Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 June 1895 — Page 2

■. MMX CTOOPB, Editor aid Proprietor. FETSBSBPRO. « • » INDIANA. The Iowa State Prohibition conventlo 1 met, on the 10th, at Des Moines, about 800 delegates being present. The nineteenth annual council of the National British Women’s Temperance association began in the city of Lon* don on the 17th. ' Fob the first time since the opera* tion was performed the physicians at* tending Got. Atkinson of Georgia held out hope, on the 20th, of his recovery. Ai.x. the miners in the Sunday Creek ▼alley, in Ohio, went on strike, on the' 20th, on account of the discharge of two men by the Phoenix Coal Co. for loading dirty coal. The formal opening of the Baltic and North Sea canal took place on the 20th. The ceremonies were grandly imposing andi were witnessed by great multitudes of people. Ok the return of the new ocean line* St. Louis to New York she will be laid off for a trip, at the request of the Messrs. Cramp, while certain changes sure made in her funnels.

Six of the alleged pay-roll “stufTjrs’* in the waterpipe extension and street departments of Chicago, were arrested, on the *19th, on warrants issued at an early hour by Judge Burke, of the circuit court Failures i n the United States during the week ended the 21st as reported by R G. Dun & Co., were 228, against 214 for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were 31, against 25 last year. Gov. Altgelp of Illinois issued a call, c>n the 18th, for an extra session » of the legislature, to convene on the ■v 25th, at12 o’clock p. m.. for the consideration of a large number of matters specified in the call. The National Malleable Casting's Co. and the Eberhard Manufacturing Co., df Cleveland. 0., posted notices, on the 17th, a 10 per cent, increase in wages. Two thousand workmen participate in the benefits of the raise. The supreme court of Kansas, on the 19th, rendered its decision in the state penitentiary warden case, confirming the removal of Chase, and giving possession of the prison to J. B. Lynch, the recent appointee of Gov. Morrill. Mrs. Mart Brown, a monogamian pensioner, died, on the 16th, at her home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in 1804. Her husband died fifty-one years ago. Editor Dunbar of the Phoenix (Aria.) Gazette was found guilty, on the 20th, of criminal libel, the plaintiffs being Gov. Hughes, C. M. Bruce, secretary of state of Arizona; Francis J. Heney ex-attorney-general, and United States Marshal W. J. Meade. M. T. Ward, a Chicago ex-police officer, was arrested, on the 20th, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the city in the Patrick Liddy case. Liddy was detected attempting to draw' another man’s pay, and was falsely identified, it is said, by Ward.

Ox the 18th the treasury (fold re- *. serve was within $300,000 of the $100.000,000 mark. This result was at- ' taioed by the agreement with the Bel-mont-Morgan syndicate, by which the treasury had already received $58,000,000 in gold, leaving $7,000,000 still due from the syndicate. Secretary Hoke Smith, on the 18th, affirmed the decision of the commissioner of the general land office, which dismisses the appeal of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. and insures to a number of settlers their rights of homestead entries to lands in the Missoula (Mont.) district. The opposition leaders of the British house of commons decided, on the 20th, to move a resolution setting forth that the house has no confidence in the ministry. It was stated that Mr. Chamberlain had framed a resolution asking her majesty to dismiss the present ministers and dissolve parliament. The supreme court of Iowa, Judge Deemer absent, the other judges being equally divided, refused, on the 19th, to grant a writ of supercedeas in in the case of she State vs. Pressman, decided in the district court adversely to the legality of saloons in Des Moines, and all the saloons were immediately closed. The jury in tjve case of Capt. H. W. Howgate, the ex-signal officer, returned a verdict, *>n the 21st, of guilty on each indictment, with a recommendation to mercy. One indictment charged Howgate with forgery and the other with a falsification of his accounts. Under the verdict he may be sentenced for from two to twenty years. Judge Jexks filed a ruling in the United States court at Milwaukee, on the 18tli, denying the petition of the receivers of the Northern Pacific for permission t^ pay a certain judgment against the road prior to the appointment of a receiver, by one O’Brien, for $6,000. This ruling is of importance because it bars out all such judg meats. , The three days meeting of the National League of Republican Clubs at Cleveland, O., closed on the 21st, without making any official declaration on the subjects of the tariff or the free coinage of silver, both of which, together with all other questions of party principles, were referred to the national republican convention, to be held next year, for promulgation.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS DU BREST. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A terrific storm struck Kenwood, la., on the nth. The house of John Bose was demolished, and Mrs. Rose died from injuries received. Mr. Rose had a shoulder dislocated. Their baby was carried some distance from the house, but was found wrapped in a quilt unharmed. President Cleveland arrived at Bumrd’s Ray, Mass., on board the yacht Oneida at 5:35 o'clock on the morning1 of the 18th.

