Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — Page 2

glje jJcmoci'fltic Scut incl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 3. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher.

ASTORS IN MOURNING.

THE HEAD OF THEIR FAMILY PASSED AWAY. XMaaatrous Fire In the Athenrenm Buildfog tn Chicago—The Paris Anarchist. Rarochol, Sentenced to Imprisonment for Life—St. Louis Ahead. The Lawmakers. Tn the House, ou the 2flth. Mr Blount of Georgia asked unanimous consent that the House go int > committee of the whole for* the consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Toe House then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Oates, of Alabama, in the chair), on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bil’. It ei sl, 84,925. being $72,000 less than the current law. and $>53,541 less than the est mates. The reduction on mission > was $15,000; on con•uls, $37,000; in the bureau of American republics, SIO,OOO. After a long discussion, the committee then rose and the House agreed to the request of the Senate for a conference on the amendments made by the Senate to the Chinese exclusion bill passed by the House Messrs. Geary, Chapman and Hitt «ere apjointed conferrees In the Senate the silver question consumed all the time. william astor dead. The Head of the Noted Family Passes Away at Paris. Cablegrams received from London and Paris announce the death at the Hotel de Liverpool, in Paris, of William Astor, head of the Astor family and third richest man tn the United States. The cause of Mr. Astor’s death was given as heart failure, snd his friends here at once connected it with the shame and humiliation growing out of the scandal affecting the good name of his daughter, Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton. Mr. Astor, accompanied by his wife, went abroad two months ago and spent most of his time in London and in the south of Europe. When the Drayton-Borrowe scandal became public Mr. Astor and his wife joined their daughter in London and took her to Paris, where they sought to iroiect her name from the taint that had fallen uion it. The contemptible conduct of the parties Involved rendered this impossible, and both Mr. and Mrs. Astor felt the ignomy of their daughter’s position very keenly. Mr. Astor was known to be a very sensitive man, and worry over the affair is regarded as being, in a measure, lesponslble for his death. It Is a curious coincidence that William Astor's brother. John Jacob, died of heart failure at his home two years ago. It Is said the original John Jacob Astor was similarly troubled. With continual investing and continual speculating the estimates of the Astor hoard have grown steadily until now It is no uncommon thing to hear it asserted that the combined wealth of the family amounts to $400,000,000, John Jacob Astor's individual share was often put at $250,000,000, and even $300,000,000. and only last November such a well-informed writer as Thomas G. Shearman estimated it at $150,000,000.

FRUIT FROM WASHINGTON. Preparing to Bring It Into Competition with the California Article. Hitherto almost the only fruit sent from the Pacific coast to the East has been that ! grown In California, but the Northern Pacific Railroad Is now preparing a freight schedule for fruit by which the Washington product will go into the markets at St. Paul and Chicago, and perhaps as far East as New York. The beginning will bo a reduction of one-third in the rate to Montana and similar cuts will be made as the business develops eastward. The express companies are also arranging to handle small lots of fruit and give special rates. Eastern Wasbliigt< n Is now chiefly fievoted to wheat raising, an 1 contains much land which, though arid. Is very fertile when Irrigated. Apples, pears, peaches, plun • and grapes do well, and melons are part’cu'.arly succe. ifuL Were the freight rates favorable the supply of these fruits tor the Eastern market would be almost tin"mlt*d. In Western Washington app’ s, pears, cherries and prunes a e found profit? at e, and a prune orchard eight years old will net the owner from $403 to SOOO an Acre annually.’ . f ONE FOB ST. LOUIS. The Postofflce Department to Introduce Pneumatic Tubes There. CoL Smith A. Whitfield, First Assistant Postmaster General, who has been in St. Louis for the past few days on business connected with the Postofflce Department, has completed his visit and started on his return to Washington. CoL Whitfield says that in St Louis the first practical pneumatic service for carrying mail matter trill be introduced. “The department has had the idea of the pneumatic service for a long time.” be said, “but this is the first instance where it will be worked out” Fire in the Athenaeum.

fcreamlnr with terror, nearly four hunflred men and women made a wild rush flown the irou and marble stairways of the Athemeum Building at Chicago, Tuesday evening. Many In the fly In t crowd fought fiercely to gain the street, and that scores of people were ■ot crushed beneath the feet of the frightened mob seemed almost Incredible. No one was seriously hurt Ihe fire In progress flamaged the upper floors of the building about $75,0.10, burned over SB,OOO worth ot oil paintings, and c rused other losses reaching $35,000. Ravachol Not to Die, The trial ot the Par’s anarchist Ravachol was begun and completed. Tuesday, In the Seine Assize Court. There was great excitement, and the jurymen and all connected With the court showed signs of nervousness and apprehension. A large force of police guarded Ravachol and his fellow prisoners. Ravachol was found guilt/, and, contrary to expectation, did not receive the death sentence, but is sentence 1 to Imprisonment for lite. Paris is in a veritable reign ot terror, because of the dynamite explosion la M. Very’s case. Horses and Cattle Burned. A fire started in one ot the out-bulldl igs of the Cheshire Improvement Company established in Parkville. L. L, the other morning and spread rapidly to the three big barns of the concern. In which were •tabled 250 or more head of cattle and horses. The barns burned like t nder, and some 150 ot the cattle and horses perished Cincinnati in Danger of a Flood. The Ohio River Is rising again at Cincinnati at the rite ot one and one-half inches par hour, wltb.the stage of water within nine inches ot the danger line Touthtul Elopers Sent Home. Jessie May Howell, the 13-year-old Allinace, Ohio. girl who eloped with 12-year-old Carl Vgspard. lias been sent home. She i wu caught in New York city. Her youthful lover was ensured a few mllgs east of AUiauce The flrL however, eluded cap- I tare until she reached New Yoik. Heavy Reward Offered for O'Brien. Governor Flower, of New York, has decided to oter a reward of $2,500 for the capture of Thomas O’Brien, the bunko Sharp who cacaped from Keeper Buck at Vttea. and is now fleeing from justice as an ’ eunapel convict eeateneed to Danneiaura ‘

