Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 February 1895 — Page 2

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0?c nöcponöcnt A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Publisher.

PLY MO. ITH. SHE SPIED A BARGAIN: AND FELL OVER EVERYBODY TO GET AT IT. Clicai;o Herald ami Post Now Owned by Jas. Y. Fcoit-Mny Aluo Get the Times-Silver Men KcpMlsctl in the Senate. Quick Way of Getting to a Harrain. Three women took a tumble down a Stairway at the Boston Store in Chicago Tuesday, landing in a heap at the bottom chagrined and mortified, but nut injured. A large woman with her arms f till of bundles was at the head of the stairs leading from the second story. She caught sight of some bargain sign on the tloor below and tried to crowd her way through the throng. In her effort she tripped on the front edge of her dress skirt and started on a headlong plunge down the stairs. Most of the people pot out of her way in time, but alut half way down the steps she caught two women ahnest as large as she and rolled straight on to them. The force of the contact upset thrt two women and they accompanied the first one in her original method of getting to a bargain counter, all three going down the stairs in a heap which to the spectators seemed to be made up mainly of wildly waving arms. hats, and draperies. At the end of the stairs the women were picked up by the store employes and sorted out. Scott Buys Chicago Papers. James W. Scott on Tuesday gained control of the Chicago Herald and the livening Tost. John R. Walsh, president of the Chicago National Hank, who, since INN.!, has held a two-thirds interest in the Herald and who has held a like interest in the Evening I'ost ever since it was founded, has transferred his entire holdings to Mr. Scott. The deal was made on the basis of approximately $11.OOO.Ooo for the two newspapers and the property of all sorts belonging to them, Mr. "Walsh receiving in the neighborhood of 1,330,(100 for his interests. At the same time comes the news of a probable consolidation of the Chicago Times and the Herald. Mr. Scott and the owners of the Times, it is understood, have agreed uion terms, and in all likelihood the plan of consolidation will be ierfected very soon. To Sue Owners of the Kibe. An action for damages against the North Herman Lloyd Steamship Company will be brought by Siegmund Frank, the brother of Jacob Frank, the Buffalo ticket broker who was lost in the wreck of the steamship Kibe. The damages specified will be !j-70,ooo. The first steps in the proceedings were taken Monday in an application to the surrogate at Buffalo for limited letters of administration. Siegmund Frank gave bonds and qualified as aliui:..tratir. Allidavits have been .oi.t'-.'.ucd from two of the survivors, Carl Hoffman and John Vovera. No Vote on Silver. The silver light in the Senate is finished and no vote will be had on the Jones hill. The one day Tuesday devoted to that bill showed conclusively that no amount of pressure would bring about a vote, and if the silver bill was kept before the Senate that it would result in defeating the appropriation bills and force an extra session. BREVITIES7 William Scott celebrated his 100th birthday at Delphos, O. Martin Meyers, the stage robber, was sentenced for life at Oroville, Crd. A. K. Hunt, chief of the Seattle, Wash., lire department, has disappeared. Phil Dawson killed his father at Birmingham, Ala., when the latter reprimanded his daughter. The tug Sea King towed the derelict schooner Ocean Spray into San Francisco, Cal. The schooner was capsized. The schooners Ida C. Schoolcraft and William C. Wickam, bound for Richmond, Va., are believed to have foundered. R. L. Hawkins, of Van Buren, Ark., was shot and killed by a ncgi named Turner for putting him out of a railway depot. The Montana Supreme Court has decidcl that Harriet Sheffield and Erwin Davis, niece and brother of Andrew J. Davis, the Butt? millionaire, may contest the will on the ground that it was a forgery and was revoked by other wills. A man giving the name of Hartwell P. Heath, but believed to be Frank II. Trtusdell, an ex-newspaper man of Elmira, N. V.. and San Francisco, has been arrested at I'mporra, Kan., charged with trying to swindle banks by means of forged drafts. Thomas Cook, a merchant of Fl Moro, Colo., was forced to open his safe by a masked man who got the drop on him, but as the burglar was leaving the store Mr. Cook shot at him with a Winchester. The bullet struck the robber on the shoulder and fell to the lloor flattened out, showing that the outlaw had some sort of bulletproof covering for the upper part of his body. 1 le escaped. President McBride of the American Federation of Labor is again home at Massillon, O., preparatory to taking a long leave of absence. He will go to Hot Springs or some similar resort. He has been advised that'll- must do this or dirwithin three months. McBride absorbed nicotine into his system last year by smoking while he had a bad cold sore. II -has been taking treatment ever since, but lias not succeeded in throwing off the ioiKon. Plans have been accepted for a Phelps memorial gateway at Yale to cost $100,000. Bank Cashier Daniels shot at a robber in Azusa, Cal. Constable Stevens thought it was the robber shooting and returned fire, hitting Daniels in the shoulder. The robber, Fllsworth Myers, was caught. Jaeob S. Monis, one of the most widely known railroad men in the United States, died at Toledo, U., from grip. Representative W. L. Wilson denies the htory that he has been tendered the presidency of the T "as State University.

