Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. r ..... —* A— ■ GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - • - INDIANA.

COOL AND INSOLENT.

ALLEGED CONDUCT OF A CARELESS DRIVER. Secretary Carlisle Favors the President’s Financial Plawr-Wp ; uld Retire Treasury Notes - Fredicta Suri>luf /Next Year—Faure Is Disgusted. 1. How He Killed J. B. Harvey. Says the Chicago Post: Jaunty nn< l flippant is Capt. Michael J. White, of the Seventh Regiment, I. N. G., and driver for John Sexton & (.’o., although iriffirisonment in tLe Chicago avenue station on the charge of murder might be conducive of gravity if not of fear. While driving off the north end of State street ■bridge- _ Friday evening White ran into and killed 2 John B. Harvey, a.derk for Truax, Green & Co. White did not stop to see how badly hurt his victim was, btft. whipped up his horses, as the police claim. Later, when the police heard that it was one of John Sexton & Co.’s wagons which ran over Harvey, and went to that firm’s barns, White cheerfully volunteered information as to the identity of all the other drivers, allowing one of them, O'Neil, tt> be locked up Saturday night and held by the coroner's jury without bail. Not until he was directly charged with the crime did he admit it. Carlisle's Report. The long-looked-fsr report of Secretary Carlisle was sent to Congress Monday afternoon. The report as a whole is one of the most elaborate and thorough expositions of the business of the financial branch of the Government that have been made to the public in many years, and it is especially valuable for the extended Observations under the headiue ‘'The Condition of the Treasury and the Currency.” As forecasted in press dispatches, Secretary Carlisle holds that the. situation does not require legislation for raising additional revenue by Taxation at present. He estimates a deficit of $17,000,000 the current fiscal year, ending July 1, 1895, and a surplus of $7,000,000 at the end of Ihe year next following “upon the assumption that the progress now being made toward the restoration of our usual state of prosperity will continue without interruption.” Faure May Resign. The Paris correspondent of the London Pnll Mall Gazette telegraphs Monday afternoon that he is in a position to state that M. Faure, president of the French republic, will resign before March next. He adds that a fresh family scandal has been unearthed in connection with the President's family. The correspondent also says: "Daily hundreds of newspapers express disgust at the campaign of slander; but there is not an article among them which does not instill the venom of calumny.” The Pall-Mall Gaaette intimates that the secret fund of 200,000 francs which the Elysee palace expended upon the press was not wisely Murder by Mail. Two pieces of lead pipe packed with gunpowder were mailed to George M. Pullman and Philip I>. Armour Monday morning at- Chicago. Two .;liyga..-JEene-saved by the action of the postal authorities and the warning of the man suspected of sending the infernal machines. The vnere sliding of the lid of either of the boxes containing the lead pipe would have been sufficient, to cause an explosion and the selected victims would have been blown to pieces. S. A. Owen is the man who gave warning, and the postal authorities believe he also planned the mailing of the bombs.

NEWS NUGGETS.

According to a New York dispatch, the Cian-na-Gael is raising regiments in that city and at Chicago, Cincinnati and other places to tight for the liberation of Ireland, • ~, A cavern whiehswrpasses the famous = Mammoth Cave has been discovered in Edmonson County, Kentucky. The entrance is only two miles from the mouth of the Mammoth Cave. 1 A caravan comprising 1.200 men, while en route from Eldoma. Madagascar, was attacked by Chief Massai's followers' while passing the latter's kraals, (liver 1,000 of the men with the caravan were killed. , Frederick Wilhelm .Tohomme Beese. of Elyria, Ohio, celebrated his 100th birthday. He reads,.withemt glasses, is in excellent health-, works every day, shfives himself and never employed a physician in his life. Fred Hosford, 35 years of age, a wholo■ale and retail coal dealer at Burlington, lowa, committed suicide Monday morning by jumping from the upper story of Ihe Burlington elevator, a distance of 130 feet. His big business interests bad overtaxed his mind,Tendering him insane. A dispatch from Moscow to Berlin ■ays that a conspiracy against.the life of the Czar has been unearthed there. The dispatch adds that a numfigfof bonds have been seized, and that several men and women, including a prominent nihilist leader, have been arrested in connection with the plot. A St. Paul, Minn., dispatch says: Considerable interest has been created in Marion County, lowa, by the experiment of Jacob Bruce, at coffee raising on a ■mall scale. In the spring 1894 Brtice planted sevdh grains of fine Rio coffee and in the fall harvested half a gallon of an excellent quality. Most of this he replanted last spring in a tifteen-rod plat of ground and now has eight bushels of coffee, or an a,verage of eighty-five bushels per acre, lie is satisfied that the crop Is a sure ope in his locality and thinks it can be grown on a large scale and nt hu excellent profit.; - The situation in the Island of Creta is ■erious. In the attack by a strong.'Turkish force on the positions occupied by the Christians at Vryse twenty-four Turks wore killed and thirty-six were wounded. The Christians lint! five kilted ap'tndght wounded. At Alieampo the Turkfc massacred, three men, two women auditive children. v / Chief Justice T. L. Snodgrass, of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Monday morning fired two. shots at John It. Beasely, * prominent lawyer of Chattanooga, one •f which took effect in the-arm. Mr, seriouel;’ hurt, b|jt not fatally.

