Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 March 1893 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOAXK. lublihor. JASPER, INDIANA. Aftek a debate in tho French senate, on the Hth. on tho facta brought out in the Panama prosecution, tho senate voted confidence in the government by SCO to so. Owino to the spread of cholera in certain districts of Russin u convention of sanitary oflleers has been summoned to meet iii St. Petersburg and arrange for protective measures ttgalnstthcdisea.se. i ir en. Kuamu's l). Kkyk. -of California, one of the oldest surviving generals on the LTnion side in the war of the rebellion, was reported ill. on the 16th, with Tittle hope for recovery, owing to Iiis advanced years. A TnoFESsouof the Japanese imperial nnhr crslty wild in a recent lecture on the "Collision Hctween Education and Religion," that all emperors are revered u divine in the Shinto creed, and that the Japanese nationality rests on tills cteed. Tim. William Uratiam arose in a meeting of tho Bast Cambridge ("Mass.) Woman's Christian Temperance union, on the evening of the 1Mb, and began mi intended speech by saying: "I camo out of a sick bed to show the side 1 am on," and fell back dead. Kasi'AK Ostlkk, nn employe of the Hamilton (Ont).screw works, has compjeted an immense wood carving representing the landing of Christopher Columbus, upon which ho has been employed for seven months. It will bo exhibited in the Canadian department at the World's fair. Tin: steamer Australia 6ailed from San Francisco, on the 15th, for Honolulu, carrying quite a number of passengers and an unusually heavy mail. She will nlso carry to the Hawaiians the first intelligence of the withdrawal of the treaty of annexation from the ten ate by President Cleveland. Ox the 13th Appraisers Rcnolds nnd Crane completed the final statement of the assets of the Rock fellow bank of Wilkesbarrc, Pa., which closed its doors on February 8. The amount of assets considered as good, less the value of Koclta fellow's mortgaged house, is f3,409, while the liabilities arc $132,000. IjCKE Schooi.ckaft, the veteran minstrel, who had been play in tr in Cincinnati for a week in "A Society Fad," was taken ill with indigestion on the 12th. The attack was not considered dangerous, as Schoolcraft had long been subject to the ailment, but he continuedtogrowworse and died before midnight Tiik treasury department is advised of tho arrest, at Detroit, of Ellmer T. IcArthur, an ex-convict, who has been engaged in swindling people in Indiana and Illinois, by collecting alleged dues on imaginary valuable packages represented to be detained at the custom house in Detroit, Mich., for nonpayment of duty. With the exception of Minister Stevens and a few other Americans, the friends of annexation were considerbly depressed when the steamer llelgie Arrived at Honolulu, on tho 2d, with the intelligence that the treaty of annexation had not ireached a vote In the United States senate. The royalists wore correspondingly elated. Ox the 11th the California legislature passed a resolution to submit to the nconle a constitutional amendment re moving the capital to San .Tose, provid ing the latter city shall deed to the state ten acres of land and a bonus of II, 000,000. This action was taken be can so a local paper had been criticising the actions of certain members. DuniNO the last session oi congress 137,000 was appropriated with which to pay employes of the bureau of cngrav ing and printing and to meet incidental expenses during the present fiscal year. It has since been discovered that the cngros?ed bill signed by the president onlv carried the sum of f'ST. The error can not be rectified until congress again convenes. O.N tho 13th the United States supreme court affirmed the judgment of the court of claims in favor of the let ter carriers in the cases of Aaron S. I'ostand Frank Gates r.gninst the United States. Under tills decision carrlersare entitled to extra pay for overtime, in the office or on their routes, for any single day, regardless of lost time on other days. Tun Chinese authorities in Knshgar arc, It is stated, preparing to seize that portion of the Pamir region occupied by Russia, and to which China lays claim. With a view to defending Kits sian occupation two battalions of Rus sian infantry and two batteries of nr tillery nuvo been ordered to start in April to reinforce the troops now win to ring in the Pamirs. J iik uertnnn imperial govcrnmcn lias placed !0,000 marks at the disposal of tho Oldenburg Agricultural society in order that a number of the fnmou Oldenburg carriage horses may be sent to the Chicago exposition. This breed of horses has a great reputation in Germany, and they nro all registered in thcotliclnl stud book by the authorities of the grand duchy of Oldenburg. Tiik London Russo-Jewish committee has sent to every .lewisli tanker, stockbroker and "agent" cxehnngo in Europe u passionate appeal to combine in boycotting Russian loans and the trnde in Russian securities generally, in retaliation of the continued severity of tho czar in dealing with the Jewish people. The movement is oxpected to cause great disaster to Russian enterprises.

