Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. «~QEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - . • INDIANA.

SHOCKS THE SENATE.

NEW JERSEY MEMBER UTTERS SOME BLUNT WORDS. EiTl the People Are GettiaK Tired ot Inactivity—Minister Willie in Disfavors at Hawaii—Rumor that the Mew Government la Shaky. Smith Score# Hi# Colleague#. Senator Smith, of New'" Jersey. addressed the Senate Monday in opposition to the Monroe doctrine resolution. There was, he argued, no occasion for any action of any kind upon this subject- at this time. Both houses of Congress by the passage of the resolution providing for the appointment of a commission to determine the true divisional line l>etween Venezuela and British Guiana hail donp all that the Presidentand Secretary of State, charged with the responsibility of diplomatic negotiations with other powers, desired. and all that the people expected. “Wehave.” he said, “done all that either prudence can justify or patridfisih demand.” Later on in his f-poech Senator Smith said: “The people hare hail enough They want no more jingoism. They are ridclTahdtireddf the constanT injeetitm of party politics and personal ambition into onr dealings with other nations. They are suffering from our inaction upon matters of most vital importanoi*., Indeed, it is a fact, and we may as well admit it first as last, that the great majority of the people are disgusted with Congress in general and the Senate in particular. The. most popular thing we could do today, and probably in the present condition of affairs the most beneficial thing we could do, would be to pass the necessary appropriation bills and go home. The mere fact that we are in session is a menace to the revival of business and the r«*turn of prosperity.” Mr. Dole Indignant. Advices from Honolulu say that ti tles# Secretary Olncy apologizes for the aetions of Minister Willis that official may be given his passport soon. The trouble grew out of an invitation issued by the Hawaiian foreign office to the diplomatic corps to participate in the national billday of Jan. 17, the anniversary of the overthrow of the monarclTy. AVillis refused to take part in the celebration on the ground that President Cleveland did not approve the manner. in which the monarchy was overthrown. Julian D. Hayne, editor of the Hawaiian, a monthly magazine'published at Honolulu, arrived at Man Francisco on the steamship Australia. He takes a Tory pessimistic view of the present government of Hawaii and says the Japanese are becoming «o numerous there anil so firmly rooted that the islands are in danger of becoming mere outposts of Japan. Britain Will Arbitrate. Dispatches from Ambassador Bayard received Monday at the State Department at Washington bring good news. The queen's speech at the opening of parliament recommends arbitration of the Venezuelan difficulty and indicates that diplomat icrclat7onsT>eriveehGreafßrit-' i»in and Venezuela, which havedfieen suspended since 1887. are now in a fair way to be speedily resumed. Nor- is this all. Ambassador Bayard informs the State Department that Great Britain will sub- " in it to the VcjiezuWan Commission apI>ointed by the President copies of all the records concerning the Guiiuja boundary in possession of the foreign office. These records are voluminous, anil have only reeently been translated anil printed by the foreign office, after painstaking investigation at the capitals of Holland and Spain.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Benjamin Radcliff. tlie slas)rof the entire School Board of Jefferson district, Bark County, Colo., was hanged at.' the Canyon City penitentiary, With the exception of one Wisconsin town, alt the firms in the Northwest territory have promised to co-operate with the local lumbermen )r» curtailing the lumber cut. The object is to work off a surplus which has been piling up since 1891. W. W. Astor gives as his reasons for asking Henry J. C. Oust to resign the editorship of the Ball Mall Gazette the "constant sneers and disparaging comments on America” printed in the paper and the ••habitual disregard of Mr. Astor’s instructions.” The District Court at Minneapolis has ordered the enforcement of. the double liability law in the suspensions of the State and Citizens’ Banks. There is a deficit of s'-121,000, in the former case, and the stockholders will be assessed SO per cent in the latter case. An agreement has been reached by the minister of foreign affairs and the French minister in Santiago de Chili by which all claims of citizens of France against the Chilian government are to be canceled for the sum of £T>,OOO. It is said this is a very small amount iu view of the many claims advanced. They arose through allcg«>d wrongs perpetrated at the expense of Frenchmen resident iu the republic. Late Friday afternoon the treasury officials completed the computation of the bids received for thk new bond issne, from which it appears that the amount of the bids above that of J. B. Morgan and his associates ($110.0877) was $66,788,650, and that the amount which will be awarded to the syndicate therefore will be $33,211,350. or approximately one-fhird of the whole issue. The number of successful bidders id 781, distributed all over the United States. One man was killed, one fatally injured' and five others slightly hurt by the explosion of a 110-horse power boiler at the Ann and Hope cotton mill, R. I. President Kruger, of the Transvaal, has accepted the invitation of Secretary Chamberlain to_,visit England, accompanied by some members of the Transvaal executive board to act as a commission. At Bristol, Conn., Medical Examiner Hull announced that all of the men who were on the bridge at the time of the disaster Thursday night have,been accounted for, and that the complete death list eon tains six isr '..., '

