Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. *=r;ar-. —r—-,r" '■ ±v=v GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. REXSSELAER, - *... t “INDIANA.

CUBANS OUTWITTED.

THEY AND THEIR STEAMER ARE CAPTURED. Had a Carso of Arms and Gold—Jasue•ou Arrives in England—Death of an Eminent Baptist Divine—After Ver .—eiseh's Gold Fields. > Filibusters Caught. The iron steamer Bermuda, flying’ the British flag, was boarded and seized by revenue officers off Liberty Island, New York, Monday night. The Berinuda has ; been nnder the watch of Spanish spies for some t inic. They had reason to. believe it had been bought by Cuban revolutionists and was fitting out. as a filibuster. The Bermuda was an English built'steamer, formerly running in the Outerbridge line. It was recently purchased by a firm suspected of being in league with the revolntionaryparty. In examining the priwoners on board the Hudson there was great disappointment because Gen. Calix-, to Garcia, the supposed leader of the expedition, was n’ot among thorn. Gen. Garcia 'had eonimn nd of the expedition rrn board the J. IV. Hawkins, which foundered .off—the Jersey coast a month ago. But among the captives was Gen. Garcia's bon -andsevera 1 other | Htvniiuen t-<Jubaas; Four bags of gold were seized by the marshals and taken aboard'the Hudson. ’ To Develop Orinoco Mines. A party composed of Captain J. 11, Morgan and Julian Bruce, of Brunswick; T. A. Lcgrass. of Salisbury; O. IV. Morehead, of Triplett, and T. J. Kelly, of Linneus, Mo., left St. I^oiris for the gold fields of Venezuela. The party goes by the way of Washington to get their passports and letters from Senator Qockrell to consuls at Caracas and-BoUvar City. They will sail from New York city, and will go up the Orinoco river as far as it is navigable and will then travel-overland to the of that stream in western Venezuela and to the gold fields. The party is well supplied with medicine, Winchester rifles and plenty of ammunition, and is. backed by wealthy capitalists*, who will develop the mines when located. Ovation to the Raider. x Crowds of people gathered nt Plymouth i England, Monday, expecting to witness the landing of Dr. Jameson and his offU cers from the troop ship Victoria. whi<; v arrived at midnight Sunday, but thej •were landed at Portsmouth. The troops which came ashore from the Victoria gave three cheers for Dr. Jameson. Captain Haney, the* American citizen, one of Dr. Jameson's officers turned over by the Beers to the British and sent on board the Victoria, was', at his own request, landed nt Port SaidCThematter has been explained to Ambassador Bayard. It is claimed that Haney would now be breaking stones in Pretoria had he not beep shipped away with his companions. Veteran Evangelist De id. After completing half a century of service as an evangelist and Baptist preacher. Kev. R. F. Parshall died Sunday night at Chicago from the effects of a railway accident in Toma, Wise, nine years ago. Over five thousand people converted through the indefaiigaefforts of Mr. Parshall. His ministry embraced charges from Otsego County. New York, to Sacramento. Cal. He left in 4»w wake a number of new churches, which will .preserve his memory for many jrears.

NEWS NUGGETS.

