Carpenter and Dan Liggett became nvolved in a quarrel in the saloon of John Aekerman, at, Roanoke, Dec. 11. The marshal was called into settle the difficulty. Carpenter sprang upon the oflicer. who is a man over sixty years old. ind heat him unmercifully, lie was rendered unconscious, and at, last reports was expected to die. Carpenter escaped from the room and led the officers a chase into Allen county before he was captured. He was given a preliminary hearing and •barged with assault, and was convicted. Papers were filed against him for riot, and when he was being taken to the town lockup by the constable, he escaped. Shqfitl' I.everton and posse of men are in pursuit. At last accounts he was still at larire.

Chas. 10. Wise, son of Mrs. Aaron Wise, a wealthy widow of Carroll county, disappeared from St. Louis, August »".i. while en route home from California. It now develops that young Wise was murdered and robbed by an unknown St. Louis thug, who decoyed him to Clarksvile, a small town eighty miles nortH of that city, on a pretense! of securing him remunerative employment-. Wise's body was found under a tree. Aug.I'.i), with a bullet, hole in the head. Then', was nothing by which he could be identified. Photographs and descriptions finally have established the identity of the remains and they will be re-interred near his old home in Carroll county.

A convict in the Northern Prison.named Craig, who was sent up two years ago for ten years for robbing Michigan Central freight cars, is earning quite a record as an inventor. He had not. been in prison very long before he produced a self-lock-ing nut and bolt, sirnplo in construction and certain in action, which he subsequently had patented. The right to tiso this invention in the State of Indiana has been sold for i'JOO, and the cash stands to Craig's credit on the prison books, lie has lately patented a shell or thimble to be attached to the axles of vehicles and adjustable to overcome the effects of wear which usually occurs at the large end of the axle. It is understood that Craig took out a Canadian patent for this invention and has sold it for?:i.000.

Miller & Sons, of Frankfort, recently purchased eight hundred sheep in the Chicago market and shipped them to their farm. Dec. 11 the Millers were called unon by G. W. Edwards, of Rock Springs. Wyo., who informed them that the sheep were part of a drove of li.OKJ that were stolen from the Edwards ranch in November. Telegrams from their Chicago agents convinced them that the story was true, and the sheep were restored to Edwards, The theft was perpetrated by a man named McCarty—aided by one McClain—employed by Edwards to ship the stock, which was sold in bunches through Illinois. Indiana and Michigan. The. loss will fall on the Chicago commission merchants unless they can recover from McCarty, whose whereabouts are at present unknown.

INDIANA'S INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND.

Tho Board of Trustees for the Institution for the. Blind have filed their annual report with Gov. Matthews, An additional endowment of 835.COO, recommended by Superintendent Griffith, previous to his retirement, is Indorsed. The report culls attention to the necessity of extend

ing aid in many cases .o graduates on their leaving the institution, as they frequently fail to obtain employment and become inmates of poorhouses, although well-fitted lo be self-supporting if onco given a chance. A fund for this purpose was contributed by Mrs. Nancy Fitzpatriek, of lineie, who died in 1S70. There is at present, a balance in this fund of $"81.0$. The Board recommends that whatever money Is added to this by the Legislature bear the name of the founder of the fund. It is recommended that the next Legislature appropriate f:.',(ioo for a workshop and l.OOO for anew greenhouse. It is.stated that, the present greenhouse is very oid and is iu an advanced stage of decay, not worth the repairing. The suggestion is made that the officials of the Statehouse on occasion have a habit, of borrowing plants from the institution's greenhouse, the new greenhouse be made large enough to have this in mind and the custodian of the Statehouse is willing, the superintendent says, to bear a part of the expense. The total numbe rof studentsai the institution last, year was bY.'.

DEATH BY DROWNING.

William A. Peelle, Jr., ex-chief of tho State Bureau of Statistics, was drowned in a bath tub at the new Visitors' Home, St. Mary's Institute, five miles west of Terre Haute, Dec. 17. Mr. Peelle had been in poor health for some time. The coroner's verdict was that tho death was purely accidental. Mr. Peelle, with his wife, were to take charge, of the institution and left Indianapolis for that purpose, Dec. 14. The deceased was born in Wayne county in l(4r. and was wellknown throughout, the State, llis record in the State House was a remarkable one. Iti all he spent, sixteen years there, during ten of which he was Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. He was a brother of Hon. Stanton J. Peelle, Judge of tho United States Court of Appeals at Washington, and unlike his brother was a Democrat.

GREAT GAS GUSHERS.

The Diamond Plate Glass Company at Kokomo. in the past five days have drilled five new gas wells, all of them prodigious producers. The smallest shows an output of 5,0(10,000 feet per day. They are in territory that has been perforated with wells for live years, and do not bear out, Dr. Jordan's theory that natural gas is rapidly failing. The Diamond Company owns 20,000 acres of rich gas territory that has not had a drill in it. They have enough of the Ideal fuol to operate their immense plants for many years to come.

