Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Page 2

gljc Bento truth Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Pvtusheb.

LIKE A WHITE MAN.

CHASKA, THE SIOUX, DESERTS HIS WIFE AND ELOPES. Close Call for Rochester Lunatics—Pennsylvania Elections—Chicago Agony Ended—Death of a Famous Satirist —Furious Feud at Houston, Texas. Mrs. Chaska Deserted. The fact has become public that Mrs. Cora Bell Chaska, who created a sensation about three years .go by marrying Chaska. a Santee Indian, has been abandoned by her coj per-skinne 1 husband, and is .new living aith her half-breed children in Southern Nebraska. To make matters worse. Chaska has taken an Indian wife and is living openly with her ont he Santee reservation. 3he attention of the Indian Department at Washington**ill be called to the matter. BULLETS FLEW FAST. Four People Killed as an Outcome of a Texas Feud. James R. Mitchell shot and killed four people at Houston. Texas, and injured several others, as an outcome of the Fort Bend feud murder case. Milton Sparks and D. I. Sution, constable of Eagle Luke, were in the city as attached witnesses in the case, and Mrs. Sparks accompanied her husband. This engendered bad blood and Mitchell, who was waiting for his father and brother from Richmond, espied Sutton. He opened fire, which was promptly returned, Sutton failing after firing a second shot. Mitchell kept up his murderous fusillade until he had fired six shots. The result , was that. In addition to Sutton being killed. Milton Sparks was shot io death and , Dan Gleason, an omnibus driver, also lies ; dead, Mrs. Sparks, wife of the murdered , man, was badly wounded, as was also a ! child she carried. A brother of Sparks was mortally wounded, and Mrs. McDowell, an aged lady, received one of the bullets, and her chances of recovery are slim. A dispatch says: It is pretty evident that Sutton killed Gleason, while Mitchell killed Sutton. Milton Sparks and the baby, mortally wounded Sparks’ brother, and shot Mrs. McDowell. INMATES IN A PANIC. State Hospital at Rochester, N. Y., Burned to the Ground. The Rochester State Hospital at Rochester, N. Y., was burned the other morning. The flames spread rapidly, owing to the lack of water, and the building was destroyed. From the moment vhen the first alarm was given the inmates were in a state of Intense excitement. Their shouts and cries for aid were pitiful. The safety of the inmates demanded their removal, which was accomplished without loss of life. Ihe burned building was a fourstory brick structure, 100 by 70 feet in dimensions, and was built fifteen years ago. Dr. Howard, warden of the institution, says the loss will amount to $120,000. There is no insurance. At she time the fire broke out there were in the building 220 male inmates, 213 female inmates, and 110 keepers and officia’s.

Offices for Chicago. President Cleveland sent tbe Chicago nominations of Collector of Customs, Subtreasurer, Appraiser and Marshal to the Senate Tuesday afternoon. Only one of the appointments had been asked by Senator Palmer. The other three are acceptable to the Senator, although they are not his candidate,. These are the nominations transmitted: Collector of Customs, Martin J. Russell; Subtreasurer, Delos P. Phelps; Appraiser, Frank G. lloyne; Marshal, J. W. Arnold. In the same batch of nominations a new Collector of Internal Revenue for the Peoria district, J, W. Hunter, who was Senator Palmer’s candidate, was named. Too Much Beer Aboard. While the members of the Eleventh Ward Club_ of Philadelphia, were celebrating the victory of Its Councllmanic candidates Tuesday a frame annex to the club house collapse! Several barrels of beer had been brought Into the annex, and this additional weight. Is supposed to have caused the accident Thirteen men were seriously injured and several more received slight bruises. The victorious candidates had left the rooms only a few minutes before the accident occurred.

