Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 February 1891 — Page 2

i . * ») R The Ligonier Danner, LIGONIER, : : INDIANA €DAO KA AP os AT BRSSPSR PO T (TR s It is too bad when a girl that can write poetry marries an Indian, but if all the girls that think they can would only do it the people would be happy. THERE are nearly eight hundred thousand deaf mutes in the world, of whom sixty-three per cent. were born deaf and the others made deaf by various causes. Mr. HEN;;}Y, aged ninety-five years, recently finished an uninterrupted life of pauperism in the Gosport (Eng.) work-house. He was. brought there when six years old in 1801.

“RUSSELL SAGE makes it a rule never to loan more than $500,000 on any given day.” There are a lot of fellows out West who limit themselves in the same way and never mention it.

THE enormous numgber. of 2,759 duels are said to have been fought in Italy during the last twelve months. Fifty of the combatants were killed, while 3.901 wounds, some of them serious, were inflicted.

Mgs. WiLriaM Moßris, wife of the London artist, poe¢ and Socialist, is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She goes out but little, and is rarely seen by the multitude who visit her husband.

. SARA BERNHARDT is in the United States again with a wardrobe that fills 104 trunks. This is about 1031 more than the ancient Cleopatra took along when she traveled unless she has been greatly lied about.

A ForelGN physician has discovered that goats are not subject to consumption. The general belief has been that they beat all known quadrupeds on consumption, and took in every thing from a circus poster to an oyster can.

REev. JouN JASPER, who gained celebrity -by his ‘“sun-do-move” lecture, doesn’t let his salary move. His congregation has several times tendered him an increase, but he declares that fifty dollars a month is ample for his needs, and he declines to accept more.

Tae King of Siam will soon send six youths from his Kingdom to Pennsylvania to be educated. They are all to become physicians. The young men are chosen from among the poorer classes, and the expense of their tuition, about five hundred dollars a year each, is to be borne by the Siamese Government. 2 : &

JUDGE THAYER at St. Louis dismissed a suit against Selwyn Edgar for violating the alien-contract labor law on the ground that there was no contract, as Edgar in a letter asking two men in England to come over to work for him and' inclosing tickets to St. Louis had said he could give them steady work, not that he would.

It is the inevitable outcome of any scientific discovery that numerous imitations and delusions, besides actual counterfeits and humbugs, follow in its train. These must be sifted” carefully, and the physician who does not thoroughly and frankly state all the details of his remedy can not complain if the public fails to have confidence in it.

A GRAND total of 200 railroads in the United States, 153 of which make returns for the full year and the rest for eleven months, shows aggregate gross earnings for 1890 of $922,738,282 on 140,400 miles. This isa gain of more than 8 per cent. over the gross earnings of 1889. The favorable character of the business is pretty general, only 11 out of the 153 and 2 of the 47 exhibiting a decrease.

MRs. KATE REYNOLDS, of Pittsburgh, Pa., went skating a few days ago with her husband, accompanied also by an old lover. The husband could not keep up with the wife and her old lover, and they skated away from him out of sight and into the dim somewhere. They have not yet returned. It is one of the very saddest ice stories on record. Absolutely nothing is known of the pair save the certainty that they skated into a moral air-hole.

IT seems that two hundred and eightynine German school children committed suicide in the six years ended 1888. The suicides have been much more numerous in the elementary than in the high schools. The most prolific cause of suicide in the elementary schools was the fear of punishment, to which the deaths of forty-five boys and twenty-three girls are attributed. In the high schools disappointment at the results of examinations claimed the greatest number of victims.

THE Census Office has issued a bulletin on the area of States and coun ties in the United States and Territories. The largest county in the country is Yavapai, in Arizona, which embraces 29,236 square miles, and is larger than Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey combined. The second largest county is San Bernardino, Cal.,with 21,000 square miles. The smallest county is Alexandria, in Virginia, thirty-two square miles. There are twenty-one counties each of which is larger than Massa-~ chusetts, while there are 814 counties larger than Rhode Island.

