Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — Page 6

'THE REPUBLICAN. Gsoea B. Maiwhall. Publisher. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

In sport in" circles it is said that foot ball is destined to be the coming sport. The base ball cranks ought to make a success at it. They are noted for kicking. - Now that Connecticut has voted against prohibition it is clear that when the wind is southerly the land of steady habits knows bard cider from applejack.s * American workingmen may read ••Looking Backward” from motives of curiosity, but they are not likely to adopt it as a text-book on industrial The man who likes his own talk best should be shut up with a phonograph; but such a man is not satisfied unless other people hear him. That is what makes him a nuisance. Within eighteen months eight persons have been killed by the electric wires in New York city, and yet some people are of the opinion that, murderers can not be deprived of life by electrcity.. A Kentuckv paper thinks it a singular thing that a river’s head is not nearly as big as its mouth. Not at all. That is merely a quality which. establishes the claim of the rivers tc a leading place in politics. The latest successful book in London is “Westward Ho,” of which in a few days 100,030 copies were sold. Westward ho! has been very popular in this country for a century. The same cannot be said of the New England hoe. Professor Garland has a story in a recent number of Harper’s Weekly entitled “Under The Lion’s Paw.” It is a Kansas story and has reference to the land questiop. Kansas has the happy faculty of getting into literature more frequently than any of the sisterhood. The Indians of the Five Nations take great interest in news from the surrounding states, as well as within tho borders of their own nations. Ten weekly newspapers are published Within the territory, and a number of daily newspapers from the states are taken by the Indians. The great secret of success in life is this: Do whatever you can do best, regardless of any competition, and when you have decided what you can do best, do it with all your might and with all your energy, not overtaxing the system, but devoting the entire business time to one industry. The restaurateur who furnished the luncheon to the "South American delegates at the white house has had experience with six presidents. He says; is quite liberal. There were four cases of champagne, besides sherry and Chateau Margaux, and three cases of champagne were drunk. There was no limit placed upon anything.” ' Matrimonial ventures are discouraged by the decision of Land Commissioner Gross that husband and wife cannot “hold down” two homestead claims by living in a house built on the line between two farms. Courting of neighbors will now have to be prolonged until the expiration of the time fixed by law before the claims may be proved up. Prof. Behrend, an English medical authority, who anticipated the discovery of Koch, points out that in the course of a practice of thirty years, largely among Hebrew patients, he has not met a single case of phthisis in the members of that faith, their immunity from its attacks being undoubtedly due to the Jewish method of examiuing and slaughtering cattle. The depredations of the seal pirates in Alaskan waters are becoming so serious that the Alaska Commercial company will not renew its lease of the American seal islands unless the United States guarantees protection from the illicit hunter. The result of the indiscriminate slaughter that is one of the reprehensible features of hunting done on the sly is already evident in a decrease in the average size of seals taken. It will, perhaps, strike most people as somewhat odd that there is a steady importation to America of Irish jaunt-ing-cars. According to the carriagemakers, a certain number of enthusiastic Irishmen have a yearning after their native form of conveyance at certain periods of their lives, and straightaway send over to Ireland for a car. Once here, however, the cars are usually laid aside after the novelty has worn off. ' '! " 1 ~ One of the very painful spectacles of life is to sea a little child half suffocated in a paroxysm of whooping cough. Here is a way to break up the paroxysm at once, commended as infallible by some learned practitioners in Germany and Switzerland. Put the first and second fingers behind the ascending branch of the lower jawbone and your thumbs upon the Ohio, and then draw the lower jaw forward and depress ths chin by t&e same movement, and toll MW,;, ■

THE HEWS OF THE WEEK.

