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* » ®, Ohe Ligomier Banner, LIGONIER., = ¢ s INDIAN/ e e Be AT GWSB 5 A eS P NYTO TS MAN is the universal animal. Itis estimated that there is 1,250,000,000 of him on the globe. The sheep rank next with 500,000,000. THE slave population of the country was 2,009,043 in 1830, 2,487,355 in 1840, 38,204,313 in 1850 and 8,953,760 in. 1860. Missouri had 25,091 slaves in 1830, 58,240 in 1840; 87,422 in 1850 and 114,931 in 1860. : 4 PHYSICIANS deprecate the wearing of waterproof coats as a substitute for ordinary top clothing. They say the body should be dressed as warmly under the water-proof as it would ordinarily be without it. IN Switzerland, it is said, they will . pay higher wages to a milkmaid who ‘can sing to the cows than to one who -can not. , This is done on the principle that bad treatment of a cow injuriously affects its milk. _ . —————— WHEN people at the recent celebra- ~ tion dedicatory to the New York World building asked where .the proprietor was they were told that Mr. Pulitzer sailed for Europe that morning, broken in health and totally blind. . A GST B YIS RIRESE AR S SHEA AT . REV. DR. CHARLES F. HoFFMAN and his brother, Rev. Dr. E. A. Hoffman, dean of the General Theological Semi- ~ mary, both of New York, are said to be the richest clergymen in the . United States. The wealth of each of them is about $14,000,000. | JorN W. Youna, son of the late Brigham Young, has purchased three million acres of land in Northern Mexi¢o, and ten thousand Mormons will’ colonize on it, their object being to find a place where they can practice polygamy unmolested: i | | IN answer to a correspondent we ‘would say that there is scarcely an instance of failure among the regular and large advertisers. There are necessari1y exceptions to all rules, but ‘the man | ‘who advertises, and then sells honestly as he promises, generally succeeds. f It is reported that the wealth of the United States is now computed at $64,000,000,000, a trfle less than $l,OOO for every man, woman and child in the wountry, including Indians. The estimated gain in wealth during the last decade is. an average of about $2,000,000,000 per ycar. | Tae daughter of a naval officer in Baltimore bestowed her affections on a anan whom her father did not approve. ‘He offered her a pleasure trip-to China iif she would discard her lover. She refused, as any other American girl would have done, and eloped with the .aman of her choice. Love laughs at { other things than locksmiths. , ———— ' THE American passenger pigeon compasses the whole Atlantic ‘ocean. The ‘speed of its flight is approximately known, and it is able to cover sixteen hundred miles in twenty-four hours. “This, indeed, 'is marvelous when it is seen that, flying at the rate of nearly seventy ‘miles an hour, it takes the bird two days and two nights to cross. i e S ————— ; ! Tur following populations make an interesting comparison: Russian Emlgire,‘ 113,354,649; United States, 62,480;40; Germany, 46,852,450; Austria-Hun-gary, 40,464,808; France, 38,218,903;

Great Britain and Ireland, 85,246,663; Italy, 28,460,000; Spain, 17,550,246. It is ‘only a question of time when we shall dead even Russia, and with our increase will be the leadership of the Englishspeaking civilization. 1 S y——— ' NEW York and Jersey City are to be connected by a vast bridge, costing $50,000,000, if recently-published assurances are to be believed. The work is to be completed in three yearsand the bridge when done will be the largest as well as much the most important structure of its kind in the world. Enginecering is making such rapid strides of laté that one is kept on the alert to remain up to the times. Singularly and happily, too, -the pace is set by American ingenuity and skill. : : e ———————— SoME very strange accidents are . brought to light by the accident-insur-ance business. For instance, a man at Zaliska, Ohio, a stationary cngineer, was kicked very severely by a hog. It disabled him for quite a number of weeks, and he was paid ninety-seven dollars. Another case was that of a man at Chillicothe, Ohd. As he was stooping to pick up some kindling wood a game rooster gaffed him in the wrist, . cutting an artery, which disabled him for some time. "' TuE present Messiah craze among the Indians of the Northwest revives interest in any thing that pertains to the queer delusions and beliefs that have been rife among the different tribes for the last century. In 1883 the Sanpoels, a small tribe in what was then Washington Territory, became agitated over the teachings of an old chief who professed to believe that another flood was -mear at hand. He said that the Great Spirit had commanded him to collect tribute and build an ark that would outride the waves. His great canoe, 112 x 288 feet, is still to be seen in an unfinished condition. e ———C— A QUESTION calculated to attract wide-spread attention among scientists has been raised by Prof. Wright, of Oberlin College, who after extended researches among the lava deposits about Bonora, Cal., announces the discovery of traces of human habitation antecedent 1o the period of volcanic disturbance.’ Exact information asto the extent of these discoveries has nét been made publie, but it is predicted that the proofs will be accepted as demonstrating the woccupancy of the western coast by man many ages earlier than heretofore sup- - posed possible. It may even shed light wpon the origin of the Indian, S——— Tak new law relative to collisions at ®ea is now in force. . It provides that ~ every master of a vessel which has collided with another vessel shall remain dn its neighborhood and give what help -he can, and he is also required to give ‘the'name and description of his own ~wessel to the master of the other. In ~ ease he fails to do this he will be held re{dfib% the collision and is liable %o fine and imprisonment, a portion of _ the fine going to the informer. The offenders have been the great ocean steame whowe mssters in onder to maks #the condition of vessels injured by them, | T R

