Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 January 1891 — Page 6

= * * (Y : The Ligonier Bamuer, LIGONIER, : : INDIANA. B ] GENERAL LONGSTREET is giving all his leisure time to his history of the war of the rebellion, with the expectation of finishing it before the year is out. Dr. W. H. MILBURN, the blind Chaplain of the House of Representatives, is writing a book on the pioneers of the Mississippi valley. He has a collaborator. » ' ABour five hundred veterinary surgeons in Great Britain signed a paper condemning overhead check-reins as painful to horses and productive of disease. : SEVENTEEN hundred of the Sioux are members of the Episcopal church, and Baptists, Catholics and Congregationalists are also well represented among them. :

WiTHIN sixty-two years Mexico has had fifty-four presidents, one -regency and one empire, and mnearly every change of governmemt has been effected by violence.

- A New HAMPSHIRE saloon-keeper was recently tried on one thousand distinct charges, and was convicted on seven hundred and fifteen. The aggregate of his fines was $B,OOO.

Pror. HARRIET COOKE, professor of history in Cornell, is the first woman ever honored with the chair and equal pay with the men professors. She has taught in Cornell twenty-three years.

Pror. WieGlNs is again in an active state of prediction. He says there will be no earthquakes around here until about August 17, 1904. * This makes our safety from a shaking up, meanwhile, just a trifle dubious.

ONE result of the census inquiry in the Sguth has been the disclosure of the fact that the ratio of increase among the blacks has been much overestimated. While the white population during the last decade has increased twen-ty-six per cent., it is shown that the negroes have not increased more than ten.

TrE Supreme Court of Missouri has decided’ that the act extending the limits of Kansas. City a year ago, so as to take in twenty-two miles of new territory, wasillegal and invalid. The five aldermen elected from the new territory will lose their seats, and all ordinances passed since annexation are invalidated.

ALTOGETHER, itis evident that newspaper influence upon literature is to be an important one. As magazines have come to fill in part the place of books, 80 newspapers have come to fill tosome extent the place of the magazines. What the final result of development in this direction will be is an extremely interesting question.

THE young Prince of Naples 1s the picture of a youthful English dude—-smooth-faced, with a fair sprinkling of down on his upper lip, an eye-glass, and a suit of clothes cut in the latest English style. But he is very clever, speaking four languages fluently, and because of his retentive memory is regarded as a sort of .royal encyclopadia. o :

. Mapame BARrIos, widow of the celebrated President of Guatemala, anda woman of surpassing beauty, is now staying in Washington. She was married at the age of fourteen, and is the mother of six children, yet she looks as fresh and as radiant as a young girl. She is very accomplished, speaking five languages with fluency. Her fortune is said, on good authority, to aggregate $6,000,000. : :

GENERAL F. E. SPINNER, writing a Year ago of his school days, said: ‘“The rod was never spared on me at home or in school—and now, with grown-up great-grandchildren, I can truthfully say I have mnever in all my long life struck a child a single blow. I was licked enough to last through the whole four generations of self and my posterity. I have found it safe through life to practice ‘the reverse of what was taught me to do.” ~

Tue Census Bureau has issued a bulletin on the anthracite coal industry of Pennsylvania which shows the production in 1889 of 40,000,000 tons, valued at the mines at $66,000,000, and an average annual shipment during the last five years of 34,390,868 tons, against an average of 31,511,301 for the preceding five years. Sixty-three per cént. goes to the Middle States, 15 per cent. to New England and 14 per cent. to the Western States. : '

THERE is need of a more thorough moral enforcement of the commandment, “Thou shalt not steal.” Young men should be made to understand that they have no right to take without leave what does not belong to them for their own uses, even though they seriously and conscientiously determine to return it to the owner. That is embezzlement, and the return of the ‘‘borrowed” money or thing does not change the name of the misdemeanor. It is well to remember that dishonesty and crime are the same, whether one gets caught or not, and regardless of resolutions for future restitution. '

THE refusal or neglect of Congress to provide adequately, if not generously, for the wants of the life-saving-service can not be excused upon the ground that its work is experimental. Taking the record of its accomplishments during a single year—lBB9—it proves that the value of the service far outweighs its cost. The saving in a twelve-month of nearly 3,500 lives is worth more than $1,000,000, if such a precious saving can be estimated at all: If it is not worth that, then certainly the value of the property saved, $5,500,000, is worth the £1.000,000 invested; it leaves a margin of gain equal to nearly 500 per cent.