President Cleveland has gone to Quantico on another duck hunting trip. Friends of Mos. Maybriek. who is serving a sentence in a British prison for poisoning her husband, declare that she will soon he liberated. Adolf Ladenburg. of the firm of Ladenburg. Thalmau & Co., .bankers of New York, disappeared during a severe.storm. from the steamship Niagara, two days out from Nassau. A ful] meeting of the Michigan Republican State Central Committee was held in the office of Senator McMillan, the chairman. Detroit was selected as the; place and May 14 as rhe date for holding the State convention to choose delegates to the national convention at St. Louis. At Minneapolis. Otis L. Billings was •tW-Scte -twi n charge of perjure. M the instance of W. E. Dodge, counsel for the Great Northern road. Billings went before the grand jury and swore that Dodge, representing the Great Northern road, jiaid him SIOO for fixing a juror in a damage suit. The jury found no bill, but Dodge was threatened with arrest, and he retaliates by having Billings, who is an attorney, arrested. Falk & Landey. of Fort Wayne, the oldest wholesale liquor firm in northern *• Indiana, dosed their doors Monday morning and placed their business in the hands of Harry Jacobs as trustee. The firm was worth at one time $50,000. Mr. Falk says the hard times and the Nicholson law forced them to close. He savs thev have $12,000 in accounts out in saloons'where the proprietors have bWn refused licenses under the local option clause of the Nicholson la w. Mr. Lester has been in Cincinnati for some time under orders from Gov. Bradley, investigating the evidence in the Pearl Bry; case toSsecure data to govern the liayment of the reward-offered for the ap- \ prehension of the murderers. Mr. Lester has notified the officers of Campbell County that he has reported to the Governor that he is not satisfied the murder was committed in Kentucky and therefore that the payment of the reward cannot now be made. Alex Anderson. Arthur Swanion and Olaf Norden, while drunk, quarreled at Bloomington. II). Norden and Swanton attacked Anderson, who. was terribly clashed with a knife and then thrown over the guard rails to the track, thirty feet below, where he was found insensible. Norden and Swanzon are both under arrest. The doctors say Anderson will die. A salary reform movement has been started by the nomination of a Massillon, O-. ticket by the Buckeye grangers. Bethlehem township candidates are pledged to •ecept half of their present salary and flpend the other half on county roads.

EASTERN.

Another big lockout of New York tailors is threatened. Should it be ordered 10,000 tailors will be thrown out of work. Ex-Gov. George D. Robinson, is suffering with apoplexy at his home in-Chico-pee, Mass., aqd his condition is critical. Romulus Gray, formerly a wealthy Chicago , real estate owner, is in a New Haven, Cohn-.; hospital, suffering with paralysis. A bill is being prepared for introduction in the New York legislature to authorize the City of New' York to purchase Eflgar Allan Poe's cottage at Fordham,'and remove it to Central Park. A receiver ha s been appoint cd”- for the United Brethren Mutual Aid Society, of Lebanon, Pa. The a mutual inanrance btrslness and Its i-wtlikatesAg-<r«Vat e several..million dollars. TLp Republican Club of New York fa agitating a project to erect a mammoth national club house in that city as a monument to the party. It is proposed to raise from S2,(MK>,(W to $5,000,000 by popular subscriptions. 7 —C usnncey MrTtepe w has declined an tnvitalfan to address the law students of the Statu University at Lawrence; Kun. His reason for making the declination, it is>» said, was that as the. faculty had recently refused Col. Robert G. Ingersoll permission to speak befoi'e the students he could not accept. i Commander and Airs. Bailington Booth have been forced to. relinquish tlmir command of the Salvationarmy.. That they keenly feel their deposition is evidenced by a manifesto- issued by them at New York < Friday, in which words of strong rebuke are administered to Herbert Bqoth, to whom they were compelled to stirrcnfler llieir keys iuilT office's* 11 is possible that this sudden action will lend to a secession of the American tinny from the parent English body. By the general public the manifesto will be construed as indicating strained relations in the Booth family, which have heretofore been entirely unsuspected. It has been intimated that Commandant Herbert Booth is anxious to siift-eeed Bailingtoil Booth in this country, but after this statement of the manner in which he treated his brother, many members of the Salvation army would find it difficult to yield to him that loving and loyal obedience which the best interests of the army demand.

WESTERN.

