Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — Page 2

®|ie|)emotrfltit Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. j w. McEWEN, Publisher

FIVE BURIED AT A FIRE

POSSIBLE FATALITIES AT A BLAZE. Typhoid Fever Epidemic at Ohio State Prison—Rushing Operations at Jackson Park—Fire Reaps a Klee Harvest—Hold Swindler Caught. Another Chicago Horror. Five persons were buried in tie ruins of a frurne cottage adjoining tho picture frame factory of Stephen Carter at Chicago as the result of a fire that broke out shortly after 2 o’clock Wednesday morning. The wail of tho factory building next the cottage toppled over onto it, burying tho inhabitants in a mass of brick and timbers. The cottage was occupied by Stephen Carter, his uncle and aunt and two litile nieces. Carter crawled® from tho ruins with a broken leg and luternal injuries. The heat from the burning factory made it Impossible for tbe firemen to approach the ruin, and If any of the others are taken out alive their escape will be miraculous. Mr. Carter’s loss amounts to 875,000, His Insurance will cover twothirds of the loss. The factory was filled with finished stock, making the loss greater than it would have been at almost any other time of the year.

WILL WORK AT SIGHT. Big Force of Men to lie Employed at tho Fair Grounds. The work of getting exhibits Into the World’s Fair buildings and putting the big show In shape for the opening on May 1 is to be pushed from this time on as it has not been done before. Director General Davis has issued another rush order, telling exhibitors to hustle their displays to Jackson Park at once. As soon as tbe great flood of exhibits begins to come Into the park the forces of workmen will be greatly increased, and the work of installation will go on steadily night and day. “I have arranged,” said Dlroclor General Davis, “to have tho Exposition buildings lighted at night by electricity. We will have continuous twenty-four hour days hereafter, and the work of putting this show in order Is to go on without interruption. ' Exhibits are coming Into the park very rapidly now. Cars are running hore day and night, but I want them 10 come faster. There are now only about forty-five days left before the opening. I intend to make every one of those duys count for twa”

COTTON MILL BURNED. Quarter of a Million Blaze at Exeter, N. H.— Liverpool Warehouses Destroyed. Fire broke out in the Exeter (N. H.) Cotton Mills in the basement and burned up through the building, destroying the en-gine-room and the older part of the mill, which was destroyed once before. The now part of the mill was saved. Loss estimated at 8250,000. Three persons were Injured. Two hundred an 1 forty hands are thrown out of employment A destructive fire occurred at Bootle, near Liverpool. Two cotton warehouses belonging to the Deene Company were burned, the loss being £IOO,OOO. The five-story building, corner of Wells and Light streets, Baltimore, occupied by Mattbal, Ingram & Co., for tho manufacture of tin and japanned ware, was almost entirely destroyed by fire, with its contents. The fire is supposed to have started In the engine-room. Owing to the inflammable material In the building the fire gained rapidly and In u short time the entire structure was enveloped. The loss Is about SIOO,OOO, covered by insurance.

Arrest of a Clever Swindler. The Treasury Department is advised ol the arrest at Detroit of Elmer T. McArthur. an ex-convict, who has been engaged In swindling people In Indiana and Illinois. His plan was to send a printed circular stating that a valuable package from Canada was detained at the Detroit custom bouse addressed to the party receiving the circular, but was held awaiting the payment of the custom dues, usually from $3 to 85. The circular had the name of the United States collector at Its head, with E. CX Small as cashlor. All parties were directed to return the circular for filing purposes. A large number of people have been victimized by McArthur, and when arrested he had In his possession thirty-four letters with remittance* In them in postal notes, etc. Burned to Death In a Prairie Fire. Reports are meager regarding the number of lives lost and damage done by the recent prairie fires in Russell County. Kansas. Seven men perished in the flames. The names of five of the victims are: William Bailey, David Hutchinson. Albert More, McDonald, a son of Mrs. Lefevre, the proprietor of the Dorrance Hotel, and a strange man, name unknown. They had been out feeding stock and were returning home when the wind suddenly changed, catching them between two great head fires rushing together.

