Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — Page 6

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

•niKEAHT. | OUTER Kbob. a PHILLIPS createdW profound sensation is Pittsburgh business circles by announcing that they were compelled to suspend payment for the present The firm, says a Pittsburgh dispatch, has always rated as one of the most substantial in the State, and not the slightest intimation that they were in the least embarrassed had ever been made public. The Oliver Bros.’ plant is estimated to be worth about $5,000,000, and from 4,000 to 5,000 men find employment with the company: The history or the rise of this firm to one of the most remarkablo in the annals of the country. Seventeen years ago H. W. Oliver, Jr., John M. Phillips, and William 4- Lewis entered into a copartnership for tho manufacture of iron. Oliver's business career up to Dec. 2(5,1867, had embraced the performance of the duties of shipping clerk for Gross A Bennett, and the filling of a clerkship onder William Shaw in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. , Phillips was a bricklayer and Lewis a practical iron-worker. They built a miniature mill in which Oliver kept the books, ■while Lewis and Phillips looked after the practical pai t of the work!. The outfit consisted of two puddling and one heating furnace, and the product was wheeled away on barrows. From this humble beginning ■ has* grown the great firm of Oliver Bros. A Phillips, which now employs over 4,000 men. About three years ago Mr. Lewis retired from the firm with a fortune of several millions of dollars.... George Traviss was hanged at Wellsboro, Pa., for murdering a woman in 1883, and cremating her corpse in an attempt to conceal the crime... .Baiber Nichoto, 100 yeais of age, passed away at Lockport, N. Y., after an illness of only a few hours... .John J. Cisco A Son, bankers at New York, suspended last week and made an assignment without preferences. The matter is considered to be more in tile nature of liquidation than a failure, and depositors, it is said, will be paid in full. Reports that the firm was embarrassed caused a steady run, which led to the assignment to protect all creditors alike. WiLUAU Gates, 18 years old, confessed at Warren, N. Y., that Mrs. Druse killed her husband Dec. 17 last, and burned the remains. The woman compelled Gates to assist in the tragedy, and both are now in custody. Strict enforcement of the excise law is insisted upon by the New York City authorities in regard to Sunday closing. Five hundred liquor-dealers met in Irving Hall last Sunday, and adopted resolutions pledging themselves to assist the police to enforce, the law. This action was determined upon on the ground that citizens would find themselves compelled to demand a modification of the statute... .One thousand cases of measles are reported in New Bodford. Mass., an average of one case to every ten persons. ... .Cashiers Webb and Roath, of the Slietucket National and Merchants’ Banks, Nprwieh, Conn., succeeded in embezzling SIB,OOO of the banks' funds, which wqs lost in Wall street speculations. They will be prosecuted Thirty-eight boys have escaped from the State Reform School at Trenton, N. J., during the last four weeks, and discipline it in i bad way... .O’Donovan Rossa is tittering threats against Earl Spencer, and predirts that he will soon meet a similar fete to that of Cavendish and Burke.... Alexander Dugan, a New York dealer in Buildings, has assigned. Liabilities, $86,000.

THE WEST.

Striking employes (mostly Poles) of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works at South Bend, In<L, assembled at the works and permitted no person to enter, maiming those who made the attempt Several persons were wounded by the rioters, and great excitement prevailed. The Veteran Guards, G. A. R., turned out, and were appointed to act as special militia, and Captain Gore was ordered to report with his Elkhart company.... Striking miners at Shawnee, in the Hocking Valley, are said to be arming themselves with Spencer rifles. Three companies of militia liave been prdered to hold themselves in readiness.... .In a 12-iuch balk-line billiard game at St Louis, Schaefer defeated Catton, who scored but 180. Schaefer was to play 600 to his opponent’s 400.... James Morrison’s porkpacking establishment at Cincinnati was damaged $50,000 by fire. Schuyler Cobfax, on arriving at Mankato, Minn., on the 13th inst, walked threefourths of a mile to the Omaha depot in an atmosphere 30 degrees below zero, and within five minntes thereafter expired from heart disease. He was born in New York City in 1823. He served 6even terms in Congress, was three times elected Speaker of the House, and became Vice President in 1860. Since retiring to private life he has spent much time in the lecture-field... .Gov. Wil iam Hale, of Wvoming, died at Cheyenne, and W. W. O'Brien, a distinguished criminal lawyer, passed away at Chicago. Abbaugeieents have been made by theSouthwestenMlailway Association by which live-stock trhinß between Kansas City and Chicago irill be run in from forty-one to forty-two hours, instead of sixty hoars as heretefore. This change has been made in response to a request by the live-stock shippers, who claimed that they sulfered great loss on account of slow trains... .Joseph A. Dibble, a farmer near Osceola, Mich., was married adne weeks after the death of his first wife. At night ho was visited by a charivari party, upon whom he fired fr>m an upper window, killing one man and wounding three others. The Kart family, at Creston, lowa, twelve persons in all, have shat themselves up in their house, hourly expecting the end of (he world. They spend the time in poring over their Bibles; and fears are expressed that one of their number, a yonng girl, who is an “ unbeliever," will be offered as a sacrifice The unfortunate Emma Bond, of Taylorville, 81., suffers from paralVsia of the tongue, and is in a condition akin to death. ... .Thomas Farrell, aged 111, died at St. Paid. , A Bpo -pound hog, owned by Farmer Buchanan, at Bosooe, 111, waa accidentally under a straw rick last October. The animal was unearthed olive, and found to weigh but twenty-five pounds, but has increased its avoirdupois materially since its discovery... .The special Grana Jury for Cook County, Illinois, has found true bills against Mackin, Biehl, and nearly all the others charged with complicity in