Great Cartoonist Dead. Joseph Keppler, the great caricaturist, editor and part owner of Puck, died at his New York home. In the 56th year of his age. Mr. Keppler had been sick for six months with an affection of the spine complicated with lung trouble. It Is believed that this was brought on largely by Dis labors in Chicago during the World’s Fair, where he conducted and personally supervised the production of a World s Fair edition of Puck on the Fair grounds. Woman Suffrage Officers. The woman suffrage convention, in session at the National Capital, elected the following officers: Susan B. Anthony, President: Rev. Anna Shaw, of Philadelphia, Vice President at large; Rachel Foster Avery, of Philadelphia. Corresponding Secretary; Mrs, Harriet Taylor Upton, of Ohio, 'treasurer, and Mrs. Ellen B. Dietrick, of Boston, and Josephine K. Henry, of Kentucky, Auditors. Pawn-Broker Robbed. At gan Francisco, the residence of Simon Jacobson, a money-lender, was entered by burglars while the occupants were asleep and about $12,000 in coin was taken. Seven Men in Agony. Frank Baur is at St Elizabeth’s Hospital suffering with burns which will probably cause his death, and six other men are nursing badly burned hands and faces as a result of an explosion caused by an unruly horse kicking over a large can of gasoline In Patrick Ryan’s blacksmith shop, at Chicago. Cyclone Kills a Woman. A destructive cyclone passed over a part of Bradley County, Arkansas. A number of dwellings, barns and out-houses were demolished and much farm property damaged or destroyed. The aged mother of Dennis Crosby was killed and all the other members of the ifamily were more or less seriously hurt Losses Were Heavy on Both Sides. Manuel Bonilla’s forces have been routed near Juzoran by Gen. VUlela. They were pursued to Corpus, where they were reenforced, and another battle took place, when Vlllela In turn was obliged toreireat The lopswas heavy on both sides. Indiana Republicans Meet Ex-President Benjamin Harrison made a political speech before the Indiana Lincoln League at Its meeting In Indianapolis, the first political speeeh he has made since his retirement from the Presidency. By some his action Is regarded as significant df a kindling desire for a renomln-tlon. Three Times Wed to the Same Woman. Thomas Courtney, of Waynetown. Ind., waa married Thursday evening for the third time to the seme woman. The con pie Jha’« been divorced twice, the woman securing ftfe divorces after protracted trials The man in both initances has again asked the woman to remarry him.

ONE MORE FAIR FIRE. Part of the Illinois State Building and Ita Content, Consumed. Jackson Park Imoadlarles deserted the group of bi; World’s Fair structures Sunday and attacked the Illinois Building. The fire-boat and the engines kept in the p,rk were too close to the crumbling palaces around the grand basin to give a fire much of a chance, so the incendiaries moved north and dropped their matche> in a section where railroad tracks and deep snow might impede tbe engines. As a fire It was not so successful as Its three forerunners, but It was much greater in possibilities. Whoever lighted It was animated by aspinitof criminal recklessness, if not bjr actual fiendish destructiveness The Art Building—now the storehouse of the Columbian Museum treasures —was tbreaiened. At one time its roof was Nothing but pr nipt work by volunteers saved this best of the fair buildings from serious damage and prevented what might have easily become the worst fire, in a monetary measure. Jacksun Park has had since Nov. 1.

BREAKS ALL RECORDS. Prices Ever Known in Many Products Touched in the Present Week. R. G. Dun & Ca’s Weekly Review cf fTrade says: This has been a week of record breaking. ( In wheat, in silver, hi some forms of iron ,and steel, in Connellsville coke, and in well-known cotton and soo.en goods the lowest prices ever known have been made, and it is gratifying that failures ot importance have not resulted. While no action especially affecting business prospects was taken at Washington the continued 'dlscussicu of revenue and moi etary measures and the uncertainty regarding them ■have a constant unfavorable influence, and indifferent markets have caused sudden fluctuations in prices Wheat at 60J4 cents is not only lower by 4', cents than it was for a single day last year, but lower than It had ever been in the previous seventyseven years. A visible supply of over 79,000,090 bushels Feh 10. with sales and receipts from farms continuing large, has completely destroyed faith in the official reports of the yield last year, and caused enormous liquidation. Receipts last week Were but 1,810.314 bushels, against2.9ol,o4B for the same week last year, but Atlantic exports were only 659.962 bushels, against 1.013.015 last year, and the recent decrease In foreign demand has been an important factor. Some trust companies have .arranged to advance money against wheat as collateral security, but with results not as yet encouraging. Corn and other products fluctuated but little, though receipts of corn were large.

