Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1893 — Page 2

'.TV 1 ’ 11 11 . ! 1 ©he I'entocrut DECATUH, IND. M, BLACKBURN, - . - Pctcotbi ' 1803 mitCR. 1803 8> Mo Tn We Th Fr Sa • • • 12» 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 • • * * * I * * * NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. PEOPLE. PLACES AND THINGS OF THE WORLP. Editor* Will Bo Giron a Show in the Appointment*—Dnmnffe Done by Flood*— The Crow Uprising-Harrison on a Dark Hunt. —. Good New* for the Editor*. The report that Mr. Cleveland had told Congressmen that he did not intend to appoint newspaper men to office, for the reason, among others, that he might be accused of subsidizing ;the press, does not hold good. Congressmen Dockery, De Armond, Cobb, Burns, and Morgan of Missouri, called on the President recently for the express purpose of ascertaining the truth about the “no journaltets need apply” rule. Mr. Dockery asked Mr. Cleveland point blank whether it was true or not that he had discriminated against newspapermen, and the answer came just as straight as the question, that there was no such intention. Altair* of the Indian* In Montana. Billings (Mont.) special: The civil authorities of Yellow Stone County have taken a hand in the Crow trouble. Cbroner Chapple held an inquest over the body of Little Face, the Indian who was killed last week. Al) the Indians who made warlike demonstrations in the vicinity of the tragedy have withdrawn to a point about ten miles from Wilsey’s station and appear to be uncertain what to do. They have looted the deserted ranches and carried off everything of use to them. Abscher.the ranchman who killed Little Face, is ir jail here. Damage Done by Flood*. Grand Rapids (Mich.) special, -ahe river is the highest seen here in thirty years. It now stands fourteen feet nine inches above the low water mark. Many big factories have been obliged to shut down owing to the high water. The city and railway bridges stand the pressure well Reports are ccming in of enormous damage to the agricultural districts above and below here. Many township bridges are gone, log booms broken, etc. The sewers in this city are badly clogged, but no great destruction to property has yet been reported The Judgment Affirmed. Washington special: The judgment of the Court of Claims in dismissing the petition of the State of Indiana to recover from the United States >412,184 alleged to be due the State ont of moneys received by the United States from the - eale of public lands within the State, has been affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in an opinion by Justice Gray. The claim arose under the act (ranting the States 5 per cent, of the proceeds of sales of public lands within their borders. . . r ’ . , Prairie Fira A Grenada, Col., telegram says: A sweeping and disastrous prairie fire starting near Lamar has done a great amount of damage in Prowers County. The flames swept the country south of here, destroying thousands of dollars worth of stored hay and grain. A number of farmers have suffered extensive losses. There are reports of live stock having been burned. From Holyoke also comes news of a destructive fire. A great many farmers lost all their feed and buildings. Almost Cremated. At Goshen, Ind., Mrs. Whittle broke a tamp filled with kerosene. To remove the pool of oil, she applied a lighted match. It removed the oil all right but set fire to the paper on the wall. In attempting to extinguish the flames, her clothes caught tire and she ran from the house, screaming for help. Aman passing by wrapped his overcoat about her and put out the fire, but the lady is seriously burned and may not recover. The Strike Ended. Toledo special: It is apparent that the bottom has suddenly fallen .out of the Ann Arbor strike. If a settlement is reached, which seems now most probable, it will be largely due to the efforts of Commissioner Kirkby. Kirkby consulted J. M. Ashley, the President of the road, and alter a lengthy interview he gave out that the men will return to work, not stating, however, on what terms the settlement would be made. r Harrison Will Hunt Ducks. Ex-President Harrison has left Indian spoils on his duck hunting excursion with Gen. Boyd. Their destination Is Havana, 111., a hamlet on the Illinois River, have a hunting boat fitted out with Jprovisions for a week’s cruise among the marshes. Since his return from Washington, Gen. Harrison’s health and spirits have been excellent. Satolli to Beside at Washington. It is reported at Rome that the Pepe has decided finally that Archbishop Batolli shall reside at Washington. Instantly Killed. William Rhodes was struck by a Lake Shore train at Otis. Ind., and instantly killed. Beady for Somewhere. San Francisco special: The revenue cutter Rush is lying in the stream with banked fires ready to sail. It is reported she has been ordered to abandon the oroposed trSp to ban Diego and prepare for a two months voyage immediately. A Rotten Building in Berlin. A building on the Bergen strasse, Berlin, collapsed while twenty men were On the inside. Fourteen were killed. Seven bodies have been recovered. Outrage and Murder, Chicago speclafi Marv Montgomery, a domestic in the employ of Thomas W. Corner of 225 Fatte avenue, Pullman, was brutally outraged and murdered by a burglar. The intruder gained entrance to the bouse through a window of the kitchen, where the girl lav sleeping on a couch. From an examination by a physician it is believed that thg thief first chloroformed the girl, then assaulted her, and finally, in order to stifle her cries, choked her to death. After committing the murder the thief lighted the gas in several rooms and was counting the contents of Mrs. Corner’s purse wnen his presence was discovered by a num. The burglar then, without

