Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1894 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

lowa saloons will resume business at the old stands. New York merchants who employ 20,000 boys have agreed not to hire boys who imoke cigarettes. The New York Senate has passed a bill appropriating $300,0J0 for the improvement of the canals. At Centerville, Ia„ burglars pried open the door of a bank vault and stole three thousand silver dollars. The lowa House of Representatives has passed the local option law and it wilt probably pass the Senate. 2 A New York theatrical manager has made an offer to Madeline Pollard and Zella Nicolaus to go on the stage. Denver had a big fire. Thursday night. A quarter of a block of business houses were all destroyed. Loss $175,000. >■ Enraged at the crying of his baby, Andro Bartcili, of Barbertown, Pa., threw it into a stove, where it was fatally burned. Father Lambert, a leading Redemptorist priest, of New York, has renounced the priesthood and the Catholic church. Milwaukee letter carriers will demand pay of Uncle Sam for overtime since the passage of the eight hour law in 1888. At Chagrin Falls, 0., an unknown fiend poured coal oil over three horses and then sot fire to them, burning them to death. A private mint somewhere near Omaha has turned out a half million silve; dollars on the sly, the profit being the seignorage. Democrats of California have adopted resolutions protesting against the adoption of the proposed new treaty with China. Chairman Wilson, whose life was despaired of, and who was taken to Mexico as a last resort, has so far recovered as to start homeward. R. L. Garner, who has been in Africa nearly two years studying the language of gorillas, arrived in Now York on the Etruria, 4 Vallandingham Kellars, a two-year-old child, fell into water only a few inches deep in a horse-watering trough near Newark, 0., and was drowned. Rev. Thos. Spurgeon has been elected pastor of the London Tabernacle, the' church with which his father, Rev. Chas. Spurgeon, was so long connected. The Prssident has approved the bill granting a pension to Hannah Lyons, ninety-one years of ago, daughter of John Russell, the Revolutionary soldier, whoso statue stands on guard at Trenton battle monument. While a boatload of persons were crossing Patscuro lake, Mexico, the boat sprung a leak, and before help could be given or the shore reached six of the eighteen persons taking passage were drowned. They were all young women. T. Thomas Fortune, colored newspaper man, has secured a verdict of $1,016.23 against saloonist James Trainor, New York, who refused to sell Thomas a glass of beer and ejected him from the saloon. Fifty negroes, beneficiaries of his colonization scheme, shot and killed H. C. Bolden in Matagorda county, Texas, because ho reprimanded them for idleness. A white posse is now gunning for negroes. Chairman Manley,* of the Republican national campaign committee, was in Washington. Tuesday, conferring with Tom Reed about the proposed changes in the basis of representation. The number of Southern delegates may bo reduced. The freezing weather that prevailed throughout thecountry, Sunday, is calamitous in the amount of damage done to fruit growers. Reports from all sections show that all varieties of early vegetables, strawberries and trees that had started their buds have boon frozen solid. “Buff” Higgins was hanged at Chicago, Friday, for the brutal murder of Peter M cCooey, an old- citizen, —The murdered man was an employe of the city, and had drawn S4OO from the savings bank the day ho was murdered. He was shot before ho could leave his bed by Higgins, who was the leader of the gang.

FOREIGN.

Twenty persons were arrested and will bo executed for an attempt to kill the King of Corea. 1 Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is to visit Emperor William of Germany at Abbazla. Preparations are being made to put into effect the finding of the arbitrators relative to seal fishing in Bering sea. A colored crank is organizing an army similar to Coxey’s to march on Washington to demand free silver coinage. Affairs at Bluefields are still in an unsettled condition. The British are practically in possession of everything. Dr. Nettleship, the oculist, believes an operation will fully restore Mr. Gladstone's normal powers of eyesight. The new Chinese treaty looks to an extended commercial treaty between this country and the Flowery Kingdom. Emperor William wants European nations to make a common stand against American enterprises which adversely affect European Interests. Lord Rosebery, the new English Premier, is to wed Princess Maude of Wales. Lord Rosebery is a widower, aged fortyfive, with four living children. Princess Maude is twenty-four. At Buda-Pesth, Thursday.orlotous students demanded that emblems of mourning should bo everywhere displayed in honor of the memory of-Louis Kossuth Trouble resulted. The streets wore filled with thousands of rioters, who threw ■tones and used clubs against tbe soldiers that wore called out to quell the insurrection. Meetings were hold in all parts of tho city and tho loaders of the club delivered the most violent harangues warmly extolling Kossuth’s services to Hungary. Tho government decided that no mourning flags should bo displayed from public buildings. TheCabo Machichaco.a Spanish steamer, ou tho night of Nov. 3, last, was blown up at the wharf at Hantandar while discharging her cargo, which was supposed to consist of ordinary merchandise, but In which had boon surreptitiously con coaled a largo amount of dynamite. The loss of life at that time has never been accurately ascertained, but is belinved to haveexcocdod 1,000. The wreck sank In tho harbor, and divors have since been at work upon it. They discovered that there was still a largo amount of dynamite in the vessel, and tho authorities, believing it to bo a menace to shipping, determined to have it removed. Wednesday, while the work was In progress, an explosion occurred and several workmen were killed.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

