Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 February 1895 — Page 2

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PLYMO 'TH. AMERICAN A1DIS USED HAWAIIAN REBELS SUPPLIED FROM SAN FRANCISCO. Utiltc City Has a Plagiarist I'astorIiritiwh Parliament Opened Santa 1'e I'asscuncra Fleeced by KoLbers Uis Ciuciuuuti Warehouse Hums. Shlpi'cd from America. A Han Francisco dispatch says that the rilles carried by the Hawaiian rebels were from America, and the bullet which killed Commissioner Carter was shipped from Shu Francisco. According to tho statement of the Lnglishiuun, Capt. Da vis, who landed the arms in Hawaii, they were loaded in a sailing vessel in San Francisco and subsequently transferred to his craft. This statement, made under oath, was received by a resilient by the last steamer, but kept a secret until recently. The arms were landed on the island by ('apt. William Davis, master of the ship Waimanallo, which, curiously enough, was mortgaged by II. W. Castle, the Hawaiian Commissioner. Parliament la Open. "With the usual iomp and ceremony, the fourth session of the thirteenth Victorian Parliament was opened in London Tuesday afternoon. The customary Guy Fawkes search was made by Lord Chamberlain Carrington and a dozen of the yeomen of the guard, and then the house assembled and listened to the reading of the queen's speech. The pronouncement from tho throne was a distinct disappointment. It has been given out freely from ministerial sources that if the Kosebery administration was to fall it would fall lighting; that the speech, therefore, would contain reference to all the reforms which the liberal party approves, regardless of their probable passage at the present session. True, several imItcrtant questions r.re brought to tho front the Welsh church establishment, plural voting, popular control of the liquor trallic, comity government for Scotland, nnd Irish land measures. lint in regard to the burning question of the times the reformation or abolition of the lords Premier Itonebery says not a word. Steals Dr. IJriHtol's Lectures-. A profound sensation was caused At Butte, Mont., by a local paper's exposition of the fact that the Ilev. William Kollins, of the Mountain View Methodist Church, the most fashionable church in the city, who has been giving a series of very learned Sunday evening sermons, has been appropriating without credit a series of lectures delivered by the Rev. Dr. Frank M. Bristol in Chicago and by him published in book form. The lee tures of Mr. Kollin nnd those from Dr. Bristol's book were published side by Bide and the identical words appeared in both. Dr. Bristol's lectures were published under the title, "Providential Epochs," and are entitled "The Renaissance," "The IiCformntion." "The Discovery of America" and "The Settlement of Our Country." The Iter. Mr. Kollins called his lectures "The Kevival of Learning," "Tho Reformation," "Tli Discovery of America" and "America' Pioneers." Stock of Tobacco Ilurnn. The Bodman leaf tobacco warehouse, a large stricture on West Front street, Cincinnati, caught fire In n mysterious way, and is now a hollow ruin, nothing but the walls standing. There was no fire in the building at the place where the fire originated, and no one is able to account for the fire. The place was full of valuable leaf tobacco in hogsheads, all of which was destroyed. The loss on stock U estimated at ?iMO,CHX), and cu the bailding $0,00. Santa Fc Train Kobbcd. The western express on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road, train 1, bonnd for Colorado and California, was held up one mile west of Sylvia, Reno County, Kan., Monday night, by four masked men, who signaled danger. Two of the robbers covered the engineer and fireman, and two went to the express car. For some reason they failed to effect an entrance, and then went to the coaches and made the passengers giv up nil their valuables. BREVITIES, The Rt.-Rov. Thonu.s M. Clark. D. D., bishop cf Khode Island, is seriously ill. The Circuit Court of Appeals of Kansas City has decided that death by suicide is cause for not paying a Masonic insurance policy. The steamship Earn ford has arrived ut Baltimore after a record-breaking passage. Hhe ran from Santiago, Cuba, to the Delaware capes in four days nnd twenty hours, the ut'jul run being six days. The fishing mnnck Verena has landed nt Lowestoft the body of Friedrichs Ernst, of Magdeburg, Prussia, one of the drowned passengers of the Elbe, nnd some mail bags, one of which was marked "Stockholm." The boiler nt Earl Carpenter & Son's ice honsc at Mashapang Pond, near Elwood, It. I., exploded, killing two men outright, injnring a third so that he died witliin an hour, and wounding ten others, bo me of them seriously. ' Obituary: At Frankfort, Ind., General M. I. Manson, 75. At Philadelphia, John Paul, the comedian. At Lynn, Mass., Dennis N. Driscoll, the pedestrian, 37. At Kenosha, Wis., Captain John Tattle, 81. At Elyria, Ohio, Colonel Charles A. Park. At Franklin, Ind., Fred K. Staff, f.O At Trafalgar, Ind., Mrs. Sarah Sturgeon, tK. Hundreds of carloads of supplies for destitute Nebraskans are sidetracked throughout the State, while the poor sufferers are starving and freezing. Central and Southern Illinois nnd Indiana are Hooded with "green goods" circulars, inclosing an alleged counterfeit bill as n sample, which is declared to be n genuine note. John Bell attempted suicide in n church at Franklin, Pa., while his wife's funeral was in progress. Nathan Taylor and his son and John Weeks were killed by the explosion of u toile at Newcastle, Ind.