EASTERN. An explosion of natural gas at Meadville, Ph., Wednesday wrecked the store and dwelling of George H. Cutler, killed George H. Cutler and his son, and injured Mrs. Cutler and Kate Strack, a domestic. The houses were completely demolished andthe ruins, taking fire, were destroyed. The explosion was caused by a leak in the main, the escaping gas igniting from the office stove. Captain Baudclon and the officers of La Gascogne were entertained at dinner at the Hotel Martin, New York, by A. A. Riehe, who is one of the happiest men in New York. As the ten naval guests from La Gascogne entered the dining room in full uniform they were greeted by shouts of "Vive Baudelon." Ladies waved their handkerchiefs and men grasped the hand of the officers. Then all standing, drank to the health of the stanch ship and her brave commander. Reports from remote portions of the State continue to emphasize the fact that the late storm was almost unprecedented in Maryland. James Brunner, a colored man of Pisgah neighborhood, Charles County, was found standing in a fence corner on the public roadside, frozen stiff. Two dead men were found on the railroad tracks between Oxford and Faston. They were identified as hands on a dredge boat frozen up at Oxford. Robert M. Dawson, of Wittman. reports that there is a Hock of at least fifty wild goose frozen to death near the mouth of Fastern Bay. The freight train known as the Troy pick-up. hound north, parted about a mile north of Khineeliff, X. Y. The divided parts came together and live cars were telescoped. The wreck blocked the down track, and before a langer signal could be displayed the south-bound fast mail ran into the wreck, the engine and three express cars of the fast train jumping the track. The locomotive went into the river, taking with it Fnginccr James D. Dohohue and Fireman Green. They were e.trioatl by tin crew of the train. Fnginccr Donohuo is badly scalded about the chest, has severe spinal injuries and is suflering so much from shock that he cannot recover. Gre-u will recover. Engines Nos. 0 and S on the Castle Shannon Railroad collided in the tunnel near Monongahela. Pa., causing one of the worst wrecks that has oecurn-d on the road in a number of years. Five men were hurt and an engine and twenty-live ears demolished. The injured were: Conductor John Walker, Fngineers Henry Hitters and Frederick Risgar, Fireman Emmet t Hamilton and an unknown man. The first three were seriously injuretl, but it is thought all will recover. The locomotives met in the center of the tunnel. In the crash that followed the men were buried in the debris and their escape from dath was little short of miraculous. Traffic was delayed for several hours by the accident. Lynn, Mass., was visited by a bad fire Welnesday night, and besides the loss of property, there was a sad loss of life. While the fire was at its height, a dozen firemen were crushed beneath the walls of one of the buildings as a result of an exploshm of powder. Half the firemen were on ladders directing streams of water into the burning building. They escaped, but with bad wounds. The bodies of three of their comrades were dug frm beneath the debris, and it is believed that one or two more have not been recveivd. A man named Buttrick was with the firemen at the time the wall collapsed, and he has not been seen since then. Two or three other firemen are missing, and three bodies may still be beneath the big pile of debris. Several of the men who were dug out alive were so badly injured that it is feared they will lie. The fire, which caused a loss of $100,000, consumed two big business houses on Monroe street. It started in the hardware store of Representative William II. Hutchinson and hal gained considerable headway when discovered.' Thomas F. Gilroy, formerly Mayor of Xew Y'ork; Thomas F. McAvoy, William W. McLaughlin, Alexander S. Williams, Police Inspectors, ami two police captains, whose names are kept secret, have been indicted by the special Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The special Grand Jury has been in session since the beginning of January. Its main object was to investigate charges of municipal corruption. Witnesses have gone in and have left, but their testimony has been guarded carefully from the public ear. It was said three weeks ago that the jury was prepare! to find fifty-two indictments. Municipal and iolice officials implicates! in the revelations before the Lexow Investigation Committee have been anxiously awaiting for some time the first big batch of indictments to be handed down by the special Grand Jury. The result of the special Grand Jury's work was certain to be interesting to the public, but the size of the sensation to be crated was not known to anybody ox'pt the Prosecuting Attorney until Friday aftorimon, when the news leake! out that the forgoing hal been indicted and that the papers were then being prepared for submission to the court.

