People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Page 2

NEWSPAPER LAWS.

Any person who takes the paper ret nlsrly from the poKioftoe. whether directed to hit name or whether ie is a aeb eriber or not. is responsible for the pay. The courts have decided that refusing to taka ■ewspapePS and periodicals from the postofßoe, or renorinr and leering them uncalled for is prime *«*« evidence oi IKTkXTIONAL FRAUD.

It is estimated that the melon crop of Georgia, this year, will be worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars to -the farmers and about a hundred thousand dollars to the railroads in the etate.

A “Scottish Women’s Church Defense Union” is the form the resentment of the women of Scotland against the overflow of their national church takes. The organization is popular *nd rapidly recruiting members from the best classes of Scotch women.

It is claimed that the prize for patience must be awarded to the scientist ■who recently compiled a catalogue containing lists of the various kinds of insects which are to be found in the •world. According to him there are V 50.000 distinct species; not including insects.

Thebe is encouragement in the fact that the flow of gold continues steadily from Europe to America, amounting in the last few .weeks to upwards of $20,• 000,000. Another encouraging feature to contemplate is the fact that the price •of New York exchange enjoyed a precipitate drop the other day both in Chicago and Cincinnati.

Experiments with a bicycle fitted cut with a small chemical tank and Are ax are being made by a South Boston fire company. The bicycle has cushion tires and with its whole outfit weighs about sixty pounds. The tank holds about two gallons of chemical, which amounts as an extinguisher to »bout twelve pails of water.

A business .man of Colfax, Wash., proposes to stock that country with Chinese pheasants. A large poultry house has been built at his home and he has hatched out forty young bird* on his place. Many more eggs are now in his incubator. His hens have laid over 800 eggs since last fall, but none of them has yet offered to sit It is not often that the engineering world is called upon to witness the completion of a work nearly 2,500 years After it was first projected, but such is the case with the canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. Projected 600 years before Christ agitated again 800 years later, actually begun by the Emperor Nero, it is completed in 1893.

The London Optician, in describing *fche remarkable progress that has been made of 'late years in the treatment of •ye diseases, says that with the ophthalmoscope and ophtalmometer there are very few problems with regard to the functions and diseases of the human •ye that can not be determined by an •Xpert in a very few moments of time. '

The laying of the telegraph cable Between Queensland and New Caledonia, which is intended to form the first section of a trans-Pacific cable between Australia and Canada, will be begun very shortly, and is expected to be finished by the end of this month. It is stated in Sydney that the cable will be completed to Vancouver within two years.

i The British custom house has been Greek statuettes representing satyrs, on the ground of indecency. A n ■examination of the inculpated statu- • ettes reveals the fact that there is no indecency whatever. The statuettes •re curious examples of human and vegetable forms combined, like the well-known figure of Daphne turning into a laurel tree.

Circassian women, it is said, who •re noted for the velvety softness of itheir complexions and rosy bloom, never use ointments of any kind. 'They apply to their faces half an hour ■before their bath a thortvigh coating -of white of egg. When this has completely dried they wash it off with tepid water and then proceed to bathe ■as usual in soap and water.

The price of a first-class Pullman car is about $15,000, while that of what is known as a fiat car, such as are used to haul gravel and dirt, is about SBBO. A common flat-bottomed coal car costs <SOO, while a car with a double hopperbottom is quoted at a hundred more. A irefrigerator car costs $550. A combined baggage and mail car costs $3,500, and • first-class coach is valued at $5,500.

