Ligonier Banner., Volume 23, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 21 February 1889 — Page 2

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LIGONIER. ¢ 2 INDIANA,

TaE ‘“unloaded gun” gets a great deal of game in the shooting accident line. ' e o ‘

Tae first Chinese divorce eger granted in America was. at Denver; the other day. : '

Mary Kilgs was the first woman to get a patent frem the United States. It was issued to her in 1809 for strawweaving with silk or thread.

- 'THE natives of Hayti are said to be eating one another. If this process <continues long enough it is bound to wesult in permanent peace down there.

Dr. TANNER challenges the world of tipplers to:a fasting contest in which he is to have only water, the other participants to have :all ‘the beer, wine or whisky they want, but nothing else.

A MANXN in New York wants a divorce from his wife because he married her

when he was intoxicated. = This is but another instance of what frightful risks men will run when wine is in and wit is out. .

It is said that the salary of the Samoan King is twenty dollars per month. He must have hypothecated séveral years’ salary to buy cartridges for his army at the rate of eleven cents a piece. War is in the nature of a luxury. ; :

WANAMAKER, the great Philadelphia

merchant, has increased his advertis-

ing three hundred per cent. because of the dull season. He wisely argues that it is in the dull times the dealer should take special pains to let the public know the merits of his wares.

~ SraTrstics have been gathered which show that twenty-five million pies are made in Boston every year. With all her Athenianism, Buddhism and Browningism there is a good deal of New Englandism still clinging to the Hub, to say nothing about indigestion. o o v

ToE metropolitan characteristies of the American people are noticeable in the following statistics: In 1790 onethirtieth of our population was found in - cities; in 1800, one-twewmty-fifth; in 1820, one-twentieth; in 1850, oneeighth; in 1860, one-sixth; in 1880, two-ninths. - ; ;

A STATISTICAL genius has figured out that last year’s corn crop, 2,000,000,000 bushels, will load a string of ‘wagons stretching 284,000 miles, or enough to make eleven rows of wagons, loaded with corn, clear round the earth and have 9,000 miles of teams not in line. F i i

- A RATHER strange affliction happened to a Minnesota couple who were sleigh-riding. 'The young man’s right ear and the lady’s left ear were frosted, while the other two were not cold at all. Why all four ears were not frosted is a problem which may be submitted to the high-school class in phkysiology. / : -

. J. DEVLIN, a train employe on the ‘New York Central & Hudson River railroad, found a pocketbook containing §30,000 on a recent Sunday in a geat of a drawing-room car at Albany, N. Y. He returned the money to its owner, J. E. Loftus, a Bostonian, who ‘wvas returning from the West, and Mr. Loftus handed Devlin $l,OOO.

. Ix a recent lecture on‘the advance of women Mrs. Antoinette Blackwell called attention to the fact that while “forty years ago none but a few womcn thought of having any non-domes-tic work, now 38,000,000 women are classified in such work.” There are 84,000 accountants, clerks and saleswomen, 275 clergymen and 75 lawyers in this number. : ci

Tue assertion is made by various

well-known oculists that opera-glasses used indiscriminately 'are sure to - Bpread contagious diseases of the eyes. «If this is so another slot will be relguired in theater chairs. An extra nickel could be used to bring forth a disinfectant with which the public opera-glass could be wiped before being put in use. Another slot might serve to produce some standard work ‘on diseases of the eye to be perused be‘tween the acts. e 4

A PETITION is being circulated in Yorktown, N. Y., asking the President 1o retire Postmaster Lewis Purdy and grant him a liberal pension for the rest of his life. = Mr. Purdy is said to be the oldest postmaster in the United States, both in years and service, having been appoined postmaster -of Shrub Oak by President Harrison in 1841. Mr. Purdy is ninety-three years of age, receives and distributes the mail twice a day, and has never been absent from his post of duty one day. His only assistant is his wife, who is ninety years of age. _ S

Tne speed of 21.65 knots an hour ‘attained by the Vesuvius, the new United States dynamite-gun cruiser, . places her in the front rank of ocean greyhounds, she having attained the fastest speed of any steamship afloat. The trial was made récently over the new Government coursé at the Dela- - ware breakwater. In the direction of ‘the tide she attained a rate ofl 22.95 knots an hour, and against the tide and wind a rate of 20.35. Lieutenant Buell said: *“The result of this trial restores the supremacy of American _ ship-builders over the world.”

AN extraordinary freak of nature took place the other day near Bellegarde, France. A large hill just behind the village suddenly split open, just as if an earthquake hdd taken place. The crack in the hill reached from the summit right down to the . base. The crack was 150 meters long ~and averaged seven meters in width. . A bed of marl was found inside the hill. Unlike the famous mountain ~ that gave birth to the “ridiculous _ mouse,” this mountain gave forth no | premonitory rumbling. The split was ~ #aid to have becn caused by the rain.

