Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — Page 2

SfoeJicmocraticSentiiiel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. XW. McEWEX, - - - Pci usher

A GREAT ISSUE IS UP.

ONE OF THE QUESTIONS OF THp CAMPAIGN. fearful Effects of the Drought in Arizona —JHany Burned to Death In Prairie fires—Death Cuts Short' a IVeddlng Tour. Congresslon al. i In the Senate, on the 22d, the bill for the relief of settlers on public lands was passed. In the navigation bill, the committee amendments reducing the total appropriation from $16,000,009 to $15,000,000; reducing tlie annual expenditure under the bill front $3,333,000 to $2,000,000: reducing the amount fixed for that part of the river from the mouth of the IKlnois to the mouth of the Ohio from $0,000.000 to $5,000,000; and the annual expenditure therefrom $2,000,000 to $1,000,000 were all agreed to. Afterward the total appropriation was increased from $15,000,000 to $18,750,000. The words “For the general Improvement of the river and for the buildIngot levees” were struck out. An amendment was agreed to assigning $3,750,000 of the total amount to the Improve-* meat of the river between the mouth of the 'lllinois and St. Paul, Minn., of which not more than $75,000 •hall be expended during any one year. An amendment to insert the words u Of the navigation of the Mississippi River” was •also agreed to. The bill was then passed. The next bill was the one appropriating sl,745,810 for the purpose of securing the early completion of the canal and for the locks at the cascades of the Columbia River. It was passed without any discussion. Yeas, 40; nays, 4. The next bill, appropriating $2,866,350 for the construction of a boat railway, and of the necessary marine apparatus and appliances at the Dalles and, Celilo Falls and ten mile rapids on the Columbia River, and in the Improvement of Three Milo Rapids w as also passed without discussion.

FIGHT FOR FREE SILVER. Leaders on Both Sides Have Tlielr WarPaint On. The great silver fight is now on. A Washington dispatch says: There seems to be no doubt about the passage of the bill on the final vote unless its opponents manage to kill it off by some parliamentary hocus poqjis, and it is scarcely probable that this will happen. The opponents have not yet developed their plan of warfare, bot as they are undoubtedly in the minority, they will claim for themselves the full advantage which is usually accorded the weaker party in the use of such tactics as the rnles permit for delaying final action. Everything points to a spirited fight, and It is probable that there will be some ■harp sparring and hot words before it is over. No subject that has come before Congress this session has created anything like the intensity of feeling that has been developed on this silver bill. And it may be added that no subject that has come up has so interested the listening There seems to he no doubt In the minds of those who have analyzed the situation in the House of the passage of the bill. It Is iwobabie that about ten or fifteen Republicans will vote for it. Every Farmers’ Alliance man will vote for it. Of the Democrats it is expected that more than twothirds will be for It. The friends of the hill claim a majority of thirty votes for D, awd the opponents concede that it will pass. They are generally of the opinion, too. that it will pass the Senate, though the vote there will probably to pretty close. TEX THOUSAND DEAD CATTLE. They strew the Arizona Plains from the j Long Continued Drought. Thousands of dead and dying cattle are ljlng all over the vast plains to the northeast of San Joseph. A. T., as the result of the tone drought in that part of the Territory. For months the clouds have refused to bring water, and every water course In that whole section is dry, and the ground is ■o parched that the grass of the plains is dried to such an extent as to be devoid of aourishmeit and in no condition to stand the storms which sweep across the plains with a severity which Is not felt In the northern countries It Is estimated by cattlemen that not less than ten thousand head of cattle hare perished within the last six weeks, and unless, there is a heavy rain within the next week there will not be a single head left of the vast herds which ranged over that section.

DIED ON THEIR WEDDING DAT. AC«apl« on Their Honeymoon Blow Out the Gas at Lima, Ohio. Mr. and Mre. Nelson Stewart, of MillersImue. Ohio, stopped at the Buclitel Hotel, Lima, cn their bridal toar. They blew the gas out About midnight the door to their room was forced open and they were found asphyxiated. Perished In Prairie Flames. Fpr the past month the dried grass on the prairies south and west of the Fort JL T.. reservation has been burning, and fires could be seen at almost »ny time In any direction. They have been kept well down, howerer, and little damage has resulted, but it is now learned that seven lives have been lost by these fires within the past ten days. Two women, three men and two children have been burned to death, and it Is possible that others have met a similar fate. ’' Preparing for War. The Austrian Government is greatly disturbed by the attitude of the military men so Russian Poland. General Gourko, acting. It Is presumed under orders from St. Petersburg, appears to be making preparations for hostilities against some power, whether Austria or Germany Is not apparent. To Have Canada Represented. *•*'' Dalton McCarthy, one of the leading supporters of the notice of « resolution in the House of Commons proposing that a Canadlaiy representative be attached to the British Legation at Washington. Catch Bin Defeated. The lowa House defeated the Gatch bill, the vote being 52 to 46 for indefinitely postponing the measure. Besieged by Bebels. . The Portuguese town of Quilimane, capital of a district In Mozambique, Is besieged by 6.o<\p natives, provoked to rebellion by the Portuguese rule. Quilimane, which is a hading center of Importance, with many European residents* is in danger. The Mohawk, a British torpedo cruiser, has gone to Quilimane ’and a Portuguese gunboat, With 100 soldiers, Is on the way, • Is Illegal and Void. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has declared the apportionment bill passed by the last Democratic Legislature as unconstitutional, and therefore void. Bent to an Asylum. Judge Van Brunt has handed down his decision In the case of Edwatd M. Field. Me says he Is not fully satisfied as to the Mental state of Mr. Field. He thinks, howerer, that Field is not In a condition to •land In any case, and that ho should be Madtoed In a State asylum. —— Swuthem Pacific Bridge Burned. Wtwm hundred feet of the wooden trestle Ml U» Southern Pacific Railroad, a few ■to east of Sanderson, Texas, was de«W*y«d tgr fire, entailing a loss of several dollar-:. The origin of the fire is •Mfitaoire. Traffic on the road will be detore# or four daya

