Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Page 2

@ljcJ)cmotrfllitStnlincl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. w. McEWEN, - - - Publisher.

WORK OF A MADMAN.

AN OHIO TOWN HORRIFIED BY A TRIPLE SHOOTING. Cteveland’s Letter “ Speaks for Itself”— bud lor a Song In Minnesota—Preach•rs In a White Cap Scrape—Paris in Fear of Dynamiters. Congressional. • In the House, the 15th, on motion of Mr. Durborow, tho Senate joint resolution vra3 passed authorizing the Librarian of Congress to exibit certain documents at the World’s Fair. Tho House then went into committeo of the nholo (>r. Blount, of Georgia, in the chair) on the free wool bill. Mr. Coombs (New York) concluded his speech in favor of the bill Others took part in tho debate. In the Senate, Senator Morgan Introduced a bill to Increase the facilities of tho Postoffice Department for obtaining tho use of buildings for postoffice purposes. It proposed to Interest private capital and enterprise In the construction of p >stoffic > buildings on long terms of lease and to have fixed a maximum rate of rental. It was referred to the Postoffice Committee. Mr. Pelfer introduced a bill which was referred to the Finance Committee, to regulate tho ▼alue of certain coins and pieces of money and to give all sorts of current money the legal tender quality and to prohibit and prevent discrimination in favor of gold coin or bullion as money. Nr. Hale presented the conference report on the urgent deficiency bill, and It was agreed to. The Ponato then proceeded to the consideration of tho Military Academy appropriation bill. It was passed, and tho Benate went Into executive session. When the doors reopened tho Senate adjourned.

TRAGEDY AT TIFFIN. A Clerk Shoots Two of His Employers and a Fellow Employe and Kills Himself. The most appalling tragedy that has ever been recorded in the history of Tiffin, Ohio, occurred Tuesday morning. Walter A. Snyder, one of the wealthiest and most popular young men in the city, while engaged in a friendly conversation with two of his employers—Burton Crobaugli and Edward T. Naylor—suddenly and without a word of warning pulled a revolver and began firing at them. Crobaugh was ■truck In the back and two balls passed through Naylor’s body. Thomas W. Downey, a fell,ow clerk, Interfered •od was shot three times. Snyder then ran up-stairs and put the remaining bullet in his revolvor through his own heart. The scene of tho tragedy was tho hardware store of J. M. Naylor, one of the oldest establishments in the city. For many years E T. Naylor, a half-brother of the proprietor, Crobaugh, and Snyder have been employed in the store, and they have been like brothers. Last week the senior Mr. Naylor announced his determition to make a change in tho firm by tho admission of Crobaugh and the younger Naylor. Snyder was worth probably $20,000 and was unmarried, but his money was •o tied up in real estate that he was unable to take an interest in the business. This •earns to have so preyed upon his mind as to produce insanity, for there is no doubt that his work was that of a madman. i Ministerial White Caps. One of the most sensational arrests In the history of Crawford County, Ind., Is that of A. J. Scott, County Commissioner and preacher: his brother, Lindsey, and their son-', George Scott, William A. Scott, and William E Scott, together with Albert Jones and William Condra, two more ministers of the gospel. They aro charged with taking Church Mattox from his home wear Marengo one night last week, with a rope around his neck, leading him two miles, and threatening to hang him for stealing pork which ho bought from a neighbor.

More Land for Settlers. A Browns Valley, Minn., dispatch says: There Is no longer doubt as to the opening Of the Slsseton Reservation on April 15. Soldiers, sailors, and marines may file a declaration and have a claim reserved for ■lx months at a cost ot $3 fees, and the land may also be commuted at $2.50 por acre. United States Special Allotlng Agent H. 8. Morris says that in his opinion all the land will be taken within a week aft:r the opening- ♦ Met Death on the Track, CL H. Meillcke, a farmer living In Milmore Valley, Minn., was Instantly killed at 'Winona by a passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. He drove upon the track and the locomotive at fall speed struck the wagon, throwing Meillcke fifty feet. Ho struck on his head, breaking his neck. Tho flagman at the crossing had gone home and the train was vanning at fall speid, la violation of the City ordinance. Cleveland Will Be a Candidate. Any doubt as to whether Cleveland will be a candidate for the Presidency is set •side by the letter written to General Bragg, one of his warmest supporters. The letter practically states that tho nomination would not be refused. When asked If the'missive could be looked upon as an Indication that he Is willing to accept tho nomination for the Presidency, Mr. Cleveland replied: “The letter speaks for itself. ”

