Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 12, Number 28, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 1 October 1890 — Page 6

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY Q. N. MURRAY. NAPPANEE, ii INDIANA Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. Ik the Senate on the 24th bills were passed to recognize the merits and services of the officers and men of the Jeannette Arctio expedi tion, and to define and regulate the Jurisdiction of the courts of the United States....ln the House Mr. Kennedy’s speech assailing the Senate in general and Senator Quay in particular was ordered expunged from the record by a vote of 150 to 3fl. Bills were passed granting pensions of $2,000 a year each to Jessie Benton Fremont and the widows of General McClellan and General Crook. A resolution was adopted calling on the President for Information about the killing of General Barrundla. In the Senate bills were passed on the 25th to establish a port of delivery at Peoria, I1L; extending for one year time for payment on land claims in cases of crop failure; requiring the United States to defend homestead titles where the lahd is claimed to be mineral because of phosphate deposits and other minerals, and for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians in Wisconsin In the House a bill was passed appropriating $1,000,000 for the purchase of niekel ore or matte for nickel steel armor. A bill was introduced to locate a branch mint of the United States at Chicago for the coinage of gold and silver. A resolution was introduced to investigate charges of extortion brought against J. L. Wheat, postmaster of the House. In the Senate on the 26th the House alien contract labor bill was amended so as to permit the coming of all “regularly ordained and constituted ministers of religion,” musicians and artists. The conference report on the bill to establish the Rock Creek Park in the District of Columbia was agreed t 0.... In the House a bill was introduced making it unlawful for any Natfbnal bank to act as the agent of ary lottery company. The conference report on the tariff bill was submitted. Mr. McKinley introduced a joint resolution for final adjournment on the 30th inst. At the evening session 112 private pension bills were passed. IN the Senate on the 27th the House bill to Tepeal part of the act of 1882 dividing the State of lowa into two judicial districts was passed. The House bill to amend "an act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories and the District of Columbia” was considered, but no action was taken....ln the House the conference report on the tariff bill was agreed to by a vote of 152 to 81. A resolution providing for final adjournment on the 30th inst. was adopted. DOMESTIC. A dangerous counterfeit on the twodollar silver certificate is in circulation. In the words “Register of the Treasury” in the counterfeit the “i” in “Register” is not dotted, neither is there a period after the word “Treasury.” In the genuine there are both. Habeas corpus proceedings have been instituted before Judge Gresham in Chicago for the release of Anarchist Schwab from Joliet. Benjamin F. Butler appeared as one of the counsel in the ease. The total collections of internal revenue from all sources for the first two months of the fiscal year 1890-'9l aggregated 825,502,576, against $23,670,774 for the corresponding periods of last year. A large number of German citizens met at Indianapolis and formed a Ger-man-American Prohibition League, the Object being to create a sentiment among German-Americans in favor of total abstinence. President Woodbuff, of the Mormon church, has issued a manifesto declaring to be false the reports that plural marriages were being solemnized, and denying that the church encourages or countenances the practice of polygamy in Utah.

Mary Biel, an 8-year-old child, died of hydrophobia at Peru, Ind. She was bitten by a dog a week previous to her death. Helena, Ark., was the scene of a cloud-burst, a portion of the city being converted into a vast sheet of water and much damage to property being done. At Erie, Pa., Mrs. J. F. McConnell struck a match while cleaning gloves with benzine and was fatally burned., Edward Lennox while fishing near Lima, 0., lay down besido a fire and went to sloop. His clothing caught fire and he was burned to death. Jacob Anderson, a fisherman at Lima, 0., shot and killed Jacob Botkin, whom ho caught robbing his nets, and fatally wounded Lewis Smith. The fourth annual Corn Palace festival at Sioux City, la., was opened on the 25th. A man named Zaner whose trial at Anniston, Ala., for murder had been continued from term to term for twenty years, was on the 25th sentenced to a term of one year for his deed. Levi and George Bryant (brothers) were drowned at Machias, Me. At a school election in Binghamton, N. Y., over 500 women cast their ballots. Harvard and Yale colleges have opened each with a freshman class of 400, the largest in the history of either University. Twenty Chinese were arrested near Port Townsend, Wash., while attempting to enter the United States in a small Sloop. At Philadelphia a man named New while standing by the coffin containing the body of his dead wife drew a revolver and shot himself dead. The twentieth annual convention of the National Prison Congress convened St Cincinnati on the 25th. I Senatob Edmunds has written a letter to Emigration Commissioner Weber st New York advising that a strict watch be kept on Mormon immigrants, with a view to criminal proceedings. 1 The Cowles Company at Cleveland, O. has issued a circular to the trade reducing the price of aluminum from $2.50 to $1 per pound. Five years ago the price was S2O per pound. The enrollment of soldiers and their widows and orphans in Kansas has been completed as provided for by the last Legislature, and shows about 100,000 service records. The Knights of Labor and the Progressive Union of the Pennsylvania coke regions have amalgamated, and . the new society has a membership of 20,000. The business failures in the United States during Lhe seven days ended on the 26th numbered 219. against 190 the preceding week and 192 the corresponding week last year.