A DESPERATE DEED,

Recentlv John Huntington, a clerk in the Citizens' State Bank at Council Bluffs, la., was discovered to be spending too much money, About the same time a S.'iOO check was found to be missing. The bank officers notified the officials of the the Fidelity Company, who furnished Huntington's bond, to come on and make an investigation. Agents were accordingly sent by the Fidelity, in the persons of Messrs. Cromwell and Hayden. Dec. 10 the bank officers and Huntington were summoned by these officials In a room at the bank. Cromwell and llaydou began to question Huntington closely, when he suddenly rose from his chair and began shooting. The first three shots liil Cromwell, tho fourt struck Hayden. aim and then Huntington turned the revolver on himself and fired a bullet into his own brain, indicting a wound from which hi soon died. Cromwell was dangerouslj wounded. Hayden fared better. Bo will recover. Evidence showed thai Huntington had deliberately planned tin desperate deed. Huntington's parent! were heartbroken, not only because of his death but. because of his dishonesty. In was considered a trustworthy young man

WARNING TO SPAIN.

A Madrid cable. Dec. 17. says: Mr. Taylor, the United States Minister, today had tin important conference, wit! M'nor Groi/anl. Minister of Foreign Affairs. relative to the imposition of excessive duties ti poll imports into Cuba froit the United States. lie informed tin Senor that lie had been directed by hi: government to inform the, government ol Spain that if it persisted in exacting thesediscriminating duties the action would bi regarded by the President, only as invitint the exercise by hiin of the power of retaliation conferred by the act,of ls(.)J. Tin threat has caused a commotion iu minis, terial circles.

The man arrested in Arizona, supposed to be J. W. Hillmon, has been proved tt be, L. B. Bern ion.

THE MARKeTS.

Dec. 13, 1301.

Iri(IJf*un o!l 4. it A IN A N II A

Wiikat—."We: corn, 43c oats. X'i'ic rye, -ISc hay, choice timot.liy, i'J.OJ. l.tvr. STUCK.

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Eons—Shippers p:ying 18c. Buttku—Choice, l(nilic. Honkv—ISc Fka riiniis—Prime geese, 30@Mc per Xb mixed duck, :.'0c per ll.

Bkkswax—:.'0c for yellow: 1.1c for dark. Wool.—Medium unwashed, r.'c Cottswold and coarse combing, lOitf^c tubwashed. KV'tlSc hurry and unmerchantable. 1c less. 1111ls—No. 1 G. S. hides. 4 ^c: No. 2 G. S. hides.

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FIFTY THIRD CONGRESS.

The Senate, Dec-. 13, transacted very Iit:le business. Practically all the timo was consumed in the discussion of the bill to :stablish a.national university at, Wash'iigton and tho Nicaragua!) canal bill. Senators Hunton, of Virginia, and Vilas, jf Wisconsin, addressed the Senate in support of the former, and Mr, Morgan practically concluded his speech on the latter. Duringtlie day he asked the Senate that, ananimons consent be given fixing a time fnrji vote on the bill, but was refused. At. 1:0.1 ii. m.. after a brief executive session,' '.he Semite adjourned till Monday. Dec. 17.

The House. Dec. IX passed the urgency ieticiency bill making appropriations for !ension examiners and for the preliminary •vork of collecting the income tax. Mr. dynum made, tin

principal speech in bo

jalf of the appropriation of fc.'.l u)0) for :he special pension examiners. The fortiications bill appropriating |1.S7'.V).17 was Liassed without amendment. The pension ipprop.iation bill carrying ?Hl.:wi.r70 vas called up and discussed, but was laid iside and the military academy bill was aken up and $10,S'!:i was appropriated for irmy service! at West Point. At -1:30 tho House adjourned.

At. the House session, Dec. 14. the debato the pension appropriation bill was continued under tho five, minute rule. Mrj Lac.ey, Rep., of Iowa, moved to reduce the) ippropriation for examining surgeons iroin ?8i:0,OG0 to M00,000 lost. The bill ivas then passed, carrying $l4J.3Sl,570j K'ithout division. Tho army appropria-, Jon bill was then reported, "A resolution! :alling on the Secretary of State for all :orrespondence relating to the payment ol M- 1,000 to Great Britain in the Alaskan teal controversy was adopted. The llousu then adjourned till Monday.