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. {4 % Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. s ~ FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Second Session. SATURDAY, Dec. 20.—A bill was introduced in the Senate to prohibit the sale of fire-arms and ammunition to *lndians on reservations. A dozen private pension bills were passed, and the elections bill was again discussed. In } the House the Senate amendments to the urgent deficiency bill;were nonconcurred in. A number of co\gfe’f"(?nce reports on public¢ buildings were agreed to. MoNDAY, Dec. 22, —ln the Senate a bill was passed to establish the record and pension office of the War Department. Various conference re‘ports on public building measures were agreed to. The elections bill was discussed. The House devoted the day to the consideration of affairs pertaining to the District of Columbia. A resolution was offered providing that a committee be appointed to investigate the killing of Sitting Bull and whether or not it was justified. ! ] TuEsDAY, Dec. 23.—A free coinage amendment to the financial bill was introduced in the Senate, and a bill was reported to provide against the contraction of the currency. The elections bill was further discussed. In the House a resolution was introduced instructing the committee on banking to bring in a bill increasing the legal tender currency of the country to an amount equal to $5O per capita of population. The Speaker announced the names of members appointed to fill the existing vacancies in the House committees. Adjourned to the 26th. ‘ WEDNESDAY, Dec. 24.—1 n the Senate a joint resolution was introduced to | provide for the floating of American flags in the east and west porticos of the capitol every day of the year. The elections bill was again discussed. Adjourned to the 27th. The House was not in session. !

FROM WASHINGTON. . THE exchanges at the leading clear-ing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 20th aggregated $1,090,773,978, against: $1,186,740,391 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week df 1889 the increase amounted to 1.5. Tne United States Supreme Court decided in a polygamy case that a wife was not a competent witness against the husband. IN the United States the visible supply of grain in store on the 22d was: Wheat, 25,364,768 bushels; corn, 2,117,392 bushels; oats, 3,454,452 bushels. Tne President horfxinated Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court to fill the vacancy taused by the death of Justice Saminel F. Miller. COLONEL CHARLES SUTHERLAND has been nominated by President Harrison to be: Surgeon Genéral, with the rank of Brigadier General, vice J. H. Baxter, deceased. : ;

Tue President issned a proclamation declaring that the World’s Columbian Exposition would be opened on the Ist day of May, in the year 1893, in the city of Chicago, and would not be c¢losed before the last Thursday in'October of the same year. :

EsTIMATES made from figures in the Census Office show that the aggregate mortgage indebtedness of the whole country is in the n&@hborhood of $850,000,000. 1 :

DURING 1890 there were 5,775 miles of new railroad tracks laid in this country, against 5,095 miles in 1889. The total amount of railway now completed in the United States is 167,172 miles. :

FHE EAST.

A FIRE destroyed the sale stables of Underland and Dennison in Brooklyn, N. Y., and forty horses perished in the flames. ¥ .

At Sandy Hook the Government engineers tested a new thirty-foot rifle gun, and shells were thrown fifteen miles out to sea.

During a fight between Huns and Slavs at a mining camp near Johnstown, Pa., three of the participants, including one woman, were fatally wounded. &

By an explosion of molten iron in the New Jersey steel and iron works at Trenton five men were fatally burned. IN Philadelphia the mint authorities discovered a counterfeit five-dollar gold piece designed and executed with such remarkable skill that few of the experts could distinguish the spurious coins from the genuine. It-differs from the true coin only in size, being slightly larger. Sy rg IN a wreck on the Westerh New York & Pennsylvania railroad near Watsonville, Pa., twenty-otfe passengers were injured. g

~ GENERAL B. F. BUTLER said during a criminal trial in the United States District Court at Boston on the 23d that it was his last case in the courts, and that hereafter his business would e “confined to office practice. ~ FraNgLIN W. HuLr and Ellis G. Bard, who embezzled $40,000 from the Lincoln National Bank of Lincoln, Pa., were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment each.

Dr. WiLriam R. HARrPER, professor of scientific languages at Yale College, has docided to accept the presidency of the Chicago University. ' MRrs. JouN SULLIVAN, of Orange, N. J., on November 19 gave birth to a strong, healthy baby. On the 24th inst. she gave birth to a second child, also strong and healthy. Physicians said such a case was never before heard of. IN Pennsylvania the law prohibiting the sale of oleomargarine has been declared unconstitutional.