THE total debt of the United States in 1866, the highest point, was $2,778,286,173. The total debt on Jan. 1, 1891, was $1,541,871,198. The difference, $1,200,000,000, with the interest on the whole amount, has been paid off in twenty-five years. But that does not represent the whole actual reduction. The Government has in its vaults nearly $641,000,000 held for the redemption of Treasury notes, which are counted as part of the debt. The present debt, deducting the cash in the Treasury, is only $862,480,541. The real reduction in twenty-five years has therefore been about $1,700,000,000, or over $1.500,000 a week for that period.

. Epitome of the Week. ANTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. : Second Session. . TuEesDAY. Jan. 20.—A petitton was presented in the Senate asking that General Banks be placed on the retired list of the army. A discussion of the elections bill occupied the remainder of the session. In the House a favorable report was made on the bill imposing a special tax upon all teas imported from countries east of the Cape of Good Hope. During the session Mr. Mills (Tex.) charged the Speaker with intentionally practicing a fraud. upon the House, and for a few minutes the House was in great confusion. Throughout the scene the Speaker was calm, but it took the services of the sergeant-at-arms to quell the tumult which at one time threatened to culminate in personal violence.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 21.—The time of the Senate was taken up in roll-calls, in obtaining the attendance of absent Senators and in the delivery of speeches against the elections bill, and at midnight the Senate adjourned, leaving the subject of the approval of Tuesday’s journal to come up again. In the House no business was done, the time being occupied in a wrangle over the approval of the journal. , THURSDAY, Jan. 22.—1 n the Senate the debate on the journal came to an end and the cloture rule was discussed, but no action was taken. In the House the journal was approved, the district of Columbia appropriation bill was passed and the appropriation bill was considered. A bill was reported favorably amending the inter-State commerce law so as to allow railroad companies to make reduced rates of transportation and to permit them to carry theéir own employes free. A bill was introduced appropriating $160,000 for a public building at lonia, Mich. FripAYy, Jan. 23. — The time was passed in the Senate in discussing the cloture resolution. In the House the time was occupied in considering the charges made against the Commissioner of Pensions, and in discussing the naval appropriation bill. A bill for the relief of the heirs of Richard W. Meade, of Pennsylvania, was favorably reported. ‘The claim has been pending since the Sixteenth Congress, and is for $375,879.

FROM WASHINGTON.

THE President received from Minister Phelps at Berlin five vials of Koch’s lymph. He ordered one vial each sent to the Marine hospital in Washington, to the Policlinic hospital in Chicago, the Charity hospital in New Orleans and the Indianapolis city hospital.

THE internal revenue collections for the first six months of the current fiscal year were $75,697,143, 4 comparative increase of $06,619,662 over the previous six months.

TuE Pension Office from January 1 to 15, inclusive, issued 10,377 pension certificates, the greater portion of them being granted under the dependent pension law. This was the largest number ever issued during a like period. ; :

A BOCIETY to be known as the Confederation of Industrial Organizations was formed at Washington, and Ben Terrell, of Texas, was elected president. The resolutions call for abolition of National banks; Government loans to the people at 2 per cent. interest; the prohibition of alien ownership of land; a graduated income tax; Government ownership of the telegraph and railroads, and the election of President, Vice-President and United States Senators by direct vote of the people.