EASTERN.

. “ ~ , . ■ " » 11. Lants. aged 60 years, traveling man for the Genoa Electric Company, of Buffalo, N 7 Yvywns found dead at RandaH Hotel in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was suffering from toothache and ‘purchased laudanum to alleviate the pain. It is supposed that he took an overdose of the drug. At Troy, N. Y.. Mrs. H. E. Sliter, aged about 7Uyears, and a nurse, Mary Harris, . aged RT>, whrFwas attending, het', weij~ burned to death in a fire which destroyed the frame dwelling in which the former resided. The fire is supposed to have bfen caused by the explosion of a kerosene oil lamp. - “ There seems to -Lo a determination on the part of the authorities of 1 Red' Bank, N. J., fossuppress swearing on the.public streets. -Grover Reeves was arraiginxT before Ju st ice <' h ilds-a nd fineds3.so for having used seven bad words on the street." This- is the second case of the kind that has occurred in a few weeks, All who wish -to swear on the public highway may do so. provided there is no objection to pitying for.<ach snear at the rate of 50 cents a word. The brown«tone_ slab known, as/_tbe base of the pedestal of the statue of George Washington in front of the New York sub-treasury is to be removed to save it from destruction. This is the stone upon whiclr George Washington stood when he took the oath of office as first President of the United States April 30, 1789. It began to show the effects of weather last year and was covered by a wire netting. Assistant United States Treasurer Conrad N. Jordan saw that the stone was beginning to crumble and reported the fact to the Washington authorities. At a session of the American Federation of Labor at New York a supplementary report froth President Mcßride w a s subinit ted and refer red t o app rop r i ate committees. This was said on the question of immigration: “Inasmuch as the) last convention decided that no restriction of immigration was needed; except in the work of keeping out sirvh laborers, as comfehere mnder contracL-aiL criminals other~ tUan" political and“"snrh" persons, as are likely to become a public charge- ft- woiThl hrT -yveH- for this con,, vention, to give some attention to the adoption of metnbds by which assistance can be given to government officials who seek to ferret out.and punish those who violate the alien labor law.” Dispatches to the Gloucester, Mass., Mutual Insurance Company say that the schooners Hattie D. Linnell, S. P. Willard, Mabel R. Bennett, and Jennie s Seaverns parted their cables while lying at anchor in the roadsted between the islands'of St. Pierre and Little Miquelon during a terrible gale Thursday and drove ashore.. The Linnell is a total loss, and after going asliore was burned t<> the water's edge. The Bennett was forced to slip her chains’ or be sunk' with all hands at her anchorage by the French steamer Pouyer Quierticr. which had parted her cable and was driving ashore. The steam--er is a total loss. The Willard, Seaverns and Bennett are in bad positions and full of water, .and it is feared they will be total losses.

WESTERN.