EASTERN.

’ William 11, English, of Indianfipolls. is dead. Mr. English nad been ill for two weeks, and all hope of his recovery was given up a few days ago, when his heart began to trouble ntm. From that time he sank rapidly until death ended bis existence Friday. An immense mass meeting at New York, presided over by Chauncey M. DepeW, adopted resolutions protesting against the recall of Commander and Mrs. Balllngton Booth from the command of the American Salvation Army and asking that flie order be reconsidered. The steamer St.. Paul, of the International Navigation Company's line, which went ashore on the sandbar off Brarich, was pulled off the bar at 9:20 Tuesday morning. The four tugs succeeded. with (he aid of the kedge anchors, in getting the Stl -Paul from the bar. Fifty minutes later the vessel passed the Atlantic highlands, J |KJ'nnd for New York under her own steam. Three men were killed by the fall of the Pequaback Hirer * bridge, near Bristo.i, Cohn., during the great storm Thursdaynight. The bodies of the victims were recovered. There were thirteen men on the bridge when jt went down. The men constituted a gang of engineers, mechanics and laborers who tVere strengthening the bridge, which had recently, been condemned as unsafe. They were raising a derrick, which the wind toppled, over, the fall of the derrick causing the bridge to give way. Cyclonic winds and —drenching - rain swept the entire North Atlantic coast Thursday. Huin and death were left in the wake of the storm. Frequently a velocity -of seventy-five miles an hour was - reached by the winij. Shipping suffered severely, though the warnings td sailing masters, given in ample time, kept nearly all the vessels ip port.' To the horrors of cyclone and flood that of fire was added at the village of Bound Brook N. J., which has been almost wiped out. While the stonn was at its height a gasoline stove exploded in a restaurant neara lumber yard. Water was waist high in the street; tire apparatus could not be moved. Communication was quickly cuf; off and the last .word received waS from a telephone subscriber who said he wns standing in three feet of water, and that for most of the population it was a case of burn to death, drown, or swim out. The dam at Pocahontas Lake broke and all the lower part of Morristown, N. J., was inundated. Twenty-five persons are missing. Their disappearance is creating intense excitement.

WESTERN.

