Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 9, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 December 1894 — Page 2

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A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Publisher. PLYMOUTH. INC AN a. DEED OF A MADMAN. KILLS HIS WIFE", CHILDREN, AND HIMSELF. Terrible Crash of Death in a Street Car Tunnel Railroad Lauds Forfeited Kelisioas Liberty at Last Conceded in Hungary. A Murderous Maniac. David Spragg, his wife and six children lived four and one-half miles from Ridgeway. Mo. lie was an industrious farmer, well-to-do and greatly respected. About noon Tuesday, without having given any signs of dementia, he walked into the kitchen, took up the butcher knife and, calling two of his children to him, made an attempt to cut their throats. "With blood spurting from their wounds, they cried for their mother. Thinking his wife, for whom he has shown the most marked affection, was about to escape, he turned his attention to her. The bloody trail about the premises shows what a ferocious struggle ensued in the death combat. The screams of the children, sobbing for their mother, seemed to increase his anger, and two other children were soon his victims. The oldest child, a ly of 1', and the two children whose lives he first attempted to take, ran to a neighlor's and gave the alarm. Only one child of the family of six was left, a baby Ü months old crooning in the, cradle. This was murdered next. Then he went out bj the hide of his wife, and. drawing the same knife over his own throat, fell across her body lifeless. There can iossibly be no other cause than insr.nity. Spragg was never quarrelsome, was not intemperate and never abused his family. He was always indulgent and provident. The three children who are dead are G mouths, 'J years and 4 years old. The two children. 0 and 8 respectively, who escaped with the oldest child, are badly lacerated, but the wounds will perhaps not prove fatal. Death in n Tunnel Collision. Untier the center of the Chicago River In the Washington street tunnel a runaway Milwaukee avenue train Tuesday night dashed into a Madison street train, the grip of the former and the Ogden avenue trailer of the latter telescoping each other. I Jesuit: Two men dead, a score or more passengers hurt, some seriously. According to the little information that could be obtained from the griiman of the runaway train, his grip broke just as he reached the arch of the tunnel. His heavily loaded train shot forward down the incline and before he could set the brakes it had acquired such headway that the brakes were practically useless. The rails were wet and slippery, and the train slid onward with ever-increasing momentum toward the cars In front of it, notwithstanding the gripman lore down on the brake lever with all his weight and strength, and poured sand on the rails. Hi yelled at the top of his voice and rang his gong, hoping the gripman ahead would understand and let go the cable, but he did not seem to comprehend. Passengers on the runaway train were thrown into a panic, and some tried to get out, but the cars were so crowded that they simply wedged each other in tighter. The crash came just in the middle of the tunnel under the river. There was a bump, a ripping of timbers, a grinding, crushing sound, and the two trains came to a standstill, wrenched and broken at the ltottom of the grade. Then were heard other sounds. There were shrieks of fear and groans of pain. Fire added its terrors to the stampede which followed the wreck, but fortunately the flames were extinguished before additional injury and suffering were inflicted. The work of rescue and clearing away the wreck was conducted by the firemen, and occupied two hours. NEWS NUGGETS. From returns to the Agricultural Department the condition of winter wheat Dec. 1 is placed at Si), against SI. 5 last year. Chicago passenger officials are confident an cast-lnMind pool will be formed and in operation before the close of the year. Secretary Carlisle and Comptroller Eckles explained the new currency plan to the House Hanking and Currency Committee. A resolution calling on the President to begin n getuti m to secure the independence of Cuba was offered in the Senate Monday. News that Emperor Francis Joseph had approved the ecclesiastical bills created enthusiasm in the Hungarian Reiehsrath. President Diaz, of Mexico, has declined man- offers of men and money, believing there is no danger of war with Guatemala. A proclamation declaring forfeited lands granted the St. Paul Kailroad in the Sioux reservation has been issued by the President. The coroner's jury at Minneapolis returned a verdict that Catherine Ging came to her death at the hands of persons unknown. Net earnings of the railroads of the country during the year fell off $'JOi a mile, according to figures compiled by the interstate commerce commission. Receivers of the Atchison and 'Frisco petitioned for severance of relations with the Atlantic and Pacific- and for discontinuance of four non-paying branch lines. A representative of Charles H. Roussc, n millionaire of New York, is at Richniond, Ya., to establish n museum of confederate relics. The details are to be left to a committee of nine confederate generals. Mabel Briggs and Alma Leonard, of Kau Claire, Wis., has again lapsed under the hypnotic control of Dr. Pickin, and are in a state of nervous prostration. Mrs. I. R .Notsen, an Omaha school teacher, has disappeared with her two children under circumstances which indicate she may have murdered the children and then committed suicide. Kansas City's $'!.OOomjo Wmds for purchase of the National Waterworks have been sold for a premium of $.'!0,CXK). A counterfeiting plant, which has been turning out large numlnrs of bogus half lullars was discovered at Minne-aiH.lis.