WESTERN. Joseph Robinson, agent of the Ncz Perces Indians in Idaho, is dead. At Xew York Michael Capezzuto was senteiH-el to life imprisonment in Sing Sing for the murder of his wife. By a vote of U5 to 20 the resubmission of the prohibitory amendment was defeated in the North Dakota House of Representatives. The next proposition will be for $1,0M) licensfor cities, leaving prohibition in the other parts of the State. The Russian Thistle Interstate conference at St. Paul adoptel a series of proposals for laws in the interested States. Their purport is that the weed should be declared a public nuisance and a special law relating to Russian thistles alone should be passed. Prominent ministers of all denominations ami leaders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in South Dakota are waging n vigorous fight against the proposel divorce bill. They have issu'l sin appeal to the people of the State for a petition against it. At Fast Tawas, Mich., there was a dispute recently as to the renting of a pew, and the Rev. Mr. Brueck, the pastor, ehoppcl up the pew with an ax while one of the disputants was occupying it. He has now been suel for $10,0(10 damages by the aggrieved church member. The Rev. Andrew H. Randnhl, pastor of the Swelish Evangelical Lutheran Churches at Ehijo and Highland Grove. Minn., has brought suit for $150,000 damages against the publishers of the Augustana, a church magazine, In which he says he was widely published as a liar and a swindler. The Kansas City Commercial Club

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completed the collection of a charity fund recently started by it, and immediately distributed the $2.010 received to Kansas ami Nebraska, sending $1.0lo to (governor Morrill of Kansas and the balance to Governor Holcoinb of Nebraska. Tor city charity $2,MJ0 was distributed by Mayor Davis. Throe nun entered the store at Alma. Ariz., where ld man Doll and Iiis son were murdered a few weeks ago and attempted to hold up John Roach, who is in charge ol the place, but Uoach was Uo quick for them. Before they couhl use1 their guns he tired six shots, which brought one of the would-be robbers to the ground, perhaps fatally wounding him, and the others l''d. A bomb was thrown into the ollice cf the Buckeye Class Works at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, doing considerable damage. Manager Humphrey was supposed to be sleeping in the othco at the time. This i the secoinl attempt on his life, as he was shot at about ten days ago. A strike v:is inaugurated in this factory some months ago. and early in January operations wro resumed with non-union men. Since then there have been frequent outbreaks. "Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie" were played as a joint melody Thursday night at the Chicago Auditorium while öco men who had once recognized the airs as the battle marches f contending armies stood touching glasses in good fellowship and cheering themselves hoarse in the enthusiasm of friendship. It was at a reunion of "the Koys of the Blue aim the Gray," and it formed the most inspiring feature of a banquet given under the auspices of Columbia l'ost, No. 7od, G. A. R. Much excitement exists at Norman. O. T., over the report that 2?J00.OO0 was burid near the town some time ago by a party of Mexicans who w-ro routed by Indians in a light. When the Mexicans saw they were overpowered l.y the Indians they hid their money and lied. Several Mexicans have been seen in the vicinity for some tino, and one of the number let the secret out to a Xorman man. who has organized a oinpany to mak- a thorough search. The company is hi adi-d by I). L. Larsh, of the Xorman State Bank. The United States grand jury in s-s-sion at Dead wood has found indictments for murder against Captain Straighthcad and seven members of the Indian police force of the Cheyenne Indian agency lor the murder of William Fielder, interpreter at the agency. The ag-nt, Major Lillibridgo, had snt the police out to arrest Fielder, and with instructions to bring him in without fail. The police followed th-ir instructions to the letter. Fielder refused to come alive, so they filled him full of holes and brought him in dead. Fielder had b-cn charged with wife-beating. James Roach, an ex-employe of the Probate Court at Chicago made a vicious attack on Deputy Sheriff Hermann Scharingburg in the office vault adjoining the court-room Friday afternoon. lie tried to escape at once and got as far as the -le-vators before he was overtaken. With Charles Cullen, a friend. Roach made a ih'sporatc tight against the ofiicers. but was finally overpower-! and taken before Judge Kohlsaat. After receiving a sentence of thirty days in the county jail for contempt of court Roach kicked another man in the stomach. lie was landed in jail without further