Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 March 1895 — Page 2

(Shtfifct ®<mntg genwttat M. Mol 8T00P8, Editor tad ProprUttv. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. ■ i .■. The Red Cross hospital at Che-Voo was reported, on the 1st, to be *r*ll to overflowing with sick and wot*. flided. Richard O’Gormah, the eminent Irish nationalist, scholar and orator, died at his home in New 'funk, city, oa the 1st, in the seventy-fifth year of hia age. Charles Morgan, one of the Aqnia creek tirain robbers, was found guilty at Stafford Courthouse, Va,, oa the 18th, and sentenced to eighteen yean in the penitentiary. Two New Yore detective sergeant! Were arrested, on the b7th, by Supt. JByrnes. oa bench warrants issued by Recorder Ctaff charging 'them with 'Compounding a fetamy. The taades unions-of ‘Shu Francisco, headed by the Typographical union, are wiring a boyoett Against tha Salvation Army because the War Cry office ia that city is a non«union office. The toss of life by thfo Inter-Ooeaarie railway disaster, 28 miles froaa the Me*.lean capital, was ascertained, on the 1st, to be sbcty-fiws killed, besides forty injured,'many dff them fatally. Prince Motterribh, son of the famous Austrian diplomat of that name, was found dead ' in d»is bed in Vienna, on the morning of tfce 1st. 3The cause of his death was apoplexy. He was 66; years old.

Postia*#R£R-G*3k:ral tendered hi»resignation to the president, on the STth, to take effect upon the appointment and * qualification of his successor. He will probably remain In ofhoe-cntil April 1. Jo ay °W. Show alter, nominated by the presidents«. the 25th, do be judge of the seventh judicial ‘district, is a resident of Chicago, and w about 50 years of age. He is acknowledged to be one of the ablest lawyers at the bar. It was repented in Rowe, on the 1st, that iteputy Antonio Cemantiini, director of the Morning Courier, 5who had been missing for » fortnight and was supposed to 5iave. been hilled by the anarchists, bed left Italytfor America. Iris said that Maj. Willis T. Seward, who is under sentence *of death in Honolulu for. conspiracy do overthrow the Hawaiian republic, has a large number of friends in Pennsylvania who are making.an effort to have the death sentence .commu ted. The German architect, Furm, has 'pronounced the most olaasic monuments in the pantheon at Athens to be in a most precarious .condition, and asks for a <fund of 1,000,000 drachmas ($200,000) *to cover the expense of Strengthening and patting them in . good order. Is a dud at Neuilly, France, on 'the 1st, M. Percher, a newspaper man, known also as Harry Alis, was run through the body, the sword of his opponent. Commander <Lechettelier of the marine force, penetrating his right lung. He sank to the ground and expired almost immediately., Tte United states -senate, on the 36th, by a decisive majority, voted for an amendment to the general deficescy bill restoring the full bounty on sugar up to August, 1894, and eighttenths of a cent per pound on sH sugars above 80 per cent, polariscope test produced np to June 30, 1895. The joint library committee of the -house and senate decided, on the 38th, by -a unanimous vote, to reject the statue of Gen. Grant which was presented some weeks ago to the government by the Grand Army of the Republic, because it is not a correct representation of its illustrious original. The Mexican war skip La Libertad, which left 'Vera Crux, about a month ago, to participate in the carnival festivities at Sew Orleans, and whieh was given up for lost, anchored 20 miles below the passes of the Mississippi riser, on the 27th, after a stormy voyage which is ordinarily made in three days.

