Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

A Topeka man claims to have discovered a liquid which will turn negroes into white men. ’ At Brunswick. Ga., twenty-two new cases of yellow fever were reported, Tuesday, and fifteen deaths. ■ John Woods, a fanner near Tipton, Nev., was butted by a pet ram and received injuries from which he died. Ex-Speaker Reed Is participating in the Ohio campaign. He made his first speech in support of McKinley at Cincinnati Wednesday night. At Faribault, Minn., fire broke out in the Shattuck school buildings and before it could be extinguished property worth 150,000 was An English-American syndicate is reported to have purchased the territory of Lower California from Mexico and will annex it to the United States. Cassius Beldin, who came into sudden prominence by shooting into the Chicago Board of Trade pit and injuring three people, was adjudged insane. Tom Ponasko, a Creek Indian, was executed for murder by shooting. He sat calmly on his coffin and looked into the barrels of the two guns aimed at him. Gen. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, was elected commander-in-chief of the Loyal Legion, at Chicago, Wednesday, to succeed ex-Presldent Hayes, deceased. Miss Mary Nichols was instantly killed at Oakland, 111., by a runaway horse. She was crossing the street when the horse struck her, one shaft passing through her head.

A man who says he is James Davis, of Dublin, attempted to hold up a train at Little Falls, Minn., Tuesday morning. He was shot by the depot policeman and will probably die. On Monday the treasurer of the World’s Fair signed a check for $1,565,310, with the proceeds of which the last dollar of the outstanding indebtedness of the Fair was paid off. This includes the bonded and Boating debt, and leaves the future earnings of the Fair above current expenses to go to the stockholders. Miss Clara Barton, president of she National Red Cross Society, has issued a call lor help for the 20,000 persons made destitute along the southeast Atlantic coast by the recent hurricane. This does not intlude the victims of the great Gulf coast itorm, still more recent and severe. Miss Barton says these people must be fed for x period of eight months or they will itarve. The Bridgeport, Conn., suicide club, of which much has been said, has been i«roved to bo a bona fide organization. One member is compelled by oath to kill himself each year, the victims being selected by a throw of dice. Every rictim so far selected has made way with Himself inside of the year, which is the Hme given to the unlucky man to prepare for death. The last man to keep his oath was Otto Kemp, who hanged himself at Cincinnati a short time ago.

FOREIGN.

Tbe Earl of Elgin has been appointed Viceroy of India. A train on the Transcaucasian railroad 1.) Russia, on which was being carried a targe sum to pay the soldiers of the garrison at Batom, was attacked at Nigoita, Tuesday night, by brigands, who succeeded in securing the money. There were several gendarmes in charge of the treasure, and when the robbers boarded the train and made known their errand a desperate encounter ensued. The robbers were successful, although thirty-four of the gang were killed. Three of the gendarmes were killed.

"GONE THE SIX HUNDRED.”

Ux Hundred Street Car Horses Perish.ln a Chicago Fire. Frenzied with fright and driven into a •tampede by a raging fire that broke out Thursday night in the Wallace street barns, of the Chicago City Railway company. nearly six hundred horses were burned to death. The barns were entirely destroyed and the total loss entailed by the sompany will reach a high figure. The building was a two-story brick affair, which extended 400 feet on Wallace street and ninety feet on Thirty-ninth street. AU the horses were on the first floor and tn ten minutes after the fire was discovered they were helpless. They were blinded by the flames and the smoke that roiled through the place in great volumes, and soon a stampede was In progress. The animals surged back and forth in groups »t fifties and hundreds in their efforts to escape. Their loud neighing and an occasional cry of pain told the people on the street of the fearful scenes that were being enacted on the inside. Yet little or nothing could at first be done to save any of the animals. The total loss is estimated at $120,(.09.

TRIED FIFTEEN TIMES.

B. C. Faaamor* Finally Acquitted of th* Murder of Richard Paxton. The jury in the case of H. C. Passmore, it Harrodsburg, Ky., for the murder of Richard Paxton on October 5, 1887, returned a verdict, Monday, for acquittal after being out less than half an hour. This is the fifteenth court that has passed on the case. At the first trial the jury stood seven for capital punishment, four for life imprisonment and one for acquittal, and they have been growing more lenient in every court since. The case has cost the State more than 830,000, several jurymen, as well as witnesses, being taken from adjoining counties.

WORLD'S FAIR AWARDS.