Nine Lives Lost. A special from McAlester, L T., says that an explosion occurred at coal mine No. 1, of tho Choctaw Coal Company, at Anderson, I. T. Nine men are reported killed and many wounded. The scene of the accident Is probably Ardmore Instead of Anderson. Ardmore 1* in the Chickasaw Nation, a few miles north of the Texas line, and is on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Road. A similar accident occurred there about a year ago in which a number of miners lost their lives. Drowned While Crossing a Creek. James Howard and Will Morgan, two troopers belonging to the Fifth Cavalry, were drowned while fording a creek south of Caldwell in the Cherokee strip. Statement of Beading Receivers. The statement of the Heading receivers shows liabilities of $18,472,828 and assets of *15,779,784, an excess of liabilities of $2,693,043. Quarantine Regulations Amended. Secretary Carlisle has amended the quarantine regulations recently promulgated so as to provide for the inspection of passengers taken aboard ship at intermediate ports by the United States consular officer at the port, or, in his absence, by the local health officer. Lasy Convicts Cause an Epidemic. There is an epidemic of typhoid fever in the Ohio State Prison. An Investigation traces its origin to the criminal laziness of •ome of the prisoners employed as runners. They drew water for drinking purposes in the shope from the prison standpipe. Flog a Minuter by Mistake. Rev. D. A Strutton, of Elmott, Texas, a »oted evangelist of the Christian Church, was robbed, stripped naked and flogged within an inch of his life by moonshiners in Winston County, Alabama, who mistook him far a revenue agent of the United States Government. South Carolina’s Loan. The ttate of South Carolina has arranged for placing its new loan of 15,250,000, through the Baltimore Trust Company. *ith a syndicate of Now York, Baltimore, and Richmond capitalists. The bonds bear <K per cent, interest and run for forty

VILLAGE SWEPT AW AT. Many Lives Lost by a Sudden Rise of the Danube. A sudden rise of the River Danube has caused the loss of many lives in Gergely, near Pako, In Hungary. The rise of the water drove the 1,600 people of the village out of their mud huts, and they sought shelter lu the village church and school. The water continued to rise, and the people, led by their pastor, offered up earnest prayers for safety, and mothers and children kneeled at the altar beseeching the Intercession of the saints. The raging streams covered the floors of the two buildings and the people in a panic rushed out into tho flood. Fathers and mothers carried their children and attempted to wade through the swift current to higher ground. The strong escaped, hut the weak vere carried away and drowned. One woman and her five children perished, together with a large number of others. How many is not yet known, Those who survived reached Pako In a most deplorable condition. AlinosS the entire village was carried away.

RUIN IN VAST FLOODS. Hundreds of Men Working Night and Day to Prevent Disaster In Michigan. Never before in Its history has Grand River in Michigan been so high as on Sunday. Hundreds of men were at work with teams all along Its course trying to prevent the flood crossing the street road. Great lines of breastworks were thrown up. and every suspicious rivulet was cause for alarm. The bridges on the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee road were in Imminent danger. Men wero engaged to wolght them down and tons of sand bags were piled on them. Trains on the Detroit. Lansing and Northern wero in confusion. The trestle at Portland gave way and passengers had to be carted around the washout and loaded on other trains, There was no ice In the river, to speak of, but ihe current carried largo trees and debris of every description down with terrific force The situation, as reported from the center of the State to tho lake, Is decidedly critical HIGH RATES FOR MONEY. Almost Total Withdrawals of Currency from the South and West. R. G. Dua & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Business during the past week has been afl'ected by the severe weather, but even more by the stringency and uncertainty in the money markets. Rates for money have mounted from 5% on call to 15 per cent, and for two days ruled above 10 per cent., but the extreme pressure has abated without any measure of relief, and on the announcement that tlie treasury department would not Issue bonds, but would use tho bullion reserve In maintaining gold payments. withdrawals of money for the West and South nearly ceased. Gold to the amount of a million was offered to iho treasury in exchange for legal tendors by tho Bank of Denver and as much more by one bank in Chicago, and rates in New York fell to 6 per ernt. There was some liquidation in stocks, but none of importance in products, and It is evident that the restraint of exports by speculation In tho chief staples Is an important cause of monetary stringency and of loss of gold by the treasury.