CURRENT TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BEIEF. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. IN the Rennte, on tho 13th a resolution declar atory of tho tcn.se oi in w IrirUlallve work tlmitld be undertaken nt this . wn discussed for nearly an hour without romlru; to any decision on the !utrxt No nominations were received from the prWl. Cent, ana the senate adjourned u.tll .0 !Mh. IN the senate, on tho IMh, 'after, tv Miorl ooea session, during which sorp'j rornlns business was dUitoseil of. Mr. 0'rnir,n, nctln for the majority, introduce". In executive sessloua resolution nuiiitu'; the Htnndlnx nnd select committees, which was npreol to, In the senate, on tho Ida. the only business transacted ikirtnj, the ten minutes' session was tho presentation of various memorials from tho legislature of North Dakota und the reference of a resolution for tho np)ointmcnl of a clerk tat 1, Sou er annum) to tho committee on national hanks. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Ciiahlks Wklls, otherwise known as Monte Carlo Wells, on trial in London, was, on the 14th, sentenced to penal servitude for eight years on conviction of extensive frauds In having obtained large sums of niouey from Miss Cath erine Phillimorc and others under false pretenses. A HKAVV snowstorm, accompanied with violent winds, prevailed through out the northwest, including Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, on the 13th. Tar. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. will not be taken by surprise if a strike is declared during the rush of the World's fair traffic. Detectives are watching tho men closely at all points, and any movement toward a general strike will bu promptly reported. Piiincess IvAit'LANi and suite having attained the object of their visit to Washington that of seeing the presi dent the remainder of their time there s being spent in social affairs and visit ing tno interesting places auout me city. Tiik boycott on the Ann Arbor rail road was ordered lifted, on the 13th, pending a conference with the officials of tho company, who had consented to listen to the men. Acting under telegraphic instruc tions tho Indianapolis (Ind.) police, on tho 14th, arrested A. J. Caitey, said to be an ex-treasurer of Comanche county, Tex., charged with being a de faulter. Tiik Countess Goinar. a member of one oi the out grandee famines oi Spain, narrowly escaped assassination. on the 14th, at the bands of a trusted man-servant, wlio, after wounding both mistress and maid, turned the weapon upon himself with deadly effect The countess and her maid may recover. Tin: courtof appeals of Maryland has decided that a tax upon land alone for the support of the government of that state or any part of it, or the govern ment of any county or municipality in it, is not in accordance with the pro visions of the state constitution, and can not. therefore, be enforced. Statlk, the chairman of the wrecked Anglo-Australian bank of Melbourne, has been sentenced to penal servitude for five years; Norwood, the auditor, to penal servitude for two years, and llaroldson, the accountant, to six months' imprisonment. Tun Colorado state senate, on the 15th, passed a bill, which it is thought will also pass the house and which the governor is known to favor, sub stituting life imprisonment for hang ing as punishment for murder in the first degree. Tiik Egyptian cotton sccd.wlnch was purchased by .Secretary Rusk through the United States consul-general at Cairo, Egypt, arrived at the department of agriculture on the 15th. Tiik Belgian anti-slavery society has written an urgent protest against sup plying arms to Arab slave traders. England and Germany are held responsible for the traffic. Ox the 15th tho president accepted the resignation of Vt. M. Stone, of Iowa, commissioner of the general land oillee. to take effect on the 24th. . P. Sti'Iitkvant died at his home in Norwich, Conn., on the 14th. lie was one of the largest manufacturers In the country, .and owned $2.000,000 worth of property in New York, including the Sturtevant house. Tiik French police arrested in Brussels, on the 15th, two brothers named Schoupp on suspicion of hatching an nnarchist dynamite plot in connection with the nortorious French anarchist, Mathlcu. A stoismv scene in, the New Vorlc