Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 December 1892 — Page 8

NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

In the Noxt Congress Mr. Stevenson May Cut Quito a Figure.

THE SLXATF IS LIKELY TO BE A TIE.

I»r«'pnration* Tor the T.ast Ses*ioii**»f tli« present Congress—The Message Miiy lie I)(!l»)cil Spculinr Crigp'a (.'haiiees.

TIIK SKN'ATK MAY JTK TIED. WASHINGTON', Nov. 30.—When Vice President Stevenson calls the senate together

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the 4th of next March the

most reliable vet urns show that that body will be equally divided politically. The vote of the vice president will decide all party questions. Tiie vice president never votes unless his vote is necessary .to break a tie. and it has been a long time since such a condition was known in the senate.

With the senate tied politically, another interesting question comes up. Jt is customary for that body to elect from its members one of the same political faith as the majority as president pro tern., who presides whenever the. vice president is absent or incapacitated from acting. The majority hold a caucus and agree on a senator t" be selected, and the minority always acquiesce in that selection, the vice president being absent when his temporary successor is appointed. Of course the democrats will claim the right of appointing the president p.o tem., but if the republicans are inclined to be ugly about it the vice president will again have to vote, and it is questionable whether lie would luive the right to do so.

I'roparinjf lor Congress*

Every preparation has been made for the assembling of congress, which occurs next Monday. The. capitol has bee

thoroughly overhauled and the senate chamber and lionse of representatives have beeu thoroughly improved where defects needed remedy. Some decided changes have been made in the hitherto very defective ventilation and plumbing of both buildings. \earl.y all of the United States senators are already here, though Senator Morgan and or.e or two other southern senators have gone to attend the convention of the friends of the Nicaraguan canal at New Orleans. The leaders of the house—Crisp, Holman, the I'.reckinridges, Dockery. Sayers, and 'J racv—are all here, and Springer is expected to-day.

Delay lie Message.

I he tirst day of the new session is ordinarily the one set aside for reading the president's message. It is not at all unlikely, however, that President Harrison's message will not be ready next Monday. The longcontinued illness ot' Mrs. Harrison prevented the president from getting to work on the document, and for the last week the serious illness of Dr. Scott lias further retarded its progress. Dr. Scott death and the consequent departure of President Harrison from the city to attend the funeral in Pennsylvania make it almost impossible for the message to be finished ia time to be set up and printed bv next Monday. It. is therefore probable that Mr. Harrison will on next Monday morning semi a brief note to congress regretting the delay of the message and announcing its appearance before the end of the week.

Crisp Muy Succeed Himself. It is as good as settled that Speaker CVisp will succeed himself in his present position when the Fifty-third congress assembles. At that time there will be no such scenes as were enacted a year ago, when ever hotel in Washington was a headquarters for one speakership candidate or another. This point has been settle within the Ijist few day by the expressions of arriving congressmen, of whom there are are upward of 100 already in the city. What assures Judge Crisp's reelection practically beyond any question is the fact that, the gentlemen who a, ted as Mr. Mills' lieutenants are now the ones to come forward with assurances to Crisp of generous support ot used to be called the, "Mills set.''

Increased Collect mint.

AN ASIUNOTON. Nov. :0.—The total collections of internal revenue for the first four months of the present tiscal year were .?'rti.:!.YS.li-20. an increase of compared with the collections during the corresponding period of the last fiscal eai.

AN ENRAGED MOB.

Jt Taken Swift en^eaiice 011 ti IvansaH \c'ir—A Trii£».lv at a Thanlcjgiving supper. I-olloweil by i!ic 1..vitelline ot a

Mi rile re r. ATCHISON. ICan.. Nov. :0.- 'l'lie town of Hiawatha was the scene of a sensational lynching at 1:J o'clock Monday night. Last Thursday night the people of the African Methodist church gave

Thanksgiving supper at which Commodore True, a colored Umgh of the place, raised a disturbance. Will Walthall, one of the deacons of the church, led him outside, and nothing more was thought of the affair, until suddenly True rushed into the room with a knife in his hand and stabbed Walthall to the heart. The wounded man died in few minutes. True was arrested and lodged in the county jail. There was great indignation about the murder, and Monday night a mob broke into the jail and carried True, to a tree

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the jail-vard and

strung him up by the neck. While the man hung there, writhing his agonies of death, fortv bullets were 'fired into his body bv the enraged mob.

