Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1887 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL."*"- rrmismtn.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THK EAST. A TELEORAM from Philadelphia reports that the Supreme Court of that State, has just decided the Pennsylvania prohibitory oleomargarine law to be constif.itioual. The result of this is that the mere holding of imitation butter in that State will subject the party to a criminal prosecution. Flames at Lock Haven, Pa., destroyed Kreamer's building, valued at $75,000.... The New York Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions approving the interstate conimerce bill except the provision prohibiting greater charges for a shorter than for a longer haul and the one prohibiting pooling. Henry Morris, principal in the Now York Filtering Manufacturing Company, at Woodbridge, N. J., has disappeared, after having destroyed the boons and accounts of the concern. He is accused of forgery, is said to have carried off s4(>.<ljM l in cash, and has floated paper to the extent of nearly SIOO,OOO. An examination of the premises in Philadelphia where Joseph Perry and Richard Price were frozen to death revealed cash and other effects to the value of SIOO,OOO. They had been living in comparative poverty,’ and died because of their penury.... ■ The largest finished diamond in the United States, known as “The President,” valued at $45,000. was offered in the Tombs Police Court, New York, as bail for a saloon-keeper, and tahen as security... The convicts in the New Jersey penitentiary were found with jewelers’ saws, which had been smuggled in to them in plugs of tobacco. They were sawing the bars preparatory to a wholesale escape when the plot was discovered. . . .At New Haven, Conn;, several railroad officials were fined SSO each for “blacklisting” a former employe. They took an appeal.

THE WEST.

Indictments agaiast the St. Louis and San Francisco Express robbers—Wittrock, Haight, and Weaver—were handed in by the Grand Jury at St. Louis on the afternoon of Jan. 4. The prisoners were immediately arraigned, pleaded guilty, aud were sentenced in short order—Wittrock and Haight to seven years, and Weaver to five years in the penitentiary. They have been imprisoned at Jefferson City. Allen Folliver, who imagined himself to be Jesus Christ, was adjudged insane at Decatur, 111. Upon leaving the court room he jumped to the stone floor below, falling upon a prisoner, whom he tried to kill. He next grasped the steamcoil, burning his hands to the bone before his hold could be loosened... .At San Francisco a dynamite cartridge,was placed in a slot on the Sutter street cable road. A lady saw a man lift the trap and lower a lighted package. The /.explosion shattered the masonry and broke the pulleys. The iron plates on the man-holes were blown two hundred feet;.. .At a prayer-meeting near Eldorado Springs, Mo., a man named Oakes, who created a disturbance, was rebuked by a fanner by the name of Clark. Oakes then drew a knife and cut Clark s throat from ear to ear. ....A leak in a natural gas-main at Youngstown, Ohio, caused an explosion in the new Andrews block, on South Market street. Flames burst forth at once, and the entire building and the first Baptist Church were destroyed. The total loss is SIOO,OOO. .. .There were fourteen pouches of letter mail and about a truckload of paper mail burned in the railroad wreck.at 0hi0... .In a railway accident jj/ Russell, Kas.. H. C. Tinges, of Kansas City, aud F. T. Alexander, supposed so live at Ottawa, Kansas, were killed... Thomas Johnson closed a thirtyday quail feat at Springfield, 111., by eating three. Isaac W. Sprague, the “living skeleton,” has just died in Chicago. Five years ago he sold his body to the Harvard Medical College. for SI,OOO, and it has been taken to that institution. His weight, at the time of his death was forty-five pounds. Sprague was bom in Massachusetts, in IS4I. At birth he weighed twelve and a half pounds, and was thought to be perfectly healthy. Before he was a year old he began to charge. His flesh d.sappeared, and in eight weeks he was nothing but bones. When 4 years old he recovered his robust form end grew rapidly, and at 12 years his weight was 100 pounds. Suddenly his flesh left him. and. although pronounced healthy, he still decreased in weight. When 25 years of age the disease attacked his muscles, and he became a subject for the medical colleges as an extreme case of progressive muscular atrophy. It was then he placed himself on exhibition as the living skeleton. In ISTc’he was married, and a large strong boy. how 18 years old, was the result of the union. A SaN Francisco paper is in receipt of * papier stating that the recent dynamite explosion in that city was planned by a powerful society, organized in Chicago immediately after the Haymarket riot, and that other explosions will follow, if the demands of the street-railway employes are not granted....A ease on trial in. the Federal court at St. Paul will force a decision as to whether an Indian can.'bring a legd action to determine his property rights or is simply a ward of the Interior Department... .1 he criminal court at St. Louis reduced the bail of Fotheringham, the unfortunate exi press messenger, to SBOO. He was indicted for grand larceny and receiving stolen property....l he shops of the North rn Pacific Hoad at Fargo, D. T., were destroyed by tire. The Joss is about $260,000. . ...R. Rothschild’s Sons, manufacturers and dealers in furniture and earpels at Cincinnati, have made an assignment.. . .At Aitkin, Minn., the thermometer is reported to have gone down to GO degrets below Eero. Mr. M. B. Curtis, the well-known comedian, who achieved fame and made himself rich in the Hebrew character of , “Sam'l of Foaen,” seems to have struck another rich vein in his new play, “Caught in a Corner.” The leading role, Ikey Greenwald, as interpreted bv him, is a fine bit of comedy acting, and promises to ■ achieve a great run. Mr. Curtis continues another week at ' McVicker’s Theater/ Chicago. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad depot at Kewanee, 111., was burned, and also the Ohio Southern Railroad machine and car shops at Springfield. Loss SI t 0 ,000.... .John Rand, aged 74 years, was married at Osakis, Minn., to a Boston woman who answered bis advertisement. He procured a divorce from his fifth wife about a- month ag0...-.. Wi lliam Boehm was accidentally shot and killed at Joliet,

