Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. GECh E. MARSHALL. Publisher. RENSSELAER, - * * INDIANA.

OLD LANDMARK GONE.

A TOWN IN MASSACHUSETTS MOURNS ITS LOSS. Cldcat Church in the District Succumbs to Flumes -Getters! Harrison 'Announces t hsT He T*~?foT a CsnAldute—No Warships for Turkey. f Church at Dorchester Burned. The historic First Unitarian Church, etr “Meetioß-House HiH.'V Dorchester, Mass., a familiar landmark and the oldest church in the district, was destroyed by fire Monday. The loss is estimated at $30,000, but this amount is covered by insurance.. The nlost valuable hppurtenanoes of the church, which were kept in the vestry at the rear, were saved. A new organ. presented by Deacon Henry Humphrey in 1802, which was directly above the place where the fire started, and the clock and chime of bells in the tower are a total loss. firemen were buried' by a falling wall, but they, were rescued by their comrade*. Harrison Says No. Gen. Benjamin Harrison is no longer a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Captain John K. Gowdy, chairman of the Indiana Republi can State .Central Committee, called on Gen. Harrison at Indianapolis Monday evening byidnvitation, and the ex-Presi-<deut handejd him a letter' in which he announced that he was not a candidate for the presidency, and expressed a wish that bis name bejnot presented at the St. Ixmis convention. Uncle Sim Not to Force Turkey. A dispatch to the St. James Gazette, London, from Washington says the eorrespondentlof that paper has the highest authority f{>r announcing that the entente between Russia and Turkey is known at the State |Department and that it has bad a most:important effect in modifying the plan the administration hail prepared to compel Turkey to pay an indemnity for the damage 1 done to American property in Armenia. Columbia, Texas, Inundated. The Brazos River is rising at Columbia, Texas. 1 It rose fifteen feet in twen-ty-six hours, awl its current is equal to that of a mountain stream. Seven vessels belonging to the Columbia Tramp port at ion Company were swept away. The river isj now out of its banks and is sweeping oyer the surroundinig ■country. Near NaVasjota the Brazos and Navasota Rivers have; united and are twelve miles wide. MileA of Santa Fe Railroad track •re submerged.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Spain' is reported to be mobilizing T§>1550 troops to re-onforce the army iu Cuba. ! y John and Eleanor Moulder celebrated their sixty-ninth wedding anniversary ’at Kokomo, ln|l. Colonel W. P. Thompson, president of the Nation*! Lead Company, died of pneumonia it New York. Arthur Duestrow, the St. Louis millionaire, who shot his wife and child two years ago, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. Great Britain is said to l*e considering the question of claiming 3.UU0.000 acre* of laud opposite Prince of Wales Island on the Pacific coast, now held by the United States. . , The Federal census of Mexico show* * population 6f 12,542,057. The City of Mexico has 30.955; Guadalajara, 82.870; Puebla, 91,917; San Luis Potosi, 09,676; Pachuca, 52.189; Monterey,, 50,825; Merida. 50,702; iacatecas, 40.020; Duraugo, 42,180. Oscar G. Murray has resigned as vicepresident of |the Big Four to become operating president and general manager of the Baltimore aud Ohio, in connection with J. K. Cowen as president and Edward R. Bacjon as chairman of the executive committjee. Judge Egnjn, of the St. Paul, Minn., Di strict Court, issued an order permitting the receivers'f>f the Walter A. Woods Harvester Company to make 10,000 machines this year. Tpe assets of the company exceed $1,000,0)00 besides the plant aud real estate, and a!ll debts will be paid. An agent of "the Chinese Government Is at Portlnnjd, Oregon, to place an order feet of lumber. . Most of it is intended for the, construction aud repair of government buildings. The agent says j indications are good for a healthy revival of lumber trade throughout China and Japan this and next year. Joseph'Cook, of Boston, who recently returned from Australia and Japan, is at the sanitarium, Clifton Springs, N. Y., suffering from an acute form of nervous prostrations He nearly blind owing to a weakness of the optic nerve. ’ He will be taken to his cottage at Lake George-early in the spring, where it ia hoped he will recover. Developments which came to light show th*t Leo Sellers, who was lynched ten years ago at Knoxville. Tenn.. for the supposed murder and robbery of $l,lOO from Edward Mainess, was an innocent' man. Iyizzie Hickman on her deathbed confessed that Ike Wright, a notorious character, was the real murderer. He is now being pursued by officers. A terrific tornado, accompanied by flood, ' hccurmT Thursday iu North Queensland, Australia, attended with great destruction of life and property. Many vessels are missing as the result of the storm. The rainfall during the tornado amounted'to twenty-sis inches, and it is estimated tbpt the damage to property will amount to £500,000 ($2,500,000). A large number of persons were drowned; v j The Stilson-Collins Jewelry Company, 1 of Atlanta, Ga., went into the hands of a received at the suit of the Gorham Manufacturing Company of New York. Mortgages aggregating $15,000 were placed on the stock previous to the appointment of A. I’. Stewart as receiver. The liabilities are about $50,000; assets between #50,000 and SOO,OOO. Lillie .Henderson, who says she was once employed as a stenographer by a firm iu Dearborn street, Chicago, attempted suicide at New York by jumping into the river. She wore SI,OOO worth of fen'elrr. It i« thought she is demented. 'I