Indiana manufacturers were awarded prizes, Thursday, as follows: W. W. Mombay & Sons, Columbus, harness ’either machinery; Bryan, Anthony H., Evansville, automatic hot and cold water elevator and distributor; Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company, Kendallville, pumps; Reeves Pulley, Company, Columbus. wood-split pulleys; South Bend Pulley Company, wood-split pulleys. An unfortunate accident is reported from the hills back of Madison] John Kohl chased a squirrel into a wild grape, cluster, and mistook his nephew, Ed Kohl, aged fourteen, who had climbed up aftei gripes, for the osqulrrel. Neither knew the other was in the woods. Ed was riddled with shot in the arms, breast and near his eyos. His recovery is doubtful.

A REMARKABLE CONSTRUCTION

Description of the Great Wall Now En closing the Prison South. Warden J. B. Patten, of the Prlsor South, has just finished one of the-moa-remarkable pieces of masonry and bricklaying ever constructed in the Unitec States, It Is a wall enclosing almost th< entire prison, excepting a small piece in front, where the old structure remains. It surrounds the prison grounds. It h built on a foundation five feet wide and six feet ten inches deep under the surface of the ground. Three feet of the lowei part is composed of broken rock, grave! and cement, making a solid concrete three feet ten inches in hard brick laid in cement. Above ground the wall has an arched face, pilasters supporting it every ten feet, and each of these being 22% feet high. The wall is 25% inches thick between pilasters, and above the arches 37% Inches. On top of the wall is a Gothic metal roof, four feet high, with two feet of iron fence; the hight of the wall to the top of the masonry is 35% feet, and built of hard brick laid in cement. From the foundation to the top of the iron is thirtyeight feet, four inches. There have been used in the construction of the wall 4,713,660 brick. There are towers at every corner fourteen feetsquare and sixty feet high, each with two mullioned windows and two glass doors. There are four of /these towers. Of the brick 2,874,(03 were purchased from the brick makers and the rest are from the old wall. It required 15,472 days of convict labor to construct the wall-and almost all the work was done by convict labor, In fact the outside labor in its construction is so small that its cuts hardly any figure. In length the wall is nearly a half mile long. It replaces the former board wall, which could easily be penetrated by an enterprising convict. Warden Patten began the construction of this wall nearly two years ago and has used hardly any money out of the State’s treasury for the purpose. He says in his report: “The appropriation used to Oct. 31, 1893,f0r construction of sewer.purchase of land and construction of wall wass44,ooo, and the appropriations of 110,020 for the fiscal year beginning Nov. 1, 1863, has been anticipated, and material purchased covering that amount is yet to be paid for after the Ist of November next. This includes -the—cost—of reconstructing the buildings destroyed by fire.” He then gives the following detailed statement: “Materials have been purchased and used, and bills received amounting to

$53,668.43, the same being to cover the following improvements: Purchase of land, $1,864.10; construction of sewer. $6,445.49; reconstruction of burned buildings, $6,258.10; the new wall, $39,100.88. Total, $54,668.48. The outside labor of the new wall, tinners and brickmasons, amounts only to $224.51, and hauling $144.13. The wall was planned and engineered by Warden Patten himself. He also trained the convicts employed in the work of brick-lay-ing. Men who are conversant with such work say that it is among the best walls that have ever been built anywhere, and will stand as long as the hills of southern Indiana.

A PLUCKY INDIANA GIRL

How She Went to the Cherokee Strip and Defended Her Land. During the rush of the army of boomers at the recent opening of the Cherokee Strip, a young lady who formerly resided In Hamilton county was one of the heroines of the event. Her name is Miss Grace Bly, who is making her home near Coffeyville, Kan. It is a case where deserving maidens as well as men always acquire success by well directed efforts. Miss Bly Is twenty-one years of age. and when the news first reached her that the strip was going to be opened she determined to cast her fortune with the boomers, “just to see what a girl can do when she tries,” and she did. Her outfit consisted of a team of active mules attached to a light buggy. At the given signal she started in with the rest, and by the time they had made eight miles she was in the lead with but one or two exceptions. She kept her mules on a dead run and reached a splendid quarter-section, seventeen miles from the starting place, in a few minutes over an hour. Miss Bly was fortunate enough to secure a large tract of land, and was molested by no one, until late in the evening a burly negro came along and attempted to run her away, but she soon gave him to understand that she was there to stay and the best thing he could do was to go. Ho did so. Miss Bly is still owner of that section of territory.