IH., while cleaning a pistol A fire at Lawrence. Kan., destroyed property to the value of $150,00(1. (

THE SOUTH.

An explosion of gas in the coal bunkers of the British steamer Suez, at New Orleans, fatally burned the second engineer and three Chinese firemen, and dangerously burned three other Chinese. Slight shocks of earthquake are still a matter of daily occurrence at Summerville, 8. C.. . .At Macon, Ga., Secretary Lamar and Mrs. Henrietta Holt were married at the home of the bride. . . .There were five oi six inches of snow at Macon, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., last week. In the latter city the streets are filled with improvised sleighs. 8. M. Sterritt, 40 years old, who had been married but twenty-four hours, committed suicide near Morgantown, Ky., by cutting his throat, caused by his mother and sister refusing to permit him to bring his bride to their home. „ The German ship Elizabeth was wrecked' off the coast of Virginia, fourteen miles south of Cape Henry. Fifteen men were lost from the vessel, besides five of the lifesaving crew..... Adjt; Gen. King of Texas, in his annual report to Gov. Ireland, of tkat State, very strongly urges the Legislature to make liberal appropriations and encourage the militia that it may be art efficient military force in case of necessity. He says a well-equipped force is imperative, because a deep-seated and dangerous spirit of unrest pervades every part of the land, and in many sections this discontent has taken the form of open lawlessness, violence, and bloodshed, and has assnmed proportions, made claims, and asserted doctrines that threaten the very existence of the States of the Union. He then, without specifically naming any particular organization, gives a scathing denunciation which is clearly aimed at the Knights of Labor.

MASHINGTON.

President Cleveland the other dav received a call from a young man whom he recently pardoned from a penitentiary, who desired to express his gratitude and offer assurances of future good conduct. He was treated with courtesy and given encouragement The contract with the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, for the construction of the naval cruiser Charleston, has been executed by Secretary Whitney. The President has commuted to five years’ imprisonment the sentence of JohnW. Parsons, of Arkansas, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged Jan. 14. The United States Board of Engineers in charge of the survey and improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers recommend to the Secretary of War that work on the Wisconsin River be abandoned, and only so much of that upon the Fox River be completed as will finish the enterprise already begun. In twenty years $1,816,794 has been expended upon the Fox, and $590,175 upon the Wisconsin,The Committee on Revision of Laws of Congress has reported favorably on a bill prohibiting Congressional committees attending funerals at public expense, and limiting the expense of such funerals ..to the actual cost of burial.... The Postmaster General has recommended the repayment of $15,335 to the Postmaster at Minneapolis, being the amount stolen from his office The President has issued an order by which the pensioners in Montana and Wyoming will hereafter be paid at San Francisco instead of Milwaukee as heretofore. _____

POLITICAL.

