Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 January 1892 — Page 1

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7 J. T. -r—> Physician and Surgeon, ■agfL’aartffga^1'**” w,“ B. Posmr. snm Q. Cturnu. POSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys PETERSBURG, I.VD. Wilt practice In all the court*. Special at tantlon given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. Krofflc - On first floor Bank Building. --«i— JE-A jfctT. 8. ti> JXtVKKI-ORr. Hess. ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYER, Petersburg, Ind. Km over J. B. Adams A Son's drug Prompt attention given to all buslS. r. BTChabdsos. A H. Txi Loa RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ink. - Prompt attention given to nil business. A .Hotary Publie constantly In the oflier. Office ■In Carpenter Building, KlgktU and Main. DKMT1STBT. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, l-KTKKSBUKG, IND. •OlHeo over J. B. Young's Stow, Main street ’ itOBm boors from » o'clock a. m. to 4 OJIoek p, in. W. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, , PETERSBURG, IND. V Office in rooms 6 and 7 in Carpenter Building. Operations flint-class. All work warranted. Anesthetic* used Ifor painless ex-traction-of teeth. $EO. B. ASHBY, ^attorney at • jjl . — '-4 ^ 4 '' 5 PETERSBURG, lit Prompt Attention Giren to tU Satinets. •STOffice over Barrett tt Son's store. L H-^jAMAR, Physician ard Surgeon i Pktebsburg, Ikd. Will practioe In Pike and adjoining counties. Office In Montgomery Building. Office hoars day and nlrlit , , irOtMnta of Women and Children eapadaily. Chronic and dlfflenlt oases solicited. “ •--I

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THIS PAPE* IS ON PIUB IN CNIMOO IRD HEW YORK AT TKJE OFFICES OF A. H. KILLOfifi NEWSPAPER CO. TKCSTKSS’ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. ■VJOTICE l« hereby given that I will attend IN to the duties ot the ofllee of trustee ot Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. , _ smsais&»*4 M. M. GOWKN, Trustee. N'ffiSU SBYRrM.Y.KSIE. In Slan.il. _j_j nM|ur To transact business connected with the office of trustee of CoekbArt township. All persons having buelnest with said offlee will pL.-tskenotlc. g B ABBKTT, Trustee XT OTIC* Is hereby given to el) parties eonJNeemsd th.^w|lWhence. To sttend to business connectedi with tb« offlee of Trustee <»f_Mgnrga_town»hlp. - GKORUE GRIN. Trustee.

ili 1%LD atIaSST or the DelQr Hew* .jdf* | 4 \ WASHINGTON KO» SbcbktAKT Bt.aine had auothei- ab tack of nausea at the cabinet BAeOUftt M 19th, but watt ftcwi all tight _ HAbBteOH'B . to the Chilian diffic_. mhsssjp:?' «,_that conciliatory dkt _ „ been received from Chili and Great Britain has offered td m* MsmbeBs of the house are 1« dined towtod war with Chili Sefcatdib l*effer and Kyle are also outspoken in opposition. . Secretary and Mrs. Blaine on the evening of the 80th gave a dinner 4e honor of the president and Mrs. Harrl- > .4 « T* ' *

