Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 February 1894 — Page 2

WEEKLY COU RIER. C. DOAXK, l'ubUHher.

JASPEE. INDIANA. A nojin was found, on the nth, in the doorway of tho Itanque de Li Soclete OeHernleln Paris. Rt. Hex. Sin H.utttV Vkkxky died, on the 12th, at Iiis residence. Clnydou house, Huckiiighniushirc, Kuglund. 1). 0UNi:i Nr .M, formerly of i iiiiainii, now u resident of Now ork

dtv, has been elected a fellow of the doclarltn: It Inexpedient nt this tlmetoeonIloynl Geographical society of London. ! wr 'urther the question of annexation of Ha-

, Tnr net treisurv balance, on the int. nti irc.iMirj u.u.wiic. u wit 12th, was I4,r,,.V.M, of which S10,lliLft'Ji) was iroM coin. All but ft, 000.)Öö had been turned in on account of the recent Kmd issue. A 'iMiu:it of New York banks and trust companies have begun to 1:U1 tnoney on wheat, and arc offering four months' loans, at n1; to 4 per cent., taking wheat a collateral the same as stocks. Tub Philadelphia Public Ledger np-! pears wua wie name oi nwr(,ru . Childs Dresel at th head of its editorial columns as editor and publisher.in place of thai, of the late George W. Childs. , . . The navy department received advices o the 12th, confirmatory of the dispatches announcing the arrival of the City. of Para at Colon, with the crew of the wrecked United States cruiser Kearsarge. PKTHU Neville, a New York election inspector, found guilty of neglect of duty and fraudulently manipulating the election returns was. on the 14th, entenceil to one year's imprisonment in the penitentiary. SnMBVif the newly-appointed consuls nre dissatisfied with their salaries, and through ts embers of congross und others nre making vain efforts to secure an increase in the income allowed them by the government Foit the seven months ended January HI, lsiU, there was a decided falling oil in the exports of breadstulTsand mineral oils from the same period ended January SI. Is93. In the export of provisions there was a slight increase. Cii.n.oisf malfeasance were made in Pittsburgh" Pa., on the 12th. against John P. Hberhart. president, and WillianrSpringer. secretary, of the YVin-dow-Olass Workers' association, the wealthiest labor union in existence. Cono nn?s m an W. L. Wiuson. chairman of the house ways and aieans committee, who had been lying ill at the Coates house in Kansas City. Mo., was f-omewhat better, on the lüth, and expected J.OOU to resume his journey to ilexico. Tut; business portion of Pittsburgh, Pa., suffered from a serious water famine, on the ISth, as the result of a break in the largest main in the city. The large stores, clubs, hotels, mills, newspaper ofiices, etc.. were greatly Inconvenienced. Tub -first celebration at the Mid-Winter exposition by the fraternal organizations took place in San Francisco on the Pith. It was in honor of the Independent Order of fiood Templars. The weather was pleasant and the grounds were crowded. Ox the 10th the New York associated ba.iks held eti'i.CXl.TOO in excess of the requirements of the i.Vper-cent rule. The enormous falling off in surplus reserve is explained by the payments into the treasury on account of the new government loan. Tuk French government is determined to stop the pilgrimage that is iK'ing made to Vaillant's grave in Ivry cemetery. An order has been issued forbidding luayone to visit the gfnve. nnd policemun have l eeu stationed at the cemetery to &ee that the order is carried out Tun police of Warsaw, Kussia. claim to have discovered an extensive conspiracy, the oliject of which is to se-cure-the freedom of Poland. The conspirators are said to include nihilists ns well as persons not usually found .ntliliating with members of that sect A large number -of arrests have beei made. Tun statement of the associated "banks of Kew York city, for the week .ended on the lOtlt, showed the following changes: lleserre, decrease, P'25,OS'J,:i00; loans, increase, 513,05..rj00; ibpecie, decrease, PJl,T3y,200; legal tenders, decrease, $S,O.'!3,lO0; depodts. dc--crcase,5l7,CJ2,000; eir-ealation, decrease, .1SÖ.300. On' the 12tn Justice 'radley, in the circuit court -of the DUtrict of OdumTda, denied i-he writ of mandamus prayed by C. T. Hiker, cf Chicago, to compel the secretary of the treasury to turn over to him the entire new Issue of i&O.OOO.OOO treasury bonds, but granted him the right to be heard by counsel. Tin: will of the late Cliaries II. Hock, of New York, which leaves $1.000,000 to Dr. Parkhurst's Society for the Prevention of Vice, was probated on the lftth. A contest of the will has been begun by Mrs. Matilda Carter, who claims to Ihj a child of tho late Alexander llathgate. front 'hnni Heck inherited .000.000. Mas. Mvua IIuadwkm., the first vornan to be admitted to the bar in tho L ill ted States, died in Chicago, on ,lhe 14th, aged ß:i years. She was admitted to the bar only after a long 'flght. during which hc carried her caie up to the supreme court of the United States. She had of late years been the manager and proprietor of tho Legal Xuwa, which she conducted with marked ability.