Governor Bodwell was inaugurated Chief Magistrate of Maine, at Augusta, on the 6th inst. In his message he recommends as a remedy for the fishery troubles the levying of such increased duties on what fish Canada sends to the United States as would partially, if not wholly, exclude Canadian fishermen from our markets. Governor Ames was sworn into office at Boston in the presence of the Legislature and many prominent guests, and delivered an inaugural address. He reports an incvease of BU:.r.i:'..->un for tlto '"past year in the deposits of the savings banks. Governor Oglesby delivered his message to the Illinois Legislature. In calling attention to the fact that in August 267 convicts at Joliet will be relieved fiom contract labor under the constitutional amendment recently adopted, he asks legislation to provide for the contingency. During, the past- yeanthe Illinois and Michigan Canal yielded $50,547 over all expenditures. The Governor recommends early steps -toward the eradication of pleuropneumonia and the restoration of the live-stock trade. The receipts of th£ State Treasury for two years were $9,591,342. The Republicans or the Minnesota Legislature nominated ex-Gqy. C. K. Davis for United ■ States Senator on the first ballot. Senator | Cockrell was renominated by Missouri Democrats, .and Michigan Republicans nominated Francis B. Stockbridge on the tenth ballot. Th£ Legislature of Connecticut elected P. C. Lounsb-ury Governor and James L. Howard-Lieutenant Governor. They were Jhe Republican candidates at the late election. The Missouri House elected J. W. Alexander, of Daviess County, as Speaker. The Republican Congressional Convention at Eau Claire. Wis., nominated Hugh J. Price for the short term, and Nels P. Haugen for the long term, made vacant by the death of the late Congressman Price. ! The nominee for the short term is a son of j the latter. Haugen is a Norwegian, and I ex-State Railroad Commissioner. I The expected trouble in the organization ' of the Indiana General Assembly began when that body was called to order on the 6th inst.-. Green Smith, President pro tern, of the Senate in the last Legislature aiid present claimant to the Lieutenant Governorship, called the Senate toonier. Senator Winter, of Marion, the Kepublican leader, shouted at the Chair for several minutes, while the latter was demanding that Senat-re come to order. Finally he. rose to a question of privelege, but was again pounded br —Smith." ahd announced that the Senate would be opened with prayer by Bishop Knickerbocker. The Democratic 'members stood "doling its delivery. but the Republicans, desiring not to recognize any of the proceedings at this stage as binding upon them, did not. Mr. Winter continued to protest during a portion of the prayer.. The law provides that in the absence of the Lieutenant Governor the Auditor of State shall call the Senate to order, but the Democrat# claimed that as the Lieutenant Governor was present in the person of Green Smith this provision did not apply, and-proceeded.accordingly. After the prayer the newly elected Senators were sworn in bj Supreme Judge Zollars, whereupon Senator Johnson, Republican, said: fl.desire to suggest that an election of Chairman is the only thing now in order.” The Chair- "And I desire.to suggest that you take -your seat and keep Tt.” The Senator took hie s, at and the majorit y were allowed to have-thefr own wav in the subsequent proceedings without much resistance i n the part of tbe opposition. A resolution was moved and carried declaring Smith President of the Semite. Thia action was accepted ■as signifying a settled purpose on the part of the Democrats to held on io the Chairmanship Of the Senate and compel Colonel Robertwn, the Lieirtenaat Governo-eiect, to resort to quo war-

ranto proceedinct to aecnre the poaiUon. The action was clinched by the usual parliamentary motions, and the Senate proceeded to adopt a code of iron-clad rules, which were'put through under the previous question. These rules were carefully framed' to guard aeainst every contingency likely to arise iu the event that Robertson ' gets the chair,, A concurrent resolution providing for the submission of the question of the pro- ; hibition of the’sale of intoxicating beverages to a popular vote has been introduced in both branches of the Missouri Legislature. A bill has also been introduced providing for the restriction of railroad pools. The second day’s session of the Indiana Legislature was attended by a series of partisan wrangles. The Democratic Senate declined to meet the Republican House in joint session to hear the Governor’s message, it having come to their ears that the Republican managers had planned a coup d’etat to be sprung upon the Senate. In consequence, the Governor did not deliver his message orally, as usual, but sent printed cqpies of it to each branch of the General Assembly. The Senate adopted a resolution declaring that the body recognized no vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor prior to the last election, and refusing to join in the canvass of the vote for the candidacy for the office. The Republican majority of the House, in retaliation for the rules adopted by the Senate, adopted a set of regulations fully as arbitrary aS those of the upper body. The effect in either house will be that the majority can summarily and quickly unseat any member of the minority, rightfully or wrongfully----

THE RAILWAYS.