EASTERN. Safe robbers rifled the safes in Place, Peterson & Co.'s jewelry factory at Providence, R. I., and secured $ 10,000 worth of gold rings, diamonds, etc. Warren F. Putnam. ex-President of the Exeter National Bank of Concord, N. H., who was found guilty of embezzlement, was sentenced to live years in State's prison. His defalcation wrecked the bank. Amos Mingle and David Ross, of Blair County, Pa., with sis children, drove to Bellefonte. On their return home tho team became lodged in a snowbank and could not be extricated. The two men went to a farm-house for assistance, and when they returned they found the six children frozen stiff. They were taken to the nearest house and put in ice water. The children are living, but are in a precarious condition. Ward McAllister, New York's foremost society director and orgtnizer of the -h. died at 9:30 o'clock Thursday niht at his home, 1(J West ötith street. At his bedside were Mrs. McAllister and their son and daughter and Mr. McAllister's brother, Rev. Dr. Marion McAllister, of Lliz.ibeth, N. J. Mr. McAllister suffered very little pain during his illness and his death was peaceful. (J rip was the immediate cause of his death. Three lives were lost in Philadelphia Thursday morning by a tire that was caused by the upsetting of a coal oil lamp by a cat. The Singlinger family were n sleep in their home, i!t2l) Kansas street. Shortly after 1 o'clock the household cat jumped upon a table and knocked over a burning lamp. The blazing oil ran all over the room and the interior of the dwelling was soon ablaze. When the parents and four of tho children had escaped to tho street in their night clothes the mother suddenly discovered that her twins had been left in the burning house. She rushed into the flames and succeeded in reaching an upper room where the babes were. This was the last seen of the woman, nnd when firemen fought their way to the upper tlnor they found the mother nnd habe suffocated. Every trolley line in the city of Brooklyn was in operation Wednesday morning except one. The strike is over. New motermen and conductors have replaced the men who went out in a lody on Jan. 14. The linemen who went out on a sympathetic strike a week later have broken ranks on several lines and those whose places had not been filled were taken back. The. (5.000 men who went out in a body are still holding out. They were prepared for a long siege, and they say they have plenty of money coming in daily in contributions, aside from what they had laid away from their wages. The linos now have enough men to operate all cars which are in condition to be run. About one-third of the trolley cars of Brooklyn have broken windows, disabled motors, or are otherwise incapacitated by the scrimmages they have been through during the past sixteen days. The strikers are now directing all their attention to court proceedings. The law's delays are proverbial, and whatever trouble the companies are given through attempts to compel operations by writs of mandamus, or to obtain forfeiture of charters through applications to the attorney general, will have littlo bearing on the present strike. "WESTERN." Ex-State Treasurer Taylor, of South Dakota, is said to have been traced to Central America. A special dispatch to the Associated Tress says a Southern Pacific train was held up and robbed near Wilcox, A. T. The Grand Jury at San Francisco is investigating the theft from the County Clerk's office of the will of James G. Fair. The discovery of gold at the mouth of Little Cottonwood, eighteen iniloa south of Salt Iake City, Utah, is causing considerable excitement. The Peoria Board of Trade has passed resolutions that Congress ought to take action on the financial line laid down by President Cleveland. In a battle near Sacred Heart Mission, Oklahoma, between two gangs of outlaws, over the distribution of plunder from a raid, two of the combatants were killed nnd several wounded. Dr. Cw. Hammel was found dead in his room at Los Angeles, Cal., from an overdose of morphine. Hammel was an eye and ear specialist and went there from Philadelphia, Pa., a year ago. The San Francisco Citizens Committee, engaged in soliciting subscriptions to