C Ulllt EXT TOPIC'S. THE NEWS m BBIEr. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Tu K senate was not lnesJon on Ihe 10th. .. In the house. lh Stanford eulogies were postjwnod tt ml made a special order for tho iv'th. Tin tpuib oj Mr. Ilouk was announced by MrOuthwatte. u committee to attend the remains to OlUi" u .ipimlntod by llic speaker. nnt out of rospeit to tlio deceased the houc adjourned. Is the M-iiiito, on tho IJih. larvc mimlvr of Ititlnos ii'iUiit the various clauses of the Wilson tariff Ulli wert presented, and Mr. Oulk.ron.fiNof minor Importune . nftvr whlci. Mr. Gray spoke on liiiKcr offered u mliHtitutt for tlio bill- Anutu.inee wore passed, Gray spoke ot the resolution i wan .noiner message ironi mo prosuicni 1 rausmlttln Hawaiian correspondence was prc!H,,m.(, Af,er passliu n,(,iniions tho son ilU. , usa jurtiu.rnuirk of respect to the lato , Honrentativo Ilouk. of Ohio, ndlourned In the houso a number ofidlls were passed. anl th-unfoney detlolency hill was taken up la committee of tho whole. I.n the s-'nato. on tho 13th. tho hill to continue In force for ten year the act of March 2, IssA. to protect the tlsh In tho l'otomac river In tho District of Columbia, ami to provide a spawning ground for shad und herring In the l'otomac. was passed. Mr. tJray resumed hN speech nu tho Hawaiian resolution, aud house bill reipilrlni: railroads In territories to estaivllh certain stations, was debated without nctlr.ii . ..In the house tho Ilnuatlun rorroSKm!ence transmitted ty tho president wns read, alter which the seliinlorajio bill was taken up. nad after considerable difcusdon. Mr. island offered an amendment to section -concerninK redemption and reissue of notes. Is the senate. on tho llth. a remonstrance wns presented from the W. 0. T. V. ntmltist the tux on whisky. The uutlnhcd business, lelnu the hou'o t'ltl requlrlni; railroads in tho territories to maintain stations nt towns etabllshett liy tho Interior department, was taken up. but went ovor without action. After a shurt executive session the senate adjourned. In the hoti a nunit-cr of executive communications were lnld before the house, anions the-n one suuirestlnij that the statu of Liberty Hnllsrhtcnlns the World in New York harbor bo utilized as u beneon. Messrs. Quisrj and StrauK. momber.s-elpct from New York, were sworn In. A letter from Mr. Hrawley was read, stating that his resignation as a member of the house would be forwarded to tho povernor of South Carolina. Is the sfanto. on the '.Uli. Mr. Mel-aurla. .successor to Mr. Walthall, of Mississippi, resliraed. was sworn In. Theuntlnlshol buslnest. botn the bill reqalrlni; railroads In territories to maintain Ntatton and depots nt nil towns established by the interior ilepartment. was taken imait Its discu-slou occupied the entire session. The bill was passml. the vlce-presl-deut breakltis u tie by im nCIniiutive vote. In thu hous', after preliminary business, the Bland s ij-'iiora e coinage Mil win considered tn committee of the whol, luit without any action belu-.' taken th t ominlttec arose nt 5:0J o'clock and theliouendjoarno ', PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Ox the 12th Prosecuting Attorney Frazer began an investigation into the frauds committed in Detroit, Mich., in connection with the raising of the l!gures on the salary-amendment returns in Is'Jl and lslW. I lit. HoitATlO Qri.NCY IiCTTKKFIKI.l, president of the Olivet (Mich.) college, died, on the 12th, of pneumonia, after a short illness. Tuk Transmi.ssissippi San Francisco was called the Kith, at 10 a. in., by noil of Idaho. Among congress nt to order, on Gov. McConthe notable delegates present were Governors Richards of Montana, Stone of Missouri. Murkham of California, I.ungliliu of Washington, and ex-Gov. Murphy, of Arizona. Tau big tannery at the town of Sand Hank, X. Y., was burned to the ground on the night of the 12th. The loss is $100,000. It was owned by Lane Ilros., of üoston, aud employed 100 men. A him. prohibiting telegraph companies from transmitting race-track news lias been passed by the New Jersey house. Hans von Iki.ow, the distinguished German pianist, died in Cairo, Egypt, on the KJtli. Tin: American vessel Willie Heed, Capt. Forbes, went aground at St Quentin, France, on the 12th. ty one of her crew were saved. TimtTKEN timberinen were oned by an extensive cave-in imprisat the Gnylord mine of the Kingston Coal Co. at