Anti-Trust Law Will Not Stand. The Missonri Supreme Court passed upon the constitutionality of the anti-pool and trust law of ISB9, or rather that section of the law which required an officer of a corporation to make affidavit of nonconnectton with trusts, etc The court holds that to make such an affidavit will criminate official malß it, and as this would be a rl latlon rights, tho law Is unconstitutional. Almost a Panic at Paris. At Paris fear of the anarchists has almost become a panic In view of the attempt to blow up the Lobau barracks, formerly occupied by the Republican Guard, In tho rear of the Hotel de Ville. If the dynamiters Intended the destruction of the barracks they did not use a sufficient quantity of the explosive, as. while many windows were shattered, the damage was otherwise •light. , “Hs, Ton ShaU Not Marry. •• Ars. Colonel Miller, a wealthy and dashing young widow of 30, and Charles Crumby, her hired man, aged 18. were married the other night at Loth air, Ga. When the Justiee of the Peace arrived to perform the ceremony the children of the widow became obstreperous and threatened to kill kill him if he dared t> perform the ceremony. >Ut, you shall not. marry that man," cried her oldest daughter, “if you do you sha’n’tremain here a minute. ” During «»e shrieks of the smaller and the protestations of the larger children the couple were made man and wife. They Immediately left for parts unknown. Bolt Against Father Kroeger. We Building. Loan and Investment Society of Chicago has begun suit to foreclose tpM the estate of Father William Kroeger. toe priest who recently ran away from Elkhart, Jnd.. leaving creditors to the amount of $30,030. Kroger has not retorn ed, and tots suit is designed to shut

GOOD-BY TO THE BIG TRUST. Tho Old Standard Oil Combine Preparing to Dissolve. The Standard Oil Trust is preparing to bow its head In deforence to the public prejudice against the name and form of trusts, and the managers have about decided that It is not advisable to carry the recent case in the Ohio Supreme Court to any federal appeal. A meeting of the holders of tho trust certificates has been called to consider the advisability of dissolving the trust, and although the decision of that meeting is in suspense there is little doubt that the dissolution will be ordered. For many years there has been waged In Ohio a legal warfare against the Standard organization. Finally an action by the Attorney General of the State against the Standard Oil Company of Ohio reached the Ohio Supreme Court, quo-warrants proceedings being taken to establish the illegality of the trust agreements. On March 1 the court gave a decision preserving tho charter rights of the Standard Oil Company, but nullifying the contracts It had made with, the Standard Oil trust. It Is evident that the Standard people had been preparing themselves for an adverse decision, and tho day the decision was made public their legal representative openly announced his belief that the trust would be abandoned. The actual business of Ihe Standard organization Is conducted by companies organized under the laws of the different States. The aggregate capital held in tho control of tho trustees Is about $95,000,000. OHIO FOR CLEVELAND. Buckeye Democracy Said to Favor the Ex-President’s Nomination. “I’d sooner practice law in Ohio than be Vice President,” said ex-Governcir James E Campbell, of the Buckeye State, the other morning. “The Vico President does not count for much nowadays.” he continued, “and the Vice President isn’t heard of often, but I don’t believe I would take to the woods at the first note of alarm that might sound in my direction for the Presidential nomination. I wouldn’t refuse It, but thou, just the same, I am not a candidate. In one sense I'm a Cleveland man, becauso I think the sentiment of tho Democrats of the country is largely for him. The Ohio delegation will be to a large extent for Cleveland, but it probably will not bo a solid Cleveland delegation. Wo elect delegates by districts, and of course it may be that some other candidate—Hill, for example—will have a few of the delegates. But Cleveland will have the great majority of them.”

LYNCHED A LOUISIANA GIRL. A Mob Hangs a Negress Who Poisoned a Family of Niue Persons. Ella, a girl employed as a waitress by W. R. Helmer, near Rayvllle, La., and who is charged with causing the poisoning of nine persons, was lynched by a mob of masked men. All the members of the Helmer family, nine In number, became violently 111 shortly after breakfast, and showed unmistuknble signs of poisoning. Suspicion fell on the girl, who had often displayed a bad temper, and being taxed with the crime she confessed it It seems that a colored man who was employed around tho stables of the plantation had in some manner offended the kitchen girl, and she determined upon revenge. Poison was the final suggestion which came to her mind, and she put a lot of vertigo poison in tho coffee. Her guilt was discovered, and she confessed. The girl was bolng taken to jail when a mob overpowerod her captors and hanged her. THREE HUNDRED LIVES. Disastrous Explosion in a Brussels Coal Mine—Fearful Logs of Life. Advices from Brussels say an accident occurred In the Anderlius Colliery, near Charleroi, which It Is feared will remit in a great loss of life. Three hundred miners were omployed in the coal pit whon there was a terrific explosion of fire damp. Tho pit mouth was rendered unavailable, and the fate of the Imprisoned workmen Is still unknown. Efforts are being made to rescue any of the men who may have survived the explosion. Tremendous excitement prevails In the vicinity of the pit. Men, women, and children havo assembled In an enormous crowd, and aro wild with fear, for it Is thought that when an entrance is made to the colliery the locs of lifo will bo appalling. Of tho 300 men at work, only three have thus far arrived at the mouth of the pit in safety.

