Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. *; s - , t : ■■ - . . GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RSMSSELAER, - - • INDIANA

THE ARMY IN REVOLT.

SERIOUS SPLIT IN CHICAGO SALVATIONIST RANKS. i \ \ Con mln loner Eva Booth F»H» to Reatorc Harmony BalllnKton Booth Has' Many Friends —Chang-ea the • Name of Hia Army. l' ( Befnae to Follow Eva. Fifty member* of the Salvation army at Chicu.Ro proclaimed Sunday at Princess Rink their desertion of-the old organization. \t the nfternqpn meeting, in-, stead tit marching to the platform and taking seats behind Commissioners Eva Booth and John A. Curleton, they smoothed out the iittle white bow's they had pinned on the lapels of their coats as the badge of rebellion and seated themselves with the general nudietiee. The lassies •dll wore their blue uniforms and poke bonnets, but the seceding men appeared in plain clothes. It is conceded by l>oth aides there will be two organizations in Chicago unless 1 something causes Commander Ballington Booth to falter. Those who wore the white ribbon Sunday say a large nnmber of oWcers and privates will tbrcW off all .reserve and flock to his standard. The white.ribbon people say they are sixty-five strong in Corps No. 1 alone. This corps numbers over 150. The adherents of Gen. Booth declare there •re not more than thirty revolters in Corps No. 1. and say the new organization will be’short-lived. Why Trade la Stagnant. v IL G» Dun & Co.’s tVeekly Review of Trade says: > “Movement toward letter things is still the •exception.* There is better business in shoes and amall industries and there has been a squeezing of abort sellers in cotton. But the general tendency of industries and prices is not encouraging, and. those who were, most hopeful a month ago are still waiting, tiot so hopefully,’for the expected recovery. Causes of cGntinhed depression ate not ’wanting.- Bad weather has cut off much business, especially in country, districts. Some failures of consequence hnve'enused especial caution. The root of the business is that in many departments men bought more and I’’produoed 1 ’’prod uoed 'ihdre 'When prices were mounting and everything was rushing to buy last:year, than,they have>yet been able to'sell. That the buying was of a-nature to anticipate, actual ceukumption many months they were fully warn: ed. But they’had more hope than observa 1 tk»n and went on piling.np goods. , Borne are to-day in the same hopeful anticipation of a "demand which lias not yet appeared.” , - ■;■ - ■. ~ Name of the Army la Changed. 1 The -name of .“God’s American Volunteers,” Ballingfon Booth’s new religious movement, has been changed to “rne •Volunteers.” The Change was made because some friends of the move objected to the name of the Deity appearing in the title of the organization. The name “The Volunteers” might be changed again at some future time. The uniform to be worn by the women of the new organization will be cadet blue instead of brown, intended. This change was made at the request of a majority of the members. Adjutant Turnbull, who has been the leader of the Salvation army's band at headquarters, it is reported, will in a few days join Ballington Booth’s forces. Composer Cronch Sick and Poor. Frederick Nicholas, Cronch, the aged composer and writer of “Kathleen Mavourneen” and other Irish songs, is dying at Baltimore in poverty. He is.Bl) years old. He lies on a little scantily covered Iron bedstead m a teneffieur house. His mind wanders and he talks constantly of the old country and the time of the coronation of King William IV.. when he directed the Royal Band. The old composer's last song was “Green and Gold.” written in honor of the anniversary of Robert Emmet’s birth and sung in New Vork on March 4.

NEWS NUGGETS.