EATEN UP BY ANTS. Stockman 'Withers’ Horrible Death, at the Hands of Mexican Bandits. Tombstone, A. T., dispatch; the Indians have always been known for their devilish ways of torture, but it has remained for. a band of Mexican bandits to «p the climax. “Dutch” Henry’s band of horse thieves raided Henry Withers’ ranch on the Garrlta River recently, driving away all his stock. Withers started after the band singlehanded and succeeded in shooting down ?'aree of them from ambush before they discovered that only one man was pursuing them. They succeeded In capturing him as he was trying to get away. Death was his sentence; but shooting was too easy a death. Withers was taken out on the hot sand-beds and left to lie naked for six hours, fully expse 1 to the sun’s rays. This was not enough, and ho was then carried, still nude, to a bed of cactus bushes, where he was laid on the sharp points. Ho was bound tightly to a stake, and then a large ant hill, which was near, was torn Open with sticks and he was left to his fate. The insects swarmed out and over Withers’ body, and within two hours he was dead from their bitea The ants did not leave him alone, however, until every particle of flesh was eaten from his hones HUNDREDS IN DANGER. Rively Conflagration hi a St. Lonli Tobacco Factory. Fire started in tho upper floor of tho Liggett & Myer tobacco factory in St. Louis, and, owing to the highly inflammable character of the material upon which It fed, the Are spread with great rapidity. In less than fifteen minutes the entire seventh story was a mass of seeching flames, which were fannod by a brisk wind across an alley, and threatened to destroy tho large tobacco storage warehouse adjoining, which contained thousands of tons of prepared tobacco. Despite tbo hard work of tho Are brigade the flames worked down through the seventh, sfcth. fifth and fourth floors of the building. After two hours’ hard work the fireman succeeded in gaining control of the blaze The loss it is believed will fully reach $325,000. Tho fire is said to have started in the curing-room bn the top floor of the building, and was probably caused by spontaneous combustion. RUSSELL IS FOR CLEVELAND. The Governor Denies that He Has Aspirations for tho Presidency. At a dinner at Boston, commemorative of the two hundred and fifty-fourth anniversary of the granting of the charter of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Governor Russell was present for a short time and was Introduced by Captain Taylor as “the next President of the United States.” This announcement created the wildest enthusiasm, the Governor Ineffectually trying to make himself heard for several minutes. Finally, when the noise had somewhat subsided. Governor Russell said: “Much as I appreciate the compliment of the Introduction, I feel that I must rise and disclaim any ambition or high aspirations for that great office and proclaim my honest and loyal belief in the candidacy of another, whom I shall earnestly and heartily support.” [Loud dies of “Cleveland.” “Cleveland.” to which the Governor smiled very significantly.! WILE BLAINE RETIRE? J. W. Foster Bald to Have the Relnsal of the State Portfolio. John W. Foster has been asked by President Harrison if. in the oVent of Secretary Blaine resigning, he would accept the state portfolio The question was not a surprise to Mr. Foster. He had been given reason to expect Euch a question, and had, moreover, fully Intended to give a prompt response In the negative But when brought face to face with the responsibility of refusing so great a prospective honor, he hesitated and asked for time. The President granted the request, and the astute diplomat Is now struggling with the question. Whether the question was put to him because of a contemplated retirement of Secretary Blaine is not known. The President tnay have simply desired to be prepared for an emergency that might confront him. LORD SALISBURY HEARD FROM. Belief that He Refuses to Extend tho Modus Vivendi. Lord Salisbury has sent a communication to this government in reply to the note of Acting Secretary Wharton of tho State Department requesting a renewal of the modus vivendi for the protection of seal life in Behring Sea during the coming season. Tbs communication was submitted to the President. The contents of the dispatch could not be ascertained, but it is understood that it contains the refusal of Lord Salisbury to extend the modus vivendi for another year. SCHOOL LAND BRINGS HIGH PRICES. North Dakota Sales Lead Those In Any Other State and Sustain Schools. The sale of public school lands in Walsh, Traill, and Richland Counties, North Dakota. resulted in the sale of 41,000 acres, for a total of $706,733. These are much higher figures than ever secured from a sale of school lands in any other Slate. In ten years tho income from the sale and lease of'school lands will sustain the public schools of North Dakota without a tax levy. President Harrison Retaliates. President Harrison hai issued his promised proclamation re opposing tho old duties ou sugars, molasses, coffee, and hides coming to this country from Venezuela, Colombia, and HaytL This proclamation is issuod because of the fieglect of the governments of those countries to reduce their tariffs ou agricultural products, implements, “and other articles Imported from ihe United States. The commerce of the United States with Venezuela atd Colombia is larger than any- other Pan-American countries, Brazil and Oubq excepted. All efforts made by the United ments of those countries-■*».©« ter.into-Tecl-jjroclty relations have failed.