Charles H. Race, of Chicago, ex-c-uhier of the Burlington i Kan.l National Bank, IsoiTtrial At Fort .Scott, Kail., .charged with embezzling $73,000 of the bank's funds. The safe in the Bank of Richards, Vernon County, Md, v yWned by the Conkling Bros., of Nevada, was blown open Tuesday morning and robbed of S9OO. The robbers made their escape. Deputy United Sta te s Marshal H ilLamLse vera Loflicers are in pursuit. - V A dispatch from Oakland, Cals says Perri ue’s comet is ml vanring t oward the barth at the rate of 1,*>00,000 miles a day and is now only 3t5.800.000 miles away. In other words, it the comet does not change its course it will strike us softie time during Saturday. March 14. A steam kettle used in the manufacture of candy exploded at the bandy factory of G. W. Chase & Son at St. Joseph, Mo., and as a result one man was fatally and two other men seriously injured. The cause of the explosion is a mystery, as the steam gauge registered but ten at the time of the accident. The assets of the old firm of Crippen, Lawrence & Co., Denver, with a face value of $1,500.00(1,. Jia Y.e,.bfignjsshl by, the assignee. S. JI. Stofldart, to the New Hampshire Real Estate Company, com-, posed of the creditors residing in New England. J. .L Vrippen. a member of the former company, will represent them. A occurretOif Bed- ; ford, a suburb of Cleveland, Tuesday morning, While Alfred Whittaker, until recently .chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, and a veryprominent business man of Cleveland,, and his two step-sons, Dana and Don Cannon, were driving in the village, a Cleveland, Canton and Southern fast mail train struck their cutter, "hurling Mr. Whittaker a distance of fifty feet and killing him instantly and inflicting probably fatal injuries on DaCannon and serious injuries on the driver, John Rich. Mr. Whittaker was the proprietor and jnanager of the Brooks Oil Compan y *> f Cleveland. - . All within sixteen hours Alfred Fields committed one of the most brutal murders iu Chicago police history, was arrested and confessed to the commission of a crime at which the most degraded of human beings must shudder. Mrs. Eilen Randolph was found slaughtered in her bed in the fiat at 2438 Dearbetn street Thursday, just before noon.

fourteen distinct wounds about her headand body, made by the blunt end of a hatchet, and the bed and other bloody evidences of the crime to have been set on tire by the murderer. Fields confesses he murdered the woman to secure $75 which she had, but says he wai hired by Ed Mclntosh, who is under arrest'. James Fitzgerald was hanged at St. Louis for the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Naessens. on the night of Nov. 24, 1893. The trap was sprung ahd the culprit, shot down six feet, but ncX to deaths The rope broke and the victim lay struggling on the ground beneath tl’e gallows. The black cap was instantly Amoved by the doctors, who found Fitzgerald' still conscious. Stimulants were given, and he revived and was t:\ken into the morgue a few feet away, where he was further eared for by the doctors. A new rope was sent for afionce. and ithe sick and trembling but nervy victim was again taken to the scaffold. The trap was again sprung, and this time the condemned man went to death. John AV. Smith, a young farmer of Princeton. Mo., is under arrest at St. Joseph on charges of counterfeiting. Mrs. Lama Liuoti. a swetheart of Smith's, informed the officers. She claims Smith offered her counterfeit dollars to pass on merchants, aud she was arrested and placed in jail. She wrote letters To John and Abe Brumm?!!. of Princeton, threatening to exjx>se them as members of the same gang of counterfeiters if they did not secure bond fog, her release. They eaaily secured the bond. Meantime the Federal officers got possession of the letters and other evidence against the Brummells. They have not yet been arrested. A Urge amount of counterfeit coin was found at Smith’s house. It was decided at Chicago to hold the Southern States and Chichgo Exposition in Chicago, beginning Aug. 1 next. Mayor Swift has named a com mtttee of forty to manage the Chicago