LONG CONTINUED CONVENTION.

It Began Two Month* Ago, and 5,813 Ballot* Were Taken. 4 After taking 5,812 ballots the First Judicial Democratic Convention at Baltimore, Tuesday, ended the deadlock by nominating as chief judge, Henry Page, of Somerset, and as associate, Henry Lloyd, of Dorchester. The convention started to work two months ago. It was made-up of sixteen delegates, representing four counties. Each county had a candidate. The counties paired off, made com-' binations, and every vote stood 8 to 8. The convention began at Ocean City, a summer resort, and lasted until it became too cold for bathing. Then the delegates moved to Salisbury, and thence to Baltimore. The political leaden*, headed by Senator Gorman, are credited with being instrumental in breaking the deadlock. The number of ballots taken breaks all records.

FRANCIS WILLARD'S HEALTH.

She Will Be Unable to Roturn to America For Some Time. The friends of Miss Frances Willard, at Chicago, are seriously alarmed over the advices from England to the effect that under the imperative orders of her physician she will be unable to return to this country until next summer. It has been expected that she would be present at the coming convention of the World’s, and National Women's Christian Temperance Union, but letters to her friends say that Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, her attending physician, has absolutely forbidden her either to cross the water or to apepear upon the platform. She Is now at Riegate, In Surrey, a noted health resort.

MURDER OF INNOCENTS.

Another Rear-End Collision on a World’s Fair Excursion. The Fatai Faihlon of Running In Two Sections the Cause—Seventeen Killed. Michigan occurred at Jackson at 8:50 o'clock, Friday morning, right in the Michigan Central yards. Two sections of a Delaware, Lackawana & Western Chicago excursion train came together. The first section was in the yard, just east of the gate, some of the passengers being in the depot eating breakfast, when the second section came thundering down the track, and before any one realized whai was going on the coaches were p.led on top of each other in a confused mass, and the shouts and groans of the wounded and dying*filled the air for blocks around. The air brake had failed to work. The engineer saw the semaphore up when hitrain passed the Junction, and he tried ustop the train, but he could not control it. The crash was terrible. The two rear car? went clear through each other, and every passenger in the two telescoped coachcwas either Killed or injured. Immediately the work of rescue wabegun and as quick as the unfortunate? could be taken out, the dead wore carried to temporary morgues and the injured t. the most convenient shelter. Every con ceivable kind of conveyance was pressed into service in conveying the dead and Injured from the scene, and willing hands did all within their power to aid in the work of rescue. The third coach in front of the telescoped cars was a special from Domer and Courtland, N. Y., with thirtyeight passengers on board. They were terribly shocked and thrown about, but no one was seriously Injured. Judge Eggleston, of Courtland, was one of the number, and had his clothes partly tori; off, but he was uninjured.

A LITTLE LATE,

But Vary Fresh and Healthy—Best Snake Story of the Season. A special dispatch from Brookville to the Indianapolis News, on the 13th says: A huge snake that has been seen in this section of she State for a year or more has again made its appearance. It was seen last Thursday on the farm of E. G. Hayes, which is situated in Dearborn county between this city and Lawrenceburg, near the Ohio State line. Gabe Houston and his wifo, negroes, living on the Hayes farm, saw the snake a few weeks ago and told several of the neighbors of the discovery. Last Thursday Dan Stevens, a well known farmer, was pasturing some cattle near the Double Lick road when his attention was attracted by the strange actions of the cattle and his dog. The kine were trembling with fear, and scampered from the grazing ground in a wild stampede; the dog trembled, hung low his tail touched paralyzed with fear at his master’s feet. Stevens was at a loss to know tvhat was the cause of these strange actions, when suddenly he was startled by a noise like the clanging of log chains and was amazed to see a monster reptile, with glaring eyes, glide from the bushes and cross the road not more than ton yards tn iront of him. The snake crossed the Double Lick road and crawled through the meadow on the Fitch farm to a pond of water, where it took a drink. After quenching its thirst the pond was drained iry. and the snake disappeared into Coop•r’a woods, on the Hayes farm. Mr. Stevens described the snake as being fully 30 feet In length and as thick as his thigh. It was of a dark blue color.