The session of the Senate, Wednesday, was brief and unimportant. Chaplain Milburn invoked divine aid for Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, is his critical illness. A number of bills were taken from the calendar and passed. The bills to simplify the form of deeds, trusts and releases in the District of Columbia, was debated for an hour without result. At 3:20 the Senate adjourned. In the Senate, Thursday, the bill for the purchase of a site for the new government printing office was considered, and an amendment for the purchase of what is known as theMahone site was passed. Mr. Sherman precipitated a discussion in the nature of a free silver debate by the introduction of a resolution directing the committee on judiciary to examine and report whether the simulation o.f the coins of the United States by coins of same weight, metal and fineness, except as authorized by law, is made, criminal by the acts against counterfeiting coins of the United States and other countries, and if not to report a bill to prevent and J punish such simulation, He had road a press dispatch from Omaha, Neb,, stating that there was a private mint there which'was engaged in coining silver dollars of the sama weight and fineness as the standard silvei dollar, making their profit on the difference between the actual value of the silver and the coined value, a profit of about 51 cents on the dollar. Senator Cockrell said: “If they cannot get free coinage one way they will in another.” Mr. Stewart objected to the present consideration of the resolution and it went over without action. A bill to provide for the destruction of the Russian thistle was considered and a protracted debate ensued. At 3:50 p. m., without action, the Senate went into executive session, and at 4:05 adjourned till Monday. In the House, Thursday, the day was spent in filibustering over the O’NeillJoy contested election case from the St. Louis district. In the House, Friday, the Democrats were again without a quorum, and the attempt to consider the O’Neill-Joy election ease was abandoned. The Military Academy appropriation bill was passed, carrying $400,438—a reduction of $32,000 compared with the amount for the present fiscal year. A recess was taken at 4 o'clock and the night session was devoted to consideration of private pension bills. In the Senate, Monday, the death ol Senator Colquitt was announced by Senator Gordon, his colleague, in a touching address. The customary resolutions of condolence were adopted and a funera committee appointed. At 12:15 as a mark of respect the-Senate adjourned. The House also held a brief session. The dgath of Senator Colquitt was announced. The usual resolutions were adopted and a funeral committee was appointed to accompany the reihains to Georgia. At 1 o’clock as a further mark of respect the House adjourned.

WILL RAISE $381,000,009.

Estimate of the Amount of Re venue tlu New Tariff Bill Will Produce, Tho estimates of the amount of revenue which the tariff bill as reported to the Senate will produce, show that tho amount will be about 8381.CC0,C00. This is a reduction of between 113,000,003 and 814,000,000 from tho estimates in the first bill reported to the committee. The principal reduction is made in the internal revenue part of the bill through the restoration of the present tax rates on domestic cigars and cigarettes, which amounts to a loss of over 810,000,000, There will also be an appreciable falling off in tho duty on tin plate caused by changing the duty on the importation from 11-15 cent to I per cent, per pound. Tho change in the fruit schedule whereby bananas, pineapples and cocoanuts are taken from the dutiable list will make up the other principle items of loss. Bananas are imported in large quantities, and the imposition of adutyoi 2 cents per pound, as first imposed by the committee, would have produced a revenue of 81,072,236. The committee found that tho bill would produce more revenue than would be needed, and as bananas are not produced in this country outside of a small section on the Gulf of Mexico, it was decide! to restore them tc the free list. As tho bill stands it will produce at least 830,000,000 more of revenue than will be needed.