W. R. Sctirikber, who in 1888 embezzled nearly $200,000 in money and bonds from a bank at Columbus, Ind., was arrested at Detroit, Mich. At Kankakee, 111., Nelson lowered the world’s stallion record to 2:ll>{; and Faustina lowered the 2-year-old record to 2:23}<. . Officers at Pittsburgh, Pa., searched the house of Joseph Keener, who bad been arrested for passing counterfeit money, and found a well-equipped mint. William Moore was sentenced at Woodstock, 111., to forty years’ imprisonment for burglary and assault. Louis Brown, 14 years old, confessed that he set fire to a number of barns and houses that were burned recently at Wapello, la. He gave no reason for his conduct. A K. Coney, Consul-General of Mexico at San Francisco, stated in an interview that he did not believe the story that an attempt was made to assassinate President Diaz. The percentages of the base-hall clubs in the Players’ League for the week ended on the 27th were: Boston, .631; Brooklyn, .587; New York, .584; Chicago, .537; Philadelphia, .528; Pittsburgh, .446; Cleveland, .414; Buffalo, .264. The clubs in the National League stood; Brooklyn, .653; Philadelphia, .608; Chicago, .606; Boston, .604; Cincinnati, .579; New York, .480; Cleveland, .308; Pittsburgh. .17L At the leading clearing-houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 27th aggregated $1,174,027,012, against $1,295,969,623 the previous wcok. As compared with the corresponding week of 1889 the increase amounted to 15.1. In a fit of anger George Hinkle, aged 8 years, of Nicholas Court-House, S. C., shot and instantly killed his 5-year-old sistor. Mrs. Lavinie Molenbrook brought suit against her husband Harry at Wilkesbarre, Pa., for desertion, and when the case was called for trial Mrs. Molenbrook was confronted with eight husbands, seven of whom she had deserted. The Bank of Madison at Jackson, Tenn., has suspended payment with liabilities estimated at $200,000; assets, $225,000. Charles Seifert, of Lacon, 111., became maddened because his daughter had married against his wishes and shot the young woman, killing her instantly. He then committed suicide. The husband of the dead woman became insane. John Williams and his brother, of Bristol, N. Y., are said to have inherited $7,000,000 by the death of their uncle, Theodore Luderick, of Parsee, Cal. The population of San Francisco is announced to be 297,990, an increase of 04,031 in ton years. A fire destroyed Fowler Bros.’ packing house at the stock yards in Chicago, causing a loss of $730,000; fully insured. Freight trains on the Baltimore & Ohio road collided near Pleasant Valley, 0., killing eight men and causing a damage to property of SIOO,OOO. The nogligence of a telegraph operator caused the disaster. Two young men, W. B. Emerson and Ross Fishbaugh, were found murdered in a freight car at Che'yenne, Wyo. Robbery was the motive for the crime. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The Congressional nominations on the 24th were: Indiana, Second district, William N. Darnell (Rep.); Fourth, John P. Rankin (Rep.). Illinois, Twelfth district, Milton McClure (Rep.). Louisiana, Fifth district, S. W. Green (Rep.) Michigan, Fourth district, O. L. Yaplo (Dom.). Missouri, Third district, W. J. Gibson (Rep.). Ohio, Fourteenth district, B. F. Swingle (Rep.). South Carolina, Seventh district, William Elliott (Dem.). West Virginia, First district, John O. Pendleton (Dem.) renominated. Now York, Twen-ty-ninth district, I. N. Page (Dem.); Thirty-third, George A. Davis (Rep.). Connecticut, Fourth district, Robert De Forest (Dem.); L. D. Baldwin (Pro.) Massachusetts, First district, Charles S. Randall (Rep): Tenth, Joseph H. Walker (Rep.); Twelfth, Francis W. Rockwell (Rep.). New'Jersey, Seventh district, Edward F. McDonald (Dem.). President Harrison has returned to Washington after a three weeks’ sojourn at Cresson Springs, Pa. Theodore P. Rynder has been nominated for Governor of Pennsylvania by the United Labor party. The Pennsylvania State Prohibition Committee met at Harrisburg and nominated John D. Gill for Governor, to take the place of Charles Miller, who declined. The Republican State Committee of South Carolina met at Charleston and nominated a full State ticket with A. C. Haskell for Governor. All the nominees are Democrats who oppose the candidacy of Tillman, nominated for Governor by Democrats and the Farmers’ Alliance. The Prohibitionists and Farmers’ Alliance of North Dakota met at Grand Forks and decided to nominate a union State ticket Rev. Dr. W. W. Everts, for twenty years pastor of the First Baptist Church in Chicago (from 1859 to 1879), died suddenly cm the 25th of heart failure. He was 76 years old. The nominations for Congress on the 25th were as follows: Illinois, Sixteenth district Rev. J. W. Vanclave (Pro.). Kansas, Sixth distrlot Tully Scott (Dem.). Michigan, Sixth distriot Arthur Cole (Industrial). Ohio, Third district H. L Morey (Rep.); Tenth, R. E. Doan (Rep.); Ninteentb, Edward T. Hoyt (Dem.); Henry Rhoads (Farmers’ Alliance). Louisiana, First district H. C. Warmouth (Rep.). Colorada (at large), T. J. O’Donnell (Dem.). Washington (at large) John L. Gibson (Rep.) renominated. Massachusetts, Fifth district Sherman Hoar (Dem.); Eighth, Moses H. Stevens (Deta.) New York. Thirty-fourth distric, G. A. Davis (Ren.). Pennsylvania, Thirty-eighth district C. F. Krebbij (Dem.). Virginia, Fourth district James F. Eppes (Dem.). At Denver the Democrats of Colorado nominated a State ticket, headed by Judge Caldwell Yeaman, of Trinidad, for Governor. President Harrison has appointed General E. Burd Grubb, of New Jerjey,