. . Epitcme of the Week. INTE,RESTING NEWS COMPILATION, JL — & FIFTIETH CONGRESS. J: Second Session. | - Wurspay, Feb. 12.—1 n the Senate the‘ Naval Appropriation bill was further discussed and finally passed. A resolution was presented from the Kansas Legislature requesting Congress to adopt such measures as will secure to every citizen of the Southern States perfect protection in the ‘exercise of all political rights. In the House a bill was introduced to include Canada in the act authorizing the President to arrange a conferenee of American na-. tions. The General Deficiency bill ($14,568,381) was reported, and the debate on the Smalls-Elliott election case was continued. WEDNESDAY, Feb. 13.—1 n the Senate a bill was introduced providing that all citizens of the United States having the qualifications requisite for electors shall be en-, titled and allowed to ‘vote at any election for Representative in the Congress of the United States without distinction of sex. Mr. Evarts spoke in support of hisresolution instructing the Committee on Elections to revise the laws governing Congressional elections. The nomination of Norman J. Colman, of Missouri, to be Secretary of Agriculture, was confirmed. In the House the Judiciary Committee reported favorably a hill to amend the naturalization. laws. The South Carolina contest case was ‘gettled by giving the seat to Elliott, the sitting member, by a vote of 143 to 126. THURSDAY, Feb. 14.—A bill was reported in the Senate to amend the laws regarding the importation of alcoholic liquors in the States. The nomination of Carroll D. Wright to be Commissioner of Labor was confirmed. In the House a favorable report was made on the Senate bill appropriating $250,000 to protect American interests in the Isthmus of Panama. The bill to divide a portion of the Sioux reservation in Dakota into separate reservations and to se- - cure relinquishment of the Indian titles to the remainder was passed. The bill for the admission ,of South Dakota as a State was amended "so as to provide for admission by proclamation of the President, and that the proposed States of North Dakota, Montana and Washington shall be admitted in the same way. v

'FripAy, Feb. 15.—1 n the Senate a favorable report was made on the bill to provide for the establishment of a National Board of Health. The bill placing General Rosecrans on the retired list was passed; also forty-one private pension bills. A bill was introduced to provide for a National system of farmers’ institutes. In the House Mr. Mills, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported back the Mills Tariff bill, with the Senate amendment, which he declared .was unconstitutional. The Senate bill appropriating - $250,000 for the protection of American interests in Panama was passed. The night session was devoted to pension hills.

FROM WASHINGTON.

THE act to create an executive department to be known as the Department of Agriculture was approved by the President on the 11th. , :

Ox the 11th Colonel Henry J. Hunt (retired), Governor of the Soldiers’ Home in the District of Columbia, died, in his sixtyninth year.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 11th nominated Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, now Assistant Postmaster-General, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and Norman J. Coleman, of Missouri, to be Secretary of Agriculture. ABRAHAM LiNcoLN’s eightieth birthday anniversary was celebrated in various cities throughout the country on the 12th. Visitors thronged the galleries of the National House of Representatives at noon on the 13th to witness the proceedings attendant upon the official count of the electoral vote for President and Vice-President. Senator Ingalls presided. After the certificates from each State had been..announced the presiding officer declared Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, the next President, and Levi P. Morton, of New York jthe next YVice-President of the United StatéL. :

THE discovery was made on the %}3th that barbed-wire was patented in France, April 19, 1865, which, under a ruling of the United States Supreme Court, would invalidate the Glidden and othex patents. DuriNG the sevén days ended on the 15th there were 280 business failures in the United States, against 265 the previous seven days. gl

THE EAST.

- THE Pennsylvania railway officials issued ordérs on the 12th that no freight trains except those carrying perishable goods should run on Sunday. ON the 12th Johnnie Powers, eleven years old, was taken to the county asylum at Orange {m’m, near Middletown, N. Y., a raving maniac from the effects of cigarette smoking. ; - GOVERNOR SAWYER, of New Hampshire, on the 12th appointed Gilman Marston, of Ex‘eter, as United Statcs Senator for the interim between March 4 and June 19, when the Legiglature will elect a Senator. ;

THE death of Mrs. Eunice P. Helnis, of Lydonville, N. Y., occurred on the 12th at the age of a few months over one hundred years. Up to within a few weeks of her death Mrs. Helms enjoyed the best: of health. O~ the 13th Sidney Bartlett, LL. D., of Boston, celebrated his ninetieth birthday. He is still an active member of the bar, and his practice is said to be worth $lOO,OOO a ear. 7 ON the 13th Colonel Ruth Goshen, Barnum’s giant, died:in New York of dropsy. He weighed about 630 pounds. ; , #X session on the 13th at Philadelphia, the National Association of Builders passed a resolution that the members recommend to the yarious State Legislatures the passage of a law making it a felony for any person or association to prevent or hinder any American youth from learning some trade or handicraft. CHARLES G. WASHBURN, of Worcester, Mass., of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, stated on the 14th that the alleged “French patent” of Louis Janin did not void the Glidden barb-wire patent. ; Havine acquired a fortune, Kate Claxton, the well-known- actress, retired from the stage on the 14th. : DuriNeg a quarrei Charles W. Gabel, of Reading, Pa., shot his wife and afterward attempted suicide on the 14th. THE faculty suspended the entire sophomore class of Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa,, on the 15th for hazing. . FrAmes destroyed the Keeney House at Pike, N. Y., on the 15th, and Jennie Mack, a domestic, and her little niece perished in the flames. THE failure of the Grand Lake Coal CompanyAf Pittsburgh, Pa., occurred on the for $250,000, Sl 4 Z WEST AND SOUTH. Ar the trial of Mrs. Brown in Mason City, la., charged with poisoning several members of her family, the jury on the 12th declared her not guilty. A 7 Bt. Louis Mrs. Richard Willls committed suicide on the 12th by shooting: herself through the head. The cause of the act was her disappointment at not being able to succeed as a writer of poetry : Ox the 12th five men implicated fithe recent murder of Bill Sizemore apd Carr Smith in Clay County, Ky., were arrested. A FIRE on the 12th destroyed the Mutch-ner-Higgins Company’s elevator at Indianap;llis, Ind., with thirty thousand bushels of grain., : # .