legislature followed the introduction, on the 15th, of the bill appropriating $300.000 additional for the World's fair, certain members wanting information as to what had boon done with the money already appropriated before voting for any further sum. a Tiik jury appointed by the United States circuit court on the condemnation of property between Sixth, Seventh, Walnut and Sansom streets, Philadelphia, for usu as a site for the new mint, filed its report, on the Kith, awarding 030,100 to property holders, and totennn ts 127.045. Two iirxnurcii villages around the city of Warsaw and the town of Arccheff, Russia, were inundated, on the Kith, by a sudden thaw, resulting in ereat distress to the inhabitants and millions of roubles' damage. RKAli-APMIltAI. ImviX has been de' tached from command of the Mare Is land navy yard aud ordered to the com mand of the Asiatic station, relieving Admiral Harmony, who returns home to retire. Tiik steamship Tacoma arrived at Victoria, B. C. on t he 15th, floating the yellow ling. There were three cases of smallpox among the Chinese on board. It has been decided to name the new military post to be established near Essex Junction, Vt., Fort Ethan Allen, in honor of the revolutionary hero who at one time owned the land where the post is now situated. Tub secretary of the interior, on the 10th, accepted the resignation of Green B. Raum, as commissioner of pensions, and designated Deputy Commissioner Andrew Davidson to take charge of that office until the appointment by the president of Geo. Raum's successor.

.nnell, lev, 1s tho winner of tho 1100 nrlze offered last Mtnuuer by tho v ., ..a.,,,, i.atlfll lnll vention nt St on the udvn I ,1 v.. wj, . ..... ouls for the best essay tage of tho speedy completion of th .j canal to the United Mates, an a f .neclallv to tho north centred A'S. A sii.K-WKAVixo company In Shnklr, Japan, which employed 1,J00 hands and manufactured 17,000 worth of silk fabrics daily, has gone into liquidation. Tun lower house of the Prussian diet, on tho 10th, passed to a third reading a bill to reform tho present complicated system of elections. Loitih 1. Mathknv, now under arrest at San Francisco for a scries of burglaries in Oakland, Oil., was identified, on tho Jtith, as the chief man who robbed tho paymaster of tho Judson powder works last year of 115,000 on tho Berkeley train. Matheny is a son of Dr. T. 1. Matheny, of Auburn, I ml. II. C. Fox, n collector for the First national bank of Chicago, was held up and robbed of II, 800 on one of the stairways of the Chicago courthouse at noon on the 10th. The robber choked the collector into insensibility and, grabbing the money, rushed down the stairs and escaped into tlie crowded street. Tiik administration lias under consideration a proposition to leave Minister Fred D. Grant undisturbed in Vienna. The proposition is favored by Secretary Greshani, who is also in favor of making no change in the English mission. Minister Robert T. Lincoln, however, has indicated his wish to be relieved. Mit. Bowr.x. an extensive operator of Buffalo, N. Y., will bo immersed in Tiger creek at Enterprise, N. Y., on May 5, in the name of "Cleveland and Free Trade," by Dr. John L. Bobbins, in settlement of a wager on the providential election. Mr. ISowen is51 years old. lie ducked Dr. Nobbins in thp name of "Harrison and Protection" four years ago. Tiik name of Secretary Grcsham's new private secretary is Kennesaw Mountain Landis. The father of young Mr. Landis was a soldier in Greslmm's regiment When Greshnm was wounded in the battle of Kennesaw mountain Mr. Landis insisted on bestowing the peculiar name upon his infant son, bom about the same time. Mus. Sahah R. Hicks, who was undoubtedly the oldest person on Long Island, died at her home at Westbury, on the evening of the 15th. Mrs. Hicks was in her one hundred and third year. She was born nt Cedar Swnmp, Queens county, a small farming section, now known as Greet vale, and was the daughter of Stephen and Sarah Rushmore. Tiik original constitution of the United States, during its exhibition nt the World's fair, will form a part of the state department exhibit, and a new case has been constructed to preserve the old document from possible injury or loss. It is in n fairly good state of preservation, though showing the effect of years of repose in a cylindrical tin case, which slightly mutilated the edges. F. Emvisf EmvtXL, the sculptor, ol New York city, has received the contract from the Gettysburg Monument commission to make an ccpiestrian statue of Edwin Win field Scott Hancock, to be erected at a commanding point on the Gettyburg battlefield. Tho statue will be of heroic size, and will represent the hero of Gettysburg seated on a horse and directing the movements of the troops on tin historic field. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Tub business failures occurring throughout the country during tho seven days ended on the 17th, number, for the United States 100, nnd lor tanada, 30; or a total of '110, as compared with a total-of 225 the previous week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 240. LKTTr.tts sent out from Chicago arc being printed and widely circulated in Germany warning the people of that country that if tliey cometo the World's fair tliey must be prepared to put up with inferior and insurkeicnt accommo dations, for which exorbitant priccsarc to be charged. Tin: Pennsylvania state board of World's fair commissioners met at Harrisburg, on the night of the 10th, and, notwithstanding the opposition of the government, decided to nsk for an ad ditional appropriation of 100,000 to complete the states exhibit at tue World's fair. At 10:!iti o'clock on tho night of the 17th Miss Mollio Niellson, a former trained nurse of Ilcllcvue hospital, New York city, inaugurated her attempt to abstain from all nourishment, water included, for thirty days, Tiik Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Co. sent n consignment of armor to the Brooklyn navy yard, on the 17th, consisting of curved turret plates for the Terror. Several shafts for battle ships Nos. 1 aud 2 wero sent to the Cramps on the null. lti:v. P. A. TitEACV, tlio excommunicated priest of Ilurlington, N. J., who has been deserted by the majority of the congregation of St Paul's church, has rented a privato house, where ho will celebrate mass. Tub Alamo hotel at Colorado Springs, Col., was almost entirely destroyed by lire, on the 17th; loss, 510.000. The guests escaped from the burning building amid much excitement tub uody.ot uiurios it. u Dionc, another victim of Boston's great fire, was found, on the 17th, in the debris. This, it is believes, completes the list of the dead, which numbers live. John N. McDoNounn, chairman of the Massachusetts democratic state committee, dropped dead ut4 o'clock ou the morning of the 17th, at the dinner of the Tammany club. Ox the 17th Secretary Carlisle signed a warrant for $02,(5451, drawn in favor of the governor of New Mexico, in payment of New Mexico's proportion of the direct tax. Wiikki.k.h'h opera house, tho oldest theater In Toledo, O., was destroyed bj fire at 1 a. in. of the 17th.

C. A. Pai.mkic, of Gr

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Spit was brought the other afternoon nt Columbia City by John Young, of Fort Wayne, for 125,000 damages for injuries sustained in a wreck February J2, at that place, when several coaches left the track and rolled down tho embankment, killing one man and injuring thirty people. Dr. Young received three fractured ribs and was otherwise injured. This is the first suit growing out of tho wreck. Ko Godi'HBV, a druggist of Columbus, while hunting near the Jackson county line tho other morning, killed a largo gray eagle, which measured seven feet and three Inches from tip to tip of its wings. These birds are exceedingly scarce in that locality. Ho will have it mounted. Will McCokmick and E. E. Polk, a doctor at Muneie, were enjoying a spreo together the other day. McCormlck hud the toothache, and solicited Polk to pull tho tootli. That did not give the relief, and McCormlck had the doctor pull every tooth from his head. Next day the toothless young man was a sorrowful sight, and lamented over his foolishness. None of his teeth were decayed. At Anderson Thomas Hollcnbncii was cowhided by Mrs. Zohns for having made a disparaging remark about her. Jambs Brtowx, a contractor, was drowned in the Kankakee river, at Laporte, while hunting. At Indianapolis Mrs. E. C. Clark was called to her door by two ruffians. One of them held her while tho other took ninety-four dollars from the house. Then