Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 March 1891 — Page 1

J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME XXI. OFFICE, over J. E. YOUNG k 00,’S Store, Main Street. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Pi*i PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY NUMBER 42 MARCH 11, 1891

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of th« Daily News. CONGRESS. The senate on March 2 after voting down various amendments concurred in house amendments to the shipping bill by 87 to 33. The substitute is the house postal snbsidy* bill in place of the senate subsidy shipping bill. Mr. Manderson was chosen president pro tern, of the senate, and on motion of Mr. Gorman a resolution was passed thanking Mr. Ingalls, who retires, for the id^hirtial manner in which he had performed the duties of president of the senate. The post office Appropriation bill was passed. The session of the senate was a busy one, many conferences being agreed to and much business disposed of. Kulogies on Mr. Phelan (Tenn.) were delivered and the senate adjourned— The house disposed of a large amount of business. Many conference reports were agreed to The senate bill granting a pension of $2,800 a year to the widow of Adm. Porter passed, also a bill granting relief to certain officers and men of the First Kansas (colored) regiment; also the senate bill for the inspection of cattle, hogs, etc. Many conference reports were rusJn-d through and at 1 o'clock (at night) the house adjourned. The senate held a brief executive session soon after meeting on the 3d and then agreed to all the amendments to the deficiency bill w ith the exception of four that Were reserved, and these were finally agreed to, including the French spoliation claims, and the bill finally passed. Several conference reports were agreed to, including that on the copyright bill, which eliminates the Sherman amendment. At the evening session the senate insisted on the Hawaiian eable air.endment-to the diplomatic bill and passed 160 pension bills... .The only business transacted in the house was that of considering conference reports and In th s respect th j session was a ve^y busy one— The conference reports on the pension appropriation, the Indian appropriation and tiio copyright bills were agreed to and at a lute hour the session closed. * After a continuous all-night session in clearing up Its work the senate on the 4th receded from its Hawaiian cable amendment to the diplomatic bill: agreed to the conference reports on the legislative appropriation bill and the agricultural bill, and at 6:15 a. m took a recess for breakfast. The session was resumed at 9 a m.. when a moton to reconsider the vote on the copyright bill was defeated. The conference on the deficiency bill was agreed to (retaining the French spoliation claims): A motion by Mr. Ransom tendering thanks to tlio vice-president was adopted, and all the business of the session having been completed the senate at noon was declared adjourned sine die.....The house agreed to various conference reports on appropriation bills, but defeated the bill for the reorganization of the army. ' Mr. McKinley offered a resolution ot thanks to the speaker for his impartiality and ability in the discharge of his duties, and Mr. Mil's demanded the yeas and nays. The resolution was adopted by a party vote, the democrats votingsolidly against it. Business having been completed the house at noon was adjourneJ sine die.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The amendment made by the house to the senate bill regulating exports of cattle is really a substitute. It provides for a government inspection of all cattle intended for export and for stamping properly the products of such animals as are found healthful. The treasury department paid out 89,500,000 for pensions, completing the 830,000,000 required on that account for this quarter. The treasury surplus has accordingly been reduced to 815,000,000. A statement shows that during the past congress 411 bills for the erection of public buildings were introduced, carrying a total appropriation of $76,635,635. Of this number ninetythree passed both houses, appropriating 813,676,639, all of which became laws save four, which were vetoed by the president. TnE senate select. committee on relations with Canada has decided to leave Washington for Canada April 30 to resume their investigations begun last summer. . In signing the copyright bill the president used a large quill taken from an American eagle sent to him for that purpose by Mr. Robert U. Johnson, of New York, secretary of the international copyright league. The pen was then returned to Mr. Johnson with the president’s compliments. It is said \the White house that no more appoi pts will be made until after the p* ^afdent’s return from his hunting trip next week. The president has appointed C. P. Walker, of Oklahoma, and V. 15. Payne, of Ann Arbor, Mich., special agents to make allotments of lands in severalty to the Sac and Fox Indians. The ratification of the Sisseton and Wahpeton treaty at Washington throws open to settlement one million acres of land in South Dakota and Minnesota. Secretary Proctor has issued a general order authorizing the enlistment in the army of not more than 3,000 Indians. It is stated on high Washington authority that there is no prospect of an immediate change in the office of United States treasurer. THE EAST. The Marquis de Breteuil and Miss Lita Gamer, of New York, were married on the 3d at Pau. All the nobility of the Basque provinces were present at the wedding. President John B. Rae, of the united mine workers, Master Workman Peter Wise and several others have been arrested at Pittsburgh, Pa., on a warrant sworn out by Louden, of the Rainey works, on a charge of conspiracy, riot, assault, etc. General Sherman’s personal estate was small. It was sworn to as being under 83,500. Jacob Schkele, a Bridgeport (Conn.) murderer, has starved eleven days and swears he will cheat the hangman. Burlington, Vt., has elected the first democratic mayor in twenty years. T. P. O’Connor sailed from New York on the 4th homeward bound. The prohibitionists have nominated a state ticket in Rhode Island. Otto colliery, Minersville, Pa., is flooded and useless. The union molders at the Standard steel works, Chester, Pa., have struck. The steamer City of Richmond was burned recently at New York.« A negro waiter lost his life. The J. O. Schimmels fruit preserving company's plant at Eighth and Berks streets, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire the other morning. The loss was $150,000; insured. Two small children of George White, of Limerick, Me., were burned to death while alone in their honse. The wages of the heavy grade silk ribbon weavers of the mills at Allentown, Pa., have been reduced 10 per cent. Samuel M. Fairfield, several times prohibitionist candidate for attorneygeneral of Massachusetts, has been arrested charged with having embezzled $3,000 in 1887. Hamilton Fish Kean, of New York, has been appointed permtfliqnt receiver of the Kentucky Union Railway Co. Gov. Hill, of New York, has been invited to deliver the address on the occasion of the unveiling of the monu ment to Henry W. Grady in Atlanta, li»., next Bummer