the Eighteenth Ward election frauds.... William Felix Henry (oolored) was hanged, at Ed wards vilk,. HI., for murdering two negroes in 1883. .. ..Wright Leroy was executed at San Francisco for choking Nicholas Skerrett to death.. . .The Crouch murder case cost Jackson County, Mi 'll., $30,000. The /persons implic ited claim that their expenses ipve > ■■.vjjfltai fno Oral sen-ices ow the remains of tiwlate ex-Vice President Colfax took place at South Bend, Ind. The Rev, N. D. Williamson preachcMl the sermon. The relnaifisOwere placed in a vault An immense throng of people followed the dead'body to its last resting place. A detached ward of the Eastern Illi-' nois Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee, 111., was totally destroyed by fire. Tho building was occupied by forty-five patients, six attendants, and one night-watchman. Seventeen) patients are missing. Thirteen bodies were taken from the ruins, burned beyond recognition. All of the patients wete infirm or incurable, and many were rescued only by being dragged from the burning building and held. The fol-V lowing is a list of those that perished: Henry Brown, Rock Island; H. W. Belden, Galesbnrg; George Bennett, Morris; Joseph Colbert, Chicago; Orlando Ellis. Pon.iac; J. W. Gallowav, Muoonpin; Thomas Hickey, Springfield; Matthew Hague. Chebrase; T. Hachner, Stevenson County; Thomas H -relv. Chicago; John Johnson, Vermillion, Michael Jordan, Chicago; J. Nathan, Chicago; A. Runyard, Winnebago County; C. Strotz, Chicago: J. W. Tyler, Chicago; F. Weymouth, Putman County. .. .At Albion, Idaho, Perry- Pleasants, a criminal, was placed in charge of Charles Butterfield, a Deputy Sheriff. Butterfield stood guard over his prisoner with a double-barreled shotgun. The latter took advantage of ap opportunity to draw a revolver from his boot-leg and put a bullet through tho Sheriff. Butterfield, though mortally wounded, blew Pleasants’ head off with buckshot.... David E. Swann, who embezzled $51,000 from the Northern Pacific office at St. Paul, entered a plea of guilty, and was sentenced to thirteen years and and six months at hard labor... .In the Kent County (Mich.) Circuit Court, George Thurston was given a verdict for SB,OOO against Ransom D. Luce, for being kicked down-stairs by Luce ‘ten years ago... .A hurricane which swept over Steubenville, Ohio, caused damage estimated at $250,000. The First Presbyterian Church is a complete wreck.. ..A bill to change the capital from Bismarck to Pierre has been introduced in the Dakota Legislature.

THE SOUTH.

After an idle period of several months, work has been resumed by four large tobacco factories at Lynchburg, Ya., and others are preparing to start, giving employment to 2,000 colored laborers... .Geo, P. Carry, an insolvent banker of Augusta, Ga., who accepted bonds for safe-keeping and converted them to his own use, was found gnuty of laroony and sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary: Advices from Baltimore report that of the $200,000 required to establish the proposed female college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church $135,000 has already been collected.... Fire der stroyed over $120,000 worth of property at Fayetteville, N. C. Col. -A. K, McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, upon arriving at New Orleans was waited upon by a United States Marshal, who served ou him notice to answer a suit for libel for SIOO,OOO broughtby the Louisiana State Lottery Company X.. Dispatches from Texas report great loss to cattle anil sheep by the late cold weather in various parts.

WASHINGTON.