An Illinoisan Gets It. Charles H. Aldrich, of Illinois, hat been nominated by the President to be Solicitor General, vice William H. Taft, resigned. Judge W. H. Taft tendered his resignation as United States Solicitor General, and made preparations to assume his new duties as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixtieth District. Shot by an Angry Husband. At Denver, Thomas D. Forney shot and killed Michael F. Fox near the former’s residence Fox called at Forney’s house and attempted to hug and kiss Mrs. Forney. She repelled his attempt, and Fox left the house threatening to kill Forney and his wife. He went outside and waited for Forney, whom he attacked with a knife Diogenes’ Man Found. Ex-Senator T. M. Bowen, of Colorado, forgot a fortune of 101,000 wnen he oozed out of a Turkish bath at the Palmer House, Chicago. A black porter found it and returned It to Its owner. The name of this abnormally honest porter is E A Watson. A Brutal Husband’s Sentence. Oliver Williams, a Muncle (Ind.) glassblower, who attempted to cut Ills wife’s throat a few weeks ago because she refused to give him monfey with which to buy liquor, was sentenced to four years. A Senator’s Brother Killed. During a quarrel at Boseburg, Oregon, A. llansbrough, brother of Senator Hansbrough, of North Dakota, was stabbed and killed by Nicholas Jones. The latter gave himself up, and is now In jail. Put Her Child on t Hot-stove. Mrs. McClain, wife of a Pittsburg ironworker, came home drttnk and when her 3-ye*r-old child began to cry she threw her

upon a red-hot stove. The little one rolled off, but the unnatural mother picked her up and again placed her on the stove. The screams of the child brought the father, who rescued her and knocked the mother down. When tho neighbors learned of the cruel act they promptly organized a vigllence committee to tar and feather the woman. but she escaped and has not been heard of since. The child was terribly burned. SECRETARY FOSTER HOME. The Head of the Treasury Department Had a Bough Voyage. Secretary Foster has arrived In New York from Southampton on the steamship Spree, of the North German Lloyd

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gave him a severe shock and blackened his right eye. Otherwise he is in good condition, having been much Improved in health. SIX HEN KILLED. East Jordan, Midi., Lumber Mill Wrecked by a Boiler Explosion. At East Jordan, Mich., tho boiler of the East Jordan Lumber Company’s mill No. 2, known as the “Big Rod Mill." blew up. Instantly killing the following persons; William Beach, aged 18, unmarried; Simon Carney, aged 26, unmarried: Peter Sheldon, aged 22, unmarried; John Brown, aged 20, unmarried; Bert Cook, aged 30, leaves a widow; Emanuel Hunt, aged 40. leaves a widow and one child. In addition a score of other employes were more or less seriously Injured. The mill, valued at SIO,OOO, Is a total wreck. The cause of the explosion is still unknown. DEPOSITORS MAKE THREATS. The Palnesville (Ohio) Savings Bank Closes Its Doors. The Palnesville (Ohio) Savings and Loan Association Bank has closed its doors. Tho depositors are generally working people, and threatened violence to the officials. Col. R. If. Pago, well known in railway circles and one of the most prominent capitalists In Northern Ohio. Is at the head of the concern. No figures are obtainable at this time, and tho cause of the failure cannot be learned. A notice on the door of the bank conveys the information that a settlement will be made with depositors as soon as possible. Gibbeted in Vienna. Frank Schneider, tho murderer of servant girls, was executed in Vienna. Schneider was gibbeted after the Austrian method. Ho was entirely broken down as he was led from the cell to the ecaffold. As he saw the scaffold and the stako and splko from which ho was to be banged rising above it, his sullow face turned a greenish hue and be had almost to be carried to spot. Prince Bismarck 111/ It is reported that Prince Bismarck was attacked with a sudden liineS3. In view of the condition of affuirs at Berlin the news has cau-ed intense anxiety. Many municipalities and other bodies throughout Germany have already begun their preparations to celebrate Bismarck’s approaching sev-enty-seventh birthday. Four Killed and Several Badly Injured. As the result of the explosion of a boiler at the works of the Laclede Firebrick Manufacturing Company, on Manchester road, near Sublette avenue, Cheltenham, a St. Louis suburb, four men are dead, two fatally injured, and two more seriously. Typhus Nurses Are Stricken. Dr. Edson. of New York, was Informed that two more cases of typhu9 had occurred in the Riversldo Hospital. The victims were Lizzie Fitzpatrick and Mary Bergman, nurses in the institution. Negroes Going to Oklahoma. Two hundred negroes left Little Rock, Ark., bound for Oklahoma. The various churches in Little Rock and Argenta subscribed S6OO to pay passage and for clothing. Reported Capture of Garza. At City of Mexico the report became current that a telegram had been received at the War Department giving notice of the capture of Caturlno Garza In the State of Tamaulipaa lowa for Harrison. At the Republican State Convention of lowa, held at Des Moines, Harrison delegates were elected to the Minneapolis convention, but they were seat uulustructed. Max Strakosch Dead. Max Stkakosch, the once famoßs impresario, died at the home for incurables in Fordham, N. Y., where he had been’ a patient for two years. Gold Found ut Reno, Cal. The chain-gang at work !u the courthouse yard at Reno, Cal., discovered free gold in a gravel pit The extent of the find is os yet unknown. “Steeplejack” Shaw Killed at Last. Charles Shaw,, of Portland, widely known as “Steeplejack,’mvhilo repairing tho spire of • a church at South Livermore. Me., fell from the top and was Instantly killed.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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line. He was transferred to the steaml oat Laura M. Starln, which was In waiting at quarantine, and Immediately came up to the city. The Secretary had quite a rough experience on the voyage. On the 12th white, fitting in a chair on the upper Idock the ship gave a sudden lurch and precipitated hi m against the port rail, striking heavon his head, which