Plymouth, Pa., on the 18th. There was small hope of any of the imperiled men being rescued alive. At the first announced midday reception at the White House, on the Hth, several hundred strangers took advantage of the opportunity to shake the president's hand, including a delegation of Indians who wanted their agent changed. Thk reichstag has adopted a proposal made by Herren Ktckcrt and Groeber to introduce in Germany tiie Australian method of polling. A very large majority of the members voted in favor of the proposal. Tub French courts which had declared their incompetency to try the suit of the Princess Colonmi, daughter of Mrs. John V. Mnekav, against her I husband, Prince Colonna, for a legal separation and the custody of her children, made an order, on tho 15th, giving the children, provisionally, into the custody of their father. The order will not he obeyed, as the princess had some days previously lauded with her children at New York. FitoM a note contained in a bottle picked up on the beach of one of the Hebrides islands, it is learned that the Hritish steamer Hornhcad, which sailed from Italtimore August 11) and Hampton Itoads August 20, for Dublin, and of which nothing was afterward heard, was sunk In mid ocean by collision with an iceberg some time during September. At a meeting in Honolulu, on the 3d, jof the Annexation club, a resolution , declaring "that it is the opinion of tho ! oflicers and executive committee that I a representative form of government be established as soon as possible after ' it is ascertained that the present con- : gross will take no definite action toward annexation," was passed. TiiKetnployes of the Northern Pacific road, by their attorney, have filed in I the Fnited States circuit court tit Mil- , wuukce a motion for a modification of 'Judge .Jenkins' fatuous order forbid I ding a strike. The motion wÜl ba ar gued on the 2Cth. Tin: twenty-sixth annual convention of the National American Woman SulFrajro association met In Washington, on the 15th, with a lurgo attendance of delegates, representing all parts of the couutrr.

A itoi'ru for tho proposed cable from Labium to Hong-Kong, China, has beon surveyed. In all the soundings taken the greatest depth was shown to be 2J500 fathoms, aud the temperature at this depth was registered at !W degrees. Ox tho 14th the board of managers of the San Francisco Press club cited M. IL De Young, proprietor of the Chronicle and director-general of the Mid-Winter exposition, to appear before them on tho 2i)th to show cause why ho should not be expeled for unprofessional conduct A si:xsatiox was created at Harrodsburg, Ky,, on the Ifrth, by the arrest of William Graves and John Comnungo for whitccapping. They are charged with being members of the band that recently called Josh Mitchell to his door, near Nevada, and shot him to death, and who have also whipped ami terrorized many other residents in tho west end. Tho two young men are members of leading families. Gkoiioi: N. Jkuai'i.I) died at Princeton, Ind., on the 15th, aged S3 years. He had been engat-ed in the general mercantile business for lifty years on the same lot, aud was the pioner merchant of the city and probabhy of the state. The value of his estate is 61M),000. On the lfith a car-load of corn received at Torre Haute, Ind., from Chicago, was found to contain in one corner a large heap of mail that had been rilled from some mail pouch and opened. The mail was turned over by the police to the postal authorities. May ltitooKt.YN, one of the lending ladies of the Palmer stock company, phuing at the Haldwin theater, San Francisco, committed suicide on the night of the 15th, by taking poison. She played the part of Mrs. Page in "Alabama." J a. iks Stonk, the murderer of the Wratten family near Washington, Ind., was hanged at the Jell'ersonville (Intl.) prison shortly after midnight on the morning of the ICth. It was the first legal hanging in Indiana for several years. Doss McICani: was found guilty at Drooklyn, N. Y.,ou the 15th, of depriving citizens of their legal rights of access to the registrv lists in the Graveseul district over which he has for years reigned as an autocrat, t.tnipukiting elections to suit his will. PY exercising his prerogative for the first time. Vice-President Stevenson, on the 15th, wived the Oklahoma townsite bill, requiring railroad companies to maintain stations at town sites indicated by the interior