RliPSKSBSTAtrVE Book* <}. MlIAS. Of Texas, has written a letter to Speaker Crisp resigning1 his position as chairman of the committee on Inter-State and foreign commerce, lie said he was willing to serve in the ranks bet did not desire a chairmanship. The 'Woman's Suffrage association met at Washington on tits 20th and elected the following officers for .the ensuing year: First honorary president, Mrs. Elisabeth Cady Stanton; second honorary president, Lucy Stone; active president, Miss Susan B. Anthony; vice-president at large. Rev, Anna Shaw; first auditor, Harriet T. Upton. Secretary Rubk has Issued a notice that splenetic orsonthern fever exists among cattle in nearly all of the territory lying sooth of and including North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas and the Indian territory and eetahliehing quarantine' after February 13. v-. ™ After hearing a delegation seating the Woman’s Suffrage a tion, the senate select committee on Saipan suffrage decided by a vote of 3 2 to report favorably to the senate -the proposed measure in favor of an amendment to the constitution giving the right of suffrage to women. The executive committee of the national association of democratic duke has decided to have the general committee meet when the national democratic convention doea Th* house ways and means committee have adopted a resolution calling on the secretary of the treasury to appear before it to famish information in reference to the fineness of the Country. Chairman Springer said that the information was desired in order that the oommittes might have knowledge of the goverment’s receipts and expenditures before taking action with reference ti the tariff. Justice Bradley, of the United States supreme court, who has been ill for some time past, was reported^ the 81st as sinking rapidly. He Was appointed to the supreme bench in 1870, For nearly three years iftffias been ill and has rarely been able to occupy his seat Chicago was selected as the place for the next democratic eonvention. _ Fifteen ballots were necessary to determine the remit Jane 31 was fixed as the date. V Associate Justice Bradley, of the United States supreme court, died *t Washington on the 22& He had been ill for some time and his death was not unexpected. , ? It was reported on the 3td that Chili had asked for six weeks’ more time In which to make up her mind. A Washihgtok special to the Chicago Inter-Oooan on the 33d said that an ultimatum had been sent to the Chilian government through Minister Egan. The dispatch was of a peremptory character. It directed Egan to demand an answer at once to its demand for an apology and reparation. The president’s message wilWbe sent to congress on the 33th. It wag thought by Washington officials thiitthe events of the next few hours would determine whether there would be war or not between Chili and the United 8tales teprtfc;

Philadelphia democratic conventions have elected delegates supposed to be for Cleveland. The anti-adminis-tration men, supposed to be far. Hill, bolted. A riot occurred at a Hungarian wedding at United, Pa., in which Stephen Logan! and Marco Loaso were mortal!/ wounded, the bride, Mrs. John Sowanki seriously hurt and a number of others slightly injured. Tan jury in the Senator Quay criminal libel proceeding against the Beaver, Fa., Star has found the paper’s editors guilty as eMfrged. ' ; Tke Pennsylvania democratic convention baa elected Mr. Wright chairman and W. F. Harrity national committeeman and set the convention for Harrisburg, April 90k Mrs. Sarah Hown, of woman’s bank notoriety, died recently at Boston, aged M. She wai penniless and her acquaintances of the Grand Army will have to pay her funeral expenses. The annual meeting of the . of ftvlV^nitnee* confined at New:Bi v oo the standard time w*s Instructed to Grave ehefrges of immorality are made against the Massachusetts Shaker colony- *: " '■ ‘ ‘ * The shhttal rCjpQrApf the New York chamber m Commerce contains the following1 Total foreign commerce of the port of New York for the calendar year 1899, *1,040,#67.4S5; for the flecal year IW1, MW», 892,684. as *36*• a ! agreement in regard to I KlwjSjMS bouue. of haw closed Iowa. Tam

li&^jp'gftsgses bad to forego ablation. Ice bad blocked the inlets at tbe vicious tribe The westerA'league of b»scb*U dubs was set on its feet in cMbprojon the Slst. The millenidtaplahhifctph™* was ment. It was annc the clerks in the hoi tires and stopped ■ Mi httWiiml nr sss lately, a on whisky «Af m theatfthtohis agarifra - u * address be d*elt especially On the evils of prohibition as at present adminlsby its to between wv all of ivhich is ■ i anarchists'case of Fielden and Schwab vs. thiSof Illinois was to come before the* United States BKknKSffiE|fe each side. Jahh » sallof aC ftdt Francisco, reports shameful #ira«ln the sonthem Pacific. Fob several hoore on the 81st Chicago suffered from a great water famine. Elevators ceased, fires Were banked, K The fve originated in the Columbia.Milling Cc, totally destroyed. The **& BowHng^fS of Broughton A AfEems laundry of Conger Bros. were ordered lowered to half-mast. 4 PQPBMlIlBBr tly in a surgical institute at Indianapolis, In& Nine bodies Were taken out from the] building andi several more were supposed to be among tbe debris Other patients were likely to die from exposure. Kaksas .Cot, Ma» has got the Knights of Pythias encampment, which will meet in that dty in August. > The latest account of the recent Are at the National Surgical Institute at Indianapolis, IntL, gave the number of patientaburnt as nineteen and about Hef£kb, who recently smashed the heads of Mrs. Goodley and her eon to a jelly, waa taken from the jail at Nevada. Mo., and hanged by a mob. at an excursion train near Blub' five trainmen

