Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 45, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 23 January 1895 — Page 2

THE BUTTE DISASTER. Scores Are Mowed Down by a Dynamite Explosion. nfty-Thren Llvrs Are Known to Hove ISeen Thus Lost—-Many Others Are Alitisins Details of the Ilorrible Affair. Butte, Mont., Jan. 19. —flour after hour the disaster of Tuesday has been putting- on more distressing proportions, and it now as if the real weight and extent of the terrible calamity would never be known. The list of known dead has swelled to fiftythree, -and there are at least four in the hospitals who cannot recover. Otftrgfce also believpd to be fatally the list of missing the name of Charles Hoffbauer has been added. A few’ hours before the explosion he purchas'd a pair of shoes, and on his way home he evidently stopped at the fire. ‘ Ore shoe, badly torn, of the new ones he had under his arm has been found a quarter of a mfle from the scene of the catastrophe, but not a fragment of Hoffbauer has been dis-v covered. lie was about twenty-eight years of age add unmarried. Included in the list of dead are the four firemen—Dave Moses, Sam Ash, l\ J. Norling and Ed Sloan—but not Hoffbauer nor any other of the missing. In the minds of those who visited the scene after the explosion there is no doubt that many were blown to atoms and never will be heard of. Terrible Devastation. When the smoke had cleared away the terrified survivors were sickened at the sight of the ground for a block around the scene of the explosion strewn with the quivering and dismembered flesh of men and horses, pinned down by fragments of the fire engines and burning -brands from the demolished warehouse. AJpon the site of the warehouse there was a ghastly hole filled with debris, blazing in hundreds of places, with here and there the fragment of an unfortunate fireman. i The noise of the explosiop broke all the glass in the city and caused the houses to rock so violently *that the residents were stricken with fear. They did not know from what quarter the disaster had come., and as the explosion had almost destroyed the burning warehouse there was little to mark the scene of terrible destruction. Second and Third Explosions. After the first explosion hundreds of people hastened to the scene, and this j accounts for the great loss of life. j While they were endeavoring to render assistance to the injured the second ; explosion occurred, mowing down the i crowds of men, women and children as ’ with a sickle of death. The survivors , were hasting from the scene when a l *hird explosion occurred, adding to the list of victims, as many of the terror- ! stricken people, fleeing from the scene ' of destruction, were mowed down by the flying debris. . . i

Three Flre/nen Survive. Only three firemen present at the scene of the fire escaped being killed. Chjef Cameron was blown to atoms, and the only thing found of him was his belt attached to a charred portion of his body. The firemen who escaped were Dave Moses, Dave McGee and J. H. Flannerv. Awful Force of Explosion. I From all that d&n be learned the total amount of explosives that went up in ■the three explosions was nearly thirty tons—enough to wipe out the state of Rhode Island. There were twenty tons ■ of giant powder alone that went up in j one blast REMEDIES SUGGESTED. 'Senators Pugh and Shermsih Each Introduce a Currency Measure. Washington, Jan. 19.—Senator Pugh (dem., Ala.) introduced a bill Thursday to meet deficiencies in the revenue in the treasury of the United States, by an immediate issue of SIOO,OOO.OOfI of legal tender notes; to regulate the redemption of treasury and coin notes of the United States; to restore silver to coinage; to amend the national banking and currency : laws, and for other purposes. The bill was read and referred to the finance committee. Soon afterwards SenatorSherraan(rep..O.)introduced an other bill “To provide for a temporary deficiency of revenue.’’ It author- ' izes the issue from time to time of 3 per cent. bonds to provide for the redeihption of United States treas-• nry notes and to pay current expenditures; also to issue 3 per cent, certificates to be sold at public depositories and post bffiees; and also allowing the ! national bank circulation to the par ! ▼alue of the bonds deposited therefor, j This bill was also read and referred to j the finance committee. -Ot ' I A Tennesseean Takes His Brother's Life In Nelf-Defense. Nashville, Tenn.. Jan. 18. —I. N. Williamson shot and killed his William near Fayetteville Wednesday. The brothers have been on bad terms tor some time and William Williamson returned from Alabama a few days ago with the avowed intention of killing his brother. He called at the home of the latter and induced him to come out of $-he house. He attempted to draw a pistol, but the weapon caught in his pocket, and before he could draw his revolver his brother sent a bullet through his heart. The perpetrator of the deed gave himself up. Mine liarmnc:. Spring Valley, 111.. Jan. 19.—Shaft No. 1 of the Spring Valley mine is again on fire, the mineife having been driven from the shaft by the smoke and flames. This is the same shaft which was on fire last. November, with a resulting loss of $50,000. It is supposed the old fire has broken out again. The miners will be thrown out of work for probably three months. x One Million Hold Withdrawn. New York, Jan. 18.—One million dollars in gold was withdrawn from the arfb-treasifry Thursday for export. •Gold reserve now stands $74(ti73,310.