paper!" exclaimed a chorus of voices, “and he is worth a million? Why, how much are you worth?” “Not a red cent,” was the reply, “and yet I had to indorse Paddock’s paper for SSO before a Washington merchant would put up (he loan. It all came about through Senator Paddock’s thoughtlessness. He is so much engrossed izj his pure-fcod bill and other legislative matters that he forgot the little details of every-day life such as pocket money, railroad expenses and other things. It Is a fact that he once left Washington to go to his home at Beatrice, Neb., and neglected to take sufficient pocket money with him, having to depend upon the hospitality of a host in Chicago during a stop-over there until he could telegraph home and have money forwarded to him. Luckily, however, he had procured his tickets, and had those safely stored away In his pocket.” This incident reminded Charlie Reade, Assistant Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, of some experiences he had had helping the millionaire Senators out of financial straits. “It is not an infrequent occurrence.” he said, “for some of the wealthy Senators to ask me to loan them money for a few days. I find there is a popular superstition among the millionaire solons against carrying large sums of money on their person, for fear of being robbed. I remember a case of ex-Senator Palmer, of Michigan, who has been estimated to be -thrice a millionaire. He came to me one day and wanted 'to borrow S4O.

“ 'Why, Senator,’ I replied, T regret to say that I have not that much money with me; but I will see if I can’t find it for you.’ “I went to the disbursing officer of the Senate, and found that there was more than $3,000 in salary duo Senator Palmer, which in his thoughtlessness it hod never occurred to him to draw. When I informed him that there was so much money due him, he seemed surprised, and said that he had been forgetting for some time past to draw his salary I accompanied him to the disbursing officer. “ ‘I guess,’ said he, ‘I will take a thousand dollars of that money that is due me.’ “ ‘Why not draw it all?’ I interposed. “ ‘Because,’ he replied, ‘l’m afraid if I have any money I will be robbed,’ and then, as if suddenly reminded of something, ‘I guess I won’t take a thousand dollurs; you may give me fifty.’ “A week later ho struck me for $lO for a cab-fare-down-town, having again for-

gotten the balance of hie account on salary. “I once helped Senator Stanford out of a financial difficulty,” said Mr. Keade. “One afternoon the Senate adjourned early and nearly all the Sena-