THE so-called slang phrase ‘““too thin,” which, like many others which date back beyond Colonial days isvery often cited as a Yankeeism by the Britishers, is English from ‘“way back.” In Smollett’'s ‘‘Peregrine Pickle” the hero informs Emilia that he is going abroad. This brings tears to her eyes, but she says that they are caused by the hot tea which she is pouring. Which leads the author to remark that the excuse is “too thin” to impose on- her lover. The: phrase is also found in Shakespeare’s ‘“Henry VIIL,” Act V., Scene 2, with the same meaning. W

I~ 1888 there were four million bushels of oysters received at Baltimore from the Chesapeake bay beds, but this season the receipts to the same date have fallen below two million bushels, while vacking houses throughout the State are closed, and from all parts of the bay comes thé story of exhausted beds. The violation of the law and the consequent destruction of the young oyster is responsible for this condition of tkings. The law is a dead letter, and a great industry is being ruined. Ten years ago. Professor Brooks uttered a warning against the wholesale depletion of the oyster beds; but the work has continued

. Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Second Session. . TueEsDAY. Feb. 3. —ln the Senate bills were passed providing penalties for embezzlement of pensions by guardians of pensioners; appropriating $BOO,OOO for a public building at St. Paul. The fortification bill was discussed. In the House bills were passed prohibiting the sale of tobacco to boys under 16 years of age in the District of Columbia; granting a pension to Mrs. E. F. Noyes, widow of the late General Noyes. The sundry civil bill ($34,242,970) and the agricultural appropriation bill ($2,304,853) were reported.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4.—Bills were re ported in the Senate to provide for the inspection of vessels carrying export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and to prevent adulterations of food and drugs. The fortification and Military Academy appropriation bills were passed. In the House the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was passed and the conference report was adopted on a bill providing for an additional Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona. THURSDAY, Feb. s.—Among the bills introduced in the Senate was one increasing the pension of General Custer’s widow to $lOO a menth. The pension appropriation bill was passed. It appropriates for pensions for the year, $133,173,085; for fees and expenses of examining surgeons, $1,500,000; for salaries of eighteén pehsion agents, $72,000, and for clerk hire, $400,000. _Other bills were passed to authorize the construction of a tunnel under New York bay; for a survey of the interior of Alaska: for the construction of three Indian industrial schools in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, the cost not to exceed $30,000 each. -In the House the time was occupied in discussing the sundry ecivil appropriation bill, and an amendment was offered to the coinage paragraph providing for the free coinage of silver. . FrRIDAY, Feb. 6. —ln the Senate the naval appropriation bill was reported and the House bill providing: for the adjustment of accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics arising out of the eight-hour law was discussed. In the House the bill amending the land-forfeiture act by extending the time was passed. and the free silver coinage amendment tc the sundry civil appropriation bill was defeated by a vote of 134 to 127.

FROM WASHINGTON.

DuriNng January the movement of cotton reached a total of 961,044 bales, exceeding the, movement for January, 1890, by 194,875 bales. :

Ix the United States the total coinage during January was $2,720,000 in gold, $3,653,956 in silver and $134,800 in nickels. Lo

THE statement of the public debt issued on the 3d showed the total debt to be $1,544,677,354; cash in the Treasury, $627,201,764; debt less cash in the Treasury, $846,595.045. Decrease during January, $15,835,496. Decrease since June 30, 1890, $51,672,900.

THE report of Adjutant-General Kelton of the militia forces says there are in the United States 8,312 commissioned officers, 97.957 non-commissioned officers and 7,695,242 men who are available for military pumposes. Tue President issued his proclamation announcing a reciprocity agreement with Brazil under the new tariff law, to go into effect April 1 next. TarouGHOUT the country business continued to exceed last year’s on the whole, and was in character more healthy and conservative than usual. Money was easy and collections generally fair.

THE business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 6th numbered 206, against 320 the preceding week and 321 the corresponding week last year. )

THE EAST.

