Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 March 1895 — Page 6

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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1895.

SENATOR SEI.I.KK'S name has been unfavorably connected with the theft of the Roby bill. THE JOUUNAI, believes that when all the facts connected with this infamous proceeding are brought to light the Senator's good name wil1 not suffer. Those who know the Senator are slow to believe that he could be guilty of such contemptible business.

THE House Tuesday' ':--., passed the Stotsenburg building and loan association bill by a vote of 73 to 1. The bill provides that prepaid and paid-up stock shall be listed for taxation, and that expenses shall be paid out of the profits of the association. Regular and detailed reports shall be made to the Auditor of State and to the stockholders.

SENATOK SEI.LEK'S bill providing when two townships agree to build a gravel road the cost shall be divided pro rate according to wealth instead of mileage, passed the House Monday unanimously. Th? House amended the bill so as to give ten years, with 5 per cent, interest, in which to pay for the road. After the Senate concurs in this amendment it will be sent to the Governor.

EVERY impartial and intelligent observer of the proceedings of the late lamented Congress will agree with the opinion expressed by Bourke Cechran, who, in conversation with a New York Tribune correspondent, recently said: "No sensible Democrat will hereafter cherish any sentiment of pride on account of the fact that he was a member of the Fifty-Third Congress on the contrary, he will wish that the fact might be forgotten."

THE Consumers' Gas Trust Company at Indianapolis has filed with the Council of that city a petition asking to have the meter system -adopted. The Company asserts that the pressure of natural gas has decreased from 329 pounds to 2-10 pounds. It wants to. charge 20 cents a thousand, the consumer to purchase and pay for the repairs on the meters. The reason it gives is that under the present method and rates about 50 per cent of the gas is wasted. Advices from Indianapolis are to the effect that gas has been as scarce there as it has been at Crawfordsville. If the Company expects to save 50 per cent in addition to what it has already saved the gardens of Iceland in December would be a paradise comparison with ...an ...Indianapolis winter.

GEORGE H. THOMAS Post at Indianapolis is laboring under the delusion that it is the sole custodian of the consciences and opinions of every Grand Army man in Indiana. It meets about twice a day and passes some kind of a resolution concerning the Soldiers' Monument. Among the many resolutions it has passed was one opposing the abolition of the Monument Commission, and since the Governor vetoed the bill creating a regency it met again to endorse the veto. THE JOURNAL ventures to say that nine out of every ten Grand Army men of the State are in favor of wiping out the commission. Whether a regency is the best substitute they are not prepared to say, but anything will be satisfactory that will put new blood into the management.

AN amendment to the election law which passed the House Tuesday provides that the Republican ticket shall appear first on the printed ballot, the Democratic ticket second, the Prohibibition third, and the People's fourth. It also provides that four voters may be in the voting room at the same :time,

that the name of a candidate shall not appear on a ballot more than once, permits a watcher for each party during the count of the ballots, and that all mutilated, disputed and uncounted ballots shall be preserved. None of the amendments may be considered of much importance except the last named. So far as the position of the tickets is concerned the last election showed that the Republicans occupied the key to the situation, and •why Republican legislators wanted a change none of them explained. is •proper that the name of a candidate should appear but once on the ballot.

If a man has been nominated by two parties he should elect on which ticket his name should be printed. There can be no objection to having each party represented by a watcher to •witness the count. In fact, all of the amendments are unobjectionable but none of them are or overpowering importance.