COMPROMISE PROBABLE

rhe Administration Said to Be Willing to Make Concession*. The Indianapolis Journal’s Washington correspondent, Saturday, says: At the Cabinet meeting, Friday, after complete discussion of all the phases of the Senate situation, a compromise proposition was agreed on to be offered by one of the repeal Senators. It includes, as did the' Harris amendment, provision for the coinage of the silver seigniorage in the treasury, amounting to $53,000,000 and thereafter the purchase of 3,000,009 ounces a month until ninety million ounces have been purchased. This would carry the purchase of siver over the expiration of Mr. Cleveland’s term, a condition the silver men Insist upon; and relieve the treasury during the coinage of the seigniorage, eighteen months of further purchase of bullion, besides making the* bullion so coined an available treasury assets.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

The Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution in the cases of Parker and McAfee, colored, sentenced to hang Nov. 3. for the murder of Druggist Eyster, of Indianapolis, until Jan. 5, in order to consider the petition for a new trial, pressure of other business having rendered It impossible to reach the case in time. The Senate met, Friday, as usual, at 11 a. m. A quorum was present. A communication from the Secretary of the Treasury was presented in response to Mr. Alien's resolution inquiring as to the moneys borrowed by the Government since March, 1885. The answer was that no money had been borrowed. Several Senators gave notice that they would offer amendments to the repeal bill pending. Consideration of the repeal bill was resumed at 11:30. Mr. Stewart resumed his speech of the previous day. At 2p. m. he yielded the floor temporarily to Mr. Manderson, who introdnead a resolution instructing the committee on Pacific railroads to Inquire into the Union Pacific receivership. A discussion of the resolution ensued, and the resolution was laid over for the presentD Mr. Stewart, then resumed his speech against the repeal bill and concluded his speech at 8 p. m. Mr. Peffer then secured the floor and spoke against repeal until 11:55* when the Senate adjourned. Friday’s session of , the House was devoted to a discussion of the Geary Exclusion Act principally. Several unimportant bills were passed. Mr. Campbell endeavored to have a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to commute the pay and allowances due Fitz John Porter referred to the committee on military affairs, but objection was made, and it went the usual way.

AT HIGH TIDE.

Attendance at the World’s Fair atTfR Maxim-nm FaM Admissions nt Jackson Park Raaoh the Phenomenal Figure of 751,0 M on '‘Chicago Day.” A perfect autumn day and the largest crowd that ever congregated at a like gathering in the world’s history. These are two of the elements that helped to make “Chicago Day,” October 9, at tbe World’s Fair an unprecedented success; that went to make it the biggest*day of the Fair; that made the heart of every Chicagoan swell with pride and filled the souls of all Illinoisans and all Americans with joy. Everything that was on the program went off with perfect success and and a great deal that was not thereon. Everyone at the Fair did all in their pow T er to show to all comers true hospitality, and their success is evidenced by the outspoken deljght of the thousands and hundreds of thtmsands who were present. The crowd was bigger than that which assembled at the Paris Exposition on the banner day of that fair. Tbe crush throughout the grounds was simply inde-

SOUVENIR ADMISSION TICKET USED “CHICAGO DAY.”

scribable. Around the Administration Building, on the grand plaza, the people were packed together In one Immovable mass. In other portions of the grounds it was the same story. The Midway Plaisance presented a scene of animation unusual even for that attractive feature of the Fair. It was a crowd covering 1,090 acres of ground as compactly almost as If It had been molded. Paris, on its banner day, passed through the gates of its exposition 397,150 people. The admissions at the World’s Columbian Exposition, on Monday, Oct. 9, numbered 751,026. Never before has a holiday been so generally observed in Chicago. Every business house of any consequence was closed and small stores of all descriptions followed suit. In all sections of the city a card bearing the inscription, “We close, Chicago day,” was to be seen in windows of nearly every store. Even the thousands of milkmen caught the fever and notified their patrons long ago that they would make but one trip on Chicago Day. Many large firms, In addition to closing their places, furnished their employes with tickets of admission to the Fair. Withall these people turned loose and added to by the tremendous influx of outsiders during the preceding forty-eight hours, it is not to be wondered at that such a crowd was neyer seen before.