After nest week the weather forecast will l»e stamped ou.fhe backs of all letters; that pass through the Washington postoffice. Thomas A. Edison has discovered that by using X rays in connection with plates coated with tungstate of calcium he can see through the human hand at a distance of fifteen feet. A hurricane passed over Hart’s Creek Talley, fifty nples south of Huntington. W. Va.. Thursday night. Buildings were blown down and immense damage was reported. It was the heaviest windstorm ever known in that section. The Uev. Dr. George W. Gray, of the Epworth Home Settlement Mission in Chicago, has interested a number of religious and charitable men and women of Baltimore. Md., in the project, nnd steps will be taken to locate a mission in "the tenement section of that city. Private Allen of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment, shot and fatally wounded IVivaTe Daniel M. Call of the same company in the post quarters at Fort Sheridan, 111. While being disarmed Allen was then accidentally shot with his own revolver, stud he will' also probably die. , At Parkersburg. W. Va., William Sprouse, fireman on the steamer King, was horribly burned, but by his heroism prevented an explosion and saved the lives of the passengers. He blew off one valve and had turned the other when the first ouC'blew out steam and hot water. Sprouse held to the second, however, with the scalding water and steam pouring over him until he had turned it off. He fell exhausted; nearly blinded and terribly burned. The town of Cabanas, on the north coast of Pinar del Bio, Cuba, has been reduced to ashes by the'insurgents. It liad 1,300 inhabitants, churches, a town hall and two school houses. The rebels are reported to have four camps in that immediate Tieinity, The insurgents are forming a special corps to operate in the country districts. , 'i . Tlie Central Vermont Railroad has been put into the. hands of receivers: President Edward C. Smith and Charles M. Hayes, general manager of the Grand Trunk. Papers were filed in Boston, New York State and Brattlebo*- on ■Vurday.

EASTERN.

Returns frotp New York’s Republican primaries indicate that Gor.TSlbrtbn will have an almost pojid delegation in the St. Louis convention. ’ ’ The Solar Iron Works of William CSark'a Sons & Cor, at Pittsburg, have been closed by the sheriff on executions aggregating $953,000. The Methodist Episcopal conference in session at Philadelphia, Pa., voted 117 to 89 to admit women as lay delegates to the general conference. The proposition to increase the ratio of representation in the general conference was defeated, 25 to 170. ~ * _1 A powder mill, which gives employment to seventy-ti ve men at Rif ton, Ulster County, New York, blew up. The mangled bodies of five-men were found in the ruins. The mill is Situated about two miles from Rosendale, which is the nearest railroad station. The same mill blew up about eighfeen months ago and at that time four men were killed. Two persons were killed and eight others injured in a collision on the Pennsylvania Railway near St eel ton." The accident was caused by tefreight train running into the fast lino, both being bound east. Two passenger coaches were overturned. Welsh and Strouse were in charge of the locomotive of the passenger train. Welsh was taken out of the wreck alive, but died soon after reaching the hospital. StrOuse was thrown undey the tender and crushed almost beyond recognition. There were scenes ,o£ disorder bordering on riot- at the Republican district conventions held in New York city Wednesday evening. The Platt and anti-Platt forces looked horns ami fought fiercely for the mastery. The outcome was the election of Platt and Morton national delegates from the leighth, ninth, tenth, Seventh and fourteenth congressional districts. In the twfelftb, thirteenth and fifteenth two sets of delegates were chosen. In the seventh district no convention was held. Several important discoveries have been made in connection with “X” rays by Stephen 11. Etnmens, of New Y’ork City, who claims to have succeeded in obtaining the rays from the ordinary sunbeam, and has taken excellent pictures' therewith. He has also, he believes,, succeeded in reflecting tl|o "X” rays, which heretofore have been considered impossible of reflection; This opens up a remarkable field, for it means that.the rays can be coneen(Viliod, and with proper apparatus beHlsed to produce photographs instead of mere shadowgraphs, as at present.

An explosion occurred at the Laflin-j[ Rand powett-r mill at Rifton, N. Y\, Wednesday. The force of the explosion, which was closely followed by a second explosion, was plainly felt at Kingston. Five men, were Irlown to pieces; and it was with diflieujjy that the identification of the missing could be arrived at. About fifty men were employed at the mill and many of them were hurt. The entire surrounding village was shnken on its foundation; all the windows for miles around were broken and the buildings close to the powder mills tottered ns though they, too would fall. In all 30,000 pounds of powder were destroyed and the loss to the company is placed at $30,000. Of the men killed all were married except one.