The Fitchburg Railroad Company has purchased the Troy and Boston line, paying therefor $5,500,000 and assuming about $4,000,000 of first, second, and third mortgage bonds of -the Troy and Boston Road. The Montana Central Road has been graded the entire length from Rimini to Great Falls, but the rates demanded by the Union and Northern Pacific roads for the transportation of rails and materials have utterly blocked the project for eighteen months. James F. Joy, in reviewing the events of the past month along the Wabash lines of railway, expresses the opinion that all plans of the purchasing committee have failed and that the “system” will be broken up.... A bill has been introduced in the Ohio Senate providing for the sale of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. Cincinnati is excited oyer the project, there being almost universal opposition to the sale of the road. The St. Paul Road has graded most of its track between Ottumwa and Kansas City, and laid forty miles of rails. Through the rivalry of the Atchison and the Southern Pacific Roads, Southern California is being liberally supplied with new lines. J. L. Lathrop has been appointed General Paymaster of the Burlington Road.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

On increased wages of nearly 20 per cent, the Edgar Thomson steel works at Braddock, Pa., have resumed operations. ... .An increase of $1,000,000 in the capital stock of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company is announced, making the total $6,000,000. __

GENERAL.

Near Republic, Ohio, an express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, westbound; came in collision with a freight. Immediately after the crash the cars took fire. • Fifteen to twenty persons were either killed or slowly burned to death, and all the mail and express matter was destoyed. Mrs. Fish of Joliet, a sister of Gen. Logan, and her son escaped without a scratch An express train from Chicago was wrecked at West Springfield, Mass., by the breaking of an axle. One person was burned to death and nineteen others injured. A large amount of mail was burned. :: Near Pewaukee, Wis., a train ran into a sleigh filled with laborers, killing Bert McConnell and James Anderson and his son. The Secretary of State has received a dispatch from Frederick Paine. United States coi. sul general-at Berlin, setting forth the annoyance to which United States citizens visiting Europe, and especially Germany, subject themselves by neglecting to procure passports before leaving this country. Passports are heeded by all foreigners visiting Berlin. Frankfort, Hamburg, Leipsic, and other cities of the German Empire where a ‘‘minor state of siege" exists, any part of the Russian Empire, and also several places in Austria and Italy.

FOREIGN.

The cable records the adroit work of two female adventuresses in London and Paris. One posed as a beautiful heiress, the other ■as her mother or guardian, as’occasion required. The alleged heiress was represented as a young' widow or young girl anxious to form a matrimonial alliance because of a false step. ' A number of marriages were entered into, the victims then' being thrown overboard, their high social position stopping their mouths. The women have been arrested in Paris. Active military preparations, said to be supported by Russia, are in progress in Montenegro... . The innkeeper at Bucharest who made an attempt-on the life of Prime Minister Bratiano has been sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude. The French Minister of Commerce announces that for the first time in history wheat of excellent quality' and superior weight has been exported by Russia from the Caucasus. Large cargoes have been sent from the ports of Poti and Batoum,... The wheat harvest in Victoria is 12,000,000 bushels, an average of twelve bushels per •acre. The exportable excess is 150,000 tons, or 60,000 tons over that of the preceding year. The organ of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro says it belongs to Montenegro to take the destinies of the Servian race in hand and restore the great empire of King Douchan as it existed previous to Turkish subjugation. The article is supposed to explain the extensive armaments which Montenegro has been making recently... .For the express purpose of dissipating rumors that he intends to return to Bulgaria. Prince Alexander of Battenberg is about to take a prolonged tour in Egypt. ...The Vatican is debating whether the Knights of Labor of America is a proper organization for Catholics to join.... The River Weser is blocked with ice from Bremen to Vegasack .... The loss of life by the fire at the Madras (India/ People’s Bark, was too. The Queen is seriously displeased with Lord- Randolph Churchill for omitting to advise her of his resignation before publishing it. What makesjhe matter all the wotse is that the resignation was written bn Windsor Cattle paper, presumably while Lord Randolph was staying at the Castle as her Majesty's guest.. ..Excit-