A red hot irrolite feH at Albany, Ore., Friday. Extremely cold weather is reported in Kansas. Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, died on the 15th. Spain will send a military band of 100 pieces to the Chicago Fair. Vice-president-elect Stevenson has gone “’Way down South in Dixie.” Two men were killed and two fatally wounded in a fight near Walton, Ky. Saturday. The funeral of the late Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, took place at Lexington, Ky., Mon“day77 The question of Sunday opening of the World's Fair will be dragged into tho courts shortly. Jim Bond, a negro, was lynched at Guthrie, Ky,. Monday, for an attempted assault upon Mrs. Irvington. F. J. Austin, cashier of A. G. Spaulding, Chicago, was mortally wounded by burglars Monday morning. Warrants have been sworn out for Hugh Dempsey et al. for complicity in the Homestead poison plot. In an amateur stage performance at Hampshire, 111. the hero was accidentally and seriously stabbed. The freight depot of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad at Grand RapidsMich , burned on tho 16th, Bishop O’Hara, of tho Catholic church, at Scranton, Pa., celebrated his golden jubilee as a priest this week. It is said the Rock Island road will supplant the telegraph with the telephone in order to outwit the strikers. Tho badly ffiutilajed remains of a man were found in a box at Quincy, 111., Mon. day. The affair is a mystery. Daisy Scott, a fourteen year old girl of Columbus, O„ fooled with a new revolver Sunday night with fatal results. Rev. Aaron Thompson, an old Presbyterian minister, well known in Indiana, died at Keokuk, la., Monday evening. After this Kansas City’s dog killer will get 25 cen ts for eae h dog-he-kills. and m us 4 show the tail as evidence of the killing. The North German Lloyd steamship Traye carried from New York to Europe Thursday $2,750,000 in gold and 4175,000 in silver. C. Barnum Seely, favorite grandson of the great showman, has sued the executor 3 of bis late grandfather’s wifi, claiming $2,000,000. Elgin laborers were killed and five others injured on the Great Northern railroadat Nelson Station. Minn., Sunday, by a collision. • The Huggins cracker factory at Kansas City was burned on th® 16th. Several of the employes narrowly escaped from tb 0 burning building. 2Dennin E. Sibley, one of the oldest board of trade dealers of Chicago, a: signed on Monday with liabilities of 4268.228.C2 and unknown assets. ' Frederick Bonner, the horseman, attributes all the recent remarkable track records to the pneumatic tire, and intimates that the limit has not been reached. Mr. Blaine’s condition on the 17th was believed by others than the family to be serious. No definite information was obtainable from his physicians or family. Pugilist Joe Goddart wants to fight Corbett for $5,000 to 416,000 a side, and has put up 42,500 on the challenge, which is open to Mitchell if. Corbett doos not accept. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Ryan, of Barn-

well, S. C., were poisonedßy-s-eeteFW-maidservant. Mrs. Ryan died. Mrs. Brown will recover. The servant confessed and is in jail. Reports on Tuesday indicated that Mr. Blaine was somewhat better, tindthc physicians were hopeful of temporary recovery, but refused to make predictions as to tho length of time the distinguished statesman would live. Chicago detectives on the 16th unearthed a gigantic lottery fraud in a concern run by J. D. Sanger, who has been turning out thousands of bogus tickets in imitation of the Louisiana and other lottery companies, and selling them at full price. Harry Stumbaugh, while intoxicated, flaed a shotgun into a crowd of children returning home from chireh at Nelsonville. Ohio. Two small girls, daughters of Isaaiah Koon and Alex McComb, were struck in the shoulder and back of the head. The wounds are fatal. There was no motive for the shooting. Stumbaugh was arrested. •

FOREIGN.

Jewels of the value of £35,000 were stolon from the country seat of Sir Cecil Miles, near Bristol, England.. Sunday, while the family were at dinner. Mme. De Lesscps has come to the defense of her husband in the Panama canal scandal. It is claimed that De Lesseps will be unable to appear in court owing to the infirmities of age. The Pope w 111 sEprETy‘£^3lolßO Italian bishops and the Italian people a circular denouncing Free Masonery. His Hoiinos will declare that the Free Masons are pursuing tho Satanic alm of replacing Christianity by naturalism. * An attempt was recently made to assassinate President Hyppolito, of Hayti. The would-be murderer succeeded in entering the palace, was discovered and captured. He, with the sentinels, were shot forthwith.

CRUSHED INTO THE CABOSOE.

Eight Men Kilted anti Four Badly Injured by the Accident. A frightful accident occurred on the Great Northern railroad Sunday morning at Nelson station, five miles east of Alexandria, Minn., in which eight men were killed and five serlopsly injured. The wVceklng train was there clearing up th 6 debris, left by an accident on Friday,when a heavy laden freight train, coming down the grade became unmanageable,* and crashed into the caboose hi which tho crew of the wrecking train were sleeping. There were fourteen men in the caboose. One jumped off, four were hurt, three wete burned beyond recognition, and tout were killed. One was totally burned up, withoat a sign of his remains being found. ■At l —. " '> '■ N i■!— i*.. r . i. _*

CONGRESS.