The crowd was all of Monday night getting out of the Park, the transportation facilities being entire!? inadequate. A great many accidents occurred, but comparatively few were fatal. Ambulances were kept busy and fainting women were a noticeable and not especially attractive feature of the occasion. The Exposition was transformed into fairyland at night. Bright lights flashed from every nook and crevice of the buildings. Searchlights cut wide swaths on the sky. Multicolored rockets shot heavenward, showers of fire rained about the grand basin and on the like front. Through it all the floats representing Chicago’s progress were hauled. It was the grand climax of tlqe festival days of the Fair. Never before was there a sight so inspiring at the Fair. The great white structures of the Exposition stood outlined against the heavens and the whole was one superb blaze of glory. The floats were marvels of beauty.

FAMOUS CASE SETTLED.

Claim of R. 8. Boberton to Salary a* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana Settled. A. G. Smith, the present Democratic Attorney General, Saturday, compromised the suit of R. S. Robertson, of FL Wayne, who claimed the salary as LieutenantGovernor for the time the office was said to be unlawfully held by Smith in the session of 1887. The suit has been hanging fire ever since. Attorney General Smith denies that the compromise is a confession that he was in the wrong in assuming the position he did at that time, and states that the real plaintiff was Benjamin Harrison. To close the matter up, Mr. Smith says, he made an offer of 8500 to pay Harrison’s attorney fees in the case, and it was accpted and the entire matter is at an end.

TRAIN BLOWN TO PIECES

By the Explosion of 433 Keg* of Gunpowder. At 8 o’clock Monday night an east bound freight train on the Pittsburg, Ft Wayne &, Chicago railroad, while running at a high rate of speed, one mile west of North Lawrence, 0., was blown into fragments by the explosion of a car containing 432 kegs of gun powder. The train crew escaped ndhurt, but the engineer, E. P. Calvin, and the fireman, Thomas McCann, were burned severely. The track was torn np for ICO yards, a hole twenty feet deep was made in the ground, telegraph poles were leveled, thirty cars were wrecked and the cab was stripped from the engine. It is rumored that several tramps oti ths train were injured.

THE EXTRA SESSION.

In the Senate, Tuesday, the debate on the silver bill was devoid of interest. A bare quorum was present. Mr. Squire offered an amendment to the bill for repeal. It provides that any owner of bullion, the product of mines or refineries located in the United States, may deposit it st any mint to the United States to be formed into standard dollars of the present weight, and reeeivc coin to the amount of the commercial value on the lay of deposit. The difference between such commercial value and the coin value Is to be retained by the treasury as seigniorage. The amount deposited for coinage Is not to exceed $2,000,000 per month; The lumber of standard silver dollars coined inder this provision is not to exceed 100,XX),000. They are to be full legal tender. No certificates are to be issued to reprelent these silver dollars. The purchasing tlause of the Sherman act is to be repealed. For the present the bonds are to be issued to the extent of $200,000,000, are redeemable after five years, and the proceeds are to be used for the redemption of United States notes. National banks are to be entitled to circulation to the par value of the bonds deposited by them. The House bill repealing the federal elecHon laws, which passed the House, Tueslay, was laid before the Senate. Mr. Hoar suggested that the bill should go the committee on privileges and elections. After 1 short executive session the Senate, at J: 15, adjourned until Wednesday. The Tucker bill to repeal all existing federal election taws was passed by the House at Tuesday’s session by a vote of MX) to 101, party lines being strictly drawn for and against. Senator Hill, of New fork, who is the author of a similar bill tn the Senate,, was on the floor while the vote was being taken. Quite a jubilant lemonstration was made by the Demo:aats when the result was announced. The Republicans, finding that the Demounts had their own quorum present, were (topped from filibustering by the iron-clad irder under which the House was operiting, beyond demanding an yfea and nay rote on the Burrows and Lacey amendments.