•the Wes#; The Mahsion of ex-Governor Oglesby at Elkhart, near Bloomington, 111., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $25,000. Mb. and Mrs. Jacobson, of 447 West Huron street, Chicago, went to the theater the other night, locking their two children—Hans, aged 0 years, and Mercy, aged 4 years—in the house. During the parents’ absence a lamp exploded and when they came home the children were dead, having been suffocated, by the smoke. Fire the other night destroyed part of the new Marquardt bank block at Des Moines. Ia. Two stores were almost destroyed. Fred Harbach lost his entire stock of furniture and Hellyer & Martin lost their stock of jewelry and sewing machines. Both losses are largely covered by insurance. The total loss is estimated at $150,000. An injunction has been granted against publishing the Chicago city printing in German. « The trichinpsis_cases near Ida Grove, la., the result ~of eafing bologna sausage, are becoming more ' serious. One more death has occurred and four new cases are reported. There are seventeen persons whose recovery is doubtful and four have died. The schooner J. Hamilton Lewis, which sailed ashore during a fishing cruise returned to San Francisco ostensibly to refit, but it is stated there was mutiny abonrd and nine men were placed in irons. Fire in Chicago destroyed a $51,000 stock of boots and shoes and caused the injury of three firemen. The Michigan senate has passed to third reading a bill granting municipal suffrage to women. The legislative council of Arizona has passed a woman suffrage bill by a vote of 10 to 2. The Indiana house has passed a bill reducing railroad fares to 2 cents per mile. The report of the world’s fair committee on ceremonies has been completed. It provides a gigantic military display and parade under the direction of the major-general of the army Tuesday, October 11, 1892, the regular dedicatory exercises Wednesday, a grand ball Thursday and a general civic and military demonstration Saturday. Both houses of Indiana passed the legislative appropriation apportionment bill over the governor’s veto, also the congressional apportionment bill, giving the democrats ten of thirteen congressmen on the vote of li#>8, which the governor also vetoed. . In a snowslide one-fourth of a mile’ below Atta, in Emory gulch, Utah, nine men were caught. Hans Olsen and Barney Cast were killed instantly. The body of the latter was recovered. August Hansmob and John Ford were badly hurt but got out alive. The boss plasterers of Chicago have decided positively not to concede any increase of wages to the workmen. . Great excitement is reported in the state of Washington over the coming opening of the Coeur d’Alene reservations. Thousands are encamped on the borders. v

Leonard Kuhn, cashier of Faulkner’s defunct Dansville hank, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for receiving a deposit, knowing the bank’s insolvency. The snow blockade on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad has been raised. The Queen Isabella association, which intended to erect a pavilion on the world’s fair ground for the use of the women of the world, has withdrawn its application for space owing to friction ljetween the association and the women’s board of managers, of the world's fair. The troops have reached Ponca, I. T., after a march through the Cherokee strip and report an almost utter absence of boomers. But one herd of cattle was found on the strip. THE SOUTH. A disuatch from West Point, Miss., said that at Macon the other morning. William Ford, manager of the canning factory at Boonville, was shot and killed by J. E. Rives, a young lawyer. The parties belong to leading families of that section. Cornwall Bros.,soap manufacturers, one of the oldest firms in Louisville, Ky., have made an assignment. The liabilities are estimated at §180,000. The next meeting of the Scotch^ Irish association of America will be held in Louisville, Ky., May 14 to 17. Six men were drowned in the river near Paducah, Ky., being swamped in a storm. Four Delaware ex-state treasurers, covering the period from 1875 to 1891, swore they had never seen the missing state securities. Gov. Stone received information that W. J. Cowart, collector and sheriff of Marion county. Miss., had absconded with the public funds. Charles Carroll; one of the best known sporting men, has been taken to a Baltimore insane asylum. He was known all over the United States as a patron of sports. He refereed the Sam Colyer-Billy Edwards fight August 9, 1874. f he Monroe high school at Monroe, La., was burned the other morning. Thomas Pemberton and Albert Bosl, two students, perished in the flames. Gov. Fleming, of Florida, has decided to leave the choice of Senator Call’s successor to the legislature. The court house at Archer City, Tejp., was burned the other night, together with nearly all the county records. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, has joined the Farmers’ alliance. , Ex-United States Senator Hied died at Madison, Ga., recently. Be twice represented his district in congress and was United States senator from Georgia when the war broke out and again in 1808. The Baltimore Methodist conference by a vote of 145 to 39 has decided against women delegates to the general conference. The West Virginia senate has passed a bill appropriating $40,000 for the state’s world’s fair exhibit. The suit of Hope & Co., the Amsterdam hankers, to compel the Louisiana hoard of liquidation to fund over $4,000,000 state bonds, has been decided in favor of the board of liquidation. GENERAL. Wesijcv’s monument at the City Road chapel, London, was unveiled on the 3d, the centennial of his deaths The kaiser at a luncheon attended by the artillery officers of the guard declared that in view of the recent improvements in field and siege guns and the experience of the last war, artillery must now be regarded as the backbone and marrow of battle. The London Standard believes that on his return from America, Mr. O’Connor will refuse to identify himself openly with either section of the Irish |wrty.