Washington telegram: “Gen. Slocum said to-day that he should not under any circumstances report to the House the bill passed by the Senate to put Grant on the retired list, but not mentioning his name. He declared he should report the other bill, which does mention Grant’s name, and let the President veto it if he still thought his pretext for vetoing the Fitz John Porter bill was good. Gen. Rosecrans, C liaii man of the Senate Military Committee, is utterly opposed to putting Grant on the retired list He says he is not in favor of recognizing in any way the late firm of Grant & Worth ” It does not seem ltkely that the Spanish treaty will ever be reported from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The consideration of the Nicaragua treaty will probably be postponed until next Congress..,. The River' aud Harbor Committee has decided to insert in the appropriation bill $300,000 to commence work on the Hennepin Canal... No notice is to be taken of Gen. Hazen's charges against Gen. McKeever concerning the alleged derogatory remarks made by the latter about the management of the preely expedition. Although for lack of time the bill providing regulations to protect the public is not likely to pass the present Congress, an appropriation will probably be recommended to prevent the spread of a possible cholera epidemic in this eountry. Secretary McCulloch owns that he had a very 6tormy interview with exBpeaker Randall on the subject of the whisky regulations. Mr. Randall questioned the authority of the Secretary to promulgate Buch regulations, and made some remarks about assumption of power and impeachment... .A' dispatch from Washington announces the death of RearAdmiral PowelL To the statement that the proposed imposition by the German Government of a discriminating tariff upon American cereals would be a violation of the treaty with Prussia of 1828 answer is made that the German Empire is not the Prussia Of 1828. This would seem to imply that the treaty of 1828 with Prussia is no longer in force between the United States and Germany, The State Department at Washington takes the ground that the treaty is still operative.... Great preparations are being made in Washington for the inauguration. Thousands of mattresses are offered to rent, and prices for windows range from. $lO to SSO. Very considerable contributions are said to have been made to cover the expenses.

POLITICAL.

George T. Downing, of Rhode Island, a leading spirit among the negroes, has addressed to several prominent Democrats of New York an open letter declaring the election of Creveland a happy event, and arguing that to win the oolored vote is better than to int midato’ it.....c At a Democratic Congressional caucus in Washington, Mr. Randall expressed the opinion that by March 4 every appropriation bill would have been and he urged that no money be voted at this session for an increase of the navy.

Republicans of the Connecticut Legislature nominated Orville H. Platt for United StAtes; Senator, and the Democrats named William H. Barnum... .The Legislatrwfi of Nevada hns re-elected John P. Jonedßro the United States Senate. An organized movement hostile to Senator Garomas Cabinet pßtipects is reported to be-On foot among Democrats in Washlp||j|j ton. It is charged that Senator Garland is q.Fjederalist in disguise. ' .SL jlqhn is out with another letter, in which 4)jr denies the imputations cast upon him by certain members of the Republican party, and says that he at no time considered negotiations lookng to his withdrawal as a candidates. To this Editor Clarkson hastily replies that what St. John says is more of u confession than a contradiction, and charges that he only deals with quibbles and evades the main facts. The Springer Committee which has been investigating the election irregularities at Cincinnati adjourned last week, subject to call, and repaired to Washington. a , ',

GENERAL.