as Minister t$ Spain, and Representative E. H. Conger, of lowa, as Minister to Brazil. At Grand Forks, N. D., the Farmers’ Alliance and Prohibitionists indorsed some of the nominees of the Republicans and the Democrats and then nominated Walter Muir for Governor, The nominations for Congress on the 26th were: Indiana, Ninth district, Leroy Templeton (Dem.). North Carolina, Third district, George C. Scurlerek (Rep.). Tennessee, Ninth district, W. F. Poston (Rep.). West Virginia, First district, W. P. Hubbard (Rep.). Ohio, Twelfth district, Edward V. Dean (Dem.); Twenty-first, Theodore E. Burton (Rep.) renominated. Massachusetts, Ninth district, Melvin H. Walker (Pro.). New York, Twenty-eighth district, B. C. Noyes (Rep.). Congressional nominations made on the 27th were as fallows: New York, Twenty-fourth district, George Van Horn (Oem.); Twenty-eighth, Henry C. Noyes (Rep.). Pennsylvania, Third district, Richard Vaux (Dem.) renominated. Massachusetts, First district, John D. Flint (Pro.). California, Fourth district, Robert Ferral (Dem.). Kentucky, Second district, W. T. ElHs (Dem.) renominated. General Abram Duryea died at his home in New York of paralysis. John Sowders died at Rlegelaville, N. J., at the advanced age of 90 years. He was said to have been the oldest Grand Army veteran in the United States. Colonel EL C. Boudinot, the distinguished Cherokee orator and statesman, died at Fort Smith, Ark. He was one of the best-known representatives of his race in the country. Mrs. Ruth Ann Hilton (colored) died in Chieago on the 27th at the age of 110 years. FOREIGN. Odessa, Ont., has been visited by a conflagration that almost wiped out the place. Russian officials are rapidly driving the Jews from that country. Suakim advices report the famine in the interior of Egypt as terrible. Thousands were dying of starvation. Caravans were plundered by the desperate natives to obtain food, and the owners were murdered if they resisted. At Sandridge, Ont, Arthur Bowyer, Charles McDonald and Hugh Roney were drowned by the upsetting of a boat., Ex-President Celman, of the Argentine Republic, embezzled the enormous sum of $42,000,000 while in office. Soldiers, in Goa, India, indulged in the wildest excesses, shooting persons indiscriminately, over 300 being killed in two days’ fighting. In France the damage by the floods in the department of Ardeche alone amounts to 50,000,000 francs. Great excitement prevails in India over the discovery of gold at Nagpore. A dispatch from Algiers says that a cyclone swept over a large portion of Algeria, doing an immense amount of damage.