EASTERN.

Plate glass manufacturers met at Pittsburg and took preliminary steps to form another pool. Oden Bowie, ex-Governor of Maryland, and a prominent figure in war times, died at his home at Bowie. The schooner Clara E. Simpson was run into ami sunk off the Connecticut coast. Three sailors were drowned Two blazes in the New York dry goods district did :!r0, m xj damage. Seventylive girls a had narrow escape. Yale and Princeton will each receive $12,10 from the receipts of the football game played on Manhattan field. Archbishop Corrigan has called a meeting of the'archdiocesan council to consider the contumacy of Father Ducey. Richard Croker and M. F. Dwyer, of New York, are contemplating the transfer of their racing interests to England. Further evidence of shocking police brutality and corruption was brought out by the Lexow committee in New York. Congressman-elect Andrew J. Campbell, of the Tenth New York District, died at his home of Bright's disease, aged 0.0 years. Thirty-five of the forty-two children in the Ayer Home for Young Women and Children at Lowell, Mass., have scarlet fever. W. K. Vanderbilt sailed for New York Wednesday from Liverpool on the Teutonic. It is surmised Mrs. Vanderbilt has refused the $;j,000.000 settlement and will bring formal application for divorce. The Lincoln memorial collection which was exhibited at the World's Fair was sold at auction in Philadelphia. It consisted largely of law books, office furniture, and autograph letters, and realized $2,500. WESTERN. Judge Bookwaltor, of Charleston, 111., fined a brass band whose playing annoyed him for contempt of court. Captain John Pridgeon, the millionaire capitalist and vessel owner, died at his home in Detroit, aged 00 years. University of Chicago football team will probably go to San Francisco to play the Stanford University eleven. Miss.Tosephine Brand, of Lawrenceburg. Ind., a school-teacher, was robbed of $10,500 on the streets of Cincinnati, Ohio. At San Francisco. Key el Santa Anita finished second to Gilead in the Pacific Union stakes event over a muddy track. Quimby Buffe, a young Ohio farmer, invited his neighbors to a popcorn social and committed suicide in their presence. Adry A. Hay ward, a brother of Harry Hayward, has been arrested at Minneap olis, charged with killing Miss Kitty Ging. Reports to a Cincinnati paper show the winter wheat area has been increased 1.9 per cent. The plant is in good condition. Deputy Marshals had a fight with six members of the Cook band near Tulse, I. T. One of the marshals was fatally shot. Northwestern University trustees have appointed a committee to consider the advisability of prohibiting foot-ball playing. Paul Fierbacher, a German boy of Guthrie, Okln., has invented a railroad tie for which he has been offered 50,000. Harry Hay ward, susjiected of the mur der of Miss Ging nt Minneaiolis, was re leased from custody after a rigid examination. Judge Hugh W. Maxwell, a pioneer of Central Iowa, died at Des Moines, aged 07 years. He retired from the bench in 1S70. Great damage has been caused by the prairie fires in Northern Indiana. Nearly .000 tons of hay were destroyed near Wilder's. Surgeons in the employ of the Big Four Railroad met nt Indianapolis and arranged to establish a chain of hospitals for employes. Inquest into the killing in Chicago of Gustav M. Colliander on election night resulted In a verdict of death at the hands of persons unknown. Milwaukee roliee discovered a conspiracy by means of which the John Pritzlaff Company had been robbed of $10,000 worth of hardware. At Hermosa, S. D., there is great excitement over a rich gold strike in the "Holy Terror" mine. A twenty-four hours run netted $3,500. Jennie Graves, 5-year-old daughter of Frank Graves, living near Frankfort, Ind.. was burned to death from her frock catching fire at an open grate. The Indiana. Coal Operators Association and the United Mine Workers of Indiana will send delegates to the arbitration conference at Columbus, Ohio. Evidence against 500 violators of the election laws has been secured in Chicago by the Civic Federation, and warrants for their arrest will shortly be secured. It is now believed that Miss Catherine Ging, the Minneapolis dressmaker, who was found murdered, was robbed of $7,OOo in cash which she had drawn from a deposit vault. Nellie Dowd Jackson, an