Thej Wei Drowned.

MADISON, Neb.. Nov. U0.—While, on their way to school Ambrose Malone and Ridgley Wagner, each aged 15 years, attempted to cross the null pond. They were drowned. l'ainter \Vva 111 Dead.

NEW YORK, Nor. BO.—Alexander IJ. Wvant. N. A., the lamous American landscape painter, died at his apartments adjoining his studio of softening of the biain.

DEATH OF DR. SOOTT.

President Harrison'* Venerable riillier-lu-Law Succumbs to OJd Ago. WASHINGTON-, Nov. o.— Heath has again visited the white house. At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the venerable Dr. Scott, the father-in-law of President Harrison, passed away. The end was not unexpected, as he has been hovering between life and death for several days, llis demise was almost confidently expected during the day. President Harrison spent most of the day in the room of the venerable invalid and was with him at the last moment.

The death of Dr. Scott adds one more name to the already long list of deaths within the administration circle. This makes the lifteenth. Of this number three of the deaths have occurred in the Scott family. It is a record of gloom unprecedented in the history of the white house.

The aged invalid passed away without a struggle as quietly and as peacefully as a child falls asleep, lie had been unconscious for hours, and was unable to recognize the weeping friends at his bedsi le. Stimulants were administered hypoderinieally, but only served to defer the inevitable. The president anrl family are very much prostrated at their bereavement. The white house was closed to visitors, and the semiweekly cabinet meeting was omitted. Mgr. Satolli, the papal legate, accompanied by Archbishop Ireland and Rev. Father O'Oorraan, called at the whit,e house and left, a message of sympathy for the president. [Kev. John Witlicrspoon Scott, D. D., was born hi Heaver county. Pa., June 1800, and was therefore in the 93d year of his age. He was a son of George McKlroy Scott, a native of Hacks county. Dr. Scott graduated from a college at Washington, a., and subsequently took a post-graduate course at Yale. Afterward he accepted a professorship in the college from which he graduated, which position he held for two yearf. About this time lie married Mary Neal, and, going west, he accepted a professorship in Miami university at Miami, O., in IH^tl. While there three children were born to liini—Elizabeth, afterward Mrs. Lord Caroline, afterward Mrs. Harrison, and John Neal Scott. A number of years later Dr. Scott founded the Oxford (Ohio) female college, and in ISoO became its president. As he advanced in years Dr. Scott gave up the college work and coming to ashington was appointed to a clerkship in the interior department, which position lie held up to the time of the advent in Washington of President Harrison, when he resigned at the instance of the president and took up his abode at the white house. Jir was engaged for months prior to bis death on a voluminous genealogy of the Scott family, but was unable to llnish it.

MAY SUSPEND IMMIGRATION.

Important Action I.ikely to He Kccoiunieiidcfl to Congress. NEW OKK, Nov. :i0.—The senate committee on immigration on Tuesday considered the following proposition, without, however, reaching any conclusion: "Ail immigration, except from the North and Son 11) American countries, shall lie suspended for one year from March. 1H0II, the law to be so framed as not to hinder the free return or American citizens or the easy admission of visitors."

No vote was taken on this resolut ion. but it is probable that one may be taken at to-day's meeting and there is good reason for believing that it will be passed. Various suggestions for leg-islation for the restriction of immigration had been submitted by the chairman for the consideration of the committee, which it was decided not to take up before the meeting of congress, but it was determined, in view of the greatly apprehended danger of the coming of cholera during the summer of lb93, to limit the present consideration of the subject to the question of total suspension of immigration for one year.

