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® L. : The Figonier Sunner. t -f - s . =0 § LIGONIER, : ¢ INDIANA -W DURrING the last year the sum total of educational gifts in this country was nearly §5,000,000. ' " THE heathen, too, are liberal. A'new Buddhist temple to be erected at Kioto will cost $£3,000,000. : . A NEw JERSEY physician has started a paper called the Tongue. The doctors will all want to see it. : e ———————T THE rush into Washington Territory is so great that it has been found necessary to erect temporary houses for immigrants. v : SCOTLAND has a gold fevér, the discovery of a bit of gold in the gizzard of a duck recently killed on a farm in Forfargjﬁre having been followed by the finding of gold-bearing quartz in the same neighborbood. '

Tue Richmond Christian Advocate, commenting upon the great educational advantages of the Southwest, says that they already have twelve universities in Texas, and they are cutting the poles to build the thirteenth.

Franxk M. Perry and Kate Burroughs, of Bridgeport, Conn., have just been married after a courtship of thirty years.. There was a provision in Miss Burroughs’ father’s will disinheriting her in case she married Perry. She has concluded to take the risk. ; -

! **BOSCOBEL,” the late Henry Ward . Beecher’s place at Peekskill, N. Y., . was sold the other day to H. C. Butler - for $75,000. The house cost $70,000, ~ and Mr. Beecher got together in the grounds one of the finest collections of " trees and shrubs, native to the temperate zone, that there are in this country. There are over eight thou- - sand of them. . :

BeLvA LOCKWOOD, it seems, had a purpose in her seeming madness in running as a Presidential candidate, ‘and that was to get talked aboutin the papers enough to make her a winning card on the lecture platform. - The scheme worked, and now Belva is raking in the dollars of an inquisitive public with all the rapidity and surety of a/man with four~aces.§ o . Tet oo e

-~ Rrv. T. DE Wirr TALMAGE has a simple and easy plan for converting the world to Christianity. It is for each Christian to secure one convert and eaclr one of the converted to do the same. He calculates that if this is done every year for a decade the 1,400,000,000 people of the earth could be brought into the Christian fold and that the close of this century will witness the dawn of the millennium.

It will require fifty thousand men to make up the census rolls next year. This will give a chance to many estimable gentlemen who failed to become foreign Ministers or Consuls. = After all, it will be just as interesting and profitable to take the number of cattle

upon our hills and hogs in our numberless valleys as to suffer banishment to some foreign land upon a stipend only sufficient to pay for board and washing. ' ;

. Dowx in Fort Worth, Tex., a newspaper man celebrated his birthday by . writing a leader, an accountof a prize- | fight and an obituary notice, after /‘ which he ‘“set up” two columns of type, cut half a cord of wood, rocked his baby two hours, cleaned his gun and thrashed his brother-in-law. As he was about retiring for the night he was heard to remark that he hever coutd endure the dullness of holidays and Sundays. : e

AT the beginning of this year there were 58,111 post-offices in the United States. Of these 97 were of the first class, 1,497 of the second and 1,988 of the third, making an aggregate of 2,582 Presidential post-offices—so styled because the postmasters are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The salary ranges from $l,OOO 1o §54,000 per annum, except in the following cases: New York, §8,000; “Washington, $5,000; Chicago, $6,000; Baltimore, §5,000; Cincinnati, $6,000; Philadelphia, §6,000; St. Louis, $6,000; San Francisco, $5,000. The remainder, numbering 53,529, are known as fourthciass offices. ;

THE venerable widow of the late Henry Ward Beecher is spending her declining years in a quiet country house at Stamford, Corn. ~ Her hair is snow white, but her complexion is,nearly as fresh as a young girl’s of sixteen. A pretty cap of Honiton lace with blue ribbons adds a charm to her face. She isold-fashioned enough in her manners, but she is even more so in her dress. Her toilette is adorned with a modest display of old-styled jewelry; a pearl brooch and two rings with old-time settings, one an amethyst, the other a diamond. :

THIRTY years ago in Punxsutawney, Pa., John R. Reed and Miss M. E. Thompson were engaged to be married, but for some reason parted. Reed went West, traveled through California, finally settled in Raveh, W. T., and mavried. Miss Thomp- - 'son married a Mr. Brewer. They heard nothing of each other for more than twenty-five years. Both have grown up children. Brewer died last year, and Mrs. Reed also. Accidentally Reed and Mrs. Brewer learned these facts, opened correspondence, “and they were married recently. N ———— - TaEe Chinese Minister at Washington expends more money in telegrams and cable dispatches than the Government of the United States. In communicat- . ing with the Chinese Government he makes use of a cipher, but as his dis- ~ patches cost four dollarsa word bis bills are enormous. His expenditures in telegraphing reach an average of $l,OOO ~ aweek. Recently he Gzﬁt 32;9“%(; in sending dispatchos to China regarding. thie Milwaukeo riots. - His cablo mes. . sages to China go to Havre, from there dets, thes aososs the Arak an Sea, | e BT 1 - S T R s

Epit the W pitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. U. S. SENATE IN SPECIAL SESSION. TUESDAY, March 26.—Among a long list of nominations sent to the Senate the following are the most important: Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming, to be Governor of Wyoming Territory; Benjamin F. White, of Dillon, M. T., to be Governor of Montana. A large number of previous appointments were confirmed. o : WEDNESDAY, March 27.—President Harrison sent the following nominations to the Senate: Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, to be Minister to England; Murat fa]stead, of Ohio, Minister to Germany; Allen Thorndyke, of New York, Minister' to Russia; Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, Minister to Chili; Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, Minister to Mexico; John Hicks, of Wisconsin, Minister to Peru; and George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, Minister to Portugal. Many previous appointments were confirmed.