A Congregational clergyman of Ohio, according to the Congregationalism has forwarded to the patent office at Washington a model of a device for burnishing communicants with individual cups. They are about two inches Shigh, one inch at the mouth, tapering down to nearly five-eighths of an inch at the bottom. As many as forty can conveniently be carried in a frame, and •be replenished in a few seconds. The natural resources of South Da"kota have not been overrated, judging "by the reports of the new artesian well at Pierre. That well emits 780 gallons of water a minute at a temperature of 100 degrees, and also 25,000 feet of natural gas every twenty-four hours. The gas has a heating power equal to three tons of good bituminous coal, every twenty-four hours Other wells like •this one at Pierre are to be dug at once. Notwithstanding the drouth the prospects, according to the exhibit made by the federal agricultural department, are that the corn crop will lie 87 against the 93.2 of last year. The .-average in Ohio is 85.1, Indiana 79.1, Illinois 81, lowa 102, Missouri 95, Kansas 82, and Nebraska 84. The exhibit for spring wheat last year was 77.4 and thi» ;year it is 67, which, all things considered, is regarded as flattering. Rye is 78.5 against the 89 of 1892, and barley lees than one point Buckwheat’s condition is 88.8, a slight decline from last war, and potatoes 86, a deolineof near V points. :

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

District Attorney Puree has received instructions to proceed against the wreckers of the Indianapolis national bank, and from six to ten arrests are expected. Schuyler Haughey, who is heavily indebted to the bank, has left Indianapolis, and some express the belief that he has gone to Canada. C. Stutz & Sons’ general store at Middlebury, near Goshen, was entered by four masked burglars and robbed of SSOO worth of merchandise. No arrests.

Cook & Whitley’s circus, which showed at Spencer, the other day, was accompanied by a gang of pickpockets, gamblers, thieves and confidence men who fleeced the farmers and others out of several thousand dollars. Paßßengeb train No. 8, west bound, ran into the delivery wagon of J. C. Kelly, at Walnut street crossing, Anderson, demolishing the wagon and hurling the driver, Joe Mitzler, a distance of thirty yards. He was picked np in an unconscious condition. His injuries are regarded as fatal by the physicians who were in attendance. The Fowler & Son’s bolt and nut works, of Anderson, one of the largest industries of Anderson, was made defendant a few days ago in a damage suit for $30,000. In May last Arthur Miller, an employe in the mill, was caught by a line shaft making 140 revolutions per minute. The young man’s legs were battered into an almost shapeless mass, and for weeks his life was despaired of. He has recovered, but is left a helpless cripple for life. Two suits were brought against the company. Young Miller asked for $20,000, and his father, Melanthon Miller, joined in the complaint with a demand for SIO,OOO. Mrs. John B. Habrel, residing near Shelbyville, and the wife of a wealthy farmer and stockman, attempted suicide at her home by taking morphine. She had grown despondent from an incurable throat trouble. Her life was saved with a stomach pump. Eugene Todd, aged 20, died at Bristol, nine miles from Elkhart, from injuries received, in company with a young woman. He was seated in a hammock in a telegraph office, where be is employed, when a large letterpress, to which one end of the hammock was fastened, fell from the top of a high cupboard, and striking Todd, mashed his skull. J. R. Hiller’s barn, the largest in Miami county, together with his wheat crop, hay and farm implements, was totally destroyed by fire. Lose, $5,000; insured. Caused by a threshing engine.

Mks. John Alsfasser, of Chicago, committed suicide the other night at the residence of her father, Miller Baum, Valparaiso, where she was visiting. Handing her 11-months-old baby to her mother, she went up-stairs, where she fastened a rope about her neck, and tying it to the transom, stepped off a chair, and was dead when discovered. Continued ill-health and despondency was the cause. Effie Hornback, aged 15, of Columbus, committed suicide by taking morphine. Her mother had just been released from jail and her father had brought suit for divorce. Her future was all dark, she said, and she wanted to end her life.

Cyrus Brown, aged 50, while drunk, shot his wife dead and tried to kill her brother, at Columbus. Brown then escaped. Byford E. Cunningham, a popular Ohio and Mississippi railway conductbr, near Seymour, fell from a carload of lumber at Ft. Ritner, upon his head, breaking his neck. At Sullivan James McCullach was killed by the explosion of a thrasher boiler. Mayor Arthur W. Brady, of Marion,

filed his bond of $50,000 and accepted the receivership of the Citizens’ National bank. His bondsmen are Arthur Patterson, C. A. Spilker, Edward Tuhey and James Sprankle. By a local election Brazil has decided to build SBO,OOO worth of gravel roads. The six-year-old son of William Riehle was run over by a wagon and killed at Lafayette. The Fleming families of six different states held a reunion at Honey creek, near Anderson, a few days ago. Five hundred people were present. The next annual will be held in Ohio or New York when 1,500 Flemings will come together.