Tub Marylan Senator Gownai ballot foH&ftu Thb Lonafi) convention no« indorsed Presir ond term. TBS., .two hoi republicans in state sited a fall ticket and t HarrfsAnfar a seethemaelv • • OVSK » territory could not find in ' the coavidf syster ‘ Ubuhuai. taken lately to river against any pedoes are being and an electrieh casemates atbOtn found" {rosed *** * succeeded in controlling thk flames; but not uutfl she was so badly injured as to become helpless, nerTbrdther was ImdnttflpiK ^ \ United States Senator Charles Gibson, appointed by Got. Jacksot^of Maryland, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Wilson, wad elected on the 81st by tbe almost nnfanimous vote of tbe democratic party! Fibb tbe other night destroyed tb roundhouse, machine shops and can tents of the New Orleans & Sonthen

GKNERAX. ' Th* winter wheat situation in the ■rest growing states is reported only lair. Kansas Is in probably the wont shape. A Sr. PwrMMBURO dispatch of the 19th said there had been fighting at Kallaedish, arising from a revolt fomented by Persian priests on the tobacco question, and that reinforcements were needed from Teheran to enppress the trouble, .the local troops having teen defeated by the insurgent. In tills engagement it ie said that eighty soldiers end ted rebels ware hilled. iof >11 Budiwi and ea-Promier a hot passage of words her of deputies reeently. The Chilian sttoatMt assumed * doeldndlT more oaciflc : .form oo the aotK, Commander Evans, of the Yorktown, cabled that he would take the i to Peru at * Commanded ?va»* at Valparaiso

Ok* hundred and sixty prisoners in a fort at Bio Janeiro mutinied and earn tawed two forts. Troops and war *hij» attsekM the forte and soon Wptured Mexico has imposed an export toxod all high grade ore shipped to this coti* try. This Is in retaliation for th3 United States lead Ore duty. The moat destructive sfaprtn experienced at Hong.Kong in years occurred the night ✓December A Chinese crafts suffered severely. It fa believed 800 vessels including a Chinese junk with a large number of people, and the Norwegian baric Aaron, foundered or were driven ashore and wrecked. A number of large vessels were damaged by colliding. The loss of lives and the monetary value of the wrecked vessels has not been determined. The steamer City of Dundee, which has arrived at Liverpool from Norfolk? reported that on Jshbafy 11, Ifi latitude 44 north, longitude 43, she sighted what was apparently a large steamer burn* ing fiercely. She searched in every direction, hoping to find some of the people, but found none. Th* Lisbon cabinet having decided that it is necessary to redoes the salaries of public functionaries, the king informed the premier that the king and his family desired that the measure be first applied to them. Anarchists in the province of Malaga, Spain, threaten several towns. Troops are on dnty. —»— - -» — m r"_ -Ai— _ i wl