IT IS IMPROVING. Business Transactions Are Larger Than a Year Ago. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Distribution of products Is unquestionably Improving. Transactions are on the whole larger than a year ago in spite of depression at tho South, being much larger at the West Nor is the Improvement confined to that section, though general there; It Is also more distinctly felt in Eastern cities, and there are not wanting signs that trade at the South, though still much embarrassed by the low price of cotton, Is steadily gaining. With all tho great industries active, with money abundant in spite of gold exports, and with speculation kept In wholesome check, tho outlook would seem to bo unusually favorable, notwithstanding general complaints that prices are low and margins of profit unusually small. Negroes Shot to Death. A mob of whites broks Into the jail at Memphis, Tonn., and secured the negroes who were concerned in tho recent shooting of the officers at tho “Curve.” Taking the culprits to the suburbs of the city they were allowed to speak. As tho gag was removed pne said: “If you are going to kill us turn our faces to the west« Scarcely had he uttered the words when the crack of a revolver was hoard, and a ball crashed through his cheek. This was the signal for the work. A terrible volley was instantly poured In upon the shivering negroes, who Instantly fell dead In their tracks. Xeres Rioters Free. The court martial which convened at Xeres, France, to try the remaining prisoners captured in the raid upon the town in January last, has delivered a verdict of acquittaL Upon the verdict being announced thero was great rejoicing among the populace, and much surprlso was expressed by the more conservative element. The prisoners wore engaged In the same riot for which four of their companftms had suffered death. It Is said the authorities dreaded that the con victlon of the prlsoiA ers might result In a general uprising, ana Concluded to be satisfied with the example given by the recent executions.

Destroyed the City Records. At Bedford, lud., one-half of the south side of the public destroyed by fire. Eleven business two residences were the flro was got under control. All were frame buildings. All the city records are destroyed. Killed the Girl and Himself. At Indianopolis, Oscar Abott, a young stenographer, shot his sweetheart, Celia Bass, and then himself. Both parties belong to respectable colored families and had been engaged to be married, but Miss Bass wished to break it. Both will die. Murder and Snlcide. In Chicago, Antonio Cribarn, In a fit of drunken and jealous rage, shot and killed his wife and then shot himself, and hacked his throat In a horrible manner with a large knife. Both died within a few minutes Two Italians Murdered. At Yazoo City, Miss., two Italians, J. Missiglia and his 17-year-old son, were murdered. A hatchet seems to have been the weapon used. Admits the Crime. James Briscoe, the Chicago colored man who assaulted and attempted to rob Edwin

Walker, the well-known attorney and World’s Fair Director, was brought to trial before Judge Clifford In the Criminal Court Just before the trial began Briscoe's confederate in the crime, John Butler, a white man. deserted him and went over to the enemy. He was indicted along with the colored man, but rather than face a jury ho owned up at the last moment that he and Briscoe committed the crime, and a plea of guilty was entered for him. FATAL ELEVATOR ACCIDENT. Three Men Killed and Two Others Dangerously Injured at St. Louis. A frightful accident by which three men were instantly killed and two others fatally injured occurred ut the boiler factory of Rohan Brothers in St. Louis. Frank Conn and Hugh Duffy were receiving instructions from Foreman Henry Kaiser. Tho three men stood directly beneath the Immense elevator for hoisting heavy machinery. The elevator was at the second story of the building, and Thomas Flaherty and Michael Sweenoy were engagod in loading it with sheet-iron plates. The men sounded the warning bell us a signal that the elevator was about to descend. They then started the huge machine, and it had scarcely moved when the rope broko and it fell with a crash on the men slundiiii beneath it, crushing them into a shapeless mass of flesh and bones. ELOPED WITHOUT HER HAT. An Indiana Girl Goes on a Bridal Jouxney on Short Notice. Marysville, Clark County, was the scene of a sensational elopement, the parties being Miss Ida Matthews, daughter of Eider Thomus Matthews, and George Darrington, the latter a resident of Murray, Ky. The girl left bareheaded and attired in her house dress. Mrs. Matthews discovered them and attempted to force her daughter to go into the house, but at that moment a train came along, and the young people boarded it for Loulsvlllo. where they were married. Wolf Drive a Big Success. The Pelican Rapids (Minn.) wolf drive was a great success. Over a thousand men took part, armed with spears and clubs. Shotguns, revolvers and rifles were forbidden on account of the danger because of the crowd. The round-up was on an open prairie, dished to the center like a basin. Within the circle were thirty wolves, hundreds of jack-rabbits and one solitary bear, which finally got away. The wolves continued to dash around, at intervals one receiving a fatal thrush The circle grew smaller and wolves uglier. At last the slaughter was over and seventeen wolves were killed. No attention was paid to the jack-rabbits.