OLNEY'S PLAN. The Attorney General Offers a BUI Looking to Compulsory Arbitration. Washington, Jan. 19.--A labor arhf traUon plan has been devised by Attorney Greneral Olney and was introduced Thursday by Chairman McGann, of the house committee on labor. In case of wage controversies the chairman of the interstate commerce commission and the commissioner of labor arcr to communicate with the parties endeavoring to effect an amicable settlement, and if this mediation fails the controversy nyjy be submitted to a board of arbitration, of which the chairman of the interstate commerce •commission shall be chairman, and which shall odnsis£ also of one commissioner chosen by the employer and one. by the ldbor organization to which the employes directly interested belong, or if they belong to more than one, by that one which specially represents employes of the same grade and class and engaged in service of the same nature as the employes in the controversy. Where two or more classes of employes arc interested tlieir organizations shall agree upon their representative. Other features are: 1. T'uo parties shall stipulate in writing thi’t pending' arbitration the existing status shall not be changed. *2. That the award shall he final, unless -et aside for error of law apparent on the record. 3. That the parties shall faithfully execute it. and it may be enforced' in equity so far as the powers of a court, of equity permit. 4. Employes dissatisfied withtheaward shall not quit work without three months .notice in writ in".

! 5. The award shall be continued in force for two years, and during that period no new arbitration between the same parties on the . same subject shall be had. After filing the award with the clerk of the United States i circuit court of the district in v. hieh the difficulty occurs thirty and >ya shall be allowed for filing exceptions in matters of law, after whi'-h it shall go into effect if no exceptions are taken. If they are-taken It goes inf o force ten days after .their decision. If an agreement oi 1 arbitration shall be entered into day employes individually instead of by organizations the board shall-not be created, unless the chairman is satisfied that they represent their associates. During that time it would be unlaw fill for J Organizations or employes to order, aid or , abet strike or boycott, or to leave their employment without giving thirty days’ notice in 1 writing, nor cap they be discharged without , thirty days’ notice except for causes mentioned. Violations of this provision are made a misdemeanor punishable by SI,OOO fine or one ■ year’s imprisonment. j Membership in incorporated labor organtza- ! tions, it is provided, shall be terminated by 1 indulgence in lawlessness, violence, destruc- ; tion of property, intimidation or threats by : members during strikes, but. they are not to j be held individgally liable for debts of the orI ganization. j The employes of roads managed by receivers ! appointed by the federal courts shall have the j right to be hoard through the officers of their organizations or their representatives in the federa l courts op .questions affecting the terms ! of their employment Employers who make it a condition of employment that men shall not be members of any labor organization, or discharge _or threaten to discharge men for such membership or discriminate against them because of it. or enter into contracts compelling the men to contribute to any fund for charitable, social or beneficial objects, or. after discharg>iug men. conspire to prevent them from obtaining employment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from SIOO to SI.OOO. 5 If disputes threatening to injuriously affect the interests of of any section are not submitted to arbitration the attorny general, the bill provides, shall be authorized to apply to the district court for receivers for the railroad to take possession of the property and run it In the interests of the public, and may make the employers and employes, and any persons or organizations aiding or abetting them, parties to the suit.