WESTERN.

C. Schuer, representing a Chicago furniture house, is under arrest at Stillwater, Minn., charged wijli stealing SIOO. John G. Woolley, of Jrllinois, declines to nllow his name to be presented, to the prohibition national convention as a candidate for President. Tatlier M. Robinson, who came to Cincinnati six weeks ago from Southern Indiana, fell or jumped into the Ohio Iliver -at Cincinnati and was drowned. , Gov. Matthetvs, of Indiana, has been confined to his home with the grip and is regarded by his physician as being very 111, but hot necessarily in a dangerous condition. News has been received of the killing of two Indians belonging to the Shoshone tribe in northern Wyoming by three white men, whoimirdcred the Indians and then stole their horses. Alfred C. Fields, colored, was senteneed by Judge Baker of Chicago to be hanged Friday, May 13. The sentence was passed on a plea of guilty entered by the prisoner to the charge of having rnurlered Mrs. Ellen Randolph. John A. Knight, cashier of the Fifth Avenue Savings Bank, Columbus, 0., was arrested and charged with having embezzled SBO,OOO. Knight has always claimed the failure of his bank was .due to the old Farmers' Bank, whose business the savings bank inherited. W. W. Hamilton, of Denver, was given a gold brick valued at $730 by & firm forusing their tires last summer. He expressed it from one bicycle show to another. It came baek from St. Louis nicked up and he had subjected to an assay test and was told that it was brass. The Cincinnati Circuit Court has remanded Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling to the sheriff of Campbell County, Kentucky. They will be tried in. Kentucky for the murder of Pearl Bryan of Greencastle. I ml., whose headless body was found in a clump of bushes near Fort Thomas. Ivy., early in February. Five thousand pieces of mail were destroyed by fire in station S of the Chicago postoffice. The'ddaze, which was of uncertain origin, caused a loss of $13,000, and six families, occupants of apartments in the building, were made homeless. There was no loss in the registry department. all money orders, cash and stamps having been, locked in the vault. Ira Terrell, ex-member of the Oklahoma Legislature, who murdered his opponent at Guthrie three years ago and escaped from jail last fall while under sentence to hang, has been arrested at Scott. Ivan., while eu route east with a woman believed to be his wife. The man says his name is Wells, and claims to. live at Rich Hill. Mo., but has beCn positively identified. Herbert C. Buck, of Fort Wayne, nn employe of the United States Express Company and president of the Plymouth Congregational Church Christian Endeavor Society, was caught early Thursday morning in the act of burglary in the Lehman Book and News Comj>aiSy store., Jlq had tapt>cd three cash registers whefi he was covered .gritii a , gnn by Detective Coling. Buck's parents are most respectable pioneer residents of Fort Wayne. He was to have married this, spring. Wisconsin Republicans. Jn fjtate convention Wednesday at Milwaukee, chose the following national delegates: I)ele-gates-at-large, Philetns Sawyer, William D. Hoard, Eugene S. Elliott. Jamas S. Stout; alternates, 11. B. Smith. W. S. Heine, Janres It. Lyon, Judge Plummer. The convention declared specifically for sound money in national finance and