THE death of Abner Prugh, born in Frederick County, Md., occurred at Dayton, 0., on the 18th, at the age of one hundred years, Fire at Memphis, Tenn., destroyed the Neely block and badly scorched the Gayoso Hotel on the 18¢h. Loss, $193,000, TreE Myer-McAuliffe prize-fight took place at North Judson, Ind., on the 13th, sixtyfour rounds being fought, at the end of which the contest was declared a draw. OX the 14th the new Government building at Fort Wayne, Ind., was occupied. The structure was seven years building and cost $400,000, ; ks v

Mrs. WiLBELMINA HEIBELSCHAUSER, & wealthy resident of Crestline, 0., committed: suicide on the 14th owing to grief over the: death of her husband.

Mary Powers, of Laporte, Ind, only thirteen years old, was on the 14th sentenced to five years in the State reformatory for the murder of her infant brother, to whom she administered arsenic. _ Epwarp E. ScrisNer, of St. Paul, was elected president of the National Association of Builders at its third annual conven-’ tion at Philadelphia on the 14th. .

It was discovered on the 14th that Superintendent Chase, of -the Indian school located at Geneva, Neb., had robbed the Government of over $25,000. He had disappeared. ; THE constitutional amendment for a State lottery was defeated in Nevada at the recent election by 500 votes. aier ! THE death of Colonel W. B. Dunn, a prominent citizen and lawyer of Mobile, Ala., occurred on the 14th at the agé of eighty-one years. He was noted for his knowledge of the political and constitutional history of the United States.

It was claimed by T. B. Barry, the labor agitator, on the 15th that his new ‘brotherhood comprised ninety-six assemblies, and that more were being organized. A FIRE in the cracker factory of Louis Fox at Fort Wayne, Ind., caused a loss of $lOO,OOO on the 15th. :

" TeE discovery of old placer mines rich with gold two miles east of Purcell, in the Choctaw nation, was reported on the 15th. ON the 15th John Lee was hanged at Alexandria, Minn., for the murder of Charles Cheline. Martin Moe, who was expected to die with him, had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life.

Ox the 15th the wife and child of Jacob Faucett (colored), and two other negro women, were murdered by unknown men near Mount Olive, N. C. AT Marion, Ind., John Sage, charged with aiding and abetting the murder'of Harry Albert Cunningham, aged two years, was sentenced on the 15th to life imprisonment. THE death of John W. Street, the inventor of the stable car, and a prominent man in railway circles, occurred in Chicago on the 15th, at the age of fifty-two years. .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

JAPAN’S new constitution was promulgated from the throne on the 12th by the Mikado. The constitution establishes a House of Peers with three hundred members. The right of suffrage is given to men of the age of twenty-five years and over who pay taxes to the amount of twenty-five dollars yeaxly. Liberty of religion, freedom of speech and the right of public meeting are established. " :

ON the 13th General Komaroff, with a strong force, arrived at Bokhara. The Ameer had circulated the report along the frontier that he was advancing for the purpose of making war upon Russia. It was alleged that he was causing three hundred persons to be beheaded daily and greatly interfering with frontier traffic. Apvices of the 13th from Panama state that much anxiety prevailed there owing to anincrease of crime, which was attributed to the presence of the thousands of laborers whom the stoppage of operations on the canal had thrown out of work.

€HrNA advices of the 13th say that the famine in Anhui and Kiangsu was worse. In one province three hundred thousand families were starving, and altogether several millions were suffering from famine caused by drought two years in succession. THE Indians on the Battle River reservation at Cold Lake, Manitoba, were on the 18th suffering frem a peculiar epidemic which was fatal. The muscles of the throat and neck swelled rapidly, preventing the swallowing of food. It was feared that the entire tribe would be exterminated.

Ox the 14th Dolores Cordones, a mulatto girl at Havana, Cuba, was covered with petroleum and burned to death by a man whose attentions she had refused.

THE members of the French Ministry sent their resignations to President Carnot on the 14th.

DurixG a recent earthquake not a single house in Costa Rica escaped injury and many were totally destroyed. Whole streets were blocked with ruins. Losses in San Jose amounted to more than $200,000, while all the principal edifices in Alajucla were damaged. At La Lagunathe earth had assumed the appearance of a rough sea. At Lake Starnberg, near Munich, another tragedy was enacted on the 34th, when twg¢ persons drowned themselves in its waters. Since the suicide of King Ludwig eleven persons had drowned themsgelves in the lake.

ViscoUNT ARINORI MORE, Japanese Minister of Education. was assassinated recently at Tokio by a religious fanatic. The victim was formerly Minister to Washington. THE schooner Hippomenes, with a crew of five men, which sailed from Yarmouth December 8 for Barbadoes, laden with fish and lumber, was on the 15th given up as lost with all on board. - ADVICES of the 15th froth Aden state that the Russian flag had been, hoisted on territory which under an Anglo-French agreement belonged to France.

LATER.