EASTERN.

Word was received at Wilkesbarrt* Pa., from Pittsfield Junction that a terrific explosion occurred in thq Twin shaft Wednesday. Four miners are reported killed aud a number injured. Prominent residents of II«pewell, X. J., have organized the James' W.j Marshall National Monument Association of New Jersey, to erect a monument to the memoty ot Jataes W. Atarsball, who first discovered gold in "California on Jan. 24, 1848. Marshall was Iwrn near Glen more, in Mercer County, where it is proposed to eroet the monument.- An appeal for subscriptions will be made to California pioneers throughout the cbuiuffSr. Cnrieton Baldwin, a young farmer, living u#iu/UaK»i»-f lily. death in a peculiar manner, Baldwin had a high and ,■ uncontrollable temper, and while hitehingf up his horses had trouble with one of them. He rushed into the house for his gun anyl shot one of the horses and then, it is supposed 1 , accidentally discharged the weapon while beating the dying animal over the head with the, butt of the gun. The butt of the gun Was befit and badly broken. . The National Woman’s Suffrage Association lias elected,these officers: Honorary president, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; president, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester. N, Y.; vice-president at large, Rev. Anna 11. Shaw, Philadelphia. Pa.; corresponding secret a ry.i Ita chcl Foster Avery, Philadelphia, Pa.; ngrofding secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell. Boston, Mass.; treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren. Ohio; chairman committee on organization, Carrie Chapman. Oait. New York city. Five persons were killed and nearly qr score injured, sonic of them fatally, by the explosion of the largelhirty-ninc-inch cylinder boiler ut the works of the Hollidaysburg. Pa.. Iron and -Nail Company Thursday morning., Only two employes escaped uninjured. The boiler was blown through the roof qf the Works, 200 feet in midair, and came sailing down like a spent rocket, crushing through the roof in another department of the works. The entire roof was precipitated to the floor below by the force "of the explosion and the works were practically wrecked. The explosion was sufficient to rock the earth with the force of nil earthquake and broke hundreds of windows a quarter of a mile frotp the mill. No explanation is offered as to the cause of the explosion. Some of the employes say they were short of steam before the accident occurred.

WESTERN.