department, from defeat by breaking a tie with an aflirmative vote. Tub wholesale dry goods house of Jones. Witter Co. at Columbus, 0., together with several adjoining tenements was destroyed by lire on the 15th, involving a loss estimated at $240,000. Gkn. JntAi. A. KAiti.yfell down the steps of the Lynchburg (Vu.) post office, on the evening of the 15th, and received injuries that may prove fatal. Mitf. Axnnr.w Fov, who has leen the principal witness against Daniel Cough lin in Chicago, has sued her husband for divorce. She claims he has deserted her ever since she testified at the trial. A XTMiiBit of families of farmers in the vicinitj- of Hebron. Ind., are about to move to Henrico county, Va., where they say they are able to buy land at lower prices than in Indiana. The boiler in Lock wood's elevator at Kelly. Ia., exploded, on the 15th, killing John Tanner and fatally injuritig William Sells.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. I.v the senate, on the ldth, after the transaction of routine business, an executive session was held lasting nearly four hours, after which the senate immediately adjourned, thiring the secret sosrion the nomination of Wheeler H. Peckham, of New York, to be associate justice of the supreme court was rejected by a vote of 4t to J52.1 In the house, after the morning hour, Mr. Hland moved that the house go into committee of the whole for the consideration of the seigniorage bill and to close the debate tit 3 o'clock; but the session was frittered away in filibustcrinir against the motion. An evening session was held for the consideration of private pension bills. A dispatch received from Cape Town, on the 10th, confirmed the report that Lobengula, king of tho Matabelos, had died in tltc bush, presumably from tho effects of gout and the exposure to which he was subjected fleeing from the Hritish South African Co.'s forces. A SofTiiBitx PAciric passenger train was wrecked at Uoscoe, Cal., about 1 o'clock on tho morning of the ICth., by three masked men. The express car was then blown open by dynamite and looted. The robbers got away, but a posse was soon in pursuit Jl't.BS Fiiancois Vikttb, at one time a member of the French cabinet, but nt the time of his demists representing the nrrondissement of Moutbellard in the chamber of deputies, died in Paris on the night of the 15th. Tin: nomination of Wheeler H. Peckham for associate justice of the United .States supreme court was rejected by the semite In executive session, on the lllth, by a vole of 41 to 32. Tin: accumulated fortune from the original holdings of M. Dubuque, after whom the city of Dubuque, Ia., was named, said to amount to $18,000,000, is awaiting a claimant Knoxvii.m: (Tenn.) college, one of the most noted educational institutions for colored people In the United States, suffered a $45,000 loss ly fire on the night of the 15th. Tin: General Flectric Co. started up their factories at Lynn, Mass., on tho llUli. on full time. This menus a fiftyhlx hour .schedule and the employment of some 1,501 hands. Two Tit.uN.s collided near Jelnn, between S'anuira and Slaviansk, in eastern Russia, on the ICth, and thirteen persons wore killed and several badly injured. Fouty cases of yellow fever nre re ported dally in Rio de Janeiro.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Riiimi.AKS went to the residence of Dr. Fr.tdy. nt Patronin, after nightfall, and demanded his money, it being understood that ho was in tho habit of keeping considerable sums about tho house. Dr. Frady apparently acquiesced, aud stooping, as if to open Ills safe, he suddenly straightened, revolver in hand, and began shooting. The burglars lied. Dr. Frady believes that he hit one of them in tho face, as there were spots of blood along thu road taken by the fugitives. Mi'ts. William Cox, a farmer's wife living in the northern part of Shelby county, committed suicide by cutting tho nrtories at tho wrist with her husband's razor. She was unconscious when found in an outhouse, but lived two hours. Despondency and poor health is the supposed cause. Mrs. Cox was 00 years of ago. Tim Muncio polieo have received orders to drive every tramp out of the city nnd not allow them to remain there a minute. Wim okksk in great numbers tiro now feeding in tho vicinity of Columbus where there aro largo green wheat fields. Pact. 11 .vine was found guilty of burglary in tlio circuit court, at Laporte, and