any appearance of haste, turned ont the • gas, walked ont of the window through ’ which be had gained entrance and made his escape. fibe at boston. . Its Flneat Building* Destroyed—Maay Llv®» IxMit. One of the most destructive fires in the history of Boston, next In magnitude to the famous one on Thanksgiving Day 1880, and in the same district, broke out shortly after 4 o’clock the other day, and before it was placed under control, three hours later, had burned over more than a square, bad reduced to ashes several of the magnificent new buildings recently completed on the territory burned over three and a half years ago, and had consumed property valued by a conservative estimate at $4,500,000, had been attended by scenes of panic and distress never before equalled in the memory of citizens now living, and had destroyed several, perhaps many human lives, and mangled or maimed at least thirty persons, some of whom will die of their Injuries. The principal buildings burned were as follows: Ames building, seven stories, corner Essex and Lincoln streets, whore the fire started; Lincoln building, five stories, on opposite corner, on site of Old Crystal Palace, occupied by the Singer Manufacturing Company, and a large number of other concerns; Ludlow building, six stories, 135 Essex street; Brown Durrell building, seven stories, corner of Essex and Kingston streets, burned from roof to fourth floor, the fire proof walls of this building stemmed the tide of flames to the north; five-story brick building, corner of Columbia and Esse! streets, occupied by Wall & Barnes, paper-box manufacturers and others; United States Hotel, slightly damaged; three-story building between the Ames building and United states Hotel, occupied'’ as a dwelling in the upper story and by small traders belows. The conflagration as viewed from a distance was grand. A dense pall of black smoke covered that section of the city and as darkness came on this was lighted up by the flames, while occasionally tongues of fire and burning embers shot up volcano-like into the ebony mass. Near the scene was awful. While the Ames building was burning there were echoed explosions like fireworks mingled with the hoarse shouts of firemen, the clanging and puffing of engines, the crashing of walls, the rumbling from hurrying teams and the surging of the vast crowd which soon gathered and rushed to and fro in everybody’s way. The police service was admirable. The streets were promptly roped off in the right sections. The wires were as usual in the way and in many places lay in tangled masses. A conservative estimate of the total loss is $4,500,000. Tne Insurance will amount to about $4,000,000. The saddest feature of the fire is tho loss of life, which cannot be definitely known at the time, but the number of dead is thought to be at least twentyfave, and may be much greater. ISAAC P. OKAY 1* Appointed United State* Minister to Mexico. The President has sent the following nominations to the senate: Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of State. Robert A. Maxwell of New York, to be Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Isaac P. Gray of Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico Patrick A. Collins of Massachusetts, to be Consul General of the United States at London. James H. Oakley of Illinois, to be an assistant surgeon in the Marine Hospital service. Lies tenant, Junior grade,. Herbert O. Dunn, to be Lieutenant; Lieutentant, junior grade, Arthur W. Dodd, to be Lieutenant; Ensign Joe Beals, to be Lieutenant, junior grade; Ensign Edward E. Lelper, to be Lieutenant, junior grade; Fred Brown Buzze of Kentucky, and Edward Mansfield Shipp of Virginia, to be assistant surgeons in the navy. E. B. Cayle of New Mexico, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Rosswell, N- M. THE ENGINEERS Have Quit on the Ann Arbor Railroad, Toledo special: The Ann Arbor Railload engineers and firemen went out in obedience to the instructions of Chief Engineer Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Chief Arthur telegraphed to the heads of the Brotherhood lodges on the various connecting lines to live up to the constitution and not aid in forwarding or handling any Ann Arbor business. , The telegrams did not say as much In so many words, but they referred the chiefs to certain clauses in the by-laws and constitution and to.d the men to be loyal to them, so that anyone who understands the situation knows that the Ann Arbor is to be boycotted. It is rumored that the switchmen and brakemen will also go General Manager Ashley of the road, says that men on the connecting roads will not dare to refuse to handle Ann Arbor freight, as under the laws of Ohio and the Interstate Commerce Act they will make themselves personally responsible to the extent of $5,000. SERVED TIME And It Is Now Learned That He Was Innocent. Jackson (Miss.) special: It is now two and a half years since William F. Hemingway was sentenced to the State Penitentiary for a term of five years for failure to pay over to his successor as State Treasurer the sum of $315,612.19, which the books of his office showed was due the State. Hemingway could give no explanation why the money was missing. An attempt to explain the mystery attending the disappearance of this large sum of money has been made by C. F. Hemingway, brother of the late treasurer, and for several years a bookkeeper in the Treasurer’s office. Mr. Hemingway declares that the money was stolen by a man who cleaned the safe-timer on March 1, 1888, and a confederate, who attached the times to the safe on March 13, 1888, and who then acquired and made a record of the treasurer's safe combination then in use, and never afterward changed during Colonel Hemingway’s incumbency of the office. An Aged Minstrel. Mount Vernon (Ohio) special: Through the influence of Paul Kester, a young dramatic writer of this city, "Dan” Emmett, the first man to introduce negro minstrels on the American stage, and the author of "Dixie,” "Old Dan Tucker,” and other famous songs, will go to the home for old men, at St. Johnland, Long Island, where his board will be paid by the actors’ fund. Emmett is 78 years old, and has long been a resident of Mount Vernon. Since his whereabouts have been made public, he has received SSO, from the actors’ fund and $25 has been sent by John S. James. • Thousands Idle. 1 Brazil (Ind.) special: Nearly every coal mine in the county has been closed down, the resultot the switchmen’s strike 1 at Chicago, and the situation is growing 1 critical. Thousands of miners are thrown 1 outof employment with no visible pros- ’ peels of work In the near future. All