John llavliii and his wife have given the lease of Jlavlin's Theater, .St. Ism is, to their daughter Katherine for a wedding present. A report from Muskogee says that exCongressman Springer has grown tired of his duties as Judge of the Indian Territory Court and that he is an applicant for the position of general solicitor for the Baltimore and Ohio Itailroad. At Colville. W:ish. t Judge Arthur sentenced Adolph Nicso and his wife to tweut.v years in the penitentiary for beating their 10-year-old son to death. Shortly after the prisoners were placed in their cells both cut their throats with a razor. Niose is dead aipl his wife is iu a critical condition. ■ * *~~~ At the coroner's inquest on.the bodies of Engineer Clark Trimble and Foreman George Waters, who wore killed by the recent explosion of a locomotive boiler near South Charleston, Ohio, on the Pennsylvania Rhilfoad, it was ,conclusively shown that the explosion was caused by their own neglect in letting the water in the boiler get too low. Two impecunious young men, said to be from New England and giving the names of. Mason M. Totten and C. T. Holliday, have been arrested at Kansas City by postoffice inspectors from Denver and St. i/ouis. The prisoners are accused of having used the United States mails in swindling several -mining stock brokers of Denver. Their plan, operating from Kansas City, was to send urgent requests by mail for certain mining stocks, inclosing checks on Kansas City banks covering the market value of the shares asked for. Neither of the men had a cent in bank. In this manner they secured 20,000 shares of, stock from two Denver brokers iu exchange for worthless checks for $335. The stocks have all been recovered. The swindlers were preparing to visit Chicago,-where they hoped to sell their shares on the mining exchange. By a unanimous decision of the Indiana Supreme Court that body has set aside the apportionment act of 1895, reaffirmed the decision of the same court setting aside the apportionment of 1891, and has brought iuto operation the apportionment of 1885, which it declares to be the only legal act since that date. The decision is far-reaching in its effects and emanates from a body composed of both Republicans and Democrats. The Democratic Legis-. lature of 1891, following the constitutional requirements to enact an apportionment law every sixth year, passed an act which was attacked by the Republicans and set aside by the Supreme Court ns unconstitutional, the latter body holding it was unfair in its provisions because it gave greater representation to some portions of the State than to others. The Democratic Legislature ,of 1593 passed another -act and the Republican Legislature' of 1895 repealed it and substituted au entirely new law. This in turn was attacked by the Democrats on the ground that it violated the provisions of the constitution iu being enacted at a time before the sixth year since the of 1893 was passed; This contention was sustained by the Supreme Court, but it failed to concede the Democratic position that the law of 1893 was operative, holding that the same objections which obtained against the apportionment of 1895 existed to render void the apportionment of two years before; that the Legislature of 1891 was competent under the Constitution to enact an apportionment law, but ihe Court having Set that act aside as unconstitutional, recourse must he had to the law of 1885 to find a valid enactment.

SOUTHERN.

1 Republican members of the Kentucky Legislature have a new scheme to break the deadlock and elect a United States Senator. Four Democratic members, it is said, have been found to be ineligible because they hold, other offices, amj it is proposed to unseat ihtm. \Yiiliain Trout, n Mnysville, Ky., barber, has been fasting for fifty-one days, except that he drank buttermilk, refusing all other food. He has no appetite for anything else. About four years ago he used no food but buttermilk for thirty days. He has fallen off from 170 to 140 i*om*ds. He plies bis trade without interruption. , • * The neW gunboat Helena, named after Montana’s capital, was launched Thursday at Newport News, Ya. The honored

custom of breaking a bottle of wine across' the bows and christening the vessel was performed by Miss Agnes Belle Steele, daughter of Mayor Steele, of Helena, Mont,awho headed'a delegation of leading resides of "that State. The Helena, which is of 1,100 tons burthen, will be assigned to service in the Chinese waters. She is designed especially for river service, and is 250 feet long, with a maximum beam of forty feet, but the mean draft is only nine feet, while the speed is expected to be at least thirteen knots. A novel feature of the Helena U that she has a large military mast, with tops similar to tfiose ott the big battleships/ Another pecnliar equipment is that provision is made for carrying an,unusually large force of men, and the ship’s boats ace unicb lorger tbair-ordinaryr The' nets' gunboat will be armed with eight fourinch breech-loading rapid-firing guns, divided between the upper aud gun decks. In addition to these there are four-eix-pounders and one two-pounder rapid-fire and two tintlings.