WANDERING IN THE WOODS. E. H. Mann, of Syracuse, N. Y., Remembers Nothing After Boarding a Train. E. H. Mann, the wholesale grocer who mysteriously disappeared recently from the St James Hotel, St Louis, was found wandering aimlessly about the woods near Gurdon, Ark., by two negroes. He wat examined by a physician, and when able to talk said: “My home is la Rochester, N. Y. lam a man of considerable means and have wealthy and prominent relatives living there. Tuesday I was In Houston. Tex., and boarded a train at that point for St Louis. That Is all I know. What may have taken after that Is all blank to ma When I left Houston I had In my possession $l5O in cash and a check for S3OO. I still have the check; of the $153 but s4l remains What became of the rest I do not know. ” ONE HUNDRED TEMA.CHIANS SLAIN. Reports of a Desperate Battle, in Which . the Tribe Suffers Severely. Reports from Old Mexico say that the Temachlani have been about wiped out of exlstenca In addition to the battle which occurred out from the city of Chihuahua some time ago, Government troops to the number of 200 met the rebels south of Elvia, about forty miles south of Casa Grande and 2>o miles south ot Deming, and killed seventy-flve of tho 'I emachlans. Twenty-five were taken prisoners and immediately after the hard fighting wore taken out and shot, a few being sirung up to the trees. The information was brought into the Mormon colony below Palomas and in turn to Deming. The couniry in which the fight occurred is wild and mountainous and, like the Chihuahua defeat, the rebels were caught and killed In a canyon.

Condition of Embarrassed Bank*. Bradstreet’s report of embarrassed banks, by classes and States, for the calendar year 1893. shows a total of 598 (exclusive of South Dakota), owing $170,000.000 and having $184,000,000 assets. Nearly one-third, or 193, have resume'd business, liabilities having been only 566,000,000 and assets $95,000,000. Remaining banks whose doors are still closed number 495. the aggregate debts being $104,000,000 and assets $80,000,000, Thirty-nine Perish. An explosion resulting in the death ot thirty-nine men and the serious wounding of nine others occurred on board the German ironclad Brandenburg near Stollergrund. three miles from the Duelk lighthouse, at the entrance to Kiel Bay. Western Cattle Not Dying. Telegraphic reports from many points 11 Colorado and New Mexico disprove the reports that range stock is dying by thousands on account of the severe weather. It is hardly possible stock will ever agait. suffer as it did in the winter of 1886. Pest-House Nurse Dead. Plater Alvina, one of the two Chicago pest-house nurses who were stricken with small-pox a few days ago, is dead. Rejected Peckham. Peckham’s nomination to the Supremt bench was rejected by the Senate, the vote being 32 for to 41 against.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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CAPITOL KITCHENS.

A VISIT TO THE BASEMENT OF THE SENATE. '■ Ovens Which Will Roast Oxen and Gridirons Big Enough for Sheep—Gllmpaes of Our Bljg Brained Statesmen at the Dining Table. What Senator* Eat. Congress wants new kitchens. A committee of the Home has been appointed to investigate the matter, and the members are by no means satisfied with the dark rooms and old-fashioned cooking utensils with which the basement of that part of the Capitol is furnished. Tue restaurants of Congress do as big a business as any hightoned eating bouses in the 'United States. Nearly ati ousand people are fed daily at the tables of the House restaurant, and fully five hundred have their stomachs tickled by the appetizing viands dished vp in the restaurant of the Senate. The Senate of the United States recently put in new kitchens, and there is no club house in the world that has a better culinary apparatus. Our greatest statesmen are more particular as to their bills of fare than they are as to the bills before Congress. They want all the latest frills in the fashion of their di.-hes, and they use everything that modern invention can supply to help them in their cooking. I have spent some time this week in sampling the good things of tho restaurants and have made a study of the Senate kitchen. The latter cannot but bo interesting to the women of the United States. They are away down Under the ground. You go through Winding stairways into the sub-base-tnent of the Capitol. Tho kitchens, storerooms and bakeries of the Senate form one of the busi-

SENATORS PEFFER AND WOLCOTT.

eet parts of the Capitol building. It takes about thirty employes to run them. You see white-aproned, whitecapped men everywhere, and there are cooks and dish washers, oyster shuckers and bakers, making up a corps large enough to run a big summer hotel. The main room of the kitchen proper is 15 feet wide by 100 feet long. It contains two ranges, each big enough to roast an ox, and it has patent steamers and baking machines here and there about it. In one corner is the bigge-1 soup pot in Washington. It will hold about two bushels of liquid and it is the size of the largest apple butter kettle. It is made of the brightest of red copper and it is used for keeping the stock for the making of the soup. Nickel-plated steam pipes run through it and tho liquid is always hot. A little further over there is a copper pot of about half this size, heated in the same way, in which the cranberry sauce and apple sauce which is eaten by these Senators is cooked, and near this is a patent turkey roaster. It •would make your mouth water to know just how good the turkeys booked by this process are. They are roasted by steam, and the roaster is’ a double iron box about as big as the average dry goods box, within the walls of which steam is conducted bv nickel-