casualties. Considerable stock lias already perished on the ranges of Colorado in consequence of the c!d, and it is feared the loss will be heavy unless a change takes place soon. Many settlers in Eastern Colorado are suffering from cold and hunger. .Tubsburg reports extreme weather has bH-n recorded for twenty-six days, the thermometer ranging from 10 to 30 lgr-es below zero during the recent blizzard. Millions of snowbirds and rabbits have been frozen to death. Denver is about the center of the region affected by the coll wave, which seemel to be backed up against the Rocky Mountains all the way from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fl Paso, Tex. With the Federal and State courts on his trail Attorm-y Joseph A. Nealey, a Chicago attorney furnisher of straw bail on short notice is in a bad box. Judge Grosscup sent him to jail for perjury for swearing he ownel a six-story Hat building at No. ,"7(I'J South Leavitt str'-t, a sjHit occupied by railroad tracks, and he will have to give bond before he obtains his liberty. Judge Chetlain, who held him to the Criminal Court for conspiray, is confident he can send him to the pMiitentiary for from two to fourteen years, tln-re being three distinct charges on which he can be convicted. When Xealey swore to the ownership of the mythical South Leavitt str-et building he enabled matrimonial swindler Cavelle to escape. Inspec tor Stuart was convinced he was committing perjury, ami twentyfour hours investigation showed there wasn't a building within blocks of the place where tin; attorney's structure stood. Forty thousand dollars is the reward offer'd for the apprehension of Dr. George Fraker, of Kansas City, Mo. The ofiVr is made by the insurance companies which issued the policies on Dr. Fraker's life. When the confession and judgment was taken in the Federal Court in the case brought to cdlect the $40,000 insurance, it was agree.1 in the stipulation filed that the main sum should not be paid until the expiration of six months. There were no reasons given by the insurance solicitors for this clause nml none was required, but it was understood that it was simply one of business, and that It was in good faith. Now, however, it is learned the companies have joined in issuing a circular to its agents offering $40,000 reward for Fraker's recovery within the six months' stay before the payment is due. The number of agents employed by the companies amounts to a small army ami inchules every city, village ami hamlet in the land. In addition the offer has been male to every reputable detective agency in the country. SOUTHERN. Thomas Ault, a St. Louis timber man, end'l his life by poison at Memphis, Tonn. James Hodges, ex-Mayor of Baltimore and prominent in public affairs during the know-nothing days, is dead. Ramlall Adams was seutcncel at Louisville, Ky., to the penitentiary for life for killing Marshal Russell Wiseman March IT, 1SS0. Max Meyer tried to asphyxiate himself, sht himself, an! leaped from a furth-story window at Austin, Texas. He is dead. The continued cld weather has causel a stagnation in the Alabama iron business. Several furnaces have closed down at Birmingham. Peter May, n negro farm laborer, Rhot and killed W. B. Lyle, the overseer of th

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large South Christian farm of W. S. Cheatham at Hopkinsvillc, Ky. The tank steamer Flsie Marie, from Hamburg for Baltimore, which went ashore on Little Ya'hiongo Shoals, off the Virginia Shoals, was pulled .-ff with little damage. WASHINGTON. The Lady of the Lake, one of the oldest st-amers on the Potomac, burned to the water's cnlg:- at her wharf in Washington. Loss. $: o,o h). The interstate commerce commission has suspended the long and short haul clause of the interstat commerce law so as to enable railroads to curry at cheaper rates to points in the Nebraska region of crop failures. The third attempt of the Administration at this session to secure legislation looking to the ivliof of the treasury failed in the House Thursday. First, the Carlisle bill for the reform of the currency system went dinvii; next, the bill for the issue of $.VK.(r,0,!Hi of gold bonds ar.d the retirement of the legal tenders, recommended in the President's special inessag, was deflated a week ago by a majority of 27, and Thursday the House, by a majority even larger (47. refused to order to a third reading the resolution iy which it was proposed to authorize the h-sno of ,VVT K (.; :o ;', p..r rent, gold bonds to Substitute for tin 4 per rent. "Oycar coin bonds sold by Secretary Carlisle under the contract with the RothschildMcrgan syndieate. FOREIGN, United States Minister Isaac V. Gray died of pneumonia at the City of Mexico Thürs! ay evening. He had been micmiscions sixteen hours. He was carried from the train to the American Hospital, and Dr. Bray place! in charge of the patient. The phy :;:' n saw at once then? was no hope, ami informed Mrs. Gray that her hu.