Will Adopt Smokeless Powder. The Government has determined upon tho manufacture of smokeless powder for use in both small arms and ordnance, and Captain Pitman has been detailed to take charge of tho laboratory at the Franklin Arsenal for tho purpose of making necessary experiments. He will analyze various smokeless powders to determine which is tho best, and when be succeeds in producing a powder that in his opinion will meet, the requirements samples of It will be forwarded to Sandy Hook to be tried there in heavy guns. Shot by a Rejected Suitor. Herman Ivrouse tried to murder his sweetheart, Margaret Conrad, in Minneapolis, and believing that her Injuries would prove fatal placed the muzzle of the revolver in his own mouth and killed himself. The affair occurred at Henry Busse’s Hotel, where both were boarding. Miss Conrad is a sister of the landlady, and had several times rejected a proposal of marriage from Krouse. Took Jewelry Left for Repair. Several weeks ago a jeweler opened a shop in tho village of Southport, Ind., and a large number of watches and considerable. Jewelry were left with him for repairs. Ho postponed a return of valuables to the owners from time to time on different pretexts, and left the town, taking his entire stock with him. He succeeded In swindling the unsuspecting people out of SI,OOO worth of valuables. Flour Mills Burned. At Joplin. Ma, the mills and elevators of the Sergeant Milling Company were totally destroyed by fire. The plant was the finest in the Southwest and was erected about seven ye ars ago at a cost of $150,000, but was insured only in the sum of $25,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Alger and His Record. General Alger has made public his war record. It Includes a great host of official documents, letters from army officers warmly praising Alger and recommending him for promotion, and the report of General Custer, recommending the dismissal of Alger from the service. Collapse of a Benefit Society. The Supreme Lodge of the Ohio Beneficial Society, of Cleveland, has asssigned It attempted to pay a sls weekly sick benefit and $l5O yearly benefit on as 3 assessment It needed as many nu mbers as tho sands of tho soa to succeed and could not get thorn. Liabilities are at least $60,000. Drifted Down Like a Torch. A floating grain elevator, about 100 f, et high, caught fire while moored on the north side of the Netherlands-Amerlcan pier, Hoboken. It drifted out Into the North River and burned. Instructed for Harrison. At Austin, Texas, the State Republican Convention elected four delegates to the National Convention, and adopted resolutions Instructing the deiegutes to cast tho vote of Texas for President Harrison.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.50 @ 5.25 Hoos—Shipping Grades 3.5 J (ij 625 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 «a 8.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 85 gh 86 Cobh—No. 2 33 & ,40 Oats—No. 2....... 28U@ .29)4 Bye—No. 2 82 L rS .83 Hutteb—Choice Creamery 28 (,S .29 Cheese—Fall Cream, flats 1214(14 .13'4 Eggs—Fresh 13 «a J 4 Potxioeb—Car-loads, per bu... .30 & .40 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle-Shipping 3.25 @ A 73 Hogs—Choice Lighi 3.50 <u. Too Sheep—Common to Prime. 3,t0 «i 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 P.ed 91 @ 03 Cobn—No. I White 42 <<4 43 Oats—No. 2 White 33 i<9 34 ST. LOUftC ’ Cattle .. * 8.50 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.50 <» 500 Wheat-No. 2 Bed 89 .91 Corn—No. 2 .3j (d .37 Gats—No. 1..,.., .80 id 31 Bye-No. 2 .* .S 3 » .'9l _ CINCINNATI. CATTLE 3.50 @ 4.50 Corn-No. 2 ; ; 4 2 S 4? Oats—No. 2 Mixed 32 rcL 33 DETROIT. ‘ GA’Tle. 3.00 @ 5.00 Hoos 8.00 @ sco Sheep.... 3.110 id 9i23 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 94 m 95 CoBN—No. 2 Yellow [42 id 43 Oats—No. 2 White 34 id 35 „ TOLEDO. . Cobn-No. 2 YeUow 41 2 4, Oats—No. 2 Whitfe..... .sj @ buffalo" *" ,86 ,( ® li e v“ho™::::::::::;; g«g Wheat-No. 1 Bard " 2 poo Cobn-No. 2.. .W" @4? „ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 Spring 05 Cgsn —No. 3 39 (ca *4O °-, 2 uhlte - 31 » -32 BYE—No. 1.-... 55'. .85 .83 Babley—No. 2 53 as 55 Pobx—Mess 10.75 ail. 25 NEW YORK. ® l ferr":.:::::::::::::::;;: 5$ ® Oats—Mixed Western jg 2 % S .20 rjU-lhN t.fj 010.60

HOLDING THEIR GRAIN.

MANY BUSHELS OF WHEAT IN GROWERS’ HANDS. Intormation Regarding the Distribution of Wheat and Corn—Biggest Reserve on Record-860,000,000 Bushels of Corn Held by Farmers. Government Crop Report. The March report of distribution ol the wheat |ind corn by the statistician of the Department of Agriculture makes the stock of wheat in growers’ hands 171,000,000 bushels, or 28 per cent, of the crop; 63,000,000 of spring wheat, and 108,000,000 of winter wheat, much of tho latter in States which have practically no commercial distribution, but entering into local consumption for bread and seed. This is the largest reserve ever reported, that of the largest previous crop, in 1884, being 169,000,000 bushels. The exports from July 1 to March 1 were 164,000,000 bushels, the fall seed '26,000,000 bushels, the consumption apparently 200,000,000 bushels, but a large , proportion is taken for consumption in the fall, and winter, and the actual, consumption is disproportionately greater than in the spring and summer. The assumed consumption from March 1, 1891, to March 1, 1892, is 300,000,000 bushels fo* a population of 64,300,000; the exports. 206,000,000 bushels; the seed, 56,000,000 bushels; a distribution of 562,000,000 bushels, with 41,000,000 visible and 171,000,000 invisible stocks. There are 27,000,0(0 bushels not accounted for previously, which came in the unprecedented squeezing of all sorts of reserves, mainly from the always uncounted stocks of flour between mill and mouth and from small uncounted slocks between the f rmers’ granaries and the visible supplies. The average weight of wheat is 58.5 pounds per measured bushel, which is the estimated weight of the crop of 1887, and is 9-10 of a pound above the average of eight previous years. The estimated quantity of corn in farmers’ hands is 860,000,000 bushels, or 41.8 per cent, of the crop. This is the largest proportion ever reported, that of 1889 excepted, which was 45.9 per cent., or 970,000,000 bushels. The seven principal States have a surplus of 546,000,000 bushels, or 41.5 per cent, of their product, against 66.7 of the great Crop of 1889. The proportion merchantable is the largest ever reported, 88.5 per cent., against 85.7 two years ago. The average of eight previous crops is 82 per cent., and the lowest average 60 for tho frosted crop of 1883. The present average farm price of merchantable corn is 39.2 cents per bushel; of unmerchantable, 25.7 cents.

