Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWSOF THE WEEK

The wheat acreage in Kansas for next season will be 200.000 acres short. Texas is in financial difficulties. There will be a deficiency of $2,030,000 at the end of the fiscal year. 2 World’s Fair officials will endeavor to have Congress extend the time for closing the Exposition from October 30 to January 1,1894. A great many good people in attendance at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago have been robbed by pickpockets of all their valuables. The Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. was in session at Milwaukee during the last week. The next annual meeting will be held at Chattanooga, Tenn. ' No bad play goes at a Choctaw Indian game of base ball. At San Bais, in a fight growing out of a game, a sheriff and his deputy were killed and a white man was wounded. Yellow fever, prevalent at Brunswick, Ga., for some time, is increasing. Four cases developed Tuesday. No deaths have been reported. Nineteen cases-are. now •under treatment. W. S, Streeter, Vice President of the insolvent Guaranty Loan Company, was arrested at Minneapolis, charged with having declared a dividend when the company was insolvent. Every department of the plant of the Otis Steel Company, of Cleveland, is in operation again, except the plate mill. The Bessemer department, which has been idle for more than a month, has also been started. ‘ . • In the Senate, Wednesday, Mr. Tnrpie submitted resolutions from the Knights of Labor at Washington, Ind., against the repeal of the Sherman silver act. The resolution contends that repeal would “demonetize silver.” The Kanawha, W. Va., Coal Exchange has appointed a committee of twentythree of the coal operators in the State to go to Washington to protest before the ways and means committee, against the repeal of the duty on foreign coal. The whole of the $70,000 taken by the Mineral Range train robbers last week has been irecovered. Several arrests have been made. The train men were implicated and one of the men arrested has confessed and revealed the whole plot, Senator Irby, the Populist successor to Wade Hampton in the United States Senate, supplied the people Of Columbia. S. C., with a short lived sensation, leaving however, an enduring entry on the police court records of that city in the shape of a “drunk and disorderly conduct, count No. 1;” “carrying concealed weapons, count No. 2.”

The President, Tuesday, appointed Jos. W. Nichol, formerly of Indianapolis, now of Washington, D. C., who served as law clerk of the Postoffice Department under his first administration, to be Deputy Second Controller of the Treasury. He also sent to the Senate the name of William Bracken, of Brookville, to be collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Indiana. The Chicago Tribune reporter drew a vivid picture of the scene of the big train robbery when he said: “The place selected for the dastardly crime was a most propitious one. Far from any human habitation and surrounded by great forests, etc.” Quite an imaginative cuss, Indeed, when it is taken into consideration that there is not a forest in that locality that would hardly hide a red squirrel, that the farms are all improved and peo- ■ pie llvihg on all sides. The above is a good sample of reportorial veracity.—Ligonier Banner. The silver men in the Senate ar-3 feeling decidedly more encouraged as the prospect that the federal election bill may reach that body increases. Said one of their leaders: “We can hold off for three weeks certainly, if there is a prospect of getting the election bill here in that time, and I am assured that we will get it in less time.” If the election bill reaches the Senate before the Sherman bill is repealed It will be the policy to substitute Senator Hill’s bill, which has already been reported, for it, as that bill is on the calendar, and there might be doubts of getting the House bill out of committee. The weather crop bulletin for the last week says: The temperature was excessively warm until Saturday, when it became cool both day and night. Abundant rains fell at the beginning of theweek nearly everywhere They came too late to do good to corn, but pasturage,meadows and other vegetation were benefited and are improving. The soil, being wetted several inches deep, was in good condition, and plowing and sowing wheat were vigorously prosecuted. Much corn Is cut and In shock and that which is ■till standing can only be hurt by a very levere frost within a few days, most being beyond all danger. Grasshoppers and crickets are very numerous. The disappointed boomers who failed to secure claims in the Cherokee Strip are returning in large numbers. There is nearly as great a rush to get out as there was to get in. There were at least ton men for every possible claim. Death by prairie fires and the excessive heat have been numerous and the actual number may never be,known. Nearly every town lite on the Strip has a rival. Many crimes and murders are reported. The Strip was a hot wind Monday that reached ■.velocity of thirty-six miles an hour. The heat was stifling ahd the air was filled with sand that made life a burden.