tore except Stanford had gone home. Suddenly he came into my office, apparently in great mental distress, and wanted to know if I could lend him S3O. I had but $25 and asked the Senator if that would be sufficient. He said that it wouldn t; that he must have S3O at once. He didn’t explain why he wanted it, but I naturally concluded that it was to carry out some sudden philanthropic impulse. Doubtless some of the many mendicants that throng the Capitol had poured a tale of woe into Stanford’s ear, and it was in response to such an appeal that the Senator wanted S3O at once. I suggested the disbursing officer again, and we went together to that autocrat, but he coolly informed me that Stanford had drawn all the salary that was due him to date, and it was against the rules of the office to pay out any money in advance. He refused to advance us even $5 to add to my $25 and help the Senator out of the difflculy. It has long been the rule of the disbursing officer of the Senate not to allow any Senator to overdraw his account. Finally I appealed to a friend of mine and he loaned us $5, and thus betweem us we managed to bridge over the difficulty temporarily. “It struck me ab being very ridiculous that a man of Stanford’s wealth should find himself compelled to ask in vain for a loan of $5 from Uncle Sam, but that was an instance Where he did it.” Some of thesq millionaire Senators have queer superstition's. Ex-Senator Fair lived in constant dread of poverty. He once said to. his private secretary when .the later exhibited surprise at a remarkably striking exhibition of frugality on the Senator’s part: “George,, .you know that I’ip worth at the very lowest ■ $20,000,000, and yet I’m continually haunted by a fear that I wiU some day be reduced to poverty, ifr'hs-a. strange feeling that continually hovers over me and I am unable to shake it off. ’’ The late Senator Anthony of Bhode Island paid all his creditors from lime to time with checks on a single Boston bank. It was a great inconvenienco often to persons receiving the checks, and merchants here in Washington/frequently complained because he did not check on the banks in Washington. His private secretary one day suggested to him that it would be a good plan to open an account with one of the local banks ngainstwhich he could check tor the benefit of local creditors. The Senator demurred to this idea, and said that ever since he had been able to afford a bank account he had made it a business to check against a single bank in Boston. He said in this way he thought he was better able to guard against forgeries or other accidents which result in financial losses.

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MILLIONAIRES OFTEN DISTRESSED FOR MONEY. t A Washington Merchant Wouldn’t Loan Paddock soo—Ex-Senator l'almer Had Three Thousand Dollars of Salary Due Him and Forgot About It. Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON correspondence: “There (goes a man who is worth a | million dollars," said a well-known newspaSN " per correspondent to ffSM a little group standee,! ing in one corner of a Senate corridor as Senator Paddock of Nebraska walked fi'Brajpast and bowed with HWhis accustomed politeness, “and yet I S«rar?saw a man once re--1.. fuse to’’ lend him » money until I .indorsed his paper.” U 11 ' “You Indorsed his

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It was a wholly unique and original scheme of financiering, and the Senator explained it in these words: “I had to devote nearly half my life to the task of accumulating what I have, and now that I have it I lind that it will require the remainder of my life devising schemes to guard it. ” Visiting the White House. “It is very curious to listen to the remarks which strangers make after having shaken hands \7ith the President at a reception,” said an !l attache of the White House to me recently," l "I have stood on more than one occasiott'beybnd the line and have amused myself by paying att< ntion to such observations. Dn« visitor will say, ‘He is n6t such a very tittle man, after all!’ Another will

ejaculate, ‘He doesn’t IcOfe at all like most of the caricatures of him in the comic papers!’ Still another will remark, ‘What a pleasant old gentleman!’ And so it goes, each person having hia or her own impression to express. “It seems to me very queer that comparatively few of the strangers who come to the White House know how to address the President. Of course, the proper form is, ‘How do you do, Mr. President?" But lam constantly asked by people who feel nervous about meeting the chief executive what they ought to say to him. Many are so embarrassed that they make no remarks whatever. I remember that on one occasion an elderly person, evidently Iroju rural parts, rushed up to me and ched, ‘I voted for your grandfather years ago, and I voted for you in 1888. Hope I may have a chance to help eleot still another member of the Harrison family to the presidency some day!’ Doubtless, he had prepared the speech carefully in advence.

“The brides who visit Washington always want to be introduced to the President. Newly married couples a,re apt to hunt up Congressmen from their district and ask for points on this subject among other things. The best politicians among Senators and Representatives are always attentive to such couples. They often go out of their way to see that they have a good time at the eapital, because they know that such services will never be forgotten. The people will go back home and tell all their neighbors how nice their Congressmen have been to them. There is many a legislator for the nation who, without any abilities in the way of statesmanship, gets and keeps his place through cultivating popularity. To remember people’s names is a great thing. I know a man in a great wholesale establishment in Chicago who gets $7,000 a year just for remembering names. His

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business is to speak to every one who comes in by name and to introduce the customer to the clerk of the department sought. If he does not introduce the person to the clerk by name, the clerk is expected to find out the name and communicate it quietly to the gentleman near the door, who bids him or her goodby by name. This always flatters people and they come back again.” Bleeding the Nation. That most fruitful source of Congressional scandals, the Congressional funeral, threatens to break out again. This time It is in the House Committe on Accounts. It appears that the enterprising firm of undertakers in Knoxville, Tenn., who were the "funeral directors” on the occasion of the late Congressman Houk’s burial, have considered the United States Government a customer that( might be charged “special rates.” They have sent a bill for $1,974.90 as the total cost of burying the dead legislator. As a general thing, no questions are asked by the sub-committee which audits the funeral bill, .but this year the committee, with the recollection of the many severe criticisms made over tho Hearst funeral, determined to examine the accounts closer than is ordinarily done. The members of the committee found to their surprise that the enterprising undertakers had inserted items In their bill like this: “Burial casket, $1,200; trimmings, $200; draping the church, SSO; stenographer at church,