sentenced to a term of six years at hard labor in tlio Michigan City penitentiary. Hauk was convicted on the testimony of his son, Frank Hauk. The elder Hank was arrested, witli six of his neighbors, for burglarizing Michigan Central freight cars of valuable merchandise. It is estimated that $2,000 was secured in plunder. Young Hauk turned state's evidence. W.M. Hyatt and Win Woods were arrested at Madison for passing one-dollar counterfeit bills. Tin: remains of an infant child that had doubtless been murdered, were found in a market-basket in the alley back of 04 West Fifth street, Indianapolis. The grand jury of Whitley county has returned twenty indictments against .lames and Thompson Arnold, of South Whitely, and Jessie Arnold, of North Manchester, for alleged bank wrecking. Adam Dombi:, a farmer living five miles southwest of Goshen, is the possessor of a newly-born monstrosity in the shape of a pig, or 'rather, threo pigs, consisting of one head, four ears anil twelve legs. Tho three bodies are all distinct until they come to the neck, where they unite, and are topped off with one head. The composite of pigdom was alive when born, but lived only a few hours. Thk Hammond city council passed an ordinance the other night granting a live-year franchise to the Roby Racing association to operate a race course at Roby, which is now in the Hammond city limits. The nssociatlon is to pay $75 a month for the privilege. An Indiana athlete who was supposed to bo dying of dyspepsia two years ago has lived since that time on ice cream. NouTHKitN Indiana was recently visited by the most terrific snow storm in its history. About 5 o'clock in the morning the Hakes began to fall. A heavy wind blew all day, and big drifts of snow from three to six feet deep were visible in all portions of Ft Wayne and county. Miss Anna Collins was arraigned at Lafayette the other day to answer the charge of forgery. She disposed of a $000 note signed by Kdward S. Dill and Calvin Dill, and attempted toscll a $500 note signed by the same persons. Doth signatures are pronounced forgeries by tho Dills. Miss Collins claims Kdward Dill gave her the last named note to restrain her from suing him for libel. Miss Collins gave $l,OU0 bail, and was released. Oni: of the worst blizzards that lias visited the vicinity of Laporte for a number of years commenced the other day. A high wind has drifted the snow badly, and railway travel is greatly impeded. Trains on the Lake Shore and on tlio Chicago and West Michigan roads were more or less belated. The north bound 1 p. m. train on the Lake Krio and Western road was snowbound some five miles south of Lafayette. Over eight feet of snow is reported in the cuts on that roaA between J.afayetto and Michigan City. Fihk broke out nt Worth ington tho other morning and destroyed part of the business section of the little town. The loss will reach about $10,000, with but little insurance. Ki IIiiown, the alleged train robber, who has been on trial atCrawfordsville charged with an attempt to rob the American express car on the Dig Four road August 11 last, was thu other morning, upon a third trial, acquitted, llrown, claiming to be a tramp, was shot by the trainmen nnd for a timo was thought to be fatally wounded. Ho will now sue for damages. The final papers for the location of the Kitz Implement Co. at Alexandria are signed. The company locates for a consideration of $50,000 suitl gas. The factory .will be a substantial one, and will employ 250 men when in full operation. Mowers, rakes and other ngricultural implements will bo manufactured. Tub authorities of Warsaw have ordered that all slot machines in town to cease operations. Mn.i. Isaao TnoUT has sued Kikhart for $2,000 damages for injuries received bjjfalling on a sidewalk. Ja.mkh Hl-hskv, aged 24, a tramp printer from Chicago, had both feet cut oft by a passenger train at South Rend tlio other morning. Ho was beating his way home from Hull'tilo. He may possibly die. Tin: Carothcrsville high school will open a normal department March 0. A I'AitTY of coon hunters discovered body (matchers in the act of robbing a grave In tho West Newton cOmetery, nenr Indianapolis, containing tho body of Mrs. Rebecca Spray, buried on tho previous day, and tired on the ghouls with guns loaded with buckshot A yell of agony followed the volley, but obodv dronocd'

WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.