Brompton, Eng>, an the 81st was *V tended by » vast crowd, composed largely of workingmen. HmtiRti bee resumed its malign sway in Europe. It is especially virtp lent in Baris. Minister Const ans has declined M. Lsner’s challenge to a duel as the result of the blow in the French chamber of deputies on the ground that Lauer waited itoo long. A cable from Valparaiso reports President Montt, of Chili, confident that there will be no war with the United States. A late telegram from Buenos Ayres said that the troubles between the governor of Mondosa and the legislature had resulted in a serious outbreak. Many persons had been killed or wounded. The national government has sent"a commission with full powefs to restore order. -w* -v**, The next meeting oMgw national editorial association -"has been set for San J£r*nclsc<\ May Id Thebe were 1,000 cases of influensa In the city Of Puebla, Mex, on the 81st and nearly half the police force of that place were suffering from it. The tribal revolt in the vicinity of Tangier, Morocco, has subsided owing to the receipt of newt by the rebels that the objectionable officer had been removed by the sultan. The whole of the Rio Grande frontier was covered with snow on the 81st the first ever knovfn. The suffering among the poorer classes of Mexicansand the United Slates troops had been intense. At TiBIs, the capital of Georgia, in Russian trans-Csncaaia, two trails loaded with petroleum collided white running atnhigh rate of speed. The engines and am* were badly wrecked and the fires beneath the boilers and in the stoVes used for heating some of the ears ignited the oil uad soon both trains were a mass of flames. So quickly did the fire spread that at leaat six men lost their lives The Bank of England reduced its rate of discount on the 81st from 8# per cent to 8 per cent The Russian government is doing everything possible to relieve starving people. Some horrible reports are made. Dun A Ca’s weekly review reports trade as unusually bright tills week. The situation was excellent in every direction. It was lately reported that a plan for the reorganisation of the whisky trust was being considered. It was proposed to unite the distillers not in the whisky ■-bndftocfis of a capitalisation of and then unite’'■With that the eight distilleries now by the trust, making a grand joint' ateek company, part American m>d part Engiish, with a capitalisation of 875,000.000 or 8100,000.000 with lute monopoly of the mandfi spiritous liquors,_ Discovery has been licit whisky distillery in me eousnwi era. part of Natiok, Maas., which rivals those of the moonshiners In the south. The distillery, giving erapln several men, is located in a -everythin

The democrats of Indians will hold their state convention on April it A usb blown from a tree killed ibner Evans, near Hartford City. Jos. Knott, pioneer and very weal thy, lied the other day at North Mitchell, of the (Trip, Paul Kettnkb was gored to death by s hull, near Rushvilla Miss Altha Wilson, o( Bill borough, committed suicide by taking carbolic Marshal Applesatk, of Jeffersonville, is determined that boys indulging in ‘‘crap shooting” shall be ptlfiChakles Pence, the C., W. A M. brakeman, who bad his arm and shonller badly crashed several days ago, at Columbus, died from blood poisoning. Holly Austin, two miles north of Madison, captured a female bald eagle measuring seven feet eight inches from tip to tip He first shot the bird. Ah air-brake has been invented by Prank Thalmiller, an Air-lineengineer, at New Alt any, by which nay. number of ears cad be hem under the edajr ihd feady control of the engineer. Dan Kirtley, of Tipton, broke and ■wallowed forty eggs in eight minutes. Natural gas exploded in the cellar of W. H. WithofTs Indianapolis saloon. The cellar walla were demolished. Wj*. Coni.ey was give* five years in the pen, at Washington, for assaulting Mias (Sara Whittmcyer, an evangelist. * Coal has been discovered near Goshen. Eugene Nichols was found dead in s ditch at Goshen. Bees deposited 936,078 pounds of honey in Indiana las^year. _ ; The Madison Hebrew congfegatloa, Adath Israel, received a letter from 6s* President Cleveland inclosing a,donation of $10 toywflfn repairing their synagogue. Arthur Orr, of Chicago, sent $50i Prof. D. Ecklky Hunter, of Bloomington, died suddenly the other morning, at the age of fifty-eight Mr. Hunter was.well known, not only in BloomihgtoH End Monroe county, hdt throdghout the state as a prominent educator. A NATURAL-GAS explosion occurred four miles east of Tipton the other evening, which will probably result in the death of Sherman Hobbs, son of County Commissioner Hobbs. A new well had just been hooked on, and young Hobbs was disconnecting a pipe when the explosion oe^rred, burning him so badly that his ti£th is expected. AY Portland, Boston VaH, while carelessly handling a revolver, accidentally shot hoy Adams in ' the arm, the hall glancing and striking Charles Walts in the hip Waits’s injury is quit* serious • * George Kirby of Royerton, a few miles north of Muncie, returned home the other evening from Jackson county, where he was taken a few days since, charged with the Marsh murder, committed at Seymour, New Year's evp Kirby says before leaving Brownsbnrr, through his attorneys, H. Sherley, Branaman and Harrell, of Brownsburg, and Ool. Hardy, of Washington, he instituted suit for *10,000 damages against Frank McGovern, the Seymour livery man, who arrested and Imprisoned him.

