Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Page 2

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WILD SCENES IN PAKIS.

CLEMENCEAU TO FIGHT TWO DUELS. four Desperate Thugs Terrorize a Chicago Suburban Train—pne Matrimonial Experience Not Enough for Sirs. Blaine— Mot Times in Mississippi. France in a Turmoil. Ten more victims of the Panama scandal were thrown into the hopper of tho French mill of justice Tuesday. All are men of great prominence in the public affairs of France and the excitement throughout Paris and the country is again at fever heat, The official list includes five Senators, two of them former cabinet ministers, and five Deputies. The official announcement was made simultaneously in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. French law forbids the criminal prosecution of a member of Parliament without the consent of a special commission of each house, and when such permission was asked the Senators and Deputies assaulted each other. The scene that followed is without parallel in any legislative Falls on earth. As a result, it is stated that Clemenceau has two duels on his hands.

MISSISSIPIANS IN TEKROIi. Members of the Tolbert Gang Trying to Wipe Out the Lynchers. A reign of terror exists in Kemper County, Mlssl, and every citizen who had anything to do with hanging old man Tolbert and bringing Tom and Walter Tolbert to justice Is now in hourly dread of his life. A week ago William Beckman was assassinated by his own fireside. Beckman was expecting to be waylaid, and had made his arrangements to leave the country next day. Saturday evening Col. Adams was fired at from ambush by two white men with their faces blackened. Adams returned the fire, but ■without effect There is great excitement and no one goes abroad without being heavily armed. Dr. Stemmls has been compelled through fearof assassination to neglect a large practice and seclude himself at home. The disguised men are supposed to be Itanse and Charlie Tolbert, who. driven to desperation by the hanging of their father, the death of their brother John and the shooting and capture of their brothers. Tom and Walter Tolbert, have determined to avenge their Cause, RAILROAD MEN PROTEST. South Carolina Corporations Are Now Under the State Commission. The bill putting The absolute control of all the railroads in the State of South Carolina into the hands of the Railroad Commission, from whose decision there shall be no appeal, has been signed by Governor Tillman. A mass-meeting of railroad employes was held in Columbia. E. C., and a committee was appointed to wait upon the Governor in regard to the bill. After bearing their mission the Governor said: “The bill 'has already beep signed and is now a law. Tho opposition of 8.030 or 10,000 railroad cmployesdoes not amount to a d compared with the 50.000 of OO.OOO.farmers demanding Sts passage.” The effect of this was rather Inflammatory. A mass-meatlug of all railroad employes in the State was called for Thursday night next, and the battle cry will then begin In earnest against the Tillman movement.

MRS. BLAINE TO WED. Report that She Will Make Another Venture Into the Bonds of Matrimony. A special from Washington says the correspondent was Informed that Mrs. James

G. Blaine, Jr., Is again to to married. The gentleman who Is said to have won her affections Is the surgeon who ded iter I through her severe illness. A reporier called at the New York Hotel to see Mrs. Blaine, but was told that she is an invalid and could not be seen.

MRS J. G BCAINE.JR.

* NOT LIKELY TO OCCUR. Report that President Harrison Will Leetare at the Stanford University. The statement Is published that President Harrison, at the expiration of bis term of office, Marc h 4 next, will become a memUw of the faculty of the Stanford Unlv«*s,ty, haring accepted a proposition to deliver a series of lectures on law, as nonresident professor. This would necessitate occasional visits to Ca ifornia from his hcate la Indianapolis, where it is understood President Harrison is to locate, and might result in h:s making California his winter residence each ysar.

Stambonl Sold at Auction. Stan.boul, the champion trotting stallion of the world, was sold at auction in New York for $41,000. The fact that Stamboul did not bring a higher price was due to twc causes: First, that the horse was offered at the beginning of the sale instead of being held until buyers had been warmed up to the occasion, and second, because there Is a feeling that a campaigner Is worth far more as a sire than a horse that has made most of his beet records against the watch. Stamboul has shown that he is game te the core, and yet buyers would hare been more ready to bid had he seen more tough vo.'k on the track in act”al races. v Terrorised a Train. Amid a fusillade of shots four desperate thieves escaped from a Chicago and Eastern Illinois suburban train at 53d street. Chicago. Tuesday night, during a reigrrul terror that had been Inaugurated by Officer Bailey attempting to ariest one of theli number. Windows were shattered ami lamps extinguished by the shower of bullets that whistled over the beads of the passengers in the smoking-car, and foi five minutes the scene rivaled a tale ol life In the wild West. It was colored eftectively by the two policemen standing at bay before the revolvers of two of the thieves while th6ir pockets were rifled. To Avenge Diaz's Death. A special from Oaxaca. Mexico, says that Nicholas Fernandez, a wealthy young Fpaniurd, who killed Aurello Diaz, a nephew of President Diaz, In a duel there recently, has been arrested and will be tried on a charge of murder. The seconds of Fernandez have also been arrested.