THE MARKETS.

Mar. 27, 1391. Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—s3Jse; corn,37c;oats,32}£c; hay, choice timothy, 111.50; rye, 45c. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Shippers, *[email protected]: heifers. *[email protected]; cows, [email protected]; bulls, 11.75@3; m’ilkers, HOOS—SHEET—<I.SO(g3. POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) Poultry—Hens,7c per lb; young chickens, 7c perib; turkeys, old toms, 4c per ib; hens, per fb; fancy, fat young tom turkeys, 4c; poor, 3(<i)4c; ducks, 6)<c per lb; geese, *4.20(154.80 per doz. for choice. Eggs—Shippers are paying Bc. Butter—Extra, KKujlZq; mixed, B@loc. Honey—l6<s 18c Feathers—Prime geese, 40c per ft; mixed duck, 20c per ft. Beeswax—2op for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Unwashed medium woo), 15c; unwashed coarse or braid, 13(o)15c; unwashed fine merino, 10 k <jl3c; tub-washed, 18(jJ30c; burry and cottea wool, sto 10c less than above prices. Hides—No. 1 green hides. 3Wc; No. 1 G. S. hides, 3>fe; No. 2 G. S. hides, 2H'c; No. 1 calf hides, sc; No. 3 calf hides, 3)fc. Chicago. Wheat—ss’<c; corn; 35><c; oats, 29J<c; pork. *10.80; lard, *6.52>f; cattle, 83.50 Q 4.00; hogs, *4(<i4.65. New York. Wheat—GlXc; porn, 44\'c; oats, 34Xc; pork, *12@15. Bt. Lonls. Wheat—s3c; corn, 33,Vc; oats, I'hlladelphls. Wheat-OOXc; corn, 4LXc; oats, 37J£c. Baltimore. Wheat— corn, 41Jtfc; oats, 39c. Cincinnati Wheat-55c; corn, 39c; oats, 34c; rye, 55c; pork, 111.35. Toledo. Wheat—s6j*c; corn, 371£c; oats, 32c. Minneapolis. Wheat—No. 1 hard, 02Xc. Buffalo. H0g5—[email protected]. East Liberty. Hogs- *4.75(35 00.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Richmond is to have a new SIOO,OOO hotel. April 16 is the last day for paying the first installment of taxes for 1893. S. Stone, Elkhart, has a hound that is the mother of eighteen healthy puppies. Fishing at Lake Wawassee is good and the bass are biting like suckers at a county fair. The fish law is said to be constantly and flagrantly violated in the vicinity of Clay City. The latest at Brazil is a tramp, who cries for a living. He claims that he once swallowed his palate. It is estimated that 300 people have joined the various churches of Warsaw during the revival just closed. Con O’Brien, ex-postmaster of Lagro, has been arrested, charged with embezzling nearly S7OO of postoffice funds. The Fort Wayne Eastern railroad company, organized to build a road from Fort Wayne to Baldwin, Ind., has incorporated. They Wayne county commissioners ordered that traveling circuses must pay a license before exhibiting in that county. English is enjoying a boom as a result of the prospect of success in the pending suit for the relocation of the county seat Gov. Matthews and several members of his staff were in Washington, Monday, and attended the Pollard-Breckenridge trial. Half-fare rates have been secured for the Masonic, Grand Lodge at Indianapolis, May 22 and 23. A large attendance is expected. Sparks from a traction engine set fire to Ovid Stowe’s fine barn, in Randolph county, and it was consumed. Loss $4,000, with $2,000 insurance.

Preparations for the great Odd Fellows’ celebration, at Indianapolis, May 16, are going forward, and the success of the demonstration is assured. Vandals blew out the corner-stone of the German Lutheran church, near Columbia City, under the impression that money was buried underneath. Riley Stepp, of Muncie, opened a back door in his store, Tuesday night, and stepped out into space, falling fifteen feet and receiving probably fatal injuries. Congressman C. G. Conn has set all doubt at rest by addressing a letter to Hon. John B. Stoll, of South Bend, saying that he will not be a candidate for reelection. Lafayette Carmon’s house, near Hartford City, was demolished by a natural gas explosion and then burned, A child was fatally burned. Other members of the family were frightfully burned. Reports from all parts of the State indicate that the bright hopes for a large fruit crop that seemed so promising last week has been blasted. The cold of Sunday and Monday was unprecedented. In the trial of Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, at Kokomo, Thursday, the skull of Watson, the victim of the woman’s revolver, was produced in court. Many ladies fainted because of the gruesome proceeding. Samuel Gard, a contractor of Elwood who went to Hot Springs. Ark., for treatment, was murdered, Tuesday, March 20, for his money, by unknown parties at that place. It is claimed that his death was foretold by “Joe Mix”, the seer of White River.