Further investigation of the shortage of gold bullion at the Philadelphia mint has led te the startling disclosure that the value of the stolen metal will reach 1134,000, and the further discovery that Jhe thief was an old and trusted employe named Cochran, who had been in the service of the government for forty years. He was charged with the crime and confessed, and has made restitution through a return of a portion of the metal and by means Of property and a recourse on his bondsmen. The stealings have been carried on at intervals during the past eight years. Many casualltles are reported from exposure and prairie fires in the Cherokee Strip. Elizabeth Osborn, 76 years old, of Saginaw, Mo., was burned to death at Buck creek. She and her husband made the race for a claim in a buggy. In the valleys of Duck creek, where they intended to settle, the prairie fire came sweeping after them. Some one collided with Osborne's wagon and broke It. Osborne jumped out, turned his team loose and ran for the creek. Mrs. Osborne started to foHow, bnt became entangled in the

tin grassland before she couML get out was burned. Between the Chickasaw river and the town of Kiyk, a distance of but a few miles, there are six bodies. Two of them bad bußet holes in the head and four of the bodies are burned; The prairie fires are still raging. Government employes, as a rule, are very much encouraged by the many indications given by various Congressmen of their intentions to enact legislation for the relief of those who are injured in the performance of their public duties. The disaster which occurred in Washington last summer, when the building known as Ford’s Old Theater, occupied by the clerks of the record and pension division of the War Department, collapsed and killed twenty-one men and injured many more, has revived interest in the subject of compensatory damages to Government employes injured in the service. A resolution has been Introduced in the House calling for an investigation of the facts of the Ford’s Theater accident, and bills will soon b>e introduced in both Rouses providing for a disability pension list. Senator Voorhees has already begun the fight in the interest of one of his constituents by introducing a bill providing for an appropriation of SIO,OOO to be paid to Capt, John B. Dowd, of Indiana, for injuries received when tly) old theater building collapsed on June 9. During a theatrical performance at the opera house at Canton, 111., Tuesday night, fire started in the scenery from fireworks being used in the third act of “Michael Strogoff.” In less than two minutes the company had to leave the stage. The flames spread rapidly. The audience had a narrow escape. Those in the galleries became panic stricken and a struggling mass of humanity jammed up the stairway. Many were injured and five were badly burned. The building was destroyed together with two adjoining structures. Loss, $60030.

FOREIGN.

Lord Aberdeen, the new Governor-Gen-eral of Canada, has been sworn in. A plot against the life of Emperor Francis Joseph has been discovered. London bankers have been notified to look out for a sleek gang of American forgers that are supposed to be on the way to England. ad big 4 wreck 2 A sesational story is printed that, owing to the increasing hostility of the Italian government, the Pope is considering the advisability of removing from Rome and that he may establish the Holy See in Spain. Rio, Brazil, is in a state of panic as the result of the rebellion, the shells of the attacking squadron having done much damage. The editor of the Rio Heraldo, who favored the Rebels, was murdered.

IT’S EPIDEMIC.