It was stated on the 16th that the German Government was willing to effect a settlement of the Samoan question upon the basis of the United States Government’s proposal at the Washington conference—namely: The establishment of a joint American, German and English control over the Samoan Government through the Consuls of the three countrieg at Apia. : THREE blocks of business buildings in Manchester, Eng., were burned on the 16th, Loss, $250,000, AT Detroit, Mich., on the 16th three children of Mrs. Bernard Beechler, being left alone in the house, set it on fire, and two of them were fatally burned. - THE house of Thomas Willons, near Ashland, Ga., was destroyed by fire on the 16th, and four of " his children were burned to death, Mr. Willons himself being seriously injured. A FOUNDRY and a grain elevator at Montreal, Can., were burned on the 16th, causing a loss of $150,000. - FraNg L. SILVERS, a prominent horsebreeder and well-known citizen of Tecumseh, Mich., on the 16th shot and killed his wife, his two daughters, aged nine and eleven years, respectively, and ended the awful deed by shooting himself. The only conceivable motive for Silver’s murderous act was jealousy, though for this, it was agreed, he had no cause. - FiveE children of August Penmann, of Philadelphia, Pa., were poisoned on the 16th by-eating Vienna sausage, and three of them died. S

At Glenville, Minn., on ‘the 16th Joseph Chemeleck killed three persons, his sister-in-law, Mrs. Chemeleck, and her two daughters,. Rose and Mary, and then committed guicide by shooting himself through the head. The motive for the triple murder was involved in doubt. :

Lewis CrockEr and Frank Layton were burned to death on the 16th in a lumber shanty at Lopez, Pa. THE barn of the Landis Transfer & Livery Company at Kansas City, ‘Mo., ‘was burned on the 17th, consuming nincty-four horses and seventy-flve carriages and buggies. James Hoffman, one of the owners of the building, also perished in the flames. THE business portion of Rock Rapids, Minn., was destroyed by fire on the 16th. A L to place Major James Belger on the retired list as Colonel in the regular army was passed in the United States Senate on the 16th. The resolution concerning election outrages in Washington County, Tex., was considered. In the House the fiMflhm Tariff bill, patterned after the ‘Mills bill, which would reduce the revenues $72,000,000 per year, and the Breckinridpe Tariff bill, carrying a reduction of $40,000,000, were reported. ‘A favorable report was made on the bill providing an. enaßling act for the admission of the Territory of New Mexico. Aresolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the numberof clerks appointed in Lhis department since March 1, 1885, without certification from the Civil-Service Come S aho. e o SGI o e so e

WILL SURPASS ALL.

The Ceremonies Attending the Inauguration of President-Elect Harrison In=tended to Outdo All Like Affairs—Programme of the Parade and Ball-How the General Will Take the Oath.

WasHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The preparations for the inauguration of President-elect Harrison are very nearly completed, and if the day {is fine the demonstration will be more imposing than any thing of the kind the country has ever seen. The size of the procession will be limited only to the width gnd length of Pennsylvania avenue. Fifty thousand soldiers and members of civic organizations will be in line, and under the rules of the committee on arrangements they must be uniformed. There have been few great paradesin this country, and the intention has been to make this one surpass all the rest. :

The inauguration proceedings take place at 12 o’clock on the eastern portico of the capitol. General Harrison will be accompanied from the White House to the Senate chamber by President Cleveland and his Cabinet, by committees from both hous:s, by the citizens in charge of the Inaugural proceedings, and the escort of the party will be composed of 1,500 troopr of the regular army—cavalry, infantry aad artillery—and by the National Guard of thé District of Columbia, which comprises about 800 men. The immediate personal escort of General Harrison will be the members of the regiment he commanded during the war, the Seventieth Indi.. ana. Arriving at the Senate chamber the President-elect will see the Vice-President-elect sworn in, and then, accompanied by ‘both houses of Congress, will proceed to the east portico, where the oath will be administered to him by Chief-Justice Fuller. He will then deliver his address, get into a carriage, and be escorted to the White House by a procession of 50,000 men., . This procession will be of six divisions In the first division will be the regular troops, under the command of General Schofield, and the militia of the District of Columbia, numbering about 2,200 men. The second division will be the National Guard of Pennsylvania, commanded by General Hartranft, 8,000 men. The third division will include the other military organizations, numbering about 1,000 -men, who will be commanded by Governox Foraker, of Ohio. The fourth division will be composed of the Grand Army of the Republic, under the command of Representative William Warner, of Missouri, com-mander-in-chief, 5,000 men. The fifth and gixth divisions *will bhe composed of civic organizations under the command of Myron M. Parker, of Washington, and Edwin S. Stuart, of Philadelphia, respectively.

As soon as-the formal proceedings at the capitol are concluded and President Harrison and ex-President Cleveland have been escorted to their places, the procession will then pass down Pennsylvania avenue to the White: House, where the two Presidents will take their places in the reviewing stand. : Pennsylvania avenue and K street are to be elaborately decorated for the occasion, and there will be a show of bunting such as never has heen seen here. In the evening there will be a parade of flambeau clubs, a prize having been offered for the best display. There will also be $4,000 or $5,000 worth of fire-works exploded in the park south of the White House and private illuminations on the principal streets. The ball takes place in the Pension building, which has floor room to acommodate 12,000 people. - .