C. Dwtnolly, an Osaka (Nek.) gmmUer, having confessed that he had 'paid $Lr«00 to a certain official for protection, Judge Scott demanded the name of the official. This Donnelly refused to give and Scott at once sentenced him to jail, declaring that he mould stay there forever unless he confessed. By an explosion in the mines of the Santa Fe Co., at White Ash, N. M., on the 17th, forty miners are reported to a have lost their Jives. Twenty-one dead bodies were taken out of the pit noon after the explosion, but the dense emoke rendered a thorough search for those known to have been still in the mine impossible. Charles Dkhbt, Jr., secretary of legation for the United States at Pekin. China, arrived in Evansville, Ind., on the 36th, and will be married, March 19, to Miss Martha Orr, daughter of James: L. Orr, who is the wealthiest man in this city. Mr. Dpnby will re- . tnrn to China with his bride immediately after his marriage. Th* commission of merchants appointed by Gov. McKinley of Ohio to investigate the condition of gainers in the Hocking Valley mining regions, reported on the 26th. They say that 2,500 families are destitute and in need of immediate relief. The report also says: “In the past year a variety of causes made the working time of these laborers extremely short, varying from forty-two days to two months in all. This has resulted in an average income to the miners of twentyaeven cents per day daring the year at 1694.

^UBRE^iT topics. *j^i£ SOTS IH BBIBF. / f r-IFTY-THTl?D COHQRESa [Second Seasloa.1 Ifithu senate, on the 25th. nearly hi* «t the KS prtr ted pages of the suodry civil hpnroBMir,ns bill were disposed of during the day l evening sessions. After lour hears' disPlon. tbe committee amendment *o acquire the government Mrs. Blaine's Interest in the Blaine property tn Lafayette square, slightly modified, wiw agreed te, as was, also, an amendment for the purchase of sites for public buildings at the capitals of Wyoming, North and Sooth Dakota. Idaho and Washington. the cost e< Btuno of them, ineluding buildings, to exceed 1120,000....... In tbe hods©, la spite of some filibustering against the provision in the general deficiency appropriation bill for an extra month's salary for all eanphxyesef the house, including clerks to members, the blttwaA passed, after the Breckinridge amendment to appropriate Kfi.h# to carryout the agreement between Secretary Gresham and Ambassador Pauneefote la tbe Behring sen award bad been defeated. The conference report en the post oflloe appropriation bill ms agreed to. Hi the senate, on the fifth, the rnadry civ# aporoprUiUon MP was farther considered, oniytwe amendments reported groin the committee on appropriations being •disposed at: One for SdO.OM <X> protect pnbUc tends from timber depredations!, and one for the payment of sugar bounties due under the McKinley act up to-Auirust. fdM, and eight-tenths of a cent per pound beauty on all sugars above * T>er eeilt polnriaeopo tent produced tip to June ». 1801 On net: on of Mr. Frye an amendment presriding a retired list for officers of the revenue cutter service was adopted-In the horse an arbitration biU Tor the settlement of or adjusts* disputes hetwemmommon carrier* and their employes was passed. Some other •ratters «f no general interest received attention. and tbe latter part df the session was demoted toculugies upon the late Representative Phllp XVft, of Illinois, after which the house adiounml lb the senate, on tbe fifth, after five hours spent ir debate on an amendment to the sundry civil approprlatlons'biU providing for an issue of $100,000,000 certificates of indebtedness bearing % per cent, interest to meet deficiencies in the treasury aad requiring future issues of bond# to be offered »• the public for at least tweak? days', the amendment was withdrawn and unanimous consent was given to have a tiaal'vote taken on the bill on the 28th at 3 p. m_.In the house 3onference report%$tn the foliuwing bills were agreed to: The pension appropriation biU. grrenting a pension of 150 per month to Gen Harrison C. Hobart; to equalize the duties and salaries of the steambout inspection service: and the post office appropriation bill, and the following bills were passed: Fifteen prirate.pension bills; granting an American register to the steamer Khuli; extending to January* 1,1887, the time within which certain forfeited railroad lands may be purchased. Ik the senate, cn t he 28th, the sundry civil appropriations hill was passed,all of the amendments agreed to in committee of the whole having been adopted. The legislative, executive and judicial bill was taken up, and consideration of oyer' two-thirds of it completed. Resolutions were agreed to allowing Joseph W. Ady *2.08) for contesting and Senator Martin (Ktis.) $1,000 for expenses Incurred in defending his seat..._In the house several yea and nay votes on different matters occupied the time of the day set apart for the consideration and disposition of measures relating to affairs of the District «t Columbia until after 4 o'clock, after which only one District of Columbia measure—a joint resolution authorizing .the erection of a statue o:t the late Prof. Samuel Gross, M. D., D. C. L., LLS D., of Philadelphia, with an amendment striking out the appropri