He Will Not Write n Book. Ex-President Harrison was asked if there was any truth in the Dubllshed reports that he would write a book. “None,” he replied. “The probable foundation fur the report Is that 1 am making some memoranda for rny own private use that will make clear certain affairs of stats that have arisen during the four years I was President, and that might not be readily understood otherwise. I don't expect to publish those memoranda during my lifetime. There were numerous complicated situations that posterity will wish to understand, and that I desire to make plain.” Declined the Honor. Lyman J. Gage declines to be a candidate for mayor of Chicago. Carter H. Harrison, tho Democratic nominee, has been strongly opposed by the entlro press of the city, except tbe Times—his own paper—and two ovening papers, the Mall and the Dispatch. Led by the editors, public meetings havo been held to select a citizens’ candidate tc oppose Harrison, but one after another the gentleman approached have declined tc run. Tho latest plan was to vote for u candidate by newspaper ballot, and It was this that led to a positive refusal by Mr. Gage to accept the nomination under any circumstances. He Was Riddled with Bullets. At the Shelby Iron*Works, Birmingham. Ala., John McLanahan, a drunken negro, shot and killed U. M. CP Hilliard, the foreman, because Hilliard discharged him. When his arrest was attempted McLanahan shot at his pursuers and fled. .He was met by W. A. Wilburn, an engineer, who demanded his surrender. Both opened fire, and McLanahan was riddled with bullets. Wllburu was uninjured. Inflicted a Fatal Wound. A number of lewd characters congregated near the residence of Philip Franklin, north of Indianapolis, and Franklin ordered them away. A fight ensued. Franklin drew a pistol and fired Into the crowd, the bullet striking Calvin Voorhees in the spine and producing a fatal wound. One Million More Stock. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company it was voted to increase the capital stock from 81,500,000 to 82,501,000. An extensive enlargement of the business in contemplated. Washington’s Senator Is Allen. Gov. McGraw, of Washington, appointed John B. Allen United States Senator.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime f 5.23 @ G. 25 Hoos—Shipping Grades 3.60 @ 8.25 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 <3 6.00 wheat—No. 2 Spring 72}*>@ ,73W COHN—No. 2 41 '@ .42 Oats—No. ?. 30 @ .81 Rye—No. 2 60 @ .51 Butteb—Choice Creamery 25.v.@ .26'6 Eous—Fresh 16 @ .17 " Potatoes—New, per bn .70 & .80 „ INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.50 Hoos—Choice Light 3.50 <3 8,00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 <3 .68 Cobn—No. 2 White 41 <3 .42 Oats—No. 2 White .34>2@ .35)6 ST. LOUia Cattle 3.00 @5.00 Hogs... 3.00 @B.OO Wheat—No. 2 Red gs <3 .66 COBN—No. 2 37 <3 .38 Oats—No. 2 82 <3 .33 Rye—No. 2 52 ® .5* „ CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.26 Wheat—No. 2Bed 70 ® .70)6 Cobn—No. 2 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 34)6® -3SH Rye—No. 2 65 @ .57 „ DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 <3 8.25 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 71 13 .72 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 42 <3 .42W Oats—No. 2 White 38 (3 .30 " _ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 70 @ .70)6 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 White 34)6® .36)6 Rxe 65 (3 .57 „ BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 3.50 @5.50 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @B.OO Wheat t No. 1 Hard! 62 @ .83 Cobn—No. 2 Y'ellow 46)6(3 .47)6 _ „ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring C 6 @ .66)6 Cobn—No. 3 39)6® .40)6 Oats—No. 2 White 34)6® .35)6 Rye—No. 1 64 @ .66 Babley—No. 2 57 (3 .69 POBK—Mess 18.00 @18.50 _ NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @5.50 H°°s 3.00 @8.60 sheep... 3.00 @5.75 sSsls£%*™ Bp™-B e e.t Weßtem -::;:;::;: $ I :£ POM—New Mesa 19.50 @20.u0

A MAZE OF SWITCHES.

HANDLING THE CROWDS AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. Complex System of Interlocking Switches for Thirty-live Tracks Makes It Possible to Load 43,000 Passengers at Once In the Grounds. Controlled by One Man. Chicago correspondence: Arrangements for handling, the daily crowds of visitors to the World’s Fair after May 1 are completed. There is considerable work yet to be done on the ■new railroad depot, and many other details require finishing touches. Everything will be in readiness, however, before the Exposition opens. Six months later it will, doubtless be the proud boast of the Fair managers that the largest continuous crowds that have ever been massed together in this country were taken in and out of Jackson Park at the minimum of inconvenience and the maximum of safety and comfort. Visitors will enter the grounds through either of the four arteries of communication—the gates, the water piers, the alloy elevated and the grand central railroad terminal. The latter has cost the Exposition officials more thought than all the other modes of ingress combined. Of the twenty-two

IN THE WAITING-ROOM, TERMINAL STATION.