Charged with Murder. James (’oliiiis, a switchman, was arrested in Terre Haute for the attempted murder of Katie Dojrie. She was struck on the head with a brick. Russia’s Mortality from Cholera. Final official statistics 6t the cholera epidemic In Russia have just been issued. According to these figures there have been 1*0,417 deaths from European and 135,3« deaths from Asiatic cholera since the outbreak of the disease in the empire, making a total of 245,760 deaths. Reading's Latest Scheme. Captain John A Schweers, chief of tbs Sending Coal and Iron Company's pay-roll I department in Pottsville, has been appointed to represent that company in its eedeevor to establish a market for its coal In Germany. H« wilt shortly sail foi

LESSEPS IS IN JAIL, i Arrests at Paris in Connection with thl Panama SeandaL M. Charles Aime de Lesseps, M. Marlui Etienne Fontaine, and M. San-Leroy have been arrested In Paris, by direction of the Minister of Justice, M. Bourgeois, for their alleged connection with the Panama Canal frauds. M. Henri Louis Felix Cottu, sot whose arrest an order was also Issued, has fled to Vienna. San-Leroy Is charged with having accepted a bribe as a membet of the Chamber of Deputies. The charges against the officers of the com. pany, on which summonses were previously served andou which they have now been arrested, are that they have Jointly made use of fraudulent Imaginary credits that they have dissipated capital intrusted to them for a specific purpose, and that they have swindled others out of part or all ol their means of living on their fortunes. The offenses come within the reach ol seven articles of the penal code. The accomplice is liable to tho same penalties Besides making the arrests the authorities have searched the residences of Di Lesseps, Fontaine, Cottu and San Leroy and seized a mass of documents throwing new and important light on the Panama frauds and corruption. The arrests hav« caused great excitement and the PaDami scandal Is the only topic of conversation it political.and social circles What the outcome will bo no one is able to predict, bul it can be said that those who have the besl interests of the republic at heart are deeply grieved at the venality and selfishness displayed by mSn in high position', many ol whom were sworn to preserve the honor nl France. The papers contain little of interest to Parisians except matter bearing upon the scandal.

HOW POPULISTS WILL VOTE. Senator Kyle Intimates that They Will Act with the Democrats. Senators Gorman, Brice, and Carlisle, who went to New York to consult about the Senate contests now pending in certain Western States, have returned to Washington. With their return comes the report that the representatives of the People's party in Congress will act with the Democrats in the next Congress. A dispatch says that already steps have been taken to strengthen the friendship between the Democrats and the Populists in the House and Seaate. Senator Kyle, the recognized leader of the Populists in Congress, was asked if he intended to vote with the Democrats in the reorganization of the Senate. He said he was not prepared to commit himself irrevocably on that subject. “But,” said he. “since I have been a member of the Senate I have voted nine times out of every ten with tho Democrats. There is rtiuch in common between our people and the Democrats ” Over Fifty Victims. A fearful explosion occurred at tho Barafurlong colliery, Wigan, England, and not less than fifty lives have been lost. The men went to their work as usual in the morning after the colliery had been inspected in the usual way. They had not been at wprjf lont when a terrible explosion shook the earth and a cloud of smoke shot up through the shaft A multitude of people rushed toward the mine and the greatest excitement prevailed. It wa,s soon ascertained that a large number had perished and the walling and weeping of women and children made an indescribable scene. It is believod that the expjpslon was caused by accumulated coal gas which had escaped the notice of the official charged with the inspection of the mine. '()