s the switch engines, which have been i botfly engaged for the last few months > about the mines, have been called ip; throwing numerous tralnm-n out of cmployment The situation at Chicago Is being closely watched by miners anV • railroad employes in this city. He Will Not Write * Book. , Ex-President Harrison was asked rer cently it there was any truth In tho pub- ; lished reports that he would write a I book. "None,” ho replied. "The prob- , able foundation for the report is that I ) am making some memoranda for my own , private use that will make clear certain , affairs of state that have arison during ! the four years I was President, and that k might not be readily understood othor- . wise. I don’t expect to publish these memoranda during my lifetime. There were numerous complicated situations , that prosterlty wish to understand and r I desire.to make plain.” A Sunken Bark. New York special: Quite a fleet of vessels have arrived at quarantine from i all points nf tho compass. None of the vessels brought news from the over due Naronlc. The steamship Lampasas from Galveston, went off Hatteras, March 7, passed a sunken bark, heading south, with her main mast gone, foretop sail set and hanging torn. She had evident- ■ ly gone ashore in a heavy galo aiw struck on tho shoals and then backed off i in deep water and sunk. Her topsail yards were out of tho water and she is i very dangerous to navigation in her present condition. Won’t Accept Aid. , • Governor McKinley will not accept any financial assistance from his sympathizing friends. Ho is determined to bear his own misfortune and battle sin-gle-handed against adversity the same as though he were a private citizen. A Cincinnati paper announced that a movement had been started in the Seventeen Regiment, O. N. G., Col. A. F. Hajn? ilton, commanding, to raise a fund of $1 from each man. The Governor read of the plan and immediately ordered Col, Hamilton to stop it. Financial Crash. Koshland Bros, of Portland. Ora. tho largest wool-dealers in the North-west, made an assignment to the Bank of British Columbia, only creditor. The firm has been considered one of tho most substantial in the city, and the failure created great surprise. It is believed the assets will cover the bank's claims. Tho sale of the stock at a loss and loses in the fire at Boston a year ago are assigned as the cause of the failure. Southern Governors. Little Rock special: No movement in the line of progress and development in the South has received such hearty co-operation and indorsement as Governor Fishback’s call for a convention of Southern Governors to meet in Richmond, Va., April 12 next Every Executive of the South has responded. Mayor J. Taylor Ellison, of Richmond, wrote to Governor Fishback offering the hospitalities of that city to its prospective guests. Minister to Italy, The friends of Mr. James J. Van Alen, son-in-law of William Astor, are confident that he will be appointed Minister to Italy by President Cleveland. The appointment has not yet been made public, but Mr. Van Alen’s friends say that it will be in a few days. Mr. Van Alon is a widower, a son of tbe lato Gen. Van Alen of New York. He is very rich, his fortune being estimated at $12,000,000. Child Scalded to Death,' A 3-year-old child of Martha Adams, living in the southern part of Adams County, Ohio, met with death in a horrible manner while playing near a large kettle filled with boiling water that bad been prepared for washing clothes. The child fell in. and its flesh was literally cooked, dying in a few hours after. Will Give Him No Rest. In order to avoid working, William Bell, a colored convict in the Ohio Penitentiary servlngthree years for larceny, stepped in a kettle of boiling acid used for annealing bolts. His right foot was burned so badly that pieces of the flesh dropped off. From the Hay-Mow. Margaret Dolphin, aged 50 vearss rosiding in German Township, Clark County, Ohio, fell from tbo hay-mow in her barn, breaking both arms, cutting a frightful gash in her head and sustaining serious internal injuries. Big Diamond Theft. Mrs. W. J. Mills,daughter of tbe Kansas City & New Mexico millionaire, Wilson M addingham, was robbed of $15,000 worth of diamonds, at Las Veges, N. M. Gresham’* Private Secretary. Secretary Gresh.m has appointed Mr. H. G. Bryan private secretary, a position he filled under the administration of Secretary Bayard. A Woman fo> Mayor. Mrs. Anna Potter, the wife of a prominent insurance man. has announced herself as a candidate for Mayor of Kansas City, Kan. Hunter Drowned. James Brown, a prominent contractor and builder of Laporte, Ind., was drowned in the Kankakee River while hunting. THE MARKETS. i - CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to [email protected] Hogs—Shipping Grade*B.u> 0 8.60 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.(0 @6.24 Wheat-No. 2 Spring 73 @ .74 COKN—No. 2 40)4@ .4114 Oats—No. a so 0 -31 Rye—No. 2 51 @ .62 BUTteb—Choice Creamery2s)4@ .28*4 Eggs—Fresh .10h@ .17)4 Potatoes—Now, per bn. .70 @ .80 INDIANAPOLIS, Cattle—Shipping 3.25 0 6.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 & 8.26 Sheep—Common to Primo 3.00 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Redo7 @ .08 Cobn-No. 2 White4l & .41)4 Oats—No. a White3s @ .30 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 & 0.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 8.23 Wheat—No. a Red. 67 @ .M Cobn-No. 2 37 & .38 . Oats-No. 2. 32 @ 42)4 Byb—No. 2. m @ .a CINCINNATI. * Cattle 3,00 @ 8.25 | HOGS 3.00 @ 6.75 i Sheep,.,.. 3.00 @6.60 1 Wheat—No. 2 Red 70 @ .7014 Cobn—No. 2 44)40 46)4 Oats-,No. 2 Mixed 34)4@ -35)4 Rye—No. 2 & .87 DETROIT. i Cattle 3,00 0 4.75 , Hogs iwo @8.25 ■ Sheep s.oo 0 4.75 ’ Wheat—No. 2 Red 72 0 .73 > Co KN—No. 2 Yellow. ... .42 @ 42)4 Oats-No. 2 White ”3 @ .33 > TOLEDO. i Wheat—No. 271 0 .72 1 COBN—No.2 Yellow ,«2 @ .43 Oats-No. 2 White Mitt .3554 ? Rye to & .68 I BUFFALO. s CATTLE—Common to Prime .... &50 @5.60 Hogs—Best Grade 4.00 @ 8.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hardß2 0 .8214 - COBN—No. 2 Ye110w46)40 47)4 s MILWAUKEE. . Wheat—No. 2 Springoo 0 .60)4 1 COBN-NO, 3 .87540 .38)4 Oats—No. 2 White 34 0 .35 Rye—No. 1 >54 & .66 Bablby—No. 2. .61 @ .03 PdBK-Mes* 18.78 019.25 1 NEW YORK. I Cattle.... 3.50 0 5.75 Hogs 8.00 @ 8.50 ’ Sheep 3.00 0 0.00 t Wheat—No. 2 Red7B 0 .79 . Cobn-No. 2 .54 @ .55 Oats—Mixed Western .39 0 .41 ’ BcrTKß—Best24 & .28 1 POBX-New M 05519.76 020.23