C. B. Pauly-, cashier of the Standard Oil Company, was held up on a street in broad daylight and robbed of $345. A young Michigan farmer secured a wife in a novel manner. He gave the girl’s father half a hog weighing 165 pounds for her. Dr. Dexter V. Dean, of St. Louis, is confined iu the insane asylum at his own request, his diagnosis that he was suffering from paresis proving upon examination to be correct. The St. Louis Court, of Appeals has affirmed the judgment of $2,500 awarded Sarah M. Bierce and James E. Pierce against A. B. Carpenter, at Clayton, Mo., recently, because the latter kissed Mrs. Bierce. ' Ex-Gov. Lewelling. of Wichita, authorized his friends to announce that he will' not be a candidate for Governor at the coming election. It has been supposed that ho would be a candidate before the -Pupulistcouvoation,— - - Joe Friedmann. 24 years old, fatally shot his former sweetheart, Julia Oelker, wounded his rival and killed himself at St. Paul Monday evening about 11 o'clock. The girl had recently thrown Friedmann over for a young man named Hoffman. The shooting was done in a fit of jealousy, Friedmann having followed the young couple as they left the theater and shot them down with hardly a warning. Hungarians and Poles of Whiting, Ind., engaged in a riot at Joseph Maovitik’s saloon Thursday afternoon, in which three men were shot and killed and two seriously wounded. Many more were injured in the melee, but not serious enough to require medical attendance. The trouble was the culmination of a race war of long standing between the rival races em-. ployed by the Standard Oil Company. An attempt was made to burglarize ifbgers & Sons’ bank in Bedford, a Cleveland suburb. Thursday morning. The" front doors of the bank were forced open by tools stolen from the Cleveland and Canton power-house. The safe was drilled and a charge of dynamite put in. The explosion blew off the front door of the safe. A second charge was put into the middle door. ThgJ>xpJ©sion failed to force it off, but wrecked the eiftire safe. The burglars escaped. The Santa Fe Company, pursuing its policy of retrenchment, discharged 300 men employed iu its Topeka, Kan., shops. T)f these 150 were employed in the repair shops, where a large force has been busy for some mouths getting rolling stock in order to move the big corn crop. The heads of the various departments in the Santa Fe shops at Kansas City""received notice of a cut of 10 per cent, in their wages. So far ase known no men are to be dismissed from the shops. Joseph It. Dunlop, publisher of the Chicago Dispatch, was convicted Tuesday of sending an obscene publication through the United States mails by a jury in Judge Grosscup’s court. This verdict, arrived at by a jury after four hours of deliberation covering every technical phase of the law and the evidence, elicited no demonstration in court. Motion was made for a new trial. Five counts comprised the indiclmept. Penalty is one month'to ten years’ imprisonment, and $25 to SI,OOO fine upon eacji count. Nine hundred people cheered Mayor Hazep S. Pingree of Detroit, Mieli., to the echo Thursday night in Central Music Hall, Chicago, when he declared boodling aldermen and grabbing corporations were' Worse than thieves in the night. Tbo subject of the lecture was “Municipal Re>form.” The greater part of the audience consisted of law students, for the lecture was given under the auspices of the Chicago Law Students’ and Alumni Association. The rest of! tlie audience included many who are workers for reform in city politics. William J. Custer, of Kansas City. Mo., a near relative of Gen. George A. 'Custer. who was killed in the Little Big Horn massacre, received a letter from his sister, Amanda Custer, of Slocum, Pa., whom he batOiot heard from for twentyone years. In 1874 Custer was a member of a Wilkesbarre, Pa., volunteer company raised to put down the Molly Maguires. After the Mollies were dispersed, he feared death at their hands and secretly left