THE XICIIOI.SON

The Nicholson bill is by no means a perfect measure. TIIE JOURNAL has severely criticised some of its provisions in the hope that it would be amended by its friends before its final passage. In the House some of the objectionable features were eliminated, while others were permitted to stand. It was probably the best that could be done. That being the case THE JOURNAL favored its passage on the principle that a half loaf is better than no bread. One redeeming feature of the battle that has been waged in its behalf is that it has not been made a party measure. Of the sixteen Democrats in the House twelve voted for it, only two voted against it and two were absent. This only goes to show that it is a measure demanded by the people,—Republicans, Democrats, Populists and Prohibitionists. The bill is now pending in the Senate, and it is to be confessed with some surprise that the outlook is not favorable for its enactment into law. The bill rests in the hands of the temperance committee where it is feared it will find an eternal sleep. This method of killing a bill is not only dastardly but cowardly. The people of Indiana are in no mood to wink at or condone such monkeying with a measure which they regard of so much importance. If those gentlemen composing the temperance committee of the Senate think there has been no advance in public sentiment in Indiana on the evils of the liquor traffic let them continue in the line of policy indicated and they will wake up some fine morning to find that they have been politically stranded, be they Republicans or be they Democrats. The people of Indiana are not fanatically radical in favor of prohibition, but they are fanatically radical in favor of restraining laws that can be enforced.

Since the above was written the morning papers bring the intelligence that the Senate took the temperance committee by the nape of the neck and metaphorically kicked it out. The bill has beeen made a special order for today at 2 o'clock when it will doubtless pass. Governor Matthews, in view of public sentiment, cannot afford to veto it.

A HARMLESS HLILVDE1!. Governor Matthews has vetoed che legislative apportionment bill and both the Senate and House have passed it notwithstanding the objections of the Governor. The same vote which passed a bill originally can pass it over a veto. In this respect our constitution is different from the constitution of the United States. The latter instrument requires a two-thirds vote in Congress to Dass a bill over the disapproval of the President. The legislative apportionment bill is now a law and will stand, unless it is attacked in the courts and held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the State. The Democrats will probably find a way to get the law betore this high tribunal. The question of its constitutionality is a very close one at best. There are many good lawyers of both parties who hold with the Governor that the law is unconstitutional, for the reason that it was passed at the wrong time. The constitution fixes thfe time when an apportionment can be made, begining in a certain year and every six years thereafter. Under that view of the case the proper time to make it would not be until 1897. The present law, iniquitous as it is, may be unconstitutional. We feel sure that any unbiased and unprejudiced court would so hold it. But no court has passed its opinion on the law. True, virtually the same law was held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, but the Legislature of 1893 made some minor changes and reenacted it. In a legal sense it is a new law and must again pass the ordeal of the courts before it can be held to be invalid and inoperative. The suits that were instituted by Senator Wishard should have beem pushed to a conclusion. Had this been done and the court had sustained its former decision there would have been no doubt of the legality of the new apportionment. The upshot of the whole matter will be that the law will be taken finally to the Supreme Court. Politically the court stands three Democrats and two Republicans. The court will declare it to be unconstitutional and the next election will be held under the law of 1893. Of course, as political affairs stand to-day, there can be no doubt as to the result. The Republicans can easily secure a handsome majority in both branches of the Legislature, not on account of the fairness of the old apportionment, but because of the general disgust of the people with the

Democratic party. The Republicans, however, would have better secured and held the confidence of the people had no attempt have been made to enact an apportionment law. The attempt to right a most infamous wrong will only prove to be a harmless blunder.

THE salary of Hon. E. V. Brookshire stDpped Tuesday never to go again. He is now a statesman out of a job. ——————-————_ 4S

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VERY NEAR ITS END.

'LEGISLATIVE WORK AND INCIDENTS OF THE PROCEEDINGS.

Closing I»ny* of the Session Full of Rtial-ne«s—-Sleuder Chances for the Nicliolson Kill in tho Senate—Andrew Jack1 son in Hard Lines—Gossip.

I [Special Correspondence/] INDIANAPOLIS, March 5.—But a few

days more of the Fifty-ninth general assembly remain. Last week was full of business and by Saturday night a great many important measures and a flood of minor ones had gone through. The important event of the week was the caucus £t which the previous caucus action was overturned and it was determined to leave the appointments of all state institutions except the prisons in the hands of the governor. About all that was accomplished in the house on Monday was the censure of Andrew Jackson and the hearing of committee reports. The senate argued the militia bill and passed six unimportant measures, among which was the appropriation of $2,500 to look into the feasability of a ship canal from the Wabash to Lake Michigan.