* THURSDAY. March 28.—1 n the Senate the Vice-President announced the appointment- of Senators Cullom and Gibson as Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, to fill vacancies. Several nominations of minor importance were received from the President. © Murat Halstead’s nomination for Minister to Germany was rejected by a vote of 27 nays to 16 yeas. A motion to reconsidexr was carried. y ;

FripAy, March 29.—The following nominations were sent to the Senate by President Harrison: Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Minister to Brazil; Lansing B. Misener, of California, Minister to the Central American States; William L. Scruggs, of Georgia, Minister to V:nezuela; William O. Bradley, of Kentucky, Minister to Corea; George L. Shoup, of Idaho, to be Governor of Idaho; George Chandler, of Kansas, to be First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. The nomination of Murat Halstead as MinIster to Berlin was discussed, but no action was taken. S

FROM WASHINGTON.

THE death of ex-Congressman Peter P. Mahoney, of Brooklyn, occurred in Washington on the 27th, at the age of forty-one years. He was elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat. AN order was issued on the 27th by the Postmaster-General placing the railway mail service under the supervision of First Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson. It was stated on the 28th that most of the raillway mail employes who were removed by the Democratic adminigtration would be returned to their old places at once.

ON the 28th Henry W. Raymond, editor of the Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph, was appointed private secretary to Secretary of the Navy Tracy.

THERE were 240 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 29th ult., against 249 the previous seven days. THE President on the 29th ult. appointed J. Otts Humphrey of Illinois, Alfred M. Wilson eof Arkansas and ex-Governor George D. Robinson of Massachusetts a commigsion to treat with the Cherokee and other Indians with relation to the epening of the Oklahoma country. :

THE EAST.

THE death of Theodore Steinway, of the firm of Steinway & Sons, piano manufacturers of New York, occurred on the 26th at Brunswick, Germany. E. CummiNgs & Co., of Boston, leather dealers, failed on the 26th for $300,000. Flre destroyed a large shoe-factory in Brooklyn, ‘N. Y., on the 26th causing a loss of $lOO,OOO. Many of the one hundred employes -were obliged to jump from high windows, and twenty-three were badly injured. : - Five business buildings and a church were destroyed by fire at West Haven, Conn., on the 27th. ‘ - Flre destroyed the foundry and machine shops of Mclntosh & Hemphill, at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 27th. TLoss, $lOO,OOO. ON the 27th Nicholas Mead, a waiter in the Revere House at Boston, shot Mrs. Samuel Tuck and her boy and then killed himself. - FLAMES on the 27th at Scranton, Pa., destroyed the dry-goods stock of Clelland, Bimpson & Taylor, valued at $200,000. QN the 27th Mrs. Thuring, of Allegheny City, Pa., was charged with having hired a man for twenty dollars to murder her husband. The man informed the police instead of murdering Thuring. THE ten thousand striking weavers at Fall River, Mass., returned to work at the old wages on the 27th. ; ON the 28th Thomas Keegan, an Irish rebel of '9B, was buried in 6 Juniata township, Pa. He was one hundred and eight years old, and:came to Americaseventy-five years ago. ; NinNe deaths had cecurred on the 28th at East Pembroke, N. Y., in the families of ‘Rev. Samuel Calkins, his son DBradley and Deacon Smith, caused by poisonous gases arising from a mass of decaying vegetable matter in the cellar of the Calkins house. Mme. Howe. of Woman’s Bank fame in Boston, who wa's arrested three months ago on complaint of some of her victims, was discharged on the 28th.

At Bloomingburgh, N. Y., a fire destroyed the barn and outbuildings on the farm of N., C. Horton with contents, including four horses and fifty-two head of cattle. MercHANTS of New York organized the Spanish-American Commercial Union on the 29th ult., the object being to promote trade between the United States and South America. :

: WEST AND SOUTH. IN Chicago on the 26th Charles J. Beattie, a lawyer, was fined $5OO and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment by Judge Jamieson for contempt of court in giving a client afraudulent decree of divorce. THE death of J. R. Neal, member of Congress from the Third Tennessee district in the Fiftieth Congress, occurred on the 26th at Rhea Springs, after an illness of two months, ; MAck FraNcis and James Turner (colored) were hanged on the 27th at Lebanon, Tenn., for the murder of Lew Martin (colored). They confessed their guilt on the scaffold. | It was discovered on the 27th that the boundary line between California and Lower California, as fixed by the treaty of Guadaloupe, should be sixty miles south of the line now recognized, and that therefore Ensenada and the alleged gold fields are within United States territory. ON the 27th it was decided to consolidate the Chattanooga and the Grant Memorial universities of Athens, Tenn., under the name of the Grant Memorial University. THE firm of Sperry & Co., of San Francisco, donated fifty tons of flour to the sufferers in China from famine, and it formed part of the cargo of the City of Pekin which sailed from the Golden Gate on the 27th.

Mzs. Wizriam DrRAXE was instantly killed By a switch engine and her husband fatally injured at a railroad crossing at La Crosse, )Vl&, on the 27th. ; In Stearns County, Minn., prairie fires were raging on the 2ith. The high wind had carried the flames into the woods, and much damage was being done, DisliNcr shocks of darthquake were felt on the 28th at Buckeystown and Jefferson and glong the Monocacy river in the vicinity of Frederick County, Md. THoMSON & SWiGer’s livery stables in Jacksonville, 111., were burned to the ground on the 28th, and fifty head of horses and mules perished in the flames. THE death of Susan Young, a native of Denmark, and for twenty-eight years an inmate of the county poor farm at Rockford, 11, occurred on the 28th, at the age of ome hundred and five years. - SEvVERAL counterfeit silver dollars and the dies used for making them were discovered ‘burfed m%mcc, Ind.,on the 28th. The ‘counterfeits had been circhlated extensive- . OXthe 28} four Americans left, EI Paso, Aex, Tent b 0 Juneen e RERIS Ak m disorderly, and, resisting arr *M 10 the American sid ﬁgﬂfﬁ