5 Tho Hancock county grand jury was in continuous session for twenty-six days, and it returned 203 indictments, fourteen of which were for murder,forgery, larceny and robbery, and eighty for violating the liquor law. Great mystery surrounds the striking of oil on the H. M. Creviston, in Washington township, Grant county. Guards are stationed to prevent approach within one hundred yards, and operators are endeavoring to lease other Tands in that vicinity. Moy Lee Sing, a Chinaman, recently opened a genuine “opium joint” at Indianapolis, which he operated in a basement, ostensibly as a laundry office. Mr, Sing was prosecuted for maintaining a nuisance and fined 8500 in police court. Being unable to pay the fine, he was sent to-the workhouse. The body of an unknown man was found in a thicket near Fairview Park, north of Indianapolis, Saturday. Indications show that ho had long been dead, and it is believed ho was murdered, as the pockets of his coat and pants were turned wrongside out, and no valuables were found with the romalns. There is no clue. An elghteen-year-old son of Foster Fletcher, of Montgomery county; died from injuries received from a sharpened elder sprout which he-was holding in his mouth as he fell from a rail fence on which he had been sitting. His throat was terribly lacerated and after suffering excruciating agony the child died.

Jas. Daugherty, a wealthy farmer living south of Columbus, has received an anonymous letter demanding that he bury *l5O in a tin can. In a specified place on his farm, on penalty of death. The writer stated that he would take the money inside of one year, or allow Mr. Daugherty to reclaim It without fear of violence. It is proposed to erect a monument at Bedford commemmorating the gallant record of Lawrence county in the war for the Union, and it is suggested that itshall bo built of a single piece of Bodford limestone sixty-one feet in height, surmounted by a statue of a private soldierin bronze, of heroic dimensions. On the sides will be carved the name of every soldier dyikg in battle. 2 Pat Kennedy, while digging In tho streets of Evansville, in the vicinity of the court house, unearthed a skeleton to which a part of tho clothing still adhered. In tho fragment of a pocket a clay pipe was found, and hence Kennedy is confident that one of ills nationality was buried there. It is recalled by one of tlie pioneer residents of Evansville that tho site of tho c<iurt house was formerly a cemetery. Police Chief Charles Oden, of Lebanon received a note calling him to an unfrequented quarter of tho city, and while he was watching a place under suspicion he was fired upon by an unknown party. It develtipa that tho prosecutor also received a request similar to that sent to the police chief, to which ha paid no attention. The opinion is rife that the attempted killing of the police chief and the effort to entrap tho prosecutor grows out of the inquiry relativo to tho attempted lynching of the nogro Hall. The city of Connersville contracted for certain street improvements under tho Barrett law, and after paying the contractor, brought suit against the property

holder for amount of assessment. The defendant raised the point that the city was not the proper party to bring suit, it being the duty of the contractor to collect, and not the city. This point was sustained, and an appeal followed to the Supreme Court. Claim is made by the city that contractors object to collecting from property holders, and if this point is sustained it will be almost impossible to get bids for street improvements. Much bitterness continues to be shown in the court house removal wrangle in Crawford county. Recently the English faction, which is known as the “removalists,” applied for a change of venue from Judge Zenor, and Judge Voyles was selected. Last week the case was called, only to find the “removalists” ready with another affidavit asking for a change of venue from Crawford, claiming that they could not get justice because of the dominating influence of Leavenworth.

A CHICAGO HORROR.