roads entering Chicago it is probable that all will run more or less excursion trains direct to the Fair before the end of the season. To care for this volume of passengers tho Fair managers found it necessary to evolve a system that

would bring the trains directly to the center of the grounds without transshipment. Early in the preliminary plans the loop system was abandoned and a stub terminal, with interlocking

GLIMPSE OF TOWERS IN THE NORTH END OF THE GROUNDS.

switching facilities, was agreed upon. This terminal is near the main foot entrances to the grounds, and the handsome terminal depot is being built in the central court, facing Administration Building. The staff work is already being placed in position, such of it as is ready, while large molds in a low, squatty, dusty building just back of the great framework are filled with sections of classic columns, grinning gargoyles, pediments with allegorical groups in bas-relief and other ornamental work in process of conversion into pseudo-marble. When this big square building is completed and throbbing with the breathing of scores of steam locomotives next summer this same staff will give it a reasuring air of solidity and tend to inspire the suspicious visitor with a sense of security. The inquisitive country oousin, however, may dispel the allusion by tapping the sham masonry with his umbrella. The resulting hollow sound will set him to wondering why such apparently light construction holds up against the Wind. There are nine systems of two standing tracks and one switch tra k each. There are also four systems of two tracks each without the switch track. This makes thirty-five tracks in all. The switch tracks are placed in the center of each system, and enable a locomotive to “run around" its train and hitch onto tho rear. Each different road entering the grounds will have one of the systems set aside for its special use. The capacity of loading passengers, during rush hours, at the terminal is not less than 43,000 inside of a very few minutes. Thirtyfive distinct trains of thirteen cars each, holding sixty passengers ea h, with locomotive attached and ready to start, will stand side by side. This is a capacity of 27.300. No sooner are these trains out of the way than others will be backed in. The storageyard has a eafacity of twenty trains of equal length to those mentioned. - Adding the loads of the twenty trains to the other thirty-five gives a total of almost 43,000 passengers that can be loaded aboard the cars and sent home within a very short period. Tbe tracks in the storage-yard are of the same length as those at the terminal—about 85u feet—so that any train arriving at the terminal can alsp find SDace in the storage-yard if necessary. Between each system* of .tracks there will be continuous fences, so that passengers must pas 9 along into the train 6hed before going through the turnstiles. All the tracks will be floored

on a level with the rails. The platforms will be protected by long umbrella awnings. The system of unloading passengers and taking them into the grounds Is based on the supposition that all the tracks and platforms are really outside the grounds. The visitor is not supposed to be inside the park until he passes through the turnstile and emerges from the trainshed Into

PART OF MICHIGAN’S MINERAL EXHIBIT.

one or another side of the grand central court, or passes into the depot building and enters the grounds in that way. In connection with the terminal facil-

ities, probably ihe most notable feature is the extensive interlocking switching system which controls tho movements of all trains in the yards. The system embraces all the latest improvements in yard arrangements. The main yard is controlled by lfiO levers from a central switch tower. One man controls the yard, gives all tho signals, throws the switches, and directs train movements. In the main house 120 of the levers control the switches,the remaining forty operating the semaphore signals used. The whole apparatus of the latest improved interlocking varioty, which prevents absolutely any accidents from open switches or collision. In the tower the power used is steam, but in the yard system the switches are opened and closed and the signals operated by hydraulic pressuro. The steam furnishes the p >wer which is transmitted by the water column. From each switch and signal there runs to the tower an electric wire which automatically registers every movement made and informs the switchman whether or not the apparatus is working properly.

Given Positions of Honor.

Michigan and Missouri have been given positions of honor on the American side of mines building. They will stand for the mineral interests of America, while just across the way Germany and England will represent the old world. Both Michigan and Missouri will build handsome pavilions to offset the elaborate decorations of the German and English sections. The Michigan plans show a pavilion 49 by 62 feet of sandstone and marble. The pavilion is of tho Florentine style of architect-

ure. The entire mineral display of Michigan will be put in this pavilion. One of the feaiures of tho building will be a huge globe of copper. This globe, twelve feet in diameter, will have an outline map of the world etched on it. The Michigan mineral pavilion will cost about sls,Odd. Missouri's house in mines

building is now being set up. It was shipped in pieces from Bt. Louis.

A New Plash.