By a railway accident near Corry, Pa., an engineer and his fireman were killed, and the same fate befell an engineer and fireman at Rochester, N. Y. ‘FLAMES destroyed the Hecla bronze and iron works at Williamsburgh, N. Y., causing a loss of £300,000. THREE miners were killed by an explosion of powder at the Neilson colliery in Shamokin, Pa.

EIGHTEEN miners lost their lives by water breaking into|a mine at Jeanesville, Pa. l THE stable of Havelow & Bernstein at Boston was burned and sixty-five horses perished in the flames. IN Newark, N. J., ilrs. Mary Rosenberg, 26 years of ag?, who lived in a basement of a house, was found dead from starvation, and her two little children were nearly dead. ' '

ON the sth the keel of the first iron ship ever built in Maine was laid, that of cruiser No. 5 at the Bath iron works.

E. H. Cuurcn’s soda-water factory at Green Point, N. Y., was burned, causing a loss of $200,000. FIRE ruined the bolt and nut manufacturing plant of J. Henry Sternbergh & Son at Reading, Pa., the largest of its kind in America. Loss, $275,000.

IN Albany, N. Y., Francis R. Jugg, who fought with Napoleon at Waterloo, died at the age of 96 years. ' THE American Express Company was said to have secured control of the National Express Company.

WEST AND SOUTH.

Tur Legislature of Arkansas refused to make an appropriation for the world’s fair owing to the large deficiency in the State treasury caused by the peculations of the State Treasurer. HeNRY BECHTOLD murdered his sister-in-law at Smithton, 111., and then committed suicide.

MAyor WoRD, of Palestine, Tex., attacked Sam Jones, the evangelist, with a cane. Jones wrested the cane from the mayor and gave him a beating.

BusiNess has been resumed by the Huron (8. D.) National Bank, which suspended payment a month ago. o

A FIREMAN was killed and a brakeman and two tramps were fatally hurtin a railway collision at Beach City, O.

WHaiLk engaged in a fight with a party of Indians, Henry W. McNamer and his son John were killed near Spokane Falls, Wash. . CHARLES STEWART and Ernest Brobsler, probably the most celebrated counterfeiters in this country, were captured at Louisville, Ky., while making spurious money.

" At Clarks, Neb., the wife of Banker Cowles was killed by burglars and Mr. Cowles was knocked senseless. -

THE discovery was made that W, MeZimmerman, the store-keeper and agent of tiie Farmers’ Alliance supplyhouse at Spartansburg, 8. ~ vrasshort £30,000 in lis accounts. :

A SENSATION was created at Springe field, 0., by the alleged return to life of Mrs. George Tyree, who had been pronounced dead. An undertaker was summoned, but before his arrival the lady sat up and said she had come back to be baptized, asd insisted so strenu-s ously that a clergyman was called and the rite administered. Mrs. Tyree was better than for some time, and said she would recover.

IN St. Louis dangerous two-dollar counterfeit bills were in circulation. THE death was announced of Charles H. Branscombe, the founder of. Lawrence, Kan., and prominent in the early struggles of that State. . Fire ruined Robert McElroy’s retail dry-goods store in Detroit, Mich., causing aloss of $175,000; insurance, $130,000.

AT Greenville, 111, a fire destroyed all the business houses on the east side of the square. e

IT cost the Government in the Indian war in the Dakotas $2,000.000.

IN a snow-slide near Ouray, Col., four miners perished. - : GoVERNMENT officials captured ten of the most desperate outlaws in the Indian Territory. , : , TeE First Arkansas Valley Bank of Wichita failed with liabilities of $120,000. :

AT Amboy, 111., Miss Grace Gridley, who has been in a comatose condition for the past year, is now recovering. FIRE destroyed a large barn near Geneva, 111., and eleven horses and fiftyseven head of choice cattle and a great amount of hay and grain were consumed. : ‘ : RETURNS from the recent elections in Oklahoma showed that the Democratie and Alliance tickets were successful.