On Tuesday the house passed the famous Nicholson bill, the Newhouse mortgago exemption bill, the congressional apportionment bill and the bill establishing a superior court for Lake, Porter and Laporte counties. The mortgage exemption bill exempts from taxation mortgaged real estate up to a limit of $1,000. The senate passed the Stuart corrupt practices bill, which is modeled after the New York law requiring candidates to furnish an itemized account of their election expenses. The senate also passed an amendment to the co-employes' liability act, taking out section 2, which was so obnoxious to the labor organizations. A bill to suppress pornicious literature and a number of minor measures also passed the senate.

On Wednesday the house passed a bill legalizing the fee and salary law of 1891 and a temperance bill giving cities and towns the right to designate the location of saloons, to prohibit screens and to abolish vs jierooms. In the senate the legislative apportionment bill was passed and went to the governor to be vetoed, and pasajd again over his veto. It also passed house bills abolishing the 80 per cent clause in insurance contracts and ousting the monument commission, both of which went to the governor. The Jackson countyseat bill and half a dozen minor measares also passed the senate.

On Thursday the house passed the fee and salary bill and a bill cutting off the attorney general's 12 per cent fee on th* school fund, a similar bill passing the senate at the same time. On this day the house do voted an hour in the morning and two hours in the evening to the discussion of the general appropriation bill. The senate passed the militia reorganization bill, which went to the governor for his signature. It also passed a bill covering the whole subject of drainage which rimains yet to be acted on by the house. The usual number of minor senate bills were passed. The senate also adopted the resolution to amend the constitution so as to require a residence of five years for citizenship. This had already passed the house, and must now be favorably acted upon by tfc next legislature before it can go to the people for ratification.

On Friday the house spent the morning in finishing the consideration of the general appropriation bill, and after it got through there was not more than $10,000 difference made in the bill. Not in 20 years has an appropriation bill gone through the house with less friction. During the rest of the day the house passed the bill to appropriate $10,000 for statues of William Henry Harrison and Governor Morton in the capitol at Washington, the bill appropriating $40,000 for monuments on the battlefield of CMckamauga, the bill slightly amending the election law by placing the Republican tioket in the first column and providing penalties for the failure to prt up screens before booths, and the dir ct tax bill levying a tax of 1-6 of a mill on the dollar for the benefit of the State University, Purdue acd the State Normal. The senate passed the Roby bill to prevent winter racing a bill to prevent the blacklisting of employes, a bill compelling railroads to use interlocking switches, the house bond refunding bill, a bill extending the authority of state bank examiners, a bill for the relief of old soldiers found in the poorhouses, and several minor measures.

On Satu. ay the senate passed the Watson bill taking the appointments -if the prison boards out of the governor's hands, the Shively bill giving to mayors the appointment of the Metropolitan police boards and a lot of minor measures. The house passed the general appropriation bill, the tax levy bill and the "layover" bill.

When the Nicholson bill finally got through the house, the dense crowd that had assembled in the lobbies and galleries was disappointed in hearing no flights of oratory. The house had heard the bill discussed all it cared to, and was in no mood to listen to further talk. The previous question was applied to everything that came ap in connection with the bill, and the only time wasted was in parliamentary wrangling. Though the bill passed the house by the overwhelming majority of 75 to 2C, its fate is by no means certain in the senate. Th? time of the session is now extremely limited, and lots of good measures have died in the crush before. The appropriation bill now has the right of way in the senate, and will occupy most of the week, and there are several political measures also pressing for consideration. The chances of the Nicholson bill are regarded by some ae somewhat slender.

Poor Andrew Jackson of Carroll county, who was so badly kicked and cuffed about the house last week for having stated on the floor that a barrel of whisky, free to the members, had 'been placed in the basement to influence legislation, does not look like a man •who would wittingly kick up such a horrible row. He 1b a rather slender individual of about ttfe medium hight, •with cadaverous'features, piercing black Scyea and a little bunch of doal black Whukera. He comes from the classic