r r'. . ,• ■ ?. -V. ' - against free coinage of silver, and told that William McKinley is the presidential choice of the whole State. This action was taken-in the biggest convention ever held in the These principles were presented to a convention of 081 delegates, and were adopted by a unanimous Vote. Then delegates and crowded galleries joined in cheering the completed work.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Carlisle is a candidate for the Presidential nomination at Chicago. The puhlic announcement to that effect, however, will not be 'made until President Cleveland has formally stated his purpose not to permit his name to be used in the convention in connection with a third term. It is learned that the President has fully decided upon his course. The Senate joint resolution directing the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase and distribute seeds, bulbs, etc., as has been ddne in preceding yeaTs.hftsbeeotffe a law without the Resident's -signature, the resolution not having returned to Congress within the constitutional ten days’, lipiit. Secretary Morton refused to carry out the old law and vigorously opposed the passage of the present more mandatory Act. Baskets of flowers, together with congratulatory notes and telegrams, began to arrive*at the White House soon after the breakfast hour Wednesday morning, 'and continued at intervals until after dinner. It was noticed, also, that the members of the cabinet and other friends of the ITesident were ea'riy callers, hut the apparent mystery surrounding the evidences of festivities was dissipated by the announcement that it was the birthday of {he chief executive of the nation. President .Cleveland is 59 years of age. The Secretary of Agriculture, in accordance with the mandate of Congress, has prepared a circular letter to be sent immediately to all known reputable growers of and dealers in seeds throughout the United States asking them to furnish at reasonable prices to the department 10,000,000 packets of garden, field and flower seeds, beginning with asparagus and ending with wheat. This number of packets will give to each member and delegate in the House of Representatives and to each United States Senator 15,000 packets for distribution among his constituents, after deducting one-third of the whole amount, in accordance with law, for distribution by the Secretary of Agriculture. All the seeds must be delivered on or before thirty days from the 17th of March.

FOREIGN

• George E. Wilson, who says he embezzled $230 from the Armour Company, of Chicago, has given himself up to the London police. The French Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Berthelot, announced at a Cabinet council that he had asked the British Ambassador, the Marquis of Dufferin, for Information regarding the proposed advance of British Egyptian'troops up the Nile and stated that he had pointed out to the Ambassador the serious conseqUeuees of such an ad vance. The British steamer Matadi, which sailed from Sierra Leone Feb. 6, has been totally destroyed by an explosion of gunpowder. Some of her passengers and crew were saved. The whole fore part of the Matadi was blown into the air, and, forty persons were killed, including a missionary named Hawk and his wife. It has been learned that the explosion oc- ' eurred at Boma March 7. Boma or Bomma is on the Congo River, only about fifty miles from its mouth. Twenty of the Mntridi’s crew, two passengers, jand sixteen native laborers were killed. Sixteen of the crew escaped without serious injury. The Matndi had on board ten toils of gunpowder, a auantity which sufficiently accounts for the (j*sa s ft*bus effects of the explosion. The mails and the specie which were qn board were saved. The victims of the accident were asleep at the time of the disaster. The officers of the steamer escaped. Evidences of great activity, political and commercial, in the affairs of Japan, China and the countries of the far East come to the legations in Washington. As a result of Japan’s prosperity, brought about by the successes in the war with China that.country has not only determined to largely augment her navy, but also to establish commercial steamship lines connecting the United States with Japan. The Japan Steam Navigation Company is preparing to enter this new fielftTrunning between San Francisco and Yokohama, in competition with the Pacific Mail and Oriental and Occidental lines now controlling this trade. An important consideration in projecting the new Japanese line has been that of railway connection east from San Francisco, but in the event of a determination of the Pacific railways not to give the same rates as those given to the old steamship lines, which are branches of the railways, it is said the Japanese company, supported by ample subsidies from the Japanese Government, will be prepared to run at a loss in order to establish a foothold. The Cuban insurgents have dealt Spain a crushing blow. Trustworthy information has been received at New York from Havana that the battle fought a few days ago in Pinar del Rio, which the dispatches sent out with the sanction of the press censor described as a Spanish victory, was in reality a lamentable defeat for the forces of Gen. Weyler. This news reached Havana Thursday and wns sent to New York in a brief cipher cablegram. The source of the information leaves no doubt of its reliability; The Spanish officials will not permit the report of insurgent suceess to be sent out of Havana. It is expected that the details of the battle will be smuggled over to Tampa and there put on the wires. The late press dispatches from Havana say that officials now admit that the battle was a fiercely contested one and that it was attended with serious consequences to the Spanish. It is the firm opinion in New York among persons informed of events in Cuba that the Spanish cause is lost. It"is also believed, despite denials, that this last defeat will so- add to the dissatisfaction .against Gen. Weyler that either his designation or recall will soon follow. The socialists of Rome turned out in force to welcome hack to Rome and liberty the leader of thqir party, Giuseppe d,e de Felice. • De Felice is a Sicilian and was formerly a member of the Chamber of Deputies. Eariy in 1894 he wgs arrested on the charge of plotting with the exiled anarchists Cypriote and Sig. Casilli, another deputy, of planning a revolution which had for it# ultimate aim the overthrow of the monarchy. They succeeded in causing Serious uprising in Sicily and other parts of Ifyt^y,„ip which considerable blood was shed and much property was destroyed. De Felice and