j the San Francisco and San Joaquin Rail road, secured over $1 00,000, and the aggregate subscriptions now exceed J?1,;"XK),000. In the District Supreme Court, Judgo Bradley granted the mandamus asked for by Judge Charles I). Long of Michigan, to compel Commissioner Lochran to restore his former pension of $72 per month. All Chicago was startled Sunday by the report that the hull of the lost Chicora was to be seen off South Chicago, and that there were living men aboard. Fire Chief Swenie at once dispatched two tugs in search, but the object proved to be an iceberg with seagull and ducks flitting about its sides. Ira and Wesley Flickenstein, of Chicago Junction, Ohio, while handcuffed and hobbled at Apple Creek, succeeded in escaping for a time from six officers. The men, who were under arrest for burglary, were put into a buggy by themselves with the officers In separate vehicles in front and behind them. At a cr r.a road the prisoners whipped up their horse and made their escape. Several hundred f persons chased the culprits for forty miles j before they were recaptured. Pay day once every three months proved to be too hard nn ordeal for u Harrison street (Chicago) oliccnian. He got drunk, went to the station, and made a speech. When he thought applause ought to come in he supplied it by beating the stearnpipes with a club. The racket brought Capt. Hartnett from his oflice, and lie tried to quiet the policeman. The man would not be quiet and Capt. Hartnett ordered him to bed. The man lofnsed to go, and at last violently was put to sleep by four other policemen, who curried him to bed. The Deaconess Home on Jennings avenue, Cleveland, was destroyed by fire, and four persons were burned to death. The dead are: Albert Allmeyer, Minnie Baumer, an eight-month-o!d baby, Jacob Krause. The fire started in the basement, presumably from the furnace, and before it could be extinguished four of the fifteen patients in the house nnd hospital were dead and the building almost entirely destroyed. Brave work on the part of the firemen and police alone prevented a further loss. The Deaconess Hospital has been lu existence but a

e5rt time in Cleveland. It is a branch of a large hospital in Chicago, and is of no especial denomination. The Rev. W. E. Henshaw, of Belleville, Ind., the survivor of the tragedy at that village Jan. 10, when Mrs. Henshaw was killed and her husband shot twice and cut numerous times, was arrested and taken to Danville, Hendricks County, on .1 warrant charging him with the murder of his wife. Detective Burns, of Seymour, took out the warrant. Mr. Henshaw gave himself up without waking for the ollicors. The charge was nude that he iuilicted the wounds on himself. Mr. Henshaw had a hearing at Danville and was exonerated. No one woul.l Relieve the charge in the warrant and it was killed. There is now talk of a popul.ir uprising against the private detectives who have been working on the case an 1 who brought the charge against Mr. Henshaw. Southern Pacific west-bound train No. 20 was held up six miles from Wilcox, Ari., Wednesday at S:3." by a party of masked men. They separated the express car from the train, hauled it live niiles west, and putting six shots of dynamite on the through safe blew it open. It contained -H 0,000 in Mexican silver, which was removed. The trail of the robbers is marked by a profuse scattering in ihe Sulphur Springs Valley of the Mexican dollars. Besides the $10.ooo in Mexican money there was a good deal of coin on the train which had been sent to pay railroad employes .'long the line, and this was carried ofl: by tho robbers, who rode away in a southerly direction. The Southern Pacific Company and WellsFa rgo Express Company offer a joint reward of 500 for each of the robbers. Taeoma (Wash.) dispatch: Dr. Willis E. Everette, a prominent metallurgist, who was employed by Eastern millionaires lo investigate the Monte Cristo gold e.'iartz mines, says the recent closing of the Everett smelter demonstrates that hi report was correct and that the mines are not feasible as a smelting proposition. As a result he places the loss sustained by John D. Rockefeller at $1,.J.XUXM. Three million dollars was invested in opening a railroad to the mines, which are back of the city of Everett in the Cascade Mountains. Another $l,000,tHr) was expended in the smelter and concentrating plant, all of which was done upon the favorable report of an expert metallurgist sent out from the East. Everette reported adversely. Everette had a conference with Rockefeller in New York a few weeks ago and reports him angry ut those who led hin into investing money.