THE business failures in the United States during the seven days énded on the 23d numbered 380, against 411 the preceding week and 338 the correspond ing week last year. NEAR Washington, James E. Owens, aged 79 years, and his wife, aged 74 years, were killed on the Baltimore & Ohio railway. _ L :

THE EAST. - THE New York Equitable Insurance Company will wind up its own affairs and quit. THE famous English setter dog Count Noble, owned by B. F. Wilson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and valued at $lO,OOO, is dead. I ‘ AT Bosten a finely-bred cow owned by Dr. H. E. Dennett gave birth tothree fully-developed calves. 'They were marked so much alike that it was difficult to tell one from another. This freak of nature was one seldom heard of in cattle history. THE match in New York between Steinitz and Gunsberg for the chess championship of the world, which had been going on since December 9, was decided in favor of Steinitz. The score was: Steinitz, 6; Gunsberg, 4; drawn, 9. MRrs. Lupwie ANDERSON poisoned herself and three children at Brockton, Mass., on being, told by a medium that herhusband was faithless. ° ‘ ON the 22d what had been long known as the oldest horse in the world died in Buffalo, N. Y. He was owned by Mr. Braun, who bought him when he was 7 years old and had him forty years. At the age of 109 years Mrs. Mary Ruaane died on the 22d at Jessup, Pa. She retained all her senses up to the century mark and then became blind. -IN the New England and the Middle States freshets were reported at many points. Bridges were swept away in Dutchess County, N. Y., and at Wassaic two women and a team were drowned. Over one-third of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was under water and traffic was completely suspended. A BUILDING destroyed at Morristown, N.J., by high water was the cne in which the first telegraph instrument invented by 8. F. B. Morse was stationed when the initial message over a telegraph wire was sent to Boston in 1835. .

AT Boston the 100th anniversary of the admission of Vermont into the Union was celebrated by the Vermont Association. i

IN Buffalo, N. Y., Stephen F. Sherman, a prominent member of the board of trade who was convicted of grand larceny, was sentenced to five years in prison at hard labor. . A COMMERCIAL agency in New York reported a steady increase in the volume of trade throughout the country. In the Housatonic river in Connecticut the flood had subsided. The break in the dam at Ansonia caused a loss of $300,000. ;

Fire destroyed the new building owned by Warner Bros. at Buffalo, N. Y., causing a loss of $300,000. Three firemen were killed by a falling wall.

WEST AND SOUTH.

Tur death of David Laamea Kalakaua, King of the Hawaiian Islands, océurred at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on the 20th, aged b 5 years,.

NEAR Glasgow, Mo., Ollie Thixton, a negro, was lynched for an assault upon Miss McCrews, the young daughter of a prominent citizen. - Frames destroyed the plant of the Standard Motor Company in Chicago, causing a loss of $187,000. ; THE house of Richard Lane, in Thomas County, Ga., with fourchildren locked up in it, was burned, and the children perished in the flames. THE following United States Senators ‘were elected on the 21st: Indiana, D. W. Voorhees (Dem.); Missouri, George G. Vest (Dem.);: Arkansas, J. K. Jones (Dem.); Colorado, H. M. Teller (Rep.);Washington, W. C. Squire (Rep.); Oregon, J. H. Mitchell (Rep.); North Carolina. Z. B. Vance (Dem.). THE State Bank at Kawaka City, Kan., went into the hands of a receiver, making the fourth bank failure within a week in Mitchell County.

A cOLORED woman named Rosa Barton died at Galesburg, 111., on the 21st, aged 118 years. ' AT Oro, Col., an unruly horse threw a wagon containing Mrs. Benry Smith and Mrs. Nehslin over an embankment 100 feet high and both women were fatally hurt. THE office of De Grondwet, the largest Dutch paper in the United States, was totally 'destroyed by an incendiary fire at Holland, Mich. ON the 21st Nathan Whitney, of Rockford, believed to be the oldest Mason in Illinois, celebrated his 100th birthday. THE troops in the fleld at Pine Ridge, S. D., were reviewed by General Miles. There were 3,000 men and 370 horses in line.