The laborers employed on the relief railroad works at Clifton, Galway, have struck for an increase of wages. The Catholic authorities in Treries announce that the holy coat of Joseph, the husband of Mary, will be exhibited daring the summer, when it is expected a pilgrimage from th'e entire Catholic population of Germany will be made to view it. The garment was recently inspected by learned clerical experts and by them has been pronounced genuine. Gavette & Dulard, leading, bankers of France, have suspended. Liabilities, $1,000,000. From St. Petersburg comes the news that an admiral who threatened to send workmen to Siberia because they struck work on account of a grievance has himself been sent to Siberia. C. B. Wright, the Northern Pacific railroad millionaire, has purchased the entire capital stock and bonds of the Hunt system of railroads in Oregon and Washington, comprising 167 miles of completed road and forty-two miles now under construction. The deal involves about $3,006,000. A dispatch from Cairo says that the Egyptian army has" been organized under English officers even down to subalterns, and it is as much a British army as the native imperial troops in India. Advices from Chili state that three battalions and the Fourth regiment of government troops stationed near Pizagua have shot their officers and declared in favor of the revolutionists. Oarsman O’Connor challenges Teemer for from $500 to $1,000. The leading merchants of Berlin have begun work on an exhibit at the Chicago world’s fair. It is stated in Paris that Alsace-Lor-raine passport regulations will be relaxed. Prof. Liebrecht, of Berlin, says he does not claim to have a specific for. tuberculosis, but a remedy for various kinds of inflammation. Parnell will form a political fund apart from that for tenants, and his American money seekers will collect for both. * - . . News of a horrible massacre comes from Madagascar. Ramiastra, governor of the province of Belanond, resenting a petition from the populace to the government to defend them from cruelties, massacred 278 persons, including men, women and children belonging to the leading families. It has transpired that Helena Markovic and Helena Knicanine, who attempted to kill King Milan, of Servia, in 1882, have been strangled to death in prison. Milan has requested M. Garaschanin, who was premier at the time of the attempt, to institute an inquiry into the circumstances of the killing of the prisoners.

A fall 01 irom twelve to iourteen inches of snow was reported throughout New England on the 5th, the heaviest of the season. Advices from Chili are to the effect that the insurgents have been defeated at Ovalle and have withdrawn towards Lacerne. A dispatch from Madrid says that in a discussion of Cuban affairs in the Spanish cabinet the sale of the country to the United States was considered. The weight of opinion was decidedly adverse to any such negotiation. The election returns in Canada indicated on the 5th a majority of about twenty for the Macdonald government. M. Co’nstans, French minister of the interior, has given instructions that even ready money betters on races on courses are henceforth to be arrested. The Vienna correspondent of the London Times states on good authority that recent negotiations carried on at the courts of Germany, Italy and Austria insure, a renewal of the triple alliance. The wool crop still continues to decline. Thebe was a riot at Kaolem, Austria, on election day, organized by antiSemitics, who raided a number of Jewish shops and ravaged the Jewish cemetery. where not one gravestone was left standing. One Jew was killed. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended March 5 numbered 3(55, compared with 290 the previous week and 200 the corresponding week of last year. General business was unsatisfactory. THE LATEST. Amos R. Eno, of New York, having proposed to the committee having in charge the raising of a fund for the erection of a statue to the late Gen. Sherman, that if the committee would announce publicly that all surplus subscriptions would be turned over to the family of the late general, he would subscribe $2,500, but that if the fund was to be used solely in the erection of a statue he would give only $1,000, the committee unanimously approved his suggestion and accepted his offer based thereon. A special memorial service was held by the Sunday school of Plymouth • church, Brooklyn, on the 8th, in commemoration of Henry Ward Beecher. After an elaborate musical programme and prayer by Rev. Lyman Abott, Superintendent Shearman made an address relating incidents in the life of the great preacher. Quite a severe earthquake Shock was felt in Tacoma, Wash., at 7:40 on the evening of the 7th, the vibrations lasting only about a second. At Ellensburg and several other places on the Northern Pacific, three distinct shocks occurred, lasting about ten seconds. No damage is reported. On the 8th the superintendent of the Washington police received the following communication signed “Jack the Riper,” with one “p:” “Dear people: Wouldn’t you like to catch me. I am Jack the Riper. I am going to kill eight more women before I give up. I am in the city.” It is understood that the Dominion parliament will meet on Wednesday, April 29, to enable the house of commons to elect a speaker, and the formal opening will take place on the following day. Chas. Stbowe, accrued of the murder of Annie McCloud, whom it>was alleged he furnished with poison with which she committed suicide, was acquitted at Lancaster, Pa., on the 7th. The secretary of war has turned over to the secretary of the Interior the Fort Lowell (Ariz.) abandoned military reservation, which will be restored to the public domain. Db. M. H. Kerwin, the first physician in the northwest to visit Berlin, secure and administer the Koch lymph, died suddenly in Milwaukee, on the 7th, of peritonitis. Queen Victoria has given a donation to the sufferers from the Halifax (N. S.) coal mine explosion. The horse Membrino Wilkes was sold at Oakland, Cal., on the 7th, far $3,300. Y»Uow fever is increasing in BrgxU.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. ‘Til goiag to end it,” said George Oimber, at Indfepapolis, a few days ago and patting a revolver to his head he ended it. The trustees of the hospital for the insane, at Richmond, have resigned. Superintendent Wells wiB also tender his resignation. Advices received by the state board of agriculture indicate that the growing wheat crop has not undergone any material change, and the prospect for more than an average crop is the most flattering for several years. The warm, wet weather has been favorable to a luxuriant growth, and the roots are believed to be sufficiently well protected to stand the changeable weather of the present month. X>. H. P. Widmams, aged 81, and Mrs. Rebecca Alford, aged 79, were married at Columbus a few days ago. The commissioner of pensions: appo}nt<*d1ftfc,ijiinitli H. Mopes: a member of the board of jension examii ing surgeons at Indiana] tolis. The dry goods store of Byrai 1 & Sullivan, at Indianapolis was desti oyed by fire. Several other firms lost heavily by smoke and water. Os the Lake Shore railroad, neai Kendallville, Samuel Brodenwi sstanding on the tender of a freigtt train which was pullii j from a swite 1 on the main track. Ti e tender was o< erturned, and, with Bioden underneath, dragged quite a distc i ce, and the n an was ground to pieces. Cha8. Liebfried, aged 30 yeai-s, proprietor of the Cential saloon, Coiambus, was found dead in his room a few days since. He leaves a wife from whom he was parted eight years ago. Henry Schnurr, proprietor of the same saloon, fell dead in the doorway, and six months later his brother, John Schnurr, committed suicide by shooting a pistol ball through his heart, and three years later George Phillips, the next proprietor of this saloon, died suddenly, making four proprietors of the same saloon that have died violent and mysterious deaths, and in succession. Frank Dice end William Chaney, two young men of Owen County, were rivals for the affect, ons of a young lady of the neighborhood. They met at Adkinsville, when Die » drew a revolver and shot Chaney tilling him instantly. Dice was arrested and taken to Spencer. The son of Alexunder Mahomey, of Crawfordsville, struck Jim Morgan, a man, with a snow ball, which so angered Morgan that he threw: a horseshoe at the- boy, s1 riking him behind the ear and knockii g him down. The boy was taken home in an unconscious condition, and Morgan was arrested and placed in jail. He was afterwards released because the boy's father refused to prosecute.