The Senate convened at the. usual hour, Dec, 17. The Nicaragua canal bill was .•onsidered. Mr. Peffer spoke in favor oj government, control but was opposed to lsming bonds payable in gold mi aid of the Miterprise. Mr, Squire indorsed the protect., Mr. Turpie offered au amendment providing for the appointment of three Migineers by the President to make a sun i'ey and estimate of tho promised route. Mr. Turuie then addressed tno Senate oi| he merits of tho bill. He said he wa?i leartily in favor of building the canal bti"j egarded the pending bill as only anotherlieusnre leading to inevitablo failure (tlm ifty-lirst.) He doubted its constitution., llity. After detailing tho original under-! Handing that the government should not :e asked to guarantee the maritime company's indebto iness Mr. Turpio asked tvith some, display of feeling with what fairness can this com puny now •otne. to congress and ask for $70,003,000. ile. ridiculed the talk of selling the company's bonds in Hngland and declared .hat its entire assets could not, be sold in Loudon for $10. He said the failure of tlm Panama canal scheme had sealed the loom of all isthmian canal building. The ropicai climate, he said, was fatal to all such enterprises. There were no (liflicul•Jes in the wav of construction offered by Jie Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Referring to he numerous surveys for a route made rom time to time Mr. Turpie, laid part.icjlar stress on that, of 1S.11 by Cornelius ^anderbilt and associates, any one ol •vhoin, he asserted, could have completed Jie canal. Yet. the enterprise had been ihandoncd. Pending the conclusion of tis remarks the Senate, at 4:55 p. m., went nto executive session and at 0:07 p. in. idjourncd.

At tin opening of the House, Dec. 7, Mr. Herman presented a resoluiion declaring the Clayton-Bulwer '.reaty an obstacle to the construc.ion of the inter-oceanic canal. Fifteen pension bills were passed. Mcilae. chairman of the committee on iiiblic hinds, moved to pass, under a suspension of the rules, the bill to protect uhlic forest rcservati ins. Mr. Wells .•barged that rascality was behind the .'ill and predicted that, those who were Hushing it, through with whip and spur ivould live to regret, their action. Tim rote resulted l.i'.i to 13 and th'

bill was

passed. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, chairman of the committee on banking ami 'urrency. then presented the report of thf majority on the Carlisle banking bill ami it, was ordered printed, together with the minority report to be presented by Mr Walker, Mr. Outliwaite, chainivin ol the military affairs committee, called ii( the army appropriation hill and explained its provisions. The bill carried lOSjiKi less than the appropriation foi lie current, fiscal year and $1,3 i.l.'.Ct lest than the estimates. At .1 p. m., the IIousi Adjourned.

GAGE VS. CARLISLE,

Lyman J. Gage, the eminent. Chicagi bunker, appeared before the House commit tee on bunking an I enrr.Ui ••. I) !c. I! Referring to the recommendation of tin President and Secretary Carlisle, Mr 1 lane said:

Agreeing with the criticisms mado In these officers of the Government as lo thi present weakness of our situation and tin great, desirability of separating the Government from the direct responsibilities o! currency issues 1 am persuadeded that tin country is not ready to accept their recommendations as to the methods proposed. In making any change the method should tie so simple that all can comprehend it. and it should he seen that tho incidental effects would not be in any direction disturbing to trade, commerce oi industry. I believe the "Baltimore plan' '.•arrios the true principles of a credit cur rency. but, we can not reach it by any otif step, and years may intervene before ii jan he realized.

He recommends issuing $2.10.000,00 o! bonds to retire Government notes and tc imend the bunking act. so that N'at.lona banks can issue notes in place of the reIreined currency.

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I'liu Vcw lleltrlilen IMaiuIs Are Having At Awful Krper ice.

A Victoria, B. C., special. Dec. 14, saysrhe Australian steamer Warinioo, which 'ias arrived, brings startling news that Majority of the islands of the New Hebriles group are pHssing through a baptisn )f lire, earthquakes and volcanic disturbluces, threatening the very existence ol leveral of the largest, and best islands^ in:luding Ambrym, celebrated for the ex•eilence of its coffee. On tho latter an enire village of natives was recently carried into the sea. the loss of life being estimated it sixty to seventy-live men. women am: •hiidren, while in others of the group atalities are also reported. A layer o: ashes from two to six inches deep covers .lie once fertile fields.

The volcanic eruptions and earthquake! have been of frequent, occurrence sinct N'ov. 'j Traders and planters living on Ambry in island have lied precipitately tt Port Sandwich (Malicollo). the nearest :ort. in many cases abandoning all their possessions.

A SUDDEN DEATH.

Sir John Thompson, the. Canadian Prime inister, died suddenly at Windsor. Kngland. Dec. l'j, shortly after a meetiuo if the Privy Council, at which ho hac just been sworn in as a member. Tin Queen had invited Sir John to dine and sleep at Windsor Castle that night. Aftei the meeting of the Privy Council he had -eturned to his hotel for luncheon, when lie became suddenly ill and expired. It it supposed his death was due to heart dis :ase. Queen Victoria telegraphed hei :ondol(,-nce to the Canadian people.