■/ A bill was tntrodneed in the Sentae op the 16th providing for the repeal of the dependent pension act A measure to pay Florida citizens On additional 42,000 apiece for the ninety odd Seminole Indians killed in 18>5-’7 is before the House. The Government has already paid 4iCO apiece for each of the Indians slain. Congressman Butler, of lowa, wants the pansy put into the old fiag, and desires i to be adopted as thq national flower, and has introduced a bill in the lower House to give effect to his ideas. No great) amount of enthusiasm has as yet been developed in favor of the change. During his remarks before the Serrate' committee, Wednesday,.M E. Ingalls railroad president,made the sensational state 4 ments that tho railroads of the country are in a serious state, and that unless something is done at once it would take hard work to avert a serious panic. He declared his belief that the country is on the verge of great financial troubles. The annual report of the 1 nterstate Commerce Commission was transmitted to Congress Monday. The work of the Com-, mission is set forth at length, including the statement that there are now on file with the Commission 850.00!) tariff schedules. Congress is urged to take the necessary action to check existing evils.

POLITICAL.

It is said Mr. Cleveland has practically made up his mind and will not call an extra session of Congress. v The official vote of Nebraska on Presi dential electors is: Weaver, 83,134; Harrison, 87,218; Cleveycland, 24,943. The American Bimetallic Leagueadopt--ed-resotnt,tons opposing the repeal of the existing silver law unless in furtheranceof free coinage. Senator Mills, of Texas, announces that he is not in the “office peddling” business, and that he has all he can do to attend to his “legislative” duties. Politicians are already discussing the proposi tion of tho Union League Cl üb, of Philadelphia, to give President Harrison a National dinner shortly after his retirement from the White Hduse, and claim tb see in it the inception of a Harrison movement for 1896. They say it is more than likely that there will be a Republican Springer at the Union League banquet board, whu will place Gen. Harrison in nomination for 1896. justasdld the present chairman of tho House committee on ways and means nominate Mr. Cleveland at the Thurman banquet shortly after hi 3 retirement/rom the White House in 1889. All the National leaders of tho party are expected to attend the dinner, and it i s supposed by many that the line of action to be pursued by the Republican party will be mapped out. It is also expected by many that President Harrison will in his speech before the club forecast tho future of his party, and lay down the lines of policy on which the Republicans will make their tight for a re turn to power four years hence. The official canvass of the vote cast for Presidential electors in Michigan shows that the plurality of George 11. Durand. D,, eastern district at large, was 1,538, and of J. A.Tlubbel, R., in the Western district, was 21,950. Democratic pluralities on electors in the Congressional districts areas follows: First,, 1,658: Second. 1.4;0; Seventh, 261; Tenth, 5!5. Republican pluralities are: Third. 5,477; Fourth, 1.318; Fifth, 2,014; Sixth, 1,734: Eighth, 1,374; Ninth, 1,183; Eleveneh, • 2,645; Twelfth, 2,923,

THE MARKETS.

Quotations for Indianapolis when not specified - GRAIN. Wheat—No. 2 red, 63 l 4c; No. 3 red, 63c; wagon wheat, 67c. Com No. 1 white, 41c; No. 2 white, 41c; white mixed, 4lc; No. 3 white, 40c; No. 2 yellow, 38c; No. 3 yellow, 37« c; No. 2 mixed, 38c; No. 3 mixed, 37Xc; ear, Oats—No. 2 white, 36c; No. 3 white, 3414 c; No. 2 mixed, 32Xc; rejected, 29c. Hay—Timothy, choice, SI2.(M); No. 1, $11.50; No. 2, SJ.. r 0; No. 1 prairie, $7.50; No. 2. $5.50; mixed hay, $7.50; clover, $8.50. Bran $11.50 per ton. I Wheat. Corn. Oats. Rye. Chicago... .... i 2 r’d 72 42 30 Cincinnati.... |2 r'd 70>,4 42 35 54 St. Louis. .12 r’d 681-4 33 31 48 New York 2 r’d 77 y, 50>i 36!4 to Baltimore.... I 71 49 43 58 Philadelphia. 2 r’d «5 50 40 Clover Seed. Toledol 74'4 44;.; 3t 753 Detroit, 1 wh 731 40 37 Minneapolis., i 68 '. CATTLE. Export grade5.........54 50@5 25 Good to ciioiceshlppors. 3 90^135 Fair to medium shippers 3 35@3 70 Commonshippors.2 Stockers, Common to good 2 Good to choice heifers 2 Fair to medium heifers 2 25(0}2 60 Common, thin heifers 1 Good to choice cows 2 65(0>3 10 Fair to medium cows 2 00(®2 40 Common old cows 1 00@1 75 VcalS, good to choice 3 Bulls, common to medium.... 150312 75 Milkers, good to choice 2500@3503 Milkers, common to medium,. l»00@2000