Ox, the 22d the funeral of King Kala~ kaua, of the Hawaiian Islands, took place in San Francisco, and the remains were placed on the steamer Charleston, which sailed immediately for Honolulu. At Hamilton, 0., John K. Aydelotte, editor of the Daily Democrat, was caught in the fly-wheel in the engineroom and instantly killed. ‘

TuE death of Thomas Meirs occurred on the 22d near Akron, 0., aged 100 years and 5 months. : DuRrING a lovers’ quarrel at San Antonio, Tex., Bertha Gross shot and fatally wounded James Hartley and then committec suicide. :

NEARLY seventy letters belonging to the Northwestern National Bank of Chicago, and supposed to contain over $lOO,OOO in drafts, ete., were delivered to a stranger by a clerk in the Chicago post-office and were missing. ' THE town of Seaville, Ky., was almost totally destroyed by an incendiary fire. ! ‘

Moss have driven all Chinese laundrymen and laborers from the towns of Western Alhene and Adams, in Oregon. AT Helena, Mont., E. A. Street, a telegraph operator, sold to ex-Senator Tabor for $lOO,OOO a placer claim which was said to be worth $15,000,000. AT Richmond, Ind., James A. Wood, an attendant at the hospital for the insane, was-found guilty of the murder of Jay Blount, an inmate, and sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. IN North Dakota H. C. Hansbrough (Rep.) was elected United States Senator to succeed Gilbert A. Pierce. His term commences March 4 next.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN Spain the Tagus and Ebro rivers, which filow through Saragossa, were covered with ice for the first time since 1829, :

EARTHQUAKE shocks occurred in Switzerland, and simultaneously three skaters were drowned at Genoa harbor. The ice was broken by the shock. THE loss of wages, stoppage of trade and blight of erops by the storms and cold in Francé was $2,500,000. |

IN Germany seven fishermen crossed the Zuyder Zee on the ice—not done before since 1740.

IN Europe a rise of 25 degrees in temperature was general. In Spain and Algeria 'the snow and severe weather have cost many lives. IN a mine explosion at Jasinoawata, in Southern Russia, over 100 persons were killed. :

CuiLr advices say that the revolt there is spreading, parties of Government troops having passed over to the rebels. ‘ Tur death was announced of Prince Baudouin, aged 22 years, nephew of King Leopold and heir to tkha throne of Belgium. -

LATER

IN the United States Senate on the 24th the cloture resolution and the elections bill werc considered. In the House, after the reading of the journal, the naval appropriation bill was further discussed, but no action was taken. A bill was favorably reported to appropriate $10,000,000 to repair and build the levees on the Mississippi from the head of the passes to Cairo. ' A. HARRIS, a Jewish rabbi, fell dead in his pulpit at Richmond, Va., just after delivering a sermon. : : DuRrING a fire in Jersey City, N. J., Chief Engineer Henry E. Farrier and Daniel Dinan, a foreman, and a Mr. Gooseman were burned to death.

FIrTY miners were killed and thirty others severely injured by an explosion in a mine at Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

AFTER twenty-two ballots the Senatorial situation in the Illinois Legislature remained on the 24th as it was at the beginning: Palmer, 101; Oglesby, 100; Streeter, 3.

A sKIFF containing four persons upset at Carney’s ford near Grayson, Ky., and John Metcalf and Mrs. Mary Waters were‘drowned. THE 1,200 ladians on the Reéd Lake reservation in the vicinity of Thief River Falls, Minn., were engaged in ghost dances and had ordered all Sfittlers to leave the country under penalty of death. 2

TrIRTY disguised men took John Barber and James Ballard from their homes in Wirt County, W. Va., tied them to trees and beat them unmercifully. No cause was known.

A TRAIN on the Michigan Central road struck a carriage containing Irvin Teal and Ezra Moore, two well-knows citizens of Fort Erie, Ont., and both were killed.

L. B. MizNER, ex-Minister to Guatemala, arrived in San Francisco from Mazattan on the Pacific Mail steamer San Jose. : »,

THE towns of Charleroi, Thuin, Marchiennes and Dinant, in Belgium, were all under water, causing immense damage to property and some loss of life.