actress in "MOIT company, eowhided Eddy Redwaj a member of the same compauy, for making uncomplimentary remarks about her at Indianapolis. While Jack Phineas, a notorious outlaw, was asleep in his house near Kildare, Okla., some person crept to his bedside and cut his throat. Phineas was a member of the Dalton gang. The Rev. Conrad Haney, one of the most popular and prominent of Chicago ministers, formerly pastor of the Lake Avenue Union Church, eloped with Mrs. Annie II. Brandt, wife of one of his church members. Each deserted a family. The affair has created a tremendous sensation. Financial embarrassment caused Robert Huston, ex-Sheriff of Will County, Illinois, grand treasurer of the Illinois Council of the American Legion of Honor, an old i"ldier who lost a leg in the war of the rebellion and a man well known throughout the State, to commit suicide at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Thursday. Cut almost in two with an ax the lody of Alfred D. Barnes, janitor of the Hiawatha flat building nt Chicago, was found in a packing case early Friday morning. The body was perfectly nude. The man had been killed by two murderous blows on the head, and attempt had been made ofterwar' to disjoint the lmdy with an ax. Four persons are held by the iolice. Fire at 1:30 o'clock Saturday morning destroyed the big establishment of the Challenge Machine Company, builders of printing presses, nt Chicago. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Across the street from the burning building, the entire 250 feet of which was on fire when the first engines arrived were two big storage

tanks of the Equitable Company, holding

1,200.000 feet of ga:. The firemen devoted their energies to preventing an explosion. Not until twenty engines were throwing water was the clanger averted. There is no more mystery nlnut the murder of Alfred D. Barnes in the Hiawatha flats, Chicago. The culpable ones are in custody after having made full and free confessions. Edmund Jordan committed the brutal crime and Annie Mahaney helped him to cover it up and conceal the chopped body of the victim. John It. Jersey was a phlegmatic witness to part of the criminal proceedings. So far as the authorities are concerned nothing remains to be done, and for Jordan nothing is left but a discredited pica of selfdefense. Claus Spreckels drew a check for $1,5(UM)0 on the Nevada Bank. San Francisco, a few days ago, and it is now said that the money was in completion of a large land deal. This included the purchase of 40,000 acres on which is located the Chino sugar factory. The deal was engineered by C. II. Phillips, of San Luis Obispo, and is paid to be the largest real estate transaction m the history of Southern California. The transfer includes the town site of Chino. the Chino Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge road ten miles lung, the water system, and the contract with the Chino Valley Beet Sugar Company. SOUTHERN. The bill to punish usurpers of State offices was passed by the Alabama Legislature by a party vote. The City Council of Jacksonville, Fla., has unanimously repealed the ordinance permitting prize lighting. M rs. Louis Alberti, of Galveston, gave poison to her children, four of whom died. She was made insane by religion. The old Jefferson Davis mansion at Richmond, Ya., formerly the White House of the Confederacy, is about to be converted into a museum of Confederate relics. A contribution of $300, made by Washington Duke, of Raleigh, N. C, to the North Carolina Methodist Episcopal conference, has been refused because it is "trust" money. A Texas and Pacific passenger train was held up at a trestle seven miles west of Fort Worth at 5:30 p. m. Thursday. The train was stopped just as the engine and express car had crossed, the passenger coaches coming to a standstill on the trestle, where the passengers had no opportunity of getting off. Those who caught a glimpse of the proceedings saw three masked men, with guns leveled, marching the engineer and trainmen in and out of the baggage car. When they finished their work the robbers made the engineer back the train over the trestle, and while it was crossing they disappeared in a thick forest. The passengers kept so close while the train was being robbed that they did not know much about what was going on. It is said the