Albert C. Erkenbrccher. of Cincinnati, has made an assignment. Liabilities, $175,0QQ; assets. .$275,000. "' "■ '," / ‘ Sunday morning saw an- innovation in the choir (if the Grace Episcopal Church, Detroit. A dozen women surpliced Were’ added to the thoir under the direction of Prof. Remiek. —-v —- Francis ‘Schlatter. ‘The Healer. 1 ’ is ! ~nt : Santa Cruz, thirty miles liorth of Santa Fe, N. M, At Ranchitos de Taos 500 people greeted him. He blessed handkenhiefs and cured many persons. At San Francisco the attorney fbr Theodore Duyrant moved for a writ of probable cause for order to prevent the prisoners removal from the county jail to the State's prison at Sap Quintan. The court denied the motion and subsequently signed Durrant's death warrant, fixing Friday, Feb-. 21, as the date of the execution. Near Mitchell, Ind., George T. Coleman was killed, lie was a passenger on a Baltimore and Ohio. South western train, east-bound, and was not missed until the train reached North Vernon. Employes found his body at Hamers Crossing, where the road makes a.sham curve. It is supposed that he met his death while attempting to go from the smoker, to the, sleeper. f ' ;c W. Morjon,Smith, editor of a .Lincoln, Neb., paper, was indicted by the Federal grand jury for latfempting to impede justice. He was also lined apd jailetj by Judge Dundy for contempt of court, growing out of the same- proceedings. Smith charged editorially that the proceedings by which Richard Outcalt was declared not guilty of wrecking the Capitol National Bank were irregtjlar and the court guilty of corruption. At 2 o'clock Friday morning fi.ro broke out in the Wann Building. St, Paul, occupied by Henry S. Sternberg, as a jobbing dry goods and clothing lidffse and by Guiterman Bros., manufacturers of shirts, pants, overalls,'etc. The 'whole department was -called out. 'The lire, spread rapidly to'the roof of the building adjoining, which is occupied by Price & Robbins’ wholesale paper house. The whole upper floor of the building in which the fire originated was damaged. The pipemen had a hot and dangerous tight on the top floor. They were forced from the building to the cxjjiision ladder, and at one time the laddfiKtiecame charged with electricity from twAvire? below, but they were cut beforeWny fatalities Audited. The cause of the tire is unknown. The loss Tffi estimated at $65,000, fully covered by insurance. Five hundred employes of Guiterman Bros, are thrown out of work. Fred Markham, of Santa Cruz, Cal., received a letter ten days ago stating thqt his mother had died in Battle Creek, Mich., as the result of it railroad accident and that the remains would be interred before he ebuld reach Battle Creek, where he formerly resided. A few days later he was astonished at receiving another letter containing the information that his mother « as alive and would probably recover. The letter further stated tha t his mot her was .apparently dead when the first letter AYA! written. Arrangements for her burial were under way, but while the funeral service? were in progress the minister, relatives and congregiiTidn were horrified by a sound from the, coffin ami wqre almost paralyzed when a moment later the cotlin-lid was broken nnd Mrs. Markham was found to be alive. It appears that she had suffered from concussion of the brain and for two day was unconscious. Allen G. Thurmau died at> Columbus, Ohio, at,l;l& p. in. The public career of Judge Thurman was an open

book. His comparatively recent prominent position before the public rendered the important--points in his career quite familiar. He was born at Lynchburg, Va., in TBl3. and removed to Chilicothey" Ohio, with his parents when six years of age. Thurman was not a religious man, in the strict sense, apd very often he*was poetically profane, yet both his private public life was remarkable for its purity. Since'the death of his wiser two years ago. he had been more secluded than ever. He had felt her loss more than his stoical spirit ufsTfWP*vtTsplu.'tr =yrrt,hir grief had been that of the philosopher. Judge Thurman was a rich man. The estate of his wife .had Is'em-weLL managed and greatly increased. The Thurman fanply has til ways been among the most aristoeration is prominent in the social circles '‘obCplumbus. —■ -- ", Popular indignation at tin- manner in which the graves Tn TtbchcsH»r-Gemeterjv have been desecrated reached a crisis in North Topeka, Kan., Wednesday night, when a iHjpb began tj> form with the avowed purpose of burning the Kaisas Medical College.- The faculty of thucol--1 ege ca 1 letrnpoTi I,he ptfl ice for protection. The students were all sent home, and the college—building placed-iu tlie possessionof a squad-atf policemen. - A detail of' militiamen—from Bttttery, B pf Topeka was stationed at their arsenalferpreventa capture of the arms stored there. Upon the request of the sheriff the. Governor ordered the infantry company at Lawrence to bwready to respond to„ a call at any moment. At 8 o’clock P? H. Lillis identified the third body’ at the college as that of his mother, who died recently. Tuesday A. N. Drake of North Topeka, whose wife died last week, discovered her grave had been robbed. The remains were found at the Kansas Medical College. On Monday 1. O. Van Fleet, who had buried his wife but a few hours before, found her mutilated and disfigured remains on the dissecting table at the college. This discovery resulted In the arrest of S. A. Johnson, a student who acts as janitor of the institution. These revelations, coming one after another, caused a wave of indignation to sweep over the j?ity. The mob violence is a natufa 1 ou tcomc. Atl Ihe A/ O. U. W. lodges met to denounce the outrage and demand a full investigation tu disco mthe*ghouls. T —~