A MAN supposed to be C. E. Stanley, of Cleveland, 0., dressed in a well-made black suit and wearing a silk hat, deliberately jumped over the falls from the Goat island bridge at Niagara Falls. - Tar city of New York was visited by a terrific wind and snow-storm on the 256th which filled the streets with fallen trees and telegraph poles and stopped all traffic. No such work of devastation had been known in that city since the great blizzard of March, 1888, i

" SHUT IN BY A STORM. New York City Visited by the Worst Storm Since the Blizzard of 1888—Telegraphic Communication Cut Off for a Time— Traffic at a Standstill—Streets Blockaded by Fallen Trees and Teiegraph Poles and Tangled Wires. / .~ NEW Yoßrk, Jan. 26.—The storm which set in at 11 o’clock Saturday night and continued until noon Sunday was the severest of the season thus far. About six inches of snow fell, and it was of the wet, clinging kind that fastened itself to every thing it touched, loading trees until they were shorn of their branches or fell prostrate with their trunks snapped off as though they had been mere twigs; clinging to the electric wires until they gave way under the pressure and broke in all directions, or until the poles on whicn they were strung, breaking under the enormous weight, fell across streets and agdinst houses, blocking all trafiic on the former and threatening destruction to the latter and their inmates.

At daylight Sunday morning the work of destruction had begun and it continued until the snow-fall ceased at noon, when the wrecks of trees and telegraph poles were to be found on every street. Irregular festoons of wire were hanging on every hand and detached lengths of wire were strung on every sidewalk. No such work of devastation has been known since the great blizzard of March, 1888, and it is a question if that memorable storm was more serious in its effects upon the telegraph poles and wires of the city. Early in the morning telegraphic and telephonic connections were ' broken, and while the snow did not offer a bar to railroad traffic the prostrate poles and fallen wires prevented the running of cars on many streets, and even the elevated railroad trains were compelled to move cautiously and were often brought to a stop by the wires that had fallen across the tracks. !

The police and fire departments were especial sufferers. All wire connections between the various police stations and the central station were broken and recourse was had to messengers. The fire-department circuits were generally broken, and as no alarms could be sent out excepting on a very few circuits patrols of firemen were established throughout the city. Early in the morning an immense tree that stood in front of 210 East Broadway fell into the street, narrowly escaping a car that was loaded with pas'sengers. In its descent it struck the telegraph wires and carried down a lot of poles. All the telegraph poles on Seventh avenue from Firty-second street to Fifty-ninth are down, covering the avenue with wires and the fragments of poles. The heavy poles on Fiftyninth street from Eighth avenue to Eleventh avenue suffered the same fate. At 7:30 o’clock in the morning a line of Western Union eighty-foot poles fell with a crash, carrying no less than 150 single wires and two cables two inches thick, with from forty to seventyfive wires in them, to the ground. The cross-bars scraped the sides of the brownstone flats on the south side of the street as they fell and shook the buildings to their very foundations. The fall made a sound like thunder, startling people for blocks away. Many of the enormous poles were broken in three pieces and the cross-arms shattered. The houses were so blocked by the wreck that until midday ingress or egress was impossible. Several poles fell against the Union Square Hall, Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue, doing some little ?amage to the building. The entire line of poles on the west side of Park avenue from Fifty-ninth to Seventyninth street went down, incumbering both street and sidewalk. The poles on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street between First and Third avenues and between Ninth and Tenth avenues are down. The debris blocked the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street cable road for several hours. Early in the morning a telegraph wire broke in front of 115 Chambers street and fell across an electric-light wire and received its current. The wire fell on the horses of an ' Eighth avenue car, and the deadly current killed one of them instantly. The storm opened in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday. It increased in severity until it reached Cape Hatteras. The visitation reached New York City at 10:45 with a rain which changed to snow at 11:45 p. m. The blinding snow continued to 10 a. m. Sunday and nine inches fell. It is thought that the young blizzard did not extend more than 100 miles inland. The Western Union is badly crippled by the storm, all wires being down but three, those being in the Western cireuit connecting Albany, Rochester, Buffalo and Chicago. The storm extemded over the entire region from Boston through the lower Eastern States, Squthern New York, New Jersey, Delaware and south of Maryland. At 8 o’clock Sunday morning there were but few wires running from the Western Union office, and at 9 o'clock nearly every wire was rendered useless. At one time communication to Philadelphia, Albany and Boston was entirely cut off. . " Jußrsry Crry. N. J.. Jan. 26-—The storm has made of Jersey City a buried town. There is not an effective wire to be found, either telegraph, telephone, fire-alarm or electrie light. Save for submarine cables to New York and Brooklyn the isolation is complete. The same is true of Hoboken. Fallen poles and tangled wires cumber the streets in many places.