l'ri4MMts Am lly Ni lein It my A Wrek if l.'eeiinl Urritldni: In Low Trice Wliout l.iMver Tlnui It Hits lleen In S,-ciitj ViurM, Ciitt4Mi Declining. Ntock Ditto unci 'IVMIto ludiilrlf About lit Stiiitil-lllt IliinltH'M l alluri's, i:te. Ni:V Yonii, Fob. 17. R. G, Dun & Co, 's weekly review of trade, Issued today, says: This hin been a weckot record brenUtwr In wheat. In silver. In mmiio forms of Iron nnd slorl. tu t imuellsvllle coke and In well-known cotton and woolen noods llie lowe-t pi Ices ever known luve been made, und It Is Kratlfvln that fullures of luiporlnnco have not resulted, The reut fall In wheat had a p-reeptlldo inllucnco upon the lone of business ironorally, uid thuro was less cuiiildenc" In Wall street, Ich Improvement In manufactures und n (.renter decrease In tho volume of payments throtmh clearinghouses, hielt were '.'I I por cent, less than n year njfo outside .Vow York and i:i,7 ier cent, loss than a year w: hero, notwithstanding unusual transactions liU'rnln. While i n action especially bearliu-ou business prospect was taken in Washington, tho con-tluii-d llscusslon of revenue and innuetnrv affairs and llie uncertainty rettardln them have a constant aud unfavorable Influence, and In different markets have eauso I suddon tluetualions in prices, Wheat at in. Is not only lower by I ' than It was for aslmrlo day last year, but lower by Vi than It had been In tho previous .seventy years. A visible supply of over 70.wo.O3J bushels. Koliruary 1. witli sales and tecclpts from farmers cotitluiiiiu; law. have completely destroyed faltli In the oillefal reports of tho yield last year, und cause J enormous liquidations. It. celpls last week wero I.P.M.JM bnsltols, turalast 2.9.M.0IS for the name week last year; but At lautie exports were only fiSU.lHj .' bushels, against 1.0111,015 last year, and tho re -out decrease In foreign demand has boon an Important factor. Some tru-t companies have urranuod to advance money uualtist win at us collateral socially, but with results, nttnsyot eacoiiraiftiitf Cotton declined an olirhth. with Increasim; distrust of short crop estimates. The receipts from plantations this -voek liavo ieon lan:"r limn a year ao. mint uoiltno small enough to support the Idea that Ihe crop of 1W.I was but il.iKn.lKiObub's' which would mean that b-ss thr.ii 3 ,) bales have yet to comu Into sinht lu over six mouths. The sllcht recovery In prices of Iron products has not t ecu maintained. Hessemer pi bus declined nt Pittsburgh to ijiue.l nnd jjray fonjo to ft' cVi. mid steel billets uro sold below Sir. there, white at I'htlndelphln iimst roliltnr mill products uro low.-r than ever The decline Ih the moro noteworthy because un Increase In demand is reported, both lu western nnd eastern market, especially tu structural form it I ho west und hero, whure several lar ' buildings are projected. Tlio 0"inand for wlro rn.ls, nails und fence continues remarkably large and sustains Triors; out nails nre ta'iiant. Oonnellsvillo coko soll rttM cents, tho lowest price ever ma le, and ivhll Iii out put increase! for tho ojlt l.ft,!ttons, only ."1 per cent, of the ovens are In use. Heavy reductions In the price of lake oro is reported, with largo contracts at i'i "5, Cleveland dollvery. Minor niotal nratwuakor. with restricted consumption. Shipments of txxit.s na l shoes from tho east aro ID per cent levs than a year aco. with cheaper uraden prid'imiiiatin In orders and In manufacture, and not so many factories fully employed. Textile Industries do not nem to havo trained within the pist week, 'or as many works have closed as havo restnm I work, and In woolen and cotton manufacture more. There has teen a sharp broak in print lotlistoS'i cents, somi of tin best-known cottms have been put at tho lowest prices over made, anil there Is more talk of tnernl closlm-of mills. Somo woolen mills of lar.'o Importance have stopped, one becauso reduction of wages was resisted, and In textile works such reductions hnvo been more numerous and larger than In any previous week. The demand for woolen coods do-'s not Improve, and salos of wool decreased sharply after tho rrlsk activity two weeks aso, beim; inly l.lll.M'l pounds for tlio week, njralnst S.Wü.atM last year. Thoiiuh sonn Krade are scarce and prices rohitl vely blither west than here, the markets do not