Four men attempted to roo the exchange national bank of Colorado Springs, Col.., on the 19th. One of their number had, however, weakened and given the authorities a tip, and when the robbers entered the bank they found themselves looking into the revolvers of the sheriff and his deputies who were waiting for them. All were arrested. Count Emeu Kilmannsego, governor of Lower Austria, will undertake to preside over a temporary cahiuct of neutral construction. Count Kilmannsegg is a Protestant, and necessarily meets with opposition which he nor his colleagues could long withstand if his administration were undertaken with, an idea of its virtual permanency. The Western Schuetzenbund began their annual shooting fest at Milwaukee on the 19th, There were sharp- ’ shooters present from Cincinnati, Chicago, Omaha, St. Paul. Minneapolis and other cities numbering about 150. Sixty men were killed and three seriously injured by an explosion of powder in the baliste factory at Avigliana, Italy, on the 19th. The explosion was caused by the carelessness of some of the victims. John Curtin,the Irish dynamiter who is confined in Portland prison, will sail for the United States shortly after his release, which will take place almost immediately. The Tippecanoe Memorial association, on the 19th, observed, at Lafayette, Ind., the eighty-fourth-anniver-sary of the battle of Tippecanoe, when Gen. William Henry Harrison defeated the Indian warriors under the Prophet, half-brother to the celebrated chief, Tecumseh. Nearly all the heads of the bureaus of the war department, with Gen. Huger, on the 19tli, viewed and approved the new regimental flag designed by Assistant Secretary of War Doe. A sample flag was in Gen. Doe's office, and all agreed that it was much more tasty and better adapted to the service than the flag now in use. The north-bound Missouri, Kansas &, Texas St Louis flyer, which left Houston, Tex.,, on the night of the 19th, was badly wrecked at Eureka, Tex. The conductor walked ;back to Houston and reported that five coaches loaded with passengers were in the ditch. He feared many were badly injured. His porter was missing. A statement prepared at the treasury department shows the aggregate receipts from internal revenue sources during the eleven months of the present fiscal year, ended May 80, 1895, to have been $131,420,636, a gain of about $89,400 over the fiscal period last year. F. T. Atkins, ex-president of the Col-, orado savings bank, of Denver, and Charles O. Atkins, ex-cashier of the same institution, were arrested, on the 20th, under indictments charging them with receiving deposits in a bank knowing it to be insolvent. On the 19th Judge Barrett, in the New York court of oyer and terminer, sentenced ex-Police Inspector William W. McLaughlin, convicted of extortion, to two years and six months in state’s prison. Commodore Bttnce has been appointed to the command of the North Atlantic squadron, to succeed Admiral Meade.