FATAL RAILWAY WRECK.

Ex-Congressman Lord, of Michigan, Killed and Several Other Persons Hurt in a ° Collision Near Butte, Mont.

BurTtg, Mont., Jan. 26.—A collision occurred on the Northern Pacific near this city Sunday afternoon in which H. W. Lord, of Devil’s Lake, N. D., lost his ‘life and eight others were badly injured. Mr. Lord was well known throughout the West and Northwest, having been a member of Congress from Michigan before going to Dakota, where he had been prominently mentioned for both Congress and Senate. He was register of the land office at Devil’s Lake.

Gage to Resign.

CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—President Lyman J. Gage of the World’s Columbian Exposition will retire from his office on the first of next April. Mr. Gage is firmly determined to execute such a step, and expresses himself positively on his intention. He says his duties as president of the organization seriously, interfere with other business interests.

Death of ex-Senator Wadleigh.

BosToN, Jan. 26.—Bainbridge Wadleich, a well-known Boston ' lawyer and ex-Senator from New Hampshire, died here of Bright's disease after a protracted illness, _ ‘

. WOE IN BELGIUM. , Prince Baudouin, Heir to the Throne, Dies in Prussels—The People Greatly Excited Over Scandalous Rumors Connected with His Sudden Demise. BRUSSELS, Jan. 24.—Prince Baudouin, mephew of ‘King Leopold, and heir to the throne of Belgium, is dead. He died in this city at 3 o'clock Friday morning. The cause of his death is alleged to have been an attack of bronchitis. The death of the Prince has caused a tremendous sensation and ‘creates consternation in all classes in Brussels. There are all sorts of rumors circulating as the public was entirely unaware that the Prince was ill. - ‘ Intense excitement prevails in' Brussels and throughout the provinces. Crowds of people are parading the streets or gathering in knots at street cormers eagerly discussing the situation. On all sides the warmest expressions of sympathy with the royal family in this their fresh trouble are heard. Prince Baudouin’s popularity and brilliant talents and the brighf hopes centered by the Belgians on his future career, make them feel the Prince’s loss in the keenest manner possible. : . The news of the Prince’s death was withheld from his sister, the Princess Henriette, a beautiful gir] about 20 years of age, who is dan‘gerously sick from inflammation of the lungs. The palace of the Count of Flanders, where the Princess resides, is surrounded by a strong force of police, who are doing their utmost to prevent the unusual noise in the streets from arousing the suspicions of the suffering Princess. ‘

The sudden death of the Prince Baudouin has caused the most alarming rumors to be circulated on all sides, and these rumors grew in importance as the day progressed. It was openly asserted that the death of the popular Belgian Prince was a repetition of the sad circumstances surrounding the death of the Archduke Rudolph, the heir to the Austrian throne, who met his death in such a mysterious manner on January 30, 1889. It was added that a beautiful German governess, who had been recently banished from the Belgium court by order of King Leopold, had been in some way connected with the death of Prince Baudouin. Rumor also had it that there had beén an intrigue, lasting a long time, between the governess and the Prince, and the result of their liason is said to have been the birth of a child. In any case the death of Prince Baudouin is surrounded with mystery and speculation. The court physicians, in the death certificate, announce that Prince Baudouin’s death was caused by hemorrhages, following a severe attack of bronchitis. The physicians also assert that the Prince caught a chill while' watching .at the bedside of his sister, the Princess Henriette, who has been ill for some time past. But these statements are far from conwincing the people that the real cause of the death of Prince Baudouin has been given to the public, and the startling rumors already referred to are popularly believed to be founded on a solid basis of fact of some description. :

Telecrams and messages of condolence with the royal family of Belgium in this their great sorrow are already reaching Brussels from all parts of Europe, among the dispatches received being words of sympathy from Queen Victoria and the Prince and Princess of Wales. ;

The latest and most probable version of the cause of the Prince’s death is that it was due to a complication, of small-pox, bronchitis and hsematuria. The populace is enraged at what is termed the blundering of unsuspecting doctors. : ;

All the theaters and public institwtions are closed and will remain closed until after the funeral, which will take place from the royal palace of Laeken, in South Brabant, about two miles north of Brussels.