BI’G STEAMER SINKS. i Passengers and Crow Cast Into the I7 Reported Lost. Louisville, Jan. 22. —The Cincinnati j & New Orleans packet steamer Stat<s • of ,\t issouri was sunk in the Ohio river | just below Alton, Ind., Saturday evenj i*ig at 5:10 o’clock and it is believed at ? least ten lives were lost. The vessel 1 struck a sharp rock and ripped the starboard side open from one end to the other. In less than five minutes she was a complete wreck. The crew and passengers, nearlj’ 100 in all, were paralyzed at the shock, and before anything could be done the.vessel was almost completely underwater. The upper deck broke away and floated' off. Nearly everybody jumped into the river and made, for shore. >oine hundred yards away. • The State of Missouri left Cincinnati for New Orleans ‘Friday-afternoon. v had on board twenty passengers and a crew of between seventy-five aiid eighty. Many of the crew were not lucky enough to get to the upper deck, and they went down with the boat. It i is believed that at least ten, if not more, were drowned. ! Mr. McCabe says the wreck was sqgpething* awful. The officers kept as cool as possible under the eircum- ’ stances, but there was little time to j think and none in which to act. j CRUSHED BY A SNOWSLIDE. 1 Three Miners Known to Be Killed and ! Two Others Are Missing:. Spokane, Wash., Jan. 19. — A snow- | i slide about 10 miles from Ivaslo, B. C. f killed three miners named Moore, Me ! ► Millan and Charles Mitchell, owners of j the Eureka mine, who were on their ! 1 way to the mine from Ivaslo. As they “ j ascended a mountain near their ; mine a mass of snow, 20 feet j high and 200 yards in length, became j detached. The three men fled, but \ were all overtaken by the slide and ! carried into the canyon • below, where j life was crushed out of them. Their j bodies were found. Two miners work- ' iog on the Silverton mine, in the slide’s path are missing, and they were unj dciibtedly j Supreme Court Refuses a Writ of Error in tlie Debs Case. ! Washington, Jan. 39. At the opening of the supreme court Thursday Justice Fuller announced that in the matter of the United States vs. Eugene V.Debs. etal., the court was unanimously of the opinion that a writ of error would not lie, and therefore that their petition for leave to file a motion for , the issue of such a writ had been denied. The petition of the same parties for leave to tile a motion for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus, the chief justice announced, would be granted, and a rule issued thereon returnable Monday, January 29.

BULLETS.* FOR MOBS. Soldiers Fire Upon Rioters at Brooklyn. It Is Not Known Whether or No Anyone Was Hurt-The Troops Unable to Suppress Lawlessness—Much A Disorder Prevails. Brooklyn, Jan. 22. and bloodshed marked the eighth day of the electric street railway operatives’ strike. Three militiamen are in hospitals with broken heads, two having* suffered at the hands of riotous men or women, while the other was the victim of his own carelessness, having fallen from a roof. A score or more of policemen are suffering* from bullet wounds or contusions of the head and bodv, disabling* them for the time being. To what ex sent'the strikers have suffer'd cannot be conjectured. If they escaped purft 'unent it was not the fault of the militiamen, who. in accordance with orders, fired as directly at their assailants as a dense fog, which completely hid objects at 30yards’distance, would permit. The strike is not ended and order is not. restored.