At Paris, Dr. Bussell, aged eighty* two, and wife, aged thirty-six, were both buried in the" same grave at the same time. They died within four hours of each other. Dr. Russell. was a well known and successful practicing physician of that place, and Mrs. Bussell was Ids second wife. Tax town Of Adams waa visited by a destructive fire the other morning, and the principal business part of the town waa consumed. Loss about $30,000. By the explosion of natural gas la a boarding-house at Anderson, five persons were injured, one fatally. Thu river is frozen over at Vincennes, the first time in several years. Jesse Jacobs, who killed his ' Ellsworth, will be tried at Tip Michael Ebskin,„101, the < in Boone county, died ft The , At Mancie, the seven-yest-pld - ter of Robert Swarengab, wfs burned to death by her clothing catching fire. Natural gas is giving out at Shelbyville. Elwooo is sighing for an operahouse Seventy-nv* indictments were found David ton. celebr anniversary. Street want Twelve organized a lexis the first time L J. R. Logan white attempt Cass Junction, David Kraes eently guardian was U Rabbits this .ttxas the fifteen-year-old beneath the dethe Columbia mine.

a* BtflMhti Through K. G. Dan * tv# Kfmwj «•- vlew-IndastrtM Wall Employed and «*• Crap Movement StUl Uarge-Tfce Markets Undisturbed by Speeulatlon^asiaest Failure#,' lie. New York, Jan, 23.—ft. G. Dun * Ca’a weekly review of trade says: No news at this season is good now*. Opening of goods and preparation for a year of active trade fill the time, and It is yet too early to report material change in the distribution. Industries are remarkably well employed for the season, and the movement of crops is still huge, and reports from every part of tho country express even greater confidence than before to the prospects for trade, while to some lines definite, though gradual improvement is already seen. Humors of coming war hate moved the stock market to some extent during the past week, but had not substance enough to affect money markets or trade to the least. The heavy buytog of coal stocks of late leads to the to** settlements beneficial to one important industry will soon be effected. TBe ifirf; kets for staple products have been undisturbed by speculation, which D held in check by the enormous supplies. Wheat advanced 1M cents, and receipts at the west have been lighter owing to severe weather, hut exports continue large. Corn is coming forward very freely and has declined 1% cents, and exports for the week will probably be very heavy, -quarter cent lower, hot pork a shade stronger. Oil has f a cent and coffee advanced a quarter. In other markets important changes in prices are noticed. Reports from idicate some real increase in trade other citiea Confidence to tfi® : sales ire sfe&i goods, 'toe northwest leading to Larget Orders are,reported for hails and general improvement id hardware, and better osS Sera tor iron have caused additional finances tS begin blast In wool there are few transactions, and plate and jewelry are quiet Cincinnati repeats general, business opening briskly. At Cleveland rolled iron is in active demand and some advance is seen in on with large sales: Lake freights an contracted for at some ad: vance over last year. At Detroit country orders are more free and same manufacturers working overtime. At Chicago general trade is larger than a year ago, and collections easier; an increase of a third is sera to flour and com rocdfcts, but receipts of wheat and lard are doublet of rye three times and of dressed beat tonr times last year's, while decrease is noted only to oats, barley and cured meats. At Milwaukee cpU weather had a good effect the demand fortnoney to the lumber ■live stock trades is active. At MinneapoBa extreme cold ceases a alight decrease to trade, bat Hour ie indemand, the output being 173,000 barrels, against 115,000 last year, for the week. At St. Paul prospects of trade an excellent and money easy, and at Omaha Very easy, with trade improving. At St, Louis •MO** ■' snow storms since January 1 have interfered with the retail trade, but wholesale dealers find no complaint, collections are fairly prompt, and settlements of trifight rates are expected to restore the trade with Mexico. At Denver business is very gooaror the season. At GalvWtou extreme cold retards business and losses of cattle on the ranges Sib heavy. At ReW Orleans lighter cotton receipts help the price and encourage business; sugar is active and strong, an! a better feeling prevails though trade as yet improves but Uttle. At Charleston some improvement is seen, though large supplies of cotton are still on hand. The output of statement amounted to 331.875,9#! gold and $30,04,000 silver, U3J(1,583 copper, and $111,385,780 lead. The Mexican output of silver was $43,Asnoul reports of many "I her industries show that the production in 18U has rarely If ever been equaled, and the new year begins with no prospect of decrease to any Industry. : Even the wool manufacturers appears to have used more wool last year than in any previous year, imports having been the largest on record. In woolens there is a considerable return demand tor spring goods and the opening of Many styles Of men's Wear tor the following season is met thus far by good orders. An excellent business is done by jobbers in cotton goods, which in the medium and cheaper grades IS unprecedented, while knit goods are fairly

