Ligonier Banner., Volume 23, Number 47, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 March 1889 — Page 2

- @he Ligonic ' e Ligonier Bamer, LIGONIER. + : ' INDIANA m Aprm. 30, 1889, the centennial anniversary of the inauguration of President Washington, has been declared a legal holiday in New York. : S ————— A NEWSPAPER man has been turning over the files of the Pekin Gazette. He finds that it has been published for * eight hundred years, and is no ‘‘great 3 lhakss” of a paper yet. i —————— g '~ THE Ameer of Afghanistan is not.a person to be fooled with. He cuts off about three hundred heads a day—the people who interfere with his frontier trade being the recipients of this delicate attention. s

THERE will be forty-two States in the Union and forty-two stass on the American flag after the two Dakotas, Montana and Washington shall have been admitted to -the glorious sisterhood of States. ¢

IN Brockton, Mass., lives a peculiar married pair. They separated twenty years ago, but have never been divorcéd. Every Sunday, however, the man calls on his wife and passes the evening with her.

"AFTER having been married four times and . having lived ninety-one Yyears, a Steubenville (O.) woman has come to the conclusion that marriage is a failure, and wants a divorce from her present husband.

KARAGEORGVITCH, pretender to the Servian throne, has come into a fortune. "But, says an exchange, to be frapk, we don’t care what he came into, so long as he didn’t come into our office to be introduced around.

RICHARD GATLING, inventor of the Gatling gun, has devised a police gun for use in riots, which will fire twelve hundred shots a minute. High explosives, he thinks, will be the destructive force employed in future warfare. - i

RAILWAY werkmen near a New York suburb on the Harlem road, not having hot water to warm into an explosive condition five dynamite cartridges, placed them near a fire beside the track. A train passed, and off went the dynamite. One window in three cars was not broken. The entire train seemed to ‘rise. The explosion made a hele nearly two feet deep, partly in rock. ' |

THERE are ndw 101 geographical societies in the world. Of these, France and her colonies have more than any other country—29, with 19,800 members; next comes Germany with 22 socleties and 9,200 members; followed by Great Britain and her colonies with 9 societies and 5,600 members. There are altogether 130 geographical serials published in the various countries in the world. 4 .

A CURIOUS case 1s reported from a Berlin hospital. The patient is a boy of about twelve years of age, who was suffering from a slight inflammation of the windpipe. On being examined it was found that his heart was not in the left,/l_)yt in the right side of his chest—a fact of which his parents had been in entire ignorance. The peculfarity does not,” however, interfere with the boy’s ordinary well-being.

THERE has long been a popular belief that the greatest number of deaths occur between four and si:ﬁ:clock{in the morning. Dr. Charlef Fere has taken the trouble to tabulate the death hours of all patients dying in two Parisian hospitals during the last ten years. He found that there.- were rather fewer deaths between ‘seven and eleven o’clock in the evening than at any other time, but that there was no special preponderance ai any hour.

ACCORDING to an English statistician the total annual expenditure of Europe for its military establishments is equivalent to $1,750,000,000. That amount, if properly applied, would comfortably clothe every man, woman and child on the continent, place in every home the means of comfort and send every boy and girl to school for eight months of the year. Yet the generations of today boast of their civilization, pity the barbarian ages of the past, and make computations how near the milfenium is.

- TaE Director of the Mint a few days ago submitted to Congress his report on the production of gold and silver in the United States during the calendar year 1888. The gold product was 1,644,927 ounces of the value of $33,175,000. This is about the same as in 1888, being an excess of only $175,000. The #ilver product was 45,783,632 fine ounces of the commercial value of about .$43,000,000, and of the coining value of $59,195,000. This is an increase of 4,515,827 fine ouncesover the product in 1887. o

Furry half a million Chinese are on the brink of starvation, and unless aid is soon sent to them they will die by the thousands. The Chinese Government is doing all in its power to relieve the suffering, but the famine is of such magnitude that an appeal to the whole civilized world has been made.: It is the first time that the Chinese officials have asked foreigners for assistance in their troubles, which must indicate how desperate is their misfortune: Funds are being raised in London and New York to tide the sufferers over untii next crop season. : ;

It is undoubtedly a fact that not a nation upon the globe is ‘showing . greater enterprise and progress than Japan. With her new constitution, modeled after the English, with her /*House of Peers” and ‘‘Chamber of Deputies.” with suffrage guaranteed’ . to all Japanese men who are tax-pay-ers and over twenty-five years of age, with courts of justice, and rights of property inviolable, and with the spirit of improvement and reform everywhere, it would seem as if this ancient peow;' have started on the road to in- _ -eremsed national prosperity.