Customary Crime With a Variation in the Result. : ..a A Desperate Attempt at Train Robbery Falls—Bravery of the Trainmen. Near Centralia, 111,, Wednesday night, on the Illinois Central, a train was attacked by outlaws. The train had stopped at a coal chute just south of the city when two of the robbers confronted the engineer and fireman with drawn revolvers. The engineer and his fireman made a spring at the intruders, but were both shot down. Engineer Young was seriously wounded, receiving two bullets. The fireman was also shot twice. Two robbers then proceeded to the express car, where they demanded admittance, but were met with a volley from the express messenger and conductor of the train, Odum, who had gone to the express car to see the messenger? Volley after volley were fired by both the besieged and besiegers, until the door was shot full of holes. Finally the bandits secured a sledge-hammer and broke in the door, and then began another battle between the trainmen and the robbers. In the meantime one of the brakemen had gone to the rear and aroused the passengers, and asked those who had fire-arms to come to the assistance of the trainmen. Among the passengers was an old-time brakeman named Jake Sander, of Duquoin. He had been hunting and had a shotgun with him. He immediately proceeded to the express car, and on arriving there commenced firing on the robbers in the car. One of Sanders’s shots took effect on one of the robbers and he sank to the floor of the car, bleeding profusely. While Sanders was doing yeoman service the third robber came out and commenced firing at Sanders from the shadows of the coal chute. His aim was bad and Sanders escaped unhurt. When the wounded man fell to the floor the other two started on a run and disappeared in the darkness. The wounded robber narrowly escaped lynching while being taken to jail. His name is D. L. Jones. It is thought the robbers received information, as there were at least $50,000 in the iexpress companies’ safes. Jones has made a full confession, implicating a man named Martin, of Duquoin, and three others, named O’Dwycr, Harding and Nichols. O’Dwyer's home in Centralia was surrounded, but the officers were refused admission by his mother, and they kept guard until daylight, when he gave himielf up and was placed In jail to keep Jones company.

The Queen of Holland celebrated her fourteenth birthday on Thursday. By her special desire the public festivities on this occasion took the form of school treats on a very scale. She personally took an active part in the fete at Apeldoort, but the weather was very unfavorable and sadly interfered with the programme she had drawn up with so much care. Miss Foster, daughter of -the exSecretary of the Treasury, has great ability as a decorator of china, In which branch of art she has attained such a proficiency as to warrant the building of a kiln at her own home in Ohio. Miss Foster is an enthusiast in her work, and attends to every detail of firing each piece as it is finished, never seeming to tire of the most uninteresting or laborious details. . The smallpox at Muncie continues to give a great deal of trouble. Three new cmei were n pjrtel, Tuesday.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Browfistown wanta a waterworks system. North Vernon is howling for a brass band. Alexandria schools can’t open. Diphtheria. Crawfordsville maintains six gambling houses. A light frost visited Greenfield, Sunday morning. Fort Wayne is overrun with strolling musicians. 4'Several Elwood factpries resumed operrtions, Monday. 4 Strawberry vines in Porter county have been killed by the drough t. Thirty-eight divorce suits are pending in the Madison Circuit Court. A stock company to estabish water works in Corydon, is being organized. Over 10,(03 people attended the feast day meeting of the Friends at Plainfield, Judge Stephenson has set the BrownWcsner murder trial at Lebanon for Oct. 17. Elwood is overrun with counterfeit half dollars. Supposed to be the work of local talent. Middlebury is agitated over what appears to be a systematic scheme of plnnder and burglary. James Little, of Newton county, reports that he reaped 7.003 bushels of wheat off 100 acres of land this season. Luther Short, editor and proprietor of the Franklin Democrat, has been appointed consul-general of the United States at Costantinople, Turkey. Two card sharpers, under pretense of wanting to buy a farm, attempted to swindle the venerable John Renbarger, of Huntington, but he was too wary. 2 Four attempts at highway robbery were made at Kokomo, Saturday night. Three arrests were made. All the victims showed fight and the robbers secured nothing. The street railway system at Evansville, is still tied up by the strikers. The strikers offer to return to work at seventeen cents per hour, bub the management will pay but fifteen.