PURE FOOD AND DRUGS.

Salient Points of the Rill Which Has Passed the Senate. The Paddock pure food bill has been passed by the Senate. Its object is to secure along the lines of interstate commerce the guarantees against fraudulent adulterations which are now furnished by some of the States and which it is in the power of all the other States to provide for their citizens. Its most salient terms are in substance that every person who manufactures and delivers for shipment to any point outside the State or Territory any drug or article of food, and every person who oxposes for sale or delivers such drug or article of food outside the State or Territory in which it is manufactured, shall, on demand, furnish a sample of the same for examination or analysis under the direction of the Agricultural Department. Such articles as are found to be adulterated, within the meaning of the act, and are transported or being transported from one State to another for sale and aro still in the original or unbroken packages, shall be liable to be proceeded against in the District Court of the United States and seized for confiscation or condemnation. If condemned as being adulterated they shall be sold, and the proceeds, minus ihe costs and charges, shall be paid into the United States Treasury. A trial by jury may be demanded. It is believed by the advocates of the measure that if it become a law this provision, which can be enforced against the article itself, will effectually prevent the transportation of fraudulent adulterations across State lines. They say that with such a rod hanging over him a man who is conscious of having in his possession adulterated food within the ' meaning of the statute .never will venture to send those goods across a State line for sale and disposal. It vyas explained by Mr. l’addock that in framing the measure sufficient caro had been taken in regard to the publication of analyses so as to prohibit the njention of tho name of the person ior corporation that is under suspicion. There is to be no publication of such analysis until after tho trial and conviction of the person. There will thus bo no invitation to competitors in trade or individuals who might through spite work feel like entering ! complaints against others who are J manufacturing different commodities to ! inform against them without sufficient 1 reason. •

The measure was strongly objected to as tending to interfere with the consumption of cotton-seed oil and some other substances which are used in compound food products on a large scale and are widely claimed to bo equally healthful as the material for which they are complete or partial substitutes. But if such claim be a correct one the products ought to be offered for sale on their merits, and no honest manufacturer should object to being obliged to label or otherwise designate his goods in accordance with fact. The rights of consumers of food and drugs ought to be considered, and they constitute a much moro numerous class than the manufacturers and venders put together. The person who pays out his money for an article has the right to know’ what he is buying, to choose for himself whether he or she will take the genuine thing or another thing which is" guaranteed to bo “just as good.” Especially should this right be jealously guarded in the case of material to be taken into the system.

This and That.

The Blarney stone is not a sham rock. Carries everything before him— A waiter. A happy “tight” spoils a toper’s appetite. Any chef should be able to carve a name for himself. On the war-path—Pedestrians on a dilapidated board-walk. Don’t trifle with the barber; he is generally able to hold his hone. A poor apology is about as unsatisfactory as a plate of limber ice cream. Why should pawnbrokers be reviled? Do they not keep all their pledges? In the matter of “laying out,” the undertaker isn’t ‘“in it” with the tramp. It is quite natural that the man who gives away advice can’t use it himself. The man who jias lived for himself has privilege of being his only mourner.

TARIFF BATTLE BEGUN.

VI’MILLIN LEADS THE ATTACK ON THE M’KINLEY LAW. Die Tennessee Congrestmsnt Speaking on the Free Wool Hill, Denounces Class Taxation as Robbery—Mr. Dingley Answers on Behalf of the Minority. Talking Tariff'. The annual battle over the tariff befan In the House of Representatives vith the speeches of Representatives ifcMlllin and Dingley for and against ;he free-wool bill. No session of Congress Is complete without its tariff itruggle, but the struggle which began lie other day was regarded as of unuslal importance, coming as it does on the ive of a Presidential election in which I will be the main issue. The opening speeches, according to a N ashington dispatch, were in no sense Iramatic. Mr. McMillin made his speech I rom notes but often laid them aside to >arry the questions which were fired at lim from every quarter. He had a bowl >f bouillon before him of which he frejuently partook to strengthen his voice. Hr. Burrows sat in his seat immediately n front, nervously tearing paper to bits ind thereby irritating Mr. McMillin. The galleries were well crowded long >efore the hour of the opening and the mblic interest manifested in the debate vas greater than on any previous day of he session.