DEBS IS "IN IT."

Sentenced to Six Months1 Impris* onment by Judge "Woods.

Other A. R. OBlclttts Cot Throo Month! Kxcrpt MeVnnp. Who Ih Ari|uttl il.

"Guilty as charged" was the announcement of Judge Woods, at Chicago, Dec. 14. in the cast? of President Kiigeno V. Debs, of the A. R. C. The same finding was rendered against the other A. R. U, tiflicials, except McVaue, who was released. Mr, Debs was sentenced to six months in the county jail. The others were given three months' sentence. Tim finding of the court was that the defendants were guilty of contempt, but that any punishment indicted would not Ixi .niinulative. In other words, there weru two cases before the court, one for contempt and the. other for violation of the Federal statute, and the latter cause is tnorged into the former.

Judge Woods said it was not accordance with procedure to permit defendants to say why sentence should not be passed, but in this case, tho court would allow it. Attorney Darrow, representing the defendants, asked that his clients might retire for consultation, and sifter a brief recess tho strike leaders filed back into court.

Attorney Darrow, speaking for tliem, said that they had no wish to make separate speeches, but felt that they had done no wrong. The attorney advised the court that Director Mc.Vane was out ol the city during tho strike. A lengthy argument between attorneys followed aver the proposition to discriminate in McVane's favor which the court terminated by suspending sentence in his case.

In sentencing thi! other defendants, Judge Woods said punishment should]bn neither vindictive nor trivial. "These men were in willful contempt," he added, under what legal advice 1 should like very much to know. These men were tho. leaders iu a great measure of law-break-ers. and are responsible as leaders. Ignorant men who followed them have, been punished. Mr. Debs is more, responsible than tiny other, lie is a mauoof marked ability and power over men. 1 feel constrained to discriminat" between liini and Ihe others. The punishment against all lefendants except Debs is three months in jail, and against. Debs six months."

The sentence, does not. take effect for ten iays. Defendants will appeal. The defendants, with their official positions in the American Railway Union, were: "President, Debs: vice-president. Howard secretary, Kcllhcr treasurer. Rogers, and lirectors, Burns, l'Mliott, McVane, Hogan ind Goodwin.

Judge Woods' decision in the case is one if the most exhaustive legal documents vi prepared. In full it contained ?0,00 svords. Tho President's message conaincd only 1.1,00!) words.

A FAMOUS AimiOll IOI).

iobert I.ouis SU'Vensui Victim of .Xjm plexy.

An Auckland. X. /.. cable, Dec..ltl, says: \d vices from Apia. Samoa, dated Doc. 8, ire to the effect, that tho well-known nov:list. Robert, Louis Stevenson, had died niddenlv from apoplexy. His remains ft'ero interred on tho summit, of Pala

ROISKRT I.OUIS STBVKNSON.

mountain, l.:t0D feet high. At. the time of Ills death Mr. Stevenson had half completed the writing of si new novel.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was horn in Edinburgh, Nov. 1.1. 18.10. Ho wan i'ducatcd at private schools and at tho University of Kdinburiiii, and was called to the Scottish bar. but traveled and devoted himself to literature. Ills works tire well known and most highly prized by 1 iterary people. His most famous book, "Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde."' has boen '.IrainiUizoil and successfully presented both in Kngland and the United States.

J.U'AMSF. BAHISA1ILWS.

Vlio Capture of Port Arthur by llorrlhli* AlnicllioH,

A Yokahaina cable. Dec. l:.\ to the Now York World, says: The Japanese troops entered Port Arthur, on November 21,and massacred practically the entire population in cold blood. The defenseless and unarmed inhabitants were, butchered in their own houses, and their bodies were unspeakably mutilated. There was an unrestrained reign of murder which continued for three days. Tho whole town was plundered, with appalling atrocities. The Japanese, in this instance, relapsed into barbarism. Ail pretenses that circumstances justified the atrocities are false. The civilized world will be horrified by the details. The foreign correspondents, horrified.by ihe spectacle, left the aruiv In a body.

BABES IN THE WOODS.

The Scliultz children who disappeared Irom their home at, Waupun. Wis., Dec. Ill, were found dead in the woods Dec. Iti, ..illy two miles from their own house. Hundreds of men were, encaged in the •earch from the time of their disappearliice.

net lor Tiinu a St ring.

Xcw Yorl: Weekly. Mother—Jolmny, on your way home from school stop at the store and tfet, me stick of candy and a bar of soap.

Father—What do you want, of a stick of candy? Mother—That's so he'll remember the soap.

A new court house will be built at Rochester, costing f7.r,000.