IN THE SENATE KITCHEN

prated pipes, thoroughly roasting the mallard ducks and the twenty-pound turkeys which are laid away within it. Another feature of this kitchen is the grill. It is a gridiron so large that you could lay the largest sheep upon it and broil it. This rests over a bed of red-hot charcoal, and the fire is such that the steak or chop can be well done in five minutes. This grill js kept going about six hours a day, and the juicy meat which comes from it has made most of the gray matter which you will find in the alleged brains of the Congressional Record. The dining rooms of these Senators are worth looking at. Their walls and ceilings are frescoed. They sit around the finest of damask cloths on chairs of oak, cushioned with green leather. Their dishes are china and their forks are of silver. The most of them prefer steel knives, and silver is only used for the cutting of fruit. The common dining room is apart from that used by the Senators, and there is a pie and oyster counter pre ided over by waiters. At there the statesmen now and then take a snack, but the most of

SENATOR STEWART’S CHAFING DISH.

them are good livers, and they take a full meal at noon every day in the year. Funny to Watch 'Em. It is funny to watch them eat and to see “Upon what meat these our Caesars feed that they may grow so great." Take Don Cameron. He looks like a dyspeptic, and as he sits in the Senate he chews his red mustache as if he were hungry. He is as lean as a rail, and you would never suppose that he was one of the biggest eaters of the Capitol. He likes rich food, and he washes his lunch down every day with a pint of champagne. One of his favorite dishes is calves’ liver and bacon, and he smacks his lips three times a week over a chafing dish stew.

Senator Stewart of Nevada is another man who is fond of a chafing dish stew, and there is a baker's dozen of Senators who think that oysters served in this way form a dish fcr the gods. Senator Stewart cooks his oysters himself. He call for a dozen of the finest selects and these are brought to him at tbe table and a chafing dish is set before him. There is no water u-ed. The cy-tors are stewed in their own liquor in a large glass of the best sher-. ry wine, and in additi- n he puts in a big lump of butter and the yelks of two eggs, and then salts and pepers to ta-te. It is one of the richest dishes known to public men and is very productive of gout. Senator Hawley knows what is good, but he usually takes a light lunch. His favorite dish is chicken s up, and aftar this he bas a piece of apple pie and a glass of milk. If he has a friend with him he spreads himself out over the

THE NEW YORK SENATORS

whole bill of fare, but when alone his lunch is a light one. Senator Sherman is another pie eater. His favorites are apple and custard, and he always takes a glass of milk with .his lunch. Senator Frye lunches on apple pie and a cup of tea. Peffer of Kansas confines himself to a bowl of bread and milk or an oyster stew. Joe Blackburn and Arthur P. Gorman are both fond of goad living. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts has the reputation of being a light feeder. He is, however, one of the richest gourmands of the Senate, and he is fond of filling his round stomach with a chafing dish stew, and he dotes on sweetbreads served up in butter. There is nothing too good for Senator Wolcott. He wants his food highly seasoned and he is very fond of pheasants and other game. He likes a nice porter-house steak served so rare that the blood runs down its sides. He eats a big meal every noon and the day is cold indeed when you find wrinkle* in his stomach. All of these Western men live well. Hansbrough and Dubois want the best that the cooks can provide. Senator Perkins of California is a great feeder, and his colleague, Senator White, picks cut a half dozen dishes and eats them all. These men seldom dine alone and the average statesman likes company at his meals. Henry Cabot Lodge usually brings a party in with him, and Tom Reed, Julius Caesar Burrows and Doliver, of

SENATOR VEST AND THE OYSTER

lowa, come to the Senate and eat their lunches together. Senator Cush Davis is one of the big fish caters of the Capitol. He likes anything that comes from the water, and he feeds his brain on black bass five times a week. The New York Senators usually come to lunch together, and they are both good feeders, though Hill merely nibbles at the dishes he orders, while Murphy eats all of the best and lots of it. Power, of Montana, is a dyspeptic. He has no stomach to speak of, and he looks at his victuals with such a vinegar aspect that his milk has to be boiled before it is brought to him for fear it will sour. His regular lunch is a bowl of boiled milk and a plate of brown bread well toasted. He breaks the toast into the milk and dishes it up with a spoon. Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, wants the best he can get, but he never drinks anything but water or milk. Turpie, of Indiana, lunches on oysters and wants fruit every day. Vance, of North Carolina, is satisfied with a sandwich, and Dan Voorhees eats enough country sausage and cakes to give any other statesman the gout. Wilson, of lowa, usually dines off a glass of milk and a piece of apple pie, and Roger Q. Mills can fill up his bread basket with chicken salad and feel like a king.