shades of Cutler, Carroll county, and never ksew that he was born for fame in fact, he never had any ideaibf acquiring fame until in the heat of debate he let out the unhappy secret that caused such an earthshaking sensation. The resolution of censure and Jackson's compulsory apology at the bar of the- house were not the only humiliations he suffered at the hands of his wounded enemies. It seems that Andrew has a pass over the Vandalia— as who has not?—and on Monday morning instead of coming direct to Indianapolis on the Big Four, which would have cost him $1.20, he got off at Colfax, took the Vandalia to Torre Haute and again took the Vandalia, which happened to be two or three hours late from Terre Haute to Indianapolis. Thus lie did not npuear in the iionso at all that day. Previously a resolution had been adopted fining any member one day's pay ($6) who was absent without leave or reasonable excuse. Some of the members of the house found out about Jackson's circuitous route and insisted that this was not a reasonable excuse. Thus the gentleman of the famous name, to the luster of which he has added not a little, was fined a day's pay. and in casting up the results has discovered that his Vandalia pass has cost him just $4.80. __£,,

Colonel McLean of Terre Haute has become famous as the Chesterfield of the senate. He is a gentleman of the old school and never in the thick of the hot test debate does he for a moment lose his courtly manner. In replying to 6oine fling at the minority from the other side of the senate he always "has the honor" to reply to the gentleman of the other side thus and so. When introducing a me tsure or even the most unimportant petition or memorial he always does so with a magnificent sort of formality that impresses his colleagues with the importance of the subject. Notwithstanding his snowy hair and beard he is pre-eminently the ladies' man of the senate, and is never so happy as when he can find himself in conversation with a whole bbvy of pretty girls.

Right after the caucus action of a week ago a great deal was heard about threats of bolting all political legislation on the part of dissatisfied Republican members, but when it came to point they stood together in a solid phalanx in both the senate and the house.

During the past week the speaker was absent at home one day—the day the Nichokon bill was up—nursing a sore throat, and called Representative Moore Lo the chair. Moore is a valuable member on the floor, but as a presiding officer he succe ded in rubbing the hair of the house the wrong way just a little more than any member who has yet been in the ohair, and he came very near causing a riot when he ordered a rolicall on the Newhouse bill without reoognizing any of the dozen members who sprang to tli.rir feet and were anxious to discuss it. He also on two or three different occasions expressed from the chair his oinion of bills that were under consiaeration, all of which had a tendency to aggravate members on the floor.

One of the representatives from a northern county, whose whiskers dally with the bleak winds that sweep across the swamp lands, and who got a good deal the worst of it the in seating arrangement of the house, cautiousiy approached the press table a few days ago and called one of the newspaper men aside. "Now, I want to be frank with you," said he. "T notice that these fellows sitting up around the front here are about the only ones that ever get into the papers, and I want to know if there is any sugar in it If there is, I want to be countcd in."

The newspaper man smiled a little and assured him that the path to newspaper notoriety was not sugarcoated.

Another representative introduced a bill early in the session which some wag told him was personally obnoxious tc one of the reporters. Meeting the reporter in tbo lobby of the Denison House a day or two later, he hauled him off in •the corner and whispered: "You know that there bill of mine? Well, I have modified it a good deal and I don't think you would object to it now." "Why, I never did object to it," replied the reporter. "The bill is all right." "Well, I wish you would put a paragraph in the paper about it and sort of give it a serd off, you know." "All right," replied the newspaper man, willing to get rid of him at the price of any promise. "That's right," said the solon, "and whenever you want anything you know me." And he pulled out a silver dollar and handed it over. The reporter's feelings may be better imagined than described. The statesman was somewhat astounded to be told in rather curt language th*»,t if he wanted to end his political carom- then and there he was taking exactly the proper method to do it.

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Judge McCray of the Marion county criminal court is playing in hard luck. The judge lias been a most faithful and persistent lobbyist for the bill to increase his salary from $2,500 to $4,000 a year. He lobbied it through the senate all right, ard then made an onslaught on the house. Here he made a fatal mistake. The bill turned up missing one day when he went to look for it, and a new bill was introduced and passed under suspension of the rules. McCray rather impetuously declared to some of his friends that he believed the speaker responsible for the disappearance of the bill, though, as a matter of fact, it was in the hands of the printer. Speaker Adams heard of this and it made him so mad that he succeeded in getting the vote by which the new bill had passed reconsidered, and it looks as though the judge's little bill were dead.