PANIC IN A CONGREGATION. Fort Wayne Worshipers Flee for Life from a Cry of 1 Fire. At the St Mary’s Catholic Church. Fort Wayne, Ind.. Sunday morning, while the big edifice was filled almost to suffocation by a congregation attendant upon the ceremony of the first communion being conferred upon a large number of children, a panic occurred. The altar and the Interior of the cathedral were profu-ely dec irated with artificial flowers. Just as Father Oochterlng. the officiating priest, was about to close the ceremonies a gust of wind disarranged a bunch of pap-r roses, which blew against a lighted taper, and in an Instant the whole frpnt of the church was in flames. Cl lldren ; screamed, women fainted, and the entire congregation, panic-sti 1 •ken. made a «Ld ' rush for the doors Many were trampled > underfoot, and a number were mote or; less seriously injured. The priests and co >ler heads among the men exerted every effort to calm the frightened c. ng egation. and at fast succeeded. The decora! lons were torn from their places a- quickly as possible, but not before the p ie t and a number of his assistants s e.’e quire -e- ; verely burned about ihe hands and arm-. Const lerfng the pre it numb-r of wi men and small children present, it Is c nsid red almost miraculous that no serious casualty occurred.

■ DEADLY LIGHTNING STROKE. One Man Killed. Seven Knocked Senseless, ' and a Boy Goes Crazy. A flash of 11. htning d< s-ended a tele- I phone pole in New O.leans Thu-sdav rm rnIng and instantly killed Jeann l Henradot. aged 18 years knocked down ai d r ndered insensible Emile Dennis. Charles I enolt, Tom Baker John Dors.-y and three more i men who were standing vit bin rix feet of the Loy, and instantly killed a hors? and* mule. The party cf young men. some of whom are emf l ryed in the stables at the fair grounds, were standing under a shed r.eir the main stalls. The lightn’ng struck the telephone wire running over the shed and down the pole. The electric fluid Struck Bernadot under the right ear and descended through his body to tire ground. For several minutes the others r nralnel unconscious. Ihe first to recover was Benoit, who was Lorrif o 1 to se? h|s companions lying around him as If de..d All the others gradually recoter-d, exce t Emile Dennis, a col re 1 boy. who was insane. He. however, slo viy improved, and at last accounts was doing we 1. THREE LIVES OUT. An Ohio Man Shoots His WFe anil a Boarder arid Kills Himse.f. At Dennison, Ohio. George Moore sho; his wife, killing her instantly. shot Ed ■< ard McClelland, a saooi- keep -r. bail? rounding him. and then fatalrv si o. himself. Moore was’employe.! by th? l an-handle Railway Company, and worked at night. McClelland Is a salo n-keeper and boarded at Mt.orc’s hou-e Mo re and his wife ha I bad n great deal of trouble lately, frowing out of the suspicion on Moi re’s part that she was to? Intimate with McClelland. When Moore returned from his work Monday rooming he found his wife sitting at work nt her sewing machine. Without saying a word he drew a revolver and sh it her through the head, killing her Instantly. He then ran into an adjoining room where McClelland was sleeping and fired two shots at him, one strlkin: him in thr forehead. Moore then ran from the hon-e to the residence of his mother-in-law. near by. and shot himself through the bead. •

TEXAS STRUCK BY A CYCLONE. Loss ot Life and Destruction of Property A Family’s Miraculous Escape. A cyclone struck the neighborhood of Gladwater, Texas. Firlunutelv. the country over which It swept is sparsely settle 1. and the lost of life is sm ill. Forest trees were blown down by thousands J. M. Munger’s dwelling, a strongslx-room bouse, was moved four feet and the corner jammed into the earth. Then the whole structure was carried fifty yards and dropped on several beehives. Not one plank remains lin its place. In this bouse seven people were at breakfast. All of them r. ra lined In the building during Its trip, and not one was killed. The wind struck six miles away at West Mountains, killing an old negress, and blowing down many housca At Bonham It destroyed the exposition building ttr.-j deniol|-be i a few housei J" APPEALS TO -UNCLE SAM.” A South Sea Potentate Who Fears He

Will Dose His Kingdom. King Teburelmoa. of the Big MaClrmmd Little Makin Islands of the Gilbert group in the Pacific Ocean, sailed last week from San Francisco on the steamer Montserrat for his island home at Butariturl. The King's mission was to cultivate more friendly relations with the Unllel States and he appointed Colonel C. E. Dailey us his commissioner to represent him In this country. Colonel Dailey says that the King has written alerter to President Harrison stating that he fears some European government will seize the Islands, and requesting that the United States establish a protectorate over h:s kingdom. Colonel Dailey Ji given full power to make negotiations with this Government, and will forward the King’s letter to Washington.