National Capital Notes. President Cleveland signed the Federal elections repeal bill, and it is now a law. The gold reserve in the Treasury Friday lacked but $6,256 of the sllO,000,000, of which it should consist. Miss Laura Houghtaling, of Asheville, N. C., a niece of Senator Stockbridge, died at hi> residence in Washington. Secretary of the Nany Herbert has appointed a board to examine Lieut. I’illett, of Portsmouth, N. H., as to his sanity. The distillers are laboring with the Senate Finance Committee to secure an extension of the bonded period, which they say is absolutely necessary. Col. David B. Henderson, of lowa, who lost one leg at the knee during the war, was compelled to undergo an operation' on the wounded member. He stood it well and is recovering rapidly from its effects. A bill is said to be before the House Committee on Appropriations having for its purpose the control of the National Soldiers’ Homes by the XYar Department. Veterans generally do not approve of the bill.

Carroll L. Riker, of Chicago, made a bid for the entire issue of b nds offered by Secretary 1 Carlisle. His proposition was of an extraordinary character and his bid was ignored by the Treasury Department. Riker has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a mandamus to compel Secretary Carli le to issua.sso,000,000 in bonds to him, according to the terms of his bids.

Chairman Blanchard gays that the river and harbor bill will probably n t be ready to report t > the House for at least three weeks. Speaking of the size of it he says that it will be a>very small bill, probably carrying about $10,000,000. There have been but a few improvements projected or now under way that have npt b;en advocated by the members in whose districts they are situated. AU this argument will not have much effect upon the committee, as the determination has been reached not to have any more new improvements provided for in this bill and to cut the appropriations for projects now under way to the lowest possible figure. 1

FOUND A MAN AT LAST.

SENATOR WHITE FOR THE SUPREME BENCH. Justice Blatchford'g Saeceseor Named by Preaident Cleveland and Confirmed by the Senate Forthwith Without Oppoeltlon—Dtaeaaed Meat In Chicago. The New Justiciary. President C leveland nominated Sen- ■ ator White, of Louisiana, to be AbsoI ciate Justice of the Supreme Court, and the nomination was at once confirmed by the Senate. Senator White is nominated to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Justice Samuel F. Blatch ford, of New York. The I President nominated White after the Senate had refused to confirm Horn- | blower and Peckham. The selection of a Justice from Louisiana is a great surprise, though it was admitted immediately after 1 eckham's nomination had been iejected that the President considsred himself entirely ires to go outside of New York State in making the appointment. Some surprise was manifested that the President went so far from New York. Edward Douirlass White will take his seat on the Supreme bench as the youngest of the justices, and, with the exception of Justices Field and Harlan, h’ will. have entered at an earlier period in life thun any of the other justices, and will have the exceptionally long term of twenty-one years to serve before retirement." He was born in the parish of La F’ourche, La., and was 48 years of age last November. He was educated at Mount St. Mary s, ! near Emmitsburg, Md„ at the Jesuit College in New Orleans, and finally at Georgetown College. He entered the (Confederate army, and after the war was admitted to the bar by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and practiced his profession during the troubled years following the reconstruction period. In ld<4 ho began his political experience as a State Senator. Lapdng into the law again he became Associate Justice Supreme Court of Louisiana in 1878, but again turning to political pursuits he was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Senator Eustis, at present Ambassador to France, taking his teat March 4, 1891. By his appointment he will leave a vacancy of full two years in his Senatorial term.

STOCK YARD SCANDAL.