New Remedy for Typhus. The terrible ravages of typhus In San Luis Potosi, Mexico, are becoming more alarming every day. There was a large increase in the death rate during the last week over that of the preceding seven days. A cure of the fever, which was pre-* scribed by Father Ortiz, is being used with remarkable success on those who can be induced to take it This remedy is a drink made of pounding spiders of a certain species into a pulp, a little water being added to the paste. Convalescence takes place within six hours, and the patient recovers rapidly. Father Ortiz obtained the remedy from the Indians. Rivals Whitechapel. Charles A. Benson, who, on March 21, 1890, murdered Mrs. Theresa Mettman on the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, died in jail ut Leavenworth, Kan., Thursday evening from wounds inflicted by his own hands. Benson’s crime was one of the most cruel and revolting in criminal annals. His end was fitting. It came after a desperate effort to murder his guard. Fraudulent Australian Bankers. The receiver in London charged with the liquidation of the affairs of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, which recently failed, has advised the government of Victoria to prosecute the managers, directors, and auditors at Melbourne for issuing fraudulent balance sheets. Hawaii Is Shaken Up. Maunaloa, the great volcano of Hawaii, is in eruption again and threatens the destruction of the villages of Hilo and Watakea, at its eastern base, and extensive plantations of cocoanuts and cane. Congressman Goodnight 111. Isaac H. Goodnight, Representative in Congress from the Third Kentucky District, was taken violently ill at his home in Franklin, and there Is serious apprehension as to his condition. Used an Ax on Him. Henry A. Kreckman, of Philadelphia, fatally assaulted Samuel Mortis, whom he found with his wife.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.25 @6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.60 @ 6.76 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.00 @5.60 Wheat—No, 2 Spring 70 @ .71 Corn—No. 2 42 @ .4214 Oats—No. 2 so & .31 Rye—No. 2 47.0.@ .say. Butter—Choice Creamery 29 @ .30 " Eggs—Fresh 23?4@ ,24’6 Potatoes—New, per bu .66 @ .76 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 6.76 Sheep—Common to Prime s.oo @4.76 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 66 @ .67 Cobs—No. 2 White 41 @ .41 >4 Oats—No. 2 White. .- 35;4@ .36!* ST. LOUIS. *>' Cattle 3 t oo i [email protected] Hogs 4.00 u § tf.6o Wheat—No. 2 Red. 86: @ tee Cobs—No. 2 37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Rye—No. 2 48 @ .60 CINCINNATL CATTLE 3.00 @ 6.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 6.50 SHEEP... .. • 3.00 @6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 70 @ .71 Cobn—No. i 44 .45 Oats—No. 2 Mixed. 34V,@ .35U Rye—No. 2. 53 ~<B 55 DETROIT, Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 6.25 Sheep.. 3.00 @4.60 Wheat—No. 2 Red 72ki@ .7354 Cobs—No. 2 Yellow 43 @ .43 u Oats—No. 2 White 36 @ .37" TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2.. 73 @ .74 Cobs—No. 2 White 43!6@ .44'a Oats—No. 2 White 34H@ .35*, Eye 63 @ .66 BUFFALO. Cattle —Common to Prime 3.00 @ 6.00 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @6.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard....- .82 @ .82'-4 Cobs—No. 2...ux. 47's@ 48k MILWAUKEE. Wheat-No. 2 Spring 6C & Cobs—No. 3 38 @ ,38!4 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .36 Rye-No. 1 62 @ .54 Babley—No. 2 64 @ .66 POBK-Meaa u.OO @16.50 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @6.00 Hops 3.00 @ c. 50 1 6 ;“ oS^dweatem::-.:::::::: 16.00 iie.6o

MANY PLANS PROPOSED

FIVE SUBMITTED TO THE BRUSSELS CONFERENCE. Remonetization of Silver with a Variable Ratio to Gold Proposed—Allard Suggests Notes Repairable According to Market Prices—Unguaranteed Certificates. Juggling with Sliver. The Monetary Conference Committee, at Brussels, reported on various schemes which have been introduced to advance its object. The first plan, that of Tietgen of Denmark, consisted in the creation of an international silver currency Joased on the variable mercantile value of metal in international intercourse, but with unlimited puying power for the respective countries coining it. Sir William Houldsworth’s plan proposed the creation of an international silver currency in the form ot certificates of deposits as a legal tender in the states which would issue them, but not redeemable in gold. The adoption of these certificates would meet the objections raised against bimetallism on the ground of the inconvenience which recoinage would cause in case of variation in value ot the metal gauged by a gold standard. In order to attain this end Sir William Houldsworlh proposed a preliminary formation of a bimetallic union, or, if this could not be brought j about, at least free silver coinage in one sufficiently strong country. Of the third plan it was considered that M. Allard, of Belgium, who had drawn it up on the lines of the Windom bill, with an international character added, wished to create an international : silver note not possessing the character of legal tender, but repayable to the j bearer in weight of silver variable according to the fluctuations of the market, but always representing the nomi- | nal value expressed in gold. The ; states issuing such notes would have to bear in common any possib.e loss re- j suiting from repayments in case of a j depreciation in silver. The fourth plan, which M. de Foville, ' the French delegate, desired to encourage, was the practice of depositing sil- ! ver bullion in mints and banks of issue, \ with certificates of deposit and commer- i cial warrants negotiable without a le- j gal rate or a guarantee of value on the gart of government. Raffaelovitch, of ; Bussia, proposed to give the certificates ! an international character by establish- | ing a system of warrants enabling the bearers thereof to obtain, on delivery of their receipts, an equal quantity of sil- \ ver at all institutions which adhered to j the plan and having *a stock of silver at i disposal. Representatives of tho silvvr-produc- ; Ing countries objected to this proposal j as lying outside the program of the con- j ference. the duty of which was to study the means of extending the monetary employment of silver. The fifth plan, introduced by Sainctelletle, of Belgium, and supported by Mr. Montefiore, proposed to create receipts of deposits of gold and silver, bearing such conditions that a certain quantity of gold should be always accompanied by a certain quantity of silver, the proportion of which should be determined periodically by an international commission, which twin deposits would be effected in order to be represented by certificates, tho market price of silver to bo taken into account in fixing these proportions, that an international character might be given to the certificates.