ing scenes were witnessed last Saturday in County Clare, Ireland. While a number of bailiffs, accompanied by 100 policeman, were evicting tenants in Maynoe, a wild district, the chapel bells were rung and horns sounded, and the people quickly assembled, headed by priests. Three evicted tedents were reinstated as caretakers, and m two instances the bailiffs had to abandon their attempts to evict tenants, owing to the menaces of the populace. The. police were unable to quell the disorders, and withdrew from the scene. During the disturbance Father O’Flynn, Inspector Heard, and several policemen were injured by being hit with stones.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In the Indiana House of Representatives, on the 10th inst.. Speaker Sayre announced “the Senate” immediately after prayer, and the nineteen Republican memtiers of that body entered and took seats on the Speaker’s right. The attempts of Democrats to secure the attention of the Speaker were futile, and the vote of the recent election was canvassed, the Speaker next making the announcement that Mr. Robertson had been elected Lieutenant Governor. The latter was sworn in by Judge Walker, of the Supreme Court, and proceeded to deliver his inaugural address amid the greatest noise and confusion. After announcement had been made that the joint convention would meet Jan. 19 to ballot for United States Senator, the House adjourned. The entire proceedings were characterized by the wildest disorder. Representative Jewett, the Democratic leader excitedly protested against Robertson presiding over the body, declaring that he. had no authority, even as Lieutenant Governor, to do that. Nearly the whole of the Democratic representation on the floor shouted their protests against what they denounced as a high-handed outrage. “The rag-tag and bob-tail of the Senate,” said one, “have come in here and claim to be the Senate. Against such brutal, cowardly, and unconstitutional action I enter my solemn protest.” The SI,BOO mortgage on the home at Leavenworth, Kan., of Mrs. Wittrock, mother of the express robber, has been paid off, the Adams Express Company, as alleged, furnishing the money. In a libel suit brought against a Chicago newspaper by a Connecticut patent lawyer, asking $20,000 damages lor being pronounced a crank, the defendant filed a demurrer, giving the dictionary definition of crank as machinery having a circular motion.... Heavy losses on stock driven onto the Montana ranges during last summer and fall are anticipated, owing to the intense cold weather, and also to the fact that the cattle reached their new grazing grounds in poor condition... .An Indianapolis & Vincennes passehger train was thrown from the track about three miles from Indianapolis, by a broken rail. The train was running at high speed and all the coaches left the rails and rolled down an embankment. There were about seventy-five passengers aboard, nearly 7 all of whom were more or less injured, but no one was killed. The announcement is made that George L; Bradbury, of Peoria, has been appointed General Manager of the Lake Erie and Western ROad. Mr. Bradbury is at present receiver of the Ohio and Michigan Line. In the New York City Supreme Court, Judge Barrett denied the motion for a change of venue in the case of Jacob