Lumpy-Jawed Cattle Slaughtered and Sold for Food in Chicago. Chicago is eating diseased beef. It is. not a pleasant statement to make or pleasant thing for Chicagoans to contemplate but it is the truth, at least so say the Chicago papers. Briefly t >ld, there is not a shadow of a question but that from 100 to 150 diseased animals are spirited out of the yards each week without any inspection whatever by the officials appointed for that purpose; are either bought by the packets or slaughtered by them upon commission and put upon the public market. With the exception possible of one or two of the larger packing establishments, the papers allege that all of the packers and minor slaughtering houses are more or less engaged in the nefarious trade. With possibly one or two exceptions every commission firm doing busine-s at the Union Stock Yardi is selling diseased

A TYPICAL CASE OF LUMPY JAW.

cattle to the speculators who make that their only badness. The Union Stock Yards Company folds its hands and closes its eyes, permitting the business to go on without interruption. 1 Lumpy jaw or actinomycosis is a vegetable parasitic disease, due to the introduction into the animal of the iayfur gus through an abrasicn or wound of the mouth, tongue, or cheeks, or gains entrance along a shedding tooth or a diseased tooth. After the living plant thus gains an entrance it multiplies and grows somewhat similar to plants outside of the animal economy. jAs the filaments grow the tissues in which the implantation occurred I give way to them—the result of mechanical pressure—pus forming, and other septic bacter a will bo found in connection with the ray-fungus; tumors and abscesses form of varying size, and finally rupture, discharge their contents, and a slowly healing sore remain-. In many cases the bones <f ono jaw—either' upper or lower—become honeycombed with this disease, . constituting what was formerly corisid--1 ercd as bone cancer, or oste ;-sarcoma.

Overflow of News.

The gambling houses of Decatur, 111., were raided by the police. Four „men were killed in Lazos, Mexico, in a fight originating at acock fight. | A. H. Linder, a Harvard student, died of injuries received in a sparring bout. Cincinnati police have obtained a complete directory of the anarchists in that city. I Richard P. Dana, who went around I the world five times, died at his New York home. Indianapolis, Ind., residents are I mystified by a strange woman, who attends all funerals. Thirty-seven of the fifty-eight coal I miners charged with riot at Pittsburg, .Pa., were fcund guilty. ' Gov. Hughes, of Arizona has offered a reward of SS,(KO for the Indian renegade Kid, deal or alive. The Rev. Joshua C. Briggs, supposed ■ to have been killed by a train near Ottawa, 0., was muidered. Queen Victoria is said to dread an open conflict between the two houses of the British Parliament. Mrs. Lease claims to le a Mason, and says she will organize lodges of women throughout this country. | By the opening of spring another rush is expected to the Cherokee Strip. The new towns are booming. j ( The Michigan State Fish Com mission has stocked Cass County streams j with 80,000 young brook trout. I Kansas Populists will organize a theatrical party of young people as an adjunct to their State campaign. A sub-cOmmittee ofthe House of Representatives may go to Chicago to inspect the Government Building.

THIRTY-NINE KILLED.

Bursting of a Steam Pipe on the German Ship Brandenburg. Thirty-nine men were killed and a score of others badly injured by the ' explosion of a steam pipe on board the I German man-of-war Brandenburg at ' the entrance to Kiel Bay. The accident occurred while the wa ship was I undergoing a forced draught trial near the Government drydecks. The ex- | plosion occurred without warning, and I officers, marines and sailors' were ! among the victims. Kiel is the headquarters of the Government Baltic fleet, and the Government works are quite extensive. All the vessels of the Baltic fleet put in here for coaling and repairs, and recently the Brandenburg has been undergoirg a number of trials to increase her speed. Friday morning these experiments were in full operation. None of the crew had sh< re leave, and many of them were on deck. Suddenly, while the vessel was forging ahead at a rapid speed, there was a loud explosion, the waist of the ship seemed to tise up as though lifted by a giant hand, and the next instant the air was filled with intermingled debris and humanity. A large number of the victims, torn and mangled,w re thrown into the water and drowned before assistance could reach them. Others were thrown into the air and fell on the deck-, where they lay dead or dying in the midst of a mass of wreckage. The elects of the explosion were only lelt within a limited aiea, although the big war vessel quivered, under the sh< ck, and"those in the bow and stern quickly lushed to the assistance of the injured. Owing to the force of the explosion the dead outnumbered the injured, and the scene was sickening in the extreme. The vessel presented the appearance of a warship after a sanguinary battle, and dead and woundsd had their clothing nearly torn from their bodies. As quickly as possible the shore was communicated with, and several vessels were dispatched to the scene with medical supplies and surgeons. The accident occurred near the place made memorable last year by the disaster on board the German man-of-war Baden, in which two lieutenants and seven marines wei e killed by the premature explosion of a gun during target practice.

SENATE REJECTS PECKHAM.