President Swain of the Indiana State University has been a regular attendant upon the sessions of the legislature since about the third week of the session. His continuous presence has excited much comment among the members and it has more than once been more or les" facetiously suggested that, lnasmuoh as the university seems to be doing very veil without him, its appropriation might be cut down enough to dispense with his salary. UNO.

SHE IS FREE.

Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Wins Her Suit for Divorce.

THE DECREE GRANTED IS ABSOLUTE.

Its Details Are Kept Secrct—She Is Amply Provided for. However, and Is Allowed t.lio Custody of ller

Three Children.

NEW YORK, March 0.—Judge Barrett, of the supreme court, has just granted a decree of absolute divorce to Alva E. Vanderbilt against lier husband, W. K. Vanderbilt.

Neither the complaint nor the answer, nor the report of the referee, nor the testimony is open for inspection. The only paper that can be seen is the decree of the court. This, in addition to setting forth the facts as above stated, finds that Mr. Vanderbilt is a man of considerable means and well able to provide for his wife and children, and that the wife is entitled to a suitable provision for the support of herself and the maintenance and education of the children.

The decree permits Mrs. Vanderbilt to marry again during the life of her ex-liusband, but while she lives, Mr. Vanderbilt is not permitted to marry. He may visit his children at all proper times. It is also ordered that the children receive their education in the United States upon consent of both parties through their lawyers in court.

Justice Barrett said after the decree had been issued that*Mr. Vanderbilt had made ample provision for his wife. He has formally agreed to pay her a lump sum, the amount of which he (the justice) was not at liberty to mention, but it was considered entirely sufficient by Mrs. Vanderbilt and her attorneys. It is said that Mrs. Vanderbilt has arranged to sail for Europe toda}' for a long visit. She will be accompauied by her three children.

The Family Skeleton.

The story of the trouble In the Vanderbilt family first came to the knowledge of the public last August, when a cable dispatch from Paris stated that formal negotiations were then in progress for a judicial separation between William K. Vanderbilt and his wife.

The name of Nellie Neustretter, a very well known woman living in Paris, was mentioned in connection with these proceedings. She had reoently established herself in expensive apartments in Paris and at Deuvllle, with an elaborate entourage of servants.

The domestic difficulties between Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt reached almost a climax last spring when the party, on the splendid yaoht Valient, broke up in the Mediterranean under circumstances which at once widely separuted all its members. Mrs. Vanderbilt went to England, where Scott Murray's beautiful estate, Danesiield, near Henley on the Thames, had been rented for her. In June last Cornelius Vanderbilt went to London to interpose his strenuous offices to stop further, and especially public, proceedings, but was unsuccessful in restoring peace and returned home.

Mrs. Vanderbilt committed her interests to Col. William Jay, of this city. A formal proposition had, it was said, been made to Mrs. Vanderbilt for a separation on terms of an allowance of 53.000.0j0, the custody of her children and the possession of the three houses at Newport. Jslip and in New York.

In the spring months Mr. Vanderbilt wns conspicuous in Paris. He spent money without stint, and is reported to have id a very good time Indeed, but Mr. Vanaerbilt has defenders among his friends here who declare unworthy of belief the published reports involving a woman.

Mrs Vanderbilt, at her country place across the channel, is said to have been kept regularly informed of Mr. Vanderbilt's movements After considering the matter she determined to take advice of some of her London friends. Her lawyers in England, it is understood, at once got into communication with Mr. Vanderbilt's lawyers, and after a deal of offering and rejection of plans, it is said they finally reached an agreement to have merely a separation.

Mrs. Vanderbilt Was Firm.

EMrs. Vanderbilt arrived In New York on September £8. She wns accompanied by her three children. She met none of her family at the wharf, but went immediately to Newport, where a family conclave was held and every effort, It Is said, was made to induce her to give up her determination to press the divorce proceedings against her husband. A day or two afterwards another family conference was held at the Hotel Brunswick, In Boston, where another attempt was made to dissuade her from bringing a scandal upon the family, but without avail. Mrs. Vanderbilt was firm In her purpose, and as the matter had already been placed in the hands of her lawyers she would listen to no argument on the pari of her husband's family.