Senator Butler introduced a bill in the Senate on the 10th inst. to prevent the sale of adulterated food in the .District of Columbia nnd Territories. The Senate non-concurred in the House amendments to the Senate, tall to provide lands for Indians, in severalty, an I asked for a conference. Messrs. Stanford, Cullom, and Beck expressed their views on the interstate commerce bill. A petition was presented and referred praying for a reduction of internal revenue taxes. Alsoone from certain North Carolina manufacturers asking the repeal of internal revenue laws and a re duction of the tariff. Senator Frye proposed an amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill making an appropriation of 8403,000 for the transportation of south American mails in American vessels. Hio-following nominations to Consulships wereseut to the Senate : Isaac R. Diller, of Illinois, nt Florence ; Oscar Malmros, of Minnesota, at Cognac; Willoughby Walling, of Indiana, at Leith A bill was introduced in the House authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to erect public buildings mot to exceed in cost SkJ.OJiJ each) in any town in which the gross receipts to the Government from any office exceed Slfi.OJO. Mr. Warner (Ohio), introduced a bill appropriating- $53,000 to aid in the erection of a monument at Marietta, Ohio, to commemorate the first settlement of the Northwest Territory. Mr. Morrill, of Kansas, introduced? a measure to place lumber and salt on the free list, and to reduce the duty on sugar. A measure to grade taxes otr the basis of income was introduced by Mr. Green of North Carolina. Mr. Crain of Texas, by request, presented a bill providing for a retired civil list. Mr. Oates of Alabama introduced a bill making a ten years' residence of aliens a prerequisite to naturalization. Mr. Rowell of Illinois introduced a bill granting aid for the establishment of common schools aud for the professional education of public school , teachers.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Both houses of Congress assembled, after the,holiday recess, on the 4th lost., but immediately adjourned in memory of the late Senator Logan. In the Senate, ds soon as the. reading of the journal was concluded. Mr. Cullom took the floor and said: “Mr. president, the angel of death stalks through the land, and his visitation has been most unexpected during the brief recess of the Senate, imposing on me a duty which I have scarcely the heart to perform—the duty of announcing the death of my distinguished colleague. At bis home, which overlooks this capital city, at 2:57 o’clock on Sunday, the 26th day of December, the spirit of John A. Logan took its flight to the unknown realms of eternity ; and on Friday last his funeral ceremonies were conducted by the Senators apd Representatives present in this Senate chamber, and his mortal remains were conveyed to the silent tomb. We - are called upon to mourn the loss of one of the bravest and noblest of men—a man loved by the patriotic people of bis State and of the nation 7 , a man known to his country and to the civilized world, aud for nearly fourteen years a distinguished member of this Senate. I shall not at this time, Mr. President, attempt to pronounce the words which are -due to the memory of one who for so many years performed so important nnd conspicuous a part in the affairs of this republic. At an early day I shall seek to introduce appropriate resolutions and shall speak, as I may be best able, of the character and public services of our associate ; when an opportunity will be given to the Senators to pay fitting tribute to his memory. Mr. President, out of resjlSct for the memory of the deceased Senator Logan, I move that the Senate do now adjourn.' 7 The motion was agreed to, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives Mr. Thomas of Illinois offered the following resolution. which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the House has heard with great sorrow the announcement of the death of the Hon. John A. Logan, late Senator of the United States from the State of Illinois. “As a further evidence of the respect felt for the deceased statesman,” said Mr. Thomas, I move that the House do now adjourn, giving notice that at a later day I will ask that the proceedings of the House be suspended in order that his colleagues and friends may bear testimony to his worth." The motion was agreed to. aud the House adjourned