HOGS. Heavy packing andshipping.. $6 003D6 30 Liglits 5 7.W 05 M i A, 1 . 6 SOtSlfl 15 Heavy roughs 4 00@5 75 SHEEP. Good to choice $4 00@4 40 Fair to medium, 3 25@3 55 Common to medium 2 50(0325 Lambs, good to choice 4 00(g5 50 POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry—Hens,.7c lb; young chickens 8c ¥ lb; turkeys, fat choice hens, 9c lb. ducks, 7c IP tb; geese,s.4o for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 2.!c. Butter—Choice country butter, 14@16c; common, 8@10c; creamery, retailing from store at 35c. Cheese—New York full cream, 12@12)4c; skims, 5(076 W ®>. (Jobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime geese 40c W lb; mixed duck, 20c W ib. Beeswax—Dark, 15c; yellow,2oc (selling) Wool—Fine merino, 16«18c; unwashed combing, 21c; tub washed, 31(<£33c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. I green hides, 3c; No. 2 green hides, 2)4c; No. IG. S. hides, 4k'c; No. 2G. 8. hides, 3J4ct No. 1 tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow, 3J4c. Horse [email protected]. Tallow-No. 1,4 c; No. 2.3J4c. Grease—White, 4c; yellw, 3; ( tc; brown, ;»■ • ■ fruit® an» VEGETABLES. f Potatoes—[email protected] brl. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $1.50. lemons—Choice, $6.50 ip box; fancy, $6.00. . Pear®—Kiefer, $3 V bushel. Onions—& •V brl; Spanish, t',so per crate. '■ \" *■—'• j Cabbage—Michigan,sß®s2.» p<rbrl.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Brooklyn had a $.03,000 fire Sunday. * A dancing mania has seized Elwood. A great revival is in progress at Noblesville. Loganspprt is getting ready for a spring boom. . ■ Greencastle is to have a hsw opera house. "* Stockport is a new Delaware county postoffice.. She!by county will soon be free of the toil roads. Vanderburgh county wants a separate Circuit Court, Railway section agents will organize a State Association. ’Possum parties are amid -winterattraction at Connersville. Huntington merchants report serious losses by shop lifters. Everybody at Ft. W’ayne is talking about a new city charter. George W. Balser, a resident of Tipton, is in jail on a charge oj forgery. Oppossums are frequently killed white raiding hen coops at Brookville. Theodore Jarcas was fatally injured in a runaway at Shelbyville. Monday. Three men were dangerously burned by natural gas at Muncief Monday. The old Midland railroad is again in trouble from dodging taxes in Madison connty. The Evansville Journal characterizes the Grubbs libel law as a disgrace to the statute book. Tippecanoe county’s treasurer is trying to collect 412,012.60 back taxes from the Big Four road. Sir Richard Owen is dead. He was one of theworld’s foremost specialists in comparative anatomy. Col. I. B. McDonald, of Columbia City, is an avowed candidate for United States marshal oflndiana. 2 The Indiana Ink and Color Co., of Lagansport, has made an assignment. Lia* bilities $7,000; assets 413,000. The Indiana commandery of the Loya; Legion celebrated its fourth anniversary at Indianapolis Monday night. The shaft house of the Schoepperman Coal Company near Brazil, was burned to the ground Sunday night. Loss $12,003. A Tippecanoe county school teacher whipped a little girl shamefully because she had written a slang word on the wall of the class room. The Chicago Natural Gas Company demands $1,200 yearly for furnishing the Howard county court house with gas, and the commissioners have ordered coal. Montgomery county is agitated over the disappearance of Milo Tomlinson, a wellknown breeder of fine stock. He is a defaulter, and is known to have taken a large sum with him. The elevator of S. Barnard & Co., at Martinsville, burned Saturday night. The loss on building and contents is $! 5,030; insurance SII,OOO. Tho building contained fifteen thousand bushels of corn. The young lady clerks in the Portland postoffice wentron a strike Saturday; leaving the early mails undistributed, the alleged cause being the unsatisfactory conduct of the postmaster’s son. While boring a well near Millersburg, a four-foot vein of good coal was struck at a depth of seventy five feet. The ground has been leased to a Ft. Wayne syndicate, which will develop tho find. Andrew Stultz, aged twenty-two, was found dead in a ditch by the road side near Valparaiso, Sunday- night. His buggy had run off the end of a culvert throwing him into fourteen inches of water. He was drowned. An oak tree was cut on the Samuel Scoggln farm, near Bedford, which yielded a log forty feet in length, six and onehalf feet in diameter at the butt and four and one-half feet at the top. The log is