end. The Southern States wjll advertise the scheme throughout the South, will collect the exhibits, bring them to Chi-, cago and install- them, all at their own expense! When the fair is over they will remove their exhibits within fifteen days after the closing. Chicago will provide a home soy the exposition with not less than 100,000 square feet of flopr space, and as much additional room within doors nnd without as may tn? deemed advisable; .will conduct the whole financial end of the enterprise, pay all the cost of maintaining the exposition, including police and fire protectiwi, but will not be responsible for losses by theft or fire! That, in brief,-is the position; The Chicago Garment Cutters’ and Trimmers' Union decided early Thursday morning to strike, and by their action 20,000 persons will be thrown out of empioymeut. Some of the clothing manufacturers are exempt from the decision of the tin ion', "'because they have acceded to the terms of the cutters; But of'the !MM) members of the union about 750 decided to quit work. -This decision-will, of course, affect the tailors,' bidders and sweatshop workers who do not belong to any union. -The manufacturers declare they can hold out against the cutters because the spring trade-fa*over. But the cutters assert that the clothing - houses are full of heavy-weight goods for the fall and winter trade, which must be got out pf the way in a few weeks. Conseqiiently a bitter tight is expected, and the runion is prepared foruLloug siege because it has got the savings of two years to keep up the struggle. The union demands a minimum rate of S2O a week for cutting . the. maximum amnunLnL four.teen„suite.a., day. The manufacturers' association declared that this is a 'discrimination against tile good worknlen, who'are worth s£2 a week, while the poor e.ntters are assessed in value at from sll to sl6 a week.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Olney receivedtthoYollowihg cablegram announcing rhe pardoning of ex-Consul John L. Waller by-President Faure, of France: “The President signed Waller's pardon. Orders are issued for his release. . EUSTIS.”; The Postoffice Department has issueda general order directing ail division superintendents of the railway mail service to stop the practice of depositing mail matter in a postal car unless there is a clerk in the car to receive it. The action is the res ult p f com pl ain t s of; dain age by li re and water to such mail deposited prior to the arrival of derksfat The following announcement was made at the Treasury Department Wednesday: "“Messrs. J. P. Morgan '&‘Co/and associates. under their bid f0r.5100,000,000 of United States 4 per cent, bonds of 1023, made In accordance with the recent circulars of the Secretary of the Treasury, are entiped to receive bonds of the face value of about $4,700,000 in addition to those of which they have already been notified. 'Exact figures cannot be stated until returns from various subtreasuries are fully verified.” • The new recruiting system for the army, aided by the hard times of the last few years/;has Tesirlted;>in bringing Ufa enlist-’ ed strength up to its maximum and a few days ago ■ orders -were issued by the Adjutant General instructing recruiting officers accordingly. Several of the minor stations have been closed temporarily and the officers on the detail have been given other duties. Recruits have been coming in rapidly for some months, and they are a good class of men, most of whom have been out of employment and have taken the army in preference to any uncertainty regarding their board and fadging. Then the new regulations governing recruiting places make it optional with regimental co jb manslers. _asjta Jailing Jheix. cammanxls.. This has resulted in more care being taken, for the regimental adjutants are careful to enlist only such me u auuvillJia. a credit Io their di-.,■,■rninrn: ■ if ,-l,:i:-:i■ The new instructions to the recruiting officevs areAhat they slfaltPiriist onlyilie veTj--highest class of applicants and be very sparing in enlisting them.

FOREIGN,

According to a St. John’s report Great Britain ha“ offered to rede to France its interest in the State of Eunis, Africa, in exchange for the French claim in Newfoundland. Miss Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross Society, has arrived at Constantinople, and is organizing a . system for the distribution of relief to the suffering Armenians. —===- The German residents of Montevideo. Uruguay, have taken steps to raise a fund with which to pufv’hase a warship, to be presented to the Emperor of Germany. An appeal to the. Germans of Argentina to join in the undertaking has been issued. The young King of Corea has arrived at St. Petersburg, with the object of .Keekiag. Jhe prutocthMi. of Russia for Jy.v country. His visit was for a time kept a •profound secret. Those who wert let into the knowledge of his presence look upon ' the news as of high importance in connection with Russia's Eastern policy. I'nmildful of the fact that nearly all of the products of Uruguay are permitted entry into the United States free of duty, the Government of that country has seen fit by decree to impose duties winging from 5 to 25 per cent, on agricultural and other machinery and on a list of essentially American products which have heretofore been on the free list. A special dispatch from Paris, to London announces that a company of ATsagans, belonging to the Sixty-ninth German Infantry of the line, in garrison at Treves, Rhenish Prussia, deserted in a body and marched across the frontier in company order into France, wearing full regimentals. The men were immediatelydisarmed, but were allowed their freedom:. A Paris dispatch says: It can be definitely announced that the cabinet has unanimously- agreed to remain iu office, to defy the Senate, and to risk a revolution. This course has been determined upon because Bourgeois believes the Chamber of Deputies will continue to show its opposition to the Senate and support the ministry. The consequence must be a serious conflict between the two houses of the Legislature. That M. Faure will intervene is not believed by any who profess to understand the President’s position. Railway corruption ia the basis of the unique crisis. It would apfiear that the long-antieipat-ed demonstrations of the insurgents inside of Havana are commencing. Thursday night an infernal machine was found near the Aguila de Oro cigar factory. The police are frying to find the authors of the attempted outrage. The autonomist Mayor of Managua and his brother, who recently joined the insurgents, hare been captured by the Spanish authorities They Will be tried on the change of treason. Ac-.