An appropriation bill for 8600,000 to promote the Colored People’s World’s Exposition, to be held in Birmingham, Ala., from September 22, 1887, to January 31, 1888, was introduced in the Senate on the sth inst. Senator Sherman introduced a bill to provide that all persons on the pension rolls for loss of limb or limbs shall be entitled to receive arrears of pension from the date of discharge or disability. A bill was introduced for the establishment of not less than one agricultural experiment station and farm in each of the several States. A bill granting a pension of 82,000 a year to the -widow of Gen. Logan was introduced. Senator Plumb introduced a bill to fix the amount of United States bonds to be required of national banks. Senator Cullom presented a memorial of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce favoring the passage of the interstate commerce bill; also of the proceedings of a railroad convention on the same subject Petitions protesting against its passage were also presented. Senator Platt made a long speech on the interstate commerce bill, the Senate having taken up the conference report. The House passed the Indian appropriation bill, covering 85,115,(KX), as also the military academy appropriation bill. Apetition from James A. Garfield Grand Army Post of California, favoring the Edmunds and Tucker anti-polygamy bill, was presented in the House. James W. Heed, Representative for the Fifth District of North Carolina, sr>nt iu his resignation. Mr. McPherson’s resolution, calling ofi the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the indebtedness of the Pacific Railroad Companies to the-government, and as to the effect of the funding bill thereon, was adopted by the Senate on the 6th inst. The Senate passed bills granting pensions of $2,000 per annum ; to the widows of Gen. John A. Logan and Frank P. Blair, and to carry into effect a treaty with China for the suppression of the opium traffic. A resolution was adopted, calling on the Secretary of War for the report of the Board of Engineers on the bridging of the Mississippi River near St. Louie. Senator Edmunds presented a memorial from a committee of the General National Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, praying Congress to provide for obtaining statistics of marriage and divorce. Senator Spooner presented a memorial from the State Grange of Wisconsin, praying for the passage of the interstate commerce bill. The Senate passed the bill to carry into effect the treaty with China for the suppression of the opiutn traffic, and also the bill granting to the Kansas, Texas and Southwestern Railroad Company aud right of way across Fort Hayes military reservation. The bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua was reported to the Senate Foreign Committee and placed on the calendar. A bill to protect the morals of minora in the District of Columbia was introduced by Senator Vance. Presideht Cleveland nominated Thdmas C. Manning, of Louisiana, its Minister to Mexico, and Hugh A. Densmore, of Arkansas, as Minister Resident in Corea. The House of Representatives passed the pension bill, which appropriates $76,217,510. Mr. Henderson introduced a bill authorizing the bridging of the Mississippi at Dubuque. In the election contest of Page vs. Pirpe, a Rhode Island case, a majority report from the Elections Committee of the House hekl.that neither is entitled to a seat in Con•gress, while the minority recommended the seating of Pirce, the Republican sitting member. In the case of Kidd vs. Steele of Indiana a unanimous report was made iu of Steele, Republican. Senator Call introduced aresolution in the Senate, on the 7th inst, declaring that certain lands granted for railroad purposes in Florida shall be forfeited, and instructing the Attorney General to bring suit against all corporations attenipting to sell or advertise public lands embraced in railroad grants where bills for forfeit ure are pending before Congress. Senator McPherson submitted ,an amendment to the interstate commerce bill, proposing the addition of a clause to section 5, which prohibits pooling, in effect suspending that section until Jun. 1, 1888, whenever a ma jority of the commission believe the interests of, both shippers and carriers would be best promoted bv permitting pooling. A remonstrance was presented from Dayton (O.) business meh against, and a petition from the Kenosha, (Wis 1 Business Men’s Club in favor of, the interstate bommeree bill. Petitions favoring the experimental agricultural stations bill were also presented. Bills were passed to adjust the claims of any State for expenses incurred in the national defense ; for a school of instruction for cavalry and artillery at Fort Riley, and appropriating $30,000 for the widow and daughter of Erskine S. Allin, the inventor of the Springfield breech-loading rifle. The House passed forty-two pension bills, including one granting SSO a month to the widow of General Durbin Ward. The House also passed the Senate bill amending the act providing for the sale of the Sac and Fox lowa Indian reservation in Nebraska and Kansas. The amendment provides for the allotment of lands in severalty to minors and orphans. A bill was introduced in the House by Mr. Hiscock on the Sth inst. to reduce the taxation and duties on raw sugar, also on tobacco, snuff and cigars. Mr, Springer presented an amendment which he proposes to offer to the Pacific Railroad funding bill when it comes up for consideration. It proposes to strike out all that nortion of the bill which prescribes the mode in which the companies shall pay their indebtedness to the Government, and to insert in place thereof a series of provisions, the principal of which is that the companies shall, the first dav of October ami 7 semi-annually pay into the United States Treasury a sum equal to the amount which the United States is required to pav semiannually as interest on the subsidy bonds advanced to the said companies until the maturity of said bonds, less the amount of any payments made bv the said companies during the six months previous to any such payment of their indebtedness Under any act of Congress heretofore passed.

A Wisconsin farmer, going down a hill with a load of hay, locked one of the wheels of the wagon. The friction of the wheel upon the ground struck a spark which ignited the hay and started a fire that required eleven men to extinguish. There is a veteran Georgian in Americus who lias fifteen children, fifty-one grandchildren,and twenty-four great-grandchildren. Japan has a population of 37,000,000, but has less than 10,009 paupers.

WHISKY RESPONSIBLE.

Fixing the Blame for the B. A 0. Horror—The Conductor Said to Hare Been Drunk. -y Thrilling Txperiencss of Passengers— Mr. Forrester's Remarkable Escape from Death fClevoland.tO.) special.! The wreck of the trains in the fearful accident on the Baltimore and Ohio near Republic is all cleared away aud the falling snow has obliterated all the evidences of the* fateful catastrophe. The remains of the nine bodies of the unfortunate victims are in charge of the Coroner at Re- ‘ public. Every piece of burnt clothing, aeys, and everything that was not utterly destroyed has been gathered up to aid in the identification of bodies. The responsibility of the accident is now placed upon the freight conductor, Fletcher, who pulled put of a siding four miles west of Republic witliout orders, intending to make the siding at Republic for the passenger train. He missed his calculation just one mile, and the ashes of the unknown victims testify to liis criminal carelessness. It is furtner openly charged that the engineer of the freight train was intoxicated. Whether this is true or not is not positively known. One thing is certain, and that is that a great share of the-responsibility, if not all of it, rests upon the conductor and engineer of tiie freight. They knew they were encroaching on the time of the limited express before their train came to a standstill.