about forty of Bis companions were tried and sentenced to varions terms of imprisonment, and while in prison several of them were re-elected or elected members of the Qhamher of Deputies. Atyong the former were De Felice, Bgrbato and Bosco. But on July 18 last the Chamber of Deputies annulled their elections on the ground the men wete convicts. The socialists, however, took the ground that as the prisoners were sentenced by a military tri: buna! for offenses Of a purely polißcar'nature they were not convicts in the proper sense of the term.. It was expected De "Felice, Bosco and Barbato would appear in the Chamber of Deputies when the , new cabinet made its first appearance before the house and claim their rights as deputies.--——— - 1 Paris dispatch: Tie French Government gives evidence that the announcement made by M. Berthelot of the remonstrance he had offered against the Egyptian campaign up the Nile in a conversation wiih the Marquis of Dufferin has been taken much more seriously than it was prepared for., The outbreak of approval from the French press and thq people and the popular clamor for even more decisive measures of protest seem to have alarmed the Government and awak, ened an apprehension that it is being precipitated into a position of hostility to the plan of Great Britain, backed by the approval of the Dreibund, which might entail Jhe gravest consequences. The enthusiasm awakened in France, in fact, seems to enter more into the apprehensions. of the French minister than the irritation abroad. As a consequence step# have been taken to dull a little the seem, ingly sharp edge of the communication made to the British Ambassador by M. Berthelot, the minister of foreign affairs. The following explanation, with its distinct tone of deprecation, is made semiofficially. “Fance intended unequivocally to. intimate that she did not intend to ignore the matter. But this* in no wis# implies a hostile attitude. On the con, trary, they think that, in view of the mutual friendly relations, frank and outspoken language will contribute to the removal of misunderstandings.” The Italia of Rome Thursday, comment, •mg upon the British-Egyptian advance up the" Nile, said: “The Egyptian advance on Dongola is a great advantage to Italy. Italy, however, has been of great service to Great Britain in affording her a pretext for showing* Europe that the time to speak of the evacuation of Egypt haa not yet arrived.” The statement of the Italia seems to contain the political situation in a nutshell. The anti-Egyptian expedition up the Nile is a decided advantage to Italy. It will check the swarming of the dervishes 1 toward the Italian territory; it may prevent the fall 61 Cass.nla, and it will enable theTtalinn army in Africa to recover from the shock and disorder which followed the battle of Adowa; it will enable the Italians to relieve and reinforce their garrisons and obtain much’ better terms from King Menelek should it be found in the long run advisable to bring about “peace and honors.” The British advance has also solidified the dreibund, even if it has not cemented a quadruple, alliance (which' is most seriously discussed at Rome); it has strengthened the badly impaired credit of Italy and has enabled her to assume her place among the powers at a time when her enemies were predicting that the dreibund would be dissolved and that Italy would be deserted. Finally the advance of the Anglo-Egyptian troops up the Nile has restored confidence in Italy and it has strengthened the foundations of King Humbert’s throne, which were rudely shaken by the Adowa disaster and the popular outbreaks which followed throughout Italy. , I——