Jupee HALL declared, at +East Lyme, Conn., that a ‘“‘paster” put on a blank space on a ticket made the ballot illegal under the State law. If sustained the decision would invalidaté 3,500 Prohibition ballots and elect Morris (Dem.) Governor. : £

A 1 Dover, N. H., Isaac B. Sawtelle was found guilty of the murder of his brother, and was sentenced to be hanged the first Tuesday in January, 1892. okt

IN New York an unknown woman aged about 60 years fell on a sidewalk, and her long hat-pin was driven into her brain, causing plmost instant death.

WEST AND SOUTH.

MASKED men robbed Leland McElroy, a farmer living near Snyder, Mo., of $4,600 cash which he had secreted in his house, :

Durine a gambling dispute at Branwell, W. Va., a man named Budrick fatally wounded five of his companions and was himself shot dead.

THE loss of the schooner Mary Ellen, from Salisbury, Md., for Baltimore, was reported, togeéther with her crew of five men, Captain Henry Wheatly and son, William Abbott and son and saul Gale. ‘ :

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., was fooded with counterfeit two-dollar silver certificates, issue of 1888, and No. 12,137,098. It was said to be the most dangerous counterfeit that had ever yet appeared. NEeAr Huntington, Ore., three tramps were lynched on the Oregon Short Line, by railroad men, for killing a brakeman. : "

WEesLEY TuLris killed Miss Fraybill at New Corydon, Ind., because she refused to marry him and then took his own life.

ON the 23d the report of the surrendezx of Sitting Bull's followers in' South Dakota was confirmed, and the Indian trouble was considered practically at an end. In a skirmish in Pratt County the Indians killed three white men.

KNoxVILLE, Tenn., and vicinity experienced a decided earthquake shock, many persons being awakened from their slumbers. : .

NEAR Gosport, Ind., a car of stone became overbalanced while being unloaded and upset, throwing ten men down a forty-foot embankment. Five were hurt, two fatally. : IN Clay County, Ky., Robert Gregory, a merchant, was assassinated by the 15-year-old son of Thomas Woods, who had been killed by Gregory. : Fire destroyed the Masonic Temple at Baltimore, causing a loss of $350,000. AT Viroqua, Wis., fire destroyed a block of business buildings, causing a loss of $150,000. '

Jonn and Peter Kane, noted desperadoes, were shot dead by Marshal Booth while resisting arrest at Hinckley, Minn. v = Fraxk E. DickixsoN, of Dubuque, Ta., and Minnie Brundage, of Long Island, N. Y., medical students in the State University at Ann Arbor, Mich., were-drowned while skating. - Tae marriage of a boy of 17 and a girl of 13 took place at Columbia, Mo., and the wedding presents included a doll and a wooden gun. ; SAMUEL MickrLes shot and killed his daughter, fatally wounded his wife and then took his own life in St. Louis. Despondency in business was the cause. Eiseman & Co., dry-goods dealers at Council Bluffs, la., failed for $300,000; assets, $350,000. ‘ - Tue first Legislature of Oklahoma adjourned after passing a complete code of laws. ! i

TaE house of Samuel Malone, an old soldier, at Holden, Mo., was burned, Malone and his brother-in-law, John Hicks, perishing in the flames. Fire at San Augustine, Tex., destroyed two hotels, half a dozen stores and many houses. ; THE death of Pedro Antonio Lopez, aged 115 years, occurred at his home near Santa Fe, N. M. " FlvE negroes, arrested for the murder of Dr. E. H. Riggan, were taken from jail at Mecklenburg, Va., and lynched.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN the district of Hamalkua, on the Island of Hawaii, a cloud-burst caused great damage to property, and six persons were drowned. e

At Cordova, in the Argentine Republic, the canal overflowed its banks, destroying hundreds of houses, and 100 lives were reported lost. . Tur Parnell eandidate was said to have been defeated by the McCarthy candidate by 1,000 majority in the election at Kilkenny on the 22d. ' _IN a storm at Toulon, France, a brig was wrecked in the harbor and five men were drowned. .

AT Holstein, Germany, twelve girls were crossing the lake on the ice when it suddenly gave way beneath them and all were drowned.

A vAst army of idle men and their families were said to be dying of hunger in London. -

IN London Mrs. Nellie Pearcey was hanged for the murder of Mrs. Hogg and the latter's infant child on October 24 last. She confessed her guilt. WHILE en route to London from Calcutta the Hamburg ship Libussa collided with the British ship Talookolar, and the captain, twenty-two of the crew and ten passengers of the Talookolar were lost. .