cording to a dispatch received at Madrid from Havana A tit onio Maceo attacked *Jarnes, burned the prison there and destroyed several houses- by fire. The inhabitants, it is added, assisted the troops in repelling the Insurgents, who lost twelve killed and many wounded. Havana dispatch: Thursday’s rumor that Gomez had been wounded has followed at night by -tbe-stafaiing rumor that Antonio Maceo has been killed. This, like a former rumor, has not been con? firmed. Col. Molina met the insurgents under Maceo between La Catalina Taiid" San Nicblhs, and the fight is said to have resulted in very great loss to the 'insurgents, besides the reported death of Maceo. Gens. Aldecoa and Aroia have arrived in -Havana for a consultation on the military situation with Captain General iVcyler. They will leave again soon to ’pursue their cperatTonsTn the. field; Itis rumored that the forces of Gomez and Maceo are badly demoralized as a result of the engagement fought Tuesday and Wednesday. It is also reported that during one of- tLese engagements—Maceo killed the son of a former insurgent leader named Guillermon. ~ Th e Wes: nt ins ter Gaze 11 e o f Loti don uyges the Marquis of Salisbury to; reply quickly to the proposal iu regard to the appointment of a joint British and American conciliation commission, saying: “There can be no doubt as to what,, the reply would be to a Minister who wojild set his back against arbitration. We are free to accept the conciliation which America proposes, and the only possible hitch is the possible objection of Venezuela to the matter being taken out of her tinhds atu'l tlroat Until in and the United States treating it as. a question between themselves. For us there .is a positive advantage in being vis-a-vis .with the United States and not Venezuela. If America is claiming the dispute as her own she must also assume' the reasonable and consequential liability of going bail for Venezuela. IVe, at least, have nothing to complain.of.”

IN GENERAL

Large stockholders in the wall paper trust are said to be organizing a movement to dissolve that corporation because of its failure to pass any dividends since last April on $8,000,000 of preferred stock. J. manager of thp Bank of CommerceUh Barrie, Ont., for the last fifteen years, was shot and fatally wounded by an unknown man who called at his house, and upon, Strathy’s appearance drew a revolver and shot hint. The assassin then fled. Strathy is one of the most popnlar and-well-known,-bankers in the province. Obituary : ~At. Florence, Italy, Minister of State Crfatoforo Negri, 9(s.—At Sioux City, lowa, Banker John D. Lawrence;of Mitchell, S. D., 42. -At Boston, (’. Perry McKisson, GO, of Bloomington, 111.—At New Orleans, Dr. Joseph Jones, G 4 Springfield, Ohio, Charles E. Winters, 4‘A- At Rockford. 111., John M. Mack, Reuben Cook.—At Pana, 111., Jas. M. Biggs, 81, The big prize fight was fought despite .the efforts ofXwo countries to prevent it,. It was a fizzle at the best, and was pulled ofl u ear Langtry, jus t _oxer_J;hti_Texas border. Peter Maher’s championship aspirations expired in ten seconds after Bob Fitzsimmons landed a right cross on the big Irishman's jaw. The blow came after one minute and thirty-five seconds of actual fighting. Jt put a quietus on Peter Maher; it gave Fitzsimmons a chance to chuckle over a second-hand title, and it opened up the flood gates of-Jim Corbett’s wrath t 6 see the title which once crowned his brow resting on the little pin-head of his hated Australian riyal, earned with hardjy ; . If English and French business houses can afford to pay their traveling agents -on the Isthmus ofT’anama $12,000 a year, including- expenses,-why eannot American firms do as wejl, is the question put by United States’Consul General Vtfqjiaiu at Panama in a report to the State Department treating of the unsatisfactory rate of progress made by Americans in obtaining business of the Isthmus. The Consul General says that this cannot be done by correspondence, and he suggests that our merchants by combination maintain a house of samples at Panama where their goods may be seen by the people and ordered through a resident agent. Last year Chilian wheat to the amount of v 1.185,020 bushels was imported into-Peru. United States Consul Jastremski at Callao, who reports the fact to the State Department, says this wheat is not well adapted to the making of white bread or pastry, and it cannot bear comparison with California white wheat, which might easily command the Peruvian market if there were a line of direct steam communication down the coast.