Seven thousand national guardsmen and 1,500 or 1,000 policemen have not been strong enough to make the resumption of the street-railway traffic : in Brooklyn practicable. In fact, the gain over last Saturday is scarcely perceptible. The calling out of the First brigade.' composed of New York city regiments, has seemed rather to add to the tension than to bring a solution of the difficulties. The task restoring peace and order along y 200 miles of street car line is a vast one. The new levy numbered not far from 1.000 men. They Were moved across the great bridge early in the day. The various companies went by elevated trains ; whenever it was possible to the points" to which they had been ordered. Gen- ' erally speaking, the ‘ greetings they met with on the streets were far from friendly. Boys'guyed and men jeered them as they passed through the sec- ' tions inhabited by laboring people. A ear started from the Ridgewood station of the Brooklyn Heights company a little after 5. o’clock and was as- • sailed with volleys of stones and bricks from windows and vacant lots before it had proceeded far on its way downtown. A private soldier was struck in the head with a stone and disabled. The officer in command ordered his mep to shoot, and two volleys were fired in the direction of the rioters, who. however, were liiddeh by the j dense, fog.* About 250 bullets were sent in search of victims, blit how many, of them found human targets cannot at present be determined. The militiamen's orders were if they shot it would be to kill. Policemen also did some shooting at this point. With what effect is as uncertain as in the case of the militiamen. It is ascertained by the militia officers that they only ordered tlje volley when the violence of the mob made it neees--6a ry to do so. j O/i the same line a ear started out an hour later and was beset by rioters at Gates and Stuyvesarit avenues. The police escorting it essayed to drive off the rioters, and while doing so were ; fired upon from a house. Two policemen were wounded, one in the arm and the other in the hand. A detafl%T po- ' lice entered the house and arrested Kate Gurney, who was caught in the act of hurling missiles from the window. s

The Halsey street line also was the Beene of several lively encounters. In one of tlu*m Private Ennis of the Seventh regiment was knocked senseless by a stone thrown by a rioter. Several shots were fired.into the crowd and rumor has it that four men were seen to fall, -i that is the case the wounded were *. Yd away by their friends.* At tlie Halsey street depot a car was pelted with stones and sticks. The windows were broken and the woodwork smashed. The two police* guards’ll red their pistols into the crowd, which dispersed. Whether or not anyone was struck is not known. Police Officers Collins and Degan were accidentally shot, supposed by Seventh regiment men. at Gates and Ntuyvesant avenues, Monday evening. Their wounds are not serious. Elmer ■prYmritykc, of New York. a--member of the 'Twelfth regiment, fell from the roof of an armory Monday evening and sustained a compound fracture of the skull. Policemen : ShackleCollison and Burke were seriously injured by stones thrown from tine roofs of houses Monday evening. Shuekleton’s skull was fractured. President Lewis, of the Brooklyn Heights company, saijfl late Monday afternoon, that about 145 cars were running on his line. The total number of cars usually operated by President Lewis’ system is 1,140. President : Norton, of the Atlantic avenue system, stated .that he had operated 03 cars. In all about 230 ears were moved in the city of Brooklyn Monday. The um- • her in operation before the strike* was i 1,900. Killed During: a Gale. ! Chicago, Jan. 22. —Joseph Hunt al. a i laborer at Henry Peters’ factory at No. j 740 West Fifteenth street, was killed ; Monday. He was loading k wagon j with lumber at the Wisconsin Central j tracks, between Ashland avenue and Paulina street. He was caught by the wind and hurled violently to the ground, breaking his neck and killing him almost instantly. Robbery in Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 22.—Thieves secured 81.500 worth of jewelry and papers representing $12,000 from the vault of J. F. Conlan, wholesale jeweler, room 39, No. 102 Washington-street, Monday. The robbery was committed between 5:10 and 5:40 o'clock in the evening and the police are utterly at a loss to locate the thieves. Two Were Killed. Zanksvillk, (X, Jan. 22—A sawmill located at Indian Camps Guernsey county, blew up Monday afternoon, killing two young men named Dixon ar.d Morrow and seriously injuring three other a.