The report proceeds to reproduce the arguments for and against these plans and asked whether the marriage of the two metals would not be an artificial one, and whether the conventional system would meet those requirements of ’bommeree, which desired, above all things, the simplest possible solution of the problem. On the other hand, it is urged that variations in the price of silver would bo lessened, if not altogether stopped, by the coexistence of the two metals in deposits represented by certificates and the relative fixity of value of the twin deposits.

READING COAL COMBINE.

Continuation of the Investigation by the House Committee. The House committee appointed to investigate the Heading Railroad anthracite coal combination resumed Thursday morning in the Commerce Committee room the inquiry it conducted into this subject during the recess in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere. William H. J*ovce, geqcral fre.ight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, wag examined. He offered in evidence a letter dated April 18 last, addressed by him to E. R. Holden, chairman of the anthracite rato committee, New Y'ork, calling attention to the fact that during the last year the Lehigh VElley Railroad Company, through its coal company, had made with individual operators contracts for the purchase of their coal upon a percentage of the prices realized at tide-water. The Reading Company, the latter added, had made similar agreements with a number of miners and shippers, and it was therefore necessary for the Pennsylvania Railway to do likewise if it were to secure the product of collieries that had heretofore shipped over Its lines. These contracts gave shippers for fheir coal 60 per cent, of the prices obtained at tide-water. The letter stated that the Pennsylvania Company would therefore reduce its price for carrying coal to tide-water. Witness said that the price over their road was determined by the law of supply and domand.

DARES TO SEEK LIBERTY.

The Colorado Cannibal Anxious to Breathe Free Air. Alfred Parker, the man-eater, the man who killed and devoured his companions and who took delight in telling the horrible story, has applied for a release from the penitentiary at Canyon City, Colo. Parker without doubt is the most fiendish and ghoulish man who ever escaped the hangman’s noose! His record is a gruesome one. In his time it is known that he has killed and eaten five men. In January, 1874, A 1 Parker in company with five others left Dry Creek, San Juan County, for the Los Pinos Agency, and in March of the same year he appeared at his destination, wildeyed, haggard and alone. He told conflicting stories about his companions, finally stating that they had died on the trip. Parker lett Bingham, Utah, in the fall of 1873. Winter found his party of twentv-one snowed up at Dry Creekwith Chief Ouray, the famous Uncompahgre Ute. After camping with the Indian a few weeks he proposed that a few of them push on to the agency. In company with Swan, Miller, Bell. Noon and Humphrey they bundled up blankets, cooking utensils and a gun, and with a horse started over the range in the coldest part of the winter. Food was scarce, and soon the horse was turned loose to die. Three days later the provisions gave out and the party became desperate. It was bitterly cold and the snow fell fast. The men took turns breaking the trail, those- following carrying the canm utensils. Starving, the men chewed their moccasins, and cut up tb.eifcblankets to serve as shoes. When the matches gave out fire was carried in a coffee pot by Swan, who was old and feeble. Sometimes the mon found frozen rosebuds and leaves and ate j them ravenously. Swan gave out when near the top of the Continental divide, j

and then the devilish work began. Several stories are told, but the one most generally believed is that each agreed to climb the mountain and look for signs of the agency, leaving Swan in camp in a dump of trees. « hen they left, Parker returned and struck the old man a blow on the head with a hatchet and killed the others as they came In. Bell, it seems, was bent on murder, and had about made up his mind that some one had to die to save the others. He returned to tamp and Parker assaulted him. A fight took place and Beil succumbed. All that winter Parker, ghoulisn-1 ke, remained with the dead and subsisted on the choice cuts from their bodies. The tale is a fearful one. He was arrested at the agency, but escaped and was not again captured until 1883, in Cheyenne. In 1888 he was sentenced on five counts to eight years each, each sentence to commence wtien the other expired. He is an ex-Union soldier.

NO PRIZES WERE GIVEN.

Victims of Bogus Lottery Tickets in This Country ami Canada. According to the statements of Chicago detectives who have been engaged for over four months in hunting the manufacturers of counterieit lottery tickets, a stupendous scheme for defrauding lottery ticket purchasers has been discoveied. In every city, town and village in Canada, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and the Northwest the members of a gang have operated their clever swindle lor about a year and have come out of the game heavy winners. In all of these places persons live who think themselves born under a constellation of lucky stars and several comets, and at every change of the moon they have ma:;e investments in lottery tickets. It was to accommodate these persons that the men who are claimed to constitute an unlawful gang have boen working. But the tickets they sold were for drawings that never look place. The end of the business < ame when a plant for the manufacture of lottery tickets was discovered at 281 and 283 Clark street, and Jacob B. Stanger, the proprietor, was arrested and charged with forgery. Tho arrest is the outcome of the work of four months by the dete fives, who took up the tnse after W. T. Henderson, of Baltimore, attorney for the Louisina Lottery company, had done some work in the hope of detecting the defrauders. It is believed by officers or the Louisiana company the first issue of counterfeit tickets was made a year ago, and since then and up to the issue of Aug.ist last (he northern tier of States, the West, and Canada have been flooded' with these tickets. The market having been kept weil supplies, their sale at $1 each has netted the counterfeiters a neat sum. The men interested in this scheme have not confined their talents to the Louisiana company, but have issued tickets, it is claimed, on a. number of companies that do not exist. The detectives confiscated at the Stanger shop a fine lithographic press, about 16,000 Mantanza tickets, December Issue; 40,00Q Vera Cruz tickets of December and January issue, several large sheets of Louisiana tickets without the numbers and twenty engraving stones and several numbering machines. The plant is valued at $5,000. The Vera Cruz tickets were sold largely in the northwestern part of Chicago, the Mantanza tickets over bars in the country towns of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and lowa, while the Louisiana tickets went into Canada, Michigan, Illinois, and the Northwest.