The Divorced Couple.

William K. Vanderbilt, who is known to his Intimates as -Willie K." Is the second son of the late William Vanderbilt. and grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder of the gieat fortune that has been divided among the grandchildren. When William H. Vanderbilt died he willed $10,000,000 outright to each of his children. The residue of the estate, estimated at $100,000,000 was equally divided between his two oldest sons, Cornelius and William K. Since then it is believed to havo increased largely. William K. Vanderbilt was 28 years old when he first met the woman who afterward became his wife. He had just returned from an extended tour of Europe. His sister, Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, gave a reception in his honor, and there he met Miss Alva Smith, a young southern woman and one of the three sisters noted for their beauty. Miss Smith's family was not wealthy. They were residents of Mobile.

A Hrllllunt Weddinp,

Some months after the meeting of William K. Vanderbilt and Miss Smith their engagement was announced, and a short time later the wedding, a magnificent affair of its kind, was celebrated. There was a honeymoon In Europe and then the young couple returned to this city and settled down.

William built a splendid gray stone house at the corner of Fifty-second street and Fifth avenue at a cost of about $3,0J0.000. A few years later he built a sumptuous marble house at Newport which cost $1.0j0,000, and which he gave to his wife. Much of the family's time has been spent abroad The family entertained a great deal, and Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt figured prominently In society, both in this country and abroad. Although Mr. Vanderbilt has always been a lover of pleasure, he has worked, too. At the age of 26 he was made vice president of the.New York Central railroad, which place he held for six years, when he became president of the Nickel-Plate road.

The Woman in the Caic.

Nellie Neustretter, the young woman who is said to be the cause of the family troubles of William K. Vanderbilt, is well Known in San Francisco. She is a native of Eureka, Nev., •was educated at Miles seminary, Alameda county, resided for a number of years in San Francisco and has frequently figured in escapades that have won her notoriety both in the new and old worlds.

She was .born twenty-nine or thirty years ago In Eureka, where her father, Ben Cohen, kept a clothing store and beoame wealthy. She returned to Eureka from the seminary when she was 18 years old and was the belle of the town. Pretty,witty, graceful and vivacious, she possessed all the requisites for the breaking of hearts. Her first victim vas the nephew of a well-known capitalist, and her UaAlon with

him created such a scandal tnat her parenu Bent her to the care of relatives in San Francisco. The change failed to make the desired reformation. Among her admirers was a wealthy man named Rothschild, who laid himself and his fortune at her feet. She utilized them both until she fell in love with a cigar drummer named Henry Neustretter. She married Neustretter In 1884, and all went well for a time. Her busband's business compelled him to be out of the city most of the time, and during his absence Nellie led a rapid life. She was the boon companion of all the fast young men about town, nnd the end came in 1887. She left her husband and went to New York In company with Laura Edelman. a noted woman of Los Angeles. Neustretter seoured a divorce, and Nellie continued to live a gay life in New York. She captured: the heart of a millionaire manufacturer, whogave her a sumptuous flat, horses and carriages and all the money she could spend. Ho took her to Europe, where she traveled like a. princess. When she returned to New York she dazzled the people with the elegance of her Worth dresses and the brilliancy of her jewels.

In 1890 she returned to San Francisco tovisit her parents, who had removod from Eureka. She took rooms at a leading hotel, dressed better than any woman in town, wore thousands of dollars worth of gems and spent money as freely as If she had an unlimited letter of credit on the Unitod States mint. Her money began to give out. and she went back to New York for more. The next that was hoard of her was that she had gone to Europe again and had been ejected from the Continental hotel in Paris. To her parents she wrote that she was studying for the stage, and always concealed the fact from them that she was .leading a fast life.

A LONG TRAMP.