-l aiel wiM not live twentyfour hours. He had just returned from Washington. Intelligence was received at Yokohama Weliieslay morning of the surrender of the Chinese forts anil warships at Wei-IIai-Wci. The surrender is complete and the Japanese are in full possessiju of Woi-IIai-Woi. It is officially announced that Captain Xuros, of the Japanese fcquadron operating at Wei-IIai-Wei, reports that on Tuesday one of the enemy's gunboats approached the Japanese licet flying a white flag. She brought a message from Admiral Ting, of the Chinese navy, offering to surrender Wei-IIai-Wei and his vessels providing that the lives of the soMiers. crews and foreigners were seetired. Captain Nuros reiort added that a formal surrender was yet to be arranged. The commander of the second Japanese army, in an official report of the operations of that body befre Wei-IIai-Wei, says that its losses from Jan. -) to Feb. 1 w-re eighty-three kille!, inclmling five ofiicers, and 1110 woundel, including General Otera and thre other ofiicers. During the same period TOO of the enemy were killed. IN GENERAL. A bill has been r'iortel to Congress granting the ahandoiiotl Mount Verm.n barracks military ivservation, comprising alntut sixteen hundrMl acres of sterile html, to the State of Washington. Much anxiety is felt at Philadelphia over the safety of the British steamship Kingdom, Capt. Jones, which sailed from Hamburg De'. IN. The last report of Iter was De-. -4, when she was siguale! from the lighthouse station at the Butt of Lwis, one of the Orkney Ishs. At Lloyds a premium of GO guineas was asked fr her insurance. She Las a crew of forty. Traveling men all ver the country were jubilant over the action of the Presitlent in signing the bill amemling that part of the interstate cunmerce act which refers to mileage ti k-ts. For several years the Travelers' Protective Association, the largest organization of traveling men in the world, lias been agitating the mileage ticket luestion, and it has just carried its point. Under the old system all a man couhl get was a 1,000-mile ticket, gool over just the road that issued it. Undr the new law he will be able to buy a fi.OOO-inile tick-t. good over any roal or number of roads ho wants to use it on. R. G. Dun & C.'s weekly review of trale says: "AnotluT week's exports of gold and withdrawals from the trasury have ben almost entirely stopped by the contract for purchases of gohl from Messrs. Relmt.nt and Morgan. Ftr the moment busim-ss only waits to know whether sales if American security's ami withdrawals of gdd frm the treasury have ben lastingly stopped by the rmarkable increase of conthlence. The two obstacles which hhck the path just now are exceeding cheapness of farm products and restricted operatins in the industry's. There has been no gain !n pri-es of farm products n the whole." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $3.75QÄ.75; hogs, shipping grades, $,?.00 (&4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $i.00(ft4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, GOQolc: corn, No. 2, 4.iM3e: oats, No. 2, 27(r2Se; rye, No. 2, .r2(gr4c; butter, choice creamery, 23(3! 24c; eggs, fresh, 23fff21c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 70S0c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3(3 T.50; hogs, choice light, $3'?j4.73; sheep, cpmmon to prime, $2(f4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, KföKIc; corn, No.l white, 41 42c; oats, No. 2 whit, 3232. St. Louis Cattle, $3t5.75; hogs, $3 4..r0; wheat. No. 2 retl, ft Bei 52c; corn. No. 2, 4W?41e; oats, No. 2, 30&31c; corn, No. 2, 54?f ftOe. Cincinnati Cattle, $3.505.50; hogs, $3.5(VM.50; sheep, $2r4.ft0; wheat, No. 2, ftftTfifttic; com. No. 2 mixed, 44344c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32i32jc; rye, No. 2, ON) (50c. Detroit-Cattle, $2.5055.50; hogs, $4 4.50; sheep, $263.50; wheat, No. 1 white, 54?t55c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42f342c; oats. Xo. 2 white, XtyaZfyjic; rye, Xo. 2, 54GY5(o. Toledo Wheat, Xo. 2 red, ft3?54e; corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 42(?t43e; oats. No. 2 white, 33ir,34VL.e; rye, No. 2, 53ri55c. Buffalo-Cattle. $2.50(5.50; hogs, $3ft ft.00; sheep, $3.50H.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 57,'i5Nic; com, No. 2 yellow, 47&47c; oats. No. 2 white. 35(3(P!c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, ft3c ft3'.e; corn. No. 2, 43(t43Vv.c; oats, No. 2 white, Uldi'Mlte; barley, No. 2, 53ra50e; rye. No. 1, 52(54 e; pork, mess, $0.75 10.25. New York Cnttle, $3fi75.75: hogs, $3.50 ?5.00; sheep, $3(J5; wheat. No. 2 red, 50 GjoOc; com, Xo. 2, 4S40c; oats, white Western, 37C?41e; butter, creamery, 15 2Gc; egt, Western, 2S20c.