At Indianapolis, Rose Bailey, a pretty, seventeen-year-old girl, committed suicide the other day by taking morphine. She was engaged to marry Lon Smith and all arrangements had been made lor the wedding. He was out of work, and it is believed this made her despondent. She told Smith she had taken the poison, but it was then too late to save her life. Grant Olds, who shot a man in Marion three months ago and is wanted there for shooting with intent to kill, was arrested at Brazil, the other evening at the home of his brother and placed in jail. He will be taken to Marion for trial.

James Boee, living at Ogden, three miles east of Knightstown, who has been missing from his home for some days, was found by a 1 hunting party in a straw stack near home. He had not partaken of nourishment for twelve days and nights when found. A barking dog frightened Nelson Snyder’s team near Portland. Mr. Snyder, his wife and three children were probably fatally hurt in the runaway that followed. Ehrlich, 20 years old, son of Peler Ehrlich, a wealthy coal operator of Brazil, was bitten by a spreading viper, the other morning, as he was going to one of the mines. The venomous reptile sunk its fangs into Mr. Ehrlich’s leg, which quickly swelled to enormous proportions. It is thought ha will die.

A post office has been established at Frichton, Knox county. The post office at Daggett, Owen county, has been discontinued. Kindred Taylor, an old soldier, was fatally beaten with a dray pin in the bands of Bill Hoebin, a hoodlum at Mitchell.

MAY SOON LOCATE.

President Cleveland Issues m I reclamation Opening the Cherokee Strip to Settlement on September 16. Washington, Ang. 23. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation opening to settlement and homestead entry on Saturday, September 16, 1893, at 12 o’clock noon, central standard time, all the lands, except those especially reserved, recently acquired from the Cherokee Indian nation and the Tonkawa and Pawnee tribes in the Indian territory, known as the Cherokee outlet. The lands now open to settlement are divided into seven- counties. After reciting the law and the treaties with the Indians under which the land was ceded to the government, the proclamation describes the tract reserved for county seats of the several counties. In each of these county seats four acres are reserved for the site of a courthouse. A strip of land 100 feet wide around and immediately within the boundaries of the lands now opened is set apart,

MAP OF THE CHEROKEE STRIP.

and entrance upon said strip isjpermitted prior to the day for the opening of the lands. Upon this strip booths are to be located and clerks from the general land office detailed to take charge of them. The booths will be conveniently located upon the regular lines of travel —five on the northern and four on the southern boundary—and will be open for business at 12 o’clock noon September 10 and be kept open each business day

from 7 a. in. to 12 o’clock and from 1 to 6 p. m. until discontinued by direction of the secretary of the interior. Each party desiring to enter upon the lands for the purpose of making a homestead entry or soldier’s declaratory statement or settling upon a town lot will be required to first appear at one of the booths and there make a declaration showing his or her qualifications to make such entry or statement or to settle upon a town lot. If the declaration proves satisfactory to the officers in charge of the booth certificates will be issued by such officers permitting the party who makes the declaration to go upon the outlet at the time fixed for the opening. Parties making these declarations will be required to make oath before the district land officers or other officer who may take their homestead affidavits that all the statements contained in their declarations are true in every particular. The officers of the United States are expressly charged to permit no party without a certificate to occupy or enter upon any part of the outlet. The land offices will be open for business at 12 noon on the day ot the opening.