! A HAZE OF SWITCHES. I I ‘' ll ' I. . : HANDLING THE CROWDS AT J! THE WORLD’S FAIR. Complex Byatern of Interlocking Swttcboe for Thlrtr-flvo Track* Make* !»■ Poavibla to Load <3,000 I’aMongem M Onoo In the * Ground*. I [ Ooßtrollod by One Maa. j Chicago Oorrarpoßdence: , Arrangements for handling the daHy ? crowds of visitors to the Wor d's Fair t after May 1 are completed. There ie . consi lerable work yet to Is done on tbo B new railroad depot, and many other dea tails require finishing touches. Every--9 thing will be in res iness, however, . before the Exposition opens. Six months later it will doubtless be the proud boast of the Fair managers that the largest continuous crowds that have . ever been massed together iu thia coun- ’ try were taken in and out ot ■ aoksoa 1 Park at the minimum of inconvenience 1 and the maximum of safety and ootn--3 fort. 3 Visitors will enter the grounds 1 through either of the four arteries ot • communication—the gates, the water 1 piers, the s'ley elevated and tbe grand ■ eentral railroad terminal. The latter J has eost the Ex' osition officials more ‘ thought than all the other mo lea of tn--1 greaa oomblned. Os tho twenty-two

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roads entering Chicago it is probable ; that all will run more or less excursion trains direct to the Fair before the end of the season. To care for this volume of passengers the Fair managers found it necessary to evolve a system that BSqrriMAU SNOW HOUSE would bring the tra'ns directly to the ! center of the grounds without transshipment Early in the preliminary plans the loop system was abandoned and a stub terminal, with interlocking

. j .« I " aA a i afefe b GLIMPSE OF TOWEBS IN THE NORTH END OF THE GROUNDS.

ewitching facilities, was agreed upon. Tnls terminal is near the main foot entrances to the grounds, and the handsome terminal depot Is being built in the central ccurt, facing Administration Building. The staff work is already being placed i in position, such of it as is ready, while large molds in a low, squatty, dusty bui ding just back of the great framework are filled with sections of classic columns, grinning ga’goyles, pediments ■ with allegorical groups in bas-relief and other ornamental work in process of conversion into pseudo-marble. When this big square building is completed and throbbing with the breathing of scores of steam locomotives next summer this same staff will give it a treasuring air of solidity and tend to inspire the suspicious visitor with a sense of i security. The inquisitive country cousin, however, may dispel the allusion i by tapping the sham masr.nry with his i umbrella. The resulting hollow sound will set him to wondering why such apparently light construction holds up against the wind. There are nine systems of two standi ing tracks and one switch tra k each. There are also four systems of two tracks each without the switch track. This makes thirty-five tracks in all. The switch tracks are placed in the cen- . ter of each system, and enable a loco--1 motive to “run around" its train and hitch onto the rear. Each different road entering the grounds will have one of the systems set aside for its special use. ; The capacity of loading passengers, I during rush hours, at the ter- ' mlnal is not less than |3,00U inside of a very few minutes. Thirtyfive distinct trains of thirteen cars each, holding sixty passengers each, with locomotive attached and i ready to start, will stand side by side. This is a capacity of 27,300. No sooner are these trains out of. the way than others will be backed in. The storage- > yard has a capacity of twenty trains of equal le gth to those mentioned. Adding the loads of the twenty trains to , the other thirty-five gives a total of al- ? most 43, 1 00 passengers that can be loaded aboard the cars and sent home > within a very short period. The tracks • in the storage-yard are Os the same length as those at the terminal—about 85ti feet—so that any train arriving at the terminal can also find space in the storage-yard if necessary. Between each system of tracks there will be continuous fences, so that passengers must pass along into the train shed before going through the turn* stiles. All the tracks will be floored

on s level with the rale. The platforms will bo protected by long umbrella awnings. The eye tom ot unloading paseeagers and taling them into the grounds is b.eed on the supposition that all the trads and platfoim* are res'ly outside the grounds. The visitor la not supposed to be ino de the park sntii he passes thn ugh the turnstile sad emerges from the trainshed into FART or MICHIGAN’S MIMEBAL BXHIBrr. one or another side of the grand central court, or passes Into the depot building and enters the grounds in that way. In connection with the terminal facil-