The doors of the Senate chamber will be opened at 11 o'clock to those who are entitled to admission. President Cleveland and President-elect Harrison, each accompanied by a member of the committee of arrangements, will enter the Senate wing by the bronze.doors in the east front. Mr. Cleveland. will go to the President’s room and = Mr. Harrison to the Vice-President’'s room, and in these apartments they will remain until they enter the Senate chamber. When they enter the chamber they will take possession of the chairs set apart for them immediately in front of President Ingalls, while the members of. the committee on arrangements will be seated to the left of them. Mr. Morton will be escorted to the capitol by the third member of the committee, and he will remain in the VicePresident's room until he enters the Senate chamber, where Senator Ingalls will administer the oath of office to him. The rendezvous. for the diplomatic corps will be the marble-room, and at 11:15 they will proceed to the Senate chamber in a body and occé#py seats on the right of the chair. Ex-President Hayes, the only surviving ex-President, and ex-Vice-Presi-dent Hannibal Hamlin (if he is able to attend) will also be on the right of the chair, and in the same portion of the chamber will be the Supreme Court and the ex-Justices of the bench. On the left of the chair will be the heads of the Executive departments, and for the first time in the history of the United .States there will be eight Cabinet officers, in stead of seven, the Secretary of Agriculture being the latest addition to the President’s official family. Also on the right will be the retired Generals of the army, the MajorGenerals commanding the army, the Admiral of the navy and the officers of the army and navy who by name have received the thanks of Congress, Governors and exGovernors of States and other officials. The Marshal of the District of Columbia and the Marshal of the Supreme Court, the rexPresident and ex-Vice-President. the Supreme Court, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, the committee of arrangements, the Presi-dent-eiect, the Vice-President and the Secretary of the Senate, members of the!Senate, the Diplomatic corps, heads of departments, the retired General of the army, the Major-General commanding the army, the Admiral of the navy and the officers of the army who, by name, have received the thanks of Congress, members of the House of Representatives and members-elect, Governors and ex-Governors of States, officers of the Senate and officers of the House of Representatives, all other persons who have been admitted to the floor of the Senate chamber, followed by those who have been admitted to the gallary. i The oath of office will be administered to the President-elect by the Chief-Justice, or, in his absence, hy the senior AsgociateJustice present. On the conclusion of the cermony the members of the Senate, preceded by the Sergeant-at-Arms, VicePresident and the ' Secretary, will return to. the Senate chamber, and the President, accompanied by the committee of arrangements, will proceed to the Executive Mansion.

“ASSASSINATED.

Count Mori, One of th,P Most Progressive Statesmen of Japan, and Ex-Minister to the United States, Killed by a Religious Fanatic. ;

SAN FraNcisco, Feb. 16.—A private cable has been received from Tokio announcing the assassination there of Viscount Arinei Mori, Minister of Education. He was known in this country, having been Minister from Japan at Washington about 1880. Count Mori was one of the most enlightened of Japanese statesmen, and his = death is considered a loss to the Progressive party in Japan. The cable gives only meager detalls of the crime. He was stabbed on the 11th inst., the day of the promulgation of the new constitution.

{ IT WAS A GREAT FAILURE.

The Liabilities of the Grand Lake Coal Company May Reach $300,000. PITTsBURGH, Pa., Feb. 16.—Later reports concerning the failure of the Grand Lake Coal Company indicate that the indebtedness of the firm will reach from $200,000 to $300,000. The company is one of the largest in Pittsburgh. It has been in business for twenty-five years and was considered most reliable. The failure is attributed largely to bad luck. By the storm last summer at New Orleans the company lost 140 loaded hoats and cargoes, and 1&%& became involved in an unfortu. nate rallroad investment. =~ .

HAS NO REGRETS.

President Cleveland Announces His Thorough Satisfaction with the Outcome of His Administration—He Reiterates His Devotion to the Democracy, and Predicts a Great Future for the Party.

BavTIMORE, Md., Feb. 15.—The Sun publishes a special from Washington giving a review of President Cleveland’s Administration based upon conversations with the President. It says that the President is thoroughly satisfied with the outcome of his

Administration and its effect on the fortunes of the Democratic party. He predicts a great future for the Democracy, and asserts his unqualified devotion toit. ‘ltis a grand party,” said he, ‘“and was never in better shape than itis at present. When we consider the condition it was in before the tariff issue was formulated, the want of unanimity, the wide divergence of views on many points, and the hearty, united support it gave me during the campaign, whe can doubt that its status has beenimproved and that it has a glorious future before it?” The President is as firm now as ever that tariff reform is the great living issue for the Democracy. He regards it as an issue in harmony with the spirit and traditions of the partyy, and one involving enorwwus henefits to the people. He does not tolerate the idea that the Democracy was beaten on the tariff issue last fall. Had certain conditions been eliminated from the campaign, he says, “we would have won a decisive victory.” He thinks the defeat of the Democracy is to be deplored because of the injury resulting to the public interests, but personally he experienced a profound sense of relief at the prospect of speedy relgase from the ordeal to which he has been exposed during the past four years. : ‘I ghall be delighted to be relieved of the cares of the Presidency,” he says, ‘‘and on the 4th of March next, on purely personal grounds, there will be no happier man in the United States.” . He believes that Civil-Service Reform has come to stay. He has endeavored to give the civil service a fair trial and expresses himself as fully satisfed with the results.: It is, he says, certainly far preferable to the spoils system, and he has no fear that it will degenerate into a mere bureaucracy. He in earnest in its advocacy as being a thoroughly practical reform and in no sense undemocratic. He thinks the work of his Administration has fixed this reform as a permanent feature of our system of government and that no party can afford to antagonize it openly. The President is gratified at the ‘effect of his Administration on the prosperity and happiness of the Southern people, both black and white. He believes in making no distinctions between any of the sections, and he deprecates strongly the revival of animosities which were supposed to be dead and buried.

BARN-BURNERS.