Gigantic Tobacco Fraud Again. The full extent ot the tobacco frauds committed by the Sun Francisco ring against the Government by undervaluation was learned Friday. In the last six months 600 bales ot Sumatra tobacco, valued at over a quarter of a million dollars and dutiable at $2 per pound, have been entered at the port of San Francl-co by the payment of 35 cents per pound duty. This Is a loss it revenu > to the Government ot nearly 8100,003. This enormous quantity of tobacco was dlstr.buted to various cities in the country, and the Government is just beginning to find it out. Convention H all Ready. The Minneapolis convention hall has been turned over to the committee by Delancey & Cook, the contractor -, who have completed their work. Tue hall was completed eighteen days from the day of commencement and the workmen were oblived to lay off two days for lack of lumber. The Executive Committee has decided to close up the hall from now until the couvention concert Rumored Cabinet Changes. A special from Washington says the statement was made there on good authority that President Harrison has decided upon several changes in his Cabinet, which it is expected will tak*j place May 1. The new slate moves Attorney General Miller to the Supreme Court, puts Secretary Noble into the Department of Justice, and nominates M. M. Estee, of California, to succeed Noble. Stole 8,000,000 Marks. A dispatch from Frankfort, Germany, says that Herr Jaeger, chief cashier of the Rothschilds, has absconded after embezzling nearly 2.083,000 marks. Lord Rothschild. In this city, says the house has no advices on the subject. Cracking a Whip Killed Him. At Leon, W. Va.. while some young boys were seeing who could make the most noise cracking whips. William Connoly,.aged 14, with a large whip outdid the others, but fell deed in his tracks feom overexertion. Varioloid in an Immigrant Family. There is some little excitement at Detroit. Mich., over the discovery of a case of varioloid la the family of Yusef Rhoda, a German wlto arrived iu this country fifteen days ago on tbn eleauer Weimar.

Although the child is not In a dangerous condition herself, the case is one of grave importance from the fact, that varioloid is as contagious as smallpox, and that hundreds of people have been exposed to the disease. The entire family has been quarantined, and the health authorities hope thus to at least restrict the spread of the disease, though all- those who are known to have been exposed have been vaccinated. TERRORIZED BY REDS. Authorities nt Rome Fear an Anarchist Uprising. Rome advice* say that the authorities on Monday begun the wmk of barricading the residences of the officials and also the banks. This Is done In view of disturbances which occurred Sunday, and of the apprehension of more serious disturbances to follow. The working clashes are greatly stirred up by the prospect of a renewal of the flour tax. this being used as an ar uliient to animate them against the government The extreme socialists are very active and besides appealing to the prejudice ng i:n t the moneyed and upper classes they have enlisted the sympathy and co-operation of the Irredentist ufSitators. Threats ar? freely uttered against the Austrians, and there is reason to fear that in the event of a riot the Austrian embassy will be a-siileL For this rea-on the lower windows ot the embassy were wal'.e 1 up sirmcly enough to prevent any assailants from entering or shooting into the building Th- members and servants of the embassy are armed, and every preparation has been made to give a d‘-adly*rccoptlon to a mob. Feeling against the Austrians Is running very high, partly because of the close friendship shown between the Vatican and the Austrian court. King Humbert has giien particular instructions to protect the embassy from violence. and the troops of the garrison are kept ready to go to the rescue at the first .sign of danger. SLEPT 308 DAYS. The Strange Case of Miss May White, of Ingham, Mich. Miss May White, the 23-year-old daughter of Palmer While, of Ingham. Mich., has since Sunday, June 21, 1891, Just 318 days. At one time she weighed but fifty pounds. Before she was stricken down she weighed 125 pounds. The cause of her malady Is a fall received while attending a business college in Ypsilanti in 1893. Her hip was Injured and an abscess formed. She recovered from this and prepared to return to school | again, when what is scientifically culled historoepilepsy seized her, and on some days ' she has as many.as fifty convulsions. The sleepy feeling then came over her, and-she remained In that condition for twenty-six hours before she could be awakened at all. From a few moments at a time at first her waking hours have at last been lengthened to from six to sometimes ten hours per day. Last Saturday she sat up to the dinner table for the first time In almost two years. The doctor says he will yet make her a well girl. ,