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OPTION HAS EXITBED. SYNDICATE MUST NOW BE GIVEN THE NEW DONDS. Silver IIa Many Supporters in the Senate Scriou Family Kow Caso-c.I by u IYstiferus Pii Pup Fear l)aui;tr front I'loutis. Must Deliver Bonds. The option under which it would have been pos.-ihlc for Congress to substitute a M per cent, "gold" bond for the 4 i --r cent. "Voin" boiid which the Secretary of the Treasury has agivl ! Al the niont-Morgan syndicate expired at noon Monday, and now Secretary Carlisle must deliwr the bond.-, to the purchasers as fast as they are called for and as jrohl is leposiied to meet thi'in. The Bureau of Engraving aii.! printing has been -:igagod for several days in printing n-w bonds from the old plates that w-re used wh-n Senator Sherman was at the head of the treasury during the Hayes administration. TIhto will be nothing to ditiiiguisi the n'W bonds from the old 4 per -eiits. x pt the dates and the signatun's f the ri!i. i.:ls. Betwe-n Ss.O'w.!o.i and .""..o(k.(too of gold has already been deposited i:i anticipation d the first payment, and 't ry stcann r sailing from Fuipc in this l:r-ct ion for s.nio we-ks hcii-c will bring yellow 'oin, which the syndicate will draw from the Bank f England and other ;-0Ul'c'S. Silver Men Push the Isue. The strength of the free silver men i:i th- S'iat was shown Monday by a vote d I'M to 'J7 to take no tli- .b.ncs bill for tin unlimited coinage " silver, the Iovcrnmeut to retain tin- s-i::niorage as pfoiit. With only a doz-n working das in vhi !i to dUposc of the gn at appropriation bi!!the silver men, conscious of tlu-ir s-trength but -areless of eois-q lcp.ces. decided to take up tl: ir lavorite scheme and keep it .n the boards, it!i r forcing a vote or ompelling th 'alüng of an -:tra p-ssit:u o pass the a ppr; pri.il i n bills. Anxiously Watching the Ice. The warm whither d" ihv past few days has hrl it oftVct upon th' i e in the rivers at Pittsburg. The i e in the Moiiongahcla was fourtctn inches t Iii -U ami in the Youghiogheny it read:cl a thickness of twenty-thr'e inches. If the warm weather cmlinucs it will cause the ice to rot gradually and pre lude the danger of a Hood,. but if rain sets in there is grave fVar of a breaking up in th' rivers, which would result in great loss to the boats which aiv frozen in along the shores. Moonshiners Make a Hard l'ight. Deputy United States Marshal G. W. Drak with two assistants, aptuiv! seven lsperate nioonshimrs on Out!i Cr''k. in Knott County, Ky., after a harl batth'. Among tln-m was Isaa Sloan. on f the liv' men who inunlered I.'nile! StaU-s Marshal Frastus Wieruian :v.t th:'am pla-e six y-ars ag. Twelve Fatally Biiruel. Twelve men ;ire said to have b'ii fatally burnel by an explisitu of gas at the West Bear Ridge .lli-ry m-ar Ashland, Pa. Fiv- ni'ii have ben taken out. None of them will rev'r. NEWS NUGGETS. It is a niiou!i-'d that Congressman V. L. Wilson has been temh-red the position of preshlent of the Universiiy f Texas. The presence of cholera in Argentina has been formally retgnizcd by the Argentine lovernment. An lnluke Albert died Monday at Aro, South Tyrd. of -ong stion of the lungs, lie was in his 7Sth year. Fire consumeil the large breaker f William Coniu-ll t Co. at Cnn41tui, Pa. The loss is $ 100,000. Six hunlrl men and boys are thrown out of employment. Disobedience of onlers n'sultotl in a collision between a Santa Fe passenger train and a live stock express car near Guthrie, O. T. Charles Upleby, of Topeka, was killed and a score of other passengers injured. At Xew Albany, Inl.. because his wif lillov'd her pug dog to kiss her and would nt pTmit him the sann privih-ge, IYter Bowman struck hir. Two sons atta k'! him with clubs ami fractured his skull. Thi boys were arrested and p!ael in jail to