The committee decided that it was advisable to submit to congress for consideration a law embracing the following propositions "1. No immigrant shall bo admitted to the United States between the ages of 12 and 55 years unless he can write freely and easily his native language, nor shall a person above 55 bo admitted who cannot read or write except, as a member of a family coming. "2. No immigrant shall be admitted unless he possesses 4100 in money or its equivalent except that the head of a family may bring with him or send for the other members of his family if he or they possess 1Ar for each tnemlier. "H. All intending immigrants shall bring with them certificates from United States consuls abroad showing that they have satistled such consul that they have a right to admission as immigrants. "4. All persons seeking tlnal naturalization papers shall give seasonable notice to the court to which they intend to applv, and some olllcials representing the government shall investigate the facts upon the other side .vhen the application is considered.'

MAY DIVIDE THE VOTF..

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Clogs Counting Between Cleveland Harrison Out ill ('alitor ila. SAN FRANCISCO. NOV. O.—The official vote of all the counties in California, with the exception of San Francisco, gives Harrison a plurality of 0,4-''-. 'Die returns from alt but tune precincts in this city reduces Harrison plurality in the state to :!10. It is possible that when the oflicial vote has been completed upon individual electors the electoral vote mav be divided between Harrison and Cleveland.

Starvation 111 Itusnlu.

LONDON-, Nov. :0. A dispatch to the Standard from St. Petersburg says the appeals of the provinces to the government for help indicate that the famine will be acute, though less general than in lb91. Private, correspondence belies the pessimistic oilicial harvest reports, but shows that many places peasants are starving. And yet Russian wheat is pouring in large quantities into (ireat Hritain.

Kelt S100.000 in Itelils.

DENVER, Col., Nov. lit).—A few days ago it was noised about that (ieorge A. Kohn, a prominent Denver attorney, had mysteriously disappeared. His friends silenced the rumors by saving that he was absent on a business trip. To-day it is discovered that Kohn left debts aggregating §100,000 due to numerous Denver parties who believe that he has left for good.

Souvenir Coins Delivered, itinis WASHINGTON, NOV. 30. —The acting director of the mint is informed that the coir.ers at Philadelphia mint have made their first delivery of the world's fair souvenir coins to Superintendent Liosbyshell.

THE COAL KINIiS.

They Are Testifying Before Congressional Committee.

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l'ROIllXC THE READING COMBINE

President McLcod, of tli« Reading Kailroad. T«'Us of the Necsslty for Concerted Action by th«

Coal Producer**

HIS TKSTIMON'V.

rnii.ADEi.niiA, Nov. HO. —The congressional committee to investigate the Reading railroad combine met here Tuesday morning. President McLeod, of the Heading company, was the first witness. McLeod was questioned principally by Mr. Roach, and that gentleman's line of questioning was directed mainly to discover the trafiie rates on anthracite coal and the effect upon the coal business and the consumer of the monthly meetings of the coal sales agents.

In answer to a query from Mr. Johnson Mr. McLeod said that if there was no concert of action among tiie coal producers the market would quickly become glutted, and it would only be a question of a short, time when the financially strong operators would drive the weaker ones to the wall. The result would be the advancement of prices to a higher rate than they are now. Mr. McLeod said that many of the individual coal producers in the anthracite regions were on the verge of bankruptcy when he arranged to buy their coal. Another sufferer by the lack of concert among the coal producers would be lowering of the miners' wages. The Reading Coal Company had never, Mr. McLeod said, got a reasonable profit in the market for its coal and that is what it is striving to do. Mr. McLeod explained to the committee that the main object of the Reading Railroad Company was to produce as much coal as possible and create the greatest demand it could for the same. Mr. McLeod said that the miners of the Reading company as a. body were receiving £000.000 more now than in 1S91, whether they worked or not.

Otlier Witnesses.

E. P. Wilbur, president of the Lehigh Valley railroad, testilied that the rates for anthracite coal transportation were higher than for miscellaneous traffic, and that there was more profit in moving the coal. Like .Mr. McLeod, Mr. Wilber believed that the result of lack of concert of action among eoal producers would be disastrous to .-.mall operators.