THREE accused cattle thieves, Gannow, Babcock and Remus were taken from their homes at Ainsworth, Neb., by masked men on the 28th across the line into the reservation and delivered them to a band «of Indians, who killed them all : TweENTY-TWO persons indicted for elec-tion-law violations were discharged on the 27th at Indianapolis, Ind., for want of proof against them. THE steamer City of New Baltimore arrived in Detroit on the 28th from St. Clair, being the first boat of the season. The ea rliest passage ever made through the straits previous to this was March 14, 1878, : » At Kansas City thirty-seven acres of land were secured on the 28th at a cost of $1,750,000, upon which it was proposed to erect a magnificent union depot, to be utilized by five roads. . " EIGHTEEN business houses and one dwelling at Ashton, 111., were burned to the ground on the 28th. -

~ AN unknown well-dressed man entered the office of President Moffatt, of the First National Bank of Denver, Col., on the morning of the 20th ult., and pulling a revolver from his pocket told Mr. Moffatt that he must have $21,000 or he would kill him and then blow up the institution with a bottle of nitro-glycerine, which he pulled from his pocket. Thus menaced Mr. Moffatt filled out a check and had it cashed, and the unknown, taking the money, backed out to the front door, raised his hat to his victim and disappeared. Ix the Huron (D. T.) district prairie fires were raging on the 29th ult., and many farmers had lost every thing. The wind was blowing forty miles an hour. ON the 29th ult. F. F. Baker, a capitalist, was arrested at Spokane Fallsy, W. T., on the charge of having seven living wives. E. W. BLaoTCcHFORD’s warehouse, in Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the 29th ult., causing a loss of $300,000. THE death of Prof. O. H. Mitchell, of Marietta, 0., a distinguished mathematician and astronomer, occurred on the 29th ult. of pneumonia. ;

At Danville, Va., Jed Pritchett (colored) was hanged on the 20th ult. for an assault upon a little ‘white girl. The prisoner fought like a tiger and refused to stand on the trap. The trap was finally sprung and Pritchett was pushed off the scaffold to his doom. The services of four deputies were required to execute him.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TON the 26th King Charles’ nephew, Prince Ferdinand, was proclaimed Crown Prince of Roumania. . OFF Manilla on the 26th the Spanish mail steamer Mindanic was sunk by a collision with another steamer, and thirty of her crew and passengers were drowned. ON the 27th the United States Consul at Colon reported that work along the Panama canal had entirely ceased. It was said on the 27th that the population of the province of Quebec, exclusive of Montreal, had decreased 239,340 in five years. THE death of John Bright, the emineant English statesman, occurred in London on the morning of the 27th, at the age of seventy-eight years. In August, 1857, Mr. Bright was elected to Parliament from Birmingham, which borough he had since continued fo represent. He was especially ‘distinguished as a speaker of remarkable eloquence and power. He was during the civil war in this country a warm and avowed friend of the Union cause. :

THE Marquis of Salishury, speaking in the House of Lords on the 28th of the late John Bright, said: ‘‘He had special qualities for which he will be admired and noted in history. He was the greatest master of English oratory in the present generation, He possessed a singular rectitude of character. He was inspired by pure patriotism from the beginning of his career to its close.”

~ ZAaNzIiBAR advices of the 28th say thata party landed from the German man-of-war Schwalbe and burned Xondutchi after a conflict with thenatives. Opposition to the Germans was everywhere decreasing. THE discovery of the illicit mmanufacture of bombs at Zurich on the 28th furnished a clew to a gigantic plot existing throughout Russia for ‘'a new series of attempts upon the life of the Czar. Numerous arrests had been made. 5

PRESIDENT §DIAZ, of Mexico, said on the 20th ult. thatthe dispatch about the alleged error in the boundary line between the United States and Lower California was a ‘‘canard unworthy of attention.” AT Clongorey, Ireland, thirteen tenants were evicted from their holdings on the 20th ult., and after the tenants had been driven from the houses twelve of the buildings were destroyed by the agent.

Ox the 29th ult. the French Cabinet decided by a unanimous vote of its members to prosecute General Boulanger. Apvices of the 29th.ult. from Samoa say that the American men-of-war Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic, and the German men-of-war Adler, Olga and Eber were drivenon a reef during a violent storm and totally wrecked. Of the American crews four officers and forty-six men were drowned, and of the German crews nine officers and eighty-seven men lost their lives. : LATER. : Apvices of the 30th ult. from Camoa. confirm the report of the loss of th® American ships of war Vandalia, Nipsic and Trenton, and the German naval vessels Eber, Adler and Olga in a recent hurricane. The Vandalia lost four officers and, thirty-nine men, and the Nipsic lost seven men. All on board the Trenton were saved. Ninety-six German officers and sailors were drowned.

AN -acre of business buildings at Long Island City, N. Y., was burned on the 80th ult.

A corrisioN occurred off Dunkirk, Belgium, on the 30th ult. between the steamer Countess of Flanders and the' Belgian mail-boat Henrietta. The captain, firstlieutenant, nine sailors and three passengers of the former vessel were drowned. Prinie Jerome Bonaparte was among the rescued. i : ' _ A TERRIBLE gale swept over Ohio on the 3lst ult.,, and many houses in Cincinnati, Dayton and other towns were unroofed. No person was hurt. : THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 30th ult. aggregated $991,934,807, ° against $1,015,989,076 the previous week. As eompared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 23.8. - -

Masor RENo, of Custer massacre notoriety, died at Washington on the 30th ult. of cancer.