When the Senate convened, Wednesday, iwelve members were present. Repeal >lll was taken up at 11:45. Mr. Cockrell •esumed his speech, begun Tuesday, igalnst repeal. At 2:10 Mr. Cockrell Fielded the floor to Mr. Smith, of New Jersey, who spoke In favor of repeal. When Mr. Smith had finished, Mr. Irby, >f South Carolina, addressed the Senate n opposition to repeal. He said he spoke is a farmer, being the only member of the Senate whoso sole occupation was farmng. He was opposed to the bill as a man ind as a Democrat. He believed in Demoiratic principles as he did in the Bible. ‘That isnpretty rough on the Bible,” said i Republican Senator from New England. Mr. Irby said he would not be coerced. Re despised the patronage which had been to ruthlessly withheld from 90 per cent, of ;he honest Democrats of his State. Mr. Cockrell resumed the floor on the repeal >lll. “If the present administration,” laid Mr. Cockrell, “was attempting to .'orce upon the country the principle that lilver dollars were to be redeemed in gold t was not democracy. If it was shown to >e true he would say, ‘halt, halt’. I'he people are not ready for that. They will never sanction ft, never." At 5:15 Mr. Cockrell concluded his speech. A.t6 o’clock the usual hour for adjourn* ment, Mr. Allen was speaking. Mr. Dubois interrupted with an appeal to Mr. Voorhees, asking if he was going to make the usual motion to adjourn. “I feel it to be my highest duty,” said Mr. Voorhees, ‘not to make that motion this evening, but on the contrary, to ask the Senato to itay together in continuous session until the pending measure is disposed of.” Mr. Dubois said the statement of the Senator from Indiana meant that the Senate was io be held in continuoussession until the pending bill was brought to a vote or until it was demonstrated that it could not oe brought to a vote. “You know as well when you start in as you will when you emerge from the struggle that you must fail. With conditions as they exist in the Senate there is ao hope of radical legislation. Mr. Voorhees replied at great length. He suggested to Mr. Dubois the wisdom of the saying, “Let not him that girdeth on his armor boast himself as hethatputteth it off. We will see who will fail in this transaction before we are done. I feel that my feet are on a rock and there I shall stand and vindicate a great and mighty principle.” Mr. Voorhees said it had been suggested to him frequently by tetter and in the press to go outside of the rules and appeal to the presiding officer of the Senate to sustain him tn a motion not provided for in the rules, to proceed to a vote. “I would as soon,” said he, “think of .committing open high treason or private murdbr as to commit such a crime.” Mr. Harris of Tennessee, after referring to the courteous treatment all Senators bad received at the hands of Senator Voorhees, remarked that if he had been the veriest of martinets he would have been powerless to secure action. “For

myself,” said Mr. Harris,” and I know I voice thesentiment of several Senators on this side of the chamber, who like myself will never vote for the passage of unconditional repeal, I will never ask the Senate to adjourn. Nor will I vote for adjournment The "Senator from Indiana shall have the session, so far as I can control ft, aildngashemay desire It.” From 7 o’clock till 11 o'clock the debate continued without any unusual features, Mr. Allen still retaining the floor. Exactly at 12 o’clock Mr. Dubois arose and said as he looked about the chamber: “Mr. President, I believe that a quorum is not present” The Vice-president directed the clerk to call the roll. From the cloak rooms and entrances the Senators crowded into the chamber. When the roll call had been completed Mr. Stevenson announced that fifty-five Senators were present—a quorum—and directed Senator Allen to proceed. The Nebraskan promptly took the floor again and the quorum as promptly began disappearing through cloak room doors. At 12:45 a.m. Mr. Dubois again called the attention of the Vice-President to the fact that no quo rum was present, and in obedience to the electrical signabthe occupants of the cloak rooms again filed hastily into the chamber. As the Vice-President announedd that fifty-three Senators, a quorum, was present, Mr. Palmer, looking rather jaded and fagged out, called attention to the fact that Mr. Dubois, who had askedtoy a call of the Senate, had not answered to

his name. He wanted to know if tnat was proper to a parliamentary sense. The repealers were showing their Meth. Mr. Allen began reading from Chadwick’s political economy. Now and then be would pause to make a comment on a striking passage or take a sip from the dilapidated, over-worked lemon that lay on his desk. At la. m. Mr. Hoar wearily interrupted Mr. Allen to ask him If he was not reading to show that there was not an overproduction of agricultural products. He wanted to know candidly whether the Nebraskan did not think his speech was an overproduction. Mr. Allen hotly asked Mr. Hoar if he wanted to insult him, whereupon the Senator from Massachusetts apologized humbly and equilibrum was restored. At 1:45 the galleries were almost empty. The House, Wednesday, began the consideration of the McCreary bill to ex tend the provisions of the Geary act for six months under a special provision that it shall be considered until disposed of. Only two speeches were made—by Mr. McCreary, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, in support, and by Mr. Geary, the author of the old law, in antagonism. Mr. Geary made a violent attack on the administration, and especially upon Attorney General Olney, for failure to enforce the Geary law. His remarks created a sensation.