MARKET REPORTS.

<u “Cffltago—Cattle, prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn. No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats, No. 2, .19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,38 cto 40c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to. 21c; eggs, fresh; 11c to 13c: potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom coru, 2c to 4e per pound for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No., 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 1 white, 27c to 29c; oa.ts, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. f St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,36 c to 38c.. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats. No. 2,mixed, 22c to 24c; rye. No. 2,41 cto 42c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00: wheat. No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27e to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 40e to 41c. • Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 72<F to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye. Not 2,40 cto 42c; clover seed, $4.40 to $4.45. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 spring, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 3,26 cto 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c: barley, No. 2,32 cto 33c; rye. No. 1,38 cto 40c; pork, mess, $9.50 to $10.25. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2,50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. ■) New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; buffet, creaanety, 13C to 22c; f«b, Wait*tn, 13c to 14c.

DIED IN THE FLAMES.

AWFUL HORROtyIN A BALTIMORE —— residence. Inmates Suffocated Before They Could Escape Dea th of 31 ra. Marshall Field—“ Bill” Nye Culled to His Long Home—Booth Declares Independence Baltimore Fire Horror. As the result of a fire which started in the cellar of the fbur-stbry .marble front residence of Jajpes IL. imore, at . o’clock" seven persofistire dead, one is fatally and four others are slightly injured and a fino dwelling Is complerelywrecked. Thi most astonishing circumstances about' tl e disaster is that although the fire broie ouX at an hour when miiny persons were on the streets, and hardly five minutes elaps~ed~before the v lirem<ji_forced their way into the house, the ssven inentioned were past rescue. No moi e v flagra 111 ill ustrat.iou of house construction could have been furnished. -Not more than eighteen inches from the fiufitfce was a wood partition. This.was ignited and with great rapidity the flames leaped up a stairway in the center of the dwelling to the roof. Hangings'and woodwork furnished abun<Jant fuel, and in the dense smoke the members of the household, some of whom had not yet arisen and none of whom had left their apartments, lost thejr way, grop--ed about wildly, sunk down, sitffoeated and perished. Number of Dead Is Increasing. The latest estimates place the number of deaths from the explosion of twenty tons of dynamite on a switch at Viedendorp, near JojianiLeslH)rg, on Wednesday evening, at 120 and about 400 persons were more or less seriously injured. A number of the wounded have succumbed to their injuries. The white victims we’ffe chiefly of lower class of Boers. Whole -families of white people were wiped out. President Kruger has been chosen president of tlhe relief committee, and he is dithe ground at Viedendbrp and sheltering the thousands of pi-pple who have been rendered homeless. The popular subscription rais--ed in behalf of the. distressed people already amounts to over SSW,<MM). Nyc Breathes His Last. Edgar Wilson Nye, the humorist, died at his home, “Buckslm-.tis,” eight miles from Asheville. N. C.. at noon Saturday, a[faptexy'. I'te’hafadaiu in a helpless and hopeless condition since he was stricken on Tuesday night, not having spoken to or recognized any one. Mr. Nye's brother, a prominent attorney of Minneapolis. Minn., arrived about three hours after his brother’s death. Ilis daughters arrived from Washington city, and were at the bedside until the end. ' Now in Open Revolt. * Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth are out at New Y’ork in a published statejment saying that under no conditions whatever can they accept further proposals from-Jaindoii nor enter again under the authority or government of Salvation Army international headquarters in England. This is looked upon by the faithful as open rebellion. It is, however, greeted with quidt approval by all who have yet spoken upon the subject.