Commencement has been made in England within a comparatively recent period upon the manufacture of of what is regarded as an important new fabric, that is, an inexpensive weft pile plusb, with either single pile or pile on both sides. A reversible pile plush has in times past been made in the factories of Germany, with hand-looms, at the rate of six yards to the loom per week, but by means of the newly contrived apparatus, which has been devised by a Bradford manufacturer, and can be fixed to ordinary dress and coat looms, it is said to operate at seven times the speed of the German handloom, and to make goods of equal quality at a less price. The new goods have a weft pile, and consequently a very much cheaper yarn can be used—New York Sun. The first pair of silk stockings made in England were finished in 1564.

RECORD OF CONGRESS.

WORK OF THE FIFTY-SECOND NATIONAL LEGISLATURE. Silver, Tariff, Anti-Options, World's Fair and Economical Schemes Figure as the Leading Questions—No Great Retrenchment Noticeable in the Appropriations. Didn't Reduce Expenses. The silver and- tariff questions, the anti-option bill and the reduction of appropriations were the leading topics of consideration by the Llld Congress, and secondary only in importance to these matters were measures relating to the World’s Fair, equipment of railroads with automatic car-couplers, national quarantine and immigration, Behring Sea and Hawaiian annexation. Nothing of an affirmative nature, except to prevent two items in the McKinley act taking effect, was actually accomplished so far as respects silver, the tariff or anti-options, the action taken on each of these questions in one branch of t ongress being negatived by the action or non-action of the other branch. The result of the agitafion of the necessity for a retrenchment of expenditures is not apparent in any considerable change in the aggregate appropriations carried by the national supply bills, for they amount to about as much as in the List Congress, laws on the statute books preventing some large reductions which otherwise possibly would have been made, while the decreases which it was possible to effect were offset by increased appropriations for pensions and rivers and harbors. The condition of the public Treasury, however, though it did not result in the Llld Congress getting below the bill-ion-dollar limit, undoubtedly infiuenced legislation to a considerable extent, and prevented the authorization of many proposed new expenditures for improvement of the public service, for public buildings, payment of claims, and for other purposes. A notable instance of the operation of this influence is seen in the fact that not a single public building bill passed the House, and it was only by putting a number of them on the sundry civil appropriation bill that any appropriations whatever for public buildings were secured. KtrujcKie l)ver .Silver. The silver question was kept steadily before the attention of Congress by tho alternate advocates of lree coinage and of tho iepeal of the Sherman law. The coinage committee of the House in the first session reported a free-silver bill, which after an exciting debate was saved from defeat by the casting vote of the Speaker, but was afterward filibustered to death, the friends of the bill failing to secure the signatures of a majority of the Democrats to petition for a cloture rule in its behalf. The Senate then passed a free-ooinage bill, but when the free-silver men renewed their fight in the House they were outnumbered by fourteen votes, and, of course, failed. The anti-silver men met a similar fate in their efforts to secure a repeal of the present law, the Senate refusing by a decisive vote to consider it, and the House killing the AndrewCate bill by declining to vote so as to give its friends the parliamentary right to move cloture on it, without which itj concededly could never be forced to a vote in tho closing hours of the Con-, gress. Tactics Tariff. On tho tariff, according to a Washington correspondent, the dominant party in the House adopted a policy of attacking tho McKinley act in detail largely for political reasons and partly for tho reason that in view of the political complexion of the Senate it was practically out of the question to pass a general tariff-revision bill through the Senate, while special measures might stand some show of passage. The result was the enactment into law of two bills continuing block tin on the free list and fine linen at 35 per cent ad valorem. Under the McKinley act large duties were to take effect on those items in the near future. Other separate bills were passed through the House, only to be pigeonholed in the Senate, as follows: Free wool and reduction of duties on woolen manufactures, free ootton-bagging machinery; free binding twine; freo silver-lead ores, where the value, not the weight of the silver exceeds that of the lead in any importation; free tinplate, terne-plate, taggers’ tin, and the limitation to SIOO of the amount of personal baggage returning tourists may bring into the United States. The anti-option bill passed both houses, but was killed by the refusal of the House to suspend the rules and agree by a two-thirds vote to the amendment put on the bill by the Senate, the opponents of the measure maneuvering so as to prevent Mr. Hatch making effective his majority in favor of the measure and forcing him at the last moment to try suspension of the rules. The pure-food bill, the running mate of the anti-option bill, passed the Senate, but was never able to get consideration in the House.