iiavachol is avenged. Anarchists Place a Bomb in the Shop Where Their Leader Was Arrested. I There was a terrific explosion Monday evening In the entrance ot the wine shop of M. Very. 22 Boulevard Magenta, Paris, where iiavachol, the anarchist, was arrested on March 30. The bomb contained at least twelve pounds ot dynamite and coupletly wrecked the establishment. Ten persons were serl >usly Injured and M. Very was mortally wounded. More Money lor the Pope. In the month of March the collection of | St. 1 eter’s pence for the Vatican was not- I ably increased, the amount having been ] upward of SBO,OOO. while the average monthly collections heretofore have not exceeded too.ooo. Before the public declaration by the Vatican of Its policy favorable to the French republic, France usually beaded the list in the amount collected, | but since that time It has.sunk to the eighth place, the United Stales standing second. Charley R ed Is Dead. Charles 11. Reed, the counsel ot Gutteau, the i residential assassin, died at his home In Baltimore. His family used every means t > keep his death u secret, and It only came to light through the undertakers’ certificate In the health department. The cause of dea.h was progressive paralysis, which gradually changed the once strong man to an imbecile before death relieved him .’ Baker Executed at Ncxv Orleans. J’hillp Baker, the murderer ot Mrs. Laura Nelson, the wife of Nell Nelson, living In Carrollton, In the upper part of Now Orleans, expiated his crime upon the gallows In the parish prison. He died without the quiver ot a muscle, walking to the scaffold with a firm tread, and maintained his innocence tt’the last Every effor- was made to save Baker.

Open to County Taxation. The Supreme Court of the State of Georgia has affirmed the constitutionality of the law passed by the Legislature making the property ot railroads amenable to county taxation. The fight to secure county taxation has been a long one. 1 his means the addition of $500,000 t > the revenues of the counties of the State. Captured by Dahomeyans. It Is reported in Paris tbat'T’orto Novo has been captured by the Dahcmeyans. Tne rumor Is not official, but has caused great public anxiety. Tanner Catches a Plum. The President has appointed John R. Tanner, former y State Treasurer of .Illinois, as Assistant Culled States Treasurer at Chicago.

MARKET QUOTATION’S.

CHICAGO. Cattle-Common to Primo.... $3.50 (9 5.25 Hog i—Shipping Grades 8.59 @ 4.75 SaEhJ—l sir to Choice 4.00 ® 6.50 WHE.VI—No. 2 Bed 82 @ .83 Cobn—No 2 41)4@ .42)4 Oats—No. 2 20 @ ,80 Hye—No. 2 73 (9 .74 Bvttbt.—i holce ■ reamery 21 @ .2.1 Jheßsk—Fall Cream, flats 12)4@ .1334 Eggs—Fresh 12 @ .14 Potatoes—hew, per brl 8.00 @ 9.00 Indianapolis. Cattle-S’liipi Ing 3.25 @4.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 4.75 Sh ep—Common to Prime B.OC @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Hed 85>4@ .80)4 Cons—No. 1 White tl @ .42 Oats- No. 2 White 31 @ ,32 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.25 H as 3.50 @4.75 Wheat—No. z Bed 66 @ .87 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .38 Oats-No. 2 30 @ .31 Barley-lowa 47 @ .49 CINCINNATI. Cattle. . 3.00 @ 4.25 Hous.... 3,00 <9 4.76 Sheep ; 4.00 @ 6.50 Wt-ETT— No. 2 Bed 90H@ .91)4 C Bx—No. 2 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 @ .33 DEI BO IT. Cattle. 3.01 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.u0 (9 45 > Sheep 3.00 (9 5.50 Wheat—No.,2 Bed 90 @ .91 Cohn—No. 2 Yellow 42 @ .43 Oats ■ No. 2 White 32)4® .33)4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 92 @ .93 C BN—No. 2 Yellow 41 ® .42 Oats—No. 2 White .31 ia 32 Rye 79 @ .81 buffalo. Beef Ca’tle 400 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 3,75 @5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 92 ® .93 CcBS—No. 2 « @ .45 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring .81 @ .33 Corn—No. 3 @ a Oats—No. 2 White .... .31 @ .32 Rib— No. 1 .79 .81 Barley—No. 2., ,55 @ .57 Pork— Mess 9.25 @ 9.75 NEW YORK. Cattle, 3.50 @ 5,06 Hogs_ 3.0) @ 550 Sheep 500 »t 7.60 Wheat—No. 2 Red .98 @1.03 CoBM—No 2... 49 @ .51 Oats— Mixed Western ,34 @ .f$ Bcttxb— Crewnery. ,73 « .24 Pom -New Mess <I,OO @U.*j

WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

BRAINY MEN WHO ARE PHYSICAL WRECKS. Pen Pictures in Both Wings or the Capitol—Mr. Reed's Notion About the Celling—A Senator Who Keeps His Hands in His Pocket*. Uncle Sam’s Law-Makers.

IN this country there is no more interesting hall than the Senate ; Chamber of the United

States,says a Washington correspondent. Here we have before our eyes eighty* of the most famous men of the land, and it would >be surprising if a istudy of them, even "of the most casual and superficial char- ' acter, did not reveal ■ to us many characSter studies and incidents of an interesting nature. Here