England 1 3% to 8 per. cent, shows the «»•' avails la foreign money markets. Actual Idas* are made to London at threo(northsof!a*cent on caU. and here have declined from 2>s to 2 per cent. The treasury hxs paid ont SflXNDOamore than it has takes to during the week, and deports from all monetary cenround with fair to* good collections. Merchandise exports from New York to throe weeks have been 43.8 per cent, greater to value than ter the dime weeks last year, while to imports there has been a slight decrease. The enormous excess of exports, still continuing, leads many to believe that more gold must soon bo imported, but foreign exchange baa risen half a cent during the week, notwithstanding reports of purchasing by London to the stock The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days, number for the United States, *T4, and for Canada 54, or a total of 08; as compared with 880 last week and 435 the week previous to the last. For the corresponding week of last yeai the figures were 411, representing 380 failures ii the United States, and« to the Dominion of Canada. E WORLD’S FAIR. the Japanese World’s Fair Issloners tn Saa Franetop*. Ebanmsco, Jan. 83.—The Wood’s fair commissioners appointed by the Japanese government, Y, Yunmbo and S. Togima, of Tokio, have arrived here, and will reave for Chicago in a few days to secure space for the erection of their national buildlnjftn Jackson park. The commissioners say: ... "At the last session of gap parHamenti630,000 yea, equal to 8SoJToOO, was appropriated for an exhibit at the^olumbiijn exposition. Of thisthnount about S&00.000 will be applied to ’the' erection of building*. The plan 1b not yet prepared, but the structure will be built of the style of 1,000 years ago. The interior will be devoted to a collection of Japanese fine arts and curiosities, representing three different epochs in our history, one 900 years ago, the second 400 years ago, and the third showing features of the last half century. Each periods marfcfl a different dynasty, and the display will he a sortoi historical panorama. A baxar will also be provided for general exhibits. A great deal of interest ip the World’s fair is manifested in Japan. In the exhibits special features will be made of different kinds of silk and mil Bities of tea. The fine arts will also Ewell provided for.

> of i,Dwr. __ _ §8.—£>lv«r John B. r had a terrible experience at the esterday forenoon which almost Ihim his life. He went down la the at the crib 80 feet below the sur- > clear away anchor ice that was ng the port-holes leading to tbs tunnel, the current drew him he port-hole and there he rel forty ininutea head down, with men vainly palling on the iife ' ‘ waist. Telephone t the pumping stai the tunnel to > diver was rescued. *gi> ,t about that i la