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sl6; photographs, $31.” It occurred to the members of the committee that $1,200 for a burial casket was rather too high a figure. They made inquiries, and learned that the most expensive casket of which they could be informed was the so-called Spear casket, which costs $550. They also, by looking over the bills for the Senate funeral expenses, found that the Hearst casket had only cost S2OO, and yet the Hearst funeral had been expensive. Mrs. Honk, the widow of Judge Houk, is now In Washington and is much distressed at the exorbitant bill of the undertakers. She, herself, expected to pay the expenses of her husband’s burial and offered to do so before the amount was made known, but she was promptly informed by the undertakers that she need not concern herself about it, us “the government always pays the bills.” The Committee on Accounts proposes to put a stop to this system of indefinite charge, and has notified the undertakers that they must give a very definite account of the S2OO worth of “trimmings,” of which no one seems to know anything, and that they must cut down their charge for the casket to something like SSOO. Mat 13, 1865, at about 6 p. m., the Sixty-second United States Colored Infantry fired the last volley of the civil war. It was between Boca Chico Strait and White’s Ranch, Texas. Cayenne pepper sprinkled where rats resort will cause the pests to leave the premises.

SEVEN IN THE TOILS.

CHICAGO ALDERMEN INDICTED FOR BOODLING. Charge* or Conspiracy to Btlbe—Five Defendants Give Ball at Once—Official Corruption of the Most Flagrant Kind Is Exposed. Aldermanlc Kottennes*. As a sequel to the recent passage by the Chicago City Council of an ordinance granting permission to the Chicago Power Supply and Compressed Air Company to use the streets and alleys of the city in about any manner it sees fit, indictments against seven Aldermen were returned by the Grand Jury in Judge Clifford’s Court Tuesday, the charge in each case being conspiracy to commit the felony of bribery. The city fathers who must stand trial are: William J. O’Brieo, Sixth Ward. Daniel R. O’Brien, Twenty-third Ward. Nicholas A. Cremer, First Ward. Patrick J. Gorman. Thirty-third Ward. Philip Jackson, Fourteenth Ward. Stephen M. Gosselln. Seventeenth Ward. John F. Dorman. Tenth Ward. Capiases were immediately issued by Judge Clifford for the arrest of the alleged conspirators, and five of them were gathered in and promptly gave bail in the sum of SIO,OOO each for their appearance when wanted. The two delinquents were Aldermen Gosselin and Gorman. When court adjourned they had not been found.

Gosselin was arrested in the Council chamber at night. Bribery of the most flagrant kind is charged. Corruption and rottenness beyond the ideas of the most cynical citizen have been revealed, and facts which make a position in the Chicago Council one worth hundreds of dollars of preliminary expenditure in dominations will be disclosed. Evidence has been presented to the Grand Jury shovfong beyond the peradventure of a doubt that certain Aldermen have been paid liberally and in hard cash for their votes. The jury listened to a tale of rottenness and corruption to which the “boodling” of the County Commissioners and the Tweed ring was nothing. The evidence has been for some time in preparation and a mesh now inedo-res some of the “city fathers” from which there is little hope of escape. This evidence includes confessions of several guilty parties; it includes not only the promises made to them by corporations, but the letters inclosing the money to purchase their votes and ihe very greenbacks themselves with which those votes were purchased. The men who have been active in working up these cases have spared no expense and have made sure of each step. They have witnesses who have seen large sums of money paid by the representatives of corporations to individual Aldermen and who have heard the Aldermen promise, on receiving the money, to cast their votes on a certain measure in a certain.way. The money was paid in various ways. Some received it at their homes from messengers. Several were paid in the precincts of the City Hall, and it is said that two sold their votes in the lobby of the Council chamber. When the Northern Pacific ordinance was passed and when the active support of the Economic gas pipe pioposition was made by prominent members of the Council suspicion was .created, and when in one instance at least this suspicion grew to positive certa'nty of corruption the investigation was set on foot, which is now said will end only when several present members of the Chicago City Council are wearing the stripes of the Joliet penitentiary. State’s Attorney Longenecker says he expects to show that all three of the ordinances—the compressed air, the Northern Pacific, and the Economic gas—were passed by virtue of the purchase of votes for cash. “I don’t mind saying,” said he, “that there will be the biggest upheaval ever seen in this city. W hen all the facts are finally made public the result will be the most sensational of any in_ the city’s history.” He added that he Will be aided by three of the city’s most prominent attorneys, they being in the employ of three local employers who had had men assisting to make out the case against the boodlers. Gen. Lieb, the grand jury’s foreman, says, speaking on the subject: “We have the rascals where the hair is short. We have a complete chain of evidence forged around the boodlers, and if they don’t tell the truth they will not leave the Criminal Court building. By that I mean that we know tho whole truth, and all who do not tell it will be immediately arrested for perjury as well as boodling."

WHERE THEY WILL GO.