IN the Kilkenny district Sir John Pope Hennessy, the McCarthyite candidate for Parliament, defeated Vincent Scully, Mr. Parnell’s candidate, by a majority ob 1: 171, IN Peru an’ insurrection was suppressed at a cost of forty lives. i LATER, : THe United States Senate was not in session on the 26th. In the House the journal was read, after whick an adjournment was taken to the 29th. At Fostoria, 0., three highwaymen robbed Frank Myers of $1,300. IN the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 26th numbered 833, against 404 the preceding week and 288 the corresponding week last year. : ; AN explosion in a powder-house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., killed Mahlon Sperry and John R. Johnson. : - A CONSPIRACY to flood the United States with counterfeit silver dollars was unearthed at Pittsburgh, Pa., by the arrest of nineteen Italians employed to'passthe coins. Dr. H. A. KELSO; of Paxton, 111., was robbed in the strcots of Chicago of $5,000 in money and a watch worth $2OO. HosTiLES under Kicking Bear made two attacks on the 26th on a camp of Cheyenne scouts at the mouth of Battle creek, but were repulsed, and several of the hostiles were killed. - THE steamer Shanghai was destroyed by fire near Woo-Hoo, China, and several European officers and sixty natives were burned to death. : THE Sanborn County Bank at Woonsocket, S. D., closed its doors. :

Mgs. SipNpy ANN WILHITE (colored) died at Sedalia, Mo., aged 106 years. She weighed 250 pounds and had been totally blind for several years.

Mgs. Joux DieTRICH and three children were burned to death at their home in Rochester, N. Y. Her husband and one son escaped. - A FARMER named Hollowman found a nugget of gold weighing seventy ounces on his farm in Mahaska County, la. - : Ar Staunton, Va., there was two feet of snow on the ground on the 26th. Tux Maverick Bank of San Antonio, Tex., closed its doors after a run lasting three weeks. The liabilities were said to be $344,161 and the assets $l,789,915, : ’

Trag Hughes Lumber Company ak Chattanooga, Tenn., failed for $175,000; assets, $320,000,

A BLIZZARD prevailed in the East on the 26th and New York City was buried in snow. Street-cars, elevated railways and - ferry-boats were delayed. The coast was swepl by a strong gale, and st Narragansett Pier two schooners went ashore and three men were drowned.” In Buffalo, N. Y., the thermometer registered 10 degrees below zero, and at Lyndouville, Vt., the.mercury sank to 30 below zero. ;

PRACTICALLY OVER. : Encouraging Reports from the Scene of ‘the Indian War—Sensational Rumors _ Denied—A Skirmish on Battle Creek. DicrinNsoN, N. D., Dee. 27.—Lieutenant Sydenham and Scout Joseph Spence, of Captain Fountain’s command, have arrived here with dispatches, having left Grand river. fifty miles distant, at daybreak on Christmas. Captain Fountain has scouted the country from this point to within sixty miles of Fort Yates, making rapid marches with light transportation in the hope of meeting and capturing the fugitives from Sitting Bull's camp. His route lay from New England City around the White Earth buttes to the Little Missouri, thence across the south fork of the Cannon Ball to Grand river, and from Gray’s crossing of Grand river by way of Cave hills and Lodge buttes to the forks of Grand river. This covers the entire section of country into which the Sitting Bull fugitives were supposed to have run. A fall of snow had covered the ground to adepth of two or three inches three weeks previous to the departure of Captain Fountain’s expedition, which would have preserved the trail of the Indians, hostile or otherwise, which had crossed the country during that time. Nevertheless, the skill of the Cheyenne trailers who accompanied the command was unable to discover the slightest indication of Indians.

While returning on the 24th he met the advance party of Major Carroll’s battalion of cavalry hastening to relieve him at the Cave hills, where he was believed to be surrounded by 500 Indians, and in distress.

The following day Lieutenant Ballance left New England City with his company in wagons to assist Major Carroll. The reports which caused these movements, although apparently reliable, have not the slightest foundation. In fact no Indians have been seen in the vicinity of Cave hills this fall.

A telegram from Rapid City on the 18th stated that two herders of the Hash Knife outfit had been killed by Indians. A courier bringing dispatches from Captain Baldwin to Captain Fountain saw these men and conversed with them on the 21st. No ranches had been burned, no cattle killed or other damage done by Indians in that vicinity. Families living near the reservation are kept in constant terror by rumors and at several ranches appeared with guns behind barricades on the approach of the troops, believing:them at first to be Indians. At New England City a stone block-house has been erected, surrounded by a parapet of earth, and at Hebron a similar fort has been constructed. At Gladstone a local company of sixty men is being kept under drill and military discipline.