COUNT NEW SENATORS.

Democratic Claims to Nebraska, Kansas, and North Dakota Vigorously Disputed. The Republican Senatorial caucus met in Washington and further discussed the programme to be followed by the party in regard to the prospective senatorial contests in several of tho Western States. A resolution offered by Senator Hawley (Conn.) was adopted authorizing the chairman (Senator Sherman) to appoint a committee of five Senators to take into consideration the wisdom and propriety of senatorial interference in these contests. The consensus of opinion expressed was that while tho Senators did not desire nor intend to interfere with the Stutes in carrying out the will of the people, it was the duty of tho Republican Senators to resent strenuously the assertions ot iho Democrats, who are now, as they charge, trying to pervert public sentiment. ft was shown to the satisfaction of the caucus, so a dispatch says, that the Democratic “steering committee” had no ground upon which to stand when it gave out the authorized interview in New York, and in corroboration of this some figures were produced. In Nebraska It was said by the speakers that the Democrats had but four members in the entire Legislature, and in Kansas but seventeen. In North Dakota the Republicans had a clear majority of nine In both branches, and in Wyoming five. In California and Montana the vote is close, with the Populists holding the balance of power. One of the active members of the caucus said it was not the intention of the Republicans to appoint any so-called “steering committee," for the reason that the only purpose ot such a committee would be to exercise an improper influence upon the Legislatures in the States in question.

MR. PEFFER IS ALARMED.

He See* Danger la the Proposed Change in the Interstate Commerce Law. The Populists in Congress have taken alarm at certain measures aimed at the Interstate Commerce Act and are fearful that determined effort is to be made to destroy that most beneficent piece of legislation, as they regard It. Senator Peffer (Kansas) Is the first to see the workings of the plan. He said that he wished to call attention to some significant facts in connection with the pending Cullom bill to amend the act. This bill, he said, was marked “Introduced by request,” and he intimated that it was done at the request of the railway people. It was introduced Tuesday and not printed until Wednesday morning; yet a meeting of the committee was held to hear the railway people almost before the bill was off the press. Looking at the bill itself, Senator Peffer said it was framed to achieve the, very thing that the interstate act was intended to prevent, which was pooling. Under its terms the people would surrender the control they now had oven the roads, and the latter would once more be authorized tomakeajid maintain any rates they choose to fix. Then the amendment to section 10 of the act would ren ove the penalty clause so that there would be practically nip punishment for violation of the very e*6ence of the act. Altogether, Senator Peffer regards the bill as a most dangeroius measure, and announces his purpose’to fight it at all points. J Information has bqen received from Conshatta, O. T., of tie death of Gen. Henry Gray, one of ijlie few surviving members of the Confederate Congress and Brigadier General of the Confederate army.

A negro woman is under arrest at Edgefield, S. C., for murdering her two-year-old babe and then serving it cooked to her friends at a quilting party as roast pig. It is probable that she will he lynched.

LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS.

this is their department of THE PAPER. Quaint Saying* and Doing* «f Little One* Gathered and Printed Here for Other Uttle Folks to Read. A Children's Surprise Par^y. Little Girl—“Mamma, we must get everything ready for a surprise party. They’re cornin’ to-night.” Mamma—“What makes you think it's coming here?” Little Girl—“ ’Cause every little girl I know has been invited 'cept me.”—Street & Smith's Good Mews. mowing Soap Bubble*. There are many ingenious and pleasing tricks to be played witlrsoai bubbles, of which one is illustrated here. Take a wire ring and hang a large soap bubble from it. This may sound hard, but it is easy to do. Be careful to remove with your finger the drop of water which will hang at the bottom of the bubble and which will weaken it. Put your blowing tube through the bladder gently and blow a small bubble. It will fall to the bottom of the other and stay there without breaking it. You must be careful to blow the smaller bubble lighter than the larger. In order to do this shake out the water from your tube before blowing the smaller bubble. Here are some hints for getting a good mixture front which to blow