Civil war has broken out in the United States of Colombia. A battle was fonght at Tunja, tho result being the defeat of the federal forces and the killing of their commander, Gen. Montisfar. Outbreaks of a desperate character l have- oecnrred in Santander and Boyaw. The revolutionists seek to overturn thje liberal state governments as a preliminary to an effort to displace President Nunez. In its last weekly review of the state of trade BradstrceCs says: "The general commercial situation throughout the country, 'as reported by special telegrams from leading trade centers, corroborates the view expressed last week, that while there ,is a feeling abroad of greater confidence respecting the outlook for business there is little apparent basis theiefor, beyond the advanced price of wheat, which in turn is of course the approximate cause of the gain in Indian eorn, oats, flour, and particularly so for the movement in hog product. As previously indicated, an improvement dne to the spring demand was not unlikely to take place in the staples, and mainly in food products nnd.dry goods... .There were 445 failures in tho United States reported during the\ week, against 448 in the preceding week, ana 321, 317, and 310 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882, respectively. About 84 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades the failures were as follows: General stores, 76; grocers, 72; clothing and cloth, 25; hardware and. agricultural implements, 24; manufacturers, 22; liquors, 19; shoes, 18; dry goods, 18; jewelry, 18; drugs, 15; books, stationery . and printsing, 14; furniture, 12; lumber and material, 11; tobacco and cigars, 11; bakers and confectioners, 10; millinery, 9; produce and provisions, 8; hotels and restaurants, 1; fancy goods, 6; grain and millers, 5; hats, 5; harness, 5; markets. 4; carpenters and builders, 4; banks and bankers, 3; coal and wood, 3; crockery, 3; men’s furnishing goods, 3. Bishop Alfred Lee, of Delaware, has written a letter to Assistant Bishop Potter, of New York, expressing grief and astonishment at the action of Bishop Potter in admitting a Mr. Huntington to the Order of the Holy Gross. An aspirant to membership in the order is required to take monastic vows. Bishop Lpe was shocked at Bishop sympathy with “Romish abominations. Bishop Potter has replied that inasmuch as the sisterhood had the sanction of the church he did not see why there should not be,a brotherhood also. Nathaniel McKay, formerly one of the leading shipbuilders of the country, has recently visited Panama. He reports that the Panama Canal is progressing amazingly, and that in five years it will be completed. Laborers are being imported in large numbers from the West Indies, and a quantity of machinery is being brought from Scotland to assist in diggipg the canal after it has reached water level. The deepest cut is between 200 and 300 feet. The earth excavated has to be carried miles away. It will probably cost $200,000,000 to complete the canal. Mr. McKay thinks that the De Lesseps people will have to take charge of the cities along the line.... According to the annual report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, the corn production of the country last year was 1,795,000,000 bushels. Of wheat th»re was 513,000,000 bushels, aDd of oats 583.000,000 bushels. These are the largest aggregates ever recorded. According to the annual report of the Secretary of the American Colonization Society eighty-one persons were sent to Liberia from the United States the past year, and the total number sent from the United States in the sixty-four years in which the eolony has been established is 15,776.... All the oatmeal mills in the United States except four on the Pacific Coast have signed an agreement consenting to enter a pool to raise the price of the article.

FOREIGN.

Terribbe havoc, both to life and property, has been reported from the recent typhoon in Japan, and especially on the west coast At a place called Knrashiki 500 houses were destroyed and 1,800 persons killed. At Tamasliima the sea walls were carried away, 100 lives lost, and 430 houses blown down; while at Imabari, Matray- * ma, and Iyo 151 houses were wrecked, 112 junks rank, and 170 persons drowned.... London society is discussing the likelihood of the Dnke of Marlborough’s fulfilling his promise of marriage to Lady Aylesford, now that the husband of the latter is dead. In 1876 Lady Aylesford left her husband, and the Dnke promised to marry her as soon as it should be possible... .Prime Minister Ferry announced in the French Chamber of Deputies (hit the Government had decided on the immediate and complete, occupation of Tonquin as the only means to settle the Chinese difficulty. ... .Po ice Commissioner Rumpff was killed at Frankfort-on-the-Main in fjront of liis own house. It is believed that the murder was the work of anarchists... .It is said that the march of the British army to Kbartonm will be effected without opposition. .The deficit for the Prussian budget for amounts to $5,000,000. Thirty camels dropped dead on the march of Gen. Stewart’s army across the desert from Gakdul to Howenatt The troops suffered severely. Most of the water-skins leaked, and the men, overcome by drank np their rations prematurely. All hardships were bome bravely, the men sieging cheerily on their march.... Miss Fortescue has settled upon her mother £6,000 of the £IO,OOO which she received in damages from Lord Gapnoyje... .Three reasons were given in the Congo Conference for, the participation of America in its deliberations—first, that America was the first power to officially recogaixe the African International Association; second, that the population of this country includes 6,000,000

negroes whose parent country is Africa; and third, that Americans -mainly explored the country-..... Henry George addressed an audience of 10,000 workmen in front of the>43qyal Exchange, London. An extra force of policemeri were on guard to prevent disturbances... .A wellknown broker and money lender of "Vienna, named GaschskyT has absconded, after dwindling a number of people to the amount of $250,000.,, .The packet Admiral Moorsom, from Dublin for Holyhead, was sunk in a collision with the Santa Clara from New York... .Edmond About, the French author, is dead.... Gen. Ignatieff has been appointed Governor o{ Eastern Siberia.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