Fifty lives have been lost in the ( floods in the south of France. The American schooner David Crockett was seized at Souris, Prince . Edward’s Island, for violation of the fisheries law. Frank Slavin, the Australian, knocked out Joe McAuliffe, the American fighter, in two rounds. The fight was for £I,OOO, and took place at the Ormonde Club, London. Twenty Armenians were killed in a fight at Igdyr and the village was reported in a ferment Four hundred Russian soldiers%re said to have been drowned by the collapse of a bridge during the recent military maneuvers at Kovno. LATER NEWS, The conference report on the tariff bill was discussed in the United States Senate on the 29th ult., but no action was taken. The conference report on the deficiency bill (.‘JC, 666,258) was agreed to. A bill was introduced to provide for the payment of arrearstof pensions on applications filed since July 1, 1880. In the House the conference report on the deficiency bill was agreed to. ..Hills wore passed extending for one yoar the time for the payment by settlers on public lands in cases of drought, and to prevent the desecration of the United States flag by the printing thereupon of any painting or advertisement During a quarrel at Chetek, Wis., Gustav us Larson struck his father on the head, the blow proving fatal almost instantly. Tjih application for the roleaso on a writ of habeas horpus of Michael Schwab, the Chicago Anarchist under life sentence in the Joliet penitentiary, was denied by Judge Gresham on the 29th ult. By the mistake of a telegraph operator trains collided near Mauch Chunk, Pa., and Engineer Bigelow and Firemen Dunlap and Mitchell wero killed. President Harrison has appointed John N. Irwin, of lowa, as Governor of Arizona, and Smith A. Whitfield, of Ohio, as First Assistant PostmasterGeneral. At Woodstock, Ont., J. R. Birchall was found guilty of the murder of F. C. Benwell on February 17 last and sentenced to be hanged on November 14 next. While Morris Murphy and wife wore driving across the railroad track at Mount Washington, Md., they were struck by an express train and both , were killed. ; The Census Bureau announces the (population of tho State of Montana to bo 131,7)19, an increase of 92,610 in the past ton years. i A peculiar ailment has caused an inoluntary fast of 182 days on the part of Mrs. Adam Wuchter, of Whitehall, Pa. It was said that during the time specified not a morsel of food nor a drop of water had passed horlips. The visible supply of grain in store in the United States on the 29th ult was: Wheat 16,829,288 bushels: corn, 8,629,2(14 bushels. Congressmen were nominated as follows on the 29th nit: Ohio, Fourth district, Isaac Freeman (Farmers’ Alliance); Louisiana, Second district H. 1). Coleman (Rep.); Pennsylvania, Nineteenth district, D. K. Trimmer (Rep.).