WASHINGTON.

The name of Edwin F. Uhl, of Michigan, the Assistant Secretary of State, has been mentioned prominently in the Washington gossip iii .regard to the appointment to the Ambassadorship at Berlin. His intimate knowledge,of all matters under diplomatic consideration with Germany jvould make his appointment eminently desirable. Judges Field, Harlan, Brewer and Brown, of the Supreme Court, rendered their decision in the Northern Pacific receivership case, holding all the courts along the line of the road to be ancillary to Judge Jenkins’ court at Milwaukee. This decision gives the Milwaukee court jurisdiction over the entire system in the matter of receiverships. A measure of the greatest iuterest to pensioners was put through the House of Representatives Thursday when that body adopted the report made by the Committee on Invalid Pensions. It was recommended by the committee that in all eases of pension claims the unexplained absence for seven years of the soldier would he all that was necessary to pyove .that he was dead. It.was said this was in conformity with common law, and would answer all practical purposes and materially assist lugreat many applicants for pensions. Puder the rule now iu force at the Pension Bureau, although a soldier may not have beeu heard from since the war dosed, this cannot be considered a proof of his death, and hundreds of cases are held up in the Pension Office awaiting sip-h proofs. The statement of the Government reand expenditures for January Show the aggregate receipts to have beeu approximately $29,287,070. and the expenditures $32,090,830, lea ving the deficit for the month about $3,459,100, and for the seven months of the present fiscal year about $1.8,853>507. The receipts from customs during the month of January will amount to about $10,380,790: from internal revenue, ,$11,041|401, and from miscellaneous sources about $1,815,472. This is a decrease of about $1,000,000 in the receipts from custoriis as compared with 'January. 1895 and an increase of about $2,000,000 in the receipts from internal revenue. As compared with last month, there is an increase of over $4,000,000 iu the receipts from customs and a decrease Of nearly $1,750,000 in the receipts from customs and a decrease of nearly $1,750,■OOO in the receipts from internal revenue. The pension payments last monih amount to about $9,980,000, a decrease from December of about $1,380,000.

FOREIGN

Rome dispatch: King Menelek continues his advance, cunningly paralyzing any offensive movement on the part of Gen. Bara fieri bv treating the battalion of Col. Galliano as hostages. The situation remains very critical. The decree of divorce obtained by Mrs. Pearle Craigie, the authoress, better known as "John Oliver Hobbes." on .Inly 4 last, was made absolute at Loudon. Mrs. Craigie proved cruelty and unfaithfulness on the part of her husband, a clerk in the Bank of England, to whom she was married in 1887. She is the daughter of John Morgan Richards, formerly of Now York, now of London. Mr. .Gladstone has written another letter oil the Armenian question, in whieji. after referring to the "murderous wickedness of the Sultan, his absolute victory over the powers and their unparalleled disgrace and defeat," lie says: “I cannot wholly abandon the hope that out of this darkness light will arise, hut the matter rests'with the Almighty, to whom surely all shou! 1 address fervent prayers iu behalf of His suffering creatures.” - The i.unnnl report of the British Government Board of Trade ou emigration for the year 1895, compiled by Sir Robert Giffe'l, shows that during the year 185,3tR» men aud women left the United Kingdom to seek homes aud a livelihood iu other portions of the globe. Of these, 1x2.1553 were; English, 18,277 Scotch and 54.480 Irish. Of the English emigrants 01.237 wtnt to the United States and 14,170 to British North America. Of the Scotch, .132231 were added to the population of the UuPed States and 1,303 to that of Canada, while 52.17 S Irish emigrants turned their faces toward ‘‘the laud of the free and the home of the brave.” and 1.119 sops and daughters of Erin's Isle turned toward Canada. Late advices from China tell of the uttering by Chinese forgers, on the Island of Java, of $3,000,000 of Java bank uotes. In order to get notes accented forged notary acceptances were placed on them. Already £OOO,OOO of forged and discounted notes have been discovered, and many prominent Chinese merchants have been placed under arrest, including Captain Chinn, one of thb wealthiest Qhiuainen iu Java. It is believed by the pdlice that the forgeries were completed in Singamore. Kwee-Che-Soe, a native of China, now a resident of Sourabaya, and a baud •of native etchers have been arrested. Soe has confessed to having committed the forgeries, and implicates many others, i all of whom insist they are innocent. Nearly all the leading Chinese merchants of Java have been victimized. Soe is noted for his cunning. Most of the notes made under his instruction were for £I,OOO each. On searching Soe's house not only were Souud the forged seals of the notary, but also a number of forged bank notes of £SOO each which had recently been made. Soe confessed and offered to give the names of all the other culprits. One of the principals of the gang was Kong Kee, iu whose house were found plates aud other tools used for the forgeries. Finished bank notes for £SOO aud some in course of being completed were also found. The banquet of the Nonconformist Unionist Association at the Hotel Metro pole, in London, Friday night, was the occa-