•turn—was pustocu ueiurc nujouruxuem. In the senate, on the 1st, the general fleflency bill being under consideration, the committee amendment appropriating tl.80P.589 to pay a judgmeatin favor of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co, tor government transportation after strong Opposition, and after amendment appropriating 1000,000 for the payment of about one-half of tee Judgments of the court of claims under the French spoliation act, was carried—38 to 91 The proposed amendment to appropriate $428,000 on account of the Behring sea arbitration award was voted down, and the bill was passed. Eulogies were pronounced upon Representatives Lisle, of Kentucky; Wright, of Pennsylvania; Post, of Illinois, and Houk, of Ohio.In the house the conference report on the fortifications appropriation hill was agreed to. and the sundry civil, the legislative, executive and Judicial and the general deficiency appropriation bills were sent to conference. Several bills -of minor Importance were passed. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The new American loan closed on the London stock exchange, on the 25th, at 4 11-16 premium. On the 26th, in r^ply to a resolution, the president sent to the senate copies of correspondence in regard to Somoan affairs. The correspondence is quite voluminous, and states that while no present renewal of hostilities is to be apprehended, the present peace can not long endure owing to. universal dissatisfaction. It also details a German scheme for securing a preponderance of population and % final protectorate. * , The city hall in Brooklyn was damaged by fire, on the 26th, to the amount of (40,000. The cupola, the white statue of “Justice” and the big bell in the tower were destroyed before the flames could be subdued. On the 26th one person was instantly killed and another so badly injured that he died after being admitted to the hospital by the explosion of an iron cylinder charged with carbonic acid gas, at the chemical laboratory of the Sniith-Kline-French Co., Philadelphia. A terrific explosion, which resulted in the death of one person and the injury of a number of others, wrecked several houses and shattered many windows within a radius of several blocks, occurred, tti the night of the 26th, in a two story frame structure at Nos. 27, 39 and 31 Johnson avenue, 'Brooklyn. The cause of the explosion

is a mystery. John R. Bolleb, the poet and anther, died at. his home in London,Conn., on the 26th. A special to the NeUr York World, dated Colon, February 25, said: “A conflict at Bluefields is reported here. The news is extreme ly vague, but it is said that a British vessel has disabled an American vessel. ’ Fibx in the large wholesale building at Washington avenue and Tenth street, St. Louis, on the night of the 26th, did $80,000 damage to the building and stocks of Friedman Bros. & Schafer, Glaser Bros, and the Loth Jeans Co. Arrangements axe being made to celebrate the one hundred and seventh birthday anniversary of Hannah Chard, the oldest woman in the state, at Glsesboro, N. J. She was born April 20, 1788, at Ferrell, near Glass boro. Five generations of her descendants will gather to do her honor. A bomb was exploded in a hall at Catania, Sicily, during the progress of a festival on the evening of the 25th. The explosion created a panic, but fortunately no one was seriously hurt.

The new American loan waa quoted on the London stock exchange, at noon of tile 27th. at 5hi premium. k posse of fire deputy marshals were sent from Muscogee* 1. T., to upprf* herfd the lluirhes gang of bandits that held up the Texas Pacific express in daylight, about six Week* ago, and got 2100,000. They trailed the outlaws all night, and on the morning of the 2?th( located them in an old house 9 mil'-s west of Checotah. Hhgh-i* was ahot by Naked Head, a fudl-blood Che rokee officer, who wu killed by the return fire. Two of the ba&diU we*.* arrested, the others escaping to ti\e woods. The United States steamer Minneapolis sailed from Ner,-port, R. L, on the 27th, to join Admiral Meade’s fleet in the West Indies. Firranx robbes* beld np the northbound Houston A Texas Central express at the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad crossing, at the edge of Dallas, Tex., at «7 o’clock on the eaeuing of the :17th. They took possession of the engine and run away with the baggage car and express, with the Wei Is-Fargo safes, said to contain a Large amount of money. Officers immediately went in pursuit. St. Joseph’s German Catholic church, in Johnstown, Pa., urhich stood