To Representative Blount of Georgia, i clear-headed parliamentarian of tweny years congressional experience, was iwarded the honor by the Speaker and he Committee on Ways and Means of (residing over the committee of the vhole, and when he wearied now and hen of his arduous labors Representa‘ave Kilgore, the giant statesman of Texas, was called on to assume the ;uvel. In the days of long political vrangling that are to follow in the ommittee of the whole Speaker Grisp vill find the respite that he has so much lesired. At the opening of the lebate he occupied a seat in the jalleries and was as interested an mdilor as any of the other 2,000 visitors vlio bent eagerly forward to catch every vord of the partisan orations of the day. The well-crowded newspaper galleries attested the public interest that is being 'elt in the discussion of the issues now >efore the House, and the little group hat gathered in the diplomatic gallery ihowed that this interest in the revenue question and the attempted modification >f existing tariff laws is share d by some >f the nations across the waters. But he crowning indication of the importin ce of the discussion was in the deep • ttention which the members themselves r ave to the two speakers who repre.ented the two great parties on the question for solution. Mr. McMillin devoted his attention to i review of the McKinley law and its (fleet upon commerce, the industries and he wage-workers of the country, and dr. Dingley sought to defend and justify that law, and insisted that the high(st commercial wisdom justified its per>etuity. « Senator Carlisle, under whose leaderihip as Speaker of past Democratic louses the tariff debate in this latter lalf of the century was revived, found he occasion one of such charm that ho est that seat in the upper body to which le has been called by the Blue Grass State and was an attehtlve listener to he eloquent arguments of Representaive McMillin. No less vigilant was the attention vith which ex-Speaker Reed noted every irgument, not only of his friend but of ds political opponent as well, and now md then there was a twinkle in his eyo is he doubtless meditated on and stored iway in his memory a response to be nade to the democratic arguments when lis day should come. Both the speakers vere frequently applauded by their )arty colleagues, and as each man relumed his seat he was the recipient of varm congratulations and a bouquet of nammoth proportions. The tariff battle will probably be kept ip for the remainder of the session with nterruption from time to time for other msiness. As is known, the illness of Hr. Springer prevented his opening the lebate. Mr. Mills was absent on aciount of sickness. Mr. Springer was re ry anxious to speak on the free-wool Jill, and ever since his severe illness las expressed the hope that his reiovery would be speedy enough “to idmit of his closing the debate. This, it is evident, will be imlossible, for if he recovers, as he physicians are now quite hopeul he may, he will have to leave lor a health resort as s on as he is able » stand a journey. It is expected that vote will be taken on the wool bill toon. After (hat all the time not absoutely necessary for other matters will >e devoted to the consideration of other ariff trills. A very large number of nembers have already asked for time 'or speeches on the subject.

Men and Women.

Rider Haggard says liis front namo ihould be pronounced “Reeder.” The Duchess Bolouguine of Milan, Italy, has sold $600,000 worth of her ewels to build a hospital for children in hat city. The king of the Belgians always ileeps on a camp bed. He is an adverlary of capital punishment, and no execution has taken place in Brussels durng his reign. Ex-Senator Edmunds is said to aciept no smaller retainer than $2,000 “in iases of importance,” and to refuse ajl >ther kinds of cases. With his large mnual professional income, however, ie hasn’t much of a fortune as fortunes ;o now. It has been said that Queen Victoria S the only person now living that knew Sir Walter Scott personally. But there s an old bookseller in Edinburg who >ften talked with him, and it is thought irobable that, there must be still others vho can claim that honor. Plantagenet Broome, who died in Berlin the other day, was a most interring man, but not so interesting as vas his name. The word Plantagenet tself means “broom-plant,” and the ■itle was given to the English dynasty recause Geoffrey of Anjou, Henry ll.’s lather, wore a sprig of the broom-plant n his cap. The verbal redundancy in '■he case of the late Mr. Broome is curi>us, says the New York World, but his 'ondness for his name was matched by hat of Josiah Quincy, one of the memrers of the famous Massachusetts amily, who named his son Josiah Josiah iuincy. ’ W hen the present ameer of Afghanstan was yet an exile he made a preen se of stupidity which deceived a great nany people. But after being invested vith his present authority he displayed mrprising keenness. On one occasion he Russian commandant in Turkestan ent him word that it was proposed to ake 500 artillerymen and cavalry out or exercise on the Afghan frontier, and ixpressed a hope that it would not give 'ise to apprehensions on the part of his dghness. Abdurrahman replied that he .ad no objections, because, as it hap>ened, he was about to exereise 5,000 :avalry, artillery, and infantry on his ide of the frontier at the same place, and here was plenty of room for both. The lint was enough. The Russians wrote hanking the ameer, but intimating that hey had found another site for their aaneuvera.

SHOT THEM LIKE DOGS.