Prince Baudouin Leopold Philippe Marie Charles' Antoine Joseph Louis was the son of the Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold. Prince Baudouin was born in this city on June 8, 1869. He was a captain of Belgian carbiners and a captain of Prussian cavalry, being attached to the Second Regiment of Hanoverian Dragoons. )

- The brother of Prince Baudouin, Prince Albert Leopold Clement Marie Meinrad, who was born April 8, 1875, is now heir to the throne of Belgium. Prince Albert is now studying under the direction of a number of tutors in preparation for passing his examination previous to entering upon a military career. . :

THE SILVER INQUIRY.

Mr. Littler, of Illinois, Tells How He Bought Silver for Senator Cameron.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—David T. Littler, of Illinois, testified before the silver pool investigation committee that he had purchased about $lOO,OOO worth of silver for Senator Cameron before the silver bill had passed the Senate. He said he made about $7OO on his deal and Cameron probably $l,OOO or $1,500. He was in no silver pool for affecting legislation and did not know of any. He made purchases for Cameron at his request and thought and still thinks it was perfectly proper on the part of Cameron.

Mr. Littler said he had no knowledge of any silver pool. He suggested that Senator Cameron be called as the easiest way to secure information regarding the date of the Cameron transaction.

The Convicted President and Cashier of a - National Bank Pardoned.

- RALEIGH, Jan. 24.—Governor Fowle bas pardoned Charles E. Cross and Samuel C. White, who, while respectively president and cashier of the State National Bank here, fled to Canada in March, 1888, with $20,000 which they had just obtained by express from Richmond and Baltimore banks. They were recaptured and sentenced to hard labor on the public roads. Their wives recently began efforts to secure pardons and presented to the Governor petitions with thousands of signatures and the Governor promptly granted a pardon.

_ R SR The Mohawk River Overflows, Causing ; Considerable Damage.

TrißE’S Hirr, N. Y., Jan. 24.—As the result of an ice gorge the Mohawk river at Fort Hunter overflowed its banks Friday afternoon and the residents of the place residing along its banks have been driven from their homes. Boats are being run about some of the buildings that are surrounded by water. The water is still rising and there is much excitement; Should the ice come over the banks great damage must result. At Mill Point the water is- up to the secoid story of some of the dwellings, ‘

THEIR WANTS MADE KNOWN. -s i & A New Confederation of Industrial Ore ganizations Formed—lts Platform. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The committeen on confederation of labor organizations reassembled Friday morning. After considerable debate the demands of the new joint organization were finally agreed upon and ratified as follows: “l. We demand the abolition of National banks as banks of issue, and as a substitute for National-bank notes we demand that legal Treasury notes be issued in sufficient volume to transact the business of the country without damage or especial advantage to any, class or calling,such notes to be legal tender in payment: of all debts, public and private, and such notes, when demanded by the people, shall be loaned to them at not more than 2 per cent. per annum upon non-perishable products as indicated in the sub-Treasury plan and also upon real estate, with proper limitations upon the quantity of land and amount of money. ‘2, We demand a free and unlimited coinage of gilver. : “3. We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by aliens and foreign syndicates, and that all lands held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers only. . “4. Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, we demand that taxation, National, State or municipal, shall not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of another. “5. We demand that 21l revenues,' National, State or county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the Government economically and honestly administered. :