Epitome of the W eekij INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, S| — R . FIFTIETH CONGRESS. _ Second Session.. ; ¥ TuespAy, Feb. 26.-—A bill for the relief of William R. Wheaton and Charles H. Chamberlain, of California, vetoed by the President, was passed over the veto in the Senate. The Army Appropriation bill was passed; also a bill granting the widow of General Kilpatrick a pension of $75 a month. An amendment was added to the Deficiency bill enabling the President to offer a reward for the detection and conviction of the persons who unlawfully carried away and destroyed the poll-books and bal-lot-box of Plummerville, Ark., on the day of the last election in that State. Inthe House the Senate amendments to the bill for the opening and settlement of a portion of the Sioux reservation in Dakota were con‘curred in. A bill was introduced providing for the admission of the Territories of Arizona, Idaho and Wyoming as States; also a bill providing for the admission of New Mex- { ico. The conference report on the Pension Appropriation bil was agreed to and the Deficiency bill was passed. The evening i session was devoted principally to speeches on the Indian policy of the Government. | WEDNESDAY, Feb. 27.—The Senate passed nearly the entire day in discussing the conference report on the bill amending the Inter-State Commerce act. The conference reports on the Agricultural Appropriation bill and the Sioux City (la.) Bridge bill were agreed to. Two bills for the formation and admission of the States of Idaho and Wyoming were favorably reported. In the House the Naturalization bill was reported with a ‘ new section which requires that hereafter all persons naturalized shall be registered in the State Department at Washington. | The Indian Appropriation bill was passed. ‘ A bill was introduced prohibiting any common carrier from engaging in the mining or manufacturing business, and any mining or manufacturing concern from engaging in business as coommon carriers. TaURSDAY, Feb. 28 —The Senate cleared up a lot of pending legislation by the passage of a long list of bills, 'among them being the DYost-office Appropriation bill, Conference reports on the Army and Fortifications appropriation bills were agreed to, and a conference was ordered on the Naval Appropriation bill. In the House bills were passed for the protection of Alaska salmon fisheries and for a public building at Kalamazoo, Mich.; and conference reports on the Sioux Cfty (Iowa) Bridge bill and the bills for the relief of Mexican war veterans and to divide the Sioux reservation in Dakota were agreed to. b ~ Fripay, March I.—The conférence report ~on the bill to divide a portion of the Sioux reservation in Dakota into separate reservations was agreed to in the Senate; also the conference report on the bill for relie of certain volunteér and regular soldiers of the late war and the war with Mexico. All the pension bills on the calendar —fifty-two —were passed. In the House the joint resolution was passed to promote commercjal union with Canada. A bill was passed for the sale of a portion of the Fort Dodge reservation to the State of Kansas for the purpose of a State Soldiers’ Home. The conferengce report on the bill providing that public lands adapted to agricultural purposes shall hereafter be disposed of only under the provisions of the Homestead law was agreed to. At 'the evening session thir-ty-five pension bills were passed.

FROM WASHINGTON.

GENBRAL HARRISON and party arrived in Washington at 2:35 p. m. on the 26th. The travelers took carriages from the train and were immediately driven to the Arlington Hotel. | ‘

For the first seven months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, the collection of internal revenue aggregated #574,262 596, an increase of $2,661,264 as compared with the collections for the corresponding period of last year. | &

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 26th appointed Brigadier-General Orlando B, Wilcox . (retired) Governor of the Soldiers’ Home at Washington, D. C., vice General ‘Hunt, deceased. ON the evening of the 27th a dinner was given at the White House by President and Mrs. Cleveland in - honor of General and Mrs. Harrison. I

VicE-PRESIDENT-ELECT MorTON and his wife left New York for Washington at ten o’clock on the morning of the 27th. THE bills pensioning Mrs. Sheridan and retiring General Rosecrans were signed by the President on the 27th.

ON the 28th ult. a parcel-post convention was concluded between the United States and Hawaii. ! .

Ho~N. HANNIBAL HAMLIN was on' the floor of the Senate on the 2®h ult. He is the only living ex-Vice-President. c%;LONEL E. C. McOLURE, of South Carolina, Appointment Clerk of the Post-office Department, died jsuddenly of heart disease on the 28th ult. |

THERE were 243 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the Ist against 302 the ‘previous seven days. The total failures in the United States from. January 1 to date was 2,727, against 2,317 in 1888, : : : - THE public debt statement issued on the Ist showed the total debt to be $1,679,974,907; cash in Treasury, $48,096,158; debt less cash in the Treasury, $1,128289 318. Increase during February, $6,433,345. Decrease since June 30, 1888, $37,295,338,

THE EAST.

THE funeral of the ten unfortunate victims of the recent powder-factory explosion at Plymouth, Pa., occurred on the 27th. The entire town was draped with emblems of grief. |

ON the 27th eleven produce dealers, convicted of selling oleomargarine for butter, were fined heavily at Pittsburgh, Pa. _ NATURAL gas explosions in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 27th wrecked five buildings and injured a number of persons, one fatally. ; IN Boston on the 27th George A. Hull & Co., dealers in hides and leather, failed for $137,000. ‘ :

Epwarp COLBURN, a commercial traveler, shot and killed his wife in Boston on the 28th ult. and then took his own life. No cause wasg known for the deed.

A. B. CLEVELAND, head of a New York firm of seed dealers, was missing on the 28th ult., and so was $lOO,OOO belonging to the company, U o 7

‘ON the 28th ult. Asbury Riggs and his wife were found ! dead in bed at their residence near Auburn, N. Y. They had committed suicide, and left a letter saying that since the loss of their only child, a son of eighteen years, life was unendurable, ON the 28th ult. the house of Herman Umberger, an aged farmer living near Jennerstown, Pa., was entered by -buﬁlars who robbed him of $13,000 and then' shot him dead.

~ TEe house of Nicholas Donahue; at Tusten, N. Y., took fire on the Ist during his absence, and his wife and two-year-old child perished in t‘he flames. S:l TaE firm of Heiiry A. Gould & Co., dealers in rubber, dye-stufts, camphor, etc., at'Boston, failed on the Ist for $1,000,000. RoBERT BI6EL, pension agent, son of Generzl Franz Sigel, was arrested in New York on the Ist for forgery and fraud, and commitped to jail in default of $20,000.