World's Fair Legislation. World’s Fair legislation comprised the grant of $2,500,000 in souvenir halfdollars in aid of the Fair, the closing of Its gates on Sunday, the appropriation of various amounts for different Fair purposes and the passage of sundry acts of a special nature and minor importance. An automatic car-coupler bill shorn of its drastic features was enacted into law, as was also a national quarantine bill increasing the powers of the marinehospital service to meet the threatened dangers from cho'era, and an Immigration law imposing additional restrictions on immigration, but not suspending it entirely. The Senate averted the bill over the Behring sea seal fisheries by ratifying a treaty of arbitration. It also ratiued extradition treaties with Russia and other countries, but still has before it a treaty of annexation of the Hawaiian islands. The opening of the Cherokee outlet was provided for in the Indian bill under aclause appropriating $8,295,000 for its purchase from Indians. $295,000 to be paid in cash and $8,000,000 in five equal annual installments. Put on the St itute Bo 3kß. Approximately 425 House and 235 Senate bills and joint resolutions became laws, making 660 acts put on the statute books as the result of the work of Congress. A majority of these measures were of interest only to individuals or localities, being forthe relief of citizens, for the bridging of streams, for the District of Columbia, for rights of way, etc. An unusual proportion of the‘claims bills were forthe relief of Southern men. The House passed in round numbers 625 bills, of which 200 failed of passage in the Senate, and in the neighborhood of 625 bills passed by the Senate failed in the House, including a long list of public-building bills, many private pension bills and other measures involving increased expenditures. Vetoed by the President Three bills were vetoed by the President, viz., to refer the McGarrahan claim to the Court of Claims (a second McGarrahan bill failing of action in the House), to amend the Court of Appeals act and in relation to Marshals in the United States Courts in Alabama. This last bill became a law by passage over the veto, Senator Hoar stating that it bad been vetoed through a misunderstanding of its provisions. The President subjected three bills to a “pocket" veto and two other bills failed of en-

grosoment in time for presentation to him, All were of comparatively small Importance. The Pension and Census offices, the whisky trust, Panama ( anal and Pacific Mall company, the Watson-Cobb charges, the Pinkerton system and Homestead troubles, the Maverick and Spring Garden bank failures, the Ellis Island immigration station were investigated by Congressional committees, but nothing came of the reports submitted. Election Contests Settled. The Senate passed ,on two eleotion contests in favor of the sitting members, Dubois (Idaho) and Call (Florida), the contestants being Claggett and Davidson, respectively. The House unseated Stewart, the Republican sitting member from a Pennsylvania district, and gave the place to Craig. In the Noyes-Rockwell contest from New York it refused 10 follow the recommendation of the elections committee that Rockwell, the Democratic sitting member, be unseated, and by a majority vote confirmed Rockwell’s title. In the oases of McDuffie vs. Turpin from Alabama, Reynolds vs. Schonk and Greon vs. Scull from Pennsylvania, and Miller vs. Elliott from South Carolina the elections committee reported in favor of the sitting members.

SMOTE HIM ON THE JAW.

Bob F.tslmmom Knocks Out Jim Hall In Four R >unds at New Orleans. Bob Fitzsimmons smote Jim Hall on the jaw with his right in the fourth round at the Crescent City club’s arena,

BOB FITZSIMMONS.

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

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

JIM HALL.

was universally said to be the hardest that any one of the old ring habitues ever had witnessed. When the knock-out blow was delivered the crowd rose to its feet and a tremendous shout went up. Hall, however, lay unconscious on the carpet, a look of agony on his face, and the crowd feared he had suffered serious injury. Hall’s second, with a club official and Dr. Betts, ran quickly to the piostrate pugilist, and applying restoratives gradually brought him back to consciousness. Fitzsimmons also ran to the center of the ring, and, pulling off his gloves, helped to resuscitate his conquered foe. When Hall had been brought to he was carried limp to his chair, where he remained until able to to go to his dressing-room. Fitzsimmons was frenzied with delight over his comparatively easy victory. After Hall had been brought back to consciousness, Fitzsimmons, skipped nimbly to his room, and, without putting on his clothes, drew on a heavy overcoat and jumped into a carriage with' his wife and drove to his quarters. Mr* Fitzsimmons, unobserved by the throng, had witnessed the fight through the crevices of a room up-stairs. A great crowd congregated in front of tho winner on Canal street, giving him a rousing welcome as he drove up. After he had gone up-stairs the cheering continued, and Fitzsimmons came out on the balcony and made a modest speech on the victory.