Fort Scott* Kas. gram was retired Mo.* soon after she “Watch for two rough appea:arc«\ one sons than the other. They robbing PaciSe e morning. Am eity on a freight immtkSl U B. McLemoi man,, who has bet'S (mdnty sv *ne w depot* ss w two saea get off of the flor bound freight train which arrived het« at T o’clock tbli taOfhiilg. halted the men. one of whom shot him dead, and both the strangers tkeil lied. In a few minutes after the shooting two men were aeon to get Into a box car on the outgoing north bound freight, and Deteewrea Capt Chester and J. B. Map** started on a passenger train in porSttf add ofdffoafa them at Miami station, fire mites south Of Pleasanton, Km. The' sstureteiers scspicioaed they word followed, and afttiilpted to escape from the car, but the ofBoefa eoMtpelod them to stay hi the CftrV A desperate battle ensued. After fighting for nearly an hour, a ball from a wiiifcfoater ended the career of one, and another .mtoKdjf iftnmm the other, so that he. surrendered. The wounded man proved to be Charles Myers, of 850 Reynolds street, Kansas City,Kan The name of the dead one was James Francis of the same place, both being known as gamblers. THE WELCOME OF COLUMBUS.

An Iatmiinf; Incident of His Kwowry of the Wnttni World which the Artist Htuntsuit will Depict oa Canvas. WA8HIKOTOK, Jan. 35.—Mr. W. E. Cnrtls, director o' tbs bureau of American republics and chief of the I.&tinAmericiiri depnrttecrtt of tbs World*# Columbian exposition, delivered an »d* dreSsSatardsy night before the Pinto clnb, Senator Palmer is president, on “The Family of Columbus.* Pro* ♦iofls to the address proper, ?Xr. Curtis related sUteteresting incident. He said that as a woman (Isabella) had sent him from the <rid world; so a woman gave, him his first view of tike new. This Woman had never received any honor or notice in history, art or sontff but in the future that would not be the case. She was the wife of .a, fisherman. It was the Custom on the island, near which Columbae landed, for the women, mostly wives of fishermen, to go down to the beach when their husbands were out after dark, «ynd waving torches, guide them sate i6’ shore. On the night of the day before land was seen, Columbus, paring the deck of the Santa Maria, sew a light ahead. It was not fixed, like that of a star; it moved as if waving dirfectloir -to some unseen one, snd the. great discoverer knew ns he never known before that his patient search and uef altering trust Were to be rewarded. Mr. Albert Bierstadt, the great artist, is now patting on canvas fc representation of that scene which will illustrate to future generations the wel- , come ot ticMumbus to. the new land fey the wife of ;a fisherman. . '*fiElGSrWfi_U. Intereetmx RClis left by the OeeeewMt Officer to Enrfrh the National Matwa WASHJNO'fON, Jan 33.—The will of Gen. M- Cc hioigs has been filed | for probate. H is dated July 8,1385; II? leaves to the United States, to be deposited is the National museum, the following jewelry, plate, coin and medals of historical interest: A seal ring with intaglio portrait of Julius CteSer; an antique stone; a large signet of bronze with stone engraved in intag] i« antique of Chiron and Achillea of .Eneas. cabinet and collection <»I coins anti medals, some of them antique, including Alexander the Great, Philip of .Macedonia, JuUtts Owner, Augustus and other Homan and Greek heads, and Napoleon, Washington and other medals: a silver tureen or vaga, given by the citizens of Baltimore to Commodore John Rodgers after his defense of Baltimore from the attack ot the British fleet, snd s silver tea keltic »ujl lamp, presented to Gen. Meigs by the city of Washington on the occasion of his project and report on which Waf hiagton aqueduct wna built. His library, psiwaal property and real estate is left to bfs children., '

J.W9 London. Jan 35.—A prominent medical jowsai declares that iafinenea ie beyond doubt infeciiooa.avffln So its first Btage. Tbo period of incubation of |he disease gnm in hifluenaa i» only a third of that of tie germ of small-pox, measles or typhoid fever. The writei enjoins the isolation, sc far as praeticabio, of sufferers, aad the ttlainfeetlun of rooms end furniture exposed to th« infection. Great stress is laid openfhe need of war® woolen clothing, wholesome asrdeasfi?-assimilated food, avoidance of exposure, fti»ttaea«e from »l eoUoJle drinks and care for thj system. The dtetoc'* advice is to never attempt to fight the diseafe, bot to give up sad go to Bursicgf ?t sway. Sas Kbasowsv daa 84.— Expert ntentc. are belay made arthn PresMtet military rcs;;rvaikir with terrosite, tbs new explWi-f a Four shells filled wiil the liquid, pMCmbUag rod ink were used The shells, which wen of the cia fe'ftir«ed parrot fdtttt with a fuse at tlw^head, ware supplSewith s%«totoast»r. alto the potent of thi inventor »< the explosive. (Mtettii havoc was made with the eppesto* blaff, three-cf the four shslla a mark ).’m ya» ds distant A numbe rtf tftiikkrv otTW-rst the t»sst* UlUrtml • ?( i ww-v'. *»»»» »»/***•*'