A WAITING CONDITION. Hesitation Still Noted In the Business Situation. New York, Jan. 01.—It. G. Dun <fc Go’s, weekly review ot traae says: “There are some good signs, but they do not fts yet extend to business generally, which hesitates much as it has for months. Gold continues to go abroad, $5,550,000 having gone this veek, and the deficit of revenue is already over $9,500,000 for the month. This state of facts, with the failure of congress to make provision for borrowing or for increasing revenue, still- operates to retard a wholesome recovery, and the volume of domestio trade represented by exchanges through clearing houses is again about 7 per larger than last year, as it was In tiro first week of the month, but is 33.7 per ceut smaller than two years ago. a higher rate of decrease than for some time past. Tho Industries are meeting a larger demand for 1 some products since the new year began, but ; rather less for others, andLnodellnile improvement appears in prices of manufactured products or in wages. In the main, it is a waiting condition, with much hope that positive improvement is not far off, but not very satisfactory evidence of it as yet. “Prices of stocks have grown slightly stronger for railroads, C 5 cents per share, while the average for trusts Is live cents higher. A reduction s freight rates has started a better movement of grain eastbouud, and the tonnage of live stock and dcessed meats is also larger than a year ago. but. the westbound traffic has become unusually light. “There is somewhat more doing in the iron and steel business, enough to caus" a shade of lifting in prices for Bessemer iron and billets at there is also improved demand for finished products, but at Pittsburgh. all changes repsrTed are downward. “Embarrassment in boots and shoes does not lessen, and many manufacturers are getting near the end of their orders.while the disposition to restrict orders at the advanced prices demanded seem to be growing more general. Shipments are nevertheless larger than in any previous year to date-163.913 cases, against 148.610 two years ago. “Failures this year to January 10 were in amount, of liabilities $4,590,531, of which sl.133,428 were of manufacturing and $3,383,103 of trading ■concerns. Failures for the week have been 373 n the United States, against 497 last year, Canada, against.4o last year. FOUND HIS BODY. Lorp e of Defaulting Treasurer Scott, of Ilolt County, Recovered. O'Neill. Neb.. Jan. 21.— The body of ' Barrett Scott, the I 'defaulting*' treasurer of Ilolt county, and who, while out 1 riding* with his family New Year’s day, was fired upon by a party of vigilantes and after being wounded was dragged from bis carriage, blindfolded and, then placed into another vehicle and taken in. a northerly direction, was found about 10 o'clock Saturday night in the Niobrara river about 300 feet below the bridge on the Boyd county side, close uj) to the bank and in about 7 feet of water. He was in his shirtsleeves, but had his watekand chain and other personal effects on just, as he wore them in life. After the finding of the body an inquest was'held before Coroner Hoover, of Boyd county, and a jury. A number • of witnesses were examined, and a verdict rendered that Scott came to his death at the hands of George Mullihan, Mose Elliot, Mert Roy, James Pinkerman and others whose names have not yet been disclosed. The crime for which Barrett Scott paid with his life on New Year’s day of this year was the embezzlement of S7O,- , 000 of the funds of Ilolt county and the •subsequent wrecking of the Holt county bank.practically Impoverishing nearly all of the farmers and business men in Ilolt. The amounts stolen from these people are variously estimated, ‘ bu t aggregate about $ 100.000

HAWAIIAN REBELS. They Have Made an Unsuccessful Attempt to Capture Honolulu. San Francisco, J an. 2 1. -.The steamer Alameda arrived from Auckland and Sydney via Honolulu Friday afternoon and brings news of revolution and bloodshed--at Honolulu. Charles L. Carter, who-was one of the annexation commissioners, was killed and other government supporters were wounded. There has been much fighting and at least twelve natives have been killed. Nearly 200 revolutionists are-under arrest. Robert \\ ilcox is the leader of the rebels. The fighting was still in progress when the Alameda left Honolulu on January 11, but the government forces had practically overcome the revolutionists. San Francisco. Jan. 22.— The president upon hearing of the internal troubles of the Hawaiian islands, ordered the United States cruiser Philadelphia to go at once to Honolulu. President Cleveland states that his motive for sending the vessel is that thereis a possibility that, disturbances may be renewed which might result in danger to the persons or property of American citizens entitled to the protection of the United States. BROOKLYN RIOTERS. They Keep tho New York Militia Busy Three Men Bayoneted. Nnw York, Jaa. 21.—The assiduous attempts of Mayor Schieren to have the troubles o the trolley lines in Brooklyn adjusted have all ended in failure. Violence lias been resorted to by some of the more virulent of the strikers, and militiamen and the police have their hazards full. t Three men were bayoneted at the junction of Froadway, Alabama and Fulton avenues in the Twenty-sixth ward Saturday night by members of tlie Thirteenth regiment, on guard there. One of the injured is in a serious condition in St. Mary’s hospital. The other two were not badly wounded. They were taken away by friends. Several other men were injured by the troops. Many militiamen were hurt by flying missiles anil one is reported as having had his skull fractured. Snt to Prison. Wasioxgtiw, Jan. 21.