Arkansas City, Kan., Aug, 23.—The troops of United States cavalry which have been driving out intruders from the Cherokee strip preparatory to the opening of that country to settlement, have about completed their work. Everyone on the strip has been compelled to move out. □ Arkansas City, Kan., Aug. 23. News that the Cherokee strip would be opened September 16 caused the greatest excitement among the boomers. Tuesday night there was a mammoth demonstration with a parade 1 , bonfires and speeches. The people seem to have gone mad with delight Guthrie, O. T., Aug. 23.—A number of Cherokee strip boomers camped in the Arkansas valley flats were driven out by a sudden rise of the river, losing their wagons, teams, tents, etc., and it is feared that several of them were drowned. A family which attempted to ford the Salt Fork is reported to have been swept away. Th® Union Pacific Railroad company has closed a contract for a special train of Pullman cars to convey 400 prominent Mormons of Salt Lake to Chicago to celebrate Utah day at the fair.

Fleeing From Yellow Fever.

Athens, Ga., Aug. 23. —Yellow fever has broken out afresh in Brunswick, and a telegram stating that 2,000 people would leave there and asking if Athens would be open to them was received here Monday afternoon. The matter was laid before the city council, which was in session when the message came. Leading physicians were consulted and upon their advice that no yellow fever could spread here it was decided to open the gates of th© #ity to all refugees and advice to this effect was sent the mayor of Brunswick. An epidemic is expected in Brunswick.

FEATHERED HIS NEST.

K. M. Donaldson Loots Han j Banka k Kansas, Missouri and lowa and Floes to Mexico with About 6300,000 in 11lGotten Gains. Kansas Mo., Ang. 22.—From school-teacher to Napoleon of finance and thence to a defaulter is the story of E. M. Donaldson, late of this city, secretary and manager of the Union Trust company of Sioux City, la., president of the First national bank of Marion, Kan., and of eleven lowa banks, who fled Tuesday, presumably to Mexico, and left behind him a record as an art’Stic looter of banks that is seldom surpassed AU of the'institutions he was connected with are in receivers hands. He is supposed to have taken with him about SBOO,OOO of other people’s monfcy. From the Union Trust company alone he took $600,000. From the Kansas and lowa banks $200,000 is a conservative estimate of his stealings. Forgery is one of the many charges against him, and a deputy marshal is now on his trail in Mexico armed with a warrant for his arrest for erasing his indorsement to a note for $5,000. Donaldson’s story is unique. It begins in 1885 when he left school teaching to go into the real estate business in Marion, Kan. Associating himself with prominent men of the city he was soon coining money for them, as Kansas was then in the height of its boom. Eastern people became interested with him, notably Joseph L. Hosmer, of Suncoolr, N. H., who established a branch office in New Hampshire and began placing loans with New England people for them. In 1887 Donaldson organized the Union Trust & Mortgage company of Marion, Kan., with a capital of $150,000, which began business successfully. Up to this time Donaldson was honest and successful, and his marked abilities and smooth tongue carried everything before him, but the bottom began to drop out of the Kansas boom and that started his troubles. But he never lost his nerve. He got his eastern backers to help him organize banks to relieve the situation. The Union Banking company, capital $250,000, was started, and with its money the First national bank of Marion was bought, and the Union Banking company of Greensburg, Kan., Union Banking company of Jetmore, Ivan., Union Banking company of Holt, Kan., were organized as branches of the First national of Marion. I But this scheme failed. His business began to dwindle. So he went to Sioux City, organized the Union Trust company in the latter part of 1888 with an authorized capital of $1,000,090, paid up $600,000, with Hosmer as president and | himself secretary. This company suc- ! ceeded to all the assets and liabilities iof the Kansas concerns. In connection ! with this company the following lowa | banks were organized:

First national bank, Ida Grove; First na-| tional bank, Hol3tein; Sloan state bank, Sloan; Danbury state bank, Danbury: First Ute bank, Ute; Woodbine savings bank, Woodbine; 1 Cushing savings bank, Cushing; Castana sav- ] ings bank, Castana: Scballer savings bank, I Schaller: Aurelia savings bank, Aurelia; Bank of Module, Module. At first this seheme was successful, but like his Kansas venture it, too, began to fail. Then he started a big ranch near Marion, Kan., and spent thousands of dollars on it. This broke the Union Trust company. About this time Donaldson began to see that ruin was inevitable. So he moved here and organized his cattle company into a branch of the Union Trust company. Then he began to plunder. Two of the lowa banks were sold and an attempt was made to sell the others, but the financial stringency stopped him. Thereupon he laid hands on all the assets of all the banks and the trust company and disposed of them. Within the last ninety days all of, the banks and the trust company have gone into receivers’ hands James Doughty, of Sioux City, was appointed receiver for the trust company and the lowa bartka about June 28. In July the First national bank of Marion was closed and Special Bank Examiner W. A. Latimer took charge last Tuesday. The same day Donaldson fled. The examiner says he is $24,000 short at that bank.