In consequence of the disorderly scene which occurred in the Italian chamber of deputies, on the 19th, a motion was prepared and signed by a large number of the deputies of the majority, asking that the procedure of the chamber he modified so as to permit the suspension of deputies guilty of violent acts in the chamber. The motion was referred, on the 20th, to the permanent committee on procedure. Harry Hayward, who was to have been hanged at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 21st, for the murder of Catherine Ging, has been, granted a stay of execution bv the supreme court for thirty days, upon condition that the case be argued during this term, which ends July 8. A vote on the school debate was reached in the Manitoba legislature on the evening of the 19th. All the amendments were voted down, and Manitoba’s answer, refusing to re-es-tablish separate schools, was adopted. At 1:30 o'clock on the morning of the 20th fire d<estroyed about. £200,000 worth of property belonging to the Seattle (Wash.) Consolidated Street Railway Co. The company’s powerhouse was totally destroyed, together with twenty-five cars. The death watch was re-established, on the 20th, over Ur.*'Robert W. Buchanan, the condemned wife-poisoner, whose second ire-sentence to be executed in the electrical chair in Sing Sing prison is set down for July 1. On the 20th the Illinois Steel Co., of Chicago, announced an advance of two dollars in the price of steel rails, the former price being £23. NThe increase is attributed to the increased cost of ore, coke and labor. The convention guaranteeing the Chinese loan recently floated in Paris was signed in ot. Petersburg, on the 19th, by the Chinese plenipotentiary. On th£ 20th the Paris Paix published interviews with several senators, and deputies, all of which were favorable to the proposed visit of president Faure to tiie Russian capital. Gen. Green Clay Smith, well-known in the middle west, is dangerously ill tit his home in Washington, and his recovery is in grave doubt. He is suffering from, earbuaole on the back of his UwCk.

The warships of the United States at Kiel, the New York, Columbia. San Francisco and Marblehead, which latter vessel took part in the procession at the opening: of the canal, formed striking features of the naval display, standing' out finely among the other vessels, which, as a rule, have darkcolored hulls. The white sides of the Yankee cruisers undoubtedly gave them an extremely smart appearance and caused all the United States vessels to be greatly admired. Thk following cablegram was received at the state department on the 20th: “Olney, Washington: British consul at Erseroum informs me that Lena, the cyclist, was murdered near Dahar by five Kurds, whose names he gives. Arrest and punishment demanded by me at the sublime porte and the co-operation of the British consul requested. Signed. “Tbrbki*i.m A report comes from Havana that | Gen. Martinez de Campos, captain genI eral of Cuba, had been shot by Puerta ! Sanches, a Cuban spy. on board a j Spanish war ship. Sanchez escaped btf jumping overboard and swimming to I shore. It is not stated how badly