’ itles, probably tbe most notable feature Is the extensive interlocking switching system which controls the movements of all traifas in the yards. The system embraces all the latest improvements in yard arrangements. The main yard is controlled by ICO levers from a central switch tower. One man controls the >yard, gives all the signals, throws the switches, and direc’s train movements. In the main house 120 of the levers control the switches,the remaining forty operating the semaphore signals used. The whole apparatus of the latest improved interlocking variety, which prevents absolutely any accidents from open switches or collision. In the tower the power used is steam, but in the yard system the switches are opened and closed and the signals operated by hydraulic pressure. The steam furnishes 1 the power which is transmitted by the water column. From each switch and signal there runs to the tower an elec- i trie wire which automatically registers 1 every movement made and Informs the switchman whether or not the apparatus is working properly. Given Position* of Honor. Michigan and Missouri have been given positions of honor on the American side of mines building. They will stand for the mineral Interests ot America, while just across the way Germany and England will represent the old world. Both Michigan and Missouri will build handsome pavilions to offset the elaborate decorations of the German and English sections. The Michigan plans show a pavilion 49 by 62 feet of sandstone and marble. The pavilion is of the Florentine style of architect-

ure. The entire mineral display of Michigan will be put in this pavilion. One of the features of the building will be a huge globe of copper. This globe, twelve feet in diameter, will have an outline map of the world etched on it. The Michigan mineral pavilion will cost about $15,00V. Missouri’s house in mines / ! g|ffl THS SWITCH HOUKS. building is now being set up. It was shipped in pieces from Bt. Louis. A New Plush. Commencement has been made in England within a comparatively recent period upon the manufacture of of what is regarded as an important new fabric, that is, an inexpensive weft pile plush, with either single pile or pile on both sides. A reversible pile plush has in times past been made in the factories of Germany, with harid-looms, at the rate of six yards to the loom per week, but by means of the newly contrived apparatus, which has been devised by a Bradford manufacturer, and can be fixed to ordinary dress and coat looms, it is said to operate at seven times the speed of the German handloom, and to make goods of equal quality at a less price. The new goods have a weft pile, and consequently a very much cheaper yarn ctj be used.—New York Sun. Th® first pair of silk stockings made