BREVITIES.

While unloading logs at Uniondale. Ind.. Henry Stevenson, foreman of the Adams Stave Works, was instantly killed by a log .. E. R. Campbell, ex-clerk of thr-Uaifad_. States District Court, was shot and killed by his son, Robert Campbell, in Nashville. Tenn. Young Campbell has been regarded as mentally unsound for some time. A report is current that twelve or fifteen Buffalo men were lost onThe ice outside the. harbor during Wednesday night's storm. They went out to fish through the ice and were blinded by the squall that arose. Coachman Bernard MackelL formerly employed by Ileuty G. Hilton Jr., and his wife, Sylvia Gerrish Hilton, of New York, hasbrought suit against the latter to recover SSOO promised him for interposing when her husband attacked her. At Gurley, Ala., Dick Childress, a notorious desperado, was shot and killed by Policeman Djck tovim- CMdress was sentenced to the State penitentiary for six years about eight years ago. He was charged with comjfltcrfy in burning the jail at Gurley, cremating two men.

Samuel Clary, aged 88. died at Flemingsburg, N. Y. Clary had in his possession a hat which he had worn in the log cabi^,c;-iß>pai®B.,.<afl<S4O, when Gen. AAV 11. Harrison was elected President. Mr. Clary’s friends', in compliance with his dying request, will send the hat to Mrs. Dimmick on her marriage to ex-President Harrison. A passenger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ran into a buggy containing Richard Steele aud his brother, John Steele, near AA'inchester, Kan. The vehicle was demolished and both men were instantly killed. They *were among the most prominent farmers in Central Kentucky and Were connected with the best families. Both were married men and leave families. Mrs. Nannie Field, wife of Marshall Field, the Chicago Merchant, died Sunday morning at her villa in Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France. Mr. Field received a dispatch Saturday night (Stating that Mrs. Field was very low with peritonitis, but at the time was inclined to think that his wife's condition had been exaggerated. A second dispatch received Sunday after noon announced her death. For the first time since Sept. 7, 1895, the gold reserve Friday passed the SIOO,000,000 point, the exact figures 1 ' being $105,092,843. After deducting Thursday’s withdrawals the true amount will be approximately $104,000,000. The total amount of gold so far received and reported on account of bond purchases is $05,000,000. A bank at McLouth, Kan., was entered and the safe blown open, Ithe robbers securing $3,500 in cash. The burglars then stole a team and drove to Lawrence, where they bought tickets for an eastbound train. At Boston Angus D. Gilbert was banged Friday for the murder of Alice Sterling. ■ <hild, April 10, 1895. Jacob Miller, marshal of AA'est Carrollton, Ohio, has been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary tor ehooting a bieyelbft who «as ridinf en ’lm village aidegralks last sunuxtsr.

WORK OF CONGRESS.

THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro* ceedings in the Legielative Chambers .at Washington Matters that Concern thq People. '"-‘J . I. ■ ' . -,.a=fe- Lawmakers at Labor. The speech of Senator Davis of Minnesota, supporting the resolution of wh>'h he is the author, enunciating the. policy u£ the UniteiLStates on the Monroe doctrine, was the event of Monday in the Semite. Senator 31itchell of Qregonrehilimrarmf" the Committee on Privileges and Elections, presented the viewsr of the majority of the committee favoring the seating of Mr. Dupont as Senator from Delaware. The agricultural appropriation bill occupied the attention of the House. An ameiMlmenl! was pending when the House tion of the provision in the bill, for the distribution of seed. - An-amendment appropriating $42,360 for a new edjtion of the “Horse Book” was adopted. Mr. Dalzell, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported a resolution of inquiry calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for air exliaustive report relative to the sale of bonds under the resumption act between the two periods of 1879 and. March; 1, 1893, and between the latter date and Jan. 1, 1596. The resolution-; was adopted. ~ The session of the Senate Tuesday furnished a succession of incidents with frequent sharp personal exchanges between Senators. Mr. Hill had a lively tilt with Sir. Tillman during the debate on Mr. Peffer’s resolution for a Senate investigation of the recent bond issue. Mr. Allen joined issue with Mr. Gear and Mr. IVokott over the course of the Pacific Railway Committee in conducting its inquiry. Two appropriation biMs, the military academy and the pension bill, were passed. Efforts were made to amend the military academy bill by increasing the number of cadets by two from each State —-ninety in all—but after a ileba’te of three hours the plan was defeated. The pension appropriation bill, carrying $142,000,000, waTpaSsed after ten minutes' debate. -The House passed the agrienltural appropriation bill. It carries $3,158,192. The section of the revised 1 statutes for the purchase and distribution of “rare and uncomnwn” seed which Secretary' Morton declined to execute in- the current appropriation law was repealed; the appropriation for seed was increased from $130,000 to $150,000, and its execution was made mandatory upon the Secretary.