SOUTHERN.

“Dr.” Hammond, the rotorious allaround criminal ba s beefl ar rested at New Orleans. In a rush for liberty at the Louisville workhouse James Howard, a negro who led the escaping prisoners, Was shot dead by the guards. The prisoners were being followel by a number of other convicts. The guards fired several shots in the air and the ringleader was finally brought down by Guard Lynch, who has been arrested. s_ Near Bear Wallow, Va. an atrocious crime was committed. John and Mary, Feagan. husband and wife, aged 61 and 54. lived alone on' their farm. Feagan s.old his hogs and it was known he had in his house some S2OO or 8300. Monday morning early one of his neighbors went to the house and a terrible sight presented- itself. On the bed lay Mrs. Feagan with her head split open. Feagan lay on the floor—with his skull crushed and a deep gash in-hiabreast; which had been made with an ax. The house had been ransacked. > _/Nearly 1200 ...half-starved ami -t vi zed '"the steamer' -Lawrence'from The negroes were hired to go to Lee County and pick oranges. When they reached Font -Meyers they were ordered to leave, being-told they could not work there. The negroes showed resistatice, when armed whites surrounded them and they were kept under guard for two days until, the Steamer returned. were given nothing to eat and feared they would be massacred, as the guards kept up a constant fusillade at night. Twelve of the negroes became so terrorized that they leaped overboard, and. it is thought, were drowned. Several others tried tp run. but were shot. The negroes say the bodies, of those shot were thrown into the river. A. I'. Lane, a prominent resident of Fort Meters,-confirms the story told by the negroes. He says white men have been visiting the camps of the orange pickers and firing into them until nearly fill the negroes* hare fled, the county. Many negroes have uudmijjtedly been — —*— ■

WASHINGTON.

The -Republican national convention will be held at St. Lppis on June 16 next. That was the "decision reached by the Republican National Committee assembled in Washington Tuesday, after spirited balloting lasting two hours. The successive ballots are shown as follows: St. Louis... .T. 13 14‘ 18 22 29 San Francisco. .... . .20 19 19 19 16 Pittsburgh.. . ....... 9 9 9 1 0 Chicago., ~/... 8 8 9 0 6 - New York 1 0 0 0 0 Some misapprehension exists as to the exact features of the bill introduced by Senator Lodge for restricting immigration. The bill provid'd!; for keeping out such., immigrants, as rtinnot 1 !, read? and write iu san#? language, while (fie impression has obtained that it means that immigrants who cannot read-and Write the English, language are to be prohibited. Senator Lodge >ays the latter provision would be absurd, , ns many deSiYabie immigrants come to this country who are highly educated in their own language and who do not understand English.

FOREIGN.

Dispatches from Havana announce the arrival there of six transports with reenforcements of Spanish troops for service in Cuba. Generals Marin and Pando were also On board. M. Adrien Lachenal. who was vice president fcr 1895. has been - ejected president of the Swiss Republic for 1896. He is a radical in politics and his honife is in Geneva- M. Deucher Thurgau has been elected vice president. The Freni h Chamber of Deputies decided that, except under unusual circumstances. no more tinned meats are to be supplied to the army after Jan. 1, 1897, Tdveept suvh as are -imtnufaHured in~ »France or in the Frepch colonies. A sentence of two j ears’ imprisonment with hard labor passed upon Richard Stephens, rtA7O-year-old millionaire <jf Winchester, England, for over thirty years a member of the bench of magistrates of that city, who was recently convicted upon two indictments charging pffensfs similar to those which resulted in OsCar Wilde's downfall. Constantinpple dispatch: The long-drawn-out controversy between the Sultan and the ambassadors of the powers over the question of'the admission of additional guard ships for the protection.of the embassies was settled at 8:10 o'clock