daily meet more men whose names are' a household word throughout the country than can be found in any other assemblage. Here take place almost every day a variety of trivial incidents of small importance, yet worthy of comment by those whose business it is to study the leading men of the country and the times. I was much struck a few weeks ago by the appearance of old Senator Morrill, of Vermont, just before he was taken ill. He was walking about the chamber in his usual restless manner, with head bent low with age and his white hair speaking eloquently of the many years that he has passed in the public service. It was thirty-six years ago that this man first made his appe.urance in. the Capitol, then in his prime, a young and ambitious member of the House of Representatives. It was he who gave his name to the first great tariff bill passed in the war era, ior he was then the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, a post since filled by some of the most famous men of our history— Randall, Morrison, Mills, McKinley, Springer. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Morrill took his seat in the Senate, where he has been ever since, an honor to his Stale. Throughout this quarter of a century he has been one of the few men who have represented the highest type of public service in this country—studious, conscientious, zealous. It is an odd fact that his anxiety to serve his constituents has increased with the weight of years, and but a short time ago we saw him making a speech in the Senate with an almost painful effort to reach the high standard cf effectiveness which came easily to him in his prime. Sad, indeed, was it to see him endeavor to lift his feeble voice above the hum of the chamber, and to give to his most important sentences the emphasis which he knew was their due. His case was only one of many which we have of late .had in the Senate —instances of men old and decrepit in years and in physical strength, yet vigorous in intellectual power. When Senator Morrill, though past 80, made his last great speech in the Senate his mind was apparently as stiong, as alert, as full of analysis and the power of logic as ever. It was the voice, the step, the gesture, the articulation, which indicated decay. Another striking example of this was afforded by the latest efforts of Mr. Evarts. During the last few years of his service in the Senate no one could detect any flaw in his mental composition. He was seemingly the brilliant Evarts of old, a marvel of generalization and reasoning. His ereat brain was moving on with all the vigor of youth, but the tongue was palsied, the lips were halt and weak, the gestures those of senility. His last speech in the Senate was like that of a manikin endowed with the highest mentality

SENATOR BARBOUR’S POCKET GESTURE

known to the finite mind. Why’is it that among men who make their mark in life, their impress u: on the thought of their times, solely through their intellectuality, it is the body and not the brain which first gives out? All their Lives their physical selves have been carefully nutured, sub o-ted to little or no strain, permitted to act as mere tenders to the gray matter which axioms the top of the s; Inal column. In the Senate we have a number of instances of the modem rule that it is the. body which first gives way. Take for one sample Senator Turpie, of Indiana. Watch him in his seat or moving about on the foor, and he looks like a physical wreck—a man who is merely existing. His g.izzled head is continually shaking as if ho were palsied. Yet his mind is seemingly as powerful and perfect as it ever was. His distinguished colleague. Senator Vcorhees, is another physical wreck. His limbs are thick and halt; his body full of infirmities. It is with difficulty that he moves about in the chamber. Yet when he rises to-speak the gray matter at the fountain head of his nervous organiza-tion-sparkles, fulminates, illumines. He is still forceful, eloquent. It is the physical organization, whiHi he is supposed to have taxed least of all, which has borne but a small share of the burdens of his career, that first refuses to perfectly perform its functions. Though ten years the junior of that remarkable old man. Senator Palmer, Senator Platt is wor.hy of mention as one of the virile men of his age and times. You may have seen newspaper mention of the fact that by many of his colleagues Mr. Platt is considered available for the no nination for President. He doesn't think so himself, as I happen to know, but still the gossip concerning him goes on. Senator Platt is perhaps the most ungainly man we have in the Senate. He is awkwardness and clumsiness personified. The tallest man in the Senate, the lankest and leanest, he is also the most awkward. To add to the difficulty, he is as restless as a fish ‘out of water. He is constantly walking about the chamber, uneasy and ill-con-tent, as if time hung heavily on- his hands, and in thus perambulating he does not appear to know what to do with h s hands, and puts his feet down as if afraid all the while that ho migut step upon something which would explode or slip froth under him. Yet, with all tnese peculiarities, he is one of the most JcvaUe men in the Senate, one who has

a kind word for and from all his associates. One of the most solid-looking men of the Senate is Mr. Gray of Delaware. His case Is an illustration of the old adage that a prophet is not without honor, etc. It happened that Mr. Gray is little known throughout the country, and I doubt if more than one-half the readers of this letter ever heard of him before, yet in the Senate he is looked up to as one of the strong mtn, one of the master minds of the body. A thinker, an orator, a patriot, a man of rare ability and common sense, the day will surely come in which lie will be known by the nation at his true worth. One of Senator Gray’s peculiarities is his fondness for running his hands down in the pockets of his trousers. In this he is like a boy who has for the first time in his career attained th 3 dignity of jocke's. Whether making a speech or engaged loitering about the chamber, an eager listener to all that is going on, Senator Gray habitually has his two big hands thrust into the pockets of Mils trousers. Another Senator who liW< to keep his bands in his pockets is Mr. Barbour of Virginia. A week or so ago I saw Senator Barbour making a speech on a subject dear to his heart—the Virginia tax bill. In advocacy of his ideas he became insistent, earnest, even eloquent, but he could not muster up enough courage to disengag > his han Is, which ho had thrust into the pockets of his short coat. As the spirit moved him to gesticulate, he did it in an original and inimitable manner, with his hand in his pockets. First h’s right hand would shoot up into the air for purposes of emphasis, and then his left would follow suit, eaeh movement displaying to the curious observer large sections of his wa stcoat and shirt. One of the most remarkable faces in the Senate is that of Arthur Pue Gorman. It is a saying in the Senate Chamber that there are three Senator Gormans—the smiling Gorman, the serious Go. tan, and the Gorman who smiles and frowns at the same time. The Maryland Senator is the only man I

EX-SPECKER REED'S QUEER FAD.