At Columbus, Pete Kellar waff grauted a divorce from his wife Rosanna. The couple were about 80 years of age, mild had raised a large family. C. EL Alexander, an organ agent, ■who boards at the Tremont hotel, Tipton, stepped out in the back yard of the hotel, where sonu unknown person knocked him down and robbed him of $70 and made his escape before being seen by any one. Wiixiam Pitts, of Pern, won the state colored championship from Dan Jordan, of Indianapolis, in ten hard rounds. The .Etna powder works, located near Millers, west of Laporte, blew up. No one was hurt, but half a dozen buildings were badly shattered. The shock was plainly felt at Laporte, thirty miles distant. Senator Vorheks, of Indiana, has gone to Hot ..Springs, Ark., for his health. Mrs. Woodworth, evangelist, has been granted a divorce by the Rochester court. The jury in the murder case of Abe Neal, at Madison, after remaining out all night and until noon, were unable to agree, and were discharged. Neal gave bail and was released. The commissioner of pensions has established a new board of pension examining surgeons at Knox, the members of which are Drs. W. M. Kelly, L. D. Glazebrook and A. H. Henderson. Alex. Dowling, of New Albany, declined the position of judge of the Indiana supreme court. Mrs. Catherine- McCann died at her home at Twelve-mile Switch, on the Monon, near New Albany, aged, it is claimed, 108 years. The deceased was? thought to lie the oldest citizen of the state, .and has a si$$er in Philadelphia aged 103. The family has papers proving the age of the deceased. . The red sandstone quarries of Clay county are to be developed. ' * ^ Louis Stanton, aged 19, went out hunting near Sandborn, the other day, and was found dead next, morning, with a portion of his head blown off, near a boat, and part of his body in the water. His death was accidental. ■ Mbs. Ei.iza McGrew, of Cambridge City, was given a verdict in the circuit court, at New Castle, for $1,000 damages for slander, against Walter Marlott, a prominent Wayne county farmer. William Louden, the New Washington “terror,” who has long defied the authorities, was captured recently, and is'now in jail at Jeffertson ville. Louis Letz, proprietor of the Crown Point machine works, was seriously injured the other day by the bursting of an emery wheel while running at a high rate of speed. The other morning J. W. Heins, a butcher of Seymour, killed a large and very fat eow, in the paunch of which he found a silver half-dollar, several small bones, a lot of needles and pins, over one-fourth of a pound of horseshoe and other nails of varying sizes and several other indigestible articles. The cow was young and apparently very healthy. The second stoiy floor of the mill at Eagletown gave way and thirty thousand pounds of flour were dumped into the cellar. Jacob Nagel, leader of the gang ol thieves that have been operating about Goshen, was captured a few days ago. Terre Haute has 180 drug stores. At Milan, Theodore Humpert told his wife the other night that he was going "out and lie down upon the railway track and let the cars run over him. She told him to go and sober up. A few moments afterward he heard a train coming, and laid down u.i he had threatened, and was instantly killed. Judge John D. Miller, of Greensburg, has been appointed by Gov. Hovey to fill the vacancy on the supreme bench caused by the death of Judge Berkshire. Judge Miller was graduated from Hanover college in18(U. Pike county farmers’ alliance killed 4.288 rats in one day

INDIANA LEGISLATURES; Indianapolis. Feb. 25.—Senate—The Opjenbeim tax revision bil. was called up. When be senate in consideration of the bill reached lection 143, a motion was made to amend by itriking out the provision for turning the raiload tax iff to the state treasury. After debate ;he motion to strike out this feature of the bill lamed by an almost unanimous vote. The lenate this afternoon passed a bill appropriating 1100,000 for the display of Indiana products it the world’s fair. The original amount contemplated in the bill was $200,005. House.—The tax bill came up on third readng, and was defeated by a vote of *10 to 53, enough democrats voting with the republicans to secure its knockout. Afterward there was i motion to reconsider, which was carried. During the noon recess the democra s held a mucus and decided to refer the bill to a special 'ommittee with instructions to cut out the railroad tax state fund feature, and the feature abolishing the twelve-cent state tax. This was lone,and thr» bill as amended was passed this afternoon. 'J ic house passed a few bills this afternoon, the only one of imj ortsnee being that for the creation of an appellate court, which now only requires the governor’s signa-f Lure to become a law. Indianapoijs, Feb. 26.