THREE MEMPHIS NEGROES RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. Seventy-five Masked Men Overpowdered the Jailer—The Victims Were Charged with Having Ambushed and Shot Down Four Deputy Sheriffs Last Saturday. It’s a Race War. Memphis, Tenn., was in the control of a mob AVednesday morning. Three of the negro rioters arrested for shooting the Deputy Sheriffs have been lynched, two others are missing, and are supposed to have been made way with by the riotors, and a crowd of five thousand excited negroes surrounds the place where the bodies of the dead negroes lie, loudly crying for vengeance on their slayers, says a dispatch. At 3 o'clock in the morning a mob of about seventy-five armed citizens surrounded the County Jail and compelled Jailer O’Donnell to give up the keys to the cells where the negro rioters were confined. After securing the keys, the mob made a rush for the cells, and placing ropes around the necks of Tom Moss, AVill Stuart, and Cal McDowell, they hurried them to the Chesapeake & Ohio yards. The negroes were then placed together and in less than three seconds over twenty-five rifle shots rang out and the negroes fell, dying almost instantly. The mob then quickly dispersed and it was not until daylight that the extent of the lynching was realized. Early risers were horrified to find the bodies of the three negroes lying on the ground riddled with bullets. Two other negro riotors are missing and the belief is that their bodies will be found later.

The bodies were taken to the office of Jack AValsh, and a crowd of negroes began to gather. It rapidly increased, and now 5,000 people surround the place where the dead bodies are. Further trouble is feared. The negroes are reported to be arming at “The Curve, ’’ and a telephone message has just been sent in that they have killed two white men. The riot and collision between blacks and whites, which has now ended in a general lynching bee, occurred Saturday night last in the suburbs of Memphis at a place known as "The Curve:” This is a locality notorious for its toughness. It is a resort for roustabouts and thieves, and the authorities have always experienced great difficulty in maintaining law and order there. The neighborhood is thickly populated by negroes, who had committed several assaults of an aggravated nature upon white citizens. Calvin McDowell, a negro who keeps a grocery and barroom at the corner of Mississippi and Walker avenues, was up on Saturday before Judge Dußose on a charge of assault and battery. Having been released on bail, he returned to his place of business, and gathering his friends, told them that the whites were getting ready to mob them. When MoDowell was before him, Judge DuBose said ho intended to purify the district in which McDowell and his supporters flourished, and this is supposed to have given McDowell the idea that an organized assault was to be mado upon the negroes. Later in the day a warrant was issued for Tom Steward, one of McDowell’s gang, who was charged with assaulting a white man. As a determined resistance was anticipitated, nine deputy sheriffs wero sent to make the arrest. These deputies were Perkins, Cole, Barnard, Richardson, Harold, Webber, Moore, Yerger, and App, and they arrived at—Jthe McDowell place about 11 o’clock Saturday night. Upon entering and inquiring for Steward they were told by the proprietor that ho was in tho back room. Upon entering this room, which was dark, they were met by the flash of a number of revolvers, shotguns and rifles. Deputy Sheriff Cole received a charge of shot in the face and breast, completely tearing out his left eye. a bullet which struck him in the shoulder passed completely through hi 3 body. Officer Yerger was struck by the port! n of a charge in the head, but while some of the shot lodged in his scalp most of them missed him. Deputy Harold was shot in the neck and throat and left side of the face, and is in a dangerous condition. The officers, who stood’close together, made an excellent target for their assailants, while they themselves were at a great disadvaniage, as they were unable to locate the negroes except by the flashing of their weapons. The officers returned the fire as rapidly as possible, however, and then charged in a body. The negroes rushed pell-mell through the back door, many of them abandtSiing their weapons in -their flight. White people attracted by the firing flocked to the scene, and with their assistance thirteen of the negroes were taken from various hiding places. The excitement was intense, butthe prisoners were kept under guard and, for the time being, safely transferred to the jail. On Sunday fourteen more negroes were captured and locked up. In the room in which the tragedy occurred were found six' shotguns, a Winchester rifle and a large quantity of ammunition. This discovery, to which was added the report that the men who did the shooting belonged to a secret organization among the negroes formed for the purpose of making war on the whites, roused popular excitement to a white heat and, notwithstanding the presence in the city of military organizations numbering 1,100 men, tho determination to deal with the negroes in a summary manner was too strong to be checked and the lynching followed.

Globe Sights.

How it worries some people to see other people prosper. “Other people treat me better than I treat myself. ’’—Parson Twine. Every man knows of a good use to which some other man might put his money. When a woman has a sister, she will never buy a hat without her assistance. A critic is never comfortable. He is forever seeing things which offend and annoy him. No matter how closely a man wears his mask, it will some day fall off, and reveal his true features. What a little time it takes for the baby in a buggy to become a woman, and wheel a baby buggy herself. Anything in toads is the latest style. If you have a toad pin, or a stuffed toad on your hat, you are all right. All the little things a man hides from the world when he is young, will appear written out on his face when he is old. The things you laugh about to-day, you will cry about to-morrow, but that should not distress you. For you will laugh to-morrow at the recollection of what made you cry to-day. —Atchison Globe.

This and That.

Fur-trimmed evening dresses appear to have reached the height of popularity. It is to be wondered what amount ot heat is derived from those tiny lace muffs. Girds of the period hang their cotillion favors all around the frame of their .mirrors.