‘6. We demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes. ‘7. We demand the most rigid, honest and just National control and supervision of the means of public communication and transportation, and if this control and supervision does not remove the abuses now existing we demand the Government ownership of such means of communication and transportation. .~ ‘B. We demand that the Congress of the United States submit an amendment to the constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people of each State; also the President and Vice-President by the popular vote. ‘“Resolved, That this confederation of industrial organizations demand that in each State a system shall be provided and faithfully executed that will insure an honest and accurate registration of all voters, a free, fair, secret and official ballot and an honest public count; and we demand that each State Legislature shall make it a felony for any improper interference with the exercise of the registration, ballot or count.” )

A permanent organization was then formed by the election of Ben Terrell, of Texas, as president, and J. W. Hayes, of Pennsylvania, as secretary and treasurer. The amalgamated organizations will be known as the Confederation of Industrial Organizations. ‘ - FIREMEN KILLED. . . Falling Walls in Buffalo Cause a Horrible‘b Catastrophe. = Burraro, N. Y., Jan. 24.—The new building of Warner Bros., at the corner of Terrace and Pearl streets, was almost ruined by a fatal fire Friday night. The building was of brick trimmed with cut stone and was five stories high. It' was divided into four stories, occupied by Warner 8r05.,, Darling & Scholes, Zingsheim & Harris and L. Marcus & Son. The building is said to have cost $BO,OOO. The fire was discovered about 8:50 o’clock bursting from the three stories of the section occupied by L. Marcus & Son and spreading. The blaze was finally got under control after property to the amount of $300,000 had been destroyed. L Shortly after 11 o’elock, when all thought of further danger by fire or falling walls had apparently passed and the chief was dispersing what men were not needed, the firemen from engine No. 4 were stationed in front of the Marcus building and several - streams were playing upon the ruins. Chief Hornung and Assistant Chief Murphy were standing just behind the pipemen directing the work. Suddenly the wall was seen to totter and before the men could move to escape the danger it was upon them. Adam Fisher, fireman of engine No. 4 and a member of the Buffalo fire department since its organization, was taken out of the ruins dead, and Hogart Snyder, also of engine No. 4, was taken out fatally injured. Theodore M. Keuss, George Whitner and Anthony Keller dragged themselves out and were taken to ‘the hospital. Snyder afterward died. He was about 27 years old, married and leaves two children. All the burned firms dealt in clothing except Darling & Scholes.! '

AN AVALANCHE.

An Immense Mass of Snow Falls Into the Streets of Quebec from the Cliffs, Demolishing Several Houses. ‘ .

NEw YORK, Jan 24.—A Quebec special says: An immense avalanche of snow fell Thursday night from the ecliffs of the Plains of Abraham into Champlain street, half a mile from the scene of the disastrous landslide of 1889, which caused the death of fifty-two people. The avalanche occurred at .the very spot where a similar slide fifteen winters ago demolished two houses and killed seven people. The houses ~ were never rebuilt on the cliff side of the street, or the fatal disaster of 1876 would have been repeated, for snow Thursday night filled the street to the depth of twenty feet and smashed in the fronts of four houses on the opposite side- of the street, partially demolishing them. Fortunately the inmates escaped injury, though some of the houses have had to be evacuated and others can only be occupied in the rear portions of the upper stories. The city corporation has over fifty men at work - digging out the street. The damage will be ‘considerable.

+ Got the Worst of It. : : HeLENA, Mont., Jan. 24.— E. A. Street, a telegraph operator of Helena, is $lOO,OOO richer than a few weeks ago, but is aware that he sold millions for that amount. Street works at telegraphy in the winter and prospects in the summer. Some time ago he located a placer claim in Lembi County, Idaho, and bought up adjoining claims till he had 1,600 acres. He reported his find to exSenator Tabor, who sent experts to examine it and on their report paid Street $lOO,OOO for his property. It is now reported that the placer property is worth fully $15,000,000. : . Condition of Trade as Reported by R. G. Dun's Wékly Review. i NEw Yoßrg, Jan. 24.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says that it has been noteworthy throughout recent financial troubles that Western centers of trade have been comparatively free from disturbances or apprehensions, and now the energy and growth of the West have their effect in larger trade and s’crongertggnfidenée'in Eastern commercial centers. In: the reports of this week a moderate but steady increase in the volume of busis ness compared with last year is the most strikisg feature,

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