Indianapolis, lnd., Aug. 22—Monday afternoon Theodore P. Haughey, president of the wrecked Indianapolis national bank, was arrested at his home near this city on a warrant sworn out by Receiver Hawkins charging him with embezzlement and misappropriation of funds and credits of the bank from January 1, 1892, until July 24, 1893. Simultaneously with the arrest of President Haughey the federal officers arrested his son, Schuyler G. Haughey, president of the Indianapolis curled hair w orks and the Indianapolis glue works A little later Francis A. Coffin, president of the Indianapolis Cabinet company; Percival Coffin, vice president of the company, and A. T. Reed, treasurer of the same concern, were gathered in. Young Haughey, the Coffins and Reed were charged with having aided and abetted the elder Haughey in the embezzlements and misappropriation of credits charged against him. The arrests were made as quietly as possible and the arrested men were taken before United States Commissioner Van Buren, who released them on bonds furnished as follows: Theodore P. Haughey, $10,000; Schuyler C. Haughey, $10,000; Francis A. Coffin, $5,000; Percival Coffin, $5,000, and Albert T. Reed, $5,000.

Shot by His Son-in-Law.

St. Louis, Aug. 22. —John Schneider, a well-to-do farmer residing on the hills near Ivory .Station, was shot by his son-in-law, Frank Mueller, Sunday morning and died from the effects of his injury. They lived together, and in a quarrel caused by the young man’s refusal to do some work Schneider tried to stab Mueller. The latter retaliated by using a shotgun.

Fell Onto a Pitchfork.

Oakland, 111., Aug. 2L—While loading hay John Abel, a farmer who lived west of this city, fell out of the mow »nto a pitchfork, killing him inslattiy.

HOPE FOR THE FARMER.

Ikt American Review* the ' Crop Situation— An Encouraging Show- ! log—Price* Should Go Up. New York, Aug. 51. —The following ; i* a summary of the American Agri- I cnltnrist’s annual review of the crop ! situation and of the agricultural year: : The harvest of 1803 In the United States ia in many respect* similar to that of three year* ago. but with every prosptfet that home consumption and an increased foreign demand will so advance values as to yield *s large a net return to farmers ad on the average of recent years. Indeed, the review makes a distinctly encouraging exhibit in spite of the prevalent drought, though admitting that the financial stringency may interfere with the early movement of crops and have a temporary restrictive Influence on prices. The cotton crop will be harvested on fewer acres than last year. As large or a larger breadth was planted to this staple, bnt the Inability of many planters to borrow money enough to work the crop, together with drought, floods and worms, and the still greater difficulty of getting money for picking combine to seriously curtail production. Au! gust indications point to a crop not exoeeding 7,500,000 bales, with favorable weather, and very much less than that if Insects and climate continue unfavorable. The American Agriculturist believes present dullness in American cotton manufacturing to be only temporary, for there Is a scarcity rather than a surplus of staple and desirable goods and mills are already starting up to fill orders with every prospect of being crowded to supply the domestic demand for the ensuing six months. English mills cleaned up their surplus during the great strike last year and are now enjoying remarkable prosperity and are unable to meet the export demand. This explains why cotton commands the prices current two years ago at this date, though the world's visible supply Is some 1,500,000 bale* more now than then. With a short crop consumption will require more than this excess, with a consequent advance In values. Present indications point to a crop of 1,750,000,000 bushels of corn, contrasted with 1,690,000,000 last year and over 2,000,000,000 bushels In the Immense yield of two seasons previous. But unless abundant ralar prevail throughout tho corn belt in August, followed by mild weather, production pay shrink to 1,600,000,. 000 bushels, and may even drop to the size of the 1890 crop, when we harvested less than any year for a decade, with a single exoeptlon The review poinis out that while the area of corn is some 2,000,000 of acres greater than last year, in the seven corn-supply states over 1,000,000 less acres are devoted to maize than was the case two years ago.