Joseph S, Harris, preside't, of tne Lehigh Coal and Navigatio ornpany, said the -price for which coal was sold in 1st)I was unremunerative t» the Lehigh company. The witness said that the advance in the price of coal this year had not restricted the output, but the production was greater in 180:2 by t,i00,000 tons than in 1801. Witness said that a minor could earn in a full day's work about $2.90. During the present year the miners have worked five-sixths of the time. Mr. Harris said that his company tried to keep enough, men employed throughout the year te-strike an average between the number worked in dull and busy times. The cost of the production of coal was lessened by continually running full time. For every ton of coal raised to the surface the company was compelled to pump out of the mine ten tons of water aad threetons of other matter. As-tlxis- work must go on all the time it wus cheaper to kerep the collieries running full tim«..

GOT AWAY. WITH~SIQ.J3.OQ.

Brown Paper Substituted fur. JI'OIIKV in mi Kxprpss I'Hektige. GAS.VESTO.V, Tex., Nov.

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morning's UMO train from Hons on, bringing to Galveston east.srn mails and expressage received from the Southern Pacific at Ne.wv Orleuns, brought also Wells, Farg®. & i'o.'s Express Messenger Harris., who had in charge a package addressed, to the Island City savings bank, Galveston, valued at -Sl-, 00. This package had bee.i received fro.a the WellsFargo express messengeiv on the- New Orleans-Houston run aisl hai bee-a shipped out by Kounf/. Bros., of New York city. The valuable paivel was. taken to the consignees, and received and signed for by tlio- bank's teller, John T. McCarthy. When Mr. McCarthy opened the bum-lie it was found to contain nothing bat brown papeieut in slips about the- size of a bank note and neatly made up into bundles, fastened with rubber- bands. The resident manager of Wells, Fargo Co. was notified and reported to the bank at once, where he inspected the package. The New York oflice of the express company was immediately advised bv wire.

Uival of the i. A. 1{.

TornivA, Ivan., Nov. 110. —1The Roys in Blue is the name by which ail exunion soldiers' organization will be known, which will be a rival of the Grand Army of the Republic. The old soldiers in the people's party tire the originators of tiie plan. The charter was filed Tuesday. It will be a national order. A. J. R. Smith, of this city, said that organizations would be effected at once in ten states and that more than fifty companies had already been formed Kansas.

Two .Men ISIowii to I'ICCOS. VIRGINIA. New, Nov. o.—William Huirhes and Edward Nottle were blown to pieces in Kenosha tunnel in the Sierra Nevada mine Tuesday morning. They were working in the face of the tunnel and had prepared several holes for a blast. It is supposed that they exploded a cap or dropped a candle into a box of powder while firing the cartridge.

r, Failure In Cleieluixl. CI.KVI-'.I.AND, O., NOV. 30.--S. P. Churchill, the oldest druggist in the city, assigned Monday. Assets, $23,000: liabilities nominal. The assignment. was brought about by indorsing Si! 1,000 worth of paper.

H00SIEI! HAPPENINGS.

Electric Flashes from Various Portions of Indiana.

Married T.ike Christians.

INDIAN ATOMS, Ind., Nov. 30.—An oddlooking bridal party presented itself before Father Dowd at St. John's Catholic church Tuesday. Three Turks came to the parochial residence. They were Peter Lewis, Mary Stanko and Stephen Stankowich. The trio came from Fisher's Station, where they have a ten-cent show. Mary, the pretty bride, is the tightrope walker and bareback rider. Peter, the bridegroom, trains the horses his bride rides. Stephen is the director of the show. They all came from Ilannannica, Turkey, except Mary, who was born of Turkish parents in Paris. Stephen Stankowich was there in the capacity of witness and best man. In order to proceed with the ceremony, a ring was borrowed from the bride and Peter wore it until it was required in the ceremony. The priest used only the necessary parts of the ritual, and endeavored in as plain English as possible to make the sacred character of the marriage ceremony apparent.

Craekstnen Visit Indiana.

WAIIASII, Ind., Nov. 30. —At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning cracksmen drilled through the top of the safe at the Wabash railway freight ofiice in this city. They put in a heavy charge of powder and, attaching a fuse, blew the door off its hinges and clear through the side of the building into the middle of the street, a distance of 50 feet. The safe was completely ruined, one side of the building badly wrecked and every window in the building blown out. The explosion caused great excitement in the neighborhood time, as residences were by :m earthquake. The were, so badly frightened by the report that they iled without attempting to secure any booty. An attempt was also made to blow the safe in Simon Cook's establishment, but after drilling through the top the operators broke their bit and gave the job. Detectives are on the trail of the crooks.

of the

for a shaken thieves

JFUIKIS.