; RECORD OF CONGRESS' I 5 WORK OF THE FIFTY-SECOND, > NATIONAL LEGISLATURE. r c Mlw, Tarlffi AaU-OpUon*. Worl«*s Fair 9 and ItooiMMnloal Schema* Figure ae She J Leadtag Question*—No Great Retrenchment Noticeable in the Appropriations. Didn’t Reduce Expense*. Tho silver and tariff questions, the anti-option bill and the reduetion of appropriations were the leading topics of consideration by the. LHd Congress, and secondary only in importance to these matters were measures relating to the World's Fair, equipment ot railroads with automatic oar-couplers, national quarantine and immigration, Beh'ing Bea and Hawaiian annexation. Nothing of an affirmative nature, except to prevent two items in the McKinley sot taking effect, was actually accomplished so far as inspects silver, the tariff or anti-options, the action taken on each of these questions in one branch of < ongress being negatived by the action or noa-action ot the other branch. Tbe result of the agitatlou of the necessity for a retrenchment of expendl- . turns is not apparent in any consider- , able change in the aggregate appropri- ; ations carried by the national supply ; bills, lor they amount to about as much as in the List Congress, laws on the . statute books preventing some large reductions which otherwise possibly would have been made, while the decreases which tt was possible to effect were offset by Increased appropriations for pensionb and rivers and harbois. The condition of the public Treasury, however, though it did not result in the Llld Congress getting below the bill-ion-doilar limit, undoubtedly influenced legislation to a considerable extent, and prevented the authorization of many proposed new expenditures for improvement of the public service, for public buildings, payment of claims, and for other purposes. A notable instance of the operation of this influence ie seen in the fact that not a single public building bill passed the House, and it was only by putting a number of them on the sundry civil appropriation bill that any whatever for public buildings were secured. Struggle Over Silver. The stiver question was kept steadily before the attention of Congress by the alternate advocates of free coinage and of the repeal of the Sherman law. The coinage committee of the House in the first session reported a free-silver bill, which after an exciting debate was saved from defeat by the casting vote of the Speaker, but was afterward filibustered to death, the friends of the bill failing to secure the signatures of a majority of the Democrats to petition for a cloture rule in its behalf. The Senate then passed a free-colnage bill, but when the free-silver men renewed their tight in the House they were outnumbered by fourteen votes, and, of course, failed. The anti-silver men met a similar fate in their efforts to secure a repeal of the present law, the Senate refusing 'by a decisive vote to consider it, and the House killing the AndrewCate bill by declining to vote so as to give its friends the parliamentary right to move cloture on it, without which it concededly could never be forced to a vote in the closing hours of the Congress. Tactic* Regarding Tariff. On the tariff, according to a Washington correspondent, the dominant party in the House adopted a policy of I attacking the McKinley act in detail I largely for political reasons and partly for tho reason that in view of the political complexion ot tho Senate It was practically out of the question te pass a general tariff-revision bill through the Senate, while special measures might stand some show of passage. The result was the enactment into law of two bills continuing block tin ou tbe free list and fine linen at 35 per cent ad valorem. Under the McKinley act large duties were to take effort on those items in the near future. Other separate bills were passed throu ?h tbe House, only to be pigeonholed in the Senate, as follows: Free wool and reduction of duties on woolen manufactures, free cotton-bagging machinery; free binding twine; free silver-lead ores, where the value, not the weight of the silver exceeds that of the lead in any imputation; free tinplate, terne-plate, taggers* tin, and the limitation to SIOO of the amount of personal baggage returning tourists may bring into the United States. The anti-option bill passed