—William B. Smith, an employe of the bureau of engraving and printing, convicted of being the principal in the larceny of 70,000 two-cent stamps from the government, has been sentenced by Judge MeComas to .three years and six months in the Albany penitentiary. Test of the. Howell Torpedo. Newport, K. I, Jan. 21.—The first trial of the new 18-Snch Howell torpedo 1 was held and proved very successful. A charge of 2.70 pounds was used and a perfect line shot made at a distance of 600 yards, wUhTi. speed of 32.3 kuota.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. V The General Assembly. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 15.—senate.—senator Haggard introduced a resolution callirg for a survey of a route for a ship canal from the lake to the headwaters of the Wobash river. Senator Wishard introduced hLs bill for the repeal of the apportionment law enacted two years ago in the face of the decision of the supjeme court declaring the samo political division unconstitutional. Senator Shively, one of the new men. but a coming leader, began his career with a bill for non-partisan control of the state Institutions, lie proposes that the hospitals for the insane should ail be placed under one board. Another of his bills provides | for non-partisan control of police boards. ; Some sixty bills were introduced Monday, j Among the most important of those in-tro-j duced was a senate bill, introduced by Senator i Boyd, providing for the establishment of a • state home for dependent children. By this j bill the county from which the child J comes is to be charged twenty-live cents a day I for its maintenance. Children from other j states will be received upon the payment of [ the same fee. • House Not enough representatives showed up to hold a session in the morning. In the i afternoon about sixty bills were introduced, : among the most prominent being the taxation ; of greenbacks: amending election laws: bdnds, i notes, etc., shall be stumped by assessors for taxation, and all evidences of indebt- , eduess not thus stamped shall be void and uncollectable. Indianapolis, Jan. 16.—Senate—Bills introduced: Requiring prescription clerks in drug stores to secure a license from a commission certifying that they are capable: providi ing for tre payment of salaries to justices of the peace in order not to put a premium, as the Senator explained, on convictions for the > sake of the fees: giving all political parties ‘ representation on election boards: providing for the creation of a firemen’s pension fund in cities , with* a population of over .thirty-five thousand. House- Representative Ho ve, of Morgan, introduced in the house Tuesday morning a Joint resolution providing for the calling of a constitutional convention. Mr. Hamrjck introduced a bill requiring insurance companies to pay the full face of a policy in case of a total loss. Mr. Leedy introduced a resolution for the investigation of the office of the attorney-general and otnetsstate officers. Mr. Stakebake introduced a bill\cquirlug all trains to stop at county scats. Representative Card will introduced a bill for the election of members of the legislature on anew basis. Mr. Cardwill’s resolution provides that tho senate shall be composed of sixty members elected from twenty districts, three members from each district. There is provision for minority representation that there sha’.l not be more than two senators from one political party from any one district. Indianapolis. Jan. 17.—Senate—The senate Wednesday spent the morning in getting together upon the proposition to buy copies of Burn's Stute Law reports for the use of senators. The subject was debated, and only reached a vote a half hour after the regular hour for adjournment. It was carried. House— Bills introduced: Putting tile stata Institutions upon a civil service basis of a straight reform idea. It provides for a board of three examiners', to be appointed by the governor, subject .to confirmation by the senate„and to serve without pay. except for expenses. This commission shall prepare rules for the appointment of employes in the . state institutions, and probation shall count in the record before a permanent appointment is made. The commission, with the consent of the county commissioners, the city council or the town board, may recommend persons for employment in the service of the stute. counties, cities and towns. The bill provides for a chief examiner at a salary of $2,500 a year-, wi r th clerks, whose compensation slfall not exceed $2,000: The rule.* to govern are such as prevail upon a strictly merit system of appointment. The hi 1 meets with commendation. A bill providing fftr local option, according to wards In cities or precincts in rural neighborhoods. The applicant for a license •must secure a petition signed by a majority of the citizens of the district in which he wishes to open a saloon. Indianapolis, Jan. 18.—Senate The so,orate committee on military affairs held a meeting Thursday night, and by a unanimous vote decided to recommend for passage the Haggard bill for the locution of a state soldiers' home at Lafayette. The appropriation to be recommended is SIOO,OOO, which is $50,000 less than was asked. A bill was introduced to take the place of the present apportionment law. The senate was occupied all afternoon in a discussion of Senator Gifford's hill providing for the abolition of the death penalty. For two hours the senate rang with fervid oratory, expended for and against the measure, and then the propositions to dispense with the breaking of the necks of murderers went down by a vote of 19 to 31.