•lon an address by the Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister and Secretary of-State for Foreign Affairs. In the course of his remarks he said, with reference to, Venezuela: “I have been held up as the-denonneer nf the Monroe doctrine. As a matter of fact, although the Monroe doctrine is no part of international law, my dispatch to Mr. Gluey, the Secretary of State of the United States, supported it as a rule of policy in the strongest and most distinct terms. Bnf what I stated iu that dispatch I reiterate now, that, as a rule noW of policy, we are the entire advocates of the Monroe doctrine, we ifiean the Monroe'doetrine as President Monroe understood it (Cheers.) In that sense you will not find any more convinced syp--Salisbury then turned abruptly to the Armenian question, aud he reproached the religious communities with laboring, under a mistake when they supposed that England had bound jmrself iu honor to succor the Armenians, which means to go to war with the saltaiT in order to fSorefi him to govern the Armenians well. The speaker reminded his hearers that the reforms which the sultan had recently accepted, although very good reforms, could not be expected to produce good. government in two months.

IN GENERAL

A terrible fate Is believed to have befallen fiv'e gold prospectors who left Ilerinosillo, Mexico, several weeks ago for the interior of Tiburon Island, which is inhabited by the Seris tribe of Indians. There were six members of the exploring party originally,, but one of the men returned and reports that he and his copipaiiions came upon a village of Indians; that they werq all taken and preparations were begun to butcher them, when he succeeded in making his escape. He believes all the other "members of the party- were killed and their flesh eaten by the Indians. He says the Indians all wear valuable gold ornaments 1 and that there were many evidences of the existence of rich mines on the island. As a res.lit of the developments that; extensive smuggling iu phenacetin is going on at Philadelphia and other ports, under circumstances that baffle the customs officers, private instructions have been issued from the-Treasury Department for a more than usually rigorous search of passengers and crews arriving from German ports, as well as of the. vessels from abroad furnishes conclusive proof that the smuggling operations in this drug —whießis very expensive and upon which the duties are high—have been proceeding on a gigantic swale, and that for the purpose of evading duty the manufacturers have of late been wrapping the drug in tinfoil paper in such a way that it can be carried in the lining of coats or overcoats, or otherwise concealed, so that detection is made extremely difficult. As much as fifty pounds can be concealed about a man’s person without his appearance indicating'to the customs inspector that anything is wrong. The dignity of ithe American hen has been upheld. It whs war between the cold storage combine of Chicago speculators and the Egglayers’ Union, aud the barnyard fowl is victor. The cold storage people, as a result of an attempt to corner the egg market, are or will be not less than $150,000 out of pocket. Some dealers say the loss in Chicago by the drop in egg prices will reach $200,900. Score one for the hen. “Cold storage” eggs are down to 5 to 7 cents a dozen and are practically unsalable at that price. Car load lots were being frantically offered Wednesday night to all points on the map at the above ridiculous prices, but the best bids received in return wet-e .$1.25 a case of thirty dozen. Meanwhile””fca*h eggs started out at 14 to 14% cents, but offers to sell at 13% cents were fairly rolling in when business closed. The news had gone out into the country that the cold storage combine was seeking to control the Chicago market and apparently every hen iu the entire country made it. a personal matter to crush the dangerous rival. From every barnyard went up the slogan, “Honest eggs at honest prices.” The fight Was on, the weather was favorable, and the battle was soon won. In Chicago the holders of cold storage eggs have on hand (10,000 eases of eggs which cost them 14 to' 15 cents a dozen, including the cost of carrying them from last spring. At this season of the. year the stock should be practically exhausted, as Southern eggs begin to supply consumers. The line weather has not only started the Southern eggs moving, but has brought out large offerings from Missouri, Kansas, lowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Oklahoma aud Texas. Though the “icehouse” eggs are sold by grocers all over the city as fresh, they are not to bac'ompared with the fresh arrivals, and cannot compete with them.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—-Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, §3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, G2c to (54c,; corn, No. 2,27 cto 28c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 41e-; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes', per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn, 2c lo 4e per pound; foe. poor to choice.. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,. 66c to 08c; corn, No. 1 white, 27c to 28c; oats,. No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St, Ixmis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 j-ellow, 2Gc to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye. No. 2,37 c to 38c. CincinnatL-Catfle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,42 cto 44c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 40c to 42c. . Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 72c to 73c; .corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No* 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 42c; clover seed, $4.35 to $4.45. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, G2c to GBc; corn, No. 3, 2Gc to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley, No. 2,32 cto 34c; rve, No. 2,41 cto 42c; pork, mess, SIO.OO to $10.50. Buffalo —< 'attie, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to’ $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; \>;eat. No. 2 red. 75c to 77c; eoru, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 23c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75: wheat, No, 2 rCtt; 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, Western, 14c to 16c.