—Senate. — Bills passed: Requiring superintendent of county and city schoo s to hold a thirty-six-months' license ora diploma from the state normal in orfler to be eligible; fixing the length of terms of ccurl in the fourth judicial circuit; to regulate the weighing of coal, providing for the ventilation of mines,, and prohibiting the employment in mines of boys under fourteen years old and women; the senate also passed the tax revision bill as amended yesterday in committee, of the whole. The bill hopes to secure the assessment of property at its real cash value, and to ferret out property, notes and mortgages, much of which uhder the present system escapes taxation. The democrats of the senate took up r/id passed the congre ssional appropriation bill introduced yesterday, giving the democrats eleven out of thirteen congressional districts of Indiana. House.—The following bills passed: Prohibiting the use of pumping apparatus to force the flow of natural gas through mains; pro viding for the employment of a board of guardians in each county; appropriating 610,000 to the blind asylum. Indianapolis. Feb. 27.— Senate —The fees and salaries bill came up with a unanimous report from the committee recommending its passage with a slight amendment relating to Ripley county. The amendment was stricken out and the report adopted. An amendment was offered making the law take effect June 1,181W, and this was concurred in. This appli d only to the county officers. A section was then inserted in place of section 20. which applied the tame date to the salaries of State officers and then consideration of the bill was commenced by sections. The senate spent the entire afternoon in consideration of the b 11 in committee of the whole. At half-past 5 the committee arose, reported progress, and asked leave to sit again to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock. House—The house passed a bill the purpose of which is to obviate the constitutional objection to the Australian election law that under the present system a voter can not vole for any one except the persons whose names appear on the tickets furnished by the state. Also the bill prohibiting cities with a population between 30,CO5 and 100 000 from extending the

rrancmses oi street railways or oi oiner ram panies covering the use of streets during the period for which they were granted. Indianapolis, Feb. *8.—Senate—Two hours time in the senate were consumed this afternoon in an exhibition ^filibustering. Representative Kelly's bil^rohibiting railroad companies from retaining any partof the wages of any employe for alleged insurance or mutual benefit purposes was under consideration. Tue Tote on the bi 1 failed for want of a constitutional majority, but it will be called up again, and it is believed it will pass. The city charter bill was made the special order of 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. Bouse—Bills passed: Authorizing ihe trustees of the southern prison to condemn certain lands of the Pennsylvania railroad company for the construction of a sewer and the erection of prison walls; legalizing the incorporation of Macy, Miami county; Marengo, Crawford county, and Rockport, Spencer county; incorporating the Young Mt n’s Christian association of New Albany; transferring the control of the Hendricks monument to the state; authorizing one company to buy an interest in another, where all the stockholders of both companies have given their consent. Indianapolis. Mnreh 2 —Senaje—The contest case of Milo \V. Barnes (Hem.) of Kokomo, for the senatorial seat of Robert J. Loveland (Rep.), ol Peru, was unceremoniously fired out of the senate this morning. Gov. Hovey sent to tho senate this afternoon bis veto of the bill applying the provisions of the metropolitan police law to the city of Terre Haute. The reasons assigned were that It proposed to take from the people of Terre Haute the right to local self-government, and was unconstitutional because it took the power of appointing the commissioners out of the hands of the governor. The bill was promptly passed over the veto. House—Bills passed;. Legalizing the acts of county commissioners under the law authorizing them to build orphans' homes; authorizing the superintendent of public instruction to set aside 15,000 semi-annually for the support of the state normal: authorizing boards of school commissioners in cities of 101.000 (Indianapolis) to levy a flve-cent tax to establish and carry on a mechanical school; to prevent fraudulent entries in horde races; prohibiting agents from placing insurance with companies not authorized to do business in the state; providing that cities when redistrictedshall not be redistricted for ten years; requiring all corporations hereafter organized to file articles of association with the secretary of state. Indianapolis, March a.—Senate.