Hoi:sk—The house *pent nearly the entire morning haggling over the question of a reduction of the per diem of doorkeepers and assistant clerks. The matter ended by the reference of the subject back to the committee that had recommended the reduction- The most important bill introduced in the house Thursday morning was the temperance measure of Representative Nicholson. It requires that saloons must be on the ground floor and front oh the street. It is made unlawful to have a restaurant attachment. There are to be no screens, no chairs, no.tables, no wine-rooms, no minors, and forfeiture cf license and other severe penalties are provided, for violations. „ The bill went to the temperance committee. Indianapolis. Jan. 19. —SkxatE-^-The senate committee on military affairs Friday reported a bill appropriating $100,009 for the organization of the state soldiers’ and sailors' home at Lafayette and for the construction of the buildings needed. Bills introduced: To permit newspapers charged with libel to justification and let the.decision rest upon the preponderance of evidence: providing that the county superintendents of schools shall be elected by the newly elected township trustees, instead of the outgoing. In both chambers bills were introduced by the chairmen of the committees on legislative apportionment of the state. The senate passed a bill under suspension of the rules, amending the bond law relating to the giving of bond by sinking fund commissioners In cities- operating under the general chapter. House—Bills introdused: Providing for a waterway commission authorized to secure facts and figures relative to the cost and feasibility of constructing a ship canal from either Lake Michigan or Lake Erie to the Ohio rive: through this state: providing punishment for prize fighting. It makes spectators liable for two years' imprisonment, as well as the parties interested as principals, seconds, referees, etc. The house Friday passed the bill appropriating M 8.500 to reimburse Governor<stfat.thews for money borrowed on his personal security to pay the troops called out by riot or otherwise. The rule* were suspended, and. as the srticate has already passed it, the bill only needs tthe governor’s signature to become a law and. t* relieve him of a.'heavy responsibility. Plymouth citizens have sent over four tons ot flour to Nebraska famine sufferers. Walkek Carder, of Charleston, who was shot by a burglar, has fully recov* ered. According to the figures published by the Boston Commercial Bulletin the other daj r , the insurance companies of this country enjoyed in 1894 an unexampled year, so far as small losses are concerned* Their aggregate losses amounted to $127,000,000, as compared with $156,000,000 in 1893, $133,000,000 in 1892 and $138,000,000 in 1891. Then, too, the incomes of many of the companies were materially swelled by higher rates of premiums, while many, of course, felt the stringency of the times in the refusal of many old customers to insure at all, preferring to carry the risk of loss by fire themselvea.

THE NEW FRENCH PR&V DENT * St. Francois -Felix/Faure Chosen, VIA Cas-linir-Perier Resigned The Rt^’tfWv. Crisis. Versailles, Jan. 19.—M. FranciSiy Felix Fanre was chosern president of France, by the national assembly on the second ballot. The result of the .second ballot as between the two leading* candidates was: M. Felix Faure 425 M. Henri Brisson 363 Socialist deputies made violent protests when the result was announced. There were only three candidates for the presidency whose chances of election were seriously discussed, namely: M. Waldeck-Rousseau, M. Henri Brisson and M. Felix Faure. There was no choice on the first ballot for president taken in the national assembly, and before the second ballot was ordered M. Waldeck-Rousseau withdrew in favor of M. Felix Faure. Paris, Jan. 17. — Casimir-Penei* has resigned the office of president of France. I!e announced his resignation Tuesday evening* at a specially summoned meeting* of the cabinet, having previously informed M. ChalleinelI Lacour. the president of the senate, of | his inability to solve the problem pre- ' sented by the resignation of Premier ; Dupuy. : The news of the president’s resignation spread like wildfire throughout I Paris, and was received everywhere with consternation amounting almost to paralysis. '.ln the newspaper oifices the first report was consid- | ered absurd, but was soon confirmed. almost simultaneously crowds began gathering in front of the newspaper offices and in the public