at < Francise* to i posted smooth* < more' fa the city arrived /roffl Dm ’ and to visiting at brother, Mr. John T. of the Kational clmettte1 #OTnm having been traveling' several clays, be had i at all ti mes, keep pc patches from Washington. As to the testimony int ing the six days’ session of which, by the way, i "«M a most labo requiring work both six data” it entirely some partisan ing to make appear, then of the Baltimore in tb« least dfSorderly ' “The testimony,' Bemy, “shows con attack upon the men of was a premeditated a: breaks, in different parts of 1 one and the . same time, and i race with warning received c day by the men. The h drtiflfc—they were afraid 1 cause they knew they most wits about them in the f ened attack—many oi? being cautioned against donned c harmed only those in the uniform of lean manof-wirsmen who lested, showing tnefeby tack was made Because their nationality.** affair. Tiu Feeling ■ Western Co«»tSan Francisco, Jan. 3S,-'l pcct of war with Chili to the 1 jeet of discussion here on the report of the hit Santiago. The government everything possible here to for trouble. Orders have be to the Santa Crus Powder Co. large attxmnt of powder, and a 1 tra force of workmen go to to-day. Capt. Caldwell, of steam collier Sin Bel now awaiting the hove orders at this port He baa i of the best Cardiff steam i Last Thursday, while) load, ho reoeived orders from eminent agents to suspend and be ready to sail at short notioe. is thought the government is amf to get this superior coal for the 1 War in Gillian waters.

AK Offer OB the l'art of Great 1 to Aet U Mediator. Vau*abai8o, Jan. 5$.—The" pondent of the United Press ie i that Minister Kennedy, Great Britain at Santiago, has receiv definite instructions from his govern^ meat to make an offer $0 the gover ment of Chili to act as mediator ’tween that country and the Unit States for the purpose of preven a war. She Chilian foreign minist Ser.or Pereira, has informed Min ter Egan that the message I fro United States government, received on Saturdajn and whlfeh is regarded as an 1 ultimatum, will be answered on Mon- } day. Nothing is suggested as. to the j tenor of the answer. Both the €hiltans\ and the foreign residents In VaJpatjia® t and Santiago are greatly excftedW»erJ, the situs,torn, but no demonstrations of violence is reportndT Minister K**n. Nkw York, Jan. 84,—Tfie LongfiMp'" men’s association has adopted a resold-"1 tion expressing indignation at the pubiication in the New York Wori* January 10, of a cartoon ftpresentltif Uncle Sam grabbing Patrick Egan, tte»l ^minister to Chili, and John Bull iook:ng on with apparent pleasure, and deouocing' what they term "The World’s course insult and disgraceful conduct of that and other papers in their tra- * American, unpatriotic and anti-Irish Hacks upon Mr. Egan.** resolutions are preceded by a ble setting forth that the World ..^ grossly insulted the Irish race by the publication of the cartoon, and that the suggestion is evidently prompted by hatred of Mr. Egan's nationality' and a desire to bring discredit on him because of his Work in toe Irish na tional movement.

' ____ 0*H Ul. Ofimt Kseltement to Sant (VMM CIMmatum. Santiago me Chele, Jan. ».—There , is great excitement in this city over a report shat an ultimatum has been ceived from the United States ing that the eontrorersy over the rage perpetrated on the members the crew ol the Baltimore he adjusted without further delay. If- j the ultimatum is couched i esfc possible terms, and I reparation and an the Uni ted States matte relations