BIRCHALL MUST DIEA Jury Finds Him Gulltjf of the Murder of Young lien well h a Canadian Swamp —Sentenced to Be Hanged November 14. Woodstock, Ont, Sept&.Bo.- , -'At 11:30 o’clock Monday night the jury in the Birch all case filed into the court-room and recorded a verdict of “guilty. There was great excitement over the case all day. Mr. Blackstock, council for the prisoner, occupied four hours in his address to the jury, and he was followed by Mr. Osier on behalf of the crown at similar length. The judge in his charge went strongly against the prisoner, particularly toward the close of his remarks. The jury was out about forty-five minutes, hut it reached a verdict in less time than that and only awaited the return of the judge to make its decision known. The prisoner all day had been quieter than usual. He betrayed no sign of nervousness during the address of the counsel for the crown. He looked at times bored and sleepy. The prisoner received the verdict without remark. At midnight exactly he was ordered to stand up, and when asked if he had any thing to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, replied calmly and with the dignity with which the shadow of approaching doom must give to every man: “Simply that lam not guilty of the crime, my lord.” He then the sentence of the court, which was pronounced in solemn tones by Judge McMahon, who evidently spoke under deep emotion: “To be removed to Oxford County jail, there to remain until Friday, November 14, and there hanged.” Still the prisoner’s nerve did not desert him, and he received the sentence without apparent emotion. When the court had finished he resumed his seat beside his counsel. Mr. Hollmutb came over with tears in his eyes and grasped the prisoner’s hand convulsively. Birchall took the proffered hand with a kindly and genial smile, and assured the lawyer that ho felt all had been done that could possibly have been dono for him.

The court was cleared at once, and the prisoner was sent back to jail. Double guards will at once be put upon him. The prisoner’s wife received the news of the sentence in silence awful to witness. Her sister, Mrs. West Jones, has made arrangements to remove Mrs. Birchall to England before the death sentence is carried into execution. [Birchali’s crime was the killing of F. C. Benwell February 17 last in a swamp in Oxford County, Can. Birchall came to Canada early In the summer of 1882 to become a farmer, but, finding the work harder and the pay smaller than he had been led to expect, he staid in Woodstock. Birchall talked a great deal about aristocrats In England with whom he claimed to be acquainted oi connected. He signed himself Birchall oi Burchell, hut spoke of himself as the possessoi of or heir-apparent to the title of Lord Somer-

set. Many people In Oxford County knew him only as Somerset. There did not seem to be any thing vicious about him, he was simply bent on having a good time. His wile seemed tb second him in what he did,"and was known everywhere as “La,dy Somerset," These two disappeared in the fall as quickly as they had come, leaving certain unpaid bills. When a man was arrested in February last for the murder of the stranger whose body was found in the swamp near Princeton the people were made aware for the first time that Lord Somerset, or Birchall, had returned. Against Birchall there were scraps of evidence which, while not making a complete case, were all consistent one with tho other, and together were certainly strong. The principal witness was a young Englishman named Douglas R. Pelly, who had come out on the Britannic with Mr. and Mrs. Birchall and Benwell. Pelly and Benwell had made arrangements in England to take an interest in a horse ranch or farm which Birchall claimed he owned in Canada. According to Pelly, Birchall had represented this farm to be a mile and a half from Niagara Fall*, the stables lighted with electricity, and the place generally in first-class shape. Benwell’s father, a retired British Colouel, was to pay £SOO for an interest in this farm as soon as his son should write from Canada that he was satisfied with his bargain. Young Pelly also had paid Birchall a large sum on condition that he wa3 to have employment on the farm with a small share in the profits. Monday, February 17, Benwell and Birchall had taken the Grand Trunk Southern division train to go to the alleged stock farm. That night Birchall returned alone, explaining^that Benwell had gone on further, probably intending to call at London, Ont. The two men, however, were seen to get off at Eastwood Station and go across the field in a direction which would take them te the swamp. Birchall was subsequently seen to return alone. Two days later Benwell’s body was found in the swamp.] FORGOT HIS ORDERS. Another Careless Operator Causes a Fatal Collision—Three Men Killed Near Mauch Chunk, Pa. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 30.— An accident occurred on the Jersey Central railroad between Lehigh ton and Packrton, near Mauch Chunk, Monday evening. The day operator at Leliigbton bad orders to hold a coal train at that place so that passenger train No. 9 could pass it. The message was received just a few minutes before he gave place to the night operator and he forgot to tell the latter of the order. The result was a collision between the coal train and a passenger train going at a high rate of speed. Both engines came together with such force that they were thrown over the embankment on the Lehigh Valley tracks below. The passengers were panic-stricken, but none of them were injured beyond a few bruises. The killed are: Engineer Bigelow, of tho coal train; Fireman Dunlap, of the coal train, and Fireman Mitchell, of the passenger train. The injured are: Taylor Bedford, engineer of the passenger train, and two brakemen of the coal train. 1 " " 4 A Cow-Hide Horseshoe. In England and on many parts of the Continent they have been for a long time using a horseshoe made by compressing common cow-hide. It is composed of three thicknesses of the oowskip pressed in a steel mold and then subjected to a chemical preparation. It is claimed for it that it is much lighter, that it lasts longer, and that split hoofs are never known in horses using it. It is perfectly smooth at the bottom, no calks being required, the shoe adhering firmly on Hie most polished surfaoe. Its elasticity prevents many„sprains, the horse’s steps being lighter and surer.

THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Much Legislation Accomplished During 1 Session-Over 1.300 Acte Become Lws-A List of the Most Important Measures. Washington, Sept. 30. The long session of the Fifty-first Congress is about ended, and its work is already practically finished. It has been one of the longest and in many respects one of the most interesting sessions for many years. Although the first session of the Fiftieth Congress lasted until October 20. the present session, by reaBon of its longer daily sessions, has far exceeded it in working time and the amount of legislative work actually accomplished. In figures the business of the session is expressed as follows: Bills and joinfcresolutions introduced in the House, 12,402; in the Senate, 4,750; total 16,972, against 15,598 in the first session of the last Congress, which in this matter far excelled all previous records. Reports made in the House, 3,215; in the Senate, 1,817 (no account being talten in the Sen ate of other than written reports). Bills passed: By the House—l,292, of which the Senate has passed 849. By the Senate—l,loo, of which 486 have been sent to the President, making a total number of about 1,335 acts or laws, agaiast 1,790 for the whole of the last Congress. Os these acts 606 House and 275 Senate hills were for pensions to individuals.

In the completed work of the session, aside from the revision of the tariff and internal-revenue laws by the McKinley-Aldrich tariff hill, the following measures which have become laws may he named as the most important: The bill providing for the monthly purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver; the customs administrative hill; the dependent and disability pension bill; the anti-trust bill; the anti-lottery bill; the provision for a world’s fair in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America; the admission of Wyoming and Idaho to Statehood; the meat-inspection bill; the land-grant forfeiture bill; the original-package hill; the bill recommended by the international maritime conference to prevent collision at sea, and the provisions (in the naval appropriation bill) to add to the new navy three line-of-battle ships, one protected cruiser, one torpedo cruiser, and one torpedo boat. To complete the list of results accomplished during the present session there must he mentioned the radical changes in the rules of the House and the action upon election contests. There were eighteen contested-election cases before the House and seven of the Republican contestants have been seated. The Goodrich vs. Bullock Florida case and the McGinnis-Alderson West Virginia case, in which the seating of the Republican contestants was recommended, are yet to be decided. Breckinridge (Dem.) was unseated. The other eight cases were decided by the committee in favor of the Democratic sitting members. The Senate decided its only election contest by seating the Republican Senators from Montana. Seven bills have been vetoed by the President, as follows: Authorizing the city of Ogden, Utah, to assume an increased indebtedness; for public buildings at Dallas, Tex., Hudson, N. Y., and Tuscaloosa, Ala.; authorizing the board of supervisors of Maricopa County, A. TANARUS., to issue bonds in aid of a certain railroad; changing the boundaries of the Uncompaghre Indian reservation and extending the time for the payment of lands purchased from the Omaha tribe of Indians.