A sMALL frame building in Milwaukee occupied by Margaret Kunslais and her three children, aged seven, four and two years, respectively, was burned on the 3lst ult., and all four of the inmates perished in the flames. A BREAK in the Erie canal on the 30th ult. near Medina, N. Y., did great damage to surrounding farms. s JouN HARRIS, a thirteen-year-old boy, accidentally stepped into the top ofa coke oven near Uniontown, Pa., on the 30th ult. He sank to his arm-pits in the burning coke ‘and was burned to death. ; IN the annual boat race between the Cambridge and Oxford teams in London on the 30th ult. the former defeated the latter by four boat lengths. The course was four ‘miles and. two furlongs. ; THE great Eiffel tower, which will be one of the principal features of ' the Paris Exposition, was opened officially on the 30th ult. It is the tallest structure in the world. Daxnien, BURKE, whose age was given ag one hundred and fourteen years, died in Chicago on the 30th ult. ; - AMoNG the nominations sent to the Senate by President Harrison on the 80th ult. were the following: J. T. Abbott, of New Hampshire, to be Minister to the Republic of Colombia; Edward H. Terrill, of Texas, to be Minister to Belgium. Among the min. isterial nominations confirmed were the following: Robert T. Lincoln, to England; Johm Hicks, to Paru; Goorge B. Loring, to Portugal; Allan Thorndyke Rice, to Russia: mmmmmmwmx Egoan, to vmumd at Halstead, ﬂlﬁiﬁinl | ﬁvww

. 808 LINCOLN HONORED. Psesident Harrison Nominates Him for Minister to En ‘gh.nd-—Murat Halstead | Gets the German Mission—Allen Thorndyke Rice Goes fo Russia, Patrick Egan to Chili, Thomas F. Ryan of Kansas to Mexico, John Hicks of Wisconsin, to Peru, and George B. Loring of Massachusetts, to Portugal. ' WASHINGTON, March 28.—The President sgf. the following nominations to the Senate: e , Robert T. Lincolp, of lilinois, to be Envoy = == N x R esstessse < it SN N i B R 0 s Y GRS S : : % m"' 2 (Tt S B 2 i ROBERT T. LINCOLN. : Extraordinary and| Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain. Murat Halstead, of Ohio, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany. | : \ Allen Thorndyke| Rice, of New York. to be Eunvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United |[States to Russia. . Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States fo CKili. Thomas Ryan, of [Kansas, to be Envoy Extraordinary. and Minigter Plenipotent:ary of the United States to Mpxico. John Hicks, of V ‘isconsinhto be Envoy Ex--7 V= | & e G 7 | Z %i’ "/ | .@/}/ 54 | e \ NS | : & ( 1 l\\ D\M A | 5\ iy ‘”7‘=l'-ﬂ'f. !"\}L T e RS A\ ot \%5'3535& \\\ L X | -‘\x;.:‘;o:‘._:-_" N \ N g&:::i:i;::tg.;é /// WL e = R \\\\\ O N\ N <IN Q) MURAT HALSTEAD. traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru. . George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, to be Minister Resident [and Consul-General of the United States to Portugal. 3 Justice ‘Marion [Erwin, or Georgia, to be United States Attorney for the Southern district of Georgia. || | Tyre Glenn, of North Carolina, to be United States Marshal for the Western district of North Carolina. 1 James O. Churchill, of M ssouri, to be Surveyor of Customs for the vort of St. Louis. Among a long list of postmasters nominated were the following: Quincy, IIL., C. A. Wilcox; Rice Lake¢, Wis.,, O.' E. Wanguild; Cresco, la., W. B. Webster. CONFIRMATIONS. The Senate on YWednesday confirmed the following nominafions: Francis E. Warren, Governor of Wyoming Territory; Benjamin F. White, Governor of Montana; Robert V. Belt, Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Charles C. Waters, United States Attprney for the Eastern dis- = R sy | 3 i 5////%1 é/,/‘/ - 3 1 Il ///// | ix ‘ :\nff////// ; % = 2N "/ﬂ/ el .j’ N /,‘;j : : l - \> /7 J “V\ 7"\\ —2 /] t ) = f i’q (i J/"fs //.s‘:\\% . J — NN, — =\ ANy = e (( @’\ , S N 2 J’,}’ 1 AN A s\ | = = %ﬂ \ \ — “‘ \REZZEE | Q“ o’ iy ' \ \ A ) // == N\ // { / g PATRICK EGAN. trict of Arkansas: ODscar M. Spellman, United States Marshal foar the Eastern district of Arkansas; Walter |P. Corbett, United States Marshal for the Southern district'of Georgiu. The nominationg of Lewis Wolfly to be Governor of Arizona and of John C. New to be Consul-General to-London were reported favorably from committee, but under individual objection they went over until the next executive segsion, when they will be sonfirmed. ; { BIOGRAPHICAE. : Robert Todd Lin¢oln is the only survivor of the family of Abraham Lincoln. He was the sldest son and was born at the old Globe tavern In Springfield, IIL., August 1, 1843. He attend--3d o private school at Springfield aad the Suate University until the year of his father’s election to the Presidency, when he entered Harvard. He graduated in the early summer >t 1864 and the following autumn enfered the law school of the university, but in February, 1865, was appointed/to a Captaincy on General arant’s staff. He served until June of that year, when the war closed. He witnessed the jurrender of Lee at Appomattax snd was the irst man to carry the news in person to hig lather, the President. After compl&ting his sourse at the Harvard law school Mr. Lincoln yame to Chicago. |He was admited to the bar n - February, 1867, and has since practiced his profession. He is a member of the irm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale. In 1868 Mr. Lincoln married issfMary Harlan, daughter of ex-Senator Harlgn, of lowa. In 1880 Mr. Lincoln was a delegate to the Republican State sonvention, and was selected a delegate to the National convention, but his place was filled by Stephen A. Douglas, Jr. Mr. Lincoln had been mentioned for the Presidency, and received a few votes |at that convention. He was chosen a Presidential elector for Illinois in the campaign Ethat followed, and when President Garfield was making up his Cabinet Mr. Lincoln was placed at the head of the War Department. He alone of the Garfield ministry remained in office during the administration of President Arthur. Leaving the Cabinet on the accession of President Cleveland Mr. Lincoln retired from politics, Murat Halstead, nominated for United Btates Minister to (termany, was born in 1829 ' at Ross, Butler County, 0., and spent his minority ou & farm. At 38 he began writing for neéwspapers. In 1831 he finished his schooling at Farmer's College, near Cincinnati, and then decided to; study law, . oft which he soon tired.| He did local newspaper reporting on| several Cincinnati papers, and in 1853 became manager of & department .on the Cincinnati (ommercial. The following _year he acquired a jsma’l interest in the paper, and it began rapidly to increase in circulation and influence, so that in 1866 it was considered one of the most potent newspapers in the West. He reorgamized the system of colecting news, andl by encouraging ‘young writors in small toyns he built up a fine and »ffcient news seryice. In 1870 the paper exgerienced &, check, and for some time M, gﬂm%%ﬁhw ﬁﬂvmwﬂww sant. laces. He pushed his paper forward again [w its old place las o leader of Wests b ding with the. Sansiiey "’%ﬁfﬁﬁ% exEafty in Ohfo. (e [Haematl ComoeretOae: b e *‘Wg&““%h‘%‘%’ﬁ s Vad or L RS e S w«?* 3‘“%«%"%? e A T t"' L