the brunt of the terrible flood of. May 81, 1889, was* destroyed *by fire on ’the 28th. The Colorado senate, on the 2Sth, passed a bill prohibiting capital punishment in ths*t«tste. The municipal council of Havre,’ France, resolved, on the 38th, to boat'd the steamer^La Gascogne immediately upon her arrival in that harbor and congratulate Capt Baudelon and hia staff officers upon having safely brought the ship into New York after her last perilous voyage westward. United States Treasurer Morgan, on the 38th, mailed ?,108 checks, aggregating $138,632.50, in payment of the interest on the funded loan of 1891 continued at 2 per cent. The rear wall of an old six-story malt house on the corner of Fortythird street and Tenth avenue, New York city, in course of demolition, fell, on the 1st, carrying with it and ^burying in its debris a dozen workmen. Three men were taken out dead, and two were believed to be dead in the ruins, while eight others were rescued alive, but more or less injured. Bx,a double accident on the Royal Blue 1 ine, Philadel ph ia & Reading railroad, at Bayonne,' N. J., on the 1st, two men were kil’ed and four injured. The accident to the express train was caused by a collision, a , few moments before, between the" parts of a broken coal train on another track, one of the coal cars being thrown directly in front of the rapidly-moving express. Bt the collapse of the interior of four tenement houses in course of construction in New York city, on the 1st, one man, who could not be found, was believed to have lost his life, and nine others were more or less seriously injured. The owner of the building and the two contractors, who were on the ground at the time, were all -arrested. The nomination of Hon. William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, to be postmaster general, vice Bisseil, was confirmed by the United State s senate-on the 1st. Mexican farmers in the vicinity oi Paso del Norte are complaining of a scarcity of water for irrigation and are begging the government of Mexico to present claims against the United States because almost all the abater of the Rio Grande is used by th# people of Colorado and New Mexico.

LATE -NEWS ITEMS. Ik the senate, on the 2d, the last session of the Fifty-third congress was begun, which continued, with several recesses, up to noon of the 4th, when the congress expired by limitation. The only really pressing business of the session remaining to be transacted was the passage of the naval appropriation bill and agreement with the house in the case of eight other appropriation bills. These, after various conferences and amendments, were all passed, together with some less important measures, and the senate adjourned sine die..In the house agreement with the senate on the various appropriation bills yet to be enacted was the principal business of the long session, though several other bills of minor importance were passed before final adjournment. Tobokxo, Oat., was visited by another great fire, early on the morning of the 3d, the third serious conflagration that has occurred in that city within two months. Some of the largest and finest stores in the place succumbed to 'the flames, causing losses the aggregate of which will figure up near $3,250,000. The officers of the United States cruiser Alert, who arrived at Guatemala, on the 2d, on a special train as guests of President Barrios, were royally entertained. They are under instructions to protect American interests in case of war between Guatemala

ana Mexico. The Wells-Fargo Express Co. has placed large burglar and fire-proof safes on their Houston & Texas Central route. The safes will be locked at terminal points and the combinations removed, thus making it impossible to enter them. The prospects that peace with Japan will be speedily concluded are said in Pekin-to be exceedingly good. Assuming that there will be no hitch in the preliminaries, the envoys will probably leave Tien-Tsin about the 10th. The Italian emigrant authorities have heavily fined two agents of steamship companies who sold tickets to emigrants who had previously been debarred from landing in the United States. The Spanish government has decided to send reinforcements to Cuba, consisting of eight battalions of infantry armed with Mansur rifles. The Grand Duke Alexis, second cousin of Emperor Nicolas II. of Russia, died at San Remo, Italy, on the 8<L He was 30 years of age.