Campos was wounaeo. A Lon vox dispatch of the 30th said it was stated on the best of authority that England had informed the Russian government that she would send a fleet to Constantinople to enforce the demands that the powers have made upon the Porte. Fifteen acres of wheat, belonging to Newell Miller, near Roann, Ind., was destroyed, on the 20th, by fire, which originated from a spark from a locomotive. Thr boiler of one of the steam launches of the United States cruiser Columbia exploded at Kiel on the 21st. The cylinder was blown off and carried overboard, and with it the smokestack and other parts of the launch. Four persons were injured. Quartkbmaster-Gknkral Devlin of the Michigan national guard died at his residence in Jackson, on the 21st, of Bright’s disease. He was born in Oregon, Wis., August, 1846. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Tenth Ohio cavalry. On the strength of a dispatch from the captain-general of Cuba, Senor Dupny de Lome, the Spanish minister at Washington, on the 21st, denied the report that Gen. Martinez Campos had been wounded by an insurgent spy. James S. Ewing, United States minister to Belgium, just returned to the United States on lhave of absence, called at the state department, on the 31st, while on his way to his home in Illinois. In the British house of commons, on the 21st, Mr. H. Campbell Badnerman, secretary of state for war, announced that the duke of Cambridge would retire from the command of the army. Fortv-six horses were cremated in the burning of Kiel & Co.’s livery stable at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the night of the 20th. The entire equipment of carriages was destroyed alsav Two trolley cars on the Walden & Orange Lake railroad collided, on the 21st, at a point 7 miles west of Newburg, N. Y. Eight persons were injured. but none seriously. A fight between police and a band of brigands occurred near Lamia, on the Turkish frontier, on the 20th. Three brigands and a corporal ol police were killed. The conference at Pittsburgh, Pa., between the executive committee of the Association of Iron and Steel Sheet Manufacturers and the committee of the Amalgamated association reached terms of agreement, on the night of the 20th, after a two days’ session.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The experimental opening of the Xantasket Beach branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, ■ which had just been equipped with electricity, was made with much secrecy on the 82d. The result of the trial was very satisfactory and greatly pleased the officials of the road, who believe‘that it is a long step toward revolutionizing passenger traffic on railroads. - Tiik statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 22d showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $1,414,650; loans, increase, $4,080,500; specie, decrease, $395,000; legal tenders, increase, $390,100, deposits, increase, $5,643,000; circulation, decrease, $520,000. Jake Gaudaur. the sculling champion of America, has about made up his mind to retire from rowing. He will take part in the Fourth of July regatta at Boston and will then, in all probability, relinquish sculling. Gaudaur has held all records at three miles since 1888. The attorneys for Capt. Henry W. Howgate, who was convicted in Washington of embezzlement and falsification of accounts as disbursing officer of the signal service, express their determination of carrying the case to the court of appeals. The 10 per cent, cut in wages made by the James Hamilton Machine Co. of North Adams. Mass., at the time of the business depression has been voluntarily restored byi the company, which employs about 125 hands. Notice has been given by the fLackawanna Iron and Steel Co. of Scranton, Pa., that the wages of all its employes would be increased 10 per cent., to take effect, from July 1. Between 5,000 and 6,000 men are affected. Judge Gaffy, of Pierre, S. D., held, on the 22d, tl\at he had no power to sentence ex-State Treasurer Taylor out of the regular term of court, which meets on August 13. Bail was fixed on the 24th. ^ The earl of Rose%eryf first lord of the treasury and .premier of the British council, arrived at Windsor castle, j on the 22d, and tendered his resignaj tion to her majesty, by whom it was j accepted. Secretary axd Mrs. Carlisle left I Washington, on the 25t h, for Marion, I Mass., to remain two weeks or more. > Marion is 10 miles from Gray Gables, j The banks of New York city held $36,544,350 in excess of the requirej ments of the 25-per-cent, rule on the 82't.

INDIANA STATE NEWS, Leaxder Artm ax has been appointed postmaster at Collett, Jay county, and Wm. Eckrate, at Hanfield, Grant county. Mbs. Horace Loomis, of Shanghai, whose husband is now in the insane asylum for the eighth time, has applied for a divorce. Mrs. Frederick Bierstoff, of Laporte, was frightfully burned by her dress taking fire from a lighted match. She can not lire. The Brazil miners ha?e accepted that cut. North Manchester gets that Danker college. Union county’a jail is almost deserted most of the year. Elkhart county has a grasshopper plague. Some of the witnesses of the Morrison will case, Richmond, have claimed enormous fees. Ji DOE Wruam Carver, prominent Noblesville attorney, is dead. He was an ex-legislator. . < The body of a poorly dressed woman of about 35 years was found lying in the roadway five miles west of Indianapolis. The skin was stripped from both forearms and her legs, but in what manner the injuries were received is unknown. Clinton county is out of debt, the first time in 25 years. The Scott county commissioners have issued 39,000 worth of bonds tc erect a new jail at Scottsburg. Muxcie hod carriers have lost their strike, and have returned to work without an increase in wages. At Connorsville an eccentric lady ordered her body, after deaths laid out on the piano and a temperance lecture given over the corpse. Her instructions were carried out. A forty-acre clover meadow belong* ing to Perry Somerville, north of Brazil, was destroyed by fire the othei day. The residence and crops in adjoining fields were threatened, but about 50 neighbors successfully fought