Tuesday evening by the issuance of an irade granting the necessary'firmans to permit the guard shiDs to pass the Dardanelles. "A. repyt from Antananarivo, Madagascar, ..says that an anti-European mob numbering 6,000 destroyed the missiou station at Ramairandro. Rev. Mr, McMahon; the missionaj-y in charge, and his family escaped a few hours previous to the looting of the mission. All Europeans residing in the country districts have been ordered to the capital and G(M) French troops have b<-.-n dispatched with orders to put down the riots. A dispatch addressed to the Associated Press and signed by a:’number of Armenians of Constantinople has been re■.CMrcd in at her Inst gasp. The luiniber i>f rteople reaches' 100,000 and half “a --million Ot SUl'Vivors have taken refuge in‘ the forests and .mountains, where they •are feeding oil Iteibs and roots. , Hungerand cold have begun to make great ravages among them. In the name of hurnanity and-Christianity save us.” Ln her_slruggle for independence Cuba has found a powerful ally in the Island of Porto Rico. According; to the latest intelligence Spain has two insurrections on her hands, or will ha ve if t lie plans mat tiring are carried into execution. An army is being formed lijr the separatist party of Porto Rico, and as soon as the leaders are ready tire new campaign will open. As in the Venezuelan affair, the revolutionists at;e Cuban patriots residing in New York, and the same secrecy attends their movements. The leaders claim that tC vigorous declaration of independence has been prepared by the leaders of the Porto Rican separatist party, and that it is their intention, to issue this as soon as they can feel sure that they can defend themselves against any action Spain maj - take in consequence. One of the most prominent Porto Ricans in New York dclared Tuesday that this might be in less than a fortnight. Ttfe White Star litre steamship Germanic. Captain McKinstry, from Liverpool Wednesday for Queeiistown and New York, collided at the mouth of the River Mersey with the Scotch coasting arrd was obliged "to re--turn to London badly damaged. The Germanic has a hole 9_~feet in its -bow apovethe water mark.' The coilistoßoccurred in tlfe fog. Both vessels were going dead slow at the time, About an hour after the Germanic started it had an extra ibokout man, but it was impossible to avoid the collision. The cries of the Cambrac's passengers were hoartrending when they found the vessel was sinking. The Germanic’s bulkheads were immediately closed, so that little water penetrated the hull. A volunteer crew from the Germanic and the 'Cambrae started to draw the fires and to save the valuables on board the Cambrae, but it sank before they reached it. This crew thus left behind lost traces of the Germania, but fortunately their cries attracted a tug, which rescued them.