robbers secured over $100,000. By a vote of 77 to 05 the Georgia Legislature has set its face against any effort in the way of bringing women into politics. Governor Atkinson, in assuming office, was anxious to make Miss Helen Dortch, a pretty editress of 18. his private secretary. It was then found the preceding Legislature had conferred mili tary rank upon that office. Through Representative Boufeullet Governor Atkinson sought to have an act passed making women eligible to hold Sate House clerkships, with the view of appointing Miss Dortch to the place of Assistant Librarian. It was this measure that the Legislature squelched. Grand Master Shannon, of the Masonic fraternity, has offered Governor Atkinson the use of his name for appointment with the view of conferring the place upon Miss Dortch as his agent. It remains to be seen what t.ie Governor will do. WASHINGTON. Resolutions calling for information about the Hawaiian and Bluefields incidents were passed by the Senate. Silver Senators have entered into a conspiracy to change the Senate rules so a free silver law can be forced through. Democrats of the House Banking and Currency Committee have resolved to report a bill in line with Carlisle's plan. Gold is beginning to go out again, $1,581,123 having been withdrawn in a clay. Treasury officials offer no explanation. Congressional Campaign Committee has notified contestants that they must have good cases and expect no partisan favors, j The Patterson amendments to the interstate commerce act were taken up in the House and explained by their author. Democratic Senators in caucus discussed resolutions favoring cloture and abandonment of efforts to amend the tariff la w. The President has sent to the Senato the correspondence in relation to the termination of the reciprocity treaty with Brazil. N.vy department has accepted the cruiser Minneapolis and ordered the payment of $414,000, the premium she earned. Chairman Babcock, of the Republican Congressional Committee, says McKinleyisni will not be revived in the next Congress. Passage of the Patterson amendment to the interstate commerce act has been endangered by a breach of faith on the part of the railroad lobby. In his annual report Attorney General Olney commends the Supreme Court for its promptitude in deciding cases and offers explanation for his course during the strike. It is understood that Mrs. Cleveland will be compelled to retire from society again this winter, in anticipation of an interesting event that is expected to oc cur in March next, says a Washington j exchange. Several of the ladies ot the Diplomatic Corps will be missed this winter for the sani'j reason. Washington dispatch: The soporific quiet of the Capitol was rudely broken In uikii by a straight tip from the White ! House that if the Democrats did not ! make good use of the time at their disltosal to pass laws for currency reform, and other reforms suggested in his mes- ! sage, President Cleveland would prompt- ; ly call a spec ial session after the decease j of the present Congress, and give the . Republicans a c hanc e to legislate for the good of the country. Vilas brought the special session - tip straight from the White House, with instructions to give it circulation, which he proceeded to do j forthwith. I he news lound its way quickly to the other end of the Capitol and was given authoritative currency by the quar-i indorsement of repetition by Catchings, of Mississippi, who has the credit of leing Speaker Crisp's speaking partner. Warner, Cochrane, Tracy and

others in the President's personal con

fidence, gave it the weight of industrious recital, and any doubt as to the authenticity of the iHjinter was speedily removed. FOREIGN. Socialist members of the German reiehstag created a disorderly scene in the chamber by refusing to cheer for the Emperor. Advices from Nicaragua state that the treaty between that country and Great Britain has been ignored by Zelaya's c facials. Japan has notified China she will not entertain further peace proposals uuless presented by a regularly accredited ambassador. Tories have arranged a demonstration on the Prince of Wales' return in recognition of his efforts for an agreement with Russia. Reginald L. T. B. Saunderson. a highly connected young Englishman, has been arrested charged with having committed the last "Jack-tho-Ripper" murder. Pekin is terror stricken by the news from Port Arthur. The Emperor is accusing all his ministers of deception and treachery. The storm raging around Li Hung Chang is constantly increasing, and he is now fighting not for the retention of his dec-orations, but for his life. Count Ferdinand do Lesseps, who has been one of the most prominent characters in France for more than a quarter of a centurj, is dead. Ferdinand de Lesseps was born in 1N5 at Versailles, and. after a brilliant educational earrer at the Ly ceum ITcnry IV., he was appointed consul at Alexandria in 1835. just as the plague had smitten that city and people were fleeing from it by thousands. 1), Lesseps remained at his post, started an ambulance and tended the patients till the pest was over. The vessel in which he arrived on oneoecasion at the harbor of Alexandria was put under quarantine. De Lesseps asked the Captain to lend him a few books with which to while away the dreary hours. One of these volumes con taiued an imaginary sketch of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. Its perusal fascinated Do Lesseps to such an extent that he determined then and there to think the project over and see if it could not be carried out. He met with immer ous obstacles of all sorts, but overcame them one after the other, and the canal was built, and on Nov. 17, 1S), formally opened. The highest honors were paid to the great engineer, and on his return to Paris he was invested with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honor. The next - - project of his life was the unfortunate Panama enterprise. Readers are famib iar with the collapse of the scheme and the great financial scandal connected with it. IN GENERAL Masked men attempted to blow up Berea College with a dynamite bomb, but were frustrated by a student. Transcontinental lines made progress in settling their passenger rate difficulties and a new association is assured. In spite of President Ilavemeyer's doleful statements regarding the sugar trust, the usual dividends have been declared. Many decisions of interest were rendered at the session of the Board of Appeals of the American Trotting Association. A statement showing the Armenians to have been the aggressors in the recent troubles has been received by the Turkish legation. While returning from a visit to Scotland Mrs. Hannah Williams, of Chicago, jumied into the Atlantic and was drowned. The president and directors of Georgetown College have prohibited the playing of foot-ball until the rules have been changed. Kelly is organizing another Coxey army in Sacramento, Cal.. to move ou "G rover's villa at Washington" and urge Congress to provide work for unemployed American citizens. R. G. Dim & Co.'s Review says: It is dillicult to detect any change in current business. Prospects for business after Jan. 1 nre quite generally considered more hopeful; in some branches there are larger orders and the west-bound shipments of merchandise are a little larger, but the working force naturally diminishes near the end of the year and the holiday traffic brings just now a tenqvorary activity which is not of much general significance. The meeting of Congress and the announcement of the new currency plan and of various bills promised have not affected the situation precept ibly. On the whole agricultural products are scarcely stronger and wages of labor do not advance, but there is reason to expect the employment of a somewhat larger working force after the holidays. The exieeted government report on feeding cattle and hogs has scarcely influenced the market. It is doubted whether the estimate is more reliable than the estimates of yield of wheat and cotton, which are not regarded seriously. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prrme, &i.7."Vfj0.75; hogs, shipping grades, 4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $iy:i.7."; wheat. No. 2 rod, rjoc; corn, No. 2, 47$ 48c: oats, No. 2, 2l.'.0c; rye. No. 2, 4, 40c; butter, choice creamery, 'S0t. 24c; eggs, fresh, '2'2(i':.k-; iotatoes, carlot s. per bushel, 5.Vlöe. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, 5.75; hogs, choice light, 4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2W.'l; wheat, No. 2 red, r2T."V::c; corn. No. 1 white, 42W 42K;c; oats, No. 2 white. '.UlTi'M. St. Louis Cattle, $:;; hogs, 'If l.To; wheat. No. 2 reel, olfrrtfcr corn, No. 2, 47Afi IJc; oats, No. 2, ilOf&llc; rye, No. 2, TCifi: 55c. Cincinnati Cattle, 3.50(775.50; hogs, $4..": sheep, Un'A; wheat,-No. 2 red. 54 54&c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 4 Vn Uc; oafs. No. 2 mixed, 02i;Uc; rye, No. 2.. Detroit Cattle. S2..r0Tr.2.": hogs, m. 4.7.": sheep, $2ft2.7ä; wheat, No. 1 white, I0'W.77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 44I-trlXic; oats. No. 2 white, oloöc; rye, No. 2, üOtfölc. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red, 5.Vc75de; com, No. 2 mixed, 4 771 Sc: oats, No. 2 white, :;M;Ue; rye. No. 2. 4W'.lc. Buffalo Cattle, $2.otf ."i.r,0; hogs. $4f7' T: sheep, $2(f.'l; wheat, No. 2 red. ZtKU,t fiO'V; torn, No. 2 yellow, 48 40c; oats. No. 2 white, I'Mi'Mc. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring. r0c;corn. No. .?, 444."V-.c; oats. No. 2, white, :t2rf.at:!f; barley. No. 2, .TJiffttfc; rye, No. 1, 41f."lc; pork, mess, $11.7.V 12.2.". New York-Cattle, $.,.Tfi: hogs, ii.20; sheep, $2:.r0; wheat, No. 2 red. 02 fef(.'tc; corn. No. 2, r7(fj."Sc; oats, white. Western, 37(42; butter, creamery, 24 t2öe; eggs. Western, 25VÜ2(c.

SEELEY OR HIS TWIN.

POLICE THINK THEY HAVE THE BIG EMBEZZLER. Nelson Morris Sues the Whisky Crowd Hotel Guests liouted by Fire at Omaha Narrow Escape for Chatta-noo:,'a-Gcn. IJlack in Luck. A Notable Arrest. A man supposed to be Samuel C. Seeley, the nbscoiidhif: bookkeeper of the National Shoe and Leather Bank, New York, who embezzled S."." !.. was arrested in Chicago at lU:Me o'clock on Monday niirht by Detectives William O'DonnclI and J. Almandinger, of the Central Station. The prisoner was taken to police headquarters, where he gave the name of Frank J. Dale, but refused to give any further information concerning himself. His appearance corresponded exactly with the description and picturo sent out by the p.li( of New York in a circular asking for Secley's arrest, save that the prisoner's mustache had apparently been trimmed and dyed, and his hair also trimmed and combed down over his forehead instead of being back as was Secley's habit. pushed Old Friends at Outs, Nelson Morris filed jui assumpsit suit in the Circuit Court at Chicago against the American Distilling and Cattle Fe eding Company for ö." , n . He had a contract with the company to feoa 4.00O head of cattle, beginning Oct. 1 of thi:' year. The greatest number of cattle that can be fed by the company is 5.0(H), or one-eighth of the number named in the contract. Mr. Morris figures that this failure will occasion serious Iosü to him, and he therefore brings suit. Penned the Fire In. Several hundred guests of the Murray and Paxton Hotels at Omaha. Neb., were routed out of their rooms Monday night by flames licking the walls of those structures from the burning four-story build ing ot the Omaha Consolidated Couoe Company. Their fright, however, was the extent of the damage in that direction, though the coffee company lost more than ? 100,000. Chattanooga' Bijg Hotel Burned. The isolated position of the Southern Hotel Building, which was destroyed by fire Monday, alone prevented Chattaw - - - m. ! nooga. Tenn., from being swept away The Knoxville tire department was tele graphed to prepare to render assistance if the emergency arose. A high wind prevailed. The loss was $FJ5,000; insurance, $50,000. BREVITIES, Mrs. Jacob Cherry was found at her home, ten miles from Zanesville, Ohio, cold and stiff and with her throat cut. Evans Scott, owner of a ranch near Newport. Neb., killed one of his employes with whom he had a quarrel about wages. Sam Evans, connected with prominent Fort Worth families, has confessed to participation in the Texas Pacific train robbery. William Taylor has confessed to the murder of David Doty near Richmond, Ky.. and friends of the latter threaten lynching. National Live Stock Exchange, in convention at St. Louis, took decided action regarding Germany's embargo on American cattle. John Hoffman. 75 years old. who fays he has stolen riK horses, was arresteel at Crown Point, Ind., while makiag away with a team. Whitecaps broke into the house of Thomas Edgington. at Springfield. Ky., and killed him in the presence of his wife and five children. Two killed, one maimed for life, and two badly wounded, is the result of a pitchl battle fought between citizens of Alva and Eagle, Ok. Rev. Father Ducey has issued another statement concerning his controversy with Archbishop Corrigan, charging the latter with ingratitude. Miss Annie Grace Lippiueott, daughter of ( race Greenwood." the author, and Herbert Hall Winslow, the dramatist, were married in Washington. Rev. N. D. Ilillis. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston. has been chosen to succeed Rev. David Swing of the Central Church, Chicago. The Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America voted to approve the abolition of conventions, and to adopt the initiative and referendum plan. School taxes amounting to $'1S1.S51 have been omitted from the Milwaukee tx levy through a clerical error, and it is expecte'd (he city will be embarrassed in consciionce. Five members of the family of F. W. M itchier, of Kansas City, were seriously injured by jumping from a third-story window during the progress of a fire in their residence. Representative' John C. Black, of Illinois, formerly Commissioner of Pensions, has been nominated to be United States District Attorney at Chicago, vice Sher wood Dixon, recently dee-eased. Bill (Jay, alias George Leroy, the notorious outlaw wanted by the Meagher County (Montana) authorities for the murder of William Rader and James Mackeyn. in May. 1S0", has been landed in jail at The Needles, Cal. John Clayton shot and killed Jesse Driver, a lover of Clayton's 14-year-oM daughter, in Webster County, N. Y. He Ijnd been forbidden to come on the Clayton farm, but persisted in his attentions o the girl. The young people were about U elepe. British Consul General Hawes is saiel to have been involved in the latest Hawaiian plot for the restoration of the Queen. Guatemalans proiwse to establish a line of steamers to run in opiosition to the Pacific Mail steamships, in connection with the Tchuantepec Road, the steamey to ply between Sahna Cruz and Panama. A drunken woman created a scene in the Holy Rsary Church, New York, bv calling for three i beers for Father Ducey. Trinity Church, New York, is shown to derirp a htrge revenue from the rentiug of tenement houses unlit f(r habitation. While attempting to eject a gajig of tramps from the railroad yards at Yassar, Mich., Marshal Mclntyre was fatally shot. Timothy Smith and Timothy Slagh, owners of a planing-mill at Holland, Mich.. wVre arrestvd for setting fire to the building. i

TVOEK OF COXGBESS.

DOINGS OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate antl House Uriefly Sniiiniarized Measures In trod need, Passed, or Referred to Commit tee-K out i iic Work. Con: ins Work of Congress. The present Mission of Congress is not unlikely to be marked by some interesting, debates. It seems altogether likely that the session will be partially devoted to a discussion of the e urivney problems before the country, the President having, set the discussion going by the recommendations of bis message. It will best range if the West and South do not make one more attempt to pass a free silver measure. There have been electedseveral new Congressmen, who will, when their time conies, no doubt act with th free silver side. The income tax will undoubtedly come before the present session of Congress. There was an appropriation of S'.MMMl made em the recommendation of Secretary Carlisle to provide for the hire of clerks and the cost of the preparation of blanks to be used in its collee tion. but it will take at b-ast half a million dollars a year to provide for the cost of the niae-hinery of collection in the ofüees of til listrict collectors of internal revenue. Senator Hill and his school f opponents of the income tax have additional chance to voice their opposition to it. The tariif is not out of the woods yet. rlhe "popgun"' bills, so-e-allcd, the independent measure providing for the freeentrance of many staples into the country, have come over from the first session of the Fifty-third Congress, and as all of them have devotees, they are sure to bo brought forward for eliscussion. if not forcction. This cl sing session of Congress will have one merit that its predecessordid not have. That is that the country knows when it will end. The first session didn't have that desirable qualification. Up vo Thursday neither branch had gotten in shape for active work. The reports of the C:'.i;iet