found time to devote himselt more to social affairs and also to travel abroad. He has a fine presence, a genial manner and Immense energy. He has always been a Republican of a very pronounced type. : Parrick Egan, named as Minister to Chil, was born in Ireland some 47 years ago. He became a merchant in Dublin and took an active part in the Irish National movement. He was an ardent home-ruler and was one of Mr. Parnell's active lieutenants. Mr., Egan was made treasurer of the Land League, and during the persecutions of the members of that organization he moved to Paris, where the funds of the league woiild besafe from the British Government. The events which made it impossible for Mr. Egan to continue his residence in Ireland are too well known to need reciting. In 1882 he left Paris and sought a permanent home in the United States. He settled at Lincoln, Neb.,, where he engaged in business, and he still makes his home there. Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, named as Minister to Mexico, is a native of New York, where

he was bora in 1837. He served during the war as a volunteer, was severely wounded, and emerged as a Captain in 1861. Since that time he has held various legal positions in Kansas, and has been a Representative. in Congress for six succesive Congresses, He was re-elected last fall to the next House. His motive for seeking an appointmentin the

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foreign service was chiefly poverty. At tte City of Mexico he will receive a salary of $12,000 a year, and can save as much of it as he wishes by practicing economy. - John Hicks, who will go to Peru as Minister of the Unitea States, is a native American, 42 years of age. He comes from Oshkosh, the home of Senator Sawyer, and is proprietor and editor of the Oshkosh Northwestern. He has several times been elected president of the ‘Wisconsin State Press Association, but has never before held public office. He is said to be a han of ability, well educated, of excellent habits and possessed of moderate means, though by no means rich. His appointment was urged by Senators Sawyer and Spooner. Allen Thorndyke Rice, nominateil to be Minister to Russia, was born in Massachusetts in 1853. He is a graduate of Oxford University, England, and since 1876 has been editor and proprietor of the North American Review. He also holds a controlling interestin a prominent Parisian newspaper, Le Matin, and has.contributed largely to literature, whil2 taking an active part in politics. George Bailey Loring, of Massaghusetts, is best known because of his connection with the Department of Agriculture, of which he was Commissioner from 188 t to 1685. Ile is 72 years of age, and is a Harvard graduate. Mr. Loring has been long in public life, beginning as a surgeon in the marine hospital at Chelsea in 1849, and at other times being postmaster, Centennial Commissidner and Congressman,

A LIFE WELL SPENT.

Death of John Bright, the Great English Statesman, and One of the Most Noted Men of Modern Times—Sketch of His Career. -

LonNpoN, March 28. —Mr. John Bright died at 8:30 o’clock yesterday morning His end was peaceful and painless. He had lain in a comatose condition since Tuesday. All of his family were prescnt at his deathbed.

In the House of Commons Right Hon., William H. Smiith, the Government leader, with much emotion, referred to the death of Mr. John DBright. He said that he would postpone his remarks on Mr. Bright until Friday, when Mr. Gladstone would be present. Mr. Morley thanked Mr. Smith for his consideration in regard to Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Bright represented the cenfral division of Birmingham in the House. E

LoNDoON, March 28.—The funeral of John Bright will take place at Rochdale on Saturday. It will be conducted as privately as possible and the body will be interred in the Quaker burying ground. DuBLiN, March 28.—United Ireland in its obituary notice of John Bright says: ‘‘lreland forgets all her grievances against him at the open grave and remembers only his priceless services of old days. The real John Bright died three years ago.”