Mr. Evans’ Graphic Story of the Accident. Mr. T. G. Evans of Pittsburgh, Pa., was a passenger on. the ill-fated Baltimore & Ohio train. He occupied a berth in the forward sleeper, and was asleep at the moment of the collision. “I did not hear the crash,” he said. “I was awakened by the jar. Our car trembled and vibrated so that 1 thought it was careening and about to fall on its side. I raised the blinds, looked out the window, and saw we Were standing still. I shouted to the other passengers That we were all right, and told them not to be alarmed. As I looked through the window I saw the flames from the burning cars, and heard cries for help. I hurriedly dressed myself, but by the time I got out the heat was so intense that we could not get within fifty feet of the smoking-car. M. S. Parks, of Washington, had sprung through the window of the smoking-car, but his feet had been caught in the wreck, and he was hanging downward. He died in a short time, aud in a few minutes I saw his skull drop off, a blackened cinder. I heard no screams nor cries after I got out of the sleeper. The weather was very cold, and big tires were prooably burning in the stoves. The telescoping of the cars had crushed the stoves and scattered the coals through the wreck. The lamps were no doubt shattered and the oil must have spread the flames. It was scarcely two minutes, I think, from the time I was awakened until I was dressed and at the cars. It was then too late to do anything for the people,, imprisoned in the heap of flaming debris. The smell of burning human flesh was horrible. The bodies of the dead were simply trunks, headless and limbless. When I looked out of my window I saw three ‘ persons that looked like Joseph Postletbwaite and his two boys. I did not see them after I got out of the car. I saw the Postlelhwaite family get on the train, aud temember particularly the old gentleman aud his boys, but I may have been mistaken about seeing them from the window of the sleeper.”

Mr. Forresfer’a Thrilling; Experience. [From the Chicago News.] Harry C. Forrester, the man who came through the roof of the smoking-car carrying the seat with him, was found by his friends early Wednesday morning at the Portland Hotel, where the Baltimore nnd Ohio Railroad officials were caring for him. He was taken to 182 West Van Buren street, where a friend named W. S. Wixon runs a restaurant. Mr. Wrxon called in his family physician and did everything possible to make the wounded man comfortable. He was in bed when seen by a Daily News reporter, and was weak from loss of blood. “I was aleep, curled up in my seat,” he said, “aud the fir-t thing I knew I heard a terrible crash and felt myself being hurled through the air, The next instant I looked around and found -mvself on the roof of the car. The cur was broken in two, and I had been shot through the hole. Although partially stunned, I managed to jump off into a snow-bank and crawl away. I don’t remember much after that until it was all over."

The attending physician says Mr. Forrester will in all probability survive his injuries. He is bruised from head to foot, and has a bad scalp wound rn addition to several deep gashesrin his body and limbs. Mr. Bevans Tells Wli.at He Saw., Louis A. Bevans, of Zanesville, Ohio, on his way to Nebraska, was among those who were in the first coach after the smoker. At the Windsor Hotel, Chicago, he told his experien--e to a reporter: “I was all dressed, with the exception of my shoes, When the shock came. Hastily putting on my shoes and bat and with my overcoat in my hand I rushed out. I was about the first man to get out of the coach, but even wben l jumped to the ground smoke and flames were issuing from the wrecked cars. It was the most complete wreck I ever saw, aud even worse than I ever imagined eould be produced by a collision. The baggage-car was crushed like an eggshell against the tender of the passenger engine, while the smoking-car was split in two and piled on top‘of the general wreck. The whole forward end of the smoker had disappeared and was scattered about in the form of splinters aud twisted iron-work. , • "Immediately after I jumped out of the car the people began pouring out. The railroadin n seemed verv cool under the circumstances, and called on all the men to help push back the coaches and sleepers, as they were in great danger of catching fire. It was a’little up-grade, but enough of us got bold to push the cars back about sixty feet. In the meantime the fire in the wreck was spreading with great rapidity. There was not a drop of water to be bad, and all we could do was to stand by and let it burn. We did not hear the shrieks of the wounded, as some of the accounts say, because nearly: every one in the smoking-car excepting the four, men who escaped were either stunuedor instantly killed by the shock. It is said that a French painter one day visited the salon, in Paris, in company with a friend who was a member of the Committee of Selection, and who had been instrumental in procuring the acceptance of the painter's work. When the artist came near his picture, be exclaimed, “Good pracioust yott*re exhibiting ffiy picture the wrong side up!” “Hush!” was the reply; “the committee refused it the other way.” An equivocal expressiqn for a bald-headed man—Plenty of room at the top. A WISE night key—-One that knows fts own keyhole. ;