New York special: Geu. Benjanrn F. Butler began a suit in the United States Circuit Court to-day against Stephen B. Elkins, one of Blaine’s managers of the Republican National Committee. The complaint charges that in February, 1884, a contract was signed whereby the defendant agreed to convey by quit claim to the plaintiff about 100,000 acres of land in Mora County, New Mexico. Gen. Butler was to pay Elkins 75 cents an acre. Gen.-Butler asks the court to enjoin Elkins from selling the lands, and to decree that he shall perform his agreement. . . .Richard Wbrthington, publisher at New York, made an assignment, with liabilities of $300,000, Senator Morgan, of Alabama, says that he is opposed to further acquisition of territory by the United States, but that, in his opinion, it is desirable to build up neighboring governments and to maintain friendly relations with them.... The Hjufjffblican Sena tonal caucus at Albany resulted in 01 votes for Evarts, 28 for Morton, and 3 for Depew . .. The Democratic members of the Indiana Legislature in caucus renominated by acclamation the Hon. Daniel Voerhees for United States Senator. __ 1 While two children of Mr. Sweet were playing “doctor” at Kalamazoo; one gave the other strychnia, the little fellow dying in a short time. The poison had been purchased to kill rats.... A broken rail caused a smashup of a Wabash train near St. Louis. Two cars were thrown into a ditch and eleven persons were injured—United States Express Messenger J. J. Mattocks fatally... .A bill enfranchising women has been introduced in the Indiana Legislature. A Turkish army of G.OOO men has beeir ordered to Snakim. It is reported in London that the British Government is prepared to resist any attempt on the part of Turkey to land troops iu Egypt. There is great activity at the British naval stations, troops are under orders to be in readiness to move at a moment’s notice, and indications all point to stirring events in Africa. Gov. Kineeap, of Alaska, is in Washington trying to secure the passage of a law by Congress which shall meet the necessities of the case in his Territory. At present the Executive has no authority to speak of, nobody observes the law, and liquor is sold openly despite prohibitory’ legislation. The Governor does not think that Alaska should be given a Territorial form of government. Ho is in favor of a Council, which should be empowered to regulate affairs. ‘ . ' . '• The Treasury Department at- Washington has issued speoial instructions to Collectors of Customs and its other agents in the vicinity of the Gulf coast to be on the alert to prevent any violation of international obligations in fitting out filibustering expeditions against Cuba. The reVenue steamers Dix and Forward are now cruising in the Gulf on the lookout for suspicions vessels. The United States steamer Galena is at New Orleans and the United States steamer Tennessee is on her way to Key West. The Ynntic, Swatara, and Alliance are cruising near the West Indies... .The Cleaving House exchanges last week—s776,s99,269 —were $2,113,063 greater than for the preceding week. When compared with the corresponding period a year ago, however, there is a falling off equaling 27.9 per cent. Mu. Coke, of Texas, introduced a bill In the Senate, Jan. 19, for the establishment of a quarantined stock-trail from Red River to the Canadian boundary. The rest of the day was devoted to eulogies of Senator Anthony, delivered by Senators Aldrich, Edmunds, Bavard, Pendleton, Garland, Ingalls, and others. Resolutions were .passed on the subject. Speaker Carlisle laid before the House an estimate of $40,000 required for the incidental expenses of the naval vessels anchored off the exposition at New Orleans. Resolutions were introduced asking the President for copies of dll correspondents:: in regard to the Oklahoma lands, and for a copy of the recent appeal of Fitz John Porter. Bills were presented to enforce the collection of taxes on distilled spirits in bonded warehouses, to amend the act to promote telegraphic communication with Asia, and to establish uniform pensions for pilots on Union gunboats during the late war. It being understood that the Military Committee was about to bring forward the Grant bill, the opponents of the measure forced an adjournment.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Reeves. $6.00 <a 7.00 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 Fix)uk—Extra. 4.00 @ 6.00 Wheat —No. 2 Spring.. .94 @ .96 No. 2 Red 93 @ .95(2 Corn—No. T 51 @ .63!* Oats —White .38 @ .40 Fork—New Me 55...... 13.00 @13.50 oarcAGO. Beeves —Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @7.00 Good Shipping 5.60 & 6.00 Common to Fair....... 4.50 @5.00 Hogs 4.25 @5.00 Flour—Fancy Red Win ter Ex... 4.25 @4.75 Prime to Choice Spring.. 3.75 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 81 @ .83 . No. 2 Spring 80 @ .81 Corn—No. 2 37 & .38 Oats—No. 2 23 & .30 Rye—No. 2 4 60 @ .61 Barley—No. 2 60 @ .63 Butter —Choice Creamery. 28 @ .30. Fine Dairy 18 @ .25 Cheese—Full Cream 12 & .13 Skimmed F1at......... .08 @ .09 >4 Eggs—Fresh 22 @ .at Potatoes —New, per bn 40 @ .42 POKK-Mesa '..... 11.75 @12.25 Lard TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 79 @ .81 Corn—No. 2 41 & .42 Oats—No. 2 1 29 & .31 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No 2 - 78 & • n Corn—No. 2. .38 & .40Oats—No. 2.... J. 29 @ .31 Barley—No. 2. 4* 53 @ .54 P0rk—Me55.......... 11.75 @12.25 Lard P. 6.50 @ 7.00 ST. LOUIE Wheat—No. 2 Red 87 @ -88 Corn—Mixed .36 @ .37 Oats—Mixed. 28 @ .30 Rye. 51 @ .58 Pork—Mess 4...: 12.00 @12.60 CINCINNATL Wheat—No. 2 Red *B4 & .86 Corn. 1 41 & .43 Oats—Mixed 31 @ .33 Polk—Mesa 12.00 @IXSO Lard : , .06?i@ .07 DETROIT. Flour 5.25 @ 5.T5 Wheat—No. 1 White....* .88 @ .90 Corn-Mixed 41 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 White ...: 31 @ -33 Pork—FamUy 12.00 #12.50 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT—No. 2 Bed, New.... 82 @ .84 Corn—Mixed... 37 @ .38 Oats—Mixed .!» @ .80 EAST LIBERTY. CAITLE—Best. . 6.59 @,7.00 Fair 5.50 @ 6.00 Common... ........... 4.50 @5.00 H0g5............ 4.50 @6.00 Sheep 4.25 @4.75