INDIANA STATE NriWS> ^ 1 i ipimi inns P****1 W.C<h>gf<^V; ^.ohtbaing I bo tsubllshBMt •»« “*“r^a*«t % saloon within o«* BiUcot .em'honw; ppovlduag for per- !*■*. marks tm lauds belonging to the Wjatles: appropriating fSO* for fe statue of 'v*ot. Willard; prohibitingthe sale of horse or mule meat in the, state: requl ring the hiring of court reporters when either aide sales for one; requiring men enraging la partnerships to secure a certificate from the auditor ol' the state: establishing is state library hoard: i» regulate private detectives and spies, and to prevent padding ®t-school enumeration. The libel law asked for by the newspaper publishers of the state was atom passed. Hours—Bills passed: Giving the governor power to perform his constitutional duties ’of enforcing the tew. It is one of the Roby race track hills. Defining certn in legal holidays and restraining the sale of liquor on them. This was done to include Memorial day. McIntosh's bill relating to descents and estates was passed. It relates to cbiHUgss widows. The consideration of the KicholsoirfelU in committee of the whole was take n up. Section « providing a fine and imprisonment for minors found loitering about saloons was stricken out on the ground Mist the fault lies with the saloon keeper, and that section 7 provides a punishment for him. The committee then arose and the house adjourned. The chief fight will be on the local option section of the bill. Attor aey General ■Ketcham and the special bouse committee began the investigation Wednes lay evening into the fee and salary scandal of lfdl lathe matter of changing a bill and causing it to be declared unconstitutional. The announcement was made that George Bay. of Shelby, was thought to hsve induced young Georjre Nestor, one of the enrolling clerks from Warwick county, to mske the change. .T

Indian a pous. mo., reo. ■rriTsl At the CApitol of the procession attending the body of the late Minister Gray, both branches adjourned at 10: SQo'clock Thursday morning. In the house tha time, was taken up with advancing to engrossment bills on second reading. The anti-insurance compact bill, fathered by Moore. of Putnam, was amended so as to include all companies doing fire insurance in Indiana, as well as foreign companies. The anti-pass bill was also engrossed. A resolution of respect to Minister Gray's memory was adopted. Doth branches adjourned to meet again at 0 o’clock Friday. The members and all employes of the legislature then assembled in a double line in the nave of the state house, and with uncovered beads watched the funeral cortege pass to the rotunda, where the dais was awaiting the body of the distinguished dead. The caucus intended to be held Thursday night was postponed on account of the presence of the .body in the state house. The committee on ways and means Thursday night decided to recommend direct tax for the support of the states educational institutions instead of biennial appropriation. Indianapolis, Feb 23.—The house Friday morning passed the libel bill modeled after the Minnesota law, and indorsed by the editorial associations of both parties and by publishers generally. Ip was the bill introduced by Mr. Stutesman. of Peru, but the senate having passed a duplicate of It. the senate bill was substituted, so that the bill has now only to go to-the governor for his signature to become a law, to be operative under the governor’s proclamation. The chief provision of the hill is that the aggrieved party can only recover for actual damages sustained and established before the court. A bill was passed providing a superior court for Madison county: also a circuit court in the southwest corn#r of the state, to be composed of Pike and Dubois counties. This was done so as to make Vanderburg county a circut by itself. The hill makes three circuits out of two as at present. Bill *500, requires foreign insurance companies to file reports with the auditor of state, was also passed. Some excitement grew out of the report from the committee of the whole concerning the Nicholson temperance bill. The report was adopted, and an amendment made so as not to include the sale of cigars and tobacco among the prohibited articles that a saloon may selL Indianapolis. Feb 2A—Sknaw.—For lack of a constitutional majority the senate Monday morning failed to pass the bill giving Brown eounty the right to vote for a change of county seat froift Brownstown to Seymour. The vote stood 30 to 15. The senate Monday afternoon passed a bill appropriating 13,500 for the expenses of a commission to investigate the feasibility of a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Wabash river, incidentally draining the Kankakee. A strong fight was made against that section of the military bill wliich gives militiamen who kill or wound rioters when ordered to fire the right to be tried by a coartmartial, but the provisions were retained, and the bill was sent to engrossment House—Bills passed: Providing for the election of county superintendents of instruction in September instead of June, as under the present law; (it is expected thatGov. Matthews will veto this hill, but it will be passed over his veto;) providing for mutual farmers’ insurance companies and a dog law that requires the township assessor at the time he makes his visit to assess property to collect the tax on the dogs reported. The committee on insurance Monday reported adversely .upon' four insurance bills. The committee on elections killed most of the bill to amend the election laws, except that of Mr. Leedy. which seeks to regulate the party primary and bring it under some responsibility. The adverse report upon this was set aside on motion of Mr. Leedy, and the bill was ordered to he printed. Indianapolis, Feb 37.—Sxhatk—The senate Tuesday passed a corrupt practice act, modeled after the Ne'w York law. It also amended the coliability act so as to conform to the measure as it waspresented two years ago by the railroad employes. House—The house passed a ball authorizing the state printer to print the papers containing the original researches of the Indiana Academy of Science at a cost of not more than 3600 a year. This association includes' such men of ‘international repute as President Jordan. of Stanford university, and President Coulter, of the Northwestern university. The house passed the new house exemption bill, which gives mortgagors the right to exemption of H,N0, providing they list the names of the holders of the note- The committee on ways and means reported in favor of a 2H per cent, reduction in the tax rote. The Nicholson bill passed the house Tuesday morning by a vote of 75 to 20. This is a measure for the _ better enforcement of the liquor laws, and to regulate the issuance of licenses. The hill requires that magistrates trying • saloon-keeper for the second offense shall revoke his license. It prohibits winerooms by requiring that the bars shall be confined to <me room, and that the liquor shall not bo served in another. It permits a majority of the voters in a district to prevent the issuance of a license, but a remonstrance must be presented against each man applying. It has some provisions making it easier to secure a conviction.