IN GENERAL

A special from Winnipeg says Herbert Booth,, the head of the Salvation army in Canada, will give up his command and leave the conntrv June !. Spanish detectives engaged in keeping watch on the movements of the Cubans in this country much exercised over the report that the steamer Hawkins did not sink the morning of Jan. 28, "but that she made her wayTo the island, landed her cargo and is now laid up at one of the Florida keys. ■The steamer Umatilla sailed from Saif Francisco for Victoria and Puget Sound points, carrying away at least 100 miners with outfits for the gold fields of Alaska. Many are going to Cook's inlet, while not a few are to brave the dangers of a north winter and attempt to cross the ice from Dyea inlet to the Yukon. To reach the Yukon by water it will be necessary to wait until the end of May before leaving and it will be some time in June when the river is sufficiently free from ice to admit of navigation.

MARKET REPORTS.

»• V U.«< Chicago—Cattle, common to 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, 01c to G2c; corn. No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,35 cto 37c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25c; broom corn, S2O to $45 per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; bogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 1 white, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; coh). NO. 2 Jrellbw. 2Gc to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye,'NO. 2,38 c to 39c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,40 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, GBc to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24e; rye, 38c to 39c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, GSc to 70c; com. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 31)c to 41c; clover seed; $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 62c to G3c; corn, No. 3,27 cto 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley, No. 2,31 cto 33e; rye, No. 1,3? cto 39c; pork, mess, $9.25 to $9.75. Buffalo-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 7Gc; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to Sse; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York— Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; bogs, $3 00 to $,.75; sheep, $2.00 to- $C25y wheat. No. 2 red, 71c to 78c; corn. No. 2, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; butter,•ert'amery, 15c to 23c; eggs, West* era. 10c to 12c.

HOLY WAR DECLARED

DERVISHES GALLED TO ARMS AGAINST EGYPT. Osman Digna to Join Them at Dongola Threatens a EnrOpean Convulsion—Thawed the Gunpowder and Died—Landslide Causes Death. Egypt. A diispatc¥ to the London Globe from Cairo says that the khalifa has proclaim-, ed jehad (holy war) against Egypt and has called all the dervishes capable of bearing arms to enroll under his banners. The dispatch adds that it is said that Osman Digna is to* leave Cassala and join the dervishes now mustering at Dongola. The under secretary of state for foreign affairs, George N. Curzon, answering a question in the House of Commons Friday afternoon, Said that the decision of the Government to send BritishEgyptian‘troops to Dongola was considerably influenced by a communication from Italy relative to the prospects of a dervish attack on Cassala and the effect it might have upon Egyptian interests. Whole Family Wiped Out. The people of Hindman, Ky., are verymuch exercised over the report that a large mass, of stone and cinder-looking substance has fallen on the side of Pine Mountain, about twenty-six miles distant. Persons living'in the vicinity say they were startled by a whirring sound and then a crash. Large stones and chunks of black substance came rolling down the side of the mountain, scattering in every direction for hundreds of yards along the valley. The house of Mrs. Hester Yfjtes, on the mountain side, was demolished and the logs scattered in every direction. Mrs. Yates and family, consisting of several small children, are buried beneath the debris. '"The hard substance"" was over half-buried, in the mountain side, but struck a solid rock and burst into hundreds of pieces. People for miles around have turned out and are flow searching for the bodies of Mrs. Yates and her children.

Four Killed-and Two Hurt, A terrible explosion occurred at the gold mines at Roseland, Man., in the remote Northwest country. As a result four men are dead and two others so seriTwo boxes of gunpowder were being thawed out in hot water. The only man who knows how it became ignited lies at the point of death in the hospital. He came running out of the tunnel crying; “The powder is oh fire!” bnt before he could reach a place of safety , the explosion occurred. Eight men were working in the mine and only two escaped death or serious injury. Vote of Censure. The House Friday, after three days of debate, adopted a resolution censuring Thomas F. Bayard, ex-Secretary of State and now ambassador to the court of St. James, for utterances delivered in an address to the Boston (England) Grammar School and in an address before the Edinburgh (Scotland) Philosophical. Institution last fall. The vote stood 180 to 71 in favor of the first resolution and 191 to 59 in favor of the second.