MERCHANTS TO MOVE.

■ ' VV . * WOES 0F THE BIG CHICAGO RETAILERS. -. '■ . •. • j-.: . .l/r— —?■'. V» —V- •—'aaj' / -V- “ f - Gieedy Landlords Drive Them Out of Business—Silver Bond Bill Favored bjr the Senate—Big Philadelphia Blaze—Suicide of a Bank Cashier. Eaten Up by Bert, Merchants on State street. Chicago, say they have grown tired of giving their entire profits to their landlords, and a move‘ment is now oiUfoST'ffi!' a gctieisTEtodiiS' from that thoroughfare. Wabash avenue will profit most By the move. TFTf should be made, and Dearborn and Clark streets, Michigan 'avenue, and east and west streets will also come in for a share of the retail trade should it leave State street. More than 200 feet of frontage in State street which was occupied Friday by .retail stores was . vacant Saturday."There are at least a dozen important retail stores, ithe 1 leases of which expire on May 1 or before. which may be moved from State street. There are some others which will move from one part of the street to another, leaving vacant property which has rented for large sums iu the past Rents have been as high as SI,OOO per front foot per annum. Senate Passes Silver Bill. The contest over the silver bond bill is at ap end in the Senate, that body having passed the Free silver coinage substitute to the House bill Saturday by the decisive vote of*42 to 35, a majority of seven for free silver. The bill was a,substitute for the House bond bill and provides that from the date of the act the mints of the United States shall be oi>en to the coinage of silver and the dollar shall be the present weight and fineness, and also provides for the certificates, it further provides for the coinage of the seignioriorage now in the treasury and authorizes immediate issue of certificates upon the same iu advance of it being coined. One section of the bill provides that no bank" note of less than $lO shall hereafter be issued, and those outstanding of less amount shall be taken up and canceled as rapidly as possible. Section four provides that the greenbacks and treasury notes shall he redeemed in standard silver dollars or in gold coin at the option of the treasury, aud the greenbacks, when so redeemed, shall be immediately reissued.