IN GENERAL

Recent compilations show Senator Shernian one of eleven children to begin with, to be how thirty-seven times an uncle and the granduncle tp sixty-three children. Obituary: At Cincinnati, ex-Congress-mari H, S. Bundy, 78.—At (Irand _ ids, Mich., Col. Van E. Young, 73.—At McLeansboro, 111., E. W. Ledbetter.—At Galena, 111., Charles Fleck: James Birk--OIS -Obituary—At Freeport, —111.,_.D. W, Dane, 76; 4it Warsany lnd., Professor E. J. McAlpine; at Rockford, 111., Frank Benjamin. 76; at Kalamazoo, Mich., J. Warren Taylor. at Day ton,- Ohio, CharleS G. Grimes;’'at.-Tecumseh, Mich., Scovel 'C. Stacy; at'Wardner, Idaho, Jack Langrishe. ; "‘Tlie~Afiieric'iin Uiiiversity_has just com : pleted an agreement with* the Board of Council of the Temperance Educational Association, by which the latter agrees to secure and transfer to the university $250,000 on condition that here shall be inaugurated as one of its departments a college of scientific temperance. • The. contract recently let by the Canadian Government for the carrying pf the mails from Juneau, Alaska, to Forty Mile Creek is in-the disputed territory to which claim is laid both by the United States and by Canada, and the establishment of the mail service-is calculated to further complicate the boundary dispute. Thp secrat service officials have disepyered a. new counterfeit S2O United States notes of the series of ISBO with the portrait of Hamilton poorly engraved. The paper shows red ink lines in imitation of silk fiber. The lettering is very poor/ Nineteen of the,notes were found on the-uperson of Louis Smith, who has been arrested at Toledo, Ohio, pwhere he had already passed five of them. He is believed to be new in the business.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, cqramon to prime, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 57c to 5Sc; corn. No. 2. 25c- to 26c; oats, Nq. ,2, 17c to 18c: rye, No. 2, .'l7c- to 38c; butter, choice creamery. 24c to 27c; eggs, fresh, '2oc to 21c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn, S2O to SSO per ton for pent to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle&shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, sheep, common to pnine, ? s2.oo to $3.75; w’hcat, No. 2,64 eto 66c; corn? No. 1 white, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21e to 23c. St, Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to SSjOO; hogs, $3,00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,33 c to 34c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat; No. 2. 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; oats. No, 2 mixed, 19e to 21c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; whpgt, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. 38c to 39c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 65e to 66c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27<- to 28c; eats. No. -g-wirftc. 20c .to 2lw; rye, tv39e.v .clover seed. $4.40 to $4.45. Buffalo—Chttle, $2.50 to $5,25; hogs,’ $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c toa34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 57c to 58c; &orp, No. 3,25 cto 26c; oats, No. 2 white, ISq to 19c; barley. No. 2,32 c to. 34d; rye, No. 1,36 cto 38c; pork; mess, $7.50 to $8.25. New York—Cattle, $3.00 ro $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4:25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 65e to 67c; / corn, No. 2, 34c to 35<“. oats, No. 2 white, 22c to_23c; butter, creamery, 17c to 28c; eggs, Western, 21c to 24c. ’ , \

PUGNACIOUS PINGREE

WILL FORCE THE STREET-CAR FIGHT AT DETROIT. ~. - V Oeath-Dealing; Electric Wires Squirm, Splutter, and Hiss with Blue Blazes in Chicago’s Streets -Santa Fe Road Cancels All Contracts. Six for a Quarter or No Fare. Mayor*Pingree, of Detroit, rode from his home to the City Hall Friday without paying any street car fare. coned it in a way that was not acceptable to the street car company. Although his Honor invited the conductor to put him off he rode unmolested to his office. This situation is for clieanerTitres-. —Recently the Citizens” Street Railway, failing to compromise certain disagrceinents with city, ttdopted the ]dan <»f getting even by.discontinuing the sale of six tickets for a quttrteFand insisting""o'h a straight 5-cent fare. The. Mayor holds that the precedent of thirty- years had practically mnffe= the six for a quarter arrangement a con-Trac-trinid-tnsists' that it is still hrTort'er He tested it by offering 25 cents for six tickets. He was refused, and thereupon declined to pay tiny fare. He advised other passengers to follow the same plan, and several of them did. In the evening, while homeward bound, the Mayor again refused to pay a 5-cent fare, whereupon the conductor stopped the car and ejected the Mayor. He took the matter pleasantly, and will begin suit against the coluI’tiny- * . - Panic of Passengers. A Chicago trolley car was stopped to repair a slight damage to the motor. Two dther cars folfoiAed, and the pressure of three trolley arms pushing upon the wire caused it to come in contact with the electric light wires overhead arid extending to the drug store of H. Schmidt. As the wires touched a blinding flash of electricity started a panic among the piissongi-rs in the three cars, everyone of wliicb was crowded. Women and childrcm were trampled under foofTnTlie endeavor ofithe to escape, and one girl met’with a shock ffom the trolley wires. Almost as soon as the wires came in* contact both trolley wires dfopped tOL-the ground. Like two deinons spitting fire, they jerked about the street amid the now thoroughly excited passengers, one of whom was thrown to the ground. Upon the arrival of the wrecking wagon a sneak thief stole the tools of the repair man, and another trip to the barns was necessary before the damage could be repaired. Turns a New Leaf. The new management of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway has wiped a big wet sponge over its slate and will start out with tin entirely new deal. In other words, it litis decided to cancel every contract of every description held .by or against the old company and begin ail over again as if none of them were in existence. This decision applies to traffic contracts, contracts for wtpplies, contracts with other corporations, railroad and otherwise, a nd, in fact, contracts of every kind, dovi*n to the.one for-the wicks for the brakemen’s-lanterns. How many of these conbraeta there are not even the genera 1 aecottntant of the road ctin tell without a long search of his books. They runFintoThe thousands and are such as a railroad corporation “naturally acquires in many years of business. - Red Cross to Help. The American Red Cross Society has decided to accept the duty of distributing tkt' relief funjs t\>f 350,000 Armenian sufferers and has issued an appeal for aid. Miss Barton, president, says such widespread want can be met only by relief funds running into the millions. It'is estimated that the cost of relief per capita wDl.be much heavier than in the case of the Johnstown and Sea Island sufferers, owing to inaccessibility. The Red Cross party, including Miss Barton, will, leave immediately after being assured of a sufficient sum to carry forward the work. The start must be made soon. It. takes five weeks to get to the distressed district and demand is urgent. -i * . Will Bq IJvely After H<>l i:1 ayß. R. G. Dun A- Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “It has been a very quiet week, withoutktvhV-dititurbances. Prices of manufactured—products slowly recede from the high Wafer mark of speculation and no material increase in demand is now expected until after the holidays, but there is general confidence that greater acllvity Will then appear, and that works which have stopped a little earlier than usual will again be called into operation.”