The White Caps Rivaled in Maryland—A Band of Fire-Bugs at Work—Their Daring Acts of Incendiarism Driving Farmers to Desperation—Thirteen Buildings i Destroyed in One Section. " : Bavrmvore, Md., Feb. 15.—The barn of D. Henry Riemam, in Adams County, Pa., near Emmittsburg, Md., was destroyed by fire of incemdiary origin early Wednesday morning. The loss was £7,000; insured for $4600 in the Agricultural Insurance Company, of Watertown, N. Y. ‘The property destroyed was in line of the dozen or more barns mysteriously burned recently on the gborder of Frederick and Carroll Counties, Md., and the fire is believed to have been the work of the same miscreants who have become sueh a terror to the farming community of that section. The instrument usually used in setting fire to the barns is the size of two fists, and covered with wet phosphorus. In the center of this ball was an opening thke size of an egg and filled with powder, into which was stuck a quill, for the purpose, it is thought, of preventing ahsorption of moisture, and thus keeping the powder dry. This device is placed in some secluded place, and when the phosphorous dries igmition follows and an explosion of the powder, which completes the work. The barn-burners, who are evidently as thoroughly organized as the White Caps or Bald-Enobbers of the West, if not 80 numerous, are evidently extending their field of operations. Théy bhegan their nefarious work last summer in Wareheim township, York County, Pa., near the Maryland line. They displayed no discrimination in the selection of barns to which they applied their mysterious torches. The rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, foreigner and native, none were spared and all shared alike. Vigilance committees were as powerless to head them as the large rewards offered by suffering insurance companies were to bring the burners to justice. One insurance company in Southern Pennsylvania has sustained losses by the burning of thirteen buildings. What object the incendiaries hope to gain by the fires has not yet been learned. The notices invariably request the owners of the barns to remove all stock and machinery by a certain time. .

FROZEN IN THE BLIZZARD.

A Cold Wave Sweeps Over Canada—Ftalities Reported.

MoONTREAL, Can., Feh. 15.—~There has been some severe weather in Canada lately, but the blizzard which started in Wednesday night is the worst of the season. The snowfall has not(been very great, but she wind is terrific, and the dry, powdery snow has been swirled in great drifts. When the storm was at its height Wednesday afternoon chimneys were blown down and sign-boards broken from their hinges, while to add to the discomfort the temperature took a sudden drop, registering 12 degrees below zero. Railroad travel is thoroughly demoralized. There are no outgoing trains, and incoming ones are lost in snow-drifts. ’

- A dispatch from Quebec says that Paul Peloquin, an inmate of the Beauport Insane Asylum, escaped Wednesday. A search party found him frozen to death in a snawdrift. J. Cameron-and T. Brunot, two farmers of St. Joseph, lost their way in the blinding blizzard and were found uncomscious. They are go badly frozen that they are not expected to live. :

ADVICE FOR MOTHERS..

Ir you say ‘,‘No” mean “No.” Unless you have a good reason for changing a given command, hold to it. o

ArLrow them as they grow older to have opinions of their 6wn; make them individuals and not mere echoes. :

Ir you have lost a child, remember that for the one who is gone there is no more te do, but for those left, every thing, i REespecT their hittle secrets; if they have concealments, fretting them will never make them tell, and time and patience will, Br honest with them in small things as well as in great. If you can not tell them what they wish to know, say so, rather than deceive them. s

Fixp out all their special tastes and develop them instead of spending time, money and patience in forcing them into studies that are entirely repugnant to them. -, IMPRESS upon them, from early infancy, that their actions have results, and that they can not escapé consequences even by being sorry when they have done wrong. Maxe your boys and girls study philosophy; when they are ill try and make them comprehend why and how the complaint arose, and the remedy, so far as you know it. Mornrrs, whatever else you may teach your girls, do not neglect to instruct them in the mysteries of housekeeping. 8o shall you put them in the way of making home happy. e e 5 L s e e

*CLEAR TITLES. Théy Are Glven to Messrs. Harrison -and ' Morton—The Electoral Vote Counted. WasHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The galleries of the National House of Representatives were thronged yesterday with visitors who watched with mych interest the preceedings attendant upon the official count of the electoral vote for President and Viee-President. Beside the Speaker's chair was placed one for Senator Ingalls, who, as presiding officer of the Senate, was to preside over the joing assembly, and in the area in front of the clerk’s desk was placed a number of richlyupholstered chairs and lounges for the accommodation of the Senators.

At 12:55 the legislative proceedings of the House were suspended, and a few minutes afterward the Benate was announced, and the Senators, headed by officers, filed into the chamber. Senator Ingalls lecaned on the arm of Secretary McCook, and Captain Bassett carried the box containing the returns from the Electoral College. The Representatives remained standing until the Senators had taken the seats assigned them, and then Senator Ingalls; seated on the tight hand of the Speaker, called the joint assembly to order. Senator Ingalls then said: 5 “ This being the day and the hour appointed for opening the certificates and counting the votes of electors for Presidenty, the Senate and House of Representatives have met together pursuant to the constitution and laws of the United States. If there be no objection to the slectoral vote of the State of Alabama, the sertificate will be read by the tellers, who will make a list of the votes thereof.”

The presiding officer then broke the seal of the certificate from Alabama and handed it to Senator Manderson, one of the tellers, who read the document in a clear voice. It was in due form, and showed that the ten Electoral votes of Alabama had been east for Cleveland and Thurman. The certificate gave in minute detail the proceedings of the meeting of the electors in Montgomery, and contained the ballots cast by each electioneer .for President and Vice-President. It was accompanied by a statement from the Governor of Alabama certifying to the election of the electors therein named. Its reading consumed seventeen minutes.

It was the same throughout the list of States, and. at the conclusion Senator Inyalls declared Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Levi P. Morton, of New York, to be elected President and Vice-President of the United States, respectively, for the term beginning March 4, 1859, and ending March 4, 1893.

RUIN IN COSTA RICA.

Cities, Towns and Villages Wrecked by Earthquakes—Many Persons Buried by the Upheavals.