know who can smile on one side of his face with curling lip and twinkling eye, while on the other side he is as sober as a judge. I know he can do this, because I have seen him. Over in the House end of the Capitol ex-Speaker Reed is still the most conspicuous figure. Mr. Reed has of late developed a new fad —one which causes no little amusement among the members who sit near him. It is his belief that drops of water are continually falling from the beautiful ceiling of the hall and alighting upon his bald head. Two op three times a day he throws back his head, rubs the bald spot with his handkerchief, and gazes threateningly at Ihe ceiling. In vain do Mr. Reed’s friends assure him that he is laboring under a hallucination and that no water falls on his devoted head. The ex-Speaker insists that there is a crack in the roof and that somewhere in the ceiling a pool of water has accumulated for the express purpose of moistening his pate with an occasional drop. An examination of the roof and ceiling is to be maie in a few days in order to allay Mr. Reed’s fears.

World’s Fair Notes.

Kentucky has made a SIOO,OOO appropriation. Victoria, Australia, has made a World’s Pair appropriation'of SIOO,OOO. -Applications for space in the Exposition buildings now aggregate more than 4,000,000 square feet. In the Government exhibit will appear all the relies, which are obtainable, of various Arctic exploring expeditions. Arguments for and against Sunday opening of the Exposition will be hoard by the Natonal Commission on Oct. 6. The American Bible Society will make an exhibit in which will appear copies of Bibles in more, than 200 different languages. Indiana has begun the erection of its building at the Exposition, and is well advanced in arrangements for its general State exhibit. The Board of Lady Managers proposes to erect near the Woman’s Building a children’s home or public comfort pavilion for mothers and children. A young lad, son of the editor of the Florida Standard, is making, for < xhibition at the Fair, a tr.ble upon which appears an inlaid map of the State, ea-h county being accurate’y represented by a separate piece of native 1- lorida wood.

His Life Threatened.

The writing of threatening letters to Dr. Parkhurst seems to have become the main industry of that class of citizens whom he has driven out of other lines of business.—New York Telegram. Dr. Parkhurst hag received eleven letters threatening his life if he does not cease his crusade against crime in New York City. It looks like the reverend gentleman was getting 'in his work. —Peoria Journal. Dr. Parkhurst has received eleven warnings of sudden doath unless he stops trying to make a respectable city of New York. The Doctor will not bo really afraid til the number reaches thirteen. Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-graph. Dr. Parkhurst’s life has been threatened if he persists in the crusade of reform which he has pushed with such relentless vigor in New York. The anonymous letter is always the weapon of the vicious and cowardly. Dr. Parkhurst should remember that threatened men live long.—Boston Becord.

Spurgeon’s Fortune.

Spurgeon’s widow announces that her famous bust and left less than $lO,000. 'J he world would have been more than surprised if such a man had left a great fortune.—Springfield Republican. Spurgeon died a poor man. Fortunes came to him during his lifetime, from one or another of the causes in which he was interested, but every pound thus received, as well as a very large share of his personal income, was expended for others—Boston i lobe. Dr. Spurgeon died really very poor. His big heart always got the better of his prudence and he could not allow his money to collect while others were in want. And East London has been packed with those others the past score of y.ats. —Boston Record. Effort finds congenial companionship when it meets with approval.

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our KaflonaJ. Lawmakers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Coun ry— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. t Doings of Congress. On ttie 20th. after the usual morning business. Mr. Sherman notified the Senate that further examination of the Chinese Immigration question had convinced the Committee on Foreign Relations that the existing Chinese exclusion legislation would not expire till 1894. and that there was therefore no pressure for imm'diate action on the question. He would, however, call it up to the convenience of Senators who deslrel to apeak ufon the subject Thereupon the silver resolution offered by Mr. Morgan was take i up. and consumed the re-tot fie session. In the House the NoyesKockwell e!o tlon c iso whs the solo subject of consider itton. The discussion, thou h good fr- m t» legal and technical st.iiidoolnt, win utterly aevold of interest from a sensational one. Pending further discussion the Houso ndiourned. In the Sen at e, the2lst, bills « ere passed as follows: House bill to create a third division of the district of Kansas for judicial pitrj oses. Senate bill for the appointment of consuls to the Congo Free State. To amend the laws relating to purchase of and contract for supplies. Presiding for sundry lighthouses and other aids to navigation. This bill appropriates 8504.300 for a large number of lighthouses and other aids to navigation, mostly in the great lakes; to establish a military pos" near Helena, Monk (appropriating S’it 0.000). The House bill to prohibit absolutely, the coming of Chinese persons into United States was taken up for consideration, but not disposed of. The Noyes-Rock-well contested election case again consumed all the time of the House. In the Senate, the 22d, the following bills were passed: House bill to amend act of Jan. 19, 1886. providing for the discharge of the duties of the President in case of his death, etc., by providing that the Secretary of Agriculture shall come in after the Secretary of the Interior. Senate joint resolution extending an invitation to the King and Queen of Spain and the descendants of Columbus to participate In the World’s Columbian Exposition. Joint resolution requesting the loan from Spain of certain articles (Columbian relics) for the World’s Columbian Exposition. Extending an invitation to the Presidents of the American republics nnd the Governors of the American colonies to participate in the World’s Col urn bl in Exposition. After some discussion a bill was passed authorizing tlie Secretary of the Interior to increase to Sl2 a menth the pension of every pensioner who is now on the rolls at ¥8 a month on account of service tn the Mexican war, and who is wholly disabled for manual labor, and Is in such destitute circumstances that 88 a month is insufficient to provide him with the necessaries of life. The Chinese exclusion bill was then taken up. In the House, the Noyes-Rockwell contested f lection cash was decided in favor of Rockwell, the sitting member. The 25th, the Chinese exclusion bill was the sole subject of discussion, and the present law was re-enacted; with the time for its continuance set at ten years. Numerous protests from the Slates of Missouri, Texas. Virginia. Michigan. Arkansas. Wisconsin. and Dakota, principally from Seventh Day Baptists and Adventists, were presented asking. Congress not to commit itself to any religious creed by urging the Columbian World’s Exposition to be closed on Sunday. There were also two remonstrances from Massachusetts, against the passage of the Chinese exclusion bill. Personal matters again had full sway in the House, and tho day was practically wasted.