without knot or blemish of any kind. Mrs. Jerusba Truex, a quaint old lady who had reached the remarkable age of more than ninety years, died at Napanee. Saturday. In all her long life the deceased never rode on a railway car nor visited the city of Goshen, although she had lived In close proximity for many years. Gus Black, a well-to-do farmer near Brazil, was caught stealing corn by John Decker. Decker made Black shoulder a two bushel sack of corn and carry it to Brazil, where Black was turned over to tho authorities. Black confessed to hav* Ing been the perpetrator of a systematic series of grain robberies in that vicinity, . Many farmers in the northern part of Madison and Tipton counties in leasing land for gas privileges to the Chicago company supposed they were to receive 1200 per annum, but instead it is only $25. The farmers admit having signed tho leases, but they claim to have been misled. The feeling Is so strong that gas drillers anticipate that the mains, sooner or later, will be blown out of the ground by dynamite.

PROSPECTIVE LEGISLATION.

The message of Governor Chaso to the General Assembly Is in course of preparation. soyatha Indianapolis. News, but is not far enough along to enable one to get a definite idea of just what recommendations will be made. Governor-elec Matthews’ Ideas of needed legislation will be advanced in an address, of which he has not yet written a line. .There are several measures which, it Is thought, will have special prominence in the Legislature. The question of good roads will figure largely. A large number of tho members have improvements to suggest in> the present laws, while some favor wiping out the existing road measures and starting afresh. There is also a disposition, on the part of many-, to amend the present election and tax laws, and several changes In these measures wil probably be suggested. The indications are that the demands on the coming Legislature for money will be unprecedented. The financial problem Is the one most discussed by tho memborselect who are coming to the city often these days to learn what is golngxm. Tho

the calls for money will be of a character that will demand attention, but still they are In- favor of going slow A few nights ago an elephant was discovered in the barnyard of Wm. Fordyce, near Ooawfordsvllle. The nest morning