INDIA\.M'or i.v, lrcd., ,OT. —Areport of Treasure' ILavden. of the Indiana world's air eonuni.vsion, sub-

the that

mitted to daj', shows has tive that much

governor Tues-t-lie commission of tber legisla of S7.\O0O, and "jcpense incident to

but SS.000 appropriation

the states exhibit has- yet tc he met. The report shows that the two meet ings which the commission have held have cost about .f-'J.ODffi The expenses of the secretary's cilice have been S-1.500, while those of the executive commissioner haw been about the same. The fact that the commission is omv practically broke and with great deal of work to do leaves no doubt the effort will be made to get another appropriation, possibly of STo,080 from the legislature this winter.

Natural Gas the CUIIKU of Trouble. KI.MWOOD, Ind., Nov. 3ft—An employe of the Chicago. Pipe JJne Company, which is piping natural gas from Indiana to Chicago,, was shot Tuesday by a deputy sheriff as a result of the opposition* of Indiana people to tlie aarrj'ing away from, the state of the natural grs. Sentiment here is bitierty opposed to. laying the mains. Citizens- appealed t© the law and secured warrants for trespass for the arrest of the- laborers. Deputy Sheriff Lewis H.iines attempted to serve warrants cm a gang working a few miles from Elmr wood. 1 he foreman of the- gang,. J. C. Hinds, resisted arrest aad was shot lv the oflieem The wound, is not con i!ered fatal. Hairaes had his preliminary examination and wais- held in 5S()0 bonds to December L5.

~r jX hot trtm Aai!unli. JKFFKRSdSTHiB, Ind.. Nov. 30.—Jolwi. Schibly, a carriage painter residing in Howard Park*, a suburb. 2 miles -west of tho city., was shot from ambush at: midnight) awl is mortally wounded, lie was oa his way home from. IuOiiisviiUe, aiiad no soooet got off the train a.t, Howard Park star tion than lie fell jppare-n,tly lifeless to the ground. Neighbors heard the shot and found ScliiUy ixaicouseious. Ila was carried'to hi.v home. Schibly cannot accouuft for his attempted assassination and claims that he has no kuowa.eiusiny..

Lii.uut» Asylum Report.

1 NDI A.H.VI'OI.LS, lud, Nov. I0. —The annual report o.f the eastern hospital for the insane, hx-ated at Richmond, made bo the governor Tuesday, .shows. jwttients admitted during the vear. The largest number ol inmate* at any one time wiis 4 VJ, and Lhe -Average number of the yast three months was 4-UV. Fiftv-ojght deaths occurred during the year. It is estimated that £'.5,000 will be /equired to meet the expenses of the institution in IM) '., and $120,000 in 1 BL)4.

•lumped from a .MIIVUK Train. Hka/.il, Ind., 2Suv. 30.—Georg« Slaughter and 10. Ilrowa, residing noar Fiiirview, met with a serious accident on the Chicago Indiana coal road a short distance north, of this city Monday afternoon. They jumped fiom a freight train rnnuing at full speed. Slaughter fell head first, fracturing his skull, and will die. Brown was seriously but not fatally hurt.

l)riv«ni Out 1 the Town.'

RICHMOND, Ind., Nov. 30.—ileorge M. Harris was captured by a crowd of men early Tuesday morning, tied, gagged ami taken to a tree outside the city limits. A noose was placed around his neck, but he saved li is life by a promise of immediate departure. His conduct was offensive to his neighbors.

ire at .Mount mum.

MOUNT KI:NON, Ind., .Nov. :i:).--Fire was disro\ei\d in t!i -cond story of Roscnbaun l!rov' «li-v-goodsstore early Tuesday IIUJ/II-.U .". i- wis soon con

trolled. \wv "d

MAY SOON ACT.