Among the bills which have passed the House, but have not yet passed the Senate are the following (bills in conference being included in the category). The Federal election bill; the National bankruptcy bill; tbe bill to create a Court of Appeals for the relief of the Supreme Court; the Conger compound-lard bill; to prevent the enlistment of aliens in the United States naval service; to prevent the product of convict labor being furnished to or for the use of any department or upon public buildings or other public works; the eight-hour back-pay bill; to repeal the timber-culture law (in conference) ; constituting eight hours a day’s work for workmen employed by Government contractors; board of review in certain cases; to ratify the agreement with the Sac and Fox and lowa Indians. Among the Senate bills which have not received final action by the House are the following: The shipping and subsidy bills granting au thority for the removal of the Apache Indian prisoners to Fort Sill, Ind. TANARUS.; for the erecting of a statue to Columbus; granting California 5 per cent, of the proceeds of sales of public lands; for anew light-house tender for the use of the Portland (Ore.) district; revenue cutter for the same district; to enlarge Yellowstone National Park; to promote the efficiency of the enlisted force of the army; to grant a right of way through public. lands for irriga--tion purposes; for the compulsory education of Indian children; for a statue to General John Stark; for an Indian industrial school at Flandreau, S. D.; for an additional Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona; extending criminal jurisdiction of the United States to the great lakes; for a memorial at Marietta, 0., commemorative of the settlement of the Northwest, and for the inspection of live cattle and of beef products for export. Two bills of general interest, the Blair educational bill and the international copyright bill, have been defeated in the Senate and House, respectively, by test votes, though friends

of the meashres are still pressing for a reconsideration of the subjects. In addition to the bills mentioned there are a great number, including the Edmunds land-court bill, the woman-suffrage and prohibition amendments to the constitution, and all sorts of financial measures, which have not yet been acted upon by either branch of Congress. The Senate has almost cleared up the executive business wjjich has come before it during the present session of Congress. It has received during the ession 3,472 nominations, all of which have been acted upon except thirtythree. The appropriations made by the first session of the Fifty-first Congress were 8361,311,503; thei permanent annual appropriations for the year 1890-'9l amount to $101,628,453, making the gtand total for the year $462,939,956. Increase over the Fiftieth Congress, $40,313,618. The railway mileage of Kansas, according to the State Board of Assessors, consists of 8,762 miles of main lines, which are assessed at from $4,000 to $7,600 per mile, the aggregate value of all railway property in the State being fixed for assessment purposes at $57,866,232. Here is an excuse brought one day by a tall, red-haired boy of seventeen to his teacher: “Dere Cir—Pleze to eggcuce Henry for absents yisterday. We made sourkroutand he had to tromp it down. Allso he had to Help bucher 2 pigs. Kespecltful yuers, His Pap.

the elections. Many Are to Bo Held Darin* ‘heNext Six Weeks -List of States, with Officer, to Be Chozeu and Proposition, to Be. - Toted on. Elections will bo held this fall in the following States: Alabama will elect eight Congressmen NovemwlU eleot five Congressmen NovemCalifornia will eleot State officers, Legislature, and six Congressmen November 4. . Colorado will eleot State officers, Legislature* and one Congressman November 4. Connecticut will elect State o(floors, Legislature, and four Congressmen November 4. Delaware will eleot Governor. Legislature,, and one Congressman November 4. Florida will elect Supreme Court Justice, Controller, Legislature, and two Congressmen