Uramntic Company to ^'alk from St. Louis to New York oil a Wagur of ISI.OOO. ST. LOUIS, March 0.—Col. Nat Sebas­

tian has wagered 81,000 with Stage Manager Freece, of the Lottie Collins company, that the Sebastian Dramatic company would walk from this city to New York city between March 17 and June 30 under the following conditions:

There shall be only one watch in tho crowd, so that the manager may direct the movements of tho members. No liquor will be permitted in camp. The members must remain together none going ahead and none remaining behind. All money, except what is necessary for expenses, must be forwarded to a St. Louis bank,and any member who leaves the company forfeits all olalm to his share. They must stick to railroad tracks. They must not sleep In hotels. The quartette must sing at every way station and pass the hat. They must oarry their oostumes with them.

OFF FOR AN OUTING.

President Cleveland Leaves Washington Seeking Rest and Recreation.

WASHINGTON, March 6.—The president left Washington at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning on the lighthouse tender Violet, which is to make her regular tour of inspection in the lighthouse district, including the sounds of North Carolina. The president was accompanied by Dr. O'Reilly, his physician, Commander De P. Wilde, naval secretary of the lighthouse board, and Commander Benjamin P. Lamberton, inspector of the lighthouse district. Th*i cruise of the Violet will cover about the same territory as was covered on her former trip with Mr. Cleveland. The trip is likely to last for a week or ten days.

VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE.

Death at Washington of Charles I.anman, Author and Artist.

WASHINGTON, March 6.—Charles Lanman. a well-known writer and traveler, died at his home Monday night from heart disease, aged 81 years.

[Mr. Lanman was born In Michigan, served ten years in a New York business house and held editorial positions on the Monroe (Mioh.) Gazette, the Cincinnati Chronicle and the New York Express. He was librarian' of the war department, and in 1850 be-1 camo private secretary to Daniel Webster. Later on he held several government positions and in 18i-G became secretary of the Japanese le.fJtlo!:, holding that onice until 1882, since which time he has been engaged in writing and painting. Mr. Lanman was the author of about twenty-five published works, and some of his landscape paintings have attracted attention. He was the first person to penetrate the Saguenay region.]

A BIG DAY'S WORK.

Supreme Court Breaks the Record by Disposing of 58 Cases In One Day.

WASHINGTON, March 6.—An examination of Monday's calendar of the supreme court of the United States shows that it disposed of fifty-eight cases, fifty-four by opinion, and four by dismissal either under its rules or by motion of the parties concerned. This is by far the greatest record ever made by the court in one day.

I':iil for Quarter of a ,Million. WILMINGTON, Del., March 0. -George W. Hush & Sons, extensive dealers in coal and lumber, and who run line of barges between Philadelphia and Wilmington, have gone into the hands of receivers. The liabilities are $250,000 and the assets $450,000. Chancellor Walcott has appointed George W. Bush and the Equitable Guarantee & Trust company as receivers.

Caused by an Overheated Stove.

liici) BUD, 111., March 0.—The business building occupied by McQuillen & Tolcn, dry goods Joe Wolff's jewelry store, G. L. liieu, law office, and Gilmore's barber shop was completely destroyed by fise at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. The total loss will aggregate $75,000. The fire was caused by an overheated stove.

Failed for 81,250,000.

LONDON, March 6.—A receiving order was granted Tuesday on the application of the creditors of Wynne & Son, solicitors. 31 Lincoln's Inns Fields, W. C. Their liabilities are estimated at $1,250,000. The firm is composed off Llewllyn Malcolm Wynne and Camp b«ll Montague Edward Wynne.

Two .Sisters Asphyxiated. 1' CHICAGO, March 6.—Annie Bohan

20 years old, a stenographer, and he:, sister Maria, aged 22, a dressmaker were found dead in bed in their roon at 914 Ogden avenue, Tuesday morninf having been asphyxiated by escapini gas from a defective meter.

Settles Minnesota Capitol Qn«itlon. ST. PAUL, Minn., March 6.—The hous

late Tuesday afternoon settled the caj itol question by passing the bill av thorizing the capitol commission to at vertise for plans for a new building St. Paul.

Defeat for Woman Suffrage. BOSTON, March 6.—The house of re]

resentatives defeated tUe woman suffrage bill by a vote of .147 to 87.