Biff Money Problems Before Monetary Conference.

THEIR EARLY SOLCTIOX PREDICTED.

Tho lropo«als of M. Do ItothsvhiUI auil l'rof. Soetbeer .'Meet, with Favor li'om itlany of the Delegates—Viovr* of the Americans.

THE BRUSSELS C'O.NKKHKN'CE. BRUSSELS, NOV. 30.-—The committeeappointed by the international monetary conference to consider the proposals of Mr. Alfred de Rothschild, which were ore sen ted to the conference Monday, is made tip as follows: Sir C. Freemantle, Great Britain Sir Guilford L. Moles worth, India: Henry \V. Cannon, United States: M. de Foville, France Signor Simonclli, Italy C. F. Tietzen, Denmark N. P. Van Der Berg, the Netherlands Hans L. Torsel, Sweden and Norway Senor Osma, Spain M. Cramer Frey, Switzerland M. Sainetlelto, Belgium, and M. Raffalovitch, Russia. Mr. Alfred de Kothscliild, Great Britain, and M. Montefiore Levi, the president of the conference, are exollicio members of the committee. The committee will also consider the plans suggested by M. Levi and Prof. Adolph Soetbeer.

Th« no Kotlisrtilkt

The plan of Mr. de Rothschild, reported in these dispatches of Monday, is, in brief, that a syndicate of the nations be formed to make yearly purchases of silver lio the amount of £5,000,000, and that Americp, continue her purchase of silver as at present. In the event of the price of silver rising above forty-threw pence an ounce the

Prof. JMan.

l'rof. Soetbeev's plan is to establish one gramme of tine- as the international unit of v.and to stop the minting of coins containing less than r.S05 grainn if pure gold. The circulation of oi foreign countries of less IT *)}(.• sU.ndurd will be pr, n, ,fii »y the .utries signing rrjom,, and gold coin of inferior a] ie will he withdrawn within five yeai SVivate individuals will be allowed to coin gold upon the payment of tin agreed seigniorage. Gold certificates may be issued against gold held in reserve. Prof. Soetbeer's plan also includes the- .ioinage nf silver in the proportion of twenty vulue units of that metal to one of gold, but private individuals will not b- allowed fres- coinage of silver:

purchases are to be at once suspended. 1^o Tennyson as poet laureate. He was born June 10, l.SiJl, and in 1852 obtained tiie Newde^site prize at Oxford for a poem. He has therefore been a noted poet for forty years, lint iu the United

M:iy lit1 AD cptetl, general expectation that W .Rothschild's proposition accepted by the committhen referred for adop-

Mr. will tee t.ivTj and wiih schemes of M. Levi and Prof. Soetbeer. One- of the modifications will probably be that all gold coined below the vivlse of twenty franes be withdrawn from circulation and replaced by silver noSes. The adhesion- of tlae- German delegates is now considered eertaiu, as Hsirr Dec-bend, formerly president of the reiehbank. aprvrovetl the main lines of Prof. Soeibeer's proposal. The French representatives will also accept the plan of Prof. Soetbeer, which was communicated by 31. Tirard, formerly French minister of finance. The plan was favorably received by all the French delegates before-it was submitted to the conference.

With the prospect of UJJ early agreement being achieved: no-lxxly now talks of the failure of the conference, which at first was the only prediction made as to the outcome oi"t'he lVfeeting. So rapidly has the optimistic- feeling grown that it is reported' that, the vonference if likely to conclude- Lts labors next, week.

I'onitloii nf tile

The America/iidele-jateti have reasoii. to be satisfied with the re-cognition iA the advocatcft. of liuiinometallism and the seriousness, of the dangers arising from a further fall in silver. They sre disposed to support Mr. de Rothschild's proposal oja the principle '•Jiat half a loaf is better than no braad.

PASSED AWAY.