places, ’inquiring for further particulars and discussing the i M. Casimir-Perier has submitted to the ministry a sketch of his message to be read to the chambers to-day. He refers to the patriotic spirit in which he assumed the post of honor and danger to which he was called having sought it, andttays: i **i had the single-minded wish to be. not a man of party, but a man of all France: to defend order, seeking inspiration from .tho example of the lamented Carnot. But to my i deep sorrow 1 found that I pleased no party. I , was attacked on every side. The attacks varied in form, but ah .showed a personal . will.” ! The question which led to the resignation of the ministry and finally to ■ that of President Casimir-Perier is a | wide one. It is really a question of whether the chamber of deputies is I superior to the courts of France and ; whether the chamber is able to set aside the constitution at will/ In 1883 ! the government made a contract with ! the Orleans and Midi railways, under | the terms of which, in return for 'certain facilities for the transportation ; of war material, the government guar- | anteed the interest on the bonds of the | railways. Tile government held that ! the guaranty expired .in 1914, but the j directors of the companies took a clif- ! ferent view and construed the agreeI ment to mean that, the government | guaranteed the interest in perpetuity, j Suits were brought in. the courts !to settle tin* question. In June | last Mr. Barthou ordered the ; directors to indorse their v Shonds jto the effect that the guarffcty ! expired in 1914. The directors refusal I to do so and the case was then taken to j the council of state, which, in such 1 matters, is the final court of appeal, j The council on Wednesday last decided that the guaranty was perpetual. This I decision, which a majority in the | chamber of deputies Monday claimed I the right to reverse, was a complete j negation of the contention of the ! cabinet. * | There have been live presidents of ; the third French republic: M. Thiers, : elected August 13, 1871; resigned May | 21, 4873; died September 3, 1877. Mar- ! shal Mac Mahon, elected May 24, 1873; : resigned January 30, 1879; died October 17, 1893. Jules Grevy, elected January ; 30, 1879; reelected December 28, 1885; resigned December 2, 1887; died September 9, 1890. M. Carnot, elected De- > comber _3. 1887; assassinated at Lyons j June 24, 1894. M. Casimir-Perier, elected June 27, 1894; resigned Junuary 15v 1895. & IM. Francois Felix Faure, member of tho chamber of deputies for Seine-lnfericurs. who has been elected president of tho republic of i France, to. succeed M. Casimir-Perier, was j bora in Paris January 30. 1841. He was under j’ secretary .of state for tho colonies jln ,the ministries of Gambctta. Ferry. Brisson and Tivard. and was one of the vice presidents of-&he-<.-haniber-Qf-d&mities Di cccding the preseni one. He ha-s been a republican deputy for aboqt fourteen years and lias served on several 'of' the most important commitlees of the chamber. M. Fai.ro has made a legislative specialty of business questions, particularly those concerning the French merchant marine and foroign commerce. He served in the Franco-Prussian war as chief of a battalion of the Garde ftlobile, and was made a chevalier of the Legion ai Honor on May 31, 1871. |

THE CASE REOPENED. Jadee Kicks Given a Chance to Appear Before the Committee. Washington, Jan. 21. —The judiciary committee of the house held a long session Friday over the Kicks, case* Representative Bailey, of Texas, presented the majority report, drawn by himself, and Representative Broderick the minority report. The friends of Judge Ricks endeavored to reverse the decision of the previous meeting. Finally the committee decided by a vote of 7 tw> 5 to reopen the case by extending an “invitation to Judge Ricks to appear before it, if he so desired, with his witnesses, and to give a like invitation to the other side. Representative Bailey’s report was discussed at length and several amendments offered and voted upon. Canadian Senator Dead. Montreal, . Can., Jan. 18l—lion. Joseph Tasse, member of tb© dominion senate for Montreal district and proprietor of La Minerve (newspaper} of this city, died at 5:30 o’clock Thursday morning after a long illness. He wo* 47 years old.. 1 kfty-Seven Victims. v ßuttk, Mont., Jan. 31.—George Devoy, of London, Out., died Sundaymorning, making City-seven who have died from Tuesday’s explosiorj. s e y. eral more cannot recover, t'harred bones were taken from the, ruins Sun day.