Ct Brown, Srutal wife i mrderer. has been taken to Prison South, The gas well known at. the Thomas well, about three miles fzom Gas City, burst the regulator, The light could be seen for six miles, and the noise plainly heard for four mil's. J. W. Boyd, Terre Haute, has an ink stand made from the lowsr jaw of an Indian skulL A bill has been introduced in the Indiana senate to permit marriage be* tween whites and blacks. It is said that Prosecutor Williams secured a conviction in every case in the last term of the Gwen-county court. ' • Two of the youngest patients ever treated, at the Northern Hospital for Insane, Logansport, have been disr charged. They are George and Charles McKay, aged 9 and 13. They were afflicted with acute mania, resulting from typhoid fever.

THE LATE CONGRESS A Itantty «f Wk»t It Bid *'jd Did Nat Do-Thnc SmlOM Md TToelr ObjectsTht Kxtn Ses«io* ttatklr One that Acatapllihed thaVftKt Laid Out for It— Tha Prcatdaat tt>»a»fdljr Snubbed. %%■ Washington, March 4.—The three sessions of the fifty-third congress expiring at noon to-day were dominated by their controlling issues: The first by the silver question; the second by the tariff question, and the third by the financial question. On the ?th of August, 1S9:1, the congress convened in extraordinary session for the avowed purpose of repealing the compulsory silver-purchase provision of the law of 189a This was the silver session. Mr. W. L. Wilson, chairman of the committee on ways and means, prepared a bill in conformity to the recommendations of the president's message, and bn tie 2*th of August, 189$, this measure passed the house. , ' u ’ The senate in '.he meantime had been preparing, through the committee on finance, a sub-bill and on the 1st of November this senate substitute received the approval of both houses and became law by the approval of the president. This measure and the repeal of the remaining vestiges of the reconstruction and federal election laws closed the important work of the extra session.