Towns that May pet New Postofflc* Buildings. Should the bill authorizing the erection of public buildings in towns whose postoitlce gross receipts Jiave reached $3,000 annually for a period of three years be enacted tto following towns in Illinois, Indiana. lowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin would be entitled to public buildings: Illinois—Aledo, Amboy, Anna, Arc Ola, Beardstown. Beividere, Bushnell, Carbonuale. Curlinvllle, Ourml, Carrollton, Carthage, Cenlralhi, Charleston, Chester, Clinton, DeKalb, Delavan, Du.juoiu, Dwight, Edwardsvllle, Effingham, Elmhurst. Fairbury, Fairfield, Fulton, Galva, Geneseo, Geneva, Grand Crossing, Gieenvllle. Harvard. Havana, Henry, Highland, Hoopeston, Jerseyvllle, Lake Forest, Lanark, Lewiston. Litchfield, Lockport, Macomb, Marengo, Marseilles, Mendota, Monticello, Morris, Mount Carmel, Mount Carroll, Mount Verifon, Murpbysboro, Naperville, Normal. Olßey, Oregon, Pana, Paxton, Peru. Petersburg, Plttslleld. Polo, Pontiac, Bochelle, Bock Falls, Bushvllle, Sandwich, Savanna, Shelbyville, South Evanston, Span a, Sycamore, Taylorville. Tuscola. Urbana, Vandalla, Watseka. Wenona, Whitehall, Woodstock, I dlana—Angola, Attica. Aubtivn, Aurora, Bedford, Bloomin 'ton, Bluitton, Brazil, Columbia City. Danvillo, Decatur, Delphi, Fraulll!n. Oreensburg, Hammond, Jeffersonville, Kondullvllle, La Grange, Lawrenceburg. Lebanon, Llgonier, Mishawaka, Mount Vernon, Now Castlo, Nobletville. North Manchester, Notre Dame, Plymouth, Portland. Princelon, Homester, Bushvllle, 6eymour, Sulivan, Tlpioa, Union City, Warsaw, Washington, Winchester. lowa—Albfa, Algona. Ames. AnamOsa. Audubon, Bedford, Belle Plalne, Bloomlield, Carroll. Centerville, Charlton. Charles City, Cherokee. Clarlnda, Corning. Cresco, Denison. Eldora, Emmetsburg, Falrffe d. Glenwood. Hampton, Harlan. Ida Grove, Indlanoia, lowa Falls, Jefferson, Knoxville, Lyons. McGregor. Manchester. Muquoketa, Marengo. Marion, Missouri Valley, Monticello, Mount Vernon, Nevada, New Hampton, Newton, Odeb ilt, Osage, Osceola. Pella, Perry. Sheldon, Spencer. Storm Lake, Stuart, Tipton. Toledo, VillDca. Vinton. Washington, Waverly. Webster City, West Union. What Cheer, Wlnterset. Mlcbigau—Ahegan. Alma. Bentm narbor. Bessemer. Buchanan, Cadillac. Calumet. Caro, Cheboygan. Dowociac, Fonton. Grand Haven. Greenville. Hancock, Hastings. Holland, Holly Houghton, Howell, Hudson. Ithaca, Lapeer, Lowell, Ludlngton. Mantstiquo, Midland, Monroe. Mount Clemens. Mount Pleasant. Negauneo,Niles, Northville. Oscoda, Ovid. Paw Paw, Petoskey, Portland, Quincy, Bed Jacket. Reed City, Romeo, St. Ignace, St. John, St. Joseph, St. Lou's. Sianton, Sturgis. Tecurnseh. Three Rivers. Wo t Bay City. Wisconsin—Antigo. Bamboo, Beaver Dam. Berlin. Black Elver Falls, Columbus, Delavan. Depero, Fort Atkinson. Fort Howard. Hudson, Hurloy, Jefferson, Lake Geneva, Lancaster. Menasba. Menominee, Mineral Point. Momoe, Neenah, Nelllsvllle. Nn>v Richmond, Ocommowoc. Oconto, Pluttvitle. Port.-uo. Richland Center, ißlpon. River Falls Sparta. Stoughton, Tomah, Waupaca, Wtupun, Whitewater.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. . At the Nation's Capital—What Is Seine Done by the Senate and Bouse—Old Hatters Disposed Of and Now Ones Considered. * The Senate and House. In the House on the 16th, on motion, of Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, a concurrent resolution was agreed to for the printing of 45,000 additional copies of the special report on the diseases of the horse. Mr. Joseph of New Mexico, from the Committee on Territories, reported a bill for the admission of New Mexico as a Btate of the Union. Placed oh the House calendar. Mr. Smith. of Arizona, from the same conv mlttee, reported a‘bill for the admission of Arizona. Same order. In the • Senate House bill ratifying the act of the Arizona. Legislature appropriating $30,000 in aid of the exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition was reported and passed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill for the construction (by contract) of three battle ships of from 7.500 to 10,000 tons displacement, two armored coast defense 1 vessels, five gunboats of 800 to 1,800 tons displacement, and eight first-class torpedo boats. Referred. Mr. Peffer Unreduced (by request) a bill with the following comprehensive title: “Creating a fund for the payment of pensions and for setting our army of idle laborers at work on extensive public improvements, for the removal of the strongest incentive to crime among the poor and to vice among the rich, for protecting the American from the Influx of undue alien competition; and for other purposes.” The fund contemplated in the bill is to be furnished by a graduated tax on Incomes and real estate. Referred.