Suicide Causes a Bank" to Close. Cashier George Barnard, of the Fort Stanwix National Bank, Rome, N. Y-, has killed himself, and the bank is closed, pending an examination of its affairs, ordered by the Board of Directors. Mr. Barnard has been missing from his home since Wednesday. On that day the teller of the bank, Pa trie, went into the private office of the cashier and said to him: ‘‘Mr. Barnard, 1 see the bank examiner, Mr. Van Vrauken, is at the Farmers’ National Bank, and 1 suppose he will be here in a day or so.” Mr. Barnard immediately left his desk, walked out of the bank, and np to the fourth story of the building. He went iuto a storeroom, it now appears, and tying a rdpodo the door knob, fastened the other end uround his neek, aud the indications are that he then pressed his knees against, the door and died by strangulation. Before,committing the act he locked the door. Dun & Co.’s Review. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Though business is still waiting, there are some signs of definite improvement. It is now believed that the first payment for bonds'will cause no further pressure, and the mriney markets are easier as respects loans on collateral, though the difficulty of making commercial loans still checks operations, but large maturities at the end of January were met more satisfactorily than was expected, and merchants and bankers report that the signs promise a good spring trade. No increase appears as yet in the demand for the principal products, except iron and steel, and uncertainty op to congressional action still affects both industries and commerce, but the increase in inquiry and the reports of dealers are deemed assurance of large trade coming whenever the uncertainty is over.” Laid Waste by Fire. Property with r.n estimated value of $2,000,000 was burned early Sunday morning at Philadelphia. The lag sevenstory building of Charles 11. Haseltine, Nos. 141(5 and 1418 Chestnut street, -and the' adjoining five-story structure of the Baptist Publication Society and the American Baptist Historical Society, No. 1420, were destroyed. The buildings damaged by fire and wafer and falling walls were the four-story dry goods house of Homer, I.e Boutillier & Co., Nos. 1412 and 1414, the dwelling house at 1422, owned by the Wistur estate, and the Hotel Lafayette, at Broad and Sansoin streets.

BREVITIES.

Clarence Murphy, alias C. I’. Clarke. was arrested- at San Francisco. He is wanted at Salem, Mass., for the alleged embezzlement of SOO,OOO two years ago from the Salem Savings Bank. He was taken to the detectives’ room in the city hall to be questioned, and while there succeeded in making his escape. He was pursued by policemen, fired at aud finally recaptured. . t The old American miser who died in Paris recently, it now appears, was named Peters. Mr. Peters deprived himself even of the necessaries of life aud only spent a franc and a half (30 cents) daily on his meals. He is supposed to have been interested in a large concern in America and to have received from it checks for his portion of the profits. The Governor of Kansas, called a meeting of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners and urged the importance of some action looking to the restoration of .grain rales recently advanced and greatly affecting all shipments to Galveston and the South. The Governor urged that the Kansas board act in concert with the railroad boards of Texas and Nebraska. The New York Stock Exchange governors have notified Edward L. Norton, of the exchange, that he must diBSoUc his business relations with L. C. Briggs and Asa P. Potter, two of hi* partners in the firm of Allen & Co.

The ice crop at St. Joseph, *Mo.. is considered a failure. Friday contracts were made by St. Joseph firms for ice to be harvested at points in Wyoming aud on the northern Jakes reached by the Burlington BaHway. Not a pound of ice was pnt up during the early winter freeze, and it is considered there*trill be no more