the State. Since then he has been unable to find trace of his relative#. Custer was the victim of a highway robbery recently, and the publication of the affair led to his good fortune. " l-j ' -y.. Scott Jackson, accused of the murder of Pearl of Greenc-astle, Ind., has confessed his guilt and implicates Alonzo M. Walling. Walling has also confessed so a personal knowledge of the murser of the girl, whose headless corpse wasfouud near'“Fort Thonaas Friday night. Wall* ing tries to*lay {he Whole'blame on Jacksou. Jackson, on the contrary, while h,e admits his own guift, takes pains to implicate Walling. The sachel which the mirrdemt woman took to Cincinnatr on Jan. 23 was shown to JaekSon. He would not admit that the head had been in the satchel, but said it looked as if it had been there. Jackson made his confession by small statements. He is obstinate and made it because he saw clouds of evidence gathering around him. When he admits the girl was-murdered he does' it as if a third person hhd committed the crime. Chloroform and a revolver were the agents with which Richard Klattke, a carpenter of Chicago, slew his entire family of six; then, turning the'revolver upon himself, he committed suicide. When residents ip the vicinity burst into the home early Wednesday morning they found seven corpses, and a superficial examination showed that each of Klattke’s victims had been shot through the brain, and that he himself had died in a similar manner. No evidence of struggle existed, and an empty chloroform bottle would indicate use"of that anee t IfetiiTbef ore the shooting. Klattke was despondent. The members of his family were cold and hungry. Since Christmas he had been out of work and* -he' 'ended his troubles jaBT"aS~ relief was in sight. Wednesday morning his next-door neighbor, Adolph Schmidt, called at the cottage with the joyful news that he had found a job for Klattke. At the same time Mr. Brown arrived on a similar errand. They came too late, just how much no one knows, for the bodies were cold when discovered. Chicago is to be invaded by the soldier boys of Dixie lai.fd, nearly 5,000 strong, next August. Unless plans miscarry, each of thirteen Southern States will send a train load of its crack military organizations to take part in the opening of the Chicago-Southern States Exposition. The present plans for military features of the celebration will rival in grandeur all other attempts in this line, with the possible exception of the dedicatory ceremony of the World’s Fair. Military authorities of Illinois have 'been at work for some weeks making tjie preliminary arrangements.- Gov. Altgeld and Hen. Wheeler of the I. N. G. have approved the plan and (he Governors and military men of the Southern States are .enthusiastic over it. Mayor Swift has invited the Governors of thirteen Southern States to send five delegates each to a convention Feb. 19 to pass upon the plans already laid and to arrange further details: It is proposed to make the military features the most noted element of the celebration, and, from private advices already received there seems to be no question of its success. Several States have agreed to send their quota of troops.

WASHINGTON.

The Catron anti-prize fight bill, which was adopted by the House, passed the Senate, and only .--needs the President’s signature to become a lajv. Justice Morris, of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, has decided that while Intoxication may be a disease, yet if it is voluntary and leads to commission "oFcFnse“rf'ls~Srcrinie in Itself. “ The Finance Committee of the .Senate has agreed to report for "the tariff bill a substitute providing for the free coinage of silver. The substitute was suggested by Senator Vest and was agreed to by a majority of one. The House of Representatives Friday suddenly became involved in a bitter controversy. It sprang from remarks made by Mr. Talbert (Dent.), of South Carolina, in defense of secession, which Mr. Barrett (Rep.), of Massachusetts, interpreted as treasonable. He had the sjteaker’s words taken down and offered a"resolution of censure. After a wrangle and some explanations Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, moved, to refer the Barrett resolution to the Committee on Judiciary. This was carried by a vote of 154 to 41. This is be taken of the matter. In response to a resolution of inquiry the secretary of war has sent to the Senate a statement of the amount of money which could be used advantageously in coast defenses. He says that 825.0T5,800 could be so used by the department prior to July 1. 1897, of which amount $4,722,000 should be made available during the present fiseni year. He recommends that $15,807,000 be designated for fortifications, $1,000,000 for sites, $2,5<X),000 for submarine defenses, $0,316,800 for guns, mortar projectiles, etc. The speehri advantage of the increased apas"* enumerated by the secretary are. fh<t utilization of the army gun factory to its full capacity: the more rapid armament of our fortifications; the addition of twelve mortars and carriages to those already estimated for; the purchase of an additional 500 deck-pierc-ing shells and supply of heavy material for siege service. _ The amazing success of the bond issue is still the talk of Washington. As the bids are examined more closely the greater the success appears to be. A week before Secretary Carlisle would have been will satisfied had somfe one assured an average price of 109. The loan -will actually go about two points above that price. Unofficial and approximate figures grade the bids in the following,magnificent column: Premium rate. Amount. 150 ....$ 50 130.. 100 125 50 121 : 50 120 ......... 850 119 aud fractious 30,850 118.. 5,050 117 ... , 3,300 116 and fractions.... 96,500 115 229.000 114 and fractions 1,5,10,750 113 and fractions 1,580.950 112 and fractions. .......... 10,959.100 111 and fractions 34,077,300 8e10w,,111 aud above 110.0877 6,507,000 Total above the Morgan bid.555,G12,900 Washington dispatchf The public gets froni $30,000,000 to $40,000,000 of the $100,000,000 of the popular loan, and the Bierrepont Morgan syndicate secures the remainder on a bid of 110.6877 for SIOO,000,000. Scattering bids were received from banks and investors above that figure for about the sum first mentioned. The Morgan bid shuts out the combination bidding engineered by John T.Bbew-