How to Clean Brass.

Brass, to he kept in proper order, should be cleaned at least once a week, while it is the custom in households with well-trained aomestics to have brass and irons, fenders and other fireplace furniture given a light rubbing every day. In cleaning brass it must first be relieved of all canker and other spots to which the metal is subject from contact with acids, exposure to water or other causes. An application of alcohol, spirits of terpentine, benzine or kerosene will generally remove all ordinary spots on brass, unless very old spots, the metal in some cases seeming so perfectly to. absorb foreign substances that the removing of them amounts almost to an impossibility. Spots removed, there is no more certain cleansing and polishing application for brass than rotten stone and oil. Botten stone usually comes in lumps. Before using for polishing brass it must be reduced to powder, and in this state is quickly disolved to a smooth consistency when mixed with olive oil. A thin paste of the preparation should be rubbed lightly on the metal, and when perfectly dry it should be rubbed off vigorously with a flannel cloth, the finishing polish being given with the powder dry, and subsequent rubbing with a clean flannel cloth or chamois skin.

Boon to Jack.

The British steamer Bawnmore, which recently visited an American port, has a novelty aboard in the shape of a stockless anchor. In fact, she has two of them, and they are hauled up “chock-a-block” to the hawseholes in a way to make a sailor feel like kicking himself for all the the risks he has run in the way of catting and fishing anchors in years gone by. The new anchor has no stock and no flukes. It consists of a heavy semi-circular mass of metal fastened directly to the chain and furnished with two attachments very similar to the old-time flukes, but twisted like the flanges of a screw propeller. The anchor can be let go and grounded inside of ten seconds and hoisted in less than half aminute. It will take hold of the hardest bottom, and the anchors, starboard and port, will keep a ship in position in the worst weather.

SENATE IS ORGANIZED.

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS AT LAST AGREED UPON. Republican Assignments Undisturbed by the Steering Committee—Hill to Wrestle with Immigration and Voorhees with Finance. Named by the Caucus. After the adjournment of the Senate Monday the Democratic caucus committee held its final meeting in relation to the assignment of Senators to committees, and practically completed its work. The two Poj utlst Senators, Peffer, of Kansas, and Kyle, of South Dakota, are classed with the Democrats as part of the majority in the committee appointments, and each is given a chairmanship. The assignment of the majority as it now stands is as iollows: Agriculture and Forestry—George, chairman; Jones, of Arkansas,'Bale and Peffer. r> Cockrell, chairman; Call, Gorman, Blackburn an! Brice. Claims—Pasco, chairman; Vilas, White, Daniel and Peffer. Commerce—Hansom, chairman; Coke, Vest, Gorman, White of Louisiana, While of California, Murphy. District of Columbia—Harris, chairman; Faulkner, Gibson and Hunton. Education and Labor—Kyle, chairman; George, Hunton, Lindsay and Murphy. Erolled Bills—Caffery, chairman; Colquitt lo examine the several branches of the civil service—Peffet, chairman; Gray and Vllaa Finance—Voorhees. chairman; McPherson, Harris, Vance, Ve9i, uni Jones, of Arkansas. Fisheries—Coke, chairman; Call, Ransom, Gibson and Hill. Foreign Relations—Morgan, chairman; Butler. Gray, Turpie and Daniel. Immigration—Hill, chairman; Voorhees, McPherson, Faulkner and Peffer. Improvement of the Mississippi and its Tributaries— Bate, chairman; Walthall, Palmer and Peffer. Indian Affairs—Jone : . of Arkansas, chairman; Morgan, Vilas, Allen and Roach. Interstate Commerce—Butler, chairman; Gorman, Brice, White of Louisiana, Camden an i Lindsay. Irrigation and reclamation of arid lands —White, of California, chairman; Kyle, Gibson, Roach, and Beckwith. Judiciary—Pugh, chairman; George, Coke, Vilas, Hill, and Lipdsay. Library—Mills, chairman, and Voorhees. Manufactures— Gibson, chairman; Smith and Caffery. Military affairs — : Walthall, chairman; Cockrell, Bate, Palmer, and Mitchell. Naval affairs McPherson, chairman; Butler, Blackburn, and Camden. Organization, condition, and expenditures of the executive departments Smith, chairman; Cockrell, Hill, Walthall, and Caffery. Pensions Palmer, chairman; Brice, Vilas. Camden, and Caffery. Postoffices and p< st roads Colquitt, chairman; Vilas, Irby. Mills, Hunton, and Hill.