both lied. A gaxo of tramps, near Winchester, after having broken open a freight car, retreated to a school house, where tho whole outfit was captured by plucky farmers. Fikb destroyed the dry goods store of Wiler & Wise, at Logansport Stock valued at $75,000. Building damaged to tho amount of fc!,000. Insurance on stock ?4!J,000. A movkmkxt has been set on foot in Indianapolis for the organization of a Law and Order League, which proposes to take a hand in the next municipal campaign. Within a short time a petition asking for the nomination of an independent ticket will be put in circulation, and the most prominent business men, who nre in favor of a change, will be asked to sign it. Then a popular mass convention will be called, and an independent ticket will be put in tho field before the convention of cither of the old parties is called. Tho movement has its inspiration in the dissatisfaction that exists relative to the present financial management of the city's affairs, as well as being intended as a protest against the wide-open policy relative to saloons and dens of vice. Fiiank Bt'i'.Nd, a laborer, died at Fort Wayne the other night at hie boarding house on Chicago street Ho was sleeping on a lounge, and when his fellowboarders went to waken him lie was dead. Burns has relatives in Ohio, just where is not known. He was about !5 years of age. A lahm: frame barn occupied by Thomas Bodkins, one mile north of Greenfield, was completely destroyed by fire tho other night, including most all of the farming implements. Five head of work horses perished in the flames. Tub other night the Clinton mill at Clinton, caught fire. The finmes spread rapidly and wero fanned by a high wind. Three residences were soon consumed, the families having time to escapo with a little furniture. Tho mills and elevator of Robinson & Ca were burned. Loss on mill ?lS,OU0, with only f8,000 insurance On tho warehouse the loss Is 115,000, with .'0,000 bushels of wheat damaged. Assistance went up from Terrc Haute. Loss on residences 11,500. Tho C & Ii I. railway lost two box cars. Bavahi S. Gray, of Chicago, will accompany his father, Hon. Isaac P. Gray, to the city of Mexico, and will act as his secretary. At present he is practicing law in the World's fair city, Ho was postmaster at Portland under the

forraer administration of President Cleveland, and at one time was owner of the democratic organ of Jay county. Four years ago ho was a democratic candidate for congressional honors in tho Eleventh district against the present congressman, Hon. A. N. Martin. Mus. Jambs Pikuck. of Wanatah, has a Bible which is said to have been used in the marriage of Pocahontas. Tub governor has appointed II. F. Work, of New Washington, and G. H. D. Cole and M. 15. C de, of Charlestown, to supervise the erection of a monument over the grave of the late Gov. Jennings, the first governor of Indiana. The remains Ho in an unmarked grave at Charlestown. Tub Chicago, Indiana and Eastern Railroad Co. filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The company has a capital of 1100,000, and proposes to build a line from Chicago to Columbus, 0., a distance of about 800 miles. To.j road will pass through Adams, Jay, Blackford, Delaware, Grant, Howard, Wabash, Miami, Cass, Fulton, White, Carroll, Madison. Pulaski, Jasper, Stark, Porter, Newton and Lake counties, Ind. Rur. Sami'ki. W. Mu.i.int, of Laporte, received notice that he has been granted pension of $3 per month ns a veteran of the Blaekhawk war, and allowed back pay from tho time of the pussago of the act by congress in lfcb2. Mr. Miller was a member of the Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan cavalry, and enlisted in 1832. At Brazil Jasper Young shot and fatally wounded his young wife while attempting to scare her with a revolver. Mrs, Young wns at tho machine sewing when her husband entered the room and picked up an old, rust revolver which he thought was empty, and began snapping It in her fnce. The weapon was loaded, and went off. A DAP wreck occurred at Union City the othet day by the head-end collision of passenger train No. 1 and freight No. 62 on the Pan-handle. Nine persons were injured. William A. Wiley and Norman Woodbury, of Union City, and Fred Ron tthcmll, fireman on the freight, were seriously hurt.

TRADE REVIEW.