On the Diamond.

Following Is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: , NA" lOXAL LEAGUE. W. L. ilfc.l W. L tpc. Boston 7 1 .675 Cleveland... 4 3 .571 Jjonisville... 6 2 .7 0 Washington. 8 3 .ME Pittsburg.... 6 2 .751 Philodelp’a. 2 6 .25C Brooklyn.... 6 2 .759 Chicago 2 7 .222 Cincinnati... 7 5 .583 St. Louis.... 1 8 .111 New York... 4 ,3 .571 Baltimore .. 1 8 .Hl WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. T>c.| W. L. ¥>C. Milwaukee... 5 <) I.tXMI Omaha 2 2 .50.’ Kansas City. 4 2 .667 Toledo 2 3’ .406 St. Paul 3 2 .6 0 Minnenp’lis. 1 4 .20C Columbus... 8 3 .SOOllndlan’p’l’s.. 0 4 .036

The Woman’s Crusade.

The Chicago women have now organized to compel the city to clean the streets. Women w&e always handy with brooms and they may make aclean sweep in this case. —Minneapolis Journal. Chicago women held a mass meeting recently to decide on some plan for cleaning the streets of the city. These women will find there j*”ndthing equal to a trailing skirt. It does the work every time. —Toledo Blade. Chicago women have organized to clean the streets. They don’t propose to manipulate the sweepers, shovels and carts themselves, but will see that the work is done. Why don’t they all wear trains?—St. Louis Chronicle. The women of Chicago have formed an association the object of which is to keep the streets of the city clean. The women have been sweeping the streets for a year past, and unless there is danger of fashion decreeing shorter skirts the need of an association is not apparent. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The women of Chicago have attacked the dirty streets and are doing free of cost what the city paid a contractor thousands for not doing. A number of Omaha women thought seriously of doing the same thing, but after looking the streets over concluded the job was too great to undertake.—Omaha WorldHerald.

Saved by a Red Skirt.

Presence of mind and the right color of underclothing <nabled a Mrs. Baker, of Allegheny, Pa., two or three days ago to flag a passenger train in time to pre- | vent its running into a tunnel that had caved in.—Savannah News A woman has just saved a train on 1 the Pittsburg and Western Railroad from a smash-up ip a tunnel by the strictly I feminine presepce of mind with which .she waved her red flannel This shows the importance of costume In critical emergencies. So, no wonder the chorus girls who are to plas®tgh- i land lads in “The Child of Fortune” at the Casino protest against kilts. There is not enough wave in a kilt even to drive off rheumatism.—New York Commercial. I ’The red skirt has often been subjected to unkind criticism as an article of woman’s apparel. Let nothing more be said in its disfavor. Mrs Baker, a widow living near Allegheny, Pa., has demonstrated that it can be made as distinctly useful as its critics have had it questionably ornamental. Finding a tunnel on the Pittsburg and Western road caved in, the plucky widow took off her red skirt, ran along the track waving it aloft, and stopped a passenger train just in tinie to avert a probably terrible disaster. Long may the red skirt wave, then, when it is in humanity’s cause!— New York World.

The Deadly Cigarette.

‘ The dude need not starve, after all. 1 His “thigawette” will still abide to destroy his lung tissues and make everyone else miserable.—Boston There is a prospect under way to abolish the cigarette trust. If by our works w>> are judged it is a trust that should be easily shaken.—St. Paul Dispatch. Nearly three million cigarettes were consumed in this country during the last year, but the consumption of paper “coffin-nails” is nothing compared with the consumption of their victims.—Exchange.

FRANTIC APPEAL OF RUSTLERS.