and that settled it It may have been a chance blow, but chance blows are in the game. The Australian is for the time being the greatest 'man south of the Ohio and, [ according to a New Orleans dispatch, the crowd that journeyed from tho North to bet their money on

Privileges and elections—Vance, chairman; Pugh, Gray, Turnie, and Palmer. Public buildings and grounds Vest, chairman; Daniel, Pasco, Brice, and Gordon. Public lands—Berry, chairman; Walthall, Pasco, Vilas, Allen, and Martin. Railroads Camden, chairman; Berry,. Gordon, Palmer, Martin, and Beckwith. Relations with Canada.—Murphy, chairman; Pugh, Colquit. Hunton, and Mitchell. Revision of the laws of tho United States —Daniel, chairman; Call and Lindsay. Rules—Blackburn, chairman; Harris and Gorman. Territories—Faulkner, chairman; Hill. Bate. Gordon, Blackburn and White of California. Transportation routes to the seaboard— Irby, chairman; George, Turpie, Gordon and Hunton. Pacific railwavs—Brlce, chairman; Morgan, Faulkner, White of Louisiana and Murphy. Indian depredations—Lindsay,chairman; Faulkner, Kyle, White of Louisiana and Cockrell. Quadro-centennial Vilas, chairman; Colquitt, Vest, Gray, Daniel, Gibson and Lindsay. To investigate the geological survey— Martin, chairman; Jones of Arkansas and Beckwith. To investigate trespasses upon Cherokee lands—Roach, chairman, and Butler.

Thomas Kane was burned to death in a dwelling house at Rone3dale, Pa. J. F. Bailey & Sons, dealers in iron at Philadelphia, have assigned. L. L. Dosteb, a rich lumber dealer of Philadelphia, suicided by hanging. The long-standing Chili-Bolivian boundary dispute has been settled. Mbs. Maby Milleb, of Cold Spring, N. Y., has given birth to her third set of triplets. The pontoon bridge across the Missouri at Sioux City was carried out by the moving ice. The liabilities of Stitt & Co., woolen goods, who failed at Philadelphia, are placed at $1,250,000. The Burlington Bailway bridge over the Platte River, at Ashland, Neb., was partly carried away by a flood. The body of an unknown boy wasseen floating on a cake of ice at Henderson, Mich., but was not recovered. The steamer City of Rochester was dashed against the piers of a bridge at Charlotte, N. Y., and demolished. Harvey Levy, a drunken cook of Leadville, Colo., shot and killed Dan Cameron and fatally wounded Jack Stuart. James L. Hamilton, sentenced to die by electricity at Sing Sing, has been granted a respite of one week by Gov. Flower. L. J. Hintze, street commissioner of New York, died from a cold contracted at the Presidenial inauguration in Washington. Sib John Thompson, premier of Canada, sailed for Paris to attend the international conference on the Behring Sea seal fisheries case. M. Chevaliee, of the department of public debt at Cairo, has been chosen to succeed Charles de Lesseps as director of the Suez Canal Company. The booms at Grand Rapids, Mich., under the pressure of a flow, which confined the logs at the Miclrgan Barrel Company’s works, gave way, and 2,000,000 feet of logs started for Lake Michigan. The California Legislature has adopted a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment to remove the State capital from Sacramento to Ban Jose. John G. Hartings, of Port Gibson, Miss..committed suicide at Birmingham, Ala., with a revolver. He was organizer of that district for the Knights of Honor. Fifty members of the congregation of St. Joseph’s Church at Swedesboro, N. J., have decided to cast their lot with Father Treacy, the priest ex-communi-cated by order of Mgr. Satolli. News of a murder followed by swift vengeance comes from Nitta Yuma, Miss., a small town on the Illinois Central Railroad. Rufus Haywood, a colored planter, was assassinated by Lee Walton, a notorious negro desperado. Walton was captured and hanged by a mob of 300 blacks. Sheriff Ewing, of Mercer County, Mo., attempted to arrest three prisoners who had escaped from the Princeton jail. They were J. L. Morrison, Y. G. Edwards, and John Hodge. When the Sheriff and posse attempted to arrest them, they fired on the officers, and attempted to escape. Morrison was shot dead, and Edwards badly wounded. He will die. Hodge was captmed.

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