A MAD HOUSE FIRE.

One of' the Detached Cottages at the Kankakee (LI.) Asylum Burns to the Ground. Seventeen of the Unfortunate Patients Literally Roasted '■ to Death. [Kankakee (HD special. 1 A detached ward in the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane was discovered on fire at '3 o’clock this morning by night watchman Cabbro. The cold was intense, the mercury marking 12 degrees below. The hour being late and no alarm being at hand the situation was appalling at the start. The watchman stood Almost paralyzed with fright as the probable outcome of madmen fighting fire and cold together flashed upon him. The building is a two-story stone and brick, with no wood about it except the floor and stairways. It was completed last August at a cost of $25,000. It was used as aft infirmary, with forty-five insane inmates, twenty-three on the first floor and twenty-two on the second. Attendants Brown, Rose and wife were sleeping on ftie second floor, attendants Reid, Williams, and Fireman Labarger on the first. The building was healed by hot-air furnaces. The watchman discovered the smoke issuing from the floor immediately above the furnace. He aroused the attendants. The smoke was drawn through the hot-air flue and along the halls and stairways to all parts of the build ng. The fire spread so rapidly that all efforts to save the building, in the absence of a fire alarm to summon help and for want of facilities to guard the'flames, were vain. Attendant W. A. Reid began dragging and carrying out the patients. Many were clad in their night clothes only. As soon as they were taken from the building they rushed bnck from the bitter cold into the building. Reid, at the risk of his own life, struggled on until twenty-one of his twenty-three patients were rescued, when he became exhausted and was carried to bed. On' the second floor attendants Rose and wife heard the alarm and escaped down the stairway just before it fell. Attendant Brown, sleeping on-the same floor, was aroused by the smoke. He attempted to save a patient in an adjoining room, but failed, and, sliding down a sheet from his window, jumped to the ground. Superintendent R. S. Dewey reached the scene and with a ladder climbed to the second-story windows, smashed them in and rescued some of the patients thereby. Almost all the patients refused to co-ope-rate in the efforts made To save them, and were only rescued by being dragged from the flames and held from returning. A marvelous escape was that of an inmate who fell with the second floor and struck the burning debris above the furnace and bounded through a window to the ground uninjured. The remains of the bodies of twelve patients have been taken from the ruins burned to fragments. They were only identified by the location of their bodies. The dead thus far identified, with ages and residences, are; From Chicago, Thoma's Herelev, 27 years old, brother of State Senator Hereley; James Colbert, 32 years old; M. Jordon, 30 years old; Thomas Hickey, 35 years old. from Springfield; F. Weymouth, 32, Peru; Henry Brown, 40, Rock Island; S. W. Galloway. 42, Saybrook; George Bennett, 24, Morris; J. J. Johnson, 35, Danville:, Matthew Haigh, 41, Chebanse; Theodore Hoehner, 63, Freeport. The following are missing inmates of the burned building, all of whom, no doubt, perished: Alfred Runyard, aged 50, Winnebago; C. M. Tyler, 45, Sheldon; C. Shotz, 65, Chicago; John Nathan, 42, Chicago; Orlando Ellis, 42, Pontiac. At the Coroner’s inquest this morning Superintendent Dewey testified that he had asked the Legislature two years ago for $2,500 to proteot these detached wards from fire; that SI,OOO wub allowed, all of which was used in mains and hydrants; that the amount was insufficient to answer the purpose suggested. He had recommended that the floors above the hot-air farnaoe be changed. It was shown in the evidence that they were but four inches from the outside and ten inches from the inside of the furnace to the pine joists. The Superintendent gave two reasons for the great nnmiier of deaths —first, that the patients were most all suffocated by smoke before they could be renched, and second, the inability or unwillingness of insane patients to try and help themselves. Night Watchman Cobbs testified before the Coroner’s jury that he registered a report of his calls every half hour. The register showed that he visited the furnaceroom at 3:40 o’clock and found it all right then. At 4:10 o’clock he discovered the fire. He said that the floor immediately over the furnaces had frequently been noticed by attendants sleeping there to be uncomfortably hot; that the furnace was roofed by sheet-iron, then by two layers of brick laid in mortar, with a’ space of but six inches between them and pine. Attendant R. C. Williams testified that five minutes after the fire was discovered it was blazing through the floor; that on being roused he ran outside and saw that the fire was only visible about and around the furnace. Attendant J. C. McFarland, outside night watchman, testified that he heard the cry of “Fire!” and roused the attendants of wards 5 and .6, and carried two ladders to the burning building front the earpentei shop 100 yards away. P. Skuily, foreman for Architect J. R. Willett of Chicago, who has charge of id) the hospital buildings, testified that he inspected the furnaces when completed and was satisfied with them then, but had not inspected them since. The air circulated bi tween the furnace roof and the pine timber. Thb hot-air. conductors were brick flues, no wood being about them. The hotair flues had four-inch walls and the smoke flues eight-inch walls. The remains of the bodies with one exception did not aggregate each a sufficient quantity of charred fragments to fill a man’s hat.