SOUTHERN. James McCIrain. a well-known lawyer, 43 years old, committed suicide at Louisvillc. Harrison Stevens, colored, was hanged at Dawson, Ca., for the murder of J. G. Wells a year ago. Amlose Smith, a New Orleans attorney, was convicted of embezzling $1,000 belonging to a client. J. W. Wells was sentenced at Jackson, Miss., to hang March "0 for murdering hbj sweetheart, Miss Lizzie Heffner, last full. Mrs. U. S. Grant was entertained while in Atlanta, Ca., with a party of tourists, by members of the Confederate Veterans' Association. Will Ward, the section-hand who killed four men anil wounded two others near Millicau and attempted suicide with iuori phine, has been lodged in jail at Bryan, i ex as. The Mary Hohnes College at Jackson, Mis., caught lire and was entirely consumed. The building was three stories high and wiu founded by Mrs. Holmes, of Kockford, 111., for the education of colored girls. Tho loss is about $30,000; half covered by insurance. Since tho great earthquake shock of Nov. 22, IStM, which caused the loss of fifteen lives in City of Mexico and destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of property, a reign of terror has prevailed in the towns of Jami! tepee and Tuxtepec, in the State of Oaxaca, where the earth trembles from six to eight times a day. Th churches and houses are a heap of ruins, and the inhabitants have nearly all fled to neighboring hamlets. The eruption of some volcano, presumed to exist in subterranean form close by, is momentarily expected. WASHINGTON. The annual meeting of tho National Board of Trade was held at tho Shoreham, in Washington, fifty delegates beir.g prese.it. Frederick Fraley, of Philadelphia, was chosen president for the twenty-seventh consecutive term, and Hamilton A. Hill, of Cincinnati, secretary for the twenty-fifth time. President Cleveland's announcement that he would protect the redit of the na tion by making the next issue of bonds I $100,000,000 and payable .n gold, if necessary, and furthermore place them in the Euroieau tuarket direct, has stopped the greedy bankers of Wall street in their game of withdrawing gold from th treasury by means of treasury notes and storing it in their vaults. Instead, on Friday these same bankers paid into tht treasury $'0('0,000 in coin in exchange for paper; orders for $5.000.000 in gold for export were cancelled; and this promise t-i be the order of thing for some time to co.ne. Foreign exchange dropped greatly, and the men who havo been withdrawing goid in the hope that the credit of the nation would be shaken and send the yellow metal to ii premium, may now get wha comfort they may from the fact that they havo had their pains for their trouble. Wh.'ii Europa becomes convinced that the United States is determined to meet her obligations as fchc has promised, then th demand for gold for export ceases. The bonding of government oilicial is a subject which has been under discussion by the House Committee on Appropriations for several days and the committee ha concluded that il is a field in which there in great room for reform. The irregularities and lack of system governing the securities taken by the government for tho performance of olliclal duties were first inquired into by the experts of the Dockery commission and brought to the attention of the committee. Recently the heads of several departments and bureaus have been before the subcommittee of appropriations which is framing the legislative bill and it has been shown that the security system is probably more lax than that of any other government. Many officers are bonded for a term of four years, aud if, as often happens, there is delay in the appointment of the successors and they continue to officiate, the government is left without any guaranty or means of making good losses, if any are incurred through their aets. This lapse is frequent in the cases of first-class postmasters, but the assistant treasurers of the United States present the most conspicuous examples,

since their londsmen, according to decisions by the courts, ce.ise to be responsible at the em! of four years and the government is left with no recourse in case of default in the interim until the appointment of their successors.