WEST AND SOUTH. : TuE Union Labor party of Michigan met in convention at Lansing on the 27th and nominated Lawrence McHugh, of Arenac County, for Supreme Court Justicé. The nomination of Regents was left to the State Central Committee. : y ‘THE death of John W, Johngton, a United Btates Senator from 1870 to 1883,0ccurred on the 27th at his home in Richmond, Va., at the age of seventy-eight years. ; A Flre nearly destroyed the village of BbT;rlng Prairie, Minn., on th:t« 27&“ i six~day walking match n Franoisco closed on the 27th, Frank Hart (colored) being the winner, with 526 miles to-his Sl B.G Koos xim mian its o f‘g"tgﬁmﬂﬁmsw RO D e R e e B

Ox the 27th Mrs. A. 8. x%y&w apolis, locked her six-year-old daugliter in the house while she went ouf Wg The child set the building on fife ald was fatally burned. 4 ) “BEN HUR,” General Wallace's c¥lebrated novel, wagplaced on the stage at Crawfordsville, Ind., on the evening of<the 28th ult. Miss Lavra McDoNALD, daughter of Alexander McDonald, the millionaire oil man of Cincinnati, was married to Edmund K. Stallo. Mr. McDonald gave his daughter $300,000 for a wedding present. RoBERT WATKINS, arrested for election frauds in Conway County, Ark., was discharged on the 28th ult. No clew had been obtained to the assassins of John M. Clayton.

FLAMES swept over the business portion of the village of Lostant, 111., on the 28th ult.

IN a fire at Milwaukee on the 28th ult one fireman was killed and ten badly injured; property loss, $150,000. L ALBIN HEAVY lost both arms and ohe eye and Edward Rudder had both of his eyes blown out by a premature explosion on the 28th ult. in the Norway mine near Marquette, Mich. * ; THE Governor of West Virginia on the 28th ult. issued certificates of election to J. D. Alderson (Dem.) from the Third Congressional district, and to J. M. Jackson (Dem.) from the Fourth Congressional district.

THE Democrats in State convention on the 28th ult. at Grand Rapids, Mich., renominated T. R. Sherwood, of Kalamazoo, for Justice of the Supreme Court, and W. J. Daily and John 8. Lawrence for Regents of the State University. j . THE failure of George Morley, a wholesale lumber dealer of Detroit, Mich., occurred on the Ist for $lOO,OOO. : THE Arizona Legislature passed a bill on the Ist making train robbery a capital crime, HoG-pAckING in Cincinnati as compared with last season fell off during the past winter 9,506 head. Fire destroyed Gibson, Parish & Co.’s furniture trimming establishment in Chicago on the Ist. Loss, $150,000. Three firemen were injured, one fatally. . ,

ON the Ist two veterans of the'National Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, 0., were asphyxiated at the Union Hotel. They became intoxicated and before going to bed blew out the gas.

Mzs. JosEpH LEDBETTER and her two little sons were drowned near Republic, Mo., on the Ist while attempting to cross a swollen gtream. - .

ON the Ist Bert White, the seventeen-year-old boy who shot and killed Willie Ellsworth at Lafayette, Ind., last August, wae sentenced to imprisonment for life. AT the session in Baltimore on the Ist of the National League of Republican clubs John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, was elected president, E. B. Humphreys, of New York, was re-elected secretary, and P. C. Lounsberry, of Connectict, treasurer. y THE doors of the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank at Carleton, Neb., were closed on the Ist on account of inability to collect what was due. The assets and liabilities were each about $25,000. :

Ernst Hupson and his family, consisting of his wife and seven children, were drowned on the Ist while fording a creek near New Earl, Tenn,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Ox the 26th Baron Hirsch, of Vienna, donated 120,000 francs yearly to Austria and a similar sum to Hungary to be devoted to the relief of tradesmen who may thereby be saved from financial ruin. - AT the session of the Parmell commission in London on the 26th a sensation was created by the announcement that Pigott, the principal witness of the Times, had made a written confession that' he forged the Parnell letters and committed perjury in giving his testimony before the commission. It was also stated that he had escaped from London.

The Emperor of China was married on the 26th with great pomp at Pekin. v

GERMAN missionaries at Zanzibar held captive by the Arabs were liberated on the 27th. ‘ &

ON the 27th the London Times withdrew its pamphlets, ‘Parnellism and Crime’ and *O’Donnell versus Walter,” from circulation, and expressed regrets for having published the forged letters. . ON the evening of the 27th three cars of the St. Louis "express train fell through a bridge one hundred feet in height near St George, Ont., and eight persons were killed and twenty-six wounde¥, some fatally. Apvicss of the 27th from London say that during a gale on the North Sea seventy lives were lost. ~

Ox the 28th ult. Steinitz, the champion chess player, played simultaneously against nineteen persons at Havana, Cuba, and won all the games. : THE execution of Mrs. Collins, a murderess, took place on the 28th at Sidney, N. S. W. RicEARD PllcorT, the forger of the Parnell letters, committed suicide in a hotel in Madrid on the Ist. - THE statement that Sir Julian Pauncefote had been appointed British Minister to the United States was officially confirmed on the Ist. :

LATER.

THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 2d aggrega}iad $1,024,700,569, against $887,890,305 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 15.9. 2

THE steamer Kill von Kull was burned at her dock at Elizabethport, N. J., on the 3d. Loss, $175,000. : TeE Government's small arms stores at Weedon, Eng., were burned on the 2d, causing aloss of $500,000. THE house of Joseph Stewart, six miles from Carlisle, Ky., was found in ashes on the 3d, and the whole family were supposed to have perished. : ; OvER thirteen hundred immigrants arrivedin New York on the 2d from Europe. Mzes. SamuEL LUuTURE, the wife of a farmer living near Columbus, Ind., Wwas burned to death on the 2d, her clothing catching fire from the grate. , A sLIGHT earthquake shock was felt on the night of the 2d at Bloomington, Il Ex-ConarEssMAN HENrY 8. Macoon died on the 3d at Darlington, Wis. He represent~ ed the Third district in Congress from 1872 to 1874. :

A PARTY of workmen were thawing out dynamite in a quarry near LaGrange, Mo., on the 2d, when it exploded, killing one of the men and fatally injuring three others, AbvicEs of the 2d say that Governor Swineford, of Alaska, and United States Marghal Atking had tendered their resignations to the department. IN a quarrel over agirl on the 2d at Indianapolis, Ind., Jack Daglish killed Thomas Downey. P 5