both houses, but was killed by the refusal of the House to suspend the rules and agree by a two-thirds vote to the amendment put on the bill by the Senate, the opponents of the measure maneuvering so as to prevent Mr. Hatch making effective his majority in favor of the measure and forcing him at the last moment to try suspension of the rules. The pure-food bill,' the running.mate of the anti-option bill, passed.the Senate, but was never able to get consideration in the House. World’* Fair L«gl*latlon. World’s Fair legislation comprised the grant of $2,500,000 in souvenir halfdollars in aid of the Fair, the closing of its gates on Sunday, the appropriation of various amounts for different Fair purposes and the passage ot sundry acts of a special nature and minor importance. An automatic ■ car-counler bill shorn of its drastic features was enacted into law, as was also a national quarantine bill InoreaElngthe powers ot the marinehospital service to meet the threatened dangers from cho era, and an immigration law imposing additional restrictions on immigration, but not suspending it entirely. The Senate averted the bill over the Behring sea seal fisheries by ratifying a treaty of arbitration. It also ratiued extradition treaties with Russia and other countries, but still has before it a treaty of annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. The opening of the Cherokee outlet was provided for in the Indian bill under a clause appropriating $8,295,000 for its purchase from Indians. $295,000 to be paid in cash and $8,000,000 in five equal annual installments. Put on the Statute Book*. Approximately 425 House and 235 Senate bills and joint resolutions became laws, making G6O acts put on the statute books as the result of the work of Congress. A majority of these measures were of Interest only to individuals or localities, being for the relief of citizens, for the bridging of streams, for tbe District of Columbia, for rights of way, etc. An unusual proportion of the claims bills were for the relief of Southern men. The House passed in round numbers 825 bills, of which 200 failed of passage in the Senate, and in the neighborhood ot 625 bills passed by the Senate failed in the House, Including a long list of public-building bills, many private pension bills and other measures involving increased expenditures. Vetoed by the Preaident. Three bills were vetoed by the President, viz., to refer the McGarrahan olaim to the Court of Claims (a second McGarrahan bill failing of action in the House), to amend the c ourt of Appeals act and in relation to Marshals In the United States Courts in Alabama. This last bill became a law by passage the veto, Senator Hoar stating that it had been vetoed through a misunderstanding of Its provisions. The President subjected uiree bills to a “pocketveto and two other bills tailed of en»

grosement In time for presentation to I ■ him. All were of comparatively wna* I importance. I > The Pension and Census offices, tho I ' whisky trust, Panama ( anal and Paolflo I Mall company, the Watson-Cobb I charges, the Pinkerton system and I r Homestead troubles, the Maverick and I * Spring Garden bank failures, the Ellis I ' Island immigration station wore Investigated by Congressional committees, but nothing came ot the reports submitted. s Etmtlon Contest* Settled. • The Senate passed on two election ’ contests In favor of the sitting mem- • bars, Dubois (Idaho) and Call (Florida), < 3 the contestants being Claggett and f Davidson, respectively. The House unseated Stewart, the Re- ' publican sitting member from a Penn- > eylvanla district, and gave the place to ■ Craig. In tho Nsyes-ltookwell contest* i from New York it refused to follow the ' recommendation of the elections ootn- ' mlttee that Rockwell, ‘ the Democratic 3 sitting member, be unseated, and by a 1 majority vote confirmed Rockwell's 1 title. In the oases of McDuffie vs. Tur- ’ pin from Alabama, Reynolds'vs. Schonk and Green vs. Scull from Penneyl- ' vanla, and Miller vs. Elliott from South Carolina the elections committee reported in favor of the sitting membora, SMOTE HIM ON THE JAW. * Bob Fitrimmon* Knock* Oat Jim Hall la I Foor K >und* at Nnw Orlean*. Bob Fitzsimmons smote Jim Hall on the jaw with his right in the fourth ’ round at the Orescent City club’s arena,