- ■ - ~ ' — s the place was found to be wrecked. Dur* ing the night the elephant had enjoyed himself, and left the place. The next night he returned to Fordyce’s and slept in a straw stack. Friday night, Manager Gray, of the Great American Circus, arrived from Jeffersonville with Keeper Newman, and recognized the elephant as Sultan, one of the fiercest of his herd. Sultan was captured atter a hard fight. It is understood that the Indiana World’s Fair Commission is in such condition financially that the Legislature wil be almost compelled to assist. In addition to the appropriation which the commis-, slon proper will ask for, the various committees of the commission will, it is nowunderstood, ask for money with which to perfect their Another demand will come from the citizens’ organization of this city, which has charge of the arrangements of caring for the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. There is a feeling that the State should do something toward making the encampment a success, and ajliberal appropria tion will bo asked Demands will probably bo made bv all of the charitable and penal institutions. Those inststutions, the annual reports now being made to the Governor show, have grown much during the last two years and the expense of maintenance has necessarily increased. An attempt will be made to convince the Legislature that in some instances the institutions are so crowded for room that it is necessary to erect additional buildings. The members who have been giving the I financial question some thought say it is ! by far the most important one that will j confront the Legislature. They say tha I along with the demand for largely in-j creased appropriations is a sentiment I among the people that taxes must be lowered rather than increased. Then, too. there is the State debt, which must also receive attention. It is well understood that the finance committee will have its hands full during the session In devising a financial plan that will meet the condition of affairs - THE APPORTIONMENX OVERTHROWN. Tho Supreme Court ( JSat,nrday handed down its deeision i n the so-cal led gerrymander or apportionment case, in which; it declares the law unconstitutional. The decision was written by Judge Coffey, Judges Mcßride and Miller concurring, while Judges Elliott and Olds filed separate opinions, concurring for the moat part, butdiffcrlng in details. The decision declares the court has jurisliction, pronounces tho acts of 1891 and 1879 unconstitutional, and holds tho newly elected Legislature to be an official body de facto and valid law makers. Tho decision of the lower courts, which declared the acts of 1891 and 1885 unconstitutional, restoring that of 1879, is reversed. The effect of tho opinion of the majority of the court is to decide that the courts have authority to adjudge an apportionment act void if it violates the provisions of the Constitution, The point made by lire counsel for the election officers and the State: that the courts have no jurisdiction of the question, is disposed of by ’ this conclusion. The decision, as field by a majority of the court, is also to the effect that the court has a right to decide as to the constitutionally of the acts of 1879 and 1891, but that the question of the validity of thqact of 1885 does notappear in the case. The decision of the court is that tho acts of 1891 and 1879 are uncaastitutional, but tho Assembly chosen at the recent election, under the act of 1891, aie officers de facto, and their acts, as far as concerns the public, are valid The jndgnretrt-~&f~-thfr-l&ww-. court la. reversed for the reason that the act of 1879 being unconstitutional. Powell, the relator, had no right in a writ of mandamus to compel its enforcement. Judge Elliott concurs in the holding that the court has power, at tho suit of a party entitled to a decision upon such a question, to give judgment upon the constltu*tionality of apportionment laws, but he holds that tho relator, Powell, has no right to ask for a decision upon the validity of the a:ts of 1885 and 1891 because ho makes no case, for the reason that hi 8 coinplaint is founded upon a law which he himself shows to be utterly void. It Is further held by Judge Elliott io be a woll settled principle of law that constitutional questions can not bo decided unless such decision is absolutely necessary to a final disposition of the case actually before the court, and his opinion shows that this case is finally disposed of before thequestion of the constitutionality of the acts of 189 i and 1885 Is reached. The effect of the decision of tho majority of the court Is to leave the State without any law under the provisions of which an election of members of the Legislature could be held, for theffiecision makes no reference to any act under which an election may be condudted. But this effect of the opinion of the majority is modified to a degree by the holding that there is a de facto Legislature, and that it can enact laws and transact public business.

A MURDERER ELECTROCUTED.

Murderer Fred McGuire was electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y., on the 19th. He confessed his guilt of the crime of which he was convicted, and went to his doom a penitent man. The result of the electrical application showed no destruction of tissues, and the external burns which have been present in other deaths in the electrical chair were absent. The crime for which McGuire paid the»ponalty was the killing of Mrs. Amelia Gregory, of Middletown, Orange county, N. Y.,oetiwr 14.1891. The murder was committed for tho purpose of robbery.

AN OLD SQUAW TORTURED.

- , Hnnc«<l by the Thumb* on the Ground that She Had Bewitched Her Tribe: There is great excitement at the Indian Pueblo Zunl, Colo., over tho tnumb-hang-ing of an old squaw by the governor of the villngo. The squaw, it I* claimed, has conjured the whole tribe - lb her witchefy, arid one week ago the Governor or dcred that she bo taken and hung up by tho thumbs for the evlh that bad come from her block art prophecies.

BLAINE NEAR DEATH.