PAaTsy DEVINE, of Alfom, 111.,- who was hanged several years ago' for the murder of Aaron Goodfellow, of Bloomington, was discovered to be innocent of the crime. On the scaffold Devine declared that he was not guilty. A moB lynched Green Jackson (colored), the slayer of N. W. Ward, at Greenville, Miss. :

FraMmes destroyed the Pullman car shops. and a row of dwellings at St. Louis, involving a loss of $250,000. Tue richest body of tin ore in the world was discovered forty-five miles southwest of Durango, Mex., by John Pershbalcer,. of San Francisco. By the overflow of small streams in Alabama many farms were under water, and much loss had been sustained by the drowning of live stock and the destruction of farm-houses and fencing. . NeEAr Shelby, Ala., a bridge gave way over the Coosa river, and four men were killed by falling timbers.

WiLriaM YouNG and John Anderson were blown to atoms by an explosion of giant powder in a mine near ‘Kokomo, Col., and John Johnson, John MecLeod and Will Crane were fatally hurt.

In California over 5,000 cases of the grip were reported. . NEARLY the entire business portion of the village of Ellisville, 111., was destroyed by fire. ' \ Mgrs. Amos RoBERTS died at Grand Rapids, Mich., aged 100 years.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN Paris Michael . Eyraud, the murderer of Notary Gouffe, was guillotined. PirATES attacked two war junks by mistake near Ningpo, China, and six were captured and beheaded. -

TeE Canadian Governor General has dissolved the House of Commons. The new Parliament will assemble March 5 next. ‘%

IN Vienna 10,000 shoemakers went on strike for an increase in wages. NEAR Schrieger, Ont., a sleeping-car was thrown froin the track and fell a distance of sixtyifeet, severely. injuring the nine passengers inside the car. DuriNGg January 1,225 Italian emigrants left Trieste for America. AT a fire ina Moscow (Russia) orphan asylumm nine children were burned to death and several fatally injured. TWENTY-TWO wood-cutters working on a mountain side in the province of Glarus, Switzerland, were buried by an avalanche. g

MiTcHELL & SHEPARD, manufacturers of woolens at Bradford, Eng., failed for $415,000. 4 TaE death of F. H. Morse, United States Consul-General to London under President Lincoln, occurred at Surrey, Eng., where he had lived since his retirement, aged 84 years. .

LATER,

IN the United States Senate on the “th it was decided to hold evening sessions hereafter. The House bill for the adjustment of accounts of workmen, laborers and mechanics under the eight-hour law was discussed. The death of Mr. Phelan, of Tennessee, was announced, and as a mark of respect the Senate adjourned. In the House the amendment to the world’s fair clause of the sundry civil appropriation bill was passed. It makes the salary of the director general, $7,500; president, $5,000; vice-president of the sxecutive committee, $4,000; secretary, $3,000; clerks, ete., $B,OOO.

"PHE McLaren lumber mills at Ottawa, Ont., were burned, causing a lcss of $150,000. .

PrEsSIDENT HARRISON has approved the act granting a pension toc MajorGeneral Franz Sigel, and the act making an apportionment of Representatives in: Congress among the several States under the new census. ' GOVERNOR PECK, of Wisconsin, has signed the bill passed by the Legislature repealing the Bennett school law. By an explosion of gas in the new shaft at Simpson & Watkins’ mine at Wyoming, Pa., two men were instantly killed and two fatally injured. Mgrs. RosaNNA HueHEs, aged 102, died at Louisville, Ky. She was the oldest woman in the State. EpwArD PARK, who had been an Inmate of the Westchester (N. Y.) poorhouse for thirty-six years, died at the, age of 102 years. ! 1 GEORGE SLAYBACK, of Cincinnati, shot his wife, who had left him because of abuse, and then killed himself. .