xne names. J. D. Wilson, of near Greenwood, was bitten by a supposedly mad dog. Mad* stone applied. Irish-American societies are said tc be organizing at Indianapolis to free the mother country. Knightstown will have a new opera house this fall. Maj. Doxky will put up a building for the G. A. R. at Anderson. At Indianapolis Bucktown Harry Taylor fatally shot Harry Williams. At Huntington a barn belonging tc Alpheus Searles, together with 5 horses, farm implements and grain, was consumed. Loss, $6,000; insurance, $1,500. Daviess county has a youttg female forger in the Indianapolis reform school. The slaughtering of dogs at Columbus continues. The policy killed 12 in two daj-s. J At Anderson. Harry Dove, aged 19, a glassworker, bled to death after stopping work. His nose began to bleed very freely and continued to do so for three or four minutes, when it began to turn into a regular stream of blood. The typhoid fever epidemic at Evansville has been checked. It is believed that the epidemic was caused by the city’s water supply, which is pumped from the river just below the mouth ol a sewer. Marion Pickrixg, aged forty-one years, was found dead in his cell at the southern prison the other morning. Pickring was sent to prison one year ago for the brutal murder of Stephen Geer. Beatrice Lake, a four-year-old daughter of Mrs. Gertie Lake, of Lafayette, was fatally burned while playing with matches. The little one was burned from head to foot. Charles Hoglix, a young horse thief from Englewood, awaiting trial at Crown Point for steading horses in Indiana, broke jail the other morning and made his escape. This is the third prisoner to escape in less than a week. There’s a big decrease in the prospective yield of Indiana wheat. George Statler and Frank Walters, desperadoes, cut through the brick wall of the county jail at Rockport and escaped. They have a garbage master in Elwood, and he has his hands full trying to keep private citizens from usurping the functions of his office. Jerry Weaver, of Shelburn, went suddenly insane during a party given for him, it is said, and chased everybody from the house with a knife. A plague of grasshoppers is threatened at Elwood and thousands of the pests have made their appearance already.

John Elson, a well known farmer near Kokomo, died suddenly a few days ago. William C. Jones, of Palmyra, N. Y., lost an arm by falling under a Big Four train at Anderson a few days since. Jack Taylor, while felling trees near Springville, was struck by a limb on the head and will die. Wilbur Bhaddock. 13 years old, was run over by a heavy coal wagon the other day, Rt Connersville, and died that night. An attempt to blow up the building and saloon of Dallas Tyler, opposite li. «fc O. passenger depot, Seymour, was frustrated by the timely discovery of a dynamite bomb, which had been thrust through the cellar grating. Attached to the bomb was a fuse 30 feet long. Tiie Madison county assessor has cut the valuation of gas wells to $200 in some cases. The wells were all rated at $800 before. Assessment on pipe lines has also been cut. The commissioners of Scott county have issued $9,000 worth of bonds, which were delivered recently to the Seymour First National bank, the bank paying a premium of $201.25. The money is to be used in constructing a new jail at Scottsburg. At Indianapolis the Protestant Dea coness society will purchase the old McTaggart property at Mississippi and Ohio streets, and erect an $8,000 'hospital.

A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Kypto«l«a m the WluMmck Christopher Columbus — toarteen IVnmau Badly SeaMed—All Bat Two of Them Kx pee ted to Recover—It Is Alleged and I Sen led that the Vessel wau Racinff with a Rival. Chicago. June 24.—The whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus met with a serious accident to her machinery on her return from Milwaukee Saturday night. The wind was blowing from th.e south and she was making fast time, when, directly off Waukegan, there was a terrible explosion followed by a flash of flame and the,boat was immediately enveloped in a clond of steam. Fourteen persons, several of them ladies, were severely scalded. On the arrival of the steamer at her dock at 3 o’clock yesterday morning the injured were taken in police ambulances to StL Luke’s hospital, where it was said that all but two of them would recover. The cause of the accident, as explained by Engineer Webster of the whaleback, was that the fitting on the main steam pipe , “let go.” This caused the explosion and the escape of the steam. The accident was unavoidable and uaccountable. The boilers were tested only last week and found to be all right. The Christopher Columbus went into commission for the season Saturday morning. She left on a trip to Milwaulke with 500 passengers on board and left the Cream City on time-for the return to this city. Everything went all right until off Waukegan, when the accident took place. It is asserted by passengers that the Columbus was racing with the Virginia, of the Goodrich line, but Capt. Robert Smith denied the report, saying that the boat had new engines and that he was not foolhardy enough to attempt tq race with any boat. As soon as the explosion took place, the utmost excitement ensued among the passengers, and the captain and stewards had considerable difficulty in calming their fears. There were three physicians^on board and the injured were attended to promptly. A member of the Virginia's erew said that when the two "boats came abreast of each other on the down course there were evidences to his