BREVITIES.

A big coal pool, covering all the shipments from Pennsylvania and Ohio by way of the lakes, has been formed. The companies represent in the pool an annual output of over 13,000,000 tons, of which 4,000,000 goes in shipment by the lakes. The gross receipts at the thirty largest postolliees in the country last month increased The total receipts were '53,722,187, against $2,377,445 for February, 1895. sTrained animals used in circus performances will hereafter be admitted into the United States free of duty, having been classed as “tools of trade’’ by the Circuit Court at New York. Yellow fever is again spreading throughout Rio Janeiro at an alarming rate. One hundred new cases were reported Tuesday. The scourge reappeared on the Italian cruiser Lombardia and it was resolved to send her to sea. The vessel started for the Cape Verde Islands. The steamship Peru brings to San Francisco news from China that the Presbyterian mission 130 miles southeast of Shanghai was raided by a band of robbers Feb. 7. Rev. Rufus H. Bent was shot in the thigh and seriously cut in the head. The robbers secured S3OO from the mission safe and departed unmolested. John C. Rice, general manager of the Blue Jay Mining Company, has caused the arrest of John H. Royer and A. Wilson King, two brokers who figured in the Blue Jay deal at Denver, charging them with embezzlement. The complaint alleges that Royer and King were, March IG, 1896, acting as general agents of the Blue Jay Company, and as such had in their possession $5,700, the property of the Blue Jay Company, which they embezzled.

Two officers were shot and a train robber named Daniel McCole wfis killed in' an attempt to hold up the south-bound New Orleans express Cal., at 3 o’clock Thursday mornVg. The attempted robbery was one of the most daring that has taken place in California, and probably would have succeeded if it had not been for the perfidy of one of the robbers. The officers were informed that nn • attempt wotjld be made to hold up the “Limited.” The dnan who gave the information gave the details of the plot and said that at first he intended to take part in the robbery. * , , , Lamoreaux and o’>oll, two of the alleged murderers of Jim Washakie, the young Shoshpne, who were followed from the Shoshone reservation by Deputy United States Marshal J. M. Waite, were captured in Malta. They will be arraigned before United States Commissioner Cockrell in Great Phils, Mont., and then taken back to Wyoming. The Nebraska State Banking Board has asked the District Court of Knox County to appoint a receiver for the State Bank of Bloomfield. The bank has a capital of $50,000. R. L. Oxford was presi* dent and A. R. Oxford cashier. Reports from the Mare Island navy yard.a%to the performance of the monitor Monadnock on her recent trial trip there ate rndst gratifying to the navil’officials. 1 Edmund Ailing, aged 89, and his wife, Charlotte, aged ,85, died within a few hours of each other at Warren, Ohio. JTltey had. Seen married sixty-three yearn,