aft, Russell Sage and a half dozen trum companies under their leadership. Jfol less* than $125,000,000 was bid for bj these concerns and their customers at the uniform'price of 110.075, J£he total number of bids was 4,040, representing a tota' subscription of $500,000,000, not counting a bogus bid of $100,000,000 from a Michigan doctor, and another from a Texas humorist for $10,000,000. The uet prici realized by the Government for the whole issue will be very close to 3% per cent The Morgan bid is fractionally above that figure—about 3 7-10. '

FOREIGN.

The Orinoco Mining Company““whiefc owns a land grant in Venezuela, lids beer 7 incorporafedin Wisconsin, with a capita: stock of $30,000. The London Press Association announced that the Scotch oil combine has Completely, dissolved, with heavy losses to its Investors, and that the Standard Oil Con ipany is again in aster of the situation; It is reported at Rio Janeiro that Bolivia is unwilling to accept Brazil’s pro posal that President Cleveland arbitrate as to the lines of delimitation between them. Argentina, has resolved to Dug more artillery in Europe. Her treasury estimate shows a $0,000,000 deficit for IS9G. Tiie pride in the Chilian national credit, which was highly influenced by the facility with which £2,000,000 was advanced as -account current by the Rothschilds, of London, has received a lamentable fall. It has been found that the loan will cost -CbHj G' pef cent in uiterest, \vhile a Germau syndicate offered to lend the Government more than £0,000,000 at 4 pei cent, free of all charge. William F. Mannix, an American mewspaper correspondent in Cuba, has been ordered by the authorities to leave the island. He wrote a private letter to the Washington Evening Star, in which he said ,he had been informed that he waj blacklisted at the palace at Havana and any more side trips would be the Cause of his being invited to leave. The State Department has not yet boon informed of the intention of the Spanish officials tc expel Mannix, but it has been known that his vigorous letters have proved objectionable to the Spanish authorities. The Chinese Government has at length turned its attention to the construction ot railroads, and, according to United States Minister Denby, has appointed Chii-Ahen, a provincial judge, to superintend the building of a railroad from Tien-Tsin to Lu Kou bridge, eight miles west of Pekin, which is as near the sacred precincts ot royalty as Chinese etiquette will permit the road to approach at present. The cost of the seventy miles of road is estimated at $2,000,000 and is to be finished in one year. The decree ordering the work also requires Chinese merchants tc form stock companies to build other railroads, for the Government is determined to exclude foreign capital and foreign control for the roads. In regard to the request of Minister Terrell that the United States legation be allowed a second dispatch-boat for its ' service, the Turkish Government contendthat as the passage of the Straits of the Dardanelles was regulated by an agreement between the' six powers, the United States must apply to them for the necessary permission, as she is not a party to the treaty of Paris. On behalf of the United States, it is understood, the contention is made that the regulations do not apply to the United States, and that she considers the Straits of the Dardanelles to be open waters. It is stated in wellinformed circles that the reasbn for the Porte’k hesitation to grant the request ol ~Mri -Tefroß-l&- the-opposition of--i Russia to the request of the United States foi the passage of an extra guardship through the straits. ’ - - •V X - According. to rumors in Cuban and Spanish circles, .the Nentuno. now in drydock at Perth Amboy, N. J.* the Narino, which is being transformed into a gunboat, and other steamers which have been mentioned in connection with expeditio'ns to Cuba, are not being fitted out by the Cuban junta at all; but by the New Yorls sugar merchants. Several months ago the ramor was spread that a syndicate had furnished $370,009 to help Gomez in his scheme pf burning plantations for the purpose of creating a boom in sugar. It is now rumored that Horatio S. Rubens, counsel for the Cuban revolutionary parfy, is in Washington, lobbying not only Tor thd junta, but for the sugar people as well. The rumored plan is a clever one. It appears that Tit contemplates buildinc vessels so well equipped that they could capture the ports of Cuba. Of course this work will be done in connection with the junta. It would take a large fleet to carry out the plans, as the Spanish Government has now over fi*fty ships tc ’protect the different parts of the island.