Robert Bonner, proprietor of the New York Ledger, Bays he bas on imigimiry censor in an old country Indy who reads the paper alond to her children, and objeots to finding a word in a story which she need hesitate at ont explaining to her little grandchildren when they ask what it means. A Chinaman near Rockland, Cal., last season shipped over 2,0( 0 horned-toads io China, where they will be converted into various kinds of very expensive medicine. Judge David Davis says that his worst friend is a woman whose poetry he once laughed at This was twenty-eight years ago, and she still hales him. r The permanent population of Washington is estimated at "12,000, and the transients in town at 10,000. Robert Browning,! the post, aged 73, is about to remarry. V

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

Brief Summary of* the Proceeding* of Congress. ' ■ U . I Mr. Edmunds’ MU to plaoa Qea. Grant en the retired list with the fall rank cad pay of General passed the Senate after a short debate on toe l*th Inst. The vote stood yeas 49, nays 9. Mr. Edmunds spoke strongly and feelingly in favor of the MIL Among the Democrats .Maxey.Voorhees, George, Gibson, and Jonas spoke in favor. The Senators who voted nay were: Beck, Cockrell, Coke, Harris. Pendleton, Saulsbury, Slater, Vance, and Walker On motion of Mr, Hale the Senate took up Go* naval appropriation bill and passed it, with the committee's amendments. A long debate followed concerning the inter-state commerce bill Resolutions were adopted regretting the death of Schuyler Colfax The House passed a bill appropriating $1,600 to send special messengers to lowa and Oregon to secure duplicate certificates of the electoral vote of those States, which are required by law. The Chinese indemnity fund bill, which also passed, authorizes the President to return to the Chinese Government $68:1,400 in coin. A bill was Introduced by Mr. WeUer ia refund the bonded debt of the United States at 2H> per cent, to reduce taxation on the circulating bank-note currency, and to apply the national revenues economically to the payment of the pnblte debt ~~ Mr. Miller introduced a bill In the Senate, on the 15th, to increase the pension of the widow of General George H. Thomas to SI,OOO per annum. Mr. Hale made a favorable report on a b 11 for the relief of sufferers by the wreck of the Tallapoosa. In executive session Mr. Morgan spoke in support of the treaty with Nicaragua. President Arthur nominated to the Senate Judge William A. Richardson of the Court of Claims 10 be Chief Justice of the Fame court. Assistant Secretary of State Davis was nominated for the vacancy made by Judge Richardson's promotion. Sneaker Carlisle laid before the House of Representatives a request by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for «iO,Doe to maintain order at the dedication of the Washington monument and during the inaugural ceremonies. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the six-months’ naval appropriation bill. The McPherson lauding bill, to enable national banks to secure 10 per cent, additional circulation, was killed for the session by adjourning for a caucus. The Slater amendment to the interstate commerce bill, prohibiting a greater charges for a stort haul than for a long one, was taken np and discussed in the Senate on the li th. Senators Ingalls and Allison objected to the amendment on the ground that it wonld legalize the charging of as much for a short haul as for a long one. In reply to this it was argned that the railroads now make a practice of charging more for short distances than for long ones. Mr. Vau Wyck made a strong speech against monopolies. Mr. Cameron presented a memorial for improvements in the Monongahela River. Mr. Beck Introduced a bill to adjust the claims of any State for expenses incurred in the defense of the United States. A resolution was adopted directing the erection of a- marble tablet in the room in which occurred the death of Vice President Henry Wilson. A conference committee was appointed on the temporary naval appropriation bilL A memorial was presented from 3,000 cigar- makers of Philadelphia, setting forth that the ratification of the Spanish treaty wonld throw out of tmployment more citizens of the United States ehan there are inhabitants in Cuba and Porto Rico. The House of Representatives passed a bill to authorize the bridging of the Mississippi at Memphis. Mr. Cobb reported the disagreem At of the conference upon the Atlantic and Pacific land-grant forfeiture bill. Mr. Cobb stated that the disagreement between the tup Houses concerned the Morgan amendment plaoed upon the bill by the Senate. Mr. Hlscock moved that the House recede irom its disagreement with the Senate’s amendment The motion was lost and another Conference Committee was appointed. The Senate’s amendments to the Oregon Central land-grant forfeiture bill were non-oon-onrred In. A bill was reported granting a pension of SSO per month to the widow' of Commander S. Dana Green. A petition in favor of the Mexican pension bill, signed by 1.800 persons, was presented by Mr. Wood. The Indian appropriation bill, setting aside $5,064,136, was reported. The bill provides for fine and imprisonment whenever any person shall furnish any Indian with guns or ammunition, except civilized Indians of the Indian Territory. The President is empowered to disarm such Indians as iu his judgment may seem best to preserve the peace and prevent depredations. The bill further provides for punishment by fine and Imprisonment of persons introducing ardent spirits into the Indian country. Mr- Frye, of Maine, Introduced a bill In the Senate, Jan. 17, for the encouragement of the merchant marine, and to promote postal and commercial relations with foreign countries. The Chair laid tßif inter-Stato commerce bill before the' Senate, and after a kmg debate the Slater amendment, prohibiting higher rates for short than for long hauls, was defeated. An amendment proposed by Mr. Allison was agreed to, increasing the number of Commissioners from five to nine, and providing that not more than five of them shall belong to one polltioal party. The amendment provides that the Commissioners shall be selected one from each of the nine Judicial districts of the United States. In the House of Representatives Mr. Gibson rose to a personal explanation and denied that he had un~ favorablv criticised ex-Sponger Randall at the recent Wheeling conference. A resolution was adopted asking the Attorney General concerning the application of the Eight-Hoar law to letter-carriers.