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bob riTzsiMMONS. their money on Hall and see him pull it off will go back the best way they can. Up to the time the knock-out blow was delivered Hall had slightly the better of the sparring. His purpose was to cross-counter his rangy countryman and put him out and Fitz caught him at his own game. In the flush of victory Bob does no know what to do with himself. He is $37,590 richer for his fifteen minutes’ exercise to-night, and Hall gets tho loser’s end, $2,500, and acknowledges that Fitzsimmons can hit a harder punch than any other lighter alive.’ The referee awarded the contest to Fitzsimmons, who, waving the United

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States flag over his head, walked over to his opponent’s corner and shook his hand, and as he/ was leaving thek ring received tremendous ovation. The fight was the easiest Fitzsimmons has had in America, and the blow which knocked Hall out was universally

hardest that any one of the aid ring habitues ever bad wit neased. When the knock-out blow waa delivJ cred the crowd rose to Its feet and a tremendous shout went up. Hall, however, lay unconscious on the carpet, a look of agony on his face, and the crowd feared he had suffered serious injury. Hall’s second, with a club official and Dr. Betts, ran quickly to the pi ostrate pugilist, and applying restorativei gradually brought him back to consciousness. Fitzsimmons also ran tc the center of the ring, and, pulling ofl his glovds, helped to resuscitate his conquered foe. When Hall had bees brought to he was carried limp to his chair, where he remained until able tc to go to bls dressing-room. Fitzsimmons was frenzied with delight over hit comparatively easy victory. After Hall had been brought back tc consciousness, Fitzsimmons skipped nimbly to his room, and, without putting on his clothes, drew on a heavj overcbat and jumped into a carriage with his wife and drove to his quarters. Mrs. Fitzsimmons, unobserved by the throng, had witnessed the fight through the crevices of a room up-stairs. A great crowd congregated In front of the winner on Canal street, giving him t rousing welcome as he drove up. After he had gone up-stairs the cheering continued, and Fitzsimmons came out on the balcony and made a modest speed on the victory. How to Clean Brass. Brass, to be kept in proper order, should be cleaned at least once a week, while It is the custom in housebolds with well-trained domestics tc have brass and irons, fenders and other fireplace furniture given a light rubbing every day. In cleaning brast it must first be relieved of all canker and ether spots to which the metal is subject from contact with acids, exposure to water or .other causes. An application of alcohol, spirits oi terpentine, benzine or kerosene will generally remove all ordinary spots on brass, unless very old spots, the metal in some cases seeming so perfectly to absorb foreign substances that the removing of them amounts almost to an impossibility. Spots removed, there is no more certain cleansing and polishing application for brass than rotten stone and oil Rotten stone usually comes in lumps. Before using for polishing ' brass it must be reduced to powder, and in this state is quickly disolved to a smooth consistency when mixed with olive oil. A thin paste of the preparation should be rubbed lightly on the metal, and when perfectly dry it should be rubbed off vigorously with a flannel cloth, the finishing polish being given with the powder dry, and subsequent rubbing with a clean flannel cloth or chamois skin. Boon to Jack. The British steamer Bawnmore, which recently visited an American port, has a novelty' aboard in the shape of a stockless anchor. In fact, she has two of them, and they are hauled up "chock-a-block” to the hawseholes in away to make a sailor feel like kicking himself for all the . the risks be has run in the way of catting and fishing anchors in yean gone by. The new anchor has no stock and no flukes. It consists of a heavy semi-circular mass of metal fastened directly to the chain and i furnished with two attachments very i 1 similar to the old-time flukes, but i twisted like the flanges of a screw i ’ propeller. The anchor can be.let go 1 and grounded inside of ten seconds ’ and hoisted In less than half a minute. ' I It will take hold of the hardest bot- ' i tom, and the anchors, starboard and 1 j port, will keep a ship in position In the worst weather.

and that settled it It may have been a chance blow,but chance blows are in the game. The Australian is for the time being the great- , est 'man south I of the Ohio and, ft according to a ■ New Orleans r dispatch, the I crowd that jour- ' neyed from the North to bet