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House-Bill* Passed or introduced in Either Branch—Queatioias of Moment to the ConntrF at-Large* ■ The Legislative Grind. An animated debate over -the question of-taking a vote on the pending bond bill closed the session of the Senate late Thursday altgrnoon. MrTStewart declared that it made no difference . wlupn 1 * vote was taken, or whether nfiy was taken. It was all “dress parade” and ■“buncombe.” He added the significant statement that the pending silver amendment would be germane ffs Bfi amendment to the tariff bill, and that when the latter measure came before the Senate he would offer a silver amendment; to test the Senators on their choice between tariff and silver. Tl»e'Senate went Into executive session and then took a -recess without any exact understanding as to the time of taking the vote. The attendance in the House was slim. The report of the Elections Committee in favor of the sitting member, D. B. Culberson, from the fourth Texas district, and against T. 11. Davis, was adopted without division. On motion of Mr. Doolittle (Rep., A\ ash.) ft resolution was adopted requesting the President to transmit to Congress the report of the Board of Engineers on the Nicaraguan canal. The bill to amend the dependent pensions act of 1890 so that in considering widows’ claims seven years of unexplained absence should be deemed sufficient proof of the death of the soldier, was passed. The speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Wellington (Rep.. Mo.) on the Committee on Labor, and Mr. Belknap (Reps, Ill.) on Railways and Canals. The Senate Friday spent most of the time sparring over the Tree coinage measure. The House,confined itself to’routine business. Most of the session was devoted to the District of Columbia appropriation bill. The regular attempt was made to have all the expenses of the District gov•ernment paid by the District, but the motion made by Mr. De Armnad (Dcm., Mo.) to •effect this was ruled out- on a point, of order. The District bill carries $5,417,9(50, $353,45J3 less than the sum appropriated for the current fiscal, year.

How He Scheduled.

A Detroit jobber last week got an order from a small interior town, and replied that, as the customer was unknown to him, a check would be necessary before he sent the goods. The check came and the goods were shipped. The jobber also sent a blank form for a rating, so that in case of future orders he would have something to go by, as the customer’s eomnaerehil rating could not be learned through the regular channels of information.. The blank has been returned, tilled out as follows; Q. AVhat amount of stock do you carry? A. All we can get trusted for. , Q. What is due on ypur books and aceohnts? All we want these times. Q. What value have you In real estate? A. Less than three years ago on some property. Q. What do you owe on book accounts? A. All bills that are due. Q. What do you owe on notes? A. All notes that arc not outlawed. Q. Wlnit other debts are you owing? A. Gratitude to the Lord. Q. Is any of above owing to relatives? A. One-seventh goes to t hqLord. Q: Is there a chattel mortgage against your stock? A. Not that we know of. Q. For what amount are you insured? A. All we can afford to pay 3 per cent, for. Name references. A. St. Peter.

Shot by His Dog.

Loills Lezotte was shot !>y his own dog while squirrel hunting in the woods near Rehobetli, Mass. Ho had a dou-ble-barreled gun with biin, and sighting a squirrel high up in an oak, Lezotte let go one barrel, badly wound-’ ing the squirrel. Standing the gun against the tree Lezotte began to climb to secure bis quarry. , The dog, which from the time of the discharge of the gun bad been running excitedly around the tree, begun to jump against the trunk as-it trying to follow his master. His pa tv struck the trigger of the unloaded barrel, sending a charge of shot up past Lor.ottoV, side aud lodging in the muscles of the rigid arm near the shoulder. Lezotte fell, but mnnaged to make his way to a doctor in Rehobeth, who sent for an ambulance to take the wounded man to the Rhode Island Hospital.

What Did He Mean ?

Two young gentlemen met in one of the Pittsburg parks, according to the Chronicle-Telegraph. One of them was wheeling his first-boni son. ■> • “Ah, good morning, Mr. BcHeficld," said the proud father. ’‘Notv, isn't that a pretty baby?" “It is, indeed,” said Mr. Bellefleld. “I have never seen your wife, but I fancy the child must take after its mother.”

Out of His Line.

The Boston Transcript reports that two gentlemen fell Into a talk about books. “What do you think of the ‘Origin of Species?’ ” asked one man. “I hare never read It,” wad “Hie other's reply. “In fact,” he added, "I am uot Interested iu financial subjects.” In 1890 the United •States produced $32,845,000 of gold. Of this total a little over two-fifths canie from California, which is still the nflmHnal goldprodueing State. At Algous, Kossuth County, lowa, there Is a “roaring” well, forty-five fee* deep, which has boiling hot water at th« bottom of It The teeth of fish, like teeth of most animal*, are not fastened to the bone, but are held In sockets.