FOREIGN, The Pall Mail Gazette says thnt the naval program, which has been approved by the English cabinet, involves the construction within the ensuing financial year of four first-class, four second-class, and two third-class cruisers, twenty torpedo boats, and twenty torpedo destroyers. The cost of these vessels is to aggregate ('.500,000. The ambassadors sent to Tokio, Japan, by China to negotiate terms of peace, as was supposed, were given no power by their own government to decide any questions whatever. Japan refuses to treat with any emissaries not authorized to determine issues on the spot and. empowered to bind the empire of China to faithfully carry out any terms agreed upon. China's ambassadors, with their imposing retinues, started on their return home, having accomplished nothing, not even having been officially recognized as commissioned agents of the government they claim to represent. They v. ere practically told to go home. Lowestoft advices say that visits made to all the various life-saving and coastguards stations show that no additional news has been received in regard to the loss of the North German Lloyd steamship Elbe and no trace has been found of the missing lifeboat supposed to contain people from that steamer. However, the sea is so rough that many of the fishing smacks are unable to make port and are beating up and down the coast, waiting for a chance to run into some harbor. In reply to a message of sympathy from ()ueen Victoria, the agent here of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company telegraphed to her Majesty saying that no hopes whatever are entertained of any more of the passengers or crew of the steamship Elbe having been saved. Captain Gordon, of the British steamship Crathie, which is generally admitted to have been the vessel which ran into and sank the Elbe, has made a statement to Lloyd's agent in which he says that he was knocked down by the force of the collision, and that when he regained his feet the two ships were some distance apart, and the Crathie was so damaged that he expected her to sink at any moment. In spite of this, Captain Gordon added, he followed the other steamer, but found that she went faster than the Crathie, and so he thought the vessel she had collided with was safe. IN GENERAL Twenty stores were burned at Coantieooke, Que., Wednesday night, causing a loss of about $100,000. Wagner palace car porters are threatening a strike owing to their inadequate pay, which is no longer supplemented by the former liberal tips. The American grain growers and mill owners have received another severe blow from a European country, in this case from Sweden, a country which is in no wise affected by our sugar differential duty. The United States consul at Gothenberg, Mr. Boyesen, reports that by a royal ordinance the import duties on grains have been greatly increased, in cases more than 100 per cent. The Cincinnnti Price Current summarizes the crop situation for the past week as follows: "No significant changes have taken place in the general crop situation. There has been some snowfall in the West where moisture and protection wee needed. Interior offerings of wheat con tinue limited. Wheat feeding is decreasing. The week's packing of hogs amount ed to 310,000 against 20.VKO for the corresponding week last year." Tho North German Lloyd Rteainer Elbe, Capt. von Gossel, from Bremen Wednesday for New York via Southampton, :ims been sunk in collision with the Brit iah steamer Crathie. hound from Rotterdam for Aberdeen. The exact loss of life is unknown, but report has it that it was nearly 400. A 1 tout twenty are known to have been saved. The disaster occurrel before dnyliarht Wednesday morning, at a point some thirty miles from the Hook of Holland. R. (J. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review .f Trade says: "Things look better, because it is believed that a new loan will be negotiated. There was need for relief, since January closed with the heaviest exports of gold ever made in any month, ami the heaviest withdrawals of gold from ihe treasury, $43,4(S,l0.S, the hope of a Hew loan being the one thing which has lifted prices during the past few days. January leaves behind it the lowest average of prices for all commodities over known; for cotton, iron nnd its products, wool and silver the lowest monthly average ever known, and for wheat n range above the minimum, but yet declining rapidly toward that point. Industrial operations have not materially diminished, though it has been a disapitointing month because the revival expected has not come." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $3.75.trti.OO; hops, shipping grades. $X:0 frl.50; sheep, fair to choice, J'J.0(&-1.50; wheat. No. 2 red, fjOtfMc; corn, Ko. 2, 4l42c: oats, No. Ü, iMTe; rye. No. 2. 51(T52e; butter, choice creamery, 23t l!rc; ejus, fresh. 23ß!'5c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 0.rä75c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3f? 5.50; hogs, choice light, $3$y4.fjO; phrep, commnn to prime, '2.(qA; wheat. No. 2 red, 5152c; corn. No. 1 white, 40tf 40Vic; oats, No. 2 white. 32(f;32V. St. Louis Cattle, $3fi5.75; begs, $3Q 1.50; wheat. No. 2 red, fi0$t51c; corn. No. 2, 35qn0c; oats, No. 2, 'JUtfSOc; rye, No. 2, 52Ti54e. Cincinnnti Cattle. $3.505.50; hogs. $3..r4.50; sheep. ?2frl4.50; wheat. No. 2, 53frt54e; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42f 43c; oats. No. a mixed, 32432V; rye, No. 2. 536755c. Detroit-Cattle, 52.50,5.50; hogs, $4f 4.S0: sheep, $2(573.50; wheat. No. 1 1 white, 54U55e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 41fr42e; oats. No. 2 white, rtSgXtV&c; rye. No. 2. 51tfV3e. Toledo-Wheat, No 2 red, 52ft 53c; crrn. No. 2 mixed, 40$41c; oats. No. 2 white. S2(T733c; rye. No. 2. 52i53e. Buffalo Cattle, $2.50Ti5.50; hogs, $3$f 4.50; sheep, $2tff4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 57(t;57Vc; corn. No. 2 yellow, 45jj-Hlc; oats. No. 2 white, 3rf35V,jMilwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 5Uf! 51Vjc; corn. No. 2, 436744c; oats. No. 2, white. 316731'Ac; barley. No. 2, MffMVv, rye. No. 1, 52(u5.; itork, mess, $'J.25ti 0.75. New York Cattle, $365.75; hogs, $3.50 (j5; sheep, $26(1.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 5N(j!i59e; corn. No. 2, 47(j'4Se; oats, white, Western, 37(41c; butter, creamery, lWft 25c; ccfis, Western, 2520.

BLOW UP A BUILDING.

MILAN, OHIO, BANK ROBBERS USE DYNAMITE. Burglars Get Away With C'30,000Two Captured-Thirty Miners Kilted by an Kxj)!r.sioii of Fire-Damp Accident to a Milwaukee Street Car. ICx plosion Shakes the Tonn. About 4 .',, ek ?.Io:id:;y morning a terrilie epitsii;i awakened the people vi Mih:n. Ohio. A hurried examination showed that the I..Uv.-i ,l Lank building had been broken into, the safe blown and its contents, about S.'lo.i'iio, taken by live masked men, who. in blowing opi-si the sale, had demolished the building and started an alarm all over the village. Among the many who started to investigate tho explosion was L. L. Stoddard, cashier of the bank, ami he w:is jut in time- to se tLo live men leave the hunk building, jump into a carriage and drive away, lie tired several shots at them, but without effect, and the men soon diPI ten red in the direction of Sandusky. A losseof men was hurriedly organized and soon followed in pursuit. At the :ai:io time notices were sent by wire in al! direetions and the news spread mound them so securely that escape w:is well night impessihle. At Sandusky two men were caught. The exact amount of money secured eannot yet be ascertained, but it is believed, to be about SO.'H!. The bank is a wealthy comrni, which fact was doubtless known by the men. The only er:.;r in their well-laid plans was the heavy explosion which starte! the alarm. It is quite probable that they had not prepared it with suiüci nt caution ami by that error their plan:; v. ere upset and themselves place. 1 in danger of capture. Drowned In a Street Car. A trolley car of the Russell avenue and Iloip.n streu line, Milwaukee, plunged through the cpn draw of the Ivinni.