He Had a Sinking Spell Sunday that Caused Great AlarmHis Heart Refused to Perform Its Functions and Physicians Were Hurriedly Summoned—Dissolution Expected in a Few Hours. Washington, Dec. 18 —All day long the life of James G; Blaine has hung tremb* llngln the balance. For more than an hour in the afternoon hope was a aban - doned and the end was momentarily expected by physicians, family and friends. ( All simulation was thrown aside in the apparent imminent presence of death, and the suppressed facts of his illness—the long denied, but now admitted, Bright’s disease, the occasional intervals of delirium, the long hours when he has lain incapable of speech or motion (as it is now wasthecare-when Cardinal Gibbons paid him bis recent friendly call); these and other distressing features of his illness all incidental to the one overpowering organic trouble, Bright’s disease, aggravated as this has been of late by a cold contracted while imprudently venturing ou 4 driving two weeks ago and by malarial fever, and confronted by a constitution impaired by nearly two years of continual sickness—all these things are now tacitly admitted. The physicians assert that there hav® not been any hemorrhages,has been asserted, but this is almost the only alarming symptoms which is now denied. The first crisis was reached between 10 and It o’clock this morning, when a sinking speU set in, in which the worst was feared. His family were called around the bedside and his physicians sent messenger after messenger to the nearest drug store with prescriptions requiring hasty attention. The distiuguished patient lay unconscious and to all appearances dying until 1 o’clock, when a slight rally set in. His pulse, which had almost ceased to beat,, became again perceptible and partial consciousness was restored. At 2 o’clock his physicians, Drs. Johnston and Hyatt, considered him so much improved as to render their constant presence at the bedside unnecessary. While there had been no change in his condition upon which hopes of ultimate recovery could be based, the immediate crisis had passed. At 2 o’clock a reporter saw James G. Blaine, jr., at the family residence. He said that his father’s attack was very bad and created the greatest apprehension ' His condition became so weak that it was. feared, in view of his enfeebled condition, a recurrence must involve the gravest consequences. While the Improvement in Mr. Blaine's condition is but slight, and not sufficien to afford any great amount of encouragement to his family and friends, the reaction has seemed to modify the feeling of apprehensroirfor tho Immediate future. All day representatives of the press patrolled Madison Place and carefully watched the old red mansion which has become celebrated for its historical associations and the fatality with which misfortune has followed its occnpams. From the Sickles-Key tragedy, which occurred more than a third of a century ago; from the attempted assassination of Secretary Seward during the last year of tho civil war, down to the present time, the pall of 111 fate has hung over the mansion. During the less than four years’ occupancy of ..thia .hmiaQ-Jbg,llift_family. M rs. _ Coppinger(Mr. Blaine's daughter), Walker Blaine and Emmons Blaine, the ex-Secre-tary’s promising sons, have died, A little after 6 o'clock both doctors loft, Dr. Hyatt saying that Mr. Blaine’s condition showed a slight improvement over the morning. They did not consider it necessary to issue another 1 bulletin. Dr. Hyatt said that ho thought there was no doubt that Mr. Blaine would live through the night, but, at the same time, he H) undoubtedly critically 111, and any complications that may arise will undoubtedly cau e a fatal termination of his illness. ’ A little after 6:30 o'clock Mr. James G. Blaine, Jr„ came out and said to tho reporters: “We think that father Is considerably better than he was this morning. He was dangerously ill during tho forenoon. During the afternoon, however, he seems to have rallied somewhat. The physicians have been here this evening, and wo now think he will live during the night, and wo hope for the best. Still, It m ist be said that bo is very dangerously ill.” These were the strongest statement* that had yet been made by tho family or physicians as to the condition of the exSecretary. President Harrison, accompanied by hi 8 private Secretary, Mr. Halford, walked over from the White House to the ex-Sec-T retary’s residence this evening, to personally inquire as to his condition, and expressed relief and gratification on being informed that there had been some abatement of the more alarming symptoms, Tho excitement throughout the city was intense as tho news of Mr. Blaine’s condition spread, and though it was Sunday the newspapers issued extras, which found K rapid sale. .

The silver men in Washington are much disappointed at the adjournment of the monetary conference st Brussels. They say that while the adjournment Is culled . a “recess” until next May it is their expectation that the commlsion wHI meet again, us was the case of tho Paris International monetary conference when that body adjourned to meet at a later date, but as u matter of fact never reassembled. The silver men admit absolutely nothing has been accomplished by the con fore nee, nor do they expect even In the event of a reassembling of the conference next May for any better results. Mr. Bacon, the chairman of the House commute on banking and currency, says that now the conference is over hie committee will proceed to a discusion of the bills before it for the repeal of the Sherman law, but it Is the opinion of the financial lead-, ers of both the House and the Senate that there will be absolutely no silver legislation iu this Congress. i |