THEODORE GRUBB, who was to be hanged at Vincennes, Ind., April 19, escaped from jail on the 2d by drilling his way through the top of his cage. ‘*JiM,” a young Seminole Indian in the Everglades, near Okeechobee, Fla., became crazy on the 2d, and killed seven persons before he was shot himself,

GENERAL ROSECRANS was on the 2d placed on the retired list of the army, to date from March 1, 1889,

THE 2d was the seventy-ninth anniversary of the birth of the Pope. He received a number of Cardinals in Rome, who tendered their congratulaions. SRS

THE strike of the Knights of Labor limestone quarrymen at Carbon and Hillsville, Pa., wason the 2d assuming a serious aspect. A dozen families had been ejected from houses owned by the company. ~ THIRTEEN shocks of earthquake, some of them very severe, occurred on the 2d at Guayaquil, Ecuador. i _ In the United States Senate on the 2d the Irdian Appropriation and the Deficiency bills were passed. A message was received from the President vetoing the Direct Tax bill; and the bill was passed over the veto by a vote of 45 to 9. Inthe House the conference report on the Sundry Civil bill was non-concurred in. The report on the Naval

SAFE AND SOUND.

President-Elect Ha=riser and Party Are rive at Washington — Scene. Along the Roid from Pittsburgh to the Capital,

WAsHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The train with General Harrison gnd party on board did not proceed to the station, but stopped at Maryland avenue and Ninth street, this city, at 2:35 p. m. Engineer Lowe pulled the throttle valve wide open, and at 2:30 the train drew up on the track alongside the freight-house, Ninth street and Maryland avenue, at which point the Executive Committee of the Inaugural Cog‘xmttee was in waiting with carriages for the travelers, The train wasrun to this point in order to escape the crowd that had gathered at the Sixth street station, and the ruse was successful, albeit several hundred shrewd curiosity-hunters were drawn to this spot by the appearance of the carriages. With as little delay as might be General Harrison and party were seated, and then driven rapidly to the Arlington Hotel, where they at once sought the privacy of their apartments. Others on the train were sent to their several destinationsin the city after good-byes had been said, and the trip of President-clect Harrr, son was at an end. It had been accomplished in twenty-three hours and eighteen minutes, without asingle mishap and with great comfort.

' At the hotel Private Secretary Halford re= ceived all callers and, except in afew instances, no one was permitted to see the President-elect. It was announced that General Haprisgqp would see no persons except afew intimate personal friends until 7:30 o’clock, at which time he would give a reception of an hour and a half to callers. Sergeant Dinsmore, who was for a long time door-keeper of the White House, guards the street entrance to“the Johnson annex, in which the party are guartered, and sends cards to Becretary Halford. A large quantity of mail was at “the hotel awaiting the arrival of the party, and Mr. Halford and his stenographer were devoting whatever time they could get to its examination. Colonel Elliot F. Shepard sent flowers to Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Russel Harrison and Mrs. McKee, and Senators Hiscock and Cullom and Representatives Belden, of New York, and Adams, of Illinois, also sent floral tributes to Mrs. Harrison. | A handsome basket of orchids, pinks and lilies of the valley adorn Mrs. Harrison’s dressing table, the gift of Mrs. Roessle, wife of the proprietor of the hotel

About 4:80 o’clock Major Pruden came over from the White House with a note from President Cleveland to President-elect Harrison. At both the White House and the Arlington it was said that there was no objection to stating the contents of the letber, but Colonel Lamont and- Mr. Halford referred all who inquired in regard to it to the other. It is probable that it was simply a letter of courtesy from President Cleveland, offering to render any assistance in his power that would contribute to the comfort of the incoming President. General Harrison -and Mrs. Harrison will call, by appointment, at the White House to-day. The Senate Inaugural Committee, consisting of Senators/ Hoar, Cullom and Cockrell, called on the President-elect soon after his arrival and talked over matters connected with the inauguration ceremonies.

.About 5 o’clock Mr. J. G. Blaine paid his respects and spent a short time with the General.

After dinner General Harrison and his son-in-law, Mr. McKee, went out for a walk through the northwestern section of the city. In the evening General Harrison and the ladies of his family received a mumber of callers in the parlors of the Johnson annex, Among them were Senators Evarts, Dolph and Spooner; Representatives Steele, of Indiana, and Grout, of Vermont; ex-Post-master-General Tyner, Major-General Scofield and Dr. Baxter, of the army. |

ALONG THRE ROUTE.

~ ArnTOONA, Pa., Feb. 27.—From Pittsburgh to Altoona, the first division on the Pennsylvania road proper, the journey was made without incident, save that thirty minutes of lost time was made up. There was no demonstration of any kind at Pittsburgh, the only persons in the train-sheds being railroad employes and a few belated or early passengers who chanced to be in or about the station.