TaE fruit steamer Simon Dumois, valued at $200,000, from Matanzas, Cuba, foundered near New York, and her crew of sixteen men were lost. Tuae explosion of a boiler in Giles’ steam saw-mill near Reidsville, Ga., killed six men. ;

TREADWAY’S livery stable at Huron, S. D., was destroyed by fire, and twenty-four horses perished in the flames. : e

TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, half of which was in bills and half in Government bonds, was found in ‘a Pullman car in Chicago by Henry Prentice, an employe of the company. Four incendiary fires were started in Sioux City, la., and as a result property valued at $250,000 was destroyed. Tae steamer Chiswick, bound from Cardiff to St. Nazaire, struck a sand bank of the Sicily islands and.sanlk, and the captain and ten seamen were drowned. LA

G RECIPROCITY. The New Republic of Brazil the First to Accept the McKinley Bill’s Proposition —President Harrison’s Proclamation Detailing the Result of Negotiations—Benefits to the United States. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The President late Thursday afternoon issued the following proclamation: “By the President of the United States of America—A proclamation: : “WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 3, act of Congress, approved October 1, 1890, entitled ‘An Act to Reduce the Revenue and Egqualize Duties on Imports and for Other Purposes,’ the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the United States of Brazil the action of the Congress of the United States of America with a view to secure reciprocal trade in declaring the articles enumerated in said section 3—to wit, sugars, molasses, cofiee and hides, to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America; and ' | “WHEREAS, The Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in due reciprocity and for consideration of the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in section .3 of said act, the Government of Brazil has, by legal enactment, authorized the admission from and after April-1, 1891, ingo all the established ports of entry eof Brazil, free of all duty, whether National, State or municipal, of the articles of merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product and manufacture of the United States of America. “Schedule of articles to be admitted free into Brazil: Wheat, wheat flour, corn or maize and the manufacture thereof, including cornmeal and starch; rye, rye flour, buckwheat, buckwheat fiour and barley;:potatoes, beans and peas; hay and oats; pork, salted, including pickled pork and bacon, except hams; fish, salted, dried or pickled; cottonseed oil; coal, anthracite and bituminous: resin, tar, pitch and turpentine; agricultural tools, implements and machinery: mining and mechanical tools, implements and machinery, including stationary and portable engines and all machinery for manufacturing and industrial purposes, except sewing machines; instruments and books for the arts and sciences; railway-construction material and equipment. : ‘‘And that the Government of Brazil has by legal enactment further authorized the admission into all the established ports of entry of Brazil, with a reduction of 25 per cent. of the duty designated on the respective article in the tariff now in force or which may hereafter be adopted in the United States of Brazil, whether National, State or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, providing that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States of America: Lard and substitutes therefor, bacon, hams, butter and cheese, canned and preseryed meets, fish, fruits and vegetables; manutactures of cotton, including cotton clothing; mannfactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoing schedule; leather and the manufactures thereof, except boots and shoes; lumber, timber and the manufactures of wood, lincluding cooperage, furniture of all kinds, wagons, carts and carriages; manufactures of rubber. “And that the Government of Brazil has further provided that the laws and regulations, adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedules are the product or manufacture of the United States of America, shall place no undue restrictions on the importer or impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported; and, *“WHEREAS, The Secretary of State has by my direction given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington that this action of the Government of Brazil in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3of said act. Now. therefore, be it known, that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the above-stated modifications of the tariff law of Brazil to be made pubiic for the information of the citizens of the United States of America. “In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

*‘Done at the city of Washington, this fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety one, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifteenth. BENJAMIN HARRISON. “By the President: . . “JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.”

The first of a series of letters which passed between Secretary Blaine and the Brazilian Minister upon the subject of reciprocity was written by Mr. Blaine and was dated November 3, 1890. In it the Secretary of State expresses -to Senor ' Mendonca = the hope that the Government of Brazil will meet the Government of the United States in a spirit of sincere friendship in its desire for such trade relations with that country as shall be reciprocally equal, and that it may be the happy fortune of Senor Mendonca and himself to be instrumental in establishing commerecial relations between the two Republics on a permanent basis of reciprocity profitable to both.