-kin-nivk avenu" bridge at S:.;o Monday morning, carrying three poop!o down to death in the icy watrs of the riv.r. Six others were, rescued friii the partly $ubinerged car. Tho chad were: Mrs. Antoinette LMinan. a kindergarten tea-h-er; John Kennedy, motorman; Miss Schmidtkuntz. employed at National Knitting Works. It was the worst street car accident that ever happened in Milwaukee, und the news of the shocking disaster sent a thrill of horror throughout the city. From all accounts the ac eident reems to huve clearly been due to the carelessness of the inotoruiaa, John Kennedy, but he Ftuck to his post in a vain endeavor to r.top the car, which L had permitted to approach too near the open draw, und paid the penalty of his carelessness with his life. The car strack endwise In the river and was fubmerged for nlxuit twe-thirds of its length, tho fact that it did not go to the bottom of the river, which is eighteen feet dvop at that point, being due to the presence of thick ice. This circumstance alone, it is believed, made it pOHüible to rescue any of the passengers. Germany Fells Aid to China. Herl m dispatch: Several vessels loaded with powder, cartridges and other war material have left Hamburg. Herr Krupp is constructing guns in fulfillment of orders from the Chinese (Government. Chinese ngeuts are endeavoring' to engage Herman non-commissioned officers at the risk of causing thnn to I to arrested. The discovery wk rar.de of an illicit cartridge factory working dsy end night for the Chinese (Joverniuent ut considerable riok to neighboring property. The Iolice are mailing active search for other similar establishments in Berlin. NEWS NUGGETC. Mrs. Louisa Jordan, a member of n wealthy, family of Viucenues. Ind.. is charged with setting tire to a grist mill. Fire destroyed the building, with it contents, f the Minnesotn-Moline Coiiilüiny at Minneapolis. I. ss, Jf.&.OOO. Arthur French, a prominent young man of New York, was sent to the Fittfcburg (l'n.) work house for three month raising money on forged checks. He was infatuated with Nina WaHi, a ballet dancer of "1402." and followed her from New York to Pittsburg. His money ran our. and to maintain the fast pace he committed the forgeries. Yuicento Tortorchi. one of the m:i charged with the recent mysterious assawuatioii in New Orleans of Anton? Chiese, a wealthy Italian from Chicago, which HHsassination was supposed to be connected with the Mafia, was arrested in f'laquciuiuc. La. The mliee my they have cnruveled all the mysteries of the anamination und promise an tut e resting story of conspiracy. An explosion of lire damp is reported from Montceau les Mines, Framt. Thirty person are believed to hn?e been killed in the mine where the rxplosiou took place. Fire broke out in the St. Lugenie pit, and while the miners were fighting this fir n explosion occurred which wrecked the galleries and entombed the miners. The rescue party has recovered t weiity-oiie ladies and has removed froia tiic ruin ight badly injured miners. The day after the funeral of Mr. Willikm Waldorf Astor ut New York the fact was published that Mr. Astor had ordered a blanket of lilie of the vall?y and violets to Ite placed on the crave in Trinity Cemetery every day for a year at a cost of f 38,J0. The order has bean canceled. The florist said that Mr. Astor l4ame annoyed when the newspapers got hold of the story, aud that he drove around to the florist's store the day after the first publication and canceled hi ore'er. He would uccept no explanation. Fifht prosjtectora have besn found dead in the Feine Hiver gold titddn in Minnesota. They hud been exposed to a ternIKTature of 40 degree below. An ettst-ltound pussengor train on the Chicago, Hock Itdand aud Pacific struck a broken rail ut Wi'.lard, Kan., and was badly wrecked. Four person were injured. The Phoenix glass factory at Monaca. I'a., burned to the ground. Ixtss, $17r.HK. A score of men were injured, several fatally, by two explosion in an iron furnace at Steubenville, Ohio. - - - The Swedish Lutheran Church at luluth, Minn., burned during the Sunday school session. The fifty children escaped just in time to avoid the falling roof. Japan sent the Chinese peace commissioners borne on learning that they were not authorized io bind the empire to carry oat any terms agreed upon.