await the result of his injuries, whi h are serious. The full Si'nat ('mmitfee ;n Appropriations Monday h-cided to report an amendment to the sundry -ivil appropriation bill for tin' sum f 1 oo.i h to.n o f rt ili at's of inIebidness if the !omuniuatioii d" S20. t run for tw years and lraw 3 p-r --nt. in!Test. and t be good only fr th purp sc f supplying the treasury lcli i,ncy. Th- oilnvrs f the Bank of Le.ingtoii at R'u hnioml, Va., I'-ib'l to inak an assignment t s-cuiv its -relittrs. lis liabilith's are $71,000. C. M. Figgat. the cashier, h'ft town suddenly, and a lett r from him aiinumvl Ii' spent money in private speculations. The accounts are -nfusel. and tin amonnt f his shriagi is not known. Figgat belongs to an old and honorctl family. A d'putatin representing the fanners in the departments of Pas le Calais ami Xord, Frau-', visite! M. Gadaud. Minister f Agrh-ultutv, Momlay. ami joint'l out t him tin grave langer of infection t Frem h cattle arising from the importatin of AniTican catth suffering from cntagius lis-as's. M. Galaul inform! the deh'gatitui that the matter to which they re ferro I hnl Ikhmi submitte! ti a cmmitt' f exprts on catth liseasos. Charles Anderson, f Cincinnati, Ohio, ag'l 12 years, was so wrril over failing to pass the examinations at school that he took poison ami i!iol. A locomotive wont iat the rmr at Khincliflo, X. Y., taking with it Engineer J. D. Dnhue and Fireman Red. The former was killel and the latter fatally injured. John Brabits and Ids son James -Aver killed by the fall f a tr r.ear Montgomery. Minn. Will Swearingen ami Walter Gar!ner were killed by machinery in McElni's mill ner Glost-r, Miss. Chicago capitalists are reprteil to have purchased a large loly f valuable cal lands near Wollston, Ohio, for $10,000,000. Rich furnishings imported from France for John Jacob Aster's new house have been seizvl by New York customs flieials, who claim that they were undervalued.

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WOKK OF COXGKESS. THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. I A Coiuprc hcrivive Digest )f tin- Proceedinu in the I-ck Iniat i c Chambers at Ya;öiingtoi: Matters hat Concern the I'ci;!o. Law mahert; at Lubnr. A bill providing for tl" is.-r.anee of Strs.mo.M'O in -,.!,! bonds was presented to the Senate Wedue.-day by Mr. Vilas. A r'S 'luti..n a:Ml;orizh:g Secretary Carlisle to sei! gold bop. 1 v::h favorably report -l t the House f:..m the Va s and Mans Comn.il t A py jf the ljnd contract was also submit t-l. The II'Kisn Tl iirsday .'-f. r.tel the proposition of t !:' Pre :d. !!t to issu' gold bonds wher-by li.nM.ii in interest -ou!l have b-'n sav'd. The m'asure prviling for the constrict ion f a m-w IYleraI building at CLic.-igo has been si::el by President C!'v Ian-l. In response to a r'quest Secretary Carlisle has s :tt to th Senat, his- J'Muros on t!. trasury gohl reserve ;,i.l -..i-n iitur s. Lab r Cm-mission-r Wriirht bus snhi:ii:t-d a report outlining plans for providing hoi.n-s for th working peop! on asy t rius. The Senate pas.-d the jnistofTice .pprpriation 1 ill Friday. S.-nate hostile ai:i-i:d-nienJs 1. inir deflated. Tl:e agricultural bill was taken up. Sen-itor Chanlhr has introlr.eed a bill to establish fr-' American ports where foreign law nr.it ri.il may be manufacti'.red. Strong pposifion to lh' bill appro-. riating money to build more war ships was developed on the I'.oor (l the Hor.se. Th' Hus' Committee n Coiumer- submit:-.! a report favoring a deep wat nvay to connect the ocean and gnat lakes. The Navy Department is advised that the war sht.ts Charleston and Yorktown .-re rescuing Amcri an missionaries at Che Foo. In the Senate Saturday Mr. W I.