i The Bruce gang, in jail at Terre Haute charged with safe blowing, say they will make it warm for “Kid” Gerald when they get their freedom. It is said that Gerald squealed. O. W. Riddle, of New Carlisle, while pushing a cart, struck an obstruction. The handle flew up, tearing open his mouth nearly from car to ear and breaking both jaw-bones. New Albany is preparing to place $40,000 in fifteen-year 5 per cent, gold bonds, and it gives its assets as follows: Real value of taxable property, 820,000,000: assessed valuation $11,400,000; total bonded debt, $380,000. Riotous and drunken conduct is reported on the part of the Fourteenth Regiment Ohio militia, at Huntington, while enroute home from Chicago. It is alleged that the soldiers looted the railroad restaurant and stole even the dishes. The Elkhart Review says the large destruction of fences in the late drouth by fires has turned the attention of farmers to the cost of lumber for fences, and the superiority of wire fencing. The woven' wire fences aro vastly better than rail or board. The teachers of the township institute meeting at Brookville were so well satisfied with the treatment received at the hands of John C. Ellis, township trustee, that they elubbed together in a purse and sent Mr. Ellis on a visit to tho World’s Fair. Swindlers circulated in Dearborn county offering farmers $2 for the privilege of posting show bills on their farms. The farmers were called upon to sign receipts for the money, and these receipts afterwards turned upi as notes calling for SSO ana even SIOO.

The A. P. A. is getting in its work in Northern Indiana. An appeal has been made to Gov. Matthews for arms to equip a military company by parties who fear a Catholic uprising. The Governor responded in an official paper advising against such proceedings. A regulation prize-fight between Chas. Johnson and W. Evans took place near Broad Ripple, Monday night. Only a “select” crowd of “sports” were permitted to find the place of meeting, and all the arrangements were conducted with the greatest secrecy. Johnson won in nine rounds. A string of horses, said to be the property of Cal. Armstrong, the defaulting deputy treasurer of Tipton county, was captured at East St. Louis, Thursday Frank Hayes, a cousin of Armstrong, was arrested, charged with embezzling the property which was found in his charge, add New deal Anderson has taken additional steps tpwards enforcing the quarantine against Munele. Tuesday night thirty men were appointed to patrol the roads leading into the city and turn back those seeking shelter from tho infected district So far the disease has not appeared at Anderson. The Albion Democrat says that the total amount of taxes paid in Noble county in 1838 was SI,OOO. At present the total taxes will reach over $177,000. Fifty-five years will make quite a change. Noble county has no debt hanging over it, and it ranks at the head of the list of wealthy counties in Indiana.

Tne grand jury, at Tipton, has returned indictments against James Armstrong and his son Cal, the alleged defaulting treasurer and deputy. James is held on three charges of embezzlement and conspiracy, and Cal on embezzlement. Two other sons of Armstrong, and the two young men who tried to get Cal out of jail, were also Indicted. 4The twelve years-old son of Randolph Trissell, of Muncie, was taken with smallpox, Monday. As the officers forced the door open to take the boy to the pesthouse the. father fired on them. The bail passed through the coat sleeve of one of the officers. The boy was secured, however, and taken to the hospital, while the father was put in the guard house. The special correspondent of the Indi] anapolis Journal at Delphi charges the Carroll county commissioners with having secretly sold 880,000 worth of county bridge bonds at a discount of *3,000, without the formality of advertising the same. The bonds bear 6 per cent, interest and run—-one-fourth ten years, one-fourth fifteen years, and one-half twenty years. Carroll county bonds have always sold at a high premium. kit is doubtful if any -bank in the State can report a more novel deposit than was made tn Petersburg, last Saturday, when

a full grown and well-fatted hog waa ue posited without ceremony in the cellar of the Citizens’ bank. Cashier Benton offered a certificate of deposit which was however, refused, the owner doubtless thinking the stock would not bear sufficient interest at the close of a year. The jury impaneled at Danville in the case of Henry Allison, of Plainfield, indicted for the murder of Alya Williamson the 21st of October, during a Democratic rally at PMtinfield, remained out Saturday night, and, Sunday, reported an agreement to disagree. The poll stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction. The defendant, Allison, is seventeen years old. On the night of the killing, while Congressman Cooper;was speaking, squads of boys and men circulated about the streets, cheering for their respective candidates. One of these was led by Williams. During the evening there was a controversy between Williams and Allison, and in the melee which followed Allison was cut in the cheek, the scar still remaining, and Williams was shot dead. Allison avoided arrest by leaving Plainfield. He afterward returned ando voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. The first grand jury which convened indicted Allison for manslaughter. A second grand jury also considered the case and returned an indictment for murder in the first degree. This indictment proved to be defective, and he was brought to trial on the first There has been considerable feeling shown on both sides.