' SENATE AND HOUSE

WORK CF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the .'cn:i!e and Ilocse of Ktprescnlctives Important Measures Discussed and Acted l'jon Gist of tho The National Solans. During the disenssion of the currency question in the Senate Wednesday Mr. Yet said he would f;!l v the President'. lead no longer. The Senate ratiiie.l the Japanese treaty after adopting an amendment to strike out the ten-year limit. William Ii. Tihbals, of Illinois, was ci;ifirmed by the Senate as supervising .nBpcctor of steam vessels for the Fifth District. The House entered on a discussion of the Pacific Hailroad bili. for which three days were set apart. A bill for the punishment of train wreckers was ngre"l on by the House Committee on Interstate Commerce. Tho Chicago itostotuVe bill will be favorably reported to the Senate with the provision for its completion : l three years omitted. Paeiüc Hailroad funding bill was discused in the House Thursday and m;i h opposition to the measure was developed, (iorniau and Hill made strenuous f:'orts to have tho Senate take some immediate action on the pressing financial question. It is said Germany is determined to force a tariff war upon the I'nited States in order to satisfy the agricultural party. Hut little outside of routine business was done in either house. Many bills were introduced in each branch. The House Friday adapted a res j'uti.j:: culling m the President for information concerning tie action of Hritih subjects during the rebellion in Hawaii. Congressmen Breckinridge, of Kentucky, and Heard, of Missouri, called each other liars in the House and were ea-t-ed to apologize. Senator Teller, represent tog the silver element, gave warning of opposition to any f;itan-ial plan not airreable to hira. It is statel semi-oüieiaily that Secretary Carlisle -vi :1 be at p int'.l to the Supreme bench to succeed Justice Jackson. An omnibvs bill for the payment of Southern war claims to the amount of STl-'VXi.'i w:'.s d tented to the House Monday. A rule setting apart Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday for consideration of the currency bill was adopted by th' House. Hawaiian cirreiielnce sub-'.nitt-d to the House shows Croat Hritain has not inv rfered with affairs of the republic. The Senate prissc.1 the bill t establish a national military park at Cettysburg. I'a., and it now goes to the President. Tho District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed by the Senat; Tuesday, after amendments to coin the silver seigniorage and to issue bonds wen ruled out. Messrs. Mit-h'll nnd Harris hal an alten-ation in the S-nate, in which the words "ungcntlemnnly" and "contnptible" were used. Debate n the curr'iicy bill war. begun in the House. Mr. lied. who tffoi-! a substitute. sail the trouble was caused by insu'Iu-ient revenue. SNOW IN THE WEST. A Plow Which Tackles lrifln Thirt; 3-Yet in Depth. Ueport (vimo i'rom the West of snowdrifts on 1h railroad over the Sierri Mountains, which are said to bethe heaviest for years. Hanl packed kihuv li 's from tliirty to fifty f-et deep, and it reipiiros constant work with miow plows to enable trains to get through at all. Tin rwtAry plor is about the only thing which doea rdly effective work, though tin? i- v ! I THE noTARY I'I.OW AT WOKR. push plows are ustxl in conjunction with them. Near a place called Dunstnuir is a huge drift, particularly haul to handle. Thi is the way the men attempt to manage here. A enmber of engines coupled together tale a flying start of ubo.it half a mile at this bank of snow, an.l slowly fore it off the track. L'very ti;n they t-trike it from two to three of them are buried out of sight in the drift. The other are uncoupled and back away. The buried engines are then dug out by hovelers. TLey then couple n und another tsault is made on the drift. SOME NOTED MEN Who Bfotmif Tubiohh in Their Young cjr Day. Pitt, the youuscr, was In Parliament at 21. Kdison xvas famous for his luvontions when 23. (Jalilco discovered the isoilmmlsm of the pendulum at VX Slink sjoa re left school at 14; Clay at 14; John Hright at 15. Napoleon at 27 commanded the army In Italy. At .TT was L'mpcror. Iiacon was a member of Parliament at 23; at 2G one of its leaders. Pox was a itoet nt 10; at 34 he wrote "The Haven." He died at 38. Tennyson at 33 took that high star-1 among the ioots. he held till bis death. Hryant wrote poetry at 9. At IS hi m.steriiece, "Tuanatopsis," was published. Brougham, that strange ad wonder ful phenomenon, entered high school at 7. Graduated at the bead of uis class when 12. At 23 was a noted scientist.. .

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