Children Leap for Their Lives from a Burning School House* Fire in the South Evanston public school building, near Chicago, Wednesday, caused a panic among the pupils. The pupils on the second floor of the building were driven by the flames and smoke to the upper, story whence they were rescued by the firemen. Teachers and pupils were panic stricken and many were knocked down and trampled upon in the. rush for the exits. Several of the children jumped from the fourth story windows and were badly injured. Eight received burns and bruises from falling that will probably result fatally. The scene about the burning building was appalling. The firemen were endeavoring to lift ladders to the windows while the parents in the yard and streets about the school house were shouting to the children clinging to the windows to hang on, or go back and descend the stairs. Finally, a boy stood up in a third story window and jumped to the ground, forty feet below. It was Newell Simmons. He fell on his shoulder and was picked up senseless. Almost immediately .afterward Esther Burden leaped from an adjacent window on the same floor. Another girl, named Sargent, jumped, striking squarely on her feet and sank to the ground with a shriek of pain. Physicians say that her right leg is broken and that she may have sustained serious internal injuries. The firemen rescued several children who were perched on the window ledges ready to drop. The building cost $50,C00 and was a total loss.

PRENDERGAST’S PLEA.

Positive Postponement of the Pains and Penalties Imposed. By an unprecedented plan Prendergast’s attorneys, at Chicago, Thursday, succeeded in securing a fortnight’s respite for the murderer of Carter Harrison, who was under sentence to hang Friday, March 23. The State Supreme Court refused a supersedeas, Wednesday. The attorneys then took the case before the Federal judges on constitutional grounds, alleging that Prendergast’s rights as a free man had been violated by the refusal of the trial court to allow him to talk when he pleased and to act as his own attorney if he so chose. The Federal judges, after hearing the arguments, declined to grant the stay asked. Then the attorneys announced that they were proceeding on the basis of Prendergast’s insanity having developed since his imprisonment and began work before Judge Chetlbin, in whose court their efforts wore finally rewarded, late Thursday evening, with a stay of proceeeings for two weeks. The assassin will now be tried as to his sanity by a jury. Prendergast was greatly elated and refused to talk to reporters, assumlng a scowl and an air of dignity.

A DOUBLE MURDER.

Two of the Watchmen In the Tolleston Club Ground* Killed. An atrocious murder was committed at Tolleston, Wednesday evening. The victims are James Conroy and William Cleary, who were employed as watchmen in the Tolleston shooting club grounds. The men in some way became involved in a quarrel with Albert Tooker and were getting the best of the argument when the latter drew a big navy pistol and fired six shots, killing both men. After the murder Tooker took the woods. A vigilance committee was immediately organized and ten minutes later about seventy-five farmers armed with shotguns, rifles, clubs and hay forks began scouring the woods and swamps.

WESTERN LANDS MADE FERTILE

Interstate Convention Urges Congress to Make an Appropriation, The Interstate Irrigation Convention, at Omaha, adopted resolutions, Thursday, that the Government should make an appropriation to test the practicability of irrigating the plains; that the Government should by experiments determine whether the underflow water is of sufficient volume and can be brought to the surface at a cost to make it available for general irrigation purposes, and that it should determine the extent to which reservoirs can be constructed for the purpose of storing water sufficient in quantity for Irrigation purposes.

FEE AND SALARY LAW DECISIONS.

Interest in the fee and salary law under which State and county' officers of Indiana are serving is revived by the decisions of Circuit Court Judges that the act is unconstitutional. Judge Gillette, of the Lake Circuit Court, has held tho act to bo invalid as it concerns county auditors, treasurers and recorders. Judge Wiley, of the Benton Circuit Court, has rendered a similar opinion, and it is expected that another Circuit Court in the State will make a third decls on next week to the same effect. Tiie case from the Lake Circuit Court has been appealed to the Supreme Court. The attorneys will ask next week that the court advance the cause and give it an early hearing. The Supreme Court of Colorado, Saturday. rendered a decision holding that Gov. Waite had the right to remove the Fire and Police Chiefs of Denver as he did and appoint their successors, but that he had no power to call out troops to install them. The Governor was reported to be very angry.