—The Indianapolis city charter bill was amended and passed. Gov. Hovey sent to the senate a message vetoing the bill abolishing the office of mine inspector. It was repassed over the governor’s veto. The fee and salary bill, as recommended by a special senatorial commbtee, was also passed. The governor’s message vetoing the Terre Haute police bill was received and the bill repasscd over his objections. A concurrent resolution passed both the bouses and the senate authorizing the state officers to receipt in fuil of all state claims after receiving 5769,000 direot tax from the general government, the payment of which has been ordered by congress. HOUSE —Bills passed: Authorizing the trustees of Purdue university to dedicate land for a public street; providing a remedy for the attempted taxation of Indiana lands not subject to taxation; providing that accident and life insurance companies shall settle with the auditor of state on the 1st of February of e.-eb year:prov:ding that all city and town plats shall be submitted for approval to common councils and boards of trustees. The body of Wm. Mullen, general secretary of the miner’s federation at Geneva, Vermillion county, who was found short in his accounts, and who disappeared two weeks before, was found frozen in the ice in a creek a few days ago. There is a difference of opinion ns to whether it is suicide or murder. Minnie AfABprrr, on trial for the murder of her babe, was acquitted at Indianapolis. Geo. Cubtis, a deaf mute, of Danville, was killed by being struck by a train the other night. His body was carried under the cars, and could not be found until next morning. Isabel Shafer, a lunatic, confined temporarily in the Brown county jail, set fire to the structure and narrowly escaped cremation. « John W. Leech, of Whitley county, went insane when told that his wife must die of consumption, and pined away until both died at nearly the same time. Taylor Eads, janitor at a Greencasr tie school building, was shot at twice in the darkness, but escaped unhurt. Frank Schanz,-fireman at the Fort Wayne furniture works, was terribly scaldea by escaping steam. Joseph Augh’b barn at Frankfort was burned by an ineendiary, and a horse valued at 9500 perished. In the circuit court at Columbus, Charles Frazee, administrator of the estate of George Welch, deceased, • has filed suit against the Pennsylvania Company for 910,000 for the killing of deceased in Columbus on the 23d of last •January

WHAT CONGRESS DID. i The Work Performed by the Fiftyfirst Congress. gome of tii« Most Important Measures that itecame Laws, aud Others that Failed of Passage—Memorable Sessions. -.The total appropriations made by the Fifty-first congress will probably aggregate a billion dollars. During the Fiftieth congress 161 hills were vetoed; during the Fifty-first congress fourteen. Among the bills which have become laws are the following: The copyright bill. The private laud-court bill. The postal-subsidy bill. The Indian depredations claim bill. The timber and pre-emption, law repeal bill. The customs administrative bill. A general land-forfeiture bill. The bill to relieve the supreme court by the establishment of intermediate circuit courts of appeal. The United States judges’ salaries bill. The World’s fair bill. The Wyoming apd Idaho admission ldli9* The auti. lottery aud anti-trust bills. The reapportionment bill. The immigration bill. The bill to ratify agreements with various Indian tribes, and to pay the friendly Sioux $100,000. To reduce the fees of pension agents. To pay the French spoliation claims. The meat-inspection bill. The bill to prevent the importation of adulterated food and drink. The live-cattle and hog-inspectioirblll. The bill appropriating $1,000,003 for the improvement of the Mississippi river. To permit sorghum sngar manufacturers to use alcohol without payment of tax. To limit to GO per cent, of the rates changed private parties the rates the laad-granf railroads shall charge for transportation of government troops and supplies. To authorize construction of a tunnel trader the waters of the bay of New' York. For tbo construction of a deep-water harbor on the coast of Texas. For the relief of settlers on the Northern Pacific railroad indemnity lands. To permit the export u# fermented liquors to a foreign country without the payment of a tax. To apply the proceeds of the sales of public lands and the receipts from certain landgrant railroads to the support of agricultural and industrial colleges. Joint resolution eon.. f tulating Brazil on the adoption of a repil form of government. ’ Bill to establish the Chiekainauga military park. Providing for town site entries in Oklahoma. Authorizing the use of the Louisville & Portland canal basin. To amend the inter-state commerce act so as to give the commissioners fuller powers in respect to making inquiries. Providing that applications to purchase forfeited railroad lands shall begin to run from the date of the restoration of the lunds to settlement and sale. For a military post at San Diego, Oak For an Alaskan census. . v To extend the time of payment for public lands in cases of failures of the crop. To issue 1,000 stand of arms to North and South Dakota, 'Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska.