The wheat crop will not exceed 443.000,000 bushels, according to the American Agriculturist’s own reports and its interpretations of government returns, compared with 614.003,000 as the average for the two last seasons and 400,000,000 bushels In 189 a Nearly 2,500,000 less acres were devoted to wheat than last year, and the bulk of this decrease was In the surplus states, which hid fair to have 78,000,000 fewer busfcels than last year and 125,000,000 bushels under the surplus states’ product of 1891. Available supplies of old wheat are 40,000,000 bushels greater than a twelve-month since, blit even allowing that farmers also hold 17,000,* 000 bushels more old wheat now than then, the total supplies for the ensuing year are only 500,000,000 bushels, or 117,000,000 less than the average of the two previous crops. Our homo consumption has averaged 365,000,000 bushels annually, leaving an apparent export surplus of 135.000,000 bushels, against exports last year of 192.000,000 and the season before of 295,000,000. This year's acreage of oats was never exceeded except In 1889, when over 750,000,000 bushels were grown on 27,460,000 acres, compared with 620,000,000 bushels on a slightly smaller acreage this season. This is within 40,000,000 bushels of last year’s outturn and just about an average of the previous three crops.

The usual quantity of rye, buckwheat and barley will be garnered. The supply of hay (over 83,000,000 tons) and other forage is abundant, though mill feed and cotton seed meal may he higher than last winter. The serious reduction in the supply of live stock is reflected in reduced arrivals at our domestic markets and decreased exports during the last seven months, with a very fair tendency to values. Much stock in Europe is being slaughtered because of drought, and later on the export demand is likely to be large. Butter, cheese and milk have been in only ordinary supply owing to the reduced number of eowa Stocks are light and dairy interests were never in better shape for a profitable winter.

The American Agriculturist notes an increased domestic crop of sugar, but a shortage in the world’s production of 300,000 long tons of sugar; but “prices are more likely to be affected by changes in legislation than by changes in production.” A reduced yield of heavy leaf and plug tobacco is assured and the oigar leaf crop of the Connecticut and Housatonic valleys has been curtailed by drought and bail. An advance in prices is predicted. Hops will make a fair average yield in the United states, but are only half to two-thirds of a full crop In Germany, and with a light yield In England the export demand will take at good prices every bale of American hops that can be spared. Potatoes have felt the drought and about 165,000,000 bushels are looked for—slightly more than last year, compared with 215,000,000 in the bountiful crop of two years ago. Reviewing the financial situatien from the farmers’ standpoint, the American, Agriculturist concludes that “the prospect for prices in the early future depends more upon the monetary situation than upon natural conditions, all of which point to causes that should result in higher prices. ” Stocks abroad are not materially larger than a year ago, so that the excess of 50,000,000 bushels in the United States stocks of old wheat : still leaves an indicated shortage in the bread crop of the world of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. With no extra surplus of tha bread crops, and an assured deficit of wheat, the United States is likely to be called upon to export as much wheat as last year, if not more. Indeed exports have been much heavier since July 1 than last season. “The conclusion is justifiable that present prices of all grains are abnormally low, as there is little evidence of our ability to spare as much wheat as Europe wants, unless a large under consumption prevails in the United States.” The hay crop is believed to represent a value to the farmers of 11,000,000,000. Corn at 45 cents a bushel comes next with a total of $725,000,000, followed by wheat valued at S3G<HOOO,000, If worth 60 cents a bushel, and by oats worth $185,000,000, if valued at 30 cents on the farm. Potatoes promise to net an average of 70 or 75 cents a bushel or a total of $125,600,000. This last is about one-half the prospective value of the cotton crop of 1893, reckoned at SH a bale.