QUIXOTE COXEY

Marches On the Washington Wind Mill. Th« “Common Weal” Army Muiteri In One Hundred Strong—Mostly Hobo*. The long talked of advance of ithe “Coxey Common Weal” army from Massillon, 0., to Washington, to demand of Congress certain radical reforms, materialized in a meager way, Sunday. The start was made and about one hundred poorly clad men marched eight miles In the cold March wind, and camped in the eastern part of Canton. Three thousand persons witnessed their departure from Massillon. Mr. Coxey was cheerful and concealed any disappointment he may have felt over the non-appearance of the hosts who have from time to time enlisted under his banner pvfth promises of substantial aid. The start from Massillon resembled the moving of an old-time country circus more than anything else. There was no goddess of peace in the procession

BANNER OF THE COXEY ARMY.

as Coxey had designed, his divorced wife refusing to permit her daughter to go with the army in that capacity. Coxey’s son, Jesse, a boy of sixteen, was mounted on a blooded stallion from the stock farm and woreamilitaryuniform. Browne and the other officers were similarly mounted, while the “general” rode in a phaeton behind one of his favorite horses. Mrs. Coxey, her three-year-old son and the housekeeper for the Coxey’s rode in a buggy. The rank and file of the army brought up the rear on foot, following the band wagon, which very much resembled a gypsy’s traveling conveyance. The musicians did their best to enliven the soldiers and the manv gay banners added fantastic elements to the pageant. Before the start the noon-day rations were dispensed. They consisted of a can of salmon and a loaf of bread for each group of five, and a small slice of ham for each man. This seemed to satisfy the men and they marched away with light hearts and buoyant spirits. But seventy-two of Coxey’s Commonwealers had the courage to march away from Canton, Monday afternoon, in the face of the wintry blast that was blowing at the time set for the start. The band deserted at that point also, and that took much of the spirit out of the soldiers. The march from Canton to Louisville, 0., through two inches of snow and in a temperature twenty degrees above zero, was anything but a pleasant experience for the thinly-clad wanderers, who had imagined that the entire trip to Washington would be a sort of a springtime frolic. Fifty tramps were picked up between Canton and Louisville, and when the army went into camp it numbered 122 men, aside from the officers. The claimed enlistments are 250. Much excitement was created by the announcement that three of the tramps had robbed a man named Ruegg of a watch and slt>in money. This was the first attempt at lawlessness, but no arrests were made.

Mr. Coxey and Marshal Browne took lodgings at the best hotel in Canton, Sunday night, and this caused the men to grumble. The “officers” did not put in an appearance at the camp till 10:30, and when they did arrive and give orders to break camp and prepare for the march the soldiers reluctantly obeyed. It was past 12 o'clock before the start was made, and when the command to march was given but seventy-two fell in.

AT WASHINGTON.

The Capital Not Alarmed—Cozey’s March Regarded as a Joke. A Washington dispatch March 2fl, says: Washington regards tho advance of Coxey’s army of peace as a huge joke. ‘Those who took counsel of their own timidity and feared that tho band of pilgrims would swell into a gigantic mob of vagabonds and Anarchists, and who conjure up a general rising which might eventually lead to a riot and bloodshed, perhaps even revolution, had all their fears dispelled when they saw by the morning papers that Cqxey’s boasted “army” had dwindled into less than a hundred men, chiefly tramps, who were willing to exchange the hard board and cold potatoes to which they had become inured, fora membership in the array. Col. E. A. Redstone, Coxey’s representative in Washington, said that he was not disappointed at the poor showing made by the army of the Commonweal in the first day’s march toward the national capital. “I did not expect,” he said, “to see a very large crowd go from Massillon, but at Reederburn, where the army is to formally organize, tho number will be swelled. I suppose the cold, disagreeable weather was a disadvantage to the army at its start, but I had a dispatch from General Coxey telling me that he had started and that everything was encouraging.” Colonel Redstone's manner Is less enthusiastic than it has been and he evidently doos not feel as hopeful as his statements would; indicate. He has reduced his estimate of those to appear here from 30),0C0 to 100,003. Letters are coming to the War Department daily, begging, suggesting and demanding that the Secretary of War provide an abundant supply of rations for the various sections of the Coxey Commonweal Army and that they have designs upon Washington and the peace of mind of Congress. These letters come from ail quarters, but their destination is the same-the Departmental waste basket, for they show evidence of being the productions of would be practical jokers.

TO HELP COXEY.