io set asiuu *iits uig w w inw.j iu •»*« as a public park. For the inspection of tattle steamers ill order to secure more humane treatment of eattle. Providing that the life saving appliances aet shall not apply to the lakes and bays of the United States; To'enable the postmaster-general to ex pend $10,000 to test free-delivery system in smalt towns. To create the customs districts of North and South Dakota and Puget Sound, and for the erection, repair or enlargement of many public buildings heretofore noted. The Blair educational bill, the bill for the appointment of an alcoholic liquor commission and the ‘ ‘eighthours" claims bills are measures which were defeated on test votes; while among those which, after passing one house, failed of action .in the other, are the bankruptcy, bill, the Conger lard bill and the army reorganization bill. The Paddock pure food-bill* the Nicaragua canal bill, the Pacific railroad funding bill and the inter-state commerce bill (to permit limited pooling of earnings by railroad companies) fire among the measures which failed to reach a vote iu either house. The following are some of the senate bills which tailed to pass the house: To provide for the freo coinage of silver. Enlarging the rights of homesteaders and pre-emptors ou the public lands. Reviving the grade of lieutenant-general of the army. For a boarding vessel at Chicago. Forthe exploration and survey of the interior of Alaska: The following house hills failed to! pass the senate": To transfer the revenue marine service to the navy. To authorize t’le construction of a tunnel under the Detroit river at Detroit, Mich. For the relief of telegraph operators during the war. < Among the measures on which neither ( house acted (except in some cases by committees) were: The sub-treasury and farm mortgage bills. The service-pension hill. The Canadian reciprocity resolution. The bill to encourage the construction of an intercontinental railway. The postal-savings bank aud postal-tele-graph bills. TheButler bill to aid negroes to immigrate to Africa. Woman suffrage and prolsibi tion constitutional amendment. •The income-tax hilt and various other radical, financial and political measures. In the Fifty-first congress 14,083 bills were introduced in the house and 5,129 in the senate. In the Fiftieth congress 12,654 bills were introduced in the house and 4,000 in the senate. In the Fiftyfirst congress 297 joint resolutions (or twenty-eight more than the number introduced in the Fiftieth) were introduced in the house. In the senate 169 joint resolutions (twenty-four more than in the Fiftieth) were introduced. The bills that became laws duringthe congress just ended number 3,185. In the Fiftieth congress 1,824 bills were enacted. The number of hills, etc., introduced in tiie Fifty-first exceeded by 20 per cent, the number introduced in .the Fiftieth congress. v The following measures became laws throughout the congress without the president's signature: Act for the relief of the sureties of George W. HookAct giving the court of claims Jurisdiction of claims on account of property of the Chesapeake femaie college. Act for the relief of J. Hollis McBlalr. Aet authorizing the president to restore Tendore Teneyck to the army and place him on the retired list. Act for the relief of A. 8. McCreary, adminlstrator of J, M. Hyatt, deceased. Act to provide American registers for the steamers Montauk and Mineola. Ten private bills which had passed congress failed to become laws because of their failure to receive the president’s signaturecontests for seats held by democrats in the house were made by eighteen republicans. The elections committee decided seventeen of these—eleven in favor of republicans and six in favor of democrats. The house seated eight republicans in the place of sitting democrats, and declared the seat of one democrat vacant. The house adopted the report of the committee on every case presented. Tlie first or long session of the Fiftyfirst congress was slfto notable |pr the

lumber of important measures that betame lav s. Wyoming and Idaho wera idmitted to statehood, making* the mum* jer of states forty-four. A general and-grant forfeiture bill, providing for ;he forfeiture to the government of all mearned lands granted to aid in construction of railroads opposite portions >f roads uncompleted at the time of the massage of the law. opened new lands; to settlement. •• - . ■ . -.-'rfeS The prohibition of American meat from certain foreign markets brought ibout the passage of the law to provide for the inspection of meats intended for jxport. The, bills to prohibit the exportation of adulterated articles of food ind drink and to enable the president to prevent the importation of impure Mid adulterated articles of food and irink are worthy of special mention, while among the less important, bot^ generally interesting laws enacted were the following: « Providing for an additional assistant secretary of the navy and an assistant secretary of war. S Providing for the exportation of fermented liquor in bond Without payment of internal revenue tax. , Kxtending the criminal Jurisdiction of the federal courts to the great lakes. Increasing to $72 per month the pensions of those permanently disabled. Directing the