The Upper House Refuses to Confirm Mr. Cleveland** Nominee. President Cleveland has enjoyed another test of strength between himself

and the New York Senators, and again he has been defeated. On the 16th day of January last the Senate, by” a vote of 30 to 24, rejected the nomination of Willjam B. Hornblower to be an Associate Justice of 'the Supreme Court of the United States, and, by a vote of 41 to 32.

W. H. FECKHAM.

the Senate rejected the nomination of Wheeler H. Peckham to the same office. Mr. Peckham said to a reporter that he had nothing to say to the press in regard to his rejection. William B. Hornblower was seen at his home and said: “I am very sorry that the Senate has refused to confirm Mr. Peckham’s nomination. Of course, under the circumstances, it is proper that I should say very little on the subject. ” The charges Mr. Peckham’s opponents made against him were that he is a lawyer of but ordinary ability; that he is not known outside of his own State and hardly beyond his own district; that he is petti&h, quick-tempered and overbearing: and that he is in no manner of the ability and does not possess the qualifications for filling the eminent position for which he was nominated.

YELLOW FEVER IN RIO.

Dreaded Scourge Breaks Out in the United States Ship-of-War Newark. Yellow fever is increasing in Rio de Janeiro. There were sixty deaths from that disease Friday in addition to fifteen deaths from other fevers. The captain of an Austrian war ship in Rio waters is dead. Numbers of other cases have been found on board the same ship. A Portuguese war ship is also infected with yellow fever and the situation is growing serious so far as foreigners are concerned. The American warships only communicate with the shore by means of a hired tug and the greatest precautions are observed on board all the American ships. Admiral Benham has been in conference with the commanders of the American vessels and nothing will be left undone which can lead to preserving the health of the American sailors. The British warship Racer has several cases of fever on board. The merchant vessels are reported to have several members of their crews sick under suspicious circumstances.

TAILLESS CATS.

A Colony of Queer Felines at Long Beach, N. J. At Long Beach, N, J., there is the only tribe of tailless cats in the country. The cats are born that way. Early in this century a large English brig was wrecked on this part or the Jersey coast. She became a total wreck, but the sailors' lives were saved and so were a lot of cats. These’feiines came from the Isle of Man, and belonged to a curious breed found on that island and known as Manx cats. At first the animals were quite tame and frequented the vicinity of the lighthouse, where they nightly held open-air concerts that "were not harmonious enough to merit the appreciation of the light-keepers, and ultimate ly resulted in their being driven away. The felines took to the woods and managed to subsist during the first, winter on birds, thousands of which lived in the swamps. The cats increased rapidly in number, and in a few years small packs of them could be found almost anywhere in Barnegat’s woods. Their out-door life made them savage, and the breed seems to have increased in both size and courage, for eventually they became so fierce that they would show fight toward anyone who invaded their homes. They are curious-looking creatures. Their front legs being shorter than their hind legs causes them to make big jumps as they go about, yet it is said they can easily outrun an ordinary dog. Their tails are missing close tithe body.

Sayings of Great Men.

Let us have peace.—Grant. In his letter accepting the Presidential nomination. in 1868. I will find a way or make one.— Hannibal. When beginning the march across the Alps. I wish I had never learned to read and write.—Nero, when asked to sign a death warrant. Learned men are the cisterns oil knowledge, not the fountain-heads.— l James Northcote.

THE NATION’S SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. The entire time of the Senate Wednesday wai consumed in the di-cusston of the Bouse bill to compel the Rock Island Bailway Company to stop it- trains at the new towns of Enid and Round Pond, In Indian Territory. Th' whisky tax and the position of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union on the question was brought up by Senator Fr.e. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts presented a resolution, v.hich was adopted, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for the record in the case of the investigation of the Boston custom house, teiator Palmer spoke in favor of the Rock Island bill Senators Craiv. of Wyoming, and Martin, of Kansas, opposed, while Peffer, of Kansas, advocated it. The day in the Boose was elven up io the discussion of Bland’s seigniorage bill. Ibe debate was without incident. Vice President Stevenson came to the rescue of the Oklahoma town-si e bill in the Senate Thursday, and by his vote broke the tie and passed the bill compelling the Rock Island,Railroad Company to stop its trains at the new towns of Enid and Round Pound. The measure on the final vote stood 27 to 27. and the Vice President promptly exercised his rreroratlve by lasting the deciding vote in favor of the bill The debate on the Bland seignorage bill in the B use was characterized by several strong Democratic speeches against the measure.