In his reply, dated January 31, 1891, Senor Mendonca informed Mr. Blaine that the United States of Brazil is animated by a desire to strengthen and perpetuate the friendly relations which happily exist between it and the United States of America and to establish a basis of reciprocity and equality. : Under the provisions of the agreement Brazil reduces her import charges upon American products of the farm, factory and mine to the extent of about $5,000,000 annually, which is as far as she could go in the. present state of her finapces. The present annual importation of sugar from Brazil is about 125,000 tons, and it is believed that under the stimulus which this reeciprocity will give she will this year increase her sugar shipments to 200,000 tons, next year to 500,000 tons, and that in five years Brazil will be able to furnish all the sugar required in the United States. !

Some idea of the far-reaching importance of this reciprocal agreement may be gathered from the estimates which have been made of the increased trade which will result. At present the United States pays to Brazil annually about $65,000,000, while it only receives $8,000,000 in return. It is expected that in three years Brazil,K will pay the United States in return for our manufactures and products at least $25,000,000, which amount will be distributed through every section of the country.

FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND.

Basis of the Coming Woman’s National Temperance Council. :

NEw YORK, Feb. 6.—Miss Frances E. Willard sends out the following as the basis of the Woman’s National Temperance council which meets in Washington February 22 to 25: .

“The women of the council, sincerely believing that the best good of their homes and Nation will be advanced by their greater unity of thought and sympathy of purpose, and that an organized movement of women will best conserve the highest good of the family and the State, have banded themselves together in a federation of workers committed to the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injustice, and to the application of the golden rule to society, custom and law.” Buried by an Avalanche. Safiy ~ OurAy, Col., Feb. 6.—Four Virginia miners were going up the mountains Wednesday evening. At an altitude of 13,000 feet a heavy body of snow became detached and Sam Byron, L. Phillips, Allen Tyre and John Sunderland were hurled down the mountain and buried fifty feet beneath the mass. - A Maine Poor-House isurned. WATERVILLE, Me., Feb. 6.—The city poor-house was burned at 1 o’clock a m. One inmate, a girl of 15. was burned to death. Thirteen escaped. The causae of the firé was a defective chimney Loss on the building, $8,000; uninsured

MILLIONS FOR THE FAIR. Appropriation Bills for the Columbian Exposition Pending Before Various State Legislatures. ) CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—World’s fair appropriations are under consideration in the several State Legislatures, and the following statement has been prepared by the Department of Publicity and Promotion. In the following eight the Governors have prepared and recommended bills appropriating money for exhibits, but the Legislatures have not yet convened: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah. In the following twenty-five States bills have been introduced in the Legislatures appropriating the amount appended to each: | 5 Alabama...... 8§ lOD,OOO'Neyv Mexico.. 25,000 Arkansas..... 100,00)i0hij0.......... 100,000 California..... 800,000{0reg0n........ ; 250,009 C010rad0...... 150,000{Oklahoma .... * 7,000 J0wa.......... IF)o,ooolPennsylvania.. 50,000 111in0i5........ I,ooo,ooo{South Dakota. 40,000 Indiana. ...... 150,000{Tennessee.... 250,000. Kansas ....... 1§G.009|Texa.5..._...... 360,000 Mass’chusetts 50,000 Vermont...... 5,000 Minnesota.... 250,000IVVgshington... 240,000 Maine.. ..ol 40,000{ Wisconsin.... 75,000 Nebraska..... 150,000 —_— North Dakota 50,000 T0ta1........5,097,000 New York.... 250,000 In the following four the bills have passed the Senate: Colorado, lowa, Oklahoma, and Vermont. In the following six the bills have passed the lower House: .California, lowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Vermont. In the following three bills have passed both Houses: lowa,| Oklahoma, and Vermont. In the fol{owing two they have also been signed by the .Governor and are in full force: lowa and Vermont. In Arkansas the bill has been defeated. The appropriations from California and Texas representthe smallest part of the amount to be expended for State displays. Commissioner DeYoung says - California will spend fully $1,500,000, and the people of Texas are already at work to raise $1,000,000. :