Pensioners to Go to Law.

Washington, Aug. 21.—C01. Charles J*. Lincoln, late deputy commissioner of pensions and a prominent candidate for commander in chief of the G. A. R.. is authority for the statement that an effort is soon to be made to prove through the courts that the suspensions of pensions granted under the act of June 27, 1890, are illegal.

Cause of Sickness in Berlin.

Washington, Aug. 21.—Surgeon General Wyman, of the marine hospital service, has received a cablegram from Consul General Edwards at Berlin, stating that there .are no further cases* of cholera there. The disease, the dispatch says, was introduced through cucumbers procured from infected districts in Russian Poland.

Killed by His Father.

Louisville, Ky.. Aug 21.— 1 n a drunken row at Paducah Sunday W. F. Woods killed his 19-year-uld son by hitting him on the ueck with a bee* glass.

THE COMMITTEES.

Speaker Crisp Announce* His AllotOMt of Work for House Members—Wllsoa, of West Virginia, Placed at tke Head of the Ways and Means Committee -List of Chairmen. Washington, Ang. 22. Speaker Crisp has announced his committees in the house. Mr. Springer (Ill) is displaced from the chairmanship of the ways and means committee by William L. Wilson (W. Va.). Mr. Holman (Ind.) is knocked out by Sayers (Tex.) and Mr. Bland (Mo.) remains at the head of the coinage committee. Mr. Bpringer is made chairman of the banking and currency committee. The four most important committees are the ways and means, coinage, weights and measures, banking and currency, appropriations and foreign affairs. They are made up as follows: Ways and Means—William L. Wilson, West Virginia; Benton McMillin, Tennessee; H. G. Turner. Georgia; A B. Montgomery, Kentucky; J. R. Whiting, Michigan: W. Bourke Cockran, New York; M. Stevens, Massachusetts; W. J. Bryan, Nebraska; C. R. Breckinridge, Arkansas; W. D. Bynum, Indiana; J. C Taraney, Missouri; T. B. Reed, Maine: J. C. Burrows, Michigan; S. E. Payne, New York: Joha Dalzell, Pennsylvania; A J. Hopkins, Illinois; J. H. Gear, lowa. ‘

Coinage, Weights and Measures—R. P. Bland, Missouri; Charles Tracy, New York; A C Kilgore, Texas; J. F. Epps, Virginia; W. J. Stone, Kentucky; J. M. Allen, Mississippi; J. H. Bankhead, Alabama; Isidore Raynor, Maryland; M. D. Harter, Ohio; H. A Coffin, Wyoming; W. A McKelghan, Nebraska; C. W. Stone, Pennsylvania; W. N. Johnson, North Dakota; Nelson Dingley, Jr., Maine; Willis Sweet, Idaho; A Hager, Iowa; J. Frank Aldrich, Illinois; J. 1* \ Rawlins, Utah. Banking and Currency —W. M. Springer, Illinois; Louis Sperry, Connecticut; N. N. Cox, ! Tennessee; S. W. Cobb, Missouri; D. B. Culberson, Texas; W. T. Ellis, Kentucky; J. E. Cobb, Alabama; J. D.Warner, New York; T. L. Johnson, Ohio: J. A. C. Black, Georgia; U. T. Hall, Missouri; J. H. Walker. Massachusetts; M. Brosius, Pennsylvania; T. J. Henderson, Illinois; G A Russell, Connecticut; N. P. Hangen, Wisconsin; H N. Johnson, Indiana j Appropriations—J. D. Sayers, Texas: W. CL P. Breckinridge, Kentucky; A M. Dockery, Missouri; Barnes Compton, Maryland; J. H. ; O'Neill Massachusetts; L. F. Livingston, ! Georgia; J. E. Washington, Tennessee; S. M. ; Robertson, Louisiana; E. V. Brookshire, Indiana; J. R Williams, Illinois; W J. Coombs, New York; D. B. Henderson, Iowa; W. Cogswell, Massachusetts: H. P. Bingham, Pennsyt- ! vania; Nelson Dingley, Maine; W. W. Groat, ■ Vermont: J. G. Cannon, Illinois. Following are the chairmen of other committees: Elections—O’Ferrall, Virginia. ■ Judiciary—Culberson, Texas. Foreign Affairs—McCreary, Kentucky. Interstate and Foreign Commerce—Wise, 1 Virginia. I Rivers and Harbors—Blanchard, Louisiana. Merchant Marine and Fisheries—Fithian, H-