No Dandruff Cure.

With an experience of over twenty years I can say that there is no hair preparation made that will successfully remove dandruff. Good plain soap and warm water is the only means by which the scalp can be kept clean. Rinsing the hair once or twice a week in soft water, in which a teablespoonful of salt has been dissolved, will keep the hair smooth and prevent falling out.

A VERY. GOOD JOKE.

Solomon Key, eighteen years old, son of the Rev. Isaac Key, of Winamac, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for perpetrating what he intended to be a joke. Some time ago, while himself and a companion were walking homeward, they stopped to rest tn a hay stack, and Key’s companion fell asleep. Thereupon Key set fire to the stack as a joke on his friend. The friend failed to awaken in time and was severely burned.

THE MARKETS.

Sept, 23 !BJ3 Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAY. & Wheat—-No. 2red,6lXc; No. 3 rod, 58X; rejected, 40@50; wagon wheat, 01. Corn—No. 1 white, 42c; No. 2 white. 41>£c;No. 3whlte,4lc; No. 4 white, 40c; No. 2 white mixed, 39%c; No. 3 white mixed, 38Kc; No. 4 white mixed,3oc; No. 2 yellow, 39%c; No. 3 yellow, 39c; No. 4 yellow, 30c; No. 2 mixed,4oc; No. .'.mixed, 40c; No. 4 mixed, 30c; sound ear, 45c for yoliow. Oats —No. 2 white, 29c; No. 3 white, 26c; No. 2 mixed, 26)4 c; No. 3 mixed. 24c; rejected, 23@25c. Rye 43c. Hay—Choice timothy, $13.C0; No. 1. $12.30; No. 2, $1025; No. 1 prairie, $6.75 mixed, $8; clover, $9. Bran, sl2. live stock. Cattle—Export grades $ [email protected] Good to choice shippers [email protected] Fair to medium shippers [email protected] Common shippers [email protected] Stockers, 500 to 800 2.00®2.75 Good to choice heifers........ [email protected] Fair to medium heifers [email protected] Common to thin heifers [email protected] Good to choice cows [email protected] Fair to medium cows [email protected] Common old cows [email protected] Veals, common to g00d........ [email protected] Bulls, common to fair [email protected] Bulls, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, good to ch0ice.,...... [email protected] Milkers, common to fair 15 00®22.00 Hogs—Heavy packing and shippi ng [email protected] Mixed [email protected] Heavy . ..... [email protected] Pigs Heavy roughs .... [email protected] Sheep—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medium 2,[email protected] Common thin sheep [email protected] Lambs [email protected] Bucks, per head 2.00®1.00 POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. [Prices Paid by Dealers.] PouLTRY-Hens, 7c lb; young chickens, 7*4c sft>; turkeys, young toms, 6c W lb; hens, 8c V-Ib; ducks, 6c IP ib; geese, $1.20 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 10c. Butter—Grass butter, 14@15c; Honey—lß@2oc. Feathers Prime Geese, 40c # lb*, mixed duck, 20c $ tt. BEESwax—2oc for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool —Fine merino, 16c; medium unwashed, 16c; coarse or braid wool, 14@16c; tub-washed, 18@23c. Detroit. Wheat, 64c. Corn, No. 2,43 c. Oats, No. 2 white, 30c. Minneapolis. Wheat, 67%c. New York Wheat, No. 2 red, 735£c. Corn, No. 2, 49c. Oats, 32Xc. Lard, $8.75. Butter, Western dairy, 15J4@19c; creamery, 18® 27 c. Chicago. Wheat, 68%c. Corn, 40Xc. Oats, 26%c, Pork, $16.50. Lard, $9. Short-ribs, slo® 12.50. Cattle—Extra prime steers. $5.25 @5.40; choice, [email protected]; good. [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; common, [email protected]; cornfed Texans, $3.15@4,10; grassfed Texas steers, [email protected]; grass-fed Texas cows. [email protected]; Western steers, [email protected]; Western c0w5,[email protected]; feeders, [email protected]. Hogs—Heavy mixed and packers, $5.25@5A0; prime heavy, [email protected]; prime light, [email protected]; other lights, [email protected]. Sheep —Natives, $2.06 @4.15; lambs, [email protected]. Cl.no Anna 11. Wheat, No. 2 red. COc; Corn. No. 2 mixed, 42c: Oats, No. 2 white western, 28c; Rye, No. 2,50 c; Mess Pork, $12.33; Lard, $8.12; Bulk Meats, $10.25; Bacon, $11.75. Butter, creamery fancy, 22c; Eggs, 12Wc. Cattle, [email protected]. Hogs, [email protected]. Sheep, [email protected]. Lambs, $4d4.G3. 8t« Louis. Wheat, No, 2 red, 63%c; Corn. No. 2 mixed, 40; Oats, No. 2,26%c; Butter, 2%. Buflblo. Cattle, [email protected]. Hogs, heavy, [email protected]; mixed, $6.67@ 16.75; light, [email protected]. Sheep, native, [email protected];T»»a5.53.25@ $4.75. Philadelphia. Wheat, No. 2 Rod. Corn. No. 2 Mixed. 50c; Oats, 35c; butter, creamery. 27c; eggs, 15c. Baltimore. Wheat, No. 2 Red. 66c; Corn, mixed; 48%@48%; Oats, No. 2, White Western. 35c;Rye,53Uc; P0rk,516.63; Buttercream ery; 25c; Eggs, 13c. < Kost Liberty. Hogs, [email protected].