Paxama, Febh. 14.—Advices from Costa Rica give details of the terrible earthquake of December 29 and 30. The first shock was felt at San Jose at 8 o’clock in the evening, and this was followed at 11 o’clock by a much stronger shock. At4:2oa. m. a movement occurred . which was more than _a simple earthquake. The edifices which suffered most in San Jose were the cathedral, the Carmen and Merced churches, Presidentia! palace, artil.ery barracks, national palace, central barracks, the national printing offices and the Union Bank. Not a single house escaped injury, while many are not safe to live in and others are complete'y wrecked. Whole streets are blocked with ruing. Losses in San Jose amount to more than $200,000, while all the principal edifices in Alajucla are damaged. AtLa Laguna the earth has assumed the appearance of ‘a rough sea. The father of a tamily and four of his children were buried together, while the mother and her young child were thrown by the motion of .the earth a distance of 1,000 meters, although she-* ideclares she believes the earth swallowed her and then ejected her. where she was found. Here the hills have changed their position and the ground is full of cracks. Since the first shock a number of smaller ones have been experienced, but they have done no further damage. On December 16 the Irazu volcano was in eruption and the people in Cartago were still in a state of alarm.

CIVIL-SERVICE REFORMERS.

A Conference to Be Held at Baltimore on the 23d inst. to Take Measures to “ Keep the New ‘Administration Straight.” Bavrimorg, Md®, Feb. 14. — The CivilService Reform Association of Maryland has issued a call to reformers all over the United States to attend a conference in Baltimore on February 23d, inst. Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte states that abcut 8060 civilservice reformers have been invited, and that the specific purpose of the convention is ‘“to keep the mnew administration straight.”’” There will be a general discussion of the policy of civil-service associations. At the public meeting two or three formal addresses will be delivered. One subject will be: What has been accomplished by civil-service reform during the Administration of Presipent Cleveland, and what may be hoped and expected from the incoming administration? Carl Schurz and George William Curtis have signified their -intention to be present. . v ;

INDIANS ARE STARVING.

Much Suffering in Minnesota Caused by Uncle Sam’s Omission to Pay Annuities.

WelTe EARTH, Minn., Feb. 14.—The annuities of the Red Lake and Pembina banéds of Chippewa Indians, numbering 264 persons, have been withheld for the last five months under orders ot the Indian Commisgioners, and as a consequence the red men have of late been in a state of actual starvation. Naked and without rosources they have appealed in vain to the proper authorities for relief. Had it not been for the charity of some Eastern women they would have perished before this. :

AN AGED COUNSELOR.

Sidney Bartlett, an Active Member of the Boston Bar, Celebrates His 90th Birthday. : ] :

BosToN, Feb. 14.—Sidney Bartlett, a prominent and still active member of the Boston bar, observed his 90th birthday Wednesday. He was a contemporary of Daniel Webster, Chief-Justice Shaw, Justice Parsons and Rufus Choate. Although ten years the senior of Gladstone he is daily arguing complicated cases with the same lucidity asin former years. It is said he has a yearly practice of $lOO,OOO. o

BLOWN TO ATOMS.

A Pennsylvania Dynamite Factory Wiped from the Face of the Earth by an Explosion, Which Tears One Man to Pieces.

Yorg, Pa.,Feb. 14.—A terrific explosion occurred at noon Wednegday at Johnson’s dynamite factory, sitnated at Mount Wolf, this county. John Harline, an employe, aged 83, of this city, was literally blown to pieces and the factory was totally demolished. He leaves a widow and three children. It is gupposed that Harline went into the nitroglycerine magazine and in turning on a water spigot, which was frozen, the friction caused the explosion. Hisbody was thrown over the top of a tree seventy-five feet from the factory. No one else was injured. : —_—————————— : ; Lumber at Auetion.’ WirriamsporT, Pa., Feb. 14.—The first annual sale of hemlock lumber by the Williamsport Lumber Company took place here Wednesday, being the largest auction sale of lumber ever made. Over 15,000,000 fees were sold, going to dealers in . Philadelphia, Baltimore, ‘Washington and other Eastern cities. The prices for stock boards will av-~ erage $lO per 1,000, which is equal to from 50 cents to $1 above the rate of last year. This sale having been advertised largely through the Eastern States is expected to SURO A DAL Sl for the present year. The aggregate amount.of the sale is VR $lOO,OOO, - e i el

BLOODY DEEDS.

A Mother and Her Two Daughters Slain at Glenville, Minn.,, by a Brutal Relative, Who Afterwards Ends His Own Life — A Michigan ‘Man Murders His Wife and Two Girls, and Fatally Shoots Himself, ;

GLENVILLE, Minn., Feb. 18. —Joseph Chemeleck Friday night killed three persons and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. The motive for the triple murder is involved in doubt. About 6 o'clock Friday evening Chemeleck went to the residence of M. L. Chemeleck, his halfbrother, to spend the evening. About 11 o’clock he picked up his hat and went out of doors. It was expected that he was going to return, but instead ofscoming back he went to his father's home and procured a double-barreled shot-gun. He went back to M. L. Chemeleck’s and secreted himself in a grove near the house. ' About midnight Mary Chemeleck, aged 6;and her sister Rose, aged 11, stepped out of doors, and a few minutes later two reports were heard. The father rushed to the door and and as he opened it Mary and Rose stood on the steps, the blood trickling down their faces. ‘‘We have been shot by Joe Chemeleck,”” exclaimed Rose, as she fell fainting to the floor. A half-witted ‘boy was sent for help, and, not returning, the father went in search of aid. As soon as he had left the house Joe Chemeleck entered and going ® uprstairs shot down the mother of the girls. Mary, who was half dead from loss of blood, managed to get out of the door, and, barefooted and half-clad, made her way ahalf-mile through the snow to a neighbor's, where she fell to the floor dead. The murderer, after completing his bloody work, rushed out of the house into the yard, where voices from the road caused him to halt. Seeing that escape was impossible, ke placed a revolver to his temple and sent a bullet through hig brain. o