llnois. Agriculture—Hatch, Missouri. Military Affairs—Outhwaite, Ohio. Naval Affairs—Cummings, New York. Post Offices and Post Roads—Henderson, North Carolina. Publio Lands—Mcßae, Kansas. Indian Affairs—Holman, Indiana. Territories—Wheeler, Alabama. Railways and. Canals— Catchings, Mississippi Private Claims—Pendleton, West Virginia. Manufactures—Page, Rhode Island. Mines and Mining—Wcadock, Michigan. Public Buildings and Grounds Bankhead, Alabama. Pacific Railroads—Reilly,;Pennsylvania. Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi tiver—Allen, Mississippi. Education—Enloe, Tennessee. Labor—McGann, Illinois. Militia—Forman, Illinois. Patents—Cobert, New York. Invalid Pensions—Martin, Indiana. Pensions—Moses, Georgia. Claims—Bunn, North Carolina. War Claims—Beltzhoover, Pennsylvania. District of Columbia—Heard, Missouri. Revision of the Laws—Ellis, Kentucky. Expenditures instate Department—Lester; Virginia Expenditures in-Treasury Department—Bapwig, Wisconsin Expenditures in War Department—Montgomery, Kentucky. Expenditure* in Navy Department—McMillan, Tennessee. Expenditures in Post Office DepartmenfrOates, Alabama Expenditures in Interior Department—Turner, Georgia Expenditures in. Department of Justice—Dunphy, New York. Expenditures in. Department of Agriculture— Edmunds, Virginia Expenditures oa Public Buildings—Crain, Texas Library—Fellows,, New York. Printing—Richardson, Tennessee, Civil Service—DeForest, Connecticut Election of President and Vice President—j Pitch, New YorkVentilation and. Acoustics Shell,, South : Carolina. Alcoholic Liquor Traffic—English, New JerI *ey. Irrigation of Arid Lands—Cooper; Indiana Immigration and Naturalization —Geissenhainer, New Jersey.

NEW LINCOLN STATUE.

Memorial to Scottish-American SoMlera of the Civil War Unveiled at Bdtnburgh. Edinburgh, Ang. 22.—The statue of Abraham Lincoln, erected as a memorial to the Scottish-American, soldiers of the American civil war, was unveiled here Monday in the presemice of the municipal authorities, many distinguished guests, a number of Americans and a large crowd of residents of Edinburgh, including most of the elite of the town and people from the surrounding country. The statue, which is of bronze, stands upon a base of polished red granite. Upon the surbase sits a freed slave in bronze, his face upturned to Lincoln, who holds in hisrighthand the emancipation proclamation. Several battle flags also in bronze lie beneath the outstretched left hand of the slave. The monument is erected in the cemetery set apart for the burial of ScottishAmerican soldiers, a handsome plot of ground in Calton Bill cemetery which, was given for the purpose by the town council. Sir William Arrol, the builder of the great Forth bridge, and Consul at Edinburgh Wallace ; Bruce, the “Poet of the Hudson,” de- ! iivered the oration.

A Peacemaker Killed.

Naperville, 11L, Ang. 22.— Joseph King, 20 years old, tried Sunday to separate a crowd of fighting men at & horse raffle near here. Lawrence Tyler, from Lemont, struck Kling with a pitchfork over the head and be of his injuries at midnight. Tyler fe still at large. All were intoxicated at the time.

A Ball Player Killed.

Chicago, Aug. 22. —Peter Hyland, batter of an amateur baseball nine, was struck in the head by a pitched hall Sunday and instantly killed. Ed Carter, the pitcher, waa arrested.