Upon its meeting in regular session in December, 1803, congress entered upon the consideration of the revision of the tariff. As in the case of the silver question, but in a much more pronounced manner, the house “proposed” and the senate “disposed.** The Wilson bill, passed by the house February 1, 1994, was set aside for the Jones-Gorman compromise tar:lt bill, adopted by the Senate oa the 3d of July, 1894, after five months’ debate, and the house was given the blunt option o1 the “senate bill' or nothing.** It took the senate bill and sent it to the president on the 15th of August, 1S94. President Cleveland permitted the' bill to become a law without his approval, and in an informal manner communicated to individual members of congress his dissatisfaction at the inadequacy of the changes made in the tarifi sy stem. Supplemental to the passage of the tariff law the senate entered upon a profitless and inconclusive -investigation of rumors that senators had been improperly ihfluenced to vote for the sugar schedule and had speculated in stocks of the so-called “Sugar Trust company.” The third and last, or “financial” session of the fifty-third-congress has been especially marked by the refusal of both houses to put into legislative shape the recommendations of the president for the alleviation oi the stringent financial situation. The president in his annual message- ealled attention to the continual depletion of the gold reserve, and complained that though it was “perfectly and palpably plain that the only way, under, present conditions, by which this reserve when dangerously depleted can be replenished is through the issue and sale of the bonds of the government fos gold, congress has not only thus far declined tc authorize the issue of bonds best suited to such a purpose, but there seems a disposition in some quarters to deny both the necessity and power for the issue of the bonds at all.” The banking and currency commit tee of the house, with the approval of the administration, submitted a financial measure, which, among other provisions, materially modified the banking laws and repealed the restrictions on state bank circulation. This bill was defeated by six majority. It was followed by a second message from the president, received by both houses of congress December 28, in which the president said that whatever might have been the merits of thfl^original plan proposed by him he was “now convinced that its reception by the congress and our present advanced stage of financial perplexity necessitated additional or different legislation.” He at once recommended the passage of a law authorizing the issue of low interestbearing bonds to maintain the gold reserve. The banking and currency committee responded to this suggestion by offering, on the 1st of February, 1895, a bill to “authorize the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds to maintain a sufficient gold reserve and to redeem and retire United States notes.” After only two days debate this bill was also defeated by a major

ity of 27. On the next day the president informed congress that he had negotiated a conditional sale of over S62,000,000 of 4-per-cent, coin bonds to a syndicate largely representing foreign capitalists, haring no outer resource left, because of "the “omission thus fai on the part of the congress to bene dcially enlarge the powers of the see retary of the treasury in the premises.” This last message went to the ways and means committee, whose chairman, Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, seven days after its receipt, reported a resolution authorizing the issue oi 965.116,375 of gold 3-per-cent, bonds, as recommended by the president. The measure was called up on February 14 and defeated the same day by 47 ma

jority, after a stormy debate. These three financial measures with the general appropriation bills consumed the greater part of the session. Early in the-session the democratic caucus of the senate agreed that the following matters should be considered: A financial measure of some sort, details not designated; the bankruptcy bill; the bills for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona; the Nicaraguan canal bill, and the state-bank-tax repeal bill. Of all these measures the Nicaraguan canal bill alone passed the senate, after two months debate, and that only because the republicans utilized it as a buffer to keep off the bankruptcy bill. It was sidetracked, however, ffailed to receive consideration in the house

■ .—3 S, A FlRE-sfmCKEN CITY. Toront* Vl«tt«d by Another Destructive Ccntlacntiou -1*mm** Acsreffetiur <»wra Million—Some of the L*r*e*t and flnett Stores in the CUy Go Down Before the Sire-Meed's On ward Progress—Flames la a Steeple. Tdfcojrro, OnL, March S.—The third disastrous conflagration which has visited this fire-stricken city in less than? two months occurred yesterday morning. and the loss by the disaster ifefully as great as either of the previous two visitations. This time the fire started at 12:40 a. m. in the departmental store of Robert Simpson, on the southwest , corner of Yonjre and Queen streets. Simpson's building was an immense seven-story structure, completed only six months ago at a cost of $150,000. The fire started in the rear of thesouthern annex, and spread with such rapidity that wdtbiu half an bous the whole building was a mass of flames. A general alarm was turned in five minutes after the discovery of the fire, and the. whole brigade was on the scene before l o’clock, but their combined efforts to confine the fire to the: Simpson building proved futile. Meantime the fire had crossed Queen street, and the bigelothing store of Phillip Jamieson, on the northwest corner of Yonge street, was quickly dec'roved with its immense stock. The • adjoining dry goods house of Joteph.