A NEW PEAL.

A Negro Robber Protected From a. Mob by Militia. Would-lM I.yncher* Meet With Vnex. pcctcd ttcalxatuee—Eleven of the Mob Killed. Wednesday night, at Roanoke, Va.. a mob aUempted ro take a negro from jail and iyncn him. The militia were called out and ordered to fire. They did so with deadly effect. Eleven persons were killed and nearly a score wounded, some fatally. Robert Smith, a negro, Wednesday, assaultcd and nearly killed Mrs, Henry Bishop. Mrs. Bishop was at the market with a load of produce and Smith bought a box of grapes. He asked her to go with him to get the money, and taking her to » house near by, locked the dbor and bound her. Then drawing a razor he demanded her money. She gave it up and while doing so jerked the razor from his hand. The negro choked her, threw her down and pounded her head with a brick, leaving her for dead. Mrs. Bishop shortly afterward regained consciousness, and returning to the market, to’.d of the outrage. Detective Baldwin soon arrested the negro 1 The excited crowd attempted to take Smith away from the officer and lynch him, but Baldwin; with the prisoner on a horse, dashed away at full speed and soon had him behind the bars. An Immense crowd of people came to the jail, but were finally persuaded by the Mayor to disperse, but later the crowd reassembled. At 5 o’clock the Roanoke light Infantry marched to the jail by orders of Mayor Trout. About dark the crowd, increased by a hundred men from the vicinity of the woman’s home, headed by Mrs. Bishop’s son, attacked the jail. At 8 o’clock portions of the mob battered at the side door of the jail, where the militia and Mayor Trout had retired. The shooting was commenced by the mob, and the Mayor was shot in the foot/ The militiamen were then ordered to return the fire, and a volley from about twenty-five rifles was poured into the mob, with the result stated above. During the excitement the negro was taken from the jail by officers and secreted. The dead and wounded were removed to a drug store and to the offices of near by physicians. The militia then dispered. The militia are still under the Mayor’s orders, and he is firm In the position he has assumed and declares that he will uphold the law.

WHOLESALE MURDER.