Thursday’s sunrise found the Senate of the United States still in scission. Senator Alien’s stayinc qualities had proved phenomenal. An altercation between Messrs. Allen and Palmer resulted in the pledge of 'both gentlemen to give $lO9 each to some charity. The point of “no quorum” was raised by Mr. Shoup and roll call showed but forty members present. Ser-geant-at-arms was ordered to find the absentees, which was done, and the VlcePresideut announced the presence of a quorum. point was made by Mr. Wolcott that a quorum was not a majority of tho members chosen to the Senate. The VicePresident ruled that the Senate being composed of eighty-five members fortythree was a quorum. Mr. Wolcott appealed and his appeal was laid on the table—3B to 5. The quorum question was disposed of a few minutes before 8 o’clock, and Mr. Allen arose apparently as fresh and vigorous as when he began fourteen hours before,-whilehe talked*about the shylocks and of < the Trojan ;horse, told of the voyage and landing of* the pilgrims on the New Englandjshore, pictured those of the Acadian peasants, sketched tho events leading up to the revolutionary war and told how that conflict was fought and won. At quarter past 8 Mr. Allen concluded his long speech by saying that ho yielded the floor to Mr. 1 Martin, of Kansas. To this proceeding 'Mr. Voorhees took exceptions and asked if he proposed to farm out the floor.lMr. Allen declared that he had no such intention. Mr. Voorhees interrupted by moving to lay the Peffer amendment on the table. The result showed that there were fifty Senators voting, seven morejtban a quor-um-yeas 33, nays 17. When the chair had announced the vote and stated that the Peffer amendment had been laid on the table Mr. Voorhees was recognized. He stated that the Peffer amendment to the bill was the only one' pending, except that offered by the committee on finance, which is the Wilson, or Heuse bill No. 1. Mr. Martin, of Kansas, got the floor at 9:30 o’clock and began a plea for the free coinage of silver. At noon there was no perceptible change. As the steam whistles and bells scattered over the city announced tho hour of midday, Senator Martin still had the floor. There was another call of the 'Senate at 12:50, and forty-four Senators responded. Mr. Martin resumed his speech. The afternoon was spent In repeated calls for a quorum and roll calls. >Mr. Voorhees gave notice that he would insist on the attendance of absentees, and wonld compel their attendance. Mr. Stewart occupied the time after Martin in speaking against repeal. At 10:15 p. m. Mr. Wolcott called for a quorum. Only thirtynine Senators replied to their names, and on motion of Mr. Voorhees the Sergeant-at-Arms was directed to compel the attendance of absent members, but before it became necessary to act on the order four others came into the hall, thus • making the quorum, and Mr. Stewart continued. !At tbe next roll call an hour elapsed before a quorum was secured. At 1:05 a. m-. Friday morning, Mr. Blackburn came in, thus completing the quorum. At 1:30 a. m. the Senate was again without a quorum. *At 1:40 a. m. sergeant-at-arms reported that two Senators were absent from the city, twelve had been excused by tbe Senate, four answered the summons by the statement that they were too ill to attend, nine in the capitol made no answer and sixteen were reported as absent from their residences find could not be found. Mr. Voorhees immediately arose and said: “Mr. President, I feel that I have done my duty in this matter and without comment I now move that the Senate adjourn.” The motion was unanimously agreed to and in an instant the Senate chamber was deserted, after a continuous session of thirty-eight hours and forty minutes.

FREIGHT TRAIN STOLEN.

Captured by Armed Miner* from California and New Mexico. Southern Pacific officials are considerably excHed over news wired from points along the line concerning the capture of one of their freight trains at Delrio by a band of sixty-five armed men, who claim to be miners from California and New Mexico. They took possession of a train, and drove off the crew and all others who attempted to dissuade them. They say they have been driven to desperation by delay of the Senate in settling the silver question, so that business may be resumed in the silver-producing States, and that they propose going to Alabama to take the place of the striking miners, as ft te now work or starvation with them. They are running the train on their own schedule, and the dispatchers are puzzled in order to avoid any collision with regular trains. They s>op wt the different towns and levy tribute of provisions, but, so far, have committed no other depredations. Being well armed and determined, officers dare not attack them unless, they can muster a sufficient posse, which cannot be done except in the cities. It is expected they will abandon the train near the end of the division, go around the city, and. by capturing other trains, proceed od their journey. . To vaccinate or not is the question ol the hour at Yorktown, and until it is decided finally some parents who do not view with friendliness the idea ol compulsory vaccination will withhold their children from school