FOR A COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. A Meeting of Delegates from Western States to Be Called. ToPEKA, Kan., Feb. 7.—Senator Kelly has introduced a resolution calling a commercial congress at Kansas City of all States and Territories west of the Mississippi and the following other States: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. The resolution was introduced at the request of prominent citizens of Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. The object of the congress will be to urge upon the National Congress such legislation as is deemed mnecessary for Western agricultural and mining States. It is to be strictly non-partisan. As a basis of representation the resolution suggests that each State be allowed delegates equal‘to the number of its Congressional delegation and that the Territories shall be represented by five delegates. Copies of the resolution are to be sent to the executive of each State entitled to representation. SILVER MEN DEFEATED. The House Refuses to Adopt a Free Coin= age Amendment to the Sundry Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON@‘eb. 7.—The House of Representatives at Friday’s session, by a vote of 134 to 127, sustained the chairman of the committee of the whole in his decision that the amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, providing for the free coinage of silver, was not germane to the bill. This vote indicates the strength of the free silver men in the House. The following Democrats voted in the affirmative: Andrew, Mutchler, Vaux, Spinola, Dunphy, Wiley and Clancy. The following Republicans voted in the negative: Carter, Townsend (Col.), Lind, Bartine, Turner (Kan.), Kelly, Law, Connell, Hermann, Sweet and Clark. The vote was so close that it was not evident until the last moment which side would be victorious. ' ‘ DIED OF OLD AGE. Freeman H. Morse, Who Was Consul-Gen- . eral at London During the War, Dies in London.

LoxDoON, Feb. 7.—An American died at Surbiton Friday whose name is almost unknown to the present generation, but who during our ciyil war was in the closest confidence of Minister Adams and engaged in spotting the privateers set afloat by the hostile British shipbuilders. This was ex-Consul-General Freeman H. Morse, from Bath, Me. He came here in 1861 as an appointee of Lincoln. He remained in the office of the Consul-Gen-eral till 1870, when he was succeeded by Adam Badeau. Morse never returned to America after his removal from office, but lived a retired life in England. He died of sheer old age, having reached 84 years. &

UNDER AN AVALANCHE.

Twenty-Two Swiss Wood-Cutters Buried Under a Mountain of Snow, Rocks and Trees. :

BERNE, Feb. 7.—News of a terrible disaster comes from the village of Rueatti, Canton of Glarus. A large number of wood-cutters were at work cutting wood on the side of a mountain near that village when suddenly a rumbling, crashing sound was heard, and -before many of the poor men could escape a huge avalanche thundered down upon the wood-cutters, burying twenty-two of them beneath a mass of' snow, ice, rocks and trees. Every effort is being made by the neighboring villagers to rescue the men who may be alive and to recover the dead. Up to the present, however, only three bodies have been recovered.

Fatal Explosion in a Mine.

DENVER, Col., Feb. 7. —A Leadville special to the Republican says: A terrible explosion of giant powder occurred in the Wierfly' tunnel of the White Quail mine of Kokomo Thursday morning. William Young and John Anderson were blown to atoms, and John Johnson, John McLeod and Will Crane terribly injured. Many of their bones were broken by flying rocks. Postal Telegraph Shelved. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The House committee on post-offices has-agreed to indefinitely postpone consideration of the postal telegraph bill. ‘ ' A Pacer Drops Dead. St. Pavr, Minn., Feb. 7.—At the races on the ice at Stillwater Friday afternoon Mike Wilkes, the famous pacer, dropped dead. He ran his pacing record down to 2:15%{ in the grand-cir-cuit races in 1888 and also trotted amile in 2:26Y. He was 14 years old and valued at $5,000. ' Killed by a Falling Tree. HoOLLAND, Mich., Feb. 7.—While Henry Tenhave, of Barculo, a small village about seven mileés north of here, was chopping wood Thursday he was striuck by® falling tree and instantly killal. He was 36 years oid and unmarried.

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