John Bright was born near Rochdale, England, November 16, 1811. About 1840 he became a personal andpolitical friend of Richard Cobden, and gained distinctiou as an orator of the Anti-Corn Law League, in advocacy of which he addressed many public meetings. He was elected a member of Parliament for the city of Durham in 1843, and was returned for Manchester in 1847. Cobden and Bright became the principal leaders of the Manchester school, or party, which was not identified with either of the great political parties, but advocated a pacific foreign policy and electoral reform. Mr. Bright was defeated in the election of 1857 because he had opposed the Crimean war, but he was elected the same year. by the Liberal voters of Birmingham, which city he continued to represent for many years. During the great civil war in the United States he expressed his sympathy for the Union’s cause in several eloquent speeches.. After ihe Reform bill of Russell and Gladstone had been rejected by the House of Commons in 1866 Mr: Bright advocated the cause of electoral reform by vehement speeches at immense public meetings in London, Manchester, Birmingham and other places. Referring to these speeches the European Times remarked: “In all of Mr. Bright's previous career he has never put forth such extiaordinary power, such floods of the v ery highest order of eloquence on the great question of the day as during the last four months,” :

In 1867 the friends of reform triumphed, and procured the passage of a bill granting the right® of suffrage to every. householder in a borough. Mr. Bright entered the Cabinet formed by Mr. Gladstone in 1868, as president of the Board of Trade, and resigned the office on account of ill-health in May, 1871, When Gladstone returned to power in 1880 Mr. Bright became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, but resigned in 1882 when the Government began war in Egypt. His separation from the bulk of the Liberal party on the Irish question is the only incident in his, career which really dimmed its splendor. He had always been an uncompromising champion of Irish wrongs and justified Irish turbulence and disorder in view of the treatment of the nation by the Government until the franchise bill brought eighty-. six Irish members into the House, when he became completely alienated from the cause and proved one of the most powerful opponents to Mr. Gladstone’s scheme of home rule. Mr. Bright was married in 1839 to Elizabeth Priestman, of Newcastle. His wife died in 1841, and he was afterward married, in 1849, to Margaret Leatkam, daughter of a banker of Wakefield. He leaves four sons and three daughters. !

AT LAST. The President Issues a Proclamation Throwing Open to Settlement a Portion of Oklahoma-—Settlers, However, May Not Enter Before April 22, Under Pain of Being Debarred from Entrance Forever, : ; WASHINGTON, March 28, —The President yesterday issued a proclamation opening to settlement under the recent acts of Congress the lands in the Indian Territory ceded to the United States by the Creek and Seminolé Indians. By the terms of the proclamation the lands ‘are only open to homestead entry, and sections 16 and 86 in each township are reserved for public-school purposes. The proclamation goes into eftect on April 22 at noon, and all persons are wurned not to enter upon or occupy any of said lands before that time under penalty of keing forever debarred from acquiring any lands or rights therein. The lands comprise all the _western half of the Creek Nation and that portion of the Semimole Nation ceded to the United States by the treaty of June 14, The Commissioner of the General Land Office has established two land offices in the Territory of Oklahoma. One for the West‘ern district is located at King Fisher 8%3 station, and the other for the Eastern dis trict is located at Guthrie, LR 5 g ~...‘....‘._....»...‘____.'-.__ ~_ Monte Carle’s Record. S -occurred at Monte Carlo during January ~and February and several are reported to wdthhﬁggmﬁmm ’s‘"*‘”‘*’*’ rous in the history of the Casino, the winnings of Mygkuxggw T Wi S bR et L L e e

'GOT EVEN WITH HALSTEAD. The Senate Rejects His Nomination by a Decisive Vote—Seven Republicans Join " with the Democrats AgainstHim,While Two Democrats Vote for Confirmation— Richard Smith’s Caustic Comment on Its Action. ; 4 WASHINGTON, April I.—Murat Halstead’s nomination for Minister to Germany was decisively rejected by the Senate Saturday. The motion under discussion was that made by Senator Sherman to reconsider the re: jection. Senator Teller moved to table this motion, and it was done by a vote of 25 to 19. The only Democrats who voted to sustain Mr. Halstead were Blackburn and Call. The Republicans who voted aguinst him were Plumb, Ingalls, Evarts, Stewart, Dawes, Teller and Quay. The votes which caused the most surprise were given by Dawes and Quay, as they had given no hint of their intentions. Senators Cullom, Sawyer and Jones (Nev.) were paired against confirmation. Senator Farwell voted with Halstead’s friends. Before the vote was taken an hour and a half was spent in discussing the merits of the case. Senators Sherman and Hawley did most of the talking in behalf of Mr. Halstead, but they went over mno new ground. The President is said to take the rejection of the nomination philosophically. He looks upon it as a matter between Mr. Halstcad and the Senate which does not reflect upon the Executive. It was the desire of Mr. Halstead’s friends that the fight Jbe fought to the finish, and in deference to their wishes the President disregarded the advice of the Sen ators who urged him to withdraw the nomination. The Ohio people think that their State still has some claims on the German mission and will ,suggest some other Buckeye to the President. There is no reason to suppose, however, that General Harrison takes this view. William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, is now looked upon as a possibility. ; CinciNNATI, April' I.—A representative of the United Press called at the residence of Mr. Halstead Saturday afternoon and was told that Mr. Halstead was too ill to be seen. A message was sent him saying that news had been received ,from Washington that he might be interested to learn. The bearer of the message returned, saying that Mr. Halstead was not interested in any news from Washington. Then a note was sent to the sick room stating that the Senate had rejected Mr. Halstead's womination. This answer was returned: ‘‘Mr. Halstead has nothing whatever to say about any thing the Senate has done ” CiNnciNNATI, April I.—Editor Halstead, of the Commercial-Gazette, being too ill to be at his post, the following, over the signature of Richard Smith, appeared in the newspaper Sunday:

“Itis proper to say right here that Mr. Halstead is not on deck, and has not been consulted in regard to this matter. He is, therefore, in no way responsibie for these remarks. “His appointment as Minister to Germany was rejected, .not becauseé of his unfitness for the place, for that question never was and never could be raised. 'He was rejected be. cause, as an editor, he honestly criticised the methods by which men were elected to the United States Senate. “The origin of this matter was the election of Henry B. Payne. Thais was not a Republican contest, but a Democrat"\cl fight. George H. Pendleton was the Lknown Democratic candidate in Ohio. The Legislature was chosen with reference to his selection. When the Legislature had been chosen Payne, with his money back-ing,-appeared in the field. He bought Pendleton’s men and was elected. Every body knew that then, and every body knows it now. There is not an intelligent man in Ohio who does not believe and does not know that Payne was elected by fraud. ; ; ““The subsequent Legislature was Republican, through the defeat of the most gigantic frauds ever undertaken in any State upon the elective franchise. Anindictment was framed, and the United States Senute was asked to inquire into the methods of Payne’s election. This became a party measure. It was sustained by the Republican press. It had the sympathy of the best part of the Democrats of . Ohic. It went to the United States Senate. There it encountered the opposition of Republicans who were in the same boat with Payne—of men who disgraced their seats then as they do now—and the investigation was defeated. Had Payne been conscious of innocence—had he telt that he was honestly elected—he would have quickly demanded an investigation. That he took care not to do. He krew perfectly well he could nov afford that. He appealed instead to that thing called Senatorial (tfburtesy. and he found Republicans who had been elected as he was—by fraud. These joined with him. They could not help it. They were plainly tkreatened thatit Payne should be investigated the matter would not stop there. The rascals are natural cowards. The Senators who are there by frauds are cowards. They joined hands with Payne, and there was no investigation. The thing thdt an honest man would have demanded was defeated by the votes of men who owe their seats in the Senate to the use of money. : Zl ““What the Commercial-Gazette said on the whoie controversy was the truth. It was the truth when it was written. It is the truth now. Perhaps it was roughly expressed, but it was the truth all the sume. S 3

“For th's Mr. Halstead was defeated, and for no other reason. There was no pretense of objection to him on the ground of fitness. He was ° rejected by . Senatorial frauds because he had the courage of his convictions, and was not afraid to tell the truth. The result, therefore, cag not hurs him, but is bound to hurt guilty Senators. Perhaps, too, it may lead to a line of thought, or increase the force of a line of thought that will abolish the United States Senate altogether, with its star chamber proceedings, or compel a change in the methods of election that will bring that body closer to the people and force its members outside of the money ine fluence. People would be startled to know how many seats in the United States Senate were bought with money, and how many seats are therefore disgraced. This is a business that can not last. The people will not tolerate it. This kind of corruption must be wiped out.

“Payne thinks the defeat of Halstead has vindicated him. This is bosh. To do that would require the defeat of nearly all the editorsin Ohio and of such Democrats as Allen G. Thurman. But he is not satisfied with this, and he proposes, in order to a further vind:cation, to be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate. He has a right to do that. We decidedly favor it. We dare him to make that test.. Appeal to the people of Ohio, and investigations will not be s{oiﬂed. The truth will be breught to the front, and the people who can not be beught will settle the corruptionisis. e *“The issue for next fall has been made in Ohio by Mr. Payne. It can not be avoided. The defeat of Halstead was the result of ree venge. Now let the people of Ohio demonstrae the folly of revenge. Bos

STATISTICAL SLIPS.

Tae railroads are not making as much money as formerly. On 40,000 miles of road last year the loss as against 1887 was nearly §24,000,000. _ : :

Tae growth of the South in cotton manufactures has been next to magical. During the year ending June 30, 1888, the Southern mills consumed 443,373 bales of cotton, an increase of 147.5 per cent, since 1880. THE total army expense from March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1886, was §4,559,419,924. Deducting §3,514,911,007.48 tor foreign wars and the rebellion, the remainder is $1,044,508,016.52. Two-thirds of this sum, it is esti~ mated, was expended for war and other services incidental to the Indians, viz., £696,389,277.68, fortifications, posts, etc., being deducted. AccorpiNg to the following statistics France must be peculiarly blessed with a healthy climate. The number of persons in each 10,000 between the ages of fifteen and sixty are: ' France, 5,873; Holland, 4,084; Sweden, 4,954; Great Britain, 4,782; United States, 4,808. The highest average age of the living are: France, 81.06; Holland, 27.76; Sweden, 27.86; Great Britain, 26.05; United States, 28.01. Out of every hundred deaths those of persons over sixty are: France, 86; Switzeriand, bt: Ko si“‘i”mww-%m y 195 Ausloiw, 31, Jrance hhe fbiviront ot chee which 18 288 toa thousand; Great Britain, Sy

A THIEF WITH NERVE. He Forces a Denver Banker, in Broad Daylight and During Business Hours, to Draw His Check for $21,000, Have It Cashed, and Give Him the Money—The Robber Escapes. : DENVER, C 01.,, March 30.—The boldest and most successful bank robbery ever reported in the West was perpetrated upon the First National Bank at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, by which the robber succeeded in getting away with $21,000. The cashier of the bank, a few minutes after the rob:)ery, gave the following account of the afair: : L .

- “Thursday morning, immediately after the opening of the bank, a well-dressed man with light mustache and complexion, and of medium height, walked into the bank and asked the assistant cashier, Ross Lewin, where he could see Mr. Moffatt, the president of the bank. Ross Lewin informed him that he could see Mr. Moffatt, who is also president: of the Den~ ver & Rio Grande railway, at the president’s office in the Chessman block. Nothing more wias scen or heard of the stranger until Friday morning about 10 o’clock, when he entered the railway office and asked to see Mr. Moffatt on important business. He -« was admittel ‘lo his private room and briefly stated thdat he had discovered a conspiracy whereby the First National Bank was to be robbed of a large amount of money. Mr. Moffatt told the man that he was very busy at that moment, but’ would be pleased to meet him at his private office in the bank at 1 o'clock. With this the man left the building.