The CiiNiiiierrll Outlook Throii;liaut tht Country nt shown by it. i. Hun & C, Wfrkly Itm'lcnr Storni iintl Mvrn old ISelnrd lliulnt-N KmntMvliut, lint tlit DUtrlhiitlun or liootln (,'olllilllK'l llvuvj Iluklur l'itlliirp, :t ci. Ni:w York, .March 18. R. 0. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Tho (list ri tuition of kooiIs continues icrj Inrifo for tho season in snlto of extraordinary wrather. some failures ami u tljjht money mar Uet. Storms und severo cold luivo retarded trade nnd collcetlon.s tlirounh u lurKO purl ot tho country, und doubtless enusod much of the monetary pressure, thouaii a Iure part is due to tho excess of luiorls over exports, Kurope is not shtppitii; pro.lucts froui tho country at usual nor lomlhn; ns much in usual to euro products hero until they uro needed, und uoeumulated stocks at commercial centOM with slow collections In tho country uiatta tho doinatul for money unusually large. Kxports of breadstuff i, cotton, cattlo and oil In February wero but f40.HA., KU) ajrulnht fftt.CTC.MiO hist year, which, with tho increase of nearly fS.UJO.urt) In Imports nt New York, Indicates n probable excess In imports in that mouth of about fa'i.OOii.OUi. I'.xjKirls also hnvo been small. SiMiculntion In proiiui'tn have lceu naturally dopressud, cotton bolui; at one time a quarter and now threo-sixteeuths of n cent lower than n weolc utro, with sales of IVA) bales. Corn Is nearly a cent lower, and pork products have declined a llttlo. Yet tho chop mous strength of speculative combinations to uphold prices still prevents free movement of producta abroad. Tnulo at lioston N rather larger, with textile nnd rubier und shoo factories fully employed Cottons uro unchuiiKcd nnd sold fnr nheitd. Money Is tlulit at Philadelphia, but Iron Is in better demand, lletall tnulo and collections are slower than usual, but in chemicals trade Is letter. At Baltimore orders decrease, but trade in millinery Is reater than usual. Bessemer producta are stronger than usual at Pittsburgh, hardware Is mfro nctivu und coke improves, At Cleveland the dry Koods trade is excellent and othur trade fair. At Cincinnati whisky Is quiet, with tobacco quiet and llrm. At Indianapolis tho weather retards trade, and money Is very close. Trado nt Detroit is equal to last year's and in lumber very heavy No improvement is seen at St. Paul, but trade at Llttlo Kock is fair; and at Nashville and Atlanta ;ood. At Columbus collodions arc slow nnd money very tinht. At Mohllo business is srood in dry jroods and uroccrlci and at Charleston fair. At New Orleans suKar is dull mid rice not Improved with money llrm but in ample supply. The Iron Industry shows Improvement; prices are steady, though extremely low, with less pressure to rise, and a little demand Is seen for bar iron aud steel, and structural works arc well employed, though at no lettor prices. Coal Is lower. Tho shoa business ts law. Cattlo receipts in tho west are smaller nnd bad weather and strikes nllect all udlway movements to some extent. Tho dry fowls trade coutlnues remarkably satisfactory thouüh more quiet In cottons; prints uro stro-.li aud some standard browns have been advanced. Orders forknltKOodsaru thelurxcst ever known at this season. Imixirts of wool ir. inufnc tures, linens and cottons, und espeelnlly silks, uro considerably larger than last year, but tho increase In domestic production is oven irrealer, tho demand for consumption beim: clearly the larscst ever known. The business failure deriiu; tho past seven days number, for the United States. 110: Canada, :tU; total, SA). as compared with '-i" last week. Äit tho week previous to tho last and 210 for tho correspondlnv week of last year. A COAL SNAP. Startling Drvetopinoiit In Connect Inn ultli tin- I.ckInIiiIIvo I'rohlnc ol the AI Imn-soln (,'oul Combltir All llriilfr'c, WliolcMtlo inn! Itrtall, Itlarlunnll. il-.VII who Would Do tnlu Mini Kliodcx, or Have Their Sujipllr Shut oir. S'T. PAt'i, Minn., March 18. Mutters uro coming to a focus with great speed in the light of the Minnesota legislature against the coal combine. Nearly fifty letters from the letter book o. John .1. Rhodes, manager of the Minnesota bureau of coal statistics, worn given out by the joint committee last evening, showing .that the coal combine requires every wholesale coal dealer in Minnesota to pay ?i,000 to .lohn J. Rhodes; that every retail dealer had to pay him C1ÜU; that all had to swear to hold to prices fixed by the combine, aud all refusing U join in the combine had their supply cut off, Tho damaging letters given out are signed by John .1. Rhodes. One, dated September l1. 