Asfar as the military authorities here are aware not a shot has been exchanged between Indians and troops. The sensational reports circulating concerning raids and encounters between troops and Indians are an injustice to the army. Greatprecautions have been taken, acting upon these rumors, as though life and property were at stake. A general summary of the disposition of troops will show that the entire reservation is hemmed in by troops ready for the field, and fear of an outbreak in the spring is groundless. On the south of the reservation are the troopsat Pine Ridge under Gegeral Brooke; at the junction of the Cheyenne and Belle Fourche, under Colonel Sumner, and the troops at Fort Meade and Fort Robinson; on the west, those under Captain Baldwin at Camp Crook and the strong garrison of Fort Keogh; on the north, the battalions of Major* Carroll and Captain Fountain and the garrison of Fort Lincoln; on the east, the garrisons of Forts Yates, Bennett and Sully. Carloads of winter supplies for the troops are being received here daily. PINE RIDGE AGENCY, N. D., Dec. 27.— One battalion of the Seventh Cavalry, with two Hotchkiss guns and a pack train, has just left here for Wounded Knee, about thirty miles away. The Indian council in the Bad Lands has decided in favor of the hostiles returning to the agency. They are now all on their way in. Perhaps fifteen or twenty may slip away,but the authorities feel that the Indian war is practically over. At least they express great satisfaction at the news brought by the courier and outlined above. There is still danger of trouble in ‘case an attempt is made to disarm the hostiles. . CAMP NEAR BATTLE CREEK, S. D, Dec. 27.—The situation here remains practically unchanged. The weather is cold and the rivers are frozen solid. A company of Cheyenre scouts is encamped at +the mouth of Battle creek. Two attempts were made on Wednesday by the hostiles, who number about eighty, to break into their camp. The first attack was made by only a few of the Indians, who were quickly repulsed with a loss of two killed and several wounded, and it is thought that one is fatally hurt. The second attack was made after dark by what was supposed to be the whole band, who were led by Kicking Bear himself. Volley after volley was fired on both sides, and a desultory fire was kept up for an hour or more. It is not known how many of the hostiles were killed, but judging from the reports of one of the scouts there must have been several killed, as he says he heard several shout out in the Sioux language that they were hit. Troops were sent to the scene at an early hour Thursday morning, and report every thing quiet and no hostiles in sight.

EXPLOSION IN A MINE,

Kerosene Oil Causes Immense Damage in a Scottsdale (Pa.) Colliery.

ScoTTSDALE, Pa., Dec. 27.—An explosion occurred Friday morning in the entrance shaft of the United coal and coke works, operated by the United C¢ke Company. It was caused by the ignition of kerosene oil. The report was terrific. There were at the time 140 miners at work, but all escaped through the various openings for that purpose. The fire, which is still burning fiercely, destroyed all the loose property in the mine and has already done enormous damage. A Monument Unvailed. SAN FraNcisco, Dec. 27.—Captain Foss, of the German man-of-war Speifer, has unvailed a monument at Apia, Samoa, to the memory of the imen lost ‘on'German war-ships daring the hurricane of March 16, 1889. Consul-General Steulel and the German residents of Samoa were present at the ceremony. : Springfield Selected. SrriNGFIELD, 111., Dec. 27.—The executive committee of the State Grange has decided to hold the next annual en~campment of that body in this city. It - will be held in August next and will continue aweek., . - . ° %

HUMANS ROASTED.

A Number of Distressing Fatalities by Fire Reported. .

ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 27.—A terrible conflagration occurred Friday morning whereby a woman and three children lost their lives. The vietims were Mrs. John Dietrich, of No. 7 Orchard street, and her three children, Libbie, aged 6 years; Ja(fb,, aged 3, and Louisa, aged 11 monthS.- How the fire originated is a mystery. . Mrs. Dietrich had arisen a2t'4 o’clock to start a fire in the kitchen stove and awakened her husband soon after with an alarm of fire. She rushed in to save her three liltle ones and perished in the flames. Her husband and one son escaped. When the firemen succeeded in quenching the flames they found in the bedroom where the woman had slept the body of the . unfortunate woman lying across the bed with = the feet on the floor. Beside her lay the three little children, their bodies burned to a crisp as well as that of their mother. SARATOGA, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Mrs. Ellen Gibbons, aged 80 years, was burned to death at her home on Ash street Friday morning. Mrs. Gibbons was addicted to smoking.

MILWAUKEE, Deec. 27.—Fire was discovered in Lawler’s saloon building at Freemont Friday morning, and before it was under control it damaged two other buildings. Orrin Ennis was carrying out goods from the Lawler building when the building went down, and he perished in the flames. Ennis had no family. =

' OSKALOOSA, Ta., Dec. 27.—A 4-year-old child of T. C. Bailey met a sad death Friday. The parents left it at home with other childrep, and while-playing its clothes caught fire and it was burned to death. :

Loxpoxn, Dee. 27.—According to advices received - here the steamship Shanghai recently caught fire at sea and is supposed . to have become a total loss. The = disaster is understood. to have occurred mear Wu Hu (Woo Hoo), a treaty port of the Chinese province of Ngan-Foei on the Yang-tse-kiang, about fifty miles above Nankin. The crew, consisting of about sixty natives, together with several European officers, are supposed to Have met their death either in the flames or subsequently by drowning while attempting to escape from the burning vessel. o

BUSINESS TROUBLES.