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, 66c to 07c; (Corn, No. 2, 28cdo 29c; oats, No. 2,19 c '’to 20c; rye, No. 2,40 c. to 41c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to*l9c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, ( por bushel, ISc to 25c; broom corn, 2c t'o 4c per pound foi poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 tc $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. '2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. J white, 27c to 29e; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis—Catjle, $3.00 to $5.00: hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 20c to 27c; oat 4, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,37 c to 39c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 45c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4-00; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 28c to 29c: oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c: rye. 41c to 42c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 21 cto 23c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c; clover seed, $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 04c to 05c; corn. No. 3,27 c. to 28c; oats, No. 2 white. 20c to 22c; barley, No. 2,32 cto 34c: rye. No. 2,39 cto 41c; pork, mess. SIO.OO to $10.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; "hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow,, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York—Cattle, s3*oo to $0.25: bogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red. 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2, 87c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; egga, Went- j era. 14c te 160

SEVEN SAILORS DIE.

SCHOONER WRECKED OFF MAS- , SACHUSETTS COAST. t-+ ——— Fruitless Efforts of Life-Favers—Pub-lisher Panlop Must Pajr Bevere Pedalty Brightee Business Outlook -Morgan Syndicate Shbrt on Bonds Seven Lives Are Lost.. A three-nfasted schooner was wrecked Sunday- night jjwaf* a .mile - qff -Salisbury, beach, near Amesbury, Mass. The schooner, presumably the Florida, of Rockland, Me., was driven on the beach in a heavy northeast gale. The sea was so heavy that to launch a small boat was out of the -question, yet in the face of this peril two of the crew could be seen making the attempt. The boat was taken up by a huge wave and tossed beyond their reach. The crew made for the rigging, one, thought to be the captain, lashing himself'to the mainmast, where through a glass an hour later he appeared to be dead. Fire of rhe others took to the mizzenmast, lashing their bodies to it, while the seventh man lashed himself to the other mast. TheT’lum Island life-saving crew was notified and drove over the ten milesofrough road in the lifeboat behind 1 four hpfses. Soon afterwards two bodies were washed ashore, and soon after it cleared for a few- minutes, when it was seen that the masts had been swept away and the other live hacFgohe flown lb a" watery grave 1 . 1 Morgan Syndicate Short. The Morgan pool at New York was busy Friday selling bonds at the market rate of 110%. There were reports iri Wall street that Mr. Morgan was also a buyer of bonds, which was not unlikely, as they are regarded as sure to advance to 120 within a short time. It is said that the Morgan people, Tike many others, have contracts*for the delivery of many of the bonds, and find that they are short in the supply they expected to get. Late "in the day, too, came a report from Washington saying -that the Morgan syndicate was only to get $33.000.000 of the loan. This was a great surprise, ns on Wednesday the general opinion of those who heard the reading of the bids was that Mr. Morgan would get at least $50,000,000, and Mr. Morgan reported the treasury clerks had given him $57,000,000 as his probable allotment. At the subtreasury in New York there was an inrush of gold for examination, which means that those who are in and above the Morgan bid arc placing their gold for safe keeping in the treasury vaults until the arrival of the official notification that bonds have been allotted to them. Turn in tbe Business Tide. R. G. Dun &■ Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade saysi ■ << Thej.wenderfal success- : o{; the popular loan aliers the face of events. The influence upon all manufacturing and all trade cannot be lightly estimated. —It puts the treasury on a-safe-basis for the time, whether Congress does anything useful or not. It notifies foreign nations that the United Stages has power as well as purpose. It unlocks millions of gold which have been gathered in preparation, brings directly several millions of gold from Europe, and stimulates the anxiety of foreign investors to obtain American securities. 'With such a revolution in business suddenly effected, the customary records of the lgst week and month are of -less valde than usual.” Cell for flu til op. Jqfpph R. Dunlop, publisher of the Chicago Dispatch, was sentenced Saturday by Judge Grosscup to pay a fine of $2,000 and serve- a term of two years in the. Joliet penitentiary for the* offense of using the United States mails to circulate an obscene publication. A stay of twenty days was granted, pfendiug an appeal to the Supreme Court.