18'.'., und addressed to R. J. Wilson. North Minneapolis, says that Wilson is furnishing coal to Estes, a retail dealer in New Huston. Mr. ISstos in not a subscriber to the bureau, and Mr. Rhodes orders Mr. Wilson not to sell him coal. Armstrong & Co., of Minneapolis, under date of October U.'i, lStU, are instructed not to continue furnishing coal to T. E. Smith, of New lioston, for the reason that .Smith is not a subscriber to the bureau. Rhodes closes this letter by saying that if .Smith wished to remain in the coal business he must come into the combine. Thus the letters run all through. The books of the combine, with the exception of the letter book, wero returned to John J. Rhodes yesterday afternoon. The letter book will be turned over to the grand jury by the legislature with a request that it brings indictments for criminal conspiracy under Chapter I of the general laws of 1801. the penalty for which is a fine from $.i00 to ?:,0!)0. In the men time .lohn .1. Rhodes ban brought suit for $0,000 damages against the ollieers of the senate for keeping his books. Tho ollieers are also summoned before Judge Egan this morning to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt in hindering and not surrendering the books to .Sheriff Chapel Thursday night Silver .lllne Cto'd Down on an Ordpr from thn Owni-rn. Dc.WKit, Col., March 18. Thursday night, on an order from the board of directors at Shanghai, China, tho Shcriden-Mendota silver mines at Telluride, employing 't bout :t"0 men, wero closed down. These nre tiie largest mines in that section of the state. They are owned by Englishmen in China, and have fire in slj,'ht, it is claimed, to give employment to 1,000 men for twenty years. A Woman' Attempt to Abstain I'roui All I'ood mid lirlnlt rorJTIilrty Diivs. PiTTSiiUitOH, Pa., March 17, At lOtfO yclock to-night Miss Mollio Niellson, a former trained ntir.se of Hellenic hospital, New York city, inaugurated hot attempt to abstain from till nourishment for thirty days. If Miss Niellson successfully accomplishes tho feat she is about to attempt the museum management will pay her the mint of $1,000. It is claimed that Miss Niellson is the first woman who has ever attempted a public fast, and the only person to dnf5 death by abstaining from nil fowl, even water, for so long a period.

JULES FERRY DEAD.

The rnrtimoHt KtHtrmnnn of thn I'rmeh Itt-publlc Die suddenly of Heart AtTVe. tlou llio Oltlnmlu llesult of the Wound lollleled lo.ian.by Hie Asulii A uliertl.i UiiNUilrclifd by the I'lliiHlim Seuudiil. Paiiis, March IV, Jules KraueoU Camille Ferry, tho celebrated I'Ycnch statesman, is dead. M. Kerry'sdeath was caused by heart disease. The affection of the heart from which M. Ferry suffered was duo to tho effects of a bullet striking u ribnear the base of the heart at tho tiuio he wns attacked by Aubertiu in is"-. Ho was seized with spasms early in the morning, and despltcevcry effort of thu physicians, who wero hastily stunmoncd, the convulsions continued to grow in violence until, nt 11 o'clock in the evening, he expired in a terribly severe spasm. tiii: i.iki: or ji'i.ks fkiiiiv. Jules Francois Camilla Ferry was lorn AprH 8, IfcM, at St. Bio in tho Vostjes, und was ailmilled to tho bur tu ltöt. He was one of tlm active opiMuiuats of tho empire, aud was ono of the first convicted of tho famous ixilltlcal trial of tho "thirteen" In IHU. la IKi ho was elected to the corps legislature from the sixth conscription of tho Seine, Ho took his seat nmonn the members of tho left. He voted iwilnst tho declaration of war with Prussia, und at tho revolution of September. l7t), he was proclaimed a member of the i;ovem. mcnt of tho national defense. When tha communal insurrection broke out in O.