mind that a race was imminent if hot actually in progress at the time. “Then,” he added, “the whaleback fell behind us. Why, I could not say, but it was not long before it was away astern of us.” Capt. Smith had the following to say about the accident: ~ “We*had passed Waukegan at1 7:30 o’clock when one of the main pipes of the boiler blew out. Immediately we shut off steam and attended to the accident. After that it took us about two and a half hours before we could start again.” When asked if the rumor among- the passengers to the effect that the accident was due partially to his anxiety to beat the Virginia was true, he entered a positive denial. “Vyhen thej accident occurred,” he said, “the Virginia was at least two miles ahead of us. and it is not likely that we would try to race with brand new engines. We were not racing at all —in fact, we were running behind our time.” There are s5x boilers on the boat, and the disconnecting of the„steain* pipe disabled all six. A REIGN OF TERROR. ftoekport, Indiana, in the Banda of a Mob ot Uruiikrn Italian Laborers. Indianapolis, Ind-.' June 24.—There is a reign of terror at the town of Rockport, and a conflict between citizens and Italian laborers is imminent. Two hundred Italians have been employed in the construction of. the Chicago, Indianapolis & Rockport railroad, but for nearty three months they have not received their wages. Saturday night they visited the headquarters of the contractors and finding them desertedf became convinced that there was no prospect of receiving their pay. Many of them got drunk and rioting began, and the officers of the law were powerless to do anything. Stores were broken open and goods carried away and a perfect bedlam followed. The citizens shut themselves up in their houses and stood guard all night with guns and pistols, while business houses were deserted to the rioters. A committee of citisens waited on the Italian leaders and offered to pay their way, either by rail or water, to any place they wanted to go, but they refused to leave until paid • by the con-^ tractors. The sheriff has summoned^ 500 citizens to assist him in preserving peace, but the Italians so far seem to be masters of the situation.

REVOLUTION IN MACEDONIA. The Sal ten’s Troop* Defeated and a Village Burned. Sofia, June 24.—The Macedonian journal, which is published in this city, and which is the organ of the Macedonian agitators, announces that a revolution has been inagnrated in Macedenia, uprisings having occurred at three places. In an engagement between a party of rebels and the sul.tan of Turkey’s troops, the later were defeated. Another force of rebels atattacked and burned the village of Istibanyia. The news of the outbreak has caused a sensation is'this city, and the council of ministers held a, meet* ing to discuss the situation. MURDERED IN HiS OFFICE By a Desperate Burglar who Robs the Money Drawer anil Escapes. Chicago, June 24.—At 2:30 o'clock /esterday C. It Birch, one of the cashiers of the West Chicago Street Railway Co., was murdered in his office in the car barns at Milwaukee and Armitage avenues, and his cash drawer was rifled of from $100 to $300. Birch was alone when a burglar entered. There were men out in the barn, but there was no one within calling distance. . The cashier was in | wire cageat the time. i ■■ - • c. : ■'