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Dor National Lawmakers and What They Arrf Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed* and Acted Upon. Doings ot Congress. In the House, the 9th, the tariff debate began, and will continue for some time. In the Senate, Mr. Hale from the Naval Committee, reported back Ills bill to further Increase the naval department, with an amendment appropriating {530,000 for experiments In the development of torpedoes and In the procurement of torpedoes. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Squire moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate passed tho bill In relation to the collection district of Puget Sound. The motion was entered. Mr. Morgan introduced a bill In the Senate declaring that all laws and parts of laws are Inoperative,' which exempt from the payment of duties all articles of commerce which are not on the free list, entered In the custom houses of the United States, for transportation through the United States, to or from any British possession. Among the bills Introduced and referred was one with the following curious title, presented by Mr. Cullom (by request): “To test and try the science of spelling, and to provide for establishing 100 schools for that purpose: and to establish a spelling school In the World’s Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago In 1893.” The pure food.' bill was then taken up. and after the adoption of several slight amendments It was passed without division. After an execu-| tive session of nearly three hours the Senate adjourned.

On the 10th. the time of the House was entirely occupied by the tariff discussion. In the Senate several bills were reported frgm committees and placed on tho calendar. The agricultural meat Inspection deficiency bill was taken up Rnd passed. The following hills were passed: To sur-' vey and mark the boundary between the Sates of Nebraska and South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations Making Laredo. Texas, a sub-post of entry. The “unfinished business” was taken up. being the Senate bill to provide for the erection of public buildings for postofflce3 In towns and cities where the postoffice receipts for three years preceding have exceeded $3,000 annually. No action was taken on the bill, and after a brief executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House on the llth, Mr. O’Neill of Pennsylvania presented for reference a petition of citizens of the Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania urging Cougress to pass a law to prevent the landing of criminal and pauper immigrants, to revise the naturalization laws, and submit a constitutional amendment providing that no State shall grant the right of suffrage to any person not a citizen of the United Stales. The balance of the session was devoted to tariff talk. Among the bills introduced and referred to committees of tho Senate was one by Mr. Stewart proposing a constitutional amendment that after 1807 no person who has held the office of President shall be eligible to that office within four yoars after the expiration of his term of office. The urgent deficiency bill was then taken up and passed and the Senate adjourned till the 14th.- fit , On the 14th, among the pajers presented lathe Senate and referred was a protest by the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church against 1 the enactment of further oppressive legislation against the Chinese people as tending to crluple missionary work In China through rotallatbry 1 measures. The Senate joint 'resolution authorizing the Librarian of Congress to exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition such books, papers, documents and other articles from the library of Congress as may relate to Christopher Columbus and the discovery and early history of America, was reported by Mr. Pettigrew from the Committee bn theQuadricentennlal, and was passed. Senate bill to authorize the construction of a combined railroad, wagon, and foot passenger bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, S. D., was taken from the calendar and passed. The Senate resumed the consideration of the Postoffice Building bill. It finally passed * yeas, 24; nays, 2L The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a communication fr m the Secretary of the Interior submitting the agreement concluded between tho Commissioners of the UnitPd States and the Cherokee Nation for the cossion of the Cherokee outlet, and stated that It would be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. A bill was passed to establish a part of delivery at Council Bluffs, lowa.

Facts and Fancies.

There are so many reformeis who never want to do any work at home. Cotton soaped in olive-oil and turpentine, and put in the ear, often stops earache of the most painful kind. An old clipper ship has just made the fastest time on record between Japan and this country, being out but twentytwo days. The Bank of Scotland issued onepound notes as early as 1704, and their issue has since been continued without interruption. Only citizens who are able to read and write have the power to vote in Bolivia and several other'South American republics. In England an American diploma of medicine does not entitle its possessor to call himself M. D. If ho does he may be prosecuted. ’A fur establishment in Chicago has just completed for a feminine resident an ulster in which are 125 mink skins and 350 tails. The remains of ancient hot air baths and sweat houses still exist on the Island of Rathin, on the northeast coast of County Antrim, Ireland. A distinguished Egyptologist has recently unearthed, with a lot of his mummies, a will probably made 4,450 years ago, but, curiously, quite modern in form. In Eastern New Mexico nearly 600,000 acres of fruit and farm lands have been reclaimed by the construction of storage reservoirs and irrigating canals during the past two years. Don’t expect a man to do anything for you on account of anything you have already done for him, but if you intend doing more for him, tell him and get what you want in advance. The father of eleven sons has applied for a salaried position in a base-ball club. He says he never played a game in his life, but he has had twenty years’ experience in making base-hits. A Gainesville (Texas) girl has probably the longest hair in the world. It is ten feet six inches long. The present growth is of the past seven years, as in 1884 her head was shaved during a spell of brain fever. It is asserted that the idea of the slot machine is very old. In an inn in one of the rural districts of England the tobacco for the guests was kept in a box which was opened by an English penny; this box was certainly, so the landlord averred, 150 years old.

Of Passing Interest.

SrxTEEN tons of steel pens are exported from Birmingham weekly. A conductor on a street railroad in Philadelphia speaks four languages. Brooklyn city officials took dinner in a newly finished sewer the other day. Some watches now made are guaranteed to keep time to within ten seconds a month. There are 487 schools in Irkutsk, Siberia. The population of Siberia is nearly 900,000. A Frenchman has‘invented an improved method of telegraphing, so that it is practicable to transmit 150 words per minute on a Blngle wire. The message when delivered from the machine is typewritten.