‘** A few minutes after the hour appointed he called ut the bank and was shown into the president's office” Remaining standing, he inquired "if tae cashier, S. N. Wood, was in,, and was® told that he was at lunch. He then -aslied for a blank check for the purpose of showing how the robbery would be perpetrated. The check was handed him. He laid it upon a desk in front of Mr, Mofiatt and said: ‘I will have to do this myself.” ' Pulling a large revolver from his coat he placed 1t at Mr. Moffatt’s head, and in a decidedly carnest but excited manner said: ‘I want §21,000. and am going to have it; I have considered this matter and the cohances I am running and the consequences if I fail and am arrested. I am a penniless and a desperate man, and have bheen driven during, the last week to that point where I have considered suiclde |as the only means of escape from the poverty and miisery in which I exist. You have millions, I am determined to have what I have -asked for or your life. If you make '‘a noise, call a man or ring a beil I will blow your brains out and then blow up the building and myself with this bottle of glycerine. | Which he at that moment pulied out of another pocket.] Now take your choice.”’ S g R

“Mr. Moffatt started to argue with the man, buj was stopped with the information that 1% was useless, and that he had but two minutes in which to fill out the check before him for §21,000, if he desired to live. Mr. Moffatt, seeing no other- alternative, filled out the check, and,was then ordered to take it to the paying teller and get it cashed. Mr. Moffatt left his office, the man behind him with the revolver partially concealed under his overcoat and the muzzle almost against Moffatt’'s back, and marched- behind the counter and up to the paying teller, Mr. Keller. with the request that it be - immediately cashed. They then remarched into Moffatt’s office without attract-" ing the attention of the fifteen or twenty clerks who were busy at work withih two feet of where they passed. . ; i "Afte‘L they had remained in-the private office three or iour minutes the robberinformed Mr. Moffatt tthat they were wasting time and that he had better - step to the door and motior his teller to come to him, which he ° did. Mr. Moffatt instructed him to bring the money into his office, and as the teller turned to go away the robber told him he wanted twenty &1,000 bills and §l,OOO in gold. The money was brought in and handed to the gentleman who for a few brief moments had owned the bank. - ;

“Waiting until the' teller had reached his desk, he backed out to the front door, making Mr. Mcofiatt remain standing at the door until hehadreached the curbstone. He then raised his hat and walked around the corner and has notyet been heard of.”’ : i Mr. Moffatt is ~ completely prostrated with the shock. Detectives are out after the man; but no trace of him has been discovered. The man who committed the robbery introduced himself to. President Moffatt as C. J. Wells. The name, however, Was probably assumed. The chief of police has offered $2,500 reward for.the arrest of the robber. The excitement over the robbery is intense. : : WILL GO ABROAD. - A The Fresident Sends to the Senate Another Batch of Nominations. WasgINGTON, March 30.—The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Stens : Robert, Adams, Jr., of Pennsylvania,' to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Brazil. Lansing B. Misener, of California, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Central American States. ' ; S Williim L. Scruggs, of Georgia. to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Venezuela. .

William O. Bradley, of Kentucky, to be Minister Resident, jand Consul-General of the United States to Corea. I

George B. Ferguson, of Maine, to be Collecter of Customs for theé district of Beifast, Me. Y U

George Chandler, of Kansas, to be First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. ; George L. Shoup, of “Idaho,- to be Governop of Idaho. s

Edward J. Curtis, of Idaho, to be Secretary of Idaho. ] i

Jaceb V. Admire, of Kansas,'to be Receiver of Public Moncys at King Fisher Stage Station, Ind. "I, ° SR Jacob C. Roberts, of Nebraska, to be Reg ster of the Land Office at King Fisher Station, Ina. 1. '

Sioria. Darnsll, ‘of Georgia, to be United States. Attorney for the Northern district of Georgia. . ' ! William S. Tipton, of Tennessee, to be United Staies Marshel for the Eastern distric. of Tennessee. . Sik o

BATTLE WITH MOONSHINERS.

Three Men Killed in a Fight Between Officers. and Kentucky Outlaws. |

.LovursviLLEg, Ky., March 30.—A dispatch te United State Marshal Goss on Friday in. formed him that a desperate battic had occurred between Deputy Marshal Russell Wireman f[ana four special - bailiffs on one side . and twelve mountaineers on the other. Ihe regult was the killing of Wireman, the serious wounding of one of his bailiffs, and the supposed killing of at least two of the outlaws. The affray took place last Tuesday morning at the Brass forks of the Kentucky river in Knott County, but as this point is nearly 100: miles from railroad or telegraph lines the news has just been received. :

WIPED OUT BY FIRE.

Flames Destroy a Six-Story Manufacturs ing Building in Chicago, Causing a Loss of £300,000. 3 CHicAGQ, March 80.—The six-story brick building & 48 fo 62 North Clinton street, occupied by several business firms was entirely destroyed by fire Friday mnight, entailing a loss of about $300,000. The building was valued at $75,000. The heaviest losers are 8. A. Maxwell & Co., dealers in wall paper, $100,000; John Starr, mirror manutacturer, $75,000; J. 8. Hare, printer . and lithographer, $60,000; the Danville Stove: Company, $15,000, and the Dean BamboegCompany; $lO,OOO. Origin of the fire un-. known. e * Bl ; ; PR ‘ " THROUGH A BRIDGE. A Wabash Passenger Train Wrecked In S Missouri, e - MoBERLY, Mo,, March 80.—A passenger train on the Ottumwa division of the Wabash Western railway went through a. ‘Dbridge mu@ummmm.%mm nighmpﬁinaiulﬂfhe@%?“mm“ inu ditch eight feet below. John Arthur, the engineer, and Luthor Chamberlain, AN h of this city. were ix mtly etk W%‘ e’ Al Biuised f% 5 R i S T S e ~passengers were hurt. Ihe piling had. ‘been burned out during the night osusing