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW« MAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the ball* of Congress—lmportant Measures Dis- : cussed and Acted Upon—An Impart tiat Hcsume of the Business. The Rational Solons. The House devoted Tuesday to the bill " to amend the administrative tariff act of 1890, and passed it without substantial amendment The purpose of the bill is to strengthen the act of 1890, some weak spots having been developed during the six years it has been in operation. The bill was drawn after extensive' hear-, ings, and the advice and assistance of the Treasury Department, the Board of General Appraisers, importers and others with practical experience on the subject. One of the most important changes makes increased duties and penalties for undervaluation commence at the point of undervaluation, and not at 10 per cent, above the undervaluation as provided by the present law. The House Committee on Immigration decided to favorably report two important restrictive measures introduced by Mr. McCall (Mass.) and Mr. W. A. Stone (Pa.) The Stone bill establishes as a requisite for admission to the United States that the immigrant shall be provided with a certificate from the Uni* ted States Consul or other authorized representative of the United States at the place nearest his last residence that he is eligible to admission to the United States under the existing la\Vs. The McCall bill, as amended by the committee, excludes all males between the ages of 16 and 60 who are not able to read and write English or some other language. The Cuban debate was continued in the Senate.. The House Wednesday began consideration of the resolution of censure of Ambassador Bayard for his Edinburgh speech. The remarks of Mr. Cousins, of lowa, in support of the resolution were the feature of the proceedings. The Senate had in hand the public opening of the Uncompahgre Indian reservation, but nothing of importance was done. Cuba had the entire attention of the Senate Thursday, speeches being made by Senators* Gray, Chilton and Cnfferty, the debate being enlivened by many spirited incidents. Mr. Gray’s plea lor Cuba brought on a running cross-fire of comment and inquiry from 'Mr. Hale. The Delaware Senator caused much amusement by referring- to Mr. Hale as “tlie Senator from Spain." Mi - . Davis (Rep.), of Minneapolis, chairman of the Cbmuiittee on Territories, reported favorably the bill to admit New Mexico to Statehood. In the House Mr. Grosvenor (Rep.), Of Ohio, in reply to the remarks made by Mr. McCreary about' Gen. Schenck, while minister to Great Britain, in connection with the Emma mines, and his authorship of a volume entitled—“ Rules of DruwPoker, ”...referred to Gen. Schenck’s distinguished services in times of war and peace. He could not understand the purpose of the attack. Mr. McCreary said that he had made no attack on Gen. ,Schenck. Mr. Grosvenor wanted to knowthen what the purpose was. If it was not intended to assail the memory of a dead man like a ghoul then the utterances of Mr. McCreary were idle words. In regard to the Emma mines the best proof of Gen. Schenck’s good intentions was that ho himself invested large sums of money in. those stocks and continued to pay the assessments to the day of his death. As to the bool on draw poker he had written out a few rules of the great American game by request of a friend and had been, of course, very much chagrined when public reference to it had been made. Ho abused no confidence when he said that Gen. Schenck told a friend he knew just enough about poker to always lose his money. As a poker player, however, ho desired to say that he died without leaving an unpaid poker debt. In conclusion,, Mr, Grosvenor rehearsed Gen. Schenck’s career and paid a glowing tribute to his services in the army, in Congress and in the diplomatic service. . In the Senate Friday the following bills were passed; Fixing Ogden and Snit Lake City as the places lor holding terms of the United States courts in Utah; granting a pension of SSO to the widow of the late Brigadier General Olendenin; authorizing the payment of highest grade of his rank to Rear Admiral Russell, retired; for the disposal of lands in the Fort Klamath Bay reservation, Oregon; fixing the rank and pay of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy; for a survey of the mouth of the Yukon river, Alaska. The Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House Mr. Boatner, was* unseated by a vote of 13l to 59 and the seat declared vacant. According to the face of the returns, Mr. Boatner had 15,520 votes and Mr. Benoit 5,994. The minority contended that purged returns would still elect Mr. Boatner by over 5,000. A vote of censure against Ambassador Bayard was carried.

Cost of Destroying a Slum.

London is spending nearly two million and a half dollars in cleansing and rebuilding one slum. American cities are Just beginning to learn how serious is the cumulative evil of slum construction. They may with profit also leagp how costly is the necessity of slum destruction. The object lesson offered by London may be studied with interest in all our large cities, especially in New York, where, through the efforts of the State Tenement Houie Commission, legislation has with much difficulty been secured which. If enforced, perpetuated, and added to, will tend to prevent the growth of such conditions as London is now compelled to combat.—Century.

“Classes” and the “Masses” in Japan.

It Is said that the contentment of the poor in Jnpuu is the result of the spirit of politeness which pervades ail ranks of the Japanese people. Rich and poor are alike courteous, and it is impossible to distinguish employer from laborer by their behavior. This politeness results from genuine kindness, and It settles all problems between man and man. In Europe and America much of the bad feeling between the “classes” and the “masses’’ Is caused by insolence on the one hand and resentment on the other. Every time we get shared, und tho barber bothers us about a hair cot, it occurs to us that it is very, easy to b« too enterprising.