November 4. , . Georgia will elect State officers and Legislature October 1 and vote upon two proposed amendments to the constitution of the State, om extending the benefits of State pension te widows of Confederate soldiets and the other allowing the reading and reference or bills by title, when introduced; will elect ten Congressmen November 4. , , Idaho will elect State officers, Legislature, and one Congressman October 1. Illinois will elect State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Legislature, ana twenty Congressmen November 4. Indiana will elect minor State officers, Legislature, and thirteen Congressmen November 4. i lowa will elect minor State offloers and eleven Congressmen November 4. Kansas will elect State offloers. Legislature, seven Congressmen, and voto upon two proposed amendments to the State constitution November 4. One of the amendments increase# the number of Supreme Court Judges from three to seven and the other lengthens the biennial session of the Legislature to ninety days and provides for the pay and mileage of members. Kentucky will elect eleven Congressmen November 4. Louisiana will elect six Congressmen Novemher 4. Maryland will elect six Congressmen November 4. Massachusetts will elect State offloers, Legislature and twelve Congressmen November 4. Michigan will elect State officers, Legislature and eleven Congressmen November 4. Minnesota will elect State officers, Legislature and five Congressmen November 4. Mississippi will elect seven Congressmen November 4. Missouri will elect minor State officers, Legislature and fourteen Congressmen November*. Montana will elect Legislature aDd one Congressman November 4. Nebraska will elect State officers, Legislature, and threo Congressmen and vote upon four proposed amendments to the State constitution November 4. These amendments relate to prohibition and high license, provide for five Supreme Judges and increase the Judges’ salaries. Nevada will elect State officers, Legislature, and one Congressman November i. New Hampshire will elect Governor, Legislature and two Congressmen November 4. New Jersey will vote upon two proposed amendments to the State constitution September 30. One of these amendments cancels the prohibition against special legislation regulating the internal affairs of towns and counties, and the other eliminates the clause in reference to the appointment of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. Will elect Legislature and seven Congressmen November 4. New York will elect Judge of the Court of Appeals, two Judges of the Supreme Court, Assembly, and thirty-four Congressmen November*. North Carolina will elect Chief and Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, Legislature* and nine Congressmen November 4. North Dakota will elect State offloers, Legislature and one Congressman November 4. Ohio will elect minor State officers and twen-ty-one Congressmen November 4. Pennsylvania will elect State officers, Legis lature and twenty-eight Congressmen November*. Rhode Island will elect two Congressmen November 4.

South Carolina will elect State officers, Legislature and seven Congressmen November 4. South Dakota will elect State officers, Legislature and two Congressmen November 4. Tennessee will elect Governor, Legislature and ten Congressmen November 4. Texas will elect State officers, Legislature and eleven Congressmen and vote upon two proposed amendments to the constitution of the State November 4. One of the amendments relates to the State tax and the other authorizes the Legislature to create a commission to regulate railroad traffic. Virginia will elect ten Congressmen Novem ber4. Washington will elect Legislature and one Congressman November 4. West Virginia will elect Judge of the Court of Appeals, Legislature and four Congressmen November 4. Wisconsin will elect State officers, Legislature, and nine Congressmen November 4. * DEATH OF GENERAL DURYEE. The Ramons Commander of the Fighting Zouaves Expires In New York. New York, Sept 29.—-General Abram Duryee, the famous commander of the fighting Zouaves and of the Seventh Regiment at the Astor place riot, died at his home, No. 81 West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street Saturday of general paralysis. (In 1838 Abram attached himself to the Twenty-seventh, now the Seventh Regiment, as a private. Within eighteen months he was promoted to a Captaincy, and was successively Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel. His first appearance in the uniform of a Colonel was at the fa mous riot at Astor place. Tho regiment was ordered to suppress the unruly demonstration on the part of the people, who were at that time frenzied with excitement over the rivalry between Actors Macready and Forrest, and when the battle came at the old Astor Place Theater the Seventh Regimen, bore the brunt of it. At the outbreak of th rebellion he organized the celebrated Fifth Regiment, better known as the Duryee Zouaves. The 31st of August he was commissioned Brigadier-General and placed in command of 13,000 men at Baltimore. March 13, 1865, he was breveted Major-General by the President of the United State's for gallant and distinguished service in seven different battles.]

Failure of a Tennessee Bank. Jackson, Tenn., Sept. 29.—The announcement Friday morning that the Bank of Madison, a private bank of this city, had made an assignment, created great excitement in business circle?. The bank was capitalized at $50,000. N. S. White was president. The failure yras precipitated by Eastern creditors calling for money which is outstanding. The liabilities are $210,000, and the assets $230,000. The heaviest creditor is the city of Jackson, which is in for $16,000. The county officials were also depositors and will lose $12,000 each. What Illinois Pays in Charity. Springfield, 111., Sept, 29.—Tho secretary of the State board of charities’ annual statistics of the charitable institutions of the State for the year ending June 30, 1890, show that the average number of inmates of the institutions was 6,199, and the cost of maintenance was $996,000. A Peoria Church Burned. c Peoiua, 111., Sept. 29.— Grace .Presbyterian Church caught fire during the morning. The fire caused a stampede of the congregation, but nobody was seriously hurh ance, $770.