" The girl Rose died shortly after midnight, and the bodies of the two girlsiand their mother were taken to an upper room to await the action of the coroner. The murderer’s body lay all day where he had killed himself; and until Satarday evening, when it was picked up and taken to his father's house. ‘ : AWFUL CRIME IN MICHIGAN. TECUMSEH, Mich, Feb. 18.—One of the most terrible crimes ever enacted in Michigan took place Saturday night at this place. Frank L. Silvers, a prominent horse-breeder and well-known citizen, shot his wife, his two daughters, aged 9 and 11 years, respectively, aud ended the awful deed by shoot~ ing himselt, | The crime was not discovered until Sunday morning. About 10 o’clock some:-of the neighbors noticed that the curtains of the Silvers house were closely drawn and that there was no sign of life about the place. Their curiosity was excivted, and after waiting for an hour it was decided to investigate. An axe was procured and the rear door was forced open. - The kitchen was deserted. The diningroom door stood ajar, however, and, pushing it open, the party entered the parlor, where & horrible sight met their gaze. There upon the floor near the stove, full-dressed - and with kLer glassy eyes staring at the: ceiling, lay the body of Mrs. Silvers in a pool of blood. ;But if this was not calculated to terrify; a more terrible one was in store for the investigators. After searching the lower part of .the house they wended their way up-stairs. Entering a small bed-room, directly above the parlor, they found the bodies of the two little girls only a few feet apart, while at the foot of the bed lay the form of Mr. Silvers weltering in blood, and with life a!most extinet. The vietims had all been shot through the temple, and, with the exception of Mr. Silvers,-all had died instansly, o

The murder was carefully planned and coolly and s;ilstematicallyr executed. Early Saturday evehing Mr. Silvers entered a hardware store and bought a 32-caliber revolver of the Smith & Wesson pattern and a box of cartridges. He betrayed no agitation, und it was supposed that he intended to use the weapon in shooting rats. He walked around town awhile after making his purchase¢ and spoke with several of his friends in his customary free-hearted, easy manner. He returned home about 8 o’clock, and as the bodies of his victimis were cold when found it is supposed that he shot them before retir--ing and did not take his own life wuntil several hours later. This theory is strength- § ened by the fact that the neighbors were *

stirring very early in the morning and would undoubtedly have heard the shots had they been fired at that time. Frank Silvers came Lere about ten years ago. He belonged to a highly respected family, and was raised on a farm about foar miles north of here. He married a Miss Shephard in Lynn, N.'Y., and had been living in the house where the tragedy occurred for nearly ten years. % Those who have known the family say that Mr, and Mrs. Silvers were a seemingly hagpy ‘and affectionate pair. They went ou together = frequently and their home seemed ' bright and cheerful always. The- little girls were uncommonly pretty and attractive, and, taken all in all, the family seemed to be one of the happiest that could be found any where. This being the case, no cause can be ascribed for the crime. A note was found in Mr. Silvers’ pocket requesting his friends to break open the safe and find directions for the disposal of his property and keepsakes. The note is written in a bold, steady hand, and in it the writer declares that the reason for the dreadful crime will never be known. The coroner is at work on the -case, but no clew to the cause of the tragedy has been obtained, and the crime bids fair to prove one of the most mysterious as it is one of the most atrocious ever committed in Michigan.,

AN AWFUL FATE.

A Mississippi Farmer’s House Destroyed by Fire and Four of His Children Lose Their Lives. 3

AsHLAND, Miss.,, Feb. 18.—The house of Thomas Willons, a well-to-do farmer living five miles . east of this place, was destroyed by fire between 11 and 12 o'clock’ Friday night, and four of his children were burned to death. Mr. Willons’ three oldest daughters were sleeping up-stairs, and the fire had made such headway before being discovered that they could not be rescued. One of the youngest children was down-stairs, but it was lost .in the excitement. The four charred bodies were found in the ruins.. Mr. Willons himself was badly burned. )

A Large Stable in Kansas City Destroyedby Fire—One of the Proprietors Loses His Life—Narrow E%Ee of ITis Family—- ~ Ninety-Four Horses“ Burned.

Kiansas ClTy, Feb. 18 —At 11 o’clock last: night fire broke out in the large brick barn of J. K. Landis, corner of Tenth and. Troost streets, causing the loss of ninety-four head of horses and seventy-five carriages and buggies. J. R. Hoffman, one of the partners, ‘and his family, - occupied apartments up-gtairs. They were aroused by the flames and jumped to the street below. Mrs. Hoffman and child reached the ground in safety, but Mr. Hoffman fell, striking his head against the curbing, knocking him insensible, and he was suffocated before he could be rescued. 'The loss is estimated at $BO,OOO. ey e

The Holy - Father Warns the Faithful Against "Many . Vices, and Condemns the: Public School System. New York, Feb. 18.—At all the massesat:. the Roman Catholic churches Sunday an encyclical letter from the Pope wasread, in which the faithful are warned against avarice; against immoral tendencies ~in literature and the drama, and iaga.-inst materialism in thought, which . breeds socialism, communism, nihilism, . etc. The letter also condemns public: ~ Bchools, and says” of them: ''There is no. ecclesiastical authority left in them; and. during the years when it is most fitting for tender minds to be caretully trained in - Chiaien Yivita, \ho. Pewoiich df eigion »