Collapse of 2 South Dakota Bank—Failure of a Similar Institution in Texas.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 27.—The Journal’s Woonsocket (S. D.) special says the Sanborn County Bank, run by Lean L. Stevens, has. closed its doors. The county treasurer had £B,OOO of the county’s money in the banl, and a number of merchants are caught. Stevens was city treasurer, and closed down on $3OO of the city funds. There was no run on the bank, and the reasons given for the suspension were poor business and slow collections. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 27.—The Maverick Bank of this city closed its doors Friday morning after a heavy run that has lasted three weeks. Samuel Maverick, sole owner, made an assignment of all his property, real and personal, to Reagan Houston. The liabilities amount to $844,164 and assets $1,789 915. :

CounNciL BLUFFS, la., Dec. 27.—Simon Eiseman of the firm of Henry Eiseman & Co., dry-goods merchants, who made an assignment Thursday, estimates the liabilities of the firm at $200,000; assets at $300,000. e NuwW YOoRm, Dee 27..-R. C. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says that business has progressed as well as could be expected in a week broken by the €hristmas holiday trade and a great snow-storm. 'The holiday trade was remarkably heavy here, and at nearly all other points good, which is by no means evidence that the tightness of the money market springs from any general embarrassment of business or industry. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 333, as compared with a total of 404 last week. For the corresponding week last year the figures were 288. ~ FOR A MONETARY UNION. Delegates Reported from Ne:iln'ly All South American Countries. ‘WaAsHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The recommendations of the international American conference for'the establishment of an American monetary union and the issue of a common silver coin have been adopted by all the Amecrican republics except Guatemala, Uruguay and Paraguay, which have not been heard froma. The first meeting of the union takes place at the Department of State at noon on Wednesday, the 7th of January. Delegates have been appointed from Argentine Republie, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Chili, Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Honduras and Bolivia. The delegates from the United States have not yet been appointed. -

Threw Himself Before the Engine.

MouNT PLEASANT, la., Dec. 27.—Friday afternoon an attendant of the insane hospital was out walking with a patient named Swenk. When they were near the railway station a passenger train approached. Swenk, heretofore quiet, became unmanageable, broke from the attendant, ran to the station and threw himself in front of the engine. The entire train passed over him, severing both legs and otherwise horribly mangling him. He can not live. : ;

Death of Judge Hinés.

-INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 27.—Private dispatches from Rutland, Vt., announce the death of Judge Hines. He lived here for many years and was the law partner of President Harrison and At-torney-GeneralMiller, the firm name being Harrison, Hines & Miller. -

Copied His Brother's Rash Act.

Mount HorLrLy, N. Y., Dec. 27.—General Charles S. Taylor, a well-known citizen of this place, committed sunicide by drowning in the creek here Wednesday night at the identical point where his brother drowned himself a few years ago. -

Fatally Burned.

MARrION, Ind.,, Dec. 27.—~John Q. Thomas was fatal®% burned Wednesday night while playing Santa Claus at the Second M. E. Churech. He approached too close to a gas jet when his costume took fire, and in a moment he was wrapped in flames. Fatally Stabbed in a Drunken Row, MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 27.——While engaged in a drunken brawl Wednesday night Joe Phillips stabbed Morgan Cunningham in the left side. Cunningham is reported in a critical condition with the chances against his recovery. Both are tough characters, = : :

A MANTLE OF WHITE.

It Spreads Over Many States—A Howling Blizzard in the East—Railway Trains Impeded by Huge Drifts of Snow— Vessels Wrecked by the Storm on the Atlantic—Sesmen Drowned. :

- NEw York, Deec. 27.—The heavy snow-storm which bégan here during Thursday night continued with unabated fury Friday. Strong winds eaused the snow to drift 'badly, and with the low temperature ‘which made the driving snow cut like a knife locomotion about the city was very difficult and uncomfortable. ‘ : :

At noon the snow was eight inches deep in the streets, causing great delay to traffic. . The sigmal service people say there are two blizzards racing this way from the West and that they will meet hereabouts. Railway companies are preparing to combat another storm like that of two years ago. Navigation on the rivers and the bay is seriously interfered with, but so far no accidents have been reported. ' : The storm has practically paralyzed business .in Brooklyn and Dbut few pedestrians are seen upon the streets. Great banks of snow are piled upon ecither side of the great thoroughfares and the mnumerous: cars of the street 'lines are experiencing great, difficulty in running upon scheduled time. Only a few wagons are out and all business appears to have been abandoned for the time being. In places the snow has drifted to the depth of several feet and lies piled up against doorways and steps undisturbed. In the outlying wards the storm is especi-, ally scvere. : All the railroads running into New York have suffered from the -storm, but some, of course, have suffered more than others where exposed to the heavy drifts. g ]

Reports continue to be received from all parts of New York State showing a heavy fall of snow and consequent interruption of traffic. In the Mohawk valley the storm is unusually- severe.