-ott i argel tl;.. President with misstating the financial situation. S-nati.rs Cul'.on: and P.ihm-r appeared before the suh-couuuit-t e of th" Senate Appropriation Co-nmit-t; e and urged an amendment to tin sunlry -ivil bill providing an appropriation for the b-gii-ning of the work n the proposal new Chicago post office bu-Ming. They have r- iv-d a letter from the Seretary of the Treasury re"ommenling ait npprpriation of $4oo.0o0 for beginning work on the new building. anl of $2oo.ooi fr temporary p.;art-rs fr the post office while the new building is in course of construction. The IIuse votl to ineivase the navy with throe battle ships and twelve torpedo Ixtats. The Administration's lond contract was sharply crifi iscd Monday in the Senate. S'i;atr Gray vigorously lcfonlol th Pr si. lent. By a v.te of 30 to 27 tho S-nate d i.led to take up the Jones free silvr bill. The ".grw-ultural appropriation bill was pass-d by the Senat-, an attempt ttt eliminate the irrigati: clause being lefent-d. A pn.vis-on for th issuance f $loo.ooo.oK in d-bt n-rtilicnto was insrt-d in the sundry civil bill by th S'r:ate Commits- on Appropriations. The House passed thv bill to make th pensions of all veterans of th- Mexican war $12 p-r month. A bill for an int-r-national commiss'mn to investigat th o-idition .f the seals was favoraMy reprtvd to the IIus. IIus c:iferees rf'.:se to :igr' to the Senate's Hawaiian cable amendment to the diplomats- and onsular apprpriatin bill. Mr. Vilas defended the lond -ontra-t in a four-h.ur sp-eeh in the Senate Tuesday. Silv-rit-s wen unabh t for-- a vte on the .Ton-s bill, but will pass a res du t ion h-4aring in favr f fre -oin-ag In r-ply to a Senate resolution Se--retary Carlisle says no necessity exists for providing for a l'fi it in the r-v-nus. Despite the entreaties f the Illinois members of the IIus the S-nate Judiciary Committee refuss to riort the bill reating an additional district jtnlge. Con-si.h-ration of the naval appropriation bill was ontinu.l in the House. A numb-r of measnr"s v-r jassed. A favorable r-ioit has been ordered by th House omniitt' n the bill to tension survivors of the Indian wars. Representatives of the Pacific roads held a nf'ivnoe with the House committee reganling a settlement of tl;- debt t the Government. TIa Cnrsc f SNt lanI. Among the reasons why the nin of tiainonds Ins be-n calb'tl the curse of Scothunl. I think that the fdlowing has not le-ii given: "!ianionls. nine of. calh-l th curs of Sit!anl. from a Scotch inoinht-r f Pai-Iiainent, jiart f w liose family arms is the nin- of lianionls. voting for the lntrdu ti)n f the malt tax int Scotland." "Chimlogy; or. tlu Ilistlian's Companion," fourth edition, by Thomas T-gg, London, 1S20, p. 30S (A(llonla. Couhl the arms of D:inil Campbell oShawliebl. member of Glasgow, contain the nine l7.ng-s? His house was destroyed by a inol in 1727, Invauso ho was si!sructtl of - having civt'l government Infnnatin on th habits and statistics of Scoflau! necessary fr the preparation of the malt tax, as well as of having oxiwsed a system of evasion of duties in the Scots tobacco trade." Seo "llistorv of Scotland," by John Hill Burton. In the Index to the "History," Campbell of Shawfleld's Christian name Is given as David. There Is a Gtwge Camplx-ll nientionel as having causcnl the nine of diamonds to !e callel the curse of Scotland because lie stole nine diamonds out of the royal crown in the reign of Mary Stuart, in continence of which ail Scotland was taxed. Notes and Queries. Odds ami Ende. The original of the face on the silver dollar is Miss Anna Willess Williams, formerly a teacher in the Philadelphia schods. Matauzas Inlet, Florida, was named by Menendez to commemorate his victory over Ribout. The word means ''uassacre." India rubber used for erasing pencil marks was known in England as early as 1770. A cube of It half aa Inci square cost 3 shllin