bubbles. Dissolve about an ounce of the strongest washing soap in a pint of distilled water, or, in the absence of that, rain water. Cork it well and keep in a cool place. After eight days it will be in good condition for use. Only pour out as much at one time as you need for your experiments. It may thus be made to last a very long time. , John Liked Fun. John was tricky. Those who thought h : m a “beauty,” smart, and obedient, knew that he was mischievous and full of his “jokes.” John certainly did have a love of fun in his “make-up,” which made him a jolly companion for four boys, who in turn did like to “plague the poor old chap,” the family horse. John waS black-coated, strong, and intelligent. His tricks were not vicious ones. He never kicked, balked, nor ran away, bying sober and well conducted when driven or ridden by the senior mc.-über of the family. * He had a soundness for his master, who petted him a great deal. The women could drive him. He brought them home in just the same condition they started out. It was only with the boys of the family that John ventured to “joke.” OThere were four of them, Ernest, >Valter, Henry, and Albert, bright young fellows, who delighted to tickle John's nose with a fragrant-smelling apple, snatching it away when he prepared to enjoy it. John was a pig in his love for mellow, rips apples. The boys thought it fun to tease him a little, and make him anxious to get it before giving it up to him. They really did teach him to play “hide and seek” with them. One of his tricks was to sigh and swell up his body when being saddled if one of the little boys was about to ride him.

Of course the saddle was invariably turned after they had ridden a little distance. Another trick was snatching a cap from their heads and galloping away with it to the farthest corner, whinnying defiance to the capless youngster. , One May afternoon, as I sat beside a window, some boyish voices called: “We are going to ride out to Muddy Fork. John is lazy; don’t have enough to do.” John looked at me, and I plainly saw fun in his eyes. He made a nip at an apple geranium, and then went along as sober as judges are said to be. His expression plainly said to me: ‘•These four boys seated upon my back are hunting for fun. I’ll help find it.” Ernest and Albert whistled gayly. Harry and Walter urged “lazy bones” along “Such a good horse as lie is. It isn’t every one that would carry such a load of restless boys,” was my thought, as John slowly crept along, head down, apparently meditating deeply. In an hour four boys, wet and muddy, walked in at the gate, angry and ready to “have it out with the sly old horse. ”

“What has 1 e done?” I inquired. “Done?” chorused an indignant quartette of boyish voices. “He poked all along, as if he was almost asleep, until we got into the water. All at once he laid down, spilled us off his back, and ji st galloped back heme.” “He did it on purpose, of course he did. He thinks he can play tricks on us little boys. He don't dare try ’em wiffTTnen.” “I'd like to pound his back,” said one. We wont to the back gate, and saw him standing there, looking meek ”tfd subdued, only—l detected a twinkle in his eyes. He leceived a scolding, which he did not heed. A few minutes afterward I saw him in the stable-yard with four boys perched upon his back. —Prairie Farmer.

Sagacious Animals.

The buffaloes in Sumatra, according to an English traveler, in fear of their enemy, the tiger, take refuge at night in the rivers, where they rest in peace and comfort, with only their horns and noses stocking abovj the water.

HALF A MILLION IN ASHES.

Bl{ Wholesale Boose in Brooklyn Totally Destroyed by Fire. The five-etory brick building at the corner of Flushing avenue and Ryerson street, Brooklyn, owned and occupied by Wm. C. A. Jurgens, wholesale grocer, was destroyed by Are,with several of the adjoining buildings on either side. The loss will probably foot up to nearly $500,090. The ,yargens building was heavily stocked with flour and holiday goods. The Are spread to the buildings on either side of the big store, end a special alarm brought more engines. It was feared that the entire block would go, as the high wind was carrying large brands for half a block. The threestory building at 244 Flushing avenue, owned and occupied as a saloon and dwelling by Henry Beemier, and the building next to it, owned and occupied Ly George Tietjen, also a liquor dealer, wore both almost totally destroyed. The firemen worked hard, but against great odds, owing to the high wind and intense heat. There are a number of tenement houses on the Hall street side of the block, and three of these caught fire. All of the families wore removed to places of safety, some of them being sheltered at the Flushing avenue station. The buildings burned until daylight, when there was nothing left but the smoldering ruins. Mr. Jurgens says the loss will be about $150,000 on the buildings and $250,000 on the stock, fully covered by insurance. It is believed by the police that the fire was incendiary, and Thomas McCann, who was found in the building shortly after the fire started, has been arrested on suspicion.

COMPERS IS RE-ELECTED.

Final Session of the Federation of I.abor Convention at Philadelphia. The Federation of Labor Convention at Philadelphia adjourned after reelecting President Gompers, Secretary Christopher Evans and Treasurer John Lennon. P. J. MeGuirewas re-elected First Vice President. For Second Vice President William A. Carney, of Pittsburg, who took an active part in Ihe Homestead troubles, was elected by a large majority. Chicago secured the convention for 1893. President Gompers’ salary was increased from $1,500 to SI,BOO per annum. The salary of the Secretary was increased from $1,200 to SI.EOO. Besolutions were adopted calling on all the local unions affiliated with the Federation to join the Central Labor bodies holding Federation charters, condemning the llock Island management for its hostile attitude toward the telegraph operators; condemning the Baron Hirsch fund and its recipients; demanding restriction of immigration; condemning the system compelling waiters to shave off their mustaches, and favoring the eight-hour system. A resolution was unanimoasly adopted asking clemency for the imprisoned Chicago anarchists, Neebe and Schwab. The Socialistic scheme was condemned by a vote of 128 to 57. Besolutions in favor of woman suffrage and the exclusion of Chinese and Japanese were also adopted. '

WORLD’S FAIR CATALOGUE.