Ministers had been received, and both houses eliscussed them carefully. Congressman I-'ithian. of Illinois, iutroduccel two bills affecting tlu hipping interests. The? bills were designed to relieve sailing vessels of a portion of their temnage tax. and transfer it to steam vessels, and to change the measurement law to make it conform to thoseof Great Britain, Norway ami other nations. The object sought is to diminish the amount of taxes whic h the vessels ot the United States have to pay in foreign ports. A bill providing for the free coinage of silver was introduced in the Houso by Representative Hartman, of Montana. An imiKirtant provision of tho measure is that requiring imiort duties to be paid in gold in cases where the articles of importation are brought from countries whose Governments refuse to open their mints to the free coinage of silver and gold. The Senate called for correspondence and information relative to several foreign questions, ami the House passed a bill to transform Shiloh'tj. battle field into a national park. In the Senate Thursday some state papers from the President were received.. Mr. Turpie advocated the election of Senators by direct vote. The bill exempting from duty foreign exhibits at thePortland (Ore.) exposition, -and a bill exteneling the time for commencing and completion of a bridge ac ross the Mississippi River at New Orleans was passed. Mr. Ransom gave notice that the memorial services for the late Senator Yan cowould be held Jan. 17 next. A bill was passed for the national dedication of tho Chic-kamauga and Chattanooga national park Sept. 11) and "0, lSJCi, under the direction of the Sec retary of War. The entire time of the House was occupied in the discussion of the railroad iooliug bill. No action, however, was taken. The Senate devoteel Monday to a eliscussion of our foreign relations and theNicaraugua canal. The House devoteel the day, under the rules, to the business rcorted from the District of Columbia Committee. Several bills of purely local importance were passed and a resolution was adopted setting aside the third Saturday in January for eulogies on the lifeainl character of Marcus B. Lisle, lato representative from the Tenth Kentucky District. The House on Tuesday, after a spirited debate, passed the bill legalizing the pending of railroads, by a vete of 1M to 11 . Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky reported the urgent eleliieue-y bill. Mr. Dingh-y of Maine asked unanimous consent for the consideration of a resolution calling on the See-ret a ry eif the Treasury for information first as t whether ihe articles of the Behring Sea tribunal had re-sulte-d hist season in saving the fur seal herds from that destruction they were intended to prevent; second, information as to tl.e number ami sex of seals killed by pelagic sealers; third, the protection of fur seal herds on the Pribyloff Islands; and fourth, the revenue derived by the Covernment from the seals during the past and the expenditure of the Government for the protection during the same' period. The business of the Senate was conlined to confirming nominations. Telegraphic C'lic'c. The Hungarian Cabinet was defeated In the lower house, which rejee-ted the bill to subsidize the new Comedy theater. Chicago commission men are seeking the abolition of the through refrigerator System, alleging it discriminates against them. Tue greasy clothing of John Shire, of Muncie, Ind.. aged l.'l. oil boy at the Indiana Iron Works, caught fire and he was fatally burned. The Back-Everett ordinance, which is. to give Detroit rapid transit fer a 3-cent fare, was passed by the Council and signed by the Mayor. The city of Yalparaiso, Ind., has. brought suit against ex-Treasurer Schwarzkopf and his bondsmen for the recovery of L,(KX). Hardin, on trial in the United States Court at Fort Smith, Ark., charged with murder, was acquitted. He was one of the Cook gang. He is a brother-in-law of Bill Cook. Zokc Allerton. living near Roanoke, Md., beat his wife into insensibility, cut her head ami fae-e ami knocked Iwr upon a hot stove, ami is under bonds awaiting the outcome of he r injuries. Nebraska courts have held that studentsat the State Institute fer the Blind must quit the school on being graduated. Last year' class refused to leave, but were re moved on a writ of ouster.