nitv.incc. Stocks have i con wenkcr with the falllni; of wheat, those of crancer roads declining over fl jht share in most eases, and the New York Central, ulso. In plte of the fact that trunk lines und craiiRcr roads showed much loss decrease In earnings than In nny other recent week. The nvorajjo decline In rail nad stocks was It cnts per share, and tho decrease In earnings of roads reported for I'otruary Is but fl par cent., thoufh th decrease in easbboiW'i freisht.s from Chlensonrn iW.l vr eeutr The wenkness In railroad stocks Is In part due to violent Iluotuatlons In trust stocks and tho break In suKiir, which fell per share, with heavy transactions. The nveraice for such stock declined lu 25 per share. beln;j especially Influenced by reports roi-nrdlmf legislation. London boiinht some shares, but not eiioi!li to affect cxehatii'o materially, nnd the rules for stocks advanced with few commercial bills orferlti),', nearly to the uoldexporting point. Kxports of merchandise were about I.VW.OK) smaller for tho week than last year, and for six weeks tlio Increase has been only (CI.IIKI.O)), or7 per cent.,: but imports oast wnrd weto little more than half us larce as last year, and for tho year thus far tho decrease Is about i'i per cent. There is no ohanue of Importance In money markets, with no Increase In comujerclal loans. Failures for the week havo lcen I3C In the United .State, mralnst lOTlast year, undM lu Canada, against Sil last year. A BLOODY CATTLE lletwren Mexlrau Itoliels and Krunlnrn The Former I.UTlly .SlitUKlitcrt-il. Dbmino, N. M., Feb. 17. Reports. from Old Mexico, which readied here yesterday evening, state that the Temochiaus have been about wipad out of existence. In addition to the battle which occurred out from tho city of Chihuahua some time ago, the government troops to the number of 200 met the rebels on February S, south of Klvia, about forty miles south of Casas Urämie, and 200 miles south of Doming, tuid killed seventy-five of the T'einochians. Twenty-five were taken prisoners nnd immediately after the hard fighting were taken out and shot The information was brought into the Mormon colony below I'alomsis, and in turn to Deining. The country in which the fight occurred is very wild and mountainous und like the Chihuahua defeat, the rebels wero caught and killed in a canyon. The Tcmoehians were composed of the small bands which have be hiding out in the mountains to the south of I'uloiims, hut which recently concentrated for the purpose of meeting the troops. The holdiers had about lifty killed nnd wounded. Miirllllue Casualties. London', Feb. 17. Thv Hritish idea mer Falls of Iitvemid, Capt. Wilson, from Norfolk, January 27, ran Into and sank the schooner Chase in the Mersey river yesterday. The stoann'r was proceeding up the river to Liverpool when the accident occurred, Hverybody on board tho schooner was saved. The Hritish steamer Drummond, from New Orleans, January 2fl, for Rotterdam, has arrived at Dartmouth. She landed there tho crew of the new American schooner Mnggto M., which was burned tit sea.

DARING HOLD-UP.

A Soul liein I'Helllu Kxurciu Tn.i,. .. i d TweUo Miles Nnrtli of .. . ' '" ful., und the Crew Fired r L KJ ltolber--The F.spri'ks . ' .V11 V Uli 'JHIIIIIIM' HUH I.IIOtl'll I',..' oted lllii.,.!1! .Mori el NilHlUM'trd.-Thn ri 4 Iroi.mu 4ail Trump Killed. LOS AXfiKI.KS, fill. of train robbers wrecked pav,,! train No. 20 on tho Southern railroad at Roscoost.it ion, twelve mil north of here, nt 1 o'clock .Vost(.ri,n morning. The highviiyi.teii'bitnv,. Jn the express car with dynamite 'L, Lll-I.l"ll I.I111U ... It " J "V" 'v , ,n i"o iniiiiimi, who attempted to escape, Tho robbers escaped with strong boxes belonging to ii, V(l,. Fargo Kxprcss Co., but the toh' iiiiiiiuuL in uasu is oeuovcil to inii(rB. to not moro than $1.000. A .Mont During and Cool Piec ,,f Nono of the passengers, So far av known, with the exception of a tratat, named Granger, were injured. robbery was tho most daring ami C0(,' piece of work done in the west it .cais, and it is believed that Chrk Kvans and Morrell, the outlaws f. whom California o Ulcers have W,n iy.ii rciuug for weeits, planned ami vented the crime, The train was lato in lenvinj ex Angeles, esutes lite baggage, e, press and three passenger oars, the, were two cars loaded with fruit forSu Francisco. At Hurbank, si mile north of this city, Conductor o,lv telegraphed back, indicating that a that time everything was all right. Iloiiriled liy 11 (Jam; of 'loiti;li. Several rough-looking men board the train tit Hurbank, and it Is lieliete they were accomplices of the robirwho were waiting further north t throw the switch and ditch 11..