No Necessity for Precipitating Trouble with Organized Labor. A Chicago correspondent says that the pending controversy between the managers of the World’s Fair and organized labor is unfortunate and apparently unnecessary. It grows out of awarding the contract to print the Exposition catalogues to a non-union printing establishment. It was a very large and desirable job, and seems to have been awarded to the highest bidder. As drawn up, but not yet signed, the contract provides that the printer of the catalogues shall pay the Exposition SIOO,OOO in cash before May 1; shall deposit a certified check for SIO,OOO and bond for slstj»* 00 that the work will be done; shall pay 10 per cent, of all receipts to the Exposition until the'sales shall reach $150,000, after whigh the Exposition is to receive 20 per cent, of the gross receipts. The price Offered for the job seems enormous, and the large printing houses of Chicago seem to have so regarded it, as none of them bid. The fact that the successful bidder is a non-union establishment raises a suspicion that it is run on a cheap plan and expects to make its profit by paying starvation wages and piobably doing inferior work.

TO RELIEVE THE TREASURY.

Owen Scott's Bill for Increasing the Tax bn Whisky. According to a Washington dispatch, Representative Owen Scott, of Illinois, is collecting facts and figures, and will, immediately after the holidays, request the Ways and Means Committee to accord him a hearing on his bill increasing the internal revenue tax on whisky. Thus far the committee has given no indication of its attitude toward this measure, but it has attracted so much attention throughout the country that Mr. Scott expects considerable co-oper-ation in pressing it upon the attention of all those desiring a speedy means of increasing the Federal revenues. The bill increases the tax on distilled spirits from 90 cents to $1.25 a gallon. In regard to his bill, Mr. Scott says that the evident desire of the country is to tax luxuries and so far as possible let necessaries go free. The present tax cn whisky produces about $90,000,000 annually. The increase proposed In this bill gives almost 40 percent, more l’evenue, or a total of about $125,000,000 from r istilled spirits alone. This will partially supply the loss of revenue by the sugar schedule of the McKinley act.

WHERE IS DAVIS’ BOND?

Iron Hall Circles Worried Over Its Disappearance and Substitution of Another. Iron Hall circles are exercised over what appears to be the mysterious disappearance of the bond of Supreme Cashier Davis, of Indianapolis, which was executed some months before the suit for receivership was filled. Local capitalists became his security and Davis deposited $50,000 to indemnify them against loss. The money proved to be Iron Hall funds, end for this reason was unsatisfaotorv. Some of the gentlemen were in favor of accepting the money anyhow, and this led to a disagreement, but those who favord it finally went on the bond. When the receiver began to look up the matter he was surprised to find that the bond had disappeared and another, it is charged, substituted for it. The latter was found to be worthless. When these conditions confronted the receiver he began to attach all personal property belonging to Davis, and every dollar that the latter was worth is now tied up.

Chicago Club Sold.

The business of base-ball in Chicago has passed out of the hands of A. G. Spalding and his associate owners of the Chicago ball club. This announcement will be regarded as thunder from a clear sky in every citv ip America, but the negotiations by which the deal has been carried through have been pending for several weeks. The control of the business has been purchased by a new company called the Chicago Base-ball Club. The corporation has a capital stock of SIOO,OOO.