An Entire Family Butchered by Unknown MiscreantsAnother Blot on Indiana’s Fair Escutcheon—Plunder the Supposed Object. Monday night, In Harrison township, Daviess county, nine miies from Washington, an entire family of six persons were butchered with hatchets. The family consisted of Dennis Wratten, his mother, wife and three children. The eldest of the children, a girl of twelve, is still living, although unconscious and with her bead cruelly gashed. Denson Wratten was a farmer, thirtyiive years old, a good citizen, in moderate circumstances. His aged mother iivod with the family and drew a pension. She lid not bank her money and was supposed to keep several hundred dollars about her. This money was doubless the motive for the murder. The house is a log one, a story and a half high, and has a logkltchsn annex. The murderers entered by a window, breaking in the sash. There was evidences of a fierce struggle. Wratten was sick with typhoid fever and incapable of resistance. The old lady was found upon the floor, cut terribly about the head, and both hands cut off at the wrists. All were found dead upon the floor, except the baby, three years old, which was killed in bed. The murder was discovered at 6 o’clock, Tuesday moroing, by a Th fr bytwo dollars in money was found sewed in the wife's dress and $7 in a drawer. The bureau drawers had all been ransacked. There is no clew. The murderers are supposed to have been tramps. Tracks of three men were discovered near the house. Bloodhounds have been brought from Seymour to trail the murderers.

A THIEF’S DEN.

(That a Detentlva Discovered at the Mint Bobber's Home, Henry Cochran, who stole $134,000 in jold from the United States mint at Philadelphia, and who is posing as a weak minded man, is shown to have been a contaminate scamp. For years he lived alone in a big house in Darby, a suburb. The building set back & hundred feet from Woodland avenue,and isperched ona hill. Dhlef of Secret Service Drummond invesigatod the house, Tuesday. In the parlor, dining room and other apartments where tho public visited were religious pictures, Bibles and hymn books. In the jellar was found a false door, which flew back by touching a spring. This led Into ■ tunnel that ended in the street, the mouth being concealed by glass. In the house were trunks full of clothing, thirtytwo now hate, a razor for every day in the month and twenty pain of shoes. Six crucibles ior melting gold were also found, as well as diok for makingcounterfelt coin. He had the top of his house fitted up like a smelting room, and could drop to the cellar through a trap door and then run through the tunnel should he be surprised. The placo was. In reality, a monster thief's den. Cochran was a devout Presbyterian and shielded his wickedness by a religious cloak.

FIVE DEAD BODIES.

■t Horrible Discovery in the White Chapel District, A (mail house in the White Chapel district, London, was burned at an early hour. Tuesday. After the fire a March was made of the ruins and the bodies of a man and four women were found. It is supposed they were asleep when the fire started and were overcome before they had a chance to escape Water is being sold In various places In the Cherokee Scrip at $ cento a glass or $6 a barrel. ' -

THE EXTRA SESSION.

In the Senate, Tuesday, Senator Voorhees vigorously defended bis tn conducting the fignt for repeal. “1 am arraigned for not terminating this debate,” he said. “I might as well be arraigned for not checking the flow of the tides. Since 1806 to the present time, the Senate has proceeded upon the rules of American manhood, self-respect and high propriety, as well as a sense of duty to the public and of deceficy to itself. It is a mighty tribute to this body. There Is a prevailing belief yet that no Senator will abuse patience in this debate.” He alluded to the Fdrce bill and declared that it was not debated to death, though the consideration of it lasted fifty days and the debate thirty-one days. It was killed by the power of thought and reason, slain by tfee Yaw ot the majority, voted to death. “If there is power here to talk this bill to death,” he said, alluding to the Wilson bill, ?I am ready to embrace its fate and minp with it.” Senator Dolph spoko against repeal and did not disguise the purpose of .the silver men to filibuster. Mr. Voorhees then gave notice that on Wednesday he would move for longer sessions. Mr. Teller ispoke against repeal and stated that when the sessions were extended Into the night that the advocates of repeal as well as its opponents would have to be present. Mr. Hill asked Mr. Teller if be was not satisfied that there was a majority for repeal, to which Mr. Teller replied that Mr. Hill had no right to ask such a question at this time and declined to answer. Mr. Mills then took the floor in a set speech in favor of repeal, and stated in the course of his remarks that the President wanted bi-metallism, not the monometallism of silver.