-tobcr, 1KVI, Ferry risked his lifo to suppress it. He also displayed ureal courage and enenry In resisting tho Insurgent on January -kJ. k-tj. When elected a representative of th department of tho Vosseii In February, J7 ho resigned as a member of the Kovermni nt of the defense and also as administrator of the dp. juirtmentof tho Solno, although retulnln the latter onlco provisionally until March IS of that year. , At the fecond slejro and the entry of the troops into Paris, M, Thiers nominated Ferry prefect of tho Seine, but owing to powerful hostllo criticism Ferry resigned ten days later. Subsequently It wis rejxirtcd that M Ferry would I e sent as minister to Washington, but tho appointment waa never officially announced, r.nd Ferry was sent as minister to Athens. Ho resigned that appointment after one your After the reslmiatlon of Marshal MeMahon ns president in lf-78 M. Ferry was appointed by President Urovy minister of public instruction und line arts. rnituv'H nnroATioN.w. him. Ills educational bill, prohibiting menders oi unauthorized religious communities, meiinln especially tho Jesuits, from teachln:' or mantwins schools, caused much controversy Although tho bill was twice defeated iu tho Senat, the proscription of the Jesuits was proclaimed nnd their expulsion carried out. Three mem. Vers of tho ministry havini; resiimod, after some delay M. Ferry formed a cabinet. On November 10, IKss. tho Ferry cabinet resigned on nccount of the attacks made upon the policy of the ministry In rcsard to tho exportation to tha United States. In 1KSI M. Ferry was apaln called upon to form a cabinet, and he started upon u polley of colonial expansion which proved very costly to France, 'this colonial policy resulted in his overthrow In INM. In 1M7 ho was un un.mcc,. ful candidate for tho presidency of th republic, and in December of the same year ho narrowly escaped assassination by a madman named Aubertiu. In December.' IK0. M. Ferry wn elected sena' or. The Panama canal scandal, vrhlc h 1 roko down so many public men. caused matsy to turn their eyes airnin toward M. Ferry, who was Unsmirched by the developments, and upon tho retirement of M. I.rKoy from the presidency ot the senate tu vera l months aßo M. Ferry was elected. Purls Antoundrd hy Hie .Sudden Dentil of .11. IVrcy. I'Aitis, March 18. The news of M. Ferry's death astounded the city. No other event since Gnmbctta's death has made sueh a deep impression. Only three evenings ago he was at the opera, and Thursday he presided over the senate. Hundreds of politicians called at the house during the evening and inscribed their names on the visitors' books. The extra editions issued immediately after the death are still selling in enormous numbers. Last week M. Ferry resigned tho presidency of the Estafette newspaper that he might devote himself entirely to his duties in the senate. The general feeling is that although his election to the presidency of the senate was contrary to the wishes of M. Carnot and M. IUbot, his death is a serious loss to the government. In the cae of another cabinet crisis, he, in his official capacity, would have been the lirst man to whom M. Carnot would have been bound to turn for advice. It was with such an event in view that M. Ferry's supporters in the senate competed Iiis election in the room of M. I.e Roy, who was found to lack qualities for his part iu the next crisis. M. Carnot as president, M. Ilibot as Premier anil M. Ferry as president of the senate, the opportunists felt that they had four of their strongest men in positions to meet the perilous consequences of tho Pntrima exposure. As yet the names of possible successors to the position have been hardly mentioned. Tho Dead Mntrstniui'n Ambition. Lo.tdon, March IK. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says of M. Ferry: "He intended to run for the presidency of the republic, and was determined not to take a ministerial portfolio while there was a chance for the presidency. He was averse to the alliance with Uussia and had an intense antipathy toward England. Ho used to ponder over Oermnn maps and on the wrongs which France had sustained from Knglnnd. Hismark took advantage of his tendencies to foment his antipathy toward England." Consul Chnrlm llenrollii Decurnfrd. CliK'AOo, March 18. Charles Hcnrotln. the stock exchange broker, has just received Information from Turkey to the effect that his imperial majesty has conferred upon him the order of Commander of Medjlilte. Mr. Heurotin has been consul in Chicago since 1877. Tho decoration is worn only by men who enjoy the highest favors of the sultan. A tJernmii Mlncr'n ItovonK'. llr.iii.i.v, March 18. A miner named llochm purposely exploded ten pounds of dynamite yeMerday in the iron mine Volkmarskeller, in tho Per, district. He and six oilier miners were torn to atoms. Upon leaving Homo yesterday morning Hoelim gave hU wife a letter which, he said, was not to bo opened till noon. Tho letter said merely that lloelnn would never return. ' llochm's motive is supposed to have been revenge, as he hud trotiblo recently with tho superintendent ot tho mine and was constantly quarrel Uoa with his fellow workmen.