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE-1 SENTATIVES. Onr National Lawmakers and What They: Are Doing for the Good of the Country—j Various Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. rs. ——«zDolngs ot Congress. A very strong presentation in favor of the claimant In the famous McGarrahan case was made in the Senate Thursday by Mr. Hunton (Va.). The morning hour expired before the argument was concluded and the bill went over, without action. Mr. George brought to a close his three-day speech In favor of the antj-option bill, and Mr... Washburn made a determined but fruitless effort to have a day fixed for a vote upon It The Senate adjourned until Monday. The House agreed to a resolution for a holiday recess from Thursday before Christmas until Wednesday after New Year’a A bill relative to bills of lading was passed. A bill was passed to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Kickapoo Indians In Oklahoma Territory. The House adjourned until Saturday. Few of the very few members in attendance In the House Saturday paid any at-; tention to the proceedings. The Commit- 1 tee on Military Affairs succeeded in passing a few bills of minor importance. The day was consumed in the consideration of a Florida claim bill.and the House adjourned without action upon it The Florida bill involves an appropriation of $500,000, but only ten members took enough interest in the matter to voto,on the question of sending it to the committee of the whole. The claim is for exponses incurred in the Seminole war, 1855-’57. According to Mr. Dingley, there were but ninety-six Seminoles engaged In the outbreak. Congress had already paid to the persons who had put down tbo outbreak SBOO per Indian, and now proposed to pay them $2,000 per Indian additional. The attendance of Senators in the Senate Monday was ■ very small, not more than forty being in the chamber when the opening prayer was offered by Chaplain Butler. The desk and chair recently occupied by Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, were draped in black. As soon as Thursday’s journal was read Mr. Gorman; of Maryland, pronounced a eulogy of Senator Gibson and closed by offering tho usual resolutions expressive of the Senate’s profound sorrow at the death of Mr. Gibson and for the appointment of a committee to attend the funeral at Lexington, Ivy, The resolutions were adopted and the Senate, as a further remark of respect, adjourned. In the House the unoccupied seats far outnumbered those that were occupied. There came up from last session the bill for the relief of William L. Win an s of Baltimore. the inventor of the spindle-shaped ship; the motion to pass the bill was lost. Mr. Wilson (Dem.) Missouri, called up the Senate bill increasing the pension of pensioners of the Moxican war from $8 to sl2 a month; the bill was passed, Mr. Culberson (Dem.) Texas, moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill limiting the jurisdiction of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. [The bill prohibits suits in United States courts by or against corporations oxcept to tho courts of the legal domicile of the corporation in cases where jurisdiction depends upon the citizenship of the parties.] Tho motion was agreed to, and the House then adjourned.

Phil Armour’s Gift.

When Armour dies charity will probably be rememberod in his will.—Providence Telegram. He has never written a book on the proper use of wealth, but be is not an ignoramus on that subject.—Peoria Herald. This is a wise use of surplus money, and some of our local millionaires might do worse than follow Mr. Armour’s example.—New York Sun. Chicago is to bo ‘ congratulated on this very handsome piece of wisdom and benevolence on the part of one of her citizens.—Brooklyn Times. Chicago and its peoplo appear to be getting their full share of the good things of life, but who shall say they are not dosorved.—Troy Times. Mb. Armour describes his religion in a characteristic way. It contains, he says, sixteen ounces to the pound. Eeligion like that lias tho proper weight.— Pittsburg Chronicle. f The benefits that will accrue to the people of Chicago from the institution so liberally endowed by Mr. Armour are likely to exceed in value all they will derive from tho World’s Fair, great as are their expectations in this line.. — Indianapolis Sontinel. This is an age of great wealth, but it Is also an ago of great charities and great public benefactions through means of accumulated wealth. The rich men of this country have added much to the advancement and. the comforts ot the people.—lowa Sta f e Begister. Mr. Abmoitr has been at work quietly on this enterprise for a year or more. He did not wait to die, but gave away a considerable portion of his wealth while living that he might direct the handling of it. Other millioniares should not be slow to follow Mr. Armour’s noble example.—Kiehmond States. “Phie” Armour is very modest about his donation of practically $3,000,000 to found and maintain a training school and mission at Chicago. He merely says that tho thing has been done and that’s all there Is to it. Mr. Armour’s gift i 3 a handsome one, and his manner of making it is as handsome as his gift. —lndianapolis Sentinel. He has made millions of money ib the prosecution of his business, but his munificient gift to the working classes of Chicago shows that he appreciates the need of such'an institution and is willing to furnish it at his own expense. Would that there were more Phil Armours, not alone in Chicago, but elsewhere. —Lincoln State Journal.

The Wizard ot Wall Street.

A master of finance.—Detroit Journal. His career cannot be deemed a success.—Toledo Blade. The greatest financial genius of the age.—Buffalo Inquirer. The deceased financier was a bold and, indeed, a desperate operator.—New York World. He was an animated antithesis, the like of whom the world may never see again.—Cincinnati Times-Star. For more than twenty years the most potent figure in the world’s financial affairs.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Jay Gould is dead, but there are plenty of others to shear the lamb for the untempered wind.—Buffalo Express. The greatest money-maker ever known was the least known moneymaker that ever lived or died. —Brooklyn Eagle. It may be that the world has never done justice to him who is now, materially, poor as the poorest.—Washington Star. So long as he is remembered it will be only as the sharpest and most successful “speculator” of the century. — Philadelphia Bulletin. His will was indomitable; his courage ■was illimitable; his energy was tireless; his knowledge of human nature was perfect.—’Rochester Union. From first to last the business career of Jay Gould was an unparalleled story of successfully and wonderfully endowed avarice.—Cleveland Leader. Mr. Gould’s death simply removes a disturbing element in the financial world—an element whose influence was far-reaching, powerful, and always used selfishly.—Wheelinc Register. We say that the late Mr. Gould cannot be entirely condemned for becoming rich. If his fault needs explanation it can be given by the balance in favor of tho prosperity his railroad improvements created.—Columbus Dispatch.