BREVITIES.

At Evansville, Ind., George Rubright, a weak-minded young man. while in church suddenly attacked Miss Carrie Damn and stabbed het - fatally. Rubright was arrested. An alleged infernal machine was found on the doorsteps of the Spanish Minister's house at Washington early Sunday morning. The machine was taken away by the police and will be examined. file device is said to have been a good-sized box;, filled with a granulated substance. " Safeblowers broke into the office of A. M. Lewin & Co., lumber dealers at Cincinnati, and instead of blowing the safe open blew it shut. The robbers evidently did not try the safe door and went to Work as If it were locked. They drilled a hole under the combination, breaking two drills, then filled the hole with powder. ‘The explosion blewdhe combination to and locked the door. The robbers abandoned the job, and when Mr. Lewin arrived he had to send for a safe expert to open the door. Sir Julian Goldsmid. the Hebrew philanthropist of London, is critically ill. At Nevada. Mo., in the suit of E. W. Clark against Mrs. CaAdine Simmons for $50,000 for breach of promise of marriage, the jury. wrts out fifteen minutes and- retmmeda v<uuliet- for the de fen4a nt, It was the first suit of the kind ever begun in' Vernon County. Col. Prior,, of‘British Columbia, has accepted the portfolio of Controller of Customs, with absent in the Cabinet. * Senator Quay Jie would not accept a noinnin tionyor tliftfPresiaency if it were offered ifiim on a gold plate. The steam header in a day coach-burst while the train was passing through Sterling. Kan.,‘ badly scalding Mrs. R. M. Honey and her two children. Other pa-s----.seugers escaped injury. Mrs. Honey and her children were talreu to a house near by, where they are being taken care of. Their injuries are serious