BREVITIES.

The famous McGarrahan claim against the United States is to be revived by cousins of the dead litigant. President Cleveland signed the Catron anti-prize fight bill Friday afternoon, making it a law in immediate effect. A train 6n the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf, while making t'he trip around the Georgetown loop, near Denver, C’-10., Sunday afternoon, was blown from the track aud all the passengers more or less injured. " A shifting engine on the Baltimore and Ohio ran into a 2d avenue electric car at* Rankin's Crossing, nine milps east of Pittsburg, Friday morning, killing Conductor W. H. Cooper and fatally injuring Motornym John Riddley. The accident was caused by slippery rails. Fred Price, the star center rush of the University of Georgia, who left Athens, Ga.. several weeks ago to join the army of Gomez, writes from Pinar del Rio of an insurgent victory in which he participated, but does not seem to have a high idea of the warfare in Cuba. ‘‘lt is hot half as exciting or dangerous as football,” he says. Brice says he is getting $24 a week in good American money for his work. Friday evening it was supposed Frank H. Speedier had been attacked by robbers while attending to his duties as depot agent at Toledo, Ohio. He was found lying in his office senseless from a blow inflicted with a heavy iron poker. Speedier, when he revived, claimed an express package he had just made up, containing sllO, had been taken while he was un-. "Conscious. Sunday night lie acknowledged he had s'truck-'himself with the poker. Speechet* is said to be short about $250 in his accounts. i*eter L. Atkins, of Middletown, N. Y., took Mftud Kelly, aged 23, out driving Sunday night. In the darkness Atkins drove off the road into a flooded meadow. Tlie water was nine feet deep, and the two stood on the seat on the wagon and shouted for help for an hour. They were heard, but could not be located; and both succumbed to cold and exposare. _ At Kansas City, Mo.. Louis Frank, aged 21 years, of respectable parents, was shot and fatally wounded by Maud Clifford in a rage of jealousy. The affray occurred in a restaurant, to which the woman had followed Frank. Ohio Knights of Labor have .voted to ask Congress to give another hearing on the charges against Judge Ricks, of Cleveland. - ' j John Hays Hammond, the American I- mining engineer charged with the leaderskip of thejate uprising at Johannesburg, Transvaal, has been liberated on bail, i