FROM HONOLULU. T%m BawtUBnUcMaiMN CciT*n«<i la Spe* cl»I ftHtlaA-hruMcal IX)W* Opcalaf AddrcM—A Ur«c Kaalwr or Important. Matter* Sot Vortfe— Mtatstor Dtaaa Hoe> MBMdt a PcMtm to KUalaal— Bwlfc la Thamtoa. Hosoixi.it, June 17, via Sax FbaxCisco, June 34. —(Correspondence of the United Press per steamer Koptic.)— The special {Session of the first legislature of the republic convened at noon, of the 12th in the former throne room. A large assemblage was present. The only uniforms seen were those of United States naval officers. There was a total absence of parade. President Dole delivered ah address of fif-. teen minutes. He stated that thw republic of Hawaii had been recognized by all the principal nation*, with whom relations were friendly. Internal affairs had been in an or deriy and prosperous condition, except the January insurrection^ which was suppressed without serious difficulty. The outlay, including expenses of the military court, had been over 595,000, pa^d from the current funds from the treasury. Annexation to the United States continued to be the policy of the government. and Would be earnestly sought for. A liberal policy was recommended in administering the public lands so as to facilitate the acquirement and permanent holdings by industrial persons of small means. The' crown lands , should be managed to the saipe end. A bill would be submitted elaborating such a land policy. Special reference should be had to Inducing’ immigration of desirable American and other white settlers, Asiatic immigration was deprecated. Cable communication must be secured. Franchises and subsidies had been promised, but the time had come for the government actively to initiatethe matter. A bill would be tedThe choice by senate and house of their respective thirds of the council of state ought to have early attention. High tribu te was paid to the labors of. the now expired advisory council for twenty-nine months. One hundred and fifty-two meetings had been held, and a very large amount of legislative and other work done, members serving without pay, J with pure and incorruptible patriot-, ism. The two houses organized. The senate chose W. G. Wilder president. The house elected Lima Xaone speaker.

The reports were totally without foundation which were sent froin San Francisco May 16 that this government was tottering1 andThurston planning to restore monarchy under Kiaulani. The whole thing was a canard as was probably the filibuster story. The steamer Lehu cruised for three weeks, but heard of no filibusters, and gave up the search. \ No decision has been rendered yet by the supreme court upon the validity of the military commission. It twill be an exhaustive document. Minister Damon recommends to the legislature to grant Kiauiani a pension of 93,000, beginning with January 1, 1895. “ This meets general approval. A New York special from Washington of June 1, reprinted here this morning, states that the ex-minister had “frequent conferences with Secre-. tary Gresham at the state department on the subject of annexation; also that the ex-minister at no time consented that in the event of annexation any change in * the relations of the aliens in this country should be brought about.” | Mr. Thurston being out of town. President Pole vjras interviewed on the subject. Mr. Dole said: - , “It is my impression that Mr. Thurston never had the conferences named with Mr. SGresliam. The position attributed to him on the subject of the relation of aliens, evidently meaning Asiatic contract laborers, was one entirely outside <j>f any views of this government. When the treaty of annexation was negotiated with President Harrison, there was no other expectation than that the United States law would obtain here on that subject. It has always been expected that annexation would put an end to the contract system. The Tribune dispatch does not appear to be trustworthy.” seen: “He said that to the best of his knowlege no such! interviews as those alleged ever took place. “It was expected that the United States laws, in .the event of annexation,,would put an ?end to the present system of labor and to the importation of Asiatics, although it would be endeavored not to! make the change so abruptly hs to cause > a disaster to the planters. The statement seemed to have been made for some political object.” Mr. Thurston’s public attitude here has always been conspicuously opposed to any permanent continuance of the Smith was also contract system of labor.

Private Secretary Ten Kanden Going to / California. * Washington, June 24.—Mr. Van Zenden, private secretary to Secretary Carlisle, left here yesterday to attend^ the Kentucky State Democratic con* vention at Louisville to-morrow. On Thursday he leaves for a trip to Sau Francisco and the j Pacific coast lie will be absent abouji three weeks. SHOT HIS DAUGHTER. Sad Result of the H oidling of a Bkownsvillk Sheriff R. R. Grove daughter, Miss head yesterday caliber revolver the walk to young lady was 24 handsome and a all who knew her. While the sheriff weapon it charged. enn., June 22.— accidently shot his through the »rning with a 3Sthe giri cutae up the house. The •ears of age, very it favorite with was handling the accidentally dis*