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWJ MAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the Halls Congress—lmportant Measures cussed and Acted Upon—An Impartialßesume of the Business. The National Solons. In the Senate Monday a speech by Morgan of Alabama'opposing the settlement of’the Behging Sea claim was the event of The Senate in slon confirmed the following nominations- Elmer B. A Jams of Missouri to be district judge for the western district of Missouri; Rufus H. Peckham of New York to be associate justice of the United States SupremecCourt: The House held a short session and devoted most of its time to discussing the appointment of _llpuse_offi_cers. Thefirstbusinessproposition brought forward in the House was a bill by Nir. Hopkins to amend tho statute fixing the customs district of Chiall of the States of Illinois and Indiana. The biy was passed-by- unanimous con-‘ sent. A resolution was passed for the appointment of three new assistants to the superintendent of the document-room? The Senate was in session less than two hours Tuesday. The proceedings consisted of the introduction 1 of about 100 bills, followed by a speech on the Monroe doctrine by Senator Cullom. Representative Barrett of Massachusetts enjoys. the distinction of being the author of the first thrilling incident in the pres-' ent House of Representatives. lle' , threw a bombshell into that body by offering a resolution impcaching Thomas F. Bayard, United States ambassador to the court of St. James, for high crimes and misdemeanors, embodied in the utter-’ ances of Mr. Bayard before the Edinburgh, Scotland, Philosophical Institute Nov. 7. In this speech, It is said, Ml'. Bayard spoke of “protection” as a form of “state socmhsm” and said it had done more to “foster class legislation.” "breed Inequality,” “corrupt public life," “lowlr the tone of national ropreßctitation.” “divorce ethics from polities,” than any othilr Single cause. Mr. Barrett's resolution was: “Resolved, by the House of Representatives, That the Committee un Foreign be directed to ascertain whether such statements have been publicly made, and if so to report, to the jSi ch action by impeachment or otherwise ns shall be proper in the premises. Fer the purpose of this inquiry the committee is authorized to send for,per-' sons and papers.” Upon motion of Mr. Cannon, the words, “by impeachment or otherwise” were stricken out, and the resolution adopted. J Proceedings of the Senate Thursday covefefl tlie entire range of legislation, from thenntroduction of petitions, bills and resolutions to jlie passage of bills, and included two formal addresses. A' bill extending the Chicago port of entry so as to cover the State of Illinois re? 1 ceived the final indorsement of the Senate. Almost an hour was devoted to a speech by Senator Peffer in advocacy of his bill curtailing the expenses incurred th Congressional funerals-and-providing that a stfrgeant-at-arms shall'take the place’of ihe committee now sent out by the two ouses as escorts te their homes of the remains of. deoeased. members. Mr, Call addressed the Senate upon his resolution upon the cruelties alleged to be perpetrated upon the Armenians by Turkish authorities.' He thought the United State's should at least express encouragement to the civilized powers in the effort they are making to subpress those outbursts of bigotry, superstition, cruelty and criino. The House listened to a speech by MN Grow. ex-Speaker, relative to President Cleveland's utterance concerning tariff and currency. Both houses adjourned to Monday.

AVERAGE-PRICE OF PRODUCE.

What the Farmcra Were Asking fol Crops the First of This Season. The December returns to the statistical division of the department of agriculture relate principally to farm prices Dec.*l. ( The farm price of corn averages 26.7 cents, against 45.6 last year. The average price of Wheat is 53.2 cents per bushel, against 49.8 last year; of rye 43.7 cents, against 50.5; of oats 20.5 cents, against 32.9; of barley 35.4 cents, against 44.3; of buckwheat 49.2 cents, against! 56.2 cents-ffast yearT The returns show the average price of hay to be $9.38 per ton, against $8.35 same date last year. The average price of tobacco is returned at 6.6 cents, against 6.7 cents last year. The price of potatoes on the farm is reported at 28.8 cents per bushel, against 56.5 cents last year. The condition of winter wheat Dec. 1 averaged for the country 81.4 per cent., against 89 last year and 91.5 in 1893. In the principal winter wheat States the percentages are as follows: Ohio, 74; Michigan, 79; Indiana, 80; Illinois, 79; Missouri, 76; Kansas, 80; Nebraska, 90; Galifornia, 102. The returns make the acreage of winter wheat just sown 104.& percentage of that harvested in 1895. This estimate,, which is preliminary to th® completed estimate of June next, makes the area sown for the harvest of 1890 23,647,000 acres.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Over 1,000 hogs have died of cholera during the Inst three weeks in Harper, Barber and Summer Counties, Kan. A receiver has been appointed at Kans sas City for the Pennsylvania InvesU ment Company. The liabilities are esti« mated at $365,000. The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce has decided to erect a new building on the public square, which is to cost, to* gether with the site, half a million dollars. The Kirkham cold storage buildings at Anderson, Ind., were wrecked by a natural gas explosion and Harry Gaither was severely but probably not fatally burned. v Senator Sherman receives a'royalty on his book of $1 for each copy sold. As over 127,0004fcty4 been- Sold the Senatoris reaping a satisfactory finani‘Tat“fetiira from his Cffo 1. , Emma Davis, the sixth victim fire in a Cinci inati tenement, died. *She made an udte-mortTjX statement that she was the-common law wife of tfie late Hanna, n millionaire whose estate owns the building that was burned. Russians were the instigators bf the conspiracy of Li Hau Shin against tho King of Corea. The Russians who assisted in the affair have identified some of the Americans who participated in the plot. It is alleged that the latter joined in th<* conspiracy owing to the revocation of the gold mine eoncessiona granted by the Queen and because their salaries as advisers were reduced. —' V