Death of state*. Senator- rsltcll,. o? Indbknii. LoOANsnouT. Ind.v Nov. V/t,—ExIJnited States Senator G. N. Fitoh diedi at his home in this city Tuesday, aged 82. Two.daughters, Mrs. Denby, wife of Col. IJeuby, United States, minister to China* aatl Mrs. Dr. Aea.tfoleuaan, of this city* survive him, cfeatli was due to-.a. general breaking-down ol thesystem caused by old age- The ti.t&e o£ the xitineral has not been fixed

IGiViliiUii N. I'ltch. in IKH, was aj^jomtetl profassor Rush medical rollout), at UbJcagci ami in 1Mb he was elected, to- congress frevsu thvs.tiistrict ami served two ujrms. In 1850 he was chosen United States senator-, retiring iu lflrtl. l)r. Kncli organized the Korty-stxtb Jnmuna anil assisted in tilling two oUior regiaiuats.]

ltoss and M'l.uetile Submit to Arwmt. PiTTSRuiioii, Pa.j Nov. :i0. Hugh Ross and ex-llurgttss John McLuckie, lhe Homestead strike leaders, who have been missing ever since the charges of murder and treason were preferred agaiust them, returned to tho tiity Monday und .surrendered to the sheriff. They will make application for bail and pending a decision will be compelled to remain in -jail. Ross has been in Kugkuul and McLuckie iu Youn»stc.,\u, O.

MC?AIhh Kpsigni.,

CITY OK MKXICO, NOV. --Sub-Sec-retary of Foreign A fl airs Aspiroz has delivered to President, Diaz the collective resignation of the entire cabinet, leaving liini at liberty to appoint anew cabinet sifter his inauguration for his next term, which bee-ins December 1.

nvngti'rniiihition for Sontli Curolmii. loixxmiA, S. C., Nov. :JO.—An ironclad, copperbonnd prohibition bill was introduced in the house of representatives Monday by Mr. Roper, of Marlboro, under direction of the state prohibition executive comtuiUve. ...

Whatever Is—Is Best.-

I know as my life grows older, Antl mine eyes liiii'o clcurer siglit. That under oaeh rank wrong, somewhero

I hero lies the root of UitfUt That each sorrow has its purpose, Hy tho sorrowing ol't unguei,sed! But as sure us tho stin brings morning,

Whatever is—is best.

I know that cach sinful action. As sure as tho night brings shade. Is somewhere, sometime punished.

Though tho hour bo long delayed. I know that the soul is aided, Sometimes by tho heart's unrest, And to grow means often to suffer-

But whatever is—is best,

know there are no errors In the great eternal plan, And all things work together

For the final good of man. Ami I know when my soul speeds onward In its grand eternal quest, I bhall say, us I look back earthward.

Whatever Is—is best. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

KDWIX ARNOLD.

Edwin Arnold is still very mnch alive, nnd is spoken of as a possible successor

States is known chiefly for his "Light of Asia," a. poeut on Buddha.

CURIOUS CULLINGS.

prisoner in a Bohemian reformatory lias fitiishi'd a perfect, runninir straw watch which /s said to he "no larger than a shirt button."

Chinese highbinder arrested at Sacramento recently was incased in a boilerplate coat of mail, lie carried two revolvers and three kuives.

footpad was lately captured in a Hungarian town, and with him a bear that he had tamed and taught to grapple with pedestrians whom he desired tn rob.

iriet.

I There are despairs which seem to blast and kill, That darken day ami rob the stars of light,

That mako the manliest weep as wouiec might. That lurid the valor of tho human will—

and JI- rejection to the- conference the governments represented, Despairs-which !*urn liko hopeless love and modifications suggested by the

sliU.

Love can transfigure while it seems to blight St rung 'uvirts feed nobly on their grief, despite A woilt! where hearts can ever thrivo but illSweet iove nni'j laughter aro tho dream, of" youth. And soft contentment is a golden bar Which shuts a life within its commonplace But lie old world grows wiser in tho truth -vi That sorrows fashion us to what we ara And rouse the invincible genius of our race. —G. E. Montgomery:.

TU« Giraffe and Kids.

"Now, Rudolph,, this aiviinsl shall help ns gani that lolly fruit. Twist his tail,

lis nirht well! la-ra-ra Bcoin-de-

"Catch, Rudolph, and bloss the talented friend of your youth,"—Truth.