Popullata Call on the Paople to Aid th* Commander. 7: 9 Populists of Canton held a meeting and ssued a proclamation to tbe people on the :ommonweal. It is addressed to the comnon people of the United States. It says the Shylocks are doing all they can to :rush and ruin Coxey financially, and by dosing in on him for payment of some of his obligations are seeking to divert attention from his real purpose of relieving the distress and suffering of the common people. It says when Gov. McKinley was in distress the plutocrats contributed to his relief. The common people ihould now come to the relief of their benefactor and contribute in such sums as they can, no matter how small. The paper is signed J. J. Ashenhurst, candidate for Governor on the Prohibition ticket in 1891; Allen Cook, a local enthusiast, H. W. Kerch. Dr. Kirby. Coxey seemed to be much worried over his financial affairs. The Populist circular asks the people to help him lift the mortgage which was incurred through his purchase of the famous horse Acolyte, for which he agreed to pay $40,000. Contributions only amounted to $4.50, and the prospects are not flattering for Coxey’e relief.

CRONKHITE CAUGHT.

Warren County’# Defaulting Treasures Arrested at to# Angeles, Cal. Gov. Matthews received a telegram, Saturday, announcing the arrest of Augustus Cronkhite, the defaulting treasurer of Warren county, who disappeared Jan. 20,1893, leaving his bondsmen in ths lurch for ?C0,924 12. Cronkhite was landed behind the bars by Sheriff Moore, of Fountain county, who was employed by the bondsmen to trace the fugitive. Moora has been upon the trail for tome time, and learned that Cronkhlte’s wife was corresponding with various persons, using a violet ink. By means of a surveillance of the mails at various places he discov“erefflbat these names were only fictitious ones being used by Cronkhite, and he accordingly followed the clue and has traced Cronkhite from a point in Michigan, through Illinois and Nebraska, and at last located his man at Los Angeles. Jan, 9 Moore secured a requisition upon the Governor, but coming upon Cronkhite ii the Lbs Angeles postoffice, he gobbled hi» prisoner without formality and got a warrant afterward.

SENATOR ALFRED H. COLQUITT,

Of Georgia, died at Washington, Monday Mr. Colquitt was a citizen of Atlanta, ans was born in Walton county, Ga., Apr. 20 1824; graduated from Princeton class a 1844; admitted to the bar in 1845; served in the United States army during the Mexican war with the rank of Major; was a member of the Georgia Legislature several times; memberof the Georgia secessloi convention; served in tbe confederate annj with the rank of Colonel; Governor oi Georgia in 1876; elected U. S. Senator sot term commencing Mar. 4, 1883 and reelected in 1888. Senator Colquitt wai stricken with paralysis in June, 1894 Since that time he has been unable k walk without assistance, but has attended to his official duties, being wheeled to hfa seat daily in a rolling chair. For yean Senator Colquitt has been prominent ii church and temperance circles.

A STUDENT TO BECOME A KING.

Prince Besselow, the African Prinw who is a member of the class of T-7 11 Williams College, Williamstown, Mass, has received a call from his people la Africa to return to his native land and take possession of his kingdom, whick heretofore has been under the power of an uncle. It was not the intention of th* young Prince to return so soon unless it was in response to a call, as he was informed that his uncle would make a deaperate fight to hold the kingdom and kee« him away from his just rights. Now word comes that even the uncle desires his return, as he sees the people are bound k have it, and that he himself cannot continue much longer in power.

A CASHIER KILLED.

A man went into the Savings Unlos branch office at San Francisco, Friday, and handed Cashier Herrick a letter, wriV ten in red ink, demanding money. Thi cashier refused and the desperado drew ' revolver and fired. The bank official closed with him. and in the fight that ensued the robber fired a second shot, killing the cashier. The man escaped but was captured and gave his name as Frank Bennett. Two shoti tired by the bookkeeper as Bennett fled took effect and hi was seriously wounded. The Natlohal Christian League for thi Promotion of Purity, at New York, Saturday, discuss* d the case of Congn-ssmas Breckenridge, and decided that "h:» ought to be deposed from office. It was voted t* take steps toward this end.and also to m» deavor to persuade Mrs. Breckenridge to retuse to live with him. The dynamite works of the Acme Powder Company at Black's run, near Pitt» burg, were destroyed by an explosion Friday. Five persons were killed and on* badly Injured. The works were blown tt pieces and buildings in the vicinity of Un works had windows broken and the people within a mile of the explosion terrorized. Of those killed two were men three were women. The Booue county grand jury adjourned without returning indictments against any of the rioters who attempted to lyncl the negro Hal).