A change of engines and crews for the middle division was made just before Altoona was reached in order to save time at the sbation. Superintendent McClellan came aboard with Conductor Long, while engine 1,108, with Engineer Jones in charge, was at the front, The train ran slowly through the Altoona yards, not at any time stopping. The train left here at 6:55 a. m. At Bellwood, seven miles from Altoona, a company of men with a large flag stood alongside the track, and at Tyrone, where a branch leads off to the coal mines of the Clearfield region, and at Tyrone forges there were crowds of people and many flags were displayed. < The hotel at Birmingham was decorated with bunting; at all the windows stood a gathering of employes of the works located there. i : o

At 9 o’clock the day had fairly begun in car 120, and General Harrison and immediate family sat down to breakfast, whence they viewed the gatherings of people at Mount Union, Lewiston Junction, Mifflin, Newport, Duncannon and Marysville as they sped along toward Harrishurg, which was reached at 10:30, a great assemblage of people welcoming its arrival The applause which greeted him was so great and long-continued that he had time to say but a few words. - After partial order was restored he waved his hands and soon after expressed his thanks for the hearty reception tendered him. - General Harrison said he had an especial interest in Pennsylvania, because in a little valley near Mercersburg, in this State, his mother was born. With the remark that the people would have to excuse him for his failure to say more, on account of the great confusion, he closed his very brief speech amid a tornado of applause. The train then moved slowly away. : I :

BAL'rmo.aE, Nd., Feb. 27.—The train bearing President-elect Harrison and party to Washington arrived at: Union station promptly at 1:15 p. m. A tremendous crowd was assembled |at the depot and thousands were on the bridges overlooking the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. There was a stoppage of but a few minutes, for the purpose of reversing the train, and the Presidential party started on the last stage of its journey amid storms of cheering. ;

- MORE lOWA EVICTIONS. Over 400 River-Land Settlers to Be Driven Out Next Week. Forr DopGE, la, Feb. 27.—Mr. Weaver, junior member of the firm of Yatch, Connor & Weaver, the Des Moines attorneys for the Litchfield river-land estate, was in the city yesterday completing arrangenrents for the eviction of settlers on his€lient’s lands. Mr, Weaver said that Litchfield had 700 judgments for possession of lands in Webster, Hamilton and Boone counties against 400 persons, and that during the first week of March every one will be served and evictions made. 'The selection of this early date is to keep settlers from putting in crops and having any lien oh property.

' AWFUL DEED OF A FATHER, John Holler Shoots His Wife, Tries to . Burn His Children, and Kills Himself, - ' Droxinson, North Dakota, Feb. 27.—John Holler, a German, lived with his wife and five children on a claim two miles from this town. He and his wife quarreled, and he threatened to take the lives of his whole family. Monday morning his wife left him, going to a neighbor’s for safety. Her husband followed & short time after with a rifle. He drove the others from the house :g&en ~deliberately muggered his -wife, and then killed himself. Before following his wife ho locked his five children fu the

: - A TRAGIC FATE. . Pigott, the Forger of the Famous 'arnell Letters, Blows His Brains Out at Madrid—Arrested Under an Assumed Name, He Takes the First Opportunity to End His Miserable Existence. Maprlp, March 2.—An- Englishman, registered at a hotel in this city as ‘““Ronald Ponsonby,” was placed under arrest Friday and committed suicide before the police could enter his room. He is supposed to have been Richard Pigott, the absconding Irish perjurer and informer. o There is no doubt of the identity of the prisoner. Official confirmation of the fact that the arrested man was Richard Pigott has been received. The seizure was effected by the Spgnish authorities at the request

RATLAR oy SRR s Nly AVL g S WP of 'the English Embassy, which reciveed a telegram of instruction from the Foreign Office. The head of the unfortuate man was horribly disfigured by the shot, and the doctors say that death must have been instantaneous. Suspicion was first attracted to his

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movements by the interpreter of the hotel, who noticed that he appeared restless and uneasy about receiving news from his friends after sending off the telegram. A small amount of silver was found in his pockets. The police have taken possession ;;r: the papers and other articles found upon m. & LoNDON, March 2.—There seems to be no doubt that the ‘‘Ronald Ponsonby” who committed suicide in a hotel in Madrid Friday was Pigott. In assuming an alias he evidently chose a name whose initials would correspond with those on his luggage. No papers were found upon his person, but his description is identical with that of a man who called at the Hotel Deux Mondes in Paris and left fuddenly. - The Standard’s Madrid dispatch says that; when Pigott was arrested he took the matter calmly and asked permission to retire to an ante-room to obtain hiscloak. A moment later the sound of the pistol-shot was heard, and on entering the room the officers found Pigott dead. He had shot himself in the mouth, dying instantly. —— PAUNCEFOTE GETS IT. Sir-Julian Appointed British Minister to Washington to Succeed Sackville West. LoNpoN, March 2.—The statement that Sir Julian Pauncefote has been appointed British Minister to the United States is officially confirmed. » It is reported in official circles that Lord Salisbury has selected Sir Julian Pauncefote as Minister to Washington on account of his knowledge of the fishery question. [Sir Julian is the third son of the late Robert Paunceforte, Esq., of Preston Court, Gloucestershire. He was born at Munich, September 18, 1828, and educated at Paris, Geneva and Marlborough College. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1852, joined the Oxford circuit, and also practiced as a conveyancer. He was Attorney-General of Hong Kong from May, 1865, to 1869; was acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court there for a shert time in 1869 and was reappointed in 1872. Sir Julian prepared ‘‘The Hong Kong Code of Civ.l Procedure” and other important ordinances relating to law reform and the constitution of the courts of that colony. He ree ceived the thanks of the legislative council of Hong Kong and in 1874 was knighted by patent for his public services in the colony. He was Chief-Justice of the Leeward islands in 1873-74, assistant Under Secretary of State for the colonies from July, 1874, .to 1876, when he was appointed assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In 1882 he was appointed permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, succeeding the late Lord Tenterden. Sir Julian Pauncefote 1s a lawyer, not a diplomat.] ;

RECIPROCITY FAVORED.

The House Passes a Resolution for Commercial Union with Canada. WASHINGTON, March 2.—At the morning session of the House the joint resolution was passed to promote commercial union with Canada.