- train At Roseoe. six miles north f js; bank, is a short spur leading frni thmain lino to a side-track iiv.l U switching. As the locomotive nea.-e the junction Knginoer Thomas saw b the glare of the headlight that I'lie Suited un Open. He reversed the engine and tried 1 stop the train, but tlio heavy load In hind was too much to be stayed in ta short distance and the locomotive aa two fruit ears left the rails nnd fell wreck into the ditch. Rofore tho passengers and ('ondticU Odell could realize wiiat had huppen three masked men jumped into tifrom the woods adjoining the track with rides in their hands. A Volley of shots, was fired at tho engineer and Uremia who were struggling to eseap" tm the tangled wreck, and then the gakept up a fusillade, of bullets to terrif the passengers and prevent them froc. leaving the cars. Fireman Master was instantly killed at the tir-t Cr. A tramp named Oranger was ah struck by a bullet and died mi tk spot. The engineer was badly ho: but managed to crawl into the brcs out of sight of tho robbers. Wri-i'lKMl with 11 Komb. When the shock of the accident w felt the accomplices who boarded ti train at Hurbank left the rear cow: ami hurried to the express ear, whir stood on thu rails unharmed The; placed bombs under the car, and It' explosion tore the doors from the ex Kxprcss Messetigt'r Harry IMiw xn uninjured. The thieves then riiled.il car of all its contents, and mountia. horses, which were tied in thewooc near the railroad, galloped north. i:eitpeil to (lire no Alarm. Foster, the brakctuati, was in one ( the passenger coaches at the t'mec the accident, and realized that rotoV: wero at work as noon as he heard tt rille shots. Ho quietly slipped fro: the train and made Iiis way bovntsL light he saw across the country, wliic proved to bo a farm house. Foster p a team nt the ranch und after anmsia the neighborhood, drove to Hurras nnd notified the deputy siierilT at th: place. A Itellef Train Kent to the seeiie. The Southern Pacific and Wells-Far; ofilcials in this city were notified of lb robbery, nnd a train was sent atonf to tho scene. Dr. Alnsworth, therai road's surgeon, was sent to Roseoe, Ik found 110 one to care for but Ihigin" Thomas. Tho bodies of Fireman Master an Oranger were brought back to th city. None of the passengers venture to move outside to see what caused tl stop, as the highwaymen kept up continual fustladc of shots. Honrs tlin Stump oT Kvaim' Work. The belief that Kvans and Montfwho escaped from the Fresno jail oral weeits ago, participated in trobbery is shared by many railroad as express ofilcials. The job was such a cold-blooded at desperate piece of work that otlleff familiar with the two desperado agreed that it bears their trade tiW A I'rrvloun Attempt Frustrated. It is not over six weeks ago tll!,t previous attempt wns made to holds a Southern Pacific train at Roseoe t tion. Hv a moro accidenttho plant frustrated. Tho fact that the tra; which left Los AngelesThursdit.V nie was late proved to bo of value to tt' robbers, for the engineer, in tryinU 1 makeup thu lost time, was running 11 fast rate, und could not lt;r,'fw stop his train when he came in sijdm thu open switch. Kngineer '1'liotn prompt notion tn reversing his rn?"" however, saved many lives, for heavily-loaded passenger co:u'Ias lowed tho locotnotlvQ Into the Jlitt. many people would have boon killed' exposed to tho shots of the liltf"" men. Those who do not accept tlio tint I Kvans and Morrell had n the robbery point to the fact Uta-1" wero five or six men In the K'Hjtf claim that those desperadoes d" p' hunt In no largo a company; ',al (1 detectives of tho express voml""? ' of the opinion that tho two hud so thing to do with the affair. , Tho San Francisco authoritit" j" notified of the afVair. and Mj V, Southern Pacific company in'1 , Wolls-Furgo Kxprcss Co. sent " south to work on tho case. A Ing train was sent from here ' 1 (J up the track, and trafllc wn re-" . within a few hours after tho occw-