The Dude and His Pop.

One day there appeared on the streets of a Texas town a dude of the dudiest type, and, of oonrse he was the observed of all observers. He was qniet in everything but his dress, and until about *4 o’clock in the afternoon he got along very well, and at that hour he went out for a walk, and as he passed a saloon on the opposite side of the street he was Baluted by a chorus of yells from a lot of cowboys in front. “Put a thimble over it," "Tie a blue ribbon to it,” “Do it up in pink cotton,” “Grease it and slip it into a knot hole,” “Give it to a tailor,” and such exclamations rang out, and the dude walked very slowly and took it all in. Finally Bolus Hankus, the terror, shouted: “Hold on, boys; gifj still a minit an’ watch the fur fly. Stick your peepers on to that tubular biler hat and see me shoot a hole clear through it.” Bolus pulled his gun, and the other boys stood back to enjoy the sport, while the dude walked slower than ever. Pop went the gun and the hat flew, but the dude, quicker than a flash, whirled around, and a long, pearl-han-dled revolver shone in the sunlight for an instant and then cracked. Bolus’ hat jumped six feet off his head, and before any of the boys oould think, five more hats jumped off, after five Little puffs of blue smoke rose from the other side, and then the crowd, with a yell, broke around the corner as if a cyclone had been after them. * The dnde smiled and scratched his chin, reflectively: “Well,” he said to himself, “clothes does make some diff in a man’s looks; an’ Pm a thinkin’ if the boys hed knowed I wuz Jim Beardsley they’d a let me had my little sport, and not get their hats spiled. Well, well, sich is life; I guess I’d better go over and let t’em irrigate theirselves on my bank account" —Cincinnati Merchant Traveler. A countryman in search of a headstone for. his mother’s grave pitched upon one the stonecutters had prepared for another person. “I like this one, * he said. “But,” said the other, “that belongs to another man, and has Mrs. Perry’s name cut upon it; it wouldn’t do for your mother." “Oh, yes it would,” said the countryman. “She couldn’t read. And, besides,” he continued, “Perry was always a favorite name of hers.” —Bouton Journal, “I’ll be even with yon,’* remarked one paraiieMine to the other.