[This joint resolution was introduced by Mr, Hitt, of Illinois, and was reporteéd unanimously from the Committee on Foreign Affairs. It provides that whenever it shall be duly certified to the President that the Government of Canada has declared a desire to establish commercial union with the United States, having a uniform revenue system, like internal taxes to be collected andlike import duties to be imposed on articles brought into either country and from other nations, with no duties upon trade between the United States and Canada, he shall appoint three commissioners to meet those who may be likewise designated to represent the Government of Canada to prepare a plan for the assimilation of the import duties and internal revenue taxes of the two countries and an equitable diviston of receipts in a commere¢ial union, and said commissioners shall report to the President, who shall lay the report before Congress.] ’ i

THE BANKRUPTCY CONVENTION. Its Members Indorse the Lowell Bill and ¥rge Upon Congress Its Passage. St. Louls, March 2.—After the adoption of a series of resolutions by the National Bankruptcy Law convention Friday that body adjourned sine die. The resolutions are in substance as follows: They recommend the establishment of a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States, providing that such law when adopted should embody provisions for the economic aud speedy administration of the assets of bankrupt estates; for fixed charges for all officers; for the prompt and certain punishment of the bankrupt for all criminal ‘acts or fraud; for the speedy discharge of honest debtors, and for the expeditious distribution .of the assets of bankrupttestates by the payment of dividends. They alse recommend that Congress take the Lowell bill as last passed by the Senate as the basis of the desired legislation, and that commercial bodies throughout the country take action in order to bring the matter before Congress at an early date. et

FAILED FOR OVER A MILLION.

Henry A. Gould, a Boston Dealer in Rub- . . ber and Dye-Stuffs, Goes Down.

BosToN, March 2. —Henry A. Gould, dealer in rubber, gutta percha, dye-stuffs, camphor, ete., under the style of Henry A. Gould & Co., 19 Pearl street, has made an assignment. Gould has done an extensive business and has houses in New York and Philadelphia and a purchasing house at Para, Brazil, which is the oldest American establishment in that city. The liabilities will probably -exceed $1,000,000, of which a large amount is said to be secured. ) ; R — : WATERY GRAVES. A Family of Nine Persons Lose Their Lives in a Tennessee Swamp. | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 2.—AYednesday the family of Ben Hynes, nine in all, were. drowned in a swamp in De_catur County, near the Tennesse river, & colored man who was with them alone escaping. The family were moving in a wagon, and after dark became lost in the swamp. They came t 0 a stream which the colored driver refused to cross. Mr. Hynes thereupon took the lines and forced the team to go ahead. In a moment they were in water ten feet deep, and father, mother and seven children were lost. Citizens have been searching for the bodies and have found three.’ | ‘MARY WASHINGTON'S GRAVE. ! The Land in Which It Is Located to'Be © Sold at Public Auction, e . PREDERICKSBURG, Va., !March 2.—Within she precinots of this city isthe grave of the ‘mother of George Washington. The old farm-house in which she died is also in. country to learn that the grave of Washingfon's mother is likely to be sold st auction. w"*“"&.mmﬁm

THROUGH A BRIDGE.

Frighttul Wreck on a €anadian Railway in Which Eight Lives Were Lost and Thirty Persons Injured. ST. .GEORGE, Ont., Feb. 28.—The Grand Trunk St. Louis express, passing here east~ bound at about 6 o’clock Wednesday evening, went through a bridge just east of the station. A broken tire on one of|{the engine '‘wheels caused the rails to spread, and the | first passenger car, a Pullman :ﬁn and the dining car went through the middle sec-, tion of the bridge. " ! The Pullman car, which contained most of the passengers, was thrown c}lear off the bridge, turned completely over land landed right side up. The dining-car stz*.nds’ on end against a pier. A passenger oar‘remains on the bridge, having stripped the'ties ahead of it over the section that collapsed. Eight persons were killed and about thirty wounded persons have been taken out of the cars. el :

The dining-room car contained about seven persons besides the waiters. Supper had just been announced, and in a few minutes the car would have been filled and all must have perished. - Thke following is a list of the killed:

George Teggat, of Mitchell; William Wemp, of London; Dr. Swan, of Woodstock; A. W. Francis, of Woodstock; Mr. McLean, of the firm of McLean & Beecher, of Detroit, Mich. ; Mr. Baines, of Hamilton, a member of the Salvation Army; Captain Moore, of Bradford, a member of the Salvation Army; Mr. Peers, of Woodstock. -

The bridge which gave way is 100 feet high. The accident was witnessed by some of the townspeople. An alarm was given immediately, and in a few minutes the streets were the scene of the wildest ex--citement. Heroic women turned out to minister to the wounded and dying. All the doctors were -soon on hand and attended without delay to the sufferers. ; The scene of the wreck is appalling. On one part of the bridge are a number of ties heaped together, some of them splintered to atoms. A partly demolished Pullman car occupies a place on the bridge. The dining-car stands almost perpendicularly upon its end. The upper end leans against one of the vast stone piers. The hind wheels of the car became detached from it just before it took its fearful leap, and they now nestle in the iron framework of the bridge. The firstclass coach took a complete somersault in its descent, and, though it landed right side up, is very mearly demeolished. A heap of debris les at the foot of one of the piers, and a strange conglomeration it is of car wheels, stoves and other railroad attachments. Engineer Brown remained at his postand pagsed over in safety, while the fireman jumped and was soo severely injured that he died. \

THE “TIMES' BACKS DOWN. The Great London Journal Makes an Apology for Having Published the Forged Parnell Letters. , 3 Loxpox, Feb. 28.—1 n view of the fact that its witnees Pigott, from whom it obtained the famots letters published in its columns as having been written by Mr. | Parnell and other Irish leaders, has confessed that he forged the documents, the‘} London Times, through its counsel, Attor- | ney-General Webster, at the opening of Wednesday’s session of the Parnell commission, announced the complete withdrawal from the inquiry of the evidence relating to Mr. Parnell and the other letters,’'and expressing regret that it ever published them. | D