The tariff debaters In the House had a large gallery audience up to adjournment the 17th. The debate thrashed over old straw and was on the whole uninteresting. Payne, of New York; Rayner, of Maryland, and Ellis, of Kentucky, were the speakers. In the Senate Mr. Fry reported the Senate bill making Council Bluffs, lowa, a port of delivery, and it was passed. Mr. Hawley reported a bill to amend the statute relative to certificates of merit to enlisted men of the army (the amendment being to change the word “privates” Into the words “enlisted men”), and It was passed. Mr. Peffer introduced a bill establishing an electric experimental station for the purpose of investigating and determining whether electricity can bo profitably used and applied as a motive power in the propulsion of farm machinery. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of executive business, and soon adjourned. In the Senate, on the 18th. on motion of Mr. Allison, the bill establishing a port of delivery at Des Moines, lowa, was taken from tho calender and passed. Several bills were made special orders for next week, to come in after the West Virginia direct tax bill. In the House, Mr. McMillln, of Tennessee, from tho Committee on Rules, reported a resolution ; calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to what sum of requisitions for payment under contract, otherwise for the various branches of the public service, were presented between the 3d and 29th of February, for which warrants or drafts were not issued for payment prior to March 1, 1892. Adopted. The Springer free wool bill was then'* taken up. A controversy sprung up between -Messrs. Williams and Walker, of Massachusetts. relative tb A personal attack of the former on the Matter contained in a speech printed In the journal, but never delivered In the House. The matter was finally disposed of by referring the subject to the Committee on Printing for investigation, and the Houso proceeded to the consideration of the private calendar. In the Senate, the 21st, the following bills were reported and passed: To regulate tho terms of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the Eastern District or Wisconsin at Milwaukee on the first Mondays es January and October, and at Oshkosh on the second Tuesday of June; House bill to authorize the appointment of a clerk for tho Circuit and District Court at Texarkana; to change the name of the customs collection district and port of Wilmington. Cal, to that of Los Angeles; to amend the statutes so as to prohibit tho in-, troduction and Sale of intoxicating liquors into the Indian country; authorizing the Velasco Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Brazos River, Texas; appropriating $59,000 for a public building ut Joplin, Mo.; making Velasco, Texas, a sub-port of entry; appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Laredo, Texas. In the House, the army appropriation bill was amended so that no money appropriated for army transportation shall be used in payment for the transportation of troops and supplies of the army over the non-atded lines owned, controlled, or operated by the Union Pacific Railroad Company or by the Southern Pacific Company over lines embraced In Its Pacific system, and passed.

Sunday Newspapers.

Bbotheb Joseph Cook intimates that Sunday newspapers are published to make money. “Well,” rejoins the Boston Herald, “what is a Monday lectureship for, anyhow?” Joseph Cook complains that Sunday newspapers are published to make money. Horse and horse! That is whal the high and mighty Joseph lectures on Monday for.—Kansas City Journal. iHE Rev. Joseph Cook has enunciated the belief that Sunday papers are published to make money. He is to lecture in St. Paul in a few weeks, and there is' no intimation that he will refuse to be paid. In fact, it is suspected that he lectures to make money.—St. Paul Globe. Mb. Joseph Cook should straightway submit a bill to the General Court, making it a finable offense for a man oi woman to be seen with a Sunday newspaper in hand, with a proviso, of course, for the imprisonment of publishers and newsvenders who dare to imagine thal the Puritanic Sabbath of old church and state times long since passed into innocuous desuetude. —Boston Globe. The clergymen made quite a demonstration against the Sunday newspapers up at the State House y sterday; but the Sunday newspapers will not reciprocate in kind. On the contrary, they welcome the aid of the ministers of the gospel in the work of enlightening and regenerating mankind. The Sunday newspapers will continue to do theii share of labor in the vineyard, and they beseech the pulpit to lend its valuable co-operation as hitherto.—Boston Herald.

Sued by the Mafia.

Ip the Italian bandits strung up by the New Orleans mob were worth $30,000 apiece, then the bills for damages put in against the Government of Chiß by the American sailors of the Baltimore are very moderate. —Milwaukee Wisconsin. - The heirs of the six Italians slain by the New Orleans mob two years age have sued that city for damages. Somebody is responsible for those murders, and the trial of these cases ought to show who. If mob law is constitutional law there the sooner the public kuowe it the better. —Jacksonville TimesUnion. Heibs of the Italians slaughtered in New Orleans about a year ago have brought suit against the city for damages amounting in the aggregate to SIBO,OOO. They are more modest in their demands than our American sailors who were carved in the Valparaiso riot, —Minneapolis Tribune. As the plaintiffs are foreigners there is no doubt that they are entitled to bring their suits in the United States Court, but it is a question whether they can he maintained. If the city should he held responsible the measure of damages would have to be determined by juries, and It will be hard to obtain them from juries made up of citizens of Non Orleans.—New York Times.