They Denounce the Cattlemen and Ask Protection from the President. President Harrison received the following telegram from a committee of the rustlers of Wyoming engaged in the recent troubles in that State, which gives their side of the case: Buffalo. Wyo., via Douglas, Wya To Benjamin Harrison. President of the United States, Washington, D. C.: We do solemnly affirm that, contrary to all law of God and man, an armed body of capitalists, with hirst! war men. have entered our country with the open and avowed intention of taking possession of and controlling the same in their own interests; that we believe their alm was to terrorize and depopulate the country to their own aggrandizement, to murder and kill any or ail persons resisting them, regardless of reputation or calling; that they have been detected in the act of commitment of such murder and killing; that they have with firearms resisted arrest by the civil authorities and have defied the law; that when surrounded by the Sheriff’s posse, their capture certain, they were arrested by the military, which military Is now ordered to escort them in safety to the railroad. • ** The band comprises some of the wealthiest people of the State, and they openly aver that their wealth will buy them off arid will 1 uy the protection of the Government. Our people have 1 een calm, patient and miraculously submissive to law and order all through their terrible ordeal. They ask not for vengeance, but justice. The executive department of the State has move ! in such a manner as to indicate its sympathy with and protection of these influential rebels, which same they claim now. Our people have loth judgment and feeling, which former has ever controlled them, yet to see the slavers of their innocent brothers go unpunished may drive them insane. We in behalf cf our fellow-citizens’ and as we love domestic peace and tranquillity, and in the name of God and justice, most respectfully request that the President of the United States, the head of our great Government, pledge himself to his people that justice reigns supreme; that to the high and mighty, as well as to the poor and obscure, punishment shall be meted out as deserved, according to tho laws and statutes of the tluited States. We pledge our honor that nothing has occu red to occasion alarm of bodily injury to the pr sorters from the copula e, and that we believe such information is false and raaliclousy intended to Injure our pe .ple and defame their loyalty to the government, and we firmly 1 elieve there is none intended, wh n an assurance exists that justice will he done; and while in our judgment It were better to hold the prisoners f<r trial at the scene of the crimes, amply protected by troops assisting the sheriff, yet, if It Is the will of the chief executive to retrieve them, we shall labor unceasingly at his direction to assure him that his people are worthy of his love and prote tlon. We most respectfully asks will It be the pleasure of the President to'recelve a ommltt e of ov.r county and learn how grossly our people have been muligno I? C. J. Hacebson. Chairman Board County Commissioners and Acting Mayor of Buffala The President’s Reply. A special from Buffalo, Wyoming, says: A message in reply to the appeal from the people has been received from President Harrison. The message was circulated among the people and was well received. The people feel better, now that they know the President and public are aware that they wish an investigation and justice done to all parties. The President says: Executive Mansion, Washin >ton. To C. J. Hagerson and others, Buffalo, Wyoming: The Governor of your State mads a call upon me. in conformity with the Constitution of the Uritsd States, for aid in suppressing domestic violence and threatened b oodshed. ’I could not know anything of the situation except as related by him, and could not refuse the aid of troops to preserve the peace. The prisoners will, ns soon as the State authorities are prepared to receive them, be turned over to the civil authorities, and our conne tion with the matter will end unless further called upon to aid the State authorities to preserve tho peace. I do not doubt that the executive and judicial authorities of your State will, without fear or favor, bring to trial and punishment thpse who have violated the law, by orderly methods. Nothing will be done by me to shield any guilty person. My counsel, as your fellow citizen, is to proceed in all thlpgs peacefully and upon lawful lines. I will, of course, see any one you send, but you will see that 1 can do nothing except to act with the State to prevent violence. Everything else rests with the State authorities. Benjamin Harbison. An Armed Guard Established. There are about one hundred and fifty armed men in town organized as home guards, the organization being established last Sunday night. The streets are patrolled by a strong guard at night, and all travelers to and from town are inspected. Rumors are current of other bands of invaders, coming from Montana and elsewhere to assist the stockmen. The outposts of the organization will seek to give timely warning of the approach of any such party. Fears are entertained by many that the attempts of the stockmen will be renewed. A few persons suspected of having been favorable to the stockmen are in fear of violence from the other party. The streets have been quiet but full of people, and business is at a standstill. Sheriff Angus has turned the prisoners in jail over to Col. Van Horne. Violence is not apprehended at present, but if the rumored invasion should occur, or it some vicious rumors should gain credence, in the present state of excitement one cannot tell what might happen.

Deeming the Demon.

A doctor pronounces Deeming an instinctive criminal. Just the kind, in other words, to hang.—New York Commercial. The suspicion is. growing that when Deeming fully confesses the world will know where Tascott is and who it was that struck Billy Pattersc-n.—Kansas City Journal. An Australian doctor says Deeming is an “instinctive” criminal. If instinct has got such a tendency as this in the nineteenth century something is crooked in our civilization.—Boston Record. If Deeming, the Liverpool and Australian murderer, has an” form of insanity it is such a one as demands his absolute removal from society by means which the Australian law will supply.— Exchange. A grave doctor at Melbourne says Deeming, thd many-times murderer, is an “instinctive criminal.” To be dealt with, therefore, according to society’s instinctive sense of self-protection.— New York World. Deeming’s plea of “instinctive insanity” will not amount to much, after an official declaration of an expert in diseases of the mind that he is sane. If he were ti plead “convenient” insansanity it would be nearer the truth.— Savannah News.

The Salvation Army Adjunct.

Can the Salvation army make the matrimonial bureau business respectable?— Boston News. The Salvation army will get a good many fresh recruits when it establishes its matrimonial bureau. There are a great many old maids and old bachelors who would like to be saved.—Boston Herald. The Salvation army has done good in the world. But its recently established matrimonial bureau will not have a tendency to raise the members of the army in the estimation of mankind. A man who cannot find a wife himself, without any outside assistance, is very seldom worthy of a helpmeet.—Boston Globe.