The House devoted itself strictly to business Wednesday. The army appropriation bill, carrying $23,275,902, was passed, the conference report on the urgent deficiency bill was accepted, and the bill to extend for five yeara the time in which the government can bring suits to annul patents to public -lands under railroad and wagon road grants was passed. An amendment was adopted limiting the application of the act to “railroad and wagon road grants.” The substitute of Arkansas to repeal outright the limitation of the act of 1891 was defeated, 72 149. In the Senate Mr. Carter of Montana offered a resolution to recommit the tariff bill to the finance committee for fur-® ther consideration. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was passed during the day. About sixty private pension bills were .passed during the day. The bill pensioning the widow of the late Secretary Gresham as brigadier general, at S2OO monthly, with an amendment making the amount SIOO monthly, went _ oveF"Wloß>Tif‘action in order to permit Mr. Voorhees to speak against this amendment. The Senate Thursday was engaged in the Pacific railroad hearing. Iu the Hous'fe the conference report on the diplomatic and consular bill was agreed to, the Senate amendments to the pension bill were sent to conference and the Indian appropriation bill was taken up. The latter bill carries $8,030,995, or $132,792 less thuii the law for the current year. In connection with a proposition to increase the salaries of Indian’inspectors from $2,500 to $3,000, the salaries fixed by law—the bills of the last two years have only appropriated $2,500 each for these salaries —both Mr. Cannon and Mr. Dingley, the Republican leaders on the floor appealed to the majority in view of the situation of -the treasury to keep down expenses ami refuse to take steps in the direction of increased salaries, but their appeals were in vain and the action qf the Committee on Indian Affairs in restoring the salaries was sustained, 87 to 59. Nothing else of importance was done. The House devoted all day Friday to consideration of the Indianifiil, and made slow progress. In committee of the whole it refused to reduce salaries of Indian inspectors from $3,000 to $2,500. The Senate was still occupied wfth the Pacific Railroad hearing.

Hard on Alpine Guides.

The people who live to make life hard for others are at work in Switzerland. A Tyrolese court has recently ruled that the Alpine guide is to be held responsible not only for the adequate equipment, but for the physical spundness,. of tourists who charter his services. This making a medical inspecter of the guide will be a decided thorn in his path. The next slip will be to render sea captains liable if their passengers are seasick.

Chameleon Silks.

Changeable or chameleon effects in silk, fancy satins and silk-and-wool mixed fabrics will continue to be very, largely represented among spring importations, and to correspond with these will be made a superb display of| wholly new Parisian and itiidesetut gimps, galloons, elaborate passementeries and appliques for dress garnitures. The oil of tobacco found iu the stems of long-used pipes, or, obtained by dis-‘ filiation at a red heat, is one of the most active and powerful poisons known to the chemist. A single dr«ij> will often cause death in the case of a dog or eat. Thp British navy contains Ss.armored ships, 147 unarmored ships, with G,403 guns, while the German navy has 20 armored ships, 27 unarmored ships, 33 gunboats and 200 torpedo beats, with I,ooo' gttns. ... t .