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week’s Proceeding;# in the Hall# of Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of the Business. f The National Solons. The House spent the entire day Monday liscussing $ series of amendments to strike from fhe' District of Columbia apiropriation bill eight appropriations aggregating $34,000 for thffe lHaiutenance of lestitute women and children in various private and sectarian charitable institutions in the District. -President Cleveland sent to Congress a request forjin appropriation for some of the Italian victims of TSSCWnlsenbiirg riots in Colorado. The Senate did nothing of importance. The belated Iloufee tariff bill emerged from the Finance Committee in the Senate Tuesday, and it had a'free-silver substitute attached, by a report of one in committee. No definite action was taken. Minor business was transacted in the House, anil the balance of the session was devoted to heated controversy aver appropriations for private and secfa riaii charitable institutions in the District of Columbia. The Senate spent Wednesday in fruitless debate upon the tariff-silver bill. Ic the House Delegate Catron (N. M.) introduced a bill to prevent the pugilistic festival from taking place near El Paso, and the measure was rushed through without division.. .The hill makes nrife fighting a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonnient for not less -than one year. Mt. Catron asked for unanimous. cousenOor consideration, but Ms. Knox (Rep., Mass.) objected and the bill was referred, but subsequently was taken up and passed. The measure also prohibits bull fights. The House also began its debate ou the Senate free-eoinage bond bill. The Catron anti-prize flghtbUt passeil the Senate Thursday. The law becomes executive' from the moment it is signed by the President, anil all persons must aLfheir peril take cognizance of its enactment.' The Senate free-coinage substitute for the House bond bill was debated five hours in the House in the afternoon and for three hours at the night session. Nevertheless the pressure from members for time to present their views is so great: that it seems-possible now that the debate may continue indefinitely. The House Friday was in an-uproar-most of the time because of a tilt between Talbert of Sontli Carolina and Barrett of .Massachusetts, over the former's defense of secession. A resolution of censure failed of adoption, 200 toll. The bond bill debate consumed the evening session. The Senate chose Mr. Frye president pro tern, and passed abitt opening the forest reservations of Colorado for the location of mining claims. A resolution offered by Mr. Stewart was agreed to calling on the Secretary of tlie Treasury for information as to the estimated increase in revenue if the pending tariff bill becomes a law, and what the duty on wool per pound would be under the law based on the present market price of wool. The resolution copteniplating a reform in handling* appropriation bills by distributing them among the several committees was referred, for report next December.' Senate adjourned until Monday. The House debate Saturday upon .the Senate's free coinage substitute for the bond bill was very spirited. Mr. Towne, a Minnesota —Republican,- claimed the. attention of the House and galleries for over an hour with an eloquent effort on behalf of free coinage. Mr. Hall, a i/emocrat from Missouri, on the other hdnd, announced f<)""sofind nforiey” in a rather sensational, speech, in which he charged Jhat eight Senators who voted for free coinage, according to “credible information,” had privately said that they believed free coinage would bring upon this country national and individual bankruptcy and ruin. He charged them with trying, to “feather their nests at home” and declared that the greatest sin of the nre-sont age was the cowardice of statesmen. lie also" declared that a high officer of the administration had said that the silver agitation had already cost the Government $2(52,000,000 in bond issues, and in the course of the next twelve months the bond ISSUES would increase to $1,000,000,000. Mr. Hall voted for free coinage in the last Congress. The National Game, Bird and Fish Protective Association has prepared a bill, which will soon be -introduced in "both houses of Congress.

RATES FOR SLEEPING CARS.

Question Up Again Before a.Sub-Corn* mittee of tkc Hsugc. The question pf taking steps toward reBueingtbe rates charged"by sleeping and palace car companies was thrashed over by a sub-committee of the national House Committee on Commerce. A bill introduced by Mr. % Corliss of Michigan was before the committee, but after a long debate it was decided to strike out all after the first section of the bill and report that section to the full committee for consideration. s The first section proposes to extend the interstate commerce law so as to include sleeping or palace cars operated by common carriers engaged in interstate commerce.

Notes of Current Events.

Judge Josinh W. Wright dropped dead at Princeton, N. J., while on his way to Trenton. He was (18 years of age. W. C. Bailey, of Minneapolis, has been elected president of the Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's Association. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe must be mistaken when she says “there was up original Uncle Tom.” Several of him have been buried every year as far baok as we can remember. » Owing to a two years’ drouth on the Pacific side of Nicaragua the coffee crop has been much reduced, and instead of the 200*000 quintals expected; it is not now believed that the crop will exceed 100,000. Col. David S. Turner, aged 92 yeurs, veteran during the late war, and grandfather of Prof. N. L. Britton, of. Columbia College, New Yofk, died at New Dorp, Staten Island. Harry Hayward’s promised messages after death have not been received, and a Minnesota paper surmises that his wiro has been grounded somewhere. We would rather bet that it is burned ont.. The Italian warship Christopher Colombo, having on board the Duke of Arbnzzi, nephew of the King of Italy, arrived at San Francisco from the North. The war* ship will remain there several week*