JN NEW ENGLAND

RUTLAND, Vt., Dee. 27.—Snow began falling in Rutland Friday morning and continued steadily all day. Reports from other sections of the State indicate that the storm has been the heaviest of the season. Railroad traflic has been greatly impeded. L LYNDONVILLE, Vt., Deec. 27. —The thermometer registered 40. degrees below zero Thursday night and 30 below Friday morning. ‘ S "PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Dec: 27.—The violent snow-storm which set in here Friday morning resulted in a bad accident at the Plainfield street end of the Union railway. The snow covered the tracks on a stcep grade and when a car was coming toward the city at 11 o’clock the brakes failed to work .and the horses stampeded down the hill toward the city.’ Another car was just turning into the switch at the junction crossing and a colission occurred: Conductor Alexander Waterman cut his horses loose, -but the horses on the west-bound car were instantly killed.. Waterman was thrown from his car and his skull was fractured: He was otherwise injured and there is little chance that he will live. Conductor Atwood, of the west-bound: ecar, had both his arms broken and was injured internally and will probably die. None of the passengers were hurt, | The three-masted schooner - Bill Stowe, of Boston, loaded with paving stones for New York, came ashore three-quarters of a mile north of Narragansctt Pier at noon in the snowstorm. The vessel struck 1,000 feet off shore. The pier life-saving crew shot, a line - over her, and, with the aid of residents, ' including ex-Governor Sprague, rescued the crew of six men.

- These were no sooner landed than news of another schooner in distress was reccived, and the crew loaded their apparatus and plunged through. drifted snow three miles to Black point. There the three-masted schooner A. H. Hurlbut, of Gloucester, Captain Thurston, was in peril She had left Wood's Holl Friday morning, and on hearing breakers had hastily let go heranchors. The captain thought she could ride out the gale, but at 4:25 o’clock the chains parted and the vessel struck. Within twenty minutes of the time the vessel took the ground every mast had fallen and Captain Thurston, Steward Hammond and Seaman Lawremce were knocked overboard by falling spars and drowned. ;

KENTUCKY IS VISITED.

LexiNGgTON, Ky., Dec. 27.—The heaviest storm of sleet ever known here occurred Thursday afternoon and during the night. Shade trees and telegraph and telephone poles were broken and miles of wire weredown. The city firealarm system was entirely ruined, many of the boxes being burned out. The Western Union telegraph wires weredown and not until 9 o’clock a. m. had Lexington any communication with the outside world. The electric streetcar linés were badly damaged. The total loss will be about $lO,OOO.

DRIFTS IN PENNSYLVANTA.

PrrTsRUrRGH, Pa., Dee. 27.—Another big snow-storm is raging here. It has ‘been snowing steadily foreighteen hours and between twelve and fourteen inches of snow has alread%llen. ; Trains are all several hours behiwd time and streetear trafiic on all but the-cable roads has been temporarily suspended. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Dec. 27.—Snow began to fall here at midnight and all day the storm .raged fiercely, with snow-drifts of two or three feetin- the streets. Trains on all railroads are delayed and business is practically suspended throughout the Wyoming valley. IN THE PATHS OF SCIENC%. THE records of insurance companies show that the American man lives longer than men of the same race in the old world. : B ’

THE selections by plants of food and rejection of injurious = substances, though not always performed without erfors, indicates the presence of sensation. ;

Sir Joun LuUBBOCK kept a queen bee for fifteen years, a test proving her eggs to be just as fertile at that age as they were twelve years before. : Toue influence of the tides is felt for four hundred miles up the Amazon, and the current of the river is distinctly perceptible on the ocean for more than two hundred miles from shore. i MR. D’AURIA concludes that the force of the waves which in 1885 moved three feet the superstructure of the breakwater at Oswego Harbor, N. Y., exhibited a force per square foot of forty thousand five hundred pounds. -~ - Tag group of bodies termed by chemists the carbo-hydrates—because they are composed of carbon united with oxygen and hydrogen in the proportion in which those two elements combine to form water—contain the well-known series of sugars, gums and starches.