Suteliff & Sons, immediately north and westiof Jamieson's, fronting Yonge street, with an annex running through to Queen street, was completely gutted and the stock is a total loss. Next, north, was George- McPherson’s boot and shoe store. This, too., was badly gntted: South of' Simpson's, on Yonge street, the large jewelry store of John Wanless, was. damaged considerably in the rear, but. the front portion escaped serious in* - jnry. Crossing Yonge street, the fire next attacked the Henderson block, on the northeast corner of Queen street, occupied by James Bonner, gentlemen's furnishing goods, and Mrs. M- E. Brisley, miliinery. both of whose stocks were completely ruined. The roof of C. 8. Adams & Co., house furnishings, next north, was burned through and * their valuable stock was much damaged by water. A change of the wind caused the* flames to leap across Queen street, and the Imperial hank, at the southeast corner of Yonge, street, was soon ablaze. The lower floor, occupied by the ^nperial as a branch, was flooded*, but escaped serious damage by fire. mThe remainder of the building, however, occupied by J. F. Urown & Co, as a furniture and carpet warehouse, was less fortunate, and their immense stock is a total loss, t The next Stores to the south, fronting on Yonge street and occupied by James Milne <& Co, hardware* and C. M. Henderson, auetioneer, were gntted. South of these were Dunfield. & Co, gentlemen’s furnishings, and the Tremont hotel, bothof which were, badly damaged. Creeping east to Victoria street, thefire found its way to the Knights of* Pythias hall, where its progress in this ■ direction was finally arrested. This hall was considerably damaged and the knights lost most of their furniture and regalia. Just as the fire was believed to be under control a cry went up from the crowd that the steeple of the Knox. Presbyterian chnreh, 300 feet high, on Queen street, was on fire. In vain did the firemen turn their most powerful streams upon the speck of fire. Theyoould not reach half way up, and before long the steeple was burned through and fell with a great crash. Down into the bell tower the fire ate its way, and at4 o'clock the great bell, whose deep, sonorous tones have rung out upon the air at 6 o’clock every morning in the year for more than half a century, fell tumbling down into the basement of the tower, where it lies* buried under » mass of debris. The falling of the tower enabled the firemen to reach the flames, and they - were quickly got under control, not,, however, until the church had sustained great damage from watey. The ascertained losses foot up 81,— 140.000, and the insurance 8530,000. * Several smaller losses of tenants and roomers will increase the loss to 81,200.000.

THREE.PERSONS INJURED By the Bursting; of s Steam Pipe on the* s Steamer B. 8. Kites. Madison, Ind., March 4.—Steamer B. S. Rhea, which left the wharf here at 9 o’clock yesterday morning’ for Cincinnati, burst her main steam pipe at. Locust, five miles above this city dangerously scalding' three colored rous— a bouts who were sent to the marinehospital at Cincinnati last night. Theinjured are: Ulie Land, Florence, Ind.,. head, hurt. •’ Frai^k Dillingham and Sherman: Riggs, Cincinnati, badly scalded on. hands and arms. The Charles MeDonald towed the; Rheoto Cincinnati. -—- > Goins to Search for the Lest Bicyclist*. New York, March 4.—William L.. Sachtleben, of Alton, 111., a bicyclist,, sailed Saturday on the steamer La Champagne for Europe. He is going* to try to find Frank G. Lenz, of Pitts— burgh, the bicyclist, who started two* years and a half ago to make a tour* around the world. * ’* A SMALLPOX SCARE Results in Shotgun Quarantines at Several! . „ .4.' Points. Bismarck, Ma, March 4.—The smallpox scare is spreading, and has seized, every hamlet along the line of the Iron Mountain railroad. At some points shotgun quarantines have been established, and passengers are not allowed to leave trains. The scare has extended throughout the region from, forty-five miles south of Malvern to> Bismarck, Ma, a distance of ltK> miles. It is said there were 200 cases of smallpox in Hot Springs Friday night.