The Times publishes, in substance, the following apology: fo e

‘‘Mr. Parnell having in the witness box stated that the letters were forgeries, we accept in every Pespectthe truth of his statement and deem it right to express our regret most fully and sincerely at being induced to publish them. This expression of regret includes the letters falsely attributed to Messrs. Egan, Davitt and O’Kelly. We firmly believed that the letters were genuine, and it must be évident to all reasonable persons that if conspiracy exists the Times was victimized by and mot a party to it. This withdrawal of course refers to the letters obtained from Pigott exclusively.,”. ° ;

The Times adds: ‘‘Errors in judgment may have been committed, and for them the penalty must be paid.” It also says that itnever communicated with -Pigott in the firstinstance. It be ieved the letters genuine until Pigott's cross-examination, ! The Daily News says:

*‘The Times tried to destroy Mr. Parnell, but Mr. Parnell has destroyed the Times. Never again shall any man who respects himself read the base accusation without guile or a feeling of languid disgust. The Times is no representative of the English press and we do not hesitate to say that there is not another English newspaper capable of engaging in the abominable traffic which has led the Times to such abyssmal depths.” :

The German and Austrian mewspapers teem with 'articles on the collapse of the Times case, and Pigott’s perfidy is the sole topic of conversation everywbere. In the event of the commission making an interim report on the letters, the opposition leaders will immediately bring the matter before the House of Commons. :

Pigott's arrest in Paris is regarded as imminent, but it is doubtful whether the French Government will regard perjury as an extraditable offense. In the House of Commons Rt.-Hon. Henry Matthews, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, stated that the authorities were taking steps to secure the extradition of Pigott from Paris. Mr. Matthews also said he had no information regarding Houston at present that would justify .him in preventing Houston fromjleaving the country. It was asserted in the lobby of the House of Commons yesterday afteérnoon that Sir Richard Webster has offered his resignation of the office of Attorney-General in conseguence of the collapse of the Times charges ‘against Mr. Parnell, but. that the Government has as’yet declined to accept it, believing that to do so would still further commit the Ministry to responsibility for the allegations. e | '/ Mr Parnell was surrounded by friendsin | she lobby of the House of Commons yesterday, all of whom congratulated him upon the collapse of the Times crusade against him. Sir W. B. Barttelot, Conservative member for Horsham, penetrated the circle and cordially shook hands with the Irish leader. The Parnellites have not yet resolved upon a course of action, but it is definitely determined to follow the suggestions of conspiracy put forth by Sir Charles Russell Paris, Feb. 28.—A most exhaustive search for the forger Pigott in this city has failed to reveal his presence. j ! et P Germany Making Preparations to Punish the Sameans. : LonpoN, Feb. 28.—The Standard has advices from its Berlin correspondent which say that the German squadron at Samoa will be increased and the natives punished for killing Germans. The Cologne Gazette says the tverer the ohasﬁsemélnt the better guar. e there will be that peace and order will be secured and the more effect--ive will be the international conference on the subject. ; Pl ; L et ettt i A Woman Assassinated. ‘MaplsoN, Wis., Feb. 28.—Wednesday night at West ‘Superior, Wis., a masked man fatally stabbed Miss Maggie Welter. The as‘sassin . entered her dress-making rooms throughawindow. .. : Te Observe Grant’s Birthday. = : m‘]{oxﬁfeb.p 28 —The committee organized by General Sherman to arrange & ~celebration of General Grant's birthday on ~April 27 have decided upon & banquet ab %weagw ,of Massa. -chuserts; | aral mt L. Woodfo d; o ' T e ﬁ.@”

A BUSY SESSION.

A Resume of ‘the Work of the Fiftieth Congress—Out of 16,657 Bills and 412 Resolutions Introduced, 1,791 Became

Laws—Some of the Measures That Faﬂ,od‘. WASHINGTON, March 4.—Undoubtedly thi most noteworthy act of the Fiftieth Con gress, which closes at noon, has beer the passage of the act admitting four new States; to the Union. The Congress has been many respects: a remarkable one, and in its length (has exceeded that. of ar;gv previous Congress. Although the measure: which caused the prolongation of the first. session beyond all precedent resulted -in nothing save a mighty torrent of debate, the Con~ gress has nevertheless achieved a considerable! amount of work. More bills have been introduced and more enacted into laws than during any other Congress. In the matter of vetoes the heretofore unsurpassed record of the: Forty-ninth Congress has been beaten, President Cleveland disapproving more bills during: the last two years of his Administration than during the first two. Ho has vetoed directly 278 mills, 157 more than all his, predecessors combined, from Washington down, while fourteen measures have peen subjected to what is called the pocket-veto. = : ' Beginning on the first Monday in December, 1887, the Fiftieth Congress continued practically uninterruptedly in session unts October 20, 1888, when it adjourned to meet for the: second session in December and to continye until March 4, 1889, as required by law. During the two sessions there have been introduced in the House 12,659 bills, or 1,400 more: than in the preceeding Congress, and 268 joint resolutions, or 5 more than the Forty-ninth: Congress. . Committee reports have been made to the number of 4,154. In the Senate 8,998 bills - and 144 joint = resolutions. have ‘'been introduced, - against 8,357 bills and 118 resolutions during the preceding Congress, which broke all previous records in thisrespect. There were 2,706 written reports made, or over 700 in excess of the preceding Congress. Of all these bills and joint resolutions 1,791 became laws, of which number 1,180 originated in the- House and 601 in the Senate. The President also sent veto messages in the case of 99 House and 47 Senate bills, or 14 more vetoes than were made during the previous Congress. The principal House bill vetoed was that for the benefit of the Des Moines river settlers.