“DO YOU WANT THE EARTH, OR Lol A PIECE OF IT?" : £"% ;pv‘{(/@- : ’ NNt i e AV N 0 ,\,‘ B -q».),-\~ "!B}“~ : - e e (et UL e / et ; ,?—,—y fi\*‘,‘ia ,j‘f‘ta : ’-7%2;‘;}"-" 72 ISsimply ; : : -marvelous how rapidly the development of a new territory follows'a public knowledge of its resources in these go-ahead days. A given portion of country may be seemingly a howling wilderness to-day, yet‘ : twelve months hence the hardy pioneexs of settlement will be firmly establishea in it, anid five years hence the wilderness is gone forever, transformed intc an agricultural region/of inestimable value: - o @ : : - This story has been told over and ! over again upon the American continent, and is mow being repeated once . more upon the great fertile prairies of Western Canada; where the millions of acres of valuable lands open for settlement are attracting’ an ever-increasing army of colonists from every civilized _ portion of the Globe. Only a few years ago the prairies of Western Canada were simply a vast _game range, yet to-day towns, villages, settlements, farms and ranches are dotted all over what is unquestionably one of the very finest agricultural sections. of this continent. The prairie region of Canada extends from the eastern. boundary of Manitoba westward to the foothills. of the Rocky Mountains, a distance, roughly speaking, of about one ‘thousand miles. . Within this vast expanse are comprised the great wheat province of Manitoba, the fat lands of Assiniboia and the ncble pastures of - Alberta, - offering homes to all who choose to claim them, and unrivalled facilities for foilowing every branch of agriculture with profit. The official crop returns for 1890 are splendid testimony of the capabilities of these natural grain fields and pastures, and no matter whether the new-comer prefers horse, cattle or sheep raising, wheat growing, mixed or dairy farming,: he can “easily find land admirably suited to his purpose within these broad limits . and simply for the trouble of selecting-': for himself what appears to be the most desirable locality. ' -

Miss ROCKEFELLER'S bedroom at Rockwood - Hall, in Tarrytown, is a most dainty and unique little apartment, with its walls and ceiling painted with leaves and garlands. In one of the panels is set an onyx clock with a silvered pendulum reaching to the floor and richly chased golden hands moving up among the carved garlands.

MAUDE BANEKS, daughter of General N. P.-Banks and an actress who is winning favor in New England, broke the middle finger of her right hand while fencing on the stage at Bath, Me. She showed no signs of suifering, and as soon as the bone was set resumed her part, using her left hand.

Map of the United Statess , A large, handsome Map of the United ‘States, mounted and suitable for office or home use, is issued by the Burlington route. . Copies will be given free when it can be done without expense for transmis‘sion; or-they will-be mailed to any address on receipt of six cents in postage by P. S. Eustis, Gen’l Pass. Agent, C. B. &Q. R. R., Chicago, 111 ; e et LiTERARY men do not, as a rule, have a head for business, and so, paradoxical as it may.seem, they do not get ahead.—Somerville Journal. ' ; . ———— To the Pacific Coast. Go to California via the through lines of the Burlington Route, from:Chicago or St. Louis to Denver, and thenceé over the new broad guage, through car lines of the Den‘ver & RioGrande or Colorado Midland Railways, via Leadville, Glenwood Springs and Salt Lake—-—tbrough interesting cities and unsurpassed scenery. Dining Cars all the ‘way. cE el s _‘“YoU’RE just the man I’m laying for,” as ‘the brickmason said te the contractor.— Binghamton Leader. : s s Frec! Free! . By scuweng your address and two-cent stamp to W. A. Thrall, General Passenger -and Ticket Agent Chicago & Northwestern Railway, CRicago, 111., he will'mail you a. map of a portion of the city of Chicago showing the site of the World’s Columbian Exposition. WHEN a woman goes to Investin sealskins she soon realizes that fifty dollars will not go fur.—Boston Herald. \ i Playing Cards. You can obtain a pack of best quality playing cards by sending fifteen cents in gost.a eto P.'S. Eustis, Gen’l Pass Ag't., C. 3. & % R. R., Chicago, Il TaEr color line, as applied to the sugar problem, is a matter of refinement.—Hutchinson News. : ; Ir gou are tired taizring the large old fashJoned griping pills, try Carter’s Little Liver ‘Pills and take some comfort. A man can’t standeverything. One pilladose. Try them. t;hm' mzlz)nbwllllo d?gsn’t think his baby is e prize baby hasn't got any baby.—Binghamton Leader. Y : £ " Ax EXTENDED, PoPULARITY. BROWN’S BroXCHIAL TROCHES have for many years been the most popular article in use -fPr relieving Coughs and hroat troubles. ' | . Wtrg: supp(;se a womail may be said to"' 5 ‘ur-tive in her way when she tries to : off plush for sealskin. A Pa.ss “You devote a great deal of your time to pedestrianism.”’ *‘Yes, it is m§ sole diverslon.”—Washington Post. - Brwiousxess, dizziness, nausea, headache, are relieved by small doses of Carter’s Little Liver Pills. b P % . ¢ e S SRR (SRR AT ér‘a courting match is not declared off it stend in a tie.—N. O. Picayune. et et - Ir children have pete they are less liable to become pettish.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. . © el e b § . THE best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 250. FIRsT-OLASS securities — Handcuffs and timelocks.—Boston Transcript.

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