In the House, Tuesday, Mr. Flinn, delegate from Oklahoma, created a sensation by asking for immediate investigation of outrages by troops at the opening of the Cherokee Strip. He sent to the clerk's desk and had read the accounts of the alleged depredations of the troops and then, in a passionate way, he declared that all the regulations, under which the Strip has been opened, were a disgrace to modern civilization. “The capstone of the whole infamous' business,” he shouted, -‘‘came when settlers, who had stood for hours in the line famishing for the want of water* were heartlessly shot down by the military. Col. Oats, of Alabama, objected to the present consideration of the resolution and thereupon the struggle to prevent the report of the Tucker bill repealing the federal election laws was resumed.

In the Senate, Wednesday, the Senators from the silver States absented themselves from the chamber at roll call. The situation became embarrassing to the friends of repeal. Mr. Voorhees moved that the repeal bill be taken up. Mr. Platt was recognized, but Mr. Voorhees refused to yield the floor. He said that Mr. Platt had not asked him to yield, and as he had arranged with Mr. George, of Mississippi, to speak, Mr. Platt finally asKed Mr. Voorhees’consent to proceed, which was given. Mr. Platt thqn proceeded with a speech in discussion of certain rules to which he proposed to offer an amendment at a future time. The repeal bill was then taken up, and Mr. George addressed the Senate in opposition to the measure. Mr. Voorhees moved that the Sergeant-at-Arms be directed to enforce the attendance of absentees. Mr. Cockrell moved that the roll of the absentees be called which was done. Mr. Teller sat in his seat, .but did not answer when his name was called. Forty-seven Senators responded. The absentees were Messrs. Allen, Carey, Coke, Colquitt, Davis, Aldrich, Dixon, Gordon, Hansbrough, Hunton,lrby, Jones of Nevada, Kyle, Lindsay, McMillan, Manderson, Mills, Mitchell of Oregon, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill, Palmer, Pasco, Pettigrew, Power, Proctor, Pugh, Ransom, Sherman, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Turpie, White of California, White of Wilson and Wolcott. Mr. Teller obtained the floor when it was announced that a quorum was present, and This action in not answering to his name. He said that he did not answer when his name was called, because It occurred to him that if he did so he would be recognizing a rule never recognized in the Senate—that the presiding officer had a right to call a Senator on a roll eall unless the Senator addressed the Chair. The Vice-President assured the Senator from Colorado that he had not been counted.

In the House, Wednesday, the battle to secure the report on the Tucker bill, repealing the federal election laws, which began five days ago, was won by the vigorous application of the party lash, supplemented by an order from the committee on rules. Even then it required six hours of hard fighting before the stubborn minority could be defeated. Every’ expedient that skillful parliamentary maneuvering could devise was resorted to by ex-Bpeaker Reed, who stood in the breach all day directing the movements of the minority. The task was hopeless, however, as long as the Democratic quoum, which appeared for the first time today, held. Once only did the quorum breakdown. But on the next roll call it reappeared, and the ground that bad been lost wasquickly regained. Gradually, by roll call after roll call, the minority was hemmed in. The Speaker’s rulings enraged the minority, and the excitement rose to fever pitch, but there were no wild scenes as characterized the Fifty-first Congress. At one time during the fight Mr. Reed said: "If it is the purpose of the majority to have a rule artificially drawn, seized upon by the Speaker of the House by main strength in order to rob the minority of its rights, we want the country to understand what has been done. If you want to push this through," ho added, sneeringly, "we shall see what we snail see." An extended and bitter debate continued for the entire afternoon. The report of the committee on rules was then agreed to—yeas, ITC; bays, apd the Speaker proceeded to call the cpaqqittees for reports. Mr. TuckesfrcjJbrfM t|»e federal election bill and it was placed on tho House calendar. The House then, at 5:45 p. m.. adjourned.

In Greenwood Cemetery

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