The Senate adjourned a few minutes past 4 o’clock Friday afternoon after spending the better part of two days considering the nomination of W. H. Peckham of New York to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The voje had just been taken on a motion to confirm the nomination. and the result, which was rejection by a vote of 32 to 41. was known. In the House Mr. Bland began his coercive tactics to compel a vote on the silver seigniorage bill. Most of the Republicans and the Democratic opponents of the measure started a filibuster with the intention of forcing him to produce a quorum of the advocates of the bill to pass it, and the entire day was consumed in roll calls At 4 o’clock Mr. Bland abandoned any further attempt to secure a quorum, and after having passed a resolution instructing the sergeant-at-arms to telegraph for absentees a recess was taken until 8 o’clock, the evening session being devoted to the consideration ,of private pension bills Mr. Kilgore of Texas blocked all proceedings The President sent to the S mate Monday afternoon the nomination- of Edward D. White, Senator from Louisiana, to succeed Justice Blaichford on the Supreme bench, and It was promptly confirmed. 'I he other work of that body was confined to consideration of the Wilson bill. The Bouse filibustered all day over Bland’s silver seigniorage Jbill. In the House, Tuesday, the opponents of Mr. Blund’s seigniorage bill adopted filibustering tactics throughout ihe session. In the Senate, Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, closed his Hawaiian speech, in which he upheld the policy of Mr. Cleveland. The Senate received from the President a batch of nominations for Chicago Senator Hill violated the rules in making his speech public and has aroused the wrath of some members. It is a matter of uncertainty as to v.hen the Senate sub-committee will present the tariff bill. Postmaster Hesing. of Chicago, pleaded with the House Committee on Buildings for a now Government bui.dlng.

Coins from Private Mints.

The Constitution of the United States provides that no State shall coin money; but it seems that individuals might do so, up till about the time of the late civil war. Of course, it has always been against the law to counterfeit or imitate the coinage of the United States, and so, necessarily, a coin issued by a private mint would have to be so distinctive in shape or markings as to show that it was not intended to pass as Federal money. For this reason the 850 gold coins or tokens issued by several private mints in California during the flush times of the 50's were octagonal in shape. Gold coins were also issued by the Mormons of Utah at about the same time, and the same thing had been done by parties in Georgia and North Carolina. Probably the latest of those private mints was the one established in Denver in the early 60s. It is said that the coinage of this establishment being brought to the attention of Secretary Chase, that eminent financier was much astonished to find, a respectable firm of bankers engaged in making and uttering money, and was still further surpri ed when the Attorney General of the United States declared they had the right to do so. This incident caused the passage of a law absolutely prohibiting individuals from issuing or circulating anything intended in any manner to serve as money. —Washington Star.

"Why, Indeed?

Why should a police officer in chase of a fugitive in the street feel called upon to use firearms? That is a query which it is difficult for the police to answer. A man on the police force draws a good salary—about twice as much as, with his education, he could make in any business. He is supposed to be in good physical condition, so that he may run down any criminal who seeks safety in flight. But it would he safe to wager that no two police officers in ten on the San Francisco force could ’ overtake a fairly athletic criminal if the fugitive were given a start of half a block. The majority of our police are too fat; their lungs are in such poor conditicn'that if a fugitive runs up a steep street the chances are all in favor of his escape. It is only fair to demand of the police that they keep in as fair condition as the regular army, but every one knows that such a comparison would be fatal to the force. Why not have regular police inspection and throw out the men who accumulate fat on beer and idleness? — San Francisco Chronicle.

Applying a Drastic Remedy.

“I suppose, now. that you will be going home to your mother in the morning?” / “I just won't. I have tried that and it doesn’t seem to do any gcod. lam going to bring mother here this time.” —lndianapolis Journal.

Knew His Business.

“I don't, see how you can afford to give'a pair of rubbers with every pair of shoes.” “My friend, there is nothing equal to a pair of rubbers for getting away with shces. See?” —Indianapolis Journal.

Personal Paragrophs.

. Daniel Webster st 11 lives to some people in this country, Letters aie still cccasional’y received at Marshfield addiessed tu “Hon. Daniel Webster.” United States Senator Caffrey, of Louisiana, is ,a loVer of neckties. He changes his ties daily, and they are always of a blue color, but differ in shades. Herr Much, of Vienna, the master of every language in Europe, has gone to Ireland to learn Irish. His instructor is the Professor of Irish at Trihitv College. J