superintendent of the census to collect statistics of farms and mortgaged indebtedness. > , I'or the promulgatidh by the president of regulations to prevent the spread of contagious diseases from one state to another. Granting certificates of discharge to those a lio enlisted under assumed names in the war of the rebellion. > To prevent the importation from one stu'.o into another of goods prohibited by the latter state, except in original packages. To prevent collisions at sea. To apply a portion of the proceeds of the sale of public lands to the endowment and support of agricultural colleges. f Transferring the weather bureau from the signal corps to the agricultural department. Providing for naval armament experiments with nickel ore and matte. Authorizing the postmaster-general to tost the free-delivery system in small townsr Frequent complaints concerning the inefficiency of our federal immigration laws brought about the enactment in the second session of a measure aimed to correct the alleged abuses. This bil l was prepared by a joint committee of the senate and house after a thorough investigation. It makes the contract . labor law more binding in some partic- ” ulars and less obnoxious in others, and extends and strengthens the law concerning the exclusion from the United States of improper persons from foreign , countries.

i ne enactment ol a measure to extend the jurisdiction of federal courts will undoubtedly relieve the pvercrowdecl docket of the United St^tej_5HBrenm court. The act provides^ circuit judges, who will i tion with justices of thef3 court, an intermediary ap court, in certain cases bet4 courts and the highest ju^ in the country. Another measure of im| became a law in the' secon the direct-tax bill, which ' refunding the amounts levied in certain states under the direct war tax of 1861. This bill became famous in the Fifityfirst congress through the lpng ana Weary deadlock in the house of representatives caused by the efforts to. pass it. It was disposed of quietly and without any great show of resistance in the congress just closed. Preserving Cigars. Cigars must be kept in a more or less moist atmosphere, else they will die out and crumble apart. Some years ago a genius who knew that fact invented a box so arranged that the atmosphere! within it could be fed with moisture from a wet slab of compressed sponge or blotting paper. To-day the best cigar stores in the city are built like these moistening boxes. Material for holding water is kept in frames, like panels, in the walls, and the air within the store-rooms is kept incessantly., moist.—N. Y. Sun. —During 1890 the total number of immigrants arriving in the United states from foreign countries was 491,MB, a gain over the preceding year of 55.000, or 15 per cent. The bulk of the increase was found in arrivals from three countries in central and southsrn Europe—Austria-Hungary, Poland, Italy—and, in fact, these three countries may be credited alone with supplying more than the entire increase noted, as their, total gain over 1889 was 59.000, or 4,000 more than the total, net gain. The arrivlas of British immigrants showed a heavy falling off. Herman arrivals gained slightly, and Russian immigrants were also more numerous than in 1889.—BiS^dstreet's. —Philip Seibert was married in Ohio, t the close of the war, to the girl who •aited for her soldier’s return. In 1868 tiey "were divorced, Seibert going to alifornia and she to Wisconsin, where lie married again. Seibert also marled in California. He was widowed a »w years ago and started back east . ith his son, and, by the merest accient, met his first Jove, and they were gain married, she having been a widow number of years, left with a mariageable daughter, with whom young eibert fell in love, and Christinas they rere married. The question now. rises as to how the two families are elated to each other. —The Abghaslans. a mountain tribe of incasia, follow the very primitive cus>m of stealing wives for themselves, a young man kidnaps a girl he likes ? makes her his wife whether she is rreeable to the match or not. This ves rise to frequent fights between ie families of the tribe, which never id without human sacrifices. But if ie kidnapped girl likes the man who us taken her, she acts as the Sabinian omen in ancient Rome did. When her imily declare war against her groom, ie rims to meet them and to appease lem, and if they don’t listen to her en■eaties she joins her husband in- fight gainst her own kin. The Pulaski county bridgeuiOMEVIr'— sioners reached a harmonious understanding the other day in the matter of the location of the free bridge to be built between Little Rock and Argenta. It will be built from the,foot of Main street in Little Rock to Argenta. There will be fixed spans, with walks on eagh side and provisions for electric cam ^ Work will begin April 7, and will pro- || ceed with all possible speed., Bishop , ‘ Fitzgerald, of the Catholic church, has donated terminal grounds in Argenta. u Plans will be forwarded to the secretary of war, and when approved work will be commenced. —“You have a head on you thismorning. haven’t you. dear?” inquired his wife kindly. “Gigantic, he groaned. "JmrontL, she echoed, and left him With it.~Washington Kewr«|. ; Ml