Some of the more important House bills. which have become laws are as follows: For a conference of South and Central American nations in Washington in May next; to divide: the great Sioux reservation in Dakota; the Scott Chinese Exclusion act; creating a. Department eof Agriculture, the head of the department to be a Cabinet officer; to establish a Department of Labor; to.create boards of arbitration or commiissions for settling conwroversies or differences ' between inter-Btate common carriers and their employes: for the erection, extension or repair of public buildings or marine hospitals at Evansville, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Wichita, Kan.; Portsmouth, 0.3 Duluth, Minn.; Bay City, Mich.; Jackson, Mich. | ~Bills originating in the Senate became laws ‘to the number of 601, of which 409 were of'a private character. Forty-seven Senate bills. were vetoed, the most important being those for the erection of public buildings at Youngstown, 0., and Sioux City, la., and the DireoctTax bill.

Among the principal Senate bills which become laws were the Omnibus Territorial Admission bill; to fix the passport fee at $1; to incorporte the Nicaragua Canal Company; to provide aid to State homes for the support of disabled soldiers; to perfect the quarantine service; to prohibit the coming of Thinese laborers into the United States; for the appraiser’s warehouse at Chicago; to allow any honorably discharged soldier or sailor who has abandoned or relinquished his homestead entry to make another entry; to change the time of meeting of the Electoral College; to enable the President: to protect the interests of the United States at Panama. (a similar measure with reference to Samoa was included in the Naval Appropriation bill) ; to protect the Alaska fur-seal and salmon fishieries; directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate the practicability of constructing water-storage reservoirs in arid regions; appropriating §200,000 to suppress infection in the inter-State commerce of the United States in aid of sufferers from yellow fever, and the erection of new public buildings or ithe enlargement or change of the existing bih'rldmgs at Milwaukee, Omaha, Sacramento, Sin Francisca, and Winona, Minn. Congress also passed bills to pensibn Mrs. Sheridan, Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Frank E. Blair, and to retire General Rosecrans.,

There has been included in this statément of bills which- have become laws 'those in the President’s hands awaiting signature. : . ‘Three hiindred and thirty-three bills which passed the House failed in the Senate in conference. By far the most notable of:these is the Mills Tariff bill.© Another very important House bill which failed is the Oklah¢ma bill, many of the provisions of which are, however, incorporated in the Indian Apprepriation bill. Other important House measures which failed are as follows: The General Land bill and the General Foyfeiture bill; to prévent the product of convict labor from being used in any Government department or upén public works; prohibiting the allowance of: any fee in 'any claim for increase of pension on ac‘count of on inerease of the disability for which the pension was allowed; to relax the rigors of the Internal-Revenue law; :authorizing the five civilized tribes to lease their lands subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; authorizing the issue of fractional silver certificates; to forfeit the: Hastings & Dakota Railway Company’s grant in Minnesota; to prevent the employment of alian labor upon public buildings or éther public works and in the various deparvments of the Government; to forfeit tie Northern Pacific land grant; the Fisheries Retaliation bill.

Six hundred and eiﬁhty-rour bills, after passing the Senate, failed to reach the President. The most important are: Declaring the sense of the United States with respect to foreign control of the Panama canal; the Blair Educational bill; the Dependent-Pension bill; the swamp-land bills; to forfeit the Ontonagon & Marquette land grant; to regulate the importation of foreign merchandise and to secure uniformity in the classification and valuation thereof; to increase the pension for total disability; to make telegraph companies su%)ject to regulation by the Inter-State Commerce Commission; to retire General John C. Fremont; to reduce the rate of postage on s¢eds and bulbs; to improve and encourage the cultivation and manufacture of hemp and flax; for the relief of persons who paid $2.50 for lands subsequently reduced in price to $1.25; to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases from one State into anothe:; to ratify the Southern Ute Indian agreement. : -

The following are other important measures which also came to naught: The Pacific Railroad Funding bill; for the admission of Utah, Idaho, New Mexice and Wyoming Terri.tories; to declare .trusts unlawful: to promote commerecial union with. Canada, and to authorize the President to open negotiations with a view to the annexation of the Dominion; to grant women suffrage; to repeal the Civil-Service law the internal-rev-enue laws- and the tobacco tax; to lay a graduated income tax; for the Dbounty on sugar; for the free coinage of siver; to repeal the Oleomargarine act; the Compound Lard- bill; the Hennepin Canal bill; to regeal the arrears of peusion limitation; for the adjudication of French spoliation claims, and various measures pro posing radical departures in our pension, tarifi and financial systems. Two important treaties, which were reject ed, were the Canadian ﬁsheiles and the British extradition conventions. :

DAKOTA'S WHEAT SUPPLY.

It Is Reported That There Is Not Enougk to Seed and Bread the New States. . ABERDEEN, D. T., March 4.—According tc the report of the statistician there is not enough wheat in either of the Dakotas for seed and bread. There is now but 8,000,000 bushels all " told, which leaves a shortage of 38,000,000 bushels of the amount necessary to tide over the farmers until the next crop. While South Dakota has from 50 to 60 per cent. of the 1888 crop on hand, the northern counties have but from 8 to 10 per cent. of the crop. - The shortage in the southern counties is due tg drought, and in the northern counties it is .attributable to-early frost. Many Bogus Silver Dollars Afloat at Cincinnati—An Excellent Imitation. * CINCINNATI, March 4 —The United States Assistant Treasurer here is surprised at the frequency with which counterfeit silver of them. The counterfoits thus presented R v Jo Niv Gl ter e N UEWEE O sd 8 %WPW ST \«*-"j“"‘i it 5' eyiég %*@;};li \wl Moings, la., March 4 —T »’_' ts’ National Bank, ‘this oity, has closed ite Qv’?“"‘%‘"% Nz""ﬂ'ﬁﬁ%’fzw‘”w %%Bﬂ}m%‘;ﬁ.{:a 3{‘l Qrmw\ : ;,' W ;\,‘ : N’v g N R ¢ l' ,